The Wilmington morning star. [volume], February 03, 1946, FINAL EDITION, Page 4-A, Image 4

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SUCCESSOR NAMED
TO DR. C. B. DAVIS
RALEIGH, Feb. 2—The appoint
: ment of Dr. Otto J. Swisher Jr.,
Southern Pines, as director of tne
industrial Hygiene division of tne
state board of health, was an
nounced today by Dr. Carl V. Rey
nolds, state health officer.
Dr. Swisher will succeed Dr. U
B. Davis, of Wilmington, who re
signed the post in protest over is
suance of health cards to western
North Carolina miners assertealy
affected with silicosis and as
bestosis. Dr. Davis refused to is
sued cards to 104 men, and in his
refusal, led to a policy dispute.
Dr. Reynolds said the appoint
ment was made public because
“there has been so much confu
sion and some misunderstanding
concerning the directorship of the
Industrial hygiene program.”
Dr. Swisher recently returned
from the Pacific theater of opera
tions, where he served in the U.
S. Army Medical corps, with the
rank of major.
He has studied public health at
the North Carolina School of Pub
lic Health, Chapel Hill, and was
graduated in medicine at the Uni
versity of Ohio. He served his in
ternship at Grant hospital in Col
umbus, Ohio.
Dr. Reynolds said, “As a Work
er in the field of - public health',
Dr. Swisher formerly served as
director of the division of indus
trial hygiene of the West Vir
ginia state board of health, and as
health officer for Covington coun
ty, Term., before going overseas.
We feel we are fortunate in secur
ing his services for North Caro
lina, in view of his war and public'
health records.
“Immediate steps are to be tak
en to review all cases previously
examined by the division of Indus
trial hygiene, with a view to mak
ing these examinations complete,
in order to determine those who
are physically able to remain at
work in plants involving dust
hazards.
“I should like to state further,
for the information of the public,
that all employes who are ex
amined are advised of the findings
in their cases, and each of his
classification. It is then optional
with them whether they continue
at work. No employe is advised to
continue at work unless it is safe
for him to do so, our primary ob
jective being to extend protection
to humanity against disease and
physical unfitness.”
NEGRO PRISONER
DIES IN ACCIDENT
A Negro prisoner, working on
the state highways, was killed yes
terday morning when a large asp
; halt tank, which he was helping to
unload, rolled over and crushed
him.
The dead man, Lem Austin, 32,
was a member of a gang of state
prisoners who were unloading the
10,000 gallon tank onto a plat
form near the Red Cross sanator
ium.
According to investigating of
ficers from the Sheriff's office,
as the tank began to slip, the men
jumped, leaving Austin alone on
the platform. Before he could
leap clear the tank rolled over and
crushed him against a railroad
rail.
Austin was pronounced dead
upon arrival at James Wal
ker Memorial hospital where he
was taken by C. C. Parker, fore
man. The prisoners were from
State prisoner camp No. 302,
Shallotte.
Prisoners have been unloading
similar tanks at the platform
since 1940, Parker said yesterday,
with no accidents until Austin’s
death.
Austin was serving a 20-year
term imposed in New Hanover
county in 1943 for highway rob
bery and robbery from the person.
XXIHi OUiwAI OX AXV-i’NHi YY
AMPUTEES ATTACK “BRIN G-B ACK-DADDY” GROUPS
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Chargin that “Bring-Back-Daddy clubs are b eing formed by a “bunch of nylon-starved wives
whose husbands were with them all through the shooting war”, this group of amputee patients at
Lawson General hospital in Atlanta, Ga., have noticed their opinions in a local newspaper. Group
had collected enough money to run a full page a d, but paper ran their gripes as a news story. All
officers, they say they too want to get out of the Army and wonder why occupation troops complain
about being overseas now that the fighting is over. Left to right: Lt. Col. C. E. Ward, Lt. Frank
Ralsont, Lt. John M. Kendrick, Capt. R. S. Smith and Lt. John W. Stansell.
Rupert Worthington,
, Veteran Of Pacific,
Gets Army Discharge
Cpl. Rupert Worthington, 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Worthington,
1601 Castle street, returned to Wil
mington Monday after receiving an
honorable discharge from the
Army Air corps.
His 38 months of Army service
include an 18 month tour of duty
in the Asiatic-Pacific theater where
he served five months on Canton
Island and nine months on Okinawa
with the 148th Army Airways Com
munications squadron.
Cpl. Worthington has been award
ed the American theater service
medal, the Asiatic-Pacific service
medal with a bronze star, the Good
Conduct medal and the World War
II Victory medal.
WILL ATTEND INAUGURAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—(IP) —
The President and Mrs. Truman
arranged to attend the inaugura
tion tonight of officers of the Na
tional Press club. After a brief
stay there, they will motor to the
National Gallery of Art to inspect
a private exhibition of the famous
Samuel Kress collection of paint
ings which have just been turned
over to the gallery.
The world’s helium supply is
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400,000 Americans a year.
FIVE CANDIDATES
OUT IN BRUNSWICK
Brunswick county political cir
cles yesterday were discussing the
five announcements to-date of
candidates seeking office in the
May democratic primary.
Interest mNthe race for sheriff,
office now held by Peele Willetts,
Bolivia, mounted last week when
both Dillon L. Ganey, former
sheriff, and O W. Pe-ry, rural
policeman and former deputy un
der Ganey, announced their inten
tions to seek the office.
No opposition for the other an
nounced candidates has been de
clared yet. They are Sam T. Ben
nett,, clerk of cou'-i, who seeks re
election; John G. Gaison, former
coroner, who wants another term
at that post, and Boyd Robinson,
political newcomer, who has an
nounced for county commissioner.
RECEIVES GRANT
RALEIGH, Feb. 2 — (B) — The
committee on security and services
for children and youth of the state
planning board has received a
grant-in-aid of $7,000 from Parents’
Institute to conduct an intensive
study of available services to chil
dren and youth, Felix A. Grisette,
managing director of tile board,
announced today.
Dutch Navy Takes Over
Area East Or Borneo
BATAVIA, Java., Feb. 2—(#)
The Dutch navy is taking over
supervision of the Netherlands
East Indies east of Borneo, Capt.
H. Van Foreest, senior Dutch of
ficer in the Australian command,
announced today.
For about a month longer, he
said, 500 Australian soldiers would
remain in Dutch Timor, along with
some 6,000 British-Indians at
Mscassar and Celebes.
Van Foreest said conditions
were returning to normal in New
Guinea, Timor, Flores, Soembawa,
and Celebes, although he esti
mated that more than 100,000 Jap
anese remain in the sector.
RECEIVES DISCHARGE
NEW BERN, Feb. 2.—Pvt. C. L.
Knight, who has served with the
army infantry for the past two
years, most of that time being
spent’ overseas, has received an
honorable discharge from service.
Recently he has been on duty with
troops in Czecho-Slovakia. After
visiting here, he is now on a visit
with relatives in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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MEAT SHORTAGE
RELIEF IS SEEN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—(U.R)—Re
lief for tiie nation’s meat shortage
appeared likely tonight to come
from an unexpected quarter—in
creased marketing of firm live
stock as the result of a tightening
feed supply.
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton
Anderson told the United Press
that, ‘‘if farmers do what we want
them to, they would dump all sorts
of meat on the market”
Anderson expressed fear, how
ever, that the grain shortage may
force this nation to curtail its wheat
exports to hungry liberated areas.
Wheat normally is a food grain,
but when other grains such as corn
and oats are scarce, farmers turn
to wheat to piece out feed supplies.
Agriculture department reports
show that this is happening now.
Surveys show that the only sur
plus wheat is being held on farms.
The department is shaping up plans
to jolt loose any of these stocks it
can in order to meet the foreign
relief goal of 225,000,000 bushels of
wheat by July 1.
Foreign need for wheat, is con
sidered so great that President
Truman has directed Anderson,
Secretary of State James F.
Byrnes and Secretary of Commerce
Henry Wallace to make personal
recommendations on how to meet
the goal.
The situation will be fully explor
ed at a special cabinet session
scheduled for next Tuesday.
Superior Civil Court
Term Opening Monday;
Hamilton To Preside
Judge Luther Hamilton, More
head City, special judge, has been
named to preside over the first
week of a two-week civil term of
New Hanover Superior court which
opens here Monday, A. L. Mey
land, clerk of court, announced
yesterday.
Earlier in the week, court offi
cials had predicted that the first
week’s session might be called off
due to the shortage of special jur
ists. A number of regular and em
ergency judges, it was explained,
were unable to continue their
duties due to illness.
Judge John J. Burney, Wilming
ton, is scheduled to preside dur
ing the second week.
Preacher Jailed
Th* Bpv. Frank E. Siple. 53, pas
tor of the Southlawn Church of God
i._ itapids, Mich., reads the
Bible in his jail cell while await
ing sentence on a charge of assault
with intent to kill an elder of the
church. County Prosecutor Menso
R. Bolt said the minister has ad
mitted giving poison to his daugh
ter, Dorothy Ann, who died in 1939
at the age of 17. _
Former Wilmingtonian
Hospitalized By Navy
Robert Walton Holmes, S 2-c,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
L. Holmes, formerly of Wilmington,
is convalescing in the Naval hos
pital, Quantico, Va., from injuries
suffered while on duty in the Paci
fic. He was admitted to the Pearl
Harbor Naval hospital on Dec. 15
and recently transferred to the
Virginia hospital.
NAMED EDITOR
MACON, Ga., Feb. 2.—(U.R)—Buf
ard Boone, well-known Georgia
newspaperman and former special
agent of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, tonight was named
The appointment .announced by
editor of the Macon Telegraph,
Publisher Carmage Wall of the
relegraph and News, becomes ef
fective immediately. He succeeds
the late W. T. Anderson.
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EIGHT PRISONERS
GRANTED PAROLES
RALEIGH, JTeb. 2 — (£>)—Eight
paroles were granted today by
Governor Cherry:
Richard Smith, convicted in
Burke in February, 1944, of second
degree murder and sentenced to
eight to ten years; Geroy Couser,
convicted in Forsyth in November,
1941,, of highway robbery and sen
tenced to seven to ten years; Elijah
(Pop) Caldwell, convicted in Burke
in August, 1945, of receiving stolen
goods knowing they had been stolen
and sentenced to 12 months; and,
Carl Johnson, convicted in Frank
lin in November, 1945, of larceny
and sentenced to six months; Bur
nos Shirlin, convicted in Buncombe
in June, 1941, of second degree
murder and sentenced to 17-20
years; T. Edward Faucette, con
victed in Warren in March, 1945,
of abandonment and non-support
and sentenced to two years; and,
Vinson Bradley, convicted in
I
Jackson in June, 1943, of break!
and entering and assault with
deadly weapon and sentenced '
seven years and 12 months C(1?
secutively: Samama Hill '
victed in April, 1944, of break!'
entering and larceny and sentences
to three to five years, and in jUn.
1944, in Craven of breaking
entering, and sentenced to fiVe !
seven years, sentences to run J
currently. C0J'
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