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Evening star., 1947-12-03

Siam is buying a large number
Of vessels to ship rice to other
countries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
In proportion with its resources. TO IN
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities. near
by sites for heavy industry and So-foo'
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern NORM
Carolina agricultural and industrial re-
sources through better markets and 1000
processing. pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages and Improvement Of resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolina's farm-to-market and primary
roads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more In
dustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
De, eloprnent Of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially In
counties lacking hospitals, and inolud-
INK a Negro Health center.
Encouragement Of the growth Of COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation Of City n County
governm ents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
County Stand On Air Service

All praise for the Board of County
Commissioners which yesterday refus-
ed to support the City Council and the
Chamber Of Commerce Aviation COM
mittee in their decision to intervene on
behalf of State Airlines before the Civil
Aeronautics Board, which had already
certified Piedmont Aviation, Incorpor-
ated, to give Wilmington air service to
Louisville and Cincinnati.
1t had been declared at a previous
meeting that the Commissioners could
not justly endorse the petition of State
Airline because it charged the CAB
with error, and yesterday Commissioner
Harry Gardner said the revised petit
ton, in which State Airline takes a
softened position, is still a rebuff to
CAB. The Commission promptly voted
to continue Its neutral attitude.
This is not only consistent with the
Commissions previous stand, but en-
inently wise.
AS the Star has said, we hold no
brief for Piedmont. Nor are We in a
position to determine whether or not
State could offer the service involved.
But we stand firmly by the opinion that
the CAB is the proper authority to de-
termine what line shall operate out of
Wilmington over the routes proposed
and that any effort by local or county
government to influence its decision
questions the judgment of CAB and
therefore constitutes an affront.
The Star is happy to commend the
Board of County Commissioners on its
position.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
Be Careful

With Independence day falling on
Friday the next weekend will be pro-
longed by a day by most celebrants.
This means that the highways will be
crowded, as we'll as beach and mountain
resorts, with many of the people in a
highly festive mood.
Usually this holiday spirit involves
carelessness. Motor vehicle drivers
take more chances in traffic than at
other times. Bathers, anglers, picnick-
ers incline to forget customary safe
guards, with the result that fatal &C
cidents multiply on the highways and
drownings at beaches and freshwater
swimming holes increase.
It is impossible to look forward to
the July Fourth celebration without an.
prehension unless some means is founc
Immediately to impress upon every.
body who intends to be away from home
during this time with the importance
of being careful not only for their own
safety but the safety of others as well.
Three rules are worth obeying.
Don't take chances on the highways
or in the water. Don't perform dare.
devil stunts. Don't show off.
The highway patrol will be expected
to work with extraordinary zeal tc
prevent accidents. Life guards will be
extraordinarily vigilant. But neither
force can be everywhere at once OF
anticipate what some foolish driver OF
swimmer will attempt to do.
# The responsibility for safety is in.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
The Book OF knowledge
Department - SCIENCE)
THE THREE FORMS
OF MATTER

All ordinary substances are
made of molecules; molecules il
turn are formed from variou:
combinations of atoms; and every
one Of the chemical elements has
its own particular kind of atom
What would we have. for in
stance, if we broke n wax mole
Guile into bits? We should have
an assorted collection of atoms O.
carbon, of hydrogen and of oxy
gen, because these are what {
molecule o. wax is made of.
These three substances would b5
gases. They are three of the diff
ferent kinds of elements.
The atoms in a molecule are
held tightly together by electrical.
forces of valence, forming one
unit, unless rather violent meth
DDS, such as extreme heat Oh
strong chemicals, are used to
break them apart.
Now we must learn something
about how molecules cling toget.
her to make substances.
There I three forms of sub
stance, Or three states of matter
solids, liquids and gases. A sub.
stance like water is familiar to
us in all three forms. When it is
kept below 80 degrees F.. as in
the ice trays of a refrigerator. if
is solid. Between 80 degrees F..
and 2a2 degrees F.. it is a LIQUID.
and above PIP degrees F.. it would
be spoken of as superheated
steam. 1t would then be called a
gas.
Each of these three forms OF
water is composed of identical wa
ter molecules. What makes the
difference between solid ice. LIQUID
water and superheated steam is
simply the way in which the mole
cules are acting. A great MANY
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
GOOD MORNING
Words of Wisdom
That life only Is truly free which rules
and ~sufffces for itself.-BulWer.
Captain Thompson Retires

Captain A. V. Thompson is retiring
from the Wilmington Police force to-
day.
Entering the service in 1912 and re-
maing until 1917, Captain Thompson
spent six years in the employ of the
Seaboard Air Line railroad and sub
sequently was in the building COM
struction industry. In 1928 he return
ed to the police department, in which
he has remained until today.
Upon the retirement of Captain John
Davis as chief of the. traffic squad, he
took over the exacting duties of that
position, and when Chief Casteen re-
tired became acting chief, in which
office he remained until Chief Hayes
was appointed.
Now he is privileged to spend his
remaing years in retirement. Having
been a faithful and competent officer,
his friends, who are legion, wish for
him a happy and peaceful sunset
period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01

Memorial commission, says the tower
will be built with funds from all of
the forty-eight states and from all other
nations of -liberty-loving people,"
Has Mr.. Allen forgotten that liberty
loving people of other nations are cry
ing for bread?
Or overlook the fact that a Roose-
welt Shrine" already exists at Hyde
Park?
Mr.. R%oosevelt's name is inseparate-
ly associated with Warm Springs,
where he fought out his own battle
against polio,s and was instrumental in
creating the Warm Springs Founda-
ton, with the March of Dimes, the
Birthday Balls and other Embarrassing
measures for the Warm Springs prof.
ect. But is this a sufficient reason to
real a monument, at a cost of millions,
when new victims of this dread disease
are stricken daily, among whom few can
pay the price Of treatment at Warm
Springs?
If it is desirable to create some new
tribute to Mr.. Roosevelt, it is suggested
that an endowment fund equalling the
cost of the proposed tower be raised
through which the poor and needy
might be treated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
BY T

WASHINGTON Vice Adm
Louis E. Denfield, Commander-in-
Chief OF the Pacific Fleet and like.
llest successor to Adm. Chester
w. Nimitz as CHEZ of Naval Oper-
atlons, was not called to testify
on Army-Navy unification when he
came here for recent Navy De-
partment conferences. But he told
a reporter he wished they'd hurry
up and settle this thing one way
q the other so as to quit making
lobbyists out of so many officers.
Admiral Dentield knows al!
about the way these battles of
washington are Fought. He was
Chief of the Bureau of Personnel
mere during the war. His observa-
ton about officer lobbyists is par
tlcularly appropriate right now.
Navy opposition to u%nification of
the armed services is more out
spoken than it has been at n
time since President Truman is
sued orders that officers should
Quit trying to tear the merger bill
to pieces.
Navy is apparently getting
around this restriction by having
retired officers like Rear Adm.
Ellis M. Zacharias act as spokes-
Man in opposition to ratification.
These retired officers claim they
speak as private citizens not sub
ject to Navy Department orders.
But they say they express the
views of SO per cent of their fellow
officers who are muzzled.
Though they have not said so
in plain words, Navy officers op-
position seems based on the fear
that under untfication naval ap-
preparations might be cut. There
may be some grounds for this sus-
plcion. But there is more to it
than meets the eye.
When next years budget esti-
mates were being prepared, Sec
rotary of War Robrt Patterson
like all other department heads
had to appear before the Bureau
OF the Budget.
Budget Director James E. Webb
explained that the President was
anxious to economic and had set
a $37 billion top on expenses. Pat
terson said he could see the need
OF that. Webb Their went On to
explain that the ceiling for the
srmd services had to be S11 bill
Lon. Patterson said he could see
that, too.
Then Webb said he division
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01

thought of as a vibration in which
each molecule wri2gles backward
and forward extremely fast.
What is likely to happen wher
molecules of ice begin to vibrate
faster and faster? A picture from
everyday lie will help us here.
What does a boy do when he
wants a specially fine apple thai
is far out on a thin branch of the
tree? He climbs PARKWAY up tn.
tree and shakes the branch. The
apples all shake violently back.
ward and forward. The extra mo.
ton makes them break thei1
stalks and down they fall. The
stems were strong enough to hold
the apples to the tree when they
were relatively quiet. but the in
erased energy of motion caused
them to break off. In much the
same way. single molecules es-
cape from heated ice and flow
away as liquid water.
Copyright, 1916, BY The Grolier
Society Inc, based upon The Book
OF Knowledge
distributed By United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW: Molecules in Mo-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
Better Use For The Money

When the proposal was announced
to build a tower at Warm Springs which
would be higher than the Washington
monument, as a memorial to President
Roosevelt, we began to wonder how
many victims of infantile paralysis
might be restored to even partial health
and usefulness with the money it would
cost. To be sure, a tower could be seen
afar, but could not contribute to the
relief or betterment of a single person
crippled by polio.
Mr.. Ivan Allen, chairman Of the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Warm Springs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
Army-Nauy Merger Opposition

would have to be $3.50 billion FOR
! Army and $4.4 billion for Navy.
That Patterson said he didn't see
On what basis had the division
been made?
The answer was that it seemed
fair and equitable to both serv-
ices, and in approximate ratio Of
past appropriations.
Patterson still couldn't see it.
The division was not based, he
said, on any realistic appraisal of
the existing military situation. He
was prejudiced, of course, but he
claimed that the Nays job was
largely done. The Army on the
other hand had tremendous occu-
patton duties in Germany and ia
pan, including feeding and gov
erning of former enemy popula-
tons.
The correct way to make a bud
get, Patterson maintained. was to
list the tasks that had to be done,
with the cost Of each item under
a master national defense plan.
These items would then have to
be compared. and the budget
rnade up Of whatever total of the
most essential items came to. in
stead Of dividing up the money
first and then seeing what could
be done with it later.
1t has been Paterson's conten-
ton that me primary need for I'M
ification is to set up a single Sec
rotary of National Security who
will look at the entire defense es-
tabl1shment and make these basic
decisions on the needs of all the
armed services, together. This is
considered the number n reason
FOR unification. Actually, it isn't a
narger bill because it sets up a
separate Army, Navy, and Air
Force.
1t still has a chance at this ses-
sion of Congress in spite of numer-
Gus Navy sm~okescreens to black
1t out. The Senate has rewritten
the merger bill to guarantee the
Marine Corps and naval aviation
continued existence. which were
first Navy objections.
The War Department says that
okay. though it is asking for no
similar guarantees for the Cavalry
nd Coast Artillery, which under
any m~odernization of the armed
services stand an awfully good
chance of being liquidated in ia.
vor Of q new and stronger De.
Ipartment of the Air Force.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
The Doctor Says
FEVER HELPS BODY
| FIGHT INFECTIONS
Bv WILLIAM A. O'BRIEN, ND.

When a thermometer is placed
under the tongue. an average
temperature of 98.G F. is record,
ed. Many normal persons have a
mouth temperature which is high
er or lower than this figure.
Temperature is lowest in the
morning and highest in the late
afternoon or evening. To record
these differences most hospitals
have a practice CT making routine
temperature observations in the
morning on a fasting stomach be.
fore drink has been taken and be.
tween 3 and 5 o'clock in the after
noon. There may be a normal diff,
ference in these temperature Of
one to two degrees.
If either the morning or after.
noon mouth tmperature is higher
than 1915 F., the temperature
should be taken every four hours
at 7 a. M, II a. M, 3 p. m. 7
p. m. and II .. m. and during
the night if the patient is awake,
Proper method of taking mouth
temperature is 10 wash the Their
mometer with soap and water and
rinse it with plain water or anti.
septic. 1t should be thoroughly
shaken down and placed under the
tongue with the lips closed.
Commonest variety Of fever re-.
suits from an infection. 1t repra.
sents the reaction of the body %
an invasion by the germs. Usu.
ally the higher the fever the
better the reaction. When the pa,
tent improves the Temperature
returns to normal.
Fever which follows a surgical
operation or an injury results
from the ABSORPTION of DESTROYED
tissues by the body.
Although fever may be a sign
of serious disease, it is one OF the
most important aids the body has
in fighting infections.
QUESTION: After her thyroid
operation last year, my sisters
eyes have become CLASSY, her hair
dry, and her skin flab5y. Is this
due to her operation?
ANSWER: She should consult
her physician about her condition
If it is caused by too little Thyroid
secretion she can be given an ex.
tract of the gland. If it is not
caused by the operation, other
treatments are in order.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
Vision and Crashes

On the theory that you can't
put millions of drivers with 40
mlle-an-hour eyes into 90-mile-an-
hour vehicles on 55-mile-an-hour
highways without disastrous re-
suits, the head of the New York
State Optometric Association US
ges that motorists be obliged to
undergo eye tests every five years.
He insists that such a provision
would cut down our annual high
way accident toll tremendously,
and there can be no doubt but
that his insistence that poor vision
is the cause of a large number of
our accidents cannot be taken
lightly.-Boston Post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
A Fine Theatre

Older Wilmingtonians will readily
remember the Ben Greet Players, a
group of English actors who toured the
United States for many years present
ing Shakespeare's dramas. They came
first to Wilmington on November %,
1906, during their fifth annual tour.
The play was The Merchant of Venice.
A program Of that performance has
been loaned the Star by Mrs. Katherine
bacon McKoy. It lists the cast but not
the roles, but we find the name OF Sybll
Thorndike, who must have been a con-
vincing Portia, and of Ben Greet him.
self, who probably was the Shylock'
and whose voice in those days was quite
as good as Otis SINNERS when he play
ed the same role with Maude Adams
who, in all fairness, was not another
Sybil Thorndike. Roles, however, are not
as important in the present instance
as the play was sponsored by the North
Carolina Sorosis for the benefit of the
Wilmington Public library.
With the program Mrs. McKoy sent
a copy of Family Album" an absorb
ing book by Agnes Rothery, whose hus-
band, after studying at Harvard and
the Boston Conservatory Of Music, join
ed the Ben Greet Players both as actor
and business manager before taking up
Ia teaching career at the University of
Virginia. Obviously Agnes Rothery
Cher maiden name) toured with her
husband and came to Wilmington when
the Merchant was to be performed.
In her book we find this intriguing
sentence: "In Wilmington, North Caro-
lima, with it's fine theatre, an aristo-
cratic dowager, in a victoria driven by
a colored coachman, drove Harry Cher
husband) out to an estate such as he
had never seen, to offer it to the COM
pany for their performance of AS you
Like It,
Unfortunately the author does not
identify the dowager or the estate.
The theatre was Thalian Hall.
While other cities in the South were
visited that season and their play
houses properly noted in the book, Thai
ian Hall is the only theatre called
fine"
The adjective is to be emphasized as
it expresses the view of the many actors
and singers who gave performances in
the Hall during its many years of SER
vice. In light of the recent survey of the
building, which shows it structurally
sound and repairable at low cost, there
would seem to be no. valid reason why
its restoration should not be under
taken now.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01

substances, like water, may occur
in all three states at different
times-it is the way their mole
cules stick together that makes
the difference.
Water molecules stick together
very tightly in zee, not so tightly
in liquid water, and very loosely
or not at all in steam. A hundred
and fifty years ago, it was not
very clear why molecules acted in
these three different ways. 1t was
known that heat had something to
do with the change, but heat was
not well understood.
AS a result of experiments, it
was proved that heat was merely
motion, or more precisely, energy
OF motion of molecules. When a
substance is heated. its molecules
all begin to move faster. This mo-
ton of molecules is correctly
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01
BY WILLIAM E, MCKINNEY
Americas Gard Authority
Written for Nes Service

This is the second of a series OF
simple plays that are often missed.
Locking over today's hand it would
not seem at all difficult to make
four hearts. yet many pairs in a
duplicate game failed to make the
contract.
Declarer Won the opening lead
with the king of diamonds, and
decided to pick up the trumps.
Someone evidently had told him
the story about the people of Lon
don who are walking the streets
because they failed to lead trumps.
He led the six of spades, West
played low and dummy's queen
won the trick.
Now for the first time he stopped
to study the situation, but it was
too late. All he could do was to
lead a club and 60 up with his
king, hoping that East had the ace.
But West won and continued the
diamond suit, and declarer had to
lose a spade, a diamond and two
clubs.
After winning the first trick with
the king of spades, and before
leading a trump, declarer should
have led the six of spades. When
West played low, declarer should
win in dummy with the queen of
spades, lead a heart back to mis-
hand, and play another spade. II
West o this and returned a dia-
mond, declarer would win it in
dummy with the ace, play the high
spade and discard the losing dis-
mond from his own hand.
Simple hands should not be TAX
en- for granted. A careful player
like Waldemar von Zedtwitz al
tempts to plan the play Of all IS
cards before he plays to the first
H.,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01

Copyright, 1947, By King Features Syndicate
Inc,)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-01

dividual. Only by accepting this re-
sponsibility can holiday-makers be sure
Of escaping tragedy.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Health clinic
Improvements con be made
in group insurance protection

Many union leaders well doctors who sympathetic to
unions feel that group insurance sometimes harm
than good by creating false security
members, that they can't necessity working
something better.
What better than insurance?
most hey 10 give union members better protection
against illness not related O Job?
FIRST the prepayment nsurance plan should pay
cal service rather than in cash benefits When
should be assured of the services physicians nurses hospitals
and SO on instead OF having find these yourself pay for
them and collect your indemnity.
MEDICAL service plan gives you this
Identification policies do not The market
hospital beds tight all from
need them most at the time around
hunt for then when flat
medical
worry about collecting doctors
visits about longer being after you
certain number of times OR after have
allowable limit i'm bills Nor the
that his fee the hospitals charges higher than tho
indemnity to which the pOicys entities
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Charter members
To the Editor:

10 the Editor:
We are charter members of
the Peoples Publishing Associa-
ton, and have followed the
course of the paper with increas-
ing approval and optimism since
its inception.
We admire Frank Marshall
Davis courageous and outspoken
column, FRANKLY SPEAKING.
1t is excellent, well-phrased prose
and carries a powerful message
OF unity and cooperation.
The paper as whole is a much
needed guide to honest infOrna-
ton and clear thinking, which is
needed picking ones way through
the maze of hysteria and rabbIe
rOusing with which the average
reader is confronted in the daily
press.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Freedom Of listening
To the Editor:


Freedom of speech has a corol-
larry; freedom of listening. But
under the present conditions, the
radio owner who finds himself
"burned up" by the overbearing
commercials of any program can
only turn his dial and thereby
jump from the frying pan into
the fire.
The air waves should be re-
garded as part of the public do
main. AS such they should not
be monopOIized for private gain.
In the interests of securing the
public's protection from these ir-
ritations it should be the duty
of the government, as part of its
function in allocating wave
lengths, to place a tax on radio
advertising for the purpose of
financing good programs to
which the public. can turn to es-
cape the abuses perpetrated on
it by commercial programs.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
To the Editor:

Approaching the landlords Of
flee today to pay my rent, I no.
ticed a sign reading rent up
1870, O.P.A." 1 offered the usual
amount and asked for a receipt.
The money was accepted, but l
was told that I could have no re-
ceipt because that would be in
violation of the O.P.A. since I
was paying only the old rate.
The landlord said further that
strictly between him and me, to
protect him, I must tell anyone
who inquiries that I am paying
the 1870 increase.
Can you beat that?
THOS. j. BROWNE
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Balkan democracy
To the Editor:

= " SAhN ANNAOOAe
Our government has sent a
commission to the Balkan coun-
tries to acquaint them with the
intricate processes of electing a
democratic form of government,
including at least some semi-fas-
cists.
How long can they take advice
from us when our commission
spurns the peoples desires and
elects into their offices another
party?
Our government is much too
concerned with the democracies
in the Balkans. We would do bet.
ter to stay home and look after
our own democracy.
iii. SALTZ