NEGROES vote
FOR FIRST TIME
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p.AIJ,AS, Tex , July 24.— (tf) —
v'fr'roes voted for the first time
r,turday in Texas Democratic
'viniaries, and today there were
^ reports of any unusual incident
"p, 0f a Negro having been denied
3 ballot.
Amarillo reported eight Negroes
v'ted in 27 precincts in Potter
c unty
At Silsbee. in deep east Texas,
,, ;',ere the lightest vote in years
,'gS cast, the Negro vote was re
.' rted heavier in proportion to the
population than the white vote. ;
Xhe Texas election bureau did j
,10- differentiate between white and
•Vgro votes in returns so there
v-.-.s no estimate of the total Negro
v«le.
Xhe state democratic committe
i;: to local election officials the
Question of receiving ballots from
Vegroes who were qualified to vote
-v"registration and payment of
sill tax.
A U 5. Supreme court decision
, d ordered the Democratic offi
-,dls to permit qualified Negroes
o vote.
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negro sentenced
IN HORSE THEFT
Hubert Ellis. 16 year-old negro
Goldsboro, pleaded guilty to
pealing a horse, and was sen
tenced tu eight months on the coun
y roads by Judge Henry L. Ste
reo? of Warsaw, presiding over
tie July term of Superior court
lere yesterday.
The youth was at first given a
suspended prison sentence and or
jered topay the costs of the court,
eut when he was unable to pay
he costs. Judge Stevens ordered
hat he serve the road sentence.
Ellis was charged with stealing
he horse from a Carolina Beach
iding academy. Solicitor Clifton
L. Moore remarked, “It is the first
such case I have seen in tea
rears.'’
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Two Companies
Granted Charters
RALEIGH. July 24— (#) <—Two
certificates of incorporation were
filed today with the secretary of
state:
Wade S. Dunbar Agency of
Laurinburg. to operate an insur
ance agency: authorized capital
stock $25,000. subscribed stock
$300 by Wade Dunbar, Mary Phil- i
lies Dunbar and E. H. Gibson, all j
of Laurinburg.
The Haywood company of
Waynesville. to handle coal, fuel,
heating fixtures and supplies;
authorized capital stock $50,000,
subscribed stock $9,500 by Ben J.
Sloan, S. H. Bushnell, Jr., J. A.
Prevost, all of Waynesville, and
others.
FILES STATEMENT
PHILADELPHIA, July 24,—(A5)—
Florida Power Corporation, St.
Petersburg, Fia., a subsidiary of
C-eneral Gas & Electric Corpora
t'on, filed today with the securities
and exchange commission a reg
stration statement covering 40,000
shares of S100 par value cumula
:ive preferred stock.
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out of a siege of pneumonia with
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Schnapps is tops with Joe, and
so is Mrs. LaTour.
DEFENSE WORKERS
FILL DRAFT CALL
City Draft Board No. 1 will fill
an induction call for 40^white men
on August 23 by terminating a num
ber of temporary deferments of
shipyard registrants, officials said
yesterday.
The board had previously report
ed that it was “at the bottom of
the barrell” of its draft eligibles
to fill the August call.
Only the fact that the induction
call was scheduled after August
16, the date the “temporary” war
workers deferments end, enables
the board to complete i t s next
month’s induction quota, officials
said. “If the call had had to be
made before August 16, we sim
ply could not have filled the quo
te.”
The manpower supply that will
help to complete the board's draft
call in August was made possible
through the termination of “tem
porary” deferments of a “num
ber” of shipyard workers. Offi
cials explained that the induction
of these men in June and July
was “postponed because the ship
yard wanted to keep them on
some special work.”
The August inductees will go to
rert Bragg for induction.
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PARKING METERS
BRING IN $48,104
The little parking meters that
are serving Wilmington’s automo
biles so well in these days of heavy
traffic are also bringing in good
revenue to the City of Wilmington.
Through the 12 months ending
June 30, collections through the
meters amounted to $48,104.94, or
58.104 more than the budget plan
ners had estimated. The monthly
n’ake averaged slightly over $4,
:00.
The expense of repairing the me
,ers was listed at $179.12 in tke
annual financial statement. The
iigure does not, of course, include
the salary of the regular full time
collector-repairman.
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Rooms Urgently Needed
For 75 Neio Teachers
Rooms for 75 new teachers, ex
pected to arrive ir this county by
the opening of the fall term, are
urgently needed, J. W. Grice, as
sistant superintendent of schools,
said yesterday.
“We are asking those persons
who have rooms, or who will have
them by the time school opens, to
call the Board 'i Education im
mediately," Gri ;e said.
Mr. Grise said this is the first
year Wilmingtonians have failed,
thus far in the summer, to register
their rooms with the board.
“In view of the fact that the
teachers we so badly need won’t
come unless there are rooms found
for them, it is important that we
have the community’s full cooper
ation,” he declared.
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moist by spreading loose straw on
[he garden after watering.
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JUDGE STEVENS
DELIVERS TALK
“To set you thinking and talk
ing, so that your opinions and
the opinions of those about you
may reach and affect the action
of the Congress,” Judge Henry
L. Stevens of Warsaw, presid
ing over the July term of Su
perior criminal court, yester
day flung a series of ring
ing questions on the subject of
America’s preparations for
peace to members of the newly
appointed Grand Jury.
Judge Stevens prefaced his
remarks on the peace with a
plea to “render the fullest mea
sure of service to the last
yhistle.”
“But,” he said, “there appear
to be signs of surrender. It
looks as though Germany will
capitulate before cold weath
er.”
aupyuse uiey uo quil. win
America be prepared” Stevens
asked.
“German officials are first go
ing to attempt to save their
necks. Then they will attempt
to save their clique so that it
will be in a position to make
war again within 10 years,
when all their pent up hatred
and venom will be shifted and
vaunted upon the American
people.
“Are we going to put our
Merchant Marine in the grave
yard again? Are we going to
sink our Navy again? Are we
going to consider reducing our
standing Army to a few hun
dred thousand men? Are we go
ing to stand by and let another
Hitler emerge?” Stevens quer
ied.
“God is going to quit looking
after us unless we get some
sense ourselves,” he declared.
Judge Stevens, past national
commander of the American
Legion and a member of the
AEF in the last war, declared
that he was no seer or prophet
but that common sense seemed
to call for: complete demili
tarization of Germany, “so that
the only weapons in the hands
of the Germans will be imple
ments for tilling the soil”; de
industrialization of Germany so
that the only products made
there will be those needed in
times of peace; complete re
education. to be controlled for
two generations, of German
youth.
“This time wp are not fight
ing a war to save the world for
democracy. We are fighting for
our lives, and for the ability to
keep on doing business at the
same stand. We failed the last
time because of our attitudes
and our lack of positiveness. If
we commit the same follies
again we may not be so lucky
as to have other helpful nations
to head off disaster,” he em
phasized.
aim me nearer we gei in
surrender,” Stevens warned,
“the more misguided people
we are going to meet. We must
think and discuss and express
our opinions to Congress.”
Turning to the jurymen to in
struct them in their duties he
assured them that our courts
of justice represent “our revolt
against tyranny.”
New members of the Grand
Jury, to serve for the next 12
months, are: Carl Causey, S.
Warren Sanders, Newton J.
Kelly, Louis T. Moore, N. E.
King, H. W. Hewlett, E. L.
Matthews, Wilbur L. Russ, W.
L. Pearce.
Old members, with ^x
months remaining to serve, are
D. M. Holmes, L. T. Rogers, T.
W. Keith, L. M- Page, Sher
man L. Schulken, J. W. Croom,
J. Arthur Brown, and W. K.
Toot, Jr.
Foreman of the Grand Jury
is J. Arthur Brown; E. L. Mat
thews is the assistant foreman.
There are approximately 68
cases oir the July criminal
docket.
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Republican Chairman
Sees Democratic Flaw
WASHINGTON, July 24.— UP —
Republican national chairman Her
bert Brownell, Jr., declared today
that the Democrats proved a Re
publican contention last week
when they passed over president
Roosevelt’s first choice for run
ring mate, Henry A. Wallace.
The contention: “It’s time to
change horses.”
Brownell, making his first viait
to Republican headquarters here
since he was named last month
to direct the party’s national cam
paign, predicted the next few
months will bring “considerable”
talk about control of the Demo
cratic party.
This control, he declared, rests
with two elements—“the bos'ses of
the corrupt big city machines and
the radical left wingers who are
closer to communism than to any
other political philosophy.” He
mentioned no names.
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1,200 Emnloyes Vote
To End Six-Day Strike
At Borg-Warner Plant
MUSKEGON, Mich., July 24.
—<7P)—Striking employes of the
Norge division of Borg-Warner
Corp- at Muskegon Heights vot
ed today to end their six-day
walkout at midnight tonight.
George Murphy, president of
United Automobile Workers
(AFL) local 404, said that at
the urging of union leaders and
after being informed their dis
pute over discharge of a union
steward had been certifijl to
the War Labor Board, the work
ers voted by a slight majority
to return to their jobs.
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Mrt The AEF
The 100th Battalion Is Beer Free
By KENN'ETH L. DIXON
WITH THE AEF IN ITALY,
July 14—(Delayed)—Most of t h e
men in the 100th Battalion were
torn in Hawaii, but they learned
English in school long ago—whicn
is a good thing for a trio of Yank
doughboys,
Reading from left to right the
doughboys are Sgt. John K. Ball,
New Hampton, la.; Corp. Wilbert
C. Young, Minneapolis; and Pvt.
Serafino Mucci, the Bronx, N. Y.
When the men of the 100th, who
have made a terrfic reputation
along this front, stormed a Ger
man stronghold and killed or cap
tured most of its defenders, they
finally came to a barred door. In
tne building, they were debating
whether to kick it open, bust it
open, or shoot it open, when they
heard a yell from inside:
“Don't shoot! Don’t shoot Just
bust this darn door down’’
They did, and out walked the
three Yanks, who had been cap
tured a short time before, plus
one German guard—who had al
ready been convinced that he’d
tetter sit the rest of this one out.
Lots1 of soldiers get shot at more
than Lt. Richard W. Walkup, Tam
pa, Tex., but lew would care to
change places with him. He heads
a bomb disposal squad, which ac
tually disposes of any kind of live
explosive—from hand grenades to
huge booby trapped ammunition
piles. Right now it’s clearing out
sectors north of Rome which will
be occupied by hospitals and vari
ous rear area officers as the Army
moves up.
Members of Walkup's crew are
Tech. Sgt. Raymond Freeh, Creek
side, Pa. who the lieutenant calls
“the best demolition’s man in the
army—Sgt. Gailard Krenz, Augus
ta, Wis.. and four corporals, Wil
liam Ziegler, Cincinnati, 0., Mi
chael Vlock, LaPort, Iowa, Ed
ward Fox, Pans, Tex., and Wil
liam Morcherding, Baltimore, Md.
They all had a lot of training
at Aberdeen Ordnance grounds in
Maryland before coming overseas,
but “that doesn’t keep you from
sweating,’’ grinned Walkup, who
had carefully removed a 1 hand
grenade with pin pulled from an
ammunition pile.
* * *
Pilots come and pilots go but
‘ Baby Carmen" seems to fly on
forever (Knock on wood). The
company which makes the A-36 in
vaders is saltl to expect them to
last about 50 missions per plane,
considering the workouts they get
in this theater.
It was a year ago that Staff
Sgt. Mike Brown, St. Paul, Minn.,
helped assemble “Baby Carmen’’
back in Oran. He is still servicing
the plane thf>se 'lays, but will sum
mon Edwin F. Lucas, of Greens
boro, N. C„ as her fifth pilot. The
Baby” has flown 220 combat mis
sions for a total of more than 400
fighting hours.
Pvt. Yoshio Tagami, an army
truck driver from Hawaii, also is
a pinball machine addict. Any
body who thinks he is going to re
form him from his love for pin
ball machines is nuts.
His truck was parked in a bat
tered Italian viilage not long ago,
when Yoshio looked into the door
cf a deserted building and saw a
Xiinball machine and he walked in
s:de to have a look at it.
Yoshio began to inspect the gad
get when he heard that all familiar
scream outside He hit the floor.
As the shelling subsided, he
stepped back outside and found a
large hole made by a German 88
ri^ht where he had been standing
before he spotted the machine.
Now Private Tagami practically
adores pinball machines.
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SNOW SAVED FOR DRINKING
In the desert ranges of the west,
sheepmen sometimes cover snow
drifts with strati' to slacken melt
;ng and so furnish water to tide
them over early dry seasons.
LOCAL AIRMAN
DIES IN ACTION
The War Department has notified
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Pritchard of
504 South Third street that their
son, 2nd Lt. William Frank Pritch
ard, 21, was killed in action over
Italy, June 13.
Lieutenant Pritchard was enlist
ed in the Army Air Corps in June,
1942, was called to active duty Jan
uary 9, 1943, and was assigned to
Santa Ana, Calif. Since then he
received training at Blythe and
Tucson, Ariz., and was awarded
his commission and wings as a
pilot at Luke Field, Phoenix, Ariz..
November 3, 1943.
He has been overseas since De
cember, 1943, and was stationed in
North Africa before being trans
ferred to the 79th Fighter group
in Italy.
Lieutenant Pritchard was grad
uated from high school In Tifton
Ga., in 1939, and prior to goink
into service was employed by th*
North Carolina Shipbuilding com,
pany.
Surviving are his parents; one
brother, Pvt. Thomas Harold
Pritchard, now stationed at Spar
tanburg, S. C.; and a sister. Mrs.
John T. Batson of Wilmington.
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JUDGE APPOINTED
WINSTON-SALEM, July 25.—UP)
—Leroy W. Sams today was nam
ed judge of Winston-Salem’s muni
cipal court. He will fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation of Judge
Bailey Liipfert.
F. Gaither Jenkins was appointed
assistant judge.
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“lei rather he with them- j
them waiting for them ” !
I’LL ADMIT there’s a funny lump in my throat.. .
But here I am, loaded with my overseas pack, climbing up
the side of the biggest boat I’ve ever seen—and glad of it
Glad I said “good-by” to civilian life months ago—and
went into the WAC. Glad I went through all the training and
on to active duty.
For, as a Wac, I’m really working for victory. Sharing the
hard part of war. And the glory that will come.
I’d rather be with them—in the Army...
Than waiting back home—thinking up things to make the
time go by—listening to the news—wondering when it’ll all
be over.
Yes, I’m in the Army and on my way—and I’m glad to the
bottom of my heart!
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