Chiang Suggests Peace
Possible Soon For China
84th Year—No. 93_Roanoke Rapids, N. C., Friday, December 31, 1948 5c Daily; 10c Sunday
Long Trials Slow Special Term
Of Recroder’s Court Yesterday
Mission Leader
% To Speak Sunday
To Methodists
Miss Sallie Lou McKimmon,
executive secretary of the wo
man’s division of Christian Ser
vice of the Methodist Church,
who has just returned from a
tour of Methodist mission work
in Europe, will be the featured
/speaker at the eleven ’o’clock
service at the First Methodist
Church here Sunday morning.
Miss McKimmon, who is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. W. A.
Thorne, will report on the re
cent World Conference of Christ
ian Churches at Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, which she attended
as an official delegate of the
Methodist Church in America.
The Rev. J.F. Herbert, pastor
'-’of the First Methodist Church,
said Miss McKimmon will speak
concerning the formation of the
International Council of Christ
ian Churches at the Amsterdam
conference.
Miss McKimmon, who at
present, maintains offices in
New York City, is a native of
Maxton, N.C., and has beenj
associated with mission work
fcfor a number of years. She
has closely identified herself
with the development of world
wide missions and her special
field of work has been Europe
and Africa.
The Rev. Mr. Herbert said
today *We consider ourselves
quite fortunate in having Miss
McKimmon to speak to our con
gregation Sunday, and we wish
to extend a cordial invitation to
r fhe public to attend the service
to hear'-a very interesting re
port.”
f Warrenton Man
Gets New Post
Greensboro, N. C. Dec. 31—
. (AP)—The Rev. Cecil-W. Ro
| bbins of Warrenton will be -
L* come editor‘of the North
Carolina Christian Advocate
next Feb. 1.
Appointment of Robbins t o
succeed Dr. Henry C. Sprinkle,
Jr., on the Methodist publica
tion was announced yesterday
by the Methodist Board of Pub
\ locations. Inc.
v, Dr. Sprinkle resigned the
\ i post to become associate edi
j tor of thte World Outlook in
JrKew York City.
’ Long involved trials in which
a number of witnesses appear
ed took up most of the time of
the special session of Halifax
County recorder’s court here
yesterday, and lights were still
burning after dark before the
court was finally adjourned for
the day.
One of the longest cases heard
yesterday was closed after 3:30
after evidence had been present
ed both before and after the
luncheon recess in a case where
Marion Hudson^of Roanok Rap
ids was charged with driving
while under the influence of al
cohol.
The charge grew out of Hud
son’s arrest on October 23, when
he was arrested after a collision
with an automobile driven b y
Gilbert Alexander, Negro, at the
intersection of Fourteenth Street
and Roanoke Avenue.
A large number of witnesses
appeared for the State and for
the defense in the trial, and de
fense attorneys Winfield Crew
and Julian Allsbrook asked that
the defendent be acquitted.
Judge Daniel heard all the evi
dence and found Hudson guilty,
imposing a fine of $100 and
costs, which amounted to $52.50
including damage to Alexand
er’s car. Hudson was given un
til January 6 to pay the fine and
costs, but was required to post
a bond of $200. Attorneys said
they did not know whether or
not they would appeal the judg
ment to the Superior Court.
Early yesterday afternoon Sol
icitor Robert E. Josey, III, cal
led a case involving L. H. Tu
dor, Roanoke Rapids youth, on
a charge of “peeping Tom’’ and
said to Judge Daniel, ‘On the
recommendation of the prose -
cuting witnesses, the State
would like to take a nol pros
with leave.”
Ttidor entered a, plea of guilty
I to a charge of possession of non
tax-paid liquor. He told Judge
Daniel he had bought the liquor
’‘over‘the river from a colored
fellow I met while 1 was hunt
ing.’
Judge Daniel sentenced Tudor
to three months on the roads,
with the sentence suspended on
the payment of the costs of the
court action and on further con
dition that he remain of good be
havior for two years. The judge
warned, “Any time you get in
any trouble this three-months’
sentence can be imposed, and
Mr. Josey can reinstate this
‘peeping tom’ action at any time
on both charges had been found
Tudor appeared in the record
er’s court after probably cause
several weeks ago by Mayor W.
B. Allsbrook.
I ROANOKE RAMBLINGS
By PAT NANTZ
II . Planning to attend the Dixie
, flowl game on New Year’s day
L'lii Jack Wrenn... Jack left yes
terday morning for Birming -
I ham, Alabama, where the game
; la to be played.
I Just a reminder to you about
I **>e dance tonight in the armory
|M . The floor - show which has
W: been planned as means of enter
Etainment will include approxi
^jpiately twenty local merchants
Hand their representatives, who
Kirill be young girls or men of
Hjkhis city ... the orchestra, that
pfe)f Dick Levin promises everyone
U^ood music.
A Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Davis
‘ i have returned to their home af
lter having visited in the west
II brn part of the state . . . and Mr.
jT and Mrs. Dallas Singletary of
* Hamilton street have returned to
| their home after a tour of Flori
da. Their small daughter, De
borah, who has been visiting
with her grandmother in Char
\ lotte during their absence, will
s be home, Sunday.
Home on a 15 day leave, after
having recently completed his
boot training, is Robert Cook
sey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Cooksey of Madison street. Rob
ert is a graduate of the local
high school and of East Carolina
Teacher’s College . .. Also home
on a short leave is Lundy Wil
liams, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
W. Williams . . . Lundy arrived
yesterday at his home but will
have to report back to his ship
at the Norfolk Naval Base, Nor
ay...
Art Brown, a former student
of the local high school is visit
ing here from South Carolina,
where his home is now. ..
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Outland
had as their holiday guests,
their children, Mr. and Mrs.
Chuck Smith, of Newport News,
Virginia, and Mr. and Mrs. Lew
is Outland of Leaksville...their
daughter, Margaret, had as her
guest, Miss. Louise Long of
Leaksville.
Marie Barnes observed her
birthday yesterday, and today
Jack Harris, Ozzie Edwards,
Crystal Lee Palley, and Betty
Lou Smith will celebrate their’s
. . . here’s hoping you all will
have a very nice day and many
many more just like it...
It seems there are two Mrs.
Joyce Tanner’s in Roanoke Rap
ids and Mrs. Tanner of Wash
ington street wishes it to be
known that it is not she who is
confined to her bed with the
flu ... I mentioned yesterday
that Mrs. Tanner would like to
have visitors during her seven
day stay in bed and this morn
ing Mrs. Joyce Tanner called
and informed me that she hadj
never been sick with flu and
wasn’t so now . so just to
get you straight on this, the Mrs.
Tanner of whom I am speaking
is confined to her bed at her
home on Jefferson street...
Weather
North Carolina—Clearing and
•cold today; fair and a little cold
er tonight; Saturday fair, be
coming a little warmer in after*
noon*
New Year's Eve Dance And Floor Show
Will Feature Local Celebrations
-<$
Local Stores
Open Tomorrow
John Lackey, president of
the Roanoke Rapids Merchants
Association said today the
merchants of Roanoke Rapids
will be ‘open with bells on and
a lot of good bargins tomor
row—New Year’s Day.”
Lackey said several towns
the state ane planning clos
ings for the New Year’s holi
day, but said every business
in Roanoke Rapids plans to re
main open for business tomor
row except for the banks,
which wiU observe the legal
holiday.
Saturday, therefore, will be
a day of “business as usual”
for most of the city.
Truman Calls
Strategy Meet
With Leaders
Washington, Dec. 31—(AP)—
President Truman called a
strategy huddle with top lieute
nants today to chart the course
of the ‘New Deal” program he
plans to lay before the 81st Con
gress Wednesday.
Foreign policy, which dominat
ed Mr. Truman’s news con
ference yesterday, was expected
to weigh heavily in his discus
sions with Four congressional
leaders.
Invited to the White House
talks were Vice-President Elect
Barkley, who will preside over
the new Senate, Rep. Rayburn
(Tex) slated to be House Speak
er, Senator Lucas(Ill) due to be
come Senate majority leader,
and Lucas’ House counterpart,
Rep. McCormack (Mass).
Barkley has just returned
from a trip to Europe, and Mrs.1
Truman'was likely to want a
first-hand report on his observa-i
tions there.
But domestic matters appear
ed to be up for review as well.
As a matter of fact the meet
ing would, in the President’s own
words, cover the waterfront.
He used the same phrase to
describe the range of subjects
to be included in the State of
the Union message he will de
liver before a joint session of
Congress next wefek.
Barkley arrived at National
Airport yesterday in an Air Force
plane with ambassador to Mos
cow Walter Bedell Smith and Sec
retary for Air W. Stuart Sy -
mington, at just about the time
Mr. Truman was meeting the
press in his White House office.
Ding rops screen
Box Office Again
Hollywood, Dec. 31—(AP)—
Bing Crosby for the fifth straight
year, has won Motion Picture
Herald’s poll of the top movie
box office winners. He' also was
picked as top international draw
by British exhibitors.
Betty Grable was runner-up to
Crosby in this year’s poll—same
as last year. It’s the sixth time
that gorgeous Grable has hit the
top ten money-makers. In third
place are Abbott and Costello,
absent for three years.
Except for ‘big doings” at the;
annual New Year’s Eve dance
tonight at the Armory, Roanoke
Rapids will apparently see 1948
out the door and welcome 1949
in quiet style.
Plans are for the usual New
Year’s banging of tin pans, blow
ing of horns and mill whistles,
but planned celebrations are few
and far between. At the Rose
mary Baptist Chur.h the annual
Watch Night services will start
tonight at 11:30 and last through
the coming of the New . aar,v af
ter whi.cii refreshments will be
served worshippers in the church
basement.
Topping the list of entertain
ment in the city will be the an
nual New Year’s Eve dance spo
nsored by the Business and Pro
fessional Women’s Club at the
Armory. It will feature the mu
sic of Dick Levin’s N. S. State
College band and a floor show at
midnight which will be staged
by the Roanoke Rapids mer
chants and will highlight gla -
mour, with a number of local
girls participating. 4
Mrs. Mary Garner Mills, who
has been in charge of the floor
show said it is due to get under
way at midnight and will last
about 30 minutes, after which the
merry making will last into the
wee small hours of the New
¥ear.
Those participating will have
as their representatives the fol
.owing: Betty Wynne Ingram
and Margaret Ann Ingram, Fan
aye’s; Emily Cook and Louise
3urke, The Quality Shop; Mir
am Mountford, Peggy Ann’s;
Ruth Cooke, The Betty Shop;
shirley Lavender, Shafia’s; Pat
Watkins, Peacock Beauty Salon;
Ernestine Smith, Roanoke Flo
*al; Maggie Jean King, The
fashion Shop; Dorthy Mount
ford, Sandlin Flower Shop Troy
3ones, Auto Service Station; S.
[. Pridgen, Carolina Motors; B.
iVilson, Roanoke Motor Sales;
Fames Brown, Walser Motors;
R. A. Ricks, Rick’s Motors;
Ruth King and Sgt. Boyce, U.
5. Army Recruiting Office; W.
R. Berry, Murray Motors; and
Gurney Brown, Godwin-Wilkes
Motors Inc.
Mrs. Green Dies
At Home After
Short Illness
Mrs. Alice Tennie Cullom
Green, 60, died at her home on
route one Roanoke Rapids last
night after a short illness.
A native of Halifax County.
Mrs. Green was the daughter of
the late Wyatt and Ludie Cul
Lom and was the wife of the late
George L. Green of the Hawkins
Chapel community.
Funeral services will be con
ducted on Sunday afternoon at
2:30 from the Hawkins Chapel
Church by the Rev. Mr. Meas
mer and the Rev. Mr. Hurley.
Burial will be in the Green fami
ly cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. George Thompson and Mrs.
Eunice G. Hurst of Roanoke Rap
ids; one son, Lonnie B. Green
of Roanoke Rapids; one sister,
Grady Jenkins of Roanoke Rap
ids; three brothers, W. L. Cul-i
lorn of Roanoke Rapids and Mar
ion and Charles Cullom of Little
ton; and seven grandchildren. {
Bill McClung
Leaves Herald;
Davey New Editor
James L. Wick, vice-president
of the Herald Printing Company,
said today William L. Davey
will succeed William A.
McClung as managing editor of
the Daily Herald following Me
Clung’s resignation tp accept a
position with, the Appalachian
Electric - Power Company in
Roanoke, Va. n
McClung, who has served as
managing editor of the Herald
since it entered the daily field
on September 13, came to Roa
noke Rapids in June from Rad
ford, Va., where he was manag
ing editor of the News-Journal.
Prior to that time he was city
editor of the Daily Advance in
Elizabeth City and was a news
commentator on radio station
WGAI. He went to Elizabeth
City from Bluefield, W. Va.,
where he was head of the Asso
ciated Press bureau.
He will begin his duties with
the Appalachian Electric Power
Company on January 1, and said
he will move his .wife and three
children to Roanoke as soon as
s a t i sfactory housing is avail
able. »
Davey, who .has served as
city editor of the Herald since
September, was formerly edi
tor of the Bertie Ledger-Ad
vance in Windsor and before the
war was connected with the dai
ly Herald-Observer in Concord.
Marine Recruiter
Is Here Next Week
Staff Sergeant. K.L. Lane, U.
S. Marine Corps recruiting ser
geant, has announced he will
be located in-the post office
building in Roanoke Rapids on
Monday, January 3, through
next Friday arid will be on duty
from nine a.m., until- four p.m.
daily.
Sergeant Lane said he will
interview young men between
the ages of 17 and 28 for enlist
ment in the Marine Corps for
three or four years. Young
men 18 years of age can be
accepted for one-year enlist
ments.
He said he is particularly in
terested in contacting former
Marines who are interested in
enlisting in the Marine Corps
Reserve (inactive). He said all
who are interested in further in
formation regarding. the pro
gram should see him at the
post office next week.
Weather Man Sees
Cold, Clear Days Ahead
By the Associated Press
A ridge of high pressure send
ing continental polar air into
the southeastern states today
promised continued cold weath
er for North and South Carolina
for the next few days.
Temperatures are expected to
be in the low 20’s in the moun
tains of both states tonight, four
to five degrees higher in the
central sections, and eight to ten
higher in the coastal areas.
The weatherman also said the
cold would be sharper today be
cause of a slight wind sweeping
across both states.
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Rescue Crew From Broken Ship Safe In Norfolk
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The Coast Guard cutter Cherokee arrives in Norfolk, Va., with cheering crewmen res
cued from the Argentine tanker Capitan which broke in half in a storm off Cape Hatteras,
North Carolina. The Coast Guardsmen took 16 men from the bow half of the ship and two
from the stern. (AP Wirephoio).
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Weldon Firemen Battle
$1,000 Blaze At School
Weldon.—Local firemen battl
ed a stubborn fire for more than
an hour here last night in the
lunchroom of the Weldon Negro
School on First Street before
getting the fire under control af
ter damage estimated at $1,00
had been done to the building
and its equipment.
Fire Chief D.R. Medlin, who
with ten of the members of the
volunteer fire department was
called to the scene about eight
o’clock, said the fire apparently
started from faulty wiring in the
rear of the school lunchroom.
The school was unoccupied at
the time, the Christmas vaca
tion being still in effect, and
Chief Medlin said this morning
he did not know whether or not
the fire would affect the re
opening of school next Monday.
When discovered the blaze
had made good headway and
was burning furiously by the
time the firemen arrived on the
scene. The eleven firemen
were forced to direct several
streams of water into the build
ing before they could bring the
fire in check shortly after nine
o’clock last night.
The blaze was the second ser
ious fire in Weldon in less than
a week, the Negro Methodist
Church having burned last
week.
SBI Continues
Search Of Allen
Correspondence
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 31—(AP)
—The State Bureau of Investiga
tion has tentatively decided that
two sacks of J. Edward Allen’s
correspondence fished from a
creek have nothing to do with
his embezzling indictment.
The search of the salvaged
correspondence, however, will
continue until postcards, bills,
letters, and advertising cir
culars in the potato sacks has
been examined, SBI director
Walter Anderson said.
The sacks were found in the
shallow water of a Warren
County stream approximately
three miles from the former
school superintendent’s home.
Allen is under indictment for
embezzling more than $44,700 in
State and Warren County school
funds, in addition to false pre
tense and forgery."
The 61-year-old' Baptist lay
leader and * former master of
the state’s Masonic Lodge, re
signed his school post shortly af
ter a Grand Jury returned in
dictments last September. He
is scheduled to go on trial in
Warren Superior Court before
Judge W’alter J. Bone of Nash
ville on Jan. 17.
CATCHES PHEASENT
Longmont, Colo. —(/P)— Har
old Dawson was walking along a
downtown street when something
struck his hat. He' made a quick
grab -for the hat, missed it, and
felt his hand close around a
struggling feather leg.
, The leg belonged eo a jphea
sent which had somehow been
flushed from the doorway of a
store accross the street. No one
was able to explain the bird’s
mysterious business in this city,
but Dawson said later: ‘It
cooked up just as nice as a
country pheasent.”
Aulander Bank
Robbers Sought
By Officers
Aulander, N.C., Dec. 31—(AP)
—The FBI, local officers and the
State Highway Patrol today con
tinued their searche for $33,500
and the men who got it from a
safe stolen yesterday from the
Aulander bank.
The looted safe and the stolen
wrecker used to take it from the
bank early yesterday morning
were found in the woods near
Winton, about 15 miles north
east of here, yesterday after
noon.
The money represented most
of the cash the bank had on
hand yesterday.
The outer door of the four-by
three-foot safe was found in the
street at 5:30 a.m. The inner
door of the strong box had been
cut by a torch.
The cracksmen also had at
tempted to break into the bank’s
vault before hauling the safe
away, but they failed, though
they did manage to knoek' off
the combination.
W.B. Copeland, cashier of the
Ahoskie bank, of which the A(i
lander institution is a branch,
said the loss was covered by
insurance.
Jewish Forces
Move Into Arab
Territory
Tel Aviv, Dec. 31—(AP)—An
Israeli military spokesman, dis
closed today that the Jewish-.ar
my’s second Negev offensive had
carried across partition lines into
Arab parts of Palestine.
The United Nations, by its par
tition decision last year, assign
ed part of the Negev to Israel,
part to the Arabs.
The sopkesmafi J declined to
comment on other, reports, ‘ in
cluding one by the British dele
gate before the U.' N. security
council in Paris, that Jewish
forces had fought itheir way a
cross the Egyptian frontier.
The partition lines were cross
ed in the desert wasteland south
west of Beersheba and southeast
of Rafa, 'the Egyptian tofam on
the border, the spokesman said.
In another quarter, an unus
ually reliable source said King
Abdullah of Trans-Jordan hasin
formed Israel he is ready to talk
peace.
(The Egyptian embassy in
Paris denied suggestions by U.
N. observers -in Palestine yes -
terday that the Jews^have isolat
ed Gaza, which was the leading
Egyptian base* in Palestine.)
The military spokesman said
the Jews captured Bier Asluj, in
the Israeli Negev on the road
from Jewish-occupied Beershe -
ba to the frontier Command *of
Auja, two miles frofcv.the Egyp
tian frontier and' 25 rtiiles south
east of Rafa. Auja is in an Arab
border strip between Egypt and
the Negev. >r' ,
This was the ifrst time during
the week of battle in which the
Jewish military spokesman * had
lifted secrecy enough to tell the
names , of places seized.
Four Former Governors Represent
Carolinas In U. S. Senate After Today
By Margaret Kemodle
AP Special Washington Service
Washington, Dec. 31 —(AP)—
The Carolinas will have four for
mer governors serving in t h e
Senate today.
They will also represent their
nnn3s tes in the new Congress,
which convenes next week.
J. Melville Broughton, former
governor of North Carolina, tak
ing his oath of office as senator
this afternoon, makes No. four.
The others, who were gover
nors of their states before elec
tion as Senators, are Clyde Ho
ey (D-NC), Burnet Maybank (D
SC) and Olin D. Johnston D
SC). (
Broughton succeeds Senator
Umstead (D-NC), having de
feated him in the state primary.
But for a special ruling by
Senate officials, Broughton
would have taken office as soon
a" the general election vote wras
in.
He was elected for both
short term, from the general e
lection in November to the end
of the 80th Congress, and for a
regular six - year term. He de
feated John Wilkinson, Republi
can, of Washington in the gener
al election.
Umstead has returned to his
law practice in Durham, N. C.
He was appointed by Governor
R. Gregg Cherry to serve the un
expired term of the late Sena
tor Josiah W. Bailey (D-NC).
Broughton perhaps took a cue
from the confusion that result
ed when more friends showed up
to see Umstead sworn in than be
could get seats for in the Senate
gallery. The new Senator came
here several weeks ago an^ had
about 100 seats set aside for,Tar
Heels wanting to see him sworn.
By being sworn in to$ey,
Broughton and two others elect
ed and appointed to the 80 th
Congress, gain some seniority
over new senators who take of
fice next week.
Broughton was luckier, too,
than some, in getting into his
office in the Senate office build
ing even before he was sworn
in.
Some new Senators will not be
able to move into their offices
until some Senators move o u t
next week or later.
Broughton was glad to get the
same office Umstead had — just
down the hall from Senator Ho
ey
And Umstead moved his stall
out early, allowing Broughton’s
aides to move in. John D. Mc
Connell of Southern Pines, N. C.,
former assistant United States
attorney for the middle district
of the state, heads them as ad
ministrative assistant.
The new senator and Mrs.
Broughton are entertaining their
North Carolina friends at a
luncheon after the Senate cere
mony.
And, at a 'Sugar Bowl” party
tomorrow at the fashionable
Mayflower Hotel, John W. Cal
fey of Greensboro, has invited
Tar Heels to listen to the radio
broadcast of the football game
between Oklahoma and the Un
iversity of North Carolina and
Senator and hla wife.
* Nanking, Dec. SI—(AP)—Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek de
clared tonight his government
was ready to discuss ending the
war with the Chinese Commun
ists—but set up conditions which
appeared to rule out any poss
ibility of such a settlement.
In a written New Year’s state
ment to the Chinese people, the
Chinese president declared:
“If negotiated peace is not de
trimental to national indepen
dence and soverignty, but will
contribute to the welfare of the
people, and if the constitution is
not violated, constitutionalism is
preserved, a democratic form of
government is maintained, enti
ty of the armed forces safeguard
ed and if the people’s free mode
of living and minimum living
standard are protected, then I
shall be satisfied.”
It seemed to observers in this
Communist-threatened national
capital that these requirements
outlawed the slightest possibility
of a settlement if Chiang insist
ed they be followed.
“If the communists are not
sincerely desirous of peace and
will insist on continuing the
armed rebellion,’ Chiang con
tinued, ‘the government .shall
have no ^alternative, "but will
them to a finish.
“As the political nerve cen
ter of the country, the Nanking
Shanghai area will be held at all
costs, and the government i4 de
termined. to throw in all 'avail
able forces for a decisive battle.
*1. firmly believe the> go\ em
inent , will. win out. in. the *nd,
and it also will mark the tim
ing point in the war.”
Rivers Rise Again
In East Carolina i
' Raleigh, N.C.,' Dee. 31—(4P)
—Eastern North Carolina’s Riv
ers are on the rise again.
■ Recent rainfall has cause, the
four major rivers in the eaa tern
part of the state—the Nduse,
Roanoke, Cape Fear, and the
Tar—to rise . rapidly.
AH .but .the Tar. are expected
to reach flood stage in' the hext
few days, according to Garrett
Demots of the U.S. weather bur
eau here.
(He said the-Neuse is expected
M erest at Meuse at 15 1-2 feet
(today. It ii expected.to reach
18 feet at Stnithfield Sunday, 18
feet at .Goldsboro next Wednes
day, and 16 feet at Kinston a
week from today. Flood stage
at all these points is 14 -feet ex
cept at Smithfield, whre it is 13.
The Roanoke is expected to
crest at 19r2 feet at Alta Vista,
Va., today,, which is 10.feet a
bove flood state.
The Cape Fear is expected to
reabh/its flood stage of 35 feet
at Fiyetteville tonight.
Today Is Deadline 1
For Car Approval
Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 31—CAP)
—Today is the last day a North
Carolina car may appear on
the state’s highways without a
mechanical inspection sticker.
' It also is the last day that
drivers whose last namep begin
With E, F and Gvcan drive un
der their old licenses. '
Motor Vehicles Commission
er Landon C. Rosser said the
Highway Patrol has been alert
ed Jo arrest *. anyone caught
driving a* car tomorrow without
a sticker. Conviction, said
Rosser, Will be a misdemeanor
and punishment could run as
iiigh. as. a-$50-fine or 30 days in
jail, or both.
For those E, F and G drivers
who don’t have the required dri
vers’ license, a fine of $25, 30
days in ja'il, or both, are possi
ble penalties.
uainvanting fost
Holes Top Tall Tale* ‘
J Burlington,. Wis., Dee. 31 —
(API—A narrative of a big
.•blow in Alberta, Canada, today
■was designated the gustiest of
all windy efforts in the annual
contest of the Burlington Liars
Club, Inc.
L. W. Tupper, of Patricia, Al
berta, is the chamption liar of
the world for 1948 by reason of
his tale of 2,00 post holes,and
a northwester.
"Up here in Alberta we really
have some wind storms," up
per related. 'Last summer a
rancher and just, finished- dig
ging 2,5o post holes, when a
long came a northwester, and
blew every last one of those
post holes out of the ground and
out of the county. The ranch
er finally located them 125 miles
away, but they were a total loss.
After bouncing 125 miles cross
country, over cactus, they were
so full of holes that they
wouldn’t hold dirt out any
more."
Tupper’s tall one, which left
Patricia by dog-sled, took the
championship out of the United
States for the first time since
thr club began competition in
1929.
Last year’s liar supreme was
John Hopley of San Antonio,
Tex., who relayed how Charley
Skorpea knocked the eight ball
from under a fly in an Oklaho
ma pool room so fast that the
fly fell on the table and broke
its back.
From the year’s batch of tall
tales, club officers awarded hon
orable mention to J.F. McKale,
Tuscon, Ariz., for this:
“As a die-hard Republican vo
ter with 41 years of experience,
I knew Harry was going to win
all the time.”