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Evening star., 1947-12-05
Christ Child Society
OPENS YuIe Sale

Children from Christ Child Set
tlement House we're to be present
today at the opening of the Christ
mas sale at the Opportunity Shop,
1927 Wisconsin avenue NV, with
contributions Of articles they made
themselves.
The shop, established to aid the
Christ Child Society in building a
wing on the Christ Child Gonzales
cent Home at Rockville, Md, will
remain open beginning Monday
until 9 pm. on Mondays, Wednes-
days and Fridays until Christmas
1t opens at 10 am. The closing
hour is pm. Tuesdays, Thursday
and Saturdays.
All proceeds from articles do
mated to the shop and sold there
by volunteers are given to the con-
valescent home for the construction
of the needed addition.
The Community Chest supports
the home, but the Chest does not
erect buildings for agency members
Money for needed buildings must
be supplied by the agencies them
selves.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Frederick Mccormack
Found Shot 10 DEATH;
Bromo Se!tzer Heir

Frederick Mccormack, so. racing
vachtsman and a principal heir to
the Emerson Bromo Seltzer fortune,
was found dying Of a gunshot
wound behind his right ear late yes
terday in his penthouse apartment
In New York. He was the son of
the late Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson OF
Baltimore, and a former vice presi-
dent of the Emerson Drug Co.
Police said a .38 caliber revolver
lay by Mr.. McCormack's side, and
that the wound was self,inf1icted
He was found unconscious yester-
day afternoon by maid who entered
his apartment at 129 East Sixty
ninth street to clean. and died In
Lenox Hill Hospital few hours later
without regaining consciousness.
Mr.. Mccormack had other res
licences at Stevenson, Baltimore
County, Md, and Narragansett Pier
r. I. He took the New York apart.
ment after his wife, Mrs. Mar.
garetta McNeal Mccormack, in
stituted divorce proceedings agains'
him on grounds of desertion las
August.
Mrs. Mccormack was awarded
Evening star., 1947-12-05

temporary alimony Of $3.50 a month
and counsel fees OF $500 on an
order signed by Judge John B.
Centrum in the Circuit Court at
ToWson, Md.
Mr.. Mccormack owned and skip
pered some years ago the yacht
cara which he sailed on at least
one occasion in the Newport-to-
Bermuda race under the colors Of
the Gibson Island Club.
In 1919 Mr.. Mccormack married
Miss Virginia Ritchie Harrison at
Asheville, N. c., and the couple was
divorced in March of 1888. His sec
ond marriage took place the follow
ing year.
Just prior to this marriage Mr..
Mccormack was sued for $4,000 by
Rosemary Leahy, then l8, of Phila-
delphia, who charged she was in
jured by a fountain pen" he gave
her in a night club and which later
exploded.
Received 100000 a Year.
In her divorce suit, the second
Mrs. Cormack charged he refused
to support her in manner bef1tting
her station despite the fact he re-
ceived about 100000 year as his
share of the estate under the will
of the late Isaac Emerson, the
"Bromo Seltzer King"
Mr.. Cormack was the son Of the
late Mrs. Emerson by a previous
marriage and was adopted by his
stepfather. He was one of the prin-
cipal benefactors under the latter's
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Group Backs Voluntary
ST. E|izabeths Admissions

The Connecticut Avenue Citizens
Association last night Endorsed a
proposal to permit voluntarily ad-
missions to st. Elibabeths Hospital.
Patients now may be admitted
only on court orders.
Il know of instances where 1t
would help people I know one
member said, urging approval of the
resolution.
Mrs. Joseph Miller described the
obstacles in getting playground
built in the community as lack of
appropriations and official concern
over the creation of more tax-free
land.
A request from the North Capitol
Citizens Association asking for
money to help defend the covenant
cases before the Supreme Court was
turned over to the Connecticut ave-
nue. groups Finance Committee,
which will make recommendations
at the next meeting.
A panel discussion on the report
Of the Presidents Civil Rights Com
Evening star., 1947-12-05

nittee will be held at the next meet
ing.
The association Endorsed Commis-
sioner Guy Mason for re-appoint-
menH
The meeting was held in the All
Souls Memorial Church, Cathedral
avenue and Woodley place NV, and
was conducted by Harry G. Grove,
president.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Cave DweIIers Club
Holds Purty Sunday

The Cave Dwellers Club will hold
a mistletoe party at 8 pm. Sunday
in the American Newspaper Wom-
ems clubhouse. 1904 Twentieth
street NV.
The party will be in honor OF the
officers for the coming year. They
are: John Fay, president, and
Misses Theodore Price, vice presi-
dent; Ella Harllee, recording Sec
retary, and Honora Thompson, cor
responding secretary.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Gen. HoisIip to Attend
lie CIerc Funeral in Paris

1t. Gen. Wade Hampton Haislip.
chairman of the Army Chief Of
Staff's Advisory Group, was to leave
today for Paris as the Army's rep
resentative at the funeral of Gen.
Jacques-Philippe LIE Clerc, French
war hero who was killed in an air
plane crash last week.
Gen. Haislip was a close friend Of
Evening star., 1947-12-05
VIEW Unit Holds Bozoor

A pre-Christmas bazaar Offer
ing handmade articles and home
canned produce for sale was to be
held by the Ladies Auxiliary OF
the Equality Walter Reed Post, No.
2S4, VFW, from 10 am. to 8 pm.
today and tomorrow at 1921 K street
NV
Evening star., 1947-12-05

will distributing an estate OF some
$40 ,0O0, 900 in 1881.
Mrs. Mccormack Is living at
Karong, the family estate in Balti-
more County, Md.
Evening star., 1947-12-05
Magazine Editor Named

o. J. Dekom, Washington news
paperman, has been named Wash
ington editor of Plain Talk Maga-
zine, published in New York, &C
cording to Isaac Don Levine, editor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

marine menace grew so acute at
times that instead of Whining
ton being a receiving point for a
good part of the Carolinas' gaso-
line. motor fuel was transported
here from the interior.
All of this was going on, he said,
while Charleston, with it's port Of
~embarkation and Norfolk with its
tremendous naval activity forged
ahead. Carolina shippers favored
those two ports more than ever
and they grew stronger during the
war.
Today, he declared. Charleston
has gained permanent possession
of the port of embarkation and is
pressing a SIS, 900, 900 port and in
dustrial development.
VARIETY - The cor of CTs
address was a plea for more and
better warehousing facilities to
accommodate a diversified ship
ping program.
As a concrete example of what
he meant is the fact that despite
a lower freight to Wilmington than
Norfolk enjoys. most of the to-
bacco shipped for export goes 10
tsee CAPE FEAR Page Twel
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
PAN AMERICAN PLANE
TO TRY FOR RECORD
FLIGHT TO FLORIDA

SANTA, MONICA, Calf, May 20
-(P9-A new Douglas DC-6 will try
to lower Col. Eddie Rickenbacker's
newly-established speed record to
Miami, Fla, tomorrow, Pan
American World Always announc-
ed today.
The plane, II Of five to be de-
livered to Pan-American Grace
Always at Miami for Latin Amer
lea service, is scheduled for a
takeoff about 5 a. m. CPST with
Capt Frank Haverlick at the con-
trolls.
Rickenbacker's plane a Lock
heed Constellation, flew from near
by Burbank to Miami last Satur-
day in six hours, SIS minutes. The
route was 2,348 miles.
The DC-6 will enter regular ser
vice between Los Angeles and New
York after ceremonies at 6:3o p
m. tonight.
Mrs. Earl Warren, wife of Cali
fornia's governor will chrlster
it the Five Star Flagship Cali
fornia. 1t is due in New York al
7:5o a. m. (EST) after a refuellne
| stop at Tulsa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Along The Cape Fear

NAIL ON HEAD - Probably
one of the most forceful summar-
izationS of what Wilmington needs
to recharge it's ports growth was
delivered to Rotary club members
at their luncheon meeting yester'
day.
Admitting that he was a news
papernan - and not a business
analysist at the outset - Al DICK
son. editor of The News went
to the heart of the situation by ex-
planning that the, city had become
the port of the one COMMODITY
instead of several.
And the reason for this unfos-
tunate situation, he explained,
was because the port had MADE
uuate warehouse facilities
THE WAR ERA-E@- brought
the port picture up-to-oate by re-
viewing the year of 1871 and ex-
planning that it was the busiest
wear of traffic volume. But he
went on to say that because Will
mington was not a convoy as
sembly point, its commerce start
ed a downward plunge with the
beginning Of the war.
He pointed out that she sun-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
RAILROADS
SEEK FARES hike
Seaboard, Southern, Coast
Line Ask Intrastate
Coach Rate Increase

RALEIGH, May 20. -(P)-North
Cardinals major railroads - the
Southern, Seaboard a d Atlantic
Coast Line-applied to the State
Utilities commission again today
for permission to increase their in
trastate coach fares from LOS TO
% cents per mile.
The commission set a hearing OF
the application for Aug. 8.
Interstate coach fares and the
fares in neighboring states were
increased from 1.65 to 20 cents
per mile early in the war, but the
N. c. Commission refused the rail-
roads request for a similar IN
crease in North Carolina on the
grounds that service rendered %
interstate runs is not comparable
to interstate trips.
After prolonged litigation. The
commissions decision was Upheld
by the U. S. Supreme court, and
recently h commission ordered
the railroads to refund passengers
approximately $500, 900 because
h e railroads charging the
higher fares while the question
was being litigated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
DEVELOPMENTS.
OFFICERS REPORT
IN DEVOLL Staying
Special to The Star

SOUTHPORT. May 2o-Deputy
Sheriff E. V. Leonard, of Bruins
wick county said today that no
new developments have been made
in the mysterious Staying of Sgt.
David Devoll, whose body was
found in his automobile near Shall
lotte on May 8.
The provost marshall's office at
Myrtle Beach. S. c., where Devoll
was stationed at the time of his
death, has announced that the
Brunswick county officers will be
allowed to make any announce
ments relative to the mystery,
Leonard said they had not been
informed of any new develop
ments.
1t has been reported that the
army has arrested a man believed
to have been connected with the
Staying, but attaches at the air
base have refused to divulge his
name or On what charges he is
being held.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
STATE BARBER
TO MEET AT BEACH
Wilmington Master Bar
bers To Be Host 10
State Association

Tie Wilmington chapter OF the
Associated Master BARRIERS OF
America. will be hosts to Noru'
Carolina chapters at Carollns
Beach on September l and Z
when the l947 convention will be
held.
The BARRIERS selected Cal Dina
Beach at a meeting held IN WIN
ston-Salem last Sunday. The ex'
tcutive board voted unanimously
10 accept the invitation extended
by Charles P. Murray, preslden'
Of the Wilmington chapter
Murray said last night that he
expects a large crowd to attenc
The annual convention. 1T will be
business meeting and a pleasure
meeting, but mostly for pleasure,
ne said last night.
M. E. Meadows, of Ashevile'
President Of The N. c. Association:
u. Cannon, Chapel Hill. Score
,sfy-treasurer; and Louis E. NC
IVAN, general secretary-treasur
e. Of the Associated Master Barb
US and Beautificians of America
Win headquarters in Chicago, are
among the prominent member:
expected 10 attend the conven
Non.
nose attending the meeting II
"nston-Salem from the Whining
WI chapter were in addition tt
murray, Sam Daniels. vice presi
vsl!t and Lloyd Dunn, a member O.
We local chapter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Mother Thinks Amelia
Earhart Jap Prisoner

NEW YORK, May 20. -P)-The
mother of Amelia Earhart, UNI
heard from since she radioed for
help while over the Pacific ocean
during a round-the-world fligh. IN
1887, said tonight the missing flier
was on a secret government mis-
sion and was believed taken
prisoner by the japanese.
Mrs. Amy Otis Earhart, 70, of
Boston, explained in an interview
over Radio Station WOR that she
was discussing publicly for the
first time the disappearance OF her
daughter 10 years ago.
Mrs. Earhart said her daughter
was on a government mission 80
secret that it was even kept from
me-" and added:
II think my daughter landed
and was taken prisoner OF the
Japs. have letters, documents
and messages addressed to me
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
LADY Cops Garry On
Amid Wolfy Wolf Calls

PITTSBURGH, May 20 N -
This. industrial city put Lady
cops to work today and it was a
toss-up who did the most whist
ling-the comely traffic directors
or the male motorists who passed
them.
The spic : and span uniform of
blue coat and Wave-type hat worn
by the 10 pioneers was sartorially
perfect but no protection against
wolf calls"
The women officers went on
duty directing traffic at school
corners, relieving 10 OF their male
colleagues.
School children loved the 1ano-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Clark, Cooley Protest
British Tobacco Tax
Delegation Informs Lord
Inverchapel New Excise
To Hurt Industry
Morning Star Washington Bureau

Morning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 20. Rep
resentatives Clark and Cooley OF
North Carolina and other tobacco
state Congressman protested the
new, high British excise tax on
tobacco today in a parley with
Undersecretary of State William
Clayton, and Lord Inverchapel, the
British ambassador.
The delegation asked Clayton,
who has just returned from the
International Trade Organization
in Geneva, whether he felt that the
economic condition Of Great Brit
ain made necessary such drastic
action or whether they might be
just throwing us a curve" He was
decidedly of the opinion that Brit
ish dollars are disappearing more
rapidly than anticipated and that
the British regard it as being alb
so1utely necessary to place this
high tax on American tobacco in
order to conserve enough dollars
with which to buy the absolute
necessities of life. His opinion is
that Great Britain is acting in
good faith.
Death Blow
The delegation called on Lord
Inverchapel at the British en-
bassy and plainly stated that the
recent action by the British parlia-
ment was we'll calculated to be a
death blow to the tobacco farm
(See CLARK Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
TANKER SPILLS $500
GALLONS OF GASOLINE

Chief Ludie Croom's alert fire
department yesterday probably
averted a disastrous blaze when a
motor transport trailer dropped
from its tractor while leaving the
Cape Fear Terminal and spilled
$500 gallons of gasoline on the
ground.
The fire department, under Chief
Croom's direction, answered the
alarm in full force and threw up
an enbankment of dirt to prevent
the gasoline from running into the
river and further endangering the
water front.
However, little damage was done
with the exception of the loss Of
the gas and the damage done to
the trucks trailer, the report said.
The department was called to
extinguish a fire at the Taylor Col
quit company yesterday. The re-
port said that the fire was caused
by sparks from the Grain which
set the rack afire. The damage was
not estimated, however, it was said
that it was small.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
IKE

WASHINGTON, May 2o-(P
- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
does the family dishes Sunday
nights.
1t came out today when the
general was testifying before
the House Foreign Affairs COM
mittee.
Rep. Jarman (D-Ala) recalled
that once during the war when
he was going to Europe Mrs.
Eisenhower told him to tell Ike
not to get too "uppity'' over his
war successes; that he would
still have to do the dishes when
he returned.
"Tell u.s." said Jarman, "you
don't do the dishes now, do
you?"
"Only on Sunday nights"
Eisenhower grinned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

that convinced me thoroughly that
she landed on land"
The mother said she had made
unsuccessful efforts to locate her
daughter through the japanese
consul in Los Angeles. The official
with whom she talked originally
was gone" she said, upon her
return the following day.
"When l returned there was a
strange man there who didn't
know the facts, and didn't want
to take the matter up" Mrs. Ear
hart said.
The missing flier's radioed APP
peal said she was owe the Pacific
ocean with no land in sight, and
with a dwindling fuel supply in her
plane.
United States Navy vessels con-
Quoted an intensive search. but no
trace was found of Miss Earhart
or the plane.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

Timely Talk
Stresses Danger Oh
One Commodity Program
For Waterfront

The reSurgence of Wilmington
as a general eastern seaboard port
or a par with the traffic volume
enjoyed in its peak year of 1871
was the topic of an address yester-
day by Al Dickson, editor of the
Wilmington News, before members
of the Rotary club at their week
ly luncheon meeting.
The Atlantic Coast Line octet,
composed of members of the ACL
male chorus gave a number Of
vocal selections before the meet
ing The male chorus participated
in the Grace Methodist church
benefit performance last night at
the New Hanover High school audi
forum.
Wilmington cannot expect to re-
gain a real competitive foothold
with Charleston and Norfolk until
she builds up some heavy port
industries, abandons the lone COM
modify" system and provides ade-
quate general port facilities.
1T is impossible to expect any
thing great until a real justifica-
ton of commerce and steamship
service is attained" he said.
Cites Danger
Dickson recalled that the city
was at one time a great naval
stores center, then shifting to steel
shipping, from that to cotton and
thence to the present ''one COM
modify system of petroleum prod
uctS.
Recognizing the worth of Viii
mington's being the second largest
oil terminal on the eastern sea-
board, Dickson said that neverthe-
less it could easily be the city's
ruination as a port unless other
commodities were handled as well.
The way to port progress for
Wilmington, Dickson said, was
through bringing about more in
terest in her port facilities in the
(See ROTARY Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
PITT LEADS U. S.
IN LEAF GROWING
Johnson County Ranks
Second In Nation, Census
Figures Show
Morning Star Washington Bureau

Morning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May 20 - Pitt
county, North Carolina, is the
ranking tobacco-growing county in
the United States, tae latest census
figures showed today.
Pitt had 1880 acres of tobacco
in 1914. This county also led the
nation in 1889 with 43, 1865 acres.
Second highest is Johnston coun-
ty, North Carolina, with 32,079
acres in tobacco in 1914, as COM
pared with II, 584 acres in 1889
when it also ranked second.
The remaining counties in the
first ten, together with their 1914
tobacco acreages, follows: Robe
Son county, N. c. 81, 778; Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, 2e,S47; Wake
county, N. C. 81, 1874, Horny county,
South Carolina, 26,432; Wilson
county, N. c., 25,571; Nash county,
N. c., 25,O37; Pittsylvania county,
Virginia, ALL; and Columbus
county. N c., p, 1862.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
Munich Jews Roll Back
Calendar Almost Decade

MUNICH, Germany, May 2O-lR)
Jews in Munich rolled the cal
endar back almost ten years to-
day. reopening with elaborate GER
emonies a synagogue destroyed by
Nazi street fighters in a wave Of
anti-Semitic depredations.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American
commander in Europe, congratu-
lated the Jews for their two-year
effort at rebuilding the place of
worship and declared:
81 am both proud and humble
to be here. AS a solder l recog-
nize courage and | am humble
here in the face of the suffering
through which the Jewish people
have passed. We must not and we
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21
ACL MALE CHORUS
TRIUMPH
Chorus, Child
Stars Round Out Pleas
ing Benefit Program

There were SO many pleasant
features of the Coast Line Male
Chorus concert last night that 1t
is puzzling to determine where to
start.
Perhaps the best of all was the
cause for which it was given. The
total revenue, as you know, is to
go to the Grace Methodist church
rebuilding fund. AS the New Han
over High school auditorium was
filled with pleased auditors, the
fund will be substantially increas-
ed.
The packed house, too, was a fine
tribute to the chorus, which has
been in rehearsal only six weeks
under the able direction of Edwin
D. Clark, director of music at the
First Presbyterian church.
In the old days before the war
the ACL chorus enjoyed great pop
ularity, but disbanded with the
coming of hostilities. Word that It
was being reorganized brought
keen pleasure to music lovers,
with the result that all OF a thous-
and persons greeted it on its reap
(See ACL Page TWOD
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

Inc report OF the ICC ruling was
read to the ACL president and he
issued the following statement:
According to the report you
have just read me, I can issue the
following statement" Davis said.
"The price the commission approx.
ed today, according to your report,
is in excess of the amount offered
by the Atlantic Coast Line, how
ever, the management of the rail-
road will : commend to t. share
holders that the Interstate Com
merce Commission price be ac-
copied by the Atlantic Coast Line"
Davis said the management
would also recommend that the
stockholders accept the other slip
ulations, which were mentioned
in the ICC report.
81 will issue a complete state
ment upon my return to Whining
ton Saturday." Davis told The
Star. Il have not had ar opportuni-
ty to study the complete ice re-
port and would not like to COM
ment further until / have the
ACL president said.
Eve, of the ACL, are very much
interested in acquiring the Florida
East Coast Railway" he added.
The ICC directed the consolida-
ton to consummate the %reorgani-
cation of Florida East Coast,
which has been in bankruptcy pro-
ceedings since 1912.
The commission previously gave
approval to an examiners recon-
mendation for independent opera
ton of the line under control Of
the St. Joe Paper company, which
is owned by the Alfred I. Du Pont
estate, but reopened the case to
reconsider the Atlantic Coast
Lines plan for absorbing the prop
critics.
A majority of the 11-mem5er
commission said the approved plan
would lead to "betterment of SER
vice to the public"
Commissioner Mahaffie filed a
dissent, in which he said he was
Joined in whole or in part by Com
missioner Miller, Splawn and Lee.
Said Mahaffie:
"The views of the persons serv-
ed by the railroad, the persons
dependent on it for a livelihood,
and of those who own its securities
all have to be very largely dis
regarded in order to reach the ma
iority conclusion (for merger.
The result of the present report,
in my judgment, is more likely to
be prolonged litigation"
Back To Courts
The matter now goes back to
the Florida District Court for on
firmation. Thereafter, ICC said,
"the method by which creditors
tSee MANAGEMENT Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

walton. So did passing motorists.
The 'lady cops" all were enthusi-
astic.
''You can turn me in anytime
commented waggish truck drivers
and commuters passing the cor
ners controlled by the distaff side.
The girls, all matrons, can do that
very thing. They are empowered
to issue traffic violation summons.
otis really wonderful" said
Mrs. Grace Kilian, who keeps
house for an eight-year-old son,
along with her traffic duties.
s'We like ladies down here"
chorused the children at Arsenal
school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-21

shall not forget those who suffer-
ed"
perhaps we are on the thresh-
old of a new tolerance throughout
the world" Clay said. "Let us
hope we start here a message
which may spread throughout the
world he pledged the U. S.
Army to stay as a guarantor of
the rights 3'of all men,"
Crowding into the filled Syna-
gogue were the workmen who re-
built it. mostly by hand.
The Synagogue, first to be re-
opened in Munich since the war,
is located near the area where
the Nazis held their big demon
strations when Hitler was SUI
creme.