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PENDER ANGLERS
MUST FACE TRIAI
Seven Men Charged Witl
Game Violation To Get
Hearing June 17
BURGAW, June 9—(A5)—The State
Department of Conservation and
Development has tvo regulations
concerning the catching of stur
geon, anc. thereon hangs a tale—
a fish tale.
The story begins back on April
18 when seven Pender county resi
dents went fishing for shad and
a sturgeon became entangled in
their net. They -rauled it in, and
found they had caught a whopper
that measured eight feet, two inch
es from steam to stem and weigh
ed 312 pounds.
They had the fish dressed and
stored in a Eurgaw freezer locker
along with 6" pounds of sturgeon
coe—or caviar as it is better
known—which was discovered in
the cleaning process.
Along came u«imr —•
Nicholson and called the fisher
men’s attention to regulation num
ber 163 of the Department of Con
servation and Development which
says “It shall be unlawful to take
catch or have in possession stur
geon taken from the waters of
North Carolina.”
Leon H. Corbett, Burgaw attor
ney and one of the fishermen, said
that Nicholson confiscated the stur
geon—and the caviar— and turned
over to a Wilmington hospital and
swore out warrants for the seven
fishermen charging them with vio
lating regulation number 163.
Corbett pointed out that the Con
servation department has another
regulation, number nine, which
says that i: shall be unlawful for
any person to catch, sell or have
in his possession any sturgeon less
than five feet in length, and he
said that the state supreme court
has frequently held that where
there is a conflict in the law, all
doubts shall be resolved in fa. or
of the defendant.
The seven men, were given a
preliminary hearing before Justice
of the Peace A.C. Blake at Burgaw
last Friday and wre bound over
for trial in the Pender recorder’s
court on June 17.
Blake said that those against
whom charges were brought in
1 the case were: Corbett, E. C. High
smith, Bill Wilson, Bernard Lewis.
Grover Scott, W. C. Dunnagan and
Dr. W. I. Taylor, Jr.
COMMISSIONERS ASKED
TO REPAIR CARR AVE.
New Hanover county commis
sioners yesterday at a brief week
ly meeting came in for sharp ad
verse criticism on road work from
two women residents of Carr ave
nue.
Mrs. Margaret Hough, repre
senting the two, asked the com
missioners “why does it take so
long to get anyone to move?” in
complaining that th eroad that she
lived on had not been Improved
in 28 years.
“Not so much as a stone has
been touched on that road,” she
said. Chairman Addison Hewlett
explained the matter previously
had been referred to P's state
highway commission but without
result. He said another communi
cation will be written the highway
group.
The Rev. Paul Byron
Is Transferred From
Sacred Heart Parish
Special To The Star
TABOR CITY, June 9—The Rev
erend Paul Byron, curate of the
Sacred Heart parish, Whiteville,
and attendant at St. Francis
Xavier church, Tabor City, has
been transferred to a parish in
Waynesville.
The transfer was announced by
the Most Reverend V. S. Waters,
Bishop of Raleigh, which diocese
extends throughout the state.
Father Byron is well-known
throughout Columbus county. He
was assigned to Tabor City and
Whiteville shortly after his ordin
ation last year.
He will be replaced Ry a new
priest ordained last week in Ra
leigh. The announcement is ex
pected to be made shortly by
Bishop Waters.
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ation and testimonials presented
here, I hereby sentence you to not
less than 18 months nor more than
24 months."
The defendant was lead away
by deputy sheriff’s without mak
ing comment. But his wife was
gently taken from court by at
torneys, sobbing softly.
At the morning session, William
Mauney, store official, the only
witness to take the stand, told how
he stationed himself in the store
the night Gurley was arrested
after money had been taken from
the cash register upon two early
occasions.
He related that he saw Gurley
cross the street, flash a flashlight
into the store and then force en
trance with a metal bar.
Taken to the police station, the
witness related that Gurley, the
father of two children, immediate
ly admitted his guilt.
Carolina Beach Boys
Attend State Meeting
Special To The Star
CHAPEL, HILL, June 9 — Two
Carolina Peach high school boys,
Kevin J. Matthew* and Sandy
Jordan, are among the high school
students attending Boys’ State
meeting here.
Sponsored by the North Caro
lina American Legion, the pro
gram gives outstanding students
in state high schools the oppor
tunity to “govern” North Caro
lint for 10 days with a governor,
lieutenant - governor, senators,
congressmen an<j department
heads of their own choosing.
Matthews and Jordan, repre
senting Carolina Beach Legion
Post 272, were chosen for the
mission by a committee headed by
Robert Lamb, principal of Car
olina Beach public school. Both
are junior* at New Hanover High
school.
WILMINGTON GIRL
ATTENDING MEET
Miss Catherin MacRae Rep
resenting New Hanover
High School
Miss Catherine MacRae, 16-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. A. MacRae of 612 Central
Boulevarl, Sunset Park, is rep
resenting New Hanover high
school along with 226 other rising
seniors from throughout the state
who are enrolled at the eighth
annual Tar Heel Girl’s State at
Woman’s College at Greensboro.
Miss Catherine Crowe 16 year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Crowe, Jr., of 315 Orange street,
was also elected by the high school
faculty to represent the high school
in the week’s study of the tech
niques of government, but was
unable to attend because of ill
ness.
The students were introduced at
yesterday’s initial session by hear
ing the electorial process and at
tending a demonstration “state
party convention.”
Delegates were divided into two
mythical political parties, popular
and liberty, which will serve as
the basis for their practical dis
cussions through the week.
Miss Louise Alexander led yes
terdays discussions and last nights
program was featured by an ad
dress by Dr. Eugene E. Pfaff,
college history professor, who
spoke on “the movement towards
world government.”
The girls will complete cam
paigning today, which began last
night, for party candidates for the
offices of girls state "governor”
“lieutenan governor,” "speaker
of the house of representatives,”
“chief justice,” and “six associ
ates.”
For the first time in the history
of the annual convention, those
elected to the two top of
fices will be sent to Washington
as delegates to the National Girls
State.
Miss Alexander will speak at
this afternoon’s session and to
night they will be shown a free
movie in Aycock auditorium.
Girls State, ffionsored by the
American Legion Auxiliary, head
ed by Mrs. T. W. Bird of Char
lotte, is being directed by C. W.
Phillips, public relations head at
the college, and Mrs. A. M. Scar
borough of Greensboro, girls state
chairman.
Sessions will continue Friday
morning. Highlight of the week
will be Wednesday’s program
transferred to Raleigh, where the
girls will hold a mock “general
assembly” in the capitol building,
and be addressed by Gov. R.
Gregg Cherry.
TOLBERT TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY
LENOIR, June 9—VP)—Fred Tol
bert, 28, of Granite Falls, was
taken into custody by a sheriff’s
deputy today in connection with
the shotgun slaying of his 16-year
old niece, Lucille Laxton of the
same section, sheriff’s Desk Ser
geant Bill Teague reported.
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SNAKES
(Continued From Page One)
and as he put it, “1 try to give
a snake a chance,” so he swerved
to miss the reptile, he said.
As the car passed by Thomas
said his companion remarked that
the snake struck at the wheels.
Out of curiosity the two men stop
ped the car and walked back to
the creature.
Spur On Tail
There was the snake with a
head shaped like a rat’s and a
sharp spur on the tail similar to
those on a rooster’s feet. It was
colored green and yellow, Thomas
said.
Since that time, the broker add
ed. he has seen them almost ever
where. He characterized them as
the fightingest and strongest
snakes he has ever seen.
Soon after, on a trip north, Tho
mas said he stopped at the zoos
in Washington, D. C., and New
York. He asked to see the hoop
snake and the caretakers laughed
at him. They denied the existence
of such a reptile and offered him
a handsome sum if he would send
one alive to them. The next one
he sees he is going to capture and
send, he said.
The last two he killed were at
Fort Caswell and just a few days
ago a friend of his killed one in
this vicinity.
Thomas can also testify to the
potency of these snakes’ venom.
He saw one strike a man in the
leg and the flesh rotted out leav
ing a hole as big as a man’s fist.
He also contended he saw one of
these snakes roll toward a tree,
striking it with its poisonous tail.
The tree died.
Paged Ripley
The authority on hoop snakes
also put Robert L. Ripley straight
once on the existence of the rep
tile oddity. Ripley denied their be
ing and Thomas said he hastened
to offer proof.
Thomas also snorts at those
people who say snakes do not
charm birds. He has seen them
do just that. He has also seen
snakes at Fort Caswell that are
half black and half grey.
Higgins can go Tnomas one bet
ter. He has seen brittle or grass
snakes—the same that often have
been debunked. These snakes, he
said, fly apart into sections when
hit with a stick. Later, when they
think danger is past, they couple
the sections together and go on
their way. Such snakes are almost
impossible to kill, he said.
Thomas’ familiarity with hoop
snakes at Fort Caswell is exceed
ed by only one other thing. He
found an iron chest buried there
in 1938. But he doesn’t know what
it contains. He hasn’t opened it
yet.
POTATOES
(Continued From Page One)
can handle potatoes in carload
lots.
In these seven counties, Bun
combe, Durham, Forsyth, Gaston,
Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake,
the potatoes will be distributed to
welfare cases at the rate of 12
pounds per person per month.
The state’s charitable and cor
rectional institutions will receive
potatoes free, and the prison de
partment was allowed to purchase
them for $3 per carload of 30,000
pounds.
Scott explained that the govern
ment is committed to support the
price of potatoes at $2.60 per hun
dred for U. S. No. l’s and $1.30
for B’s and 2’s, and although
digging ha* just begun in North
Carolina, the PMA today bought
21 carloads of U. S. B’s. Outlets
w£re found he said, for only four
carloads.
Dumping might be avoided in
North Carolina, Scott said, if
farmers would dig potatoes that
have to be harvested during the
next two weeks.
“After two weeks, California
will be through digging and the
glut on the market would ease,”
Scott said. “Then I am confi
dent, the market will maintain
the support prices through June
and July.”
Last year the government pur
chased 7,000 carloads of surplus
potatoes in North Carolina, Scott
said. Distillers took about half,
state and county institutions took
care of about 750 carloads, and
3,000 carloads were either piled in
the woods or left to rot in the
ground.
CROP
(Continued From Page One)
deaths reported. Hershel Loveless,
director of rescue operations, said
that he expected to find Other
bodies downstream. The Red Cross
said a medical director and 13,
000 units of typhoid antitoxin have
been sent to the Iowa Health De
partment for immunization in Ot
tumwa.
Red Cross Figures
The Red Cross estimated at
least 3,700 homeless in Missouri
and Illinois along the Mississippi.
In Alexandria, Mo., water was
eight to ten feet deep in the
streets and more than half of the
Northeast Missopri town of Cantcn
was flooded, including part of the
business section.
Week-end flood deaths elsewhere
included one drowned in a flash
flood at the Dalles, Ore. Canton,
O., reported two deaths; Gregory,
S. D. one. And Mansfield, O., one
Floods were not the only
weather caused disaster. Six per
sons were dead following a tor
nado Saturday.
“HANSON
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place visited by Horne before his
death, Coroner Doran said.
Bond Reduced
The $10,000 bond was reduced to
$1,000 on recommendatio*' of Soli
citor James C. King '.fter a con
ference between Judge Smith, the
solicitor, the coroner, and Aaron
Goldberg, Hanson’s attorney, ac
cording to a statement by Judge
Smith.
Judge Smith said Hanson was
being held on the vagrancy charge
until a complete investigation of
the death of Horne and the results
of an analyst* of the content# of
Home’s stomach, la revealed by
the FBI.
City Briefs
W. R. (Bobby) Jones, Jr., has
resigned his position with a local
furniture firm and has joined the
sales staff of Liggett and Myers
tobacco company,, according to an
announcement yesterday by G. A.
Lokey, district mane.ger for east
ern North Carolina.
A public auction will be conduct
edat the home of H. A. Croonv
Pender county deputy sheriff, by
Wilminglon Alcohol Tax unit in
vestigators next Saturday at “1
o’clock. A two-wheel cart, seized
during a recent raid by the ATU
agents will be sold. At the same
hour at the New Hanover county
farm, a mule will be auctioned
off by the agents.
The National Labor Relations
board has rejected the petition of
the Oil Workers International, CIO,
for nationwide bargaining with the
Texas company. A. G. Smith, man
ager of the Wilmington branch of
the Texas company, said yester
day.
C. P. Linder, chief engineer for
the South Atlantic Division of the
Corps of Engineers, which includes
Wilmington district, will attend a
flood control conference in In
dianapolis June 18-20, according to
the public information office of
the local corps.
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Leonard W. Barrett, assistant
state service officer, North Caro
lina Veterans commission, said
today that veterans who have not
made application for terminal leave
pay should do so immediately. All
forms must be sent in not later
than Sept 1, 1947. A veteran who
does not fill out an application
form prior to this date will forfeit
his rights to collect, he added.
An abundance f residential and
office space in Wilmington was
yesterday given as the reason for
the location of the Civil Aeronau
tics administration state office
here, by one of the CAA staff, John
Talbot. The office opened last week
in the customhouse here, and is
managed by Joseph Norwood. The
staff was transferred from Raleigh.
TOBACCOMEN
(Continued From Page One)
gested today the creation of a
federal tobacco commission.
In a speech prepared for the
annual convention of the Bright
Belt Warehouse association at
Myrtle Beach, the member of
the house agriculture committee
said, “there seems to be no end
to the problems of the tobacco in
dustry.”
‘ As a result of controversies,”
he continued, “there is great like
lihood of a warehouse building
boom which may result in an
over-expansion of auction ware
house marketing facilities and a
necessary waste of money and ma
terial.
“Markets must be opened and
closed and regulated. New mar
kets must be opened and old mar
kets expanded. Markets must open
and close in different belts at dif
ferent times. Many communities
in which markets once operated
are anxious for such markets to
be re-established. Frequently
there is great contention between
warehousemen regarding proper
division of selling time.
“There is no committee, com
mission, bureau or agency, pub
lic or private, which has authority
to deal with and to determine
many problems which rise in the
industry.
"We have stumbled along from
year to year but always in great
confusion.
The time has come when it ap
pears that unless the industry or
state affected can devise some
workable method which will bring
order out of chaos it might be
well to consider advisability of
creating a federal tobacco com
mission.”
The Weather
Weather bureau report of temperature
and rainfall for the 24 hours ending
Bp. m., in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Treclp.
WILMINGTON - 93 74 —
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Atlanta _ !? “
Atlantic City - 69 06 .01
Birmingham ---« ™
Boston- 6 i 47 .34
Buffalo-82 50
Burlington - 61 48
Chattanooga - 89 67
Chicago - — 52
Cincinnati ————- 89 60
Cleveland ———--84 57
Dallas - — 73
Denver -—- 67 54 —
Detroit - 81 50 “
Duluth ---—— 89 51 .52
El Paso_ 98 71 —
Eort Worth - 94 73 —
Galveston - 88 78 —
Jacksonville ——- 100 74
Kansas City- 91 74 —
Key West - 88 79 —
Knoxville - 93 71 —
Little Hock- 92 71 —
Los Angeles- 79 57 —
Louisville - 91 66 —
Memphis--- 95 70 —
Meridian-- 95 69 . 95
Miami -...- 89 71 .15
Minn.-St. Paul - 83 62 .57
Mobile --— 91 74
Montgomery- 96 72 —
Mew Orleans- 91 74 —
Mew York ■■■—-— 80 52 —
Morfolk - 74 65 .52
Philadelphia ——- 82 60 —
Phoenix -102 64 —
Pittsburgh -- 84 59 —
Portland, Me.--— 60 45 . 92
Richmond - 82 63 .05
5t. Louis - 92 73 —
Ban Antonio - 93 74 —
Ban Francisco - 66 57 —
Savannah - 99 74 . 09
Beattie -— - 66 54 .71
rampa _ 92 72 . 03 j
Vicksburg _—- 94 63 —
Washington _ 77 62 —
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JOSEPH W. WELLS
Joseph W. (Buck) Wells, 72,
died at the residence of his daugh
ter, Mrs. E. R. Shinn of 511 S.
2nd street last night at 9:45
o’clock, after a long illness.
He is survived by two sons,
Hubert J. of Venice, Calif., and
Howard T. of Clinton; daughter,
Mrs. E. R. Shinn
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