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Doctor Says
HAY FEVER FOUND
| HARD TO ESCAPE
BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN. NJ

Spring hay fever seasonal ~,
linosis) is due to the polIen p' -.
trees, especially the oak, elm ,,S
poplar, birch, and hickory. In tbs
early summer, the usual cause i.
the pollen of grasses, plantsin
and s%orrel, while the pollen Of ra1
weed is mainly responsible for tba
fall type. N'
Hay fever varies in character
in the different sections Of IN.
country as the season advancas
in pollination.
Hay fever sufferers should t.sn
records of the days of their ~,
tacks. so that they may be CHECK.
ed for sensitivity to the types ~
pollen which are in the air on those
days.
If they react to the pollen y,
one of the grasses, it is most likelv
they are sensitive to that Of ev.
cry grass, and the same thing !,
true of ragweed. This is not tr,e
OF the trees, however, and all +be
more important tree pollen must
be tested separately.
If a small amount Of pollen Is
applied to a scratch on the skin or
injected underneath, a small itcbv
pimple with a red reaction around
it indicates sensitivity. Severe re-
actions may develop within a few
minutes after the pollen has been
injected, indicating great SENSITIVE.
ty. The reaction usually fades in
a few hours and completely dis
appears in a day or so.
If persons with hay fever are
tested for sensitivity to all pollen
known to be in the air during the
entire season, they may react 10
many more than are actually the
cause of their trouble.
Typical hay fever is seldom con-
fused with anything else, even
though symptoms vary from hour
to hour and from day to day. The
usual complaints are itching, con-
gestion of nose, sensitivity to light,
%sneezing, and watery discharge
from the nose.
In most patients the attacks start
on the same day and end OF the
same day from year to year, as
pollination is little affected by
weather variations.
Sufferers with spring hay fever
usually find it impossible to escape
the symptoms, no matter how far
they travel. Relief may be OBJ
tanned by breathing washed or
filtered air, or by taking injections
of the offending pollen before and
during the season.
Drug treatment Of hay fever
has not been successful, except
for the partial relief of symptoms.
But a new drug, benadryl, is said
to bring more relief than other
drugs which have been tried.
If hay fever is complicated by
other forms of sensitivity Gamma
dandruff, vegetable powders, house
dust, foods, and drugs these fac
tors must be eliminated if COM
plete relief is to be obtained.
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The Human Element

The disturbing fact is revealed by
a series of tests that the tragic wreck
on the Burlington railroad neal Naper-
vile, Illinois, in which forty-five per-
sons were killed and a hundred, more or
less, injured, some critically, need not
have happened if the engineer of the
train approaching the stalled train had
applied emergency brakes when the
yellow, or caution, light came into view.
The railroad has conducted five tests
under conditions similar to those exist
ing when it's Exposition Flyer plowed
into the real of it's Advanced Flyer on
April Is. Summarized, they show:
Test No. Applying the service
brakes at a speed of eighty-one miles
an hour when the yellow light became
visible 5000 feet east of the caution
(yellow) board, the engineer stopped
the test train 1,576 feet east of the red
board (2,510 feet from the point of
c~ollision).
Test No. Applying the service
brakes at a speed of eighty-six miles
an hour 5000 feet east of the caution
board, the engineer stopped the train
1864 feet east of the red board 1928
feet from the point of collision).
Test No. 3-Applying his service
brakes at a speed of eighty miles an
hour directly under the caution board,
the engineer stopped the train 1916 feet
east of the red board 1929 feet from
the point Of collision).
Test No. Applying his service
brakes at a speed of IS miles an hour
directly under the caution board, the
engineer stopped the train 33 feet east
Of the red board (967 feet from the
point of collision).
In the fifth and final test William
Millar, road foreman who served as
engineer, was travelling &c miles an
hour when he applied full emergency
brakes at the signal Of a flagman sta.
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peace: the business Of making
peace has not even begun. II any
one thinks this is a recklessly ex-
aggerated statement, let him con-
slider this most extraordinary fact.
Since last September the Allies
have been preparing for what they
call a peace conference, which will
be held in Paris when and if the
four ministers reach their coaclu-
sions. It will then be more than
twelve months since Germany was
defeated, ana yet the subject Of
Germany is not even on the
agenda of the peace conference.
M. Bidault and Mr.. Byrnes are
been struggling for the bare right
to discuss one element Of a Ger
man settlement. Mr.. Byrnes, by
proposing an Austrian treaty, has
just touched %dellcately the fringes
Of the German problem, and in his
four-power disarmament pact, he
has suggested that he too has
begun to believe that the Allies
ought not to forget that it is the
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Bv WALTER

Before I attempt to report what
1 earned in Europe I should ex-
plain certain things by way of in
PRODUCTION. The first is that I did
not have the time, nor had / the
qualifications, to investigate at first
hand the conditions Of life and the
political attitudes Of the great
masses of the people. AS to that
have in addition to the casual i'm
pressions OF a tourist, only some
written and some oral reports OF
men whose main business it is to
investigate and report. But I did
talk at length with a fair number
of responsible and representative
men, and in order that they might
speak as frankly as they dared or
wished. I assured each of them
that not only what he said but
the fact that I had seen him would
be off the record.
The most important conclusion
I have to report is, I am sure, in
disputable. 1t is that all European
governments, all parties, and ali
leading men are acting as if there
would be another world war. There
are some who dread it, some who
want it. some who think it inevi-
table, some who think it can be
averted But with no exceptions
among those who really form
policy in Europe - leaving aside
the Americans, who are in a special
and curious position-the ultimate
and determining calculation is that
there may be another war, and
that they must act as if there
were gong to be another war.
As a result there is not only no
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Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority

The March issue of the Contract
Bridge Forum, published in Los
Angeles, was crowded with news
about the eastern delegation to
Bridge Week that has chartered a
plane to fly to Los Angeles on May
20 and up to San Francisco on
June 4. Another interesting fea-
ture in the Forum was today's
bridge hand, which involves the
smother play" undoubtedly the
rarest play in bridge and the
hardest to recognize.
Vests king of clubs wins the
first trick, and it seems impossible
to prevent him from making the
diamond king-but this is the way
to do it. 90,
The second club is trumped with
the diamond six. Declarer leads
the queen Of diamonds, then the
jack, neither of which is covered
by West. He goes over to dummy
with the spade king and trumps
the club jack.
He cashes the balance of the
spades and the ace and king of
hearts, and throws East in the lead
with the third heart.
South now has the feminine of
diamonds, dummy has the dia-
mond ace and a small heart; West
has the king-seven Of diamonds.
When East leads a club or spade,
it is trumped with the diamond
nine and West is helpless. He must
either under-trump with the seven
or trump with the king of dia-
monds, in which case dummy will
over-trump with the ace and the
last trick will be won with the
diamnpJ tan
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SAAtSN ~
$3).
From the point Of view OF the
conventional moralist, Van Cough,
though one Of the greatest pant
ers of the last few generations
was a reprobate. He knew the
wrong women, %quarreled with MS
good old father and mother, failed
in several careers, sponged Tor
years on his brother Dear Theo,'
and then he committed suicide
But if he disregarded society''
precepts, society coldly disregard
ed him. The art at which ne
worked like a fury earned MN
enough to keep him alive at the
most two weeks. Paint brush IN
one hand, he held the door agalnS'
wolf and sheriff with the other
He made many a meal on coffee
and black bread, and many on
nothing but a Tightening OF MS
belt. Except when visiting MS
family, he slept in the cold ana
rain, or in a hovel or asylum.
He is, in short, the perfect, or
most CHASTITY, example OF me
tragic inconpatibility of an arts'
and society. Inspired by Is
noblest ideals, he was mlseraOly
victimized by the mean WISDOM
Of his contemporaries. His bequeSs
of matchless beauty Vas crea'sa
out of sordid surroundings.
Consequently, you need to READ
this book, composed of judieiously
chosen passages from letters 10
Theo, with your mind constanlE
on the pictures he painted hls
accomplishment actually equalt.
his most ambitious dreams; IL u
the diametric opposite, howeVeL,
of the kind of life he was 1oTce0
to lead.
Van Cough was almost as grea.
a writer and philosopher as eui.oi
Stone enthusiastically claims anu
many pages prove it. But w.
may be more thrilled at ms IL.
marks on art, for instance, IN lIt~.
ing Daumier like a Vlolll 0%
arni like the piano, Mile Inv
organ, and I am fascinated w
the paragraph in which Wiigo,
remind Vincent of a process,
of almshouse men; ~"tFocusd
grass at the roadside looks uI ~.
and dusty like the people o. mn
slums": a row of white 1fols.
cabbages suggest women IN g..
ticoats and shawls at a e0N
stall.
If the book supplied more osrn
ground material, it Woulo
the general readers better io% |ogz.
well as when first printed III 4
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Farewell, Halifax

L. al w &AkS
First impressions of some men,
especially those preconceived, often
enough are wrong. For this reason 1t
is a good rule to await direct contact,
closer association, or at least more
intimate accounts of their character
and conduct before passing final judg-
ment. A case in point is the Earl OF
Halifax. who came to Washington as
Ambassador from Great Britain in the
dark DAYS of 1871, and is about to re-
turn home.
Americas first impressions of him
are we'll expressed by Roscoe Drum
mond in q recent article in the Christian
Science Monitor, from which we quote:
"Lord Halifax was plunged into the
Washington scene at a time when Brl-
fish fortunes in the war were at their
lowest; he was called upon to follow in
the steps of the brilliant and popular
Lord Lothian, who knew America bet
ter than most Americans; he was iden-
titled in American popular and official
thinking as one Of the prime architects
of Munich" which at a distance of
5000 miles looked more dishonorable
and less militarily necessary than it
appeared on the spot.
"The reputation which preceded
Lord Halifax to the United States was
that he was an aloof, overdignified,
ultra-conservative member Of the Bri-
fish peerage who would look more at
home if seen sitting for a Rembrandt
painting than addressing the Elks at
Paducah. At be It, we had conjured up
the picture that he was the ~personfica-
ton of the diplomats diplomat, and at
worst the expectation that here was
to be an irreproachable, unapproach-
able Briton whose idea of lavish frank
ness would be: Sorry, sir; no COM
,ment."
We turn now to the New York Times
for the other side of the picture. Says
the Times:
"The American people know him
now. They know that in him there is
a deep sincerity, a prodigious know
ledge and ability for work and that he
is as sincere a friend of us and of our
way of life as Britain ever sent to our
country to represent her interests here.
He probably knows more about us than
many of us know about ourselves. How
many Americans, for instance, have
visited all forty-eight States, or ever
studied them seriously? Lord Halifax
has. How many United States Ambas-
sailors, We wonder, would lay aside
diplomatic affairs to talk for an hour
and a half with a group of demonstra-
tors protesting this country's policy
toward, say, Argentina? Lord Halifax
did this to an American group protest.
ing Britain's actions in Greece"
Wilmington counts itself fortunate
that while Lord Halifax was visiting
the forty-eight states this city was on
his itinerary and that during his all
too brief stay many of it's citizens were
privileged to feel his warm hand clasp.
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All Parties In European Countries
See Third War Sure, Lippman States

principal business Of a peace con-
ference to settle the war with the
chief enemy state. The fact that
NJ. Bidault and NIB yrnes are
not yet sure they can get to a dis
cussion of Germany is, I submit,
objective proof that whatever it
may be that the Allies r doing,
they are not making peace.
If we understand why this So
called peace conference is not
dealing with Germany, we shall
come close to the heart Of the
matter. This is dangerous and
treacherous ground but if Amer
leans r to play a useful part in
Europe, they must explore it.
In 1912 the Axis powers control
led all of Europe and Eastern
Asia. They were at Stalingrad, Ell
Alamein the gates of India, and
within striking distance Of Alaska,
Hawaii, and Australia. The defeat
of the Axis powers opened up these
vast regions of the globe, and into
them the victorious Allies ad-
vanced until they met. They met
in the middle of Germany in the
middle of Austria, on the Italian
and the Greek frontiers, in Korea
and in China. When they met,
they were in physical possession
of the Axis empires; the Amer
leans had most Of the former
Japanese Empire, the British had
the Italian Empire, and the Rus
SLAMS had the Nazi empire of
Eastern Europe.
Since Germany and Japan were
for the time being powerless, the
Allies had suddenly to deal with
one another as the heirs of the
Axis rather than with the Axis
itself. The immediate question was
not what to do about the chief
enemy states but what to do about
these newly occupied empires.
That is what we have been quar-
reling about not only since the
London conference of last Sep
TENDER, or even since Yalta, but
indeed since the great and never
fully reported controversy between
Stain and Churchill over the
strategicar plan of the war.
The essence of that controversy
was how the war was to be fought
by the Anglo-Ameriean - whether
directly against Germany in west
ern Europe Or through '.the soft
underbelly' in the Mediterranean.
The controversy was in the last
analysis political: it was whether
even though it meant a Longer
war. the British and Americans
would at the end be in physical
possession of Vienna, BUDAPEST
and the whole Balkan peninsula
AS we know, the issue was decided
win some compromise, against
Churchill by President Roose.
welt and u general staff. O,r
men believed that their decision
ended the wal sooner and at less
cost. But it endeo it with the Rus
SLAMS, rather than the British and
Americans, in all the capitals of
Eastern Europe, on the shores ~
the Adr;atic, and on the front;er
Of Greece.
The crucia, issues which divide
Allies arise from this sitra-
they are whether the RMS
slams are to stay in or are to evac-
late the Danube Valley and tie
Balkans, and whether the British
can maintain their precardious mo-
nopoly in the Mediterranean and
Middle East if the Russians ~
30 back. For every one is Ger.
taln' and the proof is clear. that i
the Russians do not recede 49,
will advance still further. No ON.
Continued on Page Eight
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Guidepost

BY w. G. ROGERS
DEAR THEO- THE AUTOBIOGRA-
PLY OF VINCENT VAN COUGH,
edited by Irving Stone Doubleday;
$3).
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toned 1886 feet east of the sight OF the
wreck.
Thus again the needless sacrifice OF
human life and destruction OF rolling
stock was obviously due to the human
.ement.
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QUOTATIONS.

An aviation enthusiast predicts air speeds
IN to 1900 miles an hour. At that rate, by
living east for II hours we actually could get
back to yesterday.
A new plastic raincoat. when toioeo, WIN
~ into q pocketbook. Shucks, that's nothing,
sonae of the old-fa shioned slickers Woulo III
in some of those new kings size purses.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
Politics Enters Into Staying
OfBoston WomanB yN. Man

Massachusetts and the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Col
ored People interviewed.
Carolina officials have persistcntly
followed up the case and have been
rcbuffcd at every tu,,. They can
see no explanation for The way the
matter has been handled exccDt that
Massachusetts was playing to the Ne
gro vote there. Despite his proper
conviction in this state and az I'M
savory record. Massachusetts courts
released Taylor on his own rccogni-
Zancc pending supreme court action.
While .hus at liberty he apparently
entered Mrs. Burnett's home and
killed her in the course Of pcrpc-
tratrg a robbery. "a cyn!.al attachc
Of the attorney generals office ob-
served that he killed the wrong per-
son: he ought TO have gotten some
Of the folks responsible for letting
him run at large instead of return
ing him 10 complete his proper sem
fence in this statc.)
This denounccmr.t is likely 20
make Of the already famous case
n real "caiIsc cclcbrc" and opinion
Of Carolina officials is that the
Massachusetts, politicians who have
p!oyed with ii may find IL to be a
fatal boomerang.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
BY LYNN NISBET.
Daily Dispatch Burcau

Raleigh, July ll.-Thcrc was sim
terc regret but no great surprise
in the offices Of the governor and
attorney general Of North Carolina
TO learn Of the brutal Staying in Bos-
ton of an aged woman by William
Robert Taylor, Tar Heel Negro fugi-
tive.
Taylor was arrested in Bostu' Sat-
urday charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Agnes Burnett, 84-ycar-old. white
woman of a Boston suburb. Her body
was found nailed up i'm closet o.
her home in Roxbury. Evidence
as reported in news stories seems TO
be conclusive against Taylor.
Lack Of surprise here was due 10
knowledge Of the history of the Tay-
lor case. He was convicted ~ Gull
ford county or armed robbery and
sentenced TO a term Of eight TO IL
year i'm state prison. in September
1911. Early in 1914 he escaped from
a road camp. and was apprchcnded
in Boston in May Of that year. Ex-
tradition proceedings were Immediate
ly b'stitutcd by this state. but moi
until December was the extraditior
request granted. Then the Negro
appealed TO the supreme court OF
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
Last German
Sent Home

Washington. July l0--(AP)-More
than II months after We Day. ar
ranGcmcniS were completed today
10 send back In Germany the last
of more than 10000 prisoners of
war brought ia this country. The
final group, aside from fewer than
300 sick or ClaSScd as incOrrigiblcs.
is scheduled In sail July 22 from
New York. War Department Off
Gals said.
All arc Germans.
The last nf Japanese and Italian
POW'S were returned to their home
lands carly this year. Prospects for
the Immediate release of this batch
OF prisoners once they hit Germany
again arc uncertain.
Under an agreement with Britain.
$4,000 Of the final group held in
the U. S. were to be turned over to
British custody. However. about half
of these already have gone to the
United Kingdom and the others
have been sent to the British oc-
cuDicd zone of Germany. where Sc
lectCd war prisoners work i'm the
Ruhr coal mines and on other Jobs.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
SpendingCut
IsDen1anded
By Steelnan
Reconversion Boss
Says Army And Navy
Is Place To Start

Washington. July ll.-(Pl-Rcccn
version Director John r. Stcclman
today demanded new slashes in Fed
eral spending and ported 10 The
army and Iavy as the places To cut
deepest
Economy may be achieved there
Steclman told President Truman and
Congress. without hampcring opera
tons aimed at fulfilling world OBJ
legations. f,lrthcring American in
terests and keeping Elobal peace.
While termrg the revival of price
controls the number one essential in
warding off costly initiation. the
reconversion boss said this action
should be coupled with lower govern
ment ';osts. continued high taxes and
credit cUrtrols. and, If possible. u
Federal budget surplus.
Less spending by the civil an
agencies and poSi"cnemcnt of pub
lie works would help to halt the
flow Of GcvernTc Ont dollars into pri-
vate hands. Stcclman said in his
first quarterly report As director Of
the Office Of War Mobilization and
ReconvcrSiC''. hut no added:
IF Major cut in the inflationary
impact Of Federal expenditures is
to be sought. expenditure plans of
the army and navy must he re-
examined in the light Of the present
need for anti-inflaiionary actiCr."
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
n. G.. Peach Crop
Nearly 65 Pct.
Above Estimate

College Station. Raleigh. July II.
North Carolina peach growers arc
harvesting crop estimated at near
ly IS per cent more than the aver
age annual production for the 10
year period. l935-i4, according "a
G.. Tom Scott, state director Of the
Production and Marketing Admin
istration at State College.
Citing the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics June estimate. Scott
said. North Cardinals peach produC-
ton this year will total about 3,2O0.-
600 bushels ,028.000 bushels more
than last year.
Both Georgia and South Carolina
have unusually large peach crop;
this year. Georgia expects n harvest
of around S6,302.O bushels. This il;
below last years record production,
but 30 per cent above the l0-ycar
average.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-07-11
Baptist Church Here
Endorses Moving Of
WakeF Forest College
Delegates Ordered
To Approve Action
At Meeting July 80

In the first indication of how
Henderson BaptiSts will vote on the
proposal 10 move Wake Forest COL
lcGe TO WinSton-Salcm i'm order 10
receive the Smith Reynolds founda-
ton, members of the First Baptist
church at a church conference last
night vested their pastor. Rev. +.
Norflect Gardner, with authority to
vote in the affirmative al a special
meeting of the State Baptist con-
vcntion in Greensboro on July 30.
Churches in the convention will
be allowed one delegate for every 30
members of the church, thus giving
the First Baptist church possible
23 delegates.
Delegates attending the convCn-
ton from the local church will he
instructed To vote in favor Of NOV
ing the college. by which act the
college viii receive from the foun-
ton Sl0,750,000,00O. derived from
the r. j. Reynolds Tobacco COM
pany.
Three Baptist governing boards
have already UNANIMOUSLY approved
the offer. which was made early
this spring. and the State ConvCn-
ton will act on II al Il meeting July
30.
Feeling in the community here
has seemed tn approve the moving
of the college. which is now located
25 miles south of Henderson. The
vote last night al the First Baptist
church conference was the first Of
fetal indication of what stand will
be taken locally.
The college now has l5 buildings.
a student body of 300. a faculty of
90 and an endowment of S3.O98, 82O.
Its four-ycar medical school has A
separate plant. already situated in
Winston Salem as the result of gifts
from the Bowman Gray family Of
Winston Salem.
The Reynolds gift would mean
that Wake Forest would have a
campus of 300 To 800 acres. ample
for minimum of 1000 students
sufficient income 10 provide an adc-
quatc faculty, and other expenses
essential 10 a college of 1000 stud
cntS, and the possibility of still fur
thcr growth in equipment. faculty
and student body.
BY terms of the trust. 20 per cent
of the annual income will be added
TO the principal until it reaches a
total of $4,000. 900.