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.—NO. 3.__■_ WILMINGTON, N. C„ SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1947 PRICE-TEN CENTS ~ SECT10N-A
Port Group
Plans Parley
With Solons
Proposed Purchase Of Wil
mington Shipyard Will
Be Outlined
GILLETTE INVITED
Conference With President
Truman Thursday In
cluded On Agenda
Thc. State Port’s Authority is
completing plans tor a meeting
with members of the North Caro
lina General Assembly in Raleigh
aov Jan. HO, it was an
^ced last night by W. O. Huske,
(f Fayetteville, secretary-treasur
er of the agency.
Huske said the place of meeting
nl be determined by former
Governor J. M. Broughton who is
completing arrangements for the
,e3«ion with the lawmakers.
R B. Page, chairman, said last
„iS'ht that the meeting was being
called for the purpose of acquaint
ing members of the state law-mak
ing bodv with matters surround
ing the ‘proposed purchase of the
Wilmington shipyard.
Page, with Broughton and mem
b£iS of a Tar Heel Congressional
delegation, discussed the proposed
nmchase with President Truman
In Washington, D. C., Thursday.
RU=ke was conferring with Col.
j W Gillette, South Atlantic engi
neer last night to invite him to
j lttod the meeting and explain
! niatters surrounding the proposed
deepening of the Cape Fear River
channel. ,,
Serving as members of the Au
thority with Page and Huske are
A G Meyers, vice president of
Gastonia; H. S. Gibbs, of More
h»ad City, S. B. Frink, of South
port- J," H. White, of Winston
Salem and Henry T. Wilson of
iforganton._
KEENAN WYNN’S
DIVORCEE WEDS
VAN JOHNSON
EL PASO. Tex., .Jan. 25.—(VP)—
Vaa Johnson, popular film star,
vn married this afternoon to
Erie Wynn, - ft y'iMWW’TiiMiieo)
ceremony performed by Civ.i
Judge Raul Orozco.
Johnson's bride was divorced a
few hours earlier in Juarez from
Actor Keenan Wynn. The couple
left El Paso by plane on their
honeymoon immediately after the
ceremony, slipping oul of the
city incognito.
By the terms of the divorce
Mrs. ' Johnson was awarded the
custody of her two children, Ed
mond, five, and Tracy, two. All
property was disposed of under a
written agreement submitted to
the Juarez court by El Paso At
torney W. C. Roche. Tlie agree
ment had been signed by Keen
»n Wynn.
Both parties arrived in El Paso
under assumed names, Mrs. Wynn
flying in Friday while Johnson ar
rived Saturday morning.
The Johnson-Wynn marriage
was the third ceremony in which
Hollywood personalities figured
in the border community within
recent weeks. Kathleen Winsor
divorced her husband to marry
Artie Shaw in Juarez; Laraine
Hay obtained her Juarez divorce
*nd married Leo “The Lip" Duro
cher Tuesday.
Austin Reaffirms
U. N. Atomic Policy
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.— UP) —
Warren R. Austin, chief American
delegate to the United Nations, to
n-lht reaffirmed the United States
to! support of the Baruch plan
international atomic control
*‘;d of the U. N. General Assem
■ s recommendation for world
"'de arms reduction?.
Tne statement in a prepared
•Peecn to the annual dinner of
toe New York State Bar Associa
te was looked upon as assur
*nce that changes in the State
Department and the U. S. delega
te to the U. N. would reflect
no change in U. S. atomic poli
cies.
CHINESE CLAIM VICTORY
Nanking, Jan. 25— (.¥)—Chinese
S°vernment forces claimed victory
O'er the Communists along the ice
c;ad Sungari river of central Man
churia today, but acknowledged
*erious new communist outbreaks
® China proper some 100 miles
ethwest of Peiping.
THE WEATHER
v FORECAST
toi and South Carolina — Partly
^oudy and not much change in tem
Ptrature Sunday.
(Eastern Standard Time)
C. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for *he 24 hours
‘d!ng 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
. Temperatures
J;30 a m. 50; 7:30 a.m. 48; 1 :30 p.m. 67;
Pm. 58.
Maximum 68; Minimum 47; Mean 57;
™tmal 46.
Humidity
•H0 a.m. 91; 7:30 a.m. 98; 1:30 p.m. 52:
•« P m. 69.
Y Precipitation
.A0”1 fPr 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. —
l » inches.
I,,01.*1 5lnc« the first of the month —
1J inches.
ip,,„ , Tides For Today
| r on'- the Tide Tables published by U.
°ast and Geodetic Survey).
Win-. High Low
Unigton - 12:05 a.m. 7:07 a.m.
Masrmi. 12:35 P-m. 7:45 p.m.
nboro Inlet _ 10:09 a.m. 4:01 a.m.
Sunn,. - ... 10:26 p.m. 4:34 p.m.
a.m . ..e l,1": Sunset 5:36; Moonriss 9:58
Hoonset 9:49 p.m.
«jtl jLs,«*e at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
*. JM7. 19.8 feet.
Southward Bound
Paul M. Snell, chief of the Wilmington District Engineers Con
struction Division leaves Wilmington today on a federal mission
to Venezuela. The South American country requested Snell by
name, asking that he study the proposed eniargement of a north
ern harbor on the Carribean Sea. (PHOTO BY CAROLINA
CAMERA)
Wilmington Engineer
Called To Venezuela
T
‘SEEING EYE’ DOG
GOING BLIND TOO
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 25.
— UP) — Blind Attorney William
C. Shelton found his way along
streets and through coutrooms
today without the help of Betty,
the “Seeing Eye” dog that has
guided his footstepts faithfully
six and a half years.
To questioners, Shelton ex
plained sadly that Betty had
stumbled uncertainly when she
tried to lead her master through
traffic. Puzzled b.v her hesi
tancy, Shelton took the dog to
a veterinarian
Betty is going blind, too.
BEACH RESIDENTS
SEEKING DOCTOR
Mass Meeting Called For
Tomorrow Night To Dis
cuss Resort’s Need
Residents of Carolina Beach
have called a mass meeting for [
tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock ini
the town hal! to discuss matters i
pertinent to securing the services j
of a physician.
They will be joined by residents
of Wilmington and Kure’s Beach
according to Mrs. Alice Strickland,
town clerk.
The purpose of the meeting is
to draw up a petition to be signed
! and presented to the State Board
|of Health which will ask for re
consideration of the boards refusal
[to allow Dr. D-avid B. Handelman,
[of New Jersey to practice at Caro
lina Beach, Guy Tripp, resort drug
gist. said.
The North Carolina State Board
of Health goes by the listing of
the American Medical association
and that body does not recognize
a medical degree from a foreign
medical college. This was the
reason that the state board turned
down the Beach’s request for the
New Jersey doctor to practice in
this state at a reciprocal meeting
held January 16 in Raleigh, Tripp
said.
Dr. Handelman is a graduate of
the University of Edinburgh in
Scotland and holds one of the
highest degrees given there, and is
a Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons. During the war he
! practiced in London for five and
i a half years in the midst of. the
[bombings. He is an Ameriean
citizen and was born in New Jerey.
At the completion of his high school
course he went abroad to study
medicine. At the present time he
holds a license to practice medicine
in New York State.
Monday night’s meeting will be
presided over by Mayor Tom A.
Croom. A special committee ap
pointed by the Chamber of Com
merce, the American Legion,
headed by W. L. Farmer, and the
(Continued on Page Three; Col. 2)
DRIVER’S BOND
SET AT $3,000
Police Allege He Struck
Negress With Car On
Fourth Street
_
A. C. Gleen, of 246 Lake Forest
Parkway, was arrested last night
on a charge of hit and run driving
while under the influence of in
toxicants, and jailed under default
of $3,000 bond, according to police
reports.
Gleen was driving down Fourth
street between Bladen and Bruns
wick, at ":45 p. m. when he al
legedly struck Casarine Durant,
Negress, throwing her to the pave
ment and inflicting head injuries,
police said.
Police reports show that Gleen
fled from the scene of the accident.
He was apprehended and arrested
at 8:30 p. m. at Third and Mars
tellar streets, according to the ar
resting officers.
The victim was admitted to
James Walker Memorial Hospital
after receiving emergency treat
ment.
——
Paul M. Snell, chief of the Con-!
struction Division, Wilmington Dis-|
trict Corps of Engineers, today
entrained for New York city on
the first leg of a journey scheduled
to take him to Venezuela, on what
may be the first government mis
sion of its kind, the Star-News
learned last night.
Under existing law. the United |
Stales may loan a Federal engi
neering employe lo a friendly j
! foreign nation, if the country asks!
| for the person by name. |
Snell was requested by Venezu-:
ela to study the proposed improve
ments planned to make the Lakg
Maracaibo harbor large enough
for Caribbean sea commerce.
Records indicate the detailing of
; Snell to serve in an engineering
j capacity in the Venezulean proj
! ect is the first time the United
; States has exercised the law.
I Snell will act as a dredging ex
pert, studying recommendations;
! made by another engineering firm1
earlier. The Venezuelan gSrertT-;
: ment has indicated it desires more;
: than one expert to make recom-;
; mendations on the lake project, 'j
j Lake Maracaibo, 50 miles wide,;
I and 100 miles long, is in Northern'
! Venezula.
The Wilmington engineer, who I
| has served continually in WE-i
I mington for 28 years, will return i
j from his Latin assignment in about!
two weeks. He is scheduled to take j
off tomorrow from La Guardia i
field in a Venezulean airplane, sent
here to transport him to Maracai
bo.
Snell has served with the U. S.
Engineers as a dredging and heavy,
construction expert since 1919. and
has been assigned to special work
along the Atlantic coast from Balti
more to Miami and west to New
Orleans.
A Wilmington resident, Snell has
two sons, both World War II vet
erans and students at the Citadel.
BIRTH RATE HIGH
RALEIGH, Jan. 25—UP)—When
vital statistics for 1946 are com
pleted. North Carolina will report
j the birth of more babies than any
| other year in history, the State
! Eoard of Health said today.
British-Red
ig
$?act Opens
Wide Vista
Revision And Extension Of
Collaboration Seen In
New Treaty
MORE COOPERATION
Fortunate Results Believed
To Have Been Reached
In Exchanges
LONDON. Jan. 25.—(If)—A wide,
new vista for Soviet-British colla
boration appeared to be opening
tonight in the wake of the reaf
firmation of the 20-year British
Russian alliance.
Observers in both Moscow and
London declared that revision and
extension of the treaty may form
an entirely new basis for coopera
tion between the two powers.
Officially it was understood that
Britain was awaiting amplification
of the clause of Prime Minister
Stalin’s note to Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin calling for freeing the
treaty from “weakening’ reserva
tions.
Competent authorities on interna
tional subjects took the view that
the exchange of notes between
Stalin and Bevin brought fortunate
results from misunderstandings
dating back to Dec. 22. when Bevin
declared that Britain “does not tie
herself to anybody, except in re
gard to her obligations under the
(United Nations) charter.”
Stalin said Bevin’s assertion
made the Kremlin extremely un
comfortable about the entire basis
of the alliance. Stalin expressed
his anxiety to Field Marshal Lord
Montgomery when the chief of the
imperial general staff visited him
on Jan. 10.
Five days after the Stalin-Mont
gomery talk the Communist Party
(Continued on Cage Two; Col. 5)
U. S WELCOMES
ARGENTINE MOVE
South American Nation Is
sues IfeSffirTOihrGveT^
Axis Firms
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25.—I'P.i—In
an unusual statement apparently
foreshadowing improved relations
with Argentina, the United States
today officially welcomed an Ar
gentine decree for taking over Axis:
firms.
At the same time, this govern
ment made plain that it still is
looking to President Juan D. Peron
to rid Argentina of all Axis agents
there.
The statement was issued a short
time after Ambassador George S.
Messersmith, a storm center of
American diplomacy for several
months, conferred with Secretary
of State Marshall and told news
men he will return to his post at
Buenos Aires as soon as travel ar
rangements can be made.
Messersmith also saw Assistant
Secretary of State Spruille Braden,
whose handling of Argentine af
fairs he has criticized. Indications
are that in returning to Argentina,
Messersmith’s main task is to ne
gotiate further with the Peron ad
ministration for deportation pf the
enemy agents still in the country.
Students’ Vote Shows
Junior College Views
COMMISSION BILL
CITED BY L’GRAND
Attorney General Makes
Ruling Based Oh 1941
Legislature Action
A bill introduced in the 1941
North Carolina legislature by J. Q.
LeGrand. Wilmington attorney, to
day is the basis for an opinion of
Attorney General Harry McMullan,
that the Civil Service Commission
should be responsible for the
screening of all men named to city
police and fire departments.
The bill, effective March 10, 1941,
was drawn up by LeGrand to elim
inate political influence in the nam
ing of men in the fire and police
departments, he said last night.
LeGrand said the Civil Service
Commission, a non-political group,
should be responsible for the city’s
police officers. John Morris, form
er county sheriff, was serving on
the General Assembly when the bill
was passed.
Before the bill became effective,
a city’s mayor, then Commissioner
(of Public Safety, could name any
person he desired to either depart
ment.
McMullan's opinion was voiced
after William B. Campbell, Wil
mington city attorney, sought out
side advice in future operations of
the city government’s appointment
to the two departments.
After careful study of the letter
and proper reference had been
made by City Manager J. R. Ben
son and Campbell, Benson yester
day declared that "until there are
appropriate changes in the present
laws, no powers rest in the city
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
(Editor’s note: During the
general election last Novem
ber, students taught by Mrs.
Ann Horowitz conducted an
election with sample ballots.
The Sunday Star-News asked
Mrs. Horowitz to conduct- a
similar election on the subject
“Should New Hanover county
Establish A Junior College?)
Students of the seventh and eight
grades of the Sunset Park school
voted 43 to 17 Friday in favor of
establishing a Junior College in
New Hanover county, according to
Mrs. Ann Horowitz, teacher.
The vote climaxed a debate and
discussion on the topic “Should
New Hanover County Establish A
Junior College,” presented by four
members chosen from each class.
The discussion themes and the
speakers who presented them are
as follows: “Function Of A Junior
College,” Mary Jordan and Jimmy
Fountain; “Advantages Of A Junior
College,” Jimmy Ingram and Bette
Lee Erstling; “Disadvantages Of
A Junior College,” Helen Clelland
and Jean Clifton; “Summary of
Arguments,” Pete Dannenbaum
and Wiley Brown.
In a class discussion, the stu
dents were asked to express their
opinions on the issue, and their
quotation read:
“I believe we should have a
Junior College here so that we will
not have to try to enter the other
overcrowded colleges in the state,”
Jim Evans.
“In my opinion many boys and
girls are not able to go to colleges
because they lack the money to go
away to' expensive colleges. A col
lege here would bring the oppor
tunity for higher education to all
of our children.” Bette Lee Erst
ling.
“A college here would increase
the growth of population and bring
more business to our commercial
enterprises.” Mary Jordan.
"Even though it would cost
(Continopd on Page Two; Col. 3)
TALMADGE, THOMPSON FACE
GEORGIA BANK COURT SUIT;
SCARF ACE AL CAPONE DIES
- \ W w '
Former Gang
Leader Dies
Amid Luxury
Ex-Public Enemy No. 1
Dies Of Pneumonia After
Stroke
WIDOW COLLAPSES
Prison, Not Gangsters,
Given Credit For End
ing His Career
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 25.
— (JP) —Scarface A1 Capone, 48,
gangland leader who feared a
mobsters' death, died tonight
amid the luxury of his private
villa with his family gathered
around.
“I don't want to die, shot in
.he street,” he once said.
When death came at 7:25 p.m.
of pneumonia and heart failure,
complications of an apoplectic
stroke, he was in his own bed
with expert medical care at hand
—and behind high protective
walls that have long guarded him
from possible revenge.
Death came very suddenly oi
neait failure, said his physician,
Dr. Kenneth S. Ph ilips, who has
treated the prohibition era gang
ieader since he emerged from
prison Nov. 16. 1939.
Capone’s widow, Mae, collapsed
upon his death and is herself in
serious condition.
The necessity of medical at
tention for Mrs. Capone caused
announcement of the death of the
Ch’cago mobster to be delayed for
an hour.
The gan^ste.- who "took over"
TnCmcagoancf built ah empire of
lawlessness had become a weak
individual since he served seven
and a half years in Alcatraz on
income tax evasion charges.
He was stricken with apoplexy
m Tuesday at 4 a.m. The last
rites of the Catholic church were
,Continued on Page Three; Col. 1)
AIR SPECTACLE
SET FOR TODAY
Same Line-Up Back; Event
Postponed Last Week
By Inclement Weather
With fair weather tomorrow the
Wilmington Air Show, stymied
last Sunday by rain, will get un
derway this afternoon at 1 o’clock
at Bluethenthal airport, with the
same line-up of sky artists as ori
ginally planned.
Featuring the show will be Bev
erly Howard, Number 1 aerial
stunt man, and Russ Sorrell, dare
devil parachute jumper.
Spectacle will be served up in
large dishes by 26 United States
Naval Hellcats and Corsairs, from
the Oceana Naval base in Vir
ginia, which will put on a war
fare maneuver display.
Carl Dunn, of Air Progress, Inc.,
will provide the show’s humor,
and Burke Rehder, Carolina Sky
ways, will put on a display with
his autogyro. Other local pilots
are scheduled to participate.
SCARFACE CAPONE
GOP SEEKS HIKE
ON RENT CEILING
Government Shifts Housing
Responsibility To Private
Industry
WASHINGTON, Jail. 25.—VP)—
Four Republican Senators joined
tonight in a proposal to boost rc-»t I
ceilings 15 per cent, on the heels |
of OPA action that relaxed controls
but apparently ruled out such an
across-the-board boost by that
agency.
Simultaneously the government
gave notice that it has shifted to
private industry the main responsi
bility for meeting the housing
shortage, with federal controls and
aid to be applied only where they
“will result in more housing.”
The Republican proposal on rents
drew sharp opposition from the
CIO which called on all its unions
tc fight the plan.
The government’s housing state
ment elicited sarcastic criticism
from Herbert U. Nelson, vice presi
dent" oT the Nhtrdfial Association
of Real iEstate Boards, who (enu
merated remaining restaurants
and commented drily to a reporter
that with those exceptions “private
industry is practically on its own
again.”
Principal developments of a day
of swift policy development on the
housing front:
1. Senator Hawkes (NJ), Mc
Carthy (Wis), Cain (Wash) and
Malone (Nev) joined in the rent
ceiling increase plan in a bill
probably to be introduced Monday.
The measure would extend the
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
PLANE CARRYING
$5,000,000 FALLS
NEAR MANILA PORT
MANILA, Sunday, Jan. 26— (A*)
—A Philippine Airlines plane with
four persons and $5,000,000 in gold
aboard crashed on a Hong Kong
mountain yesterday and local of
ficials said all four were believed
dead.
The company listed those aboard
as Capt. O. T. Weymouth, an Amer
ican pilot, and a crew of three
Filipinos, M. A. Lim, co-pilot, B.
Merza, radio operator, and Miss
Lourdes Chuidian, flight attend
ant.
The gold, in coins and bars, wa»
destined for Hong Kong banks.
A dispatch from Hong Kong said
the plane crashed almost within
sight of the air port after the con
trol tower had lost, contact at 3
p. m. The airlines sent its opera
tions manager to Hong Kong to in
vestigate the crash.
Assembly Faces Game,
Inland Fisheries Row
-* ■ -
RED PROPAGANDA
ATTACKED BY U. S.
State Department Officials
Lash Out Against Rus
sian Agencies
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — (JP) —
State Department officials charged
tonight that Russian propaganda
agencies are trying to turn the peo
ple of eastern Europe against the
United States.
Similarly, they alleged propa
ganda campaigns against the Unit
ed States in China specifically in
the communist-controlled areas.
William T. Stone, director of the
State Department’s office of inter
national information and cultural
affairs, reported that "some na
tions are carefully misrepresenting
us to further their own ends,"
while others are “telling their
story and at the same time telling
ours.”
Speaking of the department’s
program for international broad
casting, maintenance of libraries
abroad and other means of spread
ing ideas throughout the world,
Stone declared that “we have to be
in there telling our own story to
counteract the mass of information
and misinformation that is being
i spread all over the world today.”
RALEIGH, Jan. 25.—UP)—Having
disposed of one legislative dispute
temporarily by compromising on
the question of an emergency
salary bonus for teachers and state
employes, the General Assembly
made ready today for another bit
ter row—over the proposal to di
vorce the Division of Game and In
land Fisheries from the Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop
ment.
The proposal to place adminis
tration of the State’s game laws
under and independent commission
of hunters and fishermen has been
given intensive propaganda build
up by the State Wildlife Federation
in the two years sinca it met de
feat in the 1945 General Assembly.
The Wildlife Federation is hold
ing its annual convention here
Monday and Tuesday, and follow
ing the session, legislation to split
the division from the Conservation
Department is expected to be in-;
troduced in both the Senate and the j
House.
Bills to effect the change already
have been drafted and have been
circulated extensively among the
legislators. A proposed House
measure reportedly already has
more than 50 sponsors, and those
directing the campaign are hoping
to have more than 60 names — a
majority of the House —- on the bill
before they send it forward.
Although the salary dispute and
the looming row over administra
tion of the game laws held the
(Continued on Page Three^ Col. 5)
Executive Funds Held
By Restraining Order
ATLANTA, Jan. 25.—UP)—The Fulton National Bank
of Atlanta filed suit in Henry County. Ga., Superior court
tonight to determine who is legal governor of Georgia.
Price Drops
Are Noticed
Over Nation
Decreases I n Wholesale
Lines Have Outstripped
Retail Declines
MORE PREDICTED
Prominent Economist Fore
sees Further Drop Of 25
Per Cent On Food
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. — ifP) —
The thud of many falling prices
was heard across toe country this
l eek and promises of more to come
today sounded like good news for
consumers in 1947.
Decreases in wholesale lines for
the most part have outstripped re
tail drops. Once ttie-ic are translat
ed at the retail l*»/el the' value
c*f the housewife's dollars auto
matically will rise.
The Associated Press index of
wholesale commodities showed
the greatest aggregate drop in the
last two weeks of any like period
since before 1923, with one ex
ception. This came in a single iwc
week span last summer when
prices were fluctuating widely dur
ing OPA's off-aguin-on-again act.
Behind these figures stood the
promises. One prominent economise
predicted this week a turtner drop
of 25 per cent in food prices during
the next 12 months. Another fore
saw “50 cent butter.” The Nation
al Retail Dry Goods Association
held out hope of at least “partial
progress” toward what it called
consumer demands for $2.50 broad
cloth shirts, $3 housedresses and
$1.98 sheets. The president of one
of the biggest Fifth Avenue depart
ment stores called on the textile
trade to reduce its profits “un
til we find the point where the
public will play ball with us.”
Significantly, a drop in national
retail sales for the first time since
early last October was reported for
the week ended last Wednesday by
one business research group.
Even more convincing evidence
of coming price decreases in some
food lines came from the futures
markets, where traders grow fat
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
BRITISH PLANE
CRASH KILLS 12
Entire Family Of Four And
Three Nuns Included In
Victims
LONDON. Jan. 25—(IP)—A pas
senger airliner crashed and burn
ed at Croydon airport today in a
mist-shrouded takeoff for East
Africa, killing 12 of its 23 occu
pants. The dead included an entire
family of four and three nuns, one
of whom chose to perish in the
flames rather than imperil a res
cuer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cond, their
2 1-2-year-old son Peter, and five
months old daughter died in the
crash, as did the family’s young
governess. Capt. Edward (Ted)
Spencer, pilot and Veteran of the
Royal South African Air force,
was the only member of the five
man crew to be killed.
Spencer had received delivery of
the plane, an American-made Da
kota, only three days ago. It had
been flown from New Jersey. Spen
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 1)
Superior (circuit! Judge Bona
Almar.d immediately signed *
temporary restraining order pie
venting either Herman Talmadge
or his gubernatorial lival, Lieut
Gov. M. E. Thompson, from draw
ing on $83,682 which was left in
the State Executive department
fund by retiring Gjv. Ellis ArnaM.
Both Thompson and Talmadge
were summoned to appear a! Mc
Donough. Ga.. Feb. 7—the same
day Talmadge must answer a
parallel challenge by Thompson in
the same court.
The earlier suit. originally
brought by Arnall and later amend
ed in the name cf Thompson,
seeks to enjoin Talmadge from ex
ercising' authority of governor.
Both eases are aimed at speedy
review by Georgia’s Supreme
court.
The bank's litigation coincided
with demands for a grand jury
investigation into allegations that
[legislators were offered bribes to
I influence their votes or. the night
| the General Assembly elected
j Talmadge as governor.
I Devereaux F. McClatchey, coun
jsel for the bank, said Thompson
;and six members of his executive
[is.aff had presented chocks totalling
more than $1,000 today. None was
paid. The bank's petition cited
that there was "a bona tide con
troversy as to the persons entitled
I to withdraw'* funds, and pleaded
it could “determine only at its
peril” the claims of ' the rival
“governors.”
The petition continued: “The
ends of justice require that the
rights and legal relations of the
[defendant# to the funds be declared
jby the court.”
j Almand, a judge of the Fulton
circuit, accepted the petition when
|Judge Ogden Persons of the Flint
j circuit disqualified himself. The
i previous suit was accepted by the
j Fulton Circuit’s Judge Walter C.
! Hendrix, also on Person’s di»
qualification.
Earlier in the day, Judge Boyd
Sloan had refused to accept tiie
suit at Gainesville, Ga., ruling he
had no jurisdiction.
Mayor Harvey Kennedy of
Barnesville, Ga., leader of the
aroused Citizens of Georgia •
group formed to potest Tal
madge’s election, said a statewide
meeting here Monday would make
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RELIEF FROM PAY
SUITS IS URGED
Senator O'Daniel Says Por
tal Action Almost Stag
nating Industry
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—(/P)~
Senator O’Daniel (D-Tex) declared
today that the portal pay suits have
created “a state of uncertainty
that is almost stagnating industry”
and urged Congress to outlaw
them.
He testified before a Senate
judiciary subcommittee as it near
ed the end of hearings started
Jan. 15. Chairman Donnell (R-Moi
scheduled another session Monday
but said ’’the end is in sight” and
a report to the full committee wiii
be expedited with the “utmost care
and thought.”
O’Daniel said the suits “are just
plain legalized hijacking” and the
CIO is “using them as a club” over
industry in contract negotiation*.
But O’Daniel warned that Con
gress might add to the uncertainly
by a protracted court fight if it
attempted to outlaw the claims by
retroactive legislation which has
been urged by industry witnesses.
Noting a disagreement among
attorneys over constitutionality of
such a step, O'Daniel urged instead
his own bills which would bar ail
present suits, and restore the
money to the employer.
Workers never expected to re
ceive the money anyway, O’DanieJ
said or they “would have been de
manding it all these years. It is
entirely pennies from heaven, just
dumped into their laps.”
Profitless Kidnaping
Nets 150-Year Sentence
DIXON, 111., Jan. 25.—(IP)—A
profitless kidnaping which he
abandoned after five hours sent a
dishonorably discharged soldier to
he penitentiary for the duration of
iis life expectancy today and
brought his confession to an un-,
solved criminal assault in another j
city. j
The defendant, Frank Sickles, 27, i
of Wyoming, 111., was sentenced j
to prison for 150 years and four j
life terms on three charges of kid-1
naping, one of armed robbery and
one of burglary.
The sentences make parole im
ossible until Sickles is 97 years
! old.
| The sentences followed his plea
of guilty to kidnaping Mrs. Della
Stackhouse, 40, wife of a Dixon
physician last Dec. 20. He locked
her two children in a closet, tied
and gagged Mrs. Stackhouse and
forced her to accompany him or
an aimless five hour hike across
neighboring farms/ When her gag
worked loose, sho talked him intc
releasing her unharmed and giving
1 himself up.
t Sickles, who pleaded guilty to
all charges, said he intended to
loot the Stackhouse home but
changed his mind when he was
frightened by the ringing of a
telephone.
In addition to the sentences—150
years for the abduction of Mrs.
Stackhouse and concurrent life
terms for the others, including
charges of kidnaping the two chil-,
dren—Circuit Judge George C.»
Dixon decreed that Sickles should
pass in solitary confinement every
third Friday of each month lor the
next 10 years and each Dee. X).
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