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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
A Position Which Helps
You Chart Your Future!

Are you like thousands of other American young men-looking
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
PLANS AUTO

DETROIT, June 14|P-Elimi-
nation OF new car ''bootlegging''
through q dealer-customer contract
vas recommended today by the
Detroit Automobile Dealers asso-
,iation as the state shaped plans
tr q legal clash with offenders.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Young Girl Shot 10
Death During Quarrel

BAKERSVILLE, June 14-(P)-
Christine Franklin, 10, was shot
to death with a IL gauge shotgun
this afternoon on the Altapass-
Franklinton road near the Mitchell
Avery county line and her cousin
and brother were being held in
the Mitchell county jail here Sat
urday night on charges of murder
in connection with the shooting.
State Highway Patrolman Jess
Sullins listed the men in jail as
Clarence Franklin, 81, the dead
girls first cousin, and Lewis
Franklin, 81, her brother.
Patrolman Sullins said the in
vestigation indicated the girl was
shot from the porch of the home
of Jim Franklin, her uncle and
the father of Clarence, during ar
argument between her brother ano
cousin.
The shot struck her in the chess
and neck and she was dead on ar.
rival at Williams clinic here. One
shot struck her father in the arm.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Disguised Cops
Pretend Car Fails,
Capture Man Suspect
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plates. She dropped a dummy
paper bag and walked away.
Inspector Krug said the suspect
had loitered in the vicinity this
morning, talked with the detective
truck drivers and smoked several
cigarets before he. approached the
dummy bag and was seized.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

j. c. JENNINGS, (above), r..
Of LAGRANGE, Ca, is ON trial at
Bronson, Fla, charged with MUIR
der for the hitch-hike Staying of
William F. Marscheck, 6O-year-old
salesman from Detroit, who was
shot to death near Bronson last
November. He had given Jennings
q ride from Georgia.-(AP Photo) ..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
Obituaries
LEON G. DAVIS

Leon G. Davis died suddenly
Friday at his home in st. Peters
burg, Fla.
He is survived by his widow,
one son Duval; four sisters, Mrs.
E. L. Davis, of Wilmington; Mrs.
E. E. Sharpe and Mrs. H. A.
Covers of Washington, D. c.; and
Mrs. Eva Waters of Charleston,
S. c.; and one brother, Clifford
H. Davis, of St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15
BIBLE COMMENCEMENT

Commencement exercises VIII be
conducted at 8 pm, today for
children who have completed the
vacation Bible school at the Ia
bernacle Baptist church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

WASHINGTON, June 14-WH-
Chairman John Taber OF the
House Appropriations COMMITTEES
said tonight that House Republic
cans have only ST, 900, O00, 900 to 60
in their drive to cut proposed fed
eral spending in fiscal 1913 by
Sc, O00, 600, 900.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

Some musicologists consider
that Beethoven influenced the &c.
velopment of music more tina
any other person.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

NAT WIENER (above), manager
of a Miami hotel, relaxes and
smiles after learning that $19, 900
cash, which he forgot and left in
a handbag in a Cincinnati airport
restaurant, has been found by a
waitress and tJrned over to the
FBI. He did not hear the good
news, though, until he returned to
Miami.-(AP Wirephotol.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

The Caribs are sometimes called
the vikings Of South America since
they migrated to the West Indies
in canoes before the coming of the
white men.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

The dark spots on the I'LL real
ly are brighter than white hot
metal.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-15

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09

regime and want to return to
more democratic government, or
because they see no good reason
to rebuild only to have their city
destroyed again in another few
years. In any event, if war
should come, they are sure that
Poland will be again-as so many
times in the pasta major battle
field between the two great pow
erS.
There is a deep friendship for
America. 1 found it everywhere
| went. Like the concierge in the
hotel who loaned me lat his own
suggestion, 5000 zlotys with no
LOU. of any kind, on the after
noon I arrived from Stockholm
with no Polish money-and the
banks closed. When I paid him
back next day, he thanked me as
if I had made him present of
the money. > es
People who could speak no
English or French-and there are
many for the principal. language
is German-went out of their
way to direct me or take me to
people who could, when I needed
information on how to get from
here to there or wanted an ans
swer to a question. More than
once I found my way around the
city by showing a piece of
crumpled paper with an address
written in Polish by a stranger
willing to help.
The political sagacity of the
party leaders should not be un-
estimated, for they are able,
determined men. AS one eX-
ample, General Grosz handled a
press conference with American,
Swiss, English and Swedish COR
respondents as ably as any man
l have ever interviewed-and
with an apparent humor and de-
sire to be cooperative.
One of the spark plugs of the
present government, he is a Com
munist in an American business
suit, with a very disarming man.
ner. Short, stocky, dark, brown
eyed and little bald, he speaks
fluent English, answered ques-
t;onc with annarent frankneSS
and when he found himself faced
with aquestion to which he was
unable to reply, he made obvious
notes in a small book and promis-
ed to supply the answers at the
next conference. When Ameri-
can newspapernen joshed him
about his governments dislike
for capitalistic nations, and the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09

fact that he might be holding Of
; flee illegally, he chuckled with
the rest. But he is shrewd and
a man of tremendous energy and
determination. He and his COL
leagues will not be easily stopped.
l think we should remember that,
TO rthese men know where they
are going and are determined to
get there.
What Poland needs most from
Ameriea-and every ounce of
help we give her is not only
vitality needed by nearly des-
, perate people, but it is their only
support in their desire to be-
lieve that democratic govern
ment can succeeds food and
clothing in greater and greater
quantities. In addition, if there
could be, somewhere in America,
some individual or agency who
could provide the funds, to send
artificial limbs and doctors and
equipment to fit them properly,
thousands of people-like the
chap on the tram and the little
girl on the street corner-wOuld
have new hope. No one else
could provide these things but
America.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09
AVERAGE ACES THROUGH THE ACES
APP Newsfeutures


NEW Yohk.-ln rugged prehistoric DAYS mans
lVaverage LIE span was meagre 10 wears. In
liant ana childhood mortality were terrificallv
nign, poiins the average expectancy down. Dis
violent death from clubs and batte.axes NC sa;a
ly common in times not noted for social oraoa aa
In the Roman age 1000 years aqo. the l;f.
expectancy wasn't much greater. somewbera
on the low side of co. and about $50 wear.
ago the average life span was around as
years. says the Statistical Bulletin of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ~ ~ ~ fa
In the United States in 1945. the averooo
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09

length of life 65.8 years, the study shows, and
the average span has undoubtedly increased more
in the past century than in all prior centuries to-
gether since the dawn of civilization"
Most of the increase has been due to
saving lives of babies and children. For
nillennia. people have lived much longer
than the averages given The average span
of adults was longer. after they had sur
vived childhood.
Our studies Indicate" the bulletin said, "that
within the course Of the next decade or two it
should be- possible to extend the average length
of life for the population of the United States to
at least 20 years."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09
NEW ARMS,
NEW HOPE,

NSOiilliluCu II IOIIl f-uSG SlX)
taking form. And everywhere
you notice restoration work in
progress on buildings which can
be repaired. The job is stipend
Gus, and the progress is remark
able considering the damage and
the available tools, although
nearly every Pole "gripes" that
it all goes too slowly.
The trans and most of the bus,
auto and horse-drawn transpor-
tation are old, battered and very
slow. There are a few new
busses. These have been import
ed from France, in exchange for
Polish coal.
The street cars run at a pace
not much faster than a man can
walk, and when you get into an
elevator you wonder whether it
will reach the next floor.
Lack OF power plus shortages
of spare parts and the tools to
make satisfactory new parts are
the pdicipal reasons. Two large
publishing houses offer an ex-
ample of the task involved. In
both plants the buildings and the
machinery had been bombed, dy-
namited and burned, the debris
and fire falling into the machin-
cry and setting it afire. The
buildings have been rebuilt, and
the machines restored-all of
them delicate mechanisms re-
curing careful machining and
close tolerances on nearly every
part-by the long, slow process
of demounting every piece, clean
ing it, squaring it and making
brand new parts wherever need
ed. Many of these machines were
of German make-and no parts
are available from Germany.
Few can be obtained from the
States. But Warsaw printers
all are now either cooperatives
or nationalized industries-noW
publish seven newspapers and at
least dozen magazines.
Politically, Poland is being re-
built on the Russian formula,
There are guards with tommy
guns patrolling in front of every
building of any size. There are
innumerable police and military
uniforms. When you ask a Pole
what all this military display is
for, his first reply is that lit
wasn't always this way" He may
later tell you that possibly It's
constant display of force TO
make the people realize that it's
useless to hope for anything
else"
All are extremely guarded IN
their remarks, though | think 1t
safe to say that a large number
of people in Warsaw are opposed
to the present Communist re-
glme, because of the nationalist
ton policy an bdecause OF the re-
strictions on personal liberty. l
think many of them distrust ana
dislike the present government
and great many are entireiy
without hope. But even more Oh
them are disposed to go along
with the government, because II
is getting things done.
Yet there is reluctance among
private citizens to rebuild WIN
their own resources, even WIN
government approval ana the
promise that any new apartment
property built by private means
will be tax free for lO years
They fear appropriation once lile
building is complete.
Having come through - anu
somehow survived-the most ter
rible part of the war-niany
Pole sare fearful OF announcer
They are sure, many OF 'heni'
that there will eventually De wal
between the United states anu
Russia. Those who so oeiiev ss,
hope that it comes soon' elllie,
because they dislike the present
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-12-09
BORRESEN BACK
FROM CANADA

Al Borresen, proprietor of
AIS Music Co., has returned by
air from Vancouver, B. c., Can
ada, where he flew to attend the
funeral of his Uncle and former
guardian, John A. Borresen, who
was a pioneer in British Colum-
bia.
Annual rainfall at New Or
leans averages Sc inches a year.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
fWiIl Build, Own Homes

Determined to end their part In
the housing shortage, a number Of
business men and women in Belfast,
Northern Ireland, have organized to
build their own houses in their spare
time.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Red Cross Honors
.Herr|e, 440 Others

The man responsible for produc.
ton during the war of 2,4S1 ,95l ,63T
surgical dressings prepared by the
Red Gross was honored here yester.
day along with 40 other Red Gross
workers.
Colin Herrle of Chevy Chase, Md.
chief of the disaster service ano
formerly in charge of surgical dress
ing production, received a ribbon
bearing a gold star for 81 years
service with the Red Cross.
James T. Nicholson, executive vice
chairman of the Red Cross, who
made the award, described Mr.
Herrle. as first, last and always 6
great Red Cross man"
Presentation of awards was made
in the quadrangle of national head.
quarters.
Mr.. Herrle joined the Red Cross ir
1910. A daughter, Anne, "a, is in tht
Red Cross personnel service.
His latest job has been direction
of disaster relief in recent mid.
western floods.
Five Washington area Red Cros!
workers received ribbons with two
silver stars for 80 years service.
y They were Harold Atkinson, Chevy
Chase, Md; Adah L. Bagby, 1851
Euclid street NV; Florence Fee
370O Massachusetts, avenue NV;
Viola L. Marks, HOO F street NE.
and Ann Rommel, 1858 South Da-
Ikota avenue NE.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Visitor Stranded
As She Loses 5000
Vacation Money

A 23-year-old Chicago girl, on
her way to an Atlantic City vaca-
ton, was stranded in Washington
when she lost a wallet containing
5000 in cash early today.
The girl, Miss Jane Osborn, told
The Star she thinks she dropped
her wallet on the street somewhere
between the Washington Hotel and
a restaurant about two blocks
away.
Miss Osborn said she arrived here
by plane at about 1870 am. She
expected to take a train to Atlantic
City today, and registered st the
hotel for the night. she said. She
Immediately left the hotel for a
nearby restaurant-and that's the
last she saw Of her vacation money,
she said.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
| Pilot Survives
| Disabled P-84's
Water Londinq
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July IA dec
Grated Army pilot testing P-S4 jet
plane-claimed by it's builders to be
the fastest aircraft in the world
circled down yesterday when his en-
CINE went dead at 5000 feet and
made a safe skimming landing on
Long Island Sound.
A spokesman for the builders OF
the Republic Thunderjet, the Re
public Aviation Corp, said it was
the first time the pilot of Pa
plane had survived such an ac-
cident.
The uninjured pilot of the one
man plane, Maj. Wilbur j. Webb, q
of Lexington, KY, hit the water at
an estimated speed of $50 miles per
hour. No estimate of his speed
when his engine died was available
Deciding not to use the P-84's
push-button. apparatus to blow the
pilot out for a parachute drop, Maj
Webb said he headed the disabled
plane toward a Long Island Beach
but, noticing a number of persons
and also rocks on the beach as he
neared it, steered the plane out
over the sound.
The plane sank shortly after 1t
hit the water. A fishing boat
picked up Maj. Webb in few
minutes.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
|KiIian Sues Truman
To Put Name Back
On Promotion LIST

Col. James A. Kilian, who was
convicted in 1916 of permitting
cruelty to American soldiers i'm.
prisoned at Lichfield, England, to.
day filed suit in District Court te
compel President Truman to re-
store his name to an Army promo.
ton list.
Last March President Truman re-
moved Col. Kilian's name from q
promotion list which had been held
up for months in the Senate be-
cause his name was on it. The pre-
vious August a court had
found him guilty of the cruelty
charges, fined him $500 and repri-
manded him.
At present the colonel is at Wal
ter Reed Hospital.
The suit, filed by Attorney A. K
Shipe, said the President acted
without legal authority in removing
the name.
Mr.. Shipe, in a letter addressed to
Mr.. Truman. copy of which was
attached to the suit, asked that the
colonel's case be heard by one of
the Chief Executives advisors, that
Mr.. Truman appoint commission
to look into it or that the colonels
name be resubmitted to the Senate
for confirmation.
The suit declared that Col. Kilian's Is
promotion was ordered in accord
ance with a provision of the Ma
tional Defense Act. The suit points
out that there is mandate on the
Chief Executive to comply with the
law as enacted by Congress.
The promotion list was estab-
lished by a board set up by the Sec
retary of War, it was contended,
and once a name has been placed
on the promotion list it cannot be
removed, except by sentence of
court 1t charged that the
President has no power to remove
a name from the promotion list.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
THE EVENING STAR Washington D. c. As
Two Vessels Under low
After Collision at Sea
By The Associated Press

BOSTON, July 1.-The 3,500-tor
Danish freighter Bolivia and the
Army transport st. Adams Victory
were in tow today for New York
and Boston, respectively, after col
liding early yesterday in the trans
Atlantic steamship lane about 60
miles south of Nantucket.
The Danish ships dozen passen-
gers were transferred to the Coast
Guard cutter Hornbeam and were
expected to arrive at Woods Hole,
Mass, today.
Ten Army passengers were taken
off the st. Adams Victory by the
Navy attack transport Wyandot.s
The Army transport, with about
Is feet of water in her engine
room, was taken in tow for Boston
by the 180-foot Coast Guard cutter
Spar. She had a gaping hole in her
starbeard midship plating. Two
Army tugs out of New York were
to take over the tow before the
vessel arrived at Boston.
The Bolivia, which suffered Sc
we're damage to her bow, first at
tempted the run to New York, but
when her forepeak and one tank
filled with water she called for as
sistance.
The 180-foot Coast Guard tender
Firebush, out of New London, Conn.,,
got line aboard her and planned
to turn her over to a tug.
The Bolivia was bound for
Copenhagen from New York and
the transport was en- route to New
York from Leghorn. Italy.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Ang|o-American Oil Pact
Approved by Senate Group
BY the Associated Press


The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee revised and approved
today, over the objection of Senator
Connally, Democrat, of Texas, the
Anglo-American oil agreement.
Before it acted the committee ap-
proved three reservations Offered
by the American Petroleum Insti-
tute and added two amendments OF
its own.
Chairman Vandenberg said the
revisions were made to spell out the
fact that the proposed international
petroleum commission will have nc
power to interfere with either
United States or British control OF
tariffs on imports.
The API reservations are designed
to make it clear the international
commission shall have no authority
over domestic petroleum controls
that Congress shall not encroach
on the states regulatory powers
and that existing legal interna
tional contracts shall remain un-
changed.
The commission would be directed
to study international petroleum
trade problems, advise on the
changing technology in the indus.
try, estimate world petroleum de-
mands and generally promote the
orderly production and marketing
of oil.
Senator >Vandenberg said the res
ervations and amendments will be
made part of the pending agree
ment and must. be accepted by
Great Britain if the treaty is to &c
into effect. He said he hoped for
early Senate action on the agree
ment.
Evening star., 1947-07-01
Even Csc Wage Too Low,
Met cCormack 1esfifies
BY the Associated Press

Representative Mccormack, Dem
ocrat, of Massachusetts declared to-
day that the Accent minimum wage
is obsolete" and raising it to &C
cents an hour sis not enough"
The House minority whip told 9
Labor Subcommittee, "I see by the
papers that Or Republican friends
have decided on a 60-cent minimum
bill.
That's not enough. 1t should be
a 65-cent bill, and not even that
would be enough"
Even Senator Taft is quoted as
favoring 65-cent minimum Mr.
Met Cormick added, land he is ar
honest ultra conservative"
The subcommittee, headed by
Representative Mcconnell, Repub-
lican, of Pennsylvania, is holding
hearings on more than a dozen bills
to increase the minimum wage un-
der the Fair Labor Standards Act
passed in 1938.> The minimum start
ed at Is cents an hour and'is now 40.
Evening star., 1947-07-01

sense OF humOr ON every otner
subject, he took his protocol job so
seriously that on rare occasions
when something went wrong he saw
nothing funny about it. His prin-
cipal concern was the greeting of
state visitors; it was he who intro
duced them to the Secretary of
State or the Secretary to them, de-
pending on their rank.
Visitors Remembered Him.
1t was serious business-he
worried about it a lot. And some
how, foreign visitors always re-
membered him. In the old house at
1718 H street NV, where Mr.. Sum-
merlin spent the last eight years
of his active life and which was his
headquarters during infrequent
stays in Washington before that,
there are signed pictures of scores
of famous visitors to the United
States, a monument to the subtle
cordiality of his approach.
The H street house did not, prop
erly speaking, belong to Mr.. Sum-
merlin: 1t was the Washington home
of a large group of men, most of
them prominent Mr.. Summerlin,
guiding spirit of the organization
in recent years, would never permit
it to be called CLUB" To him,
and to any one talking to him, it
must always be the family" or
just "1718 H street"
The man who may have known
more about the formalities of social
procedure than any other Ameri-
can was a relaxed and informal
host when the days punctilious work
was done. He was great believer
and dispenser of what he called
"the old-fashioned remedy" a IA
miliar concoction of sugar, ice,
angostura bitters and bonded bour-
bon whisky. He made this potion
the keynote of his hospitality. On
the other hand, of late, he main
tanned that gin cocktails did not
"agree" with him. after four or
five martins, I begin to feel awk-
ward" he complained.
Introduced Cocktail to Chile.
It was Mr.. Summerlin who, in his
youth, took a case of applejack to
Chile and introduced Santiago to
the Jack Rose" cocktail-"Juanito
Rosada" in Spanish. The fame of
the drink outstripped that of Mr..
Summerlin. People all over Chile
Ecalled him Senor Rosada, according
to legend, in the pardonable belief
that the cocktail was named after
him.
Mr.. Summerlin had no hobies. He
was more interested in people than
in things. He seldom read a book
and hardly ever listened to the
radio. He detested the movies. The
last film he saw was Gone BY the
Wind" CAS- he insisted on calling it,,
and his only reaction was that 1t
was too long" He did not like
the theater or concerts, and never
visited art galleries.
He was a meticulous dresser-a
tailor always came from New York
for his fittings. No one ever saw
him outdoors without a hat! He
was a Presbyterian.
Fond of Good Food.
He was fond of food. His guests
could always count on terrapin in
season and the finest viands avail
able. And he loved conversation
Therefore, he was a staunch club
man. In Washington, he was men,
ber of the Metropolitan, Army and
Navy, Chevy Chase and Alibi Clubs