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Evening star., 1947-08-03
Reviewed by
MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.

reviewed Dy
MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
Tragic wrecks of old sailing craft,
mostly along the Atlantic Seaboard
before the turn of the century, are
brought to life under the able pen
of Frank Meier. This very readable
volume is a resounding tribute, too,
to the men who make up the Life
Guard stations of the United States
Coast Guard.
Mr.. Meier chose to retell the
stories of the many wrecks and res
cues geographically, rather than
chronologically. This saves turning
back to earlier chapters or reaching
for chart or Atlas. The accounts
range from Maine to the Gulf Coast,
around to the West Coast and the
Great Lakes.
The author had access to old serv-
ice records, which he pieced to-
gether to spin a.series of yarns that
will hold the interest of landlubbers
and boatmen alike. Mr. Meier is a
veteran diver and has worked in
under-sea salvage for many years.
This is no book written by an arm
chair sailor; the author knows his
subject well,
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ARBITRATION OF LABOR DIS
PUTES, by Samuel r. Zack. Don-
iger & RaughleyD A leading arbi-
traitor tells the history of important
disputes, with the causes and REM
edies described.
A HISTORY OF THE AMER
ICAN LEGION. by Richard Seelye
Jones (Bobbs Merrill; s375D The
Legion's formation, its activities, its
positions on important questions, its
future.
INFORMATION PLEASE AL.
MANAC, 1947, edited by John Kieran.
Doubleday A reference book con-
tanning review of the year and
historical summary of important
facts.
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Gay New Workers
Give q Firehouse
A'GoingOve
THE DIVINE TENEMENT
BY Robert Mcdonald. (Reynal
G. Hitchcock; $2.75.)
Reviewed by
MARTHA LEWIS.

Mike MONEYS life as bartender
in a New York tenement district
saloon had been fairly uneventful.
He conscientiously prepared drinks,
listened politely to the troubles of
talkative customers and quietly
observed life in general.
When Clarissa Yearlings wandered
into Mikes place, however. things
changed. Clarissa was a wealthy,
skittery, young painter without a
subject. One look at Mike and his
bar gave her purpose in life at
last. She would paint Mike and his
bar and it would be masterpiece.
Then a strange assortment of
sophisticated people descended on
the bar, and took over-to the COM
plete bewilderment Of Mike and his
regular customers. With these in
gradients, Mr.. Mcdonald has fash
ioned first novel. There could be
a little more action, but it's good
fun all the same.
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SOlOI lIlG dIl- osNia AAte.
swers, only to find he knows very
little about Corinne. His search
for more information becomes an
obsession, driving him further and
further into quicksands from which
escape is impossible.
Miss Tate's idea is novel. hut her
execution isn't quite up to the con-
cept. She apparently wasn't con-
tent with the basic theme that most
people have so many aspects to
their personality that they are
fundamentally mysterious and un-
known even to those who love them
most. Instead. at the eleventh hour
she introduced a supernatural ele-
ment that detracts from the
straightforward mystery Of life it
self.
MORE DEATHS THAN ONE
BY Bruno Fischer. (Zif-Davis
Publishing Co.; $2.50.)
Mike Parker, Rudy Matterson and
Frank Townsend had one thing in
common. despite the difference in
their stations in life. They all died
suddenly. Mixes death was called
an accident at first, but Ben Helm
private detective called in to solve
the Matterson wasn't in
clined to believe that Mike fell by
accident on his shotgun.
Ben was convinced the beauteous
Beverly Atwood was a man-hunter
particularly when she tried to use
her charms on him, but what con-
nection did her obvious appetites
have to do with the sudden deaths?
Ben found the answer in Freudian
psychology-and where better to
look when contemplating Beverly ?
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Reviewed by
ZANNE BINGHAM.

Every one has known manor
woman - somewhere, sometime,
whose death would be the only fair
payment to society for the life he
Evening star., 1947-08-03

An intensive study Of India convince Edmond Taylor that It
land good but always dark bright
usually dark bright dazzngly
conclusion his Occidental
writer's explain India either dismiss life
become blinded dazngy bright fail
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DOUBLE EXPOSURE, by Mary o.
De Walt Hamilton Exposition
Press. Lyrics on love and other
topics.
SKIING, EAST AND. WEST, by
Helene Fischer Hastings House, {.
The picture story of the winter sport
from the Adirondaks to the Rockies,
the Sierras and the CASCADES.
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHI.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CHI
NESE WOMAN, BY Buwei Yang
Chao (John Day CO.. The saga of
a woman who went through the
revolutionary period in China,
studied medicine in Japan and
started a hospital for women in
China. She later married a Chinese
scholar and travelled over the
World
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NEVER BY CHANCE

NEVEN BY CHANCE
BY Sylvia Tate. fHarper G. Bros, ).
S2.50.J
One minute Johnny Silescy and
his girl are standing on a street
corner, pausing to light cigarettes.
The next minute, the girl is dead
victim of on on,
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Here Villain
You Really Hope
Will Be Caught

PURSUIT UNTIL MORNING
BY Alan Wykes. (Randon1 House; !:
S2.75.J
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Dr.. Beard Explains Our System Of Checks
And Balances to Thwurt TotoIitcE;onism

GOVERNMENT AND LIBERTY THE AMERICAN SYSTEM
BY William Beard (Hacyon House; $2)
Reviewed by ELDEN E. BILLINGS,
Reference Librarian Legislative Reference Serrice,
The Library OF Congress.
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Authentic Tales
OF Shipwrecks
And Rescues

HURRICANE WARNING
BY Frank Meier. (E. P. Dutton
& Co.. $780,
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pustoroIe in Maine
MAINE WAYS

EMf14INE WA I .
BY Elizabeth Coatsworth. fThe
Macmillan Co., New York, 1947,
$275.)
Maine is noted for its picturesque
ness, the animate fascination of its
sea cut coast, its small farms, the
pine forests, with suddenly apparent
lakes, and the understatement of its
inhabitants. Living there on farm,
Elizabeth Coatesworth has delight
fully depicted the rural environment
and people of scenic land in book
to be kept and reread by those of
sensitive natures who like to absorb
simple, poetic moods and pictures.
r. q r
Evening star., 1947-08-03
Tbe Sunday Star
Weekly Book Survey

The Sunday Star has arranged ,0ith some OF
the leading booksellers of Washington and
suburban areas to report each Ueek the books
Uhtch sell best as a guide to ,Dhat Washington
is reading. title must be named By at least
four stores to appear on this chart.
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COMMUNISM
lAll.PoWEReul
GOVERNMENT

the expansion OF Government restricts the Of
liberty. From Government Liberty" Beard
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THE RIGHT TO FLY

BY John c. Cooper. Henry Holt
G. Co.; s5.)
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Edmond Taylor Finds Silver Innings
On Troubled India Darkest Clouds
RICHER BY ASIA

BY Edmond Taylor (Houghon Mi61in Co., Boston; s375J
Reviewed by NICHOLAS RADFORD.
Evening star., 1947-08-03

The following players have made
Evening star., 1947-10-05

addicted pigeon carried a lighted
cigarette to her nest. setting fire
to an attic and causing a two
alarm blaze in an apartment house.
In California, a horse swished
his tail against an electric power
wire, started a 55-acre forest fire.
And in Minnesota. a well-meaning
dog wagged his tail and knocked a
can of paint remover against a
Evening star., 1947-10-05
How Did 1t Start?
BY WENDELL SETTLER
HAROLD ]. LOvHESs

water heater with alarming incen.
diary results.
When a factory burned recent
ly, arson was suspected. But
National Board expert poking in
the ruins deduced that sunlight
passing through a glass flower
bowl in the presidents office had
set fire to ths paper in a waste
basket.
Dlaxe Hinss 4 Beu
BESIDES odd fires, there are also
odd fire alarms.
In Baltimore, a householder was
awakened in the middle of the
night by continuous ringing of his
doorben. Fire on the front porch
had burned the insulation of the
doorbell wire, causing a short cir
cult.
In Missouri, a farmer noticed
two airplanes buzzing his house
and circling it at the level of the
second story. Going out to see
what all the gol-durned capers
Evening star., 1947-10-05

line. BY the time he could per-
srade them to get of it, the fire
was out of control.
And in Los Angeles, a man ran
into legal trouble. He phoned
three fire departments before he
found the one that had the author
ity to put out the fire blazing in
his house, Naturally. by then it
was too late.
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were, he discovered
that his house was on
fire.
1t isn't always easy
to get help when a fire
breaks out, either. In
Ohio. Sherman Lyons
saw a neighboE's house
on fire, grabbed his
telephone, found two
women on his party
Evening star., 1947-10-05

Fires cost 500, ,OOO, 600
a year, and they break
out almost anywhere
even underneath rivers
VoU might not expect fire to
Il break out under water, but
New York fremen called out re-
Gently found themselves faced
with a stubborn blaze $50 feet
under the East River in the
new Brooklyn Manhattan tunnel.
They had plenty of trouble with
it, too-chemicals and foam didn't
do the trick. Finally somebody
offered a revolutionary suggestion:
water. 1t worked.
Fires, the National Board of
Fire Underwriters observes, can
start just about anywhere. This is
Fire Prevention Week, and as good
a time as any to take melancholy
note of the fact that the fire rate
in the U. S. is the worlds highest
Evening star., 1947-10-05

$4,000 blazes per
year. worth an annual
loss of $500, ,OOO,O 900.
3ird Troahle
PREVENTING fires isn't
always easy. consider
ing how some of them
get started In Wash
ington. D. C.. fremen
figured that a nicotine
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11

Well the course of study was that
which was required by the state
law.
And the law contemplated Civ
ing each child a careful drill in the
ordinary English branches.
Pupils who completed the course
were expected to be able to read
thoughtfully and with expression,
to write good English and plain
hand, to perform accurately and
rapidly any ordinary business ope-
ration in arithmetic, and to be rea-
sonably familiar with United States
and North Carolina history and
common school geography.
., ~ Il
TEACHERS MEETING - The
staff Of the school met twice each
month, one newspaper account
pointed out.
During these sessions the teach
ers in the Port City studied the
latest and the best methods. These
sessions were productive Of much
good to- the pupils and teachers,
alike, the report explained.
Several of our teachers r re-
'garded as experts and are in de-
'mand for work at summer institu-
TONS" a newspaper published here
in the 1905 states.
Continued On Page 2, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
Along The Cape Fear

LITTLE RED SCHOOL - A kind
reader called to remind us that al
though we had had much, to say
about the school system here fifty
years ago, still we had overlooked
one important fact. r. 3,
What did the school here look
like? j.,
Well never be it said that we were
not willing to ohlige, SO here we
go: 80 d,
The Union school building on
Ann Street was a model building
in every respect. .
All of the rooms were well light.
ed and had ventilation On four
sides. The rooms boasted 120
square feet Of blackboard surface
and were furnished with the very
best single seats.
The building contained eight
rooms measuring "a by So feet and
an assembly hall that dwafted the
regular class. rooms. This particu-
lar room was Sc by 80 feet.
-. *'*
FIRE PROBATION The build
ing was double weathef-boarded
and also had double floors.
There were only two recitation
rooms upstairs and as the lower
floor had five exits there was moth
ing to fear i'll case of fire.
So much for the building. Now
as to what went on inside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
GREEK SHIPS GET
PORT CLEARANCE
Attorney For Vessels An
noances Settlement Of
Pending Suits

The libel action brought against
the S. S. Observation-Disclosures
Greek-owned vessel, by Broadfoot
Iron Works company for $11, 288. rs,
and like action against the S. S.
Kalliope for $3,432.13 were with
drawn yesterday following settle
ment for both ships, Issac Wright.
attorney for Broadfoot, said last
night.
The S. S. Anastassios-P ateras has
already sailed, Wright said, and the
S.. S. Kalliopi has been moved to
the Clyde Line Wharf from the Will
mington Terminal warehouse in
order that further repairs may be
made.
Wright refused to disclose the
amount paid in settlement for the
suits against the two ships.
The ships we're seized by the
U. S. Marshal following libel action
brought by William G. Broadfeot
against Constantinos Pateras. own
er of the Greek ships, for failure
to pay the $11, 228.75 charge for
wharfage, repairs, and materials.
as the vessel was being transferred
from the troop carrier to a cargo
ship. The second libel was lodged
for repairs and materials to the
Kalliopi.
The Kalliopi was formerly the
Robert Dale Owen, and was built
in Wilmington and launched from
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company May q, 1913.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
FORMER WORKERS
BEING CONTACTED
Bureau Mailing Letters To
Former Civilian De-
tense Members

In connection with the drive Of
the volunteer Bureau of the Social
Service League, which begins on
Monday morning, 500 letters are
being sent out to people over the
community whose names were CIV
en- to the League as those who did
volunteer work during the war for
civilian defense.
The League is sponsoring the
drive in answer to a city-Wide
need for volunteer workers in the
IL RED Feather" agencies operat-
ing here. 1t is hoped that all who
are willing to give part OF their
time to any of these agencies, will
register with the Bureau in room
Ala, Tide Water Building, from
the hours. of 10 until 5 o'clock,
Monday through Friday.
Members of the Social Service
League stated that the need for vol
unteers in these agencies, while
perhaps not as great as during the
war, is still pressing.
Persons now engaged in volunteer
work are asked to register also, so
that further demand will be made
of their time, it was stated.
The purpose of organizing such
a Bureau is to place volunteers in
the work in which they are most
interested and to give them an
opportunity to discover and de-
velop their own special aptitudes.
To prevent duplication of r.
vices, to keep the same few will
ing volunteers from being over
worked, to channel volunteer ser-
vice into the agencies where they
are most needed, and to tie up all
agencies and volunteer work were
listed as advantages to be derived
from the board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
CITIES RECEIVE
AIRPORT FUNDS
Federal Government Will
Aid Communities In
Arear. To Expand

Three Southeastern North Caro-
lima airports, located at Clinton,
Elizabethtown and Fayetteville,
have been allocated federal funds
through the Civi, Aeronautics as
ISOLATION for great development, it
was learned here last night.
The Clinton airport, listed as
Class 2, will receive $50, 900 from
the Federal government. The COM
munity must add an additional
$50, 900 to this amount, making the
total cost of the completed project
$12o, 900. According to reports,
$50, 900 is to be used for the pur-
chase of the land and $89, 200 for
other items, which includes clear
ing the land, grubbing, grading,
turfing, fencing and the
construction of two landing strips
each 500 by 5000 feet.
Mayor ]. c. Morisey, of Clinton,
told The Star last night that an
had been filed several
months ago with the CAA. He
that a bond issue will be
sought by Sampson county to fl
nance the $50, 900 to match the
federal grant. He said a definate
site has not been selected for the
location of the field and expected
that the work would get underway
this spring.
Benjamin j. Greene, chairman of
the Bladen county airport commit
tee, said last night that Elizabeth
town has not selected a site for
their field. The first site proposed
was disapproved by CAA officials,
he pointed out. Efforts are now
underway to locate a suitable site,
he said last night.
The Bladen county airport to be
built at Elizabethtown was granted
$50, 900 by the authority, with a
like amount to be raised by the
airport committee. $15,120 was
proposed for the cost of the land
and $84, $50 for other items. Two
landing strips, 500 feet by 5000
feet each was specified.
The Fayetteville airport, listed as
Class 8 will receive $10S, 900 from
the federal government which, with
s113, 900 from its sponsor, will give
it a total of $211,00 for develop
CONTINUED On Page 2, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
APPLIANCE GROUP
ELECTS OFFICERS
Robert Dannenbaum Will
Head Newly-O Organ
s
lied Association

Robert Dannenbaum, manager of
the Thrift-T-Stores, was selected as
president of the Wilmington Elec-
trical Appliance Dealers associa-
ton at a meeting held in the Wood
row Wilson hut yesterday after
noon for the purpose of electing the
first permanent slate of officials.
Other officers chosen were
George D. Conant, Tide Water Pow
er company, vice-president. and
Gardner D. Greer, Macmillan and
Cameron, secretary-treasurer.
The chief decision reached at
the meeting vas that the officers,
together with four other members
to be appointed by the president,
should draw up a constitution as a
guide for the work of the group.
Phases of the proposed constitu-
ton figuring in the discussion are
slated to be included when the
committee presents the first draft
of the bylaws on a date not yet
set.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
Organization Meeting Held
Yesterday At Ameri-
can Legion Home

The final organizational meeting
for the purpose of a detailed check
over of all assignments of the full
New Hanover county committee for
the March of Dimes campaign,
which starts next Wednesday, was
held yesterday in the American
Legion Home with w. K. Rhodes,
Jr., county chairman, presiding.
Rhodes pointed out that while the
quota set for New Hanover county
was $4,000 he felt ure that it's citi-
zens, realizing the desperate need
for money to %replenish the fund
which has been reduced during the
epidemic of last year, would re-
spond generously and over-sub-
scribe the quota.
In developing the committee
movements, Rhodes assigned the
overall direction of the Women's
division to Mrs. Thomas J.. Cause
who will also contact all the Wom-
ems clubs throughout the county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Emory, chairman
of the girls division; Russell H.
Caudill, heading the boys division,
and Father Michael j. O'Keefe,
chairman st. Mary's church divis-
ion, were assigned the duties of
coordinating the younger peoples
efforts, particularly on tag $day
and at the theaters. The three
man committee is to work togeth-
er in developing such activities.
Mrs. Martha Bennett will be in
complete charge of all schools dur
ing the drive, Rhodes said. Assist
ed by the school children, she will
direct the detailed plan which will
take in all the county schools.
Addison. Hewlett, ST., chairman
of the board of county commission
ers, and J.. r. Benson, city man
CONTINUED On Page 2, Col. 6)
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
FIRE HERE STRIKES
TEMPORARY PLANT
FIremen Bring Downtown
Blaze Quickly Under
Control

The temporary quarters of the
Carver Manufacturing company,
located on the fourth floor of the
Maffit building at Princess and
Water streets, were damaged in a
spectacular fire late yesterday
afternoon.
The blaze, which burned through
the fifth story floor of the build
ing, started in a fourth floor closet,
city fire department officials dis
closed. 1t was quickly brought
under control.
The movement of the firetrucks
through the center of town tenn
porarlly brought all traffic to a
slandstill but the normal flow OF
Traffic was resumed shortly there
after.
Fire Chief ]. Luddie Groom, was
III charleston at the time the ACL
station burned there, but did not
see the blaze until after the build.
ing mad been leveled, he said upon
MS return here.
ne declined to comment on the
manage to the Maffit building but
o!c attribute the cause of the blaze
ID ca~relessness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
House
Grant To
Teachers
Chamber In Revolt, Tacks
On Amendment To Ad-
ministration Bill
ADDS $40 PERCENT
Measure Now Goes To Sen.
ate For Concurrence:
Fight Expected

RALEIGH, Jan. 10-(F-
The State House of represent
atives, deeply concerned over
the effect rising costs of liv-
ing have had on school teach
ers and other state employees,
voted Friday to grant emer-
gency salary increases of from
Is to 80 per cent.
The House action came aft
err the Senate had met in a
brief session Friday morning and
passed an acknowledgements
bill calling for a 20 per cent emer-
gency salary increase for the pc
riod from January l, to the end Of
the current fiscial year.
The lower chamber, which had
been expected to follow the Senate's
lead, revolted and tackled On an
amendment introduced by Rep.
Oscar Barker of Durham, and re-
turned the measure to the Senate
for concurrence in the amendment.
Adoption of the amendment,
which followed about two and one
half hours of spirited debate, was
a clear-cut defeat for Governor
Cherry and his administration sup
porters.
Continued On Page 2, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. -U.D-
Bernard M. Baruch, super-advlser
to six U. S. Presidents, said Fri.
day that he was bowling out OF
n,1blic life and henceforth would
s.sit by and let time pass me -
I'm not going to pass time
The tall. white-haired 76-year-old
elder statesman, who likes to hold
court on a park bench, called on
President Truman Friday wh1ie en-
route by plane from his George
town, S. c. estate to New York.
After his visit he was asked why
he recently resigned as the U: s.
representative on the United Ma
lions Atomic Energy commission.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11

|Hurl Charges
OF Trickery
President Declares War On
COP Tax Reduction
Advocates
WOULD REDUCE DEBT
Chief Executive Says He
Can Bring Government i
Out OF Red Soon 7
WASHINGTON Ian

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10
(UP) President Truman
handed Congress a no.
tax-reduction, balanced bud
get for the 1948 fiscal year,
and was challenged immedi-
ately by charges of waste and
trickery from a Republican
majority bent on slashing
taxes and government spend
ing.
In a fortnight budget
message that added up to a declara-
ton of war against the COP tax
cutters, the President said he can
bring the government out of the
red in fiscal 1948 for the first time
since 1890 - if the tax rates are
not reduced.
His budget called for expendi-
lures Of $37, 500, 000, 900 and revenues
of more than $37, ZOO, 900, 900, enabl-
ing a slight reduction in the $685.
900, 900, 900 national debt.
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-11
PRICES NOW
ON WAY DOWN
Nation Wide Survey Indi-
Gates Drop On All
Items Except Coffee

CHICAGO, Jan. TO- (P) - The
American housewife soaring food
budget finally has started down.
For the first time since war ex-
ploded over Europe in 1889, more
retail food prices are being mark
ed down than up, a coast to coast
spot survey of representative cities
showed Friday.
< Butter, which broke sharply on
the Chicago wholesale market and
registered declines on the New
York, San Francisco and Los An
geles markets, was among the
list of major food items falling in
price.
The Atlantic and Pacific Tea
company announced butter prices
would be slashed five cents a pound
in its Chicago and Detroit area
stores and 3 cents in New York
Saturday. Most other cities report
ed a steady decline in butter prices
since December peaks.
Coffee Soaring /.
Food wholesalers in Chicago said
the only major commodity still
showing an upward price trend was
coffee. Price reductions already
have been made at the retail level
in numerous cities on lard, fresh
and canned meats, canned citrus
fruit juices and dried peaches and
dried apples, they added.
Virtually all food industry sourc-
es. said fatty that the day OF
sharp increases in food prices is
over." Many predicted numerous
other declines would be in evidence
when the summer pack of canned
goods comes on the market.