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Evening star., 1946-12-03
IWAA Revises Disposal Plan
ITo Aid Veterans BUYING

The War Assets administrator
today announced sweeping changes
| in its method OF disposing Of surplu;
property to veterans to make i
easier for veterans to get whatever
Items are available.
The changes, approved by WAS
Veterans Policy Committee, include:
/. Elimination OF unavailable, un-
seryiceable and unwanted items
from the 'set-aside list OF goods
reserved excluiively for sale to vet
Grams. This action reduces the list
of items from 356 to approximately
III.
2. Offering items on whereas,
as-isn basis instead Of allocating the
property among six WAA zones.
3. Acceptance OF all certificates
after December 9 on a first-come,
first-served basis, instead of giving
first choice to those whose certifi-
Icates were issued earliest.
4. Discontinuance. on December
llO, of certification for items on the
set-aside list because there are SO
many certificates outstanding in
comparison with the. number Of
items available.
Evening star., 1946-12-03
Catholic Churches Push
Relief CIothinu Drive

A clothing drive to aid the war;
stricken Of Europe and the Far East
is now under way in the Catholic
churches Of the District. 1t was
announced today.
The campaign. part Of Nation
wide effort by the National Catholic
Welfare Conferences War Relief
Services to gather 1000 900 pounds
of clothing. will continue through
Sunday. Shoes and children's cloth
ing are especially needed. The
articles may be brought to churches
Evening star., 1946-12-03
Poole Gets Editorship

John G. Poole, washington attor-
ney, has been appointed an associate
editor OF The Young Lawyer, pub
lication of the Junior Bar Confer.
Ience of the American Bar Associa-a
ton. Mr.. Poole is secretary-treas-
Hurer Of the Junior Bar Section OF
the District Bar Association.
Evening star., 1946-12-03

/ within the District any time during
the week.
The Rev. r. Jerome Winter, pastor
lof st. Stephens Church, has been
designated as the arcfdiocesan head
iof the campaign.
Evening star., 1946-12-03

Step right up, folks, and ask for Per
sonna's 2-in-l Gift Package. 80 superb
PERSONA Blades in handsome cigs-
rettc box -. both for the regular price
Of the blades alone s. IS.
Personals give any man the slickest,
quickest shaves he's ever had! Here's
Evening star., 1946-06-29

spite of her comparatively few years
She started at IL.
I'm way, I had my own school
when I was 16." she says. I'VE were
poor, which is one reason why ]
would like to be rich. 1 wanted to
learn dancing, so when I was IL
they let me help around the Office
at dancing school in return for
which they gave me ballet instruc-
ton. When I had learned some
thing about it, started to instruct
myself. Beginners, you know. ]
got SO cents a week, in addition to
my dancing lessons"
BY the time she was 16, she was
a full -f1edged teacher of the young
sters in the dancing school. She
found 16 was a difficult age at
which to be a dancing teacher in
that the pupils mothers treated her
as another one of the children
They would scold her for scolding
their children.
They'd forget" she says, that
l was the tedcher.
She did not think that was IL
logical of them, but it made teach
ing more difficult.
Miss Vernon followed the usual
routine of getting to Hollywood
She left Mishawaka to go to New
York, where she took more dane
ing instruction and did ballet and
chorus work. She was in one musi-
cal production, the quickest folding
Artists and Models" on record. But
there were lots Of other jobs for
competent dancers. She kept get
ting them until she got the atten-
ton of that first Hollywood talent
scout.
Goldwyn girls always look so elig-
ible for marriage that no one can
avoid asking them what they think
of it. Asking them in a purely
objective way, of course.
Miss Vernon thinks marriage is
a wonderful thing. She certainly
intends to have go at it, along
with the one she is having at q
career. The two do not strike her as
incompatible.
MY husband, though, will have
to understand me-" she says. And
I think I am sort of complex. l
want him to be a type. I don t
think have favorite type. What
ever he is, I want him to be def
nitely that-not a combination of
this and that. But very understand
ing, that's most important"
X y X
The other Goldwyn girls. the ones
who were too tall to talk to, are
Georgia Lange, Shirley Pickering
Lorraine De Rome, Mary Ellen
Gleason and Lynne Walker.
They are very pretty girls. High
ones. Not like Miss Vernon.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing


Stage.
National-"Voice of the Turtle;
2::3O and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Capitol-"Two Sisters From Bos-
ton; 1915 am, 1855, 1885, 6:20,
and 11:40 pm. Stage shows: 1915
2:55, 5:35, $40 and II pm.
Columbia-"A Night In Casa
blanca; II am, 12:40, 2:30, 4:25
6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 pm.
Earle-The Bride Wore Boots"
II am, 1:15, $3.50. $50. 7:35, 9:4s
and 11:50 pm.
Hippodrome-"Crime and Punish.
ment"; 2, $40 and s:25 pm.
h's-"Heartbeat" 1920 am.
1870, $40, $50, 8, 1910 pm. and
1920 am.
Little-"Open City: 11:2O am,
1:20, 3:25, 5:25, 7:30 and $40 pm
Metropolitan-"Gilda";10 1880 am.
l, $40, $40. 7:30, 9:40 and 1l:45 pm
PaIace-"The Green Years; 11:1O
am, 1:4O, 4:10. $40, 9:10 and Has
pm.
Pix-"Just Before Dawn; 1:20
3::45, 6:10, 8:35, II pm. and 1:20 am.
Trans-Lux-News and shorts
Continuous from 1915 am.
Evening star., 1946-06-29

GOldWyn smaller GOldWyn girls.
Goldwyn did the courteous thing
in the group of girls he sent to town
yesterday. A lovelier set of ground
breakers for motion picture-"Kid
From Brooklyn" with Danny Kaye
no one ever saw than the ones at
the Statler. And, especially lovely
among them, was the one Goldwyn
chose so the smaller interviewers
would have some one to talk to-
without having to climb on a chair
or sit on top of an upright piano.
Irene Vernon is the little ones
name. She comes from Mishawaka,
Ind, and she has a fine mahogany
tan. She also has pleasing per-
sonality and is an easy one to get
along with, all the way from the
fruit cup to the peach shortcake. the
running distance of the luncheon.
Miss Vernon is unique among
travelling Goldwyn girls in that she
is the first one you felt free to ask,
How much do you weigh?"
The others are beautifully proper
toned. naturally. but somehow you
don't ask them that question. With
Miss Vernon, it is different.
She weighs los pounds, she said.
Another thing Miss Vernon is is
sort of blithely honest. She was not
a bit abashed by the question
What do you think is the most
important thing you get out of a
trip like this?"
Publicity" Miss Vernon said.
Miss Vernon thought of lot of
other things which she felt were
important-seeing the country. stop
ping off in all the large, and some of
the smaller cities, meeting the peo-
pie and having her picture taken
with mayors and even higher Of
f1cials. It is mad sort of rush, of
course, and quite discipline what
with all the radio broadcasts, lunch
cons, dinners, press parties, ETC., but
isn't life?
Miss Vernon thinks frankly that
she enjoys the whole thing and for
gets to get tired because it fits so
snugly into her ambition. Her am
bition is to be a star She admits
that that is an ambition which
takes quite a kicking around, rule
to which her private one has been
no exception. But she does not give
up just because things do not al
ways break her way. Being a
Goldwyn girl is good break, she
feels. 1t sort of compensates for the
fact that she did not even get into
a picture for which she was signed
to do a special part. 1t was tough
being crowded out at the last minute
through no fault of her own, but
that's life, Miss Vernon feels.
Miss Vernon started life as a
dancer at which she is veteran in
Evening star., 1946-06-29
HOLLYWOOD.

I1obL1 L Noob.
Raymond Massey is the first actor
definitely cast for the new version
of Forever Amber" He will play
King Charles II, taking over from
Reginald Gardiner. I'm told that
not one inch of celluloid of the old
Amber" will be in the new. And
that brings me to Peggy Cummins,
now working as Ronald Colman's
daughter in THE Late George
Apley." I'm telling myself" says
Peggy, "that I've just arrived from
England and making my first pic
ture in a wonderful part" That's
one way of forgetting Amber"
Jennifer Jones gave up her house
before she left town. She's back
now and has nowhere to go, so she
is rooming with Anita Colby, and
looking for a new house. The Bo-
CARTS, by the way. are trying to buy
Hedy Lamarr's hilltop house. Hedy
wants 100000 for it, and Bogey
says he will have to raise some
money (and there was I thinking
that movie stars could spend $780,
600 at any given momenD. Hedy
and husband John Loder have
Evening star., 1946-06-29

for London on Aug. 20 with eight
months Of absence packed into his
baggage. AS you know, Joe stars
In Voice Of the Turtle" in London
with Margaret SULLIVAN. Mrs. Cot
ten goes along for the ride. i. -. Anne
Baxter relented on the last day of
her role in THE Razor's Edge" and
allowed husband-to-be John Kodiak
to visit the set. Anne looked some
what cleaner than for most of her
drunk scenes, but had black paint
Evening star., 1946-06-29
Massey in Amber Cast
By SheiIoh Grohom

bought the former Mark Sandrich
home in Beverly Hills. To return
to Mr.. .Loder, he's going to France
to make picture there for which
he'll be paid million francs. Then
he's going to England to see about
fortune bequeathed him by rela-
tive four years ago. Then he's re-
turning here to 60 into the liquor
business, using his million francs in
France, and his money in England
to buy Scotch whisky and French
wines and import them to this
country. That's the best way I
know of to get ones money out of
Europe.
X
Joseph Gotten leaves New York
Evening star., 1946-06-29

HIPP0DR0ME n :: &. Ave; s.., q s'h
Doors Open LAS 2 Hits.
HARRY BAUR in
"Crime and Punishment"
and Garnet De Bal"
Starring FRANCHISE ROSAY
French Dialogue-English Titles.
Evening star., 1946-06-29
|TODAY'S NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES

All Time Schedules Given in warner
Bros: Ads Indicate Time Feature II
Evening star., 1946-06-29
U. S. Employees Ask July 5 Of

The Government Employees Coun-
Gil of the American Federation OF
Labor yesterday urged President
Truman to grant Government work
ers an extra day of July S and de-
clared legislation for such an act is
unnecessary.
Evening star., 1946-06-29

under her eyes to give her that
morning -binge appearance.
John will have to see me early in
the morning, anyway" said Anne,
who is all Of %. Someone who
(See GRAHAM, Page B-91
Evening star., 1946-06-29
At Last Comes a Small One
Among Those Goldwyn Girls
By Joy Cormody

Samuel Godwn malicious about it, but thought
less those Godwyn girls he sends the country in advance
of his girls tall colun
feel talking with them. getting
the that publishers either had larger counits
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
PHANTOM KILLER
ELUDES OFFICERS
Believed Responsible For
Five Murders In Texar-
kama In Six Weeks

TEXARKANA, Tex, May 4-P)
A phantom killer believed to be
responsible for five murders IN this
bordertown in six weeks today con-
tinued to elude a concentrated man
hunt by both Texas and Arkansas
officials.
A stunned, tense Texarkana was
shocked by details of last night S
cold-blooded killer of popular Vlr-
gil Starkes, So, and the serious
wounding of his attractive, 3o-year-
old brunette wife in the farm nome
near Homan, Ark, a few miles
from here.
II was the third SUCH attack
since March "a. The other two were
double Sayings on remote country
roads.
Sheriff W. E. Davis of Miller
county. Ark. said today officers
had two major clues. He said that
the fatal bullets were fired from
a % calibre weapon, probably a
rifle and that the killer dropped
a flashlight in the grass near the
window through which he had shot.
H. S. Hallett, f%ingerprint expert
of the Federal Bureau of Investi-
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
WEEKEND BY AIR
PLANNED AT BEACH
indianapolis Party Of IL
Will Fly To Wrightsville
Early In June

Wrightsville Beach will be week
ly host to visitors flown here from
indianapolis, Ind, Ray Galloway,
executive director of the Whining
ton American Legion post, an
nounced yesterday.
According to Galloway, the visi-
tors will be flown here from the
Indiana city by Col. Roscoe Tur-
ner, noted aviator and present own
sr and manager Of an airport in
the Indiana town.
Turner plans to fly his passengers
mere on Fridays, beginning June
!, in what is termed as an alex.
pense trip. Arrangements have
been made with Beach resort pro-
prletorS 10 care for the visitors.
Current plans call tor 10 pas
sengers to fly here each weekend,
with prospects of the group grow.
ing larger as reservations can be
made, Turner wrote Galloway.
turner conceived the idea for
the weekend trips while here sew
eral weeks ago when he piloted
1ohn Stelle, national American Le-
slon commander here on the oc'
caSlon of the 18th annual reunion
OF Company C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
U.S.. ArmyEuacuating
Exploding Bomb Area
Close Vote Expected
In French Election

PARIS, May 4.-(P)-One of
the closest votes in French his
tory is expected in temorrow's
empire-wide balIoting on a new
constitution for the fourth Re-
public, supported by left wing
parties.
The charter provides for the
concentration of government
power - legislative, executive
and judicial-in a single cham
Der national a S s e m b | y. 1T
would abolish the senate OF the
third Republic.
Communist Leader Maurice
Thorez said he anticipated a
majority of So per cent for the
new document, which would be
frances 14th constitution since
1871.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
GOV. CHERRY WILL
ATTEND FESTIVAL
States Chief Executive To
Crown Wilmington Girl
+. Queen AT Wallace

WALLACE, May 4-The fourth
day of the Strawberry festival was
completed today, and Tuesday was
scheduled to be one of the high
points of the 11-day celebration
when Governors and Mayors
Day. will be featured.
Gov. R. Gregg Cherry has notltl-
ed festival officials ne will attend
Tuesday, as have more than zoo
North Carolina mayors. On that
day, too, Gov. Cherry will preside
at the coronation of Miss Char
lotte Russ, Wilmington, as Straw
berry Queen.
Meanwhile, despite inclement
weather today, festival attendance
continued high. Last night a large
crowd was on hand at the all-nlght
dance and battle of bands"
Today the midway shows and
Continued on Page 10, Column s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
Warden Tells Story
OF Alcatraz Battle
Spain Okehs Plan To
Meet Allied Demands

MADRID, May 4-U,P'-The
Spanish cabinet approved today
a foreign office proposal to
satisfy, at least partly, the
Allied control councils demand
for surrender of NaZi refugees
in Spain and the seizure Of Ger
man property.
1t was not revealed how, far
the demands of the Allied con-
troll council, which governs de-
feated Germany, would be sat
isfied. But well-informed sour
ces a M d Genera]jssimO
Francisco Frances govern
ment had demonstrated its in
tentions of getting into better
= grace with the Allies.
The councils specific de-
mands for the return OF dan
gerous Germans and the sci
zure of their assets, cunning
ly concealed in Spanish enter
prises, have been pending since
last fall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
Ar2: 1roups
lX$SlIo Ask
For Aid.
Want Moscow To Cham.
pion Cause In Palestine
Before United Nations
MUFTI MAY RETURN
Heads Of Arab States Dis.
cuss Report OF British
American Committee
By TOM WILLIAMS

LONDON, May 4E(R-Several
Arab. groups are reported planning
to send a delegation to Moscow
to ask the Russians to champion
their cause in Palestine before the
United Nations, an Arab league
spokesman said today in Cairo.
The Arab delegation would not
only ask the Russians to bring the
subject of Palestine before the
United Nations, but would also
request the Soviet Union to sup
port the Arabs in Palestine against
the British-American report" the
spokesman said, quoting Palestine
reports.
Musa Alami, second in command
of the majority Arab party II
Jerusalem, refused to deny or con
firm the Cairo report. Unofficia
Arab sources said they did no
know OF any appeal to Russia tt
place tlE FdleSClnG issue De1Ols
the United Nations.
Grana Mutt May Return
In Palestine Arab leaders, ap-
parently more closely united than
at any time in the past two de-
cades, were lspeculating that the
exiled Grand Mutt of Jerusalem
would return to the middle east
from France within a month to
lead them in opposing British
American proposals that 100, 000
European Jews be permitted to
migrate to the Holy Land.
Heads of all the Arab states were
said to be discussing the report
of the British-American inqriry
committee, and advices from Cairo
said an extraordinary meeting Of
the seven states in the Arab league
had been decided upon.
Lebanon was advanced as a
tentative place, but no date was
mentioned.
The Moscow radio took cogniz-
Continued on Page 10, Column -
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
RECEIVES NEWSMEN
Call To Home Was First
Indication Escape At
tempt Underway
BY RONALD w. WAGNER

United Press Staff Correspondent
ALCATRAZ ISLAND FEDERAL
PRISON, San Francisco Bay. May
4 -W.H- Federal prison Director
James V. Bennett and Warden
James "A. Johnston tonight told,
for the first time, the full story
of the three-day. bloody mutiny
by rebellious convicts.
Reporters arrived here under
close scrutiny, and we're given an
electric-eye ''squint' from the CAD
get which detects metal objects.
Then they we're driven over a
winding road from the dock to the
warden's office, adjacent the cell
block building.
Warden John ston said:
.It is necessary at Alcatraz to
take precautions for the safe GUS
tody of men, most of whom have
bad regulations which they observe.
This aggregation OF prisoners
is all of one mind in not wanting
to stay here if they can get away.
Look For Weakness
"All prisoners are constantly cas-
inc the place, looking for a weak
ness. To guard against this, we
have a system of notifications I'm
der which any officer asks for
helm anv time he thinks he meets
it.
when an alarm comes in, help
is sent at once.
eat 2:3O o'clock Thursday aft
ernoon I got a ring at my home.
A guard said, warden, there is
some trouble in the cell house
I don't know what it is but ]
think it is serious
II said, all right, turn on the
siren. When 1 got back to my Of
flee l found Associate Warden E
J. Miller coming out of the eel
house, his eyes were watery ano
one side of his face was all black
.He said, somebody's loose ir
the cell house with a gum.
81 asked him, do you know who
it is?" He said yes it's Coy.
He said he and other men had
rushed in to answer a guards call
for aid. Miller told me that on the
way in, I pulled a gas billy.
81 saw what looked like an Of
ficer coming down from the ether
side of the cell house. But it wasn't
the officer, it was Coy. He said,
you - Of a -. I'll get
youi He shot the gas billy out of
my hand.
1--WE couldn't raise the west gun
gallery on the telephone Warden
Continued on Page 10, Column A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
Notice To Subscribers
And Advertisers

Because of the drastic curtailment of n~ewsprint,
it has become necessary for the Star-News to publish
issues which will conform with available supplies.
In order that we may provide our many thousands
of paid subscribers in the city and Southeastern North
Carolina with their regular issues of the morning,
afternoon, and Sunday Star-News papers, we are COM
PEELED to curtail the space ordinarily devoted to ad-
vertising. This step, effective as of May LIST, will
continue only as long as the present scarcity exists SO
that complete coverage of news. and features may
have adequate handing.
Our newsprint sources are supplying full commit
ments on contracts but due to the increased demand
on the part of both subscribers and advertisers we are
Temporarily freezing circulation and requesting adver-
tiser cooperation with lee-Way run dates and adjusted
space orders. These conditions are being experienced
throughout the country by established ARC news
papers and particularly so in Raleigh, Greensboro, and
Charleston.
It will be the policy of your Star-News papers to
lift in part and in full every restriction placed in effect
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Your understanding and patience during this acute
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
NEAR NUREMBERG
100000 Tons Of Nazi Mu-
nitions, Poison Gas De-
tonating Beyond Control

FEUCHT, Germany, May 4-U.H
United States Army units began
evacuating Feucht, eight miles
southeast of Neurnberg tonight,
as fire swept out of control through
the giant Muna ordnance works
and thunderous explosions rocked
the countryside.
Feucht is a mile and a half from
the ordnance works, which we're
believed to contain at least 300,-
600 tons of shells, bombs, TINT,
powder and poison gas OF the
deadliest types.
At II p. M, German time,
Is D. M, E.D.T.) the fire was
only a quarter of a mile from
where the poison gas is stored.
Civilians were fleeing Feucht
and Regenbach, a mile from the
works, as they had fled their fam
ing towns in war days. Long lines
of women and men pushed baby
carriages and hand carts away
from the towns as red hot shell
fragments screamed out a mile
from the explosions and evil
smelling smoke billowed up into the
sky.
w rockets stored at the dump
were going up 10 to Is at a time.
Each rocket weights n ton.
By II p. M, there had been 20
such blasts.
The Army established a special
command post at the edge OF
Neurnberg's walled, in%ner-city, IN
the Club Americana. Each new
blast shook the command post and
was followed by the rafting OF
falling tiles from the war-bombeo
ruins.
Army intelligence officers to-
night began questioning SIS In
ternees and German civilians EN-
ployed at the dump. They also
were checking the possibility that
the fire may have. started spon-
taneously from the effects OF the
hot sun on loose powder.
The SIS prisoners and civilians,
nine of whom were neWly-hlreo
this week, stopped work at o:ol
D. M, just prior to the first larse
explosions.
Fires Unapproachabie
Shortly before midnight the eS'
blossoms appeared to be worse.
Two United Press correspondents
irving to reach the inferno 1rolr
the northwest and south were un
able to approach nearer 0ai
Feucht. Ill;
To protect the international mill
montinued ON Page 4, COlumh ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
Greensboro Legionaries
Push York As Commander

GREENSBORO, May 4.-(P-
Greensboro legionnaires mailed
OUT to post commanders over the
state letters announcing the candi-
dacy of William M. York, former
commander of Henry K. Burtnel
Post, for department. commander
of the North Carolina department
of the American Legion.
This puts York, prominent
Greensboro attorney and legion
naire, in the contest for state COM
mander at the Legion's annual
convention in Winston Salem on
.Iune 1917. inclusive.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
Heavy Registration Seen
As 4,1W Voters Qualify

vote in the approaching bond issue
totaled 3,18o, Carney said. OF the
City and County total, 4,052 were
registered as Democrats and liz
were registered as Republicans.
Three New Hanover county town.
ship failed to register a single Re-
publican. In Cape Fear township,
1913 Democrats registered, in Mas
onboro township, So Democrats re-
gistered, and in Federal Point
township, ~ Democrats registered,
while no Republican registrants
were recorded, in any Of the three.
Carney listed the following Off
(COntinwed on Page 2, Column 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-05
HOSPITAL DRIVE
GIVEN EXTENSION
s120,3e2 Reported Col
lected As Campaign
Close Schedule May

Total solicitations in the current
HOLY Family Catholic hospital
drive for funds stood at $40, 302.11
when the drive officially closed
Yesterday.
Tn announcing the figure, Harriss
Newman, drive chairman, said the
campaign would be continued
through Tuesday, May 7, so that
workers with outstanding reports
might make contact with the office
and return pledge cards that have
been signed.
These cards, Newman explained,
would increase the total solicita-
Continued on Page 10. Column sN