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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10

long. The message will be written
upside down and backwards.
This unusual tableau, Jackson
said, will have probably one of
the most far-reaching audiences
of all times because it will be
visible within a radius of 20 miles
if the winds permit, it may
remain intact for as long as 80
AS props" for this show,
Souther and his fellow Pepsi-Cola
skyWrlters use specially equipped
planes which give off a heavy
smoke compounded of a secret
formula of oil, chemicals and gas.
Ihls smoke, it was said, is in
Jected into the exhaust under
pressure. When the pilot pulls a
lever in the cockpit, the vapor
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
PROPERTY OWNERS
TO MEET TUESDAY
FOR ORGANIZATION

Wilmington property owners
have been invited to attend an
open mass meeting in the court
house Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock to form a local chapter
of National Home and Property
Owners foundation, Colonel r.
S. McClelland, temporary chair
man, has announced.
This fourth chapter in North
Carolina will elect local officers
and take its place as an associate
of the National foundation at
the Tuesday night meeting and
will have a voice in local, state
and federal legislation as a rep
resentative body of property
owners, according to local or
9aniZerS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
SKYWRlTER COMES
HERE OCTOBER II
J. w. Jackson Beverage
Company Sponsors Air
Writing Show

Skywriter Winfred Souther,
veteran of the Navy air corps,
will begin a series of skywriting
advertisements for the Pepsi-Cola
company here, October II, J.W.
Jackson, of the J. w. Jackson
Beverage company, announced
yesterday.
Souther will write his message
$4,000 feet in the air, weather
permitting, against the sky as a
backdrop, Jackson said.
The Herculean script - the
Pepsi-Cola message-will be a
mile high and 10 or II miles
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
I. J. ELMORE

l. J. Elmore, 400 S. 18th street,
died at James Walker Memorial
Hospital at 6:55 yesterday morn
ing.
Mr. Elmore is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Nell Elmore; one
daughter, Mrs. Roy Mcdowell;
one son, I. J. Elmore, Jr.; three
sisters, Mrs. jamie Dew, Mrs. l..
w. Edens, all of this city, and
Mrs. J. J. Zibelin of Portsmouth,
Va; five brothers, George and
Clement Elmore of Richmond,
Va, F. E. Elmore of Savannah,
Ga, J. G. Elmore of Macon, Ga,
and w. H. Elmore of this city.
Recitation of the Rosary will
be held Friday evening at 8
o'clock at the Yopp Funeral
Home by Father Alan Roche.
Funeral arrangements will be
announced later by Yopp's Fun
eral home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
@-Million Pounds Oysters
To Be Harvested This Year

has been known to grow a foot
or more in length, although it
averages much less. The other
west coast oyster is the tiny
native olympia Of Puget sound,
the meat of which is about as
big as a mans thumb nail.
They run 1900 or more to a
gallon.
Midway Size
The Atlantic coast or eastern
oyster is midway in size be-
tween the Olympia and the Jap
anese, attaining a length of
eight to 10 inches under the
best possible conditions. They
are actually marketed when
much smaller. A gallon of east
ern oysters contains from $50 to
300, depending on size.
There is no danger of the in
dustry oversupplying the mar
ket, DR.. Radcliffe says. Supply
has not met potential demand
for some years. Present produc-
tons compares to $50, 600, 900
pounds harvested in 1912, Is
years ago, for example. In re-
cent years it has been below
100, 900, 900, because of depletion
of once-rich beds.
Before going with the oyster
institute DR.. Radcliffe was dep
uty commissioner of the bureau
of fisheries.
About half of the middle At
lantic crop of oysters comes
from public grounds, the other
half from privately leased and
cultivated beds.
New Englan New York and
New Jersey have developed
large private industries, the fish
and Wildlife service says, and
Delaware takes about a third
Of its yield from private beds.
Maryland, biggest producing
state in the country, takes al
most all of its harvest from the
public rocks. North Cardinals
small production is entirely
from public grounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
City Briefs

Jeter A. Harrill, field repre-
sentative of the regional rent
control office in Atlanta, Ga, is
giving routine check-up Of OPP
erations at the local rent con-
troll office, it was announced yes
terday by Maurice Moore, area
rent control director.
Cadet Captain William I. Farm
er of Carolina Beach has been
appointed company commander
of Co. F of the N. c. State ROTC.
David r. Hines, Negro, lib
Dawson street, reported to police
last night that he was bitten on
the left leg by a dog at the inter-
section of 18th and Dawson
streets.
Mrs. o. Brewer, 1908 Brandon
road, reported to police last night
that someone was firing a rifle
in her neighborhood yesterday
afternoon and that one Of the bull
lets barely missed her young
daughter.
Bids will be closed today at
IL o'clock noon on a War Assets
administration sale of surplus
commodities to be held at Maj
fit Village, WAA officials at the
Wilmington customer service
center, reported yesterday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
CLYDE 3. LONG

Clyde B. Long, IS, of the
Ash community in Brunswick
county, died Thursday at 7:35
a. m. in Dosher Memorial hos
pital at Southport, following a
lengthy lines.
Funeral services will be eon-
Quoted Saturday morning at II
o'clock from Soldier Bay Baptist
church by Rev. Woodrow w.
Robbins. The body will lie in
state at the church for an hour
before the service.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs
Mary Jolly Long, a son Jerry,
and his mother, Mrs. Scottie
Coleman Long, all of Ash.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
TOBACCO PRICES
FIRM ON MARKETS
Eastern, Middle Belt Offer.
ings However Bring
Lower Buyer Bids
nv The Associated Press

pr;cc gains were reported on
,.,e.curcd tobacco sold on the
Border Belt of South Carolina
- North Carolina and the Old
aoI+ Yesterday Thursday while
3 3saroases were reported on the
g Ta,4orn North Carolina and
Middle Belts.
Dricos for most medium to bet
~ ouaIity grades on the Border
n ~ continued upward move
p l.on-e with gains ranging up to
* nor hundred, the Federal
s..4a Departments of Agriculture
so.oorted. Majority of advances
. .,.srs from 81 to 81, and some
'..so. of 81 to So were posted fer
, ,.,,, and common leaf grades.
~ FINAL sales for the season were
hid on the Whiteville market.
Demand Strong
cry strong demand raised
roc for most grades on the Old
82oI+ from 81 to 81 over Wednes-
lsr's quotations. Most smoking
I.af and cutters was up from 81
~ s.: leaf and Tugs, from 81 TO
q IN. and primings up from $3.50
n s7 Lemon primlngs, making
N. greatest advances, were up 81,
Average prices on the Middle
BoIf were firm to slightly lower
Majority of the smoking leaf and
,,,t+ors remained firm, but Tugs
wore off from 81 to So in most
Instances. Printing grades ad-
Tsnced 81 to 81. Practically all
.ondescribt showed declines from
~ cents to 81.
Quality Fair
A weaker demand was display
sd for practically all lower quail
" offerings on the Eastern North
carolina markets. Common leaf
and smoking leaf bore the heavi-
losses, with these tobaccos
ng from $3.50 to S. per
.rdred below Wednesdays
les. There was little change in
-1e quality of offerings, and vol
ume Of sales was fairly heavy.
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Obituaries
PAMELA REYNOLDS


Funeral services for Pamela
Reynolds Mayberg, three-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
John P. Mayberg, of Wilmington.
New York city and Seattle, who
died in James Walker Memorial
hospital Wednesday at 6 p. M.
will be held today at 10 a. m.
from the Yopp Funeral Home
chapel with the Rev. R. Wade
Allison and the Rev. Mr. Harvey
w. Glazier officiating. Interment
will follow in Oakdale cemetery.
The girl is survived by her par
ents and a maternal grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Anna Reynolds, Of Will
mington.
Active pallbearers will be Rob-
ert Ship, Thomas Conway, John
Conway and Herbert Bordeaux.
Honorary pallbearers will be DR..
A. MGR. Crouch, Linwood Yopp,
Rev. Carl Lewis and Rev. c. E.
Baker.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10

escapes, leaving a visible trail be-
hind, which is skywriting.
Souther's appearance here,
Jackson said, is part of an ex-
tensive skywriting program
which the parent company is
carrying on all over the United
States.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
Post Office Receipts
Gain AT Whiteville

WHITEVILLE, Oct. 8. - Final
tabulation of receipts at White
vile post office for the first three
quarters of 1947 showed this year
running nearly $1,000 ahead of
1916 according to the report of
Postmaster !. Elmo Powell, Sr.
Revenue for the nine-month
period was $28, 165. "a during 1947
against %S27,196.55 in the CORE
spending period in 1946.
The third quarter report, which
included the months of July,
August and September, showed
receipts of $10,438.24. This show
ed a gain over the same period
last year when receipts were
$1O,074.44.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
THANK YOU, MIR. JAILER

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. W.p-
Sheriff Oscar Haag received a
bread-and-butter letter from a
former guest" he wrote: give
been In q lot Of jails, but yours
was the cleanest Jail Tvs ever
been in. l didn't even see a
cockroach."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10

After the Revolutionary war,
Russia did not recognize the
new country or send a diploma
tic representative until 1909.
France signed a Treaty of Com
merce and a Treaty of Amity
and Alliance with the United
States Feb. 6, 1778.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
MRS. L G. MEDLIN

MNS. SALL1 ". MLDLllS
Mrs. Sally Grafflin Medlin,
widow Of Joseph Medlin, died
at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Thomas F. Davis, of Fort
Riley, Kansas Monday.
Funeral services we're held in
Cheraw, South Carolina yester-
day.
Besides Mrs. Davis, she is sur
vived by two grandchildren, also
a number of nieces of Whining
ton.
Mrs. Medlin was a native Will
mington, and lived here until
the time of her marriage.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10

Some. insects have four wings,
others have two, and still others
have none at all.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
Overnight Battery Charger

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A new battery charger, design.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
CHARLES RUFUS SKIPPER

Graveside services for Charles
Rufus Skipper, 70, Leland, who
died Tuesday morning in Bull
locks Clinic, were held yesterday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock with
interment following in Nelson
cemetery at Leland. The Rev
erends Walter Phelps and S. I.
Mintz officiated.
Surviving are four daughters,
Mrs. B. I. Williams, Mrs. R. o.
Williams, Mrs. R. L. Ganey, Miss
Celia Skipper, all of Leland,
three sons, D. J. and Jerry Skip
per of Leland, and ]. D. Skipper
of Wilmington.
Active pallbearers were Tate
Ganey, E. H. Ganey, Rock Ben
ton, David Sullivan, James Hol-
lis, and ]. H. White.
Honorary pallbearers were
DR.. E. G. Goodman, DR.. L. c.
Fergus, J. D. Hollis, J. R. Ganey,
J. T. Ganey,. A. w. Benton, and
c.. 0. Ganey.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-10
MRS. WILLIAM WHITMAN

Mrs. William Willim a n,
Charleston, S. c., died at her resi-
dence yesterday morning after
a lengthy illness.
Funeral services will be held
Friday at St. Phillips Catholic
church in Charleston, S. c.
She is survived by George L.,
Henry B., Ernest F., Charles A,
and Edward Peschau, Jr., of Viii
mington, and Mrs. Quincy B.
Satchwell and Miss Agnes Hay
den, also of this city.
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
"Ship To Shore"

The proposal to establish land facilities
for ship to shore telephone service here
is but another in the numerous steps being
advocated to continue to hold Wilmington
high on the list of coastal cities.
With ship to shore service much will be
accomplished in more than one way. The
fact that the phone company would in
crease it's business, with the possibility that
more persons would have to be employed
to handle this added business, is but one
of the benefits.
There is, however, an even greater bene-
fit.
This is the safety factor.
Ships so equipped off our shores could
Immediately communicate with the Coast
Guard, police and everyone else in time
of emergency. This could very well spell
a life saved.
Those supporting this plan have long
range view of the needs Of Wilmington.
They are like a good general in the field
who wins today's battle only because he
planned it that way previously.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
The Golf Tournament

It looks as though Wilmington may De
selected as a site for the professional golf
ers' tournament next year.
- This is indeed good news.
=. The CITY. crammed with followers OF all
~snorts will welcome the tournament with
e enthusiasm.
The old saying, that when man is at
tending a sports event he isn't anywhere
else holds true of golf
This. one of the most fascinating OF
games for men, and women too, attracts
millions daily to the links in fair weather.
The saddest thing that can be said about
golf is the nineteenth tee, or the happlest'
as the case may be-
And that's about all that can be said
about golf that one might object to, the
nineteenth tee.
In Wilmington, sports in greater protus-
ion would do wonders for the city, Its
people, and from the promotional stand
point.
Potential industries today ask SUI
questions as-what do your workers do In
their spare time; are there recreatlonal
facilities for the ordinary man, or must
he sit at home with no place to go and
thus think and grumble?
The wrong answers to these things spell
unsatisfied workers and unsatisfied work
ers are not the best, according to national
surveys by leading industris.
The worker who dashes out to a sand-lot
ball game, or to the links where two bits
get him a game, where other recreational
facilities are available at the price he can
pay. is a better worker.
That's what sports do for man and
a woman Recreation makes for happy
home-o owners, eliminates the disgruntled.
The where can we go Sunday question
is answered and answered in the proper
American spirit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN

flation, to subdue it and educe
it. Only in combination and with
an agreed policy by all of them
at the same time can the threat
ening conditions be brought un-
der control.
Thus it is idle to talk of con-
trailing the initiation if the Fed
eral budget is not balanced with
a substantial surplus which is
then used to redeem government
debt held, not by the public but,
bv the banks. Therefore, the Ad-
ministration must hold Gown its
expenditures and Congl ess must
not reduce taxes. Without a
budgetary surplus there can be
no -inflationary meas
ures. This requires ar agree
ment between the Adminlstra-
ton and the Congressional lead
ers.
But that in itself will not be
sufficient. The Administration
and Congress will have to agree
on measures to restr ain the in
flationary loans which the gov
ernment credit agencies are is
suing for real estate, for agri-
cultural commodities, and for
business.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
Spiritual Revival

There will be a great spiritual revival
in the next fifty seven years, in the belief
of prominent business research, advertis-
ing and religious leaders.
This is the more remarkable, and in
finitely welcome in view of the Goddess
ness of the last two decades among to-
talitarian states, particularly Germany and
Russia.
The expression of this faith came in
answer to invitations from the New York
Advertising Club, which sought the opinions
of four persons whose position in their sep
arate callings lend weight to their words
The club is to build five-story annex
to it's building, and the forecasts have beer
sealed in TASKS to be deposited in the
cornerstone.
The year 2OO4 was chosen because it viii
mark the clubs centenary.
Two of the prophecies are especially note
.. worthy, as they come from so-called "hard
boiled" business men,
Mr.. Frank M. Chapman, prsident OF tn
San Francisco Advertising Club, writes
JThsre will be great turning toward God
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ii, 1871
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
in nronortion with its resources, TO IN
cl,,de public terminals, tobacco stor
ape warehouses, ship repair 1acllIles
nearby sites for heavy industry a'H'
35-foot Cape Fear river channel.
Citv auditorium large enough "
meet needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern Nor'h
Carolina agricultural and industrial
resources through better markets ano
food processing, pulp wood productloT
and factories. ooxo.
Emphasis on the regions recrea
tion advantages and Improvement o
resort accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern Nofth
Caroiina's farm-to-market and prl-
mary roads, with a paved highway
from Topsail inlet to Bald Head Is
land.
Continued effort to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization of Bluethentha
airport for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern Nortn
Carolina's health facilities, especially
in, counties lacking hospitals, and IN
cluding a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth o.
commercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and Coun:,
governments.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11

opposition. It puts it out of business by
execution, imprisonment, and other forms
of liquidation.
If comrade Gosnat used this 8-year-
movie to justify his filibuster it must have
been a case of his being damned if he did
and damned if he didn't. The whole idea
was contradictory and out of character
and it has caused us to waste altogether
too much time trying to figure 1t out
The only possible explanation that has
come to us is that maybe Deputy Gosnat
was citing "Mr. Smith Goes to Washing
tom the way Huey Long used to read pot
Ikker recipes during his filibusters. Maybe
conrade Gosnat was just killing time. IN
that case the Thomas committee won
have to bother investigating "Mr. Smith,
Mr.. Capra and Mr.. Stewart
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11

a rebirth of faith - both from the stand
point of the 'all-seeing eye as we'll as
mans feeling toward man"
Mr. Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president
and publisher of the New York Times, pre-
diets that "men will have progressed long
way toward winning and holding the dignl-
ty and freedom for which over so many
centuries he has been striving. l believe
that dictatorship of the right and left will
both have miserably perished - and in
their own flames - not necessarily IN ours.
believe that we will have made real
strides toward subordinating nationallsm to
brotherhood - in giving Goodness place
over sectarianiSn."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11
Wrong On Two Counts

At thirst the communists strategy in the
French strikes seemed as clear as it was
distressing. Then along came this three
paragraph dispatch from Paris about a
communist member of the Assembly
named Georges Gosnat. We wish that who
ever sent or edited it had either given us
more or else killed the thing. AS it is,
we're baffled.
The story said that comrade Gosnat had
cited the American movie, "Mr. NIT h
Goes to Washington" to justify his partys
efforts-fortunately futile-to delay the vote
on Premier Schuman's anti-strike law.
"The film, made several years ago, de-
picted a fiibuster in the United States
Senate the dispatch helpfully recalled.
We also remember that it was made by
Frank Capra in 1889, with James Stewart
as the star, and that it was a good picture.
But what has this to do with conrade
Gosnat and the communist filibuster in
the French Assembly What else did M.
Gosnat say? How did he justify the Reds
tactics by an appeal to "Mr. Smith?
Either the Paris reporter or the cable
editor has denied us the knowledge.
Maybe the communist deputy said to the
Assembly's non-communist majority, "See,
your blessed Americans do the same thing
in their Congress that we are doing in the
Assembly. You seem to think everything
the Americans do is right. If it's all right
for them, it's all right for u.s.
But, if he said that, he would be
praising an American institution. A
praise of anything American just isn't the
communist fashion. In fact, Moscow
frowns severely these days when it's min
ions ascribe virtue to anything that isn't
communist-inspired and communist -ap-
proved.
Perhaps M. Gosnat said something like
this: "Here we have a motion picture
typical of the decadent American mind.
The ankee press and public are forever
attacking the filibuster and trying to do
democratic process. 1t protects the rights
of minority
In that case he would be in bad on two
counts He would still be praising an
American political practice. He would also
be criticizing, by inference, the commu"
nlsts' tactics when they are in the majority
A communist-controlled government does
not, OF course, respect the rights OF mlnorl-
ty opinion. There just isn't any recognized
minority opinion. Such opinion, according
to the Lenin-Stalin gospel, is expressed only
by wreckers and traitors. So the conmu
mist majority doesn't only steam-rouer the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-11

Agreement will be necessary
between the central banker. and
the commercial bankers - that
is to say between the Federal
Reserve Board and the leading
bankers in New York, Chicago,
and in other financial centers.
For only by agreement among
them on a common policy and
common measures can the infla-
ton of private credit, which is
now proceeding at high rate,
be checked. '''t'
The commercial bankers alone
cannot do this. Here we have the
testimony of the National City
Bank of New York, which says
in its monthly letter for Decem-
ber that ''it is the main respon-
sibility of bank management and
bank examiners to see that
banks make only good loans"
and then goes on to say that
even if all loans are gocl there
could still be over-expansion of
credit which would be inflation-
ary." 1t is the responsibility of
the central bankers-of the Fed
eral Reserve Bank-to see to it
that the banks do not make too
many loans, though each of
them is good in the sense that
the borrower is sound risk.
The main issue which has to
be reconciled between Mr.. Ec-
cles and the Federal Reserve
Board on the one hand, the COM
mercial bankers on the other, is
how the over-expnsion of bank
credit is to be checked. No one
really denies that the over-ex-
pansion needs to be checked.
The disagreement which, if it is
not overcome, may render all
counter inflationary measures
abortive, is over how the over
expansion of private credit is to
be checked.
The problem is very difficult
one. The orthodox method,
which was adopted in 1920 after
the first world war, is to raise
the discount rate so high that
credit becomes too dear to use.
In 1920 the rate was raised to 6
per cent and z per cent. The re-
suit was that war bonds sold
down in the lower sos, and as
MIR. Russell Leffingwell, of J. P.
Morgan & Co., put it in a talk
last year with what devastat-
ing results we elders well re-
member"
In n effort to avoid these de-
vastating results, Mr.. Ec-
cles and the Federal Reserve
Board have come forward with
a plan to "divorce the market
for private debt from the mar
ket for government securities"