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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
new DEALERS HIT
LIMITATION BILL
House Passes Measure
Placing Two Presidential
Terms As Maximum

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -.W.D -
The House today approved a re
publican-sponsored constitutional
amendment to restrict president:
to two years. terms. after shouting
down a democratic compromise
for a single six-year term.
The newly-elected COP majority
won the back of conservative
democrats to pile up a vote of 28s
to 121 - more than the two-thirds
required to send the proposal to
the Senate. TWo-thirds of the mem
bers of that body also must sup
port it before it can be submitted
for ratification by three-fourths OF
the states.
Republicans didn't cast a single
vote against the proposal. The
238 COP members who voted for
1t were joined by At democrats,
most of them from southern states,
Rep. Vito Marcontonib, AL, N
Y, joined 120 democrats in voting
against it.
Aimed at preventing Presiden-
Truman and future presidents from:
following the path set by the late
Franklin D. Roosevelt in. shatter
ing the two-term tra8ifoo ne pr
posed amendment was adopted
over the angry protests OF new
deal democrats.
''My God" shouted Rep. Adolpt
J. SABBATH, D., ILL.,, dean of Con.
gress and a close friend of the
late chief executive. Cant we be
fair enough to let a man rest in
peace when he has done SO much
for his country"
The single six-year term compro
mise was offered by Rep. Eman'
uel Cellar, D., N. Y, with the
backing of many new dealers who
contended it would give a presi'
dent time to carry out his domes-
tic and foreign policies free of in
reference from second term poll
tical maneuvers.
But the overwhelming COP and
conservative democratic majority
refused even to permit a record
vote on it.
SABBATH angrily assailed the re
publican leadership for allowing
''only two measly hours" Of de-
bate. He said the only reason the
republicans were willing to put a
ceiling on White House occupancy
was because they nave no man
they could possibly elect for three
times
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07

FORT DIX, N. j., Feb. 6.-(Pe
A Military police corporal being
questioned about the Staying OF at
tractive black-haired Elizabeth
Short, the BLACK Dahlia, appar-
emily was at Fort Dix when she
was tortured in an undiscovered
hideway, bisected and her nude
body discarded in a vacant lot in
Los Angeles, an army spokesman
said today.
Major Cornelius T. Morris, pos:
public relations officers, said army
records showed that the overseas
veteran, Joseph DUMAS of Care
mont, N. H., had arrived at Fort
Dix from furlough either the night
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
The Weather
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina and South Carolina -
Partly cloudy and becoming old Fri
day, fair and colder Friday night; Sat
urday fair and moderately cold.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am. "a; 1880 am. %; l 80 pm. As:
Z 80 pm. 49.
Maximum so; Minimum 81; Mean IS;
Normal A..
Humidity
1870 am. so; 7:30 am. 49; 1870 pm. Is;
1880 pm. 10.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 ON. ~
100 inches.
Total since the first of the month -
0. 80 inches.
Tides For Today
from the Tide Tables published by U.
S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
High Low
Wilmington $500 HIPS am. $50 am
11:40 pm. 6:24 pm.
Masonboro Inlet = Gil am. 2:49 am.
9:37 pm. 3:22 pm.
Sunrise 7:04; Sunset 5 :48; Moonrise 8:1i
pm; Moonset 8:42 am.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at
am. Thursday, 12.1 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
Couple Unable To Afford
Both Infant And Auto

He and his wife pleaded guilty
before Municipal Judge Ernest P.
Agnew and faced a possible
sentence of one to three years In
state prison or a sentence OF one
year in the county jail. Agnew
said he would pass sentence to-
morrow or Monday.
The child, a blue-eyed boy, was
born Jan. % at the SWed;sn-Amel-
lean hospital at Rockford, 40 mIies
south of here. Last Monday, wnen
Mrs. Wolfram and the baby were
released from the hospital, she and
CONTINUED on Page 3; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
ship PROCEEDING
AFTER SOS CALL,
Tug And Vessel Freed
From Shoals Off Cape
Fear Lighthouse

NORFOLK, Va, Feb. O. R-
Coast Guard headquarters received
a message late today from the tug
Michael Moran that a Liberty ship
she was towing in a heavy seas
was "In bad trouble" II miles
southeast of Cape Fear lighthouse
on the North Carolina coast.
Several minutes later the tug
radioed that her own keel was
scraping bottom on Frying Pan
shoals and that she might not be
able to continue the tow.
The Coast Guard instructed the
tug to cut the towing hawser and
to try to anchor the Liberty ship,
the name of which was not given
in the tugs report, and to get out
of danger herself.
A motor lifeboat was dispatched
from the Coast Guard lifeboat sta
ton at Oak Island to stand BY the
tug. 80
Headquarters said it was with
out information as to whether the
Liberty ship had a crew ooafo
Attaches at the Oak Island Coast
Guard station informed the Star
late last, night that the motor life
boat dispatched to aid the tug
Michael Moran had returned to the
base after being advised by radio
that the tug and Liberty ship she
was towing, had been freed from
the shoals without serious damage.
According to the Coast Guard
station the tug and Liberty ship
continued their journey toward
Cape Lookout under their own pow
er.
The radio message was received
by the lifeboat before it had reach
ed the tug.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
"Black Dahha" Suspect
In East On Murder Date

of Jan. 10 or the morning OF Jan.
II.
He was never shown as absent
thereafter, Morris said, admitting
that it was possible that the records
erred.
Morris quoted DUMAS as saying
he dated the "Dahlia" or Jan. 9 but
his mind "blanked OUT that day
and he remembered nothing until
ne found himself in the Pennsy-
+lvania Railroad station, New YORK.
Military and police authorities
eushed an investigation to deter
mine definitely where he was dur
ing the five days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
FIRE DEPARTMENT
ANSWERS ALARM
AT STORAGE AREA

The city fire department answer
ed a call to the Standard Oil Com
pany storage area about 1918 last
night but later reported that the
alarm was sounded when a short
circuit was discovered in some
wiring.
The department reported that nc
damage resulted from the fire.
Three trucks were dispatched to
the scene in case Of an emergency
and two more were On their way
when the call was cancelled,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07

SSA ana to IN
crease the punishment for drunken
driving.
Ten senators and 20 representa-.
tlves were appointed by the pre-.
siding officers to attend Gardner's
funeral Saturday. Their "a, oint.
ment followed the delivery OF
eulogies of the late statesman.
and the house and senate adjourn
ed in his memory.
Named to represent the assembly
at the last rites were Senators
Weathers Of Cleveland, Neal oil
Mcdowell, Rankin of CASTOR,
Clement of Pennsylvania, Gray OF
Forsyth, Blythe of Mecklenburg,
O'Berry of Wayne, johnson OF
Duplln, Rodman of Beaufort and
Hampton of Avery; and Reps. Null
OF Cleveland, Harris Of Person,
Kerr OF Warren, Dellinger of Gas
ton, Vogler of Mecklenburg, Jones
OF Rutherford, Stoney of Burke,
Houser of Lincoln, Shuford of Bun
combe, Hutton of Guilford. Gass OF
Forsyth, Matheson of Iredell, Al
len of Wake, Ramsay of. Rowan,
Bost of Cabarrus, Wallace OF
Lenoir, Martin Of Martin, Hatha-
way Of Gates, Hutchiv of Madi-
son and Rosser of Chatham.
Both Null and Weathers, who in
PRODUCED joint resolutions in their
respective houses eulogizing Gard
ner, praised him for his contribu-
ton to this state, nation and
world.
Rep, Hutton of Guilford sent UP
the measure to reorganize the
board of correction and training.
Instead of the present 10 members
- three representing each insti-
tuition the new board would be
composed of nine members to be
appointed by the governor for stag
gered terms. Any member of the
board, which would have full
jurisdiction. could be removed by
the governor without assignment
LOT reason.
Another attempt to help legisla-
tors along financially in the
wake of a defeated constitutional
amendment proposal to allow them
an extra $40 a day - was made by
Rep. Harrison Of Craven. He would
allow subsistence and travel ex-
penses for Legislators on the same
basis as state employees - Sc a
day for subsistence and six cents
a mile travel expense.
A measure like the one introduc-
ed last week by Rep. Wilson of
Caldwell - known as the South
Piedmont plan = was introduced
by Senator Roper of Lincoln. The
move would facilitate committee
hearings in that the joint appropri-
ations group could consider the
proposal which would increase
| greatly the pay of teachers holding
"a" and graduate certificates.
The salaries would be raised
from the present low of $1,244.97
and high of 81, 802. 81 to a new low
of 81, $50 and high of $4,000.
Conviction of drunken driving,
under a bill by Senator Chaffin of
Harnett. would be punishable by
Imprisonment of not less than 10
days OF a fine of from $500 to So
900. The drivers license would be
automatically revoked. His auto
mobile would be seized and releas-
ed only on bond of twice the value
of the car.
The House Education committee
postponed action on a measure by
Rep. Dellinger of CASTOR which
would declare the truth of the
Mecklenburg Declaration Of indie
pendence and require the eaching
of textbooks supporting its authen-
tirity
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
CHARITIES GROUP
NAMES DIRECTORS
! ocal Agency Selects Eight
New Members; Annual
Report Heard

Eight new member of the board
of directors of the Wilmington AS
sociated Charities were elected to
serve for three years yesterday
afternoon at the annual meeting OF
the directors of that organization,
and two members were elected, to
fill vacancies, for a term of two
years.
To serve for three years are:
Edward Carr, Robert Tapp, Miss
Marguerite Walker, Mrs. Thomas
Cause. Mrs. Isabel James, Mrs. Al
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07
legislature Saddened
Over Gardeners Death
State Solons Receive Host Of Bills Including
Measures To Revamp Board Of Correct
ion, Greatly Increase Teachers Paw

RALEIGH, Feb. 6-P)-A legislature saddened over
the death Of former Governor 0. Max Gardner received a
organization of the state board of correction and TRAINING
TO increase greatly the pay of teachers holding "A" or
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-07

10 cloudy, lowest temperatures Friday
morning 80 degrees. Slowing rising tenn
neratures during afternoon.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
THIS IS BOOK week

In observing book week this
year, the children's room of the
West branch, Public library, is
having a story hour Monday, Tues
day, Thursday, and Saturday at
4:15 p. m. Each day as surprise
story will be told by monograph
record. 1t may be Sleeping Beauty,
the Five Hundred Hats, Three
Billy Goats Gruff, Rapunzel, One
String Fiddle, Peter and the Wolf,
Babar, or the Sheep and the Pig
who Set up Housekeeping!
Another feature will be that at
tractive bookmarker will be Civ
EN- to each child taking out books.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
DUNBAR LOSES
TO FAIRVIEW
By Jimmie N. Jones

Both Dunbar and Fairview were
hampered with ground conditions
in their first meeting on the grid
iron which was ankle deep with
mud. Neither team was able to
show anything in the way of bril-
liant football due to these condi-
tons and not until the third per-
iod did either score.
1t was this period when the
Fairview Dogs led by Tommy
Weiss, fast stepping back, doing
the most of the work for the Dogs,
drove to the three yard line where
the Wolves held the Fairviews to
downs. Dunbar was forced to kick
from it's own end zone which
found Oscar Dominick being
SIOuIlucu Will CIlc Udll WHICH, was
passed back by center Francis,
and was SO wet with the mud and
mire that it slipped from the fin
gers of Dominick who fell on it
in time to prevent the Bull Dogs
from recovering the pill for a
touch down, but it went for a
safety and enough to give the
Dogs the 20 victory.
This was the third game be-
tween Dunbar and the "Bix Six"
members of Dayton's high school.
With WILDER Wright and Dun
bar playing two games this sea-
son, one of which was, a pre-sea-
son contest with no standing on
| either team and with Dunbar TAX
ing the edge. 1t is definitely
CONTINUED on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
DAYTON NETS LOSE
TO ROCHESTER
By Jimmie N. Jones

The Metropolitans went down
in defeat to the Rochester Royals
in a slam bang game at the Fair
ground Coliseum Sunday by score
Of SAG before a capacity crowd
Of $500 fans. The Nets got off
to a lead as Chris Hansen sank
three baskets followed by Duke
Cumberland and Joe Colone who
RAJ the O to 1913 for the Nets
at the first quarter.
Duke Cumberland with three
baskets and a foul led the attack
in the second period with Don
Harvey and Colone making the
half end with the Nets leading
1928. Coming from behind in the
third stanza, the Royals went out
in front and again the Nets caught
up with two field goals by Cliff
ton (Sweetwater) to pass the
Royals but only f or a short time
as AL Cervie and Bob Davis took
turns about in sinking enough
baskets to run the score to 54-46
at the end of the game.
The shooting of the Dayton pros
was not up to the mark az in the
other two games won by the Nets.
With Don Blanken, injured for
ward sitting in the press box, his
team mates were sorely in need
of his services.
Wednesday night the Nets will
play the Fort Wayne Zollners with
the West Side Cabs and the Moose
Lodge in . Gem City league con-
test as the opener. First game
will get on its way promptly at
7;30 p. m.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
AS | SEE IT!
By A. D. Braithwaite

Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Negro,
Dayton's greatest contribution to-
American culture was a great
poet. Though his dialect has had
associated with it humor and
pathos which renders it unfeasa-
BILE for a poetic idiom now, it did
capture and preserve as a foun-
dation for poets and writer's the
folk spirit of the largest minority
segment of American people.
This writer's father ranked with
Dunbar as the foremost Negro
contributor to American poetry,
except that his contributions were
never made on the basis of race.
Dunbar passed on, but the writer's
father is still very much with us,
and he agrees, as he knows Dun
bar would agree, that the shrine
as it were, that has been common
grated to Dunbar here in Dayton
is drab blotch rather than a trib-
ute to his memory.
The Paul Laurence Dunbar high
school for all that it does as a
provider of jobs for Negro teach
ers has one bad feature that
should have prevented it's ever
coming into existence. 1t is a seq
regated jim ROY school in u
northern community, and as such,
it, is a mockery to all the high
sounding principles of Thomas
Paine and Tom jefferson, and of
the lofty ideals for which so many
people have sacrificed their lives.
Robert Weaver, one Of the Ne
groes in high government circles,
in an article in the segregation
issue of Survey Graphic last win
CONTINUED on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
Bar Group Turns Down
Application Of Attorney

TOLEDO, Nov. II. (ANP)-
After two weeks of discussion a
proposal to elect William McClain,
a Cincinnati attorney, an honor
airy member Of the Lucas County
Bar association, was rejected last
week at d meeting of the local
lawyers group in the Willard
hotel.
A subcommittee on admissions,
in recommending that the pro-
posal be rejected, said such ac-
ton would be a futile gesture,
more harmful than helpful" and
said it would place the local as
ISOLATION in a position Of ''assum-
ing a presumptuous prerogative
without being advised of all the
facts which may have influenced
the Cincinnati Bar association"
which twice has denied Mr.. Me
Claim membership.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
AN open LETTER TO
DR.. CHARLES WESLEY

Dear DR.. Wesley:
Immediately after the court
trial held this Monday on your
surreptitious use of the name
"Wilberforce' in order to induce
students to enroll in your new
state college, you told me that
my t~estifying in behalf of Will
berforce university was an act of
treachery to you sinceyou had
saved me" from losing my job
twice when you we're president of
Wilberforce university. Because
there might be others who think
lilfe you do, / feel it necessary to
make this public statement to clear
my position. | must thank you,
however, TO mot accusing me of
making any false statements in
my testimony.
| was loyal to you during the
entire five years of your admins
tration at Wilberforce university.
Tt is true that two members of the
church board did urge you to get
rid of my services on two occas-
ions and that you refused to CON
nive with their plans, but there
was absolutely nothing else you
could have done under the cir
cumstances since their only rea-
son for demanding my dismissal
was that | was your staunch sup
porter and also your fearless pub
licity director. May | point out to
you hat this attitude of the two
members of the church board was
similar to the attitude of all the
state appointed members of the
state board which, led by Mr.. Ray
E. Hughes and Superintendent C.
G. Jenkins, railroaded me in 1910
out of my job on the state side
Continued on page 81
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17

Such action, the report said,
'tends to intensity, rather than
abate, attitudes and feelings which
are better ameliorated by the cur
ative processes of education and
understanding"
The report noted that the local
group had three Negro members,
all with full membership privi-
leges, including Benjamin Fish
er, assistant county prosecutor,
and Clarence G.. Smith, who said
after the meeting the case may be
reopened later.
The resolution sponsoring Mr..
McClain for honorary membership
a introduced two weeks ago by
Harry Kirkland, who said no mem
Der of the bar in good standing
or otherwise eligible should be re-
fused membership in any bar as
ISOLATION in the country solely
of race or color.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
Low Cost Housing
Project Launched

COLUMBIA, S. c., Nov. II. "a
REPRESENTATION of a new low
cost Negro housing development
by a private concern has been
alunched in the Colonial Heights
section, according to an announce
ment made here last week by Fl.
+. Bailey, state FILA director. The
housing project, to be developed
at a cost Of 275,000, is sponsored
by B. T. DAILY and financed by the
First National bank with the FILA
insuring the loan.
"This- is the first project OF
such proportions and of this type
for Negroes in South Carolina
Bailey said.
The development will consist OF
individual homes, each with g
floor furnace, modern bathroom
hot water and other up-to-dat
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
Joe Louis Tells Of
Battle Against Prejudice

NEW YORK, Nov. II. CAMP
Joe Louis, who has displayed a
knack for simple eloquence in his
few brief public statements, has
written a full length feature ar
ticle in the current issue of Salute
magazine entitled, envy Toughest
Fight: Prejudice" Going into de-
tail for the first time on the les
ser known incidents in his career
and on his ambitions for foster
ing racial understanding, the
heavyweight champion asserts,
There's one fight I've always
wanted-that's a crack at jim
crow"
Louis states that when he was
starting his career, Jack Black
burn said, you're colored, Joe,
and a colored fighters got to be
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17

lots better than the other man
if he's gonna go places. But you've
got to have more than just two
good hands. You gotta do the right
thing. And never leave yourself
open so people a talk about
you"
The fighter describes incidents
from his army career-the drunk
en- colonel who tried to force his
way into a private dinner given
for the touring champion and who
shouted at Cpl. Eddie Green, ~
can hardly wait till | get back to
my home town in Mississippi.
There we know what to do with
niggers like you and Joe. We'd tai
and feather you for not obeying Q
white man."
Continued on page A.
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1947-11-17
Max Yergan Quits as
Congress Head

NEW YORK, Nov. II. CAMP
The resignation of Dr.. Max Yer
gan.last week from the presidency
of the National Negro congress, a
post he has held for the past
seven years, has Harlem leaders
asking the why's and where
fore's" of the sudden action.
The letter Of resignation, sent
to members of the board Of the
organization, became. effective on
the day of its receipt. DR.. Yergan,
executive director of the Council
on African affairs, gave rs his
reason for relinquishing his post
with MIC, the pressure of work
with the council.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-04

prairies, where the rainfall is less,
more than just fuel. Because of the
mineral fertility left in the soil foods
grown here contain body building,
bone making values.
"Neglecting to put fertility such
as barnyard manure, green ma
nures, lime, and other fertilizers
back into soils to balance crop re-
moval pushes crops on these soils to-
ward fuel only crops. These fuel
only crops mean poorer growth
and lower health values. The de-
Ginning fertility of our soils is de-
cline in the health of our soils,
of our plants and of ourselves"
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-04
Soil May Build or
Weaken Our Bodies
Value Of Food Depends
On Mineral Fertility

''We are what we eat" and what
we eat depends on the soil that pro-
duces it," declares DR.. William A.
Albrecht, University of Missouri.
Human health troubles often
come from poor nutrition which
weakens the body. With its de-
lenses down the body is less able
to resist the attacks of bacteria and
other forces"
Foods from some soils provide
only fuel for energy, other soils sup
port crops that carry something
'extra'-body building materials.
Where rainfall is high and where
virgin forests once covered the land,
plants are barely able to put togeth-
er any more than fuel foods for
themselves and animals. Properly
managed with lime, fertilizers and
legumes, these soils can be built
to put into crops these body build
ing values.
ION the more fertile soils of the
hard wheat belt, the former buffalo
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-04
lnsoIuh!e Grit Aids
Chickens Digestion

Some insoluble grit, usually gram
lite or river gravel, will be eaten by
hens if it is available. 1t assists
the gizzard in grinding grains and
coarse feeds that might cause i'm
FACTION of the digestive tract. Fine
ground feed can be digested salts
factorily without grit being avail
able. Oyster shell and limestone
rock particles sometimes are used
as grit but the digestive juices break
these down rapidly and thus make
an excess of calcium available. Grit
commonly is kept before hens at all
times, although some producers pre-
fer to feed it at intervals of 10 days
to two weeks.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-04
Erosion Danger Present
In Nearly Every Month

The erosion hazard not only is
with us always, but also it comes
at any season, almost every month
of the year. 1t is so serious that
soil losses of 10 tons or more to the
acre in a single month are not at
all uncommon. Highest soil loss ex.
perienced for single month in Mis-
sissippi was 62,376 pounds per acre
The loss must be combatted by ter
racing, ground cover and consrr-
walton.
Hungry Horse news and Columbian. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1946-1948, 1947-07-04

To make bread crumbs favorful
for use as toppings, grind them fine
and brown them in meat drippings.
When you're serving roast pork
or pork chops with dressing, add
that special touch to the dressing
by using few chopped spinach
leaves.
When making biscuits, do some
thing different and roll the dough out
in a rectangle; spread with orange
marmalade and roll as for jelly roll.
Cut and baked slices in oiled pan
for pinwheel biscuits.