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FORECAST: * | ^ <+ Served By Leased Wires Wilmington and X I ▼ \/W Til 1 f ASSOCIATED PRESS “ umuiwim unuim — -- 1 •* j+r State and National New* t%^—°- ,33- :-i-WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1947 " Knutson May Revise Bills On Tax Slash tyays, Means Chairman Announces Further Relief SHOWDOWNSHIFTED Republicans Study New Proposals During “Clos ed Door” Meeting WASHINGTON. March 18—UP)— jeo Knutson (R.-Minn), chairman (the House Ways and Means committee, announced today his 20 percent across the board tax-cut ,jng bill may be revised to give ..•eater relief for taxpayers in the smaller income brackets. Some Republicans and Demo crats nave criticized Knutson’s bill ,‘s not reducing the "little fellow's’’ burden enough. Knutson told reporters that net incomes up to $2,000 (gross income less personal exemptions) might be cut by 23 to 26 percent, instead of 20 percent, if the government would not lose too much revenue by such « step. A House showdown on tax cut ting, originally set for next Mon day. will probably be postponed to Wednesday, while a decision is pending on whether the changes can be made. Three Points After a closed-door meeting of trays and means republicans, Knut son said: 1. Studies are being made to determine whether the ta-cutting can be made retroactive to Janu ary 1. or whether July 1 would be a better date. He still hopes to make it retroactive. 2. The extra small income cuts. If adopted, probably would not be applicable to the first $2,000 net income of all taxpayers, but to those with no more than $2,000. 3. The next ways and means full committee session on taxes will be postponed from Thursday to Friday, while the Republicans are deciding whether the extra cut can be given to the small incomes. The committee probably wiU have a showdown vote Friday, with the measure going to the House floor Wednesday. Knutson said he wants to keep as near as possible to an over-all *3,300,000,000 cut in taxes, and that ixira relief to the lower brackets certainly could not total more than $500,000,000. RALEIGH TO HAVE MANAGER-COUNCIL Voters Of Capital City Abandon 34-Year-Old Commission Rule RALEIGH, March 18— (£>)—By a 1,215-vote majority, Raleigh today abandoned its 34-year-old com mission form of municipal govern ment and voted to adopt a city manager-cou*'’il form, effective text July 1. Wake County Board of Election unofficial returns: For city manager-council plan, for commission plan 3,055. An official canvass of voters Mill be held tomorrow, with formal an nouncement of results scheduled for noon in the office of Mayor Graham H, Andrews. The modified “plan D,’’ as out lined in the general statutes, re lumes that one member of the council to ue designated as mayor -with all members being elected *t large. The council will select •nd employ a city manager who ls responsible directly to the coun cil for carrying out the business of Ihe city. The city manager does not have to be a, resident of the city. cfext step for completion of the new government will be a primary on April 28, for the selection of nominees to the council. From mat list of candidates will be chosen 14, who will enter an elec “°m set for May 6. Should only persons or less file for places, here would be no primary, and h°se filing would enter a runoff iIa>' with the seven high andidates being given council •eats. ■MBONE'S MEDITATIONS By Alley **"rl * tmm'1 -1 CtflOUS HOW A MAN WHOT DON' NEVUH ?9 nothin' Ain' n&vuh got no time To do nothin' !!! (Released by The Bell Syn 3 dleate,. Imc.j Trade Mark n f Rtf U I. Pet. Ofct l Dies In M- Y» W. C. DURANT ONE-TIME WIZARD OF ‘STREET’ DIES William C. Durant, Organ izer Of General Motors, Made Fortunes NEW FORK, March 18 —(U.P.) •— William C. Durant, founder of General Motors corp. who pyra mided his fortuen to an estimated $120,000,000 at one point in his up and down career and 14 years later listed his assets at $250, died today at 85. Durant had suffered a paralyt ic stroke five years ago and his last years were lived here in mod est circumstance and retirement in sharp contrast to his years oi gigantic financial promotions. He twice controlled General Mo tors and twice lost control. He pi oneered the organization of many of the best known automobile ! companies. But his last venture in business was a combination ham burger restaurant and bowling al ley at Flint, Mich. Durant was the “Gunga Dm of Wall street, a name which is. said to have originated from the spurts and slumps in his finances, his small stature, reserved manner and piercing eyes Wife At Bedside He died in his Gramercy Park apartment. His wife, whom he married at 47 when his fortunes ■ were at a near peak, and a nurse were with him. Associates believe Durant had a fortune of $120,000,000 when he was 60. He was 74 when he filed bankruptcy, listing his.; .^abilities at close to $1,000,000, and^his as sets at $250. -— He started a restaurant at As bury Park. N. J., shortly after the bankruptcy proceedings, and he revealed 'later that he washed dishes when he was preparing for the opening. That venture was short-lived. His flint business, with which he planned to launch a chain, was started shortly before he was stricken with paralysis, i His first business was a car riage concern which was the foun dation of the automobile empire he built. WHEAT PRICES HIT TH IT-YEAR HIGH Leading Cereal Crosses $3.00 Mark For Sec ond Time In 99 Years CHICAGO, March 18—(rP)—Three dollar wheat was recorded for the second time in the. 99-year history of the Boaid of trade today when the March delivery sold for $3.05 a bushel at the opening of grain futures trading. . The only other year in which the $3 mark was reached was in 1917 when a price of $3.25 prevailed for four days in early May. After the peak was reached to day, however, prices tumbled 18 1-2 cents a bushel, on reports that the government was making moie wheat available for immediate de livery. The March contract clos ed at $2.86 1-2, dowm ten cents — the daily limit — from Monday’s close. . Since February 1 until today s break came, March wheat has ad vanced 98 1-2 cents a bushel, in the futures market. Short contracts were badly squeezed because of their inability to obtain cash wheat to fulfill commitments at the end of trading in the March contracts, March 22. The scramble between shorts and mills to obtain cash grain le sulted in an upward swing in the cash market, Minneapolis record ing a high of S3.10 3-4 a bushel for a car of No. 1 dark Northern. A1 Omaha where cash wheat reached the three dollar mark yesterday, prices eased a little today, with the top for the day at $2.91 a bushel for No. 1 hard winter wheat. At Des Moines the top for the day was i S2.70 a bushel. Expanded Medical School Approved” Joint Appropriations Committee Okays Ex penditure Of $3,790,000 To Aid Medical Care Doctor Program L UEIGH, March 18. — (fP) — t a voice being heard in op ,^e.O the joint appropriations & ^ e' today approved an ap ^ ' r\ i of $3,790,000 for a ex -r-year medica] school at V.^tuversity of North Carolina. ^ ihe issue of expanding the two year medical school at the Univer sity into a four-year school had been regarded at the start of the session as. one of the most contro versial issues before the general as sembly. An imposing number of mem bers were regarded as being op posed to expansion of the medical school, and others were regarded as opposed plans to locate it at Chapel Hill. However, informed sources said that a number of influential mem bers had been conducting a cam paign in favor of the appropriation for the four-year school during the past few days. Governor Cherry, these sources said, had swung from luke-warm support approval to active support of the school. The appropriation of $3,790,000 for the medical school would be added to $1,500,000 expected from federal funds under the Hill-Bur ton act for a total of $5,290,000 to be used as follows: 33,200,000 for a 400-bed hospital, $600,000 for hos pital equipment, $200,000 addition to the present medical school build ing, $840,000 for a nurses home and training school, and $450,000 for 100 homes for internes and residents. Expansion of the university medi cal school is part of the program of the State Medical Care com mission. The permanent improve ments bill also carries $6,250,000 to be matched with federal and local funds for the building of medical centers and hospitals throughout the state. The joint committee did not consider this appropriation to day, but little opposition to this portion of the Medical care pro gram has developed. SINGING MOUSE WINS BED AND CHEESE WITH CANARY-LIKE VOICE LANCASTER, Mass., March 18. —(U.R)— The Edmister fami ly have a mouse in their home and they said today they’re go ing out of their way to please him so he’ll stay around. Mick ey is a singing mouse. Every two or three days he sings in a canafy-like voice and he’s even made a record ing. A music teacher says he has a voice range of three to five notes. “When we used to keep white mice,” explained Mrs. Ruel Edminster, “M i c k e y taught one of them to chirp and then they sang duets.” SUPERIOR COURT A fOURNS HERE Illness Of Judge Clawson L. Williams Causes Postponement N e w Hanover county Superior Court was adjourned yesterday at the noon recess sine die when Presiding Judge Clawson L. Wil liams, of Sanford, was taken ill. Solicitor Cliftori Moore said that there were about 40 cases left on the docket. He said that he was going to try and arrange a special term “sometime” in April, but he could give no definite time because of conflicting dates of other courts. Moore said that he had the week of April 21 open but that a session of Superior Court here then would conflict with the scheduled term of United States District Court. The next scheduled term of Superior Court for New Hanover county is May 12, he said. How ever, with the number of cases which were continued from this term and those anticipated be tween now and May would burden the court, he said. The May term is scheduled for one week of criminal and one of civil. Meanwhile, severai portant cases, including thai cf Roy Grissett, ex - Wilmington po liceman were not heard at this term. Another ex-Wilmington po liceman, H. L. Gurley had his case continued for the second time. Gurley pleaded guilty to store breaking at the February special term of court and his case was continued until this term. No action was taken in his case. Attorneys for Guy Ganey of (Continued On Page Two; Col. 8) SPARE SUGAR STAMP NO. 11 TO BE GOOD COME APRIL FIRST WASHINGTON. March IS—(U.P.) — The OPA announced today that spare stamp No. 11 will become valid on April 1 for 10 pounds of sugar. This is the first stamp ever is sued with the 10 pound value. Stamp No. 53, which is good for five pounds, will expire on March 31, instead of April 30. The expiration date of the five pound stamp was moved up, OPA said, “in order to avoid confusion which may be caused by outstand ing stamps of both five and 10 pound values.” Ration supplies were ordered in creased recently after a realloca tion of world sugar supplies. ! Thalians ’ Presentation Gets Hearty Reception A comfortably filled auditorium Greeted the Thalian players last night in the New Hanover High School building when the curtain rose on ‘'The Man Who Came To Dinner” by Hart and Kauffman The performance deserved a packed house on its merits. The play is almost a one man performance, but there is plenty of action for the supporting play ers a-.d there were several “spear carriers”, all most necessary to the performance. Lester W. Peterson, as the man who came to dinner, did a super lative job, handling his trenchant lines excellently. He added an other to a long list of character pa.ts in his repertoire. Amy Walker, as Maggie Cutler, the secretary, had a big job on her hands, and it was a well done job, playing opposite Mary Vail Cameron who handled the role of Lorraine Sheldon splendidly. Mary C. Ormond and Andy Johnson, as Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, in whose house all the action took place, were just as excited and fluttery as their parts called for, while Debby Bradley and Rock | (Continued On Page Two; Col. 3) REPEAL OF LAWS SOUGHT BY GROUP Commercial Fishers And Dealers Ask Lifting Of All Restrictions Approximately 75 members of the Commercial Fishers and Dealers Association last night adopted a motion to send a pe tition to Senator Alton A. Len non and Representative Robert M. Kermon calling for legislation to be offered repealing all laws pertaining to commercial fishing in local waters. The organization met in special session in the New Hanover coun ty Superior court room to elect permanent officers of the associa tion and to lay plans for protest ing any further legislation aimed at controlling fishing in the local area. Elected as president of the or ganization was J. Hampton Lea, Jr., with W. D. Stokley elected as vice-president and W. J. Wil son as secretary-treasurer. Passed also at the meeting was a motion that the association go on record as opposing any action by either legislator to propose legislation detrimental to com mercial fishing in local waters. According to the petition adopt ed, the association would propose new legislation governing fish ing along the coast in the region as soon as the present law is re pealed. Kermon was charged with mak ing contradictory statements re garding what his stand was on present and possible future legis lation governing fishing. He was charged with trying to "draw a red herring across the issue” by bring ing up the subject of poor sani tation facilities for crews at Wrightsville Beach, a matter which Kermon reportedly suggest ed as one reason why some step should be taken to govern fishing operations at the resort town. A question arose as to whether or not Kermon and Lennon had been notifie-' of the meeting to night and asxed to attend for the purpose °- explaining legislation covering local fishing. In an ef fort to have the two legislators present for the next session, it was voted that they should both be rec •’sted to be in attendance at the next meeting. A motion to adopt a charter on incorporation for the associa tion was voted favorably, as was the printing of membership cards and the payment of membership fees by those joining the organi zation. TWO RESCUED TAMPA, Fla., March 18— (UR) — Two men who had drifted in the Gulf of Mexico, without food, for 10 days were rescued today at the climax of a three-day search over hundreds of square miles of wa ter. Secretary Marshall Rejects Soviet Bid For Ten Billions Reparations; Taft Forecasts Big Welfare Budget GOP LEADER SEES BILLION YEARLY Shortage Of Homes Most Crying Need Of Nation, Committee Told WASHINGTON, March 18— (A5)— Senator Taft R-Ohio) today fore cast an eventual $1,000,000,000 - a year federal budget for social wel fare—education, health and hous ing—and declared the shortage of homes is a problem crying for at tention. Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Taft declared “we are going to have to do some thing soon’’ to get more homes. Senator Robertson (D-Va.) ask ed Taft if he would be willing to increase the national debt, now totalling $262,000,000,000, to take care of the housing problem “No,” Taft replied firmly, “I would not.” Nevertheless, he said, the hous ing situation is a national problem and “nothin- is closer to the wel fare of the people.” “The government has done no I job at all in the past,” he said, “and private industry has never provided the necessary housing for lowest income groups.” Failure Label Taft asserted that the emergen cy program set up by Congress last year to encourage production of scarce building materials has been “a complete failure.” He said that of $400,000,000 provided for subsidies to producers, only about $35,000,000 will have been spent by the end of the fiscal year, June 3. “The justification for public housing is that we have to elim inate the disgraceful type of hous ing in which the lowest income families live,” he said. PRISONER ADMITS “DAHLIA” MURDER Man Held On Car Theft Charges Confesses Los ... Angeles Slaying ST. LOUIS, March 18. — CU.fi)— Melvin Bailey, 23, held on an auto theft charge, confessed today to the mutilation slaying of Eliza beth Short, the “Black Dahlia,” whose body was found in a Los Angeles lot last Jan. 15. Chief o f Detectives Leonard Murphy said Bailey, “seems to tell a straight story.” Bailey said he was “dazed” the night of the slaying by Benze drine he had taken “for a lift” and did not remember the details. However he gave names and dates concerning events leading to the slaying. Police said he would be held for questioning by Los Angeles police to determine the authenticity of his confession. Bailey, a strapping six - footer who said he was part Indian, was arrested near here F e b.. 12 by Missouri State police on an auto theft charge. He was being questioned by St. Louis police about the theft and a Los Angeles robbery today when he suddenly said: “I might as well tell you about the murder.” Had One Date He said he had not known Miss Short as “The Black Dahlia” but only a s Elizabeth or “Beth” Short. He said he was introduced to her by a friend, Cynthia Borden. He said he and Miss Short had one date, on Jan. 5, and that he did not see her again until Jan. 12, the eve of the slay ing. That night, he told authorities, he met Miss Short at the hotel Palm Beach and took her to the Seven Seas night club, where they joined Miss Borden and her escort. He said Miss Short was drink ing liquor while he drank coffee “spiked” with Benzedrine. H e said the other couple left ar,d he and Miss Short drove to South western Los Angeles in a ear he had stolen. Along The Cape Fear STRANGE SIGHT — Yesterday we were on the general subject of cat fish, so today we thought it would be appropriate to discuss briefly cats that act like fish. Now if you will turn to Page 2 you will see a sight that seldom meets the human eye. STRANGE SIGHT* — And while on the subject of cat fish, we beg you to turn to page two in jrder to witness a sight seldom seen. We might just as well tell you about cats that act like fish. There you will note two Ha waiian surf riders, Solomon and Duncan, which purr for the brine, according to the Associated Press. It all started when the two cats (felines, not fish) owned by a Mr. and Mrs. James F. Morgan, Jr., of Honolulu, began to be troubled with fleas. Now salt water was supposed to be unusually obnoxious t o fleas, so the Morgans carried the cats about 20 feet out into the surf and forced them to swim in. Solomon and Duncan spluttered and yowled and were none too impressed with their first try at surf bathing. However the flea* persisted and so did the Morgans, hence the bath in the wide Pacific became a weekend ritual for the pair of cats. Just as practice makes perfect, so did the weekly dunkings in the ocean grow upon this teline pair. No longer do folks stare in wonder when Solomon an Duncan stroll casually to the surf’s edge, gingerly test the water with their forepaws, then plunge into the ocean for a swim. To date Along The Cape Fear has been unsuccessful in finding any counterpart of the Pacific surf-bathing cats in this area. So should any kind reader know of a cat with a yearning for swim ming in the ocean, we would appreciate you forwarding us the full details at your earliest con venience. * * * GOOD IDE —what to do with those twenty-five cents pocket size books you’ve finished reading seems to have been answered in a little item that was called to our attention yesterday. A reader was kind enough to bring us a short news story clipped from an upstate newspa per telling of the novel plan adopt I (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) i j ; j Bar Association Presidents Pictured above are the retiring and new president of the New Hanover Bar Association. They are, left to right, Col. Royce S. Mc Clellan, retiring president, and W. Edmund Rodgers, the new presi dent. Rodgers was elevated from the vice presidency at the quar terly meeting held in the Crystal Restaurant last night. I The Weather FORECAST: South Carolina — Cloudy and tool, rain Thursday beginning over West and South portions Wednesday afternoon. North Carolina — Increasing cloudi ness Wednesday followed by rain Thurs day beginning over West portion Wednes-'1 day afternoon. Slightly warmer Wednes day and Wednesday night, cooler Thurs day. (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. 46; 7:30 a. m. 42: 1:30 p. m. 52; 7:30 p. m. 50; Maximum 53; Mini mum 41; Mean 47; Normal 54. PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. 0 inches. Total since the first of the month 4.37 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY (From the Tide Tables published by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington_—_ 7:27 am 2:08 am 7:50 pm 2:40 pm Masonboro_—_ 5:22 am 11:43 am 5:35 pm 11:54 pm River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 a. m. Tuesday - feet. YOUNGGETSBID AS NYC DIRECTOR Firebrand Of Railway Em pire To Join Board At Early Date NEW YORK, March 18 — ffl — Robert R. Young, white-haired firebrand of the nation’s railroad industry, has been invited to be come a member of the board of directors of the New York Cen tral railroad, whose control he seeks as a nucleus of a proposed transcontinental rail system. The invitation to the chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., which is the largest single stockholder in the New York Cen tral system, W'as announced to night by Gustav Metzman, presi dent of the Central, who said Rob ert J. Bowman, president of the C. & O. also had been asked to join the board. Both invitations are subject to the necessary authorization of the Interstate Commerce commission, Metzman said in a statement, add ing that the C & O, as the bene ficial owner of 400,000 shares of New York Central stock, had re quested it be accorded represen tation on the Central’s board of directors. Young, frequent host to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, also is chairman of the Alleghany Corp., a holding company controlling C & O. On Feb. 11, the C & O, became the New York Central’s single largest stockholder by acquiring 315,400 shares, representing some 4.9 percent of outstanding New York Central capital stock. Of the stock claimed, 250,400 shares were obtained from Alleghany and 65,000 were purchased in the open market. _ RODGERS NAMED BAR PRESIDENT Illness Prevents Judge Wil liams From Delivering Main Address H. Edmund Rodgers, member oi the New Hanover county Bar As sociation since 1913, last night was elected president of the associa tion succeeding Col. Royce S. Mc Clellan. Rodgers had been vice president. Other officers named at the quart erly meeting, for the coming year, were: Vice President Kenneth O. Burgwyn; and Clayton C. Holmes was reelected secretary-treasuer er. David Sinclair put Rodgers’ name in nomination, and Aaron Goldberg offered Burgwyn. Both men were elected by acclimation. Judge Clawson L. Williams, who had been holding a two week term of Superior Court here, was sched uled as the keynote speaker for the evening. However, due to ill ness he was unable to attend. The meeting adjourned in respect to Judge Williams and a resolution offered by Woodus Kellum was passed authorizing the secretary to write him a letter at his San (Continued On Page Two; Col. 1) OPENING OF BIDS 1 SCHEDULED TODAY City Council To Study Pro posals For Extension Of Facilities Bids for extensions to the city's water distributing and sewer sys tems are scheduled to be opened at today’s session of the City council, it was announced yester day by City Manager J. R. Ben son. Included in the project is the furnishing of work for the laying of over 70,000 feet of piping com plete with all accessory equip ment, according to plans develop ed by city officials. A seven mil lion gallon pumping unit is also included among the items for which bids are to be considered by the council. There was no indication by Ben son that the subject cf the civil service law and the matter of appointing a police chief would arise at today’s session. The city council has previously called for changes in the present law and since the new measure (Continued On Page Two; Col. 2) Hypnotist Unhexes Hex; Negro Smiles, Eats Again LOUISBURG, March 1 8. —(U.R)— A professional hypnotist today convinced a “hexed” young Negro that he had chased away the spell of an aged Negro witch doctor, but warned that any com plete “cure” for Stephen Richard son might require weeks. The once - healthy young Negro has been wasting away for 15 months from fear that he was dying from the voodoo doctor’s curse. Stephen broke out with a smile when Marsh Babbitt, of New York, brought him out of a final hypnotic trance with a snap of his fingers. Maybelle Richardson said her son hadn’t laughed that heartily in months. Babbitt kept him hypnotized for more than half an hour probing deeply into the young Negro field hand’s fears that his life is ebbing from the witch doctor’s curse. Babbitt cautiously refused t o claim a complete cure. But Stephen said he would get well, *that he felt the “hex" was gone. Two other “magic men” had eased the way of the youthful tenant farmer. One, an amateur hypnotist, established S a t u r day that Stephen could be hypnotized. A Durham, magician yesterday claimed a “cure” b y fascinating the young Negro with sleight-of-hand tricks. MOLOTOV CLAIMS STOUTLY DENIED Bevin, Bidault Join In De> nunciation Of Russian “Milk” Charges MOSCOW. March 18. — (U.Fh — Secretary of State George C. Mar shall today rejected Russia’s bid for $10,000,000,000 reparations from Germany and accused Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov of falsely claiming that the United States and Britain already had taken that amount for themselves. Marshall's statement at a meet ing of the Big Four Foreign Min isters was his sharpest since the conference started. British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin and French Foreign Minis ter Georges Bidault joined him in denying Molotov’s allegations that the Western allies were milking Germany. “It is easy to make such state ments but they are not true,” Bev in said. “We will not follow Molotov in a retreat from Potsdam to Yalta,” Marshall said of the Russian repa rations demand. This was a reminder that the Potsdam conference in 1945 set no total German reparations figure, though at the earlier Yalta confer ence President Roosevelt agreed to consider a total of $20,000,000,000 as a basis for discussion, Russia to get half. Starts Argument Molotov started the biggest argu ment to date by quoting “press re ports” that the United States and Britain had received a total of $10,000,000,000 from Germany in the form of patents, inventions, German shipping, gold and German assets abroad. Marshall said this was false and he demanded that Russia make known to the United States the scientific and technological infor mation it had obtained from its German occupation zone. The United States, Marshall said, had published to the world all such information it had obtain ed. This drew from Molotov the statement that Russia would not re fuse to submit information on the reparations it had received provid ed the other members of the Big Four did so. It was the first time Russia ever had offered to meet the American and British demands that she make known how much industrial equip ment she had taken from Eastern Germany. Earlier in the meeting Bidault split the conference three ways by rejecting both the Anglo-Ameri can and Russian proposals, sub nutted yesterday for the economic unity of Germany. PARAGUAY UNDER “STATE OF WAR” President Morinigo Issues Proclamation To Halt Re volt By Army ASUNCION, Paraguay, March 18—(U.R)—An official “state of war’* was proclaimed throughout the re public tonight as President Hi ginio Morinigo tried to halt an army revolt which has spread swiftly through all Northern Par aguay. The entire country has been un der a “state of siege” since last Friday, but previously only the area immediately around the city of Concepcion—the original revo lutionary stronghold — had been designated a “war zone.” (A National Broadcasting com pany report from Buenos Aires said civilians were evacuating Asuncion, the capital, fearing that the city would “soon be on the front line” in Paraguay’s civil war, and that a rebel “fifth col umn” may start fighting within the city.l Tonight’s emergency proclama tion of a nationwide “state of war” indicated a worsening of the government’s situation as the re bellion in the North spread in its eleventh day. Reports available in Asuncion today gave more information of rebel political and military move ments than of government opera tions. And So To Bed S. W. Garrett, 1021 South Third street and his brother G. V. Garrett, 6 Wooster street, yesterday afternoon saw a dis turbance in the sand near the foot of Wooster street. Investigating they found wbat at first was termed a gopher, but later was discovered to be. a eight and one-half pound diamond turtle, or at least that’s what it looked like. G. V. Garrett said last night, he and his brother noticed the sand “flying” and made a closer Investigation. He "bald the turtle or gopher was dig ging into the ground. A newspaper reporter went out to take a look at the ani mal last night and came back to report that the ‘gopher’^ook ed more like a turtle. What ever it is, Mr. Garrett says he will keep it uaM one identifies tfe* Mdmk ^ ^
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