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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
FORT FISHER LAND FACE

~ FORT FISHER LAND FACE
The land face defending Fort
Fisher during the Civil War was
built to Withstand the heaviest
possible artillery fire, especially
from vessels. No moat was con-
structed, however, to be used IN
hating advancing land forces
due to the steady shifting OF the
sands that made such a task
virtually impossible.
The work was designed and
carried out under the dl-
rection of Colonel William Lamb,
commander of the fortificatlon
during most of the time. it was
held by the Confederacy.
The outer slope was about 2o
feet high and was sodded with
marsh grass, which grew lux
uriantly in spots. The parapet
was not less than Is feet thick
and had an inclination OF only
one foot. The top of the parapet
or the revetment was five feet'
nine inches from the floor Of the
gun chambers. The guns all
were mounted on carriages, no
guns in the fort being stationary
or placed in easements. Each
gun chamber had one or two
guns. In addition to 6 u n IN
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
THREE CHILDREN
KILLED BY BLAST
Five Others Injured When
Boy Drops Bazooka Rock
ct On Pavement

NEWTON, Mass, Sept. g. A
R- A Bazooka rocket explosion
which killed three children and
injured five others in their farm
home was under investigation to-
day by Fort Riley officials.
The Bazooka, W hich Arnold
Schmidt, father of the children,
said he had picked up near Fort
Riley, exploded last night after
one of the youngsters threw it on
a cement walk.
Killed instantly was Calvin
Schmidt, II. Portions of the
child's body were found scat
tered over a wide area. Caroline
z, and Paul David 9, died enroute
to the hospital.
In a critical condition and not
expected to live are Donald Is
and Lorene S. The three other
See THREE On Page Two
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Along The Cape Fear

the gun chambers, guns were
placed between those chambers
to the number of 20.
AS projections against fire,
cross-pieces or traverses that
ran at right angles to the fort
proper, were erected. They were
in the form of trenches running
back more than 80 feet from the
gun chambers.
SEE FACE-The sea face OF
the fort was of the same mas
sive construction as the land
face built to resist artillery fire
and particularly the heavy guns
Of battleships.
A crescent-shaped battery in
tended to house four guns was
erected on the north end of the
face. After its construction, how.
ever, it was made into a bomb.
proof hospital. A series Of bat.
ties ran along the sea for
about three quarter miles
These batteries were about Il
feet to the top Of the parapet.
Further along where the chan
mel ran close to the beach, g
mound battery go feet high was
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
PRICES INCREASE
ON BORDER BELT
Good Lemon Cutters Ad-
vance To $62; Eastern
Quotations Steady
By The Associated Press

4 Stronger demand carried
prices upward from 81 to Sc
per hundred pounds on tobacco
markets of the Border Belt yes
terday (Monday), the Federal
and State Departments OF Agri-
culture reported.
On the N. c. Eastern belt,
meanwhile, price levels remain
ed about the same with prim-
ings, lugs and cutters steady to
slightly higher while most leaf
and smoking leaf grades were
firm or slightly lower.
Some grades on the Border
Belt reached their highest
marks of the season, including
good lemon cutters which ad-
vanced to $62 for the first time
However, most of the Border
advances were in a S: to So
range.
The general quality of offer
ings on the belt was better.
Eastern Belt
Average prices for a limited
number of U. S. grades on the
Eastern Belt follow:
Leaf-Good lemon $53, up 81;
fair lemon $40, unchanged ;
good orange $47, up 81; fair
See PRICES on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
Pilots Aid Weatherman By
Causing 15-Minute Show
Over Meadows
WINSTON-SALEM, Sept 8

WINSTON-SALEM, Sept B.
R-Winston-Salem's dry-icers
proved they could help the wealth
erman along this afternoon by
causing heavy 15minute show
er at Meadows, near Walnut
Cove.
The rainmakers dropped their
dry ice in a heavy cloud over
the Walnut Cove area at 4:35
p. m. and at 4:46 p. m. from a
Piedmont aviation plane. o it's
way down, the plane ran
through rain.
A few minutes before 5 p. m.
the Meadows community had its
downpour. Mrs. Reid George, of
Meadows, said she had heard the
planes flying over a few minutes
before the shower started, and
told her husband that rain was
on the way-she had heard about
the rainmaking experiment.
"Sure enough, it started rain
ing just a few minutes later, -
she said. The experiment was
sponsored by the city of Winston
Salem seeking means to help
solve the critical water short
age. Piedmont aviation had
agreed to send its planes up to
scatter the dry ice and see what
would happen. The experiments
See DRY-ICERS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
GOVERNING BODIES
IGNORE JURY PLEA
City Council, County Com
mission Fails To Act On
Recommendations

Three months after the June
report of the New Hanover
county Superior court grand
Jury had been handed up to
Judge Clawson Williams, the
Wilmington city council and the
county board of commissioners
have failed to act upon its rec
lamentations.
That was disclosed last night
as budgets of both the city and
county had received their final
approval and no appropriations
included in either for the ask
ed-for Improvements in track
ing down criminals and escaped
convicts.
On last June 10, the grand
jury report was comprised OF
recommendations toward that
end. Specifically suggested was
the purchase for the sheriff 5
office or city police of blood
hounds to be used. The report
pointed out that bloodhounds
are not available in this county.
No consideration toward t n e
purchase of such animals or
other means of tracking down
criminals was taken either by
city or county officials during
discussions of the budget.
City Attorney William b.
Campbell, however, at one
point in a council session ex-
pressed his belief that sit was
no affair of the grand jury
how the city government is op-
Grated.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
DIVORCE DEGREES
MAY BE ILLEGAL
Court Clerk Questions
Legality OF Suits Tried
In Criminal Courts

GREENSBORO, Sept. g. P)
Joseph P. Shore, clerk of Giul-
cord Superior Court, warned
this morning that the legality of
divorce DEGREES obtained at Grim
inal court terms is doubtful be-
cause of apparently conflicting
laws adopted by the 1947 Gen
eral Assembly.
Despite the warning, however,
two local attorneys this morn
ing brought divorce cases into
the criminal session of Superior
Court here and obtained DEGREES.
See DIVORCE On Page Two
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EVERGLADES, Fla, Sept. 8.
- U.P) Two escape artists who
worked their way out OF an
escape proof" Jail at Lebanon,
Ind, last week admitted to
authorities today that no man
made jail was ever as bad as the
wilds of the Florida Everglades.
Identified as William j. Abney,
%, and John Sylvester, %, the
two men tried to elude officers
by working their way into the
swampts near here. They failed
to find their way and were finally
captured by a small posse elght
niles north of here.
They attracted suspicion OF
Deputy Sheriff J. R. Williams
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
PENNsY LOCOMOTIVES
NOW GET LAUNDERED
WITHIN Is MINUTES

NEW YORK, Sept. 8.-WD-A
glaAt washing machine that will
launder an electric locomotive IN
Is minutes has been completed,
the Pennsylvania Railroad an
nounced today.
The huge semi automatic
machine will be used to scrub,
rinse and polish some 100 en-
enes every "a hours. 1t used to
take workers two hours and 55
minutes to do one locomotive by
hand.
The machine, is some 300 feet
long and towers about Is feet
ABOVE each side of the track.
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And So To Bed

Jennings Otis, State i'm
migration officer, related
yesterday how he was about
to get the obituary editor
of the Star a news item.
Otis said that Sunday
night, he heard a scrambling
noise on the upstairs porch
of his home. AS time pass
ed, the noise got louder.
Finally, he said, he got
nerve to 60 up to the porch.
When he did, he saw what
appeared first to be a cat.
Then it happened. The
thing" jumped from the
porch onto the ground. It
was then, Otis said, that he
discovered the animal to be
a raccoon. Instead Of the
obituary column, the pet
racoon in in the "And So
To Bed" column.
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Escapes Prefer Jails
To Everglade Jungles|

when they drove up to a gas
station in nearby Monroe. Will
liams said he thought "some-
thing was fishy" when he noticed
the license plates on their 1899
Dodge looked like they belonged
on another car. He said the two
hit him with a flashlight and ran
off into the bush.
The two gave their address as
Kokomo, Ind. They readily ad-
mitted their escape from the
Indiana Jail and said they had
stolen the car and switched
license plates. They said they
were heading for Homestead,
near Miami, 10 get jobs when
they iran up against the Ever
glades."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
CHILDREN INJURED
WHEN BRAKES FAIL
Crowded School Bus Slides
Backward Down Hill
Near Atlanta

ATLANTA, Ca, Sept. SUP
Brakes on packed school bus
failed on a steep incline near
suburban Fairburn today and the
vehicle slid backward down the
hill and overturned, injuring Il
screaming grammar school chill
dren and two adults in the
wreck.
The injured were taken to
Fairburn by passer in a pickup
truck and none were hurt Sc
riously. From there they were
brought to hospitals in Atlanta
in emergency ambulances and
automobiles.
Preston Stanfie1d, 15-year-old
student and passenger on the bus
which carried 40 children and
See CHILDREN on Page Two
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MAN, THREE WOMEN
FACE MAYHEM COUNT
AT OCALA, FLORIDA

oCALA, Fla, Sept. 8.-UD-
A man and woman, proprieters
of a roadside tavern, and two
mattresses in the establishment
were charged today with beating
up another waitress, cutting her
hair with :. a pocketknife, strip
ping off her clothes and leav-
ing her naked in the woods.
Police said charges of assault
and battery and mayhem had
been filed against Jack Upham
and his wife, proprietors of the
tavern; Billie Kirby, %, and
Donnie Miccicher, %, for the at
tack on Mrs. Louise Bennett, 26.
Police said Upham and his wife
accused Mrs. Bennett of taking
$40 from the cash register.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
Train Passengers
Victims Of Hate
United Press Man Counts
Fifty Bodies AT Main ,
Capital Station :.
BY JAMES MICHAELS
UNITED PRESS STAFF

o1tANI0A Ot<DG1N
NEW DELHI, INDIA, Sept.
8.-(UP)-Bearded Sikhs pulled
Moslem men, women and child
rem from a railroad train in the
main station of this Capital Of
Hindu India today and killed
them with three-foot swords as
Hindu troops and policemen
stood by, watching, but not in
terfering.
The train was attacked as it
arrived from Lahore, which is
in the Moslem part of the Pun
jab. It was loaded with refu-
gees who had escaped from the
Eastern part, which is Hindu.
1 counted at least so bodies,
all chopped and cut, piled on
baggage trucks, lying in COM
partments of the cars, or
stretched across the tracks.
In a similar incident on \
smaller scale in Karachi, the
Capital of Moslem Pakistan,
Moslem refugees from the Eas-
tern Punjab burst into the rail-
road station and killed IL Hin
dus and Sikhs. Four Sikhs were
killed in other incidents there.
Panic spread in Capitals Of
both the New Dominions among
law abiding people because of
the total failure of efforts Of
the authorities to stamp out the
flaming fire of hatred between
Zee TRAIN On Page Two
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|PRESS REACTION
PLEASES TRUMAN
President Reads Clippings
On Speech AS "Mighty
Mo" Sails North
Aboard Battleship Missouri

.---ADOdIu DdtLleSIllp MlSSOuAi j,
ABOARD BATTLESHIP MIS-
souri,, Sept. 8. - W.p) - Presi-
dent Truman sailed homeward
through the choppy waters of the
Tropic of Capricorn tonight,
satisfied that his good-neighbor
visit to Brazil had been a person
al and diplomatic triumph.
Mr.. Truman was taking life
easy, enjoying his first real vaca-
ton of the summer, as the nigh
ty Battleship Missouri moved
Northward toward the equator at
18 knots.
Press Secretary Charles G. Ross
said the President spent some
time this morning reading clip
pings from American newspa-
pers, flown to him from Wash
ington. Ross said Mr.. Truman
was pleased with the editorial
comment on his hemisphere
solidarity speech to. the Inter
American Defense Conference at
Petropolis, Brazil.
Mr.. Truman was said to feel
that U. S. reaction to his trip,
See PRESS on Page Two
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TO GET
AID FOR LUNCHES
Agriculture Department AL.
locates $4S, 100000 For
Program This Year

WASHINGTON, Sept. s --(R-
The Agriculture Department to-
day allocated $48, $50, 900 for
this years national school
lunch program.
That amount, the department
said in an announcement. came
out of the $65, 100000 Congress
sional appropriation for the
school lunches.
It will be used by state and
territorial educational agencies
to pay schools taking part in
the program for part Of their
purchases of food for school
lunches.
Aside from the amount need
ed for administration of the pro-
gram, the announcement said
that the Agriculture Depart
ment itself will use the re-
mainder to buy food needed by
See SCHOOLS on Page Two
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MARGARINE DROPS
FIVE CENTS POUND
However, Meat, Coffee;
Butter, Tallow Advanc-
ed In Price Yesterday

NEW YORK, Sept. 8 -R-
Meat, coffee, butter and tallow
advanced in price today, but
margarine manufacturers an
nounced a price reduction OF
about 5 cents a pound.
Another bright note came
from Kansas City where cattle
receipts reached a new high for
the year, foreshadowing larger
supplies in the future.
The present, however, was
gloomy enough, with Porter
house steak retailing in N e w
York at 81 a pound-3i cents
higher than a year ago.
Spot butter added another
cent on the New York
Mercantile Exchange for a new
1947 high of "a IL cents. an
increase of IL 3-8 cents pound
since Aug. 1. 4
Two of the largest grocery
chains advanced coffee 2 cents
pound equallying the highs set
Feb. II.
Soap manufacturers found
See MARGARINE on Page Two
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THREE WORKMEN DIE
FROM BLACK DAMP IN
STEEL MILL WELL

FoLLANsBEE, W. Va, Sept.
s -U.D- Three workers were
killed by black damp today dur
ing repairs on a 45-foot deep
we'll at the Follansbee So, Co.
Charles Fowler, so, pipe fit
ter foreman, was the first to be
overcome. Roger Ryan, "a, pipe
filters helper, and Joh n
Schmitts, 80, "a pipe filter, were
overcome in rescue attempts.
All three were dead on arrival
at Gill hospital, Steubenville, o.
Seven other workers were af-
fected by the gas while trying to
bring up the bodies of the three
men, but six were discharged
after treatment, and the other
was to be discharged tomorrow.
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Letter Urging CurfewLaw
Laws 4 Months On Desk
Efforts To Pass Juvenile
Delinquency Law Comes
To Naught Here

Efforts to pass a modern jul
venile delinquency law as a part
of a Wilmington municipal pro-
gram to keep children from
wandering into the streets at late
hours and getting into mischief
and more serious crimes, has
come to naught.
That was brought to light last
night with the revelation that a
letter from juvenile authorities
to City Manager J. Il. Benson
urging a curfew law has lain on
the city managers desk for ap-
proximately four months with
out any action.
The letter points out that the
municipality is without "ade-
quate laws governing juveniles. "
The letter states that juvenile
authorities believe some form of
a curfew law should be enacted
prohibiting youngsters of certain
ages from roaming the streets
unaccompanied, attending late
shows and other events.
Police Doing Job
It is pointed out that the city
police have handled their job in
the matter excellently but are
without the proper authority to
deal with the situation.
Several cases recently have
come to light through the Re
corder's court, one in which the
parents were brought into court
and warned that their young
sters must be kept at home or
in proper care.
Other cases include ones in
which boys under 16 years of
See LETTER On Page Two
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IF orgotten Landlady"
Gets NoRent Sympathy

SAVANNAH, Ca, Sept. 8 -
R-Mrs. Anna E. Boyer, the
self-styled Forgotten Ameri-
can" Landlady, stuck today to
a professed diet of ice water
and olive oil and vowed to die
of hunger unless federal agen-
cies permit rent increases in
her dilapidated two-story apart
ment dwelling.
The 73-year-old woman says
that since last Thursday she
has taken only two or three
quarts of ice water daily, and,
for medical purposes" an oc-
casional teaspoon Of olive oil.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
CRASH OF FERRIES
BROWNS 30PEOPLE
Two Passenger Boats Col
lide In Darkness Near
Nicheroy, Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil,
Sept. 8. -W.D- Thirty persons
were drowned or injured fatal
ly last night when two passenger
ferries plying between Rio and
the town of Nicheroy collided in
the darkness, police reported to-
day.
Another II persons were injur-
ed.
One of the ferries capsized
quickly after the collision, trap
ping nine of the victims inside.
The water-logged vessel was
Goa CRASH On Page Two
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Be~>$>2sd Sikhs With Three Foot Swords;
Men, Women, Children At Delhi;
UN Groups Approve Atomic Control Plan
Soviet Delegates
Soundly Trounced
Two Committees Override
Vigorous Russian OBJ
jections To Report

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 8. -
R)-Two United Nations Atomic
committees overrode vigorous
Russian objections today and ap-
proved a report laying down
principles for creation and oper-
alton of an international atomic
control agency.
After losing consistently to a
majority of ten delegates in the
committees, Prof. Dmitri V. Sko-
beltsyn charged that the major
ity did not desire to achieve
unanimous agreement.
Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton of
Canada, chairman, promptly re-
minded him that any country
could suggest changes to the full
U. N. Atomis Commission, which
will meet Wednesday for final
action on the report.
Days Development
The days prime developments
were:
l. The Political committee ap-
proved the backbone of the re-
port made up of six papers deal
ing with organization and func-
tions of the proposed control
agency. The vote was 10 to 2,
with Poland and Russia oppos-
ed.
2. The Working committee,
made up of the same delegates,
approved these papers also plus
all other sections of the proposed
The vote was the same
on the papers.
The committees worked all day
against a deadline set by order
of the Security Council last
March for the Atomic commits
sion to produce a second report
before the u. N. Assembly meets
in New York on September 16.
Agree On Draft
The work today meant that the
delegates finally have agreed
upon a draft of what they say
is merely a progress report for
See SOVIET On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09

No sympathy came, however,
from federal rent authorities.
The Area Director, Robert J.
Travis, said that differences be-
tween Mrs. Boyer and the au-
thorities came to a head the
morning before she began her
professed hunger strike. She
was called upon to refund an
alleged $25 rent overcharge on
a basement apartment. Travis
said he did not know whether
she made the refund.
The area director also said
See LANDLADY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
HEAT ABOVE NORMAL
HERE FOR PAST FEW
WEEKS, HESS STATES

weather in Wilmington and
sclhlty has been above normal
.OF me past three weeks, ac-
yUvlolng ", to averages recorded by
"eatherman Paul Hess.
ness said that last weeks tenn
sidtufe was 6.2 above normal
sao the other two weeks were
20 and 3,5 above normal, re-
Spectively.
ne also said that the local
t %.sa will have some showers
sIINay' but there will be no initial
''''nge IN temperatures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
Navy Fires German
w Rocket At Sea
Ton Expert Calls Performance "New Era
In Naval Weapons" AS He reports On
Test From Deck Of Big Carrier

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Up
The Navy opened up what its
Inn expert called "a new era
:, naval weapons" today with the
-,,o,,ncement that a German
w rocket was fired last Sat-
'.dov from the Carrier Midway
at sea,
n was the first recorded
,,unchjng of one of the mass de-
i+ str,,ction weapons from any NOV
ing platform.
The Navy refrained from call
ire the whole demonstration a
.su "s,u1ccess," using that word only
>, describe the actual launching
oneration. Nevertheless the test
br brought fearfully close the day
when any target within w
range of coastline may be men
.c .ced by the weapons that bat
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09

tered London and shattered Ant
werp.
The announcement, chary of
details, said the W. "after be-
ing launched successfully x x
travelled about six miles and ex-
ploded." No explanation was Civ
en- Of why the missile went only
such a short distance.
Navy officials, who would not
be quoted by name, told a re-
porter the test had been planned
for maximum range. The Ger
mans were firing V-2's up to 200
miles toward the close of World
War II.
The w, more than 40 feet
in length and weighing about 26,-
600 pounds when fully fueled
and its warhead loaded with ex-
See NAVY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
lhe Weather

So,,.., FORECASTS:
PartJv =, carolina and North Carolina -
tue oe.> eolood> and no important tempera-
Vidal, 4|ngeS Tuesday and Wednesday
in sfso.e scattered thundershowers mostly
eldinpg pg't7o.oeical =. .oae data for the "a hours
'0 =. m yesterday.
I'm TEMPERATURES
T. IN a. H. NJ II; 20 a. m. 70; 1870 D. m.
mum IN IN. p m- II; Maximum SO; Mini
mean 10; Normal rs.
liza HUMIDITY
a a.: ,:,a A. : m. 49, 30 a. m. 81; 1870 p. m.
fota, PRECIPITATION
% inchalso lof "a hours ending 1880 D. m.
'N inebaan since the first of the month
From TIDES FOR TODAY
= S, Cesgte ice Tables published by
IT,, last and Geodetic Survey.
'Inngton HIGH Low
A. --- 4:o4 am. IL :26 am.
'''0'o Inlet - i:s5 'sa ann. ann. a:1l a.m. a.m.
me- M,os s5l: Sunset 627; p:M; S;ia Moo5r3@e PIN
"a, m. ME- Ma., at Fayetteville. N. C. a.
-0loay Report Missing feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
Make Rain
For Dry .WinsItonians
BLOWS OUT

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8. -
W.H - A small tropical storm
which moved along the Mis-
sissippi coast this morning
blew itself out late today,
the U. S. Weather Bureau
announced here.
The Weather bureau Or
dered all storm warnings
lowered from Valparaiso, Fla,
to Biloxi, Miss, at 4 p. M,
EST, and said no further ad-
viSOrieS would be issued.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-09
FORECAST:

wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and no important temperature changes
today and Wednesday: widely scatter
ed thundershowers mostly in afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-25

EAST LANSING, Mich, Nov.
"a. -(P- Jack Milne, a dark
horse from North Carolina, slosh-
ed through the gluey, sticky snow
that covered the four-mile Mich
igan State cross country course
here today to win the ninth an
nual NCAA meet in 20 minutes,
Ali seconds.
Milne, who admitted II had
no idea l would win - l just
had the breaks" showed him.
self sure-footed and quick-wit-
ted as he capitalized on slips by
two of the favorite contenders to
pull out ahead in the home
stretch.
Quentin Brelsford, Ohio Wes-
leyan defending champion, had a
15-year lead on quarter mile
frim the finish line when he slip
ped and fell in the slush. The
pack ran around or hurdled him
and Brelsford placed third.
Bob Karnes was out ahead of
the barriers when there was but
500 feet to 60 but the Kansas
University star veered off the
course and Milne, who kept