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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
CONVICTED MAN
GETS NEW TRIAL
State Supreme Cour,
Orders Murder Convic-
ton Set Aside

Leon "Scooper" Cause, the
Brunswick county Negro who was
sentenced here to die last June 13
for the alleged shotgun Staying. OF
H. j. Williamson, white Shalotta
farmer, will have a new chance
for life.
In Raleigh yesterday, the State
Supreme Court ordered a new trial
eeor Cause after upholding a defense
contention that Superior Court
Judge R. Hunt Parker had erred in
his charge to the Jury, here.
Judge Parker, in summarizing
the three-day trial Of Cause in
Superior Court here, had told the
murder jury that it could find only
one Of three possible verdicts:
guilty Of murder in the first de-
gree; not guilty, or not guilty by
reason # insanity.
Cause was convicted of shooting
Williamson through an open Windoa
as the latter sat Smelling peas in
his farmhouse kitchen last Feb. q.
Osmer Henry, Of Lumberton, de-
Tense attorney, told the jury that
the defendant was en- imbecile in
capable OF judging right from
wrong.
New Hanover county's next crimi-
nal court term starts January Is.
Last night, however, Sheriff c.
David Jones expressed doubt that
Cause would be retired here.
cts a Brunswick county case, ,
the Sheriff pointed out. Judge
Parker ordered Cause tried in this
court because of evidence that feel
ing in Brunswick county was run
ming too high t-gainst Cause to
assure him q fair trial. Under
these circumstances he m be
tried again in Brunswick Or any
other county in the Eighth Judicial
District
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
WORKERS TOTAL
SHOWS INCREASE
Employment Service Office
Cites Gains In Indus
trial Plants

Industrial employment in Will
mington today is more than twice
its 1889 total, the North Carolina
Employment service office an
nounced yesterday.
The state employment office cur
rently lists 1850 workers employed
in industrial jobs locally as against
1896 in 1889.
Skeleton work forces are listed
for four textiles mills which re
Gently located here. When these
plants attain full production, their
employment roster is expected to
swell the local industrial workers
tally.
The employment service figures
contained no reference to pros
pective in such new factories as
the France Neckwear company, the
Port City Hosiery Mill, the Carver
Manufacturing company and the
Chadhourn Mills.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
employees
RECEIVE BONUS
J. c. Penny Presents Full
Time Workers With
Special Award

A special bonus ranging in many
cases as high as two weeks salary
will be paid out shortly to 81 en-
ployes of the ]. c. Penny store
here, Emory Switzerland, local
manager, announced yesterday.
Penny associates who nave been
null time employees Of the chain
throughout 1916 will receive two.
weeks pay, and there will be pro-
portionately smaller bonuses for
part-time personnel and those with
less than q years service.
Members Of the management
staff who participate in Penny
profit sharing plan will not receive
the special bonus.
Switzerland said that the pay
rnent was authorized in view of
extra earnings recorded last year.
It is not to be confused with a
Christmas bonus, he said, and is
not scheduled to recur.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
OFFICER QUOTA
HERE POSTPONED
lnt;-Aircraft Unit Per.
sonnet To Be Picked
Next Year

tnv plans for bringing the Of
acer strength of the 378th anti
aircraft battalion up to that called
sor by War department tables Of
.roanization have been postponed
'afil after the first of the year.
sccording to an announcement las
sisht by 1t. Col. William H. Han.
ammon. Jr., unit commander.
This announcement followed g
conference yesterday between Col.
usncammon and 1t. Col James
McNeer, War department rep.
sentative in the North Caroline
military district.
The battalion, considered now as
or1y a type co. organization, re-
oliires a total of 81 officers but
~ vet. said Hancammon. only a
tew of this number have beer
.ssioned. To be classed as a higher
.vne unit, the War department re-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
Paper Resumes

RALEIGH, Dec. II - up - The
Henderson Daily Dispatch which
recently was burned out, began
publication here Wednesday on the
Raleigh Times press.
Publisher Henry Dennis, who
said the newspaper would be four
pages until he could resume pub
lication at Henderson, is commut-
ting his composing room force be-
tween Raleigh and Henderson to
get out the paper and serve his
subscribers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12

quires a full strength organization
in both officers and non-commis-
stoned officers.
Inc announcement that the anti
aircraft battalion would be station
ed in Wilmington came last week
following a visit by Col. McNeer.
Yesterdays visit was for the pur.
fose OF further assisting Col Han
cannon in activating the local
unit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12

course in housekeeping; and so
hours Of merchandising study.
Courses in job training, supervi-
sorry techniques, human relations,
personnel management. and public
speaking will also be available to
merchants here, Brown indicated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
NEW PUBLICATION

The initial edition of the
"Milk Wagon" the official
monthly publication of the
White Ice Cream and Milk
Company was issued yesterday.
The paper is published for and
by the company employees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
How To Relieve
Bronchitis

craornulsion relieves promptly he.
.,Nse # goes right to the seat OF the
tso ul to help loosen and expel
serm laden phlegm, and aid nature
= 1.-THE and heal raw, tender, in-
aomed bronchial mucous mem.
hranes. Tell your druggist to sell you
bottle Of Creomulsion with the I'm.
Serstanding you must like the way 1t
u1ick1v allays the cough or you are
to have your money back
CREOMULSION
forcoushs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12
VETERAN UNITS

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 11-P-
Two buildings being dismantled
at Lake City, Fla, will be -eas-
sembled here to house 300 single
veteran students next year at the
University Of South Carolina,
President Norman M. Smith has
announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-12

The period Of most rapid ex-
pansion for our armed forces in
World War II came in the. last
three months of 1912, the exodus
overseas hit its peak early in 1914
and the services den1oblized most
rapidly in the last three months
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Women Pilots Garb
Surplus Sale Planned

A large supply Of clothing orig
inally intended for Women Service
Pilots will go on sale to veterans at
a $4,000, 900 surplus property Offer
ing by the War Assets Administra-
ton beginning November IS at the
Washington Quartermaster Depot
in Alexandria.
WAA announced today the stock
also includes electrical fixtures,
sporting goods such as ski poles and
fishing kits; hardware, fire extin-
guishers, kitchen equipment, a linn
tied amount of laundry machinery.
and miscellaneous articles ranging
from shoe daubers and insect spray
ers to Office supplies.
These goods will be available to
certified veterans from November
18 through November 81. The Re-
construction Finance Corporation
will exercise its priority November
~, State and local governments No
vember Is and 26, nonprof1t institu-
tions November 27, and nonpriority
buyers December through Decem-
ber 6.
At the same sale WAA will accept
orders against a stock of $4,000, 900
worth of textiles currently being
offered on a national sales program.
These materials include wool knit
cloth, cotton mosquito netting,
rayon, nylon marquisette print cloth
and wool pile. Some of the stock
went on sale october 80 through
the Richmond Office.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Page Boy to Appear on Stage
For First Time in Ballet Here
Allen Hammond, Is,
Says Dancing Is More
firing Than Football

When the ballet "Scheherazade"
unfolds on the stage of Constitu-
ton Hall next week, one Of the
youths in the classic version Of .
HOLLYWOOD mob scene will be . l6-
|year-old Capitol page boy.
He Is Allan Hammond of Charles
ton. s. g., who confessed today he
didn't know what super" was un-
til his dance instructor explained
that the Ballet Russo wanted some
extras Tor the background. He'd
never been On q stage before, but
he doesn't. expect this to be the
last time.
Allan, who describes himself as
the page patronage" of Representa-
tive Rivers, Democrat, of South
Carolina, takes his ballet seriously.
He goes to ballet school every day,
and on recent week end in New
York he managed to attend five
ballet performances from Friday to
Sunday.
Right now, he's going to Wood
ward School for Boys but when
Congress is in session, he goes to
the Capitol Page School from Z
am. to 10 am. Then he takes his
place on the House floor. As soon
as the House adjourns for the day,
he rushes of to ballet school. The
rest of the evening is devoted to
|practicing his ballet exercises and
doing his school homework.
Allan, who lives at 1882 G street
NE, with his mother and sister,
says he started his ballet career"
Evening star., 1946-11-07
|CAA Queries District
On Matching Federal
Funds for Air Park

The Civil Aeronautics Administra-
ton today asked the Commissioners
to decide whether the District wants
to match dollars with the Federal
Government in building a city "air
park" for private planes.
The "air park" would provide a
landing field with runway up to
5000 feet TO provide access TO Wash
ington for small private planes.
It would be part Of a $500, 900 900
Nationwide program authorized by
Congress earlier this year. The Dis
trict has been allotted $7795b OF the
Federal money provided 1t y match
ed by an equal amount.
T. M. Wayne, CAA official, asked
the city heads to declare their in
tentions as soon as possible as they
may be included in report on the
whole program to be made to the
new Congress.
Mr.. Wayave used the term "air
park" instead of airport" explain
ing that the landing field would be
nicely Handicapped and for small
planes only.
The three top sites under consid-
Grafton, he revealed are:
/. The northerly section Of Rock
Greek Park between Wise road and
Beach drive.
2. An area in Kenilworth in the
vicinity of Anacostia avenue and
Grant street NE.
8. South of Benning road In the
Kingman Lake area.
Mr.. Wayave told reporters that
factors involved in the considera-
ton of a site included access to
public transportation and to the
plane e-oWning population Of the city.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Master Liquor Store
Case Weighed by ABC

The case Of the Master Liquor
Store, TIA K street NV, charged
on three counts Of violating whole
sale liquor regulations In connection
with the sale Of liquor to q Ten
nessee man, was under advisement
today by the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board.
After hearing testimony yesterday
from the operators of the store, the
purchaser Of the liquor and police
and Federal inspectors, the board
dismissed a fourth charge of tam
pering with license stamps.
Police told Of taking Charles Bell
Of Bristol, Tenn, into custody on
September 13f as he was loading 20
cases of blended liquor into truck
bearing Tennessee license plates and
parked in an alley In the vicinity
Of Ninth and I streets NV. Mr..
Bell testified he bought the liquor
from the K street store for an
American Legion carnival in Kings
port, Tenn.
An ABC inspector brought out in
testimony that the purchaser had
been overcharged $84 in the sale of
the liquor which cost $1,1S4. Attor-
ney Joseph ODonohue, representing
Sol j. Decker, president, and Louis
Deckelbaum, treasurer, Of the store,
informed the board this error had
been caught by his clients and that
the purchaser had been repaid the
amount.
Charges included alleged failure
to supply the purchaser with a bill
Of sale, failure to af1ix the stores
license number on wholesale mer-
chandise and failure to carry Fed
eral wholesale stamps when selling
over IL bottles.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
| Luundries Turn to FIowered
Wallpaper for Wrapping

papers could be converted only into
cardboard.
Small shipments Of paper are be-
ing received, and laundries are sell
ing any surplus they have to each
other. Mr.. Walker added, but few OF
them have more than a two-week
supply.
The association, he reported, had
even tested asphalt-impregnated
waterproof paper bags which the
War Assets Administration had
available. Mr.. Walker said he didn't
know how they would work out, but
they might have to be used.
Now that the lauhdries are using
howered paper Of wallpaper thick
ness, the association spokesman
added, negotiations are underway to
obtain costly bond or writing paper
to get the laundry bundles wrapped
for delivery.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Colleges Face Baby Problem
In Families of GI Students

A recent visit to so colleges showed
schools are making every effort to
meet the critical housing situation,
DR.. Brown said. Some, he pointed
out, are using floor space In audi
toriums for housing. But there are
few family dwellings, he said.
That, DR.. Brown said, leads into
the question of medical care for the
veterans and their dependents, and,
further, into the problem of pursery
facilities for children, since their
mothers usually must work.
The educator emphasized that the
housing need is permanent for the
institutions and that facilities and
available now is wholly made
quate to meet that need"
One solution to the problem, DR..
Brown declared, are provisions OF
the Wagner-Ellender-Taft bill, which
he urged the American Legion to
tndofse.
Evening star., 1946-11-07

The critical housing situation at
colleges and universities, crowded
with some 1000, 900 student veterans.
has brought another serious problem
to the nations educators-where to
house the veterans steadily incrcas-
ing offspring. ..-
That information was placed be-
fore the American Legion's Housing
Committee conference yesterday at
the Hotel 2400 by DR.. Francis Brown,
executive secretary of the American
Council on Education.
DR.. Brown told the World War II
committee members that about 30
per cent of all veterans In school to-
day are married and that 10 per cent
have children. What's more, the
birth rate among student veteran
families is still climbing.
"One college, for instance" he
said, expects to have about 400
babies before the next term"
Evening star., 1946-11-07

The shortage of wrapping paper
continues so acute here that some
laundries now are sending out
bundles of clean wash in heavy
fiowered paper closely resembling
wallpaper, it was learned today.
The laundries are also hard
pressed to find soap, reported George
N. Walker, executive secretary of the
Laundry-Dry Cleaning Owners As
sociation, who said the laundries
were using everything but "perfumed
soap at 81 a cake"
The wrapping paper shortage, Mr..
Walker said, had become so critical
the association approached a paper
manufacturer with an offer to col
lect several carloads Of newspapers
and sent them to the manufacturer
to be made into paper the laundries
can use. Mr.. Walker said the manu-
facturer explained that used news
Evening star., 1946-11-07
-Four Servicemen's Wives
Leave by Plane for Reich

-Four wives Of overseas servicemen,
three of them from the District
area, are on their way today by
air to Frankfort, Germany, to join
their husbands.
Travelling with Mrs. Helen Gregg,
142 Williams street, Alexandria, to
join Capt. Guy K. Gregg, is the
couples 20-month-old son, Guy, jr.
Capt. Gregg is stationed at Bad
Nauheirn.
Mrs. Beulah Poff, lat Thirteenth
street NE, is on her way to join
1t. Rubin Poff, a bombadier- -navi-
gator in the Army Air Forces, at
Lechfeld, near Munich.
Mrs. Evelyn G. Fulton, Camp
Springs, Md, also will live near
Munich with her husband, Maj.
Oscar w. Fulton, AAF.
/ Completing the quartet is Mrs.
Mary L. Laney, Atlanta, Ga, who
will rejoin her huband, staff
sergeant. The plane, an American
Overseas Airlines ship, left Nation
al Airport at 1915 am. and Is
scheduled to take approximately Is
hours on the fight.
Evening star., 1946-11-07

In New Orleans In 1e41 when his
sister, who was recovering from In
fantile paralysis by taking ballet,
asked him to pick her up at dancing
school one day.
He's been dancing ever since and
confidently expects to make a career
of it. Right now he's going through
all the first-night emotions Of a vet
eran dancer in preparation for his
first appearance Sunday, when he
will be part Of the background for
Symphonic Fantastique."
The other page boys don't know
they have a ballet dancer in their
midst. He thought 1t was better to
keep it q secret, he explained, add
ing with some fervor:
"But ballet is really more exhaust
ing than football"
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Color Movie Invites
Citizens Of Nation
TO Visit District

Washington's Greater National
Capital Committee Is going to in
vite the Nation-perhaps the whole
Western Hemisphere as well-to
visit the Capital through the
medium of movie short with
sound -track dialogue by George
Washington" e
The committee, the agency Of the
Board Of Trade which SELLS" Wash
tngton to the country. gave radio
md press Representatives q pre-
view Of the film yesterday. Invita-
ton to the Nation" as It is called,
will have its first public showing at
the trade boards monthly meeting
tonight in Constitution Hall.
A 400-foot reel, the Technicolor
film has been prepared artfully by
profession talent. It mentions the
word convention" only once, and
relies for its appeal instead on en-
tertainment and patriotism.
It has been produced in 16-milli-
meter size and may be shown with
or without sound track.
The narrator plays the role of
George Washington, inviting his
countrymen to visit the Capital.
Opening scene of the film is at
Mount Vernon. From there the
camera takes the prospective Wis
itor to Christ Church and the
George Washington Masonic Tenn
pie In Alexandria. Next comes q
tour of the historic and scenic sec
tions of the District.
It shifts to the theme that Wash
ington Is a good place to live. ;"
Quick shots of hotels, streets, transit
lines, parks and sports events follow.
1t ends with an invitation to busi-
nessmen, workmen, housewives,
teachers, school children and whole
families, assuring them full hos
pitanty in the city which belongs to
all the people.
Following yesterdays preview,
Francisco j. Hernandez, chief Of
the Pan American Unions Travel
Bureau said his organization will
help the board translate the dia-
logue into Spanish and Portuguese
and for Latin American distribution.
MIR. Hernandez said he plans a
tour of Latin American capitals
early next year and would be glad
to take a copy of the English version
with him. He said he would test
reaction to it with the aid OF
United States embassies.
The idea for the film took form Is
months ago. A special subcommit-
te of the Greater National Capital
Committee composed Of Carter T.
Barron, division manager of Loews
Theaters; E. D. Merrill, president OF
the Capital Transit Co., and Rob-
ert G. McCann, vice president of the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Companies, has worked on it since.
Mr.. Barron is now working on
plan to interest big-time movie
producer in the film in the hope it
can be distributed to theaters In
35-mm. size.
Evening star., 1946-11-07

struction. During the war, he served
as a roofing materials consultant to
the War Department.
A native Of Mowerville, Pa, he
was graduated from Lebanon VAL
ley College in 1920 and came to
the bureau as a chemist. Since
1929 he has specialized in roofing
materials.
Mr.. Smoke Is chairman Of the
Technical Committee on Bituminous
Roofing Of the Federal Speciflca-
ton Board and a member of the
Committee on Bituminous Water
prcof1ng and Roofing Materials of
the American Society for Testing
Materials.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Safety Slogan Contest
The Commissioners Traff

The Commissioners Traffic
Advisory Board is seeking a
slogan for use in the current
traffic safety campaign and is
Offering cash prizes. The de-
tails:
The contest is open to every
one. It closes at midnight Sun
day. Slogans should be not
more than six words in length.
Entries will be judged by q
board selected from member
ship of the Advertising Club
Of washington. First prize is
500; second is $50; third Is $25,
and there are five prizes of S.
each. A certificate accompanies
each award.
Entries should be mailed to
TRAFFIC Slogan Contest, Room
1ol1, Municipal Center, Sol G
street NV, Washington !. D. O.
Evening star., 1946-11-07
Realtors Urge
End Of Rent and
Building Control
Legion Group Told
Free Production Is.
Solution for Housing

Immediate elimination OF all Fed
eral rent ceilings and price controls
on construction was urged today byl
the National Association of Real
Estate Boards.
Herbert u. Nelson, executive vice
president Of the group, told the
American Legion Housing Commit
tee that completely free produc-
ton" is the only answer to the Ma
tion's housing bottlenecks and out
lined an eight-point program of
suggestions. It included:
Decontrol Of rent on existing
properties; no further appropria-
tions of any kind for public hous-
ing; no further subsidy payments
to any builders; removal Of both
the Federal Housing Administra-
tion and Home Loan Bank System
from any National Housing Agency
control: legislation to make "restric-
tive practices" by labor unions a
violation Of the antitrust laws and
stimulation Of private conversion
projects on old dwellings,.
"Impossible to Build Legally"
Mr.. Nelson added that under pres
ent price and material controls, ut
Is impossible to build legal house
in this country today"
Later today, the Legion Commit
tee will question Housing Expediter
Wilson w. Wyatt on phases Of his
program discussed during the week.
The committee will end It's five-day
session at noon tomorrow.
Highlighting yesterdays sessions,
Boris Shiskin, secretary Of the AFL's
Housing Committee, strongly urged
the Legion to support the Wagner
Ellender-Taft Housing Bill as the
opportunity for private enterprise
to solve the housing shortage"
Calls Criticism absurd"
He termed criticism that the bill is
socialistic both malicious and ab-
surd."
"The program does not place any
Government controls over private
enterprise or local initiative, but
provides aids and guides to private
effort" he declared.
At the same time, Mr.. shiskin
called for elimination Of price con-
trols on building materials and de-
MED there Is shortage Of labor
holding back the construction pro-
gram. The AFL has 2,000, 900 men in
its building trades, he added.
VA Appraisal Plan Attacked.
In another address, James w.
Rouse, vice president Of the Mort
gage Bankers Association Of Ameri-
ca, called the Veterans Administra-
tion's appraisal system. which
checks veterans housing loans for
Government guarantee, an absurd
term"
Meanwhile, six washington vet
Grams who obtained aI loans to buy
homes In the Dexter Terrace devel-
opnent in Southeast Washington
told the committee they have had
deeds to the homes since June but
have been unable to move IN because
the houses are occupied by tenants
who are renting from the firm which
sold them.
Joel Levenson, Spokesman for the
group. said they were promised last
March the homes would be open
within 30 days, but that efforts to
have them removed have been futile.
"And so now we have to pay rent
on the places where we now live as
well as paying on our CT loans each
month, and most Of us have had to
borrow to do It," Mr.. Levenson said.
The committee promised to ar
range a meeting between the vet
Grams and officials Of the District
American Legion to start an investi-
CATION Of the complaint.
Evening star., 1946-11-07

which had nursery school, There Dottie could play under
supervision hot lunch and take the after
Doe liked the school and the other children but she
missed her sister and cried for her. Her mother realizing the
chren love for each other arranged Nancy to attend the
nursery school, Miss Savannah Ivory the nursery school
teacher sitting next to Dote in the picture trying in
playing with the blocks of wood Your contrbu
the Chest Federation campaign make it possible for
children Dottie and Nancy to be cared for while their
mothers work The Southeast Settlement House of the
1875 agencies which offer welfare services residents of the
METROPOLITAN Area. Star Staff Photo