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Evening star., 1947-03-09
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Hold 5th D. {. Dinner
with $50 ATTENDING

Five hundred and fifty reformed
drinkers met to discuss the prob
lens of alcoholism last night.
It was the fifth annual dinner Of
the Washington Area, Fellowship
Of Alcoholics Anonymous, at the
Hotel Statler. Its theme was struck
by speaker John P. L. (no last
names given. when he said, I'VE
know what it's like. We hope we
can help others"
AS members of Nationwide or
ganization Of 10000 members and
1880 groups from coast to coast, all
of whom have at one time had to
admit they were powerless in the
grip of drink, no words were minced.
II lost 20 jobs and I figured it
was time I joined" said John K.
over his coffee.
Woman Tells Of To-Day Spree.
"The last time I was in Wash
1ngton came for two days and
stayed drunk In a hotel for ten" :"
said Charlotte L. on the speakers
platform.
Charlotte L. Is now on the staff
Of the Alcoholic Foundation in New
York City, the organizations ma
tional headquarters.
She hasn't had drink in some
time now and her life is devoted to
seeing that lot of other people
who shouldn't don't. She explained
that although the foundation was
set up as recently as 1898, thanks
to contributing members through
out the country it has been able
to get the story of Alcoholics
Anonymous and their work told ef-
fectively enough to increase mem
bership by $50 new groups since
last August.
Extended to Iceland.
She reported that AA has recently
expanded its work to include organ
ization Of group in Iceland, at
the request Of doctor there.
Several prominent men and
women were guests at the dinner
and addressed the anonymous mem
bers. These speakers were DR.. John
w. Rustin, pastor of the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church;
Juvenile Court Judge Fay L. Bent
ley, and the Rev. James P. Timmons
of Hartford, Conn.,, editor of the
Catholic Transcript"
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Army Ordnance Names
Its First WAC Muior

Miss Cafoline H. Wanvig, Of New
York, is the first WAC in the Army
Ordnance to reach the rank Of
major.
She has been assigned in her new
rank to the post Of administrative
officer of the Artillery Division OF
Research and Development here.
A specialist in fire-control mech
anisms, Maj. Wanvig joined the
WAC early in its recruiting drive.
She graduated from officer candi-
date school in October, 1912, and
later attended the Army Ordnance
Automotiye School,
Maj. Wanvig is the daughter of
Col. Harry F.. Wanvig, retired field
artillery officer.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Last Charter Hearing
Set in Montgomery

The Montgomery County Charter
Committee will submit its recon-.
mendation to the Charter Board al
a public hearing at pm. Tuesday
Last of series of eight hearings
the meeting will be held in thu
Liquor Dispensary Building, 850t
Colesville road, Silver Spring.
Col. Norman B. Ames, chairman
Of the board urges the public te
attend.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Bertrand Russell Wants !,
u. s. 10 Keep Atom Secrets
BY ihs Assoeio.sd prc.s

BY fhs Associated Prcss
LONDON, Mar. .8.-B Bertrand
Russell, the British philosopher and
mathematician, said tonight that
the United States should keep its
atom bomb secrets for the time being
because their publication would
only accelerate an atomic arma-
ments race"
The adoption Of the United States
proposal for an international atomic
development authority. Mr.. Russell
said in British Broadcasting Co.
radio address, would be an i'm
mense advance towards sanity" and
would avoid "the constant menace
of atomic Pearl Harbors."
He prophesied that war is sure"
unless there is a world central gov
ernment to keep order among ma
tions, adding that an agreement
between nations would be q better
way of attaining world govern
ment than the supremacy. Of one
nation.
Evening star., 1947-03-09
Lydu Hinrichs to PIuy
At ArIinqton Concert

LYDIA Langford Hinricf1s. pianist
and graduate of Cincinnati Con-
servatory, will be the guest soloist
when the Arlington Civic Symphony
presents its third concert of the
season under direction of Van Lier
Lanning at $3.50 pm. Friday in
Washington-Lee High School.
Mrs. Hinrichs, who has appeared
before the Friday Morning Club, the
MacDowell Club and the USO, will
play Rachmaninoff's Second Piano
Concerto"
Evening star., 1947-03-09
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Evening star., 1947-03-09
PTA to Hear Building Plan

The proposed $7,800, 900 Mont
gomery County school construction
program will be discussed at meet
ing of the Woodlin Parent Teacher
Association at 8 pm. Tuesday at the
school, H. A. Fisher president, an
nounced yesterday.
Evening star., 1947-03-09

THOUSANDS OF su6ecerS fDom the pains and
oohos ef ArtAritis, Rhsumatism, Swollen
5o4nts, Lumbaso, Seiatiea and Neuritis have
6esn delighted 10 discover that the Doctors
formula called kemina starts circulating
through the blood almost Immediately after
~ nrst dose, usually helping nature remove
poisonous wastes and excess acids that often
eause pains and soreness, and at the sausa
time promptly eouhstang ths pam and ~
om1oxk
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
Along The Cape Fear

ANOTHER QUERY-One alarm
ed patron of the local public schools
called last night to inquire about
a story appearing in the Star yes
terday morning.
She was upset about the COM
parison of the pay scale between
teachers and j%anitors.
Superintendent of Schools H. NJ.
Roland was quoted as citing the
low pay of teachers as a major fac
tor in the current teacher short
age throughout the United States.
Mr.. Roland went on to tell how
one of the janitors in the city
schools last year vas getting $50
a month. The man left his janitorial
duties for private employment and
now is making $500 a month.
eff a j%anitor can do that, what
can be expected of teachers who
spend years preparing themselves
for a position and then receive
only a few more pennies that a
laborer??, he asked"
WHO SETS PAY - Our reader
was anxious to learn if the state
legislature adjusted the pay scale
of all school employees, including
the janitor.
We had to confess that we could
not give a positive answer, but
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27

IN THE MAIL - Response to
our request for information con,
corning John Grady, the lone Pa
triot casualty at the Battle OF
Moores Creek.
We were advised to contact Judge
Henry A. Grady of New Bern, who
has headed the Grady-Outlaw
Family association.
The John Grady who is COM
memorated by the association was
the grandfather of the John Grady,
who died a hero's death in the IA
nous battle when the Scotch High
landers were stopped from joining
their British allies at the mouth OF
the Cape Fear river.
MONUMENT TO SAME - Found
IN the Moores Greek National Mill
tary Park at Currie is the Grady
monument, known to many as the
Old Monument.
The monument erected in honor
of John Grady was placed neal the
site of the battle about 1857.
From an old Wilmington news
paper, the following account of the
ceremony is found:
g.. deposit a box containing
the publications of the day all
the remains Of the patriotic Grady
that could be found, after which
the stone was sealed up 80"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
House In Raleigh Receives
IS Bills Yesterday For
New Record

RALEIGH, Feb. 26. -(P)- Legis-
lative committees killed today bills
to lower the voting age from 81 to
ID, and to create a board of ex-
aminers for funeral directors. A
subcommittee was directed to
study a proposed 40-hour maximum
work week, with a Accent an hour
minimum pay scale.
While committees worked at high
speed, the house received IS bills,
a record-breaking number for this
session. One of them would change
the, state primary. date from the
last Saturday In May to the third
Saturday in June. Introduced by
Rep. Blue of Moore, it would give
school teachers and of-age college
students an opportunity to vote
since under a state law no one can
vote absentee in a primary.
Nobody took the floor to- oppose
either Of the major measures that
died in committee.
EllZabeth zee OF Wilson and
Dada Lewis of Greensboro, both
students at Woman's College, were
among those who asked that the
voting age be lowered. They were
supported by Harry Ganderson and
Bob Quincy, both of Greensboro,
the latter representing the commit
tee for North Carolina; and Rep.
Shreve of Guilford.
They said that society needs the
fresh viewpoint, idealism and un-
selfishness of young people; that a
person who is not too old to enter
the armed forces is not too young
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
JUDICIAL GROUP
TO MEET TODAY
Eighth District Bar AS.
ISOLATION Schedules Sup
per Session

Their first meeting since the
outbreak Of World War II will
be held by members of the Eighth
District Bar Association at $3.50
p. m. tomorrow.
The meeting will take the form
of a supper session at Miss JAMES
place On Masonboro Sound. Aaron
Goldberg, Wilmington president OF
the association, announced last
night.
This meeting, which will rein
stitute the annual sessions held
prior to the war. will be addressed
by Superior Judge John j. Burney
of Wilmington, resident judge Of
the eighth district. .
A. major item on the business
agenda will be the election of Of
ficers to serve during the ensuing
year, Goldberg said.
Dwight McEwen of Southport
is secretary and treasurer of the
association, the membership of
which is made up of attorneys in
New Hanover, Fender, Brunswick
and Columbus counties.
These counties comprise the
area embraced by the eighth dis
trict.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
RED CROSS DRIVE
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Campaign Headquarters To
Be Located In Custom
house

Campaign headquarters for the
Wilmington Chapter American Red
Cross, for the 1947 fund drive, are
to be set up in Room 231 in the
Customhouse, J. H. Carswell, CO.
chairman, announced last night.
The office headquarters will be
open today, manned by Red Cross
workers, and will remain open
through the campaign. Hours of
9 a. m. to 5 D. m. will be observed
Records and reports of all divi-
sions working owe the city to raise
the 1947 quota of the local chapters
and tabulations of the progress of
the drive will be kept in the office.
Some of the divisions have al
ready been at work toward raising
their individual goals. The appeal
to the general public will last for
ten days, March q = IA.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
CONTENTS OF FBI 4
REPORT RELEASED
Analysis OF Chemical Re-
portedly Used IN Pie
Shows Fluoride

The Federal Bureau of Investi-
cation report received here Tues
day night relative to the autopsy
performed following the death OF
three Wilmington residents Febru-
airy 16 identified the chemical
thought to have caused the deaths
as silicose sodium fluoride, accord.
ing to local law Of Gals last night.
The FBI laboratory analysis re-
port stated that the fluoride was
an effective killing agent and said
that death from the chemical usu-
ally occurred in from one to twelve
hours, according to Coroner Cor
dan Doran and Harry Fales, super
intendent of the City, County Identi.
fication Bureau.
Meanwhile, Doran said that no
decision on whether or not an in
quest into the deaths of Mrs. Myr,
tie Page, Mrs. Lucy Blizzard and
Ira G. Upchurch, all of whom died
after repeatedly eating part OF a
potato pie at a Second street board
ing house, had been reached.
He said that District Solicitor
Clifton Moore is due to arrive in
Wilmington today for consultation
on the matter
Fales said last night that the in
vestigation into the case was being
pushed, but declined to comment
on whether or not there were any
new developments.
The chemical contained in the
pie was identified as fluoride by
local health officials but the FBI
analysis was requested after the
autopsy had been performed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
.TALMADCE FOES
FORM new PARTY
Georgia Now Has Two
Claimants To Demo-
cratic Party

ATLANTA, Feb 26 P) -
Foes Of Herman Talmadge an
Inounced reorganization of Geor-
gia's Democratic party today,
read Talmadge and his followers
out of the party and called on all
true, Democrats to join in re-
storing Democratic government
to the state.
The reorganization movement
gave the state two claimants TO
the title of the Democratic party
as well as two contenders for the
Governorship. ~
Opponents of Talmadge. VINO was
elected Governor by the legisla-
ture, charged Talmadge and his
supporters were attempting to per-
petrate their rule by unlawful.
unconstitutional and undemocratic
actions" including adoption of the
white primary act
Removal Of statutes governing
primaries in a move to bar
Negroes from voting, the group
charged, has denied protection OF
voting by laws and recourse to
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27

H -4--L - b., -@
VESHAM, England, Feb. 26.-P)
"A municipally-owEed horse with
an appetite for picnic lunches and
a strong dislike for p~icknickers
finally ran afoul of the law fol
kicking a fisherman while reaching
for a sandwich.
Richard Delaney, the fisherman,
collected S149.50 damages from the
mayor and town of Evesham, after
testifying today that his scalp was
split open when he tried to rescue
his lunch basket from the nag.
Several witnesses testified to the
horses bad record where sand
wiches were concerned. J. Stephens
of Evesham said he had seen the
horse raid picnic parties several
times and eat their sandwiches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
White House Farley Set
For Today On Shipyards
Group To Meet With Presi-
Dental Assistant And
Maritime Chief

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -lP-
North Cardinals efforts to pur.
chase the North Carolina ship
building yards at Wilmington, N.
c., will be pressed again tomorrow
at a White House conference,
Senator Hoey (D-NC) said today.
Hoey told a reporter US. Mari
time Commissioner Admiral Will
liam Smith, Senator Umstead ID.
NC and Rep. Clark D-Nc) will
join him for a conference with
Presidential Assistant John r.
Steelman.
1.-THE differences between the
commission and the North Car
DINA State Ports authority will be
threshed out" Hoey said.
The ports authority has offered
t h e maritime commission 81, 200,-
900 for the yards used by the COM
mission during the war and now
held in a standby" position.
Maritime officials offered to
lease the yards t o the port
authority. This offer was declined,
Hoey said, on grounds that indus
tries are not willing to build ware
house on the basis of leases.
1--WE will. repeat tomorrow"
Hoey said, what we have said
b~efore-that the ports authority
considers the Wilmington port a
war casualty in that it was not
given conveys as were Norfolk,
Va, and Charleston, S. c., during
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27

auOpCeu by a OIL TO So vote an
amendment by Senator Millikin
(R-Colo) trimming 81, 800, 900, 900
off the Sc, 900, 900, 900 the house pre-
viously had voted to attempt to
reduce federal spending.
Knutson, who is chairman of the
house ways and means committee,
said the smaller cut would throw
overheard his house bill proposing
a 20 percent acros the board slash
in individual income taxes.
Still pending in the senate as
"Knutson spoke was a proposal
by Senator Knowland (R-Calif) to
require that $4,000, 900, 900 of any
government surplus be applied to
the national debt.
Senator Taft R.-Ohio) proposed
to cut Knowland's debt retirement
figure to- S 1000, 600, 900, leaving
room for a So, 500, 600, 900 tax re.
duction if revenues come in as ex-
pected.
Senator Green ORD went the
other way with a proposed amend
ment to apply all of the budget
saving to the debt.
ALI those proposals remained to
be voted on when the Senate quit
for the night.
AS for the ceiling on spending,
Chairman Taft, of the Senate Re
publican policy committee, predict
ed to a reporter that a Senate,
House compromising committee
eventually will arrive at a figure
of IS, 900, 600, 900 or slightly more as
the overall pledge for reducing
expenditures.
This would put Congress on rec
ord as promising - if it doesn't
change its mind later when indi.
vidual appropriations bills are vot-
ed - to hold government costs to
about IS per cent of the level Mr..
Truman previously had described
as bedrock.
The Senate's vote for the 81, $780,.
DOC, 600 cut represented a victory
for the armed services, which had
contended that the larger savings
promised by the House would cut
so deeply into Army and Navy
funds as to make them ineffective
for national defense and to support
American foreign policy.
The Houses 6 5000, 900, 600 slash
was said to involve looping $2,250,-
900, 600 off military and civil func-
tons of the two departments. Most
Senators appeared to believe the
Senate figure would take no more
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
ROYAL OPPOSES
WEAKER DEFENSES
Tells Elizabethtown Vets
World Can't Afford
Another War
EL1ZABETHTowN, Feb. 2e.

ELIZABETHTOWN, Feb. 26. -
P- Undersecretary Of War Ken,
meth C. Royal warned here to-
night that until an effective or
ganization to prevent aggression IS
tried and proven, American veter'
ans must be certain that our rep.
resentatives in, Congress do moi
par down our army and navy be
low the danger point" but warned
the world cannot afford another
war.
Addressing Bladen county Post
No. 1876, American Legion. Royal
declared: "Ours was an all-Amer-
lean effort in the war, and 1t must
be an all-American effort for
peace.
I'VE must preserve as far as we
can the spirit of cooperation and
1nterdependence of action which
made possible our military victory
of World War 1.-THE greatest vic
tory Of all time"
He explained that no group de-
sires peace more than the Ameri-
can veterans, whom he labeled the
greatest lovers of peace"
Royal added, however, that the
veteran is also d realist.
HE knows that victory was not
attained by faith without works.
He likewide knows that war can.
not be prevented by wishful think
ing. He recognizes that some ma
tons of the world are impressed
by nothing short of force or the
fear of force"
Recalling how North Carolina
had made a mistake after World
War 1 by moving too slowly in
recognizing the veterans and pro-
yiding business and civic oppor-
tunities, Royal urged that vet
Grams not let this error of the
twenties be repeated"
Explaining that there are some
professional veterans who want to
ride the government or spend the
rest of their days in living on
genuine or manufactured military
records" Royal stated that
these men are usually easy to
spot and are the exception rather
than the rule"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
ACCUSED in
EXT0RTI0N PLOT
Two Clio Men Named In
Detroit Black Market
OPA Gas Probe

DETROIT, Feb. 26.-P-Four
men, including two minor CLIO of
ficials, were accused today of a
$40, 900 extortion plot against an
alleged self-confessed dealer in
black m market OPA gasoline
stamps.
One of the union defendants,
Perly P. McManus, 40, immediate
ly after pleading innocent brought
a 500, 900 damage suit against the
police department and the prosecu-
tors office.
In the damage suit McManus, fl
nancial secretary of Briggs local
PIP, CLIO United Auto Workers,
charged false arrest.
He and Paul Tendiglia, 80, gaso-
line station operator and code
PENDANT, together pleaded innocent
to the extortion charges.
An account of threats against a
black-marketing former chief clerk
in a wartime ration board headed
by McManus was recited by the
prosecutors office in connection
with the filing of the plot charges.
Assistant Prosecutor George A.
Gray said the extortion story
came from Albert Mushro, 49,
year-old former chief clerk on Nc
Manus' ration board.
Mushro, Gray said, admitted
ur n ing over 600, 900 gasoline
stamps to black marketeers for
which he was paid SIS, 600. A total
of $40, 900 was extorted from him
on threats of harm by the de-
fandants, Gray said Mushro re-
lated.
The other defendants, sought by
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-(PNThe
navy has successfully fired a Ger
man VI rocket from the deck Of
a submarine, unofficial reports
said today.
The navy department refused to
answer questions concerning the
experiment which is understood to
have been conducted on the west
coast at Point Mogu, Calf, the
navy's rocket testing station.
Spectators on shore witnessed
the flight of the nazi ''buzz bomb
along the coast last week, accord
ing to the reports which reached
here.
The use OF hard hitting rockets
was just getting into full swing
when the war ended. Packing a
tremendous wallop without recoi,
difficulties, rockets have been con
sidered logical weapons for new
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
Navy Successfully Fires
YRocket From Sub Deck

type submarines, and the test has
been anticipated for some time.
Fleet Admiral Chester W. MINI
itz in discussing weapons OF the
future in a recent speech, suggest
ed submarines some day might be
equipped to launch guided missiles
with atomic warheads.
Submarines held up well at the
atom-bomb tests of navy vessels
last year in the Pacific and a
number of new types, including
possibly one to carry a number OF
planes, have been regarded as
feasible by submarine experts.
In keeping with the submarine S
new role as a powerful striking
weapon of the fleet. navy chiefs
have revealed that ~upderseas war
fare shares top research priority
with guided missiles in the navy
today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-27
TRUMAN SELECTS
new AMBASSADOR
W. Douglas To Fill
Vacancy Created By
Gardeners Death

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-WD-
President Truman reached into the
ranks of finance again today and
chose wealthy, 52-year old Lewis
w.. Douglas, president OF the
Mutual Life Insurance Co.,. Of
New York, to be U. s. ambassa-
dor to Great Britain.
Speedy senate confirmation Is
expected. %.
Douglas, a native of Arizona, will
replace the late o. Max Gardner
of North Carolina, former under
secretary OF the treasury who died
in New York City a few weeks
ago on the day he was to have
sailed for the London post.
Both top-flight, middle-of-the-
road experts on governmental and
private finance, their successive
appointments underscored the
paramount role that international
finance and trade problems are
expected to play in future relations
between Britain and the United
States. a.,
Douglas number-one job pre-
sumably will be to keep tabs ON
deposition of the So, 500, 900, 900
loan which this country extended
to the British last year, and to
help wherever possible in Brt
tain's grim struggle toward eco
nomic recovery.
The new ambassador will bring
a long and varied experience to
his job. Over the past quarter
century he has won success in
a half-dozen separate fields, as 4
congressman, educator, mining
expert, general businessman, feds-
raj budget director and insurance
executive.
SERVED IN CONGRESS
Elected as representative at
large from Arizona in 1922, he
served as a member Of congress
until 1898 when the Late President
Roosevelt drafted him as the New
Deals first budget director.
But the New Deal service was
short and spectacular. 1t ended In
August, 1884, when he resigned in
protest against the administrations
depression time pump printing
spending policies.
His break with Mr.. Roosevelt Is
said to have resulted from the
Presidents action in asking Con-
gress, without consulting Douglas,
for an additional ST, 800, 900, 900 for
PWA and unemployment relief.
Douglas went over Mr.. Roosevel's
head and urged the chairmen Of
the House and Senate Finance COM
mittees to reject the request.
From Washington, he returned to
private life, serving as vice presi
dent and director of the American
Cyanamid company until 1898 when
he resigned to become principal
and vice-chancellor of McGill Uni
versity at Montreal.
He remained in his educational
assignment until December, 1899.
after which he accepted an Offer
to head the Mutual Life Insurance
company.
Born at Bisbee, Ariz., on July 2,
1894, Douglas maintains his bust
ness office in New York but still
makes his home at Phoenix, Ariz.,
with his wife, the former Peggy
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