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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
TOBACCO. PRICES
SHOW INCREASES
Strengthened D e a n d S
Send Prices Up On Bor-
der Belt Markets

Strengthened demand sent pric'
es upward from $50 to Sc per
hundred pounds on Border belt To-
bacco markets yesterday the State
and Federal Departments of Agri-
culture reported.
AS a whole, the poorer qualities
registered the greater gains while
the better qualities were steady to
ST higher.
Several grades reached their
highest levels for the season. Good
lemon cutters, which had previous
ly averaged $50 per hundred for
the top average climbed 10 $50.
The quality Of yesterdays offer
ings was about the same as Tues
days and sales were a little heav-
Ter.
The Agriculture agencies report
ed that most growers have almost
completed harvesting and pre-
dicted that blocked sales would
prevail the latter part of this week
or the first of next.
Average prices on a limited
See TOBACCO on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
CARTER, GROOM
FOUND GUILTY
Judge WithoIds Sentence
Pending Further Study
OF Case

Charles NJ. Carter, 81, suspend
Cd superintendent of the New
hanover county farm, and Clar-
efce Groom, As, we're found guilty
.s'e yesterday by a jury in SUI
pefior Judge Leo Cars court
Cafter Of receiving stolen property
ana Groom of larceny.
Sentence was withheld pending
luffher study of the case by the
court.
1t took The jury a little more than
an -FOUR TO find the pair guilty to
'oncIude a trial that lasted most
Of the day.
n case a the result of the
.uss OF approximately $500 by FL
ptIuge Fergus in or near a South
front street wine shop last July
csrter's testimony was that he
nsa no intention Of keeping the
money and Il made a mistake in
See CARTER on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
JURY ~EX0NERATES
HIGHWAY OFFICER
Rules Death Oh Cherryville
Police Chief "Justifi-
able Homicide"

KINGS MOUNTAIN, Aug. 20-R
"A coroner's jury investigating
the fatal shooting last night OF
Police Chief Carl Short of Cherry.
vile today ruled the death justi.
fable homicide after hearing
testimony that he was shot by =
state highway patrolman while re-
sisting arrest.
Short died after receiving five
.38 calibre pistol slugs through
the body. State highway patrol
man Harolotis Dayton said he fired
the shots when Short advanced ON
him with a knife.
The jury's action came after
Patrolman Dayton testified that
the Cherryville police chief showed
signs of drunkenness when he re-
sisted arrest. The patrolman said
he spotted Shorts automobile zig
tagging down the road and he
stopped him and asked him for
See JURY on Page Three
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Described Al Intolerant,
Suspicious And Distrust-
full In Survey

WASHINGTON, Aug. 81 W.R-
Russia's foreign policy was de-
scribed as intolerant, suspicious
and distrustful tonight in a sur
vey by Library of Congress ex-
perts who warned that Soviet pol
icy is keyed to a program Of
world revolution possibly at the
risk Of World War III.
In a special report prepared fol-
the senate foreign relations com
mittee, the experts said that com.
munist leaders are prepared TT
play any card available" in theil
campaign to force "a complete
change" in the worlds political
economic and social set-up.
The report warned that rela'
tons between this nation and the
Soviets have "deteriorated dang
erously", since the two nations
worked as "the great allies Of
World War H."
1t cited as a key present-day
issue between the two powers the
quest for effective international
control of atomic energy and the
atomic bomb. 1t rejected sugges'
tons that it might be advisable
for this nation to touch off a "pre'
ventative" war with Russia before
Sec RUSSIAN on Pare TWn
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
INLET CONSTRUCTION

C. Chadbourn, Ais South Front
street, long interested in early
Cape Fear history and a student
of such events, once more makes
a contribution to the Cape Fear
column.
Chadbourn relates that when the
new inlet in the lower Cape Fear
river was being closed enormous
barges loaded with rock were tow
ed on the river from Rocky
Point by the tug "James T. Eas-
ton" They were landed at the
north end of the inlet and placed
in position to build the dam, since
known as 1.-The Rocks"
Chadbourn says that Henry Ba-
con, an engineer of great ability
was supervisor of the work which
had been planned by the United
States Engineers. 1t became 1.-The
good fortune" of Chadbourn, he
related, '.that in company with
Mr.. Bacon's young son, Harry,
who later became a celebrated
architect, to ride down the river
occasionally and witness the con-
struction of the dam.
Chadbourn points ont that Harry
Bacon later de-:~r2i tie famous
Lincoln Memorial at Washington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
I Dearly Loved Him.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 20
W.D - A pretty Irish war bride
cried softly today over a cup of
black tea as she recalled how hap
ply she had been over here during
the past year. She said it had been
a wonderful year with her EXCL
husband, Earl B. Phillips.
But the former Jean Collins
choked when she mentioned the
long trip back to Beachmont ave-
nue. in Belfast with her eight
week-old baby, Michael.
II dearly loved my husband.
He was wonderful, ever though he
was sick and in the hospital most
OF the time" she said.
Mrs. Phillips was brewing a
cup of Irish tea last night. 1t was
about 1890 pm, she said, and
Earl was playing with the baby.
the infant had just finished his
10 O'Clock bottle.
IT heard a noise like a water
heater exploding. My husband was
lying on the bed covered with
blood. Michael was beside him."
He left a note, she said. 1t was
addressed to "whomever it may
concern"
"Pay her my insurance of $10,-
600 in cash before her departure
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

to Ireland and give her everything
else due her. You see I am very
concerned of her welfare because
she has so cheerfully loved me so
much"
Phillips, who was rs years old,
had been respondent and sick
since he spent a year in a German
prison. He was wounded and cap
tured shortly after he left Ireland
for the battlefront.
He and Jean were married just
10 days before he left. They had
courted for three years.
1--WE had 81 more heavenly days
together after he was freed from
a Nazi prison and before he was
returned to the states in 1915"
she said.
IT followed in May 1916, as
quickly as they would let me
Then, he vas too sick to meet the
train. But I didn't mind.
"Then for a year we re- sent
from one veterans hospital to an
other until last month. We came
back to his sisters but two weeks
ago we found our first apartment.
"The night we moved in, he
came home with a shotgun. His
only explanation then was, 7
might need it!'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
GIN TO CURTAIL
CAR PRODUCTION
Plants To Shut Down One
Week Due To Steel
Shortage

DETROIT, Aug. 20 -UD-The
Automotive industry, struggling
against odds to maintain normal
production, received another blow
today when General Motors Cor
poration announced it would have
to curtail output because of a
steel shortage.
GIN President c. E.. Wilson said
the giant corporation would shut
down it's Chevrolet and Pontiac
plants during the last week in
August or the first week in Sep
TENDER. The production halt pre-
sumably will be for n week
only.
In addition, Wilson said produc-
ton schedules would be reduced
at the Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac
and GIN truck and coach divi-
sions. He did not reveal to what
extent.
A weeks shutdown would cost
production of some Is, 200 Chevro-
let passenger cars, o,UUU OheVio-
let trucks and 5000 Pontiacs at
current output rates.
Wilson blamed "a critical short
age of steel, particularly flat roll
ed steel for the shutdowns.
A similar steel shortage forced
GIN to close all its plants for a
week last month and lay off $780,
900 production workers.
The company said Chevrolet
and Pontiac workers would be
laid off on a staggered basis and
See CURTAIL on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
SENATOR BILBO'S
CONDITION SHOWS
SOME IMPROVEMENT

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20.-W.R
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo was rest
ing comfortably here this after
noon, a bulletin issued from Foun-
dalton hospital at 3 p. m, est,
said.
The ailing,, 69-year-old MISSISSIPPI
pi senator appeared considerably
stronger today after a report early
yesterday that his condition was
weaker"
He was placed on the "critically
i'll" list last Sunday when a blood
clot developed in a vein serving
his lungs. A minor operation was
performed Monday to tie off the
vein and the Senator since has
shown signs of steady improve
ment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

wasuINGTON, Aug. 20.-Fe
Wont Truman attributed a ST.
pIs NOO 600 saving to the Republi-
'N'' coneress today in a budget
can Which forecast that con-
resIel high prices, taxes, incomes
tlnusu employment would produce
. s,s biggest treasury surplus In MS
t0I pn+ the President said other
d., not counting new sums for
ts eo;ao aid, will limit the reduc-
lols' in government spending to
, ,so9 moo, 900 for the year ending
Sla''o ,June 30. He put the total
rs ss7, oOQ, 600, 900.
al bringing the budget up to
Mr.. Truman made it clear
aa'e demonstration will ask for
ue O for it's international
n nroaran and this might greatly
piter his computations.
ai4 W. indicated continued epposi-
4;on 10 lowering taxes.
Def1T1Lc AAAAAASSA~"S
And he, announced he has ordered
~ Government agencies to keep
sbeir next budgets below the ones
,,nder which they now operate. In
aa instances he has establish.
~ sJ-i- certain definite limitations.
In revising a budget ne termed
.bsrd.bojled" to start with, the
.hief executive was unable to say
,t this time how much the oil!
will be for further international
sssistance. With the totals sub
iect TO change because of that
uncertainty, he predicted that in
tho current fiscal year ending next
June 80:
l. The government viii spend
an even $37, 900, 900, 900. This is
s52S. 900, 900 less than he estimated
when he submitted his original
budget to congress in January.
2. Uncle Sans income will be
s41, 667, 900, 900. This is $4,937, Goo,
mn higher than the actuary
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Unity OF American
Nations Urged By Marshall;
u. S. To Modify British Loan
Binding Defense
Treaty Essential
Recovery OF Europe Vital
To Western Hemis-
phere, He Says

PETROPOLIS, Brazil, Aug. 90
W.D-Secretary Of State George 9.
Marshall warned the American Re.
publics today that the recovery o.
Europe, threatened with starva-
ton and economic chaos, was vital
to the economy of the Western
Hemisphere and must be gwen
precedence.
He exhorted them to maintain
complete unity, behind the safe
guard of a binding defense treaty,
during the dangerous economic
and moral situation in the old
world and to reject any encroach-
ment on the fundamental rights
of either nations or individuals.
Addressing a plenary session OF
the Inter-American defense con-
ference, the United States Secrs-
tary Of State implicitly warned the
American Republics that there
could be no Marshall recovery
plan for the Western Hemisphere
while the complete disruption OF
normal economic and social re
lations" in Europe confronts the
whole world with grave political
problems.
Despite the grave emphasis Mar
shall put on European recovery
Peruvian Foreign Minister En-
rique Garcia Sayan, who spoke inn
mediately after him. said that TO
ignore the economic problems OF
the Western Hemisphere was to
court communism.
But Marshall called on the
Americas to show "a sick and
suffering world" chat peoples.
and nations, who really want peace
can have peace by living in an
atmosphere of increasing COOP
erative action and good will"
First Speech
It was Marshall's first speech
at an Inter-American conference.
Listening to him was Sonora Eva
Peron, wife Of President Juan D.
Peron of Argentina who is on her
way home after a tour in Europe.
Marshall said the United States
was aware Of the economic trou-
bles of other American Republics
and would continue to seek 4
sound basis practical co-opera'
tion."
But he emphasized that the
American continents had been
spared the devastation of wal and
perhaps could not picture wars
enormity.
Nor do I think we are sutfic3-
emily aware of how vastly impor-
tant to the future of the old world
is the unity Of the new" he said
earnestly.
Perhaps referring to commun-
ism, Marshall said:
1.-The economic problems caused
by the war have developed politi-
| See MARSHALL on Page Two
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u. S. Throws Smoldering
Problem Into UN Gen
'eral Assembly

LAKE SUCCESS, NY, Aug &c
-W.H-The United States threw
the smoldering Balkans problem
into the United Nations General
Assembly today less than "a hours
after two Russian vetoes had kill
ed all chances of effective action
by the Security Council.
Formal announcement Of the
American move came simultane-
ously in Washington and at United
Nations headquarters. Deputy
American delegate Herschel V.
Johnson requested the action in
a letter to United Nations Secre-
tary-General Trygve Lie.
johnson called the case "threats
to the political independence and
territorial integrity of Greece
and asked that it be added to the
supplementary agenda of the gen.
eral assembly which meets at Flu
shing Sept. 16. Lie advised the
American delegation that John
sons letter had been received and
that the item was being added.
The transferring of the long-fes-
tering Balkans dispute from the
Council to the "town meeting OF
See BALKAN on Page Two
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Eliminates Heavy
Drain On Dollars
Suspension OF Dollar Pay.
ments To All Countries
Except u. S. Allowed

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. -WH-
The United States today agreed to
modify terms of the So, $50, 600, 900
OBJ Anglo-American loan agree
ment. 1t gave Britain Emergency
permission to relieve the agree
ment's drain on its dollar supply.
Secretary of Treasury John w.
Snyder and acting Secretary OF
state Robert A. Lovett announced
that IAN understanding has been
reached" between British and
American delegates to a confer
ence on the loan.
The agreement allows Britain to
suspend payments of dollars to all
countries except the United States,
thus eliminating the heavy drain on
its dollar supply caused by the
"convertability" clause of the loan
agreement.
In the original Loan Agreement,
Britain had promised to make Brit
ish currency acquired by other
countries in the course of trade
''freely convertible" into dollars
after July IS.
Argentina, Canada and other ma
tons with a large supply IF Brit
ish pounds began asking for dollars,
at the official exchange rate of
$4.03 per pound, as soon as the
"convertability'' clause took ef-
See BRITISH LOAN On Page Two
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Threatens
Drought Choked Europe
Fires Raging; Milk,
Water Supplies
Short

LONDON, Aug. 90 U.D -
Thousands were threatened with
starvation today as drought chok-
ed Europe, blighting crops, touch
ing off forest fires, drying up
milk and water supplies and adding
millions of dollars to post COSTS.
From Britain eastward across
the destitute continent came re-
ports of insufferable heat, in.
creased infantile paralysis, ruined
crops, burned out woodlands-and
prospective hunger.
DR.. Heinze Runge, weather ex-
pert at the Potsdam, Germany,
meteorological station, said Ger
many's potato and cabbage crops
were being wiped out. He fore
cast a complete loss unless rain
breaks the drought, the worst In
100 years.
Fields were wasting away and
German farmers were slaughter
ing their cattle because they lack
ed fodder. Rain within three
weeks, Runge said, would be toe
late.
Germany's rainfall was nine and
a half inches below normal. The
situation was particularly severe
in districts west of the Elbe river,
See STARVATION on Page 2
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Foreign Policy Hit;
Balkan Dispute Given To UN
GIRL WALKS HOME
FROM PLANE RIDE

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 20-W.D
"A 17-year-old girl said today
that she had walked home from
an airplane ride.
She said her boy friend had
made an unscheduled landing at
sOr1e town about 30 miles
from here, pleading that his
plane needed repairs.
After a brief interlude, she
got out and started to walk. He
started his motor and flew
away.
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kissing Governor Says
He's Been Out Stepping

nique into his dates with blond
Virginia Warren, daughter of Cali
fornia's Republican Governor.
mo comment" he said. "And
those reports 1 smacked so, 600
women are a little exaggerated"
Everybody knows, anyway, a poll
tician has to kiss babies to get
votes.
"Only I started with the 16-year-
old ones," he said, land worked
up from there"
Folsom, who towers six feet,
eight inches and looks more like a
Notre Dame tackle than a Govern
See KISSING" on Page Three.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
DALTON EXPLAINS
HOW RUN STOPPED
Convertibility Clause On
American Loan Sus-
pended, He Says

LONDON, Aug. 2o-U.D-Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dali
ton informed the British people
tonight that Britain had halted a
run on its dwindling supply of
American loan dollars ty other
countries which had amounted to
$242, 0O0, 900 in the past 10 days.
The run was halted, Dalton said,
by s%uspending the convertibility
clause of the 49, $50, 900, 900 Ameri-
can loan, which gives other coun-
tries the right to demand dollars
for pounds sterling. In effect, the
suspension lengthens the life of
the American loan and gives Brit
ain new dollars to help meet her
drastic economic crisis.
"In the five working days end
ing August Is we had to pay out no
less than $176, 600, ooo," Dalton
said in a radio address over BIC.
ION Monday and Tuesday of this
week we had to pay out a further
See DALTON on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Indian Twins
Under Witch'S Spell

BEATTY, New, Aug. 2o-W.D-
The pretty twin daughters if Long
Jim, a Pahute indian, lay in a
coma tonight in an isolated bark
hut, 'cursed" by an angry woman
witch doctor who told them two
days ago "now you're dead"
Deputy Bob Revert and Nye
county Sheriff w. H. Thomas said
they found the girls lying in a
stupor" in Long Jim's hut 5000 feet
up in the Mt. Charleston range
north of here.
= "They may be dead to the In
dians," Recert said, "But to law
officers their. hearts beat, they
have pulses and breathe"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

The girls are named May Bell
and Flora Bell and are in their
early 20's. Both were described
as quite pretty"
The officer said he and the
sheriff examined the girls "as
closely as possible under the cir
cumstances" but that Long, Jim
would not allow them to touch
nor move his daughters.
They are under care OF an In
dian witch doctor who's trying to
break the curse by rafting tin
cans filled with rocks" Revert
See PRETTY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Truman Sees T1uge
Treasury Surplus
President Forecasts Continued High Prices,
Taxes, Incomes And Employment Will Pro-
d,ce Biggest Treasury Surplus In History

calculation. The revision is based
on "a continuance OF employment,
prices, and incomes close to their
present levels throughout the
fiscal year." Bigger individual in.
come tax collections account for
81, loo, ooo, 900 of the boost.
3. The treasury will show a
surplus of 81. 667, 900, O0o-largest
ever tallied-next June 30. The
1888, 900, 900, 900 national debt may
be reduced to $253, 600, 900, 900
In view Of unsettled world con-
ditions and inflationary trends,
Mr.. Truman said it would be
RECKLESS" to fail to have a sub
stantial surplus.
He declared any leftover income
and part of the treasury's spare
cash should be applied to the pub
lie debt. While he did not mention
the issue of tax reduction directly,
that evidently put him exactly in
the position he took this summer
when he vetoed two tax cutting
bills on grounds they came at the
wrong time. Congress upheld the
vetoes.
With a few digs, but no outspok-
en- criticism, the President put his
own figures up against COP claims
of savings as high as So, 600, 600, 900
Or 81, 900, 600, 600 in the last con-
gressional session.
Democrats have been insisting
many of the cuts the Republicans
claimed were "phoney." In any
event, spending already has be-
come a top campaign issue for
1913.
Mr. Truman recalled that his
January budget estimated expen-
ditures at $37, 528, 900, 900. Suisse
quent additions and more in pros
pect, plus various technical
See TRUMAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
And So To Bed

City Councilman James E.
L. Wade has been walking the
streets the past several days
with a white handkerchief fit
ted closely under his shirt col.
lar, but occasionally the hand
kerchief gets out Of place and
Overlaps his coiiar.
The many friends of Genial
Jim" have chided him about
the innovation. He says it's to
protect his investment.
ut costs rs cents to get .
shirt laundered. It's much
cheaper to have the handker.
chief washed than the Shirt"
he quips to his friends.
Seriously, we think perhaps
Jim has something there,
especially during these hot
days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
LINDSAY RUSSELL
INJURED in FALL
FROM HIS HORSE

Lindsay Russell, Greenvllle
Sound, suffered painful but not
serious injuries yesterday when he
was thrown from a horse he was
riding near his home.
The horse SHE'D, throwing the
rider to earth. Last night Russell
was reported by DR.. j.. Watts
Farthing as resting comfortably
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital.
Russell did not sustain any brok-
en- bones, the physician added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
The Weather

NJ FORECAST
tion.aN Carolina-Partly cloudy, con
vidaI0 rather warm Thursday with
aoo, scattered thundershowers in after
ti5 T " Carolina-Partly cloudy, con-
NJ ialher VAIN Thursday.
endinn1 r-ologlcai data for the "a hours
''0o p. m. yesterday.
I'm TEMPERATURES
81 ~ ., m. 76; 7:3O a. m. II; 1870 D. m.
Mum ~ p, m. 81; Maximum 88; Mini
" ~ Mean 81; Normal n.
1.9o HUMIDITY
81 "a q, N. IS; 7:30 a. m. SO; 1870 D. m.
r,4., PRECIPITATION
NI3' tSl Tor "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
l.5 t't al since The first of the month
fFr TIDES FOR TODAY
s c ,Daa The Tide Tables published by U.
''s' and Geodetic Survey.
Rilnin HIGH Low
e'oh ------- 1:16 am. 1924 am.
&asonhoro 1:49 pm. 1856 pm
inlet 11:42 am. 5:15 am.
lI; JoS7af'se 5:3a; Sunset s:52; Moonrise
Moonset 1O:14p.
WEATHER On Pare Two
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See BRITISH LOAN On Page Two
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See DOCTORS on Page Two
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See TRUMAN on Page Two
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See CURTAIL on Page Three
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See RUSSIAN on Page Two
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-16
IECAIS

II
NOTfCE o. HEUEMEII0S
y NOTICE ~ HFREBY GIVEN BY
the hoard 81 Public Instruction Of
Monroe County, Florida. that in
accordance with the issuing Reso-
luton, the hereinafter described
dra.nSyios from nSna al tSe ne Refun dim.
Bonds Of the respective series
outstanding. are called for redemp-
tion on July 1, 1917. The Refund
Ing Bonds SO called for redemption
are described by date, series. NUM-
Der and maturity - follows:
Dated January /, 1897
S Maturing January I. 1867
Bonds Numbers !: 10. %. II. IS. ~.
Dated January /. 1887
Maturing January /. 1867
Bonds Nnnbers and I.
Date6 january 4, 1897
Maturfng january I. 1867
Bonds Numbers IS, Sc, %, 1O2,
10t, 1917, III, 1sS, -14sy Ia, 14s,
SERIES AZ; ~ Ia 81 and EOS.
Dated January I. 1897
Maturing January I. 1857
Bonds Numbers 16. 81. 20. &c
The Refnnding Bonds which
have been called for redemption
shall cease to bear interest as of
July I. 1947. and shall he payable
at Guaranty Trust Company Of
New York. N. Y.
OF MONROE COUNTY. FLORIDA.
BY: ]. CARLYLE ROBERTS.
Chairman.
ATTEST:
WILLARD NJ. ALBURY.
Secretary.