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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
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will be made.
The new and larger cranes will
be able to do more, and better
work, and more quickly, than the
nine smaller cranes now in the
service of the company, officials
said.
Contrast in the new and ow
cranes can be seen by comparing
the two cranes and the weights of
the locomotives which they handle
The ACL engines range in weight
from 140 to 230 tons, the passenger
cars weigh from 63 to 93 tons, and
freight cars loaded, which range
from 66 to 98 tons._
Swiss Representative '
To Visit In New Bern 1
NEW BERN, Mar. 5.—Paul Senn,
of Bern, Switzerland, who is now
on his way to this city, Bern’s
. namesake, to take local photo
graphs for Swiss publications and
to present a copy of Bern’s history
' to the New Bern city aldermen,
- spent some time here in 193B.
While here at that time he took
• numerous pictures of local persons
and places and upon his return
. home wrote a number of illustrated
• articles about “old and new
Bern for Swiss periodicals.
; Founded In 1710
. New Bern was named for Bern,
native city of Baron Christophei
deGraffenned, founder of this r
town, in 1710. Although there are ,
about 10,000 deGraffenrieds now
living in America, not one resides '
here. *
Thi% city sent a representative
to Bern to attend the 700th anni
versary celebration of the found
ing of Bern half a century ago. '
Upon his return the city adopted 1
the armorial bearings and colors
of the parent city. i
Banner Presented i
In 1896 a banner of Bern, with c
the historic bear emblem, was *
See VISITOR on Page Two c
\CHURCHILL WARNS OF SO VIET EXPANSION DESIRE;
Leaders See
Little Hope
For “Peace”
*
$
Unionists Gloomy Over
Prospects For Settling
Wage Disputes
deaSline nearing
Beirne Of Opinion That
Workers Will Strike On
Thursday Morning
WASHINGTON, March 5—(U.R)—
The National Federation of Tele
phone workers, gloomy about pros
pects for settling current wage dis
putes, said Tuesday night that the
nationwide strike set for 6 a. m.,
EST., Thursday appeared to be
“inevitable.”
The union’s dismal forecast was
made.' in a statement from NFTW
President Joseph A Beirne, re
leased while representatives of the
American Telephone & Telegraph
Co., and the National Federation
of Long Lines workers were con
ferring with Director Edgar L.
Warren of the U. S. conciliation
service in an effort to avert the ]
walkout. -
No Progress
mute uidii aiA auuis
negotiation, no word of progress
had come from the conferees. The
union had last been reported de
manding an 18 1-2 cent hourly wage
increase compared with a company
offer of 15 cents when negotiations
collapsed in New York early jres- ^
terday.
The labor department has hoped
that settlement of the long lines
case would set a pattern for settling
other disputes between NFTW af
filiates and telephone companies.
Complications
Prospects of reaching a settle
ment were further complicated in
New York today when negotiations
collopsed between the Western
Electric company, A. T. & T. sub
sidiary, and the Western Electric
See TELEPHONE on Page Two
NEW CITY CENSUS
WILL BEGIN SOON
Negotiations For Work Are
Nearing Final Stages
Nichols States
Wilmington’s 100 per cent census, 1
which will enumerate not only the
number of people but their occupa
tional skills, housing conditions,
and general economic make-up as
well, will likely be started late this
month, City Manager A. C. Nichols
disclosed yesterday. r
Final negotiations between Nich- $
ols and J. C. Capt, director of the t
U. S. Bureau of Census, are now '
underway, and Nichols expects to 1
put his signature on the agreement i
very shortly. ^
The new type census, scheduled 1
to be held later in the year in cities
of 150,000 population and more,, is 1
being given to Wilmington at the '
original “regular census” cost oi J
$4,475. Wilmington is being usee <
as a testing-ground for the new- 1
type census, and the U. S. Bureai -
is defraying the added cost of the I
extra features.
According to a letter Capt sent to
Nichols, William B. Pournelle, as
sistant to Will A. Hale, Jr., region
al bureau supervisor in Atlanta,
Ga., will probably be in charge of
the census here.
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EACH CLAIMS CREDIT FOR TRIPLETS
.
Proud parents of Francis and Ann and James—fir^t triplets of the
pear in New York City—Traffic Officer Thomas Conrad and Mrs.
dary Conrad of the Bronx were not surprised by the threesome. Pop
:laims credit, saying his grandmother had twins, but Mary pooh-poohs
lis claim, asserting that her grandmother had triplets. (International)
UA WAgain Reject Wage
Offer By General Motors
I ANY BIDS RECEIVED
ON ARMY PROPERTIES
ON FORT FISHER LAND
With opening of bids on the
Fort Fisher surplus property
set for 10 a.m. today, the North
Carolina project manager’s of
fice in Raleigh was receiving
the bids in every mail yester
day with 135 already on hand
and 60 to 70 expected.
Walter F. Williams, project
manager for the state with the
South Atlantic division of the
XJ. S. Army Engineers, report,
ed that his office expected to
have the opening of the bids
completing during the day pro
viding there were not too many
small bids.
Williams added that he be
lieved that a number of the
bids received were for size
able portions of the property.
FEBRUARY BUILDING
PERMITS REPRESENT
$201,723 INVESTMENT
Building construction permits,
epresenting a total investment of
201,723, were issued to 111 indus
rious Wilmington firms and indi
iduals during February— despite
ae fact that the paralyzing build
ag priority system was renewed—
iilbert F. Morton, city building
nspector, revealed yesterday.
If the priority system had not
ieen resumed, the total would have
leen even higher, Morton said,
iven so, it is a considerable in
rease over the $32,511,50 total of
'eLruary, 1945, and it indicates that
he city is definitely a “growing
imposition”. _
DETROIT, March 5. —UP>— 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.—<a>>— ^
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.’