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FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946
TOP 0’ THE MORNING
Yon are ft creature born for eternity.
From “NOW”
Beware Swindlers
The arrest of the alleged mail order
salesman W. T. Wingate by Sheriff
Latta of Orange county is a warning
to beware doorbell ringing solicitors
who by one means or another have
fleeced residents of this state of mil
lions of dollars’ since the war put ad
ditional money into the hands of most
wage and salary earners.
Wingate has been taking false orders
for clothing and collecting deposits on
them since last November. Glib of
tonque and ingratiating generally,
Wingate prospered to the tune of sev
eral thousand dollars, without authen
tic credentials, by listing orders on
fictitious blanks and turning duplicates
over to his victims showing credit for
the advance payment he always collect
ed. Suspicion was finally directed at
him and now he is resting from his
labors, all but penniless having bibbled
excessively, in the Hillsboro jail.
He is one of the few racketeers with
whom the law has caught up. There
are dozens uncaught. When Camp Davis
and the shipyard were under construc
tion and long after both were in opera
tion, the additional population these
projects attracted offered green pas
tures for swindlers of the Wingate type
who reaped a rich harvest despite re
peated warnings by police and other
authorities to beware door-to-door so
licitors with fortune-making proposi
tions. The breed has not yet disappear
ed in its entirety from our midstr
Residents cannot be too careful in
buying from or giving orders to per
sons who represent themselves as rep
resentatives of jobbers or manufactur
ers selling direct to consumers but who
do not produce proper credentials or
authorization from city officials. This
is especially necessary in the case of
solicitors who demand a deposit on an
order, unless one is willing to be fleec
ed.
May To Testify
Representative May of Kentucky,
whose name has been linked with war
contracts awarded to the Garsson in
terests, and who has steadily refused
to appear before the Mead War Investi
gating Committee, has finally changed
his mind and is expected to take the
stand today.
Just why Mr. May considers it neces
sary to call in an attorney, is not clear,
but by doing so he increases public
suspicion, which had already grown
to great proportions because of his
stubborn refusal to testify voluntarily,
as other members of Congress whose
names were mentioned in previous testi
mony, have done.
If there is any predisposition among
the American people to prejudge the
Kentucky representative, it can be at
tributed only to his attitude toward the
Mead Committee. Because of this, it
would appear inevitable that the com
mittee will be the more exacting in
questioning him.
The Subsea Atomic Blast
The subsea explosion of the fifth
atomic bomb under some eighty-seven
target ships in Bikini lagoon caused a
tremendous waterspout which subsided
without creating a tidal wave and ap
parently sunk but eleven ships includ
ing the battleship Arkansas and the
aircraft carried Saratoga. This is the
summary shortly after the blast. To
the casual observer, the box score ap
pears well under par.
Snap judgment, however, would be
out of order, at least until the military
and scientific staffs have completed
their observations. Futhermore, the
sinking of a battleship, which under
combat conditions would have some
two thousand men, more or less, aboard
and a carrier equally manned, add to the
accumulating deadly scord being rolled
up by the atomic bomb.
It may prove in tne long run mat
this frightful weapon is more destruc
tive over land than over water, and
that navies have less to fear from its
use, if the world is so unwise as not
to outlaw it and another world war
should come, but it is not yet con
clusively proved that navies could count
on any appreciable immunity despite
the failure of the tests off Bikini to
completely destroy the target fleet.
This latest test will give the scientists
and military authorities something to
study from the practical as well as the
theoretical viewpoint for many a month
to come. Considering the cost of the
experiments, it is to be hoped that
knowiedge of great value, in event of
another war, will be forthcoming.
How Times Do Change
Persons w7ho claim that all things
are transitory can find support of their,
philosophy in a recent event in Ethio
pia.
Not so many years ago, as everybody
remembers, Mussolini attacked and con
quered this little backward country
which was entirely incapable of defend
ing itself, because he felt he must do
something to convince Hitler of his
worthiness to be a partner of the fue
hrer in the coming World wrar. Bullies
always pick on the weaklings.
II Duce had a great time puffing
and pouting pigemvise in Rome when
Ethiopia’s melancholy king, Haile Se
lassi, as well known for his umbrella
as Britain’s Prime Minister Chamber
lain, took refuge in London and his
people became the slaves of the invad
ing Italians.
Then, in the fullness of time, Ethio
pia was freed and Haile Selassi went
home. So did Mussolini’s Army. But
other Italians who had seen a chance
to build a fortune off the work of the
Ethiopians lingered and went into busi
ness for themselves on a rather large
scale. The Ethiopians, who are still
weak as nations go, and just feeling
their way in this postwar turmoil—as
who is not?—finally decided they,had
had all they could stand from the
Italians and this month ordered seventy
eight of them out of the country and
confiscated their wealth estimated at
half a million English pounds.
The Ethiopian Minister of the In
terior gave them eight days to get out
of the country, and at last accounts
they were in Eritrea camps, stripped of
all their worldly goods.
This is the latest, maybe the last,
episode in Mussolini’s ill-advised in
vasion of an innocent and defenseless
country. It is in strong contrast with
II Duce’s “mighty victory.”
Fair Enough
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK, July 25.—Joe Fay and James
Bove, the union gangsters whose convictions
and prison sentences have been upheld unani_
mously by the New York Court of Appeals,
are two ol the lowest crooks in the entire
rogues gallery of the American Federation of
Labor, but let no poor, faceless chump of
that drooling mass whom Henry Wallace so
patronizingly calls the “common man’’ de
lude himself with a belief that this is a final
clean-up. It does complete a round-up of one
particular passel of rogues who robbed and
slugged American workmen, including educat
ed engineers from the big tech schools, and
grafted from the government through crooked
contractors, as rotten as themselves. But the
parent rackets are still as foul as ever be
fore and other thieves aie still at large and
in action
Fay and Bove got from eight and one-half
to 15 years each in New York county, thanks
to Frank Hogan, the district attorney, and a
staff ol lawyers and investigators working
with the enthusiasm oj « varsity team, but
no thanks whatever to William Green, the
presidenc of the American Federation of La.
bor, its executive council or anyone else in
the higher councils of the bund. Bove, more
over, owes from 10 to 20 years in prison for
robbing bis own local of the hodcarriers’ and
common laborers’, union in Westchester coun
ty, thanks, in this case, to Elbert T. Gallagher
during ins term as district attorney of West
chester county. Bove already has matriculat
ed at Sing Sing to start that course.
In addition, William J McGeory and James
Parkinson, both of Yonkers, and democratic
politicians both, are under sentence of from
three to six years for attempting to shake
down extractors but have appealed. Their
lawyer, asking clemency, said they were
victims of Fay, and Vincent O’Connor, of Mr.
Hogan’s staff, who convic’.ed them, again with
no help from the A.F. of L., agreed that
they were, at least, Fay’s partners in crime.
This, too, was a New York case and one
of the fine technicalities advanced in the ap
peal argues that even if they were guilty,
they should have been tried in Westchester,
not Manhattan.
Two other and lesser members of the West.
Chester mob, Felix Lozzi, 64 years old, and
Anthony Petrillo, 59, pleaded guilty in the
Westchesler cases.
There are two big parent unions involved
here, tha International Union of Operating En
gineers and the International Hodcarriers’
Building and Commcn Laborers’ Union of
North America. Both have headquarters in
Washington, both have been fronts for
rackets, thuggery and war-time and pre-war
graft from workers and contractors, and both
have enjoyed strong political protection from
the new deal in New York, Chicago, New
Jersey and Washington.
Fay is fourth vice-president of the operat
ing engineers. Bove is a vice-president of the
hodcarriers and was secretary - treasurer of
Local 60 in Yonkers. McGeory, 64 years old,
was president of the Building and Construction
Trades Council of Westchester county, em
bracing 65 locals of the A.F. of L. Parkinson,
age 54, was business agent of a local of the
operating engineers. McGeory has served as
alderman and superintendent of parks in
Yonkers and vice-chairman of the West
chester Democratic County Committee. Both
he and Parkinson were draft board officials
for a time.
Another professional unioneer of the A.i.
of L., an old friend and neighbor of McGeory
and'Parkinson, discussing their case recently,
said: “God, I don’t know what gets into them.
They start as good union men and seem to
go craz,’ over power and money.”
The graft in these cases came from con
tractors, most of whom, as I have reported,
were jus’ as corrupt as the gangsters who
shook them down and from the workers and
the union treasuries. The crooked contractors
got back the shake-down money by adding it
to the bill and passing on the cost to the
tax-payers and it was common practice
among such vermin to carry on with Fay
as their social and mural equal, as no doubt
he was. Many of them lied on examination
so that they could not be used as witnesses
in the trial. It might be thought that they
were afraid Fay, Bove and the other crooks
would pull strikes on their big jobs if they
told the truth. A more likely conclusion on
the basis of their pleasant relations with the
racketeers was that they were birds of a
feather who didn’t object to graft as long as
they could charge it to the United States
Treasury. In the Westchester cases, Bove and
the subordinate defendants robbed the union
itself.
Fay had great political power in the Frank
Hague organizetion in New Jersey and helped
make one United States senator and one fed
eral judge He is a brutal, drunken brawler,
always associated with underworld charac
ters who, nevertheless, was socially and pro
fessionally acknowledged conspicuously in
public by William Green long after he had
slugged David Dubinsky at a national con
vention cf the A. F. of L. in New Orleans
because Dubinsky han offered a resolution
against racketeers wiicn was personally of
fensive to Joe. At one time, after neat began
to scorch him, Fay tried to reach the courts
with assurances of apprcpriate reward but,
this time, at least, failed.
A few years ago, in Syracuse, he slugged
H. Orville Warner, the local boss of the oper
ating engineers, himsed a brawler, and kicked
Warner's jaw around onto the back of his
neck. Indicted for that, he went loose when
Warner failed to show up as the prosecuting
witness and Warner soon reappeared in his
old job in Rochester and presently acquired
a fishing camp and resort. Thereafter, War
ner’s subjects were pulled off an urgent war
construction job in the first case of “epi
demic” hangover which could be cured only
by a raise in pay. A few months ago, War
ner’s wife and a policeman who said he saw
the inciaent charged Warner with deliberately
driving his car at her car and forcing her
off the road. He was convicted of reckless
driving, g'ven his option of a $20 fine or 20
days and appealed.
William E. Maloney, tne president or me
engineer s, a Chicago umoneer and politician,
owns or did own a wi'.itei house on La Gorce
drive in Miami Beacn, a farm near Chicago
and a stable of eleven rcce horses including
one Reigh Count horse. Fay also bought a
Florida winter place at Sarasota. The operat
ing engineers and the hodcarriers’ and com
mon laborers’ union usually work in close
harmony because their functions in building
construction and excavation are simultaneous
and their jurisdiction is contiguous.
On May 20, 1931, Arthur M. Huddeli, then
president of the operating engineers, was shot
at in a restaurant in Washington. The bullet
struck a pocket notebook over his heart. He
was not wouiaded but died 10 days later, ap.
parently of shock.
On Feb. 24, 1933, Dennis Bruce Ziegler, a
rank and file member of Local 569, Chicago,
was shot dead near his home. He had been
leading a rebellion against persecution in the
local and had gone to the Treasury with in
formation about the income of some of the
officials. A Treasury agent said that, the night
before he was killed, Ziegler telephoned him
in panic saying he had been chased on the
streets and threatened. He left a widow and
11 children.
On Juno 8, 1942, Fay and Edward T. Shinn,
of Newark, his business paxtner and presi
dent of Local 825, ran a page advertisement
prepare,; by the Treasury promoting the sale
of war bends. Its central piece was a photo,
graph of President Roosevelt embraced in a
“V” and laurels and it was entitled “A Mes
sage to Our President.’
The record of the two unions is sordid and
brutal beyond exaggeration but there has been
no sign of reform within and the men con
victed by the initiative, of conscientious prose
cutors are mourned as casualties of the racket
rather than repudiated as betrayers of labor.
Editorial Comment
WEALTH INCREASE
Let those who advocate “soak the rich’’ be
reminded that you increase the wealth of the
nation by addition, multiplication; not by sub
traction and division.—“Bronx” in a letter to
the New York World Telegram.
SIT DOWN STRIKE_
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You’ll Probably Like To Know How
To Determine A Holy Ghost Shell
BY JOHN SIKES
It is not only my desire to be
sparklingly informative so that
you may keep abreast at all times
of the mysteries of this world, but
I’m anxious to impress you with
my erudition.
Therefore, with the help of my
old crony in delving out those
items that reach the light of day
so seldom — Louis Moore — I
am happy to fill you in today on
the matter of sea shells.
I have observed that many of
you, if you happen to be some of
those I see daily traipsing around
the beaches picking up shells,
while your days away drooping up
and down the strand. I assume
you are looking for shells.
Therefore, I pass on to you some
information about a peculiarly
formed and comparatively rare
shell called the Holy Ghost shell
so that you will know one when
you see it; so that you may pass
it around for your friend’s exam
ination like a true connoisseur.
The aforesaid Mr. Moore, ever
one to come to my aid during mo
ments of stumpedness, handed me
this information, saying he'd pick
ed it from an unknowm author.
I pass it along to you in the form
it was given me:
A. On the top side of the shell
there is shown in bold relief an
outline of the Easter Lily. This
typifies, and is symbolic of. the
Easter season in recognition of
Christ.
B. Exactly in the center of the
Lilly may clearly be discerned a
Religion
Day By Day
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
FUNCTIONING AS A FAMILY
I had a talk the other day with
a workingman who has hold of a
great truth by the handle. 1 sus
pect that the beginnings of his
idea was the Scripture “He set
teth the solitary in families;' for
he is an intelligent and active
Christian. His life ambition is to
attain a common family life for
himself and wife and three chil
dren, reverting to the patriarchal
system of the Orient.
So he bought a house big enough
for eight or more persons, his ,two
spns and one daughter being mar
ried. £ach family has its own
apartment; all meet together for
meals and for social evenings in
the living room^ Common prob
lems and interests are talked over
at the dinner table. “We are a
real democracy.’
Said my acquaintance, “We live
more cheaply thus, and we keep
together as a family. My sons fol
low my trade, and that, too, is a
tie. We enjoy one another, as God
meant families to do. Our great
est happiness is our home. And we
stand together in the face of the
changes that are taking place in
the world.”
Here was philosopher, working
out satisfactorily one of society’s
basic problems. There is another
side to the question, of course; but
this one man has found a solution
that is as, old as the race.
We thank Thee, our Father in
Heaven, for family ties, and for
those who love us best. Quicken
all families, w«> pray, in unity and
loyalty. Amen.
five-pointed star, representing the
Star of Bethlehem.
C. Every shell always has five
perpendicular openings, never
ore or less than this number,
each opening about a half an inch
in length. These cuts are repre
sentatives of the five wounds in
the Body of Christ, inflicted before
His crucifixion.
D. On the underside of the shell
is an outline of the Poinseltia, in
beautiful and symmetrical design.
This is indicative of the scarlet
Christmas flower.
E. When broken open, in a large
number of cells, there are found
tiny perfect replicas of a bird in
flight. The cells invariably have
five birds in them, always the
McKenney On
BRIDGE
BY WILLIAM E. ‘MCKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
The California Bridge Week
Tournament is divided into two
parts, the first half being played
in Los Angeles and the second
half in San Fransicso. For the
first time this year a large dele
gation from eastern states at
tended the tournament.
In addition to the 21 who flew
out by chartered plane, there was
a group of 12 from Wichita, Kan.
We all agreed that today's hand
was one of the most interesting in
the tournament.
Inere is no bidding shown be
cause all of the players bid the
hand in different ways, but they
all got to seven spades with South
the declared, and in every case
the king of hearts was opened.
It so happens that if you lead
a small spade to the ten-spot, ruff
a club in dummy and lead an
other spade to the queen, ruff an
other club, cash the ace and king
of diamonds and ruff a diamond
in the South hand, seven-odd can
be made.
However, not one of the experts
made it because this tine of play
depends entirely upon a four-four
break in clubs. It seems more
natural to play the hand for a
four-one rather than a five-noth
ing break in diamonds.
Some of them lost the hand im
mediately by cashing the ace of
spades and then playing the ace
of diamonds, which was trumped.
When we gave this hand to
Mrs. Helen Sobel upon our
return, her line of play was to
win the ace of hearts, cash the
ace of spades, lead a small spade
to the queen, ruff a small club,
then cash the ace and king of dia
monds and ruff a diamond. This
gave her both chances to make
the contract, that is. if the dia
monds broke four-one or the clubs
four-four.
4k AKJ82
%V A O
♦ A K J 6 4 S
♦ None
4k 95
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432
♦ None
4k Q 9 6 5
4k Q 10 6 4
V J6
♦ 72
4k A K 10 3 2
Tournament—Neither vul
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same number. These are to be
interpreted as the five Doves of
Peace.
“While the name of the author
of the analytical description,” Mr.
Moore writes me, “has been lost
in the mist of time, nevertheless
he has left for posterity a descrip
tive narrative of religious trend
which is so appealing that it im
presses even those who ordinarily
may be scoffers.
“The Holy Ghost shell (some
times called the ‘Sand Dollar’) is
found in profusion along the beach
es and strands of North Carolina,
as well as in various other sec
tions. It is grayish in color and
almost circular in shape. It is one
of the infinite number which
possess life and animation. When
dead, after exposure to the sun,
the shell bleaches to a pure white
color.
“There were thousand's of sol
diers stationed in the Wilmington
area during the war who were in
terested in collecting shells. There
have been a great many recent
requests for a descriptive outline
of the Holy Ghost shell. It is for
this reason that the narrative is
being revived and in the hope, as
well, that the information may be
of interest to readers generally.”
I have always envied these
people who can walk along the
beach, pick up a shell, and learn
edly tell you in a minute the pre
cise popular and scientific name
for it. Personally. I’m familiar
only with the conch shell. When I
pick up anything else it is just
shell.
It seems to me that I'd been
calling this particular shell — The
Holy Ghost shell — a seabiscuit.
However, this may be just another
indication that I don't know my
shells' and that the seabiscuit is
an entirely different shell.
However. I do thank Mr. Moore
for this bit of information. I in
tend to go on the beach today and
begin a try at making a collection
of these shells.
STAR Dust
An Unmitigated Ass
This editorial is written by the
contributing editor of this news
paper, who is by a profession a
practicing lawyer and who thinks
both in his capacity as a lawyer
and in his role as a sometime edi
tor, that Mr. Justice Jackson made
an unmitigated ass of himself by
his attack on Mr. Justice Black —
Macon (Ga.) News.
Guiding Principles
The National Association of
Manufacturers has put ads in the
papers telling us how happy it is
about the price situation. With
conscience instead of the OPA as
our guide, we can all get rich by
overcharging each other. — The
New Yorker.
Home Work To Do
The missionaries from the north
would find plenty to do at home if
they would only correct the many
injustices and abuses that exist
there. — The State (Columbia, S
C.) ’
In Reverse
The college boy arrested for
driving backwards in a U-Drive-It
car to keep the meter from regis
tering is not too different from a
lot of drivers on the highway _
they don't know whether they’re
coming or going. — Roanoke (Va)
World-News.
Doctor Says—
FLEA BITE DANGER
IS CUT BY CONTROL
By WILLIAM A. O’BRIEN v
Flea bites result from "■
with dog and cat fleas and v, *
fleas. Another variety of
troublesome because of it, '\ !|
cy to burrow into the 'jk> ^
In biting, fleas leave » 7ha>
teristic mark which can be r ^
nized at a glance, as it j, , 0?'
with a tiny spot of hemorrha??
the middle. to
The reaction to flea bites v, ■
in different individuals, in ace?'
ance with the sensitivity 0t /
skin. Some show no reaction
while others are made ill bv',"
bites. ' '
The irritating substance
the flea injects through the ho,
he makes in the skin produces \
allergic reaction lr. hvpersensi*?
persons; in some there is a ge?
alized disturbance, with hives in
hemorrhagic eruptions
Flea bites sometimes are evert,
spaced in a line across the sk
as fleas have a tendency to fc-,
and bite and hop again. Flea; s'?
can jump from one person to s?
other.
Flea-bite reactions are relieved
by the application of any anti-itch,
ing lotion containing menthol 0r
phenol. As these preparations con.
tain a powder in suspension, they
should be mopped on the surface
and allowed to dry. Reapplication
can be made without removing tj
coat previously applied.
An ordinary dog and cat flea,
are the usual source of humsj
bites, the control of the pests c
the animals and in the animals’
quarters will clear up the dif;..
culty.
rets snouia De given « thorough
scrubbing with soap and water
which is' incorporated one of the
preparations for destroying a:
mal fleas. Powders, too, can bs
applied to the pet’s skin.
The animal's quarters should be
thoroughly cleaned, and all dust
and rubbish should be removed.
Flea control in the h o rr. t is
largely a matter of animal-flea
control, plus a thorough house
cleaning and fumigation. If tie
fleas are in the bedding and ma -
tresses, those articles can be iter
ilized .
The floors should be scrubbed
with soap and water to which an
antiseptic agent has been added
Exterminating powder can be ap
plied in the cracks, or in. whole
job can be turned over to i
trained pest-exterminator.
The female of a certain variety
of flea (chigoe, jigger, or nigua
has a bad habit of biting and fen
burrowing into the skin, especially
that around toes and fingers. She
leaves a small black spot at he
point of entrance, and severe re.
action in the tissues may result.
The proper treatment is to ster
ilize the skin and dig out ihe *leas
with a needle. Secondary infection
can cause a severe ulceration
which may disable the patient.
Control of rat fleas, which trans
mit serious diseases (plague anl
typhus) in certain parts of fe
world, is effected by destroying
the rats with gases or traps.
Clothing infected by rat flea* is
best destroyed.
letter box
COURT HOUSE PARKING
To the Editor:
I thought I would write you I
regards to the parking situttit
ardund the county court
here.
I understand it is now »?a‘r:;
the law for anyone not employe:
by the county to park in the coo
house yard.
Do you think it is t fair »K
just thing to deprive the pub-1
of something they pay heavy taxes
to keep up? , .
Maybe the county commit06'
ers think it is fair to keep M
general public from using
thing they pay for. ^
But there is another *nua --
around the court house .hey 4®
think anything about. I air
ing of the number of police irC
highway patrol cars that pari e“
Princess street.
Wh^n recorder s cour.
sion you will find ad. the •
cars and sheriff cars parked Jj
Princess street in front ot
court house.
If they want to take ’he e°‘'J
yard away from the pe°P;e
pay taxes for it why dont
make the county and highws'r
trol cars park their own cars^j
the court yard and leave
robm on the street for the PJJ-'
to park? , ,,
If you will stop to look
will find a space marked 0
front of the court house on
cess street for unloading P11
ers. Also if you look yc i vi ‘
a door on the ground fl°°r
ing in the court house vara
should be used for ' :Pu .
That alone would give e P
a chance to park four '<
on Princess street. („-j
The lawyers and other ^
having business in the -• ,
find it impossible to fi " 8
to park their cars ;
attend court but s*.
taxes for the court yard. j
Or maybe they f "\\A
double as the highway .v,
other police cars do .r ^
court house on prince stre. ji,
I have seen many :: res » ‘
way patrol tar parked
cess street all day and :a-J
night while the partolnjan
the football game in Du 1
thing in a nut shell is :t ' ..lti
the court yard then g've ;
to the public.
A County Tax
Wilmington, N. C.
July 25, 1946.