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VOL. 19—NO. 15._40 PAGES TODAY_WILMINGTON, N. C., SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1947 PRICE—TEN CENTS SECTION-A
The Daffodil Harvest Enrolls Pretty Worker
Pretty Mary Bellamy of Wilmington puts a side urban activities to journey into the nearby
countryside and help with the harvest of the daffoidil crop for shipment to northern markets.
Well, no. Mary's costume is hardly the normal dress of farmerettes, but the onlookers liked it.
(AP Photo). __'
TIMETABLE SET
FOR GERMAN RULE
Foreign Ministers Tenta
tively Agree On Seven
Administrative Bodies
MOSCOW, April 5.— VP) — The
foreign ministers agreed tentative
ly tonight on establishing seven ad
ministrative agencies for Germany
and adopted a timetable under
Which a provisioral government
would be created 12 months after
the agencies come into being.
The ministers bogged down, how
ever, on issues connected with the
makeup of the agencies, which
would administer on a national
basis such mattersa s food_ trans
port, communications, industry,
finance and foreign trade.
The United States, Britain and
Russia were agreed upon creation
of the agencies. At today’s session
the French said they would go
•long with the other three, provid
ed these cnditions were attached:
1. German agencies should be
under administration of a commit
tee made up of representatives of
the German states.
2. The Saar should be excluded
from authority of the agencies.
The ministers were unable to
agree upon those conditions, as well
as a Soviet stipulation each zone
commander should have power to
veto in his zone any directive from
one of the agencies when he con
sidered it in conflict with allied
control council policy.
Secretary of State George C.
Marshall argued that to give the
zone commanders such veto pow
ers would destroy the very German
unity which the allies were trying
to arrange by setting up the central
agencies.
He said that when civilian author
ities took over from the military,
the power of the military should
be decreased rather than increas
ed.
RETAIL STORES
TO CLOSE MONDAY
City, County And Federal
Offices Are Expecting
To Remain Open
Wilmington retail stores and bank
will be closed Monday, in observ
ance of the Easter holiday, but
most of the business offices will
return to work that day, it was
learned yesterday.
City ofices will reopen-Monday
for busines as usual, City Mana
ger J. R. Benson announced.
New Hanover County offices will
be open Monday folowing Easter,
Addison Hewlet, Chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners
said.
Stale offices operating the North
Carolina State Emplyment service
will be closed tomorrow in observ
ance of the Easter season, but
are expected to reopen Tuesday.
Federal offices are expected to
resume working hours Monday,
according to an announcement by
N. A. Averra. head of the Social
Security Board._
Battle Lines Forming
In County Home Fight
Battle lines formed on both sides of the county home
controversy over the weekend, as they gathered strength
for what many believe will be the showdown, when the New
Hanover county commissioners meet tomorrow morning at
10 o’clock. t ' ~~ ~
On the side against the present
management of the home area:
George W. Trask, county com
missioner and chairman of the
County Home Committee, brought
the original charge that the in
mates at the home are treated
“unkindly.” He reported plans
to have Mrs. D. O. Livingston, for
mer county home nurse, and S.
G. Long, former superintendent
of the home, testify at Monday’s
meeting.” Trask’s latest move has
been the threat to resign from
the county home committee if C.
M. Carter, superintendent of the
home, is not dismissed.
Mrs. Livington claims Carter
fired her because he thought she
was trying to get her husband the
job of superintendent. She col
loborated with Trask in the ru
mor that the inmates are treated
unkindly.
S. G. Long, who reportedly told
Trask that food is being wasted
at the home. Long is superinten
dent of the county home’s farm.
Several of the home’s inmates
who told the county commission
ers that Carter mistreated them.
On the side for the present man
agement are:
Long, who has denied Mrs. Liv
ingston’s charges and all state
ments that he has mistreated his
inmates. He has expressed his
willingness to resign as superin
tendent, but has indicated he
would rather straighten the dif
ficulties out and remain on the
job- ,,
Mrs. C. M. Carter has upneld
her husband against the charges.
Several of the inmates told the
county commissioners they were
fed and treated well and spoke
(Continued On Page Two; Col. 7)
Solution To VHF Beam
Is Anticipated Soon
A “satisfactory solution” to the
problem of activating the Very
High Frequency radio beam on
the Coastal air route, between Nor
folk to Charleston, is expected to be
“forthcoming very shortly,” ac
cording to a letter revived here
yesterday from John Sherman,
executive secretary of the Air
Coordinating Committee in Wash
ington. '
In a communication to K. a.
Page chairman of the Aviation
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce, Sherman said the matter
is now under consideration by the
committee. He added that he has
“every reason to believe” that it
would be solved soon.
Activation of the beam, which
would permit low-ceiling and night
flying has been sought by the
committee and other local interests
for sometime. The necessary equip
ment has been installed but the
beams establishment has been de
layed bacause the route it would
direct passes through aNaval
bombing range in Albemarle sound.
Moravians To Reaffirm
Faith At Winston-Salem
WINSTON-SALEM, April 5 -
RJ.R)—As the clock strikes 6 Easter
rooming in historic old Salem,
^ Bishop J. Kenneth Pfohl will ap
pear at the portico of the Mome
Moravian church in Salem Square
just as he has done for 16 years
*n the Holy Day.
“The Lord is risen,” he will
ir-o':laim.
And the throng of Moravians and
ether worshippers standing before
the mother church of the Southern
Moravian Province will reply, “he
fc risen, indeed.”
Thus will begin the 175th Mo
ravian observation of the anniver
•ary of the Lord’s resurrection.
Through the early morning twi
light the masses, which last year
totaled 40,000, will be led by 500
ushers to the grave of William
Birkhead, first Moravian to be
buried in the “City ot the Equal
Dead” 1770. Then, in a brief
ritual led by Bishop Pfohl, the Mo
ravians will reaffirm their fatith.
Earlier, in the dark hours of
the morining, the 400-strong Mo
ravian Easter band, split into sec
tions, will move through parts of
the city heralding the approach
ing services and calling all to
worship. , . . .
The same chorales which have
rung through the city on Easter
dawns for 175 years will sound
again. . *
The single change in the historic
services in the time. In past ye the
Easter celebration began before
dawn so the conclusion came as
the sun scattered the darkness over
the Moravian cemetery. In recent
years, the hour has been changed
so the service could be broadcast
(Continued on P**e Two; Col. 4)
FIVE MARINES
DIE IN CHINA
16 Wounded In Communist
Raid On Americans
Principal Depot
TIENTSIN, China, April 5—(IP)
— Ammunition hungry Chinese
communists killed five U. S. Ma
rines and wounded 16 today in
a smartly planned raid on the
Marines’ principal north China de
pot, at Hsinho, 22 miles east of
Tientsin.
Most, if not all. of the Marine
deaths occurred when the raid
ers blew up part of the dump.
The communists left six of their
own dead on the scene cl the
four hour and 15 minute battle
and carried away an estimated
100 wounded. No prisoners were
taken on either side.
Four hundred Chinese govern
ment troops took, up the pursuit
northward while Marine observa
tion planes kept the retreating
raiders under surveillance.
The Marines themselves organ
ized a heavily armed convoy un
der Col. Julian N. Frisbie, com
mandant of the fifth regiment.
(This dispatch thus implied, but
did not flatly state, that the Ma
rine convoy was a punitive ex
pedition).
A Marine statement said identi
fication of the dead Chinese left
no doubt that they were com
munists.
Fourteen of the wounded Ma
rines required surgery and tiiee
were critically hurt.. However,
the fist division’s surgeon, D. Eu
gene V. Jobe, expressed hope that
all would recover.
Marine accounts gave this de
scription of this bloodiest brush
to date with the communists:
Presumably goaded by a short
age of ammunition and otner' sup
plies, the communists closed in
on the 5-square mile dump area
shortly after midnight. The de
pot is laid out in a triangle, with
the road northward to Peitang
touching its apex.
$7 BILLION SET
FOR FOREIGN AID
Senator Byrd Bases 15
Month Estimate On Bud
get Bureau Reports
WASHINGTON, April 5.—TP)—
Senator Byrd (D-Va) today added
up the money to be laid out by the
United States under its interna
tional commitments in the next
15 months and announced a total
of $7,043,100,000.
This is in addition to the $400,
000,000 requested by President
Truman for Greece and Turkey
to halt the spread of communism.
Byrd based his total on Budget
Bureau figures compiled at his
request.
The largest item is S2,850,U0U,UUU
still available to the British as of
March 1 out of their $3,750,000,000
loan.
The other items in Byrd’s total
on budget bureau estimates:
Funds requested by the Presi
dent for relief in liberated coun
tries—$350,000,0OO.
Belief in American occupied
areas of enemy countries—$1,
120,000,000.
Export-Import Bank loans, ex
cluding the $500,000,000 earmarked
for China and smaller sums for
commercial type loans—$944,100,
000.
Philippine aid—$663,000,000.
The final settlement for UNRRA
—$552,000,000.
Free transfer of surplus war
properties to foreign countries —
-207,000,000.
(Continued on P»*e Two; Col. 4)
GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENDS SESSION;
PRESIDENT ASSAILS AGGRESSION;
PROLONGED MINE STOPPAGE SEEN
Says IV
Willr .
Truman Says U . Must
Keep Economy Strong By
Lowering Prices
WASHINGTON, April 5 — (fl1) —
President Truman declared tonight
the United States “must take a
positive stand” against aggression
in all its forms and must keep its
own economy strong by lowering
prices.
In the foreign field, he proclaim
ed that “we must” aid “those
peoples whose freedoms are en
dangered by foreign pressures.”
President Truman’s Jeffer
son Day speech will be found
on Page 5-A.
And he specified aggression “se
cretly by infiltration” as well as
openly by armed force.
At home, he termed the republi
can economy drive in Congress “an
invitation to disaster,” rallied the
democrats against immediate tax
cuts and economies he called
“false,” and earnestly besought
lower prices.
Many prices now, he asserted,
are “unnecessarily high” and
“must be brought down if our en
tire economy is not to suffer.” He
urged citizens not to go “whole
hog for profits.”
For his own part, the chief ex
ecutive pledged “stringent econo
my” in government and announc
ed defintely that receipts and ex
penditures for the fiscal year end
ing June 30 will be in balance, and
then some—something for which he
previously had expressed only a
hope.
The President addressed a Jef
ferson Day dinner—his first speech
under Democratic Party auspices
since Robert E. Hannegan, the Na
tional Party chairman, threw his
hat :nto the ring for 1948.
Mr. Truman, while saying nothing
about his plans for the next elec
tion, set forth his stand on the
prime domestic issues of taxes,
spending and prices.
He used the occasion, also, to
amplifh his doctrine of “aiding
those peoples whose freedoms are
endangered by foreign pressure.”
declared that “our foreign policy
must not be wrecked on the rocks
of partisanship,” and commended
both democrats and republicans
who have supported it.
“We, like Jefferson, have wit
nessed atrocious violations of the
rights of nations,” he said.
“We, too. have regarded them as
occasions not to be slighted:
“We, too, have declared our pro
test.”
The President did not mention
Russia directly, but he significant
ly compared his present course to
that of President Monroe, whose
Monroe Doctrine was aimed partly
at Russian claims in Alaska.
Neither did he refer to the re
publicans by name, but he lashed
out at the economies they have
voted and their plans for tax re
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
_
CORRECTION
The Wilmington News of April
' 4 carried an eight column head
line to the effect that ‘‘N. C.
House Hears Charge Hitting
AMVETS as Red."
The headline was written for
a story dealing with a telegram
received by Rep. Hayes, of
Forsyth, from Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr., in which the
state figure told the House that
the American Veterans Com
mittee is dominated by Com
munists.
The AMVETS is an abbrevia
tion for American Veterans of
World War II which organization
was started in Texas. There is
no chapter in Wilmington al
though several are scattered
throughout North Carolina.
The Headline should have read
“N. C. House Hears Charge Hit
ting AVC as Red.’’
The Wilmington Star-News is
glad to make this correction.
J. AUBREY HARRELL
MAYOR HARRELL
DIES IN WALLACE
Heart Attack Is Fatal To
Prominent North Caro
lina Civic Leader
Special To The Star-News
WALLACE, April 5 — J. Aubrey
Harrell, 62, mayor of Wallace and
prominent civic leader in North
Carolina, died of a heart attack
at his home today.
Mayor Harrell was stricken about
9 p.m. Friday and suffered a fatal
attack this morning. His death
came as a shock to the community.
Mayor Harrell was born at Har
resville, and moved to Wallace in
1917. He was associated with Camp
Manufacturing Company at the
time he moved here.
He was prominently associated
with the civic, fraternal and reli
gious life of Wallace for 30 years.
He served as fire chief, town com
missioner. and mayor of Wallace
for 20 years. He was elected as
town commissioner in 1923 and re
elected in 1925 and 1927. He was
elected for his first term as mayor
of Wallace in 1931 service contin
ously until his death. His present
term as mayor would have expired
May 17, 1947.
Mayor Harrell was a member of
Wallace Methodist church and ac
tive member of Wallace Masonic
Lodge, former director of the
League of Municipalities, former
chairman of Duplin county draft
board, and former chairman of the
Legislative Compriittee of The
League of Municipalities.
He was known among a wide
circle of friends throughout the
state as an aggressive municipal
leader. His unselfish service to the
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
CONFUSION HITS
MINING INDUSTRY
Few Persons Care To Guess
On How Many Mines
Will Open Monday
PITTSBURGH, April 5—{S')—
Confusion and uncertainly swept
the soft coal industry today after
John L. Lewis demanded that all
but two of the nation’s bituiminous
pits remain closed until the U. S.
finds them safe,
Few persons cared to hazard a
guess of how many mines would
reopen Monday, following end of
the United Mine Workers’ six-day
mourning period for the 111 Cen
tralia (111) mine disaster victims.
Safety certification by union
mine committees and operating
managers of the 518 pits in 19
states ruled “unsafe” by the gov
ernment was proceding in a slow,
though orderly, manner when
Lewis hurled his bombshell today.
“Isn’t that something,” declared
J J. Ardigo, secretary of the Wil
liamson (W. Va.) Coal Operators
Association. “Looks like no work
next week.”
Lewis said he was acting in
behalf of miners “whose lives are
endangered.” He asked that the
mines stay closed until they are
certified to conform to the fede
ral safety code.
John Hopkins Hall, Virginia.’s
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Easter Festivals Set
Over The Nation Today
By The Associated Press
With pageant and ancient ri
tual the nation’s millions of wor
shippers celebrated the Easter fes
tival today and heard ■ anew the
story of the risen Christ.
As sunrise came across the land
thousands were expected at out
door services in the large centers
of population.
Over much of the nation the fore
casters promised rain and an un
seasonable chill to dampen femi
nine plumage in those stylish East
er parades.
Two hundred thousand were to
hear the Easter message at the
22nd annual Holy City pageant, a
replica of Jerusalem in the foot
hills of Oklahoma's Wichita moun
tains near Lawton, beginning at
night and continuing until dawn.
Surise services at the Hollywood
Bowl and at Glendale, Calif., near
Los Angeles, were expected to draw
a total of 80,000.
There were half a dozen outdoor
sunrise services scheduled in New
York City, including one on the
mall in Central Park.
Massed choirs and corps of
trumpeters were to bring their
Easter music to Chicago’s Soldier
Field before 50.000 at a 15th an
nual dawn service.
San Francisco scheduled its 25th
annual sunrise observance atop
938-foot Mt. Davidson with its il
luminated 103-foot cross.
At Salt Lake City the Easter
ministerial association planned an
all-religious^ service for the steps
of the State capitol.
In Idaho the Boise Junior Cham
ber of Commerce arranged with
prison officials to have convicts
(Continued on Page Two, Col. 6)
V
Krug Rejects
Lewis’ Move
Federal Mine Boss Calls
Proposed Shutdown
‘Arbitrary Procedure’
WASHINGTON, April 5 — yP) —
Secretary of the Interior J. A.
Krug rejected tonight a proposal
from John L. Lewis that he close
all but two of the nation’s seized
soft coal mines pending a safety
check, pointing out that the miners
have authority of their own to shut
down unsafe workings.
The impasse, with the federal
mine boss and the head of the
United Mine Workers disagreeing
over where the responsibility for
mine safety lies, threatened to
prolong the “mourning” stoppage
in the. coal fields.
Krug s response, in a letter
from Navy Capt. N. H. Collisson,
mine administrator under the sec
retary’s supervision, called the
proposed general shutdown an “ar
bitrary procedure.” It recalled
that the secretary previously had
ordered 518 mines closed as “dan
gerous” and said the remainder
of the 2,531 pits in government
hands will reopen unless local un
ion safety committees find “im
minent danger” in them.
The secretary reminded Lewis
that under the Krug-Lewis con
tract the local union safety com
mittee can withdraw the men
from any mine it considers “so
unsafe as to present an ‘im
minent danger’.”
But Lewis already bad directed,
in the case of the 518 closed
mines, that union safety commit
tees should not sign certificates
of safety to permit their reopen
ing "as such certificates could
probably be used against us later
on if accidents occur.”
The upshot of all these develop
ments was uncertainty over what
the miners will do Monday when
their six-day “mourning” work
stoppage officially ends, and the
prospect that many mines may
remain closed.
Krug turned down Lewis’ re
quest that all but two of the gov
ernment's mines be closed after
a huddle with aides which lasted
all afternoon.
Lewis had no immediate com
ment on Collisson’s reply, leaving
the union’s official position on
what its mine safety committees
would do next week still a wide
open question.
Absenteeism generally runs high
on Easter Monday.
Collisson wrote:
"I have carefully considered
your request and am unable to
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
NEW HANOVER
TO BE HONORED
New Hanover county will be
saluted in the Star - Newreels’
Sunday afternoon feature radio
program today at 1:30 p. m.,
in thp auditorium of the New .
Hanover High school by remote
control over Radio Station
WMFD.
Voices of the high school glee
club, under the direction of
Mary Henri Wolfe, will high
light the program.
The Broadcast is the last in
a series honoring the counties
in Southeastern North Carolina
served by the Wilmington Star
and News.
W. O. Page, Jr., soloist, will
sing several of his own ar
rangements of well-known Eas
ter hymns. Del McGowan, in
strumentalist, will also have a
featured role.
The program will be under
the direction of Ben McDonald,
Star-News round-the-town re
porter, and will describe the
past history of the county, the
present development as a whole
and future possibilities of its
continued growth. •
The public is invited to at
tend.
lira HOUR PHONE
TALKS ARE CALLED
Labor Secretary Expresses
Hope That Negotiations
May Reach Accord
WASHINGTON, April &— » —
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
expressed the hope tonight of set
tling the dispute which threatens
a nation-wide telephone strike
Monday and appealed to members
Monday and appealed to union
members to “keep on working”
while negotiations continue. \
“Anything can happen between
now and Monday morning,”
Schwellenbach said in a state
ment.
“I am asking all telephone em
ployes to remain calm and to keep
on working until they learn the
results of these eleventh hour dis
cussions.”
A union official in New York had
predicted that the telephone work
ers there would “jump the gun”
and start walking out ahead of the
6 a.m. Monday deadline.
Shwellenbach’s statement came
after lengthy talks with J. A.
Beirne, president of the National
Federation of Telephone Workers,
and C. F. Craig, vice-president of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph company. The secretary
saw each separatelyr
In these talks Schwellenbach
moved to bring about industry
wide arbitration of the discute.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
City Phone Officials
Appeal To Employes
The Southern Bell Telephone Company, through its
Wilmington manager, 0. G, Bain, last night declared it had
done everything within its power to avert a telephone strike.
At the same time Bain said if*
union leadership persisted in its
course of action and called a strike
Monday the company would do
all in its power to provide emer
gency service required by the pub
lic..
The company appealed to its
employees to “stay on the job and
provide the service which is so
vital to the people we serve.”
Officials stated that manage
ment employees and other em
ployees who report to work recog
nizing the company’s responsi
bility to render uninterrupted serv
ice, will operate the switchboards
to handle emergency calls. In the
interest of prompt handling of
emergency calls, the public is ask
ed to limit its calls to emergency
messages only.
A statement issued by the Com
pany follows:
"A total of 42,000 Southern Bell
employees are eligible for Union
membership. Acording to union
statements appearing in the press,
Only 25,303 of these, or only 60 per
cent, voted on the question of
whether there would be a strike
24,034 voting for a strike and 1,
269 against it.
“The company deeply regrets
the union’s action which has put
(Continued on Page Two; Col. t)
The Weather
(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. 64; 7:30 a.m. 63; 1:30 p m. 73;
7:30 p.m. 68.
Maximum 74; Minimum 57; Mean 66;
Normal 59.
HUMIDITY
1:30 a.m. 56; 7:30 a.m. 81. 1:30 p.m. 57;
7:30 p m. 80.
PRECIPITATION
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p m. —
0-00 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY
(From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington-10:30 a.m. 5:11 a.m.
10:53 p.m. 5:25 pm.
Masoboro Inlet — 8:13 a.m. 2:08 a m.
8:38 p.m. 2:19 p.m.
Sunrise 5:52; Sunset 6:26; Mocnrise 7:50
p.m.; Moonset 6:38 a.m.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C- at 8
a.m. Saturday, 16.2 feet*
Parker And Howell
File For Council
With only four more filing days
left, the number of candidates for
the City Council totaled eight yes
terday when Walter J. Parker paid
the $5 fee to Robert Strange of
the election board.
Parker, 37-year-old veteran and
onetime professional baseball and
basketball player, was the third
new aspirant to file. Warren G.
Holleman, state highway employe,
paid his fee Friday after having
announced his intention several
days previously. The other new
aspirant for a place on the Coun
cil is John D. Howell, 114 Keaton
avenue.
Incumbent councilmen who nave
filed for reelection are R. L. Bur
nett, Garland S. Currin, W. E.
Yopp, Robert S. LeGwin and
Mayor W. Ronald Lane.
1,131 New
Laws Made
_.
$1,000,000 State Art Gat
lery Measure Prompts
Last Minute Debate
RALEIGH, April 5.—(A>)—With a
final flood of oratory, the 1947
General Assembly talked its way
into history tonight.
Gavels of Speaker of the House
Thomas J. Pearsall and Lt. Gov.
L. Y. Ballentine, president cf the
Senate, fell simultaneously in both
houses at 10:07, although clocks
in the two houses had been stop
pec at 9 p. m.
During the 88 days in session
the Legislature ground out a total
of 1,098 bills and 33 resolutions,
making a total of 1,131 new laws.
While waiting to adjourn the
House of Representatives heard
Governor Cherry in a brief speech.
The governor said: “The state’s
fiscal policy will be balanced, and
North Carolina will be launching
out on its broadest field of service
in the state’s history.”
Speaker Tom Pearsall told House
members that the Legislature
“will stand out because we have
legislated not for one group, not
for one class, but for all the
people in North Carolina.”
An administration-backed meas
ure to appropriate $1,000,000 from
surplus funds for a state art gal
lery brought a brilliant—and at
times bitter—debate in the House
of Representatives today.
The parliamentary situation was
such that it threatened for a while
to delay sine die adjournment
which was scheduled for nine p.
m.
After the long debate, the House
voted 49 to 42 in favor of the ap
propriation which has two "ifs”
attached to it—if there is a gener
al fund surplus at the end of the
fiscal year, and If it is matched
by a gift.
me Mouse was 101a uiai a
wealthy northerner, whose name
was not divulged, was prepared to
make the state a gift of $1,000,000
for the art gallery and valuable
old masters if the state would
meet him halfway and make the
appropriation.
The measure was passed only
after the House had adopted an
amendment by Rep. Fred Royster
of Vance which will, in effect,
delay the project until late in 1949.
Under this amendment, the ap
propriation cannot be made until
all other appropriations made by
this General Assembly have been
met. Proponents of the measure
said that this may result in with
drawal of the offer.
While the House was debating
the art gallery, the Senate wai
passing on third reading a meas
ure providing for local option
votes on wine and beer in counties
and municipalities.
The bill provides for doubling
present taxes on beer and wine
and for the distribution of ap
proximately $4,000,000 to be raised
in this way among counties and
cities which permit their sale.
The House quickly concurred in
minor Senate amendments to the
measure.
The Senate also gave |its ap
proval to a hill, aimed at com
munists, to define and provide a
still punishment for subversive ac
tivities.
The House passee a Dili lo set up
a shellfish division in the state de
partment of conservation and
development. The bill carries an
appropriation of $100,000 and in
creases the tax on oysters from
four to eight cents a bushel to
provide funds for an intensive pro
gram to increase production «f
oysters and other shellfish.
The House passed a hill designed
to reduce danger of fires in hotels
by requiring alarm systems, auto
matic sprinklers, fireproof con
struction and watchmen during the
night hours.
The closing session brought a
formal announcement from Rep.
Dan Tompkins of Jackson that he
will be a candidate for lieutenant
governor in the democratic pri
mary next year. Tompkins, a vet
eran of four legislative sessions, is
a staunch dry and a determined op
ponent of the House’s two-thirds of
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Weather Spoils Easter
For Most Of U S Today
By The Associated Press
The weather went on a wide
spread rampage Saturday, spoil
ing the outlook fo? pleasant Easter
conditions in much of the nation.
Driving rains, heavy snow, high
winds and tornadoes lashed parts
of the country, causing serious
flood conditions, destroying prop
erty and disrupting transportation.
Four persons were killed.
In only a few scattered sections
was the Sunday weather outlook
favorable for Easter parading.
High winds, cloudy skies and
cold were forecast for most of the
midwest, in the wake of heavy
rains that caused flood conditions
in several states.
Rain or showers were in pros
pect for Easter in such widely
scattered areas as New York, New
England, Virginia, Nebraska, Utah
and Idaho.
Heavy mIm «mm4 Beet*
Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska
and New York, and a "potential
threat” of floods later in New
England.
North Dakota experienced one of
the heaviest snow falls of the
winter, with 13 inches recorded
near the Montana border, blocking
some highways.
Two tornadoes, 150 miles apart
in Missouri, ripped out telephone
wires and destroyed farm homes,
while four members of a family
were killed in Wisier, Okla., when
high winds demolished their home.
A storm moving eastward to
ward the upper Great Lakes reg
ion caused a wide belt of exces
sive rain from northeast Kansas
across southwestern Missouri,
outheastern Iowa, northern Illin
ois, northwestern Indiana and
southern lower Michigan. The
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