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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
Bible COMMITTEE
ELECTS OFFICERS
Dr.. William Grove, Jr., To
Serve AS Chairman
OF Group Here

Officers for the coming year o.
the Committee on Teaching TIE
bible in Public Schools were elect
ed last night at a supper meeting
in the high school cafeteria a
which time about $50 person:
were present.
The newly elected officers in
elude: DR.. William Grove, Jr.
chairman; Rev. W. j. Stephenson
vice chairman; Mrs. M. H. Shep
herd. secretary; and Rober-
Strange, treasurer.
According to T. T. Hamilton
Jr., principal Of New Hanover
High school, this is the eight veal
In which the Bible has been taugh-
Ill the public schools here. The
program is sponsored by a mum
Der of Protestant denominations.
Two teachers are employed BY
The Protestant group to teach the
subject, he said.
Last nights program consisted
o. group singing led by Arthur
John; devotional by the Rev. w
j. Stevenson.
The message from the teachers
we're given by Miss Harriet Coch'
ran and Miss Maude Weber.
character Education in the ell
ementary Schools" was the sub
Jec' OF Miss Helen Wooten, Sunse'
Fark first grade teacher.
1hree high school Bible stu,
gents, David Billiard. Bobby Nc.
Aehzle and Ann Jordan, rep
.eSented the students in a talk or
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
LOCAL GROUP TO
ATTEND HEARING
Delegations Scheduled To
Appear AT Liquor Ref
erendum Farley

A delegation of city officials
headed by Mayor W. Ronald Lane
and City Manager j. R. Benson is
scheduled to leave today for Ra.
leigh where they will appear at q
public hearing to be conducted on
the proposed liquor referendum
for the state by a special senate
finance committee of the legisla'
ture.
The local party. which is expect
ed to be composed of members
Of the city council and other local
officials. will join other similar
groups from throughout the state
in protest against an election
which has been sought by North
Carolina dry forces to determine
the sentiments of the people OF the
state on the sale of intoxicating
beverages.
Three measures relative to a
statewide referendum have been
offered in the horoe and senate,
but. hearings have not been SEIZED
uled on but one. which was of
fered by Senator George Penny OF
Guilford county. Under Penny's
measure, the referendum would
concern the sale of liquor and
! wines, with all light domestic
wines and beer exempted.
Opponents of the measure con
tend that municipal and county
| governments would suffer heavy
losses from the lack of revenue
| derived from the sale of the bev-
erages.
Benson said yesterday that the
city would face a heavy deficit in
the budget should the revenues
from liquor sales be denied as a
source of revenue.
In addition to the local group,
Wrightsville Beach will send
about a dozen representatives to
Raleigh for the hearing, Town
Clerk R. L. Benson said last night
that DR.. Sidney V. Allen, Mayor
of the town, would head the dele
cation from Wrightsville.
Also expected to be present at
the session today are representa-
tives of Carolina Beach.
The hearings have been SEIZED
uled for two thirty this afternoon
in the Utilities hearing room.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
APPROVES
FARM LABOR BILL
Despite Economy Pleas,
Congressman Add $10,-
100000 To Figure

WASHINGTON, March A. (P)-
The House, temporarily side
tracking a COP drive to SLASH
President Truman's S37, 800, 600, 0O(
budget, today approved a $40, 000,-
600 expenditure which had no
been requested by the Presidenr
himself.
Overriding pleas by Rep. Dirk
ser GRID that the economy line
be held, the House voted 243 te
10 to authorize the expenditure o.
the new millions for importing for
eign farm laborers. The bill
which now goes to the Senate
would extend until Dec. 81 the
Agriculture departments existing
authority to bring in such labor
ers.
Some members said they voted
for it because otherwise the pro
gram would expire June 30 in the
middle of the crop year. Most o
the foreign workers come from
Mexico and the Bahamas. There
were some 80, 900 last year.
Rep. Hope (R-Kans), chairman
Of the House Agriculture commit
tee said farmers are unable to
get American workers to dc
''stoop labor il the fields.
Dirksen reminded the House
that ii has already approved a &c.
900, 600, 900 cut in Mr.. Truman's
budget and declared that approva,
of the labor-importation bill woulc
be a springboard for further ex-
penditureS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05

man in the unit, according to MI.
Chadbourn.
But what would a naval unit
be without a ship? On that score,
the former organization here coulo
boast quite a vessel.
MONITOR, THAT is Serving
as a training ship for the former
Naval unit was the old U. S. iron
clad monitor Nantucket, with an
imposing turret. The old ship had
see service in the War between
the states. Then when peace re
turned to the land, the federal
government assigned the boat here
to be used as a practice vessel.
Everything went well with the
former Naval Reserves, we We
been informed.
AS a matter of fact, so we'll
known was the organization thai
when Congress declared war or
Spain in 1898. the local unit re-
ceived its sailing orders.
OFF TO BATTLE - The Nava-
Reserves here yer ordered te
board the Nantucket and sail tol
Pariss Island. South Carolina
where they would complete thell
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
Gnssett Named In
New Theft Charges
The Weather

Forecasts:
North and South carolina PartfS
cloudy and warmer Wednesday ano
Wednesday night. Showers followed by
colder Thursday.
eastern Standard Time)
(By q. S. Weather Bureau)
! Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
100 a. m. 80. ESQ a. m. %; 1870 p. NJ.
40; 1880 p. m. As; Maximum SIS; Mini
mum 27; Mean al: Normal so.
HUMIDITY
1870 a. m. 81: 7:30 a. m. 66; 80 p,
M. IS; 1880 p. M. 81.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours endlns T:30 p. m.
0 inches. Total since the first of the
month oil inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
tFrom the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
Wilmington 1888 a. m. 300 a. m,
1854 p. m. 1874 p. m
Masonboro Inlet $40 a. m. 1901 a. m,
6:45 o. m. 12:40 p. m.
Sunrise $3.50; Sunset Gil; Moonrise
4:43p; Moonset 5:57a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. al
8 a. m. Tuesday 1872 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
LAWMAKERS HEAR
PLEA FOR PORTS
Authority Chairman, Prom
inent Industrialists Ask
Cash Appropriation

RALEIGH, March 4. -(P)- The
State Ports authority at a dinner
meeting here tonight asked North
Carolina legislators to appropriate
money for developing North Caro-
lima ports, especially Wilmington,
and added that if it did not, 'this
state will fall behind her sister
southern states in industry"
A. G.. Myers, Gastonia textile
manufacturer and Ports authority
member said: 81 know the legis.
lature has a tremendously large
surplus. X X X you may find it not
only necessary but desirable te
help the port situation.' He said
that North Carolina was the only
coastal state in the United States
that does not have at least one
great port.
Myers told legislators that f'North
Carolina won't prosper as she
should without port facilities. X X X
the state cannot afford to pass ur
this opportunity, but you've go1
to- advanee~some money II VOC
don't North Carolina will fall be,
hind her sister southern states"
Chairman r. B. Page, Whining
ton publisher, reported that 1882,
612 had been released by Presi-
dent Truman for dredging OF a 81
foot channel in the Cape Fear
river at Wilmington. He added that
bids and specifications already
have been issued by the Whining
gton District Corps of Army En-
gineers and that bids would be
opened March 20.
Page said the dredging would
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
Soviets Get
Thousands OF
u.s.. Patents
psoresentative o m a S
Exposes "Raids" In
Verbal Report
METHODS ARE CITED
Chairman Demands End To
rCoddling Policy" To-
ward Moscow

WASHINGTON, March 4 -(P)-
r,a House committee on UnAmeri-
ane activities reported today that
pnssia has obtained hundreds of
.housaDds of American patents by
illegal espionage" system and
nav we'll be on the way to obtain
mo fine atom bomb secrets.
The report was made verbally
~ the House by Chairman Thomas
'B.ND. who demanded an end to
,,hat he called ''our coddling po-
Tcyy under which Russia was
able to obtain from the Patent Of
tice copies of industrial, chemi-
caI and military patents.
Thomas suggested that since the
patent office is under the Com
n7prce department, Former Secre-
torv of Commerce Henry A. Wal
,sce should answer to the prop
,r committee as to why Russian
representatives were permitted
10 obtain copies of patents.
Through our coddling policy
of giving Russia our patented
knowledge," ne said, she may
vel be on her way to the discov-
,rv of many, if not all, of the
thousands of industrial processes
and secrets which constitute the
great secret of the atom bomb"
0 900 Order
The Russians, Thomas told the
house. ordered as many as 20, 600
nstents at a time in their program
Of tapping the inventive genius
of Americas industrial and mill
tary development for the benefit
of the Soviet government"
Yet. since 1927, he asserted,
PRUSSIA has refused to give us a
single patent
Thomas said the Russians OBJ
tanned the patents by having their
front agencies in the United
States order them. On January 2,
l945, ne said, a dummy agency
Book corporation, 253 Fifth Ave
nue.. New York city, called for all
patents for 1912 and part of l943.
They did it by having the Am
sorg Trading corporation of 21O
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
PROGRAM AT US0
ENDING MARCH 81
II e a d Of Recreation De-
partment Cites Need
For Continuation

Jesse Reynolds, superintendent
Of the city recreation department,
said last night that indications
now were that a substitute for the
USO program which is to be
abandoned March 81, would be in
augurated here.
According to an announcement
from USO regional headquarters
in Atlanta yesterday, the USO at
Second and Orange streets, will
terminate the last of this month
due to the shortage of funds.
Ralph w. Richards is director,
and David H. Howes is chairman
of the operating committee.
Reynolds said he was sorry that
it was necessary to close the cen
ter at this time because Camp Lee
jeune has not yet reached its full
peace-time capacity.
1--WE have established good re-
Iationship with the camp" he
said. ''and there is a real need
for the service. And this need will
be increased when the camp
reaches its full peace-time capac.
ity."
He said that many organizations
had indicated their desire to keep
the program going, but added that
it would have to be restricted to
military personnel on the week
end, because civilians and mill
tary persons don't mix too we'll"
In this connection he said it had
been suggested that the city &C.
reation department take over the
operation OF the center since it
now maintains the building. This
could easily be done, he said, by
the addition of only one or two
persons to supervise its operation.
And he added, it could be done
with little expense because the
project could be made self : sup
porting, but not a profit-makjng
enterprise.
The properly belongs to the city.
he said, and has been operated
under the recreation department.
The USO has had the use of the
building during the week-ends so
long as USO funds were available.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
OLD MAN WINTER
TAKES Is LIVES
Upper New York State
Cities Isolated By Heav-
lest Snowfall OF Year

Snowbound Northeastern states
struggled with effects of n OF
the worst storms of the winter
yesterday, seeking to dig out $50
lated communities and open
clogged transportation arteries.
At least 16 deaths we're attrlbu'
ted to the early March wint,y blast
seven in New York state, six in
Pennsylvania and three in New
England.
Bitter gales piled the record
snowfalls high on highways and
rail lines, threatening food deliv-
cries in many sections. Schools
were closed and air transportation
crippled.
Upstate New York had 40 inches
of snow in some areas after a
three-day storm, worst OF the win
ter in the state. More than a doz-
en- trains were snowbound and
state police said some main high
ways and all secondary roads
were blocked.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05

colonial secretary, Arthur Green
Jones, into action. The Colonial Oh
flee was visibly embarrassed. II
was the first time a conviction
had been obtained in a Ju-Ju muir
der and the men were to be hung
as examples in the hope that the
custom of murder by ritual would
end on the Gold Coast.
A dispatch from Accra said the
men were awakened in their
death cells only a short time be-
fore they were to hang at 8 am.
and notified that the British House
of Commons had interviewed tor
them. Their sentences probably
will be committed to life impfison-
ment.
The men who were saved were
.Kwaku Amoako Alta, KWasi Pip
i'm, Kwame Ka2ya. Opoku Alive
nee, and Aaron Eugene BoaAt
Dankwa, Alias YaW Boakye.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
"C0ME OUT" TASK
BOMBING
Troops In Battle Array
Search Famous Orange
Groves

JERUSALEM, Palestine, March
4-W.P-British troops in battle ar
ray and carrying sub-machine
guns took over the Hadera Orange
grove district today TO- what au-
thorities called q full scale
"comb-out" in search of under
ground agents who attacked a
Royal Air force quartermaster
depot during the night.
Two soldiers were wounded in
the attack. For one hour Jewish
underground operatives fired and
threw hand grenades at the depot
from the surrounding orange
groves.
So thorough was the search to-
day that Jews believed it might
presaee a declaration of martial
law in the Hadera district, mid
way between Tel Aviv and Haifa.
Defying the British Army au-
thorities, who already had de-
creed martial law in the Mea
Shearim quarter of Jerusalem. in
the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv and
II a group of coastal towns, I'M
foreground agents blew up two
military trucks this morning.
Wounding three British soldiers
II live Arab civilians.
Trucks Blown Up
One truck was bio Wn up by .
mine one mile south of Rishon LIE
Zion, south of Tel Aviv. The other
was mined near the Tel Aviv sub
urb of Ramle.
The Irgun Zvai Leumi under
ground organization started a new
var of nerves. A score of anony.
NOUS telephone calls were receiy.
cd s in government departments
that the buildings would be blown
up. Authorities took no chances
and the buildings we're hastily
emptied while a search was made
for time bombs.
Army chieftains further
strengthened their defenses in Js-
residents Zone c. security area,
containing the criminal investiga-
ton department headquarters,
hospitals and the law courts.
New double strength barbed
wire entanglements were set up
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GEORGIA TUNE TURNS
UP AT HISTORIC MEET
OF BRITISH = FRENCH

D~UNKERQUE, France
March 4-(P)-When Foreign
Minister Georges BidaAlt ar
rived for the signing of the So
wear British-French treaty to-
day, the Republican guard
band played the French nation
al anthem. When British Fore
ign Secretary Ernest Bevin ar
rived, the band played the
British national anthem.
When the official party
marched into the building to-
gether, the band swung into
"Marching Through Georgia."
Nobody explained why.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
Loses Ship
BATAVIA. Java, March 4 =

BATAVIA. Java, March 4 Up
The Netherlands East Indies
government confiscated today the
multimillion dollar cargo OF the
U. S. Liberty ship Martin Behr-
man, which was loaded at the Ma
tionalist port of Cheribon. The yes
sci is under the command OF
Captain Rudy Gray of Southport,
N. C. :
The ship was brought into Ba'
tavia harbor Sunday with ten
Dutch marines aboard and the
Dutcn destroyer Kortenaer in es-
cort. She had entered Che1ibon
without a Dutch permit, but with
the sanction Of the unrecognlzeo
Indonesian republic. Rubber,
sugar and cinchona (quinine-bear-
ing BARK were in her cargo.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
British Army Launches uIl ScaleD Drive
Against Hadera Underground Agents;
1882, 612 Released For Channel Work
PORT INTERESTS
HAIL GOOD NEWS
Resumption OF Dredging
On 32-Foot Channel
Marks Start

In announcing the release of
1882, 612 for the continuation of
dredging operations on the 32-foot
Cape Fear river project, the Will
mington District Corps of Engi.
declared last night that adj
ditional ALLEGATIONS of 81, sos, 900
are needed to complete the neces-
sary work on the channel.
Work on the near-million-dollar
upper end of the Brunswick chan
mel and proceed downstream to
the lower end of Lilliput channel,
about halfway to the sea.
Local U. S. engineers declare
that an additional ALLEGATION of
ST, 1850, 900 is needed for the work
on the remainder of the river,
from lower Lilliput channel to the
ocean bar; and for work in the
north east river and in the cut
off channel from the river to the
inland waterway.
Also needed, they said, is $105,-
900 to be used for the operation of
government dredges to widen and
deepen the ocean bar.
Bids and specifications for the
32-foot Cape Fear project have al
ready been issued by the Whining
ton engineers and bids submitted
by private contractors will be
opened on March 20.
Work is to begin 80 days after
official notice to proceed n d
output must be $50, 900 cubic yards
per month. The project entails
deepening the channel to 50 feet
actually, one foot being allowed
for over-depth, and widening OF
the Brunswick River anchorage
basin from 300 to $50 feet at the
lower end, and from 800 to Its
at the upper end. Engineers esti-
mated the job would not be COM
pleted for at least a year, a d
declared at least two large dredges
would have to be put to full time
use in the work.
| Local port interests hailed the
news as the first step toward
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
AIR GROUP CALLS
SPECIAL MEETING
Naming OF Representative
To Washington Seized
uled AT Session

The lack OF a quorum at a meet
ing of the Wilmington-NeW Han
over Airport authority yesterday
blocked plans to name a repre-
sentative from this city to confer
with Civilian A%eronautics admins
tration authorities in Washington
March IL on the proposed VIII
range for this area.
A special meeting will be hele
later this week in order to name
a member of the authority to &C
company representatives from
New Bern. Elizabeth City ane
Myrtle Beach. S. c. o Washing
ton for the conference.
An informal session was con
Quoted by members present yes
terday, with Jesse Parker, Blue
thenthal airport manager, report
ing that new flood lights had beer
installed in order to facilitate
night landings.
Pleasure over progress of the
field was expressed by members
of the group, with attention being
called to the fact that SoutheasJ
Airlines and National Airline:
have four flights daily. With the
addition of the very high freQuen'
cy radio range, present NAL plans
call for the addition of three more
flights to local air service.
Present at yesterdays session
were Albert Perry. Hamilton
Hicks Addison Hewlett and Jes'
Sc Parker.
Absent from the session were
Harry Gardner, who Monday sub
mitted his resignation as a mem
Der of the air'board, Lenox Cooper
and Hargrove Bellamy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
MARSHALL, BYRNE;S
FOR PACTS
Secretary Oh State, Prede-
cessor Plead For Treaty
Ratifications

WASHINGTON, March 4 up
- Secretary of State George c.
Marshall and his predecessor,
James F. Byrnes, asked the Sen
ate Foreign Relations committee
today to approve the satellite
peace treaties for Italy, Hungary,
Romania, and Bulgaria as major
signposts on the road to world
peace.
Marshall, who leaves for Mos
COW tomorrow to open negotiations
on treaties for Germany and Aus
tria, won warm assurances OF sup
port from Chairman Arthur H
Vandenberg, chief Republican for
eign policy spokesman in Con
|gress.
Vandenberg told him that his
mission was "fraught with des
tiny" and that the country's
"hearts, hopes and prayers" were
with him Gin this restless, trem'
bling world at this critical hour"
He said that Marshall would be
speaking at the Moscow Big Foul
Foreign Minister'S conference
"for a great people who wan
nothing for themselves except the
right to live honorably in a free
world of free men,"
First Test
The Moscow conference will put
Marshall in his first test of deal
ing directly with the top foreign
affairs chiefs of Britain, France
and Russia since he succeeded
Byrnes in January. And he could
only reply modestly that he would
do his best. Then he FASTENED
back to the State Department fol
last-minute preparations for his
departure in n of four Army
/r--.oJ ~ Do,n NNxryn. Cn1 R1
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05

Though it has long been evident
that Great Britain was reducing
her commitments and that the
United States would have TO re-
dres,; the balance, the timing OF
the British notice about Greece is
very awkward indeed. The Amerl'
can people are asked to make 6
very grave decision before the
end of this month. in the very
weeks the President and the Sec
rotary Of State r to be away
from Washington. out OF touch
with Congress, separated from
their military and financial advl-
sers, and deeply preoccupied
with other matters. 1t will not be
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
And So To Bed

Evidently he didn't posses a
penny to his name. But it was
apparent that he was hungry.
And what he didn't have in
money, he did have in nerve.
He told the waitress at the
counter to fetch him a bowl Of
hot water and a spoon.
She looked questioningly at
him for a fleeing instant, but
dutifully filled the order, then
went her way.
He reached for a bottle of
ketchup and poured freely from
it into the bowl, stirring with
the spoon. a
Tie result was tomato soup
OF a sort - which he gulped
with relish. And then walked
calmly out of the place.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER

easy under these conditions to
form a cons. e. american
policy or to explain it responsibly
to vi people.
There is no apparent reason fol
forcing so abrupt a decision be-
fore March 81 except that this
Gate happens to mark the end O.
the British fiscal year. The Bri-
fish government, though it must
cut drastically it's foreign expendi.
lures, has not suddenly run GU,
of funds as of March 81. The fix
ing of that most inconvenient tirre
limit is an accident of the pro-
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WEATHERMAN SAYS
CITY CAN EXPECT
SAME AS YESTERDAY

The weat.ia' ~ Wilmington to
day will be Gust like yesterday
according to the local weather bu
reau with q high of 81 degree:
expected during the day.
The winds will be gentle to mod
crate. Low temperature in tn
early morning hours was predict
ed for IS degrees in the city ant
81 degrees on the outskirts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05
FORECAST:

wilmington and vicinity: Partly
! cloudy and warmer today and tonight,
followed by showers; Thursday colder.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-05

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