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LIFE INSURANCE NEED HELD GREAT Hie needs of the American pub lic for life insurance will become increasingly great, in spite of the rapid social and economic cnanges that are taking place in our coun try today, Wayman L. Dean, of Jacksonville, Fla., trustee of the National Association of Life Un derwriters, said at the March meeting of the Wilming .on Life Underwriters Association held at the St. John’s Tavern at 1 p.m. yesterday. The meeting, under the guidance of Herbert W. Slack, was attend ed by approximately 30 members of the association and their guests, including L. A. Haney, president j the Chamber of Commerce, and Ihe Rev. C. D. Barclift, president cf the Wilmington Ministerial As sociation. Introduced by Thomas Griffin, Mr. Dean praised the magnificent contribution of the life under writers in the war financing pro gram of the Treasury Department. He stated that 30,000 life insur ance men and women volunteered their selling talent in the last War Bond drive and that their efforts received public endorsement by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and Ted R. Gam ble, head of the War Finance Divi sion. He appealed to the under writers to continue this vital work “for the duration.” -V DISCOVERED MUCH IN LITTLE George Mendel worked out his plant experiments and founded the famous Mendelian laws of plant genetics in a plot of ground only 120 feet long and 20 feet wide. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS St. John’s Tavern 114 Orange Et, Dial 2-8085 DELICIOUS FOOD Chicken In The Bough — Friday BFent Away" tte Colbert nnlfer Jones pie, Lionel obt. Walker 1:55-5:00-8:1® ifter 5 p.m. S Memory! S No Stops! |J MONAHANS” I inor, Peyyy jwk t, Ann Blyth ^^Todayantl^^B - - Saturday Thrills and Excitement V i As Only a Ghost Knew Th® 9 Secret Behind Six Murders ij "THE MISSING JUROR” flj With Jim Bannon, Janis J9 Carter, Georye Macready .jfl '■ A'--: **i*+n’'*+A Harbor” jABH kB Z] Today and ! B'gjf »■!. I Saturday ^9 1 Roar in g )yay» of the B | ■I Cherokee Land Rush! || I' Allan Lane in fl "THE TOPEKA TERROR” M with Linda Sterliny B Also: Chapter No. 11 JM ' PTAIN AMERICA” A^^ Itk... UMBBSaBBBM TO SPEAK HERE Changes made by the 1945 General Assembly in the beer con trol laws will be discussed at meetings planned for Wilmington by the North Carolina Committee United States Brewers Foundation. State Director Edgar H. Bain' Goldsboro, will meet with the Wil mington beer distributors at 7 p.m. Tuesday ahd with New Hanover retail dealers at 11 a.m Wednes day at the courthouse. Director Bain will dscuss the changes made in the laws gov erning the sale and distribution oi beer in North Carolina, and also will discuss the industry’s volun tary cooperation program in North Carolina. -V Washington Calling (Continued fro™ Page Pour) the Germans was finally removed. It was not just the four years of the cruel occupation. Before that, there had been nearly five years of the savage Metaxas dictator ship. So when the people of the working class, who had suffered the most, came into the streets, it was with wild and violent cries of death and destruction to those who had lived comfortably under Metaxas and under the Nazis and who now seemed to be just as se cure and comfortable under the British. We must know more. We must have greater understanding. Mili tary intelligence is not enough. Far-reaching political intelligence and, what is more important, mu tual understanding are essential in our complicated world. That, it seems to me, is the sup reme lesson of the Greek tragedy, and one we must learn quickly. -V BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Ff I HANOVER - MAFFITT VILLAGE TODAY ONLY "HENRY ALDRICH ROY SCOUT" CARTOON SHORT SAT. ONLY DOUBLE FEATURE "SURMARINE RASE" and "DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS" Also Serial SEA RAIDERS and SUPERMAN MANOR TODAY and SAT.! BIG STAGE and SCREEN SHOW • ON STAGE — IN PERSON • “BANJO EDDY” World’s Fastest Banjoist He makes a banjo sound like a 20 piece band. He’s good. He’s right In the swing with hot and sweet music. You'll like Banjo Eddy! ON SCREEN — 2 BIG HITS! JOHNNT MACK BROWN—in “GHOST RIDER” Plus “RHYTHM PARADE” ALSO PHANTOM NO. 11 Stage Shows: 1:45-4-7:15-9:15 -- • • • LATE SHOW TONITE—SAT. 10:30 "Shake Hands Wilh Murder" _ Announcing VIRGIL WEST and HIS ORCHESTRA Every Site Except Sunday Dine and Dance to the music of this Popular Orchestra WE SPECIALIZE IN CHOICE STEAKS | CHICKEN IH THE ROUGH —OPEN 7 DAY A WEEK— JO'S CLUB 4 Miles Out—Carolina Beach Road — 12 Noon ’Til 12 Midnight — Dial 116 County 5813 for Reservation i in 1 i i i. ■ INCREASED COSTS SEEN AFTER WAR By ROGER W. BABSON BAESON PARK, Mass., March 15 —It may cost you 20 per cent more to live after the war than it did before Hitler blew the lid off in 1939. in other words, your 1939 dollar may then probably be only 80 cents. Since your pay en velope will probably be thinner than it is now, this is something to worry about. Here is what the bespectacled professor means when he warns you that the cost-of-living is going to zoom*. He means that your gro cery bill will be bigger than be fore the war, even though you buy the same amount of food. He means that you will pay $37.50 for an overcoat when you used to pay $30. Your fuel, laundry, and ice bills are going to edge higher. That 5 cents candy bar will shrink in size or swell in price to 6 cents or 7 cents. The landlord, the furni ture dealer, the ticket seller,—they will all “put the bite’’ on your v/eekly pay envelope for a bigger chew than before Hitler. After World War I the cost-of living reached a peak which was more than 15 per cent above our present abnormally high levels. That established the all-time rec ord for this country. Since there were then none of the controls which the present government has imposed, cosi of the average mar ket basket increased about 130 per cent to its 190 top. Housewives who were buying food at that time (butter at $1.00 a pound; sugar at 25 cents are not so afraid of postwar prospects as our younger people who have become used to depression prices. As a matter of fact, living costs are at present averaging close to those of 1925-1926, and are only 2 per cent or 3 per cent above 1929. This is high enough to give you consumers plenty of head aches. Today is none too soon to start the wise practice of getting the most for your money. After the war, when prices are still high and total take-home pay is con siderably lower, you will benefit from this experience. Selective shopping may then be the only way to maintain living standards for the average family. For a long time I have preach ed the doctrine of ‘bargain’’ shop ping. When the Japs are knocked out this is going to be more im portani man ever, rugnt now tnere isn’t, much choice of brands on grocers’ shelves, but after the war it will be a differenet story. You should be able to keep your living costs down to a remarkable extent by buying the less widely adver tised grades of canned goods, the less popular cuts of meat, day-old bread and cake, etc. They are just as nourishing and palatable as the more expensive foods. Here is my forecast of the pat tern of living costs over the years ahead; There is not likely to be any great change until the Europe an conflict is ended. Not long after that happy event, the outlook is for some deflationary pressure on the cost-of-living. Unemployment and the shifting of full war focus to the Pacific area is bound tempor arily to curtail public demand for goods. Reconversion will begin to take hold shortly thereafter. Combined with the still-high Jap-war produc tion, civilian output will begin to take up the slack in employment and ease the buying reluctance of the public. By the time the Nip ponese yell “Uncle!”, (or their equivalent for it), the cost-of-liv ing should be moving gradually upward again. From then on, the picture de pends partly upon whether or not price curbs are maintained. If the controls are thrown out by a Con gress weary of wartime restraints, get ready for a real “inflation pan ic”. If curbs are approved, there will still be pressure on the up side, but it will be reasonable. From my studies, both political and economic, I have come to the con clusion that the living cost run away of 1920 will not be repeated after this war. Rather, some system of price controls may go on for several years. I have spoken out in favor of this procedure before. I repeat at this time that without the OPA or some such agency, w-e would now be a lot worse off. And we are, in my humble judgment, go ing to see a continued centralized control of prices from the nation’s capital. However, such will not succeed in preventing inflation; but will only postpone and soften its evil effects. We will adopt the method of ‘cutting the dog’s tail off an inch at a time.” -v Red Cross Field Director To Explain 'Leave Areas’ Over local Radio Station Wilmington American Red Cross chapter headquarters announced yesterday that Menzo Hainiine, Red Cross field director, would appear on radio station WMFD at 6:45 p.m. today on a 15 minute program, describing the Red Cross “Leave Area’’ clubs. These clubs are conducted for overseas servicemen on leave who do not have time to return to the United States, it was said, afford ing them comforts, relaxation and entertainment. B^rCOL^H r DISCOMFORTS^ D. Sam Cox, Resident, Named Ambassador of Good Will For State D. Sam Cox, of Bear Creek and Wilmington, has been appointed an ‘Official Ambassador of Good Will” from North Carolina by the Governor’s Hospitality Committee jf the Department of Conservation and Development, it was announc ed yesterday by J. C. Baskervill, executive secretary of the com mittee. The appointment stated that “since you have been acting as ‘Unofficial and Self Appointed Am bassador’ for North Carolina for so long,- and are so well known as an outstanding North Carolina boosters, we feel that this action is hardly necessary. But we dc want you to know that the Com mittee appreciates the fine work you are doing in making North Carolina better known throughout the country.” Japs Admit Heavy Losses To Superfortress Foray (Continued from Page One) populace was thrown into a panic beyond control of authorities and that even six days later thousands of refugees were trying to leave the city. Special trains were run last Sun day and Monday for people, without tickets, Tass continued. Asahi was quoted’ as saying ‘there is a limit to transport power, so sufferers must wait two or four days more.” Hospitals were “overcrowded,” the newspaper reported. , After making a tour of Tokyo s stricken areas, a personal repre sentative of Premier Kuniaki Ko iso reported relief was inadequate and asked forgiveness for this sit uation. . , , . „ Ever larger ‘‘carpet bombings were predicted by Domei which added: “Hitherto the enemy s targets have been essential factories, air dromes and harbor installations; now, heedless of the objective, he has started to bomb city streets, secluded mountain areas and transportation systems indiscrimi nately. He no longer wants a week to 10 days to get ready. He raids us every other day.” While the enemy radio said that U. S. announcements of 300-Super fort blasts at Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka within the last week were just ‘propaganda,” and that the number never exceeded 130, it was nevertheless reported these cities and also Yokohama and Kob would be cleared of all citizens ex cept war workers. The evacuation decision was reached Thursday by Premier Ku niaki Koiso’s cabinet, said a Ber lin Interocean dispatch broadcast heard in London. The move of pop ulations will be on a voluntary ba sis at first, but ‘‘special measures will be taken” if the people failed to respond, Interocean reported. The government also issued fur ther orders for prominent Japanese newspapers to combine publication operations outside Tokyo in single plants. Previously it had ordered six Tokyo papers to use one plant jointly because of air raids and the war situation. Participation in the British fleet in American operations against Mindanao Island, Philippines, was claimed in an unconfirmed enemy broadcast. -V DETECTED BY DESIGN Land mines were not the only dangers that lay hidden beneath the African sands during the African campaign. The venomous sand viper buries itself as a pro RELIEVE WATERY HEAD COLD 2 drops in each nos- a tril check sneezes, I sniffles. You feel I better fast. Caution: I LUM^nl^uMlirected^^^^! tection against the midda, and soldiers learned to J? ^ presence by the scroll-lik! ? ^ in the sand. Ke design The war food adminisVac diets more sauerkraut ^ due to a winter cabbaop ' -ejh 421,500 tons in the stfn T™ « producing states. 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