HOME REPAIRS SET
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Tile Council Survey Shows
North Carolinians Will
Spend Money
HEW YORK; Feb. 23.— VP) —
North Carolina’s expenditures for
home Repair and modernization
this year will total an estimated
$54,480,000 and set a record for
such work, according to a study
released today by the Tile Council
of America.
More than 85,800 of the state’s
single-family homes alone need
new roofs or roofing repairs, the
study revealed. Some 24,700 will
have bathrooms altered, showers
tiled or water pipes repaired, and
still another 22,100 will require car
pentry work, during the year, ac
cording to the report.
Pointing out that increases are
reported for practically every prod
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LABOR LEADERS JOIN
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RED CROSS CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— (ff) —
Secretary of Labor SchweUenbach
and Presidents William Green of
the AFL and Philip Murray of the
CIO pledged their support today to
the $60,000,000 Red Cross drive be
ginning March 1.
A Red Cross statement quoted
Murray as pledging to give “the
same cooperation in this campaign
as we have in the wartime drives.’’
Green praised the Red Cross as
“one of the most valuable public
service institutions in/jur country.’’
SchweUenbach said the Red
Cross “provides an annual oppor
tunity to give to, and participate
in, a work which recognizes the in
trinsic worth of the individual and
embodies the love of fellowman.’’
example, are expected to hit an all
time high this year.
The most commonly wanted
home improvement is painting, the
study revealed. The exterior or
some room of the interior is rede
corated in about a third of the
state’s home during the average
year. Minor repairs are made to
the interior of one out of every 16
homes each year and work on elec
trical installations is required in
one home in 90, the study showed.
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Public Approves Placing Of Limit
On Number Of Terms For Senators
BY GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute
Of Public Opinion
Princeton, N. J., February 21—
A majority of American voters
think it would be a good idea to
place a limitation upon the num
ber terms a U. S. Senator can
serve.
When asked what the limit should
be, voters say, on the average,
two terms.
This result coincides with a pro
posal of Senator Edwin C. John
son, Democrat, of Colorado. Sen
ator Johnson has announced he
will not run for a third term.
It is significant, perhaps that
people with college training inter
viewed on the issue vote in ma
jority against limitation—a result
in contrast to people whose edu
cation did not go beyond high
school.
Republicans approve the limi
tation by a larger proportion than
Democrats in the poll.
The question asked in the sur
vey:
“A U. S. Senator now serves
six years in one term of office.
Do you think there should be a
limit on the number of terms which
a Senator could serve?’*
The result across the nation:
Yes - 54%
No . 39
No Opinion _ 7
Tie people voting yes to the first
question were then asked:
“What do you think the limit
should be?”
The median average of all re
plies comes out at two terms.
Sentiment on' the first question
is shown below by ages of people
in the poll, by education, by po
litical pre:'rence.
No
Yes No Opin
POLITICS
Democratic - 50% 42% 8%
Republican _ 58 38 4
AGES
21-29 - 49% 45% 6%
30-49 -- 52 41 7
50 and over_61 33 6
EDUCATION
College - 40% 58% 2%
High School _ 55 41 4
Grammar
School or
Less _ 58 33 9
Former German Liner
Slated For Retirement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — (£>)—
The George Washington, one-time
German liner which transported
allied fighting 'men in two world
wars, is to be retired, the Mari
time Commission announced to
night.
The 38-year-oid vessel soon will
be placed in the permanent re
serve fleet at Baltimore—idle but
ready for service again in an em
ergency. It was offered for sale
last month but failed to attract
any bidders.
Meanwhile Chairman Bradley (R
Mich) of the House Merchant
Marine Committee said in a state
ment the liner Washington, another
vessel now in passenger service, is
safer than the Queen Elizabeth and
Queen Mary of the British mer
chant fleet.
The vessel’s safety was question
ed in testimony before the commit
tee this week. It is considering
legislation to continue the Coast
Guard’s authority to waive the full
peacetime safety requirements.
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at 3:15 p.m. in the Masonic
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Edward Arnold Finding
Father’s Role Pleasing
Former Bad-Man Of Movie
Thrillers Now An
Ideal Papa
BY ALINE MOSBY
United Press
Hollywood. Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 21 — (U.R)—
Edward Arnold’s a lucky guy on
the screen. He gets paid for
letting some of the prettiest ac
tresses in Hollywood stroke his
hair, pinch his cheeks, and
snuggle up.
True, most of these film
beauties play his daughters, But,
Arnold points out, they’re really
not, and that’s where the fun
comes in.
He's had Lana Turner to lay out
his pipe and slippers, Janis Paige
to ruffle his hair, Joyce Reynolds
to sob on his shoulder and Joan
Caulfield to tuck into bed.
“It’s not papa who pays,” he
told us, “but it pays to be papa.”
Arnold never has counted other
actors’ celluloid offspring, but he
doubts if any other picture pater
could boast of more children. He’s
played papa to nearly every child
star and a lot of older players,
too.
His current daughters are
Joyce Reynolds and Janis Paige
in Warners’ “Wallflower.” This is
the second time he’s been Joyce’s
father and he allows as how she’s
his favorite child.
He can think of a couple,
though, who’d be sharpened up by
a good paddling. Like Lana Turner
and Butch Jenkins.
This paternal business has been
going on so long that Arnold’s
getting carried away with the
idea.
“I work myself into this benevo
lent mood every morning when I
start work,” he explained, “then
I go home that night feeling the
same way.”
He thinks he does, anyway.
Sometimes the real Arnold child
ren—he’s got three—have a difer
ent slant.
“A couple of times they’ve come
home from my pictures saying
’Why don’t you act like that at
home?’ ” he grinned.
But though the Arnold menace
doesn’t think his roles are always
natural the fans do. He’s swamp
ed with letters from fathers who
W'ail, “that’s just the way things
happen in our house.”
Some fans have the idea Arnold
is a father confessor and they un
jjbur their home troubles. But Ar
nold never hands out advice.
“I have enough trouble keeping
up with my own family,” he said.
The fans, he. added, evidently
SCIENTIST CHURCHES
STUDY “MIND”SUNDAY
FOR LESSON-SERMON
“MIND” was the subject of the
Lesson-Sermon in all Christian
Science Churches and Societies on
Sunday, February 23.
The Golden Text, Romans 11:33.
“Oh the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are his judg
ments, and his ways past finding
out! ’’
Among the citations comprising
the Lesson-Sermon were the follow
ing from the Bible: “Praise ye the
Lord: . . . Great is our Lord, and
of great power: his understanding
is infinite” (Psalms 147: to 5). And
from “Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures” by Mary
Baker Eddy: “Infinite Mind is the
creator, and creation is the infinite
image or idea emanating from this
Mind. If Mind is within and with
out all things, then all is Mind, and
this definition is scientific” (Page
256).
No Contract
ROME, Feb. 23.—(#)(#)—1The Ital
ian news agency Ansa said in a
Milan dispatch today that the New
York Metropolitan Opera company
had signed Conductor Sergio Fai
loni, a favorite at Milan’s La Scala
opera house, to a three-year con
tract.
In New York, a spokesman for
the Metropolitan Opera company
denied that a contract had been
signed with Failoni.
“The matter was discussed with
him but there was definitely no con
tract signed,” the spokesman said.
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forget he always hasn’t been the
father goose oi movietown. Before
his string of father pictures, Ar
nold was far from a kindly gent
on the screen and stage.
“The only father role I had on
Broadway was Romeo’s father in
'Romeo and Juliet,’ ” he said,
“the rest were tough characters.”
And when the movies nabbed
Arnold, it was the same deal, He
played fast-talking racketeers,
slick operators, etc. Children
cringed before him on the street,
women paled.
“The only letters I got from
fathers then,” said Arnold, "were
some saying how I scared their
kids.”
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HOME STATE TALKS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.— (iP) —
The entire Pennsylvania Repub
lican delegation in Congress—Sen
ator Martin and 28 Representatives
—is to meet with state GOP lead
ers in Philadelphia on Tuesday
night to discuss the legislative pro
gram.
A member of the delegation who
told of the plan today said the meet
ing is at the invitation of Pennsy
lvania Republican leaders, includ
ing Joseph R. Grundy and Joseph
N. Pew.
Asked whether the tariff question
is on the program in view of Con
gressional proposals of restrict the
administration’s reciprocal trade
pacts, the Congressman said that
matter probably will be discussed
but the conference wTill not be de
voted to that specifically.
He said the general legislative
program wall be discussed, and
that similar conferences have been
held previously. The Congressmen
are to travel to Philadelphia in a
special railroad car.
Truman Returns
Washington, Feb. 23.—(IP)—Presi
dent Truman returned to the White
House today after spending the
night aboard the Presidential
yacht Williamsburg in the ice
clogged Potomac river.
Because of the ice, the yacht
remained anchored off Mount Ver
non before starting the short cruise
back to the Navy yard here where
it docked at 2:30 p.m. The Presi
dent had boarded the Williamsburg
there yesterday, with members of
the White House staff, after plac
ing a wreath at Washington's tomb.
Takes Chances
CAIRO, Feb. 23.—i/P)—The out
lawed Fawzi El Kaukji, leading fig
ure of the Arab revolt in 1936, ar
rived in Cairo today after a flight
in which his plane refuelled in
Palestine where an $8,000 price
rested on his head.
((There was conjecture that the
exlied Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj
Amin El Husseini, might appoint
him general of two recently-merg
ed'Arab “Youth organizations.”)
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