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Count five words to line. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS is entitled to the exclusive use ot all news stories appearing in The Wilmington Star THURSDAY, JANUARY, 16, 1941 Star-News Program Consolidated City-County Government under Council-Manager Administration. Public Port Terminals. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving and Marketing Facilities. Arena tor Sports and Industrial Shows. Seaside Highway from Wrightsville Beach to Bald Head Island. Extension of City Limits• 35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, wid er Turning Basin, with ship lanes into industrial sites along Eastern bank south of Wilmington. Paved River Road to Southport, via Orton Plantation. Development of Pulp Wood Production through sustained-yield methods through out Southeastern North Carolina. Unified Industrial and Resort Promo tional Agency, supported by one county wide tax. Shipyards and Drydocks. Negro Health Center for Southeastern North Carolina, developed around the Community Hospital. Adequate hospital .ilities for whites. Junior High School. Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers. Development of native grape growing throughout Southeastern North Carolina. Modern Tuberculosis Sanatorium. TOP O' THE HORNING Four things, I think, make life worth while: To love—to help—to hope—to smile! —From “BOOKS OF DAYS" Backed By Broughton Governor Broughton’s assistance for the port terminal project comes at an opportune time. It should have some weight with the Recon struction Finance Corporation which, after first refusing the desired loan for port facilities, has reopened the case to receive additional briefs •etting forth in greater detail the need for and advantages of the improvements so earnestly ■ought by Wilmington’s port developers. Governor Broughton, who has the vision of ■ great port at Wilmington, and is deeply in terested in that vision’s realization, has told Jesse Jones, secretary of commerce and RFC chairman, “I have the conviction that the de velopment of this port not only will serve North Carolina but will prove to be a develop ment of national importance.” In the war emergency, we know that ade quate terminals here would be valuable to de fense projects and that once the war cmergen gency is past they would give North Carolina manufacturers a rate advantage over other Southern Atlantic ports which could not fail to be reflected in their earnings and increased fit ness to’enter highly competitive markets. We know that a developed port wouid attract com merce in sufficient volume to meet all financial obligations incurred for construction and oper ation and create a sinking fund for debt retire ment and interest charges. With the experience Mr. Jones had in Hous ton during the time he led the effort for Houston’s port development, it is reasonable to expect that he will recognize the possibilities for community and statewide commercial ad vancement through a similar enterprise in Wil mington. Hopefully, the reopening of the case will prove the signal for its final favor. Bundles For Britain Too much praise cannot be given the Red Cross Production unit which is making clothing lor British war sufferers as a part of the “Bundles for Britain” movement. Thus far there have been made 94 woolen shirts, 20 woolen women’s dresses, 86 woolen girls’ dress es, 39 boys’ outing flannel shirts, 13 men’s outing flannel convalescent robes, 116 chil dren’s sweaters, 27 women’s shawls, eight pairs of^jsocks and 67 layettes. A truly credit /4 ' able showing, which gives promise of more ' production by busy needles. A second allotment of materials will be distributed next week. The thought is that if more of Wilmington’s women take a hand the work will move faster and to that extend the suffering of England’s bomb-impoverished people be lessened. The women of this city have never held back when the needs of humanity were press ing. Wherever there has been suffering, from whatever cause, Wilmington has been in the forefront of relief. Now, with the people of England courageously enduring the privation and distress, the crippling of their normal activities, by a ruthless enemy, there is an additional incentive for Wilmington women to do what they can to ease their plight. Consider, ladies, how much more effective the Wilmington project could be if the force engaged in preparing bundles for Britain were doubled. For Traffic Relief Traffic on Highway No. 17 has increased so heavily since work started at Holly Ridge, and has still to reach the peak, that it is obvious some provision must be made to take care oi the excess if a serious handicap to construction operations at Camp Davis is to be escaped. The best provision for a smooth traffic flow, as everybody knows, would be a four-lane highway from Jacksonville to Wilmington. But this would take considerable time to build after the project was approved. Meanwhile congestion could be relieved to a considerable extent by an alternate route between Jacksonville and Wilmington for traf fic not directly connected with Camp Davis. This route is available and involves only a negligible increase in mileage. Highway No. 53, which connects Highways 258 and 117 trav erses a part of Onslow county from a few miles out of Jacksonville and diagonally across Pender county direct to Burgaw, and is paved from Burgaw to the Northeast Cape Fear river. The roadway is graded and surfaced with gravel-top soil, which means that much of the preliminary work is completed and paving could proceed without delay. Virtu ally all winter and spring tourist traffic could be diverted to it. If the top soil stretch of the road from Castle Hayne to Hampstead were paved, this road would offer a connecting link with Highway No. 17, and would also relieve congestion in the vicinity of Camp Davis. Among the many efforts Wilmington must engage in to do a good job of service for de fense and for northeastern North Carolina de velopment, none seems to call for more con structive planning than essential highway im jprovement. Raid Goes Wrong Something went wrong with the German air raid directed at London on Sunday night, the details of which have just come to light in dispatches from England. There was an early alarm, and the anti-aircraft guns erupted as usual, but the German planes seemed unable to get through and few bombs fell. Motors heard over the city later on did not sound like Nazi engines. This experience was different from the straf ing inflicted on Portsmouth the night before, when the Germans came in numbers and inflicted terrific damage. But after that raid Berlin reported that six ships failed to re turn. The strange thing about that admission was that the British had claimed the des truction of only two German craft - one by gunfire from the ground and the other, signifi cantly, by a "night patrol.” From the results of the Portsmouth raid the air correspondent of the British Press As sociation concluded that “progress is being made in the search for a thoroughly con vincing answer to the night bomber.” This expert places his chief emphasis on anti-aircraft defense, pointing out that the Bofors gun with improved detector apparatus has solved the problem of dealing with the low-flying raider. He explains that British equipment already in use is ahead of anything devised by the Germans. But, in view of hints dropped by British authorities and substantiated, to some extent, by such statements as those recently made by Sir Hugh Dowding, it may be that a still more hopeful solution has been found in the night patrol. The raid on Portsmouth was costly for the Germans. At least we may hope that in the future similar attacks will become too expensive. The Middle Way P - Much of the confusion that has arisen in congress and the country generally over the aid-to-Britain bill is the product of two con flicting fears which are now present in the American mind. People, and this includes even those who are most anxious to see Britain receive all possible aid, are deeply worried over the pros pect of handing1 over so much unrestricted power to one man. They are anxious, and rightly so, about where this will lead now and later on. They are afraid that the power, rashly used, may lead us directly into war and that the authority, once granted, will be retained to effect radical changes in our system of government. On the other hand there is another, and nearly equal, fear of what will happen if con gress refuses' to delegate authority and ties the hands of the Chief Executive. For it is generally recognized by now that an emer gency of the kind we are facing demands prompt action by a central authority able to make instant decisions when .necessity de mands. Because these anxieties are sincerely and genuinely felt, without regard to partisanship, we believe they point the way that congress should take in dealing with the legislation. That is to take a course midway between the demands of the extremists on either side. It might well prove suicidal, for example, t0 accede to the demands of the extreme isola tionists, and refuse to delegate any additional powers to the President. He is the leader of the nation by choice of the electorate and, as long as the emergency lasts, he must be given whatever authority is necessary to deal with it. But it is only common sense to limit the scope of such delegations of authority and the length of time over which it may be employed. The President has probably asked for far more than he expected to get, and certainly much more than he ought to have. It is the duty of congress to write in whatever checks can be devised without im pairing essential freedom of action and to in sure the restoration of democratic checks and balances once the emergency has passed. 4 Editorial Comment KILLING TOURIST TRADE. Fayetteville Observer Quoting our favorite columnist in our favor ite afternoon newspaper: “We have a hunch that if Fayetteville does get a truck lane pretty soon, much of the truck and the tourist business will be routed around the town.” • The traffic congestion in Fayetteville caused by the failure of the city authorities to pro vide a truck lane undoubtedly is killing Fay etteville’s tourist business. We do not appreci ate this much now because of the feverish activity and defense boom in connection with the expansion of Fort Bragg, but the slump will begin to be noticed as the construction flurry fades away and Fayetteville’s surplus popula tion of carpenters goes back to the farm. Operators of tourist homes and front street gasoline stations who are opposing a truck route for fear that it will take business away from them are really cutting their own throats. They are helping give Fayetteville a bad name for traffic congestion from New York to Florida and are killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The only way in which Fayetteville can neutralize the very bad advertising which is resulting from the failure of the Board of Aldermen to provide safe and decent routes of transportation through the city is simply to provide them. The longer Fayetteville waits and the more specious excuses for inaction which are made by our city fathers the longer it will be until Fayetteville gains the place it should hold as one of the premier tourist-stop cities in the United States. WTe are slaughtering a major industry in its cradle for the sake of petty and temporary profits. 5 * Washington Daybook BY JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The foreman of a huge airplane factory walks through the shop, tapping this man and that on the shoulder. “As part of the defense program,” he says, “we’re having a camouflage drill. Get up on the roof and play a round of golf.” Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But take the word of a group of Pittsburgh steel firm officials here to discuss plant construction possibilities with the National Defense Commission, some thing like that can happen in a few months in Texas. Here’s how: Work already has started at Hensley field, near Dallas, according to J. Gordon Trumbull, steel company engineer, on a 20-acre, all blackout, camouflaged plant for the North American Aviation Co. Construction plans call for a dummy golf course on the 20-acre roof. And what could make the camouflage so ef fective as having a couple of foursomes ap parently dubbing around in case enemy scout ing planes were out searching for possible ob jectives. • • * WITHOUT WINDOWS Walls of the plant are to be pre-fabricated, corrugated, splinter-proof steel. There will not be a window in the building. Exits and entrances will have double doors, like storm doors, so that under no circumstances can light escape from the building. Inside the corrugations of the walls will run the tubing for air-conditioning and wires for fluorescent lights which will illuminate the interior night and day. The plant is the second structure built along these lines by the Pittsburgh firm, the other being the Allison airplane engine plant at In dianapolis. The company also has a number of plants in Liverpool, England, where the struc tures have been tested under actual war con ditions. According to cabled reports from London, one of the chief benefits to the building under bomb-fire is that when direct or close hits blow out the walls, damaged sections can be replaced almost instantly. He * * SEE CONSTRUCTION RECORD The Texas plant, officials say, will be com pleted in 105 days from the time work started, believed to be a record for construction of a factory of such size. The Dallas plant is just another step in the use of pre-fabricated steel in the defense pro gram. At Quantico, Va., the Marine Corps base, 100 enlisted men and their families soon will be occupying the first defense housing pro gram homes built* of pre-fabricated, welded steel panels. The same construction is feeing used in 100 twelve-family apartment units for shipyard employes at Newport News, Va. These houses are demountable under roofs of sheet steel panels and, except for outer sidewalls of asbestos shingles over insulation board sheathing, are completely of steel. In the case of the Quantico two-family units, ten men working eight hours can get one ready for occupancy in a single day. Each side of the 48-by-28-foot buildings contains a living room, combination kitchen and dinette, two bedrooms and a bath. * * » ALL CAN BE MOVED All of these buildings are demountable and could be knocked down and transferred to other communities with little loss of time. The Defense Commission has under consid eration still a third pre-fabricated steel hous ing program, the designer of which claims he can house 700,000 persons in six months. 1 a * Fair Enongh By WESTBROOK PEGLER The Star wishes its readers to know that views and opin ions expressed in this article are those of the author and may not always harmonize with its position.—The Editor. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Whenever Harold L. (for Lovable) Ickes wants to be especially mean to me he recalls that I used to be a sports writer, and there are times when this hurts my feelings, be cause, after all, it does my store no good to have him walking up and down in front carrying a sign that says my thoughts are just the ignorant musings of a dese, dose and dem guy with a cauliflower mind. Everybody has to get start ed some way, don’t- they? Ickes seems to think Stalin is pretty good, but Stalin got his start rob bing banks and President Roose velt was a Wall Street lawyer, and you might say that explains his knack for getting around the con stitution without breaking it. But other days, like today, it just seems that if we had a lot of sports writers analyzing what you might call the situation it would make it easier for everybody to understand how things are going, because everybody knows pretty much about sports, but you start telling them about Machiavelli and they think he is a violinist. Will Pay Attention So, like I say, if a cosmic ob server gives out about Napoleon or the Twenty-seven Years war, nine out of ten customers will brush on by, because it reminds them of when they were in school, but if you give them someone like Primo Camera they will pay at tention and learn something. So Mr. Ickes can cut class today while I draw a parallel between Primo, or Old Satch, as we used to call him, and The Duce of the new Italian empire. When Old Satch came over here he was grabbed off by a bunch of the boys, and they gave him a big buildup to make him look terrific, as we say. They remembered that Luis Angel Firpo had been called the Wild Bull of the Pampas, so they called Satch the Wild Boar, and they had a picture of a wild boar embroidered on his ring pants. But that didn’t go so good, because they forgot to let Primo in on the gag, so when Paul Gallico asked him about the meaning of the boar Satch laughed and said: "Oh, you mean da leetla peeg? Sheeza nawthing. Sheeze joosta leetla peeg for make pretty da pants.” I don’t write dialect very well, but you get the idea. Wonderful Business Well, the boys did a wonderful business with Satch. In the first place, they all knew he was a ter rible bum, so they took no chances. Just as Mussolini selected round heels for his opponents in Ethiopia and Albania and insisted on a no decision contest in Spain, Primo’s mob used extreme care in their match-making. They went around the country digging up old retired bums of a class known to pugilism as dry-tank men, divers or splash ers, meaning guys who could be relied on to take a plunge at the word of command. They put on the splash from coast to coast. One night in New York the man ager of a tanker got fresh, de manding a little extra money and threatening to have his dummy mess up Old Satch, so they locked him in his hotel room while, over in the Garden, Old Satch gave his chump the push. Another time, in Philadelphia, a boxing inspector got ethical in the dressing room, demanding an honest, high-spirited struggle, so they conked him with a board and stuffed him in a clothes locker until after. But in California they had an accident when an old colored man named Bombo Chevalier got ornery and chased Old Satch around and like to ran him bowlegged. Be tween rounds they tried a little persuasion in Bombo’s corner, but Bombo was out of control, and he gave Satch a terrible evening. Aft er that Satch never was the same, and the first time he ever met a real fighter Joe Louis just slew him, because he was only a bum. This brings us to Mussolini’s fuss with Greece. In Greece he sent around one of his mob, a guy named Grazzi, who used to be con sul general in New York, to tell Metaxas he would have to take a dive, and Grazzi told The Duce that the fix wa^ in. But, like Bombo Chevalier, the Greeks got sore, and the first thing you know they were beating the ears off the big bum, so now he has Hitler tearing around the ring and threat ening to murder Greece if they don’t hold still and catch one. But even if the Germans do lay out the Greeks in the alley for this, that won’t ever do The Duce any good. Once a dictator is made a bum of he is a bum forever, and Benito Mussolini will go down in history as the Old Satch of the empire business. 1 High School Choir To Sing At Vesper Services The High school choir of the First Baptist church will be in charge of the music at the afternoon Vesper services at St. Andrew’s Presbyter ian church Sunday. The choir of 25 voices is under the direction of Helen Smith Walker and sings, A Cappella. Bach’s “Jesus, Joy of Man’s De siring’’ will be hummed at the open ing of the service. The offertory will be “Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones” and the musical benedintion will be a three-fold amen. CITY BRIEFS magnolia blooms A resident of Carolina apart ments yesterday reported a mag nolia in bloom on one of the trees at the Magnolia apartments at Fifth and Market streets. Us ually these flowers do not bloom until the latter part of May or early June. CLOTHING SCHOOL New Hanover county club women are invited to attend the first Clothing Leaders school di rected by Miss Julia Mclver in the home agent’s office on Mon day morning, January 20, at 10 o’clock. BOOKS GIVEN Miss Jane D. Wood has recent ly given 100 foreign books in cluding Spanish, French and German textbooks and short stories, to the public library. TOURNAMENT POSTPONED The bridge tournament, which was to be sponsored by the Catholic Daughters o f America Thursday night, has been postponed until a later date. IN HOSPITAL Friends of Mrs. Reid Las siter will regret to learn she is a patient at James Walker Memorial hospital. SEEK DIVORCE Divorce proceedings on the grounds of two years separa tion were started yesterday in New Hanover superior court in the cases of Doris Plummer Ruggles vs. John S. Ruggles and Winifred Fergus vs. Frank T. Fergus, records at the office of T. A. Henderson, clerk of court, disclosed. \ - RECOVERING Miss Genevieve Starling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Starling, of 707 South Fifth street, is recovering at her home following an appendec tomy at James Walker Me morial hospital. ATTEND MEETING R. W. Galphin, county farm agent, Peter Braak, chairman county AAA committee, and Miss Elizabeth Morris, chief clerk, on Monday attended a district educational meeting at Burgaw, which featured dis cussions on the part agricul ture will play in the national • defense program and the 1941 farm program. CORRECTION Due to a typographical er ror it was stated in Wednes day’s Star that the Security National bank had transferred another $7,000 to its surplus in December. The story should have read that another $75,000 had been transferred to the bank’s surplus. SOROSIS MEET The literary department of the North Carolina Sorosis will hold its January meeting at the club house this afternoon at 4 o’clock at which time Mrs. A. R. Willis will give a review of "Trelawny” by Margaret Armstrong. Mrs. Willis is a member of the Eng lish department at New Hanover High school. BLOOD TRANSFUSION Bennie Bishop, white, of Jack sonville, h,urt by a tractor at Holly Ridge on Monday, is in Bulluck hospital, and is in need of a blood transfusion. Anyone willing to donate type No. 2 blood is asked to get in touch with Bulluck hospital immediate ly. CHECK FOUND A check signed by Blondie Morse payable to the Atlas Sup ply company and drawn on tiie Farmers Batik and Trust com pany was found in the Tourist Grill on North Third street last night The owner may secpre same by calling at police head quarters and identifying CARS COLLIDE Cars driven by James Justice, of Jacksonville, and K. E. Bat son, 703 1-2 North Fourth street were involved in a collision at Front and Castle streets last night with damages to both cars resulting, police reported. AUTO ACCIDENT A truck operated by Bishop Pierce, negro, and a car driven by Janies Earl Sneeden collided at Third and Market streets yes terday altemooh with consid erable damage to both machines resulting, according to a police report. CARS COLLIDE Automobiles operated by Miss Mary Campbell, 1307 Grace street, and Willard Holiday, 202 Walnut street, collided at Second and Grace streets yesterday aft ernoon with damages resulting to both cars, police reported. BANK DIRECTORS In the list of directors elected by the stockholders of the Peo ples Savings Bank and Trust company elected Tuesday tne names of Walker Taylor and Howard A. Penton were inadver tently omitted. The directors elected at the meeting were J. O. Carr, J. Holmes Davis, D. M. Darden, F. B. Gault, J. H. Ger des, W. S. Johnson, James F. Post, Walter W. Storm, Mr. Tay lor and Mr. Penton. SOLONS PREPARE FOR BUDGET WORK Joint Appropriations Commit tee Announces a Schedule Of Hearings RALEIGH, Jan. 15.— VB —The joint appropriations committee of the general assembly today paved the way for concentrated work on North Carolina's record budget for next biennium by announcing a schedule of hearings for state agencies. The joint finance committee, meanwhile, began a study of amend ments proposed by the advisory bud get commission to the continuing revenue act adopted in 1939. Divisions of the government situ ated here will be heard by the ap propriations committee tomorrow and Friday. Final hearings are set for February 4. The proposed bud get calls for expenditures of $163, 635,382 in state funds during 1941-43. Both houses held short formal ses sions today. In the house, the Mecklenburg delegation sent forward a measure to give the right of eminent domain to motor carriers and bus companies in acquiring sites for union bus terminals, if the utilities commission authorizes such action. Also, Representatives Poole of Moore, and Gass of Forsyth, intro duced a bill to appropriate $50,000 annually from the general fund for use by the Agriculture department in a Japanese beetle control and eradication program. Under suspended rules, both divi sions rushed through a bill naming Glenn West of Weaverville, as a member of the Buncombe county board of education. He succeeds Senator James S. Howell, author of the bill, which will be ratified into law tomorrow. By a vote of 41 to 0, the senate passed on second reading a bill to extend Lexington city limits to in clude the Erlanger community. Senator Gray of Forsyth, noted that a similar proposal caused heat ed controversy two years ago and was killed. He questioned the bill’s introducer, Senator Wilson of jJavid son, who said the measure was drafted by the Lexington city attor ney and an attorney from the Erlanger mills, and had been agreed to by all principal interested parties. HANES TRIUMPHS BOONE, Jan. 15—(A>)— Appala chian State Teachers college lost its first basketball game at home in two years tonight in bowing 50 57 to Hanes 'Hosiery team of Wans ton-Salem. The invaders led slightly most of the way, A Railroad Workers Name Legislative Chairmen RALEIGH, Jan. 15. — (JP) — State legislative board chairmen were named here today by the Brother hoods of Locomotive Engineers, Rail road Trainmen, and Locomotive Fire men and Engine Men, and the Or der of Railway Conductors. • Three were reelected — A. M. Thomas of Raleigh, for the engi neers; J. D. Carter of Spence, for the conductors; and J. E. Baum berger of Asheville for the firemen and engine men. The new man named was H. E. Withers of Salisbury, for the train men. FORD AVERS RM WANTS TO A U.S. Speaks At Dedication Of New Navy Service School At Dearborn Plant DETROIT, Jan. 15.—(ffl—Henry Ford told a nation-wide radio audi ence today that during the present crisis the Ford organization “wants to do everything possible to help America and the President.” The 77 - year - old industrialist made the statement in connection with the formal dedication of his new Navy service school in the grounds of the River Rouge plant at Dearborn. The school, which is to train young naval recruits for technical and mechanical assign ments with the fleet and at its bases, was accepted on behalf of the Navy by Rear Admiral C. W. Nimitz, chief of the bureau of nav igation, representing Secretary Knox. It was one of Ford’s infrequent radio addresses. Flanked by a group of naval officers, with some 200 enlisted men in the background, Ford stood in front of the school’s administration building, his soft hat pulled tightly down on his head an his coat collar turned up against a biting wind, and said: “During this crisis our organiza tion wants to do everything possi ble to help America and the Presi dent. The Navy being our first line of defense, I feel that the training of these young men will vitally benefit our nation. And, when this crisis is over we can then reclaim these mechanically trained young men in our indus tries.” Cumberland County Defense Group Named By Broughton RALEIGH, Jan. 15.—(#}—Gover nor Broughton today named a 22 man Cumberland county defense committee to advise with military authorities, particularly about mat ters concerning Fort Bragg. The appointments were made at the request of Col. J. W. Harrelson chairman of the state council on national defense. Similar county committees have been named for other areas with important defense posts. Col. Terry A. Lyon, a member of the state council, has been act ing chairman of the Cumberland group, named with him were: H. C. Blackwell, I. M. Richard son, O. P. Breece, B. R. Huske, Julian Hutaff, John H. Cook, D. M. Stringfield, E. L. Grady, William Der (Cap. r.) Hold, D. G. Downing, J. M. Wilson, S. C. Rankin. George Myrover, Edward B Hope, Thuy man Williams, E. H. Foley, J- y Maloney, J. W. Tolar, Vardell Wil liamson and Hector McKethan. 3 of Fayetteville, and E. N. Brow of Hope MILLS CHARLIE SHEPARD GIVEN ROAD TERM Pleads Guilty To Charge Of Forgery; Johnnie Sidbury Also Sentenced Charlie Shepard received frun\ three to four years on the roads after pleading guilty to a charge of for-, ery yesterday afternoon before Judge John J. Burney in New Hanover su perior court. Jimmy Jett, charged with forger who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of forcible trespass, drew a suspended 12 months sentence on the roads. Judge Burney placed Jett on pro. bation for three years on the condi tion that he pay the costs of court and remain of good behavior. Johnnie Sidbury received from three to four years on the roads after pleading guilty to a charge of lar ceny by trick. Joe Doe, alias Rowe, alias James Rhoe, drew 30 days on the roads after pleading guilty to a charge of violating the lottery laws. Judge Burney adjourned court at 5:20 o’clock yesterday afternoon un til 9:30 o’clock this morning, when David Sinclair, district solicitor, will begin prosecution of the remainder of the docket, involving, for the most part, minor infractions of the laws. A change of mind apparently cost Alex Corbett several year? of free dom yesterday morning as he was sentenced to serve 10 to 12 years on a charge of manslaughter. Tuesday, District Solicitor David Sinclair informed the court yester day, he talked with Corbett who was charged with the murder of Demra Treadwell on Nov. 16. Ho said he informed Corbett he did not intend to try him for his life and wanted to know if he wanted to plead guilty to second degree murder or to manslaughter. Corbett, the solicitor said, an swered that he killed Treadwell in self-defense, and then asked the solicitor to explain the possible sentences for second degree mur der and manslaughter. At the conclusion of the ex planation, the solicitor said, Cor bett said he wanted to plead guilty to manslaughter. Sinclair said he had then told the negro he would recommend that the judge sentence him to no more than four months. “Isn’t that r i g h t,” Sinclair asked of the prisoner? “Naw, suh,” Corbett replied, “I want to plead not guilty.” Sinclair, anticipating a guilty plea, had none of his witnesses in court, but a few minutes effort brought them there. The case went to trial and to the jury, which after a few minutes deliber ation, brought in a verdict of guilty of manslaughter. Judge John J. Burney sentenced Corbett to serve 10 to 12 years in state prison. Walter Hannah, charged with aiding and abetting in hit and run driving, submitted a plea of guil ty and was fined $25 and the costs. In recorder’s court he tes tified, while on trial for operating an automobile while under the in fluence of intoxicants, that at the time the car in which he was rid ing hit another, a woman whose name he did not know was driv ing. He testified in recorder's court that he had told the womar to run and that she had run. He was found not guilty of the drunk en warrant charging him with j aiding and abetting in hit and run driving. Auditions For Stokowski Orchestra Planned Here John A. Lang, State NYA Ad ministrator, announced plans to day for state-wide preliminary au ditions to be held during the month of February for Leopold Stokow ski’s All-American Youth Orches tra. In New Hanover county the au ditions will be held in the NYA area office in the basement of the courthouse, according to Harold Jeter, in charge of the work here. Under an agreement which has been worked out by Aubrey Wil liams, National NYA Administi | tor, and the noted conductor, stale and local offices of the National Youth Administration will receive applications from talented young musicians and arrange for the pre liminary auditions, in which five of the best in each state will be chosen.