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fruman bets
TL Bond Bill
C|,ief Executive Expected
To Sign Measure Today;
Cash Date Set
WASHINGTON, July 25. — (U.R)—
.bill authorizing ex-GI’s to turn
j, ;[ieir terminal leave pay bonds
i casb any time after September
/arrived on President Truman’s
tonight, and speedy approv
./was forecast.
‘ Tjjc bill, pass-d unanimously by
[)0,b houses of Congress, reached
-/ Truman after making the
■o/ids of various interested gov
„ /pent agencies, such as the Vet
,'ans administration and the Bu
eau of the budget.
Technically, the President has un
next Saturday, August 2, to act
/ bill. But it was learned that
lie began studying it tonight, and
observers were confident he would
it. pernaps by tomorrow.
The Senate, meanwhile, approv
al two new veterans bills — one
/anting a cost-of-living benefit
ncrease to ex-servicemen in on
be-job training and the other ex
c-ndins full-time subsistence al
owances to veterans in farm train
: :g.
Taft Opposes
Both bills were opposed by ben.
Robert A. Taft. R , O., who pre
ijcted that President Truman
..ould veto them.
The on-the-job bill now goes to
;.e House. It would lift the com
plied monthly subsistence and
.alary ceiling from $175 to $200 for
angle veterans and from' $200 to
,250 for married ex-servicemen.
The farm bill would extend sub
istence payments to ex-service
nen who are taking special agri
ullural courses or supervised
arm training. The bill will prob
biy go to conference with the
louse, which has passed a similar
iceasure.
Another bill, signed by President
human today establishes July 23
s the legal end of World War II
so far as computing veterans
e;-.Hits is concerned.
Education Dates
It means that veterans have four
ears from today to begin any edu
ation or training they expect to
i .■ ive under the G-I Bill of |
tights. Disabled veterans, who are
ligible for special rehabilitation
laining under a separate law,
ave until nine years from today
i complete their training. To re
eive the maximum allowable
aining period of four years, they
ould have to begin the course
v Julv 25, 1952.
■ G. I. loan” guarantees, for the
urchase of a home, farm or busi
es*. will remain available for 10
ears from today.
OBACCO PRICES
SLIGHTLY LOWER
Georgia - Florida Growers
Get $2 To $6.50 Less On
Second Market Day
VALDOSTA, July 25 — (IP)—Leal
cade* sold lower today in the
:cor,d session cf the Ge jrgia
oi-ida flue-cured tobacco mar ;
els but other grades were steady i
r higher.
The U. S. Deoariment of agri
niture reported drops from $2 to
b.50 per hundred pounds for leef
cades but prices still averager)
ell above the Commodity Credit
crporation support level.
Cutters were unchanged to
lightly higher, but better quali
ies were under the support price,
ugs generally were steady ex.
ept for lower quality green
..rich slipped $1.25 below the loan
alue.
Quality of tobacco in general
lowed little change from the
ceiling day. Principal offerings
ere fair to tine lugs and low
d fair cutters.
Official gross sales Thursday
ere reported at 3,511,578 pounds,
waging $44.61 per hundred. The
mice was 35 cents above opening
;ay last year and the volume wag
£4.442 pounds less.
Average Prices
Acreage prices on a limited
: ber of representative U. S.
hades yesterday followed by yes
; day's average:
Leaf-Good lemon, $48 and $59;
Cr lemon, $46 and $47; low
>-ange, $35 and $35: common
wnge, $28 and $31.
Cutters —Good lemon, $ and
54; fair lemon, $53 and t'J: low
tron, $50 and $50; fair mange,
and $48: low orange, :8 and
>47.
Lugs — Choice lemon, $53 and
>A: fine lemon, $52 and $51; good
lfmon, $49 and $48; fair lemon
H2 arid $43; fine orange, $51 and
good orange, $47 and $46;
See TOBACCO on Page Two
The Weather
FORECAST:
aVjth Carolina and North Carolina—
c'oudy Saturday and Sunday ex
; p: considerable cloudiness with show
“long the coast. Slightly warmer
- little change in temperature
s«May.
'Eastern Standard Time)
(Bv U. S. Weather Bureau)
-'^•eorological data for the 24 hours
,;30 p. m. yesterday.
, TEMPERATURES
$."?*• -2; 7:30 a. m. 70; 1:30 p. m.
' o) p. m Maximum 79. Mini
■ m W: Mean 74; Normal 79.
, , HI MIDITl’
S3; 7:30 a. m. 81; 1:30 p. m .
P- m. 88.
Ton PRECIPITATION
r.n iQr 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m. ,
. Jnches.
(;,a !ince the first of the month
'Pchea ]
„ TIDES FOR TODAY
' 0,5 , ,lp Tide Tables published by U. ,
1 and Geodetic Survey).
1'ilflii,,., HIGH LOW
"lgto,‘ - 4:18 4.m. 11:30 a.m. ;
'iionh, 5:92 p.m. - p.m.
nb°r° Met _ 2:13 a.m. 8:29 a.m. :
Sunrise „ 3:02 P-m- 9:17 pm' '
l3n- ,, “'12. Sunset 7:18; Moonrise
,.V( Moonret 12:15a. i
* »•"« at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8 ,
Frid*y 8.9 feet. j
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HANDCUFFED TO AN OFFICER, Joseph S. Fay, former vice
president of the Internr 4onal Hod Carriers, Building and Laborers’
Union of America is shown on his way to Rikers Island, N. Y., to
begin a prison sentence of from 8 1-2 to 16 years on charges of ex
tortion and conspiracy. Classified as a labor racketeer, the one time
AFL official was found guilty in 1945. The Supreme Court upheld the
conviction. (International).
SENCBA Will Back
Myrtle Grove Fight
“NO BILLS”
ROME, Ga„ July 25. -(.‘Pi
Prosecuting Attorney E. J.
Clower was rebuked by a coun
ty grand jury today in his ef
forts to enforce Georgia's “Blue
Laws” which prevent nearly
everything on Sunday except
church attendance. The laws
were adopted in 1862.
The attorney asked 18 indict
ments against operators of drug
stores, ice cream parlors and a
theater. The jurors stamped
“no bill” on each.
D -GATES FIGHT
F RANGE ORDER
Senator Maybank Leads
Attempt To Halt Remov
al To Whiteville
Several South Carolina congves
sional delegates, including Sen
ator B. R. Maybank, were yes
terday attempting to prevent the
removal of the Very High Fre
quency range from Myrtle Beach,
S. C. to Whiteville.
The removal of the VHF range
proposed by a Civil Aeronautics
Administration order, can be pre
vented only by concerted efforts
by congressional delegates, i: was
le: rned yesterday.
In a telegram to Hamilton I
Hicks, chairman of t h e Chamber
ot Commerce Aviation committee,
R. B. Page, local publisner and
city representative in Washington,
D. C.t on the beam issue, said
the CAA order to remove the ra
dio range from the South Caro
lina resort will be carried out by
August 23.
The removal has been proposed
because of Army installations at
Myrtle Beach which prevent com
mercial air tratfic from flying
over the resort.
National Airlines, which will
use the new airway, has protest
ed the proposed dog-leg to White
ville and Florence and the ice to
Charleston because it will entail
some $2,500 expenditure for the
film.
OVER 3,000 DRIVERS
LOSE LICENSES UNDER
NEW STATE STATUTE
North Carolina’* new state traf
fic laws are working havoc . with
violators. <
Judge Winfield Smith of Re
^order’s court is authority f>.r
tnat statement. During one week
since the new laws became ef
Cective July 1, in the state more
:han 3,000 motorists have seen
.heir driver’s licenses suspended
That is as many licenses as
;vere suspended iii the entire 1946
17 fiscal year in North Carolina.
Judge Smith yesterday mpde
aublic those figures in coun in
yarning motorists that the laws
•nust be obeyed. Ke obtained ‘he
figures during a recent Raleigh
rip where he went to further
studv application of the new laws.
Association Renews Sup
port Of Inlet Dredging
Project As Necessity
The Southeastern North Caro
lina Beach association yesterday
threw its renewed support behind
the pending proposal for govern
ment dredging ci the so called
Myrtle Grove inlet, lying immedi
ately north of the town of Caro
lina Beach.
The actual inlet which existed
ai this point was virtually closed
by a storm of severe proportions
a decade ago, and the interim
has been marked by sporadic ef
forts to bring about a complete
and stablized opening of the
channel.
The prime objective of the
Southeastern group now is to see
the Myrtle Grove sound project
processed through the necessary
channels so that the cost of the
work may be included in the 1947
1948 rivers and harbors appropri
ation, provided the work is ap
proved.
Immediate submission ol the
matter to the southeastern divi
s.'on o 1 the government’s corp.i of
engineers, in Atlanta, will be nec
essary to achieve this, according
to Louis B. Orrell, president of
the beach association.
Clark Contacted
Orrell vesterday forwarded a
letter on behalf of the association
to Rep. J. Bayard Clark, of the
seventh district, exhorting him to
use his influence toward obtain
ing a priority rating for the
dredging work.
The inlet project, subject of a
hearing held last winter before
Col. B. C. Snow, at that time
See SENCBA on Page Two
ROTOR ACCIDENT
KILLS ONE WOMAN
Eight-Hundred Pound Seg
ment Sails Through
Roof, Hits Hotel
PITTSBURGH, July 25 — OT—
One woman employe was killed
and five other workers injured,
four critically, today by flying,
jagged chunks of metal as a huge
generator rotor flew into pieces
with explosive force at the East
Pittsburgh plant of the Westing
house Electric corp.
Killed was Helen Chizmar, 28,
of North Braddock.
Westinghouse officials told this
story of ihe accident:
The rotor was on test at 1100
revolutions per minute when one
of eight poles, estimated to weigh
about 5 1-2 tons, snapped. The
over-burdened remaining poles
gave way, setting up tremendous
vibrations which broke the ma
chinery into pieces with an ex
piosior-like roar.
An 800-pound copper segment
hurtled off ihe testing block,
crashed through the plant roof
and arced across the street where
it crashed into the Breakstone
hotel. A gaping hole was torn in
the hotel but no one was injured.
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Bride Dies While Making
Plans To Keep House
OMAHA, July 25 —(fP)—Mary
Vnn Deeds and John Warren Van
3ibber liked each other immedi
ately when they met at a YMCA
;anteen dance last September,
rhey decided to get married..
But their May 10 wedding date
lad to be postponed. Mary Ann
vas seriously ill. The doctor told
ier mother, Mrs. Margaret
Deeds, that Mary Ann had cancer
ind had only a short time to live,
vlrs. Deeds told John. No one told
itary Ann.
Late in June the girl was fail
ng rapidly. John was at hei bed*
iide every moment he could be
iway from his department store
ob. $h* began t# tails about the
day they would be married. It
would be the most wonderful day
in her life.
In a hospital bedside ceremony
Sunday, they were married.
Everyone there except Mary Ann
knew she would not live. Too
weak to sit up, she smiled at John
and said “I love you so. Just
think, I’m your wife; you’re my
husband.” She pulled him down
to her and kissed him, “She was
more beautiful than ever,” John
said afterward.
While John and her mother
held her hands. Mary Ann died
Wednesday while making pl«B»
for the ■ day she would he well,.
Hughes Hits
Insinuations
Plane Manufacturer Says
He Entertained After
Receiving Contracts
HOLLYWOP, July 25.— (U.R) -
Millionaire plane manufacturer
Howard Hughes tonight branded as
ridiculous insinuations that he
gave lavish parties in order to ob
tain government contracts.
Breaking the silence for the first
time since a Senate sub-committee
began investigating his war con
tracts, Hughes pointed out that
he did his entertaining of govern
ment officials after receiving the
orders.
At the same time he called at
tention to the fact that the gov
ernment had received three of tne
four planes it ordered from him.
Hughes issued his statement des
pite the fact, he said, that he had
not been notified formally of the
charges, “whatever they may be,'’
against him.
“I feel 1 must deny emphati
cally right now the charge that
my company has spent $40,000,000
of government funds without con>
pleting or delivering an airplane,”
he said.
“This statemnt is absolutly un
true,”
Awaits Testa
Hughes said that the Army form
, ally accepted delivery of ti e “com
pleted Hughes flying boat five
montns ago." The giant plywood
seaplane is being readied for. its
first flight at a dock on Terminal
Island, Los Angeles harbor. No
date has been set for test flights.
“The obligation specified in the
contract was completely fulfill
ed in Febiuary, 1947, and all work
done since has been because I
voluntarily elected to do so,’’
Hughes raid.
He also noted that the Army for
mally accepted delivery of an
XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane
in September, 1945, and then re
ceived a second of three to be de
livered under a $13,000,000 con
tract last year. The second plane
was the one in which Hughes
crashed and almost was killed
last year. He said the crash was
the resuh of propellor trouble and
not due to any fault in the plane.
Spends Millions
“I have invested, at this date,”
he said, $7,000,000 of my company’s
money in this flying boat and in
See HUGHES On Page Two
NEW SUGAR QUOTA
BILL GIVEN OKAY
Measure Which Now Goes
To White House Extends
1937 Act Five Years
WASHINGTON, July 25. — (JP\ —
The Senate tonight passed and dis
patched to the White House a bill
setting sugar quotas which deter
mine how the U. S. market shall
be divided up among American
and foreign producers.
The measure also extends for
five years the major portions of
the sugar act of 1937, which ex
pires December 31.
Included in the bill is a pro
vision authorizing the Secretary
of Agriculture to withdraw cer
tain portions of the sugar quotas
of foreign govermenfs which deny
“fair and equitable treatment’’ to
U. S. citizens.
Senator Millikin CR-Colo) and
Senator Barkley (D-Kv) told the
Senate U. S. citizens have “con-,
siderable claims” in Cuba which
they have been unable to collect
Senators Vatidenberg (R-Mich),
Peoper (D-Flat, McMahon (D
Conn), and Conn ally (D-Tex) pro
tested this provision as c ontrary
to the “good neighbor policy”.
But the Senate defeated by a 42
40 roll call vote an attempt to
strike it out.
Incentive payments to beet and
cane growers would be continued.
As at present, the Secretary oi
Agriculture would be required to
establish the sugar prices paid
to the growers and to determine
minimum wages of sugar agricul
tural workers in this country.
The Senate Finance committee,
in the interest of speeding the bill
along, witiidrew a proposed amend
ment that would have exempted
the sugar beet industry from this
minimum wage provisions. This
avoided sending the measure back
See SUGAR On Page Two
Congress Driving Toward
Final Adjournment Today;
Steel Price Front Cracks
" ■ I
Major Firms
Jump Rates
Consumers Threatened
With Added Costs For
Automobiles, Hairpins
By the Associated Press
The steel price front cracked
wide open today and raised the
threat of higher consumer prices
for steel products from hairpins
to automobiles.
Following the lead set by Ameri
can Rolling Mill company, Repub
lic Steel corporation, the nation’s
third largest producer, hiked
prices for bar, sheet, strip and
other steel products. National Steel
corporation No. 6 producer, and
Alan Wood Steel company, farth
er down the line, soon stepped into
the higher price line.
Advanced prices were posted in
the face of pleas by President
Truman that the steel and other
industries use extreme care in
making any price increases and
forego them if possible.
Most of the companies cited
higher coal prices, soaring steel
scrap quotations, and expanded
labor costs as forcing the in
creases in order to maintain prof
itable operations.
The magazine “Steel” said:
“Manufacturers of automobiles,
washing machines and countless
other items will feel the impact of
the price rise in varying degree
depending upon the steel products
consumed in manufacture of in
dividual products.
“On the whole, the increases an
nounced today averse around 10
per cent on published prices, and
in the case of automobile build
ers, it is estimated their steel
costs will be upped from $10 to
$15 per car.”
Still In Question
The position of U. S. Steel cor
poration, largest steel producer
in the world; was still in question.
“Big Steel” in the past has of
ten established price patterns fol
lowed by the rest of the industry.
Steel spokesmen recalled, how
ever, that last week Benjamin F.
Fairless, U. S. steel president,
said his company would not in
crease the price of steel until “a
fair test” was made of cost fac
tors created by the new coal wage
agreement.
U. S. Steel corp. now could point
to the broken steel price front, it
was suggested, and increase its
prices on the theory it was mere
See MAJOR on Page Two
ACL SEEKS 4000
NEW FREIGHT CARS
President Davis Says Indus
trial Growth Demands
More Equipment
The atlantic coast line rail road
announced yesterday it was in die
market for 4,000 new freight cars
President C. McD. Davis said
the large demand was made nec
essary “by the general industrial
growth of' Coast Line territory
and known plans for future de
velopment.”
Specifications are now being
drawn, he said, for 1,000 double
door cars, 1,000 sir.gle-door cars,
500 high side gondolas, 100 low
s;ds mill type gondolas, 500 hop
per bottom coal cars, 100 flat
cars, 100 pnlpwood cars, 100 port
phosphate rock cars, and 10J ce
rr.ent hopper cars.
He pointed out that the ACL
had expanded by taking over the
Atlanta, Birmingham, and Coast
rairond at the begining of -last
year, and since had been author
izee by the interstate commerce
commission to acquire the Flori
da East Coast by merger.
I Along The Cape Fear
BLOCKADERS—During the Civil
War Wilmington played host to
numerous steamers which ran the
Union blockade and brought sup
plies to the Confederate forces. '
The period devoted to blockade
running was between 1863 and 1864.
Traffic grew like a baby as the
runners found it more and more
profitable and the Confederte
forces needed more equipment and
material to fight the war.
During the period from May 20,
1863 to December 24, 1864, some
260 blockade runing, steamers
came in with their valuable car
goes and carried out exports of
cotton and some naval stores. For
these commodities there were
large returns in U. S. and Eng
lish gold coin.
* * *
WAR STORIES—Associated with
these steamers that crept so bold
ly past the Federal gunboats cruis
ing off the coast are many ad
venturous stories.
Wilmington during that time took
on a cosmopolitan air. There were
many Englishmen and other for
eigners on the streets and they
entertained lavishly.
From the Port City men repre
senting the Confederacy embark
ed to visit other countries to get
aid for the cause.
About this time death came to a
valued secret agent of the Con
federacy on a steamer near Fort
Fisher.
Her name was Mrs. Rose O'Neill
Greenhow and her life began to
end when she boarded the steam
er Condor to return from Europe
to Wilmington.
She was carrying special dis
patches when the steamer ground
ed while trying to get past the
blockading fleet.
Mrs. Greenhow embarked for
shore in a small boat, which cap
sized just as it was about to land.
She sank immediately to the bot
tom and could not be rescued.
* * *
GOLD—Later, when her body
.was recovered, it was discovered
that there was a large sum of
gold sewn in her garments. Her
traveling bag also contained gold.
Her personal effects were re
covered from the Condor and
eventually r.old at auction in down
town Wilmington.
She is buried in Oakdale ceme
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
THE ROYAL NETHERLAND MARINES who are participating in 1
the “police action” landings against Indonesian forces in Java re- !
ceived their training in the United States. Here two of them learn i
the operation of a .30 caliber light machine gun under the tutelage of ;
an American Marine (left) at Camp Lejeune, New River, North ,
Carolina. (International).
Parade Will Usher
In Derby Day Here
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CHANCE REUNION
EASTON, Pa., July 25. —(tf>)
— A father and son were reunit
ed today in a chance street cor
ner encounter after being sepa
rated for 17 years.
John Gray, who has been liv
ing in Easton, recognized his
father, John, Easton Salvation
Army caretaker who had been
farming in the west until last
November.
The father had believed his
son was dead.
NEW DUKE TUITION
FEES SLAP' GI’S
Cooper Advises Veterans
$500 Allotment Will Not
Cover Costs Now
DURHAM, July 25 —(/P)—Under
graduates enrolled in Dulte Uni
versity under the GI bill have
been informed by W. G. Cooper,
veterans’ adviser of the school,
that the $500 allotted to each vet
teran to cover tuition fees and
books would not be enough to pay
the total cost for the 1947-48 scho
lastic year at Duke now that the
school has increased its tuition
fees by S50.
(Jooner miormea me vcerans
that the increase in luition recent
ly announced by President Rob
ert L. Flowers leaves no surplus
to pay for books and supplies aft
er all tuition and other fees are
paid.
Excess costs would be paid by
the Veterans administration by
charging the veterans “one day
of entitlement” for each $2.10
spent, Cooper explained.
Offers Advise
However, he advised students
not to adGpt the plan unless they
were eligible for more training
time than they would require for
completing their course. “Nor
mally, you receive about $2.10 a
day tuition, etc., and $2.17 a day
if single, or $3 if married, for
See DUKE oil Page Two
ROBBERY BUSINESS
NOT ALL PROFIT SO
ONE MAN DISCOVERS
CHICAGO, July 25 — f.P)—Ever,
the business of robbery is nor all
clear profit.
When a gunman entered a
chain restaurant today, he vent
behind the counter and pushed
Cashier William Meyer, 71, aside.
As the robber was busy taking
money from the till, two custo
mers laid 'their checks on the
counter.
In his report nf the incident to
police, Meyer said the robber
made exact change for the custo
mers, pocketed tneii dollars along
with about $40 from the cash reg
ister, then followed the customers
out.
Officials, Entrants, Racers,
Rands To Take Part In
Street Display
A parade of nearly 40 entrants
in the Soap Box Derby and their
cars, plus civic and military or
ganizations in the Port City, will :
begin official Soap Box Derby Day :
in Wilmington, it was announced
yesterday.
The parade will begin at 10:30
a, m. Wednesday as a prelude to
the races and will include a po
lice escort, Derby officials, the
ROTC band and Boy Scouts. Wil
mington’s American Legion Drum
and Bugle Corps, and several fire
trucks. ,
The parade will form in front
of the YMCA on Market street at
10 a. m. and proceed north on
Third street to Red Cross to Front
street, south on Front to Market
and east on Market to Third, where
it will disband.
The police escort will lead the
parade and will be followed by
Derby officials, headed by co
chairman Mayor E. L. White, and
former Police Chief Charles H.
Casteen. City officials will also
participate.
The Derby contestants will march
in a body and the cars will be
mounted on trucks, in full view of
everyone.
me ueroy race will Begin at
2 p. m. Wednesday when the cars
race over a 650-foot course on
South 13th from Kidder to Green
field street.
The event is sponsored joint
ly by the Wilmington Star-News
and the Raney Chevrolet company.
The winner of the race will go
to Akron, O., to compete in the
international finals there.
CARRIERS, UNIONS
WILL arbitrate!
Major Railroads, Non-Op
erating Employes Give
Dispute To Board
CHICAGO, July 25—WPt—The na- ,
lion’s principal railroads and 17
labor unions representing 1,000,000
non-op* rating employes today sign- ;
ed an agreement submitting to '
arbitration the employes’ request' .
for twenty cents an hour wage in- ,
creases.
The agreement was announced j
tonight by fhe National (Railroad)
Mediation board, which proposed
arbitration last week when nego- j
tiations broke down.
The agreement was signed by .
Eastern. Western, and Southeast* ;
ern carriers’ conference commit- i
tees, representing the principal :
railroads and the 17 cooperating >
railway labor organizations, repre
senting various crafts and classes :
of non-operating employes.
Awards Final '
Arbitration under the law pro
vides that awards are final and
binding on both parties.
The carriers’ committees have
See CARRIERS on Page Two
Autoists Get Blessings
On “St. Christopher Day”
NESQUEHONING, Pa., July 25
—(JP)—Motorists lined up in traf
fic-jam fashion outside the Roman
Catholic churcn ot Our Lady of
Mount Carmel in this Eastern,
Pennsylvania coal town today ter
receive St. Christopher’s Day
blessings for themselves and their
autos
The Rev. A. J. Angelini, who
instituted the ceremony 15 years
ago and since has been blessing
some 300 cars annually, said
many motorists return year aft
er year with "narratives of mi
raculous escape from Injury ana
death which they attribute to the
—
intervention of St. . Christopher,”
patron of travelers and wayfar
ers.
’ The ritual is performed in front
of the churcn doo', Father An- j
gelini first blessing the ear pas
sengers arid sprinklvng them with
holy water, then blessing the auto
and sprinkling holy water entire
ly arouna the vehicle.
Afterwards the visitors go to a
small grotto near the church, de
signed after the shrine of Our
Lady of Lourdes in France, and
offer prayers.
Unification
Bill Passes
Senate Gets Last-Minute
Filibuster Scare; Money
Measure Debated -
WASHINGTON, July 25. — CU.PO—.
The Senate, rested by a six-hour re
cess after its all-night vote fraud
fight, went back to work on top
priority legislation today and Re
publican leaders set their sight*
again on adjournment by tomorrow
night.
The House whipped a big bundla
of bills into shape for delivery to
President Truman. One was the
long-delayed plan to create a singla
department of national defense.
Senate leaders were given an
ither filibuster scare. It came from
ien. Carl A. Hatch. D., N. M..
inly a few hours after they had
lgreed to shelve the proposed Kai>
;as City vote fraud inquiry which
icpt the Senate in continuous 18
lour session until 6:13 a. m.. EDT.
Hatch, declaring he might fore*
mother all-night session “and mako
Hirselves ridiculous as we mado
Durselves ridiculous last night,”
lemanded a vote on House-approv
ed legislation giving Congressional
sanction to the State department'*
controversial “Voice of America"
ind other foreign broadcasts.
Hatch Gives Up
After blocking all other busine**
or an hour, Hatch gave up when
jOP policy committee Chairman
Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, said the
Republicans would agree to later
consideration ol a plan to create
i joint Congressional committee to
nvestigate the foreign programs
ind submit recommendations early
lext year.
Chief concern of both chambers
n the closing hours of the seven
nonths’ session was money to keep
Government agencies functioning
'or this fiscal year ending next
June 30. Altogether, they need
lround $35,000,000,000.
Two of the biggest and most
mportant appropriations went mt<*
.he last stages of study shortly *f
er the Senate and House reported
for work at noon.
1. By voice vote, the senate *|»"
proved a $1,681,760,397 supplemen
ts! money bill, which includes fl,
See UNIFICATION on rage Two
SUPERIOR COURT
COMES TO CLOSE
Judge Carr Disposes 0(
Half Dozen Cases At
Final Session
The criminal term of Superior
Hourt for July wound up yester-*
lay with Judge Leo Carr dispos
ng of a half dozen eases inclini
ng three defendants found inno
cent by juries one entering a
;uiity plea and sentenced meted
jut in three matters.
Thomas Lee Mitchell 27-year
)ld Negro entered a guilty plea
o a Charge of trespassing after
lis trial on a charge of assault
vilh a deadly weapon had beent
lompleted before a jury.
Judge Carr was about to pasa
ientehce. But the wife of the de
fendant and a welfare department
epresentative interrupted tha
iroceedings 1o relate to the court
hat Mitchell had stabbed his wife
vith an ice pict and that he had
eceived welfare aid.
The court recalled the jurors,
fhey deliberated an hour and.
ound Mitchell guilty of simple as
lault. The court sentenced him to
10-days oil the county farm, fie
vas accused specifically of
hreatening to shoot R. M. John
:on after attempting to collecfl
wo dollars on the excuse that ho
lad mowed the man's lawn.
Pleads Guilty
Anderson McKoy 26 Negro
ileaded guilty to a charge, of hit
ind run as the result of injuries
iustained by John Evans 64. Ne
'ro Tidewater Water Power com
>any employee for 46 years and
he oldes employee in point oC
:ervice.
McKov was handed a 12-months
aispended sentence placed on
irobation for three years and or
lered to pay $200 for hospital ex
See SUPERIOR on Page Tw*
And So To Bed
Mrs. George Holland left
her young daughter, Patricia,
8, in a local movie while she
went to the beauty shop.
When she returned to th*
movie to get her daughter, Mrs.
Holland was surprised to hear
her daughter say, “Mother, this
is my cousin,” as the youngster
presented a little girl about 8
years old. The mother tried des
perately to explain to her
daughter that the girl was not
her cousin, but the youngster in
sisted.
“She has an uncle Sam and
an Uncle Tommy just like I
have, so that makes us cous
ins,” the eight-year-old explain
ed.
And no matter how Mrs. Hol
land tried to convince the
daughter, little Patricia still In
sists that the girl she made
friends with at the movie is
her cousin. t