STATE MAY QUERY ECTC HEAD TODAY GREENVILLE, July 2.—UFI—Af ter being in special recess today, the second trial of Dr. Leon R. j Meadows, former president of East Carolina Teachers College, will enter its fifth week tomorrow when direct examination of the defendant by his own attorneys will continue. Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, the presiding jurist, recessed the spe cial term when court was convened this morning in respect to J. Frank Harrington, Pitt County Superior Court clerk for 27 years, who diet yesterday. Harrington, 72, died after sever al days illness. Funeral services were held at 4 p. m., today. His successor will be appointed by Judge Frizzelle. Dr. Meadows, who is charged with the alleged misappropriation of more than $14,000 in special col lege and student funds while presi dent of the college, is expected to be turned over to the State late tomorrow for cross examination. The defendant’s testimony taken during most of last week followed much the same pattern as in the first trial of the case last spring, when a jury failed to agree and a mistrial was ordered after eight weeks of legal battling. The former educator, who re tired at his own request after his board of trustees had exonerated him of similar charges- carried in a State Auditor’s report, on which the State’s case is based, has steadfastly maintain that he was guilty of no misappropriation of funds while serving as ECTC president. He has testified that he even advanced some of his own funds to the college to effect badly needed repairs, and had not been reimbursed for some of the funds he advanced. Court officials now are predic ting the trial will continue for an other four weeks. -V MODERN ‘MAttlC lilftrM CHICAGO. July 2.—ttJ.Ri—Sayed Hafidh Al-Kadi, Sheik of ancient Eagdad, explained while visiting Chicago that his modern “Magic Carpet” has four motors and is capable of flying several hundred miles an hour. -V DONATE WATCHES TO BLIND CHICAGO, July 2.—OJ.PJ—Women workers of the Elgin National Watch Co., have presented $2,000 to the American Foundation for the Blind for the purchase of Braille w'atches for 250 blind veterans ot World War II. TRUMAN SPENDS DAY VISITING IN KANSAS CITY CALLING ON OLD FRIENDS in near by Kansas City, Mo., President Harry S. Truman puts in a restful vacation day. Pieceiving a lei (top, left) from Tommy Bowles, 5, he holds a flower for the lad to smell. At a haberdashery shop (top, right) he talks over old times with his former business associate Edward Jacobson. And (bottom) he feasts with former school chums at an old-fashioned picnic, after receiv ing an honorary degree as Doctor of Laws in 56th anniversary ceremon ies at School of Laws, University of Kansas City. (International) Businessmen Approve New Development Plans A five-point plan approved by business and o her groups of the community for the future industrial development of Wilmington and nearby areas was announced yes terday by C. M. Harrington, presi dent of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. Provisions for financing new plant facilities, training labor and pro viding housing, schools and recrea tional facilities for workers are in cluded in the program. The five points are as follows: T.—A group of citizens, Wilming ton Association, have underwrit ten a fund of $300,000.00 to provide additional working capital for es tablishing manufacturing com panies, which have a backgrouni of successful operation. 2. —A company known as Indus trial Properties, Inc., has been established by interested parties to provide for the construction oj factory buildings to be leased to prospective industries. 3. —The New Hanover county school system has a well diversi fied vocational training orogram for youth and adult, and during the last five years has trained ever 12,000 for various types of industries, and is prepared to en large this program so as to take care of new industries which con template locating in Wilmington and New Hanover county. 4. —Working in close cooperation with the Wilmington Housing Au thority, the community is prepared to offer interested parties the ad vantages of an ideal industrial de velopment. providing permanent low-cost housing, modern schools, nurseries, parks and supervised recreational facilities for white and colored, situated in the newly sel ected industrial areas, a develop ment which has been declared by experts to be one of the outstand ing locations of its kind in the country. 5. —That local agencies including ibe city and county governments have agreed to cooperate to the highest degree in providing facili ties for these industries. Mr. Harrington said that the plan has won wide appioval and many out-of-state concerns were expressing interest in the proposal. Several companies have already arranged to locate plants in Wil mington during the post-war period, he added. WITH THE AEF: One Hitlerism Recoils BY KENNETH L. DIXON IN GERMANY, June 24.- Itfi—De-j ! layed)—Iff)—One word which Hitler used almost as often as “Heil” has backfired more than any other as American doughboys find time to look over this country they helped conquer. That word is '‘Lebenstraum”— living space. ‘ The Americans — almost to a man—say he lied about needing it. After riding around the country side in the heart of the Reichland j you understand why they sajt so. "Lebenstraum!” snorted n New York-born jeep driver yesterday as j we drove northward between; Brunswick and Bremen. Hour after : hour we rolled through rich fertile ■ farmland, across green well-tilled valleys where grain waved in the breeze. Almost four hours farther south ward we had driven through beau tifully kept forests — forests vvh:ch felt none of the brunt of the fight ing. For miles there were hardly a score of houses. “Living space they wanted yet,” the driver repeated. “Look at this. They should have been born in Hell’s Kitchen.” Up here in northern Germany they’re already harvesting some grain and hay is being stacked. Although much of the grain is cut by hand as a concession to conver sion of farm machinery factories into war plants, still here and there you see a modern mower or a binder. Many an American boys gets more homesick than ever after a look at the fields dotted with neat shocks of wheat or rye. They see plows turning the soil between the rows, not even waiting until the grain is threshed. As they roar down country roads in jeeps they must slow down for hay carts and wagons. They see German boys and girls bringing cows in on wide rolling pastures in the evening, or else milking them out there in the open fields. Later they see the milk being hauled to market. Nowhere do they notice any of that lack of’living space that Hitler kept howling about. -V bame, rishenes Chief Okehed By State Body RALEIGH, July 2 —(A>)— The Game and Inland Fisheries Com mittee of the State Board of Con servation and Development today unanimously confirmed the ap pointment of John D. Findlay as head of the Game and Fisheries after Findlay had notified the com mittee of his acceptance. Findlay’s first act in office was to appoint Co. H. W. Shawhan, a native of West Virginia, as his assistant and recommended that he be paid $4,600 a year. R. Brpce Theridge, director of the Depart ment of Conservation and Develop ment, approved the appointment. Col. Shawhan. who was recent ly discharged from the Army after two years of service, was assistant director of the Game and Inland Fisheries Division in est Virginia for eight years prior to entering the armed forces. He is a profes sional forester and a graduate of the Biltmore School of Forestry. Findlay was appointed director of the division to succeed Hinton James, who resigned at the firs meeting of the board last mont . Findlay resigned as assistant com missioner in May to become dir tor of Lake Mattemuskeet for me U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The full board laid Plan® at three-day meeting July * ' . . Morehead City, and Etheridge sa d the first day of the meeting would be devoted to commercial fi hearings. t * Nine Prisoners Freed On Order Of Governor RALEIGH, July 2 —GP)— Nine prisoners, including two serving sentences for second degree mur der, were paroled today by Gov ernor Cherry. Those freed: Sam Hudson, sentenced in Bertie County in May 1942 to from seven to ten years for second degree murder; James (Boy) Harper, sen tenced in Pitt County in January 1942 to from ten to 12 years for second degree murder; Herman Barbour, sentenced in Harnett County in January 1943 to 12 months for violating the prohibition law; Andrew Brinson, sentenced in Durham County in May of this year to eight months for larceny; Robert Jones, sentenced in Robe son County in April 1944 to tlrf'ee years for breaking, entering and larceny; Chester Manring, sen tenced in Forsyth County in De cember, 1944, to 18 months for larceny from the person; George Worthy, sentenced in Burke Coun ty last February to 12 months for larceny; Norman Walters, sentenc ed in Watauga County in April 1943 to four years for forcible tres pass and larceny; and Elijah Wil liams, sentenced in Vance County in October 1943 to from five to eight years for assault with a deadly weapon. DAVIS APPR( ES “FRINGE” WAGES WASHINGTON, July 2.—(U.P.) Economic Stabilization Directo: William H. Davis tonight approve! ‘fringe” wage agreements betweei five big meat packing companie, and 70,000 packinghouse workers The wage adjustments, previous ly approved by the War Labo Board, are effective immediately Companies involved are Armou and Co., Cudahy Packing Co. John Morrell and Co., Swift am Co., and Wilson and Co. Employe are represented by the Amalgamat ed Meat Cutters (AFL), the Unite* Packing House Workers, (CIO) and the International Brotherhoo of Packinghouse Workers, (IND. In a letter notifying the boar of his approval, Davis made i clear that he had acted only o wage aspects of the cases and ha made no determination as t whether price relief would b necessary. He said the Office of Price Ac ministration had reported to hin that “it is difficult to estimate m advance of operating experience the actual increase in costs re suiting from wage awards of th kind approved in these cases.” H said, however, that “on an over all basis the large packers ma; be able to absorb the wage in creases without any increase ii prices or subsidies.” ---V Lower Air Travel Rates Seen By Airline Chiei WASHINGTON, July 2. (JP) S j Solomon, president of Atlantic Airlines, Inc., said today “da; coach” air travels, with rate within reach of the average Ameri can traveler, will become a reality linking New England with th Deep South, if an application h< filed is approved by the civi aeronautics board. Solomon, who resigned as chair man of the board of Northeast Air lines, said he plans to have th< organized Atlantic Air Lines pro vide frequent air transportatior at low cost over routes betweei Providence, R. I., and N e v Orleans, covering 14 states. “Postwar air travel must n< longer be limited solely to th< wealthy and big business,” Solo mon said. J ! 1 Visit Our Store For [ ' J Quality J J ■ > JEWELRY and GIFTS ;; B. GURU, Jeweler;; i i 264 N. Front St. ■ > it it FARRAR | TRANSFER A STORAGE 1 WAREHOUSE J DIAL 5317 f MILL & CONTRACTORS SUPPLY CO. Deming Pumps Mill Supplies — Machinery Contractors Equipment 121-3 Water St- Phone 7757 Don’t let stifling summer he; sap your strength. Reynolds Cotton Insulation in your attic .gives your whole house tree shade coolness.” Get oucesti mate today!. REYNOLDS PROCESS COTTON INSULATION Hanover Iron Works HORACE T. KING 111 No. Water St. Dial 2-325 I "D'LUGIN'S I are TOPS II in WORK I CLOTHES TOT 0 Scientists Lay Plans To Study Solar Eclipse NEW YORK. July 2— UP) —Next . week’s total eclipse of the sun, one of nature’s grandest spectacles to laymen, will climax months of hard work and journeys of thous ands of miles for astronomical sci entists. Solar eclipses are serious busi ness to science, providing a chance that comes only once every decade or so to gain further information on the many mysteries of the uni* verse. If weather conditions are right, July 9, the long preparations and . ,ie>s o’ t. ” v expafli- j tions—two American and one Ca-, nadian—will be well worth the ef fort. They will set up delicate in struments at remote points in Northern Montana and Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Western Can ada in the hope of gaining new and important information on sun spots, radio reception and photo graphic data on the "flash spec trum,” the shell of glowing gases around the sun visible only at total eclipse. The July 9 eclipse will be the first total solar blackout visible in j the U. S. since 1932 and there won’t be another total phase until June 30, 1954. j The belt of totality in the onued j States, some 35 miles wide, begins about 10 miles southeast of Cas- ( cade, Idaho, where the sun will rcn : i- i m. (Mountain War Time). From there the moon’s shadow will streak northeastward at a mile a second . clip, five miles south of Butte, j Mont., into northeast Montana, into j Canada and over Russia where the eclipse will end at sundown. Although the eclipse in all itsj phases will last about two hours .w a. t‘1 P ' i tion of totality in America will be only about a half minute, varying from 26 seconds in Butte to 34 j seconds in Saskatchewan and 76 seconds in Greenland. First in line along the belt of totality will be a party of astron omers from Princeton University, led by Prof. John Q. Stewart, as ' sociate professor of astronomical ! physics. The Princeton group, which will include Dr. James Stoic ley of Schenectady, N. Y., Genera] I Electric Co., scientist, and Dr. and Mrs. Ira M. Freeman, plans to observe the eclipse from a point on the center line about 15 miles south of Malta in northern Mon tana. This party, with the aid of lay men observers in Idaho and Mon tana, plans to concentrate on ob servations of the moon’s shadow in the sky and general illumination | during totality, which Prof. Stew art said had been made only in frequently in the past because as tromomers had centered on the chromosphert and corona. Another American expedition, sponsored by the Philadelphia Bul ! letin, and headed by Dr. Roy K. [Marshall, director of the Fels i planetarium at Franklin Institute, ! will set up headquarters at the little Saskatchewan town of Wolse ley, about 60 miles east of Regina. Included in this party, which will fly from Philadelphia, will be Dr. Richard M. Sutton, professor of physics at Haverford College and Dr. Orrne Mohler of the University of Michigan. This group, equipped with a bat tery of cameras ranging from a 40-footer with a five-inch lens to an automatic motion picture cam era set to make exposures every four seconds, will photograph every phase ol the spectacle for i thorough study later. The scien tists plan a four-day rehearsal on the spot to insure that there will be no slip-ups during the 34-second period of totality. ; Still another group, headed by G. E. Leseur ol the Dominion ob servatorzetadf and A. G. Camron, an astrological student from Winni i peg, will set up an observation ; p0c- a- • -role C-mrchill. Manitoba. ; In addition to photographing the . eclipse in all phases, the expedi tions plan intricate tests to deter \ mine what affect the crossing of > the moon before the sun has on i . the earth’s magnetic neia ana uu radio reception, the range of which increases after sunset. Scientists attempting to discover just what effect the, sun nas on radio waves believe experiments made w.nle the sun is eclipsed during daylight hours may provide some of the answers. Besides the American viewers, a number of other expeditions have been organized in northern Europe and in Russia Althougn me eclipse will be total only in some sections of Idaho and Montana in the Uniteu States, it will be partial in almost all sec tions of the country. Albert W. Recnt, director of Denver Univer sity's Chamberlin Observatory, says the eclipse may be viewed in New YorK, beginning at 7:07 a.m. (E.W.T.'; Chicago, 6:08 a.m. (C.W.T); New Orleans, 6:06 a.m. (C.W.T.), Butte, 5:50 am. (N.WT) Denver, 5:40 am. (M.W.T.) and San Francisco, at sunrise. -V Postal Receipts Drop Down With Population Wilmington postoffice receipts for June totaled $35,094.75, as against $37,935.64 for May, it was revealed yesterday by officials. Receipts for the second quarter, April 1 to June 30, totaled $107, 473.07 this year, compared to $129, 110.01 for the same quarter of last year. The reason given by of ficials for the decrease in receipts was the decline in population. Sale of the three cent denor ; nation Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial stamps, received Satur day, was reported large yesterday, at the postoffice, and it was stated that the one cent Franklin Roose velt stamps were ordered last week, and are expected sometime this month. Franklin Roosevelt stamps of two and possibly five 'cent denominations, will be plac ed on sale sometime in the fu ture. --—■V Jury Exonerates Su)eeper_Operator “Unavoidable accident” was the finding of coroner’s inquest Sun day into the death of Walter James Backus, two-year old Negro boy, who was injured when struck by a city street sweeper Saturday morn ing. C. V. Garrett, of 6 Wooster street, operator of the sweeper, was exonerated from blame for the accident, Coroner Asa W. Allen reported. The Negro boy died Saturday right. He was riding in a push cart being pushed by two friends at the time of the accident, his companions escaping injury. -—V— Macon County Official | Dies At Raleigh Hotel! RALEIGH, July 2 Gusj Leach, 75, chairman of the Macon j County Board of Commissioners ( jied of a heart attack in his room j at the Sir Walter Hotel here to day, Coroner Roy M. Banks re ported. “'Banks said Leach had attended a hearing before the State Board of Tax Assessments earlier in the day but complained of being ill and returned with two friends to tiis hotel room. He became uncor I scious shortly after arriving thcr I and died before medical aid arriv I With Leach at the time of s, I death were R. S. Jones. Franiy, I Lawyer, and George H. Ward I Asheville lawyer. , The Navy has in service s; I designed to take can. o! battle I age, heavy repairs to ships' I repairs to internal combustion fr' I gines. landing craft, airplanes in" I also to do salvage work. ° " 1 BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS WANTED Experienced Landscape Foreman for permanent position. Reply in own handwrit ing giving age, experi „ ence, and salary expect ed to Box “RW”, Wil mington Star-News. rr ■ BOAT LOST From Wiigbtsville Beach, a twelve > foot out-board juniper motor boat 3 painted white, inside gray. Reward for informatiop leading to recovery. Dial 8. Ask for 88<>4-M. "ffi^EPAIRED LENSES REPLACED j [ cJlu (Qf)tl c / c)hnp I i NEW LOCATION 105 N. FRONT ST. MMBW—■■ WANTED TREE EXPERT 1 Experienced in trim ming, pruning and spraying s b r u b s and large trees. Permanent . | position. Reply in own handwriting giving age, experience, and salary expected. Box “RS” Wilmington Star-News THERE IS NO BETTER PLAN :. ' .. of home financing than the Carolina s Direct Reduction Loan. | It is safe, convenient, and practical. Get the facts before >ou | borrow — it pays! | Three ! The / Million Dollar • Carolina Bnildina and Loan £ss'n. 1 “Member Federal Home Loan Bank ’ W. A. FONVIELLE, Sec.-Treas. Roger Moore, Pres. W. D. Jones. Asst. Sec.-Treas. Murray G. James, V.-Pres. J. O. Carr, Atty. - --~ * (MURRAY TRANSFER COMPANY Local and Long Distance Movers CRATING — PACKING — SHIPPING H. R. GARDNER, Mgr. Dial 5462 214 No- Waiel St. NOTICE ! New Hanover ( oimlr Citizens * 4 Our County has made a splendid record in all of its War Activities—Ship building—War Bond Drives, and others, too numerous to mention, but which have contributed greatly to the war's success. # In Six War Loan drives New Hanover County has exceeded its "E" War Bond Quota. As of June 29fth "E" Bond sales in the Seventh War Loan amounted to $2,030,126.25, against a Quota of $2,478,000. We must therefore sell $447, 873.75 of "E" Bonds by July 7th in order to meet this Quota and keep New Hanover County's record unblemished. "E" Bonds pay 2.90 per cent interest if held to maturity (10 years from dale of issue) this being the highest rate obtainable today on Government Bonds. Each Owner may purchase during the calendar year $5,000 maturity, or $10,000 if there is a Co-Owner. A real challenge confronts us during the remainder of this week, and we are calling upon the citizens of this County to ayain respond as they have in [he past. Buy your limit of "E" Bonds at once. If you have purchased your limit, ask a friend to do likewise. The Norris Plan Bank The Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Company The Security Rational Bank The Wilmington Savings and Trust Company MEMBERS OF FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION. ;1 ' ^

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