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The Omaha guide., 1947-07-19

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there IS nothing but comfort and
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The Omaha guide., 1947-07-19

Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Kercheval
3026 Emmett announce the arrival
Of a son, Thomas Michael, at St.
Joseph's Hospital on July 1, at
3:20 a. m. Baby Thomas Michael
weighed nine pounds at birth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kercheval have six
other children. They are Marilyn
Jean, 10; Leonard Gungadin, g.;
Rose Mary s; Minnie Yvonne, s;
Steven Edward 4; and Sheba Ann
2. The grandparents Of the child
rem r Mrs. Adella Preyor and
Mr.. Albert Kercheval.
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End & Willis avo,
Rev. {. 3. Childress
Mason Deveraux Jr,"Reporter
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Robert r. Troyer
COUNTY JUDGE

3t-July Aug. 2. 1947
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
CONGRESS ACTION
SAVES ROAD Cash
State Highway Department
Now Able To Spend Fede-
raj Fund Balance

RALEIGH, June 27-(P-An ac1
recently passed by congress giving
states an additional fear to spenc
federal appropriations for roads
will enable North Carolina to spenc
its ALLEGATION of {, 1857, 811 instead
of having most Of the money re
vert to the federal treasury. High
way Commission Chairman A. H
Graham said today.
The money is part of North Car
olina's share of a $50, 600, 900 fed
eral appropriation which Congress
authorized in 1914 to aid states II
their postwar bodybuilding pro
grams. The legislation making the
appropriation provided that al
funds not obligated by June 80
1947 should revert to the fedora
treasury.
Graham said that North Caro-
lima mad either spent or obligated
all of it's $33, $50, 231 share of the
appropriation except $2,957,811, al
of which was earmarked for high
way work in urban areas.
He said that if the years ex
tension had not been granted, the
highway commission would have
made every effort to allocate al
Of the money to urban projects be
fore the deadline, but that since
the consent of municipalities is ne
cessary for urban projects that i
could not have. been able to use the
entire amount.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
P~OStmistreSS Takes Own
Life In WaccamaW Home
Mrs. Katie c. Wayne Shoots
Self During Absence
Oh Husband
Special To The Star

LAKE WACCAMAW, June q. -
While her 17-year-old daughter was
desperately to gain entrance
into the room, Mrs. Katie c.
Wayne, 40, Lake Waccamaw post
mistress and wife of Columbus
county deputy sheriff L. R. Wayne,
shot herself with a .38 calibre
pistol this afternoon about 1870
o'clock.
Mrs. Wayne was rushed to the
James Walker Memorial hospital
in Wilmington where she died at 3
o'clock.
Sheriff H. B. Stanley said that
his investigation revealed that Mrs.
Wayne, who has been postmistress
here for four years, had COM
planned to her husband and three
daughters during the moor meal
that she was not feeling well.
Deputy Sheriff Wayne left the
house shortly after dinner and took
his two daughters to Wannish. a
short distance from here. Before
leaving he cautioned his daughter,
Sarah, to stay with her mother.
Locks Doors
Shortly after her husband left the
house, Mrs. Wayne asked her
daughter to carry out some trash
from the house. According to Sher-
if Stanley, when the young girl
left the house, Mrs. Wayne lock
ed the doors and when Sarah re-
turned she was unable to gain en-
trance.
The sheriff said Sarah then went
around to the side of the house
and looked into a window where
she saw her mother breaking into
a cabinet where there was a .38
calibre pistol.
The young girl said she yelled to
her mother to let her in, but Mrs.
Wayne refused to do so. Sarah
then broke the window pane and
Mrs. Wayne ran into another
room.
According to Sheriff Stanley,
Sarah ran around the house and
peered into a window in time to
see her mother raise the pistol to
See PeaTMISTRESS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
Along The Cape Fear

ROCKS AT FORT FISHER -
While providing a good location
for anglers to cast their lines into
both the Cape Fear River and the
Atlantic Ocean at the same time,
the Rocks just below Fort Fish
er also furnish material for the
numerous story-tellers in this area.
One of the legends which has
a bit of popularity and to which
credence is given by many persons
in this section, involves the Civil
War.
According to this tale, spun per-
haps by some fisherman who fan
cied himself a strategist, contends
the rocks were constructed during
the War between the States to
keep Union gunboats out of the
Cape Fear. By closing off the in
let between Fort Fisher and Zeke's
Island the federal ships would be
forced down to the mouth of the
Cape Fear and under the guns OF
Fort Caswell.
The rocks, used to build up the
iettv before concrete was poured
owe it, were laborously placed
over the alnos, a mile of water
by hand. The smaller jetty below
Zeke's Island was built up in the
same manner.
FISHERS HAUNT - But while
fishermen by the score sit and wet
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
Secrecy Bars
Meeting News
Molotov Said To Be Seeking
Information On u. S.
Condition Plan

PARIS, June 81. -(P)- The For
eign ministers of France, Britain
and Russia met for nearly four
hours today in what the French
press called a last chance confer
ence for the reconstruction of a
unified Europe.
Informed quarters said the sue
cess or failure of the three-power
meeting in the French Foreign
ministry would be determined with
in a few days. The spotlight fell
strong upon Soviet Foreign Minister
V. M. Molotov for some answer to
the question:
What is the Soviet attitude to-
ward the offer of American aid
made June S by U. S. Secretary OF
State George C. Marshall?
The alternatives were either the
sincere cooperation of Russia in
making a coordinated recovery pro-
gram for Europe work, or a wider
split than ever between a Western
and an Eastern Europe.
Some indication of the answer
was expected within 48 hours as
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin and French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault sat down with
Molotov at Ais p. m. in the hall
of parrots on the second floor of
the Foreign ministry.
After an hour they sent out word
that their meeting would be con-
sidered "informal" and that there
would be no press officers present.
Both French and British delega-
tons cancelled news conferences
which had been scheduled for after
the meeting.
This apparently was a gesture to
the Russians. One spokesman ex-
planned that the French and Brit
ish ministers felt the conference
would go more smoothly if the
principals were relieved Of too
much publicity at the start.
Both the British and French, who
held preliminary talks here last
week to study approaches to the
Marshall plan, have stated they
were determined to accept the
See SECRECY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
LABOR RACKETEER
GETS FIVE YEARS
James Y. Bove Also Fined
100000 On Income
Evasion Count

TEW YORK, June q - R -
James v. Bove, 48, former vice
president of the AFL international
Hold Carriers. Building and Com
mon Laborers union, today was
fined $50, 900 and sentenced to five
years in prison after pleading
guilty to evasion of So, 900 in in
come taxes for 1894.
Federal Judge Henry W. Good
ard, who imposed sentence, speci,
fled that the prison term should
run concurrently with two state
sentences which Bove now is serv-
ing.
The state prison terms are one
of 10 to 20 years for theft of $780,,
600 from Local go of the Hodcar-
riers union and one of eight and a
half to is years for extortion OF
money from contractors on the
New York City Delaware aqueduct
project
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
The Weather

FORECAST:
South Carolina-Clear to partly cloud
mo rather hot Saturday and SUNDAY
lew widely scattered thundershowers
Saturday afternoon and venln ana Ii
coastal area Sunday afternoon.
North Carolina-Partly cloudy and
continued rather hot Saturday and
Sunday, widely scattered thunderstorm,
prs Saturday afternoon and evening ano
h East portion Sunday afternoon.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U, S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hour
riding 1880 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
l:3o am. p; 1880 am. II; l:3o Pm
A; 7:3o pm. 70; Maximum IS; Mini
mum II; Mean 7s. Normal rs.
HUMIDITY
80 am. 81; 1880 am. II; 1870 pm
IS; 7:3o pm. u.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 1890 p. M
LOO inches. -.
Total since the first of the month
';2a inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
From the Tide Tables published by
u S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
Wilmington $500 SAT am. 1888 am.
$50 pm. 1852 pm.
dasonboro Inlet 3:41 am. 9:a3 an
4:29 pm. 10 AZ pm.
Sunrise SOB: Sunset 1927; Moonrise
Fz9p; Moonset 1:43a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
q. m. Friday SO feet.
More WEATHER On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
INSURANCE GROUP
|C0NVENES SUNDAY
Over 200. Agents Of Farm
Bureau Mutual Will Meet
AT Wrightsville

Some 210 agents of the Carolinas
division of the Farm Bureau Mu-
tual insurance companies of Col
umbus, o., will meet at Wrights-
vile Beach, June 20, 80 and July
l for their summer convention, 1t
was announced last night.
Registration for the three-day
convention will begin on Sunday,
June 20 at the Ocean Terrace Ho-
tel.
Mondays activities will be in
charge of Grady M. Chesson. Ra-
leigh field supervisor. The morn
ing session will include talks by w.
j. Cartier, secretary Of the
Wrightsville Beach Chamber of
Commerce, W. A. White, State a.
gent, Lyndell Stills, Winston-Salem,
district manager; R. w. Heffner,
Columbus director Of agency train
ing; Zane Jones, Columbus, life re-
preventative, E. E. Bundy. Green
vile. S. S.. field supervisor; A. T.
McCarter, Raleigh, claims mana
ger.
Hodges to Speak
Highlight of the morning will be
a speech by William P. Hodges, in-
surance commissioner of Raeigh.
The convention will be climaxed
Monday afternoon at 2:30 pm. with
a safety demonstration on the
street in front of the Ocean Ter
race. Prior to the demonstra-
ton, which tests a persons re.
flexes in a speeding automobile,
Harry M. Pontious, Columbus.
safety director, will lecture on
"Highway safety"
At 7 pm. Monday the summer
banquet will be held and delegates
will see the movie "Meet North
Carolina
l.. T. Jarmon, Goltsboro, field
supervisor, will be in charge Of the
sessions Tuesday. the final day of
the convention.
Discussions will be held until /
pm. when adjournment will take
place.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
Politicians Fight Duels
ButRefuse Misunderstanding

BUENOS AIRES, June 27-P)-
Political arguments embroiled one
cabinet member and three depu-
ties of the lower house of congress
in two pistol duels today. No one
was hurt, but neither did anyone
say he vas sorry and offer to
make up.
Both duels took place near Tigre
Delta, about Is miles north of the
capital. In the first encounter Re
lisario Cache Piran, Peronista
deputy, each fired two shots with
out damage and departed without
shaking hands.
The other duel brought together
Eduardo Colon, also a Personita
deputy, and Ernest San MARITIME,
an opposition Radical deputy. The
result was a draw with no blood
spilled and they likewise rejected
the judges invitation for a recon
Citation.
Duelling is illegal, but is toler-
ated as one way Of settling an
argument,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
ENSIGN ATTACKS
JOHN F. FARRELL
State. Housing Expediter
Scores Agent For Not
Attending Melting

John H. Farrell, city industrial
agent, who left late Wednesday on
a brief vacation, was subjected
yesterday to a personal attack by
Chester o. Ensign, N rohtCaro'
lima housing expediter, TO: mo-
attending a meeting of veterans,
veterans Representatives, contr C.
tors and others to discuss housens
proposals and employment of vet
Grams here.
Farrell and some contractors
had complained that Wilmington
has received unfair treatment al
the hands Of the Civilian Prod,
uction Administration.
The meeting was the result OF
ar invitation to Ensign from W.
K. Stewart, Jr., commander OF LIE
local post of veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Seek Information
Ensign, in reply, sisted that n
applications of all classes mad
been received in the form o!
industrial constructions. Of that
number 81 had ben approved and
is denied, a 70 percentage IN
favor of applications granted.
That percentage ''far exceeds
that in the remainder of the state
See ENSIGN On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28

their lines and muse on the task
that must have been exacted to
place the rocks there, a record
and a reason, for the Rocks repos-
es in the U. S. Corps of Engineers
office in Wilmington.
In 1929, when the United States
assumed active charge Of the i'm
provements (of the Cape Fear),
the controlling depth to Whining
ton was seven and one-half feet,
the records note.
In 1929, 1854 and 1870, projects
were authorized to deepen the main
bar channel by construction Of jet
ties by the closure of New Inlet,
just below Fort Fisher.
The closure of New Inlet was
completed in 1881 at a cost of ap-
proximately $500, 900. This was
some years after the Civil War,
when it was supposed to have been
constructed to thWart Union gun
boats.
TWO OUTLETS - New Inlet,
one of the two mouths of the Cape
Fear, was formed in 1851, when
a severe eouinoctial storm made a
breach through the outer banks
at a point about eight miles above
See CAPE FEAR On Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
House Group
Trims Funds
Appropriations Committee
Recommends 100000
For Cape Fear Work

nv FRANK VAN DER LINDEN
WASHINGTON, June Pin re-
oonmending an additional $780,
NM for widening and deepening
tse Cape Fear river at Whining
tnn The House Appropriations COM
r,ittee today granted one-third of
~. Army Engineers budget re-
n,,est of $500, 900 for the project.
The committee estimated that,
With S275, 900 remaining from the
=, MOO. 600 which Congress voted a
rsar ago, the total of 1915, 900
,boTld be sufficient to carry on the
work during the coming fiscal
,,ear but at the present rate
u appropriations the whole pro-
iect cannot be finished until at
least l949.
e. far, So, O44, 500 has been al
lated TO- the 4 1909, 500 project
leaving 81, 565,o 900 to be provided
w 4his and later congressman.
Authorized Project
The authorized project calls for
onIarging lie mhain channel from
IN feet deep and 300 feet wide to
~ feed deep and 400 feet wide:
I'm deepening the Northeast river
NON, IS TO Is feet: and for a con-
Meeting channel between the lower
Cane Fear river channel and the
Atlantic coastal waterway.
In urging the $500, 900 appropria-
lion the engineers said that deep
draft oil tankers cannot enter the
present channel without unloading
part of their cargo at some other
port to reduce draft.
approximately so percent of the
co2stwise commerce consists of pc
troIeurn products carried in tank
ers Of the To type, 525 feet long,
ss-foot beam, and drafts of 30 feet
? inches TO 80 feet II inches, "the
engineers said.
"Under present conditions load
mo Is limited to 28.5 feet. 1t is
necessary that the Improvement De
carried to completion to obtain
the full benefit of present tanker
fleet economies"
Wheeler Testifies
Wilmington's commerce in 1915
was estimated at 1,046, 0Uo tons.
When the present projec began,
the channel was only 26 feet deep.
said 1t. Gen. r. A. Wheeler, chief
Of Engineers
Besides the Cape Fear fund, the
committee voted 1852 0 for a ca
nal to cut off an elbow of the
Neuse river at Goldsboro, to re-
duce floods between that city and
New Bern, and So, 800, 900 to con-
tinue work on hte Bugs Island
dam on the Roanoke River in
North Carolina and Virginia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
Five North CarOlinianS
Get Winec0ff Damages

RALEIGH, June 81 Up - Five
North Carolina claims arising from
the Atlanta, Ca, Winecoff hotel
fire were settled here today by
State Industrial Commissioner
Buren, Jurney in orders allowing
5000 each to five Asheville wom-
en- whose husbands died in the
flames.
The $50, 900 total set a record,
Jurney said, as the largest set
tlement ever awarded by the
North Carolina commission as the
result of one accident.
An estimated 121 persons were
burned to death or fatally injured
last December Z in the Winecoff
fire.
Three of the five North Caro-
linians - William Edgar Bryson,
Harry w. Sorrells and Cleveland
Sisk = were drivers for Smoky
Mountain Stages and were laying
over in the Winecoff after trips
from Asheville. Two Edward
Owen Thomas, president of Ashe-
vile Buick company, and Walter
Leon Baker, employe of Asheville
Buick-were in Atlanta to ex-
anime surplus vehicles being sold
by the War Assets administra-
ton.
The beneficiaries:
Mrs. William Edgar Bryson and
two minor daughters; Mrs. Harry
w. Sorrells and a minor daughter;
Mrs. Cleveland Sisk; Mrs. Walter
Leon Baker and minor daughter,
and Mrs. Owen Thomas and a
minor son.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28

LONDON, June 81 - up Two
grinning ex-GT's from Oregon, out
to see the world before eve have
to start playing grown-up'', threw
a chill into Scotland Yard and the
British War office today by seal
ing the wall and spending the night
in the beautiful - but utterly ex-
elusive - grounds of Buckingham
palace.
This simply IS not done. In fact
there is an 8 1-2-foot wall around
the palace grounds, with long sharp
spikes on top Of it and patrolllng
that wall are the pick of London's
boobies and a smart detail OF Ar
my guardSmen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
SENATE ADVANCES
SPEAKER" BILL
Upper Chamber Votes
House Officer Next In
Line For Presidency

WASHINGTON, June q - ~
The Senate, beating down Demo
cratic amendments, passed a bill
today to put the speaker of the
House next in line for the Presi-
dency after the vice president.
Senate passage by so to IS sent
hte measure to the House, where
speedy approval is regarded GER
tain. The House passed a similar
bill last session, when President
Truman first recommended it, but
the Senate let it die. Mr.. Truman
said this year he still is tor it.
even though the Republicans con-
See SENATE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
CHERRY RE-APPOINTS
FIVE SPECIAL JUDGES
TO TWO-YEAR TERMS

RALEIGH, June 27-P-Reap-
pointment of North Cardinals
five special superior court Judges
was announced today by Governor
Cherry.
They were: w. H. S. Burgwyn
Of Woodland, Luther Hamilton
Of Morehead City, Hubert E. Olive
of Lexington, George B. Patton
of Franklin and Paul B. Edmund
son of Goldsboro.
The special judges were reap
pointed for two-year terms be-
cause the authority to appoint
special judges must be renewed
by the general assembly at each
session.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
Complete Paralysis OF Soft Coal
Industry Near AS Miners Take Off;
Ministers Debate Marshall Plan
Steel Mills
Closing Down
Unionists Begin To-Day
Vacation As Fuel Reserve
Stocks Dwindle

PITTSBURGH, June q - (H) -
The nations soft coal industry
drifted toward complete paralysis
a. midnight tonight when paid va
cations begin for 400, 900 union
miners, most of them already idle
in wildcat stoppages protesting
the Taft-Hartley law.
Steel and other coal-dependent
industries felt the impact of the
shutdown before the Today vaca-
tons pinched off the last bitumin-
u production and cast an I'M
easy hiatus over INNINGS labor
troubles.
These paid vacations were
granted under the governments
contract with the AFL-United Mine
Workers. The holiday comes az
the Navy coal mine administra-
ton quits the coal business, an
exit which becomes official next
Monday, June 80.
U. S. Steel Corps biggest basic
producer, the Carnegie : Illinois
Steel corp, announced the most
drastic cutback due to coal short
ages induced by the walkouts and
the vacation. This bellwether in
the steel industry set an immed-
late curtailment to As percent Of
peak operations in the Pittsburgh
district, now at 104 percent Of
theoretical capacity.
Production Cut
The firm earlier had cut back
equivalent to 4 IL blast furnaces
of the rs it operates in the dis
trict. Other firms, including
Youngstown Sheet & Tube and
Sharon Steel, also reduced opera
tons to conserve scant coal sup
plies.
These conservation actions serv-
ed as a barometer of the coal in
dustry's production potentialities
after the vacation period ends
July Z. There is a distinct pos
sibility that the holiday may bur-
geon into a full-blown strike as
the problem of negotiating a con-
tract with the union is tossed
See STEEL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
WOMAN ASKS $4,000
PERSONAL DAM IMAGES
FOR MARRIED BEAUTY

Declaring that her beauty has
been married to such an extent
chat she no longer is able to get
dates" and that she is unable to
procure employment, Lois Hol'
land, %, has instituted a $685. 0(
personal damage suit in county
court against Jack Hinson.
The plaintiffs petition charges
that last January 26 she was in.
jured about the head and face
when an automobile operated by
Hinson in which she was returning
with a group from a dance, went
of Highway 421 lear Greenfield
curve and crashed into a tree.
The driver "a operating at a
50 mile : an hour speed despite
warnings from the plaintiff, read
the petition, and the accident oc-
Cured when Hinson attempted to
pass an automobile ahead and
was forced of the highway as an
other vehicle. from the opposite di-
rection approached.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
avOrWhitePOint
To Industrial Need
Wind Kills Two

LONDON, June ~ -(P- A
sudden deluge of rain accom-
panied by a mile-a-minute wind
swept London and the southeast
coast early this afternoon, caus-
ing at least two deaths and
property damage estimated at
thousands of dollars.
Weather officials said LA in
ches fell in 20 minutes, the most
intense downpour in 10 years.
The soft fruit crop suffered
damage and traffic was dis
rupted over a wide area.
The wind blew off two church
steeples.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-28
And So To Bed.

The phone rang for the
umteenth time in a busy North
Front street department store
yesterday afternoon.
But the a%ll-hot-and bothered
clerk was just as polite as US
ual when he answered "hello,
Smith speaking"
Then he was startled when q
sweet feminine voice, indentify-
ing herself as a clerk in an
other store three blocks away,
requested that he step outside
and drop a nickle in the park
ing meter 50 she would dodge .
police reminder and one dollar
fine. Her al was parked cut
front, she said.
He did as requested, but NUT.
tering to himself that it never
pays to underestimate tho
power Of a woman.