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Sunday Star-News ......—... wc By Mail: Payable Strictly in Advance » Months . -- * 2 M M ® ®.85 6 Months___ 5.00 *.00 7.70 l year .. 10.00 8.00 11*0 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue ol Star-News) WLLMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) S Months—61 85 6 Months--*3 70 i Year—>7.*0 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Th# Associated Press is entitled exclusively ti the use for republication of all the local newt printed in this newspaper, as well as all AF news dispatches.— FRIDAY. JUNE 6. 1947 Star Program Stats ports with Wilmington favored in proportion with its resources, to in clude publie terminals, tobacco storage warehouses, ship repair facilities, near by sites for heavy tndustry and 35-foot Cape Fear river channel. City auditorium large enough to meet needs for years to come. Development of Southeastern North Carolina agricultural and industrial re sources through better markets and food processing, pulp wood production and factories. Emphasis on the region's recreation advantages and improvement of resort accommodations. Improvement of Southeastern North Carolina’s farm-to-market and primary roads, with a paved highway from Top sail inlet to Bald Head island. Continued effost through the City’s In dustrial Agency to attract more in dustries. Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air port for expanding air service. Development of Southeastern North Carolina’s health facilities, especially In counties lacking hospitals, and Includ ing a Negro Health center Encouragement of the growth of com mercial fishing. Consolidation of City and County governments. GOOD MORNING Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep its fruit until it be ripe.—Chrysos tom. _ Third Street Traffic Third street traffic disturbances . have been called to City Council’s at tention again. The Council has heard about the traffic situation on Third street since long before the first gun of World War II was fired. Periodically the police department has patrolled the street at night, com pelling gasoline tankers to observe the speed limit rule, but between patrols the tankers, as their custom had been, would thunder through with all the noise and much of the vibration of heavy freight trains. The consequence is that the fitful rest of invalid residents has been re peatedly broken, plaster on ceilings has fallen and the glass in windows broken. To this thunderous passage of the tankers is now added the increasing noise of motorcycles, which pop off like machine guns, and waken even sound sleepers at all night hours. That the traffic on Third street is a public nuisance is too well known to require special emphasis. The need is for control. : This could be done, it would seem, through the police department. Con tinual, instead of spasmodic, patrols could solve the speed problem at least. ■ What could be done aobut the motor cycles is not so clear. They might be barred from Third street, but that would merely shift the nuisance to an other, to the distress of sleepers in the new vicinity. The Council and the police, in fairness, would have to con aider this. - But as the principal disturbance •(and damage) is created by gasoline -tankers they should have first consid eration. # .1 If they are compelled to move at -the prescribed speed at all times the equation will be greatly improved. This does not offer a permanent solution of * truck lane, which seems to be too -complicated for state or city author ities, but it does promise relief. [[ Despite the limited personnel of the [police department, it would appear [necessary for it to maintain a patrol [on Third street at all hours in the in [[terest of the public welfare. Scouting for Helpers " Many persons who have passed the [[“over 21” mark often lose touch with [[the enthusiasm and imagination of [[childhood. Whether aware of it or not, [[we miss the spirit of adventure and dis covery that we left behind at some " > early guidepost. Summer is the time for recapturing some of the spirit which can belong to all however many years we have chalked up on the calendar of life. One of the easiest ways of recapturing it is also one of the sim plest. It is just a matter of getting out in the summer time with the children. One of the most active children’s groups, not only in summer time, but all year round, are the Girl Scouts. From one end of the year to the other these youngsters, seven through eigh teen, offer their services in behalf of many community projects. The scope of their activities ranges from baby sitting to hospital aide work, from painting and drawing to cooking over a backyard fireplace. Throughout the next few months, many of them off to day camps, full time camps or on camping trips. Does it occur to you, however, that for most of them a trip to camp will at most mean, a mere two weeks ? Many of the Girl Scouts may not have even that short time away. Al most all of them are still faced with sixteen unrestricted hours a day for two whole months, and would like to use them constructively. They want to learn more of interesting places in our town, to make things with their hands, to have new, exciting exper iences. They need grown-ups to guide them. They need suggestions and some super vision. They need friendly adult help and specific knowledge, and you may have the information or skills they will want to learn. If you have a hobby that leads no further afield than your own backyard, there are youngsters with whom you can share it. Why not make this summer one of the most successful in your life by dropping in at your local Girl Scout Council, Room 408, Tide Water Build ing? Mayor White’s Platform Mayor E. L. White, presiding at the first Council session of his administra tion, laid down a six-point platform on which he relies upon his associates to concentrate their official attention. That the planks are well chosen for the futher growth, development and betterment of Wilmington is not to be disputed. He would have the Council work for extension of needed facilities in the areas annexed to the city. Implicit in this is the thought that the work should be done, so far as materials may be obtained, with all possible speed, as a year has passed since the annex ation election. Mayor White calls for Council as sistance in furthering greater develop ment of Wilmington’s port. So much depends upon the creation of adequate port facilities here, the Council na turally will give its full support, under the mayor’s leadership and encourage ment, to the program of the State Ports Authority. In view of the confuse*! situation resulting from Jeesse Reynolds’ resig nation as head of the recreation depart ment and the uncertainty as to what is to be done for this department, Mayor White’s third platform plank assumes especial significance. It calls for expansion of the park and play ground system. It is fortunate that this has been brought to the Council s attention now, while the new budget is still at the formative stage, rather than after a budget had been adopted and the recreation program might require revision to meet the need. Mr. White would have the Council plan for further expansion and de velopment of our industrial potential, to make necessary appropriations for the community’s health, welfare and protection of residents, and hold taxes on homes and real estate to a min imum. With his proved executive ability, his vision of Wilmington needs, and harmony in the Council, Mr. White’s administration gives promise of ad vancing the city’s and the people’s progress. This promise will be the more readi ly fulfilled with the cooperation of the citizens. Topheavy Payrolls Federal payrolls were increased so tremendously during the war that they became almost a national scandal. The thought then was to get work done and while this was, of course, neces sary there was not enough thought as to how the work was to be done, with the result that bureaus were set up where the chief task appeared to be duplicating work done by other bureaus. At the peak federal payrolls con tained the names of 3,737,898 emp’oyes. While there has been some effort to reduce the number there were still 2, 261,459 names of U. S. payrolls last January. This compares witn yiy,77b persons drawing government salaries on June 30, 1939. Between the wartime peak and last January the War and Navy depart ments and war emergency agencies re duced personnel by 1,794,604, but this cut was partially offset by a net in crease of 318,167 in non-war depart ments and agencies. It is interesting to learn where these increases occured. Chief among them are the Reclamation Service, Bonneville Power administration, fed eral Prison system, division of labor standards, the Secretary of Labor’s office, office of the first assistant post master General, office of fourth as sistant Postmaster General, State De partment’s foreign service, Office of Foreign Liquidation, Federal Security agency, Public Building administra tion, Public Roads administration and Veterans administration. , Obviously the war imposed addi tional tasks on some of these, especial ly the VA. Equally obvious is it that these might need larger working staffs, if they were undermanned before the war. But it would seem that others among those named might be cutting down instead of building up personnel. However this may be, the question uppermost in most minds is that if federal payrolls are larger than need be there is probably also unnecessary expense in other federal operations, and if the payrolls can be reduced to a reasonable maximum for peace time other expenditures could probably be reduced too. The four billion dollar reduction in the President’s budget estimate as ap proved by Congress assumes reasonable proportion when governmental ex travagance is weighed against it. It is possible that this relief promised in come tax payers, if carried out, would not place a handicap upon any essential federal activity. As Pegler Sees It By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NEW YORK, June 5.—None of our pre tentious investigations of the fascist union racket has done justice to the wicked prac tice of pledging American citizens, literally by the million, to causes on which they have never been consulted and which they probably would reject. On May 24 something calling itself the “American Trade Union Council —National Committee for Labor Palestine” published a declaration entitled “American labor demands a Jewish Palestine.” The “American Trade Union Council— Na tional Committee for Labor Palestine” ap pears to be an improved thing with no sub stantial existence, created for a limited pol itical purpose. William Green and Philip Mur ray, the boss unioneers of the A. F. of L. and’ the C. I. O., respectively, are named as “honorary chairmen. This is an old, trans parent dodge of the propaganda business. Hon orary chairmen never take the chair or any responsibility and their names are borrowed strictly for the prestige which they may con fer. The active, or non-honorary, chairmen here are Joseph Schlossberg, James Breslow and Max Zaritsy, all of New York unions. So this is not, as the title suggests, a 'Na tional” Council or committee for “labor” Pal estine.” It is just a local, metropolitan thing serving the political purposes of a few ex tremely prejudiced individuals. The merits of Palestine are not being argued in this piece. The point 1 make is that it is a lie to say that “American labor demands a Jewish Palestine.” The A. F. of L. recently acknowledged that "American Labor” was not just the membership of the unions, but all Americans who earn their living by work. Certainly, buy that definition, American labor has never uttered any such demand. And even though we limit “American labor to the membership of the A. F. of L. and the C.I.U. the answer is the same. Nobody had any au thority to speak for all these people on this issue. Green, we are told, saia: me members ol the A. F. of L. are wholeheartedly in favor of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. If Green did say that, he belittled the intelligence of the very people he was trying to help. The American Zionists are too smart to believe that Green had any authority to speak for those 7,500,000 citizens on this sub ject. They know the question never has been submitted to either the A. F. of h. or the C. I. O. They know there are millions ol American workers who, without prejudice, consider this to be none of their business. This is common practice in our union move ment or racket whose dominating powers fre quently reveal an absolute contempt for tru-h and for the right of the working citizen to think for himself on issues that are not union business. _ „ _ The purpose of unions is to represent the members in dealings with the employers cor. cerning wages and hours. They go beyond their legitimate business when they meddle in things that are the business of the State De partment. Here. Green and Murray interfere in a foreign religious dispute. A few years ago the New York Newspaper Guild under communist rule, adopted a reso lution opposing the draft. This occurred during the Hitler-Stalin alliance, which was equally guilty of the invasion and conquest of Poland. The American newspapermen hadn’t antici pated this coup and weren’t on hand to beat it by their votes. Thus they were recorded as having indorsed the Berlin-Moscow Axis. The whole question was no proper business of this guild or any other union. But the law doesn’t forbid such votes on such matters. The National Maritime Union, one of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt’s proteges, once made a covert threat to blockade Spanish ports be cause Franco’s fascists had beaten the com munists in the Civil war. This was State De partment business, but nevertheless a C. I. O. union, badly infested with communists, discus sed a course of action that might have brought the United States to war with Spain. Under law, it has a right to do this. In New York, a worker draws his envelope on pay night and discovers that he is $3' short. Without consulting him, the bosses of his union have ordered the employer to turn his $3 over to them for a fund to make a memorial to the late Sidney Hillman. This American detested Sidney Hillman and re garde® bim as a reptilian enemy of the Ameri can form of government. Yet, if he opens is mouth he may be charged with un-union e conduct and fined and - or suspended, nr 1S <^®emor^al might be a communist school None of'n.i f“nd” for communist unioneers. none of the measures proposed in Congress I • THE GAME WARDEN The Book Of Knowledge (Department: — ANIMAL LIFE) WILD MEMBERS OF THE CAT FAMILY An earlier article described the lion, head of the cat family. An other cat is the tiger—a beautiful beast, bright tawny yellow with dark stripes around the body. Chest and undersides verge to ward white. Some giants of the tiger tribe live in Manchukuo — monsters, huge of bone and muscle, long of fur. There have been specimens of the Indian tiger as large or larg er, but probably the average Man tV'lId cat, bob cat, or common ynx. Various breeds of lynx In labit both the Old and New Worlds. chukuon tiger is larger than the average Indian tiger, which is about 10 feet long and up to 550 pounds in weight. The tiger is even more agile than the lion, and shows more cunning. It does not terrify its The leopard cat, or ocelot, Is prized for its fur. prey by roaring, as the lion does, but stealthily prowls through un derbrush, keeping well out of sight until it is ready to spring. Its striped coat is a good example of protective coloring. In India, a single tiger may sometimes kill over 100 people in a year as they go at night to draw water from a well. The leopard, another wild mem ber of the cat family, is the sec ond animal scourge of India. Some 5,000 leopards are disposed of there every year, but the ani mals kill, on an average, S50 In dians a year. While lions and ti gers cannot climb trees, leopards climb superbly, either to catch a fugitive or to lurk in hiding, ready to pounce down on one. In Africa, the leopard is viewed with special abhorrence for this leason. Wash ington Sideligh ts By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON— President Tru man’s drive for lower prices has admittedly not mat e much prog ress. A second appeal is being considered, hut it may not have much better luck unless timing is delayed. Deflation apparently can’t be hurried. Main trouble is that nobody wants to take a loss on inventory sales. Stocks accumulated at high prices must be sold at high prices, f and when price reduction is achieved, it must come through lower priced raw materials proc essed at lower production costs, so that finished goods may be priced lower for sale. Reluctance of all business to take lower profits is attributed in part to uncertainty over when ex pected 20 per cent tax cuts are to be applied. If July 1, some low er prices might be justified by tall. If made retroactive, price cuts might come sooner. If Tru man vetoes and vftto is not over ridden, everyone will have to take a new look at his hand. Fleet Adm. Chest or W. Nimitz may soon ask for retirement. It has been generally understood ;hat Nimitz would stay at his station as Chief of Naval Oper ations until the Army-Navy unifi cation issue was settled. That may Dr may not be this year. If de layed, Nimitz may retire anyway The two officers most promi nently mentioned as successors to Nimitz are Adm. Louis E. Den field,^ now commander in chief in the Pacific; and Adm. William H. P. Blandy, commander in chief in the Atlantic. Pacific was formerly considered top Naval command. But since the war the Atlantic has been considered more important. Blandy, of course, had , atomic bomb experience at Bikini. Den field was wartime chief of per sonnel. How the Soviet government spreads anti- American propagan da abroad is revealed in copies of two pamphlets printed in Chi nese by the Russians for sale in Russian-run bookstores in China. Copies were recently sant to the U. S. Titles are, "The Coming De pression in the Um'ad States.” and ‘‘The Negro Problem in America.” Both present the Com munist line on America in an ef fort to make the Chinese people mistrust the U. S. because of racial prejudices and the theory that any ties with this coun ry will only lead China to exploitation and economic disaster. or the state legislature* deals with this kind of imposition. If the Senate does not restore a number of the House economy cuts, Washington may have the makings of a first class unem ployment recession by early fall House appro priation reductions made thus far would mean that about 5 per cent, or 10,000 out of the government’s two million employes, will lose their jobs. Federal employment in Wash ington and vicinity, exclusive of the armed services, is a little over 200,000. Firing 5 per cent, or 10, 000 of that number, could mean greatly reduce^ demand for hous ing, food and services in the capi tal area. Experts on the Middle East say that Saudi Arabia today offers the U.«S. one of its greatest oppor tunities to show that Americans can go into a foreign country and develop its resources without tak ing over its government or ruin ing its native life. U. S. oil compa nies’ investment in Saudi Arabia in next five years is expected to total $200 million. Saudi Arabian government will spent $100 million on its five-year plan of modernization. King Ibn Saud recently bought eight surplus Army hospitals, complete from beds to operating rooms. He is interested m eiectrnymg his cities and installing sanitary water sup ply and sewage systems. A brick kiln and cement plant are in op eration. As Bedouins learn trades, they arq settling down, abandon ing their tents to live in houses. Wartime boom market in citrus fruits has also caused a boom in citrus grove land values. Grove acreage has advanced as high as 300 per cent in some sections of Florida. High prices paid fcr or anges and grapefruit have en abled even the 10-acre growers to gross as high as $1000 an acre That caused many to buy ad ditional land for clearing and planting in new groves. This expansion was also done to beat tax laws, which permit in vestments in clearing and develop ing a new grove to be deducted as business expense. All this points toward bigger citrus sur plus within next few years. If sur pluses become unmanageable and bottom drops out of the citrus market, many of the smaller grove owners may be squeezed with their own juice. Correction: In recent column on lobbying activities in Washington, it was s*ated that the amount re ceived by Townsend Plan lohbvist John C. Cuneo of Modesto, Calit, was $13,442. The imount shouM have read $3442. So far we have kept to the Old World, but now we must cross to the New, where we find no lions or tigers, but interesting parallels. The American jaguar is a big spotted cat with huge, powerful limbs. Its coat is decorated with osettes, somewhat like the leop ard's coat; but you can easily tell mem apart, in the center of some of the jaguar’s rcsettes you will see a clearly marked spot, which the leopard does not have. The American jaguar is an accom plished swimmer and climber, a deadly foe to cattle and horse3, The flghlBsr eat catches both fish and small animals. and it is ready to kill an unarmed man if it is hungry. America’s lion is the puma, which eats anything, from a pig to a porcupine, from a horse to a snail, from a sheep to a bullock. It is a terrible scourge to ranches. However, it will no' attack man unless it has to fight him to save its own life. It bears different names, as cougar, panther and mountain lion, in different sec tions. The lynx, of both the Old and the New Worlds, and the caracal are also cats. Then we launch into a world of lesser cats—the golden cat of the Indo-Malay area, which has a gray Chinese cousin; the fishing-cat, which not only catches fish but small animals as well; the leopard cat, the serval, the tiger cat, the eyra; the gyptian or Kaffir cat. There are others, and we must note the cheetah, more cat than dog, yet not quite cat either — a leopard-like beast. This animal is often caught young and trained to nunt iike a dog, its quarry usually being the black buck of India. A cheetah runs down the fleetest of "rass-feeders. and is regarded as the fastest of all runners for any distance up to about 400 yards. (Copyright, 1946, By The Grolier Society Inc., based upon The Book Of Knowledge) (Distributed By United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) TOMORROW: — A Trick with Sticks. WHY WE SAY b, STAN J CORNS i L MLAW1» " BATON ROUGET'' I ’ l * Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana, in French means “red stick”. It derived this name from the fact Indians planted a large red pole at the present site of the city to designate the boundary lihe between the hunting grounds of two rival tribes. _ The Doctor SaysS^ NOSE TREATMENT MAY BE OVERDONE B, WILLIAM T^, Persistent use of r “'S' so-called -sinus &£** >, suit in chronic <;llffi. may n0Se‘ Habit can be fo^ f *■ mg a cold nr ‘“^u r°iiO» s a cuiu or when the ** ' become partially block^ natural causes. Many patients try t0 nost wide open by u '■ sively stronger medicine8 only makes matters wor' ^ become so anxious a^„ breathing that they , li«t stop using nosedrops h ^11 fear of suffocation and &, « the only way then J. "H' prove is to stop the d-o*1 * Dr. Clifford F. i , Clinic advises those • * ''* «>me nosedrop the assistance of • . 0j;«; overcoming the haV ' 4 - patients may be s7' without their medicine <C tives are necessary r , Sey' «nd that they can get out drops and that their br*-.'?' is easier. Medicines which eonstri- , blood vessels inside the ' "‘I open the passageway ma,^ ,1( en before an anesthetic ls istered. Nosedrops do than, good, and other msthotl^ keeping the nose open should ^ used. Hot packs over the fa-n' relieve congestion a r d S' 77' m an acute cold ana not DrQZ' a habit. pltK®' Normally, one side of -he „ Shuts down as the other open* in breathing. This cycle vaw/i different persons and under mg conditions, but the -ate s’°-' ally every half hour to two ho® Nosedrops also interfere mjl these norma] actions and lower"-.’ sistance to infections. Inhalants, sprays and jeliis containing drugs which constrict the blood vessels inside the r,oii have the same effect as nos. drops. Medicines contain^: when put in the nose are especii. ly harmful because the oil blocy, movement of mucus and stunt i the oil is inhaled into the lung QUESTION: Do hot bath; m er the heart? My pulse becoo fast after a hot bath. ANSWER: Hot baths do : weaken a normal heart. The ha beats more rapidly after a t bath to help the body get rid< the excessive heat. McKENNEY On Bridge * A5 V J10 9 7 ♦ A K 6 *K972 ♦ K Q J10 92 ¥54 ♦ 19 *1043 Simon *63 y A82 ♦ Q 7 4 * A Q J 8 5 Tournament—E-W vul. South West North East 1 * Pass IV 1 ♦ Pass Pass 2 * Pas« 3 * Pass 3 ♦ Pass 3 y Pass 5 * Pass Opening—* 8 * BY WILLIAM E. McKENNE America’s Card Authority Written lor NEA Service In the Midwest men’s pair e«: at St. Louis I had the pleas of playing with an old friend i mine, Jack Simon, associated one of the oldest brokerage f®1 in St. Louis. But the best we cot do was third. Simon’s play helped us to t a good score on today s ■■■•■ Many of the declarers pa. much faith in East’s vulnerr overcall. They figured that had to have either the king ' queen of hearts to justify his - But Simon did net care the king and queen of hearts »e. He won the opening spade ML dummy with the ace, tooK rounds of trumps, then ca three rounds of diamonds. Now he simply led a sp< East won the trick with met spot and came back with a - West won with the queen, found himself end-played. - had stripped ins own nano dummy of both spades ana monds. If West returned a « Simon would lose no more tricks. p A diamond was the return ■ made, and Simon ru*M dummy, discarding u heart from his own na no_„
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