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Navy Takes Over
CAMP DAVIS WILL
BE NEW TEST BASE
Camp Davis, once the largest
V. S. Army anti-aircraft train
ing center in the nation, is in
the hands of the U. S. Navy this
morning.
At 2400 hours (12 o’clock mid
night in military terminology)
last night, the Navy Blue and
Gold officially took over the
famous site to begin experi
ments on Uncle Sam’s newest
and deadliest electronically
guided missiles.
Shrouded thickly in govern
mental secrecy, the experi
ments at the camp and along
Sears Landing are expected to
cost astronomical amounts of
money. New buildings and
equipment alone will consume
approximately $1,000,000, it is
reported. __
With the Navy’s Bureau of
Ordnance in charge of the
secret experiments, a relative
ly small force of Naval per
sonnel will conduct the actual
trials of the radically new wea
pons.
About 250 civilians will be en
gaged with laboratory work
and other allied functions.
Questions concerning the
Navy’s possible testing and de
velopment of the new “bug
bomb”—said to be more de
structive than the atom-bomb—
have met with strong silence
from top-ranking Navy offi
cers.
ILLEGAL NYLON
MARKET BROKEN
Multi-Million Dollar Beer
Operations Are Also
Dissolved
_____________
CHICAGO, May 31 — (U.R) — The
government cracked down Friday
on what it described as a multi
million dollar black market in beer
and a major nylon stocking ring
with indictments charging four
firms and 12 persons with violations
of OPA ceiling prices.
Federal grand jury investigating
beer black market operations ex
tending throughout the South, in
dicted three breweries, a beer dis
tributor and nine individuals on
charges of over-ceiling sales of
$242,500 worth of beer in the past
two years
Hosiery Violations
In a separate action, another
Federal grand jury indicted three
Chicago men, charging 49 viola
tions of ceiling prices in the sales
of nylon and rayon hosiery which
they allegedly obtained from three
New York City firms. The New
York companies now are under in
vestigation, according to Asst. U.
S. Dist. Atty. Robert C. Eardley.
Charged with conspiracy to vio
late beer price ceilings were:
The Roller Brewing Co., Chicago.
U. S. Dist. Atty. J. Albert Woll said
evidence indicated the company
was involved in more than $100,000
over-ceiling sales since 1944,
The Best Brewing Co., Chicago:
The firm ’was charged with $40,000
in over-ceiling sales since 1944.
The Frederick’s Brewing Co.,
Thornton, 111.: The company was
charged on two counts with $2,500
in over-ceiling sales.
The Den-Mar Distributors, Chi
cago, charged with $200,000 in over
ceiling sales.
During the beer investigation,
dealers, distributors and retailers
from several Southeastern and
Southwestern communities appear
ed before the grand jury. Woll de
scribed the beer black market as a
multimillion dollar operation. Ad
ditional indictments are expected.
Three officials of the Rosmore
baies, Inc.. Chicago, v/cre indicted
In tfie nylor-rayon case.
Nylon Blank Market
Eardley 'aid the suit was one of
the first brought against major
b;ack market operations in nylons.
He charged that the Rosmore firm
htaae at least $25,000 profit in
blade market sales of nylons dur
'!;§ April and the early part of
Ma/, mostly in Chicago.
He said the firm sold nylon and
rayon hosiery to 15 distributors
'■ho in turn made door-to-door
sales. Nylons sold from $26 to $30 a
dozen against a ceiling of $11.75 a
j0Zen’ he said Rayons brought
a dozen, compared to an
"25 ceiling, he said.
He said the three men are liable
o a maximum fine of $280,000 or
.2 years imprisonmspt if con
^‘elej on all of the 49 counts.
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STALIN REJECTS
PRESIDENT’S BID
Generalissimo Refuses Visit
To U. S. Because
Of Health
WASHINGTON, May 31 — (U.R) —
Generalissimo Josef Stalin has re
jected two invitations within a year
to come to the United States as
President Truman’s guest to dis
cuss Soviet-American relations, it
was revealed Friday by the Presi
dent.
On both occasions, Stalin said his
doctor did not think it was advis
able for him to take such a long
trip.
This announcement by the Presi
dent at his news conference, the
first official one that Stalin’s hea^m
was not up to par, came in the
midst of a most difficult period'
of Soviet-American relations. It
follow’s sharp exchanges between
Secretry of State James F. Byrnes
and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov over the blame for failure
of the last Paris prime ministers
meeting.
The foreign ministers meet again
June 15 in Paris and the State
Department announced Friday that
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R.
Mich.) has assured Byrnes he will
attend. Sen Tom Connally (D.
Tex.), hopes to. Both were advisers
to Byrnes at the last meeting and
came back with nothing but praise
for his policies.
Mr. Truman said the first invita
tion to Stalin was made at Postdam
last summer. The last ore, he said,
was made within 30 days—during
the recent unsuccessful foreign
ministers meeting in Paris.
But later Mr. Truman was proven
in error on his dates. The White
House corrected them and revealed
that the invitation was written
more than a month before the
Paris meeting started.
The White House disclosed that
Truman’s invitation to Stalin was
written on March 19, more than a
month before the Paris meeting,
and delivered by Lieut. Gen. Wal
ter Bedell Smith, the new American
ambassador to Russia, on April 4—
21 days before the Paris meeting
opened.
SHIPPING OFFICIAL
STOPS BY SHIPYARD
ON VISIT TO AREA
3. L. Luckenbach, president of
the American Bureau of Ship
ping and past president of the
International Propellor club,
Friday stopped in Wilmington
for a tour of the city and an
inspection of the yards of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding
company.
Enroute to Charleston, S. C.,
to attend his daughter’s com
mencement exercises, Lucken
bach broke his trip here in or
der to view the port city that
has lately been so eminent in
national harbor news.
He spoke highly of the North
Carolina yard’s facilities and
expressed confidence in Wil
mington’s future as a great
shipping center.
Continuing his journey to
Charleston this morning, Luck
enbach plans to stop here again
on his return trip to his New
York residence.
ra THE LION’S DEN
Repeat Trip To Chair
Fought In Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, May 31.—
(U.R)—Remember Daniel in the
lion's den, the State Pardons
board was told Friday as at
torneys battled frantically to
save 17-year-old Willie Fran
cis from making his second
trip to the latter-day lion’s
den, Louisiana’s portable elec
tric chair.
A parade of witnesses and
Negro preachers trouped be
fore the board all day long, re
counting graphically the bizar
zarre story of Willie’s first es
cape from the chair, and plead
ing that he be spared the ,
agony of a “second electro
cution” June 7.
Electricity Experiment
A. P. Tureaud, attorney for
the National association for the
Advancement of Colored peo
ple, asked the board:
“Suppose they take him back
and it doesn’t work again. What
is this—an experiment in elec
tricity?”
But it was Bertrand Deblanc,
a firey little Cajun from Willie’s
home town of St. Martinville,
See CHAIR on Page One
SENATE UPHOLDS PRESIDENTS AUTHORITY
TO WRITE CONTRACTS WITH LABOR UNIONS;
MARI' IE WORKERS HIT TRUMAN DECISION
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Governme. /Its To Keep
Ships Moving In Walkout
Truman Says He Plans To Use Coast Guard
And Navy In Case Of Strike Of
Ship Workers June 15
By The Associated Press
Pennsylvania’s anthracite mines shut down yesterday
when 75,000 United Mine Workers went on strike, and Presi
dent Truman reported that chances for avoiding a walkout
of 200,000 CIO Longshoremen and Seamen June 15 were
very dark.
The chief executive told his news conference, however,
that he would make every effort to keep the ships moving
jn event of a strike, using the Navy,
Coast Guard, War Shipping ad
ministration and Army if neces
sary.
Leaders of the maritime unions
said later that the President’s re
marks constituted an invitation to
the operators to be “tough” and
refuse a settlement and contended
Mr. Truman had “fired a torpedo
into the negotiations.”
Approve Agreement
In Washington the Wage Stabili
zation board said it had approved,
with certain “understandings”, the
soft coal wage agreement, and
President Truman endorsed the
WSB step. The “understandings”
were board interpretations of sev
eral clauses in the agreement.
The WSB order was required be
fore any of the wage changes
agreed on could go into effect, be
cause the soft coal mines now are
in possession of the government
and the war labor disputes act re
quire a board order for wage chan
ges.
The new coal strike,_ ninth major
anthracite shutdown sinoj! the
turn of the century, came as the
first of the nation’s 400,000 soft
coal miners began returning to
their jobs under an agreement
reached Wednesday with the Fed
eral government.
See GOVERNMENT on Page Two
LIFE INSURANCE
MEN HEAR PLEA:
Full Cooperation Of Local
Underwriters Promis
ed On GI Plan
Full cooperation of local life
underwriters was promised the
veterans of World Wars I and II
yesterday at a forum meeting held
in the Veterans Administration
contact offices with E. C. Bailey,
regional VA insurance officer.
Bailey told the group that veter
ans should be encouraged to hold
their term policies, established
while they were in service, until
such time as proposed liberaliza
tion of the National Service Life
insurance act becomes law.
Desire Cooperation
The officer said the local under
writers voluntarily expressed their
desire to cooperate fully with the
administration, and the veteran by
supplying him the necessary forms
and information for their insur
ance, and assisting with claims
from time to time.
He told the group of the import
ance of keeping the beneficiary
of the veteran up to date, because
of cases of claimants, who the
veteran would probably not have
named, have been receiving
claims.
Bailey said that the trend of the
insurance plans for World War II
veterans is along the same lines
as those which were fashioned for
the veterans of the first world war.
The Weather
FORECAST
North Carolina: Scattered showers in
west portion Saturday afternoon, partly
cloudy and warm elsewhere.
South Crolina: Partly cloudy and warm
Saturday with scattered showers in
northwest portion.
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30a 66; 7:30a 65; 1:30p 78; 7:30p 74.
Maximum_; Minimum 60; Mean 69;
Normal 74.
Humidity
1:30a 71; 7:30a 77; 1:30p 35; 7:30p 65.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.
0.00 inch.
Total since the first of the month
4.22 inches.
Tides for Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington - 11:03a 5:58a
ll:33p 5:57p
Masonboro Inlet_ 8:52a 2:50a
9:20p 2:51p
Sunrise 5:01a; Sunset 7:18p; Moonrise
6:38a: Moonset 9:39p.
River Stage at Fayetteville, N. C., at
8 a.m., Friday, 12.1 feet.
STETTINIUS ASKS
TO QUIT COUNCIL
Truman, Byrnes Hope To
Persuade Delegate To
Stay In UN
WASHINGTON, May 31—(U.R)—
President Truman revealed Friday
that Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., has
submitted his resignation as Ameri
can representative to the United
Nations but that both the White
House and' Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes hoped he would
reconsider and stay on the job.
Stettinius’ resignation, which Mr.
Truman has not yet accepted, was
a great surprise to the President
and came in the midst of a major
UN crisis with the Security Coun
cil’s prestige already extremely
low.
Hopes to Intercede
The President said he would try
and persuade Stettinius not to
resign now.
Mr. Truman announced' at his
news conference that Stettinius had
submitted his resignation two or
three days ago and later the White
House released the text of the
Stettinius’ letter. It said in part:
“The ship whose keel was laid at
Dumbarton Oaks and launched at
San Francisco has put to sea—ful
ly equipped and manned. As I sub
mit my resignation. . .You may be
sure my faith in the United Nations
and my devotion to the cause it
represents will always remain up
permost in my heart and' mind.”
See STETTINIUS on Page Two
Along The Cape Fear
NOSTALGIC NIP—We got nip
ped by the gnat of nostalgia the
other day. We were strolling past
a school when the doors of the
institution suddenly burst open and
several hundred children rushed
out and all but stomped us under
foot.
Never since last year, when we
dropped a pair of nylons in the
middle of Manhattan’s Times
Square, have we been so engulfed
with humanity.
It wasn’t until the kids had van
ished down the street and we pick
ed ourself up from the sidewalk
that we realized what had brought
the thundering herd of youngsters
trampling upon us.
It was the last day of school.
POIGNANT PONIARD—It was
then, at that moment of realiza
tion,’ when the gnat nipped us with
his poignant poniard.
For a few minutes we regressed
to the scenes of our own child
hood—those happy days when we
closed the narrow door of school
behind us and ran through the vast
opening portal of summer vaca
tion.
And yet, even as the pages of the
memory-book flicked before our
eyes, we knew that something was
missirg from the scene which had
just happened at the close of school
in the year of 1946.
The kids, as they trouped home
for the summer, vere not singing:
“No more pencils, no more
books,
No more teacher’s sassy looks.”
PAST SASS—There must be, we
figure, only one reason why the
school child-en of today no longer
sing this ancient ballad of school
closing:
■ There must be no sassy teachers
left in this world.
And that’s good.
When we were kids, we had all
kinds of sassy teachers. We don’t
mean that all of them were sassy;
as a mat' of fact, many of them
were the un-sassiest people we
have ever known.
But the remembrance of the ones
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
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Crazy Weather
SNOW IN MICHIGAN
85 IN WASHINGTON
By the Associated. Press
Snow, midsummer heat and
floods gave a crazy-quilt pat
tern to the nation’s weather
map Friday night.
Sncw fell yesterday in Minne
sota and Upper Michigan and
near freezing temperatures
were forecast for Northern
Minnesota, Northern Michigan,
Northern Wisconsin and North
weastern North Dakota.
Spreads Southward
The cold air mass spread
southward to the Great Lakes,
Mississippi Valley and Ohio
River regions routing summery
temperatures. The mercury
dropped from 68 to 47 degrees
in an hour in Milwaukee. Chi
cago, which had a hight of
84 degrees Thursday expected
a low of 40 by Saturday night.
Summer-like weather prevail
ed Friday in the East, New
York and Washington record
ing 85 degrees. Even higher
temperatures were recorded in
New England, but cooler weath
er was moving in from the
north
Meanwhile, floods caused mil
lions of dollars of damage in
Pennsylvania and Texas.
Dallas Hard Hit
North and South Texas suf
fered from the combined ef
fects of floods, rain, hail, and
high winds. With the Fort
Worth and Dallas areas hardest
hit. The Trinity river broke
through levees in several places
at Dallas. A man was drowned
at Palmer attempting to res
cue cattle from floodwaters.
Disaster and medical workers
were sent to Lawrenceville,
Pa., where the Red Cross re
ported the entire community’s
population of 450 took refuge
from floodwaters in the town’s
cemetery. The waters were re
ceding rapidly, however, after
the worst flood in a decade in
the Susquehanna valley.
SPAIN NO THREAT
TO WORLD PEACE
UN Commission Decides
Franco Hasn’t Menac
ed World
NEW YORK, May 31—(JP)— The
United Nations investigation of
Franco Spain drew to a close Fri
day night as Great Britain at the
last minute submitted a document
maintaining that the regime of
Generalissimo Francisco Franco
was not a threat to world peace.
The new document was made
public as the Security Council’s
subcommittee on Spain worked on
in private to finish its report by
midnight, the deadline set by the
Council April 29 when the inquiry
was launched.
Captured Evidence
A sub-committee spokesman late
Friday said the group would' not
ask for an extension of time de
spite at late deluge of documents,
including evidence captured from
the Germans and submitted by the
United States, along with piles of
evidence from France and Britain.
The sub-committee was sched
uled to meet again at 10 p. m..
(EDT) Thursday night to wind up
its work. Three working days
must elapse after the report’s cir
culation before the Council takes
it up.
The British document, coupled
with a similar document submitted
earlier by the United States, led to
the belief in U. N. circles that the
sub-committee’s report would leave
the Council approximately where
it was before the inquiry.
Charges Fall Through
At that time Russia. Poland,
France, and Mexico favored a
world-wide break of diplomatic
relations with Franco, but the
majority of the Council members
contended there was not sufficient
evidence to warrant such action.
The British document said Brit
ain had been unable to find any
evidence that Spain was making
undue military preparations, that
Franco was engaged in atomic re
search or that the deployment of
Spanish forces was a threat.
SENATORS REFUSE
TO REVERSE VOTE
Food Official Predicts
Meat To Go Up 12
To 20 C^nts
WASHINGTON, May 31—(U.R) —
The Senate Banking committee
Friday refused to reverse its vote
to lift price controls on meat, poul
try and dairy products June 30, a
move which OPA officials said
could lead to death cl the agency
and cost housewives millions of
dollars.
Chairman Robert F. Wagner (D
N. Y.,) said after the closed ses
sion that he tried vainly to have
the decision reversed. The com
mittee nearing final action, had
planned to meet again Friday night
but deferred further consideration
until 10 a. m., Saturday.
Mean to Remain Scarce
The Agriculture department re
ported that meat will remain
scarce through mid-1947 and
UNRRA Director General Fiorello
H. LaGuardia predicted that the
committee action, if upheld by the
House and Senate, would shoot
meat prices up one-third.
The department, indicating that
it expects the black market to re
main a hindering factor in the meat
shortage, meanwhile tightened its
controls of federally-inspected
packers. To prevent a hold-back
on deliveries it ordered packers
to certify the amount of beef set
aside each week to meet export
needs and said similar regulations
covering pork, veal and lard will
be issued later.
Crimps Plans
LaGuardia warned that elimina
tion of meat controls was “liable
to crimp” plans to ship nearly 3,
000,000 tons of wheat to famine
areas abroad during June and July.
N. C. OFFICIAL PREDICTS
“SUBSTANTIAL” INCREASE
CHARLOTTE, May 31—(U.R)—An
official of the North Carolina Food
Dealers association Friday pre
dicted a “substantial” increase in
fresh meat prices as a result of
pending congressional legislation
on the OPA.
James B. Vogler, secretary of
the association, said the increases
were practically assured by the
action already taken by the Senate
and House in amending the OPA
act.
“In the trade,” he said, “it is ex
pected that meat prices will go up
12 to 20 cents a pound at first.”
‘HE FLOATS THROUGH THE MR’
“Stratosphere” Man
Feature Of Carnival
BY MEARES HARRISS
It’s not what you’d call on or
dinary act, not if you’ve seen it. .
. . . this fellow Selden “The Strat
osphere Man.”
Sponsored by the Senior Frater
nity the combined Ratery Shows
and the R. and S. Amusements
have been holding forth at Bellamy
park with the profits going foi
the Fraternity’s work with boys
But what interests me is Sel
den!
138 Feet Up
The guy claims five feet fouz
inches, weighs 185 pounds, won’i
admit his age and does hand
stands among other things, 133
feet above the ground on a slen
der steel tower which he deliber
ately sways back and forth in a
35-foot arc.
From now on, I’m remember
ing that as about the least way I
would like to earn a living.
His full name is A. E. Selden;
the name he told me for front was
not for ordinary vocabularies . .
I can’t spell it anyway.
Without Net
Ourious about the whys and
wherefores of an act which in
See SELDEN on Page Two
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Solons Beat Back Moves
To Set Aside Strike Bill
Senator Ball Contends Measure Puts Gov
ernment In Business Of Dictating
Terms To Employers
WASHINGTON, May 31.—(AP)—The Senate, push
ing toward passage of emergency labor legislation, upheld,
51 to 28, Friday night, the President’s authority to write
contracts with labor unions in seized industries.
Senator Ball (R.-Minn.), author of the rejected amend
ment to President Truman’s bill, said it would have out
lawed such contracts as that just signed between the gov
GRAMMARS OOL
STAFFS R [JCED
Officials Expect 500 Few
er Pupils In Grades
Next Fall
The New Hanover county gram
mar school system will reopen for
the fall term with its teaching staff
one dozen instructors short of last
year’s total, school officials dis
closed Friday.
The staff reduction is the result
of an anticipated summer exodus
of about 500 children of shipyard
workers, they said.
Still Above Average
The state allocates one teacher
for every 40 students, and although
the expected decrease in county
school membership will reduce the
number of teachers accordingly, H.
M. Roland, superintendent of
schools, Friday said next fall’s en
rollment would still be about 3,
200 above the pre-war average.
A similar loss of about 500 pupils
was experienced at the opening
of schools last fall, Roland ex
plained.
The war workers’ exodus is ex
pected to be the principal cause of
the enrollment decrease, he con
tinued, since the number of grad
uates and “drop outs” will be bal.
anced by the approximate 1,600
pupils who will enter school next
year for the first time.
See GRAMMAR on Page Two
CHECK WRITING
ARTIST NABBED
“David Harriss” Being
Held By Knoxville
Authorities
The rubber check craftsman,
who bilked his way through Wil
mington several days ago under
the pen name “David Harriss’’ is
in the custody of Knoxville, Tenn.,
authorities, local police learned
Friday.
Chief of Detectives Wells, of
Knoxville, yesterday called city
headquarters stating that his de
partment had in custody David
Eugene Harriss, 36, and wife
Daisy Taylor Harriss. The couple
had a bank book in their posses
sion for deposits in the Wilmington
Morris Plan bank.
Awaiting Instructions
The plainclothes chief said he
would hold the couple until he re
ceived instructions from Chief
C. H. Casteen.
Harriss, during his Wilmington
operation deposited a bogus check
with a local bank and fleeced city
merchants of $300 through checks
written against the account.
See CHECK on Page Two
ernment and John L. Lewis coal
miners. Ball sought to freeze wages
and most working conditions when
the government took and operat
ed any plant.
Downs Capehart
The Senate previously had re
jected, 77 to3, a proposal by Sena
tor Capehart (R.-Ind.) to permit the
President to adjust wages and
working conditions up to the point
of the highest offer previously
made by the employers.
As the President’s emergency
bill passed the House, it empower
ed the President to adjust wages
and working conditions. Ball con
tended that this put the govern
ment in the business of dictating
the terms under which the em
ployer would get his plant back.
‘T don’t think he (the President)
settled the coal strike on a just
basis,” Ball declared. ‘‘I think he
appeased an arrogant labor leader
at the point of a gun.”
“Freezing” Wages
Democratic Leader Barkley
(Ky.) asserted that Ball’* proposal
would mean “freezing” wages
when the government took over a
plant or facility. If it had been in
effect, he declared, the settlements
in the rail and coal strikes could
never have been reached.
“All the government could do
would be just to keep on operating
them,” Barkley .said.
Working long past the dinner
hour, the Senate rejected other pro
posals to narrow, expand, or shunt
aside the measure after the Presi
dent spoke up for it in its original
form.
But as successive ballots on those
points shoved the legislation toward
a vote on passage, the Senate show,
ed no inclination to restore a provi
sion for drafitng workers woh strike
in government-seized industriei.
Stays In Session
Democratic Leader Barkley (Ky)
planned to hold the chamber in ses.
sion to seek a final vote.
By a skimpy 42 to 40 margin,
the Senate turned down a motion
by Senator Elbert Thomas <D
Utah) to hand the bill back to the
Interstate Commerce committee
under instructions to look it over
and bring it back June 10.
An amendment by Senator East
land (D-Miss.) to take the right of
collective 1 -rgaining representa
tion from unions striking against
government-operated plants lost by
a voice vote.
Another by Senator Taft (R
Ohio) to make the legislation apply
only to strikes in utilities, trans
portation, steel, oil and coal was
defeated 45 to 35. Most of the
Republicans but only three Demo
crats—Senators O’Daniel, of Texas;
Walsh, of Massachusetts, and
Wheeler, of Montana—supported
Taft.
Vote Against Taft
The Democrats who oppose the
bill and whose votes helped to re'
move the strike-draft provision
last week voted against the Tafl
proposal. Apparently they sought
to make the bill as objectionably
as possible to its critics in the hop<
of its final defeat.
Mr. Truman, placing renewed
and unflinching support behind th*
bill at his news conference, dt
dared the draft provision had beets
grossly misrepresented and mis
understood. He contended it would
give him merely the power a sher
iff has to deputize citizens in an
emergency.
And So To Bed
Yesterday afternoon several
Atlantic Coast Line employes
were discussing the current
heat wave.
One by one they pulled their
handkerchiefs from their back
pockets and mopped their
brows.
Another employe, recently be
comes a father, Joined the
group from another office.
‘‘It certainly Is hot,” he ex
claimed, reached into his back
pocket, and pulled out—beau
tifully trimmed with intricate
lace—an infant’s white petti
coat,
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