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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30
False Economy

Want to consider a glazing example
Of penny wise and pound foolish
governmental economy?
If so, take House approval of a
Treasury-Postoffice bill looping $780,
600 from customs bureau allotments
for the coming fiscal year.
Just what does it mean?
There's no need to go far afield for
the answer.
1t will force the North Carolina dis
trict to release its customs patrol Of
ficers after May 1. Then the bars
against smuggling will be down. And
clever, determined underworld opera
tors are certainly going to take adj
vantage of this grand opportunity to
re-establish narcotic, gem and similar
rackets. This is especially so if the
port should get regular steamship SER
vice that would facilitate international
activity. The war forced this illicit
trade into a dormant state but now,
with the world headed toward nor
smalcy, abolition of the first safeguard
will encourage it's revival on a record
scale.
The situation in the North Carolina
70 district is applicable to all other ports
and the Mexican and Canadian borders.
Altogether, 800 patrol officers will be
let out.
Now, let's see why this is such a
foolish way to swing the economy ak.
First, the duty that would be COL
-lected IN goods Which will be smuggled
would more than offset the $4,000, 900
reduction. That statement is well u o
ported by past experience.
Second, it will encourage interna-
tionally-flavored crime at a time when
even the upward climb in the domestic
T. trend is quite alarming.
. Third, it will be detrimental to the
interests of hundreds of importers and
many more allied with them in various
businesses in that they will be in
competition with a lawless element
which, by circumventing the duty costs
can offer their illegal goods at lower
prices.
Fourth, it means unemployment for
a large group Of customs employees who
have been faithful over periods of
many years.
In face of these facts, how can a
Republican Congress draw the knife
on an old and efficient arm of federal
law enforcement? There are much more
fertile places, such as comparativelv
new agencies whose benefits to gen.
eral public welfare NAV be doubtful
where it could be applied. 1t requires
as much good, common sense to save
as it does to spend and the start the
Republicans have made on the forme,
course is obviously not very heartenine
to believers in genuine national econo
my.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30

quicker, were more easily amena-
BILE to alcoholism. and went nuts
faster than married men. The fat
odds on death by heart trouble
and cancer have given me ulcers;
| culver at the flash of lightning
in the summer skies, and if I start
mumbling to myself it is because
l fret about winding up as the
single cipher in a report labeled
died from being tickled to death
by humming birds"
But the latest grim bulletin from
the bat-infested caves of this great
actuary has really supplied the
topper. l quote:
The kitchen is the most danger
Gus room in the house, says {
report released this week by stat
isticians Of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co. About 5000 Ameri
u cans lose their Awes there eael
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with intent to kill, and callous dis
regard of her welfare.
Sit there and read your paper,
you beast OF Belsen," she can say
Little you care if | am rendered
INTO soap Or wind up as a cinder,
as long as you get fed. Look at
you, you coward sending me out
10 die in the front lines, while you
pun your pipe and set smugly in
me parlor. What do you know or
care, of the hazards of opening
a can of soup?"
There is no answer to that one
especially after you have spent the
past year persuading the old lady
mat she should stay out of Con.
sress at least until the kids are
Ia High school, and that the coun.
ny Is a. yet unprepared for q
: WonttsAsed op Page Nisht&
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Wlmngtons Bob Ruark
Insurance Statistics Inspire Great Fright

NEW YORK, March 29.-I wish
the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Co. would keep its big mouth shut,
and also, stay out of my kitchen.
If it has to make a practice Of
collecting statistics, in order to get
rich, then the least it can do for
the private citizens is to quit read
ing them aloud.
I have been haunted by insur-
ance company figgers as long as
! can remember. A present aller-
gy to water is due to. an. ancient
statistic which said more people
got killed in bathtubs than in bat
tie. l offered up my fair white
carcass to Mars because | saw
figures saying it was safer to g
to war than to cross streets.
Seems to me l got married be
cause the Met or che OF 1t
@R1AA~s said bachelors die
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Tar Heel Symphony y.
Sets April ShorIHl

The North Carolina Sy.' y, 4
Orchestra, now on its last 10y 4,
its Little Symphony tour VI M
state, will play IN "lD''"'
April Is. +i
The orchestra will play a ". vi
of 50 concerts in % ctIss ,,S IN
towns from the coast to '"' i"
tains in the state. Lara.
Already this season the Ia..,,.
have noticed the increase LINN. ,.,
in music on the part o. I""1 h
who heard the SympA0''
year. s.v,
concert before the State ! -, /,
tors where it won enthuS-''''
plause. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30

year and many times that number
are injured as a result OF kitchen
burns.
Burns and scalds, according to
the Metropolitan, claim more than
1000 lives annually in accidents
near the stove. Many more women
than me-, are fatally burned in
the kitchen, not only because they
spend more time there, but be.
cause their clothing is a greater
fire hazard than mems"
The boy who stood on the burn.
ing deck is no less a vocal marty
today than the wife who armeS
With the latest sheaf of small prin
from that insurance company
suddenly hears the inner man.
call to chow. With perfect RICH
before the law, she a accuse he.
spouse Of attempted arson, assaul
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30
Carolina Beach Church
Plans Easter Services

DR.. Earl Bradley, field secre-
tary of the North Carolina Bap-
fist Convention will be the guest
minister in the special pre-Easter
services in the Carolina Beach
Baptist church, the Rev. Ben B
Ussery, pastor, announced yester-
day.
The services, which will last a
week, r scheduled each night at
7:30 o'clock will begin today when
the choirs of the church will pre-
sent a vesper musical program.
he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30
Church League Seek,
Source OF Finance
CHARLOTTE, March,

CHARLOTTE, March, g. m .
The Mecklenburg county Ofanc
of the Allied Church League ioda
wired Sen. Gordon Gray Of FN
syth county, chairman Of the n
nance committee. ITO disclose IN
sources Of your Information 10
lowing his statement in the sen
ate yesterday that the league ra
received money from 'mEs,e,oaa
sources" to support its l5n
against ABC stores,
DR.. Ernest Neal Orr. charms,
of the Mecklenburg league a-
the Rev. J. M. Grove, SecTe'at,
fired the senator that the league,
books were open 10 inspection a.:
not one cent has been 'ece,"
from any group Of alconol '''
ers."
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- ~ lJ43
The News
by BY To EVIL MackESz,s
Ar Foreign Affair. NLlE

England's discoursiv t'''ga
noon 'ea-taOles have been s}'s''
a a warm morsel by the Bi,s Served
London who declared D j5 e
d n0u Use Of Lords during a d.. ,A'
CT the looming divorce ra, sS'''
adultery needn't constitute .s ,', a'.
for divorce. He recommends S.sa,''
slveness and rec~onciiauoo To-
The austere upper chsm,
Parliament has little ,.a:'' s' H
7 power ;moo these days but it 'is is \ soes
considered opinion, So 9OaId 70,
great digaitary like tbo "1 n2a ,
makes a P. announcement - Sl'at2
universal universal interest, it sets u ~ SUI
thinking and tongues to a. .o+S b
And he was very bInn+ "ssgns
approach. O'"1' IN his
1T is extraordinary
serted that at a time he .. AZ
adultery is thought less s1 .. %ae'
1t has been for centuries u - '1aa
country, and when LIVING '% IL lily
IS considered as a nn. ID vi
Joke adultery is considered 'a'l
llclent excuse for breaking ~ SUI
marriage and a home" up
Divorce Rate Jumps
The origin of this debste il.
the fact that the divorce D.
Jumped from 6,332 in l93q I'I Ia
year the war began to 81 Az
currently-a shocking stats w 1g%
fairs in the minds of a bos, . L.
brltons who still maintain n. ~
victorian reserve along with "I'
cherished china dogs and ,s, ~
stra plants. N'F~'
oiie ndslens 10 a d d that N,
increase IN divorces doesn't m ~'
that John Bull is racing besd%'.
to the devil. 1t does mean t,,s
the separations due to war b,'.
resulted in a good deal Of infs,
lty On both sides of the bo,'.
And the atomic age has reveal.
what the victorian age used1
conceal.
So far as Tommy Akin,
concerned, he has preceden tr
sowing a Few wild oats. When
first went to Britain as I renore'
in 1916 the law conceded an IN,
lishman the right to have a mS ]
tress if he SO chose. He con-,
divorce his wife for intldenr
but she couldn't divorce him A.
that ground. She had to nrou
actual physical cruelty ia al
dition to adultery. Oae of my
first introductions to this cod /
was when a big business man n.
marked to me:
Il have a prosperous business |
a fine home, a charming wife "a
preside over my table, two loyey
children. And | have my mistrea
What more could d man g3ni
It wasn't until 1923 thai a Law
was passed giving a wife The
right to divorce her husband tr
infidelity alone.
During the war and since t I
ended, societies haze
been doing yeomen's work ii
ironing out the differences b.
tween soldiers and the wives tg
left behind them. The "for3gt
ness and reconciliation which
the Bishop Of London adyocaA
has been achieved in innume.aHs
cases.
Still, England is shocked AMI
bewildered by such d flood, Al
witness the fact that the BrtE
government is studying ways an:
means Of further relieving tt
situation, and the reserved Hour
of Lords is taking a hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30
Bicycles On Maritime
Surplus Sale Listing


Forty-five used bicycles and
other materials such as screw
drivers, gauges, vises, pneumatic
drills will be sold in the Surplus
Property sale at the Maritime
North Carolina Shipyard beginning
March 81 and ending April 4, H.
7. Diehl, acting disposal agent,
announced yesterday.
ALI sales will be in lots and by
sealed bid and must be daily
between . a. m. and 3 p. m. En-
trance may be gained through
Gate No. 8. No bid deposit is
required.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30

legislative moves may be detrimental
to the long-range battle against it. 1t
is much better to meet the native Red
in the open rather than drive him
deeper underground.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30

With some people praying they
won't catch cold and others suffering
from one, this is a season of prayer
and medication.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30
GOOD MORNING

Lo, this only have I found, that God
hath made man upright; but they have
sought out many Observation-Disclosures
1873.
God gave man an upright countenance
to survey the heavens, and to look upward
to the stars.-Ovid.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-30

it Jumped from IS percent to 4S
per cent.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Court Puts Boy Killer
|0f Policeman Here
In Training School

Townsend Annes. IA, who, on
December 13, shot and killed Pvt
Richard B. Taylor, Washington
policeman, yesterday was turned
over to the National Training School
for Boys after a closed hearing In
Juvenile Court.
Judge Fay L. Bentley, of Juvenile
Court. announced the disposition OF
the case. The boy may be detained
at the school not later than his
21st birthday.
Commenting on a report that the
court might be asked to commit
the boy to Boys Town, the school
in Nebraska founded and directed
oy Msgr. E. J. Flanagan, Judge Bent.
ley said Father Flanagan had "com.
municated with the court" She
would not elaborate on the state
ment.
The nature of a report made BY
lpsychiatrists at Gallinger Hospital
where the boy was ordered for g
Ipsychiatric examination last Decem.
Der 27, was not disclosed by Judge
Bentley or Gallinger officials.
Annes was represented in court
by Attorney Nicholas j. Chase. His
father was present at the hearing.
Juvenile Court Prosecuting Attorney
Una Rita Morris handled the case
for the District.
Annes was accused OF having shot
Pvt. Taylor while another policeman
vas pursuing the youth for question
ing about his presence in parking
lot in the TOO block of street NV.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
New York Holds Fuller
On Charge Of Larceny

James G. Fuller, At, sought here on
a charge of being a Federal parole
violator, was arrested in New York
last night and accused of grand
larceny, according to The Associated
Press.
New York police said an exporter
there accused Fuller of giving him a
bad check for 1888 20 and of swindl-
ing him out of $4,000 in several
transactions.
The conviction of Fuller and
Mayor James M. Curley of Boston
in District Court of using the mails
to defraud was upheld recently by
the Court of Appeals here. Fuller
failed to appear in Municipal Court
here last month on a fugitive charge.
Judge Thomas D. Quinn ordered his
$500 bond forfeited on December 20.
Fuller recently completed serving
a five-year term for sending fraud
ulent securities through the mails
and was paroled. He then was freed
on $2,50O bond in the mail fraud
case with Mayor Curley. Authorities
accused Fuller of obtaining 5000
illegally from the Blackstone Hotel
in Chicago by writing checks they
said were worthless, and Washington
police, subsequently were asked to
look for him.
Fuller, Mayor Curley and Donald
Wakefield Smith OF Pittsburgh, for
mer member of the National Labor
Relations Board, were convicted OF
using Engineers Group, Inc, here,
to obtain war contracts in the mail
fraud scheme. They have asked the
appellate court for a rehearing.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Safe Driving Institute
lis Opened for teachers

Preparations for Prince Georges
County high school instruction In
safe driving will get under way next
week with the opening Of South
ern Maryland Driver Education and
Training Institute for high school
teachers.
The course will begin Monday and
end Friday at the Court House in
Upper Marlboro, School Superin-
tendent G. Gardner Shugart an
nounced.
The intensive training is spon-
sored by the Prince Georges County
Board Of Education, the Automobile
Club Of Maryland and the District
OF Columbia division of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association.
| Ten driving students from the
county and two others. all high
school instructors, have been Sc
Elected for the course.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Student Disguise
Brings Arrest of
Numbers Suspect

An undercover agent of the police
entigambling SQUAD wore sporty
clothes, snappy bow ties and carried
schools books for month to play
the role of a Georgetown University
student in an investigation climaxed
by the arrest yesterday of a man
described as the Hilltop's No. !
numbers writer.
The suspect, Will F. Walker, IS, OF
the 1000 block of Twenty fourth
street NV, was charged with oper-
ating a lottery and possession OF
numbers slips, police said. Later he
was released in $500 bond pending
a hearing before United States
Commissioner Needham G. Turnage
Police said he knew every policeman
in the Georgetown section, hence
the disguise on the part Of the
agent.
The police agent adopted his dis
guise about month ago, police said
when numerous Georgetown resi-
dents complained of the numbers
writing activities in the area.
After pretending to be a student
for month, police said, the ager:
succeeded in placing bet Thurs
day with Walker He lost. Yester.
day he did it again with marked
coins, police said. Detectives R.. D
Weaver and M. M. Conners, lettering
nearby in the 1900 block of Thirty.
fifth street NV, then made the
arrest.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Army Can't Afford Shelters
For Vehicles, Hughes Says
By the Assoei6ted Press

Maj. Gen. Everett Hughes, chief
of ordnance, said yesterday the
Army should shelter more Of its idle
vehicles from the elements, but
doesn't have the money to do 1t.
Just back from an inspection trip
around the country. the general re-
called seeing 10000 vehicles parked
in the open on one field at the og-
den (Utah Arsenal.
Explaining that certain number
of trucks, jeeps and other transport
equipment brought back from
Europe must be kept on hand in
proportion to the changing strength
OF the Army, Gen. Hughes told re-
porters that surveys are made from
time to time with view to disposing
of some of the equipment. Chang
ing designs also is factor in dis
posal of obsolete equipment, he
said.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
Hearing Scheduled Today
For Check Fraud Suspect

Louis P. Mastriana, 27, of the 500
block of Mount Vernon place NV
was to appear before United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
today to answer two police charges
Of false pretenses in connection with
the passing of two checks for a
total of $2,100.
After arresting the suspect De-
tective Sergt. John Apostolides said
three rings and two watches. al
legedly bought with the worthless
checks, were recovered at Mas
trianas home. The man is under
$1,000 bond awaiting action on
grand larceny charges preferred by
New York authorities for accept
ing payment for new cars he failed
to deliver, police said.
Victims of the spurious checks
here were the Shah & Shah jewelry
store, 921 r street N.W.,s and the
Scott jewelers., 872 F street NV,
according to detectives. Samuel
Greenberg, Office manager OF Shah
& Shah, told police man passed a
81, 500 check for two watches valued
at s1,375 and received $125 change
in cash.
At Scott's police were told man
had passed $500 check for three
rings valued at $l,745. Both checks
turned out to be worthless.
Evening star., 1947-01-25

Washingtor's planners today
fought back at District officials WHO
urge that the Fort Drive be scrap
ped.
In an official statement framed at
the closing session of its monthly
meeting yesterday, the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission promised a fight to the fin
ish to retain "this much-needed cir
cumferential traffic distribution
roadway" on the city plan.
The statement promised fur
ther declaration "refuting in de-
tail" the arguments advanced by
District Budget Officer Walter L.
Fowler and Tax Assessor Edward A.
Dent to Commissioner John Russell
Young to support turning land
bought for the drive back into tax
able property.
Recommendation Held "Unwise."
The commission acknowledged
that Mr.. Fowler and Mr.. Dent each
lis good in his official position, but
has made most unfortunate and
unwise recommendation in this par
ticular excursion into city plan
ming"
The commission, the statement
continued, "is in complete disagree.
ment" with the findings of the two
men that the drive is "chimerical
useless and makes no sense today.
Congress approved the drive ir
1880, when it passed the Capper-
Cramton Act to advance $4,000, ,00t
to the city for park and playground
purchases, the statement said. Fort
Drive was named in the act as one
of the projects for which the money
would be spent.
1.-THE commission is convinced" II
went on, that the Fort Drive, being
Evening star., 1947-01-25
May Returns Home;
Defense Plans 10 File
Motion for Dismissal

Former Representative Andrew j
May was on his way back to his
Kentucky home today, under $4,000
bail, as his defense attorneys here
prepared to file motions to dismiss
the indictment charging that he
tried to defraud the Government.
Mays co-defendants, Henry M.
and Murray Carson and Joseph
Freeman, former Washington rep
resentatives for the Garssons war
time munitions combine, likewise are
expected to challenge the charges.
All pleaded not guilty of con-
spiracy charges when arraigned be-
fore Chief Justice Bolitha j. Laws
in District Court yesterday.
Their attorneys have Is days in
which to file motions. Chief Justice
Laws set March 10 for the start of
the trial. .a....~
Prosecutors Await Moves.
Meanwhile Government prosecu-
tors will "sit tight" until defense
counsel make their next moves. Will
liam A. Paisley, special assistant to
the Attorney General, announced
today.
May, member of Congress for 16
years until his defeat the last elec-
tion and wartime chairman Of the
House Military Affairs Committee,
left for Prestonburg, KY, early to-
day; his attorney, Warren E. Magee,
disclosed.
1--WE very definitely will file mo-
tions in this case within the 15-day
period" Mr.. Magee declared. II am
not prepared to say just what these
will be because they can be on many
grounds"
1t was explained that motions of
this kind could attack the 16-page
Indictment itself, question the valid
ity or procedure of the grand jury,
ask for bill of particulars, or con-
tend, for. example, that various
counts or wording of the ur-count
Indictment we're not specific or n
accordance with common law rules.
Garssons Taking "Rest."
The Carson brothers could not
be reached here today. Their at
torney, Allen J. Krouse, said they
are having a little rest" this week
end and will be "in and out of
Washington" during the next few
weeks. Mr.. Krouse said he did not
know that May had returned to
Kentucky. But he explained that
the defendants, while within the
jurisdiction and technical custody
of the District Court here, are not
necessarily bound to remain in the
city until the trial so long as they
appear promptly when called.
The Garssons, as well as Freeman,
were released on $4,000 bail yester-
day by Chief Justice Laws.
Moves to be made by attorneys
for the Garssons, Mr. Krouse said,
will be discussed Monday when
Charles J. Margiotti, one of the
coAnsel, arrives from Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Margiotti is former attorney
general of Pennsylvania.
Henry I. Quinn, attorney for
Freeman, said he has not yet de-
cided whether to file motions or
what the motions, if filed, might be-
| Henry M. Carson was the re-
puted brains" of the wartime mu-
nitions combine which handled more
than $78,000,000 in Army contracts
Murray Carson managed the sales
and Freeman headed the Washing
ton Office. The indictments came
after a grand jury investigation
which began last October 10.
Evening star., 1947-01-25
D. {. Shriners Give $1,000
To Police BOYS Club Fund

Washington Shriners have con-
tributed $1,000 to the Police Boys
Club fund campaign, several weeks
in advance of the opening OF the
drive.
The surprise gift was presented
yesterday to Maj. Ernest w. Brown
retired police chief and founder OF
the club. Presentation was made
by Edmund o. Carl, potentate OF
Alamas Temple, at a luncheon in
the temple.
The prive will lopen formally Feb
ruary 3 with. a goal of $150,000
There are six boys club operated
by police here, offering recreation
and sports for boys between the
ages of 6 and 18.