davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1946-12-22
IHmjas Are- Hosts
IAt Annnal Party
In Their Home

Guests arriving yesterday at the
Wesley Heights residence Of Gudrun
and Emil Hurja were greeted by a
jolly bewhiskered Santa Claus who
welcomed them with a Merry
Christmas!" Outside the doorway,
colored lights decorated several
small evergreen trees and huge
wreath of holly trimmed with red
ribbon hung over the door. Gay
voices penetrated the air and now
and then the sound of Christmas
carols, sung by the guests, came
from within the house.
These annual parties have been
given by the Hurjas for number
Of years, but were discontinued dur
ing the war and again last year be-
cause of mourning in the family.
Yesterday, more than 200 guests
attended the gay party, which was
still in progress long after 8 o'clock.
Assisting the hostess were Mrs.
Lewis Schwellenbach, Mrs. Nellie
Tayloe Ross, Mrs. Joseph Earring
ton, Mrs. H. Conger Pratt, Mrs.
John Allen Dougherty, Mrs. Chester
Flather, Nine. Sigurd Won NumerS,
Mrs. william N. Guthrie, Mrs. Harry
Grant Meem, Mrs. McCeney Wer-
Ich, Mrs. Robert Allan Dyer, Mrs.
Clark Woodward, Mrs. Charles w.
o. Bunker, Mrs. Parker West, Mrs.
A. Burks Summers, Mrs. George
Thorpe, Mrs. James o. Richardson,
Mrs. John D. Small, Mrs. William
MacCracken, Mrs. Eugene Swigart,
Mrs. Marshall r. Diggs, Mrs. G..
Hawley Oakes, Mrs. William D. Con-
nor, Mrs. j. Bruce Kremer, Mrs.
Ollie James and Mrs. Helen Hen
drick McKenna.
The list of guests included the
Norwegian Ambassador and Nine.
MorgenStierne, the Panamanian
Ambassador and Sonora de Valla-
rino, the Czechoslovak Ambassador
and Nine. Slavik, the New Zealand
Minister and Lady Berendsen, the
Finnish Minister and Nine. Jutila,
the Hungarian Minister and
Mrs. Szegedy -Maszak, the Egyptian
Charge d'Affaires, Mr.. Anis Aver;
the Second Secretary of the Span
fish Embassy and Sonora de Bar
nach-Calbo, the Agricultural At
tache of the Spanish Embassy and
Sonora de Echegaray, the Naval
Attache of the Danish Legation and
Nine. Kjoelsen and the Naval At
tache Of the Swedish Legation and
Nine. Angelin.
Still others on the guest list were
Associate Justice and Mrs. Robert
II. jackson, Senator and Mrs. Wal
ZACH H. White, jr.:: Senator and
Mrs. Joseph c. O,Mahoney, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Richberg, Vice Admiral
and Mrs. William H. P. Blandy,
1t. Gen. and Mrs. J. Lawton Col
Inns, Representative and Mrs. Lowell
Stockman, Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Vir-
gil L. Peterson. Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Burdette Fitch, Col. and Mrs. Hor-
ace B. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul e.
Shorb, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Bell
Sweeney, Mr.. and Mrs. Davis Elkins,
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Ansberry, JUS
tice and Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark,
Mr.. and Mrs. Blake Clark, Mr.. and
Mrs. Donald Jones, Comdr. and Mrs
Robert Schenck, Col. and Mrs. Rich
ard M. Cults, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
E. Freer, DR.. and Mrs. Victor r.
Alfaro, Mr.. and Mrs. Jay G. Hay
den and Justice and Mrs. Thurman
Arnold.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Engagement

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy L. Chambers
of Camp Springs announce the
engagement of their daughter, Miss
Charlotte Vivian Chambers, to Mr.
Homer Edward Roth of Chat
tanooga.
Both Miss Chambers and Mr.
Roth are students at the Tennessee
Wesleyan College in Athens.
The wedding will take place Sat-
urday in Camp Springs.
Evening star., 1946-12-22
Seyvice Circles
nsyPanning.
Holiday Fetes
Eggnog Party
AT Vandegrifts
This Evening
By Betty Miliken

When friends drop in at Gen. and
Mrs. Alexander A. Vandegrift's
quarters today for the Marine
couples annual Christmas eggnog
party, they will have an unusual
treat in store for them. The general
is an authority on eggnog, and every
year around Christmas time he and
Mrs. Vandegrift invite large group
of their friends to sample the deli
eious beverage that the general him.
self prepares from recipe he ac-
quired many years ago.
The secret of it's success, 1t seems,
is the careful measurement OF the
finest quality of ingredients. In fact
the Job is done "a hours ahead Of
the party, and the eggnog, which is
prepared by the gallon, is packed
away in ice until the next day. The
result is something that guests re-
member for long time afterward.
At the party today, when probably
there will be three hundred guests
present, Mrs. Vandegl'ift will have
assisting her, Mrs. John L. Sullivan,
wife of the Undersecretary of the
Navy; Mrs. w. John Kenney, wife OF
the Assistant Secretary of the Navy;
Mrs. George F. Hussey, jr.; Mrs. Ed
ward L. Cochrane, Mrs. Arthur w.
Radford, Mrs. Lemuel G. Shepherd,
jr.; Mrs. De Witt Peck, Mrs. Field
Harris, Mrs. Clifton B. Gates, Mrs.
William Walmsley, Mrs. Charles
Sanderson, Mrs. Aubrey Strobe, Mrs.
Harold E. Rosecrans, Mrs. Paul
Drake, Mrs. William c. James, Mrs.
Edwards Hall, Mrs. Donald John
Kendall, Mrs. Julian G. Smith and
Mrs. Gerald C., Thomas.
Evening star., 1946-12-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Boothby wi
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
MILLIONAIRE DIES
OF HEAD INJURY
Jarvis H. Epes, Paper Com
pany President Victim
Vi Highwaymen

RICHMOND, Va, May 6.-(P)C
Travis H. Epes, 70, president Of the
Epes-Fitzgerald Paper company,
died Monday at the Medical Col
lege OF Virginia hospital OF head
injuries received Thursday when he
was assaulted and robbed.
Epes lapsed into Inconsistencies
shortly after he was found at Ills
a. m. Thursday in a filling station
yard at Eight and Clay streets and
never regained consciousness.
Hit With Brick
Detective-Sergeants R. R. Cald-
well and j. J. Bahan, investigating
the case, said Monday night that
they believed Epes had been as
saulted with a brick which was
found about Is feet from him.
Particles of gray-white hair were
found on the brick, police said.
He was found in the filling sta
ton lot by two Richmond bus
drivers, who had parked their
buses in a nearby garage and were
en- route to their homes at the time.
Pockets Rifled
Police said Epes' pockets we're
turned inside out, that his shoes
were found nearby, and that he
See MILLIONAIRE Dies Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
+d1ian Pact
Shelved From
Molotov Reported To Favor
Giving Trieste To Yugo-
slavia Now
BYRNES OPPOSED
Delegates To Turn Atten-
ton Today To Treaties
For Balkan Units

PARIS, May 6. up = The
Foreign Ministers conference,
conceding failure, at least tempo
rarily, of it's attempts to write an
Italian peace treaty, shelved the
deadlocked Yugoslav-Italian from
tier issue Monday and decided to
begin examination of treaties with
former Axis satellites in the
Balkans.
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyache-
slav M. Molotov was reported to
have indicated Russian willingness
to abandon the Soviet Unions de-
mands for $500, 0O0, 900 in repara-
tons from Italy and a dominant
position in Tripolitania if Yugosla-
via were given Trieste, but U. S.
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes was said to have been
adamant.
Stalemate Hinted
Some sources here said that II
the conference ends in stalemate,
the issue upon which it will founder
will be the Yugoslav-Italian cues
ton, embracing the dispute over
ownership of strategic Trieste. The
Americans insist upon Italian
See ITALIAN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
FLORISTS TO GET
FLOWERS BY AIR
First Cargo Of Blooms For
Mothers Day Due
Here Friday

The first shipment of flowers to
be received in Wilmington by air
will arrive here for distribution
on Mothers Day by local florists
from Philadelphia at $3.50 p. m.
Friday.
Slated to receive the blossoms
are the Renders, Dorothy Owen
and Lucy Moore shops.
The shipment, from the S. S.
Pennock wholesale florists, will
leave Philadelphia at 4:45 a. m.
and will be distributed in cities
south of the Pc nnsylvania metrop-
oils.
The schedule calls for stops at
Baltimore, Norfolk, Roanoke, Va,
AsheviEe, Greenville, S. c. Spar
taGburg. S. c., Wilmington, Lum-
berton, and Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
See CLARK TEXT on Page Five

Opposed in the May Democratic
primary, Clark said he would not
have money or time for extensive
campaigning and stated that he
asked only a clear mandate of the
people themselves" in the elec-
ton.
He touched on the dependence
of this section on agricultural
prosperity and said that his major
effort in Congress had been put
into placing HE farmer on a
sounder basis.
Following the broadcast, Con-
gresham Clark was guest of honor
at a reception at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas ]. Cause at
their home in Market street. Dur
ing the evening, some 200 friends
OF Mr.. Clark, representative Of
the business, service and social
life of the city and surrounding
territory, called and wished him
good luck in his campaign for re-
election.
During the evening. light refresh
ments were served by the hostess.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
FRANC FANCIED
FRANC FANCIED
Market
Has Liuely Session
Stocks, Bonds Soar Upward Following Vote
Rejecting Leftist Constitution; Black s
Market Operators In Field Day ~

PARIS, May g. W.H French
stocks and bonds jumped upward
noticeably Monday and the black
market Franc scared in value fol
lowing the nations sensational
swing to the Right that rejected
a Leftist constitutional draft by a
majority of 1,198, 1859
The nation looked to the June 2
elections to confirm the corrserva-
tive trend, but political leaders
warned that the vote against the
constitution did not necessarily
portend a rush by Leftists to
abandon their parties
Urgent Session
Left Wing political leaders met
in urgent session Monday night
for strategy talks on the coming
elections, in which representatives
to a new Constituent Assembly will
be picked to draft a new constitu-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
Along The Cape Fear

steep-pitched roof, and lofty doors,
and-as John Milton said-"storied
windows, richly digit, casting a
dim religious light"
Buckled breeches and homespun
gowns now knelt on a velvet cush-
ion, and hymns reverberated IN
high-flung massive rafters.
~FOUR-WALLED RUIN-But such
is the nature of the relationship
between men and the elements that
the elements care nothing for the
relationship between men and God.
The elements lashed at the holy
citadel. Fire consumed it's altar,
it's pews and choirloft, swung hand
over hand like a demon acrobat
to the rafters. Wind blew down
the tall heavy doors, and lightning
crescendoed on the high-peaked
roof.
The cathedral stands today -
a four-walled ruin with a. pine
straw floor and a roof of pine
boughs laced against the sky.
The crumbling walls drip with
serpentine vines, and the worm of
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
BEACH BUILDING
TO Be RESUMED
Civilian Production Ad-
ministration Approves
Homes Construction

Civilian Production Administra-
ton approval of resumption OF re
Gently halted building projects at
Wrightsville and Carolina beaches,
was announced yesterday.
r. L. Benson, city clerk, Wrights-
vile. said he had issued permits
for only one building, to cost about
$1,000 during the interim since
construction was halted at the re-
sort by orders Of the CPA. How
ever he reported that construc-
ton on a $14, 900 structure being
built by DR.. L. R. Hedgepeth,
~Lumberton, had been resumed.
No New Permits
At Carolina Beach, W. T. Little,
town building Inspector said that
nearly all building, halted by the
March Is stoppage, has been re-
sumed, however, no new building
permits for that area have been
issued since the stoppage.
In Wilmington, E. T. Driscoll,
SPA representative, could not give
a total of building projects al
fected in the county by the tight
priority system limiting c%onstruc-
ton Or repairs on private and COM
mercial buildings to $500, and as
high as 1000.
Contact CPA
Applicants for permission to
construct private homes, should
contact Chester O.. Ensign, of the
Greensboro CPA office, who can
issue permits for structures cost
ing as much as $1,000, Driscoll
said.
Veterans seeking to construct
private homes should contact Jack
Brown, Federal Housing admins
traitor Of North Carolina, whose
nome office is also in Greensboro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
NOTED CANADIAN
TO SPEAK TODAY
Premier OF Nova Scotia
Will Address Flora Mac
Donald Graduates

The Honorable Angus L. Mac
donald, premier of Nova Scotia,
will be principal speaker at the
notable double celebration to be
held at Flora Macdonald college
in Red Springs, tor '. 1916
marks the 200th anniversary of the
event which made the year 1746
notably in Scotland, when the Scot
fish maiden, Flora Macdonald,
became the peoples idol because
of her heroic deed in saving the
life of the Bonnie Prince
Charles Edward Stuart. This is
also the 5oth year since the found
ing of this college, named in honor
Of the Scottish heroine.
The name of the college, which
was Red Springs seminary when
it was established, was changed
to Flora Macdonald in 1916, at the
suggestion of the late DR.. James
A. Macdonald, the neditor of the
Toronto Globe. DR.. Macdonald
was. guest speaker at the COM
mencement exercises when the
name was formally changed.
Name is Fitting
1t is eminently fitting that this
college should bear this name
Red Springs is situated in the
heart of the Cape Fear section OF
North Carolina, where Flora and
See CANADIAN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

, None Of the conferees would COM
ment on the seizure reports, but it
was obvious their discussion had
conferred on the impotence of all
other measures undertaken by the
government so far to effect a set
tlement.
Secretary Silent
Schwellenbach told reporters fiat
ly that Il just can't say anything"
about the conference.
The meeting conceded with a
warning from Secretary of the In
terror J. A. Krug that rationing of
soft coal would have to be rein
stated next winter because Of this
strike.
Krug told a press conference that
even immediate settlement of the
strike would not avert a serious
coal shortage during the next heat
ing season.
Three-Week Supply
He said the governments emer-
gency stockpile Is down to about
three weeks supply and "dwind-
ling fast"
See INDUSTRY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

HOLY CITADEL-"The Groves"
wrote William Cullen Bryant,
"were Gods first temples ere
man learned to hew the arch and
lay the architrave."
In Brunswick county, in the days
of the blunderbuss and the three
cornered cocked-hat, God was
worshipped in the woodlands.
Buckled breeches and homespun
gowns knelt side by side on an
altar cushion of pine straw, and
the sea-wind soughed soft hymns
in the spires of pine-tree temples.
But such is the nature OF the re-
lationship between men and God
that men hack out a clearing IN
the wilderness and raise a holy
citadel of wood and brick and
stone.
COLONIAL CATHEDRAL In
Brunswick county, in the long-lost
wear of TAO, men learned to heW
the arch and lay the architrave.
In the groves behind Orion plan
tation they wrought a near-mlracle
-. Colonial cathedral with walls
three feet thick, with a soaring,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
The w leather
FORECAST

FORECAST
South Carolina - Partly cloudy and
warm Tuesday, scattered thun-
dershowers in northwest portion IN ait
ernoon.
North Carolina - Tuesday partly
and warm, scattered n
showers west and north portions.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Rureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
pm. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1870 am. "a; 7:30 am. "a; 1850 pm. rs;
1880 I'm. 70.
Maximum 10; Minimum 81; Mean 10;
68.
HUMIDITY
1870 am. IS; 1880 am. "a; 1870 pm. "a;
1880 pm. IS.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending so pm
900 inches.
Total since the first of the month
LIS inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
From he Tide Tables published by U
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
1903 p.m. 10:07\ pm
Inlet 1927 am. $50 am
100 pm. 7:01 pm
Sunrise SIT; Sunset 700; Mocnrfse
II :04 am; Moonset 12:47 am.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. c. ut Z
Monday, $50 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
Arab Monarch
Will Support
Ibu Saud, Most Powerful
Ruler, Assails Anglo
American Report
WILL RAISE ARMY
Moslems Prepare To Fight
For Exclusion o. Jews
From Palestine

JERUSALEM, May 6-(P-King
Tim saud of Saudi Arabia, assail-
no the British-American Inquiry
Commission report on Palestine as
IAN injustice without precedent"
r1edged to the Arab Higher COM
mi+tee Monday his full support in
.he Arab battle against the COM
MISSIONS recommendations.
Ibn saud, most powerful mon
orch in the Arab world, added his
nledge to those of the rulers of
other Arab League states in a
united front against the British
American proposals.
Prepare Charges
Arab leaders were reported pre-
naring charges to be presented to
the United Nations International
Court of Justice that the report
violated Britain's League of Ma
tons mandate.
Ibn saud sent his promise of
support in the form of a telegram
to the higher committee, assert
ing:
we found in the Inquiry COM
mission report recommendations
lust what you found-that the
whole report is an injustice with
out precedent. We shall not fail,
See MONARCH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
GERMAN PHYSICIAN
WITNESSED KILLING
OF PRESS REPORTER

DACHAU, Germany, May 6-P)
The former post physician OF the
Mauthausen concentration camp
testified Monday, he attended the
execution of Joseph Morton, Asso-
ciated Press reporter, in January
of 1945.
Asked by the Chief Prosecutor,
It.. Col. William benson, if he
ever witnessed an execution of
Americans, DR.. Waldemar Wolter
said "only once"
Previous witnesses at the trials
of 81 operators of the camp have
testified that Morton and 10 other
American and British agents were
slain by the so-called meek shot
from behind a fake photographers
cabinet. Morton and the others
were captured by the Germans
while on a secret mission into
SloVakia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
'BROWNOUT' DIMS
OLD WHITE HOUSE
President Takes Steps To
Save Power; Asks
Nations Help

WASHINGTON, May 6.-(P)-
Che ''Browout" is in effect at the
White House on President Humans
orders, and if the coal crisis gets
worse the ar conditioning system
there will be turned off.
Assistant Press Secl dietary Eben
Ayres told reporters that every
effort will be made to reduce the
use of electricity without impair
.ng safety and security
Similar Measures
He said the President hopes that
he; sehclders all over the country
will adopt similar measures during
the coal strike. cris S.
No lights will burn in any room
not in use at the time. ne said, ex-
cept for n little safety light in
the east-red, green and blue rooms.
There will be no entrance light
in the lobby Oh on the North portico,
except where. needed lii connection
See BROWNOUT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

WASHINGTON, May. 6-F'-
Silk stockings will be on the mar
ket mex. week but they Will De
very expensive" President Ear
Constantine of the National Assocl-
aticn of Hosiery Manufacturers
said Monday. .;aa
japanese silk is again beginning
to flow into this country ne saio,
and hosiery makers expect 1nas
probably 5000 bales will be sola
by the end of this mon1n anu
40, 900 bales by the end OF the year.
Some From Italy
CONSTANTINE made the report to
the Senate Banking committee our
ing a hearing on OPA extension
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
BIG BUSINESS
BIG BUSINESS
In Poetic Vein
Tells of Milady;s Hats

WASHINGTON, May 6-B -
Don't try to laugh off those wom-
ems hats, men-they're a $3.50, 000,-
000-a-year retail business.
The Commerce department said
so Monday, in prose far different
from it's usual reports on steel
castings and such.
Its report, packed with talk
about "sartorial concoctions''4 and
moods and NODES goes into this
essay about war and women's
hats: .
"World War II may be said to
have been the beginning of a new
and better era for millinery.
1.-The restrictions on frihs and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

furbelows written into the cloth
ing limitation order had the eff
feet of diverting the extremes of
emotional expression into other
artistic facets.
1.-THE hat, because it can be made
out of literally anything, thus be-
came the natural outlet for much
of the popular enthusiasm of the
day.
Flowers Bloom
Flowers bloomed again where
only the simple cloche had been.
Feathered birds of tropical splen-
dor played about on crown and
See POETIC On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

Communists and Soci :
to fighting among Them =
the wake of their totally une-
ed defeat, with each party bla
ing the other for its causes.
Socialists Assailed
The Communist organ Human
tie rallied at the Socialists for re-
fusing to make a unified campaign
with them favoring the Leftist
constitution.
Leon Blum's official Socialist
party organ, Populaire, placed
the blame On the Communists.
saying that the draft vas rejected
because of the celebrates fear Of
a Communist dictatorship.
Bourse Jubilant
The bourse was jubilant over the
Rightist victory and trading was
lively for the first time in many
See PARIS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
LOS ANGELES HAS
LONG BREAD Line
Hungry Folk Buy Up Sup.
plies Well Before Noon
Hour Monday

LOS ANGELES, May 6-W.D-
Bread lines formed Monday at
southern California Grocers' and
Bakers stores.
Most shops we're sold out before
noon and. at one large store a
hundred shoppers lined UP, watch
ed a bakery truck unload, and
bought. out the stock in half an
hour,
Blamed on FEC
Millers blamed short deliveries
on competition from the Federal
r mmodity Credit corporation
ding 30 cents a bushel above the
market price for wheat to deliver
abroad and making it Impossible
for local mills to get normal sup
plies.
Deliveries to stores were off III
te 40 per cent, bakers reported,
but grocers said their supplies
had dropped as much as 50 per
cent.
Purchases Up
Grocers said that might not be
so bad, but that average house-
wife purchases of bread were up
10 per cent per customer. One
woman bought 10 loaves.
A market spokesman aid 1has
although supplies would Telna,,,
approximately 80 per cent oeiow
normal, bread should be more
evenly distributed toward the emu
of the week when panic buylhs
decreases.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
And So To Bed

Yesterday afternoon two local
gentlemen were discussing the
story about Wilmington's first
wooden sidewalk.
"The old wooden sidewalk
was a fine thing" said the
first, "but it certainly couldn't
compare with the cement ones
We have now"
81 don't know about that"
said the second. 81 believe I
prefer the wooden ones to the
cement ones"
"You don't mean that. an
swered the first. "The cement
sidewalk is smoother, lasts
longer, and makes a much
better appearance"
True enough" said the
second, "but you can't find
nickels and dimes under it,"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
ATTENTION LADIES!
Silk Hose On Way Soon
R,,t AT Real Fancy Cost

He said the japanese silk is being
sent here under the direction of
the military Some is also coming
from Italy, he testified.
He said price ceilings were lift
cd on raw silk in January, largely
to buy some Italian silk and help
thereby in the costly process of re-
building that country.
$11.75 Per Pound
Two months ago, he said, the
War Assets corporation sold as
surplus enough silk to make ESQ.,
900 dozen pairs of women's stock
ings. He said the sale was by seal
See HOSE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07
Minis SENIOR DIES
in AUTO ACCIDENT
Earl Goodwin Fatally Injur.
ed Near Maple Hill.
Late Yesterday

Earl Goodwin, New Hanover High
school senior, received fatal in
juries yesterday when the army
surplus truck in which he was rid
ing, overturned near Maple Hill in
Fender county.
With young Goodwin in the truck
were classmates, Tommy Hall,
Wilmington and Joe Gray, of
Greenville, both of whom were un-
injured.
See SENIOR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-07

in 1922. ~
He worked as a reporter for the
Wilmington Morning Star during
the summer of 1922 prior to- enroll
ing at Duke University.
Attended Duke
Hobbs attended Duke for three
years, working with the Star dur
ing h S summer vacations, and was
associated with various papers in
North and South Carolina.
In 1925, he went to Washington,
D. c., where he worked his way
through National university being
granted a law degree upon gradua-
ton. While in Washington, he mar
ried Miss Elizabeth FIistoe, Wood
stock. Va, and the couple have. two
sons, William, Jr., 16, a student at
Georgia Military academy, and
Tommy, aged three, who is with
the family in New York city.
With Atlanta Firm
Hobbs was. connected with the
See WILMINGTONIAN m PAGE 2