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Milford chronicle., 1947-04-04
JUST SO YOU WON'T
LEAVE TOWN FLAT

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - w
When two cartons of medicine
bottles bounced off a truck ana
crashed in the street here, CITY
Councilman Roger Clarke ana
Chamber of Commerce Secretary
Fred G.. Haines. assisted by W. II:
Bass, rushed ont with brooms ana
halted the traffic until they could
sweep the broken glass out of the
way of tires.
Milford chronicle., 1947-04-04
X.C. Ii. |. 81 SAVY
'SALAAM. SAHIBS'

DENVER = (P) :. "Salaam,
Sahibs' was the greeting head
line on the first issue of the ENC.
B. |. Roundup, a monthly, mime
ographed magazine being distri-
buted by G. r. Gordon of Denver
to former members of the 44th Air
Service Group which was based at
Dinjan, India. during the war. Cor
don's initial mailing was to LOO
men in As states but he figures he
has potential circulation list OF
around $4,000.
Milford chronicle., 1947-04-04
Lemon Juice Recipe Checks
Rheumatic Pain Quickly

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night splendid results arc obtainco,
If the pains do not quickly leave
and if you do not feel better, ku'Ex
will cost you nothing to try as 1t Is
sold by your druggist under an abso'
lutc money.back guarantee. Ku'tx
Compound is for sale and recommended by
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Milford chronicle., 1947-04-04

A legacy of $4,000 which Ben
jamin Franklin left to Boston upon
his death in 1890 grew to $431,-
1868 by 1890.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
TOBACCO PRICES
VARY ON MARKETS
Middle, Old Belts Report
Declines, Eastern Bids
Mostly Steady
Bv The Associated Press

Prices declined on tobacco
markets of the Middle and Old
Belts yesterday and held steady
on the Eastern Belt, the federal
and state Departments of Agri-
culture reported.
Leaf and smoking leaf was off
81 to 81 on the Middle Belt but
most losses were held to 81 to
81 but the Middle Belt marts
reported the second highest
general average of the season
Monday when 3,191,1 ia pounds
brought an average of $45.68, up
$2.15 from last Friday, and just
48 cents under the top average
for the season set opening day.
Declines on the Old Belt
ranged from 81 to $6, but most
were from 81 to 81.
There were few price changes
on Eastern markets and these
were mostly 81 to 81. Volume
was light with bulk of sales con-
sisting of common to good leaf.
Some markets reported large
quantities of damaged tobacco
were offered
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
And So To Bed

"Don't ask me any funny
questions about what happen
ed to Wake Forest last week
end" 1t. Governor L. Y.
(Stag) Ballentine told the To-
cal Jaycees at their meeting
last night.
"Send your questions direct
to Peahead Walker" the
Wake Forest alumnus ad-
vised.
But he did have one pos
sible explanation for States
surprising 200 upset of the
Demon Deacons.
Someone said that
States Wolfpack practiced in
a body of water near Raleigh
called Lake Raleigh" the
lieutenant governor explain.
ed, land that would account
for the way they played SO
well ON that muddy field"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
MANHOLE BROWNS
SEATTLE CHILD
Five-Year-O d Drops
Through Uncovered Drain
In Rainstorm

SEATTLE, Nov. 18 I'll
Without any hope of finding her
alive, city employees searched
sewers and watched outlets to-
day for the body to- 5-year-old
girl who dropped into a man.
hole last night while walking be-
tween her father and an aunt
in rainstorm.
The child was Sherron Roth
rock, only child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dean Rothrock.
"Sherron went down so quick
ly, it was just like a bullett, -
said the grief-stricken 29-
year-old father, who had let the
child 60 with him to escort an
aunt to a bus line. ''There was
a faint outcry and a splash in
the darkness. If 1 could just
have had chance to grab her,
she might be here today"
Water pressure from a rain
storm apparently forced off the
manhole cover.
C. G. Will, assistant city en-
gineer, said he never before had
heard of a manhole cover blow
ing off from water pressure,
and added:
'fI don't know how this awful
tragedy could have been avert
ed, except perhaps by having
manhole covers that are bolted
down. However, don't know OF
a city in the United States that
bolts them down"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
COR0NER'S JURY
CLEARS SOLDIER
Unavoidable Accident
Verdict Returned In
Pearsall Death

A coroner's jury ruled last
night that Rosalie Pearsall, A.
year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Oscar Pearsall of the 2800
block of Market street road, came
to her death as a result of an "un-
avoidab1e accident"
Young Miss Pearsall was fatal
ly injured last Friday night when
she ran into the path of an auto
mobile operated by Pvt. Odell
Dewey Shipman, 18-year-old
Camp Lejeune marine, in front
of her home.
The jury, summoned by Cor
oner Gordon Doran, was compos-
ed of Foreman H. L. Dosher, B..
T. Hopkins, John L. Hart, Jesse
Marshall, F. ]. Gordon and T. E.
EdmondSon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
After 90 Years, Plaque
Goes Way Of Souvenirs

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. -UD
- Capitol police are looking for
the souvenir hunter who carried
his hobby too far last night and
made off with a big bronze
plaque that had hung unmolest-
ed on House chamber door for
80 years.
The puzzled sleuths have NO
idea how the thief unscrewed the
disc from the door without be-
ing spotted, nor how he managed
to get out of the locked and
guarded building with his bulky
prize.
They said they believed it was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
FAMILIES OF FIRE
VICTIMS GET CASH
Industrial Commission
Awards $4,000 Each In
Winecoff Claim

RALEIGH, Nov. 18. - W.R -
The North Carolina Industrial
Commission today awarded $4,000
each to the families of three Ashe-
vile. bus drivers who died in a
company-rented room in the
Winecoff hotel fire, which took
more than 120 lives in Atlanta
last December Z.
The commission affirmed an
earlier ruling that the workmen's
compensation act covered Harry
W. Sorrells, Cleveland D. Sisk
and William Edgar Bryson.
Smoky Mountain Stages, Inc,
rented room by the month for
drivers to rest before their re-
turn trip, and they were re-
quired to stay there.
The ruling ordered the Acct
dent and Casualty Insurance Co.
to pay the awards at the rate of
$21 a week to each widow.
The commission withheld a rul
ing on two other North Caro-
linians who died in the hotel
fire. They were also in Atlanta on
company business, but unlike the
bus drivers they were not re-
quired to stay at the Winecoff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
GREEN ENDORSES
TRUMAN AlDPLAN
AFL President Says Labor
Opposes Price, Wage
Controls At Present

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 Up
AL President William Green
tonight endorsed President Tru-
mans foreign aid program and
much of his anti-inflation plan
but said that labor was opposed
to proposed price and wage con-
trolls except as a final resort in
the event of a national crisis'' !.
In a speech prepared for
broadcast (ABC) Green de-
clared 'tThe American Fedora
ton OF Labor believes that if
the first nine points in the Pres
ident's program are adopted by
Congress, the tenth (price and
wage controls) will not be nee
essary."
"We suggest that a trial peri
cd be established for testing the
main portion of the program be-
fore resorting to the final ex-
treme measures Of government
RECOMMENDATION over the eco-
nomic life of the nation which
a free people will accept and
adhere to only in a national
crisis" the AFL chief declared.
He said that the federation
does not object to giving the
President this power, provided
all other means to keep the cost
of living in check fail and pro-
vided there are proper safe
guards and time limitations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Marshall Denounces Russia's "Brazen''
Propaganda AS World Stability Threat;
- ruman Plan Faces COP "Shakedown''
Aey Committees
Tackle Program
Senate Group To Take In
ventory OF American
Food Supplies

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. -W.p)
- Three key committees of the
House and Senate went to work
today on President Truman's
plans for stop-gap aid to Eu-
rope, and all signs indicated the
program will get a thorough
"shaking-down" before it wins
the approval of the emergency
session of Congress.
The Senate Approximations
committee voted to take an in
ventory of American food stocks
and next years crop prospects
before acting on the $597, 900, 900
emergency relief grant to France,
Austria and Italy.
Chairman Styles Bridges, R.,
N. H., said the committee would
mot be stampeded into action
before we know where we're
going" He said about two weeks
of public hearings would be held
to determine whether the United
States can spare the food, coal
and petroleum required by the
program without "short-chang-
ing our own people,"
Amendment Approved
The Senate Foreign Relations
committee meantime approved
an amendment to the interim aid
bill requiring that whenever pos
sible the petroleum products
needed for relief exports must be
obtained from sources outside
this country.
The amendment was offered by
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., R.,
Mass, who described it as a
Safeguard" to prevent any un-
necessary worsening of the oil
shortage along the Eastern sea-
board. Undersecretary of State
Robert A. Lovett, who testified at
a closed session of the committee,
said the amendment was accept
able to the administration.
The House Foreign, Affairs
committee wound up its hearings
on the interim aid bill with testi-
mony from Congressman who
made personal inspection tours
of Europe.
Impassioned Appeal
It heard an impassioned ap-
peal for prompt and adequate aid
from Rep. Everett M. Dirksen, R.,
ILL.,, who charged that Russia is
"feverishly preparing" for war.
See COMMITTEES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
R0TARIANS HEAR
PLEA FOR CHEST
Hal Love Steals Spotlight
At Regular Club Lunch
con Meeting

"The fate of the Community
Chest is at stake" declared
Chest President H. A. Marks in
announcing to the Rotary Club
at its open meeting yesterday
that resoliciting of business
men will be conducted as the
campaign is extended here.
Stating that the drive is $27,-
900 short of funds necessary for
local needs, Marks added that
'n business men don't support
the Chest with their own healthy
and equitable contributions and
with recommendations to their
employees, we cannot have a
Community Chest"
He said that enthusiasm of
employers is necessary to pro-
mote contributions from en-
ployes.
THE extra money the ship
yards gave us during war
years. will not come from en-
ployes, but must come from the
business men, he declared. eff
the Chest fails and we have IL
collections from II agencies,
the business men stand to lose
tne most in time lost and in
convenience"
,,,'' Il wonder if we people of
wilmington want a Community
Shest," ne said. s'We don't de-
serve Community Chest on
'he basis of what we have done
SO lar. But we are not going to
give up. The campaign will con-
tlnue." "
Genial Hal Love stole the
snow Tor the most part of the
hotariana' open meeting, as he
hept the club members holding
aieir sides while they listened
W MS amusing account of his
Ale and background.
Alter tracing his early life
ana love for music and the sax
opnone in particular, which kept
See ROTARY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Fritz Will Not Quit
NCEA Presidency

him, I'VE cannot continue to ope-
rate under the present condi-
tions."
But, he added, so many teach
ers throughout the state have
written him urging him to retain
the position that he decided =
to resign. ..kNN
Fritz was elected .<e
the NCEA last \
months later his teac4 aNo'
cate was revoked by, vcS 4.e
Board of Education aft, ne had
been charged with payroll pad
ding to the extent of some ST.
500. He refunded the amount in
VolVed
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Rescue Ship May Reach
MarOOned Seamen Today

BOSTON, Nov. 18 -tR@Ship-
wrecked British sailors, suffer-
ing through their fourth night of
hardship on barren and wind
swept Sacred Island at the
Northernmost tip of Newfound-
land, may be rescued by day.
break tomorrow.
The Freighter Empire Mac
Calum was requested late today
bv the RCAF Search and Res
cue Division to alter its course
and was expected to reach the
A marooned seamen by dawn,
while the whaling ship Loaf OIL
sen prepared to put out Of st.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
FRIENDSHIP TRAIN
ENDS LONG TRIP
New York Gives Noisy
Welcome To 270-Car Gift
Food Special

NEW YORK. Nov. 18. -F)-
Warren R. Austin, permanent
United States delegate to t h e
United Nations, hailed the 270-
car Friendship Train as an ex-
ample of ''peacemongering" to-
day after the train completed
its historic run across the
United States.
Bearing gifts of food fr m
America destined mainly for
the hungry of France and Italy,
the train was welcomed at a
celebration which included a
parade up Broadway and a GER
emony at city hall where Austin
and Mayor William O'Dwyer
were among the speakers.
Thirty-three flag-draped cars
of the train were placed on
floats and taken for a symbolic
"review' past the Statue of
Liberty, a gift to the American
people from France.
Starting 10 days ago in Los
Angeles with IL cars, the train
grew until it was split into three
sections. It's sponsors estimated
that it totaled 270 cars aft e r
arrival in New York today,
counting about IS carloads OF
food donated by New York.
They estimated the train
carried more than $1,000,0OO
worth of food. Gifts were con-
tinuing to arrive from m a n y
cities.
Packing of the food for ship
ment is to begin at once. It
will be transported free by
American Export Lines and
United States Lines, with Dec.
"a fixed as the arrival date for
France and New Years Day for
Italy. A token shipment is being
flown to France to arrive by
THANKSGIVING Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
NEW LEAF SALES
PLAN ANNOUNCED
Tobacco-State Lawmakers
To Ask Financing Under
Marshall Plan
Morning Star Washington
Bureau

WASHINGTON, Nov. 49,
AAA tobacco-state Congressmer
and Senators set out today to
have the United States govern
ment finance tobacco shipments
to Europe under the Marshall
iplan.
They will meet Friday with
spokesmen for the tobacco ins
dustry and government agencies,
who will have a preliminary dis
cussion Thursday.
Representative Harold Cooley
of North Carolina, q leader in
the campaign, also urged the Ag-
riculture Department not to cut
1948 quotas too drastically lest
many tenants be forced off the
farms.
Cooley proposed that surplus
American tobacco be used to re-
vive the cigarett-making indus
try in occupied Germany, over
come the black market there,
and stabilize the domestic price,
which has been depressed by
Britain's withdrawal from the
market.
The sixteen European coun-
tries cooperating in the Marshall
plan have not asked for tobacco
in listing their needs presumed
ly because it might be called a
luxury" Cooley said; but he con-
tended that the revival of the
industry in Europe would pro-
See LEAF ON Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Along The Cape Fear
PLENTY SHRIMP, NO OYS.

PLENTY SHRIMP, NO OYS-
TERS-In 43 years of CONNER
cial fishing, he has never seen
tide conditions similar to those
prevailing at the sound during
the past two months, W. H. Mel
ton, Wrightsville Sound fisher
man and fish market operator,
says.
''The tide has not been off
Oyster Rock in nine weeks, !"
Melton declared.
This accounts for the scarcity
OF oysters on the market, he
explained. The water has been
too high for the oystermen to
gather oysters.
There are plenty Of shrimp,
which is unusual for this time
of the year, he commented.
Presence of little shrimp indi-
cate the shrimp have been
spawning, he pointed out.
"Last Friday I netted two
bushel of shrimp I spotted while
I was out fishing" he said. Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19

Anthony, about Is miles south
of Sacred Island to aid in the
rescue operation.
Until the MacCalum was To-
Gated in the general area of
Sacred Island, Boston Coast
Guards estimated that the near
est vessel was the U.S.C.G. Cut
ter Evergreen and added that
she could not reach the ma
rooned men ''until sometime
Thursday"
The men have been exposed
to the cold and rain since early
last Saturday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
CHERRY ENDORSES
SEALS CAMPAIGN
Governor Urges Coopera-
tion In Sale To Fight Tu-
berculosis In N. E.

RALEIGH, Nov. 18. - B -
North Caro1inians were urged
by Governor Cherry today to CO.
operate in the annual sale of
Christmas Seals which begins
Nov. "a and continues until
Christmas.
1T is in true American spirit
that we, the citizens of the Unit
ed States and North Carolina,
band together to fight common
enemy" he said. Sand ever-pres-
ent tuberculosis is a deadly kill
er. This dreaoed disease took the
lives of 1,274 persons in North
Carolina during the past year,
1896"
"The activities of the North
Carolina tuberculosis association
and it's 131 affiliated organiza-
tions and committees derive their
sole support from the sale of
Christmas Seals" he continued.
"These associations work in close
cooperation with your state board
of health and its local affiliates. !"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19

an inside" job by someone very
familiar with the capitol.
The plaque, a large circular af-
fair showing a snake emerging
from the bullrushes, was still in
its accustomed place when the
House chamber was locked up for
the night. Anyone trying to leave
the building after that time
should h8ve had to "sign Out"
at one of the guarded exit doors.
The missing souvenir" was set
in the door when the House wing
of the capitol was opened for
occupancy in 1857.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19

r,ENoIR, Nov. 18. -s7'-- R. L.
r-;t-, Jr., announced today he
"a declined to resign as presi-
dsn dent Of the North Carolina Edu-
.stion Association;
''f1 He said the directors of the
yrEA had demanded his resigna-
.;on after meeting held in Ra-
,s;ob ,s; November 10 at which, the
Saannosed a.n Hudson school principal
.oid A. C. Dawson, Jr., of
Southern Pines had been desig-
nsted acting president.
A another meeting was set for
November "a, Fritz said, to "con-
slider further action"
III He quoted the board as writing
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Secretary Denies
Imperialism Aim
Communistic Attitude
Blamed For Active Re-
sentiment In U. S.

CHICAGO, Nov. 18. - R -
Secretary Of State Marshall to-
night denounced Russia's "bra-
zen and contemptuous" propa-
ganda as a threat to world
stability and said it was time
to call it to a halt. eve do not
propose to stand by and watch
the disintegration of the inter-
national community to which we
belong, Marshall declared.
Sharply denying that the
United States has imperiaistic
aims in extending aid to Europe,
he said Communistic misrepre-
sentations ''goaded the Ameri-
can people into a state of active
resentment"
Speaking on the eve of his
departure for the Big Four
Foreign Ministers conference at
London, Marshall said that Rus
sia herself is to blame for what
he termed a complete change
in this country's attitude toward
the Soviets since Germany's sur
render. .... ............
Her territorial expansion con-
trasts, he noted, with the volun-
tary reductions in area made
by the United States and Britain.
Russia, he charged, appears de-
termined to prolong Europe's
plight indefinitely.
Speaks Bluntly
Marshall spoke out bluntly in
an address prepared for the
Chicago Council on Foreign Re-
lations and the Chicago Chamber
of Commerce. His references to
Russia were viewed by some
of his associates as aimed to
make plain this country's at
titude before his meeting next
week with Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Molotov in the Big Four's
fifth postwar attempt to reach
agreement on a European peace
settlement.
"We are aware" Marshall
said" of the seriousness and ex-
tent of the campaign being direc-
See SECRETARY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
WHITNEY AGAINST
WAGE FREEZING
Trainmen's President,
However Favors Price Con-
troll Return Now

NEW YORK, Nov. 18- tn
"A. F. Whitney, president OF the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men (Ind), said today that price
control and rationing "seem
necessary" but that freezing Of
wagesat president levels will do
m any workers irreparable
harm"
Whitney, who declared after
last years short lived railroad
strike that his union would
spend it's $47,O0o,OOO treasury, il
necessary, to defeat President
Truman, was asked at a news
conference to comment on the
Presidents address to Congress
yesterday.
"I don't like the thought of
rationing but I don't know how
we can stop the monopolistic
system from pricing us out of
existence unless rationing and
price control are adopted" he
declared.
"They seem necessary, but
it's tragic. It's too bad we
couldn't have had price control
before prices reached their
present level"
Opposes Wage Control
Whitney, whose union of 21s,-
900 members won a Is 1-2-cent-
a14-hour pay increase from 1872
railroads last week, added, how
ever, that he was opposed to
wage controls.
Defending his unions refusal
to sign the non-Communist af-
fidavits required under the Taft
Hartley law before a union can
See WHITNEY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19

have never seen so many
shrimp in the sound this time
of the year"
VOTE MEATLESS NEXT
TUESDAY - Members of the
Rotary club here took steps yes
terday to make Meatless Tues
day meatless in fact and not in
name only. Several weeks ago
the club went on record as ap-
proving the Presidents meat
less Tuesday program. But the
Friendly cafeteria failed to get
notified of the action or failed
to act on it and there was no
reduction in the size of meat
servings for the Rotarians
Tuesday. So the Rotarians ate
their steaks and voted to insist
that meat be left off their menu
beginning next Tuesday.
PORTO RICAN YAM, PORT
CITY STYLE - Porto Rican
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
The Weather

NJ, SUB FORECAST
Worth, NQfth Carolina - Mostly cloudy
nero4''' no important change in tenn
pWsadtures Nd Wednesday and Thursday, Rain
nmealesday n and in Eastern section We'd
AeSday night.
FORECAST:
Is!eteorological data for the "a hours
"Niis 80 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
=, I'5o a m. "A; 1880 a. m. 40. 1 80 p. m.
~, $50 p. m. 46; Maximum So; Mini
'iola ~; Mean As; Normal SIS.
HUMIDITY
"a 4 80 a. m IS; 80 a. m. r.; 1880 p. m.
W; 7:3o .. m. 96
PRECIPITATION
-, Aotal for the "a hours ending 7:30 p.
u ,04 inches.
SOL inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
from the Tide Tables published by U.
coast and Geodetic Survey.
u,., HIGH LOW
"ilnlngton ----.-- 200 am. 9:10 am.
H.. 2:30 pm. 9:55 pm.
eaSonboro Inlet 1904 am. 5:37 am.
pm. 6:33 pm.
GIuInrise 6:4s; SUI set 500; Moonrise
Wo4p' Moonset 10 :55p.
Mere WEATHER On Page TIVE
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-19
Governor R. Gregg Cherry
Presents Award AT An
nual BANQUET

+ Approximately 200 fishing and
sports enthusiasts attended the
second annual SENCBA fall fish
ing rodeo banquet last night at
the Plantation club and saw Gov
ernor R. Gregg Cherry present
DR.. Elliot Motley, Jr., Charlotte
dentist, a certified check for S.
600, the major award in the $751;
600 rodeo.
Governor Cherry. also present
ed checks of $1,000 each to Hulan
Watts, Southport party boat ope-
rator, from whose craft DR.. Mot
ley caught the seven-foot sail
fish, Chris Rongates, local cafe
operator and Billy Jenkins,
youthful Wilmington college stu
dent. These awards were the top
prizes in the second annual fish
ing rodeo sponsored by the South
eastern North Carolina Beach
Association.
Lieut.. Gov. L. Y. "Stag" Bal
lentine presented the minor"
awards, plaques and small checks
to the other prize winners.
Pat Pattrill acter as master of
ceremonies and John j. Hudiburg,
executive secretary of the SEN
CBA, introduced the distinguish
ed guests which included city and
county officials, John Harden,
secretary to Gov. Cherry, R.
Bruce Etheridge, director of the
state Department of Conservation
and Development, Lynn Nesbitt,
Raleigh columnist, Johnny Hem
mler, state News Bureau photog-
See CHA- .LOTTE On Page Two