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Oak Grove Presbyterians
Hold Anniversary Today
Oak Grove Chapel, Carolina Beach Road, wiil observe
Its third anniversary today. Sunday School will be held
as usual at 10 o’clock and the special Anniversary will
be conducted at 6 p.m. by the Rev. John D. MacLeod, pas
tor of Myrtle Grove and Carolina Beach Presbyterian
churches.
Sunday School held its first
service at 5 o’clock on Sunday,
July 2, 1944 in a tent. One month
later a severe wind and rain
storm completely destroyed the
tent, damaged the piano and
benches. Services were then held
out of doors in a grove. When the
weather became too cold to wor
ship outside, the Sunday School
met in the home of one of its mem
bers until spring.
During that winter the present
church building was purchased,
completely furnished by the
Home Missions committee and the
Home Missions emergency fund
through the Presbyterian Plan
ning committee of New Hanover
county. The title to the chapel is
in the name of the Wilmington
Presbytery. .
This Presbyterian Chapel, is m
reality a community Sunday
school. It includes members ox
many other denominations, Meth
odists, Adventists, and Pentecost
al Holiness.
The building was formerly own
ed and occupied by the Pentecost
al Holiness organization who at
present time have their services
in the old St. Andrews Presbyteri
an church which they purchased
several years ago. The building
originally stood at Second and
Parsley streets. But was moved
May 9. 1945 by the men in the
community.
The work of rebuilding the vest-1
V—
ibule and the roof which were re
moved to facilitate moving the
building was completed by the
chapel members. A basement for
the furnace was also put in.
Last year an Army barracks
building was purchased and is
used temporarily as Sunday
school quarters while funds are
being raised to ereci a new annex
where the barracks now stands.
This is the immediate goal of the
chapel members. It is also hoped
that the thapel will soon be able
to become an organized church,
it was announced.
This year, for the first time, all
teachers and officers have been
secured from the community it
self.
The offering at the Anniversary
service on today will go to the
special New Sunday school build
ing fund.
Flood Control Bill
Urged By President
WASHINGTON, July 12 —(A3)—
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to send congress a flood control
plan to harness unruly waters
“from the Rockies to the Appala
chians.”
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will recommend the vast program
in a special message to congress
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Walter Winchell
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peace.” (Wudja think, they want
ed to beat the Nazis???). . . .We
charge these harrowing harpies
with trying to silence the Liberty
Beil.
ATLANTA, Ga.: Peachtree
Street in Georgia is crawling wi+h
worms. Homer L. (ouse) Loomis,
Jr., and his Columbianazis. . . .
Although sentenced to a chain
gang, Loomis still creeps around
in his Storm Trooper get-up, try
ing to whip Georgians into race
riots . . . He’s just organized the
“4 P” Party, which he says means
sumpin.’ We know: Purulent, Put
rescent, Perfidious and Pediculous
(look 'em up). . The South doesn’t
have to accuse this man of being
a Nazi. . .He would admit it.
QUEENS, N. Y. C.: Since 1941
the air here has been fouled by
C. Daniel Kurtz, ^hose bigotant
rums brought him into Magis
trate’s CoUi.; six years ago. He
wras committed to the booby hatch
for observation (they wanted to
see if Kurts was nurts), but the
judge put him on probation at the
request of the complainant, a
World War vet. . .Two months
after V-J Day he emerged from
his hole and staged a rally which
landed three of his brother stink
ers in the hoose-gow. Kurts then
retired to his hole for almost tw'O
years, crawling out every so often
to Goebbelize little groups of
dupes and dopes in Philly and
New York . . . Less than two weeks
ago Kurts raised the American
flag on a street corntr in Queens
and harangued nis audience with
a “patriotic” speech. . . Big Town
brands Kurts as a curse upon its
fair city.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.: On a col
lege campus in this city lives a
“Professor of English,” who mails
out his “learning” to thousands
who are not college kids. His
name: Austin J. App. His off-the
campus activities: Writing pro
German pamphlets which charge
that American GIs defiled
thousands of German women;
publishing booklets which describe
Nazi soldiers as “the most decent
troops of World W’ar II”; contri
buting material to G. L. K.
Smith’s outfit and Leon de Aryan’s
“The Broom.” (De Aryan was a
defendant in the Washington Mass
Sedition Case.). . .One of App’s
articles suggested that Ike Eisen
hower be handed the same treat
ment the Allies gave to Jap Gen
eral Yamashita — who was hang
ed. (Wow!). . .App uses the old
gimmick of distributing his gar
bage through the Congressional
mailing frank (free postage) . . .
We indict this “teacher” for
breathing life into the false idea
that the Germans were the in
nocents of World War II.
CHICAGO, 111.: Former German
American Bund teacher in this
city, Leonard Enders, recently
formed a chapter of the “Organi
zation of Americans of German
Ancestry.” To give it prestige.
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Enders applied to the Illinois
Sec’y of State for a corporation
charter. (The outfit welcopies
“only Germans of Germanic
blood” and promises to use its
influence as a racial voting bloc)
. . .The Director of Chicago's
Mayor’s Commission blasted it be
cause its purpose was “to divide
our citizenry along racial lines’
. . .We brand this group as a new
face on an old body—which should
be decapitated.
Co-defendant, and equally guilty,
is every branch of the Govern
ment which, although charged
with the sworn duty, has failed to
crack down on these so-and-sos. . .
Even the U. S. Court of Appeals
Judge, in dismissing the 26 c o n
spirators in the mass sedition case
last week, said he did so on the
ground that the “Dep’t of Justice
showed lack of diligence” in pros
ecuting the alleged leaders of the
Pro-Fascist front. . .Also responsi
ble is every citizen who sits in
silence—instead of sounding off. . .
The prisoner’s dock in the Court
of Public Opinion is crowded, but
there is still room for editors who
look the other way or vfho, be
cause they refuse to run columns
like this, are no longer permitted
to publish Winched.
Around Capitol Square
(Continued from Page Six)
ing this bit of history is to show
that while Gregg Cherry has ex
erted perhaps more influence
upon the fiscal policy of the state
than any other man connected
with state government, it was
done before rather than during his
term as governor. When he came
to the governorship he looked
back upon the work of seven leg
islatures m which he had active
part and decided that as to fiscal
policy it was good. As governor
his claim to credit lies in the fact
he did not seek to upset his own
work and that of his legislative
colleagues in formulating state
tax policy. Economic conditions
incident to the war and a sound
tax structure previously establish
ed instead of current official wis
dom mada us what we are in
state financial status.
CREDIT — The governor does
deserve credit for obtaining in the
1945 general assembly action set
ting aside enough money to pay
off the state general fund debt of
about fifty two million dollars,
and in the 1947 session the addi
tion of nine million dollars to the
reserve “cushion fund” bringing
that reserve up to thirty millions.
His insistence upon these meas
ures was vigorously opposed in
some quarters, but readiiy accept
ed by majority of the assembly
at the time, and since universally
commended as sound business
and governmental policy.
PATTERN— To somewhat less
degree Governor Cherry’s attitude
on other state issues has followed
the same pattern. He is the first
man in this century to come to
the governorship directly from the
general assembly, and he has had
more legislative experience than
any governor under the present
constitution. Consequently he is
legislative attitude and has shown
familiar and sympathetic with the
high respect for the constitutional
division of state government into
three phases of equal prestige
legislative, executive and judicial.
APPOINTMENTS — The gover
nor has been somewhat slow to
make appointments to offices and
boards. He has been criticised al
so for continuing in office appoint
ees of nis predecessors. A few
significant exceptions may be not
ed. Replacement of Baxter Dur
ham by Nathan Yelton as head of
the retirement system; of Arthur
Fletcher by Henry Kendall as
chairman of the employment se
curity commission, and of Thom
as Creekmore by Walter Ander
son as chief of SBI, are cases in
point. But majority of appointive
executive heads of departments
and personnel of boards and com
missions has been continued, al
though in many cases it was ob
vious that reappointments were
made when the governor appoint
ees were not his particular per
sonal or political friends—but who
had done good jobs for the state.
JUSTIFICATION — This atti
tude of permitting state depart
ments to work out their own prob
lems, of reluctance to exert the
prestige of his office to more
quickly accomplish desired ends
has occasioned frequent criticism.
Early in his administration sever
al newspaper reporters were
needling him to take some action
with respect to alleged friction
and incompetence in a certain de
partment. The governor went
back to his early boyhood in South
Carolina for an illustration to jus
tify his attitude. He recalled a
farm branch that was polluted
near its source, but a few hundred
yards down stream the flow was
of pure water and could be drunk
with impunity by humans and cat
tle. “Most of these situations will
soon clear up themselves,” he
said. That attitude is not popular
with a lot of people, and it is
true that sometimes the condi
tions do not get better. Executive
action then is resented more than
it would have been at first.
RESUMES OLD POST
WASHINGTON, July 12 — (ff) —
Dr. R. R. Sayres, director of the
Federal Bureau of Mines, will re
vert to his former post as mem
ber of the U. S. Public Health serv
ice staff on Monday.
New York State maintains i more
than 574 miles of foot trails in the
Adirondack Forest Preserve ior
hikers and mountain climbers.
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mwTmarch
ENDS IN POVERTY
Two Years With Laborites
Ends On Deadline,
Crisis
By GLENN WILLIAMS
LONDON, July 5. —CB— Two
years after a Socialist government
was swept into power, Great
Britain still is plodding through a
forest of shortages and austerity
toward the Labor Party goal of
a 20th century Utupia. .
At every turning along the twist
ing streets and roads, government
posters drive home the stark
warning the country has reached
bed rock of national poverty: “we
work or want.”
After 10 years of depression, six
years of war and two years of So
cialism, the “wants” are crowding
for attention—a shortage of coal,
shortage of food, shortage of elec
tricity, shortages of baby buggies,
knives and forks, cups and
saucers, tractors, automobiles,
textiles, steel — an unending _ list
touching every facet of British
life.
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But the five-year plan oi putmu
ownership of basic industries hews
to the strict schedule laid down in
the labor party platform which
brought the socialists a lands 1 i p
victory two years ago today.
The election was held July 5.
but the results were not an
nounced until July 26.
The first year in power brought
legislation nationalizing the Bank
of England, the coal mines, the
airlines and the vast communi
cations network of cable and wire
less. In the second year bills to
bring all electricity production
and transport railroads, trucklines,
buses into public ownership
were started through Parliament.
A women’s organization — The
Housewives League — springs up
to voice resentment over lack of
food and other household supplies.
The government retorted with
figures showing even distribution
of food made the nation better fed
than before the war.
Ahead lie prospects of one crisis
after another.
Coal is the country’s most
plentiful resource — but a short
age of it may dog the nation again
next winter, even though it may
not be as severe as it was during
last winter’s record snows and
floods, when large portions of in
dustry shut down.
Shortages of coal and steel are
starving the conomic taproot at
home.
The coal mines came under
public ownership Jan. 1, just in
time to be trapped by the record
bad weather which nearly drain
ed the pipeline from mine to fire
and melted already small stock
piles.
Establishment, on May 1, of a
five-day week for miners lured
nearly 25,000 more workers into
the man-short pits. Production
climbed but now has begun to sag
again.
Steel is on the list for nation
alization in the next session of
Parliament, beginning in the au
tumn.
Steel production is climbing
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again, but capacity output still
would supply only 80 per cent of
what Britain needs for reconstruc-,
tion and heavy exports. T h e |
spring boom in steel output ate
up great portions of pig iron and
scrap.
The winter’s snows and floods
killed 25 per cent of the country’s
sheep, nearly that many cattle
destroyed thousands of acres of
wheat and threw vegetables and
other crops a month behind sche
dule. The government offered in
creased farm benefits to spur
summer food production. To pay
them it began to lop subsidies
from some foods.
Experts south, so far unsuc
cessfully, to win a heavy scaling
down of Britain’s sterling debt on
the grounds that she accumulated
the burden solely to defend her
creditors in the war.
Trade talks, looking toward ex
change of British machinery for
Russian grain and timber, proce
eded in Moscow.
Violence e‘:'’ " _ es in®’
although Britain handed the clash
ing aims oi «..., dIja Briton
to the United Nations for solution.
Bevin signed a 50-year alliance
with France, completing a trian
gle of accords linking Britain,
France and Russia. Britain and
Russia moved toward modification
and lengthening of their war
inspired 20-year pact, but progress
stumbled on a British relief that
Russia was trying to crack
Britain’s links with the United
States.
Left wing members of the Labor
party “rebelled” twice, to force
into closer ties with Russia and
looser ones with the United States,
and to trim the Army conscription
period.
Independence was virtually
shoved on India in a bid to hold
its rich resources within the
British commonwealth by letting
it split into two dominions, divided
by antagonistic religions.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
RALEIGH, July 12 —(/P)— The
1947-48 program of the Raleigh Ex
ecutives club has been completed
and the club is assured of hearing
five outstanding speakers during
th“e next season, President Gurney
P. Hood announced today.
POWER WORKER^
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Members of thT~Tide in
Power company recreati0 ?
mittee, Wilmington, have'°'
ed two sections of lan/^
Edgewater division for the ^
of constructing a bathing?
and dredging a boat channel?
ren Bell, company presiden
last night. ' 1 !i<
Approximately 350 emp!o..f
the company, 250 in WiL- <
are members 0f the organ,'?
he said. gam^k
Plans of the group cap
foot sand beach for bathin
yacht basin.
The site is located one-ha't
northwest of Page's creek ^
Applications for dredoj,,.
on the project have been?
to U. S. Engineers. The dr?
material will be used to con?
the bathing beach. Bell said ''
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