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Evening star., 1947-03-23

families and friends Can we offer them moth
ing but Jobs comfort?
Well, there is some good news. To tell it
with scientific caution would rob it of some of
its hope To dramatic it would perhaps raise
false hopes 1t can be said, however. that the
year l947 finds the medical profession in an
unusually optimistic mood.
The good news is that we seem to be on the
verge of discovering medical cure or cures,
for cancer. We may have to wait years, but
some promising leads that scientists have been
working on now seem more promising than
ever. Before discussing these, let us go over
some known facts
ReheItoa Of Cells
LANCER is not disease like measles or
pneumonia 1t is not caused. as far as we
know, by any germs foreign to the body.
Here is no invading host but a rebellion
within the body itself Of otherwise ap-
parently normal cells. When We fight
cancer we are fighting a civil war.
In cancer, some of the microscopic cells
that make up our body begin to run wild
They refuse to conform to the rules OF orderly
growth and reproduction. Every cell. normal
or cancer, is self-contained unit 1t can live,
with nourishnent. even outside the body. 1t
can reproduce, by division. to form its own
kind Within the body, however a strict,
mysterious discipline is imposed upon it. Cells
multiply during the process of growth; when
we achieve maturity, they stop growing.
Cells grow to close wound, and cease grow
ing as if by command when the wound is
healed" Something controls them
coatreIled Growth
HE resemblance of the cellular organiza-
ton to government and society is striking.
Certain organs within the body act as control
agencies, chemically regulating growth and
determining the extent OF bodily functions
Among these agencies are the ductless or
endoGine glands. about which we have learned
lot in recent years and are learning more.
HornloneS are the chemicals secreted by
these glands, and distributed by the blood to
where they are needed N the body We have
been able to isolate some OF these hormones,
to produce their chemical equivalents in the
laboratory. and even to use them as medicine
lnsulin. for example, is hoTrone secreted by
the pancreas: medical Sclence uses il 10 treat
Evening star., 1947-03-23

Is THERE any good news about cancer to
i put out with the bad? There is certainly
plenty of bad The death rate from cancer
has been rising. Last year. despite all our
surgical and scientific progress, 18l 800 people
in the u S. died of cancer. To be sure. this
reflects our success in saving them from other
diseases; people live longer today to succumb
ultimately to heart disease and cancer. Also,
methods of diagnosis have improved. Today
we properly attribute to cancer deaths that
were once assigned to other causes. AS a
result, the figures are alarming If the present
rate continues one in eight will ultimately
die of cancer
If this dire news sends you rushing to a
physician, 1t viii have served useful pur-
pose. For many kinds of cancer are definitely
eHrGble if caught In time. The chances for
cure in the very early stages, in most of the
locations where IT commonly arises, are mh-
nitely better than you may think - IS to
IS per cent, depending on nature and loca-
ton. In moderately advanced cases the per-
centage drops disconoertngly to from Is to
40 per cent In the later stages, when the dis
ease has spread to distant parts, the chances
frankly are pretty slim You should be afraid
of cancer.
Fear Works Both Ways
IT IS one thing. however, to frighten you
into obeying the laws of common sense, an
other thing to scare you out of your wits
Your very fears may deter you from being
examined. Better, you may argue. the gnaw-
ing doubt than the certain knowledge. De-
spite all assurances to the contrary - and
some can be given honestly - you are con-
vznoed that cancer spells inevitable pain and
death, or at the least dishguring or disabling
operation OF the kind you mstinctively reject.
This is poor line of reasoning. If YOU
have a cancer, the truth will be forced
upon you when it is too late. But there
IS an excellent chance that you do not have
cancer at all. The lump in your breast or skin
IS likely to prove benign, the bleeding may
result from some other cause, the chronic
indigestion may mean dozen things. At the
same time, they mean you have something
wrong with you, something that can prob
ably be cured
All this is poor solace for actual victims
OF cancer, Indeed, our statistics can only have
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Evening star., 1947-03-23

Science is making progress, but the
fight isn't won yet. Here is an
up-to-date report on the battle
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-03

to take to the woods. They had
done we'll before, and they were
boon companions. There was
more than ordinary friendship
between them, both Celts,
though Byrne was Irish and Will
Macleod Scotch to the backbone.
Then there was Marion, Wills
sister. That was not case of
friendship with Dick Byrne. He
was in love with Marion, al
ways had been since he met her.
Just how she felt toward him
he was not certain. He meant
to ask her as soon as he was bet
ter off financially.
He had hoped great things of
the saw. 1t was a good invention
practical and novel. But now he
was back again, and, even if
Will linked up with him, Byrne
would have to be staked by Alex
ander Macleod for his outfit.
The Macleod could get an
other bookkeeper. He would be
glad enough to have two more
men bringing in pelts. AS team,
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CHAPTER l

Dick Byrne got off the sleigh
stage at Bison Crossing with
eagerness, despite the fact that
LIS return practically announced
Sfailure.
He had been away for months,
trying to place his invention, a
new type of portable saw, in
MuSketoon. Times were dull, and
he knew now, too late, that he
had gone about it the wrong way.
He could try again, and put it
across; but it would take some
capital, and his savings were gone.
A few hundred dollars might
have set him on his feet, and now
he had exactly fifty cents, after
paying his stage fare.
He meant to get his pal, Will
Macleod, to go out again with
him on the trap line. Will was
bookkeeping now for his Uncle
Alexander, known as The Mac
Leod, but Byrne knew he would
not have to coax Will very hard
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not be SO easy to get away quietly
with the fuss of getting dogs
packing a sleigh. For the first
time Byrne felt sense of some
thing sinister connected with
this secret mission.
'How much?" demanded the
trader, his shaggy eyebrows meet
ing in a scoWl of Impotence
Byrne still temorized. He could
see that Macleod wanted him
and him alone as his messenger
He meant to make the most OF
the bargain, especially if he was
only going to see Will for a few
I minutes, only get a glimpse of
Marion before he left.
Why was Macleod not send
| ing Will? They might have had
a row. The Macleod ruled his
household with a heavy and I'M
yielding hand. Will did not take
kindly to restraint.
I'D like to see Will before l
go, if l co. said Byrne. will
and Marion"
A thundercloud seemed to sud-
denly shadow MacLeod's brows.
The veins lifted in it, throbbing.
THAT ne'er-do-well has not
been in Bison Crossing for four
months" he said, with a pound
of his fist, Il trust he need sets
foot in it again. AS for his sis
ter, the foolish lass has gone
with him. They're gone-7and I'm
we'll rid of them"
Byrne flushed, started to de-
fend his friend, to champion
Marion. But arguing with The
Macleod in wrath was like talk
ing to a thunderstorm. He knew
that Macleod might quarrel with
Will, but he was sure Will had
done nothing worthy of meriting
such an outburst. And The Mac
Leod loved his niece. Even as he
had mentioned her name his rug
ged face had softened a trifle.
He was dour and she was sweet.
(To be cOntlnuad)
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White Rock Trail

Byrne and Will had broken re-
cords. They would do it again
and then Dick would have an
other stab at the invention. He
would go to a bigger city this
trip, exhibit his model in va
cant store, interest the general
public in backing it.
He wondered how Marion was
hating to have to acknowledge
to her that he had fizzled. She had
been great about encouraging
him. Now.
Singuish, the breed, hailed him,
told him Alexander Macleod
wanted to see him. It was al
most as if The Macleod had
known of his coming. Yet Byrne
had not written, waiting for a
break before he let Willard
through Will, Marion-know
how he was making out. Will had
not written him either, for the
the past four months, but Will
was a poor correspondent.
But The Macleod had many
and far-reaching connections. He
came close to being ruler in
his remote, far-flung dominion.
He recognized-and that reluc-
tantly-only one power, one au-
thority higher than his own, oc-
casionally exhibited in the per-
son of a trooper of the Royal
Canadian Mounted.
Alexander Macleod was of the
old school. In pioneer days he
would have been factor for some
big fur company; now he was
his own master, Shrewd, resource
full, avid for power, impatient of
any suggestion of control or COM
petition. An overload of the will
derness. The Macleod, supremacy
jealous of his standing.
Byrne found him in what he
called his contingencies, at the
back Of the great store that held
the goods he traded to the In
dians and few white trappers,
for the skins they brought him.
Byrne looked for Will and did
not see him. There was some one
else at the bookkeeper's desk, a
stranger.
The trader led Byrne through
The covered way that connected
the store and MacLeod's house,
Ook him into an austere room
with furniture made at St. JO-
seph's Mission. a room lined with
books and with dark paintings on
two walls; pictures, brought from
Scotland a hundred years ago,
portraits of the MaCLeOds of that
llh: all resembling the trader,
with harsh, dOur, fOrcefuI TEA
tuIaS showing dlmly through an
CleNt VarnISh.
Macleod motiOned Byrne to a
chair. gave him d cigar, poured
him q drink, took one himself as
he sat opposite the younger man,
A big, gray-haired, Wide-shouI-
Gered man in his vigorous sixties,
was Alexander Macleod. One
shoulder little higher than the
other, as with one shaggy eye
brow. Eyes keen as new chisles,
gray as shadow ice. Byrne felt the
forco of him though he did not
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10

and operated by gentlemen OF the
Port City.
The first officers of the company
we're President w. Latimer, Treas
urer H. C. Latimer, General Man.
ager Henry Savage, General
Agents Cronly and Morris.
One contemporary newspaper
man pointed out that "these gentle
men retained their positions ever
since. 1880
GROUND BROKEN-The ground
was first broken for the works on
December Is, 1882, although the
company was not incorporated un-
til April 1888.
The operations of the company
were three-fold, all of which were
of value to the Cape Fear area and
two of which were an advance into
a hitherto untrodden field of ex-
pertinent, which proved OF great
benefit not only here but to the
centre civilized world"
As an article in the local press
of 1889 pointed out:
1.-THE Acme brand of fertilizers,
which is n of the industries OF
the establishment, has an establish
ed reputation for excellence, and
has a ready sale fully equal to the
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
ETSC0MMITTEE
NAMED IN DRIVE
March OF Dimes Campaign
Leaders To Meet At
5 O'Clock

The initial meeting of the full
committee appointed to stage the
March of Dimes campaign is
scheduled to be held this afternoon
at 5 o'clock at the American Legion
Home, corner 3rd and Dock streets,
in order to draft last minute de-
tails, W. K. Rhodes, Jr., chair
man, said yesterday.
Rhodes also announced the ap'
pointment of four committeeman
who will coordinate the veterans
activities during the drive, begin
ming next Wednesday.
They are W. K. Stewart, Jr.,
commander, American Legion
Post No. 10; Ray Galloway, state
vice commander and executive sec
rotary of Post No. 10; E. c. Snead,
assistant collector of the customs
board of Wilmington and command.
er of the James A. Manley Post
of the VIEW; and S. c. Zatkiewicz,
business manager of the VFW.
The coordination of the efforts oil
the personnel of the Atlantic Coast
Line during the New Hanover
drive, will be handled through the
office of Robert Scott, director OF
insurance and safety, ACL, and
who is also coordinator for the en-
tire ACL railway for the drive
against infantile paralysis, Rhodes
said,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
Along The Cape Fear

BUILDING PROGRAM - Plans
for the rebuilding of the section OF
the Acme company's plant at Acme
which was recently damaged by
fire brings to mind the fact that
the firm is one of the oldest such
organizations in the Old North
State.
As one former newspapers scribe
said:
"Probably no industry has been
started in the South since the was
CWar Between the States) and none
of the almost illinitable resources
of this section of the country have
been developed which have had
such an important effect upon the
prosperity of the people as the vari-
Gus purposes to which the common
long-leafed pine straw have been
found useful and profitable, and the
various, products of that article
which have been manufactured and
put upon the market by the Acme
Manufacturing Company, of this
city"
WAY BACK WHEN-Before the
1905 turned into the 1905, the
works of the Acme Manufac turing
Company were located at Cronly,
on the Carolina Central Railroad,
seventeen miles from Wilmington
but they were owned, controlled
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
SERVICE BUREAU
TO AID AGENCIES
Campaign To Get Under.
way Monday To List
Volunteer Workers

A plan devised to form a CEN
trail clearing house and manpower
reservoir for all the RED Feath-
er" agencies operating in the COM
munity has resulted in the for
nation of The Volunteer Service
Bureau.
A drive to enlist the registration
Of volunteer workers begins Mon
day. Volunteers are asked to
register with the bureau in room
Ala, Tide Water Building, between
tn e hours OF 10 and 5 o'clock,
Monday through Friday.
It has been pointed out that a
personal interview is necessary SO
that the Bureau may ascertain all
pertinent information + o r placing
the volunteer in the work she or
he most desires and for which she
is best suited. If any person wish
ing to, register az a volunteer
worker finds it impossible to be
at the office at that time, q
member of the Social Service
League will cali at the home fol-
a personal interview.
The Bureau has been set up by
the Social Service League, at the
request of the Community Coun'
Gil.
AS has been stated. no expert
ence is necessary for many types
of the volunteer work. However
a training course will be held tol
those interested in group activi
ties. Those interested will be giver
the opportunity of attending the
Volunteer L e a d e r Institute,
training course for group work
leaders, which will be conducted
each Monday night from 8 to Il
o'clock, January goth to Marcf
Bird.
Mrs. William B. Sisson, chair
man of the Social Service League
will be interviewed in a question
and answer program over a loca
radio station by Miss Eleanor
Continued On Page 3, Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
GOVERNOR URGES
CONSERVATISM
Cherry Fails To Mention
Liquor, Game Divorce In
Message To Assembly

RALEIGH, Jan. 9-R-Governor
Cherry sounded Thursday a cal
for conservatism in handling the
states biggest surplus in history;
suggested that there be no major
change in the states tax struc
ture; and recommended that ar
additional $40, 900, 900 be added t.
the $40, 900, 900 already earmarkee
for the postwar reserve fund.
Just before the governor begar
his biennial message on the state
of North Carolina and the condi
ton of it's agencies and institutions
both the Senate and the House re
ceived bills providing for 20 pei
cent pay increases foc teachers ane
state employees.
Continuing the fast pace set by
presiding officers, the joint ap
preparations committee passed the
pay increase bill and voted to, re
port it favorably Friday.
The raise would be effectiv;
January l, 1947..
Both the Senate and House re
ceived bills to lower the voting age
to 10, following a pattern set BY
several other states.
CONTINUED On Page 3, Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
BILL MAY
GET 0KAY TODAY
Legislative Com mittee
Moves Fast On Consid-
Grafton OF Teacher Paw

RALEIGH, Jan. 9-(P)-Follow-
ing Governor Cherry's biennial
message advocating increased pay
to teachers and state employees
Immediately, the General assemb-
ly acted swiftly Thursday to grant
20 per cent increases, effective
January l.
A bill providing for the increases,
estimated to cost &c. $50, 900 from
the remaining six months of the
biennium was introduced in the
Senate and the House by chairman
of respective Appropriations COM
mittees.
The bill was studied at the first
Joint meeting of the two committees
Thursday afternoon, and after ap-
proximately nine minutes Of dis
cussion, a favorable report was vot-
ed. Rep. Arch T. Allen of Wake,
chairman of the House Apprcpri-
ations committee, said that he
would report the bill Friday, and
asked that it be placed on the
calendar for immediate passage.
Under suspended rules. it Is pos
sible for the bill to be enacted
into law Friday.
Quick Action Seen
Both Allen and Senator Wade
Barber of Pittsboro, Senate appro-
oriations chairman, said that y
was hoped that the bill could be
passed in time so that the pay in
Continued On Page 8, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
COLLEGE PLANS
TALKED MEET
lnter.Civic Club Session
Discuss Means To Speed
Project

A meeting of the presidents and
education chairman of local civic
clubs and school offiiels was allied
last night by the education COM
mitteo Of the Junior Chamber OF
Commerce to further discussion
for the proposed Junior college in
New Hanover county.
The purpose Of the meeting was
n combine the efforts of all the
groups interested in the project
rather than each continuing to
work Independently according &c
Wallace West, who acted as chair
man of the meeting last.
Those present last night held
a broad discussion on what WI
mington had to offer a junior col
lege and what such an institution
would mean to the city.
No definite decisions were made
but nlans for another such meeting
to be held in the near future were
made. At that time some deli
mite nlan of action will be decided
upon.
Those present at the meeting last
night were the Rev. Walter B.
Freed, Kiwanis club; William
Mansfield, Lions club; Jesse Sell
ers, president, Wallace West, chair.
mar education committee, anc
Bob Howard, education committee;
of the Junior Chamber Of Com
Continued On Page 3, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
Cromyko Hits
AT Americans
Over Delays
Charges Delegates Adopt
ing Take-It-O r-Leave-It
Attitude
FULL-SCALE DEBATE
Johnson Denies Charges By
Russians In Defending
Baruch Program

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y,
9.-P-In the face of
charges that the Unit
ed States was stalling on the
whole question of arms reduc-
ton, the American delegation
to the United Nations stood
firm Thursday night on a de-
mand that control of atomic
energy must come first.
effective Internal i O
control of atomic energy is
the key to the whole program
and must come first" Herschel ".
Johnson, U. S. delegate, told the
Security council emphatically at
the outset of ~full-scale debate on
the basic arms proposal laid down
in December by the General as
sembly.
Johnson took the floor after
Soviet Delegate Andrea A. .Gromy-
ko, recently named a deputy
foreign minister, bluntly accused
Continued On Page 8, Col. g.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
PUBLIC TO VIEW
PATROL VESSEL
Reserve Units Ship To Be-
Moved To C~ustomhouse
Dock

The USS Patrol Craft 776, the
ship assigned to the local organ
lied division of the Naval Reserve
for training purposes, will be
moved to the Customs House Dock
from the shipyard this afternoon,
according to Lieut.. Commander
John H. Wilson, commanding o.
ficer.
A group Of guests, by special
Invitation, will be given ar oppor-
tunity of making an inspection OF
the ship on Saturday afternoon
from 2 until 4 o'clock.
On Sunday afternoon t h e ship
VIII be open to the general public
rom ! until 5 o'clock,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
AIR FORCES SCHOOL
WILL BE OPENED TO
ENLISTED PERSONNEL

WASHINGTON, Jan. e.-(P)-
The sign on the Army Air
forces cadet pilot training
school reopening at Randolph
Field, Tex, this spring will
say For Enlisted Men Only"
Gen. Carl Spaatz, AAF chief,
said in a statement Thursday
that candidates for the school
would be drawn solely from the
ranks of regular Army Air
forces enlisted personnel.
THE army has long looked
forward" he said, ito a day
when~it could regard every en-
listed man as a potential COM
missioned officer. x x x while
we are now limiting the field
to enlisted men of the army air
forces, the next step will be to
expand the list of eligibles to
include every enlisted man in
the regular army"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
City And County Official.
Greet Visitors AT Air
Port Here

A group of business men and
city officials of Clinton, making a
goodwill tour of Southeastern North
Carolina landed at the Bluethen-
thai airport yesterday afternoon at
$40 o'clock and were met by a
delegation of local city and county
officials and members of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce.
The sleek silver painted Beech
craft. tWin-engined airplane owned
by Henry Vann of Clinton and
piloted by Bruce Carlton, a former
Army BIZ pilot, landed on the
runways of the airport after COM
p%leting the journey from Little
Washington in less than an hour.
The Clinton party was composed
of Mayor J. c. Morisey, City
Councilmen M. o. Register, R. E.
Williams, J.. R. Best and Henry
Vann, a former state senator, and
Clarence Fisher, Clinton business
man.
They were met at the airport
by City Manager J. R. Benson,
Councilmen J. E. l.. Wade and
Garland Currin. County Commits
sioner Harry Gardner, City Indus
trial Agent John H. Farrell, Air
port Manager Jesse Parker. Jesse
Sellars, president of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, Hal Love
and Billy Atkinson, members OF
the Junior Chamber Of Commerce.
and a representative of the Morn
ing Star were also on hand to
meet the visitors.
Mayor Morisey said the group
left Clinton early yesterday morn
ing for the trip. The party was
the guests Of w.. R.. Robinson,
owner of radio station WRRZ at
Little Washington, for a seafood
dinner. Robinson is contemplating
the building of a radio station in
Clinton, the Mayor said.
After official greetings were ex-
Continued On Page 3, Col. q
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-10
Today And Tomorrow
Nv L # LIPPMANN

egg of the war with the planning
of the peace are broken, the bust
ness of pacifying the world and of
making peace becomes an unin-
telligible and unmanageable col
lection of bits and pieces.
General Marshall was the man
who, above and beyond all others
in this country and abroad, main
tanned the conception of a global
strategy in a world : wide war.
Upon him there beat all the pres
sures of the governments in the
coalition, of the theater comman-
ders, of the several services. Only
a very great man could have sue
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