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MORE AND MORE ROYS JOIN DERBY 1947 Soap-Box Affair At tracts Speed Kings (Continued from Page One) ,tjip plaque which will go to the winner of the Derby here. The winner, of course, will be sent to ) :i-on for the 10th Annual All Vr.erscan Soap Box Derby and v.nc.re he will compete with champs from 116 other cities of ,j,0 united States and Canada for national honors, a host of hand some prizes, including the top a-vard of a four-year college schol arship as the gift of the Chevrolet Division, General Motors corpora tor. As champion of Wilmington for 1947. the 'uoky lad will receive a handsome Bulova wrist watch to oe awarded at Akron at the ban q ,e; of champions on August 17. Ted Williams, who finished sec ond to champion Tommy William son last year, beaten only by the ba-est of margins, will be in there gunning again this year to win the big race to be sponsored again bv the Wilmington Star-News and p;aney Chevrolet company. Ted bas not only informed Derby headquarters that he plans to en ter a veal car in this year’s race, bu- went one better—he induced his younger brother, Jimmie, to Eet in Class B competition. So the Wiihams family will have two starters this yetr. Emil Boado, a heat winner in 1946 and the lad who walked off v th the prize awarded by Nation al Soap Box Derby headquarters the best upholstered car en tered in the race here, purchased jps new set of wheels yesterday 8,-'d ;s well along with his plans for even a better upholstered car 5,^ a faster one for this years contest. Albert A!ns ana Jjunai: cus-j will be on hand again to renew their rivalry of a year ago. King beat Liman in their Class A heat when the latter lost temporary control of his racer when his rac ing helmet tipped down over his eves. Both boys promise to give ail others a good race for the major honors. Soap Box Derby wheel sets, in the 10th Annual Jubilee colors of blue and gold are now on sale here at the Firestone Store, Good rich and Anderson Sporting Goods store on Princess street. Wheel sets, while higher in price this year than in 3943, will be sold to contestants at a price no higher than $10.95 plus state tax. All boys purchasing wheels, are requested to ask their sup plier for a receipted bill broken down to show shipping costs and tax, as these extra amounts will no: be charged agair.st the con testant when he figures up his to tal car expenditures. Derby headquarters last week received a sample of the hand painted tie which a 1 1 champions will wear at Akron. The tie, of 10 h Anniversary blue, is hand painted in gold and carries a rep lica of the official Soap Box Derby design and lettered, 10th Anniver sary. 1917. Efforts will be made by headquarters here to secure ties for all boys who qualify for this year's big Derby. Other news onvthe Soap Box Derby front during the past few days was to the effect that ship ment has been made of the hand some gold, silver and bronze tie clasps which will be awarded to first, second and third place win ners in Classes A and B this year. These handsome prizes will be p aced on display early in July aolng with all other prizes to be awarded here. To clarify the many questions that hare reached Derby head quarters regarding sponsorship of cars, the Derby Director yester day pointed out that boys who want to enter the race in spon sored cars may do so, providing the boy builds the car he drives. Sponsors usually pay for the wheel sets and the boy Joes the rest. For the wheel set the boy permits the sponsor to letter the name of his store or business or product on his car for the Local Race Only. No sponsored car will be accepted which carries adver tising of night clubs, liquor or a competitive make of automobile. B a sponsored car should win the Wilmington race, it will be sent to Akron, but will bear only the name of the Wilmington Star News. Boys are urged to sign up now and start building their racers. Bnti'y blanks may be secured at te Raney Chevrolet company or at 128 Princess street, but pro spective entrants must be accom panied by one or both parents, or nUardian, at time entry is made. 1 tf°V!sion 's 'n keeping with a,.‘.u. u and fast rule handed down f -'aa°nal Soap Box Derby head ,;uar «s at Detroit. New Bern’s Navy Recruiting Gets Additional Help EXpLBERN’ May 30—Lt. (jg) w. ^Hughes. USNR, has been add th- •• 6 Paval recruiting staff in lev h He comes here from Ra d--"n'n?rc be was on recruiting wmiVw"8 W°rld War 11 he was Pata „ °rd- an ensign in New l'c-'k- ; V"if> invasion ot Okinawa aRd ,'n 0ctob«, 1942, and partici occunail" .h°lped take the first NagP.- on ’00Ps to Yokosuka and ^ KocJiv3, Absolute S A I 1 T ¥ —For Your— * A V I X <■ S START an account today —WITH— the insured F K o I* I. E S iJ ,i <1 ng & Loan Ass’n, Mt 1,:,L. SEC Y.-XKEAS. 112 PRINCESS ST. Teach Baptist School c0„ AninWA,KE F?RE5T’S PASTORS’ school for Baptist ministers ' R T^.o r'1^.!3 f,°Lthree days> Dr- R.Vlaiid Knight, right, and Dr. cnnvnntLCaudd1’ .'eft- outstanding leaders in the Southern Baptist el.oL ri. "boT " teach .‘he school. Others on the faculty list in Or r„„m t ./■ Hol'se of the Southwestern Theological Seminary; rjl’ ,p,arold dribble °„f...the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: rural hphJr'i,Af jS r< R,chmond. Va„ and the Rev. G. A. Hendricks, music h b leader of Apex. Jack T. Akin will be in charge of SROLE TO SPEAK FOR JEWISH FUND Meeting To Be Held At Famous Club Tuesday Night . The Wilmington United Jewish appeal for $53,000, headed by Sam Berger. Harry Soloman. and Her bert Bluethenthal, co-chairman; is now beginning its second annual public campaign -to raise funds for Jewish refugees, overseas needs and Palestine. LEO SROLE In behalf of the Wilmington drive, Leo Srole, nationally known an thropologist, sociologist and lec turer, and former UNRRA welfare director of the Landsberg Displac ed Persons camp, in Germany, will speak at the Famous club on Tues day night, June 3, at 7 o’clock. In its nationwide 1947 campaign for $170,000,000 the United Jewish appeal is conducting the largest philapthropic drive ever undertak en in America by a voluntary agent. All checks are payable to the United Jewish appeal and should be turned over to Marcus Gold stein, secretary-treasurer. EDITORS VIEW C0RR0SIN HERE Kure Beach Project Sub ject Of Inspection Tomorrow CAROLINA BEACH. May 31.—A group of northern editors are ex pected to tour the Rare Beach corrosion project Monday when officials of the project will wel come the visiting scribes. The group is expected to meet at the Hotel Bame at 9 o’clock. Monday morning at 9:30. F. L. LaQue, International Nickel Co.; J. A. Peloubet, Dow Chemical Co., and Dr. W. F. Clapp. William F. C'-gfip laboratories, will present a brief outline of the activities of the project. At noon the group will take lunch at the hotel, in the afternoon will inspect the Marine basin, see spray tests, impingement tests and cathodic protection tests. Today more than 100 of indus try’s leading corrosion experts ended a series of sessions in the auditorium of the City Hall here. The sessions have been going on all week and were devoted to means of fighting the estimated toll of hundreds of millions of dol lars a year exacted from Ameri can industry by salt water and salt air. Many of the sessions were con ducted at the site of the Kure Beach corrosion testing project near here, where the ocean literal ly has been put in a test tube. New Bern Girl Slated To Get Year’s DAR Award NEW BERN, May 30—Jo Anne Turnbull, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Turnbull, has been se lected to receive the 1947-48 good citizenship award presented an nually by the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a member of the rising senior class of New Bern High school. Her sis ter, Gale Turnbull, was the winner of the medal in 1946. This year the recipient was Ann Brothers. There were 59 high school seniors from as many high schools in North Carolina in the state com petition. The state winner, Diane Baylor Lee of Winston-Salem, was given a free trip to Washington to attend the annual D.A.R. Continental Con gress. A similar trip will be given to next year’s state winner. It has been estimated that 47, 000,000 work days were losi in 1946 by work injuries, the equivalent 1o the full production of 156,000 workers far an entire year. Americans spent $8,770,000,000 for alcoholic beverages in 1946, ac cording to the Department of | Commerce. Greensboro Man’s Brother Suicides In New Orleans i -— NEW ORLEANS, May 31.—(UP) —A man identified as Jack Shan non, 43, whose body was found m his room here yesterday, commit ted suicide at least a week ago, Coroner C. Grenes Cole said to day. The coroner said Shannon had turned on a gas jet after stuffing window and door cracks with paper. A note found by Shannon’s land lady said: “Very sorry to trouble you like this. Will you please no tify Art Parent, of Greensboro, N. C.” He also asked the landlady to send his possessions to Parent. At Greensboro, Parent said the suicide was his brother, Emile Parent, a native of -Montreal. He said parent had changed his name to Jack Sharon several years ago, and then worked in New York as a clothes designer under the name of Bergdorf Goodman. He moved to New Orleans sev eral months ago because of ill health, Parent said. JUDGE ENTERS SAL JUDGEMENTS Time Limit Set For Claims For The Year 1946 NORFOLK, Va., May 31 — <JP) — Judge W. Calvin Chesnut, of Bal timore, Md., has entered a judg ment in U. S. District court here in 10 tax causes involving the Sea board Air Line railway company. The order said that the United States and any state or other tax ing authority asserting claims for the calendar year 194G against the Seaboard Air Line railway or any affiliated company or against the receivership estate of the SAL for any amounts of taxes in excess of those returned by the company shall, on or before August 1, 1947. file in court in these consolidated , causes their petitions asserting! such claims to the end that they may be promptly determined and adjudicated. The court further said that all j failing to do so shall be barred from sharing in the benefits of the distribution of the monies and pro ceeds of the SAL or any affiliated company that now or hereafter shall be in the hands of the re ceiver and from asserting any lien 1 upon said properties and assets or' claim against any purchaser of same. Former Carrier To Give Concert Arthur E. Nixon, Negro, a native Wilmingtonian and now a music teacher in New York city will be presented in a recital supported by local talent at the Central Bap tist church, Seventh and Red Cross streets, Tuesday night, June 3, at 8:30 o’clock. This affair is an event in the ' Golden Jubilee of the teacher who began his musical career in the: city in 1897. For many years he served as a letter carrier in the local post office. I i i - TAK/f/C ommtmmm \ took mm to man! To protect both your pocketbook and your right to drive, see us at once for a ''Shelby' Mutual” policy. Then you can quit worrying over what would hap pen when you have an accident under the new Safety and Responsibil ity Law that becomes I effective in North Caro lina on July 1. : liuheri Grange I Willetts Building — Dial 2-2265 WALLACE HASN’T CHANCE-HATCH Senator Says New Party Would Only Split Democrats WASHINGTON, May 31.—(U.R)— Ben. Carl A. Hatch, D., N. M., said today that even if Henry Wallace should form a third party, “it wouldn’t have a chance of win ning” in ’43, '52 ob any other political year. “The only possible outcome” would be the election of a Re publican president, the New Mexi co Senator said. “It would so divide the ranks of the Democratic party, it would assure the election of a Republi can,” Hatch told reporters. “There would be no chance for a third party to win.” Wallace suggested in Denver earlier this week that a third party might be necessary if the Demo crats turn out to be a “wap” party. To this Hatch tartly replied:, ‘‘If. as Mr. Wallace says, the promise of a third party turns upon whether the Democratic party becomes a u^ar party—the j answer is unequivocably ‘no, there will be no third party.’ “The Democratic party never [has been .and never will be, a war party.’’ The same holds true of the Re publican party, Hatch added. He said: “The people of America are not war-minded.” 59,000 Cigars Destroyed To Protect Market TAMPA. Fla., May 31.—(IP)-A solid truck-load of 59,000 long fill ed cigars, normally selling at ‘from 17V4 to 24 cents each, were burned by their manufacturer to day to get them off the market. Manuel Garcia, vice president of Perfecto Garcia and Brothers, said the lot had been sold to the ! navy 30 months ago and had been repurchased as surplus and de stroyed to protect the brand name again.st having such old. de'.erioat ed cigars reach the public. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service NEAL CALDER RESIGNS POST Deputy Sheriff Quits Yes terday; Successor Not Named Neal J. Calder, who served with the New Hanover county sheriff’s office for the past six years, yes terday resigned as deputy sheriff and jai'er, Sheriff F. Porter Davis, reported. A successor was not immediately »arned. At the same time five new depu ty sheriffs were added to the present force making a total per sonnel of 16. The new deputies are J. Marvin Shinn, 22 North Harrison street; A. W. Best. Jr., 204 Colhoun street; F. A. Tatum, Jr., 409 Campbell street; George L. Highsmith, 2658 Jefferson street, Riverside; and James -M, Ray, 628 Caidwell street. Shinn who is 38, served for four years in the army and saw duty in Africa, Italy, Germany and (France. He is married and has! no children. Tatum, 23, spent three years :n Japan with the army and is a graduate of New Hanover High school. Buddy Eest, a local fighter who has fought professionally in the ring, was formerly an 'employe of j the shipyard and is married ar.d ! has four children. He is 25 years of age. Highsmith, 34. was formerly a policeman at Wrightsville Beach. He is married and has one child. Ray, who is 37, worked for four .years at the shipyard and la er served as a guard at Camp Davis. He is married and has two chil dren. OFFICIAL VISIT BUCHAREST, Romania, May 31.—(A1)—Premier Petru Groza and Foreign Minister George Tata rescu will leave for Belgrade and Sofia June 6, it was announced officially today. Oyster-shell scale hatches dur ing the latter part of this month. It can be controlled at this time with nicotine-soap spray. Watch for it, especially on lilacs. John Paul Jones Stamp Authorized To Honor Birth WASHINGTON. May 31.—(/P)— The navy tonight offered stamp collectors a specia. John Paul Jones cachet in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the naval hero’s birth. The anniversary falls on July 6 and the special postmark will be stamped on envelopes mailed from the Naval Academy, An napolis, Md., where Jones i» buried. Each collector is limited to 10 envelopes which must be stamped, self addressed and sent to ihe pub lic information officer of the academy before July 1. KITE FLYER KILLED BALTIMORE, May 31.—(JP)— Neal Carrigan, 30> using a spool of thin wire to fly a kite with hi» two children, was electrocuted to day when the wire came into con tact with a high tension line, po lice reported. In 1946 man - made rubber ac counted fot around 60 per cent of total used. Crisp, cool, and fresh for wilting days—these are the features chic women look for in Summer dresses. Time was—and not many Summers back, either—when women smothered in unimaginative darks. Now it’s a woman’s world . . . completely adult, poised, and SMART. That’s how our women’s dresses are designed. We have bemberg sheers in shaded dusky tones. Sun-soaked crepes with tiny tendrils of flowers ... all nipped and stitched to follow your womanly figure graciously. 214 N. Front St. - t Dial 956? or 2-4823 CCnd by tke iVay WHY NOT “LET - US” OPEN A WAHL’S CHARGE ACCOUNT FOR YOU?