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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS

BATTLE FOR FREE SCHOOLS
The early history of education
in the Cape Fear valley is the
story Of the determination of the
citizens to extend the advantages
of education to the masses. The
gradual development OF many
free public school systems from
a few privately controlled in
stitutions extended over a period
of generations. In pioneer days
public opinion did not call for
mass education.
Residents of the lower Cape
Fear region led in the campaign
for popular education, and the
battle extending over a period
of several score of years was VIC
torious in uniting public opinion
behind the demands and in in
augurating t h e free public
school system.
That there were some educa-
tional facilities along the lower
Cape Fear river from the first
S ttlement, may be gathered from
the will of John Baptista Ashe,
dated 1884, in which he directed
that his sons should have a liberal
education. A school was opened in
Brunswick in 1745 and four years
later the legislature appropriate
ed funds for the purpose of es-
tablishing a free school. The oc-
currence of the Indian War caus-
led the funds to be diverted to
military purposes, however.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Wooden Plane Taxis Down
Harbor AT Speed OF 80
Miles Per Hour

LONG BEACH, Calf, Nov. z
-(P)-Howard Hughes tod a y
hurtled his giant flying boat at
takeoff speed 30 feet above the
wave tops of the Los Angeles
Long Beach harbor in the first
Of a series of pre-fight tests.
Hughes said he was
Thoroughly satisfied" with the
performance of the craft which
at one time attained a speed
of 80 miles an hour.
The $25,0O0,OOO wooden plane
was literally airborne during
some of the earlier taxing runs.
Observers in boats alongside
the course in the outer harbor
said they could see daylight un-
derneath the keel between the
choppy waves.
Hughes at the controls
throughout the test said he be-
lieved he could have taken the
craft off if he had been pre-
pared to do so.
The Civil Aeronautics Author
ity was represented by George
W. Haldeman in charge of flight
testing on the West coast, who
said he was on board at the
request of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation.
The RFC handled the govern
ment $4,000, 900 contract with
Hughes for construction of the
plane. Hughes has put more
than $7,000,000 of his own mon
ey into the project.
Hughes had not planned to
take off today. Today's test was
scheduled to be merely taxing
runs.
On the first run he attained
a speed of As miles an hour,
n the second 80 mph. He lifted
the plane 30 feet above the wa
ter on the third run at speed
of IS miles an hour.
1t had been estimated that
takeoff speed would be some
where in the neighborhood of 95
mph.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
80 GERMANS DIE
IN Mine ACCIDENT
Americana Controlled News
paper Reports Disaster
At Uranium Mine

BERLIN, Nov. 2 -tR- The
American-controlled newspaper
Neue Zeitung said today 80 Ger
man workers were killed Oct.
% in an accident in the Russian
controlled Uranium mine fields
in Southern Saxony.
The accident occurred in a
shaft about $50 feet deep, the
newspaper said. This shaft near
the Saxony-Czechoslovak border
was so abrupt, the newspaper
continued, that the workers
could descend only by ladder.
"Safety measures were made
quate," the Neue Zeitung said,
"and details about the accident
are impossible to obtain be-
cause the authorities are seek
ing by all measures to keep the
secret"
The Russians have been re-
ported working the Uranium
mines in the Err mountains Of
Southern Saxony at top speed
to advance the Soviet Unions
atomic research. The city of
Aue is near the center of the
so-called forbidden area, "
where this activity is said to be
taking place.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Lowell Turns Down
Plea Ousted Men
Six Former Employees
Lose Appeal F.
Were Dismiss -

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-R)--
Undersecretary of State Lovett
today rejected the appeal of six
former State Department EN-.
ployes for a hearing on charges
for which they were dismissed
June % "for reasons of national
security"
Lovett, in a letter to lawyers
representing the six unidentified
workers, declared, however, that
the Civil Service commission will
consider the cases if requested.
He AIDED that the State Depart
ment would supply the commits
sion with the information which
was the basis for the custer pro
cedings, although it is beinng
withheld from the individuals
concerned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Little Assembly
Still On Agenda
Aranha Seeks To Sidetrack
Controversy To Allow
Early Adjournment

NETWORK, Nov. 2 III
The United Nations Assembly
may sidetrack debate on the
controversial big power veto in
efforts to reach adjournment by
Nov. Is, an authoritative source
said today.
Assembly President Oswaldo
Aranha of Brazil called the AS
sembly's 14-nation Steering
committee to meet tomorrow to
discuss progress and meth
DDS of speeding conclusion of
the current session. The Assem-
bly, has been under way seven
weeks and only one major item
establishment of a U.N. bor-
der commission In the Balkans
has been cleared.
Such proposals as Secretary
of State Marshall's suggestion
for a year-around Little Assem-
bly, and the issue of Korean in
dependence still are under dis
cussion in the Political commit
tee Or its subcommittee.
It was understood that pro-
posals would be made to the
Steering committee, which de-
termines the Assembly sched-
ule, to put off the veto and sew
eral minor items until after the
current Assembly session or un-
til the 1948 meeting next fall.
Under this plan the veto could
be taken up in the "Little AS
See LITTLE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Jubilant Conservatives Demand
General Election For Britain;
Assembly May Dodge Veto Issue
Labor Government
| Loses 6S3 Seats
Churchill Halls Victory In
Municipal Elections As
"New Day"

LONDON Nov. 2 -R-Jubi.
liant Conservatives called to.
night for a general election to
bring the day of liberation"
from the labor government-as
the result of a smashing labor
defeat in the national election
for municipal councillors be-
came more evident.
With results from only two
boroughs missing out of 1872 the
Conservatives had won a net
gain of 617 seats in English and
Welsh borough councils and the
Laborites had lost 683.
The Importance of the Con-
servative victory was increased
by the fact that the entire cam
paign was waged on national
issues which would be the basis
for a parliamentary election
fight.
Winston Churchill said "this
splendid victory of Conserva-
tive and Liberal minded men
and women over the inept and
wrong-headed forces which al
ready have led us far along the
road to ruin at home and
abroad is the best thing that
has happened to our country
since the electoral disaster Of
1945.
Wipes Out Mandate
"The result deprives the
Socialist government of any
mandate it obtained at the gen.
eral election. Henceforth it will
govern without moral support
and against the will of the peo-
ple."
The independents are as 4
rule affiliated with the Conser-
vatives.
In a statement after long
study of the returns, Labor
Party Secretary Morgan Phil
lips admitted the results were
Disappointing
''But this is no political land
slide," he said.
See LABOR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
High Tides May Have
Been Caused By Peru
Wan Earthquake

Torrential rain beat down the
waves in the vicinity of Wrights-
vile Beach at high tide Sunday
night, reducing damage from the
pounding surf to a minimum,
but some damage from the high
water of Wrightsville sound which
flooded several blocks of Lumina
avenue hub deep may be reveal
ed this morning.
Occasionally, q big wave would
wash over the beach and overflow
on the streets to join the water
,. ON the sound, but the piers and
| he cottages reached by the surf
eemed to withstand the pounding
without sustaining noticeable
damage.
/ Marina restaurant and several
ther business establishments on
i Nrightsville sound were sur
ounded by the rising water OF
the sound. Crews of men who
spent Sunday afternoon securing
See HEAVY ON Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
RESERVE PILOTS
KILLED IN CRASH
Former Navy Men Collide
Above Albemarle Sound:
One Ship Explodes

NORF1OK, Va. Nov. 2-F)-
Two Navy Air Reserve pilots
were killed today when their
Gruman Avenger torpedo planes
collided 500 feet above Albemarle
Sound, Is miles south Of Eliza
beth City, N. c.
The planes plunged into the
sound. One exploded and both
sank instantly.
The fliers whose bodies were
not recovered were Lieutenant
Vic Dean Mckinley, Jr., Virginia
Beach, Va, and Ensign Jimmie
Wright, Roanoke Rapids, N. c.
Both men were separated from
the Navy about a year ago but
had enrolled in the Norfolk Nav
al Air Reserve unit. They were on
routine gunnery training flight
when the collision occurred.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
S. - = - Department
~
, osa .tement; Group
%,r Security Reason

The six were among a group
of ten who were released by the
State Department following a
loyalty test. Congress empower
ed the Secretary Of State to dis
miss any workers before June 80,
l947, if he deemed it necessary
or advisable in the interests of
the United States"
The Civil Service Commission
was designated as virtual ap-
peals court in such cases, to de-
termine whether workers thus
dismissed were eligible for en-
ployment in any other govern
ment agency.
The petitioning group was rep
resented by three former high
administration officials: Thur
man Arnold, Abe Fortas and Pa i
Porter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
EXPORT CONTROLS
EXTENSION URGED
Secretary OF Commerce
Hartman Cites Danger
OF Further Initiation

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-lR-
Extension of export controls be-
yond their scheduled expir ration
next Feb. 20 was recommended
to President Truman by Secre-
tary of Commerce Hartman to-
night to protect the domestic
economy and promote Ameri-
can foreign policy.
export control permits us to
direct exports of critically need
ed commodities to countries
where the need is most urgent,
and where they can be most ef-
fectively used to speed the eco
See EXPORT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
And So To Bed

Three sailors were discuss
ing the weather in a restau.
rant last nikht and they de.
ciided to bet on who knew
when the first hurricane was
born.
One of the bellbottoms
dated his storm in the catas-
trophe of 1895. The second
sealubber went back 70 years
in history to tell of a storm
that his grandfather had told
him.
The third sailor, not to be
outdone by the other two,
said: Fellows, let's 90 back
to the beginning of the
world"
Remember Adam and Ewes
two children, Abel and Caine.
The other fellows said yes,
and the sailor said well they
were watching ever their
sheep one day and had started
home that night for supper.
Apparently they were late
and SO Abel looked back and
called, Hurry -Caine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03

-ROCKPORT, Me. Nov. 2-R
Sea Captain Hanson Gregory,
who poked the soggy center out
of a fried-cake 100 years ago,
was commended today to pos
terity on a bronze tablet as in
ventor of the hole in the dough-
nut.
The joint Camden-Rockport
ceremonies opened with the
singing of America" by about
100 Gregory kinfolk and onlook-
ers and ended with doughnuts
and cider for all hands.
Charles Gregory, second
cousin of the captain, and First
Sele m Arthur Walker
placed the 12-by-14-inch plaque
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
bloodhound Makes Good
Again AS Woods Sleuth
HARRISVILLE, N. H., Nov.

HARRISVILLE, N. H., Nov. 2
-R)-Queenie did it again to-
day.
A little less than a month ago
Sheriff Arthur N. Jennison's
three-year-old bloodhound led a
posse through a mile and a half
of swamps and woodlands at
Fitzwilliam to find three-year-
old Louis Dunton, missing since
the evening before.
Today, in her second test at
tracking human, Queenie pi-
loted another search party to
Anthony Leoni, 28- year = old
South Boston war veteran, found
unharmed after a night in the
freezing woods.
Leoni, a patient at Aldworth
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
QUAKE
TAKES AZ LIVES
Satipo In Andes Mountains
Hardest Hit With 40
Dead, Many Injured
Rv The Associated Press

by The Associated Press
LIMA, Peru, Nov. 2-Official
dispatches said today the little
Andes mountain town of Satipo
165 miles East of Lima, was the
worst sufferer in the Peruvian
earthquake, with at least 40 kill
ed and many injured.
The deaths at Satipo brought
the total from Saturdays tre-
mors to 43. The shocks were
severest in the isolated noun
famous region East of Lima,
but were felt $50 miles North
east at Iquitos and 200 miles
Southeast at Ayacucho.
(The Rev. Joseph J. Lynch,
seismologist of Fordham Uni
versity, said fairly severe earth
quake shocks were recorded at
2:08.04 A. M. and 2:14:13 A. M.
Sunday. He estimated the dist
ance at 2,700 miles, but was
unable to determine the direct
ion.)
............ Planes Dispatched ............
The Peruvian government dis
patched planes with nurses,
medicine and food to Satipo and
other stricken areas as fresh
news of the disaster filtered in.
to the capital. Poor communi-
cations with the isolated
mountain area prevented offici.
ais and newspapermen from
gaining a detailed picture of the
disaster.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Hughes Takes Big Flying
Boat Off Water In Tests
TRAGIC ENDING

MCKEESPORT, Pa, Nov.
2. - , - Robert SWalWell
Jr., S, liked his Halloween
cowboy costume SO well he
put it on again yesterday.
And because Robert knew
real cowboys cook over open
fires on the range" he and
on the "range" he and a
playmate built a bonfire on
hill near his home.
A short time later, neigh
bors said Robert run scream
ing down the hill, his cow
boy suit in flames. They beat
out the fire with their hands
but Robert died today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Tax Cut Plan
ToBePushed
Dan. Knutson Will Proceed
Despite Economic Ad-
yisers Report

DISTINCTION, Nov. 2 -lR-
o.r Knutson (R.-Minn.) said
asg: ,edav he will proceed with his
i.;re ,oaas for a $4,000 100000, tax
osI'' ln+ Notwithstanding the recon-
CIV, c.us,rdation by President Tru-
n.n's 'ns economic advisers that
Iaaas n'al, he held where they are to
.sHo sa1n nav the bill for aid to Eu-
ns-e ene and to curb initiation.
F0nT gTbe tax cutting bill will be
.,.dv for introduction when the
irsci i.escial session convenes, he
sg ta1d a reporter, adding: Il hope
!. sV'u viii be the first major piece
u, legislation passed at the spe-
cial session"
Ways and Means committee.
The Presidents economic
council reported last night that
Nv continuing present federal
NV ~ rates. and a PARKWAY return
~ w. wartime initiation controls,
VI .he United States can safely
.nnnort vi. the Marshall aid to Eu-
ronp rone plan and still reduce the
national debt.
Knutson commented:
'.I'm afraid the Presidents S
odvisorv committee is as badly
confused as he is.
"Even grade school student
knows that all the money we
advance for relief and rehabili-
tation will be spent in the
American market, in competl-
+on with domestic buyers, the
NET result Of which will be fur
ther price increases all along
the line. The whole thing looks
to me like trying to put out a
fire with fuel oil"
"The councils recommends
tons to the contrary notwith-
standing, will in no way deter
us from going ahead in our
fight to give the harassed tax
payer relief
On the other hand, Rep.
Crawford (R-Mich) told report
ers:
If we are going to aid Eu-
rope, let's pay for it. To the
extent we cut tax rates, along
with an aid program, there will
be more initiation.
''The administration is up
against the cold steel of infla-
ton, and all this maneuver-
ing is whistling in the dark.
they've either got to put the
money in the tax box to cover
this appropriation to Europe, or
finance it through deficits which
are strictly inflationary."
Mr.. Truman twice used his
veto power earlier this year to
caa TAY o- Do~, Nt,,,a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
Heavy Seas, Rain Lash Nearby
Beaches, Little Damage Done
EVICTED PROFESSOR PLAYS HOST
AT T"PRE-EVICTION'H HOUSE PARTY

LANCASTER, Pa, Nov. 2lP-An English professor at
Franklin and Marshall College today took philosophical view
of his impending house eviction.
The professor Kenneth D. Longsdorf host to 300 col
lege faculty members and students at house
cooling party entertaining the folks with movies and
tricks of magic.
said able to take philosophical view of the
stuStion already found another place to live at
$50 a month cheaper rent
He urged only that his guests refrain from damaging the
property that they conduct themselves with decor
Though want joy to be unconfned do not want
duly loud noise disorder to disturb Lancasters Sunday
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03

Manor, private sanitarium, dis
appeared yesterday afternoon.
Queenie found him in dense
woods a half mile from the hos
pital. Sanitorium doctors said
that although recuperating from
a recent brain operation, Leoni
went through the experience in
good condition.
The Dunton baby unwittingly
made Queenie headline hound.
When Queenie led Sheriff Jenni-
son and Trainer Jack Green up
to the youngster, cam e a
caught him sitting naked in the
underbrush an hour after mid
night. Jennison said later the
youngster apparently figured it
was time to 60 to bed when dark
ness fell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
D0u8hnut Hole Inventor
I1onored By Fisher-Folk

on the seaward wall of the lit
tie White Glen Cove house
where Gregory said both
the mariner and the modern
doughnut were born.
The doughnut-hole was in
spired, Charles Gregory told the
assemblage, by difficulties Cap
tain Gregory's mother met in
producing old-style fried-cakes.
Young Hanson Gregory,
he said, saw that the cakes
weren't cooking in the middle
and with one epic thrust of kit
chen fork, he created the life
ring pattern of today's "sinker. ="
See DOUGHNUT ON Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
LOCAL TEACHERS
ON SEDT PROGRAM
Miss Emma Loosen, Others
To Lead Group Dis
customs Friday

Wilmington teachers are slat-
ed to play an important part in
the Southeastern District Teach
ers meeting opening at Fayette-
vile, Thursday evening, Novem-
Der Z, at $50 p. M, with a dinner
meeting for local unit NCEA
presidents in the cafeteria Of
Fayetteville high school.
DR.. Ralph Mcdonald, execu-
tive secretary of the National
Education association, will ad-
dress 1000 teachers, pricipals,
and superintendent expected to
gather at the first session in the
high school auditorium Friday at
10 a. m.
Departmental meetings in the
afternoon will be presided over
in several instances by Whining
ton teachers. Miss Emma Loosen
will preside over the art depart
ment meeting, and Mrs. E. P.
Brock has charge of the Council
for Social Studies.
Mrs. Mary E. Hood will pre-
side over the meeting of Busi-
ness Education teachers. A fea-
ture of this meeting will be the
discussion of What the Employ
er Expects from the High Schoo
Graduate" by three business
men.
Other meetings and the Will
mington teachers who are sche-
duled to preside ever them in
clude:
English Teachers, Miss Frances
Sutherland; Home Economics,
Miss Ruth Blackman; Health,
Physical Education, and Recre-
alton, Miss Gertrude Moore; Lii
brarians, Miss Martha Cromartie;
and Science, ]. W. Batten.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
The Weather

night 'no no windy Monday and Monday
over NVeeaaslonal light rain Monday and
day partl,' artoli'nwest Monday night. Tues
North cloudy and warmer.
windy r,ir Gdrollna Cloudy, cool and
rsin o,ten ,alH Monday and occasional light
Partly 1i o,a East Monday night. Tuesday
Ne,eoo Loudly and warmer.
ending nE';7o.55ogleal 100 data for the "a hours
'' I'm. yesterday.
In TEMPERATURES
i;30 D. N T'h, 50; 7:3o 81; 1870 pm. 10;
Normal ~ u; Minimum So; Mean 6s;
Ian HUMIDITY
" an m S5' 7:3o am. 78. 80 pm.
Tot. PRECIPITATION
tn ~ for the "a hours ending 7.ao
q inc ineDsa Since the first of the month
Fron TIDES FOR TODAY
u S. me me Tide Tables published by
h. asl and Geodetic Survey.
"Iminp,su High Low
!. '0h - 1924 am. 7,35 A. M
aasonbo,o ~, 1:19 pm. 8:43 pm.
inlet 10:58 am. 4:36 am.
w DIN o;34, Sunset 5:18: Moonrise
Moonset II "a am.
WEATHER ON PAGE TWO
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
TEXTILE UNIONS
THREATEN STRIKE
Thirty Thousand workers
May Be Called Out
November 6

DANVILLE, Va, Nov. 2-tR-
Officials of the CIO Textile
Workers Union of America
voted today to call strikes Nov.
b IN Southeastern cotton mills
unless the textile industry
makes "an acceptable offer" to
l5-cent-an-hour wage increase
demand by that time.
A spokesman at the strategy
meeting Of top TWUA men said
that more than 10000 mill work
ers in Virginia, the Carolinas,
georgia, Alabama and Tennes-
see are involved.
The union did not define what
II considered "an acceptable Of
lef' and said this and the exact
Aour OF the projected walkouts
would be left up to the local
unions It was announced, how
ever that local negotiations
WI. .l'h the mills would be con-
unued this week.
Highest Offer
Inc highest counter-offer to
ae unions 15-cent demand dis
~ SloSeo thus far has been that o1
W S,e n rLowenstein mills with plants
Ill Ill, Worn Carolina and Alabama
Nillch proposed a seven anc
nl Saah cent hourly increase. The
oan River Mills here offered
H.. nve per cent wage increase
,ss' Ss week but in neither case
va the union indicate accept.
ance. op'
c Danville CIo Director Lewis
So,i, Sona said the decisions of TO.
ta s'y !, session would be carried
nri ane membership of the local
D0nS within the next few days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
FIRST SHIPMENT
OF GRAIN READY
IS Julian Poydras To Sail
Saturday With $4,000
Bushel OF Wheat

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 2-(R)
One of the first shipments
of grain under President Tru-
mans emergency food program
will leave Philadelphia this week
bound for food-starved Europe.
With members of the Presiden-
tial Food Conservation commit
tee expected to look on, workers
will begin to pour $4,000 bushels
of wheat into the holds of the
S. S. Julian Poydras on Thurs
day morning.
The ship, moored at the Port
See FIRST on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Cloudy, cool
and windy with rain today and occas-
ional light rains tonight; Tuesday partly
cloudy ard warmer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-03

, See LITTLE on Page Two
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See TAX on Page Two
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1947-09-25

He was installed into this high
position on September II at the
121st Annual Session of the Order
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
with elaborate ceremony witnessed
by large delegation from Maryland
and other parts of the world. This
is the first time in 81 years that
such an honor has come to the Birth
place of Odd Fellowship, instituted
in Baltimore, 1913 years ago.
Born in Baltimore, August 6, 1898,
DIR. Arthur c. Tiemeyer was educat-
ed in the public schools of Balti-
more, graduated from City College,
Mount Vernon College, University of
Maryland, and did postgraduate
work in Johns Hopkins Hospital
under the late Drs. John Whitridge
and Howard A. Kelly. With group
of other physicians he organized the
West Baltimore General Hospital in
1924 and was Chief of Staff from
1928 to 1910 He is now on the staff
of IL hospitals in Baltimore Dur
ing the War he served as Instructor
for the American Red Cross, was a
member of the National Committee
for Medical Aid to China and of the
American Committee on Maternal
Welfare. For 81 years he has been
Medical Director of the Maryland
Odd Fellows Home for orphans and
aged at Frederick. He is Bind De
gree Mason, became Knight Com
mander of the Court of Honor in
1887 and Shriner.
Fitting tribute will be paid this
noted fraternalist and humanitarian
by Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of
Maryland when a mammoth Public
Reception and Banquet will be tend
cred in his honor at the Fifth Regi-
ment Armory, Baltimore, on October
a. Governor William Preston Lane,
Jr., Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro,
United States Senators Millard E.
Tydings and Herbert R. O'Conor and
officials of the Order from United
States and Canada will participate
in the festivities.
A number of local Odd Fellows
are planning to attend the event