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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
CAROLINA BEACH
LISTING HOUSING
Mass Meeting At Resort
Hears Report On Plans
For Convention

Accommodations for 5000 are
available at Carolina Beach fol
persons attending the American
Legion convention there on June
ALT, it was disclosed last night
in a mass meeting of citizens OF
the beach and American Legion
members held in Town Hall.
The 5000 Accommodations do not
include hotel rooms on the beach
and there are approximately 5000
rooms there that have not been
contacted, it was stated. w. L.
Farmer acted as chairman of the
meeting and will be the chair
man of the convention.
Approximately 20, 1000 Legionaries
are expected to attend the con-
vention at the resort town, the
first held in eastern North Caro-
lima since 1884.
George Applewhite is chairman
of the housing committee Of the
local post and Mrs. Applewhite
heads the group Of auxiliary mem
bers aiding in securing the rooms.
A citizen committee appointed
last night consists of Walter J.
Cartier and Pete Whitehead OF
Wrightsville and Tom Groom.
A survey Of Wilmington and
Kure Beach will be made next
week in order to determine the
number of rooms there available to
persons attending the convention.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Nuremberg Fan Mail

NUREMBERG The mail sacks
at the Nuremberg prison are back
to normal size.
Postoffice employees revealed to-
day more than 20. 900 letters came
to the old jail during 1916 for the
81 high Nazis on trial for crimes
against world peace. Eighteen
were convicted Goering was a
suicide, 10 hanged.
Even after the executions, 'fan
mail" came for the condemned
men, written in twelve different
languages.
Most of the writers were Ger
mans during the year, the French
were the next most prolific and
then the Poles who rallied bitterly
particularly at Hans Frank,
hanged for his actions as COVER
nor of that occupied land. There
was only a handful of letters from
Americans, none from Russians.
Several letters were from the
Middle West of the U. S., urging
that the death penalty be COM
muted because there already had
been enough killings" ,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
A E | PERSONNEL
TREBLE DONATIONS
County Chairman Reports
On Contributions To
Polio Drive

The personnel of the Wilmington
office of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad tripled their donations tt
the March of Dimes this year over
the amount given last year, W. X
Rhodes, Jr. county chairman, an
nounced last night.
Contributions for tbs ACL office
this year totaled $284.27, Rhodes
reported. Robert Scott, director
of safety and insurance ACLR.
headed the campaign in the office
here. Departments standing out
in contributions were superinten'
dent car service, auditor passen-
ger receipts, auditor disburse'
ments, and auditor freight receipts.
Rhodes also stated that the con
tributions from the schools in the
county this year were $500 less than
the sum received last year. A total
of 1902 was received from schools
this year.
A dance will be held at the
Famous Club on Monday night,
February 10, and half of the pro-
ceeds will go to the March Of
Dimes drive, Mike Pattelis, mana
ger of the club, told Rhodes yes
terday.
A telegram received by the coun-
ty chairman from Governor Cherry
yesterday is as follows:
The North Carolina fight against
infantile paralysis must go on with
renewed effort until u children
are safe from its Gripping threat.
I congratulate you upon your
leadership of the March Of Dimes
campaign in your county and your
public-spirited labor for the sue
cess of this worthy cause. You
and your fellow workers merit the
sincere gratitude of all good citi-
zens of our state. R. Gregg Cher
ry, Governor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01

Win ankle straps around thin, pref
ty legs. Her mouth was lipsticked
defiantly, but today the gesture
didn't come off; it was only the
bright red badge of her past.
The background of the case was
as bitter and shocking as the scene
in court. Mrs. Rivera came to this
country from Puerto Rico at the
age OF five. At IS she married; at
49, she was a mother. She was
divorced from Frank Problet,
1ather OF the children. He contribut.
ed $l2 a week to help support the
children.
She drifted from bar to bar
and apartment to apartment" as
Judge Diserio said. Her daughter.
Olga, 10, lived with her grandpar.
ents. Young Frank, like his mother.
drifted. He slept sometimes in al.
leys, sometimes in Railways. He
stole or begged by night, and spent
the days riding buses with nickels
he grubbed or pinched, s"The Gyp-
sy," they called him.
With the shooting episode, police
caught up with him for the first
time. They picked up Mrs. Rivera
= in a bar. Olga, shamed by it all,
ran away from her grandparents
home. Today Olga was still miss.
ing; Frank was in a house of de
tention; their mother was on the
way to prison.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
MOTHER RAISES
70 ORPHAN KIDS

FRESNO, CAL W.H -Fondness
for children and search for a
hobby has made Mrs. Alice F. Ma
honey one of Fresno's most mus
ual mothers. During the past Is
years, this middle-aged woman has
reared 70 orphaned children.
Well-known by the Red Cross
and the welfare department here,
Mother Mahoney'' started caring
for children as a hobby. She be-
came so engrossed in the task and
so fond of children she made it
her life work.
During the past eight years she
has saved so pairs of baby shoes
and from the walls of her eight
room house, pictures Of the chill
dren smile down at this unusual
mother.
II like the pictures of them UP
there she said. "They can't talk
back. Many of those children in
the pictures write regularly from
all parts of the country, and ON
Mothers Day I always receive a
card from them" =
Since the hobby originated, Mrs.
Mahoney has been too busy to
take a vacation. Overworked
housekeepers always quit, so she
does all the washing, feeding,
bathing and caring for the chill
dren herself.
She uses the assembly line
method in caring for them. At
feeding time, she puts them in
highchairs and opens cans of baby
food. For bathing, she sometimes
puts four children in the bathtub
at a time. When the washing Job
is completed, the children climb
out and are succeeded by others.
During the war, servicemen left
their children at her home while
the mothers worked. If a father
was killed overseas and the mother
was unable to care for the child,
Mrs. Mahoney adopted it.
In her own words, this is how
Mrs. Mahoney feels about her
hobby: Il am able to give the chill
dren the home life they should
have, and I will continue to do SO
as long as I can or as long as the
neighbors can stand it."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Perfect Attendance Mark
:Scored By D MINIS

ward: Price, j. c.; Pickett, Doro'
thy: Pittman, Ray; Perkins,
G e; Pridgeon, Maxine
Philips, C. M. Jr.; Piner, Don;
Parker. Harry; Patellis, Helen;
Post. Catherine; Pickett, Leverne'
Quinlivan, Sue: Romeo, Bobby;
Rouse. Leon; Roderick, DAVID;
Rabunsky, Martin; Ridanght. Peg
gv: Rich, Iris; Rothwell, Hamp-
on: Richards, Raymond; Riven-
bark. Alice; Roe, Elizabeth: RUSH
er, Edward; Reynolds, Bonner;
Rowland, Patricia; Reaves, Char
lie: Reagan, Rachel; Rogers
Joyce.
swart, Alma; Simmons, Ann;
Scott, Ray; Shain, Jerome; Smith
Elaine; Smith, Phillis; Sutton,
Carl; Sandlin, Mary; Starnes,
Jimmie; Stoudenmire, Jack; Sools,
Eloise; Surles, Emerson; Sellars,
Vista Rae; Sloan, John; Swami,
Herman; Simpkins, Martha; Smith,
Billie; Smith, Charles; Scott, Rich
ard; Sloan, Nancy; Stefano, Joyce;
Shannon, George; siegler, Vivian;
Sutton, Marie; Stewart, Mary;
swart, Corne1is; Setter, Frances;
Solomon, Katherine; Smith,
Eugene; swart, William; Scott,
Barbara; Shelton, Nancy; Smith,
Arthur; Smith, Charles; Swart,
John; sneeden, Victor; Stampley,
Wilma Jean; seigler, Daphne;
spivey, Jimmy; Shier, Caroline;
Spindle, Viola; Swart, James;
Smith, Harry Jr.;
Thomas, Ann; Tyson, Edith;
Teachey, Edward; Teachey, Jean;
Troy, Jane; Teachey, David: Todd,
Marguerite; Twifford, Percy;
Thompson, Ann; Thompson, Jesse
May; Taylor, James Andrew;
Thomas, Mildred; Taylor, Ahmed.
Vevere, Jean; Wonder Teith,
Henry; White, Gilmer; Whitman,
Lawrence; Wilkins, Merle; Will
liams, Jacque1ine; VIM. Joyce;
Weathersbee, Billy; williamson,
James; Williamson, Jack; Wild
mark, Martina; Walton, George;
Walton, Ella; Willis, Rex; Webs
ter, Billy; Williams, Ted;
Watkins, Maurice; Watkins,
Thurston; Wooten, John; Weneerb,
Doris; Walters, Rodney: Wallace,
Betty; Wells, David; Walker, Ber-
nice; Williams, Monirie; West
brook, Frances: Wilson, Clinton;
Watkins, Charles; Williams, Jerry;
Williams, Julian;
Witherspoon, Eugene; Weeks,
Catherine; Williamson, Marens;
Weldon, Patricia; Winningham,
Nancy; Walker, Tommy: Willis,
Carl, Jr.; Wych, Mary; Williams,
Quantia; Wood, Ray; Wise, Geral-
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Budd: Wright, Mary.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
HIGHER DIVORCE
RATE PREDICTED
British Expert Expresses
Alarm Over Trends
In England

LONDON, Jan. 81 UD - A
British divorce expert, DR.. Ed
ward Griffiths, said today that
fewer British marriages would end
in divorce if young couples would
reduce pre-marital 'petting."
Writing in the British medical
journal Lancet, Griffiths pointed
to the climbing British divorce rate
and predicted that it will reach
one in five marriages unless the
trend is stopped.
Analysing the causes Of I'M
happy marriages, he listed inter-
ference from parents-in-law as the
first, especially in cases where
parents-in-law share the same
quarters with the young couple.
Other causes, he said, were
secretiveness over family incomes
especially where both parties are
earning, BOREDOM, sexual signor-
ance and disharmony, obstinacy
and over-sensitiveness to criticism
in either partner, dogmatism and
pessimism.
Griffiths believed the greatest
chance of happy marriages lay
with people who had frank sex in
struction from their parents, the
kind Of discipline in the home
which caused no sex shocks to
children before the age of Is, and
no excessive petting before mar
riage.
He proposed setting up mar
riage guidance councils stated
by doctors, lawyers, social work
r and clergymen to rescue mar
riages headed for the courts. He
also recommended that both hus-
band and wife use the same doc
tor separately and together.
Meanwhile, 300 representatives
of education and public health in
stitutions and government authori-
ties discussed the question of brok-
en- homes at a meeting called by
the National Association of
Maternity and Child Welfare CEN
tiers.
DR.. David Mace, secretary of
the marriage guidance council,
confirmed Griffiths' prediction that
British divorces are headed toward
the ratio of n in five marriages.
He estimated that by 1868 there
will be we'll over 1000, 900 chill
dren under Is whose parents are
divorced. One generation hence,
he said. there will be 4, 0O0, 900 men
and women whose marriages have
failed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Dale Spencer, Director Oh
College Center, Cites
Future Enrolment

The educational problem of to-
day involves the necessity of TAX
ing care of more students in the
schools and colleges than present
facilities permit, Dale Spencer
stated yesterday in speaking to the
members of the Exchange club at
their regular meeting in the
Friendly cafeteria.
The A, 900 enrolled in the
colleges and institutions of higher
learning in North Carolina today
shows an increase of one-third
over pre-war years, Spencer said,
and 5000 r expected to be en-
rolled in 1949.
A major problem at present, he
said, is creating a place for the
high school seniors who will grad
uate in June. Of the %, 900 high
school seniors in North Carolina,
approximately 1000 will 90 to
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
LEGISLATURE CE7S
PIEDMONT PLAN
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place of permanent residence who,
most of that tribe moved west nf
the Mississippi in 1888.
The lands later were allotted =,
the United States in trust, the roc,
olution said, but the allotmpnt
never was consummated wb;la tbs
United States at the same tim.
enjoyed powers once enjoyed h,
the tribal council. The resolution
asks that the property rights BE-
restored and the United Statp,
grant the Indians full citizens1p
as this state has done.
committees had an active day.
The house committee On con.
servation and development set 10
am, Tuesday for a hearing On
bill to separate the division Of
game and inland fisheries from Ae
department Of conservation and
development. That hearing will
be for proponents of the bill
while opponents, including the de.
partment, will be heard February
10.
Action On Fireworks
A subcommittee report advocat.
ing the outlawing of all but tn.
manufacture of fireworks for out.
.of-state sale was adopted by the
senate committee on proposition,
and grievances.
Consideration was given by
house judiciary two On a bill to
provide for the segregation o.
youthful prisoners from old Of
tenders but the hearing was CON
tinued pending more testimony
from the state highway and pub
lie works commission. Appearing
in behalf of the bill were Superior
Court Judges Hoyle Sink, w., C.
Harris and Wilson Warlick; form
er Governor ]. M. Broughton;
Probation Commission Harris
Sample; anG J. L. OSteen Of
Greensboro, federal probation Of
ficer. Highway Commission Chair
man A. H. Graham said he would
favor the measure if it did not ar
ply to persons serving less than
six months Or to women,
Consideration was given but moi
action taken by the house com
mittee On courts and judicial dis
tricts on a special commission re-
port recommending the reduction
in number of solicitcsial districts
from 81 to 10. The report also rec
commended that solicitors be pro
from practicing law on me
side, but would give them Slow
travel expense allowance.
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GREEN REVEALS
new PEACE BID

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he handed a membership card in
the miners union, which Green
once had served as secretary
treasurer.
In Pittsburgh, Murray said:
This is the first I've heard of
it Green's propopsaL and I Gers
ainly wouldn't have any comment
on it now"
In Washington, some CLIO men
said privately it was unlikely any
ClO-AFL amalgamation could be
worked out "in time to help the
legislative situation in congress-"
James Carey, CLIO secretary.
treasurer, declined to comment be.
You'd saying the matter probably
would have to go before CLIO vice
presidents, who meet here on Feb.
H., or before the CLIO executive
board.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Top Railroads In State
File Answer To Charge,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY =,

RALEIGH, Jan. 81. -(P- At
torneys for three railroads with
trunk lines in North Carolina
Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air
Line, and Southern-today told the
state utilities commission at a
"show cause" hearing that the
commission lacks authority to re-
quire refunds of alleged over
charges Of passenger fares.
The commission, which was up
held in a ruling of the U. s.
/ Supreme court, contends that the
three railroads, operating from
Aug. /, 1914 to July rs, 1945, did
over charge during the period to
the amount of $551, 1876.
These disputed overcharges, the
commission says, either must be
returned to the passengers OF the
unsolicited amount under state
law, will escheat to the University
of North Carolina.
The three railroads admit they
charged during the period inter.
state passengers 20 cents per
mile, as authorized by the inter-
state commerce commission.
The state utilities commissions
authorized rate was 1.65 cents per
mile on interstate passenger fares,
and the ignoring of the railroads
of this order was held by the u. S.
Supreme court to be a violation of
the state utilities commission
order.
The commissions decision in the
hearing may be appealed by the
railroads to Wake county superior
court and later to the state sup
RENE court.
The railroads today filed these
answers with the commission:
l. The general statutes which
empower the utilities commission
Ifo handle matters nf rates HvaStS
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Need For More Colleges
Told Exchange Club

college, he said. This, the speaker
stated, emphasizes the necessity
for an accredited junior college in
our territory.
Spencer then referred to the
work at the Wilmington College
center where 100 are enrolled,
with IA taking vocational courses.
He summarized the educational
problem as solved at the Whining.
ton College Center four phases:
Testing program, accelerated
courses, college program and vo.
cational courses.
J. M. Snow, president, presided
at the meeting and announced the
resignation OF Paul Woodson, who
resigned from the club due to
transfer.
Russell Stone, secretary. read a
letter to the club members con.
corning the survivors of veterans
of World War II filing claims for
social security benefits before
February 10 in order to receive
all payments due.
Guests at the meeting yesterday
were DR.. Alton Fales and DR..
James Dickie.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
MOTHER BLAMED
FOR DELINQUENCY
Judge Sentences Woman
To Year In Prison After
Sons Arrest

NEW YORK, Jan. 81. -W.H- A
young mother who preferred bars
and men to the cares and confine-
ment of children was sentenced to
a year in prison today for contrib
utlng to the delinquency of her a.
year-old son.
1t was the first case of its kind
IN New York. The woman was Mrs.
Genevieve Rivera, SO. Her son is
Frank Problet, Jr., a young nomad
known to the kids on the West side
as Gypsy" He was arrested two
weeks ago, accused of wounding
three persons by sniping at them
from a rooftop with a stolen %
calibre rifle.
Mrs. Rivera, pretty in a hard
way, listened in silence as Justice
Matthew j. Diserio told her that
she and her way of life we're re-
sponsible for young Franks bud
ding crime career.
How could it be otherwise with
your mode Of living - in bars and
sr!us from morning to night and
going from apartment to apartment
with various mem" demanded the
Judge. VAN
"There is NO question but hat
gave you a fair trial." Justice Dis
eric continued. by your own &C.
ions you are responsible for and
nave encouraged the delinquent
acts OF your son -. Your chief
offense is your mode of living.
Three innocent people were sho,
by. your delinquent son.. They
might have lost their lives. They
have been manned for life"
Mrs. Rivera listened stolid-fac.
ed. None OF her boyfriends wal
there to give her support. After {
few days in jail, the bright rec
polish on her fingernails was peel
ing. She wore no hat and her hail
badly needed fixing. She was dress
led in black with hiqh.heeled shoej
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
Nations Worst Traffic
Jam Is Fuu-Time Worry
BY L DIGHTON
APP NeWsfeatureS

LOS ANGELES - Tucked away
in a mezzanine office in Los An
geles' towering city hail is a
sandy-haired, wiry little man with
a problem.
He has been working on the
same problem for "a years. And,
win, lose or draw, he'll continue
working or it, he says, until he is
pensioned in 1850.
He is Ralph Dorsey, city traffic
engineer. His problem, which he
says is common to hundreds of
other American cities, sis not
solution of the nations worst
traffic situation-we know how to
take care of it-but getting GER
tain interests to accept a solution
which will be best for the great
est number Of people,"
Los Angeles traffic has become
the most %congested in the U. S.,
says Mayor Fletcher Bowron, be-
cause the city m~ushroomed dur
ing war years. Forty thousand
private passenger autos are driven
in and out of the 12-square-block
downtown area in morning and
evening rush hours. Pedestrians,
autos, trucks. buses and street.
cars move through the area at lit
tie more than a snail's pace. Half
an hour is accepted motor travel
time for crossing the IL blocks.
Determined to make traffic re-
lief n of the city's first postwar
projects, Mayor Bowron recently
held a traffic clinic. Imported
traffic engineers found conditions
alarming and suggested a 2O-year.
$500, 000, 600 program for construc-
ton of subways, freeways and
parkways.
Despite his record of Quiet
achievement over the a Dor
sey has had to fight continuously
to keep Los Angeles traffic from
clogging up long ago.
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CHARGES AIRED
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equality of opportunity instead O.
social equality"
He called attention to the Negro
doctors, lawyers and bankers il
his state, adding that I'VE have
more Negro banks in North Caro-.
lima than in all of the nation north
OF the Mason and Dixon line anc
the largest Negro insurance com.
pany in the world"
Later Hoey told a reporter:
1.-The Senators gave me good at.
tention, a thing that they do mo-
always do when a senator speaks
You are doing a very good job il
you get a small proportion of the
number to remain and listen.
Zone Of my distinguished repub.
lican friends came up to me after.
wards and said: There is just one
thing that worries me about this
whole situation
II said, What is that?'
He said, After hearing your
speech, I am sorry that l am not a
Negro and live in North Caro-.
lima
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01

the commission with no su+,.
to determine the responda Sat10'it
railroads liability to i rsie (Ae
for violations of the omn; sldual,
rules and regulations" SSl0n,
2 The law sis in term, ,i,..,
to charges for transportst4nI limited
freight and confers no nn rsall0 d
the commission with re.e upon
passenger fares or charges Il
8; Section 1925 of the y.,.
statutes that rebates n seaefsl
of overcharges due ut IT'LL Fe'pFa
panies, which have not besr CON- a
to or claimed by the n seen paid
whom they are due, within suns to
OF two years from the timd peIi''
were due or from the time sn, 'A'g
fund was ordered by any c o,s ''
by the utilities commissio SOurt or
be paid to the University ot N sAaI
carolina does not confer N'FA
and authority upon the comr, power
to act on rail carriers. '''l'S
4. Carriers by railroad ~.
included within terms 81 not
statutes. The
.. The amounts involved :,
case are neither rebate, us
overcharges." nor
Q. The commissions pov,,,
defined in the statutes "doos a. rs
include the power TO declars not
escheat. e al
The commission took no ....
today, but it is ~understood a' nAl
the members of the commi, ala'
are confident that their Case ,%S
stand against the answers ~ xul
railroads. VI us
State Attorney General B,,,.
MCMILLAN already has wrjtte ,%' ~
opinion which said that tho n,s s4
mission has the authority 10 bo uv,l'
tho isalIo AoLule
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The Cape Fear

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that passenger vessels will soon
be on their way.
NOT FORGOTTEN - That same
voice from Sunset Park, who by
this time has begun to haunt ever
our most pleasant dreams, called
again last night.
You've guessed it: "What have
you done about the revival of the
Feast of the Pirates?," he tainted.
Il don't believe you like to have
a good time" was the manner of
attack last night as he presented it.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-01
MRS. MARTILLA HARRELSON

LUMBERTON, Jan. 81 Mrs
MARTHA Skipper Harrelson,' rs,
wife Of A. v. HARRISON of White
vile died at the Columbus county
hospital where she had been a
patient ten days Friday at 1O:4s
a. NJ. The funeral will be held
from Smyrna Baptist church oil
which she was formerly a mem
Der in Columbus county Saturday
at 3 p. m. with interment in the
church cemetery.
Mrs. HARRISON was the first
Of a family of twelve to be claim
ed by death. She was born in
Columbus on January 10, 1872
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs
Needham Skipper. Surviving are
her husband, four daughters, Mrs.
w. c. Sealey of Bolton, Mrs. Bal
lard Rich, Mrs. Rozier Walker and
Mrs. M. G. Russ Of Whiteville /;
seven brothers, M. v. Skipper of
Dunn, Fred of Abbotsburg, Car
land Of Fairmont, Route 2, Jasper
of Hallsboro. Lloyd Of Whiteville,
Ed and J.. K. Skipper of Lake
View, S. c.; four sisters, Mrs.
Laura Griffin of Saluda, S. c.,
Mrs. Ada Prince of Fair Bluff,
Mrs. Eta Thompson of Whiteville,
Route l and Mrs. Ida Floyd of
Lumberton, Route 4; 81 grand
children and nine great-grandchil-
dren.