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WEATHER K m Served By Leased Wire* WILMINGTON AND VICINITY-Part- B ■ 'A ■■ ■■ A of the ■ B B^^B^^P ASSOCIATED PRESS south Carolina B MB ^MLfl BBR B^^BB BBB cloudy, mild Sunday B B B^^^_ fl^B| ^B^B ,^^^B UNITED PRESS and somewhat cooler Sunday m m B BBB _ ___ B Bi BBl V W BbB With Complete Coverage 0* -■- ■ ^TME PODST eHTV©FI?>K?©(S[aiii~^M[5) (giugAguuiBreVto —— — N""’°‘l Ne"— "VOlTi9.—NO- 49-___WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1947 SECTION A—PRICE TEN CENTS ' —- ' ' . ~ 1 " - - - -■ _ _^ Vet Rededication pay Said Failuj-%; 250 In Attt ‘jgSs. --- *** joint Ceremony Proves Disc^eting To Spon sors, Spokesman Say After Ceremony At The Legion Stadium ♦ nrv Gen. H. D. Linscott. chief of staff of the Camp V’ Marine base, told a handful] of veterans attend Le,l;he veterans rededication ceremony at Legion stadium f: Ceht. where thousands were expected to attend, that fC V c,. Marines are prepared for any eventuality. Legion anc veter Foreign Wars officials ,,v-,n>capd their dissatis the small number 7: .',„rs who were present for LP a-vrnonv. The attendance . . d at 250, they said. "7 7^7(0 S. McClelland was 7.;. •, monies, and May-' j V te gave the address Charles Foard, iei of Legion post No. Ken Noble, commander 7tlv James A. Manley post of 77vFW. assisted McClelland. "7,rc,psting in tne rededica :i embers of the Le ;. ' VFW Disabled American sented by D. R. and the United Span 77; ; Veterans, represented hv Julius Rudolph. said last week he ex-j nectcd" 75 posts of the Legion ] ‘7 vFW. and Legion spokes-; :en aid that only 25 were rep resented. ' Alan Marshall, local attorney, , ;k : the veterans in behalf American Hermitage foundation. . Military music was furnished the Marine band of the Sec nd M trine division, the New "mover High school ROTC. and .,;e high school cadet corps. Also participating in the mass Hury review, preceding the dresses, were three units of National Guard, under the v: rend of Kenneth Corbett, up re 0; (lie Wilmington organ ized Naval Reserve, color, guards 0. the Second Marine de- j vision and of the Camp LeJeune 1 Marine base, and search lights from Camp LeJeune. Invocation was delivered by Very Rev. Thomas H. Wright, bishop of the Eastern '•Hina diocese, and the Rev. I.. Sturges, chaplain of the ’ : Legion post, delivered the ■nediction. One Legion official said Gen Lmseott had planned to peak for one-half hour, but "because of the small atten dance. he spoke only for approx- j voately five minutes. Effect Of Religion On Wilmingtonians To Re Aired Today A formal discussion of the overall picture of religion and !ts effect on the residents of Southeastern North Carolina "ill l>e conducted today at 1:30 p.m. over radio station, WMFD or "The Voice of Wilmington.” Featured in this phase of the ram will be the Rev. Fath er Alan Roche, Rabbi Samuel A Friedman and the Rev. Charles A. Maddry. hue regular Sunday feature, written and directed by Ben Mc Donald will feature the voice of 13-year-old Ross Maples, daugh ter of Mrs. Mary Maples, Wil mington’s first and only police '■voman. fee young soloist has been-de scribed by critics and directors as ‘'one of the most outstand ing voices in this section of the fWe." .She will be accompanied y William G. Robertson, organ ist. DR BUTLER CRITICAL hFY YORK, Dec. 6—(AP)—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, 85-year ?. President emeritus of Colum ,la university, suffering from vonchial pneumonia, was report in critical condition tonight. The Weather data for the 24 hours f-on8 .'Mb p.m Yesterday. I"iri Temperatures 7:3« a.m. 54; 1:30 p.m. 65; Pm. 60 Sei".' 68; Minimum 53; Mean 60; I,, Humidity ■V? M: 7:30 •■m. 99; 1:30 p.m. 46; ■ P-m. 44 Tor Precipitation 34 hours ending 7:30 p.m. V , ••/'•‘he.*:. (-'ie First of the month— - •- .;<•*. tides lor Today l\ \ "f l lc3< Tablets published by Geodetic Survey). High Low 5:30 a.m. 12 :03 a.m. 5:54 p.m. 12:36 p.m. 1 :,-t 3:33 a.m. 9:45 a.m. S ; _ 5:47 p.m. 10:06 p.m. • : Sunset 5:03 Moonrise R . . 'Ioonset 2:11 p.m. at FaFyetteville, N. C. at (report missing) r'';iTOX*. Dec 6-—(.l5)—Weather . ' of tempertaure and rain /-'* hours ending 8 p.m., in cotton glowing areas and s 1 a t i»j T. 'U-MJNgton * H,*h - d8 - 64 G. -- 36 Jg k —- 37 K," ■',!•;* - 78 Key w ' - 58 Z~~ZZ2 57 74 - S M Sf „ 1C1SC° - 52 - 43 - 78 - W. U Low 40 42 24 26 56 30 69 45 70 60 36 46 39 37 35 57 40 42 Prec. 0.03 0.04 0.32 BRAZIL MOVES TO OUST REDS Chamber Of Deputies Votes To Exclude From Public Jobs RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. iff) —A chamber of deputies com mittee tonight approved a bill to remove all Communists re maining in public posts. The committee voted, 15 to four, in favor of the measure,, which already has been approv ed by the senate. It is expected to be brought to a vote Tuesday in the chamber of deputies where many observers predicted it wTould be approved. The legislation would remove 15 communists from the Brazil ian congress, 18 from the Rio de Janeiro city council, approxi mately 60 from various state leg islatures and an unknown num ber from posts in various muni cipalities. Brazil has broken diplomatic relations with Russia and has de clared the communist party il legal. Brazaliai communists have countered with sabotage and dis orders. Strikes, derailments and short circuits on the vital Sorocabana railway connecting industrial Sao Paulo with the port of San tos and nearby farming districts have been attributed to commu nists by the police. Police now are riding trains there. The railroad union has been forbidden to meet the strikes are spreading throughout the nation’s railway system. A communist mass meeting was broken up by police last night in the northern city of Recife, sometimes called the “Moscow of Brazil”. A commu nist revolution broke out there in 1935. A number of persons were wounded last Monday when po (Continued on Page 3, Column 5) $21,500Won In Contest By Housewife Identifies “Miss Hush” On National Radio . Show “IT’S WONDERFUL ’ A Ruth Subbie Of Fort Worth Shouts “Martha Graham” FORT WORTH, Tex., Dec. 6. —(U.R)— A 45-year-old Fort Worth housewife answered her tele phone tonight, screamed “Mar tha Graham” at the caller, and touched off a delirious celebra tion on a narrow street in this city’s west side. The answer was worth $21,500 for Mrs. Ruth Subbie, for her caller was Ralph Edwards, master of ceremonies for the ra This was the list of prizes won by Mrs. Subbie: A 1947 Buick convertible coupe, a §1,500 beaver coat, a small airplane, $2,000 in cash, two roundtrip plane tickets to Honolulu and a two-week expense-paid va cation at the Royal Hawaiian hotel, a $2,000 house trailer, a complete home laundry, a §1,000 diamond and ruby wristwatch, a combination radio-phonograph - television set and 100 records, an elec tric blanket for each bed in her household, a vacuum cleaner with all attachments, Venetian blinds for all win dows in her home, a $1,000 diamond ring, maple furni ture for the entire house, a residence heating boiler, a topcoat and suit for every male member of the family, a gas cooking range, a home freezer filled with frozen foods, a $1,000 inside-and out house painting job, a gas refrigerator, and a $1,000 home workshop. dio show “Truth or Conse quences,” and she had identified “Miss Hush.” Before the call, it was a quiet Saturday night in the Subbie apartment, on the gi/bunc! floor of a two-story building in a Fort Worth residential district. Once her answer was out, her neighbors—apparently in tune with the program — began streaming into the house. They took over — dozens of them. Soon there was room for no more, and hundreds of people gathered on th e lawn outside. (Continued on Page 2; Column 4) Napoleon’s Death Was A Hoax, He Lived For Years, Writer Says WALLACE PLANS i HUGE CHRISTMAS Correspondent Both Sad And Happy Over The Music By JOHN SIKES WALLACE, Dec. 6 — I’m the kind of a guy across whose grave a rabbit runs every time I hear church chimes chiming, children singing, and Tiny Tim piping “God bless us, Every one’’ about this time of the year. By which I mean that all you got to do to work me into an emotional pitch and electrify the marrow in my bones and ev 'n squeeze a few joyful tears out of my eyes is to put on a record about “Jingle Bells, or maybe “Silent Night” or “White Christmas”. You can imagine, therefore, how these emotions of mine are staying in a dither overhere in Wallace these bright days lead ing up to Christmas. J (Continued on Page 4; Column 2) OIL FLENTIFUL CHARLOTTE, Dec. 6.—(AT— There is no cause for alarm in the present shortage of petro leum products, H. Janney Nich ols, Jr., director of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, told the Carolinas-Virginia purchas ing agents today._ SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 6 —(UR) —Six years of research have convinced Pierre Paul Ebeyer that Napoleon Bonaparte died, not in exile at St. Helena in 1821 as history books record, but in Corndall, England, 14 years later. A native New Orleans author historian, Ebeyer further claims that Napoleon and Czar Alexander of Russia probably visited New Orleans during a lengthy sea voyage sometime after the French emperor’s “es cape” from St. Helena in 1817. A local landmark, the Napoleon House in New Orleans’ French quarter, was remodeled to ac commodate the Corsican during a proposed visit to the new world, according to legend. Ebeyer, in his version of Na poleon’s Odyssey after Water loo, said that the early nine teenth century governments of Russia, Austria, France and England were fully aware of Napoleon’s existence after his “presumed” death in 1821. The writer expressed his be lief that the emperor fled to Brazil after his escape from St. Helena in 1817. From South America, he negotiated with leading European rulers to re (Continued on Page 3, Column 4) BENEFIT MOVIE TO AID TOTS Christmas Spirit, Jaycees Plan Special Show Under the sponsorship of Wilmington’s Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Bailey theatre will present a Toy Matinee Saturday morning next, at 9:30 o’clock, for the benefit of Wilmington’s u n derprivileged children. New or old toys, presented by children or grown-ups, will be the sole admission. No tickets will be on sale. All toys will be turned over to the Junior Chamberof Com (Contniued on Page 2; Column 4) FREEDOM TRAIN DUE WEDNESDAY School Students To Be Per mitted Time To See Documents Wilmington and surrounding territory will welcome the Free dom Train here Wednesday. It carries priceless documents written as history was made by the United States, from its in fancy to the present time. Plans for school children to be given an opportunity to visit the train will be discussed at a meeting of county school princi pals in the Tileston building to morrow afternoon, Supt. H. M. Roland announced yesterday. Roland said it was not plan ned to have any general school holiday, but that schools proba bly would close earlier than usual in order to give these chil dren who desired an opportunity to visit the train either with their parents or otherwise. Special programs are being held in the schools during the Week of Rededication to the principles of American democra cy and freedom immediately preceding the arrival of the train. City Policeman Dressed As Girl And Aided By Walkie-Talkie Nabs Suspect In Assault Thefts i ■ ■ - — i Big-4 Meet Seen Failure Last Night Reason That Broke Up Moscow Conference Is Cited LONDON, Dec. 6.— (A) —A frustrated, irritated council of foreign ministers tonight appear ed deadlocked on the same Soviet demand that wrecked the Mos cow conference — $10,000,000,000 in reparations from Germany. In a fruitless two-hour ses sion today, official observers le ported the three western minis ters lined up against Soviet For eign Minister Molotov in an argu ment over economic principles for Germany that wrung from French Foreign Minister Bidault the comment: “We seem to be going around in circles—a process which tends to make one sick.” PALESTINE FLARES JERUSALEM, Dec. Arab-Jewish warfare in Pales tine claimed more lives tonight and boosted to 159 the Middle East’s number of slain since the United Nations decision to parti tion the Holy Land, which Arab national leaders were reported ready to oppose with force. Palestine’s death toll ^rew to 80—51 Jews ,27 Arabs and two Armenians—in the week’s fight ing between Arabs protesting partition and Jews defending themselves—and striking back. Leaders of the seven govern ments in the Arab league head ed for Cairo for a council meet ing Monday. Palestine Arab chieftains said the counc would map a plan of armed opposition to partition and “in all likeli hood” would decide the hour to strike. League countries are Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Trans-Jordan, Iraq and Yemen. Holy Land trouble spots to night were Jerusalem, Haifa and neighboring Jewish Tel Aviv and Arab Jaffa. Arabs and Jews fought with guns, bombs, sticks and stones, and houses were set on fire. Jewish Police Hunt Arab Snipers In Tel Aviv m TWO JEWISH POLICEMEN crouch low behind the wall of a building in Palestine’s Tel Aviv area in hunt for Arab snipers during Arah-Jewish fighting set off by United Nations decision to partition Palestine. Violent street fighting was widespread as Arab fury mounted in opposing partition.__ (AP Wirephoto via Radio from London). Catherine Kennedy Home Guests To Attend ACL Chorus’ Musical NURSE SALARY DECISION DUE Charlotte Hospital Board To Meet Tomorrow Night The Board of Trustees of Charlotte Memorial hospital will meet tomorrow night to consid er a proposal made by nurses for higher pay, shorter hours and other improvements, accor ding to R. Z. Thomas, Jr., ad ministrator. The nurses put forth their claims after they are reported to have decided to negotiate di rect with the hospital rather than through the North Carolina Nurses association, which they had previously voted to have represent them. HOSPITAL REPORT CHICAGO, Dec. 6. — OT —Be ginning salaries of general duty nurses in general United States hospitals have increased an av erage of $32 a month since 1945, the American Hospital associa tion reported today. Average gross beginning sala ries in 1947 in general hospitals were $185 monthly compared with $153 in 1945 and in mental hospitals $194 compared with $150 in 1945. The survey said an increasing number of hospitals are paying extra for night and evening shifts. George Bugbee, executive di rector of the association, said maintenance, which is offered many nurses “particularly in the South and East,” is included ir the average salaries. James D. Sprunt, Local Merchant, Dies In Durham James Dalziel Sprunt, 51, secretary of Alexander Sprunt and Sons, Inc., 1617 Market street, Wilmington, died yester day at 2 p.m. at Duke hospital in Durham after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, and three children. They are Mrs. William Cart, Charleston, S. C.; Miss Jane Sprunt and J. D. Sprunt, Jr., of Wilmington. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Ward Funeral home. He was born in Wilmington April 10, 1896 and was the son of the late Mr.and Mrs. W. H. Sprunt. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church. Residents of the Catherine! Kennedy home have been in vited to attend as honor guests the musical program featuring the Atlantic Coast Male chorus, the A. C. L. Ladies chorus and other local entertainers scedulled for Wednesday night, at 8:15 o’clock, in the New Hanover High school auditorium. The invitations were contain ed in a letter sent to all resi dents of the home by H. V. Borjes, president of the men’s choral group. “Seats will be reserved for you and an escort to and from the High school will be arranged by members of the Ladies Benevo lent society of the Catherine Ken nedy home,” the letter sa.4l. Sponsored by the male chorus for the benefit of the home’s new building fund, Wednesday night’s performance will mark the first public appearance of the ladies’ musical organization. The evening’s program fol lows : Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee, Bach; Prayer of Thanksgiving, Kremser, and Hallelujah, Amen, from “Judas Maccabaeus, Handel, by the male chorus. The Soldier’s Farewell, Kin kel; The Volga Boatmen, Rus sian Folk Tune, and Good King Wenceslas, Traditional, by the male chorus vocal ensemble. Ave Maria, Schubert, and Habanera, from “Carmen,” Bizet, trumpet solos by Emer son Head, Mrs. Lila W. Head, accompanist. Cherubic Hymn, Gretchanin off; Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, German Melody; Prayer, from “Hansel and Gretel,” Humperdinck, by the Atlantic Coast Line women’s corus. Meditation, from “Thais,” Massenet; The Bee, Schubert, violin solos by J. E. Rose, Jr., (Continued on Page 2; Column 2) Former Wilmington Agriculture Official i Killed In Collision MARSHVILLE, Dec. 6 — (#)— A. R. Gilmore, 25, official of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in Wilmington was killed tonight when the state highway car in which he was riding was involved in an accident near here. State highway Patrolman E. L. McBride was admitted to a hos pital here but his injuries were not considered serious. Gilmore, a native of Sulligent, Ala., was directing a program of eradication of the white-fringed beetle in this area. AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT OF "THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER" Mb B w» » >» ““ «“* * «“ "“ltr5 “ “te»> SCIENCE MAKES NEW CYCLOTRON Capable Of S m a s h i n g Heavy Atoms Into Bits By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter IRVINGTON, N. Y., Dec. 6— (JP)—A 2,300-ton magnet for the world’s most powerful cyclotron, one expected to smash heavy atoms into 10 to 50 parts, was completed today at Columbia university’s new nuclear physics research laboratory here. It will enable physicists to ex plore deeper into the secrets of the cores of atoms, perhaps lead ing to creation of "new kinds of matter and to new knowledge about the strange kind of glue that holds all atoms and thus the whole world together. The cyclotron will fire atom ic bullets at new high energies of 400 million electron volts. These may create mesons, the mysterious particles which are detected after cosmic rays hits atoms in the atmosphere. Phy sicists do not know whether the mesons are created by such col lisions or are knocked out of atoms, but they suspect the mes ons may be vitally important in keeping the nuclei or cores of atoms together. The great magnet, containing more steel than a destroyer, ac counts in size and weight for most of the cyclotron, which is expected to start operating next summer. It is being built in co operation with the Office of Na val Reserve, and is housed in a new 100-foot building at Nevis, a university estate close to New (Continued on Page 3, Column 6) HOSPITAL DOCTOR OPENS OFFICE Dr. Heber W. Johnson On Staff Of James Walker Memorial Dr. Heber W. Johnson, a member of the New Hanover County Medical society and on the courtesy staff of James Walker Memorial hospital, has opened an office on the 10th floor of the Murchison building for the practice of general sur gery. Doctor Johnson recently came to Wilmington from a surgical residency of two years at St. Francis hospital at Ohio State University, Columbus, O. He is a graduate of Ohio Uni versity and studied medicine at Harvard, receiving his M. D. de gree there in 1939. He then was interne in medicine and surgery at Rhode Island hospital at Providence for two and one half years. He began general practice and industrial surgery at Ironton, O., where he remain ed htree years. From there he went to Ohio State, where he was an instructor in surgery at the university as well as# resi dent surgeon. Doctor and Mrs. Johnson live at 211 S. Fourth street. They have three children. Is Same Man Acquitted A s Cat Man Dragnet Consisted Of 40 Officers. ACL Cop, Solicitor King By BOB KLINE Staff Writer Six Wilmington policemen dressed themselves in the best finery of the fair s x and went hunting on overtime with a walkie-talkie for the Negro who has been bashing white women with a handkerchief wrapped brick, then stealing their pocketbooks and last night one Police took time out after the arrest to have a good laugh at Marines from Camp Lejeune. Seems some Ma rines tried their best to start flirtations with dis guised officers who had a hard time shooing them off so they could attend to their police business, police said. Marines, it seems, police said, every Saturday night become amorous and last night was no exception. of them proved both successful as a petite lure and a fighter, Although he suffered a bad beat ing at the hands of his assailant. Strolling as best a determined cop can be expected to stroll under the circumstances Officer Ralph Moore was wending his leisurly way on North Fifth street, just north of Market street, in the heart of one of the better residential sections. It was in front of 18 North Fifth street that Officer Moore got results, to be exact. Moore, one of six such attired officers doing their job. was but a papt of a city-wide drive be. CAPT. L. A. TEAGUE ing made by 40 officers under the direction of Captain L. A. Teague and Police Chief Hubert Hayes. The man arrested by Officer Moore was identified as Cordell Williams, 33, and 160 pounds, Williams, alias ‘The Cat Man* recently was acquitted on a rob bery charge. Williams was out on parole at the time, and is yet, after serving five years of a 15-year sentence for assault with intent to commit criminal assault. City Manager J. R. Benson, when informed of the catch, was high in his commendation not only for the Wilmington police department but all New Hano ver county law enforcement of ficers for their determination and resourcefulness in their ef forts to capture the prowling as sailant. “Many of the men worked overtime in their efforts to ap prehend him and it is no wonder that their concerted campr^gn has met with success,’’ he said. News of the success of the dragnet spread throughout the city swiftly last night and The Star-News was deluged with congratulatory messages the paper was asked to pass on to police. One of these was a Mr. Shelly, commissioner of police at Daytona Beach, Florida, who was passing through the city. He was high in his praise of the Wilmington pob'ce. Officer Moore and The Catman were taken to the James Walker Memorial hospital immediately after the arrest. In the scuffle, Moore sustained a possible frac ture of his left wrist and bruise on one knee. Williams’ face was swollen and his body and clothes were bloody after his en counter with Moore. Taking part in the master plan, in which police officers were placed at strategic spots from Grace to Ann streets and (Continued on Page 2; Column 1)
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