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RETIRED OFFICER’S
SERVICE IS CITED
Captain John Davis Elect
ed Life Member Of
Community Council
Capt. John H. Davis, retired Wil
mington police officer, has been
elected an honorary life njember
of the community cour.ci! in recog
nition of the many years spent in
teaching traffic salety to the youth
of the city, according to George L.
Stearns, executive secretary of the
organization.
In an effort to recognize dis
tinguished service in the various
fields of social welfare, the com
munity council cites Wilmington
ians for outstanding work in al
lied endeavors.
Captain Davis now joins Miss
Julia Yopp, retired secretary of
the Travelers Aid society, and
Miss Columbia Munds, retired su
pervising nurse of the Public
Health Nursing association, in be
ing a winner of this honor by the
community council.
The sulphurbottom, or blue
whale, has lower jaw bones weigh,
ing two tons. The entire whale
may weigh as much as 150 tons.
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YOUR CURED MEAT
Protect it from Skippers dur
ing the warm months!
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Dial 2-1192
i Six Year Rise in Food Prices
percent Per Cent of Increase in Retail Price of Food for
C CASE Leadinq Cities from January, 1941, to February, 1947
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Biggest Garage Housing
Largest Embalming Room
TEXAS CITY, Tex., April 17. —
(U.R)— McGar's garage used to be
the biggest automobile repair shop
in Texas City. Today, it was the
biggest embalming room in the
United States.
The sickening, sweetish reek of
embalming Tuid poured through
its paneless windows and its doors.
Guards, holding rifles with fixed
bayonets, stood at every window
and every door, holding back
crowds of bereaved with slumped
shoulders and shock-blazed eyes.
Inside, 150 embalmers, many of
them students rushed in from Fort
Worth and Houston, worked to
make blackened, grotesquely twist
ed bodies presentable. There was a
practical as well as a humane mo
tive in their hurry. The weather
in Texas City is warm, and hund
reds of bodies nnembalmed and un
buried would soon create a health
hazard.
The embalmers worked auto
matically, but even so it seemed
that some were on the point of
cracking. When hot coffee was
brought in, they turned their backs
to their work and gulped it down.
They stood on boards and tar
Kitchen Utensils
FARBERWARE
REYNOLDS
CLUB
ALUMINUMWARE
REVEREWARE
STAINLESS STEEL
COPPER BOTTOM
GREGGBROS.
MARKET & FRONT
DIAL 9655
paper to keep from slipping down
on a floor almost awash in blood.
Their tables were cement blocks.
Bodies Searched
Ambulances, bakery wagons and
laundry trucks brought the bodies
in. First the bodies were stripped;
some of them had very little left on.
They were searched for any kind
of identification — a ring, a wal
let, a card or a company badge.
Then a yellow tag was tied to
the left ankle of each corpse. The
tags came from the traffic depart
ment of the Port ‘ thur police,
and at the top they said: “You
have violated a traffic law.” If
there was any identification, it was
written on the blank where it had
originally been intended for a
traffic cop to write “speeding,” or
whatever the motorist was guilty
of.
Stripped and tagged, the bodies
were laid out on strips of tar
paper, men and women side-by
side.
When the embalmers had finished
with a body, it was covered with
a blanket and pushed across the
street to the high school gym
nasium on stretchers laid across
wheelbarrows or on little carts
from ambulances.
There was a strict order that no
person with a missing relative was
to look in the garage, and the
guards with bayonets were put
there to enforce it. But that did not
keep many from trying to get
in.
Obeying Orders
One of these was a pretty girl of
about 20, whose brown hair was
matted and whose face was streak
ed with tears.
“I just heard you identified my
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Beautiful Oneida Community sil
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ELECTRIC
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Fully guaranteed
electric irons ^
complete with el
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KITCHEN ELECTRIC CLOCKS
Session’s electric kitchen clocks in Q
a variety of styles and colors.
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Men’s New Hav
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hands and dial.
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PAY AS LITTLE AS $1.00 WEEKLY
NO CHARGE FOR CREDIT
“Wilmington’s Largest Diamond Importers’*
7 NORTH FRONT STREET
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Brahama Cattle Raising
At Makotoka Successful
Reigel Paper Company
Expecting To Bring
More Cattle To Land
By BILL KEZIAH
Star Correspondent
SOUTHPORT, April 17. — With
all of the 55 mature cows said to
/have done well during the winter,
the experiments of the Reigel
Paper company at raising Bra
hama cattle on its lands at Mako
toka is regarded as a success.
Not the least encouraging of re
sults during the eight months that
the long eared cows have been on
the range is that there has been
an increase of 35.fine calves, with
more expected.
Although definite information is
lacking here it is understood that
Jimmie Lattey, manager of the
Reigel woods, has just returned
from Florida’s swamp lands
where he went to look at more
Brahama cows. It is said that he
and company officials are pleased
and that they plan to get an ad
ditional hundred head of the Bra-'
hamas, including several more
pure-bred bulls. This will give
them a«wnt 150 cows for breeding
purposes and to start what may
develop into a very sizable herd.
From unofficial circles comes
husband’s body,” she told a guard.
“I’ve got to see him. We’ve only
been married a month.”
“I’m sorry,” the guard said, and
there was sincere apology in his
voice. “I’m only obeying orders.”
Another woman came up and
asked: “Do you have any little
boys in there?”
“No,” the guard said. “No little
'bbys.”
The woman didn’t believe him.
She tried to push up to a window.
Another guard turned her back.
She walked slowly across the
street to the gymnasium, where
the embalmed bodies were laid
out around the basketball court —
six rows of 33 each. They looked
like shapeless lumps under the
blankets, but the corner of each
blanket was turned back and the
left foot exposed, so the yellow
tag affixed to it could be read.
There was one old man with
white hair who respectfully took
off his hat as he came through the
door. He started at the first body,
bending down and putting his face
close to the tag.
Discovers Son
In the line of living ahead of him
was Ernest B. Smith of Texas
City. Smith found the body of his
son. Ray Carroll. Almost beside it,
he found the body of his brother,
Robert D. Smith, 34.
Isidro Camales found the body of
his brother, Al, a dock worker, and
stood beside it sobbing and twisting
his hat in his hands. The old man
didn’t seem to notice. He walked
past them and kept bending to
look at the tags.
REALTY TRANSFERS
Kenneth H. Benson et ux to Louis
Smith et ux, lot 10-11, block 15,
Summer Hill Terrace.
William M. Hill et ux and E. B.
Ward et ux to Horace M. Scott,
pt. lot 10-11 “A”, Williams develop
ment.
Meta R. Mahler to R. H. Peter
son et ux, pt. lot 4, block 89. city.
Pedrew Williams et ux to El
wood Sapp et ux, lot 11, Pedrew
Williams property, Sunset Park.
R. B. Covington et ux to John
Lewis, pt. lot 6, block 47, city.
James A. Reid et ux to James
V. Stanley, et ux, pt. farm 13,
Winter Park Gardens.
Edgar Williams et ux to Cicero
P. Yow. pt. lot 4, block 313, city.
Cicero P. Yow to Edgar Wil
liams et ux, pt. lot 4, block 313,
city. ..
Roy C. Pierce et al to David
Mohr et ux, lot 5-6, block 7, city.
Gets Divorce
CHICAGO, April 17—(/P)—Mrs.
Grace Robbins McCormick, 50,
was granted a divorce on deser
tion grounds in Superior court to
day after three years of marriage
to Robert Hall McCormick, 68,
grandson of Cyrus H. McCormick,
founder of the International Har
vester company.
McCormick, attorney, business
leader, philanthropist and art pa
tron, who resides in a penthouse
atop’ the McCormick building on
Michigan avenue, was not in court
today. His first wife, Mrs. Eleanor
Russell McCormick divorced him
in 1944.
french want wheat
PARIS, April 17 — (JP) — The
French embassy in Washington
this week will ask American au
thorities for 500,000 more tons of
wheat, foreign ministry officials
said today. They said the wheat is
needed to avert deep cuts in the
current bread ration, pending the
French harvest.
Honored owls sometimes drive
American eagles off their nest, de
vour the young eagles, and then
use the nest themselves.
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word that all of the cows winter
ed well, that they were kept in
the best possible condition and that
only a small amount of feed was
given at various times to accomp
lish this end. It is thought that
with the planting of permanent
pasture grass in the fire lanes of
the companys big timberland area,
no feed at all will be required
next winter or in future winters,
unless especially severe periods
come along.
Talking over the cattle raising
situation in Brunswick county with
the Star-News representative this
week, County Agent J. E. Dodson
pointed out that the Brahamas
were great foragers and could sub
sist on much less than any other
breed of stock. At the same time
that there was a considerable
number of Brunswick county stock
raisers who brought their cows
through the past winter in a sleek
and fat condition, this without
feeding anything at all.
“If we can winter our native
cows without feed, and we have
been doing just that, the Regiel
Paper company certainly ought to
find it an easy matter to range
the Brahamas in any sort of a win
ter that comes here,’’ said the
county agent.
DUKE PROFESSOR
HAS MIND READ
•_
J. B. Rhine Tests Tele
pathy Powers Of Eng
lishwoman
CLACTON-ON-SEA, Eng., April
17—'"J.R)—Maurice Fogel, who has
offered to read the minds of for
eign governments for the war of
fice, had his powers of telepathy
tested on the trans-Atlantic tele
phone today by Prof J. B. Rhine of
Duke university.
Fogel was 100 per cent right on
the first test question, but on the
second the telephone failed, so
the whole test must be considered
inconclusive.
When Fogel got Frol. Rhine, of
Duke university’s parapsychology
department, on the telephone he
asked him to concentrate on some
simple object. Then an observer
took the telephone, while Fogel
scribbled on a card what Prof.
Rhine was thinking about. He
wrote “Sailing boat.”
The observer said Prof. Rhine
was thinking about a “boat.”
They tried a harder test called
precognition. Fogel scribbled a
picture on a card and asked Prof.
Rhine to draw the same thing.
Before the drawings could be j
compared, the telephone went
dead. Fogel’s picture wai of a .
house.
Former Gunner
Fogel is 34 and a former gunner
in the Royal Air force. During
the war, he put on mind-reading
shows and acquired enough of a
reputation to go on a stage tour
when he was discharged.
About a year ago, he suggested
that the war office use telepathy
to find out what other nations were
thinking. The war office consider
ed this a little revolutionary, but
nevertheless gave Fogei a test.
While a man wrote a message in
one part of the war office, Fogel
sat in another under guard and
copied the message by “reading
the other man’s mind.” It was re
ported to have been 80 per cent
correct, but Fogel apparently still
is not working for the war office.
He gave a show here today.
Sogel, who does not act as if
there is anything occult about his
powers, said that telepathy, up to
a certain point, “can be developed
by constant practice.
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