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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
COUNTY MAY MEET
STATE WAGE LEVEL
State Welfare Commission
err Meets With Board On
Salary Question

New Hanover county likely will
meet minimum wage requirements
of the state to county employees
but it at least will be another seven
days before the matter is ironed
out ending a disagreement of a
few weeks.
That was indicated last night
following the weekly session Of
the county commissioners.
DR.. Ellen Winston, State Com
missioner of Public Welfare from
Raleigh, appeared before the com
missioners at their invitation at
yesterdays meeting. Her appear
ance followed the return of a 1897
check that had been received by
the county for administrative funds
under the old age assistance and
dependent children's program for
July.
DR.. Winston had asked the re-
turn of the check to the state on
the grounds that the county was
not paying minimum wages under
the Merit system which calls for
salary increases to certain en-
ployes.
At yesterdays meeting, Dr.. Win
ston appeared before the board
members to explain the working
of the Merit system. Commits
sioners and DR.. Winston at the
conclusion of the session indica-
ted the matter could be worked
out and that only formal action
by the board was needed.
That was held in obeyance until
two commissioners not present
could be able to attend and vote
on the matter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26

KANNAPOLIS, Aug. Is --tP-
Dozens of letters and kilograms
were sent to Gov. R. Gregg Cherry
bv citizens of this textile manu-
featuring center today asking that
q place be found in a state mental
hospital for a 14-year-old eplleptlc
Kannapolis girl who has been
housed for three years in an open
air backyard stockade and cage
like rain shelter.
Police Chief I. T. Chapman
said the girls parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. L. Smith, told him they
had tried unsuccessfully to have
their daughter, Maxine, committed
to a state institution.
The case today was the talk OF
the 30, 900 residents of the Kama
polls area. Some expressed indlg-
nation, others shame.
E. Farrell White, Cabarrus
county superintendent of Public
Welfare, said it was the most de-
serving case he had seen since he
took office in 1880. He said ne had
previously written DR.. R. G.
Blackwelder, superintendent OF the
State hospital for Epileptics in
Raleigh.
Yesterday DR.. Blackwelder said
there was nothing he could do.
He said that Maxine is n of
a hundred or so on a waiting list
and that not one more patient
could Be admitted until addition
al buildings are completed this
winter.
w. j. Bullock, superintendent OF
Kannapolis schools, termed the
case "deplorable'. He suggested
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
LAZY CHICKENS

CLEMSON, S. c., Aug. 25.--
P)-Hens are gotting lazy, Pres
ident Les w. Upp told the poul-
trv science associations nation
al meeting here today.
"We have put food in front
of her so she doesn't need her
wings to fly and her legs to
Scratch" Upp said. "We've
trained her to lay and not to
set. We've turned night into
day, winter into spring. We've
balanced the hormones. We've
filled her with disease and then
cut her open to e the reac-
tfon."
The result, said Upp, is a
man-made and controlled ami
NAL.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
Letters elugeG Coz. Cherry
Asking Aid For Epileptic

that temporary buildings could be
erected before this winter. Bul-
lock sale 1T is time for the state
to really do something for the
mentally sick. There has been
enough talk already"
The girls parents said doctors
at Duke hospital had pronounced
her incurable in 1886. Chief Chap
man said the stockade of two-by-
tours was built both for protection
of Maxine and the other members
of her family. He said she alter
nately roams the backyard tear
ing bits of paper, b~attering her
head against the stockade wall and
screaming.
The case came to light several
weeks ago when the parents ask
ed the county welfare board for
aid. The father, a textile worker
who was wounded in the first
World War. said that Maxine has
grown so strong he is barely able
to manage her. His wife and older
daughter are helples to care for
her while he is at work, he adj
oed.
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce here spearheaded the letter
and telegram deluge to the gov
ernor
Maxine's parents said 1--WE love
her SO much, there must be room
for just one more patient"
They said they had never given
up hope even when doctors called
her hopelessly i'll some II years
ago, when she was three years
old.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
DR.. CARL TOWNSEND
SERIOUSLY INJURED
In FALL FROM TREE

RALEIGH, Aug. Is -P)E DR..
Carl M. Townsend, for about u
years pastor of the Hayes-Barton
Baptist church here, fell around
noon today in his back yard from
a pear tree in which he was pick
ing fruit, and sustained serious
injuries.
DR.. Townsend broke his back,
suffered an injury to his spinal
cord, and partial paralysis. At
tending physicians at Rex hospital
termed tonight his condition as
Extremely serious"
DR.. Townsend, a native of Fair
Bluff in Columbus county, is a
graduate of Wake Forest and the
Southern Baptist Theological semi
nary at Louisville. Ky.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
KINSTON LAUNDRY BURNS

KINSTON, Aug. 2o|lH1-Fire de-
stroyed the plant of the Kinston
Laundry company late last night.
Loss was estimated at $50, 900.
Firemen saved the adjacent Har-
vey c. Hines ice cream plant and
warehouse and a score of Negro
dwellings near the laundry on
West Blount street. Firemen said
oil soaked sawdust had caught
fire from an acetelyne torch used
by workmen and had spread rapid
ly over the structure.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
GRAIN

CHICAGO, Aug. 25-P-Rains
in the Midwest created heavy
selling of corn on the Board Of
Trade today. The yellow cereal
broke eight cents, the daily limit,
at times and carried both wheat
and oats down with it.
Wheat closed 1A-2h lower, Sep
TENDER $2.44A IA, all corn con-
tracts closed 8 cents lower, Sep
TENDER $2.28A, and oats were 3k-
3B lower, September $1.06%-R.
Open High Low Close
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
NEW ORLEANS

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 25.-P9-
The average price of middling 15-
16ths inch cotton at ten southern
spot markets today was $3.50 a
bale lower at 1916 cents a pound;
average for the past thirty market
days 35.40. Middling 7-8 inch aver
e 31.59 cents a pound.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
ANGLER O SELF

BOSTON U.H - Casting in the
Charles River with a triple hook,
Walter Harwood, 20, of Roxbury
snagged himself with all three
hooks. He was taken to the hospi-
tai where the hooks - were still
baited with a minnow were re-
moved from his head.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
AQUATIC LAR

SANDUSKY, o. W.R-The Ohio
State University's Research Center
laboratory on Gilbralter Island,
has acquired a 37-foot, specially
built boat for the use as a floating
laboratory on Lake Erie fisheries.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
CASH

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-P>-Wheat:
No. 2 hard 2.46 II; No. 1 hard
2.46 1-4-2.47 IA; No. 2 red ESQ IA.
Corn: No. l yellow 2.47 1-2-2.48
H. No. 2, 2.46-2.47. No. 3, 2.45
3-4-2.47; No. 5, 2.37; sample grade
2.18 1-2-2.30; No. l white 2.85; No.
2 white 2.80. Oats: No. l heavy
mixed 1.12-1.12 3-4; No. 1 heavy
white 1.12-1.12 3-4; No. 1 white
1.10-1.10 IL; No. 2 white 1.10-
Ito 1-2. Barley: mailing 2.48;
feed 1.60-1.75. Rye: No. 2 grade
2.55. Soybeans: No. 2 yellow 3.05-
80.
Field seed per hundredweight:
Timothy 4%.00-4.25; red top II. so
13. 90.
Belgium has an area of II, 700
square miles, and has 5000 miles
of modern railroads and $500
miles of suburban railroads.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
STOCKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

NEW YORK, Aug. Is R =
Sales. closing price and net changt
of the fifteen most active SOCK
today.
Packard 20, 300 4B-A:
Am Wooden 15,4O0 45%-2A.
Pepsi-Cola 10, ZOO 3OA-1%.
Curtiss-Wright 1900 5A no.
U S Steel $500 69B-1A.
Int Tel and Tel 7,400 1OA-A.
Int Nickel Can 1900 28B-1.
Gen Motors 7,100 57B-l%.
Rexall Drug 100 IL.
United Corp $500 3-h:
West Elec $500 27B-b.
Sinclair Oil 5000 16-A.
Penn RR 5000 18k-h.
Am Safety Raj $500 l0-%.
Illinois Cent $500 25-1B.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
MEN MAN RISES

LEWISTOWN, Pa. U.H-Women
drivers have given the buses back
to the men. Four women who drove
since 1911 recently made their last
runs. The company employed a
total of Is women during the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26

1877. 43. month ago 1888, year ago
145. 70. mi.
1947 1916 1915 1914
High 1856 1872 1921 1898
Low l64.O5 1902 107.90 106.03
Q926 average equals 1000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
NEW O

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 25-P)-
Spot cotton closed steady $500 a
bale lower today. Sales 2,018. Low
middling 1925. middling 1925,
good middling 1895. Receipts
none: stock LOAF.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
NEW ORLEANS COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 25-N9-
Cotton futures declined here today
under long liquidation and increas-
ed hedge selling. Closing prices
were barely steady $1.o5 to s2.oo
a hala 1nx1ar
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26

NEW YORK, Aug. 25-The Asso-
ciated Press weighted wholesale
price index of IS commodities to-
lday declined T. 1852,
Previous day 1878, week aso.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26

Ruins of Christian structures or
the Isle of Man cate from the
fifth century,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-26
SPOTS
TREND OF STAPLE PRICES

CHARLOTTE, Aug. Is. - @ -
Spot cotton 33.15.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
GOLD WAVE HITS
 JUNEAU SECTION

Lowest temperatures recorded at 7:30 a. m. today on the Federal Building in Juneau was zero. Ac- cording to Claude V. Brown. the meteorologist in charge of the local U. s. Weather Bureau office, this is the coldest minimum recorded in the last half of January since 1917, when minus IT was recorded on January 30.
 Zero degree was also recorded on December IA and IS last year. The lowest January temperature on record is minus Is. which occurred on January 20, 1916. This is also the lowest temperature ever record ed in Juneau.
 At the airport, zero degree was also recorded at 7:30 a. m. but dropped further to minus five at 10 a. m. A temperature of minus seven was recorded at the airport December II, l946
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
Al Capone
 Dies, Miami
Once We eaIthy Mobster Passes Away PenniIess
 Man, Says Attorney

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 27.-- The body of Al Capone, once fab- ulously wealthy Chicago gang lead CT whose attorney said he died broke, lay in a mortuary here to- day, waiting completion of plans for the funeral here later this week.
 Dr. Kenneth Phillips, who attend ed Capone for several years and was with the 48-year-old ex-mob- ster when he died in his 25-room villa on nearby Palm Island Satur- day, said the final rites would be held here. Other information, he added, must come from the family.
 In Los Angeles Capone's attor- ney, Abraham Teitelbaum, said as far as he knew Al left no will and no money The lawyer said that members of Capones family had supported him in recent years, and the villa was "mortgaged to the hilt."
 Federal officials once estimated Capone's fortune at S20,000, ,0cO, but, Teitelbaum said, Al still owed the government money when he died"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
MICKEY ROONEY, WIFE ARE GOING
 TO LIVE APART

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. 27.-- Mrs E. M Rase, mother of Mrs Mickey Rooney, confirmed reports that the motion picture actor and her daughter have agreed to live apart
 Mrs. Rase saiG Mickey Jr., Is months, and Timothy, born here three weeks ago, would remain ih Birmingham with their mother
 Nothing else has been settled and no legal action has been taken, Mrs. Rase said. Property settlement discussions are under way"
 Mrs. Rooney, who won a Miss Birmingham contest in 1914 and represented this city at the Atlantic City beauty pageant. met Rooney at movie theater here when the actor was stationed at Camp Sibert Ala, and they were married week later, on Sept. 30, 1944.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
CONVICTED WIFE. SLAYER, TRU5TY IN PRH0N,D ,DiSAppEARS

SEATTLE, Jan 27.--A state- wide search was under way today for Everett Frank Lindsay. 59-year-old convicted wife slayer, who walked away from the Washington State penitentiary at Walla Walla yes- terday
 Warden Tom Smith said Lindsay, trusty employed as cook in the Warden's household, walked away rom the prison after being releas- ed from his cell to go to his job
 Lindsay killed his wife, Mrs. Aud rey Elizabeth Lindsay, in their West Seattle home in February, 1930, then fled to Oakland, Calf, with a young adopted daughter, Pearl He was captured in Los Angeles nearly two years later after world wide search and convicted of second degree murder.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
GRACE MOORE. IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
Sweden 5 Prince Gustaf Adolf Also Victim Same
 ACCidene at Weekend
(BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

tB1 IhE hSoOl1AlES fhEoo'
 Airplane crashes at home and abroad over the weekend caused the deaths of 54 persons, including the American soprano Grace Moore and Sweden's Prince Gustaf Adolf.
 In China, search planes were sent out today (Monday) to find Chi nese National Aviation Corp. pas senger plane missing since Mon day on a flight from Canton to Chungking. The Chinese Central News Agency once reported the plane had. been found, with IS aboard dead, but later said the report was incorrect, based on mistranslation of a coded message from it's Chungking bureau.
 Miss Moore and the Prince were among g persons killed at Copen- hagen, Denmark, when a Royal Dutch (KLM) plane crashed and burned yesterday Sunday at it's takeoff for Sweden.
 That was the costliest of the weekend crashes.
 From IT to 21 persons were re- ported aboard a Chinese National Corporation plane missing on a flight from Hongkong to Chung king, China
 The four crew members were kill ed and s2,00O,000 cargo of gold bullion and coins was scattered when another plane crashed into a peak on the island of Hong Kong, off the China coast.
 On, Saturday, 12 persons died in crash at London's Croydon air port
 In the United States, five men were killed when a seven-place pri- vate plane carrying them from a district sales managers meeting of the U. s. Machine Corp, at Leban- on, Ind, crashed near Rensselaer,, Ind.
 Two persons were killed in each of four other plane acidents, near Tipton, Okla, Darlington, Wis, Taneytown, Md, and Westmoreland, Kas., the latter crash occurring while the plane was on spotting duty for the Pottawatomie County coyote hunt.
 A Purdue University student was killed in crash near Rochester. Ind; Wales Center, N. Y, man was killed when his small plane fell near there, and one man was killed and another injured in a crash near Conway, s. c.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
"pEACE STATUTE" ON GERMANY GETS
 RISE FROM RUSSIA
Diplomatic Cold Shoulder Turned 10 Proposal
 Made by U. 5.
By JACK SMITH

LONDON, Jan. 27.-Russia turn ed a diplomatic cold shoulder to- day on an informal American sug- gestion that the Allies impose an unconventional peace statute" on Germany. foregoing a formal peace treaty.
 Ignoring the suggestion, So- viet memorandum to the western members of the four-power deputy foreign ministers conference pro- posed instead that the major pow CTS draft formal treaty, sponsor peace conference to approve it, and then submit it for ratification to the German state"
 Under the Soviet plan, the coun- cil Of foreign ministers would write the final treaty text after hearing suggestions at an international con- ference of active belligerents. The plan would be submitted to Allied nations who declared war but did not put forces in the field, Then it would go to the German state.
 The Soviet note said peace conference should be called only when a central government is es- tablished which is recognized as suitable to accept" a treaty
 American sources said clarifi- cation of the memorandum would be sought.
 Poland and Greece, appearing be- fore the deputies German and Austrian sections, made their ap- peals today for separations and peace guarantees.
 Poland estimated her material losses alone at $ll, 00,C00,000, or 36 percent of the substance of our material wealth.
 Polish spokesman Stefan Wier- blowski renewed Poland's claim to 10000 square miles of prewar Ger man territory along the Oder and Neisse Rivers. The Poles, admin istering the region under the Pots- dam agreement, have had "consid- cradle success" there already. Wier- blowsEi said, lin the field of economic and cultural life"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
LEGISLATORS HERE

Five members of the Territorial Legislature arrived ill Juneau and registered at the Baranof Hotel on Saturday, and one on Sunday. They were Senator N. R. Doc Walker from Ketchikan, Senator and Mrs. Frank Peratrovich from Klawock Senator Edward D. Coffey from Anchorage, Senator and Mrs. E. 5. Collins from Fairbanks. Represen- tative James Nolan and wife from Wrangell, Representative c. D. An derson and wife from Nome, and Representative Lawrence Meath and wife from Fairbanks.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
"Just Too Damn Gold at Fairbanks" Says Pi. Hope Eskimo

FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Jan. 27.- The mercury skidded to 62 degrees below zero this weekend. and to at least one Eskimo, it was in his words, just too damn cold"
 Newsmen interviewed Private First Glass Augustus Kowunna, native of Point Hope, Alaska, several hundred miles north of Fairbanks. Kowunna, who has charge of Air Force dog teams at Ladd Field, de- clared at Point Hope 1t seldom gets colder than 35 below zero. The Eskimo said that when his enlist ment expires he plans to go home where it's warm. Said .Kowunna: I've had enoughl"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
MARKET FIxER5
 HEAVILY FINED

NEW YORK. Jan. 27-Federal Judge Alfred c. Coxe imposed a fine of $25.000 against the Dairy mems League Cooperative Associa- ton and fines of $l,00o each against four officers of the Association to- day after they entered guilty pleas to a criminal information charging manipulation of the New York but ter market to fix the January, i947, milk price.
 The individuals named were Hen ry Rathbun, President of the Asso- ciation, and three members of the executive committee of it's board of directors. Leon H. Chapin, Hedley Benson and Herbert Seeley.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
KENNEY WARNS OF AIR ATTACK
 ACROSS ARCTIC
U. 5. First Target of Future War, Strategic Air Com
 mand Chief Says
By DEWITT MACKENZIE An Foreign Affairs Analyst

General George c. Kenny, Chief of the Strategic Air Command at Andrews Field, Md, tells us that in a future war our United States would be the first target and would be reached by trans-Polar assault which might result in casualty list of 25,OOO,000 men, women and children in the first 24 hours"
 The General thus bluntly advised the Women's Patriotic Conference on Defense yesterday in Washing ton. He asserted that, above all, the enemy would strive for quick knockout, the attack coming over the shortest air routes from the European -Asiatic land mass, across the North Polar basin.
 Apropos of this, it's less than four months ago that the Pacusan Dreamboat the giant B-29 of the U. s. Army Air Forces flew non stop from Honolulu over the Arctic to Cairo General Carl Spaatz, AAF' Commander, stated at the time that this proved the feasibility of flight across the Polar wastes
 Kenny said the attack would be made by both piloted and pilotless aircraft, by radio-controlled mis- siles, by rockets-all loaded with atomic bombs, super-explosives, su- per-incendiaries, bacterial weapons or whatever means of mass destruc- ton happens to be in vogue at the time" Just to make sure that he got his idea home, the General add cd that -four atomic bombs of the old Hiroshima -Nagasaki type, prop erly placed, would knock New York City out of commission.
 That's strong mustard, and ob- viously is so intended by General Kenney. He has deliberately eN- phasized one of the gravest dang CTS of the day-the development of another global conflict which would bring into play not only the atomic bomb but any other fearsome agents of death which have been created since the close of World War II. His purpose naturally is to spur the minds of men to advise ways of averting such catastrophe.
 There are two ways of meeting this menace. One is to prepare mighty defenses to try to ward off attack. The other is to pul'h through measures for control of the atomic bomb and for universal disarmament. Pending disarma- ment, preparedness must be the watch-word
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
MYSTERIOUS DEATH; WOMAN IS SOUGHT

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 27.-Police said today they were seeking dark haired woman for questioning in connection with the mysterious death of Paul DiGenovario, 46, father of five children, who was found dead in a room in the hotel Normandie.
 Police said Frank Hudson, night clerk at the hotel, told them Di- Genovario and the woman regis tered about a. m. yeserday Eight hours later Helen Borden, 40, a maid, found the body sprawled on
 one of the twin beds in the room
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
Steamers Cordova,
 Lakina 10 Be Sold


 SEATTLE. Jan. 27.-The veter- an Alaska Steamship Co.,, vessels Cordova and Lakina, communicated by the government during the war, soon will be returned to the com pany and sold, it was announced over the weekend.
 The Cordova was built in 1912; the Lakina in 1913.
 The company also will receive the steamship Victoria, now moored here.
 The company will return to the Maritime Commission the freighter Oduna, and the Glove Hitch, both to be tied up at Olympia, and the Santa Cruz and the Cape Victory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
The W Washington Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - If Congress really wants to cut the budget, the boys on Capitol Hill might scru- tinize certain operations going on almost under their noses in South ern Maryland
 Directly south of Washington near Solomons Island, Md, the Navy operated an important war time ordnance development center. About 19,000 men were stationed there during the war and some of the Nays most important guns were tested out near Solomon's Is- land.
 Just half mile on the other side of Solomon's. the Navy also operated another important estab- lishment-a mine test base
 Came the end of the war and last August, the Navy decided to aban- don the mine test base but continue the ordnance development center as a permanent operation. So it started to tear down buildings, clear land and to construct permanent officers quarters for the ordnance center.
 Then two months later the Navy changed its mind. In October, it decided to reverse the process and make the mine test center perman- ent, abandoning the ordnance devel- opment center.
 Accordingly. the Navy signed a contract with the Burns Construc-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-27
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Jan. Enclosing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5h American Can 95, Anaconda 39k. Curtiss- Wright 6, International Harvester 72l2, Ken necott 47 New York Central 19, Northern Pacific l7h, U s. Steel 727S, Pound S403.
 Sales today were 100000 shares.
 Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials l7728, rails 4946, utilities 3636.