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£®ssss?s tlmumfnn iUittttttttt ^twt ____ State and National News -rT^o.—NO. 290. ~ * “ ----- -- 2-'— _| _.. _ - - —--WILMINGTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947 , ESTABLISHED 18*7 french Zone Merger Seen Marshal! Proposes Tri Nation Conference On German Industry WASHINGTON, July 24 - (U.R) - -e*ary of State George C. Mar •*N, has proposed an American -i-isii-French conference to con “,fr plans for increasing Western r'errnat v's industrial capacity , a making the Ruhr the key e of his European recovery s;an j; was revealed today ?Vii'e proposal may be the open o Wedge in a U. S. play to get . ance to merge her occupation w p 0f Germany with the already ‘e gcd American and British ,,;W. and thus present the Soviet Lni0i' with a solid three-power font in Germany. The minimum results could he , working arrangement for close] toleration by the Frencn if forma! merger of all three West #rn German zones is avo.ied. The U. S. plan also nny be ti.e final step in the division of Germany which, like the division e Europe, was foreshadowed Wien the Western European coun tries chose to proceed with the ■■Marshall plan" without Russia ,.,d her satellite Eastern Euro pean nations. Eliminates Threat The latest Marshall move elim |it,ales what appeared a wees ago to be a major threat to his eco nomic recovery plan, even though a has forced him to postpone one , his major objectives after fail ore of the Moscow conference. That objective was to put West ern Germany back on its feet as fast as possible. Internal French political prob Inns are at the root of the pre sen' situation. The formula Mar shall has extemporized is design (,o to keep France at all costs Iviioleheartedly :r the ‘‘Marshall Wan" and on the side of the West p gainst the East in the current (economic and diplomatic war. i The United States announced a week ago a new policy directive for Germany abandoning a "hard" peace and permitting the revival of German industry to help Europe recover. It was sup posed to have been followed im mediately with announcement of a new level of industry plan for Germany which would have don fc.ed the allowable industrial caoacity.' But France protested ioucuv igainst any plan to build up Ger many without her consultation or runout considering French secur ,ty needs. French Foreign Minis t'r Georges Bidault protested p: srply to the American and Bri t.sh ambassadors in Paris, an d french Ambassador Henri Eoi.ier repeated the protest to Marshall here. Bonnet said if decisions on Gel See FRENCH on Page Three CARRlXONERATED BY COURT ACTION Solicitor Moore Orders Nol Prosse In Case Involving Check Edward W. Carr, Chamber of Commerce membership drive l-ead and widely-known VVilmmg iton businessman, yesterday was [completely exonerated of any wrong doing in New Hanover county Superior Court. Judge Leo Carr, presiding and bin relation of the Wilmingtonian, declared that the action, if any. v. as a civil one. Solicitor Cliftcr. Moore ordered die case nol pross *ri Edward Carr was charged wnh passing a worthless check as the remit o-f v.-hat attorneys called mixup in a Deculiar situation. Carr, the manager of Shoemak ers. office equipment firm, had |topped payment on a $377 check. Attorneys pointed out yesterday )r. court that payment was halted “ keep Malcolm E. Thomas, sought in a nationwide hunt as the result of passing numerous tad checks recently in WJming Hon, from cashing it. Attorneys Edgar L. Yow and W B. Campbell, representing the defendant, related that Carr had ‘ efficient fund* in the bank and a; operators of the Carolina Camera shop who attempted to tosh ine check, were aware of that. Carr previously had been found S in Recorder's court ana the ■■’■--e was appealed. Attorneys told the court yesterday that Carr’s reputation had been conside.ably damaged by the incident and that Possible civil action might be forthcoming. The Weather FORECAST: Hu ,* i Carolina and North Carolina a" cioudy Friday and Saturday. ?lL*h,i- warmer Friday, continued warm Saturday. 'Eastern Standard Time) ■By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours •flding 7:20 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES a. m. 71; 7:30 a. m. 70: 2:30 p m. • p. m. 7g; Maximum 84; Mini n W, Mean 75; Normal 79. HUMIDITY 3 m. 84. 7:30 a. m. 76; 1:30 p. m. ■ 30 p. m. 80. m PRECIPITATION »?*' -4 hours ending 7:30 p. m. ,0? inches. *°>3i since tiie first of the month inches. TIDES FOR TODAY l the Tide Tables published by U. ra*t and Geodetic Survey). HIGH LOW ■'"hngton ___- 3:25 a.m. 10:38 a.m. ; Kt„ . 4:07 p.m. 11:15 p.m. 'rj0r° ir'et _ 1:20 am. 7:36 a.m. 2:10 p.m. 8 :17 p.m. dV'' " 5:18; Sunset 7:18: Moonrise Koonset | MV" *U** at Fayetteville. N. C. »t 8 TnurKiay 10.» J««t. NEWLY - APPOINTED .Nether lands Ambassador to the’ U. S., Dr. Eeleo N. Van Kleffens, is pic tured with his wife on their arrival at Hooboken, If. ,J., aboard the luxury liner Veendam. The Am bassador told reporters that thou sands of Dutch men and women are being held as hostages by In donesians in the interior oP Java. (International). GROUP TO STUDY RELATIONS COURT City, County Committee Named, After Boards Turn Down Move The joint meeting of the city council and county commissicn»rs yesterday voted down the estab lishment of a domestic relations court for New Hanover county. Mayor E. L. White yesterday appointed Councilmen J. E. L. Wade, W. E. Yopp and Ronald I.ane to look into the matte'. The actions came after repre sentatives of more than a dozen gioups, appeared with the • Com munity council, to urge the es tablishment of the court. In the original proposal Coun cilman Wade moved and Commis sioner Addison Hewlett seconded the motion to establish the court.. All council members voted in favor. Commissioner Hewlett cast his vote with the council. The re maining commissioners voied in opposition. Mayor White ruled the motion lost as a majority of the commissioners had not upheld the affirmative. The motion called, for the es tablishment of the court begin ning September 1 To Check Courts The committee to study .he pro posal will ascertain the court's workings and its success ui other cities including Charlotte. Opposition to its establishment See GROUP on Page Three Associated Charities Fate Hangs In Balance The fate of the Associated Chari ties in New Hanover county today is an uncertain matter. The city council and the county commissioners meeting yesterday to establish appropriations for the agency, or to act on merging it with the Public Welfare Depart ment had not settled either ques tion when the joint body of the two organizations adjourned at 1:30 p. m., following a three and a half hour meeting. It had, however, alloted appro priations to carry tne agency’s operation through this month. That was £one after discussions and the fate of the charities had come to naught. Rev. Alexander Miller, member of the governing body of the As sociated Charities, made a dra matic plea urging that the agency at least be given an appropriation equal to that of a year ago and that a committee be named to make “a complete and detailed written report*’ on its activities and necessity, if any, of its con tinuance. His plea brought prompt action from the council and commission See ASSOCIATED On Page Three FLAMES DESTROY WATERSIDE STAGE Fire Causes Cancellation Of “Lost Colony” Per formances At Manteo MANTEO, Julu 24— CU.R)—Fire broke out in the Waterside theater at historis Fort Raleigh today and cestroyed the stage and other buildings used in the famous ‘Lost Colony” pageant depicting the ill-fated colony of Sir Walter Raleigh. The blaze was believed 10 have started from a short circuit in an electric organ. It spread quickly ar.d destroyed a chapel, two small cabins, most o£ the stockade around the stage and the choir loft-all used in staging the out door pageant. The women's messing room and an organ also were badly dam aged. Stubborn Blaze The fire was discovered abom 5 p. m. (EST) and Manteo fire men and volunteers fought for an hour and a half before bringing L* under control. John A. Walker, general man ager of the pageant which attracts thousands of visitors' annually to See FLAMES On Page Three TO TRY AGAIN Morning Star Bureau WASHINGTON, July 24 — Another effort to obtain a por tion of the North Carolina Ship building company’s idle yard at Wilmington, for the State Ports Authority will be made here tomorrow. Authority Chairman R. B. Page of Wilmington and Con gressman J. Bayard Clark, of Fayetteville, will discuss the matter with Raymond S. Mc Keough, a member of the Mari time pommission. The commission, which owns the yard, is keeping it in re serve for possible emergency shipbuilding needs. * t V MAYOR WHITE CLAIMS RAISE IN CIT Y TAXES NECESSARY IN 1947-48 That the city tax rate will be increased in the 1947-48 fiscal year is nearly a certainity. Mayor E. L. White is the author ity for that statement. He told a joint meting of the council and county commissioners that there is no other way of maintaining local government operations. “If we don’t increase the tax rate, the city will be way way in the red at the end of this fiscal year,” the mayor asserted. His statement came during a discus sion of financial support of the Associated Charities. “Taxes must be increased as much as we hate to do it,” he said. He added that he believed the the local governments made a mistake in cutting the rate from the $1.50 figure where it w'as a few years ago. Taxing* Ver Hastens ^fvounded Wife Cnadbourn Man Gains Freedom On $1,000 Bond Following Arrest On Charges Of Assault With Attempt To Kill Special To The Star WHITEVILLE, July 24 — Fur man Ward, Chadbourn taxicab operator, walked out of the county jail here today under $1,000 bond and hastened to the Columbus County hospital to visit his es tranged wife he is charged with having attempted to kill with a shotgun blast Wednesday night. His visit with his wife, Mrs. Pauline Ward, pretty 23-year-old mother of two small children, came shortly after a call had been paid her by Bobby Stewart, 19, Chadbourn theater usher, who was escorting the young mother home when she was felled by the gunshot blast. “Mr. Ward told me he didn’t intend to shoot his wife — he said me meant to shoot Stewart in stead, but Mrs. Ward stepped in front of Stewart just as he fired,’’ said Miss Veda Merle Williams, daughter of Columbus county jailer Rosier Williams. “He said,’’ continued Miss Wil liams, who is a nurse’s aide at the hospital where Mrs. Ward is being treated for her wounds, “that he meant to shoot Stewart because he had been going with [Mrs. Ward." I Stewart and Mrs. Ward, carry ling the two small Ward children, See TAXI On Page Three Fifty-Two Cent Tobacco Looms For Leaf Growers murder mystery LANSING, Mich., July 24. — VP)— The State Conservation de partment today probed the case of the nervous smelt. Investigators of the Fisheries Research institute said numer ous smelt had been found dead in Crystal lake and autopsy re ports showed they had “an ab normality with pathological im plications of the nervous sys tem.’’ HEADWINDS DELAY SCOUT CANOEISTS Searching Party Finds Boys Encamped 17 Miles Up Cape Fear River Their progress retarded by strong headwinds and rainfall, eight Boy Scouts who set forth from Fayetteville by canoe Mon day to paddle their way down the Cape Fear to Wilmington were safely encamped last night ]7 miles up the river from here. Running more than 24 hours be hind their planned schedule, the boys, all of them qualified junior life savers, had been expected to tie up at the Customhouse dock in See HEADWINDS On Page Three First Day’s Sales On Geor gia-Florida Belt Indicate N. C. Prices RALEIGH, July 24 — (A>)—Open ing sales of the Georgia Florida tobacco market, where tobacco is sold Untied and ungraded, indi c, ted that North Carolina pro ducers may expect an average ci $49 to $52 per hundred pounds when the Border Belt auctions be gin August 7, according to an es timate today by W. P. Hedricic, tobacco marketing specialist witi the state department of agricul ture. North Carolina’s t i e d-anrf graded tobacco brings an average of $4 per hundred pounds above the Georgia product, Hedricii said. marly figures ootainea oy nea rick from Georgia indicaced an opening-day average between $42 and $47, with the bulk of tne to bacco going for $45 and $53. The highest-priced pile brought $36, and the lowest sold for $14 per hundred. Hedrick was informed that the quality of the Georgia crop was much better than last year’s. Producers sold 136.000,000 pounds on the Georgia-Florida markets last yeir for a lotal of $58,000,000 and an average of $43. 20. Producers of flue-cured toiacco in North Carolina sold 894,228,330 pounds for $445,634,681, an aver age of $49.83. The opening average on the Burder Belt, which started auc tions on August 1, was $50.30. The belt wound up the season with a total average of $51.05. Other season averages last ye-’r were Fastern Belt, $51.85; Old Belt. $41.37; and Middle Belt, $46.50. See FIFTY-TWO On Page Three TWOMENKILLED IN PISTOL DUEL Two Former Friends Shoot It Out On Streets Of Louisiana Town MONTGOMERY, La.. July 24.— UP)—Two former friends, who fell out during a political argument, met on the main street and shot each other to death in a midr.ignt pistol duel. Sheriff H. Gillis Bowen of Grant Parish said today that Irvin C. Dyson, 67-year-old former con stable, fell dead in his tracks with five bullet wounds in his body. The other participant, Clyde Sheffield, 37-year-old grocery merchant, was hit twice by bullets, walked about 20 feet and cDed ten minutes later. « 'At the coroner's inquest, the sheriff said, a witness told the jury that the men had argued ear lier in the evening in a restaurant over the approaching campaign for governor. But just what the point of con tention was had not been made clear. Sheffield was a member of the Parish school board. He leaves a wido\v and two small children Dyson formerly was in the tim bei business. He is survived by several gdbwn chi'dren. Explosion Traps Workers In West Frankfort Mine; GOP May Recall Congress Leaders Will 0 Demand Right Senate Works Night Shift In Effort To Finish Business Saturday WASHINGTON. July 24.— (JP) — Republican leaders announced to day that they would demand au thority to call Congress into spe cial session this fall, if necessary, and then ordered the Senate to work tonight in an effort to assure adjournment by Saturday. Scattered talk of prolonged argu ment over several issues, includ ing the State department's “Voice Of America” foreign broadcasts and a GOP proposal to look into the justice department’s handling of alleged Kansas city vote frauds, kept the adjournment schedule on an uneven keel. In a burst of speed today, Con gress wrapped up several major bills for delivery to President Tru man. The Senate and House, with little debate, wound up action on: 1. The $8,189,122,927 independent offices appropriation bill — biggest single spending program for this fiscal year ending next June 30. Most of the money — $6,964,457, 080 — was earmarked for the vast array of GI benefit programs op erated by the Veterans administra tion. The vitally important Atom ic Energy commission got $175, 000,000 which was $75,000,000 less than Chairman David E. Lilien tlial requested. 2. A bill freezing the Social Se curity tax on employers and em ployes at one per cent each through 1949. Beginning in 1950. the tax will go to 1 1-2 per cent each, and in 1952 and thereafter to two per cent. 3. A supplemental supply meas ure granting $35,500,000 cash for the National Housing agency’s veterans’ housing program. (Editors: Fmal action tonight is expected on the agriculture de | See LEADERS WILL on Page 3 HOSPITAL FUNDS STILL UNDECIDED Joint Boards However, Authorize $88,000 Ten tative 1947-8 Budgets Recommendations of a special committee from the joint bodies of the city council and the county commissioners as to detailed ap* propriations for both the James Walker Memorial and the Com j munity hospitals, will not be com Ipleted for some time. But today the two institutions have tentative amounts on which they can work. In addition, the way has been cleared for the Com munity hospital to take care of a $6,537 deficit from the last fiscal year. The joint session yesterday voted a $88,000 tentative budget appro priation for the two hospitals for 1947-48. Of that total, $48,000 is ear-marked for the Memorial hos pital and $40,000 for the Negro institution. Commissioner J. H. Hall moved that such appropria tions be adopted. Larger runus The tentative appropriations of $88,000 is about $12,000 more than was budge!ed for the two hospitals last year. The purpose of such an allotment 'was to allow the hospitals to carry on while the special committee works out further details. Mayor E. L. White stated that the committee making a study of the hospitals will not be ready to report for "some time." Disbursements for various de partments of the hospitals, includ ing salary requirements and like matters, will be decided upon fol lowing the committee’s report. See HOSPITAL on Page Three THERE IS A BILL in the Senate authorizing permanent resi dency in the U. S. for Mrs. John G. Miller, the former Akito Tsukado, who is shown here with her husband, Lt. John J. Miller, of Beaver, Pa., and their son, John, Jr., 8. The Millers were married in 1986 in Japan. They now reside in Newport, B, I., where Miller is statlonedT (International). Indonesians Claim Dutch Drive Halted BATAVIA, Java, July 24 —(UR) - Indonesian broadcasts claimed to day that the Dutch drive on the Republican capital of Jogjakarta had been stopped in the moun tains more than 30 miles North, but the Dutch insisted their cam paign was progressing favorably ar.d indicated it might soon i.e finished. Lt. Gen. S. H. Spoor, command er of the Dutch army in Indo nesia, announced officially that the big North coast port of Cheri bon had been captured intact, cut tmg off the Indonesians from their last shipping gateway to the outside world. Fifty thousand tons of rubber v ere seized in the port, spoor said in his first press conference since hostilities opened Sunday. Ay! American source in Batavia said that an American freighter of the Isbrandtsen line loading tapioca flour, corn and peanuts in Cheri ton fled before the Dutch took See INDONEAIANS On Page Three Close-Mouth Girl Chews WoodToUnlockHerJaw WINSTON-SALEM, July 24—CP) —Winston-Salem's yawn girl, Miss Wayne Ferguson, today started gnawing wood in an effort to un lock her jaws—clamped shut since a. lethal yawn June 28. That day she yawned as she leaned over to open a, gate and “something snapped.’’ For a while her mouth wouldn’t close. Then it snapped shut and since has stay ed that way, earning her the title of Forsyth county’s most close mouthed woman. For she hasn’t been able to get her teeth more than a quarter inch apart since. She’s been examined by 15 doc tors, who admit they don’t know what's wrong. She’s taken sulfa drugs, penicillin, and eggnog. She even wore a harness on her head. Pint-sized to begin with, Miss Ferguson has lost 33-pounds dur ing her 26-day liquid diet. But this afternoon she was spot ted at the model airplane counter of a local sporting good store. She was buying Balsa wood to chew. Her doctor prescribed it in the hope it would be the “open se same” to those locked jaws. FIANCE GROWS COLD SO GREENSBORO GIRL ASKS $165,000 BALM GREENSBORO, July 24 - <A>) — A $165,000 breach of promise suit has been filed m federal court In Buffalo N. Y., by Kathryn O'Con nor of Greensboro, against a ; e tired Jamestown, N. Y., business man, her attorney revealed here today. The suit names Conrad A. John son, listed as foimer presiJent and general manager of Excel Metal Cabinet company, James town, N, Y. Miss O’Connor claims the Jamestown man proposed marri age in March 1945, set their wed ding for September 1946, but in July 1946 indicated he had chang ed his mind. Pretzels Take On New Twist In Drive For Trade; Capitol Cops Come Cropper Combing Congressmen Brandishing Of Blackjacks Costs Jobs, Report So Indicates WASHINGTON. July 24 _ (*>) — Capitol cops can’t make passes at Congressmen with blackjacks and get away with it. One of them tried it last week and immediately lost his job. The disclosure was made to the House Appropriations committee by William F. Russell, house ser geant at arms, while testifying in behalf of additional funds for more capitol policemen. He didn’t get the money. Russell was telling the commit teemen that when a justifiable complaint is made against a capi tol cop, the oifender invarjablv is discharged. Last week, he said, "I haci a complaint that cne of them bad attacked a member with a biack See BRANDISHING On F*«e Hiree Along The Cape Fear GHOST STORIES — The Cape Fear and surrounding territory is background for many stories of a weird and unnatural aspect. Do you know any? A particularly unnatural story, perhaps remembered by many of the older residents of this com munity, concerns what else but e graveyard, St. James graveyard. The incidents were supposed to have occurred in 1810. At that time there were two young men living in • Wilmington. Their names were Samuel R. Jocelyn and Alexander Hostler. Both being of a philosophical mind, one day the subject of a discussion centered about the pas sibility of whether souls return to the earth. They sgreed then and there tnat the first one of the two who might di« would make an effort to return and make himself known to the other. Then the question would be *et tied. * * * DEATH — The story goes that Jocelyn was soon afterwards thrown from a horse and was found dead on a road side. He was buried in St. James churchyard. His friend Hcstier, a few days after the burial, v as sitting aiore when the dead man appeared be fore him. He asked why Hostler had al lowed him to be buried -alive. Hostler, the story continues, asked, “You were not dead! ; And the apparition replied, '“No.’: For three successive nights this occurred and finally the dead See CAPE FEAR Os F»*« Three Industry Goes Scholarly By Production Of New Alphabet PHILADELPHIA, July 24—f.P!— There’s a new twist to pretzels, the bakers proclaimed today. Alphabet shapes, The Notional Pretzel Bakers institute sail, are the next in evolution of the tasty tidbit that began as an oval with a sort of “Y” inside and more recently has been marketed also as slim,straight' sticks. President Norval Postweiler ot the institute admittedl with some embarrassment, that only 17 let ters are available now. “We’re ex perimenting and hope to have all 26 in production soon,” he added “some of them are pretty difficult to make or keep intact.” Meanwhile the institute laid plans to forge ahead with its ed ucational campaign of the claim See INDUSTRY On Pag* Three YOU H WILL LEAD R AVAL SERVICE Interest Grows In Non-De nominational Meeting Here Next Month Emphasis on the non-denomina tional youth revival to be held at Calvary Baptist church from Au gust 11 to 17 has reached a new high with the organization of sev en prayer bands and the issuance of letters to all the churches in the city to support the movement. While the revival is being con ducted for persons of all ages, cards have been sent to persons who attended high school last year in an effort to stimulate interest in the event. The religious jervices will be in charge of young people the entire week. The newly organized prayer1 bar.ds, which are meeting once a day and will meet once a day | through ®the revival, follow the schedule given below. Monday, 8 p.m., Calvary Bap tist. Miss Catherine Rivenbark, I leader; Tuesday, 5:45 p.m., Cal vary Baptist, Miss Barbara Guy ton, leader; Wednesday, 9:30 p. m., Calvar; Baptist, Steve Horrill, leader; Thursday, 8 p. m., Calvary I Baptist, Emory Holden, leader: j Friday, 8 p. m., home of David Godwin, 411 Red Cross Street. David Godwin, leader; Saturday. 8 p'. m., Calvary Baptist, Hovev Pope, leader: Sunday, 4 p. m.. ' Calvary Baptist, Lester Guyton leader. _»_ l STEAMER ACCIDENT OTTAWA, July 24—OP)—The riv er steamer Klondike, carrying Viscount Alexander on a tour of the Canadian North, went aground today at Fort Selkirk, Yukon, and the RCAF has been asked to fly the passengers to Dgwson city, the army reported. No one was in jured in the aceident. -* ar • Six Injured From Flames Howard Lewis, Brother 01 UMW Chief Among Missing Miners WEST FRANKFORT, III., , July 24. — (U.R) — Rescue work ers came up from the explo sion-blasted Old Ben coal min* No. 8 tonight and reported that 27 miners had been found dead. WEST FRANKFORT. 111., July 24. —(A't— Two miners were fami ly injured, six severely buined amt a score or more trapped by rag ing flames today when an under ground blast shook the Old Bert company’s No. 8 mine while an estimated 200 were in the diggings. One of the miners, Carroll Stev ens, was dead when removed frftm the mine and Thomas Palmer, 40, died several hours later in a hos pital of burns and other injuries. Howard Lewis, underground superintendent of No. 8 and broth er of UMW Chieftain John L. Lewis, was reported missing and one mine spokesman said he may “possibly” be among those trap ped. Most of those who escaped did sn through an auxiliary air shaft equipped with stairways for such an emergency." The trapped men were in telephone communication with rescue workers at the sur face. Mine Superintendent H. L. Adams said the entire day shift of 200 e was in the BOO foot deep mine at the time of the explosion and that about 20 men were working in the immediate vicinity of the blast. Shattered Wreck Charles Lonsbury, compensation agent for the company, said “there are 23 men still unaccounted fop down in the mine.” Survivors de scribed the blast area as a “shat tered wreck.” - M*ny of the workers who escap ed the blast have returned to the mine to aid in rescue operations. In United Mine Workers hospital with critical burns and suffering from fracture? and abrasions from the concussion were Frank Casper. 43; Charles Smith, 36; and Thoma* Kirby, 41. Eddie Franco, a UMW official, said Stevens apparently was suf focated and added: “There doesn’t appear to be any chance for the others still trapped.” There was no official explana gee SIX On P*ge Three 1 AHOSKIE KIWANIS1 CLUB SQUARES UP Harvey Jones, Negro, Get» $3,200 Check In Lieu j Of New Cadillac J By CHARLES WICKENBERO United Press Staff Correspondent AHOSKIE, July 24 —(U.R)-Tna Ahoskie Kiwanis club squared it self with Harvey Jones today by giving a $3,200 check to the yaun< former who won a Cadillac in the club’s lottery because he> was lucky and lost it because he was a Negro. Jones said “it s .wonderful—it’s just what 1 wanted,” because tho money would build a new homo for his young wife and their two months old son. “I knew I was lucky.” The International Kiwanis Pres ident, Dr. Charles W. Armstrong; of Salisbury, looked on as local President Rupert Massey gave Jones the eheetc. Massey called it ‘‘a gesture of good will to all people.” The 23-year-old navy veteran held the lucky number at the drawing but the Kiwanians told him he wasn’t eligible to win be cause the dance was oniy for whites. They drew again ani the two-tone greerr ser.an went to * Wav^rlv, Va., dentist. The incident boiled up protests all over the country and the local club announced on Armstrong s ‘recommendation ’ that it would give Jones another car. 3ut trta Negro said he would rather have the money. So they gave him a check, bee AHOSKIE on Page Threo And So To Bed * Three thousand rabid fans — more or less, anyway pack ed Legion stadium last night for the Wilmington-Lumberton double-header. And 3,000 rabid fans heard the announcer say over the public address system that he had just received word that .fchnny Peacock was in the stands. Good old Johnny, who used to field and catch for the Pirates in the old Piedmont league, back in the days before he graduated into the majors. Would Johnny Peacock pleaso stand up and be recognized, the announcer wondered? Well, sir, you’d never guess there were so many Johnny Peacocks in one baseball crowd. At least a thousand guys stood up in response to the announcer’s invitation. j