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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
MORNING STAR
.BUREATT

WASHINGTON, Feb. ga sec.
ond congressional conference was
tentatively set today for next week
on the proposal submitted by the
State Ports Authority to purchase
the North Carolina Shipbuilding
company's plant at Wilmington.
North Carolina congressional
delegation conferred at the White
House for an hour today with joan
Steelman. assistant to President
Truman, on the pending negotia-
tons involving the shipyard.
However, members of the dele
cation would commit themselves
no further than that they were
hopeful" an agreement might be
reached in regard to the purchase
offer.
No definite date for next weeks
follow-up conference on the subject
was announced.
In the Tar Heel delegation con-
ferring with Steelman were Sena.
tors Clyde R. Hoey and William B.
Umstead and Representative J.
Bayard Clark.
Attending the session also was
/, dmiral w. w. Smith of the United
states Maritime commission
Representative Clark informed
Steelman that he hoped funds
might be made available by the
Government before spring for the
dredging of the Cape Fear river
channel.
He directed Steelman's attention
to the fact that the channel, now
lower than before the a is
steadily filling and should be
dredged without delay.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
Parish Approval Delayed
By Civil Service Board;
Atlantic Storm Raging
CUTTER AT HAND
TO AID VESSEL
Ships Battle High
Seas In Vast Area, Coast
Guard Says

The Coast-Guard cutter "Agas-
siz" arrived off Topsail inlet at !
a. m. today and was arranging to
free the two-master schooner
'sNight Witch" on the first high
tide, Coast Guard headquarters in
Norfolk said.
The "Night Witch" has been
aground off the inlet since early
Wednesday,. The buoy tender Bar
berry, which has been standing by,
was unable to move the schooner
because of insufficient power,
headquarters said, adding that the
ship is not in danger.
Meanwhile, all along the At
lantic Coast sailors fought for their
lives yesterday against their
toughest enemy, the weather as
raging waves and winds made 10
other vessels helpless.
With a freezing northwest wind
whipping through rigging and 25-
feet waves washing over decks,
seamen pumped with frozen
fingers and cursed and prayed
through lips blue from cold as they
battled to keep their vessels afloat.
In a daring rescue operation in
the pitching seas, nine men were
taken from the fishing schooner,
Catherine L. Brown, by the Socony
Vacuum tanker, Calusa, 80 miles
southeast of Cape May, N. J. The
seams in the hull of the fishing
vessel split during the night and
for five hours her crew fought a
losing fight against the water
streaming into the hold. The coast
guard said it was believed she
sank.
Then the Calusa hove to near
by, Unanswered carefully and shot
across lifelines. One by one the
nine men swung across the gap of
water between the two wildly toss
ing ships to safety.
10 Others In Trouble
From Cape Cod to 1.-THE Florida
Keys and as far east as Bermuda,
10 other ships and the men aboard
them fought similar battles. The
!, 814-ton steamer President War
field, SO men aboard, was taken
in tow rs miles off Cape Hatteras,
N. G. She reached Hampton
Roads, Va, safely. A former
Chesapeake Bay steamer, the War
field never was meant for the
open ocean. A day out of Balti-
m o r e., bound for Marseilles,
France, she ran into trouble. The
Coast Guard cutter Cherokee an
.swered the W%arfield's call for help.
The S. S. George, a 5,695-ton
Panamanian freighter, had double
trouble 200 miles northeast of Ber-
muda. First the Georgia lost her
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
OF FIRE
CITED IN ROUTE
City Council Schedules
Public Hearing On Mat
ter Today

Robert Strange, chairman of the
Seventh st. committee opposing
t h e d~iverting of truck traffic to
that thoroughfare, last night call
ed attention to the fire hazard
which may result from gasoline
trucks should this street become a
truck lane
Strange's warning came on the
eve of the city councils meeting
this morning at 10 o'clock, al
which time some definite plans
may be made for handling truck
traffic through the city.
He pointed out that the grand
jury of Mecklenburg county re-
Gently called to the attention of the
Charlotte city council and mayor
the lever present menace TO life
and property by oil tankers
Strange said that Judge Don
Phillips, in commencing the grand
jury for their action said, you
have done your duty about the
matter. If they fail to do theirs
and a great disaster befalls the
citizens of Mecklenburg county.
then it cannot be blamed upon you
and me. They have the authority
to remedy this situation
He said that this was mentioned
only to show how seriously citi-
zens of other North Carolina con
munities feel about the matter.
"Our city has been most fortu-
nate" Strange said. "but can our
luck hold indefinitely. Disaster has
not struck yet and we are doing
all in our power to prevent such
a thing.
1.-THE sacrifice of Seventh St
which will increase the fire hazard
to an unknown degree" must be
prevented. he said.
A protest meeting was held
Tuesday night in Hemenway
school by residents of the area.
More than 200 persons signed a
petition asking the city council not
to divert Third street truck traffic
to Seventh or any other street, but
to provide a route for trucks
around the city.
The meeting this morning will
be held in council chambers in the
city hall.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
new TRUCK LANE
PLAN CRITICIZED
Cameron Urges Use OF
Third Street As Logi-
cal Route

establishment Of a lengthy
,round.the-city truck route would
result in a severe Inconvenience to
,stroleum carriers which would
brine about a serious reduction in
tht traffic of this commodity
through the Port of Wilmington,
Bruce B. Cameron, of Macmillan
and Cameron company, said yes.
terday.
His comment on current efforts
10 establish "a definite lane w a S
siyen in a survey conducted to
determine the attitude of oil ter
minal interests.
II was based on the current oil
distribution situation in North Car
DINA.
Al the present, the Plantation
piue line extends as far north as
Greensboro, moving up from the
south through Spartanburg, Char
lotte and other points.
Most Of the oil companies are
now constructing terminals along
the route and, as soon as they go
into operation will seriously af-
feet oil traffic through Wilmington.
The line is serving a / territory
west of it, all along it and several
miles eastward. Anything done
here to discourage the activities of
the present terminals would be to
the advantage Of the pipe line and
detrimental to Wil.m
Cameron stated.
Should a truck lane be set up
around the city, it would add at
least five miles to present trans
portation routes. This, doubled by
two-way traffic, would in effect
move advantages of use of the
pipe line 10 miles eastward from
the present point, he said.
This l0-mile belt extending
through all Of North Carolina and
a part of South Carolina would in
elude approximately 1000 square
miles of the two states richest
petroleum distribution territory,
Cameron added.
He pointed out that, through the
facts available on one terminal
here it would reduce the volume
Of its traffic by fully Is to 20 per
cent.
Cameron advocated retention of
Third street, with material i'm
provements to the thoroughfare,
Continued OH Page Three, Col. p
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER

Egypt, or in Greece, and yet
there. as in Palestine, there are
no agreed solutions.
The fact is that in the whole
region of the Middle East and
southern Asia, from the eastern
Mediterranean to Malaga. the
British authority is insufficient. 1t
is unable to induce, and certainly
it is unable to impose. solutions
for the historic transition from
empire to independence.
1t is clear that the United
States will be compelled to as
sumo new and unexpected re-
sponsibilities as the British
Empire in Asia .d~issolves, But
how we shall define and how we
Continued on Page Three, Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
PRESIDENT HOLDS
TOP SECRET MEET
Diplomatic And Key Legis-
lative Leaders Gather At
White House

WASHINGTON, Feb. 81. -HH
A top secret conference by Presi'
dent Truman, his diplomatic adj
visers and key legislators stirred
speculation today that some diplo.
matte decision Of world import
might be in the making.
Its Importance was underscored
by the fact that all the conferess
were pledged to secrecy. Nina
congressman, including the repub-
Iican chiefs of the foreign and ap-
preparations committees, we're or.
suited by the President but none
would go beyond an announcement
of Chairman Vandenberg R.-
Mich.) of the. senate foreign rela-
tons committee:
"On the eve Of Secretary (oi
State) Marshall's departure for
Moscow we had a general discus
sion of the European problem which
is involved in the approaching
meeting"
The session, for which Marshall
and his staff will leave March 5,
was arranged to consider the peace
treaty for Germany. But it will be
the first meeting of the foreign
ministers of the United States,
Russia, Britain and France since
Britain's economic plight came to
a head in the industrial shutdown
forced by the coal shortage, lead
ing to some talk that Britain might
be forced to reduce her political
and military commitments.
Any expansion Of American COM
mitments, even though made by
executive decision, would require
funds to carry out. The chairmen
of the senate and house appropri-
ations committees thus would play
an influential role.
The appropriations chairmen al
so will have much to say about the
relief funds the President has re-
quested for liberated countries and
those for the occupied nations
contemplated in the war depart
ment budget but it appeared that
this was not the subject of the
conference. One congressional lead
er said that the recommendations
of Herbert Hoover, who has just
completed his study of relief needs,
were not discussed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
Child Guidance Clinic To
Begin Operating March z
The cath

FORECAST;
North Carolina Increasing cloud
mess Friday, rain Friday night and Sat
urday and in west portion Friday af-
t%ernoon, beginning as sleet or snow.
Eastern Standard Time)
{By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures:
1880 a. m. 80; 7:30 a. m. %; 1880 .. m.
AZ; 1880 p. m. AZ.
Maximum At; Minimum %; Mean 80:
40. l.
Humidity:
1870 a. m. SO; 1870 a. m. So: 100 p. M.
27; 1880 p. m. SO.
Precipitation:
Total since the first of the month -
0. 65 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
HIGH Low
Wilmington 3:18 am. 10:49 am.
$40 pm. 1859 pm.
Inlet 1855 am. 1921 am.
1:12 pm. 7:42 pm.
Sunrise 6:42; Sunset 6;O7; Moonrise
IL :23a; Moonset 1:06a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
m. Thursday, 12.2 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
Diogenes Could Locate
An Honest IMAM" Here

that when she learned that her
husband, Cullen Kegler, was be-
ing held in jail under $1,000 bond
on charges Of %looting automobiles
at Hobbs Tourist Camp on route
II, she returned the suit S he
had given her.
Jessie Mae said that she was in
South Carolina. but when she got
word of his arrest, she came all
the way back to tur.- the suit cases
over to the sheriff. The two hand
bags contained a number of pieces
of Women's and mems clothing
and a camera.
mo, she said. Use honest.
I fetched them back when l
heerd they was hot" she declar-
ed and bowed out of the office.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28

Jessie Mae Kegler probably
never has heard of Diogenes.
And most certainly Diogenes
never had an opportunity to know
Jessie Mae.
However, the two have some
thing in common-if a great gulf
did separate their main detectives
in life.
Diogenes' great ambition so
they say-was to find an honest
person.
Jessie Macs life goal is to full
fill Diogene's ambition. And she
did that very thing yesterday
afternoon in the sheriff's office
when she walked in with two heavi-
ly laden cases of clothes.
She told the sheriff's deputies
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
POSTPONE ACTION
ON POLICE CHIEF
City Council Seeking To Al
ter Existing Law On
Commission

Action on the appointment Of
P. j. Parish as chief OF
the Wilmington police department
postponed by the civil service
commission Z at a meeting last
but indications pointed to q
decision on the matter some time
next week.
The session in the city hall last
night was barred to the public
but DR.. David Murchison, who
presided at the meeting, said that
action would be taken on the
appointment until Parish's physical
condition could be passed on.
Parish is now in James Walker
hospital for examination
and treatment but so far no Of
fetal announcement on the cause
of his illness has been forthcom-
ing. DR.. Murchison last night re-
peated his previous statement that
he was not as yet ready to render
his decision on the reasons for
Parish's sickness.
At last reports Parish was rest
ing comfortably and his condition
deemed satisfactory by attaches
of the hospital.
Members of the commission,
other than DR.. Murchison, declined
to comment on what took place
during the two hour secret session.
Meanwhile, rumors continued
rife on the subject of changes in
the civil service commission act.
The feeling has been expressed
that no amendments would be
made until such time as a dead.
lock occurred between the conn
mission and the city council over
an appointment.
Parish was named to fill the
position vacated by Charles H.
Casteen at a special meeting OF
the city council last week and
since that time it has been known
that the city administration favor
ed a change in the act giving the
governing body of the city the
right to name a man to the post
without the selection being SUBJ
jected to the civil service commits
sion for approval.
This was upheld yesterday when
the minutes of the February "A
council session yer released, with
the record showing that such
changes were desired by the
group.
Continued on Page Three, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
So To Bed

The latest fad sweeping the
city and costing one thin dime
ends by you receiving a neat
Iy folded scrap of paper.
A glance inside reveals the
following message after you've
donated to a worthy cause:
THANK You!
"You have just contributed
10 cents to a worthy cause.
Poor Richards room = mate
must have a key so he will
stop yelling "Open the Door,
Richard"
Now don't fret or whine,
get your dime like I got mine"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28

WIN OUIII-
mission officials about transfer of
the North Carolina Ship Building
GO. yards at Wilmington to the
state port authority.
They also asked that 81, 0OO, 600
appropriated by the last session
OF congress for Improvement of
the Wilmington harbor and chan
nels be made available, the money
has been tied up by executive
order.
We are hopeful" they said.
that eventually a proposition may
be worked out that will take care
OF the needs of the government as
we'll as of the port authority"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28
Delegation Seeks
Funds orHarbor
representative Clark And Senators Hoev
And Umstead Confer In Capital With
Steelman On Developments Here

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-(AP)-Three North Caro-.
lima members NJ ;aoaros Of t iong W;ins today reported progress" in u, eff:
Iohn r. Steelman, presidential assistant and Mar;+;ss w..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-28

Continued on Page Three, Col.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
3-Act Comedy
At High
School April Is

The three-act comedy entitled
Spring Green" by Florence Ryer-
son and Colin Clements, will be pre-
sented at the high school auditor
ium April Is at o'clock by the
Maroon Masque.
This play has to deal with the
problems of a group of teen-agers
of Elmwood The play is full of the
life and romances of the teen-agerS
of our time. The cast has been re-
hearsing for three weeks and work.
ing hard to give the town a good
evening of entertainment.
The cast is as follows: Nina Cas-
sell, Pat Koehne; Mrs. Rumble,
Vivian Meadows; Scoatie Cassell,
Norma Garcia; Mr.. Putnam, Bob
Hathaway; Tony Cassell, Mary
Frances Stevens; Pinkie Ames, Har-
riette Capin; Dunk Doyle, Harry
O'Eagin; Bing Hotchkiss, Gene
Peltier; Genevieve Jones, Evelyn
Stoddard; Major Todd, Karl Peter
son; T. Newton Todd, Roger Smith;
Eula Hotchkiss, Lorraine Karam
Dr.. Luther Blodgett, Leonilo Lar
riva; Officer Ryan, Henry Franklin;
Billy, Albert Consles.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Scouts Start
2-Day Camp
Tonight

Tonight the Boy Scouts of Troops
27 and "a will start two day Cam
Orally to be held at the old polo
grounds just west of Morley avenue,
near Banks Bridge.
At 8 o'clock there will be Court
of Honor at which merit badges will
be awarded to the Scouts who re-
Gently qualified for them. This will
be followed by camp fire program
and there is possibility that a sur
prise package will be handed out al
that time The program will be
fairly short SO that all the boys will
be able to be in bed by taps at 9
o'clock. .t-.
At Z am. Saturday the Scouts
will roll out of their blankets and,
after breakfast cooked in the open,
will spend the rest of the day in
various competitions. Their sched-
ule, and the judges for each event.
| is as follows:
Supper, 6 pm. Friday: Judge Bill
Mangum.
Breakfast, 1880 am. Saturday
Frank Dupuy.
Area inspection, $3.50 am: Col
George Horrall.
First aid, 9 am: DR.. zenas B
Noon.
Uniform and equipment, 10 am;
Ben zweig.
Fire building, 1890 am: w. w
Musgrave.
Fires and fuels, noon: Ruffo Es-
pinosa.
Lunch, 1890 pm: Bob L. Sun
derman.
Knot tying, pm: H. D. Nice.
Special surprise, 2:3O pm: Col
Gil Proctor.
Closing ceremonies will be held al
4:3O pm. at which time ribbons viii
be awarded to the winners of the
various events by Judge Gordon
Farley. After this the boys will
break camp and return to theh
homes.
Ed Stcowell, Boy Scout Executive
from Tucson, will be in charge Of
the events, assisted by Scoutmasteri
Gonzales and Scott of Nogales. Dis
trict Coccissioner Chet RAIDER anc
the Reverend O. A. Smith Were
largely responsible in aiding Stowel
to set up the Camp-O-Rally.
All parents and friends of Scouts
and the public generally have beer
extended cordial invitation to at
tend the Friday night campfire anc
to view Saturday competitions.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11

minute apart.
IT thought someone was up in the
hills hunting, she said.
Undersheriff William LOTUS tes-
titled that he saw Trask's body at
the scene of the killing and nearby
found an empty shell from a 30-30
rifle and that Trask had 357 pis-
tol.
'Kelso Street and I examined the
pistol and found one shot had been
fired. There was. a rifle lying an
arms length from the body and we
found a gunny sack containing, gro
ceries 46 feet from the body. The
ground there was very rocky and
no evidence that another person
had been with the person who shot
Trask." o..
Officer Trask's guns found at the
scene of the shooting, according to
his brother-in-law r. G. Blabon,
were a 3o-30 carbine rifle and a, ,38
Magma pistol
Trask was shot in the back Of the
head Near his body was an empty
Peters 3O-30 shell by a tree where
the assassin who did the shooting
is believed to have stood, and had
apparently used soft nosed bullet
CorOner's Jury
The coroner's jury was made up
of Frank Lamma, Rue Capps, H: K,
Shumake, w. j. Waggoner, M. F.
Ashburn and Ward Franklin.
Born in Tombstone, Feb. 10, 1892.
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Nogales international., 1947-04-11
DR.. Hathaway,
Veterinarian,
Locates Here

Dr.. Howard Hathaway. veterln-
arian, has located in Nogales, with
headquarters at the Nogales Feed
g. Seed Company.
Son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Hath
away of Sunnyside, he is graduate
of Nogales High School and medl-
cal college at FIT. Collins, Colo.
He has been a government veter-
marian for several years and re-
Gently entered private practice.
One of the first from Santa Cruz
County to go overseas, he served
throughout the recent war in Africa
and Italy.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Cancer Drive To
Open Monday

The annual drive for the Ameri-
can Cancer Society will begin on
Monday in Santa Cruz County.
The communities of Elgin, Pata-
gonia and Sonoita will carry on
their own drives and returns will
be sent into headquarters from all
parts of the county.
The members of the Santa Cruz
County Medical Society have volun-
teered to have a representative at
any meeting planned for the pur-
pose of cancer education. Any Or
sanitation interested in having a
program can get details from the
County Commander, Mrs. L. +.
Byars of NogaIes.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Last Rites For
T.. H. Menefee

Last rites were held week ago
yesterday for Crayton Henry Meme
fee, 70, who died suddenly on April
!.
Born in Cloverdale, Calf, and
descendant of a Kentucky family,
he came to Arizona about so years
ago and was a close friend of the
late Mark Smith, pioneer Arizona
statesman.
He is survived by his wife, Annie
l.. Menefee and son Donald, and
two brothers, Lee of Monrovia,
Calf, Bert, Fontana, Calf, and a
sister, Mabel, Monrovia.
AS a young man, Menefee drove
cattle over the old Chisholm Trail
from Texas to Kansas City in the
8O's.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Recent Visitor.
Here Killed !.
In Indiana

william Koehne, about 81, who
visited in Nogales about two weeks
ago, was killed Tuesday while work.
ing on railroad in Indiana. -.
His mother, Mrs. Myra Koehne'
and his sister, Mrs. Robert Sunder-
man of the Border Cafe, left by
plane Tuesday night for Evansville,
Ind, upon receipt of word of the
death:
Koehne was employed on a rail-
road running from Evansville to st.
Louis, Mo.
Besides his mother and sister, he
is survived by another sister, Miss
Patricia Koehne, Nogales; a wife
and son, and three brothers, Her
bert, Indianapolis; Ralph, a student
at the University of Indiana in
Bloomington; and Jack, Evansville.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Death Calls Otto H. Herold, Retired
Nogales Banker, Resident
OF This City Forty-SN Years

day morning at Sacred Heart
Church, followed by interment in
the Marsteller family plot in the
Nogales Cemetery, and just east of
the grave of Mr.. Herold's brother,
City Clerk Phil Herold, who died in
1898.
Pallbearers were Frank Barry,
ST., c. Mignardot, Albert Joffroy,
A.. j. Milliken, Epitacio Paredes, Hi
Dawson, Hugo W. Miller and NAL
colin Little.
MIR. Herold is survived by his wife
(Carmelita Marsteller) whom he
married in 1904, and a brother, Ed
ward Herold Of Seneca, Kansas.
Born in Seneca, Kansas, Nov. 18,
1877, and son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. P.
Herold, he settled at Nogales in
1901, went to work in 1904 as a
bookkeeper and teller at the First
National Bank and eventually be-
came president of the bank on
March /, 1929, a position he held
many years prior to the time it was
acquired by the Valley National
Bank. He retired in June 1945.
Mr.. Herold was a charter member
of both the Elks and the Knights
of Columbus lodges of this city and
member of the Arizona Bankers
Association and the American
Bankers Association. He served two
terms as a member of the Nogales
city council and as an officer of the
Chamber of Commerce.
Although he had been i'll for
sometime, his condition did not be-
come critical until a few weeks ago
and his death came as a great
shock to his host of friends in this
city where he was recognized as one
Of its leading citizens.
To know Otto Herold was to ap-
preciate his many fine qualities that
endeared him to his many friends.
Nogales has lost a valuable citizen
in his death.
Nogales international., 1947-04-11
Two Christened
At Local Church

A double christening took place
Easter Sunday afternoon at st. An
drew's Episcopal Church, with Rev.
j Atkinson officiating when the
ur-month-old daughter of Dr.. and
Mrs. z. B. Noon was christened Syl-
via Gwendolyn, with Mrs. Gwendo-
lyn King and Charles and James
King of Los Angeles as godparents.
The seven -months-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Don Damn was
christened Donna Charlyn and her
godparents were Mrs. Henrietta
Egan and Mr. and Mrs A. j. Mill
ken. Following the ceremony, re-
freshments were served in the par
ish hall.