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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24

Mr.. Dewey 2.32, a margin Oh a
little less than 2 IL electoral Vo'eS
instead of At.
Governor Dewey won kansas
eight electoral votes when ne cap
tured 439, 237 popular votes to Zoo'
o20 for President Roosevelt. un
der the proportional system. Dew,
ev would have received 4.30 ano
Roosevelt 800 electoral votes.
Because Of the prospects MAJ
he can capture the states Dig
block of At votes, a New York gov
ernor is additionally considered a
prominent possibility FOR a presl-
DENTAL nomination. If the electoral
votes of the state were given on a
percentage basis, the governor 5
prospects of being a preslaental
choice would be considerably
diminished.
Representative Lea has been
battling for his proposed change
for 20 years. His suggested amend
ment would abolish the preslden-
tial electors but the states would
be entitled, as they are now, TO
electoral votes equal the number
of their United States senators and
representatives.
A house judiciary subcommittee
is considering the proposed amend
ment. Representative Robson a.
XVI. chairman of the subcommlt-
tee, says there is considerable
support for it. He says it would
result in a larger vote being cast
in states which normally we're re-
garded as 'sure" Republican or
Democrat, because minority vot-
ers would feel their votes would
count.
Mr.. Lea says the present sys-
tenn makes FOR IAN unwholesome
concentration of efforts to win the
doubtful states while the other
states are on the sidelines in a
presidential contest"
Rep. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.)
says the proposed change would
tend to prevent presidential ad-
ministrations of both parties IA
voring the "key" states by grants
of public works and other patron
age.
Some Democrats fear that the
proposed change would increase
Republican victory chances. They
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
now NEW
VOTING SYSTEM
WOULD DIRK
nv ALEXANDER R. GEORGE

BY ALEAANDEh n.
WASHINGTON-The vote OF the
LITTLE states would become mucn
nor important in presidential
election contests if a proposed
amendment to dhe constitution, m
troduced in Congress, is adopted
# also would take much OF the
solid" out of the solid Democrat
ic South and lessen the prestige
nf the New York governorship as
a stepping stone to a presldentlal
,,crination by either major party.
The proposed amendment, Of
fered by Rep. Clarence F. Lea
D-Calre.0, would make the cleo,
toral vote of each state correspond
to the popular vote. If a preslden-
t;.l candidate received tWo-flfths
Of the popular vote OF a state ne
would get two-fifths Of its electoral
vote.
Under the present system a
presidential candidate VINO re-
eeives a plurality Of a states pop
liar votes gets all OF the states
electoral votes. It works that way
regardless of whether he leads his
onponent by 1000. 600 or by 10
votes.
Tn 1914 President Roosevelt won
all If New York's Al electoral
Votes when he received 1898, 1863
popular votes to Governor Dewey's
2,s77. 1855.
If the electoral vote had been
counted in proportion to the pop
ular vote, Mr.. Roosevelt would
have had 24.6 s. electoral votes and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
CHARGED
WITH MONOPOLY
Government Files Suit
Barring Agency From
Foreign Membership

NEW YORK, June % - up -
The American Society of Com
posers, Authors and Publishers
(ASCAP) was charged by the gov
eminent today in a federal court
action with engaging in a world
wide conspiracy to monopolize
musical performing rights in vi
olation of the antitrust laws.
Assistant Attorney General John
F. Sonnet, head of the justice
departments antitrust division,
who filed the suit, said the gov
eminent sought "a directive from
the court requiring ASCAP to
withdraw from membership in IL
legal foreign societies."
There was no immediate COM
ment on the suit from ASCAP
officials here. The society includes
nearly all prominent U. S. COM
posers.
Sonnet said AsCAP had engag-
cieties D'Auteurs Eft Compost
eurs, in Paris, of which the Am
ed in a conspiracy with La Con-
federation Internationale Des So
erican organization is a member.
This confederation, the COM
plant said, prohibits it's 26 mem
bers from dealing with non-mem-
bers and permits only one society
from each county or territory to
hold membership.
The complaint charged that
ASCAP was conspiring with SINH
lar societies through the Paris
confederation to cross-license each
ether and to prevent outside So
cieties from having less to con-
federation music.
Sonnet said the government
asks that ASCAP be enioined from
accepting music rights in tae U. S.
from any foreign society which
refuses to make its music avail
able to other societies here.
Attorney General Tom Clark
said in a statement released by
Sonnet that the alleged cartel
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
JOSEPH B.

Funeral mass for Joseph B. Nc
Entee, S. who died at his home,
80 Queen street.. Sunday, will
be conducted at St. Mary's Catho-
lie church today at a. m,
with the Rev. FIR. M. F. O'Keefe
as the celebrant. Burial will be
in Oakdale cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Phyllis S. McEntee; two daugh-
tiers, Miss Cynthia and Miss Phyl-
lis McEntee, both of Wilmington;
one son, Arthur S. McEntee, OF
Wilmington; one sister, Mrs. T. N.
Rowell, Wilmington; three broth
ers, A. E. McEntee, Philadelphia,
Pa, John w. McEntee, Ports
mouth, Va, and J. C. McEntee,
Wilmington, and three grandchil-
dren.
Active pallbearers will be Bud
Fowler, Charles Foard, Glasgow
Hicks, William Applewhite, Free
man. Pittman, and Walter Hatch.
Honorary pallbearers will be DR..
David R. Murchison, DR.. James
Robertson Claude Hill Archie
Seigler, Carl Marshburn, Bar
clay Loder. and E. S. Benson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
TIE WILMINGTON MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON. NJ:

argue that 1t would reduce the
Democrats advantage in indus
rial New York, Pennsylvania and
ihnois. where substantial MAORI
les in the cities have enabled them
. capture those states large cleo
oral votes.
They say the Republicans prob
ably would be glad to exchange
a proportion Of the electoral vote
in such states as Kansas, Vermont
ard Colorado for a proportion OF
the electoral vote in Illinois, New
York and Texas.
Republicans contend it would
work both ways and that Illinois
and New York now cannot be lab
eled Democratic states.
There is a total of 531 electoral
votes. In 1914 President Roose-
velt's total electora! vote was 432,
compared with 80 for Governor
Dewey. If the electoral vote mad
correspondent to the popular vote
as now proposed. me count would
have been 305. 80 for Mr.. Roosevelt
and 225.70 for MI. Dewey.
ROOsEvELT-DEWEY
1914 ELECTORAL VOTE
As 1t Was How 1t Would
nder Have Been
pre<ent Hinder prOpoSed
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
child Marriage Nears
End In Local Com,

A child marriage came ro,
IT'S END Yesterday in county cour,
with the filing of a divorce snit
volvlng two minors SO young tb,.
II was necessary to name ~guar6iaS'
to represent the couple.
Louise Brooks Hough. n u,.
mas been married nearly thr ,,o
years. filed action against Evsre &C.
). Hough. Her grounds for divoroa
were that she had not lived J,its
her husband for two years, Tba
TWO separated after living togetber
SIX weeks. They married NoveTnbe1
10, 1914. The age of the defend,n.
was not disclosed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
ROY C, FERGUS

Roy c. Fergus, 62, 404 South
Fifth avenue, died last night at
1920 o'clock at the James Walk
er Memorial hospital after a short
illness.
He is survived by one daughter,
Edith May Fergus of this city;
four sons, Robert l.. and I. E.
Fergus of this city; D. J. Fergus,
of Cleveland, O., and DR.. L. c.
Fergus, of Los Bonus, Calf, for
merly of Southport.
Sisters, L. S. Balance and Mrs.
Clyde La Sale, both of Washing
ton; Mrs. Lodge Hollis, Myrtle
Grove sound; Mrs. J. G.. Long,
Chadbourn; Mrs. Fletcher Tate,
Winston-Salem,
Brothers, John B., of Carolina
Beach. and Harry FerCus. of
Portland. Oregon.
Funeral services will be an
nounced later by Yopp funeral
home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
VONNIE A. (RED) HICKMAN

Funeral services for Vonnie A.
(Red) Hickman, 37-year-old Will
mington businessman, who was
killed in a motorcycle accident Fri
day noon, were conducted yester-
day at II a. m, at Sunset Park
Baptist church with the Rev. G..
C. Lewis officiating.
Active pallbearers were Earl
Williamson, Johnnie Anderson, W.
A. Clelland, Everett Dillon, and
Dave Dilda.
Honorary pallbearers were E.
E. Dye, Rocky Bum, E. G. Pat
terson, Carl Bray, L. X. Schmidt,
and A, c. jackson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24
Nj TO MEET IN


RALEIGH, June % - P)-The
North Carolina medical care com
mission will meet in Greensboro or
July II, in connection with a meet
ing of the N C. Good Health as
ISOLATION, DR.. John A. Terrell, com
mission executive secretary, an
nounced today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-24


had prevented thousands of Ameri-
can commercial users from get
ting music from abroad, except
through ASCAP, and has hindered
composers and authors of music
in the United States, who are not
members of ASCAP, from getting
their music played abroad"
Clark said the suit did not ques-
ton the right of ASCAP members
"to band together for the joint
protection of performing rights"
and that the government did not
seek to hamper any Legitimate
activity" of ASCAP.
MI o CC11 Env Nor,cr,on or Coryrinn
Evening star., 1947-05-23
prices on brand-new
SUMMER ROBES

Right the Of Esquire and other Leading magazines
right
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buy ofces Small 353 Medium 87e)
biggest
years!
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22

threatened nervous breakdown. Consider
ing all the disclosures of his wartime con-
duct some of which have led to indictment,
it is no wonder that he could qualify for
this description of his physical condition.
Now, the Army, with the approval OF
President Truman, has issued orders au-
thorizing retirement for disability reasons
of Lieut.. Gen. John c. H. Lee, former
American commander in Italy. And. ac-
cording to the Associated Press, the speci-
fic grounds for Gen. Lees retirement were
not announced. He, too has been the sub
ject of considerable criticism as to his con-
duct.
We, like many others, would like to know
the disability reasons" in Gen. Lees case.
If all officers who have gone out of the
service with disability ratings are to be
Investigated, wouldn't it be consistent with
this policy to make public the disability
status of those now leaving or who will
retire in the future?
After all, the taxpayers are footing the
bill "a $3.50 monthly one in the case OF
Gen. Lee - and they are entitled to know
exactly why their money is being spent
on this or that retired officer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22
MONDAY, DECEMBER %, 1s47
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington taVoleo
y, nroportion with its resources, 10 IN
cI,de public terminals. tobacco stor'
ape warehouses. ship repair faclhtles
nearby sites for heavy INDUSTRY anu
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
CITY auditorium large enough 70
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern Nortn
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ano
food processing. pulp wood productlon
and factories,
Emphasis on the regions recrea
ton advantages and Improvement OF
resort accommodations,
Improvement of Southeastern North
Carolinas farm to-market and prl'
mary roads. with paved highway
from Topsail nlet - Bald Head is
land
Continued eftor1 to attract more in
tustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluethentha'
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolinas health facilities. especially
in counties lacking hospitals, and IN
cludlng a Negro Health center
Encouragement Of the growth "
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of Citv ant f<our:'
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22
Sum ming Up
By JOSEPH AL5OP

American partnership. If that
partnership is ever permitted to
weaken or dissolve, the way will
be open for the Kremlin to at
tain its objectives without effec-
tive opposition. Such, at an. ate,
is the analysis of the situation
adopted by the makers of Amer
lean policy.
All this being so, special in
terest attaches to the problem OF
the Anglo-American partnership,
which has been explored at some
length in these reports. Before
proceeding to conclusions, it may
be well to -un over rapidly this
problems main factors.
l. Wherever their own courage
and determination can tell, the
British are now visibly turning
the postwar corner. They are,
therefore, on a perfectly cold
blooded estimate, pa tners who
can be invested in without un-
due risk.
2. Their shortage of capital in
general, and their acute short
age of hard assets in particular,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22
This Skin III
NotDangerou,
BY EDWIN P. JoRnss

sDAN, M n
Pso-:--is, pr need u''% ", D.
silent "P," is a common WIN n.
disease. The skin le ,ns ~. SKIN
common at or about the elbo,.' rlos
knees' and in ''e scalp I. Ion.. ns
back b. Although the skin j, ''ss' W.
figured, the disease is reIa+;,'l, U.S.
harmless as far as life and ,s.' as.
eral heal is concerne. s'p'
The affected areas
bright red, flat with the e. Usually
say or he Irface. Ii srsl @r@ a. and
ST ? line betwesr y y
normal skin and that wbinb iTn 'hs
affected by tt disease. ''4 1t
1t may start suddenly ~.
rally with only few $, y SIaa'
tered on various parts of . scat
body. 1t can cover onIv .
part of the kin, or spyssd Sl,alI m
great deal of the body surf.,
In those cases where # t't..l! ,.
Suddenly, acute itC ing ig ',aIS
mon. In the more chron = oa vO'N'
which are more frequent .boas sasvs
little or no itching. Those t,',s nsl
tons of the skin which havo ~. puE'
involved for a long time gensrs1 @ssa
ly become covered with ,ai' tbiaL
scale. If this scale ,, scraped '',ts ots
tiny points of bleeding spns,, s,,
underneath. 'pVea
Unfortunately the csus..,
psoriasis, like so many Other y. "
ea- Of ,ne skin, is not KNOWN W'
The condition frequent occ"-, "n
IN several me Abe. of the a' ,sa,'
family and this familial tanJou .,'
cy has been noted by many r'' do.
tors. Also psoriasis is freouanT, +,
associated 18th certain kind, :.
arthritis.
People between 10 and 30 vs.,.
old are the most likIy to ba a.
fected. The cause is almost cs',
tainly not an infection. There !,
a tendency for the skin LESSONS =,
psoriasis to come and 90 over
period OF time.
Many treatments are boir,
used for psoriasis. Most Of tbs5
bring about good results At
least Temporarily. However 4
is very common for people wi,
psorias:. to get better for a rr.
after treatment, then to get wors
again, and, if the Treatment
tried again, not to improve at a,
The remedies most commoov
used by skin sI ecialists for psog.
asis include coal tar ointrler
exposure to ultraviolet rays, and
sometime, X-ray, In spite d
favorable reports of one an.
other type of treatment for pson.
asis, air. ost eve year, there Il
as yet no single treatment which
brings about good results in all
patients without failures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22

Stanley Baldwin was the
British bulldog quiescent. as
Winston Churchill was the bull
dog rampant. in the uneasy
period between two world wars
earl Baldwin-then Mr.. Bald
win-embodied British conser-
vatism in the midst of over
whelming change.
He was that relatively new
phenomenon, the businessman
in English politics. But if he had
something of Carlyle's Plugson
of Undershot about him, he had
also something of Fielding's
Squire Allworthy. His fine sense
of the responsibility of privilege
was evidenced in 1918 when he
anonymously gave one fifth of his
personal fortune to the nation
to help pay British war debts.
In 1926 he broke the general
strike. The fascist menace was
not so easy to break. In 1885 he
boldly urged British rearma-
ment to meet the challenge
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22

LONDON - AS was forecast in
this space many weeks ago, the
London conference has ended
with open acknowledgment Of
the division of the world. Be-
hind the strong barriels of the
Soviet sphere, Molotov now
stands isolated with his puppets.
On this side of these barriers,
Messrs. Bevin, Bidault and Mar
shall stand together, at least in
temporary unity. Their next step
is the separate organization of
Western Germany, SO pla My ne
cessitated by what has just ac-
Cured.
In these circumstances, the uni
ty and strength of the west are
all-important. The only hope for
the future is that the Kremlin,
impressed by Western unity and
strength, will ultimately change
its policy, which must OF erwise
lead to the most terrible conse-
quences. Furthermore, the most
essential element in the unity
and strength of the west is a
powerful and intimate Anglo
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22
Not Total Failure

We have looked upon the London Foreign
Ministers Conference as a complete failure
Tn Secretary of State Marsshall's opinion this
is not correct.
Mr.. Marshall went on the air to make
his report to the nation of that meetin;, call
ed to arrange preliminary peace terms Ior
Germany, The conference adjourned with
out making any progress toward this goal
chiefly because the Russian foreign minis
ter, Mr.. Molotov, successfully blocked all
efforts to work out program for united
Reich and substituted his own program OF
Illustration.
Notwithstanding his attitude, the confer
ence was not total frost Mr.. Marshall
seemed to place especial emphasis on this
pointing out that while no ground vas gain
ed, none was lost, and the meeting made
clearer the outlines of problems and cb-
stacles to lasting peace.
Knowing the problems and having the
obstacles thus plainly revealed, the infer
ence is that western European nations now
stern1y resisting communist oppressi' are
in an improved position to determine the
course best to be adopted, even involving a
Germany divided.
Answering Mr.. Molotov's propaganda, for
which he used the conference as a sound
ing board, Mr.. Marshall declared that he,
together with the British and French for
-eign ministers, "went with strong deter
mination to bring to an end the division of
Germany" To this end they sought for five
Fundamental" decisions: elimination of arti-
ing powers of properties seized in Germany
under the guise of reparations," sound
of economic burdens, including reparations
and an overall German export and import
plan.
PROGRESS was made on none of these es.
sential preliminaries to peace. While it was
hoped that program for united Germany
might be forthcoming, the Soviet foreigr
minister made four-power agree .ent i'm
possible, with the result that the democra.
cies led by the United States-where lead
ership belongs-must 60 forward with pro
gram for the rehabilitation of western Ger
many alone.
Another result of the London conference
is to indicate that small hope exists Of eve
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22
We Pay Either Way

If the price of eggs were, say, u cents a
dozen and you ate one for breakfast it
would cost you cents That is mathemat-
ically correct.
If you did not eat one on eggless Thurs
day, it would still cost you cents. And
this too is mathematically accurate, provid-
ed always Prof Charles w. Watkeys, Uni
versity of Rochester mathematician, knows
his eggs.
Professor Watkeys has sent letter to
York, and Mr.. Heating has placed Professor
Watkeys' letter in the Congressional Record.
Suppose, wrote the learned educator the
hundred and forty million inhabitants IT
the United States skipped an egg on egg
less Thursday" This would amount ap-
proximately to 100000 dozen eggs. This
wouldn't be so bad if American hens didn't
lay eggs on that day. But they 60 right on
laying, in fulfillment of their destiny. Just
as beavers build dams Its an instinct.
'"The eggs'' according to the professor,
"cannot be placed on sale on another day
without reducing the price, SO cur govern
ment has to buy the eggs at the market price
of say 70 cents dozen Ito be conserva-
tive) This makes $7,70000o that must be
taken from the tax pile for the Thursday
eggs, each eggless Thursday.
"Dividing s7,7ooooo by 14o,ooo,ooo gives
cents that each inhabtant on the average
gives to the government for the privilege
of skipping an egg on Thursday"
Whether we eat the egg or don't, it still
costs us cents. It's very confusing to the
mathematically-d -disinclned inhabitants.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22

finding common ground with the Soviet
Union. This is unfortunate, but obviously
inescapable.
T. ;e inconceivable that one power alone
should long keep the wor' in its present
unsettled condition. The. cure is at hand
When the rest of the world takes ne veto
o,t of Russian hands, Russia's deadilest wea-
pom will be lost.
Why not hasten to administer thu cure!
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-22

have implications which must be
squarely faced, however. The
truth is the British do not have
the cash in hand, for the present,
to carry all the costly burdens
which the Anglo-American par
tnership involves. For many rea-
sons, it is impossible for t h e
United States to assume .hera
burdens. Fortunately the capital
shortage is the only real diff
Guilty. Thus It is essential fo' the
United States to supply the fresh
capital which will place Britain
on a footing of permanent
strength. This is urgent.
3. In the special sphere of ,lili-
tary strategy, the Anglo-Amerl-
can pal aership is already op-
Grating with the utmost intimacy
and smoothness. But this is not
true in the spheres of political
and economic policy. In these
spheres, because the makers of
British and American policy have
been dealing with each her at
arms length, there have been
many petty irritations and break
downs of cooperation.
4. Without a supply of fresh
capital from the United States,
the British will be driven, per-
force, to try to devise a new
foreign policy which can only,
in the last analysis, be a policy
of surrender to the Soviets. Yet
even if the capital is forthcomi- 6
from America, another major diff
ficulty will still REM to be
surmounted. From Attlee and
Bevin to the British man in the
street, every one in this country
ears that acceptance of Ameri-
can aid may entail loss of Brit
aims independence of action. The
fear is distinctly neurot.c, o be
sure.
Britain was not tied to our
chariot wheels after Pearl Har-
bor, VIII n the relative British
and American contributions to
the war effort, in men, money
and goods, were proportionally
about the same as the relative
contributions to the peal effort
must now be. But unless our
dealings with the British are
marked by a rare degree of wis
dom, tact and forbearance, this
British fear of what is thought of
as American. bullying" is cap
able Of causing the Anglo-Amer-
lcan partnership to break down.
The wartime atmosphere must
be revived.
All these factors are clearly in
the minds Of Secretary Marshall
and his staff. Indeed, the signs
suggest that good deal has al
ready been accomplished, here in
London, to place the Anglo
American partnership on a firm
er footing than in the past.
None lie less, it is clear that
well-thought-out functional steps
will have to be taken before the
two countries can 60 forward to-
gether in full mutual confidence
in each others objectives and
ability to attain those objectives.
Whatever these steps NAV be,