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y0^79,_-NO. “7.____WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1946__ ESTABLISHED 1867
ggKTNG PEACE
Soft Coal Leaders
In No-Strike Plea
r^TON, March 5-(fF)—
- Nation's bituminous coal op
^rators today appealed to John L.
*a -c anrf the United Mine Workers
to negotiate a new contract with
al!, ^pertaors, in a letter to
.,1 replying to his request to
b , {0r contract negotiations on
Mwch 12. said that the price in
iia . which would follow any pay
're“, t0 {he 400,000 bituminous
i!*SrS woula penalize the industry
I* competition with other fuels.
^Charles O’Neill and Edward R.
Barke representing the Northern
Lalachian region and Southern
Producers’ gr°>->Ps. ®aid labor costs.
now represented 65 per cent of the
cost of an average ton of coal at
,he mines, amounting to an aver
age of $2.93.
Cooperative Spirit
1 ifle assure you that the op
arators’ negotiating committee will
enter the coming conference in a
full spirit of cooperation and that
it is sincerely anxious to reach
a speedy, equitable agreement,
with coal production going forward
uninterrupted,” the letter to Lewis
from the operators committee con
cluded.
Lewis asked for the negotiations
on the general issue of wages and
working conditions and mentioned
that the issue of orgaization of fore
men would be raised.
Foremen Union
A brief strike in October over
the recognition of Lewis’s foremen
union was ended by the UMW presi
dent who said settlement on that
point would be postponed until
some more appropriate time—such
as the reopening of his contract.
The current agreement will ex
pire April 1 as a result of Lewis’
invitation to the operators to nego
tiate a new contract.
Community C
$7,000 To C
PAKTYCONVENTION
DATES ARE NAMED
Democrats Of State To
Meet May 2; County
Meetings April 27
HALEIGH, March 5—(JP)—'The
Stale Democratic Executive com
mittee Tuesday night selected
Thursday noon, May 2, for the
state party convention, April 27
for the county conventions, and
April 20 for the precinct conven
tions.
Approximately 45 persons and 51
proxies were voted out of a pos
sible <44.
The committee authorized State
Chairman W. B. Umstead to ap
point a five-man committee to
study proposed changes in the plan
of organization, the committee to
report back in the summer.
To Committee
E. S. Merritt of Catawba county
lubmitted a resolution to give Ca
tawba county equal representation
with Iredell county in the selec
tion of a state senator, but the mat
lee CONVENTION on Page Two
FARMERS FLEECED
IN EGG PURCHASES
Marketing Experts Says
Hucksters Doing Farm
to-Farm Buying
HALEIGH, March 5 — (/PJ —
Hucksters throughout the state are
fleecing fanners of thousands of
dollars a week through farm-to
larm purchases of eggs at prices
considerably below the govern
ment's floor price of 27 cts. a dozen,
H. L. Meacham, marketing expert
of the State College Extension Ser
vice, said Tuesday. He added that
demand for eggs on all marketing
centers continues strong with rec
ognized dealers paying 31 and 32
cents a dozen.
Meacham said that dealers in
marketing centers probably will
continue to pay farmers several
cents a dozen above the floor price
for eggs and added that shipment
can be made by the producer at
an average cost of about one cent
Per dozen.
Husksters, telling farmers that
jhe egg market is glutted, are mak.
mg on-the-farm purchases as low
'' 20 cents per dozen in Halifax
county, 25 cents a dozen in Bruns
Columbus, Harnett, Lee,
Bladen and Wilson counties, Mea
cham said. In mountain counties
*here production is lower farm
*gg prices are holding more nearly
m Bne with actual market values.
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ihe Weather
- ., FORECAST
11*2, Carolina—North Carolina— Wed
increasing cloudiness and warm
(Eastern Standard Time)
»t . (By E* S. Weather Bureau)
•nHilteoIogolical data for the 24 hour:
ng 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
.Temperatures
7.,;w0 ain- 57; 7:30 a.m. 55; 1:30 p.m. 71
'•JJ P.m. 64.
72; Minimum 53^ Mean 62
i.«A Humidity
70n “ 61 *» 7:30 a.m. 75; 1:30 p.m. 45
P.m. 72
, Precipitation
al for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.
~~ inches.
otal since the first of the month
-— inches.
(From J.ides Fot Today
S. rnaJhe T:c,-e Tables published by E
ast and Geodetic Survey)
__ _h"*n, 6hTa.n
VS M
cMn.. . 10:04 p.m. 3:54 p.n
iloonrS a-m-; Sunset 8:12 p.m
RivalSee?'*^ a m- Moonset 9:37 p.m.
am n?taRe rt Fayetteville. N. ,C. at
Tuesday, 9.5 feet
nest Awards
harity Group
The Community Chest yesterday
appropriated $7,000 to the Associa
ted charities to carry on their
work during the current year.
L. D. Latta reported at the com
munity Chest Board of Directors
meeting yesterday afternoon that
representatives of the Community
Chest and the Associated charities
had agreed to recommend that the
Community Chest appropriate $7,
000 from its trust fund with the
Community Welfare foundation to
be paid in equal quarterly install
ments during the fiscal year 1946
to the Associated charities.
Family Service
It was also recommended that
the Community Chest request the
Community Council to j^ssume the
responsibility of organizing a fami
ly Service society with the funds
appropriated to the Associated
charities for that purpose during
the last campaign.
Latta told the board members
that he had been advised by the
Rev. Alexander Miller, president
of the Associated Charities, that
TYitva>rf.or« had act
ed favorably on this proposal at a
recent meeting.
Latta Motion
A motion was made by Latta,
that an appropriation of $7,000 be
made to the Associated Charities
for the fiscal year 1946, and was
seconded by Stewart.
Latta then moved that the Com
munity Council be requested to as
sume the responsibility of organiz
ing a Family Service society along
See CHEST On Page Two
ACL EXPECTING
NEW CRANES SOON
New Machinery Be Largest
Of Type Ever Used On
System, Official Says
Three cranes, largest ever used
on Atlantic Coast Line’s tracks are
scheduled to arrive soon.
The cranes are 250 ton wrecking
crane models, and will be self
propelled, ACL officials said. They
are being held up because of labor
disputes now going on in the Bay
City, Michigan plants. The first
crane to arrive will be assigned to
the Rocky Mount plant. The latter
two cranes will be assigned to the
Waycross, Georgia and Florence,
S. C. plants. Reassignment of
_i_11
— The
CIO United Aiito Workers tonight
repeated its rejection of a Genera]
Motors proposal for a return-to
work vote by the 175,000 strikers.
Company representatives report
ed the union's rejection upon leav
ing an hour’s negotiation session
with UAW-CIO officials.
“We are standing pat on 18 1-2
cents,” said Vice-President Harry
W. Anderson. “We have no other
proposals to make and none was of
fered by the union.”
General Motors had proposed a
return to work vote on the basis
See AUTO WORKERS on Page 2
GIRL UVES AFTER
11-STORY TUMBLE
Fifteen-Year-Old Tells At
tendants To Watch Her
Last Nylon Hose
NEW YORK, March 5.—>— ^
15-year-old girl fell 11 stories to
night—and lived, telling hospita
attendants to be careful about he]
nylon stockings. f
Police identified thf girl as Rena
ta Chapiro, and said she was fullj
conscious when she crashe<
through the fabric top of an auto
mobile at the end of her fall.
Taken to a hospital, the girl’:
condition was listed as critical
Her injuries were reported as in
cluding multiple fractures of botl
legs, a compound fracture of the
right arm, shock and possible in
temal injuries.
But she told attendants removini
her stockings:
“Be careful. They’re nylons.”
Along The Cape Fear
COMPETITION — Variety, they
ay, is the spice of life. And com
eti'don, we say, is the cinnamon of
ampaigns.
Yesterday we started a campaign
) bring whistles out from under
le shadow of notoriety which Ben
'ranklin placed over them. The
mature of our campaign is the for
ration of the BLEW (Blow Loud,
Imancipated Whistles) society,
.nd our candidate for the presi
ency of that society was, as of
esterday, the Old ACL Whistle in
Wilmington.
* * *
THE CHALLENGER — N o W,
re’re not so sure. Cinnamon has
een sprinkled on our candidate.
Right after Ben McDonald gave
is radio pre-view of yesterday s
dong the Cape Fear, an old resi
ent-who asked us to withhold his
ame—called up to challenge the
>ld ACL Whistle’s right to the
andidacy
He, you see, knows about a
whistle that goes all the way back
to 1889.
* * *
■WHAT A WHISTLE — In that
year, he told us Spofford Mills was
built, and, like all mills, it had to
have a whistle to tell the folks
when to come to work, when to eat
lunch, when to finish lunch, and
when to go home.
There was just one trouble with
the whistle, he said. It blew so
loud that it could be heard clear
over, to Burgaw and Rocky Point.
And, until they got used to it, the
Burgaw belles and the Rocky Point
petites would turn around on the
street to see who was flirting with
them. .
• * It
HORRORS — Then one day Ben
Franklin’s whistle-curse took over.
Forest Hills was built—and the in
sufferable happened.
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
Nation-Wide
Walkout Set
By Unionists
Waiting Period Of 30 To
60 Days Usually Fol
lows Strike Orders
ACL AFFECTED TOO
Official Lists Many Roads
In South As Scheduled
For Next Week
CHICAGO, March 5 — (iP) — A
nationwide strike of railroad en
gineers and trainmen, which could
paralyze the nation’s rail system,
has been called for next Monday
morning, a union official announc
ed Tuesday—without confirmation
or denial by national heads of the
union.
A “waiting period” of 30 to 60
days ordinarily follows a formal
strike call, if the brotherhoods
comply with the Railway Labor
act’s procedure permitting Presi
dent Truman to appoint an emer
gency fact-finding board.
No Notice
Railroad officials here said they
had not received any official notice
of the strike.
At Cleveland, hea3s of the rail
See TRAINMEN on Page Two
v 4 * rnnrm v% n n 1 V1T
JAIlUa KtbAlW
TWO OLD MEMBERS
Organization Ready For
Observance Of American
ism Week March 12-22
The Junior Chamber of Com
merce regained twb members last
night as Francis Thompson and
James Craig, former Jaycees, at
tended their first meeting since
returning from service ovfrseas.
With Troy Hodges afcting as
chairman the meeting reviewed a
number of civic and recreational
matters.
A report on the Americanism
committee was read and the pro
gram for Americanism Week,
March 12-22, discussed.
Plans for an April Jaycee golf
tournament were presented, and
consideration was given the cham
ber’s sponsorship of high school
baseball teams.
The election of high school stu
dents for one day terms in City of
fices was discussed and the pro
• posal prepared for approval by the
city council.
JULIUS A. KRUG WINS
SENATE APPROVAL AS
, INTERIOR SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, March |—(AP)—
. Julius A. Krug easily worWSenate
confirmation Tuesday as Secretary
of the Interior to succeed the Vet
eran Harold L. Ickes.
The Senate action came with
unanimous consent and without de
bate a short time after approval
was .recommended by the Public
Lands committee.
Krug, 38-year-old former chair
man of the War Production Board,
was nominated by President Tru
man last week to succeed Ickes,
who quit the cabinet post he had
held nearly-13 years after a dispute
with the President growing out of
the nomination of Edwin B. Pauley
to be undersecretary of the Navy.
Alligators Ft
Time; TheyD
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. — —
These are tough times for alliga
tors—they don’t grow up like they
used to.
Did you know that 14- and 15-foot
alligators once were as common
in Florida as Chambers of Com
merce are now? Or what the out
look is for the modern alligator
when he grows up?
A measly 12-footer at best, says
the Fish and Wildlife Service
gloomily, without bothering to ex
plain why.
Furthermore, the alligator soon
may be extinct. I
CHURCHILL SPEECH
BRINGS UNFAVORABLE
COMMENT BY SENATORS
WASHINGTON, March 5.—VP)
—Winston Churchill's proposal
for a virtual British-American
military alliance provoked gen
erally unfavorable reaction
among members of Congress
today.
The former prime minister’s
call for sharing of bases and
military preparations found
some support, but most Sena
tors said they want no formal
alliance because it might
arouse suspicision on the part of
Russia and because it would
link the United States too close
ly to British foreign policies.
Senator Johnson (D.-Colo.)
•aid there already is “an un
written alliance” between Brit
ain and the United States for
mutual protection, but added:
“I’m very sure we are not
ready now to have a military
alliance that would impose on
us the duty of enforcing Brit
ain’s foreign policies.’’
Senator Brewster (R.-Me.)
*reed that “we cannot assume
s heritage 0f British colonial
policy.”
But Senator Robertson (R.
Wyo.) said he believes that un
til such time as Russia “rolls
up the iron curtain,” close co
operation between the United
States, Britain and other mem
bers of the United Nations is
essential. ' ; ms
Senator Pepper (D.-Fla.),
who has urged a better under
standing with Russia, eom
mcB.Cu thai Churchill had spok
en “in his best Marlborough
manner for glorious imperial
ism — but it is always British
imperialism.”
“Of course,” Pepper said,
“we want Anglo-American co
operation, but not fexclusively.”
Senator Maybank (D-S. C.),
said he agreed in the main
with Churchill’s assertion that
Russia seems bent on “indefi
nite expansion” of its “power
and doctrines” but doubted that
a military alliance with Brit
ain would curb this tendency.
Chairman Connally (D.-Tex.)
of the Senate Foreign Relations
comm it tee and Senator
See COMMENT on Page Two
ROT ARY-ANNSARE
FETED AT DINNER
Wilmington Rotary Stages
Annual Ladies’ Night
. At Famous Club
About 37 wives of Wilmington
Rotarians were welcomed to La
dies Night, by the Rev. Mortimer
Glover, in the absence of Thomas
B. Lilly, president of the club, at
a dinner party at the Famous club
last night.
Approximately 115 members and
their guests were present for the
evening of fun and merry-making.
Among the guests were the presi
dents and their wives, of three oth
er Wilmington civic clubs.
The evening of fun was started
with a welcome by the Rev. Mr.
Glover, who announced that 37 Ro
tarians, and 37 “Rotary Anns”, 34
visitors, and two Junior “Rotary
Anns” and two Junior Rotarians,
were present and made a short
welcome speech to the ladies.
A response to the Rev. Mr. Glov
er was made by Mrs. Charles New
come.
During the evening, Mrs. James
T. Murdock, soloist, sang “I’ll Take
You Home Again Kathleen,” and
"The Bells of St. Mary’s”.
The remainder of tne evening
was taken up with debates, song
singing,; and light speeches by vari
ous members of the club.
A short play “How Columbus Dis
covered America” was given, by
members of the club.
icing Tough
on’t Grow Up
First came the hunters. Within
14 years (1880 to 1894) they killed
more than 2,000,000 alligators in
Florida alone.
Then came the tourists.
It seems that alligators do a
good job in the production line (an
alligator sometimes lays as many
as 60 eggs), but tourists cart
nany of the youngsters away to
;he north. There, says the F. &
N. report, the alligators “endure
a slow death by starvation.”
The wildlifers think the man
See ALLIGATORS on Page Two.
Ex-Premier
Asks-Anglo
U.S. Accord
British Opposition Leader
Calls For Alliance Along
Military Lines
WARNS OF DANGERS
Missourians Hear Timely
Suggestion For PrAren
tion Of Third War
FULTON, Mo., March 5.—
Winston Churchill called today foB
a virtual Anglo-American military
alliance with a blunt warning
against what he termed Russia’s
desire for "indefinite expansion” ol
its ‘‘power and doctrines.”
Asserting that "a shadow hqs
fallen upon the scenes so lately
CHURCHILL TEXT ON P. S
lighted by the Allied victory,” the
former British Prime Minister de*
dared in an address prepared for
delivery at Westminister College
here:
Nobody Knows
"Nobody knows what Soviet Rut*
sia and its Communist intemation*
al organization intends to do in the
immediate future, or what are the
limits, if any, to their expansive
and proselyting tendencies.”
Britain’s wartime leader gravel?
declared that prevention of an*
other great war "can only be
achieved by reaching now, in 1940,
a good understanding on all pointi
with Russia under the general au«
thority of the United Nations Or*
gamzatioa.”
Seek War Fruits
While he said he does not believe
that the Soviet Union desires war,
Churchill attributed to the Russians
a desire for "the fruits of war and
the indefinite expansion of their
power and doctrines.”
"From what I have seen of our
Russian friends and Allies during
See CHURCHILL on Page Two
FRANCO DEFIANT
OVER U. S. NOTE
Ambassador To Washing
ton Says Nation Will Re
pudiate Foreign Pressure
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. — (JP) —
Defiant reaction from Franciscn
Franco was made public today as
the United States, Britain and
France Awaited results of their
joint call to the Spanish people
to oust the Generalissimo.
Franco’s Ambassador in Wash*
ington, Juan Francisco De Car
denas, delivered a note at the
State department Sunday—some 24
hours before the release of the
American-British-French declara.
tion—warning that Spain would
"repudiate” any "foreign pre*.
sure.”
The note said the question of the
Franco regime was exclusively e
Spanish matter, and that any for.
eign intervention would "heighten
the national feelings of the Spanish
people, always zealous of the In*
tegrity of their sovereignty.”
Spain was passing along this in.
formation because of press re.
ports that the three-power state
ment was about to be issued, the
note explained.
A similar note was delivered t*
London but not to Paris.
And So To Bed.*
A well-known Wrightsvilla
Beach lady has forwarded the
anti-climax to end all climaxes.
When she was a child, she
began to do the grocery shop
ping for her mother. As she
shopped through the store she
would pick up a stray cracker,
cookie, or grape and munch oa
it, like all kids do in grocery
stores.
At the end of her first
month’s shopping, her mother
received the regular montfily
bill from the grocery, with the
purchases listed item by item
as usual.
But at the end of the bill was
appended this item:
“One dollar—for child’s grax
insr.’