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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Gambling Ship Will
Resume Operations

LOS ANGELES, Aug. al-R-
The gambling vessel S. S. Bunker
Hill resumed operations at noon 10
day alter four heavily laden water
taxis had left the Long Beach
docks carrying the first custom
ers out to the ofeshore casino.
Long Beach police authorities
and DISTRICT attorneys representa-
tives called a conference for later
today to determine what if any,
thing they can do to close again
the gambling ship operated 0'
Tony Corlero Stralla.
Long Bach police chief AWE
Sleight sail he had heard that the
vessel would be operated only a.
a dining and dancing establish
ment, But stralla earlier had an
nounced flaty he had called ND
card dealers and croupiers oacA
on the job. Slight said that ponce.
men would lie among the niS'
aboard the Bunker Hill.
City prosecutor A. S. Ran1Ssii
Of Long Beach declared thai u
gambling is resumed on the Vess't
the water taxi operators faKln ~
passengers to the Bunker Hill WILL
be arrested.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Burgaw Parents Hear
Sons Body Is Found

Mr.. and Mrs. Tate T. Murphy,
Burgaw have received information
from the Navy department indicat-
ing that the body of their son,
Lieutenant Henry Louge Murphy,
USNR, has been identified, along
with the members Of his air crew.
1t. Murphy was reported miss
ing over Formosa from a mission
in his "Avenger' torpedo bomb
n and later declared dead, He
was a member Of Torpedo Squad
ron 20, on the carrier Enterprise.
Under plans being developed for
the repatriation of all American
dead inferred in overseas theaters,
1t. Murphy's remains and those of
his crew members will be return
ed for re-interment in a National
cemetary, the Navy department
communication said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Dance Proceeds Going
To County's TB Fund

The entire share of the Whining
ton Junior Chamber of Commerce
proceeds in the Guy Lombardo
dance at Lumina Sept. 10 will
be turned over to the New Hanover
county tuberculosis association
for use in the fight against the
disease which annually threatens
scores Of local residents.
The contribution, officials of the
association say, will be spent en-
tirely in tuberculin work in the
county.
Advance ticket sales are now 90.
ing on. All members of the Junior
Chamber are selling tickets as
well as Foy-Roe Co., Anderson
Sporting Goods Co., Saunders
drug Co., and the Kerr Equipment
Co., it was announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Voters In Small Towns, Ru.
raj Areas Show Most
Dry Sentiment
BY GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute
OF Public Opinion

PRINCETON, N. j., Aug. 81
Two out of every three voters
polled from coast to coast are
against a return to nationwide
prohibition OF liquor.
Possibly that's because about
two out of every three of the
nations adults drink.
The prohibition amendment was
repealed IL years ago, and since
that time periodic polls by the
Institute found a remarkably stable
sentiment on the prohibition ques-
ton. With only small fluctuations
OF opinion from year to year, the
country has stood approximately
2-to-1 against nationwide prohi-
bition since the first Institute poll
on the subject was conducted in
1896.
A considerable proportion OF the
U. S. population Qargely ruraD
is now under local option pro-
hibition laws. The local option
gives the city or county or state
the right to 60 dry i the voters
SO decide in a referendum. This
survey is concerned only with
sentiment toward putting prohi-
bition on a nationwide basis.
The trend of sentiment on a
return to prohibition for the whole
nation is shown below.
eff the question of national pro-
hibition should come up again,
would YOU vote wet or dry?"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
PROBE.
into RACEN DEATH
Mercury Found In Body OF
Chicago Racing News
Chief By Toxiologist

CHICAGO, Aug. 31-P)-Coroner
A. L. Brodie said today he would
reopen an Investigation into the
death of James M. Ragen, Sc,
because traces of mercury had
been found in the body of the
Racing News chief.
Ragen's death Aug. IA was at
tributed to heart disease compli-
Gated by gunshot wounds. He was
ambushed and shot by unidenti-
fled gunner June "a, and wound
ed in the right shoulder and arm.
By mid-July his recovery was ex-
pected, but a kidney complica-
ton developed and he underwent
an emergency operation about a
week before his death.
Brodie said a coroner's chemist
and toxicologist, Dr.. William D.
McNally, discovered mercury in
the tissues of Ragen's body dur
ing a routine post-mortem examl-
nation.
The inquest into Ragen's death
was continued from Aug. Is to
Sept. 5 to permit investigators
to question relatives of the wealthy
head of a nationwide racing news
service regarding the whereabouts
of affidavits he said he had made
against several Chicago gangsters.
Ragen said he had placed the
affidavits in a. vault to be used
in the event of his death as evil
dence against hoodlums who, he
said, were trying to take over
his race information business.
Two months before Ragen was
ambushed another attempt had
been made On his life, but he
eluded his pursuers and notified
police.
The June "a ambush was made
in broad daylight and in the pres
ence of Ragen's bodygua-ds. AS
he was being driven along a South
Side street a truck pulled up along
side Ragen's car, a tarpaulil COW
ering the side of the truck was
raised, and the assassins fired
p~oint-blank. His bodyguards, fol
lowing in another car, fired on the
truck and chased it, but the STAY
r escaped.
Ragen, before his death, offer
ed a SIS, 900 reward for his attack
ers' capture and conviction.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Two Out Of Three IT, s.
Adults Say They Drink;
Prohibition Is Opposed
Jim McCord Will Not
Sell Raleigh Cattle;
Too Busy As Governo,

RALEIGH, Aug. 31-(P)-
Colorful Jim McCord, for many
years auctioneers for the an
nual consignment sale of the
North Carolina Jersey Cattle
club, will be missing when the
clubs 1916 sale is held Tues
day in Charlotte, L. Y. Ballen-
tine of Raleigh, club president,
said today.
AuctiOneer McCOrd now is too
busy serving as governor of
Tennessee to be at his old
stand. His nephew, Tom Nc
Cord of Montgomery, will serve
for his uncle. Tom already has
served many times as auction
e since his uncle became gov
ernOr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Unc0mpromising Prospect


Under normal circumstances, the
withdrawal from the international scene
of Russia's Maxim Litvinov might be
of little significance. He is old enough
to retire from public life, and his past
accomplishments in the Soviet service
certainly have earned him the right to
spend his declining years in secluded
leisure.
But the current world situation by
no conceivable stretch of the magma
ton could be termed normal" The
unanimity which won a war for the Al
lies seems to have dissolved with the
surrender of the Axis. Nation battles
nation and bloc battles bloc at the UN
meetings in New York and at the peace
conferences in Paris. The peace for
which the world waited through six
long, bloody years has disintegrated
into a war of nerves" in which crisis
follows crisis with devastating rapidity.
Nor can the conditions surrounding
Litvinov's withdrawal from world af-
fairs be considered normal" Here, OBJ
viously, was no voluntary retirement
of an aging statesman; here was a repu-
diation of an individual by the govern
|ment he served. The Kremlin made no
effort to disguise that fact-it simply
announced tersely, over the Moscow
radio, that. the Council Of Ministers
had released Maxim Litvinov from his
duties as deputy minister of foreign af-
fairs"
The Litvinov announcement as
sunies, therefore, a significance which
in happier days and under happier cir
cumstances it would not have possess
ed. No reason of any kind was given
for Moscow's curious action. But the
Western world may have little doubt as
to what prompted it.
Maxim Litvinov has long been known
as perhaps the leading advocate in high
Soviet circles Of friendship between
Russia and the Western Allies. He was
the author of the phrase peace is in
divisible," a phrase in which he so sin
cerely believed that he devoted his en-
tire diplomatic career to effectuating it.
1t seems to us perfectly apparent
that Litvinov's dismissal was due pri-
marily-if not solely-to the reason
able and friendly attitude he champion
ed toward the Western Allies. Only
thus does it make sense, considered in
the context of Russia's present domes-
tic and international policy.
The Kremlin apparently is deter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
|Out-Of-Town Traveller
Commends Wilmington

The cleanliness OF Wilmington's
streets and the efficiency of the
Wilmington police department were
highly commended yesterday by
j. L. Shotwell Of Franklin, Ohio,
who was passing through the city
on a motor trip to Florida.
ShotWell advised Desk Sgt. P. J.
Parrish that he was highly i'm
pressed by the city's clean streets
and added that en- route here from
Ohio he had seen only three police
officers, but that he noted seven
policemen on Front street.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Bell Test Pilot Dies
In Test OF Race Plane

LEWISTON, N. Y, Aug. 31-P)
- Jack Buff Woolams, 29-year-
old chief test pilot for Bell Air
craft corporation, was killed last
night in a test of the souped-up
P-39 in which he had hoped to win
the Thompson Air race in Cleve-
land Monday.
The flier had been picked by the
Army to be tAe first to fly at
supersonic speed, as test pilot for
the newly-developed XS-1 which is
expected to reach between 900 and
1900 miles an hour. He had placed
second in qualifying trials over the
Thompson Race course Wednes-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
OFF TO CONTEST

WILSON,, Aug. 81 -(P)- Miss
Trudy Riley of Wilson who wor
the 1916 Miss North Carolina
title. will leave here tomorrow
for Atlantic City, N. j., where she
will compete in the Miss Amer
lea" pageant
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
Mutual Opportunity

I1lOuSdllOS VI PdCiiNoiS
victims now seek the refuge from Eu-
ropean suffering and hardship they so
desperately need. They seek it primari-
ly in Palestine. But they cannot find 1t
there.
Thousands of miles from Palestine,
another nation is struggling with a critl-
cal situation. South Africa so desper-
ately needs immigrants that it is ap-
pealing to people all over the world to
migrate there. And it's efforts, too, thus
far have met largely with failure.
The South African crisis is none the
less real for the fact that until recent
ly it has been little known. Develop
ment of Free State gold deposits, ex-
tension and diversification of manufac-
turing, and a period of unprecedented
economic growth for which the plans
have long been completed all are fore
stalled by a labor shortage Of stagger-
ing proportions.
The Pretoria government apparent
ly desires and can accommodate almost
an unlimited number of immigrants. 1t
needs workers of virtually every cate
CORY and degree of skill. 1t needs them
so Immediately that it is preparing a
series of handbooks in many languages
to be given the widest possible distri-
button in an effort to interest people
all over the world in the opportunities
South Africa has to offer.
The shortage of manpower is be-
coming increasingly insistent and OBJ
trusive," said Field Marshal Jan C.
SHUTS recently. And he went on to
add that "every kind of good and use
full immigrant would be welcome" and
that I'VE want good Europeans. We can
get hundreds of thousands, millions of
them. We want a strong flow to supple
ment our human resources"
While Jewish refugees look in vain
for a home, then, the Union of South
Africa looks in vain for immigrants.
The two problems, considered as a unit,
could readily be solved. The Jewish
wanderers, offered the refuge they seek
in South Africa, would provide. South
Africa with the manpower it seeks.
South Africa has what perhaps no
other nation on earth has at present
"a labor shortage and the
necessary to support the immigrants
who can relieve that shortage. It can,
therefore, afford the Jewish refugees
the genuine opportunity they seek.
The Jewish refugees, on the other
hand, have something equally valuable
to offer South Africa. They constitute
q band of migrants both eager and de-
sirable. They are Industrious, intelli-
gent, energetic-and they are available
in tremendous numbers. The very in
dustry which inspires such violent op-
nosition to their admittance to Pales-
tine anon the nomadic Arabs renders
them ideal for the African purpose.
Whv does not South Africa extene
It's immigration invitation specifically
to the Jewish refugees-and, in SO do
ing. convert mutual need into mutua
opportunity
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

The News
BY DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP Foreign Affairs Az,

Relman NORM, Associstas
chef OF Bureau in PAR, md
reporter of vast experience Nv
US that the peace co~ntersro.
pears now to be headed for tsilrr
and people in Paris. bor5 .o,.i
ers and French, both those ~.
know and those who only feel ~.
more profoundly depressed tos,s
than at any time since III. H..
gun fired in Europe"
They feel World War NJ :,
ready is in sight" con,i. d.
NORM. They feel it NAV NM ia,,ue'
this year or next year but tb.as
is little doubt any longer am rnsl'
people in Paris that it will rOis
There 10 longer is any doubt 'p hsS.
about the totally i%rreconciahls
policies of Russia and the hlno MAUI.
Slavic nations Which stand with y,
her on the one hand and N ",u'
of the west on the other. A'''f
Now of course NORM isn't nrs.
dieting war. He is just doins p'e,
job of objective reporting aSon.
what Paris feels. He leaves u =.
us to fit this Information in n5,0
our own observations. For il WIT" ~a
are awake these parlous DAYS (,r,
heaven help US if We are mt, '@ "a
will have been studying this cri.i.
which presents the greatest proh
lem with which the world is fscsS
Are we headed for war? Dos,
the fact that the policies of Rus,is
on the one hand and the Westsra
allies on the other are indeed irl
recoAcilable mean that the i,sI.
must be settled on the battle.fisId,
Let's deal with this bluntlv. A.
1 see it the answer depends IN
whether Russia has about reac,sd
the limit of her ambitions in tbs
way of expanding her zones Of in.
fluence, or whether she intends n
keep on going.
If Moscow is about satisfied
and Marshal Stain is reported 10
have said recently that 1t didn't
have much more to ask tor-ther
it strikes me that war is not IN.
evitable.
But if the Soviet has any notion
Of trying to intrude on the pre-.
negatives of the Western nation;
or of thrusting unwaated commu.
nism onto them, then war certain.
ly is inevitable.
From h e Western viewpoint
Russia thus far hasn't shown
much of the spirit of Sir Walter
Raleigh in spreading its cloak 10
save my lady peace from muddy.
ing her feet. Probably Moscow
feels the same about the West.
However that may be, postwar
history clearly records tAat the So.
Wet Union has been absolutely in.
flexible in its drive to enlarge and
Sovietize its zone Of influence. The
program has been carried out by
milateral action-all take and no
give. In this way Moscow has ex.
tended its domination westward
into Central Europe, and has over
run most of the Balkans. And it
also is reaching in Asia.
This expansion nov has arrived
at a particularly explosive stage.
Russia is aiming at control Of the
Dardenelles straits - strategically
one of the most important water
ways in the world. I is Of vital
interest not only to Turkey, which
now controls it, but to Britain,
America and other Western coun.
tries. Moscow also is trying to
Dust John Bull from guardianship
Of Greece last remaining foot.
hold which any Western power has
in the Balkans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01
TOP o. THE MORNING

The secret Of how to be lovely IS clear
Nv revealed by the Apostle Paul-"What-
soever things are lovely. think on these
things" In other worus, the secret of love
illness depends upon YOU. Simply put
Christ first in ali that you do and let Him
make you lovely.
Smith Haley in "How to be Lovely.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-01

Lights for night airmail were
installed first between Cheyenne,
Wyo., and Chicago, Ill
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-13

a display Of emotion that would have shocked
his forebearS
One of the most valuable Egyptian relics ever
discovered is a little ornament which shows him
kissing her.
And as the oddlooking boy grew into an
anatomical oddity, with msshapeR head, an
absurdly disproportionate body and halting
stride, the enchantingly beauteous queen seemed
to adore him more and more. Even on the most
ceremonious occasions she sat beside him holding
his hand
Their love letters sheer poetry:
Your love keeps me a prisoner and my heart
is the swing of your heart" Or your faithful
friend whom your heart loves comes into the gar.
dens, oh friend whom / love- for my heart pur-
sues what you love. Watch all the birds fly above
Egypt: let rise aloft with them together. e"
Nefertit bore her husband seven daughters
but his subjects wanted a son 10 carry on the
dynasty On one pretext or another scores of the
most attractive young girls in the land were
brought into his presence in the hope that one Of
them could persuade him 10 forget Nefertiti for
a time during which there might be born male
heir to the throne But Akhenaton would have
none OF them.
Sure OF her husbands love, the queen let them
come and 90 without hindrance-all except one
That one Hathor, the Goddess of Love-not
the real Hathor, OF course. but an unearthly beau
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inspired / had no conception Of how strange
marriage IL must have been.
One way by which estimate the age at
which a person died is by the development OF the
long bOncS-the humerus of the upper arm, the
radius and ulna in the forearm. the femur in the
thigh and the tbia and Hbula in the lower leg.
The ecntcrs of growth are at each end OF the
bone and in the middle Changes take place In
these spots according 70 definite time schedule
in normal persons Casual observation In the case
Of Akhenaton would have indicated that he died
when he was no older than Il, although the his.
torians have always maintained that he was
little past 30.
. An expert looking a little more closely, could
that this young pharaoh was a sufferer
" Frohlichs syndrome, a rare disease resulting
from an upset in the pituitary and thyroid glands
This condition does two things 1t lnhlbits or
restricts growth of the long bones and II pro
duccs an excess of fat unevenly distributed over
the entire frame.
WHEN he was married 10 Nefertiti, Akhenaton
w had lived just dozen years and she was two
years his junior The grotesque physique that
ne was 20 acquire probably was not evident, al
though his head was strangely elongated and
Fgv
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There was, he decided only one god-Aton, the
sun-god. who was the generator OF all energy and
a loving force which perHeated- time and space.
He particularly hated Anon, or Amen, the CHIEF
god of the empire, and he changed his own name.
which meant "Amon is satisfied" TO Akhenaton,
which means profitable TO Atom" He had the
names of all other gods erased from temple walls
after he had closed the temples and cast out the
priests.
Thus centuries before anyone else, Akhenaton
was the first to conceive monotheiSm, or one
godism. 1t remains today the most enlightened
religious doctrine OF the pre-Judaic world. Akhen-
atom called on his subjects to search for Atom
among the flowers and trees and particularly in
the sunlight There was minimum Of ritual and
there were very few priests
Egypt, in the 14th Century 3. c., was not
ready for any such concept There was resent.
ment everywhere, especially among the ousted
clergy and among the officers of the army, since
the pharaoh would not countenance any war and
was content to see the outlying portions OF the
empire invaded and taken away rather than to
sanction a conflict.
Old Horemheb, a general who was later to be-
come the founder of a new dynasty, persuaded
the false Hathor to join an assassination plot Her
family had been killed by AkhenatonS father, and
although she had spiritual as well as an earthly
radiance, she consented to pose as the love god
dess and lure the monarch into an ambush.
DIjT Akhenaton, for all his grotesqueness, must
= have had an amazing appeal 10 beautiful wo-
men. Hathor fell in love with him and told him
OF the plot Before she could betray the consplra-
tors however Queen Nefertiti took hand She
had feared no other woman, but she had seen how
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the eyes Oh every man IN the COui L
yard gloWed when Hathor, in robes
so sheer that they were trans
parent, had first presented herself
to the pharaoh. Ncfertiti, for the
first time in her life, had felt a
tWinge of jealousy.
Convinced that no man could be
trusted to slay so glamOrouS a
woman. she ordered her maid, Tua,
TO organize a party of old crones
and put the unwelcome visitor out
of the way. Tua complied, and
Hathor's mutilated body was found
one morning in a wing OF the
palace.
The disease that had helped to
make Akhenaton such a monStros
ity finally overcame him, and his
mourners thought of him no longer
as a human but as a free soul
winging into the blue:
"He that flieth fliethl
He flieth away from you, ye men;
He is no longer in the earth,
He is in the sky.
He rusheth at the sky as a heron.
He hath kissed the sky as hawk.
He hath leapt skyward as a grass
hopper"
Tutankhamen, who had married
4 IL L.
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therefore seemed too large Tor ms
body.
This malformation OF the skull,
which showed plainly in the X-ray
photographs, was no accid ent
Of nature. Members OF ERyptS
Eighteenth Dynasty, who ruled
gloriously for some go years and
of whom Akhenaton was the last
in direct descent, were noted for
their long narrow heads To ac
ccntuate this appearance OF ascot
iciSm the craniums of the pros
|pectivc rulers were wrapped tightly
with cloths when they were babies
In addition 10 his other defects
Akhcnaton suffered from epilepsy
which is not an uncommon com.
panion OF Fruhlich's syndrome.
Top-heavy, drOopy- eyed, frail and
| subject 20 fits, the fledgling en-
pcror nevertheless was sometimes
Icalled Lord OF the Breath OF
Sweetness" He was gentle, quiet
and Studious, and loved 10 walk
in the palace gardens. follow but
| tcrflieS and sit in the sun. He
loved beauty above all things.
Probably even in her girlhood
he was able 10 foresee the over
|whelming charm Of Ncfertiti, who
was certainly far below his sta
tfov, IL, tifa Ifor rnofbpr had bppn
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k>S. nurse and her father was in charge OF the
Ice stables, but he insisted marrying her at
La time when only immediate members OF
pharaoh's family were considered good enough to
carry on the royal line.
II was marriage based on love, despite the
|extrerne youth of the couple. and their mutual
regard increased with the years.
AS Nefertiti blOsSomed like a rare and delicate
flower her husband lavished every possible affec-
tion on her He referred 10 her the mistress
|of his happiness, az hearing whose voice the king
heioices He frequently caressed her in public,
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at the age of II and soon became a mere puppet
in the hands of the priesthood He died after
reign of only six years, perhaps according TO
the historians at the hands of the ambitious
priests and soldiers around him.
The worship of Anon and the other gods OF
Epypt was restored OF all the beauty which
Akhenaton sought and preached-and married
nothing remained but few scuptured hkenesscs.
Nothing but those and the bones which told me
the story of the enduring love Of a surprisingly
beautiful woman for a man whose mind and body
strayed exceedingly far from the norm.
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tful creature who pretended to be the goddess as
a part of conspiracy TO Kill Akhenaton and re-
store the country's religious beliefs
That was another direction in which Akhenaton
was unusual-hiS spiritual convictions Son of
Amenhotep III, the most luxurious and splendid
of all the Egyptian emperors, he assumed the
throne Amenhotep ". During his epileptc
fits he apparently had hallucnatons and he re-
garded them god given visions.