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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30

NO DISGRACE-The battle and
subsequent fall of Fort Fisher to
the Union forces in 1865 did not
end the saga of the Civil War at
that stronghold
That didn't come until many
years later when a Confederate
flag was returned to Wilmington
from New York state and placed
in the museum here in Winning
ton, according to c. C. Chadbourn,
Ais South Front Street.
With the flag came the respects
and honor of a Yankee to the peo-
pie whose ancestors fought so
bravely at the fort;
Chadbourn related he was visit
ing a friend whose home was on
the banks of the Hudson River,
a few miles north of Hyde Park,
the home of the late President
Roosevelt.
Chadbourn's host, aware of Will
mington's part in the Civil War,
said, II have something that would
interest you. 1t is a Confederate
flag that was taken by one OF my
ancestors when Wilmington fell.
ut was made by the ladies 81
Wilmington to be presented to the
victor at Fort Fisher, never doubt
ing what the result would be. "
course it was never used.
Chadbourn asked for the flag
and presented II to the museum II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Padway Cites
Holes In Law
Counsel For AFL Says La.
Dor Act Emergency Ma
chinery Ineffective

WASHINGTON, June 28.- l) -
Joseph Padway, chief counsel of
tbe AFL. gave the opinion today
that the national emergency" ma
chinerv of the Taft-Hartley act
.'cannot be made to apply if the
.oal miners do not resume work.
on July s.
Padway, closing a conference of
1o0 American Federation of Labor
attorneys on the new labor law,
told reporters it is his personal
oninion that the Injunction ma
cbinerv in the act cannot be in
voked as long as no contract exists
between the AFL-United Mine
workers and the private operators.
The government will restore the
mines to the operators tomorrow
night. The miners, now on a 10
day vacation with government pay,
are expected to resume negotia-
tons with coal industry leaders
here early in the week.
If those negotiations fail to pro-
duce a settlement, Padway said.
there is nothing to prevent the
miners from staying home and no.
thing to prevent the operators from
hiring new workers."
Welly X. Hopkins, UNIV counsel,
addressed the closed meeting of
attorneys on the national emer-
gency' section of the Taft-Hartley
act and pointed out ''many weak
nesses." Padway said. But Hop
kins did not discuss it in connec-
tion with the impending shutdown
of the mines, he added.
The law provides that the Presi-
dent may instruct the Attorney
General to obtain a restraining or
der for 80 days if a strike affects
an entire industry or substantial
part of it and if it imperils the
..public health or welfare"
In most cases, Hopkins told the
attorneys, the SO-day cool-off would
be preceded by a 60-day waiting
period prior to the termination OF
a contract.
This Holiday wait, Padway quot
ed Hopkins as saying, is ga length
of time sufficient to break any
strike"
Padway reported general agree
Gee PADWAY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Along The Cape Fear

Wilmington, properly marked with
the donors name, an act which he
felt would be in accordance with
the wishes of the ladies who made
it and their descendants.
The flag. Chadbourn noted, still
hangs on the wall of the museum,
mute testimony that in a defeat
such as that at Fort Fisher, there
is no disgrace.
BATTLE SIDELIGHTS - While
the battle of Fort Fisher has doubt
less been studied and written about
as often as any other Civil War
engagement. there still remain
some interesting sidelights, passed
on by Chadbourn, which r wor-
thy of note.
Before the battle and surrender
of the fort, the point of land be
tween the ocean, New Inlet and
the Cape Fear river, was known
as Confederate point. After the
Union victory the land became
known as Federal Point.
Another bit of information which
may have been overlooked BY
many s%trategists is the fact thai
the construction of Fort Fisher
by sand resulted in the battle be-
ing prolonged.
According to Chadbourn, thu
See CAPE FEAR - Page Tw'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
TORNADO STRIKES
AT H0PEWELL, VA,
Six Square Blocks OF Bust
ness Sections Reduced
To Shambles

YOPEWELL, Va, June 29-PC
A tornado that dipped into Hope
well out of rain-laden skies lett
!, six square block sector of this
southside Virginia city a shamoles
today.
About 100 buildings were unroof-
I'd or otherwise damaged, large
trees were snapped like twlgs and
70 persons were hurt-none SRI
ousIv-hv winds which some estl-
mated blew at IS to 100 miles an
hour for a two-minute period.
THE trees looked like some
giant had taken hold Of them and
twisted them like a handful OF leaf
tobacco" said Captain A. S. J.
Wheeler, the city sergeant, whose
icb is equivalent to that of a coun-
ty sheriff.
Wheeler said damage would
probably run to 500, 900 ard the
business Of cleaning up the debris
would take 2 week Or 10 days.
The brief storm, accompanied
by torrential rains, hit Hopewell
shortly after 2 p NJ. knocked out
telephone and electric service and
left residents virtually isolated for
nearly nine hours.
The injured persons we're treat
See TORNADO on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
CLIPPER ARRIVES
IN SAN FRANCISCO
newspaper Publishers
Comment On Speed In
Global Flight

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s-RH
Pan American Always Clip
per plane, The America, landed
at San Francisco airport at 12:44
pm. (Pacific Standard Time) to-
day on the next to last leg OF the
airline's inaugural round-the-worlo
passenger service.
The plane, carrying a party Oh
American newspaper editors and
publishers and civic officials, lett
New York June II. An overnight
stop will be made here. The plane
will continue to. New York tomor-
row.
Flying time from Honolulu to
San Francisco was 10 hours, five
minutes.
The passengers we're hustled IN
to a reviewing stand before the
crowd which gathered to greet
them.
Several reflected soberly on the
sights they had seen during the
past twelve days.
This is not yet one world"
warned Erwin D.. Canaan, editor
Of the Christian Science monitor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
OUTSIDE RACERS
MAY Be INVITED
Soap Box Derby Commit
tee Will Decide Ques-
ton Today

The question as 10 whether or
not invitations should be issued to
other towns and cities within the
Wilmington trade area to send
representatives to the Wilmington
All-American Soap Box Derby to
be run here July 80 under joint
sponsorship of The Star-News and
Raney Chevrolet company, will be
one of the first decisions that the
Soap Box Derby advisory commit
tee will be called upon to make
following organization of the group
at 2:45 pm. this afternoon.
Soap Box Derby headquarters
has been advised hat the Lions
club of Clinton will sponsor a soap
box derby race for Sampson coun-
ty boys. While the race will not
have National Soap Box Derby
sanction, it would be permissible
for the winner of the Clinton race
to represent Sampson county at
Wilmington and thus get a chance
to compete for further honors and
the possibility of a trip to the ma
tional finals.
1t also has been minated around
Derby circles that the Lions CLUB
See RACERS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Wisconsin Senator Says
Part OF Government
Should Be Moved

WASHINGTON, June % WH -
Sen. Alexander Wiley, R., Wis,
urged today that at least part of
the federal government be moved
from Washington to the "grsss-
roots to protect it in the event Of
an atomic war.
Wiley, chairman Of the Senate
Judiciary committee, said he
would introduce tomorrow a reso-
luton to require the Senate Agri-
culture committee to make a six
monhs study of the ways and
means by which the Department
of agriculture could be decentra-
lized.
He said in a radio interview
(Station WEAM. Arlington, Va,
ard WDEL, Wilmington, DELI
that progressive decentralization
is necessary in the interest of
national security and also for the
purpose of efficiency.
I1G ACKNOWLEDGEMENT llldL Lllc 1AS1A-
culture departments dairy divi-
sion be moved to the dairy Sec
ton of the country, the cotton divi-
sion to the cotton area and other
sections to the areas where their
particular commodity is produced.
Wiley said that if an atomic
bomb was dropped on Washington,
it could destroy the nerve center
of our economy-the war depart
ment, the navy department and
all of the civilian units.
Warning mat the country must
have ''push-button plans against a
possible push-button war;" he said
the United States must have a
stockpile Of vital materials.
In addition to political decen-
tralization, he called on U. S. bust
See WILEY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
VIOLENCE TAKES
HIGH LIFE TOLL
Least "a Deaths Record.
ed In State During
Past Weekend
BY the Associated Press

One of the years heaviest week
end death tolls, in North Carolina
was exacted by violence from Fri
day until today when at least "a
persons lost their lives.
Traffic accidents, which claimed
five lives, planes crashes, which
took four others, and d%rownings,
in which four died. AL were ma
jor contributors to the heavy toll
for the three days.
The deaths of six persons were
described by police officials as re-
sulting from self-inf.icted wounds.
Victims of traffic accidents
were:
Richard BARLEY, %, and Harry
Lee Green "a, both of Evergreen,
Columbus county, who died as a
result of a pickup truck collision
Friday.
Lee Thomas Jones, 80, of WEIGH,
VIVA, a former Ashe county resi-
dent, who was killed Saturday near
Warrensville.
Worth Melvin Jones, Al, farmer,
who died after his automobile went
out of control near Clayton.
Gordon w. Cox, Is, OF Newton
Grove, killed in an auto-truck col
lision near White Lake.
Drowning victims were identl-
fled as John Arthur Lewis, %, of
Bethlehem, Pa. a senior at the
University of North Carolina: Hay
wood Watson, Jr., nine, of near
Franklinton; and Joe Covington.
"a, and George Dalihays, 81, both
Negroes, of near Graham.
Four who were killed in air
plane crashes and two persons
lost their lives as the result of
shootings. Union County Sheriff
Frank Nivens said Mozelle Wal
tiers. II, was fatally shot by her
father, William B. Walters, 48.
who later died of what Nivens said
was a self-inflicted wound. Mrs.
Iona Richardson West, 38-year'
old divorce, was shot in a crowd
ed restaurant at Randleman, Po-
lice Chief M. E. Williams re-
ported.
Deaths described by coroners
and police officials as resulting
from self-inflicted wounds were
recorded for George D. Martin,
40. World War I veteran at, Ra-
leigh; Obid D. Rhodes, A, furnl-
ture store operator at Whitevllle;
Clyde C. Harris, "a, Of Franklin
ton: Paul W.. Worley, about 81,
World, War II captain, at Colds
boro; and Mrs. Katie Wayne, A.
at Lake WaccamaW.
Goo VIOLENCE on Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
SMALL BOYS SHOVE
BABY GIRL TO DEATH
FROM WARD WINDOW

NEW YORK, June 20 - Up -
A two-month-old girl was killed
today when she was pushed out
of a third-floor ward window of
Sydenham hospital by two other
children, police reported.
Detective James O'Brien said
the baby, Lois Simpson, was taken
from her glass cubicle, where
she was being treated, placed on
an outer windowsill of the ward
and showed down into the street.
Police said that two boys, aged
eight and three, later admitted
that they pushed the child from
the window. They were patients
at the hospital also.
There re- no attendants in the
ward at tt time, officers said,
adding that the boys gave no rea-
son for their act.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Atomic Scientists Join In
Appeal To America For
Quick Control

PRINCETON, N. j., Jun 20 -
Albert Elnstein and the
emergency committe of atomic
scientist he heads issued an ap-
peal today to the American people
to realize that United Nations eff
fcrts for international conrol of
aomic energy have been truitless
and that time is running short.
Seated around a conference
table at the Institute of Advanced
study in this attractive university
town, a group of American scien-
lists of International reputation
including leaders in the wartime
development of the Atomic Bomb
held a press conference in which
they issued a statement warning
the imperative need COR inter-
national control of atomic energy.
1.-THE alternative is the death OF
our society,"" they said.
"Once stock piles of atomic
bombs have ben accumulated by
two national blocs of a divided
world" the COMMITTEES statement
said, "it will no longer be possible
to maintain peace
Other Bloc
Then, in answer to a question,
Dr.. Harold c. Urey of the Univer-
of Chicago, committee vice
chairman. said the other national
bloc was headed by the Soviet
Union and expressed belief it
would be 80 years from Hiro-
shima" before the stock piles in
question could be accumulated.
The deadline might come ear.
lier he said in commenting that
absence Of measures to prevent
See EINSTEIN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
FEUDINC, FUSSINC
and A-FICHTINC
But Grandma Didn't Stoop
Over; She Took The
Tall Timbers

MT. JULIET, Tenn, June 20. -
U.D-The four male members Of
the David Rippetoe family sa'
down in their mountain shack last
night for a few glasses of beer
after a hard week in the field.
Sheriff Ewing Atkinson said today.
Mrs. Walter Deweese, the only
woman in the house, went into
the kitchen to fix supper. She
heard the mems voices begin to
rise in argument. Suddenly, one
of them started shooting.
Then the other three got guns
and Mrs. Deweese took to the
woods. The volleying aroused the
entire countryside and someone
called the sheriff.
When he and his men arrived,
they found three of the family
sprawled in the yard with serious
wounds and the fourth, also bleed
ing, in an clubhouse.
Wounded and taken to Lebanon
hospital were David Rippetoe, 81,
Howard Rippetoe, 80, his son; Wal
ter Deweese, 81, David's son-in-
law, and Harle Deweese, son of
Walter.
Mrs. Deweese was held as a
material witness. She told officers
she hadn't the faintest idea what
caused the argument climaxed by
the free-for-all shooting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
PLANE ACCIDENTS
TAKE FOUR LIVES
r rocky Mount, Kings
Mountain Men Killed
Over Weekend

RALEIGH, June 29-P-Plane
crashes took the lives TO four North
Carolina men over the weekend.
Daniel A. Mum, 80, and E. N.
Winstead, both of Rocky Mount.
were injured fatally this after
noon about a mile and a half east
of Elm City in Wilson county when
the Aeronca Club cruiser in which
they were flying plunged to the
earth.
J. D. Neal and Frank Crawford.
both of Kings Mountain, Route 2,
died last night when their rented
plane, also an Aercona, crashed
in Cleveland county.
Residents of the Elm City ares
in which The Eastern North Caro-
lima crash occurred said they heard
the plane crash and then saw dust
in a nearby cornfield.
No Fire
Mum was dead when rescuers
arrived and Winstead died within
a few minutes after his body was
extricated from the wreckage(
The plane, which vas demolishe
did not pl;rn, Winstead was )
to have been plotting the plan
Witnesses to the Kings Moui
crash said that the plane ha9
flying over Cranford's homo
the engine sputtered and til
plummeted earthward.
Neal was a former A.
Corps lieutenant and Crar
a former Marine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
COUNTY SWELTERS
FROM 81 DEGREES
Humidity Makes Brow
Wiping Necessary; Hail
Falls In West
1t was hot Sunday.
RI1t If wasn't hot enoI1ph to &c

1t was hot Sunday.
But it wasn't hot enough to set
a record.
The temperature climbed to 81
degrees during the day. 1t start
ed from 70 degrees in the morning.
The humidity was high too. At
one time during the day it was
"a. When it gets as high as 100
it is raining.
Thunderheads lowered about the
city in the early afternoon and
evening, but no rain fell.
Today there will be little relief
from the heat, Weatherman Paul
Hess said. Some showers are ex-
pected in the afternoon to add to
the already 5.33 inches that have
falling since the first of June.
Get set to mop that brow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Pea Reviises
9-Poiint Plan
Government Own r S i
Advocated OF Mines.
Rails, Power

CHICAGO, June "a -(R-The
Progressive Citizens of America
advocated public owner
ship of coal mines, railroads and
electric power"
In a revision Of the organiza-
tons nine : point policy program,
adopted at the groups first ma
tional convention in New York last
December, the Pea directors at a
melting here also endorsed Com
plete reversal of the Trun for
eign doctrine. g.
The Pea, successor - SO
tlonal Citizens Poll g s. -.
committee and the $AA II
Citizens Commute g is,
Sciences and Prof . = de-
scribed by a sp ian
organization of / - voters
for progressive 8 ton"
ownership i the 81 said pST'i it
should be achieved through the
medium OF independent govern
ment corporations of the IVA type
and in such a way as to protect
to the full the rights of labor and
consumers"
Three Industries
OF the three Industries for which
government control was recon-
rended, the statement said:
Coal - "Private ownership has
proved wasteful and inefficient. 1t
has failed to provide a decent liv-
lihood and physical safety to the
miners. 1t will be totally incapable
Of planning and carrying through
the far-reaching readjustments
which the non military use OF
atomic energy will sooner or later
make unavoidable. Only public
ownership can solve these pro-
blems."
Railroads-'Under private own
ership they have failed to mod
ernie their equipment and opera
tons; they practice i%ntolerable
nc nopolistic discrimination
against whole sections of the coun-
try; they have allowed the living
standards of their employees to fall
seriously behind those Of workers
ir comparable occupations"
Power-"Private ownership has
p1 owed incapable Of anticipating
and meeting the power needs OF
the country; it obstructs because
1t cannot foster the planned devel-
opment of water power resources;
and does not reduce the rates sui
ficiently; it will fight tooth and
nail against the rational use OF
atomic energy which is universal
" conceded to be too important
to be entrusted to private hands
Policy Criticized
Criticizing the present admins
tration's foreign policy, the state
ment said:
The main outlines Of this policy
are still to be found in the re-
building of a reactionary Ger
many and Japan; encouragement
and aid r. relationships in Spain,
Greece, Turkey, China and Argen'
tina; colonial oppression OF the
Philippine island: proposals fo1
the military domination OF South
America, and the Presidents pro
posed universal military training
program.
The Marshall Plan cannot be IS.
olated from the total policy OF
which it is but M element, cor
its character will inevitably be de-
termined by the politics which
gives it direction. Therefore we
must continue to advocate and
work for the comnlete reversal OF
the Truman doctrine"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
PAT TAYLOR ASKS
NO. NOMINATION
Well Known Wadesboro AT.
torney Seeks Lieutenant
Governorship Post

WADESBORO, June 20 - H. P.
(Pa) Taylor, local attorney, and
state senator announced last night
that he would be a candidate for
the 1948 Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor.
Taylor, an important factor in
both local and statewide public at
fairs, has been urged for some
time by friends and party leaders
in various sections of the state to
offer for North Cerolina's number
two executive Office.
Heretofore he declined to offer
himself as an aspirant for any
public office OF statewide scope.
Taylor was born at Winton,
Hartford County, on June II, 1890.
attended Winton high school.
Horner Military school and Wake
Forest college and was admitted
to the Bar in 1914 and immediate
ly located in Arson County.
Served As Mayor
After serving III World War, ]
he was elected mayor of Wades-
boro. For many years he was
chairman of the Arson county
Democratic executive committee,
resigning to represent his district
in the State senate.
A directorate of many business
institutions, Taylor is a prominen-
layman of the Baptist denomina.
ton. He was married to Miss Inez
Wooten of Chadbourn in 1923 anc
they have three children.
Taylor's candidacy, it was an.
nounced, meets with the approval
OF the men who served in World
Wars I end II, and that he has
been urged by many veterans to
make the race.
He served in the state senate
during the administrations of GOV
ernors Ehringhaus, Hoey and
Broughton and as legislative as.
slslant to Governor Cherry in 1915
"Most Valuable"
At the close Of the 1889 session
OF the General Assembly ane
again at the 1943 session, he was
voted the most valuable member
OF the senate and at the latter
session, the senate did him all I'm.
usual honor by adopting a resolu.
ton commencing him for the ab14
manner the appropriations bill
had ben handled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
Flying Saucers
Gather WOrds-NO Milk

being made in that part of the
West.
Hardly were the words out of
their mouths when others began
reporting Lying saucers" and the
controversy was on.
There was a similarity in all
reports - the objects were found
like saucers, travelling South at
q high rate of speed with little
or not noise, and Of such bright
ness that reflections from the u
we're "almost binding"
Three More Report
Three persons in Ell Faso'
Zee sAUCERS ON Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30
To Sign Or Veto COP Bill
Extending Rent Controls Today;
Mississippi Floods Hit St. Louis
City Suffers
High Damage
Father OF Waters Reaches
Highest Stage In Over
1903 Pears

ST. LOUIS, June 20 - U.H -
Wind-whipped waters of the angry
Mississippi spread over sections
of st. Louis and other ri r towns
today in the greatest flood in this
rea in 103 years.
Hundreds of civilians, troops,
naval reservists, and even women,
were battling to save homes and
farmlands along a 150-mile front
as the river reached its highest
stage since 1874.
Fed by new rains and an avail
anche pouring in from the Mis-
souri, river, North of here, the
Mississippi surged up to 80 feet
today, 1.3 feet under the 1874 flood
stage.
Additional families we're evac-
uated along low-lying sections Of
the Mississippi South of here,
boosting to an estimated $4,000,
the number of persons made
homeless by floods which have
ravaged sections of Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri and Illinois and
caused approximately $3.50, 0o0,-
900 damage to property and crops.
Engineers estimated that dana
age in the st. Louis area al
ready totaled nearly 5000, 900
and that the total for Missouri
was at least $1O0, 900, 900.
Levees Holding
Adding to the suffering OF the
homeless and problems of levee
workers, wind and rain dashed
the Southern Illinois . Eastern
Missouri area during the night.
All bikes and levees were hold
ing, but water vas tapping over
the edges Of SOM.
Gales that reached a velocity
of SO miles per hour North Of
Chicago swept across Southwest
ern Wisconsin, Northeastern In
diana, Northern Illinois and gee
tons of Iowa.
The thunderstorms and wind
disrupted communications and
unrooted trees in some. areas.
Workmen still were striving to
restore communications in a $50
mile area of South Dakota and
Minnesota. which was swept by
tornadoes and high winds late
Friday night. At least two per-
See CITY ON Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-30

PORTLAND, Ore, June 29-R-
Wesl4raers wee s~elng flying
s~aucers" almost everywhere to-
day-from Canada to Texas-and
a. red-nol controversy ragged about
it all.
Kenneth Arnold, Boise, Idaho,
flying businessman, started it by
reporting he saw nine mystery o.
jects tipping owe Western Wash
i1lgton last Tuesday at what ne
estimated was !. 200-mile-an hour
speed. .
Experts dismissed his report
with statements that no known
aircraft could go that fast and
that no guided missed tests were