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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-03-06
GIN CONVERTED

PITTSBORO, March S. Mrs. R.
H. Wicker of Moncure has con-
verted an old gin into an ideal
poultry plant, reports Edward W.
Glazener, assistant county agent
ct the State College Extension
Service. The old gin house has two
floors of about 1880 square feet
each. Mrs. Wicker plans to use
ore floor for broilers and one for
LAYERS. The floor to be used for
broilars is divided into three pens
and they are carrying 1,700 chicks.
The operator can go into each pen
without walking through the other
pens.
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NAVY MASSES men.
ship IN ENGLAND
BY TOM WOLF
NEA Staff Correspondent

LONDON, May 2.-(P)- United
States Navy is making intensive
preparations for the invasion. Ex-
actly what proportion of the job OF
launching the greatest amphibious
operation in history has been al
lotted to our Navy, and what pro-
portion the British and Allied ma
vies will carry, is not known. But
Uncle Sans sailors are going to
play a very big role.
I have just returned from a sew
eral-hundred- mile tour of Eng
lands serrated coastlines.
Large ocean-going LISTS danding
ship tanks) jostle tiny LCVPs
landing craft, vehicles, personneD
for space in one base I visited.
There are Les danding craft of
scores of varieties and refine
ments, many of them still secret.
The majority of these weird look
ing craft have two points in COM
mon: shallow draught for snug
Cling the shores of Europe, and
bulldog-like toothy bows which be-
come ramps and down which will
pour the men and material of the
liberating armies.
Exactly what equipment we
have or will use is, of course, Sc
cret. In the past, amphibious op-
erations of Allied assault f
have ranged in size from big LISTS
to rubber boats.
Each aspect of assault calls fol
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WERNER ELECTED
CLUB PRESIDENT

Major Paul E. Werner, Corps O
Engineers, was elected president O.
the Wilmington Officers club. 121
~ Princess street, Sunday nigh
Of A special meeting of the board
of directors, it was announced YES.
terday.
Major Werner was e.ected to full
fill the unexpired term of 1t. Col
1ohn T. Knight, Jr., district en-.
slneer of the U. S. District Engi.
neer office, Wilmington division.
who left Friday for overseas mill
tarv assignment.
COL Knight was the original
president of the club, which was es-
tablished in December, 1912, and
maintained the office until his de-
parture.,
social gathering place for officers
Stationed in Wilmington, Bluethen-
nal Field and Camp Davis. now
has a membership of over 200 Ar
my, Navy and Coast Guard Off
Previously elected club officers
are; Major A. R. Johnson, vice
nresident, and Capt. Leslie N.
pney. Jr., secretary and treasur-
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dredging required in the water
ways under its jurisdiction.
The staff of workers in the pres
ent office will be greatly decreased
due to the tranGfer, it is under
stood, but the employees are being
retained until June IS. 1t is not yet
known what percentage Of the
workers will go to Savannah, but
estimated than an office force of
about fifty engineers, craftsmen,
accountants, an d administrative
employees, together with small
field force will be maintained.
In addition to the maintenance
dredging required throughout the
Wilmington District, the local Of
flee will handle the preparation of
maps, blueprints and construction
photographs for civil works &C.
complished by the Corps of Engi-
neers, the Wilmington District Of
flee,
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Established in 1885, the Will
mington Engineer District has
from an original force of four or
five fulltime employees to its pres
ent complement of skilled person
mel. Over % major pieces of oper.
ating equipment, ranging from
large pipeline dredges to small
survey launches, supply barges,
etc., are used in the civil works
program, it was noted.
Major Paul E. Werner, Corps of
Engineers, who has assumed the
duties of Acting District Engineer
of the Wilmington District office,
succeeding District Engineer 1t.
Col. John T. knight, Jr. who has
been ordered to overseas duty, will
directly supervise the maintenance
and contemplated new work of the
Districts civil works program, it
was announced.
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'NCCS-USO Officials
Conduct Conference

Representatives Of more than 500
USO clubs operated by the Nation
al Catholic Community Service yes
terday completed week-long con-
at the Noes headquarters, Wash
ington, D. c., it was announced.
Attending the meeting were SUI
pervisors of Noes clubs, mobile
units and service operations in As
states, including the Wilmington
supervisor, Forrest Cotton, whose
headquarters are located at Rich
mond, Va.
The local operation at Fourth
and Ann streets USO, Mems club,
is directed by w. G. Kelly; Fifth
and Orange streets USO Women
club, Miss Ann Shawbaker.
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Only Military Functions Of Local
Engineer Office Being Transferred

The Wilmington Division of Unit
ed States District Engineers, con-
trary to information being circu-
lated, will not be closed June IS,
officials disclosed yesterday en-
phacizing that only military con-
struction activities are being trans
ferred to the Savannah District and
that under the reorganizational
measures the local office will con-
tinue to be responsible for the i'm
provement and maintenance of all
navigable waters in Eastern North
Carolina, including 318 an l e
stretch of the Atlantic Coastal In
land Waterway.
There are between 80 and 40 diff
ferent River and Harbor improve
ment projects already completed
and which require continuing
maintenance work. The Whining
ton District office will undertake
all the necessary maintenance
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different type Of small craft.
And each type Of boat calls for
specialized equipment. That ac-
counts for the huge depots a n d
bases which the United S a t e S
Navy Seabees have scattered over
British shorelines during the past
six months.
One of these bases alone con-
tains many thousand square feet
of covered storage area s and
shops. In these shops and depots
alone are stored some of each Of
thousands of items required by
the Amphibious Force. The most
modern machines, the latest radio
devices, the most efficient weap-
ons in the world are assembled,
repaired and stored here. A day
never passes but that tons of adj
ditional supplies pour in.
A day never passes, either, but
that thousands of men pour into
these bases. Most of them are
young men-the ''hostilities only"
reservists. Many of them n ev e r
saw salt water until December 9TH.
1911. But their technical skill and
personable courage make profess
sional Navy heads shake with Won
der and professional Navy chests
swell with pride.
Many of these men already have
seen action in Africa, Sicily or
Italy. Just how many have seen
action is hard to tell. The Navy
awards medals sparingly. These
young men aren't so concerned
with medals, but they would like
some badge of their specialized
task - such as the submariner's
dolphin or the airman's wings.
Perhaps one third have been
through it before. 1t doesn't mat
ter. Every one of them knows that
this is going to make anything that
has gone before look Ii k e very
small potatoes. So they work and
practice and wait. And they talk
about the weather and dates-Eng-
lands lousy weather and the girls
they date. They talk about any
thing except the invasion.
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STRIKE PLEDGE
RENEWED BY ALL

PHILADELPHIA, May 1-RN
The American Federation of Labor
executive council renewed its no
pledge today and said that since
it's last appeal to the membership
three months ago mo strikes
have been called by an affiliated
union of the ALL engaged in war
production"
President William Green, an
swering news conference questions,
acknowledged some interrupt
lions involving AF'L unions mad
occurred. but said they were local
strikes, spasmodic, caused by local
leaders or somebody influential IN
the local. All of them were term
mated quickly. There were very
few, though, less since January
than ever before" He emphasized
that none of these had the approval
of the union leadership.
Cautioning against any KIND
of letdown from overconfidence pc
fore or during the expected IN
vasion of Nazi Europe, the council
said in statement: ABOVE
all we emphasize this is no
time to strike. When the invasion
starts and the fighting hits its high
est pitch, the workers of America
must carry out Their assignments
as a stern and solemn duty with
the same spirit and the same high
morale as our armed forces.
"Only in this way can labor do
its part fully in bringing about
victory in the shortest possible
time and in saving the lives of our
own sons and brothers sreving on
the fighting fronts.''
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MRS. THEoDOsIA J. BRITT

LUMBERTON, May 1.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Theodosia Jenkins
Britt, n, widow of Alfred Britt of
Buie, who died Monday at 7:3O a.
m. at the home of her daughter.
Mrs. j. Quincy. Parnell in Parkton
after a short illness, will be held
tuesday at 8 pm. from Parkton
Baptist church with the Rev. John
Gibbs and the Rev. I. P. Hedgpeth
officiating. Interment will follow
in Philadelphus Presbyterian
church cemetery.
Surviving are four sons, L. T.
Britt, of Wendell, W. G. Britt, of
Parkton, L. S. Britt, of St. Pauls,
A. A. Britt, of Buie; five daugh-
tiers, Mrs. J. @. Parnell, of Park
ton, Mrs. F. H. Ponds, of Valdese,
Mrs. Lacy Hall, of Fayetteville,
Mrs. Henry Stroupe, of Winston
Salem, and Mrs. Charles Wrinkle,
of Knoxville, Tenn; one brother,
S. F. Jenkins, of Fairmont; one
sister, Mrs. Joe Bass, of Barnes
vile; 80 grandchildren and four
great grandchildren.
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MAY DAY FINDS
ALLIES PREPARED
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Norway Or southern France are
NOT out of the question.
In France itself, the Nazi-con-
trolled Paris radio took up the
chant this time with heavy sar-
casn, remarking that ''the Allies
once more fooled us-it is the first
of May and still there is not a
shadow of an Anglio-American pa
rachutist. >
In Madrid, where May Day has
been no holiday since the end of
the Spanish civil war, Swastikas
flew from balconies of the Ger
man embassy and subsidiary build
ingS. ~
In Portugal, the first May holi-
day for workmen throughout the
country was used to spread pro-
ia ganda for the new state regime
through free shows to workers and
their families, lectures and outdoor
amusements.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-05-02
DIXON DAHL

Funeral services for Dixon Dali.
A, of Routel Castle Haynes road.
who died yesterday at his resi-
dence after a short illness will be
held at pm. today from the
graveslde in Dali cemetery in Du-
pin county.
The funeral cortege will leave
Yopp funeral home today at 1890
p. m. for the cemetery.
Surviving are his wife: four
daughters, Mrs. Inez Carr. of Cas-
tie Haynes, Dorothy Marlene and
Blanche Dali, all of Wilmington:
and three brothers, Sampson, Ro-
bert and Dobson Dali, all of Mount
Olive.
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will be conducted from Peacock
funeral home by the Rev. R. j..
Raspberry. Interment will follow
in Chadbourn cemetery with full
military honors. Time of funeral
services are incomplete.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Jimmie Newman, of Stark, Fla;
one son, WILDER Lee Newman, OF
Chadbourn; one brother, Clifton
Newman. of Wilmington; and five
sisters, Mrs. Retha Dyer and Mrs.
Bill Latta, both of Hallboro, MRS.
Albert Bass and Mrs. James Soles,
both of Wilmington, and Mrs. Lee
Smith, of Chadhqurn.
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BOARD TRANSLATES
LITTLE BUSINESS

Continued from Page One)
county commission showed that
New Hanover County received 81,
454.67 for old age assistance and
aid to dependent children.
The board of commissioners
UNANIMOUSLY approved payment Of
$50 for months rent for a maya
zine of dynamite being used in
the Burnt creek area ain con-
nection with the government ma
laria contrl program.
Marsden Bellamy, attorney for
the commission, was instructed
to write to citizen in the Winter
Park area who had plowed up a
triangular point of land adjoining
Park Avenue and Masonboro
Road, Winter Park. The tract of
about one-half acre has been de-
signated as park. Other residents
of the neighborhood objected to the
land being used for garden since
many children in that area use it
for a playground, it was reported.
The following beer licenses were
approved: Annie M. Daley, Sea
Breeze; R. V. Dixon, Market street
road; T. c. Applewhite, Castle
Hayne; Mrs. H. B. Turner, Tyler
street A. T. Campbell, Mercer
Avenue; W. D. Stokely, Wrights-
Vile Sound H. A. Whitfield, Caro-
lima Beach road; James c. john
son, Seagate X. r. Boehm, Cape
Fear Country Club; G. T. shew,
Winter Park; T, M. Sumner, Point
Peter c. c. Gray, Carolina
Beach road; M. N. Patellis. Caro-
lima Beach road c. H. DuBose,
Carolina Beach Road; A. c. Hill
burn, Winter Park; Melvin Eu-
bank, Market street road; J. G..
Freeman, Sea Breeze; Capt. Ellis
Sherman, Masonboro Loop road;
and Sadie Smith. Sea Breeze. Sadie
Smith and c. c. Gray were also
granted permits for cabins and a
cafe. The following were granted
subject to approval of Sheriff c.
David Jones: l.. j. Hilburn, OPP
posite shiphard, and Mamie Lee
Higgins, Sea Breeze.
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Briefs
INJURED

Mrs. Caroline Clingan OF
Winter Park was slightly injur-
ed when she was struck by
Tide Water Power company
bus at Front and Grace streets
and knocked from the street
onto the sidewalk. She was
treated for abrasiOns of the leg.
and released. Mrs. CIingan told
police sit was not altogether
the drivers fault"
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Obituaries
ALEX A. MARTIN

Alex A. Martin, about 81, died
at his home in Rocky Point last
night about 1920 pm. following
lengthy illness.
He is survived by his wife, An
ME II. Martin, one daughter, Mar
garet and four sisters of Boston,
Mass.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later.
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IRA F. DAVIS

LUMBERTON, May 1.-Funeral
services for Ira F. Davis, 81, promi-
nent insurance man of Lumberton
who died Monday at pm. as
result of a heart attack, will be
held from Stephens funeral home
Tuesday at $3.50 pm.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Miss Monnie Perry of Ham
let.
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REVIVAL

A revival is now in progress
at the Wilmington Free Will
Baptist church, located between
Wooster and Dawson streets
on Eighth street, and is being
conducted by the Rev. A. C.
Wheeler. The services, with
the Rev. Burgess Howell and
the Rev. Barnes English in
charge of singing, begin each
night at 8 o'clock.
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Ranging from the sub-Arctic to
the tropics, the United States, i'll
Guiding territories and dependen-
cies, has a total Of 3,773.993
square miles inhabited by 150,621,
|231 people.
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FROLIC

A program Of dancing and
refreshments has been plan
ned for the May-time Frolic
which will be held on Wednes-
day night, May 3, at 8 o'clock
at the Castle Hayne Communi-
ty Hall. The public is invited
to attend.
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S/SGT. JIMMIE NEWMAN

CHADBOURN, May /. - Staff
Sergeant Jimmie Newman, 26, son
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. ]. N.
Newman, died at 9 am. Sund\y
at Camp Blanding, Fla, where he
was stationed.
The body is being shipped to
Chadbourn where funeral services
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
The Municipal Recreation De-
partment has made a request
for the donation or sale of
musical instruments to the -
partment in order to aid a Ne
gro orchestra recently organic
ed. under the direction Of Ar
chic Blue. It will direct and
teach young people to play the
trombone, clarinet, drums and
other instruments. Anyone in
terested in answering this re-
quest is asked to saa the Re.
creation office 2-2192.
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The Reich Geological Survey
was given half-million dollars
before the war to survey German
oil possibilities and IS new fields
were discovered.
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ANOTHER JOHNSON

w. A. johnson of Southport,
driver Of the w. B. & S. bus,
called the Star from his home
city on Monday to say that he
is not the w. A. Johnson who
figured in a recent court case
here following an arrest in a
local hotel.
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Brazil has been a republic since
1889, when Emperor Pedro II alb.
Dictated
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JAYCEE MEETING

A dinner meeting of the Ju-
ni0r Chamber of Commerce
will be held tonight at 6 pm.
in the banquet room of the
Friendly cafeteria. Important
business will be discussed. All
members are urged to attend.
Evening star., 1944-05-23
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.

I1OLL1 WOOD.
How to aid the Government in
keeping the war morale ball rolling
and maintain so productions in the
studios at the same time is the
monumental problem facing Holly
wood this summer. With the pres
ent scramble for stars and featured
players of name value to make pic
lures sound like box office, the Gov
ernment has called on the industry
for actors:
O-To continue playing the
Purple Heart" or hospital circuit, a
necessary aid to morale.
(O-To spark the x-billion-dol-
lar bond drive for the Fifth War
Loan.
How enough stars can be spared
for these vital campaigns while the
film mills continue to grind at
capacity rate is the big problem
the movie-makers face. They are
tackling it with vim and enthusi-
asm, however, and hope to provide
all the stars necessary for the vital
projects outlined.
Check of The studios TODAY
showed that 625 actors, excluding
DIT players, are working in the so
films now being made, and few of
them are available at the present
time for the proposed trips around
the country.
1T will be worked out somehow"
said a spokesman for the Victory
Committee. "It has been worked out
IN the past and it will be again"
x X X
Close-ups: Academy award win
ner Paul Lukas eats breakfast daily
In Hollywood drugstore, bringing
his own eggs to match their
nam Humphrey Bogart has
wound up his role in ITO Have and
Have Not" and goes on Coast Guard
duty for a month One of the
best attended Hollywood auctions
in recent months was the sale of
Sidney (Charlie Cham Toler's
household effects J.. Something we
want to see dept: Myrna Loys jit-
terbug sequence in new Thin Man"
film
Greer Carson has the toughest
role OF her career in Mrs. Parking
ton,' being "on stage" in all but
three scenes. Also she plavs as
sorted ages ranging from l8 to 90
years. Col. Frank Capra's latest
war film, THE Negro Soldier" had
al impressive Hollywood preview,
1t tells the story of Negro partici-
patton in all wars waged by this
country.
"Intermezzo," which introduced
Ingr1d Bergman to American fans
and "Rebecca," Academy award
winner for 1870, will be reissued bv
David Selznick this summer. Binp
Crosby wants Bill Bendix for one
OF the top roles in THE Great
John L." but Bendix is probably the
most-wanted character man in town
and won't be available.
| + x X X
Gregory Peck, who plays the lead
In The Keys of the Kingdom, and
Thomas Mitchell, who appears as
the atheist-doctor, were Introduces
on the set Peck forgot his hands
were coated with the mud he was
Evening star., 1944-05-23

other. The deluSion was more vivid
in the epilogue in which Miss Cor
nell's time tanned, but once errant,
husband sums up abruptly, "Ro-
mantle love really is the bunk" 1t
is a wistful truth to which play
wrights so long have dedicated Miss
Lawrence's talents that it is rather
surprising to find Miss Cornell sud-
denly taking over.
The surprise is by no means an
unpleasant one. Miss Cornell is en-
tirely within her rights, and bril-
liantly within the scope of her vir-
tuosity, in choosing to play Miss
Smiths, and so many other play
wright's conventional heroine. She
makes her much more vivid, indeed,
than the woman has any right to
be: a kind of Candida lost among
many people and many words, both
of which are much less important
than those surrounding Shaws
heroine, which is one of her favorite
roles. She is never less than fasci-
mating as she moves among the
others of Miss Smiths play. Un-
happily that is more than can be
said for most of the latter, especially
the husband, of which any such
brilliant woman would be we'll rid.
X X 4 X
Lovers and Friends" is not one of
even Miss Smiths better treatments
of the theme of romantic love. 1t
has the old poignant sense that it is
too bad the grand passion loses its
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using in making bricks for the
scene, and they shook hands.
Mitchell didn't bat an eye, but
went right on through the cast,
shaking hands right and left and
"mitting" every one with mud.
X X X
Interesting sidelight ON the selec-
tion of IA beauties to be Zieefeld
girls in MGM's "Ziegfeld Follies"
Is the fact that they were not picked
via beauty contests or similar ways
All have been in pictures, most of
them under contract to the studio.
where they have been trained in
small roles. All are slated to con-
tinue the buildup process after their
flash" appearance.
Blonds predominant In the group
with seven, ranging from plain blond
to ash and honey. Only one brunette
Is found in the lot. Three are red
heads and three have brown hair.
Their home towns range from Cape
Town, South Africa, to Honolulu.
Evening star., 1944-05-23

through her probing of the girls
odd nature and her husbands S
strange alteration, to a conclusion
that is as foregone as a conclusion
ever will be. 1t is not an altogether
uneven struggle on the girls part
for there is in her flair for the
dramatic that is piquant in it's puz-
zling origin, which may very likely
have been in the way the part is
written.
OF the other parties to the con-
flict--the playwright becomes kind
OF pickup fourth before it ends
the males come off rather badly.
Either In Miss Smiths sense of him,
or Henry Daniels portrait, the hus-
band gives the impression of being
a pretty silly looking pawn being
pushed around by a pair of women
entirely too good for him.
X
Miss Cornell's chief support In
saving Lovers and Friends" from
being almost pure conversation
piece, awkwardly devised at many
points, is that from Carol Goodner.
Miss Goodner is the very ingratiat-
ing figure of that comedy character,
the actress with the heart of gold
who can always find someone look
ing for that very thing to fill tenn
porary need There is something
winning. but not as much, about
Arthur Margetson as the playwright
who suffers from shy dignity
which Is engagingly old-fashioned.
The visual charm of the settings
and costuming of Lovers and
Friends" represents Motley's assist
to Miss Cornell in making the play
a reasonable, If not sensational,
successor to the real candida, !"
which she has played with such bril-
lance