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Evening star., 1947-12-12
Where and When
Current Theoter Attractions
and Time Of Showing

Stage.
National - "Sweethearts": $50
pm.
Catholic University - Jenny
Kissed Me-: $50 pm.
Screen.
Ambassador-"Jezabel";; 1:15, 8,
6:25, 1880 and 9:4o pm.
Capitol-"Pirates OF Monterey;
II am, 1:45. 4:ao, 7:2o and 1905
pm. Stage shows: /, 3:45, 6::35 and
$40 pm.
Columbia-"Song of Love-; 1o:45
am. 1855, $40, $40, 7:so and
9:45 pm.
Hippodrome Green for Dam
GER; 2:l5. 4:05, 6. 7:50 and 9:40 pm.
Keiths-"The Secret Life of Wal
ter Nifty; 10:45 am, l, 3:15, $50,
7:45 and 10 pm.
Little Torment; 1895, $40,
6:45 and 10 pm. "Lifeboat"; ii am,
2:G5, $40 and 8:l5 pm.
Metropolitan-"The Doctor Takes
a Wife: II am, Ito, 3:15, 5:25, 7::3O
and 9:45 pm.
Palace Where There's Life;
1875 am, lao, $40, 5:45, 7:50 and
$50 pm.
Pix-"scarface" 2:25, 5:55, s:15
and 1925 pm.
Warner - "Jezebel";; 11:30 am,
1:35, $40, 5:45, 7:50 and 9:55 pm.
Evening star., 1947-12-12
Better Than Real

HOLLY WOOD.
Henry Morgan turned teacher Of
one of the seventeen dialects in
which he is expert, and he had no
less pupil than Rudy Vallee.
Working together in Stanley Kra-
mer's so This Is New York" which
Screen Plays is making for Enter
prise, Rudy plays the role of a rich
Texas rancher racing his string of
horses at an Eastern track.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
GALLON TRIAL
SET OCTOBER 5
Waterman To Face Murder
Charge In Death OF
Rhodes Youth

HENDERSONvILLE, Aug. 20
Solicitor c. o. Rulings said today
that he has sufficient evidence in
the Staying Of Noah c. Rhodes,
Jr., to present the Henderson
county grand jury October s..
81 think the evidence l have
will be sufficient to get an indict-
ment, too" Rulings said.
The solicitor said that one OF
his ''key angles in presenting the
case to the grand jury will be the
testimony Of the nightwatchman,
]. r. Cation who, according to
Rulings told Sheriff Bill Dalton
that he shot young Rhodes the
morning Of July l at the Ashe-
ville-Hendersonville airport after
he picked up a chock from an
airplane wheel and started to
throw it at him.
The chock, Rulings said Cation
told the sheriff, never left Rhodes
hand, and evidence at the inquest
indicated. although Cation did not
testify, that young Rhodes was
probably shot with his hands by
his sides.
Cations testimony to the sheriff
further indicated that he shot
Rhodes after the 16-year-old youth
dropped the chock at the COM
mand OF the nightwatchman, Rid
ings said.
Rhodes, son Of Mr. and Mrs. N.
C. Rhodes, Sr., Wilmington, was
a student at Mars Hill college,
and is said to have planned to
take a plane home for the vaca.
ton shortly before he was killed.
A Henderson county coroner's
jury ordered Cation held on a
charge of murder in connection
with the Staying. He was released
under IS 1000 bail.
Meanwhile J. P. Mozingo, State
senator of Darlington, S. c., said
today that he would confer with
Attorney R. L. Whitmore in Hen
Jacksonville to determine whether
Rhodes father has taken out ad-
ministration papers in Henderson
county, pursuant to the filing of
civil action against the airport at
which the Staying occurred.
Mozingo said that he advised
Rhodes to proceed in this manner,
but had not determined whether
he had done so.
Dial 2-3311 Fol NewspaDer Service
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
GEORGIA-FLORIDA
TOBACCO MARKET
CLOSING SLATED

VALDOSTA, Ca, Aug. 20.-R-
Gross sales on Georgia : Florida
flue-cured tobacco markets yester-
day totalled 6 sos, 206 pounds at an
average of $26.57 per hundred
pounds, the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture reported.
This average was 1921 under
Monday and the lowest daily aver
age of the season. The poundage
was also the smallest. Season sales
now stand at 1872, $3.50, $40 pounds
and the average at $39.40.
Closing dates have been an
nounced as follows: Abel, Bailey
and Nashville, Ca, August 81;
Waycross, Ca; Lake City and Live
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
CADIZ EXPLOSION
KILLS ESQ PERSONS
Spanish Government Lifts
Ban On Casualty Figures
For First Time

CADIZ, Spain, Aug. 20 -U'1-
This city in mourning buried lib
of its dead at midday today as
the Spanish government lifted a
36-hour ban on casualty figures
and permitted a national news
agency to list $50 killed in Monday
devastating chain explo-
sion at a naval arsenal.
The news agency's figures, dis
tributed to the Spanish press could
not be authenticated Immediately.
Recue workers dug for more
bodies in the shattered suburbs of
San Jose and San S%everino, where
virtually every building was wreck
ed by the blast.
Identification was difficult be-
cause some bodies were only
pulpy masses and others had been
disfigured by flames and The
weight of wreckage.
An endless queue filed through
Cadiz cemeteries trying to identify
the dead.
Army sappers were called in to
dig through the huge piles of rub
BILE and fire-blackened ruins. They
worked by floodlight throughout
the night, and new teams came in
today.
Officials attempted to speed the
recovery of bodies to prevent the
possibility of epidemics. For the
second straight day a blazing sun
beat down on the ruins and the en-
tire peninsula area Vas perme ated
with a 'nauseating stencil.
1t was reported that some
chunks of iron weighing more than
200 pounds had been hurled nearly
two miles from the center of the
blast at the naval shipyard across
the bay.
Industrialists said that the indus
trial backbone of Cadiz had been
broken. They said that naval pre-
paredness was temporarily Grip
pied, with the silipyard leveIled.
They foresaw no reduction in i'm
portant commercial shipping,
however,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
CAROLINA BEACH
BUDGET LISTED
Resort Mayor Cites Taxes,
Expenditures; Prop
critics Noted

CAROLINA BEACH, Aug. 20
On the eve Of the submission Of
a WORKABLE budget for 1947-48,'
Carolina Beach's mayor, A. P,
Peay, today listed in detail ex
penditures to be made from the
additional $11, 340.6 &c anticipated
from the tax rate hike.
A stove for the Police depart.
ment, according to Mrs. Alice
Strickland, town clerk, will re.
place a "well-worn, out : NODDED
and further ~un-usable" number,
discarded this spring-$50.
Other properties were as, fol
lows:
Typewriter-$160.
Three new traffic lights - 5000.
Installed.
Life guards pay-$6OO.
Repair and maintenance to Fire
department equipment-$1, 600.
Six new tires for fire truck
$500.
Cook stove for Fire department
GA hour service)-$200.
One half the purchase price Of
a new automatic garbage collec,
ton truck-$2, 500.
One dump truck for Street de.
partment-$2, 100.
Asphalt kettle for repairing
streets-$500.
Repairs to nine-year-old Town
Hall-$8.50.
Street markers-$1,0 900.
Installation o. drainage pipe
5000.
Labor and materials excessive
costs reserve)-$l,0 20.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Inter Racial Group
Ordered To Comply
With Health Rules

ROANOKE RAPIDS, Aug. 20
R1Sheriff Harry A. House Of
Halifax county said tonight that
an inter-racial church group which
has been camping in Halifax coun-
tv had been given orders to com
Div with health regulations or
leave the county.
County Sanitarian E. A. Hastings
said that he called on the group
TODAY - composed of both whites
and Negroes and told them thai
they would have to comply with
the county sanitary regulations at.
fecting tourist camps or move Out
of Halifax county within II hours
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
OBITUARIES
LACY RAE BARNHILL

HAWBLUFF, Aug. 20.--Funeral
services were held for Lacy Rae
Barnhin, Saturday afternoon at J
o'clock in the Hawbluff Baptist
church. The Rev. c. B. Horne, as
sisted by the Rev. j. E. Malpass,
officiated. Interment followed IN
the church cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, Ivy
Mama Barnhill; n daughter,
Carolyn; two sons, Dewey and
Danny; mother, Emily Rocks
Barnhill; six sisters, Mrs. Arthur
Horrell, Mrs. H. P. Squires, Mrs.
H. D. Kelley, Mrs. Wilbur Taylor,
Mrs. Edmond Barnhill; and Mrs.
Conrad Horrell; three brothers, B.
F. Barnhill of Castle Hayne; R. O..
Of Atkinson; and Archie OF Ivan
hoe.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Vanderbilt Speaks
Ia Lejeune Marines

CHERRY POINT, Aug. 2o-F-
Gen. A. A. Vandergrift, command
ant Of the Marine corps, flew
here from Washington today to
address 1000 Marine Air Re
serves currently training at this
air station.
The reservists are practicing
with ground troops from nearby
Camp Lejeune in maneuvers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
CANNED SYMPATHY

NORMAN, Okla. W.D - Garner
columns, director of housing FOR
University of Oklahoma students,
has had a card printed to help
soothe troubled visitors to his Of
flee. 1t says: Your story has
touched my heart. Never before
have I met anyone with more trou-
bles than you have. Please accent
this token OF my sincere syrnpa
thy" Ex-GFs and others with
housing problems feel better when
they read the cards, Colluns said
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
JOHN RICHARD COVM

Funeral services for John Rich
ard Covil, rs, Winabow, who died
Tuesday morning at $50 o'clock,
were conducted yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock from the chapel
of Yopp's Funeral Home by the
Rev. G. w. Sheppard and the Rev.
J. M. Carroll. Interment followed
in the Prospect cemetery.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Spaniel Has Rubber Pup

HULL, Mass. WH-A pet cocker
spaniel named Kenmore Susan has
a mother complex. Owned by
James Lynch, the dog has never
haG puppies and so has adopted a
rubber dog. She carried the toy to
her basket and there snuggles up
to it as if it were her own pup.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
MISS ANNIE WINSTEAD
WALKER

Funeral services for Miss Annie
Winstead Walker, IS, who died
yesterday mroning at 800 o'clock
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital, will be conducted from the
chapel of the Yopp Funeral Home
this morning at 10 o'clock by the
Rev. Harvey Glazier. 1nterment
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
MRS. VIOLA WARD sTUCKEY

MRS. VIOLA WARD STUCKEY
Funeral services for Mrs. Viola
Ward Stuckey, So, of 214. Meares
street, who died while en- route to
James Walker Memorial hospital
Tuesday morning at 4:3O o'clock,
were held yesterday afternoon
from the residence. The Rev. P.
L. .McCarn officiated and inter-
ment followed in Bellevue ceme-
terry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
TRIPLE VALUE

PROVIDENCE, R. I. W.D-When
Mrs. Mile Joachim started to fry
an egg for her sons breakfast, she
got more than she had bargained
for-the egg had three yolks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

MISS NollCy lI1Sl d1l1, dSo1Stol1t
New Hanover county demonstra-
ton agent, attended the State
Dress Review in Raleigh yester-
day afternoon in the annual All
Club Week, it was announced by
officials OF the office.
E. c. Snead, assistant collector
Of customs for New Hanover coun-
ty, will return to his office today
in the Custom House, it was re-
ported yesterday.
Paul Cory, special agent for the
treasury department bureau Of In
ternal Revenue, was absent from
his office in the Custom House
yesterday. He will return to work
today.
City council yesterday was ask
ed to take under consideration a
reduction in taxes for the smaller
laundries in Wilmington, by Off
Gals OF. two firms. Council will in
vestigate the appeal and report and
recommend at next weeks meet
ing.
A Community hospital report
made available to city council yes
terday disclosed receipts of the
hospital for the month of July
were $14. 707.1 l. Disbursements for
the same period were $13, 082.18.
The United States Coast Guard
cutter Mendoza, tied at the custom
house dock since her arrival here
a few weeks ago, left for Norfolk
yesterday morning, Coast Guard
officials announced. The ship will
remain in Norfolk until this week
end gathering supplies and new
personnel, it was reported.
Councilman Richard Burnett
said yesterday that he did not
have the "inside track for the
position of assistant to the city
manager, a position authorized in
the new budget. Burnett said he
had at no time discussed Or con-
sidered the possibility Of taking the
job. He squelched rumors that he
would be interested in the pos. if
it were offered him.
A resolution proposing the clos
ing Of a portion of Eighth street,
nea McRae street vas yesterday
adopted by city council.
Hamilton Hicks, public informa-
ton officer, Wilmington District
Corps of Engineers, will be on
leave from the local office in the
customhouse until Monday.
A 1886 Ford coach will be sold
at public auction by Alcohol Tax
Unit agents at Macmillan and
Cameron company Saturday, Aug.
%, at II a. m, it was reported
yesterday. A postal money order
or certified check payable to the
Internal Revenue collector at
Greensboro will be accepted as
payment for the car. The car was
taken by ATU agents during a
liquor transport raid last spring.
Three men yesterday were &C.
cepted for enlistment by the Will
mington Navy recruiting office.
They are: Ray Comnedo, Fair
mont, Negro, as seaman first
class; Wilton Branch, East Lum-
berton, Ships Cook second class;
and j. c. Lewis, Whiteville, ap-
prentice seaman.
Formal notification Of the ap-
preparation of $500, 900 for continu-
ance Of work in the Cape Fear
river deepening to 80 feet and
widening to 400 feet-has been re-
ceived by Wilmington division en-
gineers from the offices of Col.
George w. Gillette, South Atlantic
division engineer, Atlanta. The
amount is included in an overall
$50, 600, 600 program for the divi-
sion recently approved by Con-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
will follow in Bellvue cemetery
Miss Walker leaves no survivors
MRS. EUGENIA PADGETT
BRIDGES

MRS. EUGENIA PADGETT
BRIDGES
ELIZABETHTOWN, Augt 90
Funeral services for Mrs. Eugenia
Padgett Bridges, 80, who died sud-
denly yesterday morning at II
O'Clock at the bone of her mother
in Waltersboro, S. c., will be held
this afternoon at, 4 o'clock. In
terment will follow in the Live
Oak cemetery in Waltersboro.
Mrs. Bridges was the wife
of Albert Bridges, president OF
the Elizabethtown Rotary club and
agricultural teacher at Elizabeth
town high school.
Mrs. Bridges is survived by her
husband, mother, Mrs. Bessie
Bridges and one sister, Mrs.
Adeline Morrison, of Washington,
D C..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

OAK fla'' August %; = ",
trie' Ca, August 26. "O Noy
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
City Briefs

Three Wilmington men capsized
in a % foot shrimper in which they
had been fishing yesterday after
noon in the inlet at the southern
extension of Wrightsville Beach.
Thew were F. M. MCGOWAN, Ri. 3,
Box 1872, Wilmington, Paul Allean-
dor. 2015 Wolcott Ave. and John
Mccullough, Negro, Ri. 3, Whining
ton.
Four flight checks were given by
Examiner w. E. Feast at Pennlng-
ton Airport yesterday, it was an
nounced by James Pennington.
R. S. Matthews, district contact
representative for the Veterans
Administration, was absent from
his office in the Custom House
building yesterday afternoon be-
cause Of sickness. He will return
to work today, it was reported by
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

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Evening star., 1947-08-13
Kon-Tiki Crew Finds
Main Body Of Raft
Survived Reef Crash
By Thor HeyerdohI
North Ame,ieon h.w,nop.r Allio,,


RARO1A REEF, Tuamotu Islands,
Aug. 10 Delayed We have been
out to examine the Kon-Tiki raft
which is being driven closer to the
beach each day-and we find that
the main body Is still in perfect con-
dition. 1t should soon be beyond
the reef and into the calm water of
Raroia lagoon, as large waves are
continually nudging it over the bot
tom. We have not made any definite
decision, however, about how the
raft will fit into our future plans.
We have been ashore now for
three days. and have had time to
recollect the details of our unortho-
dox landing. One feature of it was
the blow-by-blow report of our ap-
proach to the breakers which Tor
stein Raaby, one of our radio opera
tors, gave to an amateur in Rara-
tonga.
BY the time Torstein contacted
Raratonga, 1t was evident that we
were going to have to attempt to
run over the reef. 1t was early in
the morning of our third day spent
trying to get around the islands.
when the night watch turned us all
out to see that the whole horizon
ahead of us, from end to end, was
covered with an uhbroken line of
breakers, reefs and small islands.
PreuarationS Described
Torstein told the operator in Ra-
ratonga that we were going to make
a try at it, and that if we were not
heard from for SO hours to contact
the Norwegian Embassy in Wash
ington. He then kept talking to
Evening star., 1947-08-13

Of US in the water quickly grabbed
the ropes which dangled into the
water from all parts of the raft.
1t was great temptation to get
OF the raft and try to strike out
across the reef, but I ordered every-
one to cling to the deck again and
they did. We took several more
waves, each one pushing us higher
onto the reef. until one giant comber
came in and threw us beyond the
highest point and into the calmer
water beyond. Once there, we hung
on while succeeding wash from
spent breakers pushed us slowly
over the hard, coral bottom.
When We were 900 yards from
shore, and by this time in such calm
water that we sat around in the
stern talking and only occasionally
getting sprayed from minor waves
against the bow, we made the de-
cision to leave the raft. We began
to wade along the reef and carried
all our things.
Sharks No Danger.
Small 4-foot sharks left us alone.
but eight large, poisonous Moral
eels once attacked Hesselberg and
Watzinger. The men crawled up to
higher coral and repulsed them with
a machete, cutting off the head of
one and wounding the others. The
sharks then came in and caught
the wounded eels. At one point a
baby octopus caught my foot, but I
shook him loose on shore.
Once we had our things in, we
walked over the beach and SURVEYED
Evening star., 1947-08-13

Raratonga, describing our prepara-
tions for the attempt.
We cut UP the bamboo deck
which fits over the main logs, so
that we could haul our centerboards
out as we got. to the reef. Ali our
loose cargo was taken inside the
bamboo hut, covered with a canvas
tarpaulin and lashed down.
BY 7:30 am. we were close to the
breakers and all hands were briefed
on landing procedure. Every one
was told to stick with the raft at
all costs, and never to consider
leaving it during the trip through
the heaviest surf. Only after the
raft had washed through the major
part of the inferno-and into the
minor breakers beyond the first line
should any one think of leaving
the logs And they could only leave
then when I felt that the raft was
definitely grounded and gave. the
command to climb out on the coral.
Put on Shoes.
Then, for the first time in 1O1
days at sea, we put on our shoes
and our life vests. For awhile we
headed parallel to the line of
breakers, while Bengt Danielsson
served us a big, hot meal. We then
turned toward the breakers.
When we were $50 yards away,
Herman Watzinger threw an i'm
provised anchor off the bow. It
held us for a few minutes while
Evening star., 1947-08-13

! Erik Hesselberg climbed the mast
and lowered our sail. knut Haug-
land secured our important docu-
ments In a waterproof lashing.
Torstein radioed 20. K, here we
CO." and closed down the radio
Then we all fell to the deck and
grabbed the lashings as the anchor
dragged slowly along but kept our
bow into the swells behind us.
We we're lifted high in the air,
and then dropped into, hollow
between big waves. Three huge
waves came aboard and all of us
held our breaths and clung to the
lashings while the water roared
over us. When they had gone,
every one headed for the high spots:
Haugland, Danielsson and Wat
Finger held to the roof OF the bam-
boo hut, Raaby climbed the sail
block and I went right up the
doub'" mast. We no sooner got
ther ~ an a great wall of water hit
us. me men below me later re-
ported that the water lowered as
feet over my head-and I was atop
the mast-before it engulfed the
raft.
All Go Under Water.
We all went under water, and
then there was big crash. Our
stern, which. was going in first had
struck the reef. When the water
cleared, Raaby and I were SWIM
ming, both sides of the mast were
dangling In the water, and the bam-
boo hut had been pushed over on its
side like house of cards. The two
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Will Boost Majority
In Congress, Reece Saws
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla, Aug. 13.-The Re-
publican Party will increasesits ma
jority in both houses of Congress
during the next general elections
Carroll Reece, Republican National
Committee chairman, says.
Mr.. Reece made his prediction
during stopover here yesterday
en- route to South America for a
months tour.
The Republican Party has never
had so many well-qualif1ed presi-
GENITAL candidates" he said. He pre-
dlcted that whoever was nominated
Evening star., 1947-08-13

by the Republicans would be elected
President in 194S.
In my travels around the coun-
try flnd that the people feel a
deep concern for making sure that
a type of government which will
insure an American way of life
free enterprise, free management
and free labor is retained" he said.
Mr.. Reece was accompanied bv
his wife and 1s-year-old daughter
Louise.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

the island. It was all like a dream
to US as we felt the warm, soft sand
under our feet and noticed the
glorious vegetation around us.
Evening star., 1947-08-13
Fall Fatal to Motorcyelist

BALTIMORE, Aug. 10 P.-Reg-
gle Smith. 20, of Savage, Md, died
IN hospital here yesterday of
injuries suffered when he fell from
MS motorcycle near his home In
the Howard County town.
Evening star., 1947-08-13

Men II to 30! Want a good lob?
Sign up today for three-year hitch
IN the United States Navy. Check
with your Navy Recruiting Office for
details
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1947-09-26
The Student
Body Speaks
Complied bv Dolores Norris

Compiled by Dolores Norris
Question: What would you most
like to see in the new school
building?
Ladies lounge. r.
Air conditioning T.
Lockers B. F.
Recreation room inside M: ,
,.Lockers-so that I'll be the
ONLY one to use my books"-B. 5.
Inside water fountains h. >.
Laboratory and library"-F.S.
Good window shades"-D. q.
scientifically equipped labor
atory" j. A.
Stationary desks"-M. w.
Lockers S.
"Whiteboards instead OF black
L. H. 49,.
Fountains in the halr'-B. b.
"A statue of Shakespeare so l
can throw my theme on Shakes
peare's life at it,. c.
"A statue of Juliet so can
teach Romeo how to make love
R. NJ.
"A picture of Frank Sinatra-
second choice George Peck -E.E.
Allan Ladd"-W. R.
Lockers S.
One hundred good-looklng un-
conceited girl" r.
Desks with room for new IN.
itials-the old ones are out OF
dated. P. G.
Modern cafeteria"-W. Z. E
ELECTRICITY - and plenty OF
good light" anon. c
"A GOOD set of teachers"-Guy.
..Auditorium"-W. E.
New books"-W. L:
News desks"-L. M.
Loads of pretty teachers -
Anon. ,.,,,,
Funny books in the library,
d. w. j. =,
Myself and a place to eat
Mr.. Heniford"-P. A.
elevators c. ~.
Something to warm by in the
winter''-could this mean Arm
strong heaters?-Anon.
Mr.. Heniford'S picture on Inc
bulletin board"-Anon.
Funny faces'-K. l.. U.
Myself S. 49,,
Another Miss Branlett -
Anon. 5000. d
Lockers for your books"-B.J
"A swimming pool IN the gym
B. U. 49,. .,,
Home &c building and gym
"A subject 1 can pass'-An!oII,
"Just so we get a new buiid
ing l don't care what's IN 1t. :
M. P "a,
"A large auditorium with
stage large enough to do all kind
of things on. and plenty of goo
! up-to-date equipment. -. b.
Appearance. and the soone
! the better"-M. R.
can auditorium and chemlstr
! lab-both fully eQuipped.-S. :
| "RATHING BEAUTlES-T;
| Plenty of good-lookins girls s.
: especially Joyce Small. b. N