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Government May Seize Meat Plants Of Nation _ WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—{IP)— The sibility of government seizures P° the strike-hit meat packing m, ,.trv within 24 to 48 hours was •led * in high administration narters tonight. L influential official, who de , , t0 permit his name to be clm, told a reporter that he saw fiHe hope of avoiding this action. The question of a seizure, he , w0Uid be discussed in high wl conferences again tomorrow, w said he was inclined to re Imend such a step at once. More iff. quarter million AFL and CM workers are off the job it the same time, the official f seizure of the steel industry „ n0t seriously considered as yet Sough he did not know whether fill nicture would remain the same ? th CIO United Steel Workers ‘ ere out a week from now. A walk, out of 750.000 in 30 states began this weekend. President Truman is known to op L seizures in labor disputes ex P , a last resort, this source “ and his is the final word with the meat strike presenting emergency felt immediately in millions of American homes the five-day-old walkout requires dras |‘c action at once, in this official s views. Any delay, he added, may be at tributed to hesitancy to use the eizure weapon not only because of L president's distaste for it but the complications attending both government seizure and release of industries to private hands after disputes have been worked out. A government fact-finding board will open public hearings _ Tues day in Chicago in the packing in dustry'5 wage dispute involving a *ctal of 263.000 workers. Across the nation news dispatches told of dwindling meat supplies. Girl Accused June Queen, 21, of Ionia, Mich., Jts in jail at Ripley, Tenn., wait ing for officers to take her to Stan ford, Ky., where County Attorney Pat Rankin said he has issued murder warrants charging her and Bob Breitigan, 21, with the hammer slaying of Otto Jaeschke, a truck er from Cincinnati. To UNO Court? Green H. Hackworth, above, is me official U. S. candidate among ' °i all nationalities nominated ■?r places on the 15-man Interna I'onal Court of Justice, principal Judicial body of the United Na tlons- A native of Prestonburg, Ky., now living in Washington, the 63 Jear-old jurist is a veteran St^te department legal adviser and1 member of the old World Court Hague. PLAN RALLIES NEW YORK, Jan. 20—OP)— The national Lutheran Council, repre seming eight affiliated Lutheran odies, said today it would hold early too rallies throughout the; niled States during the next few ‘■onths in opening a two-year ' eamoaign to raise $10,000,000 for ■ urch relief and rehabilitation nEre and abroad. SLTS NEW RECORD LISBON, Jan. 20—(A>)—A Pan merican Constellation set a new •r record today for the New York * . on 'ransAtlantic crossing, ar ‘Vlnf here nine hours and 56 mutes aft01- iff departure from New York City Briefs BETHANY AUXILIARY The Woman’s Auxiliary of Bethany Presbyterian church will meet tonight at 8 o’clock with Mrs. Hugh Oosteruyk, Castle Hayne road. THIRD SESSION The Woman’s Auxiliary of the First Presbyterian church will hold the third session of in tensive Bible study this after noon at 3:30 o’clock. Mrs. R. C. Platt, Jr., will be in charge. BIBLE CLASS The Wesley-Scoville Bible class of Trinity Methodist church will meet this evening at 6 ‘o’clock with Mrs. J. A. Loughlin, 2014 Pender avenue. MOTHERS CLUB A meeting of the Mothers club of the First Baptist church will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at the church. SEAFOOD SUPPER The women of Fifth Avenue Methodist church will sponsor a seafood supper at the church Tuesday night from 6:30 until 8 o’clock. The public is cor dially invited to attend. '1946 OFFICERS Officers for 1946 will be in stalled when Cape Fear Lodge No. 2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows holds its meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock in the Odd Fellows building, Princess and Third streets. BILLFOLD LOST P. J. Johnson, 309 Wooster st., reported to police yester day the loss of a billfold con taining $34, cards and pictures. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Considerable damage to an automobile belonging to C. B. Wessel, 222 North Fourth st., was reported to police yester day. Wessel who was not in jured said he was reaching in the glove compartment of his car for a package of crackers when he momentarily lost con trol of the car causing it to crash into a telephone pole at 1916 Ann st. MOORE INJURED J. E. Moore, police depart-, ment, was injured yesterday when he tried to crank a car by hand. He reported the crank hit him on the leg and caused painful injuries. James Walker Memorial hospital attaches said the extent of his injury had not been determined. ATTEMPTED HOUSE BREAK A report by a Mrs. Breau, 408 Dock street that a soldier tried to pry open a window at that address was investigated by police yesterday. A search of the premises disclosed noth ing, police said. The soldier was noticed in the back yard just before the attempted house break, Mrs. Breau said. TAR HEEL The Tar Heel Camp and Hos pital Council of the American Red Cross will hold a business and luncheon meeting noon Wednesday at the American Legion home with the Legion auxiliary in charge of the luncheon. GAMES-DANCING Informal dancing and games will be held tonight at 8 o’clock at the Second Street TJSO club. Weighs Meat Strike APPOINTED by Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach as chairman of a fact-finding board in the packing house wage dispute that underlay the meat strike, Edwin E. Witte (above), formerly of the War Labor Board, is pictured in Washington where, with Labor Dept, officials, he began conferences with union men and packers. (International) A Coast Guard captain hung up an all-time record during the years of sea warfare when he guided 18 convoys across the North At lantic without the loss of a single This Funny World S/Sgt. Dick Ericnon McNaught Syndicate, Inc.—# American “We wish to open a Joint account—deposits on his signature, withdrawals on mine." OBITUARIES C. J. KELLOWAY Funeral services for C. J. Kello way, retired superintendent of signals of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, who died in his home in Greene, N. Y., Friday, will be con ducted this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with interment at Greene, N. Y. He was born in Hamilton, N. Y., in 1873. Following 15 years’ ex perience with manufacturers and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad in the railroad signal field, came to Wilmington in 1906 to head the signal depart ment of the ACL, where he resided until his retirement. He is survived by his wife, the former Mrs. Kathryn Ottoway Broun, three stepchildren, Donald Broun and- Misses Jean and Pa tricia Broun, and an aunt, Mrs. U. P. Poeltz, of Los Angeles, Cal. He was a member of the Mason ic order and the Shrine. RUTH LAMB BULLARD LUMBERTON, Jan. 20—Funeral services for Mrs Ruth Lamb Bul lard, 48, were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock with the Rev. E. A. Paul, pastor of East Lumberton Baptist church officiating. Interment was in Mea dowbrook cemetery. Mrs. Bullard succumbed at Duke hospital, Durham, Friday night to injuries sustained last No vember 29 when she was seriously burned in a Lumberton Coach com pany bus which crashed down an embankment and caught fire on Highway 301, 10 miles east of here. Mrs. Bullard, one of 23 injured, was carried to Baker sanatorium, where she remained a patient until she was moved to Duke three weeks ago. Surviving are her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Bruce Stone, Mrs. J. T. Collins, Jr., and Carolyn Bullard; three brothers, Raymond, Charles and Barney Lamb; three sisters, Mrs. R. M. Collins, Mrs. Kerr Davis and Itfrs. D. F. Spivey, and two grandaughters, all of Lum berton. She was the daughter of the K. B. and Ora Prevatte Lamb, and was born in Robeson county. May 8, 1897. CHARLES C. BURGESS GREENVILLE, S. C., Jan. 20.— _Funeral services for Charles C. Burgess, 67, prominent local bus^ inessman who died here Friday af ternoon, was conducted this after noon at 2:30 o’clock at the Mackey mortuary in Greenville. Interment was in the family plot in White Oak church cemetery. A native of Commerce, Ga., he was a son of the late Robert Bar tow and' Harriett Cordelia Acrey Burgess. His early life was spent in Atlanta. He came to Greenville 45 years ago, and engaged in the dairy business for 35 years, until he retired .six years ago. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mable Sizemore Burgess, Greenville; three sons, C. Robert Burgess, Jacksonville, N. C.; Wil liam Crawford Burgess and Char les Crawford Burgess, Jr., Green ville; three daughters, Mrs. Roy A. McKinney and Mrs. Oscar D. Landing, Greenville, and Mrs. William Claude Kelly, Greensboro, N. C. , _ Mrs. Kelly was formerly Cor delia Burgess Foster, home serv ic director with the Tide Water Power and Light company, Wil mington. Also surviving are seven broth i ers, John S., Ben H„ C. Stead man and H. Grady Burgess, all o£ Atlanta; V. L. Burgess, of Tam pa, Fla.; Randolph H. Burgess, Jacksonville, Texas, and Stanhope G. Burgess, Pearl Harbor. Two s:\iers, Mrs. C. A. Hartmann, West Palm Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Carl A. Devane, Easley, and three gtandchildren also survive. O. DUNBARK CLEMMONS Funeral services for O. Dunbark ' Clemmons, 76, Bolivia, who died i yesterday morning at 7:30 o’clock ! at his residence, will be conducted this afternoon at 2 o’clock in An tioch Baptist church with the Rev. G. W. Dowd, officiating. Inter ment will be in Antioch cemetery. Pallbearers will be Sam Brown, John Brown, Stacy Sellers, Elmer Sellers, Elwood Clemmons, and R. D. Clemmons. Honorary pallbearers will be Floyd Kirby, Dr. L. C. Fergus, Dr. Rosebaum, J. E. Gilbert, R. D. Holden, C. S. Ward, and R. Gallo way. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. O. D. Clemmons; two daughters, Mrs. Zade Williams, Mrs. Lucy Wigner; four sons, Garfield Clemmons, Dot ridge Clemmons, and Hinton Clem mons, both of Fayetteville; one brother, E. L. Clemmons, Myrtle Beach, S. C., 20 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. MRS. SALLIE ANN SIMMONS TABOR CITY, Jan. 20—Funeral services for Mrs. Sallie Ann Sim mons, 40, who died Thursday aft srnoon at her home in the Mollie section, were conducted Saturday afternoon at the Sweet Home Bap ;ist church with the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Interment allowed' in the Cribb cemetery. She was the daughter of the late rommie and Alma Worley. Surviving are her husband, Den nis Simmons; two daughters, Dorothea and Shirley Ann, and one son, Tom, all of Clarendon. ARCHIE F. ANDERSON Funeral services for Archie F. Anderson, 70, of Clarkton, who died last night at 6:45 o’clock in his PATTERSON SEES McNUTT IN MANILA PICTURED SHORTLY AFTER HIS ARRIVAL in Manila, P. I., from Japan, Sec retary of War Robert P. Patterson is shown conferring with Paul V. McNutt, U. S. High Commissioner of the Philippines. It was in Manila that American soldiers first started the “We want to go home” move ment, and it is believed that the war secretary was getting first-hand information. Signal Corps Radiophoto. (International Soundpnoto) AUTO STRIKE LINE LOSES A PICKET CARRIED BODILY from the picket line around the U. S. Motors plant in r n<; Aneeles Calif this striker is shown being taken from the area when oollci resorted to action after a court order failed to disperse the pickets The officers wore masks for protection against tear gas. (International) Chemical Ripens Bananas Besides Killing Rag Weed _ 4-— (Continued from Page One) of dollars in bruised fruit. Dr. E. J. Krause and Dr. L. W. Kephart, who led in the experi meikation, said that 2, 4-Di is not a plant poison but, oddly enough, promotes plant growth. This ac counts for its power to ripen fruit. The discovery promises to save country clubs millions of dollars in maintaining golf greens. The United States Golf association was a co-worker in the experiments operating its own laboratory near the Agriculture Department’s bu reau at Beltsville, Md. The hormone also can rid' wheat fields of weeds without harming the grain but is deadly to cotton, tobacco, vegetables and some oth er crops. It acts in a strange way on plants to which it is detriment al. It is absorbed into the stem and roots causing odd contortion in the plant’s organism. “If the plant were an animal,” one scientist said, "we’d say it died in agony.” Franklin D. Jones, Ambler, Pa., has been granted exclusive patent for commercial production of 2, 4 Di. home after an illness of several weeks, will be conducted from the Elkton Presbyterian church Tues day afternoon at 2 o’clock. Inter ment will be in Clarkton cemetery. A native of Cumberland county, Mr. Anderson was a son of the late Neil Anderson and Isabelle Pha gard Anderson. In early childhood he moved to Elkton community and was a member of the Elkton Pres byterian church of which he was an elder for many years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Flora Burney Anderson; one son, J. J. Anderson; one daughter, Mrs. G. L. Gladstone; and three grandsons. JOHN EDWARD OWENS Funeral services for John Ed ward Owens, 58. who died yester day morning after a short illness, wiil be conducted this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the First Advent Christian church with the Rev. James R. Lee, pastor, officiating. Interment will be in Bellevue ceme tery. Remains will be at Andrews Mortuary until time of the services Pallbearers will be N. J. Owens, J. H. Rackley, R. P. Edwards, O. W. Davis, J. F. Williams, and C. W. Rackley. Honorary pallbearers will be Aaron Goldberg, F. P. O’Crowley, R. H. Everett, T. E. Moody, H. C. McCartney, L. R. Blackman, R. S. Thorpe, and H. L. McCabe. New FDR Dime SHOWN ABOVE are both sides of the new 1946 ten-cent piece that will bear on one side a profile of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt The design of the coin was executed by John R. Sinnock, engraver at the Philadelphia mint. The coin is now in production. (International) SENTENCED TO HANG MANILA, Jan. .20.—(U.R) — Maj Zenzo Saito, commander of th Japanese “Tiger unit” of troops ii the Philippines, was found guilt; of atrocities and sentenced to ham today by an American militar; commission. Saito was chargei with killing Filipino civilans am burning their nomes in a reign o terror near Nanipil in April, 194E His trial laster four days. FAMOUS NAMES TURN UP FORT LEWIS, Wash. (U.R)—His tory has repeated itself in th game of names at the Fort Lewi Army base during discharging an induction of servicemen. At the ir duction center, two of the Arm newcomers were Miles Standis and Benjamin Franklin. At th separation center Sherlock Holme bade good-by to the sevice and, fc the sports-minded, Walter Jhoi son, also was discharged, JULIA FAIRS DIES Funeral services for Juli Fairs, who died in her home, 1 South 13th street, yesterday mori ing at 1:20 o’clock, will be coi ducted tomorrow afternoon at o’clock at Mount Nebo Bapti: church, 10th and Wooster stree with the Rev. George W. Billip; pastor, officiating. Interment wi be in Masonboro Sound cemetery Treeless Iceland is planning large-scale planting of spruc< from Alaska which have bee found suitable to the climate. TRIBUNAL RESTS IN HOMMA TRIAL MANILA, Monday, Jan. 21.—UP) —The prosecution today rested its case against Japanese Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, death march commander, after an eyewitness to the fall of Bataan testified that the number of vehicles available made the man-killing trek unneces sary. The witness, Maj. Achilles Tis dale, an aide to Maj. Gen. E. P. King, Jr., Bataan commander at the time of surrender, said the Americans retained sufficient ve hicles to have transported all prisoners to any designated '.mp. The Japanese Major General ar ranging surrender details with Gen eral King, however, refused to dis cuss treatment of prisoners, Tis-1 dale testified. The only statement made, he added, was the Japanese interpreter’s: “We are not barbarians.” The infamous death march fol lowed soon afterward. Col. John R. Pugh, Washington, D. C., an eyewitness to the fall of Corregidor, testified how Gen. Jon athan Wainwright and his pitiful group of battered, ill defenders finally yielded to Homma’s hordes. EX-CAPTIVE BUYS BONDS KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Jan. 20— (U.R)—Cpl. Jim Lash of Kendallville was a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines for 41 months. He is ; now home on furlough and when his check for that long period of suffering came, the coporal invest ed it in Victory Bonds. I ! NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20—(U.R)— Mrs. Eleanor Brown complained that thieves added insult to injury. ' They took her purse when she : dropped it while sliding on the I ice. 1 MAPLE SAP IN JANUARY r I NEWPORT, Vt„ Jan. 20—(U.R)— 1 June in January in Newport found E E. F. Humphrey tapping his maple • trees to see if there was any sap. Sure enough Humphrey got enough sap to boil an early kettle ol syrup. 1,213 SERMONS IN 27 YEARS e S MORRISVILLE, Vt„ Jan. 20—(U.R) i —The Rev George E. Goodliffe, - who has been pastor <Jf the Firsl Y Congregational Church here for the h past 27 years, estimates he has e preached 1,213 sermons during thal s time. r --:- -- ' Guard Commander APPOINTED by President Truman to command the War Department’* National Guard Bureau, Brig. Gen. Butler Miltonburger (above), a commander in the 35th Diviaion in World War II, has been nominated to hold the rank of Major General while in office. (International) LORD PLENDER DIES LONDON, Jan. 20— (P) —Lord Plender, 84, widely known accoun tant who frequently advised British governments, died yesterday. BOOSTS VETS’ EMPLOYMENT INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20—(U.R)— Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker has announced that his post office is doing its part to employ dis charged servicemen. He said that 108 out of the last 110 full-time em ployees hired for clerks and cariers here have been World War II vete rans. Boston is nearer to both Euro pean and South American ports than any other U. S. shipping cen ter. Man Had Brick In His Stomach For 10 Years One man recently stated that for 10 years he felt like he had a brick in his stomach. This feeling was due to the lump of undigested food he always had inside of him. He was weak, worn out, headachy, swollen with gas and terribly con stipated. Recently he started tak ing INNER-AID and says the feel ing like a brick in his stomach disappeared the second day. 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