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ISS1 IGNORED SON IMPLIES City Manager Says He Is Disappointed In Final Draft Of CSC Bill “The real issue was sidestepped In' the compromise Civil Service Commission bill which was intro duced in the General Assembly Friday”, City Manager J. R. Ben son said last night. Benson expresed his disappoint ment over the measure in its final form prepared by Senator Alton A. Lennon and Representative Robert M. Kermon, mainly because of its restrictions upon the selec tion of a police chief from without the department. chief so appointed he limited to In opposing the provision that the 18 months service Benson said. “I don’t see why any capable man would come here to straighten things out and put himself in a hot spot for such a short period of time then to be kicked out.” The city manager continued “I do not mind any provisio.. requir ing an experienced or capable man, but I am convinced that it will take a disinterested man to clear up the difficulties now exist ing. It would be extremely diffi cult if not impossible to find a man under the requirements in the bill.” In its final draft the bill intro duced by Lennon stipulates in Sec tion seven, relating to the appoint ment of chiefs of the fire and police department, that a chief of police may be employed from without the personnel of the department und^r the following provisions: . . . snail nave nau dt veers training in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and be recommended for the said position by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; or . • • who has had at least five years experience as a police officer in a city of not less than 25,000 in habitants, and who is recommend ed by the Director of FBI. Provid ed further, . . . shall not hold said position as Chief of Police for a period of more than eighteen months from the ratification of this act.” Benson expressed a belief that the measure was too exacting in placing a minimum of 25,000 popu lation upon the city from which a chief might be chosen. He said that perhaps a capable man could probably be found in a city of less Inhabitants or either on the force of some county police system. The city manager pointed out that should an acceptable man be found in some other police depart ment in a city of say 40,000, the city of Wilmington would certainly not be able to meet the salary which would be necessary to lure one away from his own position into this police department in its present state of affairs. He added that he did not object to the stipulation that the ap pointee be recognized by some police authority, but he indicated that he did not like the provision that the FBI must pass upon the Ci.oice. He said he believed a capable man could be found. All in all, Benson, Intimated that the compromise bill with all its provisions was merely one way of tying the council’s hands in the selection of a new chief of police, but the city manager would not say that the bill would force the governing body to make a choice from the ranks. In conclusion, he pointed out that as long as a man were chosen from the present personnel, he would not have to meet any qualifications of either experience or FBI training, nor would the FI| recommendation be necessary. Mayor W. Ronald Lane /aid last night that he had no comment on the bill which has been present ed to the General Assembly. “I have not had a chance to study the bill forwarded to Lemon and Kermon as neither of them have been given me, ’ Lane said, “however I am expecting to get one of them before long.” Carolina Alumni To Meet Tuesday! Will Show Films j - (Continued From Page One) invited to the meeting is Crowell Little, assistant foot-ball coach at the University. There are more than 300 alumni of Carolina i n New Hanover county. For several years, during the war, activity of the group was reduced to a minimum. In the past 18 months, however, there has been considerable activity, with several meetings being held and attended, among being held Chancellor R. B. House, football coach Carl G. Snavely, and Alumni Secretary J. M. Saunders, all of Chapel Hill. The smoker meeting on Tuesday is the first hbld since new officers were elect ed in December. The officers, in addition to President Fred Rippy, are Grainger, and Joe W. Holman, Jr., secretary-treasurer. DR. EVANS DIES" AT HOME HERE (Continued From Page One) Decatur, Ga., and Miss Sarah Evans, Wilmington; and two sons, John E. Evans, Jr., of Baltimore, and Hugh Evans, Wilmington. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Ward Funeral home. PAINTS... HARDWARE nome Appliances LEWIS’ HARDWARE CO. 711 N. 4th St. Dial 2-8355 Second Fire In 61 Years Destroys Grace Methodist Etewc^^^jiiirdi Loyalty Hits All Federal Departments (Continued From Page One) may amount to $15,000,000 to |20, 000,000. Each agency head, Mr. Truman ruled, must be “personally re sponsible” ior cleaning hi* own house. The establishment of one or more “loyalty boards” in every depart ment and agency was directd. Their rulings may be appealed to a top “loyalty review board” to be set up in the civil service com mission. Accused employes may summon witnesses and counsel at each *tep of the hearings, WASHINGTON, March, 22. — (JP) — President Truman’s executive order on government employe loyalty tonight requires that toe Justice Department maintain a “blacklist” of disloyal organiza tions. One of the tests of an employe’s loyalty is whether he has: “Membership In, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organiza tion, association, movement, group or combination of persons desig nated by the Attorney General as totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or subversive.” A Justice department ornciai said the list will be “amended from time to time” to keep up with the shifting names that leaders of the organization choose. Plan are to use as a starter a list already compiled by the Civil Service commission. The Justice officials told a reporter it is not planned to publish the list “at this time” and there is no telling whether it will be made pub lic. WASHINGTON, March, 22. —iff) — President Truman’s executive order tonight for a loyalty check of federal employes provides in brief: 1. The attorney general is to list all groups tliat are “totalita rian, Fascist, Communist, or sub versive,” that seek to deny cit izens their constitutional right-, or that seek to change the form of government '2>y unconstiution al means.” *2. Membership or “sympathetic association with sucn a «ruuP will stamp an employe as disloyal. Serving the interests of another government in preference to the United States also will be a test. 3. All new employes are to be investigated for loyalty, either by the civil service commission or the department that hires them. 4. All present employes are to be checked by the FBI, where this has not already been done. 5. A “central master index” is to be kept of all persons on whom loyalty checks have been made, so that all hiring agencies may re fer to it. 8. Each department and agency is to appoint one or more "loy alty boards” to hear charges against employes and recommend ed whether they should he fired. 7. The civil service commission is to set up a 'loyalty review board” to act as a court of final appeal. 8. The names of persons giving information against employes may be kept secret in certain cases but sufficient identification must be given to permit the value of their testimony to be weighed. 9. The order is effective immed iately, but whatever funds are Briton Says Smoking Cuts Human Fertility I By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor NEW YORK, March 22.— (JP) — The British Medical Journal re port* experiment* indicating that tobacco smoking interfere* with the fertility of rat* and men. In the human eases the experi menters measured the activity of sperm and found that this move ment decreased with smoking and reappeared when unoaking was stopped. Lack of sperm activity is one of the numerous reasons assigned for human infertility. The rats were injected with nicotine. This reduced the number of offspring about half. These experiments top a long series by many different doctors and scientists on effects of tobac co smoking. Many suggest bad ef fects but none have claimed to prove these effects completely. The late Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins made the most fa mous experiments, a study of more than 6,000 smokers. He was credited with declaring that these studies showed smoking shortened lifp. But he did not say precisely that. He said that if the results should still be the same after his study included 100,000 human be ings, then there would be proof that tobacco shortens life. Dr. Pearl died before completing the extended study. Dr. Alton Ochsner, world fa mous surgeon, of . New Orleans, has published m e d ical charts showing that a curve drawn to show the increase in tobacco smoking is fairly well paralleled by a curve of the rise of cancer of the lungs. Dr. Walter L. Mendenhall of Boston university found a steady ing effect on nerves of two ciga rettes and the reverse after too many were smoked. He set the safe limit at about half a pack per day. Smoking has been shown to speed up the rate of breathing and the pulse rate. It has been shown to cause constriction of blood ves sels. The latter finding was a war report m tue juuunui ui ican Medical association. Mayo Clinic scientists who made the re port suggested it might not be a good thing to hand a cigarette to a wounded soldier because this constriction might be bad for some kinds of wounds. Several studies have shown that the surface temperature of fingers and toes is often reduced, some times ten degrees, by smoking one or two cigarettes. But deep breathing also has been shown to cause similar temperature drops. At the Medical college of Vir ginia, at Richmond, rats were subjected to smoke blown into their cages by a smoking ma chine. The smoked rats lived as long as the unsmoked, in fact averaged a bit longer lives. But the non-smoked rats were fatter and heavier. Yale studies show that a smoke adds a small bit of sugar to the blood, through the effect of the nicotine on adrenal glands. This sugar comes from the body stores. Sugar is an energy food and this study concluded that sugar might needed to carry out, compliance will await th* voting aC tha funds by congress. _ ....4 account for cases of relieving fa tigue by taking a smoke. ELSEWHERE IN SCIENCE Samples of earth from oil wells are quick-frozen, in dry ice, under a technique developed by the Core Laboratories, Inc., of Dallas, Texas. These samples, called cores, give an oil prospector in formation about the probabilities that the hole he is drilling will strike oil, and how deep. But oil well cores are sens itive to changes, particularly in moisture after being removed from the ground. The quick - freezing pre serves them for laboratory analy sis. Quick - frozen samples from about 10,000 wells have been ana lyzed in the Dallas laboratory. Poison ivy, says Dr. C. E. Turn er in the American Journal of Public Health, can be transmitted by dogs, cats, horses and other animals that walk over the plants*. Soot particles in the smoke from burning ivy can carry enough to produce poisoning. But otherwise poison ivy is not air-borne despite a popular belief. The poison, uruahiol, is an oily resin that is not volatile enough to travel in the air. A new theory that birds are able to direct their migrations by de tecting forces caused by the earth’s rotation Is proposed by Prof. G. Ising, Swedish geophysi cist. In the earth’s rotation there is a speed of 2,000 miles an hour at the equator, and less in higher latitudes until the figure becomes virtually zero at the poles. The rotation results in centrifugal force, which is modified by both the direction and speed of a bird in flight. Actually, instruments have been made to use similar forces in giving an aviator his speed and direction over the ground. For a plane the flight forces are far larger than for a bird. — How would you mark a snake, so that when he is recaptured years later you can still recognize him? This problem of wild snakes apparently is solved by two Swed Immigration Treaty & Signed By Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia, March 22— (U,R)—The Colombian Government announced today it had signed an agreement with the inter-govern mental committee on immigration in London whereby Colombia will admit an unspecified number of European refugees. The government said It will give preference to Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese agricultu ral workers, skilled workers in all lines and Industrial technicians. Auto Dealer, Wife Indicted Of Murder DETROIT, March 22.—(U.Ri—A wealthy Detroit auto dealer and his beautiful wife were indicted today on first degree murder charges, ending an 18-month search for the killer of Lydia Thompson, victim of a savage mutilation murder. Circuit Judge George B. Murphy. Wayne County’s one-man grand jury, issued warrants for the ar rest of Louis V. Thompson and his wife, the former Helen Budnik, 38. HE STUCK HIS NECK OUT AMESBURY, Mass. (U.R) — Fire swept the storehouses of the Lake Gardner Ice Co. the day after Thomas J.' Babine cancelled the insurance on the buildings. Some snakes can strike three quarters the length of their bodies, but most are able to strike only half the length of their bodies. *" ish scientists who report in Nature magazine a method almost equiva lent to fingerprinting. They photo graph the natural pattern of markings on the bellies of the reptiles, or occasionally on the backs. These patterns differ not only for species, but also for in dividuals. The Swedes, Diego Carlstrom and Carl Edelstam, of Stockholm, say the system is as1 sure as fingerprinting for some species of snakes. They think maybe it will work on all snakes. There have been other methods. Cutting a mark in a snake’s skin was one, but not very good, because snakes tend to outgrow such scars com pletely. _A Steeple-View lil——— .....in.— ii n-mn^Mii ■ After the fire was over Jack Louglilin, Carolina v.ame.» photographer crawled through the ruins of the C>ra^ s,®_ ‘ E. church to shoot a view of the charred timber*. Hi* lea* pointed at the still-standing steeple a* shown. _ ... Top left is the Front Street Methodist church, forerunner of the Grace Street M. E. Church destroyed by flames Friday night. The Front street structure was destroyed by fire Feb. 21, 1886, shortly after Sunday services. Inset is the Rev. YValfcl S. Creasy, D. D. pastor of the present church from 1888-1892. Top right is a picture of the Sunday school room taken yestei^ay following the catastrophe. The sun through the window cm the undamaged room only a few feet from where the fire started. Bottom left is part of the crowd of some 8,000 persons who watched the conflagration. Bottom right is a picture of the church taken before it had been levelled by flames. Photos by Perry James. Carolina Camera and by eourtesy of the Wilming ton Printing company. A Crime An Hour Was Tar Heel 1946 Record WASHINGTON, March 22— (JP)~ A crime was committed in North i Carolina every half hour of 1946. ! In the fil'st full postwar year one in every 41 North Carolinians was a crime victim. In the nation as a whole each . hour there were 40 burglaries. 107 petty thefts, 26 cars stolen, seven robberies, one criminal assault and seven assaults with a deadly weapon. These figures come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual crime report, which also shows: Crime increased In North Caro lina in 1946 over 1945 as follows: Murders from 101 to 135; crimi nal assault from 84 to 103; ag gravated assault from 3,748 to 4,019; larceny from 6,936 to 8,070; automobile thefts from 1.599 to 1.973; manslaughter cases dropped from *66 to 65; and 335 robberies were committed each year. In surveying crime in nine North Carolina cities, the FBI list ed these crimes in 1946: Wilmington, 6 murders; 40 rob beries; 642 aggravated assaults; 306 burglaries; 117 larcenies over $50 and 436 under $50; 111 auto mobile thefts. Asheville, 9 murders; 23 rob beries; 288 aggravated assaults; 266 burglaries; 26i larcenies over $50 and 587 under $50; and 58 automobile thefts. Charlotte, 29 murders; 52 rob beries; 443 aggravated assaults; 653 burglaries; 329 larcenies over $50 and 820 under $50; 371 auto mobile thefts. Durham, 9 murders; 24 rob beries; 577 aggravated assaults; 278 burglaries; 135 larcenies over S50 and 529 under $50; 168 auto mobile thefts. Greensboro, 16 murders; 31 rob beries; 577 aggravated assaults; 296 burglaries; 306 larcenies over $50 and 648 under $50; 221 auto mobile thefts. High Point, one murder; five roDDeries, /oi aggravated as saults; 152 burglaries; 71 larce nies over $50 and 18l under $50; 84 automobile thefts. Raleigh, 5 murders; 8 rob beries; 106 aggravated assaults; 187 burglaries; 35 larcenies over $50 and 147 under $50; 117 auto mobile thefts. Rocky Mount, two murders; 9 robberies; 55 aggravated assaults; 98 burglaries; 37 larcenies over $50 and 318 under $50; 49 auto mobile thefts. Winston - Salem. 8 murders; 41 robberies; 204 aggravated as saults; 466 burglaries; 173 larce nies over $50 and 557 under $50; 184 automobile thefts. The FBI explained “robbery” includes “stealing or taking any thing of value from a person by force or putting in fear; “burgla ry” means breaking or entering and attempts; “larceny” includes thefts (except automobile) such as shoplifting, pocket - picking or stealing without force or violence. When a poisonous snake misses its strike, venom may be thrown out of its mouth, giving rise to reports of snakes “spitting” ve nom. Could Cleopatra Drink a Pearl with Stomach Dicer Pains? An intriguing story of Cleopatra is the one where an admirer praised the beauty of two of her pearls, whereupon she dropped one into a glass of wine and drank it. She would hardly have done this had she suffered after-eating pains. Those who are distressed with stomach or ulcer pains, indigestion, gas pains, heartburn, burning sensation, bloat and other conditions caused by excess acid should try Udga. Get a 25c box of Udga everywhere. Tablets from your druggist. First dose must convince or return box to us anh get DOUBLE YOUR MONEY BACK. Saunders Drug Store and drug stores FRIENDS AID METHODISTS (Continued From Page One) Troop 13, the flame* spread so rapidly through the ancient struc ture, the building was destined iDr destruction before the firemen arrived on the scene. Scoutmas ter Royall Mercer, who discovered the blaze, said he noticed the warmth of the building when he went upstairs from the scout’s meeting room. “Passing the storage room, I noticed the smell of scorched wood,” Mercer said, “Opening the door, I saw the flames.” Scouts Clyde Neal and Ottis Ed wards turned in the alarm. Mercer said, and the fire trucks arrived at once. An inspection by the city Fire Inspection board following the blaze indicated an earlier state ment that defective wiring was the cause of the fire, was incorrect. McKee Maffitt, Gilbert Morton, Coy Bullard, and Chief Ludie Croom agreed that either spon taneous combustion or a careless ly dropped cigarette was respon sible. Some ironic twists to the huge blaze were discovered today. The ^ong books in the racks on the benches were unharmed, and the offices of the Rev. J. A. Rus sell were unharmed. The picture of the old Front Street Methodist church, was saved amid the fiery inferno. The historic church was actually built on Mulberry street, accord ing to W. Z. Corbett, longtime Wilmington resident. Corbett re vealed Grace street was named in honor of the church. Meanwhile the many churches in the city and from surrounding localities, were united in an ex pression of sympathy to the con gregation of the destroyed church, and a feeling of certainty that a larger, more beautiful church would result from the disaster persisted in all sections of grieved Wilmington. Jury Deliberates On Case Against Johnson HARRISBURG. Pa., March 22— WP)—A jury of three women and nine men deliberated tonight the government’s conspiracy case against former -Federal Judge Al bert W. Johnson and five co- de fendants without any indication of a quick agreement. Four hours after U. S. District Judge J. Alger Fee of Oregon gave the case to the jury, its members recessed for dinner with plans to resume their deliberation immedi ately afterward. C. W. DAVIS CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS Catering to the re tail grocer, hotels, Institutions, cafete rias, ' bakeries and outgoing vessels and ships. We cafry a full line of No. 10 canned vegetables and No. 10 canned fruits. I Distributors of Quality Foods 210-212 H. Water St MAL 6587 CSC BILL STAND TAKEN BY KERMOH (Continued From Fase 0rp plish it in the 18 month he continued, referring u, “ lation in a bill written bv Y'lpu' Senator Alcon Lennon an<i Jated that in the event the PU' government goes outside the „ Pit} department to pick a chief 0f ™ !C' for the city, he should not be IT' ed to hold the job over is ^ “until he has had with the men and train a n,Yrk the department to take ove- L : duties.” “"e Observers believe that the lators understood the feeling, '' the police department when wrote the bill. Nearly sj] ' • ficers have indicated their onY tion to going outside their deosn ment fo ra chief, saying this Cie P6. * re®ectlorl on us- as a bod', of law enforcement officers,” " “It has been shown from vious experience that going ' side the department to chief has been a failure and It i* is not the intention of Senjh Lennon or myself for the chief, position to be made » nn'lfw football,” he emphaticsllv dared. SUGAR, RENT ARE EXEMPTED (Continued From Page Onel ,?er” in which the bill pi,CJS those programs. "My present concern j* *,st these programs be continued ff. fectively until such time as they are no longer necessary.'' He wen' on. "1 have already directed that Hie utmost economies be made !r the administration of these pro grams, but I know it it not the intent oi the congress to cripple rent control and sugar rationing before the policy of the congress is determined with regard to the extension of these programs." Accordingly, Mr. Truman in no-nced that he had requested Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, ad ministrator of OTC. to “continue these programs on an effective basis, with the expectation that the congress will take furthr timely action on rent control »nd sugar rationing.” He called for “prompt action" by congress “to insure continuity." and he urged that the necessary funds be transferred to the agen cies which take over the ration ing and rent ceiling controls. In the case of sugar, a bill now pend ing would hand both price and ra tion authority to the agriculture department. Catawba President To Speak At Banquet SALISBURY. March 22- W - Dr. A. R. Keppel. president of Ct tawba college, will be the speak er when the county-wide council of Rowan parent-teachers has He annual banquet at China Grou high school April 18. Approximately 200 members from all county units are expected to attend. Mrs. R. L. Steel of Bear Poplar i* council president. Roman farmers gave much «' tention to the breeding of anin.ai? for special purposes.___ Deafened People May Now Hear Clearly Science has now made it possible for the deafened to hear fain sounds. It is a hearing devict io small that it fits in the hand » enables thousands to enjoy mons, music and fr'end • - panionship. Accepted by the C cil on Physical Medicine o ‘b. American Medical Ass This device does not :requu arate battery pack, battery case or garment to bul?e nd you down. 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