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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21

erence. Chinese dislike moving
away from the graves of their an
cestors. When they do, they spare
no effort to insure that after death
their bodies go back to the land
of their fathers.
The weather. families, often
with many members, live behind
walls rigidly closed to the outside
world. Several apartments gener-
ally open IN connecting court
yards.
Customs in China are some
times just the opposite of Western
customs. Thus white, rather than
black, is the color of mourning.
And despite the influence of West
ern fashions, the standard Chinese
dress remains the long blue cot
ton robe.
In North China, just a little te
the south of the Great Wall, lies
ancient Peiping. There has been g
city on this site for 5000 years
Peiping is made up Of severa.
cities with great walls, placed one
within the other, like a Chinese
puzzle box. There is an OUTSIDE
Chinese city and the inner Man
chu-Tartar towns. At the center
lies the Imperial City. and at it
center again, the Forbidden City
the former residence Of the en-
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perors, withsits artificial lake and
elaborate marble palaces, once
hidden from the sight of all for.
eigners. Today much of the splen-
dor is vanishing.
Shanghai, in the delta of the
Yangtze River, is a great com.
mercial center. The wide Bund
along the waterfront, with its
modern sk%yscrapers, is one of the
famous streets Of the Orient. Earth
er up the Yangtze lies the city
of Marking, the capital.
Among the leading agriculture al
products of China are cotton, tea,
wheat, rice, barley, corn. millet
and other cereals. Silk culture is
one of the foremost industries
Pigs are raised everywhere ano
pigs bristles r a highly impor.
tant article Of export.
Nearly all the provinces O.
China have valuable coal deposits
In Shansi there are immensely ricl
iron as well as coal deposits. II
addition, China has great petrole
I'm resources, largely undevel
oped. Tin, tungsten, copper, anti
mony, gold and other metals anc
minerals are also produced. We
can see that China has great nat
rual wealth which will undoubted
ly play a important part in he
future development.
Copyright, 1916, by the Groliel
Society Inc, based upon the Bool
of knowledge
distributed by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
TOMORROW:-Plants Grown with.
out Soil.
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The Book Oh Kn0wled6e
Denartment: THE WORLD
CHINA TODAY

As told in previous articles, ire
naendous changes have taken
alsce during the past hundred
t,oars in China. which for thous-
,nds of years had remained al
most untouched.
T,ese changes are still going
MILLIONS of Chinese today work
9' tactories and offices, Or attend
no universities and schools. Many
" them veal Western clothes and
snd their recreation by going to
lnovies or listening to the radio.
They are alive to the demands of
he new age.
However, side by side with
,,,odern influences, there remain
4rsditions and usages of the past.
N the vast back-country prov
;nces the peasants cling to their
nncient ways of life. The basis Of
nat life remains the family. Par
onts and the spirits of departed
onrestors are held in deepest rev
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TABOR CITY SETS
WEED SALES MARK
Record Number OF Pounds
Sold On Tobacco Mar
ket Yesterday

TABOR CITY, Aug. 20.-The Ia.
Dor city tobacco market sold a
record number of pounds for this
season today as warehousemen re-
ported over 295, 600 pounds sold fol
an average of $47.00, according tt
John W. Barlow, sales supervisor
Barlow. Roscoe Coleman and J
L.. Lewis represented Tabor City
at a meeting of the Border Bel
Warehousemen's association al
Mullins. S. C.. Tuesday night.
The warehousemen discussed the
possibility of asking the othe,
weed markets to delay their open.
ing sales for one week, in order tc
allow the Border Belt houses
to remain open an extra week,
Barlow said.
The request will be made because
OF the slow sales experienced or
the Border Belt during the first
week OF sales. Barlow said a letter
mad been drafted to Fred S
Royster, chairman of the tobacco
marketing committee, asking TO,
a meeting of the 15-man tobacco
committee for August 80 to discus.
the proposal.
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Recreation Director
Named Al Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 20-Ac-
cepting the resignation of Martin
c. (Joe) Freeman, recreation di-
rection in Jacksonville since the
inception of the program in July
of last year, the Jacksonville Rec
reation commission named Miss
Eleanor Provost, former assistant
director, to succeed him on a tenn
porary basis.
Freeman resigned to accept a
position as principal of the o.
teacher Waccamaw High school in
Ash, Brunswick county.
Miss Prevost's appointment be-
comes effective today. To serve
with Miss Provost, Mrs. Wayne
McCaskill was named as tenn
porary full-time assistant director
of the program.
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ONSLOW SCHOOL BUS
DRIVERS SCHEDULE
MEETING THURSDAY

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 20. -
Forty-five Onslow county school
bus operators will meet at the
Jacksonville High school Thursday
morning at 9 o'clock for a drivers
school to be conducted by David
FL. Copeland Of the State Highway
Safety division.
Road tests will be given Friday.
Principal W. R. Lingle Of the
Jacksonville school has announced
that he will hold a meeting at 9
O'Clock Friday morning at the
school. with all certified drivers
and prospective drivers of the
Jacksonville district.
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REALTY TRANSFERS

T. r. English to j. j. Booth. LOT
II, block 10, lot ia, block 10A,
Carolina Beach.
r. Clifton Russ to Austin Phelps.
lot 10, block Is, Carolina Place.
Luther Rogers to the Rev. Peter
Rahil, lot 5, block 2, North Shores.
Sadie Lee Yopp to j. D. Stan
ford, five acres, Five Miles
Branch.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
Injured Onslow Nurse
Reported Recovering

JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 2o.-Miss
Marie Farley. Onslow county pub
lie health nurse, was still a patient
at the hospital Tuesday afternoon
as a result of a bullet wound in
the side inflicted last week by a
55-year-old school teacher. Miss
Ida Holland Of Deppe, who police
said was mentally unbalanced.
Miss Farley's condition was re-
ported as good"
Police Chief. W. B. Hurst, who
was forced to use tear gas to
subdue Miss Holland, diminutive
teacher in White Oak school last
year. said that the necessary
papers had been drawn and
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signed by doctors and submitted
to the State Board OF Health to
have the teacher committed to a
state hospital for the insane.
Miss Farley was shot in the side
by a .25 calibre automatic held
by Miss Holland in a room in the
Health department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-21
ATHLETES FOOT ITCH
HOW TO STOP IT
MAKE 5 MINUTE TEST

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MARRIAGE LICENSES
Charles E. Benson, "a, Whining
ton, and Isabel Melvin, %, vii
min9ton.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
BY the Assoeiafsd Press

HAVANA, April ia jostling
jabbering, gesticulating crowd OF
curious Cubans turned the re-en-
actment of the fatal shooting of
John Lester Nee aboard the yacht
Satira into a Roman holiday yes
terday. .
Inquisitive spectators packed
themselves so tightly into the cabin
where MFR. Nee was shot April 8
that Patricia Schmidt, the 21-year-
old dancer who is charged with
homicide in connection with his
death, was unable to demonstrate
in the cabin all of what happened
on the fatal day.
Miss Schmidt, who is billed In
Caribbean capitals under the name
"Satira," has informed Cuban Off,
cia1s that she shot the Chicago at
torney during an argument after
she discovered he was married
Judge Santiago Mencia, who Is in
vestigating, wanted to know how
the Toledo (Ohio) girl, 5 feet 2
inches, could have sent a bullet
ranging downward through the neck
Of the victim, who was 6 feet 2
inches. Mr.. Nee died five days after
he was shot. ,...
When police brought Miss Schmidt
aboard the 72-foot yacht from her
prison cell yesterday, she burst into
tears and was Immediately sur
rounded by a curious crowd which
piled aboard the vessel and refused
to obey authorities trying to clear
them away.
Thirty or more spectators were
jammed into the small cabin where
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Women Join Trustees
For Cathedral Plans

The women's committee Of the
National Cathedral Association yes
terday was merged with the Board
Of Trustees at a session held at
Washington Cathedral to plan for
the annual meeting here May 1915,
Women will be represented on the
associations new board, which will
be voted on shortly, officials said
today.
"For some years, a large part OF
the associations work has been
largely done by the Women's Com
mittee and 1t was felt that the sub
division was misleading and unnec-
essary," officials explained in q
statement.
At yesterdays session, the Right
Rev. Angus Dun, Bishop Of Wash
ington, and the Very Rev. John W.
Suter, dean of the Cathedral, met
with the group. Members of the
outgoing board and the Executive
Committee of the now-disbanded
Women's Committee Joined the
meeting.
Nominations for the new board
which will include u members at
large and four chapter members to
be elected by the Cathedral Chap
ter, will be voted on before the asso-
ciations annual meeting. The asso-
citation comprises some 10000 friends
of Washington Cathedral in the
United States and abroad.
Bishop and Mrs. Dun entertained
the group at luncheon yesterday al
their home.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Wholesale Price Index
|Dfops 'O.5 PEI. in Week

The Bureau Of Labor Statistics
wholesale price index dropped 0.s
per cent last week as result Of de-
c1ines In agricultural and food
prices. .
Prices of farm products dropped
o!6 per cent as a group. Small ad-
vances were reported for most live
stock, however.
The BIS index of prices generally
stood at 1881 per cent Of the 1886
average. This was slightly below
the level of four weeks ago, but 35.5
per cent above last April.
Meanwhile, Secretary of Agrlcul-
ture Anderson has disclosed that as
a result of an increase in the prices
Of things farmers buy the depart
ment has begun supporting potato
prices at a level more than 80 cents
per 100 pounds above last year.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
$4,000 to March Here
In School Sufety Parade

About $4,000 School Safety Patrol
members from 13 States and the
District will participate Saturday
May 10, in the first safety patrol
parade to be held here since 1941.
Led by the Navy Band and patrol
members who have won medals for
bravery during the last year, the
participants who march down Con-
stitution avenue will represent more
than $4,000 members of the patrol
corps.
Most State delegations will arrive
here Friday, May 9, to participate
in a ceremony that night at the
Sylvan Theater near the Washing
ton Monument. The parade is
sponsored by school officials, the
police and automobile clubs.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Uncle |. Inc Accused Of Killing
Baby With Shower Hose, Sc.
By fhs Asseeiatsd Press


COLUMBUS. Ohio. April 1s.--A
32-year-old father was to be ar.
|raigned today on first-degree muir.
der charges after telling 9 detectiyt
he rammed a shower hose dowr
the throat Of his year-old nephew
and turned on the water.
Detective Sergt. Carl Clifton
quoted Thomas M. Craft as saying
IT lost my head" when the baby
refused to eat his noon meal Wed.
|nesday and threw food around the
table"
Craft carried the baby, Stepher
Killeen, to the bathroom, started
to wash his face, then jammee
the hose down the infants throat
Sergt. Clifton said the accused mar
related. Crafts wife and theil
7-month-old twins and 3-year-ole
daughter remained at the table
Stephens mother, a sister of Mrs
Craft, was at work in a department
store. ...
After Coroner John B. Gravis
reported the child's death as homi.
eide, due to rupture Of the lungs
and stomach. by water, Craft, 9
might shift worker at a bakery
made statement at police head.
Quarters, explaining Stephens
death, Police Capt. Glenn G. Hoff.
man said. '..
Craft, a native Of Taylor, Tex.
and a paratroop veteran Of the
European campaign, said in the
statement he "had payments te
make on the house and was worried
over money"
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Re-enuctment of Nee kiIIinu
Disrupted by Curious Cubons

the re-enactment was to take place
When Miss Schmidt saw them, she
sat down on a bunk and wept some
more. Judge Mencia ordered the
spectators out. Some Of them went
Most of them stayed.
Miss Schmidt was ordered to show
how she stod in the passageway
gun in hand. An investigator, en-
acting the role of Mr.. Nee, entered
and turned toward her.
"He lunged at me- and I fired,
Miss Schmidt explained.
The cabin was so jammed thai
the Investigator couldn't even move
let alone lunge. Half a dozen heads
were hanging through the hatch
from the forward deck and there
was an inquisitive face at every
portfolio.
Judge Mencia gave up and ad.
journed the meeting to the secone
floor Of a nearby building, where
the inquiry went on behind locked
and guarded doors.
Charles Jackson, 27, of River
Forest, Ill, a wartime Navy budd!
of Mr.. Nee and co-owner with hin
Of the yacht, was scheduled to re.
enact his role next week. He Il
charged with being an accessory
after the fact and is being held II
SIC, 900 bail.
Mr.. Jackson has said he was al
another part Of the vessel when ths
shooting occurred and did not sex
what took place. His attorney sale
that after the re-enactment hi
would ask that the indictment
against Mr.. Jackson be Withdrawn
and that he be freed without bono
as a. material witness. ,t.ao..
Evening star., 1947-04-18

should do given work. A secondary
boycott is a refusal by one union
to handle the products of another.
The Senate bill procedure on such
strikes and boycotts Is to make
them unfair labor practices. This
means the National Labor Relations
Board could obtain an injunction
when a union failed to obey an Or
der to drop the practice.
Mass Picketing Banned.
2. Ban industry-wide bargaining,
but not company-wide agreements.
In nearly all cases.
8. Rule out mass picketing and
violence in picketing.
4. Authorize expulsion of Com
murnists from union membership.
Unions could not be recognized for
bargaining purposes If any officer
is, ever has been or could reason
ably be regarded" as a Communist
or. sympathizer.
5. Prohibit the involuntary check.
off system of collecting union dues
that is, employer deduction of
dues without the workers written
consent.
6. Outlaw health and welfare
funds administered solely by unions.
Z. Prohibit any Federal employe
from striking or encouraging a
strike under penalty of losing his
job and all his civil service rights.
Taft, Ball Refuse Comment.
Senator Taft refused to comment
on the House bill. So did Senator
Ball, Republican, of Minnesota. one
of the most ardent proponents Of
tough labor legislation in the
Senate.
But Senator Smith, Republican,
of New Jersey, a member of the
Senate Labor Committee like Sen
ators Ball and Taft, told reporter
he believes "the House may have
gone too far" He added:
'The problem can't be solved
by drastic or punitive legislation.
In the Senate committee we have
GllCQ W u1dhc Jul pL4 CudtCStlfc
lof outstanding evils. We have
tried to develop procedures for
bringing labor and management to-
Igether, rather than separate them"
Senator Taft served notice he will
attempt on the Senate floor to re-
store four provisions knocked out
of the committee bill by group
led by Senators Ives, Republican,
of New York and Morse, Repub-
Ilican, of Oregon. They are:
A fat ban Of jurisdictional strikes
and secondary boycotts.
A restriction on industry-wide
bargaining which would forbid any
national union to dictate contract
terms to its locals. This would ap-
lply, for example, to John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers.
Restriction on Welfare Funds.
A ban on union-administered
health and welfare funds.
Making 1t an unfair labor practice
for unions to coerce or interfere
with workers in the exercise OF their
collective bargaining rights.
Senator Ball agreed with Senator
Taft. saying: :.
"We've got the votes In the Senate
Evening star., 1947-04-18
traitor would investigate unfair labor
practice charges and enforce the
boards findings.
5000 to Quit Work 2 Hours
As Protest on Labor Bills

BALTIMORE, April II (P.-Six
thousand CIO shipbuilding workers
planned a two-hour work stoppage
at the Bethlehem Steel Co. today In
protest against labor legislation now
before Congress.
Ray J. Seese, president Of Local "a,
International Union of Marine and
Shipbuilding Workers, said the en-
ployes would hold a demonstration
meeting from 3 to pm. across the
street from the Bethlehem plant.
The meeting will be in protest
against the Hartley "strike-curb'
bill passed by the House and the
Taft labor bill in the Senate and
lis not aimed at the company, MIR.
|Seese said.
These bills would outlaw labor
unions and make only company
unions legal" he said.
Evening star., 1947-04-18

to put those things back in the bill. .
Senator Taft said the argument OF
supporters of the pared down COM
mittee bill is that President Tru-
man will sign it, but would veto
anything stronger. It takes two
third vote in both Houses to cancel
a veto.
Senator Morse intends to empha-
size the possibility Of q veto If the
Senate moves to put more teeth
in its labor bill. He is understood
to be trying, through Chairman
Paul M. Herzog Of the NLRB, tc
obtain promise from Mr.. Truman
that the Chief Executive would sign
the Senate Committee bill as II
stands.
During the debate on the House
bill yesterday, supporters claimed II
would open the way to industrial
peace, while opponents contended 1t
would enslave American workers.
Rayburn p aises Truman Moves.
President Truman" said Minority
Leader Rayburn, "has been getting
along pretty well bringing about in
dustrial peace. He is the one man
in Is years who has had the courage
to take John L. Lewis by the
whiskers."
Majority Leader Halleck countered
with the claim that vote against
the bill would raise 81 threat to the
national welfare and security"
On final passage, SO Democrats
joined 215 Republicans in voting for
the bill. Against it were "a Demo-
Gratis, 20 Republicans and one
American-Laborite.
Here are some other provisions OF
the House bill:
| 1t contains a section labeled q
''bill of rights" for workers which
forbids unreasonable" union initia-
ton fees or dues, union intimidation
of members, or interference in their
political activities.
| It prohibits a strike over collective
bargaining issues unless the majority
Of bargaining unit vote for 1t.
Collective bargaining by foremen
Is outlawed, but they can join unions
| It guarantees employers free
speech in dealing with workers.
| It sets up a new labor-manage-
ment relations board in place Of the
NLRB. An independent admins
Evening star., 1947-04-18
Mrs. Susie Waits Cook, 80,
Dies In Garfield HOSPITAL

Mrs. Susie Watts Cook, SO, mother
OF Mrs. Louise Cook Neal, 3726 Mill
tary road NV, died yesterday in
Garfield Memorial Hospital, where
she had been a patient for the last
three months. Mrs. Neal is the
wife Of Alfred G. Neal, president of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Mrs. Cook, resident of Fairmont
W. Va, was visiting her daughter
when taken Ill. She was the widow
|of DR.. John f. Cook, founder of
Cook Hospital in Fairmont.
Surviving are another daughter,
Mrs. Virginia Terry, Maplewood
N. j.; two sons, Walter L. Cook
Charleston, w. Va, and John ii
Cook, jr.. Fairmont;; a sister, Mrs
@. D. Brown, Strasburg, Va; four
grandchildren and three great
Igrandc children.
Funeral services will be held on
Sunday at the First Methodist
Church, Fairmont. ., =,
Evening star., 1947-04-18

Clara j. Ford, and am satisfied that
she Is now in position Of complete
financial independence"
Also appended was statement by
Mrs. Ford acknowledging that full
provision has been made for me-"
and agreeing to the provisions of
the document.
Total Shares Of Stock.
Mr.. Longley said stock in the COM
|pany consisted of 172,645 shares Of
voting stock and 3,280.255 of non
voting.
OF the total shares OF voting stock,
he said, - per cent was owned by
the heirs Of Edsel Ford and the re-
mainder by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Ford. The children Of Edsel Ford,
and beneficiaries under the will filed
today, are Henry Ford II, Benson,
Josephine and William Ford.
The Ford attorney, in news con-
ference, said that in the still pend
ing settlement of the Edsel Ford
estate, a value Of $58 q share had
been placed on the Ford stock by
counsel for the estate. A Treasury
Department computation, however,
he said, had fixed the value at $3.50
Ia share.
Settlement of the estate OF Edsel
Ford, who died in May, 1943, is still
pending.
Holdings Throughout World.
With holdings throughout the
world, 1t is probable several years
will be required to wind up the af-
fairs of Henry Ford.
In turning over all the non-votine
stock-representing the bulk of the
estate-to the foundation, Mr.. Ford
devised:
ITO this foundation I give and
bequeath all of my shares of stock
IN the Ford Motor Co., which are
non-voting shares known as class
A stock, save such as 1t may be
necessary to sell to pay the obliga-
tions Of my estate, the foundation
to have full and unqualified title,
without limitation, to such shares,
with all the incidents thereto, in
cluding the right to expend either
the principal or the income there
from for the purpose Of such cor
poration."
Mr.. Ford added that all of his
real estate, other than the family
home, Fairlane, should go to the
Ford Motor Co., under the same
stipulations as were made in the
bequest to the Ford foundation.
His widow retains Fairlane, and
everything used in connection with
it, "plus any other article or articles
OF personal nature, which she may
wish to retain because of their senti-
mental value"
Widow Named Executrix.
Mrs. Ford Is named executrix of
the will to replace Edsel Ford, in a
codicil signed after the latter's
death.
No other specific bequests were
listed in the will.
To the document was appended
the following statement Of Mrs.
Ford:
IT, Clara Ford, wife of Henry
Ford, testator in the foregoing will,
do hereby acknowledge that full
provision has been made for me by
said testator during his lifetime,
and I have agreed with him, in
consideration Of the provisions made
therein, and hereby consent and
agree to accept provisions made In
the foregoing viii in lieu of dover
in his estate and in lieu of any and
all other rights to which I might
by law be otherwise entitled"
Cites Heavy Taxes.
In another section of the docu-
ment, covering several typed pages,
MIR. Ford declared:
Il realize that my estate may
be subject to heavy death duties
and taxes, both by the Federal and
State governments and other poy-
Evening star., 1947-04-18
3 Movie Horses on Way
Here for Shrine Circus

Three screen celebrities, the
horses Flicka, Smoky and Thunder
head, will arrive in a special van
Sunday for the sixth annual Shrine
Circus which opens a week of per-
formances Monday night at Uline
Arena, 1146 Third street NE.
A pageant by the Alnas uni
formed bodies and circus entertain
ers will precede the shows at $3.50
o'clock each hight. Officials esti-
mated that at least 10000 children
would be guests Of the Shriners dur
ing the week. Tickets are on sale
at Amas Temple, 1915 K street
NV, and at Ballard's, Thirteenth
and G streets NV.
Evening star., 1947-04-18
French Seek More Wheot

PARIS, April 1S (R.-The French
Embassy in Washington this week
Will ask American authorities for
100000 more tons Of wheat, Foreign
Ministry officials said ! yesterday.
They said the wheat is needed to
avert deep cuts in the current bread
ration. pending the French harvest,