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FORECAST: Wilmington ana vicinity: Fair and con tinued cold today and tonight; Thurs day fair with slowly rising tempeia tures. ___WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1947 _ ESTABLISHED 1867 Erwin Sounds Warning Over Salary Fight1 State Superintendent Say* Percentages Battle Will Not Fill Vacancies shortages ACUTE Educational Leader Says Aroused Populace Must Demand Adequate Pay RALEIGH, Jan. 21.— (A>) — Dr. Circle A Erwin, state superinten be’nt of public instruction, told Xart * Carolina’s educational lead ers here today, that the present crisis hi teacher shortages "cannot be met by a battle over percent ages. • ■An aroused populace must de mand that every available dollar be appropriated to relieve our shortages in teachers and other necessary facilities. Only the legis lature can officially determine how much can be appropriated . . . not met its obligation to its chil aud until it has done its ail, it has dren." Dr. Erwin said. Approximately 300 school offi cials. including principals, super intendents and members of school boards, representatives of civic or ganizations and farm groups, and college heads attended the meeting, designed to start an ‘“educational crusade” to relieve the teacher shortage in North Carolina. Ersvin emphasized that the pre sent crisis is the greatest in the state's history. "Teaching person nel is slipping away like the sand in an hour glass. Replacements willnot be attracted by meager sal jries,'" he added. Nation-Wide He said the shortage is nation wide, which makes the North Car olina situation even worse, with ''our teachers going to states where they can get more money.” Dr. James E. Hillman, director of the division of professional ser vice oi tile State Department of public instruction, presented latest data on the teacher situation, com piled from a recent survey of all local units m North Carolina. Hillman said that 1,053 teachers dad left their jobs in this state since September, and that as a result many grades were without teach tri or had been forced to double inder other teachers. He said county and pity, units re >orte*4hat 283 depstsrtJseiiifar. sub jects had been closedthisyea^beb cause of lack of teachers. Most frequent of these included: Agricul* tare, business education, home economics, science, foreign lan juages and industrial arts. Hillman pointed out that in 1940 (Continued on Page 2; Col. 1) PRIClTOF BUTTER DROPS TWO CE TS Total Slash In Past Three Weeks Amounts To 23 Cents At Retail »y the associated press Butter prices dropped again to day on the heels of a prediction a retail price below 50 cents • pound by this summer. A decline of about 23 cents in the list three weeks has coincided ’rith a big jump in production. Heavy supplies in wholesale mar kets have put relentless pressure in prices. B. K. Froker, professor of agri cultural economics at the Univer ! - of Wisconsin, who made the Recast of 50-cent butter at a farm conference in Madison, Wis„ on Monday, explained: Milk production is at its peak *nd that, plus the fact supply pipe ,1Pes are well stocked, will drop “Utter prices before long.” Major food chains in the * East Junounced a reduction in retail ,‘ ei’ to 65 from 67 cents a pound, elective Wednesday. One concern Jo jumped the gun by quoting “at Pnca last Friday. At New York wholesale prices ^ 1 to 2 cents a pound to •b. i-4 cents for top grades, undreds of pounds remained un despite the reduction. buibones meditations By Alley H 60-RAGE MAN Sfirt MAH OUE CiAR NEED ®E VAWVt GRIND, BUT wwd Knows. I don' Know is pat thing stiuu got a vawe! ^_—___ P * tn. b#*i •ft, »te' lPc-* Mirk - «f U. |. P*|. 01M) LouieWoodburyWins Jaycee Citation Here Gets Award LOUIE WOODBURY COMMUNITY CHEST TO NAME OFFICERS Annual Meeting Of Group Scheduled For Today At 4 P. M. New officers for 1947 of the Wil mington Community Chest will be elected this afternoon by the board of directors, immediately follow ing the annual meeting of the Chest scheduled for 4 o'clock in building, according to E. Stewart, the assembly hall of the Tide Water president. The purpose of the annual meet ing, Stewart indicated, is to select five new directors to serve until 1950, from the slate of candidates brought in by a previously appoint ed nominating committee consist ing of E. L. White, chairman; H. R. Emory, Howard A. Penton, Richard S. Rogers, and Alex Sprunt. Stewart explained that the Com munity Chest board of directors consists of 27 members, twelve of whom are appointed for one year terms by the Red Feather services of the chest, and the remaining fifteen being elected at the annual meeting, five each year, for terms of three years. Directors appointed by the mem ber agencies for 1947 include: W Eugene Edwards, Boy Scouts; Mrs. J WaUaee West. Girl Scouts; Mrs. Thomas J. Gause. Social Service Index; Mrs. J. D. Freeman, Y. W. C. A.; L. D. Latta, Public Health Nursing association; Albert S. Trundle, Jr.. YMCA: W. Elliott O’Neal, family service society: J. Fred Rippey, Brigade Boys club: Dr. L. W. Upperman, Shaw’s Boys’ club; James E. L. Wade, Travelers Aid society; Thomas H. Wright, Salvation Army; and Ed gar L. Yow, Associated Charities. Directors to be replaced at the annual meeting are Alex Sprunt, R. Stewart. J. Walter Webb, E. L. White, and Paul A. Wilson. Those with one more year to serve are: Frederick B. Graham, H. A. Marks, Pomeroy Nichols, H. A. Penton. and H. M. Solomon; and with two years to serve are Lenox G. Cooper, Rabbi Samuel A. Friedman, W. Elliott O'Neal. Richard S. Rogers and Louie E. Woodbury, Jr. Officers during the past year whose terms are concluded with this meeting, in addition to presi dent Stewart, are H. A. Marks, first vice-president; L: D. Latta. second vice-president; and Fred erick B. Graham, treasurer. DRIVE CHAIRMEN ! TO MEET TODAY Report On March Of Dimes Campaign To Be Made At Headquarters Members of the New Hanover county March1 of Dimes drive committee will meet this after noon at campaign headquarters to determine the amount of money raised thi s far toward the county goal of $8,200, it was learned last night. Each committeeman is ex pected to make a report on the ad vancements of the drive in his area, it was stated. E. C. Snead, commander of the James F. Manley Post of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars, and Miss Dorothea Jones, teacher at New Hanover High school, were inter viewed yesterday afternoon in a 15 minute radio program over WMFD by Ben McDonald, cam paign publicity chairman, iri the latest of a series of broadcasts to aid the drive. Snead appealed particularly to the veterans of New Hanover. The next March of Dimes broad cast is scheduled for tonight at 6:40 o'clock. Insurance Executive Pre sented Service Award Key At Banquet Louie K. Woodbury, Jr., Wilming ton insurance executive, w' ~ .ril ed “Man of the Yea>-' c, ’ j Junior Chamuer of a Founders Da1' ,oSP the Plantatir Approx1 /_-re i present <ajCP ./Aftion of the Dis <o4? * Award key to Woe ift.® / 's outstand ing service i /immunity dur ing t{ie Hast *. John H. Far rell, City industrial Agent, made the presentation. The main address of the evening was delivered by George Chandler, of Winston-Salem, past secretary See Picture of Banquet on Page Two of the state organization, who out lined the objectives of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the goals set by the group. Mrs. Jesse Parker, accompanied by William G. Robinson, sang two arias from La Traviata and Rig oletto. Tom James acted as master of! ceremonies at the evening’s fes tivities, with dancing following the! banquet. The week ot January 15-22 had \ been proclaimed Junior Chamber of Commerce Week in Wilmington by Mayor W. Ronald Lane, and last night's celebration was part of a national program honoring Jaycee organizations in towns and cities throughout the United States. MISS DAY WEDS LEO IN TEXAS Brooklyii Manager Married To Actress Following Her Divorce LOS ANGELES. Jan. 21. -On Screen actress Laraine Day and Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, returned here by plane late today after she had obtained a Juarez, Mex., divorce and later was married in Ei Paso. Tex., to the firey baseball man. In El Paso, justice of the peace Charles Windberg, Jr., announced that he had performed the mar riage ceremony early this after noon. Miss Day’s Los Angeles at torney had said earlier that Daroch er had telephoned him they were married. Justice Windberg said he had not confirmed the marriage sooner because he had been asked to keep it a secret. Henry Garcia. El Paso county marriage license clerk, had said he had issued the license and turned it over to W. C. Roche. El Paso attorney who earlier had obtained Miss Day’s divorce. Garcia said Durocher had given his age as 39 and Miss Day as 26. Miss Day and Durocher alighted from the plane at Municipal Air port, hurried to a waiting station wagon and were whisked away. They turned aside reporters’ ques tions regarding the marriage re port. Earlier Miss Day's attorney, Ber nard M. Silbert. told newsmen in Los Angeles that Durocher had in formed him from El Paso by tele phone that he and Miss Day had been married. Silbert said he at tempted to stop the marriage as he thought it would be illegal. Yesterday in Los Angeles Miss Day divorced Ray Hendricks, San ta, Monica, Calif., airport execu tive, on general charges of cruel ty. Superior Judge George A. Dock weiler, who granted her the decree yesterday, was outspokenly dis pleased by today’s developments. “If she is dissatisfied with the de cree she obtained here, we are dis satisfied with her attitude and will set it aside.” the jurist told re porters. “Either she is going to submit to the jurisdiction of this court where she swore she was a legal resident, or, why didn’t she go to Juarez in the first place? If her decree here means anything, it means she must abide by its terms.” He said these terms forbid Miss Day marying “anywhere in the world” until the interlocutory de cree becomes final in a year. Hoover Called WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 — (ff) — President Truman has asked for mer President Herbert Hoover, of ficials said today, to undertake a survey of food problems in the joint United States-British zones of oc cupied Germany. In New York, a spokesman for Mr. Hoover said he will confer with Mr. Truman at 12:30 p. m. (E. S. T.) tomorrow at the White House. “Nothing has yet been settled in regard to his economic mission to Central Europe,” the spokes man said. Today And Tomorrow By WALTER LiPPMANN The address made last Friday to the National Publishers Asso ciation by Mr. John Foster Dulles marks a turning point of great sig nificance in the development of U. S. ^foreign policy. His close as sociation with Governor Dewey and with Senator Vandenberg, as well as the timing of the address, makes it certain that he was speaking for the ieadinfj elements of tlye Republican party. As a result of the elections :n [ November the Republicans are no l longer merely the opposition^ and their role in foreign policy is greatly changed. Once “bi-parti san co-operation” meant that they would not obstruct' and oppose. Since San Francisco it has meant that they would collaborate and support. Now, as Mr. Dulles’s ad dress shows, they have a program to propose and they will attempt to lead. s £ * f.i Tne crux of the proposal is that we should work not for another (Continued on Page 2; Col. 6) Board Seeks Master Plan For Airport Wilmington-New Hanover Authority Laying Basic Work For CAA Aid CONTRACTSIGNED Split-Field Operations Ma jor Topic For Discussion At Meeting Any action toward securing funds for' additional facilities at Blue thenthal field must be preceded by the drafting of a master plan for airport expansion and the subse quent approval of any such plan by the Civil Aeronautics Adminis tration, a member of the Wilming ton-New Hanover Airport authority said last night. inis statement came on tne neeis of e meeting of the local air board yesterday with the purpose of lay ing the groundwork for possible CAA aid at a latter date. Discussion at the session centered about the question of whether or not the local airport should have split-field operation as favored by the CAA. A further boost to this type of field operation came in the form of a letter from an official of National Airlines stating that the split-field practice was favored by his company. At the same time it was revealed that a contract calling for contin ued use of the tield had been sign ed by the local authority and of ficials of South East Airlines. Support for separated field operation has been voiced by Joseph Norwood, district airport engineer with the CAA. He attend* ed a recent board meeting and stated at the time that CAA re quirements call for separated operations. No progress on the drafting of an enabling act. setting up an authority for Bluethenthal field separate from the board of county commissioners was reported at yesterday’s meeting. It was disclosed, however, that a secret session of the local board was held January 10 at which time a contract authorizing the Standard Oil company to continue supply ing the airport with gasoline was approved. Jesse Parker, Bluethenthal man ager. revealed that the Atlantic Coast Line had offered to repair a spur track at the airport for $1200; with the track to aid main tenance crews to obtain gasoline for dispensing. Attending yesterday’s meeting in addition to Parker were Albert Perry, chairman; Lenox Cooper, Hamilton Hicks, Addison Hewlett and Harry Gardner', members. SI NG DAMS HOLD “I MAN RIVER” Flood Waters Continue To Force Alabama, Georgia People From Homes By The Associated Press With river bank dwellers in parts of Alabama and Georgia forced from their homes by flood waters, old man river, terror of the Mis sissippi delta, was being held in check by mighty dams along a powerful tributary, the Tennessee. Although some of the rivers were still rising, they were expected to reach their crests last night or to day and to begin retreating to their channels as the second straight day of clear weather lessened their burden. The swollen waters of Pearl river claimed the life of a Crystal Springs farmer, Donnie Welch, in Southern Mississippi when his motorboat overturned in the swift current. Meteorologist George V. Fish at Jackson, Miss., said the flood situa tion along the South Mississippi, was “somewhat more favorable,” though he warned that the full weight of tributary streams in north Mississippi was yet to be felt. Dams Holding However, the Tennessee Valley authority reported that the mighty concrete and steel barriers, such as Norris Dam, are holding the (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) MARSHALL RULES SELF OUT AS PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER; TALMADGE EFFIGY HANGED College Men Stage March On Capitol i Over 1,200 Demonstrators Demand Resignation Of “Elected” Governor DELEGATIONHEARD Thompson Rejects Propo sal That Differences Be Settled With Primary ATLANTA, Jan. 21. —(JP)— More than 1,200 college students, ‘teen-; agers to war veterans, stormed noisily to the Georgia capital today with mock Nazi placards and in signias to charge dictatorship- and demand — unsuccessfully — that legislature-elected Herman Tal madge resign as governor. Massing on the capital lawn, the demonstrators, after a 12-block march through downtown Atlanta, hanged a red-gallusgd effigy of Talmadge with swastika arm bands on the bronze statue of agrarian leader Thomas, E. Watson. In their best football game fash ion. they kept up a steady chant ‘Open The Door Herman,” later several hundred, many of them school girls, surged in near con fusion into the executive reception room and offices, keeping up their chant and bantering excitedly among themselves and with heck lers. Uniformed state troopers stood by, finally insisting firmly that hanger-ons leave. Talmadge first received a dele gation of seven who charged that he had seized the office ‘‘by force and violence” and then another group that offered to put on a dem onstration for him. The anti-Talmadge spokesman demanded of him: "Will you step down?” • Absolutely not,” he replied, add ing that the legislature's duty was “clear” under the constitution to elect him and his was “plain” to fill the office. Two resolutions were adopted. One protested Talmadge's election in the place of his father, the late Governor-elect Eugene Talmadge and called on him to resign “the alleged governorship until such a time as the courts render a prop er decision.” The other called on all citizens of the state to “boldly make known your feelings in this most serious crisis.” An hour after the exchange in Talmadge’s office several score of youngsters moved upon the second floor of the capital and cheered Lieutenant-Governor M. E. Thomp son. Talmadge's rival-claimant to the governorship, as he addressed them. GOVERNOR WILL GO WITH DELEGATION ON SHIP YARDS MISSION WASHINGTON, Jan, 21 — OT— Governor R. Gregg Cherry and a delegation of North Carolinians will see President Truman Thurs day in their efforts to obtain the North Carolina Shipbuilding yard at Wilmington, N. C., for the state, Senator Hoey (D-NC) said today. The governor is expected to be accompanied by Wilmington news paper publisher R. B. Page, who is chairman of the North Carolina Ports authority, Former Governor J. Melville Broughton. Senators Umstead (D-NC) and Hoey, and Rep. Clark (D-NC). North Carolina Congressmen will meet in Senator Hoey’s office Thursday to discuss plans for get ting the ship yard from the Mari time commission. The commission has turned down two offers from the State authori ty including a $1,200,000 purchase plan. _ Along The Cape Fear SUPER PRODUCT — Not so long ago Along The Cape Fear prom ised that it would tell more about the development of the pine straw industry as it thrived in this area during the past century. Well, here goes. YouTl recall that we outlined the interest that the Acme Fertilizer company took in this product and had found the material ideal for upholstering purposes. The pine straw was converted into yarn and then woven into a matting of very superior quality. This matting was made in vari ous colors and was fully equal to the best cocoa matting with one great added advantage. And that was the aromatic odor which makes it a much more desirable article. * * » VARIED USES — The mailing made from pine straw along the banks of the Cape Fear during the 1880’s was produced in various colors. As material to be used for bed ding and mattresses, it had no equal. As one newspaperman of those days pointed oht ‘‘no vermin will inhabit or remain where it is used.” But even aside from its indus trial uses, the pine straw fibre opened up a whole new world to the medical profession. It was considered by physicians j and surgeons as superior to cotton batting, lint or oakum in the dress ing of wounds. * * * HIGH' PRAISE — One physician is said to have said: “Its aromatic odor drives away flies and pre vents maggots from burrowing in wounds and is, I think, a disin fectant of the first order.” As if that were not praise enough another physician, is quoted: "It possesses a certain balsmic substance (peculiar to our native pines, and has a soothing effect of diseases of the mucous surface of the air passages.” Still another doctor claimed: “It is an excellent absorbent in dressing cases of wounds, abs cesses, fractures, etc.” But don’t get alarmed, this is far from all the praise that the (Continued on Page 2; Col. 3) Smilin ’Jack, Top Comic, Starts Today In The Star Today The Star welcomes to its comic page another in its ever-mounting array of Ameri ca’s top comic characters. He’s no other than Smilin' Jack, the top-flight creation of Zack Mosley. An aviation enthusiast who spends long hours at the stick of his snappy four-passenger Stinson. Mosley can truthfully say that Smilin’ Jack seldom outflies him. Mosley follows the big air meets from coast to coast and takes active part in the go ingson. thereby gleaning for himself a slew of technical tips and plot ideas which keep his Smilin' Jack tops in the avia tion line. Artist Mosley never permits Pilot Smilin’ Jack to take over the controls of any plane which Mosley himself has not seen, studied and is able to draw accurately from all angles. Cdn sequently, Mosley’s mailbag is filled with expressions of ap preciation for his authentic air craft. This authenticity is un questionably an important reason for his faithful follow ing among organized airmen and flying organizations. Smilin’ Jack’s creator ans wers every request for an origi nal sketch. Whenever a fan let ter start: out, “You are the sweetest, finest, most wonder ful cartoonist in the world,’’ he leads no further and reach es for his drawing board. W'hether you’re the airmind ed tfpe, or prefer to take your adventure in the soft comfort of that easy chair at home, you’ll find Smilin’ Jack excit ing. You will want to follow this vivid action-packed portrayal of a top-flight favorite every day in The Star. The Weather FORECAST •South and North Carolina — Fair and continued cold Wednesday and Wednes day night. Thursday fair with slowly rising temperatures. (Eastern Standard Time) (By U. S. Weather Bureau) Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. yesterday. Temperatures 1:30 a.m. 61; 7:30 a.m. 53; 1:30 p.m. 48; 7:30 p.m. 42. Maximum 61; Minimum 41; Mean 51; Normal 46. Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — 3.12 inches Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington__ 9:59 a.m. 4:34 a.m. 10:10 p.m. 5:13 p.m. Masonboro nlet_7:45 a.m. 1:24 a.m. 7:51 p.m. 2:'$\ p.m. Sunrise 7:15; Sunset 5:33; Moonrise 7:44 a.m.: Moonset 5:51 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a.m. Tuesday, 36.2 feet. . SOCIETY TOFETE VETERAN DOCTORS 5 Wilmington Physicians To Be Honored Tonight For Long Service Five Wilmington physicians who have practiced medicine for a half a centruy or more will be guests or honor at a meeting of the New Hanover County Medical society tonight in the Cape Fear club, ac cording' to Dr. Robert M. Fales, president. The five veteran physicians to be introduced by Dr. W. Houston Moore, local physician, will re late their early experiences to members of the society, is was learned. The guests of honor are: Dr. Andrew Harriss. now retired: Dr. John C. Wessell. also retired: Dr. Harlee R. . Bellamy, Dr. J.ohn Cranm. and Dr. S. E. Koonce. Cubans Strike HAVANA, Jan. 21 — (JFh-1Ten thousand Cuban workers protesting the high cost of living and scanty food supplies, staged a two-hour work stoppage late today and dem onstrated in front of the palace of President Gran San Martin. The orderly demonstration was organized by the Workers Federa tion of the Province of Havana, which instructed its members to leave their jobs at 4 p. m. (EST) and go to the palace to participate In the show of labor strength. All business and industry, in cluding transportation, throughout Havana appeared to have come to a complete standstill at 4 p. m., but buses, trolley cars and night workir.g industries had resumed operations by 7 p. m. Returns Unharmed LODI, Calif., Jan. 21—OP)—Alice Dean Devine was returned safe and unharmed to her parents at 9:15 tonight, 26 hours after being kidnapped. State highway patrol car from the direction of Sacramento whisk ed her to the back door of her home to her waiting mother and father. There was no indication here, as to where she had been held or whether her kidnapper had been apprehended. SURPLUS AT YARD OFFERED TO STATE Washington Official Says New Galley Equipment Available For Purchase _ An offer to the state purchasing agent of North Carolina to Sell at a 20 per cent reduction ail new galley equipment, which was ship ped here for installation on ships but never used, was made last night by L. T. McCarthy, head oi the Maritime Commission’s sale and distribution activities. The state may purchase the en tire lot of the new equipment or can select what items it desires and still receive the same 20 per cent discount, McCarthy stated. The announcement came follow ing McCarthy’s inspection of the disposal site here which is located at the shipyard formerly used by the North Carolina Shipbuilding company. A survey of the methods, in use here by the local disposal agent, C. Leonard Hartan, by McCarthy and Tom Matthews, of the com pliance section of the Maritime Commission, followed complaints by the office of W. Z. Betts, state director of purchasing and con tracts in Raleigh. McCarthy, who came here from 1 Washington Monday night to con duct the survey, stated following his first day’s inspection that to date he has found '‘everything in order.” The Washington official has promised a full resume of his find ings here as soon-as his inspection is completed. WRECKSURVIVORS ON VISIT HERE Lone Couple To Escape Death On Schooner Ton delayo Interviewed The last time Mr. and Mrs. Ted Slenzak of Detroit, Mich., passed through Wilmington they were sit ting pretty, they thought. For, as part of the passenger and crew list of the schooner Tondelayo, they were at the beginning of an 13 month tropical cruise which prom ised to give them a bird’s-eye view of a good part of the world. Last night the couple, the only survivors of the Tondelayo, which went down off the coast of Georgia November 19, were on their way south again—this time by land. The young couple, who last night stopped in Wilmington, revealed that they were on their way. more or less eventually, to California via Georgia, where they will visit a middle-aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rewes of Shellman’s Bluft, Ga., who cared for them aftei their ship went down after going aground in a howling gale near legendary Black Beard island. The schooner left Baltimore early in October, bound for the Pacific with a crew of 12. Perhaps as a warning that the expedition was doomed, the craft ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras but after reach ing land safely with the aid of a Coast Guard cutter, six of the crew left the ship, evidently satis fied that the cruise was ill-fated. (Continued on Page 2; Col. 2) Disgruntled Georgian Gets Old Dominion Rebuff RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 21 — (IP) — A Georgian who wrote Virginia’s Governor William M. Tuck that he would like to become a temporary Virginian “until the present Hitler ian Fascist regime is driven from power” in his state found scant help from the Old Dominion today. In reply to a letter signed by R. D. Adams, of Atlanta, Ga., request ing that he be permitted to be come a native of Virginia “until the present Hitlerian Fascist re gime is driven from power in Georgia,” Governor Tuck wrote that “under the laws of the Com monwealth of Virginia no one can become a citizen of Virginia with out first becoming a bona fide resi dent.’’ The governor pointed out that “this subject is controlled entire ly by our constitution and by sta tutes. “The governor of Virginia has no power to bestow citizenship either actual or honorary but the govern or does have the power to restore civil disabilities in certain cases.” No. 1 Soldier Takes Office As Secretary Democrats, Republi cans Alike Applaud Forthright Statement On Politics WILL DO HIS BEST New Chief Of State Depart* ' ment Holds Private Con ference With Truman WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.— (A1! — Gen. George C. Marshall. Amer ica's No. 1 soldier of World War II, ruled himself out of the Presi dency today by declaring h* ‘‘never could be drafted” for poli tical office. Then, with Democrats and Re publicans applauding the seldom equalled forthrightness of hi* statement, he took the oath as secretary of stale and promised to "do my best” with the vast prob lems crowding in upon him. Marshall’s statement, dictated to newsmen who greeted his train in the bleak morning, was obvi ously designed to disentangle his new job as secretary of state from any political complications. Evidently he felt that such prob lems as relations with Russia, the future of Germany, atomic energy and world peace could best be tackled if he did not have to face Congress as a possible contender for the Presidency in 1948. He had been mentioned in speculation about the Democratic nomination. "I will never become involved in political matters,” he volun teered. “I never could be draft ed.” For the White House oath-taking ceremony a short time later, the five-star general of the army laid aside all military regalia. He wa* clad in civilian clothes, as if to symbolize the peacetime problems he will find so different from hi* wartime tasks. (Continued on Page 2; Col. 4) AL CAPONEWAGES FIGHT FOR LIFE Former Chicago Gang Leader Rallies Last Night From Severe Stroke MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 21.—(^V-Dr. Kenneth Phillips said tonight that A1 Capone had rallied and regain ed consciousness after lying vir tually at death’s door for mor* than 12 hours from a stroke of apoplexy. “All danger is passed for to night,” said the doctor as he emer ged from the Capone villa on Palm Island. ( ”It is possible that he will sur vive the attack,” the doctor added. This startling change in the former Chicago gang leader’s con dition came after hope had been virtually abandoned and the last sacraments of the Catholic church administered. Dr. Phillips said he had made a cardiograph of Capone's heart action and was taking it to his of fice to study. Visitors Leave About a dozen persons who had gathered at the villa drove away in big. expensive automobiles soon after the doctor left. The doctor said the rally began unexpectedly and Capone tried to talk, but was silenced and made to relax. Ralph f Bottles) Capone, A]’* brother, was reported flying here from Mercer, Wis., where he has a home and operates a cocktail lounge. Chicago members of the family were called, and it was said that Al’s aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ermio Capone; a sister, Mrs. Mafalda Mariote, and a brother. Matthew, also were pre paring to leave for Miami. Dr. Phillips could not say how well Capone might fight off the effects of what he termed "an acute emergency stroke.” And So To Bed The waitress was new on the job and she was trying hard to convince her employer she knew how to please the custo mers. A gentleman entered and or dered a ham and egg sand wich. In the necessary time requir ed to fix the order the young lady returned with a ham sandwich. “Hey,” yelled the customer, “I ordered a ham and egg sandwich.” “Quite right, sir,” the befud deled waitress retorted. "Your egg sandwich is being prepared and I will bring it out in a min ute.” Want Ad: — One UN-ex perienced waitress desires po sition as clerk in store.
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