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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10
City Briefs

Lieut.. Robert Grissom, of the
North Carolina State Guard will
be guest speaker at the regular
meeting of the Wilmington
Civitan club at noon today at
the Crystal. President John Fox
will present a report to the
membership at the meeting.
Wilmington oil dealers said
Yesterday that despite increasing
difficulty in obtaining fuel oil,
enough of the product would be
available to last through the
winter here.
Col. o. K. Presley, director OF
the Sixth Naval District, said last
night that 1t. G.. W. Lewis. Will
mington, is serving as the Volun-
teer Marine Corps recruiting OF
ficer.
New streamliped train service
will begin with the new winter
schedule of the Seaboard Air Line
railroad, with connections on a
,north-ssuth route made at HAM
let, for Wilmington.
Ralph E. Moore, city police
man who acted as decoy for
the capture of the "Catman," !"
alias Corden Williams, last Sat-
urday night, swore out the first
warrant yesterday against the
Negro. He charged him with as
sault and robbery.
The initial December meeting
of the city council will be held
at 2:30 p. m. today instead of 10
a. m. due to a conflict with ar
rangements for officially open
ing the Freedom Train at the
morning hour.
The O'Keefe Mems Bible class
of the Trinity Methodist churcn
will hold their regular business
and social meeting Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock at the home
of H. A. Marks, 108 Mimosa
place.
T-5 Coy Etheridge, 'Jr., who is
with the 82nd Airborne troops
stationed at the Quartermaster
depot at Charlotte, is visiting
his family here.
Three Eastern North Carolina
men enlisted in the U. S. Coast
Guard yesterday for four years
service. They are: Floyd Willie
Stewart, Chadbourn; Harry
Henry Higgins, Wrightsville
Sound; and William Henry San
ders, Rocky Mount.
No damage was caused last
night to the A, D, and c Lum-
Der Co., at Hilton, after a kiln
caught fire from spark of the
company's smoke stack, accord
ing to w. r. Allen, owner. The
fire was Immediately extinguish-
ed by the city fire department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10
MRS. ELIZA ANDERSON
HARRISS

Mrs. Eliza A. Harriss, 81 wife
of the late Thomas Brown Har-
ris, died in Hendersonville, Mon
day night after a long illness.
She is survived by one son,
James w. Harriss Of California; !;
two grandchildren, Robert c.
Harriss and Mrs. j. w. Corners,
both of Orange, N. j.; a sister,
in-law, Mrs. William L. Harlowe
of this city; several neices and
nephews.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Ward Funer-
al Home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10
ARTHUS JOHN CHAPMAN

Arthur John Chapman, Will
mington and Fort Lauderdale Fla.
died Saturday at noon in BroWard
General 'lospital in Fort Laud-
erdale, after a long illness. He
was 30 years old Dec. 3.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Kate Roach Chapman and seven
stepchildren: R. ]. Roach of
Washington, D. c., Miss Elizabeth
Roach of Rale gh, Mrs. D. A,
Meier, Mrs. H. N. Lucas, and
D. C. Roach of Wilmington and
Mrs. Glenn West and Mrs. Paul
MonsaIvatge, Jr., of Key West.
Graveside services will be held
here Wednesday morning at II
o'clock in Bellevue cemetery
with the Rev. Harvey Glazier,
rector of the Church of Good
Sheppard officiating.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10

Commercial scale production
of dry ice, or solid carbon di-
oxide, began in 1925.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10
MRS. r. E. ROUSE

Requiem mass will be held for
Mrs. R. E. Rouse, who died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
c. E. Craig, 312 Greenfield
street Monday morning following
a lengthy illness, from St. Mary's
Catholic church Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock, interment
under the direction of Andrews
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-10
Trucking Firm Seeks
Transport Petroleum
Products From Here

RALEIGH, Dec. . W'D-The
State Utilities commission tomor-
row will hear an application by
a trucking company seeking to
transport petroleum products to
North Carolina points.
Newman Brothers Trucking
Co. seeks authority for bulk hauls
from Wilmington to Leaksvllle
and Elkin and from Greensboro
to Henderson, Leaksville and
Stoneville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
CURFEW EXTENDED
in TEL AVN AREA
Yemenite Jews Stab Arab
10 Death; Other Incl
dents Reported

JERUSALEM, Palestine, Aug.
II - U.H "A gang of Yemenite
Jews seized an Arab today while
he was drinking coffee in a Tel
Aviv restaurant, dragged him in.
to an alley and stabbed him TO
death.
The killing was the first in the
last % hours of the Arab-JeWish
feud, now in eighth day. Several
other incidents were reported earl
Ter today, but they were minor.
The Arab was drinking coffee
in a place on Allenby street at the
outskirts of Tel Aviv. when the
Jews came in and grabbed him.
Passersby tried to intervene, but
the Jews pushed them off. The
Arab, who was about IS and dres-
ed in western-style clothes, was
not identified. A British patrol
picked up the body and took it to
Arab Jaffa.
The curfeW in the troubled bor-
der district between Tel Aviv and
Jaffa was extended tonight to CO.
yer the area where the Arab was
killed.
In earlier incidents, Isaac Sab
See CURFEW on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
PRESS CAMERAMEN
VIE FOR H0N0RS
Mass OF Lensmen Click
Shutters AT Miss North
Carolina

WRIGHTSvILLE, BEACH, Aug
II. - A solid mass of cameras
manned by members Of the Caro-
linas Press Photographers associa.
ton joined North Carolina Jaycees
in honoring Miss Vivian White Of
Fayetteville as Miss North Carolina
here yesterday and today.
More press photographers were
gathered together for the photo
graphing of the newly selected Miss
North Carolina than ever have
covered any single event in Tar
Heel history, according to June
Glenn, Jr., president of the photo.
graphers association.
A large crowd of onlookers,
many armed with small cameras,
made the most of the event as
the newsmen We'd with one another
for the photo which Miss White
will judge best of herself.
Cash prizes for the photo winner
and r%unners-up have been offered
by the Wilmington Junior Chamber
of Commerce, which put on the
contest Saturday night.
After recording the charms of
Miss White on the beach Sunday
morning a short business meeting
was held. It was adjourned in order
that the photographers might at
tend the Jaycee-sponsored speed
boat races.
Decision was made to hold the
next meeting of the group at Chap
ell Hill September 81, at which time
problems relating to football game
coyerage will be discussed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Loan Talks
Open Today
American Delegates May
Insist On Proof England
Is Helping Self

WASHINGTON, Aug. II IN
American delegates to the U.s.
British conference 81 easing
terms Of the $3.50. 900 90 British
loan, opening here tomorrow, re
portedly will insist on PROOF thai
England is taking sound economic
steps to help herself.
Nevertheless Secretary Of tn e
Treasury Snyder and other Ameri'
can ne%gotiators are understood tc
feel that minor ways may be
found to liberalize the obligation
on hard-pressed Britain within
the language Of the 1945 loan
agreement.
To change the agreement itself
would take an Act Of Congress.
Some doubt exists, therefore. that
this weeks talks can produce re-
lief measures sufficient to make
any drastic improvement in the
critical British economic situation.
The financial talks-as part OF
the effort to speed return Of world
economic stability - are closely
linked to the Anglo-American con-
ference on increasing coal produc'
ton in Germany's Ruhr Valley,
already going on, and the ap'
preaching tri-power meeting or
speeding up German industrial
output.
Assistant Secretary Of State vii
lard Thorp reported this weekend
that the Ruhr talks already have
produced possible lines OF &C
See LOAN TALKS on Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Along The Cape Fear

Of presenting these two beautiful.
girls in their native costume te
his better half in Barbados mus
have appalled, the stout-hearted ex'
plorer who already had faced sc
many lesser dangers.
He loaded them with presents
He CALAMITY entreated them to
call again, but they laughingly
shook their heads and pointing te
the ship, indicated their purpose
to remain with him for better ano
for worse.
"What was the poor man to
do? Worse still, thought the cap
tain. what will Mrs. Hilton do. He
met the emergency as little George
Washington did not do. He pre-
scented to the father a little hatchet
and told him a lie"
The historian goes on to relate
that the captain promised the In
dams that in four DAYS he would
take the girls aboard his ship. In
the meantime, the captain and his
crew hoisted sails and quietly
sailed away.
LEGEND SPRINGS UP-From
that sailing a legend came into
being. 1t was related that for
many years thereafter, the dis
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
S. Plans
May Be Used
Republic Stresses Action
Not To Supersede obi
CATION To UN

BATAVIA, Java, Aug. II. -Pe
The Indonesian Republic accepted
today a 'last chance" offer of the
Uunted States good offices in set
ting the Dutch-Indonesian conflict,
but stressed the action did not sup
ersede an obligation to comply
with U. N. Security Council de-
cisions on 1ndonesia.
Both Dutch and 1ndonesian
sources reported a flareup in fight
ing today - the second anniver-
sary of Indonesian independence
and President Soekarno and Gen.
Soedirman, commander of the In
donesian troops, called for continu-
ed fighting to ensure Indonesian
independence.
Soekarno boosted that his
".scorched EARTH policy had frus.
trated Dutch intentions to reimpose
colonial exploitation" in Indo'
nesia. Gen. Soedirman, making nc
mention of the U. MS cease fire
order, told his troops "it is better
for Indonesia to become a sea o:
flames rather than to be colonizee
again."
Deputy Foreign Minister NOLAN
See u. S. PLANS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
MUNICIPALITIES
LEAGUE TO MEET
Three Hundred Municipal
Officers To Gather AT
Wrightsville Beach

RALEIGH, Aug. 17.-R-Three
hundred or more municipal off.
Gals are expected to be on hand
for the annual conference of the
North Carolina League of Munich
palities at Wrightsville Beach Au'
gust 24-26, Mrs. Davetta L. Steed,
league executive secretary, salo
today.
The conference will place en-
phasis on problems of municipal
finance, housing, parking, traffic
and state-local relations, Mrs,
Steed said.
Mayor Henry T. Powell Of Hen
derson, League President, will pre-
side over the conference. State
Treasurer Charles M. johnson,
candidate in next years race fol
governor, will speak at a luncneor
session August Is.
At geneal sessions on Angus
rs speakers will be: Robert S
Burch, traffic engineer with the
state highway commission; Roy
Owsley of Chicago, associate direc'
tor of the American Municipa!
Association; and City Manager
Roy S. Braden Of Raleigh.
Mayor Earl H. Tate of Lenior,
the leagues first vice-president,
is scheduled to be raised to the
presidency at the session,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
C~opperhead Cultists
Shimmy, Shout At Jail
Chant For Four Hours, But
Fail To Free Women
Followers

WISE, Va, Aug. II -U.D-A
mountain band Of so snakehan-
ding cultists shouted and sang for
four hours here today in a futile
effort to gain freedom for two
women followers jailed for caress'
ing copperheads in defiance O.
state law.
The Holiness faith healers pour
ed out of cars in this quiet noun
tain town this afternoon and be-
gan a frenzied demonstration 300
yards from the Jail. Aware OF the
threats to Jail them en- masse ii
they handled any reptiles, the cul'
lists did not produce any snakes
and concentrated on guitar play
ing, tambourines and praying.
Peace was finally restored here
shortly before 7 p. M, EST, when
the snakehandlers returned tc
their cars and drove back to their
shrine at Stone Creek, Va. to con,
tinue their ritual.
Sheriff ]. F. Potter, reinforced
by IS deputies and highway pa
trolmen, said he would arrest the
mountaineers if they came near
the jail to repeat the marathon
religious services they staged las!
week when the women were in jail
in Jonesville, Va.
Jailer H. R. Tieche promised
See COPPERHEAD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
UN Council
To Work On
Hopes For SUMMER Va
cation Abandoned In
View OF Developments

LAKE SUCCESS. Aug. 17-Re
The United Nations Security Coun'
Gil today virtually abandoned
hopes of a summer vacation in the
light Of developments in Greece
and Indonesia, two Of the worlds
trouble spots undec U. N. surveil
lance.
The Council had planned to
speed through final debate on the
Greek, Indonesian and Egyptian
cases, vote on new members, anc
complete it's annual report to the
General Assembly-au this weel
in a drive for a tWo-Week holi'
day.
Surveying the situation today
Chairman Faris Ell Khoury Of
Syria said:
81 have little hope that We car
get through"
Reports Of the Greek Guerrillas
setting up a separate government
and dispatches of continued fight
ing in Indonesia pointed up the
urgency in those two cases. Both
were filed under articles provld-
ing for potential Isl OF 1nterna'
See UN COUNCIL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Greek Guerrilla Chief
Creates Peoples Court

ment authorities that the Guerril
las were attempting to set up a
free communist state In the
north. The first broadcast, heard
Friday night, said Gen. Vilfiades
had assumed all authority to form
a democratic government"
These developments conceded
with press dispatches in Athens
newspapers reporting a continuing
increase in Guerrilla activity, in
Guiding the capture by a large
Guerrilla assault force Of Persoy.
ianni, IL miles northwest of Konit.
sa. and Kerasivo, eight miles
south Of Persoyianni, near the Al
bantam border in the Grammos
and Smolikas mountains.
The correspondent for the con.
servative newspaper Kathimerina
reported from Ionnina that the
Guerrillas seized important
heights around Kastania a d
Fourka, both within three miles
of Kerasivo.
Control of this area Of approx
mately 100 square miles would pu'
the Guerrillas within 25 miles Of
Grevena, where they met with
serious defeat on July 81.
Newspaper reports said the new
attack was being launched with
See GREEK On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
INDIA BOUNDARY
LINES ANNOUNCED
Sir Cyril Radcliffe Reveal.
ed As Man Who Drew
Dividing Lines

NEW DELHI, Aug. II -P}-The
boundaries dividing the strife~torn
provinces of Bengal and the Pun
lab between the Dominion of In
dia and Pakistan were announced
today in reports revealing that
both were drawn by n man
The British Chairman of the Boun-
Diary Commissions Sir Cyril Rad
cliffe.
The Indian members Of neither
the Bengal nor the Punjab COM
mission were able to agree on the
division Of territory. Radcliffe an
eminent barrister, made all deci-
sions.
His awards give the greater
part of both provinces to Pakis-
tan, the new Moslem state which
originally claimed all of Bengal
and the Punjab because those
provinces had Moslem majoritles.
The governments Of both India
and Pakistan have agreed in ad-
vance to accept the boundary
commission decisions. but the
splitting Of the Punjab appeared
unlikely to satisfy the militant
Sikh minority of that area.
In Bengal, Calcutta midas
See INDIA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18

ATHENS, Aug. II -(P-A Guer'
rills broadcast said today peoples
courts we're being created in the
areas of Greece where Gen. Mar
kos v~iliades, Guerrilla chieftain
has announced establishment of e
regime 70 rule until a "provisiona
democratic government" is form
I'd.
The broadcast was from the
same Guerrilla army radio station
which reported Vilfiades' initia.
move. Greek authorities say the
trammitter Is situated in Tirana,
the Albanian capital.
Today's broadcast said the
t,ree-member peoples courts will
be under the direction OF a peo-
pies commissar and will have au-
thority to pass sentences up tc
five years. More serious crimes
will fall under the jurisdiction Of
military courts.
There was no authentic informa.
ton as to where Gen. Markos was
holding forth with his temporary
government, but one Greek in
tormant said he was directing his
operations from Argirocastro in
Albania, 10 miles south of Tirana
and only 10 miles from the Greek
Albanian frontier.
The second broadcast strength
ened conviction of Greek govern.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
And So To Bed

Gone to the dogs 80.
The Morning Star news room
was paid an unexpected visit
shortly before one o'clock this
morning by a small dog.
The little mongrel of the
female species ambled up the
stairs, hesitated a moment at
the door, then with her head
in the air and her tail wagging
a mile a minute she leaped the
enclosure and hoped on the
Editors desk and nonchalant-
ly began to knock off a few
fleas with the mile-a-minute
action Of a hind leg.
Leaving the desk and a sis
able number of fleas, the dog
headed for the composing
ROOM.
Fifteen minutes later every.
one in the building WAS
scratching with both hands.
Sixteen minutes later the
flea-infested mutt was ushered
out the back door.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
|S0VlETS SQUEEZE
FOR IRANIAN OIL
Decisive Government Ac-
ton Expected Winthin 48
Hours, Say Diplomats

TEHRAN, Aug. II -(P- A So
Wet squeeze for Iranian oil ap-
peared to be Tightening today as
the 1ranian parliament Majlis) ac-
tolerated its organization, pre-
sumably for early consideration OF
the 16-month-old Russian oil
agreement.
Some diplomats predicted "de-
cisive government action, within
the next 48 hours.
An American army officer re-
turning from the northern pro
vinces said 5000 Russian troops
had massed south Of the Caucasus
and that ''invaion j~itters" were
sweeping Tabriz and Meshel, the
nations second and third largest
cities.
The 1ranian army staff was II.
vestigating reports that Russians
were entering northern Iran by
ones and twos, posing as desert
ers from the Red army.
ReZa Hek1nat, government party
candidate and temporary presi'
dent of parliament. today was
elected permanent president by Z
votes to So for Seyed Hassan Ia
mat, a friend Of the powerful Gas
ouizadeh, former ambassador tt
Britain and opposition leader. HEX
hqai Tribal bloc. is credited witt
engineering tribal support fc1
premier Ahmed Qavam.
A closed meeting was held prior
to the regular session.
A cabinet member said 1t was
"generally believed" that Qavam
had demanded an immediate
ferences for a vote on The pro
settlement Of organizational diff
posed Russian oil concessions "1r
order to prevent a threatened ma
t;opo1
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
Latin American Nations
Seeking Marshall Plan
Argentina's Efforts To In.
ject Economic Topics
Opposed

QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Aug. II
-PeArgentina's efforts to inject
economic topics into the Donation
Inter-American conference or
hemisphere defense today encoun-
tered mounting opposition from
key delegations.
The conference was called to
negotiate a mutual defense treaty
for the hemisphere, but discus
sions on the need for economic as
sistance for Latin-American coun'
tries dominated early sessions.
Talk of a marshall plan" for
Latin America was heard.
Resistance to placing economic
subjects on the agenda began de-
veloping with the Colombian-Mexi'
can proposal to take the subject
Of economic cooperation out Of
the conference and place it in the
hands of the Pan-American union
in Washington.
Colombia and Mexico made their
move independently late yester-
day a few hours after Argentine
Foreign Minister Juan Bfamuglia
delivered his principal conference
speech without specifically calling
for a special economic conference,
as had been anticipated.
Bramuglia reaffirmed Argen-
tina's demand for swift economic
aid ard cooperation in the hemi-
sphere, but issued no direct call
for an economic meeting. He said
upon his arrival in Rio De Janerio
last Wednesday that he planned
such action.
Some delegates suggested the
Colombian proposal was made with
See IATIN-AMERICAN on PAGE 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
NEW HEAT WAVE
MOVES INTO WEST
Atlantic Coast To Get Hot.
ter By Wednesday, Says
Weatherman

CHICAGO, Aug. II -U.R-A new
heat wave moved into the middle
west today, spreading over corn
belt areas where crops already
have been scared by the heat and
lack Of rain.
Temperatures climbed into the
high 90's throughout the southern
and central Great Plains and the
middle Mississippi valley. After
a few days respite from the heat
wave of last week.
The weatherman said the heat
wave would move gradually east
ward and that Atlantic coast resi-
dents, just recovering from their
worst hot spell of the year would
be eweltering again in rising tenn
peratures Wednesday.
There will be no relief in the
midwest until Wednesday he said.
Temperatures in midwestern
See NEW HEAT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
MOSLEMS INVADE
HINDU AMRISTAR
Newspaper Reports 100
Armed Men Cross Bor-
er Near Belin

NEW DELHI, India, Aug. IL
NH-The newspaper National Call
said today that 100 armed mem
oefs Of a Moslem boundary force
~ Belin, which belongs to Pakls-
ian, had invaded villages in the
Anritsar district, which belongs
" Hindu India.
National Call, g National Con-
sfesS Hindu) party newspaper,
SAID the Moslems carried out their
invasion in three trucks, shooting
many Hindus and Sikhs and setting
houses NJ fire.
An Indian (Hindu) boundary
force finally arrived, it said, and
captured two trucks filled with
men after a furry of shooting
Amritsar. near which the In
SsSlon was reported to have oc-
CURED, is the Sacred city OF the
Slkhs in the Punjab. This was the
See MosLEMS INVADE on Page
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-18
10 Men Lost
Pacific
Army Plane Falls 70 Miles
West OF Honolulu En-
Route To u. S.

HONOLULU, Aug. 17.-P-Am
bassador George c. Atcheson, Jr.,
chief U. S. political adviser in tho
japanese occupation, was missing
today in the crash of his army
plane, which ran out Of fuel and
plunged into the sea 10 miles west
of Honolulu as he was en- route
from Tokyo to Washington.
Two other persons also were
missing and the bodies of seven
dead, all army or navy personnel,
we're picked up at sea in midmorn-
ing.
Three injured survivors, all army
men, were rescued by surface
craft.
Vice Adm. John L. Hall, COM
manding the Hawaiian sea frontier
and 18th naval district in charge
of an intensive search, announced
that Atcheson's body was not
among those recovered. He said
the War Department in Washing
ton would get the first word II
and when Atcheson was found.
In addition to being political
adviser to General Macarthur,
Atcheson was chairman of the four.
power allied council for Japan.
Among the victims we're a num-
Der of high-ranking officers from
Tokyo, but their identities were
withheld pending further search
and notification of next-of-kin.
The BIZ converted BOMBER
land plane-Was unofficially re-
ported to have had Is persons
aboard, including the crew.
Observers aboard some Of the
more than so search planes report
ed sighting three men in a raft
but whether these were those miss
ing or those since picked up was
not certain, as low ceiling. rough
seas and poor visibility hampered
accurate observation.
The survivors we're located BIZ
the Coast Guard cutter Hermes
and transferred to the Destoye1
Rowan.
Capt. Roy Gano Of San DIEGO.
Calf, commanding the Rowan,
radioed to the Hawaiian sea front.
Ter that the survivors were Col.
Harvey Huglin, Capt. p. L. Ryder
and a Sgt. Holland, all of the army.
He said Holland was in "fair'
condition, suffering from a head