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lUilmuujtmt iffaintttuj ii’tcu* ^jTgjpTO. 283- WILMINGTON, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1947 ESTABLISHED lie? Gaffney Mill Flaunts CIO Management Informs Union M Strikers Will Not Be Rehired Now GAFFNEY S. C., July 16— (4P)— u jgement'of the Gaffney Manu ILuring company textile mill to 7. told the CIO United Textile workers union that when union members report back tomorrow, following riscontinuance of a 22 month strike, their jobs won’t be immed’ateiF available> if at all. 1 To the announcement of Franz Daniel, state TWUA director, that Ton members would report on ■ ■'eir regular shift tomorrow, man agement replied in a telegram to (jay: ■ •Only persons presently employ ad «re permitted inside the com 111V fence. If and when jobs are available, an applicant will be selected on his or her qualifica .ioa, without regard to (labor) affiliations.” Daniel replied in a statement to day: "By this telegram the com pany tips bs hand. It was willing to suffer loss in the long strike o break the union. The company’s Ling is faulty. The. Wagner act s itill the law of the land and will be until Aug. 23—a long way off.” First Victory Daniel said yesterday ‘‘the gnd ,ng of the strike is the first victory of the Taft-Hartley law in South Carolina. The new law so stacks tlie cards against the union that continuing the strike is impossi ble.” J. D. Poag of Greenville* legal counsel for the company, said to day "it is inconceivable and re diculous to us that a strike originat or the union in May, 1945, should bt blamed on an act that was not Dassed until July, 1947.” The National Policy committee of the CIO has announced that ander the law it will bypass the a«w National Labor Relations board provided in the Taft-Hartley jw and deal with management d>r«ctly. Daniel said the union Set GIFFNEY MILL On Page Two' INDUSTRIALISTS OPEN CONFERENCE E i * Vi t Hundred Southern Leaders Register For Blue Ridge Meeting BLUE RIDGE, July 16-UP)—The 28;h annual session of the Southern Conference On Human Relations In industry cpenecl here tonight with approximately 800 leading South ern industrialists in attendance. A. Carl Adkins, pastor of the Dauphin Way Memorial church, Mobile. Ala., was the principal speaker at the evening session which was presided over bv E. J. Robeson, Jr., vice president of he Newport News, Va., Shipbuild er and Dry Dock company and chairman of the Industrial Confer ence committee. Tomorrow’s session will begin at 8 JO a. m. with T. M. Forbes, executive vice president of the Cotton Manufacturers association of Georgia, presiding. J. Frank Ruahton, president of the Rushton company of Jacksonville Fla., will ipeak on “The Economic and So cial Responsibility of Industry.” Browder To Preside The second phase of the mAn ing's program will be presided over by Basil D. Browder, vice president of the Dan River Mills of Danville, Va., with N. D. Hub bell, assistant director of training for the Eastman Kodak company, speaking on “Better Understand ing of Feople A* A Guide To Man sgement In Dealing With Human Relations.” Three group meetings will be held during the afternoon with the following topics and leaders: "National Lebor Relations Board In Transition,” Raymond S. Smet ®st, general counsel of the Na tional Association of Manufactur ,r'i “Measuring And Showing The Results Of Good Personnel Ad ministration,” James O. Rice, _ . . •Vw York City, editor and assisi *at secretary of the American Minagement association; “Indoc N»tion Of New Employes,” E. C. kehmer, New York City, Assist ®t industrial relations director of j* Texas Oil company; and “The Responsibility and Reltionship Of aP*rvisors In An Industrial Or l,»i»tion,” T. O. Moore, vice Resident of P, H. Hanes Knitting wnpsnv. The Weather « FORECAST: *>uth Carolina—Partly cloudy and 1thmM warm Thursday and Friday „ *^ered afternoon and evening pwers. u 'Hrolina — Considerable cloudi ly, i, moderate temperatures and Ha whowers and thundershoweis -ty.'and Friday. (Eastern Standard Time) u , '®>' ( ■ S. Weather Bureau) »iiiw"0l°Eieal data £or the a4 hovrs ’* ,;3° P- m. yesterday. temperatures ( eJ a Tr: -7■ r.m - ~ nn. j.jq p.ni. 85; Mini HUMIDITY tVv m- 93: 7:30 a. m. M; 1:30 p. m. P- m. 91. Tnai , PRECIPITATION T,. y1DES FOR TODAY s ■ the Tide Tables published by ' and Geodetic Survey). Five Killed At Sea When Shipgjgg^lide Undetermined Nr At Least 12 Injured Whi ^oV^troyer Rams Freighter Off Canadian Coast HALIFAX, N. S„ July 16—(JP)-[ The badly damaged 2,000-ton Ca nadian destroyer Micmac docked tonight and officers reported that five persons aboard it were killed, an undetermined number were missing and at least 12 were in jured in a collision with the 10, GOO-ton freighter Yarmouth Coun ty The collision occurred late this afternoon in a dense fog off Sam bro Light, 15 miles from Halifax. Although all the casualities were aboard the Micmac, it could not be determined how many were Na val personnel and how many civil ians. The Micmac was on a trial run prior to commissioning and had a number of civilian workmen aboard. Identities of those killed and missing were withheld until rela tives could be notified. The Yarmouth, a hole knocked :n one side above the water line, also put into Halifax. The Haida, another new destroy er and sister ship of the Micmac, was sent to the scene of the col lision to search for missing men. United States*, Britain Plan Coal Conferences l— -. - SMOKERS WIN PHILADELPHIA, July 16—TP) —Smokers claimed a major victory today. Effective im mediately, the Pennsylvania Railroad allowed smoking in almost every car on its subur ban trains. Heretofore the smokers’ task on the suburban lines was to find the one lonely car—or at most two—set aside for, them. Vow it’s the non-smoker who will have to go a-hunting. RAIL ENGINEERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE Southern Pacific Pilots Will Walk Out Monday, Brotherhood Says SAN FRANCISCO, July 16—(U.R) —Engineers of the Southern Pa cific railroad announced tonight they will strike Monday at 6 p.m. unless the company grants chang es in 19 of the 74 demands served seven years ago. Tire strike would tie up South ern Pacific lines from Portland, Ore., South to Los Angeles. East to Ogden and Tucson and El Paso as well as lines of the Northwest ern Pacific and the San Diego and Arizona which also are included in the strike call. Harrison C. Hobart, assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers announced that negotiations had been broken off. Company spokesmen had no comment to make other than to say that word of the strike date scheduling had not been received by them. “All engineers of the three rail roads have been notified of our failure to reach an agreement and they will, therefore, leave the ser vice at the stated lime.” Hobart said in an official statement re leased under the joint signature j of P. O. Peterson, general chair Iman of the brotherhood. Demands Broken Down The union’s 74 demands were broken down into more than 400 items and call mostly for changes in working rules such as cleaning of engines, providing of seat cush ions, equipping of engines with respirators to be used by engi neers in traveling through tunnels in the coast and Western moun tainous areas. One of the demands is for a guaranteed minimum daily wage of $12.95. Presently, engineers earn $10.02 and up, depending upon type of engine operated and the area in which they work. Peterson’s statement said it was a “legally authorized strike.’’ He said the brotherhood had ex hausted its efforts to reach a set tlement through the National Me See RAIL on Page Two NEW YORiTaTY BILL FREEZES ROOM RENTS AT JUNE 30 LEVELS NEW YORK, July 16—UP)—Rents of permanent guests in New York city hotels, apartment hotels and rooming and lodging houses were frozen at their June 30 levels to day under terms of a bill signed by Mayor William O’Dwyer. Besides freezing rents, the new law also calls for the creation of a three-man temporary city hous ing rent commission to administer its provisions. It provides for pen alties of a $500 fine or 90 days jail sentences for violations. After signing the bill O’Dwyer said: “I am confident that the vast majority of property owners af fected by the city rent law. will comply with the provisions.’_ Experts To Probe Ways To Increase Production In Germany WASHINGTON, July 16 — (U.R) — The State department, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of the ill-fated Potsdam conference, an nounced today plans to begin ne gotiations with the British here next week on ways to increase German coal production, ' Before then the United States and Britain will release a new level-off-industry plan for Ger many which will double the pres ent allowable production of 5,800, 000 tons of steel per year. Secretary of State George C. Marshall told a press conference that the Anglo-American coal talks will begin next week with Assist ant Secretary of State Willard L. Thorp and Maj. Gen. William H. Draper, Jr., deputy military gov ernor in Germany, heading the American group. The announcement came 24 hours after the United States publ shed its new policy toward Germany — a policy which brings Western Germany into, the “Marshall plan” for economic rehabilitation of Europe and junks whatever signs were left of the earlier policy of a “hard” peace for Germany. The new policy W'as an official go-ahead signal to rebuild Ger many as an industrial nation with appropriate safeguards against revival of German militarism. Marshall said that coal was a fundamental raw' material of European recovery and essential to its rehabilitation. He pointed out that the Ruhr valley was the See UNITED On Page Two MACKENZIE KING SURVIVES CRISIS Canadian Parliament Gives His Liberal Government Confidence Vote OTTAWA, C-nada, July 16—(U.R) —Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King and his Liberal government survived a brief parliamentary crisis in the House of Commons today by winning a vote of con fidence, 84 to 64. MacKenzie King had theratened to resign, and force a general elec tion, if defeated on an opposition motion of no confidence because of his refusal to increase benefits to disabled war veterans, war wid ows and their dependents. Percy Wright introduced the mo tion in behalf of the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, con sisting of Labor, Farmer and So cialist parties. The Progressive Conservatives and Social Credit parties announced support Lf the motion. Progressive Conservative John G. Diefenbaker, hoping to avoid a possible serious political crisis, asked that MacKenzie King permit a free vote on the CCF motion, accepting it as purely a pension proposal. Promises Vote He promised that If this were done the House would vote con fidence in the government im mediately afterward. MacKenzie King refused. He said that parliamentary rules for bade such a course. He challenged the opposition to call for a vote and, if the gov ernment lost, to face the conse quences of an election. CCF Lead er M. J. Coldwell accepted the challenge. MacKenzie King angrily told the House that his own supporters were free, if they liked, to vote against the government in order to avoid the embarrassing choice of opposing more liberal pensions. But he stuck to his assertion that if defeated the government must resign. _ “Flying Santa Clausi” Loses Life In Atlantic ROCKLAND, Me., July 16—(A*)— Capt. William Wincapaw, 62, vet eran Maine coastal pilot known as the "Flying Santa Claus" of New England because of C'nristmastide flights he made dropping gift packages to light house keepers, was killed with a passenger late today when his light seaplane dived into the Police Chief George Lilienthal identified the passenger as Robert I . Muckenhirn, /O, of Washington, D. C. . ., Lilienthal said witnesses told him the plane gained altitude aft et a takeoff and then came down in a “deep, diving spiral” into the water a quarter of a mile off the public landing. Wincapaw operated the Maine Air Transport company at Rock land Municipal airport, utilizing converted C-47s for transportation of lobsters from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. He also operat ed a seaplane charter service from the Rockland public landing to Penobscot Bay islands. He began his “’flying Santa” flights in 1927, and for years Bee FLYING On Page Twe Governors’ Conference Declares For Peace-Seeking Foreign Policy; Truman Urges Flood Control Plan - I- — J ' '— ---! , * ... Message Gets Some Praise ■-e President Urges Ten-Year Program To Save Mississippi Lands WASHINGTON, July 16 —(U.R)— President Truman asked Congress today to “make this a better and a richer land” by spending $250, 000,000 in the ne^t 12 months as the first step in a vast 10-year flood control program of “desper ate urgency” for the Mississippi river basin. He said that Congress, over a period of years, had authorized — but provided no cash for—Missis sippi basin flood control and re lated projects totaling nearly $<f, 000,000,000. Of this amount, he said from $3,500,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 is either directly or closely related to flood control. “Let us through the next 10 years accelerate%our program and put this money to work, together with such additional moneys as may be required and as our economy from year to year shall permit,” he said in a long special message calling attention to “the recent most destructive floods in our history” in the Missouri and upper Mississippi river valleys. “The choice is ours,” he said. “We can sit idly by—or almost as bad, resort to the false economy of feeble and inadequate measures —while these precious assets waste away. Preserve Essentials “On the other hand, we can, if we act in time, put into effect a realistic and practical plan which will preserve these basic essen tials of our national economy and make this a better and richer land.” The President did not tell Con gress what individual projects he believed should be given priority. He merely requested that it ap propriate—for the current fiscal year which began July 1—$237,000, 000 for die War department’s En gineer corps, $10,000,000 for the Interior department’s reclamation bureau, and $3,000,000 for the Agriculture department’s soil con servation service. He said a formal breakdown of See MESSAGE On Page Two CITY TO WELCOME LEAGUE DELEGATES Wilmington Will Go All Out In Entertaining Municipal Leaders WSmington mean* to outdo other North Carolina cities next month when it plays host to the annual state convention of the League of Municipalities. Mayor E. L. White and City Manager J. R. Benson today will commence making arrangements for entertainment of officials from other cities when they gather here for their three-day convention be ginning August 24. High on the program of enter tainment will be a dinner and a dance. The dinner will be served Sunday, the opening night. On the following evening there will be a dance at the Ocean Terrace ho tel, Wrights ville. The dinner like ly will be in the form of a fish fry. Those matters are reasonably certain. Mayor White brought the matter before the city council yesterday in seeking funds for the event. The council, upon motion of W. E. Yapp, placed the work ing out of details in the hands of the mayor and city manager. Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach likely will join Wilmington in the entertainment. WALTER T. BRADSHAW, aged 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bradshaw, 307 South 17th Street is pictured above at the wheel of his “Silver Streak” entry in the Wilmington Soap Box Derby. Wal ter was a starter in the 1946 Derby and is out for another try at that trip to Akron and national honors. He is being sponsored this year by the V nited States Army Recruiting Station, 205 Fostofl'ice Building. CITY WATER RATE BEFORE COUNCIL Operating Costs Must Come Down Or Charges In crease, Members Told Either city water rates must be increased or expenses in the op eration of the department cut down. That is what faces Wilmington’s municipal government today; That was disclosed yesterday in an in formal discussion at the weekly council session. It came about when It was shown there is an approximate $18,000 deficit in the water depart ment. The matter originally came from inquiries by Council J. E. L. Wade. City Manager J. R. Benson ex plained that the water department operates on a self-supporting basis. Spent in the last fiscal year, Ben son related, was about $18,000 while receipts totaled only approx imately $5,000. Benson pointed out, however, that the last 12 month* wer* ex tremely expensive because of un favorable weather and heavy in stallation work. The coming 12 months, he added, should see much less expenditures. Affirmative Reply Benson replied in the affirma tive to the query from Wade that the solution would be either an in crease water rate or reduction of expenses. The franchise for the operation of buses by the Safeway Transsit See CITY on Page Two COUNTY TO HAVE GOOD DELEGATION New Hanover Farm Men, Women To Attend State Convention Aug. 25 New Hanover county is exp°ct»d to be well-represented by a large delegation of men and women at the North Carolina Farmers and Farm Women’s convention which meets at State College in Raleigh, August 25-29. With the slogan, “Information, Inspiration and Recreation,” farm men and women from over the state will gather for the week of classes and recreation. Mrs. Fred Jordan, president of the New Hanover county Federa tion of Home Demonstration clubs, and Mrs. E. F. Lennon, president of the Wrightsboro club, have been selected as delegates to the con ve: tion. The meetings are open to all rural residents. Two hour classes for women will be held on: tricks of the cooking trade, homestead planning, the art of living, more livable homes, new fabrics — new Finishes — their use gee COUNTY On Page Two Along The Cape Fear WHAT? — Now did the Cape Fear ever freeze over thick enough to support a man? What do you think? Reports have been varied. Sev eral Along the Cape Fear readers have contended that C. D. Maffitt, shipping agent, dicb not, as he said, walk on the ice across the river during one winter years ago. And just as many, maybe more, say they saw Maffitt walk across and remember the event well. The most recent person who al lied with Maffitt in the river epi sode is Carl Rehder. Rehder, who also remembers the time Dr. Silas P. Wright, carpet bagger, ltfft town, said the river froze over along about 1900. The ice, he said, was thick' e nough to support the weight of a man. Other readers have also noted that the river froze, but not enough to carry any weight. About several sixteenths of an inch thick ness was the result of the biggest freeze, these readers pointed out. And this surely wouldn’t sustain a man from shore to shore. * * * ERROR — Rehder pointed out that the J. H. Reader mentioned in a previous ATCF was his broth er and the name should have been spelled Rehder. His brother, at the time Dr. Wright left town in a hurry, ran a department store on Fourth Street, near the bridge. Rehder said he worked in the store, which was alongside the residence of Dr. Wright, for 15 years. At the out set the store . was a very small business but it grew until it finally was the largest department store in eastern North Carolina. * * » BOLD THIEF — In those days, especially in 1898 when Dr. Wright was mayor of Wilmington, the law enforcement bodies were not as capable as they are today. For this reason property owners felt responsible for the job of keeping their premises safe. One bold robber made his way into the J. H. Rehder and Com pany store and made off with a lot of goods. But first he stopped by Mayor Wright’s home. He went to the backyard and stole the mayor's ax and with it smashed his way into the Rehder’s store. Dots of mer chandise was taken and the thief was never apprehended. flee CAFE FEAR On Pa«e Twe I Tenth Annual Derby To Be Great Event .—. ■ .1 WILD YOUTH LEWISTON, Me., July 16— (U.R)—A 16-year-old Lewiston youth was released in person al recognizance for a hearing July 25 when he pleaded Inno cent in District court today to a charge of drnnken driving on a motor-bicycle. WORLD CIRCLING FLIGHTS PLANNED Proposed Trips Will Be Made In Cub Plane; Bombshell Ready NEW YORK, July 10—(P)—Prep arations for three world circuling flights—two of them in cub planes —were being made today, two will start from New York, and the third, an attempt at a solo speed record, from Chicago. One flight, a single engine cub plane, is to be non-stop. Ted Thompson, 35, of Belle Glade, Fla., wartime ferry pilot, and Hunter C. Moody, 35, Decatur, 111, former co-holder of the world’s flight endurance record, plan to take off from New York about August 15. Thompson refueling would be ac complished in the air by icking up five gallon plastic cans of fuel, 100 gallons at a time, with a spec cial device they patented, similar to that used by mail pickup planes. Their 20,762 mile route will be via Gander, Newfoundland; Shan non, Eire; Athens, Karachi Hong kong, The Aleutians, and Alaska, and would take about 10 days. In Chicago, Capt. Wiliam Odom, of the Reynolds Bombshell, who last April piloted the converted A-26 around the world with Milton Reynolds, Chicago pen manufac turer, as navigator, and Tex Sallee as flight engineer, prepared for an August 1 solo flight. Franklin Lamb, president of the Reynolds Pen co., said the flight would be an attempt to cut in half Wiley Post’s 1933 record of 187 hours. Lamb announced the flight plan routed the plane through Gander, Paris, Cairo, Karachi Calcutta,, Shanghai, Tokyo, An chorage. Alaska; and back to Chi cago. The second flight planned from New York Involved a pair of cub lee WORLD On Page Two 100-MILE-PER-HOUR WINDS WRECK PLANES AT GREENWOOD, MISS. GREENWOOD, Miss., July 16— (U.R)—Winds of 100 miles an hour, with gusts up to 125 MPH, hit the Greenwood airport and badly dam aged eight airplanes during a wind and rain storm tonight. No casualties were reported. There was no immediate over all estimate of damages, but the five crop-dusting and three pri vate planes on the airfield were believed to be thoroughly wrecked. The storm did minor damage in Greenwood itself and in Sidon, Miss., about eight miles South of here. Officials, Sponsors Look Back To First Race In 1934 At Dayton With the All-American Soap Box Derby in its tenth-anniversary year in 1947, officials and spon sors of the “greatest amateur racing event in the world” look back to the summer of the Derby’s first year when 34 news papers sponsored the race. This year’s Derby, with plans under way to make it the biggest and best ever staged, is sponsor ed by 133 newspapers in the Unit ed States find Canada. Myron E. Scott, national Derby director, was a newspaper pho tographer in Dayton, Ohio, when he originated the idea of the Der by in 1933. Scott today is assis tant advertising manager of the Chevrolet Motor Division, which is co-sponsor of the race with the 133 newspapers. While on an assignment for the Dayton News, Scott came across a group of small boys scooting down a Dayton hill in homemade miniature cars. In the “roving ca-merman,” tradition. Scott snapped a few shots of the boys racing and on his way back to the office found his imagination fired by the lads’ enthusiasm. He See TENTH On Page Two COALOPERATORS TO PASS ON COST Association Informs Tru man, Dealers Unable To Absorb Hike WASHINGTON, July 16—<Ji-The National Coal association today told President Truman that com mercial »oft coal operators “are in no position to absorb the costs” of the new contract with John L. Lewis’ miners. Mr. Truman on Monday appeal ed to coal and steel interests to keep prices down, at least until exact costs could be determined, in the wake of the new Lewis con tract. The agreement increased the miner’s average pay to $13.05 for an eight-hour day. • It had been $11.85 for nine hours. John D. Battle, executive secre tary of the National Coal associa tion, reminded Mr. Truman that he had advised him April 23 that the industry “realized only about for ty million dollars in 1946.” 13 Cents Per Ton “Had your research department looked at government figures it would have discovered that in 1946 the average net operating margin for the commercial bituminous coal mines in the United States was 13 cents per ton,” Battle wrote the President. “As a matter of fact, there are a number of items of cost not in eluded in the figures from which the 13-cent margin is derived; among the cost not covered are in terest, bad debts, demurrage charges, idle mines, and mines de velopment. “Consequently, the actual net for the industry is considerably less than 13 cenlc per ton, and, of course, this figure is before in come taxes.” Navy Board Will Probe Status Of “Green Bowl” WASHINGTON, July 16. —(U.R)— A naval board of inquiry today sought to determine whether the “Green Bowl,” a 40-year-old secret society at Annapolis, is a harmless schoolboy organization or a “vi cious” officers’ clique dedicated to promoting the service careers of its members. The inquiry was ordered by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, apparently as a re sult of written charges submitted by naval officers to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and a verbal blast fired at ths society during a recent Congressional hear K.' ing on unification of the armed forces. One officer wrote Forrestal that the “Green Bowl’’ membership list should be published so the entire Naval service would know which officers belong to it. Another told the secretary that service opinion generally regards the society as intended solely to further the careers of its mem bers, and he asserted that such an organization should not be tole rated in the Navy. Capt. John G., Crommelin, flying flee NAVY On Page Two “Confidence” Vote Passed Marshall Lauded, Military Training Favored In Closing Resolutions SALT LAKE CITY, July 1«. — (IP}— The Governors' conference called tonight for a non-partisan, peace-seeking foreign policy and expressed “faith and confidence” in Secretary of State Marshall. In a generalized statement on for eign policy, the governors of states avoided any specific endorsement of Marshall's European rehabili tation program. They adopted, however, a resolu tion which said: “To the Secretary of State, Hon. George C. Marshall, we express our faith and confidence and our deep appreciation for his inspiring address to the conference.” Marshall had addressed the gov ernors Monday night urging sup port of proposals to extend eco nomic aid to European countriei. Before they closed a four-day session tonight the governors ap proved a resolution urging univer sal military training in which the facilities of the National Guard would be utilized “to the greatest extent possible.” Solidarity Key The foreign policy resolution not ed that American strength in the world today “is largely dependent upon the solidarity of the citizens of our sovereign states, particular ly in their relations with foreign countries.” “The foreign policy of this coun try is intimately related to the sup port of our historic liberties,” the resolution said, adding: “Therefore, the Governors con ference transcends in importance all partisan, personal or political consideration and should be at all times an American foreign pol icy, representative of the best in America and representing the United States to the nations of the gee CONFIDENCE On Page Two FIVE MEirFINED ON GAMING COUNT Paraphernalia, $1,442 In Cash S e i z e d In Raid, Ordered Confiscated Five men were found guilty, f!. 442 in cash and a quantity ot gambling paraphernalia was or dered confiscated and fines total ing $400 meted out yesterday in Recorder’s court as the result of a raid a few hours earlier by deputy sheriffs at the Plantation Club, Carolina Beach road. Charges of violation of the state liquor law's against some of the defendants were continued until August 5. * Deputies brought into court, not only dice, poker chips, cards and ether gambling equipment but tables and chairs too large to lug up the stairs into the court. Judge Winfield Smith recessed court mo mentarily, to view' the furniture as it rested in a van in the court house parking space. But the case was not concluded before the court handed out a verbal lashing to private cluba and organizations that lease prop erties for such purposes and car ry on gambling in rented quar ters. Premises Leased “It is a most vicious practice,” declared the court. That declara tion came after witnesses had tes tified the premises had been leas ed by the defendants and that the gambling paraphernalia had been left in the building. Found guilty of keeping gamb ling devices and fined $200 each were M. J. Peach and Cleeve Lewis. Found guilty of gambling were Walter Hechf, Gregory No vis and William Lewis. They were ordered to pay court costs. The court ordered the furniture returned to the club upon condi tions that the defendant* haul It back. ABC officers testified that they discovered a gambling game in progress late Tuesday when they arrived at the club on routine business. They notified deputy sheriffs who made the arrest* and the seizures. Cash Returned The $1,442 cash was being used in a gambling game, the of f:cers said. However, the defen dants admitted gambling but con gee MEN On Page Two And So To Bed Solicitor James King In He , corder’s court yesterday ask ed the defendant, charged with gambling, his name. “It’s Gregory Novis,” was the reply. “And you do a little gam bling?” quered the solicitor. The answer was “yes.” “But you’re not a novioo at it, are you?” questioned King. The defendant smiled. Tho court, attorneys and spectators I chuckled.
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