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" ■■ W^MINGTON, N. C. TUESDAY,-FEBRUARY 25, ,947 -ESTABLISHED ,8«}
Discuss Proposed Junior College
Representatives of local organizations are pictured above during a meeting last night in the
Woodrow Wilson hut called to discuss the coming election.for the establishment of a junior college
here, heft to right, front row, are A. R. Willis, Kiwanis club; Mrs. Thomas J. Gause, American
Legion auxiliary; Mrs. R. B. Howard, Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary; Wallace West, Lions
club and Junior Chamber of Commerce; Miss Ruth Umphrey, Business and Professional Women’s
Hub; Mrs. G. M. Speaker, Junior Sorosis; Dr. John T. Hoggard, chairman board of education. Back
row: IV. E. Edwards; H. W. Glazier, Civitan club; W. R. Dozier; Dr. Spurgeon Baxley, community
council; Clayton Holmes, Exchange club; H. M. Roland, superintendent county schools; E. C. Snead.
Veterans of Foreign Wars; and I. W. Solomon, Kiwanis. (PHOTO BY CAROLINA CAMERA).
Senate Shouts Down
Postponement Move
DATE FOR ROUTE
ACTION TENTATIVE
Hearing On Seventh Street
Traffic Artery Set For
Friday Morning
No definite date has been set
for the city council to either ac
«ept or reject the plan submitted
by State Higmvay Commission
Chairman A. H. Graham, which
calls for a 7th sweet-4*«ffic ar
tery, City Manager J. R. Benson
laid yesterday.
Graham has indicated his desire
for a decision on his proposal
within the near future, however,
and it is expected that the council
will act soon after the public hear
ing on the matter has been held.
The meeting has been called for
Friday morning at 10 o’clock at
which time residents of 7th street
are expected to express their op
position.
Objectors to the’highway com
mission plan are scheduled to
meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the
Hemenway school, according to
Robert Strange of 14 North 7th
street and arguments to be used
against the proposed route are
alaied to be formulated.
At the bme the state commis
sion plan was presented to the
city council, Graham expressed
the opinion that the fire hazard
would be considerably less on 7th
•treet than on 3rd -street due to
ihe slant of the earth from the
latter route toward the waterfront.
WEATHERMAN SAYS
CITY CAN EXPECT
MORE COLD TODAY
No immediate relief from the
freezing weather and cold winds
*s Predicted by the local weather
"ureau, with the mercury due to
“fop to 24 degrees this morning
* tlle city and as low as 18 on
*e outskirts. During the day a
"‘gh temperature of 42 degrees is
expected.
„ winds today are to be
moderate'’, which means that
ney 11 hit the city about 18 miles
n hour, the same as yesterday,
“e weather bureau official said.
Chicago is supposed to be the
«mdy City’, but I think Front
*nd Chestnut beats it,” he-added.
Today will also be fair, and
, ou*', ‘ Norfolk had a four inch
owfali yesterday, no snow is
fiedicted for Wilmington.
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Republican Leaders Drive
For Budget Vote By
Wednesday Night
WASHINGTON, F-b. 24 — (IP) —
The Senate shouted down a move
to postpone the budget contro
versy today, and then drove to
ward a vote on a $4,500,000,000
slash in President Truman’s
spending estimates for the fiscal
year starting next July 1.
Senator Murray (D-Mont) pro
posed that Congress delay fixing
any speeding ceiling until April 1.
but his resolution was brushed a
side on a tumultuous voice vote.
Republican leaders were bent
on obtaining a Senate vote on' the
slash at least by Wednesday.
The House has voted a $6,000,
000,000 reduction in the Truman
estimates. The figure finally ap
proved by Congress probably will
be a compromise worked out by
a Senate-House Conference com
mittee.
The Senate debate brought a
suggestion from Senator Langer
(R-ND) that President Truman
“pick up the telephone and call
Joe Stalin, arrange a meeting, and
get this matter of fear which each
country has for the other out of
the road.”
Then with “war fears” elimi
nated, Langer said,, both the
United States and Russia could re
duce their spending drastically.
Dispatches from Moscow have
reported that Russia plans to
spend $13,000,000,000 on its mili
tary services this year, compared
with $11,00,000,000 proposed by
Mr. Truman for the army and
navy.
War Invitation
Langer declared that even a
total budget of $31,500,000,000, as
voted by the House, “is an invi
tation to other countries to arm
to get ready for another war, to'
keep the United States from being
the master, the ruler of the
world.” '
He blamed American policy
since 1932 for a situation in which,
he said, “we find ourselves with
few dependable Allies and the
over-whelming population of the
world standing in actual fear of
America.”
Langer, chairman of the Senate
Civil Service committee, also re
ported that the number of federal
employes will be reduced to 1,500
000, oompared with 2,283,890 on
Jan. 1. He set no date for achieve
ment of this figure, but said that
on the sixth anniversary of the
war, next Dec. 7, the employment
will be approximately what it was
when the war started—1.620,922.
Since the war ended, he added,
1,483,100 Civil Service employes
have left the payroll.
‘‘This doesn’t sound as if the
fellows who have been yelling
‘fire a million employes!’ were
telling you all of the story, does
it?” he asked.
O’Daniel Speaks
Senator O’Daniel (D-Tex) broke
away from the position of most of
his Democratic colleagues to as
sert that the budget ceiling should
be fixed at .$25,000,000,000 this
year but noted that economy will
not be easy.
“Every time you unhook a
coach from the gravy train that
has been running the past 13 or
14 years” he remarked, “there
(Continued on Page Two, Col. D
GROUP TO STRESS
NEED OF COLLEGE
Civic And Educational
Leaders Outline Advan
tage To City
The benefits to be derived from
the establishment of a Junior Col
lege in Wilmington and plans to
keep the public aware of the spec
ial election on the proposal of
establishing such an institution
here were discussed last night by
representatives of 14 local clubs
and organizations who met in the
Woodrow Wilson hut.
Many other local groups, other
than the ones represented last
night, have gone on record as
strongly favoring the establishment
of the college here.
Registration for the special elec
tion, set for March 25, will begin
on Saturday, March 1. The books
will be open on that day and on
March 8 and 15.
It was pointed out at the meeting
that Wilmington loses a host of
young men and women and their
contributions to the community
when they leave here immediate
ly after high school graduation.
Commenting on the proposal, W.
R. Dosher, postmaster, stated that
“It is the finest opportunity to
make a contribution to the Wil
mington of tomorrow.”
11 ARMY FLIERS
TAKEN OFF ICE
Cool-Headed Pilot Sets Big
Plane Down On Green
land Cape Safely
NEW YORK, Feb. 24 — UP) — A
.■ool-handed 22-year-old Army pilot
>et an 18-ton transport plahe down
an a Greenland ice cape today and
snatched from the Arctic 11 Army
fliers marooned there three days
after the crash of their B-29.
Lt. Bobbie Joe Cavnar of Okmul
gee, Okla., the rescue pilot,
brought the 11 B-29 crew men to
Thule, Greenland, about 200 miles
from the crash scene. The spec
tacular rescue operation was com
pleted in three hours and 35 min
utes.
The 11 men were reported in
good condition. The Air Transport
command here reported they would
be brought' to Westover • Field,
Chicopee Falls, Mass., probably
tomorrow.
Cavnar, who has been engaged in
Arctic operations for the ATC
since 1945, landed his giant C-54
plane with wheels on the ice cap
beside the stricken B-29. He used
no skis or special attachments,, in
the feat, the ATC reported. Rockets
were employed, however, to give
impetus at the takeoff.
The C-54 is 94 feet long and has
a 117 foot wing spread.
Maj. Gen. William H. Turner,
commanding general of the ATC’s
Atlantic division, announced that
Cavnar had been recommended
for the Distinguished Flying Cross
with Oak Leaf cluster for today’s
rescue and “other extremely
hazardous Arctic operations.”
The rescue climaxed a far-flung
evacuation operation begun after
the B-29 crewmen had radioed that
they had crashed Friday. The
plane went down on the ice cap
after becoming lost in a sudden
storm while the 11 men were on
a photographic mission.
Like Jaded Jap, Cupid
Losing Face In This City
Dan’l Cupid, Suh, you are losing
face in Wilmington.
Suh, that’s not just hearsay. It’s
a fact. If you doubt our word,
Register of Deeds, Adrian Rhodes
may have some figures which will
be of interest to you.
According to Rhodes’ books,
there has been only one marriage
license issued from his office in a
week.
The license issued yesterday to
ItaMi ****** **
and Mildred Penny Bartley, 20,
317 Grace st, was the first since
Feb. 18.
However, the clerk of the Supe
rior Court’s divorce action business
also has gone on the blink. Which
may indicate that while Dan’l’s
trade is losing face on one side of
the ledger, it is showing a profit
on the other.
But, Dan’l take heart, June is
coming, and along with that merry
month,' you may be able to save
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Firemen Okay
Two Bills On
potel Safety
^ ures Call For Installa
-n Of Alarm Bells
On Each Floor
WATCHMAN SERVICE
Heavy Daily Penalty Would
Be Imposed For Non
Compliance
RALEIGH, Feb. 24. -“-(TP)— A
legislative committee of three
state fire-fighting organizations to
day approved unanimously two
bills for introduction in the legis
lature to set up strict safety reg
ulations for hotels.
Chief W. H. Palmer of the Char
lotte Fire department, president of
the North Carolina Fire Chiefs as
sociation and chairman of the
legislative committee, said the
bills represent “the minimum re
quirements which firemen of North
Carolina feel should be enacted in
to law.”
The bills call for:
Installation of fire-alarm bells or
gongs on each floor of a hotel,
centrally controlled, and, where
practicable, connected with the
city’s fire-alarm system.
Maintenance of watchman ser
vice in a 11 hotels, two or more
stories in height, o r designed to
accommodate 20 or more persons,
with hourly inspections between 10
P. M. and 6 A. M. Each night.
Installation of automatic sprink
lers in all hotels of non-fire re
sistant construction, more than
four stories in height.
Fines Specified
Authorization of the insurance
commissioner to declare unsafe
buildings condemned, with anyone
continuing to use condemned build
ings without making necessary al
terations and repairs to be subject
to a fine ox from $10 to $50 for
each day of continued use.
If the hotel is located within or
attached to another building, sepa
ration from the other building by
wall having an ultimate fire re
sistance of at least three hours, or
by floors with an ultimate fire re
sistance of two and one-half hours.
The legislative committee chose
as its steering committee for secur
ing the introduction of the bills:
Chief W. R. Butts and Capt, J. B.
Keeter, both of Raleigh, and Chief
C. L. Cox of Durham.
Before the end of the conference,
it was made plain by J. C. B.
Ehringhaus, Jr., o f Raleigh, rep
resentative of hotels, that although
the hotel group agreed in principle,
it was not obligated to support the
bills.
State Fire Marshall Sherwood
Brockwell, attending the con
ference, said that he believed the
bills should be approved as drawn.
Hotel men present included Hay
wood Duke o f Greensboro, presi
dent of the North Carolina Hotel
association; E. I. Buggs, C. S.
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 2)
ROYALL TO SPEAK
AT LEGION MEET
Undersecretary Of War To
Address Elizabethtown
Session
Special To The Star
ELIZABETHTOWN, Feb. 24 —
Undersertary of War Kenneth C.
Royadl will address a meeting of
the seventh district of the Ameri
can Legion at the Bladen county
courthouse Wednesday night.
He will speak on the subject '‘The
privileges and responsibilities of
the veterans.”
Also scheduled to speak on the
program are Gen. James Gavin,
commander of the 82nd Airborne
division and youngest General in
the U. S. Army and R. Geddie Her
ring of Roseboro, one of North
Carolina’s Congressional Medal of
Honor winners.
Other high ranking American
Legion officials will also take part
in the program.
Commander Louis F. Parker of
the local post and chairman of
the membership commitee of the
seventh district has invited all
veterans to attend the meeting.
Gets Boot
Charles “Lucky” Luciano form
er New York vice overlord, who
will be deported back to Italy by
Cuban immigration officials’, it
was announced last night at Ha
vana. Until shipping arrange
ments are concluded, he will be
held under heavy guard to prevent
an escape attempt.
The Weather
FORECAST:
North and South Carolina — Fair, con
tinued cold Tuesday, not quite so cold
Tuesday night and Wednesday.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
Temperatures:
1:30 a. m. 35; 7:30 a. m. 26; 1:30 p. m.
35; 7:30 p. m. 35.
Maximum 39; Minimum 25. Mean 32;
Normal 49.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 53; 7:30 a. m. 42; 1:30 p. m.
72; 7:30 p. m. 54.
Precipitation:
Total since the first of the month —
0.65 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
HIGH LOW
Wilmington — 12:30 a.m. 7:39 a.m.
12:51 p.m. 7:40 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet 10:29 a.m. 4:30 a.m.
10:55 p.m. 4:50 p.m.
Sunrise 6:46; Sunset 6:05; Moonrise
9:29a; Moonset 10:51p.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at
8 a. m. Monday, 13.8 feet.
HOUSE GETS BILL
FOR ARMORY UNIT
Edwards Of Durham Offers
Measure To Facilitate
Guard Reactivation
RALEIGH, Feb. 24.— (ffj -De
signed to facilitate the reactivation
ot North Carolina National Guard
units, Rep. Dan K. Edwards of
Durham tonight introduced a bill
in the House of the General Assem
bly for the creation of a North
Carolina Armory commission.
The measure would propose a
five-member body, named by the
governor. Its members, in addi
tion to the governor, would be the
Attorney General, the Adjutant
General and two officers of the
National Guard.
Purpose of the commission would
be “to develop adequate armories,
facilities and housing’’ for the
training of the state’s National
Guard.
State Agency
The body' would function as an
agency of the state, and would be
empowered to receive and to ad
minister any funds appropriated by
any act of congress.
It would authorize any munici
pality and county in the state to
lease land to appropriate any
amount from its public funds for
the use of the Guard units assign
ed that area, and would authorize
the contracting of any indebtedness
by the municipalities and counties
to be declared “necessary expense
and for a public purpose.”
The state Guard now is in the
process of building to its authorized
federal strength of 13,000 officers
and enlisted personnel.
Also introduced tonight in the
House was a bill by Rep. J. V.
Whitfield of Pender seeking auth
organization of funds for the mak
ing of a naerial topographical sur
vey of the state.
Whitfield Bill
Whitfield’s bill proposes that the
State Department of Conservation
and Development authorize $100,
000 for each year ol a biennium,
provided that the State Highway
commission allocates a similar
amount for a like period. These
funds would be matched by a
$200,000 annual subsidy from the
U. S. Geological survey.
Along The Cape Fear
SETS NEW RECORD — Not so
many moons ago, during January
to be exact, Along The Cape Fear
succumbed to the prevailing prac
tice of making predictions for 1947.
High on our list was the belief
that the Wilmington Bird Club
would win top honors in the state
for their splendid work during the
1946 Christmas Bird count.
Ary 1° and behold while news
hungry reporters are beating the
bushes in an attempt to prove or
disprove how the local club ran
in the North Carolina bird count
ing sweepstakes, official confirma
tion of Along The Cape Fear’s
prediction arrives at this spot and
exclusively, too.
* * *
OFFICIAL NOW — The current
issue of The Chat, bulletin of the
North Carolina Bird Club, editored
by Dr. Archie D. Shaftesbury,
cites the local club as the official
winner among the eighteen locali
ties participating in the annual
Christmas species census.
“In species counts, Wilmington
leads with a record count of 97,
which is far above the record
species counts of 75 and 73, made
in past years at Chapel Hill and
Rocky Mount. i
wsrt* tt^rnnatao.M fr”*
tains at least twelve species not
reported in this year’s counts from
our other localities, includes,
among others, Greater Shearwater;
Gannet, Ward’s Heron (possibly a
new record), Snowy Egret (a win
ter record), Green Heron (2; a
winter record), Dovekie, Forster’s
Tern, and Common Tern (which
is supposed to winter farther
south.)
“Mrs. Cecil Appleberry invited
several of the younger bird stu
dents from Mount Olive, Raleigh,
and Greensboro to join the Wil
mington group and the results,
both in bird species and enthusi
asm, we e highly gratifying,” Dr.
Shaftesbury, reports.
* • *
MORE AND MORE — Not con
tent with winning the state title,
the Wilmington party ventured
forth the day after the Christmas
count and added new laurels to
their already potent reputation in
state bird circles.
Several additional species were
spotted during the trip. Included
in the supplemental list are Oyster
Catcher, American Scoter, Brown
Pelican and Royal Tern.
Dr. Thomas Hall, an interne at
James Walker Memorial hospital,
Two Killed\ Many Injured
When Bleachers Collapse
PARISH ADMITTED
TO HOSPITAL HERE
! •
Chief-Designate Of Police
Force Condition Is Re
ported Satisfactory
The condition of Sergeant P. J.
Parish, recently named by the
city council as Wilmington police
chief, was reported as satisfactory
late last night by attaches of
James Walker Memorial Hospital.
He was admitted for treatment
and examination at 1:15 yesterday
afternoon when stricken shortly
after eating lunch. It was report
ed that he was suffering from a
heart condition but hospital at
taches declined to reveal the exact
nature of his illness.
The belief was expressed last
night that unless his condition be
comes more serious the Civil Ser
vice Commission,'which is slated to
meet for action on his appointment
to head the department later this
week, would not delay his confirma
tion for reasons of health.
COLDER WEATHER
FORECAST TODAY
Temperatures Expected To
Dip Sharply With No
Relief In Sight
By Hie Associated Press
Some more “Brrr” weather is
in store for North Carolina today
with early morning temperatures
due to fall as low or lower as they
did Monday.
The Charlotte Weather bureau
reported last night that high read
ings today will hover only a few
degrees above freezing and im
mediate relief is not in sight.
Minimums yesterday ranged
from 12 above at Asheville to 25
above at Wilmington. Charlotte,
Greensboro and Winston Salem
had 14 and Raleigh had 16.
The mercury just made it above
freezing throughout most of the
state yesterday. Pope Field re
ported the highest, 41, and Ashe
ville could do no better than 26.
Cherry Point and Charlotte had 39
Raleigh 38, Greensboro 36 am'
Winston-Salem 34.
Mostly clear ana cold weather
was predicted for today. Mini
mums are not expected to vary
more than two degrees from
yesterday. Heavy snows in th
mountains quit for the most par
late Sunday and only a few flur
ries were reported yesterday.
STEELMAN TO SET
SHIPYARD PARLEY
■ ■ - —.——
Maritime Commission May
Meet With Tar Heels
This Week
The Morning Star,
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — Pres
ident Truman’s assistant John
Steelman, is expected to set
Wednesday or Thursday as the
date of a conference with North
Carolina congressional spokesmen
and maritime commission officials
over the State Ports authority’s $1,
200,000 offer for the purchase of the
idle Wilmington, N. C., shipyard.
A tentative date, tomorrow, was
changed, so that all the men could
attend.
Invited to the parley with Steel
man will be the maritime com
mission chairman, Admiral W. W.
Smith, with several of his aides;
Senators Hoey and Umsted and
Representative Clark.
Differences between the views of
the Tar Heels, who are endorsing
the port authority offer, and the
maritime commission, which has
rejected it, may be thrashed out at
the meeting.
HOG PRICES REACH
NEW HIGH LEVELS ON
LIVESTOCK MARKETS
CHICAGO, Feb. 24. —(U.R) —Hog
prices soared to record levels at
mid-Western stockyards today,
foreshadowing additional increases
for ham, bacon and pork chops in
retail stores.
Choice hogs averaging 215 pounds
sold for an all-time high of $29 a
hundredweight at Chicago’s Union
stockyards. New price records also
were set at nearly all other mar
kets. The OPA ceiling for hogs was
$16.25,
New Seating Section At Purdue Fieldhouse
Falls Under Weight Of 4,000 Specta
tors; Hospital Facilities Packed
I.A4 A\ ETTE, Ind.. Feb. 24.—UP)—A new bleacber section col
lapsed tonight in Purdue University fieldhouse, killing at least two
students and injuring 150 or more.
receiving office at St. Elizabeth’s hospital were reported It
had been told five of the injured were dead hut only availably
names of fatalities were Roger Gelhauser, Gary, Ind., and Wil
liam J. Feldman. East Chicago, Ind., both students.
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 24. —(A5)— A new bleacher
i section jammed with about 4,000 students collapsed in Pur
due University fieldhouse tonight, killing one person and
injuring hundreds.
Gordon Graham, sports editor of the Lafayette Journal
Courier, said Roger Gelhauser, a student from Gary, Ind.,
was reported dead. Injured were being taken to St. Eliza
I Dem ana name Hospitals here in a
steady stream.
The bleaicher sagged and then
smashed into kindling wood as fans
jumped to their feet in an ovation
to the Purdue basketball team,
seconds after the first half ended
with Purdue in front of Wisconsin's
Western Conference leaders, 34 to
33.
Screaming thousands in the col
lapsed stand were spilled many
feet to the dirt floor. The bleacher,
with all 62 rows of seats smashed
and piled like a hay stack, was
about 100 feet wide.
Many of the injured laid out on
the basketball floor appeared to
have broken arms and legs. Doc
tors,, nurses and Red Cross aides
from other sections of the audience
of 11,000 gave hurried medical
treatment.
Officials announced on the public
address system that the game was
cancelled and urged all uninjured
and non-medical spectators to
leave immediately so aid to the in
jured would not be impeded.
Players of both the Purdue and
Wisconsin teams, just leaving the
floor as tile bleacher fell, turned
back to help pull students out of
the shattered and twisted planks.
The bleacher was part of a new
construction program that increas
ed the Purdue fieldhouse seating
capacity from about 8,000 to more
than 11,500.
COUNTY MAY ACT
ON BUREAU HERE
‘ "tion On Identification
Set-Up Seen For Next
Week
The transfer of authority and
iperation of the City-County
-Jureau of Identification probably
will come before the county com
missioners next Monday for defi
nite action, Thomas K. Woody,
clerk to the board, said last night.
Woody said that he had no idea
what the commissioners would do
about the matter, a controversy
hanging fire for several weeks
now, but he said he felt that some
action would be taken.
As the bureau now is constitut
ed, operation authority is vested
in both the city and county
government. According to reports
to the commissioners yesterday,
City Manager J. R. Benson is will
ing that the city assume its op
eration.
At the same time, the commis
sioners heard a request by state
Rep. R. M. Kermon that jurors’
salaries be raised from $2 to some
higher figure, probably $5 a day.
At the present time there is a bill
before the General Assembly
which would raise' jurors’ pay to
$5 a day in each of the state’s
100 counties.
However, under existing law,
the county commissioners have
the authority to pay jurors as
much as $4 a day, Woody said.
He said he felt that the commis
sioners soon would raise the
jurors’ pay to that figure.
At the same time, the commis
sioners asked Kermon to introduce
legislation which would give them
power to name a deputy coroner.
Under the present set up. a per
son who substitutes for the
coroner has to take an oath before
the clerk of the superior court
each time he acts in his stead.
The legislation would make
some person the permanent legal
assistant of Coroner Gordon
Doran.
Meanwhile, the cancellation of
all back county taxes prior to 1920
was asked by Commissoner
George Trask. No action was
taken on this request. The com
missioners also had a request
from the state Highway Commis
sion asking for a formal abandon
ment notice of that section of the
old Mears road in Winter Park —
between Carr Ave. and MacMillan
St.
The commissioners plan exten
sive paving w’ork on Cedar St., the
lane which was taken over when
Mears road was abandoned by the
state several years ago.
Little Old Lady Breaks
Up Dearborn Ghost Hunt
DfETROIT, Feb. 24. —W— A
little old lady who moves with dif
ficulty but is fiercely proud of her
independence broke up a “ghost
hunt” in Dearborn township today.
Mrs. Emma Arnold, 86-year - old
widow, has lived alone on her iso
lated four-acre farm since her sis
ter died 31-years ago. But she car
ries a pistol for company and
knows how to use it, four curious
youth’s discovered.
Armed with a Phillippine Bolo
knife a Japanese ceremonial
sword and other war 'souvenirs,
the four, all veterans, set out to
investigate reports of a “haunted
house.”
Six shots rang out as one poked
flwwib JmuMtefeHie**
ed on the forearm with a bullet,
he and the other three fled in ter
ror.
Sheriffs officers were notified
when he was treated at a nearby
hospital. Ordered to the house,
they found themselves looking into
the barrel od an antiquated .38 as
the door w^as opened.
But the little woman behind it
laid the pistol down and calmly
explained she needed the gun “to
protect myself from prowlers”.
Surprised at the furore she had
caused, she added:
“Why I shot another bunch of
prowlers just a week ago.”
Mrs. Arnold said she also needed
the weapon “to shoot at those
mean dogs that bother my tats/11
JUVENILE CRIME
IS EXAGGERATED
Clerk Of Court Sees No
Need For Alarm In
Local Picture
Mrs. J. C. Layton, clerk of the
Juvenile Court here and city pro
bation officer, said yesterday that
she saw no cause for alarm over
the juvenile delinquency problem.
She pointed out that despite re
cent news stories—under scream
ing banner lines—warning of ex
panding crime waves among the
youth of the nation, and New Han
over county in particular the cold
facts would support no' such as
serti&ns.
Mrs. Layton said that juvenile
delinquency, just like anything
else, had its ups and down. She
explained that records in her
office showed that while delin
quency might be up one month,
the next month it would decrease.
She believes, too. that the North
Carolina law—under which ju
veniles are tried—should be
amended to cover youths up to
and including 18 year olds.
“At the present time.” she said,
“youths over 16 years of age mult
go into open court when they vio
late the Jaw. I think this it
wrong.”
When they appear in open court,
-he explained, they are branded
i before the public. Under the Ju
venile Court procedure, no publi
cation is ever made of their
: names when they over-step the
| law.
‘ The public is barred from our
i court,” she said. “Therefore,
! when a juvenile breaks a law—
! that is. one 16 or younger—he has
; a hearing in private and is not
] branded as a criminal in the pub
lic prints.”
To substantiate her denial that
juvenile delinquency, 16 and
under, is not on the increase, she
cited figures for the past two
months.
In January, she said, the Juve
nile Court had 50 cases on its cal
endar. But in December there
were only 16. The records for the
month of February will not close
until next Saturday. However, she
said, unless there is a sudden
spurt in cases, it probably will be
about the same as that of Decem
ber.
“It goes on from month to
month like that.” she said. "One
month the calendar showes an in
crease, the next it is down.”
There is no reason for alarm,
she said. “At least my records do
not support such an assertion.”
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BOYD TO TESTIFY
ON TRAFFIC BILL
Port Traffic Official Slated
To Appear Before Com
mittee Today
Col. H. E. Boyd, traffic-mana
ger of the Wilmington Port Traffic
Association is scheduled to appear
before a House committee on pub
lic utilities today in Raleigh to
offer his recommendations rela
tive to the proposed law regu
lating all motor carriers in the
state, it was learned last night.
He will act as a spokesman for
local interests objecting to certain
provisions of the suggested law,
known as H.B. 126. The hearings
have been scheduled for 9:30 In
the Library building.
Col. Boyd yesterday expressed
his opposition to certain parts ol
the law and deemed it very in
jurious to irregular route carriers
of general commodities. He ex
pressed the belief that if the bill
passes in its present form it would
mean the complete elimination of
small carriers of freight.
It is expected that other local
interested persons will appear be
fore the house committee to offer
testimony calling for changes in
the proposed law.
And So To Bed
We only heard this story.
. A visitor to Wilmington was
invited to take part in a fish
ing party.
Upon arrival at the beach the
visitor was given the proper
tools of a fisherman, to wit—
a rod, reel, bait, tackle, etc.
He gazed at the rod and reel
and asked, “How do I work
this thing?”
His host said yon just cast
it out into the ocean.
The visitor did . . He heaved
back and let go . . Rod, reel
and tackle landing several
yards out in the ocean.
The host neglected to tell the
would-be Isaac Walton to hold
onto the nod.