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Evening star., 1947-10-26

have 2o3 presntday major agu-113 in the Amer
and 81 in the National League
Williams athletics Anybody who hasn't COM
sports the temptation to quit when
pressed facing life the hard way When the
Chicago York Yankees the other night they
Conference in passing third in total
in touchdown production and first IN
the Yankees through
Rockets had dropped their ninth straight game!
Jones Rates WhirIy Best When Willing to Run
Jones, Calumet Farms he doesn't
including Armed could have beaten Whiraway
day he really wanted run But you're never quite sure
days going be- Jones told Granand Rice
kind of 3yearod Armed has been the
He's like child Furthermore
likes all the time and hates to be beaten
Backed Bill Early of Noe Dame who has been scout
Navy Mdd Dick Scott the best center I've
apprasals Notre had ALI America
candidate In George Sohmeyer former pgh cadet
Strohmeyer hasn't lived expectations Widfe
Dept normal close to 100000 pounds of wild rabbit
harvested the United States There is no love lost between the
penalties in todays esab
e Mn who resigned from the Naval Academy to enter
Penn, taking it and dshing it out all afternoon.
Double Dose of Football Too Much
Why people $40 for football ticket and then drag
portable radio hear other game? Football isn't that
follow two at Two Navy line
pulled of the boners OF the when they adopted
attitude toward short Penn kickoff and nearly lost the
territory. ball barely skidded
Quakers for and hen when Penn again
fans the penalty for probably the first time
meaning the ball the Red Blues 49,
Navy psy next week there strong
including Bill Week. who
Indians Eddy Gimores recent
racing in Russia top reading 1t seems racing in
function and there private owners
o under the Ministry of Agriculture and the
Zhokies their colors Furthermore when
up being obstacle And
worrying about little benzedrine.
Evening star., 1947-10-26

for MackmulD, 2: Galiffa Points after
ouchdowns-Mackmull, 2. Columbia scor-
ing, MISUNDERSTANDING. 2: Swiacki.
Substitutions. Army-Ends. Atom, Kellu;
tackles, Davis, Feir; guards. Lunn, Fastuca,
Barnes; centers, Livesay: backs, Dielens,
Gustafson, Scott, Gabriel, Gillette, Grado-
columbia-Ends, Rakowski: tackles,
Hasseiman, Briggs, Kisiday: guards,
Bacauskas, Chaky: center, Shekitka; backs,
vanbeilinsham. Russell, Lincoln, Nork,
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Win, Lose, or Draw
steom From the BubbIine CouIdron
By FRANCIS {. STANN
Stor Stoff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA 25-ival coaches who must face major
looking into the eligibility of five regulars who
suspected having their years Of varsity
scouts here watch Navy, lament the loss
Evening star., 1947-10-26
Army's Unbeoten
Football Streak
By the Associoted Press

j, NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Here's the
unpeaten string of the Army foot
ball team which Columbia termi-
mated today:
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
new AIR SERVICE
LOOMS FOR CITY
Wilmington Named As One
OF Main Terminals On
Proposed Route

The possibility of additional air
service for Wilmington doomed
yesterday with the announcement
by Douglas Blythe, president of
Florida-C Central airlines that his
company was seriously consider
ing the inauguration of a twice.
weekly schedule between Miami,
Fla, and New York.
Wilmington is included as one
of the main terminals on the
north-south route as tentatively Sc,
by Blythe, with other stops to be
made at Jacksonville, Florida,
Charleston, New Bern and Norfolk
Douglas DC-3 q . passenger
equipment would be used on the
proposed run Blythe said, and all
planes would be manned by fully
qualified flight crews with long
scheduled. airline experience.
Tentative plans, according to the
Airlines president,
would give Wilmington at least
four to five seats on each flight.
Although no definite date for the
Inauguration of the new. service
was set, Blythe indicated that the
move would probably be made
within the near future.
Headquarters of the Florida.
Central are located at Cora
G a b e S with routes running
throughout Florida.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
NATION ENERGIES
FROM COLD SPELL
Normal Temperatures Due
Friday; Florida Crops
Suffer Damage
By The Associated Press

Most sections of the country
started recovering from the eff
fects of prolonged frigid weather
Tuesday as a widespread cold
wave lost much of it's force.
Orders curtailing the industrial
use of gas, which resulted in more
than 240. 900 persons being made
idle throughout the country, were
lifted in some areas.
The Peoples Natural Gas COM
pany restored service to 152 West
ern Pennsylvania plants. Al
Clarksburg. w. Va, the Hope Ma.
tural Gas company announced 1T
was restoring fuel for commercial
use and other gas companies were
expected to follow suit. Some
100, 900 workers laid off in Detroit
because of a gas shortage e re-
called. Supplies to domestic con-
sumers in Western New York
were largely restored after a week
end cut.
Temperatures o to normal in
the Midwest and warmer weather
was forecast for the East by
Wednesday night or Thursday.
Normal Temperatures
Weather forecasters said the out
look was for normal OF above nor
NAL temperatures for virtually the
entire country by Thursday.
Freezing weather nipped deep
into Florida again early Tuesday
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
Along The Cape Fear

Arthur Benning, the sheriff o.
New Hanover, took full precau'
tons to see that the noble lady
would find her visit here to he1
liking.
That was Just common sense,
Sheriff Benning figured, because
any gent in Virginia who won the
lady's fancy was promised rapid
advance in the service of the King
SOCIAL WHIRL-". Thence tc
Wilmington, where she was also
received with great marks OF dis
t~inction," we're told.
After her social triumph here
Sarah headed for Charleston, S
c., were many good things come
to an end.
At last after remaining there fol
several days, she was detected
and apprehended. Stripped of hel
high-sounding title that had KEEP
New Bern and Wilmington in
whirl, the truth would out.
Having been taken in to thu
service of one Of the maids of hon
or to the Queen, she found acces:
into one of the royal apartments,
and. breaking open a cabinet
rifled it of many valuable jewels
for which she was apprehended
! Continued ON Page d Col. "a
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
FIGHT LOOMING
IN CONFIRMATION
Secretary Patterson Adds
Support To Lilinethal;
Republicans Doubtful

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL W.n -
Secretary of War Robert P. Pat
terson threw his support behind
David E. Lilienthal today in the
face of a major shift in senate
republican sentiment that threat.
ened to block Lilienthal's confir.
nation as chairman of the atomic
energy commission.
Patterson's surprise appearance
before the joint congressional com.
mittee on atomic energy under.
scored the administrations grow
ing alarm over the long delay in
getting confirmation of Lilienthal
and the four other atomic com
missioners appointed by President
Truman last fall.
Congressional sources indicated
that Army Chief of Staff Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower might also
testify before the hearings close.
ostensibly to discuss the army's
atomic role but perhaps also tc
fire a shot in Lilienthal's support.
There appeared little doubt that
Lilienthal's confirmation, which
last week seemed "in the bag
now faced a bitter senate fight.
The republican majority, which
holds the deciding votes, was re-
ported split wide open on the is
Continued on Page 2; Col. s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
BUCKET BRICADES
STOP FLASH FIRE
Explosion Starts Blaze
Which Burns Half OF
Business Area

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark, Feb.
11.CP-Eight hundred men and
boys Joined bucket brigades in this
Northern Arkansas county seat of
1,5O0 today to halt a flash fire
which wiped out a quarter of the
business district before it was
brought under control.
No one was reported injured.
With water only from wells and
cisterns to fight the spreading
blaze-a hard freeze two nights
ago h a d burst the towns water
pipes-the community's small fire
department and volunteer firemen
battled for more than two hours to
save the rest of the business
section and surrounding resi-
dences.
No immediate estimate of the
damage was available, but II
businesses we're destroyed and a
number of others we're damaged.
An explosion occurred when
Henry Sutton lit an oil burner in
his barber shop at 1:30 P. M.
"After the explosion, the fire
spread throughout the block before
most of us realized it," related
Harry Dale, editor Of the weekly
| Mountain View Herald and one Of
the fire fighters he estimated at
300.
"There wasn't much wind, but
the flames spread rapidly because
we had no powered water to fight
them-only water buckets and sand
bags"
The same section destroyed
today was wrecked by fire Aug.
%, 1886.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12

MORE OF SAME - Yesterday
we promised to answer the sixty
four dollar question about the
Eighteenth Century Bombshell,'
Sarah Wilson, concerning her visit
in 1772 to the Cape Fear region.
You'll recall that Sarah arrived
on the seem boasting to be Lady
Susanna Carolina Matilda, sister
of the Queen of Great Britain.
ITO some she promised govern
ments, to others regiments, or pro-
motions Of different kinds in treas
ury, army, and navy; in short,
she acted her part so adroitly as
to levy heavy contributions upon
some persons of the highest ranks.
"She received the marked atten-
ton of Governor Martin and his
lady whilst in New Bern; and pro-
ceeded thence to Wilmington. -
a contemporary of the Naughty
Hussy tells us.
WELCOME MAT OUT The
Port City was all agog, for who
should be coming to visit the fair
city that winter of 1772 but Lady
Susanna Carolina Matilda, no less
a person than the sister Of the
Queen of Great Britain.
Here was a golden opportunity
that no local swain could afford
to miss.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
Bitter, Freezing Weather
Adds To Burden Oh
Clement Attlee

LONDON, Feb. IL. -H)- Great
Brltaln'S desperate campaign to
build up its dangerously low coal
piles proved a. failure during the
first "a hours of its operation and
e Fuel ministry announced gloom
lily tonight that the public response
to the appeal for power and coal
conservation was mot SO good"
The Fuel ministry, fighting to
ease the coal shortages which have
shut down thousands of industries
and thrown more than 1000, 000
persons out of work in 3S of the 81
countries in England and Wales.
said the semi-voluntary coal and
electricity savings scheme had
failed to augment coal stocks at
power stations in those counties.
In the remaining 26 English and
Welsh counties, the ministry add
ed, coal supplies dwindled.
Although Prime Minister Gle
ment R. Atlee, chief Of the labor
government which nationalized
Britain's entire coal producing in
dustry on January l, appealed to
Britons Monday to use as little
coal, power and lights as possible,
today's electricity usage vas near
ly 500, 900 kilowatts higher than
Monday, the ministry said.
No Cooperation
The usage report indicated the
public was disregarding the power
saving plan, and caused the minis
try to term public cooperation
mot so good"
In addition to apparent public
disregard of the labor government S
frantic pleas for economy, bit
ter, below freezing weather, which
forecasts said would last for ''sev-
eral days. more, numbered sea
shipments of coal and caused a
drop in production at the mines.
Continued OH Page 2; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
SUBCOMMITTEE VOTES
Sc, 900, 600, 900 CUT
FROM RUMANBUDGET
Airport Authority Asks
Funds For improvements
New Cargo Line May .Lo.
cate AT Local Field,
Chairman Reveals

A formal request to the New
Hanover county commissioners for
$2o, 600 to match a similar amount
to be provided by the Civil Aero
nautics Authority for improve
ments to Bluethenthal field will be
made very shortly, a spokesman
for the Wilmington-New Hanover
Airport Authority disclosed last
night.
Although no definite date was
mentioned. the air board official
said that the request would he pre-
sented Immediately after the filing
of an application with the CAA fol-
the federal governments share oil
the improvement fund.
The application mus; be in the
Raleigh office of the CAA by to.
morrow and in Washington by the
LIST of March, the spokesman
pointed out. After the documents
requesting the money from the
federal government leaves Ra
leigh, action must be taken by the
Atlanta regional office of the ali
administration.
The decision of the local air au
thority to ask for the $25, 600 wa:
reached at a special meeting o.
the board yesterday. The vote tt
request the money came after
members of the group decided tt
follow CAA recommendations fol
split-field operations of Bluethen
thai, a move which has been CD.
posed by member Harry Gardner
on the grounds that the location
of all buildings on one side of the
field would be more economical
Gardner declined to vote on the
issue, which came to a head when
Hargrove Bellamy made a motion
that CAA recommendations be fol
lowed.
The total of $50, 900, if allocated,
would be used to construct a large
apron on the southeast side If the
field, with the present officers
club to be renovated into an ad.
ministration terminal. Hamilton
Hicks, secretary of the authority
estimated that So, 600 wouid be
needed to make the necessary
changes and repairs to the. build
ing.
During the meeting, Albert Per
ry, chairman Of the local board
disclosed that John Barnes, heac
of a newly organized air cargo
line in New York, is due to ar.
rive in Wilmington next week te
formulate plans for a new sky
freight line out. of Bluetnenthal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
WACEHOUR BILL
BEFORE ASSEMBLY
Measures To Reimburse
Municipalities For Gas
Taxes Defeated

RALEIGH, Feb. II. TIP A
minimum wage maximum hour la
Dor bill was introduced today in
aabusy legislative session that saw
defeat for a bill to reimburse
municipalities for gasoline taxes
paid on their vehicles. and at least
temporary success for a move to
create a board of examiners for
funeral directors.
Although all committee hearings
scheduled for the afternoon pre-
viously had been cancelled for the
funeral of State Auditor George
Ross Pou, the joint committee on
Conservation and Development
went on with a bill that would
separate the Division of Game and
Inland Fisheries from the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment. Scores of proponents had
come here for the hearing. Op-
ponents will be heard Thursday.
The wages and hours bill, af-
fecting intrastate workers, was in
troduced by Senators Allsbrook OF
Halifax, Ward of Craven, Parker
Of Buncombe, Wallace of Johnston
and Midget of Pasquotank.
1t would provide minimum wages
Of 40 cents an hour and a 40-hour
work week within six days. Time
and a half wages would be paid
for overtime work,
Women Section
Women could not be employed
more than nine hours a day or
more than 4S hours a week or
more than six days a week. The
state now has no minimum wages
law, but it has maximum hours
for men and women in various oc-
equations. They are 48 hours for
women and minors and Sc for men.
Persons employed in establish
ments subject to provisions of the
federal Fair Labor Standards act
of 1888 as amended would not be
affected, nor would persons with
a guaranteed weekly salary of
$50 or more, persons engaged in
agriculture, domestic service or
fishing, persons employed in an
establishment employing no more
chan four persons at any time,
or outside statesmen as may be
defined by the commissioner of
labor.
A six : member advisory board
would be appointed by the COVER
nor, with the advice Of the Labor
commissioner, for staggered terms.
Two would represent employers.
two employees and two the general
public. Hearings, announced in
newspapers of statewide circula-
ton, would be held on applications
Continued mn PAGE 3. CoJ ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
OPERATORS WARN
OF NEW STRIKES
John L. Lewis Must Give
Up Welfare Fund, John
son Declares

WASHINGTON, Feb. II - Up
The National Coal Association
warned tonight a new bituminous
coal strike is inevitable" by July
l unless John L. Lewis agrees *
give up the miners welfare fune
or Congress passed a remedia
law.
Forney Johnson, counsel OF the
association, gave that view of the
situation to a reporter after testi
flying before the House Labor com
mittee.
He said the bituminous coal in
dustry, or at least a substantial
part Of it,. both North and South
cannot agree" to continue the
fund which was set up by the gov
eminent after it seized $500 mine!
last May. The government is legal
ly obligated to return the mines
before July L.
Johnston also said it would be
"difficult'' for Lewis to retreat or
the issue.
Therefore, he said, it's up tt
Congress.
He had given the Coal associa'
tons view of the future in some
what less positive terms during
his testimony, in which he asked
Congress to remove the protection
of federal laws to all strikes ovel
welfare funds, closed shops, OF
other Improper objects"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
RED CROSS QUOTA
SET AT $2l,253
Announcement OF Fund
Raising Drive Goal Made
At Meeting Here

A SCI, 253 quota has been set for
The l947 campaign of the Whining
ton Chapter of the American Red
Cross. it was announced yesterday
afternoon by Thomas Orrell,
chairman of the local chapter. The
announcement was made during a
meeting of the workers in the Ad-
yanced Gifts division, according to
J. H. CarsWell, co-chairman OF the
forthcoming drive.
Walker Taylor. chairman OF the
Advanced Gifts committee, presid-
ed at the meeting and announced
that the goal OF his division is $10,-
900, almest half the total chapter
quota. Taylor urged all workers to
begin Immediately in order that
their work would be completed be-
fore the official opening Of the
drive on March 4.
0rrell spoke to the group on the
work of the local chapter and J.
B. Hill, Atlanta, regional director
Of the Southeast area, spoke on
the national and international as
poets of the Red Cross.
Workers in the Advanced Gifts
division are as follows:
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
ENGINEERS HERE
LEAD IN SAFETY
Local District Notified By
Division Headquarters
OF 1916 Record

The Wilmington District Corps
Of Engineers leads all other Dis.
'TlctS in the South Atlantic Divi-
Sion IN the low frequency of &C.
eldents during 1916, in the Consoli-
dated Injury report recently re
eelved from the Division Engineer
o. the activities in Safety and Ac-
eident Prevention, Col. B. C. Snow.
District Engineer, revealed yester-
day.
The frequency rating is based
upon the number of accidents pei
nllllon mar hours of work, it was
explained, and the records show
lnat for the year 1894 the Viii.
,MAgton District also led the South
A.lantlc Division in the low fire.
quehcy OF lost time injuries.
george F. Tienken, safety engi-
aeer for the Wilmington District,
slSo received a letter of common
usuoA on his efforts in the safety
program in Ibis district.
Duflng the war when the Corps
" Engineers was called upon to
pu' INTO effect supervision over the
greatest construction era in the
%eoontlnued On Page 2; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
HUSBAND BATTLES
CLUES IN MURDER
West Coast Police Holding
Suspect In Brutal
Staying

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11-UH-
A grim-faced retired Marine with
an outstanding service record
fought tonight to break through a
web of circumstantial evidence
linking him with. the brutal STAY
ing of his estranged wife, Mrs.
Jeanne T. French.
The Marine, 47-year-old Frank
F. French, red-eyed and worn
from a night of questioning, ad-
mitted having seen his wife, fam
ed as a flying nurse" a few hours
before she was killed early yester-
day.
But he looked his questioners
straight in the eye and swore he
loved her. He said before God"
he would not have harmed a hair
on her head.
Police said evidence of %quarrels.
beatings and separation was suf-
ficent to justify holding French
as a suspect.
Mrs. French, At, was trampled
to death in an isolated open field.
1t. Lee Jones of the police wer
crime laboratory reported that
plastic impressions of the shoes
worn by the slayer did not match
shoes worn Or owned by French.
A check of the ex-Marine's clothes
failed to disclose blood stains.
1--WE are going to check his
story through to the end before
we decide definitely he is not
the man." said Homicide Captain
Jack Donahoe.
French did not deny having seen
his wife Sunday night. He said the
onetime aviatrix and airline
stewardess came to his Santa
Monica room late that night but
left a few minutes before mid
night.
His story was supported by the
landlady of the rooming house he
CONTINUED on Page 2; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12

# is not a bit too early to begin
facing up to the fact that in the
United Kingdom and in the EN-
pire the postwar difficulties are
appearing faster than solutions can
he found and applied. A crisis OF
GREAT dimensions is manifestly IN
the making which, if it were al
lowed to run its course, coulo
shake the world, and make u
own position highly vulnerable and
precariously isolated.
There is no mistaking the signs
which are in the warning OF that
crisis. They are that the Canadian
and American credits. which were
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-12
Senate
'CroupIgnores
Army Chief
General Lodges Emergency
Protest Against Army
Funds Clash
%ENDANGERS SECURITY
Recommendation Now Goes
. Before 102-Man Com
mittee On Friday

WASHINGTON, Feb. IL PA
Senate = House budgetary subcom-
mittee voted for a Sc. 00O, O0O, 900
slash in President Humans $751;
500, OO0, 900 budget today in the face
OF an emergency protest by Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower against cut
ting Army funds.
Just before the final subcommit-
tee vote the chief of staff rushed
to the capitol.
1t was learned that he protested
that any reduction of Army funds
would cripple defense plans.
Senator Quincy (R-SD) later fig
ured the armed forces share of
the cut at 81, $50, 600, 900.
One senator said Eisenhower
agreed that some reductions could
be made i'll Army funds but that
he wanted Congress to know just
what would happen.
Would Close Camps
Certain Army camps must be
closed and a large number of civil
activities OF the Army Engineers
Will be shut down, the general told
the Congressional budget makers.
1t was learned also that the re-
duced budget would call for ellmi-
nation of about half a million per-
sons now on federal payrolls.
A bitter wrangle over the qaes-
ton whether such a slash would
impair the nations defense pre-
coded the vote.
Chairman Quincy CR-sD) of the
Senate Armed Services committee
declined to join in the voting. de-
claring:
Il wouldn't vote for anything
that hamstrings our national Sc
CURLY"
The 20-man subcommittee an
proved the budgetary cut by an 8
to 2 vote, with three members de-
Ginning to ballot. 1t sent its recon-
mendatlon UP to the l02-member
Senate : House Budget COMMITTEES
Tor action, probably on Friday.
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