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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
Carolina Beach Boys
Attend State Meeting
Special To The Star

CHAPEL HILL, June 9 - Two
Carolina Beach high school boys.
Kelvin j. Matthews and Sandy
Jordan, are among the high school
students attending Boys State
meeting here.
Sponsored by the North Caro-.
lima American Legion, the pro-
gram gives outstanding students
in state high schools the oppor-
tunity to govern" North Caro-
lint for 10 days with a governor.
lieutenant = governor, senators.
congressman and department
heads Of their own choosing.
Matthews and Jordan. repre-
senting Carolina Beach Legion
Post 272, were chosen for the
mission by a committee headed by
Robert Lamb, principal OF Car
DINA Beach public school. Both
are Juniors at New Hanover High
| school,
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POTATOES
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can handle potatoes in carload
lots.
In these seven counties, Bun
colnbe, Durham, Forsyth, CASTOR,
Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake,
the potatoes will be distributed ia
welfare cases at the rate OF II
pounds per person per month.
The states charitable and cor
Irectional institutions will receive
potatoes free, and the prison de-
partment was allowed to purchase
them for So per carload OF 10000
pounds.
Scott explained that the govern
ment is committed to support the
price of potatoes at $3.50 per hun
bred for U. S. No. Is and $1.30
for BIS and rs, and although
digging has just begun in North
Carolina, the PIMA today bought
81 carloads Of U. S. BIS. Outlets
we're found he said, foc only four
carloads.
Dumping might be avoided in
North Carolina, Scott said, it
farmers would dig potatoes that
have to be harvested during the
next two weeks.
AFTER two weeks, California
will be through digging and the
glut on the market would ease"
Scott said. Then I am conf
dent, the market will maintain
the support prices through June
and July"
Last year the government pur-
chased 1000 carloads OF surplus
potatoes in North Carolina, Scott
said. Distillers took about half,
state and county institutions took
care of about ESQ carloads, and
5000 carloads were either piled in
the woods or left to rot in the
ground.
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CROP
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deaths reported. Hershel Loveless,
director of rescue operations, said
that he expected to find other
bodies downstream. The Red Cross
said a medical director and 49,
600 units of typhoid antitoxin have
been sent to the Iowa Health De
partment for immunization in Of
tumWa.
Red Cross Figures
The Red Cross estimated al
least 800 homeless in Missouri
and Illinois along the Mississippi.
In Alexandria, Mo-, water was
eight to ten feet deep in the
streets and more than half OF the
Northeast Missopri town of Canton
was flooded, including part Of the
business section.
Weekend flood deaths elsewhere
included one drowned in a flash
flood at the Dalles, Ore. Canton,
O., reported two deaths; Gregory,
S. D. one, And Mansfield, o., one
Floods were not the only
weather caused disaster. Six per-
sons were dead following a tor
nado Saturday.
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SNAKES
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and as he put it, 81 try to give
a snake a chance" so he swerved
to miss the reptile, he said.
AS the car passed by Thomas
said his companion remarked that
the snake struck at the wheels.
Out of curiosity the two men stop.
ned the car and walked back to
the creature.
Spur On Tail
There was the snake with a
head shaped like a rats and q
sharp spur on the tail similar &c
those on a ROSTERS feet. It was
colored green and yellow, Thomas
said.
Since that time, the broker add.
ed, he has seen them almos. ever
where. He characterized them as
the tightingest and strongest
snakes he has ever seen.
Soon after, on a trip north, Tho
mas said he stopped at the zoos
in Washington, D. c., and New
York. He asked to see the hoop
snake and the caretakers laughed
at him. T,ey denied the existence
of such a reptile and offered him
a handsome sum if he woulc SEND
one alive to them. The next one
he sees he is going to capture and
send, he said.
The last two he killed were al
Fort Caswell and just a few day:
ago a friend of his killed one ir
this vicinity.
Thomas can also testify to the
potency Of these snakes venom
He saw one strike a man in the
leg and the flesh rotted out leav
ing a hole as big as a mans fist
He also commended he saw one o.
these snakes roll toward a tree,
striking it with its poisonous tail
The tree died.
PACED Ripley
The authority on hoop snakes
also put Robert l.. Ripley straight
once on the existence of the rep
tile oddly. Ripley denied their be
ing and Thomas said he hastenec
to offer proof.
Thomas also snorts at those
people who say snakes do no
charm birds. He has seen then
do just that. He has also seer
snakes at Fort Caswell that are
halt black and half grey.
Higgins can go Thomas one bet
ter. He has seen brittle or grass
snakes-the same that often have
been debunked. These snakes, he
said, fly apart into sections wher
hit with a stick. Later, when they
think danger is past, they couple
the sections together and 60 or
their way. Such snakes are almost
impossible to kill, he said.
Thomas familiarity with HOOP
snakes at Fort Caswell is exceed
ed by only n other thing. He
found an iron chest buried there
in 1898. But he doesn't know what
il contains. He hasn't opened 1t
yet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
The Rev. Paul Byron
Is Transferred From
Sacred Heart Parish
Special To The Star

TABOR CITY, June 9-The Rev
erend Paul Byron, curate OF the
Sacred Heart parish, Whitevine,
and attendant at st. Francis
Xavier church, Tabor City, has
been transferred to a parish in
Waynesville.
The transfer was announced by
the Most Reverend v. S. Waters,
Bishop Of Raleigh, which diocese
extends throughout the state.
Father Byron is wel-known
throughout Columbus county. He
was assigned to Tabor City and
Whiteville shortly after his ordin-
alton last year.
He will be replaced By a new
priest ordained last week in Ra-
leigh. The announcement is ex-
pected to be made shortly by
Bishop Waters.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
City Briefs

W. R. Bobby Jones, Jr., has
resigned his position with a local
furniture firm and has Joined the
sales staff of Liggett and Myers
tobacco company. according to an
announcement yesterday by G.. A.
Lokey, district manager for east
ern North Carolina.
A public auction will be conduct
edat the home of H. A. Groom
Fender county deputy sheriff, by
Wilmington Alcohol Tax unit IN
vestigators next Saturday at 1
O'Clock, A two-wheel cart, seized
during a recent raid by the ATU
agents will be sold. At the same
hour at the New Hanover county
farm, a mule will be auctioned
off by the agents.
The National Labor Relations
board has rejected the petition OF
the OIL Workers International, CLIO,
for nationwide bargaining with the
Texas company. A.. G. Smith, man.
ager of the Wilmington branch of
the Texas company, said yester-
day.
c. P. Under, chief engineer for
the South Atlantic Division of the
Corps of Engineers, which includes
Wilmington district, will attend a
flood control conference in In
dianapolis June 1920, according to
the public information office OF
the local corps.
Leonard w. Barrett, assistant
state service officer, North Caro-
lima Veterans commission, said
today that veterans who have not
made application for terminal leave
pay should do SO Immediately. All
forms must be sent in not later
than Sept l., 1947. A veteran who
does not fill out an application
form prior to this date will forfeit
his rights to collect, he added.
An abundance f residential and
office space in Wilmington was
yesterday given as the reason for
the location of the Civil Aeronau-
tics administration state office
here, by one of the CAA staff, John
Talbot. The office opened last week
in the customhouse here, and is
managed by Joseph Norwood. The
staff was transferred from Raleigh.
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HANSON
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place visited by Horne before his
death, Coroner Doran said.
Bond Reduced
The $40, 900 bond was reduced to
81, 600 on recommendation OF Soil
citor James c. King after a con-
ference between Judge Smith, the
solicitor, the coroner, and Aaron
Goldberg, Hanson's attorney, &C
cording to a statement by Judge
Smith.
Judge Smith said Hanson was
being held on the vagrancy charge
until a complete investigation of
the death of Horne and the results
OF an analysis of the contents of
Horne's stomach n revealed by
the ,FBI.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
JOSEPH W. WELLS

Joseph w. (Buck) Wells. z,
died at the residence of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. R. Shinn of 511 S.
End street last night at 9:45
o'clock, after a long illness.
He is survived by two sons.
Hubert J. Of Venice, Calf, and
Howard T. Of Clinton; daughter,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10

last Friday and wre bound over
for trial in the Fender recorders
court on June II.
Blake said that those against
whom charges were brought in
the case were: Corbett, E. c. High
smith, Bill Wilson, Bernard Lewis.
Grover Scott, w. C. Dunnagan and
W. L. Taylor, Jr.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
TOLBERT TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY

LENO1R, June 9-P)-Fred Toll
bert, %, Of Granite Falls, was
taken into custody by a sheriff S
deputy today in connection with
the shotgun Staying Of his 16-year-
old niece, Lucille Laxton Of the
same section, sheriff's Desk Ser
geant Bill league reported.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-10
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Weather bureau report Of temperature
and rainfall for the "a hours ending
3 D, M, in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
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The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Court Rules Govt. Owns Lands To
 Three-Mile Limit

WASHINGTON, (P) - Coastal state Congressmen began a cam paign yesterday for prompt en- actment of legislation giving their states clear title to rich oil and mineral deposits lying off their shores.
 After a quick look at the su- preme court decision holding that the federal government owns the off-shore lands between low water mark and the three-mile limit, Rep. Poulson R.-CalifD announc- ed he will introduce such a bill immediately.
 Predicting it eventually will pass over the Presidents veto," Poulson asserted "there is still time in this session of Congress to make a good start"
 The courts 6-2 decision Mon day dealt specifically with lands off the California coast but seem- ed broad enough to apply every where.
 The state of California has granted about 100 oil leases for the withdrawal of petroleum from submerged coastal lands. Fred Links, state superintendent of budgets and accounts, said the de- cision will cost California S4,-408,- 600 in oil royalties this fiscal year.
 But Poulson insisted that "oil is only a small part" of the case so far as California is concerned
 cts importance" he said, ''lies in the fact that by interpretation the federal government now can claim the ports and harbors which produce millions of dollars in mu- nicipal revenues for Los Angeles and other port cities"
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Miners Must File Intention to Hold Claims by July l

JUNEAU, P)-Holders of un- patented mining claims who have not already done so are cautioned to file before twelve o'clock mer- idian July first, in the office of the U. s. Commissioner for the pre- cinct in which their claims are io- cated declaration of their desire to hold such claims.
 Only by so doing may their rights be fully protected during the current assessment year, which ends at noon July 1, 1947.
 A bill is now before the Con- gress that provides for exemption from the work and expenditure requirements on mining claims during the assessment year ending July l, 1948. According to wire received from Delegate Bartlett, conferees have just been appoint ed by the House and Senate to de termine whether the benefits of the Dill shall apply only in Alaska or shall be extended to include continental United States.
 If the bill, as finally drafted by the conference committee fails to pass, performance of assessment work on mining claims will be re- quired during the year ending July 1, 1948. In that case holders of mining claims will have until that date to complete the required work.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Bradley May Suc- ceed Eisenhower
 As Chief Of Staff

WASHINGTON, (P General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who led Allied armies to victory in North Africa and Europe, will become president of Columbia university when he is relieved as army chief of staff, probably early next year
 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, the vet erans administrator, was regarded today as Eisenhower's likely suc- cessor in the army's top job.
 Eisenhower also has been elect ed a member of the university's board of trustees. As president, he succeeds Nicholas Murray Butler, who retired in 1945.
 Associates of the five-star gen. eral said last night he has dis cussed his departure from the service with President Truman and secretary of war Patterson, but without submitting a formal request for release.
 A war department announce ment of Eisenhower's plans said, however, that he has taken the Columbia post with the approval of the President of the United States and secretary of war" eff fective "at such time as his super iors may release him from active duty in the army"
 The statement added that "with no radical change in the current outlook it should be sometime during the first half of 1948."
 Under Congressional act, Eisenhower will continue as a five-star general for life with pay of around $15,000 year. Colum- bia is expected to pay him addi- tional compensation running into five figures annually.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

WASHINGTON, (P) - Actual mine shutdowns and calls for widespread protest strikes Tues day marked organized labor's swift and bitter reaction to the new Taft-Hartley union control law.
 Irate union leaders, stung by the ease with which both House and Senate overrode President Truman's veto, threatened repris- als at the polls against legislators who favored the bill.
 Others promised to work for it's prompt repeal and for quick court tests of its constitutionality.
 Cries of anger and protest came from many of the nations top union bosses. One said privately that ten years of litigation is in store for organized labor and in- dustry.
 A united mine workers official in Pittsburgh predicted more coal pits will close. John l.. Lewis, UNIV chief, remained silent on this development, as well as on passage of the labor bill.
 The miners began a regular TO- day vacation Friday. Thus those
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Labor Angrily Protests, With Strikes, Threats, Passage Of New Labor Bill

who have stayed off the job are Jumping the gun" a few days.
 There was some scattered talk of a general strike by the more than 15,O00,0O0 members of labor unions, but AFL and CIO head quarters here minimized the pos sibility of such a move.
 The San Francisco CIO council proposed a 24-hour nationwide work stoppage in a telegram to CIO president Philip Murray.
 Murray made no public reply. But he summoned his 5l-member executive board into emergency session Friday to "assess the situ- ation which now confronts Amer ican labor" He asked CIO general counsel Lee Pressman to confer Thursday with lawyers represent ing the various CIO unions.
 The AFL executive council is not scheduled to meet until Sep tember 8, but AFL president Will liam Green could call special meeting any time.
 On the political score, both the AFL and CIO served notice that they will be out after Congression- al supporters of the Taft Hartley act.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

rolled up crushing 33l to 63 margin to override MT. Truman s disapproval of the Taft-Hartley measure-now law.
 The act imposes far-reachiag limitations on union activities, mainly by overhauling the Wag- ner collective bargaining act.
 Among other things, the new law:
 Sets up machinery designed to block national paralysis strikes; outlaws the closed shop; permits the union shop only when a ma jority of workers vote for it; pro- hibits jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts; makes unions liable for unfair labor practices and subject to damage suits.
 Wagner act revisions, such as the ban on the closed shop, do not go into effect for 60 days. The new mediation set up will start opera;- ing in 30 days.
 But another major provision is in effect now. This authorized the government to obtain 80-day in- functions to block or slave off na- tional emergency strikes.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Truman Calls For DisucssiOn Of New Labor Control Law Enforcement

WASHINGTON, (P)-President Truman called in members of the national labor relations board to- day to discuss administration of the Taft-Hartley labor control law, enacted over his veto.
 Presidential press secretary Charles c. Ross, when asked MT. Truman's reaction to passage of the measure over his objections, replied:
 "The President spoke his views in his veto message"
 Paul M. Herzog is chairman of the NLRB. The other members are John M. Houston and James J. Reynolds, Jr.
 Broad additional responsibili- ties are imposed on the NLRB by the new law, and Senate Republi- cans said they are planning to give it more funds to administer these duties.
 The Senate, following the lead of the House, smacked down the veto Monday by a vote of 68 to 25, six more than the required two- thirds majority.
 The House three days earlier
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
NEWS TN BRIEF

WASHINGTON, (P)-President Truman yesterday nominated Rear Admiral Albert c. Noble to be chief of the navy's bureau of ord nance for four years.
 Noble's appointment is subject to confirmation by the Senate. He would succeed Vice Admiral George F. Hussey, Jr., of Brook line, Mass, who is retiring this fall.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Senate Overrides Labor Law Veto; May Split Party

WASHINGTON, (PD - Enact ment of the Hartley labor law over President Truman's veto brought disputed predictions yes terday of third party movement and possible Republican loss of the organized labor vote.
 Senator Pepper D.-Fla) told a reporter he thinks tremendous impetus" was given the fledgling third party movement by the Sen ate's 68 to 25 vote Monday smoth- ering MT. Truman's veto.
 Political history has been written here," Pepper declared.
 Congress has done more than Henry Wallace ever did to give lift to a third party.
 "We have seen a demonstration that neither party can muster a majority in Congress for liberal proposals.
 Nobody but intellectual fiber als has been interested in a third party up to now, but if the work ing people feel that their rights aren't going to be protected they may make third party move ment a vital affair"
 Pepper, one of g Democrats who voted to sustain the Presi- dents veto, said he will remain a Democrat in any event.
 Senator Byrd O. VaO, one of the 20 Democrats who cast their ballots against the veto, said he thinks the President has succeeded in making at least the administra- tion's part of the Democratic par ty the labor party for 1948.
 Byrd, who had urged the Presi- dent to sign the bill, noted that MT. Truman pulled only a slim majority of the Senate Democrats along with him in the issue. The President got only minority sup port from his own party when the House overrode the veto last Fri day by vote of 331 to 83.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

WASHINGTON, (H) - Russell Mack, Republican representative elect from the Third District, said yesterday he probably will be sworn in today or Thursday. He was elected to succeed the late Fred Norman R), who died here about two months ago.
 Homer Jones was chosen yes terday as chairman of the Wash ington State Republican delega- ton in the House to succeed Nor man.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
Pacific Navy Will Be Nearly Normal

HONOLULU, R-Adm. Louis E. Denfield said yesterday that Senate restoration of $157 ,000, 900 tentatively slashed from the navy budget by the House of Represen- tatives will permit the fleet to maintain a nearly normal force in the Pacific.
 Had the House cut gone through, the fleets commander in chief
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (R)-Flooc

CHILLICOTHE, Mo. P)-Flood water failed to stop Dr. Joseph Gale from officiating at the birth of baby girl to a Bedford, Mo, couple.
 Dr. Gale parked his car when the Grand river blocked his ur- gent trip, climbed into a plane, and beat the stork by ten minutes to the home of MT. and Mrs. Lloyd Richardson.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

SEATTLE, (P)-Cancellation of the planned visit to Washington State by Paul Griffith, national commander of the American Le- zion, was announced Tuesday by Fred M. Fuecker, state adjutant. Griffith is under doctors care in Los Angeles and has been com pelled to cancel all engagements for the next 10 days. He was to have arrived in Spokane today.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

said, one carrier, two cruisers, eight destroyers and about five submarines would have been trim med from the navy's Pacific strength. The admiral returned to- day from conferences in Wash ington.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

TACOMA, Wash. (R Under taken William Gauthier respond ed to deputy Sheriff's call that he pick up the body of an uniden- tified boy killed by a truck.
 The child was his stepson, Don- aid James Gauthier, g. He had been struck by lumber truck as he ran across the roadbed of the Puyallup bridge.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

VANCOUVER, B. C., R-A murder charge was filed last night against Elmer Edward Johnson, 25-year-old Burnaby, B. C., bak- cry employee in connection with the strangle-slaying of Mrs. Norma Burton, 27, early Sunday. Her body was found on the shores of Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25

NEW YORK, (P)-The general federation of women's clubs an nounced yesterday that Pauline V. BurkheE Anchorage, won hon. orable mention in an Atlantic Monthly contest on the the sub ject, "The Schools I Want and How To Get Them"
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
BARROW MORGAN HOME FROM SCHOOL

Barrow Morgan, son of It. and Mrs Stanley Morgan, returned home Tuesday from the States, where he has been attending school.
The Nome nugget., 1947-06-25
SAN FRANCISCO, (P)-Funer-

SAN FRANCISCO, (P-Funer- al services were held here yester- day for John Lichtenberg, 80, pioneer Nome hardware dealer. He died here Friday. He went to Alaska in the gold rush days. He retired and came to San Francisco four years ago. A daughter, Mrs. Gladys Solvin, lives here.
Evening star., 1947-12-05

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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-06-28
MiIlS use drops
with higher cost

Everyone knows that milk is one
of the most impertaut foods to
include in the daily diet. Yet the
average American is drinking less
milk this year than last, accord
ing to the Bureau Of Agricultural
Economics, U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
Not only milk sales but cream
and ice cream as well have fallen
below those of 1896. The bureau
expects them to continue low for
the rest of 1947-in spite of the
fact that milk supplies will be
plentiful this summer.
One of the main reasons for
the drop in use of milk is that
I milk prices reached new high
Z in December and are likely 10
I remain at a high level.
Milk is the chief source of i'm
EportaiIt nutrients, which will prob
ably be left out Of the diet unless
the family gets its full quota of
milk. When the budget doesn't
stretch far enough for regular con.
sumption of whole milk, try piec-
ing out with skim milk, evapor-
ated milk or even the dried
variety.