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giSifl ttmftujltftt mtortmtg #tar VOUjO-—N°. 262. __WILMINGTON, N. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947 ~ ESTABLISHED 1867! --— . ' ' — 1 1 , ... _ __ Levee Battle Now Intense Coast Guard Sends Men, Boats To Evacuate Els berry Area People HANNIBAL, Mo., June 20. —UP) A tense battle to save key levees " tinued tonight as new crests f°j.e down on this area in a continu Dtio:1 of June floods that Army ‘ineers reported had inundated , 295 square miles in the upper Mississippi river valley- . , ' The most critical areas in the flood-weakened barriers were ,.r0sS the Mississippi m Pike fount)’ in-- where the 60-rnile , siiv levee was endangered, 'snd iu the Elsberry’ Mo” district south of here. ' The division Army Engineer’s uice 2t St. Louis announced that mo tOO acres, or 1,295 square miles _ , been flooded this month with jevee failures accounting for 387 ‘-re miles of the inundated land. 1 The engineers estimated 20,000 had been made homeless and $30, 000.000 damage wrought in the past two weeks. Force Dispatched As the government Weather Bu rpau at Burlington, Ia„ forecast ", rains in Northeast Missouri and Southeastern Iowa in the next ,4 to 48 hours, the U. S. Coast f.nard unit at St. Louis sent a task force of 25 men and ten 18-foot hoats for removal of families from the "threatened Elsberry district. Emergency radio facilities were established in the area. The situation in the area across the Mississippi in Pike county was described as critical with one-third { the 120,000 acres protected by the levee already covered by back water from the Sny river which empties into the Mississippi at the Southern end of the weakened, rain soaked barrier. All persons living in the district were ordered to leave by local of ficials and most of the 600 resi dents of Hull, 111., about 10 miles inland, took refuge in nearby Kin derhook. One hundred families previously had evacuated South Quincy which was hit by last week’s floods. STEAMER SERVICE REAL PORT NEED SPA Chairman Discusses Plans, Activities Of Unit Before Club It i* ■ impossible to expect any thing great for the port of Wil mington until a real justification of commerce and steamship serv ice is attained. So declared R. B. Page, pub lisher of the Star-News and chair man of the North Carolina Portu suthoritv, in addressing members «f Wilmington Exchange club yesterday on plans and activities o! the authority and an analysis of '.he problems of the port or Wilmington. The speaker was m tioduced by E. R. Wlison. An important undertaking of the authority. Page said, is the “ef Jr.fi to make the Piedmont section at North Carolina greater port ir.ir.ced.-’ This approach has been based on rate advantage enjoyed by Wilmington and Morehead city over Charleston and Norfolk in the greater part of the state. . . . • but despite this advantage for Tar Feel ports, Norfolk gets the great s' part of the state’s tobacco be cause of its good warehouse stor age facilities.” Need Piedmont > ,rth Carolina s ports cannot ix great growth until they en full favor of the Piedmont, one the nation’s richest manu fa. ng and agricultural areas.” survey being made on the potentialities for water erce. by the engineering of Frederick R. Harris of York, is now nearing com-j in, Page said, and when it I impleted “we shall know the ibilities for Wilmington and r deep-water ports.” ie general offices of the SPA to be established in Wilming shortlv after July 1, the date an the $50,000 annual appropri « on voted by the last General • sembly becomes available for n aintenance of this office and ’ itrying out the authority’s pro gram, he continued. Seek Yard Lease Other activities of the authority such as the effort to acquire the now-idle shipyard here from the 0. S. Maritime commission for conversion into deep-water termi See STEAMER on Page Two The Weather FORECAST: North Carolina—Mostly cloudy with occasional showers and moderate tem peratures Saturday. Sunday partly cloudy and warmer witti scattered ■fternoon and evening thundershowers. South Carolina—Considerable cloudi ness with scattered afternoon and eve ning thundershowers -nturday and Sun il3''- Little change in temperatures Satur daJ' warmer north portion Sunday. (Eastern Standard Time) (By u. S. Weather Bureau) . Meteorological data for the 24 hours ending 7;3o p m> yesterday. TEMPERATURES a. m. 72; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. rn‘ 7:30 p. m. 72; Maximum 82; Mini mum 70; Mean 76; Normal 78. HUMIDITY 1;30 a. m. 83; 7:30 a. m. 83; 1:20 p. m. 7B; 7:30 p. m. 91 PRECIPITATION Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. ll7 Inches. Total since the first of the month 4.25 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY numington _ 11:51 a.m. 6:48 a.m. - p.m. 6:51 p.m. as°nboro Inlet 9:50 a.m. 3:44 a m. 10:12 p.m. 3:45 p.m. hunrise 5:01; Sunset 7:26; Moonrise 'ia; Moonset 10:32p. ftiver stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 1 »• Friday 9.8 feet. -ore WEATHER On aPge Two ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST OP Chicago is the new Tucker 48, which has a rear engine drive u other changes in basic automo bile design. It has a 128-inch wheelbase, is 5 feet high and rides from 30 to 35 miles on a gallon of gas. In addition to ordinary headlights it has a “cyclops eye” light in the center which turns with the front wheels and lights the way around the curves in the road. (Interna tional Soundphoto). College Will Offer Course In Aviation NICE CHILD ST. OUEN, Jersey,' Channel Islands, June 20—(U.R)—William Pattison, 3, was sent to. the home of his grandparents in England today so his parents could relax after he: 1—Upset a lamp and started a fire in the chicken house, causing the death of 100 chick ens; 2—Started a fire in the kite! °n ,'hich scorched the Pat tison dinner, and 3—Released the brake on his father’s new car, which disappeared in the duckpond. HICKS BELIEVES SPLIT POSSIBLE Chamber Airport Chairman Thinks CAB May Divide Airline Routes Hamilton E. Hicks, chairman of the airport committee of the Cham ber of Commerce, believes that the Civil Aeronautics board will set tle the controversy between State airlines and Piedmont aviation by granting each of the airlines part of the route. “It is my personal opinion,” he said, that “CAB will split the routes in order to save face.” Piedmont aviation did not re quest the route between Wilming ton and Cincinnati in their original application, but State airline did make the request in their applica tion. CAB’s decision was in-favor of Piedmont. It has been the p ecedent of CAB, Hicks explained, not to grant a franchise to any airline unless it was requested in the application, and that is why large airlines such as Eastern, American, and Pan American have taken an interest in the case. Points Advantages Hicks pointed out that CAB, with a partial reversal of the decision in the Southeastern States case, could grant State the Wilmington Cincinnati route and grant Pied mont the routes surrounding Win ston-Salem. Neither firm would be forced into unwise competition, and both would get what they original ly requested in the case, he said. The larger airlines are favoring State in its petition to reopen the case because CAB’s decision was contrary to the long established rulings. Heretofore, when an airline was granted a route and later wished to make an additional stop, which was not listed in the original applica tion, another application would have to be filed, he said. “The case has become a matter of prin cipal with those airlines.” ONE MEMBER FAVORS REOPENING CASE Morning Star Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, June 20. — At least one Civil Aeronautics board member favors reopening the Southeastern States case, in re sponse to pleas from airlines and cities seeking changes in the de cision, Representative Bryson, of South Carolina, said today. See HICKS On Page Two 1947 PIG CROP SET AT 85,651,000 BY AGRICULTURE AGENCY WASHINGTON, June 20 —(TP)— The Agriculture department fore cast today a pig crop of 85.651, 000 head this year—an increase of three per cent over last year. This increase, if borne out, will be reflected in larger supplies of pork next fall and winter and in the spring of 1948. The number indicated for this year compared with 83,019,000 last year and with a 10-year (1936-1945) average of 85,203,000. North Carolina 781,000 and 831, 000; South Carolina 464,000 and 513,000.__i_ Wilmington Junior Curri cula To Include Six Other Subjects Seven distinct courses, includ ing one in aviation at which prac tical experience may be obtained at Bluethenthal airport, will be of fered students who next Thursday and Friday enrol] in Wilmington’s new junior college. Course in liberal arts, com merce, home economics, engi neering, pre-medical, law and science will be in the curricula Those studying aviation, which will include engineering, will be given the advantage of technical experience. Shops for that will be set up at the airport, President T. T Hamilton announced last night, as plans materialized for the enroll ment of men and women next week at the New Hanover high school. President Hamilton explained that the college work will center around academic and terminal curricula and technical and short courses. Students expecting to take their first two years work in Wilming ton will tie offered their choices of the academic courses as listed. English will be common to all of those topics. Follows Program Engineering will lean heavily to mathematics and biology. Com mercial subjects place emphasis on economics and business and follows the program of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Law will go toward social and political science with home eco nomics looking towar^ textiles, nutrition and personal service. Science has a general offering in that field and liberal arts is de signed for those interested in gen eral subjects. Terminal courses are offered for those attending college for only two yeats and terminal sub jects will involve business admin istration, secreterial science and merchandising. Technical courses will be de signed to train students in skills necessary for industrial enter prises. Plans Approved The North Carolina college con ference’s committee on accredita tion, already has approved the college’s plan on requirements and students graduating will be recognized for entrance to ad vanced colleges and universities. Only instructors with master’s degrees in their respective fields will be on the faculty, president Hamilton said. Requirements for admission to the college, whicn opens its doors Sgptember 4, are the completion of four years high school work from accredited in stitutions. RAINS WASH OUT 125- FOOT BRIDGE Steel-Truss Span, One Of Ten Structures In Ninth Divisi6n, Goes Down RALEIGH, June 20—(A>)— Ten bridges, one a 125-foot steel-truss structure in Alexander county, have been washed out by recent rains in the Ninth division, W. Vance Baise, state highway com mission engineer, said today. The big steel-truss bridge was over a county road in Alexander county, but Baise could not say definitely where it was located. He said all but this 125-foot structure would be replaced with in a week. The big bridge,*he said, would require ‘‘a little time” to be repaired. The Ninth division embraces these counties: Alexander, McDow ell, Rutherford, Cleveland, Polk, Burke, Gaston, Lincoln, Catawba, and Iredell. __ Whereabouts Of Reserve Trainees Much I n Doubt The question of what has hap pened to the 24 men .who left Wil mington last Saturday to partic ipate in a two-week Naval Reserve amphibious training cruise and what the men now are doing was yesterday paramount in the minds of local Naval Reserve efficials. Two of the members of the or ganized surface division 6-29 have written local reserve headquarters and have answered the question, but the letters make the solution even more confusing. One says, “we're headed for Iceland via New York with liber ties in both” while the other says, “we’re anchored in Chesapeake Bay and we’ll be here for two weeks. We won’t make any foreign ports, we won’t even hit New Tork.” On one thing, the two agreed, they’re not on an amphibious cruise, they’re aboard the U. S. S. Fitch, a destroyer mine sweeper. Both ,too, said, “The chow is good.” Sam Bruff says he’s going to Ice land, Neal Partrick says he’s go ing to stay in Chesapeake Bay with "two or three days at sea working on problems”. Naval Re serve officials say nothing—they are waiting for the third letter. Truman Tells Nation Labor Bill Will Divide People, Aid Strikes; Soviets Walkout On UN Meeting Gromyko Says No “Boycott” Question Of Procedure On Global Police Force Precipitates Break LAKE SUCCESS, June 20.—(£>) Russia resorted to the walkout for the second time in United Nations history to emphasize her disagree ment with the other four mem bers of the big power military staff committee on a question of proce dure. Tne walkout occurred at a closed meeting of the generals and ad mirals who have the responsibility for drafting plans for a global po lice torce and carrying out orders of the Security council for the use of such a force. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko explained to reporters afterwards that the with drawal of the white-jacketed Sov iet ‘brass and braid” applied only to this morning’s meeting and that it was not intended as a general boycott of the military discussions. Some delegates expressed the belief, however, that the new move reflected stiffening Russian trend toward refusal to participate in deliberations where they were out voted. Although this was the first actual walkout since Gromyko himself strode out of the Security council March 27, 1946, during de bate on the Soviet-Iranian ques tion, Russia frequently has refus ed to participate in U. N. projects Soviet Defeated Today's Soviet military delega tion maneuver came just before the Security council handed Russia another defeat by voting 9 to 1 to begin discussions immediately on the selection of a governor for Trieste. Russia alone opposed the British proposal on Trieste. France abstained. In view of Gromyko's insistence that Russia could not agree to consideration of the governorship in the council until the Italian peace treaty was ratified and in force, some delegates feared he See GROMYKO on Page Two SALISBURY FLIER IN DARING RESCUE Lieut. Bert Hoffman Lands Plane On Rough Sea To Aid Fellow Officer QUONSET POINT, R. I„* June 20 —(/P)—The pilot of a single-seat er Navy float plane out of the Naval Air station here today made a landing and takeoff in heavy seas 15 mile? South of Nan tucket ' Island to rescue a fighter pilot who had ditched his disabled plane, the Navy announced to night. Ensign Malcolm Sillars of Bos ton landed his Hellcat at sea after the motor quit on an operational flight at 30,000 feet. He floated an hour in his life jacket while fellow fighter pilots circled the spot and a crash-rescue flying boat stood by, under orders not to land because of the rough seas. ■ Hearing “rescue talk” on his radio as he was about to take off from this base, ’Lt. Bert A. Hoffman of Salisbury, N. C. got radio clearance from Quonset to the scene and made a successful landing near the floating pilot. It took him 20 minutes to maneuver alongside the floating pilot. Despite the extra load, Lt. Hoff man lifted his small plane suc cessfully from the sea. A big wave tossed the craft 30 feet into the air and it fell off on one wing but he gunned it into safe flight just before it was to hit, he said here tonight. Ensign Sillars was treated at the dispensary for exposure, and discharged. Along The Cape Fear TIMBER PRODUCTION — Timber in the turpentine industry in Wilmington and vicinity in the 188U’s principally came from Blad en, Cumberland and Robeson counties. To get it to this city, after it was cut and hewn, it was shaped into rafts on the banks of the river and its tributaries. There i it was held until freshets came along to carry those rafts down stream. Often there were so many rafts at one spot, that it was nearly possible to walk across the logs from one side of the stream to the other. Only a small charnel was left in midstream to allow the passage of vessels. * * * STORES AND YARDS — Naval stores that handled turpentine and its by-products lined both the west and the east side of the Cape Fear river at Wilmington. There were two turpentine stills around 1885 in the northern section of the city. One was the Wilder and Mor ton firm and the other Blossom and Evans company. There also were commodious yards for stor age along the river from between Orange a:id Nun streets, % THE SHERIFF GETS A NEW BADGE—Mr s. Thomas J. Gause, left, is shown pinning a dia mond studded gold badge on the coat lapel of Sheriff F. Porter Davis, as Mrs. Davis looks on. The badge a gift of. over 100 friends^of Davis, was presented a t a fish fry given in his honor at the Blue Top lodge last night. (Staff photo by Ben Maynard). SHERIFF HONORED AT FISH SUPPER Friends Present Porter Davis With Diamond Studded Gold Badge Sheriff F. Porter Davis is a brave man, but last night tears welled the eyes of the veteran law enforce ment officer as over 100 of his close friends, including representa tives of the city and county gov ernment nad members from every law enforcement agency in the county gathered at a fish fry and presented Davis with a diamond studded gold badge. The badge, a symbol of his au thority as sheriff of New Hanover county, was pinned on his lapel by Mrs. Thomas J. Gause, wife of the late Capt. Thomas Gause, one of Dr vis’ closest friends, as, 100 guests cheered. Wilbur Dosher, Wilmington post master acted as master of cere monies and introduced many of the prominent guests. Representa tives of the city council, county patrol, federal bureau of investi gation, city police officers, sher See SHERIFF on Page Two COOLEY TO URGE FARM BILL FUNDS North Carolina Congress man Will Appear Berofe Senate Committee WASHINGTON, June 20 — OP) — Rep. Cooley (D-NC) will ask the Senate Appropriations committee tomorrow to restore millions of dollars to the Agriculture depart ment appropriation bill for the next 12 months. He told a reporter he will urge that the Senate “save the Ameri can farmer from the disaster of the House-trimmed bill.” Cooley, who is a member of the House Agriculture committee, will ask the Senators to put into the bill again $108,000,000. which he said was chopped off of section 32 funds. These are derived from 30 per cent of import duties and are allotted to disposition of sur plus crops in this country. The House allowed only $40,000,000’. He said he also is asking the committee to add $135,000,000, for soil conservation payments be cause “it is a breach of faith for Congress to take this money from the farmers.” He said “the House took so much money away from -the Farm Home administration there isn’t even enough left fci the organiza tion to operate efficiently.” He wants $35,000,000 added for this. From the top of Sunset Hill, the view of the river revealed thousands upon thousands of bar rels, to carry the product, lining the banks on both sides of the river. At times, residents of those days still alive, recall that the accumulation of lumber and naval stores were so great that both sides of the Cape Fear river would be iined with vessels awaiting car go. There would be schooners, brigs, brigantines and barks. But no full-rigged ships ever came in to port. And it was not until later, when Alex Sprunt and Son began shipping cotton in large assign ments, that tramp steamers ar rived in pert. * * * ROSIN GUM—As could be ex pected, rosin yards in the early days often would catch afire. Huge, dense, black smoke billows would surge skyward from the flames, at times almost obscuring the light of the sun. There is some evidence that Wilmington also may have been See CAPE FEAR on Page Two Trask Asks Joint Income Tax Returns BREAKS NECK Special to the Star Hugh Blackman, 22-year-old resident of Whiteville, Route 3, is in Columbus county hospital today with a broken neck as the result of a dive from a pier at Lake VVaccamaw last night about 9:30 o’clock. In company with friends, Blackman was swimming and diving into the water sustained the injury. His condition was reported critical and unchanged late today. KNIFE WIELDER SOUGHT BY POLICE Tabor City Man Stabbed In Back; Another Dies 01 Heart Attack (Special To The Star) TABOR CITY, June 20. — One man was seriously injured when he was stabbed in the back here tonight, and another was believed stricken with a heart attack and died late this afternoon as he swam in the Lumber river near Board man. Police said they were searching for Robert Jernigan, 32, who al legedly stabbed Vance Suggs, 30, resident of the Green Sea section of South Carolina after the two had been in an argument. Officers said that Suggs was seriously injured. He was carried by ambulance to the Columbus county hospital in White ville. The stabbing occurred about 9:30 p.m. in an uptown section of the village, officers added.. Complete details’ of the motive were not available. Meanwhile, the body of Clyde Manning, 40, was recovered about 11 o’clock tonight about 30 yards from where he sank in the river. Witnesses said that Manning and his two sons and some friends were swimming in the river when he suddenly sank in the stream after swimming about half way across it. Wtih Manning at the time of the tragedy were Wayland and J. C., his two sons, and friends, Bob Watts and Robert Allen. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Anderson Manning, five children, Leon, Hazel, Kitty Jo, J. Se Knife Wielder On Page Two THREE BALTIMOREANS HELD ON AUTO THEFT COUNT; RING CHARGED BALTIMORE, June 20 — W — Three Baltimoreans were arraign ed before U. S. Commissioner James K. Cullen today on charges of transporting stolen automobiles from Baltimore, Wilmington, Phil adelphia to Columbia, South Car olina, Special FBI Agent Fred B. Hallford said they had been op erating an elaborate theft ring. Booked as Isadore Goodman, 35, cab driver-bartender, Herbert Prince, 22, Emanuel Hoffman, 37, bartender, Cullen held them in $5,000 bond each for hearing next Wednesday. Wilmington Truck Farmer, Lowrimore Appear Before House Committee (Wilmington Star Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Junee 20 — C. Heide Trask, Wilmington truck farmer, said today that his com pany will be "practically bank rupt” unless congress blocks ad ditional tax assessments resulting from a Supreme court decision outlawing family partnership for income tax purposes. Trask and Charles S. Lowrimore, Wilmington accountant, urged the house ways and means committee to pass legislation letting families divide their income as a means of paying lower taxes. Residents of 10 states which al low the pooling of family Income pay lower taxes than those in the ether states, including the Caro linas, and this "inequity” should be eliminated, they said at a hearing on the proposed legisla tion. Legitimate Cases Trask said the bill should rec ognize legitimate family partner ship such as his own family, which operates vegetable farms near Wilmington. The Supreme court decision in February, 1946, against such part nership for tax purposees, "re sults in the denial of the God-giv en right of millions of American farmers to do justice to their wives and children who contribute their labors, and almost their en tire being to the farming opera tions,” said Trask. The pending bill w'ould make valid for tax purposes those fam ily partnership, which are legal under state law and “not just shams for Income tax evasion,” he added. "If we are forced to pay the ad ditional assessment, it will prac tically bankrupt us and will take bread and meat from approxi mately 500 men and women who w^ork for us,” he declared. Equality Basis Lowrimore said congress should “place each individual taxpayer on a basis of equality for income tax purposes, regardless of the geographical location of resid ence”. RAILWAY U ONS ASK RULE CHANGE Western Carriers Repre sentative Terms Demand “Featherbedding” CHICAGO, June 20 —W—The working rules issue which led to a nationwide railroad strike 13 months ago was revived today when five unions representing 350,000 railroad operating em ployes demanded 44 changes in the rules. Conferences between the rail roads and 17 unions representing about 1,000,000 non-operating em ployes opened earlier this week. These workers asked a wa^B in crease of 20 cents an hour. D. P. Loomis, chairman of the Western carriers conference com mittee, asserted the wage de mands wouleh add $568,000,000 an See RAILWAY on Page Two Prosecutor Turns Cop To Capture Trespasser GREENSBORO, June 20 — (£>)— Guilford Superior Court Solicitor Charles T. Hagan left his role of prosecuting criminal charges long enough early today to chase down and hold an alleged lawbreaker for the city. Solicitor Hagan and a friend were returning to Hagan’s home at 12:30 a.m. when they spotted a man on the lawn close to me resi and caught the man within 200 yards. The confusion awakened dence. Hagan set out in pursuit Hagan’s next-door neighbor, Soli citor E. D. Kuykendall, of Munic ipal-county court, the prosecutor whom the alleged lawbreaker, George A. Trull, 25, faced in court this morning. Trull received 30 days on the state roads on u charge of trespassing. Senate Fight Delays Vote President Makes Last DitcK Effort To Have Upper Chamber Sustain Veto LAL3R AT A GLANCE By the Associated Press Truman vetoes Taft-Hurtley labor bill as “exceedingly dangerous,’’ “drastic” and “unworkable.” House overrides veto, 331 to 83. Foes of bill delay senate vote in night session. Truman broadcasts to nation that bill is “bad for labor, bad for management, bad for the country.” WASHINGTON, June 20 — ()P)_ President Truman told the nation tonight that the Taft-Hartlev labor bill would divide the people and increase strikes and voiced a last ditch hope that the senate would uphold his veto. The House already had voted overwhelmingly to override it and enact the bill, and the senate was locked in a long night session when Mr. Truman took to the ra dio at 9 p.m. (EST) with a scorch ing new assault upon the meas ure. He warned that it was “load ed,” that it was “filled with hid den legal traps,” and that em ployers as well as unions would regret the day that it was con ceived.” Of immediate concern, he de clared it would not solve a soft coal strike by John L. Lewis— a possibility that looms just aiieae —but only postpone it until cold October when it would be worse. Taft Hits Buck Senator Taft (R-Ohio), co-author of the bill with Rep. Hartley (R NJ), scheduled a broadcast in re ply half an hour later. In ad vance of his speech, Taft said the presidential veto message rais ed “not a new thing” and that it followed “almost point by point” a CIO memorandum. Here is what happened in ten lam-packed hours after noon. 1- The president's veto message, more blistering than any he ever wrote before, was read at noon (EST) to the House and greeted with GOP boos. Mr. Truman blast ed the bib as “dangerous” and “drastic”, "backward” and “bur densome,” “unworkable” and “im possible.” 2. Quickly, without debate, the House voted to override and enact See SENATE on Pag© Two MARITIME BOARD CLOSING OFFICES Entire Washington Staff Of Commission To Take Enforced Holiday WASHINGTON, June 20.—UP)— The Maritime commission announ ced today 2,850 employees—virtual ly all its permanent personnel here—would be furloughed without pay for the ten days remaining in this fiscal year. Vice-Admiral W. W. Smith, com mission chairman, said the pay less layoff until June 30 was neces sary because of “lack of available administrative funds for the re mainder of the fiscal year.” Smith said the commission has “not exceeded our total appropria tion”. of funds. Nevertheless, he said it had been unable to get permission from Rep. Taber (R.-N. Y.) the House appropriations committee chairman, or from Comptroller General Lindsay Warren to pay the employees out of another fund which would be “ample” for for the purpose. Main Offices Hit Most of the employees affected are in Washington. A Maritime official said field offices, reserve fleet anchorages and personnel dealing with ship operations would not be affected. But the main offices of the com mission here appear slated to be almost completely empty for the ten-day period. It appeared that there was some question as to whether even a skeleton crew could be maintained. The commission announcement said that “the Senate is consider ing as part of the urgent deficiency bill an appropriation of $15,000 to maintain a skeieton crew for tele phone, mail and other similar ser vices for the remainder of the fiscal year.” And So To Bed The desk sergeant’s phone rang at the police department yesterday. , “Hello, I want to report something,” a woman’s voice said. “What's the trouble, ma dam,” the oKicer replied. “My dog is missing. It’s a white dog.” “I know who’s got it,” the at ficer said. “Who,^ questioned the warn* an. “The dog catcher,” said thfc policeman.
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