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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
JULY FOURTH
PLANS COMPLETED
Installation Fea.
lures City, Wide
Program

Tentative plans for the city-wide
JULY Fourth celebration include
installation OF officers recently
elected to serve the North Caro-
lima Department of the American
Legion, j.. E. L. Wade, chairman,
said last night.
Highlight of the event will be
the installation Of Ray Galloway,
Wilmington Post No. 10, as state
commander.
The celebration will get under
way at 8 pm. according to Wade.
The program will open with the
audience singing my Country
IT'S of Thee. The Rev. R. L.
sturgis, incoming chaplain OF the
Wilmington Post, will ask the in
vocation.
The Rev. Andrew J. Howell will
speak on What independence
Day means to the Nation"
A concert by the Wilmington
Community band will follow under
the leadership of 1t. Eugene La
cock. The Wilmington Post No. 10,
state championship drum and
bugle corps will give an exhibit
ton.
Seats will be arranged for mem
bers of patriotic organizations,
Wade said. The program will END
with the singing of 1.-The Star.
Spangled Banner"
Plans have been so arranged
that they will not conflict with ar
rangements made by those wht
wish to spend the day at the
beach, Wade added.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
King
Wants A Train Ride
AP NeWsfeatures

LONDON - A middle eastern
monarch is coming to Britain this
summer to ride in trains, learn
English and try to memorize as
many Latin and French verbs as
he can get his tongue around.
No, he's not eccentric-he's r.
year-old Faisal II, king of Iraq.
A spokesman for the Iraq le-
cation said the boy king would go
to school but no decision has been
reached on which school he would
go to.
Faisal was in Britain for several
months last year. He left for his
W country last September. While
here he developed boundless en-
thusiasm for comics and school
boys papers and saw himself as
one of the best train drivers in
the world after his friends allow
ed MIN to take over the controls OF
one of London's electric tube
trains.
Iraq's recent Emir Abdul Illah,
may also be coming to Britain.
the embassy spokesman said, out
no definite arrangements have
been made yet for his visit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
SRA CELEBRATES
THIRD BIRTHDAY
Veterans Administration
Head Resumes Work
Since Its Inception

Sunday marks the third ami
versary of the Servicemen's Read
justment Act of 1914, as amended,
according to Robert S. Matthews,
Jr., contact representative in
charge of Wilmington's VA office
125 customhouse.
Three years ago Congress pass
ed and the President signed the
G. l. bill.
Goal of this new law was to
help restore the soldier-citizen to
his rightful place in the productive
life Of the community, Matthews
said. The VA was given the job
o. administering the law. Despite
the newness OF the program and
the growing flood of veterans that
resulted from rapid demobiliza-
ton. the VA has been working
hard at this job, he said.
Thousands Of veterans have
been assisted with their G. I. in
surance protection, education,
disqualification, and other benefits.
The VA is doing its level best to
Be that veterans are provided
with the various benefits of the
law, Matthews said.
But there's another angle too,
he said. The C. l. Bill gave World
War II veterans advantages and
privileges never given veterans
before. By accepting these bene.
fits, former servicemen and WON
en- have also accepted heavy re.
sponsibilities, he added.
First, its up tc each veteran
to use these benefits, not because
he's legally entitled to them, bu.
because they'll help him become
\ productive, self reliant citizen
Second. each veteran has TIT
responsibility of adding his bes
efforts, so that a benefit used viii
contribute to his W welfare, ant
that Of his community, and tn,
whole nation" Matthews said
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
BY HAL BOYLE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 81. Up
- This isn't really a city it's
a matter of faith.
There is 10 such thing as San
Francisco. You can see it On the
map, and drive through it, a d
set run over by a motor car in
ii. But it isn't really there.
This is the second time I've been
it it. but you can't convince me
ii really EXISTS. It is like London
IL Shakespeare's day or Paris for
restless Americans in the 10 years
after the first world war.
1t is Ninevah and Tyre and a
mist-ridden Babylon-Well policed.
Il is the Far East in TRANSMISSION,
and the Old West wrapped in
amber. 1t is a melting pot where
the ingredients mix without anger.
San Francisco is a product that
sells itself. The people who make
up the place are glad to see you
when you come. but they wouldn't
give you a lead nickel to induce
you to stay. They would pay
money to keep from being a &c
ond New York. and they'd mort
gage their homes to prevent be-
coming another Los Angeles.
They are one of the most
h history conscious communi-
ties west of Cairo, but they never
have got the idea that history
doesn't keep on happening.
There is always a fog coming up
here, ard there is always a breeze
to blow it away. That is what is
known locally as the climate.
It is the only settled place in
America where a stranger wishes
in summertime he had brought
along his long wooden underwear.
When the hot sun sets he starts
looking around for the Penguins.
Nature air-conditions it to the
temperature of a Kansas m owl
theater in July.
Sen Francisco is grown up. Like
New Orleans, it believes in food.
It is the happy hunting ground of
the finicky alimertary canal, a
palace Of the palate, be it steak
hungry or in quest of tapioca
tasting oriental birds nest soup.
A shrimp is shrimp-sized here
as it is in Copenhagen. If you want
what the statue-worshiping M a n
hattanites call a "shrimp' your
pocketbook is in pawn to
"praWn."
You have heard of the "Holly-
wood diet?' you will never hear
of a "san Francisco diet!" a fat
man here doen't have to apologize
every time he reaches for the
olive oil. He isn't embarrassed to
stick his fork into a well-flavored
calorie.
San Francisco is one of the few
places left in the world under a
million population that is still
lusty. gusty, sentimental and indi-
vidual. 1t builds the country's
most modern underground garage
but it wants to get out its six
shooters when somebody tries to
abolish its historic cable cars.
It stands on as many hills as
Rome-but stays on the level. 1t
tanned the E,arbary coast without
destroying the e%xuberance that
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
June BRIDES
40 THUS FAR
This Is Two Less Than
Highest Of Any 1947
Month

June is living UP to its reputa-
ton of being the month of brides
r sofar as New Hanover county is
concerned.
A check at the register of
deeds office yesterday showed
that an ever 40 couples had been
granted license to say Il do" Sc
far this month.
With almost a third of the
month let, this is just two less
than the highest previous monthly
total for any month this year. In
April, here were AZ licenses is.
sued.
The June total, however, will
have to be given some impetus in
the remaining days of the month
before it can top last June's g.
and August's 81, the two best
months for marriages here last
year.
1t already is higher than those
for any other month this year,
though, the other months having
ranged from Mays low Of u tc
January's high Of SO, excluding
the April figure.
4 this months total does top
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

student nurse who was working at
the other end Of the fourth-floor
corridor at the time OF the stay
ings. She too. denied having seen
o. heard anything out Of place and
her story also was substantlated
bv a lie detector test.
Harry Morton - father of Rose
Mary, who was deformed with
club feet and hands. His story that
he was drinking in nearby Canton
the night of June 6 was confirmed
by police. A lie detector test given
him was inconclusive because OF
his upset emotional state.
Seven patients-ail of them chill
dren from two TO nine years OF
age who told numerous conflicting
stories of having seen "a man in
white enter the ward" of having
seen a nurse pick the babies off
the floor" and Of having seen an
other child pull the infants through
the bars Of their cribs. A state
employed psychologist said the
children all were emotlonal!y up
set and imagined most of tier
stories.
City and county police and hos-
pital authorities, having consider
&c all these stories, now agre
only on their own complete De
Wilderment.
No one knows who managed 10
enter the fourth floor ward. If il
was an outsider, hash in The shll,s
OF the infants and then escape in
only 10 minutes. Nor do police be-
lieve that a hospital employe or
crime in those 10 minutes without
being seen.
And, most battling of all, no one
knows why.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Mystery OF Who Killed The Massilon Hospital Babies
Daanane AZ Reason For Deaths Is Unsolved Unknown

MAss1LoN, O., June OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES resign
odlv aved the "unsolved file today as this towns greatest
crime mystery went into its third week WITHOUT a single I'M
nnr+on+ c1ua as to who crushed the skulls OF two babies IN
Massilon City hospital, or why. Nov. rou+o
Today, i6 days after nine-week-old Rose mary morton
and eiqht-week-old Diane Brand were killed oy an unseen
amd nnheard assailant in the hospital nursery, not a person
wa. being held and not a charge had been placed. IN 1act'
+hore was not even a logical suspect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
film
HEAD QUITS JOB
John N. OFT, Jr., Has
Held All
Jobs
BY EDWARD S. KETCH
APP NeWSfeatureS

WINNETKA. III. - John N. OFT,
Jr.. 81. mas developed his on e.
man movie company to a p n
where he is ready TO retire from
his bank JOB ano devote full time
to a project that started as a
hobby.
He is producer, cameraman,
technician, botanist, and lecturer.
Specializing in time-lapse movie
making, OFT has created a film
that shows flowers in the process
of growing and blooming. and re
veals the effect of weed killers
and fertilizers on plants.
Otis movie. FLOWERS in Ac-
tion," has been shown to 81 audi
ences from coast to coast n i S
year. He has lecture engagements
arranged for mere than a year in
advance.
In 20 years of experimenting,
OF has devised an elaborate cleo
trical and mechanical means for
making MS cameras move and
operate.
With a clocking device, OFT
takes 16 nm motion pictures of
growing plants which may give
a new insight into the workings
of nature.
The cameras are set to operate
automatically for weeks but
when the lapse of time between
shots is eliminated in the movie
strip the plants growth is reduced
to a matter of minutes.
One sequence required five
years to make, but the scene only
lasts two minutes on the screen
1t shows primroses in a ballet
number.
To accomplish this, he con-
structed special flower pots that
would move around On wheels. In
each plot was placed a small
electric heating element and a
water tube.
The flower pots were pulled
around on d track, and the heat
ing elements turned on alternate
ly to make the leaves wilt, and
water turned on to make them re-
vive. A battery of lights was
placed first on one side then on
the other to make the flowers
move from side to side.
The time-lapse color film was
synchronized to the rhythm OF a
Strauss waltz.
OFT feels that his method Of
making movies opens up a new
vista in research not only in
botany, but in biology, medicine
and other fields where the effects
Of treatments al be studied over
a period Of time. He is planning
10 apply time-lapse photography
in conjunction with the microscope
in order to study the flow Of
moisture in plant stems ana
leaves.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

In those TWO WEEKS VI AeVeii
sometimes bumDling investigation
nolice have established only these
facts: .
That the heads of the two IN
fants were crushed by a olun'
torce on Friday, June 6, some
time between s pm. and 7:45 pm
In the pediatric ward OF the nos
pital. :,
their cribs at 7:45 pm. by Nurse
Marian Silleck.
Thst the deaths OF the infants
were either "accidents' or homl-
cides.
The cast trying to untangle the
bizarre mystery includes: .
Police Chief Stanley. Switter-A
tall. stubborn man, both bewilder-
O. and angry. He alone has chung
to the theory that the deaths were
m accident" The chief, who re-
Gently was sued for So, 900 for false
arrests, how leans to the theory
that everyone is innocent, and is
extremely hostile to the press and
outside investigators.
E. ]. Lincke-City hospital SUI
perintendent. A huge, boyish per-
son who was moving his grass
when the deaths occurred. 1t was
Llncke who called in a script
writing radio friend the first day
t. prepare the fantastic publicity
release which was held up for
hours and which began:
"A small stuffed doll sitting in
4 room 4O7 Of Massillon City nos
pital could tell a shocking story
OF murder if it could talk Llncke
called police headquarters an hour
after the babies were discovered
to ask that a t:'good man be sent
10 the hospital. Lincke has chung
to the theory that a 'flendlsh kill
err from the outside was respon-
sible.
Prosecutor D. D. Mclaughlin
4 small, thin attorney who bellev-
eo from the beginning that Chief
SWitter was on he wrong track IN
calling the deaths accidental, but
held back his investigators for
some time to prevent friction with
the local police.
Coroner Edward Reno-a mat
ter-of-fact doctor who announced
bluntly after examining the babies
that the deaths were 'homicide'
and that the infants were killed
by "a blunt force of underlermin-
Cd nature"
Those questioned and released
included:
Nurse Marian Sllleck-a small,
red-haired student nurse about
whose story the whole tragedy
hinged. She claimed she left the
babies at 7:35 pm. and came
back to find them dying just 10
minutes later. She also maintain
sd she never was farther away
than the nursery. only a few steps
from the pediatric ward. She said
she neither saw nor heard any
thing unusual in those 10 minutes
and a lie detector test confirmed
her story.
Nurse Murna Croft - another
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
Clinton To Have
State Guard Uni,
General Nett, A,
Special to the stsr.,.

CLINTON, June p
ton Isa Of, Of a Sampson count V' "a
the North Carolina GnarSy M
sured today with the VA
ment from State Adjutan,.D ny
Vann B. Nets that Heag,GCte I
company of the Third Bst..gt'l|
the 10th Infantry will Df HI
lied in Clinton. Vt q
The unit will consis,
officers and 30 enlisted W. " !
GERS appointed, accordjnD !
ders from the sdjutsnt' i
are Captain James H. si ssaI
commanding, and c. c T T.re1
and j. A. Stewart. Jr., %lie eo,.
General orders from tbs |
National Guard Bureau We We
ton, D. c., authorized org, any
OF the unit in Sampson a. S''ll1!
units in Raleigh, Nj. Airv vi
vile and Wilmington. Tbe W w;
Clinton is a part of the T5i. ~
talon, located in WiIming,.oo
Recruiting tor the conn..I
Clinton will start jmmpSsnI!
Capt, Sivertsen said. ula'
last June's, it will be Il.
time this year that ner. G.s
any one month bavs el
a decline over the corrs.,'
month a wear a9o ponl
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

Spahis, a term now applied to
certain Algerian and Tunisian
cavalry troops, originally meant
fief-holders in central Asia.
South America is the fourth
largest of the continents, with an
approximate area of 7 1-2-million
square miles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
MARSHVILLE MAN ELECTED

GOLDSBORO, June 21.-P)-
Joel c. Herren of Marshville, has
been elected principal of the New
Hope school in Mayne county, sue
ceeding C. H. McGregor, who re
signed to become principal at
Pittsboro. Herren holds an AB
degree from Lenoir-Rhyne and a
masters from the University of
North Carolina.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22
RED r O

RALEIGH. June o. up Susie
Edgerton of Atlanta, Ga, has been
named acting executive secretary
Of the Wake county chapter Of the
American Red Cross, Clyde A.
Dillon, chairman, said today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-22

West Point became a strategic
fort in early American history be-
cause. it defended the HUDSON
River valley and controlled com.
mu~nications between New Eng
land and the Middle Atlantic
states.
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Ramadier's Cabinet
To Face Confidence
Question Next Week
BY the Associated Press

PARIS, Jan. 24-Paul Ramadier's
new coalition government will be
tested early next week by what
amounts to the posing of question
of confidence, parliamentary whips
reported yesterday.
Deputy Rene Capitant, Gen.
Charles de Gaulle's former educa-
ton minister who tried to form a
new party to split Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault's Popular Repub-
lican Movement (MRP), filed-a mo-
ton calling for a debate on the
composition of MIR. Ramadiers cabi-
net, the informants said. Parliament
meets Tuesday.
Mr.. Ramadier will ask that the
motion be rejected, it was said, and
the Assembly's vote will constitute
a question of confidence. Mr.. Ra-
nader already has received a vote
OF confidence on the policies he
outlined to the Assembly, but that
was before he had announced the
names of his new ministers.
Communists and Socialists hold
IA of the 26 posts in the new cabinet.
Wednesday the newspaper Etoile
du Soir, which is probe Gaulle,
made q violent attack on Mr.. BIZ
dault, declaring his return to the
Foreign Ministry meant an abrupt
rupture in the tentative steps to-
ward an alliance with Britain that
were taken by Leon Blum. The pa
per charged that Mr.. Bidault's chief
secretary was "an inscribed member
of the Communist Party" with &C
cess to all state papers and "the
fact is that no foreign diplomat in
Paris dares discuss matters openly
with our Foreign Affairs Minister"
Mr.. Bidault's policy of keeping
aloof from any Anglo-Saxon or Rus
sian bloc had only served to Isolate
France. the paper declared.
Evening star., 1947-01-24
Reds Arrest 80 Germans
On CHARGES Of Looting
By the Asseeiatsd Press

BERLIN, Jan. 24.-Russian au-
thorities today announced the ar
rest of 80 Germans who allegedly
have been looting the Soviet sector
of Berlin and communities in the
Soviet occupation zone while dis
guised in Russian Army uniforms.
The Russian report said Germans
were organized into three we'll
armed gangs which robbed farms
and city dwellings and 'in each case
tried to place the blame on the
Soviet Army"
One gang. which operated around
Weissenfels, Saony, was charged
with IA major robberies In four
months and was caught with huge
stocks of slaughtered farm animals
being prepared for sale in the black
market.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Food Price Resistance
Drive0pensTomorrow

The Washington Committee for
Consumer Protection will begin
campaign tomorrow among the Dis
trict's housewives to bring food costs
down through consumer resistance
to high prices.
A total OF $4,000 leaflets, urging
housewives not to pay over 60 cents
a pound for even the highest grade
of meat and to use their influence
in sending prices for other foods
back to what they were under OPA,
will be distributed to shoppers
throughout the city.
The leaflets declare: IF the price
is not right-hold tight. Fat prices
mean thin purses On the back of
the leaflet is list of the old OPA
price ceilings for meat and other
foods.
Final details of the campaign were
completed last night at q meeting
of various women's civic groups in
the YWCA, Seventeenth and X
streets NV.
Mrs. Sarah Newman, president Of
the committee, told the group: "If
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Col. Durant's S Counsel
Prepares Case 10 Open
Defense Wednesday
By W. H. shippen, Jr.

The court-martiaI OF Col. Jack
w. Durant in the Hesse crown jewels
theft was in recess today until
Wednesday to give the defense time
to prepare its case.
Motions will be made wednesday
in behalf Of the accused colonel to
strike numerous sections from the
record built up to some LIST, 900
words since the trial opened in Ger
many three months ago.
The prosecution closed its case
late yesterday, over protest of the
defense, after introducing some so
witnesses.
Longer Preparation Asked.
Asking for at least two weeks to
sift this voluminous record, Maj.
Joseph Bryan of defense counsel
pointed out he had been given only
a few days to prepare his case be-
fore the trial opened in Germany
December II, while the prosecution
had at least six months. He re-
minded the court he had objected
to this haste at the time and now
needs time to prepare his motions
and interview witnesses later on
the basis of the courts ruling on
the motions.
A spokesman for the eight-man
board pointed out, however, that the
trial started "93 days ago, has been
In session 81 days since, and in
Evening star., 1947-03-14

transit seven days" The remaining
time, it was said. could have been
used by the defense in preparing its
case.
Maj. Bryan replied that during
much of this time he and his staff
were on call and subject to frequent
interruptions.
Denies "Stalling" Charge.
He denied a statement by Mai.
Joseph S. Robinson of the prosecu-
ton staff that the defense was
'stalling" and resorting to "sub-
terfuges" to delay decision in the
case.
The defense was overruled when it
asked permission to complete the
cross examination of prosecution
witnesses now in Europe before the
prosecution was permitted to rest
it's case. The court assured the
defense, however, it will have ample
opportunity to re-examine the wit
nesses when the trial returns to
Germany for the concluding session.
The court ruled into the evidence
yesterday a fruit jar containing
$28, 900, which was dug up by Army
agents near Falls Church, Va, last
summer. This evidence had been
admitted earlier subject to its being
connected with the defendant.
Maj. Robinson contended that
testimony of a handwriting expert
tended to link the money with Col.
Durant in that writing characters
tics and habits of the defendant
were similar to those revealed by
numerals on straps containing pack
ages of currency. Maj. Robinson
asked the board members to make
their own comparisons.
The prosecutor explained he had
been unable to connect a ball of
gold wire and several diamonds re-
covered in Falls Church with Col
Durant because of the refusal of
his brother and sister in-law to
testify"
He was referring to James E. Du-
rant. Falls Church city councilman
and suspended Federal accountant,
and Mrs. Helen Durant, his wife.
Evening star., 1947-03-14

the housewives Of Washington will
band together, we can force prices
down and be able to buy the food
we need at reasonable prices"
Various women's organizations
throughout the city will enlist their
memberships in the drive. The plans
do not call for the picketing of any
stores.
Colston Warne, president of the
Consumers Union, told the COM
mittee that "if consumers can stage
dramatic resistance to the outrag-
eously high prices, they can succeed
in bringing the prices down."
Evening star., 1947-03-14

They become full-time house
wives" for week or so, taking
charge of the kitchen. dining room
and bedroom provided by the school
authorities, by day. At night the
flats are occupied either by members
of the teaching staff or grown-up
friends of the school girls.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
Boys Find Tear Cos;
Adults Cry for Police
By the Assoeiuisd Press

Ell PASO, Tex-Police answering
a call on White Oaks street found
the neighborhood literally crying
for help.
Investigation showed that boys
playing on vacant lot had Stun
bled across more than dozen tear
gas canisters, presumably old Army
equipment.
Evening star., 1947-03-14
School Girls Learn
To Run Apartments

School girls in Englands Wor.
cestershire are learning to be house
wives by running their own flats
just as If they were married.