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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Along The Cape Fear

appropriated $1.53 for each $10O.
The national average came to $4,-
so FOR each 500.
SHIPYARDS - Although the
war has thrown shipbuilding into
a far different level than in peace
time, a return to normal coadi-
tons again will bring Wilmington
to the position where that industry
again should thrive in normal
times.
The war has placed more than
. dozen sites along the Cafe Fear
river where shipbuilding can be
carried on on a wide scale.
Still in existence are the old
Carolina Shipyard Ways, the Lib
erty Shipyard and the Wilmington
Iron Works.
U. S. FACILITIES - 1.-THE Shio
Building Management" a pampiet
published by Ford, Bacon &
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
CARLSON SECURES
PEACE BY DEATH
Marine General
Dies OF Heart Attack AT
Mountain Retreat

PORTLAND, Ore. May 27-(P)
Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson,
Marine corps raider of World War
II fame who retired to a mountain
cabin on the slopes of Mount Hood
III quest of peace, died early to-
day. He was 81.
He twice suffered heart attacks
last November and after the Sec
ond was treated for two months at
the Naval hospital at Astoria, Ore.
A third attack last night brought
death.
Funeral services are planned
here with interment in Arlington
National cemetery. The day has
not been set.
His was a military career almost
continuously from the age Of Is
when he left school to enter the
Army. After service in the Philip
pines and in Hawaii, he was dis
charged in 1915, but re-enlisted
when the United States entered
the First World a After Two
years of postwar civilian life he
enlisted in the Marine corps as
a private in 1922.
Of "Gung Ho" Fame
The general public first came
to know him when "Carlson's
'Gung Ho' raiders" attacked Ma
kin Island in 1912 and laid waste
Japanese installations, although he
had won the Navy Cross for hero
ism in 1880 against bandits in Mic
aragua. ,
The Maxim raid was the first
Of a series of exploits in the Pacl-
fic wal which made his name and
See CARLSON on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
PRESIDENT SAYS
MOTHER BETTER
Brig. Gen. Graham Reports
Patient Somewhat Strong
er Late Tuesday

GRANDVIEW, Mo-, May 27-Pj
President Humans mother,
whose critical illness has been
puctuated by a series of gains
and recessions appeared to have
made a further slight rally today.
Brig. General Wallace H. Ora
ham, White House physician sent
word this afternoon that she was
holding her own, and. if anything,
she may be "a little stronger"
than yesterday.
Graham's report, relayed
through Presidential Press Secre-
tary Charles c. Ross, followed by
a few hours Mr.. Truman's own
view that 94-year-old Mrs. Martha
E. Truman was .'holding her own
after a bad night"
Meanwhile, Ross declined com
ment on the arrival of a six-pound
package which Trans-World Air
lines announced contained a
serum to be used in the treatment
of Mrs. Truman.
Ross also declined to comment
on newsmen's questions as to
whether the elderly patient was
getting any plasma.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28

CUSTOMS SERVICE Will
mington is the headquarters OF
district ID of the Un4red States
Customs Service. Ports of entry,
in addition to this city, are at
Winston-Salem, Durham, Reds
vile, Gastonia, Elizabeth City,
Beaufort, Morehead City and the
Customs station at Washington D.
From the standpoint of collec-
tons the district ranks fifth in the
United States, for the four year
period ending with 1910, the be-
ginning of the war. Records since
then. because of the conflict, were
not kept.
In 1910, the collections n the
district totaled $11, 274. 628. That
was exceeded only by 1881
when collections amounted to $11,-
464, 429.
In addition, these collections
were made at a lower cost than
In any Of the other 4s districts.
The cost in the Wilmington district
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
City To Be Main Terminal
Of Oil Pipeline Network;
Baptists Lease Fisher Land
Summer Site
N. {. State Convention Elk.
poets To House 1900
People At Beach
BY SUE MARSHALL
Star Staff Writer

Leasing of property near
Fit. Fisher and Carolina Beach
was announced yesterday by
M. A. Higgins, Raleigh gen.
|eral secretary of the North
Carolina Baptist State con-
vention.
The property formerly was
used as a government hos
'pital, and Higgins said that
the rental agreement allows the
adapting of any of the Is build
ings now on the site as do-mitor-
les, dining rooms, classrooms,
and auditoriums.
The convention is merely leas-
ing the property at present from
the owners, Thomas r. Orren and
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Orrell, but
1--WE may buy it later" Higgins
said.
I'VE don't know for sure" Hug
gins said from his home in Ra-
leigh last night, "but we are going
to develop it now, and we believe
that we will have a big assembly
there"
Huggins estimated that there
(See SUMMER On Page Two)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
ENJOY
FARMER PROGRAM
Wilmington Club Members
Are Guests OF Albert
Setter Last Night

The Wilmington Rotary club was
the guest of Albert Setter, farm
er of the Wrightsboro district, last
night at 8 o'clock in the Wrights-
boro clubhouse at a get-together
with about rs to 100 Rotarians and
citizens of that community who at
tended, it was announced by John
H Carswell, president of the Ro-
tary club who presided over the
meeting.
Setter presented George Trask,
county commissioner; Addison
Hewlett, chairman of the county
board of commissioners; J. E. l..
Wade, city councilman; Miss Ann
Mason, New Hanover county home
demonstration agent; and other
guests to the group.
John H. Wilson, Naval COM
mander of the PC776, showed the
audience a motion picture "Op-
erations Crossroads of the Atomic
Bomb" and explained the set-up
of the Wilmington Naval Reserve.
The group was given a fried
chicken supper with trimmings
after which they were presented
with fresh produce given to them
by the Wrightsboro farmers.
The meeting was held last night
instead of the regular noon day
meeting held in the Friendly Cafe
terra every Tuesday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
ATFAC TO MAKE
NAVAL GUN LOANS
Department OF Agriculture
Announces CCC Price
Support Program

WASHINGTON, May 27 -(P)-
The Agriculture department an
nounced today that loans, 10 sup
port the Commodity Credit Corpo-
ration's price program for 1947
crop naval gum stores, will be
made through The American Tur-
pentine Farmers Association Co.
operative, Valdosta, Ga.
The loans, the department said,
will go to producer-members who
comply with the corporations 1947
program. The latter, the depart
ment added, is essentially" the
same as it was in 1916.
The only difference, the depart
ment explained, is that instead OF
separate, fixed loan rates On gum
Urpentine and rosin, the support
price will apply throughout the
!oan period to production units OF
'O gallons of turpentine and 1,400
pounds Of rosin.
support prices, the department
psld, will average $119.02 a pro-
ouctlon unit which equals 30 per
cent OF the April l parity price.
initial average loan rates viii be
W'0 cents a gallon bulk for gum
N%fpentine and 1888 a hundred
pounds for base K grade gum
tosin.
The department said that the
INITIAL average commodity rates
are based On the March-Aprll,
1871, price relationships at Savan'
nah, Ca.
Loan rates in 1916 were 74.45
cents a bulk gallon on gum tur-
peAtlae and $4.05 a hundred
pounds for base K grade gum
.osln Or, the department said,
1881 on a comparable unit
The gum naval stores, to be
.4glole for loans. must be stored
N approved warehouses, roslr
must be packed in metal drums
Gu turpentine placed in bulk
t.ofage - both at approved ware
houses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Piggy Bank Robbery New $64 "Puzzler" :;
"M~eteoronomy Doctor" Out Hesses Hess.

BOSTON, May q. -W.H-Wednes
day, May 81, 100, 946 A. D. will
not be not, muggy and a good
day for doing nothing, sthe weather
prophet said. However, he thinks
it will be cooler that evening.
Speaking was bushy : haired
William Lee Ballenger of Fair
field, Conn, a lean, lanky doctor
of meteoronomy" who claims it is
possible to forecast weather con-
ditions 1000, 900 years from now.
The 36-year-old native Of Pick
ems County, S. c., is in Boston
arranging a demonstration at
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology where he plans to unveil
his findings to the world.
There's no trick to it," he said.
1--WE spent nor than Is years
developing a series of formulae
that make it possible to figure
what the weather will be for most
any day, anytime"
He says predicting the weather
for the year 100, 946 is simple.
Guessing the thermometer read
ing for the year 2.001, 947 is "qults
See METEORONOMY on Page 2
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
MOTHER OF TARHEELS
TURNS UP ALIVE, NOT
DEAD, LETTERS SAYS

AsHEVILLE, May 27 - R) -
Here's one for the books:
Two weeks ago relatives of Mrs.
Hester Perry got word through a
friend Of the family that Mrs.
Perry was dead in Baltimore. A
brother, a sister and Mrs. Perry's
two sons A. ". and Jimmy, set
cut by motor to investigate. At
Charlottesville, Va, their auto
plunged off the road, seriously in
Turing all four. Today a letter
from Pal ached fe4allVes
here in Asheville.
1t was from Mrs. Perry. 5 n G
was just fine. The woman who had
dropped dead in a Baltimore night
club where Mrs. Perry works was
a different mother.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
STORY ON AIRLINE
PROVED IN ERROR
Eastern Airlines Release
Failed To Specify State
Designation

The story appearing in the Morn
ing Star yesterday, which SAID
that Eastern Airline was seeking
a scheduled flight into Whining
to has been found to be an error.
The news release was given to
the Stars Washington Bureau by
the Airline's public relations de-
partment, and it specifically
named Wilmington. However, the
news release failed to specify that
the Wilmington in question was in
Delaware, and not Wilmington,
N. G.
Our Washington Bureau sent the
story to the Star in good faith.
And since the news release con-
tanned the names of several other
southern towns, there was little
room to question that the Will
mington named was any other ex-
cept Wilmington. N. c.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
CHURCH WILL BAN
WOMEN PASTORS
Presbyterian Leader Also
Voices Objection To
Shorter Catechism

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, May
27-P)-The Presbyterian church
in the USA announced today de-
feat of a proposal to permit or
dination of women as pastors.
The proposal gained 100 votes,
"a short OF passage, delegates to
the church's 18Th general assemb-
Iy here were told.
A total of 1875 votes were cast
against the proposal and eight
recommended mo action. The vote
was taken by Presbyteries of the
church.
Former Moderator Clarence E.
Mac-Cartney of Pittsburgh, voiced
objection at the assembly
to a proposed shorter catechism,
adoption of which he said would
"revoke historic Presbyterian
thought" DR.. MacCartney object
ed to wording which would have
listed the Eastern Orthodox,
Roman Catholic and Protestant
churches as the three principal
branches of the Holy Catholic"
"Universal' church.
Means Endorsement
eff you adopt it," DR.. MacCart-
ney said, you are giving a whole
sale endorsement to the Roman
Catholic church, with the Greek
Orthdox thrown in for good meas
ure. Adoption would deny and
revoke historic Presbyterian
thought and admit that the re-
formation was a mistake"
The committee on Intermediate
catech;sm was given power to
make revisions involving such
terms as visible" and invisible"
churches as suggested by the
Pittsburgh pastor.
The assembly rejected a pro-
posal that a section of the cate
chism pertaining to duty to ones
country and obedience to its laws
be revised to condition obedience
on whether the law sis in ac-
cordance with Gods will"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Governor Cherry Names
Education Study Group
Commission OF Is e n,
Women Will Make Two
Year Survey Oh Needs

RALEIGH, May 27-(P-An 49,
member commission, authorized
by the 1947 General Assembly to
make a thorough-going study of
public education in North Carolina,
was appointed today by Governor
Cherry.
The governor said that he would
recommend to the committee that
i: elect R. Grady Rankin of Gas
tonia, a member of the State
Senate, as its chairman.
The commission has been call
ed to hold its organization meet
ing here on June 4 at which time
the commission members will be
sworn in, and a chairman and
secretary will be elected. The gov
ernor said that the position of sec
rotary probably would be a full
time job.
The General Assembly appro-
priated $25, 900 for each year of
the coming biennium to finance
the commissions study.
Those named to the commission,
III addition to Rankin, were:
From educational groups:
Mrs. r. S. Ferguson of Taylors-
vile, g former State Senator and
a member of the State Board of
Education; DR.. Clarence Heer of
Chapel Hill, research economics
See GOVERNOR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
And So To Bed

An automobile parked across
the railroad tracks as a shelter
and a railroad tie as q pillow
might make - pretty comfor-
table sleeping place. But Ger
tainly not a very SAT- one.
At least that was the sur
mise yesterday of police in Re-
corder's court. Art Lewis, Ne
gro, was brought into court on
a charge of drunkenness.
Police said they found Lewis
asleep under his automobile
parked across the tracks Sun
day night in East Wilmington.
"Ten dollars" said Acting
Judge George Peschau, Sitting
in place Of Judge Winfield
Smith.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
TWENTY RAILROADS
ARGUE GEORGIA HAS
NOT MADE OUT CASE

WASHINGTON, May 27 Up
Twenty railroads being sued by
Georgia on accusations of rig
ging" freight rates against the
South charged today that the state
has failed to prove its claims.
Arguing before Lloyd K. CARR
son, the special master named by
the Supreme court to take testi-
mony and make recommended
tons, John Dickinson, vice presi-
cent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and counsel for II Northern de-
PENDANTS, said:
"There is no record of any in
dustry failing to locate in Georgia
because it could not get a salts
factory freight rate, and there is
no evidence of economic damage
to the state or the South due to
arithmetic differences in freight
rates."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Gen. EISENHOWER
DEN0UNCES WAR
Professional Soldier Calls
1t Evil Outbreak OF
Human Errors

NEW YORK, May 279R-Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, profession
al soldier, denounced war tonight
as IAN evil whose outbreak is the
result of human errors, human ig-
Inorance, human greed.
He urged, in an address pre-
pared for the National Board Of
Fire Underwriters, that the ma
ton and the world treat war, as
they do fire, with methods to pre-
vent it's outbreak.
"For too many generations, too
much of the world has taken 1t
for granted that var is a normal
part of human life, whose penalties
can be lessened, not by roofing out
the cause of war, but only by main
tanning so large and powerful a
war machine that defeat would be
.impossible-the equivalent, say, OF
maintaining fire departments on
every street corner while building
cities of finder and TISSUE" Essen
hover said.
Organized Effort
GAS I see it, we need an organic
ed effort, embracing every phase
of society, whose goal will be the
development of industrial, con-
munity and national attitudes that
will remove<war from the category
of the inevitable into its proper
position as an evil subject to pre-
vention or at least control"
Eisenhower declared that Gin the
effort toward international safe
guards, we shall not be alone. Ma
tons now are seeking, at the high
est level, to develop cooperation
and arbitration as a barrier against
war. There is no people that does
not hope for their success in this
attempt"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
BY ROY J. COOK
Star Staff Writer

Many questions have been ask
ed over the telephone of the
Morning Star.
Callers have asked the time of
day, when the sun sets, what the
baseball scores were, who dis
covered America, who won the
fight in Cleveland in 1887, and
thousands of other questions.
Last night the telephone in the
Morning Star news rooms rang
and the conservation went some
thing like this
us this the Morning Star
Officer" an excited male voice
asked.
Eyes, it is, this is the news
room, what can we do for you?''
the reporter asked.
''Well Sir" the voice came
over the wire from an very. ex-
cited and nervous person. "My
house has been broken into and
robbed of some money and the
children's bank, and. The
startled reporter broke into con-
See PIGGY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
0VERELL LAWYER
ACCEPTS JURORS
Surprise Move Features
Second Day OF Santa Ana
Murder Trial

SANTA ANA, Calf, May 81
R - A jury Of eight women and
four men all middle-aged and
most of them parents of large
families, was accepted for cause
today by Louise Overel-'s counsel
in a surprise move during the
second day of her murder trial.
All eight women r housewives,
three Of the men r rachers
from surrounding citrus groves,
the other a restaurant operator.
Their acceptance came after re-
peated indications that the
chubby defendant may not take
the stand herself.
The burden of questioning pass
ed to S. B. Kaufman, attorney for
George (Bud) Gollum, Miss
Overell's 21-year-old boy friend
and co-defendant to murder indict-
ments.
81 think you will find" kaufman
told the jurors as he took over,
that this is a case built entirely
on circumstantial evidence"
The action of Otto A. Jacobs
Miss OverelFs attorney, was n o t
final. He still has is peremptory
challenges available on behalf of
his client. His announcement
simply meant that he would not
ask the court to excuse any of
the tentatively seated jury on
grounds Of prejudice or similar
cause.
His questioning today was mark
ed by such oft-repeated phrases as
this:
eff 1 should decide not to place
Miss Overell on the stand as a
witness, would you consider that
as evidence of guilt? 1t must be
remembered that such action can
not be considered evidence Of her
guilt"
Miss Overell, 18, her blonde
locks tinted dark brown for the
trial, and Gollum, prem e d j C a |
student, listened solemnly as the
prospective jurors were subjected
to the closest sort of scrutiny
during the questioning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
GOVERNORS BALL
ENDS LIONS MEET
State D e ! e gates Select
Greensboro For 1948
Annual Convention

ASHEVILLE, May 27-P-The
annual District Governors ban
quet, featuring an address on 1.-THE
Present Day Value of Lionism"
by DR.. Ramiro Collazo of Havana
Cuba, immediate past president OF
the Lions International, climaxed
the 25th "Silver Jubilee" ami
versary convention of North Caro-
lima Lions here tonight.
The convention adjourned after
the annual district governors ball,
which followed the banquet. During
afternoon sessions Herbert H.
Sanders of Black Mountain was
elected governor of Lions district
31-A to succeed D. R. Mauney, Jr.,
of ~Cherryville; Francis E.. Walk
err of Durham was elected COVER
nor of District BIB to succeed
Ben @. Foreman Of Salisbury, and
Gather M. Beam of Louisburg wax
elected governor of District BIC
to succeed Littlejohn Faulkner of
Wilson.
During his address DR.. Collazo
said that there are now a total
of 321, 900 lions in the 10 countries
in which Lionism has been es-
tablished and that the total mem
bers are affiliated with 6,028 clubs
in 1873 districts.
A proposal to establish a fourth
Lions district in the state was
rejected in district meetings this
afternoon.
More than 1000 Lions and Lion
esses from throughout the state
attended the convention here. Next
years lions convention will be
held in Greensboro.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Maury Firm
Behind Plan
Company Proposes To Put
Petroleum Products In
Tobacco Farm Areas
By RANDOLPH S. HANCOCK
Star Staff Writer

An oil pipeline network,
which would put fuel oil and
gasoline into the backyard of
every farmer in eastern North
Carolina, was outlined to the
Star last night by r. E.. Mayo,
president of the Eastern Pipe
Lines company of Maury.
M ago said that while it
would be sometime before actual
work got underway on the project
because of scarcity of the Pipes to
be used, his company already had
petitioned the State Utilities ON
mission for a certificate of neces-
sity.
The main terminal, Mayo said.
would be Wilmington, with the line
running as far west as Roxboro in
Person county. 1t would lead out of
Wilmington by way of Elizabeth
town, running through Wilson, then
to Nashville and Henderson.
A second line, he said, would lead
out of Morehead City, through New
Bern, Kinston, Raleigh and Dur
ham.
To Serve Farmers
"Our primary interest,"" he said,
"is to serve the tobacco farmer
from the eastern part of the state
through to the Piedmont section of
North Carolina. However, our in
terest will include all other users
of petroleum products"
The company, he said, is an out
growth of the Florence-Mayo-Nu-
way Tobacco curing system.
Mayo pointed out that the tobac-
co farmers of the state would use
approximately rs, 000, 900 gallons of
fuel oil during the three curing
months of the season
Because of the developmenha and
use of oil curing furnaces, which\he
said his company had pioneered i'm
it had been decided to make fuel
Oil, with which to operate the fur
naces, easily available to every
farmer in the tobacco belt.
In Every Yard
cit is our purpose" he declared,
Ito put oil in the back yard of each
and every tobacco farmer in the
state"
Mayo said that in addition to the
main line running out of Whining
ton, there would be additional lat
eral lines leading off from this
See, MAURY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
House Group
Raises G. Is
Married Students May Get
SIS More Per Month
# Bill Gets Okay

wAsHINGTON, May 81 - R -
..tor lacking on an amendment
hsianed to deny federal educa-
u's' funds to Communist vet
IaonS the House Veterans COM
e; today approved a dill in
Dreasing government payments to
usrried G. l. students.
# also approved another meas
,,e granting a new car to vet
vans OF all wars who have lost
No use of a limb, or are paralyz-
cd, blind or nearly blind.
r,o measures still must go
.,-olob the House and Senate and
hs signed by the President before
becoming effective,
rne Government help for the
.arried veterans attending school
n,o,1d be raised from $50 TO s105
" montb. In addition, they would
~ s2o for one child and SIS for
asch additional one. The sos a
r'onth figure for single G. I. stu
dents was not changed,
Anv veterans in school, single
married, would forfeit their
r;obt to government aid If they
sJyocate overthrow of the govern
ment, They would forfeit too, if
,sov belong to an organization
eartified bv the FB1 to the Vet
.r.nc administration as advocat-
ing such overthrow.
Il thew accepted federal help in
.ni+e of such curbs, they would be
srbiect to felony charges punsh-
sb1a bv fines and prison terms.
Reu. Grow (R-Pa)s introduced a
hin that would go even further. 1t
vas sent to the Veterans commit
tee.
II would deny all veterans 5ene-
a. IN nersons who are Commun-
iSt nartv members or who are IN
svmnathy with the general aims
cJl44eNS
Of the party.
The committee had no figures On
fhe cost of the increased aid, nor
dia it have estimates on the bill
to provide specially equipped au-
tos Or ''other conveyances' for
smputees, blind and paralyzed
,o4ororc If all wars.
This would expand considerably
The present law providing cars
only for World War II veterans
who have lost, or lost the use OF,
one or both feet, at a cost OF no
more than $500 per car.
The bill adds:
Veterans of all wars, veterans
who have lost. or lost the use OF
(through paralysis), one or both
hands, veterans who are blind or
nearly blind.
An extra 500 On the cost limit,
plus $500 for taxes and transporta-
finn