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FORECAST: ~ ' * }~-~~T~~-- " 1 ^ ^ Served By Leased Wires siderable cloudiness and some light cram ♦ I W^t ♦ | 1 ASSOCIATED PRESS lUUUmUUl 4*4 UlUU .:ss» ^__ State and National News VOL- N10°:___ WILMINGTON, N.~ C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1947 ~ ESTABLISHED 1867 Doctors Divide Over New Medical School fireman admits killing soldh Confession May Release Hickory Man Now Serv ing Life Term FRESNO, CALIF., Feb. 13.— (/P) Breaking a 32-month silence, a L ear. old locomotive fireman oas in custody today after volun ! ..jiv telling officers that he had wiled a soldier in 1944. and that another man was serving a life ?rm in prison for the crime. Detective Sgt. S. G. Vind said Otho Charles Stockdale, Fresno, surrendered yesterday and related the story. FBI agents are investigating the story which, if proved, would free former Army Pvt. A. B. Richie. Hickory. N. C., who is serving a life sentence at Leavenworth. Kas., for the killing of Cpl. Pete Defuse", Uniontown. Pa., near Camp Phillips, Salina, Kas., in June, 1944. Richie, originally condemned to death by an Army courtmartial, ,as given a Presidential com mutation to life imprisonment. Stockdale was booked for failure to prossess a draft card pending Investigation . Dumped jv*ay Vind said Stockdale related that (he killing ocurred after a drunk en argument and that when he be lieved Defusco was dead he took between $1,500 and $1,600 from the body, and dumped it into a field, (hen he returned to barracks. Stockdale said his conscience never bothered him when he learn ed Richie had been convicted be cause “I didn’t know the guy.” "It was just one of those things,” Vind quoted Stockdale. "I stole a jeep from the camp motor pool and drove it out of the camp and bought a fifth of whisky. I got a little tanked up and drove back into the camp and picked Un thi- soldier (Defusco.) When I (offered him a drink he said ’sure.’ We drove around and found a I place where we wouldn’t be both ered. "1 don’t remember every thing that happened but we got to irguing. He didn’t like the brand of whiskey I'd bought so I hit him. "Well, then he seemed to be dead." Suspect Worried Vind said Stocktjale appeared worried, asking “What do you think they will give me?” aftei repeating his story of the killing. In Hickory. Attorney John C. Etroupe, who represented Richie in luccessfullv appealing from the death sentence, said he would ask President Truman for a full par don for his client. Richie did not testify at his courtmartial. He was arrested at Pittsburgh after accompanying Defusco’s body to Uniontown. FBI •gents testified Richie then had $1,065 although he had only $180 (Continued on Page Three, Col. 8) CART 0 HEAD SPEAKERS BUREAU Group Will Aid During Red Cross Fund Raising Campaign Walter J. Cartier was yesterday tppointed chairman of the speak ers bureau to aid in the forthcom ing Red Cross campaign. Ap pointment was made by J. H. Carswell and N, A. Avera, co chairmen of the drive. The organization of the bureau is now underway, Cartier reports, >nd speakers are being enlisted to deliver addresses to civic or ganizations. all public gatherings, and other organizations. Radio talks will also be made in the interest of the drive i The program of speeches will get underway' tomorrow when Mrs. Ida B. Speiden, executive secro lary ot the Wilmington chapter oi Ida American Red Cross, ad dresses members of the Exchange club on the work of the local chap ter. Among those who will make ad dresses during the campaign are Albert E. Gibson and Gardner E. Creer. Cartier is associated with the -Molina Printing and Stamp company and is secretary of the outh Eastern North Carolina Relies association. MBONE’S meditations By Alley I WOOLEN' ER TOK PAT PRlNK. f (DM OUt IEKE LAS'NI6HT,C£P’N W’En Hi- M£K A OFFER, I DOH' WALTER. 3E in PE HABiT o’ SAVIN' ,» IKML ' ^ 'Kt eased by Tie Bell Sye- " X 2-14 |Issue Only One Agains* Good Health Progr\\£'>v° In North Car^'J^\* __ * cV5' iO>- o' RALEIGH, F' joint approp nearing here L to a $10,940,000 the good health N. C. Medical Ca was centered on a p ____ year medical school -at the Uni versity of North Carolina. The opponents of the proposed expanded medical school joined with Dr. Clarence Poe, Raleigh pub’isher and vice chairman of the Medical Care commission, in call ing for the multi-million dollar piogram to build hospitals and health centers in every section ol the state. Opposition to the medical school was lead by Don Elias of Ashe ville, a member of the Medical Care commission who asserted that there was "no organization and no organized opposition to anything except the medical school.” "Appropriate money just as far as you can find it for rural hospi tals and medical centers,” he said, “and when you have done that and still want a medical sthool I’ll not oppose it although I don’t think it is needed.” Bailey Charges Dr. C. W. Bailey of Rocky Mount, who said that he repre sented the fact finding group of North Carolina physicians, assert ed that the supporters of the en tire good health piogram “repre sented a school of medicine at Chapel Hill primarily and good health secondarily.” Bailey said that his group, after organizing secretly, had sent ballots to 2,088 North Carolina doctors and that of this group 996 voted in favor of the hospitals and clinics and 172 against, but that the doctors voted two to one against the proposed medical school. Bailey spoke after Dr. Paul F. Whitaker of Kinston, a former president of the' N. C. Medical society, had made a vigorous de fense of the four-year medical school. Whitaker asserted that the ex panded school “is a vita] part of a plan tailored by impartial ex pert" to meet the r.ealt'h needs oi Nortn Caiolina anc! termed sound by numerous medical educators and authorities on medical care throughout the nation, ” and he termed as “silly and vicious" the accusation that "this great move ment was initiated merely to ex pand the University Medical school.” Real Issue “The real issue facing the people” he said, “is the imple mentation of the basic principle established by the General assem bly ..of 1945 to effectuate a total health program, including a state supported medical school to train the workers to perform the mul tiple Services.” Dr. W. W. Coppridge of Dur ham. president of the State Medi cal society, said-that despite the fact-finding poll, the medical soci ety "endorses the whole program of the Medical Care commission.” He said that 85 percent of the county societies had endorsed the program, that the State society had endorsed it. the executive committee had approved :t. and that the five immediate past presi dents of the society were support ing it. i Dr. W. S. Rankin of Charlotte i in arguing that ihe medical school was not needed said that another four-year medical school would give North Carolina three such schools and that only four states in the union had more than three. More Schools “We would have more schools on the basis of population and per capita income than in other state,” he told the committee. In answering argument that the medical school was needed to pro duce doctors, nurses and techni cians needed to man the proposed hospitals and health centers. Dr. R-ankin quoted the report of fact finding committee of prominent out-of-state doctors who made a survey of the state and recom mended esta jlishment of the med ical school at Chapel Hill. (Continued on Page Three, Col. 6) WEATHERMANSAYS CITY CAN EXPECT MORE MILD WEATHER ! No change in the moderate tem peratures of yesterday is indicat ed for the next few days, accord ing to Paul Hess, local Weather man. Hess said that today will be Ihe same as yesterday, with the mercury due to reach about 60 degrees. Today will also .be partly cloudy with moderate winds froin the southeast. •__ Relief Plane Crashes With pght Aboard /'ojV’s Worst Winter In V -dlf-Centurv Takes Its Toll Of Life CITIES ISOLATED Coal Shortage Spreads To Continent; 130 Die Of Cold In Berlin LONDON, Feb. 13— W—Britain’s worst winter in half a century claimed the lives of eight men to day in the flaming wreckage of an RAF bomber carrying parachute packed food for a snowbound Staf fordshire village. The Halifax bomber crashed two miles from Butterton where vil lagers had marked sooty crosses on snowdrifts as the place for the dropping of the first food supplies in 10 days of complete isolation. The planes had taken off in freez ing and low visibility conditions. Shortly before the crash the pilot radioed that conditions were "worse than yesterday” when the flight was cancelled. The bodies of the five crewmen, two press photographers, and a glider regiment soldier were strewn over a snowy moor. Sixteen similar flights awaiting clearing skies were called off at once by the Air ministry in a day which brought renewed freezing temperatures throughout Britain and little hope of immediate re lief. London’s highest mark was 31 degrees and temperatures drop ped lower in rural areas. The fuel shortage -gripping Britain hit the continent too. Amsterdam was blacked out be cause of low fuel stocks. Theaters, dance halls and other amusement places were cut off from coal sup plies, civil service buildings were ordered closed on Saturdays and private enterprises were asked to do likewise. *'»-*0*“.*- -*■ ^ ----- a month behind schedule. The big Fiat automotive works at Turin, Italy, shut down for lack of electric power, leaving 40.000 Italians jobless. In Chechoslovakia civilian volun teers were called to clear eight foot snow drifts and free 2,000 coal cars on the Ostrava-Prerov line. At Hamburg, Germany, power service was cut to two hours a day. The bulk ot Germany’s in dustries were shut down. Fatali ties from cold in Berlin rose to 130 since December. Rain and sudden temperature dip covered Paris streets with dangerous ice. POWER CRISIS END NOT YET SIGHTED LONDON, Feb. 13—VP)—Dwind (Continued on Page Three, TCol. 4) speculatTonrife AS TO NEW CHIEF Regulation Requires Cas teen’s Successor To Be Picked From Force Speculation as to who will suc ceed Charles H. Casteen as chief of the Wilmington police depart ment was rampant yesterday but officials responsible for the selec tion refused to give any hint as to who might be under considera tion for the position. Casteen requested Wednesday that he be retired from the force after more than 23 years service, with bad health given as the rea son for the move. Figuring prominently in the speculation as possible choices for the post are lieutenants T. B. Hughes, O. V. Thompson and Coy Etheridge as well as Sgt. P. J. Parrish. The Civil Service Com mission act specified that the posi tion shall be filled from among the members of th^ force but it is understood that a move is under way to have the present law changed i:i order that candidates outside the department might be considered. City Manager J. R. Benson yes terday pointed to commission regulations which require that an appointee be selected by the city council and the city manager with the choice to be submitted to the civil service commission for ap proval or disapproval. If the selection is turned down, then another name must be sub mitted and on down the line until the position is filled. Former Twin-City Man Sjouglvt After Slaying COLUMBUS, Ind.. Feb. 13. — (U.R)— Mrs. Ruth Clark Edman, 38. an attractive journalism student and artist, was shot and killed to day and police began hunting for her estranged husband. David Ed man. 40. wealthy, retired war con tractor who had attempted unsuc cessfully to win her back The couple’s son, David. Jr., 17, told police he had driven his fath er to Henderson. Ky. The son. a favorite of his father, was at rested when he returned here driving his father’s car. Mrs. Edman was killed and ner father, Nate Clark. 69. was wound ed when her former husband ap peared early toda>^at Claik s uome and started a fight in which he and Clark battled each other with shotguns. Sheriff Richard Thayer said Ed man had been a patient for briei periods at mental institutions in Indiana and at his former home at Winston-Salem, N. C. Sheriff Thayer said Mrs. Edman had called police several times recently to report that her hus band had threatened her life un less she became reconciled with him. Sheriff Thayer said''Edman had retired after making thousands of dollars in war-time electrical en gineering contracts at Winston Salem. The Edman family moved to Indiana two years ago. Canine War Veteran In Hiding From Gas Execution f *--— “Scout,” a K-9 Corps war veteran and fugitive from a lethal gas chamber snuggles between his owners, Mr. and Mrs. August Marrone, in their New York City home. The Marrones are under charges of disorderly conduct for smuggling the dog from an ASFCA shelter to prevent his execution ! by gas for biting three persons. Thfe pet is now In hiding while his owners seek a court order to i stay the execution. (AP Wtrephoto). _ Commission Recommends State Build New Capitol At Raleigh The Weather FORECAST South Carolina: Considerable cloudi ness. little change in temperature Fri day, occasional light rain on coast Fri day morning; Saturday partly cloudy and a little warmer. North Carolina: Considerable cloudi ness East portion, some light rain on Southwest coast Friday, little change in temperature; Saturday clear to partly cloudy and a little warmer. (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. 43; 7:30 a.m. 36; 1:30 p.m. 54; 7:30 p.m. 50. Maximum 58; Minimum 34; Mean 46; i Normal 48. Humidity 1:30 a.m. 54; 7:30 a.m. 74; 1:30 p.m. 33* 7:30 p.m. 58. , Precipitation Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m. — 0.00 inches. Total since the first of the month — i 0.32 inches. Tides For Today (From the Tide Tables published by U. is. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 4:41 a.m. 11:56 a m. 4:59 p.m. - p.m. Masonboro Inlet _ 2:36 a.m. 8:55 a.m 2:42 p.m. 9:01 p.m. Sunrise 6:58; Sunset 5:55; Moonrise 2:15 a.m.; Moojiset 12:23 p.m. River stage at Fayetteville. N. C. av 8 a m.f Friday, (No Report) feet. HUSBANDFREED AFTER INQUEST French Tells Last Known Events In Life Of Coast Victim LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13.—(/P>— The last known events in the life of Jeanne French, 40, whose broken body was found in a field last Monday, were told at an in quest today by her grief-stricken husband. A coroner’s jury declared her death a homicide with the admoni tion to police to use every effort to bring the slayer to justice. Frank F. French, 47, ex-marine sergeant major with a record of 30 years in the service, wept briefly before he took the witness stand and related their last night to gether, the night before her body, marked with an obscene lipstick message ajid signed ”B. D.,” was found. j French, now an aircraft worker had been held on a suspicion of murder booking but a lie detector test and other evidence substan tiated his declarations of' inno cence and he was ordered re leased after the inquest. However, Detective E. V. Burns said he would be turned over to probation authorities on a previous intoxica tion charge. - He told thd coroner’s jury that he went to hi's'wife’s house Sunday evening. He said Mrs. French, former film bit player, aviatrix and nurse, .had been drinking and that he tried to leave. (Continued on Page Three, Col. 4) Present 107-Year-Old Edi fice Would Be Turned Into Art Gallery RALEIGH, Feb. 13 — (&) — A new state capitol, with the fjresenl 107-year-old structure being* turn ed into a state art gallery and hall of history, was recommend ed to the governor and legislature today by a special commission that studied the matter for two years. The report was submitted short ly before the big money commit tees, finance and appropriations-, took up requests for support of a proposed good health program, and chain store taxes. Principal legislative attention was focused on those committees, particularly appropriations, which considered the high.y publicized health program calling for the expenditure of about $48,000,000 over the next five years. Rep. U. B. Blalock of Anson headed the capitol commission, which' also said that a "suitable fireproof storage building for the numerous files of our various s'tate departments should be construct ed immediately. Storage Needed "This must. be done to provide sufficient fireproof storage for present needs as well as for an ticipating needs for the immediate future. The building should be so designed and constructed that ad ditional space could be provided later by additions to same when the need for greater storage space (Continued on Page Three, Ool. I) SI DOWN STRIKE CLOSES COLLIERY Hard Coal Miners Stay Un derground In Effort To4 Collect Wages LANSFORD, Pa., Feb. 13.—(U.R)— A sitdown strike by 13 hard coal miners 800 feet below' the surface gained the sympathy of 1,200 fel low workers today, closing the Lansford colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation co. The general mine committee of the Panther Valley w'as scheduled to discuss the situation tpnight, with indications the stoppage would spread to 6,000 miners in the area. The strikers remained in the cold, damp recess of the mine aftfer work last night to protest pay deductions for quitting work early. Known as "consideration miners," They are paid a flat daily rate for developing new work. They claim unfavorable con ditions, such as heat, smoke and dust, would imperil their health if they put in a full, seven-hour day. l (Continued on Page Three, Col. 4) Along The Cape Fear BATTLE ROYAL — Yesterday we gently, raised the question as to how could one determine where history ends and fiction begins, citipg the famous Simpson-White hurst duel here in the 1760’s as an example: .You'll .recall . that reputable his torians all fail to agree on who killed who, the fate of the survi vor, the date of the duel, and as a matter of fact whether the en cCuhter took place in Wilmington or New Bern. The cause of the two officers of the good ship Viper engaging in the duel and the mo tive of the presiding judge in kill ing himself following the sub sequent court trial of Simpson or Whitehurst still remain enigmas. TAKE YOUR CHOICE — Most history books contend that the bat tle to the death between Captain Alexander Simpson and Lieutenant Thomas Whitehurst resulted from the gentlemen's partisanship for the colonists or the British. Tempers were running high in those days and war with the moth er country was practically a foregone conclusion. So our leading historians ac credit the duel to the fact that the I fellow officers aboard the Viper V cid not see eye to” eye as to the relative merits of the Stamp Act. No less a person than Governor William Tryon, a crafty gent no doubt, did not put too much stock in the political motive for the duel. * * * TRYON’S VERSION — As a mat ter of fact. Governor Tryon sus pected that a woman was the cause of it all. In his report to the Board of Trade in London, Tryon brought out these interesting facts: It was a brutal affair, in which Simpson not only broke White hurst’s thigh with his shot, but then took the- pains to bash in his opponent’s head with the butt of the pistol. Such a blow was delivered as to break not only Whitehurst's head but also the butt and pan of the weapon. But Simpson, himself did not come ot t of 'the encounter in any too good a shape, as he was shot in the shoulder. The bullet from | Whitehurst’ s pistol entered Simp son's right shoulder from the rear with the ball coming out under the arm. * * * • ON THE STAND — When wit (Continued on Page Three, Col. S) AZALEA FESTIVAL PLANNED FOR ’48 Celebration Voted At Meet ing Of Civic Club Mem bers1 Last Night The, decision to stage an Azalej festival in Wilmington during th< spring of 1948 was voted at j meeting of local civic orgamz.atior and city and county representative! in the Woodrow Wilson hut las night. Approximately SO persons wen in attendance at last night's ses sion, at which Hugh Morton, loca real estate man, was chosen t( head an organization to be charget with the elaborate arrangement: for the proposed spring celebra tion. Selected a§ secretary of thi group to handle the details of th< festival was Miss Verna Sheppard with Dr. W. Houston Moore name: as honorary chairman. The meeting was called by Dr Moore, a long-time advocate of th< pageant idea. He called for a larg< celebration to be held in Green field Park and on the lake, with ; water carnival to be included ir the program and to be viewed Iron a large amphitheater to be con structed on the shore of the lake Dr. Moore compared Wilmingtoi with Charleston in the way o scenic beauty and called attentioi to the fact that the South Caro lina city is this year resuming it; annual Azalea festival. ' Gordon Doran advised the as sembly that he had conferred witl the director of the Charleston cele bration and had been informed tha officials of the pageant there woulc gladly cooperate with local rep resentatives in laying plans foi the occasion here. It was thei voted that delegates from the lo cal festival organization be sent t< Charleston to confer w'ith official: there in formulating plans for th< Wilmington festival. A meeting of delegates and al ternates from clubs throughou i the country is expected to be call jed soon to further formulate plan: for the first celebration next year Day In Congress By The Associated Press MARITIME — Legislation urgec by President Truman to continui the maritime commission’s au thority to operate ships beyond the present March 31 expiration dat< was cleared by the house merchah marine committee. LABOR — The house labor com mittee summoned two prosecutor: to explain alleged delay in actinj against perpetrators of violence ii a Connecticut dairy strike. SPENDING — A bipartisan coal) tion organized to hold the budge cut to $4,500,000,000 or less a: President Truman declared his estimates are essential for salt operations. Opposes Rent Hike WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. —(/P) The American Federation of La bor through its President Willian Green, today opposed any changi in present rent controls until Juni 30. 1948. To grant any blanket rent in crease now. Green told a senati banking subcommittee in a letter “would have an extremely disturb ing effect on wages and present real threat to industrial peace.” Family Tiffs, Crying Brats May Cause Airplane Crash WASHINGTON. Feb. 13 — IA> - Family fights, crying babies, an. tailors’ bills were cited before th House Commerce committee a contributing factors to plane dis I asters. , Je one Lederer, assistant mar ■ ager of the Aero Insurance Undei | writers of New York city, sai | they cause fatigue and emotions : disturbances among pilots, wit i resulting carelessness or reckles: i ness. I Lederer said such instanct l*f. ■ were the exception rather than th< i rule, but told the committee tha > civil aviation managemen 5 shouldn’t allow these exceptions. He maintained married pilots when off duty, should stay at homi ' with the little women. Other stay 1 homers should include pilots emo 1 tionallv upset after a tiff with th a not-so-ever-loving wife, or thos tired out as a result of a sleep less night listening to junio s screech, he said. Committee To Probe Milk Strike Story PRESIDENT SOLID FOR LILIENTHAL Chief Executive Pledges UnyieTding Support To AEC Nominee WASHINGTON. Feb. 13 — (A>) * President Truman pledged his un yielding support today to David E. Lilienthal. his choice for chairman of the atomic energy commission, and branded cries of communism against Lilienthal as “completely unfounded.’’ Mr. Truman made it plain to a news conference that he does not intend to withdraw the nomina tion, saying that he considers i Lilienthal fully and thoroughly equipped and that he will stay with him straight along. The President permitted direct quotation of the words “absolute ly unfounded” as his reply to sug gestions that Lilienthal had com munist leanings. This had been charged by Sena tor McKellar (D-Tenn) who said in senate hearings that Lilienthal. as head of the Tennessee Valley au thority, was “the No. 1 communist in my state.” McKellar, longtime political foe of Lilienthal, was asked about Mr. Truman’s remarks and replied: “The record speaks for it self. That’s all I want to say now.” White Against Almost as Mr. Truman was speaking. Sen ate Republican I Leader White, of Maine, an nounced against Lilienthal for the i atomic post. white said in a statement tnat he opposes him particularly “be cause of his long hostility to legis lative limitations sought to be im posed upon his dictatorial man agement of TVA.” The White-Truman declarations pointed to a bitter battle when the Lilienthal nomination reaches the floor from the senate atomic com mittee which is holding hearings. White was the second high re publican senate official to come ! out flatly against Lilienthal. Sena tor Wherry (Neb), the party whip, urged rejection of his confirmation several days ago. In addition, friends of Senator 1 Taft (R-Ohio), chairman of the re ' publican policy committee, said he ; has told them he would vote a ' gainst Lilienthal. Two other officials of the Senate [ Republican organization are mem 1 bers of the atomic energy com mittee weighing Lilienthai’s nomi 1 nation and have not announced their‘stand on confirmation. They are President Pro Tempore Van denberg (Mich) and Senator Milli kin (Colo), chairman of the re publican conference. MORGMHAU will RETURN “DIARY” Any Portions Of 900-VoI ume Collection Needed, Will Go Back ■ WASHINGTON. Feb. 13. —(U.R) Former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., has agreed to return to the treasury 1 any materials from his contro versial 900—volume “diary” that 1 may be needed for the clepart 1 ment’s official records, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snydei announced tonight. Morgenthau said in a letter tc ' Snyder, however, that he did not beiieve any “official papeis oi ' records” were included in his personal file. The.] he told Snyder: “Nevertheless, I will welcome haying you or your representative go over them and will gladly re turn any papers which are of ficial.” , Snyder several weeks ago asked Morgenthau to return the “diary,” and he said then that he under , stood it io include the only copies of the transcripts of a great many official telephone conversations and of countless official confer ences held in Morgenthau's office , during his years as treasury head. Te Examine Diary | In releasing Morgenthau’s letter tonight, Snyder said the '‘diary’’ would be examined to find what material would be needed for of ficial records, but that the depart i ment considers other material “tc be personal” to Morgenthau. , “It is the view of the department that memoranda prepared bv Mr. Morgenthau to aid his recollection of what may have transpired at meetings and conferences in which he was a participant are not oi - such a character as to come withir the purview of what the depart ] ment considers to be public s property,” he said. : Morgenthau emphasized that nc income he may derive from his ■ writings based on the diary woulc j be for his “personal profit.” In stead, it will go to a foundation for world peace of which Mrs i Franklin D. Roosevelt, is presi dent, he said. _ Two Prosecutors Will Be Called To Testify On Bloodshed, Violence WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— (>P) — An aroused House Labor commit tee swiftly decided today to call two prosecutors on the carpet to tell their versions of violence and bloodshed in a Connecticut dairy strike. Chairman Hartley <R-N. J.) said ne is going to bring them to Wash ington to “explain why they haven’t taken action.’’ Abraham Norman, an official of the dairy involved, identified tho prosecutors as Lawrence Epfiano of Stamford, Conn., and Georg* Fenelli of White Plains, N. Y. Sprinkled through Norman'* testimony and remarks of commit tee members were references to "yellow" law enforcement officer*, ‘ ghosts of A1 Capone’’ and use of imported “thugs and goons.’’ Hartley said the dairy strike stoiy points up several things the committee must consider in writ ing general labor legislation. He did not go into details on that. But on the subject of such legi*. lation, Rep. Miller CR.-Neb.) urged action because he thinks another coal strike is coming April 1 'sure as shootin’ ” and another in gen eral motors when union demand* for a closed shop are pressed. Four Bills Miller spoke in behalf of lour bills he has introduced. They would outlaw the closed shop and union dues check-off as well as sympathy or jurisdictional strikes and boy cotts. They would make collective bargaining contracts binding on both management and labor and seek to prevent strikes in vital in dustries. Norman told the committee in de tail about the Connecticut dairy strike. It was against the Norman Dairy of New Canaan, Conn. He ie treasurer of the small company, which sells milk in New Canaan and nearby areas of Connecticut and New York. Norman said the strike was call ed in January, 1946, by local 338 of the AFL Teamsters union. He said the union and the company had at that time a valid contract that was supposed to last another 18 months. Strike Threatened The union, he said, threatened to put the company out of businese unless it signed a new contract to meet terms agreed to by branches of two national dairies. “Big, strong thugs and goone were brought in great numbers from New York to intimidate us and our customers,” Norman said He said hundreds of pickets were thrown around the dairy, which employed less than a dozen people. Two drivers were waylaid, he said, and one of them beaten into "insensibility.” He identified thie driver as a nephew, George Non man, a former naval aviator who "came back to us by grace of God and a parachute.” The beating, he | said, took place in Westchester | county, New York. Another Nephew-driver, Norman I continued, was threatened with violence, his truck tires cut and his milk dumped. That happened is Stamford, Conn., he said. Warrants were issued, Norman (Continued on Page Three, Col. 8) merchantsTraft HOLIDAY SCHEDULE Thursday Selected For Early Closing During Summer Months Retail merchants in the city will observe the half-holiday during the summer months, May through September, on Thursday this year rather than Wednesday, J. H. Cars well, president of the Retail Mer chant’s association, announced yesterday following a meeting of that grc.ip. The same full holidays as were obsei ed last year will be marked this year. They are Monday, April 7, Easter Monday; Friday, July 4, Independence Day; Monday, September 1, Labor Day; Thurs day, November 27, Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday. Dec. 25, 26, Christmas; and Thursday, Jan. 1, New Year’s Day. The recommendations we r* made by a committee com posed of G. H. Hunt, Jr., W. B. Berry, C. L. Harris, R. T. Berman and Louis Shrier. The only exceptions will be Thursday July 3 and September 4. The stores will be closed at 1 p.m. on the other Thursdays. Carswell pointed out that this closing would not be followed by lhe grocers, however, since they will continue their regular Wednesday half-holi days. And So To Bed No one knows for certain who started St. Valentine’s Day, but since love is as old as Eve, the first Valentine in | history was probably a heart shaped rock carved by a pre- ' historic cave man and tossed with tender solicitude at bis “cave girl.’’ The idea has been passed down for ages and many a young, and old, woman has been wooed by written mes sages. Today many a Valen tine will be delivered, comics will take their place with the more beauteous. :! And to those who fail to re ;! ceive one, even a comic, just be thankful that you will not r be forced to dodge a replica of 1 the first Valentine.
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