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CHAPLIN IS HELD FATHER OF BABY to? ANGELES. April 17—*— Charlie Chaplin was adjudged to r\h, father of Joan Berry’s bal*y bv a jury in superior court today. 'Th/iury of 11 women and one man brought in the verdict at 5:20 eastern war time, after de aerating the bitterly contested case for two hours and 55 minutes. The courtroom was only one th:rd filled when the verdict cli max of tiic second hearing in the su;t, was read. I ast January the first case end H in a mistrial when the jury was Enable to decide whether the co median was the father of the baby, ,i8 months old. Carol Ann. _ Women jurors in the first trial mere in Ihe majority in sympathy **th Chaplain’s denial that he was the father of the child. There was a light burst of ap riause a-1 the verdict was announc ed The vote, as disclosed by a taken bv the court, was 11 to ? e!erstag the 7-5 verdict in CHap L's favor in the first trial. A vote ' 9 ,0 .) would have been suffici ent to deride the civil case. The long dissenting juror in to day’s vole was Mrs. Mary H. James. Mrs. James, 65, housewife, said: 1 came into court thinking I was going to uphold American wo manhood. but while sitting here I changed my mind. I was ready to support the woman and the child but after listening to the evidence, I couldn't.” Mrs. James, native of Wales, ad ded: "I'm not upholding Mr. Chap plain at all—I want that undei stood, only I didn’t think he was the father of the child.” She said she was not particular ly impressed by blood tests which physicians testified ruled Chaplin out as the father. Asked if defense evidence about other men in Joan’s life influenced her, she said, ‘‘Well, yes." Miss Berry heard the news $t home. Stir said: "Naturally I am very thrilled and happy. That’s about all 1 can say right now.” Asked what amount of money might be sought for the baby’s sup port, she replied quickly: “Oh. we haven't even thought of that. I haven't the slightest idea.” Charles E. Millikan, attorney for Chaplin, said: “The ve-dict of the jury doesn’t make Chaplin the father of the child.” Asked if he would appeal the decision, Millikan said: “X don’t know.” TRUMAN APPOINTS U. S. LOAN CHIEF (Continued from Page One) Senator Wagner (D-NY), chair man ol the Banking Committee which will consider the nomina tion probably next Tuesday, told reporters he became acquainted with Snyuer when he was an of iicial of (he DPC and considers him "a very able administrator.” "The President has selected him and 1 snould think the committee will report his nomination favor ably to the Senate.” Wagner said. Senator Briggs (D-Mo) said: “'John Snyder is 100 per cent.” Appearing highly pleased with the appointments lie said he had knpwn Snyder 10 or 12 years and con siders him admirably suited to the job. Chairman Georgd (D-Ga) of the Senate Finance Committee told re porters Snyder has ‘‘good business experience and is well qualified for the joo.” George commented that Snyder represents ‘‘a conser vatively liberal” viewpoint. [ O'd^arV /perma-moth\ 1 PROTECTS I \fOR THE UPC OF) \TRE FABRIC/ •From now on get lasting moth j protection. . . . I When properly applied, one application of O-CedarPerma Moth protects for the life of the fabric. Does not wear or brush I off; is not af fected by dry j cleaning. Odor I Jess... stainless | • non-inflam mable. #* Because mothproofing hv s 11 “"reliable, the u '“ar guarantee applies °'ey 'f Perma-Moth is ap ’ponging (sponge or doth) or dipping. ALUS0N-ERW1N C O. -<>!> I,. Kiln, street har,0“‘ I. North Carolina 0(ed ERMA-MOTH 0-Cedar Spring j Ll^wlMninB SALE, April 9 to 21 Roosemlt Was Dominant Figure In 1920 Politics (Third Article of a Series) BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Press Staff Writer Who Knew Mr. Roosevelt for 30 Years) WASHINGTON, April 16 —(F_ Rambling back through 30 years of memories of Franklin Roosevelt, I have come to the fateful year 1920. I saw then my first national par ty conventions, at Chicago and San, Franc,sco. I- witnessed the nomi nation of Warren Harding, and at San Francisco, my own home town, I saw Franklin Roosevelt emerge as a national political figure and Vice Presidential nominee. I think almost everybody at San Francisco, including Franklin Roosevelt, knew that the Presiden tial ticket to be named there was doomed to defeat. But that took nothing from Franklin Roosevelt’s delight not alone in his own pro motion to second place rank on the party’s national slate, but in the business of ticket and platform ma king. A demonstration for President Wilson was in order that day in San Francisco. It had been nicely stage-managed. A huge likeness of the President unrolled behind the platform at the right moment, and the convention hall organ and a big brass band moved the whole company into the jammed aisles w.th their state standards. One by one they went wavering and jostling around the room, but the New York standard stood fast. Some New York delegates, in cluding big, young Franklin Roose velt, were ardent Wilson men. Oth ers were not. But what actually was happening out on the roaring convention floor was the birth of the A1 Smith-for-President boom. There was struggling and jostling around that New York state stan dard. As I popped my head up through a platform hatch that led to the press work rooms below, I saw a s;ght that has always re mained with me. TT' „' T-»_u , . , ■ * . iVVUSSVCllp, Alio iflLC wreathed in glowing smiles, went charging into the group of New Yorkers, bowled them over, ripped that standard from its floor socket. With three or four lesser and pro testing delegation fellows clinging to his arms, be went out into the aisle to join the parade. The con vention din rose to a shrill, steel> sound. Years later I chatted with Frank lin Roosevelt about what actually happened. He told me, chuckling, that his own share in it was more or less pre-arranged. It had to do with the fact that the Smith ardents from New York even then were counting heavily on him in the long struggle ahead to get their man nominated. It would take too long to tell about that now, out I intend to devote the next article in this series to it. When Franklin Roosevelt was niminated for Vice President, he was not present. With rare excep tions, no Presidential or Vice Pres idential nominee is ever in the hall when a convention picks him. Mr. Roosevelt was at his hotel downtown. My AP chief told me to find him and get a statement even before the vote count was completed. What he had to say for publica tion is lost to memory now, but off the record he told me his cam paign plans. They included myself if the AP would lend me to him. That was the birth of the cuff links club, which was to celebrate all but one of his birthdays with him after 1921, when he was strick en with crippling infantile paraly sis. The only exception was the January he was at Casablanca, in French Africa, to proclaim the “un conditional Surrender” terms against Germany and Japan. The other men Lewie Howe and “The Boss” planned to draft from (he Washington news front for the 1920 campaign were Steve Early, not yet back with the AP after his war service, and Marvin McIntyre, who had come into the Roosevelt fold as a cog in the wartime Navy news bureau. The AP had other work in mind for me just then, and Franklin After paralysis had struck him down, he called the staff of his unsuccessful campaign to him. I was called in too. To each of his staff he presented a pair of cuff links engraved with his and them own initials. Thus I was granted full membership in that unique in ner Roosevelt group that was to get into print soon thereafter at least once a year at Albany or in Washington. In addition to us three Washing ton news hounds, the Cuff-Links Club included several others. Tom Lynch, old Democratic war-horse of New York politics and arxent friend of Franklin Roosevelt, was one. He was first of the circle to die, holding a high Federal post in New York City by Roosevelt ap pointment. Stan Prenosil, the AP man who covered the 1920 Roosevelt cam paign, was another. There also was Charles McCarthy, Washing ton lawyer now but of the Roose velt office staff in Navy Depart ment days. Young Sullivan ‘Sul ly to us—who did messenger duty on the campaign trip and whose : steak-eating capacity and wide mouthed Irish grin made him a delight then and since, came back into the group in good time. That, with Louie Howe, made up the masculine membership. Mrs. Roosevelt was not only a charter member but the moving j spirit of Cuff-L nk rallies always ! Marguerite “Missy” L e h a n d, ! Franklin Roosevelt’s long time i nersonal secretary, was another. ; She, like Howe, McIntyre and | Franklin Roosevelt himself died in I harness. i Miss Nancy Cook and Miss Mar ion Dickerman, many years close friends of Mrs. Roosevelt, were in the original group, and at inter vals others were formally added, like Marguerite Durand, Howe’s efficient secretary. She too is dead now. Grace Tully, Franklin Roose velt’s last personal secretary, who came with him from Albany to Washington, was another initiate, and his daughter Anna. I think that calls the actual Cuff-Links Club roll. Before the 1928 campaign, the Cuff-Linkers usually fore-gathered with “The Boss” on his birthday at his New York City home or in a Washington hotel. The Washington meetings were strictly stag parties, riotous with laughter and exchange of political gossip. They lasted far into the night, with a bit of card table d/ version to help them along, but they had not a great deal of signi ficance. They were just part of Franklin Roosevelt as I knew him. I will cite only one incident as having more meaning. “The Boss” was determinedly trying to get back his power to walk. His “Dutch was up,” as Howe would have put it. He was going to' walk again, somehow, anyhow, without crutches. We decided to give him a cane, engraved with all our signatures, as a token that we too expected him to walk again. When we pre sented it in a hotel room in Wash ington his eyes were moist. All evening he sat with the cane cuddled against his shoulder. He would reach up to pat its crook now and then, and we knew he was saying to himself: “You’ll walk again, Frank Roosevelt; YOU SHALL WALK AGAIN.” (Tomorrow: 1928 and Albany) ———V PATTON REPORTED ACROSS GERMANY (Continued from Page One) fantry now was three-fourths sur rounded and falling a block at a time despite fanatical German re sistance. Third Army troops opened an assault on Chemnitz, city of 334, 000 after the Germans rejected a demand for its surrender.. The Americans were two miles away on the west and and undisclosed distance on the north. A late front dispatch said that Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s 90th Infantry Division, which with the 26th Infantry is driving toward Czechoslovakia on a 15-mile front, had pushed eastward two miles during the day to within four miles of completing its stab across the waist of Germany. The German garrison of Chem nitz beleaguered fortress city 38 miles west of Dresden, rejected a Third Army ultimatum to sur render and was being stormed from less than two miles away. Troops of the First and Ninth Armies linked up at Bernburg, a short distance from the Elbe some 27 miles due south of Magdeburg. The Ninth Army’s bridgehead across the Elbe at Barby, southeast of Magdeburg, remained intact. German forces who had been by passed by the Ninth Army north of Magdeburg made an attempt to break through and escape up the Elbe to the north, but were turn ed back after overrunning an Am erican anti-aircraft position. On the north, tanks of the Bri tish Second Army broke loose for a 13-mle gan south of Hamburg through weakening Nazi resistance. It appeared that a general sweep to the Elbe by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s forces was not far away. Schnewerdinrsn, 25 miles from the Elbe on the ap proaches to Hamburg, was captur ed by Montgomery's Seventh Ar mored Division, which pushed on to within 15 miles of the Elbe. The British took 5,030 prisoners Monday, bringing their total since the Rhine crossing to 70,000. Mont gomery’s 11th Armored Division reached a point 10 miles due’ south of Luneburg, the last big town on the British right flank. The Nazi garrison of besieged Bremen still was fighting stubbornly. -V City Briefs P.-T. A. MEETING The Parent-Teachers Asso ciation of Bradley Creek will meet at 2:45 p.m. Thursday at the school. Miss Virginia Ward, assisted by Miss Olivia Pres son and Mrs. Paul Werner will speak on home problems. The executive committee will meet at 2:30 p.m. WHEAT EXHAUSTED There will be no sale of wheat at the Wrlghtsboro station this week and none in the future un til announcement is made, R. W. Galphin said yesterday. DANCE SCHEDULED A dance sponsored by the City Recreation Department will be held at Camp Davis at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, it was an nounced last night by Mrs. Ethel Powers, chairman of the dance committee. COMING HOME Staff Sergeant William P. Holmes, Jr., a prisoner of war liberated from German camps by the Allied advance, now is at Fort Bragg under processing before starting furloughs- at his home here, it was learned last night. TRUMAN READY FOR BIG FIVE (Continued from Page One) President remarked, “I’ve got sc much work to do _ I don t know which way to turn.” His first news conference as chief executive was a whirlwind, 11-minute affair which set a lec ord for attendance-348 reporters and 50 visitors. He joked with reporters as they came into the oval room where Mr. Roosevelt had held so many of his 998 interviews with press and radio. He joshed that his time for start ing work today, after strolling from the Blair House across the street, was a little late for him and that the reporters hadn t seen anything yet. He fired back his answers as one would expect from an ex-artil lery officer and made known his attitude toward the curfew, the brownout, Bretton Woods and a host of other subjects, foreign and domestic. „ . , „ He said he expects Soviet For eign Minister Molotov to call on him en route to the San I rancisco conference. While the Presided will not go to San Francisco he will have a message of welcome. He will back the U. S. delegation from his desk where, he said, he belongs. The Roosevelt cabinet, he reiter ated, has been asked to remain. This was to set at rest speculation about changes. James F. Byrnes, former war mobilizer, has returned to South Carolina, the President said, and his advice will be sought when needed. But there are no plans for him now in the administration setup. , , Gone from tne r-resiaem. » were the scores of gadgets Mr. Roosevelt loved, replaced by sev eral ash trays and a few pencils. Attending the conference, though, were Stephen Early, the late lead er’s press secretary; Admiral of the Fleet William J3. Leahy, his personal chief of staff; William D. Hassett and Jonathan Daniels, oth er Roosevelt secretaries. Mr. Tru man said he had asked them to stay -on while his own staff is be ing trained. He announced appointment of Matthew J. Connelly, of Clinton, Mass., as his confidential secre tary, and Leonard Reinsch his press secretary, as his radio ad viser. On one subject he refused to be drawn out—the controversy over David Lilienthal, head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, whc has been bitterly opposed by Sena tor McKellar (D-Tenn). Asked first if he favored the public power project ideas of his predecessor, Mr. Truman said he would wher ever practical. Then a questioner wanted to know if he would reap point Lilienthal and the President said he wasn’t discussing appoint ments today. At another point, a reporter ask ed how he felt about the Fair Employment Practices Committee and other anti-discrimination measures for Negroes. To that, Mr. Truman said he had some ad vice—to read the Senate record oi one Harry S. Truman. NEWSMEN ACCLAIM TRUMAN'S PARLEY (Continued from Page One) Truman hushed the front-row questioners, invited the downtrod den fellow far back to take the floor. At the end, there was a spon staneous burst of hand-clapping. It was a gesture of goodwill and, frankly, of actual relief in the case of some particularly close to Mr. Truman and eager to see him acquit himself well. The President announced that he’ll hoi I only one conference a week, at least for a while, instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s two They’ll on held in the morning one week, and in the afternoon the next, and he’ll select the day ac cording to how much he has to He will receive no complaints about this cut-down schedule if it doesn’t threaten to become fixed practice. For the moment there is little disposition among White House reporters to object — while Mr, Truman is getting under way. Tire President was dressed in blue suit, blue tie and pocket handkerchief. Except for some ash trays and a few pencils his desk was clear. This was in con trast to ihe intriguing litter of mementoes that had accumulated on Mr. Roosevelt’s desk. At the start, he read a memor andum o’- two, including long standing Presidential news confer ence rules. “Off the record re marks must not be divulged. “Background” material may be published but not attributed to the President. No quotation remarks around any of his words unless specifically authorized. Then, after half a dozen an nouncements, Mr. Truman braced himself and announced he was open for questions—adding that if he didn’t always know the an swers he'd say so and try to make good at a later meeting. There were 348 at the confer ence. This contrasts with 249—the record Roosevelt high—who turn ed out for a joint Roosevelt Churchill conference after Pearl Harbor. Many of them lagged behind af ter the conference to say, “Thank you. Mr. President.” They gath ered about the Presidential desk for an impromptu reception and handshaking. Only time could answer how he’d do on the long haul. There was no disagreement that Presi dent Truman had gotten himself off to a good start. Gen. Reybold, Former Resident, Is Promoted ' ■ ■ — — - — ^Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold, chief of Engineers, U. S. Army, and for mer District Engineer at Wilming ton, was nominated yesterday by President Truman for promotion to lieutenant general on a list that called for tne advancement to full generals of I,t. Generals George Smith Patton, Jr., and Courtney Hicks Hodges, accord ng to an As sociated press dispatch from Wash ington. Gen. Reybold was District En gineer in this area from Septem ber, 1933, to May, 1935. While here he was very much interested in the improvement of rivers and h-.r bois in eastern North Carolina The dredging of the inland waterway from the Cape Fear river to Win yab Bay, S. C., was carried on during his stay, to provide a 12 foot waterway The construe.toil of the third lock and dam on the up per Cape Fear River at To’ar’s' Landing and the raising and re pairing of Lock and Dam No. 1 at Kings Bluff was completed. In ad dition, maintenance dredging and snagging operations were prosecut ed, in 21 other rivers, harbors and waterways. It was Reybold who first recom mended h deeper channel across Beaufort Bar to the terminals at Morehead City; This resulted in the approval of a 30-foot channel to this port thus giving North Caro lina two seaports capable cf ac commodating large sea going ves sels. The 30 foot chat nel was com pleted in 1936. Born February 13, 1884, in Del aware City, Delaware, Regbold spent his boyhood days near the banks of the old Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. Afler graduating from the public schools of his home town, he entered the engi neering course of the University of Delaware. Eiefore obtaining his B. C. E. degree in 1903, he was rated an outstanding and widely liked member of his class. Young Reybold spent his college summers working for the U. S. District Engineer’s office in Wil mington and Philadelphia. Joining the U. S. Engineer’s Department after graduation, one of the first projects on which he worked was the reduction of the Chesapeake and Delaware to a sea level canal. i Another early project was the con struction of harbor facilities at Cape May, New Jersey. In 1908 Reybold entered the Army as a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps, and from 1910 to 1913 served in the Philip pine Islands where he was a Con structing Quartermaster and Aide to the commanding general. From 1913 to 1915, he was assign ed to the coast defenses of Boston Harbor. For his World War 1 rec ord as director of the department of enlisted specialists at Fort Mon roe, Va., he was awarded the Dis tinguished Service Medal. In 1923 he was graduated from the Com mand and General Staff School, and for three years after wa$ an instructor. In 1926 Col. Reybold was trans ferred to the Corps of Engineets. After graduation from the Army War College in 1927 he became as sistant to the District Engineer, later District Engineer, in the Buf falo office. Following duty in Wash ington and Wilrfiington he was ap pointed District Engineer in Mem phis. In 1937 for the first time in history, the Army Eng.neers made the Mississippi flood stay away from the Mississippi Valley. From 1937 to 1940, as Division Engineer at Little Rock, Arkansas, he help ed set up a great flood control plan. In 1940, Col. Reybold was chosen by Chief of Staff General Mar shall to run the supply section oi the General Staff. Gen. Reybold is a member of the National Capitol Park and Planning Commission, the Board of Commissioners of the U. S. Soldiers Home, the Army and Navy Club, and the Columbia County Club in Chevy Chase. His appointment as Chief of En gineers broke a precedent in that he was the first man hot a gradu ate of West Point to hold that of fice. President Truman also sent the Senate the nominations of eight major generals to be lieutenant generals. They are Joseph L. Collins, Os car W. Griswold, Lucius D. Clay, Geoffrey Keys, Edmund B. Greg gory, Walton Harris Walker, Levin H. Campbell and Wade H. Haislip. STEAM ENGINEERS WIN The Shipyard Steam Engineer earn won its first game of the season jn the Municiple Softball ueague last night as it defeated. :he Prisoner of War Guards, 3-2. With the game tied at 2-2, going into the last half of the seventh, the POWG's last hope was cut Short when Joyner doubled, and scored on Young's wild throw to first in an attempt to out Reilly, who had bunted. 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