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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
THURSDAY FINAL
FILING DATE
Eight Candidates File
With Closing Set
Tomorrow

The warning that candidates
for the Wilmington city council
have only until Thursday after
noon at 6 o'clock to file was
sounded yesterday by Robert
Strange of the local election
board.
A last minute furry of filing is
expected, iaasmuch as a slate
for the council is scheduled for
release by the local Citizens Pro
gressive League.
So far the number of candidates.
remains at eight, with but O n e
present member of the council
James z. L. Wade not on record
as to his. future political plans.
Meanwhile, Strange called at
tention to the fact that Saturday
Is the last day for voters to regis
ter. He urged that anyone = t
certain of his status check with
his register prior to that time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
VENEZUELAN AIRLINE
PLANE CRASHES WITH
II PEOPLE ON BOARD

CARACAS, Venezuela. April g..
-W.H - A commercial airliner,
with 27 persons aboard crashed
today only 30 minutes flying time
from the airport here. 1t was
feared that most if not all the
"a passengers and three crew
members were killed.
The plane, a Douglas DC, was
flying here from Cumana, in
Eastern Venezuela. 1t was bring
ing "a students and teachers from
the Razetti lyceum Of Caracas
who had made a Holy Week trip
to Cumana. Among them were
five women.
Another group of students and
teachers from the same school
arrived in a second plane a few
days later in Caracas.
The crash occurred in the
mountains near Guatire, a small
town in Miranda state, :
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
E CORPORATIONS

Charters of Incorporation have
been granted to two Wilmington
firms by the office of the Secre-
tary of State in Raleigh, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The Ocean Motor Sales, Inc, was
authorized to buy and sell automo-
biles, with an authorized capital
stock Of $100, 900. Stock IN the
amount of S75, 900 was subscribed by
David S. Harris, Elizabeth Harrlss
and P. r. Smith.
The second charter was issued
to Building Management, Inc, with
an authorized capital stock OF $780,
900. Subscribers in the amount OF
$500 were Winston Broadfoot, Will
liam G. Broadfoot and S. Bryan
Broadfoot.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
JUDGES DISMISS
PORTAL PAY SUIT

CINCINNATI, April 8. - up -
Tie famous MI. Clemens Pottery
CO.. portal-to-portal pay suit came
to an end in the Sixth U. S
Circuit court of appeals today
with dismissal of an employees
appeal from an adverse lower
court decision.
The Mt. Clemens employees had
asked last week that their appeal
from a ruling by U. S. District
Judge Frank A. Picard Of Detroit
be dismissed with prejudice"
and counsel for the company
agreed to such action.
At the same time, U. S. Attorney
General Tom Clark wrote the APP
pellate court here that his office
while not consenting to dismis-
sal of the case, urges no objec-
ton thereto"
Removes Case
Legal authorities said today's
dismissal order, signed by Presi-
ding Judge Ken Hicks and Judge
John D. Martin, removed the Mt.
Clemens c a from further con-
sideration by any court.
The Mt. Clemens suit. which
wa. followed by the filing Of
many similar actions asking a
total of nearly &c. 900, 900, 900 in
portal pay, was tossed out by
Judge Picard on the ground that
the amount involved was trivial
Local 1888, United Pottery Work
ers-CIO and a small group Of un-
affiliated employees had asked
500, 900 judgment against the
Mt. Clemens, Mich, company.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
PREPARATIONS
Construed From Page |One)

derstad how the discussion on Ger
many's future government had
become so badly tangled. He add
ed that the ministers had ended
up just where they started.
Bevin asked Molotov whether
Russia's insistence that the min
listers stick to the question Of gov
ernment was designed to prevent
them from taking up such prob
lens as borders, disarmament
and the Austrian treaty.
Il this was the Soviet aim, he
sale. it sis not a very fair way
to treat u.s."
Molotov replied that he, like
Marshal and Bevin, objected to
endless discussions. He then
agreed that frontiers would be dis
cussed tomorrow, and that a re-
port on peace treaty procedure
would be taken up Thursday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
AIRLINE
CONTINUED From Page One)

Charleston, w. Va, Cincinnati,
Lynchburg, and Charlottes ville
cities with which it has a COM
munity of interest.
Danville Is the industrial and
commercial center OF the fue-
cured bright Leaf tobacco Sec
ton in the country.
Tobacco gives it a strong com
munity Of interest with Durham
where "a per cent Of the nations
cigarettes are made, and with
eastern North Carolina tobacco
markets at or link the North
Carolina cities of Wilmington and
Fayetteville with Raleigh, the
state capital, and with Green's
boro, High Point, and Winston.
Salem, important industrial cen
tiers in this area"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
SHIPPING NEWS
. SHIPS FROM LAY-UP
TO T DUTY

S. S. Antonin Dvorac, out Of Law.
up for r~e-commission, C. D. Nat.
fit, agent.
S. S. Thomas Rusk, out Of lawn
for reccmmission, c. D. Matfitt.
agent.
S. S. Calvin Coolidge, awaiting
tow to Charleston, S. c., for re-.
commission, Heide and cou,oapv.
agent. "
S. S. de Neva, awaiting low.
Heide and company, agent.
INWARD BOUND
S. S. Sinclair H. c., expected 10
arrive Wednesday, carrying petro.
leum products for RichfieId nj
company. Cape Fear Terminal
agents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
VISIT OXFORD

CURRIE, April S.-Twenty-
one members of the Atkinson
Masonic Lodge No. 612 charter
ed q bus for a special trip to
the Oxford Orphanage last Sum
day. They were taken on a tour
of the home by Supt. Gray and
a delicious meal was served by
the students. Another trip is
being planned for the near
future.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
yFW COMMANDER

LUMBERSON, April 8. -
James Stephens, Jr., has been
elected commander of Post
No. 2679 Of the Veterans Of
Foreign Wars to succeed J. H.
Darlington. Truman Parmele
was elected senior vice COM
mander. Robert Mcleod,
Junior vice commander, Bruce
Stephens was reelected quar-
termaster, r.. C. Ivey was
elected adjutant, and the Rev.
w. c. Wallace was elected
chaplain.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
e, N. FOWLER

TABOR CITY, April 8. - E. N.
Fowler, age 70, Of Route one, Ia
Dor City, died at his home this
morning at / o'clock after a long
illness. Funeral services will be
held at the home at i p. m. Wednes-
day with the Rev. Robert Carter
officiating. Interment will follow
in the George Fowler cemetery.
Surviving are his wife; the form
er Nizzie Fipps, three sons; Cor
don Of Acme, Raleigh and Herbert
of Tabor City. Six daughters; Mrs.
Flora Cannon, Mrs. Laura Fowler,
Mrs. Florence Fipps, Mrs. Marcia
Fowler, Mrs. Retha Fowler and
Mrs Sessie Fipps and two brothers;
Berry and Charlie.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
FORD
Continued From Page One)

while the other AZ percent was
assumed to have been in the
hands Of his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Edsel Ford, and her four children,
including Henry II, william and
Josephine Ford.
Probating Of Edsel Ford's es-
tate, as far as has been publicly
disclosed, is still underway. The
elder Ford's only son, he died in
May, 1943, and the question of the
effect Of the heavy inheritance tax
Immediately became prominent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
SENATE


prepared to do. Then, IN an aside
which did not appear in his pre-
pared address, he added:
The only better way to de-
stroy the United Nations Of which
l know is to overuse the veto"
No Relief Funds
The $500, DOC, 900 aid bill contem-
plates both economic help and
military aid. Vandenberg said U.
N. has no funds for relief work
and never was intended to per-
form such work. It has mo sus-
tanning military force" he said,
because the Soviet representa-
tives thus far have declined to
permit these plans to ma
t~erialiZe."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
DIAL TELEPHONES

LAKE WACCAMAW, April 8.
Dial telf, phones have been in
stalled for residents of Lake
WaccamaW and Wannanish
and work is being started at
HallSboro for installation Of
forty dial phones there, accord
ing to an announcement by
Raymond Cook, manager Of
the Columbus Telephone Co., in
Whiteville. With the compile
ton Of the dial system at Halls
boro, expected in the next two
weeks, the dial system will be
in operation in Chadbourn,
Tabor City, Hallsboro, Lake
WaccamaW and Wananish.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
APPLICATION APPROVED

WHIIEVILLE, April g.. An
application for a charter has
been approved for the White
vile Junior Chamber of Com
merce, it was announced by
David Billiard, president OF
the organization.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
l II T. III
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
LAMB ELECTED CHAIRMAN

WHITEVILLE, April 8. -
Major R. J. Lamb was re-
elected chairman Of the county
board Of education at the first
meeting of the newly appoint
ed board held Thursday after
noon in the office Of the coun-
ty superintendent of education.
immediately after the cleo
ton of Mr.. Lamb as chairman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
OFFICER RESIGNS

FAIRMONT, April 81. w.
Pittman, rural policeman OF
Robson county has resigned
from the force Of Sheriff Will
lis C. Britt. Lee Shepherd OF
Gaddy's township has been ap-
pointed to replace Pittman.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
SOUTHEASTERN SEARCHLICHT
News Of Interest In All Neighboring
Counties Told Briefly

the new board then unanimous
ly reelected j. M. Hough as
county school superintendent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
The w Gather

Weather bureau report Of temperature
and rainfall for the "A hours ending 8
p. m. in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station Hjrh lou Pveeln.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09

NEW BERN MEN PICKED
NEW BERN, April s.-Mike
Pugh and E. w. Summerel,
both of New Bern, have been
nominated for posts on the
newly proposed State Fish and
Game commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09

Chicle, the chief ingredient of
chewing gum, is obtained from
the Sapodilla tree.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
MRS. L. ]. ZIBELIN

Mrs. L. J. Zibelin, u, Z North
street, Sunset Park, died last
night at 7 o'clock at James Walker
Memorial Hospital. Funeral ar
rangements will be announced at
a later date.
Surviving are her husband, l..
J. Zihelin; two sons: L. j. Zlbelln,
Jr., and John j. Zibelin; and one
daughter: Laura E. Zibelin.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09
PERCY M.

Word was received here yester-
day from the United States War
Department Of the death of Pfc.
Percy M. Shepard, 20, of Middle
Sound. Shepard died of injuries re-
ceived in a vehicle accident on
April 4 in Honshu, Japan.
He had been overseas for five
months and was slated to return
home the first of May.
He is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter McRae Shep-
ard; three brothers, Marion, Ha-
rold, and Adrion; two sisters, Caro-
lyn and Ruth Ann; paternal grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. T. Shep-
ard, all of Middle Sound; and ma
ternal grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. B. Blake of Woodside, N. c.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Harrell-Coble
Funeral home, pending the arrival
of the body from Honshu.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-09

WALTER HOWARD LEWIS

Walter Howard Lewis, SO, 81
Spofford, died Monday morning
in James Walker Memorial Hos
pital following a long Illness
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at 4 o'clock from the
home. Mrs. W. T. DeVane and the
Rev. E. N. Gore will officiate.
Survived by his wife MIS-. Laura
Lewis, three sons; William H.
Lewis, Jr., James Lewis and
Phillip Lewis, two daughters. JAG
qulin Lewis and Nancy Carroll
Lewis all of Wilmington; mother.
Mrs. Sexton Lewis of Wilmington:
two brothers Kermie Lewis OF
Oklahoma and James
Ralph Lewis of Danville, Va:
three sisters, Mrs. Marie Hardy
and Mrs. Leila Baker of Danville.
Va; and Mrs. Chalmer Schwartz
of Newport News. Va.
Active panbearers will be Mar
vim Beale, Earl Canady, David
Canady, Clarence Canady and
Clarence Carroll.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Andrews Mort
uary.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
the current ts-a-bushel price Of

the current t3-a-bushel price OF
wheat.
The ohioan said that perhaps
the exchanges margin requirements
ought to be fixed by law, "but they
(the grain men) certainly have
established their main point that
they haven't had much effect on
prices"
Directing testimony for the grain
exchanges and other spokesmen for
the grain trades was former Repre-
sentative Roger Slaughter, the Mis-
souri, Democrat who was defeated
for reelection in 1946 with active
opposition Of President Truman.
Mr.. Slaughter personally thanked
Senator Taft and the committee for
q chance to prove that the three
major grain terminals at Chicago
Kansas City, and Minneapolis are
not gamblers and trafnckers In hu-
man misery.
Attorney General Clark was cred
tied by the grain trade spokesmen
with the remark about "traf1cking
in human misery"
In general, the witnesses for the
grain trade said speculative trading
In grain futures is a necessary
economic function and service
that enables farmers, merchants
industries, millers and others to
quickly buy and sell grains or pro-
tect against price fluctuations.
Most of the witnesses agreed the
spectators are taking most Of the
risk on grain prices but they COM
Evening star., 1947-12-04

referred to passage of the Greek
Turkish aid bill.
Projected Changes Indicated.
Following are some of the changes
to the bill that probably will be
offered in the House:
To cut the total to $400, 600 900, a
move which failed in the Senate.
That branch approved the full ad-
ministration estimate Of $597, 900 900
by an 33-to-6 vote
To put price ceilings on Govern
ment purchases for European relief
as a means Of preventing further in
f1ation in this country.
To limit the aid program to
American supplies declared to be
surplus.
Set up new independent agency
to handle this program instead of
waiting for the long-range Marshall
plan.
Under a steady barrage of ques-
tions from the Rules Committee yes
terday, the friends of the bill stuck
by their position that, while further
aid to Western Europe may be a
gamble, the risks involved in doing
nothing are greater.
While the total in the House bill
is only $7,000,0 900 less than the Sen
ate allowed, it represents deeper
cut for Western Europe. What the
House committee did was to take
$67 900 900 away from France, Italy
and Austria, and add 60,000,00 fol
China.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

(The tollo,ping story iDas writ-
ten by Tony Smith OF the Can
nett Ne,Ds Service Washington
stat on assignment in Saudi
Arabia. 1t is distributed by the
Associated Press Nth permission
of the Gdnnett Netps Serpice.
BY Tony Smith
Copyright. 1917. ounnsit News Service
RAS TANURA, Saudi Arabia, Dec
4.-vital American oil operations in
Saudi Arabia are proceeding or
schedule, despite mounting Arab.
Jewish riots throughout the Middle
East.
The iron rule of Saudi Arabia,
King Ibn Saud is preventing disrup.
ton Of the American oil field con-
cessions.
Some hot-headed Arabs here
however, caught the fever of vio-
lence that is spreading throughout
the Holy Land, in Cairo and othef
Middle East sections in the wake
of the United Nations Palestine par
tition ruling.
They tried to stage a protest
strike over the Palestine issue. The
move was Immediately crushed by
Amir Turki Ibn Ataishau, King Ibn
Saud's personal agent here.
The strike would have hit opera
tions at the Arabian-American OF
Co.'s principal refinery at Ras
Tanura, on the Persian Gulf.
I talked with Amir Turki, after he
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Ring Of Passport Forgers
Broken Up in Germany
By the Associated Press

BERLIN, Dec. Agents of the
United States Army's Criminal In
vestigation Division said today they
had cracked ring Of forgers, led by
a Berlin university professor, which
had worked up a lucrative trade in
faxed Swiss passports.
The agents said 80 persons were
under arrest, 20 Of them German
and the other Romanian woman.
They said 20 passports had been
sold here at $4,000 marks ($5,00O)
apiece, ana "only to the best people,
apparently all well-to-do intellec-
tuals," but none Of them, the CID
men said, has been able to leave
Germany yet.
The bogus passport operation here,
the agents said, was similar to
rackets uncovered recently in Swed-
en- and Denmark, where faxed pass
ports were sold in an effort to help
smuggle Germans into Latin
America.
Evening star., 1947-12-04

pared this to the risks in insurance
or other business ventures.
The final days testimony by the
grain trade witnesses brought these
developments:
!. Testimony Of H. E. Sanford,
Portland (Oreg.) grain man, that in
two letters to President Truman the
National Grain Trade Council
warned against high grain prices
in July and again in August of this
year and offered TO cooperate. John
r. Steelman, Mr.. Truman's aide,
answered both offers and said he
would call on the grain trade later
If necessary, Mr.. Sanford said.
Tells Of Raising Margins.
2. Testimony by Mr.. Sanford that
the grain exchanges increased mar
gins for future trading up to 33Es
per cent only after "a pre-emptory
telegram from the Presidents Office
asking such action.
3. A claim by Mr.. Sanford that
Secretary Anderson tried to hold
wheat exports to $50, 0,000, 900 bushels
from this years crops but was
forced" to boost this to 100000, ,OOO
by Secretary of Commerce Harri-
man and Secretary OF State
Marshall.
4. Testimony by Canadian grain
man, H. G. L. Strange, that 9
complete state monopoly on wheat
had cost Canadian wheat growers
millions of dollars and actually re.
duced production there despit.
world shortages and needs Of Eng.
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Ibn Soud Reported Protecting
Americans From Arab Violence

conferred with Arab chiefs who
came to find out about Saudi Arab
ian policy on the Palestine partition
issue.
I'VE want no trouble with the
Americans here In Saudi Arabia, u
Amir Turk said.
"They. are our friends. I treat
them as my own subjects.
There will be no demonstrations
or riots here without the approval
Of the King"
Amir Turki explained that the
local Arab hotheads got word o1
anti Jewish rioting In other Arat
nations and asked him to sanction q
strike at the refinery.
Through an interpreter, he told
me: II squashed them"
King Ibn Saud is keeping his
pledge to protect Americans who
are working and living here.
Saudi Arabia is becoming a haven
for Americans caught in riot areas
such as Damascus and Beirut,
Syria, and other parts OF the Middle
East.
A plane carrying several Amer
leans arrived at Dharram, Saudi
Arabia, after it failed to get into
Damascus, and found trouble at
Beirut where the rioters stoned the
Trans-Atabian pipeline office.
Aboard the plane were Winthrop
Rockefeller and Robert Broughham
Aramco vice president, and others
Evening star., 1947-12-04
Speculation
From First Page.)

how the shady traders take ad-
vantage of the law:
A trader bought 100000 pounds OF
future delivery cotton at 80 cents a
pound on June Is, 1916, and sold 1t
three months later at 81 cents q
pound-a profit Of cents a pound
or $4,000. -. -.
But he instructed his broker to
leave the transaction dates open on
the brokers' books until January Is,
1s47. Then he accepted a statement
showing q $685. 900 credit. -
In this example the trader derived
two benefits: Cd He made his profit
appear as a long term capital gain,
Of which only $17,500 was taxable,
and CD made the income taxable in
1947 instead of 1946, to avoid being
taxed in the higher bracket justified
by other 1916 income.
Taft Blames Purchases.
When commodity exchange rep
resentatives denied the admins
tration's charges that speculation
was to blame for soaring prices,
Senator Taft, Republican, Of Ohio,
chairman of the Joint Economic
Committee, said he agrees with the
exchange officials that heavy Gov
ernment purchases Of wheat for ex-
port are primarily responsible Tor
Evening star., 1947-12-04

ber, 1926, as 1t appeared IN the
record.
DR.. Boyd said he had documentary
proof of his fathers naturalization
on the earlier date and that he was
20 years old when that occurred.
In his letter to Senator Butler,
Mr.. Lewis wrote:
". There appear to be serious
questions as to whether MIR. Boyd Is
in fact citizen Of the United States
and legally qualified to accept ap-
pointment as director Of the Bureau
of Mines.
i" =. If the facts are as stated by
Mr.. Boyd Gin biographical data sub
mitted to the committee) and he is
not q citizen of the United States,
as defined by statute. then I am
sure the President would undoubt-
edly cause Mr.. Boyd's pending
nomination to be withdrawn from
further consideration by the Sen
ate."
Came to U. s. in 1922.
Mr.. Lewis said the biographical
data furnished the committee by the
Interior Department showed that
Mr.. Boyd was born in Australia De-
cember 20, 1904, and entered the
United States with his father IN
1922. He quoted the data as stating
Mr.. Boyd became a naturalized
American citizen by reason Of his
fathers naturalization, November,
1926"
The UNIV and Mr.. Lewis have
charged repeatedly that DIR. Boyd
is not qualified to direct the Bureau
Of Mines, principally on the grounds
Of a lack Of experience with coal
mining. They charged that Secre-
tary of Interior Krug sold" Mr..
Truman on DR.. Boyd because the
cabinet officer wanted to get rid Of
DR.. r. R. Sayers, former bureau
head who now is chairman OF the
Medical Board Of the mine workers
health and welfare fund.
Mr.. Lewis bitterly attacked both
DR.. Boyd and Secretary Krug before
the Senate committee last spring.