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FORECAST: + ^ * Served By Leased Wlre* =s umttmintt Mnrmtm i^sz - ■ State »nd National New» VOjb.^—Q——-—___WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947" _ESTABLISHED 1867 Industry Bans Film Exports American Motion Pictures Will Be Denied To Brit ish Audiences NEW YORK, Aug. 8—(#>)—Amer ; a*s nictior picture industry, hit back at a severe tax imposed hv Great Britain on U. S. films, today placed a flat ban on ship ment of all feature pictures and sbort subjects to Britain. " Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPA), announced .the decision after a closed three-hour s5ion attended by 50 film exe cutives. The vote on the ban was not announced. The tax, announced yesterday by great Britain as a measure to combat that country’s dollar short age was attacked by Johnston who declared in a statement that it ,.jp effect strangles American film shipments to England.” The British described the levy officially as a 30 per cent ad va lorem payment but Johnston said jt* "confiscates 75 per cent of the earnings on future imports of the American film industry to Bri tain.” "If the British do not want Amer ican films, that’s one thing,” the y p, A. head commented. “If they do. they shouldn’t expect to get" a dollar’s worth .of films for a quarter.” The ban, if continued for a long period, is expected to have im portant effects in both the United Stales and Britain. In recent years U. S. films have earned about $400,000,000 annual ly in the British market and have constituted about 80 per cen{ of fne films shown in Britain, it was »aid here. Of the $400,000,000, about $332, 000.000 has remained in Britain is taxes, promotional expense and other operation costs. The re maining net earnings of $68,000,000 have been converted into dollars and transferred to the United States. The M. P. A. estimates that under the new tax only about 25 per cent of these net earnings would be realized. Johnston said the new tax “was imposed at a time when the Amer ican industrj-, conscious of Bri tain's dollar crisis, had voluntar ily suggested measures of a prac tical nature to help at once the drain of British exchange. Proposal Submitted “Our members desired to meet the British halfway by offering to block, during the crisis, a sub stantial share of the earnings ol the American film companies in Britain. “This proposal was submitted to responsible British cabinet minis ters, prior to the announcement of See INDUSTRY on Page Two ASHEVILLE GETS FOOD CONVENTION North Carolina Dealers As sociation To Meet There September 7 The annual convention of the North Carolina Food Dealers as sociation, of which two Wilming ton men are officers, will open in Asheville Sunday, Sept. 7, for a three day meeting, it was an nounced last night. A dinner meeting at the George Vanderbilt hotel for the directors and the state association will get the convention underway. A recep tion will follow in honor of John B. May. president of the state asso ciation. Sunday evening a meeting of the directors will be held. The program follows: Monday the meeting will be called to order by John L. Lawr ence, president of the A-G stores of Asheville. Invocation will be given by Rev. Jullian Bandy, Gos pel Tabernacle, Asheville, N. C. Community singing will be led by Seth Perkinson, field secretary of the Y. M. C. A. Asheville. •Addresses of welcome will he given by Wayor C. E. Morgan and Arthur Jones, manager of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Response to the addresses of wel come will be given by Hon. O. A. Swaringen of Concord. The president of the North Caro lina Food Dealers association will he introduced by John L. Lawr ence, president of the Asheville association. The first talk of the convention will be given by Watson Rogers, President of the National Food Rrokers association of Washington See ASHEVILLE on Page Two The Weather FORECAST: .ojtn and South Carolina — Partly *ou<ly and continued warm Saturday Sunday with scattered afternoon r,ti evening thundershowers. (Eastern Standard Time) ‘by L'. S. Weather Bureau) ('* ■' ■ o', oy iral data for the 24 hours saing J:3o p. m. yesterday. , TEMPERATURES d t) a. m. 75; 7;3o a. m. 77; 1:30 p. m. JJ’ 1 ;30 p. m. 78; Maximum 8 ; Mini “um 14, Mean 80; Normal 78. , HUMIDITY m. 87; 7:30 a. m. 86. 1:30 p. m. bl; '(30 P. m. 81. PRECIPITATION . ‘a. for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. • mein,a ,*c:- since the first of the month yy inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (oin the Tide Tables published by s Coast and Geodetic Survey). ,,, HIGH LOW ifnington. _ 2:25 a.m. 9:31 a.m. . 3:13 p.m. 10:37 p.m. “sonboro Inlet .. 11:52 a.m. 6:25 a.m. ,. 12:38 p.m. 7:05 p.m. sunnse 5:29; Sunset 7:06: Moonrise R«p; Moonset 12:35p. , ver stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at * m Friday 3.2 feet. More WEATHER On Page Two FOUR SOCIALLY PROMINENT MASSACHUSETTS residents died when their chartered plane crashed into this 40-foot high brick furnace at Everett, Mass. Here a crane lifts the burned remains of the fuselage from inside the cauldron. Dead were identified as Thom as Mandell, 55, Boston broker, his daughters, Ann, 22, and Harriet, 19, and John Nelson Borland Pell, 32, pilot. Wife Of Prosecutor Kills Father-In-Law i MISSTEP FATAL PITTSBURGH, Aug. 8.—(/B— A misstep at tiie top of a long flight of steps in this hilly steel city sent a 35-year-old truck driver hurtling to his death in a street 40 feet below. When police reached the body of Frank Paul last night they found nearby a smashed box of chocolate candies. Inside was a card: “To my wife on our eleventh anniversary.” CORN COSTS SOAR AS CROPS WITHER New Heat Wave Bears Down On Parched Farm lands Of Middle States CHICAGO, Aug. 8 —(U.R)— The second heat wave in a week bore down on already parched Mid western farmlands today, sending corn prices to new all-time highs. Farm experts said it was the worst Midwestern hot spell in six years. In many areas there had been no measurable rainfall for three weeks, and none was in sight. The heat wave was centered in the corn belt, but its effects were expected to be felt throughout the nation. Observers said the corn infla tionary spiral, Ivhich started near ly two months ago, probably would affect feed costs and force consumers to dig still deeper for the price of a juicy steak or a slice of roast pork. Iowa and Nebrasda farmers looked searchingly at the sky for signs of rain, as ripening corn be gan to droop under the pressure of strong, hot wdnds. Much corn, planted late because of spring floods, already was lost as the topsoil dried up. Soaking rains now would assure only a “fair” crop, observers said. COTTON FORECAST UP 38 PER CENT Agriculture Department Sets Expefcted Yield At 11,840,000 Bales WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 —(U.R)— The Agriculture department to day forecast this year’s crop at 11,844,000 bales, 38 percent above last year’s crop, and prices on New York and New Orleans fu tures markets promptly dropped. The break in the New York market at the news, when traders started liquidating, exceeded $5 a bale. In New Orleans, the market reacted to the unexpectedly large estimate with declines of more than $6 a bale before trade buy ing halted the drop. A crop of 11,844,000 bales would See COTTON On Page Two Hot Springs Socialite Fires Fatal Shots, During Argument HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug —(U.R) —The pretty blonde wife of Ar kansas’ rising young racket-bust er, Sidney S. McMath, shot and killed her father-in-law last night after a violent argument and her husband asserted today it could only have been an accident. McMath, Marine hero whose service revolver was used in the shooting, immediately aligned himself on his wife’s side in “the greatest tragedy of our lives.’’ The exact events leading to the death of Hal McMath, 57-year-old former barber and farmer, still had not been mapped but the younger McMath said the shoot ing apparently was the outgrowth of abuse by his father of a'show horse at the attorney’s ranch home. The elder McMath had been in the habit of coming to the estate daily to take care of the live stock, his son said. Young Mc Math said his father had been drinking heavily for several years and only last week had agreed to enter an institution for treatment. See WIFE On Page Two PARADEOFYOUTH SET FOR MONDAY March Through Downtown Area To Signal Start Of Revival Week A parade made up of the youth of Wilmington and surrounding areas to begin at 4th and Market streets Monday night at 6:45 o’clock will highlight the number vary Youth organization in con of events sponsored by the Cal nection with the Youth Revival week, August 11-17 in Wilmington, it was announced yesterday. The parade will form' at 4th and Market streets and will march down Market street to Front. The youths will travel up Front street to Red Cross and turn right at Red Cross to 4th street. The pa rade will turn left at 4th street and go to the Calvary Baptist church at F-ourth and Brunswick street where it will disband in time for the 7:30 youth revival services. Two trucks, one carrying a port able organ, will lead the parade which will be escorted by Wil mington’s motorcycle policemen. Songs and hymns will be sung by members in the parade as they march to the church. The parade is given under the auspices of the Calvary Baptist Youth Organization to stimulate more interest in the revival week. Preaching services will be con ducted at 8 o’clock by the Rev. George White, a member of the association of missionaries in Brunswick county._ Venomous Snake Cooked With Flame - Thrower GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 8.— (U.R)_The U. S. Army, the Air Force, and firemen came to the aid of terrorized residents of the suburb of old Greenwich today and sprayed a stone wall from beginning to end with an M-Z flamethrower to fry an elusive venemous snake. Not even a mouse, let a.one a snake, showed its head as the me licked into the crevices. But Cap.. William F. Parker who directed the assault, said it was safe to assume that the snake was cook None ever saw the snake, al though he undoubtedly was in the wall—he killed two dogs—and ex perts were certain that he was a copper-head. The dogs, a Dachs hund and an Airdale. were dead within an hour after they were found writhing and howling near the wall. _ Amateur snake hunters _ failed. Greenwich Time, the local news paper, suggested that a flame thrower was needed and asked Army authorities at Fort Slocum, N. Y., whether they could help. Fort Slocum had a flamethrow er, but no fuel. A B-25 from Mitch ell Field, New York, flew in a sup ply of fuel'from Edgewood Arsen al in Maryland last night- - Bright and early today, Parker, a master sergeant and a corporal, See ARMY on Page Two Truman Signs ‘Credit’ Bill President Raps Congress For Failure To Extend Installment Laws WASHINGTON, . Aug. 8.—(U.R)— President Truman, clearing his lesk of the stack of bills left there 3y Congress, today signed legisla tion keeping the lid on installment buying for only three months more. He said in signing it, however, that it was “unfortunate” that the legislators refused to continue the controls for a longer period and “diminish inflationary pressures.” Mr. Truman reached the bottom of the pile of 194 measures enact ed by Congress in the adjournment rush two weeks ago and left al most immediately for a weekend of relaxation at his Shangri - La hideaway at Thurmont, Md, In disposing of the bills, Mr. Truman also: 1. Signed a bill under which the prewar system of granting quotas and subsidies to sugar producers will be revived beginning Jan. 1, 1948. 2. Vetoed a measure which would have continued for two years wartime subsidies to en courage production of copper, lead and certain other mineral ores. 2. Signed legislation under which the Agriculture department will sell some 80,000,000,000 board feet of timber in the Tongass National forest of Alaska, for the manufac ture of pulp and newsprint. Under the Credit Control Exten sion law all federal curbs on in stallment buying will end Nov. 1. They require a down-payment of at least one-third on all installment purchases—except furnflura and rugs which require 20 per cent— and prohibit payments from run ning more than 15 months. Mr. Truman rapped Congress for its failure to follow the recommen dations of his council of economic advisers and the Federal Reserve board to continue the controls un til all inflationary dangers are past. But he signed the bill without hesitation, saying that “continua tion for the next three months of present controls ... is preferable to immediate abandonment of these restraints.” man to avoid undue relaxation of retail credit terms. He said that price cuts, rather than easier cred it buying, would be a batter way to obtain new customers. MEMPHIS PASTOR HEADS COMMITTEE Presbyterians Name Dr. Thomas K. Young As Protestant Co-Op. MONTREAT, Aug. 8 — (/P) —Dr. Thomas K. Young, minister of the Idlewild Presbyterian church, Memphis, Tenn., was chosen here today as chairman of a church wide committee on Protestant co operation. Dr. Young is moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyte rian church fully affiliated with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Young was named as head of a committee of laymen and min isters who are committed to Prot estant cooperation who will pro vide for factual information on the service of the federal council throughout the church. This step, it was emphasized, was made necessary by the sub mission of the questions as to whether or not the southern Pres byterian church should remain in the council to the 87 Presbyteries by the last general assembly. These Presbyteries will express their judgement on the question during the coming year, and the 1948 assembly will decide the mat ter, according to the Rev. Aubrey N. Brown, Richmond, Va., editor of the Presbyterian Outlook, a weekly religious magazine. Associated with Young on. the executive committee of the group will be Dr. P. D. Miller, San An tonio, Texas; Dr. James A. Jones, Charlotte, E. L. Repass, Salem, Va.; R. A. Farnsworth, Houston, Texas, and Gordop Palmer, Tus caloosa, Ala. Ministers and laymen who gath ered here for the meeting heard Young read a partial list of those who will compose the larger com mittee, including Dr. C. Grier See MEMPHIS on Page Two Hughes Defends High Cost Of Big Aerial Cargo Boat; Calton Court Hearing Set _ i—-1_ Rhodes Death Under Probe Airport Night Watchman Faces Murder Charge At Hendersonville Special to the Star HENDERSONVILLE, Aug. 8 — Night Watchman J. R. Calton of The Asheville-Hendersonville air port will be given a preliminary hearing in Henderson county Re corder’s court on August 25 on a charge of murder in connection with the death of Noah Cecil Rhodes, Jr., Wilmington student at Mars Hill college, Sheriff F. D. Dalton said late tonight. Calton was arrested early this morning by Sheriff Dalton and later released on a $2,500 bond for his appearance. Sheriff Dalton said the warrant was signed after a conference with 18th District Solicitor C. O, Rid ings, who indicated he would be present when the case is given a hearing before Judge J. E. Ship man. The Recorder’s court is without final jurisdiction and Judge Shipman will sit as a com mitting magistrate. Calton is alleged to have admit ted that he shot the young college student at 2:15 Thursday morn ing. The watchman related that he shot the boy after Rhode ad vanced upon him with a chock he had removed from beneath the wheels of an airplane. The watchman told Sheriff Dal ton that the Wilmington youth said he was going to “take a plane,” but the sheriff said that Calton could not remember having heard the youth say he was going to “steal” a plane. The Henderson county sheriff said late tonight that it was pos sible that Rhodes was going to purchase a ticket and being a stranger did not know that the ticket office was closed. Sheriff Dalton said that we went to the airport early Thursday night to talk with Calton and found him asleep in his car. He said to night that he was going to “throughly investigate” the night watchmen at the airport. The sheriff said he was not noti fied of the shooting until "about 10:30 Thursday morning, when the Asheville police asked me to bring the Henderson county coroner over there to investigate the death of the Rhodes boy.” The sheriff ex plained that since the entire air port is located in Henderson coun ty it was under the jurisdiction of Henderson county authorities. He said he ordered the Ashe ville police to return the body of Rhodes to Hendersonville. “I gave them one hour to return the body,” he said and added that the Ashe See RHODES on Page Two TWO KILLED, FIVE INJURED IN CRASH Fayetteville, Vander Wom en, Dead, Children Hos pitalized For Hurts FAYETTEVILLE, Aug. &—(&)— Two women were killed and five children were hospitalized here to day with injuries suffered in the collision of two automobiles on the Fayetteville-White Lake highway. The dead were identified as Mrs. T. L. Lucas of Fayetteville and Mrs. Charles Allen of nearby Van der. They were reported to have been drivers of the two cars, which collided on a straight section of the road. While details of the ac cident were not immediately avail able, the highway was said to have been made slippery by rain. The injured children were being treated at Fayetteville hospitals. They were identified as Billy Al len, Joyce Allen, Sally Allen, Eliz abeth Lucas and Betty McBride. The extent of their injuries was not disclosed. __ Along The Cape Fear NEGRO HEAD POINT — Negro Head point is a historic Wilming ton landmark.lt divides the waters of the Cape Fear river into the northwest and the northeast branches. It derives its name from a melancholy and sad incident in the days of slavery. That story has been told and retold in many ver sions but probably the following is the one most authentic, accor ding to early day historians. In the latter part of the year 1831, through efforts of persons from the Northern states, an in surrection of Negro slaves occured. Starting in Southampton, Virginia, the revolt spread rapidly into other states, particularly North Caro lina. One story has it that a number of white women and children be came victims of the uprising. At any rate, white residents of the locality of Wilmington became in furiated. A race war seemed in evitable. * * * CONFLICT LOOMS — Approach es to the town of Wilmington were guarded by the militia. Two com panies of United States troops, numbering 170 men, from Fort ress Monroe, were placed on dut.y here for several months. The possibility of the uprising slowly passed. Some leaders were captured. And some of those were put to death. Four were hanged near what was then known as Gi blem lodge on Princess street. Some others of the leaders were shox. According to the custom of the day, after their death, they were decapitated. The heads were placed on poles erected in con spicuous places as a warning to others who might think of revolt. Many of those poles were erected at what became known as Negro Head Point. * * # SLAVE MARKET — At Market and Front«streets, only a short dis stance from what then, as well as now, was the river wharf where steamers docked, stood the town market house. It was at that point where the slave trade was con stantly carried on until 1863. Not many instances are avail able in written form today of in cidents at that point. BEARDED LIKE A BIBLICAL PROPHET, 66-year-old Shelby Ever Gragg, North Carolina preacher, poihts an accusing finger at a known bootlegger and sounds off about the evils of drink. Elder Gragg was one of a number of religious speakers at the annual “Sing ing on the Mountain’’ festival at the base of Grandfather Mountain, Linville, N. C. Every year since 1924 mountain folk of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and Georgia have gathered there by the thousands to sing and listen to music and oratory. Three Airmen Die When Ship Hits Bay * “DEER” BLACKOUT ASH FORK, Ariz., Aug. 8—(TP) An antelope ran full-tilt into a sagging 44,000-volt power line early today and darkened the towns of Ash Fork, Seligman and Williams for seven hours. The wire had been left sway ing a few feet above ground when a bolt of lightning smash ed an insulator. Linemen, investigating the power break, came upon the charred body of the antelope. PRICES DECLINE ON BORDER BELT Averages For Opening Day Set At $48.88 Per Hundred Pounds Prices for flue-cured tobacco on ;he Border Belt markets of South Carolina and North Carolina Fri 3ay showed declines which rang ed from $1 to $6 per hundred over 3pening-day prices, the Federal State Marketing service reported. The largest declines were shown n the lower grades of offerings, vith drops of $1 to $4 in lugs and rom $3.50 to $6 in primings, thin rondescript showed a drop of $2.75. There was a conslderagle amount sf tobacco being sold below the commodity credit support prices, rowever, some growers took ad vantage of support prices — there oy availing themselves of grade price loan rates average 40 cents a pound or 90 per cent of June 15 parity price. Official figures for Thursday’s opening - day gross sales totaled 4,654,641 for an average of $48.88 See PRICE DECLINE On Page 2 POST ACCEPTS FOARD RESIGNATION AS HEAD OF AMERICAN LEGION The resignation of Charles H. Foard as commander of Wilming ton American Legion Post No. 10, was accepted at an emergency meeting of the executive committee of The post last night, it was an nounced by acting Commander James S. Craig, Jr. Craig, first vice-president, was named by the committee to serve as acting commander. Police In Launch Rescue Two Men From Sinking American Flagship NEW YORK, Aug. 8.—<U.R)—An American Airlines experiment; radar DC-3 carrying five crew men plunged into the waters oi Bowery Bay off LaGuardia 'field tonight, killing three of the men and seriously injuring another. Two were rescued before the plane sank. The two-engined plane hit the water when it overshot the run way in attempting an emergency landing after one engine failed ■shortly after the takeoff. Police reported the pilot, co pilot and a mechanic were trapped and presumably drowned wheri the plane sank. After grappling for the bodies for three hours, po lice said they might not be re covered until tomorrow. Two Rescued Two mechanics who crawled ontG the belly of the overturned plane were rescued by a police narbor launch. J. P. Lewis, American Airlines operations manager at LeGuardia, See AIRMEN on Page Two TELLER EXPLAINS THEFT TECHNIQUE Woman Bank Employe Used “Phony” Withdraw als In $100,000 Deal BRISTOL, Conn., Aug. 8—<U.R)— An intricate system of “phony” withdrawals which took two days and nights to unravel was emplt y ed by Mrs. Helen R. Fournier, 60 a-week chief teller of the Bristol Bank ^.nd Trust company who to day voluntarily showed bank ex aminers how she took between $100,000 and $150,000 of the bank’s money. State Bank Commissioner Rich ard Rapport said Mrs. Fournier used a system of “phony” with drawals. Deposit cards which should have been in the “active” file had been switched to the “inactive” file, it was learned. It was also reported that Mrs. Fournier selected cards of cus tomers who appeared at the bank infrequently and placed these See TELLER on l'age Tivo Boy Facing Deportation Because Of Love For GI ALLENTOWN, Pa., Aug. —(U.R)— | Because he couldn't forget the American soldier who befriended him in war-torn Germany, a 14 year-old Polish boy was headed for Ellis Island today, facing pos sible deportation. Henry Mierzowski had trekked across Western Europe and stow ed away on a freighter to get to the United States to see Viliard Van Viekel, the GI who sheltered him for more than a year. When he arrived in New York from Le Havre, France, he was ill from undernourishment and was allowed to stay. Two months ago, he was placed in the care of foster parent*. But Van Viekel still was on Henry’s mind. So the boy ran away from his foster home and started to hitch-hike to St. Cloud, Minn., where the soldier lived. Goes To Island On Wednesday, however, police picked him up near Allentown. They held him for Joseph Uravich, a representative of the Catholic Bureau of Dependent Children, who took him to Ellis Island. Uravich will explain to im migration authorities why Henry ran away in violation of nis pro bation. Henry, who hasn’t seen his pa See BOY on Page Two Company Will Take Losses West Coast Builder Claims Government Getting Full Money’s Worth WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 — (£») Defiant Howard Hughes testified today that the government is get ting its money's worth form his $30,000,000 aerial cargo boat that never has flown. And the millionaire manufactur er and flier of planes told a Sen ate War Investigating subcommit tee he isn’t making a dime out of that project or any other war time business. Hughes still was going on the subject when the committee quit for the night. He gives another installment of the story tomorrow. The subcommittee is investiga ting wartime contracts with Hughes and industrialist Henry J. Kaiser for which the government got no wartime planes. Relative calm descended on the afternoon hearing. Hughes glower ed and tiffed with Chairman Fer guson (R-Mich) and let off steam with a little cussing. Ferguson threatened to clear out the spec tators when they applauded one of Hughes’ cracks. But for the most part, the in vestigation stuck to the charted course. The morning meeting, however, was stormy, with tempers strrin ed and hot words flying. Hughes defiantly refused twice to hunt up free-spending Johnny Meyer, his missing publicity man. He and Ferguson barked and snapped. Ferguson angrily pound ed his ash tray on the table top, demanded obedience to the com mittee and ground out subpoenas for Meyer and for Hughes’ per sonal papers. Lunchtime was something of a cooling off period. Hughes came back to the stand to explain at least in part why it is taking so long and costing so much to turn out the world’s largest airplane—a 200-ton flying boat for which the government contracted with Hughes and Kai ser late in 1942. Kaiser sub sequently withdrew from the proj ect. The original contract was for $18,000,000 for three planes. Hughes said this was changed to one plane of twice the planned size, and the doubling the size more than doubles the cost. YOUTH PUTS WAR BEHIND IT AGAIN Austrian Scouts, Long-Ban ned By Hitler, Join Jamboree Troops JAMBOREE CITY, M o i s S o n France, Aug. 8 —(A1)—Youth put the war behind it today as 265 Austrian Boy Scouts—banned lor years by Hitler — marched in to take their places in the sixth In ternational Boy Scout Jamboree and received the salutes of scouts from allied countries. With the arrival today of Scouts from Norway, The Netherlands, Liechtenstein, the contingent brought to 11,137 the number of foreign scouts already mingling with a slightly greater number from France who will join in the two-weeks of good will festivities starting tomorrow night. The Americans — all except a troop awaited from the occupation zone in Germany—finally finished pitching their tents in the 1,500 acre forest called Jamboree City, the brightly colored canvas deco rated with maps of their home states. Some 900 of them had marched in at 11 p.m. last night and slept in ?heir sleeping bags under the stars. They were plenty tired, too, after a 12-hour ride from Antwerp See YOUTH On Page Two And So To Bed A young boy, about eight or nine years old, stopped by each and every fisherman on the pier. He would say a few wo us, pick up a coup'e of the smallest fish and walk away. He was quite lucky and most of the fishermen were glad to give h'm the small fish they had caught. No one seemed interested enough to ask why he wanted the little fishes. A little while later the youngs ter came out on the pier with a seven foot fishing pole and had a’l the little fish he had begged tied on a string er. There must have been about 50 or more of them, with the longest about five inches long. He waited a moment and then a woman, apparently the boy’s mother approached with a small box camera in her hand. The boy posed for a picture with “his catch” and then re marked to one of the anglerp, “The folks back home will be lieve the picture, I’ll bet.”
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