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f—-— -1 \ # FORECAST: + 1 + U ^ ^ Served By Leased Wire* t I littttlil IVf 444 1 ft ASSOCIATED PRESS UUIUUUJU ITUU UUIU wlcll jffiSfe.. ----J State tnd National New» 'V^igrN°- 2--------- WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JULY 28. 1947 ' ” ESTABLISHED l£H _ __ I__ i “ i --------—----—---* Future Of UN In “Balance” __ fight Between Russia, U. S., Over Balkans Nears Crucial Test J.AKE SUCCESS, July 27—UP)— , "eeks-lotig fight between Russia ,d uie United States over the Ka'kan problem neared an end to da>' ,vjtli the future of the United Xaiior.- possibly hinging on the outcome. A showdown test on the ability , lile u. N. Security council to effectively in the peaceful set t ement of disputes which might tV eaten world peace is expected t, come Tuesday or not later than Thursday. At that time the council will vole on a Rmsian-ppposed U. S. ,, optn-al for establishing a semi permanent border watch over the Balkans. The American plan was introduced after a U. N. inquiry commissi011 found Yugoslavia, Bul garia and Albania primarily re sponsible in supporting guerrilla warfare in Greece. T N. delegates made no attempt to minimize the seriousness of the t -uation and some expressed the opinion that a defeat of the U. S. r.oposal would have grave effects on the world organization. All delegates looked to Russia {u. the answer. They agreed that tlle soviet alone holds the power to strengthen or weaken the coun cil's position in world affairs. Delegates were divided on whether Russia would veto the commission plan or abstain from voting and permit the creation of a border watch. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromy ko may express his disapproval bv abstention, because of the con sequences a veto might bring. This jdea gained among certaiA dele tes after he and Russia’s three satellites argued last week that even if the commission were estab lished Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania would not be bound to co operate with it. Decisions Binding This argument involves an in terpretation of the U. N. charter and is expected to be threshed out further tomorrow. The majority of council members agree with the V s. interpretation that decisions taken by the Security council are binding on all parties. In answering Gromyko and the thiec Soviet satellites, U. S. Depu ty Delegate Herschel V. Johnson yarned them that if they ignored > decision of the council they would lay themselves open to the s'rongest enforcement. mean” res. ' i POLICE USE GAS TO CAPTURE MAN ! Retired Jeweler Locks Self In Home After Shooting Up Household MAPLEWOOD, N. J.. July 27 -i.Pi—A 76-year-old man, who bar ■icaded himself in the cellar of iis home after shooting his son ,o death :md critically wounding iis wife and daughter-in-law, was :aptured today in a gun and tear jas battle. Police Cptain Harold jjiSwd said. Do.vd said Frederick B'. Dieter, : . retired jeweler, in a signed i'.;-,:erne:i. to police, described . e attempted to kill his en e farm.' and planned to take iis own lite. after brooding over he construction of an apartment louse next to his 30-year-old home it 22 Meadowbrook Place. Dowd said no charges had been filed. Dieter. Sr., was held under po lice guard at Irvington General hospital, with bullet wounds in the head and rigb: hand. Dowd said. " :r further police investiga te, , | Do.vd said the son, Frederics, •1 50, was shot in the head while he slept. Dieter. Sr.’s wife. Lena. 66. was shot in the neck, and Frederick, Jr.’s wife, Mary, 47, also was wounded in the neck, foe women were at Irvington General hospital. Dog Wound The family’s 14-year-old Collie 6o?. Peggy, also was wounded by * shot in the head. A neighbor who heard the •creams of Mrs. Dieter, Sr., ran rex: door and roused Police Lieu tena,' Charles Buechelc. home on vacation. He summoned radio ears. Police Captain George Gift and 1 radio squad arrived, Dowd said, * i C.itt called for Dieter to come 0 ' of the house. Dieter opened See POLICE oil Page Two The Weather FORECAST N°r!h Carolina and South Carolina— c v cloudy and continued warm Mon a and Tuesday, with a few widely a"*r<?d afternoon or evening thunder •nowers. (Eastern Siandard Time) B> 1'. S. Weather Bureau) ^•leoroiogical data for the 24 hours ":3G p.m., yesterday. Temperatures t, .° 3 74; 7:30 a.m., 72; 1:30 p.m., | :.':30 p.m.. 78. k ■-■••imurv' 84; Minimum 70; Mean 77; "°':nal 75. Humidity k 7 * m•• W>; 7:30 a.m., 9«; 1:30 p.m., p m., 79. y , Precipitation lor,'8' *or 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m., y mches. i | v°al since the first of th« month, wches. f. Tides For Today r «°T. tne Ti(ie Tables published by -oast and Geodetic Survey), ft,!,,.- ( Hijli Low ‘ --_ 6:05a 1:03a lWtlu 6:47p l:llp bo:Tj Inlat ___ 3:56a 10:13a . !unr, . 4:46p ll:04p k>. »•*>. Sunaat 7:1#; Moonrise Moonwt 1:24,. ‘e **ATHE* Off# rA.fi! IWfi) A FULL-BLOODED Blackfoot Indian from Montana, Boy Scout Earl Old Person enjoys some milk as he waits to board the U. S. Army transport General C. H. Muir at Staten Island, N. Y. Earl along with over 1,000 other Amer ican Scouts, is en ruote to the Boy Scout World Jamboree being held at Moisson. France. (International) DE GAULLE HUS AT COMMUNISTS French Leader Blames Moscow For ‘Alarming’ World Situation RENNES, France, July 27—(zPi— Gen. Charles De Gaulle said today that Russia was responsible for the “alarming” world situation and charged French Communists with “exclusively” serving Mos cow's orders. Russia, he said in an address here, dominates a bloc of 400,000, 000 people bordering on Sweden, Turkey and Italy and whose fron tier “is only 500 kilometers <300 from ours.” “Combining her military and economic pressure with the interi or action of men who are entirely submissive to her,” De Gaulle said. “Soviet Russia has already established, or is trying to estab lish bv intermediaries, a regime of totalitarian dictatorship, which is only the dependence and emanation of its own. on certain allied nations—Poland, Yugoslavia, Albania—or on certain defeated countries—Prussia, Saxony, Rom ania, Hungary, Bulgaria.” He added that Russia ' holds at her.discretion Czechoslovakia, Fin land, Romania ana Poland.” De Gaulle accused French Com munists of sponsoring strikes and playing class against class in France and her empire, “while Gur future is engaged in a very dangerous international duel and. by force an enormous Eastern bloc is forming in Europe.” He declared that the F enc.n Communist party was made up of men “who have taken a vcw of obedience to the orders of a for eign enterprise of dominaticn, See De GAULLE On Page Two FARMERS INCOME AT WARTIME PEAK Food Prices Could Come Down Eight Per Cent To Hit Support Levels WASHINGTON, July 27 —:/Pi— The Commerce department said today that .if farm prices were to fall the limit allowed by the gov ernment’s support program, the price of food to the housewife would drop an average of six to eight percent. It also said the farmers would still be assured of cash income equal to high wartime levels— about $20,000,000,000 a year. Actually, a department analysis said the record prices now being obtained for farm products w;ll swell this year's farm income above even the record $25,000,000, 000 the farmers collected last year. These high prices make it largely unnecessary for the gov ernment to do much under its sup port program. The Commerce de partment estimated the general farm price level would have to drop about 25 percent to reach the price support level. The support level is determined by taking into account not only tr.e prices of what the farmers sell but also prices of things they buy. __ Truman Pays j%^ Visit ^os&^ends Hours vvo'^X-ue Casket Of His Beloved Mother GRANDVIEW, Mo., July 27 — W2)—President Truman today paid a last, long visit to his well-loved mother before her funeral tomor row. Mrs. Martha Ellen Truman, whose 94 year-old heart quietly stopped beating yesterday, lay in a gray casket in the old-fashioned sitting-room of her small cottage here. A few “very close friends” were admitted to pay neighborly respects to Mrs. Truman, who was clothed for her last journey in a blue dress ornamented with a dicky in a fashion decades-old. Putting aside the affairs of state completely, the son, whose moth er “never thought he would be President, but he’ll be a good one,” gave himself over to sorrow and strict seclusion at the sum mer White House in Independence last night and this morning. Then at 9:45 a. m. (CST)—very late for the President to be get ting about—the White House lim ousine rolled away for the 25-mile trip through rolling farm country to Grandview. In the rear seat with the grave faced Chief Executive was his daughter Margaret. They were followed by a single Secret Serv ice car. Reporters Miss Reporters, halted two blocks away, did not see the President enter his mother’s house, the house to which he flew from Washington yesterday because "she sat up with me many times when I needed her.’’ Mrs. Truman died of heart fail ure shortly before noon yesterday when her distinguished son was hardly an hour aloft. Her funeral service will be read—for the fam ily only — by the Rev. Welborn Bowman of the near-by Grand view Baptist church at 3 p.m. to morrow. Burial, by her request, will be beside her husband, John A. Truman, in Kansas City's For est Hill cemetery. By Mrs. Truman’s wish there will be n» flowers. She said they should go to "people who were alive to appreciate them.” Nei ther will Washington’s officialdom be on hand, for even friends will not be present at tomorrow’s pri vate sorrow of the Truman clan. But hundreds upon hundreds of messages of condolence for the President poured into the summer White House at Independence and the Muehlebach hotel where Mr. Truman’s staff is housed in Kan sas City. They came from for eign rulers, from cabinet officers and from humble friends. Day Of Mourning W. H. Little, the mayor of Grandview, population 1,200 de clared tomorrow a "day of mourning” and decreed that stores and business places remain closed. Flags throughout the com munity were flown at half mast in respect to its most famous citi zen. But for two blocks in every di rection from the little house See TRUMAN on Page Two GENERAL MOTORS WILL RECALL MEN Return Of 115,000 Work ers One Bright Spot In Labor Picture DETROIT, July 27 —(U.R)—Gener al Motors corporation will recall 115,000 production workers tomor row after a week’s layoff because of a critical steel shortage, but that was the only bright spot in the turbulent auto labor scenfe. to night. Nearly 20.000 other workers were idle in strikes and related shut-downs and GM officials said another 65,000 workers faced one week layoffs in feeder plants out side Michigan in the next three weeks. A five-day strike of 7,500 mem bers of the CIO Auto Workers union at Murray Corporation of America brought a threat of steadily widening shutdowns at Ford Motor company, where Lin coln and Mercury operations were suspended ‘indefinitely” Friday and 4,500 workers laid off. Fbrd buys 70 per cent of Murray auto parts output. A cumulative walkout of the CIO United Rubber workers at the United States Rubber com pany came to a climax yesterday with 7,500 workers on strike. The Murray walkout, though a comparatively minor one in num ber of workers affected, loomed as the opening battle in a fight by the If AW against clauses of the Taft-Hartley law making unions responsible for wild cat strikes. Honeymooners Praise ■ Their Beloved Lizzie MINNEAPOLIS, July 27 —fU.R) An 81-year-old couple who drove here from Seattle, Wash., in a red* wheeled 1921 model T Ford were remarried today at their 56th wedding anniversary parly in Minnehaha park. More than 100 relatives arid friends from the West and Mid west were at the park when spry, smiling Mr. and Mrs. Join F. Hieldscher chugged up in their be loved Tin Lizzie. They insisted that the car, ‘‘‘tie most valuable part of our home hold,” be parked nearby during the simple wedding ceremony, i “It is part of our household,” Kielscher said. “The Ford Motor company offered us a brand new model in exchange for our car, but we wouldn’t part with it for anything.” Mrs. Hielscher smiled and squeezed her husband’s arm. “It has given us so much fun, we’ve never had time to quarrel.” she said. “We blink almost as much 'of it as we do of our fam ily.'” The Ford is the only car the Hielschers have owned or driven. See HONKYMOONERS <* Rage X • - ; ; t Angry Political Debate Features Closing Hours Of Senate Session; Indonesians Threaten “Fire” Orgy Union Plans Destruction Plantation Workers Set To Make “Fire Ocean” Of Acreages BATAVIA, Java, July 27 —(&'•— The Indonesians threatened to night to transform the rich planta tions of western Java into “roar ing aceans of fire,” as the Dutch announced that Netherlands troops with tank and plane support had sealed off that end of the island. Members of the Plantation Workers union resolve to fire 500 rubber, quinine, tea and coffee plantations in Western Java if the Dutch moved against these es tates, the Indonesian news agency Antara said. Soeparno, a union official, wqs quoted as saying if these estates were set afire the Dutch would have to send more than 500,000 laborers from the Netherlands and work for more than 10 years to restore production. He added: “Let no Dutchman nurse the il lusion he will ever find his plan tations and estates in an undam aged condition.” While the Dutch tightened their grip on the Western end of the island, other nnils quickly ex panded their bridgehead on the Northern coast by occupying Teg al, 175 miles Southeast of Bata via, a Dutch communique said. In this operation Dutch Marines went ashore and joined with Army units which had thrust overland from llie West. But the Indonesians implied 1he See UNION on Page Two UNIONISTS UNITE TO BEAT PRICES CIO, 6,000,000 Strong, Joins AFL To Form Co operative Stores WASHINGTON, July 27.—lU.R)— The CIO tonight joined the AFL in a united labor drive to force down prices by organizing consum er cooperative stores. It told its 6,000,000 members in a pamphlet prepared by the organi zation’s research department that their ownership of retail stores that distribute goods, as well as the plants that make them, “means a chant- to wipe out monopolies and production restrictions.” “The do.iars we now spend with private corporations often go to support per,ole who oppose labor’s program at, every point,” it said. “Cooperative ownership turns that support in our direction and can put the power of big industry on our side instead of on the side of reaction.” The Labor department reported last week that consumer living costs reached a new high of 18 per cent above a year ago. The CIO noted that it already has several cooperatives operating es going concerns. At the same time, an AFL official said that members of that body are forminj new co-ops in response to its ad vice of two weeks ago. It advised the stores to throw their doo; open 'ho anyone in the community who believes in what the workers are doing, whether he belongs to the union or not.” Oth erwise, it said, in the event of 8 strike the co-op may diss’jpate its funds and go broke. The CIO said Labor department statistics show that consumer co operatives in 1945 did a business of $657,500,000. T. A. Tenhune, gen eral manager of National Coopera tives, Inc., said- in New York last week that estimated retail sales in 1946 were $698,520,633. __ FOLLOWING EXHAUSTIVE DRAGGING OPERATIONS by State Police deft) at Little Squam Lake, N. H., authorities have discounted drowning theory in search for Anne Straw, 20, Smith College sophomore and heiress to $7,000,000. Police now believe that the girl either ran away from the pala tial home of her father, H. Ellis Straw (right), aManc.hester banker, or was forcibly removed. <ln tternational Soundphoto) Derby Racers Will Weigh-In Today; Inspection To Follow Bank Depositors! Issue $201,000,000 In Checks IN DISTRESS HARWICH, England, July 27. —(A*)—Maritime authorities said tonight the Dutch ship Mechlen berg was in trouble off the East coast of England with several hundred passengers aboard. The nature of the ship’s diffi culty was not determined imme diately. A tug went to its as sistance from Harwich. The Mechlenberg is a 2,907 ton. twin-screw vessel. Its home port is Flushing, The Nether lands. PRESS HEADLINES CRISIS WARNINGS British Speakers Paint Doleful Picture Of Economic Situation LONDON, July 27—W—Crisis warnings by leaders of all political parties were headlined in the Bri tish press today as Prime Minister Attlee prepared to give an account of his stewardship to Labor mem bers of Parliament. Weekend speeches by Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, Deputy Conservative leader Anthony Eden, Liberal Lord Beveridge and Arthur Horner, Communist general secre tary of the National Union of Mine Workers, added up to a dark pic ture. Britons — Already short of food, fuel, houses and other necessities, lo say nothing of most luxuries— will have to pull their belts con siderably tighter next winter and in years to come unless the near-mi raculous happens; and— Britain — Already pulling out of India, Burma and Greece — will have to reduce its armed forces and overseas commitments much further unless the home front stif fens to a degree not now in sight. Labor M. P.'s who want the Prime Minister to bring fhis pic ture before the public in “blood See PRESS on Page Two Along The Cape Fear BACK AGAIN—A. P. Reader is back with us again. This time he has discarded his name of A. P. Reader and is signing his mes sages, “A Subscriber.” How does Along the Cape Fear know A. P. Reader and A. Sub scriber are one and the same? By his stationery, of course. Each time he writes, two things are similar. First, he always calls attention to an alleged error in the column and second, he always writes on a penny postcard on which has been pasted some lined notepaper the exact size of the card. The printing is the same. too. * * * LAST TIME — The last time he invested a penny and wrote to the column he claimed that C. D. Maffitt was wrong and that the Cape Fear River never froze over hard enough for a man to walk across it. This time his reference is to a recent story about a man who died and was buried in Oakdale cemetery. The story tells of how the man. a victim of delerium tremens, requested that snakes be carved on his tombstone. The snakes were to represent the rep tiles he saw so often in his d.t. nightmares. Now comes A. Subscriber or A. P. Reader, it doesn’t make any difference. and contends that ATCF does no: stoop to correc tions. But we 11 snow him. We are g$ing to run his entire message. * * * HERE IT IS — “Chalk up j;ust another erroneous statement for your column of misinformation,” he writes. “A few minutes for a visit to Oakdale cemetery would have shown you that the name of (he man buried there was not ‘Lassiter’. No use to give you the correct family name or the real facts responsible for the monu ment. ‘Corrections’ represent a virtue foreign to your column. Since people clip your paragraphs for scrapbooks, it is inconceivable why you mislead them almost daily. A Subscriber.” * * * SELFISH—Now, Mr. Subscriber is a selfish person indeed. He is a dog-in-the-manger type. He knows the real facts surrounding the story and yet he prefers to keep them himself, all the while See CAPE PEAR Page Two Bank depositors in Wilmington made $201,505,000 payments by checks during the first six months of 1947, according to a midyear tabulation of Federal Hiieive board monthly’ check debit totals for 334 United Slates cities as analyzed in the “American Bank er”, daily newspaper of banking published in New York. The checking volume handled by Wilmington barks for the pub lic was 7.0 per cent ahead of the first half of 1946 and 198 per cent ahead of the first six mon'hs cf pTe-war 1940. Nationally, the volume of check debits in the 334 cities aggregated $538,461,000,000 or more than half a trillion dollars. This is 5.5 per cent ahead of the first half of 1946 when they totaled $511 billion, and 154 per cent above the first half of 1940 when the national vol ume of check payments amounted to but $112 billion. The national total of checks paid in the month of June was 94 and one-half billion dc liars, nine per cent ahead of the $87 billions of June 1946. New Yorkers Lead The “American Banker” noted that depositors in New York City’s brnlcs during the first half of 1947 paid $196 billion bv check, more than one-third of the national to tal. The banking newspaper pointed our that in 18 cities, June. 1947, was the highest month in history in See BANK on Page Two BASEMENT DRIPS REAL HARD CASH Coins Dated Before Emper or Hadrian Seep Into Cellar Of Old Castle ROME, July 27—(*>—Dr. Gail K. Meadows has a leak in the base ment of his summer home. It’s dripping money. But Dr. Meadows professor of romance languages at Amherst College, Mass., who is spending the summer in .a sixth century pal ace at Piazza Della Pigna, must turn the rnoney> over to ’the gov ernment under Italian law. Experts say the seepage into his cellar comes from the Fountain rf Trevi, a half mile away. Tourists tcss coins into it because legend says that is the way to insure one’s return to Rome. There's another little catch, though. The fountain was built in the seventeenth century and the coins which drip into Dr. Mead cws’ basement date from the time of Emperor Hadrian, centuries be fore that. Six Hours Allowed For Clearing Cars Through Toledo Station Today is weighing-in and inspec tion day for upwards of 40 boys between the ages of 11 and 15. years who wiil compete Wednesday af ternoon in the second annual Wil mington All-American Soap Box Derby over the 650-foot Derby Downs course on South 13th street. From 9:00 o'clock this jnorning until »3:0O o’clock this afternoon, the Toledo Scale company office at the corner of 10?h and Princess street will be a busy spot as Of ficial Weighmaster E d w a r d s checks the weights of boys and cars. Cars will be placed on the scales iirst, then boy and car will be weighed together to see that they do not exceed the official al lowable poundage which has been set at 250 by national headquarters. As fast as cars have been weigh ed and driver’ licenses attached to them, they will be taken by truck to Lake Forest school for inspec tion tonight by the official inspec tion committee. Driver’s license will be issued to the boy drivers as they report for weighing in at the Toledo Scale company office. Entrants Excluded Inspection will get underway promptly at 7:30 behind closed doors and only a few Derby offi cials will be admitted to the pro ceedings. All cars will be in charge of the Soap Box Derby of ficial board from the lime they ^■ass the weighmaster until one nour before parade time on Wednesday morning. Parents of boys will be excluded, as will the entrants from the in spection hall, but all contestants gee DERBY on Page Two SENATOR UMSTEAD PUTS BILL OVER North Carolinian Get* Credit For Cape Fear Dred * 4—iroval North Carolina Representative J. Bayard Clark said last night that the Rivers and Harbors Ap propriations 'bill passed by Con gress Saturday night was chiefly due to the work of Senator Wil liam B. Umstead. The full budget request of $300, 000 to continue widening and deep ning the Cape Fear river at and below Wilmington cleared bo'hi houses after traveling back and forth several times, he said. Senator Umstead had the bill for $200,000 passed in the Senate. Representative Clark had the House of Representatives 1o pass the $100,000 appropriations bill for the present project to make a total of $300,000 for continuation of the deepening and widening the river. , ' „ I Navy Corpsmen Render Aid To Wreck Victims; SAVANNAH, Ga.. July 25—CU.R)— A group of Navy hospital corps men pitched in with the speed, skill and improvisation they learn ed under fire today when their bus came upon the scene of a bloody traffic accident 21 miles west of Savannah. A car carrying six Negroes had collided head-on with another car rying three white men three' min utes before the sailors arrived. One Negro had been killed instant ly. All of the other eight persons suffered agonizing injuries and had been spewed out of the broken machines onto the pavement where a hard rain was falling. I The 15 sailors had only a first aid kit. Bui they set up a field hospital in ap abandoned sawmill beside the road. They made splints from scraps of boards found in the mill. They ripped off their own shirts for bandages and slings. ‘‘I never saw anything like it for speed, even in the war,” said Carroll Burke, a Savannah photo grapher who witnessed the rescue operations. Burke gave the sailors his own shirt for bandage. As soon as the victims were trussed up in splints, the sailors carried them into the sawmill to gee NAYY on F»|« Two Adjournment ComesSunday Lawmakers In Upper Chamber Toil Until We* Morning Hours ^ WASHINGTON. July 27 —(/P)— The 80th Congress closed its first session today in th< heat of an ar-gry Senate politics! battle over President Truman's nomination* that left six of them unconfirmed. Plans for the Saturday adjourn ment flew out tl.e window and Congress worked on Sunday for tne first time in the memcr r of veteran Capitol officials. It was 3:49 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Sav ings Timet and the Senate h»d been sitting more than 16 hour* when the final gavel fell. The House had gone home soon atter midnight. Its member*, too. shouted partisan charges and counter-charges at each other, principally on the economy isiu*. Rep. Taber (R-NY) put the say ings engineered by the GOP-*on trolled Congress at $4,995,000,000. Rep. Rayburn (D-Tex) said they came to $1,000,000,000, and ofher Republicans and Democrats men tioned varying sums in between. But in the final hours the House gave itself over to back-slapping, hand-shaking and song. Tireo cf waiting for the Senate fo wind up. the members finally adopted their adjournment resolution and departed. Recesses Congress The resolution, passed later In Ihe Senate too, recesses Congress until Jan. 2 and empowers '.ft* Republican leadership to call a special session if ‘in their opinion legislative expediency shall war rent itv” On Jan. 2, a Friday, tn* session will be for mally adiour.i eci, and the new session will open the following Tuesday, Jan. 6. Th» Senate confirmed James V. Forrestal as the first secretur- of defense under tne armed forces unification act, Philip B. Psrliu'n of Baltimore as solicitor general, and a batch of postmasters. But it did not act on these: Abe Murdock, former Democra tic Senator from Utah, and J. Copeland Gray of New York as members of the National Labor Relations board. Robert N. Denham of Washing ton as general counsel of the board. Burton N. Buhling of Washing ton as a member of the Federal Power commission. Charles M. Eldridge as United States' Marshal for Rhode Island. James Boyd of Colorado as di rector of the Federal Bureau of Mines. Boyd was opposed oy John L. Lewis, chief of the United Mine Workers. Mr. Truman can give them *p pointments enabling them to serve during the recess and sub mit their names again for eon riimation next session. The heated political fight ov*r See ADJOURNMENT on Page Two STATE AF OF L TO MEET HERE National President William Green Slated To Speak On First Day Delegates to the three-day state convention of the American Fed eration of Labor scheduled for Wilmnigton next month will frolic the night of August 12, the second day of the conclave at a dinner and dance. Members of the federation in Wilmington announced last, night that the event will be held at V p. m., at the Famous grill with wives, sisters, ■sweethearts and friends of the delegates in attend ance. Dancing will follow the dinner at which a brief speaking program will be conducted. An orchestra will play for the dancing. The sessions August 11, 12 and 13 will be in the Community Center, Second and Orange streets. The highlight of the meeting will be an address the morning of August 11 by William Green, na tional president. The speaker will address the expected 400 delegates |on various phases of labor legis lation, is is understood. And So To Bed The west holds the claim for producing the tallest men. A tribe known as the Amazons hold the claim of producing the tallest women—but Mrs. J. F. Reed of Greenville Sound can hold the present day claim for the largest cucumber. The cucumber' in question weighed 2 1-4 pounds and was a little over a foot in length. It was planted, in a hedgerow, and when the finished cucum ber was found, it was growing in a tree. There’s an old saying that money doesn't grow on trees, but from evidence produced, yon can’t say the same thing about cucumbers. *
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