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Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Aerial
Deoth & Speed

Four crashes, one of them fatal.
marred the 1947 National Air Races
at Cleveland. Cook Cleland of Cleve-
land boosted the worlds closed course
record to 1861 miles an hour, a Jump
of IL miles and set a new Thompson
trophy mark for one lap by turning
up 404.4 miles an hour. He flew a
Wasp-motored converted Navy Cor
sair fighter in the 2O-lap 300-mile race.
William Brennand of Oshkosh, Wis.
won the Goodyear trophy race for
midget planes with an 1853 mile an
hour average over rectangular %
mile course.
1t. Col. Robert L. Petit of Ventura.
Calf, averaged 500.7 miles an hour
for l54 miles to win special division
OF the Thompson race for let planes.
Paul Mantz, Hollywood stunt fiier
and plane collector, won the Bendix
trophy race from Van Nuys, Calf.
to Cleveland for the second straight
year with an average of 460 miles an
hour for the 1850 miles.
National race officials placed the
paid attendance at 10000. SATURDAYS
program was washed out by thunder
storms except for the Bendix race.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Scourge
ModhoUse on Two Wheels


The frolicking of motorcyclists who
practically took over Riverside, Calf,
over the Labor Day weekend led in
directly to one death and directly to
half dozen accidents and scores of
arrests.
The situation was similar to rao-
torcycle madhouse at Hollister, Calf,
over the July holiday.
Police said about 5000 motor
cyclists inundated the town for the so
and 100-mile races billed as national
championships by the American Mo-
torcycle Association with the Califor-
MIA Highway Patrol as a co-sponsor.
Police had difficulties not with the
racers themselves, but with race fol-
lowers Riders roared about down.
town streets at breakneck speeds.
Finally police, on 48-hour duty,
blocked off two blocks in the heart
of the business section and let the
riders roar. The street became lit
tered with broken beer bottles.
Chunks of rubber from screaming
tires burned in impromptu getaway"
races and "spin-a-circle" riding al
most formed layer on the street.
An 18-year-old girl died in hos
pital after the motorcycle on which
she was passenger was in collision
with car.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
UNITED NATIONS: Partition for Palestine?

bers-Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon
and Saudi Arabia.
Britain is already on record before
the United Nations, however, that it
would not sacrifice British pounds and
lives in enforcing a U.N. decision on
Palestine.
The committee report unanimously
recommended Holy Land independ-
ence from Britain's 25-year-old man.
date "at the earliest practicable date"
To InternatiOnalize Jerusalem
The seven-member majority urged
partition of Palestine into Arab and
Jewish states and that the Holy city
of Jerusalem, including Bethlehem
and surrounding villages be interna-
tionalized, under a governor, neither
Jew nor Arab, to be appointed by the
U.N trusteeship council.
The committee would give the
Jews eastern Galilee, the central
coastal plain, taking in Haifa, Jaffa
and Tel Aviv, and the Beersheba sub
district, including most of the Negreb
the southern desert.
1t would allot the Arabs western
Galilee, the Samaritan and Judean hill
country and the southern coast from
Isdub to the Egyptian frontier.
The ports of Jaffa and Haifa would
be operated ''in the common interest
under an economic union of the two
states.
Last week the Security Council
dropped the problem of Greece's
northern border. There is little doubt
that the assembly, in inheriting the
infammable Balkan dispute, is in fol
many long hours of bitter debate.
Whatever the assembly recon-
mends on Greece can, however, be
vetoed by Russia, whose frequent use
OF the veto during the past year has
caused much of the criticism of the
U.N.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
LABOR
Fighting Words

=
Labor observance of its own hoi-
day was marked by fighting words
this year as union leaders pledged
all-out battles to strike the Taft
Hartley law from the statute books.
Philip Murray, CIO president, de-
clared that American working men
and women were. determined to keep
their unions strong and to change the
anti-labor complexion of Congress.
William Green, .AFL president,
pledged his organizations fight would
be waged mot with strikes, but with
ballots in the peaceful, democratic
and American way
Former Vice President Henry A.
Wallace told Detroit CIO audience
that present policies of Congress and
the Administration were guiding this
country towards depression and war.
"If we don't make the Democratic
Party into a party of peace and pros
perity, we shall build a new party" !"
he declared.
The Labor Day oratory followed a
Sunday night speech by Secretary of
Labor Lewis Schwellenbach in which
he declared that despite wage in
creases, industrial profits were run
ming far ahead of last year and wage
earners have been unable to keep
abreast of the cost of living.
Schwellenbach took indirect issue
, with Earl Bunting, head of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
who contends that 'in spite of all the
hubbub about high prices" American
workers have substantially higher
buying power than eight years ago.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Around the World Awuy

If the United States were to be at
tackled by a foreign power, the only
forces available to defend its shores
would be the National Guard and the
Organized Reserve, declared Gen.
Jacob L. Devers, Army ground forces
commander.
The Regular Army, he said, was
deployed overseas on occupation duty
and the only three regular Army units
in this country (the 82nd Airborne
Div. at Fort Bragg, N. c., the End In
fantry Div. at Fort Lewis, Wash, and
one regimental combat team of the
End Div. at Camp Hood, Tex.) would
be required for reinforcements and
immediate counterattack.
Speaking at the Nebraska State
Fair, Devers painted a dark picture
of the manpower situation in the
National Guard and the Organized
Reserve.
Only 100000 of the Guards author
lied strength of $4,000 has been re-
cruited, Gen. Devers said, and al
though 100000 veterans are enrolled
in the Reserve "only small per-
centage of them are assigned to
units"
Old and New
Even as Gen. Devers spoke, the
new streamlined Army, about 100000
men under its peacetime authorized
strength of 100000, Topped off an
other Of its historic branches of serV-
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Sport
shoeIess Victory

OIlOSlSSS NISIOIX
Once again, the Davis Cup, en-
blematic of world amateur tennis SUI
premacy, belonged to the United
States as California's tennis buddies,
Jack Kramer and Ted Schroeder,
turned in a Al triumph over the
challengers from Australia.
1t may be long time before the
tennis world sees another singles bat
tie like the one in which Schroeder
outlasted Dinny Pals of Australia to
apply the clincher in the five-match
SERIES
For II games, the two players
fought, with Schroeder discarding his
shoes half the time on the slippery
turf. Twice the Australian had the
American at match point before
Schroeder finally won 6-S, 8-6, 4-6,
GIL, 1913.
1t was the longest singles match
ever played in Davis Cup challenge
round.
Kramer, the American ace who
probably will be a professional be-
fore another Davis Cup challenge
round arrives, opened defense of his
national singles title later in the
week.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
u. S. ARMY: Shrunken Giant

ice. There is no place in the new ser-
up for Indian Scouts.
No formal ceremony will mark the
passing of the picturesque unit estab-
lished in 1886 by Gen. George Crook,
At one time, 1000 Indian Scouts were
in service, but no enlistmentS have
been accepted since 1923.
Recruiting Troubles
The rest of the armed forces, how
ever, are not meeting their monthly
goal of 10000 recruits. Secretary of
War Royal disclosed that almost half
the applicants for enlistment are be-
ing rejected. Higher intelligence re-
quirements, he said, account for a
substantial number of the failures.
The Army enlisted about $1,000 in
July and $4,000 in August.
Army Air Forces enlistments have
spurted during the last few months
under a new career plan" offered
high school graduates under which
they are given choice of training
in various technical schools, of the
service.
While the broad program of the
AAF also embraces plans for more
pilots, the major manpower head
ache now is to train the highly skilled
air crewmen and maintenance tech-
nicians.
For this reason the Air Force has
opened 40 of its technical schools to
recruits who come in under the "ca-
reer PLAN with an idea of specialize
ing in particular fields.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12

MTITH the Security Council on
w a belated vacation, the Unit
cd Nations concentrated this week
on preparing an agenda for the
General Assembly which opens
its second regular session in New
York on September Is confronted by
such knotty problems as Palestine,
the Balkans and the big power veto.
The world peace organization is
meeting with an increasingly critical
public reception. In some quarters the
veto is regarded as an insurmount-
able block against effective action in
major controversies. Some maintain
the veto relegates the U.N. to the
status of an Intellectual paper organ
ization like the old League of Nations.
Others hope, however. that by mar
shalling world opinion behind it the
assembly can enjoin dissenting ma
tions to go along with the will of the
majority.
AS an indication of the importance
attached to this years assembly ses-
sion, it was learned that foreign min
listers of 18 nations have been named
to attend the conferences at Flushing
Meadow and Lake Success.
Partition for Palestine?
One of the most heated debates is
bound to be over the Holy Land. A
special UN. committee this week
recommended partition of Palestine
into Arab and Jewish states and adj
mission of 100000 Jewish immigrants
during the next two years.
The plan drew immediate Arab op-
position and warning from the Pal
estine Arab Higher Committee that
any attempt to carry out the U.N.
proposal would result in violence.
Arab spokesinen promised that the
seven-state Arab League would fight
the report through its FIVE U.N. mem-
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
In Short

Embarked: Mohandas K. Gandhi,
Indian spiritual leader, on a fast "un-
til sanity returns" to riot-torn Call
cutta.
Freed: William T. Tilden, 54, former
world tennis champion, after serving
71R-months in California Jail on a
morals charge.
Killed., All persons over the Labor
Day weekend, 266 in automobile traf-
fic, 80 in drownings. 81 in small plane
crashes and "a in other accidents.
Urged: By British Foreign Secre-.
tary Bevin, that the. U.s.. redistribute
"the Fort Knox gold" to. eliminate
constant chaos in world trade pay
ments.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Polio
Disinfecfed City

Disinfecfed City
The city of Wilmington with SO
cases of poliomyelitis reported in
Delaware this year-turned tempo
rarily from its aerial onslaught on the
houseHy to bird collecting.
Thirty. specimens of insect-eating
birds have been shot and shipped in
a frozen state to the Yale Medical
School for study.
Meanwhile city officials will con-
tinue spraying Wilmington with DOT
by means of three converted Army
planes in a campaign to determine if
the virus is being spread by flies.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Dates
Monday, September 8

Monday, September 8
Horsepower Korean conference
scheduled to open in Washing
ton GUS, Britain, China, Rus
sia).
American College of Surgeons
convenes in New York City.
Tuesday, September 9
Special Congressional election
s(8th Penna. dist.) for successor
to the late Rep. Gerlach (R).
Friday, September IL
Defenders Day, Md.
q, Sunday, September IA
United Nations Week begins.
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12
Quotes

Gen. Douglas Macarthur: "It
is a false concept that democracy
can only thrive in plenty. On the
contrary, history shows that it
springs from hardship and strug-
gle and toll"
President Miguel Aleman of
Mexico: "We are living in a Pc
riod of truce"
Milford chronicle., 1947-09-12

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-21

W7HEN you read stories about
w how two ships pass way
out on the ocean, they always
hail each other. Each one wants
to know what the others name
is, where she's from an. where
she's goin'.
It's somethin' like that when
two strangers set on adjoinin'
stools here in the lunch wagon.
1t amt natural, somehow, to be
unsociable when you're eatin'.
Me an Jake Bulls always try to
break the ice for a couple of
strange customers by sayin'
somethin' to both of 'em at once,
like, "You fellows want 'em well
done?" Then they hear their
own voices an carry on from
there.
I wasn't here yesterday after
noon but Jake told me about a
funny situation that come up.
Two gents are sittin' quiet-like
together an haven't said a word.
Jake offers 'em more coffee an
they answer together 50 they
practically had to nod an admit
the other fellow existed.
''WHERE you from?" Number
One asks.
'Pugwash," Number Two an
swers with a straight face.
you travelin'?" Number One
tries again.
'Headin' for Wahoo," says
Number Two.
They eat a few bites more, con-
centratin' on their plates. Finally
Number One makes a last try:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-21
Hailin' Strangers

Il didn't get your name - ?"
"Toogood," Number Two sort
of mumbles. With this, Jake tells
me, Number One moved way
down at the other end of the
counter.
So Jake goes over to Mister
Toogood an says, mo doubt he
can't take joke - some people
is like that"
''BUr I wasn't jokin'," the guy
says, my name is actually Too
good - Paul A. Toogood. l live
in the town of Pugwash, Nova
Scotia, up in Canada, an I'm
goin' to visit my sister in a town
near Los Angeles, called Wahoo."
Jake goes down to the 9TH
er guy. "'LoOk, - he tells him,
''This guy wasn't siff-armin'
you. It's like he says"
''Okay, okay," says Number
One. But just the same, /
thought l better move away an
drop the whole thing"
''Okay." Jake says, C. just
tryin' to be helpful"
Listen" Number One says,
you know what my honest-to-
goodness name is?
"An' know where I'm uavelin'
between? Well, if l tried to tell
Mister Pugwash -Wahoo Too
good that he was talkin' to John
Trotwell, of Households, N. Y,
bound for Gallup, New Mexico,
we would be punchin' each other
in the nose long before you could
get it all explained to the two
of us!" -WMly BOREN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-21
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
STATE ASKS BIDS !
ON BRIDGE WORK
Alligator Creek-B Brunswick
River Bridges To Be
Let Saturday

Bids for the construction Of con-
crete bridges and approaches at
Alligator creek and Brunswick
river on highways II, IA and rs will
be let in Raleigh on January IL
but final plans for the projects
will not be made until after that
time, R. V. Biberstein, district
engineer of the state highway COM
mission, said last night.
Biberstein pointed out that even
though bids will be let on that date
the low bid will have to be APPROX
ed by both the state highway COM
mission and the Federal Bureau
of roads before work can start. u.
S. government funds will be used to
help defray the cost and conse-
quently the federal agency must
approve the bid after the tentative
go-ahead signal has been given by
the state department.
The original schedule for the con-
struction of the bridges was laid
prior to the war but shortages OF
materials prevented any work be-
ing started. In addition, bids were
called for about a year ago but
none were made in view of the lack
of steel needed in erecting the
spans, Biberstein said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
Joint Session
Set For Talk
By Presiden
Chief Executive Completes
Draft Of Crucial State OF
Nation Speech
MAY FIX PATTERN
K esurgent Republicans
Plan To Push Labor, Tax
Slash Legislation

WASHINGTON, Jan. s.
R-President Truman Sun
day completed a crucial state
of the union message for the
politically hostile 8Oth Con-
gress which may fix the pat
tern of his relations with it
for the next two years.
The resurgent Republicans
have laid firm plans to pro-
coed this week with labor con-
trolls and tax reductions re-
CARELESS Of what the Presi-
dent may say when he appears be-
fore a joint session at l p. m. (EST)
Monday.
Mr.. Truman is expected by Con
gressional leaders t caution
against punitive labor measures
which might aggravate the situa-
ton and against over-hasty tax
cuts. His recommendations fo- the
legislative program, they believe,
will be presented mainly in general
Continued on Page 2. Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
CONVICT MAKES
$S,9ll IN PRISON
Probe Of Penitentiary Bust.
ness Results In Custer
Of Warden Olson

LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. s. R =
A probe which disclosed that a con.
vict acquired a bank account Of
several thousand dollars in a year
and a half has eliminated in dis.
charge of Nebraska penitentiary
Warden Neil Olson.
The convict is Herbert F. McCul
la, so, National Junior Chamber oil
Commerce president in 1929 anc
1880 and former Lincoln business
and social leader.
At a "press conference" at the
penitentiary, McCulla told reporters
the money represented profits
from sale of novelty leather goods.
He said up to 10 other prisoners
have worked for him producing the
novelties.
I'm just a misplaced business
man." quipped McCulla, who was
sentenced in May, 1945, to two tc
five years after pleading guilty tc
embezzling SO 1000 from the Lincoln
Symphony Orchestra association
He was association secretary.
Since ,McCulla entered prison
$ ,911.14 has been credited to hi.
account. After deducting materia.
and labor costs, the former tele
phone company executive said he
cleared $50 a month at what yol
might call a business"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
LOCAL AIR SHOW
PLANS ADVANCED
Complete Details To Be An.
nounced Soon By Com
mite, Wooten Says

AL Wooten, local pilot and presi-
dent of the local unit of the Caro-
lima Aero club, said last night plans
for the air show to be held here
January 10 and 10 are progressing
and indicated that the full pro-
gram will be released soon.
1t has already been announced
by Wooten that Russ Sorrell, we'll
known parachute jumper, has sign
ed to appear in the show. He said
last night, that negotiations are I'm.
derway with several of the nations
top acrobatic pilots.
Other highlights of the show will
include the participation of 20 naval
fighters and bombers. These planes
will be supplemented by approx
mately 100 planes returning from
Miami, Fla, air maneuvers.
In addition to the local pilots,
several pilots and planes from other
sections of the nation are expected
to appear in the show.
Complete details of the program
will be announced as soon as they
are completed, Wooten said last
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
|MILDER WEATHER
COMING THIS WAY
Forecaster Says West,
South To Get Slight Tenn
perature Change Today
By The Associated Press

Mllder weather, with a chance to
dig out of last weeks snow fall was
promised by the weather observers
for today. The cold wave that
brought sub-zero temperatures tc
many Midwest states has moved
Eastward, but the warming pro.
cess will be slow.
The last of the snow tIurries Eel
in Northern Wisconsin and North.
ern Michigan Saturday night but
snow, up to two inches, fell as far
South as Laredo, Texas, where the
temperature dipped to 26 above
Zero.
Thawing weather is expected tc
develop over much of the snow
area today. The coolest section oil
the country Sunday was On a line
between Chicago and Tulsa, Okla,
where the mercury dipped to Z.
Chicago registered one above zero.
A cutting wind added to the out.
door discomtortiture in Chicago.
Wind Expected
Considerable wind is anticipated
for the next two or three days the
Weather bureau said, and this will
prevent the temperatures from
making rapid descents during the
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
MARCH OF DIMES
PLANS ADVANCING
W. K. Rhodes, Jr., Drive
Chairman, Makes Com
mittee Appointments

The groundwork Cor the local
March of Dimes drive is now I'm
derway, according to w. K. Rhodes,
Jr., chairman of the local drive.
The goal set to be raised from
New Hanover county is $4,000. The
means of obtaining this goal are
as yet incomplete, but solicitations
will be made through the schools
and theaters. as well as through
private donations, Rhodes stated.
Appointed to serve as committee
men are: Ben Mcdonald, who has
previously been named publicity
chairman, FOR the WrightsviIle
Beach district; W. L. Farmer for
the Carolina Beach district, and
Addison Hewlett, Jr., Solomon
Sternberger, and H. Winfield
Smith, who will each be placed in
charge of a section of the county.
Other committeeman will be ap-
pointed in the near future, among
whom will be, for the first time
in this area, three Negroes, who
will handle the solicitations among
the Negroes, Rhodes stated.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
FAMILY PREPARES
FOR LONG VOYAGE
Lake Forest Residents Sail
January II For Pearl
Harbor Naval Base

"Please pardon the appearance
of my house" were the words tina
greeted a Morning Star reporter
as he entered the home Of Mrs
Catherine Streiff, 2 court M Lake
Forest, Sunday afternoon.
There was plenty of reasons why
Mrs. Streiff's house should be dis
arranged. She and her five chill.
dren were packing their clothes
and engaged in making final prep
arations for their long journey tc
their new home in Pearl Harbor.
She explained she was selling the
entire household furnishings and
only taking "neccessities'' on the
long trip.
AS she talked with the reporter,
she was holding her youngest
child, Jacqualine, age 6 months,
in her arms. The other four chill
dren, Kenneth, 9; Linda 6; Karen,
5 and Shirley, 8, rel playing in
the room.
Her husband, Lieut.. Gg) l.. B.
Streiff, was engaged in packing
He is home on leave and is SEIZED.
uled to leave here tomorrow for
the West Coast.
Continued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-06
Along The Cape Fear
SCHOOL AGAIN

SCHOOL AGAIN - Maybe it,
fact that the schools of Wilmington
and New Hanover County reopen
today following the Christmas hol
idays or maybe it's the fact that
Mrs. Charles Lee Bragg, Of 1907
Market street, was kind enough tc
lend us a photograph. Be what il
may, we can bring Dur readers a
picture of one of the Port City's
most distinguished adopted citi.
zens.
We are speaking OF Miss Amy M
Bradley, who came from Boston tt
Wilmington and has left her mark
upon the Port City.
If you will be kind enough to turr
to Page 3 you will find the photo.
graph which Mrs. Bragg so kindly
lent us. The picture is area.
museum piece as it shows Mis-:
Bradley, who was a great educa
tor.
BEGINNING HERE - During
the winter of 1866 a free schoo
was opened in the old Union schoo
house, located between Nun aae
Church Streets on South Sixth.
This school was SUPP orted by the
Soldiers Memorial Society Of