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French May
Order Navy
To Rebellion
Strong Squadron May Be
Dispatched To Coasts
Of Indo-China*
SAVAGE BATTLE
Viet Nam Convoys Report
ed Moving Toward Be
leaguered Hanoi
PARIS. Dec. 28.— (JP) —France
appeared to be getting ready to
dispatch a strong naval squadron
to the coasts of a rebellious Indo
China today amid increasing in
dications that she will use her
planes and guns along with diplo
macy to keeD a 400-year-old em
pire from falling apart.
Viet-Namese convoys were re
ported moving toward beleaguered
Hanoi, former capital of the Viet
Nam republic where. French ef
forts to mop up the European
ouarter were assuming the nature
of a long-drawn and savage street
battle.
From Saigon, capital of Cochin
China in southern Indo-China.
came contradictory reports of the
activities of Viet-Namese adher
ents. One report said Viet-Namese
formations had completed military
preparations and were under or
ders to hold themselves ready for
imminent action in South Indo
China. The French news agency
s=id, on the contrary, that the
Viet-Namese had been ordered to
retrain from any over act at pres
ent, Saigon was reported under a
state of siege and tense.
All fighter pilots attached to the
aircraft carriers Bearn and Colos
sus at Toulon were cancelled, and
similar urgent orders were report
ed sent to personnel stationed on
the destroyers Fantasque, Triom
phant and Dixmude.
inese uiueis, given just ueiure
the New Year’s celebrations, were
interpreted as presaging the dis
paich of the five naval warships
tn the Orient. The liner lie de
France already had been directed
to Toulon to pick up 9,000 troops
for Indio-China.
French patrol planes riddle Viet
Namese convoys nearing Hanoi
with streams of machinegun fire,
press dispatches said, and the
Viet-Namese replied with strong
attack on French columns moving
around the city.
Violent clashes on the city’s out
skirts were reported. The whole
section of the city controlled by
the French remained encircled by
the hostile natives who had cut it
off from the rest of Indo-China ex
cept for aerial transport. This
means of communications for the
beleaguered French was reestab
lished two days ago when the
French recaptured the airport.
A French general staff com
munique released at Saigon in
southern Indo-China, and a Viet
Namese broadcast heard in neigh
boring Bangkok, Siam, made it
apparent that the French were
meeting stiff resistance in their so
far futile efforts to mop up the
Hanoi area and clear their com
munications.
THOMPSON LEADS
IN GEORGIA POLL
Promises Support Of White
Supremacy Program In
State
ATLANTA, Ga„ Dec. 28.—(U.R)—
jLt. Gov.-Elect M. E. Thompson,
leading Herman Talmadge better
than ftvo to one in United Press
Poll of legislators, announced to
day that if elected governor of
Georgia he will support the white
supremacy program of the' late Eu
gene Talmadge.
The 34-year-old son of the late
Political leader is basing his race
for the office on the appeal that
he is the only one who can fulfill
the campaign promises his father
made to the people during his final
race in the spring and summer of
1946.
Thompson issued the latest in a
series of campaign bulletins saying
that “I have been committed all
along to carry out the democratic
Party platform adopted at Macon
last October—including specifically
a white primary, preserving the
county unit system and expanded
state services.”
Talmade had announced Friday
that these were the three main
points on which he would base his
administration if elected.
Thompson said the-three - point
program which both candidates ad
vocated “can best be adopted” by
the legislature if the law of suc
cession is permitted "to operate
without hindrance so we can im
mediately enact this program into
the law without engaging in a po
litical row.”
f /%^ew Senators
\ ant Labor Changes
Fundamental Changes In Labor Laws Favor
ed By Majority Of 23 New Senators;
Speedy Legislation Indicated
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—(/P)—A majority of the 23
new Senators favors fundamental changes in labor laws, a
survey disclosed today, indicating definite and perhaps
speedy legislation in this field.
Mickey Rooney, Jr.
Mickey Rooney, Jr., son of
the movie actor, plays with
Christmas gifts in the home of
his mother’s people at Birming
ham, Ala., where he is spend
ing the holidays. Mrs. Rooney,
the former Betty Jane Rase, is
expecting another baby within
a few days. (AP Photo).
I The Senate heretofore has been
i more hesitant than the House to
ward proposals for legislation to
restrict the activities of labor
unions.
The Senate’s 49 to 29 vote for
the Case bill in the last session,
which President Truman vetoed,
represented an unusual decision to
change the rules. Forty-three of
the 49 return to the new Senate,
but they need support from fresh
men if similar legislation is to be
pa-sed again.
Campaign and post-ele(tion state
ments by most of the 23 indicate
they will join in efforts designed
to reduce industrial striff by alter
ing existing laws.
Their viewpoints range from a
proposal by Senator-Elect James
P. Kem (R-Mol that Congress
write “a new national labor policy”
to a demand by Senator-Elect
Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) for
compulsory arbitration in indus
tries affecting public health and
safety.
A middle layer of new members
urged in the words of Senator Ray
mond E. Baldwin (R-Connl, a
sane, moderate, unemotional” ap
proach. Baldwin, like others, called
for ‘‘equalization of responsibility”
between labor and management
uder the Wagner Act and for fi- I
nancial accounting by uions.
Some, like Seator-elect Irving M.
Ives (R-NY), believe that ‘‘the real
solution of labor problems lies in
sympathetic arbitration.”
Ives clearly irked the CIO during
the campaign, however, by a de
claration that management has as
much right to the lockout as labor
has to the strike. _
Ganey Case To Spotlight
January^ Superior^ Court
Gus Ganey, 42-year-old service station operator of Sea
gate will go on trial for his life Jan. 15, it was indicated last
night in a telephone conversation with Clifton L. Moore,
district solicitor, in Goldsboro.
VA TO DISCUSS
VETS HOSPITAL
Wilmington Delegation Will
Confer With Washington
Veteran Officials
A delegation of Wilmington civic
leaders will confer with General
Omar Bradley. Veterans adminis
tration chief, in Washington, D. C..
in early January, on the proposed
$15,000,000 VA hospital for Wil
mington, John Farrell, city indus
trial agent, said last night.
The delegation will be comprised
of representatives of the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
city and county, Farrell said.
Declaring the issue, which was
accompanied by top publicity sev
eral weeks ago, was far from dead,
Farrell said a two-volume brief
had been prepared, citing the ad
vantages of the VA locating a hos
pital in this area.
At the same time, Charles Ford,
chairman of the Legion hospital
committee, reported his organiza
tion solidly in support of the ven
ture. He said Gen. Bradley would
be asked to consider three or four
sites within the Wilmington area
which have some of the qualifica
tions expected to be demanded by
VA. Ford declined to comment on
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\jrdxiey xa dUUSt'U cal uav.ug
and killed Juilus Franklin Hender
son, 24-year-old Jacksonville drive
in attendant, as he sat in a car in
front of the Seagate service station
owned bv the defendant the night
of Oct. 29.
Moore said last night that the
case would probably attract a great
deal of public interest.
The district solicitor said he
would ask for a verdict of murder
in the first degree—it carries a
sentence of death—although he add
ed that the charge was subject to
change.
‘The case will be interesting,” he
said, “as it has a lot of interest
ing angles.” Moore added that he
has tried many cases which were
more spectacular but that few of
them had “as many angles.”
He said that he would probably
be assisted by Woodus Kellum,
former district solicitor, and Dud
ley Humphrey, law partner of Kel
lum.
Aaron Goldberg and David Sin
clair, the latter a former district
solicitor, both said last night that
they were ready and indicated that
many interesting bits of testimony
would be presented during the trial.
Both Moore and the attorneys
for the defense said the trial would
probably last through Jan. 18 al
though local speculation is that it
will take more than one day to
select a jury.
The case which is expected to
highlight the January term of
criminal Superior court, had its be
ginning when Sheriff’s deputies
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
Good Samaritan Refuses
To Prosecute Attacker
VERO BEACH, Fla., Dec. 28.—
(U.r)—A good samaritan, knifed by
a hitchhiker who was stricken with
remorse, tonight refused to talk
against the man who turned on
him.
George Dosiak, 20, of Manorville,
Long Island, kept his story to him
self in Indian river hosptial but
War Veteran William John Treacy,
26, told his side of the story will
ingly. Treacy, of Brooklyn, admit
ted his betrayal of the youth who
kicked him up and drove him south
for three days.
“He just got a notion to kill him
and rob him,” Sheriff L. B. O’Steen
reported. “They were driving along
this morning and Treacy says he
got on his knees on the front seat
and reached back into the rear
seat. He got his army trench knife
out of a zipper bag and stuck it
in Dosiak’s back.
“He just stabbed him once. The
knife went in between Dosiak’s
ribs and hit his lung. The car
swerved over to the side of the
road and Treacy shoved Dosiak out
onto the side of the road. Then he
got to feeling bad about it and
instead of driving off he got out.
“Dosiak was standing up and
they talked about it for a little while
and then Treacy went to a house
and called me.”
O’Steen said Treacy also tele
phoned a doctor and told him to
meet Dosiak at the hospital. By the
time the sheriff reached the scene,
he said, an ambulance had picked
up Dosiak and Treacy has disap
peared. Returning to town he found
that Treacy had given himself up
to city police.
RUSSIA SURPRISES U. N. IN ASKING
TIME LIMIT ON DISARMAMENT PLAN;
CIO PORTAL PAY CLAIMS UNDER FIRE
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Rival Union
Paper Hits
Wage Suits
Labor Newspaper Says CIO
Carrying Portal Pay Ac
tions To ‘Extreme’
STUDY PROPOSED
‘Ballyhoo Stunt’ Charged
By Publication Of 15
Railroad Unions
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—(JP)—A.
leading labor newspaper with AFL
connections today accused the CIO
Df carrying the portal pay court ae
:ions to an “extreme” and stir
•ing fresh resentment against
inions.
At the same time the United
States Chamber of Commerce an
lounced it will ask Congress not
mly for amendments to the wage
four law to curtail future portal
pay demands but also for a
‘thorough going study of the entire
law and its economic effects.”
“Labor,” weekly publication of
15 railroad unions, most of them
major AFL affiliates, said in an ar
ticle that “most AFL unions are
advising against radical action” on
portal demands. It accused the
CIO of using its flood of back pay
suits as a “ballyhoo stunts’ to w;n
additional members.
The aggregate of claims in suits
filed within the past few weeks
is well above $1,000,000,000. The
claims are based on the wage-hour
act as interpreted by the supreme
court and ask compensation and
penalty payments for time spent
in walking to jobs from company
gates and in similar activities.
The largest suit filed sought $200,
000,000 from the Bethlehem Steel
company. It was filed today by a
battery of lawyers, headed by Lee
Pressman, general counsel for the
CIO, in Philadelphia federal court,
on behalf of 13,000 of the compa
ny’s 50,000 employes, members of
23 locals of the CIO United Steel
workers union.
The chamber’s intention to ask
Congress to review the entire
wage-hour act was disclosed in its
weekly report, “Business Action.”
Chamber members are being poll
ed on four suggested amendments
to the present act.
Sleepy Child, 2, Awaits
Mom At Police Station
She was only two-years old and as she rubbed her sleep
laden eyes with a grubby and chubby list while sitting in
the most comfortable chair in the Wilmington police station,
Patrolman J. W. Wilson, brushed the tears away from his
—
U. S. Prepares To Pay
German War Prisoners
BERLIN, Dec. 28.— (U.R) — The
United States, adhering to the Gen
eva convention, is preparing to pay
some $200,000,000 to former Ger
man war prisoners who worked
during their internment, it was
learned today.
The payments will go to between
2,500,000 and 3,000,000 former pris
oners, taken in great masses during
the last months of the war when
Allied troops were rolling east
ward through Germany.
Siren Sounds Warning
Of Teen-Age Curfew
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 28.
—(U.R)—A Siren which did duty dur
ing the war as an air-raid warning
was sounded at 9:30 p.m. tonight
and police began rounding up teen
agers still on the streets in a drive
to curb juvenile delinquency.
BUS-TRUCK WRECK
WORLAND..Wyo., Dec. 28—OT—
Discovery of the body of Pat
Coughlin, about 50, raised the death
toll in a flaming bus to five today.
The bus was showered with gaso
line after a collision with a truck
on a narrow snow-covered bridge
nine miles north of here yesterday.
eyes.
The youngster waited for her
mother to come and take her home
as her father, with two compan
ions, was booked on charges of
gambling and contributing to the
delinquency of a minor.
Although no charges were placed
against the child she still “wanted
her mama’’ as her eyes became
tired and she did not seem over
excited over the proceedings and
the attention she was receiving.
The youngster, barely large
enough to top a 24-inch ruler, sat
straight across from the kindly
red-headed policeman as the Sand
Man started to play tricks with
her eyes. She wanted only one
thing—mama to arrive from fhe
mill where she was working and
take her home.
She had been brought to head
quarters with her father, C. W.
Kanupp and David King, 61 Spof
ford, and VV. B. Brooks, 33 Spof
ford.
According to Patrolman J. T.
Rich, who brought the quartet to
the station, he found the girl under
an old railroad trestle near Spof
ford Mills with the men who were
busily playing cards as the young
ster acted as a “lookout.”
However, when the law enforce
ment officer made his appearance
it was “sleepy time’ for the tot
and according to officers the men
were caught engaging in a three
handed same.
The trio was released under
$400 bond each for appearance in
Recorder’s court.
12 Perish As Plane Crashes,
Explodes Near Shannon Field
SHANNON AIRPORT, Eire,
Dec. 28—(A5)—A trans-world air
line constellation plane settling
to land at Shannon airport
crash ed two miles short of the
mist-shrouded runway early to
day, killing 12 persons and in
juring 11 others, some of whom
were hurtled out of the explod
ing wreckage into a watery
Irish fog that slowed rescue for
hours.
Six of the injured were listed
tonight as critacally hurt, but
one airport official said it was
“truly a miracle’’ that all 23
occupants of the Paris-New
York luxury airliner “Star of
Cairo”* did not perish in the
flash of flame and shattered
wreckage on an island in the
Shannon river.
TWA officials who headed
rescue operations declined
comment on the cause of the
accident pending a three-way
investigation by U. S. Civil
Aeronautics authority, the Eire
Department of Industry and
Commerce and TWA.
Surviving were six of the nine
crew members and five of the
14 passengers. Among the
dead was Pierre N. Dreyfus,
identified by a brother-in-law
in New York as the son of
the late Captain Alfred Drey
fus, whose conviction as a
French military traitor in 1894
provoked a world wide protest
and led to his later exoneration.
More than 100 rescurer wad
ing waist-de^p in mud did not
bring out the last of the injured
until nightfall.
Eyewitnesses said the four
engine plane crashed with a
(Continued on Page Tuv; Col. 4)
Johnson, Thomas Rap
Compulsory^ Training
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—(IP)—President Truman’s
Advisory commission weighted the impact of scientific war
far on proposals for universal training today as two in
fluential democratic Senators termed the plan out-dated.
SOUTHERN
RAIL CRASH
INJURES 16
RALEIGH, Dec. 28—(A>)—
Sixteen persons were injured,
none believed seriously, in a
headon collision of a Southern
Railway passenger train and a
freight today at Auburn, eight
miles from here.
Railroad officials said neith
er train was running more than
ive or six miles an hour when
they met. ^Two tank cars of
gasoline oh the freight were
wrecked, but the fuel did not
catch fire. Spectators with
buckets and tubs scooped up
the gas from gullies as it flow
ed away from the wreck.
The trains were passenger
No. 14, eastbound from Greens
boro to Goldsboro, and freight
train No. 64, westbound.
A. B. Waynick, engineer, and
Joe Beal, fireman, both of
Greensboro, suffered cuts on
their faces and arms. They
were brought to Rex hospital
here.
PRODUCTION DRIVE
MOSCOW, Dec. 28—(U.R)—The So
viet Council of Ministers has order
ed the Russian textile and other
consumer goods industries to open
a production drive that will meet
the common man's demand for
clothing, shoes and other every
day necessities, the government
newspaper Izvestia said today.
Senators Elbert D. Thomas (D
Utah) and Edwin C. Johnson (D
Colo), assailing "goose-stepping”
in a mechanized age, announced in
separate interviews they will fjght
any system of compulsory military
training offered in the new Con
gress.
The commission which President
Truman named to work out recom
mendations met behind closed
doors at the White House with Dr.
Vannevar Bush, director of the
Office of Scientific Research and
Development, and War department
representatives.
It issued a statement afterwards
saying that Dr. Bush, by invitation,
“presented his views on the future
technological possibilities and re
quirements for national security
and their implications regarding
universal training.”
War department officials, meet
ing for a second time with the
commission, “described the man
power requirements for perform
ing the present and probable fu
ture duties of the Army and de
scribed the role of universal train
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
FIRE DESTROYS
CRAIN ELEVATOR
Loss Expected To Exceed
$1,000,000 In Minnea
polis Grain Disaster
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 28— {/?)—
TTie million bushel capacity grain
elevator of the Brooks Elevator
corporation was destroyed by fire
today, after an explosion shattered
a cupola atop the five-story wood
and sheet metal structure.
M. L. Kane, vice president and
general manager of the corpora
tion, said the structure was nearly
full of grain but he declined to
estimate the loss.
Other grain men said that at cur
rent grain prices the loss probably
would be more than $1,000,000 ex
clusive of the building.
The blaze broke out in midafter
noon. It was the second large grain
elevator fire in Minneapolis in 10
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Reign Of Shear Terror
Baffles N. Y. Policemen
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—(A5)—A
roving squad of plainclothes men
hopped from streetcar to streetcar
today in eagle-eyed but. vain pur
suit of “Jack the Clipper”, ac
cused of whacking off the locks of
girl passengers all over town.
“A reign of shear terror,” one
called it as the sleuths combed
the street cars.
The detectives were given pockets
full of tokens and transfers and
put to work by police superintend
ent Harvey G. Callahan after three
cases of stealthy hair clipping had
been reported. And then two more
cases came to light.
The girls who were able to identi
fy the trolley barber said he was
a nice looking young man, flatly
dressed and with a head of curly
hair—presumably his own.
Dis-tressing stories went like
this:
About 9:30 yesterday morning, 12
year-old Diane Sklarsky got off
a streetcar and found one of her
braids shy about nine inches.
At noon a redhead was the prey.
Laura Coe, 21, found herself minus
a nine-inch curl which she must
have lost while waiting for a bus.
At 3 p. m., Jeanne Thompson,
19, lost several thick strands on
the same Connecticut avenue car
line where the Sklarsky girl got
bobbed.
At 5 p. m.. the busy phantom
snipped some hair from the back
of the head of Janice Rome, 18.
as she rode down Pennsylvania
avenue. “It was a pretty uneven
job,” she reported.
Then last night (this barber
wasn’t working union hours) the
victim was Joan Reid, 21. Some
one cut two-thirds of the way
around the back of her head as she
rode home in a trolley.
Two of the girls felt gentle and
hardly noticeable tugs; the others
felt and saw nothing suspicious.
TWO DIE, 19 HURT
IN PUNE CRASH
American Airlines Craft
Crash-Lands In Scenic
‘Friendship Gardens’
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Dec. 28.
—(A3)—An American Airlines plane
en route from Buffalo, N. Y., to
Chicago crash-landed in scenic in
ternational Friendship Gardens
east of here today killing the pilot
and co-pilot and injuring 19 passen
gers.
The plane cut a wide swath
through several hundred yards of
trees in the gardens and came to
rest against a small tree.
The pilots’ cabin and the tail of
the plane were sheared from the
passengers compartment, which
remained intact. Officials said this
probably accounted for the fact
the loss of life was not greater.
The pilot was Farnk Mates
Hamm, Jr., of Brdigeport, Conn.,
and Chicago, and the co-pilot was
Harmon Edwin Ring, Muscatine,
la. Hamm was killed instantly and
Ring, who was thrown clear, died
a short time after the accident.
A section crew for the New
York Central railroad saw the
plane emerge from an overcast
over Lake Michigan and fly inland
at a low altitude.
S. E. Hall, a member of the sec
tion crew, said he was “sure the
engines were not running.’’
“The plane made hardly a sound
as it passed over our heads going
southeast,” Hall said. “We saw it
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1
Three-Month
Limit Asked
By Gromyko
Atomic Energy Commission
Nears Showdown On
First Control Report
QUICK ACTION
Soviet Delegate Cites ‘Most
Important Measure’ For
World Security
NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-4;p>—
Soviet Russia proposed in a sur
prise move tonight that the United
Nations Security council fix a
three-month time limit for draft
ing a world-wide arms reduction
program.
The Soviet move came as the
United Nations Atomic Energy
commission neared a showdown
on its first atomic control report,
one of the major steps in the gener
al arms limitation plan as ap
proved by the U. N. assembly Dec,
14.
In a letter to Secretary-General
Trygve Lie, Soviet delegate Andrei
A. Gromyko called for immediate
action on the whole program with
out waiting for final action on
atomic control.
He submitted a formal resolu
tion, outlining the new Soviet pro
posals, and asked that they be
placed on the agenda of the Securi
ty Council’s next meeting, sched
uled, for Dec. 31.
Declaring that "the general regu
lation and reduction of armaments
and armed forces is the most im
portant measure for the strengthen
ing of international peace and se
curity,” Gromyko proposed:
1. That the Security Council
"proceed with the working out of
practical measures on the imple
mentation of the General assemb
ly’s decision of 14 December” on a
world arms limitation program.
2. Tliat it establish immediately
an ll-.nation commission, repre
senting each ntaion of the Security
coucil, to prepare and submit ^>e
cific proposals on the entire plan
"within a period of .rom one to
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 6)
NHHS Quintet Wallops
Soldier Five, 112 To 38
By GENE WARREN |
Star-News Sports Writer
The New Hanover High school Wildcats put on the most
devastating display of basketball ever seen in Wilmington
last night to completely crush a highly regarded Fort Bragg
basketball club, 112-38, at the high school gymnasium.
In gaining their sixth straight
victory the NHHS cagers showed
their best form of the season. The
quint’s fast breaking offensive was
never better. The boys could not
miss on shots, whether long or
short. And even when the first
team was resting the reserves
played exceptionally well.
Johnny McKoy, 6 ft. 6 in. center,
lead all scorers with a total of 31
points. Billy Mason, 6 ft. forward,
ranked second with 25 markers,
and W. A. Brown, 5 ft. 4 in. guard,
¥-—
grabbed third place with 24 tallies.
The Wildcat five started slowly,
but grew hotter as the contest pro
gressed. After a 21-13 margin at
the end of the first quarter, W. A.
Brown sparked the offensive play,
and Wilmington walked off ths
court at halftime holding a com*
fortable 47-19 lead.
In the third period the Wilming*
ton five was at its best. McKoy,
Mason, and Brown set the pac«
with their remarkable shooting ac
curacy, while Louis Collie and
Toddy Fennell set up the majority
of the shots. Second stringer Mar
ion Rogers also looked good, and
was a key factor in Wilmington’s
(Continued on Page Eight; Col. 3)(
The Weather
(Eastern Standard Time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the 24 houri
ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a.m. 50; 7:30 a m. 52; 1:30 p.m. «»
7:30 p-m. 63.
Maximum 71; Minimum 49; Mean «0|
Normal 47.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 98; 7:30 a.m. 85. 1:30 p.m. ««
7:30 p.m. 83. ,
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. ^
3.00 inches. i
Total since the first of the month
2.10 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
[1. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
IVilmington - 1:27 a.m. 8.:35 a.m*
2:03 p.m. 9:17 p.m.
Masonboro Inlet _ 11:22 a.m. 5:05 a.m.
11:46 p.m. 5:53 p.m.
Sunrise 7:17; Sunset 5:12; Moonris*
11:26 a.m.; Moonset 10:55 p.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
i m. Dec. 28, 11.7 feet.