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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
WILMINGTON AREA
ESCAPES DAMAGE
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celled at the Marine base, other
than married personnel, and the
Ninth Airs Wing was reported Sc
cured. Heavy rains were reported
there throughout the day.
The u. S. Coast Guard Airway
Station at Oak Island reported at
7 o. m. that the highest wind
velocity at that point was re-
corded at 50 miles per hour, with
gusts up to 70 miles per hour.
The U. S. Coast Guard Station at
Cape Hatteras reported at 7:10
D. M, that the highest wind
velocity recorded in that area was
IS miles per hour, but that it was
increasing steadily.
Communications lines were re-
ported down last night between
Elizabeth City and Manteo. The
Star-News was unable to contact
the Coast Guard station there.
Although no serious damage was
reported to the beaches by high
tides and heavy winds, ]. R. Eden,
maintenance superintendent of the
CITY of Wilmington, reported con-
siderable damage had been caused
to the City's underground storm
system. In many places the sys-
tenn was inadequate to remove the
torrential rains, and much water
stood on the streets throughout
the day.
The heaviest Wash-out was re-
ported on North Sixth street in
back of the City water plant.
However, part Of the street in this
section was opened to traffic last
night.
In many other sections of the
City heavy rains had caused
much inconvenience, but little
damage.
At Sixth and Greenfield streets
water seriously taxed the storm
system, which was unable to carry
away the heavy rains in this area
until last night.
At the northern extension of
Wrightsvil1e Beach a few roofs
were reported minus SHINGLES.
There seemed to be no other ek<1-
age, State Highway Patrolmen
said
North Carolina State Highway
patrolmen and Coast Guard planes
took part in spreading the hurri-
cane warning. The patrolmen
operated in the Wilmington region,
while the Coast Guard sent out two
planes from Norfolk to advise fish
ing craft and other small vessels
to seek safety.
Georgetown, S. c., SIS miles
northeast of Charleston, was iso-
lated for a time. When telephone
communication was restored, how
ever. the city reported no damage
only rain and moderate winds.
At Myrtle Beach, where summer
visitors and others had been tip
ped to look out for IS mile an
hour winds. the storm did no dam
age. Airplanes at the Army Air
Base were secured and escaped
harm.
Southport had winds up to 46
miles an hour and more than four
inches of rainfall.
T. j. Baird, of the Safeway
Transit Co., said yesterday that
10 Safeway buses were dispatched
to Wrightsville Beach, where they
stood by from 1 a. m. until about
a. M, when the first evacuees
were moved from the beach. He
said buses had removed all those
who cared to leave by 6 a. m.
Many used their own automobiles.
Hal Love of the Queen City Bus
Co., dispatched buses to Carolina
Beach and evacuation at this re-
sort was started about 7 a. m.
Twenty to Is Queen City buses
were used in the evacuation of
Carolina Beach.
Police Chief Otto Hickman of
Southport reported that two fish
ing boats had been sunk and
few power lines knocked down in
that area.
K11ra'c Poocl, opJ yNi1y,oipo4op
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
LOUIS B. PEARCE

Funeral services for Louis Bryan
Pearce, of Wilmington, who died
Friday evening at the home Of
his daughter in Washington, D. c.,
have been postponed from 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon until
10 o'clock this morning because
of weather conditions.
The funeral will be held this
morning at Yopp's funeral home,
and burial will be in the family
lot at SCOTS Hill Methodist church
cemetery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
MISS ELLA V. DONNELLY

Funeral services for Miss Ella
v. Donnelly. who died yesterday
morning as a result of a fall at
the home of her sister, Mrs. F.
B. LeGwin, of 202 Northern
boulevard, Sunset Park, will be
held at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow at
the Yopp funeral home with the
Rev. c. D. Barclift, officiating.
Burial will be in Oakdale GENE.
taTy.
The daughter of the late Samuel
James and Hester LeGVin Don
nelly, Miss Donnelly is survived
by three sisters, Mrs. F. B. Le-
Gwin, Mrs. Mamie D. Warren and
Mrs. Emma H. Yopp, of Whining
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26

in the next five weeks NJ
already is in the Court. lie 66A
goth is expected soon. sc %.a h.
to return in July are tlbn o
5 5in;. 44th (the training site t for nd n:
division has not been anno tor this
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
MRS. MARY JACOBS

Mrs. Mary Jacobs, wife Of
Joseph N. Jacobs formerly of Will
mington, died at her home in Rich
mond, Va. Funeral services will be
held today at II am. at Richmond.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
CLOTHING STOLEN

CLOTHING STOLEN
Robert Wadell, Negro, 512 S.
Thirteenth street, reported to
police early Sunday morning
the theft of clothing valued at
$165 from his home between
$3.50 and 11:15 pm. Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26

The regular business meet
ing of the Wilmington Junior
Chamber Of Commerce will be
held at 1880 p. m. today at
tn, YMCA, it was announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
City Briefs

WILL PRESENT PAGEANT
The Celestial City," widely
heralded religious pageant, fea-
turing a chorus of fifty voices,
will be presented at Central
Baptist church tonight at $3.50
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-26
MONEY STOLEN

MONEY STOLEN
Mrs. Lena Livingston, sos
Market street, reported to city
police the theft Of approximate
ly $50 from her bedroom be-
tween 5 and pm. Saturday.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Adequate Kerosene Supply
Promised District Shortly

J. Thomas Kennedy, District SUI
perintendent of weights, measures
and markets, said yesterday he had
been informed by the Petroleum
Administration for War that $4,000
barrels, or some $4,000 gallons of
kerosene, had been received In Bal
tin1ore and that one Washington
distributor had been promised 10000
gallons.
Mr.. Kennedy, who said the local
distributor expected to receive 5000
gallons Of the quota today, ex-
planned that six distributors here
depend on Baltimore rather than
the washington terminal because
LOT lower rates.
Mr.. Kennedy said local distribu-
tors using the Washington terminal
have been receiving their usual
quota. but that the supply from
baltimore had broken down. re-
Gently for reasons which he has
been unable to discover. The dis
tributor obtaining a quota in Balti-
more has been told to handle his
supplies carefully"
AL OF the kerosene received ii
| the Washington terminal does not
find its way into Washington homes
flor heating, lighting and cooking
lMr. Kennedy added, but goes il
part to nearby areas and for In
ldaDtrtal and commercial use.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Man and Wife Accused
Of Giving Children Liquor

While one child. 5. was in Gas.
ualty Hospital today under treat
ment for alcoholism, and three
others were at the Receiving Home
for similar treatment. one-armeo
45-year-old colored man who de-
scribed himself as a minister and
hts wife were fined $40 each In
Municipal Court on charges Of being
drunk.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
John J. Donnelly said the couple
would be taken to the Police De-
tpartment Juvenile Bureau and
charged with contributing to the
delinquency of q minor.
Police last night arrested Henry
Shearin and his wife. Annabelle, 81
at their home 314 Fifty-eighti
street NE, after neighbors COM
planned, police said, they found one
of the Shearin children, Lucy, In
need of disqualification, and three
others. Annabelle, II: Angy, 8, and
Eva, II, under the influence of al
cohol. They were sent to the Re-
ceiving Home. A son, Henry. Is
had disappeared and another
daughter, Roselle, 10, was reported
absent at the time.
Capt. Rhoda. Millikin Of the Wom-
ems Bureau said there would be Z
complete investigation Of the case.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Congressional Library
Opens Shelley Exhibit

The manuscript notebook of Mary
Goodwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley,
containing an unpublished essay by
the poet on social reform, is among
the books and manuscripts given by
Mrs.. Gertrude Clarke Whittan of
Washington to the, Library Of Con-
gress now on exhibition at the IL
brary, DR.. Luther H.. Evans, acting
librarian, announced today.
In addition to the manuscript
notebook. the Shelley section of the
exhibit contains two first editions of
books by the poet, Rosalind and
Helen, containing the poems Hymn
to Intellectual Beauty" and "Ozy-
mandias," and Laon and Cynthia,
a revolutionary poem once sup
pressed by publishers.
The exhibition also includes man
uscripts and first editions of works
by A. E. Housman, the manuscript
of aLancelot and Guinevere" by Ed
ward Arlington Robinson, manu-
scripts by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and "The Collected Poems" by
James Joyce, containing one poem
"Ecce Puer," not previously avail
able in any volume.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Tin Can Salvage in 1914
Drops 46 Million Pounds

Tin can collections from civilian
sources in 1914 dropped more than
460O0,000 pounds from the 1943 total,
the WPB Salvage Division disclosed
today in issuing a new appeal to
householders and commercial estab-
lishments to save all used tin cans
for the war effort.
"The Government urges all house.
wives, food and commercial estab-
lishments and industrial plants to
save and prepare all used tin cans
for collection through programs of
local salvage committees W.
Thomas Hoyt, director of the divi-
sion, stated.
He said that Americans were
throwing away two out of every
three used tin cans, destroying the
tin in these cans, which could be
reclaimed at our detinning plants,
now operating at so per cent Of ca
pacity"
The 1914 collection of cans totaled
only 1888 ,O89, ,507 pounds, a decline of
46,160,62 pounds from the 1943
total, WPB said.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Immediate Base
Pay Increases
Asked by NFFE
Classification Plan
Also Condemned
At Council Meeting

The Executive Council of the Ma.
tional Federation of Federal En-
ployes, meeting at national head
quarters here, today called for "the
maximum Of practicable, immediate
base pay increases for all Govern
ment employees" and for revision Of
the Federal classification compensa-
ton structure at the earliest possible
time.
The council pointed out that en1-
ployes coming under the Classifica-
ton Act of 1923 have not received
wage increases since the start of the
war, whereas living costs and wage
levels in private industry have in
creased during the period.
In calling for revision in classi-
f1cation, the council stated that it
should be done in line with a perma-
nent Government policy which will
be equitable alike to employe, Gov
ernment and taxpayer"
In this connection it, was pointed
out that the Government, in COM
pctltloli Will pilsdOc uluuStIy, Ids
found it increasingly difficult to re-
cruit and retain personnel because
of wages.
The council is holding a weeks
series of meetings to consider legis.
lative and administrative problems
of Government workers through the
postwar period of transition to
normal times. Later in the week tine
council plans to confer with leaders
Of Congress.
The sessions are being conducted
by Luther c. Steward, president, and
Gertrude M. McNally, secretary
treasurer. Delegates from all parts
of the Nation are represented on the
council.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
lsHRshoniinq
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Meats, Fats, Etc. - Book 4, red
stamps Q-5 through SIS good
through March 81; stamps T-5
through ks good through April
%; stamps Y-5, Z-5, Az through
D-2 good through June 2. Each
stamp worth 10 points. Next series
to be validated about March 4.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4, blue
stamps KS through Us, Az and
B-2 good through March 81:
stamps CO through G-2 good
through April %; stamps H-2
through M-2 good through june
2. Each stamp worth 10 points.
Next series to be validated about
March /.
Points for Fats Your meat dealer
will pay two ration points for
each pound OF waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Book 1. sugar stamp "a good
for 5 pounds through February "a.
Stamp 35 valid for S pounds
through June 2.
Gasoline-A-l4 coupons valid for I
gallons each through March a.
B-5, C-5. B-6 and C-6 coupons
good for 5 gallons each.
Shoes -Airplane stamps /, and 8
In Book No. 8 good indefinitely for
one pair of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
and four coupons good for 10 gal
Ions per unit through heating
year. Period five coupons become
valid March /. Old period four
and five coupons from last win-
ter good through year. Consufn-
ers In this area should not have
used more than 73 per cent Of
their ration as Of today.
Degree days-Total for month, $50:
total Tor season to date, 3,378:
normal for season to date, 3.244
Evening star., 1945-02-20
| Plane Bumps
IFHsco-Bound
Delegation Chief
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2o.-Wil-
liam D. Wright, chief of State De-
partment delegation coming to San
Francisco to arrange preliminaries
for the United Nations security con-
ference April Is was bumped off ar
airliner at Cheyenne, Wyo., anc
failed to reach here last night or
schedule, his aide said.
The plane was greeted by camera
men and newsmen who wanted te
ask Mr.. Wright about his plans, but
instead they met Lyle l.. Schmitter
State Department attache, who re.
fused to make any convention COM
ment in the absence of his superior
Mr.. Schmitter said that according
to the aerial code, he and Mr.
Wright drew straws to see who
would be left behind when higher
priority passengers appeared. HI
said that Mr.. Wright lost.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Ikeech II.! Is Requested
10 Draft Legislation
For Rabies Control

The Commissioners today directed
Corporation Counsel Richmond B.
Keech to draft enabling legislation
which would give them broad au-
thority to carry out program for
rabies control.
Mr.. Keech had submitted last
week draft of amendments to ex-
listing legislation which would have
required vaccination of dogs as a
prerequisite for obtaining the an
nual dog license, for increasing the
redemption fee for dogs at the
pound, for requiring proof of vac.
lcination before taking a dog from
the pound, and for leashing.
In rejecting the amendments, the
Commissioners decided the proposed
changes would make the control
program inflexible year after year
regardless of need, Mr.. Keech said
It was explained that enabling leg
islation would make It possible fol
the Commissioners to order vac
cination and other control meas
ures, but would not make it manda-
tory for them to require it each
year.
Mr.. Keech drafted amendments
to carry out the recommendations
of Health Officer George C. Ruh-
land who urged the variolls stens
provided for in the proposed amend
ments. Mr.. Keech had Informed
the Commissioners they could not
be carried out under present legis-
lation. The proposal of DR.. Ruh-
land for patrolling of the streets
at all hours of the day for dogs by
the personnel of the pound could
be carried out by increased appro-
lpriations and administrative orders
Patrolling is now carried on only
in the daytime.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Nearly IS Boys Of St. Joseph Home and School
Are Now SERVING in Nation. Armed Forces
Those Left Behind
Proy Daily for Boys
Now Overseas
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG,

just inside the entrance of St.
Joseph's Home and School is an
honor roll with nearly rs names on
1t and the request, Remember them
in prayer"
Sister Leila, superintendent of the
home for motherless or fatherless
boys, pointed to a name with gold
star beside it. Seaman tFirst Class
Sinclair Cordua, Oldest of the three
orphaned Cordua boys who grew up
at st. Josephs, was lost at sea.
sHe was on his way back to go to
officers school," she said.
Sister Leila stood before the honor
roll, calling of the names Of the
boys she had once seen racing down
the slopes that surround the house
on the hill. the boys she sat beside
when they were sick, the boys she
patted on the head when they
earned a weeks good conduct"
card.
There are the four O'Connell
boys. Their mother died when they
were little. Mikes in hospital in
Georgia now. He wears the Purple
Heart"
Tells of Other Boys.
The way she said it you could
tell she was proud of Mike. She
pointed to other names.
He's a lieutenant in the Air
Forces. And he's paratrooper.
He's on submarine chaser. This
one came in to see us ON his last
leave. He looked like child dressed
up in his uniform. He's only 49,"
There were other brotherS-the
three Shannons and the three
Ryalls and the Mangum brothers.
Nineteen-year-old Joseph Mangum
is a prisoner of war in Germany
and Maurice Mangum, his younger
brother. is in the Navy, somewhere
in the Pacific.
"But we still have Raymond Man.
gum with us. He was so little when
the three boys came we had to find
high chair for him." Sister Leila
recalled
Inside her study she drew a pile
of letters from her desk drawer.
There were V-mails, airmails, let
ters on Navy stationery, Christmas
cards, painstaking scrawls on lined
paper. The letters were creased
from many readings.
Letters Read to Youths.
''The sisters read them to the
boys" Sister Leila explained. Then
they know who they're praying for"
She read aloud from one of the
letters, "I call on God when the
going is tough. ." There was
more to the sentence but Sister
Leila couldn't finish it right then.
Poor boys" she said, 'it's always
been tough for them"
Most of the letters were of the
kind boy writes home to his family.
They assured Sister Leila that they
weren't in much danger. They said
they went to mass every Sunday.
One. wrote. about a buddy who was
"a swell guy They guessed about
when they'd come home. One OF
them wanted Sister Leila to say
hello to Wimpy for him.
"Al and Wimpy used to play foot
Evening star., 1945-02-20
100000 Damages Asked
|0f Driver and Cab Firm

In two suits filed yesterday in Dis
trict Court 100000 is asked as
damages against Anthony B. WASH
mack, 600 block of Eleventh street
NE, a taxicab driver, and the
Yellow Cab Co., Inc, 1900 block of
New York avenue NE, for alleged
assault on two passengers by Mr..
Washnack.
The plaintiffs, each of whom asks
$4,000, are Glenn w. Leyde, 600
block of Fourteenth street NV,
and Ray Wheeler, jr., of Arlington,
Va, who claim that last November
Mr.. Washnack attacked them during
q dispute over the amount of fare
to be paid. The suits claim the
plaintiffs finally agreed to pay $40
fare for being hauled from near
the District line on Bladensburg
road NV. to the Ravenwood Estates
in Arlington, Va, but told the cab
driver they would report the charge
to the Public Utilities Commission.
Whereupon. the suits claim, the
driver attacked them with wrench
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Public Invited 10 Attend
Bill Of Rights Ceremony

DR.. Luther H. Evans, acting libari-
an of Congress. today announced
that the public, especially service
men and women, will be welcome to
attend the ceremony incident to the
presentation of one of the original
IA copies of the Bill Of Rights to the
Library at 11:15 am. tomorrow.
The donor is Barney Balaban
president of Paramount Pictures
Inc. He is giving the document as
"a token of gratitude" for the free
dom which his parents, born in Rus
sia, found in America. On his visit
to the Library. he will be accom-
panied by Postmaster General
Walker, q personal friend Of many
years standing.
After the ceremony, DR.. Evans
will entertain Mr.. Balaban and
other guests at luncheon in his
onlce.
Byron Price, director Of censor
ship, Is to speak at q meeting In the
Coolidge Auditorium Of the Library
ct $50 am. tomorrow. His subject
win be THE Bill Of Rights In Wa,
Time"
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Campaign Ribbons
Presented Leaders
lin Paper Salvage

Supertrooper campaign ribbons
which are awarded to those Paper
troopers in The Evening Star-PTA
Salvage for Victory program who
have collected 1000 or more pounds
of wastepaper were distributed in
the first district yesterday and will
be presented in the other districts
as rapidly as possible. Distributions
were made yesterday at Wallach
Buchanan, Bryan, Orr, Randle
Highlands, Kimball, Ann Beers and
Jefferson Junior High School.
Three more Supertroopers were
listed today. They are Larry Bulls
and Mickey Margetts of Shepherd
and Marvin Roseblatt of Corcoran
They will receive the War Produc-
ton Board Certificates of Merit and
the new ribbons.
So far only three schools have
signifled their intention to have col
lections during the two-day holiday
starting Thursday. Those three,
Hardy. Key and ilton-Peabody,
will be collected on Friday.
Yesterdays collections totalled 35,-
220 pounds and brought the total
to 10,978, ,769 pounds.
Schools turning in half a ton or
more included Kensington, 4,723;
Wallach, 1924; Bryan, 1,747; Bu-
chanan, $3.50; Ketcham, 1880: JEFF
ferson, 1905; Kimball, 2,791; Browne,
5,897; Orr, 1,l00; Beers, 1880; Ran
die Highlands, 1,784.
Collections tomorrow in the third
district together with the leaders
will be as follows:
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Marine Couple Get Loan
Under 6I Bill Of Riqhts

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert j. Pugh o1
Richmond. Va, both ex-marines
have become the first husband and
wife to use their combined rights
as veterans to get a home loar
under the CT Bill of Rights.
The Veterans Administration sale
the couple had purchased an $4,000
home in Richmond. The Govern
ment guaranteed $4,000 on the loan
or the $4,000 limit for each of the
veterans.
Mrs. Pugh was a corporal in the
Womep's Reserve of the Marine
Corps from November, 1943, to De-
cember, 1914. Mr.. Pugh was q
private, first class. A former sales
man, he entered the Marine Corps
In May, 1943, and was discharged
In September, 1914.
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Noted Musicians
Express Interest
In Symphony Drive

Messages from world-known mu-
sicians who have appeared as guest
artists with the National Symphony
Orchestra have been received by the
orchestra recently, expressing in
terest in and support of the Or
chestra.'s current sustaining fund
campaign for $4,000.
Fritz Kreisler, violinist, wrote:
"The results of your campaign will
mean much to the artistic life of
our Capital City. I only hope my
appearance will be of assistance to
you in maintaining the high artistic
ideas for which your organization
has received so much merited recog-
nition." Mr.. Kreisler will appear
with the symphony next season.
Others Express Hope.
James Melton, tenor, wired: II
know that the people of Washing
ton are very proud of this fine
association and will continue to sup
port it with understanding of the
great possibilities that lie ahead of
Iyou. Express my congratulations
to DR.. Kinder Dr. Hans Kinder,
conductor) for the splendid work
done by the symphony this season" "
Gladys Swarthout wrote: II feel
the National Symphony Orchestra
is one of the most beautiful or
chestras in the world. The work
| it is doing should be one of great
civic pride and gladly and whole
heartedly supported"
| Today the leaders of the drives
Government, Committee will meet
for luncheon in the Sun Room Of the
Washington Hotel, to make plans
| for their drive to raise a quota OF
$17,500.
More School Concerts.
Besides increasing the number OF
concerts held especially for Govern
ment workers, the orchestra plans
next season to increase the numbe,
| of school concerts. The need fol-
more school concerts was empha-
sized by letters received by the Drive
Committee, such as the one signed
by 36 sixth grade students at Bunke,
Hill School, written last month.
1--WE brought our money to go te
the concert at Eastern High Schoo
and when we went to get our tickets
all the seats were sold out" the letter
said. @We would like to have q con.
cert at Mckinley High. We are
closer to Mckinley than to Central
We are bringing our money to 60 tx
the concert at Central, but we woulc
like one at Mckinley"
Evening star., 1945-02-20
Garry House Residents
Form Fire Department

Residents of Garry Houses, a Ma
tional Capital Housing Development
at Suitland, Md, last night organ
lied a volunteer fire department and
prepared to obtain equipment from
the Office of Civilian Defense.
Organization OF the department
followed several fires in the commu-
nifty, one of which last month de-
stroyed four units and cost one life.
]. E. Lindell was elected chief Of
the department, o. G. Dunham.
deputy chief, and D. G. Kelley, Sec
retary. The Boulevard Heights Fire
Department. which has aided Garry
House residents from time to time,
has given one trailer pump to the
newly organized department pending
delivery of OCD equipment.