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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13
WarehOuSemen Get
Trust Of Growers
T eaders Of Wallace's Tobacco Sales Learned
70 Judge And Sell Weed The Hard Way
BY Growing It Themselves

WALLACE, Oct. 12.-The sound tobacco judgment
# The warehouse organizations that make up the Wallace
Tobacco Market is universally trusted by farmers through
n+ the areas from which the market draws its millions of
".,ds of tobacco each wear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-13

Six hundred of the 800 kinds
of trees, shrubs, and vines Of
New Zealand are found nowhere
IN III World.
Evening star., 1947-07-13

Del Monte Reporter: What doe. toke put song overa
Hoasy carmshasi: Pory luck but eoly oke xoreh Of
very speeiol qvoihes
mo hit really i combine the best
vocaisr, bands, recordings and radio
Roll e all selling Luck
plays perhaps but the boys line good that
thing.
In musical takes the special qualities
over"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
FARLEY TO PLAN
HEALTH PROGRAM
City And County To Partic.
ipate In National Observ-
ance February 20

Plans for the observance of Ma
tlonal Health Week in New Han
over county will be laid at a meet
ing of the Community Health Week
committee scheduled for Thurs.
day morning at 1880 in the YWCA
building, according to Miss Lucy
Nash. executive secretary of the
New Hanover County tuberculosis
association.
Heading this years program in
the city will be Peter Ruffin,
president of the Wilmington Ship.
ping company.
The spotlight will be turned O..
tuberculosis during this years ma
tlonal campaign, Miss Nash re-
vealed, with the week of Feb. Q
8 designated for the observance Of
the annual affair:
One of the highlights of the week
long project will be a poster con-
test among students at. New Han
over county schools with prizes
being awarded for the best exhibit,
Miss Nash said. f..
How to prevent tuberculosis will
be the dominant theme, with en-
phasis being placed on prevention
OF the disease through periodic
physical examinations complete
with X-ray, personal hygiene and
good nutrition.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
Along The Cape Fear

actresses Y there are six dressing
rooms with all the necessary ar
rangements and appliances fol-
making up" for the stage. Besides
these there are property rooms
together with all requisite. scenery,
carpets, &. ETC., for the proper
setting" of whatever it may be
desired to produce. The acoustic
properties of the house are good,
and the ventilation is excellent.
MEET THE MANAGER - Capt
E. ]. Pennypacker, one Of the most
enterprising~ business men of this
city, is lessee and manager, and
he has been instrumental in bring
ing here some. Of the finest histrion-
ic and musical talent of this or any
other country.
It takes all sorts of people to
make a city, and it takes a variety
to make a seasons entertainment,
and as a matter of course, plays
have been. presented with a very
limited amount of talent, and many
other stars of the first magnitude
in this histrionic world have been
heard upon the stage at the Opera
House under his management,
while in the musical world we
have heard the famous Thomas
orchestra, Gilmore's Celebrated
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
ENGINEERS CHECK
ON RIVER SHOALS
Wilmington District Makes
Survey OF Damage To
Lockwood Folly Inlet

In preparation to returning the
Cape Fear river channel to its pro-
ject depth of 80 feet, a survey of
the shoaled-in area and an estimate
of the amount of damage caused
by a barge running aground in
Lockwood's Folly inlet in the In
land waterway on December 20, is
being prepared by the officials of
the Wilmington district of the Corps
of Engineers, a spokesman said
last night.
Bids will be let to private con-
tractors for the work of removing
the shoals, he added, as soon as
estimates of the project can be
completed. Upon letting of the con-
tract, work should then get under
way probably in 10 to Is days. A
dredge will be returned to work
on the bar in about two weeks, the
usual time required to obtain a
The small surplus of funds now
available for this work will provide
for about three weeks dredging. BY
the end OF that time, it is hoped,
emergency funds will be made
available by the office of the Chief
of Army Engineers to continue
work on the river,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
THEATER NEWS

THEATER NEWS - Not to be
behind in any of her sister cities
in the march Of progress, and in
order to be equal with them in
points of attraction, Wilmington:
has one of the most commodious,
cozy, comfortable and convenient
place of public amusement in
the Wilmington Opera House that
can well be imagined.
1t is situated in City Hall Park,
on Princess street, between Third
and Fourth, and is, in fact, a part
of the City Hall building.
It has a seating capacity Of $50,
as follows: Parquette, $50; Bal
cony and first gallery, 300; second
gallery, 300.
The building is heated by fur
naces, and there are eight exits,
SO that in case of fire the house
can be completely emptied in
two or three minutes.
MORE FIGURES - The stage
is 30 feet by IS feet in dimensions,
and is well provided with all the
necessary files, traps and other
arrangements necessary for the
presentation of any play.
The drop curtain is a fine piece
of art, which has been often prais-
ed by strangers when visiting the
Opera House. 3
For the convenience of actors and
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
ELECTIONS BOARD
ASKS LAW CHANGE
Recommendation
To Be Submitted To Gen.
eral Assembly

RALEIGH, Jan. 6.-P-Details
of a fourth recommendation to the
General assembly for changes in
the North Carolina election laws
were announced here Monday night
by Col. William T. Joyner of Ra-
leigh, chairman of the State Board
of elections.
The boards initial statement on
proposed election changes, for re-
lease Monday morning, cited four
suggested reforms. The chief item
recommended by the board was the
abolition of the civilian absentee
ballot.
At the time of the boards initial
statement of recommendations for
election changes, it announced that
details of the fourth suggested re-
form would be released later"
Those changes in the fourth item,
all under the heading of technical
corrections" are II in number and
are concerned chiefly with the
mechanics of elections.
Those recommendations:
l. Provide for the nomination Of
candidates for the legislature in
special elections by action of pro-
per executive committee.
2. Include notaries public in
statutory list of public officials not
disqualified from holding election
official offices.
3. State plainly in statue that
election officials may deputize
police assistance at the polls.
4. Make it plain that County
Board of elections is authorized and
directed to furnish certificates Of
election to township officers.
5. Provide for nomination Of
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Farm Coop
Fixed
Butter Count
Dairymen's League Official.
Deny Action Violated
Federal Laws
JUSTIFY ACTIONS
Market Manipulation Sa.
To Have Saved Farmers !
Over 100000

CHICAGO, Jan. 6.-(UP)
Officials Of the Dairymen's
League Cooperative associa.
ton admitted Monday that
they had pegged butter prices
on the New York Mercantile
exchange but denied govern.
ment charges that their &C.
ton violated the law.
Henry Rathbun, associa.
ton president, said he anc
three other officials were in.
nocent of charges, contained
in a criminal information filed ir
federal court at New York las
week, that they had violated the
federal milk marketing act.
Rathbun and the other officials =
Leon H. Chaplin, Hadley Benson
and Herbert Seeley - were ir
Chicago to attend a meeting oil
the National Council of Farmer
cooperatives. Secretary of Agri.
culture Clinton P. Anderson, who
initiated an investigation of the
New York butter market after
prices dropped sharply, Is schedul-
ed to address the association to.
morrow. 1t was reported the four
dairy officials hoped to discuss
the matter with him here.
Rathbun said in an interview
that the cooperative's action in
pegging butter prices on the New
York exchange prevented milk
prices from decreasing, thus saw.
ing farmers more than $500. 00C
and protecting the New York CON
suners milk supply.
Action Justified
"What we did was legal and fully
justified" Rathbun said. More
over, there is a question as to
whether the federal government
can act in the case, since it was
purely a matter of intra-state COM
merce."
Rathbun said he and the three
other cooperative officials purchas-
ed 600, 900 pounds of butter at "a
cents a pound to prevent the Janu-
airy milk price from dropping one.
half cent a quart in New York
city.
"We also feared that milk which
should have come into New York
would 60 to Philadelphia, Boston
and Connecticut, which have high
er milk prices than New York."
he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
STRIKE CRIPPLES
FOOD MOVEMENTS
10000 Truck Drivers Join
Wildcat Walkout At
London Docks

LONDON, Jan. 6-WH-En esti.
mated 0 1000 truck drivers. de,
manding a 44-nour work week anc
12-day vacations, Joined a mounting
wildcat strike here Monday. stop.
ping delivery of tons of meat,
flour, vegetables and liquor to hun.
dreds of London shops and hospi.
tails.
Officials of the Transport and
General Workers union scheduled
an emergency meeting to appea. to
the drivers to handle food supplies
piling UP on docks and at rail:
way depots. a~
The union. voted Sunday to con-
tinue, negotiations with. the Road
Haulage Central Wages board,
which had rejected the unions re-
quest for a 44-hour week in place
of the present 48-hour week and
offered nine days vacation to the
unions demand for II.
The strike started Monday morn
ing among a few hundred drivers
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
REPUBLICAN BILLS
HIT FlLlBUSTERS
Knowland- Morse Measures
Aimed AT Stopping South
ern Democrats

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6-P-Twe
Republican bills were introduced
in the Senate Monday to do away
with the fi1ibuster and crack the
power of the Southern Democrats
who trsditionally have used that
weapon to talk down any legisla-
ton they oppose on sectional
grounds.
Aroused by the southerners'
latest pro-Blbo filibuster which
delayed seating of the Both Con
gress' neW1y-eIected Senators fol-
two days, Sens. William F. Know
land, R., Calf. and Wayne R,
Morse, R., Ore, dropped similar
.c1oture bills into the legislative
hopper with, some assurance that
they would get strong sur,,ort from
the COP majority. :.
The Knowland-Morse maneuver
was the opening blow in a cam
paign by which Republican lead
ers hope to apply a tight check
rein to the, parliamentary strategy
of "extended debate" which on
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FURNITURE BUYERS
RESISTING HIGHER
NEW GOODS PRICES

CHICAGO, Jan. g. W.D,-
Buyer resistance to high furni-
ture prices was reported Mon
day at the opening of the in
ternational home-furnishings
mart.
At the same time, an econi-
mist said the home furnishings
industry could price itself out of
business II 1t fails to use
Judgement"
Manufacturers said there
would be little, if any decline
in prices during most of the
year, principally because of
higher labor and material
costs. Their production, they
added, was at or near record
peaks.
Rosce r. Rau, executive
vice-president of the National
Retail Furniture association,
said first-day buyers at the
mart were refusing to buy new
lines of aluminium, leather
trimmed, moulded plywood and
off-color mahogany and wal
nut bedroom suites, because
they considereS the prices too
high.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
n
.,'@e<Pull.
uut OF Port
Worded Message
Calls For Chinese Civilian
Control Plan
FORMAL REACTION
United States Informs Mos
COW Situation In City
Unsatisfactory

WASHINGTON, Jan. g.
@-The United States Wig
orously prodded Russia and
China Monday with a demand
that the Manchurian port of
Dairen be opened to the world
under Chinese civilian adj
ministration and free of Soviet
military control.
The State department pub
lished the text of a crisply
worded note which American
diplomats delivered last Fri
day to the Soviet and Chinese
foreign offices in Moscow and
Chungking.
This was the first formal re-.
action in Washington to the Soviet
order Of Dec. 20 which summarily
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The Weather

South Carolina: Mostly cloudy Tuesday
and Wednesday, occasional rain Wednes
day, beginning northwest portion Tues,
day. Slightly warmer Tuesday and no
much change Wednesday.
North Carolina: Mostly cloudy Tuesday
and Wednesday,, occasional rain Wednes
day and west portion Tuesday. Slightly
warmer Tuesday and not much chang,
Wednesday.
Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for he "a hour
ending 1880 pm. yesterday.
Temperatures
30 am. SIS; Z 80 am. So; 1870 o. m 50
1880 pm. 48.
Maximum SIS; Minimum At; Mean 81
Normal At. 49,.
Humidity
1:30 am. 90; 1880 am. 81. 1880 pm. Al
Z 80 pm. SO.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1870 pm. -
OLA inches.
Total since the first of the month =
$50 inches. -
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published h
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington $3.50 1902 am. 4:23 am
1918 pm. 500 pm
Masonboro Inlet 7:44 am. 1:21 am
500 pm. 2:09 pm
Sunrise 7:1s; Sunset 5:1s; Moonrise IS
pm; Moonset 8:49 am.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C.. at
am. Monday, mo report) feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
MAYOR APPROVES
PAVING PROJECT
Sixty-Four City Blocks
Slated In 100000
Program Here

The laying OF permanent paving
in the city at a cost OF $500. 600 re-
eeived the official go-ahead signal
yesterday with the signing of the
contracts and specifications by
Mayor w. Ronald Lane.
Sixty-four city blocks are. slated
for paving by the Cline Construc-
ton company Of Wilmington, with
the work to begin in Princess place
near either Brandon road or Klein
road. Officials of the company were
yesterday preparing final plans for
the beginning of actual work.
Robert F. Coleman Of the city
engineering department said that
preliminary work, including the
re-routing of storm drainage, will
get underway before the. laying
of the pavement is started.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
MURDER PLANNER
/ SLAIN BY POLICE
Master Mind OF Subway
Camera Hoax Killed In
Gun Battle
!, GRANDE GORGE. N v Ian

sGRANDE GORGE, N. Y, Jan. 6
.-R)-Alphonse Rocco, hunted
since New Years eve in the
Camera shooting" of his former
wife, was shot to death Monday
night by police as he crouched in
a sleeping bag under a spruce tree
on a lonely hill in Patchin Hollow.
Under a full moon in this isolated
Schoharie County country Rocco
fired a German Walther automatic
as state police and New York City
detectives trapped him about a
mile up the hill from a farmhouse
where he had forced a man and
his wife to hide him Sunday night
and all day Monday.
State Police Inspector Charles
LaForge, who led the searching
party of aoout so, declined to re-
veal where he had received the
tjo that Rocco was hiding out at
the farm home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry L. Lewis and their two year
old son, Richard. It was the second
farm house in the neighborhood
into which 'occo had forced his
way since he came to this area
Saturda. in a stolen car
Corporal Francis Hilfrank, ex-
pert tracker and crack shot of the
state. policc Trooper James H.
Smith and Detective Henry Strauss
Of the 18th precinct, New York
Civ, fired at the fugitive after he
had fired the first shot. Rocco
aimed four shots at 7mith. then
got the fata" slug in the nose.
Meanwhile, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
walked from the house Rocco had
left less than two hours previous
ly. Rocco first hid out at the home
Of MI. and Mrs. Frank Nash at
nearby Broome Center. After hold
ing the MASKS at gun point for 20
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
Today And Tomorrow
By WALTER LIPPMANN

have investigated Bilbo. Presuma-
bly,, then, it was not an interior
ence with the sovereign rights OF
the State OF Mississippi to inquire
into the charges that in the pri-
maries and in the election Bilbo
violate the Federal Constitution,
the Federal criminal code, and the
Hatch act.
The committee which investi-
gated these charges consisted of
five Senators. Three of them, Mr.
Ellender himself, Mr.. Elmer
Thomas of Oklahoma, and Mr..
Maybank of South Carolina, de-
cided after hearing the evidence
that 1Bilbo had been duly and
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
House, Senate
Cheer Speech
By President
State OF Union Message
Deals Largely In Cen
eralities, Few Details
UP TO CONGRESS
Chief, Executive Fails To
Mention Rent Control
Act, Other Problems

WASHINGTON, Jan. g.
F-Smiling and conciliatory,
Democratic President Truman
Monday laid before the Re-
publican 80th Congress a pro-
gram to curb strikes, and ask
ed continued high taxes.
His state of the union mes
sage, applauded frequently by
the joint Congressional ses-
sion, called for legislation to
outlaw jurisdictional strikes,
check secondary boycotts and
for a commission to devise machin-
cry for the prevention of "paralyz-
ing" nationwide strikes.
The message was in large part
a ~generalized one. 1t renewed n
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
METHODISTS OPEN
CONFERENCE HERE
Charlotte Pastor Scheduled
To Deliver Keknote Ad-
dress Today

DR.. Howard P. Powell, pastor of
the Dilworth Methodist Church of
Charlotte, will deliver the keynote
address in the opening session of
the two-day conference beginning
here with a luncheon at noon to-
day in the Wesleyan Methodist
Church in Winter Park, DR.. John
c, Glenn, Wilmington district sup
~erintendent Of the Meth o d i s t
church, said last night.
The opening devotional, follow
ing the luncheon, will be given by
Dale Spencer, of the host church.
Or. Fred W. Paschall, Lumberton,
district director of Evangelism,
VIII direct a discussion of Evange-
hsm, and the Rev. Edgar B. Fish
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
MARKS
OLD CHRISTMAS
Essay Contest Winners An.
nounced During Program
At Park

More than 800 persons were on
hand last night to participate in
the celebration of Old Christmas
featuring the burning of discarded
Christmas trees here at the Penn
broke Jones park.
Highlights of the program were
"The Legend of Christmas" by
Charles Chenworth, and the pre-
sentation Of awards to the winners
Of the essay contest on What the
Hilton Christmas Tree Means to-
Wilmington" sponsored by the
city recreation department.
Winners of the contest were jan
nine Stanley, of Carolina Beach, a
New Hanover High school senior,
who received an evening wrap pre-
sented by j. E. L. Wade, master of
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
Circus ouingEasy7ask
M~ouing7ruman HardJob

WASHINGTON, Jan. e.-(P-It's
about as easy to move a three-ring
circus as it is a President of the
U. S.
Mr.. Truman left the White House
Monday and went up to Capital
Hill.
It's only about a mile. The streets
are wide. The weather was nice.
Maybe you think that, with such
ideal surroundings, all Mr.. Tru-
man had to do was to call for a
car and say:
Lets go up to the Capitol, Joe.
Got a few things I'd like to tell
Congress"
Possibly that's the way Mr.. Tru-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
Bilbo and the Sovereignty Of
M~ississinpi

Eenator Ellender of Louisiana is
quoted in "The Washington POST
as saying the Bilbo case is a
shameful attempt to interfere
with the sovereign rights OF the
State of Mississippi" That is a
serious accusation, and if the Sen
ator can sustain it, then not only
should Bilbo be seated but the
Senate should offer its humble
apologies for all the trouble to
which two committees of the Sen
ate have subjected him.
But as a matter of fact Senator
Ellender is himself the chairman
Of one of the two committees that
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07

man, who hates fuss, would prefer
it. But that's not the way it hap
pens.
Early this morning all cars were
cleared from the parking plaza in
front of the Capitol.
Then the police moved in.
There were cops everywhere.
Capitol police in their regulation
blue. Plain clothesmen trying not
to look like plain clothesmen. Mill
tary policemen in their white gait
ers.
With its customary thorough
ness, the Army had its MP's lined
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And So To Bed

Mrs. A. E. Kelly, 104 Church
street, seems to be logged by
a closing streak"
Friday afternoon she came to
the Star classified department
to insert an ad about a purse
she had lost.
The ad brought results, her
purse was returned.
But, now she is seeking the
person who picked up her Park
er 81 fountain pen she used
to write the ad with.
She says she left the pen on
the counter at the Classified
department Now "WiIlie
Want Ad" is pressing the
search for the missing pen.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
MERCHANTS GROUP
TO MEET TODAY
State Supervisor To Out.
line Two Weeks Course
Scheduled For CITY

An explanation of the type of
courses to be offered during the
two weeks sales training program
slated to begin in Wilmington on
Jan. 20 will highlight a meeting OF
the Merchants Association and
other store managers at 3 p. m.
today in the Superior court room.
Today's program will be under
the direction of T. Carl Brown of
Raleigh, supervisor of the distribu-
tive education service, North Caro-
lima department of public instruc-
ton. The state department is pre-
senting the training course for the
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Truman Text On Pages 3-5

ly in broad outline many recon-
mendations previously made in
Continued on Page 2, Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-07
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity Mostly cloudy
and slightly warmer today; Wednesday
cloudy with occasional rain and not much
change in temperature.
The future outlook., 1947-10-11
Windsor Center

House cleaning is the general
theme at the Windsor Commun-
ity Center in readiness for the
coming Fall and Winter activi-
ties. Floors are being recondi-
toned, walls washed, and gen.
eral repairs are being applied to
the building to improve the ap-
pearance as well as provide har-
monious surroundings for those
who attend, visit, or participate
in the recreation prgram.
Plans for the Fall and Winter
will be the main discussion at
call meeting of the Council of
Social Agencies which will be
held at Windsor Center Thurs
day, October 16, from Z to p.
m. Various ideas will be discuss
ed and all memberssare asked to
be present.
The Advisory Council Of the
Windsor Community Center held
it's regular monthly meeting at
the Center Wednesday, October
/, from $3.50 to $3.50 p. m. with
Mrs. Martha Sebastian presiding.
Members present were Mrs. Sc
bastian, w. L, Jones, Dr. G. c.
Simkins, Attorney E. K. High
tower, and Rev. J. w. Tynes.
Business of Importance, and
plans for the Fall and Winter
we're discussed and approved.
The future outlook., 1947-10-11
ROADtO HEALTH

patient must give the doctor
every chance to find out the true
cause of the asthma. There are
many possibilities. About Is per
cent of cases are due to, some
form of allergy. This is a special
sensitivity to one or, more SUBJ
stances that enter the body from
the outside, or to conditions and
substances inside the body. A
doctor may have to make dozens
of tests before he finds out what
is causing the illness. He may
need the help and cooperation of
the patient as medical detec-
tive"
Most cases of asthma can be
treated successfully once the
cause has been determined.
Avoiding the allergy-producing
substance is the first and most
effective treatment. Sometimes
this may be fairly simple, as in
case of hypersensitivity to GER
tain foods, feathers, fur, animal
danders, face powder, etc.
Allergies related to bacterial
infections, such as colds or SEN
usitis, may cause asthma. In such
instances the asthma is only
cured after removal or improve
ment of the infection. Occasion
ally asthma may be improved by
change of climate. However, it
it by no means necessary-and
it may be foolish-for all asthma
patients to have a change of cli-
mate. Some allergies may neces-
state a change Of job.
Many allergies which cause
asthma are due to things which