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alternooa train and decided to
wax from the station to the hotel,
ou1 mad lost her way. Mrs. knight
Ioilapsed, and later accepted
DICKS invitation to spend the
night. Jane made her comfortable
IN a room opposite hers, but dur
ing the night found her wandering
arc around n, in the empty room which
", the source of Meals furniture
sae apologized, saying she was
l looking for the bath. When Mrs
Knight left the next morning She
insisted Jane give her her New
OK address so that she might
return the stockings she had Dor.
ro"ed, and Jane impulsivelv invit-
ca her to. the reception. In New
Z ork' the following day, Jane tried
pwnsuccessfully to persuade Deane
nahnard not to rewrite lis unpub-
n nS novel into a play for Neal.
Margot ingalls,, who looked all of
ner ~ years when Jane had seen
iler last arrives from Hollywood
youthful, glamorous looking beau
". Jane is telling the story.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-14
MAJOR DIVISIONS
TO LAUNCH DRIVE
Commercial, Special Gifts
Groups For Hospital Cam
paign Start Tomorrow

Although general solicitation for
funds in the Holy Family hospital
drive will not get underway until
Monday, April %, plans call for
solicitations to start tomorrow by
the Commercial and Special Gifts
divisions.
Heading the commercial divi-
sion is George Dannenbaum. He
has appointed IL teams each led
by captain with three assistants.
All members of the division are
affiliated with the local Junior
Chamber of Commerce.
A meeting of the Special Gifts
division, headed by Thomas w.
Davis, general solicitor for the At
lantic Coast Line railroad, will be
held tomorrow afternoon at 4:30
O. clock in the Friendly cafeteria.
A full schedule of meetings dur
ing which mechanics of drive will
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further includes meeting Tues
day night at $3.50 of all Negro
workers in St. Thomas church.
st. Mary's Parish workers will
meet in the headquarters of the
Catholic club Wednesday night at
$3.50 o'clock.
Harriss Newman, drive chair
man has called a meeting of all
district leaders and captains for
Thursday afternoon. The group
will meet in the Friendly cafeteria
at 4:30 o'clock.
Newman has also announced
three-man auditing committee for
the drive. Included in the ap-
pointment were Pomeroy Nichols,
c. S. Lowrimore, and Msgr. c. E.
Murphy.
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Permit Issued By City
For $4,000 Warehouse

A building permit to V. A. Ste
fano to erect masonry plumbing
equipment warehouse and office
building at TO S. 18th street has
been issued by Gilbert F. Morton,
city building inspector, yesterday.
Cost Of the structure was estimat-
ed at $4,000.
A premit also was granted to E
H. Durham to build a frame dwell
ing at 108 Wrightsville Beach high
way. at an approximate cost Of
Sc, 200.
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get near Neal and be introduced.
1t was the meanest thing Neal
could have done. First saying she
wouldn't dream Of cutting reaear-
sal for my stupid reception and
then barging in and spelling it.
To Be Continued
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-14
CHAPTER SIX

Unfortunately the miraculous i'm
pfoVement of my star authors
LOOKS hadn't helped her disposition.
She was nervous and impatient al
The midland journal., 1946-10-25
Madame Kinross Is
Also UntriendIy

"Wen find out what it's about to-
morrow" answered Mark.
They had just changed into their
dry clothes, and hung the wet ones
over the stove, when Madeline Kin
ross clear voice was heard outside
the door.
"If you gentlemen will 60 back
into the kitchen, you will find what
I have been able to provide in the
way of food for you," she called.
Mark opened the door slightly.
MAY we not thank you, Madame
Kinross?" he inquired.
mot now or ever" she answered
curtly, and turning back into her
own room, closed the door.
Mark and Nat made their way
back into the kitchen, where, by the
light of candles, they found steam
ing soup and coffee, fresh bread,
canned beef and jam. Battered and
weary as they were, they fell to
with the gusto of youth.
Nat grinned as he mouthed his
food. Queerer than thought" he
added. Seeing that the lady leased
her lands to you through Broussac.
Must be some explanation"
"Broussac's the sort of fellow
who'd try to cancel a deal if he
got a better Offer" answered Mark.
ave got an idea he'll find some
means Of getting up here pretty
quick. / wired him / was starting
for St. Victor after got that note
from him."
They ate and yawned, warm now,
and dog-tired. Both were good-look-
ing young men of the virile, clean
cut type. Marks light-brown head
and Nat Pages darker one nodded
over the food.
II feel as if I could sleep a mil
lion years." said Mark, staggering
to his feet. "I'm going to bed"
rYou never said anything BETTER"
answered his friend.
(To BE coNTINUED)
The midland journal., 1946-10-25
A Miraculous Escape
From, DrotUning,

Mats shout was cut off by the
crash of the little craft as the un-
derfangs ripped the bottom out of
her. She sank like a stone, and in
an instant Mark and Nat were
fighting blindly in that frightful
surge Of seething water. And for
some seconds Mark knew nothing
except the tense, vivid joy of phys
ical combat with the tons of green
white water that hurled him for
ward, sucked him back, then raised
him like a roller-coaster and sent
him plunging forward.
His hands clutched gravel. He
drew in a deep breath and chung,
while the undertow grasped him
and buffeted him; then another
surge swept him forward again,
and, in the double light of the eye
overhead, he saw Mats figure
doubled up on the shingle ahead of
him.
On hands and knees he crawled
forward, over the groaning shingle,
still wave-swept, dazed, feeling as
if his whole body had been beaten
into pulp. But Nat was on his
feet now, and staggering toward
him. His hand grasped his. The
two young men stood silent, mo-
tionless, suddenly aware of the
miracle that,had befallen them.
But voices were shouting out of
the rain-swept darkness. An ell
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%as)wesmngMdee
W H.M.EGBERT
W.N.U. SERVICE

which her late father had had
charge. She wouldn't see him, and
Mark had sensed an indescribable
hostility among the sullen habitants.
They lived by fishing, and each
spring they Joined the sealing
squadrons off Newfoundland. They
were not woodsmen, like the people
of the upper st. Lawrence, probably
resented the presence of an Amer
,ican, even though Mark could speak
French with fair fluency.
The landlord of the tiny hotel, pa
tronized only by travelling statesmen,
had been dour and uncommunica-
tive, a Frenchman of Scots ances-
try, like so many of the people.
But Broussac had been with Mark,
and Broussac had been effusive,
conciliatory, and evidently the one
man whose word counted in the tiny
settlement, where he had a summer
home.
The cheap little milling outfit
would serve as start. Loggers,
brought from higher up the river,
were hard at work along the banks
of the St. Victor. Broussac had
promised two thousand cords of logs
at the runways before spring. Mark
was satisfied with his purchase, still
more so with the fine growth of
heavy timber. For the first time
in his life he was his own master.
1t was Broussac's curt letter from
Montreal that had decided Mark to
take Nat Page to st. Victor at once,
and look into the situation. There
was no transportation in April, ex-
cept by motorboat from the south
shore. They should have reached
The midland journal., 1946-10-25
Profits in Pulp,Uood
Interest Mark

With six years. experience work
ing for company on the second
growth logging lands higher up the
St. Lawrence, with the increasing
price Of pulpwood, Mark had real
lied that the time had come to take
toll of the huge, untapped forest re-
sources further east, a hundred
miles beyond Tadoussac and the
Saguenay, where summer tourists
fish and play golf. With his little
capital, and two hackers who be-
lieved in him, he had seen the prof
its to be made out of the timber
lease on the Kinross Seigniory.
: And there was something more to
it than the profits. There was the
sense of mastery in the tanning of
the great forests and harnessing
of the streams, driving runways,
building corduroys, sending the logs
swirling down the rapids into the
fiume. 1t meant accomplishment, it
meant life itself.
The lease of that waterfront Sec
tion of the Kinross Seigniory had
been in the market for three years.
None of the big companies had been
ready to negotiate. The fall previ-
ously, Mark had closed with Horace
Broussac, the Quebec lawyer, act
ing on behalf of his ward, the widow
of the late seigneur, who had been
drowned at sea with the sealing fleet
five years before.
Broussac, smooth, suave, ingrati-
ating, had struck Mark as the type
of customer who required watching.
But Mark had satisfied himself that
the rights were indisputable, and
had seen Madame Kinross' sigma
ture authorizing her guardian, Ho-
race Broussac, to make the lease
on her behalf.
She had been widow five years,
and she was not yet twenty -onei
Mark hadn't seen her the prevk
Gus fall, when he visited St. Victor.
She lived near the lighthouse, Of
The midland journal., 1946-10-25
CHAPTER I

Mark Darrell crouched beside his
timber-cruiser, Nat Page, at the
engine of the motor-boat, peering
out through the storm.
Through the great clouds of spray
that went sweeping past them, ev-
erything was alternately as black
as pitch and suddenly illumined
again by the one-two, one-two OF the
lighthouse beam, as it Glove the
night.
The foghorn, which had been in
termittently sounding its dull note
for the past hour, had ceased; evt-
dently the fog had lifted, though
that fact was not apparent to the
two men in the boat, cutting her
swath through mountainous seas
that threatened each instant to cap
size her.
The drenching rain showed no
sign of lessening, and the bowling
of the wind had become an inferno
as they approached the lighthouse
point, long ridge of land project
ing from the black, rugged coast
line of the northern st. Lawrence.
The little boat, apparently heading
straight for the rocks beneath the
lighthouse, seemed doomed to swift
destruction.
Nat Page turned and shouted in
Marks ear, "No hope of rounding
the point. But there's the little cove
among the rocks at the point. Wen
make her."
'We'n make her." Mark shouted
back.
And neither man believed it, for
here, off the point, the seas were
frightful. Huddled up in their
drenched furs, the two watched the
treacherous, black, shifting pano-
rama of shore and rocks, while the
boat, already growing water-logged,
rolled crafty in the troughs, and
barely seemed to surmount the tow
ering crests above her.
1t had been a foolish act to start
across the st. Lawrence that
treacherous noon in spring, when
the ice had only lately gone out of
the river, and the first ocean
liners had but week before forged
their way upstream to Montreal.
But those logs in the icebound St.
Victor would be ready for running
in a week or so, and that would
mean little more cash for the new
enterprise. And Horace Broussac's
curt note from Montreal, demand
ing that the sale of the mill and
lumber rights be cancelled, had
disturbed Mark a good deal.
1t was disturbing Mark even now,
though their lives seemed a matter
of seconds rather than Of minutes.
The thud of the breakers on the
rocks was louder than the wind.
Straight ahead, visible only when
the one-two of the light cleaned,
was the tall lighthouse tower, all
about it the black implacable si-
lence of the cliffs; underneath the
rush and roar of the cross-currents
about the point, the dash Of the
waves, the back-suction of the ur-
dertow, the binding spray.
Mark gripped the side Of the boat
as a great ledge of rocks rose al
most beside them. They had es-
capped that by a miracle Of luck. At
the wheel Nat Page was fighting
with all his might to keep the little
craft head-on, to save her from
being battered against the rocks
like swirling log in the st. Victor.
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derly man ana boy, clotneu III
sleek, dripping slickers, were ap-
preaching them, coil of rope in
their hands. Behind them, clothed
also in slicker, a girl was stand
ing.
"They are all right, Madame!"
the elderly man shouted to her.
Bring them up to the cottage
immediately"
She turned, and next moment
Mark and Nat were being assisted
up long gravel trail, then up two
flights of concrete steps, to the pla-
teau on which the lighthouse stood.
Here were other structures too,
presumably housing the stores, the
dynamo, and the apparatus for the
foghorn, and opposite them was a
long, single-story cottage, with a
light shining in one room.
The girl turned, holding up lam
tern, and inspecting the two young
men. She looked about one-and-
twenty, her dark hair was tumbled
about her face, her hood dripped,
and Mark noticed, by the lantern
light, the firm setting of the corners
of her mouth, odd in so young and
beautiful a girl.
Bring them here, Andre; I
will question them," she said. Again
Mark thought that odd.
She addressed Mark in French.
Monsieur, we have been watching
your boat half the afternoon, and
were afraid you would never make
the landing. You owe your thanks
to God," she said. "There is but
one question. Is either of you the
Monsieur Darrell, who was here last
fall?"
"It is he-this onel" cried old
Andre suddenly.
81 am Mark Darrell, and this is
Mr.. Page" Mark replied. "You
must be Madame Kinross, whose
lands I have leased"
A growl like a bears came from
old Andres throat. For a moment
he looked as if he was about to
hurl himself at Mark. Madeline
Kinross' quiet, level tones re-
strained him.
"Be quiet, Andre!" she command
ed. '"These men are guests. They
cannot 60 back until tomorrow. Put
some more logs into the stove in
the spare room. And bring them
dry clothes. I, Messieurs, shall heat
you some soup and coffee"
She disappeared into the back of
the house, and old Andre viciously
flung open the door of the room that
occupied the other wing of the one
story house. 1t was damp and cold
inside. but a flicker of fire came
from a stove. Andre lit a candle
and placed it on a table. He thrust
two logs into the stove, and turned,
grinning malevolently at Dan and
Nat through his gray beard.
''It was the devil saved you from
the sea-" he growled. Tomorrow
you can 60 back to him."
There were two cots in the room.
From a closet the old man pulled
some clothes-trousers, pullovers,
mackinaws, and socks.
"It is because she told me to do
so," he snarled. ''We do not want
you here!"
well, there's nice, pleasant
customer for you, Mark" grinned
Nat, as the old man stamped out Of
the room. 81 had a hunch folks
weren't so friendly hereabouts when
I looked over your timber last fall,
but if they're all like him"
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the wharf before dark, except for
the sudden storm. Now there was
about one chance in ten that they
might make the little cove at the
point. They'd never round that
point.
"We'n make her!" Nat shouted
once more. His. voice was exultant,
a defiant challenge to death. A
swirl of white water half-engulfed
them. The boat righted herself
and sped on. Another ledge of
rocks, another, leaning up, needle
fanged, out of the white water.
Darkness. The eye, the double eye
Of the light above them
Then, miraculously, the little
sandy beach among the rocks at
the point. But they'd never make
it. They were approaching it 'di-
agonally, and ledge of rocks on
either side shut off the direct ap-
proach, and the boat was being
sucked sidewise into a vortex of
boiling water.
The midland journal., 1946-10-25
~' IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
OCHOOL lesson
BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIsT. D. d.
OF The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for October 27

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts Sc
lected and copyrighted by Internationa
Council of Religious Education: used b,
permission
The midland journal., 1946-10-25

LESSON rExT-Acts 1915, 10. IA. 44-4e,
48, 49; 14:26, 27.
MEMORY SELECTION = But when it
pleased God to reveal his Son in me.
that might preach him among the heather.
Galatians lis, 16.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Army Court
Sentence Two To
Hang In Italy

Liverno, Italy - (NNPA) - A
United States Army court-martial
last Tuesday convicted two Amer
lean soldiers of the murder of
Major Lewis b. Hilderbrand of
Baltimore last December and SEN
fenced them to be hanged.
The defendants were Henry T.
Whiteside, who was indicted at
Fort Benning, Ca, and Leroy Rob
inson, indicted at Chicago. The
sentences rae subject to review by
the War Department.
Hildebrand was found shot dead
in a jeep near Viareggio, Decembe
2. After three manth's investiga-
ton, Army authorities arrested
the two soldiers.
A witness at the trial testified
that he overheard on of the ac-
cused swear that he would "get''
Hildebrand, who was in charge of
a definition camp where the two
men were confined.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Expert Race Grew
Unloads Leaking
Mustard Gas Bomb

Fort Eustis, Virginia - The
S. S. Francis Lees cargo of leak
ing German mustard gas bombs
was finally unloaded by expert
Negro crews of the 559th Fort
Company from Fort Eustis.
Anchored at the mouth Of Bush
River at the head of Chesapeake
Bay, the liberty ship arrived from
overseas with her dangerous cargo
more than a month ago and rap
idly assumed the role of the UNI
invited. First towed crewless and
friendless," into Mobile, she was
denied entry at the Port and was
subsequently taken to Charleston
where she met no better reception.
Army authorities felt that the
situation called for an expert
army crew to tackle the job, and.
when finally the gas-laden vessel
was brought to her present an
chorage, the 559th was chosen
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
AIabamans Held
On Charge Peonage

Tuscaloosa, Ala, Eept. INN
PA)- A representative-elect to
the ALBANIAN legislature and three
other men were arranged here last
Friday on Federal charges Of peon-
age for allegedly holding a colored
man and forcing him to work out
a debt.
United States Commissioner S.
II. Sproot identified the men as
Representative-elect R. B. Doughty
of Pickens County; Eddie L. Dough-
ty, William Ambrose and James
V. Sanders, all of Reform, Ala.
They were placed under $1,000
bond each.
A Federal Indictment charged
that the four transported Willie
r. Will from Cordova, in Walker
County, to a arm near Reform,
where he was held in a condition
of peonage.
ion began on or about April Z,
The indictment said the detent-
1916. The men were arrested last
Thursday, at Reform, by United
States Marshall Murray Hinton
and brought here.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Edgar G. Brown,
Dir. MIC, to be
Cen'l. Supervisor

Los Angeles, Calf National
Negro leaders initiated a cam
paign for a million signatures to
a petition for a special congress
sional session with the objective
OF passing federal anti-lynch
law, unseating Mississippi's Sen
ator Bilbo and outlawing the Ku
Klux Khan.
The drive seeks contributions
OF a dollar each from the cOun.
try's million Negro veterans OF
World War II, to finance a news
paper and radio educational pro-
gram.
DR.. d. v. Jemison of Selma.
Alabama, president of the Nation
al Baptist Convention, was named
chairman of the campaign COM
mittee, was named chairman Of
the committee, to be known as
the Peace National Action Com
mittee for the Home Front. 1t
will be under general direction of
Edgar G. Brown, of Washington,
director of the National Negro
Council.
The petitions for a special ses-
sion, addressed to President Tru-
man, urge:
Anti-Lynch lay-Death penalty
for lynchers; 100000 damages
from the local coonty for the vic
tins family.
Bilbo-Refusal to seat him
January on grounds of "disor-
derby behavior" as defined in Ar
ticle l, Section of the Constitu-
ton, charging that his state
ments kept 100000 Negroes from
the polls in the Mississippi cleo
ton.
KKKrSending of troops into
Georgia and Mississippi, guaran-
tees of peace on the home front,
and federal action wherever the
Khan appears.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Units Long
Tenure At
Air Field Ended

SAN BERANDINO ARMY AIR
FIELD, Calf. - Squadron H, now
only SHELTON of it's one-time lus-
ty self is in the process of being
inactivated after nearly four
years of exemplary duty at this
field.
The Squadron, made up of Ne
gro troups was organized as the
3O3rd Aviation Squadron and as
signed to SBAAF in October 1912.
At one time as many as 700 Of
ficers and men were assigned.
Now as the time near for it's in
activation it has only 100 on it's
rosters.
During its four years at the
field the squadron operated under
a number of designations but it
always continued to perform it's
vital job as an AAF base unit
Many of its men eventually went
overseas as requirements and at
times it's ranks were swelled by
returnees from overseas duties.
Several times members of the
squadron served on forest fire
crews in neighboring mountain
areas.
1t is expected that men remain
ing in the squadron at the time
Of it's inactivation will be sent
to Victorville Army Air Field, Vic
torville, California, but even more
will be sent to separation GEN.
tiers for discharge from the serv-
ice.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
Ala. Democratic
Executive Com.
Starts Campaign

Mobile, Ala. - The Alabama
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee launched its campaign for
adoption of constitutional am
endment to tighten voting regis
tration laws and avert a "flood
of Negro registration laws and
Negro domination at the polls of
Alabama.
In a direct appeal to the voters
in the form of a printed letter,
the committee said 1--WE are now
at the crossroads" and that Ala
bama must surround the exer-
else of suffrage with such
legal safeguards as will protect
our state" from Negro DONNA
ton.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-09-21
for the "touchy task.

LOT Tie COucny TASK
This unit, numbering more than
IT'S men under the command of
First Lieutenant Benjamin J.
Meeks, Weedsport, New York,
travelled by rail to the Edgewood
Arsenal. Here the men underwent
a snort period of intensive in
struction in the handling of the
gas. They were issued special
clothing and equipment before
boarding the Lee.
The 559th is a unit of the Fort
Eustis 7th Training Regiment
under the command of Lieutenant
Colonel Wayne G. West, veteran
of the African, Italian and South
ern France invasions, who called
it zone of the finest organiza-
tons of it's kind that the Army
has ever SEEN"
The company was originally ac-
tivated at Camp Plauche, Louis
lana, in November, 1913, trained
at New Orleans and Boston Ports
of Embarkation and went overseas
to Southampton in May of 1914.
They were on Omaha beachhead
on D-Day plus IS and later be-
came one of the first units to
enter LIE Havre.
The gas bombs were loaded on
bargest and lowed to the Edge
wood Arsenal for experimental
and research purposes by the
Chemical Warfare service.