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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
U. s. APPEALS
FOR RPARTITl0N
Urges United Nations To
Vote Large Majority
AS Possible

Lake Success, Nov. 22.-P)-
The United States today appeal
ed for United Nations approval
of the proposal to partition Pal
estine into Jewish and Arab
countries "by as large a major
ity as possible"
It was the first time in the
lengthy U.N. debate on the Holly
Land that the U. S. made a di-
rect plea for votes for partition,
Arabs and supported by the
Jews, U. S. Delegate Herschel
V. ohnson made the statement
before the 57-nation Palestine
committee, which is discussing
the only issue left on the calen-
dar of the 1947 general assembly.
"The plan of portition with
economic union carries suffici-
ent flexibility to be made work
able" Johnson said. We hope it
is adopted by as large a MAORI
tv as possible.
with all it's imperfections, the
partition plan offers the most
practicable solution of the Pal
estine profile y.
Johnson thcs took issue with
Sir Carl Berendsen, of New
Zealand, who declared that the
partition plan is deplorable
because there is no provision
for a police force to make ef-
fective the creation of the con-
templated Jewish and Arab
countries.
DR.. Mohamed Fadhil Jamali,
foreign minister of Irag, said
IJohnson's speech "baffled" him
and argued that the partition
plan violated the U.N. charter.
Asking that the assembly shall
not be influenced to make un-
just DECISIONS" he declared.
The Jewish agency determln-
ed the partition plan. The Uni
tied States accepts the generous
Gift of the Jewish agency.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23

He said that the North Caro-
lima health department requires
that all restaurants be inspect
ed at least once every three
months, but Sin New Hanover
county we are lucky to get
around to each restaurant once
a year." he said.
At present the county health
department employs one man,
W. c. Haas, to inspect more
than 300 restaurants and meat
markets in the county and city.
"With one more fully qualified
inspector, CDR. Elliot said, 1--WE
could inspect all restaurants ev-
cry three months and comply
with the state law"
Baking at the proposal to
publicly rate all restaur ants
with posters according to their
sanitation and equipment, Dr.
Elliot said, "I don't want to en-
ter the competitive and com
mercial field"
He said that giving restau'
rants posters that rate them as
"A", "B" or "C", borders on
commercialism because of the
value that grade GA" poster
would carry to restaurant op
orator.
The biggest item, he said, il
rating a restaurant, is its dish
washing machine gets 65 or n
points, and a cafe that serves
hamburgers on paper napkins
gets the same number of points
because it doesn't have any
dirty Dishes" be said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Reds, CHINESE
IN new BATTLE
Long Awaite d Paoting
Fighting Starts,
Report

NANKING, Nov. % P "A
Chinese press dispatch said to-
day the long expected battle for
Paoting was on with communist
attackers penetrating govern
ment defenses north of that CAPT.
tai of Hopeh province.
The newspaper vi Shih Pao
reported 5000 communist troops
here battling the government
garrison at points only seven
miles southeast of the city while
a second thrust was made from
the north.
Three communist regiments
were in the attack from the
north, the newspaper added.
These troops, under Gen. Mich
Jung Chen, were said to have
broken into government positions
along the railroad.
The government has been
strengthening its Paoting posi-
ton ever since it lost its big
base at Shihkiachwang, 80 miles
to the southwest. An attack has
been predicted for week.
Paoting is the lower angle OF
a strategic triangle in Hopeh
province, with Peiping at the
northwest angle and Tientsin al
the northeast. Paoting is about
W miles from both cities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Col. Gillette
Accepts Port
Authority Post
To Become Effective Direc-
tor On The First
OF January

Col. George w. Gillette, of
Atlanta, Division engineer of
the South Atlantic division,
Corps of Engineers, has accept
ed the appointment of Execu-
tive Director Of the North
Carolina State Ports authori-
ty, R. B. Page Chairman, an
nounced yesterday.
Col. Gillette, who will retire
from the Army next month, will
begin his new duties on or about
Jan. l. He will maintain head
quarters in Wilmington.
He was unanimously selected
sometime ago and announced
his acceptance at a meeting of
the authority recently.
A native of North Carolina,
Col. Gillette has served twice
as head of the Wilmington dis
trict of the Corps of Engineers.
Before the actual beginning OF
World War II, he assisted in
organizing the Engineer Train
ling center at Fort Belvoir, Va.
in 1910 and later became its
Executive Officer, from there
he went to Boston, Mass, where
he was Division engineer for
the New England division dur.
'ang the military construction pc.
riod. He later commanded the
Engineer Training center al
Fort Lewis, Washington, and re
turned to Wilmington as Distric'
engineer on Dec. IS, 1945. Here
l. he served until going to Atlanta
to become division chief on Aug
l, 1916.
He is a member of the Amer
ican Society of Civil Engineers
the American Institute of Elec
trical Engineers and the Ameri
can Society of Military Engi
neers.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23

AraO oo"i wv
war o,o
...nck 1 by automatic weapon
SUI s-o from passing taxi in Al
1aabv lrJ street in the downtown
lsl43 1ao+ion of the city. Earlier one
sssi sroh was killed and one was
a. nl,-o',nded in separate shootings
soa' ", unknown persons" in Haifa:
Gsa py bodv of an unidentified
srsb s,s girl, who had been shot
M n fD tbe head, also was found near
III +be II banks of the Kishon river. "
" Hfariyeh-recalling that five
,rahs we're slain two days ago
IN an orange grove near Rama
n,a~called on Stern Gang mem
i,o horc to meet an Arab force in
.he g1 groves there next week. The
obalIenge. c contained in posters
swearing in Jerusalem, said in
part: 5
rormit us to massacre unpro-
tected Jewish settlers of the Ne
seb IAN area of southern Pales-
.ine), We oppose Zionism and
.o.+;+;on hut we cannot murder
preigbbors, most of whom we be-
1ieye are strongly opposed to
the terrorists who murdered
our friends and relatives at Ha-
anana. -.
"Our men will be waiting in
tbe orange groves near Raanana
nnxt week. We will protect our
neonle and we will welcome an
attack by the cowardly band in
order that we may revenge our
brothers.
Police pulled down the posters
and dispersed crowds which had
gathered.
Meanwhile, two members OF
the Arab higher executive, Shiek
Hassan Abous Saud and Rafflk
Tamini, met with Arab club
groups in Jaffa, the largest all
Arab city in Palestine. Four
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Pvt. Roscoe Long
To Be inferred Here
Tuesday Afternoon

The remains of Pvt. Roscoe
S. Long, g, formerly of Will
mington and Supply, will be
laid to rest in National Gene
terry of Wilmington at three
o'clock Tuesday. Pvt. Long was
killed in Germany.
The Ameican Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars will
officiate with full military hon
ors. The remains will remain
at Harrell-Coble Funeral Home
until the funeral hour.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hanna Long, and sis
ters, Mrs. Retha Padgett, Mrs.
Lille Pridgen, all of Whining
ton; Mrs. Florence Hamm, Lit
tie Rock, Ark; Barbara Jean
and Virginia Long, Supply;
brothers, Guy, Curtis and Juni-
us, Supply; Carl and Jenkins,
Summerville, S. c., and the par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Long,
Supply.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Soviet Marshal Sokolovsky Blasts U.S.;
CIO European Labor Meeting Demands Aid

BERLIN, Nov. 22-R-Soviet
Marshal VASTLY D. Sokolovsky
denounced the western Allies &C.
cupation policies in Germany in
a 10,000-word attack published
today, and charged United State
and British authorities with pro-
noting intensive propaganda
for a new war"
Promptly Gen. Lucius D. Clay,
the American commander, de-
scribed the charges of Russia s
chief in Germany as a misrep-
resentation of known facts.''
The bitter Soviet blast almost
on the eve of the foreign min
listers conference in London ap-
parently foreshadowed, in the
opinion of many observers, an
other fruitless four power
wrangle over the fate of Ger
many.
Sokolovsky's accus a tions,
made formally before the Allied
Control council yesterday, par
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
French Fear
Red Uprising
| Due Monday
New Premier Promises To
Act Quickly Against
Strikes
BY LOUIS NEVIN

PARIS, Nov. o. Robert
Schumann, 61-year-old Lorraine
lawyer Of the moderate Popula
Republican party, won parlfa-
mentary approval of his desig'
nation os premier tonight on Z
pledge to act quickly" agains
a strike movement that is Grip
pling France.
Schuman, who has been Fl.
nance minister since 1946 and
who lived in hiding among resis.
tance forces during the German
occupation, won just two thirds
of all national assembly votes
after socialist Leon Blum had
failed by nine votes last night
to get the green light to form
government.
Needing 300 votes, he received
412 from socialists, radical-social-
lists, popular republicans and
many rightists. Only the votes
of 1874 communists opposed him.
The DetGaullists either voted for
him or were among 81 deputies
who abstained.
Schuman, appealing to the az.
sembly for support, declared he
would ''defend the republic"
and distinguish between the Leg
! itimate demands of la bor and
"the synchronized enterprises Of
sedition throughout Europe"
He said he expects to form q
cabinet tonight to deal with the
labor crisis.
Under guidance Of 'the com
munist-dominated general con-
federation of labor, the numebr
of strikers passed the 100000
mark, and truckloads Of mobile
guardsmen armed with tommy
guns moved into the city in prep
aration for any outbreak of dis.
order which some Frenchmen
feared would come Monday.
A distinct uneasiness was felt
in the capital as the population
Tread in their newspapers Of the
discovery of four important
lclandestine arms depots in the
past two weeks, and learned that
lsaboteurs last night had cut tele-
phone lines linking two forts in
the outskirts of the city. A quart
of concentrated tear gas was
stolen from a Paris laboratory
last night, police reported.
Police also said that following
an explosion at the strike-bound
Renault automobile factory they
had arrested two communist
workers on charges of manufae-
turing bombs there.
The Socialist newspaper HI
Populaire declared, "in apph-
cation of orders received in War;
saw and carrying out an orches-
trated plan from Belgrade, the
communist party is preparing 10
pass to direct action.
The nations railroads and
merchant marine were partly
tied up by the growing wave
of strikers which now include
metallurgical and building work.
ers, coal miners, dock workers
in southern France and school
teachers in the Paris region ana
flour millers.
Railroad service In southeast.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Mems Rible Class
May ,Ioin With
National Group

A meeting of the Mems Bible
class of the First Baptist church
will be held this afternoon at 3
o'clock to discuss the proposal
to enter the national Federation
of Mems Bible Classes, it was
announced yesterday.
A national movement, at the
present only II of the 48 states
are not represented in the Fed
GRAFTON. Principal purpose of the
organization is to increase at
tendance and strengthen the eff
fectiveness of the churches in
their communities. 1t is non
denominationa1.
Otto Pridgen is teacher Of the
First Baptist church's class.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
PARIS. Nov. % -(R- u s.

PARIS, Nov. % -(P- u. S.
and pro-Communist representa-
tives in the World Federation
of Trade Unions debated Arneri-
can aid to Europe today but re-
fused to disclose details of their
discussions.
James B. Carey, secretary
general of the Congress of In
dustrial Organizations (C.I.O.)
and an observer at the meeting
of the w. F. T. U. executive
bureau, said he had been "talk-
ing all day." It was said that
those present at the meeting
were pledged to secrecy.
Before the bureau convened
Wednesday, it had been widely
reported that Carey had threat
ened to take the c. I. O. out
of the Federation unless it ap-
proved a resolution supporting
American aid. The c. I. O. has
been under fire in the U. S. for
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
SOARING PRICES
RECORDED BY AP
Food Prices Set An-Time
High On Sat-
urday
By The Associated Press

High-soaring wholesale prices
of major commodities set an all
time altitude record Saturday
for the third straight day.
Higher were cocoa, corn
wheat, oats and cotton. While
the prices of some commodities
remained unchanged, none de-
clined.
The Associated Press whole
sale price index of 35 basic
staples jumped II Of a point tc
202.26. The index uses 1925 prices
as 100. The 1947 low, set Janu-
ary Is, was 164.o5.
Cotton futures closed 40 cents
a bale lower to As higher in New
York and $1.20 a bale higher
to 80 cents lower in New Or
leans.
On the Chicago Board Of
ITdQ6, WlledI 1OI Iotoi e oSAA"SA
closed l IA to l 3-4 cents 9
bushel higher, December $500
|3-4-3.O7. Corn was 3-4 to 2 cents
higher, December $2.53 Ia
$2.52 3-4; oats were 3-4 to ! Ii
higher, December $1.24 1914
and soybeans were 2 1-2-3 l.;
lower, March $3.85 IL.
At the Chicago stockyards,
hogs ended the week so cents
a hundred pounds higher, steers
declined SO cents to 81, and
lambs were steady to as much
as 81 lower.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported, meanwhile, that the
cost of living index hit a new
high in September of 66 to l per
cent above August 1899 levels
Food prices in the index were
listed at 203.5 per cent Of the
1859 average and 10 per cent
above the June. 1920 peak,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Breaks Silent Vow
And Dies so Years
After Her Fiance
JOHANNESBURG, South Al

JOHANNESBURG, South At
rica, Nov. 22.-P-For go years
Francesca Mary Rose, 81, spent
every November 20 in retire
ment because that day in 1887
her fiance was killed in a train
accident.
This year she wanted to see
the royal wedding celebrations
and went out. Five minutes later
she was killed in a motor acci-
dent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23


Funeral services for the white
haired and sprightly Negro, who
in his life time became one OF
Raleigh's best known figures, will
be conducted by the Rev. T. P.
Duhart, his pastor, at St. Paurs
AME church at 3 o'clock.
He'll be buried as Uncle Dave
said he wanted to be buried, in
the dark green uniform with IA
stripes for the governor he saw
come and go, the uniform he
wore to Washington last summer
for his first and only visit at
the White House.
Only Uncle Dave knew his
exact age, and he wouldn't admit
to more than than IA years. The
correct figure, capital square old
times contend, probably would
be in the neghborhood of 30.
Only recently did he agree to
tighten his duties at the execu-
tive mansion. Formerly he was
up and on the job each morning
at $3.50. Illness overlook him in
September just after the debu-
tante ball. He was up until 1890
am. for the ceremonies. The
next day after five hours sleep,
ha insisted m serving tea to the
debutantes and collapsed.
He never was able to 60 back
to duty again. His last request
was that he be buried in his
uniform, the one with the IA
stripes, and Governor Cherry
said that was the way it should
be.
Surviving are the widow; a
daughter, four sons, and nine
grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23

Arnold also branded as tab
solute falsehoods' Meyers testi-
mony that he mad discussed
some of his wartime stock trans
actions with Arnold, former head
of the army air force.
Then the Senate War Investi-
eating committee concluded its
Sensational investigation CT Mey-
ers and turned the case over to
government prosecutors to pur-
sue in the light of statutes against
fraud, corruption, tax evasion
and perjury.
/Non<;n,,od nm pouo 9. fol ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
The Weather

Meteorological data for the "a hours
@clng 7:30 am. today.
TEMPERATURES
!:S0 am. 81; 7:3O am. SO: 1870 pm. g.
1880 pm. 65.
\. Maximum IS; Minimum 40; Mean 81,
Normal 81
=, i:so am. 81; 1880 am. 95. 1:30 pm. So
80 pm. 81.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 am
-O6l inches
Lolal since the First of the month -
DOL inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
u IRON the Tide Tables published by
" o. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
v4,... High Low
"-1iA4hston ----- $50 am. 2:21 am
u 5:52 pm. 12:43 pm
AsSohooro Inlet - 3:08 am. 1888 am
1892 pm. 10 100 pm
80, sunrise S:533; Sunset sos; Moonris'
D D.. pm; Moonset l AT am.
4.EeF stage at Fayetteville N. c. a
'"H Saturday, 1913 feet.
t,ra ,nfLElGH. Nov. 22.-(P)-The tempera
Mat.e ending pm. Saturday.
W.T. WI.'Un High Low Prec
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
GEORGE STEARNS
RESIGNS CHEST
Effective January l; Plans
Private Business
Here

The resignation of George L..
Stearns as executive secretary
of the Community Chest organi-
zation in Wilmington was an
nounced last night. The resigna-
ton, in a letter to H. A. Marks,
chest president, is effective Jan.
1, 1948.
Steams will enter private busi.
ness in Wilmington. He has not
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
JIM DAVIS DEAD

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-WH
james J. (Puddler Jim) Davis
former Senator and secretary OF
labor in three presidential cabi-
nets, died today. He was "a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Atty. Gen. Clark
Acts On Meyers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22-(F)-The Justice Depart
sgnaled today for grand jury action against Maj
Gen. Bennett g. Meyers after Senate investigators heard
Meyers wartime Chief General of the Army H. H. Arnold
denounce him as a trotten apple"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Tobacco Sales
In North Carolina
Saturday Reported

RALEIGH, Nov. o. R -
The United States-North Carolina
Departments of Agriculture an
nounced today total sales and
averages prices of yesterdays
sales on the old flue-cured tobac-
co belt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
GENERALS RETIRED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-R)
regular army and air force
have retired 462 of their generals
since 1910 for physical disability,
age and similar reasons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Arabs Insist
Jews Battle
challenge Jews To Open Battle In Grove OF
Trees Following Staying Of Arab Girl
And Killing OF Others

JERUSALEM, Nov. 22-1 -1P)-An Arab was killed and
-nnd was wounded in Haifa tonight shortly after the
ndssne Arab organization Hsriyeh Freedom) ehal-
,ucas termed the challenge "decaration of civil
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Restaurants Cannot
Be Inspected, Elliot

Dr. A. H. Elliot city-county health officer said yester
day that proper inspections OF restaurants IN the city ana
cannot he conducted because of an adequate budget
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
Uncle Dave S Rites
SetMondayA Three

RALEIGH, Nov. 22-(E9-The state he served for
81 years will pay final respects Monday to Uncle Dave
HAYWOOD. friend and butler of ID governors.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23
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WEATHER

W.T. ,MINGTON AND VICINITY-Cool
With rain or drizzle. Continued cloudy
tonight
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA
ca,tinued cloudy tonight Cool with rain
or drizzle today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-23

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-13
Graziano, Zale
Tune Up For Bout
BY JERRY LISKA

CHICAGO, July II -P)-Cham.
pion Tony Zale and challenger
Rocky Graziano, the latter snarl.
ingly confident that mo punch ir
the belly's gonna stop me this
time" today ended heavy prepar-
atoms for their second middle
weight title scrap at the Chicago
stadium Wednesday night.
Graziano, barred from New
York for failing to report a $1O0,
600 bride offer he said he regard
ed as a gag, and taciturn Zale
pummeled several spar-mates at
the ringside gymnasium in the
heart of Chicago's loop.
Then, each of the finely-drawn,
tense principals announced he
would begin tapering off leisurely
for the 15-round bout which no
body expects to go the route.
Tabled as the fight Of the year,
the eagerly-awajted brawl is like.
ly to produce a $65, 900 gate, tops
for that weight bracket, from g
capacity crowd of 20,O48, some
10. 400 of whom will be perchec
in top-priced $50 seats.
Ex-heavyweight champion Jack
Dempsey visited the crowded
training quarters today and posed
with Zale and Graziano, who smil.
ed at each other with forced en-.
tnusiasm.
Generally predicted to be a rep.
etition Of their September slug.
fest in New York when groggy,
battered zale kayoed Graziano ir
the sixth round, the re-matct
bears great Importance COR both
fighters.
Zale, now 80, will be battling tc
keep father time at a respectable
distance and for a possible lucra.
tive shot at Marcel Cerdan and,
CT Jake La Motta, rated the out.
standing middleweight contenders,
even ahead of the New York
scorned Graziano.
The 25-year-old Graziano posi-
bly, has even more at stake bar
red from his happy-hunting
grounds, Madison Square garden,
the Rock almost has to emerge
from the stadium with the title
to keep in the cnips-and the New
York Italian has ambitions to ere
tire as a millionaire"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-13

Coupled with the report =, ,
len joining the Colamen. s,s AZ
James,, manager, also anno1ns'a
the Cape Fear loop All-star ~.
will be held July 10 at Iev,a. ~.
stadium, with Hampstead, An.
Delco, and Pepsi-Cola tormio,
one team of stars, and M,soa
boro, Seagate and Winter psrL
making up the opposition. n.
teams will be skippered h,
James,, and Frank Hines. WINS,
Park manager, respectively.
Following the All-star til y.
Cape Fear league will form M.
dream team to challenge Ii,
Eastern State leagne Au.<t,,
game champions, a group Of NAV.
ers under the leadership Of E,,,
Brinkley, Of Whiteville, which d..
feated Frank Maner's Easterper,
in Whiteville last Sunday. If III,
game comes off, James said +
will be played at Legion Stadium
July rs.
There was no disclosure bv A.
len or James as to the resso,
for the star pitcher changing Nj,
Uniform from that of a Rambler
to one in the Pepsi-Cola ranks
James,, whose team is one gam,
behind Hampstead and Winter
Park in the league, is confiden
that Allen will hurl his men int,
the league championship.
In today's Cape Fear loop Bat
ties the Cola-men journey +,
Acme-Delco and James will U.s.
Murphy Scoggins On the mound.
saving Allen until later in Gs
week. AID is expected TO counter
with Ivo Workman. Hampstead
moves to Masonboro for a tilt
with the Clamdiggers with Horac.
Whedbee slated to face Bob Ed.
wards. Seagate will be playing at
Winter Park. Hines will call on
his staff ace Norwood Skipper,
and the Seagaters are expected to
hurl Jack Allen.