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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

Wrightsville Beach, where re-
freshing winds sweep w%hite-crown-
ed waves across endless streach-
es of silvery sand, receives its
initial opportunity of becoming
the Atlantic City of North Caro-
lima August 16.
Twenty-three beautiful girls, in
GLIDING Wilmington's newly elect
ed queen, Miss Mickey Harris.
already have filed for the annual
contest which decides who will be
North Cardinals official entrant
in the Atlantic City beauty pag-
cant.
Plans are being made to make
the State pageant the outstandign
event of the summer. The contest
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
81 ,5OO,O 900 EXPANSION
PROGRAM PLANNED

CHARLOTTE, July % - up -
Clarence Cone of Greensboro. an
official of the Proximity Manu-
featuring company, said today
that the company plans to spend
approximately 81, 500. 900 to double
the production capacity of its
plant at Pineville near here.
Cone said the construction of
new buildings needed for the ex-
pansion would be delayed until
building costs are lower. but That
the company hopes to go forward
with the program at a compare
lively early date.
The plant manufactures jeans
and employs approximately $50
persons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
DANIEL FLOYD

LUMBERTON, July 22.-Danie,
Floyd, 81, died at his home on Ri
l, Orrun, Monday at 4 a. M, after
an extended illness.
He had been confined to bee
for three weeks.
The funeral was sheld from
Zion Hill Baptist church near Dill.
ion, S. c., yesterday at 1920 a. m,
Interment followed in the church
cemetery.
Surviving are one son, Dempsey
Floyd; his father, Charlie Floyd
Of Orrum, Rt. 1; four brothers,
Clarence of Boardman; Kemp OF
Marion, S. c.; Houston and Erwin
of Orrum, Ri. l; two sisters. Mrs.
Retha Billiard Of Lumberton, Rt. 2;
and Mrs. Goldie Mae Britt Of
Lumberton, Rt. 5.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
MISS MARY Il. PADRICK

Funeral services for Miss Mary
E. Padrick, II, who died late Mon,
day night, will be conducted this
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock from the
Harrel-Coble Funeral Home chapel
with the Rev. c. N. Phillips Off
ciating. Interment will follow IN
Bellevue cemetery.
Miss Padrick was a member OF
the Epworth Methodist. church.
She is survived by the following
nieces and nephews.
Mrs. C. w. Fulford, Mrs
w. B. Boykins, and Miss Ruth
Padrick of Wilmington, Mrs. M. b
Corriher, Mooresville, and W. j
Padrick and D. c. Padrick, Will
mington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
MRS. MARY LEWIS SMITH

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Lewis Smith, rs, of 905 Princess
street, who died Sunday morning
at James Walker Memorial hospi-
tai, were conducted yesterday
morning at Yopps Mortuary, with
the Rev. Guy c. Moore and the
Rev. George w. Saunders official
ing. Interment was in Bellevue
cemetery.
A life long member of the South
side Baptist church, Mrs. Smith
is survived by one son, John W.
Smith of St. Petersburg, Fla,
seven grandchildren and II great
grandchildren. She was the wife
of the late Lawrence M. Smith.
Pallbearers were: Norwo
Smith, Thurston Smith, Elwood
Smith, Graham Smith, M. S. Ellis,
and l.. A. DiZor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
MRS. JENNIE MEIER

Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie
mccarthy Meier, II, of 522 South
Third street, who died Sunday at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs.
M. W. Gore, 412 Central Blvd,
after a lengthy illness, were held
yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock
from the chapel of the Yopp Fune-
raj home. The Rev. Harvey W.
Glazier of the Church of the Good
Shepherd officiated and interment
followed in Oakdale cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Donald
Gore, W. E. Rafferty,, H. G. Carney,
Victor Gore, Claude Jewell and
H. L. Taylor.
Honorary pa1lbearers were
A. L. Bats, DR.. R. M. Fales, R. P.
Russell, J. L. Groom, C. H. Casteen,
L. G., Kure and L. F. Gore.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

There'u be a shutter-cllck-
ing time at Wrightsville Beach
August Is and IT when the
Junior Chamber Of Commerce
state convention meets to Sc
lect Miss North Carolina OF
1947.
Some 40 photographers, who
will hold their state convention
Jointly with the Jaycees, will
photograph the winner OF the
Miss North Carolina contest
as part of a contest all their
own.
The best photograph, made
by members of the Carolina
Press Photographers assocla-
ton, will win for its taker a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
GEN. BRADLEY SAYS
VETERANS ENGINEERS
COMING NEXT MONTH
Morning Star Bureau

WASHINGTON, July % - Rep.
resentative ]. Bayard Clark was
assured today by Gen. Omar Brad
ley, Veterans Administrator, that
his agency had made no change
in its plan to place a neuro-physi
c%iatric hospital in eastern North
Carolina.
Clark made his inquiry at the re.
quest of Wilmington citizens who
had become concerned that the
hospital might go elsewhere.
Gen. Bradley said veterans
engineers will 60 to the eastern
part of the state to look over
possible sites either the week Of
Aug. 10 or the week of Sept 6.
Surveys were not conducted
earlier because the VA wa!
awaiting new appropriations.
A total nc q NIX oon mn oo,,plt
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
MRS. IDA WESCOT SMITH

CHAPEL HILL, July 22-P)r
Last rites for Mrs. Ida Wescott
Smith, "a, of 152 West Franklin
street, who died early yesterday
morning at the home of her grand.
daughter, Mrs. Karl E.. Graetz, ir
Gretna, Va, will be held at 4 pm,
Thursday at the First Baptist
church and burial will be in Chape.
Hill cemetery.
Mrs. Smith was the wife o.
Capt. Fred c. Smith, well
known by several generations as
"the skipper of the Carrboro spec
ial," who died eight years ago,
two years after serving so years
as a conductor with the Southern
railway.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
robson NEGRO HELD
In DEATH OF BROTHER
Special to the Star

LUMBERTON, July 22-Eddie
Troy, 2~2-year-old Negro is held in
Robson county jail charged with
the fatal shooting of his brother,
Thomas Lee Troy which is alleg-
ed to have taken place in a corn
crib at the John L. Scott farm in
Back Swamp township last night.
Thomas Lee died of a pistol
wound in the abdomen a short time
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
BOY DENIES HE
KILLED BABIES
Changes Story Yesterday
After Saying He Had
Dropped Them

MASS1LLON, o., July % -R-
A little boy changed his story to-
DAY and officials Investigating the
unsolved deaths Of two infant girls
i'll Ma.sillon City hospital appear
ed without a solution of the puz-
cling case.
And, they were openly at log
gerheads.
Six-year-old Roger Cue, Of near
by Navarro, who got into the mid
die of the mudcle while being
treated at City hospital for g broK-
en- arm, yesterday told authorities
he killed the infants accidentally,
dropping them as he played
nurse.
But, said his indignant mother.
Mrs. Rogue Cue, he had reverted
today to a story told earlier this
month of seeing a White-coatee
boy enter the nursery.
And, she declared, "My hus'
hand and 1 don't believe that Rog'
e. did it,"
This threw the case once more
into a weller of speculation and
etched even deeper the chasm be-
tween city and county officials.
Stark county prosecutor D.
Deane Mclaughlin and Coroner
E. c. Reno openly secuted young
Cues admission, saying:
Testimony Of the doctors and
the coroner of the nature OF the
babies injuries simply does not
! jibe with his story
Then, police chief Stanley W.
switter, who believed yesterdays
statement closed the case, jump
ed into the barrage Of comments
with the assertion "Deane Nc
Laughlin is still bunting a fantas'
tic killer"
"As far as the Massillon police
are concerned, he continued
I'VE r having nothing further te
DO with his department."
This open dispute became evi
dent last June 7 within a Few
hours after eight-weeks-old Diane
Jean Brand, daughter of Mr.. ane
Mrs. Lee Brand, and 10-weeks-ole
Rosemary Morton, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Morton:
sll of Massillon. were found dying
in the hospital nursery the night
before.
/ But, under pressure OF the in.
vestigation, it was silenced for
several weeks.
The debate over the two stories
told by the Cue boy ragged una
bated as a hearing on the first
Of four damage suits charging the
hospital and several individuals
with negligence and asking $780,
COO opened in Stark county COM
mon pleas court.
Chief Switter asserted official
questioning of the Cue boy last
night had confused the lad, and
caustically referred to statements
questioning validity OF the confess
sion by Mclaughlin and Reno by
saying:
He (McLaughlin) has messed
up the case as much as he can.
He stuck his neck out by exonera-
ting the hospital in the first place
and he doesn't know how to get
cut q it."
Prosecutor Mclaughlin declined
comment on the Switter outburst
end announced he had retained a
noted criminologist, DR.. Lemoyre
Snyder of Lansing. Mich, medical
and legal director Of the Michigan
state police and author of several
books or criminology.
Investigation Of the deaths by
Stark county authorities, who r
located in nearby Canton, the
county seat. is continuing. Nc
Laughlin said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
MRS. N T. SMITH

WlNSTON-SALEM, July PIP,
- Funeral services were held here
today for Mrs. Nancy Thornberg
Smith, former assistant to the dean
and supervisor of dormitories at
Davidson college.
She lived in Winston-Salem for
81 years and in Columbia, S. c.,
for five before coming to Davidson
in 1915.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

Two-fifths of Ceylon's great tea
crop is shipped abroad, mostly to
London, and the remainder is dis
posed OF domestically.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

Among the newest and oldest
electrical developments is a
flashlight that peers around cor
ners- the pulb is mounted in the
end of a flexible metal tube.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

after being brought to a local
pital. "0A
Coroner D. W. Biggs states g..
an inquest will be held at ~
county court house Wednes5s'
3 p. m. i
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23
HENRY LUPO

LUMBERTON, July % - Henry
Lupo, II, of Fairmont, Route one
died TUESDAY art 9:45 a. m. In a
Fairmont clinic where he had been
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-23

A total Of 2,O75, $50, 900 pounds
of peanuts were produced in the
United States during 1916.
Evening star., 1947-01-02
Partner Role in Giving
To 6. W. Hospital Urged

Washington residents were asked
to become partners" in the George
Washington University Hospital
equipment fund drive yesterday.
In New Year address over WINK
Mai. Gen. q. s. Grant III. CAM
paign chairman, declared the hos
pital represents three-way project.
The Government provides funds for
construction. he explained. the uni
versity provides the administration
Evening star., 1947-01-02
New Faces A
in Congress 1 fiIl|

Melvin Claude Snyder, Republic
can, replaces Jennings Randolph,
Democrat, as Representative from
West Virginia,s I'd district. Mr.. RAN
dolph is widely known In Washing
ton as former chairman Of the
House District Committee and, more
recently, as head of the Civil Service
Committee.
Mr.. Snyder is a lawyer, and has
served as Mayor of his home town
Evening star., 1947-01-02

the last 25 years, Gen. Grant de-
clared the institution has not only
shared Ia the care Of the sick and
injured, but has helped train thous-
ands Of physicians for the COM
munity, the country at large and
particularly the Army and Navy and
the United States Public Health
Service"
He said the campaign, which
Evening star., 1947-01-02

and the people Of the community
provide the equipment.
I'm short" he said, 1--WE have q
community partnership which
stands asa symbol Of the co-opera-
tion between the Government and
the private health and educational
institutions working partnership
worth perpetuating."
Tracing George Washington Uni
Fyersity's service to washington over
Evening star., 1947-01-02

of colonel. He was awarded the
Legion of Merit.
He has been director Of surplus
property for the Divisions OF Terri
tories and Island Possessions of the
Interior Department. He Is Bap-
tist, Mason, and belongs to the
American Legion, the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, Rotary and other
civic and fraternal organizations.
Evening star., 1947-01-02


of Kingwood and four terms as
prosecuting attorney Of Preston
County.
He was born at Albright, w. Va,
in 1898, attended the public schools
of Preston County and was gradu-
ated from West Virginia University
with the degree LII. B.
Mr.. Snyder is a veteran Of both
World Wars. He enlisted in the Army
in 1918 and served until the end of
the war. Between wars, he served
in the National Guard. He entered
the Regular Army early in 1941, and
was discharged in 1916 with the rank
Evening star., 1947-01-02
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. A.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1910.

opens January 8, sof1ers the public
more than an opportunity to con-
tribute financially to an urgent COM
munity need for its own benefit"
Evening star., 1947-01-02

he IS married and has three chill
dren.
Evening star., 1947-01-02

EDUCATIONAL.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
DenfeId Ends Pacific Tour

PEARL HARBOR, April 80 (P).-
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld. COM
mander of the Pacific Fleet, returned
yesterday from a 17,000-mile trip
inspecting Navy facilities in the
Pacific and the Far East.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
N-Day Recess Barred
In Phone Rate Case
BY the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, April 30.-A hear
ing on the Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. request for rate in
creases was recessed yesterday just
at Peoples Counsel Philip H. Dor
sey, jr, refused to cross-examine a
witness.
Mr.. Dorsey had been denied a 30
day recess in which to study testi-
u1ons' given by company officials
since April 8, but Charles B. Bos-
ley, Public Service Commission
chairman, ruled that after three
witnesses were called for cross-ex-
animation this week he would de-
clare a recess until May 20.
The hearing was recessed until
today. after Mr.. Bosley called Mr..
Dorsey's request for more time "un-
reasonable and incompatible with
the orderly and reasonably expe-
ditious conduct of the case"
State Attorney General Hall
Hammond, meanwhile, filed a Pc
tition for permission for the State
to intervene.
4AV FVGItloil 4Ol4OWcu ItttST MI.
Dorsey wrote Mr.. Hammond stating
that in previous case involving a
utility his right to appeal a PSC
decision had been questioned.
IAN appeal may be deemed ad-
visable and the law may be inter-
preted as not giving the people S
counsel right of appeal" Mr.. Dor
sey said.
The company is seeking perma-
nent increases which would boost
Maryland telephone bills about S.
100000 yearly.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Les Amis Enjoy
Epicureun Meat
Sans Speeches

1t was Les Quarters d'Agneaux de
Lait PersilleS-and a number of
other things-at the Raleigh Hotel
last night where more than so mem
hers of Les Amis d'Escoffier gath
cred for their first postwar spring
dinner.
Les Arnis is an organization of
Washington'S chefs and epicureans
who like to put their feet under a
well-stocked table and stay a while.
The little custom of enjoying we'll
cooked food sans speeches or funny
stories started back in 1888.
After the Les Quarters, etc, there
was seventh inning stretch with
creme de menthe giyree. The creme
de menthe was what you'd expect 1t
to be, but the givree represented
lemon sherbet blended with Italian
meringue. 1t was all whipped to-
gether and served in Sharbet glass
After the half-time respite, Ed
mond johnson, chef at the Raleigh
produced Poularde rose de mai, halt
decoration and half good eating. II
was slowly baked fowl. which hae
been allowed to cool The breast is
carved into heart-shaped figure
and stuffed with goose liver pate
and covered with sauce you don't
buy at the corner store. Chef Ed
mond spent three days preparing
the feast.
The rules OF the club are simple
but lronclad. Like true gourmets
every one must put his napkin unde,
his chin. And if any member is late
silly thought-he can't catch ur
on any of the courses.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Europe's lnter-Notion Burriers
Defeat 'One-WorId Principle

produce which could be exported to
France. But normal intercourse be-
tween these two countries Is blocked
by the red tape which Is strangling
European economic life.
Customs Ofiicers Stop Produce.
Try to get crate of apples across
the French Italian border and see
what happens. The French customs
officers will pounce on them and by
the time formalities have been COM
pleted and the duty paid, the un-
fortunate importer will have no
taste for fruit.
The same thing happens to the
wholesale importer and exporter.
The French and italian governments
have established so many rules and
regulations that it would take more
than heavy scissors to cut through
them
Trying to bring a box of cheese or
a piece of cloth into starving Greece
causes the entire force C. customs
officials to go into kuddle and
decide that it would be criminal to
permit it.
Import Controls Stringent.
In country where every essential
Of life is IN short supply there Is
stringent control, not only of out
going goods (which Is logicaD but
also of incoming goods. To simple
American minds 1t would seem right
for the government to provide the
greatest facilities for the importa-
ton of anything useful. But this is
not the case.
All things foreign-except inter-
government assistance. such as
UNRRA-are heavily taxed, and
doing business on large scale is
about as easy as threading needle
blindfolded
One world, indeed! I found In
Europe only handful of highly
placed politicians who ever heard
about it, and they use the expression
infrequently in conversations with
some of the many Americans who
are on official or self-appointed mis-
SiOnS.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Negro Candidate Loses
In Jacksonville Runoff
BY the Associoted Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, April 30
Claude Smith, jr., attorney and city
council representative from the
5th ward, was reelected to office
over his Negro opponent. Wilson
Armstrong, by a vote of 629 to 347
in the second primary here yester-
day.
The race high lighted the ballot
ing, in which seven of the l8 city
council seats were determined.
The heavily Negro-populated 5th
ward put Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Arm
strong in the second primary when
two other white candidates were
eliminated in the first primary on
April Is.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Man Here Pleads Guilty
To Income Tax Evasion

William Bartholomew Fletcher,
colored, SO, today pleaded guilty to
one of three counts of income tax
evasion after the United States
Attorneys Office had dropped the
remaining two charges in Municipal
Court.
Judge Ellen K. Ready set May IA
for sentencing at the request of De-
fense Counsel James K. Hughes. Mr..
Hughes told the court his client
would in that time file the necessary
tax returns for all years due.
The plea was entered on the
chafge that Fletcher, of the 1900
block of Thirteenth street NV,
willfully failed to file a return in
1914. The charges for 1943 and 1945
were dropped.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Midnight Settlement
|AyeIt|s Carpenters
Strike Set tomorrow

A midnight settlement last
night ayerted the threatened
strike OF 5000 District carpenters
set for tomorrow morning that
would have tied up work on
nearly all major building projects
in the area.
Under the terms of the gareement
with the Master Builders Associa-
ton the carpenters will receive a
raise of 12ta cents an hour beginning
tomorrow morning and another 10
cents an hour increase on Septem-
ber Is.
Agreement was reached last night
after Labor Department session,
including Labor Conciliator James
A. Holden, Randall Wyatt, executive
secretary of the Master Builders
Association, and B. B. Blackburn,
president of the Carpenters District
Council.
Under the present contract with
the builders, which expires today,
the carpenters receive S1.92A an
hour. The new contract, which will
run until April 30, l948, raises the
rate to Sos tomorrow and to S2.l5
September Is.
The union originally demanded
that the raise tomorrow be Jumped
again on August Is, while the con-
tractors insisted that the 1915 cent
increase tomorrow should be for the
whole year.
Cancellation sessions also were
held yesterday toward settling the
seven strike of employees
at ODonnelfs Restaurant. The
striking union is the Cafeteria
Workers. Local All (CIO), which
said last night that wages is the
sole issue now in disagreement. The
next meeting has been set for Friday
at 4:30 pm. in the Labor Depart
ment
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Body in Navy Clothing
Taken From Potomac

Police today sought the help OF
the Navy Department in identifying
the body of man in Navy work
uniform found floating in the Po-
tomac River yesterday.
The body was found off Boiling
Field. The dead man was described
as being between 20 and % years
old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing
Navy dungarees, underclothing and
black shoes and socks.
Evening star., 1947-04-30
Coal Peace Depends
On Lewis Agreement
10 Separate ParIeys
By jones Y. Newton

.
Peace in the coal fields rested
today on whether John L. Lewis
and his United Mine Workers
will negotiate for a new contract
with two separate segments oil
the soft coal industry.
An early crisis in the Government
sponsored peace talks here was pre-
cipitated when the Southern Coal
Producers Association, representing
about a third of the Nations output
of soft coal. baked at bargaining or
an industry-wide basis. They an
nounced willingness to negotiate a
separate contract with the mine
workers.
Whether this will result in a
breakdown of Government efforts te
obtain agreement between the
miners and private operators
thereby enabling the Government
to release the mines it has held fol-
nearly a year-will be known this
afternoon.
Policy Committee to Meet.
The United Mine Workers 250-
man Policy Committee will meet
with Mr.. Lewis this afternoon. A
major decision facing the group is
whether to deal with the Southern
operators separately from the rest
of the industry. In recent years the
union has refused to bargain or
anything other than an industry
wide basis.
The Policy Committee, scheduled
to meet at pm, also will formu-
late new contract demands. Since
the Government seized the mines
last May and entered into an in
terlm agreement with Mr.. Lewis to
end 59-day strike there have been
only brief meetings last September
between the miners and operators
Decision of the Southern group to
bargain separately was hailed by
coal interests in other section OF
the country. Some of the Northern
and Midwestern operators expressed
belief they will have an easier time
reaching agreement with Mr.. Lewis
without the Southerners in it.
II feel better about. the whole
situation than I have for long
time one of the Northern operators
said.
Federal Officials Hopeful.
Before 194l Southern coal pro-
ducers enjoyed a 10-cent an hour
wage differential. They are hopeful
that by dealing separately they will
get better deal on wages and other
working conditions from Mr.. Lewis
Some Federal coal officials also
are hopeful Mr.. Lewis will agree tt
deal separately with the two groups
They mold an agreement with the
industry outside of the South il
possible and that it would force the
Southern group to go along with it
The next meeting between Mr.
Lewis and his bargaining group anc
the operators is scheduled for pm
today.
Southern operators termed indus.
try-wide bargaining ''impractica.
and undesirable.
The association said in a state
ment that Government control, al
best, is only a temporary and neces-
sary eXpedient, and Government
management and miners alike de-
sire it ended as soon as possible"
The Governments authority tt
operate the soft coal mines expires
June 30. Officials have announced
there sWill be no request for ex-
tension of the power Unless the
operators and miners reach agree.
ment by that deadline another Goa
strike is considered near certainty