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STORIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE | The Weather WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—t.T'—'Wealhc Bureau report cf temperature rmci rain fall for the 24 hours ending S p.m. In m< principal cotton growing areas and else station High Low Free WILMINGTON _ 5- 85 Asheville_ 57 -* Atlanta _65 31 °-pc Atlantic City-36 30 C.M Birmingham _- 67 g 0°$ Buffalo -lf 9 u-^ Burlington--1 Chattanooga - — £ inr Chicago _ 39 33 P9C Cleveland -23 « ** r> V’ac 8 W u - 60 34 O.OC pet mit 25 is o.m pi:*".!h 16 13 0.0a T. Paso _ 71 53 0.0i Tcrt Worth _ 76 48 0.00 Galveston _ 67 57 0.0C Jacksonville _ 69 44 O.OC Kansas City_ 71 38 0.0C Key V-'st _ 68 60 O.OC Knoxville _ 59 20 O.OC little Rock _ 74 43 O.OC Los Angeles_ 60 49 O.OC Louisville _ 54 22 O.OC Memohis _ 7C 34 O.OC Meridian _ 70 32 O.OC Miami - 67 48 O.OC Jlinn.-St. Paul - 31 16 0.01 labile - 66 44 O.OC Montgomery_ — 33 0.0f New Orleans - 69 43 O.OC New Yonc _t._ 31 29 O.OC Norfolk _ 46 30 0.04 Philadelphia - 33 27 O.OC Phoenix - 79 42 O.OC Pittsburgh _ 30 15 O.OC Portland. Me. _ 32 19 0.05 Richmond - 50 29 0.00 St. Louis _ 71 35 0.00 San Antonio —-- 73 50 O.OC San Francisco - 56 46 0.00 Savannah _ 67 38 0.00 Seattle _ 54 42 0.00 Tampa . _ 69 47 0.00 Vicksburg _ 69 34 0.00 Washington _ 41 26 0.01 During 1he great earthquake of 1811, the Mississippi river tempo rarily flowed north. MORE ABOUT UAW HEAD FROM PAGE ONE Transit Walkout Elsewhere throughout the nation a transit strike loomed in New York, a power strike threatened again in Pittsburgh and in Phila delphia a solid line of pickets be fore the General Electric plant, struck as part of a nationwide ■ walkout of 175,000 CIO Electrical : workers, defied an injunction against -mass picketing. Thomas asserted in the auto motive dispute that the President •‘should sell the recommendation of the fact-finding board to the people before calling the parties to Washington.” after Senator Claude D. Pepper (D-Fla.l sug gested that Mr. Truman call both sides to Washington in a new at tempt to settle the strike. Wants 19 1-2-Cent Raise j The union has agreed to accept ! the 19 1-2-cent fact-finding propo sal butGM’s highest offer has been 18 1-2 cents. Meanwhile, the UAW’s 200-man GM council was summoned to Detroit to hear a report Friday on the status of the strike. In New York, Joseph Brophy, president of the AFL Transit Workers union, which claims 6.000 members among the city's 32.000 transportation workers, said his group would not support a strike threatened for after midnight to day by the CIO Transit Workers union, on demands for a $2-a-day wage increase and sole collective bargaining rights for all trans portation workers on the city owned system. Will Not Strike Brophy said his union would not “strike against the city govern ment’’ in view of a decision by the city corporation council that State law prohibited the city from recog nizing any one unicn as sole col lective bargaining agent. The CIO union is one of six which claims members among the transit em ployes. MORE ABOUT HOBBY BUG FROM PAGE ONE of 404 North 15th street, popular vice president and program chair man of the Wilmington Kiwanis club and MacMillan & Cameron manager. Not a Numismat in the true sense of the word, because he confines his hobby to the collection of American coins, he is never theless, a dyed-in-the-wool devotee of Numismatia Americana. Eitten by the “Hobby Bug” about ten years ago, Rex Willis once the virus took hold, became a willing victim to “Hokbyitis” and as a re sult, has in one decade, gathered together an exceptionally interest ing and highly valuable collection of American coins. Real Pleasure Looking for a needle in a hay stack, accoraing to legend, is per haps the world’s toughest assign ment and would require the utmost degree of patience and persever ence. To Rex Willis, the task of locating a 1909-S Lincoln penny was not like looking for a needle in a haystack, but part of the pleasure the true hobby-rider gets out of his particular yen. So he tackled the job with enthusiasm. The particular 1909-S Lincoln the collector wanted was one bearing the initials, VBB of the designer. Only 500,000 of this particular pen ny ever came off the stamping imachines of the United States mint. Millions Checked Searching for one penny out of the thousands which change hands here every day was something else. The job took months and months. Penny after penny passed through Willis’ hands and under the scrutiny of an eager eye glued to a strong magnifying glass. In all, upwards of 2,000,000 were examined in this painstaking way. Then at last his patience was re warded. He found one—and of all places—right at his own place of business. On O-vvn Doorstep According to the collector, an employee of MacMillan & Cameron named Murray stopped him one day and knowing he collected pen nies, turned one he had in his pocket over to him. It was one of the very rare 1909-S VDB Lincolns. The Willis collection of Lincoln head pennies is now complete from 1909 through 1946 and is the pride and joy of the owner who has many hundreds of dollars tied up in United States coins. Five Missing Another section of the Wiiiis col lection which commands more than passing interest from veteran Numismats is a group of pennies dating from 1795 through 1857. Only five pennies are missing be fore this set will tjp complete, is sues of the years, 1796, 1798, 1800, 1801 and 1802. Acquisition by Willis of many of the earlier dated coins in this group came about in a most unusual way. Old Coins According to Mr. Willis, the coins were originally the property of Tom Williams, great grandfather of Mrs. Willis, and who operated a ships Chandler business at New Bern. Willis family records disclose that Great-grandfather Williams kept a bucket behind the counter of his store and every time he took in one of the big pennies then in circulation, he threw it into the bucket. The pennies; about the size of the present-day fifty cent piece, were in great demand among sea faring men of the New Bern dis trict for use as boat washers. Placed In Bags As his stock of pennies increased, Tom Williams placed them in bags and stored them away in an old iron safe. After he moved across the river, the old safe was left to the mercy of the elements, out In the open back of the Williams home. Following his death, members of his immediate family, on opening the old safe, discovered the horde of old pennies. The bags which held them, rotted with age, fell apart when an attempt was made to lift them ud. Uncirculated Coins The Willis American coin collec tion embraces also, sets of uncir culated coins from 1939 through 1946—50, 25, 10, 5 and one cent pieces from all three United States mints, Denver, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Also nicely arrang ed in hard-backed blue folders are complete sets of proof-coins which are sold to collectors by the gov ernment. In this group are sets of coins from 1936 through 1942. Still another group of folders hold what is known to Numismats as "Liberty Standing’’ quarters and Willis has complete sets of these from 1917 through 1925. Commemoratives Prized by the collector, too, are his groups of^’Commemorative" halfdollars antf'on which he has paid premiums as high as $3.25 on each coin in order to get one. Some such coins are now worth $20.00 to $25.00 at present collector’* market prices. Among them is the "Roanoke Island" half-dollar, com memorating Paul Green’s "Lost Colony," and which commanded a fifty-cent premium, and the "Battle of Antietam” commemorative half dollar on which is stamped the heads of Generals McClelland and Robert E. Lee. This coin com manded a premium of $3.25. The Willis collection accumulated at considerable expense and thous ands of hours of pains-taking effort, were on display at the Hobby Show sponsored by the City Recreation I department last year and are now being shown again at the 1946 show which opens today at the Second and Orange USO and which will run through Thursday. Mqre Than Hobby Coin collecting to Rex Willis is more than a hobby—it provides him with needed relaxation after business hours. And he is ever ready to talk about coins and can tell you many interesting things about them—that the first ones were issued in the East and West in the eighth- century, BC.; that the first mint was probably that established by Gygas in Lydia toward the end of that century and that the first United States mint was opened on April 2, 1792, and that the first branch was situated at Charlotte. And although his wife did not cotton to the coin collecting idea when her husband took it up in 1936, because he seemed to spend all of his spare time with his coins and not her, she is fast becoming a hobby-rider herself and can talk coins" too, with real enthusiasm. For the "Hobby” disease is con tagious—a disease from which no one is immune. MORE ABOUT STADIUM FROM PAGE ONE the aviation hearing before the Civil Aeronautics Board in Phila delphia. The Board also took under con sideration a request from the Board of Education that all money now in the Board of Education’s building fund be made available for the year’s expenditures. Wants To Use Funds H. M. Roland, superintendent of schools, who submitted the re quest, said the education board wants to use about $18,000 of the <350,000 fund to purchase land ad acent to the Wrightsboro, Hemen vay, and William Hooper schools The land about Wrightsboro school, he said, would be convert i ad into an athletic field. The other tracts would be used to expand present campus of the Hemenwav and Hooper schools. enway Defer Action The commissioners agreed to turn over legal angles of the mat ter to Marsden Bellamy, county attorney, and to defer further ac tion until the return of Chairman Hewlett. The commissioners also: Receiv ed and filed January reports from James Walker Memorial and Com munity hospitals and the Associa ted Charities: declined a pay raise to county tax assessors; voted to acknowledge a letter from the Min isterial association concerning the closing of all stores in the county on Sundays; and disposed of a number of routine tax matters. MORE ABOUT ALONG THE CAPE FEAR FROM PAGE ONE say, “Only God can make the Dram Tree-” TREE OF TREES—Beyond ail doubt in our minds, the Dram Tree is—or was—THE tree. It is un thinkable that Mr. Kilmer never heard of it. It has stood for cen turies “along the Cape Fear,” which is one of the reasons it is our pet. We looked it up in “Tales and Traditions of the Lower Cape Fear” by James Sprunt. Mr. Sprunt says: “It is an old cypress tree, moss covered and battered by the storms of centuries. Like a grim sentinel, it stands to warn the out-going ma riner that his voyage has begun, and to welcome the in-coming storm-tossed sailor to the quiet har bor beyond . . . For further parti culars see Captain Harper.” TREE-STUMPED — That’s what stumps us. You see, we have made the Dram Tree our pet. We know that in-coming and outgoing ships dropped anchor in the river when they got opposite the tree, and the sailors drank their first or last dram of rum, as the case may be. What stumps us is that we don’t know where the Dram Tree is— or was, and we don’t know how to go about finding Captain Harper for those “further particulars.” Who is Captain Harper, anyway? NO, NO, 1.000 TIMES, NO—One "old citizen” has given us an awful shock. She tells us that the Dram Tree was located in the present shipyard. And that they cut it down when the shipyard was built! We protest! Violently. They can’t do that to us. They can't do that to the Dram Tree. Have they? Can anybody stay our fears and apprehension? Say, please say, It isn’t so. The Dram Tree is our special ward. We were all set to adopt it and go down and sit under it and take a tipple or two. A bottle of 1812 Napoleon to the person who can bring our Dram Tree to us. Provided we can find the Napoleon. Anybody got a cypress seed? , - , MORE ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT FROM PAGE ONE crans daily. Yesterday the localif fice registered 30 new veterfis, who filed applications for un employment compensatiorw The limit for veterans cocnpesa tion now is 52 weeks while the lon veteran has only 13 weeks to receive compensation, after >sing his job, if he is unable to finl an other job in that period of time, Hinkle said. Hundred Less Hinkle also based his clam of a decrease on the fact that out of an anticipated 400 to aply for benefits yesterday throuh the local office, only about 300applied He said this fact could b caused by the expiration of the on-veter an's ailoted 13 weeks, or te period in whicn he is allowed to ile claim for unemployment compensation with the USES. MORE ABOUT SUGAR FROM PAGE OlE Sole Support “My mother is 74 yeas old and I’m the only support se’s got. 1 just had to do something And when the man came by with ae sugar 1 figured I’d run off jut enough liquor to tide us over til I got well and could get another jb.” E. S. Bland, J. C. jook, and Harry Watters, Jr., of the ABC police, and Charles Gry, investi gator for the ATU, allef whom made the “find” and he arrest at about 1:30 yesterday afternoon in the woods behind Bender’s house, said they’d like t(catch the man who sells the scare commo dity at $35 per 100 pouds. Held In Bond After pleading guilty before J. D. Taylor, U. S. Conmissioner here, who placed him nder $500 bond pending trial in Apfl, Bender hung his head and, crestillen and contrite, said: “They caught me, lb guUty and I’ll take what’s comig to me I just hope it won’t go to hard on my mother.’’ He added that it was is first— and last-experiment indistilling liquor Without a license 8 And the very last with 35 sugar. Brazd is the only Soui Ameri can country which decired war on Germany in World Wr I. more about HOBBY SHOW FROM PAGE ONE Although the above hours have been scheduled for showings, Jesse Reynolds, superintendent of recrea tion said the exhibits may be seen any time during the day, after 2 o’clock this afternoon. Entry Deadline Deadline for entries in the show has been set at 3 o’clock this after noon, however, Reynolds said he expected later arrivals, as is usu ally the case. “In order to insure collectors valuable items, a police guard wil] be on duty at all times, day and night. The collections include stamps, dolls, hand-made dogs, flower plaques and other works ol plastic art, model airplanes; a col lection of dolls dressed, and made up to represent natives of the na tions «f the world, and 90 some other items which are products of hardcraft and machine.” Rey nolds laid. Stamp Collection Among the many fascinating col lections being put on display last night vere; Brazil nuts, with theii protecive shells cut to show the number of nuts enclosed and the manner in which they grow on the trees, a miniature statue of a Frenclman from Cardiff, Wales, and a statue of a Welshman from Cardif, Wales. The two are a part .f the collection of statues by C. E. Shimp. The doll collection, by Mrs. J. Irvin'; Corbett is one of the larg est o: such in the auditorium. Sorosij Workers On [he Junior Sorosis committee are IVrs. Harry Cherry, Chairman, assisted by Mrs. J. B. Lounsbury and Irs. Elliott O’Neal. Mrt Charles Robertson is USO comnitteewoman. Miss Doretha McDcwell, YWCA. Russell Caudill, YMCl. Mrs. Helen Jones, Girl Scout. Jesse Sellers, Boy Scouts. As a fitting climax to the show, Ben vfcDonald has arranged for an hur broadcast program for the childen and ’teen age group. His progem will be on the order of the r.dio show, Hobby Lobby, the first if it s kind ever to be produc ed ir Wilmington. MORE ABOUT BRIDGE FROM PAGE ONE Officials Pessimistic Bghway officials in Columbia weE even more pessimistic. Chiel Co.imissioner J. S Williamson de cided to set a tentative figure for th< time necessary but he de clred that it was almost impos sible to get steel at this time, and aided that reports indicated the rreak was too long to be remedied >y a wood span. Williamson said the bridge, yhich is owned by the state, was •rotected by $4,400,000 in damage nsurance, and that insurance was carried also on the daily take from oils, amounting to about $1,000 a lay. - MORE ABOUT FWA GRANTS t FROM PAGE ON* L' Earlier in the day, dispatches 0 from Washington stated that the g advance application would be r granted by the Federal Works '> Agency “within the next day or two, and quoted Commissioner George Field of the FWA bureau a of Community Facilities as au f thority for the statement, r Everything “All Right” e Field was further quoted as say ing that while approval of the pro 1 ject had been delayed for several - weeks because of doubts as to how 1 the port construction work would 1 be financed, “everything looks all l right now.” According to Washington dis . patches received by the Star late last night improvements planned at the Wilmington port will cost an estimated $5,600,000 and the pro ject will be financed by the issu ance of bonds by the N. C. State Ports Authority. Improvements Planned The improvements planned for i of 35,000 linear feet of bulkhead [ the port here include construction i and apron; 1,500,000 yards of 5 [ dredging to fill; 30,000 square l yards of roads and five miles of s 1 railroad track. { Miscellaneous utilities planned in - [ connection with the proposed im- " ; provement would include transit sheds with a total floor space of ’ 477.000 square feet, 500,000 square f feet of cold storage facilities; 90, ‘ 000 square feet of tobacco storage and certain other miscellaneous structures and equipment. Unemployment Cushion Oliver T. Ray, district engineer, forwarded the file from Atlanta for the general’s review which re sulted in the favorable decision. The fund will be advanced under provisions of Title V of the War Mobilization and Reconversion act of 1944, legislation passed by con gress to help cushion the unem ployment shock in the post-war years. The survey project was initiated by the Ports authority after con sultations with Gov. H. Gregg Cherry. Wilmington, while the state’s largest and potentially greatest port, will not be the sole port surveyed. Included will be all North Carolina port facilitiea. Purpose of the survey will be to ascertain with comprehensive engineering data what will be re quired to develope each of the state’s ports to its maximum potentialities. MADF ABOTTT WAR PRISONERS FROM PAGE ONE Are “Frozen” According to the latest informa tion received from the War Depart ment yesterday by Representative J. Bayard Clark of the Seventh North Carolina district, all prison ers of war are frozen under their present contracts until further notice by order of President Tru man. The 450 German prisoners of war cutting pulpwood near Wilmington cannot be transferred to agricultur al work unless President Truman modifies his order, Clark said. Going Back Home “POW’s are being sent back to Germany at the rate of 3,000 a day,’ Clark added., “and all are to be out of this country by April 1." Galphin said last night that he will call Clark “first thing in the morning” to see if something can’t be done about it. “Even if all the prisoners will be gone in a month,” Galphin said, “in that month they can help us avert a severe milk shortage here. “We all need milk and dairy pro ducts, but we can’t eat and drink pulpwood.” MORE ABOUT BLAST FROM PAGE ONE Get Treatment On land again, the blast-groggy pair took a truck and, Bridges Iriving, went to the Bullock hog. sltal for treatment. Going from there to James Walter Memorial hospital, Cherry stopped off at his home on Route Dne to assure his family that he ivas just shaken up. And just hungry too, he reminded the nurse. REFINERIES RELEASED • WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. — (fl>) — Two oil refineries were released by the Navy Monday raising to 42 the number of U. S.-seized proper ties returned to their manage ments. If Your Child Is Coughing Creomulsion relieves promntws cause it goes right to the sS l trouble to help loosen and ovnli J laden phlegm and aid r?t,L?r soothe and heal ra^tend"*, flamed bronchial mucous®^ 1 branes. TeU your druggist a bottle of Creomulsion ^nh l understanding that your chSV be benefited and you a-» to in,8 quick action in illan& rassing cough without. upret-L, CREOMULSIOf for Coughs, Chest Coldy. Brorlehii I.-AST DAY! To know their secret is to court death: The shock story behind the Jap plan to plunder the world! Sh o\v s 1:15—3:10— 5:05—7:00—8:55 F ■ ■■ ii —i... - • La>:t rimes Today ! • THIS ROARSOME FOURSOME FIDDLES WHILE CUFID BURNS! 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