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Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week 400 CHINESE DROWNED AS STEAMERS COLLIDE Shanghai—Possibly 400 Chinese drowned when a small Yangtze River steamer collided with a lighter and sank off Woosung. Six hundred or more sur WWore, brought to Shanghai and joined by relatives of victims, angrily besieged the Chinese ship operators’ office and threatened to tear it apart before hastily summoned police quieted them. The steamer was the Chekiang, bound up river to Nantung with about 1,000 passengers. Off Woosung, where the Whangpoo from Shanghai joins the Yangtze Estuary, the ship collided with one of two steel lighters being towed by a tug and went down almost immedi ately. Survivors charged that the Chekiang was badly overloaded and that the tug ignored signals to alter course. WOULD MAKE PALESTINE AN INDEPENDENT NATION New York—Former New York Congressman Joseph Clark Bald win suggested a conference be tween the United States and Great Britain for the purpose of recognizing Palestine “as an in dependent democracy.” His recommendation was in cluded in a report on a six week’s trip to England and Palestine which Baldwin made as adminis trative chairman of the Poltical Action Committee for Palestine, Inc. A spokesman for the commit tee said that “Baldwin’s findings k are in the nature of an official re * port to the President of the United States and have already been pre sented to Mr. Truman personal ly.” Baldwin suggested that Pales tine, as an independent democ racy, should include “politically SAYS PREPAREDNESS IS BEST INSURANCE Washington—Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said that “our best insurance against involve ment in war is military strength." “So far neither the United Na tions nor any other organization is able to guarantee the end of war or the safety of this nation,” Patterson said in an NBC broad cast. Patterson said “the last drop of water has been squeezed out” of the War Department’s request for a fiscal 1948 appropriation of $6,700,000,009. “If we get another substantial squeeze, we will be unable to carry out our tasks,” he said. Patterson said he was con vinced lasting peace could be achieved through the United Na tions if we continue to work to gether with our Allies with the same determination that led to victory during war. GEORGIA GETS THIRD GOVERNOR THOMPSON Atlanta, Ga.—Lieut. Governor M. E. Thompson announced he had taken over as acting Gover nor of Georgia, following resigna tion of Ellis Arnall, and would demand that Herman Talmadge surrender the Governor’s office and executive mansion. Talmadge, elected by the Leg islature in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a tu multuous 16-hour session, took physical possession of the Capitol and mansion Thursday after oust ing Arnall. The retiring Governor, who rejected Talmadge as “that pretender” and accused him of ■eizing the Government with the homeless Jews in Europe,” and that its boundaries should be the “existing boundaries of Pales tine temporarily exclusive of Trans-Jordan.” from where I sit... ly Joe Marsh Main Street is One up on Broadway Our Main Street isn’t Broadway. Bat for cleanliness and neatness, it has Broadway lashed to the mast! (I’m sticking my neck out, so far as those city people go, bat it sore Is the truth.) Oar sidewalks all along Main Street are swept dean each mora i Ing; the store fronts are kept <> neatly painted; the windows are shiny bright; and there’s grass and flowers every place that grass and flowers can be made to grow 1 Once when “Butch” Snyder let the awning of his store get torn and dirty, folks np and down the street just gently nudged him till he went out and got it repaired and cleaned. That's how it works around this town of ours. From where I sit, it’s a little like the Brewers’ program of Self Regulation. They want all taverns Belling beer to be a credit to the city... neat and orderly and up to scratch. And when any tavera lags behind, they nudge it back ta standard. Works tool 01947, UNITS) STATES BREWERS FOUNDATION, North Carolina ComMn Suite 606-607 InMirancn Building, Rglnigh, North Carolina. Just Received! A Few Hard To Get Items On Sale To Everyone SPECIAL CONSIDERATION GIVEN VETERANS SOME OF THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ARE: Pre-war Built-in Bath Tubs, Sinks, Kitchen Sinks with Steel Cabinets, Lavatories and Commodes. Portland Cement and Plaster Toggle Switches, Double Wall Receptacles. Brass Pull Chain Sockets. Tea Kettles, Wash Pans, Dish Pans, Dippers, Milk Pails, Galvanized Buckets and Tubs, Old Fashioned Pop Corn Poppers and Flour Sifters. Plastic Oil Cloth Table Covers. Tn«iit«» and Front Door Mortise Locks, Old Fashioned Rim Knob Door Locks. Egg Beaters, Potato Mashers, Pressure Cookers. Outside White and Inside White Paint. Small Size Warm Morning Coal Heaters. Screen Wire, Lawn Mowers, Wood and Coal Ranges, Oil Ranged, Kitchen Cabinets, 3-pc. Poster Bedroom Suite with large size posts on bed. AND MANY ITEMS THAT WILL BE HARD TO GET WHEN THEY ARE NEEDED Jenkins Hdw. and Furn. Co. N. WilkesbofO, N. C. :i Doughton Sees Congressmen Named On Good Committees TO VISIT STATE Paul H. Griffith, of Union town, Pa., national command er of the American Legion, who will make his first public appearance in the State at the Post Officers’ and Adjutants’ conference in Durham on Jan uary 26-27. He is veteran of both World Wars and has numerous decorations for bravery. Cheek Head Of USD A Council The USDA Council met in the Home Agent’s office in Sparta, on January 6th at 2 p. m., and the following officers were elect ed for the ensuing year: Ralph B. Cheek, vocational ag riculture teacher of Sparta high school, chairman; T. R. Green, of the Soil Conservation Service, vice chairman; and Miss Lenna F. Gambill, home supervisor with Farmers’ Home Administration, secretary and treasurer. The Council will, continue to meet at 2 p. m. on the first Mon day to discuss matters and make plans pertaining to the agricul tural work in the county. Timely Hints By RUTH CURRENT Holiday Records: To make next Christmas easier, save and file away this year’s list of gifts, and add to it any ideas you may want to remember, suggest extension specialists in the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture. For ex ample, keep a record of any mag azine subscriptions sent this year and the date when they expire. Jot down ideas for homemade gifts that may be useful next year, and keep a record of types of wrappings or seals which you found especially useful or attrac tive this year. Before putting away Christmas cards, bring your address book up to date with new or changed addresses. Instead of discarding Christmas cards, put them into a scrap book which the youngsters of the fam ily can enjoy the year around, or save them for a shut-in day and let the children paste them in the book. Many a new year’s landscape is blemished by old Christmas trees dumped forlornly in back yards, Foresters of the U. S. P A. suggest that a few minutes’ work with a sharp hatchet can convert the old tree to a neat bundle of kindling for winter hearth fires. Or the tree can be set into the ground outdoors as a winter shelter and feeding cen ter for birds. Birds will enjoy bits of suet, raisins and bread crusts attached to the branches and will repay the kindness next spring by helping to destroy insect pests and weed seeds around the grounds and gardens. Oranges and grapfruit are the buys in fresh fruit this winter. Prices of both are lower than in many years, according to U.S.D. A. marketing specialists. Both the orange and grapefruit crops for the 1946-47 season promise to be the largest on record. The orange crop is 20 percent larger than last year and 53 percent above average. “storm troopers, thugs and ruf fians,’’ later set up temporary executive offices in a downtown office building. Thompson, former educator and doctor of philosophy, took his oath of office at 10:50 a. m. in the almost deserted Senate chamber. Immediately afterward, Arnall announced that his conditional re signation, filed previously with the Secretary of State, had be ■come effective. Washington—Putting the cam el through a needle’s eye, the Ninth District’s 83-year-old Rep resentative Robert L. Doughton turned one of the neatest tricks of the week in engineering worth while committee assignments for all 12 members of North Caro lina’s delegation in the House of Representatives. Of the 19 stand ing committees in the House un der the Legislative Reorganiza tion Act, 14 have members from the Tar Heel State. Charged with co-ordinating as signments for the entire group, Representative Doughton faced a task doubly complicated by the reorganization act’s reduction of the number of committees by well over 50 per cent and the transportation of Democrats to the minority side, with fewer seats, of every committee. Al though all the preliminaries were settled in executive sessions, the results clearly indicated the bene fits an entire State can derive from seniority like Mr. Dough ton’s 36 years in the lower House. Some Dissatisfaction The fact there definitely were dissatisfactions among the mem bers from other states, among them Virginia, over their assign ments points up Mr. Doughton’s influence in behalf of the col leagues. Every Tar Heel Congressman expressed complete satisfaction with committee assignments an nounced last Wednesday. Partic ularly happy were the three freshmen Representatives, who were under no delusions about their chances of getting exactly what they wanted. As the House committee pic ture shapes up, North Carolinians hold high-ranking minority spots on 10 of their 14 committees, headed by Mr. Doughton as No. 1 Democrat on the ways and means group. Committees Without Tar Heels Twin Oaks News Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Sheppard ( and children, Mr. and Mrs. j Tohnie Higgins and son stopped, with friends here, Sunday. Greek Rose, Statesville, spent the week end with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Murray and son, Paige, of Vox, spent Satur day afternoon with relatives, here. Mrs. Wade Irwin spent the week end with relatives, here. Miss Lynore Bare, who is in school at N. Wilkesboro, spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bare, here. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Irwin and children, Mary Lee, Kemp, and Joe Thomas, spent Sunday with relatives in Galax, Va. R. L. Woodie, North Wilkes boro, stopped with friends here a short while, Friday. Hort Petty, Galax, Va., spent Thursday night with relatives, here. Mrs. Fred Weaver, Peden, spent a while with friends here, The only standing committees without a Tar Heel member are post office and civil service, for eign affairs, House administra tion, judiciary and public works. Going down the alphabetical listing of the new House commit tees, Representative Harold Coo ley becomes second-ranking Dem ocat on agriculture; John H. Kerr third on appropriations; Carl T. Durham seventh on arm ed services; John H. Folger fifth on banking and currency; C. B. Deane eighth on District of Co lumbia and ninth on expendi tures in executive departments; Graham A. Barden second on ed ucation and labor; Alfred L. Bul winkle third on interstate and foreign commerce; Herbert C. Bonner third on merchant marine and fisheries and fourth on un American activities; Monroe M. Reden ninth on public lands; J. Bayard Clark fourth on rules, and Hamilton C. Jones tenth on vet erans’ affairs. Friday. Clint Landreth, Hardin Bell, and Roscoe Williams, Gary, W. Va., returned to their work Sun day after spending the week end with homefolks, here. C. Frank Atwood, Twin Oaks Farm, is confined in the Ashe Memorial hospital. Misses Alese Choate and Kath leen Collins, Galax, Va., visited friends here, Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Grafton and daughter, Dartha, of Forest Hill, Md., spent last week with her sister, Mrs. Earl Farmer. Mrs. Felix Toliver, of Balti more, Md., spent a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Farmer. Good grooming is a part of happy and successful living. Cotton crop insurance rates in North Carolina areas have been reduced as much as 33 per cent for 1947. A full 75 per cent cover age is also being instituted. (fiOU» SUFFERERS! / 666 STARTSRELIEFIn\ l JUST 6 SECONDS J let famous, prescription-type j ■66. for super-speedy relief j from cold miseries Try 60S ’ Cold Tablets, or. 6G6 Liquid Cold flSlSlSw Preparation today " 7 Caution- n«« Auction Sale Saturday, Jan. 25 1:00 P. M. 1/2 MILE WEST OF GLADE VALLEY ON HIGHWAY 21 KNOWN AS A. V. Millsap’s Home Place ALSO FOE SALE ONE LIVING ROOM SUITE THREE BEDROOM SUITES—with mattresses ONE DINING ROOM SUITE ONE RANGE And other articles too numerous to mention. Terms: Cash on Day of Sale Dewitt T. Bryan AGENT AVOID WINTER TROUBLES Change to fresh winter oil Fill the radiator with anti-freeze Check your battery for dead cells Check your generator and set charge rate ■‘f’ jr Vi stall a heater and defroster ; Check your brakes and tires Choate Motor Company Sparta, North Carolina - J
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