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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
Rocky Point Negro Teacher
To Be Honored In New York

ed, and in his spare time set up
a community cannery.
During his early years, he at
tackled the housing situation at
Rocky Point, and drew plans for
an inexpensive modern home.
With organized available skills he
also supervised the building Of l6O
such units for the use Of his
people.
Never motivated by thought
OF personal gains, Anderson con-
sistently has accepted only his
small salary as schoolteacher for
his services" the fund statement
says.
In 1916 he won recognition from
his alma mater, Hampton In
situte, and had conferred on him
its coveted Alumni Award for
meritious public service.
When buildings to house the
school children were we'll under
way, Anderson turned part Of
his efforts to establishment of a
nursery. These shrubs today adorn
the grounds of the school and
many homes in the community.
He taught his people how to
raise purebred poultry, and dur
ing the recent war. his department
trained more than 200 skilled
negro shipbuilders and workers
in related industries, many of
them accepting employment with
the shipyards at Wilmington.
His most recent project is a
modern, well planned, neat COM
munlty cannery, affording facili-
ties for canning all home grown
food for home consumption in the
community.
Anderson gives credit to the late
DR.. Fender Porter who lived in
Rocky Point, and who left some
money for the cannery, as well
as a special fund for the work
shop and some new tools.
Anderson had once repaired
some furniture for DR.. Porter in
the schools work shop, and the
physician was impressed with the
methods used by the teacher.
Among prominent North Caro-
llnlans who endorsed Anderson for
the Alumni award were: Gov.
R. Gregg Cherry; George F.
Lucas, Pender County Board of
Commissioners; Roy H. Thomas,
state supervisor of vocational
agricultural education: T. E.
Brown, director of vocational
education; the Honorable Graham
e. Barden, Congressman; E. M.
Butler Of the North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Clyde
A. Erwin, state superintendent
OF public instruction; Carl Qoerch.
publisher of The State; and J, W.
Seabrook, president of Fayetteville
State Teachers college.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
FOURTH ASSAULT
CASE REPORTED
IN SOUTH CAROLINA

HARTSV1LLE, S. c., May 81
R)-Attempted assault with intent
to criminally assault a 35-year-old
mother Of three young children
was charged here today to a
young Negro, the fourth involved
in a criminal attack cas in the
two Carolinas in the past few days.
Deputy Sheriff Henry Williams
said Bert Grant, Jr., was arrest
ed Saturday shortly after the wom-
ar had reported a Negro man at
tackled her at her home in the
New Market section Of Darlington
county four miles from here.
Williams said that as the case
had brought on no demonstrations
locally the arrest was being an
nounced today and Grant vas be-
ing kept in the local jail, unlike
Willie Pooler, Negro accused Sun
day Of assault at Darlington but
taken to the State prison at Column
bia for safekeeping when a throng
Of people gathered at the Darlicg-
ton Jail.
The officer said the woman told
Of being dragged from her house,
while her children watched. to a
nearby patch OF woods, but said
her assailant ran after a scuffle
Williams said she had suffered
only minor scratches from the en-
counter.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
S. E. Anderson To Be
Received By Mayor
William O'Dwyer
Special To The Star

ROCKY POINT, May 27-Single-
ton C. Anderson, Rocky Point
Negro school teacher, and horti-
culturist is scheduled to be receiv-
ed by Mayor O'Dwyer Monday,
June 2 at New York's city hall,
it has been announced by the Unit
cd Negro college fund.
Anderson's visit to New York
and proposed meeting with
Mayor O'Dwyer is in connection
with the college fund" not be-
cause he is a Negro, but because
he represents the embodiment Of
the American spirit, the Ameri-
can ideal of service to his fellow
man." according to a statement
released today by the fund head
quarters.
Anderson, 51-year-old teacher,
builder, farmer and community
planner attended Hampton Univer.
city before coming to Rocky Point
q years ago from Cumberland
county Virginia. his birthplace.
He is married and the father Of
two daughters.
At Rocky Point the prof. as
his students call him, founded a
school and provided the leadership
that transformed an ugly "squalid
community into a place of floral
beauty.
According to headquarters of the
fund. he taught his race in the
area how a tractor would do the
work Of 10 mules, showed how
the depleted soil could be enrich
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
INSURANCE COMPANY
IS BEIN G SUED

Seeking $4,000 double indemnity
OF an insurance policy issued by
the Durham Life Insurance COM
pany of Raleigh. Solomon B..
Sternberger instituted action yes
terday in New Hanover county's
Superior court against the firm,
in behalf of Barbara Ann Sears,
a minor.
The plaintiff is the child's guard
ian. He asks that amount on a
policy that the girls father, Cicero
Allen Sears, carried. The father
was killed in a hunting accident
October &c, 1916, in Nash county,
the petition states.
The guardian states that Sears
was killed by a discharge from a
u guage shot gun when he fell
over a wire, invisible to the naked
eye and hidden in underbrush,
while hunting rabbits near the
home Of his mother, Mrs. Mary
Sears, in Nash county.
The body was found by Mrs. D.
P. Mccain, Jr., a sister, lying IN
a ditch, the complaint reads. The
company has refused to make any
payment on the policy, declares
the plaintiff.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
LINK TRAINERS
ARRIVE FOR LOCAL
COLLEGE COURSE

H. M. Roland, superintendent of
schools, said yesterday that two
Link trainers have arrived here
and will become part of the new
county college aviation course
With the arrival of the trainers
from the War Assets Admi1istra-
ton, the college now owns S1OO, 600
IN radar equipment, one robot
plane and one Wichita advance
trainer. in addition to the new
trainers.
eve will teach only pre-flignt
courses" Roland said, land will
not attempt to teach actual fly.
ing. All u equipment will be
used to instruct students in the
art Of handling planes on the
ground, and not in the air. he
said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
RANKS OF STATE
AID BOND SALES
William H. Neal, N. c.
Association Head An
nounces Cooperation

wINSTON-SALEM, May 27-The
,,nks of North Carolina will CO.
o~,,orate fully with the Treasury
nonartmen IN offering the Bond a
Month plan to depositors, William
u Neal, president of the North
roroIina Bankers Association said
here today.
The Bond-a-Month plan, which
will be inaugurated on a nation
wide scale beginning June i, is a
,nethod whereby bank checking
.ccount customers may purchase
onp or more U. S. Savings Bonds,
series E. F or G., monthly by
aythorizing the bank to charge
.heir accounts with the cost. The
hank makes the necessary entries.
;ssles the bonds and mails them
IN the depositor each month with
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
out any charge for the service.

out any charge for the service.
The bankers consider this plan
an excellent supplement to the
payroll savings plan" Neal said.
Those who do not have a pay oil
plan available may use the bank
purchase plan if they have a
checking account.
More than 200 banks in the
State are sending out enclosures
with bank statements this month,
explaining the plan and providing
a form on which the depositor
may indicate the type and amount
of bonds desired. Monthly pur-
chases will be n Or more full
bonds; there is no provision for
partial payments. The derositor
may select any amount of E, F,
Or G Savings Bonds,
1--WE heartily recommend this
plan for regular saving. 1t is graft
flying to know that North Carolini-
ans own over $500, COG. 900 of these
savings bonds and that this total
is steadily increasing. A great
backlog of savings accumulated
now when money is more plentiful
will prove a tremendously stimu-
lating force in sustaining a high
level OF business in the years
ahead"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28
VETERAN is INSTRUCTOR
IN COLLEGE AT 10

CLEVELAND W.R- A college
graduate at II, Navy translator in
japanese at 10 and college in
structer at 10 are the three steps
in the career to date of Donald
Frifield, youngest graduate of Ohio
State University.
The youth, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Saul Frifield of suburban Shaker
Heights, finished IL years Of pub
lie school in eight and breezed
through OSU in two years, carry
ing a full load of journalism, Ger
man, French, Spanish and Portu-
guese courses.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-28

In 1882 an American firm
marketed the first commercially
successful substitute for natural
rubber.
Evening star., 1947-12-28

Since then women have Joined
the working ranks, climbed into
positions of power in the profess
sions and business, helped fight a
war at the front and acquired a
vast amount of the United States
private wealth (some say 70 per
cent?. =.
Today approximately 100000
of the 54,7O0,000 American women
over IA are at work and an esti-
mated million and quarter OF
these are mothers of young chill
dren. Moreover, 100000 OF the
countrys 100000 families Cor IS
per cent? are headed by women.
Add final fact: Divorces among
women over IA have increased 1876
per cent since 1910. Today millions
Of American women have pay
checks, freedom and independence
and it seems to take a fine hus-
band to outweigh them.
Fifteen young New Yorkers-all
wage earners, some married and
some single-were discussing all this
the other day at lunch.
Finally they took a vote. All but
one said they thought girls were as
interested in marriage as ever, but
because Of the jobs security were
less inclined to leap and less grieved
II they didn't than the girls od
Evening star., 1947-12-28
This Leap Year Will Be a Bit Different

mothers day. But all except two de-
clared they would not propose ii
they never were married, on the
ground that they still had their
jobs and "if a man doesn't speak
for himself something is very wrong
somewhere
Nobody Knows the Origin
A New York marriage broker
backed that theory. When man
likes a woman, he proposes" he de-
clared. Nothing can stop him. If
he is shy though, he doesn't mind
getting a little indication from the
lady first"
Nobody knows exactly what
started the custom for women to
WOO during leap year. But back in
1888 a law was enacted in Scotland
which gave any unmarried woman
the right to propose in leap year
and fined any eligible man who re-
fused maximum of pound. Years
later similar laws were passed In
France, Genoa and Flo1ence.
Then a legend arose to the effect
that unmarried women wore scarlet
petticoats In leap year and If one
showed even "the edge OF her blush
ing garment to any eligible man he
was bound to marry her or buy him.
self of with q new gown"
Distributed by the Associated Yress)
Evening star., 1947-12-28
By Adeloide Kerr

NEW YORK.-In the leap year
just around the corner men may
get fewer proposals than ever before.
At least some important signs
point that way and some people
think they are indicative of a new
slant in relations between men and
women.
In the first place, the story that
the war has left the United States
with scarcity Of manageable
males isn't true. Nineteen forty-six
estimates Of the Census Bureau show
about 100000 manageable men
between 20 and A, compared to
about 6,40O, 900, women of the same
age group. So there will be more
men to do their own proposing and
less competition than a lot Of
people expected.
Won Vote in Leap Year
Second. 1948 rounds out century
in which (according to Carrie Chap
man Catt) women won more liber-
ties than men ever won in any
hundred years. In a leap year
(1848) the leading American suffra-
|gettes met at Seneca Falls, N. Y,
and began their drive for women's
rights. In . leap year (192O they
won the right TO vote.
Evening star., 1947-12-28

This is likely to be a major point
OF argument in Congress. During
the war years numerous agencies,
among them owl, OSS and the
Board of Economic Warfare, chafed
under State Department controls
and fought constantly to break free
of them. The Hartman committee
of leading business, labor and edu-
cational figures recommended that
the aid program be handled out
side the State Department setup
overseas.
Many members of Congress, mind
full that the President is a Demo-
crat and the Congress under Re
publican control, may be expected
to press for as completely auton-
omous an agency as possible to run
ERP. The ECA setup shown here
is not at all to the liking OF
lot of Congressman.
Yet Senators and Representatives
realize that the ERP will have
tremendous effect abroad, that 1t is
vital part of our foreign policy
and that the Secretary OF State
must be in control of that program.
How to reconcile these facts with
a desire for an independent"
agency to run the show will be
one of the major questions up for
debate next year.
Pay Made Attractive
The administration bill calls for
an administrator Of ECA at a sal
ary of $4,000 with a deputy at $17,-
500 and up to 10 assistants at from
$4,000 to $4,000. These figures,
high for Government, are designed
to assure the best possible leader
ship for the great venture.
There is one point of agreement
between the administrations plan
to keep the ERP under the State
Departments wing and the Republi-
cans who want it run as an inde-
pendent agency or even commission.
They all know the very method OF
it's administrator may be more i'm
portant than whether it gets the
last couple of billions asked by the
administration. Here, all are agreed,
is one of those tests of democracy
and democratic government, of
whether it can meet and lick the
tough problem Of aiding 16 free
nations and three-fourths OF occu-
pied Germany without making more
enemies than friends for the United
States.
Evening star., 1947-12-28
Army Has Difficulty
Filling Many Civilian
Jobs in the Pacific

The Army has a list Of over
seas job openings that would
have started a stampede back
in the 1930s.
They pay from $2,700 to
$4,000 a year, and the Army
has found that a cautious soul
can live on $40 to $3.50 a year,
thereby leaving quite a bit to
put in the bank.
These job openings are for
civilians. Engineers OF all sorts
and clerical help are most
needed. Most of the vacancies
more than 3,000-are in the
Pacific area. That seems to be
the trouble. Most of the ap-
plicants want jobs in Europe.
So the Army is getting ready
a recruiting campaign for the
Pacific. Jobs are open in Japan,
Korea, Guam, Okinawa, the
Philippines and Hawaii.
There are 1926 civilian
Americans out there already.
So most of the comforts of
which Americans are accus-
toned have already blossomed.
You can find out what jobs
are open and what they pay
also you can apply for one of
them-by writing to the Over
seas Affairs Branch, Depart
ment of the Army, Washing
ton Is, D. c..
{nistrihuted hy the Associated Press
Evening star., 1947-12-28

approaches our wartime administra-
ton in complication.
The basic approach in the admin
istration's plan is stated in the State
Departments ERP booklet In these
words:
"The program has a broad impact
on numerous aspects of domestic
and foreign policy. The plan of
organization must therefore provide
for effective coordination with re-
lated Government activities.
Marshall in Control
THE program is especially closely
related to the foreign policy of the
United States. 1t is therefore vital
that 1t be administered in accord
ance with foreign policy direction
and control by the Secretary of
State, the official intrusted, under
the direction Of the President, with
overall responsibility in the field
of foreign policy"
Thus it is apparent at once that
the economic cooperation admin
istration which the administration
proposes be set up will, in effect, be
under control of Secretary of State
Marshall.
The administration asks that
when Congress sets up the new ECA
it provide specifically that ECA
functions affecting foreign policy be
performed subject to the direction
and control of the Secretary of
State. ="
There is hardly anything that ECA
could do that would not be affect
ing" our foreign policy.
AS the department points out,
foreign policy cannot be merely
a demand Of announced intentions
expressed in general terms" 1t is
true, Of course, that any action
under the Marshall plan is i'm
portant, whether it is the ALLEGATION
OF grain to Italy just before an
election or the supplying of badly
needed mining machinery to boost
Rhur coal output while much Of
the coal Is going to France.
Congress Not Sold
The chart makes clear that the
administration wants our Ambassa-
doris abroad to control the local
representatives of ECA. Tney would
work within the United States mis-
sion to the country concerned and
should be able to report freely to
the ECA through the State Depart
ment network" the administration
saws,
Evening star., 1947-12-28
Br01Un
Continued From Page C-1.)

hrst but must use 1t only when at
tackled, resulted in the acceptance
Of the polite excuses from Tokyo
and Pearl Harbor four years later
If another Pearl Harbor is in
store for us it will be more sudden
and damaging than the last one
which was restricted to the number
of planes Jap carriers could launch
against the American naval forces
In that port.
"Warmongers" warned the top
leaders of our Government that the
Panay incident would be succeeded
by q far more drastic operation
when We were less prepared for a
showdown.
But the lesson Of the Panay has
bsen long forgotten.
Evening star., 1947-12-28

Though the charabancs, the long
distance buses, do compete actively
with the passenger trains, they are
not comparable in passenger mile
volume with the bus competition In
America, so the British transport
question focuses pretty sharply on
freight haulage.
Freight rates have always plagued
the British. They have a goods
classification system which has done
nothing but grow more complex
through the years, and the advent
of the motor truck has done moth
ing to simplify things.
Rail freight rates are established
by law and are rigidly controlled.
They are based on a table wherein
all goods are classified according to
their value, the highest rates being
applied to the most valuable goods.
They involve hundreds of items and
their movement between hundreds
of individual stations, so that per-
mutations covering a rescheduling
of freight rates for the entire coun-
try and the entire range of goods
run to a fantastic figure, estimated
to be around 5000O,oO0 or 6o,o00,o0o.
Truckers Skim the Cream
Tbir o,,pohercorna svefapo u,oS in
augurated long before trucks ap-
peared on the transport scene, and
until the .192Os it appeared to satisfy
the railways, though the adjustment
of freight rates has always been a
subject of national concern and in
vestigation.
Truck competition brought chaos
to the freight rate structure. Gov
erned by no law-and operating
along a public highway system
which represented no overhead be-
yond their license fees-the truckers
made their rates on the basis of
cost of hauling. They soon SKINNED
the cream of the freight business by
taking all the lightweight valuable
goods and leaving the heavy cheap
rate goods to the railroads. The
bulk of railway freight in Britain
today is all low-rate goods like coal,
iron and bulk chemicals.
In order to balance of the killing
competitive menace Of trucks it will
be necessary to impose legal rates
upon them formed along the same
lines as those now lettering the rail-
roads, or else the railroads will have
to be released from their rate sched-
ules and allowed to compete on a
cost-of- handling basis for each item
Neither reform will be easy to ac-
comphsh, and it has been well
pointed out by critics and observers
on all sides that solving the truck
versus train economic issue is not a
matter of operation under socialism
or private capitalism, but question
Of transport management which
must be worked out well below the
political level on which the contem-
porary fate Of British transport was
decided IN Parliament.
Evening star., 1947-12-28
Great Britain's Transportation
Passes Into Public Ownership
Naturalization of Inland Transport System Is
Effective This Week, but Those Who Use 1t
Probably Won't Know the Difference
By Anthony F. Merrill

holiday week the people Of Britain will be
their governments determined march
into effect
1t in Britain
anything about their transport
with patriotic Joy
Evening star., 1947-12-28
Methodf0r the Administration
Of Aid Abroad Is Complicated
The Government Wants the State Department to
Control the Recovery Program, but Congress
May Insist on an Independent Agency
By ChoTmers Roberts

to hear much in coming months about the diagram
it important 1t Is
administrators program
ERPhe Marshall the vast and vital
its feet and end the
The machinery proposed to
Evening star., 1947-12-28
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. c.
SUNDAY, DEcEMBER 2s IsU.
Small Nations See Benelux
AS Cure for Economic Ills
Dutch Blueprint Common Tariff Waivers
and Form Customs Union to Facilitate
Normal Exchange of Goods
By Gornett D. Horner

Of this launch expert.
ment in cooperation may point toward for
ms the economic ills Of the continent
Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg
"Benux into effect January as the first step IN
projected of the three nations
of the the world trade picture
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-22
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
STATE OF OHIOl

THE STATE OF OHIOl
Allen County, IS.
Estate of Esther l.. Lombard, Deceased.
Joseph L. Lombard of Beaverdam. Ohio.
has been appointed and qualified as Executor
of the estate of Esther l.. Lombard late of
Alien County, Ohio deceased.
Dated this 30th day of April, 1947.
Raymond p. Smith
pynhaAa I,sIu
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-05-22

and you've got to be pretty alert to
win-faet is some Of the South Main
street boys rained out Friday and
Saturday were pushing lawn mowers
Sunday and gardening is on q
catch-as-catch-can basis - lucky if
you can catch a halliday when the
ground is dry enough to work j.
anyway these rains together with
warming weather are setting the
stage for mushrooms and some of
the boys did fairly we'll over the
week end-however i'm the main the
piekings of early spring mushrooms
have been none too good fire
alarm Monday morning-seems that
most of the bad news this spring
has occurred on Monday morning . !.
and with a new sugar stamp good
the first of June we're figuring on
| going all out for rhubarb pie .
but wen need plenty Of sugar for
canning this summer if fruit is as
plentiful as some of the forecasts
we've heard lately-with exception
of early cherries they say that last
cold snap hasn't done much damage
and one of the most beautiful
sights in town this week is that
oriental cherry tree at the Stettler
home at Lawn and College avenues
where Sidney and his sister Mrs.
Inez Neuenschwander live-it's filled
with large double blossoms and well
worth making a special trip to see
milk prices dropping one cent a
quart which makes the consumer
smile-and did you know that Bluff
toms Page dairy plant handles about
so tons of milk daily happy
days here again with the end of
school at hand-high school gradua-
ton Thursday night-subject of DR..
Hartzler's class address "A World
Without Headlights" strikes US as
timely-which recalls the old tune II
Don't Know Where I'm Going But
I'm on My Way 'harmonized by
Bluffton's barbershop quartets some
forty years ago . and speaking of
oldtimers-Will Romey, one of the
leading merchants of Richmond, Ind,
a former Blufftonite, will speak at
the high school alumni dinner on