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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
LOpsided Trade Balance

It used to the claim of Missou-
rians that an unscalable wall could be
built around their frontiers and they
would still produce for themselves
everything needed for comfortable ex-
istence. Missouri, they said, was self
sufficient and could be entirely self
supporting. We do not know if they
still cling to the same idea..
Whether they do or not is beside
the mark, as the United States in all
regions has had to cast off it's old be-
lief in isolation. The Atlantic and
Pacific oceans no longer afford the
security they once did, nor can the
United States prosper. despite it's great
resources, without contact with the
rest of the world. Among it's chief.
most valuable outside contacts, is trade.
Yet trade, foreign trade, indispensi-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
Star Program

State ports with Wilmington favored
In proportion with its resources. to in
clude public terminals, tobacco storage
warehouses, ship repair facilities. near
by sites for heavy Industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development Of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industrial re-
sources through better markets and food
processing. pulp wood production and
factories.
Emphasis on the regions recreation
advantages and improvement of resort
accommodations.
Improvement Of Southeastern North
Cardinals farm-to-market Inc primary
roads. with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head iG1and.
Continued effort through the City's In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries.
Proper utilization OF Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
re, elopment of Southeastern North
Cardinals health facilities. especially in
counties lacking hospitals. and includ-
ing a Negro Health center
Encouragement Of the growth Of COM
mercial fishing.
Consolidation OF City and County
governments.
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surements here that would tit
every window. Simply remember
that the box is to be as long and
as wide as the space will per-
NIT.
Let us suppose that u window
sill has space enough for a box
36 inches long and 8 inches wide.
A board So inches long, 6 inches
wide and an inch thick will serve
as the bottom. We make a series
of wedge-shaped notches along the
edges of the board, as shown IN
Figure /. Thus, when the box is
put together, it will have a num-
Der of holes in the bottom. The
purpose Of these holes is to per-
nit proper drainage of water.
You see, after you fill the box
with soil, this will have to be wa
tered from time to time. If the
water were not allowed % drain
of, it would turn the soil sour
and this would prevent the flowers
from thriving. If you have a
brace and bit, you may also make
satisfactory drainage holes by
drilling at intervals along the bot
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
BY T EDISON

WASHINGTON. Anyone taking a
dim view of the housing situation
can today confidently expect that
it may be a 10. worse before il
gets any better.
On half a dozen fronts in Con-
gress and the executive agencies,
events are shaping up for an
eventual showdown on government
housing policy. What it will lead
to-, no private industry nor gov
eminent housing official can say
with any certainty. But these de-
velopments seem likely:
Heavy cuts in appropriations for
existing housing agencies.
Curtailment or abolition OF
many mere housing controls.
A late summer and fall in which
private enterprise real estate and
building interests will have every
thing their own way. If they are
able to build more houses and
bring down prices as their trade
associations have claimed they
could, further expansion of g o "
eminent participation in housing
activities may be ended.
If private industry doesn't de
liver, the chances for passage OF
a government long range aid to
housing bill such as is ~incorporat-
ed in the ft-Wagner-Elleder
proposal would seem to be much
improved. There is little chance
that the TIVE bill can get past
the House in the present session of
Congress.
Either way this situation de-
velops, it is going to take the bet
ter part Of a year to work out.
The house : hunting public may
NAV have to put up with incon-
veiences and shift for itself in
the meantime. But if it can hold
out long enought, something really
constructive may be worked out.
In the light of recent develop
ments in Congress, there appears
to be no other solution than to let
present programs die and start
again from scratch.
If Congress and the real estate
and building Hobbies had permit
ted the Veterans Emergency
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
VOTES WET

Mecklenburg county finally hal
voted for the North Carolina state
liquor stores, and Charlotteans no
longer will have to drive across
the state line to York county for
the ingredients for cocktails and
highballs. The results of the recent
local option election will interrup.
what Ashmore, editor of the Char.
lotte News, has described asa
reciprocal trade arrangement
Charlotte sends couples in a hurry
to be married to York county tf
South Cardinals easy-to-get L.
censes; South Carolinians sees.s
martial relief cross the other aag
for divorce. Border residents Of
South Carolina go to Charlotte 70:
Sunday entertainment; MeckIe1'
burg tipplers pay return calls 70
Fort Mill and other nearby liquor
stores, which have cone a thriving
trade.
The decision in Mecklenburg vii
be a bitter blow to these deserving
merchants. and the loss Of taxes
to South Carolina is estimated a
a million dollars a year. 1t is Un
fortunate that the reciprocal a.
ragements should not have lncluA'
ed guest voters in the liquo: stoEs
election. York county citizens
would have been glad to vote dry
with the rural folk Of Mecklen,
burg against the city slickers Of
Charlotte. :,
The loss of the largest city o.
the Carolinas from the dry column
must be a bitter blow for the pfV'
fessional drys, especially in view
Of the recent statemets OF MIS-
o. D. Leigh Colvin, president o.
the National Women's ChrlSls.
Temperance Union. She SAID M
communities were added to PR
hibition ranks in 1916 by local op
ton, and that drys were ofsa.
ing to submit the stateWide p,v
hibition question to voters m lou.
Southern states. including No.u
Carolina. Prohibition sentlnlsI.
she reported, also is growing ~
four other states, among H''"'
South Carolina.
So long as the state finances 'n
as dependent on liquoy taxes, a.
South Cardinals I today ulsts
seems small likelihood Of the sias
going dry. Should North Cafo!r''
relapse into statewide pronlo e1'.s
it would be a boon to all the o oo"t,
Carolina border counties oU"G.
Carolina candidates might fIte
expedient to run on a pla'l on.
favoring prohibition for Norm w. w.,
DINA. Then they could appeal 49, -.
to the drys and the vets, "i v.g.
hurting anybody-CharlesloA N'''
And Courier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
Gold In Them Thar Hills

Up in the mountains near Boone an
old gold mine is being r%eopened. The
news is interesting if not unusual.
! Every so often an abandoned shaft in
the state is opened up with varying
'~sthccess.
What is more interesting is that
gold mining in North Carolina started
before the Revolution. It is reported
that Mecklenburg county has all of a
hundred abandoned shafts. The Chris
: tian Science Monitor reveals that the
original "gold rush" in the state was
in the early 1905. We read in it's
issue Wednesday:
"In 1899 a 1~2-year-old boy in Cabar-
u County found a 17-pound nugget
while fishing in a creek. He took it
home and his family used it for a door
. stop until a jeweler CHANGED to see it.
e. Until 1850 gold mining was the
chief industry of Mecklenburg County
and slaves worked gravel deposits along
the streams. The Charlotte Mint mint
= ed gold coins until the Civil War. Aft
erward it was reopened and operated
until 1913 but was used only as an as
say office"
: Good luck to the Boone miners.
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s. Strengthening piece.

solid by adding Strengthening
pieces like that shown in Figure
8. They should be attached at the
corners; they are nailed to both
the pieces against which they are
placed, as indicated in Figure d.
We complete our task by giving
the box two or more coats of
paint.
After we have placed the box
on the window sill, we lire the
bottom, to a depth of about 2
inches, with broken pieces of
crockery. Like the holes in the
bottom, they are for drainage
purposes.l Then we put in soil up
to within half ali inch of the top.
We are now ready to put seeds,
plants or cuttings into our flower.
box. 1t would be we'll to choose
flowers which have large hos
SONS and brilliant colors.
Copyright, 1916, BY The Grolier
Society Inc, based upon The Book
Of knowledge
distributed By United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
MONDAY:-The Submarine.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
Housing Faces A Showdown

Housing program to operate. the
story today might be different.
If Congress had passed the Taft
Wagner-Ellender bill last year or
earlier in the present session of
Congress-, the story might be diff
ferent.
If Congress had approved Pres
dent Truman's housing reorganiza-
ton plan last year the story might
be different.
If Congress should approve the
Presidents new Reorganization
Plan No. 8, sent to the Capitol
on May ~, something still might
be salvaged from the ruins. This
plan would group the 10 existing
government housing agencies I'M
der a new Housing and Home FL
nance Agency, with a new direct
or to boss the works. But tn e
House apparently wants no part
of this scheme, and if both branch
es of Congress reject a White
House reorganization plan within
60 days from the time it is SUBJ
mitted, it's dead.
On top Of all this negative
action, the House Appropriation
Committees special report blast
ing the Federal Public Housing
Authority as "a complete failure ;
puts all government housing pro-
grams under suspicion. The re-
port is enc of the most vicious
criticisms ever made by a con-
gressional committee against an
executive agency. 1t charges
waste, mismanagement, embessle-
ment, favoritism to labor unions
and all manner Of shady practices.
The House Appropriations Com
mittee had previously recommend
ed liquidation of the Office of Fed
eral Housing Expediter at the end
of June, which is another black
eye.
The new housing bill introduced
by Congressman Jesse P. Wolcott
Of Michigan has already curhed
much of the expediter's powers.
The bill has been passed by both
Senate ano House. The President
and is now in conference. Final
approval by Congress will come
soon. The President will practical
ly be forced to sign the measure.
Failure to do so would allow all
housing and rent controls to ex-
pire June 80.
With all this ~wreckage of fed
eral housing agencies strewn
around, the only hope for any kind
of government aid to housing will.
be to start on new foundations and
build an entirely rev co-ordinated
program. Out Of the chaos ahead
the need may be seen for some
really constructive law which will
profit from past mistakes.
The present mess in which gov
eminent housing agencies find
themselves. represents a complete
victory for the housing industry.
Real estate, building materials
and builders organizations want
ed all government housing r
grams killed SO as to restore the
business to uncontrolled free en-
terprise: That's what they will
soon have, But if they don't
deliver more and cheaper housing
within the next year, the situation
may well be dynamite for the Re-
publicans in 1913 elections. Their
only hope will be in Senato~ Taft's
being able to put over thu TIVE
program CT something like it, ~
take full credit for himself
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
HAUNT OF MISSING
HEIRS IN BOSTON
BY FRED BRADY
Ap Newsfea4uro.

BOSTON - On Bescos
can stand and see not All ALI M nlll You
To- the world but who q rs' ei''s,
many of them enc u'So IVES IN
live there. Miss Marion used 10
can show you. o"lnn
In a room dim With c,,;o
steps from the state 5onso a few
|Swimm is librarian for ~ Miss
Of many cities and toun nae books
and abroad - 1900 volnp,aa efe
of the names and addra.es full
people who live, OF ohca l sSeS Of
them. "feo, in
Miss swimm thinks -.
largest library o. direo. us the
the nation. 1t is kept NV 'D'les IN
England Historic Genealorae New
ciety in what was once w So,
next door to the society ", r sa i'm
The library is open to n, rooms.
every morning and Mise st p public
says: Were never rus5st S"inn
people do seem 10 CONS Nv out
es to look up things sv ar 'anca'
in a while" once
Lawyers checking On
heirs or family "details Nh, ,lsSAs
most of her visitors. But 4aAe up
many others. Like the ms s.s afe
spent days studying old dirsawa VINO
Of Brooklyn. ''Ofls'
HE didn't say exsc.lv
Miss swimm reports, but bs sa y.
quite excited when he found d' VIZ, was
he was looking for It had ,a Haa'
thing to do with disprovjno 'v,ns'
persons claim 10 an inhesi, sOIas
and I gathered that findins ss,
Brooklyn address meant uui,a a''
lot of money for him.
cts really SURPRISING =,
says, 1.-THE thrill some peon,s M.
out of finding things here, 4 ~. ~
old lady will jump right uu tro.
her chair and say-just IooE E' !.
what I've found. So and N ~ ~
live there Just as grandmos N.Y.
said"
Oldest directory in the lb,,r
is one of Boston in 1889 M
others range up the years and
across countries of Europe AZ v w
as America.
Miss Swimm can help Won fin,
old families or friends from c,r'
ada to the West Riding Of yn,.
shire.
If you're wondering about Boz.
ton ancestors some of the old Al.
rectories will show you what The,
did for a living and even how
many slaves they kept. The BIZ.
tonian directory on page 800 li,,
people of color"
A d yer S m Is seats,
ed through the volume tell d
banks with capital of sl5O,m
They list stage coach schedule,
and address themselves f%reuuen.
ly to gentlemen or ladies taking
their meals from home"
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The Book Of knowledge

We can make the box more
tom of the box.
Next, we prepare two pieces OF
wood SO inches long, 8 inches wide
and an inch thick; these are the
front and back pieces of the box.
We also need two end pieces, 7
incnes long, 6 inches vice and an
inch thick. We nail all these
pieces together as is shown in Fig
ure 2. Note that the front and
back come down in front of the
bottom piece; and end pieces &c
on top of the bottom piece and be-
tween the front and back pieces.
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1. Bottom of box.
2. Box nailed together.

nate enough to have gardens in
which to grow flowers. But a win
dow sill will erv very well, pro-
vided that it is long enough and
wide enought to hold a floWer-box.
Making a flower-box for a Win
dow sill is easy. AS windows diff
fer in size, we cannot give mea-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
GOOD MORNING

Churches should be a place to which people
can go and worship as serenely in working
clothes as in their best clothes.--rev DR..
NeviI Davidson Of Glasgow, ScotlaA1t
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21
Star Dust
Looking Ahead

Looking Ahead
What made you decide to put off
your wedding by two days."
wen, you see, 1 figured it out
ma my silver wedding anniver.
sary would come on a Saturday.
ana j.! always play golf on Satur-
days" - Tit Bits.
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Department.
THINGS TO. MAKE AND DO
HOW TO MAKE A
E

In these days when great num-
bers Of people live in cities and
towns, a good many r not FORTH
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-21

hv STAN J. COLLINS IAT"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
Many Leaders Drop Up lie
Two Points Under
Liquidation Drive

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-(R)-
Stock prices skidded suddenly
In the markets final hour to-
day. many leaders losing one
to more than two points.
Top-ranking oils, s~teels, mot
ors. rubbers and rails were tar
gets in the burst of liquidation
that shook the share list out OF
its narrow range. The furry OF
selling put the ticker tape a
minute behind floor transactions
for the first time since July %.
Total transfers expanded to $780,
600 shares compared with &c.
900 Monday.
Although the slide was of short
duration there was little come
back and many issues finished
near the days lows. The AS
ISOLATED Press 60-Stock COM
posite declined 8 Of a point to
a. its sharpest drop since Sept.
&. OF 993 issues registering 676
lost and ISL gained.
Pessimism Rife
General pessimism over inter-
national relationships, high
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
NEW YORK PRODUCE
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-U.D-
Produce markets: potatoes,
dollars per 100 lbs. unless other
wises indicated) quiet. Wash
ington long whites No. l., 4.25
to 500. Long Island green mts.
No. l 10000, green mts. No. 1B
1,35 asked, katahdins No. l, 2.65-
rs. No. 1B 1.25-.40, chippewas
No. l 2.50-80, No. 1B 1855.
pickouts 1.00-.5 so, cobblers No. l
2.50-80, pickouts 1:0o-.50. 10
Id. bag 81, Idaho, russets No. l
4.75-5.00.
Sweet potatoes, bushel bas-
kets, steady and New Jersey,
Jersey type No. l, 1.50-2.75, Jer-
sey type medium 50-1.00, pink
hearts No. /, 1.75-2.00, Virginia
golden No. /, 1.75-2.25, Jersey
type No. /, 2.00-.25, Maryland
golden wax No, l, 1.75-2.50,
jumbo or medium, 1.25 asked.
Live poultry steadier. BOOSTERS
old 1928, ducks Long Island
$685., rabbits all varieties 25-75,
fowls 25-40, chickens 34-38, broil-
ers, 37-45, pigeons and squads
65-75, pullets 1852.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24

Zanzibar, an island ~
square miles, % miles ". ~
eastern coast OF Afr;o. FA
minor British p~ossession IS
government of the ,s1,. 1As
Pemba, 80 miles to tbo d
east is included in .0- ga ~'''9a'
ment. These two ISLANDS s', "
the bulk of the worlds .,s yeS
of cloves. supply
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RALEIGH POULTRY
RALEIGH, Sept. 23-R-(NC-
|DA)-Raleigh egg and poultry
markets steady; U. S. Grade AA
large IS; fryers and broilers 38.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
new SECURITIES.
H0LDB0ND SPOT
100000 Issue OF Du-
que.ne Light Bid Up
Within Minutes

NEW YORK, Sept. %. -R-
Sale at competitive bidding OF
than $150,000,0O 600 OF new
securities overshadowed price
action in the bond market today.
Topping the list of corpora
tons and state governments
seeking funds was Duquesne
Light Co., with $75,ooo,ooo Of 30
wear bonds. A group headed by
the First Boston Corp, was high
bidder with a price of 100 769s
and a 2M per cent coupon. Inc
syndicate planned to reoffer the
bonds to the public at lol.2zs'
a Weld of 2.69 per cent.
The state of Pennsylvania
awarded $50, 000, 900 Of bonds, due
1852 to 1876, for a price OF 1ol.-
$500 with a 1% per cent coupon
The bonds will be reoffered pub
licly at prices to yield from ~
Of one per cent for the 1852
maturity to l.35 per cent o t'e
1875 maturity.
Next largest was $25,ooo.ooo
Consumers Power Co., bonds, ex-
nected'to be reoffered at prices to
yield 2.77 per cent.
The listed market tended
downward but investors showed
no great urgency one way Or
another and most losses were
fractional. A fair number OF is
sues managed to hold unchanged
or even edge ahead.
Lower Closes
Closing lower were A T & T
2Ms Of 1861 at 111b, Santa Fe
IS at 1875, St. Paul convertibles
at "a, Rock Island refunding As
at 51b, Missouri Pacific con-
vertibles at 24A, N. Y. Central
"a" ~ at 7Ok, New Haven in
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24

Cotton at New York closed down
80 cents to $1.80 a bale. At Chi
cago wheat climbed 3 to 4 cents
a bushel while corn was off 3
IL to 4 "a and oats down IA to
l IA.
Curb sliders were Humble Oil,
Aluminium Co., Middle West
Corp. for Fox (Peter) Brewing.
Ayrshire Galleries improved on
a stock split proposal. Turnover
here was 200, 900 shares againt
1870, 900 Monday.
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MELNEsIAY, SEPTEMBER .,

comes when issues at 32A, and
Seaboard Airing incomes at IS
".
Higher were Denver & Rio
Grande Western 3s-4s, Erie AIS,
National Dairy 2As, and South
ern Railway general Is.
Brazilian issues were among
a number of Latin American is
sues improving in the overseas
section.
World Bank long-term IS
dropped 1882 to 100 1882.
U. S. Government lost 1872 to
4-32 of a point in the over-the-
counter market, with the Victory
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
CHICAGO PRODUCE

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-W.p-
Produce: poultry, % trucks;
hens firm, chickens unsettled.
Hens % IL cents a pound; Ply
mouth Rock fryers 80; White
Rock fryers So; White Rock
springs "a.
Cheese: twins 40-41; single
daisies 1914; swiss $500.
Butter: 358, 1858 lbs. unsettled;
SO score 1879; 90 score rs; 90
score 70; SO score 70 IL; CARROTS:
80 score 70 IL; SO score 70 IL.
Eggs: 1921 cases; weak; ex-
tras l unquoted; extras 2, 1888;
3 and 4, 1883; standards l and 2
AZ; 3 and 4, 44-46; current re-
ceipts 1914; dirtiese 35; checks
"a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
Stock Market Fauor1tes
Skid In Final Two Hours
lighted by General

lighted by General
Lies appeal for harmony in the
United Nations Assembly and
Russia's renewed attack on the
American program, was blamed
by some brokers for the accum-
ulation Of pressure against
stocks. In some quarters for
eign selling of shares was noted.
Tending to depress the oils
were suggestions in London that
the Arab states might withdraw
foreign oil concessions as a pro-
test against Palestine proposals.
Standard Oil IN. J.) dropped
2 IL points, closing at 70; Texas
Co. touched a new 1947 low and
finished off l IA at 81 SO; U. S.
Steel was down 2 1-8 at SO, Cen
eral Motors l SO at 81 3-8, Mont
gomery Ward 2 at S., Goodrich
/ IL at So "a, American Smelt-
ing l IA at 81, Santa Fe l SO at
81 and Information al
Paper / IL at 40 "a. Other
prominent losers included Schen-
ley, American Wooden, American
Can Clipping to a new low for
the year,, Phelps Dodge, Owens
Illinois, Union Pacific, Southern
Pacific, Western Union, Youngs-
town Sheet, Air Reduction,
Chrysler and Goodyear. Ana
conda Wire & Cable after reach
ing a new 1947 high dropped
into losing territory but recover
ed to finish up l IA at 81 7-8.
Wilcox Oil at 8 ga was up a
point.
Bonds Decline
Do~Ie Fo11oxya1 c%hoLc 7oyyoy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
COTTON
NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. %. =
(P - The average price of mid
ding 1916 inch cotton at ten
Southern spot markets today was
$1.3O a bale lower at BLOB cents
a pound; average for the past 80
market days 31.90. Middling rs
inch average 30.48 cents a pound.
Because of continued communi-
cations difficulties, prices of
some markets included in the
average were based on official
cotton exchange estimates.
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59sn a. 2h rs, Of +, Dec 9s 1872 ~,
80 Sales SAL ao totaled ss.s5o.ooo. .,.
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Bonds followed stocks lower
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, Sept. 23-P1-(US-
DA)-Potatoes: arrivals 1872, on
track 343; total U. S. shipments
873; supplies fairly heavy: de-
mand slow: market dull; Colo
RADIO Red McClures $40; South
Dakota Bliss Triumphs $685.
800, Red Warbas $3.15; Wash
ington Russet Burbanks $4.1O-
AIS; Wisconsin Cobblers So. So
2.60, Bliss Triumphs So. 500. 90,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
LOCAL QUOTATIONS

a. Indicated annual dividend rate.
b. Income and profits dividends paid
in past IL months.
c. Paid in 1916.
The above quotations are nominal and
are believed to be indications Of the
price at which the securities may be
purchased or sold.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-24
Y. eva. HOG Markets.

RALEIGH, Sept 23-R-(NC-
DA)-Hog markets weaker with
tops OF 26.75 at Rocky Mount,
26,
w at Greenville, Smithfield-
Mount Olive; 27.00 at Fayette-
Vile; and $3.50 at Richmond.