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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

The "Y' Mothers club will
hold the regular meeting on
Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the clubroon.
A meeting OF the Kings
Daughters class of the Winter
Park Baptist church will be
held this evening at 8 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. George
Morton and Piney Woods.
The w. S. C. S. OF Grace
Methodist church will hold the
monthly church day on We'd
nesday as follows: Spiritual
Life Group II am, circles
1880 am. business meeting
IL noon, luncheon Ills pm.
circle 4 as hostess.
The Wesleyan Service Guild,
of Grace Methodist Church i'll
meet with Miss Agnes Chas-
ten, 602 Chestnut street on
Wednesday evening at 8
o'clock.
The W. H. Sprunt Bible class
will meet this evening at 8
o'clock at the YWCA.
The Ladies auxiliary to the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trani-
men will meet on Thursday
afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock al the
Junior Order Hall.
The Masonboro Home Dem
onstration club will meet today
at 2::30 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Frank Walton.
The regular meeting of the
American Legion auxiliary will
be held this af erloon at $3.50
o'clock at the Legion home.
Officers for the coming year
will be elected.
The Carolina Beach Home
Demonstration club will meet
Thursday afternoon at 2::30
o'clock at the home Of Mrs.
John Kelly, $40, Southern Ex-
tension.
The Georgia Barton class Of
Temple Baptist church will
meet Thursday evening at 8
O'Clock at the home of Mrs. c.
B. Hemby, 2o17 Woollcott ave-
nue..
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
PERSONALS

L
arrived Saturday morning to spend
some time with Mrs. Parker's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis B. Orrell
at their cottage on Wrightsville
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. William M. Bell
amy have moved from their home
in the city to their cottage on South
Lumina avenue at Wrightsville
Beach for the summer season.
Mrs. I. B. Granger of Montclair,
N. j., is visiting her mother, Mrs.
]. Victor Granger at her home on
Marker street.
Mrs. L. D. Angle of Charlotte. is
the guest of Mrs. Marsden Bellamy
Jr., at her home on Harbor Island.
Mrs. Alan Marshall of Charles
ton, S. c., spent the weekend
here.
Commander Peter Browne Ruff
fin returned to Charleston. S. c.,
Monday morning after spending the
weekend here with his family in
Forest Hills.
Mrs. George Snyder and three
children of Charlotte, will arrive
Wednesday to spend a month at
the Kitty cottage on Wrightsville
Beach.
Mrs. Gladstone Butler of Rich
mond, vs., will arrive Wednesday
to be the guest of Mrs. Charles P.
Bolles at her cottage on Wrights-
vile Beach.
DR.. and Mrs. B. r. Morrison and
sons will move today to their colt
age on Wrightsville Beach for the
summer season.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. Shepard and
Miss Louise Shepard will move to
their summer home on Lumina
Avenue, Wrightsville Beach, toda,
to spend the summer season.
Major Roddy Kidder arrived Fri
day night from Foster Field, Tex.
as, to spend months leave with
his mother, Mrs. Francis Curtzwil
err at their home In Oleander.
MI. and Mrs. J. @. LeGrand ano
sons are spending the month Of
June at the VanLeuvan cottage on
West Oxford street, Wrightsville
Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Preston anc
family have moved from their
home in Forest Hills to their sum.
mer home on Harbor Island for the
season
DR.. Isaac H. Manning of Chape
Hill VINO was for a number of
years dean of the medical scnoo]
at the University of North Carolina
is spending this week here as the
guest of DR.. and Mrs. j. B. Gran
mer at their home on Market stree
Mr.. and Mrs. S. P. Livingston
have left for Richmond, Va.
where they will attend the gradua
ton exercises at Union Theological
Seminary where their son, William
Livingston, pastor of the Hebron
Presbyterian church, Staunton. Va.
will receive his Masters degree il
theology.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Monore Shigle,
and three children arrived Frida,
from Texas for a visit here ane
are occupying Mrs. Shigleys sis
ter's cottage at 839 South Lumins
avenue, Wrightsville Beach.
Mrs. Harland J. Harris and
daughter, Lynn Marshall Harris
left Friday for Tacoma, Washing
ton to meet her husband, M/Sgt
Harris, who has returned from
overseas. Harris is with the 82nd
Airborne Division and is in the
Division Surgeons office of Divi--
sion Headquarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

Save extra juice from canned or
cooked fruit to use in sauce for
buildings and fritters and to add
flavoring and sweetening to gelatin
desserts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
1898
hy Alice Brooks

You can't afford to be without
these crocheted squares. SO useful,
SO easy and thrifty to make; less
than one ball of cotton per square!
The square crocheted in pineapple
design is favorite for pillows,
luncheon sets, scarfs. Pattern TOSS
has directions for square; stitches.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
for this pattern to Wilmington Star.
News Household Arts Dept, 259 W
14th St., New York II, N. Y. Print
plainly NAME, ADDRESS and
PATTERN NUMBER.
Just out! Send fifteen cents more
for our NEW 1915 Needlework Book
"a Illustrations of designs; Gro.
cheting, knitting, embroidery, dolls,
other toys, home decoration. Free
Pattern for two crocheted handbags
printed right in the book.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
Joyner-Spencer
Vows Announced

The marriage of Mrs. Lena
Spencer and T. L. Joyner was
solemnized on Saturday evening,
May 26, at the home of J. c.
Joyner, in the presence of rela-
tives and friends.
They are making their home al
6 Hudson drive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
St. Mary's Club
To Give Party

St. Mary's Catholic club will
sponsor a bingo party on Wednes-
day evening at o'clock at the
parish hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

MISS MARY INN MCKEE,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.
Mckee of Oleander, who was
awarded the WAA trophy for the
best all-round senior at commence
ment exercises held last week at
Furman university, Greenville. S.
|C. Miss Mckee recently won first
place in the South Carolina press
convention for an essay, ION Opin-
ion." At Furman she was a men,
Der of the Athletic Association and
Prelude, an honorary literary
society. Miss Mckee was active
in musical productions and sports
and last year was awarded the
block letter,
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Philips an
nounce the birth Of son, Robert
Allen. May q, at Marion Sprunt
annex. Mrs. Philips is the former
Mary House of Clinton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

BIRTH ANNOUNCED
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Reid an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Catherine Louise, May 81, at
Marion Sprunt annex.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1o,.

dy, commended that Judge c,.,
Williams was without amtb eisVSoo
order a mistrial. N'ofl'y 70
Since Williams had on.
regular civil term March 'p re 1,
argued that Williams ~ 10; Dunn
hold both civil and crir,; loulo na
at the same time under ,b. 'elN,
missions handed him bv '4 Re. CON-
ecutive department. Vie G
- 10 ore. remove rust from the co,,,
of cake tins. dip a raw IofNe's
cleaning powder and sco'w v''0 h
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

garine, over low heat, until tender,
about IS minutes or longer, to al
low sauce to blend.
Cheese Popovers
l cup sifted flour
IL teaspoon salt
2 eggs
l tablespoon melted shortening
l cup milk
IA cup grated cheese
l tablespoon chopped parsley
Sift together flour and salt Bea,
eggs and add milk. Add to flour
mixture. Beat to smooth batter
Add shortening, cheese. parsley
Beat three minutes. Fill no,
creased muffin cups two-thirds
full. Bake at 45O degrees Is min
utes. Reduce neat to $50 degrees
and continue baking Is minutes
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

The Surf club at Wrightsville
Beach entertained on Saturday ev-
ening at it's first party of the sea-
son with a buffet supper at 8
OF clock
The clubhouse was attractively
decorated for the occasion with
many arrangements of summer
flowers. Supper was served at
small tables grouped about the
spacious porches.
Among those attending were:
Commander and Mrs. P e r
Browne Ruffin, Pvt. and Mrs. Har-
old Alexius, Mrs. David S. Harriss,
Mrs. Alan A. Marshall of Charles
ton, S. c., Mr. and Mrs. J. Laur-
renee Sprunt, Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Doss, DR.. and Mrs. James H.
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs Raiford
Trask, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Holmes
Davis, Jr., Chief Petty Officer Will
liam H. Rankin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jack Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
H. Tate, DR.. and Mrs. Watts Earth
ing, Mr.. and Mrs. C. Monore Shig-
ley, DR.. and Mrs. R. B. Hare, Mrs.
Almeta Stewart Edwards, Mrs.
Robert B. Ellis. Miss Mary Davis,
Lieut.. Bobby Bridgers, Miss Betty
Blue Davis, Lieut.. Pope, Miss
Mary Bellamy, Miss Jocelyn Peck,
Lieut. Roberts, Miss May Taylor
Bill Haywood, L. P. Hinton, Miss
Fannie Grow, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Stovall, John Taylor, Mrs. Kano
Lehto, Mrs. Ralph Nesbit, Mrs.
John C. VESSEL, Mrs Thomas B.
Granger, Mrs. John Robert An
thony Beatty. Major Roddy Kid
der, Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett H.
Bellamy, Officer Candidate Brent
Keyser, of Camp Lejeune, Officer
Candidate John Herbert, Camp
Lejeune, Officer Candidate John
Ledes, Camp Lejeune, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. J. Doss, Mr.. and Mrs.
Pete Cantwell. Mr. and Mrs. H.
M. Kendall, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Paterson, Frank L. LaQue, Mrs.
Marsden Bellamy, Jr.. Mrs. Wal
ter Williamson, Miss Emma Bel
lamy Williamson, Mrs. L. D.
Angle of Charlotte, Mrs. James D.
Carr, Mrs Gordon Stillman, Mrs.
Michael Brown, Lieut.. and Mrs.
w. A. Simon;
Mr. and Mrs. c. Van Leuven,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Preston, Mr.
end Mrs. T. D. Love, Jr., Mr.
and Mrs William Peck, Mr. anc
Mrs. P. R. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

Joseph Stains real name is Iosif
Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

CLUB CLOCK

The "Y' Mothers club will
hold the regular meeting on
Wednesday afternoon at 4
o'clock in the clubroorn.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-05

Mrs. Harland J. Harris and
daughter, Lynn Marshall Harris
left Friday for Tacoma, Washing
ton to meet her husband, M/Sgt
Harris, who has returned from
overseas. Harris is with the 82nd
Airborne Division and is in the
Division Surgeons office of Divi--
sion Headquarters.
Evening star., 1945-08-26

have broken all speed records for big
plane development, and will have con-
tributed tremendously to the science of
flight. His engineers in building the
H-4 overcame obstacles which at times
seemed insuperable. They not only
built the largest plane in the world. but
they did 1t the hard way, made it of un-
conventional materials, and many times
were compelled to pioneer not only the
things they did with wood but in de-
signing the tools. jigs and other equip
ment used to make the parts.
The H-4 is constructed as carefully
as the finest piece of furniture ever
built. There Is not a screw or rivet
in it except for engine fastenings and
similar things. The very thin plywood
strips-mostly aircraft birch from Wis
consin and Michigan-are held to-
gether with three types of resin Clues
Hughes people claim that stress parts
are stronger than steel and they may
well be.
To do the work, Mr.. Hughes hired the
best woodworkers in the country. He
even had to engage paperhangers to
insert the tissue that forms one layer
Of the exterior skin. New techniques
for handling wood were developed by
engineers as work progressed.
The National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics helped greatly In designing
Evening star., 1945-08-26

other than very scarce aluminium and
other aircraft metals.
Out of This World
So Mr.. Kaiser and a Hughes engineer
came to town and sold the Government
on really big cargo airplanes. The pic
ture that helped turn the trick was
something out of this world" even
more so in some ways than the H-4
1t was a drawing of huge twin-hulled
flying boat with engines,
Jesse Jones, through his Defense
Plant Corp, made the $l8, ,00o, 900 grant
to Mr.. Kaiser and Mr.. Hughes at the
suggestion Of Donald NJ Nelson, who
then was chairman Of the War Pro-
duction Board. Mr.. Jones needed little
selling on Mr.. Hughes for he had
watched him grow up down in Texas,
and the RFC chief was a longtime
friend Of the Hughes family.
The contract called for construction
Of three experimental planes all of
wood, the first to be completed in is
months and the third, a flying mode2.
in Is months. Mr. Hughes was to do
all the work at his Culver City plant.
After Mr.. Hughes engineers got into
the project, however, the plane evolved
to a six-engine boat with single hull.
Later the Army came through with spe-
cifiications calling for something to
transport cotton tank. SO the H-4
came into being. The Hughes plant was
Evening star., 1945-08-26
re Building Queen Mary Of the Sky!

Three years Of tremendous activity
for the Hughes engineering stan is
wrapped up In the H-4. but it Is now
nearing completion. So far Uncle Sam
has put $40, ,20o,0 600 in the project Money
supplied by Mr.. Hughes brings the cost
to about $4,000, ,000
Some Of Mr.. Hughes competitors on
the West Coast doubt that the big ship
will ever fly. One of the largest airplane
manufacturers said he made bet that
daylight would never be seen between
the H-4 and the water. But, 1t would
rather seem the whole thing had been
tested by piece and scale model too
thoroughly for it to fail now.
The schedule calls for the first flight
test to be made early next year at
Long Beach. That is % miles from the
Hughes plant. The hull will be trucked
to the launching point in September,
followed by the wings. tail assembly
and engines at later date.
Mr. Hughes would do well to engage
large portion of the State police to
hold back the crowds when he starts
carting the big plane to the sea.
His men say that Mr.. Hughes, who
has established numerous aircraft rec
ords, wants to be at the controls when
they take the H-4 out for its first spin.
But, if he is indisposed. he has long
list of famous pilots from which to
choose
The H-4 was designed as a cargo car
rier, and how it came into being is an
amazing story that could only happen in
wartime Washington or Hollywood any
old day.
Evening star., 1945-08-26
He Told the Japs Where to Head In

Hirohito's second brother, Takamatsu,
and his wife all round the country, they
visited Setsuko, daughter of Ambassa-
dor Matsudaria. She later married
Hirohito's first brother, Prince Chichibu.
and was then student at Wellesley.
zacharias is vaguely oriental In ap-
pearance.
He'spoke such excellent Japanese that
Setsuko asked him when he first learned
English. He said 1t must have been
when he was about years old. Only
then did she catch on that he was an
American.
The captain is a gardener, but his
chief hobby is handwriting analysis.
I wrote down his name and asked.
What, If any, can you fgger out from
this?"
Frankly said Zach, You have an
evil disposition and are more than
somewhat on the dumb side"
Evening star., 1945-08-26

not large enough for the giant, SO
part of the original DPC grant was used
to construct factory. At the same
time, the contract was sliced to include
only one model instead Of three.
Jesse Jones Had Faith
Early in 1914. many original WASH
ington friends Of the idea, including Mr..
Nelson, were ready to give up the whole
thing and write of the money spent as
a war experiment. At the same time,
Mr.. Kaiser, apparently realizing that
possibility OF mass-production of the
H-4 was virtually nil, released himself
from the project. The money was run
ming out fast, but Mr.. Jones faith in Mr..
Hughes was undiminished. He made
out the contract to Mr.. Hughes alone.
Mr.. Hughes still apparently does not
plan to build more HTS Of this type.
1t is just too much work to build
great plane of wood with 50 much con-
ventional aircraft material around. And
it is a generally-held belief that flying
boats are outmoded by their land-based
brethren which thousands OF times in
the war have proved equally as capable
at hopping great expanses Of water
safely. The boats are too SLOW
But. there is talk that Mr.. Hughes
might duplicate the H-4 in aluminium
and with wheels.
In any event, If the giant plane takes
to the air next year, Mr.. Hughes will
Evening star., 1945-08-26

the H-4. Two scale models were built
and tested successfully. One was tested
for hydrodynamic characteristics at the
NACA tank at Langley Field, Va, and
the other was tried out aerodynamically
in the California Tech wind tunnel
In building the plane it was necessary
to reach tolerances never before attained
in wood construction. All birch parts
are made from veneer varying from
a sixty-fourth to an eighth of an inch
thick and laminated together with glue.
Because Of the great length of most
parts, 1t was necessary to scarf" ends
Of veneer together before lamination.
Birch billets for the wing spars were
by 8 inches by 30 feet. Spruce was
used to some extent, and longeron
billets of spruce were 100 feet long. built
up of three -sixteenths- of -an-inch lam
nations.
An interesting point in construction
is that glue pressure for fixing the
ships skin was obtained by mailing
the skin in place with thousands of small
nails which were removed after the
glue was set Single skin panels often
required over 10000 nails.
The planes floor was made strong
enough so that a Cotton tank could be
rolled In under it's own power and
tSee AIRPLANE. Page C-5)
Evening star., 1945-08-26
By James Y. Newton

Howard Hughes is putting finishing
touches to Queen Mary of the sky.
Although born OF war, this winged
leviathan being built in Southern Cali
fornia is symbolic of the big things the
world may expect from this new-found
peace.
It's the worlds largest in an era Of
giant airplanes, Of size that soon may
take you and 800 others nonstop to
Europe with no more concern than a
conventional aircraft now whisks you
on 2oo-mile jaunt.
It's a wooden 8-engine flying boat
with a 32o-foot wingspan which for
lack of an appropriate name is known
simply as the Hughes H-4. At one time
they selected Hercules as the name, but
Movie Man Hughes, who also makes
label didn't connote enough power for
his big baby"
had heard a lot about the plane,
In fact, seen some pictures of it. But,
still found 1t dificult to believe my
eyes when first walked into the big
plant that is the Has own private
cradle in Culver City, Calf Indoors,
the three-story high hull and the great
wings seemed even larger than they
actually were. The whole sight was so
unbelievably fantastic that the first re-
action was to laugh. Nearby Hollywood
employs some adjectives that are most
appropriate for the H-4.
Football Field Measurements
Hughes men explain the size of the
H-4 by using football field as a meas
uring rod. They say if you place the
tail on one side line, the nose would
protrude 10 feet beyond the other side
line and the wings would overlap the
goal lines by 20 feet!
Here are some quick measurements
Of the H-4:
Widespread, 800 feet (B-29, 141 feet),
with wing Is feet thick at hull; hull,
220 feet long, 80 feet high and Is wide;
power 8 engines, 5000 horsepower each,
and each with 4-bladed propellers meas
uring II feet from tip to tip; fuel, IA
tanks each to hold 1000 gallons of gas
(about AZ tons; speeds, high speed at
sea level, 2l8 miles per hour, cruising
speed of ITS, distance of take-off, $500
feet.
Over 200 Tons of Plane
The Has gross weight is 200 tons
plus, compared to 70 tons for the Mar
tin Mars, itself giant plane. The plane
is designed to carry pay load of 65
tons. Hughes men say it could accom-
modate $50 hospital patients in stretch
ers with a full staff of doctors, nurses
and equipment. 1t is designed to fly
$500 miles with a full load and CORE
spondingly longer distances with partial
loads.
The total horsepower of the planes
giant engines-24 ooo-may be COM
pared to the B-29's $780, Engines are
Pratt & Whitney's Wasp Major.
Evening star., 1945-08-26

Those were dark days fort Nation,
particularly on the seas, for the Ger
mans were knocking OF ships that formed
Hfelines to Britain and Russia faster
than shipbuilding Wizard Kaiser eand
his contempories could build them. The
Japs were not doing so badly for them
selves on the other side OF the world.
A way to beat the submarine was the
quest of military minds, and there were
men in high places who thought the
best thing to do was to fy over them.
They Called Him 'Superman'
Mr.. Kaiser's shipbuilding exploits,
topped by completion Of l0.000-ton
Liberty in IL days, captured the Ma
tions imagination like nothing else on
the homefront, and were a great tonic
to morale. There were many in Wash
ington and elsewhere who called him
"superman."
The West Coast dynamo first pro-
posed building 5000 giant Mars flying
boats in shipyards and he quickly sold
couple of congressional committees
on the idea. But the brass hats" of
the Navy, Army and Maritime Commits
sion stymied him after lengthy investi-
cation. Finally, they would give him
neither the facilities nor materials for
his plans. 1t was q wise decision as it
turned out, for the yards and materials
were put to much better use for mer-
chant ships and more conventional air.
craft.
Failing to put over his first idea, Mr..
Kaiser tied in with Mr.. Hughes, who
had long experience in both building
Evening star., 1945-08-26

Capt. Ellis M. Z1chdri1S,
United States Navy, Japanese
speaking officer, broadcasting
to Japan from Washington.
Navy Photo.
And, finally, their imperial high
nesses, Prince and Princess Takamatsu
will recall when, as their aide de camp,
I accompanied them during their tour
of two months in the United States
in 1881"
He's Lot of Fun
The captain is as long, lean and
tough as bullwhip: He stands feet
tall but weighs only ITO pounds. He
is a black-haired, handsome cuss from
Jacksonville, Fla, SIS years old and looks
like 30. He is friendly and lot of fun.
Around. Jacksonville. he used to watch
the Spanish American War ships. They
weren't anything to brag on, but he
thought so, and there's where he made
up his mind to become Navy man.
In 1912 he got himself Navy COM
mission from Annapolis He decided to
go into naval intelligence after being
jerked around all over the seven seas.
He says he probably has had more duty
in, naval intelligence than any other
man in the United States Navy.
After serving on cruisers in World
War I, he went to Tokyo in 1920 as an
attache at the American Embassy. For
three years he did nothing except study
the Japanese language because the Navy
wanted him to study the japanese Ian
guage.
He sailed around with the United
States Asiatic Fleet until 1928, went
back to Japan as acting United States
naval attachs. and studied some more
Jap language.
Zach" came to Washington In April
from San Diego, where he was chief Of
sta1 Of the 18th Naval District, and i'm
mediately was lent to yDWI for these
Jap broadcasts. He went, but he didn't
like 1t very much for he Is Z fighting
man.
He says all the so,ooo,oo Japs should
and could be 'herded back on the home
islands. With American bulldozers to
smooth out their sacred soir' and some
modern fertilizer to help grow their
yictuals, he thinks the Japs could get
along very well.
He thinks all we need to handle
Japan is token force. but he says
we're going to be in trouble all over
again il we don't send men out there
with flexible. understanding minds.
Back IN 1881. when hs escorted