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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
DISCUSS
BONUS FOR VETS
Southern Democrats Favor
More Assistance To
Servicemen

WASHINGTON. Jan. % 1P1~
Talk of a bonus for S lie S Of
World War II arose in the house
veterans committee today as il
went to work on a stack OF legls-
lation for former servicemen.
The committee approved unani'
mously a bill to let veterans have
more time to reinstate tt.eir gov
ernmert lie insurance po icies.
Sentiment for a bonus appeared,
chiefly amo..g southern democrats,
when the committee tack ed meas
ures to enj CT raise the C ilings on
the amount the government pays
to veterans going to school or
learning jobs.
Rep. Rankin % Miss, forme-
ai3airnz II Of taa comm re-
marked that millia,as 81 Veteran:
r getting schooling, training.
loans and the like. But other mL'
lions who had to come back ano
&c right to work r getting moth
ing, he said. He ADDED that a bonus
is the only way to close part OF
the gap.
Rep. Allen D-La) spoke up along
similar lin S.
Omar B. Ketchum, director OF
the Veters S of Foreign Wars
legislative servi e told the COM
mittee his organization had made
a study Of the cost of the G. l.
Bill of Rights, and:
1--WE have come to the conclu-
sion it will eventually cost this ma
ton approximately $20,0Ot.0G0 600
and benefit substantial y 'ess than
7 900, 900 veterans. Unless this con-
gress pays adjusted service com
pensation (bo ;us), the bulk of vet.
Grams are going to receive nothing
except the experience of having
served in World War H."
The life insurance bill would
give. the Veterans admirist ton
tho riqht TO reinstate policies with
out physical examination after
Continued on Page 2; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
TEACHERS GROUP
LAUDS PAY STAND
Lennon And Kermon Prais-
ed By Local Unit Of Edu-
cation Association

New Hanover county's legisla-
tors, Representative r. M. Ker-
mon and Senator Alton A. Len
non, were lauded for their efforts
in the legislation aimed at bringing
an increase in salary to teachers
during a recent meeting of local
teachers, it was learned last night.
The meeting of the local unit OF
the North Carolina Education AS
sociation was called by John l..
Gibson, president, for the purpose
of reviewing and discussing the
legislative situation as it applies
to schools.
A discussion on the recent de-
velopments was presented to the
group by Gibson and Mrs. Edyth
Winningham, chairman OF the local
legislative committee.
Both commended the two New
Hanover legislators and expressed
confidence in their future actions
toward teachers salaries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
HOSTAGE JUDGE
FREED UNFRAMED
Second Victim OF Holy
Land Underground Still
Held Captive

JERUSALEM, Jan. 2S.-(P-A
fumpled, unshaven British judge,
still dressed in the dignified wig
and robes of his office was re.
leased by his abductors tonight as
the police intensified their search
for a second British subject kid
naped by members of the Jewish
underground.
Judge Ralph Windham, who was
seized Monday from the bench in
his courtroom in Tel Aviv, describ.
ed his captors as cordial, manner
ly people who were careful about
seeing that he had enough to eat
and read. They remained masked
at all times.
There were reports that the
second man, H "A. /. Collins, a
banker and former British army
officer, also had been released, but
police said these could not be con,
firmed.
Collins was seized Sunday night
from his home in Jerusalem by
four men and a woma who
chloroformed him and carried him
into an ancient Moslem cemetery
containing a maze of catacombs.
Recalling that eyewitnesses told
police that Collins abductors
struck him on The head with an ak
handle, authorities specialized that
the underground might hold him
for a longer time in order to treat
his injuries.
Shortly before Windham was re-
leased, reliable informants in
jerusalem said the British had fix
ed a deadline of 5 p. m. tomorrow
for the invoking of statutory
martial law in certain sections OF
Palestine unless both the Judge and
Collins were returned unframed.
British authorities also drafted
plans to protect other civilians
from similar kidnapings.
Windham was taken by his cap
tors to a textile factory on the
outskirts of Ramat Gan and re-
leased. Police Immediately cord
oned off Ramat Gan, a suburb OF
Tel Aviv, and began a search for
the judges kidnapers.
The judge was released about
five miles from the courtroom
where he was seized.
Coincidentally, Ramat Gar, also
figured in the chain OF events
which authorities said led up to
the kidnapping of Windham and
Collins.
Last May the police station in the
town was attacked and Dow Bella
Guner, .33-year-old member OF the
Jewish underground, was wounded
and captured. Subsequently Grun-
er was sentenced to be hanged for
the attack sentence which has
not yet been carried out. The
police S a d other underground
members seized Windham and Col
Inns in an effort to stave off their
comrades execution.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
Veteran Dies
In Run
Wreck Here
Robert Seigler, Student AT
College Center, Killed
In Accident
THREE MEN HELD
Inouest OF Truck-M Motor
cycle Crash Scheduled
For Thursday

An inquest into the death OF
Robert seigler, 21-year-old Viii.
minaton youth killed in a truck
motorcycle crash at the %intersec-
i'm, Of 18th and Princess streets
yesterday, will be held Thursday
niobt at 7:3O in the grand jury
roon. according to Asa W. Allen,
New Hanover county conorer.
Meanwhile. Randolph White,
N.oro. of 11O9 Market street, is
b.ine held in Jail under $4,000 bond
an = hit and run driving charge
md two other Negroes, Wheeler
ZONES and Willie J. Pridgen, are
aI,o in custody on charges Of be.
ine accessories after the fact of
felony. Their bond has been set
at $500 each.
According to witnesses to the
fatal accident. Seigler was pro
c.eding on Princess street toward
fl. city on a motorcycle, with
Charles H. Greer, 10, of Lake
Forest as a passenger. White, il
was reported, vas travelling on
nth street and reached the inter-
section of the two streets at about
the same time as Seigler.
The driver of the truck is then
alleged to have made a left turn
without checking his rate of speed
and the motorcycle, unable to
dodge the vehicle crashed into the
side Of the truck, throwing Seigler
under the wheels.
Both riders of the motorcycle
were rushed to James Walker
Memorial hospital but Seigler died
shortly after reaching the emer
gency room. Greer suffered only
superficial bruises in the wreck
and was released at the hospital.
White is charged with having
then left the scene with the
vehicle, later parking it in the
driveway of the Jones Transfer
and Storage company at Ill North
18th street.
Police found the death-vehicle
shortly thereafter, but reported
that all drivers for the firm denied
having been operating the truck
At the time of the crash. White was
placed under arrest short time
later.
Seigler was the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Archie Seigler of 2017 Creesey
avenue and was a veteran of
World War II. A graduate of New
Hanover high school, he was a
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
ALEMAN TO PLAY
HOST IN CAPITAL
After Three Days Mexican
Leader To Return As
Guest OF President

WASHINGTON, Jan. % P-
President Truman will fly to Mex
leo City early in March for a
~three-day visit with President
Miguel Aleman, who will return
the visit in Washington shortly
thereafter.
An announcement that the two
presidents will make the historic
exchange of visits was quickly in
terpreted here as a move to
cement good relations between the
American republics. Diplomatic
authorities said the journey will be
a gesture OF good will toward
Mexico.
The two presidents are expecteu
to discuss generally a broad range
of matters affecting the two coun.
tries.
Some officials speculated that
among the questions most likely
to come up r the possibility OF
a U. S. Loan to help finance Mex
ico's ambitious industrialization
and radio-building program, and
the current epidemic Of hoof-and.
mouth disease in Mexico.
Presidential Secretary Charles
G. Ross said that neither the
exact dates OF the trip, nor other
details, have been worked out yet.
He added, however, that the trip
had been in the works for some
time"
Informants in a position to know
said details OF the flight were ar
ranged last fall by Secretary OF
the Treasury John w. Snyder.
Snyder discussed the possibility
of a presidential trip to Mexico
with Aleman, who was then presi-
dent-elect and an invitation to Mr..
Truman resulted.
Mr.. Truman has wanted 10 see
Mexico for a number OF years. il
was said. His trip will be the first
such journey to Mexico City by a
U. S. President.
The late President Roosevelt
visited Mexico by train April 20,
1913, when he met former Presi-
dent Manuel Avila Camacho at
Monterrey.
Ross said that Mr.. Truman is
expected to remain in Mexico City
for about three day and win &c
the trip cross the Rio Grande by
plane.
This will be President Humans
third trip outside the country since
taking office. He previously went
to Potsdam for the Big Three con-
ference in July, 1945 and vacation.
ed in Bermuda last summer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
New Court Order Prevents
Sugar Rationing Collapse;
Truman To Visit Mexico
BILBO RECOVERING
AFTER SUCCESSFUL
OPERATION ON JAW

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 28-(P>
Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo. re-
covering from an operation of
Jan. 20 on his jaw. was pro-
nounced today completely free
of the effects of a malignant
growth. which was removed
from his mouth in a previous
operation.
The Senator is still under
treatment at Touro infirmary,
with a NO Visitors sign hung
on his door. He is expected to
remain in the hospital for 10
days to two weeks longer.
Then in another month Bilbo
will return to the hospital for
work described by his surgeon
as plastic construction.
This would be in the nature
of reconstruction of the jaw
from which a piece of dead
bone was removed in the sec
ond operation.
Meantime a contest over
seating the Senator in Wash
i ngtOn has been held in atcy-
ance while he RECEIVERS his
health.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29

HIDDEN FORTUNES - Last
night a perfect copy of the Bay
Psalm book, the first book pub
lished in the English colonies, was
sold at auction in New York City
for $151, 900. The purchase price
set a new all-time high for the top
price over paid for a rare book
in this country.
The book was purchased by DR..
A. S. w. Rosenbach, International
Unknown rare book dealer.
DR.. Rosenbach's purchase for
$151, 900 broke the record set In
1925 when he paid $106, 900 for a
Gutenberg bible for Mrs. Edward
s. Hardness, who later donated the
book to Yale University library.
The book purchased last night
for the record-breaking sum is one
of eleven existing copies of the
psalm book, which was printed by
the Puritans in 1910 and adopted
by most of the congregations in the
Massachusetts Bay colony-lead-
ing to its designation as the BAY
Psalm book"
PAYS TO LOOK - Now should
someone raise the question as to
what has the Bay Psalm book got
to do with the Cape Fear area, we
can only offer this suggestion.
No doubt there are many, many
valuable books stored away and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
r0LICE PROBING
new DAHLIA NOTE
g Il Styled Slayer o. Eliza
beth Short Seeks Sur
render Terms

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28.-UD-
The self-styled slayer of Elizabeth
Short, 22-year-old BLACK Dahlia'
has sent a new note offering to
surrender IF l get 10 years. pc.
lice reported today.
Just as in the case of four pre-
vious notes, today's communica'
ton was addressed to a news
paper. 1t said:
81 will give up in Dahlia killing
if l get 10 years. Don't try to find
me-"
The missive was On a single
sheet of paper and made up Of
letters and words clipped from
newspaper headlines. 1t Vas mail
ed in Los Angeles last night.
Homicide Capt. Jack Donahoe
took the note for study by police
crime laboratory experts and saio
he would treat this note also a:
authentic until it is d%isproved.
Police chemist Ray Pinker's
examination of the note showed
several hairs imbedded under the
cellulose tape used to stick the
letters to the paper.
Capt. Donahoe reported his CT
flee was maintaining a murder
watch on telephone calls ano
mail in the hope that the slayer
would keep his promise to sur.
render at 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The veteran detective said he
obviously could not offer the killer
Of Miss Short a 10-year jail term
for the brutal mutilation murder.
But I'm ready to meet with the
killer any time at any place anc
arrange for a surrender" he said
Capt. Donahoe said he placed
some hopes that the note received
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
GEORGIA RUSHING
NEW PRIMARY LAW
Talmadge Forces Show
Power In Lower House
Of State Legislature

madge forces today shouted down
amendments to the White primary
bill and pushed through initial sec
tons of the measure designed to
restrict Democratic primaries to
White voters.
A substitute for the Talmadge.
backed White primary bill, which
would leave primaries under statu-
tory control but tighten educa-
tional qualifications Of voters, was
ruled out of order in the House by
Speaker Fred Hand.
The lower branch voted "a to "
against cutting off debate on the
bill shortly before adjournment.
Work will be resumed on the mea-
sure tomorrow morning.
While Talmadge leaders pushed
the White primary bill through the
lower branch, the dispute of rival
governors threatened an empty
payday for 2 500 state employees.
Grinding out section after sec
ton Voldln2 state control OF 1utuTs
primaries, the House repealed
Georgia's unique county-unit sys-
tenn which for decades has given
political control to sparsely-settled
rural counties. Talmadge leaders
explained repeal was necessary to
restore the White primary and
bar Negroes from Georgia ballot
boxes, but emphasized the system
was carried over in party regula-
tons.
The Talmadge-sponsored mea-
sure removes primaries from
statutory regulation, and makes
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
British Surgeon Cites
Cure For Tired Feeling.

ed to eliminate n fifth Of
his brain. .
Upon recovery, the director =
with foul fifths IF his brain work
ing in high gear - was made
chairman of the board.
"He could make decision faster
than any Of u.s." DR.. Wright quot
ed one of the directors colleagues
as saying. eve always leave i'm
portant decisions to him now"
The director, according to Wright,
was just one of thousands of people
who are suffering from too much
brains. The surgical art of ire
Continued on Page 2; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North and South Carolina: Partly cloudy
and rather warm Wednesday. Thursday
partly cloudy to cloudy n continued
warm.
eastern Standard Time)
(Ry U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "A hour:
ending 1850 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. A; 80 am. 40; 1880 Pm
SO; 1850 pm. 81.
Maximum 50; Minimum So; Mean So.
Normal IS.
1870 am. 81; $50 am. 100; 1870 pm
50; 1880 pm. "a.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 7:30 PIN
0, 20 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
Bill inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published By
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ---- 2:37 am. 1000 am
2:59 pm. 1914 pm.
Masonboro Inlet = 12:11 am. 6:35 am
1881 pm. TOO Am
Sunrise 7aaI: saaset 5.5s; Moonriss
ll:2T am. Moonset 1902 am.
River River stage at Fayetteville, N
c. at 8 am, Tuesday, 40 feet,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29

RALEIGH, Jan. 28 III Pro-
posed legislation to revamp North
Cardinals insurance laws ran
into a storm OF opposition at a
hearing here today.
More than a score of spokesman
for banks, insurance companies,
building and loan associations,
mortgage loan firms and realtors
enthusiastically picked alleged
flaws in proposed bills drafted by
the commission on revision of the
North Carolina insurance laws.
Principal opposition was aimed
at proposals which would. in Ell
feet, eliminate group-insurance
coverage Of members Of profess
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
POLISH ELECTION
SCORED BY U. S.
State Department Charges
Failure To Allow Free
Voting

WASHINGTON, Jan. %. -(PH
The United States today denounced
the Polish governments conduct oil
the January 10 national elections il
Poland but declared that it intends
to maintain a diplomatic mission
in Warsaw.
While thus ruling out any i'm.
mediate likelihood of breaking dip.
lomatic relations with Poland, the
United States reserved its full
liberty of action to determine its
future attitude toward the govern.
ment of Poland"
There was no official indication
Of what action might be taken, but
possibilities included economic
measures and even the recall Of
Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane.
Lane could be brought home for
consultations" with no formal
diplomatic break.
A statement on Washington's view
of the Polish elections was issued
by the State department after be-
ing approved by Secretary of State
Marshall. It was the first major
pronouncement on a question OF
European political policy since
Marshall took office a week ago
and was exactly in line with EARL,
er declarations OH Poland under
former Secretary James F. Byrnes.
The U. S. objection to the handl-
ing of the election is based on
complaints that the government
suppressed democratic opposition
elements.
Lane Reports
The statement was issued after
receipts of reports from Ambas-
sador Lane. The reports were de-
scribed as Chased upon the obser.
vations of American officials who
visited a number of polish voting
centers."
'"These reports" the State de-
partment said, "were corroborated
by the general tenor of the dis
patches from foreign correspond.
ents III Poland.
"It is clear that the provisional
government did not confine its
self to the suppression of the So
called underground but employed
widespread measures Of coercion
and intimidation against democrat
lie elements which were loyal to
Poland although not partisans OF
the government bloc"
The state department explained
that the United States considers
that the provisions of the Yalta
and Potsdam agreements, guaran-
teeing free and unfettered elections
in Poland and accepted by the Polish
provisional government, have not
been fulfilled.
Russians Object
1t was these agreements, the
statement brought out, which per-
suaded the United States to estab-
lish diplomatic relations with the
Polish government in the first
The agreements weres SUBJ
scribed to also by Britain and the
Soviet Union, and the American
statement noted that Russia had
rejected an American plea of Jan
uary S for a joint big three appeal
to the Polish government to end
what Washington considered repres-
sive political practices.
The main contest in the January
10 voting was between the So
bloc of government politi-
cal parties under communist dom
nation and the Polish peasant
party led by Vice Premier stanis-
law Mikolajczyk. The Polish peas
ant party lost heavily.
The Polish government has taken
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
VFW National Head
Lauds Housing Plan

Praise for the Veterans Homes
Incorporated project at Lake For
est was sounded by Louis E. Starr,
National commander of the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, during a
visit to Wilmington yesterday.
Starr came to the city as the
guest of the local James A.. Manley
Post of the VFW and was honor
ed at a luncheon in the Cape Fear
club with city and county officials
as well as representatives of vet
Grams organizations in attend
ance.
He also Landed the efforts of
VIII officers in handling the nego-
tiations for the purchase OF the
584 housing units from the Federal
Public Housing Authority, agents
of which r due in Wilmington
next week to handle the final
phases of the sale.
The appointment Of General
George c. Marshall as Secretary
of State to succeed James F.
Byrnes also was praised by Starr,
He attributed to Marshall the
knowledge OF military needs and
the affairs of state necessary to
the conduct of this country's rela'
tons with other nations.
Following the tour OF the Lake
Forest area and the luncheon,
Starr, who was accompanied to
Wilmington by his son, Hal. and
David Leroy, editor of the North
Carolina VFW Leader and former
Wilmington newspaperman, left
for Raleigh where he will address
an audience gathered to honor
Josephus Daniels, former Secre-
tary of the Navy and ambassador
to Mexico.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
Insurance Law
Changes Find Opposition

sional associations without a COM
mon employer and stop the writ
ing of co-calIed controlled in
surance business.
Views on the controversial mat
tiers vas aired at a public hear
ing conducted by the revision COM
mission and attended by about
100 persons. Presiding over the
hearing was Dean R. H. Wattach
of the University of North Caro-
lima Law School, chairman of the
revision commission.
The commission met tonight 10
consider the views expressed at
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
Day In Congress
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Taxes-Chairman Taber (R-NY)
of the House-Senate budget com,
mittee, said he has found a way
to save So, 900, 900, 900 in a single
government department. The War,
Navy and Treasury departments
are the only departments with
budgets running over the two.
billion mark. However, the Vet
Grams administration is budgeted
for 81, 343, 900, 900.
Taber said he is now shooting
for a cut of 81, 500, 900, 900 to s.. 000..
600, 900 in President Humans $37.-
800, 600, 900 budget to clear the way
for income-tax reductions.
Labor = Chairman Taft (R-Ohio)
of the Senate. Labor committee
said the closed shop gives the
unions "such tremendous power
over workers that Congress may
have to outlaw it. The alternative,
he said, is action to insure "democ-
racy in unions"
Secretary of Labor Schwellen.
bach said the administrat op.
poses drastic labor law changes.
He predicted a big drop in work
stoppages.
Atomic - David E. Lilienthal,
chairman-designate Of the atomic
energy commission, told a joint
congressional committee the ma.
ton must be careful about pub
fishing technical reports on atomic
energy, to prevent '1eaks" on
secret American atom data.
Foreign Affairs The COP
CONTINUED on Pare 2: Col. a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29

STARR CITES DANGER
OF FOREIGN DOCTRINES
RALEIGH, Jan. 28-R-The
2ravest and most serious problem
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Foreign Affairs = The COP
CONTINUED on Page 2; Col. a
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