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Evening star., 1947-06-25
Little White House
To Be Dedicated Today
|As Roosevelt Shrine
BY the Assoeicisd Press

WARM SPRINGS, Ca, June 25.-
Great and near-great who knew him
we'll came here today with hun
dreds of plain folk" from Georgia's
farms and cities In dedication OF
Warm Springs Little White House
to the memory of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
/ Willed to the Warm Springs
Foundation when the President died
here April IL, 1945, the unpreten-
4 tious, white-frame bungalow be-
comes national shrine.
/ Basil O'Connor, close friend and
| former law partner Of MIR. Roose-
welt, arranged to hand the deed to
Georgia's Gov. M. e. Thompson In
behalf of the Franklin D. Roose-
velt Warm Springs Memorial Com
mission which becomes its trustee.
Mr.. O'Connor is president OF the
Warm Springs Foundation.
Truman Sends Representative.
White House Secretary William D.
Hassett, who also served President
IbOSoCNC1t, CclAilC 4lC1G COddS d6 PGl =
sonal representative of President
Truman. Other dignitaries includ-
ed Chief Justice Vinson, Associate
Justice Black, Admiral Ross Nc
Intyre, personal physician to Mr..
Roosevelt; Attorney General Clark,
Bernard M. Baruch, 10 Ambassadors
of foreign powers, and many mem
bers Of Congress.
In an address prepared In tribute
of the late President, former Secre-
tary of the Navy Josephus Danials
said:
"It is fitting that we come here
In an hour today when there seems
to be more hate and confusion than
love and purpose In the world. : >
Even to one who has seen many
years, these times seem dark. But
this place is lit with courage. In
deed, it is illumined with faith. At
Warm Springs today our task is
not to dedicate shrine, but here
and now to rededicate ourselves"
Mr.. Roosevelt served under Mr.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
de Seversky Is Presented
Harmon Trophy by Truman

President Truman yesterday pre-
sented the international Harmon
Trophy to Maj. Alexander de Sver-
sky, noted air1nan, at a ceremony In
the White House garden.
The trophy was awarded by the
Ligue Internationale des Amateurs
for outstanding leadership, patriat-
ism, outstanding devotion to the Sc
curity and aeronautical progress OF
the United States Specifically, the
flyer was honored for his work in
demonstrating the escort fighter
principal which proved so valuable
| in World War II.
Today's award was the first since
Evening star., 1947-06-25

Daniels as Assistant Secretary Of
the Navy In World War !. Mr.
Daniels now Is editor and publisher
Of the Raleigh IN. CD News and
Observer.
Mr.. o'Connor, In an address simi-
larly prepared for the ceremonies,
said:
Whatever other accomplishments
may keep the name Of Franklin D.
Roosevelt great throughout history
here at Warm Springs the memory
of the man Is bright. Here he
showed others how to conquer fear
The spirit he infused into this place
Transforming it from a neglected
summer resort to the first and
largest center for the care of those
suffering from the after-efects Of
infantile paralysis. is as strong and
fine today as in the beginning. 2(
years ago"
Evening star., 1947-06-25

|ber Of the Public Utilities Commits
sion.
Action went over when Senator
Holland, Democrat Of Florida. COM
mittee member who took deep In
terest In recent hearings on the
nomination said he wants to go into
the matter.
MIR. Lauderdale was criticized by
spokesmen for the CIO and de-
Tended by James Flanagan. chair
man OF the PUG and others at the
recent hearing.
In bringing up the nomination,
Evening star., 1947-06-25
BuIqoriuns Invited Home

Bulgaria has invited" all former
members Of its diplomatic and con-
sular corps and citizens living abroad
to return home and If they refuse
they will lose their Bulgarian citi-
zenship.
Evening star., 1947-06-25

the war. The trophy was last pre-
sented In 1889, also to Maj. de Sever
sky.
Secretary OF War Patterson and
ranking Army officers saw the pres
Ientation.
Evening star., 1947-06-25
Senate Unit Delays Action
lon LauderddIe for PUG

The Senate District Committee
yesterday postponed action on the
nomination of James w. Lauder
dale to succeed himself as mem
Evening star., 1947-06-25
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. G. AIS
~.

Chairman Buck said he thought
committee members participating In
the hearing flavor the nomination.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

their leaders in Congress on "a
substantial cut in individual income
taxes"
This, he worte $500 party Of
fice-holders and officers, was pro-
missed definitely and unequivo-
cally'' by Republican spokesmen''
in the 1916 campaign, and "now
the time has come to keep the
promises"
Senator Lucas (D-IlD immediate
ly said in a statement that Recess
letter sis an admission that the
COP rank and file has deserted
t h e leadership in 'its absolutely
fantastic effort to cut taxes "be-
fore they know what the govern
ment is going to cost"
s'This indicates, too" he said,
sthe Republican leaders r alarm
ed at the reaction to the position
they have taken in the bill by Rep.
Knutson (R-Minn) proposing a 20
per cent across the board tax slash,
which, as Rep. Engel CR-Miich)
pointed out, gives little relief to
small incomes and large benefits
tc large incomes"
Reece told the party members
the 1916 COP promises, including
Continued on Page Three, Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
GUIDANCE CLINIC
DIRECTOR NAMED
DR.. Irene Anderson Oh
Durham Will Head Newly
Organized Agency

The appointment of DR.. Irene
Anderson of Durham to head the
n~wly : formed Child Guidance
clinic was announced last night by
Mrs. Herbert B~luethentnal, chair
man of the agency.
DR.. Anderson will move to
Wrightsville Beach about the mid
die of the month with her hus-
band, Kenneth Harris, and two
children. She will assume her
duties in Wilmington. March 1.
DR.. Anderson, a native of Okla
homa, received her B. S. degree
from Oklahoma State college at
~Tahlequah, Oklahoma, in 1885, and
her M. D. from the University OF
Oklahoma in 1889.
She did a rotating internship at
Bethel General Hospital (now
Memorial HospitaD Co a d G
Springs, Colorado. DR.. Anderson
completed psychiatric residences
at Massillon State Hospital, Mas
sillon, Ohio, Galveston e
Psychopathic Hospital, Galveston,
Texas, San Antonio State Hospital,
San Antonio, Texas, and Duke
Hospital, Durham; these residen-
cies we're completed on December
1, 1915.
Since that time she has been
Continued on Page Three, Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
One Survives
Aircraft
Strikes Peak
French Businessman Says
He Was Thrown3 30
Yards From Wreckage
FRENCH PLANE
Authorities Speculate That
Lack OF Fuel May Have
Caused The Carsh

LISBON, Portugal, Feb. 1.-(41-
Sixteen persons eel killed and one
man survived today when a French
passenger plane enroute from Paris
to Lisbon crashed into a peak and
fell in flames near the ancient
royal mountain resort of Eintra. on
P~ortugal's %seacoast IL mile. north
west of Lisbon.
Portuguese authorities said the
plane carried II passengers and n
crew of five.
CAlr France, operator of the
twin-engine Dakota r nsport, is
sued a statement in Paris tonight.
however, which said only II pas
sengers and a crew of five were
aboard. The statement did not
specify how many persons had
been killed, but unofficial Paris
reports said IS persons lost their
.lives.)
The survivor, Eugene Leonard, a
French businessman. remembered
nothing of the crash after losing
consciousness and could not de-
scribe the disaster.
Leonard, suffering from a frac-
tured leg, other injuries and shock.
related:
IT was sitting next to my wife
when everything went dark. | must
have become unconscious. When l
came to, l was lying about 80 yards
from the blazing plane.
Moving as l could around the
wreckage, I found nobody else
alive. They we're all inside the
plane, including my wife"
Leonard, about 38 years old, was
going to Lisbon for a two week
visit with his wife's grandmother.
Some sources in Lisbon said they
believed members of the famous
French ballet. scheduled to per-
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
AIRPORT GROUPS
WILL MEET HERE
Farley Called To Discuss
Possibility OF Carrying
Fight To Washington

Members of the Wilmington-New
hanover Airport authority will be
hosts to representatives of avia-
lion interests from Myrtle Beach,
New Bern and Elizabeth City, in
a Joint meeting Thursday at II
o'clock in the Chamber of Com
neree office, J. H. Farrell, Viii
mington Industrial agent, informed
NE Star-News last night.
Farrell called the meeting after
Marion Shuffler, secretary to j.
Sayaro Clark, congressman from
me Seventh district, declared Fri
Jay only concerted action by the
.our cities would open the new
coastal Anyways quickly.
Inc four-city block will lay plans
a. the preliminary meeting calling
Tor concerted action against delays
os Civil Aeronautics authority in
putting the WIFI very high
i.equency) radio ranges in the
e0aSIdl cltles into operation. Plans
now are to send a delegation to
~MaShlngton in mid-February to
uIlVe Tor early operation of the
ranges.
o~cheduled to attend the Thurs
r Ty meeting are: Jerome B.
FORA mayor of Elizabeth City:
N b. Arlington, chairman of the
view Bern Airport commission,
ma u. Stow Grouse, representing
we Myrtle Beach chamber Of com.
..efce. Farrell will not be able to
s.aehd. he said, as he and George
sonant, Tide Water Power com.
paiiy' viii be in New York city
w. v'.''actIng industrial prospects for
&Ity
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

fiscal year. Canon, ranking Demo
crat on the House Appropriations
Committee, did his calculating as
Chairman Carroll Reece of the
Republican National Committee
urged the COP rank and file to
support efforts of their Congress
men to trim what he called Presi-
dent Truman's "outrageously pad
ed" budget.
Mr.. Truman's estimate for spend
ing in the year beginning July
l is $37, 500, 900, 900. Cannon figur-
ed that S., 900, 900, 900 of this is I'M
touchable. being set for interest
payments on the national debt. But
as Tor the remaining $32, 500, 000,-
600 he said:
eff we are to have no war, then
we could cut the budget il two.
We should wait until after the in
ternational situation has been clear
ed UP so that we can more accurate
ly measure our needs in the light
of potential military require
ments."
Cannon specifically suggested
that all the talk about how much
to spend and how much to tax
be halted until after the Moscow
meeting of foreign ministers next
month.
Recess appeal to his party mem
bers also asked them to back up
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
u. S. Proposal Snagged
On Soviet Objections

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Feb. 1.
Up An American proposal for
worldwide arms reduction being
drafted for presentation to the
United Nations Security Council al
ready has snagged On Russian OBJ
jections, authoritative sources said
today.
The basic arms-atomic plan,
authored by DELEGATE Warren R.
Austin after consultations with
President Truman and Secretary
of State George c. Marshall. was
taken up privately and in advance
with the other 10 nations of the
council. The Soviet objections de-
veloped during a conference be-
tween Ausin and Deputy Foreign
Minister Andrea A. Gromyko, who
represents Russia on the peace
making body.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

Roosevelt's third and fourth terms
but Chairman Kitchener R-Mich)
of the Judiciary committee would
go further and prevent political
headaches like those which have
arisen from the death of a Presi-
dent in office.
One Of those came when Theo-
dore Roosevelt split the republican
vote by running independently as a
bull mooser" after first succeed
ing to the Presidency upon the
death of William Mckinley and
then being elected in his own right.
The other developed during Cal
vim Coolidge's occupancy of the
White House and was only partial
ly dispelled by his historic state
ment, 81 do not choose to run.
which took him out Of a contest for
reelection.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

AFL Pushing
Peace Action
Truman Indicates That He
Hopes Congress Will Shun
Severe Labor Bills
FORCE 'OUTLAWED'
Sen. Mccarthy Says Move
May Temper Some Legis-
lation Being Studied

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-P)-A
plan of construction contractors
and the AFL to arbitrate pay and
other disputes with the aim of
avoiding strikes was announced
today by President Truman as a
notable step along the road to
labor peace
1t sets up machinery for final
and binding" arbitration. The
actual submission of disputes to
this binding arbitration remains a
matter for voluntary action by the
disputing parties, but they pro-
missed ito exert every effort to see
that these procedures are used
whenever possible"
Mr.. Truman said this agreement
plus recent settlements in the rub
Der and steel industries signals a
widespread trend toward labor set
Elements without resort to force"
By emphasizing this succession
of triumphs for free collective
bargaining" the President made it
obvious to his news conference that
he hopes congress is listening in
and will shun the more severe
labor-curbing bills before it.
Senator Mccarthy (R-Wis) gave
the opinion it is an important
Development. If it proyes=Wosl
able, he told reporters, at might
we'll temper some of the labor
legislation now being considered
making it unnecessary to take
Continued on Page Two. Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
New Hanover county class
room teachers have joined in
supporting the South Piedmont
pay increase plan. See separate
story on Page 2.

the South Piedmont pay increase
plan, as candidate for the State
presidency of the association.
The vote, advocating Fritts, prin-
cipal of the Hudson school in the
district, came during an agitated
session during which the delegates
also approved the South Piedmont
teacher wage scale bill now pend
ing in the general assembly.
A written suggestion from R.. L.
Smith, Greensboro superintendent,
that the group proceed with "cau-
ton and dignity drew boos from
the delegates who greeted with loud
applause the declaration by j. R.
Blackwell, Jr., Kernersville prin-
cipal, that it was time. 80 leave
the classroom if they the teachers
could not rise above the pay classi-
fication of garbage collectors, dog
catchers, elevator boys and page
boys
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
POLICE RAID NABS
ESCAPED CONVICTS
New York Squad Rushes
Into N. Y. East Side
Apartment To Grab z

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.P)-In the
garisn light of huge searchlights
police surrounded a five-story low.
er east side apartment building
late today to capture two more Of
the nine felons who broke out of
crumbling Raymond street jail
nearly a month ago.
The men, Edmund Godfrey, Is,
and William Duffy, %, were caught
in a raid led by Kings County Dis
trict Attorney Miles Mcdonald as
they lay in bed in the squalid apart
ment which they said they had
made their hideout since shortly
after they hacksawed their way out
of the ancient prison.
Their capture brought to eight
the number of men caught since
the Jan. 2 jail break. Still at large
is Anthony Aiello, 36-year old con
victed killer.
So fast was the raid, Mcdonald
recounted. that Godfrey and Duffy
were subdued before they were
able to reach for revolvers they
had prepared beneath their pillows.
A third revolver was found in a
bureau drawer and another in a
water bucket, Mcdonald said.
More than 30 detectives and
uniformed policemen, armed with
tear gas and rifles, participated in
the "movie-set" raid, blocking off
the surrounding area. and throwing
the glare of huge searchlights on
the apartment building.
Some men were stationed on
roofs of adjacent buildings with
machine guns trained on the es-
capees' hideout.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
Hearing Is Scheduled
On Presidential Term

WASHINGTON, Feb. l. up "A
House Judiciary subcommittee to-
day ordered public hearings Mon
day to speed action on measures
limiting the time n man may
hold the presidency.
Nine proposals are before the
C 0 m m i e e, all constitutional
amendments which would require
approval of the House and Senate
by two-thirds majorities and rati-
fications by three-fourths of the
states.
Seven, differing in some details.
would limit a President to two
terms of four years each. The other
two would make the Presidential
term six years. instead OF four as
at present, and limit an executive
to one term.
The issue stems directly from the
controversies over Franklin ID.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
Medical Officers Rush
Aid To Guaranteed Men

Denver, Feb. 1.-P)-Medical Of
ficers today rushed innoculation of
l 1000 men at the Lowrey Field air.
base, under quarantine for respira-
tory diseases, as new cases were
reported.
Col. Robert j. Plat, post sur
said 400 active cases were
under treatment, and that addi-
tional cases had been reported dur
ing the day.
He believed that incubation Of
the personnel at the big base would
be completed within a few hours.
An Army cargo plane left Lowry
Field late today for Grand Island,
Nebr., to obtain additional medical
supplies, and a truck was sent to
Camp Carson, Colorado Springs,
for similar items.
Medical officers said $4,000 units
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
BERLIN LABOR
ROW DEVELOPS
Russian Commander As.
sails U. 5. Officer In
Bitter Exchange

BERLIN, Feb. l. P) The
American and Russian comman-
ders of Berlin engaged in a bitter
personal exchange over labor
policy today in the most serious
now that has come into the open
since four-power government was
established here.
In an unprecedented attack on
a colleague in the Allied com
mandanture. Maj. Gen. Alexander
Kotikov, the Soviet commander
aired in the German press the
secret proceedings of a comman-
dature meeting and charged Col.
Frank L. Howley American deputy
commander, with attempting to
sabotage" a proposed Berlin trade
union election. .
Col. Howley, in turn, declared
in a statement that Kotikov was
trying to hide the truth.
eve have a policy of not wash
ing our dirty linen before the
Germans said another high Amer
lean official. This is a plain case
of dirty poker
.'Never before has a Russian
commander, and we have had four
of them in Berlin, stopped to IN
suit his allies in the German
press" said Howley in his state
ment.
Charging that Kotikov broke
a gentleman's agreement by TAX
ing the secret discussions of the
communicative to the German
Continued on Page Three. Col. b
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

to fight an about British drive to
suppress violence in the Holy Land.
The bombs scattered warnings
that reprisals would be made fot
future death sentences imposed Or
underground members.
Despite the warnings. it was ex-
pected that at least five and pos
sibly six death sentences WOULD
be announced within the next few
days. 4ts
British authorities speeded the
evacuation of 5000 civilians, main
ly women and children, in prep
aration for the imposition of mar
tial law, expected within the next
"a to 48 hours.
Army trucks crammed with
British wives and children roared
into assembly centers tonight from
where they will be speeded home
by plane and ship.
British authorities ordered rec
tape slashed on all sides and told
soldiers to use your imagination
and initiative" to complete the
evacuation within 48 hours.
These preparations we're match
ed by activity at detention camps
and prisons where things were
being made ready for the mass
arrests expected to be authorized
by the forthcoming military re-
gime.
Under statutory martial law. all
civil rights will be totally abrogat-
ed and replaced by defense emer-
gency regulations. New laws al
ready printed by government pres.
ses give the British military COM
mander powers of life and death
over Palestine's population oil
1,750, 900.
There were reports that Dow
Gruner, condemned Irgunist who
has repudiated repeal for clemency
to the privy council, would be
hanged on Tuesday.
Speculation said martial law
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02

It's Candlemas Day, or in gooe
old American tradition-Ground
hog Day.
Last night the followers OF the
tradition were preparing for then
yearly trek to the residence OF the
underground weather porfit.
In Wilmington, as Throughout
the. country, the tradition IS fol.
lowed and today the question Will
be sswonder if the Grounding saw
his shadow"
Today Mr.. Grounding will come
to the surface, take a quick LOOK
about, and if the SUN shines, look
out, for he is going to duck right
back into his underground home
and take with him all prospects
for an early spring.
Six more weeks Of winter, it is
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
RED CROSS DRIVE
CHAIRMEN NAMED
Carswell, Avera Appointed
Co-Chairmen To Head
Wilmington Campaign

H Carswell and N. A. Avera
we're appointed co-chairman of the
Red Cross Fund campaign yester-
tsy by Thomas R. orrell. Whining
xn chapter chairman.
The quota of the drive which
sopns in March has not been de-
,ided. but the co-chairman an
nmunced that it would be set by
members of the board within the
next 10 days. Members of the
Undressing committees are also
10 be named during the week.
Both men have been active in
previous Red Cross Fund drives,
according to Orrell, Carswell hav-
ing served as chairman of group
D in the commercial division last
year and Avera in the federal en-
ployes group. Both are members
Of the Rotary club with Carswell its
current president, and are also
active in many other civic activi-
ties.
Avera is manager of the Will
xington Social Security Admin
s%tration, while Carswell is manager
n S. H. Kress and company.
They still serve or bear the
burden of their service is the Red
Cross slogan for the l947 drive.
This campaign is %stressing ser
vices of the organization to SER
ticemen in the occupation forces
overseas and to the veterans who
have come home perplexed with
their problems of a return to peace.
"There are also men who have
some home to lie long months and
years in veterans hospitals who
look to the Red Cross to ease their
way" Orrell said in outlining plans
for the drive with the co-chair-
nan.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
The Weather
JRECAST

HORECAST
North Carolina and South Carolina -
Fair and colder Sunday and Sunday
night. Monday fair and continued cold.
Meteorological data for the "a hours.
ending 1880 p m. yesterday.
Temperatures
80 am. Sc; 1870 am. So; 1870 pm. 81;
1880 pm. SO.
Maximum 60; Minimum so; Mean IS;
Normal AZ.
Humidity a..
1870 am. ei: 1870 am, SO: 1870 pm. rs;
1880 pm. 70.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1870 pm. -
0.12 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
0.12 inches.
Tides For Today z
tFrom the Tide T bies published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 6:53 am. l:22 am.
7:10 pm. 2:10 pm.
Masonboro Inlet 4:22a am IL :0s am.
4:56 pm. ILLS pm.
Sunrise 7:08: Sunset SAB; Moonrise 2:25
pm; Moonset 4:27 am
River stage at Fayetteville, N. & Ut
am. Saturday. 1874 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
Jap Leftists Seek
To Garry On Strike

TOKYO, Feb. 1-(P)-Thwarted
by General Macarthur in their at
tempt to tie up the country with
a general strike of government en-
ployes, leftist Japanese labor lead
ers appealed to the four-power
council for Japan today to go
over his head.
This first direct challenge to the
Supreme Commanders authority
was mildly worded but neverthe-
less asked the council to recon-
mend that the 11-power Far East
r Commission send Investigators
to study the labor dispute and
MacArthur's order of yesterday
forbidding a strike.
The council, representing the
United States, Britain, China and
Russia. is purely an advisory. body.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-02
Sunshine Means Bad
News For Wilmington

laimed, will follow if the gentle
IAN see his shadow.
But, hold on, if it is a cloudy
ay, and the sun fails to give him
4 chance to see his shadow you
IAN start planning on that spring
graden, your summer hat, and
trips to the beach, for spring is
around the corner.
According to tradition Candle
mas Day is the day the Ground
hog emerges from his hole to give
his yearly prediction on the
weather.
In Wilmington the weatherman
as predicted colder and clear
which might be alright for some,
but for the patriarchs of the
Continued on Page Five, Col. y