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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
Junior College
Building Is
Contemplated

misunderstanding concerning the
proposed new housing for the
Montgomery Junior College has
resulted in a statement from Dean
Hugh G. Price in an effort to
clarity the situation and to give
proper credit to the governmental
agency which is cooperating to
make the housing possible. "The
College has been in close coopera-
ton with the Federal Works
Agency" said Dean Price, Gin an
effort to secure temporary hous-
ing which will make possible
greater educational opportunities
for Veterans"
"The College has submitted a
Classification of Need" for this
special housing, and the Office
Of Education's representative in
the Federal Works Agency Bureau
of Community Facilities has sub
mitted Finding of Need" This
finding has reported the desirabili-
ty of providing the college with
10000 square feet of floor area
to meet the needs of veterans
training" Dean Price has stated
that this finding has resulted in
the filing of an application for the
added facilities, and thus far the
application has been acknowledged
and is being processed.
"The college has expressed the
hope" Dean Price says, shat
this new temporary housing will
be ready by fall. Thus far no as
surance has been given that the
facilities can be made available.
If and when the construction is
done it will be completed at the
expense of the government except
for architectural services, prepare
ton of the site, and the placing
of utilities up to the building line.
The buildings provided are of the
temporary type originally con-
structed for war time use."
"Any statements concerning
permanent housing for the College
will be given out by the Board of
Education office in Rockville. Any
planning for permanent construc-
ton of any type is the responsible
lily of the Board of Education and
the Superintendent DR.. Edwin w.
Broome: The Board has approved
the present plans for temporary
housing and has approved the ne
gotiations with the Federal Works
Agency. 1t is very evident that
permanent construction plans
must come about as the result of
long range planning-not the hur-
ried acceptance of temporary ex-
pediencies of an emergency ma
ture such as are now in progress"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
Paul and Anna Martin
Given Herd Name

Paul G. and Anna H. Martin,
Damascus, have been given the
privilege of the exclusive use of
the name "Pal-Mar" as a herd
name in registering their purebred
Ayrshire cattle, the Ayrshire
Breeders Association in Brandon,
VT, has announced. There are now
over 10000 herds of the popular
Scottish dairy COW in the United
States.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
Engagement Announced

Mrs. Ruth P. Myers and Mr..
Harry Myers, announce the en-
gagement of their daughter, Ruth
Rebecca, to Mr.. John Lincoln
Reed, son of Mrs. Ernest c. Reed
and the late Mr.. Reed, of West
Newton and Falmouth Heights,
Mass.
Miss Myers served with the
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27
st. Patrick's Dance
At Damascus

On March 10, St. Patrics's Day
dance will be held at Damascus
High School, sponsored by the sem
iors. Music will be furnished by
Clark sheetenhelm and his Mod
ernaires.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27

WAVES. for IS months and is
at present secretary for a Boston
concern.
Mr.. Reed attended Staunton
Military Academy, Staunton, Va,
Northeastern University, Boston,
and served with the 1O6th Infan-
try Division in Germany.
No date has been set for the
wedding.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27

CHICAGO-The Rev. DR.. Herbert
M. Wilson, superintendent of Asbury
Methodist Home for the Aged,
Gaithersburg, Md, was installed by
Bishop Raymond J. Wade of Detroit
as the president Of the National AS
ISOLATION Of Methodist Hospitals and
Homes, at the close Of a two-day
meeting here, February 10.
The organization includes 1T in
stitutions afnhated with the Board
Of Hospitals and Homes of The
Methodist Church Of which DR.. Karl
P. Meister Of Chicago is the execu-
tive secretary, and Bishop Wade the
president. Their assets total more
than $4,000, 900.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1947-02-27

The public school system is the
greatest promoter of business to be
found in the nation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
CALIFORNIA LOOT V
FOUND IN STATE
Charlotte Police Recover
$25,000 Worth OF Sill
verware, Jewelry

CHARLOTTE, July 8-R)-Char.
lotte police announced today they
had recovered in a pawn shop and
home here silverWare and jewelcy
estimated to be worth $25,000 al
1egedly stolen in California, and
alerted Winston Salem police to
look Cor 81, 500 more in silverware.
Littlejohn said Robert Gene
Smith was being questioned by
detectives in San Luis Obispo,
while he had asked Seattle police
to arrest Robert (Sonny) Sund-
berg. Both Smith and Sundberg
formerly lived in Charlotte, Little
john added.
The police chief said these ar
ticles had been recovered here:
A massive silver tea set and a
10-pound sterling tray, estimated
worth $4,000; 80 flat pieces of sill
yer; $1,000 watch; other silver
table articles; a long strand Of
pearls and another necklace OF
diamonds and other stones.
Discovery of the silver and Jew
elry here followed a request from
detectives in San Luis Obispo Cor
police to check on Smith, who had
been arrested there after he had
pawned a silver-plated pistol all
legedly stolen in San Francisco.
Littlejohn said he had learned
that Sundberg had given Smith
the pistol after Smith, in the auto
mobile painting business here,
had painted Sundherg's car. Both
men later left for the West coast,
Littlejohn said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
new COTTON CROP
MAY FALL SHORT
Nation Now Faces Smallest
Supply In Quarter OF
Century

WASHINGTON, July 8 -H-
The United States faced the pro-
spect today of the smallest sup
ply of cotton for the coming mar
keting year in nearly a quarter
of a century.
The Agriculture department
acreage figures - the first cotton
report of the season indicated
that production this year possibly
may fall nearly 100000 bales
short of estimated requirements.
The department reported the
cotton acreage IN cultivation on
July 1 at 81, 1885, acres, an in
crease of 17.6 percent over Last
year but about 10 percent below
the governments recommended
goal.
The department made no pro
duction forecasts, but the crop
would be about 10, 1876, 900 bales OF
500 pounds gross weight if the
acreage abandoned is equal to the
ten-year average and the yield
per acre is equal to the long
time average Of about $50 pounds.
The first official production
forecast will be issued August 8.
In setting goal of $4,000, GOO
acres, the department last winter
estimated needs for the market
ing year beginning August l at
about 12,36O,00O bales.
Thus a crop Of 10, 495, 900 bales
See COTTON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
Along The Cape Fear

ODD BURIALS - John Paul
Jones, the early American naval
hero and a Wilmington woman,
apparently hao similarities in be-
ing inferred in a lead casket filled
with alcohol, C. C. Chadbourn, 415
South Front Street, has noted in
a letter.
Chadbourn recalled the oddness
of the burial Of the naval hero
after reading an editorial in a re-
cent paper. ''It is interesting to
recall" he wrote, "that French
friend as a mark of courtesy to
this country and in case this coun-
try ever desired 10 bring the body
Chat of J. P. Jones) home, placed
it in a lead caske.. filled with al
cohol and there it remained for
over century,"
"In 1905 the body was escorted
il triumph through the streets ol
Paris and brought to this country
accompanied by an honor squad
ron of four cruisers. It is now in
marble sarcophagus under the
chapel at the Naval Academy al
Annapolis where bicentennial me
r.orial services were held July
6th," Chadbourn continued.
COINCID JNCE-"It is a coinci'
dence that only few weeks ago
you carried the story of similar
disposition of the body Of Will
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
Union Leader
Scores Again
~
UNIV Chieftain Wins Big.
gest Wage Increase
Ever Granted

WASHINGTON, July 8 -R-
John L. Lewis ordered three
fourths of his 100000 soft coal
miners back to the pits tonight
to work for another year-when
"aole and willing'-at the biggest
wage increase he ever won.
who's looney now?" he de-
manded of his critics in general
as he juo;lantly told reporters OF
the precedent-s -shattering pact.
Coal operators paraded to Unit
ed Mine workers headquarters to
sign on Lewis terms. For those
who didn'. sign the terms were:
take it or leave it.
The Southern Coal Producers
association was the only sizeable
group to leave it. They hit Lewis
for notifications in closed
meeting, apparently got nowhere
and decided to convene tomorrow
at IL noon (E.S.T.j for 'fina]
decision.
One of the Southerners predict
ed they would be ''forced to ac-
cept," as a group or individually.
In fact, scattering of them had
already accepted. But Southern
See UNION on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
MISSING YOUTHS
VERY MUCH ALIVE
Johnny Vollers, Harold
Borneman Explain Top
sail Light Episode

The mystery Of the missing
white boat at Topsail Inlet has
been solved.
Johnny Voners and Harold Bor-
herman, young men OF Winter
Park, reported yesterday that
.sthey were very much alive"
Borneman calico the Star-News
early yesterday morning after a
story had appeared in the Star
about two Spofeord Mill workers,
Leon Lee and Roland Watts, who
reported they saw small white
boat, apparently in distress In the
inlet early Monday morning.
Borneman and Vollers had been
fishing for drum and were using
a miners light, carbide-powered
unit, Borneman said. Inc palr'
after unsuccessfully trying to. fan
the light out by swinging it in
the air, decided to stamp the Isht
out.
81 am sure the light those fel-
lows saw was from our lantern. "
Rorneman said. when the light
went out, 1 guess Lee and Watts
thought we had gone under" Bor-
neman said.
Lee told the Star Monday night
that he and Watts were unable
to 90 to the aid of the boat I'm
distress" because the boat they
were using was too small.
And there is the happy ending
to what might have been tragic
fishing expedition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
Army Whips Up Saucer Furry
However ''Find'' Finally Fizzles
Mysterious Disc Found On
Farm Proves Altitude
Weather Device

CHICAGO, July 8 - WH-The
Army Air Forces whipped up a
furry of excitement today with
an announcement that one of the
mysterious flying saucers hao
been found on a ranch in New
Mexico-but it turned out to be
part of an Army high-altitude
weather observation device.
Col. William H. Blanchard
commanding officer OF the Ros.
well IN. N.Y. Army Air base, an.
nounced the discovery, describing
the object as a flying disc
Brig. Gen. Roger B. Ramey, For
Worth, commanding general oil
the 9th Air Force, then announced
the object would be flown tc
Wright Field, o.. for investiga
ton.
The Army Air forces in Wash.
ington quickly followed with g
statement that Ramey had report.
ed to headquarters that ian OBJ
ject" reported to be a 'flying
saucer" was being forwarded tc
Wright Field.
Hours after the first announce
ment, Warrant Officer Irving
Newton, Stetsonvilie, Wis, assign
ed to the weather station at the
See ARMY On Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09

mington lady who died at sea-
Chadbourn wrote. "Such cases
are exceedingly rare. Indeed
these are the only two cases thai
ever came to the attention of this
writer"
While such a portion of Jones
history has seldom been told, the
rest of his career is as familiar
t. the schoo1boy as the Saturday
afternoon westerns at the movies
Cha ,>oourn notes, however, tina
''for some reason unknown tt
naval historians this hero added
the name Jones, his full name
having been John Paul. He was
native of Scotland.
About this great naval hero
Ckadbourn continued, "Wnile he
was engaged in many naval ac
tivities his chief claim to fame
is his classic remark, I have no
yet begun to fight These were
the circumstances: He was il
command of the Bon Hommt
Richard which was never intend
ed. For a fighting ship. She was
merchant vessel, but for the
emergency converted into wal
ship. She was engaged by thu
powerful British naval vessel, thS
Serapis. Half of the Admiral:
men were killed, most of his gun!
See CAPE FEAR On Page Swo
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
PROBLEMS
BEFORE COUNCIL
Round The City, Truck
Route And Police System
To Be Considered

Two matters of more than pass
ing interest are expected to come
up at today's regular city council
meeting although in neither case
is final action expected.
One is the long-delayed propos-
ed "round-the-city" truck route
and the other plans on greater ef-
ficiency for the police department.
Council members will consider
at their 1C am, meeting, which
one of three routes, or any, they
should recommend for the use OF
gasoline trucks in driving through
or around the city.
The police matter pertains to a
report submitted by Roy Morgan,
former FBI agent who recently
completed a survey of the depart
ment with an eye to improving
the entire system and recommen-
dations by Police Chief Hubert
Hayes along tine same line. City
Manager J. R. Benson is expected
to submit the Morgan report.
See 2 PROBLEMS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
TEACHERS T0CET
DATA ON SALARY
State Education Board To
Set Schedules For Year
On Thursday

RALEIGH, July g. R School
teachers of the state will learn
Thursday in dollars and cents the
amount of salary increase they
will receive next school year.
The answer 10 the question the
tn 1947 General assembly in
creased appropriations for their
salaries will be forthcoming when
the State Board of Education
meets here Thursday to adopt a
budget for the coming school
year.
The boards finance committee,
which has been studying the bud
get for several weeks-and parti.
cularly the question of a teacher
salary scnedule-will make its re-
port at the meeting.
Available for operating the
schools next year is approximate
ly 100000 compared with ap'
proximatsly $45,000,000 being
spent this year.
Approximate tely $4,000, 900 of the
total available for operating the
schools has been earmarked for
salaries for the 25,OO teachers
and principals.
The remaining 100000 will &C
as salaries for superintendents
clerical help, bus mechanics, jan
itors, and bus drivers, for opera.
ton of plants lights, water and
fuel, and for supplies.
During the legislature, there
was considerable debate over
whether the appropriation for
teachers salaries would provide
salary increases of 80 per cent
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
Article 4 Hits
USSR Thesis
u.r<ball's Top A dvisor
Ip2eearded As Author OF
Strong expose"

DISTINCTION, July q W.R-
,.'rptary " of State George G.
:sts+sbalis top adviser on Russia
rpnorteo reliably to.-lgnt te
n' .,s author of a current anany-
's ns ~ magazine article bluntly
p.yr pN"lyzjng Soviet foreign pollcy
'.d'' '.d attempting to answer the
Wv astion: what is Russia up to
now.
rbo article has created consider
.sra interest here and has become
'1,rsL" ' reading in State depart
ont ana diplomatic circles where
!. i.-; ;s regarded as a faithful portray
>, " If current U. S. policy to"aro
-. Soviet Union. Had it alp cared
adar NV the suspected author name
more popularity read maga.
.;ne it may have created a SEN
' 'a,iop, if not a diplomatic incident.
The article sees only political
nd economic conflict between the
= ~ $, and USSR and warns the U.
10 expect only secretiveness,
isck of frankness, duplicity, wary
usniciousness and basic unfrlend-
i;npss ' Of purpose in the conduct OF
pnssia's foreign affairs under the
present regime.
# nroposes-and observers agree
that its proposals are present U:
policy-that the United States
inter "a policy of firm contain
ment" designed to comfort the
sovjets with "unalterable counter
force'' at every point where they
,aow signs of enroaching lpon
The interests Of a peaceful and
Eable world.
No Confirmation
There is no official confirmation
ot who wrote the article. But
every diplomat who has read it and
was asked about it had no doubt
that the author was George F
Keenan,, career diplomat whose
,pecialty has been Russia and
who recently was named by
Mashall to head his new long
range foreign policy planning staff.
The article appears in the cur
rent issue Of an erudite quarterly
See ARTICLE On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
GALLUP POLL GIVES
VOTE ANALYSIS OVER
TAFT-HARTLEY BILL

The fight over labor legislation
hit the political interests of Amer
lean voters like a rip tide. Now
that Labor Management Law is in
effect what opinion does the vot-
ing population hold OF President
Truman, Senator Taft and other
participants in the clash between
pro and con?
The American Institute Of Pub
lie Opinion polled cross-section
of voters before and after the law
was passed.
DR.. Georg Gallup, the nsti-
tute's director, will analyze the
results OF these intensive polls in
series of four articles. Anyone
following political trends in this
country cannot afford to miss the
series.
The Morning Star
will publish DR.. Gallup's Articles
beginning July II.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
'DAHLIA' MURDER
BATTLES POLICE
Twenty-Year-0ld Woman
Latest Victim OF Sex
Maniac On Coast

LOS ANGELES, July 8 -U.D-
The nude and mutilated body of
pretty Mrs. Rosenda Mondragon,
20, was found in the cid Mexican
section within d few blocks Of the
city hall today. She had been
strangled with a silk stocking.
The latin beauty was the sixth
victim in murder cycle that
started with the "Black Dahlia''
) ing of Elizabeth Short, %,
Jan. Is. One maniac was belived
responsible for all six.
The latest victims breasts were
lacerated and her face showed
signs Of a beating. From bruises
on her body, it appeared she was
strangled first and then thrown
from an automobile. There was
evidence of attempted criminal
assault. Around her neck was a
religious medal to ward off evil.
She wore a gold ring with a pur-
pie stone.
The slain woman's estranged
husband, Tony Mondragon, o {
pollce his wife visited him brief.
ly at about 2 am, and appeared
slightly intoxicated. He said they
conversed briefly and she left,
saying she had a date. Mondragon
See DAHLIA On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
POWER SHOVEL SAVES
OLD GRAY MARE FROM
'OOZY' CANAL DEATH

PHILADELPHIA, July ~
Bessie, an old grey mare, was
found mired and slowly sinking ir
an old muck-.eilletl canal in South
Philadelphia today.
Policemen tried to 1asso the
horse and drag her out. No luck
Agents of the Society For The
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
donned hip boots and waded tc
the rescue - without success.
Bessie continued to sink irto the
ooze.
A big power shovel was put te
work, showing aside tons of muck
Until it reached the scene. Their
it hoisted Bessie to safety aboard
a rope attached to 50foot boom
Stableman Abraham Rathblatt
wrapped Bessie in blankets and
led her back to the barn.
He was overheard mutterins
something about old grey
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
COURT CLERKS MEET
AT ATLANTIC BEACH

August L. Meyland, clerk of the
New Hanover county court, will
be one of several score in attend
ance at the annual convention OF
the Association Of Superior Court
Clerks of the state beginning today
at Atlantic Beach and lasting
through Friday.
Up for discussion will be new
state laws, child adoption proce-
dures and other matters. Speakers
will include Peyton B. Abbott, as
sistant director of the Institute OF
Government at Chapel Hill, who
will speak on the new laws,
George R. Hughes, Trenton at
torney, and K. S. Cate of Chapel
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
UNIV InnerSanctumHas
FatDesk, FatRugs, Lewis

Of a dream the interior decorator
Of movie palace once had about
a coal mine. And maybe it is.
There are panelled walls and
overhead beams to delicately sug-
gest a mines innards. Special
safety lamps are on the wall, on
each side Of the big fireplace. A
fancy chandelier is made out OF
picks. shovels, sledgehammers,
dynamite borers and miners safe
ty lamps.
There are fat leather chairs. tat
See UNIV on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
COP Backed Tax Reduction Bill
Passes In House By 302 To 112;
Lewis Orders Miners Into Pits
Senate Plans
Quick Action
Speculation Rife In CAPITAL
AS To "Over-Ride"
Strength

WASHINGTON, July e-P)-The
Republican backed $4,000, 900, 600
income tax reduction for 49,O00,-
900 taxpayers sailed through the
House again today by an over
whelming vote of 202 to 112. This
is 26 more than the two thirds
needed to override a second pres
idential veto.
Speaker Martin (R-Mass) per-
sonally took the floor and asked
the body to make its vote so de-
cisive "as to persuade the Presi-
dent that the people should have
this delayed Justice"
Anticipating another Presiden-
tial veto, Martin declared the
House should exert its right to
perform it's constitutional function
Of determining what taxes shall
be levied on the people,
The measure was tossed over to
the Senate. where Republican
leaders said they hope to rush it
again to President Truman's desk
before the week ends.
Some Democratic leaders said
another veto is certain.
The measure is identical with
the one the President returned
June is as "the wrong kind ct
tax reduction at the wrong time"
except that the effective date Of
the tax cut mas ben changed
from July l, 1947, to January l,
1S48.
While a veto overriding vote
See SENATE On Page Two !,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
"Flying Saucers" Made
To Promote Toy Sales

rubber, about two feet in diam.
eler, painted them with luminous
paint and sent them to prospec-
tive sales agents around the coun
try.
II suggested that if the rubber
sailers were filled with heliun
and let loose in the air the wind
would blow them around the coun'
try and create quite a sensation,
Walker said. apparently that is
what has happened"
Walker explained that the spir
sailers, both the aluminium and
gas-filled rubber types, each had
See SAUCERS On Page Three
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
JAYCEES ENDORSE
NAL APPLICATION
Organization Wires CAB
Urging Granting OF
Route Il Washington

At the instigaticn of their air
port committee members of the
Wilmington Junior Chamber OF
Commerce last night endorsed the
application of National Airlines
for a direct air route between
Richmond, Baltimore, Philadel.
phia, and New York.
The Jaycees last night dispatch
ed telegram TO the Civil Aero.
nautics board in Washington, D.
c. urging that they grant permis.
sion to National Airlines to inaug-
urate the direct route. The case
is now being reviewed before the
board.
W. M. (Red) Echols, chairman
of the airport committee, present
ed the question to club members
and read the report which H. E.
Boyd is to present to the board
at the hearing in Washington.
Four contestants in the Miss
Wilmington beauty contest, which
is to be staged at Lumina on
Thursday night, were special
guests of the club at last night S
meeting. Introduced by Stanley
Render, chairman OF the pageant,
each girl told something about
herself.
MINIS Graduate
Lois Cox, VINO has lived in Will
mington all her life, is a graduate
of New Hanover High school and
was employed win the U. S. Mar
itime commission until about a
month ago.
June Willetts was born in Le-
land but she moved to Whining
ton and was graduated from New
Hanover high. She attended Wom-
See JAYCEES On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-09
RECORDING unit
SHOWN AT CLUB
Invited Group Witnesses
Demonstration OF New
Wire Instrument

Ever had your favorite radio
program interrupted by sales
man knocking at the door and
when you return you find you
missed an important part?
Want to listen to an hour of
symphonic music over and over
and do you want baby's first few
Da-Da's preserved forever?
Just get you a wire recorder
from Sears, Roebuck and Compa-
ny and your worries are over.
You get a cabinet model wire
recorder which will also play rec
ords and has a six-tube radio built
in with a loop antenna. You also
get $500 feet of wire which will
See RECORDING On Page TIVE