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TABOR GLEE CLUB
DIRECTOR RESIGNS
jjrs. Rogers Terminates
Services As Teacher
Also
(Social to The Star-News)
TABOR CITY, June 14.—Mrs.
^ W Woody, director of the Tabor
H:«h school glee club and a
teacher in the schools here for
^jpy years, has resigned to de
■ t full time to her home.
Under Airs. Woody’s direction,
. 'glpe club became one of the
. , known musical groups in this
°ec;,on and won several important
jontests.
p-incioal C. H. Pinner announc
,hat' a full-time public school
teacher would be employed
®in« the coming year, and would
robably take over direction of
g'ies club- _
WALTER W1NCHELL
(t'onltnned From Page Six)
The producer’s wired re
jy'was just one word: “No.”
Bu' Ethel had he last word. She
„nt Mm a wire that was just as
brief: “OH.”
In an interview with MicheJ
Mok 11 years ago, Margaret Sul
iavan really knocked the movies.
She was at it long before Katha
rine Hepburn had her trouble with
the craft. “I went out to Holly
,.ood because I needed the money
ind because I knew that security
would give me independence, ’
Maggie said. “No matter how
much money you get, you earn
every cent of it. There’s nothing
„Sy, nothing pleasant, nothing
clamorous about it. It’s the tough
est work in the world. . .You slave
,ii dav ar.d at night there’s noth
ing for it but to go to bed. And
then you're madder than ever be
cause you can t ha\e any fun.
ludith Evelyn had been acting
be England and then sailed for
America on the Athenia in Sep
tember, 1939. The boat wag hit by
, German torpedo. In a lifeboat
for several hours, Judith and
ibout 80 others finally sighted a
rescue ship and rowed toward it.
Bu: a wave crashed their boat
against a propeller and sank
them. She swam around in the
darkness for an infinity with the
,id of a bit of wreckage until
picked lip by other rescuers, one
of eight saved from those in her
lifeboat. Little was made of it,
Judith says, because “it wasn’t
considered good policy at the time
1o disturb Americans in that
way.”
Florence Eldridge needn’t be
Mrs. Fredric March to subsist as
en actress. . .Her fans who watch
her quiet, motherly and gentle
technique as the March winds
blow' in “Years Ago” know it. . .
In 1927 Percy Hammond reviewed
"Off-Key,” a play in which he
found the “characters bearably
artificial!” But of Florence Eld
xidge he said this: “She afforded
more than the customary excuses
for two actors to be mad about
her.”
Enid Markey s favorite memory
10 far of the “Happy Birthday”
hit concerns the young man in the
east whose wife had their first
child, in one scene Enid and her
drinking companion, Grace Valen
tine, are supposed to toast the
character he plays. Instead of
water the actor found real cham
pagne in his glass and bright, best
wishes in the eyes of Enid and
Grace,
Judith Anderson has played
many evil ladies, beginning with
her first local success, “Cobra,”
and including movie roles like that
to “Rebecca.” When she was
•mall, instead of yearning to be
Juliet, like her little frinds, she
wanted to play Lady Macbeth! . .
Still, in the hometown, Adelaide,
South Australia, she won all the
temperance medal* a maiden
could win—then had them melted
and cast into a brooch.
Mady Christians’ father, Ku
dolph, conducted a German stock
company at the old Irving Place
Theatre before the first World
"'ar. Young Mady would stand
stage-struck in the wings and beg
for » ’kid’s part”—after all, it
would save him money. Finally,
gave in when he had to have
•omeone in a hurry, and she went
on Later he told her that he knew
•ht’d never be an actress — and
now she could set about getting
• husband.
The warm anj humane qualities
which make Dorothy Gish’s acting
showed to special perfection in the
short-lived “The Story of Mary
Surratt.” As the tortured Mrs.
Surratt, she electrified the thea
!r* with qualities the patrons of
dram? rarely feel. Perhaps this
statement of’ hers will illuminate
why she's as good as she is: “It’s
kind of pathetic, you know, I’m
P'ain stage struck. If I,, couldn’t
anything else in the theatre,
j_d carry a spear.”
Letters To The Editor
(Continued From Page Six)
decline in the youth population of
W’lmington and New Hanover
county from the peak of the war
years is much less than is gener
ally believed. Figures obtained
from the Board of Education of
total enrollment for all of the past
five years shows a decline of only
1,686 children of school age from
the peak of 1943-44. These figures
are as follows:
1943— 15,800 (approx.).
1944— 15,800 (approx.).
1845—14,900 (approx.).
1946— 14,415 approx.).
1947— 14,114 approx.).
Another popular misconception
is that recreation programs of
boih tax supported and privately
supported agencies can operate
entirely with volunteer personnel.
The idea that parks and play
grounds can be run entirely or
almost entirely by volunteers is
just as impractical as it would be
to attempt to run the Brigade
Boys’ club without Its regular paid
staff.
Volunteers are essential to ev
ery type of recreation program,
and we do not wish in any way
to detract from their value. Even
so well an organized program as
that of the Boy Scouts requires
approximately three paid staff
persons, pro perly trained and
qualified to direct the activities of
some 300 volunteer leaders.
An earnest plea to retain or re
place trained recreation leaders
in our City Recreation department
was the major purpose of our ap
pearance yesterday before the
City council.
RABBI SAMUEL A. FRIEMAN,
President.
Wilmington. N. C.
June 12, 1947.
EXPRESSES THANKS
To the Editor:
I wish to thank you for the
splendid cooperation you and the
members of your staff gave us
it* connection with our Safety
show.
As you probably already know,
it was a huge success with up
to 3,000 children attending.
We now plan to make this an
annual event, but we could not
have had a successful show with
out your help. Mr. Cauthen did
a swell job on the advertising and
Jack Cow’ie was more than good
on the news build-up.
D. D. CAMERON
MacMillan and Cameron company
Wilmington, N. C.
June 14, 1947
LEGION BEAUTY
CONTEST SET
Eighteen Beauties Rep
resenting Various Posts
Are Entered
The eighteen aspirants who will
vie for the title of “Miss North
Carolina American Legion 1947,”
in a beauty pageant and contest to
be held at 3 p.m. today in the
registration tent and the Graystone
hotel at Carolina Beach, were an
nounced last night.
Judges will be Lee Hayne, chair
man, of Charlotte; Bob Howard, of
Wilmington; and Lester Gould, of
Jacksonville.
The contestant chosen as the
“Queen” will be crowned at cere
monies held at 11 p.m. Sunday
night at an open dance in the
Ocean Plaia ballroom. The crown
will be placed on the winner’s
head by Judge Henry L. Stevens,
only past national commander of
the American Legion from North
Carolina.
The winner of the top honor will
receive a $500 summer wardrobe
from Taylors’ at Raleigh and an
all-expense paid seven day vaca
tion at Carolina Beach as the
guest of Post 272, Carolina Beach.
The first maid of honor will re
ceive a $150 diamond ring from
the Jewel Box of Wilmington and
Greensboro, and the second maid
of honor will receive a $100 eve
ning gown from the Ocean Plaza
dress shop at Carolina Beach.
The contestants are Miss Mil
dred Louise Hamrick, Post 45,
Asheboro; Marjie Ruth Thomas.
Post 292, Goldston; Betty Ruth
Hussey, Post 99, Beaufort; Helen
Anna West, Post 127, Warsaw;
Peggie Ann Veazey, Post 1, Ral
eigh; Hazel Elizabeth Stephenson,
Post 186, Severn; Helen Virginia
Dickens, Post 13, Wilson; Mary
Helene Faulk, Post 309, Bolton.
Alyce Ruth Bundy, Post 39,
Greenville; Lucia Earla Jeanes,
Post 3, Fayetteville; Patti Sicel
off, Post 8, Lexington; Frances
Constance Frink, Post 247, Shal
lotte; Lucille Kirk, Post 203, New
port; Sarah Coble, Post .27, Mon
roe; Helen Gray Tomlinson, Post
336, East Bend; Lorena Kirkley,
Post 49. Hamlet; Anna Lee Lewis,
Post 272, Carolina Beach; Carolyn
Rose Clemmer, Post 339, Dallas.
ACTRESS TO RETURN HOME
LONDON, June 14—</P>—Gloria
Jean, 19-year-old Hollywood starlet
who fainted in the middle of her
program of songs on the stage of
the London casino Tuesday night,
has decided to abandon her en
gagements in Britain and return to
America next week, she said to
day. _
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Legion Speaker
GEN. JACOB L. DEVERS,
commanding general of the Army
Ground Forces, will deliver the
principal address during the
North Carolina American Le
gion’s June 14-17 convention at
Carolina Beach. The four-star
general, commander of the Sixth
Army group in France during
World War II, will speak at 11
o’clock Monday morning, June
16, before an expected audience
of 25,000 Legionnaires, Auxilia
ries and their guests.
PHYCHIC HORSE
INVESTIGATED
‘Serrano’ Adds, Finds Arti
cles; Baffles In
vestigator
By T. M. BRIGHT
FULLERTON, Cal., June 14—
(U.R)—Without a single whinny,
Serrano—the psychic horse with
the college education—put on an
exhibition today that left even a
professional debunker “astound
ed.”
At the request of Serrano’s own
ers, local ranchers Jack C. Dutton
and Clint Brush, R. DeWitt Miiler,
Los Angeles author and investiga
tor of mysterious happenings, “in
terviewed” the horse.
“Serrano is a most astounding
animal,” said Miller after watch
ing the horse add, subtract, divide
and multiply figures, ascertain
ages by mind reading, unscramble
words through telepathy, find ob
jects hidden under boxes and pick
objects by color.
“The horse put on a very in
teresting show and is certainly one
of the best trained animals to be
displayed in recent years,” he
told the owners who had asked
whether the horse “reasoned” or
possessed “super-normal” powers.
“Due to the fact that Serrano’s
trainer and manager were present
at all times, and that there were
a number of spectators observing
the performances I witnessed, it
was impossible to apply the scien
tific tests necessary to determine
just how the horse’s wonder-work
ing was performed.
“Many of Serrano’s feats could
have been performed through the
use of reasoning together with tele
pathic and other scientific gifts.
Miller said there was strong
evidence that some animals have
reasoned in the same way as men,
and conversed by alphabetical
codes with human beings. Some
even have shown indications of
,psychic powers.
Serrano, 13 years old, unscram
bled the name “Muhamed,” the
famous “thinking and calculating”
horse, for Miller who chose the
word. The horse also correctly
added a column of figures, five
digits wide by five deep.
Using numbered blocks, Serrano
correctly gave the ages of several
persons present and found a hat
hidden Miller while the ani
mal’s back was turned.
Serrano uses lettered or num
bered blocks in nearly all of his
tricks. The six-inch cubes have a
leather loop atop them which the
horse picks up in his teeth.
In adding, he works from left
to right, reversing the human
method. When he picked the block
representing the total of each
column, his trainer wrote the fig
ure on a blackboard.
UNDER THE
TOWN CLOCK
DEEDS
Albert S. Simon to Cletus B.
Cook, lot 12, block 33, Sunset
Park, city.
marriage licenses
James Player, of Wilson and
Miss Annie Belle McDaniels, of
Wilmington.
Moral: Don’t Awaken
Sleepy Racoon Because—
PHILADELPHIA, June 14.—f^P)
_Don’t let anybody tell you dif
ferently but a raccoon resents be
ing awakened in the dead c>f night.
Myer B. Marcus and his wife
returned home last midnight and
spotted the animal snoozing on the
garage window sill. They decided
against locking their automobile
and the racoon in the garage to
gether.
Marcus used a stick as convinc
ing “get going” argument. But
the racoon simply snarled, bared
its teeth and—stayed put.
Marcus called the cops.
The raccoon immediately fled—
in apparent recognition of the law.
The American Indian Wigwam
is not a tent, although it is often
rOeaiused with the tepee or tent.
City Briefs
John Rodney Hearn, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hearn of
1811 Grace street, has been
commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the United States
Army upon successful com
pletion of the Officer Candidate
Course at the Infantry school
at Fort Benning, Ga. He is
a graduate of New Hanover
High school and was a mem
ber of the ROTC.
The Rev. R. L. Staley, su
perintendent of the South At
lantic district of the Chris
tian and Missionary Alliance
will preach today at 11 a.m.
and again at 8 p.m. at the
Wilmington Gospel Tabernacle,
it has been announced.
G. L. Skipper, Leland, is
recovering in James Walker
Memorial hospital from a ma
jor operation which he under
went recently. His family re
ported yesterday that his con
dition is good.
M. F. Carney, Traveling
Auditor, Atlantic Coast Line
■ Railroad, with headquarters at
Wilmington yesterday was
awarded the company’s 25
year emblem for continuous
service. Carney, who lives at
121 Brookwood Avenue, enter
ed railroad employ February
16, 1922. Presentation was
made by D. A. Lockfaw, aud
itor miscellaneous accounts at
an informal ceremony held in
the general offices here.
Regular weekly dancing
classes are being conducted
at the YWCA, Mondays at
3:30 p. m., with Miss Sara
Richardson, recent graduate
of Coker College, as the in- %
tructress. The class is open '
to all girls 12-years of age
and over.
STATE NEWS
BRIEFS
NEW POP PLANT PLANNED
NEW BERN, June 14.—What is
planned as the finest bottling plant
in this area is being constructed
on the outskirts of town by the
Dr. Pepper Bottling company. The
new equipment will be able to bot
tle 100 bottles per minute. Raul
B. Ellis, plant manager, says that
a feature of the new structure
will be a large reception room,
which will be available wit/zout
charge to the public for use of
parties, civic club meetings and
other gatherings.
SMITH ATTENDS N. Y. SCHOOL
NEW BERN, June 14.—Earl A.
Smith, assistant cashier of the
First-Citizens Bank and Trust com
pany here, left today for Rutge~~
university, New Brunswick. N. J.,
to enter the graduate school of
banking conducted by the Ameri
can Bankers association.
WILLIS NAMED DIRECTOR
NEW BERN, June 14.—Approv
ing the purposes and plans for
universal training for young
American men, the army advisory
committee' of the New Bern
Chamber of Commerce has ap
pointed Lt. Col. Albert T. Willis,
retired, to present the features
of the training plans to local
civic organizations.
ASH STUDENT’S RECORD
SOUTHPORT, June 14—Graduat
ing at the past session after 12
years as a student in the Wacca
maw school at Ash, Leon J. Phelps,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. Phelps,
has fee enviable record of never
having missed a day from school
during til* above time.
8-Year-Old Lad Is Shot
In Head By Baby Brother
AUGUSTA, Ga., June 14.—(U.R)—
An eight-year-old boy was in criti
cal condition here today after be
ing shot in the head by his three
year-old brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Thigpen, the
parents, said Billy took a .38 cali
ber pistol from a drawer and was
playing with it when it discharged,
the bullet entering the head of his
brother Donald.
Marriage Delayed
13 Days * According
To Billy Hoyle’
ATLANTA, Ga., June 14—(U.R)—
Nothing goes “according to Hoyle”
for 20-year-old Billy Hoyle. The
youth’s plan to marry Fraulein
Irene Bunte of Blomberg, Ger
many, by telephone today was de
layed by an unromatic clerk here
who remembered that in Georga
the bride must be 18 or have her
parents’ consent. Hoyle's intended
lacks 13 days of being 18, so the
wedding was postponed for 13
days.
About 5,000 kinds of dinosaurs
are known to have lived in the
age of reptiles.
Get Welcome Relief
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Four Patriarchs Meet at University
GET TOGETHER AT THE ALUMNI LUNCHE ON during commencement exercises at the Uni
versity of North Carolina. Left to right: John Spru nt Hill, Durham capitalist and philanthropist; Wil
liam Rand Kenan, Jr., of New York, one of the uni versity’s most generous benefactors; Josephus Dan
iels, editor and publisher of the Raleigh New’s and O bserver, former secretary of the Navy, and for
mer U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; and Dr. S. B . Turrentine of Greensboro, former president of
Greensboro College. Dr. Turrentine is the oldest alumnus attending the reunion.—(AP Photo).
Mt. Holly Youth Elected
Governor Of Boy’s State
CHAPEL HILL, June 14—(^P)—
Frank Rankin of Mt. Holly, elect
ed governor of Boys State here, to
day called on both houses of the
mock general assembly to push
the State Good Health program
and advocated more meetings with
the Girls’ State group.
Rankin, president of the North
Carolina Beta High school service
group, last night was elected gov
ernor by a 3-1 majority over Barry
Ranson, president of the student
body at Charlotte’s Harding High
school.
Other election results:
Bill Shaw Blalock of Lexington
was named Lieut. Gov. over Bill
Osteen of Durham.
Dallas Pickard of Durham was
chosen Secretary of State.
Buddy Bumgarner of Shelby was
named Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
W. E. Graham of Jackson
Springs became Commissioner of
Agriculture.
Elected Justices of the State
Supreme court were:
Worth Boyce of Raleigh Jim
Davis of Lexington, Bill Simms of
Raleigh, Ham Wade of Charlotte
and Tom Marsh of Jacksonville.
Emmett White of Wilson won the
oratorical contest last night from
five other finalists of an original
group of 32.
The Boys’ States at the Univer
sity of North Carolina here, spon
sored annually by the State Amer
ican Legion, today began its pro
gram of government in action
looking toward tonight’s closing
banquet at which William M. York
of Greensboro, state commander
of the Legion, will present certi
ficates.
The House and Senate met joint
ly to hear Gov. Rankin, and pre
viously-elected city and county of
ficials were doing business.
Today’s program also included
•talks by W. P. Horton, chairman
of the State Democratic Executive
committee, Frank Crane of the
State Department of Labor and
Ben Eaton, assistant State Reve
nue Commissioner.
Rev. Mauney Rites
To Be Conducted
At Hendersonville
_i
HENDERSONVILLE. June 14—
(JP)—Funeral services for the Rev.
John David Mauney, 68, retired
Lutheran minister who died Fri
day following a long illness, will
be held at Grace Lutheran church
here at 4 p.m. tomorrow.
A native of Kings Mountain, he
was a former pastor at Beth Eden
in Newton, St. Paul's in Columbia,
S. C., St. Andrews at Hickory, St.
Matthews at Augusta, Ga., and
Grace church here. He once served
as Bible instructor at Lenoir-Rhyna
college.
Lad Posts Bond
For Appearance
In Plane Case
GREENSBORO, June 14.—(^»)—
Edwin B. Johnson, youth of 1400
Spring Garden street, was arrest
ed at 8:45 a. m. today at Greens
boro police station, where he ap
peared voluntarily for the sheriff’s
department of New Hanover county
and charged with larceny and re
ceiving of an airplane valued at
$3,000. according to police.
Johnson was released after post
ing $2,500 bond for appearance m
New Hanover court June 30, offi
cers stated.
Flag Day Passes
Almost Unnoticed
In Columbia, Tenn.
COLUMBIA, Tenn., June 14—(U.PJ
—American Legion officials and
city officers were red-faced today
when a Daily Herald reporter tele
phoned them and said:
‘'Guess why the Daily Herald
has its flag up today?” Did they
remember that today was ‘‘Flag
Day?”
The Herald’s editors, however,
truefully admitted that they too
forgot about the event until mid
day.
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