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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-16

DR.. and Mrs. G. d. Russell and
children spent the weekend with
Mrs. Russell's aunt Mrs. viii Quinn
in Tunica.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-16

MIR. and Mrs. Bill Mcclellan had
Mr.. and Mrs. Doty Porter as Friday
night dinner guests.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1947-10-16

This Independence Day your
Uncle Sam salutes millions of fellow
Americans who bay and own Saw
ings Bonds-the payroll savers, the
BOnd-a-Month farmers, professional
people and the sclf-emrloved. the
regular buyers of Savings Bonds in
all walks Of life-alI of whom are
showing good judgment in building
many future financial independence
days and many future financial in
dependence years.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
MARGARET READY
FOR WEST COAST
Miss Truman To Make Con-
cert Debut Saturday AT
Los Angeles

LOS ANGLES, Aug. 18.-P9-
The Presidents daughter, Mar
garet Truman, received an Ell
thusiastic reception today when
she arrived by train to prepare
for her concert debut Saturday
night.
There were the reporters and
photographers, Well-wishers and
the inevitable secret service men.
plus American Beauty roses.
Miss Truman beamed. Eleven
year-old Karol Wecker, daughter
of the Hollywood Bowl association
general manager, DR.. Karl Wecker,
thrust the flowers into Miss Tru-
mans arms. The greeters also
included Mrs. Joseph L. Levy,
chairman of the bowl hospitality
committee.
Before secret service agents es-
corted her to her hotel Miss Tru-
man told reporters:
cts my first visit to the west
coast and Pm sur it will be Won
derful. . L don't dare make any
plans; my sponsors will tell me
what to do"
The 23-year-old soprano will ap-
pear Saturday as soloist with the
See MARGARET on Page 2
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HISTORICAL CLAR1FICA.

HISTORICAL CLARIFICA-
TION-Louis T. Moore, member
of the New Hanover County His
torical commission who has spent
much of his life in a study Of
historical events in this region
and is recognized as an outstand-
ing authority on the subject in
this community, comes forward
with suggestions and corrections
on previous stories in "Along The
Cape Fear"
One is on Governor Edward B.
Dudley, the first elected governor
of North Carolina. Moore points
out that Governor Dudley had ap-
proximately 80 predecessors in Of
flee although none Of them were
elected. The first one was appoint
ed about 1776.
Governor Dudley was elected by
popular vote following a constitu-
tional amendment in 1885.
DUDLEY'S HOME - Governor
Dudley lived in the mansion at
Front and Nun streets which was
erected about 1880. The property
later was purchased and remodel
ed by the late DR.. James Sprunt.
Governor Dudley was r OF
North Cardinals leaders Of his
generation, as Moore points out.
He subscribed more than $50. 900
in stock to help make possible the
original Wilmington & Weldon
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
BANK OFFICIAL
SHOT TO DEATH
Claude A. Adams, Presi-
dent OF He llywood State
Bank Found Dead

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calf,
Aug. 10. -(P)e Claude A. Adams,
66, president of the So, 0O0, 900 Hol-
lyWood State bank, was found shot
to death in his home today, leav-
ing notes which detectives said in
Dictated a thwarted romance with
his 33-year-old private secretary.
Police Investigators said a .3S
caliber pistol was in Adams left
hand. There was one bullet wound
in the left chest. He was a widower
and lived alone.
Detective Lieut.. E. w. Smith
said one note was addressed to
Miss Merna Lasseli, employed at
the bank for IL years as adams
secretary, who resigned last June.
Smith said the note was dated at
Y a. m. today and read:
"Merna - We could have been
so happy had you continued to have
me. I have your picture before
me. I will look at it for the last
time. I do love you SO much to
think you are now in the arms of
another man - is more than I can
stand. Remember the wonderful
times we have had, kindly. Good
bye, my darling, I love you"
Smith said another note addres.
sed to "Merna" chided her for
having a boy friend described as
arrogant" and "conceited" and
mo good"
Walter G. D%anielson, attorney for
See BANK On Page Two
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Veto Blackballs
Three Countries From UN;
One Killed In Gun Battle
More Soviet
Reflections Seen
Trans-Jordan, Ireland And
Portugal Memberships In
Council Blocked

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Aug. rs
-W.H-Russia used the great pow
err veto three straight times today
to blackball trans-Jordan, Portu-
gal and Ireland for United Ma
tons membership after the west
ern powers had rejected Russian
backed Albania and outer Mongo-
liza.
They we're the 18th, 18th and 14th
Russian vetoes.
At least two more Soviet Va.
toes and three more blackballs by
the majority-backed western coun-
tries seemed likely before the Sc
curity council completed action on
this years dozen membership bids.
Yemen, a tiny kingdom on the
southern tip of Saudi Arabia, and
Pakistan, the new Moslem state
in India, we're almost certain to
be the only two countries accepted
into the UN this year when the
general assembly convenes Sep
TENDER 16. Their two applications
we're approved in an almost
strange squirt of unanimity after
the council blackballed the five
rejectees of last year and then
tabled until Thursday the applica-
tons of Hungary, Bulgaria, Ro-
See SOVIET on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
Along The Cape Fear

railroad, which later became one
of the original units of the present
Atlantic Coast Line system.
Louis T. Moore writes that for
the sake of the present day resi-
dents and visitors it is regrettabJe
that the handsome monument
over the grave of Governor Dud-
ley in Oakdale cemetery, bears
no reference to the fact that he
was the first governor of this
state elected by general referen-
dunn.
FAMOUS INCIDENT RECALL
ED - Further, Moore brings out
that it was Governor Dudley who
uttered a statement that has rung
across the United States and is
known by most living citizens to-
day.
That statement concerned a
quotation often heard today in
humorous conversations. 1t is.
''What did the governor of North
Carolina say to the governor OF
South Carolina?"
Governor Dudley was the au-
thor and composer of the original
and now famous remark, well,
Governor, its a long time between
drinks" Governor Dudley alleged
ly made that remark to Governor
Pierce Butler of South Carolina
when the latter visited this states
governor in Raleigh.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
Blast Rocks
Cadiz Port
Catastrophe Explosion In
South Spanish City
Starts Fires

MADRID, Spain, Tuesday, Aug.
10. -U.H-A catastrophe explosion
in a naval arsenal near the great
south Spanish port Of Cadiz last
night sent fires racing through the
city and caused a mass exodus of
its population.
Early today, all roads leading
out of Cadiz were damned by peo-
pie fleeing the city. Only doctors
and nurses, answering urgent ap-
peals for aid, were allowed to en-
ter Cadiz.
The explosion, at $50 p. M, shat
tered windows in the world-famous
wine center of Jerez De La From
terra, 10 miles from Cadiz, and
shook cities so miles away like a
distant earthquake.
Reports from Seville, go miles
north of Cadiz, said that the first
blast occurred in the village of Punt
alea, three miles from Cadiz, when
a supply of depth charges ex-
ploded.
Earlier reports indicated that
See BLAST ROCKS On Page Two
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Experts Tell
U. S. Group Of Crisis
Dollar Conference Called
To Consider Revision Of
Loan Agreement

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -U.D-
A delegation of British experts
laid the facts of Britain's post
war economic crisis before a
group Of top U. S. officials today
at the opening of a dollar con-
ference" called to consider revi-
sion of the So, $50, 900, 600 Ang-
lo-American loan agreement.
A. Joint announcement issued at
the close Of the hour-long loan
opening session said the British
delegates "sketched in general
the series of economic troubles
that have beset Great Britain and
all but exhausted her dollar. re-
serves since the loan pact was
signed in July, l945.
Today's meeting vas described
as principally "preceduraP' and 1t
was indicated that the c%onferees
would get down to point-by-polnt
negotiation on the loan terms at
their next scheduled session to-
morrow afternoon.
The British gSoup, headed by
Sir Wilfred Eady. troubleshooter
for the British treasury, was I'M
derstood to be seeking primarily
relaxation of the loan clause
which requires Britain to pay out
dollars to any country which
wants to cash in British pounds
See BRITISH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
Baby's Body Found
Here In Bus DEPOT
Infant Thought To Have
Been Dead More Than
Day When Found

Police last night pulled from q
locker in the Negro waiting room
in the bus depot a dead white baby
girl giving officers one of their
most battling mysteries to solve
in many months.
Wrapped in a sheet which in
turn had been tied in brown wrap
ping paper, the body was dis
covered shortly after e p. M, when
persons in the waiting room were
attracted by the odor and reported
the matter to bus station attend
ants.
They in turn called police who
traced the odor to the locker and
broke in to find the body.
An examination of the body
made at the Andrews mortuary
by DR.. A. H. Elliot. c~ity-county
health officer, and Coroner Cor
don Doran, revealed that the in
FAINT was one to three days old
when it died and that it had been
dead "a to SO hours.
DR.. Elliott said he was unable
to ascertain the cause OF death
but he believed the infant was
dead when it vas placed in the
locker. There were no marks OF
violence. He believed the chilo
had been attended at birth by a
physician and that it died after
birth.
The body was well developed
and showed signs of a healthy
child. A close examination led
the physicians to believe the girl
had dark hair.
Police we're baffled by the fact
that the child. although white, had
been placed in a locker in the
Negro waiting room. A check OF
hospitals was being made by police
last night to determine names OF
persons who had given birth to
babies within the last few days
although authorities believed thai
See BABY'S BODY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
NATIONAL GUARD
TO BEGIN DRIVE
Truman Orders "Man-A-
Minute" Be Recruited In
Nation Wide Campaign

WASHINGTON, Aug. -18.-W'D-
President Truman today ordered
the National Guard to recruit a
minute man a minute in a nation
wide enlistment drive which opens
next month.
The commander-in-chief said "a
strong National Guard is neces-
sary to the security Of the United
States"
The recruiting campaign will be
launched in all 48 states. the Dis
trict of Columbia, Hawaii and
Puerto Rico on Sept. 16, a date
which Mr.. Truman previously had
designated as the beginning OF
National Guard Week." 1t marks
the seventh anniversary OF the
guards induction into federal SER
vice for World War II.
Goal of the drive is 1888 new
enlistments, or a guardsman a
minute for the two-months dura'
ton of the recruiting campaign.
But this is only an immediate
goal" President Truman said In
See NATIONAL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
White Persons Ordered
To Leave Tyrrell Town
Six Reported Living With
Negro Given 24-Hour
Ultimatum

COLUMBIA, N. c., Aug 18-WD-
Sheriff Ray Cahoon said today that
a group of 200 or more white men
had ordered six young white per-
sons residing with a Negro to
leave town.
Cahoon said the group, which
presented its demand last Monday,
was orderly and that he did not
believe any were armed. He said
the whites, including the wife Of
one, had complied with a 24-hou1
ultimatum to leave Columbia.
81 don't know of any law pre-
venting white folks from living
with Negroes but I do know peo-
pie here don't think much Of it."
He said.
He said the young whites, col
lege students and recent gradua-
ties, were working on a credit union
project. The Union, the Light OF
Tyrrell," had raised $35, 900 from
Negroes to purchase land which
was re-sold to small-scale Negro
farmers. Columbia is in Tyrrel]
county.
Cahoon said the whites had livec
in the home of S. P. Dean, for
mer principal of the Columbia
Negro high school.
In Raleigh, D. R. Graham, Sup.
| erintendent of the credit union div.
ision of the State Department Of
Agriculture, said that the students
600 WHITE PERSON On.Pape Twr
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MAN HAS UNIQUE
SYSTEM TO BEAT
STATE SALES TAX

PAGELAND, S. c.. Aug. 1877
v. Funderburk Of the Liber-
ty Hill section of South Carolina.
whose home is about rs feet from
the North Carolina line, over which
his lands extends, has a unique
system to beat sales taxes in the
two states at his grocery store and
filling station.
When North Carolina enacted the
three per cent sales tax in 1888,
he moved his grocery store over
to the South Carolina line.
Then he built, right next to 1t,
but in North Carolina, a separate
store for selling cigarettes and
soft drinks. That beats the South
Carolina tax on these products.
The slight opening between the
buildings, just enough for a cat
to crawl through, is right on the
line between the states.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
S0VIETS COUNT
ON DEPRESSION
Hartman Says Reds Look
ing To Crash For Aid In
Pushing Domination

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 18-UD
Secretary of Commerce w.
Averell Hartman said tonight that
Soviet leaders are counting on a
depression in the United States to
give them IAN opportunity to push
forward and expand the areas Of
their domination"
In a blunt attack on Russian
communism. he told a group Of
northwest businessmen that its
leaders believe an American de-
preston will force the United
States to abandon its leadership
in the fight against the spread Of
communism in Europe.
He said bluntly that the presence
of any dictatorship anywhere -
whether communist or fascist-is
a threat ito the security and
progress of free men,"
"The seizure of power can
come by the use of military force
See RUSSIANS On Page Two
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Statesmen Endorse
No Veto Proposal
American Republics To Be
Bound By Two Thirds
Vote OF Countries

PETROPOLIS, Brazil, Aug. 18-
U.R-Two of the western hemis-
phere's leading statesmen. whole
heartedly endorsed today the
United States proposal that the in
ter-American defense treaty con-
tain no veto over collective ac-
ton against an aggressor.
Alberto Lleras Camargo, new di-
rector general of the Pan-Ameri-
can Union, and Guillermo Belt,
Cuban ambassador to Washington,
gave vigorous approval to the
proposal by Secretary of State
George c. Marshall that, all Ameri-
can republics be bound-short of
providing actual armed forces
by a two-thirds vote.
In what was expected to be a
purely formal speech, Lleras Cam
argo, 38-year-old former president
of Colombia, said to the inter
American conference on peace and
security:
"Here in Petropolis we must
give shape to a security system
devoid Of the danger of the veto
See STATESMEN on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
MidWesternerS SWelter
In Heat High In 9O's

and 1900 final assembly workers
at the main Chrysler plant, and
$50 employees at the De Soto plant,
Company officials said they ex-
pected full production to be resum-
ed with the next shift.
Frightening news for midwest
erners was that a mass of cold air
was developing in western Canada.
The U. S. f%orecaster said the
cooling air would bring relief to
Iowa Wednesday. northern ILL
nois Thursday and Southern Hi
nois, Indiana and Michigan Thurs
day night.
The east coast had moderate
temperatures yesterday and today.
A four-day heat wave, that caus-
ed 30 deaths in New England,
ended Saturday. The west coast
and Rocky Mountain states re-
manned cool. The temperature dip
ped to q degrees, five degrees be-
See MIDWEST on Page Two
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STATE COMPLETES
0VERELL HEARING
Judge Excuses Jury In MUIR
der Trial Until Next
Thursday

SANTA ANA, Calf, Aug. 18-
(P)-The state rested its case today
against Louise Overell, 1S-year-
old heiress, and her husky boy
friend, George Gollum, 81, accused
of Staying her parents.
AS the state concluded its case,
at 2:34 pm. (Pacific Standard
Time) the jury was excused until
next Thursday.
Otto Jacobs, chief of the girls
defense, quickly launched into ar
guments to strike certain portions
of testimony in the 13-week trial
which he claimed pertained only
to Gollum, not to his client.
Before the state rested, Prosecu-
tor Eugene D. Williams said he
wished to review testimony as to
the clothing Gollum o the morn
ing of March IS. Financier and
Mrs. Walter E. Overell were found
dead after a blast that night which
wrecked their yacht.
Overell, Gollum and two me-
coo CTATE nm paue Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19

CHICAGO, Aug. 18-W.D- Mid
westerners sweltered today in a
scorchkg heat wave that pushed
temperatures UP into the high COS.
The heat wave blamketed a
wide belt from Kansas and Ne
braska to Michigan and Ohio.
1t was moving slowly eastward
and was expected to reach the
Atlantic Coast states tomorrow.
However, the U. S. Weather Blu
reau in Chicago said ocean winds
would hold down the mercury in
the east until Thursday Or Fri
day.
At Detroit, more than 1000
Chrysler corporation employees
were sent home today after &C
welders walked out of the COM
pany's metal shop because OF the
heat. The temperature in Detroit
was edging 1yo. into the high COS,
The walkout of welders forced
the layoff Of $50 other metal work
ers, 1900 paint and trim workers
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
BORDER TOBACCO
PRICES ADVANCE
Markets Report Greater
Volume OF Leaf Since
Hours Extended

Price advances ranging from
$50 to $500 per hundred pounds
We're registered on tobacco mar
ketS Of the border belt yesterday
The Federal-State Departments Of
agriculture reported.
The price gains ranged from 81
10 81 for some medium and better
grades while some of the lower
qualities were up from So to S..
Sales we're held on the border
markets for five hours yesterday
instead of four hours as hereto
lore this season, and most of the
market reported receiving a
greater volume of tobacco. Some
u them reported sales were
olocked despite the increase in
hours of sales. Other markets,
however did not have enough leaf
70 Keep the buyers busy for five
Quality of the offerings, was
lover than last Friday with more
See BORDER on Page Two
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SCOUT JAMB0REE
ENDS AT M0ISS0N
$4,000 Boys Representing
AZ Nations Take Part
In Parade

MOISSON, France, Aug. 10. -U.R
- The sixth world Boy Scout jam
boree was officially closed tonight
as 80, 900 boys representing AZ ma
tons took part in a huge parade
which followed the line of the
"carrick not emblem of the jam
boree.
Closing ceremonies were held in
the big arena on the edge of Mois-
son forest camp where the boys
have been camped for more than
a week. Scouts, wearing the official
garb Of their nations organization.
marched in two lines across the
4,000-square meter arena, up and
down ramps to follow the lines of
the two pieces of rope used in ty-
ing the old sailors knot.
With banners waving overhead
and led by bands of all descrip-
tons - the contingent from Scot
land had its famous killed bag
See SCOUTS On Page Two
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SHRIMPINC TAXES
in S. E. UPHELD
Injunction Asked By Geor-
gia Industry Denied By
Two Judges

COLUMBIA. S. c., Aug. 10 IN
"A temporary injunction re-
straining the State Board of Fish
cries from enforcing state statutes
regulating shrimping in South
Carolina coastal waters was
denied here today by two u. S.
District judges.
Judges C. C. Wyche and George
Bell Zimmerman denied the in
junction On the grounds that a
Shrimps' case against the laws
would be heard a week from to-
day at Spartanburg by a three
judge panel.
Five traWler operators have
brought suit against the state
See SHRIMPING On Page Two
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BELIEVE
RUSSIA WILL REMAIN
AS MEMBER OF UN

NEW YORK, Aug. 10. -WD-
A poll of 60 United Nations dele
gates and high officials revealed
today that SO believed the Soviet
Union has no intention of pulling
out of the UN while 81 think it is
"absolute nonsense to assume the
UN is finished"
The poll, taken by the magazine
United Nations World, showed
that "a diplomats are optimistic
about the future of. world coopera-
ton, IL are deeply pessimistic and
six think the present impasse will
lead to war. The remaining 10 think
it's too soon to tell.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
So To Bed

1t has been said that light
ming seldom strikes the same
object twice.
AS much cannot be said for
fish.
Yesterday morning on Kures
Beach pier an early conner
from up state to the Sheriff's
convention, which opens at
Carolina Beach Wednesday,
hooked a small founder -
about three pounds - and the
fish wiggled off the mans
hook just as he was surfaced.
About 10 minutes later the
same fish - or what looked
like the same fish - was again
hooked.
The fish wiggled off the hook
a second time as he was suf-
faced. Ten minutes later the
same fish was hooked the third
time. This time it broke the
fisherman's line.
II mean to have that floun-
der" said the fisherman, III
1 have to fish all the week for
it." He was still fishing late
yesterday afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-19
Governor Folsom Won't
Comment On Marriage

Mrs. Warren commented that
Folsom, 38-year-old widower and
the father of two children, had
wired Virginia flowers after they
met at a recent Governors con-
ference in Salt Lake City and he
squirrel her to several social at
fairs.
The Alabaman is a Democrat
while Warren has been mentioned
as a possible candidate FOR the
1913 nomination for President on
the Republican ticket.
Governor Folsom stepping out
of his National Guard plane, had
See GOVERNOR On Page Two
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Tells Of Night
In Shark Filled Waters

When we got down 10 1900 feet, l
left the nose and went back to take
charge of the passengers. l helped
Ambassador Atcheson initiate his
Mae West. He was very calm. l
was sitting with him when the
crash came.
1 felt a small jar as the tail
section struck the water. linen
there was a rending crash as the
plane cartWheeled.
Then l was in the water. l
don't think l was conscious when
Huglin Col. Harvey Huglin, an
other SURVIVOR pulled us together.
See OFFICER on Page Two
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Fair Bluff Men
Duel In The Street
Police Chief Shoots Former
Officer After Being
Wounded
Especial To The Starr

AIN BLUFF, Aug. IL. - A
former Fair Bluff policeman is
dead and the chief Of police is a
patient in the Columbus county
hospital at Whiteville suffering
from gunshot wounds in his thigh as
the result of a blazing gun duel
fought in the business district
here this afternoon.
Frank Hinson, 3s-year-old form
er police officer, was shot and
killed by Chief E. l.. Brooks after
Hinson fired a 12-guage shotgun
blast at Brooks, according to
Coroner Hugh Nance.
I After Brooks shot Hinson, the
chief of police limped toward a
nearby drug store and Owen Hin
son, brother of the dead man, fir
ed a 20 calibre rifle shot at the
officer. The shot went wild, Nance
said.
Hlnson died en- route to a Null
Inns, S. c. hospital. The bullet from
Brooks service revolver took eff
feet in Hinson's chest, according
to Nance.
Brooks, suffering from loss of
blood was rushed to the Columbus
county hospital at Whiteville, where
attendants reported his condition
as 'fair" late tonight.
According to Nance, the two men
had engaged in an argument last
Brooks told coroner Nance that
he had called upon Hinson's father,
who operates a taxi at Fair Bluff
and advised the elder Hinson that
he would have to secure a city
license to operate his car This
was Saturday, Nance said Brooks
told him.
Shortly after the police chief had
talked with the elder Hinson, the
former police officer went to see
Brooks and told him, the coroner
said, "You are trying to mess my
See FAIR RIFF On Page Two