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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25

Gets Plan O.
y
MedicalC>
Commission Submits Blue
print For Four-Y Year Pro-
gram For State Health
$~36,73e,oOo OUTLAY
Each County Would Get
Hospital o. Center With
School AT Chapel Hill

RALEIGH, Oct. 24.-(P)-
The Medical Care commission
Thursday offered the Advise
ny Budget commission a blue
print for a four-year program
of expanding the states hos
pital and medical facilities so
as to provide each county
with either a hospital or a
medical center, and a medical
center and a four-year medi-
cal school at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Costs of the program was esti-
mated at $36, 739, 900, of which the
state would pay $14, 14o, 900, the
f e d e government $12, 049, 0oo
under the Halliburton act which
provides aid to hospitals and local
sources $40, $50, 900.
The Medical Care commission
asked for an appropriation of &c.
600, 900 to assure that the program
would be started during the 1947-
40 biennium. Local hospitals would
receive SIS, 800, 00e of the amount;
health centers, $3.50, 900, and teach
ing at the university, ST. $50, 900.
1t was estimated that during the
biennium of 1949-51 that 81, 300, 900
would be needed for local hospitals
and $40, O0G for a teaching hos
pital.
The overall program calls for
the addition of 5000 beds to hos
pital facilities Of the state and the
construction of 80 health centers-
"a would be PLACED in counties
without hospital facilities and nine
See BUDGET On Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
And So To Bed

A local motorist passing
through a small neighboring
community failed to slow down
to the proper speed limit.
Another car pulled In behind
him and for several miles kept
blowing the horn, wondering
what the trouble was the mo-
torist pulled off the road and
stopped.
A large man In civilian
clothes emerged from behind
the wheel and in typical police
language asked, "Where's the
fire buddy?". The motorist.
not knowing the man was .
limb of the law, replied, who
wants to know?".
II am the chief Of police,
but I can't prove 1t, I lost my
badge" was the reply.
He warned the driver to be
careful as hs~-slowly walked
away mumbleing Where In
tarnation Is my BADGER.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
The Weather
FORECAST

South Carolina-Increasing cloudiness
and continued mild Friday, showers in
northwest portion Friday night; Satur-
day partly cloudy and cooler. light
showers in south and east portions Sat
urday morning.
North Carolina-Increasing cloudiness
and continued mild Friday, showers in
west portion Friday night; Saturday
partly cloudy and becoming cooler, show
ers in East portion Saturday morning.
Eastern Standard Tine)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1870 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am, .53; 1880 am. 81; 1880 pm. rs;
I 80 pm. Sc.
Maximum IS; Minimum so. Mean 50;
Normal So.
Humidity
1850 am. 96; 1880 am. Sc; 1870 pm. At;
7 80 pm. 80.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm -
300 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
2.87 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 1855 1905 am. 4:38 In.
1917 sos pm.
Masonboro Inlet :. 7:46 am. 1:27 am
1855 pm. 1:55 pm.
Sunrise 6:26; Sunset SGT; Moonyise
5 50 am; Moonse. sos pm.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
am. Thursday, 11.3 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
.HARNETT SCHOOL
MAY CLOSE HERE
County School Superinten-
dent Indicates Action
To Come Monday

Cornelius Harnett school will be
closed permanently Monday after
noon, it was indicated yesterday.
H. H. Roland, county sup%erinten-
dtnt of schools, said from Atlanta,
yesterday afternoon that, barring
a sudden increase in the schools
enrolment, it's door would be
closed as of Monday.
The county Board of Education
announced Sept. % that Cornelius
Harnett would be closed at the
end of a thirty-day period if no
satisfactory increase in its enroll
ment was shown.
The school now has 81 students,
its enrolment as of Oct. /.
Roland indicated this afternoon
that he will announce plans for
transfer of the schools five in
structors and the student body
when he returns to the city Sum
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
Spain Regime
Labeled Fuel
For Mistrust
Mexican Delegation Enters
Strong Demand For Veto
Elimination
CUBA CHALLENGES
"Off-Th e-F DOR" Defy
Hurled For List Ditch
Battle With 'Soviets

NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-(R
- Secretary-Genera Trycve
Lie, mindful of the bitter de-
bates among the great pow
ers on the Spanish question,
called upon the United Ma
lions assembly Thursday to
take a stand against Genera
lissimo Franco to remove
what Lie suggested was a
serious obstacle to the smooth
progress of the 4United Ma
tions.
Immediately after Lies oral re-
port to the assembly, Mexico lead
off the general debate with a strong
demand for elimination or modifi-
cation of the veto powers Of the
five permanent members of the
United Nations Security council.
DR.. Francisco Castillo Najera,
Mexican foreign minister and chief
delegate, declared the veto harm
full to the unity Of the United Ma
tionS.
Lie, in his statement. which was
a supplement to his written report
covering activities up to Aug. /.
said that the assembly can do a
See SPAIN on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
us. To Check
Transfers OF
iichWorks
Military Officials Will De-
mand Full Report On
Removal OF Plants
WORKERS TO USSR
Four Major Nazi Factories
Reportedly Dismantled,
Shipped To Russia

BERLIN, Oct. 24.-(UP)
American officials will ask
Soviet occupation authorities
for a full report on the trans
fer to Russia of thousands OF
expert German technicians
Col. Frank Howley, U. S
Military governor in Berlin.
announced Thursday.
Another highly p | a c e
American official, quot Il g
leaders of the anti-Russiar
Social Democratic party, said four
major German war factories were
being dismantled and shipped into
Russia along with their workers.
The plants repeatedly being
moved are the Askania Precision
Instrument works in Berlin, the
Zeiss optical works in Jena, the
Junkers aircraft plant in Dessau,
and the Siebel Aircraft works in
Halle.
German sources reported that
approximately 1000 persons had
been transferred from the aircraft
factories at Dessau and Halle, and
that 315 had been taken from the
Zeiss works and it's subsidiary, the
Scholt Glass works. Five hundred
Y fkers from factories in or near
Berlin already had been sent to
Russia.
London newspapers stated in
dispatches from Berlin that a
minimum of 5000 workers were
being transferred, and the maxi
mum may prove to be many thou
sands more.)
See CHECK on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25

ed for shipment if cars we're avail
able. He set the potential de-
mand for cars now at about 1885,
600 a. week."
1--WE won't catch up with this
backlog until about next March,
Johnson said, land by that time
We'll begin going behind again."
Record Loading
The director described loading
of 931, 766 freight cars during the
week ended Oct. 10 as ''the most
wonderful performance in the ais-
tory of American railroading.
This weekly total, he added, *
See DEARTH on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
COL. B. E. SNOW
ATTENDS FARLEY
Newly Designated District
Engineer Confers With
Col. Gillette

Col. Beverly G. Snow, newly
designated Wilmington district U.
S. Army Engineer, yesterday met
VITA Thomas j. Hewitt and Paul
Il Smell, has two top civilian as
sistants at a conference in the
South Atlantic U. S. Engineers
division office of Colonel George
w. Gillette in Atlanta, Ga.
Officials of the local USED re-
ported it unlikely yesterday that
Col. Snow will come here from At
lanta with Hewitt and Smell at the
close of the division conference
this afternoon. He is expected to
arrive here November l..
Col. Snow had his opening meet
ing with his chief assistants yester-
day in the first conference of Dis
trict engineers which Col. Gillette
has held since he assumed COM
mand of the South Atlantic divi-
sion.
Tw~enty-six officials of the divi-
sion gathered in Atlanta for the
conferences yesterday. They in
cluded five representatives of Off
continent districts among them
San Juan, Porto Rico, and Cristo-
bal, Panama.
Born in Durham, and a graduate
of Duke university, Col. Snow,
also a West Point r d u a t e,
was commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the Corps of Engineers,
prior to being assigned to Fort
See SNOW on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
Elect Officers

Joe Hood was reelected chair
mar and Mrs. Bernice Bjonerud,
business education coordinator, was
named secretary of the Diversified
Occupations advisory committee
during a supper meeting of the
group last night at the New Han
over High school cafeteria, Wallace
West. coordinator, announced.
The employer and trainer mem
bers of the committee heard two
addresses during the session. T. T.
Hamilton, principal Of the high
school, outlined the purposes and
operation of the program and the
duties of the coordinators, while
Harold M. Hnkle, manager of the
USES here, old of the ways in
which the high school and the U.
S. Employment Service may CO.
operate for the promotion of the
program.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
OMAN ADDRESSES
POLICE MEET HERE
Over $50 Southeastern
North Carolina Off
GERS Attend

With John C. Bills, agent in
charge of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation office in Charlotte,
as their chief instructor, more than
$50 Southeastern North Carolina
police officers went to school here
yesterday.
The occasion was the annual
FBI Law Enforcement Conference
held at the Plantation club here
yesterday afternoon for Bruins
wick, New Hanover, Fender and
Onslow county officials.
Bills, in an address which for
him served as an introduction to
See OMAN On Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
NOT AN ORGY.
NOT AN ORGY
UN Diplomats Eat; Drink
Best But Not Excessively

UN ASSEMBLY HALL, FLUSH
ING N. Y. Oct.24-W.D-Jack
Lasher, who manages the United
Nations delegate dining room call
ed the walters together before
lunch Thursday.
you're not just walters" he
told them. You're hosts to these
people. Your actions count a lot.
Now up at Hunter college, things
weren't so good always. But here
I expect each man to give the best
that's in him."
He paused. The walters, includ-
ing Anticipating Romolo Kar-
ANA, cooked their ears.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
TO DOCK
In PORT TODAY

A six-ship Navy task force will
dock here at II o'clock this morn
ing as the advance echelon Of a
three-day local celebration that
will mark one of the East coasts
most spectacular air-sea Navy
Day shows.
The fleet units are scheduled to
rendezvous at Southport around
8 o'clock this morning, according
to 1t. Henry e. Bost, commander
of the local Naval Reserve unit,
See FLEET on Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25

Remember about these people,"
Lasher said, "they got a million
things in their mind. Treat them
nice.
The black-coated walters took
their posts. The silver shone. The
tablecloths cleaned. Thered-leather
armchairs where the diplomats of
81 nations sit and sup were busted.
$1.75 Per Plate
For lunch the delegates laid out
SITS each, tips included. They had
their choice of fresh fruit cocktail
or chicken liver pate, then ox-tail
See DIPLOMATS On Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-10-25
FORECAST

Wilmington and neutrality-suspicious.
c1oudiness and continued mid .odav.
saturday party cloudy and cooler with
showers during morning hours.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
~ 2 Z
0'Conor May Go
1oSenate Before
Lane Inaugural
Baltimore Sun Says
Governor Wants
To Attend Opening
BY The A.soeiu..d Pres.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 22.-The Bal
timore Sun today reported consid-
cradle speculation among Demo-
Gratis that Gov. O'Conor might re-
sign to assume his Senate seat
when the Eightieth Congress con-
venes January g.
The paper said Republican con-
troll Of the Senate led Democratic
leaders to hope for the presence OF
all members of the Senate when
that body is called to order.
The article pointed out that Cow
elect Lane will not be sworn in until
January 8, and that Gov. O'Conor's
Senate committee assignments
might be affected.
Backers Of Brig. Gen. D. John
Markey, Gov. O'Conor,s Republican
opponent in the close election, have
indicated they will ask the Senate
to investigate the election before
seating the new member from Mary
land, and this was advanced as an
other reason for Gov. O'Conor's re-
ported desire to be on hand for the
opening rollcall.
He Is not expected to make de-
cision, however, before Mr.. Lane re-
turns from a Southern trip.
In the event the election was
thrown into the hands of the Legis-
lature," the article continued, ''the
only logical candidate, it was agreed
in both political and State govern
ment circles last night, would be
MIR. Lane, since he would be ASSUME
ing Office In a few days anyway"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Plans Under Way 10 Set Up
WCA for MONTGOMERY

Assured Of strong support from
community leaders, plans for estab-
lishment of a YWCA in Montgomery
County were under way today.
Approximately go representatives
of civic and social organizations met
last night, in the Silver Spring Dis
pensary Building and voted unani-
mously in favor of the proposal. A
committee will be appointed shortly
to work out details,
The group adopted resolution
presented by an Exploratory Com
mittee headed by Mrs. william N.
Moren of Bethesda, recommending
that the National Board of the
YWCA be asked to assist the women
of Montgomery County in setting
up the organization.
Miss Blanche Bogert, representa-
tive of the National Board of the
YWCA; Miss Mabel Cook, executive
secretary Of the Washington Central
YWCA, and Mrs. James Parker
Nolan of the Montgomery County
Community Chest and Council,
spoke.
The meeting was presided over by
Miss Dorothy Young Of Bethesda,
chairman of the Operating Com
mittee of the Bethesda Chevy Chase
USO, which is YWCA agency.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Woodside Citizens Oppose
Silver Spring Rezoning

The Woodside Park Civic Associa-
ton today was on record as opposed
to q proposal to rezone and declare
commercial the tract behind the
Silver Spring Armory. owned by the
Maryland-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission.
The civic group supported a reso-
luton, adopted at a mass meeting
Sunday night In st. Michael's School,
protesting announced plans of the
commission to abandon its original
proposal to develop the land for
recreational use.
Plans also were announced by the
association for the circulation of
questionnaires concerning the cove
nants and restrictions in the deeds
of Woodside Park property owners.
President E. C. Weeks explained
that the covenants expire in 1850
and the association is anxious to
find out If the property owners will
agree to their renewal so that the
high standards Of the community
may be continued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
FAIRFAX Puts Insurance
ION Arabian Gift Horse

Fairfax County has a purebred
SArabian stallion but it is STIMULATING
tcarefully that the animal shall be
covered by liability insurance to re-
flieve the county of all responsibility
I The stallion, Nab Raft, is the gift
}of r. E. Berry, 80-year-old Fairfax
fCounty resident, who purchased the
I horse about 6 years ago. Its sire was
J Raff1es, brought to the United States
4 from the English stables of Lady
Wentworth.
4 The County Board of Supervisors
i at first were in a quandary about
whether to accept the gift. One
member said he thought it might be
good idea for board members who
\ will have to run for reelection next
, year to use Nab Raft to ride around
4 campaigning.
\ commemorative Attorney Hugh
s@B. Marsh ruled the county had no
funds to pay for the keep of the
horse. Then 1t was agreed to place
4 the animal in the care of a we'll
known horseman, whose name was
not announced. But 1t was ruled
there would have to be liability
insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Falls Church Votes
Traffic Hazard Farley

The Falls Church Planning Com
mission last night voted to request
an immediate conference with the
State Highway Commission to dis
cuss means Of alleviating traffic at
Seven Corners on Lee boulevard.
The town council and the town
planning commission have received
many complaints from citizens who
contend the congestion also creates
traffic hazards at the point where
seven roads intersect. Reports from
the State Highway Commission in
dictate that $4,000 has been set
aside for work on the intersection
and that tentative plans are under
way for the construction soon of a
traffic circle.
In their letter to the highway
commission, the planners emphasize
the urgency Of immediate action on
the intersection before the area is
built up for business purposes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Engineer Out to Cut Red Tupe
As New Montgomery Delegate
zone OF a Series.)
By J. B. zotmon

Montgomery County with his father
in 1885 to organize the Lofstrand
Co.
He was always interested in Re-
publican politics and became an
active party worker in the county in
1898. His election November 5
marked the first time he ran for
Office.
Unlike some of the other county
Republican candidates, Mr.. Lof-
strand was confident Of victory. In
fact, he expected to win by q much
larger majority.
Company Devised Clutches. y
"You could see it coming" he as
serted. cali you had to do was study
the trend since 1888 and there was
no doubt Of Republican sweep this
year."
The Loftstrand Co., whose main
plant is in Rockville, Is headed by
his father and employs ITS persons.
At present it specializes in the man
ufacture of sterlizing equipment.
During the war, the firm received
three Army-Navy Els.
One product the company now
manufactures resulted from a visit
to the plant by two amputees from
the Walter Reed Convalescent Cen
ter. They wanted better clutches.
Mr.. Loftstrand developed a new
type collapsible metal crutch which
braces against the forearm and does
not reach above the elbow. It
proved, so popular that more than
1000 pairs were donated to am
|putees Of Walter Reed and the Be-
thesda Naval Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Two Men Rob Hacker
OF Taxicab and SIS

Two unidentified men In sailors
uniforms early today stole a taxi
cab and SIS from Elmore w. Cole
man, 43, Of OAKLAND, Va, after strik-
ing him over the head with a whisky
bottle while riding north on the
Rockville pike near the Naval Med
icai Center, Bethesda. The cab was
recovered.
The driver told police the men
hailed his cab at Fifth and G streets
NV. and asked to be taken to the
medical center.
Mr.. Coleman was treated at the
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, for
cuts on the head and was released,
police said. His cab was found near
the naval hospital.
A colored bandit held I'D a gas
cline station at Second and K
streets S.W. early today and escaped
with about $50, according to police.
Darrell Taylor, 10, the station at
tendant, said the man ordered gas
oline and then stuck Something
that looked like a gun" at his side
and demanded the money.
A sneak thief got away with
money and jewelry totaling S5e(
from the home of Wilbur Pearson
colored, 50, at 1924 Twenty second
street NV. yesterday, police re-
ported. Mr.. Pearson, who is challf-
feur for Phillip M. Brown, president
Of the American Peace Society, said
the thief apparently entered by
breaking the glass in q basement
door.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Single Disposal Plant Unable
To Prevent Opequon Pollution
City and Plant Waste
Is Carried by Creek
Into Potomac River
mo. S of a Series.
BY james ,BirehfieId
mo. S of a Series. J

Opequon Greek flows into the
Potomac River near Martinsburg,
w. Va, forming part of the DRAIN
age system for the Valley of Vir-
ginia. It is filled with the refuse
from Winchester, in the Valley, and
the wastes from canneries, wooden
mills and dye plants along its
shores. 1t receives final shot Of
pollution at Martinsburg and dumps
its load of filth in the Potomac.
Cleaning up the Opequon presents
a problem in corporations prob
lem that so far has not been solved
Industries charge they receive no
cooperation from communities, and
communities hurl counter charges
that industry is not interested in
pollution abatement. From the
sidelines planners are making futile
efforts to bring these two interests
together.
The winchester sewage disposal
plant was constructed about Is years
ago. According to sanitary engi-
neers representing the Potomac
River Commission, the Winchester
plant Is outmoded and overloaded.
1t cannot give satisfactory treat
ment to the sewage and industrial
wastes that pass through it.
Raw Sewage a Problem.
Until such time as the city can
construct a new disposal plant, for
which plans already have been
drawn, the Opequon will continue to
be overloaded with refuse at its
headquarters. This pollution is in
creased by the canneries and
slaughter houses that form a part
Of the industrial picture of the
area.
AT Martinsburg the Opequon picks
up raw sewage, plus the industrial
wastes from dye plants and wooden
mills.
Commission representatives say
Martinsburg has no plans for i'm
proving its outmoded disposal plant,
and that industries in the area
have shown little inclination to
clean up their wastes. Conditions
are made worse here, it is said, by
the lack of cooperation between
community and industrial leaders.
While Virginia and West Virginia
pollution control laws may be ex-
pected to prevent additional pollu-
ton in the area. engineers point
out that the present condition can
be quickly relieved only through
a willingness on the part of industry
and community leaders to CO.
operate.
In passing laws for the abatement
Of pollution, it was pointed out, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
Arlington Board Gives
Athletic Fund Report

An Arlington County School Board
report of funds received from ath-
letic contests will be distributed
among school children, as recon-
mended by Circuit Court Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy, starting today,
schools officials announced.
The report, covering the period
from July /, 1943 through November
16. this year, Is contained in a "Su-
perintendent's Bulletin" released this
week by Supt. Fletcher Kemp. Cash
receipts are listed as $fT,560, against
disbursements Of $17,701.
Judge McCarthy's suggestion that
the report be made to the students
was contained in a seven-page
opinion he gave in dismissing man
damus suit brought by Frank L. Ball,
jr.. Arlington attorney, who sought
to compel Mr.. Kemp and other
school officials to deposit funds from
athletic contests with the county
treasurer. The suit was decided on
October 10.
The bulletin covers activities Of
the county school system for the
1944-45 and I945-46 school years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-11-22
BrookfieId 10 Be Candidate
For Supervisor in Fairfax

John w. Brookfield Of Springfield
said today he would be candidate
in the Democratic primaries next
August for Fairfax County super
visor from Falls Church magisterial
district. Burns N. Gibson, the pres
ent supervisor, has announced he
will not seek reelection.
Mr.. Brookfleld long has been ac-
tive in county affairs and at present
Is vice chairman of the Board Of
zoning Appeals and a member Of
the Fairfax County Planning COM
mission. He was at one time presi-
dent Of the Fairfax County Chamber
of Commerce and chairman Of the
George Washington Bi-Centennial
Commission for Fairfax County.
Mr.. Brookf1eid Is q retired farmer
and rural mail carrier. He has been
. resident Of Springfield since 1905.