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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
IN CONSTRUCTION
WORK DATE SET
,kvscraper Headquarters
n Midtown Manhattan
To Cost 81, $4,000

AXE SUCCESS. N. Y, March
p-secretary- General Trygve
y announced today that work
D ',,1d be started on construction
Sot tbe United Nations skyscrapers
n..5ouarters in midtown Manhat
ne'T Nv July / with an initial out.
1 -, Of 1925, 900:
n.y.; advised New York's mayor
sIIiam Z. O'Dwyer by letter thai
bod authorized the expenditure
ne e. moo. 900 for demosition, ex.
u.,stion and related work and that
'si. would get under way within
sl re- also said that $7oo, 900 had
,.sn al~located for drawing, re.
I.,rcb and specifications and that
'.atber $l25, 900 would 60 to the
,nrouph Of Manhattan to cover
wv wv, Of planning alterations along
r rast River Drive, which will bord-
~ tbe headquarters.
Under a speed-up building pro-
ann officials here earlier esti-
sasted that the United Nations
a.',ld move into its new home by
~. end Of next year. Under these
sIsps, a sufficient part would be
.omnleted to handle all except
'"aa.ino Of the 55-nation general
.,sembly by that time. Those ses.
inns would continue at Flushing
y the old Worlds Fair site in
Flushing pending completion of the
entire headquarters.
M estimate has been given as
II the cost of the entire project.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
Member OF Communist
Party Stays Mussolini

ROME, March %. Up The
Italian Communist party today
ii,ntified the slayer of Benito
vpssolini as Walter Audisio, 81, a
bookkeeper and member of the
,rti-Fascist underground, a n d
commended that Italy award
him the highest military honors.
The announcement said that
Audisio. known to the underground
AZ col. Valerio," had killed
vussolini under orders of his
yveriors." 1t said Audisio had
bpen a member of the Communist
prty since 1881.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
Round The Town
With Ben Mel Donald

beiieve it or not, as one we'll
gent that writes a col,,mn
says: "A FOUR DOLLAR RITZ.
d Just come u way. The bill
found by J. A.. Henderson who
Tor a local company out O.
inc Carolina Beach road, this four
dollar bill that Mr.. Henderson
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sends along is
rather a bit torn
~up-antique, one
would say and
lit is written on
[the Commercial
(B a n k of Will
I'm i n 6 ton. The
kdate is obliterat-
led. which brings
|up tie thought,
do any Of you
p e ople remem-
n a ~ Wy l. :
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23

The first Quakers to come te
the United States were Ann Aus.
tin and Mary Fisher, who landed
In Massachusetts, from Barbados
in July, 1856. The two were neld
II prison for five weeks to deter
mine whether or not they were
witches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
BELIEVE IT OR NOT

RICHMOND, KY. W.D - In the
classified section of the Richmond
Daily Register appeared the fol-
lowing: For rent. -Four rooms,
furnished or not. Pasture, garden,
chickens included $25 per month
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might have been issued? This
-FOUR DOLLAR BILL" was ORR
glnally at 408 Central Boulevard.
sunset Park. MI. Henderson also
sent along a n cent piece which
mas been in his possession for a.
number of years-as q matter of
iact' 1t was given to him by his
father, W. D. Henderson. And
by all odd condolences the whole
thlng was turned to me by John
n. Henderson. My! my. This
seems to be a Henderson ia rnily
story.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-23
A LINE OR, TWO:

A LINE OR TWO: The
Reverend Father Michael O'Keefe,
assistant of st. Mary's Roman
Catholic Church on Fifth St., is not
only a versatile orator but before
he joined the priesthood, he was
a drummer of note Mrs.
henry Sampson, over at Acme,
is in the hospital in passing
l would like to mention a birth
day, Kay Shipman was four years
old last Tuesday and her brother.
Elwood, was five years old on
dear old st. Patrick's Day.
Wen, that is about 1t for this
week,
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THISSA N THATTA

THISSA AND THATTA All
those good old days! Just talked
to Paul T. Marshburn, hope you
will notice his cute picture some
where in this column-Anita, YOU
did order his picture, didn't you?
and he certainly looks cute,
doesn't he? Well, anyway, back
with his old friend Joe Sallings.
to our story, Paul T. is shown
In talking with Paul T., I under
stand that Paul T. and Joe Stall
ings originally appeared on WARM
w h i h eventually grew into
WMFD. In those days Paul and
Joe were known as the Carolina
Clipper Club and Paul T. played
the part of Aunt Emmaline" and
one occasion gave an outstanding
recipe for lemon pie and asked
listeners to bring one of their
samples to the radio station. The
listeners, about 1000, brought their
samples and prizes were given
for the best recipes and pies.
1t seems a long time away and
to put it in the words of Paul r.,
Believe it Or not, but Joe sang
an aria from Faust" I think one
Of the best things that Paul T.
told me was that one of his spon-
sors offered to half-sole %anybody's
shoes, and II of the beauty
shops offered permanent waves
and this of course, was all for the
best lemon pie! The whole point
of this story is, of course, is that
we have Paul T., in a very de-
lightful uniform, eh, what?
ROUND ABOUT: Norman Nc
Outlook, informs me that they ex-
pect several new industries in
Elizabethtown in the near future
=. Mrs. Eric Norden is on too
at the Little Symphony. Billy
Willis, son of Mrs. S. A. Willis of
Lumberton, N. c., is now based
at Naval Base, Jacksonville, Fla.
~, roa}tar If foot r hovn
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considerable news about the serv-
ice people this week to wit, Ernest
r. Williamson, seaman, second
class, son of Mrs. Mary S. Will
hanson, of Chadbourn, N. C. is
aboard the ship USS Amphion. E.
Waddell, seaman first class, son
of Mrs. Josephine Weddell of 1015
Wooster St., Wilmington, N. c.
has been assigned to the Naval Air
Station, San Jaun, P. r. Dan Carl
BARLEY, coxswain, son of R. F.
BARLEY of Evergreen, N. C.. is
serving aboard the ship USS Am
phion.
A perfectly swell letter from
Mr.. William Goldburg, Public
Relations Chairman of the Girl
Scout Council Cape Fear Area.
BETWEEN YOU AND ME-
THEY TELL ME THAT Tom
Eagleson has dropped off ten
pounds. Frank Emmert saws.
THE highest golf course in the
U. S. is near Alamogordo, N. M,
at an altitude of 5000 It. Disc
Jockey, and I mean the guy is
good, Eagleson, tells me that
Glocco Morrow, is definitely be-
coming a hit tune. Mrs. D. H.
Bridger of Elizabethtown has Just
returned from Charlotte where
she spent a few days with her
mother who was ill in the Char
lotte Memorial Hospital Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Hussy, of Baden
boro have returned from a grand
trip to Florida 80. when it comes
to parties, Mrs. Oscar L. Clark
OF Clarkton, ear be voted the top
hostess Jimmy Jamison, from
just outside of Whiteville, is now
with the War Assets Administra-
ton A quick line from Car
ver's Creek inviting everyone tc
their pageant there are many
letters for Louie Vaught. His
voice really registered on WMFI
the day Bladen County was salut.
ed. Nestor Boruch, former CHIEF
radio man, has Joined the staff Of
WMFD
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PUBLIC SCHOOL
ACTIVITIES
Senior High School Honor Roll

~
The following students have
done well above average work fol
the second six ;Weeks' period oil
the second semester Of the school
year l946-'47, as released today
by Principal Horace O'Bryant:
3.00AAnne Doughty, Lorraine
Nottage, Aptonica Smith, Nellie
Menendez, Marilyn Bennett, Lois
Winklef.
2.50-Betty Canova, Judy
Doughtry, Giselda Calleja.
2.75-Pauline Hoover, A. c.
Evans, Dale Ellis, Jerry Henriquez,
Richard Wade.
2.6O-vincent Molina, Nancy
Blauvelt, Patsy Harrison, Nancy
Lane, Andre Mumford.
2.50-Nathalie Valdez, Rosemary
Kerr, Galley Sweeting, Gerry AL
bury, Clara Bow Bailey, Rose Ma
RE Pinder, Nancy Pickens, Mary
Elizabeth Weech.
2.40-Flora Granda, Merrill Hill
ton.
2.25-Erasto Perez, Ann We'll
Ions, Louise Dodge, Conchita Va
rela, Jean Olsen, Edna Jean Gard
ner.
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Junior High School Honor Roll

The following students have
done well above average work for
the second six weeks period of
the second semester of the school
year 1946-47, as released today
by Principal Horace O'Bryant:
3.00-James Cooper, Edyth
Hampton.
2.80-Johanna Pickard, Doris
CoWley, Betty Davis, Yvonne Nc
Cardle, Frances Meggs, Lorenzo
Murguia.
2.75-Mae Kaplan.
2.60-Beatrice Demeritt, Mil
lard Solomon, Marlene Zorsky,
Jimmie Butler, Grace Fernandez.
2.50-Lewis Barber, Eleanor
Bruner, Joe Christy.
2.40-David Henriquez, Bill
Saunders, Wayne Mcfarland, Ray
mond Rothfuss, Patsy Johnson,
Charles Wells, Lorraine Bennett,
Fidelio Hernandez, Allene Speer,
Betty Woodbridge.
2.25-Zaida Diaz, Alice Johnson,
Walter Vinson, Jr.
2.20-Jean Bonner, Edward
Bruner, George Cathey, Gail Wal
lace, Nellie Garcia, Betty Thomp-
son, Birmann Klussendorf, James
Pettis, Xavier Sanchez, Betty Con-
ant, Martha Gandolfo, Jay Higgs,
Gail Sweeting, Jay West.
2.O0-Paul Gibson, Shirley Lay
man, Dorothy Miller, Elena Mon
ION, Betsy Ramsey, Becky Greg
Dry, Gary sWatterson, Colleen
Moore, Jose Sanchez, Gerald Her.
nandez, Betty Portmess, Leonard
Salazar, Courtney Sampson, OF
tilee Aguero, Anthony Perez,
Mitchell Appelrouth, Lucilo Con
zalez, Frank Roberts, Clayton
Sims, Anita Fernandez, Manuel
Santa Cruz.
l.8O-Lillian Sawyer, Anne
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Birdwell, Dollie Knowles, Xavier.
Oropeza, Cecile Perez, Exiquio
Vidal, Billy Hartmann, Albert
'Pita, Jacqueline Sheafer, Doris
Tyson, Joan Crusoe, Nellie Diaz,
Harvey johnson, Edwin Overlin,
June Yates.
l.75-Barbara Crusoe, Donald
Kerr, Cynthia Remainder.
i.60--Fay Clark, William j Hill
ton, George Sharp, Gary. Tbpmp-
Son, Sylvia Smith, Raymond
Gwynn, June johnson, Maxine
Miller, Betty Pate, Dolores Perez,
I'alah Tins, Cheri Ann 'Kiebel,
Clements Betancourt, Samuel Mo-
dine, lola Camus, Betty Filler, Sal
ly Goss, Walter Walterson, Ar
mando Henriquez.
1.50-Sylvia Albury, John Jones,
Shirley Papy, Mildred Archer,
Alice Ezell, Antonio Barrera, Rob-
ert Jones, Eugene Roberts, Billy
Raggett, Jimmy O'Neil, Neil Berg
strom, Murphy Gates, Marie Cur
ry, Edward Dial, Dolores Lopez,
Peggie Pinder, Paul Crespo, Nils
Rojas, Richard Roberts, Steven
Battist, Joyce Carnes, Carolyn
Dawson, Homer Herrick.
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Chapter I

THE American public took q
! lively interest in the smalles,
details Of the enterprise Of the
Gun Club. It followed day by day
the discussions Of the committee.
The entire plan Of work reused
the popular excitement to the
highest pitch.
The purely scientific attraction
was suddenly intensified by the
following incident:
We have seen what legions Of
admirers and friends Barbicane's
project had rallied round its au-
thor. There was, however, one
single individual alone in all the
States of the Union who protested
against the attempt Of the Gun
Club.
This persevering enemy the
president Of the Gun Club had
never seen. This rival was man
of science. like Barbicane himself.
Of fiery, daring, and violent
disposition; pure Yankee. His
name was Captain Nicholl; he
lived at Philadelphia.
Now if Barbicane was great
founder of shot, Nicholl was a
greater forger Of plates: the one
cast night and day at Baltimore,
the other forged day and night at
Philadelphia. As soon as ever
Barbioane invented new shot,
Nicholl invented new plate;
each followed current of ideas
essentially opposed to the other.
Which of these two inventors had
the advantage over the other it
was difficult to decide from the
results obtained. BY last accounts,
however. it would seem that the
armor-plate would in the end
have had to give way to the. shot;
nevertheless, there were compe-
tent judges who had their doubts
on the point.
Matters were at this stage, and
victory seemed to rest with the
shot, when the war came to an
end on the very day when Nicholl
had completed a new armor-
plate Of wrought steel. It was a
masterpiece of its Kind, and bid
defiance to all the projectiles in
the world. The captain had it.
conveyed to the Polygon at
Washington, challenging the pres
ldent of the Gun Club to break it.
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| of powder; and surprising Y %
resist that pressure. Il would g.
the less able to support that tenn
| perature; it would melt on quit
ting the Columbiad, and fall back
in a red-hot shower upon tne
heads Of the imprudent specta-
tors.
Barbicane continue his work
without regarding these attacks
CPITE Of all his arguments, how
- ever, Captain Nicholl re-
manned alone in his opinion. Mo-
body listened to him, and he did
not succeed in alternating q single
admirer from the president Of the
Gun Club. 81.
Nicholl. driven into his last en-
trenchments, and not able to- fikht
personally in the cause, resolved
to fight with money. He pub
lished, therefore, in the Rich
mond Inquirer series Of Wagers.
conceived in these terms, and on
an increasing scale:
No. / ($l,0OO).-That the nee
essary funds for the ex-
pertinent Of the Gun
Club will not be forth
coming.
\ No. 2 ($2,0OO) That the OPP
Grafton Of casting a cam
non of 900 feet is imprac-
ticable. and cannot posse
bly, succeed.
No. 3 ($3,OOO) That it is. inn
possible to load the CO.
lunbiad, and that the
pyroxyle will take fire
spontaneously under the
pressure Of the projectile.
No. 4 ($4,O00). That the. CO
lumbiad will burst at the
first fire.
!. No. S $4,000. That the shot
will not travel farther
than six miles, and that
it will fall back again a
few seconds after its dis
charge. 81. Is.
Notwithstanding the ifnpor-
lance of the challenge, on the
18th of May he received sealed
packet containing the following
superbly laconic reply:
Baltimore, October 19.
Done.
"Barbicane."
Ito be continued)
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+; 2.20-Celina Machin, Patsy Rus.
!sell, Bill Albury, Shirley Tiff
Thelma Degler, Winifred Cruz.
2.00-Jack Crouch, Bernard
EKaplan, James Malgrat, Charles
Perez, Clara Armayor, Mayfield
Knowles, Camilla Rodriguez, Lor-
|raine Adams, Nancy Sterling,
Tony Machado, Solita Avila, Mary
Lou CoWley,s Roger Ruhsenberg-
er, Faye Bervaldi, Bill Holmberg,
Joan Knowles, Anne Sawyer,
Jack Smith.
l.80-Robert Miller, George
Carmona, Beverly Parker, Will
liam Freeman, Claude Valdez,
Roy Giles, Richard Howard, Hill
da Diaz. >ss-''-rS' ..s~. y
1.75-Armando Sosa, Lucy
Avila, Clayton Papy, Rose Higgs,
Bobbie Albury, Horacio Castillo,
Henry Gardner, Ernesto Nunez.
1.60-Aleli Bennett, Betty
Cruickshank, Carl Ford, Arthur
Boza, Joe Lowe, Loretta Carbo-
nell, AL Goehring, Ben Saunders,
Billy Stewart.
1.5O-Margaret Curry, Ernest
Salazar, Charles Walker, Jack
Currie, Keith Brown, Brooks
Cathey, Oneal Stirrup.
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70 THE NOON
81 Jules Verne

/ Barbicane, peace having been de-
clared, declined to try the expert
ment.
Nicholl, disguised by this OBJ
stinacy, tried to tempt Barbicane
by Offering him every chance. He
proposed to fix the plate within
two hundred yards of the gun
Barbicane still obstinate in re-
fusal. A hundred yards? Not even
seventy five!
AT fifty thenl" roared the cap
tain through the newspapers. "At
twenty-five yards! and I'll stand
behind!"
Barbicane returned for answer
that, even if Captain Nicholl
would be so good as to stand in
front, he would not fire any more.
Nichon could not clntain him.
self at this reply; threw out hints
of cowardice.
To these insinuations Barbicane
returned no answer; perhaps he
never heard of them, so absorbed
was he in the calculations for his
great enterprise.
When his famous communica-
ton was made to the Gun Club,
the captains wrath passed all
bounds; with his intense jealousy
was mingled a feeling of absolute
impotence. How was he to invent
anything to beat this 90O-feet
Columbiad? What armor plate
could ever resist a projectile of
$4,000 pounds weight? Over
whelmed at first under this vio-
lent shock, he by and by recov-
cred himself, and resolved to
crush the proposal by the weight
of his arguments.
He then violently attacked the
labors of the Gun Club, pub
liShed a number of letters in the
newspapers. endeavored to prove
Barbicane ignorant of the first
principles of gunnery.. He MAIN
tanned that it was absolutely i'm
possible to impress upon any
body whatever velocity of H.
600 yards per second; that even
with such a velocity projectile
of such a weight could not trans
cend the limits of the earth's at
mosphere. Further still, even re-
garding the velocity to be ac-
quired, and granting it to be suf-
ficient. the shell could not resist
the pressure of the gas developed
by the Ignition of 1000, 900 pounds
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Aftermath

Aftermath
The closets. full Of dresses
My wife of shopping thrills,
The store was full of brand new
styles,
My pockets full of bills.
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Prehistoric Pueblo Indian laid
claim to. New Mexico lands long
years before the advent Of the
Navajo and Apache. These semi
nomadic groups are generally re-.
garded as late-comers to the
Southwest.
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Yates, Russell Walls, Norma
Brown, Judy Pellicier, Mildred
Evening star., 1947-09-07

rich soil, but almost no settled in
habitants except a few Spanish or
Portuguese settlements along the
coasts or ths main rivers. Inland
Of these were nomad Indian tribes,
few in numbers and fercely in
tractable to civilization. When
therefore, the development of the
steamship and the railroad made
possible the exploitation Of these
fertile plains and prairies for agri-
culture and stock-raiSing for Euro
pean markets. immigrants could
pour In and settle the country
profitably after the Indian nomads
had been swept away. The story
of our West thus repeated, except
that there was no homestead law
to insure a healthy division of the
land, which tended to fall into the
hands of big ranchmen and farm
proprietors, the bulk Of the settlers
tenants or laborers. That
accounts for the economic and social
problems which beset Argentina,
especially, today. Nevertheless, the
process was basically a successful
one,
Evening star., 1947-09-07

Norway also has paper to offer
and her fishing industry can provide
vital food exports.
Swiss manufacturers are world
famous, notably her watches, but
her exports have been curtailed be-
cause she has been unable to import
enough raw materials, notably coal
Turkey, on the other hand, has
coal that she might export and her
tobacco could help fill a notorious
vacancy in European consumption
Little Greece faces one of the
most difficult problems in Europe
Special assistance from the United
States already has been extended
Her country depends largely on
farming, but only one-fifth Of her
area is arabic. What her pinched
economy can contribute to rehabili-
tation is somewhat uncertain. Per-
haps tobacco and fruit will be i'm
portant. Her merchant feet may
also be restored to pre-war promi-
nence.
sy,s.s,b,A.A ~ She Ae,oeh-ted Press,
Evening star., 1947-09-07

a factor in our foreign policy toward
the strategic and potentially explo-
sive Middle East. Obviously a stake
of this proportion in commodity
vital to both civilian and military
economies is one which implies deep
responsibility on the part of this
Government and on the American
people. Any threat to it's security
IS likewise threat not only to the
investors in the participating COM
panies, but likewise to the Nation S
essential supply of oil.
Clash Unlikely
To some degree, even if slight
British reaction to American oil in
terest in the Middle East may also
be tempered by the considerate con-
duct of this Government and Amer
ican companies toward substantial
British participation in Latin Amer
lean oil development. In accord
with our overall good-neighbor pol
icy we have made no effort to secure
preferential oil rights in Latin
American countries, although dis
elimination toward non-American
participation might have been en-
couraged if we had been engaged in
an uncompromising world oil strug-
gle with Britain.
The neutral zone here discussed,
incidentally, Is not to be confused
with a second similarly gray ter
ritory due west of Kuwait and on
the Iraq-Saudi Arabian border. Oil
rights in this area-roughly dia-
mond shaped and about the same
size as the territory discussed above
are divided between Arabian.
American and the Iraq Petrole-
um Co.
AS far as the Middle East as a
whole is concerned the great proven
oil areas-Iran, Iraq, Bahrein and
Saudi Arabia-are now all in pro-
duction. Promising fringe areas of
the Arabian Peninsula are mostly
under concession except independ-
ent Yemen, where there Is a posi-
bility but not certainty Of further
oil deposits. Turkey. Syria, Pales-
tine and Transjordan have not yet
shown great promise Of oil, and
production thus far IN Egypt has
not developed exciting possibilities.
Evening star., 1947-09-07

countries Of postwar Europe, eco
nomically speaking, is severely
handicapped by the troubles of the
countries around her. She has not
asked for aid from the United
States, but is keeniy interested in
rehabilitation of her neighbors. To
that rehabilitation she can con-
tribute millions of dollars worth of
machinery, notably farm machines
desperately needed by other coun-
tries Of Europe.
Italy Has Export Hopes
Denmark and Fire are both nor
mally food-exporting countries.
Food is one of the keys to re-
Mobilization in hungry Europe. But
the farms in both Ireland and Den
mark are handicapped by lack of
fertilizers, fodder. machinery and
other things which these countries
normally import. Ireland has dis
covered she Is caught In the same
dollar famine squeeze that plaques
England.