FORECAST:
WILMINGTON AND VICINITY: Clear to '
oartly cloudy today with ■ 1 ttle change
in temperature, colder tonight; Satur
day clear to cloudy with little change in
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Salaries Of Nurses
Below Teacher Scale
James Walker Staff Works Longer Hours
In Many Instances, Spokesman For
Association Members Points Out
Rv GEORGE KNUDSON
Star Staff Writer
Declaring that there is no .
. uerday than Thanksgiving
f,; to talk turkey, a mem
y°l o' the nursing staff
“frames Walker Memorial
fjital presented for publi- .
Itfon the facts of the con
troversy over working condi
ifor nurses here from
Je viewpoint of the /.mer
. „ Nurses association, of
£b .be *«• Walto
„„rses ire members.
“Nurses here are being
-aid less than teachers, the
ncal nurse commented.
!.*nd for longer hours of
work, day or night, under
frequently the most trying of
conditions.”
According to Ella Best,
R. N., executive' secretary
of the .<\. ,N. A., the situation
of a serious lack of nurses
needed to adequately care for
hospitalized patients results
.from the increased demand
for the professional services
of nurses and the reluctance
of young women to enter the
nursing profession because
of the low salaries and un
satisfactory working condi
tions in the hospitals. She
See NURSES On Page Two
Finnish Policemen Seize
Nation’s Wire Services
thanksgiving day
PASSES QUIETLY
Wilmington Citizens Spend
Holiday At Churches,
Recreation
Wilmingtoniahs were back at
their daily grind today following
, restful, family-gathering and
church-going Thanksgiving holi-j
day. ..
Along the entertainment line
hv fa" the largest crowd of-the
JL, estimated at nearly 4.000
fathered at Legion Itad-um last
night, to watch the New Hanover
high footballers romp to an easy
post-season. Thanksgiving Day
victory over an outclassed Teen
high team from Charlotte.
A number of Wilrrtingtonians
took advantage of the official
lopening of the bird season, the
abundance of othi ,
Southeastern North Carolina and
the near-perfect fall weather, «o
»et some hunting done.
Hundreds crowded into heal
churches, at least 11 of '.
offered special Thanksgiving ser
mons and musical programs, to
«ive tbapks for their compara
tive plenty in a hunger-filled
world.
Evidence of the fact that rhOa
local families observed a quiet
holiday at home, however, was
the fact that State Highway pa
trol officials reported unusually
light traffic which they said was
under normal for a week-day for
all of Eastern North Carolina,
as well as for this section.
No Major Accident
No major accident had been
reported in all of the eastern
part of the State at _ nightfall
yesterday. Only two minor acci
dents were handled by local law
officials, one in the city and one
investigated by the Highway Pa
trol which occurred near the
Muncipal golf course.
Wilmington city traffic was at
s minimum, according to local
See THANKSGIVING On Page 9
FOUR LOSE L ES
IN GRADE CRASH
Lehigh Valley Train Strikes
Auto On Auburn, N. Y.
Street
AUBURN, N. Y., Nov. 27—<U.R)
“Four persons were killed, here
today when » Lehigh Valley rail-'
train struck their passenger
?8r «t a grade crossing.
Police identified the dead as
"•srio Ferro, 27; his wife, Jose
Pnine, 22, their daughter, Dolores,
and their nephew, John De
marz>o, 3, all of Auburn:
A fifth passenger in the car,
Rachelle Demarzio, 4, escaped
"’Ah minor injury.
Police said th? car was carried
teet down the tracks before
wo train could be stopped.
Sid Carr, of Ithaca, was listed
83 engineer of the train which
"'as enroute to Ithaca. .
The Weather
SOUTH CAROLINA^1Fair with little
•■•ngt in temperature Friday and Sat
tost Friday night.
c«v2HTH. CAROLINA — Clear .to partly
2 wi'h little change in temperature
Ms „ar,d Saturday, except slightly
"S” Friday night.
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8 ‘ -30 p.m. yesterday.
. temperatures
, a.m. 40 7:30 a.m. 35 1:30 p.m. S3
i£>m- 46.
- Minimum .34 Mean -
HUMIDITY
1a» 88 7:80 a-m. 70 1:30 p.m. 44
■*> P m. 81 .
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Action Restores Communi
cation Cut Off By Civil
Service Strike
| HELSINKI, Finland, Nov. 27—
j (U.R)—Finnish police and mili
tary forces occupied the chief
telephone and telegraph offices
in Finland today partially re
storing communications cut off
for two days by a strike of more
than 50,000 civil servants.
The country had been vir
tually isolated by the communi
cations . phase, of the walkout
which extended from food trans
port workers to shipping, air
lines and railroads.
The central committee of the
striking civil servants lost tele
phonic communication with oth
er cities at 5 p. m. when the
general post 'office in Helsinki
was occupied by police.
A committee spokesman said
that the last message received
on the line reported that the
strike “was continuing effective
ly all over the country.”
When the Strike began at mid
night Tuesday the strikers had
complete control over communi
cations and only committee-ap
proved calls were permitte.d. /
No Progress
Although Finland’s official
state arbitrator contacted the
See FINNISH On Page Nine
ACCIDENTST AKE
BIG HOLIDAY TOLL
At Least 66 Persons Lose
Lives Over Nation In
24 Hours
CHICAGO, Nov. 27 —(U.R)— At
least 66 persons met accidental
deaths today as the nation cele
brated Thanksgiving.
United Press bureaus across
the nation reported the number
of holiday deaths totalled 66 at
6 D.m. and was mounting stead
ily
The survey showed that the
first, winter holiday had taken
53 lives in traffic accidents.
Miscellaneous tyoes of
dent-; clairhed 13 lives.
New York led all the states
with 15 deaths, all the result of
traffic accidents. Illniois with
10 traffic deaths was next. In
diana registered eight deaths
ami Ohio seven.
At Charles City. ' la., Mrs
Charles F. Lessin was 1 illed
when a rifle her husband was
examining accidentally dis
charged while she was prepar
ing ThanVsyivine dinner.
Hit By Tralii
David Leachman. 76, Fari
mount, Ind., was killed at Fen
dleton, Ind.. when a so'itbhnur j
New York Central work
train struck his car at a cross
ing.
The National Safety Council
had predicted at Chicago that
the .number of traffic <log+hs
nrobablv would he less than for
a normal Thursday.. The council
sam there usually is relatively
h’ttle traffic on Thanksgivirg
Day.
In one of the day’s worst mis
haps, .the driver and 16 passen
gers of a bus were injured when
the bus hit an automobile and
ran into a ditch near Dum
right, Okla. At Stevens, S. D..
seven persons were injured
wh<_'-' an explosion and fire de
See ACCIDENT On Page Nine
Atlantan Sways Funeral
Director But Not Cops
ATLANTA, Ga.,.Nov. 27. —(U.R)
— Police here were convinced
today that 57-year-old J. H.
Johnson must have needed $15
pretty badly. But they kept him
in jail on “swindling and cheat
ing” charges.
Johnson went to an Atlanta
funeral director, police said, with
; story that his infant grandson
had. died. He told a sad tale of
the death, selected a casket and
made burial arrangements — all
a buildup to cashing a $15 bad
check.
pis performance was good
enough to win a Hollywood
“Oscar,” the funeral director said.
Johnson appealed at the fun
eral home “shaken and overcome
with grief,” attendants reported.
“He broke into spasms, of grief
as he told how little Ronnie died
.in 1 his sleep and how. Ronnie’s
father had been killed in the war
and his mother had gone to
Wyoming to live,” they said.
He was so convincing that the
See ATLANTAN On Page 2
Thirteen veiled When DC-4 Cargo Ship
Plows Into Low Hillside Near Yakutat;
Marshall Rejects Soviet Boundary Plan
German Frontier
Causes Hot Clash
Molotov Insists Present Po
lish Dividing Line
Is Permanent
LONDON, Nov. 27-Secre
tary of State George C. Marshll
flatly rejected today, at a meet
ung of the Big Four Foreign
minsiters, a Russian statement
that the present. German-Polish
boundary was permanent and
could not be changed.
Russian Foreign Minister Via
cheslav Molotov attempted in a
statement at the third session of
the Big Four, to brush aside the
question of Germany’s Eastern
frontier by saying it had been
settled definitely qt the Potsdam
conference.
“Fronteirs between nations
should cease to divide and em
bitter,' and in drawing new fron
tiers we should 'promote this ob
jectve,” Marshall said.
“I believe that suon a frontier
is possible between Poland and
Germany. Poland is lustly en
titled to compensation for her
wartime losses and the United
States government wishes to!
honor this obligation.
“But we must bear in mind
.that much of the territory now
under Polish administration has
long been German and contains
agricultural resources of vtal
importance to German and
European recovery.”
He cautioned the Big Four to
avoid decisions which would
deny all hope to moderate forces
in Germany and which would
fail to win the approval of world
opinion.
Key Resources
In considering the territory to
be given Poland. Marshall add
ed. the Big Four should make
sure that key industrial re
sources such as the Silesan in
dustries and coal mines should
be made available to the econo
my of all Europe.”
“We have to be careful to
avoid a violation of the princi
ples of the Atlantic charter,” he
warned.
Asserting that Molotov was
wrong in assuming that the
Polish-German frontier problem
was settled at the Big Three
Potsdam conference in August
1945, Marshall read from the
agreement reached there re
garding Germany’s frontiers:
See GERMAN On Page Nine
CITIZENS WARNED
OF OIL SHORTAGE
Industry Spokesman Ad
vises Filling Tank Now,
Use Sparingly
CHARLOTTE, Nov. 27. —OP)
— The North Carolina chairman
of the oil industry’s public re
lations committee today advised
Carolinians who heat their homes
with oil that there may be a
shortage this winter and they had
better fill their tanks now.
F. J. Whitehurst of Charlotte
said in a statement the entire
Eastern seaboard area faces a fuel
oil shortage because of lack of
transportation facilities from oil
producing areas.
Whitehurst said this is the oil
industry’s four-point plan to
stretch available supplies:
1. Drive in a more conservative,
manner and take good care of
automobiles.
2. Fill and keep.filled fuel oil
tanks for use at peak demand.
3. Maintain moderate home
temperatures, with 70 degrees a
good thermostat figure.
4. Check oil burners. Many are
outmoded and use more oil than
necessary.
Most of the East coast oil sup
ply comes in tank ships to At
lantic ports, Whitehurst said.
Strikes in ship repair yards, and
steel shortages that have caused
delay in building more tank
trucks contribute to the fuel oil
shortage, he declared.
SOVIET FOREIGN MINISTER V. M. Molotov (left) shakes
hands with U. S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall (third
from right) at the opening of the Big Four foreign ministers con
ference in London. Between them stands George N. Zarubin, So
viet ambassador to the United Kingdom. Others were not identi
fied. (AP Wirephoto via radio from London)
Partition Advocates
Make Decisive Gains
MEANEST MAN
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,
Nov. 27 — (U.R) _ Charles
L. Wiseman, 69, for
mer investment banker, was
arrested today on charges of
stealing tw* packages of cig
arettes from a blind man.
Wiseman was arrested in
the postoffice building when
an observer pointed him out
after cigarettes were stolen
from Jimmie Hill, blind
Negro operator of a tobacco
and news stand.
BURGAW MASONS
TO HEAR SERMON
Annual Address To Be
Held Sunday In Pres
byterian Church
Members of the King Solomon
Masonic Lodge No. 138 of Bur
gaw will hear their annual Ma
sonic sermon, to be delivered
tv-'c; year by the Rev. Fon H.
Scofield, Jr., head of the visual
education department at Wake
Forest college, Sunday morning
at 11 o’clock.
Acording to an announce
ment from members of the lodge
orphan asylum committee, the
Masons will meet in the lodge
room next to the Pender theater
at 10:30 o’clock and march to
the Burgaw Presbyterian
church in a body.
Visiting Masons and members
of the Eastern Star, as well as
members of the families Of the
Masons, have been issued spe
cial invitations to the service.
C. F. Mallard, Jr., chairman
of the asylum committee, an
nounced that an offering will be
taken at the service for the Ma
sonic orphanage at Oxford, to
which the Burgaw lodge con
tributed $603.48 last year as a
Thanksgiving donation. It was
pointed out that since this year
“the high cost of living has hit
the orphans like anyone else. . .
It will take more money to pro
vide the 1,000 meals needed a
See BURGAW On Page Nine
Haitian Government Or
ders Delegates To Re
verse Holy Land Vote
UNITED NATIONS HALL.
FLUSHING, N. Y., Nov. 27—(U.R)
—Advocates of the partition of
Palestine made new and per
haps decisive gains in the Unit
ed Nations General Assembly
tonight when the Republic of
Haiti decided to reverse its
position.
A United Press dispatch from
Port Au Prince disclosed that
the Haitian government had
ordered its UN delegation to
vote in favor of partition when
the long and tense Palestine
See PARTITION On age Nine
LEADERS ALARMED
OVER BILL FATE
Appropriations Committee
• May Slash Millions
From Bill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. —(U.R)
— High administration leaders
today were reported gravely
alarmed by the turn taken by
Congressional debate on the Presi
dent’s $579,000,000 emergency aid
bill for Frnaec, Italy and Aust
ria.
Instead of quick Senate ap
proval, as predicted by Senate
President Arthur H. Vandenberg,
the measure ran into unexpected
snags there, and heads into even
more trouble in the House.
Authoritative sources said that
top government officials now
are “genuinely disturbed.”
The Senate resumes debate on
its bill tomorrow, with passage
expected next Monday. Sen. Carl
A. Hatch, D., N. M., prophesied
meantime that the Senate will
authorize the full amount. But he
said he “rather expects” the Ap
propriations committee — which
must vote the actual money — to
cut the funds to about $450,000,
000.
Floor Fight Looms
He foresaw a sharp floor fight
See LEADERS On Page Nihe
Along The Cape Fear
GREENFIELD LAKE ENCORE
—To the list if things for which
the writer this column is
thankful must be adde a letter
from Mrs. Boyd Quarles, Lake
Forest, received on Thanksgiv
ing Day.
Mrs. Quarles, who is conser
vation chairmc if the Lake
F Test Women’s Civic club, writs
as follows:
The historical nature lover
who 'rites ALONG THE CAPE
FEAR di- not say enough of
Greenfield Lfike in autumn. He
mentioned the stately cypress,
trees fetooned with Spanish
moss guarding the lights and
shadows of the fivf miles of
shore line. Perh ps he should
have added that this cathedral
of cypress with its organ pipes
of nature sighing in the breeze
was about the oldest spot in Wil
mington.
“Some of the cypresses show
signs of advancing age where
the green folage has turned al
most black in centuries of imi
tation of sacred trees of the
anciei.ts. Dc btless ne of the
cypress wonderland of Green
field Lake was there lc g before
th. American Revolution when
old Wilminglm revolted at the
unjust Stamp Act first imposed
by W;lliam III, in i C.iarles II
revival.
“Cypress trees similar to the
ones in Greenfield and Lake
“'orest -eas have stood for cen
turies, as the famed trees of
Rone removed by Eugenius IV
estimated at 1100 years old. Be
cause oi its value arid durability
the indents considered a cypress
plantation a handsome dowry
for a young lady of noble birth.
“Perhaps some conservation
ist of natural resources could tell
See CAPE FEAR On Page Nine
France To Protect
Workers Of Nation
LODGER BUILDS FIRE
IN KITCHEN CABINET
WITH FATAL RESULTS
BURLINGTON, Vt., N.ov.
27 — (U.R) — A nearly-blind
lodger mistook a kitchen
cabinet for a stove today and
kindled' a fire that swept a
basement apartment and
burned his 69-year-old land
lady to death.
Mrs. Flore Barrows died
enroute to a hospital after
firemen rescued her from a
blazing bedroom.
Charles Rogers, 82, the
lodger, told police he built a
wood fire in a cabinet under
the impression he was build
ing it in the stove. He blam
ed his poor eyesight for the
mistake. He was uninjured
in the blaze.'
GEARHART OFFERS
TAX CUT PROGRAM
New Plan Would Remove
20 Million Persons From
Federal Rolls
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. —UP)
— Removal of 20,000,000 persons
in the lower income brackets
from the federal income tax rolls,
and imposition of a 10 per cent
manufacturers excise tax to make
up part of the revenue loss, was
proposed today by Rep. Gearhart
(R.-Calif.).
The Californian, a member of
the tax-writing House Ways and
Means committee, told newsmen
the plan “would be of greatest
benefit to the poor man” and that
84 per cent of 10,000 business ex
ecutives polled had approved it.
Here’s the kind of tax law
Gearhart wants:
1. Raise the exemption of single
persons from the present $500
to $1,000 and of married men from
$500 to $2,000, with the exemption
for each of the taxpayer’s de
pendents remaining at $500. Then
cut back the tax rate so that the
top take from any taxable in
come would be 50 per cent, in
stead of the present 86 per cent
on the highest bracket income.
This would cut revenues by $S?,
700,000,000, he estimated.
2. Impose a 10 per cent manu
facturers excise levy, the tax to
apply as any product leaves the
manufacturer to go into com
merce. Food and shelter would
be exempted. Gearhart said this
would pick up $6,700,000,000 of
revenues.
Tnus the overall revenue loss
would be about $3,000,000,000. Of
the 48,500,000 income taxpayers,
See GEARHART On Page Nine
NEW MAYOR TAKES
OVER' BROKE CITY
Bookkeeper For Indianap
olis Makes Mistake
Of $330,000
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 27—W
—The bookkeeper who made that
error in the Indianapolis city
accounts was no piker. The mis
take was for $330,000.
As a result of the error Mayor
Elect A1 Feeney, a Democrat,
will take over a city that is bust
ed on Jan. 1 when the Republican
regime goes out.
C. S. Ober, city controller, who
announced the error, said that
Indianapolis has $330,000 less cash
•on hand than the books show. He
blamed “sloppy, haphazard book
keeping” and said no money was
missing.
Ober said the city could pay
its bills up to the end of the years
but would have no cash to start
1948.
Feeney, who will investigate,
said he was “surprised.”
Schuman Threatens Ex
treme Measures To Halt
Redinspired Terrorism
PARIS, Friday, Nov. 28—
—W—Premier Robert Schu
man’s anti-strike coalition
Government was upheld in
a vote of confidence by the
French National Assembly
early today.
PARIS, Nov. 27 —(UP.)—
Premier Robert Schuman
charged tonight that Communist
agitators “seem to wish to go
as far as insurrection” and he
v/arned the government would
use force, if necessary, to pro
tect workers who remained on
their jobs from Cosnmunist
inspired “terrorism.”
Schuman, attacked earlier to
day by both extreme Rightists
and the Communists, fought
back dramatically in' a crucial
National Assembly debate
which may end in the sudden
collapse of his new Centrist gov
ernment.
Warns Workers
He warned the nation’s idle
workers — nearly 2,000,000 after
new strikes in vital industries
today — that unless they re
turned to the jobs immediately,
France faced “obligatory infla
tion.”
As the Assembly reconvened
for further debate at 10:30 p.m.
Schuman received hearten
ing news that the central cartel
of government workers decided
not to order its 2,000,000 mem
bers to strike tomorrow — the
first major break in the Com
munist strike front. The cartel,
representing 11 civil service
branches, voted six to four
against walking out, with
the policemen’s federation ab
staining.
Schuman, bitterly attack
ing the Communists, was ap
plauded by some followers of
Gen. Charles De Gaulle who
previously had criticized his
“ conciliatory ” attitude to
ward strikers and their Commu
nist leadership.
Blunt Warning
“I cannot conceal the gravity
cf the situation, because agita
tors seem to wish to go as far
as insurrection,” he said. “We
do not accept political exploita
tion of misery. The government
will oppose any attempt at ter
rorism and will protect the
workers.
“We should correct the social
and financial situation, but we
See FRANCE On Page Nine
WALDAWINCHELL
LISTED MISSING
New York Police Issue
City-Wide General Alarm
For Actress
NEW YORK, Nov. 27—W—
Police said today that Walda E.
Winchell, 20-year-old daughter
of Columnist Walter Winchell,
had been reported as missing
since 3 p. m. yesterday.
Detectives of the West 54th
street police station, who issued
a city-wide general alarm for
Miss Winchell, said they were
notified of her absence by her
mother, Mrs. June Winchell, of
the San Moritz hotel, 59th street
and Central Park South.
The police report said Miss
Winchell was last seen at the
Gotham hotel, Fifth avenue and
55th street, where she had been
staying.
Detectives and members of the
police missing persons bureau
reported they had checked all
hospitals and other city institu
tions as well as police records
of the past 24 hours in a search
for Miss Winchell.
Miss Winchell has appeared in
three Broadway shows under
the stage name, Toni Eden. They
were “Up In Central Park.”
“Dark Of The Moon” and “Devils
Galore.”
Winchell currently is in Holly
wood, Calif._
Maidens Fool Preacher,
Neighbors But Not FBI
SANTA ROSA, Cal., Nov. 2—
■(U.P.)—Two young women who
married after meeting while co
eds at the University of Califor
nia ate their Thanksgiving roast
beef dinner today in separate
cells of Sonoma county jail.
They were held on three fel
ony charges. They had hoped to
eat their first Thanksgiving din
ner since their marriage last
June at their ranch cottage in
remote Loveall Valley where
neighbors knew them as Mr.
and Mrs. David Warren.
They identified themselves to
authorities as Thelma Walter,
28, and Marieta Cook, 26, after
FBI agents visited their Chin
chilla and rabbit ranch in the
Valley Of the Moon country to
question Marieta on a draft eva
sion charge. The FBI had be
lieved her a man, even as her
neighbors.
An FBI agent said he bacame
suspicious “when some of Mari
eeta’s lines looked like a
woman.” A slender blonde, with
closely trimmed male haircut,
See MAIDENS On Page Two
Bodies Recovered
By Rescue Party
__
Crash Demolishes Airliner
In Alaska; Fog Cover
ed Airfield
YUKATAT, Alaska, Nov. 27 —
.p.)—Thirteen persons were kill
ed today when a DC-3 commer
cial cargo airliner crashed and
burned during a pre-dawn land
ing attempt two miles from Ya
kutat airfield.
The plane ploughed into a low
hillside shortly after 4:20 A.M.
PST as the pilot made his land
ing approach through, a
light fog and drizzling rain.
A Coast Guard party reported
the twin-engine transport was
"demolished” and all aboard
were killed outright. Townspeo
ple and. officials from Yakutat
Ranger station recovered the
burned bodies.
Most of the dead were, resi
dents of Oregon and Washing
ton, returning to their homes on
charter rates after the plane
had unloaded a cargo at Fair
banks and Anchorage.
The plane belonged to Colum
bia Air Cargo company of Port
land; Ore.
The company reported the
airliner was piloted by Jay B.
Haworth, Jr., Portland, Ore., a
World War II Army pilot. Co
pilot was T. A. Keranen, 26,
Vanport City, Ore., also a vet
eran war pilot;
Straight Approach
The Civil Aeronautics admin
istration reported the pilot had
asked for and received permis
sion to make a. straight ap
proach to the runway at Yaku
tat airfield.
The CAA said the Columbia
Air Cargo company plane had
intended to make a regular stop
at Yakutat as part of its An
chorage-Portlarid run. The last
word from the pilot was a
radioed request at 4:20 A. M.
See BODIES On Page Nina
1947 COAST LINE
NET $4,115,845
October Operating Reve
nue* Total $9,942,456
Report Shows
Net operatin':; .revenues for the
antic Coast Line Railroad
company for the month of Oc
tober was $891,084, bringing the
net operating income for the
™,1° months of 1947 to $11,
715,416, was disclosed from
the company’s general offices
here yesterday.
The deduction of $£10,000 for
taxes and $41,028 for rent of
equipment and joint facilities
brought Octobers net i ailwav
operating income to $250,056.
Other income, minus miscellane
ous deductions arid fixed and con
tingent charges, set the com
pany’s net income for the month
at $895,765. The 1946 net income
was $1,836,168. Th net was $997,
678.
Gross operating revenues for
the month amounted to $9,942,455
with operating expenses set as
$9,051,372. This compared with
gross revenues of $9,934,289 with
a net of $1,049,575 last year. The
comparable figures for 1945 were
$10,783,311 and $994,318.
10-Month Revenue
Total - operating revenues for
the first 10 months of 1947 were
revealed at $105,547,925 with ex
penses for the pet to-d of $93,832.
509. The net operating revenue
of $11,715,509 so far this year
were compared with $8,262,996
for the same period of 1946 and
$30,530,941 for 1945.
. Total amount paid in taxes this
year has been $8,500,000, compar
ed with $4,650,000 in 1946 and
$20,584,268 in 1945.
$4,115,845 Net
Net operating income for the
year to date is $1,198,272. This
figure for 1946 was $1,016,789;
and for 1945, $6,311,3’’3. With
other income added and miscell
aneous deductions and ■*:xed and
contingent charges figured, the
net income for th'- ompany so
far in .1947 is set at $4,115,845.
The net income , for the same
period in 1946 was $1,984,093 and
for 1945 was $8,'°.4,698.
And So To Bed
A little boy was standing
beside the woodshed yester
day with turkey feathers in
his hand. The lad kept dip
ping the feathers into the
mud and brushing them over
his face and body until he
was completely black.
“Oh! Babyf Baby! what in
the world are you doing?”
cried the distraught mother.
“Nothing,” replied the
youngster, “I’m taking a
turkey bath like Daddy said
he had yesterday.”