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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Kerr Up For Re ELECTION

The reelection of Judge John H.
Kerr to the House of Representatives
is for the voters in the Second North
Carolina District to decide, but judge
Kerr's continued presence in Congress
is of statewide Importance.
Because of his twelve terms in the
House he has established seniority that
places him on vital committees. Thus,
IN addition to many other duties, he is
high ranking member of the powerful
Appropriations Committee and chair
mar of the War Subcommittee.
In the latter capacity it was chiefly
through his effort and over stiff op-
position that a bill was passed providing
Hood control in the Roanoke River area
and a survey looking to the construction
OF a great reservoir and other facilities
at buggs Island, in the completion of
which flood damage averaging $780,
Oo0 annually will be eliminated and
some 4O,000 acres of rich farm land
will be placed under cultivation. Not
only the immediate area involved in
the project will benefit. All North Caro-
lima will count an additional asset to
it's credit.
Judge Kerr's work for the farmers
has been unremitting. He is the author
for example, of the Kerr-S m To-
bacco act which protected North Caro-
lima contract tobacco growers a d
made the AAA workable and successful
50 far as tobacco prices are concerned.
This story is told of him while he
was a superior court judge, a position
he held for seven years. On the first
day of a court session he was approach
ed by an aged Negro, who inquired if
he was "the jedge." When "the ledge"
said yes, the Negro said: "Well, sub,
I have a case in cote ehis week, and if
if it il all the same to you I would like
to get You. to set for me-"
Throughout the years of Judge
Kerr's service in the House he has
been Setting" for the state.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Fix The Responsibility

Residents of Winter Park Gardens
and adjacent subdivisions propose to
take their drainage problem directly to
Governor Cherry by means of a petition
for relief.
The petitioners declare that some
two square miles of their property are
flooded by every heavy rain and that
appeals to the Board Of County Com
missioners who, in turn, have passed
their pleas on to the State Highway
Commission, have brought no improve
ment in the situation, and that their
only hope now is to lay their case be-
fore the Governor.
1t seems very probable that Cover
nor Cherry would turn the appeal over
to the Highway Commission, but there
is a chance that with his recommen-
dalton for action the Highway Com
mission would busy itself with deter
mining if the responsibility rests with
it.
If the responsibility lies at its door,
as many claim because of the barrier
created by the highway to Wrightsville
Beach, it is to be expected to build
whatever culverts and bitches, or take
any other action, needed to free the
area from these repeated foundations.
By the same token, if the highway
authorities can prove the response
bility is up to the board of County
Commissioners, this board cannot we'll
excuse failure to provide relief. 1t will
obviously become it's duty to form the
necessary drainage district and proceed
with the work.
Should neither the highway nor the
county authorities accept the respon-
sibility, in fairness to the jewellers in
the affected ares an impartial board
could be created with authority to de-
termine whose duty it is to do away
with the nuisance and menace to the
community's health from recurring
flooding.
One thing is certain. Residents of
the area deserve relief.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM e. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

THIS is the second of a group Of
hands from DR.. Paul Stern Of
London. This hand was played al
the Harrogate Bridge Congress,
and only one pair out Of 46 bid
and made six diamonds.
After ruffing the opening spade
lead with the deuce Of diamonds,
%declarer cashed the king and ace
OF diamonds and then led a small
club from dummy. South Won this
trick with the ace Of clubs, and il
he had led back the queen Of
spades at this point, he would
nave avoided the squeeze that
later developed; but he made the
mistake Of leading the four OF
spades.
The nine was played from
dummy, forcing North to play the
ace, and declarer ruffed with the
eight of diamonds. A small club
was ruffed in dummy, a heart re-
turned to the ace, the king of
clubs caShed and the eight of clubs
ruffed. The six of spades was
ruffed with the nine of diamonds,
and at trick II when the jack of
diamonds was led, South could not
hold the queen-jack Of hearts and
the queen of spades.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Home Safeguards First

Undoubtedly there are good and
sufficient reasons for the United
States to cooperate in, and in some
cases ever sponsor, inter-American re-
arming for defense, as President Tru-
man proposes in his latest message to
Congress. Few days pass when some
new evidence that defense is a primary
necessity fails to show up. The spirit
of wal and willingness to fight are
too apparent in troublesome quarters
to ignore.
But at the moment the United
States has an even greater need for
domestic peace and settlement of dis
rupting conditions which if unchecked
would make it impossible even to Gre
ate adequate defense of our own shores,
not to mention other friendly hemis-
phere countries.
The President talks of standardiz-
ing armament but fails to act in the
only way that offers a chance of end
ing this bituminous coal strike which
is hating industrial production and
threatens a fuel famine among civilians
next winter. 1t is not only potential
enemies beyond our borders that must
be guarded against. More important is
it to have safeguards against the
known enemies at home.
This coal strike has not only re-
duced steel production to the min
imum and forced either a brown-out
or actual black-out of public illumina-
ton in many cities. 1t has SO crippled
industry that production of essential
consumer heavy goods is all but halted
and the Ford automobile plants yester-
day were to suspend VIRTUALLY all op-
Grafton" indefinitely, throwing thous-
ands Of workers out of employment.
The situation cannot be materially bet
ter in any major industry using steel
or coal.
And President Truman fails to seize
the mines, fails to raise the flag at
mine entrances and put the Army in
charge. Is John L. Lewis, the miners
No. l man, more powerful than the
President of the United States? The
Presidents inaction in a crisis as great
domestically as any we faced abroad
the war seems to indicate that
he is.
Standardized hemisphere d~efenses
are all right. But right now we need
defense against Lewis-yes, and Hill
man, Green, Murray, Johnson and all
other union leaders who have democrat
lied our national economy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
BY TOM

CHANGCHUN, May 7. Delay
ed)-P}-Chinese Communists de-
clared Tuesday that American
friendship in China would receive
a setback if the United States per-
sisted in Transporting government
troops to Manchuria.
With the Communists in control
of 10 per cent of rich Manchuria
and sitting firmly in the capital at
Changchun, they view with concern
the reports Of continuing American
help.
Gen. Peng Sheng, secretary-gen-
eral Of the Communists Manchu-
rian bureau, declared in an inter.
view that United States facilities"
presumably ships) were trans
porting the Central government S
93rd Army to the embattled terri
tory of Northeastern China.
Continued American aid, he said,
would seriously obstruct' the eff
forts of General Marshall. special
U. S. envoy to China, to end the
fighting in Manchuria which threat
ems to spread southwark.
The Chinese Communists are
making the strongest effort in Nan
king and by petitions to Congress
men in the United States to cut off
United States assistance, which
would smash the governments
main source OF supply for opera
tions in Manchuria.
Communist leaders here conf
IDENTIFY predicted IAN end to the
civil conflict, either. through nego-
tiations or through complete vic
tory over Chang Kai-shek's
armies"
General Peng claimed that 'the
government soldiers no longer are
willing to fight" and are desert
ing daily.
He announced the Communists
had set up governments in eight
of Manchuria's nine provinces. The
ninth, Hslngan IN the northwest
next to Mongolia, was left to Mon
golians who are trying to form an
autonomous government.
despite Peng's claims, govern
ment troops are in control of Liaon-
ing province, which embraces Muk-
den, and have wedges at least in
two other southern provinces-An-
tung and Liaopeh.)
Gen. Chow Pao-Chung, Com
munist captor of Changchun, pre-
viously expressed to American cor
respondents his resentment at aid
given rival armies by the United
States.
When American correspondents
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
More Parking Space Need

The widening of Second street north
from Chestnut eventually will prove
of material benefit to motor vehicle
traffic and doubtless will lessen the
load now concentrated on Front street
particularly in the late afternoon and
early evening. But the reduction of
parking space due to the project points
anew to Wilmington's inadequate pro-
vision for motorists who wish to leave
their cars at downtown curbs.
There have been repeated sugges-
lions in these columns for the expan-
sion of public parking ranging from
the city's operation of parking lots at
low cost to parkers to the use of Sec
ond and third floors Of buildings, ap-
preached by ramps and operated by
civilians, as is done in some other cities
at a profit but still at low cost to
parkers.
With this present example of motor
lists driving round and round blocks
seeking a vacant meter space, the city
and enterprising businessmen are to
be encouraged to do something about
the unsatisfactory situation. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

we're given a ride in a jeep stamp
ed ~. S. A." Chow quipped: I'm
losing face because the only We
hicles l have to give you are
American jeeps and trucks my
soldiers captured from the enemy
government army"
Chow denied the Communists had
obtained arms from Russia for
the battle of Changchun. He said
furthermore, without elaboration,
that his relations with Russia ARE
becoming increasingly difficult"
While the Russians occupied Man.
churia, however, they did nothing
to prevent a strong Chinese Com
munist army of more than 300, 600
men from entering and moving
about freely. Government forces,
however, were forbidden to enter
any Russian occupation zone.
Consequently, the government
army had to fight its way into
Manchuria against firmly e%ntrench-
ed Communist forces, who took
over more and more territory as
the Russians pulled out for Siberia.
Changchun was an example. The
Communists moved upward Of 2OO,-
600 troops around the city and
when the Red Army left they quick
ly overwhelmed a small govern.
ment garrison.
Now Changchun is the Com
munist capital Of Manchuria. The
party's democratic unity army
has moved its Headquarters here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Doctor Says
PENICILLlN KILLS
| MANY BACTERIA
BY WILLIAM A. O'BRIFv =,

"AAiAM "A. o'BRIEN, Mn
Penicillin destroys bacteria y
interfering with their grown Oy
development, and not by king ana
them directly as do so manv ~
~antiseptics. The bacteria do nv M
at once, a fact Which makes ".
necessary to continue the tr.N
ment for a time after the disa.a
apparently has been conquered
The action of penicilljn on
terra is metabolic in nature. o ts''
anti = bacterial agents, notablv v' mel
sulfa drugs, act by PRODUCING ,;n as
lar changes. The structure ~ n
germ is replaced in part bv ~, sss
sulta drug or penicilln, and this h i.
terferes with its life cycle.
Penicillin is the most no..
misunderstanding agent vet t', sI
covered. The purest peniciT"
that can be obtained will dastr.aa
germs when only minute tracs..
are used.
Pencillin consists of two mari.
the known and the unknown. w.
the known is purified and tbe sr
tract used in treatment it does rot
have the same effect as wheel ~.
whole penicillin Is used.
The unknown portion Of II.
drug is apparently more e%ffectivs
than the known portion in ID.
stroying the spirocetes Of sypbjIi,
Pencillin does not DESTROY Al
varieties of germs, as those cans,
ing typhoid fever, tuberculosis ,nd
a few other diseases are NOT ~
fected by it. 1t is most effective i,
the treatment Of infections caused
by pus = producing bacteria. omen.
monia, and gonorrhea germs.
Penicillin now has been tried IN
most diseases, and it is not likelv
that its use will be extended.
Many bacteria, after being d..
stroyed by penicillin in the be-.
ginning, become resistant and ar.
tually flourish in its presence.
Streptomycin is being tried in in,
fectons in which the Sulfa drugs
and penicillin are not of value, not.
ably tuberculosis and typhoid
fever. The possibility of successful
treatment of patients with acute
brucellosiS and tularemia has been
indicated by recent trials.
At the present time, streptomy.
Gin is used with greatest success
in some unusual forms of tubercu.
losis. Patients with regular tuber.
culosis who are progressing favor.
ably with rest treatment do not
require streptomycin.
Bacteria also can develop re.
sistance to streptomycin, which
suggests that we will need other
drugs to back it up.
Progress in the treatment Of
disease with antibiotics (sulta
pencillin, streptamycine) has been
phenomenal. In some instances the
use of these drugs Is superfluous,
as nature will effect a cure I'm.
aided, but in many cases they are
live-saving.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
TheLiterary
Guidepost
BY CHARLE HONCE =,
THERE'S A REASON FOR
EVERYTHING, by E. r. Pun

0AAOAA N4bAb pEJ
A dozen or so years ago, several
top-flight critics got up on their
hind legs and began shouting that
there was no reason why detective
and mystery fiction should not be
literature. In fact, they acclaimed,
it is literature!
The thesis has pretty generally
been accepted except among writ
ers who can't write a good detec-
tive novel, and the roll Of high
class Workmen who have been
turning out mystery stories far
above the old time thriller has
grown tremendously.
Over in London, the London
Detection Club was formed Spe-
officially to raise the tone of the
police romance. Punshon is a
member. He's an Englishman who
has also lived i nCanada and the
United States. He has turned out
more than 40 books, most Of them
detection and mystery and the
fourth to appear in the United
States, There's a Reason for tV'
erything," has just been publish
ed.
Instead of reviewing the cur
rent book, let's change the pace a
bit by quoting what Punshon mas
to say of mystery fiction as an
adult and worthy product OF the
literary worker:
1.-THE London Detection CIuo
was founded some years before
the war with the idea of bringing
together those writer's OF detec-
tive stories who were willing 10
aim at as high a literary STANDARD
as their gifts permitted, and 10
avoid the easy, the trite, ana lns
Conventional. For instance us
homicidal maniac, for whose az
lions no reasoned explanation IS re-
quired, and, i'll general, those tricks
Mr.. Bernard Shaw has clasSlHea
as the ali tine time stunt, Oy
which he meant the trick Of, 1or
example, introducing and deScTlD'
ing an old man with a long beard,
and then explaining in the Ids.
chapter that it was all the tune
the handsome young hero IN dls,
guise. Our belief is that the reader
must always be given fair play ne
must know as much as the detec,
tive and have with him an equai
chance OF working out the prooIen!
presented to its only logical soi"'
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
QUOTATIONS

The autocratic and dictatorial system gen.
orally employed in business provokes frustra-
ton and fear. And these human emotions are
ruthless destroyers of morale and its produc-
tive attributes. C. F. Mugridge of New
York, management consultant.
Ours is the leading nation of the world. We
have to give firm leadership and if We do, the
other nations, the Allied nations, will 70 along
with US. If we don't give it, it will not come
from any other direction. James A. Farley,
back from Europe.
If every one of the delegates did not insist
on talking just because the other delegates
talk, but without having anything to say, a
great deal more would be accomplished.-
Irena Eiger, student observer at UN meeting.
There is not enough food within the borders
OF the American zone procurable from Ger
man sources to sustain life even at starvation
levels. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney. com.
mander u. S. forces in Europe.
II we once begin to tamper with news, to
color or distort the truth in any way, even
with the highest and noblest motives, We will
find ourselves headed Town the same slope
that Mussolini travelled, that Hitler Travelled,
to the bottomless pit of perdition.-Rep. Noah
M. Mason (R) of Illinois.
Trade experience has shown that large num-
bers Of women, who normally would not buy
a new coat, inject a heavy demand into the
market when manufacturers promote new
style trends which make existing apparel un-
fashion ble.-CPA report.
Apprehensions which I entertained before
BEGINNING this journey have mot decreased.
They have increased Hunger sits at the table
thrice daily in hundreds Of millions Of homes,
Herbert Hoover in Europe.
II we must have a military occupation-and
we desire a small force to protect our from
tiers we would rather have it by the United
| Nations than by the FOUR powers President
Karl Renner Of Austria.
The one thing that keeps them (women>
from uniting is that the majority carry exces.
baggage in the form Of a potential Aeddins
ring. DR.. William Ernest Weld, president
; Wells College.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
ourGIRights
Questions and Answers
On Servicemen's
Problems
By LARSEN

WASHINGTON - If a veteran
is planning to enter college next
fall, his best bet will be a small
college or a junior college. The
Veterans Administration has just
finished a survey which shows that
practically all the ''big-name" and
football = team" colleges are al
ready full-up.
Based on an estimate of how
many veterans will want to start
college in the fall, and of the
number of vacancies which will
then be available, there will be
some vets left out in the cold. The
answer to that is to get your ap-
plication in right now.
The Veterans Administration
has just prepared a detailed list
of all institutions that reported
vacancies, showing their names,
locations, the number of vacancies,
etc. to guide veterans in applying
for education. Any VA office
should soon have one of these lists
available.
For veterans who got incurable
cases of wanderlust in the service.
the possibility of studying abroad
is another alternative. VA is al.
ready planning to establish re-
gional offices in northern Europe,
Paris, and London. Some vet
Grams are already studying in
Europe. But they are said 10 be
living on a "hand-to-mouth''
oas1s' waiting for the VA to set
up a definite program there.
Many "Save'' Benefits
The survey also discovered that
many veterans attending COLLEGE
aren't using the allowances and
money provided in the CT Bill of
Rights. They say they are SAVING
their benefits until their iunior or
senior years, or until they do
graduate or professional work. be-
cause the later courses are mora
Ihls IS strictly according to req
ulatlons, and is considered a smsr+
thing to do. Veterans would hs
wise to measure this device in
terms of their own educat;nn.I
Aai
From now on, VA will atten,r+
10 gather current information ~
Just what colleges will have roon.
Tor veterans next fall. If ~
old on you. first inouirv 49,
are no openings, don't gi,,s
up. 1t campus housing imnroves
5 ilAsly mere will be more open
Than new are predicted.
Sues'l0ns Will be answered
In this space-not by MALL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Religion
Day By Day
BY T. ELLIS
SINAI'S STEEP ROAD

SlNAlS STEEP ROAD
Entering the town of Akaba -
Solomon's port Of Ezion Geber -
from central Sinai by automobile.
one descends, precariously, a steep
and rocky decline. It looks forbid
ding, but l have made it.
However, there is no going back
the same way. The hill that may
be descended may not be assembled
In a car.
Lies landscape is full Of roads
like that. 1t is tragically possible to
90 down many roads that may not
be reclimbed. When innocence and
virtue are gone, there is no getting
them back.
save our youth, dear Lord, from
the perilous slopes Of sin, that lead
70 lrretrievable disaster. Amen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09
Friendship Setback Likely
Communist Leader In China Declares

Changchun, however, is a sad
looking city.
Besides the scars of the fierce
four-day battle preceding its fall,
it was stripped by the Russian
army. They not only took machine
ry and equipment from factories,
they eve took. furniture and bath
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

thousands Of car owners dia
not drive at all during the war ua
period. Those who did drive Wa
1aeed with highway conditions
which were not difficult. Consa
quently now that cars are ret,1rn-
ing to the highways in large n,,n-
oers' new driving skills must 10
acquired.-Robert F. Raleigh. In7
ternational Association of po,;oa
Chiefs official. e
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-09

Whenever the military men anu
the political powers that be don
interfere, scientists can gel ~
gether despite barriers OF lansn
age, space and different govern u.
ment.-Dr. Harlow Shapley' a.
rector Harvard Observatory.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-10-10
.SaleSviIle

Salesville, Oct 9 - Mrs. Pauline
Lashley of Buffalo spent Monday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Roe, and family.
Mr.. and Mrs Harold Meighen and
daughters visited Mr.. and Mrs. Her
land Reynolds and family of Cam
bridge, Friday evening.
Eileen Stillion has been i'll for a
few days.
Miss Mildred Ford of Cambridge
visited Mrs. Winnie Frame last We'd
nesday evening.
Mrs. B. N. Dodson and son, By
ron, and R. J. Boyd of Cambridge
and Mrs Earl Newman, Old Wash
ington, spent Tuesday afternoon
with Miss Winnie Frame.
Carl Mendenhall is spending this
week in Columbus
Mrs. Olive Davis returned home
last Thursday after spending the
past month with relatives at Shelby.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mendenhall
of Newark spent the weekend visit
ing with Mrs Olive Davis
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-10-10
RenrOCk

Renrock, Oct. 9-Renrock grange
met Friday evening with a good at
tendance. The following program
was presented.
Song by grange, talk, PLANT some
tulips this fall', Louis Hall; current
events, E. R. Tilden; duet, Phyllis
and Jane Lanier; paper, Slick
tricks for the housewife" " Itol Reed;
piano solo, Sandra Manifold Games
we're enjoyed by all present.
The w. S. c. S. met this Thurs
day, October 10, at the home of Mrs.
T. E. Thorla with pot luck dinner at
the noon hour. The meeting in the
afternoon was in charge of the pres
ident, Mrs Leura Dickinson.
A planning meeting for the Rem
rock Institute will be held at the
home of E. r. Tilden, Tuesday eve
ming, October, IS. All committee
members are asked to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Nelson of
Brookfield township have moved
from their country home to Beverly,
where they have purchased prop
erty.
A fellowship meeting of the
churches on Renrock charge was
held at the Renrock grange hall,
Tuesday evening of this week, Oct
ober 8. Pot luck supper was enjoyed