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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

t1nued, is now being carried ou;
by nearly every State university IN
the south and, in addition, recent
years have seen private research
labs come into being-the South
ern Research Institute at Birming-
ham, the Institute OF Textile Tech
nology at Charlottesville, Va, and
the Henty Foundation at Savannah
among others.
The Sasi, however, is not limit
ing its field of endeavor exclusive
ly to industry. 1t is we'll aware
that the south still is predominant
ly agricultural.
A committe under Dean Paul
Chapman of the University of
Georgia school of agriculture
recently submitted a preliminary
report which found a need for:
/. Increased use of power and
improved farm machinery.
2. Establishment O. efficiency
standards in operating family-size
farms.
5. Specifications for establishing
a n d operating agricultural indus
tries and services.
The first two points are more
or less self-evident. On the third
the committee observed:
mo major cotton growing state
ever has provided enough employ
ment opportunities to insure jobs
Tor all members of its labor force;
the south's net loss from inter
sectional miration is now around
1000, 900. No field for employment
offers opportunity Tor expansion so
great as agricultural industries
and services which are essential
1ol maximum production a n d ef-
ficient marketing Of products Of
diversified farming"
In this connection, the Sasi COM
mittee proposed research on the
development of agricultural p r O.
cessing and chemurgic plants.
why tlS SOutl . COillllludl lldIp-
in on its problems? Well, tn e
region has been compared to the
hoy sitting atop a pile of gold. He
was potentially wealthy. but since
he couldn't eat or spend it, he was
starving to death.
The south is potentially rich, but
since it can't set its gold to
market it remains poor. In this
region there is enc : third of the
mineral riches of the United
states, one-fi3th tee bituminous
coal, two thiros of the oil. two
thirds of the natural gas, one-half
the marble, 81 per cent of The
phosphates, SO pei cent of the
sulphur, 40 per CEN of the forests,
100 per cent of the turpentine and
resin, and SO much iron ore and
salt that the amount is estimated
rot in tons but in cubic miles.
In addition, the south has so per
cent Of the nations farms on which
is produced 80 yer cent of the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

by Rev. Ronnie Sutton of Erwin.
Burial will be in the Church ceme-
terry.
Surviving are her husband,
Jonah Hudson, five daughters,
Oreli Hudson and Mrs. George
Ka1l of Charlotte: Mrs. Otis Tyn-
dali of Salemburg: Evaline and
Geraldine Hudson of the home,
two sons Onzie Hudson of Delway,
and Grafton Hudson Of the home:
Three sisters Mrs. F. M. Tow OF
Raleigh, Mrs. A. j. Warwick OF
Clinton route 5: Mrs. Bessie But
Ter of Pine Level, n brother,
Earnie Crumpler OF Clinton five
half brothers, Daniel, John c.,
Thomas F., Hardy and Raymond
Crumpler: one half sister, Mrs.
James Williams Of Autryville
route 2 and two grandchildren.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

cotton, 100 per cent of the cane
sugar, 81 per cent of the rice, 100
per cent of the peanuts, 80 per
cent of the soybeans, 66 per cent
OF the tobacco, 48 per cent of the
citrus fruits and 81 per cent Of the
sweet potatoes.
For all its wealth, the south still
has the lowest per capita income
o. any section Of the nation-less
tkan / 1000 annually.
The Sasi proposes to develop
more and better industries through
research to.utilize this natural, but
unexpected wealth. In doing so, if
believes the income of The indi-
viGual will increase. And, as the
Individual becomes weather., the
region will become richer and
more able to provide schools,
roads, and expanded public S e J.
vices.
In brief, the Sssl is aiming for
a completely revitalized south.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19-W.D
Pacific Railway today
issued embargo orders against
shipments of livestock or perish
able freight the first of them eff
fective at 1901 am. tomorrow, as
the deadline neared for a strike
called by the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
MRS. HOSIA c. D S

CLINTON, July 19-Mrs. Hosia
c. Hudson, 81, died at her home
in Salemburg Friday night after
a lingering illness.
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
from Calvary Free Will Baptist
church With Rev. G. N. Ashley
of Salemnurg in charge, assisted
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
WILLIAM BURLINGTON SMITH

WILLIAM MULLINGTON SMITH
WHITEVILLE. July 19-Funeral
services for William huntington
Smith, so, former resident OF
Whiteville and recently of St.
Pauls in Robson county, who died
Thursday night in a hospital at
Richmond, Va, after a short i'll
ress, are scheduled to be conduct
Ell this afternoon at 3 O'Clock from
tie Biggs Funeral Chapel in Lum-
berton. The body will be brought
here FOR burial in the Whiteville
cemetery.
Mr.. Smith was a brother of Seth
L. Smith and David Smith, promi-
rent Whiteville business men. He
was a Navy veteran of the First
World War and vas unmarried.
Surviving in addition to the two
brothers are the following brothers
ard sisters: DR.. R. F. Smith,
Beaufort, SC: Edward Smith. At
lanta, Ga; Malcolm Smith, Ashe-
vile: Arthur Smith, Wilmington;
Claude and Walter Smith of Robe
son County; Miss Ruth Smith of
Wilmington, and Mrs. V. A. Man
hing of Princess Ann, Va.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

IN CHARGE OF the traffic and records division o me Cy
Police department are II, E. williams, seated at the left'
Earl Sanders, at the right. 81
The newly formed unit of the department operated In It's off1ce'
adjacent to the police headquarters, for the first time Friday. ~.
This innovation, one of many to be instituted, will relieve M
front office of the department from handhng traHlc ""u
keeping the records up to date.
Police Chief Hubert Hayes said the office will be open aahy
from, 2 ~, urtr g n m (Staff Photo)
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HARRY WETTU

Funeral services for Harry wet
tig, owner of the Wettig Printing
company, who died yesterday, WILL
be conducted tomorrow at 4 p. m:'
at the Andrews mortuary with
the Rev. Wade H. Allison officl-
ating, assisted by the Rev. 5. r.
Johnston.
Mr.. Wettig was born July 49,,
1891 in Atlanta, Ga, son OF the
late George and Ella Wettig, and
came to Wilmington in 1917. He
had been in the printing business
for the past 40 years, and estab-
lished the Wettig Printing Com
pany here in April 1915. He was
a deacon of the Emmanuel Presby-
terian church.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Vina Wolff Wettig, of Will
mington; five daughters, Mrs.
Clarence King, Mrs. Herbert Wal
ker, and Miss Frances Wettig. all
of Wilmington, and Mrs. j. E.
Jacobs of San Bernardino, CAL,
and Mrs. E. F. Bradshaw, Of Oak
land, Cal, a son Harry Wettig, Jr'
of Wilmington and a stepson. Jesse
Marshall; two brothers, William
and George Wettig, both Of Detroit;
two sisters. Mrs. Georgia Kuder-
man of Detroit, and Mrs. Annie
Hilderbrand, of Baltimore; and
three grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
Monday at 400 p. M.
Active pallbearers will be A. E.
Cumber, Jr., Lynwood c. Rowan,
Alton Wolff, Glenn J. Smith, Paul
H. Smith, Leanord Wolff, Robert
M. Grissom.
Honorary pallbearers will be DR..
Robert Fales. DR.. R. B. Hare, H.
T. Wilson, E. z. Blanton, Sr.,
Mitchell Hill, NAPOLEON Owens,
Louis Harrison, George Gore, Jack
Pate, Joseph Hare, George Nc
Carthey, A. L. Maynard, L. B.
Brunette Harry Wierse, Sr., Geo.
rye A. Carey, Fred E. Little, Ed
Small, ST., and Howard Littleton.
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DOCUMENTS DELEasp.

WASHINGTON, July 10
Captured German documnn"E~
leased tonight by the Nav !"
ed slmost complete d~isintegr.'vo"'
Of the German army and @10a
in 1914. navy
The largest single occur,.
group in America outsid.
farming is truck drivers "
are ALSO, 900 of them. 1'eEt
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
CLERICAL ERROR AT HOSPITAL
BRINGS SUIT FOR $780, 900

They charged the shift was made
in Lincoln hospital subsequent to
March Is after they had been is
sued a birth certificate for a fe.
male child. They said the certif.
icate was signed by the physician
officiating the birth.
Berneker said the clerical err
ror occurred in filling out an ap.
plication form for a birth certif.
icate and that nurses and physi-
clans had listed the child as a
male.
The couple took. the boy home
from the hospital. Mrs. $3.50 said
I'VE like him. but he is not ours.
We can give him no name. He is
sickly, not like my strong girl.
Mrs $3.50 said a girl was brought
to her at the hospital for seven
days after the birth March 10, but
that on March 81 a nurse brought
the boy instead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
DEMOCRATS PROTEST
HOLD UP BY COP OF
POSTMASTER AWARDS

WASHINGTON, May IA. -P)-
Democrats shouted protests in the
Senate today that Republicans are
"arbitrarily' holding up action on
800 nominations for postmasters.
Senator Lucas D.-Ill.) announc-
ed he will make a speech every day
until he gets a Showdown" He
said it is shameful and disgrace
full" for Senator LANCER R.-N.D.).
chairman of the Civil Service COM
mittee, to hold up the nominations
until $35, 600 is forthcoming for a
Senate investigation of the method
of appointing postmasters.
The nominations were made by
President Truman, but the Senate
must confirm the nominees.
Lucas, charging politics OF the
cheapest kind" moved to take 81
Illinois postmaster nominations
away from the committee. He said
% Of the 81 r war veterans. Sen
ator Tydings, D.-Md.), made a
similar motion with regard to IA
Marylanders. The motions did not
come to a vote.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15

INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE - Form
er Governor Broughton was not
looking through rose colored glass
es yesterday when he pictured
North Carolina as an industrial
empire before members. of the XII
wants club.
Broughton, one of the states
best-informed business analysts, as
well as attorneys, wove his talk
around two recent incidents which
had come to the state during the
year.
First and foremost, he said, was
the granting to the State Ports Au-
thority 500, 600 by the General
Assembly for its development.
Broughton saw in this first grant
by the state to the Authority its
one big opportunity to forge ahead
PROGRESS - Wilmington, be-
cause Of its location, should be the
principal benefactor in the work Of
the Authority. With the proper de.
velopment Of its present facilities.
there's no reason why this city
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
|CENTRALIA COAL
FIRM INDICTED
Grand Jury Returns True
Bills Growing Out OF
Fatal Explosion

NASHVILLE, ILL.,, May 14.-tR-
A Washington county grand jury
today returned two indictments
charging the Centralia Coal COM
Ipany with "willful neglect" in con-
nection with the explosion in the
company's mine No. 5 at Centralia
March Is in which Ill men died.
Tie indictments charged the firm
with failure to provide sufficient
air for miners working under
ground and failure to adequately
rock-dust tae mine-a safety meas
ure to reduce the spread of dust
explosions.
The alleged violations of the H.
linois state mining law are mis-
demeanors and carry a maximum
punishment of $500 each.
The grand jury found no basis
for criminal action against five
company officials for whom man
slaughter indictments based on
criminal negligence were souIat by
States Attorney Wilbert L. Hohlt.
Neither was any action voted
against Driscoll Seaman, state
mine inspector.
Fourteen witnesses were heard
by the Remember panel which
investigated the disaster. The jury
also studied evidence collected by
other investigating groups.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
Industrial Empire Visioned;
President Signs Portal Bill
Former Gov. Rroughton
Saws State Has Great
Possibilities

North Carolina, backed by an
abundance of skilled labor, am
pie local capital and ample
power resources, now has an OPP
portunity to build a great indus.
trial empire second to none in the
nation, former Gov. ]. Melville
Broughton told members of the
Wilmington Kiwanis club yester-
day at their weekly luncheon
meeting at the Friendly.
Introduced by program chair
man Aaron Goldberg as one OF
the best governors the state ever
had, Broughton was guest speak
er of the day and an exceptionally
large number of members and
guests were present to hear him.
Interspersing his remarks with
a few stories that kept his aud.
fence in good humor throughout,
Broughton at the outset OF his ad
dress took occasion to pay trib'
who is presiding over the May
session Of New Hanover Super
ior court this week. He then went
on to tell of his first visit to Will
mington as a boy and a neve--to'
b%e-forgotten trip by ferry across
the Cape Fear river.
In commenting on the establish.
ment of the North Carolina States
Ports Authority by the 1915 Gen.
eral assembly, Broughton tod
KiWanians that the authority
without as much as a postage
stamp in capital, had been able
to secure from the Works Pro
duction administration, a grant
of 500, 900 for the purpose of max.
ing a survey of port facilities
within the state and future port
needs.
This survey, now in prepare
ton, the speaker said, will be Of
inestimatable value in years tc
come.
Secures $100, 600
Continuing, he pointed out that
the Ports Authority whose mem.
bership is statewide in scope, had
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
GAS TANK BLAST.
CRASH KILLS TWO
Mount Airy, Pilot Noun
tain Men Lost Lives In
Collision On Bridge

PILOT MOUNTAIN, May X. -
|(P- Theodore Russell Southern
20, of Mount Airy and Mallory
Jackson Whitaker, 80, of Pilot
Mountain we're killed when trucks
they were driving collided header
on a bridge, two miles north oil
here, at 4:10 p. m. today.
Southern was burned to death
when the gasoline tank of his trac'
%tor-trailer type van exploded ano
ignited the cab. Whitaker was
crushed to death.
L. A. Hair, who was driving q
third truck directly behind South
ern said it appeared that the var
got out of control as it descended
on an incline leading toward .
small, concrete bridge. Whitaker.
Hair said, tried to swerve out Of
the path of the runaway but wa
unable to do so.
Body Burned
Southern was thrown half ou1
of his cab by the explosion OF the
gas tank. His body was burned al
most beyond recognition before
would-be rescuers could reach him
Investigating officers called ar
official of Bell Lines, a Winston
Salem trucking concern which own
(Continued On Page Two; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
MEDICAL SOCIETY
NAMES ROBERTSON
Wilmington Physician
Elected President OF
N. C.. Organization

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va, May IA.
P-Reelection of DR.. Carl V.
Reynolds as State Health officer
for the next four years and the
selection of DR.. James F. Robert
son of Wilmington as president
elect featured closing sessions of
the 93rd annual convention OF the
Medical Society of North Carolina
here today.
Other officers elected included
DR.. V. K. Hart, Charlotte, first
vice-president; DR.. j. G. Raby,
Tarboro, second vice-president,
DR.. G.. c. Dixon, Ayden, and DR..
J. Labruce Ward, Asheville, mem
bers of the State Board of Health
for the next four years; and DR..
L. R. Hedgpeth, Lumberton, mem
Der of the Hospital Savings AS
ISOLATION.
Delegates Named
DR.. P. Y. Joyner, Enfield, DR..
Alban Papineau, Plymouth, and
DR.. Harry Johnson, Elkin, were
designated delegates to the Medi-
cal Society Of Virginia., while DR..
Frank Ward, Lumberton, DR..
Lewis CASTOR, Albemarle, and DR..
C. H. Pugh. Gastonia, were named
to represent the group before the
South Carolina Society.
Georgia delegates are DR.. Robert
Matthews, Greensboro, DR.. W. H.
Hoover, Murphy, and DR.. Ben
Kendall, Shelby. The Tennessee
IHa.k.al D. Damo Tu,n. GOl El
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
Wifi Opening
Set By July |
rAA Official Announces
COMPROMISE With Navy
Allowing Operation
FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
Earning Star Washington Bureau

Earning Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, May IA. - Very
,;eh frequency radio range equip
| per+ will be in operation by July
,t It wilmington, New Bern, ano
1Iizabeth City, N. c., to guide air.
lanes on Norfolk-to-Charlesto
sgisbts a Civil Aeronautics Admin
i.+1stion official informed this bu-
...,1 today as CAA frequency en-
,ineers approved a compromise
so,,te for the airway, by-passing a
w.nv bombing range on Albemarle
sn,nd. By September 1, the official
.sid' the CAA expects TO certifi-
' '..s carriers to cover this course
.,ore, if necessary, at any time
Wv or night. Thus the Norfolk
cSs,.r1eston route will be officially
..s;gnated as a "civil airway' -
w. last link in the jacksonville
Boston coastal airway.
New Postponement
1s activation, already delayed
oral months by the conflict with
~ Navy over the bombing range,
a-al be postponed further by the
.arv work load of the technicians
=. the CAA's second regional Of
s.s in Atlanta who will install
NE V. H. F. equipment.
Planes flying this route now are
ming many miles inland to pick
=, the radio beam between Flor
.rce S. c., and Raleigh, N. c. In
,s future guided by the airway
I,kine Charleston, Myrtle Beach,
rlmington. New Bern, Elizabeth
rtv and Norfolk, the planes can
,rovide direct service to all these
points regardless Of weather, the
cAA official stated.
To Circle Range
They will circle the Navy bomb
IMP range on the New Bern-Ellza-
beth City hop, instead OF gong
straight over Albemarle SOUND as
originally planned a route winch
,roused objections from the Navy
These objections were overcome
nv the compromise, which has the
approval of the Joint Air Coordlna-
non committee. A recommends
|tion favoring it will be written by
the Airspace subcommittee Friday
|tor acceptance by the agencies con-
eerned.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
IS Persons Lose Lives In Film Blast;
1OO-Year-Old Observatory Must Move
Along The Cape Fear

should not become the states lead
ing center.
Former Governor Broughton saw
such a possibility for Wilmington,
and he said as much yesterday
His evaluation of the work done
by the North Carolina shipbuildine
company during the war days was
only one way Of saying that such
activity os was known here Their
might become a permanent propo'
sition.
SECOND INCIDENT Brough
ton likened the U. S. Supreme
Courts decision lowering frelgh'
rates in the south to emancipation
for the area. Industrial growth II
the state should follow this decls'
ion, he predicted. And where
there's industrial growth, there Is
progress.
With North Carolina now on ar
equal footing with the manufactur'
ing centers of the Northeast, the
state should assume the leader
. CONTINUED On Page Two; Col. O
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
Voice Need For Program
Of Expansion At Local Air Field;
} US. Moves ToHalt German Strike
4OO,000Tons
Food Ready
Patterson Announces Plan
To Halt Unrest In
u. S. Zone

WASHINGTON, May IA R =
Secretary of War Patterson said
today that more than 400. 900 tons
of food will be sent to Germany
this month, a similar amount ir
June and ''even more" in July.
His announcement constituted
the War departments response te
complaints of short rations. There
are threats of a general strike ir
Stuttgart May % if food condi-
tons are not improved before
then.
Referring to the survey and rec
concentrations made by former
President Herbert Hoover, Pat.
terson said in a statement that
shipments of food to Germany
called for under the Hoover rec
concentrations "have been met up
to May /, except fo- an amount
equal to about one weeks ration
even this is only a delay, not
a reduction" Patterson said
The planned shipments of food.
the secretary said. should be
sufficient to maintain the ration
Gin Germany from now or
Substantially all the food i'm
ports into Germany have come
from the United States " as the
only available source, but they
have been paid for jointly by the
British and ourselves" Patter-
son said.
No Reference
Patterson did not refer to re-
ports in London that Foreign Sec
rotary Ernest Bevin will tell Com
mons tomorrow that substantial
relief from the food crisis in the
British occupation zone in Ger
many cannot be expected until the
summer harvest.
The fool crisis in western Ger
many "has been a source of deep
concern for weeks" to Gen. Lucius
D. Clay, the American Military
governor, to the War department
and to himself, the secvretary as
serted.
Every measure within our pow
err has been taken to meet it.,
Patterson said. Since last De.
cember, food shipments to Ger
many from the United States have
been greater than ever before"
War department reports show
ed last December shipments d
little over 300, 900 tons.
Patterson said that after MIR.
Hoover left Germany it became
evident with the breaking up OF
winter that large amounts Of
food had been destroyed Or would
be required for re-seeding b.
cause Of winter destruction OF
crops which had been sown n the
fall"
He estimated these conditions
reduced available local supplies
by almost 200, 600 tons.
AS part of the emergency pro
gram, Patterson said "a, 600, 900
pounds of dry skinned milk have
been procured and are about to
be shipped to Germany.
Attributing the crisis 10 1.-The
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-15
Ideas Differ
0verMethods
Man On Street In Accord
That Progress AT Blue
thenthal Necessary
BY SUE
Star Staff Writer

The man on the street in
W i ! m i n g ton is definitely
agreed on one thing, at least
and that is that something
should be done to develop and
expand Bluethenthal airport,
rather than let progress at
the $11,000,O 900 field remain
stagnant.
Ideas as to what persons
should operate and control the de-
velopments and activities at the
field were not in unison, though
they all said that Something very
definitely should be done"
The opinions were given by per-
sons stopped on the downtown
streets of Wilmington late y%ester-
day afternoon in answer to the
query:
"What do you think of the pres
ent conditions at Bluethentlal air
port and of the proposal made by
Horace Barnes, Lumberton airport
operator, to lease the airport from
the New Hanover county com
missioners?"
Kenneth Eaton, local jeweler,
expressed the opinion that eff
they'd left the field with Parker
q. C. Parker, former airport
manager), Hamilton Hicks and the
other men (the airport authority,
there'd be plenty of activity out
there" Eaton, however, does not
believe that "the field would be
developed right if leased to an
individual"
He believes that the solution to
the problem would be to place con-
troll of the field into the hands of
am "air-minded group of individ-
Iuals to operate and control"
Favors County Control
G. T. Sullivan, local insurance
man, thinks that the county conf
missioners should keep control and
that they could do something
about it, if they would and some
thing needs to be done"
Jennings OTIS, U. S. immigration
official, said that "the county
should be glad to get rid of it, If
they (the county, get anything out
of it."
He expressed the opinion that an
individual, taking personal interest
in the field, would develop it more.
"Improved air service would be
"a great asset to Wilmington" he
said, and added that he would like
Ito see schedules operating to Cuba,
Bermuda, and the Bahama Is
lands.
Russell Williams, 9 S. Washington,
Sunset Park, thinks development
of the field would be a good
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