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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-31
GROVER C. EDGE

Funeral services will be held
afternoon at 3 O'Clock
from the Ward Funeral nome
chapel for Grover c. Edge, man
ager of the Pilot Life Insurance
company in Wilmington, who died
suddenly Wednesday in his home.
1T S. 18th street. The Rev. c. F.
Rogers of Asheville, will ~officiate,
assisted by the Revs. J. B. Nc
Quere and w. G.. Hunri.
Edge, Sc, is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Bertha S. Edge; five
brothers, T. B. Edge and E. H.
Edge, Wilmington, w. M. Edge,
Leland, ]. H. Edge, Mullins, S.
&C., and J.. L. Edge, Southern Pines;
one sister, Mrs. Ruth Hall, VAN
pee, S. c., and several nieces and
nepheWs.
Interment will be in Oakda1e.
Honorary pallbearers are DR.
S. E. Warshauer, DR.. William S
Dosher, o F. Stafford, j. @. lie
Grand, c. S. Everett, w. M. Rob
bins, E. N. Small, J. D. Fennell
j. c. Spivey, Garland Gray, J
K. Taylor, ST., D. B. Davidson, H
Winfield Smith, and S. j. Riven
bark.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-31
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Little Worry

Eat talk, laugh or sneeze witbo'.
rear OF insecure false teeth dropping'
sl1pping or Wabbling. FASTEETH bo,gs,,
P1ates tlrmer and more comfortabIIrs
ms peasant powder has no Elmmy'
soueS' pasty taste or feeling. Doe,n,.
cause nausea. IT'S alkaline (non.scjd,
SnecK K plate odor" (denture brestSi'
Get at any drug store
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-31

Cape Fear river, was the sweata..
music this side of Guy Lombardo'
The Passport, Mrs. L.C eiop.
was indeed a passport to the ls~
OF happiness-a land it is diffjcnIt
to get a visa to in the mac ra"t
of 1916. year
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-31
The Weather

WASHINGTON, May 3o.-(P-Weather
bureau report of temperature and rain
fall for the "a hours ending 8 pm. IN
the principal cotton growing areas and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-31

Yugoslavia literally means ,o,4b
Slavla,o Or the country OF the SOUTH
ern SlaVs. NNul'
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Army and Navy Nurses
PAY Dues for Home

Several hundred Army and Navy
nurses already have applied for
membership in the Nurses National
Memorial and many have sent in
their first years dues although con-
struction has not begun on the pro-
posed home and social center here,
Arthur H. Johnson, national chair
man OF the project, said today.
The membership applications have
taken the Memorial Committee en-
tirely by surprise, Mr.. Johnson said.
1t had been announced that when
the fund for construction is raised
and the building completed, nomi-
nal membership fee of 81 a year
will be paid by those Eligible to enjoy
its facilities.
At present a group Of citizens,
headed by Mrs. Harry S. Truman,
Mrs. Norman T. Kirk, wife Of the
surgeon general of the Army; Mrs.
Ross T. Mcintyre, wife of the sur
geon general of the Navy: Mrs.
Dwight E. Eisenhower, and others,
are sponsoring a Nationwide cam
paign to raise at least $4,000, 900 for
construction and maintenance of
the home,
Evening star., 1946-04-01
BY the Associoted Press

The Army signaled its intention
today to push the development OF
rockets as an atomic age weapon by
scheduling series Of tests with re-
assembled German va missiles.
twenty-five V-2s will be fired at
intervals of about a week beginning
May in the New Mexico desert
With military and civilian scientists
following their course, they are ex-
pected to roar to an unprecedented
altitude of 100 miles at a top velocity
of $500 miles an hour.
The purpose, said Maj. Gen. G. M
Barnes, chief of the Army Ordnance
Departments research and develop
ment service. is to help develop
bigger and faster rockets"
Already. he asserted, the United
States has an equal knowledge oil
the rocket" although a relative late
conner in a field in which the Nazis
worked IS years In developing the
W. to lombard London and Ant.
werp.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
JUS. Agencies Topped
Quotas in Red Cross
Drive, Survey Shows

Wherever Government agencies
have been covered completely by
canvassers in the Washington
Metropolitan area Red Cross cam
paign, they have exceeded 100 per
cent of quota, General Chairman
Richard H. Wilmer revealed today.
Among these he listed the Federal
Reserve system, Library OF Congress
National Gallery of Art, Navy De-
partment, Soldiers Home, White
House Offices, Selective Service sys-
tenn, Administrative Office Of United
States Courts, Court of Customs ano
Patent Appeals. Army Air Forces
and Office of the Judge Advocate
General of the Army.
arlington, Alexandria and Fair.
fax (Va) units and the residential
division already have topped theil
quotas and are still working" hi
added.
Col. Wilmer pointed out the Gov.
ernment unit as a whole has re.
ported pledges by 1884 of the ap.
proximately 250,000 Government
workers it has been hoping to reach
The unit, headed by Secretary Of
the Navy Forrestal, will report agair
at 1890 pm. Thursday in the United
States Chamber of Commerce
Building.
It's individual quota in the $1,573,.
400 local drive is s69s 900, OF which
85.08 per cent has been pledged.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
0'Conor Sifts Charge
Against Vote Official
BY the Associofed Press

BALTIMORE, April IA request
for the removal from office of a
Baltimore City superv sor of elec-
tions, Charles A. Dorsey, on grounds
Of misuse of the powers of d super
visor" and "prostituting free elec-
tons" was up for consideration by
Gov. O'Conor today.
Galen L. TAFT, chairman of the
Republican State Central Commit
tee, declared yesterday he had re-
ceived an affidavit from Mrs. Mary
Burgess, Republican executive OF
Balitmore's Goth ward, charging Mr.
Dorsey had withheld blanks fol-
the nomination of ward election
judges.
Mrs. Burgess stated in her afi.
oavit that Mr.. Dorsey said he
was going to hold my blanks and
those of all other supporters OF
Mayor McKeldin's until he learned
whether Mr.. McKeldin was going
to file for the governorship, and
that if the Mayor did so. the Mayors
friends would be made to suffer
and would not be permitted to name
the judges of elections in their
wards"
Mr.. Dorsey said last night, 81
made no such statement to Mrs
Burgess. I don't want TO appear
on the defensive in this matter
I haven't done anything wrong
The law says it is the supervisor OF
elections who shall name the ward
judges-not the ward executive"
Mr. Tait's statement requested
Gov, O'Conor "to remove any Of
Tending supervisor from Office =
and also to send the whole matter
to the grand juries, both Federal
and local, for consideration of the
question of malfeasance in Office"
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Sunny Skies Lure
Record Throngs
To City's Parks

Bright sunny skies brought out
one of the largest public attendances
in WaShington's parks on recorc
yesterday, despite the fact that tenn.
peratures rose only as high as 81
degrees and the famous Tidal Basir
cherry blossoms were far past theil
prime.
Irving C. Root, superintendent ol
National Capital Parks, said 1877 .50t
persons drove around Hams Point
Last Sunday rain held attendance
at the Tidal Basin, where the bios.
SONS were at their height, to l25, 900
| For those who may have hoped
that today and tomorrow woulc
bring some relief from a bad cast
of spring fever, the weatherman hac
bad or good news, depending or
how you look at it. Temperatures
today were expected to rise to II
degrees and tomorrow are expected
to go to almost 80 degrees. Skies
will remain sunny, he said.
This, he commented, would be 9
far cry from low of 80 degrees al
S am. today here and temperatures
of to 10 degrees in New England
which forced Maine farmers te
break the ice to water their stock
In an unwilling tribute to the
Father of His Country yesterday
exactly Its individuals climbed the
step of the Washington Monument
park officials said
The Jefferson Memorial proved
most popular of any individual park
attraction Attendance there was
55 900. Attendance at principal
monuments was as follow, they said
Washington Monument, 5000; Lin
coin Memorial, $4,000, and Arling-
ton House Iee Mansion), 5000.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Bomb Test estWeotherForecusters
Face Biggest Task Since D Doy

| of square miles, into terms of daily
and sometimes hourly forecasts rests
with Col. B. G. Holman of Los
Angeles, chief meteorologist for the
force. He was one of three senior
Army Air Force forecasters charged
by Gen. Eisenhower with setting the
date for the invasion of Europe. Be-
fore joining the Army, Col Holman
was veteran of the United States
Weather Bureau service.
Associated with him on Admiral
Blandy's staff are number of dis
tinguished Navy aerologists. includ-
ing Capt. A. A. Cumberledge, Far
rell, Pa, who was sent to Khar-
barovsk, Siberia, last August with
two Army meteorologists to set up a
weather central. Capt. Cumberledge
was staff aerologist for Admiral Will
liam F.. Halsey in the South Pacific
and was serving aboard the carrier
Hornet when she was sunk by Jap
anese action.
Another Navy expert, 1t. P. A.
Humphrey Of Memphis, Tenn, has
flown on six long-range weather
patrols into the hearts of as many
Pacific typhoons. This type of patrol
was developed on the East Coast for
predicting the course of hurricanes
originating in the Caribbean area
While the last typhoon reported
in the MarShalls was in 1874, Ad-
miral Blandy said he's taking no
changes on having his guinea pig
fleet damaged by a natural storm
before the atomic weather-makers
get in their blows.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
|AFl May Ask Court
To Test Legality Of
|Vepco Draft Action
BY the Associossd Press

RICHMOND, Va, April 1.-Amer-
lean Federation of Labor officials
over the week end continued to con-
slider possible court test of the le-
gality of Gov. Tuck's action in draft
ing Virginia Electric g. Power Co
employees into the unorganized mill
! tia for emergency duty.
Henry Kaiser, associate counsel
for the AFL, said by telephone from
Washington that mo conclusive de-
cision has been made" as to insti-
tuting litigation.
The climax In the threatened April
l strike Of Vepco employees came late
Saturday when the strike was called
off after negotiations for the COM
pany and the International Broth
erhood of Electrical Workers (AFL)
signed stipulation agreeing to sub
NIT their dispute to arbitration
Tuck Rescinds Order.
Gov. Tuck Immediately rescinded
his order drafting Vepco employees
into the State Militia with instruc-
tions to maintain service over the
Vepco system supplying some l l,70G,-
900 people in Virginia, West Vir-
glnia and North Carolina.
In agreeing to arbitrate their diff
ferences. including retroactive pay
company and union officials signed a
four-page typewriter stipulation
which provided, among other things
Sn IF !.
ploye in the bargaining unit for the
coming contract year be increased
by not less than Is cents an hour
The Negotiating Committees oi
Vepco and IBEW also agreed tt
meet here April 9 to work out ar
agreement covering all matters no,
provided for in the stipulation.
Labor Protested Move.
Gov. Tuck, informed of the agree.
ment, ended the emergency which
he proclaimed Thursday before is
suing his draft order.
The Governors unprecedented ac-
ton in ordering the drafting of the
workers drew vigorous protest and
criticism from labor leaders. AL
though not involved in the strike
threat, the CIO joined AFL leaders
in protest.
j. S. Smith, president of the Vir-
ginia Federation of Labor, has
called meeting of Virginia AFL
organizations for April 6 in Rich
nond, to protest Gov Tucks ac-
ton.
The stipulation signed by the
company and the union specified
that each party will name two arbi-
traitors, who will decide, if possible
the issues submitted to them. Their
decision will be binding.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Army Tests of W Rockets
Set for Nav in New Mexico

Gen. Barnes pronounced the V-2s
ready for the test after a recent
preliminary trial at the White Sands
N. Mex, ordnance proving ground
scene of the forthcoming test. The
motor of one missile was run al
full speed while the rocket Itself
was tied down.
Radar will track the V-2s and
preparations have been made to col.
lect scientific data during the flights
The vas normal range of about zoe
miles will be reduced to approx.
mately 80 miles.
Nerve center for the test will be
a bombproof blockhouse with walls
Of steel-reinforced concrete 10 feet
thick and a 27-foot cone-shapeo
roof. From this experts will trace
the flight with two-way radio. Com.
Iplete decontaminating equipmen,
and long-range telescopes, as we'll a.
radar.
Command signals can be sent te
shut off the fuel if the rocket be.
haves abnormally. and to guide /,
by automatic pilot control.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Lady Astor Honored
At Fetes in DunviIIe
BY the Assoeioted Pres.

DANVILLE, Va, April Lady
Nancy Astor had busy day in DAN
vile today. Returning to her birth
place, which she left when she was 2
years old, she had a round OF func-
tions and was due to leave late this
evening for Mirador in Albemarle
County.
Arriving from Tryon, N. c., at
$50 pm. yesterday, she was enter
tanned privately at buffet supper
This morning she paid her respects
to Mayor w. E. Gardner, visited the
Dan River Mills, was honor guest
at municipal luncheon and later
in the afternoon was to address a
community meeting in the city audi
torium, where she was to receive
several gifts.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Hanging Of Mother
Declared Suicide

Deputy Coroner Christopher j,
Murphy today issued a certificate oil
suicide in the death of Mrs. Ruth
Esther Khiel, 43, mother of three
children, whose body was found
early yesterday hanging by robe
cord in the bathroom of her home
at 4600 Thirteenth street NV.
Her husband, Charles A. Khiel, q
Landscape gardener, said he last saw
his wife alive Saturday night. A
daughter Miriam, 10, was awakened
at about 3 am, she told police, when
her mother kissed her and said
"Good-by."
Mr.. Khiel called police at 7 am.
yesterday, when he missed his wife
and was unable to open the bath
room door. Mrs. Khiel was found
hanging by the neck from a hook
on the door, over which the robe
cord had been looped, police said.
The Khiel's other children are
Omar, 9, and Ameen, 7,
Evening star., 1946-04-01
CIean-Up Program Slated
For negro Health Week

Numerous programs have been
scheduled this week by the Negro
Community Chest agencies in OBJ
servance of National Negro Health
week.
At Northwest House, SIS M stree,
NV, children will engage in q
week-long, cleanup project, wash.
ing woodwork, painting and clean.
ing rooms. Posters stressing the
theme "a healthy home is a healthy
community" will be displayed.
At Southeast House, 324 Vir.
ginia avenue Sc, Girl Scouts anc
the Police Boys Club will sponsor
cleanup drive in the neighbor.
hood starting with their own homes
Other events on the schedule are
A lecture by Margaret Foreman
nutritionist, at the Young Women.
Christian Association, 90l Rhode Is.
land avenue NV, on the prepare.
ton of food at $50 pm. Thursday
movie, Let My People Live" pre-.
sented by the District tuberculosis
Association at the Southeast House
at 3:45 pm. Wednesday, and two
playlets presented by "a nursery
children at the Southeast House
on health at $50 pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
lilo Conference Opens
In Mexico City Today
ey the Assocjo,ed Press

MEXICO CITY: April 1.-Presi.
dent Avila Camacho of Mexico for.
mally opens the International Labor
ORGANIZATIONS third inter- American
conference today.
The tWo-week conference will be.
gin active work tomorrow with ar
overflowing agenda. Among mat
tiers due Tor discussion are immi.
grafton. imitation and industrializa-
ton in the Americas, along with
three technical topics-industria
relations, factory inspection ano
vocational education.
The United States, Canada ano
10 Latin American republics are
represented. Decisions reached will
be sent to ILO headquarters in
Montreal for coordination into the
world picture, then forwarded tc
the governments and interested in
ternational organizations.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Johnston Again Delay;
Action on Young 10
Probe Complaints

Action by the Senate District
Committee on the nomination OF
John Russell Young for a third term
as Commissioner was delayed again
today at the request of Senator
Johnston. Democrat. of South Car
olina, who said he was continuing
investigation of number" OF
complaints.
The nature of the complaints was
not made public.
The delay was left indefinite, but
Chairman Bilbo said he thought the
matter would be cleared up before
the end of this week.
Left unanswered was q question
Of whether the District Committee
would order full public hearings
on the nomination and the I'M
specified complaints against the
nominee. Chairman Bilbo said If
Senator Johnston recommended the
hearings before final action was
taken ''he will get them and to
the limit"
Senator Johnston said his tele-
phone had been ringing a lot but
refused to state the complaints or
to specify from whom they came
other than to say they were mostly
from individual residents rather
than from organized groups. He
said he would not describe the COM
plants out of fairness to Mr.. Young,
since he had not ben able to run
them down yet.
Senator Bilbo said he would give
Senator Johnston "all the time he
needs-within reason The Mis-
sissippi Senator said he, too, had
one complaint against Commits
sioner Young and that that was:
He hasn't yet closed down the
Gayety Theater."
Last week the Senate District
Committee ordered a favorable re-
port on the nomination, but it was
held up when Senator Johnston,
who arrived after the vote was
taken, said he wanted a delay until
he could look into" some COM
lplaints. The. committee gave him
until today to report on his investi-
CATION, but the time was extended
today at his request,
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Cherry Blossoms Fade
But Other Displays
Enhance CiN'S Parks

With the Tidal Basin cherry
blossoms on the wane the Office OF
National Capital Parks today listed
other blossom and floral displays
to be seen in the Capitals parks.
At present, park officials said
chief floral attraction is the flow
ering crabapples in Anacostia Park
between the Eleventh street and
Pennsylvania avenue John Philip
Sousa MemoriaD bridges, Franklin
and Lafayette Parks, near the JEFF
ferson Memorial, along Pennsyl-
vania avenue between Twentieth
and Twenty-flrst streets NV, and
in Grant Circle, New Hampshire
avenue and Fifth street NV.
Displays of Virginia blue bells
daffodils and jonquils, lilacs and
japanese ounce are now either at
their height or due to reach their
best within a few days to a week
The blue bells are to be found In
Rock Creek Park along Beach
drive, between Kalmia road and the
District line. Daffodils and jonquils
are most numerous in Dumbartor
Oaks Park, Thirty-first and H
streets NV; Palisades Playground
Sherrier and Dana places NV;
Montrose Park, r street between
Thirtieth and Thirty-frst streets
NV; Franklin Park and Chevy
Chase Circle.
Lilac Display in Southwest.
Best lilac displays are to be seer
along Maine avenue S.W., south ol
the Independence avenue bridge
while ounce is best seen in from,
of the East Potomac Park tea house
Officials said the double Oriental
cherries along the drive to Hains
Point in East Potomac Park usual
ly bloom in mid-April. This dis
play, they said, is usually followed
closely by tulips which are prettiest
in the West Potomac Park rose
garden and pansy beds near High
way bridge, the Grant Memorial
the Mall at First street; Judiciary
Park, E street between Fourth and
Fifth streets NV; Meridian Hill
Park, Sixteenth and w streets
NV; Twentieth street and Bilt-
more avenue NV; Thirty-ninth
street and Reno road NV; Thir-
teenth street and Kansas avenue
NV, near the jefferson Memorial
and near the I'd Division Memorial
Seventeenth street and Ccnstitu-
ton avenue NV.
Azaleas Due Later.
After tulips come azaleas-Mount
Vernon Memorial highway near
Mount Vernon, Meridian Hill Park
and Franklin Park.
From mid to late April, larger
trees like the black locust along
the c. g. o. Canal, redbud and dog
wood. are in evidence. The latter
two are best seen, park officials
said, in Rock Creek Park. along
the Mount Vernon highway belo~'
Alexandria and In Meridian Hill
West Potomac and Dumbarton Oaks
Parks.
In May, they said, mountain
laurel, Mount Vernon highway
Camp Springs Military highway
and Rock Creek Park; rhododen-
dron. Meridian Hill and Dumbarton
Oaks Parks, and Scotch broom,
Dumbarton Oaks Park, may be SEEN
In late May and early June the
attractions will be bronze daylilies,
Mount Vernon highway and Rock
Greek Park; roses, West Potomac
Park near Highway Bridge, and
water lilies, Kenilworth Aquatic
Gardens, Douglas street west of
KenilWorth avenue NE.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
narYIanders Have Six Days
Extra 10 Get Auto Taqs

Maryland motorists have until
mic hight Saturday to obtain new H.
censes after an extension of the
deadline six days. police in nearby
communities announced today.
The extension was granted from
midnight last night due to a rush
IN Baltimore to issue the tags to
last-minute applicants, police said.
Tags will be issued at the treasurers
Office in the County Buildings at
Bethesda, Silver Spring and Hyatts-
vile and at the Courthouses at
Rockville and Marlboro.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Trop Is Huge Success
From Rot's Viewpoint
BY the As,oeiated Pas

SAN JOSE, Calif.-A rat trap
complete with an electrocution
chamber and an electric door, was
demonstrated at a sectional meet
ing Of the National Association of
Sanitariums. Inc.
A rat entered the tunnel, the door
banged shut and there was an
audible electric buzzing.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Correction

The statement in yesterdays Star
that the English war bride of Mar
win Bryant. IS, of 2211 Bunker Hill
road NE, was war" widow at the
time he married her in Hull, Eng
land, on March 3, 1945. was incor-
rect due to a typographical error
which resulted in the word worker
appearing as widow"
Mr.. Bryants bride was Miss Olive
Marie Jackson and had never been
married. She reached New YORK
Saturday and was greeted by her
husband. discharged soldier, at the
dock. The couple is expected to ar
rive in Washington Thursday.
Evening star., 1946-04-01
.UNRRA Purchases Army
Machinery in England
BY the Assoeiofsd Press

Heavy engineering equipment no
longer needed in England by the
United States Army has been pur-
chased by UNRRA for use in devas-
tated countries invaded during the
war, 1t was announced yesterday.
Approximately 5000 tons of
machinery. including cranes, bull
dozers, road scrapers, tractors, con-
crete mixers, and power plants now
are being prepared for shipment to
Central Europe, UNRRA said in a
statement,
Evening star., 1946-04-01
Husband Of Boyineton's S
Ex-Wife Tckes Poison
By the Assoeiotsd Press

LOS ANGELES, April 1.-George
L. Gilbert, who recently married
Helene Boyington, former wife oi
Marine 1t. Col. Gregory Boyington
was reported in fair condition to.
day after, police said he swallowed
a quantity of disinfectant.
Police reported the former Seattle
news vendor swallowed the disin.
fectant Saturday night.
They said Mrs. Gilbert told then
her husband may have been de.
spondent" because she was return
ing to Seattle to see her children
but there is nothing wrong will,
our marriage and I only wanted tc
see my children"
Evening star., 1946-04-01

Men, 17-34! Don't lose the time
you had in the Army. Navy. Marines,
Coast Guard. Invest it in an Army
career and substantial retire
ment after 20 years of accumulated
time