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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
SMUGGLING GROUP
GETS U. S.F0ODS
Shooting OF Policeman
Unearths Movement To
Soviet Zone

BERLIN, May 12.-UH-Exist-
ence of a smuggling group trans
porting food Illegally from the food
scarce American occupation zone of
Germany to the Russian zone has
been disclosed by the fatal Shoot
ing of a German policeman who
stopped a truck, it was reported
today.
The British = licensed German
news agency DPD said the police
man, who was not identified, was
shot and killed when he stopped a
truck at the zonal border South of
Weimar. The truck contained a
load of Bavarian food hidden be-
meath a camouflage of shrubs. The
killer escaped, the agenc. report
ed.
Increasing signs of hunger were
reported from the Russian zone
following the two-weeks food crisis
that has gripped the British and
American zones.
Hunger Marches
Unofficial reports from the Rus
sian zone said Germans at Scaoene-
beck, on the Elbe in Saxony, had
staged a hunger march and that
several were arrested. Another
report carried in the American
licensed Munich. newspaper. Die
Neue zeitung said trade unions
at Dresden had issued a pamphlet
demanding more food.
Neither report could be con-
firmed Immediately.
Paul Fuellsack, chief of the Ber-
lin food department, said shortages
in Western Germany now are be-
ing felt in Berlin, where supplies
of meat, fat and flour were falling
toward the danger point. An ex-
pected shipment of potatoes from
tie Soviet zone has not arrived, he
said.
I'VE face a difficult time of it
and pray that America will keep
us alive" he said.
Help Themselves
Kurt Schumacher, chief of the
Social Democratic party, asked his
followers to do their upmost to
turn in surplus foods. Schumach-
err was quoted by his deputy,
Friedrich Heide, as warning arty
members that they could expect
no help if they did not help them
selves,
1--WE have no moral right to ask
for relief from foreign countries
if we don't make every possible
effort to help ourselves"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
PROGRESSIVE HAS
EDGE IN PRIMARY
Charles R. Savage, Wallace
Followers, Defeats Tru-
man Democrat In West

OLYMPIA, Wash, May 18-P-
An avowed "progressive' former
COMPRESSION who defeated a "Tru-
man Democrat to become the
Democratic party's nominee for
Washington states vacant Third
District House seat today credited
his victory to the peoples will
that the tide of reaction shall be
turned"
Charles R. Savage, Al, said in
a statement after easily out
distancing State Attorney General
Smith Troy in yesterdays special
primary:
I'VE in America will not tolerate
attacks upon labor and upon SOC
ial security, upon low cost power
and reclamation the people
voted to repudiate reaction .
they intend that the tide of reac-
ton shall be turned"
Savage, backed by groups favor
ing the foreign policy views OF
Henry A. Wallace, polled 1882
votes in 563 of the sprawling dis
tricts 607 precincts. against H.
SAG for Troy, who campaigned as
4 Truman Democrat
He will be opposed in the June
run-off election by Russell v.
Mack, So, publisher of the Daily
Washingtonian at Hoquiam, who
became the Republican standard
bearer.
The race between the two for
The Congressional post left vacant
by the death Of Fred Norman, Re
publican, will be watched closely
throughout the nation as one of
the first tests Of 1947 political SEN
timent
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
COMMITTEE WILL
BACK GREEK LOAN
Rep. 7 b O. Says Appro-
priations Group Wants
Need Lowdown First

WASHINGTON, May IS R -
Chairman Taber, (R-NY) Of the
House Appropriations committee
said today that eff the State de-
partment feels there is an ur-
gency" for Congress to vote the
$500, 900, 900 for the aid to Greece
and Turkey. his committee twill
move right along with it,"
However, he said, before the
committee acts II intend to OBJ
tain a complete breakdown OF
what the foreign picture is"
Congress last week completed
action on the bill authorizing the
outlay as a move against the
spread of Communism. The meas
ure now awaits President Truman's
signature.
Advance Authorized
The actual funds for the pro-
gram will not become available
until a direct appropriation is ap-
proved. But the Reconstruction
Finance corporation is authorized
to advance $1oo, 600, 900 for the pro-
gram in anticipation OF the ap-
preparation. .r
In view of this, Taber said, II
would like to find out the reason
for haste in making the direct ap-
propriation.'
He told reporters that eve IN
tend to look very carefully" into
how the money would be spent
but 1--WE have no intention OF de-
LAYING the matter indefinitely"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Strawberry Crops
Damaged On Farms OF
Eastern Seaboard

RALEIGH, May 10, - (P - A
drought which has lasted for near
ly a month in many sections OF
North Carolina has damaged some
truck crops and has delayed farm,
operations in. general, the State
Department of Agriculture report
ed today.
An Agriculture department Of
fetal said that effect Of the pro-
longed dry spell had been felt
most severely by ea-ly-maturing
truck crops, including both pota-
toes and strawberries.
In addition, planting of tobac-
co - one of the states agricul-
tural mainstays - has been delay
ed by. some unreasonable weather.
and although most of the cotton
and corn acreage has been plant
ed, rain is badly needed to aid in
termination.
Reports from the potato growing
section of Northeastern North Car
DINA say that unless rain is
forthcoming the states early COM
mercial Irish potato crop will be
reduced considerably, and the
State Department of Agriculture
reported that the dry weather has
reduced severely" thet COM
mercial strawberry yield in South
eastern communities.
Strawberries Hit
The strawberry markets at Wal
lace, Chadbou-n and Tabor City
have been open for two weeks, and
the Agriculture department ex-
planned that the principal effect
of dry weather on strawberries
has been to hasten the ripening of
small berries "before they reach
marketable size"
The U. S. Weather bureau here
said that its latest reports - re-
ceived several days ago - indicat-
ed that the drought had been most
severe in the South Piedmont
region, and that since then there
had been only scattered thunder
showers, principally in the noun
tains of the West.
Continued ON Page Two, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Presidents Mother Has
Setback; Condition Grave
r S. Martha E. Truman,
a., Fails To Maintain
Early Sunday Gain
By ERNEST B. VACCARO
Associated Press White House
CORRESPONDENT

GRANDVIEW, Mo-, May 18.-R
President Humans 94-year-old
mother took a turn for the worse
late today after an unexpected raj
ly, leaving her condition grave.
Because of tae change in Mrs.
Martha E. Humans illness, the
Pr resident maintained a constant
vigil at her bedside
The time of his departure from
Kansas City was undetermined aft
er the Presidents personal physi-
clan disclosed that his mothers
''tired heart" had not maintained
the Improvement noted in the day.
She had astonished the doctor,
Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham and
her family by a dramatic rally
from the relapse which sent her
distinguished son flying to Grand
view yesterday.
Presidential r e Secretary
Charles G.. Ross, after a confer
ence with General Graham, an
nounced to a 6 p. m. (EST3 news
conference in the Hotel Muehle-
bach, IT miles away in Kansas
City:
MRS. Truman is not so well this
afternoon.
"The rally she made this morn
ing has not been maintained in the
afternoon. While she is sitting up,
she's in bed and her temperature
is up a little bit"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Arnall Says South
Re Admitted To u. S.
Former Georgia Governor
Praises Freight Rate
Decision By Court

ATLANTA, Ga, May 1872
Ellis Arnall, former governor of
Georgia, declared today 'the
South has been re-admitted to the
nation as a result of the Supreme
courts recent decision on freight
rates.
Participating in a University of
Chicago formidable broadcast
NBC), originating in Atlanta, Ar
nall said:
1.-THE decision Of the Supreme
court ordering the railroads to
equalize freight rates for all areas
of the nation will have economic,
social and political repercussions
which in effect mean that the
South has been readmitted to the
nation"
Arnall said that for years the
South has been at a 80 per cent dis
advantage in freight rates on
manufactured goods alone rates
rugged to keep-the South an agri-
cultural area feeding Northern
mills, to force the South into in
dependence on cheap labor, to
keep Southern industry small"
Weltner Agrees
Philip Weltner, president of
Georgia's Oglethorpe university.
agreed the decision would mean
political changes and added:
krYe - -L@z -~1orI 1~1,-1
opportunity to all people regard
less of race we will have a two
party system in the South instead
of the present no-party system"
1.-THE South is not economic
fContiuued mn Pare Two. Col. AZ
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
acknowledgements
Extra High Wages
California Senator Would StimulsW so
Production BY This Meth s@%
Four Objectives For

w.suINGTON, Ma. 18.0R-
Ntor Knowland (R-Calif.) today
pod extra high wages for extra
aiss PRODUCTION to sustain pros
e'u;ithip the grabs of the Ameri
oeople is the greatest period
eaI~ nrosperity in the history of this
o. NV other nation" Knowland
o. nol =, 80 address for broad
'"' i nlgn wages and maxi
production must be
.chieved. he said, for a Sustained
prosperous Amortization "tae
sreat increase in the nations real
no.,th which must be the basis
y, truly higher living standards"
H. counseled broad adoption OF
, system of paying fair, guaran-
tfed N.ages for average produc-
linn, and axtra high wages for
ovtra high production
Labor and management = said,
mould consider setting up togeth-
Or "a system of wage payments
r,,ich will make maximum pro-
auction and the highest possible
wage payments, in line with good
rricing policies, clearly in the in
terest of both"
This system should have four
.hiectives, he said:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
HIGHWAY PROJECTS
CAUSING DET0URS
Five Roads In Wilmington
Area Closed AT Points;
Motorists Advised

Work on five road projects by
the North Carolina State Highway
and Public Works commission in
the Wilmington r is causing
detours, one of which will remain
until the first Of the year.
The State Highway commission
last night listed the largest prof.
ect as that on U. S. Highway II,
west of Wilmington, where Six
.tenths of a mile of bridges and
approaches at Alligator creek and
the Brunswick river, are forcing
traffic to use temporary crossing
structures. The project will not
be completed before next January.
However, seven and a half miles
of resurtacing of state highway
211 between Lumberton and Red
Springs will be completed the last
of this week. Until tlat time,
only one-way traffic will be allow
ed.
Highway So
Culverts under construction along
an eight-mile stretch on state high
way SO between Burgaw and Jack
sonville will be finished the middle
of July.
More than II miles of grading
and paving on state highway 242
between Bladenboro and Elizabeth
town will keep t--ffic routed by
state highways 40 AMI 81 via Dub
lin until late in August.
Between Red Springs and the
Ii ction of US. IA on state high
way TO. eight miles of grading and
paving, Which will be finished the
middle of June, is causing detours
by way of state road II and us.
IA by way of Maxton.
Limited Loads
Roads on which limited load
weights are allowed are state high
ways II from Red Springs to Lum-
Der bridge; 211 from Red Springs
to Lumberton. The same highway
from U. S. IA east to Lumberton
and U. S. 421 from tae junction OF
FOL. south OF Clinton to the junction
Of III, north of Castle Hayne.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
MARITIME DAY
SET FOR MAY Y
P Propeller Club To Hold
Special Dinner Meeting
AT Cape Fear Club

In conjunction with National
Maritime Day, authorized by con-
gress and proclaimed by the pres
ident for May %, the U. S. Propel-
Ter club, Port of Wilmington. will
hold a special dinner meeting at
the Cape Fear club at tbs p. m.
on that day.
Colonel Thomas J. Weed, prin-
cipal assistant operations division
office of chief Of transportation,
U. S. Army, Washington, will be
the featured speaker on the pro-
gram that night.
Invited guests at the dinner will
be the State Port Commission. U.
S. senators. U. S. representatives.
governor, City council and city
manager. county commissioners.
H.. ~ EN
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
And So To Bed

A vandal with a yen for
cutting up garden hoses was
the object of a search last
night in Maffitt village by
deputy sheriffs.
Five residents of the village
during. the last "a hours re-
ported to Sheriff Porter Davis
office that some youth or man,
while occupants of their homes
have been away, have stolen
onto the lawns and with q
knife OF sharp instrument
mutilated the hoses.
i sixth resident is believed
to have frightened away an
intruder yesterday before he
was able to damag &c a hose
lying OIL the lawn.
Officers termed the culpf1A,
"just q big cut-up." g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Fifteen Lose
Lives Sunday
Hindu, Moslem, Sikh Mobs
Battle In Streets With
Bombs, Brickbats

LAHORE, India, May 18-(P-
Thousands Of persons fled from
Lahore, provincial capital of the
Punjab. today, seeking to escape
bomb and brickbat fights between
Hindu, Moslem and Sikh mobs
which have caused at least IS
deaths.
Police fired on the MODS several
times during the day in attempts
to halt the riotous street battles.
1t was the 5Oth day Of communal
rioting in Lahore.
Casualties remained uncounted
when night fell, but one hospital
said it had received II dead and
80 wounded persons and a police
official reported Is had been killed
an II wounded in a pre-daWn bat
tie.
British and Gurkha troops were
recalled from environments to as
sist police in trying to restore
order.
Fires Light City
The worst situation developed
in the old walled city Of Lahore.
Associated Press Bureau Manager
Anand Swarup said that fires in
that section lighted the sky to-
night as brightly as sunrise.
District Manager j. c. W. Eus-
tace today imposed a collective
fine of 200, 900 Rupees (approxi-
mately $50, 0OO) on a predorninantly
Moslem area of the city and an
other of 100, 900 Rupees on a Hindu
section because there appear to
be nc serious attempts Con the
part of citizens in those areas)
to stop commission of acts pre-
judicial to maintenance of law and
(Confiuund nn pauo Txun Co1 ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Jesse Jones Charges Railroad Magnate
With False Statements" On B@O Loan;
Thousands Flee Lahore To Escape Riot.
Robert Young
|AnswersBack
F o m RFC Chairman
Says Untruths Imposed
On Public

WASHINGTON, May 18-W.D-
Jesse H. Jones. former chairman
of the Reconstruction Finance
corporation, charged tonight that
Financier Robert R. Young made
false statements" before the
Senate Banking committee on the
disputed 1945 B. & o. railroad re-
organization in the hope of adding
the B. & O. to his railroad en-
pire.
Making his first comment on the
Senate inquiry into why the RFC
extended to 1865 an $50, 900, 900 loan
to the reorganzed railroad, Jones
said in a statement that obvious.
ly the committee and the public
have been imposed upon since
many untruths have been purpose
ly publicized."
Young, who or May 5 told the
committee that the RFC-B. & o.
deal was either dishonest or in
competent" said in an answering
statement issued in New York
that 'all of Mr.. Jones' ~generali-
cation cannot change the fact that
the RFC forced the B. & o. into
bankruptcy when it was we'll
able to- meet its debts. nor the
fact that his ~lieutenants thereby
perpetuated themselves in B. 4 o.
jobs"
Young Charges
Young referred to charges be
fore the committee that Jones, as
a condition to granting the loan
was enabled to place former RFC
officials i n key posts in the B. & o.
so that his group could sieze
control of the system.
Jones made only oblique refe-
renee. to that statement. Rather,
he confined himself to a vigorous
defense Of the loan and denied
there was anything irregular or
unnatural about it.
He said the B. g. O. sought
financial relief under the McLaugh.
lin act, passed by Congress to
enable railroads to avoid receiver
ship. and noted that the loan plan
had been approved by the Inter-
Continued on Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Mississippi River
Packet Runs Into Bank

Those aboard included As pas
sengers and so crewmen, mostly
from st. Louis. Captain Smith re-
ported those on board were landed
without panic. They yer removed
to the mainland with the aid of a
fishing boat and most of them
planned to return to st. Louis in
buses.
Tae boat left st. Louis last night,
bound for a six-day round trip to
Nashville, Tenn. On June 10 it
was scheduled to start a race
against time from st. Louis to
st. Paul, with the only other packet
on the river, the Gordon c. Greene,
a Cincinnati-owned boat.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

ST. LOUIS, May 1S.-CR-The
Golden Eagle, one of II last OF
the old Mississippi river packet
boats, went out of control and plow-
ed into the bank of an island
near Grand Tower, ILL.,, early to-
day. Nearly 100 persons On board
were landed safely.
The impact tore a 5-foot hole in
the forward compartment, which
was flooded. Captain Nathan
Smith said the misaap occurred
when the steering gear failed.
Captain Smith expressed doubt that
the old excursion steamer could be
salvaged. The Eagles stern was
down and it was tilted at a 10
degree angle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
TWO SCHO0LB0YS
KILLED BY CRASH
Navy Pilot Also Loses Life
When Plane Dives Into
Yard AT Airshow

BURLINGTON, Ia, May 10 -
~ A Navy pilot and two school
boys were killed and six young
persons seriously injured today
when a fighter plane went out of
control at an airshow and crashed
on a school playground. a
More than $500 persons at the
airshow saw the Corsair fighter
zoom low across the municipal
airport during a mock formation
raid. 1t went into a series of bar
rel rolls, then appeared to 60 out
of control and crashed and burned
on the school grounds where IA
youngsters were playing ball.
The dead schoolboys were identi-
Continued on Page; Two Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

NEW YORK, May 18-P-Her-
bert Hoover says Americans re-
spect the privacy Of Presidents
only when they r praying or
fishing-''So that some have taken
to fishing"
In a radio (CBS) discussion to-
day of Izaak Walton's "Compleat
Angler" the famous fishing man
ual published 300 years ago. the
former chief executive was asked
to explain why so many presidents
have been fishermen.
He said that only three, presi-
dents-himself, Grover Cleveland,
and Theodore Roosevelt-had been
fishermen FROM boyhood and there
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Drought Hits N. C. Vegetable, Berry Crop;
Violence Claims Ten Lives Over Weekend
"LOVE TRIANGLE" VICTIM SITS UP
sFOR FIRST TIME SINCE SHOOTING

LUMBERTON, May ~1S.-P-David Miller. Fl, Rowland mer-
chant whose wife is accused of hiring a Negro man to kill him
and make it look like a suicide, was able to sit up in bed at
Bakers Sanatorium here today for the first time since the shoot
ing a week ago.
Doctors said that Miller appeared to be much improved de-
spite his being told Friday of the charges against his wife which
brought the reply "dont let her come to the hospital"
from jail under a $4,000 bond, but Fred Virgins, 26-year-o!d
Negro, remained in jail in default of the same amount of bond.
Sheriff Willis Britt has reported that Mrs. Miller told one of
his deputies that she hired Virgins because she was in love with
another man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
Fishing Provide
Privacy For Presidents

fore their devotion to the sport
after reaching the White House
required no explanation
But" he added. "others only
became fishermen after entering
the White House. In examining TINS
national phenomen, 1 concluded
that the pneumatic hammering OF
demands on the Presidents mind
had increased in frequency with
the rising tide of economic ana
international completely, and he
lust had to get away somehow
somewhere, and be alone for a
few hours once in q while
Continued q Page Two, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
The w Gather

.on s ', Carolina-Partly cloudy and
VIM .i'ued warm Monday and Tuesday
. EMm a few widely scattered thunder
o. rs mostly over north portions.
son,;nl Carolina-Partly cloudy and
.yrsa .ued warm Monday and Tuesday,
finn not quite so warm north por-
,bon. few widely scattered thunder
,ndinE eoEological data for the "a hours
$50 pm, yesterday.
lam Temperatures
Il. am, Ii; 7:2O am, IS: 1870 pm,
'" 7;So pm, rs.
Maximum 86; Minimum So: Mean n,
ion Humidity
50, I'm. IS; 7:3o am, 80; 1870 pm,
''o Pm, 20.
so Precipitation
600 nor "a hours ending 7:30 pm,
va 40'sl since the first of the month,
Fro Tides For Today
y. 9 the Tide Tables published by
coast and Geodetic Survey.
n -------------- 8:40a 3:40a
sasonboro 1n1st s:i5p 1882
Sunriao 6:51p 12:40p
4;SG gnflse 5:o7; Sunset 7:os: Moonrise
va Moon.et $3.50.
"'kk WEATHER ON PAGE TWO
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

Continued on Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and continued warm today n Tues
day with some. widely scattered thun-
d~ershowers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-19

Continued on Page Two, Col. I
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-11-11
EXTRA TAXES
 HELP FINANCE EUROPEAN AID
Business Tax Revenues, Personal Levies Ex-
 leeding Estimates

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11--tRl-A tax windfall resulting from booming business is showing promise of balancing off part of this years added costs of aid to Europe. Some government analysts said today receipts for the current fiscal year ending next June 30 may top the present budget estimate of $14700, 100000 by $2,000 100000 if nothing happens to check the revenue flow. Last years total was $43 0,00O0 900.
 The government analysts said they could see little or no threat on the business horizon to con- tinued high tax revenues, but they added that any tax cutting measure could upset their new calculations
 Revenue collections for the first third of this fiscal year-the slack season of the tax collection calen- dar-belied the budget bureau pre- dictions by running $200,000,00O ahead, instead of behind, the same period of last year.
 They totaled $12,195 ,662,555 for the July 1-October 31 period. h. dividual income taxes withheld from paychecks brought in $3,319,- I417,114, nearly $50O,OO0.o0O above the comparable period of 1946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-11-11
W0MAN'S SOCIETY OF
 METHODIST CHURCH TO
 MEET WE'D. AFTERNOON

The Afternoon Circle of the Wo- mans Society Of the Methodist Church will meet tomorrow after noon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. Margaret Bland at 1919 West 10th Street. Assisting Mrs. Bland will be Mrs. LeRoy West.
 Following a dessert luncheon. Mrs. Clifford Robards will review the book Portrait of Pilgrim as the final lesson of the series based on the book. The remainder of the afternoon will be spent in putting finishing touches on articles and plans for the bazaar to be held on Saturday, November IS, in the Church social room.
 Mrs Bland. known to most ev- eryone as Grandma" Bland, has been faitful memter of the Wo- mans Society of the Methodist Church here, the records show, for more years than any other mem Der of the group. The society is especially honored to meet in her home at this time.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-11-11
MUST LAY AN EGG
 OR GET THE AXE

WASHINGTON, Nov. I1.-R- The Agriculture Department has announced a chicken buying pro- gram designed to help save grain tor overseas ai1.
 Under the program, hens that do net lay enough eggs will be remov- ed from flocks. The program is all so aimed at saving poultry supplies for later use. Under the plan, the hens would be killed and placed in cold storage and sold later when supplies of both poultry and red meats are mucn scarcer.