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CAPEFEAR
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lamations to be issued in North
Carolina was written in Viii.
mington on Saturday, October
q, 1853, according to the Coloni-
al Records. Present were His
Excellency, Arthur Dobbs, Esq,
governor, and the Honorable
Mathew Rowan, James Innes,
ohm Swami, Louis DeRosset,
and Edward Brice Dobbs. es-
quires. Minutes of that meeting
record the following:
"Ordered that Proclamation
to issue for a Publicx Thanks
giving on the first Wednesday in
December next"
A Council of State at New
Bern on May 16, 1888 named the
Fourth of July to oe celebrated
as Thanksgiving Day. the jnde'
pendence of the colories being
at that time the blessing for
which the leaders were most
thankful.
The holiday menu for the feast
served at the Orton hotel in 1915
is in the present day considered
literally as well as figuratively
tout of this world"
A menu has been brought for
ward by j. H. Hinton who pur
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
LIGHTS TO GLOW
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their glory Friday night, he said.
Meanwhile, the merchants are
preparing for the next big holi-
day event-Christmas with the
passing of Thanksgiving day to-
day.
Plans for turning on the nyri-
ad thousands of festooned, multi
colored lights are now complete.
Show windows are luxuriantly
gay with an overflowing of gay
holiday goods representing the
harvest of our nations factories
turned from war industries back
to the production of products for
peace.
Retailers Ready
The Front street, North Fourth
street, and Castle street retail
centers are all in readiness for
their holiday goal-to supply the
most bountiful selection of
Christmas gifts displayed in re-
cent years..
Southeastern North Carolina
will find Wilmin. y, the Queen
Nity of the trading area, better
prepared than at any time since
the onslaught of World War II
to handle all requirements in
displaying and delivering the
greatest quantity of highest
quality merchandise.
Articles which were scarce to
non-existent year ago are now
flowing through the channels of
trade again, a spot check of local
merchants recently revealed,
Goods which suffered during
wartime manufacture from IN
experienced factory hands and
scarcity of genuine materials,
have regained their pre- war
quality. The shoppers dollar
will buy more this year in spite
of a slight up-trend in some
prices, Wilmington merchants
agree
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
ETHERIDCE NAMED
NIGHT SENIOR
POLICE OFFICER

Police Chief Hubert Hayes has
issued a directive placing plac-
c a pt a n Coy Etheridge in
full charge of the department
between the hours of 7 p. m.
and Z a. m.captain in charge be-
tween those hours.
In issuing the directive the
chief explained that he was
giving Etheridge the job ''in
order to insure the fact that some
senior officer will be in full
charge of the police department
at all tines
Captain Etheridge is occupy
ing the chiefs office at head
quarters during those hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
1ARsHALL SCORES
n10LOT0V CHARGES
,,.,etary Of State Says
's''s 'e"ss;an Dosen't Believe
His Own Words

,oSDoN, Nov. 2e-u'R}-seere- = ee
LoNgfGsta; - State George c. Mar
taty, o:', 81 sharply rebuked d. Russian
;haD 81 1,' Minister Viacheslav
NN'lG'0r 10 motives which :, are fig
.sfll. Aio Of propaganda" to the
1nIsitsd n5aesd States and its Western
sllIes, ;oo the second meet
Aouf III the Big Four Foreign
ag ,9,isters. q, ST. Molotov demanded n
Nl'lS Immediate creation OF a
the iaarratic" government for
'asl(.e d csrmany and accused the
1..,tsrn Il ufr' allies of seeking to
dolItio' oalIrortain countries are striv-
~ for an imperialist peace
ns 1;oh ~ means the domination OF
'llva a.ain oowers over others, he
fei 5 is'' IAN imperialist peace
Sa.a, ars the division of nations
nlsalh n.o those who are slaves and
lnoSe n'o who are masters. And in
'aos' 'a:s are the seeds of conflict,
'Dls in turn. of a third world
F' Marshall Answers
uMr. Molotov has just re-
4.,rpd to imperialistic designs
ND nd the creation Of slave states,
' .oorta " Marshall retorted.
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FREED ADDRESSES
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that the past is past and he now
thanked God for the future.
I Along this line, he pointed out
that the Pilgrim fathers at their
first service of T h n k =
giving. were looking to the fu-
ture. God allots time. he said,
and we should thank God for the
time of the future-to thank God
for the chance to build 2 new
world
These are great days. high
days, challenging days,
the speaker continued and with
possible forseeable future the
world may be blessed with
second Elizathe+ n reign - a
new era of hope, advancement
and prosperity.
In closing. Rev. Freed remind
ed his fellow Kiwanians again
that there is much to be thank
full for-much to be grateful for
and that all should thank God,
not man. for the future is N his
hands. He said he thanked God
for the future.
The program for the dav got
underway with singing of "Come
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
PATIENTS
Continued From Page One)

were $50 month below the min
imum.
Another nurse said that at
present a general duty nurse
living outside the hospital nurses
home received $3.50 a month and
the associations asking for $3.50.
She added that head nurses liv-
ing at the nusses home receive
$140 per month, and they are
asking for 5000.
'No one has charged nurses
with being mercenary," she
commented. During the war
our girls worked long hours, far
beyond their strength, witho u t
complaint"
Then she added significantly:
But the wars over.'
Money is not the only thing
the local nurses complain there
is a lack of at James Walker.
Sick leave 81 not permitted, and
a nurse. must work six days in
order to get the seventh day off
or get docked.
ga nurse who has Fridays off
and is ill on Monday, must then
work on Friday or take a loss
of two days pay" one of the
nurses explained.
The hours are long and the
shifts. are not arranged to give
the nurses enough rest, another
charged.
"We may work from 7 to II
AM. and from Z pm. to 1880
pm. on one day." she explained.
"The next day we are apt to
have to be on duty from 7 am.
tc $3.50 pm. Alfred nurse is not
fit to give her patients the care
they deserve to get.'
A petty irritation concerning
hours, they said, was the re-
qurement that the night shift,
who is supposed to work only
eight hours, actually be on duty
from11 pm. to 7:30 a. m. The
extra half hour is said to be for
the time the nurses spend eat
ing, the hospital explains to the
nurses. But the nurses are re.
quired to eat at 10:30 p. M, be-
fore they 60 on duty.
Nurses have no accounting Of
their pay checks at James Walk.
er, they reported. They say the
amount of the checks may vary
two dollars or more from month
tc month. They admit there may
be a good reason for the vari-
ance. but they want to know
what the reason is. They say
they have been promised vouch-
err checks beginning in De
cember.
Their food is average and ac
commodations at the nurses
home are not too bad, they state
But they would prefer to gel
their salary in cash and pay
cash for their rooms at the home
f they I've there.
The State Association is an au
Hillary of the American Nurses
| Association. the nurses explain.
ed. The national organization be-
gan its economic security pro.
gram for nurses after nurses n
California started to ioin
the CIO, one Of the nurses ex-
planned. The program is nation
wide, not limited merely to
Wilmington and certain other
cities n the state, they said.
Public opinion means a great
deal to the nurses in their at
| tempt to secure better care for
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
City Briiefc

The annual Christmas luncheon
of the Girl Scout volunteers will
be held Thursday, Dec. II, at
1890 o'clock at St. Johns Tav-
ern. Installation of new officers
of the Girl Scout Council and
Leaders association for 1948 will
be held.
More than a score Of speclallz-
ed educational courses are now
available to qualified men who
wish to enlist in the U. S. Coast
Guard, according to Coast Guard
officials of recruiting station IN
room 2O2 of the Custom House.
Bernard Solomon. executive
officer of the Naval Reserves
said yesterday that the Reserves
will not hold their regular drill
tonight in the Barnett Ave. ar
morv. He added that the Naval
Reserve members will meet Dec
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
HAITI, GREECE
Continued From Page One)

knots of delegates were en-
gagged in animated conversation
in nearly every corner OF this
great assembly hall.
Seek Instructions
Many delegates cabled their
capitals for fresh instructions
when it bacame apparent that
the final decision-probably the
most fateful yet made by UN-
still dangled on one or two
votes.
Partitionists, hopeful that
they can get fresh support over
Thanksgiving, led a drive to
cancel an Assembly meeting
scheduled for tonight. The as
sembly voted "a to 81 to skiE
the night session, convening
again Friday morning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
Ye Thankful People" and closed

Ye Thankful People" and closed
with the Doxology.
Past-president Emsley Laney
presiding in the absence of Pre-
sident George D. Conant called
attention to the fact that Kiwan-
ian Ted Ingraham is a patient
at Bullock Clinic. Carno Lato
was inducted into membership
with lieutenant-governor elect
Jack LIE Grand acting as induct-
ing officer.
Directors and committee
chairmen where guests of DR..
John Hoggard at his home last
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27

politan ice cream. fancy cake.
fruit cake; cream cheese, wa
fers, neufchatel bar de luc, nuts
and raisins, minis; coffee.
Here is the pay off:
Mr.. Hinton says that the regu-
lar price of meals at the Orton
House, rs cents, was Of neceS-
sity increased to $1.00 for this
holiday feast!
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BOY LOSES HAND
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.i+ion at James Walker Memor-
isl hospital late last night.
The deputy said that Bass lost
considerable amount OF blood
and was given a TRANSMISSION
after being admitted to the hos
The shotgun. loaded with No.
3 shot. was held under the arm
Of Bobby Huckabee, lola Will
hanson drive, at the time the
shot was fired and neither youth
WAS able to explain how it hap
pened to go off, the deputy sher-
if stated.
Tatum said that Bass father
told him that the two boys we're
tbe best of friends and that he
was satisfied that the shooting
was entirely accidental.
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NORTH CAROLINA
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wear. The season for rabbit and
quail will open tomorrow
throughout the state. The squlr-
rel season will reopen tomorrow
in a number of Piedmont coun-
ties, and the deer season is still
open in several Eastern coun-
ties.
For the sports-minded one ma
jor football game was on the
program, meeting at Charlotte
between Wake Forest and South
Carolina. A capacity crowd of
$1,000 was expected.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27


hospital patients. the nurses
agreed. They urge interested
people to write to ther news
papers and to members of the
board of directors of the hospi-
tai in order to let their opinions
become known. Hospitals which
have adopted the program sug-
gested by the national associa-
ton have waiting lists of nurses
wanting to be hred, the James
Walker nurses asserted.
Germany was admitted to the
League of Nations by unanin-
Gus vote of the Geneva Confer
ence on September 8, 1926.
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FOUR SURVIVORS
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the rocks off isolated Hippa Is
land Monday night in a fog.
There was no trace of the re-
naming A men, either on the
bow or on the five-mile long is
land, brief radioed messages
from Coast Guard headquarters
said. A 12-man search party
headed by 1t. Cndr. Fred
Schneider secured the island
since daybreak without success.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-27
MILD LITTLE MAN

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S. Guttmacher, advisor to the
supreme bench of Baltimore,
told Judge Joseph Sherbow that
Riemer probably would have
been picked out of any group OF
persons as the "least likely" te
commit an act of violence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
Appointed
AsGlenn Successor
NEW APPOINTMENTS
IN THIS DISTRICT

DR.. E. L. Hillman was
named district superintend-
ent of the Wilmington dis
trict, succeeding DR.. ]. c.
Glenn, former superintendent
who was transferred to West
Palm Beach, Fla.
The Rev. J. r. Edwards,
pastor of the Fifth avenue
Methodist church here, was
transferred to Roanoke Rap
ids. He will be succeeded by
the Rev. B. C. Reavis. At
Wesley Memorial church in
Winter Park the Rev. p. H.
Fields was named as pastor
to succeed the Rev. Kermit
Wheeler, who has been trans
ferred to Roseboro.
The Rev. r. H. Caudill,
former secretary of boys
worked at the YMCA here,
comes into the Wilmington
conference as pastor at Town
Creek. The Rev. A. C. Edens,
Jr., was appointed to the
Methodist Youth Center at
Wrightsville church, Harbor
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
And So To Bed

A Duke alumnus saw his
alma mater play Missouri
Saturday and took the un-
satisfactory outcome of the
classic in his stride.
In Raleigh he met up with
an old friend of former COL
lege days, gave the old col
lege pal a ticket to the
game and loaned him an
0vercoat, feeling generous
and warm hearted with the
glow of revival of cid COL
lege times.
Back in Wilmington Sun
day he met his old college
chum.
Where is my ovecraoat,
old pal?" he asked.
"Pm sorry" said the old
chum, II had to pawn the
overcoat, I borrowed $3.50 on
it from a bell hop to buy a
bus ticket to get home. /
had to get back here or 1
might lose my job"
"Pll have to go see your
boss" said the first alumnus.
II shouldn't be surprised II
you have lost your job. 1t gets
my goat when you hook my
coat"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
Along The Cape Fear

superseded by the pillory, the
whipping post, and the branding
iron. The death penalty was in
flicted in those days for many
offenses now punishable by pri'
son sentences. The Revised
Code of 1855, last codification o1
laws prior to the Civil war, en-.
umerates II offenses punishable
by death.
Bigamy was punished by
branding with a hot iron the let
ter "B" upon the cheek. Fol
manslaughter, if the first of.
fense, an I'M" was burned upor
the "brawn of the left thumb. .
When a witness was convicted
of perjury in connection with
the trial of a capital offense
the law required that "the Of
fender shall, instead of public
whipping, have his right ear cu'
off and severed entirely from
his head, and nailed to the pill
ilory by the sheriff, there to re
main until sundown. 4
The disillusioned present day
court reporter will tell you tina
this latter law is better abolish
ed as it's strict enforcement to
day would be not only unsani
tary, but would seriously handi
cap the hearing of a consider
able proportion of the adul
population.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
COL. COLE TAKES
ENGINEER OFFICE
Former Macarthur Staff
Officer Takes District
Charge Here Today

Colonel Heston R. Cole takes
office today as district engineer
of the Wilmington district. A
general staff officer in
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters
through the Australia, New
Guinea, and Philippine Islands
campaigns, Col Cole was trans
ferred here from Duluth, MINI.
where he was district engineer.
A graduate of Lafayette col
lege, Easton, Pennsylvania,
Col. Cole is also a veteran of
World War I, having served
with the AEF as a first lieu
tenant in the 18th division in
the St. Mihiel, Meuse, and Ar
gonne sectors.
He served as Director of the
Fixed Installations division of
the foreign Liquidation COM
mission of the State department
in Australia from October, 1945
to April 1916. His son is a West
Point graduate who served in
the Obi theater as a fighter
pilot in 1943 and 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
PAPER HEADLINES
GREEK ATROCITIES
London Daily Mirror Prints
Pictures Of Troops Carry
ing Heads

LONDON, Monday, Nov. 10
R-The mass-circulation Daily
Mirror devoted nearly its entire
front page today to two photo
graphs of horsemen it said were
Greek Government troops car
rying guerrillas' heads by tn e
hair.
The paper said British troops
were standing by in Greece
while "gestapo methods are be-
ing used against the guer-
ri1las."
"What are we British doing
here?" a headline asked. From
the word, "here," an arrow
pointed to a head identified as
that of a "young Greek
paraded through a village
street.
The Mirror said the pictures
had been taken by Cpl. Harry
Starr, 80, who served in Greece
two years and was released
from the Army in August. The
paper said it had checked the
facts indicated and was "fully
satisfied they are a fiar, even
moderate statement about a
terrible situation.
In an editorial headed, "Get
Out Of It." the paper urged
early withdrawal of the report
ed 5000 to 5000 British troops
still in Greece.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
INSTITUTION OF THE


CHAIN GANG - An interesting
development of the Cape Fear
valley, while not differing
materially from that of the rest
of the state, nor from that Of
several other Southern states, is
the treatment of prisoners. The
establishment of county convict
road work, which popularity was
designated as the Chain gang"
system never was widely used
for penal treatment in the
Northern and Western states. In
the South, however, factors of
climate as well as the econo-
mic situation caused convict
road work to increase in popular
favor until it became one of the
major methods of Furnishing
criminals. In contrast, large in
dustrial prisons behind massive
prison walls became the estab-
llshed solution of the penal pro-
blem elsewhere in the nation.
Along the Cape Fear as in the
rest of the state the only prisons
prior to the Civil war were the
common jails of the counties. AS
a matter of fact there were
comparatively few prisoners. In
1916 the people of Carolina voted
against a state prison. From the
days of the first settlers in the
Cape Fear valley until the War
between the states, prisons were
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
VIOLENCE TAKES
NINE N. {. LIVES
Motorcycle Accident At
High Point Races Account
For One Death
Rv The Associated Press

DIV 11lG k1SSOCldICu l CSS
Violence took at least nine
lives in North Carolina during
the weekend.
A motorcycle plunged out OF
control into a crowd of specta-
tors at races near High Point,
killing Harold S. Thompson, II,
of High Point instantly and in
juripg six other persons.
Winfred Terry Hunsucker, rs,
of Conover, route one, was
found dead in field near Con.
over Sunday. Coroner Rex Rey-
nolds said Hunsucker had been
shot through the heart and chest
with 12-gauge shotgun and had
bled to death.
Hector McNeill, IS, of nea1
Fayetteville, was shot and killed
as he was at work repairing
chairs at his home Saturday
afternoon.
Nick Schmidt, 80, of Charles
ton, S. c., was killed Friday
when the automobile he was
driving struck a bridge railing
near Rockingham.
Worth Cribb, As, carpenter
foreman for the Atlantic Coast
Line Railroad, was struck and
killed instantly by an automo-
See VIOLENCE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
NATIONAL GUARD
DEFENDS CAPITAL
Radar Spots On-Coming
ENEMY" Bombers Max
ing Simulated Strike

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 -
The National Guard rallied tc
the defense of the capital today
against a simulated strike o1
"enemy" bombers in the
Guards most ambitious postwar
demonstrate of it's air and an.
ti-aircraft arm.
The attacking fleet also was q
National Guard force. It was
made up Of two bomb groups,
rising from bases in Alabama
and Ohio. They bored in on the
capital at midafternoon while
the goth battalion group, man
ming a mobile radar station ir
the heart of Washington anc
three fixed radar stations which
compose part of the capitals
warning network, tracked them
The A-26 light bombers came
from the 112th group at Cleve.
land and the 106th at Birming.
ham.
Within five minutes after the
18th Fighter group, operating
from nearby Andrews Fielc
Md, had been ordered te
scramble" pilots were out o1
the field ready room, in thei1
PAT airplanes and at 1000 feet
over the city, heading on the
"enemy force"
Over White House
Although the point of inter.
ception of the fighter force with
the bombers would, in actua.
combat, have been made al
some distance from the capital
the attack occurred for demons
tration purposes almost directly
over the White House. The fight.
ers, flying high as the bombers
moved in across Southeast
Washington, peeled off from
their formation and dived on the
bomber neutrality-suspicious. by
coincidence-as they droned
across the headquarters of the
Atomic Energy Commission.
The 113th Fighter group is
made up of three squadrons-
the 149th of Richmond, 104th o1
Baltimore and 121st of Washing.
ton.
Officers said this was the first
time the guard had used the
radar interception system In ar
exercise of this order.
The denonstra alton was staged
| in connection with the Nationa
Guards current three-month re
cruiting campaign.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-10
Hughes Probe
May End Soon
Plane Builder Expected To
TIL His Side OF Tax Story
Today .

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. - W.n)
Millionaire plane-maker How
ard Hughes is expected to
.alI a Senate investigators to-
n.orrow W. his story about the $5,-
no no q9l in wartime tax deficien-
c res allegedly discovered in his
oircraft companies accounts by
anyernnent tax inspectors.
The reported deficiencies were
urned up by Sen. John j. Will
1iars. ia r. Del during a session
II the Senate War Investigating
oomn7ittee which is inquiring in
W Hughes $4o,OoO,0oo of war
time plane contracts.
Williams said the Internal
pevenue Bureau had gone over
.he books of the Hughes Tool
company and it's subsidiaries for
tbe wears l942-46 at the COM
n,itte's request and found de-
tciencies amounting to $3,501,
nm. The tax inspectors had al
resdv discovered alleged defici-
sncies amounting to $2,418,921
~ williams and other subcom-
,nittee members made it clear
that no fraud" or deliberate
evasion was envolved. The de-
f;ciencies were based on
Hughes undistributed profits.
A Hughes associate said tonight
The plane-maker would prove he
had made no profits on war con-
tracts.
Hughes appearance tomorrow
his first formal testimony in the
second round of his tussle with
The Senators over his contracts
for photo reconnaissance and
supper-cargo planes, was ex-
pectedto lack much OF the ex-
plosiye quality of his appearance
in August.
For one thing the Hollywood
movie magnate was not expected
to renew his volatile, name-call-
ing feud with Sen. Owen Brew
ster, R., Me-, chairman OF the
full war investigating committee.
Last August, before Hughes
even came to Washingtno, he
splashed black headlines across
the nation with a charge that
Brewster offered to call off the
inquiry if Hughes would merge
his Trans World Airpla ne with
Pan American Airways.
Brewster denied this under
oath and furthermore testified
that he had nothing to do with
See Hughes on Page Two