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Evening star., 1947-04-03
School Teoms to Meet
In History Quiz on Air

A history quiz contest between Six
boys from st. Joseph's Home and
School of Washington and six from
st. Mary's School, Alexandria, will
be held at 10 am. Saturday over
Station WTOP, 1t was announced
today. The winning school will re-
ceive an encyclopedia and . table
radio. Each contestant will be
awarded a fountain pen.
st. Josephis will be represented by
Joseph Nichols, 8; Charles Raley, g.;
James Murray, 8; Ernest Hammett,
10; Peter Alliata, IL, and John Muir
ray, II. st. Mary's representatives
will be Charles Montalbano, 8; Vim
cent Dwyer. o; John Schmidtlein,
10; Reginald Dyson, 10; Stephen
Heisley, II, and James Nowland, II.
The students are In the fourth, fifth
and sixth grades Of their schools.
Evening star., 1947-04-03

|aupFrns HeAdquarters. Allisd IL
spedftionary Forces 81 Engiand
while he was stan sergeant.
Mr.. Fletcher was notified of the
citation recently. Actual presenta-
ton Of the medal win be delayed be-
cause OF materials shortages. Mr..
Fletcher said he had been told.
The citation accompanying the
award states that Mr.. Fletcher
shared q large proportion Of the
responsibility In connection with
receipt. recording and distribution
Evening star., 1947-04-03
"a THE EVENING STAR, washington D. G.
q ieH.
Pursued a Western Thriller
Full of Psychologist Twists
By Jay Cormody

these OF saying Weseners are simple sons ol .n
the today Western prairie presented In
diferent light Actually accurate for this Is
dramatic waop
Evening star., 1947-04-03
Alexandra Man Awarded
British Empire Medal

Earl q. Fletcher, deputy clerk Of
the Alexandra Civil and Police
Court, has been awarded the Brit
ish Empire Medal for services at
Evening star., 1947-04-03

sPURSUED," Warner Brothers re-
lease OF United States Pictures, with Teresa
Wright and Robert Mitchum. produced by
Milton Sperling. directed by Raoul Walsh.
original screenplay BY Niyen Busch. At
the Earle.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
|Dr. Studebaker Hits
'White-CoIIar Myth

High schools no longer can ignore
the dangerous responsibility of
permitting boys and girls to pursue
the white-collar myth" DR.. John w.
Studebaker, Commissioner of Edu-
cation, believes.
DR.. Studebaker made the COM
ment yesterday as he announced
formation of Commission on Life
Adjustment Education for Youth,
which will advise the Nations high
schools on gearing their courses to
meet the needs of the times.
"Too many of our young people
are receiving an obsolete education
in the high schools" he stated.
He explained that high schools
are preparing boys and girls either
for colleges or the skilled trades.
But the courses offered are not
adequate for the youth destined
for one of the numerous occupa-
tions that do not require a long
period of specific training.
The commission will provide
guidance for schools interested in
giving such doWn-to-earth subjects
as home and family life, job hunt
ing, budgeting, use of leisure time,
understanding of the necessity and
Evening star., 1947-10-26

government was doing what 1t could
to make it permanent. Instructions
were sent to all provincial projects
to see that retailers passed the
wholesalers cuts along to the con-
sumner,
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Price Decline in Italy
Played Up in Biggest
Newspaper Headlines.
By the Associoted Press

ROME, Oct. 25.-Italian news
papers of center and right political
sympathies used their biggest head
lines today to tell the people that
prices were coming down.
Don't buy, don't buy" said the
" big type in Giornale Della Sera,
prices are coming down"
This was the biggest news, eco
nomic or political, an italian news.
paper could publish in this postwar
period that has been marked by
soaring prices, plunging currency
and tagging wages.
But most of the press Of the far
left, which was kicked out of Pre-
mier Alcide de Gasperi's Christian
Democrat government earlier this
year and only few weeks ago at
tempted his parliamentary over
throw on the issue of rising prices.
treated the story with stony indif-
ference.
Brushed Off as Trick"
The Socialist organ Avanti men,
toned it only to brush off the price
decline as trick" of the in
terests."
Despite the efforts of every post
war government to check rising
prices and halt currency deprecia-
ton, the Italians food cost him in
July, the last month for which
statistics are available, 81 times the
number of lire it did in 1888, cloth
ing 68 times as much, fuel and light
48 times as much. Prices rose Is to
33 per cent from January to July,
and were still rising early in Octo-
ber.
Meanwhile, the average Italians
pay increased only Is to 40 times its
1888 f1gure-the smaller increases
going to the white-collar people, the
bigger ones to the unskilled work.
ers.
Giornale Della Sera and other
rightist and centrist newspapers re-
ported that the fall Of prices began
in Northern Italy's wholesale meat
market early this week, spread
slowly southwark and reached Rome
today.
Nobody in the italian government
was prepared to say with assurance
that tumbling meat, butter, oil, lard,
wheat and egg prices in Milan,
Turin, Genoa, Bologna and other
cities meant that initiation had been
licked.
Accentuation Predicted.
The best that Giuseppe Togni,
minister of industry and commerce,
would say was that his information
indicated the defation 'is not
transitory and will be accentuated
over the next few months"
American financial experts said
there were technical and seasonal"
reasons for the price declines, rang
ing from 10 per cent in some COM
modities to $50 per cent for pork
carcasses at Bologna. These were:
l. The governments Tightening Of
federal and bank credit This ac-
ton squeezed some marginal specu-
lators in food, forcing them either
to dump their holdings or shell out
boarded foreign exchange.
2. August is Italy's peak
production period, and consumer
goods are more plentiful now, as a
result.
8. The imitation reduced the pub
lie buying power
4. The imitation also operated to
make sales at home more profitable
than sales abroad. Exports have
been going down for six months.
But If the price swing-back was
technical and seasonal In origin, the
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Homecoming Queen of CIV. U.
To Be Crowned at Ball Saturday

George Washington University s
1947 Homecoming Queen will be
crowned by Robert Viano, associate
editor of Pic Magazine, during the
homecoming ball at the National
Guard Armory Saturday night.
Mr.. Viano. John Powers, Harry
Conover and Earl Carroll are select
ing the queen from Is candidates
nominated by campus organizations
The name of the winner will be
announced at the dance.
Dancing will start at 9 pm. with
continuous music by Claude Thorn.
hills and John Morton's orchestras
The dance will climax homecom.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Senator O'Conor to Speak

Senator O'Conor, Democrat, OF
Maryland will speak at the annual
banquet of the National Association
of Attorneys General at the Statler
Hotel in Boston tomorrow evening
The association also will hear Attor-
ney General Clark at a luncheon
meeting tomorrow and Senator Taft,
Republican. of Ohio on labor legisla-
ton at a luncheon Tuesday.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Jewish Unit Will Sponsor
Discussion OF Covenants

A panel discussion of restrictive
covenants and their effect on
American community life will be
held at $50 pm. Tuesday in Pierce
Hall, Sixteenth and Harvard streets
NV. under auspices of the National
Capital Chapter of the American
Jewish Congress.
Speakers include Frank Gervasi
author and foreign correspondent;
Will Maslow. national director OF
the Congress Committee on Law
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Mccarthy to Recommend
Rent Control Retention
By the Associated Press

CINCINNATI, Oct. IS. - Senator
Mccarthy, Republican of Wis
consin, vice chairman of Joint Con
gressional Committee on Housing
said today he personally" would
recommend to Congress retention o1
rent control when the present law
expires March l.
He made the statement during a
hearing on the housing situation
which he and Representative McMil-
len, Republican of Illinois, con-
Quoted here.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
10000 Hospital Patients
Of VA Tukinq Courses

Twenty thousand patients in Vet
erans' Administration hospitals tax
ing correspondence courses on sub
jects ranging from high school
English to bookkeeping and farming
More than 230 of the courses, the
agency said, were obtained through
the United States Armed Forces
Institute. The institute was started
during the war to provide off-duty
study courses for military person
mel.
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Fairbanks q Father Again

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. Is (R.-Doug-
las Fairbanks and his wife, the, for
mer Mary Lee Eppltng, Virginia So
ciety girl. today became the parents
of their third daughter, weighing
Y pounds, s ounces. Their other
children are Daphne, 7, and Victoria
Evening star., 1947-10-26

and Social Action; Aaron Goldman,
chairman Of the Real Estate Dis
elimination Committee of the
Washington Jewish Community
Council, and Sydney r. Rubin, coun-
sci on restrictive covenant matters,
Albert E. Aren't, attorney and
former Justice Department special
prosecutor, will act as moderator
Sanford H. Bolz, president of the
local chapter of the Jewish Con-
gress, will be chairman of the meet
I ing.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

ing activities. The opening event
will be a rally on the campus Thurs
day night. Friday night float
parade will pass a reviewing stand
at Twinty first and G streets NV.
and continue to Griffith Stadium
prior to the football game with Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute at $50
pm.
An alumni luncheon will be held
at pm. Saturday at the Mayfower
Hotel with DR.. Edward c. Acheson,
associate professor of finance,
speaking on Americas role in
Europe.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

/ dignity of all types Of labor, and
civic responsibilities.
| Among the leading educators ap-
pointed to the commission is J. c.
Wright of the American Vocational
Association, Washington.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

Development of low-cost steel and
petroleum for fabrication appeared
almost simultaneously in the in
fancy of modern machinery.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

ments covering new ownership for
which no address is on file. A
considerable number of statements
mailed were returned unclaimed be-
cause of change in ownership or
change of address.
Property owners who have not
yet secured statements are urged
to do so Immediately and avoid last
minute delay and possible delin-
quency. February 1st is the legal
deadline for payment, after which
date interest accrues. Remittances
bearing February 1st postnark will
be accepted as of that date
Statements are being furnished
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

cause good part Of his land had
been cotton farmed almost to death,
and the rest of it was washing down
the slopes into creek. he was
still awakened out of his sleep
sometimes by a nightmare of slip
ping back into tenancy. z
One day at the suggestion of his
FILA supervisor, his problem was
taken up with the Brown Creek
Soil Conservation District. A plan
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

ports Soil Conservation Service OF
the U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture.
In 1941 the Farmers Home Adj
ministration made it possible for
Farmer Covington to start buying
a l87-acre farm. The outlook SEEM
ed a lot brighter to Mr.. Covington
than during the time he worked
for $40 month and rations or the
IS years he sharecropped. but be-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

promptly on all requests, either by
mail, phone or in person. Payment
may be made by mail provided
statement accompanies remittance
or otherwise properly identified. It
is impossible to properly apply pay
ments by means of street addresses
only.
Four cashiers are on duty and
those who have come to the office
will be waited on with little or no
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01
Tax Office
Open Saturday
February LIST

The city tax collectors office
will remain open until 5 p. m. Sat-
urday February /, to accommodate
property owners who have not yet
paid their 1916 taxes.
Practically all tax statements
were mailed in November to owners
sof record. However, it is always
impractical to mail some state
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

was made for his farm. Some Of
the steepest land was taken out of
cultivation altogether, 10 acres of
slope areas were seeded to sericea
lespedeza-a hay crop. On other
parts of Mr.. Coington's farm, re-
gular rotations were started on all
crop land, terraces were built, and
rows were laid off on the contour.
Results? Yields improed.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01
On The
Agricultural Front

BY adopting sound soil conserv-
alton practices to stop his topsoil
from washing away, Earl Covington,
a North Carolina colored farmer
who has climbed up from share
cropping to ownership, has found
a way to hold on to his farm, re-
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01

and gas industry has drilled
10000 dry holes-and it costs
as much to drill a dry hole as
a producer!
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1947-02-01
delay waiting in line.

delay waiting in line.
The city assessors office will al
SO remain open Saturday afternoon
according to G. H. Spengler, as
SCISSOR, to accept homestead appli-
cations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
.$35-DoMar 4 Week Driuer
Left Thousands By Employer
BY COE CRAWFORD

CHICAGO, Sept. l3-UP)-Big, laughing, James Mat
+aina, who never quite managed to make ends meet on his
s35-a-week chauffeurs salary, shook himself out of a go.
rnus daze today. His late employer left him $500, 600. maybe
Zoo 600, in cash, stocks, bonds, farms and oil wells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

It takes a lot more than con-
juring up a guess to predict the
weather for the Wilmington
area, at last that is the claim
made by Paul Hess, head Of
the weather station in the Gus
uomehouse.
Besides thermometers. baro-
meters, wind indicators, rain
drop catchers and teletype ma
chimes, all of which are essen
tial, Hess has a sizable library
containing many volumes OF
books on physics, meteorological
data, and records Of climatic
conditions all over the nation.
Included in the library are a
set of books, varying in size, a
wear by year record Of the Re
ports Of The Chief Naval OF.
ficer Of The United States"
starting in 1879; a book on
"Snow Crystals" a volume on
s'Solar Relations To Weather." a
set of books containing "Records
Of The Weather." since 1909.
The library is housed in sec
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
|DEM0LAY CHAPTER
TO BE CHARTERED
Jacksonville's Pine Lodge
Club To Host
Masons

JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 13 -
The chapter of the order of
Demolay in Eastern North Car
Gina will he chartered Satur-
day night, in a ceremony which
will be handled by a degree
team from Winston-Salem
fGemolay organization.
A dinner for candidates,
special guests and the degree
team from Winston-Salem is
scheduled for 8 o'clock, at Pine
Lodge.
The Demolay is Masonic
sponsored organization for
young boys, designed to teach
them character which will
make them better citizens.
Earl Knauff, Worshipful Mas
ter of Layfaette Lodge No. 83,
AT. and AM, said that all
Master Masons are invited to
observe the installation and de-
gree work at the Masonic hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

IN a way that will dodge the
fastest bullet"
well, some years ago the
first gas engines made their ap-
pearance here. It was quite
some years ago and the engines
were one-lunged affairs that
went putt, putt, very much like
a fast firing rifle"
"One day somebody went up
Dutchman's Creek in a boat that
had one of those gas engines.
There were plenty of Diddapers
on Dutchman's Creek at the
time and none of them had ever
heard one of the engines before
that. They thought it was some
body coming along in a rowboat
and shooting at them with some
kind of a high powered, new
tangled rifle"
"Well, sir, that boat kept on
coming. Its engine going putt,
putt and all of the diddappers
in Dutchman's Creek ducked
and ducked until every DANCED
diddaper in Dutchmans Creek
had plum drowned himself"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
W !!
>'Rs4FEk!HERH

Mrs. J. S. Webb, Chairman
of the Staff & Office committee,
and member of the Board of
Directors of the local Girl
Scout Council, has been named
a delegate to the 10Th Conven-
ton of the Girl Scout National
Council, to be held in Long
Beach, California, November a.
7, Mrs. G. D. Greer, commits
sioner of the Wilmington Girl
Scouts, announced today.
The convention, first to be
held on the West Coast since
1887, will be attended by dele
gates from all over the United
States, Mrs. Greer said.
Mrs. Webb, the local dele
gate, representing Wilmington
has been in Girl Scouting, a
Red Feather Service, for is
years as a volunteer, and has
been associated with the Will
mington Council for S years.
This is the second Girl Scout
convention she has attended.
Theme of the Convention is
Girl Scouts United by Ideals"
This year for the first time in
the history of a youth-serving
organization, Mrs. Webb and
her fellow delegates will discuss
and vote on vital issues with
teen-age members of the organ
ization, as Senior Scouts are
having their first opportunity to
attend a convention as full
fledged delegates.
At a youth panel, boys and
girls from sixteen to eighteen
representing varied back k
grounds, will discuss "Youth
Looks at the World of Today"
and the results of the discus
sion will keynote evening ses-
sions. Members of the YWCA,
and the YMCA, and Catholic
and Jewish groups will take
part.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
Weather And Diddapers
Mysten~~ Are EXPLAINED


SOUTHPORT, Sept. 13-Entirely innocent of any con-
Germ over the future state of the weather, we were up and
at work the other morning. This at an hour when our self
respecting townspeople, who had gotten to bed on the
previous night, were still wrapped in slumber.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
OVER THE NETWORKS

NETWORK PROGRAMS
Time 10 eastern standard. For cen.
trail standard subtract one hour, for
mountain standard subtract two
hours. Some local stations change
hour Of relay to fit local schedules.
Last minute program changes can.
not be included.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

Meet Corliss Archer, Exit CHS
e:3o-Album Of Familiar Music - NBC
Voices Of Strings - MBs
The Tony Martin Show - CHS
Jim Backus Comedy - MBS
s:0o-Take It OF Leave It - MIG
Yom Ripper Program - CHS
To Be Announced - MBS,
s:3o-Eddie Bowling Show - NBc
Strike It Rich, Quiz - CHS
Edmund Hockridge Songs MBS
1o:oo1News & Variety 8 hrs. - NBC
News, Variety, Dance 8 hrs.-CBS
News. Dance Band 2 hrs. MBS
-ABC PROGRAMS-Times fit either
Eastern Daylight or Eastern Standard.
AFTERNOON
1:00-Warriors of Peace
1:3OCSammy Kaye Serenade
2:00ELee Sweetland Show
2:30-Radio's Sunday Vespers
3:00ELassie, Dog Drama
3:1@Johnny Thompson Songs
3:30-Week Around the World
4:00-Are These Our Children?
4:30-Rex Maupin Music
5:00-Quiz Time in Afternoon
5:30-David Harding. Counterpsy
EVENING
e:00-Pearson Comment
6:15INews Summary Is Min.
6:30-Greatest Story Ever Told
7:00-The Candid Microphone
7:30-Those Sensational Years
8:00-Detroit Symphony Hour
9:O0-WalIer Wincheu Time
9:1@Hollywood Commentary
9:30-Theater Guild Hour
10 :30-Commentary on Movies
10:45-To Be Announced
11:001News & Dance Hour
IL :00-Dances Band Hour west only
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

and class A stocks, oil and farm
lands In Texas, and farms and
real estate in the middlewest.
He estimated Mattalina's in
heritance between $500, 900 and
$500, 900.
Mattalina said that during the
time he worked for Miss Craig
and the Smiths his average
wage was $35 a week. To help
support their three children,
Mrs. Mattalina had opened a
tiny grocery store in the front
of their flat.
The ffamily's financial stu
alton eased a bit after the two
daughters, Katherine, Is, and
Geraldine, 81, were married.
But both were divorced and re-
turned home with their children,
a boy and a girl.
Then Sam came back from
the army two years ago.
"The first thing I gotta do"
Mattalina said, els to spend
$50, 900, or whatever it takes, to
cure Sam.
"And we will get a nice home.
A small one - just seven or
eight rooms" he said.
"But before we do any of
that, there will be a big ban
quet. All our neighbors will
come. Our friends, too. And our
store customers.
"It will be a big banquet.
Maybe it will 60 on for three
days."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14

Through the early dawn, from
somewhere came Clyde Newton,
boss of the city power plant.
There was a halo of uncertainty
about him, leaving us unable to
judge whether he was going to
bed or starting to work. The
hour opened the possibility OF
either.
It was apparent that he was
excited. We drew our own con-
illusions, to wit: a scoop was
pending. Grabbing pencil and
paper, we waited.
ct can show you," declared
Clyde, 1--WE are going to have a
long hard winter"
"Huh! How you goin' to show
me anything like that?' asked
his host.
ct can show you," repeated
Clyde, come to this window of
yours and see that English Haw-
thorn tree in Mrs. Cranmer's
yard. Well, svery time it turns
yellow in the summer we have
a long hard winter. Vas, Stree
"Why, that tree has not turn
ed yellow in the summer since
September, 1916. I guess you
have heard or remember the
hard winter we had in 1867,
when nearly everything froze
up?"
In the face of such unimpeach-
able testimony as the Hawthorn
bush turning yellow in the sum-
mer of 1916 and again in 1947,
we can do nothing bu: pass
along Clyde's word for itthat
we are going to have a hard
winter this year.
Just a few years ago when we
were filled with ignorance, as
we still are, We obtained some
valuable information from
Clyde. His helpfulness, and the
memory of it, in clearing up a
matter still clings to us.
He explained to our complete
satisfaction why there are nc
diddapers in Dutchman's Creek
To quote Clyde over the
breakfast table one cold morn
ing after we had returned from
a duck hunt:
"You see," said Clyde, "away
back, in fact several years ago,
there was plenty of diddappers
in Dutchman's Creek"
We knew Dutchman's Creek,
a tidal stream two miles west
of Southport, but we did not
know there were no diddappers,
or what became Of them, il
there were none.
"You KNOW" continued our
hunting companion at the time.
"them birds are as fast as light
ming. They can sit on the water
and dive and duck their heads
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
Charges Dropped !
Against Joe Russ !
AT Bladenboro

BLADENBORO, Sept. II -
Deputy Sheriff G.. Blainey Mo-
Keithan has announced that all
charges against Joe Russ were
dropped. He was arrested on a
warent charging larceny after
Roland Mayes, so, deaf-muta
had his pockets picked of a wal.
let containing seventy-five doll
lars last weekend.
Russ proved that he was at
home with his family at the
time of the offense. Baden
County authorities are continue.
ing their investigation of the res
ported theft. -, 4
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-14
Mrs. Brown Assumes
Postmistress Job
At Tabor City

TABOR CITY, Sept. 13-Mrs.
Leona G.. Brown took over Off
cially as postmaster at Tabor
City Friday, succeeding d. F.
McGougan who recently resign
ed after serving for more than
a dozen years.
Mrs. Brown, who will be
temporary postmaster until a
civil service examination is
held, received her appointment
earlier in the week but was not
indicted into office until district
postal Inspector, Stanley arriv-
ed Friday morning.
Mrs. Brown is the wife of
Tabor City town clerk, ]. Percy
Brown, a former member of the
legislature from Columbus
county.