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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
.HughesPlane
Orphan Child
Huge Flying Boat May Go
To Surplus AS Service:
Don't Want It

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -W.R'--
Howard Hughes SIS, 600, 600
wooden flying boat, target Of a
Senate war contract investlga-
ton which resumes here tomor-
row, may have to be sold as
government surplus because the
Army, Navy and Air Forces ap-
parently do not want the huge
ship, it was disclosed tonight.
A spokesman for the Recon
struction Finance Corporation,
which spent $4,000, 900 on the
experimental, eight engine
flying boat and holds title to it.
said that none of the armed
services has shown any interest
in taking it off RIGS hands.
Unless they come forward
with an offer by the time tests
have been completed on tn e
plane, the spokesman said, 1t
probably will have to be turned
over to the War Assets Admin
istration and disposed of as sur
plus property.
Hughes, millionaire move
producer and plane-bullder
demonstrated Sunday that the
2O0-ton plane could fly, but the
military services had no official
observers on hand for the tests
and they indicated that as far
as they were concerned RFC
could keep it.
Navy Department spokesmen
said they have mo professional
interest" in the Hughes plane
Keeping Tabs
The Air Forces said they had
never had any connection with
the flying boat contract and had
opposed it from the beginning.
They said they were interested
in the tests only to the extent
that they keep tabs on all air
craft developments.
Hughes originally went into
the project with industria-'s,
Henry K. Kaiser with the an
nounced intention of mass-pro'
ducing plywood flying boats as
cargo or troop carriers. Kaiser
withdrew later, however, wher
the government cut back the or:
der to a single experimental
plane.
Hughes testified at the initial
Senate hearings last summer
that he never had guaranteed
that the plane would fly.
Hughes, who claims he
poured $1,000, 900 of his OWE
money into the design and con-
struction of the aerial boat, has
been recalled to Washington for
the second round of the Senate
inquiry into his wartime air
plane contracts.
Chairman Homer Ferguson,
See HUGHES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
LaVnenS StartMO
To Unite Glasses
SOME WOMAN

DES MONIES, Nov. 4-R
"A woman who police said
admitted shoplifting such ar
ticles as a wardrobe trunk,
combination adio-phonograph,
delicate dishware and wear
ing apparel was charged with
larceny today.
Deceive Chief Paul Cast
elline said Ann B. Baity, ~,
five and a half feet tall and
weighing 126 pounds, signed
a statement telling how. she
carried the radio -phonograph,
and later the trunk, down. a
flight of stairs, out Of the store
and then hailing a cab.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
Milk Control
LawsLauded
public Health Association
Sneakers Cite Protection
To Consumer

CHARLOTTE, Nov. 4 -P)--
o,ho control of milk for the pro-
Iantion llo of the health of the
stste's lt consuming public occupied
asa sha attention of the North Caro-
5ina 1irr public Health Association at
!ndav's sessions of the 36th an
u',al rU convention being held here.
IA An eight-man panel discussing
.ne new milk control program
'nbicb 'l became effective Septem-
Sar S ! generally agreed that the
1r,inimum IN standards" being en-
forced Jointly by local health de-
nsrtments and the State Depart
ment me- of Agriculture will protect
tbe public from "doctored" and
nnsanitary milk if education and
oontrol are applied together
nronerly on the local level.
But one of the biggest prob
LENS. it was pointed out, is the
nroper control of the more than
$4,000 900 pounds OF milk i'm
norted into the state annually.
Dr., E. w. Constable, state
chemist with the Department of
Agriculture, said the $4,000
which the Genral Assembly ap-
propriated for enforcing milk
regulations from the state level
each year Of the current bienni-
um docs not seem a particularly
imposing coverage" when spread
over the 100 counties.
Small Operators
c. w. Pegram, chief of the
dairy division of the agriculture
department, said that eight hear
ings have been held since Sept.
| with producers whose milk
samples indicated watering. They
were mostly small operators, )"
he said.
Pegram pointed to the need
Of more adequate supervision of
the finished milk product" - ice
cream and milk drirAs which he
said are often kept in refrigerat-
ed water which in effect consti-
tutes a "bacteria broth"
Though the General Assembly
killed the State Health depart
ments bill to control milk state
wide, Robert L. Caviness, the
boards sanitary engineer, told
the convention 1--WE will get
what we desired in that bill
See MILK On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
Hat-Loving Harry Hep
To Higher Heraldrics

"Shield: per fess nebuly
abased azure and argent, in
chief a thunderbolt or mflamed
proper.
"Crest: On a wreath argent
and azure an American bald
eagle, wings displayed and par
tally elevated proper in front
of a cloud argent"
This was signed, "Harry S.
Truman.
Well, it turns out this isn't
really doubletalk at all. People
interested in heraldry talk like
that, all the time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
TOBACCO PRICES
SAG ON MARKETS
Losses Are Small For Most
Part As Export Buyers
Stay Off Floors
Bv The Associated Press

Tobacco prices were general
lily lower on flue-cured tobacco
markets yesterday as buyers for
export companies continued to
remain off the markets.
Prices on the Eastern Belt
were steady to lower, the Fed
eral and State Agriculture De-
partments reported. Declines
ranged from $50 to 81 per hun
dreed pounds but mostly were
from 81 to 81. Losses were
heavier and more numerous in
leaf grades which made up the
bulk of export sales. Smok n 6
leaf, cutters and lugs were I'M
changed to 81 lower. Low orange
leaf, good orange lugs and a few
nondescripts were about 81 high
er.
A large amount Of fine tobac-
CO was offered on the markets
but was offset by an increased
proportion of common leaf and
nondescript. Leaf and smoking
leaf made up the bulk of the
sales. On Monday the growers
sold 8,026, 148 pounds for an ave-
rage of $46.73 per hundred, 4
gain of $40 over last Tuesday.
Old Belt Report
On the Old Belt prices were
irregular to slightly lower.
Changes for leaf and smoking
leaf ranged from so to So with
both gains and losses represent
ed. Cutters, primings and nom
descript fluctuated 81 to So and
most lugs were down 81 to 81
with fair orange lugs off 81 for
the greatest loss.
uality of the offerings was
ro-a ~~@
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
SnOt Has Taken His Last
En9ine Ride-He Missed

about the yards as he has done
for several years. A switch en-
gine numbered toward him and
Spot jumped for his perch on
the footboa1d. But this time he
missed and the engine passed
over his body.
A veterinarian built a special
casket and today Spot lay in
state in the Sloss-Sheffield lab
oratory. Five floral wreaths
were placed on the casket.
Spot will be buried tomorrow
| in a grave near the main Sloss
office building,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
By The Associated Press

Dy 1AC x2SSVVkdGSA L Soo
Circuit Judge John c. Stennis,
who soft pedalled the race issue
in his campaign, pulled into a
narrow lead yesterday for the
Senate seat of the late Theodore
G. Bilbo of Mississippi.
And in the Border state OF
Kentucky, the Democrat trying
for the Republican-occupied
governors chair pushed ahead
in early returns.
The Mississippi Senate a n d
Kentucky gubernatorial races
rated top national interest in
scattered off-year elections.
In New York, a smattering OF
early returns gave the expected
support for a $40O.000,000 bonus
for veterans. And in New York
City, first tabulations raised an
8 to 5 edge against keeping the
present method of choosing city
councilmen.
Rain held down the balloting
in some parts of the East and
Northeast.
With the help of votes from his
home county, Judge Stehhis led
five other candidates in the bat
tie for the Bilbo Senate seat
Trailing him were U. S. Rep
resentative William M. Colmer.
Paul B. Johnson, Jr., Forrest
Jackson, U S. Representative
John E. Rankin. and the only
Republican, L. R. Collins.
I Clements Takes Lead
The Kentucky gubernatorial
scrap saw U. S. Rep. Earle c.
Clements, shove into an early
lead over Republican Eldon 5.
Dummit. The present Republican
governor, Simeon. S. Willis, is
ineligible for a second term IN
a row.
Clements increased his mar
gin as the returns came IN from
jefferson county Nouisville),
which the COP had claimed in
advance. And he even led Dunn
NIT in the latter's own county,
Fayette.
Kentucky's Republican Nation
al Committeeman Jouett Ross
See STENNIS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
BY ARTHUR EDSON
Associated Press Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. -
Yes. sir, Harry Truman has
come quite way since he was
known as the lad who could
plow one of the traightest fur
rows in Jackson county, Mo.
For instance, he's not hep to
heraldry. And that takes consl-
derable hopping.
An executive order, setting up
seal for the Department OF
the Air Force, just flew in. II
says, among other things:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 4
Spot, a little five-year-old
mongrel, has ridden his last
switch engine.
The shaggy dog was owned
by the Sloss-Sheffield Steel &
Iron Co., but he belonged to
everybody.
His main delight was in rid
ing switch engines on the for
ward foot-board at terminal
station here. Few railroad men
passed through here without
getting to know him.
Yesterday, Spot was dashing
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
The Weather

FORECAST:
South Carolina and North Carolina -
increasing cloudiness and mild Wednes-
Jay night. Scattered showers Wednes-
nay "a night beginning in Western sect!on
Wednesday afternoon. Thursday Gearing
ana slightly cooler.
meteorological data for the "a hours
ehdlhg 7:30 p. m. yesterday
TEMPERATURES
=, i3o a. m. So. 80 a. m. 54; 1:30 p. M
IVY 7:3o p. m. 63; Maximum II; Mini
mum SO; Mean g.; Normal go.
PRECIPITATION
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 p m
inches.
Total since the first of the month
"fO inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
:, Ffo mthe Tide Tables published by
u s. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
"Afnlngton -----.2:33 am. 9:5l am.
BIT pm. 1912 pm.
"eSonboro Inlet - 1894 am. GAO am.
1:07 pm. 1886 p. m.
:, eunrise 6:36; Sunset SIG; Moonrlse
= n,Izp; Moonset 1:27p.
'Ver stage at Fayetteville, N. e, at
- H. Tuesday 1877 feet.
hors WEATHER On Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
NEGRO NEGLIGENT
JURORS DECLARE
Truck Driver To Face Man.
slaughter Charge In
Highway Death

A coroner's jury in the New
Hanover Superior court room
Tuesday night found that Joseph
Mathis, Jr., came to his death as
a result of driving his automo-
bile into the rear of a truck driv-
en- by Pleas Alexander, Negro,
and stalled on highway II some
six miles north of Wilmington
early Sunday morning, Nov. 2,
and found Alexander guilty of
See NEGRO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
Sales Tax Stay
johnson Predicts
WHAT? NO BULLETS

HARLAN, KY, Nov. 4-P-
Election day in Harlan coun-
ty was once an occasion for
shooting and violence. The
only rumpus reported today,
however, was caused by a
goat that bucked two women
and a child, blocked the door
of the polling place in Tway
precinct and held up voting
for two hours until a deputy
sheriff coralled him and re-
stored order.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
Stennis Has Lead
For Bilbo Mantle
Republicans Reflect Phila.
delphia Mayor Labor
Loses Seats
BULLETIN

JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 4. -
U.D - Circuit Judge John c..
Stennis, the most conservative
candidate in field of five Demo-
Gratis, was apparently winning
the late Sen. Theodore G. Bill
bo's place in the Senate tonight
and Rep. John E. Rankin was
running fifth.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05

See SIX BILLION On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05

See NEGRO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05

See MILK On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-05
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Increasing
cloudiness and mild today and tonight:
Thursday clearing and slightly cooler.
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TOP Ten Spot News
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Twelre TOP Nazis sentenced 10 bang
at end Of NHeyabers trials.
Wallace asked to resign from cabinet,
folIowins speech on foreign policy.
Paris peace barIey meets, tyitb 81 Ha-
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President retoes new OPA; ali con-
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Nary detonates atom bomb at Bikini
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Truman asks lars to draft strikers
Baneb tells first meeting of U. n.
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Kidnab-mnrder Of Suzanne DegGap,
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enlisted men.
War department clears Carson group
of manufacturing plants in defective
shells case.
9--Maine Republicans win all major Offices
15-U. S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
reports no bank failures in 1945, first
time in rs years.
22-Henry Wallace forced 10 resign as secre-
tarY CT commerce by President, as after
math of speech favoring Russia. w.
Averell Hartman. ambassador to Great
Britain appointed successor.
30--Secy Of Agriculture Clinton Anderson
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France was sending troops to 1ndo-
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Nationalist among "a million natives
became determined upon full indepen-
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October

MARINE engineers (CIO) and masters.
all shipping.
11-Draft cancelled for rest of 1916.
14-Meat released from all controls by Pres.
idential order.
fanny announces all 1915 draftees will be
released by Jan. l.
2l-Air Line Pilots association calls strike
of 400 TlNA pilots. first of its kind; ask
top salary of SIS 900.
23-OPA lifts controls from all foods and
beverages except rice, sugar, syrup and
molaSses.
A-Cosmetics, drug sundries and many 9TH
er items decontToled
23-President names David Lilienthal to head
atomic energy commission of five men.
29-Masters and pilots END strike.
31-OPA closes SAP local price boards, as
hundreds of items are freed.
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March

5-U. S. state department protests contin-
ued Russian occupation Of Iran and seiz-
ure of booty in Manchuria
16-Situation in ManchUria extremely crit
ical," says General Marshall.
l7-Most Of Russian troops reported with.
drawn from Iran.
18-International monetary conference ends
session at Savannah, Ga, after creating
World Bank and Fund
27-Russi an Delegate Gromyko walks out of
U. N, meeting in tiff over Iranian mat
ter.
29-UN3RA officials report epidemics of
buhonic plasue smallpox and meningi.
lis in China
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Lesson for January S

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& PEACE PARLEYs

1O--Fifty Negroes injured in race riot in
Athens, Ga. Sixteen persons later in
dcted.
15-GIicro-Wave communication is demon
strated in transmission of facsimile mes.
sages between New York and Boston.
20-FBI reports Is per cent rise in crime
in first half of year, compared with first
half of 1915. greatest increase since 1880.
30-Bendix air race won by Paul Mantz.
flying 2,048 miles between Los Angeles
and Cleveland at speed OF 1855 mph
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October

l6-Catte prices on Chicago market hit rec.
ord high at S36.25 a hundred pounds
23-NeW York City school board rules there
is no regulation against recitation of the
Lords Prayer in response to protests
28-Band leader Artie Shaw and Kathleen
Winsor Herwig, author of Forever Am
ber," married in Mexico.
31-Cotton exchanges reopen after having
been closed for third time in two weeks
Prices down $50 a bale since Oct 8.
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December

III. s. and Britain merge German zones
economically,
G-"Big -Four" nations at U. N. agree on
eacc treaties for Italy Romania. Hun.
gary. Bulgaria and Finland
l0-Civil war breaks out in Iran as semi.
autonomous Azerbaijan province battles
government troops
11-Fightng RACES in northern Greece;
guerilla forces driven into Turkey by
regulars.
16-Untcd Nations assembly adjourns after
choosing New York as permanent home;
disarmament recommendations main
achievement.
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Hungary becomes republic by vote of
National Assembly.
Gu. N. shelves Greek dispute, involving
Great Britain and Russia.
9-Staln announces new fve-year plan for
USSR.
n-Jap General Homma. perpetrator of Ba-
taan death march," gentended to death
by U. S. military court
22-Argentine President Peron accuses U. S.
embassy officials of espionage.
23-Mutiny among native troops in Neither
lands Indies army assumes serious pro-
portions.
2T-Spain closes border on French side in
retaliation for similar action by France.
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November

5-"Cease.fre" order issued in Java and
Sumatra by Dutch. British and Indo.
nesians.
11-Russan ambassador to U. S. demands
that Britain give Palestine independence
or U. N. trusteeshp
l2-Churchill charges Russia is ION war
footing"
19-New members of U. N, Afghanistan, Ice.
land and Sweden, take seats.
24-French Communists make large gains
in election
27-General Macarthur freezes all assets of
Japans 10 weathiest families.
29-Russia agrees 10 u. N. inspection of
armamcnts
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November

Most powerful atom.smasher in world
l84-inch cyclotron, completed at U. of
California.
2-Cure for brucellosis in cattle may be
near in new vaccine. announces Nchi-
gan State college expert.
6-NeW operative technique disclosed to
give normal life to blue babies with
defective hearts.
12-Soap prices rise so per cent General
Motors increases prices 500.
l3-Report sharp decline in patronage Of
taverns because high cost of living alb
serbs income.
15-Raincloud turned to snow by six pounds
of dry ice pellets dropped from plane.
17-RObert Scott in broadcast over San Fran
cisco radio station eXpounds atheistic
views; station flooded with protests.
29-NeW York City license commissioner
threatens TO revoke license of any movie
theater showing THE Outlaw"
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October

2-Crash and explosion of B.29 bomber near
Battle mountain, New. kills II.
3-Overseas airlincr strikes hill near Ste
phenville, Newfoundland, killing all 80
persons aboard, in worst disaster in
commercial aviation history.
8--Airliner crashes at Cheyenne, Wyo, kill.
ing 2, injurng 10.
17-Air Transport service plane crashes near
Laramie, Wyo. killing 10.
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August

p" UnschoduIed immigration" of Jews into
Palestine halted by British.
l3-Turkish government rejects Russian pro.
posal for Joint defense of Black sea
straits
2l-U. S. demands Yugoslavia release army
hiers forced down. and satisfaction for
deaths of five others shot down on
August 10.
Riots in Calcutta India, quiet down,
leaving dea,sl toll of 5000 in Hindu,
Noslem strife.
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NAV

May
1O-Two navy bombers collide near Munson,
Fla, % die.
16-TWenty seven killed in air transport
crash near Richmond, Va.
20-Arny plane strikes New York City sky.
scraper, killing six army personnel.
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September

civilian Herens of Chicago sentenced
to three consecutive life terms for muir
der of three persons: Suzanne Degnan.
6. whose body he dismembered and hid:
Miss Frances Brown, 80, and Mrs Jose
phine Ross, 43.
8-Motion Picture association bans THE
Outlaw" Howard Hughes production.
17-Protestant Episcopal church House of
Deputies approves liberalized canons on
remarriage of divorced persons.
29-One killed, many hurt in race riot in
Philadelphia.
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September

1-Greece votes 10 per cent in favor of re.
:, turn Of monarchy. headed by George II.
ence Of U. S. Warships near Greece in.
suit TO Greek people"
l8-Civil war reported in northern Greece
24-Stalin spikes persistent rumors Of new
war threat,
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NAV

May
MAY Day parades halt work in many
S. American countries.
l9-Fightine breaks out IN Iran, with central
government troops attacking Russian
backed forces in AZerbajan province
SO-Secretary Byrnes, reporting on Paris
foreign ministers conference, indirectly
blames Russia for meager accomplish.
melts.
24-Au Russian troops Withdrawn from Iran,
say Soviet officials
3O-Arab league opposes further Jewish i'm.
migration into Palestine.
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June

III. N. security council reports Spain
potential menace TO peace" under
Franco.
14-Atomic energy commission meets for
first time. BaIuch, U. S. delegate, saws
IT is. either world peace or world de-
suuction"
l9--Russta demands destruction of all atom.
ic bombs and exchange of data
23-hunsar} moves to check terrific inAa.
ton spiral.
o0-Tluce in Nanchuria expires, fighting re.
commences.
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II. The Living Word Is q Divider
OF Men Wv. 6-13).

The darkness of sin was so deep,
and still is so deep that the glorious
light Of God is not received with
gladness, nor accepted at all We
see that in the close of verse 5.
Now the question comes, Does it
make any difference how a man
,n,rn,.1- I.,-...- Irh,,;-AO
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1-strike of 100000 soft coal miners begins.
7-Balanced budget possible this fiscal year,
declares President.
22-Army announces discharge of seven mil.
lion men since rehabilitation began
May u, 1915.
28-Army-navy munitions board plans sur.
vey of nations caverns for underground
installations in case of atomic war.
29-Farm prices hit highest level since July,
1920.