DR. GRAHAM HEADS
MEDICAL SOCIETY
The three top offices of the New
Hanover Medical Society were fill*
ed last night by local physician?
just returned from service with the
armed forces.
Dr. Charles P. Graham was
elected president, Dr. Robert
Fales, vice-president, and Dr.
Sam Warshauer, secretary. The
new officers succeed Dr. Herbert
A. Codington as president, Dr. Da
vid Murchison, vice-president, ana
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Dr. J. Watts Farthing, secretary
Drs. -E. S. King and R. T. Sin
clair, Jr., were nominated foi
membership in the Society at the
regular monthly meeting last night
Drs. W. Houston Moore and J
Birren Sidbury were named dele
gates to the State Medical Society
with Drs. William Dosher and A.
H. Elliot chosen alternates.
An outstanding feature of last
night’s meeting were talks by
Drs. Graham and Warshauer. Dr.
Graham told of his experience in
medical work on a battleship dur
ing the war. He served on the
U. S. S. Indiana, one of the fleet’s
largest battleships. Dr. Warshau
er’s talk was on medical work
with Army combat forces. Dr.
Warshauer was chief of the medi
cal staff of an Army hospital in
New Guinea for two and a half
years.
The society also expressed en
thusiasm for the Blue Cross plan
whereby ex-servicemen may re
ceive treatment in - private hospi
tals and indicated complete coop
eration with the plan. It was point
ec out, however, that hospital facil
ities already are limited here with
available space somewhat ques
tionable.
James Walker Memorial, it was
pointed out, has had a waiting list
for the past two years and already
two wings of the hospital are clos
ed down because of an insuffici
ent number of nurses.
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OF MINOR NATURE
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of the week because of the danger
ous condition of the roads. Two
buses out of the four which trans
port the 410 students enrolled in
Leland High were out of commis
sion, Tucker said.
Miss Annie Mae Woodside, sup
erintendent of Brunswick county
schools, also announced yesterday
that the school at Shallott closed
today and will remain closed until
“ the end of the week.
— “Roads around Waccamaw are
terrible,” Miss Woodside said.
“That school will close. I have ad
vised all principals to use their
own judgment about closing. All
of the schools probably will close
if there isn’t a break in the weath
er.”
' j At a late hour last night, no
serious accidents had been report
ed in the city and county, attribut
able to the icy pavements.
L. C. Ellis, driver of a Safeway
Transit company bus, received
slight lacerations of the hand dur
ing the afternoon, when an ice
laden limb fell against the bus’
winshield and smashed it. No one
else was injured in the accident
which was said by police to have
occurred in the 200 block on
Wrightsville Ave.
A power failure, due to ice on
the transmission lines, affecting
the eastern section of the city for
several hours, had 30 Tide Water
Power company linesmen working
in the raw cold, according to C.
L. Matthes, superintendent of
transmission and distribution for
the company.
Refrigerator failures were a mi
nor feature of the power failure.
More important was the fact that
many oil furnaces, and automatic
ally-stoked coal burners, electrical
ly operated, ceased functioning,
leaving many city dwellers with
out heat during the late afternoon.
Over the state, ice and snow
blanketing most of the highways,
Drouglll cl WclIIUUg XIUII1 XVXdJUX XI.
J. Hatcher, commanding officer of
the State Highway patrol, to mo
torists to travel “only in extreme
emergencies and then to move at
very low speeds.”
Airline service within the state
was suspended generally with no
flights by National Air Lines or
South East Air Lines moving in or
out of Wilmington.
North of this section, storm
warnings were ordered hoisted
from the Virginia Capes to Sandy
• Hook, N. J., with the weather bu
reau predicting strong easterly
“ winds with rain or sleet along the
coasts of Virginia, Maryland and
Delaware, with sleet or snow on
the New Jersey coast.
Trees throughout most of the
Wilmington area wore a coating oi
ice yesterday.
COUNCIL FACING
PROTEST BY IRAN
(Continued from Page One)
| dared through its delegates that
“there is no problem” in northern
Iran.
Russia is one of the five powers
that can veto action by the Securi
ty Council, the United Nations
body which has authority to create
and use an international armed
force to quell aggression.
The Iranian delegate, Nasrullah
Entezam, who said he planned to
attend tomorrow’s first meeting o]
the Security Council as a specta
tor, explained the council would
be asked specifically to halt the
movement of additional Red troops
into Iran.
“The Iranian case,” he told the
•J Associated Press, “is that Russia
I by refusing passage to our troops
nto Azerbaijan (northern province
n the Russian-occupied zone) pre
/ented our quelling the Separatist
movement there at the outset.”
Moscow has attributed outbreaks
of violence to reactionary forces
trying to suppress a democratic
movement in the agricultural
province.
In addition to the Security Coun
cil meeting, tomorrow’s agenda
includes a speech by the British
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin to
the full Assembly. He is expected
to offer most of Britain’s man
dates to the United Nations on a
trusteeship basis.
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AIR CARGO EXPERT
COMESHERETODAY
(Continued from rage One)
request permission to use the
Bluethenthal facilities.
Interested in establishing the air
cargo service, Newman said, are
the Carolina Blueberry association,
Burgaw and the Flower and Bulb
Growers association, represented
by John Nuckton, J. Swart and Mr.
Boet.
The group is also interested, he
said, in. making every possible use
of Bluethenthal field, including
partial Federal operation of the air
port’s facilities to help offset high
operating costs.
FAVORABLERATES
WILL HELP CITY
(Continued from Page One)
the hearing to protect a 35-cent
differential rate now enjoyed by
Wilmington. This rate, Boyd de
clared, is an encouragement for in
dustries to locate here.
Wilmington is included in South
ern Freight association Docket
1332, to establish a rate on calcium
carbide, carload from Anniston,
Ala., to Charleston, S. C. for ex
port. The proposed rate to
Charleston is 35 cents per 100
pounds, Boyd said, and pointed
out mat me aajustmenx wouia put
Wilmington on an even basis for
this trade.
The State of New York has been
granted an injunction restraining
rail carriers from increasing rates
as directed by the ICC. The com
mission had rendered a decision,
Boyd said, finding the rates in the
South were 10 per cent too high,
and the northern rates 10 per cent
too low. They had ordered an ad
justment effective Jan. 1, 1946.
Wilmington and Hampstead have
been included in the adjustment
of a rate of 57 cents per 100 pounds
on peanuts, shelled or unshelled,
from Elizabethtown to Tampa,
Fla., Boyd said. He explained the
local rate to Tampa had been 65
cent rate by the commission,
automatically reduced to the 57
cent rate by th ecommission.
Present at the meeting of the
Port-Traffic association when the
report was read were J. L. Duffy,
American Molasses company;
Peter B. Ruffin, Wilmington Ter
minal warehouse; Alex Sprunt,
Alex Sprunt and Son, cotton im
porters; Horace Pearsall, Wilming
ton Oil and Fertilizer company and
president of the association; T. H.
Wright, Acme Fertilizer company,
and Howard Penton, The Springer
Coal company, all directors of the
association.
TRUMAN MAY MA E
PEACE PROPOS L
(Continued from Page One)
right side of the argument.” But
he added that “they’re still nego
tiating.”
Fairless, upon leaving the con
ference, similarily said that :“the
negotiations are still on.” But
neither he nor Murray would say
what progress, if any, had been
made.
Ross said he knew of no plans
for Fairless and Murray to meet
in the interim before reconvening
at 2 p. m. tomorrow.
Ross said that except for brief
personal appeals at the start of
the afternoon and evening con
ferences, Mr. Truman had remain
eu ava lame in ms own Oilice out
had not participated in the talks.
The President declared that a
settlement was “vital to the inter
est of the country,” Ross report
ed.
The Secretary related that Mur
ray and Fairless started today’s
discussions by referring to the
wage proposals previously made.
Ross did not say what they were,
explaining that “I am not in on the
negotiations.”
However, Fairless is known to
have offered to increase the pay
of the steel workers 15 cents an
hour, while Murray has shaved
h;s original demand of 25 cents an
hour to 19 1-2 cents increase.
The President called Murray
and Fairless in after tonight’s con
versations, asked them if they had
reached agreement and received
a negative reply.
When he asked them to sleep and
pray over a settlement and come
back at 2 p. m. tomorrow they said
they “would do that,” Ross said.
“The President said if they did
not reach agreement he would have
a proposal to make to them, though
he hoped very much they would
do so entirely on their own,” Rosa
continued.
"If they have not reached agree
ment by that time or after a rea
sonable time thereafter, then the
President will himself make a pro.
posal to them in the public In
terest.”
Ross observed that of course the
parties could accept or reject the
President’s proposal. It was then
he said that seizure of the industry
was not at the moment under con
sideration.
Both Murray and Fairless ap
peared to be in good spirits when
they left the White House.
FORTY-THREE FLINT SCHOOLS
ARE CLOSED
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 15.—^
board of education member ass®F*"
ed tonight that all "but one of the
city’s 44 schools would be
Thursday—third day of a strike ^
CIO school maintenance worker .
The committeeman,
dined use of his name, said auer
a board meeting that the group
would “make no further effort to
keep schools open because of the
many difficulties involved, includ
ing small attendance at classes.’’
He said less than 300 of the
city’s 27,000 students would at
tend classes Thursday, they beinf
pupils at the Hazelton school for
the physically handicapped. Only
eight schools were open today.
TELEPHONE STRIKE
THREAT RENEWED
NEW YORK, Jan. 16. — (JP) —
Spokesmen for six independent
electrical equipment workers’
unions said today the unions plan
ned to meet here tomorrow to con
sider strike action which “might
re-create the national tieup of tele
phone service.’’
The statement was made by Hen
ry Mayer, counsel for several of
the unioris, and by Frank J. Fitz
simmons, president of the Western
Electric Employes Association,
now on strike at 21 Western Elec
tric plants in the Metropolitan area.
CONGRESS RESENTS
DELAYS BY TRUMAN
(Continued from Page One)
before turning on the heat for an
anti-strike bill of its own.
The Military committee’s bill,
ready for house action any time,
would impose stiff penalties on
unions striking in violation of con
tracts.
Rep. Gross (R-Pa) told the
House the administration “is on
strike”.
“We sit here twiddling our
thumbs,” he said. "They don’t
bring anything in and don’t give
us anything to do.’
But committees investigating
Pearl Harbor and demobilization
were busy and so were others.
Pearl Harbor:
Rear Adm. Husband E. Kim
mel shook a finger and declared
the fleet was on the alert when
the Japanese attacked on Dec. 7,
1941. Kimmel, Pacific Fleet com
mander at the time, also said
Secretary of War Stimson blocked
a Navy proposal to jail Japanese
Consular officials spying on Pearl
Harbor in 1941.
ALONG CAPE FEAR
(Continued from Page One)
pretty scarce, she just had to make
the trip.
Out she came with her car. But
instead of just driving on into
town, she stopped by and picked
up five of the crowd who were
waiting on the bus.
Not only did she pick them up,
but she performed the following
assists: one of her riders had left
his overcoat at his aunt’s home
on the road. Mrs. Sidbury stopped
for him to get out and see about it.
Another rider wanted off at South
ern boulevard so he could walk to
the shipyard. The wind was whip
ping and it was raining so Mrs.
Sidbury wouldn’t hear of it. She
drove the rider on to the yard.
A third rider was going to the
Sheriff s office. Mrs Sidbury drop
ped him by there The others, too,
were dropped off at their destina
tions
Just goes to show you to how
much trouble some people will go
to be helpful
ONE OF OLDEST—It turns out,
too, that on her visit in town, Mrs.
Sidbury was going by' to see her
grandfather.
Nothing unusual about a grand
daughter going by to see her
grandfather?
Nothing except the grandfather—
James Riley Davis—will be 96
years old next July 4, which makes
him one of the oldest persons in
New Hanover county. '
Davis is critically ill at his home
here.
CANINE SOCIABLE—Its getting
to be annoying to G. H. Brinson,
406 North Fifth street.
Every night lately between .10
and 11 o’clock it has seemed to
Brinson all the dogs in the neigh
borhood have gathered for a
scuffling and yowling match on
his iron! porch.
Brinson told police the dogs
gather and disturb his peace for
about an hour. Then they adjourn,
probably to visit another front or
back porch.
The police promised Brinson
they’d try to find another and
more suitable meeting place for
the dogs.
PRETLOW COMING HOME
Warrant Officer J. P. Pret
low informed his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Pretlow, 305
North 15th street, Wednesday
night that he had arrived in
Raleigh from the Philippines
and that he and his wife would
arrive in Wilmington the latter
of the week to visit with
them.
PLUS HIT NO. 2
'SHANGHAI COBRA"
Late Show Sat.
“ARSON SQUAD”
MEAT FAMINE MAY
BE IN OFFING
(Continued from Page One)
This statement said the 15-cent
boost would be 17.2 per cent or
“slightly less than the formula
established by the several fact
finding boards appointed by the
President in other labor disputes
The CIO claimed all its 193,000
members were on strike and the
AFL estimated about 70,000 of its
men were out, a total of 263,000.
Spokesman for the four big packers
estimated the total out of their
plants was about 70,000. Several
smaller companies also were
struck.
Secretary Schwellenbach’s plea
last night for postponement of the
strike failed, the union said, be
cause it came too late, too close to
the midnight deadline previously
set. The CIO union president, Lewis
J. Clark, said today he “regretted”
inability to postpone but the secre
tary’s telegram arrived after the
strike was in effect.
In Washington Edgar L. Warren,
thief Federal Conciliator, said ap
pointment of a fact-finding board
was under consideration.
DOSHERTOHEAD
CLOTHING DRIVE
(Continued from Page One)
The chairman then pointed out
that the Victory Clothing Collec
tion in this area is one week late in
getting started and for that reason,
a whirlwind drive for serviceable
used garments, shoes and bedding
will have to be conducted if Wil
mington is to surpass fine past
records.
Organizational work for the cam
paign will get underway today with
the appointment of group and di
vision chairmen, selection of col
lection depots, etc. H. M. Roland,
superintendent of the New Hanover
county schools, has promised that
school children will cooperate in
the drive, while Mack Hendrix,
Atlanta, district chairman of the
drive, has promised Thomas B.
Lilly, Rotary club president, that
he will come to Wilmington and
help launch the drive here if the
general chairman considers it de
sirable.
Dosher said he expected to have
an announcement of the names of
full campaign personnel ready
within the next 48 hours.
OPA TAKES STEPS
ON BLACKMARKETS
(Continued from Pa*e One)
of the worst black markets the
country has ever seen.
He estimated that the current
meat supply will last only two. or
three days on a nationwide basis.
He said he plans to come to wash
ington to confer with governmental
officials on the situation.
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