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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16
NANCY MERkI BOOSTS BID,
 SWIM MEET

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16. = Nancy Merki of Portland's success ful defending champion Multnomah Athletic Club today boosted her bid for the American Olympic team with three iirsts and meet record n the far western AAU swimming md diving championships
 The Multnomah Club accumulat- ed 49 points to defend it's wo- mems division title against San Francisco Crystal Plunge, with 34.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16
HOSPITAL NOTES

St. Ann's Hospital admitted over the weekend Mary Yumol, John A. Craft, Mrs. James Johnson, Joe Ibach, Paul Sequia and Charles Rider.
 Discharged were Robert Ander- son, L. Wittenberg, Mercedes Bal com and Mrs. Lauris Parker and baby girl
 Government Hospital admitted Lorraine Cranston of Juneau and discharged Pearl Andrews, Emma Marks of Sitka, Edna Harry of Hocnah and Mamie Starish of Ju- neau
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16
Baseball Banquet 10
 Be Held Next Friday;
 Awards Will Be Made

start on the minute and be sizzl- ing to the hot finish.
 It is estimated there will bs about 75 sitting down to the feed and all will anXiously await the an nual award for which most suit able prizes have been donated by Juneaus progressive merchants.
 The players of the three teams Legion. Elks and Moose, are re- quested to be right on time when play eats" is yelled at ' o'clock next Friday night in the Odd Eel lows Hall.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16

The baseball banquet of the Ju- neau Volunteer Fire Department given annually to the players of the Juneau City League, will be the event next Friday night start ing sharp at o'clock, according to Joe Sadlier, chairman of the event.
 The spread of eat will be in charge of Percy Reynolds and that means there will be plenty and the spread will be in the IOOF Hall
 Baseball Proxy Judge William Holzheimer will be the toast mas ter and that means the game will
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16

George H. Fox, Junior Stade and Jack Reynolds
 Skaeway to Tenakee: c. A. Sting CT, Homer Iske, L. E. Sinner and J. D. r. Bertinger; and charter trip to Lake Dorothy area and re- turn. N. Banfield and D. Abel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16

and; Sacramento at Oakland; and San Diego at Los Angeles.
 Yesterdays crowd of l0,7O7 at San Francisco brought the years mark to 670,563, believed to be a Minor League record.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-16
TIGHT RA(EIN
 NAT. LEAGUE
 FOR pENNANf
BY JOE REICHLER CAP SPORTS WRITEH)

For the first time in major league baseball, two Brooklyn and St.. Louis-may wind up the com~ plete season in a dead heat for the. flag.
 With exactly two weeks of the campaign remaining, the Cardinals possess a game and half lead over the Dodgers on one of the tightest pennant races the National League has ever known. However, both teams are all even in the lost ledg- CT The Cardinals advantage is all in the win column since they've played and won three more games than Brooklyn.
 Unless rain interiors, the Dodgers should make up those three games by Friday, at which time each con- tender will have played 146 games with eight to go. The Dodgers l9- inning tie with the Cincinnati Reds is slated to be played off Friday.
 The Cardinals gained full game on the BrOokS yesterday when they defeated the Giants twice 80 and "A while the Dodgers were held to split by the Cubs.
 Chats Stop Game
 After dropping a thrilling 4-3, 10-inning decision to the Cubs, the Dodgers, behind Kirby Higbe's one bit pitching, bounced back to win the afterpiece of the double header 20. The game was halted after five innings by a combination of semi-darkness and a swarm of gnats which infested Ebbets' Field, packed to capacity by 32,264 cash customers.
 Dave Ferriss, Boston's brilliant Sophomore, won his 18th game as the American League champion Red Sox split with the Chicago White Sox. Ferriss allowed eight hits in winning the opener Al but Chicago came back to blank the Red SoX 60 behind Johnny Ringney.
 Ferriss thus tied the American
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city to city so that large percentage
|of the people may have a visual picture
of the thing that has brought greater
disturbance into the world than any
previous discovery.
Probably the only phase not revealed
lis the know-how of atomic bombs. But
so much of the atoms power is there
it makes one wonder why Russia should
have atomic spy rings, as recently I'M
covered in Canada and now alleged to
exist in this country. Of course they
are after the know-how, but shrewd
guess based on what is being exhibited
might solve that riddle.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-13
Mckinney On
BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY
Americas Card Authority

JACK kushner of Springfield,
Mass, brings out beautiful point
in today's hand. First of all, he
points out that at rubber bridge
seven spades would be the accept
ed contr' ct, but at duplicate it is
necessary to try for the maximum.
Jack further points out that after
winning the first trick with the ace
of hearts, most North players
would run off the long spade suit
and then try for the diamond break.
If the diamonds do not break, they
are not in a position either to take
the club finesse or to establish a
squeeze.
The correct way to play the
hand is to cash the ace, king and
queen of diamonds, discarding a
club from dummy on the third dia-
mond. When that suit does not
break, then the spades should be
run. Declarer thus will end up in
dummy with the valuable ten of
hearts and feminine of clubs, and
East cannot hold the queen and
the two other clubs and the king
OF hearts.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-13
School Improvement

New Hanover County's public school
system is to gain much needed expan-
sion through the County Commissions
action in making $4,000 remaining in
the school building bond fund available
for improvements at three schools. The
action hinged upon County Attorney
Bellamy's favorable legal ruling.
Wrightsboro is to have an agricul-
tural building and athletic field. Hooper
school grounds are to occupy a whole
block except four lots. Heminway's
campus, SO long inadequate, is to be
extended.
Certainly the money thus made avail
able for improvements is to be much
better employed than if It remained
idle in an inactive fund. The Commits.
sion is to be congratulated for taking
this forward step.
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Orrell To Retire

John A. Orrell, who has served New
Hanover county as auditor for thirty
four years, well deserves the retirement
to private life which he has announced,
effective at the close of business on
December 81 next.
No other man in the Court House
has so long a record for continuous
service in an executive position. Court
Clerk A. L. Maryland was a clerk in the
registrars office when Mr.. Orrell first
took up his duties as auditor. His
nearest competitor among executives
is Addison Hewlett, chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, whose
service is four years shorter.
Mr.. Orrell will take with him the
best wishes of the entire community
when he closes his ledgers for the last
time, and the close friendship of all
who have had more than passing ac-
quaintance with him throughout the
three decades and more that he has
been faithful steward of the county's
accounting office.
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Atomic Display

The 1916 Exposition of Chemical
Industries, held at the Grand Central
Palace in New York, displayed the first
comprehensive exhibit of atomic energy
Sponsored by the American Chemical
society, with permission from. the
Army, the display shows what atomic
energy is, how it works, what it has
done and what it can reasonably be
expected to do in the future.
Following the New York exposition
ut IS intended to carry the display from
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TOP o. THE MORNING
Nets Favors Bluethenthal

When the National Guard was call
ed to active service this city along with
others in the state was left without
militia protection. 1t was shortly after
this that the State Guard was organic
ed. Membership reached $500.
This organization has functioned
ever since, drilling regularly, on call at
any time, and holding regular training
encampments.
Now that the war is ended the pro-
posal is to restore the National Guard
on a broader program, with an air unit
added. Adjutant General J. Van B.
Metts, head Of the State Guard and the
North Carolina National Guard, is es-
pecially interested in this project, and
happily for Wilmington, favors Blue
thenthal airfield for it's headquarters.
The plan has the endorsement, we
might we'll say the acclaim, of the new
airfield authority, as it would help with
the costs of maintaining Bluethenthal,
without interrupting it's use by COM
mercial airlines and private fliers, and
barracks and other facilities are al
ready available.
A congressional appropriation must
be obtained before the arrangement
can be carried out, but General Metts
is so enthused by the proposal he may
be relied upon to bring the full power
of his position and influence to bear
for it's approval.
Nevertheless, it would be unfair tt
leave the whole job to him. Whining
ton would reap direct benefits. Viii.
mington's people therefore are to be
expected to give him all the aid they
can muster, as are Senators Bailey
and Hoey and Representative Bayarc
Clark.
Meanwhile the State Guard, which
is expected to hold it's annual encamp-
ment at Bluethenthal in July, will fine
a cordial welcome awaiting it's ar.
rival.
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The Rev. Walter r. Noe

The Rev. Walter R. Noe, whose death
has shocked Wilmington, by all counts
and in the opinion of everyone who
knew him, was a gentleman of the
first rank.
Quiet, retiring, efficient above the
average, Mr.. Noe had served the diocese
OF Eastern Carolina as executive secre-
tary and treasurer for thirty-five years,
taking up his arduous duties shortly af-
ter Bishop Darst was consecrated.
Earlier he had served congregations
in South Carolina and Virginia.
Through his wide acquaintanceship
and devotion to his work he both en-
deared himself to the diocese and a
host OF persons not in the church, and
kept the business affairs of the area he
served in the orderly manner charac-
terlstlc OF competent executives.
"Well done, thou good and faithful
servant" is peculiarly appropriate for
this gentleman upon whom the shadows
closed all too soon.
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that the bottom may drop out o.
the market before the fisherman
shad gets to Baltimore. But he
doesn't figure this so much. He s
a good gambler. Otherwise, he
probably wouldn't be a fisherman
in which business he mu<t gamble
against the wind, the tide, the moon
the sun, and any other meteoro.
logical data that might effect the
fish, or his catching of them.
Getting back to shad itself,
though. One of the main arguments
most folks have against shad is
their boniness. Although she'd is,
or are, probably one of the most
delicate of fish, many people won't
eat them because of their plethora
of bones.
Well, did you know that you can
buy shad fillets that are as near
homeless as it is probably possible
to get fish? It's true. The price
is pretty prohibitive. Right on up
around $1.25 per pound, and even
more. Even so, making the shad
homeless is very expensive pro,
cess. This is done by women with
high sense of adroitness and ii
involves taking an instrument
similar to tweezers and picking the
bones out one by one.
Another important thing about
shad to the fishermen: Prices here.
abouts will hold up very nicely
until, all of a sudden, they will
do nose-dive. The prices, not the
shad or fishermen.
That is when the fishermen
around here get pretty angry. They
feel they are being gypped by the
dealers in the three cities already
mentioned.
This may not be the case. AS
has happened nearly every spring.
all of a sudden shad start running
in tremendous quantities in the
Hudson river. And in the rivers
and streams around PHILADELPHIA
and Baltimore. In such cases, the
shad are practically on the door
steps OF the dealers and they will
give preference to these over the
North Carolina shad.
And, incidentally, although YOU
see shad on menus around here
mainly as fried shad, the indisput-
able best way to cook them is to
bake them.
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Hope For The Best

Optimism is among President Tru-
mans most outstanding attributes. The
most recent example of it is his declara-
ton that Russia will cooperate with the
United Nations Organization despite
the present pickering and heckling and
controversies particularly between Mos
COW and Washington.
Just how Mr.. Truman figures it out
is not clear, unless we attribute it to
intuition. Certainly there is nothing in
existing conditions, nor in Russia's
course during the formative period of
UNO or since, to justify his prophecy.
From the start, Russia has given
indisputable evidence that she intends
to 60 it alone, where Russian interest
or ambition is concerned, and that Mos
COW trusts no nation even among her
allies whose contributions to the Rus
sian war effort made Russian victories
possible.
In such cases as Russia has con-
coded points at issue to the other lead
ing powers in UNO, the concession has
invariably been made with bad grace
and obviously only because she could
not enforce her will upon her associates.
The blame undoubtedly rests in
large measure upon Russia's allies, for
giving in so often in the interest of
harmony but against their better judy
ment
Unused to the power she has ac-
quired since Germany's collapse, it is
perhaps natural that Russia should as
sumo the bully's role. The question that
worries most observers is whether her
allies have waited too long to stand up to
her. The habit of having her own way
may have become too we'll rooted to be
changed now.
We hope that Mr.. Truman's opti-
mism is justified, but there is little
reason to place complete reliance in it..
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LETTER BOX
WAITING AT USES OFFICE
To the Editor:

10 the Editor:
How long do I have to waltz,
The receptionist in the United
States Employment Service office
is asked this question constantly
during the day by applicants who
come in.
In spite Of the fact that while
the traffic was around 200 a dav in
December in the white office It is
now running close to 400 a day and
yet applicants are receiving service
and getting out of the office much
faster than they were before.
On Tuesday, March 5, we had
handled 300 applicants up to ~: 30
noon, whereas so days ago the
same crowd would not have been
handled before in the afternoon
if at all.
Most applicants are in and out
Of the office inside of an hour.
especially those that are filing a
continued claim for unemployment
compensation or simply looking
for work; however, new appli-
ants have to wait longer.
The law requires that a veteran
eeking a job must be registered
CONTINUED on Page 81
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You Know It's Getting To Be Spring
When The Shad Start In To Runnine

puts several tags on the box ad
dressed to one of the dealers in one
Of the three cities mentioned.
Let us say that the fish are ship.
ped to Baltimore on Thursday
afternoon. They will be in Balti.
more for the Saturday morning
market. The shad will be sold to
buyers, much in the manner tcbac.
co is sold in the tobacco markets,
to the highest bidder. Rather, the
high bidders usually set the price
for the shad Of equal quality.
When the days sales are COM
plete the dealer will then remit
to the North Carolina fisherman
his money, which represents the
price the fish sold for in Balti-
more less Il IL per cent dealers
commission less freight charges
to Baltimore.
Strangely enough, most North
Carolina fishermen, shad fisher
men, that is, would rather ship
their shad on consignment than
to sell them outright at the fish
house. This is because hope springs
ever eternal in the fisherman's
breast. He always thinks some
thing will happen during the time
it takes his shad to get to the
market that will cause the price
to 60 up. In such a case he would
get the advantage Of the price
boost. Therefore, he likes to take
his chances on the consignment
market.
OF course, it is quite possible
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-03-13
Religion
Day By Day
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS
THE IMPERTINENCE OF
RELIGION

Religion sticks it's nose into
everything.
Fifty one nations gather for a
U.N.O. assembly = and, 10! Reli
gion perches at every mans ear.
Labor and management as
semble for conferences, and above
the rancor of their debates the
voice of Religion says, Listen to
me-"
Educators meet to discuss many
diverse aims; but all the while Re
ligion keeps in:ruding with the ad
monition, ut is really Me whom
you are needing"
Pleasure lovers crowd the
movies and the night clubs and the
taprooms and the dance halls, butu
always, in deep undertones, sounds
the Inner Voice II alone can give
You abstraction"
Youth casts off restraints and
rampages at will hedless Of the
word, SIN finding Me, you find full
ness of life
Wherever human beings think
and aspire and struggle, there be
side them, speaking in tones laden
with the accent OF the ages, stands
Religion, admonishing them, Il am
the Way, the Truth and the Life"
Apart from M eyou can d onoth
ing"
Because Thou has made Us Thy
children, o Eternal Father, we
cannot escap efrom our birthright,
and from our need of Thy counsel
and care. Amen.
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BY JOHN SKIES

You can always tell when it is
Just before spring because this is
when the shad begins running in
sufficient quantities for you to be
able to eat them without feeling
you are fracturing your budget.
Naturally, there are other signs
to show that spring is practically
upon us, such as peach and pear
trees full of blossoms and jonquils
blooming all about the premises.
Not to mention, of course, the
thoughts that turn, lightly to love,
etc. =. y
But the running of the shad is
the surest harbinger. And it is a
iharbinger all the way up the East
Coast from the Edisto river below
Charleston to the Hudson in New
York.
And, of course, you know the
rivers hereabouts, including the
Cape Fear, Black, and So on, are
literally full Of shad this time of
the year.
Just in case you are interested
in few statistics, probably the
greatest point of concentration for
them-the shad-in North Carolina
is Stumpy Point in Dare county.
From now until perhaps the first
of May hundreds Of Stumpy Point
fishermen will catch thousands of
pounds of shad.
Most of the Stumpy Point shad
are shipped on consignment to
Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York. In case you're in the dark
about this method of sales, here's
the way it works: The fisherman,
bringing in his catch, goes to a
communal fish house where ice
and boxes are available. He then
packs his shad into wooden box,
usually about 100 pounds to the box
and ices the package. He. then
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.heLiterary
Guidepost
BY w. G. ROGERS

TWO MIRRORS, by Peter
de Poinary (creative Age;
$2.75).
Half their parentage mystery
Mary Edmett dead, and her aao'
ing brother, William, alive, donl'
nate with a strange force this m
usually adept novel.
Their half brother Derek, WHO
unlike them can identity his real
father, has invited William to LN'
on his shep ranch in wild com
try more than 1000 kilome''s
below Buenos Aires. That's aOou'
as far as a man can get from u'
London where he had oEsl
brought up and the Paris W VI ~
Mary was married and ne 70 "
near her, worked for a time
Death, which could not stna !.
the almost pathological Doliu
tween William and Mary, PRIV"
less potent than greneyeuc n !,
tide, Derek's native wife DIX .
a novelist's find, a seductive Wp ..,
and VINO hasn't heard about ~
10th century yet; and where S ..,.
men can't give their glrN ' ~,
thing but love baby, William ".
offer also hairdresser manlrI "a
dressmake1, even LONDON o.
Paris. 81,
William has extended his 'a DIV
hood nearly to middle age. :. -.
brother Derek, cool prev NJ
there ever was one, deplOre'
obsession, then curses MS i sa.si,,
for independence means NJ no4 ri
of the one who had denied ~ ,, NJ
William with one gesture Sn :,
lates two decades, lays MAJ at,,Ia
rest in her grave and cu'''
Derek.
A couple of minor character :':,,',
rascally Achaval and pron .;as
M po1n.u eor+ If sidesteps Wv
his story, guides it subtly' ra s
it as if he, like you, were i tsorc
it. It's an intelligent novel, u o tit!
not a great one but the one ,- sg
is as rare these days as the W.
MY TALON IN =. 4 Gs,t.
HEART, by Nancy Bruf ""
ton; So. 80. ah
Forty two poems compose ~t.
volume by the author o. u,i1sg
Manatee," which, though S .rst
,ead, was one Of the s 81. d
of 1915. Three OF ',' III.
The Lonely Reply" "I"o .;4sbt
Haunted House." are cre a. il
Efforts; two more may, " .,t,
cribed as not negligible ,. s
isms. The other 81 are WV"
uccessors to the novel.
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Doctor Says
RIGHT DIAGNOSIS
NEED IN DISEI,1
BY WILLIAM A o,pn

Oh chickenpoz >varic eGlhS Nm, N. D.
most prevalent in the 40 ~, which i
s spring months, may be- WINTER osH. al;
with smallpox, especia " C0ntaset
persons pc os;.,. The beginning sv N e.ds'
n s,gnt headache; lie and Vague '1 S.a,
pans pan ,;., in smallpox the I sTm,. Ntg
a ARE usually severe, and i'I n.sn1
Incubation period II.
pox is "A to 81 dsv vt eal'ksa
ceptibility is practicsIIv , aao Ns
among those who have not @5,l .s
disease; one attack con ON; aso Il.
ceptions. + rare sS
=. Eruption g1p on, in chiekenpox ,o,,...
Of nat red blotches, Which iS'D ~
come blisters. Within tv, ''0uts De
days the blisters dr W. b 10 f's
crusted and heal rapidly TI s
slight pit On the skin wbi isssV1i
appears unless it has beco COMM Ill
ondarily infected. '''s '''
In chickenpox the erl,n,i,.
pears in different stages s", ~ p
same time, while in smaIlDoy "a, NJ
eruption is fairly Uniform p' ~. sa'
ton In chickenpox tends il ~
centrate on the trunk and ~ ~, .@'
contrast to smallpox, wbe ,s'' .. y
eruption is more abundant a, A. A.
palms, soles and extremitjesS VI A'
C.hlckenpox is caused BY -.
clfic virus which is present !, w. e.
eruption Of the skin and in N ~ ~
eruption Of the membrane, Al II u.
respiratory tract. As in other ~ NJ. NY
tagious diseases, spread M. W. "
Velop from the breaking out y w. ~
respiratory tract before the ,S'
is involved, as it may bs %a
sloered just an ordinary cold
Chickenpox is contagious dr,,.
the first week of the eruption !
is one of the most easily ,pr., !
OF the infectious diseases o. r5iS
hood and is most contagious IN Il.
early stages. Nearly three.fojr@,
OF all adults have had the dse,,s
before they were Is years Of ,n
and it may develop in younr !,
fants.
A p a tient with chickep,m
should remain in bed during h.
early stages Of the illness, and h.,
cause of the possibility Of second.
airy infection of the blister, /,
should refrain from scratching {,
avoid soaring. Soothing ointmers
may be applied 10 relieve irrts,
ton.
Chickenpox is not a serious Dis
ease. Chief public health inpor
lance are cases of chickenpw n
which the patients are over Il
years old or those developing dur,
ing an epidemic of smallpox, a,
they should be visited by someun.
skilled in the recognition Of small
pox.
Some communities exclude chill
dren from school who have been
exposed to chickenpox. This is not
wise, as exclusion should be limit.
ed to the time the child has the
illness. No attempt is made 10
treat chickenpox except 10 keep
the patient comfortable.
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TWO MIRRORS, by Peter
de Poinary (creative Age;
$2.75).