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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
66-Page Document
Contains Warning
United Nations Told At
tempt To Split Holy
Land May Mean War

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Nov.
10. -U.D-Arab states demanded
today that the United Nations
set up Palestine as an independ-
ent, Arab-controlled state, an d
warned that any attempt to par
tition the Holy Land would touch
off hostilities that would con.
tinue for some time.
The warning-the bluntest yet
sounded-was contained in a 66.
page Palestine program written
by six Arab states and the Mos
lem countries of Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
The plan was submitted to the
UN Palestine committee which
will weigh it against the rival
Soviet-American program for
partition of Palestine into Arab
and Jewish States. Then, in one
of the most fateful decisions it
has ever taken, the Assembly
must decide Palestine's future
status.
A nine nation subcommittee
late today finally approved the
Soviet-American program for
partition, and the full 57nation
Palestine committee went into a
night session to speed a verdict,
Arab Plan
The Arab plan called for:
l. End of British rule of Pal
See Document on Page Two
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And So To Bed

A "pink" minded liberal
young man home in Whining.
ton from the big city where
he had become so educated
that he scOrned his former
New Hanover high class
mates was sounding off to
some of his old cronies.
Becoming bored with the
trend of conversation one of
the young students asked in
mock seriousness:
Honestly, now, these Com
munist friends of yours do
not pretend to seriously be-
lieve in Democracy, do they?"
Listen, my friend" the
pink came back, "Commu-
nists believe in our freedom
of speech, freedom of the
press, and individual rights
SO much so strong SO
passi0nately that" He
paused for words.
"They are willing to die, n
need be, to put an end to it,"
his interrogator finished for
him.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Along The Cape Fear

thesis of extenuating circum-
larceny is apparently looked up
on with suspicion by His Honor.
Judge Burgwyn usually sus-
poets a companion of the oppo-
Site sex is the approximate
cause of the larceny-partlcu-
larly where money is involved.
In such cases the defendant is
invariably the recipient of the
judges sharp query, "By the
way, are you carrying a comb
in your pocket?" .
Invariably the answer is Yes,
sir" which draws the invarl-
able comment, 81 thought so.
Invariably, too, when the cul-
prit is so fortunate as to draw
a suspended sentence, disposal
of the comb is a condition OF
the parole.
That defense attorneys do not
tip off their young clients to dis
pose of their pocket combs be-
fore they face Judge Burgwyn,
is a tribute to the honesty and
generally high level OF ethics
See CAPE FEAR ON Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
GROUNDED PLANES
FAR FROM CLEAR
Ladies Say No indication
Possible When DC-6's
Will Resume

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-R-
There still is no indication how
soon the grounded DC-6 trans
ports of six air lines will re-
sumo passenger operations,
Chairman James M. Lands of
the Civil Aeronautics Board said
tonight.
Lands told reporter experts
of the CAB, the Civil Aeronau-
tics Administration, the Air
lines and the Douglas Aircraft
Corporation still are "going
over the entire situation"
'Nobody is ready to say at
this time when the DC-6s will
resume passenger operations"
Lands said.
President Truman's four-en-
gined DC-6, The independence,
and the sister ships of six air
lines were grounded Nov. IL afh-
er fire forced a DC-6 operated
by American Airlines to land at
Gallup, NM, Nov. IL.
Another DEG, operated by
United Airlines, crashed in
flames in Utah last month, kill
ing So persons. No on ewas in
jured in the Gallup landing.
Some investigators have ex-
pressed the opinion both
fires originated in the heater
compartment below the pres
surized cabin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
SUPERIOR JUDGE
TIGHTEN DIVORCE
Members OF Bench To En-
force Three New Rules
After January l

GREENSBORO, Nov. 10. -(H9)-
Before presiding over a morn
ing session of Guilford Superior
Court in which 10 divorce de-
crees were granted today, Judge
Wilson Warlick of Newton told
Greensboro attorneys that be-
ginning January l divorce pro-
cedure must meet stricter speci-
fications.
Judge Warlick said that at a
recent conference North Caro-
lima Superior Court judges agre'
ed to enforce three new rules
not included in state divorce
laws.
First rule is that judges will
not hear divorce actions in
which one party does not main
tain residence in the county
where notice of intention is serv-
ed by publication.
The second is that in cases
where husbands seek divorce
from wives having minor chill
dren and serves notice by publ
cation, the wife must be given
actual notice OF trial if possible
See JUDGE on Page Two
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NATIONAL PILOTS
PUT OFF STRIKE
Company President, Air
men Agree On P Postpone
ment Pending Parleys

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-A-
Chairman Frank P. Douglas OF
the National Mediation Board
said today a threatened pilots
strike on National Airlines,
scheduled for midnight, h a
been averted, at least tempo
rarily.
Douglas said an agreement
not to strike at midnight was
reached in his Office between G.
T. Baker, president of National
Airlines, and David Behncke,
president of the AFL Air Line
Pilots Association.
"They agreed to continue tor
a few days their efforts to settle
their dispute" Douglas told a
reporter.
Douglas said the dispute is
over the discharge of National
Airlines pilot following an acci-
dent. The company's other pi-
lots, he said, threatened to quit
until the discharged pilot was
|reinstated.
Behncke left for Chicago after
the conference. Neighber he nor
Baker was reached Immediately
for comment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Three Marines Arrested
In Taxicab Robbery Case
By BERNICE JENKINS
Star Staff Writer

Two scraped tenders in a sup
posed hit-and-run auto accident
and the fast work of alert State
Highway Patrolman R. c. Dun
can resulted in the arrest here
last night of three youthful Camp
eieune marines and a recently
dishonorably discharged marine
on charges of highway robbery
and assault with a deadly weapon
with intent to kill.
The men were arrested in con-
nection with the robbery and
assault of J. H. Irving, Jr., To-
cal taxicab operator in Bruins
wick county early last Friday
morning. Duncan said last night
that confessions had been recelv-
ed.
Those arrested were: Cpl. Carl
Steinert, 10, native of British
Columbia, Canada, and in the
Second division; Cecil R: Hos.
mer, II, discharged October 81
). rom the Marine corps, a native
of Birmingham, Ala; Pvt. Gerald
Lee, 19, Toledo, Ohio, Second
division; and Pvt. c. Ed. Wilson,
Pittsburgh, Penna., who was ar
rested at Camp Lejeune last night
by military authorities on in
formation from the highway pa
troll.
Steinert, Lee and Hosmer were
positively identified by Irving last
night when he was brought down
to the highway patrol headquar-
ters for that purpose. Irving, who
had been viewing a number OF
suspects since the armed robbery
on Friday morning, pointed tc
Hosmer as the one who held the
gun as he was forced from his
cab. :,
Irving's story after the assault
was that he was hired to drive
the men to a roadhouse on Ma
vassa road between Highways "a
and 76 in Brunswick county after
picking them up at the Cape Fear
hotel here. He said that they as
saulted him with a gun and later
attempted to shoot him after
driving him to a point on the
Maco road. He escaped by push
ing the man with the gun and
running into the woods, he said
See MARINES On Page Two
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Terror Rocks
Italy,, Sicily
Authorities Unable To Re-
.;.t Growing Communist
Led Strikers

.o,,r Nov. 19-(R-Italy and
=. ;,r nut up feeble defenses
0-S'; ;ost an increasing wave of
i|1ence tonight as political dis
Wv" lave and Communicated labor
s+S '+oppages swept the nation
''VgP crowd of 1000 miners and
a.snts overpowered police
pssssSo,,arters at Caltanisse+ta in
as;i, aeSI attempted to lynch the
oLilli' ss;af Of police and wrecked the
head sSeadquarters of two right wing
parties. .,;,,o
.,1,ll fracture and several po-
1;oan,en sns,1 were beaten. Heavy
nSrl nlaS;nforcements of police and
r(arahi1ieri were sent from Pal
u ornoo before order was restored
sn the city of $4,000 in the center
Of Sicily.
A general strike was called IN
pari 10 start at midnight and
heavy police forces guarded the
"on+er " Of that importaAt- city as
u,orkers u began leaving their jobs
vii before the zero hour.
Barracks Besiged
A dispatch from Bari said
demonstrators in nearby Crawl
~ were besieging the police
bsrracks h., and that the towns
Communications had been inter-
rupted. .,,,,o.r.,
At the office of the Leftlst con.
trolled chamber of labor, but
caused no damage.
The news agency Ansa said a
ooneral strike was called today
n Barletta. on the Southeast
coast near Bari, and woula con
,inue tomorrow. Strikers lsolat-
Cd the city by blockading all its
roads, Ansa said, and a truck
load of Carabinieri was stoned
The federal police fired shots in
"a the air to free themselves
rom the mob.
Later. about 1000 demonstra-
tors marched through Bar
letta streets denouncing police
"abuses.
Also isolated by strikers were
the Southern towns of San Clio
gio, Jon;co and Castellaneta,
Ansa said.
A Venice Dispatch sale
a strike in nearby Rovigo prov
ince took a grave turn wher
"action squads" of Communists
and Socialists, armed with clubs
roved through villages and
towns, forcing all businesses
and industries to close. High.
ways were blocked in the Ven
ice area.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR

...-E ~ T. 4AOO01A4NO OOAA11xs
BABY-A sure sign that the
New Hanover Health and Tuber-
culosis associations Christmas
Seal Sale is getting under way
is the blistered and burned fin
gers exhibited yesterday by
Miss Lucy Nash, executive Sec
retary of the association. Miss
Nash spent most Of the day fold
ing letters and stuffing envel-
opes in preparation for the post
ing of campaign literature.
Members of the local Jaycees
are already embarked on their
pre-seal sale bond drive to raise
funds for the T. B. campa. gn.
Their tentative goal is $4,000.
This portion of the total funds
to b ERASED has been designated
by the Jaycees as "our baby. -
stances in the book of Judge W.
W. S. Burgwyn, of Woodland,
who presided over the current
criminal session of New Han
over Superior court. Any young
male defendant charged with
POCKET COMBS are the anti
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
General Myers Reported
To Have Profited Well,
FIXED" Stories

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-(A-
A Senate inquiry was told today
that Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Mey-
ers profited $3.50, 1884 or more
from war plant and then econ
cocted" false story for investi-
gators.
The money was drawn
through the war years, largely
from heavy kickbacks on sala.
ries paid officials installed by
Meyers, it was testified.
One of these officials, Bleriot
Lamarre, president of the Avia-
ton Electric Company of Day.
ton, Ohio, declared that Meyers
came to him last July and told
him they must get together on
their testimony regardless Of
how ridiculous it was" This, he
said, was to "avoid risks to us
both"
Lamarre testified that he told
''the concocted story" to the
Senate War Investigating com.
mittee in closed session last
month, but that he later consult
ed an attorney who told
Lamarre to "come back and tell
the truth"
Dummy" Officers
Meyers, awaiting his turn to
testify, was pictured as hiring
his own father-in-law, an ex-bus
driver, at $12,O 900 year as "pro.
duction manager" of the com
pany-and installing "Dum.
my" vice president at $4,000 tc
$4,000 a year, who like La
MARIE, turned over the greatest
part of his salary to Meyers.
The vice president, Thomas E.
Readnower, brother-in-law o1
Lamarre, told the committee
that Meyers also tried to gel
him to give false testimony but
that he never agreed to do so
The company held wartime
subcontracts of $1,053, 900 anc
See COMMJTTEE nm Page Twt
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Beauteous BOas Boost
Taxpayers Zoo Stock

Yet you could have. You GER
tainly could have.
For the annual report OF the
Smithsonian Institution has just
come in. And in it is the latest
news on a part Of the institution,
the National Geological Park.
The park is here in Washing
ton, and it's owned by the ma
tons taxpayers.
And look at the splendid report
on boas!
We started off the year with
three boas, a modest enough
supply.
But what with one thing and
See BOAS On Page Two
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EMPLOYMENT NOW
AT PEAK IN U. S.
Report Shows No Indus
tries Laying Off Men;
so Millions At Work

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Up
- Unemployment is at the low
est level since the war and nc
industries are showing signs o1
LAYING off employees, the Bureau
of Labor Statistics said today.
Commissioner Evan Clague
told a news conference that en-
ployment in non-agricultura]
lines hit an all-time peak of 49,.
250,000 in October, a gain of more
than 100000 over the past month
The total work force, including
self-employed and agricultural
workers, was 6O,900,OOO in Octo.
Der, Clague said. He explained
this meant there were 59,200,-
900 civilian jobs, because unem-
ployment compensation claims
revealed 100000 persons unem-
ployed.
In this unemployed figure, Cla-
que said, there is a growing per.
centage of over-age workers who
might not return to the worl
force.
The chief labor statisticiar
said that if trends of previous
years are followed, the non-agri
cultural employment figure viii
increase to a peak in December
with the heavy Christmas busi
ness.
Employment in all industries
was at peak levels, Clague said
Unless workers are employed
longer hours or increase the in
dex of productivity in some othe
way, the existing force is turning
out about the maximum possible
production right now, Clagu'
said.
On top of the other favorable
factors in the employment pic
,ture, Clague reported that in Oc
tober construction was started OF
$4,000 dwellings, making it on
of the best home building month
on record.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
CANADA TO HUNT
CITRUS SUPPLIES
United States To Lose
Half OF Fruit Market
Under New Quotas

OTTAWA, Nov. 10 H. Ca
nadians may have to scrounge
for their lemons, oranges and
grapefruit in the future unless
new sources of supply are found
A trade official said today that
under the new trade quotas inn
portation of citrus fruits will be
cut by approximately so per cent
from countries on the trade
schedule which involves the
United States, Cuba, Dominica,
Guatemala, Panama and Haiti.
The bulk of Canada's oranges
come from Southern California.
Importers will have to 60
afield and it was speculated this
would result in 30-per-cent in
crease. in costs that would be
passed to the consumer.
An Ottawa fruit importer said
costs will jump because OF
longer transportation lines a n d
damages.
The official did not know what
importers would do to close the
gap but suggested Palestine.
Italy, Japan, South Africa, ia
maica, the West Indies and the
Argentine as likely sources.
Earlier Fincnce Minister
Douglas Abbott said the extent
of any fruit shortage in Canada
will depend on how much re-
duced imports of citrus fruits
from the United States can be
made up by imports from non
dollar countries such as the Wes'
Indies and South Africa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Senate Would Sidetrack
Program, House Group
Plans Full Study

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. -W.D
- Senate and House Republi-
can leaders split sharply today
on the question of sidetracking
President Truman's price con-
troll and rationing proposals un-
til next year.
Chairman Robert A. Taft, R.,
O., of the joint Congressional
Economic committee announced
that his group would consider
only the "less controversial"
features Of Mr.. Truman's pro-
gram during the emergency ses-
sion of Congress which began
Monday.
II think that, if we're going
to get anything out of the COM
mittee at this session, we will
have to let points nine and ten
CONSUMER rationing and selec-
tive price ceilings) 60 over to
the regular session in January, I"
Taft said after a meeting to map
out a program of hearings on
the plan.
A short time later, Chairman
Jesse P. Wolcott, r., Mich, OF
the House Banking Committee
announced that his group would
60 to work next Tuesday on all
10 points which Mr.. Truman laid
down as the basis for waging
war against the high cost Of
living.
"We are not ruling anything
out in our study" he said.
The conflicting decisions were
revealed as Secretary of the
Treasury John w. Snyder as
sured a news conference thai
the President does not plan E
new Office of Price Administra
ton.
"There is no intention of any.
thing like that" he said.
Republicans greeted Mr.. Tru
mans proposals Monday with
angry protests that they were
designed to- set up a "mor'
colossal OPA." They predicted
that Congress would never ap
prove such step.
The CIO, in its monthly publ
cation, Economic Outlook, re
newed the unions demands TO:
restoration of price controls 1T
avoid the ruinous conditions O
price initiation" These proposals
however, were drawn up in ad
vance of Mr.. Truman's messag'
to Congress, and CIO spokesmel
said they were not to be regard
ed as reaction to his broad pro
gram.
Taft told newsmen that hi
committee would take up fiv
of the Presidents 10 points thi
year, and that it would hea
CO. pEpr1RT JcANS IN p.r.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Debate On Floor
Set For Monday
Foreign Relations Group
Reverse Stand On Out
side Buying

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 --WD
- The Senate Foreign Relations
committee today unanimously
approved a bill authorizing $597,-
100000 of emergency aid for
France, Italy and Austria, and
Chairman Arthur H. Vanden-
berg, R., Mich, said that floor
debate would begin Monday.
Reversing a previous Congress
sional stand, the committee
amended the act to provide for
spending up to Is per cent of the
funds to purchase relief supplies
outside of the United States, thus
reducing the drain on American
markets.
1t also rejected proposals to
place the program under a spec
ial new agency, and specifically
stipulated that existing foreign
relief channels be used.
Other amendments are de-
signed to insure that the Aus.
trians, French and Italians know
where the relief is coming from,
and that they do their utmost to
help themselves in the meantime.
To Keep Busy
Vandenberg, who is Senate
president as well~as head of the
Foreign Relations committee,
said that floor debate, once be-
gun, will continue until the bill
is passed. If it is not approved
by Thanksgiving, he said he
would resort to the unusual pro-
cedure of holding the Senate in
session on the Friday and Satur-
day following the holiday.
Secretary of State Marshall has
said the program is needed not
later than Nov. 30.
While Vandenberg was press
ing for swift action, there were
indications the bill might meet
considerable delay in the Senate
Appropriations committee which
must approve the actual outlay
Iof funds. Chairman Styles
Bridges, r., N. H., said yester-
day his committee would not be
stampeded" and he promised q
Thorough investigation of domes-
See DEBATE On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
OLD BELT MARTS
REGAIN LOSSES
Fair Lemon Lugs Advance
Sc Per Hundred Over
Quotations
BY The Associated Press

Tobacco prices rallied on
markets of the Old Belt yester-
day and nearly all losses sus-
tanned in sales Tuesday wer e
regained, the federal and state
Departments of Agriculture re-
ported.
Most Of the OLD Belt gains
were from 81 to S. per hundred
pounds except for fair lemon
lugs which were up $6. Most of
the declines were from 81 to 50
except for common orange
smoking leaf, down 81, and low
orange varigated leaf, down S..
so.
Quality of the offerings con-
tinued to decline as the percent
age of common and low grades
and nondescript increased and
the amount of good and fine
See MARTS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Senate Committee Unanimously
Approves European Aid Program;
Arabs Demand One Palestine Area
Republicans Split Sharply
Over Truman RatiOnin9 Plan
NIFTY NYLONS KNOCKED OUT
BY NIPPY MORNING WEATHER

WEST BRANCH, Mich, Nov. 19-tR-The icy hand of
winter grpped the exposed legs Of West Branch High school
girls today and propelled them into demonstration
of slacks
About 20 teen-agers stayed from classrooms
charged overly prim and parad in front of this North
eastern Michigan city's only high school.
They bore signs procaming eve Want Slacks."
The ban sacks in classrooms issued by 38yearod
Ralph Miller shortly after superintendent
last September
Teachers don't like girls souching
slacks," he maintained.
among the student body of 400 COM
planned that dresses and skirts left grsh legs exposed
goose e-pimplng winds of a northern winter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
PLANE PROPELLERS
CUT DOWN FLEEING
AIRFIELD WORKERS

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 49,
Two men were killed today
when cut down by the spinning
propellers of a P-16 Black Wi
dow night fighter as they at
tempted to escape a fire in the
aircraft.
The Tinker Air Field public
information officer said the
men, civilian employees, jumped
from the plane when an engine
caught fire and started running.
The Black Widow has two en-
gines and each man was struck
by a different propeller, he said.
They were identified as Alvie
A. Layton, 35, and Everett D.
Urich, 40, both of Oklahoma
City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
NAVY men SPLIT
SALVAGE AWARDS
Two North Carolinians
Among Those Who Will
Receive $4,000

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Up
- Navy men who salvaged a
sinking German freighter off Bra
zil 6 years ago, one month before
the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor
today began receiving checks for
their exploits.
Each of the &c officers and
men from the Cruiser Omaha
who boarded the freighter Oden-
wald and took her in to San
Juan, have been awarded $3,-
900 by the U. S. District Court
in Puerto Rico.
In all, 81 officers and 829 men
of the Omaha and the Destroyer
See NAVY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
CHATTER OF FALLING
DISHPAN SAVES CASH
FOR BALTIMORE MAN

BALTIMORE, Nov. 19-B
- Carl Green told police to-
day he started to raise his
hands in the best tradition
when a man came into his
grocery store brandishing a
revolver.
Keep your hands down
/ want everything you've
got" the gunman ordered.
Green started to hand over
his cash. His wife dropped
a dishpan in the adjoining
kitchen. The gunman almost
jumped out Of his skin. He
fled
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
RAMADIER QUITS
AS STRIKES GROW
Leon Blum Prominently
Mentioned As Next Pre-
mier OF France

PARIS, Thursday, Nov. 20. -
Up - Premier Paul Ramadier
resigned last night after 10
months of almost continual po-
litical, economic and communist
inspired labor crises, and left
the way open for Leon Blum
or some other middle-of-the-road
leader to attempt to form a new
coalition government.
AS Ramadier resigned, it was
estimated that a half-million
workers were on strike through
out France. Special, security
guards were posted in P ar is
where Communist led walkouts
threatened to develop into a gen.
eral strike. Guards were on duty
in other key cities to prevent
possible violence.
Ramadier's ministers remain
ed in office temporarily to carry
on the fight againts the deteri-
Grating labor situation. T h e
included Georges Bidault at the
foreign office, Robert Schuman
at the finance ministry and
Edouard Depreux at the interior
ministry. Depreux has jurisdic-
tion over the national police.
Ministers To Continue
It was expected the ministers
would continue in their jobs
during President Vin ce I
Auriol's negotiations to find a
successor to Ramadier.
Blum, 75-vear-old Socialist
colleague of Ramadier, was be-
lieved the likeliest choice to un-
See RAMADIER On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-20
Masses OfMOrOnS Nav
Menace u. S. In 1000

Breeding and Survival" by
Burch and PendeH.
"Uncontrolled breeding" he
wrote, favors the survival and
multiplying Of the least gifted.
"Unless we change present
trends, five generations hence
your descendants (if you have
any, will be the stupidest great
great grandchildren of the stup-
idest great grandchildren OF
the stupidcst grandchildren OF
the stupidest children of parents
now living"
Unless "reckless breeding" is
stopped, he continued America
See MORONS On Page Two