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FORECAST: Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers today Tuesday, fair and slightly warmer. VOL. 80.—NO. 221. Senate Ready On Hot Bills President May Learn This Week, Shape Of Tax And Labor Issues WASHINGTON, May 4_ UP) — president Truman this week may learn die shape of two of the big jest tilings to come to him from congress this session for his ap proval or veto—tax reduction and labor legislation. The House already has had its iay on both and has passed them in forms which the capital gener ally expects would be vetoed by jne president. Thus, the prospective senate action may largely deter mine the final outcome. The Senate Finance committee, whose recommendations will weigh heavily on the floor, starts sessions behind closed doors tomorrow to whip a tax bill into shape. The chief question before it is whether to make the reductions retroactive to last January 1, as the House bill provides, or to start them July 1 or next January 1, as some sena tors propose. Will Work Longer The senate itself will hold seven hour sessions, two hours longer than usual each day, starting Tues day in an effort to get through with the labor bill this week. The big fights will come over amendments to provide stricter controls over union activities than the Labor committee would sanc tion—specifically, to curb industry wide baraining, outlaw union controlled welfare funds financed by employers, and authorize in junctions and damage suits in secondary boycotts and jurisdic tional strikes. Both the labor and tax bills will go to conference committees foi the adjustment of the differences between the senate and House ver sions after the senate acts. The form in which the measures final ly will go to the president will not be established until then. But wha1 the senate does will establish the range in which the conferees can act. With the start of the new fiscal year less than two months off, the annual appropriations bills for th% government departments hatfe as sumed urgency. The senate will interrupt its labor (Continued on Page Two, Col. 8) SHAW TO HEAD OMICRON FRAT Local Youth Elected President Of Fraternity At Wake Forest WAKE FOREST. May 4. — Six leading students on the campus »nd three eminent alumni of the college have just been elected into membership in the Wake For est chapter of Omicron Delta Kap pa, national honorary leadership fraternity. The new student members of the organization are Lanneau Newton, Wake Forest senior; James A. West, Jr., Wilmington senior; Gerald Wallace, Marion, S. C., senior; Campbell McMillan, Whiteville junior; Gene Medlin, Greensboro junior; and Bill Rob bins, Winnabow j nior. The three new alumni members are T. Ashley Haywood of Rock ingham, president of the General Alumni Association and Class of 'll; Robert Lee Humber of Green ville. Class of ’18, who is active in furthering a movement for World Federation, a plan for peace of which he is author; and E. 0. Burroughs, Jr., of Norfolk, Va.. class of 1925 and a well known manufacturer. Founded in 1914 and active on the Wake Forest campus since 1939, Omicron Delta Kappa recog nizes men who are outstanding in •cholarship, athletics, social and religious affairs, publications, sneech, music, and dramatic arts. Students considered for member snip are required to stand in the top thirty-five percent of their elass. Wilmington Boy Elected', President Bynum Shaw, rising senior from Wilmington and newly elected editor of Old Gold and Black, •tudent newspaper, has been chosen president of Omicron Delta Kappa. He succeeds Dewey F ' is, Wiimington senior, who is grad uating in June. Ed Gavin, second year law student from Sanford, V-'as named vice-president to suc ceed Sam Behrends, another Wil mington senior, who graduates •Iso in June. Dr. Henry S. Stroupe. • ssistant professor of social •ciences, was re-elected faculty •ecreiary of the organization wh’ Dr. E. E. Polk, associat profes »or of English, was chosen faculty •dviser. The Weather FORECAST fcouth Carolina -Partly cloudy and con tofiued warm Monday and Tuesday. North Carolina—Partly cloudy and mild, •cattered showers fast portion Monday. Tuesday fair and slightly warmer. Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m., yesterday. Temperatures 1;30 a.m., 56: 7:30 a.m., 56; 1:30 p.m., 7:30 p m.. 65. Maximum 73; Minimum 50; Mean 61; Normal 68. Humidity ^30 am.. 73; V:.0 am, 72; 1:30 p.m., *•; 7:30 p.m., 70 Precipitation Tot.1 for 24 hours ending 7:30 p m., ••GO inches. Total since the first of the month, •■31 inches. Tides For Today 'From the Tide Tables published by *• Coast and Geodetic Survey). High Low Wilmington _ 10:01a 4:48a 10:57p 4:55p Mesonboro Inlet _ 7:42a 1:4Sa 8:llp l:46p r Sunrise 5:19. Sunset 6:58; Moonrise ' Me on set 5:37a. <MORE WEATHER ON PAGE TWO) CHAMBER PRESIDENT — Earl 0. Shreve (right) of New York was elected president of the United States Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting in Washing ton. He succeeds Eric Johnston. — (AP Wi rephoto). PRIVATE PLANE CRASH KILLS ONE J. Shute Of Monroe Loses Life, Gerald Simpson Hurt Near Waxhaw MONROE, May 4—OP)—One man was killed and another critically injured today when a private air plane crashed near VVaxhaw, N. C. J. Ray Shute, III, 21-year-old son of mayor-elect J. Ray Shute and Mrs. Shute of Monroe, was killed. Gerald A. Simpson, 22. son of Mr. and Mrs. David A. Simpson of Monroe, was injured. Witnesses said the plane, a PT 26, was flying at a low altitude near the Charlotte-Lancaster high way when the motor apparently failed and the ship crashed in a small meadow. Simpson was taken to Memorial hospital in Charlotte where he was still unconscious. He suffered a brain concussion, a fractured jaw, fractures of both arms, lac erations on the face, and multiple contusions and lacerations on the body. TEN INJURED WHEN PLANE OVERSHOOTS MARK NEWARK, May 4—(IP)—A Union Southern Airlines plane carrying 10 passengers from the Kentucky Derby at Louisville overshot a runway at Newark airport in a sudden rainstorm today and pan caked on the heavy timbers criss crossing a drainage ditch, injuring all the passengers and ihe three members of the crew. The injured were rushed to St. (Continued on Page; Two CoJ. 6) MAYOR OF HAVANA TAKES OWN LIFE Failure To Keep Campaign Promises Depresses Manuel F. Supervielle HAVANA, Cuba,. May 4—(U.R)— Mayor Manuel Fernandez Super vielle shot himself fatally at his home in the Vedado suburb today, police announced, because of his inability to fulfill election prom ises that he would give Havana an adequate water supply. Increasingly depressed or days over widespread and acute crit icism, the mayor walked up to one of his police guards at 7 a.m borrowed a .45 calibre pistol, went inside and shot himself in the chest, officia’ reports said. The guard, running inside, found the mayor dying and had him taken to a hospital in a passing police car. He died on the operating table at 8:05 a.m. Mayor Fernandez Supervielle left two notes—one to his wife, the other to an unidentified judge. Kesigned State Post The short, pauchy, ruddy-com plexioned former lawyer, 54, for mer dean of the Havana college of law, resigned as minister ot finance at the request of Presi dent Grau San Martin to run last year for mayor — the second high est executive post in the republic. He won the election easily against 'his two opponents on a pledge to give sprawling Havana, with its population of 700,000 a new waterworks and other facili ties to bring up to date the sup ply it had outgrown. His slogan of “Water for Ha vana,” however bounced back on him. Publicly ar.d privately, he was criticized with increasing bit terness because despite all his ef forts he had been unable to make even a real start to make good his pledge. FLURRY OF FLOWERS FOLLOWS CLARK ON AUSTRIAN LEAVE VIENNA, May 4 — UP) — Gen. Mark W. Clark, leaving his post as commanding general of United States forces in Austria, departed from Vienna for Salzburg, Ger many, aboard a special train today in a flurry of flowers, handshakes and salutes. A military band struck up “Cali fornia. Here I Come ” when Clark and his wife arrived at the station with hs successor, Lt. Gen Geof frey N. Keyes. Clark is bound for San Francisco to head the sixth army. In a farewell message to the Austrian people, Clark said he had hoped when the occupaiton began that “the reestablishment of a free, independent and happy Austria would have been com pleted long before this.” He said such was the'aim of U. S. policy and Keyes would work for it ‘‘abljr and vigorously.” WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 5, 1947 New F oreign Policy Faces Triple Threat Secretary Of State Marshall Meets Hot Challenge Head-On In Effort To Save “Voice Of America” Broadcasts WASHINGTON, May 4 — (JP) — A triple threat to the administra tion’s foreign policy — gravest since war’s end — poised a major home-front c’-_llenge for Secretary of State Marshall tonight on the eve of a bitter House battle over helping Greece and Turkey curb Communism. 1. A wide-open split in House Republican ranks over the $400, 000,000 Greek-Turkish aid program and a move under way, with some Democratic support, +o shift the problem to the Unit' ’aticns. 2. A Congressic -oversy, now in the Se1-^ Nf'1' p. e ad ministration’s ® ■’50, rxvr A a.> / ’ 000,000 for foreign relief. The House cut this fund down to $200, • 000,000. 3. Reports that the House Ap propriations committee will recom mend denying funds for the State department’s information and cul tural division, including the “Voice of America” broadcasts. Marshall Ready Marshall met the challenge head on. His immediate campaign was aimed at restoration of funds for the information program, which he and his aides have termed (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) Underground Blasts Wall Jail Delivery At Acre Jeru salem Largest In History; Many Killed JERUSALEM May 4—{£>}— Jewish underground fighters freed 251 Jewish and Arab prisoners of Grim Acre prison today by blasting a hole in one of its cen turies-old walls, as 15 persons died in the bio 'iest outbreak of vio lence in the Holy Land in many weeks. Ten men, including four Jewish prisoners, an Arab prisoner and three Jewish raiders, were killed in the wholesale prison delivery which the underground fighters accomplished by planting four bombs in Tur! ish baths adjoining the prison wall after screening the attack with gunfire and gre nade blast-. Two other Jews who apparently were wounded fatally in the raid were found dad in a jeep near Acre. The injured included 11 Jews— two of them members of the at tacking band and three who were found in the jeep with the two bodies — and an unspecified num ber of criminal lunatics who were wounded slightly by a grenade blast which preceded the wall bombing. British authorities announced also that five Jews were killed when British troops, returning from a beach party near Haifa, clashed with a groi^j of Jews. De tails of the disorder were not dis closed. The British said that 555 pris oners wre interned in the former crusader castle and that 131 Arab prisoners and 120 Jewish prisoners made their escape. Sixteen prisoners were recap tured and seven of the attackers were taken prisoner. The object of the raid on the gray-walled prison apparently was to free Jewish underground mem bers serving sentences there. (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) O Plansi May v ews U N Hearing --1 NEW MARK SET NEW YORK, May 4—(/P)— The Reynolds Bombshell, which recently completed a record round-the-world flight, arived at EaGuardia airport tonight from Toronto at 8:34 p.m. EDT completing the 375-mile trip in one hour and 13 minutes. The converted A - 36 twin engined bomber, piloted by Capt. William Odum, left To ronto at 7:33 p.m. EDT. Odum, flying alone, bettered the time of commercial air craft by almost an hour. Canada Joins Yugoslavia In Middle - Road Pro posals For Assembly NEW YORK, May 4—(U.R)—Com promise plans were tacked togeth er by debate-wearied United Na tions delegates tonight to assure the Jews an early opportunity to tell their side of the Palestine dis pute to the powerful political com mittee of the UN General as sembly. Yugoslavia and Canada were re ported ready with middle-road proposals for the plenary session tomorrow morning, when Russia and Poland were set to make a fin al but—probable - vain effort to let the Jewish agency, official spokesman for Palestine’s 600, 000 Jews, speak befpre a full-dress session of the General assembly. One source said Poland would press first for e vot^ on its reso lution to permit a Jewish agency spokesman to speak before a plenary assembly meeting. He an ticipated that the vote would be close and, if it failed, Poland would (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) WILLIE FRANCIS COUNTS THE DAYS—Willie Francis, 18-year-old condemned Negro slayer who escaped death when the first attempt to electrocute him failed because of a mechanical defect in the electric chair, sits in his jail cell at New Ideria, La., and counts the days until his second march to the chair. Louisiana’s Acting Governor J. Emile Verret has set May 9 as the execution date.—(AF Photo). MARTIN J.INSULL DIES IN CANADA Former President Of Middle West Utilities Had Varied Career Cr owds Throng Beaches For Dip In Sea, Fishing JEWELRY TRIBUTE LISBON, Portugal, May 4— (/P)—More than 30,000 Roman Catholic girls from several European countries and South America made a 180-mile reli gious pilgrimage today in a mo tor caravan of 1,000 buses. The girls, ranging in age from 10 to 21 years and including many young members, of -Euro, pean nobility, journeyed to the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in the district of Leiria, 90 miles from Lisbon. The Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherds there in 1917. After attending mass and praying for world peace, the girls dropped all their jewels —ear rings, bracelets, neck laces and other trinkets— at the foot of the image of Our Lady of Fatima. The value of the offerings was estimated at more than $4,000. Carolina’s Estimated At 10,000; Wrightsville Attendance Good Thousands of swimmers, sun bathers, fishermen, and other pre season visitors yesterday swarm ed over Carolina and Wrightsville beaches as the sun beamed down and most of the concessions were open at both resorts. T. A. Croom, mayor of Ca/olira Beach, last night said “We had a big crowd all day long,” and es timated that 10,000 people visited the resort town yesterday. R. L. Benson, town clerk of Wrightsville, said last night thai that resort enjoyed a “very good crowd, though not record* break ing.” The wind at Wrightsville yesterday made the beach rather cool, he said, and stopped many would-be swimmers. Concessions Open Most of the concessions at both beaches have opened for the pre season business and Mayor Croom said that those at Carolina were "tickled to death” with the boom ing business carried on yesterday. Most of the business places around Lumina are open as is “practically everything at Station 1," at the northern end of Wrights ville Beach, Benson said. A num ber of the boarding houses are also open. ORILLIA, Ont., May 4 — (^P) — Martin J. Insull, 77, industrialist and brother of the late Sam In sull, died in a hospital today. Insull had lived in a rest home in Orillia in recent years. Born in Reading, England, In sull retained his British citizen ship througho. his half century of residence in the United States. He was a good salesman of the policies and facilities of his elder brother’s utilities empire and for many years was its principal mouthpiece, making speeches to small town businessmen and or ganizations of farmers as well as metropolitan groups. He was regarded as a pioneer in bringing- metropolitan electric power to 4,000 small towns and rural districts of 30 states from Maine to Texas. Cornell Graduate A graduate of Cornell univer sity, Insull st.ved as general man ager on the General Incandescent Arc Light Co., of New York from 1898 to 1904. Two years later his brother sent him to New Albany, Ind., as vice president of the Lnited Gas and Electric company, the Loutsville and Northern Rail way and Light co., and the Louis ville and Southern Indiana Trac tion co. When Sam Insull merged these and other companies into the Mid dle West Utilities co., in 1912, Mar tin became senior vice president. He moved up to president of Middle West utilities in 1924 and headed 'he $2,000,000,000 corpora tion until -its collapse into receiver ship in April, 1932. Even after the collapse he re tained directorship in some of Mid dle West Utilities’ score of sub sidiaries. Indicted By Jury With the collapse of the utilities empire Martin Insull was indicted by a Cook county (111.) grand jury on charges of larceny and embez zling $64,000. He had gone to Canada before the indictment was returned and a long legal battle developed be tween the United S’ les and Can ada over his extradition. Canadian authorities claimed there was no proof of his crim (Continued on Page Five; Col. 6) TOBACCO WORKERS HEAR ORGANIZER Strikers At R. J. Reynolds Plant Urged To Stick Together On Demands WINSTON-SALEM, May 4—UP)— Several thousand striking workers of the United Tobacco Workers Union (CIO) Local 22 were told at a mass meeting today they must stick together and plan and coop erate “because we have entered one of the most important” periods in “the history of the labor movement in the south.” The workers, on strike from the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company, were addressee by Edwin K. Mc Crea, representative of the Food Tobacco and Allied Workers as signed to Local 22. McCrea listed seven points for which he said the men were strik ing. 1,. a 15-cent an hour pay in crease; 2, automatic progression to top in first five classifications; 3, group insurance paid by the company; 4, time and one-half pay for all work over 40-hours; 5, 10 cents an hour differential for night work; 6, reclassification of cer tain jobs, and 7, union security. Average $1.00 WARRANT SERVED ON ‘THE CATMAN’ Cordell Williams, Negro, Charged By Police With Entering Residence A warrant charging first de gree burglary has been served on Cordell Williams, alias Albert Mallette. alias “The Catman” by city police and the Negro is be ing held in the New Hanover county jail without privilege ol bond. The warrant charges that Wil liams entered the home of C. L. Wilson, 107 North Seventh street, on the night of April 14 while resi dents were sleeping there. A second warrant charging the Negro with jackpeeping on April 27 was served at the same time as the burglary charge. A conviction on a charge of burglary in the first degree car ries a mandatory death sentence in North Carolina. The "Catman” had been sought for weeks by police after several local housee were entered and in one case a resident of the house was beaten by the Ngro. He was cornered last Sunday night at the corner of Sixth and Dock streets by alert police of ficers after a prowler had been noticed on South Fifth street. According to Williams’ police record, he is on parole from a 15 year sentence for attempted crim inal assault in Cumberland county, police said. LOUISVILLE MAN TAKES ECTC JOB Dr. J. I. Long, Well Known Educator Will Succeed McGinnis As Registrar GREENVILLE, May 4 — VP) — Appointment of Dr. J. I. Long, as sistant superintendent of schools at Louisville, Ky.. as registrar and director of admissions at East Carolina Teachers college effec tive Sept. 1, was announced to day by Dr. Dennis H. Cooke, coi lege president. Long will succeed Dr. Howard J. McGinnis, who will head a new bureau of field services being or ganized at ECTC. A native of Seaboard, Long is a graduate of the University of North Carolina. He Was formerly superintendent of schools at Ayden, then supervising principal of schools at Warsaw and later pro r Continued on Page Two, Col. 8) BERRY SHIPMENTS TO BEGIN TODAY Transport Planes To Carry Local Crop To Northern Markets In the first of a series of air shipments of strawberries grown in this area two C-47 transport planes, loaded with the berries, are scheduled to take off from Bluethenthal airport today, headed for northern metropolitan areas. John J. Ordille, Hammonton, N. J., a representative of Straw berry Shippers, Inc., arrived in Wilmington yesterday to make ar rangements for the shipments with Harry Boyd, Jr., acting man ager of the airport. The C-47’s, a with a represents tive of Wing Cargo, Inc., the air firm handling the shipments aboard, are slated to arrive at Bluethenthal this morning. The strawberries to be shipped today will arrive at the airport in trucks and will be loaded aboard the planes on the large loading apron on the north part of the field, Boyd said. The planes are schedul ed to take off about noon, he added. McCrea said the main issue was for higher wages. The minimum is 65-cents an hour and both union and management say the average ‘is around $1.” McCrea denied the company’s charges that the union is seeking to evade the closed shop law. pass ed by the state legislature at its last session. The union in a newspaper adver tisement today said that 10,000 workers are on strike. The com pany has made no estimate since last Thursday, when it said one half of its 10,000 workers were on strike. The company said all were Negro except 150. Ramadier Expels Five Communists; Bevin, Morrison End 20-Year Feud Sunday Express Columnist Says Friendship May Endanger Attlee PARIS, May 4 — (ff) — Premier Paul Ramadier’s three-month-old coalition cabinet expelled its five Communist ministers tonight al ter the French National assembly gave the Socialist premier a two to-one vote of confidence in which Communist members dissented. Dropped from the cabinet were Communists Maurice Thcrez, vice premier; Francois Billoux, Min ister of national defense; Charles Tillon, reconstruction; Ambroise Croizat; labor: and Georges Mar rare, public health. Four of the posts then were fill ed temporarily, Pierre Henry Teitgen, a co-vice premier with Thorez, being assigned to take over the Communist leader's gov ernmental functions. Yvon Delbos of the Leftist rally was named tc succeed Billoux; Robert La Coste, popular Republican movement (MRP), replaced Croizat; and (Continued on Page; Two CM. t) French National Assembly Gives Premier Solid Confidence Vote LONDON, May 4 — (iF) — The political columnist of the Sunday Express said today that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison have buried the hatchet, ending a 20-year political rivalry. The writer also declared that Prime Minister Attlee’s job “is in danger” from the new friend ship. The weekly column, written un der the pen name of “Cross Bencher,” said the rivalry has been important ‘‘because only by this enmity has Mr. Attlee been kept in the saddle: Neither dared pitch him off in case the other jumped on. "Now they are in harmony, Mr. Attlee is in danger.” E. P. Stacpoole, veteran politi cal writer for the British Press as sociation, said: “Reports that Mr. Ernest Bevin (Continued on Page Two; Col. *) Along The Cape Fear WILMINGTON IN LONDON - Lindsay Russell, former criminal lawyer in New York, was mention ed last week in a review given by London’s Ambassador Douglas, The review was described by a native resident of Wrightsville Beach, who now lives in London, as “The Founding of the Pilgrims Society By a Native. Lindsay Rus sell.” Russell now lives at Wrights ville Beach. * * * PILGRIMS HISTORY—The Pil grom Society was founded in Lon don on the eve of King Edward VII’s coronation in 1902, and founded in New York one year later with each country having 600 members. * * * INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZA TION—The Pilgrims was the first modern international organization based upon quick communications and to promote cultural relations. • * * NATURAL—It was natural that the idea and interest to organize the society should come from a North Carolinian—a state which was at one time almost completely composed of descendants of En glish and Scotch. * * * RUSSELL—Russell was born on North Front street, November 18th, 1870, and lived for fifteen years in the Scotch settlement of Robe son county. » * * JUDAH P. BENJAMIN—Benja min lived in North Carolina for a time, and after the fall of the Con federacy, of which he was said to be the leader, he escaped to England and became the leading barrister there. • * * RUSSELL SENT TO LONDON— After considerable experience in international organizations, Rus sell was sent to London to open an office for Alexander & Colby of (Continued ea Pace Five; Col. t) I Headquarters for Wing Cargo Inc., are located on Northwest airfield in Philadelphia, Pa. The berries will be flown there and then distributed to northern mar kets, it -was indicated. It is not known exactly how many air shipments of the straw berries grown in this area will be sent to the northern area, but Ordille is making arrangements for several more planes to come down, after those of today, and indications were that there would be many shipments. The same air firm, Wing Cargo, Inc., sent a plane load of special flowers to Wilmington just before Easter for use by local florists, Eoyd said. Served By Leased Wires of the ASSOCIATED PRESS and the UNITED PRESS With Complete Coeerage of State and National Newa ESTABLISHED 1867 Local Phone Workers Vote Against Return To Tasks; 251 Jews “Break” Prison Strike Over At Raleigh Operaiors A t Asheville, Hendersonville, Waynes ville Go Back Today The Wilmington local of the Southern Federation of Telephone Workers voted at a meeting held here yesterday afternoon to con tinue the strike which has been underway since April 9. The vote came at a two hout meeting of approximately 120 workers and E. C. Drinkard, local union official, said following the session, that another meeting of the workers would be held this afternoon at which time the mat ter is scheduled to be discussed again. ‘‘A good majority of our work ers were present,’’ Drinkard said, “and our morale is very high. We will continue to carry on the strike.” When asked about the action of several locals throughout the state in voting to resume work, Drinkard declined to comment. The local has been maintaining a picket line throughout the month-long walkout but there has been no violence. O. G. Bain, manager of the local office was not available last night for possible company comment. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Telephone employs in Raleigh, Asheville, Hendersonville and Waynesville have voted to return to work today (Monday), but locals in Greensboro, Winston Salem, Charlotte and Burlington have voted to remain away from their jobs. Today is the deadline set by Gov. R. Gregg Cherry for the restoration of normal telephone service by the Southern Bell Telephone company. Gov. Cherry told the company tc resume service with present employes — most of whom have been on strike for four weeks — or with new employes if neces sary. Southern Bell in Atlanta an (Continued on Page Two; Col. i) GOVERNOR DENIES UNIONIST CHARGE Cherry In Statement, Clarifies Contents Of Letters Over Strike RALEIGH, May 4.—(JP)—Gover nor Cherry today denied as with out foundation “charges made by a spokesman of the Southern Fed eration of Telephone workers that I have acted with the president of Southern Bell Telephone company ‘in concern to smash and grind underfoot’ the telephone workers of the south.’ ” The governor on Friday asked the telephone company and the telephone workers to settle the month-old walkout by Monday, and said that if the strike was not settled then he would ask the tele phone company to employ addi tional operators to man its lines. Cherry issued his statement in reply to charges he said were made in Atlanta by A. T. Jones, chief negotiator for the southern federation of telephone workers. “I have directed that telephone service, as a public utility, be re stored in North Carolina,” the governor continued. No Prejudice “I have never ‘ordered the strikers back to work at company terms’ nor suggested that I thought that was the thing for them to do. In my joint communi cation to the officers of the com pany and of the union, I said: ‘I do not wish to take any action which will prejudice the rights of either party.” “I do not, of my own knowledge, know what wage the telephone workers are entitled to have or what wage the company can pay.” He added. “I do know that a month of suspended service is long enough time for both sides to have thoroughly discussed the issues in volved and to have reached an agreement. ‘In my dealings with the union (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) And So To Bed Many peculiar incidents hap pen around the town, but an in cident occured at the YMCA a few days ago that take* the cak^,. A middle aged chap was fix ing his tie. He had on a shirt with collar buttons, which were supposed to be buttoned to the shirt so as to hold the col lar in plac». As he started tieing the knot he flipped up his collar so as to pull the tie in place. Flipping up the collar was not so strange, but the man flipped up the buttons to go along with it. He did the same thing three or four times, and explained that the laundry would tear the buttons off every time, so he sewed the buttons to the cottar HoeH.
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