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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
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National ScoUrqe

National ScoUrge
Fire last year did 56l million dol
lars in damage throughout the nation.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers estimates the 1947 fire losses
are % per cent above the correspond
ing period in 1916.
With the start of Fire Prevention
Week this Sunday, the eyes of fire
fighters were on a Texas experiment
to produce rain with dry ice in an
effort to extinguish nearly 100 forest
fires sweeping four east Texas
counties.
One such attempt failed. A pilot
dropped between 25 and so pounds OF
dry ice on a cloud and succeeded IN
lowering it 1900 feet but it did not
produce any rain. The Texas forestry
fire chief said atmospheric conditions
were not right and that more at
tempts would be made.
New York City experienced its
worst pier fire in history when Isl
firemen were injured battling blaze
which did $5,000,000 damage. Care
lessness was believed the cause.
In Pelham Manor, N. Y, magni-
fving glass which 11-year-old John
Lydgate used to examine his rare
coin collection was blamed for a
$4,000 fire in his fathers home. Fire
authorities said the glass fell from
a third floor window, landing in a
position to focus the suns rays on dry
cedar shingles.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
NATION: Crime & Punishment

In Pikeville, Ky, this week a cir
cult judge sentenced to life imprison-
ment 13-year-old Crawford Casebolt,
convicted of armed robbery - the
minimum sentence for such crime
under Kentucky law.
The seventh-grade schoolboy will
enter Greenvale reform school Mon
day. After eight years, when he is
81, he is to be transferred to La
Grange Penitentiary "to spend the
rest of his life at hard labor"
Public Furore
The case was given wide publicity
and several out-of-state individuals
are trying to get the youth admitted
to Father Flanagan's Boys Town, Neb.
Commenting on severity of the SEN
tence, Harry H. Wilson, Kentucky's
deputy welfare commissioner, said the
boy would be eligible for parole any
time after nine months service at the
reformatory.
The schoolboy, with two older COM
panions, Homer Zimmerman, 19, and
Mark Smith, %, was convicted of
robbing motorist of his car, watch
and $4.84 in cash.
The boy, who had no previous
criminal record, testified he wanted
to leave home and needed money. He
said he had stolen the pistol from his
parents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Germany
Postwar Jitters

U. S. Army maneuvers in the
American-occupied zone of Germany
have set off widespread rumors
among the Herrenvolk of an impend-
ing new war-a subject which Ger
mans often discuss privately.
The Army broadcast that the Ger
mans must halt all traffic and leave
the streets when they hear air raid
sirens-the same alarms that warned
them Allied bombers were coming.
Both in Stuttgart and Frankfurt,
many Germans were reported inspect
ing their cellars, packing emergency
kits and spreading wildly-erroneous
stories about massing of troops.
Meanwhile the bizonal economics
council of the British and American
zones adopted a drastic law confscat-
ing the entire potato crop to combat
the potato shortage caused by last
summers drought.
Under the law, farmers may retain
only small portion of their crops
for seed and personal use. The re-
mainder must be turned in for dis
tribution through rationing channels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Public Responsibility

The Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton reports that crime in the first
six months of 1947 was up rs per
cent in rural areas and down 23 per
cent in cities and towns, compared
with the same period of 1916.
With the exception of auto thefts,
which decreased 20 per cent, other
major crimes increased nearly per
cent
The FBI didn't give the totals for
the whole country.
Speaking to graduates of the FBI's
National Academy, j. Edgar Hoover,
director, said public Indifference to
crime and criminals must be over
come if law enforcement agencies are
to attain maximum efficiency.
He mentioned gambling and sex
offenses as two types of crime fire.
quently going unreported by those
having information
With respect to sex offenses, the
FBI director said:
Even if prosecution is successful,
it invariably is only stopgag be-
cause some judge may grant proba-
ton or some soft-headed parole board
will grant a release, or kind-hearted
but expedient governor may grant a
pardon"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
FOOD: Europe Looks TO u. S.

Doth Republican and Demo-
- cratic support appeared In
ing up this week behind President
Truman's plan to have four key
legislative committees consider a
S500,000,O00 stopgap fund for win
ter aid to Europe before deciding
whether to call special session of
Congress this fall.
The not potato of a special session
was dropped squarely into the laps
OF the House and Senate Foreign Re-
lations and Appropriations Commit
tees. Ii these Republcan-dominate
standing committees request it, Mr..
Truman indicated, he will reconvene
Congress. Ii they turn thumbs down,
special session would do no good.
Two Problems
At a special White House confer
ence early this week the President
told Congressional leaders there were
two problems
The first is the long range problem
embodied in the Marshall plan for re-
habilitating 16 European nations,
which Congress could handle at the
regular session in January The sec
ond is short range plan for emer-
gency aid to tide these countries over
the winter.
The White House said bluntly that
unless fuel and food were provided
this winter for France, Italy, Austria
and some other nations there would
be no point to even considering the
long range Marshall plan, because
some of these key countries would
have collapsed by spring.
England is not included in the stop
gap program.
The bipartisan leadership ex-
pressed no opposition in advance to
the short range plan but they indi-
Gated that when floor debate started
it Undoubtedly would be centered on
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Freedom Train
Clearing the Tracks

The honor guard of U. S. Marines
aboard the Freedom Train found
Americans would not rush quickly
past such historic documents as the
Declaration of Independence, the Bill
0f Rights ana the Constitution; they
wanted to study them bit.
In Philadelphia and New York
CFy, where the Jear-long nationwide
tour started, crowds of $4,000 and Co.
OOO lined up to see the treasures but
only about 10000 daily could be ac-
fommodated.
The American Heritage Foundation
tFoSSed bridge this week long be-
lore its sponsored Freedom Train
would come to it on its 33, ,100-mlle
tour Of some 300 cities. 1t announced,
Lpy unanimous vote of its board OF
EuStees, that there would be no seq
Eegatlon on the basis of race, creed
Or . color at any exhibition of the Free
uom Train anywhere.
Any other course was unthlnk-
sole, said Winthrop w. Aldrich,
poard chairman of the foundation. ut
. our firm, determination that the
american Heritage program shall be
r s3i hstrumentality for strengthening
NE freedoms and liberties of all
americans"
We believe that the overwhelming
nIass OF Americans in all sections of
s ele country will support this posi-
Inc non-profit foundation was
,oImed no, by labor, industrial, frater-
tIai' CIVIC and educational groups fol-
.o"lng q conference on citizenship
p+oplems at the White House.
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ence, Secretary Marshalls plan for
little assembly" and the veto.
Some officials predict an increas-
ingly violent anti-American campaign
by Russian diplomats, press and radio.
One diplomatic official said he be-
heved the Russians had given up hope
OF winning favor from the American
public and would concentrate now on
trying to discredit the US. in the
Soviet Union and abroad.
About Campaign
The "war mongering" accusations
against nine Americans by Andrei Y.
Vishinsky, deputy Soviet foreign min
lister, before the international assem-
bly, are viewed as part of that cam
paign.
So, too, is the attack on President
Truman by Russian magazine which
compared him with Hitler. The same
magazine also published a detailed
article about Secretary of State
George C. Marshall under the title
"Shylock from Wall Street."
Russia rejected formal American
protest to disavow the attacks and, in
his reply, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav
M. Molotov harshly denounced the
American press for Lying and SLAM
derous articles about Russia and her
statesmen"
Some Washington officials seeking
an explanation for the new Soviet at
titude feel the Kremlin may have
given the go ahead for an unprece-
dented campaign against the us. to
divert attention of the Russian people
from serious economic conditions
within their own country.
No Visas to Senate
The Russian foreign Office also this
week refused to permit members of
the Senate Appropriations Committee
to enter Russia to visit the us. en-
bassy in Moscow. The committee,
headed by Sen. Styles Bridges (R.-
N.H.), is about to embark on Euro
pean inspection trip.
Sen. Bridges said the refusal
meant, to him, that the Russians want
mo disclosure of true facts to emanate
from behind their iron curtain"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
HaIsey
All Wet, Say Methodists

All well ooy Me1nOolSTS
The Methodist Board of Temper
ance leveled its 16-inch guns this
week at Adm. William F. (BulD
Halsey for saying that GAS a general
rule, never trust a fighting man
who doesn't smoke or drink"
The Board retorted that drinking
makes men fight Gin thousands of
saloons every day, but we never knew
it to make anyone fight better"
Many of the greatest military men
the world produced have been dry,
the Methodists said, listing Sgt.
Alvin York, Jimmy Doolittle, Robert
E. Lee, Jeb Stuart and Stonewall
Jackson, who "feared whiskey more
than bullets
Perhaps" said the Board, "the ad-
miral would not trust these men,"
Criticize Leyte Tactics
The Methodist broadside recalled
that there had been widespread,
although behind criticism"
of Halsey strategy as Third Fleet
commander in the Battle of Leyte. 1t
said that Halsey decided to leave San
Bernardino unguarded and take his
fleet northward-"exactly what the
Japanese wanted him to do.''
For all they know, the Methodists
said, the admiral was drinking
only coffee at the time.
'We do know" the Board con-
tinued, 'that the man who was
tricked into doing what the Japanese
wanted him to do, was not the man
who so accurately and brilliantly
assessed the situation when he advised
the immediate invasion of Leyte, who
conceived the sweep of the China
Sea, who executed the devastating
strikes on the Philippines"
Halsey, whose reflections on liquor
in a recent series of magazine articles,
brought on the Methodist blast, didn't
have even one shot in rebuttal. The
old sea dog, now retired, who roared
louder at the foe than his 16-inch
rifles, said meekly in San Francisco,
"No comment"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Hot Shots

q GIFT HORSES . Maynard Dow
ell, Chicago executive, who gave away
13 horses last month because he was
too busy to enjoy them, bought pony
this week and gave it away. One of
the 18 gift horses proved too frisky
for its new owner, a 10-year-old Grip
pied lad, so Dowell bought a gentle
pony for him and gave the frisky colt
to an older boy. His original gift offer
brought more than $4,000 applications.
0 COLLECTIVE is RIGHT! . Tass,
Soviet news agency, reports quintup-
lets-three boys and two girls-born
to a woman on a collective farm in
the Buriat Mongolian Republic, ST.
IBERIA. 1t says all five are developing
normally and the young mother is in
good health.
0 SEEING EYE DOG . Topper, a
wire-haired TERROR, was flown from
Detroit to Washington animal hospi-
tai for an operation to remove cata-
ract from his eye. At last report, he
was doing nicely"
O TRAILBLAZER 0 In Hampton
Lovett, Eng, German prisoner Of
war was married this week and then
posed with his British bride and their
five-months-ol daughter. Birth of
their child resulted in 12-months pris-
on term for the German for "consort-
ing'' with an English girl The case
was widely publicized and resulted in
a change in British law enabling Ger
man prisoners to marry English girls.
After the wedding, the bridegroom re-
turned to a prisoner of war camp
while the bride and daughter went
to a little town nearby where the
couple has small apartment.
Q POSTHASTE 0 A postcard mailed
in Boston AZ years ago was delivered
in Rome, N. Y, to the widow of the
addressed The worn and yellowed
card, with a Mckinley stamp, had
been caught in hotel chute It bore
this message: ARRIVED at nine last
night. Sail at 10 tf.is morning on the
Admiral Dewey"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05

Good Earth

American farmers are harvesting
another bumper crop Gall but corn)
but this fall with their jeans heavy
with folding money many farmer
worriedly gauges the wind. For wind
and drought are among the farmers
worst enemies, especially in the rich
grain and cattle grazing belts.
Fall winds are whirling the good
earth from Missouri Valley farms, re-
ported an Agricultural Department
official this week in another periodic
warning about the danger of recur-
ring dust bowls.
Meanwhile a practical demonstra-
tion on how to beat erosion was
staged by the U. S. Soil Conservation
Service in cooperation with the Lick
ing County, Ohio, Soil Conservation
district, at Brownsville, little vii
lage of 200, 40 miles east of Columbus
In one day, 208 acres of over
farmed and eroded hill land were
restored, so far as science could do it,
to the condition in which the pioneers
found it centuries ago.
Five hundred men did the actual
work, 400 of them GI trainees in
vocationa1-agricultural classes.
Using rs tractors and 30 lime
spreaders, they contoured, re-fenced.
fertilized and replanted the entire
20S acres. They started a productive
crop rotation program and planted
the permanent meadows in alfalfa.
Sleeper slopes were dotted with seed
ling pines, planted by Boy Scouts.
This big one-day bee was the third
effort of its kind in the country to
show the latest methods Of licking
erosion and keeping farms at high
productive levels. The first was held
near Des Moines, Ia, before the war
and the second near Milwaukee a
month ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
China
Sea Spectacle

WV
The famous Hangchow tidal bore
"a moving wall of ocean water from
six to 20 feet high-hurled itself
against the massive 1,20O-year-old
seawall at ancient HangchoW this
week with thousands Of spectators
viewing the spectacle.
The tidal bore occurs annually at
tbs seaport, sou,4l of Shanghai, on
the 18th day of the eighth moon OF
the Chinese lunar year. 1t forms when
high incoming ocean tide clashes
with the swift-fowing Chen Tang
River, and rolls in like batterlng
ram.
Railroads operated special trains
for the day and thousands travelled
miles to see it strike.
Hangchow's ancient dixie, protect
ing some 100000 Chinese farmers
and their fertile land, was restored
recently after severe damage result
Ing from wartime neglect.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
In Short.,3;

Electrocuted: A Denver University
freshman football player by a light
ming bolt which also knocked four
others unconscious and foored the
entire squad.
Sped: By the US, vaccine and med
ical supplies to Egypt where IA new
cases Of suspected cholera and IL
cholera deaths were reported.
Killed: Three sailors, when the us.
destroyer Douglas Fox struck a mine
in the Adriatic Sea off Trieste.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Politics
Tn Britain

Unlike the United States,
Britain has no national. cleo
INN scheduled every four years.
The The British political party in
nnzyer stands Or falls on issues
ppYd il faces the possibility of an
a;oc-ion on almost any key controversy.
no re- political crossfire between Brit
- Labor and Conservative leaders is
o,s,.trenelv heavy during the present
or;t;cal economic crisis.
s,nojnt,nent of Sir Stafford Cripps
Ritain's economic czar to cope
9th the financial crisis was seen as
..o first installment Of sweeping
changes s in the Labor Cabinet.
Co. C1.oyernment spokesmen said i'm
o.Jina further Cabinet changes
pl,.1nd not affect Hugh Dalton. Chan
ooIlor of the Exchequer, or Foreign
cocretary Ernest Bevin, who along
nth nth Cripps and Herbert Morrison,
Gonutv prime minister, make up the
u;F Four of the Attlee Cabinet.
Meanwhile Prime Minister Clement
r AnIee complained this week that
T;ns-on Churchill. Tory leader, tried
" exploit for party advantage every
Gi4crlty that arose for the govern
ment
Not the Wartime Churchill
"Tt is very different from the
r,nrchll of the war;" Attlee said,
1,,ho exhorted the people to bear
.,.velv the inevitable hardships
w6icb war entailed and now appar-
ontlv is exhorting them to whine and
to blame"
Attlee declared that Churchill knew
No KINGDOMS economic plight was
w W. at+ermath of war and world food
s6ortages and not caused by actions
T the Labor government.
speaking that same day before a
Conservative Party rally, Churchill
declared the economic crisis sis only
foretaste of what is to come"
"What German U-boats could never
IN TO us has been achieved by our
ovn misguided fellow countrymen,"
he said, through their incompetence
arrogance, thousands of regulations.
Under Socialism, it will not be pos
S6le for more than two-thirds of our
n-esent population to live in this
island
Backs US. Foreign Policy
Churchill complimented the United
States for its great conformation OF
militant Communism"
The wartime British leader recalled
his Fulton, Mo-, speech two years ago
yhen he attacked the Soviet iron
curtain" declaring:
American opinion, at first startled
and much divided, has since those
days flowed along the lines indicated
to such an extent that if l repeated
The Fulton speech in America today
it would be regarded as tepid platl-
tudes"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05

America as their only hope against
hunger and privation this winter. The
drought-stricken continent now is har-
vesting the last of subnormal crops
and the need of food imports will
become acute even before the snow
flies.
Typhus, health authorities said, is
certain to be a problem. Tuberculosis
is being called the vienna disease" in
Austria because of its prevalence in
the capital,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05

advantages and disadvantages of the
long range plan
The President admitted this posi-
bility but indicated the Administra-
ton would try to keep the two plans
separate and stress the humanitarian
appeal of food and fuel for use this
winter.
Look to America
Meanwhile an AP survey indicated
that millions of Europeans look to
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Quote

Sen. Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio)
on a western tour to make up his
mind whether to be a candidate
for President in 1913: Il think
its a wise policy for college pres
idents to stay out of politics"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05
Ne1U S0uiet Strntegv
Seen in War 0fNerues

ELEIS to the United Nations General Assembly saw no i'm
medlate end this week to the bitter battle
Rss and the United States The clash
u lar mas been mere srmshng prelmnaries The
oateS WI" come When the assembly committees actually
SIT down to decide what to do about
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05

Dates

Dates
Monday, October 6
American Federation of Labor
opens annual convention in San
Francisco.
Wednesday, October 8
President Truman scheduled to
make radio address for Demo-
cratic Women's Rally.
Thursday, October 9
Canadian Thanksgiving Day.
Friday, october 10
First war dead scheduled to
arrive in San Francisco.
Sunday, October IL
Columbus Day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-05

tAu Rights Reserved AP Newsfeatures,
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Miss KOUn1an
March Bride

The marriage of Miss Maurine
HOLMAN, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. L. Kollman of Hondo, Texas, to
Mr.. Charly Ochsner, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adolphe Ochsner of Lausanne,
Switzerland took place March Is in
All Saints Episcopal Church.
A white suit with black accessories
and a corsage of white orchids were
worn by the bride, who was attendeS
by Mrs. Ruth Leonard. Mr.. Rene
Wegelin, an associate of the bride
groom at the Swiss Legation, was
the best man and the ushers were
Mr.. Rudolf Lutz and Mr.. Alfred
Custer.
Mrs. E. Alexander was hostess at
a reception, after which Mr.. and
Mrs. Ochsner went to Miami.
The bride attended Baylor Uni
yersity in Waco and Mr.. Ochsner
studied in Lausanne and obtained
his M. A. degree at Georgetown
University. He and Mrs. Ochsner
will reside at $500 Woodley Road.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
Force to Hear Putnum

Carleton Putnam. president OF
Chicago & Southern Airlines, will
address q luncheon meeting Of the
National Capital Forge of the
American Public Relations Associa-
tion at 12:15 pm. tomorrow in the
Willard Hotel.
Evening star., 1947-03-23
lHetrick-RbOdes
Wedding

The chapel of the New York Ave-
nue. Presbyterian Church was the
scene of the wedding March Is o1
Mrs. Thelma Finlayson Rhodes and
Mr.. Elmer Blair Hetrick. The Rev
Peter Marshall officiated at the
ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of the
late Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Finlay-
son of Charlotte, N. c., where she
also made her home until several
years ago.
Mr. Hetrick is the son of Mrs. Ira
D. Hetrick of New Bethlehem, Pa.
and the late Mr.. Hetrick He at
tended State Teachers College If
Edinboro, Pa, and has for the past
few years been an employe in the
Post Office Department.
Mr.. Harold w. Brauer escorted
the bride to the altar and her sister
Miss Leila Jane Finlayson of Char.
lotte, was her only attendant. Mr.
George Lo Verde of Brooklyn wa,
the best man.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
NEW YORK PRODUCE

NEW YORK, April 15-W,P)-Pro-
duce markets: potatoes - dollars
per 100 lbs. unless otherwise indi-
cated.) Quiet. Names Chippewas,
No. l so lbs. 1.50-60; Katahdins,
No. IA 2.90-3.10; Katahdins No. l
so lbs. 1.5O-60; Katahdins No. lib
!. e0-2.15; Green Mts. No. l 2.90-
3.15 No. lib ~1.85-2.15; Green Mts.
so lbs. bags 1.40-65; New Bruins
wick, Green Mts. No. l 3.25;
jumbo $40; Long Island Green
Mts. No. l 2.75-3.00; Idaho Russets,
No. l 4.OO-50; No. $50 lbs. 2.25-35;
Connecticut Green Mts. No. l so lbs.
$50 asked; Idaho Russets, 10 lbs.
bags 1852; Floridas so lbs. bags
Red Bliss No. l 3.25; No. lib ZOO
800: Texas Red Bliss No. $50 lbs.
3.05-75.
Sweet potatoes - Oushels-bas-
kets) steady. New Jersey, Golden,
No. l best 500; Jersey type, No.
l 1.5O-3.25; IL bushels 1850;
Jersey type, mediums $780,;
Jersey type processed 2.25-70;
Maryland Golden, No. l best 800
so. Pink Hearts, No. ! 100000;
Yams: (bushels-baskets) North
Carolina, No. l tub 3.004.0 0 jumbo
tubs Its; No. 2 tubs 1.50; Louisi-
ana, No. 1 crates bu. 3.25-75;
Maryland No. l 3.O0-50; Delaware,
No. l tubs 800; med. tub 200;
jumbo tub Its.
Live poultry weak. Turkeys
hens 46; toms 80; rabbits all varie-
ties 3O-40; fowls 30-42; broilers 81
36; pullets BAT.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-16
LIVESTOCK
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, April Is - up -
(USDA)- Salable hogs 5000, total
II, 500 weights 260 pounds and
down $3.50 cents lower compar-
ed with Mondays average: heav-
Ter weights steady to Is cents
lower; closed active at best level
of day; bulk good and choice
180-260 lb. %. 75-24.25; top 24.5O
sparingly: 100000 lb. 22.75-23.-
90; 3OO-35O Ib. 22.25-23.25; sows
about so cents lower; most good
and choice 100000 Id. 18.50-19.-
90.
Salable cattle $500, total $500;
salable calves 1900, total 1000;
fed steers and yearlings including
.yearling heifers 1925 cents high
er; trade more active than Mon
day; low-choice Its Id. steers
topped at $3.50; average-choice
heifers $3.50; most high-medium
to low-choice yearlings and light
steers 20.50-24.75; cows and bulls
steady to weak; vealers steady
at 22.00 down; stock cattle slow,
steady at 17.50-20.25; practical
top heavy sausage bulls 1875;
cutter cows 1875 down; most beet
cows 13.25-15.00.