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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

When the soniferous love life Of "courtng croakers" interfered
with the hydrophones and electronic listening devices aboard
patrol boats assigned to antisubmarine duty off the North Carolina
coast and elsewhere. during the early days OF World War II, the
Navy decided to do something about it. So expeditions were sent
out to waters of many sections of the various oceans to study the
noisemaking characteristics Of fishes and other forms of marine
life. One of the units recording the noises made by fish (Which
in some cases was quite similar to that made by propellers Of
an enemy submarine) was stationed at the U. S. Fish and Wild
Life Laboratory on Pivers Island between Beaufort and MOrehead
City during the summer of 1913. This was only one of several
important jobs Of research carried on by the Navy and military
forces at the scientific laboratory pictured here during the War
and days leading UP to the War. The u. S. F. and w. L. Station
was established shortly after the turn of the century and for the
past several years it has been under the direction of DR.. II. F.
Prytherch, noted ichthyologist and authority on shell fishes.
photo by AycOck Brown
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28
Mrs. Roosevelt
Demands Proof
OF Allegations

LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. IL
RAMrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
challenged today a Soviet Tx
raine charge to. the United Ma
tons assembly's social commit
tee that American agents in Eu-
rope are recruiting children for
slave labor here.
II would very much appreciate
it." she said, IF the delegate
from the Ukraine IS. P. Dem
chenko) will furnish me with
the names OF the agents or the
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28
nv AYCOCK BROWN

MOREHEAD CITY, Sept. q.
- Unless you were assigned to
duty with the anti-submarine pa
troll operating from naval Sec
ton bases at Morehead City or
.Ocracoke in 1912, perhaps you
never heard Of the court
ing croackers in the waters off
Cape Lookout and Cape Halter
rs.
Furthermore, il, the newspa-
pers on April 2, 1913, had an
nounced that an important con:
ference had taken place the pre-
ceding day in the Navy Building
ut Washington when a group OF
civilians and naval officers dis.
cussed the noise making charac-
teristics Of fish and other forms
of marine life, it would have
sounded to most persons who
read the story like an April
Fools gag.
But that happened, and the
matter was Of considerable i'm
portance to the Navy because
noises from fish had been found
to seriously interfere with the
effective operation Of underwa-
ter listening devices aboard pa
troll boats which operated near
the entrances to harbors and
minefields as a protection
against sneaking enemy subma-
rines that were playing havoc
with coastwise shipping early in
the war.
In some sections where acous-
tic mines had been planted the
premature explodings were also
charged up to noises made by
fishes.
Purpose of the April FOOLS
Day conference in 1913 was to
discuss all that was known about
noise making habits of the
oceans inhabitants and to dis
cuss possible countermeas-
ures. The latter was a problem,
because no one was absolutely
sure what fishes made the noise
- or why.
Listening devices. sound ge>
or portable type hy%drophones
placed aboard the patrol anc
picket boats were there to de.
tect the propeller move
ments aboard possible suoma-
rines beneath the surface of the
water. When the listening de-
vices reacted to an underwater
sound it was called a contact
and when q contact was made
during the early part of the wal
the depth bombs, called by crew
members of the, patrol craft,
"ashcans'' were rolled over the
stern or projected by spe,
cial deck apparatus in the gen
eral direction from which the
noise came.
Many ashcans were expended
the vicinity of noises which
d have been an enemy SUBJ
rine but actually were moth
more than a school Of fish.
those early days of the war
any noise beneath the surface
recorded by the sound gear,
sounded like propellors of a SUBJ
marine.
Gradually, as more and more
depth bombs were sent towards
sound targets with no results ex-
cept a batch of dead fish coming
to the surface, crew members of
boats and men who received ra-
dio dispatches of contacts that
had been made started calling
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28
WINNINGS BUILD HOUSE

WINTON, Sept. 27.-PNHar-
vey Jones, Negro veteran, is
building a bungalow for his wife
and their infant son with the
$4,000 he received in lieu OF a
Cadillac automobile for holding
the lucky number in a drawing
sponsored by the Kiwanis club
in Ahoskie last June.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28
Did John L. Sullivan Fight
With Stomach Ulcer Pains?

The famous heavyweight champion was
noted as a voracious eater. Could he
have eaten and fought as he did if he
suffered after-eating pains? Don't neglect
stomach or ulcer pains, Indigestion, gas
pains, heartburn, burning sensation, bloat
and other conditions caused by excess
acid. Get a Csc box of Udga Tablets from
your druggist. First dose must convince
or return box to us and get DOUBLE
YOUR MONEY BACK.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28
sEARCH FOR BODIES

WILSON, Sept. 27.-R-Au-
thorities feared today that swol-
len Contentnea creek near Luz
CANA, from which the body of
a Lucama youth was taken last
night after his automobile plung-
ed off a bridge, held the bodies
of another youth and a girl.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

organizations engaged in such a
program.
IT doubt very much that chill
dren could be brought into our
country, under our laws, for
slave labor. We have trade
unions very alert to that sub
ject."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

Deputy Sheriff George Winstead
said that the two had been seer
with Charles Brantley Aycock,
%, half an hour before the acct
dent. Aycock's body and the
machine were recovered late last
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

The actual number. of Ian
guages of the world, compute,
by officers of the French Acad.
envy is put at 2,796.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

three-ln-one egg. Inside the Shah
were two yolks, in addition .s1
complete third egg.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-09-28

HEN LAYS 3-IN-1 EGG
RICHMOND, Mo.-UD-Homer
Norris reports his hen laid a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
BUDGET TO BE
CONSIDERED TODAY
School And Welfare De-
partment Expenditures
To Be Taken Up

New Hanover county board OF
commissioners this morning will
again take up its cudgels in pre-
pairing 1947-48 budget.
Scheduled for consideration to-
dav are the school and Welfare
Department budgets and possibly
those of other departments. Bom
the school and welfare budgets
were discussed yesterday.
But the highlight of the ses-
sion was the commissioners action
in virtually blocking an effort by
the city council of merging the
Associated Charities with the We'll
fare Department.
The county tentatively voted
enough funds to the Associated
Charities to continue its operation
for another II months without city
aid. II appropriated $4,000 to that
agency.
That was in sharp contrast to
the action of the council at joint
meeting with the commissioners
Thursday when the city fathers
failed to make any ALLEGATION to
the charities. The council did, how
ever, appropriate enough funds
for the Associated Charities to
operate through July.
Discussed yesterday was cut
ting $4,000 from the proposed
school budget of $299, $50 asked by
Superintendent H. M. Roland. If
that were agreed upon, the schools
would be left the same amount as
was allocated year ago.
That would mean that the $26, 400
transfer of funds from the supple
mentary to the regular budgets
to leave teachers salaries from
the county at the level of last
year, would not be done as re-
quested by the superintendent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
JURORS CHANGED
! DURING TRIAL
Procedure So Rare That
:. Attorneys Unable To Re-
call Similar Incident

Jurors were changed yesterday
In the middle of trial in Superior
Court, a procedure SO rare that
attorneys in court could not recall
of ever having witnessed such an
action.
: It came about when juror who
sat In the jury box most of the
previous afternoon, failed to report
when court convened at 9:30 a. m,
yesterday.
: Inquiry by Judge Leo Carr re-
'vealed that the juror had asked
Sheriff Porter Davis to be excus-
ed at the conclusion of the pre-
-uious day. Unaware that he was
actually serving on a jury, the
sheriff communicated the message
to the court and the juror was ex-
-cused.
David Sinclair, representing the
State, and Aaron Goldberg, de-
.fense attorney. agreed to continue
-the case by allowing juror to re-
place the one absent.
The unusual incident was in the
trial of Marcelus Cureton, 27,
Negro, charged with assault with
-intent to kill David Lewis, another
Negro.
:. The jury found Cureton innocent
.after his wife testified in his be-
half relating that Lewis entered
their home last May 10 and knock
ed her husband down AS Cureton
was getting up off the floor he
struck Lewis with an ak, she
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
One Mans Crusade

FRANKFURT, Germany, july %
-W.R)-A fresh grave in a Frank
furt cemetery marks the end OF
one mans crusade against the
brown terror of Nazism and the
gray despair which arose from the
ashes of Hitler's Reich.
Rudolph Weckerlein began his
fight as a member of a liberal
youth gro. , which was one Of the
first victims of der Fuehrer's
storm troopers. Through the pre-
war years, he did what he could to
heb Jews to escape from Ger
many.
The iron fist of Nazism did not
fall on Weckerlein himself until
1899, when he incautiously remark
ed to friend in Switzerland that
1.-The German people are not cap
able of throwing Hitler out. Help
must come from the outside.
His comment reached the long
ears Of the gestapo, a--d Wecker-
lein and his wife were thrown
into the concentration camp at Da-
chau soon after their return to
Germany.
In Dachau, he did his best to
sustain the will to live among his
fellow prisoners. Many desperate
victim of the Nazis was dissuaded
from suicide by Weckerlien's re-
minder that the men of the concen-
tration camps must live on to re-
store Germany after Hitler's fall.
Only once did his own determi-
nation falter. Ill of fever, cramped
and stiff from lying on the bare
floor of Dachau's hospital barracks,
Weckerlein decided to kill himself,
He was talked out of it by friend,
who used on him the same argu-
ments he had used on SO many
others.
With several comrades, Wecker-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
MRS. MONA Z. cox

TABOR CITY July 25-Mrs. No
ma z. Cox, 30, of Rt. l, Tabor City,
died at her home early this morn
ing after a lengthy illness. The
body will remain at the Jessup In
man Funeral Home until 2 o clock,
Sunday afternoon. at which time it
Will be removed to the Sandy
Plains Baptist church and lie in
state until o'clock, when the fu-
neral will be held. The Rev. Clyde
Prince will officiate Interment will
follow in the Norris cemetery.
The survivors include two sons,
w. J. and C. M. of Columbus coun-
ty; two daughters, Mrs. Malcie
Fowler and Mrs. Maude Mcdowell
of Tabor City: two brothers, Char
lie and John Norris of the Sandy
Plains section; four sisters, Mrs.
Lola Hardee of Lumberton; Mrs.
Ella Ray of Sandy Plains, Mrs.
Effie Gains, and Mrs. Hattie Carter
Of Daisy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
SENCBA GETS
Continued From Page One)


head of the Wilmington district,
corps o. engineers, has the sup
port and endorsement not only Of
the beach association but Of Caro-
Ina Beach, Kure's Rea N,
Wrightsville Beach, Fort Fisler
and Southport as well.
AS matters nov stand, Colonel
Shows report on the project is
not scheduled to GO 10 the south
eastern divisional office in Allan
ia until September 30 of this year.
On that basis normal routine
would not place the matter in
Washington before next spring,
too late for inclusion IN the 1947-
1e40 appropriation for rivers and
harbors, it WAS explained.
Time Is Short
The beach association is seek
ing immediate submission OF the
report to the Atlanta Office 50 tast
the proposal may reacn the
proper officials in Washington not
later than September 30.
In his letter OrreD pointed out
that the dredging of the proposed
inlet would be of tremendous
economic benefit to the Carolina
Beach section and naturally has
wide public support there and
throughout this region"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
MAJOR FIRMS
Continued From Page One)

ly following a pattern established
by other companies.
No action was expected until
Tuesday when directors of the
company meet.
''ARMCO" asserted that prices
We're advanced to "realize a rea-
sonable, although relatively low,
profit on most of its production. -
The price boosts, according to a
statement by Charles R. Hook,
president, followed the impact
of wage advances granted ARM.
co" steel workers, its coal min
ers, and other looming produc-
ton costs.
Income Down
Republic Steel said an immedi
ate price increase was ''impera-
tive" and cited decrease of near
ly SIS per cent in second quarter in
come as compared with the frs:
quarter.
President Truman, in his mid
year economic report to Congress
on Monday, said;
Increases in the price of steel
would have widespread Initiation
ary effect.
"Steel companies should exe..
else extraordinary caution at this
stage of our reconversion effor:
to see that increases in coal prices
or other costs are offset as fully
as possible through the savings
of continuous and high-level op
eration.''
Steel production this week has
been estimated at about SO per
cent of capacity and is expected
to advance still further.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
HUGHES HITS
Continued From Page One)


tend TO expend considerably more
before testing of the airplane is
completed.
'I have put this money into the
airplane because I believe in it
and because it will advance the
art of aviation in this country con-
siderably further than the same
amount of money invested in other
popular forms of aeronautical re-
search.
Il was not required, under the
original contract, to put five cents
into this project. l have invo5.ed
this $7,000.0 900 because l believe
in the future of aviation in this
country. I have no hope of ever
recouping this $7,000,000 or any OF
the large additional funds which
l intend 20 put into this airplane."
Admits Entertaining
Admitting that he entertained
military and government person
mel, Hughes said:
II spent less money in enter
tainment than any other person
of comparable position know.
Furthermore, I spent less than the
other aircraft companies.
$50 far as 7 know there is no
law against a man spending his
own money to entertain friends.
II l remember correctly, during
the war it was generally consider
ed privilege and an obligation
to entertain soldiers and officers
returning from abroad"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26

lein accepted in 1945 an eleventh
hour offer of freedom to any pri-
soner who would volunteer for duty
in the front lines, which BY then
were moving ever closer to Berlin
itself. At the first opportunity, he
surrendered to the Russians = and
was confined for a year in a prison
er-ofWar camp.
Free at last. Weckerlein went to
work as a reporter for the Frank
furt Neue Presse - job which
he hoped would give him chance
to help create the better world that
he had dreamed of during seven
years in the prisons of Germany
and Russia.
But he found that the world of
freedom was not exactly as he had
thought it would be.
He hated the black market - but
he found his son growing thin and
hungry on legal rations. His eff
forts to expose under-the-counter
QcdAll1SS WClc pullCd Wy P1O4AoAASAS .
who preferred stodgy political edi-
torialS.
He found himself despised as an
ex-enemy German by the Ameri-
cans whom he considered his allies
in the fight against Nazism.
His efforts TO start his own news
paper were blocked by military
government authorities. who had
granted all the available neWspa-
per licenses to others while he was
in the POW camp.
One day early this month. Week
erlein stepped into the kitchen OF
his home. He sat down at the
kitchen table and wrote a note for
his 12-year-old son.
Dear Peter" he wrote. ''Try
to be a better man than your faith
er was"
Then he turned on the gas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
COAST LINE MAN
MAY BE ON TRAIN
NOW GUARANTEED

Wycliffe Twining, Atlantic Coast
Line employe and delegate to the
International Lions Club conven-
ton in San Francisco, Calf, may
be having difficulty in attending
the affair.
His wife, yesterday expressed the
belief that TWining is aboard the
Santa Fe train which has been
quarantined for smallpox.
The wife of the delegate to the
convention which meets Monday,
said she remembered he comment
ed he thought he would take the
Santa Fe special train into San
Francisco. The train, according
to Associated Press dispatches.
was halted in Clovis, New Mexi-
CO, and a Negro dining car waiter
was removed with the disease,
The passengers on the train, it
was reported, will have to be vac
cinated or prepare for a a day
quarantine on the train or in some
house nearby.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
STATE, CITY LAWS
UP IN LOCAL COURT

The question of whether state
traffic laws or municipal ordi-
nances take precedent In city
limits came up again yesterday in
Recorders court.
1t was in the case of Sherrell
Hardee, IS, charged with driving
a truck 37-miles-an-hour in a 15-
mile zone. The court levied a $40
fine but admitted different opinions
are held by different courts. An
appeal to the Superior Court was
suggested.
William Leroy Shaw, 20, Negro,
was found innocent of carrying a
concealed weapon when Highway
Patrolman R. c. Duncan testified
the gun was under the seat of the
defendant automobile but Wis
ible.
William Robinson, Negro, drew
four months on the county road.
He was convicted of assaulting
Fred Burton, Negro, with a pistol
July 5. Robinson contended that
Burton struck him with a bottle in
an argument over Robinson's wife
in Robinson's home.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
IMPLICATION BILL
Continued From Page One)

430, ,361, 400 for foreign aid. It ear
marks $400,OOO,OO0 for the presi-
dents Greek-Turkish program,
$685., ,000,0 900 for general relief ex-
cept for Poland and Hungary, and
S725, COO, 900 for government and re-
lief in U. S. occupied areas of Eu-
rope and Asia. A conference with
the House must be held before
final action to debate senate in
crease of ST., ,561, 3O2 over the total
amount voted by the House.
Action Completed
2. The House, by voice vote,
completed action on a compromise
bill granting the army S., ,934, 000,-
600 in cash and contract authori-
cations for fiscal '48. 1t was re-
turned to the senate for a final
vote which Will send it to the
president. It represents a reduc-
ton of 1924, 261, 900 below Mr.. Tru-
mans Army budget requests.
House appropriations experts said
this would force the Army to get
rid of II, 500 officers, $50 warrant
officers, and 58,371 civilian work
erS.
One of the six remaining supply
bills ran into last-minute snag
when the senate refused, 81 to 1,
to accept a House-approved COM
promise earmarking $35, ,040, 900 for
various government corporations,
including $1s, 100000 for the Tenn
essee Valley authority. Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell, D., Ca, cast the
only vote for it.
1t was sent back to conference
partly on the plea of Senate Presi-
dent Arthur H. Vandenberg, R.,
Mich, who objected vigorously to
a provision giving the Bureau of
the Budget control over admins
trative expenses of the Federal
Deposit Insurance corporation. He
claimed the budget bureau, which
operates under the president, is
"subject to political CONTROL
Sandwiched in with last-minute
priority measures were a number
of special investigation proposals
which will keep some members of
congress busy while their col
leagues are resting up for next
years legislative program and the
presidential election campaign.
Ignoring Democratic protests
against "junkets, the House voted
$40, 900 for various committee in
quiries during the next few
months. This brought to $1,07c, ,204
the total amount approved by con-
gress for Investigations this year
Many of them will be made over
seas.
The House granted, among 9TH
er things, $4,000 for a special tax
study by its Ways and Means COM
mittee. Democrats charged that
this was done simply to "bail out"
Chairman Harold Knutson, R.,
Mimi, whom they accused of
starting the study without consult
ing other members. He ignored
them, saying he was "too old to
indulge in peanut politics.
Without so much argument the
House also eamarked $125, 900 for
study of foreign policy by its
Foreign Affairs committee and a
like amount to. create a special
committee to look into foreign aid
programs. And it gave $25, 900 to
it's Armed Services committee to
investigate army policies in oc-
cupied areas overseas.
The Senate Armed Services COM
-mittee also announced plans to
have a looksee this summer at
U. 8. military activities In Europe
and the Pacific.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
OBITUARIES

this morning at 10 o'clock for
Charles E. Brewer. general super
intendent Western division, Atlantic
Coast Line who died at his Atlanta,
Ca, home Thursday.
Officials from the Wilmington Of
fees are expected to attend the
services.
Mr.. Brewer joined the ACL or
ganization January l, 1946 when
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Coas1
railroad was merged with the ACL.
He was born in Frankllnvllle,
August 20, 1873 and first entered
railroad service with the Cape
Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad
(now Atlantic and Yadkin and At
lantic Coast Line).
He served as general superln-
tendent of the ABC road for num-
Der of years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26

SMI1HFlELDc@(
TO HOLD DRAWN; \
Officials $ Plan To Holdv.
terry Despite Attora.s'' s''
Generals RuIins1 NY

ISN'T sM;ITHF1ELD, July % i
csraiina cespl5s an ,++c4a opinion Of II he y =
mat the plan constituted d. - 5 = II
{o55eTg; comgeras the saoa ssmjthtield casn5.,, ",
away a two-door Cheyrool...' . Ii,
mobile as a prize on SF,. W. ~; ~
Day" August 10. amt
declared: VI osfeG.,
The directors of tho ~.
Oh Commerce decided J4'f'e
ceed with plans for giyi9g ~, 10 NJ
automobile on Farn1es,.S SWaya {
August l3. The board ta1. . d,
was honorably committed ;. nat
this and other prizes ana ~ ava,
violation of the law was a ins. mat >
II the methods employed for Isf'. .n;,
ing the prizes" ~ ava.
The board, which had cor-,,
vice from its own attorrsTS gu, , 4
man Shepherd, as well Az - .. NJ
torney general, based its de,i,' ei
to go ahead with the au.o 4''.S' !.
away on the theory that tSs,.s Y s'
no consideration given bv w. e w W
ers of the tickets and +bs..... s ~.
there was no violation of tbe ,,,,. 81.
anti-lottery laws. ''''
Under the program. M g.,
field residents are allowed ~ ',.. ~
ticipate in the drawings, 8 s,s;, =.
field merchants have given 'r ,r
tickets TO farmers maxim 'sI WI
chases. The purpose of ths :, :,
gram, it has been stated is n ,
farmers in Smithfield.
Members of the board were E,
to have come to the concIr,'
that the attorney generals n@ NJ
did not get the complete facts VII
it declared the plan illegal.
Assistant Attorney General W,
Bruton said Monday that the n
constituted an illegal lotterv :
cause chances on the car re,,
sented an inducement to purcb,
merchapdise.
The decision to go ahead "
the automobile drawing also ca
after a statement yesterday
Solicitor Jack Hooks of Ken
Hooks said that lotteries Should
prohibited and the laws relas
thereto should be strictly enr
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
TOUCH THE FLESH
By Alley

Marcelus Cureton, Negro,
defendant in Superior Court
yesterday facing a charge of
assault with intent to kill, ex-
planned to the jury and the court
how David Lewis, another
Negro, confronted him in his
yard as he chopped wood.
"Touch the flesh," Cureton
quoted Lewis as saying. The
court, the jurors, the specta-
tors and attorneys look ed
puzzled.
"That's an expression mean
ing shake hands," explained De-
fense Attorney Aaron Goldberg.
Everyone chuckled.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-26
TWO KILLED

!. CHARLOTTE, July Is. ~
Mrs. William L. Morris, and her
laughter, Mrs. Margaret Brown.
hoth Of Concord, were killed today
h the collision of their automobile
ind a truck-trailer on highway %
PEAR the Cabarrus-Meck cklenburg
bounty line.