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asgfsss fflUmumtun JHuntttui WiS*. — J State »nd National Nevri VOLJ1—NO. 4.----- f~ WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1947 " ESTABLISHED 186? U. S. Courting Creek Unity Dwight Griswold Urges Sophoulis To Aid In Political Crisis ATHENS, Aug. 25—(/P)—Dwight r Griswold, administrator of the United States aid program, visit ed Themistokles Sophoulis at his suburban home in Kiphissia to nj„dt and stressed the need for political unity if the American mission is going to succeed, an authorative source said. The source said no “pressure” was* put on Sophoulis, 80-year-oid cader of the main branch of the G-et:k Liberal party, who stead fastiv has refused to join a coali ", on “government under Premier Designate Constantin Tsladaris, chosen by King Paul to form a new cabinet after the government of Premier Demetrios Maximos fell last Saturday. Griswold urged Sophoulis to aid in achieving some sort of solution jo Tsaldaris’ problem in order to expedite the mission’s work, the source said. His visit came as Tsaldaris appeared stymied in his efforts to bring liberal party rep resentation into a new cabinet. Sophoulis indicated, the source I said, that he was willing that Tsaldaris’ Populist party should receive most of the cabinet ap pointments if he would be named premier. Union Hinted Some political circles said 'such an attitude expressed openly by Sophoulis might result in the union of the two parties in a coal ition cabinet. It is known that Tsaldaris would be reluctant to ■surrender the premiership, but it was pointed out that he previous ly had offered Sophoulis the pres idency of the Ministerial council, while he held the top post. These circles said Tsaldaris might agree to reverse the two posts. Sonhoulis was said to have told Giis void that he was the only oer son in Greece whose name and influence could persuade a mar jority of Greek guerrillas to sur render under amnesty terms. Prior to Griswold’s visit, Tsal daris’ choice appeared to be nar rowing down to selecting a cabi net made up exclusively from the Right wing or of attempting to create a coalition group headed by a nonparliamentary figure g U S OPERATORS OPEN CONVENTION _— .• *ayor White To Greet Delegates At Wrights yille Beach Tonight WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, Aug. '25—The second annual convention of the North Carolina Bus associa tion will open here tomorrow night ■ at 8 o’clock. Mayor E. L. White, of Wilming ton, will greet the delegates at the Ocean Terrace hotel in the open ing session of the three-daiy con vention. Wednesday’s sesscion will be highlighted by the nomination of officers after the meeting is open ed by Marshall C. Kurfees, execu tive secretary. J. Ed. Butler, president, will preside over the morning session which gets under way at 11 o’clock in the Anchor room. The Safeway Transit company, Wilmington, will be host at an in formal tour of the beaches at 3 o’clock. Charles M. Johnson, state treasurer will speak at the ban quet Wednesday night. He will be introduced by Mayor E. L. White. Entertainment will include the showing of the film "Plexiglass” through the courtesy of Rohm and Hass company, Philadelphia. Music by an orchestra featuring "Little” Charlie Smith, Asheville, is also scheduled. *ne election of officers will oe held »t 11 a. m. Thursday, follow 'nS a 'report of the nominating committee. A safety program to °» presented by N. Carl Bare '°ot, sefety director, Virginia Mu tua" Auto Insurance company of Richmond ig also on the scheule. A social hour at 5 o’clock Thursday evening will be followed by a banquet in the dining room of the hotel. Senator William B. i'mpstead will speak at this ban duct. James E. L. Wade, Wilming ,on councilman is also scheduled rpeak to the Busmen at this time. Entertainment will be furnished cv Pat Ormsby with banquet humor '^y radio stars Miss Erline King and Joe King and Brandywine. The Weather FORECAST: . North and South Carolina — Partly and continued moderately warm and Wednesday with scattered ,7"°°n thundershowers. *'7teorological data for the 24 hours ln3 7.30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES a,' !0 s. m. 76. 7;30 a m 76. 1;30 p. m. , ' r P m. 76. Maximum 88; Mini Urn '4; Mean 81; Normal 77. HUMIDITY . : 7 a m. 95; 7:30 a. m. 95; 1:30 p. m. 7 iM p. m. 39. ^ PRECIPITATION ota, lor 24 hours ending 7:30 p, m, Miches. r lflolai since the first of the month 3-i" inches. f tides for today r S0Tr Tide Tables published by | • Coast and Geodetic Survey). Wi, HIGH LOW j Omington - 5:30 a.m. 12:3J a m. \iBc 6:11 p.m. 12:40 p.m. ■ lasonboro Inlet _ 3:22 a.m. 9:39 a.m. « 4:11 p.m. 10:33 p.m. 2 5:41; Sur.set 6:46; Moonrisc 3<JP; Moonset 12:43a. Mere WEATHER On Pafe Two Marine Flies Fastest Man Has Ever Flown Fighter Ace Of World War II Pilots Red Douglas Skystreak To New Unofficial World Mark Of 650 Mile ^ ■ Hour MUROC ARMY AIRBASE, Cal., Aug. 25. —(U.R)— A Marine fighter ace today flew the blood-red Douglas Skystreak faster than ir has ever flown before. ¥ • It seemed certain that offic, films would show it had set a nev. record of 650 miles an hour. The present record of 640.7 miles an hour was set only five days ago in the same ship. Maj. Marion E. Carl, who won 18 aerial victories over the Jap anese, laid the stubby-winged ship almost on the lakebed in four hammering passes through sim mering heat waves. He was in the air only 18 min utes. Carl, a veteran of nine years service with the Marines, who hails from Hubbard, Ore., poured the tiny ship, which looks like a scarlet cigar, into the 1.863 mile speed trap from 1,000 feet in burn ing dives which brought him as close as 25 feet to the dry lake bed. With smoke pouring from the tail cone, the scarlet craft swept down upon the observers with un I can’' was followed 11'- 3^' of summer light ^ tV <\ ad swept away. V* 4^ .st run, from West to «- iigree temperature, the vJJ* .ot flashed through the trap .eet from the bed and then • ued up and away in an easy roll before disappearing from sight. Sweeping back, trailing a black smoke tail, the ship once more bent down almost to the ground and flashed through the green smoke flan s marking the start of the course. It was less than 50 feet off the ground. As Carl knifed through the pink flare at the far end, he pulled up once more as the official timer shouted into his microphone: “Marion, that was pretty low; take it easy.” He disappeared from view but in less than two minutes he was boiling down on the course once more. With his left wing a little lower, he slid through the run at 75 feet and then rolled away at the end. Hardly had he gone when he was See MARINE On Page Two Municipal Chiefs Hear Plea For Power Return DAVID HARUM COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., Aug. 25. — (TP) — City Purchasing Agent Ken Gardiner had no fear today that anyone would argue that the city couldn’t aford it’s four new police cars. The new cars cost the city 55,248.72. Gardiner sold the old ones for $5,249, making a profit of 28 cents on the trade. GRANDDAD RULED FATHER OF TWO Marital Mixup Straighten ed Out By California Court LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25—(U.R)— The legal grandchildren of Lester Bryan Burnett, Sr., were ruled his offspring and not those of his son today. The elder Burnett was declared the father of Lester B. Burnett, 8, and Rose Marie, '6, after he in formed the court that while his son, Lester Jean Burnett, 27, mar ried Angelina Pizzuto 10 years ago it was a mock marriage. He said he, and not his son, occupied the bridal chamber. The refrigerator repairman said he had been refused the hand of Miss Pizzuto, then 17, by her family because he was twice her age. In desperation the widower said he arranged for his son, then 18, to marry the girl but never live with her. The marriage took place Oct. 11, 1937, and for five years the three occupied the saime El Monte home. The girl obtained a Nevada di vorce Dec. 17, 1942, and the same day married the elder Burnett. Prior to the divorce she had become the mother of two children by the elder Burnett. Angelina told Superior Judge Thurmond Clark that she had never lived with the son but had with the father. The caise was brought into court to clarify birth records of the children after the younger Burnett married another girl following See GRANDAD On Page Two PERSONNEL CHANGES IN AUDIT OFFICE TO TAKE EFFECT TODAY Changes in the personnel in the county auditor’s office became ef fective today. Two clerks received promotions and one new clerk was added to the staff. The changes were the result of the death August 13 of Thomas C. Ellers, veteran em ploye. The position that formerly was held by Mr. Ellers went tc Miss Beverly Stokley, who has been a clerk in the office for several years. Replacing Miss Stokley was Mrs. G. W. Wilkins. The new clerk is Mrs. Mae B. Stuart, re siding on rural route 2. Changes in the personnel were approved at yesterday’s weekly meeting of the New Hanover county commissioners. At "the same time, -a resolution of tribute and offering condol ences to the family, was passed upon the death of Mr. Ellers. Roy H. Owlsey Decries Usurption Of Cities’ Rights By States WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, Aug. 25—Return of power to municipali ties is the crying need of the pres ent day democracy in this nation Taking away of power from cities and turning it over to federal and state governments since about 1890 has throttled the development of training in citizenship. That was the general theme last night of Roy H. Owlsey, associate director of the American Munici pal association of Chicago, in a banquet address to the more than 30 delegates, families and friends attending the annual state conven tion of the League of Municipalities at the Ocean Terrace hotel here. The speaker asserted that it “be hoves cities to take stock of such relationships” with state and fed" eral governing bodies for “in such relationships they will find the answer to the question whether municipalities are to continue serving as founded under the American system or whether municipal institutions are to be swallowed up and eventually al lowed to pass into oblivion.” Cradle Of Democracy Speaking on the movement away from municipal home rule in which the Chicagoan said the state be gan usurping power about 1890, he declared that “it has been well said that the city is the cradle of democracy and that municipal government is a training school for citizenship.” “But it can only be such if the people of their own communities are permited and encouraged to exercise a wide degree of latitude See MUNICIPAL on Page Two WATERFRONT MEN CALL OFF STRIKE Longshoremen At New York To Resume Work Again This Morning NEW YORK, Aug. 25 —(JP)—A six-day wildcat longshoremen’s strike which has tied up several vessels on New York’ waterfront including the luxury liner Amer ica ended late today. Local 791 of tne AFL Interna tional Longshoremen’s Associa tion voted 427 to 177 to resume work and members will go back to their jobs at 7 a.m. (EST) to morrow. John J. Sampson, the local’s business agent, said other units which had struck in sympathy with his men also would resume work. Sailing of the America, original ly scheduled to depart last Wed nesday with 936 passengers, was cancelled Friday and officials of the U. S. Lines said then the big vessel would be laid up until her next scheduled sailing for Europe Sept. 10. There was no immediate word from the line as to whether the end of the walkout would result in a decision to sail the liner this week. Local 791 walked out because of dissatisfaction with terms of a new contract negotiated by I.L.A. officers and signed late Thursday' night after the strike had begun. Kentucky Veterans Club Boycotts New Fall Duds LEXINGTON, Ky., Aug. 25. — (JP)— The University of Kentucky Veterans club, feeling out the na tion on a boycott of the new fall fashions, today called upon mar ried veterans not to buy them and single veterans not to_ date girls who wear them. A resolution was adopted at a meeting of the club rapping the long wear as an “arbitrary change in styles” and a “deliberate at tempt to exploit the public.” Darrell Hancock, president of the club, said the resolution would be sent to other student-veteran groups urging “all groups through out the country to join us in this firfit.” “We want to emphasize,” he said, “that we are not doing this as a college stunt in the sum mer doldrums. We are deadly ser ious when we say we think this change of women’s fashions is a deliberate exploitation of the pub lic at a time when our economy demands that what little we can afford to invest we must invest in food, rent and ih# bare neces sities of life.” State Highway Patrolmen Resign As Convict Flogging Aftermath; France Vetoes Soviet Truce Plan Security Council Calls For Report Career Consuls At Batavia To Furnish Indonesian War Data LAKE SUCCESS, Aug. 35. —(JP) — France today vetoed a Russian effort to set up an 11-nation truce commission to check on the se curity council’s violated cease-fire order in the Dutch-Indonesian con flict. The council then went ahead and took two alternative steps aimed at settling the dispute: 1. The council tendered its good offices to both sides and stood ready, if asked, to assist in a set tlement through a council commit tee of three members acceptable to the disputants. 2. The delegates called on ca reer consuls in Batavia to report directly to them on what has hap pened since the cease fire order was issued here Aug. 1. Ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, rep resenting the Indonesian Republic, said “certainly” the republic would accept the offer of good offices. Dutch Ambassador Eelco N. Van Kleffens said he would ask his government for instructions. Alexandre Parodi, of France, told newsmen he vetoed the Rus sian proposal because it was a question of “competence.” The council still has to decide finally on the controversial point whether it has jurisdiction in the dispute. It was the second French veto in United Nations history and the 20th veto in all. Soviet Russia has invoked the big power veto 18 times. The first French veto was cast June 26, 1946, in the Spanish case. The council quickly approved a joint Australian-Chinese resolution which called on career consuls of security council governments to re port on the Indonesian situation since the council called for the cease fire 24 days ago. This means that the consular of ficers of Australia, Belgium, China, France, Britain and the See SECURITY On Page Two LUSH CALIFORNIA LURES GANGS! RS Governor Warren Says Un derworld Moving In On Movies, Oil Wealth SANTA Monica’ Calif. Aug. 25— (/P)—“There is no question about it —gangsters are moving in” to Lush California fields, Gov. Earl Warren said today. In Washington, Senator Downey (D-Calif) yesterday said Eastern hoodlums are interested in the great wealth of the state and that leading citizens fear an outbreak of gangster warfare. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Eastern gangsters are being attracted by the great concentra tion of wealth in the film industry and the oil industry,” Warren told a reporter. “It is obvious and it is time we did something about it. “It is my belief that we have a real gangster threat here and that is why I asked the state legisla ture for authority to eetablish crime commissions.” Approval for five crime preven tion and investigation commissions was granted by the last session of the legislature and on Sept. 19, when he is empowered to do so, the governor said he will name the members of the commissions. Concerning Downey’s charges that gangsters are “reported” en trenching themselves with police, Warren said: “I know of no such conditions involving state law enforcement authorities, and I have not been informed that such conditions exist in any municipality.”_ Along The Cape Fear CUSHING VISITS WIL MINGTON—The exploit of Na\ il Lieut. William B. Cushing, federal officer, the night of June 23, 1864 in exploring Confederate fortifica tions along the Cape Fear river and his effort to sink the iron clad Confederate ship, “Raleigh”, which had become fast upon a shoal near the mouth of the river, lasted into the next day. As previously related, Ho worth, a m’ember of Cushing’s detach ment, returned to his party near the mouth of the river after going into Wilmington attired in a Con federate uniform and purchasing supplies v/ithout arousing suspi cion. As the night of the second day on which Cushing had been on his expedition, approached, the lieu tenant dressed himself in the Con federate uniform which had beeii taken from the captured Confed erate soldier and under coyer of darkness, came mto Wilmington. * * * VIEWS AUNT’S HOME — Some historians relate that Cushing went to his aunt’s home at Eighth and Market streets and peeped through the window blinds and recognizing hit ldn but without S* WITH THE CAPITOL in the background, citi zens of Greenbelt, Md., eat lunch served from their co-operative pantry or traveling store following a House Small Business Investigating Committee hearing. The Greenbelt Consumer Services, Inc., is the first co-op to come under the scrutiny of the committee. (International) Eastern Tobacco Marts Open; Border Belt Prices Increase Most Grades Show Gains Of $3 Over Friday Sales Price averages registered slight gains for most grades as the fourth week of sales opened yesterday on the Border Belt flue-cured tobacco markets of South Carolina and North Carolina. The variations ranged from losses of $3 for low lemon lugs to gains of $3 for low orange prim ings, The Federal-Stale depart ments of agriculture reported. The increases were more numer ous for orange color tobacco in all groups, while lemon color of ferings showed the majority of de clines. Quality of the offerings was about the same as that of Friday’s sales, The Marketing Reporting service said, with low to good See BORDER BELT On Page Two CAMDEN OFFICIAL RELEASED ON BOND Register Of Deeds Faces Charge Of Illegally Is suing Licenses CAMDEN, N. C., Aug. 25—(/P)— A Camden County grand jury re turned true bills on two charges against Register fo Deeds J. G. Etheridge for illegal marriage cer tificates t0 two Norfolk (Va.) couples. Conviction of the misdemeanors carries a maximum fine of $50 and costs of the court and 30 days in jail or both. Judge R. Hunt Parker of Roan oke Rapids, presiding, set bond at $1,000 for each count, and Eth eridge made good bond. The specific charges were that Etheridge issued marriage licenses at his South Mills home without first requiring the couple to have a general health certificate signed by a physician. It was charged that he illegally issued licenses to Phillip Krome and Mildred Soles, both of Nor folk, Va., and to John T. Carpen ter and Nellie Lee Young, also of Norfolk. them, of course, being aware of his presence. Then on the next day—the third one after leaving “The USS Mont icelle”, — the vessel to which he was attached, he snooped around fortifications near Wilmington and made hastily prepared sketches of them without the enemy finding out his identity. It is also related by some his torians that he and his men were able to capture “a boat-load of Confederates.” From them he learned that “The Raleigh” was aground near the mouth of the river. With the information of “The Rfueigh’s” fate, Cushing then per sonally made an inspection of the doomed ship. * * * DASHES TO SAFETY—Unable longer to keep his prisoners, his torians relate, he placed the men aboard a boat without oars or sails and set the boat adrift in the river, leaving them to get back to their lines as best they could. Cushing and his small command then proceeded back down the riv See CAPE FEAR on Pago Two COPS ARE COPS LITTLE ROCK, Aug. 25. — (/P)— Two Little Rock police men pondered today whether a sense of humor is an asset. Officers O. A. Allen and Ju nior Newcomb drew three day suspensions from Acting Chief C. O. Fink for walking a stray mule they’d picked up, up the city hall steps, into police head quarters and tethering him to the desk sergeant’s desk. PASTOR RESIGNS AS FIGHT SEQUEL Death Of Church Member During Battle Royal Has “Aftermath” KNOXVILLE, Term., Aug. 25— (/P)—The Rev. Henry J. Varner said tonight he had resigned as pastor of the Fourth Avenue Bap tist church, where a battle royal last night resulted, Knox County Coroner O. K. Williams reported, in the death of Sherrod J. Lee, 56, apparently of a heart attack. The pastor told the Knoxville Journal he planned to continue preaching in another community. City Homicide Officer Carl Bunch said the fight in the church yard began when Lee and a group of men met the pastor and the congregation emerging after even ing services. Varner, 38, told officers, they said, that on completing his ser mon, Lee came to the pulpit and asked permission io speak. Leaves Church The pastor stated he was ac cused by Lee of conspiring with See PASTOR On Page Two SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURT TERM WILL BE HELD IN SEPTEMBER New Hanover county will have a special term of criminal court in September. Such a term was authorized yes terday by the county commission ers. It came up on request of Solicitor Clifton Moore in a letter to the commissioners. He explain ed that criminal matters have piled up in large numbers and that special steps must be taken to clear the calender. At the same time, it was reveal ed that a session of the grand jury will be called at that time to in vestigate at least one special case that has developed recently, in ad dition to considering indictments of cases from Recorder’s court. The jury term will open Septem ber 29 and run for one week. Navy Jet-Propelled Ship Takes Off In Heavy Sea HAMILTON, Bermuda. Aug. 25. —(IP)— A U. S. Navy plane made a jet-propelled takeoff eight min utes after landing in heavy seas 383 miles out in the Atlantic to day and flew a merchant seaman here for an emergency appendec tomy. The plane, piloted by Lt. An drew Sinclair took off at dawn. Sinclair had assembled its crew after the U. S. Naval base here received a call from the S. S. Eastern Guide, of the Prudential Steamship Line, asking assistance for Martin Lopez, Brooklyn, N. Y., who was suffering scute ap pendices. k) Leaf Brings An Average Of $55 On Opening Day Of Sales Eastern North Carolina flue cured tobacco markets opened yes terday with price averages on of fering varying from $44 to $47— All below last year’s opening-day average of $54.21. John Sikes, sales supervisor of the Wailace market, reported 254,119 pounds of the golden weed sold, bringing farmers $127,542.23. The average per hundred pounds was $50.19. The offerings at Wallace were fair to good and few rejections were made, Sikes said the offer ings yesterday were light and plenty of room would be available today. Earl Howard, sales supervisor of the Clinton market, reported ap proximately 150,000 pounds were sold there for an average of $47 per hundred. The quality of leaf ranged from poor to good with top sales at $60, he said. Sales are expected to be light for several days, farmers were generally satisfied with the prices and no blocks were made, Howard said. Sales were light throughout the belt, and buying was slow during the early hours of opening sales. However, sales rallied before noon, and heated bidding continued See EASTERN On Page Two threTdTwhen PLANE HITS HILL Two Men, Woman Victims Of Crash In Deer Can yon On West Coast BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 25—MP) —Two men and a woman were killed today when an aerial sur vey plane crashed in Deer canyon of the Verdugo hills. Firemen including Chief W. J. Taylor of Burbank, who put out several brush fires started by the crash, reported finding the bodies of the men and the torso of a woman. Parts of the smashed plane, a converted A-26 bomber which left Lockheed Air terminal at 6:30 a. m., en route East, were scattered over a wide area. The Fairchild Aerial Surveys, Inc., of Los Angeles said the plane was theirs. The company, saying it had no knowledge of a woman being aboard, identified the men as Harry D. Treadway, 40, Los Angeles, the pilot and an aerial map-photographer, and Ivan Lee Angeloff. 25, mechanic, of Hedgesville, Mont. Their takeoff was by instrument because of low visibility, Lock heed terminal reported. It landed alongside the ship three hours later in “hazardous seas.” Lopez was transferred to the Naval seaplane in eight min utes, and the plane then made a jet-propelled takeoff to surmount the ocean swells. Chief Pharmacist J. H. Ozley attended Lopez on the ■ return flight, which brought the plane back to its base early in the after noon. Lopez was taken immediate ly to the Naval base hospital for the operation. The round trip took six and a half hours. One crew member observed that such an air-sea rescue was “30 per cent skill and 70 per cent luck.” Corporal Teague Signs Statement Officer Admits ‘Manhandl ing’ Captured Halifax County Man KALEIGH, Aug. 25.—(jF)—Gov. R. Gregg Cherry tonight announ ced that three highway patrolmen had resigned in connection with the elleged beating of a recaptured white Halifax prison farm convict. The governor said the three men had surrendered to Sheriff H. A. House of Halifax county and had been formally charged with assault. He identified them as Cpl. C. I*. Teague, John W. Wilson and A. P1. Fields. The convict, 45-year-old (Jiauae Gregory of Cleveland county, claimed that he was handcuffed to a tree and beaten by officer* upon his recapture last Thursday. He said the officers used sapling* and a cartridge belt to whip him. An ivestigation was opened Sat urday by Solicitor Ernest R Tyler who said that several residents of Littleton reported seeing Gregory carried into a woods by three patrolmen. Later, they said, they heard screams coming from the woods. Tyler said that an examination of Gregory by Dr. Francis Whit* disclosed bruises about the back, but no internal injuries. “I’d rather be shot than take a. beating like that again,” Gregory said. Gregory, a white man, escap ed from the prison camp Wednes day. He was serving six to seven years on a breaking and enter ing charge after being convicted in July, 1946. WINDSSOR,, Aug. 25.—(IP)—O. L. Teague, who resigned hijp com See CORPORAL On Page Two longheaWave LEAVES MIDWEST Much Wished For Rain Soaks Corn Belt; East Still Swelters By The Associated Press The Midwest passed its week long heat wave on to the East Monday and the corn belt finally got its much wished for rain— but in many sections it was too little or too late. Far to the South a tropical slctm caused widespread but gen erally minor property damage at Galveston, Tex., over the week end but blew itself out in heavy rainfall Monday. The storm, with winds of 68 to 70 miles an hour, unroofed houses, blew in window* and ripped down power lines in Galveston, where one man was killed by electric shock from a falling power line. wnue cooler weatner over spread the upper Great Lakes and the Northern plains states, tem peratures rose to high levels in the Ohio Valley, North Atlantic and New England states. Mid - afternoon temperatures Monday included readings of 96 at Albany, N. Y.; 95 at Concord, N. H.; 94 in Boston: 91 in New York City, and 90 at Washington, D. C. ‘ From the Ohio Valley to the Middle Atlantic states and from the upper lakes region through New York state, temperatures of 90 or higher were common. How ever, cooler weather was expect ed to spread Eastward through Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York and the New England state* Tuesday. Hot and humid weather will continue from Virginia South ward, with Washington, D. C., Virginia and Maryland getting afternoon or evening thunder showers Tuesday. And So To Bed A Morning Star staff photog rapher gathered his camera, film and bulbs yesterday morn ing and dashed off to Wallace to snap a few shots of the open ing sales on the Fastern North Carolina tobacco belt. Painstaking efforts were made by the lensman to get “just the right shots.” He snapped his shutter no les* than seven times, packed his camera and headed back to Wilmington. Arriving in the newsroom, he announced that he had “page one pictures.” The film was developed and turned out to be a perfect olank. No pictures and the photographer (?) wondered why. The exposure was right, the bulbs went off, the film was fresh and the developer was 0. K. — Now what could have happened? He checked the earner There was the trouble. 1 focal plane shutter had Y closed and the cameraman didn’t notice. Net result — 76 miles driven, seven bulbs ruined, seven pieces of film wasted, and hundreds of farm ers disappointed. And one downhearted photographer.