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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
The Scrap Iron Lesson

Has civilization, through inability
to effect permanent peace, worked it.
self into a rat-race with it's member
states destined to spend the remainder
of their days collecting and shooting
scrap iron at each other?
That unpleasant thought is prompt
ed by a recent item in the New York
Journal of Commerce.
1t reported the United States is plan
ming a gigantic scrap collection Of
broken-down tanks, trucks, guns and
other ornaments rusting on numerous
Pacific islands. Included in the round
up will be Japanese arms made of scrap
iron shipped from the United States
when the Nipponese were building up
their military machine.
In giving them that aid, we FASTENED
the day of Pearl Harbor.
The lesson is as fresh as it is simple.
It is: The United States should never
again export a ton of scrap iron. By
keeping it at home, this nation may not
assure peace but it will at least save
itself from the %ironical and tragic sit
uation of being the recipient of shrapne]
it placed in an enemy's hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
Fine Regional Spirit

Our best thanks go to the White
vile post of the American Legion for
joining Wilmington, in the form of a
formal resolution directed to Rep. ].
Bayard Clark, in it's efforts to have a
proposed Veterans administration hos
pital located here.
In it's statement supporting Will
mington's claim, the neighboring COM
munity's ex-servicemen said 1--WE know
it would be wishful thinking to ask that
it be located in Columbus county"
Realizing that their bid would re-
ceive little consideration, they did the
next best thing by appealing in behalf
of a nearby city which does have a
chance to obtain the valuable project.
Such is good regional thinking and &C
ton and Wilmington should appreciate
it greatly.
1t is to be hoped that the oppor-
tunity to return this favor, in a situa-
ton in which Columbus county would
be in a position similar to ours in
the hospital matter, will arise in the
near future. If and when it does, Will
mington should not let it pass without
giving it's neighbor a hand comparable
to the one it has just extended to us.
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WImingtons Bob Ruak
Maybe Another Carlo Is In Our Midst
Bob Ruark

or the subway from a Wall St.
office. She doesn't know anything
yet about American dress.
But she has bones in her face
that will show up right under
makeup. And she has long, mar
row Mongol eyes of a startling
l%ightness. Evidently she can act,
for the Royal Dramatic Theater
School in Stockholm shakes out
the hams. Mortality i'll Marta's
class was 104 flunks out of 112
pupils.
OUR NEWEST SWEDE left for
Hollywood yesterday. I suppose
they will glamour her all up. They
will throw her into the hands Of
voice coaches and English coach.
es, and steal her .;',w shoes ano
make her quit wearing her tam
They will 30 things VITA her hair.
and the-l the press agents vii
start inventing glamour for nel
past and prominent boy friends
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trouble and is listed as 100 per
cent disabled.
James Centner wants to be a
hair stylist. He is attending trade
school under the G. I. Bill OF
Rights. Another brother, Roy,
wounded on Anzio beachhead as
an infantryman, is studying to be
a matchmaker, also under the C.
1. Bill.
The young Corroons helped feed
the chickens. Mrs. Centner taught
Mrs. Corroon how to iron a shirt.
The Corroons decided they toe
wanted a little white cottage.
Coroon planned 10 learn a trade
with the help of the G.. 1. Bill.
Mrs. Corroon applied for an Of
flee Job with the telephone com
pany.
She was to have taken exami.
nations for the job yesterday. In
stead she flew home with her
Young husband-home to Long Is.
land.
It seemed the distraught elder
| Corroons remembered their sons
correspondence with young Cent
ner. There was a telephone call
to the Nashville police. A Detect.
i've investigated. Then there was
a telephone call to Long Island,
"Please come home. We'll
| straighten this thing out" the ell
der Corroon said, and the young
Corroons bought plane tickets
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asked her to lunch. She was wor-
ried about accepting and she
brought the problem to her New
York guardian, assigned by the
studio to steer Marta through the
pitfalls of the city.
Nothing could happen to me at
lunch?" she asked.
She was eating at n of the
TONER joints the other day, and
when the meal was finished the
waiter murmured that there would
be no check.
''Why?" she asked in an aston
ished voice. "Why is everyone so
nice to me?" It will not be too
long before she will know the an
sWer. 1t may upset her when she
learns that prestige in tae celeb
rity traps has nothing 70 do with
! the sweetness or mobility of the
character.
The Wy size cane hs~e wcc
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Bv ROBERT A

l imagine Carlo didn't have as
much when she rolled in from
Sweden, and we made a cult of
her for nearly 20 years.
This is a curious sort nj story,
but I'd like to t1y it. 1t is, you
might say, a preview of success
"a look at a piece of foreign
raw material, imported ,.cn the
long chance that another Swedish
girl may develop into an interna-
tional byword. The odds must be
heavily against it, and yet Marta
loren has more than Carlo pos
sessed when she stepped oft the
ship.
Marta loren has been in this
country about a week. She was
a stenographer in Stockholm dur
ing the war. She hasFsnevar acted
professionally. Her English is not
yet fluent. She walks pige1n-toed,
a little, and she looks like a nice
kid you would see coming home
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
The Cotton Outlook

The producers inability or refusal
TO consider the law of supply and de-
mand is often the major factor contri-
buting to his failure to achieve pros
perity.
Too frequently he simply ignores
past experiences of an intelligent warn
ing.
The current cotton crop outlook is
a good example.
Prospects for lower prices on cotton
products next year because of larger
supplies of cotton come from the New
York Journal of Commerce report that,
on the basis Of intended paintings, cot
ton acreage will be 15.1 per cent greater
in 1947 than in 1916. And those lower
prices on products are going to move
right down to the producer of the raw
material. Cotton farmers currently in
tend, to have 20,938,000 acres in produc-
ton this year as compared to 18,190,000
last year, the newspaper states. The
1916 yield was the largest in Is years.
Obviously the farmer has failed to
observe and remember that the arti-
ficial and extensive war-created de-
mands are ended. Neither is purchas-
ing power what it was during the high
ly productive years of the great con-
flict.,
Because this quite apparent situa-
ton has been ignored, they are plant
ing their fields for a price tumble that
will mean the failure Of many who
would have otherwise "broken even''
had they given a little more considera-
ton to the oldest of all economic laws.
A bee or NOT q bee-that will ha the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18

for her present. Our of this will
come that strange monster, the
foreign Hollywood actress. a crea-
ture compounded of press ACCENTED
moonbeams, fan magazine gossa-
mer and gossip : column specula-
ton.
At the moment, her naivete is
wonderful to behold. She has not
yet learned that it is bad business
for a young actress to admit that
she is in love with a young fellow
IN Stockholm named Beugh Lind
wall. She has been On a banana
split spree. Her handlers will soon
convince her that the camera
thlckens the figure and banana
splits are bad for the complexion.
They will tell her that actresses
do not drink port wine before
lunch. The only reason she drinks
it now is because it's sweet.
SHE'S A FUNNY KID She met
an actor the other day and he
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
The Gallup Poll
TTTG 0dHUP UT
Voters Now Mo- So Sure Republicans
Will Win 1913 Presidential Contest
Only Slight Majority Be-
lieves COP Will Triumph
In The Big Race
BY GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute
&c nnir;op

III = ubiiC 0pilAAOu
PRINCETON, n. j., May
1.-THE public'c first reac-
ton after the elections last
November was to sign over
the 1913 elections to the Re
publicans.
Today, the story is a little
different.
A poll across the nation
during recent days finds voter
confidence in a Republican
victory in 1913 has slipped
substantially.
A majority say it will be the
Republicans who will win in No
vember, 1913, but that majority is
now only SO per cent, as con-
trasted to 70 per cent last Deem
Der.
Even Republican voters them
selves r not now SO optimistic
dS tuey we're.
Right after the 1916 elections,
ninety-nine Republicans out of
every 100 with opinions said the
G. 0. P. was slated to win the
Presidency in 1913. Today the
figure stands at So per cent.
Democratic hopes, have on the
other hand. bounced back strong
ly. Right after the 1916 elections,
three out Of every four Demo-
Gratis with an opinion gave the
nod to the opposition for 1913.
Today, go per cent of them say
their own party is going to win.
This marks a tremendous rever-
sal, and indicates the extent to
which Democratic voter morale
has risen in the months since No
vember.
AS in its last check, right after
the November elections, the In
stitute today had field reporters
in all parts of the country ask:
-"Regardless of how you, your
self, feel, which party do you think
will win the presidential election
in 1882"
TODAY
Think Democrats Will
Think COP Will
Win 50 per cent
Undec ided - II per cent
LAST DECEMBER
Think Democrats Will
Win -. 8 per cent
Think COP will win : 10 per cent
Undecided ---...--. IL per cent
In December, when the no
opinion vote was eliminated, the
division among those with opin-
ions was 80 per cent saying the
G. o. P. would win in 194S, 10
per cent saying the Democrats
would win. ;.
Today, on the same basis, 81
per cent say the Republicans will
win, SO the Democrats.
Here is a table showing the way
the Democrats and Republicans
with opinions vote on the question
| today as ~contrasted with Deem
Der:
DEMOCRATS
December, 1916
Think Democrats Will
Win .------ "a per CEN
Think COP Will Win rs per cen
Today
Think Democrats Will
Win ..-.. 60 per cen
Think COP Will Win - 40 per cen
Eighteen per cent of the Demo
Gratis are undecided today.
REPUBLICANS
December, 1916
Think Democrats Will
Think COP will Win SO per cen
Today
Think Democrats Will
Win .. IA per cen
Thing COP Will Win - sc per cen
Twelve per cent among the Re
publican voters said they wer;
Undecided on the question today
Color is associated with othe:
anses Most people fatty refus,
eat bread or mashed potatoe.
aimed blue Or purple, evel
-hough it is harmless and taste
LESS dye.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
Couple Trades Dream
For Long Island Home

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 17.-(UP)-The white cot
tage and the flock of chickens are a dream of the past today
for young Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas F. Corroon.
Instead, Corroon, 20, and his bride, the former Jeanne
Seaman, II, probably will live in a palatial house in Long
Islands exclusive Garden City section.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
SOMETHING TO BLOW ABOUT

GOSHEN, Ind WP -VeEH'
Rain appeared in city court on q
charge of sounding his auIomop.s
horn while driving through ".
downtown business district oan
Rain: st was blowing my h",
because I was just married oaa
Judge John Davis: THE hoi''
will cost Won S."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
MORE NATIVES

MORE NATIVES
Nine out of ten American babies
now are born to native parents,
while only Is years ago, more than
one-half of them had at least one
foreign-born parent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
GOOD MORNING

For as the cracking Of thorns under a
pot, so is the laughter of the fool.-Eccle-
states 7:6.
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
-CatulluS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18
picnic quest

A bee or not a bee-that will be the
nlastion
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-18

SHE'S A FUNNY KID She met
an actor the other day and he
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
INDIANS ARRIVE
ON ALABAMAS0

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 26.
William and Mary's In
dams, Southern Conference cham
pions, arrived here today by
plane and Immediately held a
long workout behind locked gates
at Redwood Field in preparation
for the January l Dixie Bowl
game against Arkansas.
William and Mary brought a
squad of Sc behemoths for the
game. Three city commissioners
fans and a drum and bugle corps
greeted the team.
A public workout was schedul.
ed for tomorrow morning when
Birmingham fans may catch the
first glimpse of W&M's backfield
ace, Jack Flying Cloud, in ac-
ton.
Cloud will spearhead the In.
dian attack against the Razor.
backs, powered by Clyde <Smack-
over) Scott, former Naval Acad-
eny star, before a sellout crowd
of $4,000 in the inaugural Dixie
Bowl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
AT NEW ORLEANS
Seven-Race Regatta Opens
Carnival Of Sports Events

Oklahoma, and Louisiana State
University.
Sunday afternoon will also see
the first round of the Sugar
Bowl tennis tournament at New
Orleans country club courts.
Ted Schroeder, of Glendale, Cal,
has been seeded No. l in the
three day encounter.
Boxing will highlight the pro-
gram Monday, with mittmen
from the University of Maryland
and Michigan State mixing it up
that evening. The two schools
have an eignt-match tourney
scheduled.
The semi final event, last be-
fore the New Years Day grid
classic, will be an intersectional
basketball card Tuesday night.
Holy Cross will meet North
Carolina State in the first half
of a double-header program.
Louisiana State and Oklahoma
A&M will clash in the nightcap.
Wednesday the athletes will
take the day off, on the eve Of
the Texas-Alabama engagement.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
Johnny Lujack Swamped
With Sacks Of Fan Mail

will be thoroughbred named af-
ter him"
"a rabid Los Angeles fan sent
John a 100-word message. He had
just named his second son Lu-
jack.
"Lujack likes all this fan mail,
appreciates the fact that 50 many
people are interested in his well
fare.
"Now, take this letter from a
girl in San Francisco said John.
She's had infantile paralysis since
she was seven, has never seen a
football game, but that doesn't
stop her from roofing for Notre
Dame.
"Listen to what she says:
Johnny, I know / have been a
pest, but to me it was a pleasure
writing this letter. I will pray to
God to let you have a beautiful
star to lead you to success in the
future. Perhaps some day when l
get well. will really see you in
action, or the wonderful Notre
Dame team I read about.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
NFL TITLE GAME
SET FOR SUNDAY

r CHICAGO, Dec. 26 - Up -
Those two sturdy Horatio
Algers of the National Football
League, the Chicago Cardinals
and the Philadelphia .agles,
both reach for the top rung of
the success ladder in their title
collision at Comiskey Park be-
fore an expected $4,000 Sunday.
Interest in the leagues 18th
annual play-off between the
Western and Eastern division
champions lat l pm. CST) CEN
ters mainly around the possibil-
ity of an upset of the Cardinals,
who twice previously this sea-
son defeathered the Eagles
quite handily.
The unsentimental betting
boys, making the Cardinals l2-
point favorites on even money
wagers, can't see a history
making title triumph for Phila-
delphia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
SHlvERINC QUEEN
CREETS JAYHAWKS

MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 26-W'D-A
shorts clad Beauty Queen greet
ed Kansas University's jubilant
Jayhawks, who arrived here by
plane tonight to train for their
gridiron clash with Georgia
Tech in the Orange Bowl New
Years Day.
Patricia Fordyce, "Spirit of
Youth" queen for the Orange
Bowl festival, was shivering in
the 50-degree weather, but smil-
ing as she handed a bag of
oranges to coach George Sauer,
his four assistants, and the so
members of the football team.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 26-W.D-A
Sqad of 43 Georgia Tech
yellowjackets left tonight via
train for Miami and the Orange
Bowl Game on Jan. l against
Kansas.
Coach Bobby Dodd said his
team was in good condition as
they boarded two special cars.
The Yellowjackets were sche-
duled to arrive in Miami at 11:30
am. tomorrow and their heavi-
est pre-game workout was sche-
duled for tomorrow afternoon,
Dodd said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27

oAAOW AAS 1SdIltcS IOT scoring
honors were Fred Kelly, star
player for Furman University
and James 'Ludie" Groom, star
for the Wilmington College ouin-
tet, who tailed nine and eight
points respectively.
Toddy Fennell, for three years
a first stringer for the Cats, sank
five baskets along with W. A.
"Weinie" Browns and Johnnie
Crowley's each nine capers, they
divided scoring fame.
Crowley colored the ball game
in the first half when he sank
the complete number of his
points, but was fouled out in the
third period.
The flashy Alumni started the
ball rolling early in the initial
quarter when Douglas Pridgen
sank two charity shots. Toddy
Fennell accounted for two points
with a Grip shot and Ludie Groom
rebounded the Alumni's lead of
4 to 2 with basket. Fennell
swished the basket with a long
set shot to even the count and
Brown Tailed two points to take
a 6 to 4 lead for the first and
only time in the encounter.
The first session ended in favor
of the Alumni with a Is to IL
margin.
Brodgen's Cats moved up with
in one point of evening the count
in the second period at II to
16 count but trailed behind 21
to rs at half-time intermission.
The Cats tailed in the third
section of the game as they chalk
ed up eight points to the visitors
eight.
The Alumni got hot in the final
period and completely outclassed
and outplayed the high qquintet
as they allowed the former State
champions four baskets and they
accounted for IL points ending
the game with As to 81 triumph.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
Family Feud Cleared
Up In First Contest
Of Basketball Tourney

WILSON, Dec. 2e-R-A
family feud was quickly cleared
up in the first game of the fifth
annual National Family Basket
ball Tournament today when the
Holloman Family of Farmville,
N. c. Whipped the Dildy Family
of Walstonburg, N. c., $3.50.
The two families are cousins
and had asked to be matched in
the first round of the three-day
affair. The Wilson Junior Cham
ber of Commerce, sponsors of the
tournament, reported.
In the second game the Smith
Family of Micro, N. c., second
place winners in 1946, defeated
the Gay Family of Saratoga, N.
c., 54-24.
The tournament is being play
ed at Atlantic Christian College.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
BOB MONTGOMERY
TO QUIT BOXING

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26. -
R- Former Lightweight Cham
pion Bob Montgomery's immedi-
ate retirement from the ring was
announced today by promoter
Herman Taylor.
Taylor said he and Montgom-
ery's manager Joe CRANKY had
prevailed upon the Bobcat to
quit because of his showing in
two recent defeats.
Montgomery will not 60
through with his scheduled Feb.
20 return bout with Ike Will
liams for the lightweight title,
added Taylor.
1--WE thought that in view of
Bob's last two showings it was
time for him to retire." said Tay-
lor. "He's very well fixed finan-
cially and we prevailed upon
him to call it quits"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27

AVCA Nj oA15SS OAAA
they're right" report Almansi
and Higgins. ITO the girls who
write their share, he's the coun-
try's most eligible bachelor.
each Of these letters is read
by John and almost all of them
are answered personally by him.
Many of them come in the form
of requests - autographed pic
lures, four tickets Con the So
yard line, if possible), game jer-
seys, shoes, warm-up jackets, or
some old sweater you don't want.
Insofar as is possible, these
Requests are fulfilled. That is,
of course, provided the post Of
flee, or the Railway Express, can
handle steady outgoing of old
pads, shoes, helmets and blankets.
Sometimes these servants OF the
public rebel, however, and the
fans must be content with mere
autographed pictures of the pass
ing wizard.
"Many letter-writers are not
satisfied with pictures or other
personal items belonging to Lu-
jack. Some of them want per-
sonal contact with their idol be-
fore they will be completely hap
py.
1T won't be enough that fans
the country over will be see
ing Lujac kcavort professionally
for few more years, but follow
ers of the bangtails may also have
the opportunity to see Lujack
come laundering down the
stretch. We don't mean to infer
that Johnny is thinking serious
ly of making the ponies pro-
fession, or of entering himself in
the Kentucky Derby, but if some
girl in Florida has her way, there
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
CAGE TEAMS URGED
TO ENTER TOURNEY

ASHEBORO, Dec. 26 --P}-H.
Wade Yates, state commission
er for the Independent Basket
ball Association of America, an
nounced today that 10 district
basketball tournaments had
been arranged in North Caro-
lima and that six more were be-
ing planned.
Winners from each of the dis
trict tournaments will meet IN
the State tournament to be held
in Asheboro in the middle OF
February.
Five of the district tourna-
ments will be held in Eastern
North Carolina: Williamson,
Lumterton, Leland. Roxboro
and Goldsten; two in the central
part of the State, at franklin
vile and Biscoe; and three in
the West; Boone, Mt. Holly and
Kings Mountain.
Yates said the tournaments
are open to all non-professional
basketball teams, including in
dustrial, town, independent
YMCA, service, college and
high school teams.
Harold E. Geedy, district
commissioner of the Leland dis
trict, announced last night that
several teams have already en-
tered the meet, which is spon-
sored by the Leland Lions club.
He urged all basketball teams,
non-professional, to enter the
tournament.
Brunswick, New Hanover,
Pender and Columbus counties
comprise the local district.
Teams from these counties may
enter by contracting Geedy at
Leland.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
Light Workout Marks
Final Tide Home Drill

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Dec. 26
-UH-A lengthy but light work
out marked the final home drills
for Alabama's Sugar Bowl squad
here today.
The 38-man outfit is schedul-
ed to leave by bus tomorrow for
Biloxi where coach Harold (Red)
Drew will put his charges
through final preparations for
Bama's Sugar Bowl engagement
with Texas. The Tide will use
Biloxi as its Gulf Coast training
headquarters and work out on
a high school field there until
Dec. 81, when the squad moves
into New Orleans for drill in
Sugar Bowl stadium that after
noon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
EVENLY MATCHED
Annual North South Tilt
Set At Montgomery Today

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 26.
-(R)- After a week of practice
sessions devoted largely to pass
ing and pass defense, selected
All-Stars from Dixie and Yankee
land don the Blue and Gray here
tomorrow for the annual North
South pigskin classic.
Coaches report the rival teams
are in good shape after the short
preparation period, but hazard
no predictions on the game other
than that it will be close and
evenly matched.
The South plans to use a va
ration of the single wing; the
North will work from the 'T. a"
Billed as the 10th Annual Blue
Gray game, Saturdays tilt marks
the ninth meeting of selected
players from each side of the
Mason-Dixon line. In 1943 two
high school teams substituted for
the college All-Stars.
Many potential Blue Gray
players were lost to the numerous
New Years Day Bowl games, but
both squads will be able to field
plenty of power and talent. OBJ
servers say this will be one Of
the best matched games of the
series.
The Southerners won last years
game, 20-1S giving Gray-clad
teams five wins to the Northern
ers' three.
The game will be played in
Cramton bowl before an antici-
pated capacity crowd of 22,500.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-27
THAT Tired Feeling
Hits Michigan Squad

PASADENA, Cal, Dec, rs -
WD-Coach Fritz Crisler limit
ed his Michigan football team to
single scrimmage today in an
effort to shake off what he call
ed "that tired feeling"
Yesterday Crisler said that
his team would use only five OF
the 10 more drills they are al
lowed before their Rose Bowl
engagement with Southern Cali
fornia on lew Years Day. But
TODAY the Wolverine coach bal
anced. out that optimism with
pessimism. 1