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NHHS ORCHESTRA GIVES CONCERT ' Miss Patty Jones Featured As Soloist In Presen tation Here The New Hanover High School orchestra, Mrs. Laura Howell Nor den conducting, was heard in the school auditorium last night by all too small an audience. The orchestra under Mrs. Nor ' den’s guidance has made marked * improvement since last year’s con . cert, but still lacks several instru * rnents needed to round out the en _ semble. * The trumpet, oboe and French ’ horn particularly were missed and their absence left a gap in the per formance. There has been difficulty in se „ curing these and other instru “ ments since the orchestra’s reor * ganization, but it is understood line shortage is about overcome. - By next year, the orchestra prob * ably will have a complete en * semble, which will not only make Z Mrs. Norden’s task easier but raise » the standard of performance to a " much higher level. ” Last night’s program opened with - Von Suppe’s Poet and Peasant *- overture, which was followed by "excerpts from Mozart’s Symphony I No. 40. - Then the soloist, Miss Patty "Jones, who won an A-l rating last " week in the Greensboro competi : tion among pupils of the state’s " high schools, played three brief "solos — the allegra from a Haydn I piano sonata, Bach's Invention No - 13, and Read's Poeme — all so de "lightful and so roundly applauded " that an enchore was inescapable. - She responded with a Chopin waltz. -Her auditors would have liked her " to continue indefinitely. " The evening’s entertainment clos led with four well-known short -numbers — Schubert’s Marche Mil " italre, Haydn’s Minuet for Strings, " one of Dvorak Slavonic dances, and -the stirring Stout Hearted Men by "Romberg. For an enchore Mrs. "Norden chose a sleepy Spanish Idance appropriately named Siesta, -in which the orchestra did particu larly well. •" The entire program was so Z creditable that the members de - serve encouragement to continue “and to recruit new members next I year. The outlook is the better by -reason of the fact that many of "the players are freshmen this year. "While three of the members are -zeniors and will be graduating on -May 29, the progress of the ethers "justifies the forecast that their zplaces will be taken by competent -tuccessors. — J. E. H. : REYNOLDS m . _ * (Continued From Page One) “meriting on the orderliness of the “ strike said the police department •had “received fine co-operation * from both the union and the com I pany. ■ Local 22, United Tobacco V/ork * ers, F. T. A.-C. I. 0„ is contend 'ing for a 15-cent wage increase, . and, according to the union, the ■ company has offered a five-and a * half cent increase. . A statement from the company •said it had proposed an increase * amounting to 10.71 cents, by its ’ figures, and 10.58 cents, accord * ing to those of the union. * Another principal cause of the ' lack of settlement to date, accord . ing to the company, is that local * 22’s union security demands are * Worded in order to circumvent the * North Carolina “right to work” » bill recently passed by the general * assembiy. . The union has disavowed any . Intention of violating the new state • law, and claims that the wage ’ issue is the prime cause of the . dispute, affecting about 10,000 ■ employes. | Neither the company nor the \ union changed their estimates of • the number of persons out on ■ strike. Previously, the company ‘ had said the number was about . 5,000, while the union said about • 8,000. Clayton Moore, counsel and ! spokesman for the Reynolds firm, • declined to estimate today how • close production is to normal. Ed [ win K. McCrea, representative of . the F. T. A. assigned to local 22, ■ said the union estimated the fig | ure at one fifth of normal. "ALEMAN . (Continued From Page One) • the parade, with Grover Whalen. \ the city’s official greeter, at his side. The traditional ticker tape • Coated down and volleys of “Viva • Aleman” followed the parade’s ' progress. , Mayor William O’Dwyer met ■ the Mexican president at Pennsyl ’ vania station early today, but ex ' tended official greetings at city . hall after the parade through low • «r Manhattan. ' There he conferred honorary ’ citizenship on Aleman and hailed - the president’s “enlightened ieaa ' ership” under which, the mayof \ said, Mexico “will gain even ! greater stature among the nations • of the world as a bulwark of pro ’ gressive democracy. \ Replying, Aleman said “let ug . remember that our countries are • united by the similarity of their ‘ Institutions and their common love I of freedom, rather than by their geographical proximity and paral ' lei histories.”_ NOW Is The Time To Plan Your New GENERAL ELECTRIC KITCHEN A Sound Investment In Comfortable Living We shall be delighted to sub mlt plans and estimate* for your consideration. GREGG BROS. MARKET A FRONT Dial $655 | Grandmother Predicts Own Death After Fall Into A Well Of Water WINSTON-SALEM, May 2. —<JP\ — Muttering “I know I am going to die,’’ an 81-year-old grandmoth er died in the arms of her rescuer tonight after falling into a 30-foot well near here. Mrs. Martha Dell Gourley. who made her home with a grand daughter. Mrs. Isaac Witt, Winston Salem. Route 3, was walking in the yard at the home when she crash ed through the tin roof covering of the well, sheriff's deputies re ported. Thomas Clifford, a neighbor, lowered a rope into the well and went down to rescue the elderly woman. She was alive when he reached her. He placed the rope around her waist to ease her out of the 30-foot hole. Her head was above water, Clifford said. After forecasting her death, Mrs. Gourley died in Clifford's arms of shock. ' A native of Guilford county, she spent most of her life in Forsyth county. She is survived by one daughter and three grandchildren. CHERRY ASKS (Continued From Page One) Governor Cherry was using his •‘influence of office" in seeking to get the parties concerned together. He did this with success once be fore in a labor-management dis pute with the Erwin Cotton Mills. He admitted that he had talked with other members of the South ern Governors" conference, and re ported that several expressed wil lingness to aid in ending the strike, but added. ‘‘None has offered, roe any suggestion up to this time." The Governor reported that Cle ment and Lee accepted his letter "whhout comment." He said that he understood that Lee was to leave here tonight for Atlanta, Ga.. where he intends to confer with union officials. Lee, the governor said, did say the notice was “a little short in time," but the governor said Lee promised that he would "do the best he could." Lee. prior to leaving here to night, said that he told the gover nor that the Monday deadline of fered shot notice fo action. Lee said the governor told him that Monday wae a "tentative date. ’ and the deadline could "fluctuate a couple of days.” Text of the govenor s letter: "To the officers of the Southern Bell Telephone company and the officers of the Southern Federa tion of Telephone workers. "Gentlemen: “The telephone strike in the nine southern states is nearly a month old. It seems to me that enough time has elapsed for both sides of the controversy to have thoroughly discussed the issues in volved. and reached a settlement. In the meantime, the general pub lic has patiently awaited the re newal of normal telephone service. “I do not wish to take any ac tion which will prejudice the rights of either party, but I feel that it is my duty in response to numer ous calls for assistance to advise that, if the strike is not settled by Monday morning, May 5th, I shall insist on normal service being resumed first by the present em ployees, but if they fail to return to work, then the telephone com pany will be requested to employ additional operators. "Cordially yours, "(Signed) R. Gregg Cherry.” Governor Cherry said that his office, in seeking to cooperate, had limited its out-going long-distance telephone calls to a minimum He said chat he had experienced no difficulty in completing emergency out-going calls. His office force re ported that the volume of incoming long-distance calls had been re duced “materially.” In Charlotte, E. H. Wasson, Carolinas district manager for Southern Bell, said any comment must come from the Atlanta head quarters. Henry Mayer, a union attorney in the strike at Washington last night issued a statement saying that the AT & T’s proposal would ■“widen the wage differential be tween the North and South, which is now as much as $20 a week for some phone workers.” Mayer also criticized what he described as a statement by Gov ernor Gregg Cherry of North Carolina that “if the strike is not settled by Monday he will make a demand on the company to get operators from outside the union.” “I consider the governor’s state ment decidedly prejudicial to the interests of 40,000 Southern tele phone workers,” said Mayer. He continued: "The governor also said this strike would have been settled long ago if handled on a regional basis. It’s amazing to me for a Southern governor to recommend publicly that the hateful wage dif ferentials between the North and South should be widened. Hi* statement of handling the wage problem on a regional basis would have just that effect.” WILMINGTON (Continued From Page One) their two day conference with a banquet tonight at which Rep. Graham A. Barden, third district congressman, and James E. Gheen, a member of the New York Rotary club, were on the program. Rotary Anns were entertained at a luncheon at noon, on a yacht cruise in Bogue sound and later an Informal reception. Numerous members ot the or ganization took part in the final day's busy program. One of the main speeches was delivered by Charles W. Phillips of Greensboro who discussed "Rotary in a new world.” Others who spoke or presided at various sessions included: May nard Fletcher of Washington, a past district governor, the Rev. Weston C. Reed, of Kinston, J. A. Batson of Fremont, Stanley Wood land of the Morehead City host club, Harold Sampson, also of the Morehead City club, E. Conrad Clark of Elizabethtown, Harvey L. Joslyn of Morehead City, T. Brown Williams of Dunn, Dan Outlaw of Mt. Olive and ©amer b. Henry of Uunberton. .. LEO’S CHARAC R CREATES DE TE One Lawyer Calls Lippy A Roughneck; Another Says He Is Honorab’e By ALEXANDER KAHN HOLLYWOOD, May 2.— <U.R)— Laraine Day’s divorce contest ended in a blaze or oratorical bril liance today in which Lippy Leo Durocher was termed a roughneck from Brooklyn by one lawyer and the flower of knighthood by anoth er. Forgotten was the pretty film actress whose divorce from Ray Hendricks and subsequent mar riage to Durocher was the reason for the entire proceedings. In stead the absent ex-Brooktyn base ball manager .was hauled over the coals. When the heated oratory had ended, superior Judge Ingal! W. Bull took the case under advise ment, announcing he would de cide next Friday if Miss Day’s divorce from Hendricks should be set aside because of collusion and fraud. Ex-Judge Isaac Pacht, batting for Lippy and I aine, went to the plate first and scored with the statement that Durocher's suspen sion from baseball for a year was due in part to the unfounded charges by Hendricks that the horsehider had stolen Miss Day’s love. “It is true that because of these unfounded charges in Hendricks’ answer to the divorce and the re marks of attorney Maurice Hose (one of the prosecutors) ... he has been%suspended and his live lihood taken awa; in a species of star chamber session by Mr. A. B. Chandler,” Pacht said. "Attorney Rose would have you believe Durocher is a cross be tween a monster and a wolf—a man who invaded the home and took her away. Nothing is farther from the truth. What manner of man is this Durocher? "He is the most colorful per sonality in the baseball world since Judge Kenesaw Landis and also a gentleman. He is a fine upstand ing man. He has done n .hing but what an honorable man would do,” Pacht shouted. JEWS (Continued From Page One) Hassan Pasha, Egypt, conceded that the Jews should be heard but said the proposed committee of in quiry, which would be set up by this assembly to investigate the Palestine ca6e, was the place for them. China, Canada, and Ecuador supported the United States-British position. Warren R. Austin, United States, stated the American view ihat the assembly should be limited to the mechanical function of setting up the inquiry group a*nd that no part of the merits of the case should be heard now. Austin asked the Polish and Czech delegates to accept a pro posal that all communications from Jewish organizations be sent to the political committee for its desi sion but they held fast to their de mand, firmly supported by Andrei A. Gromyko. Russia, for the as sembly to hear the Jewish agency. To Counter The two satellites and Russia thus went counter to the opinions of the United States and Britain that none but a sovereign state U. N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, speaking for the second time, said that in his view there was no objection to an assembly commit tee hearing the Jews. At the morn ing session, Lie had said that giv ing a non-governmental organiza tion a vioce jn the Assembly itself would be a drastic*; departure from precedent and might lead to more demands for concessions. VILLAGE (Continued From Page One) life and administer communal af fairs. One of their first problems was that of providing education t( their children. The old buildin} had been destroyed during th* massacre and its school - mastei killed with the others. Soon a new school was organ ized in one of the village houses. Children of Veljun attended regu larly. This was done in a Kordun region of Croatia where education was neglected by central author ities in the pre-war years and the illiteracy rate was high. The women have done a splen did job. They look forward with confidence but they know they can never erase the horrible marks of the wholesale slaughter NEGRO WOMAN DIES OF HEART ATTACK Coroner Gordon Doran said last ni0ht that Georgianna Pickett, Negro woman resident of the Tay lor Homes project, died of a heart attack while enroute to a local hospital last night. The coroner said that the woman was on her way to a doctor with another woman patient when sh* was stricken on 4th street. She died before the ambulance could take her to the hospital,'he said. LOCAL (Continued From Page One) such move would come unless the price reduction move spreads. NATIONAL PICTURE CHICAGO, May 2 — (U.R)—An in creasing number of merchants a cross the nation reduced prices today as the “Newburyport Plan” to combat inflation spread to ad ditional communities. The 10-day trial period of the Newburyport, Mass., anti-inflation plan ended, but merchants voted to continue their 10 per cent price reductions indefinitely. They re ported that the reduced prices had boosted business 30 to 45 per cent. Sponsors of the plan said that storekeepers who were unable to continue the price cuts had been given an opportunity to drop out. Independent grocers at Newbury port said they could not conlinue the full cut, but would make the best price adjustments possible. Merchants in some communities were skeptical of the plan. They said that where the increased sales emptied their shelves they would have to restock at higher wholesale prices. In Chicago, members cf the South Side merchants association voted to abandon a blanket 10 per cent price cut instituted last Sat urday by 850 stores in an eight mile square area. Leo C. Pliner, association president, said that while business had increased an average of 35 per cent, the price cut “reduced the merchants’ mar gin of percentage profit too much.” However, there were an in - creasing number of reports of price-cutting across the nation. Reports from various states: New York—three areas in New York city began price reduction plans. In Jackson Heights, 400 stores cut prices and reported sales up 300 to 50 Oper cent. In Far Rockaway, 100 stores adopt ed the plan for a three-day trial. In Brooklyn, 225 stores announced cuts. At Newark, N. Y.. 23 mer chants united in a 10-day, 10-per cent price reduction plan. No prices actually were changed, but customers were refunded 10 per cent of their total bill. Shoe price reductions ranging from 6 to 30 cents a pair were announced by the Meville shoe Corp., New York city. Michigan—Mardigan Corp., De - troit, a large producer of alumi num cookingware, announced an immediate 15 per cent price re duction. The Detroit retail gro cers’ association said most of its members had cut prices by vary ing amounts. California—Gasoline, which was marked up 8-10 of a cent last month, was cut 3-10 of a cent to day in San Francisco by the Standard. Union and Richfield companies in response to Presi - dent Truman ’ s appeal for lower prices. Walnut Creek, a commu nity of 15,000 persons in the east bay area, announced it would a dopt the Newburyport plan for a trial period. May 8-17. Connecticut — Ansonia . Derby and Danielson started 10 per cent cuts on a 10-day trial basis. They reported sales volume up 25 to 40 per cent and were optimistic a bout the prospects. Pennsylvania—The “profit shar ing day held at Pottstown last Wednesday, when storekeepers cut prices from 10 to 50 per cent was pronounced “a great suc cess.” The Chamber of Com - merce was considering adoption of the plan on a permanent basis. T. BODDIE WARD (Continued From Page One) Pou, served as a commissioner for the State Highway Commission from 1937 until 1941 when Gover nor Broughton named him head of the motor vehicles department. The motor vehicles post now pays $6,600 anually. but will be boosted to $7,200, effective July 1. of their husbands unless new part ners arrive to help them. So their one request, voiced in a tone of maternal concern by an old woman whose bearing showed her moral and physical suffering, is their hope for the future: “send us men so we may bear chil dren.” _ o«c've ay N»vv<*ao com. 1M7 ay. m« me. r m. me u. » »t. o>f /-/¥ “Mark my words. Morton, we’re heading for a depression l .«-toda* * onbt addtdAbrja nain«sjo.our _wa«tint TODAY and TOMORROW BY WALTER LIPPMANN Secretary Marshall's account of I the arguments at Moscow' ended I with the statement that Europe | “is sinking while the doctors de liberate" and that therefore “ac tion cannot await compromise through exhau.-tion.” At this point Mr. Dulles, speaking the next evening, began to tell that part of the story which Secretary Mar shall, for the best of reasons, o mitted. The two speeches have to be read together, the Marshall speech for a sober objective ac count of the arguments in the con ference, the Dulles speech for a broad indication of how American policy is shaping up. American policy has, however, not yet taken shape. It is oniy shaping up. We must take, said Mr. Marshall, without delay "whatever action is possible” to meet the “pressing problems” of European "disintegration.” But since, we are not yet clear about what action is possible, Secretary Marshall, w'ho must take the ac tion, abjured all the large gen - eralizations and rhetorical pro mises which have so often in the past served as a counterfeit for a policy, a plan, and a program of action. * » * The heart of the difficulty is that western Europe is a highly industrialized area which cannot in itself become self-supporting and solvent. Though we may be able, as Senator Vandenberg sug gests, to agree on a political set tlement with the Western ccun -, tries and have “a peace program which at least unites those who can agree,” the economy of west ern Europe, including western Germany, can be kept going only as long as the Western Hemi sphere is able and willing to meet the international deficit of all of western Europe. This could be done for a while. Eut not forever. It will have to be done until the Soviet Union as - sents to a general European set tlement, w'hich permits eastern Europe (not merley eastern Ger many) to reunite with western Europe. It will have to be done in order to.induce, and in some measure to compel, the Soviet Union to agree to a general Eu ropean settlement. But it is plain that our delegation has come back from Moscow without any illusions as to how difficult, how' costly, and perhaps how danger ous, such a policy is bound to be. In working out this policy of action that “cannot await com promise through eyhaustion,’ the spirit and purpose which animate the Administration and Congress are of paramount importance. If it is undertaken in the spirit cf an anti-Communist crusade, and for the purpose of uniting the demo cratic states against the totali tarian, the chances of success are negligible. The resistance genera ted not only in Moscow but all over Europe will defeat us. If, on the other hand, we act in the spirit which Marshall and Dulles reflect, our action in west er Europe can be designated to unite rather than to divide the whole of Europe. For we have the resources to stimulate such a re vival of western Europe that the profit and advantage of collabo - rating with it will be manifest, an even compelling, in Prague, Warsaw, and Moscow. We are already at the point where we must consider extraor dinary measures of assistance to the United Kingdom, to France, to Italy to western Germany, and to many of the smaller western European countries. If we are wise, we shall not wait until the collapse, which is clearly in sight within the next eighteen months, is upon us. In acting to forestall this col lapse, we can afford to have no illusions. The deficit of the west ern European countries cannot be met, as Mr. McCloy’s recent ad dress makes clear, by the World Bank, or by the American bunk ing community. The sums needed are too large. The transactions are abnormal and altogether out side ordinary private finance. Nor can the defict be met by govern ment loans because in fact these sums cannot be paid back. They will have to be contributed as a national investment in peace and prosperity. That will mean the re-ival in some form or other or wha' was known in war time as lend-lease. A different name for it may be invented. But that in fact is what it will have to be. Now as we face up to the leali ties of the burden, our prime con sideration must necessarily be, not how to get the money back, but how to make that money pro mote peace and prosperity. It will not do that I believe, if we allo cate our contributions to each Eu ropean government separately. That will merely put them all on the dole, whereas what is needed is t reorganization of the bank rupt economy of Europe, and then, to enake the reorganization succeed, a large contribution from America of working cgpitaL So after we have discussed the separate needs of Britain, Franc#, Italy, and the rest, we should sug gest to them that they meet to gether, agree on a general Euro pean program of production and exchange, of imports and exports to the outer world and that they arrive at an estimate of the con solidated deficit for as much of Europe as can aree to a common plan. Such a consolidated deficit will be smaller than the sum of the separate national deficits. Moreover, from our point of view it would be a refreshing innova tion to make our contribution not to many separate governments but to Europe — if not to all of it at first, then at least to a very large part of it. In some such way as this the contribution which we must in evitably make would serve not merely to relieve suffering but as a premium and inducement to the unification of Europe. Treated in thij way, our financial interven • tion in Europe would almost cer tainly be purged of the suggestion that we were treating Europe as a satellite continent in our contest wltn the Soviets, and even in Mos cow our re si intentions would surely become clearer. Copyright, 1847, New York Tri bune Inc. . Hit's co'ioos Hart Muai Mo' EASIER HIT is TO RARE UP SUMP'M FtiH A Ul'U SAT'DAT NIGHT GAME. DAN HIT IS fUH Pt RENT »!' * (HelMiM by Tb* BSifiyfc' filet f, Ine.> Tr*d« Mtrlu K«(. U. S. Pal OIBca) REALTY TRANSFERS May H. Moore to V. A. Abbott, lot nine, block seven, Carolina Beach. V. A. Abbott to J. P. Williams, same. Marcus Sidbury to George Po well, two tracts of land, sections 13 and 14, known as Holy Fountain Society land. Ephraim Brown to Rose Anna Jones, same. Richard Shew to Marjorie M. Godley, lot 1. South Oleander. Thomas H. Wright to L. L. Wright, part of lot two, bl9ck 200, City. L. L. Wright to Hubert Elonza Bohannon, part of lot two, block 200. City. Ellen Kure Konig Thrush to L. A. Lewis, lot eight, block 40, Fort Fisher. Timothy C. Merritt to Mangels Von Desen, lot four, Pinecrest Ter race. ORRELL (Continued From Page One) and N. A. Avera, co-chairman of the fund campaign. In addition to the above, the following were named as mem bers of t h e executive committee at large. Harry Solomon, Mrs. Harriss Newman, Walker Taylor, Mrs. W. A. Dick, Alex Sprunt, Mrs. J. B. Sidbury, and J. Henry Gerdes. Members of the board of direc tors elected to serve three rears are: James I. Metts, Joseph Hol man, Mrs. R. C. McCarl. A. S. Grist, Mrs. Bereniece Stellings, Mrs. A. F. Perry. Miss Allie M. Fechtig, Mrs. W. E. Curtis, Mrs. T. T. Hamilton. Jr., Harry Solo mon. and N. A. Avera. Miss McCaig. in speaking to the group on the Red Cross work in Rome during the war. said that the individual, everyday contact with the G.I.'s was really their most important work. She described the Red Cross headquarters in Rome and told of the organization’s facilities for carrying on a well-rounded pro - gram of entertainment. She also spoke of the sight-see ing tours organized for a day or for a week-end to show the G. I. things of interest. During the meet reports were heard from various divisions of the chapter on their work for the past year. (Continued From Page One) places, with specific permission of Allied headquarters required. Short Letter Remarking that the new consti tution would inauguarate “a gov ernment erected on democratic principles by a free expression of th popular will, composed of co ordinate organs of state power fully responsible to the people, in whom sovereignly now rests,”' MacArthur’s three-paragraph let - ter to the premier said: To mark this historic ascend - ancy of democratic freedom which events have made possible. I believe it pecularily appropriate that from henceforth the Japanese national flag be restored to the phople of Japan.” The new constitution, drafted by the Japanese in close collabo ration with occupation officials, makes the emperor a tax-paying “symbol of state,” renounces war and maintenance of armed forces, abolishes the peerage and strength ens the powers of the elected Diet. Constitution Day — complete wit) fireworks — orators and mu sic—opens the first extensive Jap anese festival since 1940, when the old militarist regime sought to weld the people together for war by commemorating lavishly the 2,006th anniversary of the em pire’s legendary creation by the Emperor Jimmu. First Test Looms The constitution may get its firs’ test in the prospective battle for the premiership between the Social Democratic party, which holds pluralities in both houses of the diet, and Conservative parties which hold majorities through a coalitioh. Conservative Premier Yoshida scheduled a cabinet session Tues day to decide when the present government will retire. He decid ed to convok the new Diet Mav 20. HOUSE FOR AGED METHODIST Construction is expected to start some time« this month on the pro posed $195,000 home for aged Methodist ministers near Char lotte. • Approval of an application to start construction was announced today by the construction division of the office of the housing ex pediter in Greensboro. The home, which will be located in the Hickory Grove section of Mecklen burg county, about five miles east: of Charlotte, will consist of three units, including a three-story brick building. The home will be erected by the J. A. Jones Construction Co. of Charlotte, News Of The Carolinas UNOPPOSED FOR MAYOR MOREHEAD CITY. May 2. —(/Pi — George W. Bill, the incumbent, is unopposed for mayor in the May 6 Municipal election, but 12 men have filed for five city commis sion seats. FIVE-YEAR-OLD DIES MOUNT AIRY, May 2. — (IP)— Harry Lee Christian, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gaston W. Christian of White Plains, died here today from injuries suffered Wednesday when a concrete bird bath pedestal toppled over on him. striking him in the stomach. FOUR MEN ARRESTED YADK1NVILLE, May 2. —UP)— Four men have been arrested on charges of highway robbery and impersonating officers in three separate cases and are being held under bonds of $10,000 each. WILL DISCUSS VISIT CHAPEL HILL, May 2. —(/P>— U. S. Senator Carl A. Hatch, (D. N. M.) will discuss his recent visit to Greece and Turkey in an ad-, dress at the University of North Carolina next Thursday. COMMENCEMENT SPEAKERS DUNN, May 2. — <JP) — State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, who will be a candidate for Governor in 1948, will deliver the commence ment address at the LaFayette High school Monday night, May 12. Plans for the commencement pro gram were announced today by the Principal of the school, Guy Davies. RETIRED MINISTER DIES STATESVILLE, May 2. — (A>)— The Rev. Eugene Leon Siler, D. D.. 79, retired Presbyterian minister, died here today at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. P. Johnston. WINDS DAMAGE SALISBURY, May 2. — VP) — Heavy winds that struck Rowan county late Thursday afternoon did considerable damage in the Wood leaf section and reached near-tor nado proportions, natives of the area reported in Salisbury today. SEND REQUESTS DURHAM, May 2. —UP)— W. G. Whichard, executive secretary of the North Carolina State Life Un derwriters, sent a request today from Durham headquarters to all affiliates throughout the state, re questing their cooperation in a veterans administration informa tion program to acquaint veterans with national service life insur ance and to urge reinstatement of NSLI policies. MEETING HIGHLIGHTS DURHAM, May 2. —iJP)— An all day program of business meetings, scientific papers and social activi ties, will highlight the eighth an nual meeting of the North Carolina Society of X-Ray Technicians which convenes tomorrow here. About 130 members are expected to be in attendance. PATROLMEN INVESTIGATE WINSTON-SALEM. May 2. —CU.R) — State Highway Patrolmen to day investigated an unconsigned cargo of 20.000 pounds of sugar seized yesterday when they stop ped a transport truck for a routine check. CHECKS EXPEDITED WINSTON-SALEM, May 2. — (Ah — Subsistence checks for North Carolina veterans taking education al or job training under the G. I. bill were being expedited after a short delay in mailing, the regional veterans administration office was informed tonight by its Richmond branch headquarters. APPEAR IN COURT MONROE, May 2. —(#■<— Nine ty-six members of the CIO Tex tile Workers Union of America ap peared in Superior court here to day to answer an order for them to show cause why they should not be restrained from interfering with the operations of the Safie Manu facturing Co. plant in Rockingham STATION OFFERED FOR SALE CHARLOTTE. May 2. — (#)— The War Assets Administration office here said today the former Coast Guard life boat station on Ports mouth Island, in Carteret county, had been offered for sale on a bid basis. DECHMAN TRANSFERRED CHARLOTTE, May 2. — (A>)— T. A. Dechman, regional director of the War Assets Administration in the Carolinas, with headquarters in Charlotte, has been transferred to Atlanta as deputy zone administra tor for the Southeast, it was an nounced today. STILLS SEIZED CHARLOTTE. May 2. — (iP)— The Alcoholic Tax Unit announced to day that 46 stills were seized in North Carolina last week, the larg est number taken in several months. NOTIFIED GREENSBORO, May 2. — (A1)— The Tobacco committee of the N. C. State Grange has notified the North Carolina Congressional Dele gation of its recommendations on international trade relations and expansion of the tobacco program. APPLICATIONS GREENSBORO, May 2. —(A5)— Largest of 32 applications for per mission to begin nonresidential construction projects in the state for which approval was announced here today by Chester O. Ensign. North Carolina district director of the construction division, office of the housing expediter, is a $360,000 R. O. T. C. armory to be erected at State College, Raleigh. LOBBYIST RALEIGH, May 2. — <U.R) — Charles W. Tillet, Charlotte at torney and husband of the Demo cratic party’s national vice-chair man, received $1,136 for lobbying during the 1947 North Carolina legislature, Secretary of State Thad Eure, reported today. 'increase RALEIGH, May 2. —CU.R)— An increase of 3.6 per cent in work men's compensation insurance rates to meet increased benefits provided under legislation passed by the 1947 General Assembly was announced today by State Insur ance Commissioner, William P. Hodges. appointments RALEIGH. May 2 — t. ernor Cherry today anno appointment of Col t ”d Lie Rosser of Chatham coirt ‘d°n c successor to T. Boddi* '«• ,8s tn* Motor Vehicles Commit ° d' ,s North Carolina. " “ onL- o! ANNUAL meeting RALEIGH. May 2. _ j, North Carolina section of - ~-e lean Institute ol Electric r er' neers, Tuesday, will hold rf"81' nual spring meeting here -. In state college. 31 ‘v C. REORGANIZATION SPK\Kl RALEIGH, May 2 RS ernor Cherry and Josephus’^w0!' will be the principal speaker, hf5 at a reorganization meeting North Carolina press a‘l fh' on May 9. lati°r. GRADUATION SPEAKERS RALEIGH. Mav 2. _pp, r ernor Cherry and Dr Franks Graham, president of the ..7 * University of North Carolina * be the principal speaker, a* h 58th graduation exercise . 0f y '« State College. June 9 Col.‘joh„ W. Harrelson. chancellor of 7 college, said today. -- REVENUES INCREASE RALEIGH, May 2. —iU.Ri— ct Revenue Commissioner Edwin Gill today reported that North Caro lina s total state revenues fron general fund and highway w taxes combined, climbed to sit 708.929 during April — an increase of 6.07 per cent over the S12 924 425 collected in April 1946. BOOM FAILS RALEIGH. May 2. Hi h building costs are forcing so maav people to put off building houses that an expected spring boom u consrtuction activity is failing to show up. Clarence Pritchard, di rector of statistics for the State Labor department, said today. PROJECTS AWARDED RALEIGH, May 2. —(A>i— Chief Engineer Vance Baise of the State Highway Commission today an nounced the awarding of two road projects from the April 15 letting, The Weather Weather bureau report of terr.perafurf and rainfall for the 24 hours ending I p m.. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prectp. 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