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The coastland times., 1952-03-28
1t Takes
All Kinds
By DAVE WEST

There's never anything new. The
people who aren't in Washington
have been saying much the same
things about the residents of that
city, and federal jobholders gener-
ally, ever since they carved the dis
triet out of Maryland and Virginia.
There's no reason to believe the
ordinary citizen felt any different
Iy when the capital was located in
New York or Philadelphia, either.
In a volume of Recollections,
published in 1908, after the death
of the author, the poet Richard
Henry Stoddard quotes letter
from Nathaniel Hawthorne in re-
gard to a federal appointment
Stoddard was seeking. Except that
it is rather more cleverly written,
there's nothing about the letter to
suggest that it is not piece of
campaign propaganda emanating
from Republican national head
quarters in this year of grace,
1852.
Hawthorne wrote his letter SO
years ago; it is dated Concord,
March 16, 1853" Stoddard says it
''is full of sagacious advice in re-
gard to my appointment. i was to
pile up as much of a SNOWFALL as /
could in the way of political in
terest, as there never was so fierce
a time before among office-seek-
ers; and it would be well for me
to go to Washington with the let
The coastland times., 1952-03-28
WINSTEADVILLE NEWS

The Woman's Society of Chris.
tian Service of Bethany Church
met Friday night at the home OF
Mrs. S. D. Sparrow with eight
members in attendance. The meet.
ing was presided over by Mrs. A
M. Sparrow, Jr.
The program leader for the ev-
ening was Mrs. Stephen Godfrey
Her subject was "Laborers To-
gether With God" It was inspiring
and well received. When the meet
ing adjourned the hostess served
coffee and loaf cake. ,.
Meeting with Mrs. Sparrow
were Mrs. A. M. Sparrow, Sr., Mrs,
S. T. Sparrow, ST., Mrs. Johnny
Kinion, Mrs. Stephen Godfrey,
Mrs. L. C. Whorton, Mrs. A. M.
Sparrow, Jr., and Mrs. Ellis Smith.
Robert Smith has returned to
State College, Raleigh, after
spending a week with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Fred Cooking
and sons, Ed and John, of Epareta,
Pa, spent last week end with Mr..
and Mrs. L. C. Whorton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Smith and
sons, Robert and Ellis Ray, visited
Mrs. Smiths parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Cayton at Aurora Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barnie Davis and
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Kinion and son,
Jimmy, visited in Chocowinity Sun
day afternoon.
Corporal Tex Davis of Fort Jack
son, S. c., spent the week end here
with Mrs. Davis at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. Otis
Selby.
Mrs. A. M. Sparrow, Sr., and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Sparrow, Jr.,
spent Sunday in Swan Quarter
visiting relatives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Foreman
of Pungo visited their daughter,
Mrs. s. T. Sparrow, Jr., and Mr..
Sparrow Saturday.
The coastland times., 1952-03-28

disclosure by c. w. Harder
Sen. Homer Ferguson Of Michi-
gan that Dean AchesoA, Secre-
tary Of State, has set up a world
wide monopoly controlling raw
materials usage.
Recently this column reported
Sen. FerguSOn'S findings that
copper shortage causing mass
unemployment in Detroit is due
to this international control.
In his report, he stated that
Acheson set up the international
Materials Conference which is in
reality a monopoly controlling
raw materials. He found that
any American firm paying 241z
cents for copper would be pros
ecuted, yet American tax dol
lars are being given to foreign
nations to buy copper at prices
as high as so cents per pound.
D
Immediately after this discIO-
sure, il was revealed that the
MSA, the Marshall Plan under .
new name, had just granted an
other $500, 900 worth Of copper
to France; the metal being ship
ped from presumably copper.
short q. s.
And then came more facts on
the scandal concerning the In
ternational Materials Confer.
ence. st, ~. 'essssSs
@NatIOnal Federation Of Indepsndsns Businesl
The coastland times., 1952-03-28

Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. D. Sawyer, Mr..
and Mrs. Tom Morris and children
of Belhaven visited Mr.. and Mrs.
B. C. Jennette and other relatives
here Sunday.
Fenner Allen of Greenville was
a visitor here Saturday.
The coastland times., 1952-03-28

Washington observers COM
ment on the current drive to get
a review of the army court mar
tial action that sentenced a 20
year old wounded Korea veteran
to 10 years Of prison for falling
asleep on a guard post.
. q
IT'S q good thing many Con-
The coastland times., 1952-03-28

gresSmen are
mot in uniform,
or they'd all be
in prison for
falling asleep
4 = y
Prompting
this remark
are the fur
ther develop
ments result
ing from the
The coastland times., 1952-03-28
NOTICE
Taxpayers Of Nags Head,
Croatan and East Lake
Townships

The Board of Equalization and Re
view will sit at Dare County Court
house on Wednesday, April 9Th, 1852
for the purpose of hearing all protests
against property valuations in the
abOve-named townships and equaliz-
ing same to the end that such property
shall be listed on the tax records as re-
quired by law; and for the purpose of
reviewing all real and personal prop
erty and polls of abOve-named town
ships and listing of all property omit
ted from tax records.
WILLIS L. DANIELS
Tax Supervisor, Dare County
Evening star., 1952-04-06

TTHE Citizens Crime Commission is phe-
IL nomenon of the Age of Kefauver The
vivid drama, feetingly captured by television,
has long since been distilled into somber
report filed away in Senate archives. But
every day, in growing number of American
cities, the work of the now-famous Senate
committee goes on, with local talent taking
up where Kefauver, Tobey & Co. left off.
These Crime Commissions are voluntary
groups of citizens who have decided that
sporadic investigations are not enough to COM
bat organized crime They are financed by
private contributions, they steer clear of
politics and they are permanent. Their
business is conducted by highly qualified,
well-paid personnel, mostly ex-FBI agents.
The Crime Commissions cannot make
arrests or issue subpoenas. and yet in cities
where they operate they have tremendous
power. How? BY watching. BY constantly,
quietly, vigilantly watching They are power
full by the very nature of their make-up-an
cannot be ignored or resisted by the police.
A few months ago, the first national con-
vention of Citizens Crime Commissions was
held in Chicago. The cities represented were
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Kansas City, Miami,
New York, Dallas, Cleveland, Tampa, St.
Louis and Gary, Ind. Information was freely
exchanged, and the groundwork was. laid for
Evening star., 1952-04-06
by A. E. Hotchner

the formation of a National Association of
Crime Commissions
Playing host to this meeting was the
Chicago Crime Commission, which prior to
the Kefauver investigation, was the only full
bodied citizens crime group in America. "a
few cities, such as Baltimore. had commissions
of limited operation)
The Chicago Commission is headed by
Virgil Peterson, former chief of the Boston
FBI Office. A few examples of what this
Commission has been able to accomplish will
give you an idea of what such group can do
for its city.
The Moxetd Case
LAST year an officer on the States Attor-
ney's staff, Mike Moretti, got in barroom
brawl on the outskirts of Chicago. Moretti,
who was drunk, was beaten up and had his
gun taken away from him. Three young men,
who had not been in the bar, found the gun
in parking lot. When they handed it to him,
Moretti ordered them to get in their automo-
bile. The boys were later found in the Car,
shot, with Moretti standing alongside One
boy, IS. and another, 81, died; the third boy
finally recovered.
The States Attorneys office prosecuted,
but a mo bill" was returned - the case was
was dropped. Under normal circumstances
Evening star., 1952-04-06

the matter would have ended there. But
the Crime Commission intervened, forced
reopening of the case pointing out that the
brush-off had been 50 fragrant that there had
not even been coroner's inquest. AS result
of the Commission's disclosures grand jury
was convened, special prosecutors appointed.
and on January Is. 1852, Mike Moretti was
convicted of first-degree murder and sent up
for life.
A few years ago, Commission investigators
stumbled on racket that grew in size with
every rock they turned over. Big-shot hood
lums had quietly bought out many of the
larger cigarette jobbers in Chicago, and they
were selling thousands of cartons of cigarettes
with counterfeit revenue stamps The govern
Evening star., 1952-04-06
UNITED PRESS

ment was being defrauded of millions and the
gangsters' profits were helping them build
powerful organizations.
MaihnQ the Mobstexs
BY EARLY 1850 the Commission had enough
evidence to go to Governor Adlai Stevenson.
He looked over the report and Immediately
ordered staff of special detectives to widen
the investigation. In November, 1851, a
series of big raids, perfectly timed, caught the
cigarette dealers red-handed Many of them
were former members of the old Capone gang,
vicious criminals who had always been too
slippery to convict. Not this time
Chicagos Commission has grown 50 power
Continued on page l9
Evening star., 1952-04-06

NzKE cRhR coauuss1osg .uperbly serves the public
good by being gadAy that compels police officers and
prosecutors digent execution Of their duty,
and il surpasses conventional criminal investgat-
ling bodies, for it punish but prevent"
Fsisd Isigs INOlaAs I. mUaPM
Former Police Consssissidass, NssD York
City, and Unjted Stgees Prosecutor
Evening star., 1952-04-06
AGAINST CRIME

Citizens Crime Commissions are mushroOming
all over the country. Here's the fascinating story
of how they operate in big American city ..
Seward seaport record., 1952-01-11
JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB TAKES NEW MEMBERS

A combined business and SO cial meeting was held by the Junior Womcn's Club Tuesday evening, January 8, at the home of Mrs John Coleman. New members were voted in and a discussion was held concerning the clothes hamper to be given away in February.
 There were games of canasta and pjaoehie following the busi- ness meeting, alter which re Treatments " re served by the hostcsscs. Mrs. Coleman and Mrs. Rene Skinner
Seward seaport record., 1952-01-11

tain wage carncrs, to pay esti- mated tax Form 104O-ES). Janu- ary IS is the last day for filing, amending, and paying estimated tax for these people.
 Final 1851 income tax returns are due by March IS from all taxpayers, but if filed by Janu- ary 15 will serve as both return and estimate for 1851, except in the case of farmers, who have until January 31 to file their final return where it is also to serve as their estimate.
Seward seaport record., 1952-01-11
r. Seward Seaport Record H. 52 Seward Aaa.

from each paychcck. Therefore, January IS does not apply to him.
 The paY-as you-go system re Quires others, especially farmers, business and professional pCo- pie, investors, landlords, and ecr-
Seward seaport record., 1952-01-11
WHY IS JANUARY Is "A TAX DATE?

The pay-as- you-go system col lects substantially the full tax of the average wage earncr by withholding a portion of his tax
Evening star., 1952-11-24

These prices effective until close of business.
Wednesday, November 26, 1882 in Washington,
D. c.; MARYLAND: Bethesda Silver Spring, Ia
koma Park, Bladensburg, Rockville Gaithersburg,
Chevy Chase Colmar Manor, Wheaton, Mount
Rainier. College Park Berwyn, Suitland, Marlboro.
Laurel Indian Head, Capitol Heights. VIRGINIA:
Lean. Herndon, Vienna Annandale. NO SALES TO
DEALERS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT
daily.
Evening star., 1952-11-24

II you have small family try one OF
these small Beltsville-size turkeys.
These birds are ready for the oven
when you buy. Cuts many minutes
off your kitchen time.
Evening star., 1952-05-10
Insurance Rate Initiation

Automobile liability and property damage
insurance rates are feeling the effects of infia-
tion. Underwriters are predicting that within
another 80 days rates for private automobiles will
60 up approximately 20 per cent as national
average. IS z1@.5
The imitation affecting this particular aspect
of insurance has several forms. One has nothing
directly to do with money and prices but stems
instead from the great increase in number OF
automobiles on the highways consequent conges-
tion and increase in accident totals Others arise
directly from the monetary type Of imitation
higher judgments granted by courts and juries
which take into account the true purchasing
value of todays dollar and higher costs for repair
of property damage. One insurance study re-
vealed that the average claim for property dam
age ing 1850 had been settled for $6S while the
average for is51 had risen to $7s50-an increase
of nearly l5perscent -
Automobile insurance has, in a sense, q
double value protecting the owner and operator
from extreme fnaHcial damage and protecting
the victim from Injury without compensation.
Most States today require such insurance. Sol
yency of the system depends. however, upon .
Total premium return that Is adequate to meet
Evening star., 1952-05-10
Unfit for Duty

r The medical finding that Police Inspector
Bullock is unfit for duty has given rise to some
apprehension that this may be path paving
move to retire him at an early date for physical
disability. There seems, however, to be no basis
for this belief.
Inspector Bullock is eligible for retirement,
being IS years old and having more than 80
years Of service. But Police Chief Murray last
March recommended that the inspector not be
retired until after all of the matters in which
he Is involved have been cleared up, and the
Commissioners approved this recommendation
That Is the status Of the matter today
It is inconceivabIe that Inspector Bullock
would be retired at this time on any basis. The
Senate Crime Committee which has been in
vestigating the Police Department has not sub
mitted its final report. Nor has there been any
final action on the investigation of Inspector
Bullocks activities that has been conducted
under the direction of Major Murray and the
Commissioners. When these inquiries have been
completed and the indicated action taken, it
will be time to decide what action should be
taken with respect to retiring Inspector Bullock
But no retirement action should be taken until
then. IT.
Evening star., 1952-05-10
This and That

discovery. momentouS to him, that It
makes little difference whether one
sleeps. just so long as he closes his eyes
and lies still.
The great bane of the sleepless is that
they are too sleepy to read, but still not
sleepy enough to go to sleep! No devil
could have devised a sillier state of
affairs. If one can read, lying awake
is no great moment. But when the eyes
refuse to stay open and that desire
comes to sleep, then it is devilish not
to be able to do so.
Templeton Jones is a left-handed
sleeper.
He sleeps on his left side only. This
position has been inveighed against.
many times. One is told solemnly that
it presses against the heart. etc. Nom
sense, says Templeton Jones. What
sleep he gets. he invariably gets on his
left side. Sleeping on the back is bad.
It makes one snore! Right-side Sleep
ing may be good for some. but Jones
never falls to sleep that way.
One of the little heralded bad features
Of growing old, Jones has discovered, is
that time comes when no sleeping
position seems comfortable. e
Suddenly one finds that he has no
place to put his arms.
It seems absurd.
Here one has been comfortable. sleep
ing, all his life. Hand1 and arms and
Evening star., 1952-05-10
Situation in Romuniu

We wish to draw your attention to
tragic events now occurring in our home
land, Romania.
Mass deportations are being organized
and carried out by the Soviet-controlled
government in Bucharest at the very
moment when Russia Is launching
another Of its phony campaigns Of peace
and co-existenoe between East and
West. These atrocities which offend the
moral conscience Of the whole world
constitute the gravest warning for those
who still enjoy freedom. Due to the
Communist scheme for world domina-
ton, the current atrocities perpetrated
in Romania are challenge to the whole
Of humanity.
We know your deep concern for and
awareness Of the dramatic struggle for
freedom and human rights which is now
emerging from the darkness Of Soviet
tyranny. We know that your, readers
feel united among themselves as mem
bers Of Nation which accepted this
challenge. We. therefore, feel sure that
you will disclose to the American pub
lie the sufferings of the Romanian
people.
Mihail Farcasanu,
Chairman, the Association of Ro-
manian Journalists: former Editor
in chief. the Romanian Daily
Viitorul.
Evening star., 1952-05-10
Twenty-six years
The end of an era!

The end of an era!
That was the way Templeton Jones
felt as he took down the old book ends
and slowed them in bag to take home.
The ends had held up the books on
his desk for so many years. They were
cracked, now, at least on the side exposed
to the sun.
They would still be Of service.
Not all persons like book ends. Some
are of wood, as these of Jones; others
are Of metal, heads of Dante, figures Of
eats, dogs, what you wish
Some Of them poke their noses into
the books they hold. making q visible
dent after a few years.
Jones has a pair of angel children, in
green bronze, that do just that.
They must be angel children. he says.
because they never throw stones at
strangers, never leave their bicycles out
in the rain, seldom speak back.
There they stand in all their heavenly
nakedness, poking their pretty little
noses into the few volumes of Jane
Austen.
Templeton Jones never reads Jane any
more.
At one time in his life he read her
much, especially in the small hours.
as they are called. when he couldn't
sleep.
Now Jones no longer cares whether
he sleeps or not. he had made the
Evening star., 1952-05-10
A Lone in May

Along this quiet bytDay May has passed
And left her signature upon the hours
With driftino fragrance OF siDeet lilac
bloom,
JeWeled Dith rdindrop diamonds after
showers.
Upon this pathway May has plainly
traced :
Again her ancient green and gold
design,
Nothing ,oith sun and shadow leaf and
grass,
Fresl, loneliness of changing light and
line.
A lane IN May rings 1Oith cascddinD notes.
Birdsong at dusk that, rising. echoes
clear,
Filling the heart Dith peace as euentng
falls,
A tranquil. springtin,e benediction here.
Louise DcseN
Evening star., 1952-05-10
Made in China

Almost any week one may hear the
perpetually peeved Senator Taft wall
that Chang Kai-shek was sold down the
river because the administration was soft
toward Communism. The Macarthur
hearings brought out one fact crystal
clear: That the China tragedy was made
in China and not in the U. S. A.
The facts show that America was gen.
erous and sincere in her help to Nation
alist China. There is no reason to sus-
pect treachery in the fall of China. It
is very serious charge for a group of
Senators to lay at the door of America.
The American people have access to the
facts and they are also intelligent enough
to see through the political hatreds and
ambitions of few frustrated Senator's
Perhaps the real answer is to be found
in the honesty Of the late Senator
Arthur Vandenberg as he told his party's
plight to James Reston of the New York
Times: Il cannot be effective as medi-
Evening star., 1952-05-10
BY Charles E. TroceweN

legs fell into the right positions without
thought.
Now one discovers that the arms are
very much in the way.
Some one ought to start a school to
teach people how to handle their arms,
legs and hands, while asleep. The feet
will take care of themselves still
X
Templeton Jones wondered what a
modern hospital would think, if he
should present himself at the gate and
ask for help.
"You can't sleep?" said the brisk
inferno, being all brisk. Here is Sleep
ing pill
But I don't want sleeping pills." re-
piled Jones.
'They won't hurt you," soothed the
inferno. "You have built up bad habit
Of not sleeping. Now we must build up
habit of sleeping"
Jones sighed.
But, doctor" he protested, ut is not
that I don't sleep
But I thought"
II know you did. But. you see, the
matter is my arms. my legs, my neck
Your neck?"
Eyes. I can't get my neck comfortable
any way I put my head"
Z At this point Templeton Jones saw q
man in white coat coming toward him
with big knife.
Help. help!" he screamed
And ran right out Of his dream.
Evening star., 1952-05-10
The Strategic Arctic

For the first time in history a plane CAT
transport of the United States Air Force, has
landed and taken of at the geographic North
Pole-the literal top extremity of the earth's
axis. Since in the past other planes Gncluding
q Russian one back in 1887 have succeeded in
similar operations very close to the same point,
the USAF feat, though intrepid, is not really
sensational but simply the logical elimination of
years Of experimental Arctic flying It's chief
significance, as far as the general public is
concerned, is that it serves as a dramatic
reminder Of how aviation has converted this
bleak and distant region into an area of prime
strategic Importance
Militarily speaking, the remote Arctic was
viewed as being relatively inconsequential up
until the Second World War. Until then the
countries of the Northern Hemisphere-Canada,
the United States, Russia, etc.-had reason to
look upon it as vast waSteland not adaptable
to attack operations and hence region of dead
frontiers against which nobody had to worry
about establishing live defenses. BY 1945, how
ever, this picture had undergone such drastic
change that the late General Arnold, wartime
chief of our Army Air Forces, warned that the
North Pole area would probably be the strategic
center OF any new global conflict-one OF the
earths most vital crossroads, an inviting short
cut for aerial assault and commensurate on the
cities of America Europe and Asia.
This new Arctic significance, of course Is
attributable to the advent of giant long-range
bombers like our American B-36. It is attrib-
utable, too, to the actual and potential develop
ment of guided missiles and rockets-weapons
that will be capable eventually, If they are not
capable now, of flying over very great distances
with fantastic speed and accuracy to unload
atomic devastation (and conceivably even hydro
gen bombs) on picked target Cities If there is
third world war in the next five years or so,
the United States as well as its enemies will
have to reckon with this most seriously For
the menace will not be sided It will be a
two-way proposition. and the paths of give-and-
take delivery will almost certainly include the
North Pole area. After all, as the maps show,
that is the shortest way by airs
Against this background it is obvious that
the Air Force, in landing and taking of plane
at the geographic North Pole, has not been
interested merely in establishing first" for the
history books or in carrying out daring stunt
designed to win favorable publicity. The feat
is part of the systematic program of military
experimentation that our country, in concert
with Canada, has been undertaking in an effort
to bring its defensive and offensive capabilities
into line with the Arctics highly important new
position in globa strategy. AS long as the threat
Of war exists, this kind of preparedness at the
top of the world must be as thorough and as
g imaginative as possible.