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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
TWO YOUTHS
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and stealing about $3.50 in mon
ey and ham.
October 10: forcible trespass
at the school park at 18th and
Ann streets, tampering with and
driving an oil truck at the said
park.
Forcible Trespass
October 16: forciole trespass
at 18th and Ann streets and
tampering with and driving an
oil truck in said park.
October 18: breaking and en-
tering Forest Hill school and
stealing about $3.50 in money
and ham.
October 20: breaking and en-
tering Chestnut school.
The three charges against
Campbell were listed by police
as follows:
October 10: forcible trespass
in school park at 18th and Ann
streets and tampering with and
driving an oil truck parked
there.
October Is: forcible trespass
at 18th and Ann and tampering
with and driving an oil truck
parked there.
October 10 breaking and en-.
tering Forest Hill s~snol and
Istealing about $3.50 in money
and ham.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
CARYC00pER
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reeled off 70 names, many of
them mentioned previously in
the hearings.
The 43-year-old Montgomery,
veteran of % years in the
moves as actor and director.
was the first star on the stand
his famous smile turned grim
suddenly when he was asked if
there ever had been any at
tempts to inject Communist or
communist or Unamerican
propaganda into his pictures.
Il have heard these people re-
ferred to as the lunatic fringe"
ne said slowly. l agree with that
definition. But l don't think anv
OF them would be foolish enough
to try to inject any of it into any
picture l am directing.
Il gave up my Job, like mil
lions OF others to fight against
the totalitarianism Of F'ascism.
| am quite willing to give it up
again to fight against a otalit-
tarianism called Communism"
A thunder of applause came
from the onlookers as the former
World War II Naval Officer bit
out the words.
And Reagan got as big a hand
when he climaxed his appear
ance with this short speech:
Il abhor the Communist philo-
sophy. More than that, ( detest
their tactics. which are the
tactics of a fifth column"
However, as a citizen, l hope
that we never are prompted by
fear or resentment of Commun-
ism into compromising any of
our democratic principles in or
der to fight it."
Cooper, the tall, lean portray
er of herman roles, told the COM
mittee he could. "never take this
pinko mounting very seriously
because it is not on the level"
But, he said, Communists
have infiltrated Hollywood and
operated mostly "by word of
MOUTH and through "social ga
therings."
give heard people say
we would have a more efficient
government without Congress-"
Cooper remarked dead-pan.
AS spectators %guffawed at
that, the 46-year-old actor laid
a finger alongside his nose and
said he considered such state
ments Every Unamerican.'' His
stint on the witness stand lasted
only 10 minutes before Chairman
j. Parnell Thomas GRIND adj
iourned the hearing until tomor-
row..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
BURCYWN TO HOLD
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day, October II. Judge Burgwyn
will preside over the special ses-
sion beginning November H.
Then Judge Carr will return to
the New Hanover court room
on December l to preside over
a two-week session of civil court.
Other assignments reported by
Governor Cherry Thursday in
clude
Judge George A. Shuford OF
Asheville to preside over a five
week civil term in Mecklen-
burg, starting November 3
Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn to pre-
side over a week Of criminal
court in CASTOR, November "a.
Judge Luther Hamilton, More
head City, two weeks of civil
court in Guilford, October q,
and two weeks of civil court in
Alamance, November 10.
Judge George B. Patton,
Franklin, a week of civil court
in Cabarrus, November 10; and
two weeks of mixed court in
Buncombe, November II.
Judge Charles L. Coggin, Sal
isbury, a week of civil court In
Robson, November 10: and two
weeks of mixed court in David
son, November II.
Judge Henry A. Grady, New
Bern, one week of civil court
in Pitt, November II, and one
week of civil court in Wake,
November "a.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
PIANIST ARRESTED
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with the selling or handling Of
numbers.
Grouse said that approximate
ly 10000 of the handbills have
been distributed in the city dur,
ing the past three months. A
package of $4,000 such bills was
found in his house by sheriffs
officers.
Grouse was released under
$500 bond. He will be given a
hearing in recorders court this
morning.
Sheriff Davis, in company
with a Morning Star reporter,
questioned Grouse in the Sherlffs
office. Grouse SAID he was work.
ing for Benjamin Boswell,
whom he said was now in Miami,
Fla.
When asked about the license,
Grouse produced a state license
issued to B. Boswell and a coun-
ty license issued to the Benja-
min Psychic Studio. He did not
have a license issued in his
name.
Grouse admitted that several
of his clients have asked him for
numbers and he gave them num-
bers obtained from reading their
astrology charts. He also said
he used numerlogy in obtain
ing the numbers. He denied any
connection with the numbers
racket and said ne knew moth
ing about the wording on the
%handbills that were passed out.
Il received a shipment of them
every month to be distributed"
he then said, Frankly, l do not
even know what was printed on
them"
Sheriff Davis said he was con-
tinuing his investigation into
the numbers racket here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
Euangelistic Services
For Tabor City Church

TABOR CITY, Oct. %. - Be-
ginning Sunday night, Oct. 26,
a series of evangelistic services
will be conducted at the Full Cos
pei Tabernacle in Tabor City and
will continue with services each
evening at 1880 o'clock for two
weeks.
Rev. ]. G. Pope, pastor of the
Fuquay Springs Full Gospel Tab
ernacle and well known radio
evangelist who is heard regularly
each Sunday over WCKB at
Dunn, will be the guest preacher
during the meeting.
Special singing will be provid-
ed by the Brown Quartet, local
radio artists.
Rev. J. M. Pope, Jr., is pastor
of the tabernacle here.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
LABOR TO SEEK
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President Philip Murray recent
ly told newsmen that wage in
crease demands by a number of
CLIO unions "wouldn't surprise
me"
President Humans call on
Congress to "react legislation
dealing with the domestic price
situations poses a question whe-
Their labor will hold. off wage
demands while waiting to see
if the White House suggestion
is followed.
The CLIO has been humping
for a return to price controls
and rationing of food, clothing
and other necessities. 1t passed
a resolution to that effect at its
recent convention in Boston. II
also asked for new tax laws to
"%recapture speculative and ex-
cess profits"
The ALL IS against any re-
turn to wartime price controls
or rationing, contending that
suck controls particularly
won't work. in peacetime. But
the AFL has favored Legislation
to allow ALLEGATIONS Of scarce
materials and curbs on specu.
lation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
P0ULTRYMEN FAIL
TO MOVE LUCKMAN
Food. Committee Chairman
Stick. By Eggless Thurs
day Program

WASHINGTON. Oct. 23-R-
The Citizens Food Committee
decided today to keep Thursdays
as "poultryless days:
In announcing this, Committee
Chairman Charles Luckman said
that an alternate grain-saving
program offered by the National
Poultry Producers Federation
is not an adequate substitute
for one day a week without eggs
or poultry.
Luckman said that he end the
Presidents cabinet food COM
mittee are in complete accord
on that. He declared
1.-THE assignment Of the Cltl-
zen's Food Committee is to save
grain. The poultry population OF
the United States has been eat
inc too much of the grain that
should go to hungry people
abroad.
"The only way to save grain
consumption by poultry is to re,
duce the production in raising OF
birds. Poultry-less Thursday has
been having precisely this eff
feet"
Luckman emphasized, how
ever, that he will not continue
poultryless Thurdsay any longer
than is absolutely necessary to
rneet Grain export requirements
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
'TATER DAY SET
FOR 18TH ANNUAL
DAY OF MARKET

WHITEVILLE, Oct. %. - Ia
Dor City, probably without realiz-
ing it, has set its "Tater Day
festival on the 18th anniversary
of organized sweet potato market
ing there.
Records at the county court
house here reveal that On October
81, 1921, J. L. Lewis and R. H
Burns, Sr., were the incorporators
of a firm for handling sweet po-
tatoes and went into business.
Mr.. Burns, now living in White
vile, and Mr.. Lewis, still a resi-
dent of Tabor City, built the first
potato storage house. 1t had 6
capacity of 5000 bushels and af-
ter 26 years is still used for stor-
ing vans.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
SMALL CRAFT
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estates of the nations wealthy,
the residents turned to the ocean
in this most seriously endanger-
ed of New England's fire threat
ened communities.
Details of the situation at the
little resort town we're sparse.
Shortly before all phone circuits
went out about six o'clock, a
police officer called the Coast
Guard at Rockland.
Appeals For Help
The policeman said that the
town faced destruction by fire
before morning unless the winds
abated. He told of the people
fleeing to the docks. He appeal
ed for all the help from the
ocean that could be sent.
Within minutes, Coast Guard
craft were headed for Bar Har-
Dor.
Small picket boats and motor
lifeboats were sent from surf
stations. Larger buoy tenders
and inshore craft we're sent from
Rockland. Ocean-going cutters
started North from Boston.
The Navy ordered available
vessels alerted in port as far
South as Newport, R. l. A Navy
destroyer escort was sent out OF
Boston, while officers asked
commercial radio stations to send
out calls for crewmen to report
back to their ships.
Which of the famous summer
places may have been destroyed
was not known Immediately, but
reports of police before commune
cations went down indicated that
destruction was extensive.
Towns Evacuated
Many New England commune
ties were being evacuated to-
night as more than 200 forest
fires swept the area, but none
were in as Immediately serious
a situation as Bar Harbor.
Shifting, increasing or decreas-
ing winds constantly changed the
seriousness of the threats in
many spots.
At least three persons were
dead and property damage
mounted into the millions as the
wind-whipped flames spread
with no relief in sight on this
23rd day of a dry spell.
Even as the residents of Bar
Harbor fled to the ocean side,
Governor Horace A. Hildreth
was appealing by radio to the
people of Maine to organize on
a wartime basis to combat forest
fires causing "the greatest eco
nomic catastrophe in the states
history"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
WHITE PR0CLAlMS
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here today, will be two native
Wilmingtonians Herbert H..
Pierce, seaman &c, of 8l9
Orange street, and Chief Horace
M. Scott, of 24O6 Chestnut street
and eight other North Caro-
linians.
The Gyatt, which was named
in honor of a Young hero Of the
Marine corps, Pfc. Edward
Earl Gyatt, who gave his life
on Aug. T., 1912, while single
handedly holding up a Japanese
counterattack on Tulagi in the
Solomons, was substituted for
the USS Stribling, which was
originally scheduled to be here
for Navy Day.
Ten Officers
Commissioned in July, l945.
the destroyer is manned by lC
officers and 257 enlisted men
with a wartime complement of
Fl officers and $50 enlisted men.
She is of the 2250 long-ton class,
Open house will be observed
aboard the Gyatt on SATURDAY.
from l to 4 pm, Sunday from
9 to II am. and l to 4 pm. and
Monday from 9 to II am. and
l to 4 pm. The ship will sail
at 8 am. Tuesday.
Following is the Mayors
Navy Day proclamation:
Proclamation
WHEREA it is the custom
on one day of each year for
our citizens to join hands across
the nation to render grateful
tribute to our mighty Navy, and
give well deserved honor and
recognition to the achievements
of the men and women who
compose it's ranks; and
WHEREAS this year is an es-
pecially appropriate occasion to
honor the veterans of World
War II and to emphasize the
Importance to our nation of
maintaining a strong peacetime
Navy with a trained reserve
ready to man our fleet in the
event of national emergency;
and
WHEREAS it is fitting that
our citizens be informed and
aware of the current aims and
activities of our Navy, victor in
and guardian in peace.
THEREFORE. l, E. L. White,
mayor of Wilmington, hereby
proclaim Monday, October
Twenty-Seventh, Nineteen Hun
dred and Forty-Seven, as Navy
Day and call upon all citizens
of Wilmington to take part in
observance of this day through
the many channels open to
them.
Herein unto I have set my
hand and seal this Twenty
Fourth day of October, 1947.
E. L. WHITE
Mayor, City of Wilmington
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
BRITAIN WILL
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Britain's greatest financial
problem was in obtaining dol
lars for the purchase of essen
tial food and raw materials,
warned that even stringent eco
Monies would not avert further
heavy sales of gold reserves. In
recent weeks Britain has sold
5000, 900, 0G0 of her estimated ST.
400, 600, 900 gold reserve to the
United States to cover general
commitments" in the United
States.
The economics minister esti-
mated that by the end Of 1948
the entire sterling areas gold
reserves would drop to 81 ,080,-
600, 900.
Grips warned of still sharper
austerity to come as he gave
details Of the labor govern
ment's program, broadly out
lined Tuesday by King George
vi at the opening of parliament.
"Can we discipline ourselves
to the task before us, or are
we going to invite the harsh
discipline of events to impose
some tragic solution upon us?"
the economics minister asked.
Cripps Challenged
He was challenged immedi-
ately by Viscount Hinching-
brooke, who called for an cab
solute reverse" of the govern
ment policy. Urging big invest
ments from exporting countries,
he said the Labor government
was "afraid of the tags which
might be put on loans and would
not accept them because the
government was frightened Of
the effect of naturalization on
opinion in the U. S. end Cana
da."
Cripps declared that by cut
tlng down imports ann stepping
up export production, even at
the expense of taking goods
from the home market, Britain
was expected to reach "an ap-
proximate balance" of her total
export-import trade by the end
of 1s48. This would be six
months later than the govern
ment's original target date.
He warned. however, that the
"dollar deficit" would continue
for years because Britain ex-
ports only about 81 per cent of
her export production to the
United States and other dollar
countries while importing much
more from the same area.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
TOBACCO PRICES
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ranging from ST to So. However,
a few red and greenish leaf aver
ages dropped from $3.50 to 81
Some Tugs and nondescript
showed advances. Quality was
up from Wednesdays sales, and
some markets reported blocked
sales.
Gross sales Wednesday on the
Border Belt of South Carolina
and North Carolina totaled l.
600, $40 pounds for an average of
S38.66 - this was $1.29 above
Tuesdays sales. Deliveries light
ened considerably, and two mar
kets, according to the Federal
State Departments of Agricul-
ture, plan closing dates: Lum-
berton, October 20, and Fair
mont, October 80.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
FOREST FIRE
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tCOntlnucu from rage One)
and one-half of Burbank hospi.
tai, city's largest.
New Hamshire
Rochester - Flre roars into
northern outskirts o. residential
area.
Sunapee - Forest blazes loE
the summit of wooded Mount
Sunapee.
Vermont
Montpelier - Gov. Ernest W
Gibson tightens restrictions on
hunting and fishing effective
Friday.
New York
Albany - Strong winds re,
ported in parts of state with 81
fires still burning, most under
control.
Harriman-Twenty nuns from
Catholic convent in the Ramapc
mountains and a dozen boys
from nearby Catholic school,
form bucket brigade and save
summer camp site ignited by
forest fire.
Michigan
Lansing - Two firefighters
drown while crossing the Man.
istee river and a third reported
killed WIN a tree fell on him.
New Jersey
Trenton - State Fire Warden
William j. Seidel reported fires
have swept $500. acres and
Thought is being given to shut
ting off all wood1ands''.
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pa.-Gov. James
H. Duff halted all hunting and
fishing in woodlands from Oct,
II until rainfall ends present
dangerous forest conditions.
West Virginia
Charleston - Hunting sea.
sons suspended in five West Vir.
ginia counties as two four-dav.
old forest fires burn unchecked
in the woods of Mineral county.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
DON'T BLOW
Continued From Page one'

w. largely preveh'aoie'
Randolph wrote: ~o+hod
"The keystone OF the nle
of prevention is the re-eauea.'1 Of
of the patient in the matter VI
the time honored habit OF nose
blowing. an
saThis habit must be broken
because blowing creates posi
tive pressure in the upper re-
spiratory passages. There IS al
ways a certain amount OF Sc
erection about the small open
ings of the nasal sinuses wnlch
is forced back into the slnuses
by blowing"
He said such congestion TENDS
to impair the normal mecn-
anisn. by which the sinuses set
rid of secretions which other
wise would be a fertile field for
secondary invaders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
FLOATING LAB"
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personnel, has been termed the
:navigational trio" - radar,
loran. and tn gyro compass.
Loran tells you where you are;
the gyro-compass tells you
where you are going, and radar
tells you what's in your way.
Captain W. r. Grlswold from
his station at the radar scope
indicating unit calls out all or
ders to the helmsman as he
demonstrates the radar equip
ment aboard the floating labo-
ratory.
Solely on the basis of the
nap-like picture presented him
on the 12-inch viewing scope,
Griswold calls out course
changes in restricted channels
and picks out landmarks, buoys,
ships, and floating objects with
in so yards to 40 miles.
This procedure will be dem
onstrated here, giving ship OPP
orators and guests of the Sperry
company an insight into new
ship-handling techniques made
possible by postwar develop
ments in marine electronlcs.
City officials will be invited to
ioin marine experts in a dem
onstration cruise Monday, Nov.
5, Duffy announced.
Technicians Approve
The image on the radar scope
can be translated instantly into
a range to any object in de-
grees of bearing. At a recent
International meeting of marine
technicians, the delegates gave
full support to this type OF ma
rine radar as a pilotage aid and
anti-collislon device.
The Sperry equipment, devel-
oped for commercial use since
the war. is in the "3-centime-
ter" band, where high resolu-
tion is possible.
Cooperating with an oil COM
pany, sperry last winter made
the first successful tests OF ra-
dar as a means of full-schedule,
all-weather operation of tow
boats en- the Ohio and Mlssls-
slppi rivers.
Loran, an electronic, long
range navigation device used
extensively by the Air Forces
during over water flights IN
World War IL, permits ships to
locate their position in from
three to five minutes, day or
night, in any weather, and With
out recourse to celestial obser-
vations. 1t has a range OF 15U
miles during the day and l4oo
miles at night.
The Sperry company reports
more than so Loran equipments
and numerous radar installa-
tons sold to shippers since June
Of this year.
Many of the new compass and
automatic steering develop
ments installed aboard the craft
are designed to fit the needs
Of small craft and will be OF
general interest here, said Dut-
fly.
Leased From Navy
The Wanderer, which IS
leased by Sperry from the US.
Navy, is a 100-foot, diesel-elec-
trio which aided in the defense
of the eastern seaboard during
tn war.
Concluding a two month
cruise in the Gulf area, the
craft, operated by the marine
engineering department OF the
Sperry company, has visited
New Orleans, Galveston, Hous-
ton, Port Arthur, Pascagoula,
Mobile, Tampa. St. Petersburg,
Pensacola, Miami, Jacksonville,
Savannah. and Charleston.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
WHITE DEATH
Continued From Page One)

sheriff's death for 8 pm. next
Thursday, said that DIR. Bur-
dette would ten OF the findings
of his autopsy on the body and
give his opinion at that time
as to whether White died of nat
ural causes.
Trip Quoted
Acting Sheriff John G. Caison,
who as coroner automatically
succeeded White on a tempo
rary basis, said last night that
White had complained of head
aches since Monday night at
o'clock, at which time he helped
arrest Captain Conway. Deputy
D. T. Trip was quoted as say
ing that White scuffled with
Conway.
HE Conway was arrested
on charges of reckless opera
ton," Sheriff Caison said last
night. "They said that he was
drinking and I'm under the. i'm
preston that a charge of re-
sisting arrest was included in
the case"
According to Caison. White
was in the vicinity Of Shallotte
serving papers Wednesday aft
ternoon and stopped in at the
home of Burt Jacobs to ask for
an aspirin for a headache.
While there he took the aspirin,
lay down on a bed and became
unconscious, according to Cal
son.
Physician Called
Mrs. Jacobs, who supplied
White with the aspirin, then
called DR.. M. M. Rosenbaum,
of Shallotte, who found the
sheriff dead when he arrived at
the Jacobs home, Caison ex-
planned.
Captain Conway was being
held on an "open charge of
murder" Caison said, pending
the outcome of the coroner's in
quest next Thursday night.
Brunswick County Clerk OF
Court Sam Bennett said last
night that the only charge
lodged against Conway, when
he was arrested Monday night,
was that of reckless operation.
81 made out The warrant my
SELF" he said, land there was
no charge of operating under
the influence or resisting ar
rest"
The clerk added that he had
never seen Conway before Mon
day night but so far as he could
tell the prisoner was mot a bit
under the influence. At least,
in my opinion, he was not I'M
der the influence at that time
Arrested Monday
He said that when Conway
was arrested Monday he was
told that he was being charged
with driving while under the in
fluence and that he asked for
an examination by a doctor. DR..
Wingate Swain, of Shallotte.
conducted the examination, and
according to Bennett, reported
that Conway was not intoxi-
Gated.
Conway also made a state
ment at the courthouse n South
port after his arrest, Bennett
said, that he thought he arrest
was a case of mistaken identity
and that another car hal passed
him at a rapid rate of speed
shortly before he was arrested
some four miles west of Shall
lotte.
A. r. Boatwright, a Troy bust
ness man, was visiting Bennett
at his home and accompanied
him to the courthouse to rake
out the arrest papers for Con-
way on Monday evening. h e
clerk said. He said that Boat
wright concurred with him in
his opinion that Conway was not
under the influence at the time.
The case charging Conway
with reckless operation is slated
to be heard in Brunswick Re
corder's court in the regular
session Monday morning, Ben
nett said.
THIN VTnYmYYn
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24

There were an estimated
LOCO, 600 displaced persons in Eu-
rope at the end of 1916 in spite
OF the repatriation of about $780,
900 during the year. according
to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24

Narva is a medieval town in
Estonia. 1t was founded in the
18th century, and contains a
fortress built by the Russian
Grand Duke Ivan III in 1892.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24
TOBACCO LEADERS
Continued From Page One)

DINA Farm Bureau Federation
are among the industry leaders
comforting here.
Businessmen Meet
Earlier today Hutson, Morgan
and Shaw met with a number
of tobacco men and business
leaders of Winston-Salem and
discussed the tobacco situation.
Joe r. Williams, secretary of
the Winston Tobacco Board of
Trade, said the trio was doing
everything possible to get I'M
perial (buyers) back on the
market"
The meeting got underway
shortly after $50 pm, but
what was done by the group
was not Immediately made
known.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-24

About half the total consump-
ton of liquefied gas in the Unit
ed States goes into domestic
uses. Of the rest, nearly a
quarter of the total is used in
the manufacture of chemicals,