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Evening star., 1948-10-17
Don't Give the Baby Away
Emily Hahn Tells Unwed Girls

When girls in trouble write to
AuthoresS Emily Hahan she gives
them this answer:
It's a shame, but keep stiff
upper lip. Don't give the baby
away. All the talk will blow over"
In those few words, she tells her
own story.
She was telling it last night at the
Stratford Hotel, where she and her
husband, Maj. Charles r. Boxer,
have been staying while he has been
serving as conSultant at the
Library Of Congress.
The first part Of her story was
in China To Me"-the autobio-
graphical account of her romance
with Maj. Boxer, the birth of her
child and the circumstances of war
that put Maj. Boxer in a British
prison camp and left here in China
masquerading as a Chinese.
The next part was in the head
lines of 1945 when Maj. Boxer was
Evening star., 1948-10-17

woman c'lt me on the street in
Hong Kong. She was terribly i'm
moral woman"
Then she grinned and an impish
gleam came into her eyes.
When the war came, there was a
lot of sentiment. Maybe people
sympathized because I was betrayed
by a British officer in a red coat"
The British officer, now a profess
sor in multi, helps her with her re-
search in the latest phase OF the
Hahn saga.
Their child is now seven, and her
mother has no intention Of trying to
keep her from knowing the China
story.
That has to be part of the "blow-
ing over" too. s.
Evening star., 1948-10-17

released and they were married in
Connecticut.
AS for the last part-"it will blow
over"-there is her life today.
She is telling it in her forth
coming, England To Me"-a story
of life on the English countryside
where she keeps house, struggles
with rationing and writes.
She assumes the villagers at Dor
set, England, know her history be-
cause they know everything about
each other but they don't seem to
care"
Her husband, now on leave. is a
professor of Portuguese literature
and history at Kings College. Lon
don. When she's not moving in aca-
demic circles, she lives in the coun-
try where the people don't go in
much for ideas"
But Mrs. Boxer, who is expecting
another child this week, doesn': give
the impression that the blowing
over" part always has been easy.
The wry humor that has punctu-
ated her New Yorker articles is
sometimes edged with q touch of
grimneSS.
Recalls Hong Kong Incident.
Looking backward as she chatted
in her hotel room. she commented:
Il think I'm just tough. If I was
being snIbbed, wouldn't notice it.
I remember once, though, when
was very indignant because a
Evening star., 1948-10-17
Relief Goods Collection
To Stort Tomorrow


Trucks, donated by Lutheran busi-
ness men, will pick up relief goods
contributed to the Lutheran World
Relief drive from IS Lutheran
churches in the Washington area
beginning tomorrow. 4-------.-..-
Clothing, TODD and medical sup
plies will be shipped to the Lutheran
World Relief Inc. warehouse at
Easton. Pa, for processing to Europe
The drive, sponsored by the Luth-
eran Ministerial Association with
the Rev. Donald F. Bautz as chair
man, will continue to Reformation
Sunday, October 81.
American red foxes and gray foxes
have different hone structures
Evening star., 1948-10-20

DENA. He has been holding the
check for quite time. In fact, the
date on 1t is February, 1s46, and 1t
calls for the payment to the Ger
man newspaperman of $16l.10.
But so far he hasn't been able to
cash 1t in this country. 1t was
issued to the 26-year-old editor as
q prison Of war, and is known IN
military parlance as military
payment order"
Case One Of Many.
To get his money-which he'd like
to use In this country-Mr. F1nkel
must take his order to a disbursing
officer Of the Army or Navy In Ger
many. There he will be paid IN
German marks, and the disbursing
ofiicer cashing the order must for
ward 1t to the United States Treas
urer for deposit.
Mr.. Finkels case Is only one OF
many. Former prisoners are hold
ing between 5000, 900 and $4,000
600 worth Of checks" paid to them
for services while in custody. They
were issued by the Army and, under
terms Of the Geneva convention
on rules Of warfare. they are pay
able only in the currency Of the
country in which the holder was
a national.
Army oficials say the reason the
orders will be paid only in native
currencies instead of dollars is that
the latter might find their way into
the black market, thus giving the
Evening star., 1948-10-20
1000 Delegates 10 Attend
Girl Scout ConcIave Here

More than 1000 adult volunteers
representing ia Girl Scout organ
izations will attend a two-day re-
gional conference opening tomorrow
at the Hotel StatlT.
It will be attended by Girl Scout
leaders and local council and COM
mittee members from Virginia.
Maryland, Pennsylvania and Del
aware and the District of Columbia.
The keynote speech will be made
by Mrs. c. Vaughan Ferguson, ma
tional president Of the Girl Scouts.
The session ut 8 o'clock tomorrow
night will be devoted to interna-
tional phases Of scouting with Mrs.
E. Swift Newton, chairman of the
World Committee Of the World AS
sociation of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts, as the speaker.
Friday morning the conference
will. take up outdoor activities and
the closing session will be held Fri
day afternoon.
The conference also will include q
series Of clinics and panel discus
SionS.
Evening star., 1948-10-20

individual a decided advantage
over his neighbors.
While the controllers office esti-
mates that the total outstanding at
present might run as high as $l0,-
100000. there Is no present method
Of determining the exact total until
a final audit is made of all wartime
military disbursing officers accounts.
That audit is now underway but may
take years ITO complete.
MIR. Finkel Is still. unhappy. how
ever, over his inability to convert
his check into dollars.
"The currency situation in Ger
many is almost as complicated as
the political snarl," he said. "I still
hope to cash my check here. I don't
want to 60 home and see my mother
without the overcoat promised, nor
to see the rest Of my family without
a few gifts to help them through the
winter months ahead"
Evening star., 1948-10-20
Brice PIuns Raj Study

Brig. Gen. William o. Brice, as
sistant director of Marine Corps
Aviation at headquarters here, will
leave tomorrow. to attend a special
f1ve-day air support course at the
Royal Air Forces School Of Land
Air Warfare at Old Sarum in South
ern England. The general lives
at sos Elm street, Alexandria
Evening star., 1948-10-20

bia University
still has the
problem Of CASH
ing q check.
Moreover, it's
4 check that Is
supposed to
come to rest In
due time in the
United 8 ia t e 8
Treasury
The editor Is
ans Norbert
Finkel, B e'rlin
c o r respondent
q n d political
editor of the
newS n e n c Y
Evening star., 1948-10-20
Germans Holding u. S. Checks;
Visitinq Editor Can't Cash His

One of the German editors who
visited Washington last week end
in connection with the American
Press Institute seminar at Colum-
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Spy Group Has
New Evidence

Washington, Dec. 4(AP)-The
House un-American activities
committee said today it has evil
dence singing out the person
who passed on the government
secets which were found in a
hollow pumpkin on a Maryland
farm.
The evidence will be presented
when the committee reopens its
investigation of an alleged pre-
war Communist spy ing operat-
ing in Washington. The hear
ings are to begin at 2 p. m
Tuesday.
Robert E. Stripping, the com
mittee's chief investigator, an
nounced the hearings after a tele
phone conversation with Rep
Mundt (R-Sdl in South Dakota
1t was Stripping, too, who sale
the evidence is available to put
the finger on the person who
turned over the microfilmed do
cuments which were found II
the pumpkin at the farm house
Of Whitaker Chambers, an ad.
mitted fomer communist cour-
ier.
Before announcing reopening o
the investigation, which produc
ed sensational evidence last sum
mer, Stripping said that som,
Every important" new documents
have been turned up.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Flue-Cured
Prices Lowest
Since 1914

Raleigh, Dec. 4-(AP)-Gross
sales on Eastern North Carolina
flue- cured Tobacco markets in the
1948 season were the lowest since
1914, but the price average was
the second highest in history.
Prices by grades showed con-
siderable increases over last year
but quality was lower, the U. S.
and North Carolina Departments
of Agriculture said in a season
report issued today.
Gross sales for 1948 were list
ed as 392,614, 141 pounds at an
average of $4940 per hundred
The volume was about 9l,000.00C
pounds lower than in 1947. The
average topped last years by
$3.50 but failed to reach the re-
cord high of s5l,S5 in 1916.
All grades showed price gains
from last year. Increases rang
ed from ST to $11 per hundred,
with most from 81 to SO. Most
of the greater advances were for
smoking leaf grades. Greer
grades and some offerings of low
quality primings and nondescript
improved the least.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05

oldest woman's college in North
Carolina. 1t is now planned to
reopen the college as two-year
coeducational junior college with
a two-year liberal arts course,
including the sciences, voca-
tional education department. and
business course, including
secretarial and shorthand
courses.
Recently the Board of Trustees
elected and employed B. D. Bum
of Oxford, VIII has been Super
intendent of Granville County
Schools, as president of the col
lege. DR.. Parker said president
Bum has been actively engaged
in getting faculty members for
the opening of the institution in
September and said almost half
the needed faculty members
have already been engaged.
Leon Spencer. vice-president OF
the Farmers Bank of Seaboard
for the past Is years, was en-
ployed as business manager for
the college and has been work
ing in that position since May
Spencer keeps office hours at the
college each day.
DIR. Parker said efforts are be-
ing made to accommodate about
800 students at the college next
fall. He said the girls dormi
tory is being renovated to take
care of 100 girls and said cot
tages will be constructed to pro
vide rooms for. 10C men students
Another 100 students are expect
ed as day students. and DR.. Park
er said bus lines are expected tt
run as far as Roanoke Rapid
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Judge r. Hunt Parker To Open Second Drive For
Chowan College Funds In Radio Address Today

and other comparable distances
in the are. each day for the con-
venience of these day students.
He said the bus routes would, of
course, depend on the number of
students who are interested in
using them but expressed the
hope that the demand for bus
transportation will be great.
The college, which was closed
voluntarily in June, 1913, on ord
ers from the Board of Trustees,
owns an attractive campus, so
acres of land, eight separate
buildings and has $4,000 in
bonds in it's endowment fund. The
college has already employed
architects, and blue prints have
been made covering all neces-
sary repairs and improvements
and future building needs.
DR.. Parker said at present all
classrooms and dormitory rooms
are being reconditioned, redeco-
rated and refurnished. All build
ings are being completely paint
ed inside and out
An up-to-date cafeteria will be
installed and the new kitchen
and dining room are being fitted
with tile floors, new steam tables
and electric dish washers. In
addition. new plum bing facilities
are being installed and all build
ings are being rewired complete
ly, with new electrical outlets
being installed. A complete
overhaul will be made of the
heating plant with new boilers
and new heating system for the
i swimming pool.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05

Ahoskie.-A radio address this
afternoon by Judge R. Hunt
Parker of Roanoke Rapids, resi-
dent of the Third Judicial Dis
trict, will launch the second an
nual Embarrassing campaign for
the reactivation of Chowan Col
lege at Murfreesboro.
DR.. W. r. Parker of Woodland,
chairman of the Chowan College
board of trustees, said Judge
Parker will speak at 2:l5 from
the studios of radio station
WRCS in Ahoskie, and said the
address will also be carried by
station WCBT in Roanoke Rap
ids.
Judge Parker will initiate the
second phase of planned five
year campaign to raise $4,000, 600
for the college, which plans to
reopen it's doors in September
after having been closed for the
past five years. The fund cam
paign as planned by college lead
ers in this section called for the
raising of 100000 annually over
five-year period and the first
year the goal was raised in cash
and in pledges from only three
counties Herford. Northamptor
and Bertie.
DR.. Parker said the new cam
paign will open in all the coun-
ties of Northeastern North Caro-
lima, and has asked the cooper
alton of all the residents of this
section who are interested ir
having a college nearby in help
in helping with the campaign.
The college, which was found.
ed on October IL. 1848, is the
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Charles Liner Wins Warren Count,
1913 Corn Production Contest

Warrenton - Winner in the
Warren County corn production
contest this year was Charles
Liner of Alton, it has been an
nounced by Warren County Agent
Frank Reams.
Liners official one-acre yield
according to reports, was lot l
bushels, and in recognition of his
achievement he was given sou
government bond by John Nit
chell of the Citizens Bank OF
Warrenton, and was also presen-
ted with blue ribbon, certifl-
cate to show he had qualified as
a member of the North Carolina
"lO0-bushel Club" and lapel
button.
Tom Fleming of Churchill won
second place with a yield of 1868
bushels and received $25 bond
from the Warren County Farm
Bureau, a corn club certificate,
button and ribbon. Third place
in the contest went to W. M. Stall
lings of Embro with 1859 bush
els, receiving SIS cash prize
from the Warren Coop Seed Elk
change, ribbon, button and certi-
ficate.
Albert Seaman of RidgeWay
won fourth place with a yield OF
1854 bushels and got $40 aware
from the Warrenton Supply Com
pany as well as the ribbon, certi'
ficate and button. Henry j. Sea-
man of Ridgeway had fifth
place 1851 bushel yield, receiving
a certificate, ribbon and button
Five other contestants also
qualified for "10O-bushel Club
certificates. They were Boyc
Reams of Alton, 1888 bushels
c. B. Bottoms of Churchill, 103.s
Byrant Bottoms of Churchill
1929; J. T, Rocker of Norlina
1922; and W. A. Connel] of War
renton, 1902
Reams said the average yiele
per acre for the ten winners II
the contest this year was lO4..
bushels as compared with an av
erage of 936 in the l947 corr
contest.
Assistant County Agent l.. B
Hardage was in charge of ma
king the awards to the contes
winners.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
5 White Men
Arrested In
Mallard Death

Lyons, Ga, Dec. 4-(P)-Five
white men were arrested today
and held under suspicion Of mur-
der in the ambush Staying OF
Negro Robert Mallard Nov. 20.
Mallard was slain as he neared
his home, IS miles southeast OF
Lyons. His widow, Amy James
Mallard, said he was killed by
five or six robed but unmasked
white men.
The arrests were announced by
Capt. Delmar Jones of the Geor-
gia Bueau of Investigation.
They came after Superior Court
Judge Robert H. Humphrey call.
ed the Tooms Grand Jury into
special session Friday to probe
the Mallard murder.
Captain Jones identified those
arrested as: ]. Roderick Cliff
ton IS; William Lamar Howell
"a; James Spivey "a; Hersche
Skies, "a and Barney Skies "a
all Of Lyons.
The five denied any connection
with the Negro's death. Nont
apparently was surprised by the
investigators action. Each, ac
companied by relatives, arrived
at the courthouse during the af
ternoon and milled about the cor
ridors.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
This Convicted Man
A New Jail Quickly

Indianapolis. Dec. A -(AP)-
Eddie Marche, 81. Chicago, a
federal prisoner now in the Mar
ion County Jail, in in a hurry
to get to prison but can't get
any sympathy.
Marche pleaded guilty to inter-
state theft Of a motor vehicle
and was ordered back to jail for
pre-sentence investigation in
spite Of his plea to be sent to the
federal prison "as soon as pos
sible." He told Judge Robert
c. Baltzell:
''I'll starve to death If I stay
in Marion County jail any longer.
The food is much better at the
Terre Haute pen"
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
.PrO-Parking
Meter Forces
Get HEARING

Proponents of parking met
ers in Roanoke Rapids will be
given chance to air their
views and to present any evil
dence they might have for
the retention of meters here
on Wednesday night at 1890 in
the courtroom of the Munci-
pal Building. Mayor w. B,
Allsbrook said today.
The mayor had announced
earlier in the week that he
would call a special meeting
of the Board of City Commits
sioners. and decided on Wed
nesdaY night.
He said he had been re-
quested to call a special Board
meeting by a group of eitizens
who are interested in keeping
the parking meters in opera
ton in the city. Recently
similar special meeting was
called by Mayor Allsbrook at
the request of u group who
are interested in having the
meters removed. At the other
meeting only evidence against
the meters was heard by
Board members.
Allsbrook said earlier he has
received a 30-day extension in
the city's contract with the
Karpark Corporation of Gin
cinnati. Ohio. regarding the
time in which the city could
without obligation request that
the company remove the met
ers.
The parking meters were
first placed in operation on
March l9 under an eight
months trial period. and in the
contract the city was given
is days after the expiration Of
the trial period to request er-
moval of the meters. However
the time extension Just grant,
eo will give Board members
until January 3 to reach a
final decision In the question
of the meters. one which has
caused much discussion and
controversy in the city in re-
cent weeks.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
New. Roanoke Flood
Is Predicted; 40 Foot
|CreSt Seen Tuesday

Raleigh, T.c. 4L(P)-The
Roanoke River, one of four ma
jor streams in eastern north
Carolina that have been flooded
twice in a week, rolled along to-
night toward new crests.
Garrett Demots, head of the
U. S. Weather Bureau here, said
additional reports on rainfall the
past few days along the upper
portions of the Roanoke had caus-
ed new and higher estimates of
expected crests.
At the same time, however,
he cut the Bureaus predictions
Of crests along the Cape Fear
River. Predictions for the Neuse
and Tar rivers - other major
streams in the east-remained
unchanged
Demots reiterated that the bur-
eau did not look for extensive
damage along any OF the rivers.
Weldon.-L. NJ. Shearin.
weather forecastsr here. said
Saturday that the river had
continued to drop and early
yesterday morning stood at
3l.s feet.
The rivers, pushed up earlier
in the week by heavy rains last
weekend, rose again as more rain
fell on soaked ground and ran
off without being absorbed.
Along the upper portions of the
Roanoke, Demots said, rainfall of
between three and four inches
was recorded late Thursday night
and early Friday. This brought
a forecast of a crest of near 40
feet-nine feet in flood-for
Weldon Tuesay afternoon. The
depth was expected to reach 80
feet a. Scotland Neck Wednes-
day. The Bureau previously had
anticipated a 35-foot crest at
Weldon.
The Cape Fear crested at 49,;
feet at Moncure today, and 6
crest Of sSfeet-two feet below
flood staHe - was forecast for
Fayetteville early tomorrow. The
bureau expected a depth Of 27.5
feet rs in flood -- at Elizabeth.
town Monday. Earlier a 37-foot
crest had been predicted for Fay
etteville.
Demots said the neuse was ex-
pected to 60 to 1875 feet - 6.5
in flood - at Smithfield Tuesday,
and the Tar to a crest of % feet
five in flood-at Tarboro We'd
nesday.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Conservation
Group Vote
Is This Week

Raleigh, Dec. 4 -(AP) Far
mers in "a North Carolina count
les will 60 to the polls next week
to elect county committeeman,
for local soil conservation dis
tricts.
Each county organized under
the soil conservation program
has committee composed of
three men. The term of one of
these expires each year. the
committee or COMMITTEES make
up the governing body of the dis
trict.
Polling places in each county
will be open every day this week,
including Saturday.
Citizens of New Hanover coun-
ty in the east and IS other count.
les in the west will not take part
in the election, since these coun-
ties are not organized into soil
conservation districts.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Quake Causes
Little Damage
In California

Los Angeles, Dec. 4-(AP)-A
rolling quake, ccntering in iso-
lated hills a hundred miles east
of here, damaged windows and
sent hundreds of persons rush
ing into the streets today but
there was no reports of death
or serious injuries.
In the San Bernardino noun
tains north of Banning, it caused
landslides and broke chucks Of
pavemet on a road leading to
the Morongo Indian reservation.
In the winter resort town OF
Palm Springs, some 20 miles to
the south, police said the rear
end of furniture store collaps-
ed, plate glass windows were
broken, slate slid off a roof.
Other cities in fhe general area
Twenty-Five Palms and Indio,
among them, eported severe
shocks and much CONSERVATION
In Indio, the police desk sergeant
released his prisoners into the
iailyard, a liquor store reported
heavy damage as stocks tumbled
to the floor, merchandise bounced
off shelves in markets. A bank
vault was sprung in Twenty-Five
palms. Pavements sh o w
cracks.
Seismoligists reported h e
quake about equal in severity
to one in April, l947, which also
centered in remote desert area
northwest of here. Only the iso.
lated nature of the country, SAID
the experts, prevented serious
damage and possible loss of life.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05

FROM THE EDITOR OF THE
HERALD TO ITS READERS:
The Old Man continues to be
sick with gout, asthma, diabetes,
rheumatism, and a touch of
collie. His column therefore is
suspended. Maybe for good. We
at the Herald do pay him good
United States money, even if
it's only two-bits a column.
We might never have thought
OF stopping the column, but
Katie Gates Williams, chief of
our bookkeeping department,
told us that Woodrow Blue, in
come tax collector for the U. S.
government, has ruled that the
two-bits-a-day payment must be
charged on our income tax re-
turns only as a charitable con-
tribution." Mr.. Blue (said Katie)
read several of the columns and
said it would be illegitimate to
charge the Herald's payment for
the column under either "salar-
les aid wages" or under 'ex-
penses" inasmuch as either item
suggests wal received" and
Katie reports Mr.. Blue as say
ing-the column has no value
whatever. 1t is either charity"
or it is not a legal deduction.
We called up Mr.. Blue (the
income tax man is about the
only one in town the Herald
calls Mr. and he says he told
Katie nothing of the sort. In
fact, he says Katie never asked
him for any opinion one way
or the other. Now we can't
dispute the word of Mr..
Blue. He goes over our income
tax returns. Well, then, why did
Katie make such erroneous
statement? For any crime, in
cluding prevarication, the law
says there must be a motive.
Why should Katie have a grudge
against our 82-year-old column
ist? Why should she try to do
him out of his two-bits worth
a day?
We first wondered whether
she was related to OFR's (Old
Father Roanoke's) 17-year-old
wife and was rallying to her
defense? But no, we found nc
such relationship.
Next, we re-read all OFR's
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-05
Presbyterian Church
Will Ordain Elders,
DeacOnS this Morning

Ruling Elders and Deacons Of
the First Presbyterian Church
will be ordained here this morn
ing in the morning service at
the church, it has been announc-
ed by the pastor. the Rev. J..
NJ. Walker, Jr.
DR.. W. D. Hall, l.. B. Brown
and Howard Pruden will be or
dained as Ruling Elders, and
Wiley Fortune, J. W. Talley, l..
G. Shell. Jr., Edward Shaw and
T. r. Wilson will be ordained
as Deacons.
In the evening service a color
strip film of the historic forma-
ton of the World Council of
Churches recently at Amsterdam
the Netherlands, will be shown.
The Rev. Mr.. Walker said a
nursery is provided during the
morning service on the first floor
of the First Presbyterian Sunday
School building. .,