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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Chest Names
H.A.Marks
-
.sAnd Directors
i ~.SDuring Annual
~ Meeting
REPORT PRESENTED
Progress During Past Year
Outlined In Report By
R. Stewart
REPORT PRESENTED

H. A Marks was named presl-
dent of the Wilmington Community
Chest when officers and five mem
bers of the board of directors were
elected yesteday afternoon at the
annual meeting Of the organization
held in the assembly room of the
Tide Water Power company.
Marks, who is the president OF
Marks Machinery company, is the
retiring vice-president of the
chest, past president of the Cham
Der of Commerce, recently elected
director of the Carolina Insurance
company, was chairman of the
chest campaign in the fall of 1945,
and is a member of the Rotary
club.
Other officers named yesterday
by the board CT directors are: l..
D. Latta, first vice president, re-
firing second vice president; Louie
E. Woodbury., Jr., second vice
president, who is retiring cam
pasgn chairman and was named
the Man of the Year by the Will
mington Junior Chamber Of Com
merce Tuesday night: and Fred
erick B. Graham, was reelected
treasurer.
The five directors named by the
members of the chest, for three
year terms are r. Stewart, the
only director reelected, and the
retiring chest president: R. Har-
grove Bellamy, Henry R. Emory,
Lewis F. Ormond, and Peter
Browne Ruffin.
The annual report of the Com
munity Chest, prepared by retiring
president Stewart and presented to
members of the chest yesterday,
states that the most significant ac-
ton taken by the board in the past
year was the establishment of a
Reserve for capital improvements,
and that $91. 600 has been set aside
as a special reserve for the main
tenance and Improvement of the
buildings of the institutional agen-
cies.
The establishment of the Family
Service society to provide case
work services for individuals and
families where the need is not prl-
marty one Of financial assistance
was also accomplished last year.
The appropriations to the Asso-
ciated Charities have not been dis
continued, as was recommended,
the chest ~preferring to seek a
solution that will do the most good
for the community as a whole, the
report shows.
Separate boards to direct the
activities of the chest and the coun-
Gil were established during the
year.
The four year collection record
of the campaigns to raise funds for
the chest shows better than 81 per
cent Of all pledges.
Two motions brought before the
directors by Rabbi Samuel Fried
man, president of the Community
Council, were adopted by the group.
The first was that a public rela-
tons committee appointed by the
council, act for both the council
and the chest. and the other being
that the agencies of the council and
the chest cooperate in the plan
ming of meetings so that no two
will be held the same day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
HALL WILL HEAD
new RESERVE UNIT
Communications I.Deau
Announces Appointment
Here Last Night

Thomas H. Hall, 1t. Commander
in the U. S. Navy Reserve, was
yesterday afternoon appointed
commander Of the Naval Eleetron-
les Warfare company, which is to
be organized here by Commander
Thomas |. Dean, assistant director
Of Naval Reserve, Sixth Naval Dis
trict headquarters, Charleston, S.
c., who was il the city yesterday
making plans for the organization
of the unit.
The newly appointed commander
stated last night that plans were tc
organize the init as soon as pos
sible. Hall is the assistant superin-
tendent of conservation and dis.
tribution of the Tide Water Power
company.
The company, separate from the
Naval Reserve, will consist of five
officers and 40 men. and will drill
once a week in the new armory
building. scheduled to be erected
here soon at the North Carolina
Shipbuilding company's yard. Until
the armory is completed the new
company will hold its weekly drills
aboard Patrol Craft 776, locked al
the customhouse wharf.
Commander Dean said men with
no connection with the Naval Re.
serve were eligible to enter the
new company. Officers will be en-.
listed with communication and en-.
gineer ratings, and men will hold
radio, radar. signalman, cleo.
tronics technician, and sonarmar
rates. The company will receive
for pay for their weekly drills, he
added.
l. The Veteran Naval officer wa.
ccrnmufssa tons chief aboard thu
U.S.S. Wasp at the time the famed
aircraft carrier was sunk in the
South Pacific in 1912. Earlier he
put the U.S.S. Princeton into com
mission, and later was an officer
aboard the carrier Enterprise.
Men interested in joining the
Electronics Warfare company were
asked to contact Room 229 in the
Customhouse, local reserve head
quarters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
COURT UPH0LDS
BIBLE TEACHING
Illinois High Tribunal Rules
Glasses In Schools Are
Constitutional

SPRINGFIELD, H., Jan. %
R)-The Illinois Supreme court
ruled today, in a case which at
tracted nationwide interest, that
religious education in publ c
schools does not g violate the
United States or Illinois constitu.
tons if the classes + purely
voluntary
The court upheld a lower court
decision dismissing the suit OF
Mrs. Vashti Nc Collum, who had
sought to halt voluntary teaching
of religion in Champaign, Ill, pub
lie schools.
In Champaign, Mrs. CcfCollub,
wife of a University of Illinois pro-
fessor, said she planned to appeal
the decision to the U. S. Supreme
court.
John L. Franklin, counsel for the
Champaign School board, had told
the State Supreme court in a brief
that 'the effect of the decision
will be felt by millions of the future
citizens of America in 1850 school
systems scattered through AZ
states which testimony shows now
have some form of weekday re
1igious education on released
school time"
He said about SO per cent of the
religious edsacation- programsecon-
Quoted in the nation are carried
on similarly to that in Champaign,
where written pal atal consent is
required for pupils to attend and
classes are conducted by teachers
employed by a church organization
which pays all the expenses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
SEARCHING PARTY
RECEIVERS BODIES
Five Nash County Youths
Drown In Swift Creek
When Car Skids, Sinks

ROCKY MOUNT, Jan. % up =
The bodies of all five Nash county
youths who drowned when their
automobile plunged into 1S-feet Of
water in rain-swollen Swift creek
near Gold Rock had been recov,
cred today when graphing irons
brought ZIP two more victims.
A searching party this afternoon
recovered the bodies of Ben B.
Harris, Is, son of Mrs. Pattie Har.
ris Pierce c. Tarboro and grand
SCH of Mrs. Matte Harris with
whom he lived at Whiiakers, ano
Omega Baker. II. son of J. r.
Baker of Whjtakers.
Funeral services for the other
three victims, who were found in
the back scat of the automobile
when it was raised early yester.
day morning six hours after the
tradegy, will be held tomorrow.
Elwood Boswell, Is, and his
brother Ray. II, sons of Mr.. AND
Mrs. H. B. Boswell of Whitakers.
will be buried in Rocky Mount.
Billy Freeman Dozier. 10, Son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank M. Dozier Of
Whitakers, will be buried in Mash
county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
HoouerSaysG ermanyMust
Be Fed To Protect CTS

tain a worker fit to work." he
said, in a broadcast over ABC.
Our soldiers are in this area,
our flag flies there, and if for no
other reason we must feed the peo-
pie to protect our own boys he
said.
A few hours earlier, the former
President who fed millions Of
Europeans engulfed by Kaiser
Wilhelm's armies in World War l
conferred with President Truman
and agreed to undertake a new
long-range mission to help the
survivors of Killers Germany get
back on their feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23

tee and give it to the standing COM
mlttee on expenditures in the
executive departments.
-Four Republicans-Aiken of Yer
mont, Cooper of Kentucky, Morse
OF Oregon and Tobey of New
Hampshire-voted with the Demo-
cratic organization on that one.
Inc Democrats, in turn, lost the
support of Senator O'Daniel Cd
Tex, although retaining the votes
OF two members of the special
investigating committee. Connally
(D-Tex) and Kilgore CD-WVa).
n outcome may we'll have been
determined by CD the flying
weather between Chicago and
Washington and ca the illness of
a Senator's relative.
Ball In Blankets
Senator Ball (R-Mlnn), a mem
Der of the special investigating
committee, flew back to the
capital wrapped in blankets in a
w~ind-chilled plane whose heating
equipment was out of kilter. He
arrived hardly an hour before the
vote and was rushed from the air
port to the capitol by an aide.
Senator Overton Ola, was call
ed away by the illness of his
mother-in-law. His associates said
he would have voted against the
special committee had he been
present.
The dispute over extending the
life of the special committee until
Jan. 81, 1913, was clear cut. The
regular Republican organization
backed the extension move; the
Democrats went all-out in their eff
fort to beat it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
"DAHLIA" MURDER
BATTLES POLICE
Coroner's Jury Returns
"Persons Unknown"
Verdict

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22-WP-i
coroner's jury today agreed will
baffled police that 1.-THE Blacl
Dahlia," Elizabeth Short, O., wa
tortured, slain, and mutilated 4;
week ago by persons unknown
In their eagerness to check ev
cry possibility officers even arrest
ed a spectator at the inquest
George P. Bloomdahl, So, because
of his apparently suspicious &C
tons, but released him after brie.
questioning.
The verdict that Miss Short me
her death at the hands of persons
unknown was returned by the jury
after five minutes of deliberation
The inquest was lifted momen
tarily from its routine dullnes'
by the exclamation of the victims
mother, Mrs. Phoebe Mae Short
that her daughter was murdered
Asked when she first was mott
fled of her daughters death, Mrs
| Short rose from her chair ane
sobbed:
.fShe didn't die, she was murder
ed"
The mother said her daughte,
wrote her every week and the las
time she heard from her the cir
was working as a waitress.
Bloomdah1 vas seized by detec
tives as he dashed out Of the court
room muttering to himself. He wa
taken to Central police station bu
brief questioning showed he mere
1y was a spectator and unawar'
that his action in leaving before
the jury returned was improper
The coroner's jury was informed
by a police spokesman, DETECTIVE
Harry Hansen, that a week of inves
tigation had proven fruitless.
1--WE have no definite informa
ton as to who prepetrated thi
crime" Hansen said.
Finding of the Hacked body
week ago on a vacant lot in South
west Los Angeles was describe
by Detective Jess w. Haskels. II
said the two halves Of the severed
body were "clean and ari2eare'
to be washed"
Dr.. Frederick Newbarr, chic
autopsy surgeon, said death hal
taken place less than "a hour
before the body was found. HI
said death was due to hemorrhage
shock, conclusion of. the brain ant
face wounds.
Police, meanwhile, continued
their methodical questioning o
Miss Shorts women friends in tn
hope they might get a lead.
Another of the black-haire'
beauty's friends, Georgia (Toni
Smith, %, voluntarily appeared a
police headquarters. She said sh'
understood she had been listed a
missing and desired to offer an.
help she could to officers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina - Fair and
warmer Thursday and Thursday night
Friday, fair and mild.
Il stern Standard Time)
by U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1880 am. 81: 1880 am. %; 1880 pm. SO
80 pm. IS.
Maximum 40; Minimum 81; Mean &c.
Normal So.
Humidity
1:30 am. 40; 1850 am. SO: / 80 p m. %
7 80 pm. IS.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1850 I'm -
0.GO inches.
Total since the first of the month -
inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ---- 1898 am. SIS am.
10:46 pm. $3.50 pm.
Inlet 1923 am. 2:03 am.
1928 pm. 2:44 pm
Sunrise IT'S; Sunset 5:34; Moonr1se 80;
am; Moonset $50 pm.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at s
am. Wednesday,. 1913 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Mercury United States
Riuals South Pole Figure

America said Antarctic tempera-
lures Tuesday ranged from a low
of 20 to a high of 81 above ere.
Warm winds from the Southwest
began breaking up a cold wave in
the Midwest and %forecasters said
the warmer area would hit the East
Thursday.
The only sub-zero weather in the
United States at midday was re-
corded in Maine. However, tenn
peratures in Northern Wisconsin
and Upper Michigan range from
5 to 10 degrees above zero.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
By C. A. JR.
Associated Press Staff Writer

RALEIGH, Jan. a. up -
Rep. Oscar Barker of Durham
is getting "A" for effort in the
book of every public school
teacher in North Carolina.
His championship Of the
amendment to raise the scale
of salary increases as provid-
ed for teachers and other state
employees in the administra-
ton supplemental appropria-
lions bill has inspired uncount-
ed scores of kilograms, letters
and telephone calls commend
ing his efforts and urging him
to continue the fight.
These messages come most
ly from teachers, but dozens Of
them have heep sent by parents
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
0PA SUGAR PLAN
HELD 'INVALID''
Federal Judge Says Ra.
tioning To Industrial
Users Unlawful Mode

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-P)eA
federal Judge held today that OPA's
plan of rationing sugar to industrial
users is invalid and an appeal was
announced Sin view of the import
,nce of this issue to industrial U.s.
.rs and consumers alike"
Philip B. Fleming, head of the
office of temporary controls, said
that the government will ask that
the ruling be held in allegiance
pending appeal.
OPA officials said the decision,
bv Judge F. Dickinson Let's, does
moi affect consumer rationing at
This time but Fleming said in a
statement that it is possible under
the ruling that the present system
Of ~rationing 10 industrial users
must be abandoned.
Should a new system provide
more sugar for industrial users, it
was noted. there will be that much
less for consumers.
Judge Let's contention for the
Moberly (Mo.) Milk Products CON-
pany that it should not be subject
I'd to the historical use" formula
Of dividing up sugar supplies.
DiScriminateS
The company commended that this
method, which is based on S OF
sugar in years of plenty, discri-
minated against new industrial US
ers in favor Of old firms.
Raymond Dickey of the law firm
which represented the Moberly
company, told reporters, Il think
the ruling applies to one particular
producer. but the import may be
wider. We did not bring a class
action. 1t was not necessarily our
purposes to knock out the ration
Ing program X x X it does not
necessarily upset the program, but
II OPA is unable to devise a
method of rationing in conformity
with the ruling, that decision is up
to them"
In commenting On a similar case
last year. OPA officials said that
if it had lost that case, it might
have had to abandon all sugar ra-
tioning. (The case never came to
trial.
Appeal Planned
It was noted then that if in
dustlial users could buy unlimited
quantities, it would be next to i'm
possible to carry on rationing to
ordinary consumers.
Charles W. Quick, chief counsel
Tor OPA's sugar division, advised
against specializing as to the pos
slble effects of the Moberly case
and said, "of course, we plan to
appeal the decision"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
SECOND OFFICER
RELEASED ON BAIL
District Solicitor Reduces
Amount From $4,000
To $500

Roy Grissett, former city police
ol1lcer charged with three counts
81 breaking and entering, was re-
leased from jail yesterday after
loon under So, 500 bond, according
=" attaches of the sheriff's office.
clifton Moore, district solicitor,
'eouced the amount of the bond
.eS'eFday morning following a
consultation with Ebert Brown, at
"fhey for the defendant.
1flSsett's bail had originally
zen set at a total of SO, 900, with
e''oOo for each Of the three charges.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23

however, he told reporters the
man had a commercial pilots
license but not for scheduled airs
line flight.
Miller's complaint came as he
tool, over the questioning of James
M. Lands, chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics board and first witness
in the committees inquiry.
He asked Lands if he would be-
surprised to know that an epilep-
tic had been granted a license to
fly passengers?"
YES" replied Lands. IF you
have it X X X"
IT have it," said Miller, "but 7
would rather not give it to you in
public"
Late Discovery
w. S. Dawson, director of CABS
safety bureau, broke in to say that
one such case had been discovered
six months after a pilot received
his license.
Later, in response to questions,
he told reporters that this parti-
cular case involved a co-pilot on
one of the airlines. He said the
flier, whom he declined to identify
specifically. vas fired by the air.
line upon discovery that he was an
epileptic, and that he subsequently
joined the Flying Tigers and be-
came "a great war hero"
He told reporters it is difficult
to discover all ~epileptic iii an ordi-
nary examination.
Chairman Wolverton GRIND of
the Commerce committee said at
the start Of the hearing that a
public Gloss of confidence" is cut
ting down air travel. He called
for swift action to spread the use
of safety devices developed in war;
time.
Lands Grilled
Committeeman asked Lands
why the safety devices are not al
ready in general use.
Lands gave three reasons:
J.. Some of the developments
such as radar--had been guarded
as military secrets.
2. The work of converting them
for civilian use takes time.
3. They cost considerable money.
He said Congress could "con-
slider the extent to which the feder-
al government can appropriately fl
nance the building of a more
aesguate airway system" Under
questioning, he acknowledged CAB
never has asked Congress directly
to finance the navigation aids.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23

WASHINGTON, Jan. % = up -
Former President Herbert Hoover
said tonight the United States must
feed Germany whether we like 1t
or not'' because 1--WE cannot have
the American flag flying over 49,
600. 900 people reduced to a gigan-
tic Buchenwald.'
Without celebrating on his refer
e,ce to the Nazi horror camp at
Buchenwald, Hoover said the Ger
mans are now reduced to a daily
diet of about 1,400 Galleries, COM
lpared with the average American
consumption of 3,400 Galleries.
1.-THE supply of food in Germany
today is less than enough to main
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
SO To Bed

Add Court Scene:
Lilly, the Negro servant Of
a local family, recently was
summoned and hailed into
court.
AS it was her first Offense,
it was with considerable fear
that she faced the judge.
When Judge ii. Winfield
Smith gave her a suspended
sentence and told her. to re-
turn home.
Lilly jubilantly announced to
her employer that the "Jedge
has just given me a splendid
sentence"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY IHLf ASSOClAIED fhESS
The weather map followed an er-
ratio pattern Wednesday with tenn
peratures in Northern Florida
dropping as low as near the South
Pole.
A cold wave from the Midwest
erveioped the Eastern states, with
freezing weather extending down
into Florida. The Chicago Weather
bureau reported Jacksonville, Fla,
recorded a minimum temperature
of 20 degree sat the airport ano
Ocala, Fla, 80.
Meanwhile, reports from Little
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
FIRE KILLS TWO
robson TOTS
Coroner Reports Second
Violent Death Since Start
Oh New Year
Special tn The Scar

LUMBERTON, Jan. 22-Coroner
D. w. Biggs reports that two Me-
gro children, aged three and four
years, we're burned to death Tues
day afternoon when fire destroyed
their tenant home on the Alexander
ellis farm in the edge Of Parkton.
They were the children of Junior
Lilly and his wife, both of whom
We're working away from home
at the time. Other children in the
house said to have been occupied
by two families fled to safety or
were rescued.
By the time the fire was dis
covered by adults the home was
such a raging inferno that no one
could enter to rescue the two chill
dren who we're burned TO death.
Since the fire was apparently
of accidental origin no inquest will
be held the coroner said.
These are the first accidental
deaths to occur in Robson coun-
ty in 1947.
LUMBERTON, Jan. 22-Robeson
county's second homicide Of 1947
took place Wednesday afternoon
about 3 o'clock in the Black Ankle
section, South of Fairmont, where
Alex Smith, young Indian farmer,
was instantly killed by two pistol
wounds in the chest allegedly in
flicted by his neighbor, Jimmy
Lee, Coroner D. w. Biggs reported.
Lee left the scene following the
shooting and has not been appre-
hended. Time for an inquest is
pending his arrest.
Coroner Biggs stated that the
two men who were good friends
of the same race had been together
most of the day. They got into an
argument over car keys and Lee
is reported to have shot Smith
three times, two bullets piercing
his chest.
A Negro died on Jan. u from
stabs in the throat inflicted by an
other Negro in a cafe braWl near
Rowland the night before.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Marshall "Sauies"

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90 - Up =
Starting his first full day as Sec
rotary of State Gen. George c
Marshall fell in with the tradition
that diplomats are u%nhurried. He
arrived at his desk at 1920 a. m.
after driving some IS miles from
his home at Leesburg, Va.
In the Army he was usually or
the job before 8 a. m. and some
times expressed the opinion tina
little useful work could be perform
ed after 8 o'clock in the after
NOM.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Teachers OfState
LaudBarkerEffor
Durham Representative To Assembly Gets
Scores OF Wires, Letters From Citi-
zens, Parent Teacher Group

individually and acting through
their parent : teacher associa-
tons.
All urge Barker to stand by
the pay increases proposed in
his noW-fanled amendment,
and some urge him TO fight fer
d 40 per cent pay raise for
teachers.
The original salary bill
provided an average increase
of about 20 per cent for public
school teachers and other state
employees. Barker had not see
the bill until it had been pass
ed hurr eddy by the Senate and
then came up for considera-
ton in the House.
Continued OH Page 2; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Premier Resigns

ATHENS, Greece, Thursday,
Jan. 23-W.R-Premier Constantin
Tsaldaris last night handed his
resignation to King George II and
early today a government spokes-
man announced a new coalition
cabinet had been accepted by
parliament leaders
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Licensed
To Fly Passengers
Rep. Miller Hurls BOmbshell Into Inquiry
On Causes, Cures For Plane Crashes;
Lands Cites Safety Holdups q.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2-lP-Rep. Miller tR-Conn). World War
L aviator II lost both legs i'll a plane crash. said today that an
eplepuc had been granted u federal pilots license to fly passengers.
Miller added that attempts to have the license revoked have been
His assertion was made before the House Commerce COMMITTEES
during the opening day of al inquiry into the causes and cures for
plane crashes.
Miller did not disclose in public the identify of the pilot. Later
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
Senate Republicans
Win First Skirmish
Final 1913 Vote Extends Life Of Special
War Investigating COMMITTEES; Nip,
Tuck Roll Calls Show COP Holding

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-P-SenateR Republicans triumphed toda
in their first big legislative battle of the new Congress-. winning :
years extension of life for the Special War Investigating committee
Their victory came after nipand-tuck roll calls which showed
Republican lines holding adequately in a political pinch.
The final vote was 40 to 43, but the real test was tbe 4 TO A.
cmnt which defeated a Democratic move to take the nvos+io.+io
u.r frauds and excessive war profits "a from tho noo;. $50.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23
MEDICAL GROUP
H0N0RS VETERANS
Physicians Reveal Early
Experiences OF Practice
Here

-Four veteran physicians told Of
their early experiences in the
practice of medicine here in Will
mington during a meeting of the
New Hanover County Medical
society last night which was set
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-23

Wilmington and vicinity - Fair and
warmer today and tonight; Friday fail
and mild.