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Evening star., 1947-08-27
Southern Visitors

Mr.. and Mrs. Solomon Robinowitz
will come from their home at High
Point, NJ c., to make the acquaint-
ance of their great grandson, Rich
ard Brian Ref who was born Au-
gust 13. The baby is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Stephen Ref, the
latter formerly Miss Shirley Robino-
witz, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Robinowitz of Washington. Mr..
Refs parents, Mr.. and Mrs Borach
Ref also live In the Capital.
Evening star., 1947-08-27

Franklin Pope Of Saltwater, Okla.
and the late MIR. Pope. He had as
his best man last evening his
brother-in- law, Mr.. Theodore L.
Price of Silver Spring. Ushers for
the wedding were Mr.. Albert M.
Hall of Marion, Ind. and Mr.. Jo-
seph Havrylak Of Washington.
The reception was held in the
church parlors after which Mr.. and
Mrs. Pope started on their wedding
trip. They will make their home In
Alexandra. Mr.. Pope is employed
with the Federal Communications
Commission and Is student at
George Washington University
During the war he served as an
officer in the Navy.
Evening star., 1947-08-27

the United States State Depart
ment. Popular Betty Squire has
been secretary at the. Australian
Embassy since its establishment as
a legation when the Rt. Hon. Rich
ard Casey came here as Minister in
1910.
Mrs. Squire has been back in
Washington only since the first of
this month, having spent six weeks
in her home in Norfolk, England.
Mr.. Massie will be en- route to China
when he comes and does not expect
to be back until, shortly before
Christmas. The wedding probably
will take place toward the end Of
this year.
Evening star., 1947-08-27
Anxiliarv to Meet

The Washington Ladies' Auxiliary
of the Jewish Consumptives Relief
Society of Denver, Colo, will hold
its first meeting of the season at
2 pm. next Wednesday at the Jewish
Community Center.
Plans will be completed for the
annual donor luncheon to be given
on November 10 at the Mayf1ower
Hotel. Mrs. Milton Summers is
chairman of the luncheon, as
sisted by Mrs. Louis Dinowitz, CO.
chairman.
Evening star., 1947-08-27
Sisterb00d Session

The B'nai Israel Sisterhood will
hold its first meeting Of the club year
on September 8 at $50 pm. at the
synagogue, Fourteenth and Emer-
son streets NV.
An entertainment entitled the
Headline Parade" will be given
under the direction Of Mrs. Hyfnan
Ezra Cohen. The cast will include
Mrs. Arnold Coplan, Mrs. Benjamin
Miller, Mrs. Jacob Shefrin, Mrs.
Joseph n. Tudor and Mrs. Bernard
Zarin.
Evening star., 1947-08-27
Series Of Informal Parties
Planned for British Officers
By Katharine NJ. Brooks

Sir Hugh Saunders air commander
and the members OF the famous Squadron
socially while they Andrews Field
the month help the United States
Following that the RAF officers made aeds
this country and got back Monday
officers entertained only parties
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
DRY DOCK ASSURED
FOR LAY UP BASIN
Is. OOO-Ton Floating Facil-
ity To Be Available
For Use Here
Wilmington Star
Bureau

WASHINGTON, March IA An
18, 1000 ton floating steel drydock
for the Wilmington Reserve fleet
ship storage basin was virtually
assured the United States Mari
time commission last night.
The drydock, now the property
of the navy, will employ about
50 men, who will come from the
Wilmington area. The drydock is
expected to be delivered in VII
mington in about six months, II
was said. =
Meantime, it was reported that
300 vessels would be stored at the
Wilmingto basin by midsummer.
At the present time about 30 ships
are locked there.
The personnel for the div dock,
it was said, would engage only
in maintenance of the ships. This
was understood to mean that there
would be no interference by this
additional crew of men in the
work of the regular repair yards.
1t "a stressed that the drydock
would in no way affect the future
development of the North Caro-
lima shipyard. 1t will be used ex-
clusively for the e fleet, IT
was added. 81,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
Defense Mr@!.ssssa5<< - ~ 'ea
For CAM ~a&,s@>a<1Ynral
Case Expected To Rea,n Jury Today; Sin
clair And Goldberg Attack State
Witness In Arguments

Tears and sweat flowed in the
New Hanover county Superior
Court room yesterday afternoon
as Defense Attorney David
Sinclair described a night of Bac-
chanalian orgy through which he
said Rebecca Ganey went, while
a second defense attorney of Guy
Ganey's declared that this
murder trial is a thing of beauty.
The trial of the 42-year-old
Seagate filling station operator,
who is charged with the first
degree Staying of Franklin. Julian
Henderson, 81, last Oct. 20, will
be continued this morning at $50
o'clock. Solicitor Clinton Moore
will present the closing argument
to the jury, and Judge Clawson
l.. Williams will then charge the
jury.
Ganey mopped tears from his
eyes as Sinclair told the jury that
the 18-year-old blue-eyed brunette
was forced to drink wine ard
beer and whiskey.
After two or three minor wit
nesses had been heard when court
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15

Read what one former news
paper scribe has to say Of the
value of railroads to the Port
City, keeping in m n d that the
following appeared in daily
press of Wilmington during the
year, 1889:
1.-THE Importance that our deep
water facilities lend to the port
of Wilmington as a prosperous
and profitable railway center can
not be over-estimated, any more
than we can now calculate the
value to the State of investments
outside capitalists have made in
the Carolina Central. h e
Wilmington and Weldon, and the
Wilmington, Columbia and Augu-
sta Railroad.
ENDING NOWHERE The
old a n d almost useless fragmen-
tary system, under the name Of
Wilmington. Charlotte and
Rutherford Railroad, beginning al
nothing and ending nowhere. was
taken hold of a n d with foreign
money was m a d a continuous
line from Wilmington to Ruther'
ford, as designed by III early
projectors of these works OF in
ternal improvement.
"And not only does this insure
Continued on Page Two; Col. ;
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
Along The Cape Fear

MANY THANKS - TIL Rev.
Andrew j. Howell, eminent local
historian and author of The
Book of Wilmington" was kind
enough to mail us a whole list
of suggestions for future columns.
AS he is, in all probability the
best informed person in Whining
ton on the doings of the Port City,
both past and present, we are in
deed grateful to MI. Howell for
his interest in and aid to along
The Cape Fear"
To those few who have never
read MI. Howell's book, a treat
is in store. And for those
fortunate enough to own a copy
of 1.-The Book of Wilmington"
they can always reread it at
random and always find much to
enlighten and entertain.
RAILROAD TOWN As Mr.,
Howell points out in his message
to us, the Port City has always
been keenly interested in rail
roads and railroading.
The Atlantic Coast Line rail
road is now our major industry,
yet long before that vast railroad
system came into being Whining
ton was the variable center OF
much activity in the then rapidly
expanding Iron Horse mode OF
transportation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
RED CROSS DRIVE
TOPS QUOTA HERE
Yesterdays Closing Figure
In Campaign Set
At $25,887.l2

Contributions kept rolling into
the Red Cross campaign head
quarters yesterday at the average
rate of $40 per hour. The goal
of 21,253 was passed at noon, and
yesterdays closing figure amount
ed to $50, 887.12.
Two more divisions went over
the top yesterday; the Railroad
division, headed by c. S. Morse
with a quota of $21OO, reported ST.
628 collected; and the Public En-
ployees division, headed by H. R.
Emory with a goal of $4,000, turned
in $2354.89.
Campaign headquarters, Room
PSI in the Customhouse, will re-
main open until noon today and
all day Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week in order
to receive late returns, J. H. Cars
well and N. A. Avera, co-chairmen,
announced.
Twenty more employee groups
were added to the honor roll yes
terday. They are as follows:
Railroad - Superintendent of
buildings, 100 per cent; police, 29O
per cent; Real estate department,
1875 per cent; Passenger Traffic
department, ITS per cent; Agricul-
tural department., 227 per cent;
shops and storehouse, ITO per cent.
Commercial - Mill and Contract
ing Supply company, 125 per cent;
Will Render, Florist, 1875 per cent;
J. c. Penny company, 100 per cent;
Continued On Page Two; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
TAX PAYERS GET
NOTICE TODAY IS
LAST DAY TO FILE

The local Office of the Bureau
OF Internal Revenue, becoming
more crowded each day as the
deadline for filing 1916 returns
draws near, will remain open all
day today, the final day, to assist
persons in making returns, Ray
mend D. Christman, chief zone
deputy. said yesterday.
The office, Room 1870 in the
Customhouse, usually closes al
day on Saturday but Christman
said that they will remain open
today until 2 p. m. Personnel of
the office will be on hand to as
sist persons in filing their returns.
Anyone filing a return after TO-
day will be subject to a five per
cent penalty on the tax due,
Christman warned.
Today is also the final day for
the filing of North Carolina State
income tax returns. The local
office is located on the second
floor of the courthouse.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
TODAY IS FINAL
FOR REGISTERING
Books Open Last Time For
Sanatorium = College
Referendum

Today is the final day for quail
fled citizens to register in order to
vote in the March Is referendum
on the question of whether a tuber-
culosis sanatorium and a junior
college shall be established in New
Hanover county.
Today the registration books will
be open from 9 a. m. until sunset,
$40 p. NJ, at the regular polling
places throughout the county.
Next Saturday, March q, has
been designated as challenge day,
and on this day, between 9 a. m.
and 3 p. M, the registration books
will be open at the polling places
for inspection. and for objection. If
desired, to the names appearing
on the books.
The vote in the special election
will be against the registration. -
That is, voters who are properly
registered and who do not vote
for one or both of the twin issues
will, in effect, vote against them.
In the matter of the proposed
junior college, the question for
determinations by the voters is
whether or not there shall be levi
ed and collected annually a special
tax not exceeding five cents on the
S10O of real and personal property
valuation, such proceeds to be used
for the maintaining and equipping
of the school.
In the matter Of the proposed
Continued On Page Two; Col. Il
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
MAN BEING HELD
in BANK ROBBERY
Sheriff Says Indian Has
Confessed To Penn
broke Holdup

PEMBROKE, March IA. - A
Robson county Indian identified as
Bill Locklear, about 80, confessed
tonight, Sheriff w. C. Britt said,
that he robbed the Scottish bank
here early today of an audited to-
tai of S 1000 taken at gunpoint from
three bank employees who were
herded into a closet.
Locklear, who gave his home
address as near MaXton, was ar
rested at the Maxton bus station al
1880 a. m. today by Rural Police
man Ralph Purcell and turned over
to Sheriff Britt and FBI special
agents who. had been detailed to
the robbery.
The young Indian, still. under
questioning tonight by the FBI and
county officers in the banking
quarters here, was seized by Pur-
cell an hour after he had paid a
Laurinburg automobile dealer 5000
on an automobile purchased by
Locklear from the dealer a week
ago.
The car, a 1916 model Nash, is
said to have been the machine in
which the bandit fled from the
bank.
Sheriff Britt quoted Locklear as
saying that he alone had engineer
ed and committed the robbery.
A young man, identified as ar
Indian but not by name, who had
been riding with Locklear shortly
before the latter's arrest, was re-
leased after questioning. No charge
had been lodged against the young
man, who was absolved OF any
participation by Locklear.
Locklear, who was standing be-
side the newly purchased car wher
arrested by Purcell, vas quoted by
Sheriff Britt as saying he threw into
the Lumber river all of the stoler
SO, 500 except the 5000 used in pay
ing on the automobile.
The robbery took place a few
fCont;nued On PAGE Two. Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
Houses
Of Congress
Ready ToAct
Chamber Committee
Plans Hearings On
Greek Plan Soon
SENATE UPS WORK
Vandenberg Compile
Questions On Historic
Diplomatic Move

WASHINGTON, March 14.-(P-
A plan giving President Truman
wide discretion in using the $780,
900, 900 he seeks for b%olstering
Greece and Turkey against Com
munism was studied today as both
branches of Congress arranged for
speedy action.
The House Foreign Affairs COM
mittee set public hearings for next
week.
The Senate Republican confer
ence approved a work schedule
designed to produce a decision on
the question by March 81, al
though leaders privately expressed
doubts that action could be COM
pleted that soon.
The bill still is being drafted.
But Congressman reported that ad-
ministration officials suggested
flexible DIVISIONS which would
permit the President to decide
whether the money should be sent
TO GREECE and turkey as loan or
as outright grants, and to parcel
1t out at intervals as needed.
Provisions Discussed
Provisions for that purpose were
reported discussed by H e
Foreign Affairs committeem e II
with Secretary of War Patterson,
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal
and Acting Secretary of State
Acheson in a three-hour session
behind closed doors.
Whatever form the bill takes in
committee, however, it viii bs5
subject to amendments on the
floor. By this mean Congress-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
McNutt Winds
Up Duties At
Manila Post
Agreement Calls For Sc
curity Council U.s. In
Security Interests
GETS LOCATIONS
Roxas Government Retains
Certain Rights Of Juris-
dictional Nature

MANILA, March IA. -(P)- In
festive atmosphere of a fare
we'll ball for Ambassador Paul V.
McNutt, the United States and the
Philippines tonight made a 99-year
agreement for American military
and naval bases in these islands.
McNutt signed for the United
States and President Manuel A.
Roxas for the Philippines in the
council of-state hall in M~alacanan
palace. Concluding months of ne
gotiations, McNutt is due to leave
by air Saturday morning, via India
and Paris, for Washington, where
he will resign the ambassadorship.
A provision in the agreement
states that in the interests of inter
national security any of the bases
may be made available to the
Security council of the United
Nations.
The Philippine government issued
a statement saying the Americans
had met lin every respect, the re-
quest of the Philippine government
that no permanent bases, and
especially no operating bases, be
established in centers of popula-
ton. There will be no bases in the
city of Manila or its immediate
~environs."
McNutt read a statement from
Acting Secretary of State Dean
Acheson that ''the United States
proposes to retain in the Philip
pines only such armed forces as
required to man bases and to con-
stitute a small military mission.
Troops now in the Philippines not
required for these purposes will be
shifted to other areas to continue
support of the occupation OF ia
pam"
The Philippines retain the right
10 exercise jurisdiction over all
offenses committed outside bases
unless in the performance OF speclf-
ic military duty or in cases involv-
ing only Americans.
The government announced that
the principal American military
establishment would be at Fort
stotsenberg Military reservation In
Pampanga province, Central Luz
zon. with Clark Field practically
contiguous.
The Navy gets four operating
areas. conferred at Guiuan In the
Leyte-Samar area; Subic Bay;
T~awitawi; and sangley Point. Ca
vite.
Ten other areas of knaiaed size,
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
F. ". Brown,
ACL0fficial,
Dies Friday
Vice President Succombs
At Hospital After
Short Illness
SERVICES MONDAY
Native OF Connecticut Was
Resident Here Since
March 1920

frederick w. Brown, Vice-Presi-
deliberations. Atlantic Coast
line Railroad, died in the James
walker Memorial Hospital, at 500
o'clock last night, following a short
illness.
Born in New Canaan, Conn, Oh
Feb II. 1872, he was the son of
william Lewis and Annie Minerva
Fancher Brown.
Mr. Brown was a graduate of
South Norwalk, Con-, high school
in 1887.
He moved to Wilmington in 1920.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Mrs. Mabel Brisson Lord,
TO whom he was married January
IT, 1886; a sister, Miss BERTHE G.
Brown. of Wilmington, and a STEP
son, Joel Iverson Lord, of Nash.
vile, Tenn.
He was a member of ST. Johns
Episcopal Church, having served
as a member of the Vestry. Mr..
Brown was a Shriner, having been
member of Almas Temple, Wash
ington, D. c., a member of the
Cape Fear Club. Cape Fear Coun.
try Club and Carolina Yacht Club,
Of Wilmington.
Mr.. Brown began his railroad
career with the New York, New
Haven aid Hartford Railroad,
June l, 1887, having served as
freight clerk, operator, dispatcher,
chief dispatcher, trainmaster, chief
clerk = operating department and
assistant superintendent, success
sively, to 1905.
From 1906 to March 1920 he was
connected with the Southern Rail-
way System as dispatcher, train
master, superintendent, chief of
Tonnage Bureau, assistant to Gen
sral manager and assistant to
vice-president, successfully.
In March 1920 he came with
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
as assistant to general manager,
IN which capacity he served until
Continued On Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
The Weather
FORECAST:

FORECAST:
North Carolina and South Carolina -
Partly cloudy n slightly colder Satur-
day and Saturday night. Sunday partly
and cool.
eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:30 a. m. So; ESQ a. m. 81; 1870 p. m.
s.; 1870 p. m. SO; Maximum 81; Mini
mum 81; Mean 81; Normal SO.
HUMIDITY
1870 a. m. rs; 7:30 a. M. Sc; 1870 p. m.
rs. 1880 p. m. IS.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. m.
Is inches.
Total since the first of the month 4.37
TIDES FOR TODAY
from the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington 400 a. m. 11:22 a.. m
1922 p. n. 1877 p. III.
II ::48~ a. m. e.f4-a. NJ.
1859 p. M. BIT p. m.
Sunrise 6:22: Sunset 500; Moonrise
l STA; Moonse 11:44a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 8
a. m. Friday 1872 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
AND MARSHALL'S IN MOSCOW

While Congress ard the Ameri-
can people are faced with the
need to make decisions which are
as grave and as obscure as any
i, the history of American foreign
policy, what is happening in Mos
cow? Secretary Marshall has be-
come involved with MI. Molotov.
inst like Secretary Byrnes before
Rim. in a complicated wrangle
about the agenda and about the
details of the military occupation
of Germany.
No doubt the questions + i'm
nortant on which the foreign min
is1ers r once more stuhbornly
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
CAPT. GRAY ASKS
$l0,00O,000 CASH
Southport Man Files Pro.
test With Dutch Govern
ment For Ship Seizure

THE HAGUE, March 14-(P)-
The Dutch government replied to
United States protests against
treatment of the American freight
er Martin Behrman in Java today
by asserting Dutch responsibility
for the handling of internationally
controlled products of the Neither
lands East Indies, a government
spokesman announced.
The reply was handed to the
United States charge d~'affaires
here, M. j. Webb Benton, with the
notation that it was a preliminary
answer, pending receipt of further
details on the Martin Behrman
case from the Dutch administra-
ton in Batavia.
The text of the reply was not
published, but the spokesman,
summarizing its contents, said it
stressed Dutch international re-
sponsibility in East Indies econom-
ic affairs and asserted that by
passing Dutch economic control
would increase war-born poverty
which the United States had shown
a desire to alleviate.
Follows Seizure
The protest from the U. S. state
department followed seizure of the
Martin Behrman's So, 000, DOC cargo
at Cheribon, Indonesian controlled
Java port, by Netherlands Indies
government authorities. The Ameri-
fCnntinuad IN pauo Tyun. (n1 ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
PR0SPECTS-DIM
FOR INLET WORK
Engineer Officer Tells
Dredging Advocates
Long Wait Ahead

prospects for immediate dredg.
Ms OIL Masonboro Inlet appeared
gloomy yesterday as representa-
ives OF the South Eastern North
GafoIlna Beach Association.
"flghtsvllle Beach, Harbor Is.
iand' New Hanover Fishing club.
ana private and commercial boat
owners were told by Col. Beverly
= Snow, Wilmington district, U.
D. Engineers, that it would take
approximately two years to get
me project and appropriations ap-
proved by Congress.
Inc group arranged a conference
WIN Colonel Snow yesterday af-
'eFhoon IN order to secure facts
OIL me appropriations already
granted for work in Masonboro In
let and what steps could be tax
gu 10 get the bar of Masonboro In
let dredged.
colonel Snow told them that the
sS'OOo project already authorized
ploVioed for dredging from the
,,llaild Waterway to a point in
%MaSonboro Inlet. but that an ad-
.ltlonal project and additional
,ands would have to be approved
lor dredging from that point to
ue ocean, a spokesman of the
group reported.
colonel Snow advised them to
,she the matter up with the North
carolina congressman and ask their
s!d In securing appropriations from
congress, but said that usually
except In specially expedited cases,
'akeS two years to get a project
.hls type approved.
IL was suggested at the meeting
"ld' groups interested in the dredg-
ns work on the Masonboro Inlet
var hold a meeting next week tc
NolK out some plan of action.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15
CITY WINS FIGHT
TO GET DRACLINE
Mayor Lane Announces
Successful Battle
Against Red Tape

Wilmington's three : month long
effort to secure a dragline for
emergency drainage in the city
ended successfully yesterday with
the Civilian Production Admins
tration in Washington directing
the War Assets Administration to
make available to the city OF Will
mington a unit now stored at
Camp Davis.
Mayor w. Ronald Lane told the
Star that he. City Manager J. R.
Benson and City Purchasing Agent
Gilbert F. Morton re- leaving
Washington late yesterday after
noon for Wilmington, thereby
bringing to a successful finish the
five-day sojurn in the capital
which was featured by what Lane
termed a finished fight against red
tape.
The battle against government
regulations was joined Monday
when Lane, Benson a d Morton
started a round of agency offices
iii an attempt to purchase a drag
line for emergency drainage pur-
poses. After being passed from
office to office, the city officials
were notified that the need for the
equipment would have to be certi-
fled by the U. S. Public Health
service.
The health department respond
ed and after various conferences,
according to Lane, the following
directive was issued by the CPA:
"1n view of the emergency certi-
fled to by the U. S. Public Health
Service and known to exist in Will
mington where immediate dredg-
ing is urgently required to restore
adequate sewerage disposal and
Continued On Page Two; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-03-15

convened from tn noon recess,
Sinclair opened up the first de-
tense argument before the jury in
a rapid fire speech that petered
out to a mere whisper before he
hao spent his 4S minutes.
He dashed out at the wall of
evidence which Solicitor Moore
and Recorders Court Solicitor
James King had built up during
the two days Of testimony.
King was the first to address
the jury. He spent less than an
hour describing the events lead
ing up to the shooting of Hender-
son. He termed the alleged STAY
ing as one of the worse cases
of first degree murder I have
ever seen. It was deliberately
planned. You can't get away from
that" he declared, and continued
to reiterate his assertion.
Ganey's f c e turned first red
and then white as King lashed out
at him in his address as being a
Continued On Page Two; Col. s.