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STORIES CONTINUED FR OM PAGE ONE _ r —. The Weather WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— W Weather Bureau report of tempera ture and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m. in the principal cotton growing areas and else where: _ . Station Hlrh Low Prec. WILMINGTON «* “ ?•” Asheville - 60 49 0.0. Atlanta-2'^ Birmingham -® *5 Boston - 29 9 0.4 Buffalo- 29 18 0.11 Burlington -21 « 0.23 Chattanooga -»— 50 49 0.3o Chicago - 30 23 0.04 Cincinnati-38 36 0.23 Cleveland - 33 25 0.23 Dallas ___ 63 37 0.00 Denver _ 57 20 0.00 Detroit __25 19 0.10 Duluth _ 20 5 0.00 El Paso_ 66 39 0.00 Forth Worth_ 60 39 0.00 Galveston ___ 60 58 0.12 Jacksonville —--71 61 0.05 Kansas City_ 47 21 0.00 Key West_ 82 72 0.00 Knoxville --- 53 47 0.51 Little Rock_ 57 37 0.00 Los Angeles_ 69 47 0.00 Louisville _—_—*— 41 35 0.31 Memphis - 52 39 0.12 Meridian _ 66 48 0.01 Miami -—-- 76 86 0.79 Minn.-St. Prul- 18 5 0.02 Mobile _ 69 59 0.07 Montgomery - 66 56 0.17 New Orleans- 64 62 0.04 New York - 37 28 0.00 Norfolk —--- 75 52 0.00 Philadelphia --— 70 32 0.03 Phoenix -——-— 77 38 0.00 Pittsburgh - 46 38 0.56 Portland. Me. - 21 14 0.62 Richmond —-- 74 52 0.80 St. Louis-- 37 27 0.00 San Antonio-- 64 50 0.00 Ssn Francisco —-— 60 53 0.03 Savannah - 70 61 0.00 Beattie -M £ Tampa _—— 71 65 0.00 Washington _ 71 57 0.04 MORE ABOUT FRANCO I FROM PAGE ONE “Caretaker” Government Hence, it was implied, the United Btates feel sthat the temporary or "caretaker” government which re places Franco, must be based on the most stable elements in Spain. It was intimated that such a regime even might have repre sentation of the Spanish army, the judiciary, and other elements— provided it also includes Spanish political exiles. The United States would want the interim government to agree to re lease political prisoners and permit free entry into Spain of political exiles. The State department later con firmed that a note had been sent “in regard to the situation in Spain,” but it declined details on grounds the two countries had not had time to reply. London dispatches reported that the United States proposed that Britain and France join it in de nouncing the Franco regime and “recommend” a caretaker govern ment to succeed it. MORE ABOUT LETTERS FROM PAGE ONE “I have a heart and I didn’t ever want anyone to die because of me. So that is why I always have been against war. I wish there was some way that war could be avoid ed and peace be everlasting in the world.” “Happy Future” Farrow wrote his mother, Mrs. Jessie Farrow: “Here’s wishing you, Marge and all the family and Lib a most happy future. Please 'carry cm for me. Don’t let this get you down. Just remember God will make everything right and I will see you all again hereafter. “I know this is going to hit you hard because I was the biggest thing in your life. You have given much, so much more to me than I have returned, but such is the Christian way. Let me say this— that you are, I realize now, the best mother in the world, that your every action was bent toward mak ing me happy, that you are and al ways will be a real angel. “So let me implore you to keep your chin up, like you wrote in your last letter that I always did. Be brave and strong for my sake. ’ In a postscript, Farrow asked her to "read Thanatopsis by Bryant If you want to know how I am tak ing this. My faith in God is com plete so I am unafraid.” MORE ABOUT CHILD FROM PAGE ONE “What say I then? That the idol ]g anything or that which is offeree in iacrifice to idols is anything." In Grave Danger Chief of Detectives Frank Little John said he feared the child wai in grave danger and that investi gation led him to believe Misi Johnson was a religious fanatic. Miss Johnson, who told Mrs Taylor she recently had been em ployed in the psychopathic wan of a Shreveport, La., hospital, wa: hired a week ago. She was regard, ed as a new member of the famil; and was paid $10 weekly in addi tion to her room and board. Described by Mrs. Taylor as i shy, timid but intelligent youn; girl, Miss Johnson was well re ceived by the children and seem ed to enjoy their company. Tuesday Miss Johnson took Httl Terry and her sister, Tonda, 6. fo a walk. Tonda said Miss Johnso told her to stand in a certain plac while she took Terry to a drug store to buy some candy. Tond waited two hours, and when Mif Johnson failed to return she wer home. Ticket To Danville Chief of Detective* Littlejoh said Miss Johnson bought a bu ticket to Danville, Va., for th child and a ticket to Richmon Va., for herself. A bug driver *ai j he had taken the two as far as Winston-Salem, where they were to change buses. Police believe the “DA” and “R” : written in the Bible referred to ! Danville and Richmond. The ticket agent at the bus sta tion sensed something unusual j when the tickets were bought and asked Miss Johnson why she was j buying a ticket to Danville for the ' child and going to Richmond her self. She told the agent that she 1 planned to leave the child with friends in Danville. But Danville police could locate neither the nurse nor the child. Answers Descriptions Bus Driver S. L. Hinkle said j two persons answering descrip tions boarded his bus at Winston Salem and came to Richmond. The two were traveling with an elderly man and woman and that all were discussing a trip to Massachusetts. I Mrs. Taylor was confident her ; child .would be returned safely, and she tried to reassure her husband Andrew, when she telephoned him in Baltimore, where he was taking a refresher course in medicine at Johns Hopkins following his re lease from the Army. Taylor was en route here by automobile from Baltimore. “Wherever Terry is,’ said Mrs. Taylor, “I’ll bet she is causing somebody some trouble. She can talk plenty, and she will, too, if she gets a chance.” Description Miss Johnson, who told Mis. Taylor her home was in Decatur, 111., recently came here after leaving Shreveport by way of At lanta, where she was unsuccessful in finding a job. Mrs. Taylor said Miss Johnson told her she was reared by an uncle and aunt in Decatur. When last seen, Terry, brown haired and hazel-eyed, was wear ing a blue corduroy jacket and brown corduroy slacks. Miss John son was clad in white shoes, white blouse, blue skirt and tan coat. No ransom note had been re ceived Wednesday night by Mrs. Taylor, and Littlejohn said he ex pected none. While the Taylorh were fairly well-to-do, they were not wealthy. MORE ABOUT ALONG THE CAPE FEAR FROM PAGE ONE what they have done. We wonder whether they know that Genera] Cornwallis, sailing up river to Wil mington during the revolution, stop ped the ship opposite the tree, gave his men a pep talk and a dram of rum, and thereby gave the tree its name. We wonder whether they know that a beautiful woman, wife of a retired buccaneer, was spirited by pirates out of her mansion across the river but escaped and sought refuge in the tree’s noble branches and. that the tree saved her life and honor. We wonder — if they know these things — whether they can sleep at night. » TRAGIC MOMENT—They didn’t cut down a tree. They cut down history. They cut down a legend. And they cut down our pet. We twitch as we think of the saw ripping inch by inch through that grand old gnarled trunk. We put our hands over our face as we see, in our mind’s eye, that great giant leaning against the sky and then crashing to the ground. Surely the earth trembled, and pirates and old salts and beautiful ladies turned over in their graves, at that momentous and tragic moment. MEMORIAL—Well, what’s done is done. You can’t unspill spilled milk. And you can’t resurrect something that isn’t there to'be re surrected. But something can be done. We can erect a memorial. We can go out to the spot and build a small-size Washington monument. And then we can get that bottle of 1812 Napoleon off the featherbed we threw it on and put it right on top of the spire. Anybody want to contribute to the memorial fund? Anybody got a ladder and a cork screw? MORE ABOUT PENDERLEA from page onh ^RneinnH^eSt^ads had received a i >813,100 federal loan, including an advance of $63,0.00 for buildings ' “d f*cilities used for purposes . other than the hosiery mill, had re t paid $286,785 in principal and $97 I 543 m interest; had an unpaid principal balance of $526,315 but 1 , re^over an estimated $295, 672, leaving a loss of $230,643 Other Mills 1 siilU,ilar C0°Perative hosiery I AilU at Skyllne Farms, Scottsboro, • Ala,> “as an unpaid principal bal • ®nce of $74,854 and is being offered for sale, Noble stated, estimating , its net loss as $125,854. . Three other hosiery mills have ! been transferred to the Federal . Housing administration, he added. ’ PASSENGERS protest s TOKYO, Thursday, Feb. 28.—(AP) • ~ Enraged passengers stoned streetcars, mauled station m ployes and smashed furniture ir dispatchers’ offices Wednesday II night in violent protest of a "slow s down” strike on electric lines. On< e 15-year-old boy suffocated in on« (J train jammed with belated corn d muters. MORE ABOUT RECONVERSION FROM PAGE ONE gave 103,000 workers an average hourly pay of $1.40, retroactive to Jan. 5. Gayle Armstrong, government representative in charge of meat operations, meanwhile ordered federally-seized packing plants to put into effect immediately the 16 hourly wage increase approved by the Wage Stabilization board. Telephone Threat The main threat that could crip ple reconversion further was that of a nationwide telephone strike set for March 7. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach planned to confer Thursday with C. F. Craig, vice president of the American Tele phone and Telegraph co., however, in an effort to avert a walkout. A strike of 5,000 American Can co. workers in the Chicago area, set for midnight Wednesday, was averted when the company and CIO tract for an 18 1-2 cent an hour United Steel Workers signed a con pay boost. MORE ABOUT AMERICANS FROM PAGE ONE that consumption was no greater and probably less under the volun tary system.” In the meantime a well-fed world in the future was forecast by Secretary Anderson. “Agricultural and nutritional science have been developed to the point where it is now possible to banish hunger from the earth,” the agriculture secretary said in testimony before the house appro priations committee, released Wed nesday. “It will take time to make this a reality and no single country can accomplish the objective alone. But the fact stands, and it cul minates an old, old struggle.” Land Revolution Agriculture’s wartime progress, Anderson said in advocating a billion-hollar Agriculture depart ment appropriation bill, “practi cally amounts to an industrial rev olution cn the land. From this revolution there is no turning back.” The telegrams of invitation to the White House conference went to Sheldon Clark, vice president of Sinclair Oil corporation; Justice Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters; Clar ence Francis, board chairman of the General Foods corporation: Dr. George H. Gallup, conduction Pub lic Opinion polls; Henry E, Luce, magazine publisher; James W. Young of the J. Walter Thompson company; Dr. William I. Myers, Cornell university; Chester C. Davis, former War Food adminis trator; Eugene Meyer, publisher of the Washington Post; Mrs. Anna Lord Strauss, president of the League of Women Voters; Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Emily G. Dickinson, president of the Federation of Women’s clubs. MORE ABOUT STATE FROM PAGE ONE JOUJ3AOO TOTAA UOTSUBIM 3ATjn0aX3 aq; ui ;aui sraquiaui uoisstuiuioo Cherry and laid general plans for a 10-year secondary roads pro gram which is designed to surpass any road-building program in the State’s history. If possible, approximately 3,000 miles of secondary, or farm-to market roads, will be improved each year. Not nearly all of that amount would be paved or top surfaced. A great amount would be treated and spread with gravel. Relate Conditions Nothing specific as to the dis cussions at the Mansion was given out. The Governor told reporters at his afternoon press conference that the discussions were of a general nature, and that each com missioner present told of affairs in his division. Governor Cherry did say that he knew of no state commission which was trying harder to carry out its duties. Earlier, he had appeared in the commission room briefly, and thanked each commissioner per s rally for his efforts. Need Equipment Both the Governor and Chairman A. H. Graham reiterated that the contemplated program depended upon ability to get equipment, ma terials and sufficient manpower. The t -sonnel situation, however, is bettering, Graham said. more about MURDER FROM PAGE ONE Long Search Sheriff C. P. Willetts, Brunswick county, and his deputies, spent four days and nights without sleep in the search for Gause, aided by State Highway patrol officers and volunteer citizens forming a posse of approximately 200, the largest in recent Brunswick history. Sheriff Willetts said that the mur der took place at the home of Wil , liamson who was shot as he was shelling peanuts with his wife in the living room from a window He said Gause had admitted 'the t shooting and told him where his gun was hidden. Also arrested and jailed in connection with the case was Luther Gause, whose account of the happenings on the night of the slaying did not satisfy officers. James E. Hewett, Shallotte, stat ed that the actual capture of Gause, who is six feet tall, was made by diminutive, middle-aged Winslow Cason, Shallotte, who has only one hand. Unarmed Hewett said that the Negro, flush ed by the approach of membres of the posse, had run “practically into the arms” of Cason who held him until the arrival of other searchers. Gause was not armed at the time of his capture. Sheriff Willetts joined with Lieut. A'. T. Moore and Sergt. J. R. Smith, of the SHP, in praise of the aid given searchers by Major*C. Pen nington, manager of the Penning ton Flying service at Carolina Reach, and ex-Air Forces pilot, who covered the area in a light plane. Flies In Rain Major Pennington, flying in a heavy rain, guided the posse with pre-arranged signals, landing and taking off from a nearby highway to confer with officers. Brunswick county authorities are continuing investigation of the case. MORE ABOUT RED CROSS FROM PAGE ONE A Negro division will be organiz ed and the number of teams will be announced later. Confident of Success “We feel confident that the citi zens of Wilmington and New Han over county and re spoused gener ously to this appeal as they have done so magnificently in the past,” Solomon and O’Crowley said. A kick-off dinner meeting will be held March 12 with the time and place to be announced later. Attending the meeting yesterday afternoon were J. Henry Gerdes, chairman; E. A. Laney, vice-chair man; L. D. Latta, treasurer, Mrs. Harris Newman, assistant treasur er; Mrs. W. A. Dick, Mrs. J. D. Freeman, Walker Taylor, Paul Wil son, Alex Sprunt, and M. Edmund Rodgers. - I MORE ABOUT PHONE FROM PAGE ONE w extension act, and outlying areas of the city, the manager said, base rate extension which was a base rate extension which was approved by the North Carolina Utilities commission February 22. An explanation of the rate reduc tion will accompany the March billings to customers, it is expect ed. , Since September Study of the extension has been in progress since last September, about the time the city announced the annexation of Forest Hills and East Wilmington and Sunset Park, Clements said. The reduction is in line with company policies governing their actions on such matters to cor respond with the growth of the city, the manager said. MORE ABOUT HOGGARD FROM PAGE ONE Army offers them while they are in uniform,” Hoggard said. “Also, after they leave the Army, they may have a year refresher course in a trade or business school, under the GI Bill of Rights, with tuition paid and a monthly subsistence allowance.” COLONY BOY WINS ARCADIA, CALIF., Feb. 27—(JP) — Maine Chance Farm's Colony Boy scored a nose victory over W. W. Naylor’s Please Me Today in the $7,700 one-mile Vista Del Valle handicap for three-year-olds at Santa Anita Park. more about VA EXPLAINS FROM PAGE ONE lay. Thanks for your query prior to'publication. We want you to have all information available in this case.” Regional Answer Later a long distance telephone call to The Star from the Richmond regional headquarters of the Veter ans Administration, was to the ef fect that “we are sorry to learn oi this situation, but we are glad tc have it called to our attention. The regional office in Fayetteville, Mr, J. S. Pittman, manager, has charge of the Wilmington section. We are calling Pittman this afternoon tc inform him and to ask that an im mediate investigation be made There will be a letter follow up tc you from Richmond.” That action was quickly forth coming and demonstrated by the arrival in Wilmington of E. C Hemingway, chief of the Vocationa Rehabilitation department of the Veterans Administration, Fayette ville. Accompanied by R. V. Eldei from the same office, Mr. Heming way got in touch with The Stai shortly after four o’clock and ii the course of a 20-minute interview cleared up many points relating tc the matter of delayed subsistence checks a^ called to the attention o: the Veterans Administration by The Star. First Steps The veteran, who makes his ap plication for training direct to the Veterans Administration is requir ed to forward a certified copy q his discharge certificate and botl veteran and employer must for ward signed affidavits as one of the first steps necessary. A possible bottleneck might oc cur here, Hemingway said, ex plaining that the veteran may ha.v. lost his discharge papers or tju firm, intending possibility to tak men for training in one or mori departments, fail to list all depart ments in their original applicatioi for participation. Then again, he said, an employer may take week, or ten days, possibly tw< weeks, before he forwards his ap plication to Raleigh, thereby caui ing another possible delay. Bottlenecks Possible bottlenecks in the v?a; of prompt payment of subsistence to veterans taking “on-the-job’ training, Hemingway said, occu when the forms are not filled ou and mailed "promptly; where i veteran is already employed by ; firm which has not been approvei by the State Veterans Approvin; committee, or where a man i working in some department o a firm which has been approvei for participation in one branch hu not f°r the branch where the mai may be taking training. Hemingway pointed out that un der ordinary circumstances am when forms are properly filled ou and all necessary requirement compiled with, the matter of pro cessing should not take more thai 10 to 15 days or even if one or thi other forms are found to be onlj slightly in error, not over 30 day; at the utmost. Made Direct The Veterans Administration rep resentative aiso pointed out thai subsistence payments are made di rect from the Treasury department at Washington and are dated as the last day of each month. Therefore, he said, it would be possible that a delay might occur when a mar started “on-the-job” training neai the end of any given month, be cause, by the time the required processing had taken place, con siderable time might elapse beforj he would receive his first check. Hemingway told The Star thai much of the delay which was cur rent during the first few months of the "on-the-job” training program, had now been overcome as organi zation became more flexible and that now most applications, both from an employer and veteran can be processed in one week and at the extreme, not over 30 days. MORE ABOUT CONGRESS FROM PAGE ONE Ready For Sabath Warmed up by now, Rankin was ready for Sabath, another of his Democratic colleagues. The issue, briefly, was this: Rankin didn’t like a state ment published by Sabath in the Congressional Record Feb. 19. He said this statement un fairly criticized the committee on UnAmerican Activities. He particularly was peeved about the heading, “The UnAmerican committee,” which he said Sabath wrote. Reflection On House Rankin declared that all this was a reflection upon members of the House, and should be stricken from the record. Given an hour to make his point, Rankin declared that the heading, and portions of the article inserted by Sabath, followed the “Commun. istic party line.” To prove this, he began reading statements by William Z. Foster, Communist chief. Sabath, a small but squarelj built man who will be 80 nex' t April 4, was on his feet most oi the time, protesting that Rankir was way off the beam. “It isn’t fair,” Sabath shouted “to link my name in this way with this man Foster!” MORE ABOUT ALARM i FROM PAGE ONE $13,597.50, with a delivery date of 120 days. Limits Taxicabs l In its meeting yesterday the ‘ ' council cracked down on the city’s taxicabs, limiting the 1 number of cabs to 100. City Attorney W. B. Camp 1 bell and City Manager Nichols submitted a lengthy report of 1 present taxicab ordinances%and ; 3 hrs. 53 min. 1 For information and ; reservations call 2-2821. Ticket Counter: 1 Bluethenthal Airport 'Bt/ecc/teerRou/e I "Im the Guy who's / / "Tried'em all?.. J operations which led to the formu lation of the new ruling. Campbell was instructed by the council to draw up a new ordin ance in line with the findings in the report. One of -the features of the proposed ordinance is a card which will show a picture of the opera tor, his past record, and his insur ance liability. This card will be pasted inside the cab in full view of the passenger. Proposed Library Councilman J E. L. Wade’s pro posal that the Bellamy house at Fifth and Market streets be purchased by the city and made over into a public library received the hearty approval of the council men. The council voted that a commit, tee of councilmen and private citizens be formed to investigate the possibilities of the proposal. An appeal by Cyrus D. Hogue, attorney, on behalf of a palmisl who wants to open a place of busi ness in the city, was turned dowr by the council in a split decision, Hogue explained that his client was willing to pay the $200 state anc $200 county palmist fees and wanted permission from the coun cil to pay another $200 to the city. But all council men, except J. E. L. Wade and Ray Pollock, voted that City Attorney 1 draw up an ordinance' foS'11 Vl palmists, fortune-tellers Th V nologists to operate inside T phre- I limits. Ge “** c;:, II nerses- Thief 1 WASHINGTON, Feb 27 Miss Lucile Petr chief of the U. S. 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