GAS SHORTAGE,
ACUTE IN WEST
Report Says Some Stations
Map Be Forced To Close
Before Labor Day
CHICAGO, Aug. 13 — <U.R) — A
shortage of fuel may force some
gas stations throughout the Mid
west to shut down temporarily be
fore the end of the summer, In
dustry officials said today.
They said petroleum products
were in short supply in most mid
western states and that major
tompanies had been rationing
their product* in an effort to pre
vent any dealers from shutting
Sown.
"Whether the supplies can last
through the summer, particularly
aver the big Labor Day weekend,
h doubtful,” one Industry repres
entative said.
At Washington, Robert Fried
man of the Inferior department’s
gas and oil division, warned today
cf possible shutdowns this mo.nth
Sind next, and said that a critical
shortage existing in Detroit would
be duplicated in other Midwest
titles before October.
Detroit city officials have an
nounced that it may become nec
essary to seize all fuel in order to
make supplies available for essen
tial use.
; PRIME MINISTER
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nt World is being built up a* an
Enclosure behind the barriers of
toon curtains,” Smuts said. "There
^ .no evil Intent in this. It is their
jray.
“The west believes in freedom in
|U widest implications.”
The Marshall plan, Smuts felt,
Uras the foundatiin that will lead
to other plans which will recon
stitute ‘God’s’ world.”He believed
Europe will be '‘salvaged.”
Other points made by Smuts
luring the interview were:
1. South Africa will contribute
her part toward the total cost ol
European recovery.
2. Abuse of the Veto is holding
hack atomic energy development
to the disadvantage of all man
kind.
3. South Africa has plenty of
uranium, but is not mining it at
(he present.
4. He will not attend the United
Stations General Assembly in New
York in September because of
|»robiems on the home front.
Smuts believed that everything
possible must be done to lower
tariff barriers and to encourage
trade. Somewhat proudly, he
pointed out that'South Africa has
one of the lowest tariffs in the
world.
He said he was vitally interested
in the Paris meetings of the com
mittees now working out details
of Europe’s resources and needs
under the American proposal of
assistance.
“When we know what the plan
is, then we will know what we
can contribute,” he said. “South
Africa will do its part. Others
will help America in the great
task of reconstruction.”
The United Party of which Smuts
s leader faces an election next
var, and he feels that, he cannot
eave the Union now to attend the
Jew York meeting of the United
Nations.
In excellent health and full of
Vigor, he plans to stand for re
Jlection and to continue as Prime
linister until eitjier death or the
frill of the people intervenes.
Smuts lives on a farm 10 miles
tom Pretoria at the village of
ene.
He said that 52 years ago he
flimbed to the top of the hill on
frhich the government buildings
(sow stand and looked out over the
Wilderness of the broad valley be*
low.
“Here one day will b* built the
capital of South Africa,” he told
14m self.
Benadryl, a new drug that is
red in the treatment of hayfever,
considered highly effective in
^he treatment of hives.
MILLER CASE
(Continued From Pago One)'
sleek gray sedan in the direction
of Thompson hospitaL Mrs. Cur
rin, David Miller and an unidenti
fied woman accompanied Mrs.
Miller to the hospital.
In the meantime, defense at
torney’s stid solicitor F. Ertyle
Carlyle had agreed to postpone
the trial until 2:30 o’clock this
afternoon.
The small Robeson county court
room was filled to capacity when
Judge Morris took the bench at
2:18 o’clock this afternoon. Ex
actly two minutes later the bat
tery of defense attorney’s head
ed by W. S. Britt entered the
room. Close behind him followed
the other three attorneys of Mrs.
Miller, T. A. McNeill, Dickson Mc
Lean and H. C. Stacy.
Solicitor F. Ertyle Carlyle enter
ed the hushed room at 2:25
o’clock.
After the afternoon session was
opened by Robeson county Sheriff
Willis C. Britt, Judge Morris an
nounced that he had conferred
with the physicians and asked the
solicitor and defense attorney’s to
meet him in the judges’ chambers.
About 10 minutes later Judge
Morris took the bench and as the
courtroom again came to order he
leaned forward and announced
that the physicians had reported
the condition of Mrs. Miller as
“unchanged.”
Judge Morris said that he want
ed to make it clear so that there
was no uncertainty in the minds
of anyone why auch procedure
had been followed.
He said, “This miming while 1
was enroute from the hotel to the
courthouse, 1 was told that the de
fendant was in a car in the rear
of the courthouse in a coma.” He
said he considered the ‘‘informa
tion authentic and immediately or
dered two local physicains, who
were agreed upon by the solicitor
and defense attorney’s, to examine
the defendant.”
The Judge said shortly after the
two doctors had examined Mrs.
Miller and reported she was in
“an unconscious condition” he
ordered the case postponed until
2:30 o’clock “in order that the
physicians might make a further
examination.”
"I have just been informed by
the physicians that the condition
of Mrs. Miller is unchanged.”
Judge Morris continued. “The
doctors tell me she has a pulse of
120 and a blood pressure of 114
over 80.” According to the phy
sician, Judge Morris said, “Mrs.
Miller does not know what is
going on and she is not able to
plead at this time.”
Judge Maoris expressed the
thanks of the court to the local
physicians and ordered the clerk
to issue checks to compensate
them for their services.
Solicitor Carlyle excused the
state witnesses and the 75 jurors
summoned for the trial until the
September term of court. Defense
attorneys likewise excused the de
fense witnesses.
The capacity filled courtroom
almost cleared after these an
nouncements were made.
In the meantime, Fred Wiggins,
21-year-old Negro farm hand, who
is alleged to have confessed that
Mrs. Miller hired him to shoot
her husband with his own pistol
and “make it look like a suicide”
sat in the prisoners box. The
Negro has been unable to make
$15,000 bond and has been con
fined to the Robeson county jail
since he was arrested on May 11.
At one time during the morning
session, Wiggin’s 17-year-old wife,
Eula, and his five-months-old baby
went over to see him and the
young Negro held his baby in his
lap for the first time in over four
months.
Wiggins was expected to testify
for the state against Mrs. Miller.
He was placed back in the Robeson
county jail shortly after the post
ponement was announced.
Attorney F. L. Adams of Row
land, who is counsel for David
Miller but is not appearing either
for the prosecution or defense in
Mrs. Miller’s trial told newsmen
that Mrs. Miller had been con
fined to her bed for several days
prior to today. He said that her
father had carried her from her
bed this morning and brought hei
to the courthouse because she was
summoned to appear and that her
father did not know what else to
do.
“She spent a sleepless night and
had been highly nervous for sev
eral days,” the attorney said.
Accompanying Mrs. Miller to the
courthpuse were her two crildren,
her husband, Davild Miller, her
parents, her brother, and other
relatiyes and friends.
David Miller, who forgave his
wife, after a ten day “second
honeymoon”, was in the court
house when his wife collapsed. He
spotted photographers and scored
them about taking any pictures.”
If I were well, you wouldn’t take
any pictures,” he said.
No Pictures
No pictures were taken of Mrs.
Miller. Judge Morris was inform
ed that photographers were in
the vicinity where the defendant
was ill in the car and expressed
the wish to Sheriff Willis Britt
that no gictures be taken of the
defendant at that time. The judges
opinion was reported to photog
raphers who agreed not to disturb
the defendant.
Mrs. Miller late tonight was *
patient in room 233 at the Thomp
son memorial hospital. Attaches
did not conjment on her condition.
David Miller was approached by
reporters on the street shortly
after the case was ordered con
tinued and asked if he had any
comment.
"No, you people leave me
alone,’’ he replied.’’ I am a sick
man and I don’t want to talk to
any of you. Just go away and
leave me alone.’’—He was appar
ently speaking about the photog
raphers at this time. "You news
paper people leave me alone, I
don’t want to talk to you,” he
said.
BRITISH LOAN
(Continued From Page One)
find out what they have on their
minds.”
He denied London 'rumors that
the United States is considering a
boost in the price it pays for gold
from $35 to $50 an ounce. Such a
step would give Britain and other
countries with gold reserves more
dollars to be used until the Mar
shall plan for European recovery
becomes effective.
Snyder emphasized that the
talks would not go “further than
the loan agreement.”
There has been “no talk, no dis
cussion” of an increase in the price
of gold, he said, although he has
the right “under certain circum
stances,” to increase it.
Rumors that the United States
was ready to take such a step have
cropped up repeatedly in foreign
countries, but they have been de
nied by Treasury and State Depart
ment officials.
Snyder confirmed that he will
go to London for a September 10
meeting with officials of the Inter
national Bank and monetary fund.
He is governor of the fund.
Both Snyder and Secretary of
State George C. Marshall have em
phasized that the British are not
asking for money at this time. It
also was understood that they are
not asking for any changes in the
interest rate or repayment ar
rangements.
The British specifically are ex
pected to ask for modification ol
the so-called convertability clause
and the import discrimination
clause in the loan agreement.
Both have forced the British to
make large outlays in U. S. dol
lars since they became effective.
Snyder and Marshall have dis
agreed over whether these changes
would require congressional ap
proval. Marshall said he did not
think it was necessary but Snyder
said flatly “that it will take Con
gressional action.”
Congress and the British Parlia
ment approved the pact before it
went into effect on July 15, 1946.
If modifications require Congres
sional approval there is no chance
of getting them before next year
unless a special session of Con
gress is called this fall on foreign
relations.
INTER- AMERICAN
(Continued From Page One)
the spirit and the action of Inter
American policy,” he added.
But he had previously pledged
Argentina to abide by majority de
cisions.
Of the 20 nations participating,
18 have formally expressed them
selves in favor of a two-thirds ma
jority vote; Uruguay- favored a
simple majority and Argentina
unanimity.
U. S. Assistant Secretary oi
State Norman Armour; Pan Amer
ican Union Director General Al
berto Llerag Camargo; Peruvian
Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia
Sayan and Panamamanian For
eign Minister Ricardo J. Alfaro
were among today’* arrival*.
All delegations will be here by
Thursday morning, when U. S.
Secretary of State George C. Mar
shall, had of the American dele
gation, will arrive, accompanied
by Sen. Arthur H. Vandenburg ,R.
Mich.) and Warren R. Austin,
United States delegate to the U. N.
Security Council and former Sen
ator from Vermont.
Everything was reported ready
for the conference at the luxurious
Quintadinha Hotel, near the moun
tain resort city of Petropolis, 40
miles northwest of Rio De Janeiro.
The five-story hotel will house
, about 800 guests, including the
I chiefs and principal members of
;the delegations — many of them
with their wives — and also most
of the journalists covering -be
meeting.
PRICE HIKES
(Continued From Page One)
cost more than 30,000,000 man-davs
of production.
The NAM criticized the justice
department’s all-out drive against
conspiracies to keep prices *p.
said the department failed to take
into account the effect of wage
S™L;’r,k" “d
„S."!,Td lhe Apartment’s
campaign, although he said that
much price setting does not fall
under cnminal law.’’ He said that
General Motors Corp., for ex
ample, controls 60 per cent of the
automobile industry /‘and there
Jyfe 1S prices” legal
ARRIVES—Virginia HiU (above),
girl friend of slain gangster Ben
jamin “Bugsy” Siegel,” arrives in
Boston from Faris via a trans-At
lantic cUpper. Miss Hill later flew
to New Tork and to Miami, Fja.
Siegel was shot, to death in her
home at Beverly HUls, Calif., last
June 20. (AP Wirephoto).
The Weather
Weather bureau report of temperature
and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8
p. m.f in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Precip.
WILMINGTON _ 88 73 -
Alpena - 92 72 —
£sheville_ 86 65 —
Atlanta_84 67 —
Atlantic City_ 81 74 —
Birmingham_ 83 71 .68
Boston _ 99 71 —
Buffalo_ 93 72 ✓ —
Burlington _ 79 74 —
Chattanooga _ 90 70 .10
Chicago_ 94 72 —
Cincinnati _ 84 72 —
Cleveland _ 92 74 .22
Dallas _ 96 76 —
Denver _ 78 54 —
Detroit _ 94 76 —
Duluth _ 80 60 .53
El Paso_ 83 70 .05
Fort Worth_ 96 76 —
Galveston_ 92 82 —
Houston _ 92 74 —
Jacksonville _i_ 85 74 —
Kansas City _ 98 76 38
Key West_ 90 78 —
Knoxville _ 88 70 .12
Little Rock_ 97 72 —
Los Angeles_ 86 52 —
Louisville _ 93 74 —
Memphis _ 96 7 4 .03
Meridian _ 90 74 — I
Miami _ 86 73 .06
Minn.-St. Paul_ 88 78 —
Mobile _ 87 72 .98
Montgomery _ 85 71 .86
New Orleans _ 87 74 .09
New York _ 97 73 —
Norfolk_ 90 69 —
Philadelphia_ 93 72 —
Phoenix _ 103 75 —
Pittsburgh _ 93 72 —
Portland, Me. _- 99 6<\ —
Richmond _ 95 70 —
St. Louis _ 98 74 —
San Antonio_ 96 73 —
San Francisco_ 69 59 —
Savannah_ 83 71 .11
Seattle _ 80 52 —
Tampa _ 88 72 1.29
Vicksburg _ 97 86 —
Washington _ 93 74 —
ATLANTIC COAST WEATHER
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13. —(U.R)—
Weather forecast:
Lower Potomac and Chesapeake
bay — mostly southerly winds 10
to 15 MPH Thursday, generally
fair weather.
Virginia, Maryland and Eastern
Pennsylvania — generally fair con
tinued warm and humid except
scattered afternoon thundershow
ers in the mountains Thursday.
Friday scattered thundershowers
'and not so warm.
Delaware and New Jersey —
fair continued warm and humid
Thursday. Friday scattered thund
ershowers and not so warm.
Eastern New York — partly
cloudy continued warm and humid
with scattered afternoon and even
ing thundershowers west and north
portions Thursday. Friday scatter
ed showers and cooler.
Western New York and western
Pennsylvania — partly cloudy con
tinued warm and humid Thursday
followed by thunderstorms in aft
ernoon and at night. Friday partly
cloudy and cooler with a few show
ers in east portion.
Block Island to Cape faatteras —
gentle to moderate southerly wluds
and generally fair weather Thurs
day. Visibility rather poor north
portion.
BLONDE BANDIT
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left her Newport, Ark., home at
the age of 15 to dance in night
clubs from Juarez, Mex., to Fair
banks, Alaska under the name of
“Sunny “Golden.” She had also
strip-teased in Los Angeles and
El Paso, Tex., and she came here
from Long Beach, Cal.,
The orginal tip leading to Wal
ters’ arrest was provided by a 17
year-old, partly crippled high
school youth, Louis Armistead.
Armistead, a criminology student,
noticed a car bearing the descrip
tion of the one used in the holdup
and told police. They found
Walters’ driving it and under
questioning he confessed every
thing, implicating his associates.
FORMER OFFICER
(Continued From Page One)
in a manner favorable to the
couple. White turned toward his
fiancee. She shrugged her shoul
ders. Without a word, both climb
ed out of the automobile and ad
vanced toward the cameras. They
walked 40 feet while shutters snap
ped, then turned silently up the
steps to the consulate.
They passed 20 couples waiting
in the lobby, and while Consul U.
Alexis Johnson said "this is just
another case with us,” they were
admitted and married Immediate
ly I
OREGON LOGGER,
WIFE ARE HAPPY
After Quarter Of Cenutry
They Get Family Of
Three War Orphans
NEW YORK, Aug. 13—CU.R)—An
Oregon logger and his wife cud
dled three war babies today and
smiled happily—after a quarter of
a century they finlly had a family.
Elmo Wehnert, 49, and his wife,
Gertrude, 53, of Blodgett, Ore.,
childless after 2 years of marriage,
met their new family today at La
Guardia field. The babies, a curly
haired, brown-eyed boy and two
blue-eyed girls who were born in
Denmark refugee camps, arrived
by plane from Copenhagen.
"They are all we expected and
more,” said Wehnert. "And they’re
so near the same age it will be
like having triplets.” Erhard Gehr
man, whose, mother was German
and his father, Danish, is 16
months old.
Rosita Annies is 14 months and
Ursula Geromin is ’0 months.
Olga Holm, a Danish employe
of the American embassy in Den
mark, accompanied the children
on their trans-Atlantic flight. She
said the Wehnerts had arranged
the adoption of their three war
orphans through the American em
bassy.
DECISIVE BATTLE
(Continued From Page One)
tures, in the northern district and
later were driven out by rebel ar
tillery which destroyed the edifice.
Many buildings were destroyed
by artillery fire in northern As
uncion, some sources said.
The insurgent radio claimed reb
el planes sank three small gov
ernment vessels in the Paraguay
river.
The government radio in Asunc
ion, heard in Buenos Aires, said
a rebel plane dropped four bombs
on Asuncion this morning and that
two of them exploded, causing no
damage. The only casualty was a
woman who suffered minor injur
ies.
The U. S. Embassy in Asuncion,
presumably near the scene of the
heaviest fighting, notified Ameri
can authorities here that 30 Ameri
can citizens, mostly women and
children, were living under em
bassy protection in an Asuncion
hotel.
Some Americans already have
been flown from the capital to Rio
ae Janeiro.
NEW CHARGES
(Continued From Page One)
presentation to the Security Coun
cil tomorrow.
The Dutch communique report
ed “increased aggression and in
filtration” by the Republicans in
the Soerabaya. ll said the Re
publicans were attacking Dutch
patrols with hand grenades.
A United Press correspondent
who flew over the area of western
Java where Republicans yester
day claimed truce violations found
the Dutch flag flying over Tasik
malaja, and over Garoet between
Tasikmalaya and Bandoeng to the
northwest. He was told that Dutch
paratroopers operating as infan
trymen took Tasikmalaja Monday.
But they said this operation and
others were only “consolidation”
consisting of moving into towns
and villages in arias which were
generally under their entire con
trol.
ASHEVILLE NAMED
(Continued From Page One)
company of Philadelphia was urged
in a resolution passed.
The resolution said that the
company had refused to recognize
AFL unions and would not bar
gain collectively with employees.
Two pretty little Wilmington
girls held the center of the stage
as the convention drew to a close.
Standing on tables, the girls drew
the applause of the delegates and
were elected mascots for the en
suing 12 months.
They were Sylvia Dew, nine and
Barbara Ann Kornegay, 11,.
Elected District Vice president
tor Wilmington, without opposition,
was C. B. Kornegay, president of
the local council.
Down On The Farm Era
Vanishing In Nebraska
LINCOLN, Neb. (U.P)—Nebraska’s
new state song well might be
"How Ya Gonna Keep Them
Down on the Farm?”
According to statistics, in the
last 10 years Nebraska boys and
girls not only have left the farms
rapidly but also have left the
state.
. Dr. H. C. Filley, professor ol
rural economics at the University
of Nebraska college of agriculture,
said the trend to move away from
tte farm is “normal.” due large
ly to the fact that Nebraska farms
have been getting larger and few
er in number, while farm families
have increased in size.
“There are twice as many chil
dren born on farms as there are
in the cities,” Filley said.
The increase in the size of the
farm families coupled with the
coming of new and better farm
machinery has left the farm boy
and girl with time on their hands.
Mine White Coal
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O.—IURW’s
‘white coal” from the strip mines
of the Hanna Coal Company near
Martins Ferry. The white coal
isn’t a competitor of the usual
black stuff, but a limestone bed.
The Hanna engineers recently in
ed huge grinders in the open
pits and have been producing
a.bout 2,000 tons per day. The
limestone is being used as a ferti
lizer on farmers’ fields and as a
road covering.
It took about 50,000,000 years
for the dinosaur to develop from
an amphibian six feet lo^g to a
behemoth of 40 feet.
HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS
By Alley
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RIOTS BREAK
(Continued From Page One)
set afire by mobs during the day.
Enmity was made more bitter
because of a special boundary
commission’s delay in settling the
frontier between Moslem and Hin
due areas. Sikhs joined Hindus
against Moslems in the rioting.
Military authorities imposed an
11-hour curfew on Lahore at 7.
SELF GOVERNMENT FOR
INDIA TODAY
KARACHI, India, Aug. 13—(U.R)—
Adm. Viscount Mountbatten,
great-grandson of Queen Victoria
in whose name the empire of In
dia was created 70 years ago, ar
rived in this new world capital to
day to hand over to the Moslem
dominion of Pakistan the power of
self-government.
Before the Pakistan constituent
assembly tomorrow morning,
Mountbatten will read a message
from his cousin King George VI
creating the Moslem dominion.
In the Hindu capital of New
Delhi the constituent assembly of
the new dominion of Hindustan
will meet at the stroke of mid
night tomorrow to take over it#
powers.
It is at midnight tomorrow that
the two new dominions will be
formally inaugurated. Making
400,000,000 people, nearly one-fifth
the population of the world, self
governing.
Mountbatten, who, as viceroy,
was the chief engineer of the con
version of this sub-continent into
two dominions, will become gov
ernor general of Hindustan.
Monamme.d Ali Jinnah Decomes
king of all the Moslems and gov
ernor general of Pakistan.
On his arrival today Mountbat
ten was received by Jinnah’s new
governing staff. He was guest of
honor tonight at a state banquet
given by Jinnah.
the turnover cemes just at the
end of the yearly Moslem fast of
Ramadan. The real feasting will
start when it ends Sunday. But
private feasting already is under
way.
After tomorrow s function,
Mountbatten will continue on to
Bombay. There, on Sunday, he
will review the first contingent of
the British army to leave India.
India’s own fighting forces,
which include some of the tough
1 est soldiers in the world, have
been divided between Hindustan
and Pakistan in the proportion of
roughly two men for Hindustan to
one for Pakistan. Field Marshal
Sir Claude Auchinleck. present
commander in chief, will remain
as commander of the two domin
ion armies. They will operate un
der a joint defense council until
next April, with Mountbatten as
presiding officer.
From tomorrow midnight new
maps will show a Hindustan of
about 600,000 square miles, in
which live about 200,000,000 peo
ple. Pakistan, split into two main
parts, will comprise about 250,000
square miles with 60,000,000 peo
ple. The rest of India consists of
about 565 native states nearly all
oil which will adhere to one or
the other of the dominions.
Dispatches from all over India
told of preparations for feasting
—and of tension and continued
bloody riots between Moslems and
Hindus. '
GANDHI HAS NO PEACE
MESSAGE
CALCUTTA, India, Aug. 13—(U.R)
—Mohandas K. Gnadhi, the father
of Indian independence, gloomily
surveyed the burned or deserted
shacks around his new ‘peace
mission” headquarters tonight
and announced he would have no
independence day message.
His headquraters had just been
invaded by a mob of his own peo
ple, the Hindus. Booing in anger,
they also had thrown stones
through the windows, although
none came into the room where
Gandhi was. Hindus generally
treat Gandhi as though he is a
near saint.
Gandhi, whose voice has been
raised in the cause of Indian in
dependence through most of his 78
years, said he would have no mes
sage to mark the occasion when
India receives its independence as
two dominions at midnight tomor
row.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, a vet
eran leader of the national con
gress (Hindu i party and home
minister in the interim govern
ment, had specifically asked him
for a message. So had his secre
tary, Mi’idulla Sarabhai, the
daughter of a wealthy mill owner
and publisher.
Gandhi refused both requests
and members of his entourage
said he appeared to be ‘the most
despondent, man in India.”
Part of this despondency was
due to the Hindu mob. They foic
ed him to abandon his usual
nightly prayer meeting.
The,Hindus were reported to be
angered over Gandhi’s moving in
to a district where the Moslem
minority has been chased out,
rather than an area where Hindus
were the chief sufferers. The
house in which he set up his head
quarters used to belong to a Mos
lem family. It fled for fear of its
members’ lives.
DELEGATES ARRIVING
FOR CHURCH MEETING
Delegates from the entire east
ern part of the state will attend
the Young People’s Institute of
the Advent Christian Conference
of Eastern North Carolina here
today.
The Reverend I. C. Mitchell pres
ident of the institute, has announc
ed that registration and applica
tions have been received from
most of the Cape Fear area coun
ties and that formal registration
will begin at the Fourth Street
Advent Christian church this morn
ing at 8:30 o’clock.
Classes will be held from shortly
after the registration through Sun
day morning, when a closing sun
rise service will be held.
The Rev. Mitchell has invited the
public to attend nightly evening
services, which will be held at
the Sixth Street Advent Christian
church tonight through Saturday
night at 7 o’clock.
BARE BOSOMS
(Continued From Page One)
embroidery at the neck and around
the bottom of the skirt.
The collection showed the clever,
ness of design ^nd presentation in
herited from Frederick Worth,
pioneer couturier ■who invented the
hoopskirt and was the first to use
live models to display his wares.
Roger, current source of Worth’s
inspiration, designed sleeves which'
were tight to the elbow and then
flared into a large bell.
In a cocktail dress called "fol
low,” he showed a neck yoke with
a three-inch band of heavy tassels,
finished off with jet beads, which
jingled as the model walked.
Although his dresses offered a
minimum of drapery at the hip,
and only sometimes tapered off
into a flowing line at the back of
the skirt, the general trend of the
collection was toward a softened
figure, with full skirts’ and slightly
rounded shoulders.
HEAT WAVE
(Continued From~ pag, Q
Indianapolis, the weathe- v
said even if showers com,'”2?
weekend, as predicted the- ^
do little \p ease the’ wlde,^
crop damage.
The Illinois crop report s„
said heat and drought hav^"
Illinois corn prospects hv't * c‘
9,000,000 bushels. Shower, le*!:
needed immediately to stop th.V
struction, the service said ‘ at'
Illinois corn damage was
in the southern part of the
where the federal weather b-r!'
said farmers have lost 5c "
of their crops. "" CH!
At Lincoln, Neb., the state
ticians said that Nebraska
was deteriorating at an Increaul!
rate and that substantial -a - *
needed soon if the state is t0 I*1
fair crop. * ‘1
The early corn has withstood th,
heat wave much better than h.!
been expected, the statis-Ci
said, but at least 10 per cent j
the corn planted late bas ir*°
chance to survive.
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707 NORTH FOURTH ST.DIAI, 61M
NOTICE TO CITY TAX PAYERS
The Council of the City of Wilmington has received and ap
proved a budget estimate for the fiscal year July 1, 1946 to June 30,
1947, providing for Income and Expenditures in the following
amounts for the various departments of the City.
EXPENDITURES
City Council _ $ 7,200.00
City Manager's Office_ 15,230.00
Finance _ 16,545.00
Tax Collector ___,_ 17.30090
Legal_ 7,30t.00
Juvenile Court_ 7,390.00
Engineering_ 23,940.00
Public Buildings_ 34,110.00
Industrial Agent _ 1,160.00
Bureau Of Rates & Industry _ 9,025.00
Police _ 233,597.00
Identification Bureau_ 4,285.00
Fire_ 225,210.00
Purchasing Agent & Building Inspector_ 8,900.00
Electrical Department_ 6,990.00
Sanitation _ 181,350.00
Streets _ 178,279.60
Parks And Recreation_ 92,579.15
Carpenter Shop_ 19,100.00
Garage_ 27,820.00
Health & Hospitals_ 97,652.16
Charities & Welfare_ 2,290.80
Golf Course __ 16,700.00
Miscellaneous Appropriations_ 47,775.00
Planning And Zoning_None
Debt Service_ 185,824.11
Emergency Fund_ 35,000.00
Total _ $1,503,232.82
GENERAL FUND
INCOME
'Licenses ________ $ 90,000.00
Current Taxes (@$1.80 rate)_ 877.000.00
Delinquent Taxes_ 60,000.00
Street Assessments and Interest__ 35 000.00
Costs And Interest_ 13,000.00
Rents _ 21,000.00
Golf Course _ 9,000.00
Plumbing Insp. Fees_ 2,000.00
A. B. C. Board_-_ 250.000.00
Building, Electrical & Misc'I Permits_ 10,000.00
Parking Meters_ 44,000.00
Miscellaneous _ 14,564.18
Slum Clearance Housing_ 4,500.00
Intangible Taxes_____ 32 01543
Slate Highway Allocations_ 40,000.00
Surplus (or Deficit) _ (33,847.82)
Net From W. & S. Accounts_ 15,000.00
State Wine & Beer Tax_ __ _ 20.COO.OO
Total -_.-_$1,503 232.82
In compliance with chapter 146, Public Laws of 1927 as amen
fhevenf °fcPy °V the above budget estimate showing the full de^a
be evi S abeen uplaced in the hands of the City Clerk and m
next tw^ity (20) diys0"106 by any interested citizen dU
,*«*?• is hereby given that the Council will consider >*£
in? tnSie ,ln}ate aiAdeed°pt an appropriation resolution at a
ing to be held at 10:00 o’clock A.M., Thursday, September * 18
Dated this 13th day of August, 1947.
CITY OF WILMINGTON
Byt Myj B. Southerland, City Clerk