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SKINNER ON STAND
IN METER FRAUD
CASE In CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE, Oct. 29-LR-B.
A. Skinner, head of the Charlotte
inspection department who is
charged with embezzlement of
parking meter funds, took the
stand in Mecklenburg Superior
Court today and denied use of
municipal meter money to buy
whiskey for himself and mem
bers of his department.
Skinner, as head of the in
spection department., was charg-
ed with responsibility for collec-
ton of the meter funds.
Herman Black, assistant fore
man of the signal division gar
age where the parking meter
nickels and pennies are counted,
has pleaded guilty to misuse of
meter funds.
Black, in earlier testimony,
told the court that he and Skin
ner had kept a charge account
at a local bootlegger's establish
ment where liquor was purchas-
ed for the signal division en-
ployes with change taken from
the meters.
Attorneys for the defense and
prosecution made their address
es to the jury today and the case
is expected to go to the jury at
the completion of Judge George
B. Patton's charge tomorrow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
"North Carolina has proportion

North Carolina has proportion
ately as many splendid men ell,
gible for service in National
Guard units as any other state,
Nets said.
"This nation must maintain a
substantial defensive force. With
nearly all our regular army IN
foreign lands, the responsibility
rests even more on the National
Guard.
A National Guard unit, he
said, should be part of the CIVIC
activities of every town and city.
Officers appointed to service
with new units and the civic and
business leaders Of the communl-
ties, he urged, must give the To-
cal units their fullest support II
the units are to operate effec-
tiVelV.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
HOWELL TO HEAD
TWPC BRANCH IN
KINSTON DISTRICT

A Wilmington native, veteran
of 10 years with the Tide Water
Power company, has been named
to head the Kinston district of
the company in a newly created
post, which will give him charge
of both the electrical and gas de-
partments.
j. S. Howell, a graduate of New
Hanover high who entered the
service of the CO. pany in War
saw March 7, 1884, will head the
Kinston area, which formerly
was under the supervision of
the New Bern office, President
Warren w. Bell announced yes
terday.
President Bell said the crea-
ton of the new division be-
came necessary because of ex-
tensive growth of the company's
facilities for the area in recent
years.
Howell served two years in
Warsaw and was transferred to
Wilmington, whence he went to
Kinston a. superintendent of
rural electrical distribution,
which job he has held for the
last nine years.
Married and the father Of one
child, Howell is an aviation
enthusiast, possessing a Fairchild
PT-2 plane, and is active in the
development of aviation interest
in his community.
CHICAGO PRODUCE
CHICAGO, Oct. 2e-W.D-Pro-
duce: Poultry: "a trucks; weak
to firm; hens Is IL; broilers So
So.
Cheese: Twins Al IL AZ; single
daisies 43 IL A; Swiss 1886.
Butter: 328,509 lbs; firm; 90
score "a; 90 score q IL; 80
score SO 1-2; 80 score 81. CARROTS:
80 score 68 IL; SO score 81.
Eggs: 1902 cases; irregular;
extras l %unquoted; extras 2, 81
Sc; 3 and 4, 47-50; standards l
and 2, 46; 8 and 4, 44-45; current
receipts "A; dirties 1886; checks
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
30 MEN RECRUITED
BY NAVY STATION
HERE THIS MONTH

Thirty Southeastern North
Carolina men were accepted for
three years service in the U. S..
Navy during October through
the local recruiting station in the
post office building, it was an
nounced yesterday by James C..
Paradise, station commander.
The station surpassed their
monthly quota of Is men for the
fifth consecutive month.
The men were given a mental
and pre-enlistment examination
in the local station and we're. sent
to Raleigh for a complete physi-
cal examination and final enlist
ment.
Enlisting during the week of
October 20-25 we're veterans;
James Sibbett of Boardman,
and two Negro enlistees; non
veterans, Hugh McPhatter OF
Drum, John L. Hardy of Orrum,
William Floyd Hickman OF oiial.
lotte and Daniel T. Main OF
Rocky Point.
Paradise said that the recruit
ing schedule for Southeastern
North Carolina is: Monday,
Laurinburg, Lumberton, and zee
Springs; Tuesday, L~aurinburg'
Lumberton, and Fairmont; wed
nesday, Elizabethtown, Clinton
and Garland; Thursday, White
vile, Tabor City, andrFalr Bull
Friday, Wallace, and Jackson
vile; and in the local recruiting
office from 8 a. m. to 4:3O p. m.
Friday, and 8 a. m. to l p. M
on Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
HOLDING
NEGRO MAID ON
VAGRANCY CHARGE

Reta Mae Grant, Negro maid
who gave her address as 913
North Seventh street, was ar
rested at police headquarters
here yesterday afternoon and
held on a charge of vagrancy
while officers investigated her
confession that there may be a
murder warrant awaiting her in
Savannah, Ga.
Reta Mae told police that she
had cut another Negro woman
in Savannah some time ago and
that she had later heard that
the woman had died. Police at
a late hour last night were at
tempting to verify her story with
Savannah officials to learn
whether there is a warrant out
standing for her.
The local officers said that the
woman was turned in by her
"boy friend" with whom she had
been living here, after she had
attempted to obtain a warrant
for the man on charges of dam
age to personal property. She
told the officers that he had torn
some of her clothing when they
had an argument.
According to her story and the
story of the man involved, Off
GERS said, she fled Savannah af-
ter the cutting and went to Phila-
delphia, before coming to Will
mington. They said that she has
an arrest record in the city from
the previous time spent here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
COURT

Sidney Baker, 10th and Queen
streets, fined costs for discharg-
ing firearms in the city.
w. D.. Holder, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon,
continued until October 80.
Jack Newman, SO Lee Drive,
Lake Forest, charged with being
intoxicated, continued until
Thursday.
Junior Bolton, 813 South Front
street, was fined the costs for
~disorderly conduct.
Robert Brown, 202 Nun street,
was sentenced to Is days on the
county farm for a liquor law
violation and disorderly conduct.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
COURT TO DECIDE
'WH0DUNIT' TODAY
Driving Intoxicated Charge
Has Many Conflitting
Angles

The New Hanover Superior
Court jury will have a who
dunit" to decide this morning
when they consider the appeal
of John Williams, Negro, from a
recorders court conviction OF
driving while intoxicated.
They will decide whether John
drove his automobile that crash
ed into the rear of a 1899 Ply
mouth sedan driven by Law
renee D. Rhodes, Jr., of Castle
Haynes, on the Carolina Beach
road on the night of June %, or
if the car was driven as John
contends by "the little man who
was not there"
1.-The little man who was not
there" Gin COURT, was .describ-
ed by Johns girl friend, Della
Morris, as a tall, high yellow
Negro with a gold tooth. His
name she did not know but said
they picked him up at Sea Breeze
to drive the car when John,
whom she had never saw take
a drink, was too high" to drive.
fter the collision the driver
got out, talked to the three ma
rines in the car he rammed, and
presently climbed into a tax
and drove off, Della explained.
No defense witness was able to
say they had ever seen him since
or knew where he could be
found.
John Harris or Harrison, Will
hanson did not know which, was
the Negro who accompanied John
and Della with his girl friend
Quetenie, John testified. Harris
failed to show up to testify for
his friend, and Judge Carr told
the jury Harris will be permitted
to testify this morning before
they retire to consider the YER
dict if he shows up.
Rhodes, a marine pfc at Camp
LeJeune and two marine COM
panions, told the court a differ
ent story. They said that John
was under the wheel of the cal
and that his companion Harris
tried to get the al strated and
get away before Officer R. c,
Duncan Of the state highway
patrol arrived As minutes after
the collision.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
SUPERIOR COURT
JURY FREES MAN
OF ~NON-SUPPORT

The jury in New Hanovc- Su-
perior Court Wednesda. after
noon freed L. G. Ship, Clinton
of a charge of nonsupport OF an
illegitimate child, when it sup
ported Ships contention that ne
was not the father of the child.
Before a crowded court room
Wednesday morning Ship ad-
mitted having illicit relations
with Miss Dora Watts who cha~g-
ed him with being the father of
the child. He said the romance
began at the Wilmington Ship
yard, continued on a railroad
track in the city and after four
or five dates concluded N the
plaintiffs front porch.
The plaintiff testified Sh:e p
promised to marry her and set a
date but went to Clinton and
married another woman instead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
MET'TS APPEALS
: FOR GUARD UNITS
Full And Active Interest
Plea Made By State Ad-
jutant General

RALEIGH, Oct. %. - up -
The North National Guard ap-
pealed to North Carolinians to-
day for full and active interest"
in building up effective units IN
communities of the state.
The National Guard program
can succeed, STATE Adj. Gen. j.
Van B. Nets said in making the
plea, only with the support OF
"patriotic veterans, business and
women's organizations"
The state is now tagging in
29th position in the nation with
only 40 per cent of its assigned
quota, General let's reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30

Oldest tree in Sweden is a
2000-year-old oak at Rumkulla.
The tree has undergone extern
sive surgery to save it from de-
cav.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-30
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Thirty per cent of all fires
from known causes occur from
matches and smoking.
Evening star., 1947-12-28

High Lights Of |947

Traditional New Year optimism, now focused on
)o48 has mony of the some overtones which marked
the odvent of 947. Some of this years top news is
pictured here On the national scene. prices continued
to rise. labor and management reached crisis which
brouoht forth drostc eqsIoton charges and recrmi-
notions spced variety Of congressional hearings; the
housing shortage continued ocute and the shadow OF the
l948 political campaign visible in utteronees and
behavior "Flyinq discs" and the 'botte Of the hem-
line provided more dvertne topics for conversation In
other countries stootion cold and VIOLENCE took their
toll. Meanwhile. diplomats wronged in "cod war" OF
deolooes
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Commissioners Will SfudY'
Medical Care Of Prisoners

A conference among court, Jail
and municipal hospital officials to
assure disqualification Of District
Jail prisoners who need medical
treatment will be held at 13o pm.
Monday, Municipal Court Judge
George D. Nelson said today.
Judge Nelson said Commissioner
Mason had told him Donald Glenn
mer, director of the Department of
Corrections, and Col. Curtis Reid,
superintendent of the jail, would
attend the parley.
The need for better facilities to
provide medical care for prisoners
came to light early this week when
Mrs. E. Murrill, 80, of 412 Sixth
street NV, ordered held as a wit
ness complained that she was held
five days at the Jail without medical
care.
Under District law judges may
recommend disqualification, but have
no power to order person to be
taken to hospital. Mrs. Murrill was
q complainant against her husband
who was sentenced to six month
imprisonment for striking her with
whisky bottle.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

quoted in the press, the statement
requires specific correction"
The former President said that
the writer, Sidney Shalett, must
have confused this with statements
from interviews with some one else,
as not only would I not have made
such an indictment of q whole Ma
ton, including myself, but also it
is a contradiction to many other
places where I am on public record"
In Washington Mr.. Shalett said
that "the statement was made to
me by Mr.. Hoover, and the quota
tion exactly as I wrote it appears in
my notebook. I am quite sure, how
ever, that Mr.. Hoover Is perfectly
sincere in his statement that he
did not say 1t. If he says he does
not believe that we never would
have been attacked by the Jap
anese If we had not given them
provocation,' obviously he knows
Evening star., 1947-09-26
YugosIav Units Lack
OF Courage Ayerted
War, jenkins SAYS

Ncpacocuedblfc5 JcitklIlS, fScpuDu-
can, Of Ohio says that "lack of
courage" by q Yugoslav Army unit
"is the chief reason we're not now
engaged In third world war"
He made the statement In let
ter from Trieste, made public by his
Office here, describing September
Is incident In which Anglo-Ameri-
, can forces stood firm against a.
Yugoslav attempt to push across the
line dividing Yugoslav and Ameri-
can-British occupation zones in the
Trieste area.
The United States already has
formally warned the Yugoslavs
against the irresponsible" practice
Of serving ultimstums on American
troops in trying to secure revision
Of the boundary in Yugoslavia's
favor.
The State Department said yes
terday 1t also is taking directly to
the Yugoslav government the case
of three American soldiers seized by
Yugoslav troops.
Protest Gets No Results.
Michael j. McDermott, State De-
partment press officer, pointed out
that a protest by Maj. Gen. T. s.
Airey, commander of the British
American forces at Trieste, has pro-
duced mo results"
This incident involves an Ameri-
can officer and two enlisted men
who were forced across the Trieste
frontier at gunpoint by Yugoslavs.
The three have been identified az
1t. William Van Atten of East
Orange, N. j.; Pfc. Earl G.. Hen
drick, jr. of Arlington, Va, and
Pfc. Glen A. Myers of Edgely, N D.
Mr.. Jenkins, in Trieste as chair
man of House subcommittee study
ing foreign aid problems, saw the
whole situation as indicating plan
by Russia and Yugoslavia to take
over Trieste by force before it could
be established as free city under
United Nations auspices.
Mr.. Jenkins wrote that on Sep
tember Is the Yugoslavs decided to
force themselves" into territory con-
trolled by American and British oc-
cupation forces.
Notice Served on British.
He continued that a Yugoslav
officer served notice on the British
Army that his forces would move
. through British and American lines
"by force if necessary"
"It was evident" Mr.. jenkins
wrote, "that this officer was acting
purely as a messenger boy for the
the authorities in Belgrade and
Moscow. He was told by the Amer
ican and British officers that his
forces would not be permitted to
pass and that he should return to
his forces and advise the author
tiles that their conduct might pre-
cipitate World War III, and that
they should be careful Of their ac-
tons. The American and British
officers contacted their respective
governments, who advised them to
stand firm and who made protest
Immediately to Belgrade and Mos
COW.
"At. midnight the Yugoslav Army
came forward with a large number
of men and with horse drawn ar
tillery, indicating their purpose to
go through. The American and
British forces stood firm and re-
solved that the Yugoslavs would be
compelled to start the conflict. The
Yugoslavs turned and went back
down the hill. The lack of courage
on the part Of these Yugoslavs is
the chief reason that we are not
now engaged in a third world war"
Evening star., 1947-09-26
NcAuIiffe Stresses Military,
Scientific Link for Security

The vital Importance to national
security OF close cooperation be-
tween military men and scientists
was emphasized in a talk before the
Kiwanis Club of Washington in the
Mayf1ower Hotel yesterday by Maj.
Gen. Anthony c. McAuliffe. Army
secretary of the Joint Research and
Development Board.
The speaker described some of the
"incredible" projects on which mil
ttary men now are working but de-
cleared that If a war is fought in
the next Is or 20 years, II am afraid
It will have to be done in the same
old, hard way"
Development and research Is a
slow, expensive process, he said.
Gen. McAuliffe was introduced by
Joseph r. Harris. Maurive Palmer,
president, conducted the meeting.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

screamed again despite the warning,
he struck her with what she thought
was a gun.
Mrs. Myers cries attracted neigh
bors who called police. She de-
scribed her attacker as a white
man, IS to 80 years old and about
6 feet tall. She said he was wear
ing gray hat and a light suit. He
was Of medium build, she reported.
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Police Seek AssaiIanf
OF Bethesda Woman

A 25-year-old Bethesda woman
was attacked last night as she
walked on Edgemore lane and police
today were searching for the man
who beat her on the head and fled
when she screamed.
The victim, Mrs. James I. Myers
Is, of 6802 Denton road, was recov-
ering at her home from bruises and
Evening star., 1947-09-26
Hoover Denies Saying
Japan Was Provoked
Into Attack on u. ).
By the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Herbert
Hoover says that he was misquoted
by magazine writer who wrote
that the former President told him
this country would never have been
attacked by the japanese if we had
not given them provocation."
Mr.. Hoover, in a letter to Sumner
N. Blossom, editor of the American
Magazine, suggested last night that
since the article in the September
issue Of the magazine had been
Evening star., 1947-09-26

how ne feels. . . But on the basi
OF my II years experience In news
paper and magazine reporting
must maintain that I wrote exactly
what heard him say"
Mr.. Blossom said Mr.. Hoover's
letter would be printed in full in
the November issue.
Evening star., 1947-09-26

a cut on her eyelid which required
two stitches. She was treated i'm
mediately after the attack at Sub
urban Hospital.
Montgomery County police said
the young woman was walking home
alone from the Hot Shoppe about
10 o'clock when a man grabbed hel
and threw her to the ground. Wher
she screamed, police said, the mar
warned that if she repeated the CRY
he would shoot her." When SHE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-27

late production of coal in the Ruhr. And by our success in Germany, we can provide coal for the rest of Europe. This in turn will help France, Italy and Brit ain to speed up their own produc- tion."
 Nodding approval. Senator Sal tonstall scribbled on piece of paper and handed it to his Demo- cratic colleague from Wyoming. It read, As Mayor Hylan's wife said to the Queen of the Belgians, You said a mouthful, Queen.
 Note-Following the Senat Ap- propriations Committees session, the State and War Departments prepared a 1,500-word memo for President Truman, summarizing the problem of financing the Brit ish in Germany It stated that the Senate would go along with the appropriation of funds to cov- CT food, fertilizer and such items as Britain must pay for in dol lars. Meanwhile it is undersood that the British will not withdraw their troops, and that the USA would share in fixing policies for the British zone.
 (coPYRIGHT, 1947, BELL SYNDICATE. 1Nc)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-27
TRULY FREE" RADIO

How many of us realize that radio station is not allowed to editorialize on the air? According to the terms of the policy set in ls4i by the Federal Com munica tions Commission "a truly free radio cannot be used advocate the causes of the censee (mean- ing a given radio station). The public interest can never be served by dedication of any broadcast facility to the support of tthe broadcasters parti san ends"
 "A truly free radio" then begins with act of discrimination against the broadcaster himself. The owner of station can sell time to any Tom, Dick or Harry who can afford to buy it. The sponsor hires commentator let's say. Commentators as everyone knows editoriaize-that is offer their own opinions. That is what makes them interesting The views they express largely their own though they also may be those of the sponsor. That is to say, sponsor usually chooses commentator whose views do not too frequently run counter to his own.
 That's free radio according to the Federal Communications Commissions conception of it The operator of radio station, who is to exercise judg- ment in selling the facilities of extremely potent medium of communication, nevertheless is regarded by the government one unfit to express comment on the from his station.
 Obviously this policy of the FEC has been dc- taed by necessity for preventing irresponsible persons political crackpots quacks and subversve individuals from acquiring radio stations But the commission is required to issue licenses to everyone anyon1 who applies. Nor is it prohibit from reYoking a license when it fit to do
 Newspapers fortunately are not subject to the same restraints radio stations, because radio is garded a utility and is subject to all the regula tions the government may fit to impcsa upon it. The constitution the other hand, specifically de- nies the authority of Congress anyone to abridee the freedom of the press.
 Bluff the government did manage newspapers in the manner the EGG manages radio licenses. no newspaper publisher would be free express his own opinion, give the newspapers opinion any sub ject The only editoriazing that could take place
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-27
Pension Grabs
Washington Post)

Washington Post)
 The Veterans of Foreign Wars have voted to make pensions for World War veterans their major legislative objective for the coming year. Congress man Van Zandt a former VFW commander in chief, is sponsoring bill to provide pensions of SIS per month for these veterans when they reach 65. Ad- dressing members of the organization assembled at Cleveland MT Van Zandt asked whether the American people were going down request of this kind after spending billions for aid to foreign nations
 We only wish his indignation had been reserved for worthier cause and that he had stopped to fleet the greater outlaws for the relief of the helpless and destitute of other lands, the sary becomes to avoid unnecessary domestic outlaws In any case there is justification for handing ott pensions to millions of veterans most of whom are quite as well able to save for old age non-veterans and have the same protection accorded other workers under our social insurance systems.
 MT Van zandt estimates that the proposed pen system would about 755 million dollars in the first year rising eventually to peak of about billion annually. We not interested in such computations because it foregone conclusion that if the veterans of World War I given pensions, the veterans of World War IT. who much more numerous would likewise demand pensions And we fail to how their request could in justice. be refused. So the cost of, pensionng off World War veterans would in time reach formidable figures and constitute a charge the public for decades to come.
 The country has dealt generously with its disabled veterans and has provided benefits for the able bodied that will help them to the handicaps of temporary withdrawal from civilian life The po ticans who angle for veterans votes by dangling tho tempting bait of pensions for all before them in our opinion, public enemies of peculiarly dangerous sort For they appeal to spirit of greed and self seeking, debase conception of the nature of patr otism and by their callous disregard of the burden eopardize the of those disabled veterans who the richly deserving of liberal pension.