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tlminnimt iHantttut Star 13? State and National Newa vnjl go.—NO. 299. Anti-Jewish Riots Spread In Britain Mob Of Over 1,000 Sets Fire Liverpool Building, Block Cars, Fire Department Trucks; Scotland, Wales Joining In LONDON, Aug. 4 — (U.PJ — Police -trols were heavily strengthened L Great Britain’s largest cities tonight after anti-Jewish out breaks which had spread trom England to Scotland and Wales. I mob of more than 1,000 set Jire to a three-story building in Liverpool tonight because it con tained a Pewlsh cabinet maker’s workshop- Crowds gathered near by blocked street cars and buses to'impede fire engines. Others turned in false alarms to divert them. The building was damaged severely. Throughout the day crowds of holiday makers ranged the streets et Liverpool, stoning windows of Jewish establishments and at tempting to fire synagogues. Some shops were looted, some wrecked. Since the rioting started Sun day night disorders had been re ported in London, Liverpool, Bir mingham. Manchester, Newcastle, and Glasgow, Scotland, and Card iff, Wales among other cities. Last week the Irgun Zvai Leumi Jewish terrorist organization had murdered two British army ser geants. Now, thousands of miles away, loyal British Jews, some of whose family ties in this country extended back for many centuries were suffering. In many cases, Jews who were attacked personally or whose premisss were attacked refused to prosecute because of their shame at the Palestine terrorism —which they bitterly resented — and their desire to be nothing but ordinary Britons. 23 Persons Held Twenty-three persons were charged in police courts Monday in various cities with anti-Jewish terrorism. The first daylight riots occur See ANTI-JEWISH On Page Two Hundreds Visit Mendota On Coast Guard Birthday FRITZ CASE WILL BE AIRED TODAY State Board Of Education To Discuss Matter At Regular Meeting RALEIGH, Aug. 4 — (ff) — The Slate Board of Education wiil meet here tomorrow to decide what it will do in the case of R. L. Fritz, Jr., who admits he invent id a highly irregular method of luppiementing pay of teachers who worked under him at the Hudson ichool in Caldwell county, Fritz, who in addition to be ing principal of the Hudson school ie president of the North Carolina Education association, was given until tomorrow to enter into the record a written statement ex plaining his activities. At a meeting of the board here last week, Fritz offered to resign is principal at Hudson if the state I Board thought til at he should Dr. }, F. Reece, chairman ol the Caldwell county board of educa tion, told the state board that Fritz came to him prior to the meeting and had told him that “if the state board thinks it wise I will admit 1 made mistakes and itep aside.” Already in the state board’s rec ord of the case is an audit of Hud ton school affairs prepared by E. W. Smith, Lenior accountant, leveral affidavits and other docu ments. The audit disclosed that Fritz »ad carried on his payroll the lames of persons who either did tot teach or taught only a few lays, and that when checks were issued to these persons by the Caldwell education department, he funds were returned to the Hudson school, Fritz, the audit Ihowed, would use these funds to pay his regular teachers for ex tra work. Of approximately *1,300 involv td in these transactions, the *audit showed that approximately S621 Kent to Mrs. Fritz. Fritz has ex plained that although Mrs. Fritz io-es not hold a standard teach ing certificate that she frequently tided him by keeping study halls tad by working In the school of fice. According to Dr. Clyde A. Er t’in, the State Board of Educa tion, in addition to recommend ng that Fritz’s offer to resign be tccepted is empowered to de See FRITZ On Page Two playmate in falling FATALLY CRUSHES WEE GIRL HE WAS AIDING METCALF, 111., Aug. 4 - (*) — ^rte-year-old Peggy Jean At '■ ood smiled with delight as her llaymat*, Albert Sturchie, 13, liimbed & tree yesterday to fas t rope swing for the little lirl. As »he stood beneath the tree, limb broke and Albert fell |n her and crushed her. Peggy 'ean died on her way to a Paris tospital. The girl wag the daughter of tnorras and Margaret Easedes «v;ood. formerly of Nashville, Albert, of Nashville, was lisiting at the Atwood farm. Tae body will be sent to Mur Kesbom, Tenn., for burial. The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina and North Carolina — :”nlr cloudy, warmer Tuesday, con Ued hot Wednesday, scattered after °°n thundershowers. . (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ‘a,n8 7:30 p. m. yesterday. TEMPERATURES 3* m. 74; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m ’ p. m. 75; Maximum 92; Nini m 721 Mean 82; Normal 79. . HUMIDITY a- m. 92; 7:30 a. m. 90; 1:30 p. m. 7:3ft p. m. 91. T PRECIPITATION *or 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. ^ inches. ; q,0^ since the first of the month TSu inches. ' s Coast and Geodetic Survey). TIDES FOR TODAY r°m ‘he Tide Tables published by If., HIGH LOW min&tnn_11:57 a.m. 6:55 a.m. - p.m. 6:53 p.m. v°nboro Inlet _ 9:28 a.m. 3:42 a.m. » 9:47 p.m. 3:43 p.m. j unii5e 5:28; Sunset 7:09; Moonrise Mooneet 8:C3«. I a1Ver stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at *• 2' Monday - feet. WEATHER Ob Taf Tw. Commander Snyder Ad dresses Dare People At Fort Raleigh The 157th anniversary of the founding of the Coast Guard ser vice was celebrated here yester day by the officers and crew mem bers of the Mendota with open house. The ship was open for inspection from 1 to 4 p. m. and many persons from this area availed themselves of the opportunity of visiting the Mendota, .rhich had been absent from her home bertn for six months while she chased icebergs in the north Atlantic. She returned to Wilmington late Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, at Manteo, Comman der W. H. Snyder of the Fifth Coast Guard district headquarters, Norfolk, addressed an audience of Dare county people at their obser vance of the birthday of the ser vice. Commander Snyder, who is op erations officer in charge of air sea rescue in this district, spoke during a full aftermon program which included demonstrations of the Coast Guard’s life-saving tech niques. He was introduced by Chief Boatswain's Mate Steve Bas night of Manteo, former comman der of the Chincoteague group of stations in Virginia. Free Performance The program was sponsored by the Roanoke Island Historical as sociation as part of a celebration : of Coast Guard and Dare County i Day. Guests included the per sonnel of district headquarters, the ' Elizabeth City Coast Guard Air Station, and the beach stations from Hatteras to Virginia Beach. The day ended with a free per formance of The Lost Colony in See HUNDREDS On Page Two QUEEN MARY ENDS FIRST TRIP TODAY Former North Atlantic Speedster Making Initial Post-War Crossing NEW YORK, Aug. 4—UP)—The mighty British liner Queen Mary, f»esh from a ten-month face lifting which erased all traces of her half million miles of war-time service, completes her first-postwar luxury trip tomorrow when she arrives with 1,883 passengers. The arrival of the Mary, holder of the blue pennant for North At lantic speed supremacy, will mark the inauguration of two-way ex press service by the world’s two largest ships, both operated by the Cunard line. The Mary’s sister ship, the Queen Elizabeth, began its post-war lux ury service nine months ago. Each ship makes the crossing in five days, so that one or the other normally will be sailing from New York ea;h week. The Mary, which left Southhamp ton July 31, finds her speed su premacy threatened by her sister liner. The Mary set a mark of three days, 21 hours and 48 minutes over the 2,907 mile course from Bishops Rock to Ambrose Light ship before the war. The Eliza beth, constantly stepping up hei own speed, recently made the westward crossing in four days, five hours and 50 minutes. DR. C. OSCAR JOHNSON (above), pastor of the third Bap tist church In St. Louis, Mo., was elected president of the World Baptist Alliance at the concluding plenary session of the congress in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AP Wire photo) . LONG DRAY SEEN FOR SUPER-ROADS North Carolina Sections Of Federal Deluxe High ways Years Away RALEIGH, Aug. 4 — (ff) — Com pletion of North Carolina sections of a proposed federal super-high way system wlil not be accom plished for many years, State High way Commission officials said to day. James S. Burch, engineer of statistics and planning for the commission, pointed out that North Carolina now is devoting its major efforts on rural roads to “get the farmer out of the mud” and is not in a position to under take expense involved in build ing its share of the super-highway network. Burch added, however, that the commission policy is that when present highways which are part of the super-highway system need rebuilding, they are being rebuilt according to public roads adminis tration specifications for the super-highways. In this way he said, a few section* of the pro posed super-highway network have been built. Factors Listed Burch said that factors taken into consideration when the State Highway commission laid out the routes for the mileage allocated to North Carolina by the public roads administration were: 1. The least mileage that wouli serve the greatest population. 2. To connect the larger cities and connect up with the system in other states. The proposed routing of the super-roads through North Caro lina follows: 1. Following the route of U. S. 301 all the way across North Car olina via Weldon, Rocky Mount, Wilson, Selma, Smithfield, Fay etteville, and Lumberton, 2. Over U. S. 1 from Norlina to Henderson, U. S. 158 to Oxford, U. S. 15 to Durham, U. S. 70 to Burlington, Greensboro, High Point, Thomasville, Lexington and Salisbury, and U. S. 29 to Con cord, Charlotte, Gastonia, and Kings Mountain. To Mountains 3. From Greensboro to Winston Salem over U. S. 421, to Mocks ville over U. S. 158, to Statesville over U. S. 64, and to Hickory, Morgantown, Marion, Old Fort and Ashveille over U. S. 70. 4. From Hot Springs to Marshall, Asheville, and Hendersonville over U. S. 25, and to Saluda and Tryon over U. S. 176. Burch pointed out that the rout ings listed above are only general and that the exact routing have not been set yet. He said that when it comes to laying out the super roads the requirements for ‘‘long sight distances” would make it necessary in many cases to deviate from present highway routings and that some towns probably would be by-passed. COURT GETS BOUQUETS OF DRAB FLOWERS TO BACK EQUITY PLEAS PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4 — (£>) — Housewives from the Kensing ton neighborhood of Philadelphia marched into court today carry ing bouquets from their small gar dens. But the dull, drab blooms were not to honor Common Pleas Court Judge Thomas Bluett. The women wished, they said, to show the judge that flowers can not beside a paint factory grow. For' that reason they have filed a bill in equity seeking an injunc tion against J. B. Smith & Co., paint manufacturers from whose factory, the women aver, small particles of pamtescape to mar the summer air. Bite Of Voracious Fish Takesi Life Of Swimmer ST, AUGUSTINE, Fla., Aug. 4 — (U.R) — The bite of a voracious fish, believed to be a barracuda, proved fatal today to Ralph Reg inald Rives, Jr., University of Florida sophomore who failed to rally after amputation of his man gled left leg. Huge quantities of whole blood had been transfused into Rives’ viens but initial loss of blood and the shock of the attack and am putation defeated his chances of recovery, Flagler hospital attend ants said. Rives, who lived in Jackson ville, was bitten while swimming in a tidal canal North of Jackson ville where big ocean fish fre quently venture. Two women and one youth com panion, John Perritt, 18, of Jack sonville, watched helplessly while Rives thrashed about the water in his duel with the fish. The fish bit a huge chunk out of Rives’ left calf and the leg nad to be amputated at oncif The fish swam off after the one savage at tack, leading to the belief that it was a barracuda since a shark, having tasted blood, would havt stayed for die kill. Roosevelt Feared ‘Smear’ Drive “Against Father By Politicians; Ford-UAW Now In Agreement Negotiators Draft Terms Sources Close To Unionists Declare Walkout Will Be Called Off DETROIT, Aug. 4—(TP)—A formal announcement that the strike of 107,000 Ford Motor Co. production workers had been averted still was awaited tonight hours after the report of an agreement. With the picture becoming con fused, negotiations for the com pany and the CIO United Auto Workers recessed their consulta tions till 10 p. m. (Eastern Stan dard Time) without releasing a statement. Earlier spokesmen for both sides said an agreement had been achieved and needed only to be re duced to writing. At the same time sources close to the union had said flatly that the strike would b° called off. It had been set for noon (Eastern Standard Time) tomorrow with Ford and the UAW-CIO unable to agree on a union demand for im munity from Taft-Hartley law pen alty provisions and particulars of a workers’ pension plan. Statement Recalled Later tonight, however, a union spokesman said the company had recalled a joint statement and had requested adjournment until 10 p. m. A1 Leggat, UAW press represen tative, said ‘‘company red tape” was delaying the procedure. Leggat said he was uncertain what effect this might have on the strike scheduling. He said, how ever, that both sides were hopeful of coming to a final understanding tonight. In the meantime the UAW’s Ford See NEGOTIATORS on Page Two MOST OF NATION SWELTERS MONDAY Withering Heat Scorches Huge Midsection Of Country; Coast Cool By The Associated Press Most of the nation, sheltered Monday in a sizzling heait wave and forecasters said that except for a few localities, no relief was n sight for at least another day. The withering heat scorched a urge midsection of the country from the Eastern Rocky Mountains ;o the Appalachians. In South Dakota Monday, tem peratures rose to 108 in Pierre and Philip and 101 in Rapid City. Fargo, N. D., had 105, as did Ad vance, Mo. A high of 104 was re sorted in Chattanooga, Tenn., and 102 included St. Cloud amd St. Paul, Minn., Memphis, Tenn., and Fort Smith, Ark. Glenview and Effingham, 111., and Omaha, Neb., had 101, and Miles City, Mont., Chicago and Phenoa, 111., Iowa City, Des Moines and Burlington, la., and St. Pouis and Kansas City, Mo., had !00. Many localities reported read ngs in the 90’s, including Louis ville, Ky., and Terre Haute and Pafayette, Ind., with 99; Milwau kee, Wis., and Peoria and Spring field, 111., with 98; Pellston, Mich., with 96; Fort Worth, Tex., with 95; and Gra/nd Rapids and Lansing, Mich., Columbus, O., and Hunting ion, W. Va„ 94. Coasts Comfortable In contrast, the two coasts had comfortable, pleasant weather. On ihe Eastern seaboard, Washington and New York city had 81. Pitts ourgh, while not on the coast, had See MOST On Page Two NEGOTIATORS FOR THE UNITED AUTO WORKERS (CIO) and the Ford Motor company meet in an attempt to settle their dispute over the issues of a workers’ pension and Taft-Hartley labor law provisions. The Union International Executive board has given its assent for 107,000 Ford pro duction workers to strike “not later than Tuesd ay.” Negotiators are (left to right) Nelson Samp, Thomas Thompson, and Richard T. Leonard for th e UAW, and John Bugas, Mel B. Lindquist, Manton M. Cummings, and Malcolm L. Denise for the Ford company. (AP Wirephoto). Benson To “Handle” Croom; Chief Locates Fire Boat Letter Department Head Absent On Vacation At Time Of Morton Trip Fire Chief J. Ludie Croom re turned to his office at fire head quarters yesterday morning from his yacation at Carolina Beach. Chief Croom said last night that he found a letter on his desk from cify officials advising him that tney were sending Gilbert F. Mor ton, city purchasing agent to Charleston, S. C., to look at a gov ernment fire boat, which the city may be interested in purchasing for use here. A Morning Star reporter phoned Chief Croom Thursday night in re gards to the boat at Charleston .•and asked the chief what he thought of the vessel that Morton See DEPARTMENT On Page Two NO ACTION TAKEN IN “LYNCH” CASE Northhampton Grand Jury Fails To Indict Seven White Men JACKOSN, Aug. 4—(TP)—A North hampton county grand jury which had been asked t0 indict seven white men in connection with an attempted lynching of a Negro here last May adjourned tonight without taking action. The grand jury will meet again tomorrow. The grand jury also has been asked to return a true bill against the Negro, Godwin “Buddy” Bush for attempted assault with intent to criminally assault a young mar ried white woman. Solicitor Ernest Tyler asked in dictments on three counts against Russell Bryant, Robert Vann, Lin wood Bryant, Gilbert Bryant, Glenn Collier, Joe Cunningham and W. G. Cooper, all of Rich Square. They are charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to break and enter a jail with intent to in jure or kill Bush, and with break ing and entering a Jail with intent to injure or kill Bush. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years. Along The Cape Fear RIVER AND SHIPS — “How happy they Who from the toil and tumult of their live* Steal to look down where naught but ocean strives.” Harking back to before the turn of the present century is a saga of ships and the river as concerns Wilmington—a story of men who went down to the sea in ships from this port of Wilmington. There was the steamer “Wil mington.” For many a month it plied its trade between this port and Southport. An early pamph let described the craft as “a model of marine architecture, combining spacious and comfortable passen ger accommodations with the greatest speed attained by steam craft on the Cape Fear river. Her clean decks and tidy salons afford the bracing outside air or the rest ful seclusion which invites re pose.” The daily run by that ship be tween here and Southport was made in two hours including stops along the way. And the man who captained this craft was John W. Harper. He was one of those men who for many years went down | to the sea in ships. THE CAPTAIN — Captain Har per was “stalwart, cool, cautious. | polite and with a reserve stock of never failing good humor,’’ as de scribed by historians of those days. He ran ships up and down the river for more than a quarter of a century and during that time made more than 13,000 round trips between Wilmington and Southport —equal to 15 trips around the world. He was the pioneer ol the regular summer excursions to the Cape Fear seacoast — excur sions which in those days were made for thousands of persons seeking vigor and refreshing sea air. Captain Harper in his day be came known throughout this com munity as an affaible friend to hundreds of persons who looked forward to those summer trips along the/river. ' * * * EARLIER DAYS — To many to day, th<? days of Captain Harper and his steamship “Wilmington’’ seem remote and of another age. But even they are modern as com pared with the coming of the first river steamers to Wilmington. To See CAPE FEAR On f*ge Two “RED EARS” COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 4 — (JP) — J. W. Bailey of Anderson completed a 60-day training course comprising bookwork, first aid and matters related to his candidacy for an appoint ment to the South Carolina State Highway Patrol. He had even been assigned to a district. Today Chief Highway Com missioner issued this edict: South Carolina Highway patrol men must be able to drive a car. He had just learned: Bailey can’t drive. MEXICO TO FETE “MISS AMERICA” Winner Of National Beauty Contest Will Be Guest Of Government For the first time in the history of the “Miss America” beauty pageant contest held each year at Atlantic City, the winner will be the guest of a foreign government for 10 days, R. B. Howard, state chairman of “Miss North Carolina Beauty Pageant” announced last night. In addition, Howard said, the winner of the Miss America con test will leave New York Sept 10 for Los Angeles to appear in a fashion show there given on the famous Catalina Island. She will return to New York on Sept. 14. While in California, he added, she will meet “the top executives of the motion picture industry and she will be entertained by the state.” Ten-Day Stay On Monday, Sept 15, Howard said, she will leave New York, along with Miss Lenora S. Slaugh ter, executive director of the na tional pageant, for a 10 day stay in Mexico City as the guest of the See MEXICO On Page Two CORN PRICES REACH HIGHEST LEVEL IN CHICAGO’S HISTORY CHICAGO, Aug. 4.— (A5) —Hot, dry weather over the Mid-west caused corn prices to boom to the highest level in the 99-year his tory of the Chicago Board of Trade today. All corn futures advanced eight cents, the daily limit, with September corn closing at a rec ord peak of $2.22 3-8. Grain dealers said that corn needed moisture. Apprehension was expressed over crop deter ioration as a result of very high temperatures and clear skies. City Manager Declares Chief Apparently Talked With Mouth Open Chief of the Wilmington Fire Department J. Ludie Croom this morning will be “handled” by City Manager J. R. Benson, or at least that is what the city manager told a Morning Star reporter last night. Dast Thursday afternoon local papers carried the announcement that the city had sent Gilbert Morton, city purchasing agent to Charleston, S. C. to look at a gov ernment fire boat with the inten tions of making arrangements to have the boat declared surplus if it would suit the city’s needs. Morton returned and said he had found the boat ideal for duties here. Chief Croom was contacted by telephone at his home and asked what he thought of the Charleston boat. Croom was called about 12 o’clock Thursday by a Star repor ter. The veteran chief of 40 years of service with the city said he had not been informed of the boat deal and would not like to comment. However, he added that he planned to meet with city officials Friday morning “and find out why I was See CITY MANAGER on Page Two REYNOLDSNAMED ROBESON MANAGER Former Farm Agent Ac cepts Appointment By County Commissioners Special To T6ie Star LUMBERTON, Aug. 4 — W D. Reynolds, of Charlotte, Farm demonstration agent of Mecklin burg county and a former Robe son county, farm agent was ap pointed Robeson county manager by the county board of Commis sioners today succeeding Ed K. Butler who died last July 11 aft er serving for 15 years. Mrs. Mary Lois Allen McLeod has been acting manager since Butler became ill several months ago. Chairman C. A. Hasty of Robe son commissioners stated that Reynolds accepted the new ap pointment this afternoon by tele phone. The new county manager who will be the third man to hold his position since it was created in 1929, was a popular and efficient farm agent in this county tor six years resigning in 1944 to accept the Mecklenburg position on Dec. 1 of that year. He came to Robe See REYNOLDS On Page Two Australian Bull Ants Winging Way To U. S. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4. —(U.R) — An Australian Airways plane heading for San Francisco hasn’t exactly got ants in its wheel plants. But it has a fuselage full' of them. A total of 3,456 Australian bull ants, large and fierce denizens of the brush country in the land down under, are winging across the Pa cific in a miniature laboratory aboard a transoceanic airliner do nated by Australian National Air ways. The shipment, under the care of Miss E. A. Clark, one of Austral ia’s foremost naturalists, will land at Oakland airport Wednesday, The ants, described by those who have been bitten by them as “fierce and aggressive,’’ will be used in experiments to determine their origin, social structure and environmental adaptibility. Miss Clark, listed in the Aust ralian “Who’s Who” as a member of the renowned Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Melbourne, will conduct the experiments along with Dr. C. P. Haskins, of the Haskins Research laboratory, New Y,ork city. Special permission for the ants’ entry into the U. S. was granted I See AUSTRALIAN On Page Two Meyer Items Are Disputed Son Of Late President Tells Committee He Paid Fair Share Of Checks WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 — (£>) — Elliott Roosevelt testified today that “I paid my own fair share” of costly entertainment with John W. Meyer, contact man for the plane designer Howard Hughes. He gave the Senate War Investi gating committee his opinion that “my conduct did not violate” an Air Forces directive cautioning of ficers against “relationships of 4 compromising character” with war contractors. And he related that he had fear ed a "smear” campaign against his father, the late President Roosevelt, would grow out ol hi* recall from overseas in 1945 to advise on war plane purchases. Eliott again referred to what he called a “smear” attempt against his father, when he spoke Driefly over the radio (ABC). “I think that this investigation is purely political,” he told an in terviewer. “I believe that the past records of Senator Ferguson and Senator Brewster will bear me out in that they have spent a good proportion of their time since Franklin D. Roosevelt died in trying to smear him. I think that they did so in the hopes of building themselves politically.” Senator Ferguson (R-Mich) i* chairman of the subcommittee con ducting the current investigation. Brewster (R-Maine) is chairman of the full committee. They have contended that politics is not at issue, that they are interested only in learning whether the taxpayer* money was wasted on non-essen tials or through improper influ ence. Items Inaccurate Asked to explain items listed in Meyer’s expense accounts as hav ing been for entertaining young Roosevelt and associates, Elliott replied that testimony today show ed them to have been “very large ly inaccurate.” Roosevelt said in reply to a ques tion on the broadcast that follow ing his wartime trip home in 1943 the Air Force got "tremendous improvements” in aircraft. “I am not boasting because many other people were respon sible for the improvements,” he said. “We did obtain aircraft and See MEYER On Page Two TWO EAGLE SCOUTS AWARDED BADGES Dicky Paschall, Donald Lee Given Badges At Court Of Honor The awarding to Eagle scout badges to two members of troop 36, Boy Scouts of America, featur ed the Wilmington district court of honor at the New Hanover coun ty courthouse last night. Mrs. P. P. Paschall pinned the coveted honor on her son, Dickey Paschall and Mrs. J. T. Lee pre sented the Eagle award to her son, Donald Lee. Both scouts are mem bers of troop 36. H. B. Garris is scoutmaster of the troop. Joseph Barnes, chairman of the court of honor, presided at the meeting in the absence of George Tenuta, chairman. Civic service awards were presented to the fol lowing scouts: Earl, Page, Jimmy Chamblee, Johnny Rusher and Wade Holden for 30 hours service, all are members of troop 36. John Weeks and Sonny Blanton of troop 19 were presented 100 hour awards. Hugh Garris and Dickey Paschall ot troop 36 were awarded 250 hours awards. Other awards presented at the Court of Honor included Camporee, attendance and advancement. Fourteen new scouts, members of troops 10, 19, 23, 34, 36 and 91 were recognized. D. M. Wilson and Donald Thorn ton of Troop 36 were awarded the rank of Star scout and Hugh Gar ris, also from troop 36 was award ed the rank of Life scout. Merit badges were presented the following Scouts: Donald Lee, James Colvin, Earl Page, Wade Holder, D. M. Wilson, Dicky Pas chall, Jimmy Chamblee, John Rusher, Hugh Garris, all members of Troop 36. And So To Bed Willie Walker, 19, Negro, came into Recorder’s court yesterday and told about the first argument that he had with his bride of less than four months. Walker was charged with as sault. The argument between his wife and himself occurred because the couple were un able to agree on going out to gether. Judge Winfield Smith told Walker that he would have to pay the court costs. “After this, never go out without taking your wife,” de clared the court. “An’ thoa you’ll never have any family difficulties.”