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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
CORK EXPERIMENT
STARTS IN COUNTY
T 1enty = Five Pounds OF
Cork Oak Acorns Dis
tributed To Ali Boys

Approximately Is pounds of cork
cak acorns were sent out yesterday
to Al club boys all over New Han
over county to be used in conduct
ing experiments in the growing of
the trees in this area, Coy Cook,
assistant county farm agent, said.
The experiments are being made
all over the country, Cook added,
and the project, called the Nc
Manus Cork Growing project, is
being sponsored by the United
States Department of Agriculture
and various civilian enterprises.
The majority of the cork oak used
in the United States is imported,
Cook explained, and the project
has been started to attempt to get
the oak growing in this country.
The acorns were received local
ly from the research department of
the Crown Cork and Seal company
of Baltimore. The All club boys in
this county will plant the acorns
and report back to the company
how many produced sprouts and
small trees.
The cork oak tree is an ever
green, Cook said, and is similar to
the live oak.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Weak,wateYB Blood
Blamed for Making
Men and Women
Look and Feel Older
THAN THEIR YEARS

How do you feel at the end Of a dav,
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Every day-every hour-millions Of
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o the marrow Of your bones to re-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
SCHOOL TEACHERS
CONTINUE STRIKE
Franklin County Officials
Will "Try To Work
Out Matter"

LOUISBURG. Feb. 5-(P)- Wiley
Mitchell, Franklin county school
superintendent who Monday night
announced that the Week-old walk
out of the Bum consolidated school
would be placed in the hands OF
state authorities, tonight reversed
his earlier position with the an
nouncement that Franklin school
officials will try to work out
the matter"
In Raleigh, meanwhile. State
Bureau of Investigation Director
Walter Anderson said that he had
assigned Special Agent Lee B.
Phillips to cooperate with Franklin
County Sheriff John P. Moore in
a study of alleged threats of "vio-
lence."
At first it was thought that the
state board of education, holding
its regular meeting tomorrow in
Raleigh, might be asked to serve
as a medlatlng group for the Bum
school Walkout.
State Comptroller Paul A. Reid
said in Raleigh that the Bum is
sue probably will not be heard by
the state board. since the board
officials regarded it as a purely
local issue"
Although Bum officials have not
officially requested a hearing be-
fore the board, they are free to
appear before the board. Reic
said.
The school controversy centers
about Miss Lucy Wigs. sixth
grade teacher who has taught ii
the Bum community for 20 years.
She is scheduled for retirement
in November, 1948. Misunderstood
ings between Miss Wigs and O
G. Thompson. administrative prin'
cipal, resulted in a walkout of the
schools teachers. The situation
since has been at an impasse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
AFL Executive Council
Votes To Cut Down On
Strikes And Walkouts

MIAMI. Fla, Feb. 5-(PrThe
ALL executive council voted today
to utilize fully all the resources
and facilities" of the ALL to fight
off anti-labor legislation but moved
to cut down the number Of strikes
with a system of arbitration tri-
bunals.
The council concluded n of its
shortest winter meetings on record
with a severe attack on congress
sional and state legislative pro-
posals to restrict unions. A three
man committee was clothed with
full authority to conduct the fight.
AFL President William Green,
heading the committee, told a news
conference that using the AFL's
entire resources might include
mass meetings or demonstrations
on a grand scale. Green averted
a direct answer about the possibili-
ty Of a general strike as a demon
stration against the harsher
measure now pending in congress.
He said the committee would de-
eide what to do.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
JEWISH COUNCIL
REJECTS DEMANDS
Continued From Page Onc)

tOOAASAAAhSu 4AOIll age OlIVJ
mately 1000 British women and
children from the Holy Land in
line with the order issued by the
Palestine government last week.
Today about $50 civilians were
evacuated by air while 800 Others
went by train to Egypt, their first
stop enroute to England.
An unofficial but highly regard
ed informant said that if the Jew
ish agency refuses to give assist
ance to the British against the
underground groups such as Irgun
and the Stern gang, the British
will withdraw official recognition
from the agency.
This source said such with
drawal would probably be an
nounced in a white paper" to
be issued Tuesday. Both the Jew
ish' agency and its own armed
force, Hagana, have refused to
cooperate with the British, saying
the Jews would not become a ma
ton of informers.'' A Hagana
spokesman has said it would move
against the underground provided
it was given "a free hand"
(The British Colonial office in
London declined to comment or
whether it vas preparing a white
paper.)
Meanwhile no appeal, had beer
filed on behalf of Dow Bella Gruner
convicted member of Irgun Eva
Leumi who is under death sen
tence. There was no official wor'
of his eventual fate. Jewish lead
ers fear his execution will sigma
reprisals from krgun Zvia Leum
and imposition of martial law l
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Bureau Delegates
Elect Officers, Adjourn

erosion" aunst
No changes in laws gon..
control of bangs and otbeT St d;sala
among livestock. ''Seaia!
Making the granting OF riu.
way for rural electric an5 i'''S d
phone lines compulsory. N'u 'ss'
Development of mar,e+..
cold storage facilities for nj
and adoption of uniform poot9
standards. sIac:l
Requesting that railways b. =.
CURED to furnish adequate y g,, Il
keting fruits and vegetable, 20a'
bers of refrigerated cars fon
Support of the program ~ [l'fs
national cotton council and . =, a'
uation of government loans ~ sYI'H'
ton growers. co.,
Equitable development a,
lands for farming purposes h.. Ds'
federal government. lie
Replacement Of Worn out sc,,..
buses. raising of bus drivers s-0'
larles, and supervision Of ID
ton in schools by the state - bo,|'
of health. 0oat
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
SEATS AT OPERA
APPEARANCE HERE
TO BE RESERVED

vi LeGwin. chairman OF a Junior
Chamber of Commerce special
committee handling details OF the
New York Civic Opera appearance
here February Is and 10. said last
night that all seats for the opera
presentation will be reserved.
In announcing this policy, Lee
Gwin revealed that of 1000 seats
available so per cent Of the balcony
reservations had already been sold
and that 80 percent of the orches-
ira seats were already allotted.
He pointed out that at previous
appearances of the opera group
in Asheville and Macon, Ga, a SELL
out audience was present.
LeGwin said that a stage and
property committee had been ap-
pointed, headed by Stanley Render
and Robert Dannenbaum. Other
members are Ben Jones, Jay Cas-
teen. Robert Howard, Eldridge
Howard, and Jack Atkinson.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06

ASHEVILLE, FEB 5 = R -
Election of officers and adoption
of resolutions featured the closing
session here this morning OF the
18th annual convention of the
North Carolina Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON, attended by approximate
ly 800 delegates from throughout
the state.
W. w. Eagles OF MacClesfield
was reelected president, A. c. Cd
wards of Hookerton a elected
vice-president, and r. Flake Shaw
of Greensboro was named execu-
tive vice-president and secretary.
Delegates adopted resolutions IA
voring continuation of the natio. al
farm program in policy and prin-
ciple establishment of a four-year
medical school at the University
Of North Carolina. and enactment
Of a model state fertilizer statue.
They endorsed quotas on to-
bacco, cotton and wheat, parity
prices, soil conservation, military
training through schools and tie
national guard, expansion of agri-
cultural research. elimination of
sales taxes on farm machinery,
tightening of highway safety regu.
lations, state regulation of timber
cutting, and the state good health
program.
They asked the legislature to II
act a law adopting the information
al log rule as the standard of tim
Der measure il this state and 10
require that timber cutters leave
standing on each acre being
logged at least five trees of Il
inches diameter FOR reforestation
purposes.
They petitioned the general as
sembly to consider the advisable
ty of passing laws enabling peanut
growers and other groups to con-
duct referendums on levying taxes
for promotional and marketing
purposes.
Other resolutions called for:
Transfer from the agriculture
department appropriation 70 the
general fund budget set-up of mon
ely used in enforcing the pure food
and drug act.
Establishment of r%ecreational
facilities for the youth OF North
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
TRUMAN WARNS
OF DISARMAMENT
Continued From Page One)

can safely lay aside their arms
only insofar as their security is
protected by other means"
The president spoke ~favorably
of virtually all United Nations &C
tivities. He said, however, that the
progress of the security councils
military staff committee toward
organization of armed forces to
prevent aggression had been dis
appointingly slow"
AS for control of atomic energy,
he said:
"There is good reasonfto hope
that if the imperatives of the pro
blem are given the weight they
deserve the political obstacles
that still stand in the way of ar-
irving at a sound solution can be
overcome and that the nations
represented on the atomic energy
commission dncluding America,
Russia and the other powers) will
be able to reach unanimity on a
fully effective international sys-
tenn of control of atomic energy
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Opening Planned Today
For Auto AccessoryFirm

mass buying facilities offered by
Blackwood's, Inc, and the COM
pany policy of localizing owner
ship and management, We feel
that we have all the advantages
of the large chain store groups,
plus the satisfaction of owning our
own business" Horace Barefoot
stated. Having worked for sev-
eral years with auto accessory
stores, and having had experience
in handling this type OF merchan-
disc, we are particularly optomis-
tic about the future of our Black
wood Associate Store. With such
high quality products as Soldering
Tires, National Batteries and
Stewart-Warner Radios, We know
that we can satisfy customers"
All Wilmington residents, "a.
B." Barefoot lives at 118 N. Mon
roe street. He is married to the
former Mary Jane Sheek, teacher
in the Maffitt Village School here.
&c. R. and Horace Barefoot make
their home at 316 Calhoun Drive,
and A. c. jackson at 8 North Van
Buren,.
In addition to a system of indie
pendently owned associate stores,
Blackwood's, Inc. operates stores
in Raleigh, Durham, Burlington,
Fayetteville, G%oldsboro and Rocky
Mount. General offices and ware
houses are maintained in Raleigh.
The North Carolina firm has been
in operation since 1918, in which
year o. C. Blackwood opened his
first auto accessory store in Ra-
leigh
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
TEN MEN ABOARD
MISSING AlRPLANE
Continued From Page One)

will be sent to the Richmond area
from the Elizabeth City, N. c.,
base tomorrow. The Navy plans to
sent a couple of "Weasels" am
phibious, tracked, combat vehicles
to get into the swampy peninsula
tomorrow, the Coast Guard said.
Until today the Navy here said
the plane was carrying a rev of
four possibly two Marine passen-
gers. But the list was revised up
ward on word from Portsmouth,
N. H., that five Navy men and a
Marine embarked as passengers.
The ship had flown Navy prisoners
to the detention barracks at
Portsmouth from Norfolk and van
ished on the return flight.
The passengers, whose names
were withheld temporarily, were
stationed at Norfolk.
Crew members are c. H. Urban.
chief Aviation pilot, husband OF
Mrs. Ruth Evelyn Urban, Norfolk;
1t. Gg) B. W. Schofield, co-pilot,
son of Mrs. Nathan Schofield,
Crumpler, w. Va; J. M. Dawdy,
aviation machinist's. mate, &c,
son of Marshall A. Dawry, La
Crescenta, Calf, and w. R. Weeks.
aviation radioman, &c, son Of Mrs
Annie Lee Weeks, 1904 Boone St.
Rocky Mount, N. c.
The plane left the Norfolk all
| station Tuesday morning and de
livered a load Of prisoners to the
Naval prison. 1t left the New
Hampshire base on the return
flight at 1:55 a. M, was over New
York at 3:31 p. m. and over Wash
ington at 4:46 p. m. At 6:17 p. m
a weak radio message from the
plane said it was lost and Was en-
countering storms and had head
ed west in search of better flying
! conditions. 1t was not heard from
again.
The area in which the plane wa!
sighted was in the general area
embraced by searching planes
from the Army, Navy and Coas
Guard. and it was believed by
Coast Guard headquarters that !
is not inconceivable the Wreckage
is that Of the missing Naval trans
port.
Child actors played and sang
in Shakespeare's time in his own
theater and also at Blackfrlars.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
FUNERAL SERVICES
HELD FOR MITSCHER.
Famous Leader OF Task
Force So Inferred At
Arlington Cemetery

WASHINGTON, Feb. s. W-D -
The little man with the long-bllled
cap was laid to rest in Arlington
National Cemetery today with the
solemn military honors the nation
reserves for its greatest fighting
men.
He was Adm. Marc Andrew
Mitscher, skipper of famed Task
Force So whose explosive carrier
strikes destroyed japanese sea
power and blazed a victory tran
across the Pacific to Tokyo Bay.
Mitscher died quietly in his sleep
early Monday at Norfolk. Va. Ma
val Hospital of a heart allment ag-
gfavated by almost four years OF
combat service in Pacific waters.
High Navy and Army officers
including Fleet Adm. William D.
Leahy who represented President
Truman. followed the 60-year-old
Admiral's bier to his burial place
across the Potomac from the Ma
IlOQdl Cdpltd1s
Simple funeral services were
held at the nearby Fort Myer, Va,
Post Chapel, whence he was borne
On a horse-draWn caisson to the
cemetery.
A battalion of Midshipmen from
the U. S. Naval Academy and two
platoons of Marines and Blue
Jackets formed a guard of honor
as the cortege moved slowly
through the cemetery gates. and
the U, S. Navy Band followed in
line to the somber strains of the
funeral march.
Capt. Ernest L. Ackiss of the Ma
Wy Chaplain Corps. conducted The
funeral services in the Chapel and
again when the skipper of ''58" was
lowered into his stone crypt.
At his death, Mitscher was COM
mander-in-Chi of the U. S. At
lantic Fleet, one of two top sea-
going commands in the Navy.
But he won his lasting fame in
the far corners Of the Pacific at
the head of the noW-disbanded task
force So whose carriers were out
in front of practically every major
American sea fight.
Mitscher was skipper of the car
rier hornet in April, 1912. when the
Doolittle raiders took off from her
decks for the first raid of the war
on Japan.
From there he went on to take
part in the air-sea battles of Mid
way and the Solomons and to lead
task force So on its laundering
strikes against Truk, the Marshall
Islands and finally the Japanese
homeland.
His twin trademarks in battle
were the long-billed baseball cap
perpetually damned down over his
eyes and the easy chair in which
he habitually rode his bridge -
looking out over the stern because,
he once said, I'm an old man
now, and I spent my youth look
ing ahead"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
STEEL PRIORITIES
UNDER DISCUSSION
Administration Chiefs
Clash Over "Army's Fer
tilizer Program"

WASHINGTON. Feb. S - (R -
Two administration chiefs clash
ed today over steel priorities grant
ed for 100 tank cars "to aid the
Army's fertilizer program abroad;
when such ALLEGATIONS r not used
to build new freight cars.
Testifying before a Senate Sub
committee investigating the ma
tional shortage of 100, 900 cars.
Director j. Monroe Johnson of the
Office of Defense Transportation
criticized such use of prlorltles.
Commissioner John c. Houston,
Jr., of the Civil Production Ad-
ministraticn which issued the pri-
critics order last year said the
cars themselves were not for ex-
port. The steel was expedited for
cars already on order, he said, to
put them into use sooner because
of the Army fertilizer demand re-
sulting increased production.
Meanwhile, commissioner Harold
Stein of the Offic of w a r
Mobilization and Reconversion,
a n d Houston predicted n e W
car output for the nations rail
roads would reach 1000 in March
and possibly more than 5000 IN
June, depending on availability of
various parts. In January. it
slumped to 2,408.
This a voluntary program, Stein
explained. worked out with the
industry by Maj. Gen. Phillip B.
Fleming, Administrator OF the Of
flee of Temporary Controls. by
steel is "Channeled'' throughout
l947 for new freight cars.
johnson, sporting a Difference te
the LOO tank cars, told the Sen
ators:
You know what that's about,
don't you. That's for the Army's
fertilizer program in Japan sno
other occupied countries.
Houston explained the Army
needs the fertilizer for food pro
duction in areas where if it were
llOL dVdlldDlG d llluCll 1oi SCI AAAAiAJ
would be needed in the face OF 6
starving populace. One ton of fer
t%ilizer, he said, is worth seven o:
food.
johnson said he was not crit
icizing the Army's plan but men
toned it because the government
used priorities in that case and no
in building domestic cars.
The ODT director said the ex
pected production Of 1000 cars
month would merely hold u:
where we are" Senator Reed r.
Kas.) said we need at least
double 1000 a month"
Houston said the real bottle
neck to car making vii, De il
wheels, with the industry no" max
ing all the steel wheels Ii can.
THE only relief is in cast lror
Whee.., he said, but the!e pig
iron - needed, and the hu4a.ng
pro- al takes nearly so pei ceit'o.
that
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Maritime Order

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. -(F9- Tie
maritime commission today wired
all the general agents operating
ships for it in the domestic trade
to advertise no voyages beginning
after March l and to accept no
cargo bookings thereafter.
This action was prompted by the
fact that authority of the COM
mission to operate ships will expire
on February % unless it is renewed
by congress. President Truman
has requested an extension of this
authority, but congress has taken
no action thus Ear.
About so merchant ships il the
coastwise a n d i%ntercoastal trades
are affected by the order sent out
today. Q.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
COMPROMISE SEEN
AT I'm SESSION
Continued From Page One)

The Russian delegate, n in
formant said, accepted the major
portions of the French compromise
as a working base. This carried
a provision for fast action on the
stymied atomic report. il,
Gromyko did object, it was add
ed, to a French suggestion that the
council order the military staff
committee, comprising representa-
tives of the chiefs of staff of the
five great powers. to submit a re-
port within months. The French
were said to have. dropped that
suggestion.
The main points of the French
compromise provide for creation
Of an arms limitation commission
to draw up proposals for the
security council and for the coun-
ell to take quick action on the
atomic energy commission report
so that it may instruct the atomic
commission on its next phase. The
atomic commission presently is
marking time. ..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
COUNClLMEN
HEAR MASTER PLAN
Continued From Page One)

A motion was made and accept
ed that a park be made from the
triangular plot of land at the inter
section of Nun and Church streets.
Council also voted unanimously
a recommendation for the addition
OF % lots located across the rail-
road tracks, near the Country Club,
property of Thomas H. Wright.
The request had been made by
Wright, and the action resulted
after it had been pointed out to
members of the body that the act
will not involve additional expen,
ditures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
AWARD MADE FOR
DAMAGE AT LAST
COURT SESSION

A total Of S375.55 was awarded
to. Marilyn Stanfield for injuries
received in a wreck On June "a
on the Wrightsville Beach cause
way at the last session of the
February civil term of New Han
owe county Superior court yester-
day.
Defendant in the action was the
Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey with Gray Hicks listed as the
driver of the company vehicle
figuring in the accident.
Judge Henry A. Grady. who
presided at the session, excused
all Jurors from further duty this
term! Cases outstanding On the
docket were continued until the
next civil term.
nto1 9-99ft r.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
WIGGS CAUTIONS
ACAINST.D
OF PAPER FIRES

w. c. Wigs, Jr., chief Of the
Wrightsville fire and police depart
ment. last night called attention
to the danger of burning paper in
Q and cautioned residents to
use care in following the practice.
He pointed to a grass fire in a
vacant lot at Oceanic VENUE at
$50 yesterday evening as prof Of
'e Danger. This fire. he saia.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06

before there existed much general
knowledge as to the size and shape
of the North America continent.
BEAUTY IN NAMES - There's
no wonder that many a writer has
turned to the lower Cape Fear
region as the scene for his novel.
All you have to do is null over
the names of some of the early
plantations in this vicinity to
realize how glamorous they must
have been.
Governors Point, named after
Governor Burlington VINO purchas-
ed the property from John Porter
in the early eighteenth century.
Howe's Point, named for the
Howes of South Carolina.
A steamboat landing on the Cape
Fear known as Nat Moore, but
usually spelled as one word, Nat
more.
Orion Plantation which is known
far and wide and still is a major
attraction in this entire area.
Kendall, Rice's Plantation, Spring
Garden, Lilliput, Pleasant Cakes,
Bclgrange, + but a few of the
numerous estates that made the
lower Cape Fear area the most
interesting and most romantic sec
tons of the entire Tar Heel state.
These are just a few as every
resident of the Port City could
extend the lists of historic sites on
and on for mary a column.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06

The hobby for stamp collecting
began a short time after the issue
OF the first British penny and two
penny stamps in 1910. DR.. Gray, OF
the British Museum, began collect
ing themk soon after their suoear-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Continued From Page One)

South Seas has no geographical
meaning at the present time. But
when New Hanover was an infant,
the term perhaps meant some
body of water far removed from
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06
Along The Cape Fear

the Atlantic Ocean and to the
west.
New Hanover was founded long
before there existed much general
knowledge as to the size and shape
of the North America continent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-06

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