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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
CONFEREES URGED
TO STUDY PLANS
State Department Seeks
Realistic Version OF
Marshall Program

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-U.D-
Acting Secretary of State Robert
A. Lovett today urged the 16-na.
hon Paris conference on the Mar
shall plan to draw up a reason.
able and realistic program thai
can be assured Of support by this
country.
He told a news conference that
the final program would be screen
ed carefully by this government
before it is sent to Congress for
final approval.
Lovett was asked if the United
States considered "too high" I'M.
Official estimates from Paris that
ue 10 nations might ask the Unit.
"a States for as much as $50, 900,
WIWO in aid over a four-yea1
period.
Realistic Program
he replied that the program
snould be reasonable and realist'
&c and, in addition, involve a
diminishing amount of assistance,
Inc primary concern of this coun'
hy, he said, is that the program
prove workable.
Loyett confirmed that the Unit
"a states is preparing to take 8
more direct hand in the fina.
''ages Of the Paris conference.
de said three State department
experts On economics and foreign
poi'cy ure now en- route to Paris
10 outline the part this govern
ment is likely to play in the over
program. They are expected
70 go over the plan with a view
70 trimming it to Congressional
tastes.
n group is headed by Georg'
KEENAN,, Secretary of Stat
george C.. Marshall's top foreigl
Solicy adviser. Others are Charlie!
po'lestel, adviser to Lovett, ant
aafold r. Spelgel, State depart
"snI financial expert.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Special UN Palestine Group
Would Give Jews Three
Main Areas

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. II
-P)-A majority of the United Ma
tons special committee on Pales-
tine was understood today to favor
the division of the Holy Land into
Arab and Jewish states, but sharp
disagreement has developed on
the question of where to establish
the frontiers.
The disagreement was so COM
plete, it was said. that progress
on the committees report 10 U.N.
Secretary General Trygve Lie has
been delayed.
During the day two alternative
plans were presented formally to
the committee by working
groups" A majority of eight was
said to have accepted the "princi-
pie" of partition plus economic CO.
operation, but thus far had found
little other ground for agreement.
The minority group of India,
Iran and Yugoslavia, on the other
hand, was understood to be in
complete agreement On a scheme
for federation. Committee sources
said the minority was preparing
a report favoring the splitting of
Palestine into several semi-auto.
nomous "%cantons" on the Swiss
state model, uder a central gov
ernmet.
Some members of the majority
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Director Outlines
Provisions OF Act
Responsibility For Recon-
mendations Rests With
Local Board

Maurice Moore, area rent con-
troll director, said yesterday that
the responsibility for recommend
ing rent decontrol rests entirely
with the local rent advisory board
and that the city council had moth
ing whatsoever to do with it.
Moore's statement followed a
meeting yesterday of the Will
mington Real Estate board with
city council seeking to void rent
control in this area
The realtors, headed by Fred
Willetts, president Of the board.
and a member Of the local rent
advisory. committee, met with
council in an effort to have the
area decontrolled for the purpose
of relief from the new 80 1-3 tax
rate increase for the coming year.
In reviewing the rent regula-
tons and designations under the
emergency control act of 1912 and
amended on July l, 1947. Moore
PO1l1tCu Out tAAC PlOV4o4OA1o 04ANSA
which property owners could ap'
ply for rental adjustments. In part
they are:
Moore said property owners
could apply for increased rents on
a basis Of substantial hardships
from increases in property tax
where such an increase has re-
suited in a decrease in the net
income for the current year (Ae'
fore INTEREST," as compared WIZ
the average net income for atly
two consecutive years perioc
since Jan. / 1889.
The control director said, under
the new regulations, rent contro.
has been extended until February
%, 1948. He explained that some
housing accommodations have al
ready been decontrolled under the
act.
Excluded from rent control,
Sec DIRECTOR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
RANKIN PLANS RACE
FOR SENATE AT NEXT
GENERAL ELECTIONS

TUPELo, Miss. Aug. 27-R-
Representative John e. Rankin
D-Miss) said here today that he
will be a candidate for the United
States Senate in the November 4
general election to select a sue
cessor to the late Senator Theo. G.
Bilbo.
Rankin is the third candidate to
enter the race. Others who have
announced are State Supreme
Court Clerk Tom @. Ellis of Jack
son, and Circuit Judge John STEM
mis- of DeKalb.
Rankin has represented the first
Mississippi district in Congress
ince 1920. He is a former chairman
of the House Veterans Affairs COM
mittee and has long advocated
white supremacy in the South.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
MARRIAGE MILL"
ARGUMENTS HEARD
State Supreme Court Will
Rule On Validity On
September IL

RALEIGH, Aug 27-R- Argu-
ments of each side urging the val
idity Of over 1000 marriages per-
formed at South Mills by S. M.
Etheridge as justice of the peace
were heard today by the State SUI
preme court.
Opinion in the case is not sched-
uled to be given until September
II.
The test case was filed last
month in Camden Superior court
by Etheridge and Mrs. Mary Lou
Use Riddick, one Of the persons
married by Etheridge from March
10, 1915 and April 1,1947.
Defendants are Mrs. Riddicks
husband; L. S. Leary, former SUI
perior Court clerk who appointed
Etheridge as justice of the peace,
and Mrs. Annie Forbes, present
Camden Superior court clerk.
Judge Chester Morris, presiding
over the Camden court, ruled Eth
eridge. was a duly appointed and
valid Justice Of the peace, and
all marriages performed by
Etheridge were legal.
Question in the case concerns
whether Leary had the authority
to name Etheridge justice of the
peace. Leary made the appoint
ment to fill the unexpired term OF
register of Deeds ]. G. Etheridge,
father of S. M. Etheridge.
Leary, at the time, did not note
that the appointment was to fill
the unexpired term. He merely
REGISTERED it as a two-year ap-
pointment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
COURT HEARS PLEA
FOR CASE REVIEW
OF DEAD NEGRO

RALEIGH, Aug 81 -(P- The
defendant was dead, but the State
Supreme court today had before
it a petition for review Of the
case, and the court listened atten'
lively to the arguments, but final
ly decided to deny the review re-
quest.
The case was closed in june
when Woodrow Brown, Wake Ne
gro, died in Central prisons gas
chamber. Brown had ben convict
ed some months before Of cr1ml'
nally assaulting a 59-year-old Lees
vile woman.
Pending at the time he was ex
ecuted was a petition for review
of the case by the high court, bu'
the court already was in summer
recess. A writ Of certiorari does
not automatically stay an execu
ton date, but Browns attorneys
had filed the petition as a last re
sort.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
NATIONS TO SIGN
SECURITY PLEDGE
Western Hemisphere Pact
Will Be Ratified AT
Rio Wednesday

PETROPOLIs, Brazil, Aug. ~
W.H-The Inter-American confer
ence decided today that the heml-
sphere treaty pledging the Amerl-
can republics to defend a vast
pole-to-pole security zone against
all aggression will be signed IN
Rio De Janerio next Wednesday.
President Truman is to address
the final plenary session of the
conference at the l 5000, 900 Qul-
tandinha hotel here Tuesday, it
was announced, and then will 60
to Rio De Janerio to attend the
treaty signing.
The powerful steering committee
of the conference, whose word is
final. reached the decision on the
treaty signing date after the con-
ference's committee on aggression
voted unanimously to extend the
Western Hemisphere defense zone
to the South Pole.
The n will include the Antarc-
tic territory which lies South OF
South America between the 24th
and 9Oth meridians Of longitude.
Theoretically the Northern end OF
the defense zone extends TO the
North Pole and thus the defense
treaty will prescribe a defense
zone that actually extends from
Pole to Pole.
Argentina suffered a major de-
feat in the conferences committee
No. 3 when she lost a last at
tempt to word the treaty so that
signatories would not be compelled
to carry out either economic or
military penalties against an az
gressor under a two-thirds vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Authority
To Get 300 Acres
Pending Lease Paves Way
For Industrial Expan-
sion Along Cape Fear

WASHINGTON Aug. 27-P)-R.
Page, Wilmington, N. c., news
paper publisher and chairman Of
the North Carolina Ports Au-
said today tentative
agreements" were made here to-
day for the Authority to lease
parts of the North Carolina Ship
building yards at Wilmington from
the U. S. Maritime Commission.
Former Governor J. Melville
Broughton, Authority counsel, told
a reporter, 1.-The plan is to lease
Northern extension Of the yard.
This includes 100 acres Of land.
3 200 feet of waterfront, one large
prefabricated building and several
small structures"
1--WE offered to pay one dollar 4
year or a 99-year lease, but Mari
time officials said they could not
do that" Broughton said. "How-
ever, they offered a 25-year lease
with two successive options OF Is
years each which would total IS
years. e
Maritime Commission officials
said they probably will approve
State Authority use Of the property
without cost, 50 long as the Au-
thority puts net proceeds into inn
provement," Broughton said, ad-
ding: "After that, and some time
hence, there would be a small
rental fee."
Lease To Follow
He said the agreement will BE-
sent in a memorandum from Mari
time officials to the State Ports
Authority within two or three days.
After the Authority approves this,
he added, Maritime officials will
draw up a lease which likely will
be completed with signatures with
in Is days.
Broughton said the Authority
then will 60 aheal with plans for
new industries in Wilmington.
Several industries" he said
have been seeking sites which
then will be available" He de-
See PORTS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
WEAK, IRREGULAR
PRICES ON MARTS
Eastern Tobacco Prices Off
Slightly; Border Belt
Losses Noted

Prices for the third straight day
Yesterday continued weaker on the
Eastern North Carolina fue-cured
tobacco market, the Federal-State
Departments of Agriculture report
ed.
Over half Of the lug and cutter
grades averaged under the Com
modify Credit Corporation support
level, with other grades from s.
to So over the level, with most OF
the prices about 81 above this
price floor.
Compared with Tuesdays sales,
prices were off from 81 to 81 tor
leaf, cutters and orange Tugs, but
the majority Of losses remained at
about 81 per hundred pounds.
Sales volume was extremely
light throughout the belt, and the
larger markets, according to Mar
keting Service reports, sold out
their offerings within two hours.
See TOBACCO on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
mon WRINKLINC"
COTTON POSSIBLE
Dan River Mills Announces
Greatest Textile Stride
In Is Years

NEW YORK, Aug. 81 (P -
George A. Harris, president Of
Dan River Mills announced today
the development Of a new chemi-
cal process that makes cotton
goods wrinkle resistant" and
said the first garments treated
with the new finish would be on
the market by November or De-
cember.
The process renders cotton fab
RIGS equally wrinkle resistant with
worstcd and wooden goods and is
the result of four years intensive
research in collaboration with
Monsanto Chemical Co.
At a news conference at which
tested and INFESTED fabrics were
exhibited, Harris said the process
was based on Monsanto's "Res-
loom c., a secret synthetic resin
formula which previously had
been applied successfully to WOOL
en- fabrics so as to make them
washable.
"After ten washing tests, STAN
dard test for Sanfordizing goods,
the wrinkle resistant qualities OF
the treated cotton fabrics appear
ed stronger" Harris declared. He
added. that these qualities in
creased rather than diminished
with 400 and 1kse.
"This is the most important de-
velopment in the cotton industry
since the adoption Of shrnkage
control and vat dying processes
more than IS years ago." 4
spokesman said.
Treated and untreated fabrics
were wadded into tight balls for
the benefit Of newspaper and
trades paper reporters. The I'M
treated materials remained a
See COTTON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
MISS MCDOWELL
GOES TO BEIRUT
National Secretary
OF YWCA In Syria
And Lebanon

Miss Dorothea Mcdowell, exec
utive secretary Of the Young Won
ems Christian Association, was
chosen by the national YWCA
and foreign staff of the WV
CA to serve. as national secretary
of the YWCA in Syria and Leban.
on, it was announced yesterday by
Miss Mcdowell who resides al
GIL Dock street and has served al
the local "Y'' for the past two and
years, said, II am pleas
ed that I was chosen, al 1t wa
quite an honor as well as an op'
portunity to serve in a capacity
and learn a great deal"
She has been employed in the
field for the past 10 years
and has served in Raleigh, Wash
ington, D. c., Wilmington, Del,
and this city.
Miss Mcdowell will leave hel
post at the local "Y," Septembe.
is, where she will 60 to New York
and later sail for Beirut, Leban
Soc MCDOWELL On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
BRIT0NS TO WALK
AFTER OCTOBER |
Further Drastic Economic
Cuts Announced By
Labor Premier ;

LONDON, Aug. 27-W.D- Prime
Minister Clement Attlee tonight
announced severe food ration cuts,
suspension Of all foreign pleasure
travel and abolition Of gasoline
sales for pleasure cars as part OF
a grim master plan totaling the
price the British people must pay
for economic survival.
Foreign travel and motoring
were reduced again to the war
time level and hundreds of thou
sands of Britons will be forced to
lay up their cars after Oct. l. The
weekly meat ration was cut from
one shilling two pence (23 cents)
to one shilling GO cents).
The governments master plan
to save Britain from national bank
ruptcy was made public at No. II
Downing street, the prime minis
ter's residence. 1t announced new
deprivations and limited that worse
ones may be coming before the
nation regains it's economic feet.
Only part Of the food ration cuts
See RRTTONS On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Veto Battle
Hits Council
Cromyko Warns Attempts
To Tamper With Vote
May Wreck UN

,ayE SUCCESS. N. Y, Aug.
o., alg-Russia warned bluntly to.
fi.h+ that "hot-headed" attempt!
nsamper with the Big Five veto
w could wreck the United Ma
tons. ru~ m;.,L.
,ndrei Gromyko delivered the
n-arnjng in the UN Security coun-
.1 ,s sn1all-nation delegates re-
.awcd their assault on the big
no~er voting privilege and the
Trrited States dashed out at Rus.
,ia's frequent use of that priv
lege.
Some hot heads have tried to
..riya at a modification Or liqui-
sstion Of the veto," Gromyko de-
o1,red These attempts will con-
Inn. but they shall not prevail if
W. ,N want to continue the United
Nations and want to preserve the
Irnitpd Nations organization ard
work. for continuance and
Strengthening of the organization
within its framework"
With the big powers ready to
asht together against any real at
tsmpf at altering the UN char
ter's veto provision, the council
nroduced a preview Of the FULL
blown veto debate slated to ex-
Tlode next month in the 55-na-
tion I'm General assembly.
Many Developments
Tho fight began with these de-
velopments:
l. Council President Faris Ell
Kbouri Of Syria said that if the
council thought it could do any
thing about the veto issue, it
might suggest that the Big Five
renounce their special voting priv
ilese in everything but actual cas-
es involving threats to peace.
breaches of peace or acts of ag-
erosion.
:. Deputy American Delegate
Herschel V. Johnson, while fatty
opposing any alteration of the
veto, accused Russia of "dashing
hopes" that the big powers would
refrain from using the veto to i'm
pede the work Of the council.
3. johnson then introduced a Sc
ries Of Is American proposals for
clarifying Security council proce-
dures and eliminating various pro-
cedural operations from the range
Of the veto power.
4. Gromyko scoffed at the Syri-
an suggestion, branded the Amer
lean proposals as ar apparent at
tempt to tamper with the veto and
advised the Security council to
do nothing about the veto ques-
ton.
Hodgson Fights
8. Australia's William r. Hodg-
son, a leader in the ever-present
fight Of small countries against
the special power Of the big cour-
tries, said the big powers must
ut least get together on ways to
See VETO On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
tentative Terms Reached On Shipyard Lease;
City Has No Decontrol Power, Moore Says;
CoalitiES$$s Government For Greece Now Looms
Tsaldaris Re- ~s%
To Give Up Post
Athens Political Observers
See Neutral Premier
AS Possibility

ATHENS, Greece, Thursday,
Aug. % -Pe Premier-designate
Constantin Tsaldaris announced to-
day he would meet with political
leaders who participated in the
recently-resigned cabinet of De-
metelos Maximos to examine the
possibility of forming a coalition
government for Greece.
. Observers interpreted Tsaldaris'
statement as meaning he had ac-
copied the principle that a neutral
premier would have to be named
to organize such a coalition. Six
Greek political leaders earlier had
gone before King Paul and pro-
posed the selection of a neutral to
break Greece's paralyzing govern
mental deadlock.
Support for Tsaldaris' efforts to
form a strictly Rightist govern
ment withered sharply yesterday.
Observers pointed out that seri-
GUS difficulties may arise later
today when party leaders meet
with Tsaldaris and begin discuss
ing the ALLEGATIONS of ministries
for a new cabinet.
Gen. Napoleon Zervas. minister
of public order in the Maximos
cabinet, has stuck with Tsaldaris
during the crisis and is likely to
be advanced by the premier-desig-
nate as a nominee for the new
government. This is expected to
be unacceptable to the leaders
Of other parties. The Maximos
cabinet collapsed because Of an
internal dispute partly ~centering
on Zervas' ministry.
? Work Long Hours
Greek political leaders have
worked long hours to resolve the
present crisis.
While they wrangled and ma
neuvered, the Communist : led
guerrilla radio in a broadcast de-
clared democratic army" bands
in the North had liberated 100
villages" and occupied more than
so square miles of territory in
Epirus, Macedonia and Thessaly
in the last five days. The guer-
rilla operations conferred on mounts
Grambala, northeast Of 1oannia;
Tzoumerkas, southeast of Joanna
in the Southern Pindus range, and
Agrafa.
Tsaldaris who earlier in the
fourth day of the crisis had an
nounced his determination to &C
ahead with formation of a govern
ment Of his own choosing after
failure to draw in Centrist leaders
. See TSALDARIS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Foreign Relations Group
Unleashes Blast AT
Russia In Report

NEW YORK, Aug. 27-UY-Rol-
licking L~egionnaires filling New
York almost to bursting on the
eve of their 29th national conven-
ton, received a grim warning to-
day that "the greatest menace in
the field of international relations
facing America is the aggressive
spread of Communism fostered
and promoted by a powerful to-
talitarian state"
The blast against Russia wa in
the form Of a formal report Of the
.Legion's foreign relations commit
tee to the national executive COM
mittee. It termed the Marshall
plan Of vital concern to every
See DICTIONARIES On Pare 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28

SUvA, Fiji Islands, Aug. 27-U'D
- Trade unionism has broken out
among coconut-nickers in the
Solomon Islands and 1000 natives
have gone on a sitdown, strike
for a 1000 per cent wage increase
and a European diet, reports from
the former South Sea Island para
disc said today.
Accounts reaching Suva said the
strikers have formed a sort of
jungle trade union called the
Marching Rule" on the Island of
Malaita, 80 miles east of Guadal-
canal. and are getting ready to
present their demands to the Brit
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
In Bubble Bath
Proves Modest Wee Girl

appointed time in the presence of
cheesecake-wise news photograph
ers and writer's. Little Miss Mary
Kelly soaked a w~ell-tanned torso
in a tub of foam while comedies
firm salesman Tom Carney, of
New York, gave out with the pub
licity on his product.
"This is the first postwar dis
play of the bubble BATH" Carney
began.
The salesman's chatter faded as
the reporter watched the curva-
cious ash-blonde oblige the cam
eramen. They asked her to whip
See BEAUTY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
COcOnut-NickerS
Stage Sit Down Strike

ish administration based at
Guadalcanal.
According to an American air
man who landed on Malaieta re-
Gently, the natives have been drill
ing with spears and blowpipes and
putting up a military front as a
means Of enforcing their demands.
John F. Nicol, acting British
commissioner in the Western Pa
cific, denied reports that the ma
tives had declared war on the Brit
ish and were preparing to invade
Guadalcanal. but he admitted there
are serious signs of open disturb
See UNION On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
LegiOnnaireS Voice
Fear OfC0mmunism
HOT RUSTLERS

SANTE FEE, N. NJ, Aug. 81
R-Chili rustlers appeared in
Northern New Mexico noun
tains last night.
State police reported three
men with q dump truck raided
the farm Of Florentino Gallegos
in Rio Arriba county, and
made off with a quarter acre Of
peppers-the stuff that makes
Chill Con Carne SO hot
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
Committee Majority
For HolyLand Split
TRAFFIC HAZARD

Hampstead N. Y, Aug. n
--(P)-The town board of Hemp
stead today passed an ordinance
requiring riding horses to have
a headlight visible 500 feet and
a tail light visible zoo feet when
taken for a canter at night.
The board said an unlit horse
may mean a 500 fine or six
months Jail term for Dobbin's
owner.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
By HARRY CONN
81 Droe~ Staff CnrreSnOndent

United Press Staff correspondence
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27-UD-
The voice on the other end OF the
telephone said:
"a girls going to take a bubble
bath in room 756 of the Benjamin
Franklin Hotel at 2 pm. You're
invited"
The reporter in charge OF
shapely figures gulped twice.
mumbled ''thanks," and sprlnted
out the Office door. He headed
straight for the hotel where the
Philadelphia cosmetics snow is IN
progress.
The bubble exhibit began at the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28
The Weather

FORECAST:
pert1"h carolina and North Carolina -
F. cloudy and continued warm
sto s ga and Friday; thundershowers in
Nai'ernoon and early evening.
,ndiss chronological data Tor the "a hours
s Io0 p. m. yesterday.
la, TEMPERATURES
d m. Is; 1880 a. m. IS; 1880 p. m.
mr., ''oO p. m. IS; Maximum 81. Mini
~ Is; Mean 80; Normal rs.
,. HUMIDITY.
=, m. "a; 1880 a. m. 90; 1880 p. m.
- ';3o p. m. SO.
PRECIPITATION
az S0tsl for "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
rotal since the first of the month
TIDES FOR TODAY
rom the Tide Tables published by U.
~oast and Geodetic Survey.
VIII HIGH Low
"lston ------- 7:16 am. 2:12 am.
M.. 7:48 PM. 2:19 pm.
hDoro Inlet 500 am. II III am
Gu 5:46 pm. - pm,
55S7aarise SAB; Sunset 6:44; Moonrise
'E'p, Moonset 2:3aa.
More WEATHER On Pare Two
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See o r On Page Two
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See COMMITTEE On Page Two
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See DICTIONARIES On Page 2
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See MCDOWELL On Page Two
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FORECAST.

Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and continued warm today and Friday
witt thundershowers in late afternoon
and early evening.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-28

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