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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
Bill Elmore Named
President OF Weed
Board AT Lumberton

LUMBERTON, July 24-W. E.
BilD Elmore was elected presi-
dent Of the Lumberton Tobacco
Board of Trade at a special meet
ing Tuesday night.
Rufus A. Mcqueen was elected
first vice president of the organ
ization, and N. A. McKiethen Sec
ond vice president. R. c. (Bob)
Rankin was named secretary, and
R. A. Hedgepeth treasurer.
Mr.. Elmore, who is secretary
treasurer Of the Interstate Tobacco
company, becomes president Of the
Board of Trade succeeding T. j..
(Tom) Smith.
The tobacconists expressed op-
timism in regard to the coming
marketing season, particularly as
a result Of recent rains which have
improved the condition of the Bor-
der belt tobacco crop. They stated
their confidence that Lumberton's
market would experience another
banner year of leaf sales.
Before adjournment, the mem
bers of the Board Of Trade gave
retiring President Smith a vote Of
thanks for this efficient services
in the past years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
WEEVIL ~INFESTATION
IN COTTON LOWER IN
SOUTHEASTERN N. {.

RALEIGH, July "a R-Boll-
weevil infestation in cotton Of the
costal plain area for the week
ending July 10 was slightly lower
than for the pervious week, &C
cordfng to a report issued today
by James T. Conner, Jr., extern
sion etomologist at N. c. State col
lege.
Inspections in 10 eastern counties
showed infestatlons ranging from
IA per cent in Harnett county
to All percent in Wayne.
Weevils continue to damage
cro,os in Scotland where examl-
nation of 400 squares showed 17o
to be punctured and the infesta-
ton to be AS
Other counties where high IN
festations were reported:
Northampton 1923 per cent;
Sampson 43; Edgecomb S7'7s;
Hoke 1929; Halifax 34.S6. and
Johnston 1929.
In the lower Piedmont Section
examination in Union county SHOW
cd an infestation of 81 per cent.
Four fields we're checked in TINS
county, and examination OF 4oo
squares showed that 2S8 had been
punctured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
Special to the star

SOUTHPORT, July 24.-Members
of the board of county commits
sioners have settled upon a tax
rate of $1.55 for the next fiscal
year, rejecting a cut Of scents
from the present rate of $1.60.
In making announcement of
their decision, members of the
board stated that it had been their
hope that as a result of the re-
valuation program they would be
able to reduce the tax rate to a
flat $1.50. However, a pressing
appeal for an additional scents
per hundred for the board Of edu-
cation in order that this body may
make some critically needed re-
pairs and additions to the school
buildings made ii necessary to peg
the rate at $1.55.
With final tabulation for Town
Creek township still incomplete, it
is indicated that the tax valuation
for the county has been jumped
from ten million dollars last year
to $11, 500, 600. 90.
Following is the value of real
estate in each township as it now
stands on the books: Northwest,
ST., 579, Oos; Smithville, 1888, o97;
Lockwoods Folly, $1,1s3,290; Shall
lotte, SLOT. 949; Waccamaw, -845,-
718. The total Of personal proper
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25

other one at Third and Chestnut
streets, the policeman said, me
Negro jumped out Of the machine
ard was chased two blocks by
Galloway before the Negro made
his escape. Police arrested him
Later.
Bannerman's story was that he
was driving the a OF Dexter
Switzerland, one-legged war vet
eran, who now Is in the hospital
as the result Of his car plunging
into Bradley Creek on the new
Wrightsville highway last Sunday;
Switzerland was unable to aDs
pear as a witness because OF his
hospital confinement, Defense At
torney Aaron Goldberg pointed
out.
Bannerman added that Souther-
land was drinking. When the lat
ter broke the spring, the witness
said, he took over the operation
OF the machine.
The Negro denied he vas
speeding or that he ran away
from the officer when stopped,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
NEGRO GETS SIX
MONTH TER M
Banner1nan Convicted OF
Reckless Driving, Sen
tence Suspended

Edward L. Bannerman, 70,
Negro. found guilty by a jury in
Superior Court yesterday on a
charge Of reckless driving, drew
4 six-months suspended sentence
or the road.
He was ordered to pay $50. It
took the jury IS minutes to reach
Its verdict in the trial which oc,
cupied only slightly more than an
hour.
Bannerman Was the driver o.
IN automobile last May ! that
was zig tagging along Chestnut
from about Ninth to Third streets
c. L. Moore, operator of a second
car, and Police Mechanic r. B
Galloway testified. Both witnesses
declared the auto Bannerman was
operting was travelling at least
50 miles and hour and that the
rnachine's springs were broken
When the a bumped into an
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25

to countries which will receive
American aid ~ rehabilitation I'M
der the Marshall plan.
.aThe Commodity Credit'C Corpora
ton will nave to buy some tobac-
CO this year to keep the price up"
Clark said, "and the more OF this
we a move out OF the country
the larger our quota next year will
be. But if the warehouses are
filled with this years crop, the
cCC will have to cut down the
quotes.
Expansion OF the overseas mar
ket is the only way to make up for
the drastic slash in exports to
Britain, resulting from the higher
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25
LARGER EXPORT
TOBACCO SOUGHT
Officials Urged
To Allocate Tobacco
With Food
Morning Star Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 24-Larger
exports of American tobacco to Eu-
rope and Asia are being promoted
by a southern congressional group
as a means of keeping the price
high and averting a reduction in
marketing quotas next year.
The group, including Senator W.
B. Umstead and Congressman J.
Bayard Clark and Harold Cooley
OF North Carolina, today urged
agriculture department officials to
allocate tobacco along with food
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25

tobacco taxes there" Clark said.
eve are hoping to have some to-
bacco allocated to other countries
including China, Japan, Germany
and Austria" he added. "The
people there want American ciga-
rettes so badly they are buying at
high prices on the black market.
We should export more tobacco
SO that they can make their own
cigarettes"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-25

Five.sixths Of the world supply
OF lutte, from which burlap and
sacking cloth are woven, comes
from Bengal.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
MONTANA TREE r

Montana welcomes Pennsylvania and Virginia into the grow
ing confederation of states looking to the future OF their wood
piles. These two states became the 18th and 18th to JOIN the
nationwide "tree growing" program. Montana has been tree
farming since 1914.
A changing forest economy is today influencing the con-
ception of our forests. Once we thought of trees solely in terms
of "cut for USE" Today, we think of them in terms of grow
for use." That conception has given the "tree farm movement
it's real vitality, for it looks upon trees and forests as dynaml-
cany alive, something we can grow and use, just as we DO othef
products of the soil.
Americans are the worlds leading consumers of wood,
drawing on our forests for more than 1000 items of everyday
use. Wood is familiar to us as lumber, ply-wood and paper. we
scarcely recognize it, however, in rayon fabrics, synthetic rub
Der. plastics and chemicals. So vast were our forests that once
we gave little thought to their future. Today, however, we
realize we must grow trees as well as harvest them.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
Dutch Will Take Over Rule
In lava, Form Central Group

THE HAGUE, HOLLAND. - The
Netherlands government announced
that the Dutch soon would take
over all authority in the occupied
areas of western and eastern Java.
The announcement said a central
organization would be formed soon
and would be developed into an in
term federal government pending
the drafting of a new constitution.
The three-member Dutch commits
sion = general, which last year con-
cluded an agreement with the Indo-
nesia republic, will be abolished,
but Acting Gov.-Gen. Hubertus j.
Van Nook will be given additional
assistance.
The government declaration was
read before parliament.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
"IF WE ARE TO SURVIVE"
Statement of Mrs. Norton HI. Pearl,
National President, Before the House
Committee on Armed Services

Committee or Armed Services
I believe in Universal Military
Training for the United States. AS {
woman who has been interested il
the welfare of her country. whose
family pioneered here; as a mother
of four daughters, three of whom are
married to veterans of World Wa,
II; as the grandmother of two small
grandsons, but more than that, as
the leader of 100000 women, 1 speak
in favor of this plan.
1t is said that the women of Amer
lea are not in favor of Universal
Military Training, and to this | take
exception. This past year 1 have
travelled in every state in the union
and in it's outlying territories, talk
ing with women of my organization
and other organizations. I find that
they believe that we should have
Universal Military Training for the
security of this nation-for more
than that-to keep this nation at
These 100000 women that l
lead are women who have given men
to two World Wars, and they want
only peace. They feel that a plan of
training for the young men of Amer
lea would insure that peace.
Many of these women are women
who lost sons in World War II, and
they tell me that they are convinced
that had these young men had train
ing they might have had a better
chance of survival. More of these
women have sons who were manned,
and for the same reason they believe
that their chances of coming out I'M
scathed would have been better had
they had training.
Because/of these things the women
the American Legion Auxiliary,
for whom l speak, face the situation
in a practical way. We know well
what the ideal might be, but know
ing and experiencing two wars, we
what the actual case is. We
must face the practical aspects of
the situation. And what are they?
AS long as human nature has sell
fishness and greed within it we face
he threat of war, for war is moth
ing but the result of greed and sell
fishness.
We know that we hold today the
position of the worlds b~readbasket.
If these United States is giving a
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
TREWIN


The Trewin P. T. A. met Friday
night for the first time this school,
year. A very small crowd was in
attendance and no business meeting
was held. A short program was
enjoyed after which refreshments
were served.
Miss Beryl Henry of Park City
was a supper guest of leila Grubs
Wednesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Lee and sons of
Butte returned to their home after
being guests of the Kappel families
for the past week.
Mrs. Joe Munoz returned home
recently from Denver where she was
called by the death Of her father.
Mrs. Evelyn Lanier and daugh-
tiers, Carol and Karen, were calling
at the Grubs home Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stonerock
and daughters, Virginia and Alice,
and Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs and
children, Calvin and leila. attend
ed the supper given by the Youth
Fellowship of the Methodist church
Thursday evening at Harmony hall
in Park City.
Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Harding of
Bridger spent Sunday at the Godfred
Harding home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Carlson and
children of Billings and Mr.. and
Mrs. R. w. Watson and daughters,
Barbara and Judy of Laurel were
Sunday guests at the Bongiani
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Grubs and
children spent Sunday afternoon at
the Kenneth Shay home in Haw-
thorne.
Charles Grubs, Joe Gonzales and
Joe Kappel finished their beet har-
vest this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stonerock
and children spent Sunday visiting
relatives in Billings.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
Some Federal Employees
To Get Back Pay Boosts

WASHINGTON. - Back pay tc
all federal employees who were eli.
gible but did not receive automatic
promotions for efficiency since July
l, 1915, was authorized by the Civil
Service commission.
The difference between salaries
these employees would have re-
ceived, had they been promoted, and
the salaries actually received will
amount to from 500 to $3.50 for each
affected worker, a commission
spokesman estimated. He could not
say how many would be affected,
but said there would be several
thousand.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05

We know that all the nations turn
to US for help. We also are practi-
cal enough to know that there are
yet aggressor nations left in the
world-nations that understand and
respect only force and strength. If
the United States is to maintain the
position it now holds, we must have
the respect of those nations. 1t fol-
lows then that only through strength
will we receive their respect. The
philosophy that accompanies such a
plan as Universal Military Training
will mean much to those nations.
The very fact that every young mar
short part of his life to train for
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05

the defense of his nation in time
of peace will have a great influence
in how these nations will look upon
us in the future.
We believe thoroughly and support
intellectually the United Nations
Organization, and yet again we are
practical enough to realize that those
men who sit the seats of the dele
gates to the United Nations cannot
by their sheer will or wishing ac-
ccmplish all that must be accomp-
lished by them. So, Universal Mil
itary Training, in our opinion, would
give the United Nations the imple-
ment and backing they need.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05

HAuxiliary
@Activities

The business meeting was held at
the home of Elizabeth Nelson Nov,
a.. with Ethel Shay and Hazel Wal
lace cohostesses. Cassie Calvert,
program chairman, presented JOS
ephine McCauley, who gave a talk
on Teachers and Education" Mrs.
! McCauley told of several vocational
training programs for u veterans,
one of them the Forestry schools for
the boys not too healthy. This was
in observance of Armistice day.
Next meeting will be held Nov. IL,
at the home of Almeda Paisley with
Velma Shay and Julia Phillips CO.
hostesses. Mrs. Helen Braun will
be there to entertain us with her
dolls.
The Past Presidents Farley will
meet with Harriet Bliss Tuesday,
Nov. II, for a 1:30 luncheon. Please
bring articles for a Greek family con-
sisting of two women Sc and 65, a
man So, two daughters 20 and II
and four sons ID, IS, 10 and 7 years
old.
Laurel outlook., 1947-11-05
AngleWOrms Valuable

Angleworms perform valuable
services beyond serving as fish bait.
They are frst-class soil condition
ers. 1t has been estimated that
earthworms bring more than $4,000
pounds of soil to the surface in an
acre Of land in a single year.
Evening star., 1947-11-30
BY PHILIP CUSTAFSON

airliner crashed in almost impass-
able wilderness. ''The boys tore
down helicopters and flew them up
in Army C-54's," he said. Coast
Guard pilots landed them belly-deep
in the swamp and lifted the injured
out"
Twenty-seven people died in the
crash but II others were rescued be-
cause the Admiral's network was
equipped for fast action.
No Believing Seadog
ICEBERG earned his nickname and
a doctors degree at Harvard by
making scientific studies of ice and
currents with the International Ice
Patrol. He's far from the believing
sea-dog type. In his gray tweeds,
he looks more like mild professor
of botany. He's small and catlike in
movement, speaks in a soft - some-
times even timid - manner.
During the war, the Allies used
his personal acquaintance with wind
and wave to get our planes and con-
voys around subs. storms and ice
packs. Now the Coast Guard has
assigned him to run what is prob
ably the most extensive life-saving
service ever put together.
With planes or ships in distress,
his messages fash around the North
Atlantic on giant spiderweb of
communications. In the last six
months of 1916, his life guards res
cued 6.02l persons, assisted 633
Evening star., 1947-11-30
When clipper crashes in the sea, they yell
for Iceberg Smith. He's been turning ocean
disasters into thrilling rescues for "a years

W7HEN ships and planes get into
w trouble on the North Atlantic,
their SOS calls converge on the tip
of Manhattan Island in the Office of
a 58-year-old salt with the seagoing
name of Iceberg Smith. It's only Sec
onds before life-savers are moving
full speed on rescue heading.
Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith,
USCC, has been dealing with every
kind of disaster for the past "a years.
When trouble strikes, he can call out
an Army Flying Fortress or Navy
PPM Mariner. He may divert a
Constellation. dispatch a Canadian
destroyer, a Civil Air Patrol am
phibian or crash boat from Iceland.
In time of disaster he is co-ordinator
of military and civilian ships. planes
and communications.
One of his ships, the Coast Guard
cutter Bib, recently did double
rescue job. After taking SO men,
women and children from the Ber-
nmda Sky Queen. which made a
forced landing in the Atlantic 300
miles northeast of Newfoundland,
the cutter was sent to Bar Harbor,
Maine. The town was almost COM
pletely cut off by raging fires, and
the Bibb, along with other Coast
Guard ships, took the citizens off the
beaches in Dunkirk maneuver.
The Admirals motto is get there
fastest with the mostest." That's
the way he worked it in the Gander
disaster last fall when a Belgian
Evening star., 1947-11-30
Admiral Of The SOS
BY PHILIP GUSTAFSON

planes and gave aid to 3,624 ships.
On map covering one whole wall
of the Admiral's Eastern Area head
quarters at AZ Broadway, New York
City, tabs are kept day and night
on the hundreds of ships that cross
the Atlantic. Each is pinpointed
with large magnetic marker,
circle and directional arrow which
looks for all the world like tiny
turtle. Two broad columns of such
turtles are constantly struggling
back and forth between the u. S.
and Europe. Let a transatlantic air
liner ditch anywhere in this vast
ocean area and the Admiral's opera
tions officer will have the nearest
ship headed its way few seconds
after the SOS goes out.
When 6O-mile-an-hour gales lashed
the North Atlantic into an almost
continuous froth from last Febru-
ary rs to March Is, Iceberg Smith
worked day and night From Hall
fax to Dry Tortugas, u hundred
ships threw their rudders, sprang
their plates, ran aground or lost
their shafts bucking mountain
GUS seas. Up off Cape Elizabeth.
Maine. Bos'n Earl Drinkwater shot
a line 800 yards and laid it on the fly
ing bridge OF the Oakley l.. Alexander
as she broke in half in 2O-foot seas.
A crew of 81 came over the breakers
by breeches buoy.
Down off Havana, the schooner
Si,ena blew up and eight had to be
rescued bypicket boat. The Admirals
planes covered 10000 square miles
looking for two survivors OF the g.
foot yacht Rhojan II. Then PLY
landed on the open sea, picked up
two half-dcad men and sprinted fol-
the hospital. II his new organization
TW-1l-3o-H
Evening star., 1947-04-16

program authorized by the National
Health Act.
Mr.. Meyer declared that mental
illness receives far less public at
tention and professional treatment
than do many other diseases for
which millions Of dollars are col
lected annually. He said the full
$2,500,000 for the mental health
training and research program
would not solve the problem. but II
would lead to substantial economies
and relieve more suffering than
any other training would"
Part Of the blame for the shortage
of psychiatrists in the United States
today, Mr.. Meyer continued, rests on
medical schools.
Senator Pepper declared that
more than 100 times the amount re-
quested in this bill is spent each
year to maintain patients in mental
institutions.
yet" he said, I'VE are. asked to
find the, causes of mental Ill health
II we are to do so, then now is the
time to spend a minimum decent
sum for training and research. That
would be small but firm step In
the right direction toward better
mental health Of our people"
DR.. Blain, who is In charge o1
psychiatric activities for the Vet
erans' Administration. estimated
that several Thousand doctors
trained in psychiatry, could be add
ed to the present number in the
next 10 years If national training
and research program were en-
couraged.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Meyer Asks Senator'S
To Restore House Cut
In Psychiatric Funds

Eugene Meyer, owner Of the Wash
ington Post and former president
of the National Committee on Men
tai Hygiene, urged the Senate Ap-
preparations Committee today to re-
store q 81 100 900 House cut in funds
for psychiatric training and re-
search.
Mr.. Meyer, together with Senator
Pepper, Democrat. of Florida, spon-
sor Of the National Mental Health
Act Of 1946, and DR.. Daniel Rlain OF
the Veterans Administration, de-
scribed the Nations facilities in this
field as totally Inadequate"
Restoration Of the 81, ,1o0. 900 would
give recognition to the Importance
Of this national need and encourage
the medical profession in It's efforts
to find the causes OF mental dis
eases, the witnesses said. They
added that funds are even more
necessary because of the acute short
psychiatric social workers.
Testifying at Senate subcommittee
hearings on the Labor Federal
Security Administration appropria-
ton bill. they opposed the recent
House action in reducing from
$2.500, 900 to $1.400,0 900 the budget
request for the training and research
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Marshal Mich Found
Guilty Of War Crimes
BY the Asseeiofsd Press

NUREMBERG, Germany, April Is.
Field Marshal Gen. Erhard Milch,
one Of the builders Of the Luft-
waite which smashed Europe to Its
knees early in the war, was con-
victed of war crimes and crimes
against humanity today by q three
Judge American court.
Sentence will be imposed tomor-
row. The verdict could carry o
hanging penalty.
| Judge Robert M. Toms Of De-
troit handed down the decision tft
afternoon as Mich, In a faded bite
airforce uniform without insignia,
listened. The 30-pase opinion was
written by Judge Toms and Judge
r. Donald Phillips Of North Caro-
lima. Judge M. A. Musmanno Of
Pittsburgh concurred In q separate
fopinicn.
Mich, now 55, was convicted Of
taking an extraordinary part in the
recruiting OF slave labor for air.
craft plants. This constituted Q
war crime, the tribunal ruled, The
treatment Of the slave labor, Of
which Mich had full knowledge,
represented q crime against human
|ity. the opinion stressed.
Mich was acquitted of G third
count In the indictment-abetting
medical experiments on humans.
The court found that even though
the experiments In low pressure
chambers and In freezing water
we're performed for the LuftwafYe,
Milch's awareness Of them was only
"perfunctory."
Evening star., 1947-04-16
By the As,eeietsd Pres,

NEW YORK, April 16.-Up in the
Tower Apartments Of the Waldorf
Astoria, the most elite part Of that
elite hostelry, they had q fire this
morning, and even 1t was In the
grand manner.
A distinguished game of gin
rummy was interrupted, a fireman
somewhat dramatically rescued
$500, 900 worth of jewels, ! $4,000
mink coat was burned, and the
Duke Of Windsor helped Jay the
hose lines.
Baron Egmont van zuylen, a for
mer Dutch diplomat, and his baron
ess were entertaining guests at gin
run1my in their floor, five-
room suite when the fire was dis
covered in bedroom just before last
midnight.
And just at that time I held the
best hand Of the evening"" Mrs.
George Gregory told a reporter.
Evening star., 1947-04-16
Shrine Circus Program
Is Praised by DR.. Mann

The program of acts for the Shrine
Circus opening Monday night ct
Ulines Arena tops all previous
shows here" In the opinion of DR..
william M. Mann. director of the
Washington Zoo and chairman OF
the Acts Committee for the circus
DR.. Mann and his associate
Maxim Lowe, have approved each
act for the three-ring circus. spon-
sored by Almas Temple. At a meet
ing today with Managing Director
Howard P. Foley Of the Temple, DR.
Mann declared there are enough
thrilling spectacles to keep specta-
tors tense with excitement for
three hours"
The animal acts. bareback riders
and aerial performers received spe-
cial praise from DR.. Mann. Proceeds
from the Shrine Circus will 60 te
the Al,nas Charities and Activities
Fund and the Crippled Children's
Hospitals. Tickets are on sale al
the Temple, 1918 K street NV, ano
Billiards., Thirteenth and G streets
NV.