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Evening star., 1947-07-13

beaten off repeated attacks on fun
damental human rights in his own
era, that system today might not
be the great bulwark of freedom
that it is.
Erskine, who surmounted all the
handicaps of poverty to become one
of the greatest defense attorneys IN
English history, placed himself on
the side of: the angels in the fever
ish days of the recurrently mad
Evening star., 1947-07-13
The Evolution of American Democracy
And the UpheuvoIs That Gave 1t Shape

THE SHAPING OF THE AMERICAN TRADITION
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How. We BuHtt the
Way to Victory. 49,.
AMERICAN MIRACI,E

The Story of War Construction
Around the World.
BY Van Rensselaer, Sill. fOdys-
seq Press, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
MARINES
DIE in CHINA
Is Wounded In Communist
Raid On Americans
Principal Depot

TIENTSIN, China, April 5-(P,
- Ammunition hungry Chinese
communists killed five U. S. Ma
rines and wounded Is today in
a smartly planned raid on the
Marines principal north China de-
pot, at Hsinho, % miles east Of
Tientsin.
Most, if not all, of the Marine
deaths occurred when the raid
ers blew up part of nhe dump.
The communists left six of thei1
own dead on the scene Of the
four hour and Is minute battle
and carried away an estimated
100 wounded. No prisoners were
taken on either side.
Four hundred Chinese govern.
ment troops took. up the pursuit
northward while Marine .observa-
ton planes kept the retreating
raiders under surveillance.
The Marines themselves organ
lied a heavily armed convoy I'M
der Col. Julian N. Frisbie, com
mandant OF the fifth regiment.
(This dispatch thus Implied, bull
did not flatly state, that the Ma
rine convoy was a punitive ex'
pedition).
A Marine statement said identi,
fication of the dead Chinese LEFT
no doubt that they were com
munists.
Fourteen of the wounded Ma.
rines required surgery and t1.ee
we're critically hurt, However,
the fist divisions surgeon, D. Eu'
gene v. Jobe, expressed hope thai
all would recover.
Marine accounts gave this de-
scription OF this bloodiest brush
to date with the communists:
Presumably goaded by a short
age of, ammunition and otner sup.
plies, the communists closed il
on the 5-square mile dump area
shortly after midnight. The de-
pot is laid out in a triangle, with
the road northWard to Peitang
touching its apex.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Easter Festivals Set
Over The Nation Today

Los Angeles, were expected to draw
a total of 80, 900.
There were half a dozen outdoor
sunrise services scheduled in New
York City, including n on the
mall in Central Park.
Massed choirs and corps Of
trumpeters we're to bring their
Easter music to Chicago's Soldier
Field before so, 1000 at a 18th an.
nual dawn service.
San Francisco scheduled its 25th
annual sunrise observance atop
938-foot Mt. Davidson with its il.
Illuminated 1O3-foot ross. H.
At Salt Lake City the Easter
ministerial association planned ar
al-religious service for the steps
Of the State capitol.
In Idaho the Boise Junior Cham
Der of Commerce arranged with
prison officials to have convlcts
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Weather Spoils Easter
For Most Of U.S. Today

Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska
land New York, and q potential
threat of floods later in New
England
North Dakota experienced one Of
the heaviest snow falls of the
winter, with 10 inches recorded
near the Montana border, blocking
some highways.
Two tornadoes, $50 miles apart
in Missouri, ripped out telephone
wires and destroyed farm homes,
while four members of a family
were killed in Wister, Okla, when
high winds demolished their home.
A storm moving eastward to-
ward the upper Great Lakes reg
ion caused a wide belt of exces-
sive rain from northeast Kansas
a c r o southwestern Missouri,
outheastern Iowa, northern Him
OILS, northwestern Indiana and
southern lower Michigan. The
Continued On Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06

lone every tIllIlS WlCIlIll LIS pO
At the same time Balm said il
union leadership persisted in its
course of action and. called a strike
Monday the company would dc
all in it's power to provide emer-
gency service required by the pub.
lie.
The company appealed to its
employees to "stay on the job and
provide the service which is sc
vital to the people we serve"
Officials stated that manage.
ment employees and other EN-
ployees who report to work recog
nizing the company's RESPONSE
bility to render uninterrupted serv
ice, will operate the switchboards
to handle emergency calls. In the
interest of prompt handling Of
emergency calls, the public is ask
ed to limit its calls to emergency
messages only.
A statement issued by the Com
pany follows:
"A total of $1,000 Southern Bel
employees are eligible for Unior
membership. According to unlor
statements appearing in the press
only Is, 303 of these. or only ~ pei
cent, voted on the question @;
whether there would be a strike
"a, o34 voting for a strike and j.
269 against it.
"The company deeply regret:
the unions action which has pu'
CONTINUED ON Page Two; Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
81 BILLION SET
FOR FOREIGN AID
Senator Byrd Bases Is
Month Estimate On Bud
get Bureau Reports

WASHINGTON, April 5.-(P-
Senator Byrd (D-Va) today added
up the money to be laid out by the
United States under its interna-
tional commitments in the next
Is months and announced a total
of 81, 043, loo, 900.
This is in addition to the $780,
900, 900 requested by President
Truman for Greece and Turkey
to halt the spread of communism.
Byrd based his total on Budget
Bureau figures compiled at his
request.
The largest item is So, $50, DOC, 00(
still available to the British as o.
March / out of their SO, $50, 600, 00(
loan.
The other items in Byrd's tota.
on budget bureau estimates:
Funds requested by the Presi
dent for relief in liberated coun
tries-$35o, 900, 600.
Relief in American occupied
areas of enemy countries-Sl,'
120, 600, 900.
Export-Import Bank loans, ex
GLIDING the $500, 900, 600 earmarkee
flor China and smaller sums fol
commercial type loans-$944, loo,'
900.
Philippine aid-$663, 900, 900.
The final settlement for UNRRf
-S552, 900, 900.
Free transfer of surplus wa.
properties to foreign countries -
-2O7, 900, 900.
fC>,A;nuod an Pare TwI. Col. 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
The Weather

Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the -24 hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:SO am. "a; 1880 am. So; 1:30 pm. Is;
1880 pm. 68.
Maximum IA; Minimum 81; Mean 66;
Normal SO.
HUMIDITY
1880 am. IS; 1880 am. 81. 1870 PIN. ";
1880 pm. 80.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm. -
600 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington $4,000 1890 am. Sill am.
1888 pm. 5:25 p m.
Masoboro Inlet els am. 2:08 am.
8:38 pm. 2:19 pm.
Sunri se 5:52; Sunset 6:36; Mocnrise 7:5C
pm; Moonset 6:38 am.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
am. Saturday, 16.2 AesG
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
nth HOUR PHONE
TALKS ARE CALLED
Labor Secretary Expresses
Hope That Negotiations
May Reach Accord

WASHINGTON, April g. Up -
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbacf
expressed the hope tonight of set
Ting the dispute which threatens
a nationwide telephone strike
Monday and appealed to members
Monday and appealed to unior
members to keep on working
while negotiations continue. \
Anything can happen between
lnoW and = Monday morning
Schwellenbach said in a state
ment.
II am asking all telephone EN-
ployes to remain calm and to keel
on working until they learn thu
results of these eleventh hour dis
cussions."
A union official in New York hat
predicted that the telephone work
ers there would Jump the gum
and start walking out ahead of tn,
6 am. Monday deadline.
Shwellenbach's statement came
after lengthy talks with J. A
Beirne, president of the Nationa
Federation of Telephone Workers
and c. F. Craig, vice-president O.
the American Telephone and Tele
graph company. The secretar,
saw each separately.
In these talks Schwellenbact
moved to bring about industry
wide arbitration Of the dispute
CONTINUED on Pare Two; Col. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
HITS
MINING INDUSTRY
Few Persons Care To Guess
On How Many Mines
Will Open Monday

PITTSBURGH, April 5-P-
Confusion and uncertainty swept
the soft coal industry today after
John L. Lewis demanded that all
but two of the nations bituiminous
pits remain closed until the U. S.
finds them safe, a.
Few persons cared to hazard a
guess OF how many mines would
reopen Monday, following end o.
the United Mine Workers six-day
mourning period for the Ill Cen
tralia Gid mine disaster victims.
Safety certification by union
mine committees and operating
managers of the 518 pits in 1e
states ruled unsafe" by the gov
eminent was proceeding in a slow,
though orderly, manner when
Lewis hurled his bornbshell today.
"Isn't that something" declared
j. J. Ardigo, secretary of the vii
hanson (W. Va.) Coal Operators
Association. Looks like no work
next week"
Lewis said he was acting in
behalf of miners "whose lives are
endangered" He asked that the
mines stay closed until they are
certified to conform to the fede-
raj safety code.
John Hopkins Hall, Virginia's
fCou&;csyol NV Doro Tu,o, stoI 4,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
|Krug Rejects
lie wis Move
Federal Mine Boss Calls
Proposed Shutdown
Arbitrary Procedure

WASHINGTON, April 5 - up
Secretary of the Interior ]. A.
Krug rejected tonight a proposal
from John L. Lewis that he close
all but two of the nations seized
soft coal mines pending a safety
check, pointing out that the miners
have authority of their own to shut
down unsafe workings.
The impasse, with the federal
mine boss and the head Of the
United Mine Workers disagreeing
over where the responsibility for
mine safety lies, threatened to
prolong the mourning stoppage
in the, coal fields.
Krug's response, in a letter
from Navy Capt. N. H. COLLISION,
mine administrator under the sec
retary's supervision, called the
proposed general shutdown an EAR
bitrary procedure" 1t recalled
that the secretary previously had
ordered 518 mines closed as ''dan-
gerous" and said the remainder
of the 1851 pits in government
hands will reopen unless local I'M
ion safety committees find 'tim-
minent danger in them.
The secretary reminded Lewis
that under the Krug-Lewis con-
tract the local union safety COM
mittee can Withdraw the men
from any mine it considers $50
unsafe as to present an i'm
minent danger"
But Lewis already had directed,
in the case of the 518 closed
mines, that union safety commit
tees should not sign certificate
of safety to permit their reopen
ing "as such certificates could
probably be used against us later
or if accidents occur"
The upshot Of all these develop
ments was uncertainty over what
the miners will do Monday when
their six-day mourning" work
stoppage officially ends, and the
prospect that many mines may
remain closed.
Krug turned down Lewis re-
quest that all but two Of the gov
ernment's mines be closed after
a huddle with aides which lasted
all afternoon.
Lewis had no immediate COM
ment on Collisions reply, leaving
the unions official position on
what Its mine safety committees
would do next week still a wide
open question.
Absenteeism generally runs high
on Easter Monday.
COLLISION wrote:
II have carefully considered
your request and am unable to
CONTINUED on Page Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDS SESSION;
PRESIDENT ASSAHS AGGRESSION:
PROLONGED MINE TOPPAGE SEEN
NEW HANOVER
TO BE HONORED

New HANOVER county will be
saluted in the Star Newreels'
Sunday afternoon feature radio
program today at 1880 p. M,
in the auditorium Of the New
Hanover High school by remote
control over Radio Station
WMFD.
Voices of the high school glee
club, under the direction of
Mary Henri Wolfe, will high
light the program.
The Broadcast is the last in
a series honoring the counties
in Southeastern North Carolina
served by the Wilmington Star
and News.
w. o. Page, Jr., soloist, will
sing several of his own ar
rangements of well-known Eas-
ter hymns. Del MCGOWAN, in
strumentalist, will also have a
featured role.
The program will be under
the direction of Ben Mcdonald,
Star-News round-the-town re-
porter, and will describe the
past history of the county, the
present development as a whole
and future possibilities of its
continued growth.
The public is invited to at
tend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06

And he specified aggression "se-
cretly by infiltration" as well as
openly by armed force.
At home, he termed the republi-
can economy drive in Congress can
invitation to disaster" rallied the
democrats against immediate tax
cuts and economies he called
false" and earnestly besought
lower prices.
Many prices now, he asserted,
are Unnecessarily high" and
unjust be brought down if our en-
tire economy is not to suffer-" He
urged citizens not to go whole
hog for profits"
For his own part, the chief ex-
ecutive pledged stringent econo-
my" in government and announc-
ed definitely that receipts and ex-
penditures for the fiscal year end
ing June 80 will be in balance, and
then some-something for which he
previously had expressed only a
hope.
The President addressed a JEFF.
ferson Day dinner-his first speech
under Democratic Party auspices
since Robert E. flanagan, the Ma
tional Party chairman, threw his
hat INTO the ring for 1913.
Mr. Truman, while saying nothing
about his plans for the next cleo
ton, set forth his stand on the
prime domestic issues of taxes,
spending and prices.
He used the occasion, also, tc
amplifh his doctrine of "aiding
those peoples whose freedoms are
endangered by foreign pressure
declared that "'our foreign policy
must not be wrecked on the rocks
of partisanship," and commended
both democrats and republicans
who have supported it.
"We, like Jefferson, have wit.
messed atrocious violations of the
rights of nations" he said.
1--WE, too. have regarded them as
occasions not to be sighted.
I'VE, too, have declared u pro-
test"
The President did not mention
Russia directly, but he significant
ly compared his present course te
that of President Monroe, whose
Monroe Doctrine was aimed partly
at Russian claims in Alaska.
Neither did he refer to the re.
publicans by name, but he dashed
out at the economies they have
voted and their plans for tax re-
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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10 o'clock.
On the side against the present
management Of the home area:
George W. Trask, county COM
missioner and chairman of the
County Home Committee, brought
the original charge that the in
mates at the home are treated
"unkindly." He reported plans
to have Mrs. D. o. Livingston, for
mer county home nurse, and S.
G. Long, former superintendent
of the home, testify at Mondays
meeting Trask's latest move has
been the threat to resign from
the county home committee if c.
Nj. Carter, superintendent of the
home, is not dismissed.
Mrs. Livington claims Carter
fired her because he thought she
was trying TO get her husband the
Job of superintendent. She col
Tolerated with Trask in the ru-
NOR that the inmates are treated
unkindly.
S. G. Long, who repeatedly told
Trask that food is being wasted
at the home. Long is superlnten-
dent of the county homes farm.
Several of the homes inmates
who told the county commission
ers that Carter m%istreated them.
On the side for the present man
agement are:
Long, who has denied Mrs. LlV-
ingston's charges and all state
ments that he has mistreated MS
inmates. He has expressed his
willingness to resign as superln-
tendent, but has indicated ne
would rather straighten the OIL
faculties out and remain on the
job. -,
Mrs. c. M. Carter has upheld
her husband against the charges.
Several of the inmates told the
county commissioners they were
fed and treated well and spoke
Continued On Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
CORRECTION

The Wilmington News Of April
4 carried an eight column head
line to the effect that IN. c..
House Hears Charge Hitting
AMVETS as Red"
The headline was written for
a story dealing with a telegram
received by Rep. Hayes, of
Forsyth, from Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., in which the
state figure told the House that
the American Veterans Com
mittee is. dominated by Com
munists.
The AMVETS is an abbrevia-
ton for American Veterans OF
World War II which organization
was started in Texas. There is
no chapter in Wilmington al
though several are scattered
throughout North Carolina.
The Headline should have read
''N. C. House Hears Charge Hit
ting AVG as Red"
The Wilmington Star-News is
glad to make this correction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
TIMETABLE SET
FOR GERMAN RULE
Foreign Ministers Tenta.
lively Agree On Seven
Administrative Bodies

MOSCOW, April s. up - The
foreign ministers agreed tentative
ly tonight on establishing seven ad-
ministrative agencies for Germany
and adopted a timetable under
which a provisional government
would be created IL months after
the agencies come into being.
The ministers begged down, how
ever, On issues connected with the
makeup of the agencies, which
would administer on a national
basis such mattersa S food. trans
port, communications, industry,
finance and foreign trade.
The United States, Britain and
Russia were agreed upon creation
of the agencies. At today's session
the French said they would go
along with the other three, provid-
ed these cnditiens were attached:
/. German agencies should be
ander administration of a commit
tee made up Of representatives OF
The German states.
2. The Saar should be excluded
from authority of the agencies.
The ministers were unable to
agree upon those conditions, as well
as a Soviet stipulation each zone
commander should have power to
veto in his zone any directive from
one of the agencies when he CO..
sidered it in conflict with allied
control council policy.
Secretary Of State George c.
Marshall argued that to give the
zone commanders such veto pow
ers would destroy the very German
unity which the allies were trying
to arrange by setting up the central
agencies.
He said that when civilian author
tiles took over from the military,
the power of the military should
be decreased rather than increas-
aL
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
And HoweN
File For Council

With only four more filing days
left, the number of candidates for
the City Council totaled eight yes
terday when Walter j. Parker paid
the S. fee to Robert Strange oil
the election board.
Parker, 37-year-old veteran and
onetime professional baseball and
basketball player, was the third
new. aspirant to file. Warren G..
Holleman, state highway employe,
paid his fee Friday after having
announced his intention several
days previously. The other new
aspirant for a place on the Coun.
Gil is John D. Howell, ia Keator
avenue.
Incumbent councilmen who nave
filed for reelection are r. l.. Bur,
nett, Garland S. Curtin, w. E.
Yopp, Robert S. LeGwin and
Mayor w. Ronald Lane.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
RETAIL STORES
TO CLOSE MONDAY
City, County And Federal
Offices Are Expecting
To Remain Open

Wilmington retail stores and bank
will be closed Monday, in obserV-
snce Of the Easter holiday, but
most of the business offices Will
return to work that day. 1t was
learned yesterday.
City Offices will reopen-Monday
tor bushes as usual, City Mana
ger J. R. Benson announced.
New Hanover County offices VIII
be open Monday following Easter
Addison Hewlett, Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners
said.
State offices operating the North
Carolina State Employment erVlc
will be closed tomorrow IN ooserV'
snce of the Easter season, ou'
are expected to reopen TUESDAY
Federal offices r expected &c
resume working hours Monday,
according to al announcement by
N. A. Averra, head of the Soclal
security Board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
MAYOR HARRELL
DIES IN WALLACE
Heart Attack Is Fatal II
Prominent North Caro-
lima Civic Leader
Special To The Star-News

WALLACE, April 5 - J. Aubrey
Harrell, g., mayor of Wallace and
prominent civic leader in North
Carolina, died of a heart attack
at his home today.
Mayor Harrell was stricken about
10 pm. Friday and suffered a fatal
attack this morning. His death
came as a shock to the community.
Mayor Harrel was born at Har-
resville, and moved to Wallace in
1917. He was associated with Camp
Manufacturing Company at the
time he moved here.
He was prominently associated
with the civic, fraternal and reli-
gious life of Wallace for 80 years.
He served as fire chief, town COM
missioner. and mayor of Wallace
for 20 years. He was elected as
town commissioner in 1923 and re-
elected in 1925 and 1927. He was
elected for his first term as mayor
of. Wallace in 1881 service contin-
ottsly until his death. His present
term as mayor would have expired
May II, 1947.
Mayor Harrell was a member OF
Wallace Methodist church and ac-
tive member of Wallace Masonic
lodge, former director of the
League of Municipalities, former
chairman of Duplin county draft
hoard. and former chairman of the
Legislative ComEittee of TIL e
League of Municipalities.
He was known among a wide
circle of friends throughout the
state as an aggressive municipal
leader. His unselfish service to the
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
BY The Associated Press

The weather went on a wide
spread rampage Saturday, spoil
ing the outlook for pleasant Easter
conditions In much of the nation.
Driving rains, heavy snow, high
winds and tornadoes dashed parts
of the country, causing serious
flood conditions, destroying prop
erty and disrupting transportation.
-Four persons were killed.
In only a few scattered sections
was the Sunday weather outlook
favorable for Easter parading.
High winds. cloudy skies and
lcold were forecast for most OF the
midwest, in the wake of heavy
rains that caused flood conditions
in several states.
Rain or showers were in pros
lpect for Easter in such widely
scattered areas as New York, New
England, Virginia, Nebraska, Utah
and Idaho.
Heavy ,aiAs caused Moods n
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-06
Solution To VHF Beam
Is Anticipated Soon

A satisfactory solution to the
nroblem of activating the Very
High Frequency radio beam on
the Coastal air route, between Nor
folk to Charleston, is expected to be
Forthcoming very shortly &C.
cording to a letter received mere
yesterday from John Sherman,
executive secretary Of the All
Coordinating Committee in Wash
|ington.
In a communication to R. B.
page. chairman of the Aviation
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce. Sherman said the matter
is now under consideration by the
committee. He added that ne mas
ssevery reason to believe" that II
would be solved soon.
Activation of the beam, which
would permit low-ceiling and night
living. has been sought by the
committee and other local interests
for sometime. The necessary equip
Iment has been installed but the
beams establishment has been de-
|1ayed because the route 1t would
direct passes through aNaval
bombing range in Albemarle sound