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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-16

NEW YORK, March 15.-R-
The AFL United Financial En-
ployes said today 30-day notices of
contract termination would be
sent to the New York stock, curb
and cotton exchanges as the pre-
liminary move to a strike by 5000
union members which would
"paralyze" the financial districts
busy trade marts.
M. David Keefe, president of the
union, announced the decision aft
er a conference with Emil Schram,
president of the New York Stock
Exchange.
1--WE expect that the resulting
strike will paralyze the industry"
Keefe said.
The threatened strike is an out
growth of a dispute between the
union and a Wall Street broke
age firm, A. M. Kidder and Com
pany.
Union Spokesman announced last
night it's members had voted l.444
to ia to cancel contracts with ths
three exchanges.
Schram said after his conference
with Keefe that "the union wanted
me to bring pressure" on the Kid,
der Company to effect a settle
ment.
"The New York stock exchange
has no authority to do that
Schram said. II cannot force :
firm to agree to terms. I cannot
dictate. Maybe the terms would
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Cuts Bulgaria
Commercial Relations

PARIS, March Is () France
severed commercial relations with
Bulgaria today in the most serious
breach with another power since
the liberation and gave two Bull
garian newspapermen 48 hours no
tice to leave the country. ..
The action was taken in retalia-
ton for the expulsion of a woman
reporter for the French press
agency in Sofia, after incidents
stemming from the recent action
OF the Bulgarian government in re-
converting its currency.
Two newsmen expelled were
Amy Bakalov, chief of a Bulgarian
bureau of information here and cor
respondent for two Sofia weeklies.
and Lovan Strelkov, correspondent
for a Sofia daily newspaper.
In addition, the French cancelled
special privileges granted to all
foreign journalists for eight other
Bulgarian newspapermen. They
will be permitted to file stories to
their newspapers, however.
A French foreign office spokes.
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man said that the French had ask
ed for an explanation when Nine.
Mike Genadiev Boeuf, the French
agency reporter, was expelled from
Bulgaria.
The spokesman said the French
had received no official reply but
"a sort of diplomatic answer"
which accused the reporter Of mix
ing in Bulgarian internal affairs
and at the same time raised the
question of the amount of money
held by the French when the Bull
'garian government ordered all its
currency turned in.
1.-The Bulgarian note said the
French had 106, 900, 900 leva in Sofia
but the United States legation had
only IS. 000, 900 and the British only
25. 900, 0O0," the spokesman added
This is easily explained by the
fact that the French have a mum
Der of cultural, religious and edu
cational missions in Bulgaria re
quiring extra money"
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WSCS TO MEET
in WILMINGTON
Seventh Annual State Con.
ference To Be Held In City
For Three Days

Conference and district officers,
zone leaders and representatives
of $40 local Woman's Societies of
Christian Service and GA Wesleyan
Service Guilds, with a combined
total membership of 1900 women,
will gather at the Grace Methodist
church in Wilmington Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday for the
seventh annual meeting of the
North Carolina Conference WSCS.
Presiding at the sessions will
be Mrs. Quincy P. Hood, of Raj
eigh, president of the conference,
which is composed of local societ-
les in the eastern half of the state.
A meeting of conference execu-
tive committee, district presidents
and zone leaders at 11:30 Wednes-
day morning will precede the
opening session at 2:30 p. m. The
Wednesday night meeting will
feature an address by Dr.. Gloria
Wysner, of the Foreign Missions
conference, New York, and a 81
lent communion service at which
time free will offerings will be
made for the children of Poland.
Miss Bette Birmingham of New
York, editor of The Methodist
Woman, will deliver an address at
the Thursday morning program.
DR.. Wysner will speak again at
the afternoon service, while Look
ing Ahead in Home Missions will
be the subject of Miss Drifting
hams address that night
The meeting will be conclrded
Friday morning after Miss Brit
tingham speaks with a meditation
conducted by Miss Lucy Steele,
professor of Bible at Peace COL
lege.
Other persons who will have
part in the conference program
include Mrs. B. B. Slaughter,
secretary of Spiritual Life in N.
C. conference; Mrs. James c.
Murdoch; Mrs. Kenneth Davis;
Mrs. J. Frank Collier, president OF
the Grace Methodist church's
WSCS; Mrs. Darden Eure, More
head City; Mrs. S. S. Holt, record
ing secretary, Graham; Mrs. H.
I. Glass, vice-president, Kinston;
Mrs. w. P. Moore, secretary OF
Student Work, Greenville; Mrs. H.
o. Lineberger, secretary of Pro-
motion, Raleigh; Mrs. A. H. Bor-
land, Durham; Mrs. C. V. Cross,
Gates; Mrs. H. l.. Mcleod,
Johns; Mrs. R.. L. Cox, Mount
Olive; Mrs. H. A. Davis, Raleigh;
Mrs. Fred L. Johnson, Conway;
Mrs. ]. T. D%oughtie, Clinton; DR..
John c. Glenn, Wilmington; Mrs.
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usual place in the wholesale price
structure and therefore highly
likely to decline:
Food, cotton goods, shoes, lum-
Der, paint, drugs, leather, fats and
oils.
Small declines, if any, are fore
seen this year for automobiles,
consumer durable goods general
ly, woolens and worsteds, furni-
ture and house furnishings, iron
and steel products, paper, pulp,
grains and livestock. -
The report is an item-by-item
study of the 675 products which
make - the governments whole
sale price index. Prepared by
Louis j. Paradise, chief Of the
business structure division. and
Lois H. Rodriguez, economist. it
will appear in the March issue Of
the monthly Survey Of current
business" to be published in early
April.
Profits can be maintained at 4
good level, the report holds, de-
spite the prospective decline in
prices. This will be true even in
the "soft" lines like food and
clothing, which will see a decline
in demand as bigger supplies Of
hard goods" take an increasing
share of the consumers dollar.
THE fact that many Of these
commodities-notably those in the
farm category-are yielding I'm
usually large margins means that
there is leeway for adjustments
without destroying the profitable
ty of the trade" the study says.
Furthermore, we may expect
improvement in the efficiency q
production and distribution as out
put in some industries is better.
organized on a high and substance
ievel-an improvement that -
viously should be shared with tho
consumer in terms q reduces
prices" =
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6,775 Register
For Levy Election

Addison Hewlett, chairman of the
board of New Hanover county COM
missioners, announced that 1897
voters had registered for the bond
issue to build a tuberculosis sana-
torium here and 1878 have regis
tered for the Junior College bond
issue when registration closed
yesterday at $40 p. M. shutdown.
Before yesterday, registration
was exceedingly light, but approx
mately 1900 signed up before the
deadline to vote, Tuesday, March
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PRESIDENT MAY
EXTEND VACATION
Truman Apparently Is En-
couraged Over Reports
On Foreign Crisis

KEY WEST, Fla, March 15.-P
President Truman, apparently
encouraged by reports received
from Secretary of State George C
Marshall. may prolong his vaca
ton here until Wednesday.
The President it was learned or
highest authority, received two de
coded messages during the day
from his top-ranking cabinet of
licer at Moscow.
It also was made known by Gem.
petent, but unquotable sources. tina
General Marshall was fully ad'
vised in advance of Mr.. Humans
message to Congress Wednesday.
In this speech, the President, ad'
~vocating financial; economic anc
other aid to Greece and Turkey
challenged the onward world march
Of communism and pledged United
States support to all ''free peoples
resisting totalitarian aggression.
1t may be said rear O
official contradiction that Genera.
Marshall was fully informed in ad
vance of the contents of thai
speech. which the President de-
livered in person. before flying
here Wednesday afternoon.
While Marshall, now attending
the four-power foreign ministers
conference in Moscow, has not beer
in telephone communication with
President Truman since the speech
Mr.. Truman is getting regular re
ports from the secretary. These
are sent to the State Department
and decided there, for transmits
sion to the President at this sub.
marine base here.
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SECOND DEGREE
MURDER CHARGED
1urv Returns Early Yer.
dict; Judge Gives Maxi
mum Sentence

c,,v Ganev was sentenced to sc
noors in the state penitentiary, the
ovimum sentence for murder in
.,o second degree, after a 12-mar
;,rv arrived at that verdict follow
;oa q elaboration of a little more
+h9n two hours yesterday after
noon.
Ganey had been charged by the
st.+e with the first degree Staying
If Frank Henderson, "a, of Jack
sonville. N. c., at a Seagate filling
station October 20, but on the
torrth day of the trial the jury
voted that he was guilty of murder
in the second degree.
The jury filed out of the court
room at 1903 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, and taking a recess for
lnch. returned its verdict shortly
after 4 p. m.
In sentencing Ganey, Judge
Clawson L. Williams imposed the
maximum sentence under tn e
second degree charge for which the
minimum is two years.
Murder in the first degree was
the verdict asked by District Soil
citor Clifton Moore in his final
argument in the crowded court
room yesterday morning. Moore
told the jury that it was facing a
crossroads. and that at this inter-
section there were four possible
ways to choose.
The roads" Moore said. "are
first degree murder, second degree
murder, manslaughter and not
guilty. At the end of one road is
truth and justice. The state con-
tends that this man is guilty of
murder in the first degree"
Moore explained at length the
definition of first degree murder
which states that there must be
malice, generalization and deliber-
alton.
In a summary of the case as pre-
sented during the previous two
days hearings, Moore attempted
to break down the arguments OF
the defense.
In unfolding his argument for
the first degree verdict, Moore
used as an illustration of ''pre-
meditation the testimony of the
arresting officers. Deputy Sheriff
Ernest Priest said that shortly aft
er the shooting Ganey said to him
If this had been last night it
would have happened in Onslow
county"
The solicitor also reviewed the
grounds for second degree murder
which is malice and use of a
deadly weapon. Moore said that
Aaron Goldberg, the defense at
torney, used a story about self
defense which was actually man
slaughter. Moore explained that
statement by defining manslaugh-
ter as killing in the heat of pas
SION
He repeated Ganey's own testi-
mony regarding the shooting.
Where's my girl?" Ganey said.
he asked Henderson just after the
G-year-old man had driven up in
front Of his station.
y don't know, l haven't seen
her," was Henderson's reply ac-
cording tothe defendants version.
You're a d liar Ganey said
Confined ou Pa ge Two. Col. "
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The dead are:
Banks H. Funderburk, Oil dis
tributor, of Fayetteville and Char
lotte.
johnson A. Keesler, of Charlotte.
Oscar T. Sewell, party boat
operator of Swansboro.
According to the coroner, the
three men were found by two fish
ermen after the craft, a yacht the
Roseland II. had nosed into the
bank of the waterway with the mo
tor running.
The cabin was filled with smoke
and artificial desperation was
given the men for two hours, the
coroner said.
He judged the death Of he men
came between 7 and 8 a. m.
A shrimper, of Calbash, S. c.,
said the motor was running and a
stove burning when he boarded
the craft. Funderburk was report
ed lying in his bung as was Kee-
sler.
Captain Sewell was lying over
the steering wheel, it was learned.
Ralph Riggs, operator Of the
Wrightsville Terminal, from which
place the craft left Friday morn
ing at II o'clock, said that Fun
derburg was the owner of the craft.
Riggs, who will return the craft
to Wrightsville Beach. said he had
talked to the South c a r ] i n a
shrimper and that he had said
the cabin was ''blacked OUT when
he tried to enter and that ne was
forced to wait for the smoke to-
clear" before he could give as
sistance to the men.
The terminal operator quoted
the shrimper as saying that a rub
her hose connection line on the ex-
hsust was broken. He also told
Riggs, it was learned, that he
thought Sewell was breathing and
tried artificial respiration Tor two
hours.
Riggs said that the crafts log
showed an 8 a. m. entry in Fun.
derburk's handwriting, the last
such entry.
A waterside gasoline station here
reported that the boat had refIel-
noco T,,o Co1 ~
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EXPLOSION RIPS
YACHT MAYFL0WER
One Sailor Dies As Former
Presidential Pleasure
Craft Explodes

CEDAR POINT, Md, March Is.
-P)-Scarred by fire for the third
time in her 50-year colorful his
tory, the former presidential yacht
Mayflower lay at anchor tonight
in Chesapeake Bay awaiting re-
pairs before being towed back to
Baltimore.
The Coast Guard reported lack
of steam aboard the once sleek
vessel prevented hosting of the
anchor. A tug brought parts to
the stricken ship preparatory to
bringing it back to Baltimore.
The former presidential yacht
Mayflower, which burst o
flames late Friday night killing
one crewman, laid up in Whining
ton for two years prior to the
outbreak of World War II.
The dead man was identified as
Robert T%elloquin, a Canadian
seaman.
Liz dylioWC "oo
destruction by a nervy crew OF
Navy fire-fighters, and the yacht
was being towed back to Baltimore
last night.
While locked here at the Broad
foot Iron Works pier, the May
flower had a great amount of re-
pair work done on her. and then
put to sea in service of the United
States.
Prior to her arrival in Whining
ton the Mayflower had been ra-
vaged by flames in Philadelphia,
while the craft was the presi-
dental yacht of Herbert Hoover,
Calvin Coolidge sailed on the May
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Possibility :
OF Another
War Cited
Senator Seeks Official Size.
Up On Whether Reds
May Declare War
NEW LOANS SEEN
Hungary, Four Middle East
States, Expected To
Ask American Aid
BY JACK BELT,

WASHINGTON, March 15-(Pe
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) called to-
day for an official size-up on
whether Russia may declare war
ii the United States gives H.
nanc1al and military aid to Greece
and Turkey.
i want to know what our ton
military people think of the pos
slolllty that Russia will 60 to war
II we carry out this program
ne said. 'just as we might be
prompted to go to war if Russia
tried to force a communist gov
eminent on Cuba"
He raised the question amid
these fresh developments:
l. President Truman made pub
lie messages of thanks from
spokesman for all Greek parties
except the communists. The
President said they show that all
will cooperate unreservedly with
the United States government in
its desire to assist Greece" and
that they pledge the aid will be-
devoted to constructive rehabili-
tation and the cause OF peace and
freedom"
z. Key congressman predicted
that Hungary and four Middle
East states-Iran, Syria. Lebanon
and Palestine--may seek Ameri-
can aid under the administration
program OF curling the advance
of communism These legislators
estimated the ultimate cost Of the
program may top $1,000, 900, GOO.
3. Willard Thorp, assistant
Secretary of State, declared that
the United States is underwriting
Greece because its people are
democratic but that this country's
responsibility will cease if they
take some other line"
Mr.. Truman has asked $400, O00,-
900 for Greece and Turkey sthis
year. In reaching the 81, ZOO, 00o,-
900 estimate, the Congressman
counted in $3.50, 900, 900 already re-
quested for relief in liberated
countries and the sums budgeted
FOR relief in occupied lands, ~
re1l as an undetermined amount
f expected new requests.
The messages from the Greek
leaders, were released by the
White House along with a state
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>lnch Push
To End
Threat
Marshall Says Measure
Strikes AT Heart OF The
German Problem
RUSSIAN OPPOSES
Soviets Claim Proposal
Would Pave The Way
For LIBERALIZATION
BY IVES

MOSCOW, March Is - (ES -
France proposed tonight a start
ling modern day exodus of Ger
mans from their defeated father
land in order to lower the Ger
man war potential, and Secretary
Marshall said the plan struck al
the heart of the German problem.
Foreign Minister Georges Bidauit
told the Foreign Ministers Council
that the Allies should undertake
an organized reduction of tn e
population through emigration
from a thickly-settled reich and
said France was prepared to take
the revolutionary step of absorb
ing Germans into her own popula-
ton.
Veteran Moscow observers ex-
pected that Marshall and the other
foreign ministers would be call
ed to the Kremlin shortly to see
Prime Minister Stain. These re-
ports conceded with word that re.
publican Senators in the United
States were urging that Marshall
explain Americas policies in the
Mediterranean to the Soviet lead
er.
Russia struck the first blow
against plans of the western allies
for = '.federalized' Germany with
criticism of western land reor-
ganization policies which the Rus
slams viewed as paving the way for
liberalization.
At the opening of today's meet
ing. the longest conference, Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Bevin reprl
manded Deputy Soviet Minister
Andrea Vishinsky for his insistence
that Albanian be permitted to par
ticipate in drawing up OF the Ger
man peace pact.
Earlier Vishinsky had deadlock
ed the Deputy Foreign Ministers
by demanding that the question
be tossed into the laps of the MN
listers. Bevin said he thought IL
was entirely improper for n
deputy to break up the work Oh
the three others "just because ne
did not get his way on one point
Bidault made his sweeping pro
posal for Germany by explain
inc that with the return OF eS-
peIlees from former parts of the
Reich Germany would have d
density of population of 1876 per
square kilometer to IS per square
kilometer for France and 62 TOT
Poland. He said this would be ~
more per square kilometer than
when Adolf Hitler raised MS cry
for Giving space"
This overpopulation, he contend
ed, was laying the seeds OF a e
war and giving the Germans the
strength to conduct it.
Marshall declared that Bldaults
proposals, which included three
other points, had gone to the heart
of the matter in a very reallstlc
fashion. The Frenchman's other
points were:
l.. No new transfer Of German
minorities from other countries
into Germany would be permitted.
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Honors
Onslow County Today

Onslow county will be honored
today by the Star-Newsreel broad
cast over WMFD at 1:30 p. m. The
program, written and directed by
Ben Mcdonald, Star-News Round
the Town Reporter" is a continual
ton of salutes to southeastern
North Carolina counties.
On the program from Jackson
vile will be a representative OF
the mayor, Ramon Askuw; Miss
Barbara Bird, student of Miss
Helen McGraw's school of music
and. Charles c. Clark, Miss Helen
Henderson, Parson Brown, D. G..
Trip and Lester Gould, manager
of WING,
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The forecast is made in a eau
tious report on commodity prices,
soon to be published. On the basis
of the official report, commerce
department economists gave these
unofficial conclusions today in in
terviews:
1. The downtrend will be mild,
not approaching the depth of a
true recession"
2. 1t will start around midyear
with drops in a few lines, then
gain speed as more items come
into a balance with demand.
8. 1t will be uneven. Some prices
may still be rising while those
fartherest out of line come down.
The study lists these items as
priced "far in excess" of their
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oCdCCS.
Spokesman for both countries
contend they must have immediate
assistance if they are to remain
bulwarks in the Mediterranean
against the spread of communism.
In a message to President Tru-
man, Greek Premier Maximos
thanked him for asking Congress to
aid Greece and declared that
Greece is NOW facing a subversive
movement of a military minority
. hich is supported from abroad and
is seeking TO impose its will upon
the majority of the people by force
A government spokesman in
Istanbul said that a. weak Turk
ey could invite trouble and added
lit would be more farsighted and
much less costly in the long run
to help her today than have to try
to rescue her on some later day."
Ihls is the situation as Congress
prepares to act on President Tru-
mans proposals to aid Greece and
Turkey:
Greece is a sick country. torn by
civil strife. unable TO rebuild and
become a self-supporting nation.
Her leaders say she cannot survive
as a democracy unless she has out
side aid Immediately.
Turkey, afraid of possible Rus
sian expansion southwark, is spend
ing more than 60 per cent Of her
national income to maintain her
armed forces on a wartime foot
ing. This output has drained her
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tainty that if Stain starts on the
kInof - Dr.5.Lz. v

tainty that if Stain starts on the
.bject Of President Truman he
yill say plenty. But Secretary
Marshall, it is known. can be blunt,
too, and such a meeting may turn
into a lively evening.
Pravda made an apparent refer.
ence to Marshall when it said ''the
leaders of American policy could
do worse than ponder over the fact
that under contemporary condj:
tons attempts to realize any plans
for world domination are inevitably
doomed to failure"
1t was evident that the Russions
believed that the secretary of state
helped formulate the Truman
policy, and there were many OBJ.
servers here who believed that
Marshall's definition of American
democracy, which was laid before
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With a view OF expanding the
community fruit and vegetable
market, which last year crossed
1894, 900 in the sale of over half
a million packages. the Jaycees
are planning a wide program for
improving a r k e i n g con-
ditions. H. H. Hubbard, city at
torney, told the Star-News.
A delegation from here will
travel to Florida shortly to obtain
a professional manager for the
market. The members will confer
with William l.. Wilson, State
Director of Markets.
The n e market building will
be located on the new truck lane,
at the intersection of the old
Wilmington road and the old War
saw road. Until tn e building is
completed, the market will be
operated in one of the local
tobacco warehouses.
Another feature will be the
sponsorship by the Jayces Of an
educational program for the
farmers to encourage better pack
aging. I'VE know that much
money is being lost now
Hubbard said "because fruits
and vegetables are poorly packed
and subject to excess deterio'
ration"
In general we hope to increase
sales by attracting more buyers
and sellers with better marketing
conditions n facilities,' Hub
bard said.
The committee which will be IL
charge Of the market manage,
ment will include Cary Robinson
Marshal Williams, Everett Feter
son, T.. S. Cornwall and B. W
Carter.
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United Nations.
Echoing the same arguments
those advanced yesterday
1zvestla, the government newspae.
but even sharper in some of it.
conclusions, Pravda declared the
proposed economic and military aid
to Greece and Turkey was i'm
p%erialist expansion under the guiss
of charity"
Now that the two chief newspap-
ers in Soviet Russia have dashed
out in two-column long editorials.
it remained for official Soviet
leaders to give their reaction. None
has yet said a public word.
But it was expected that Joseph
Stain would receive United States
Secretary of State George c..
Marshall any time now, and that
when he did he would speak his
mind with utter frankness.
1t could be stated with some