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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

huge waves at the height Of a
storm. The vessel carried a crew
of approximately 20 men who are
described in one history book as
"of villianous aspect" When they
came ashore and without eny of.
ficers, men stationed at Fort
Johnston nearby became suspi-
cious.
Lieutenant Fergus, apparently
in command of the fort at the
moment, had the crew arrested
and placed in the block house at
the Fort on suspicion of murder
ing their captain and mate at sea.
The men told what historians
say was an unlikely story. 1t was
that the captain and mate had
died at sea and that the crew
being ignorant Of navigation had
allowed their vessel to drive be-
fore the wind until it was driven
ashore.
SPANISH SILVER - The crew
members had sashes about their
waists and the sashes filled with
Spanish silver pieces. The crew
related that there was much more
silver aboard the wreck. 1t is re-
lated that for nearly 20 years
thereafter, silver pieces at inter
walls were washed ashore and pi-
lots living at Bald Head were kept
busy picking them up.
The crew was eventually sent
to Charleston for trial but in the
absence of testimony against
them, the men were freed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

VIENNA, Aug. 20 -R-Dezsoe
Sulyok, former leader Of the now
dissolved Hungarian Freedom
party. told the American-li-
censed Wiener Kurier in an in
terview today that he had fled
from Hungary sin fear of my
life" and that an official Hungar-
ian report he was on vacation
was "a flat lie."
sulyok, accompanied by his
wife. said he had not been issued
a visa to come to Austria as re-
ported by the Hungarian minis
try Of the interior.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
1rate. British Press Demands Cabinet
Shakeup AS Coal Strike Spreads
Radio Appeal Locates Woman ,
Exposed To Rabies; Bit By Cat

CINCINNATI, Aug. .-QPeMrs Louis e. Dubuque, Gin
cinnati housewife who left on q vacation last Saturday unaware
she had been exposed to rabies through 3 cat bite. Reported At
General hospital yesterday for the first Paxteur treatment-after
In a radio broadcast late Tuesday. Cincinnati police asked Of
ficers in Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia to help locate Mr.. and
Mrs. Dubuque, reported on a vacation motor trip, to advise her
that q cat which bit her on the heel two weeks ago had died of
rabies.
Mrs. Dubuque has shown no indication that she suffered an
infected bite, the husband said, adding that he and his wife felt
confident the treatment was started in time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30
The Weather

t,,. FORECAST:
lsttlvN Cafolina and South Carolina -
hucS Loudly Saturday and Sunday, not
tGsh,,v 'ilanee in temperatures except
M.tss warmer coastal area.
tdinv 7. .goglc data for the "a hours
''o p. m. yesterday.
In TEMPERATURES
I, i'm N "a; 7:3O a. m. "a; 1870 p. m.
sua ~. :; m n. Maximum IS; Mini
~ Mean 70; Normal rs.
lN HUMIDITY
Ma m 80: 7:30 a. m. SO; 1880 p. m.
tt., PRECIPITATION
3 iscb TOT "A hours ending 7:3o D. m.
u Nnce the first of the month
u,,,, TIDES FOR TODAY
L cos me Tide Tables published by U.
and Geodetic Survey.
Mkainy HIGH Low
g, - $3.50 am. 3:44 am.
~aonbo,, BIS pm. $3.50 pm.
Ah1e1 - 6:37 am. 12:46 am.
,ssuhr,. 1907 pm. 12:45 pm.
'ah; 50: Sunset 6:4i; Moonrise
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

See UN COMMITTEE On Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

See PRESS On Page Ten
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy
and slightly warmer today and Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Church Council 10 Hear
Talks at Conference

DR.. w. Harllee Bordeaux, national
secretary of the American Council
Of Christian Churches, will address
the opening session of the two-day
Bible conference of the council at
7:50 o'clock tonight at the National
Tabernacle, 6440 Piney branch road
NV.
DR.. Bordeaux also will speak at a
special meeting for pastors, at 10
am. tomorrow, at the Washington
Bible Institute, 1443 Rhode Island
avenue NV.
The Christian businessmen's s
luncheon group will hear the Rev
DR.. Carl McIntire, editor of the
Christian Beacon, at 1890 pm. to-
morrow at 1113 Pennsylvania avenue
NV. He will talk on Twentieth
Century Reformation"
DR.. H. o. Van Glider, national
representative of the General Asso-
ciation of Regular Baptists Churches
will speak at the conference at
pm. tomorrow.
The conference will close with q
meeting at 8 pm. tomorrow when
DR.. Van Glider and DR.. McIntire
will speak. The former will talk on
Might, the Idolatry of Modernism
and the latter on "Marxist Ideolgy
Offered as Christianity in the
Churches"
Evening star., 1947-02-11

The nine Supreme Court justices
split almost every way possible yes
terday in deciding three cases. Six
of them used $500 words to set forth
their adamant legal views. They
wrote nine different opinions In dis
posing of the suits.
Two of them upheld sections OF
the Hatch "clean politics" Act. The
third declared that tax money may
be used to pay the cost of trans
porting pupils to Catholic as well
as public schools.
However, Chief Justice Vinson
seeking to- resolve the wide split
which characterized the last term
of the court, could find some meas
ure of encouragement in two fac
tors:
/. His colleagues did not resort
to personal attacks-as had oc-
CURED. in several instances before
he ascended to the bench last Oc-
tober.
2. One of yesterdays Hatch Act
cases, on which four differing opin-
ions were written, was a leftover
from last term. Hence a majority
of the jurists had made up their
minds on that case before Justice
vinson joined the court.
So the score, so far as Justice
Wilson'S influence was concerned
was really two split opinions rather
than three. Up to yesterday, the
court under his leadership has been
handing down divided opinions IN
about so per cent of the cases.
Approximately 16 States will be
affected by the 5-4 ruling of the
court in the school transportation
case.
In another action yesterday, the
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Nine Opinions to Settle 3 Cases
Heighten Supreme Court Rift

court refused to reconsider an earlier
decision holding that the State of
Louisiana may try again to elec-
trocute Willie Francis, youthful Ne
gro holdup slayer, who lived through
one trip to the chair when the
mechanism failed.
The school-fare opinion was read
by Justice Black, who was Joined by
Chief Justice Vinson and Justices
Reed. Douglas and Murphy.
Justices Rutledge and Jackson
wrote dissenting opinions. On the
same side were Justices Frankfurter
and Burton. although the latter did
not join in the jackson dissent.
At issue was the complaint of
Arch r. Everson of Ewing township
near Trenton, N. j., against the use
of tax money to reimburse parents
of students in Catholic schools for
the children's bus fare of 20 or %
cents daily on the same basis as II
they were going to public school
The New Jersey Court of Errors and
Appeals had turned down Mr.. Ever
sons plea that the payment violated
the principle of separation of church
and state.
Justice Black, for the majority,
took the position that the New Jer-
sey law authorizing the payments is
basically social legislation for the
benefit of students and their fami-
lies, with benefits to the church only
incidental. He argued that no per-
son may be denied the benefits of
such a law by reason of his reli-
gion.
The principal dissent was hinged
directly on the idea of taxation
for support of beliefs to which the
taxpayer is opposed
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Former Marine Given
Suspended Sentence
For Cafe HoIdup

A suspended sentence today was
given Albert E. Miller, "a, for the
December 80 robbery of the Bethesda
Hot Shoppe.
Circuit Judge Stedman Prescott at
Rockville suspended the sentence
generally and described the courts
action as "very unusual" He said
1t was takerApecause Miller's record
In the Marine Corps disclosed he
had suffered blows on three different
occasions resulting in brief periods
of Inconsistencies from time to
time.
Miller was employed at the Hot
Shoppe on the Virginia side of the
Fourteenth street bridge at the
time Of the holdup. He admitted
at his trial last month that he had
held up the cashier Of the Bethesda
Hot Shoppe with an unloaded re-
volyer and had obtained $500
At the trial, Miller's mother, Mrs.
Nora M. Miller, McKeesport, Pa,
testified she felt responsible for Mil
ler's actions because she had wired
him an urgent request for funds.
Police testified Miller told them
he had spent some of the money at
La Fontaine's gambling establish
ment on Blackdensbury road in
Prince Georges County.
James Pugh, Miller's attorney,
said the defendant had been treated
at Gallinger Hospital in February,
1945, and was given a lunacy hearing
tn District Court later.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

starts. The curtain spreads be-
tween floating ice cakes, some a
mile or more in diameter, and tends
to tie them together. It grows
stronger and thicker. The cakes
are pulled together. The result
is the start of next years ice pack.
Already the cakes are being
pulled toward each other as by an
elastic net. As the midnight sun
strikes very thin ice crystals form
ing on the lace, the sea surface
seems strewn with glittering jewels
Once started, the phenomenon pro-
ceeds very rapidly. With favorable
conditions a new pack forms tn a
few days.
'cThe pack gets constantly better
through the summer up to today,
when it suddenly gets as bad as
it can possibly become" Rear Ad-
miral Richard H. Cruzen, task force
commander, commented.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Funeral Services Today
For Horace Miller

Funeral services for Horace Miller,
81, of 1876 Rhode Island avenue NE,
who died Sunday, win be held at 8
pm. today at the Hines funeral
home, 2901 Fourteenth street NV.
Burial will be in Fort Lincoln Gene
terry.
Mr.. Miller was linotype operator
for the Times Herald for more than
80 years. He was born in Belvedere.
N. j., but moved to Washington after
finishing his schooling.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs,
Emma Hoag Miller; daughter, Mrs,
Catherine Gollaher, Cockeysville
Md, at whose home he was visiting
at the time of mis- death, and three
grandchildren.
Mr.. Miller was member of the
Lincoln Road Methodist Church and
the Columbia Typographical Union
No. 101.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Montgomery Group
Offers 8 Provisions
For Proposed Charter

Eight recommendations for the
proposed Montgomery County char
ter were made last night by the
Montgomery County Civic Fedora
tion at q meeting in the Bethesda
| Elementary School
The recommendations call for:
|. Nonpartisan election of county
council members.
q No member Of the county courl-
Gil shall hold any other office under
the county or State for which he
receives compensation.
3. Bond issue proposals in excess
of one-fourtf Of per cent OF the
assessable base shall be submitted
to referendum.
Merit System Urged.
4. The council shall have power
to veto it's own actions within a rea-
sonable time after the close of the
Legislative session.
5. Merit system for county en-
ployes.
6. Salaries of employees should be
fixed in accordance with a classif1-
cation and salary Standardization
adopted by the council on recon-
mendation of the county manager
and the civil service agency.
Z. Department heads should be
appointed and removed by the
county manager, subject to approval
lby the council.
8. Other employees should be ap-
pointed and removed by the county
manager in accordance with civil
service regulations.
Ask Board Changes.
The federation approved a section
Of State Senate bill No. SO which
would reutrn the power of appoint
ing County Liquor Control Board
members to the county commits
sioners. 1t disapproved a section
which would exempt holders of Glass
d beer licesses and of Class B beer,
light wine and liquor on sale licenses
from purchasing their alcoholic
beverage supplies from the Liquor
Control Board exclusively.
Opposition was expressed to bill
recently introduced in the House of
Delegates providing for the appoint
ment of members Of the Board of
Education by the circuit judges in
stead of by the Governor, as is now
the case.
This action was taken on recon-
mendation of the Schools Commit
tee, headed by Russell I. Whyte. The
federation also approved Maryland
House bill No. 181, calling for repeal
Evening star., 1947-02-11

at Wilson and campaign representa-
tive there. Mrs. Sanders announced
the check would be used to purchase
an orchestra membership to permit
five members, of Wilson music
classes to attend future concerts.
Enthusiastic Audience.
One of the most enthusiastic audi
ences of the neighborhood concert
series filled the school auditorium.
The attentive front-row listeners
included members Of the Wilson
High School Orchestra. The young
musicians whispered comments on
techniques of the symphony men,
bers and on Mr.. Mitchell's
conducting.
Several spent the preconcert wait
in discussing the arrangement of
microphones used to pick up the
music for the audience of Station
WMAL. A boy who went backstage
to hear the engineers test returned
to his seat to report:
"The balance is perfect"
The next neighborhood concert
will be presented March 10 in West
ern High School auditorium.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Veterans
Continued From First Page.

agency may use its psychiatrists to
advise the court.
I'VE couldn't examine man from
the point of view of what his men
tai condition was at the time he
committed the offense," Mr.. Odum
said.
AS a practical matter, however,
Mr.. Odum admitted that if veteran
were sent to the agency by the
court for examination and the court
later subpoenaed the psychiatrist,
the agency representative could tes-
tify on the mans present mental
condition and what could be de-
duced from the mans medical record
1.-The only authority we have" Mr..
Odum said. ''is to examine the man
to determine If he needs and is ELI
gible for care. However, that should
give the court all it needs"
The veterans agency, he said, also
would be willing to send its psy-
chiatrists to the jail, if necessary, to
examine the man, If requested to do
so by the court.
Both Mr.. Odum and DR.. Paul r.
Hawley, chief Veterans Administra-
ton medical director, pointed out
several stumbling blocks to putting
Justice Laws plan completely in ef-
feet. They explained:
l. If every court referred every
veteran to the agency, the agency's
psychiatrists and facilities would be
sWamped. Some administrative de-
cision is necessary on how far the
agency can go to help the veterans
and the courts.
Hospital Examination Curbed.
2. Many cases cannot be deter
mined by clinical examination
but require observation in the hospi-
tai. 1t is an established policy OF
the Veterans Administration that
it will not take cases from any
court for hospital observation, be-
cause it is not part of any Govern
ment penal institution. The agency
will accept Veterans released to the
agency by the proper authorities or
officially committed, but it will not
accept them with the understanding
that it will be responsible for re-
turning them to civil authorities.
Mr.. Odum said the issue raised
by Justice Laws had come to Vet
erans' Administrator Bradley's at
tention before. Judges in Philadel-'
phia, New York and other cities,
he said, had written to urge that
the agency extend its psychiatric
facilities to include veterans facing
trial.
The letters, he said. were re-
ferred to regional managers to tell
the individual judges what they
could and could not do. The judges
wrote expressing their appreciation
but also declaring that they thought
the agency should go further than
under the law we can do" Mr.
3 Odum reported.
DR.. Hawley said the Veterans Ad-
ministration never had reached an
official Nationwide decision. He said
he was completely in sympathy with
Justice Laws proposal, that he
thought the veterans should be
given psychiatgic examinations, but
that 1t was a question whether the
inadequate facilities of the agency
should be diverted from treatment
to this work.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

the mass civil disobedicnce4 calia-
|paign against the Punjab Ministry
began is days ago.
Rampaging throngs invaded the
session of the high court repeatedly
during the day and police broke up
numerous professions by firing tear
gas shells.
Howling Moslem Leaguers ripped
the British Union Jack from htgh
court building and later burned the
flag In q public square.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
clO Gusts Local al GE Plant
For Expelling n as Reds
by The Assoeioisd Press

NEW YORK. Feb. 1.-THE United
Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers (cIO) has revoked the
charter of its local at the General
Electric plant in Bridgeport, Conn,
for expelling ~ members on
charges of communism.
The unions General Executive
Board took the action here last
night after the local had not COM
piled with letter sent by Albert
j. Fitzgerald, national president,
ordering reinstatement of the ~.
The board held that the expul-
sions violated clauses in the consti-
tutionS of the national and local
organizations prohibiting political
discrimination.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

The National Symphony Orches-
ira visited Wilson High School last
night and left with tangible token
of a neighborhood's appreciation.
It was the seventh In the series
of neighborhood concerts sponsored
by The Star. Howard Mitchell was
the conductor.
During the intermission, Bill
Coyle, radio director of The Star,
announced he had two special
guests.
SIS Given for Fund.
The first to face the microphone
was Keith L. Seegmiller, an attor-
ney, who lives at 6443 Thirty first
street NV. He is president of the
Home and School Association at
Wilson. Mr.. Seegmiller. whose son
attends the school, expressed graft
fication at the cultural enrichment
for which the orchestra had been
responsible. On behalf of the asso-
citation, he presented a check for SIS
to the 17th annual sustaining fund
campaign, now in progress.
The contribution was accepted by
Mrs. Gladys Sanders, music teacher
Evening star., 1947-02-11
10 Maryland Counties
And Some inAssembIy
Back Sales Tax Plan
By j. B. Zotmun
Stcr Staff corrsspendsnt

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. II. - Some
members Of the General Assembly
indicated today they would support
q 2 per cent consumers sales, tax
after commissioners from 10 OF
Maryland's Is counties indorsed the
proposal.
The Endorsement was given yes
terday at meeting Of county COM
missioners from 16 Maryland coun-
ties in Carvel Hall. Commissioners
from three counties, including
those representing Montgomery and
Prince Georges, said they would ia
vor the tax II adjacent jurisdictions
adopted a similar levy. Two coun-
ties opposed the tax and one did
not vote.
Meanwhile, the Senate judiciary
Committee sent the woman's jury
bill to the floor for action today
after having reported 1t favorably
by a 9-to-4 vote.
Bill Expected to Pass.
/ Senator Bolton, chairman of the
committee, said he expected the bill
to pass in the Senate "by possibly
one vote"
!, The action of the various boards
of county commissioners will be
reported at a meeting Wednesday
of the Board of Revenue and Esti-
mates and the Governors Advisory
Council. The two groups are ex-
tpected to make q recommendation
to the Governor after the meeting
At present, it is reported, the
Board of Estimates and Advisory
Council favor a combination OF
other taxes rather than sales tax
These include taxes on tobacco
products. soft drinks and other So
called luxuries and, perhaps, an in
crease in the States 2 per cent in
come tax.
County commissioners who voted
for sales tax were those from
Anne Arundel. st. MaryS, Calvert
Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, How
ard, Somerset, Washington and
Worcester.
Opposition Voiced.
Commissioners from Montgomery
and Prince Georges Counties, said
they would oppose such levy unless
a similar tax is enacted. in the
District of Columbia. The Cecil
County commissioners opposed il
unless Delaware puts such tax
into effect.
Voting against the proposal were
commissioners from Wicomico and
Kent Counties. The Hartford County
commissioners did not vote.
The various commissioners also
advocated an additional l cent taz
on gasoline, bringing the State total
to cents. Proceeds of the new taz
would be distributed to political SUBJ
divisions throughout the State fol
the construction of farm to market
roads.
License Fee Indorsed.
Also indorsed was a fiat fee fol
automobile license tags and a fixec
excise tax on automobiles. Bills
pending before the General AS.
sembly call for $40 annual regis.
tration charge and IS tax or
new cars.
The group also called for elimina'
ton of the present limit of $500,
on which roads can be built withou
contract. They said more mileagt
could be constructed in many case
by the use of county labor.
Evening star., 1947-02-11

Of local law providing for the ap-
pointment Of . supervisor Of school
property by the County Commits
sioners. Repeal would place the ap-
pointment in the hands Of the
Board Of Education.
George P. Scheultze, chairman Of
membership, reported the fedora
ton now has 81 members. the larg-
est number in history.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Big Four
Continued From First Page.)

campaign and who has attended
naost of the international confer
ences since, would be asked to go
along in the trouble shooting role
he has held in the past.
OF the three Senators mentioned,
there are strong indications that
Warren r. Austin, who now heads
the American delegation to the
United Nations prefers Senator
Smith because the two were in
almost complete agreement on inter-
national and domestic issues when
Mr.. Austin served in the Senate
from Vermont.
Senator Smith, 67-year-old for
mer Princeton University official
formerly was a member of the Re-
publican National Committee.
He announced in the Senate yes
terday his support of the Vanden-
berg-Millikin compromise plan to
keep the reciprocal trade agree
meht program in operation, assert
ing that economic cooperation must
keep pace with political co-opera-
ton.
The White House was said ito
have passed over the possibility OF
inviting Senator White of Maine to
attend the conference because OF
his duties as majority leader. Sen
ator Capper. of Kansas, was re-
garded as too advance in years for
a rigorous trip to Moscow in mid
winter. Senator Wiley, of Wiscon-
sin, often has been critical of the
administrations foreign policies.
Senators White, Capper and Wiley
all outrank in service on the Foreign
Relations Committee the three Re-
publicans reported under considera-
ton.
On the Democratic side, Senator
Connally has indicated he will go to
Moscow If the President wants to
send anybody with Gen. Marshall
at the start of the conference. The
Texan has said, however, he prefers
to be present when the Senate takes
up four of the Balkan peace treaties
signed in Paris yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-02-11
Courtroom in Lahore
Inyuded By klosIems
BY he ksseeioied Press

LAHORE. India. Feb. 11.-one
person was reported killed and rnobs
invaded courtroom here today as
violent demonstrations by members
Of the Moslem League took an anti
British turn for the first time since