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Evening star., 1947-02-26

and reached the square in front Of
the Parliament Building.
Scores of automobiles parked on
streets leading to the building were
overturned.
The streets rang with screams of
the injured and trampled and with
the roar of angry men.
The helmeted police in many
cases used their rifles as clubs,
smashing at the faces of rioters
nearest them.
The rioters struck back with clubs
and heavy canes. The front police
line bent back under the weight of
the mob but suddenly, as if at a
signal, the rioters broke rank and
the mounted police charged.
Horses reared high as they
crashed into the pack of massed
humanity. People screamed in fury
and fear.
Cavalrymen swung their swords,
telling some rioters.
Rioters Caught in Wise.
Even as the rioters in front start
ed moving backward, those in the
rear tried to push forward, catching
those in the center in a crushing
wise.
After the mounted police charge
spent itself, the horsemen dropped
back and police on foot formed new
lines behind them. The rioters
charged back with rush and this
time broke through all three police
lines
A wild scene resulted. The charg-
ing demonstrators fell on the cob
bled stones and others trampled over
them. Horses lost their footing and
fell.
But in the Parliament Square
police and regular troops formed
new lines, standing as immobile as
statues.
Then the rioters broke and ran.
Some were left sprawled in the
streets Mzf
At one time. only small, narrow
alley separated the rioters from a
rear entrance Of the Parliament
Building, where the ministers were
in session. The rioters, however,
did not reach the gate itself.
The riot seemed to start breaking
up at this point.
AS the men began to disperse
folding their banners. the wall of
sirens sounded and ambulances
appeared.
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move because of the almost un-
broken series of recent disagree
ments between the United States
and Russia.
.(The general inclination on
Capitol Hill appeared to be to ac-
cept the Moscow gesture at its
face value, however. Senator
Wiley, Republican, of Wisconsin,
a member of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, saw it was "a
good omen)
Cable London for Instructions.
A British representative said that
in view of the Soviet move his dele
CATION had cabled London for in
structions.
Sir Alexander Cadogan, British
delegate to the Security Council,
said he considered the Japanese
mandate question legal rather than
political" He contends that the
islands are still legally inundated to
Japan.
The United States argues, how
ever, that Japan forfeited the right
of mandate when she declared war
and fortified the islands. At the
same time, the United States has
made it clear that she has NO in
tention of giving up the islands
which she occupied during the war
with Japan.
A member of the American dele
CATION said the United States had
designated the Japanese-mandated
islands as a strategic area" to be
placed under United Nations trus-
teeship "in order to enable the
United States to safeguard her own
national security and at the same
time to discharge her obligations
for general security under the
United Nations"
Behind the American trusteeship
proposal is a plan to establish air
and naval bases which would prevent
another Pearl Harbor or an attack
on the United States.
U. S. Wants to Establish Bases.
Under the agreement offered the
United Nations, the United States
Government stipulates that the
United States shall be entitled to
establish naval, military and air
bases and to erect Notifications; and
to station and employ forces in the
territory.
This would fit in with the overall
American defense plan for the Pacific
which would revolve around Guam,
the Marshalls, Marianas and Car
olines and is designed to intercept
and stop air fleets, surface fleets or
guided missiles aimed at the United
States from the West.
The trust agreement, however,
applies only to the Japanese
inundated islands and does not apply
to any islands under japanese
sovereignty for which the United
States may become responsible. an
American delegations representative
explained.
Other islands in which the United
States is known to be interested
are the Ryukyus and Bonins. They
Evening star., 1947-02-26
VFW Legislative Chic
Opposes Big Income
For GI Bill Students

Omar B. Ketchum, Veterans OF
Foreign Wars legislative chief, told
the House Veterans Affairs Commit
tee today that If subsistence allow
ances to ex-GI students are substan-
TALLY increased, veterans will go to
school for the income rather than
the education.
Mr.. Ketchum said his organization
fears increased grants to GI Bill stu
dents might develop a widespread
public feeling that there should be
another economy wave.
That would be fatal to all vet
erans' benefits" he declared. :,
At the same time, the VFW Of
fetal recommended that former
servicemen in training and schools
get a $40 month increase in sub
sistence payments.
But if you are considering dras-
tically increasing these payments" :"
he told the committee, you must
also consider raising unemployment
compensation and payments to dis
abled veterans.
Comparison Made.
"If $50 a month isn't enough for
a man going to school, is $40 week
enough to support a man who is
out of work and his family?" he
asked.
Mr.. Ketchum declared that a
bonus would be more equitable to
millions of veterans who will get
nothing out of the CT bill" The
VFW is sponsoring a bonus bill
that will cost about S30,OoO,00O.
At present, the CT bill trainees
can draw S65 month in subsistence
If they have no dependents or $50
If they have dependents, but the
payments are cut if the total in
come including allowances reaches
$500 for veterans with dependents
or SITS for veterans without.
Ceiling Increase Voted.
The committee voted yesterday to
boost the. total income ceilings to
$3.50 a month for ex-GIs with no
dependents, 1925 for those with one
dependent and $3.50 for those with
more than one.
Chairman Edith Nourse Rogers
said she called hearings on the
basic allowance increases because
OF numerous letters from students
complaining that they could not live
on present allowances.
William E. Tate, disabled Amer
lean Veterans spokesman, will tes-
tify tomorrow, but he has indicated
he will not lead fight for the in
crease.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
Woman Pastor Plan Losing
In PRESBYTERIAN Vote
BY fhe Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 26. - The
Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.
disclosed today that 36 presbyteries
had approved and Al rejected a pro-
posal to permit women to be Or
dained as pastors.
Five presbyteries reported no
action on the plan which was sub
mitted by the 158th General Assem-
Ibly at its meeting last May in
Atlantic City.
There are 268 presbyteries in the
Ichurch, with a favorable vote OF
majority required, Final returns
will be reported at the General As
sembly session May 1928 at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Evening star., 1947-02-26

Ienergy control, scheduled for Friday
lat 8 pm.
The principal difference barring
unanimous agreement concerns use
of the veto. The United States wants
the veto outlawed so far as atomic
energy matters are concerned. Rus
sia wants the veto power retained.
Evening star., 1947-02-26
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lines of police, mounted and on
foot, stretched across the streets
where they first arrived before the
Parliament Building They de-
manded that the commanders allow
them to pass. AS the parleys con-
tnued, other. people-bearing BAN
ners, chanting, singing, bowling and
shaking their fists-began to pack
the broad avenues. Some women
lost their footing on the slippery
ice-striped paving and were severely
trampled.
Scores of Cars Overturned.
A few of the rioters broke through
police lines after an hour of fighting
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
DEMOCRATS PICK
1913 SITE TODAY
City OF Brotherly Love
Has Edge For Party Con-
vention Next Year

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. - P)
- The Democrats will get to
work selecting a 1948 party con-
vention site tomorrow and it
looks like Philadelphia. But San
Francisco will be bidding for
it, too.
The Democratic National COM
mittee, facing other decisions
for the Presidentian campaign
year., will gather here for two
sessions tomorrow. Besides pick
ing a convention site, it will:
l. Select a convention date, ex-
pected to be in early July.
2. Elect Senator j. Howard
McGrath of Rhode Island to sue
coed Postmaster General Robert
E. Hanegan as committee chair
man. flanagan, chairman since
January, 1914, is giving up the
comittee post because OF i'll
health.
2. Consider a recommendation
of a subcommittee headed by
Frank M. Hale, Indiana Com
mitteman, to increase the con-
vention delegate bonus for states
which went Democratic in the
last Presidential election. Final
approval of the delegate appor-
tionment will be up to the con-
vention itself. The 1914 conven-
ton had 1,176 delegates.
4. Act on resolutions praising
the administration of President
Truman, who is expected to be
the party's Presidential nominee
next year.
Philadelphia's bid for the Dem
ocratic conventional has already
won the Republican convention
for the week starting June I'll
will be presented by a group of
100 headed by Mayor Bernard
Samuel, a Republican. Their Of
fer will be the same as that made
for the Republican meeting
$780, 600, plus $4,000 for enter
tainment expenses and a free au-
ditorium.
San Francisco interests will be
handled by Mrs Edward Heller,
California national committee
woman. Mrs. Heller said she
will "try to match Philadel-
phia's bid, but will not cam
paign for the convention Gin the
sense Of c~anvassing committee
members" She said the Cali
fornia climate would be a fac
tor in her bid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
PEDESTRIAN HURT
NEAR HALLSB0R0
John Jackson Suffers Bone
Fractures From Three
Automobiles

WHITEVILLE, Oct. %. - John
Jackson, So, is in Columbus
County hospital today with seri-
Gus injuries after being hit by two
separate motor vehicles at Halls
boro last night.
Highway patrolmen who in
vestigated the accident said Jack
son was knocked down by q
passenger car operated by Ralph
Durham Of Atlanta, Ga. Then
was missed or straddled by an
other car Immediately behind
and while lying on the highway
was run over again by a third
automobile. Examination at the
hospital disclosed the fracture Of
both bones of the right leg below
the knee, dislocation of the left
shoulder laceration of the scalp
broken front teeth and multiple
bruises.
Information obtained by Pa.
trolman H. L. Covington and J
T. Watson indicated that Jack.
son started across the highway
became frightened and stepped di
rectly into the path of the on
coming vehicles. The vehicles a
the rear of the car which knock.
ed jackson down had no way o.
knowing he was on the highway
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
Along The Cape Fear

FREES SLAVES-The generals
will also provided that slaves he
had inherited or acquired by
marriage be hired out by his ex-
ecutors to raise funds for their
tr transportation to the colony OF
Liberia. AS soon as the necessary
funds could be raised, the exc
cutors were strictly ordered to
take the steps necessary for the
transportation of the slaves to
Liberia under the direction Of
the Colonization Society.
In the reasonable length of time
the executors did raise the
money needed for the trans
portation of the slaves to Lii
IBERIA and the terms of the will
were carried out to the letter.
Old residents of ElizabethtoWn
used to tell of the vivid scenes
they recalled of the Negroes
leaving for Wilmington to board
ships for Liberia. Some of them
left their homes in the Cape
Fear valley only after great
crying and mourning by which
they gave vent to their distress.
In latter years, however, one
of the Negro women returned
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
COUPLE ARRESTED
ON CHECK CHARGE
FBI Arrests Man, Wife For
Obtaining $4,000 In
Four-Year Period

NEW YORK, Oct. %. -P)-
husband and wife, whom FB]
Agent Edward Scheidt said actec
as a team in passing more thar
400 fraudulent checks for $780,
900 in cash and merchandise
were ordered held for fedora.
grand jury action today when ar
raigned before U. S. Commission
er Garrett W. Cotter.
They were identified as James
A. Moloney, SO, and Mrs. Barbara
Moloney, 48, of New York City
The man was held in $1,000 bal
and the woman in $500.
Both were arrested yesterday
They were arraigned on charges
of violating the national stoler
property act. The husband also
was charged with conspiracy te
vi late the act.
Scheidt, head of the New York
FBI office, said Mrs. Moloney in
duced shopkeepers to cash fraud
ulent checks in excess of pur-
chaseS made.
Her actions were the results Of
an idea her husband had while
serving a prison term for frauc
on Riker's Island, Scheidt id. He
added Moloney told the woman
where and how to have the fraud
ulent checks printed and usec
names of fictitious business firms
in inducing merchants to cash the
checks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
EXPERIMENTAL

i ~ al
FARM-On September Is, 1853,
General James liver Mckay, one
of the greatest statesmen ever
to issue from the Cape Fear
valley, passed away in Colds
boro, at the age of 81. He had
become i'll while returning from
Tarboro where he had attended
court as a witness IN a criminal
case. His body was borne to
his home amid universal evil
dences of sorrow along the route
of the cortege. Perhaps the larg-
gest demonstration of the public
mourning for the great states
man occurred in Wilmington.
When the contents of the
generals will became known,
it was revealed that the "Watch-
dog of the Treasury" was in
truth charitably disposed toward
his fellow men. Disposing of a
dozen great plantations, the
generals will directed that after
his wife's death his home place,
"Belfont," be turned over to
trustees to be used as an ex-
detrimental farm for the bene-
fit of the poor and the orphans
of the country. It is believed that
this was the first experimental
farm in the Cape Fear valley.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
TOBACCO MARKETS
HOLD LAST SALES
Price Trends Prove Irregu-
lar With Gains, Losses
Evenly Divided
BY The Associated Press

Tobacco price trends were ir-
regular yesterday (Tuesday) as
the markets held final sales be-
fore closing down for a sales holt
day which resulted from banning
of American tobacco imports by
the British government.
However, announcement thai
plans had been made for the gov
eminent to enter the market and
buy the tobacco normally pur-
chased by British buyers brought
from Fred S. Register of Hender-
son, chairman of the Flue-Cured
Marketing committee, a statement
that the markets probably would
reopen next Monday.
The Federal and State Depart"
ments of Agriculture announced
that the three remaining markets
of the Border Belt held final sales
for the season Tuesday and that
they would not reopen after the
See TOBACCO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
FOOD DONATIONS
NOW PER CENT
American Gifts To Europe
Equiva To '7l
Pounds Per Capita

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28-W.D -
During the past fiscal year the
United States sent food to other
nations at the rate of SO per
cent of it's total production, or
the equivalent of 271 pounds for
every man, woman and child
under the American flag.
The stupendous role Ameri-
can farmers and food-pro-
cessors are playing in feeding
war-torn Europe and Asia was
revealed in a survey made
available to the United Press
by Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va.
It is based on figures sup
piled by federal departments
and agencies and may loom
large in Congressional consider
alton of President Humans
emergency aid and Marshall
long-range plans.
The greatest portion of food
stuffs-from wheat to nuts-was
shipped for civilian feeding by
U. S. Army authorities in the
Anglo American zone in Ger
many, in Italy, and in the U. S.
occupation territory in Austria.
This total was 3,481, 900 long
tons.
Other nations which shared in
the American larder were:
Britain, 1852, 600 long tons
India, 1,003, 900 long tons; the
Latin American republics, g.
322, 900 long tons, and France,
including French North Africa,
I'll, 600 long tons.
The survey did not differen-
tiate between those goods which
passed through the normal
channels of foreign trade and
were paid for, and those which
were supplied as outright relief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
Police Fight
Reds
Three Hundred Injured In
Bloody Street Battle
Before Meeting

PARIS, Wednesday, Oct. 29-
(~AP)-Unofficial estimates OF
the injured ranged from 40 to
300 early today after a bloody
street battle in which Paris po-
lice beat back nearly $4,000 COM
munists who attempted unsuc-
cessfully to break up an anti
communist meeting.
It was the first major political
street battle in Paris since the
bitter riots of 1886.
The Communists, responding
to a call in their newspaper L'Hu'
mantle to break up the meeting
in Wagram hall in Place D'Eto1le
sponsored by former Sen. Gus
tave Gautherot, besieged the
meeting place and were routec
only after they had broker
through three police lines and
wooden barricade.
The riotous street scene begar
a few hours after Socialist Pre-
mier Paul Ramadier opened hi
governments fight for life in the
National Assembly chamber.
An official police Statement
said eight policemen had beer
injured although one foreign
correspondent counted 10 BENZ
carried away from the fracas
Estimates in the Paris press rang
ed as high as $50 injured on eacl
side.
There was no estimate of thu
number of police and mobil
guard employed to protect thu
anti Communist meeting which
police permitted to begin its SEES
sion after the fighting. More thai
1900 persons attended the meet
ing, which ended early today.
When the Communists frs
drew up their forces before tn
fight, there were about $500
of them massed at one end o
Avenue Wagram and 5000 at tn
other end.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
Chairman R. B. Page An
nounces Important Meet
ing For Friday

An important decision on the
development of the northern ex-
tension of the Wilmington ship
yard will result from a meeting
in Winston-Salem Friday moor
of the North Carolina States
Ports authority, Chairman R.
B. Page, publisher of the Star
News, revealed yesterday.
The announcement followed {
statement by the Maritime com
mission that the next move
in the negotiations to lease the
shipyard to the State authority
was up to Chairman Page.
An agreement covering leas-
ing of the northern end of tn
yard by the State for rs years
with a few of five per cent OF
the annual gross receipts going
to the commission was ap-
proved by Howard j. Marsden,
chief of the Commissions Ter.
minals division, some two
months ago.
When State Ports Chairman
Page requested more favorable
terms at a later date, Marsder
halted preparations to ask the
Commission for power to nego.
tate a lease within the scope
of the original agreement. In 6
letter to Page last week Mars
dn asked whether he should
submit the plan under the orig
inal proposal or ask for better
terms for the State.
To Provide Answer
The Friday meeting of the
authority will provide the an
swer to his inquiry. The new
terms asked by the State in
cluded paying of five per CEN
of net receipts instead of gross
receipts from the operation Of
the yard with payment starting
after improvements are paic
for, rather than Immediately
See PORTS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
So To Bed

A local man, who is unfOr-
tunate enough to have a
night job, was sleeping
soundly the other morning
when the telephone rang
until he thought it would fall
from the table.
The sleepy = eyed man
trudged to answer the phone.
"Please deliver me a truck
load of white sand," the
voice demanded. "SOrry,
sir, this is not the sand COM
pany," our hero yelled.
Back to bed and about IS
minutes later the phone again
began to jangle. "Will you
please send my groceries?"
a female voice asked. "N0,
man." our still sleepy friend
replied.
Five minutes later the
same thing happened only
this time it was the tele-
phone company checking the
line. You guessed it, our
hero removed the phone frem
the hook and went back to
bed.
Then the door bell began
to chime. "What the -)&$(-IS
is it now?" he yelled as he
jerked the wires from the
bell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
Population
Placed At 10000
Auto Registration LAY
Double Here By 1860,
Palmer Says

A multitude of recommended
tons were presented to the city
board last night by
George W. Simons, Jackson
vile, Fla, planning consultant,
chief of which was the improve
ment of Eighth street into a
multilane semi-express street
or super-highway.
In presenting a 232 page book
of the master plan to the board,
Simons predicted that the city's
maximum population would
reach 80, 900 by 1880. 1t will
have twice as many automo-
biles in 1860 as at the present
time, he added.
Other recommendations in
clude additional park and rec
reation facilities, schools, reha-
Utilization and slum clearance,
Identification and other traffic
aids.
Simons prefaced h is discus
sion of the final draft of Viii
mington's master plan, which
he said anticipates the needs of
the city for a number of years,
by declaring that "No plan is
a rigid instrument, and any
plan must be ready for change
from time to time"
"We've tried to maintain the
character and dignity that Will
mington now has," he ex-
planned. wilmington is a dis
tinctive community-a commu-
nifty with personality. You have
a rich background, and in the
future you will want to main
tain it."
Tracing the city's historical
background, the plan itself esti-
mates that the future popula-
ton will not be static, but will
continue to grow. From the 194l
population of 47,480 to all indi
cations normal growth of Viii
mington will give it a popula
ton minimum of 81, 900 ant
maximum of 10000 by 1880
Simons pointed out.
He said that the city ha,
shown a flattening or taperins
off of growth since 1920.
See 1880 On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-29
Ships, Planes Redouble Eff.
forts To Locate Missing
Airliner

K~ETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct %
U.R-The sighting of a smoke
column and signal flares at two
separate points in the radius OF
Alaska's greatest sea and air
search spurred hopes today that
some or all of the Is persons
aboard a missing Pan-American
DC-4 may have survived a forced
landing.
Searching air and surface craft
were ordered to concentrate on
|Dundas and Graham Islands
where fishermen reported spot
ting what may have been signals
from survivors of the transport
plane that vanished Sunday.
The area was Southwest Of
Ketchikan, in the opposite di'
rection from which veteran pilo1
Capt. A. N. Monsen radioed he
Twas heading after abandoning
attempts to land at the Annette
Island airport near Ketchikar
during a lashing gale.
A column Of smoke curled uI
from sparsely-settled Dundas Is
land in Chatham sound, one
fisherman reported.
The flares were reported sight
ed on Graham Island, off the
coast of British Columbia.
At least 20 military, com.
mercial and private planes
secured the area under leader
skies, and a fleet of surface YES
sells including private fishing
craft and seven Coast Guard
cutters probed the fiord-checked
coast. But search officials sale
they held only slender hopes fol-
the five crewmen and Is pas.
See IGNAL On Page Two