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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27
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WONDER QUESTIONS)
IS THE EARTH QUITE ROUND?

Is LIE n QUITE kOUND!
While we know that the earth
is a ball, we also know that it is
not quite a sphere, but is slightly
flattened at the Poles. The shape
is often described as like that of
an orange, though this is an exag-
geration, tor the flattening is very
slight indeed.
We know in several ways that
the earth is flattened at the Poles.
In the first place, we know that
other heavenly bodies are of this
shape and it is reasonable to sup
pose that our earth is no excep-
ton to the general rule.
Then, we know the earth was
once in a fluid state and has al
ways revolved on its axis, and, in
revolving, any ball that is not alb
solutely rigid will bulge midway
between its poles.
Another proof Of the flattened
shape of the earth is the fact that
as one approaches the Poles the
force of gravitation is found to in
crease. Suppose a huge scale
could be built, with a pound
weight hanging directly over one
of the Poles, and another pound
weight hanging over the Equator.
The n over the Pole would drop.
The reason is that the center o.
the earth. from which the force OF
gravitation acts, is nearer the sur
face at the Poles than it is at the
Equator. The difference is only a
little, but still it is great enough
to be measured by ordinary
scales.
Finally, the flatness is proved
by actual measurement. II the
earth were a perfect sphere, it's
circumference in any direction
would measure the same. A circle
is divided into 800 parts called de-
grees, and degrees On a perfect
ball are equal in length. When the
degrees of latitude on the earth's
surface are measured, they are
found to be longer as we get near
err the Poles.
We know when we have trav-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27
NEW OFFICERS NAMED
r MUNICIPALITIES
LEAGUE AT MEETING

WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, Aug.
2e-Mayor Earl H. Tate OF Lemon.
Yesterday was named the new
president of the North Carolina
League of municipalities.
He vas elected 70 the post to
succeed Mayor Henry I. Powell
of Henderson Other officers were
advanced a notch and n new
one added.
R. M. Cooksey, Thomasville,
city manager, was elected fist
vice-president, and Mayor H. H.
Baxter of Charlotte, named sec.
ond vice-president. The office OF
third vice-president went to May
or George D. Lentz Of Winston
Salem.
Resolutions passed at the clos
ing session of the state three-day
convention here, called for reaf-
firment of home rule for munich
palities and the state to turn over
to municipalities one of every six
cents collected from the state gas
oIine tax.
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The Book OF KNOWLEDGE

eled through n degree Of lati-
tude measured along a meridian
of the earth, for such a distance
causes a difference of one degr-
in the altitude of the Pole Star.
These degrees of latitude are
found. when actually measured, to
vary considerably. At the Equa-
tor a degree is $3.50 miles. and
at the Pole it is $3.50 miles. This
is conclusive proof that the earth
is flattened toward the Poles.
How Did Wedding Rings Begin?
Most people who study the GUS
toms of long ago agree that the
wedding ring was used first in the
days when men used to own their
wives. 1t was customary to put a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27
BY BILL KEZIAH
Star Correspondent

SOUTHPORT, Aug. 26 - Rattle
soakes are about as unfailing as
labor Day. The last Of August
nd first of September finds them
Constantly on the move in search
- winter homes. While the rattle
snak, never does have a cheerful
disnosition he Ear be credited with
bainC especially mean when he is
bonsehunting. Folks who have to
10 in the woods at this season Of
the wear should be on the Lookout
tnr Inc reptiles, especially when
stsnp;ng over fallen logs. Their
coloring blends with wooded sur
ronndings and they are not easily
,aen. Mrs. George B. Ward, of
asn is the first to report n of
tbs fall movers. Saturday night
sbe noticed a big RATHER crawling
su r her yard. Securing a hoe.
Tho proceeded to kill it. the crea-
4',ro was four feet and eight
inches in length and had a nice
solrding off apparatus in the
.bane Of nine rattles.
Clerk o. Court Sam T. Bennett
t.S oeen notified of the exchange
IS me September terms of court
the part of Judge Leo Carr CT
p~nrIington and Judge Henry L..
ctayens of Warsaw. The change
hr;oos Judge Stevens to Southport
tor the September terms, begin
1,no Sept. 2 and 18th. While the
t;rsf term is scheduled to convene
~ the 1st of September. the Clerk
ssys that it will not open until
+be End, as September LIST is La
hor Day. Parties due to attend
oonrt on the 1st need not appear
,,ntil the second, according to the
clerk.
sunerintendent of Schools, j. T.
nennjnq. has purchased the R. I.
MIMI home in Southport and will
n7ove his family there next week.
Major Mintz is moving his family
N Wilmington, where he is now
engaged in the practice Ct law.
T, Sanders, new principle for
tbe Southport school, will move
Nj, family into the Thompson
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chain on a slave to show that he
had an owner. After a time, in.
stead of actually putting anything
like chains On their wives, men
invented something that would
have the same meaning. We now
believe that the wedding ring be-
gan as a symbol meaning that the
wife was the husbands property.
Now it is a symbol Of a husbands
devotion to his wife.
Copyright, 1916. by the Grolier
Society Inc. based upon the Book
Of Knowledge)
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Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW:-From Balloons to
Airships.
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Scribe Says Snakes Unfailing:
Reports One Killed By Woman

apartments, to be vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Denning.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27

harmful fumes. He explained that
the gases or fumes set up by
some fumigants can cause a SER
ious lung condition that often re-
suits in death.
Farmers should be careful
about purchasing fumigants and
insecticides that do not lear !le
Underwriters laboratory SEAL"
Galphin said.
Sprays which have a fire haz-
ard less than kerosene are con-
sidered safe ne added, never
the.ess, a fire extinguisher nearby
provides necessary protection
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apartments, to be vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Denning.
Julian Price Of North West
township, a son-in-law of county
commissioner Stephen Mintz, SUBJ
mitted the low bid for the position
of keeper Of the county home, at
a meeting of the commissioners
this week. Mr.. Mintz will take
over the home on October 1st. He
succeeds Roscoe Rogers, who has
been in charge for the past year.
The large number of churches
now forming the Brunswick Bap-
fist Association now have a full
time missionary for associational
work, in the Rev. George W.
White of Wilmington. For several
weeks Mr.. White has been busy,
proving especially helpful to
churches that are without a regu-
lar pastor. With his family still
residing in Wilmington he plans
to move to some central point in
Brunswick county as soon as he
can locate a suitable nome. He
begins a revival meeting at the
Bolivia Baptist church this week.
Said TO be 1903 years old, "Moth-
er" Violet Ann Monroe died at
her home near Bolivia this past
week. Her husband, Joseph Mon
roe, was a civil war veteran and
died 25-years ago. The aged wom-
an is survived by two daughters,
three sons and a great number
of grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren and great-great-grandchil-
dren.
Contrasting the rather wet
southe astern North Carolina with
Arizona, DR.. Speight Barnes, in
structor in law at the University
of Arizona, in Tuscon, stated to
a newsman this week that they
had only had seven tenths of an
inch of rainfall in the past seven
months. DR.. Barnes and Mrs.
Barnes have been visiting his Sis
ter, Mrs. 3. w. Wells in South
rarf
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27
RETURNS HOME

WHITEVILLE - Miss Mary 10
Cole, Columbus county's 15-year-
old Junior Red Cross representa-
tive at the annual training center
near Covington, Ca, returned to
Whiteville Saturday. Over 200
young people selected by chapters
all over the south attended the
meeting.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27
REGISTRATION A

WHITEVILLE - Friday, Au-
gust 20, has been set aside as
registration day in the schools of
Whiteville Administrative Unit,
it has been announced by Sup. L.
A. Bruton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-27

1t is against the law to picnic
twice on the same spot, or with
in three miles of it, inside Of 30
days, in Nebraska.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

tional campaign for $6,OOO,OOO
which the conference called in the
Joint Defense Appeal to conduct
in order to finance the 1947 pro-
gram of the American Jewish
Committee and the Anti-Defama-
ton League of B'nai Birth.
That campaign is now in pro-
gress. Welfare Funds show a de-
sire for greater participation and
their ALLEGATIONS during 1947 more
nearly represent their rightful
share in the fight to uproot big
otry from the American scene
Most encouraging of the signs in
dicating fuller community coop
Grafton is the fact that communal
leaders have become cognizant o.
the needs of the two defense
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

An outstanding contribution to
the safeguarding Of democratic
rights, upon which the domestic
defense program rests, was made
by the American Jewish Commit
tee before the Presidents Com
mittee on Civil Rights. Testifying
before the Presidents Committee,
DIR. John SlawsOn, AJC Executive
Vice-President, presented a nat
iOnal program for civil liberties.
urging intensive and far-reaching
measures to safeguard civil rights
and lessen group tensions and dis
elimination.
Investigation and exposure of
native anti-Semitic and other hate
mongering groups constituted an
important phase of the AJCs &C
tivities during the year. The Com
mittee played leading part in
exposing the crypto-fascist Co.
lumbians in Atlanta, and other
peddlers of hatred.
Through every channel of public
information, as we'll as through
specialized programs directed t.
industry, labor, veterans, women
youth, educators, clergymen ant
other segments of the population
the AJC attacked anti-Semitism
Stressing the danger of divisiv'
group conflicts to our democracy
it cOOperated continuously will
nOn-sectarian groups and enlisted
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

agencies, more familiar with their
work and more aware of the ne
cessity to support their program.
THE AMERICAN JEWISH
COMMITTEE
Rounding out forty-one years of
service to Jewry, the American
Jewish Committee continued dur
ing the past year to occupy a
foremost position in the struggle
to safeguard Jewish rights in the
critical postwar world.
It's resources were modified to
defend American ideals and insti-
tutions, to help the shattered Jew
ish communities Of Europe in their
reconstruction, to preserve Jewry
as a religious and cultural force
and to champion Jewish rights
throughout the world.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

This course of action followed
mandate of the First National
inference held last January by
IDA, whose theme ''Fighting
On The American
|Ont," attracted to the city of St.
|uis a gathering of $50 COM
lnal leaders from all parts of the
hited States and Canada.
Realizing that fighting anti
|mitism must be accepted every
here as a primary obligation of
|nerican Jewry, the conference
! up machinery to enlist the
tive participation of Jewish
|mmunities. AS a~springboard to
|tion, National Executive Com
|ttee Of so recognized communal
Rders was formed, and a Nat
bal Council, that today comprises
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

more than $50 members, was es-
tablished.
Since their establishment, both
the National Executive Committee
and the National Council have be-
come responsible partners in form
ulating IDA campaign policies and
in determining fair quotas for
each community. They will also
assume the role of helping to de-
eide on the future national goals
required to finance defense &C
tivitieS.
Formation of these two groups
to voice increased communal par
ticipation has given character and
personality to the countrywide
effort. It has also provided a solid
structure to make possible a ma
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12

the services of outstanding public
figures in it's program. The AJC,
through it's Community Service
Department, has provided litera-
ture, information, and other aids
to Jewish community relations
CONTINUED on Page 16)
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12
BY DONALD OBERDORFER

BY DONALD OBERDORFER
Chairman, National Executive
Committee and the National Coun-
Gil of the JOINT DEFENSE APP
PEAL of the American Jewish
Committee and the Anti-Defama-
ton League of B'nai Birth.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12
Natchdogs of Democracy

v;evv of the Program of Action Maintained During the
49, To Combat Ant-Semitism, Safeguard American JeUry
- ro Protect Human Rights.
Evening star., 1947-03-18
Chamber Heads Back
Master Street Plan
For Bethesda District

A master street plan for the busi-
ness district of Bethesda was ap-
proved last night by the Board of
Directors Of the Bethesda Chamber
OF Commerce at the request of the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
Wisconsin avenue, Georgetown
road. East-West highway and Brad
ley boulevard from Wisconsin ave-
nue. to Fairfax road were designated
in the plan as primary" streets OF
100 feet width.
Arlington road, Wilson lane, Leland
street, Hampden lane, Norfolk ave
nue and the proposed extension or
Glenbrook road and Middleton lane
were designated as secondary"
streets of 30 feet width. All other
streets in the business area were
recommended for 60 feet width.
The width is measured from the
building lines.
The park and planning commits
sion recently adopted a regulation
requiring building lines to be at
least so feet from the center of the
street, except in sections where
master street plans have been
adopted.
The board indorsed a proposal of
the Bethesda Public Library Asso-
citation that the area served by the
library be increased to cover all Of
the Bethesda election d1strict, pro-
vided the additional sections desire
library service.
Fifty dollars was donated to the
Evening star., 1947-03-18
Prison 10 Give Snyder
Craftsman Traininq

Fourteen-year-old Bobby Snyder,
sentenced to life imprisonment in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
Saturday for the murder of his fos-
ter father, is being treated as a spe-
cial case at the Maryland Peni-
tentiary, Baltimore, as authorities
study the possibility of transferring
the youth to another institution.
Bobby had talk with Warden
Patrick Brady yesterday and was
assigned to training as a mechani-
cal craftsman. Mr.. Brady said
Bobby showed some talent in drawing
and will make drawings Of objects
manufactured in the prison work
shop.
It told him what we expected of
him and what constituted a good
prisoner" Mr.. Brady said. He
promised to try to do what he
should"
Bobby is the youngest prisoner at
the penitentiary, which includes at
least one other teen-age lifer. Even
at IA, however, Bobby is not the
youngest prisoner ever admitted to
serve a life term. Some years ago
the prison received a colored life
termer even younger, officials said,
Chairman Omar D. Crothers of
the State Board of Corrections said
yesterday it is his personal opinion,
pending a thorough investigation,
that the State Reformatory for
Males at Breathedsville, Washing
ton County, would be more suitable
environment for Bobby.
Before any decision is made, the
young prisoner will undergo psy-
chiatric examination.
In addition to shooting his foster
father, Ross H. Snyder, the boy also
shot and killed his foster mother and
sister at their Jamestown home No.
vember %, according to his own con-
fession. He has been indicted in
the three slayings but was tried only
on the case involving the father.
Evening star., 1947-03-18
Funeral Is Set Thursday
For Mrs. Emma |. Hines

Funeral services for Mrs. Emma
Laura Hines, SO, a lifelong resident
of Washington, who died Sunday
in Doctors Hospital, will be held at
2 pm. Thursday at the Hines fu-
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Rock Greek
Cemetery. y,
Mrs. Hines was the daughter Of
the late John Jacob and Ellen Tur-
ner Gentner. She was the widow: OF
r. Clifford Hines, q pharmacist here
for many years. She was a charter
and life member of the Martha
Chapter No. of the Eastern Star
Surviving are a son, Capt. Clif-
ford 6. Hines, Medical Corps. U. s.
NJ, of 1869 Mintwood place NV; a
grandson. Clifford G. Hines, jr.,
University of Pennsylvania student:
a granddaughter, Miss Rosemary E.
Hines, Stanford University student;
a sister, Mrs. Minnie E. Newcomer
and two brothers, William G.. and
Harry P. Gentner, all of Atlanta.
Evening star., 1947-03-18
EIectronic Rongen Shown Here,
Cooks 'Rodurburqer' in Jiffy

bread baked In % seconds, a meal
Of frozen foods cooked in minutes.
They watched through grillwork in
the front of the oven while a live
lobster was broiled in 21a minutes.
The oven shown was Radarange,
product of the Raytheon Manu-
featuring Co., which produced much
of the radar equipment used during
the war by the Navy. 1t is not sold
but is leased for $50 a month, in
cluding maintenance.
The Radarange is intended for
restaurant, hotel and club use in
short t-order cooking. It's name is de-
rived from the fact the cooking ele-
ment Is a magnetron tube, heart of
radar. It is operated by push but
tons, and is equipped with timer and
signal lights.
The manufacturer plans to pro-
duce models for home use, offering
the prospect of an entire meal
cooked in 5 or 10 minutes.
Evening star., 1947-03-18
House Inquiry Irked
AT Failure 10 Get
AIIis Union Records
sy The Assoeio.sd Press .

MILWAUKEE,, Mar. 18.-Congres-
sional contempt citations will be
asked against two officers Of strik-
ing Local 248, UAW- -CIO, at the
Allis- Chalmers Manufacturing Co..
unless they produce all the locals
records, Representative Owens, Re-
publican, of Illinois, member of a
House labor subcommittee, declared
today.
Mr.. Owens told Linus Lindberg
and Alfred Ladwig, treasurer and
financial secretary OF the union. he
would ask Congress to cite them
after they did not produce the rec
ords at the opening session OF the
subcommittee hearing to deter
mine whether perjury was commit
ted in testimony on labor legislation
at Washington.
At Louisville, KY, where the
JAWS International Executive
Board is in session, Albert E. Glenn,
international representative of Local
248, said last night that the records
will be produced for the committee
Tuesday if it takes 10 trucks to
move them"
Mr.. Lindberg and Mr.. Ladwig
were the first witnesses subpoenaed
as the hearing started at the Fed
eral Building.
Chairman Kersten indicated the
subcommittee would impound all
other CIO records available here.
The House Labor Committee or
dered the investigation to deter
mine whether harold Christoffel and
Robert Buse. honorary president and
president, respectively, of local 24S
at the Allis- Chalmers Manufactur-
ing Co., committed perjury in testi-
flying before the committee that they
were not Communists. Louis Budenz,
one-time Communist Party leader
testified, later that the two were
Communists.
As the hearing opened, head
quarters of Local 248 announced that
Mr.. Buse and other top local officers
had gone to Louisville yesterday to
discuss with international UAW Of
ncers proposals to break the stale
mate which the company now ad-
mits it has caused by refusing to
continue the negotiations with Local
248."
In early testimony Mr.. Lindberg
said he was not and never had been
a communist but admitted he had
attended meetings sponsored by the
Communist Party.
In another development, head
quarters of Local 24S issued state
ment declaring the company's &C
ton in firing Mr.. Christoffel last
week proves without q question OF
doubt" that the subcommittee hear
ings ARE all part Of company
maneuver to smash the union"
Evening star., 1947-03-18

.Electronic cookery Is here-and lit
has no respect for such cherished
symbols of American diet as the hot
dog, the hamburger and the char
coal-broiled steak.
The eager electrons are ready to
provide "radog" or "radarbur-
ger" however, and quickly. Speed
is the prime selling point of the
new technique.
Washington restaurant men saw it
demonstrated last night in the
Pepco auditorium. They watched
a timer placed on top of a compact
electronic oven and saw a radog
cooked in 10 seconds; a radarburger,
in 20 seconds.
Thorough cooking was empha-
sized. 1t was explained the micro
waves dart through every particle
of the dish being cooked-the food
Is evenly done.
The members of the Washington
Restaurant Association saw ginger
Evening star., 1947-03-18
Bates Willing 10 Participate
In Mass Meetinq on Taxes

Chairman Bates of the Fiscal Sub
committee Of the House District
Committee last night sent UP q
trial balloon on q suggested citi-
zens' mass meeting on the big Dis
trict tax program.
"I am not proposing SUCH gen
eral forum debate" he said, but If
the public demands 1t, would be
willing to participate. I am not
urging it, but I wouldn't object"
A night meeting to give citizens
a chance to voice their views was
suggested to him yesterday by one
Of his callers. Mr.. Bates said he
doubted If such q meeting could
agree on any program, but that Ger
tainly there would be "a lot Of argu.
ment." .-..
Evening star., 1947-03-18
Harvey J. Boyle, s., Dies;
Pittsburgh Sports Editor
BY the Assoeioied Press

PITTSBURGH, Mar. l8.-Harvey
J. Boyle, sports editor of the Post
Gazette and nationally known as a
sports writer and columnist, died
today of a heart ailment. Mr.. Boyle,
So, became i'll two weeks ago and
was flown back home from the
Pittsburgh Pirates training camp at
Miami Beach, Fla.
Pennsylvania first boxing COM
missioner, he had served as a COM
missioner for IS years under three
appointments. As q commissioner
he was in direct charge Of the first
Tunney-Dempsey fight in Phila-
delphia in 1926.
Mr.. Boyle had written for Pitts
burgh newspapers since 1912, be-
coming sports editor of the Post
Gazette in 1929. He was popular
for his scholarly style, literally fla
vored with Irish wit.
In one Of his last stories, he told
how the soft persuading talk of Bing
Crosby, in a transcontinental tele-
phone call last month coaxed Hank
Greenberg into finally agreeing to
play for the Pirates. The crooner
Is part owner OF the club. ....
Evening star., 1947-03-18
McNuH 10 Inspect
Middle East Soon
BY The Asseeio.sd Press

MANILA, Mar. 1s-His mission
here virtually complete, Ambassador
Paul v. McNutt leaves this week fol-
significant visits through the trou-
bled Middle East and possibly
Greece to provide President Truman
with first hand report. ...s
Il, Then the former Indiana Coy
ernor will retire to private life,
Intimately connected with the
Philippines in the past 10 years as
high commissioner and as the Unit
ed States first Ambassador, Mr..
McNutt carries portfolio Of treaties
linking the republic and the United
States economically and militarily
for years to come.
Mr.. McNutt does not expect to
arrive in Washington before mid
April. His successor is not expected
to be, named before that time.