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Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
A Real
 Naborflood Merchant

Ben Goldfield, Proprietor of the Pavilion Patent Medicine Company, contributed ice cream to all the campers and counselors at Camp Bennett on Wednesday, August 2. It is through the cooperation and various contributions of people like MT. Goldfield that we are able to bring sunshine and happiness to some of Hartford's children who need it most. MT. Go1dfeld's thoughtfulness and sincerity will the North End when they return to not be forgotten by the children of he city.
 We commend him for his tangi- ble interest in children as well as his interest in the welfare of other races. I think most of US have ex- perienced his kindliness in the pur- chasing of tickets, contributions to clubs and organizations, taking of ads and in every way that was in his power. We should strive to patronize people like Mir. Gold field, whose policy is live and help others to live.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
N. E. Community Center Closes Home Camp

Friday, August Is, at I8:15,,
 marked the first annual closing o-
 the North End Community Center
 "Stay AT Home Camp. The Cen.
 ter sponsored "a wonderful program
 throughout the summer for about
 800 children. The theme for this
 year was Living In Our Commun- ity". This season the Campers" have gone on picnics, many inter- esting trips, and seen movies.
 They have published a newspaper of their own called "The Commun- ity Paper, in which they tell of their trips. The one to the Fire house proved very interesting to the children and created quite bit of excitement. The Campers were given chocolate milk on their trip to Bryant and Chapman, where they saw ice cream made and milk bottled. Another time they visi- ted the Capital and saw the statue of Nathan Hale, traces of the Char ter Oak Tree and Revolutionary flags.
 A regular schedule is followed from day to day. In the morning from 9:00 to9:15 the campers sing sougs and different children take charge of morning assembly The next three quarters of an hour is used for game playing. Building classes are from 10:00 to 1O:45; a barber shop, grocery stores, and libraries are among the buildings which are made. In the afternoon they listen to records and stories and one week moving pictures were shown.
 The camp had a Junior Camp Council which was selected by voting. Shirley Suckalouskas was president, Ronald Macklin, Vice president; Torraine and Llewellyn Weaver. These children were cho- sen to punish those that did wrong,
 The center has a trained staff of leaders and has been operating for 19 months. The leaders this season were divided into groups. MT. Dawson Shaw was the camp director, the primary leaders were Miss Betty Powers, and Miss Betty Allen; Miss Mary A. Shaw and Miss Elizabeth Lambert had charge of the Juniors, the Intermediate eaders were Miss Mary F. Eaves and Miss Betty Allen; the recrea- tional leaders were Miss Mary. Thorne and Miss Barbara Davis. Miss Elizabeth Lambert had charge of the music, while Miss Mary A. Shaw was the Primary craft direc- tor, and Miss Betty Powers, the Junior and Intermediate craft lea der.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Reckless Driver ln lures Woman

While crossing Main St. at the Mahl Avenue intersection Tues day evening at 1o:3O, Mrs. Pearl Harris of 32 Bellevue Sq., was struck by an automobile driven by Arthur Bolton of AT Green Street.
 At the St. Francis Hospital, where Mrs. Harris was taken, it was reported that her condition was not considered as serious.
 Witnesses stated that Bolton, the driver of the car, attempted to pass a car on the right just as the light was changing, and that Mrs. Harris was running across the street when the car struck her.
 As far as the CHRONICLE re- porter could ascertain, no arrests were made, and no check was made of the cars brakes, though skid marks show that one wheel of the car grabbed first. 1t is us- ually customary to check Ehese matters.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
AVG To Hear
 Congress Report

Leo Parsky, chairman of the le- gislative committee of the Ameri- can Veterans Committee, will speak on Every Veteran Voter'' at meeting of the World War II vets Tuesday evening at 8 p. m. at the Unitarian Meeting House, 215 Pearl St.
 Unfinished business of the 79th Congress will be discussed. The significance of the bills wherein the vets are involved will be spo- ken on. The voting records of U. s. Senators McMahon and Hart, Representatives Ryter and Kopple- man will be reviewed as well as the veterans position on the bills.
 Plans for a membership drive September 15 - October IT will be formulated and will eliminate in a national anniversary celebration on October IT, the first birthday of the AVG.
 If there is any doubt in anyone's mind as to the important part the veterans are going to play in the future of the nation, he needs only to read the platforms of the various office seekers. Let it not be forgotten that it was a veteran who put the slzids under the La Toilette regime in Wisconsin.
 Socially and locally, in civic manner, our co1ored branch of the American Legion can function well. However, in matters of national importance, all World War II ve- terans should connect themselves with the American Veterans Com mittee (A.V.C.). This organiza- tion wants and needs your support.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Largest Parade Ever Ends Legion Farley

The 18th annual convention of | the State Department, American Legion, ended Saturday, August I17, as some 10000 Legionnaires
 marched through downtown Hart. ford in the largest parade in the Legion's history. Twenty-two To-
 cal veterans, organizations, inclu- ding our own Mckinney Post and their auxiliary were represented.
 Waterbury, ew Haven n d Bridgeport Posts and auxiliaries were also represented. Reliable sources indicated that nearly one thousand men and women repre- sented the race at the convention.
 Nine resolutions were intro duo. d and eight. of them were promptly enacted. Among the most important of those were denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan, a request for speedier ac- tion on granting veterans home loans, demands for a 100 bed in- crease to the Newington hospital, and a request for increased facil- ities at the Rock Hill Veterans Home which was approved by Gov. Baldwin.
 The most important issue of the convention was that of a be- nus for veterans. The resolutions committee of six voted Az to re- ject any request for bonus. However, the convention itself, in poll taken, voted nearly two- thirds in favor of bonus legisla- tion.
 Other speakers besides Cover nor Baldwin were Henry T. Wood, manager of the local office of the Veterans Administration; W. c. Meehan, state director of compensation, and John L. IConnors, chairman of the Legion's Rehabilitation Commit tee.
 Friday night, more than 1900 veterans attended the dance at the state armory.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Odd Fellows
 Convention Ends
New York - (SpeciaD

New York - (SpeciaD
 Conferences of four branches l Of the Grand United Order of Todd Fellows in America, came to close August IT. Town Hall, in which a public joint session was lheld on Monday, August 12, was taxed to it's utmost capacity. Here welcome addresses were made by Atty. General Nathaniel IL. Goldstein, who spoke on be- half of his Excellency, Governor Thomas E. Dewey; His Honor Mayor William O'Dwyer, and nu- merous others. Among those ma king responses were Deputy Cd. Master Robert T. Thomas of Jacksonville; Grand Master Err nest D. Cooke of Boston; M. W. Grand Superior Mrs. Mary Floyd Hendley of Nashville, and others. Tuesday, a joint session of the Lodge and Household of Ruth delegates was held in Convent Avenue Baptist Church, at which biennial addresses were made by Grand Master Cooke and Mrs. Mary Floyd Hendley.
 The BMC voted to place
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Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Lynch Spirit Flares In Gotham

New York, August 15-Negro
 citizens of New York, shocked by
 news during recent weeks of South
 ern barbarism in the 1ynching and terrorizing of Dixie Negroes, dis covered with grave apprehension growing signs of the lynch spirit in the city's Greenwich Village section, as reports of numerous beatings of Negroes in that part of the city were made known. One of the most alarming aspects of the situation is the apathy of Village police, who, according to 9 reliable source, know the identi- ty of the roodlums who are or ganized to tkeep n-s out of the Village
 Walter White NAACP secreta- ny, expressed concern over the sit nation which was developing less than week after he had been as- sured by Police Commissioner IWallander that the rights of Ne groes in the city would be pro- tected.
 About 2:30 a. m., August II, Arthur Smith was chased by a 'ang of men on his way from 8
 estaurant to the subway. Call ing for the police as he ran, he found one, who told him to go in- to the subway and made no att tempt to pursue the gang. On
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Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24
Wallace Protests
 USES Segregation

Washington - Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace has written a letter of protest to ec- retary of Labor Lewis D. Schwel- lenbach against the segregation of Negro and white applicants being interviewed for jobs in the District of Columbia offices of the United States Employment Ser vice. He disclosed that Negro employees suspended by the De- partment of Commerce had been put in separate line at the USES offices here.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24

1t is the Activities Bulletin of the North End Community Center. It will come to you periodically telling the story of the many things that are happening in this community development. WHAT IS THE NORTH END COMMUNITY CENTER?
 It is an idea for cooperative community effort that was born in the minds of Hartford leader ship 16 years ago. An economic depression and a war prevented its realization until November l, 1914.
 In these short months of actual existence it has brought together an assembly of more than four teen (14) different nationality groups. People who live next door to each other and want to become better acquainted. People who do not want misunderstanding and hate running rampant in their com munity! WHAT DOES THE CENTER DO?
 It developes good citizenship and sense of responsibility through friendly association in Crafts, Music, Art, Dramatics, Interest Group5, Adults Education sand Clubs, under TRAINED LEADER SHIP.
 It is not a social work PANA- CEA IT'S A BETTER WAY OF LIVING.
 HOW LONG HAS THE CENTER OPERATED?
 To be exact, .19 months. It opened officially November 1, 1914 with director, one desk and the ideal.
 It now employees four (4) full time workers and seven CD part time.
 The Center population has come from ZERO in 1914 to 500 week in 1946! These are Boys and Girls, Adolescents and Men and Women. JANUARY TO JUNE 1946
 Until the middle of January, 1946, the Center operated an ex- tension program from a one-room office. January 18th after scrap ing floors and applying paint brushes, the Center took over the oldest school building in the Arsen- al School group.
 The doors were hardly open when the neighborhood children damned the building, The third day 25O children made the old structure creak as they romped and had fun.
Hartford chronicle., 1946-08-24

But this is an area of the city where the opportunities for or ganized activities have been ex- ceedingly limited. So as is the case anywhere among children, they have run wild. -....
 Was this easy-and in the mid- de of the Winter? Both the long time bad practices and the time of year made this herculean task. But by June 1st we had fifteen (15) club groups and a member ship of approximately 200.
 Where children congregate, soon CT or later adolescents and adults will appear. So these children led these other groups to the Center. They came so rapidly that we could not Accommodate all the groups desiring to participate. At the point our attendance was over. 500 a week.
The Valley settler., 1946-10-31
HOSPITAL NEW

HOSPITAL NEWS Joros Monroe, son of Nr. and Mrs. Lo stor Monroo, had minor surgery on Wednesday, morning of this uook. Bruco Jor,i son, son of Mir. and Mrs. 7.c. Jonison, Goaba, St. Lawrence Is. hnd tonsill co tony on Hodne sdny morning of thi s uoek. hrs. Irving Melville was admitted for nn jor surgery on Thursday of this Uook.
 
 SCHOOL HALLOWEEN PARTIES. On Thursday afternoon of this Ueok fhl1o- ue'on parties Ncre tho order of the day in the Poli1cr School. Ono net spooks, ghosts etc. along the halls es he entered the school building. CARNIVAL MANAGERS MET Following the car- nivcl of last Saturday, the managers hold 0 TIC ct ing to. dis scuss tho good and bad points of this yeor's Carnival with noxt lyocr's Carnival in mind. CH7ISINAS TOYS arc now on display in tho Ko slos sky Storo. Thero will bo moro if tho boats run bcforo Christ as thero are lots of toys that cannot be allowed space on tho Airpl amos. BONNIE MOORE VISITS hR. & MRS. Everett Yohn of Lebanon, Oregon. Mir. and Mrs. Yohn hot Bonnie at Salem and took hor to Loba- non for fev days visit. Bonnie will be Intending Bisine ss College in Los Angles Ithis ri ntor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
fear

that you saw in Thursdays paper.
During the Civil War a troop of
Northern soldiers muscled in on
the family and made them move
up to the top floor. The enforced
move upstairs must have proved
to be a change for the better,
however, because the family never
moved back down again.
CAPE FEAR DACHE-If they
had moved down, they would have
found themselves surrounded by
% hats on the second floor and
70 ice cream on the first floor.
Ice cream and hats, while being
pleasant adjuncts in ones exist
ence, do not make for a coy
habitat.
When Mr.. Lawton died he left
the house to his wife, Mrs. Elsie
Lawton. Mrs. Lawton remarked
to a man named M. Lumsden.
Mrs. Lawton, now Mrs. Lumsden,
was quite a milliner-the Cape
Fear Lily Dache of her day, and
She practiced her art on the second
floor.
Her daughter, a very pretty
little girl, wore samples of her
mothers hat-handiwork, and every
body used to say, admiringly,
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
FOR POSTERITY-We ca

FOR POSTERITY-We can't say
we didn't ask for it.
We asked, naively enough, docs
anyone remember?'' in reference
to the function and ownership of
that house just north of the Orton
hotel in that 1885 picture of Front
street in Thursdays paper.
The question should have been,
Doe anyone NOT remember"
because, judging from the amount
of replies we've received, every
body knew about the building but
us.
BY now, of course, we know all
about it, too. For the sake of
posterity, however, we shall now
put the history of said structure
into print and let the inaccuracies
Gf any fall where they may.
TIRED ENGLISHMAN - Away
back yonder before the Civil War
an Englishman named Mr.. Mat
thew Lawton got Kred of being an
Englishman and packed his be-
longings and his family off to the
U.S.A. and settled in Wilmington.
He also packed off a good bit
of money with which he purchased
the property just north of the Or
ton hotel and built the house (pat-
termed after the Charleston, S. S.,
residences popular in that day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

It disclosed also a direct appeal
to Foreign Minister Molotov for
Soviet cooperation with American
and Britain in rehabilitating the
former satellite of Germany.
Reds Strip Hungary
The State department made pub
lie a letter which Ambassador W.
Bedell Smith delivered to Molotov
Tuesday containing the appeal.
The letter also declared that the
Red army had been stripping Hun
gary of foodstuffs while the Rus
sian government had removed
1924, 600, 900 worth of manufactur-
ing equipment and is currently
absorbing so per cent of Hungary's
industrial production.
The strong protest may fore
shadow a fight over Hungarian re-
parations at the peace conference.
The blast at Russia was given
out by the department shortly aft
er Byrnes held a news conference
at which he made these major
points on American foreign policy
operations:
To Pull Troops
l. The United States intends to
pull its troops out of Italy within
the specified 9o-day period after
final signing of the Italian peace
treaty. Byrnes does not consiier
the necessity of maintaining cup
ply lines to Austria is any excuse
for keeping Allied forces (Ameri-
can and British in Italy once the
treaty is effective. Presumably.
Byrnes will apply the same rea
soning to try to get Russian forces
removed from Bulgaria after the
signing of a Bulgarian treaty.
2 The Anglo-American cabinet
meeting on Palestine has recon-
mended a plan for the partition of
Palestine. Presumably, this means
settling Jews and Arabs in differ
ent zones under a federalized Bri.
fish control administration. Byrnes.
Secretary of War Patterson, and
Secretary of Treasury Snyder con-
fered with President Truman late
this afternoon on the plan, which
Byrnes said Britain already has
approved.
See RUSSIA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
CONTROL REVIVAL
BRINGS PROBLEM
L a S Must Lower
Rents To Conform To
OPA Price Figures

Tenant eviction cases spotlighted
a Qualification Of rent control
measures by Maurice Moore, Area
Rent director, yesterday shortly
after the revival Of OPA.
Local application Of control
measures as contained in revised
OPA rulings, make it mandatory
that rent regulation requirements
be met Ito the letter" by land
lords, except in cases where court
judgment has not been rendered
and duly executed
Restore Services
Landlods who have removed
services from their tenants since
the OPA died, are required to re-
store them in full. Failure of tae
landlord to do this, places the case
in the hands of the local Area Rent
control, which offices will be re-
quired to start Investigations to re-
duce the rent retroactive to the
date Federal rent control was re-
moved.
No provision has been made for
refunds of increased rent payments
paid during the interim period,
Moore said. This will apply even
though the monthly terms to which
the rent applies would expire after
renewal date of control.
Same Rent
All recommendations under the
housing and hotel rooms regula-
tons are now subject to the same
rent amounts and conditions which
prevailed June 80, unless and until
they are changed b. an order of
the Area Rent director.
No rent can be collected in ex-
cess of one month in advance, ex-
cept in cases where an order has
been issued by the Area Rent Of
fees, under the rules, and any
such collections should be refund
ed 10 the tenant, Moore said.
Failure to make such refunds
Immediately, places the landlord
in violation of the rules.
Moore pointed out that the serv-
ices of the Area Rent control Of
fees are available alike to land
lords and tenants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
LAW C%0DIFICATI0E
SLATED FOR CITY
Law Publishing Firm To
".Weed Out" Antiquat-
ed Ordinances

A complete, up-to-date codifica.
ton of all the laws and ordinances
of Wilmington will be presented to
the city council for approval in
about three or four weeks by the
Niche company, law-publishing
firm of Charlottesville, Va, City
Manager J.. r. Benson disclosed
yesterday after a two-day confer
ence with two Niche representa-
tives.
Authorized BY Council
The codification project was au-
thorized several months ago by the
council at the request Of City At
torney W. B. Campbell.
Both Campbell and Benson cor
ferred with the Niche agents on
Wednesday and Thursday on the
preliminary codification m u
script, completely weeded out Of
the old law books, and the final
manuscript, completely edited and
streamlined for publication, will
be turned over to the council in
three or four weeks, Benson said.
Cost S., 5000
The total cost of the codification
and the manufacture Of several
hundred copies in permanent book
form will be about S., 900, Benson
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
Scion Ill,
Skips Meet
With Group
War Probers To Scan In
come Tax Return OF
Munitions Makers
MAY DENIES PROFITS
Kentuckian Admits Acting
AS Fiscal Agent For
Lumber Company

WASHINGTON, July &c.
(AP)-The Senate War In
vestigating committee Ii i d
plans Friday to look into in
come tax returns of all Of
ficials of h Cumberland
Lumber company-for which
Representative May O.-Ky.) was
fiscal agent-along with those of
principals in the Carson munitions
combine.
Chairman Mead D.-N.Y.) told
newsmen of the project shortly
after the committee had heard
testimony from Mays physician
that it would be ''inadvisable'' for
the House Military chairman to
respond to a subpoena in his pres
ent physical condition.
Heart Condition
May was described by the
physician, Dr.. Henry M. Lowden,
as suffering from a heart condi-
ton which "has recently become
aggravated" He had a date with
the committee at 9 a. m. (EST)
Friday to tell about his relations
with officials of the munitions
group which handled SIS, 600, 900 in
war contracts, but DR.. Lowden said
he would be unable to appear for
10 days at least. May has &C
knowledged aiding the combine
with its Washington dealings but
has denied he made any personal
profit or did anything more than
seek to speed the war effort.
To Bare Returns
Mead told reporters President
Truman, whom he visited Friday
morning, had agreed to make
a v a l able to the committee,
through the Justice department
concerned in the war profits in
See MAY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27

agency 1H1llleuldCely granted nigh
er prices on many items to con-
form with the measures provi-
sions.
Temporary Action
OPA rolled back many prices,
including some foods, to June 80
levels, but it warned that the &C
ton was only temporary and that
higher prices would be felt within
20 days. Other increases, to give
manufacturers their 1910 prices
plus increased costs, will come
later.
Not until August 20 when the new
three-man decontrol board begins
fuactioning will consumers learn
whether ceilings are to be put back
on meat, dairy products, poultry,
eggs. petroleum, tobacco and
grain.
Higher Ceilings
OPA authorized higher prices
for coal and other solid fuels, top.
grade shoes, some building mate.
rails and dozens Of other goods.
Items from which controls were re.
moved ranged from furs to low.
backed chairs and grandfather
clocks.
Meantime, Senator Robert A.
Taft, (R.-O.), who fought to gel
manufacturer higher prices for
their goods, assailed what he term
ed President Humans "labored
attempt" to justify his veto OF the
first OPA bill and his approval Of
the second.
In an item-hy-item breakdown
of the signed bill, he charged that
it accomplished practically the
same results as the one Mr.. Tru.
man vetoed would have done.
Apparently in reference to his
pricing amendment which was re,
See OPA on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-27
USES Bill Signed

WASHINGTON, July rs - R -
President Truman Friday signed
the $1,155, 015,6 l~abor-federal
security appropriation bill contain
ing a section returning the United
States employment service to state
operation next November Is.
The bill appropriates $140,456,-
443 for the Labor department,
1896, 1873, 527 for the Federal Sc
curity agency, and $318, 375, 700, for
related agencies for the fiscal year
that started July l.