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Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
New Carnival
Will Show At
State Fair

Raleigh, Sept. "a A sparkling
array of outstanding entertoin.
ment features has been booked
for the North Carolina State FAN
starting October 10, Manager J
S. Dorton announced today.
For the first time in many
years, the lengthy midway will
be graced by a new and differ
ent carnival. The James E. Stra-
ties Shows, one of the fasteset
rising outfits in outdoor show
business, will bring a half-hun
dred rides and shows to the
spacious fairgrounds near RAJ
eigh. This amusement organiz1-
ton, a veteran in the fell, has
been rebuilt from the ground up
within the last few years and
now offers one of the finest car
nival aggregations Gil the road,
Grandstand features will ue
provided again by George a.
Hamid, New York irlpresario
whose top-notch entertainment
has been a perennial feature
with North Carolina fairgoeis
The big grandstand stage will be
filled with a musical revue each
evening, plus u spectacular and
colorful hippodrome acts gather
ed from many sections of the
world. The acts also will be pre-
sented each afternoon in the
grandstand arena, sugmentipg
the harness races scheduled for
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
of Fair Week; Jack Kochran S
World Champion Hell Drivers on
Wednesday, and AAA-sanctioncd
auto races on Saturday.
Each evenings program will
end with a spectacuLa: display
of aerial fireworks.
A unique feature Of the Fairs
entertainment Prog nm will b
a folk festival, featuring plenty
of old-time music and dancing,
which will be presented each
afternoon and eve l;ag under tie
personal direction of Bascora La
mar Lunsford, camed "rninstrei
of the Appalachlars." The fcsti-
val will include contests by
cholrs, bands, square dance
teams and individual performers.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Baltic Refugees
At Ellis Island

New York, Sept. 23-(A.P.,
Sixth-nine Baltic refugees arriv.
ed here by train yesterday from
North Carolina where they land.
ed Monday in an 80-foot sail
boat after a 5,000-mile ocean
voyge.
There were 81 men, rs women
and 10 children, including sew
eral babies, in the group.
Carrying an assortment of bat
vtered straw suitcases, bundles
and musical instruments, they
were loaded on two buses and
taken to Ellis Island to await de-
termination of their status.
The group arrived here under
guard of four members of the
United States border patrol.
The refugees, consisting of IS
Estonians, one Latvian, Pol
ish girl and two Firms, reached
Wilmington, N. c., after a 10
day crossing from Uddevalla,
Sweden.
Through salvation army Off
Gals and others who met the
group here, they said they had
first fled their soviet-dominated
homelands to Sweden.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Bids Let For New
Hospital Building
And RenOVatiOns

Raleigh, Sept. ga P)-
Greensboro companies submitted
to low bids for major contracts
for construction of one new build
ing and renovation of an old one
at The State Hospital here.
The new building, two-story
structure, will be for epileptic
children. Its capacity will be
100 patients. Coble Contracting
and Engineering Co.'S $685.
$50 bid was the low offer for
the general contract. Other work
will boost the total cost to $4S5,
1888.
Clark building is the one which
will be renovated. 1t has a ca
pacity of ITO patients. L. B.
Gailmore submitted the low bid
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

Fifty per cent Of all patients
entering hospitals in the United
States are admitted because of
injury by violence.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Car Seller Finds 1t Pay!
To ShOD Around Some

ATLANTA, Ga. U.P.)-An At
lanta resident went to an auto
mobile dealer to buy a new car
The dealer asked him to trade
in his old model.
''What'll you give me for it?"
demanded the customer.
The dealer said $3.50 and the
customer shook his head. He
Thought he'd lock around for
a better offer.
Two hours later he returned.
well, did you do any bet
ter?" the dealer inc fred jovial
ly.
yep" said the customer. 81
Just sold it for $500 to your best
car department"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Annual Lincoln Play
Put On In Illinois

CHICAGO U.P.) - An Abra.
ham Lincoln tradition to rival
the Shakespeare tradition OF
England's famed Stratford-on-
Avon is being dNaloped at New
Salem state park, Illinois.
In a setting nearly identical
to the one in which Lincoln lived
Robert Sherwood's play, "Abe
Lincoln in Illinois, is played
each year. Stage furniture
includes pieces used by Lincoln
when he lived at New Salem.
Lincoln players, are in the supp
orting cast for an Illinois state
legislator, William Horsely, who
plays Lincoln each year. Six
teen scenes, all using authentic
props, including a team of live
oxen, comprise the production,
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Waynick Sees
Hot Campaign
In Tar Heelia

Washington, Sept. 23-(AP)-
Admitting one of the liveliest
Campaigns the state has ever
seen, Capus Waynick, North
Carolina Democratic chairman,
yesterday predicted President
Truman will carry The Tar Heel
state in November.
Waynick was here to map
strategy with national party Of
ficials. including Senator ]. Ho-
ward McGrath ORD, chairman
and treasurer Joe Blythe Of
Charlotte.
He said the Democratic no :
minee for Congress will win too,
although Republicans are fight
ing hard for some of their seats.
:. North Cardinals Democrats,
Waynick told a reporter, are
fighting for general election
votes this year in the manner
they usually fight only in the
primaries.
One strong factor in the cam
paign plans, he said, will be the
work of the States Youth De-
mocrats. Young Democratic
leaders will meet with him in
Raleigh Friday night to plan
their campaign to help elect the
entire party ticket, he said.
Waynick said party leaders
particularly want a heavy vote
in the Eastern part Of the state
where primary voting is custo-
marily heavier than general cleo
ton voting.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

The national average residen-
tial lighting cost is estimated at
SIPS a month. The equivalent
in candleight would stretch to
5000.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

Nienty-seven per cent Of the
hospital beds in nervous and
mental hospitals and IS per cent
of those in hospitals for tuber-
culosis are under government
control.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

William Henry Harrison was
the first President to die in Of
flee.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

Commercial exploitation of
the Chilean nitrate deposits be-
gan early in the 10Th century.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
N. G. State Opens
For Goth Year

Raleigh, Sept. 23-(AP)-N. c.
State College today opened its
Goth year. No formal opening
exercises were scheduled. Ad-
ministrative officials expect en-
rollment to exceed 5000. The
regular registration period end
ed yesterday, but a few addi-
tional students are expected to
enter during the next few days.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
Warren's First
Bale OF Cotton
For Year Ginned

Warrenton - County Commits
sioner R. L. Caps is the first
ginner of Warren County to re-
port ginning a bale of cotton this
fall. Caps ginned bale for c.
D. Moss of Ringwood on Thurs
day He said that it was pretty
good cotton, but since he did not
buy it, he did not know what the
bale brought.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24

for the general contract, $50, 07S.
The total cost will be $77.020.
The State Hospital board Of
state budget bureau for study .
Officials said they don't know
when contracts will be let.
yesterday, will send them to the
Roanoke Rapids daily herald. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1948-1949, 1948-09-24
New Color Signs Enliven
Highways of the Nation

CANON CITY, Col. (U.P)-
Every night may not be Christ
mas at Canon City, but John
Dolan and his scotchite highway
look like it.
Dolan took a wartime devel-
opment, small bits of rejecting
glass attached to waterproof
and flexible plastic backing,
and turned it into a lucrative
business.
Now the little Canon City com
pany does business with some
of the largest companies in the
nation. Scotchlite can be sen
and the colors enjoyed in the
daytime, but it's night, when
lights fall on the signs, that the
colors of the rainbow show up
at their best.
Evening star., 1948-03-21

ing the Child" in a flower starred
setting, charming in sentiment and
beautiful decoration. Five paint
ings by Botticelli include the calm,
noble figure of st. Sebastian, an ad-
mirably done nude, as well as a full
length Venus" with gold-leaf hair,
! similar to the graceful figure In
Birth of Venus" in Florence's Uffizi
Gallery.
Here too, is Domenico Veneziano's s
famous profile portrait of a young
woman wearing q beautiful brocaded
gown, and silhouetted against q
blue background, an admirable face
with character and individuality
rather than empty prettiness. Gior-
gione's noble portrait Of a young
man is a greater painting; 1t de-
picts a truly handsome youth with
shoulder-length hair and wearing
pinkish lavender quilted Jacket
whose face reveals integrity, intel
lect, refinement, serenity, gentle
ness.
The finest and best-known of
three Madonnas by Raphael is the
circular one often identified as the
Madonna Terranuova, including the
little st. John and another infant
saint, against far-reaching Um-
brian landscape. OF five works by
Titan on view, Several are popular
and famous. The large Venus
with the Organ Player" is one of
several versions he painted, with
slight variations. "A Daughter Of
Roberto Strozzi' Is a charming
child portrait, unusual subject for
Titan, and his Daughter Lavinia"
with fruit is extensively known from
reproductions.
Rare and Unusual Groups
Visitors will profit by needing
the remarks of John Walker as to
rare and unusual groups. "The
Flemish and German pictures" he
said. ARE of extraordinary interest
in this country, since neither school
is so well represented in America
as the work of Italian, Dutch, Eng
lish and French artists. The panels
by Jan van Eyck, Van der Weyden,
Petrus Christus, Altdorfer. Durer.
Cranach and Holbein form galaxy
unsurpassed today in any European
museum"
Five works by Jan van Eyck con-
stitute an outstanding group, with
Evening star., 1948-03-21

thought an entire building had fall
en-. It fell slightly to the north
northwest and the top Of the struc-
ture struck a part of the iron fence
in front Of the Medical School of
the then Columbian University and
smashed it into a thousand pieces.
1t blocked H street to travel, the
ruins mounting 20 feet high in
places.
The spire was built of wood, the
supporting timbers being heavy
pieces of yellow pine foot square,
heavily braced by other sturdy tim
bers and by iron rods "as large as a
mans wrist" 1t was covered with
corrugated iron and tin.
No apparent effort was made to
replace the steeple until the present
one was erected, 10 years ago. the
gift of Mrs. Rob2rt Todd Lincoln
and family as memorial to Presi-
dent Lincoln, who worshiped at this
church. The gift also included the
chimes, clocks and flood lighting of
the spire, which go to make up one
of the most beautiful sights of the
city.
After the death OF DR.. Gurley. the
clergymen recalled were the Revs
S. S. Mitchell, J. r. Paxton, William
A. Bartlett, Wallace Radcliff, Joseph
Sizoo and the present pastor. the
Rev Peter Marshall
In a news item published in 1885,
the officers of the church were as
follows: Elders, Mr.. Justice Strong,
William Ballantyne, Claudius B
Jewell, S. L. Crissey, Charles B
Bailey, Hon. H. H. Wells, Alfred r.
Quaiff, Nathaniel A. Robbins, John
Randolph. William L. Waller. Dea-
cons, Mark Broadhead, J. r. I'm
brie, Philip F. Larner, r. P. A. Den
ham, Brainard H. Warner, j. r.
Van Mater, John D. McChesney
william B. Gurley, Charles H. Mer-
win, Charles S. Bradley, Frank o.
Beckett, George J. Musser. Trus-
tees, William Mckee Dunn, presi-
dent; James E. Fitch. treasurer;
Matthew w. Gait, secretary; John
P. Chapman. William M. Gait, J. w.
Thompson: DR.. j. P. Caulf1eld, or
ganist; Harvey A. Kohr, precentor.
Evening star., 1948-03-21

Mrs. Swan M. Burnett, and 1t was
here that Mrs. Burnett wrote Little
Lord Fauntleroy."
On September 40, 1896, q near
tragedy occurred to the New York
avenue church, when the majestic
spire that once adorned this struc-
ture came down with a crash. Nc
one ever suspected it as being weak
but, on the contrary, it was said to
be las firm as the Rock of Gibral-
tar" It took one Of the worst storms
that ever visited Washington to
topple 1T over. 1t was called hurri-
cane because the maximum velocity
of the wind was 66 miles an hour
But it blew even harder than that
for gusts were recorded as high as
80 miles an hour.
It originated in the West Indies
and reached Washington about
10:30 pm. BY the following morn
ing 1t had done damage to the esti-
mated extent of quarter Of mill
lion dollars, one piece Of property
alone the Metropolitan Street
Railway Co.'S new car shed at the
foot of Four-and-a-hah street -
suffering damage to the extent Of
$35, 900. Elsewhere throughout the
city much property was destroyed
and suburban towns outside of
Washington were not spared. The
Star in its writeup Of the storm
said it doubted If ever before the
Capital City was visited by such
violent atmospheric disturbance.
when the people awoke this
morning, after q night Of terror"
1t further said, they found the
streets covered with debris and ev-
erywhere were evidences of q more
general destruction by the wind
than has ever been known before"
The storm did not come unher-
aided, for the Weather Bureau had
warned the public. 1t began about
10 pm. and was heaviest between
10:15 and 1855. The steeple fell at
10:30 and SO loud was the noise
that the people in the vicinity
Evening star., 1948-03-21
Reading and Writing
Washington Is Ideal Place to Write, Says
Local Authoress of Twenty-Five Volumes
By Mary McGrory

mother" which Is Illustrated with
exquisite paintings brought back
from Korea by her father, sum-
moned up memories Of q trip she
made there just before the Jap
anese occupation. She has also
visited the scene of all the locales
Of her other folktale books-France.
Russia, China and Switzerland.
Mrs. Huntington is one children's
author who views with no alarm at
all the current juvenile craze for
comic books. She remembers her
own childhood weakness for Little
Memo" and Buster Brown" and
thinks that today's children simply
reflect their elders fondness for di-
gests when they seek out comic
books. She doesn't think they will
ever take the place Of childrens
literature.
Evening star., 1948-03-21
By Florence S. Berrymon

Washingtonians and visitors for q
few weeks will have the extraor-
dinary opportunity to study large
number of the treasures Of one of
Europe's greatest art galleries. Two
hundred old master paintings from
the Kaiser Friedrich Museum land
two from the Nationalgalerie) in
Berlin are on view at the Ma
tional Gallery of Art through
April Is.
The finding of these paintings in
the mines of the Kaiserroda Works
near Merkers, in 1945; the decision
to bring them to the United States
Of America for safekeeping; the in
comprehensive protest of group of
American museum people who
seemed to imply that our Govern
ment could not be trusted; storage
Of the paintings in the air-condi
toned rooms of the National Gal
lery Of Art for more than two years,
and most recently. the Army's in
tention to return them to the Amer
lean zone of Germany after the ex-
hibition here: All these events and
situations have been set forth with
full details in The Star and else
where since 1945. Let us forget
them and enjoy the pictures during
their brief appearance on National
Gallery walls.
Famous, Popular and Great
All of the paintings on view are
admirable works and worth seeing,
else they would not be here. But as
one would expect of any group of
this size, quality varies. Some of
the paintings are great without be-
ing famous, others are popular
without being masterpieces of top
rank, and a few paintings are both.
Visitors whose time is limited will
doubtless want to see first the orig
inal works which they have come
to know through color prints, en-
cravings and reproductions in books
and magazines, and, second, those
paintings of unusual distinction, not
50 well known.
The Italian section begins with
the Death of the Virgin" which
John Walker, chief curator of the
National Gallery, says is "the most
important panel by Giotto outside
Italy" Generally better known is
Fra Filippo Lippi's Madonna Ador-
Evening star., 1948-03-21
Colorful Carolinas

Through tomorrow can be seen at
Connecticut Galleries, 1884 Con-
necticut avenue an ingratiating ex-
hibition of water colors by Howard
Murry. He is a native of Tennes-
see, but has lived in North Carolina
for the last Is years. There he has
painted the Blue Ridge and great
Smoky Mountains, also islands OF
the coast. His work is conserva-
tive, pleasing in its regional sub
ject matter, and competently done.
Sea Island Morning" is one OF the
best depicting the Great Barrier
Group of the South Carolina coast.
Several portraits of old plantation
houses are also vivid. He gets ef-
fective feeling of distance by con-
vention Of painting backgrounds on
wet paper, superimposing fore
ground in dryer eolor.
Evening star., 1948-03-21
Current Exhibitions

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. Com
stitution avenue and Sixth street
PAINTINGS and sculpture by great
italian and German masters. Mas
terpieces from Germany to April 1S.
NATIONAL MUSEUM, National Collec-
ton of Fine Arts, Constitution ave-
nue. and Tenth street-American
sna pan9ss osr t5Gm ss and nrvfes loans.
ington water Color Club sgd annual
and 18th Miniature annual. through
Easter Sunday.
ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING,
Jefferson drive and Ninth street
Of photegraphywpictorial photo
shaoash shaSns March. s Willie" ~'f''A''A'
SMITHSONIAN BUILDING, Division Of
Graphic Arts, Independence avenue
na sn fsnh cb.fot Essts2 sun
FREER GALLERY OF ART, Twelfth
street and Jefferson drive--Oriental
and Far. Eastern arts. PAINTINGS
and etchings by Whistler n,, and |, otner 9sit
enteenth street between New York
Z avenue and street..!AAmsEicaan Am
Clark collection. New exhibitions OF
drawings, through April II.
PHILLIPS MEMORIAL GALLERY, 1900
Twsnty-flrss stree strsst~PaaintIinnss r1n.a and
and Piper, through April 6.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. East Capitol
Georgia Anniversary Exhibition
ARTS CLUB. 2017 ! street NY
jameson. through next Friday.
UNITED NATIONS CLUB, 1871 Nine
teenth street N.W.aExhibiti1n >, by oy
Marssl}a snnssH' Comes through Easter
dolph place N.W.-Exhibition by
James Porter. through March.
WATKINS GALLERY. American uni
Margo. Paintings by Edward Bruce.
PUBLIC LIBRARY. Eighth and K K
Perlmutter. through March 81.
pUMBARTON OAKS COLLECTION.
1908 Thirty-second street NV
Byzantine art. Closed Mondays.
Open daily, Q am. to pm: sur
days, 2 to pm.
RUSH & WEEKS GALLERY. 2010 3
through April 8.
PAN AMERICAN UNION, Constitution
avenue and Seventeenth street NV.
Haitian paintings. through Marcn.
CONNOISSEURS' CORNER, 200S Q
street N.W.--Graphic arts.
HOWARD UNIVERSITY. Sixth street
and Howard place N,W.-Japanese
prints, through April.
WHYTE GALLERY, 1913 Connecticut
avenue N.W:-Exhibition BY Edward
RoseDfeld through March.
ARTIsTs' COOPERATIVE, 1908 K
street N.W.-New group show by
artists of Washington and vicinity,
to open this afternoon.
Evening star., 1948-03-21

David Mearns. the minds and
hearts of people who knew him only
slightly long before he had become
public figure, said Mr.. Mearns.
The Robert Todd Lincoln collec-
ton affords many examples Of
warm letters from strangers who re-
call proudly that Il saw you once
on the platform at Springfield"
That feeling that he belonged to
them still persists among the people.
Mr.. Mearns revealed. When 1t was
announced last July that the long
withheld White House files Of Lin
coin would come into the possess
sion of the people" several wrote In
to ask Mr.. Mearns to send them
one of the letters.
THE letters were not a dtSap-
pointment," said Mr.. Mearns en-
phatically. He thinks that the
dissatisfaction in their contents ex-
pressed in certain quarters was
started by "willful or ill-informed"
Lincoln biogra piers OF the last
three decades, who, when stuck for
information intimated that the
answer would be found in the pa
pers which Robert Todd Lincoln
had made available only to his
fathers official biographers, Nico-
lay and Hay, on the grounds that
they would damage men then ltv-
ing.
Their greatest value is the added
light they then shed on Lincoln's
personality, according to Mr..
Mearns, who said that most Lincoln
scholars, who had read around"
the collection knew pretty much
what to expect and were delighted
with what they found.
A native Washingtonian who has
been answering the public's ques-
tions at the Library of Congress for
20 years. Mr.. Mearns says he en-
tered Lincoln scholarship through
the backdoor"-that is, as a ref
erence librarian constantly called
upon to keep the Lincoln record
straight. The Great Emancipator
is the subject Of more curiosity than
any other American. and people are
always trying to put words into his
mouth. most persistently some
wrongfully attributed statements
about the rise Of great corporations
and monopolies.
Evening star., 1948-03-21

ed is the New York Avenue Presby-
terian, and there is no doubt that
"Old Tippecanoe" sought refuge
here in divine worship, upon every
available opportunity, from the in
cessant pleadings of the politicians
who at least had much to do with
his death so soon after his taking
Office. -..
Jackson Attended
Andrew Jackson also attended
this church, as did President James
Buchanan, when the F street church
effected a union with the New York
avenue church, and occupied a pew
for the remainder of his admins
tration. Although Lincoln followed
his predecessors example, he was
frequently absent from church, due.
no doubt, to the pressing duties OF
the time. Indeed, one can hardly
appreciate just what President Lin
coin underwent to save intact this
great Republic of ours.
Lincoln was not a communicate
Of any church, though he was, in
deed, a religious man and was
unusually familiar with the Scrip
lures. He had a special pew at
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, which today is one Of ou1
most precious landmarks.
| At the time of Lincoln's assassi-
nation. DR.. Gurley was present al
the bedside of the stricken President
when he breathed his last, and
offered prayer. On April 10, 1865
funeral services were held in the
east room of the White House
where the Rev. DR.. Hall of the
Episcopal church. Bishop Simpson
of the Methodist church and DR..
Gray of the Baptist church we're
present and assisted. The Rev. DR.
Gurley delivered the discourse.
Nearly a decade ago the writer
had a pleasant interview with Mrs.
Emma Gurley Adams, daughter of
the Rev. DR.. Gurley. in which she
said she was bornsat 1919 I street
NV, which was in Lincoln's day
the manse of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church. This house
was afterward occupied by DR.. and