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FROM FLAT BROKE : TO $57,000 Story Of A Man Who Rose To - Riches I Bv GLENN MART " United Press Staff Correspondent I WESTHOPE, N. D. (U.R)—Back I in the, dust - dreary days of the ; early 30’s, a tired, hungry man " was stranded in the little town I of Rolla, N. D., because he ' didn’t have money to buy a tire - for an ancient truck. " He was Howard Henry, who ~ this year will harvest a $57,000 - wheat and flax crop. " Howard Henry, like a great - rr.any other North Dakota far ~ mers in those days, borrowed - money year after year—staved - off creditors—waited for crops I that never came. Swirling dust, cloudless skies, - burning sun — all combined to turn Bottineau County into a desolate waste of Russian this tles. He ana a menu suuuceueu *** • getting one more grub-stake. With Bill Shaffer his partner, he got the needed tire for the old truck and commenced haul ing lignite coal. In exchange they got government seed for a dime a bushel. “We never had our shoes off for three months,” he recalled as he watched his trucks haul weat away from four com bines. “We had to keep rolling in those days.” Today, Howard Henry farms 23 quarters of land and doesn’t owe a cent on a single acre. Shaffer now is a “retired” far mer. But Henry, sun-tanned and only 44 years old, is making things hum in this little prairie town. He owns the only hotel and a restaurant and he is build ing a new theater, a 70-room all modern apartment house and a jewelry store. Next summer he plans to sponsor a children’s playground. “All of my money came out of Bottineau County soil,” he ex plained, “and it’s all going to stay right here.” He. is vice-president of the state’s flying farmers chapter and a member of the state board of education. “I don’t fear another calamity like the ‘black blizzard’ area,” he said. “We’ve learned a lot about farming since then.” Ricci’s Killer Faces Murder Charge After Christmas Stabbing STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 27.— (/P)—District attorney, Otto .Meier said Giuseppe Capocci, 39 year-old Italian citizen, was charged tonight with murder for the Christmas-day stabbing of Italian ambassador, Alberto Bel lardi Ricci. He said Capocci’s wife, found not to have been, was freed tonight. Capocci, for seven years an in sane asylum inmate, has been .tiary hospital for criminal insane, -placed in the Stockholm periten ‘Meier said he now refused to talk of the killing. Ricci, who had been appointed Ambassador to Chile, was giving ,a farewell luncheon in a Stock -ho’m hotel when a man called "him out and slabbed him with -scissors. His first secretary, the -Maraqquis of Cictadini-Cesi, was ,'wounded. Stromberg Carlson RADIOS BROS. 110 MARKET ST. Dial 9655 C. W. Davis Co. Wholesale Grocers Catering to the retail grocer, hotele institutions, restaurants, c a f e t e rias, hospitals and bakeries. We carry a full line of No. 1ft Canned vegetables and No. 10 Canned Fruits Also everything for the retail grocer. We cater especially to new grocery stores on their open ing orders. We give you prices so you can complete. F*al” Hue of Soda Fountain supplies, wrapping pa mhi papM ba**' toilet Paper, per to^.1"8- W8Ied pap"’ pa t ^g0 following Christ. nnt*. cU**’ Wa,n“‘». «nl«a nntfp citron layer fruit cake mi*. ’ meat and pale jelly. p e n" angs ready-prepared . Peach, Pineapple, Blueberry and raiS|n. y* PHONE US YOUR ORDER 210-212 N. Water St. Dial 6587 Distributors of Quality Foods Since 1922 City Briefs Wilmington Police Chief Hubert Hayes met last night with captains, lieutenants and sergeants of the police force in the regular monthly session of the department, Capt. Coy Etheridge report ed. The meeting was held in the city hall council chamber. * * * An organ recital of Christ mas music will be given to night at 7:45 o’clock in the First Presbyterian church, Rev. William Crowe, pastor announced last night Edwin D. Clark, minister of music at the church will play the recital on the Skinner organ, Rev. Crowe said. * * * Personnel and manage ment of the Brooklyn Bak ery last night held their Christmas party at the firm’s plant. Turkey dinners with the trimmings, and some old fashioned egg nogg was serv ed. Thomas Eames, proprie tor said. * * ft The monthly “impromptu get-to-gether’’ of the adminis trative personnel of the Wil mington police department adjourned last night in the council chambers at City Hall without too much dis cussion of any of the “little odds and ends” according to Lieut. T h omas Hughes. There was no important dis cussion of interest, he said. * * * The establishment of a bookkeeping service depart ment in Wilmington and the appointment of George L. Stearns, former executive secretary of the Community Chest, as manager was an nounced today by Charles S. Lowrimore, local certified public accountant. Stearns announced his resignation as secretary of the Chest sev eral weeks ago. The resigna tion is effective Jan. 1. SNOW STORM (Continued From Page One) parting. Trains from New York were as much as 12 hours late in arriving at Chicago. Deliveries of fuel, food and . merchandise. complete ly stopped by the blocked streets in New York and nearby commu nities, had only begun to trickle under priority restrictions last night. However, from a meeting of top city officials yesterday. New Yorkers recei d a promise that “a great measure of relief” was forthcoming by Sunday after noon. Additional ambulances to aug ment the small number in oper ation in New York’s boroughs were supplied by the Army, Navy and Red Cross, and snow removal efforts were directed at clearing vital areas first as the wartime civilian defense corps was called upon for voluntary shovel duty. Other eastern cities, less r.ard hit, nevertheless struggled to re store normal traffic and public services jammed by the snow. The storm - affected area included most of the seaboard north of Washington, with north ern New Jersey, eastern Mas sachusetts the hardest hit Most of the rest of the nation was free of precipitation yester day, (Saturday) except the Pa cific northwest coastline where rain fell. The eastern snow area had the coldest temperatures, with the bulk of the country enjoy ing warmer than seasonal weather. However, the tempera tures in southern California where Long Beach reported a maximum of 87 Friday, moder ated, with readings generally in the high 70s, and the unusually mild northern plains area was somewhat cooler Saturday Beam Distilleries Former Head Dies Of Attack At 89 BARDSTOWN, Ky., Dec. 27— W—James B. Beam, 89, mem ber of a famous family of Ken tucky distillers, was found dead in his bed at his home here to day. A physician said he had been dead about two hours and death was attributed to a heart ail, ment. Beam was president of the James B. Beam distilling com pany at Clermont, Ky., Bullit county, until his retirement three years ago. He was a member of the fourth generation of Beam family distillers. Survivors include the widow, a son, T. Jere Beam of Louis ville, who had been a business associate of his father; and two daughters, Miss Mildren Beam of Bardstown and Mrs. Booker Noe of Springfield, Ky. Thuringia President Says Russians Forced Him To Flee Their Zone • MUNICH, Dec. 27.—(£>)—Dr. Rudolf Paul, former minister president of Thuringia, said to day he was forced to flee the Russian zone because he advo cated the Marshall Plan, Paul left Russian-occupied Thuringia Sept. 1 with his wife, entering the American occupied zone where, in effect, he has been in hiding. He visited Munich over Christmas and is staying m the home of minister president Hans Ehard of Ba varia. Paul, a former leader of the j right-wing liberal Democratic , party, had the backing of the j Soviet-sponsored Socialist Units IST&SSl — 5 I TheyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hado I THESE ARE THE PET GRIPES OF A NATION! FIRST TEN- NUMBERS ON THE IRK PARADE Each year this alleged car toonist RECEIVES THOUSANDS OF SUGGESTIONS FDR’T'HEylL DO ft EVERY TIME* FROM readers OF 430 NEWSPAPERS. Naturally many letters CONTAIN IDENTICAL GRIPES THIS YEAR, JUST FOR FUN,WE TABULATED THE IDEAS THAT CAME IN MOST FREQUENTLY. Here are the first ten-^ jClJ- , (..crlum WHENNOU'ee VtXJ AMD ftjT WHEN fTSA PVJHEM M3URE ^ huRGV TO | THE HOUSE ARE WRECKANOSO 1 K1UIN6 TME IH, SmC- JOST TRy TO SP1CK-AnD-5PAH, ARE *>U,E£RW I a store'^9^: St a CLEttj^—. Noeocy comes eopy comes .Ml ITOy ' RECEIVED 96S TIMES ) ] if JUST A SLIGHT TRlMl nVteOJNPtt'ECgj^ com. 1M7. KING FEATURES SYNDICATE. In WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED. _ Ef set'em up all around') ^THISHI PRlNK’SH ON MEj/ WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT ) 5°^_I6AVE^D MWPAy^ IBECEiVEP 1,252 Times) EIhe fiend next DOOR WHO VWUTS UNTIL >t)UVE HUN6 OUT "THE WASH/10 BURN HIS TRASH FisISfey gj Ihe dames with um- .lSt4 » brellas, Who walk t\w\0 UNDER THE AWNINGS AND KEEP BOOR V©0 W\W OUT IN THE RAIN-' |£27JU-\ Ihe female bottle- . \ aT\P ^ AUU cfP^ NECK WHO'S ALWAYS /t \ # FUMBLING IN HER ^ i PURSE IN TROLLEYS J®. I BUSSES, Cotton Growers Had Prosperous Business In 1947, Survey Shows NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.—UP! —Cotton growers, wth a pros perous 1947 behind them, are lopking forward happily to 1948 as the New Year approaches with prices good, this demand good year, with a far yield and an excellent price.” Leaders say 1947 was “a very good year, wth a far yeld and an excellent prce.” And 1948 should be equally good, provided: 1. The weather s favorable, 2. Growers are able to obtain needed fertilizer, and 3. Exports under the Marshal pan meet grower expectatons. Those factors can mean much to the national economy. Cotton is still kig in Dixie, despie an increased diversfaction of agri culture. Indications are . growers will probably meet the request of the United States Department of Ag riculture that they increase by three percent the acreage plant ed to cotton. If weather and fertilizer con ditions are comparable, 1948 production per acre should ex ceed that of 1947, for cotton growers each year as they strive to “make two grow where one grew before.” During the AAA years, every cotton growing state except Tex as and Okahoma reduced acre age but simultan eously in creased total production. Much of this was due to in creased f e r tilization which proved profitable in other states, but not in Texas and Oklahoma. That is the reason cotton grow ers are growling about the fertil izer situation. They contend that with supplies short, the federal government should halt ship ments abroad. But they doubt that the government will heed their plea. f irst uomerence Another factor in the in creased product ion was the transfer of cotton growing from poor to richer lands. Growers found that land worn out by years of cotton production made good permanent pastures where they could raise cattle. Mean while improved methods of cot ton growing made it financially feasible to devote richer lands to production of the staple. The movement of cotton to better lands has improved the labor situation for growers. With production of mechanical equip ment still far behind demand, labor requirements are expected to continue to exceed supply. But growers are pleased to note that for each af the last three years there has been an increase in the number of acres of tenant grown cotton. With better land and improved methods p r oduc ing more cotton to the acre, tenants have found it profitable to move to cotton farms. Mechanization of cotton is be nig retarded only by slow pro ductin of equipment. Growers who are happy that the Marshall plan will create cotton markets which might otherwise not be available are at the same time fearful it will reduce domestic steel supplies and, consequently, the supply of mechanzied farm eauinment. They are convinced, however, that such a set-heck in the spread of mecharNation would be only temporary. Mechani zation ig on the march in cotton land. __First Conference During the past year the Na tional Cotton Council and Mis sissippi’s Delta council staged their first annual cotton mech anization conference. Demon strations showed that every step in the production of cotton, from the breaking of ground to har vesting can be handled by mech anized equipment on large farms. Equipment m anuflacturers outlined plans for production of equipment suitable to snvaller farms. Mechanical equipment for breaking ground, planting cot ton, fertilizing it, chopping cot ton, flaming out weeds, and cul tivating the crop have proved most satisfactory. But operators say the me chanical cotton picker still needs improvement. For example, during the past vear when early wet weather in Mississippi’s Delta caused stalk rot, mechanical cotton pickers f dropped much of the cotton in the fields. Generally it is considered a good farm practice to hand pick the first cotton and gather the other pickings by machnie. On the first picking the mechanical harvester gathers too much trash and lowers the grade of the staple. But after that first picking, the mechanical picker is much more economical than and harvest. One of the major advances in cotton produ ction during the year was the discovery of the effectiveness of a n hydrous am monia as a fertilizer-. It is in jected into the soil as a liqtiid under pressure and remains there until it volatilizes and en riches the soil. Containing near ly 86 per cent nitrogen, it is rich in plant food. Mississippi farmers think so much of anhydrous ammonia they have agreed to erect a $12, 000. 000 (million) plant to pro duce 150 tons a day. Cotton growers who were once alarmed at the competition of synthetic yarns view the matter calmly. Synthetic yarns are priced high and competition is not proving as keen as they feared. Leading growers predict a small carryover as of next Aug. 1, saying it will run between 3.000,000 and 3,500,0*0 bales. This would be a very low figure and from it mills would have to 1 obtain supplies through A u gust and September until the 1948 crop begins to move to market. While they plan increased pro duction per acre on an increased acreage, cotton growers predict futures will match their 1947 performance when, on the New Orleans exchange, they s o ared to the highest levels in more than 25 years. ; The peak price of the year was 39.57 cents per pound, 1 reached by the July *947 con tract on July 14. The lowest was 24.60 cents per pound for the Oc tober 1948 contract, at the start of trading in that month’s fu tures. That made the range $74.85 for futures traded in on the New Orleans exchange. It was a year devoid of spec tacular fluctuations, such as oc | curred in 1946 when a big trader was caught long and caused a sharp break. The trading vol ume throughout the year was large and at year-end there was no let up in the demandfo r con tracts from mills to merchants. Official figures put t h e crop tentatively at 11,694,000 bales of 500 pounds,, compared with 8,640.000 bales in 1946. Tentative estimates indicate the ’47 crop, including by-prod ucts, reached a re c o r d high value. One estimate puts the ag gregate value currently at ■ $2, 250,000,000 (billion) against a previous record, set in 1919, at $2,034,658,000. That year the av erage price of cotton on the farm was 35.60 cents a pound. This s e aso n has not prog ressed sufficiently for a working estimate of the price on the farm, but the average price of middling at ten designated mar kets thus far this year reached a high of 36.35 cents a pound on Dec. 10. Air Hammer’s Din Brings Legal Action In Philadelphia Court PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 27.— (jp>—The rat-tat-tat or an air hammer—135 times a minute, sometimes 24 hours a day — to day raised a big legal din. A bill in equity was filed in Common Pleas court asking that Albert Berliner’s Philadelphia Tuge Co. plant be restrained from annoying residents and businessmen by operating the hammer. - Neighbors said the ryhthmical rat-tat-tat of the hammer is so violent that the ground shakes, setting up virbrations that have damaged foundations of sevedal buildings and cracked walls in homes. Freighter Being Towed To Rio De Janeiro Maritime Sources Say BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 27.— W—Maritime sources said today the North American freighter, John Owen, which lost a 'pro pellor in South Atlantic waters the day before Christmas, had been, reached by another U. S. freighter, the Lord Delaware. The latter vessel is towing the John Owren toward Rio De Janeiro, the informants said. EFFORTS FUTILE DETROIT, Dec. 27.—(JP)—Fire men forcibly removed Mrs. Frieda Landorf, 65, severely burned, from her blazing home today after she rushed into the i flames in a futile effort to res ! cue her seven-year-old nephew. — The earliest modrn form of commercial insurance was for ships and the cargoes. |—NEW— 1 Spinels Wurliizer and Winter PRICED $525»o TO $675-00 Terms but No Carrying Charges Or Interest! McGrath & Co. — 108 Market Street “ ATTENTION ALL NOBLES Get Your Camels Lined Up For That Third Section. The Arab Shrine Club Christmas-New Year Party At Famous Club (Just beyond Greenfield) Tuesday Nile December 30, 1947 - 7 P. M. You are invited with your ladies. $2.75 Per Person Wear your Fez. Please make your reservations now and send your check in for your tickets. NOBLE PETE CAPPS, Chairman % Ideal Laundry — Phones 6651—4234 AIRLIE SOLD (Continued From Page One) looking over the possibilities of the various aspects of the plan tation Built several decades ago, Airlie is the dream home con structed by the late Pembroke Jones who occupied the spacious estate and elaborate lodge un til his death. _ -i 1 _ ATT_ 1 X11S WiUUW uc^ouic iuio. ters a few years after his pass ing and she died approximately two years ago, leaving the plan tation and lodge to her daugnter, Mrs. Sadie Jones Pope. Mrs. Pope now resides in New York city and Newport, and could not pe reached last night to confirm the sale of part of the big estate It was pointed out that the estate is divided into at least two major tracts—one c- itain ing the mansion and the other comprised of about 2,030 acres on which the lodge is located The lodge is a masterpiece in archictecture and a huntsman’s paradise. Observers say the tim ber from the lands was pur chased several months ago by the Corbett Package firm. Legal advisers of the firm last night recalled that Corbett bought the timber, but he is not now buying the property on which the lodge is located, they said. They refused also to say whether the sale of the mansion and its 155 acres has been con summated. Queen Of Winter Misses Crowning, Too Much Snow LAKE PLACID, N. Y., Dec. 27. —The "Queen of Winter’’ miss ed her coronation tonight because of too much snow. Winter carnicval officials said the king, radio star Jack Barry, would be crowned alone in the annual Olympic arena ceremon ies. The Queen columnist, Dorothy Kilgallen, was reported to have boarded a train at New York city last night. The record snow fall delayed departure until ear ly today, and 10 hours after scheduled arrival the train still had not reached this Adirondack mountain resort, carnival official said. ACTRESS A MOTHER HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 27.—(>P)_ English actress Deborah Kerr gave birth today to a seven-pound 13 ounce girl at Cedars of Leb anon hospital. 530,000 FALSE TEETH TAKEN; THEIVES CAPTURED NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 27.—(U.R)_ A band of thieves bit off more than they could chew last night when they stole 530,000 false teeth from a medical warehouse and then returned for more. Police captured one of the gang on the return visit and were confident he would lead them to the other thieves, who absconded with the teeth valued at about $8,000. TURK STUDENTS (Continued From Page One) faculty meeting was being held. The dean’s appearance to an nounce the dismissal of the four suspected professors was that signal for shouts that “the dean is a communist!” from several students. The mob seized the university official and dragged him to the street, while police and firemen with gushing hoses fought to free him. After a battle in which the streets were flooded and several persons suffered minor inj ries, the dean broke away and began to shout that he had resigned. This quieted the crowd, which soon dispersed without causing further damage. One of the charges against Turkey’s communists which created intense opposition t tl.e party in Ankara was the accu sation that communists set the fire which destroyed the educa tion ministry four days ago. The insults to Dimitrov were apparently inspired by the ar rival this week of seven political refugees from Bulgaria, and the expulsion last Tuesday of a Bul garian school teacher who was reportedly working as a spy for Dimitrov’s government The political refugees were 1947 St. John’s ^ Lodge No. 1 A. F. & A. M. The officers of this lodge for the year 1948 will be installed in Orient Lodge No. 395, A. F. & A. M„ on MONDAY evening DECEMBER 29TH at 7:30 o’clock. A11 members are requested to attend. CHAS. B. NEWCOMB, P.G.M. Secretary members of Bulgaria opposUion party N?kX#^r leader of the pa?tv )la p«tkgv' cuted some months8s »**■ communist - domfnatfd y ernment of Turk™ d lo». neighbor. rkey s BafcJ, Diplomatic sources said terday that Ivan Sim d rector of the BulgS°n°V' school in Istanbul had kr'marJ rested by .Turkish’ u0mbeen5? disclosed charges Li cf °n Un leased under st.iet o f1 * leave Turkey at ders to Rumors that Simeon™ spy added fuel to munist flame here i1'^ port (rom the United **■ Turkeys trdditionnT £? *» opposition to Russia 5 Civil strife was aisn aged by the relaxation u" Tuesday of the martini H which had held Turkey^' 8W iron grip during the sev “ 8” “state of siege” which h'5ear SS” Ital-V The prompt. ipci,;,.. . taken by Ankara’s relativelS experienced civil police J* apparently came as a surndf to the student rioters Pnse In recent months, Turkey v,, been recognied as an asyC by refugees from the ironW tain nations of the Balkans et' pecially Romania and Bulgari' CRASH KILLS WOMAN HARTSVILLE, S. C , Dec f —(U.R)—An automobile driven i H. E. Fetters. Navarre, 0.. co]. lided with one driven bv B'1 Chapman of Hartsville, two miles east of here today and Mrs Fet ters died in a local hospital two hours later and three others were injured, Rheumatism is comparatively rare in warm climates. Orient Fodge No. 395 A. F. & A. M. An emergent communication of this lodge will be holden MONDAY evening. DECEM BER 29th, 1947, at 7:30 o'clock in the Masonic Temple, for the purpose of installing the of ficers of this lodge and those of ST. JOHN'S LODGE NO 1, A. F. & A, M„ and WIL MINGTON LODGE NO. 318. A. F. & A. M. Past Grand Master EDGAR W. TIMBER LAKE, JR,, of Wake Forest, N. C., will be installing of ficer and will deliver an ad dress. All qualified Master Masons are cordially invited to attend. By Order of the Master. WALTER H. McCLAIN, P. M. Secretary WILL MEAN A LOT TO YOU! 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