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WHO PUT* THE "FIX" IN WHEN HE’S IN A FIX! CHARLOTTE Friday-Saturday THE DIFFERENCE f ;A lawyer was cross-examining a , Negro witness in a Georgia court, i badgering the poor darky with a bar rage of questions. He was getting . along fine until he asked the witness to state again his occupation: Witness: “Ah’s a carpenter, suh!” Lawyer: “What kind of a carpen ter?” Witness: “Jest a jack-leg carpen ter, suh.” Lawyer: “And, pray tell the court, what kind of a carpenter is a jack leg carpenter.” Witness: “Well, such, he ain’t ’zack ly a fust-class carpenter.” Lawyer: “Explain more fully just what you mean by that.” i Witness: “Ah means, suh, dat a; jack-leg carpenter is diff-unt f’m a fust-class carpenter, jes’ lak you is diff’unt from a fust-class lawyer.” CLEARANCE BED ROOM 5UITE5 2 only Maple Suites. Regular $49.50 value. Now . 3 only Mahogany Suites. Regular $89.50 value. Now . 1 only Mahogany Suite. Regular $98.50 value. Now .. / 1 only Maple Twin Bed Suite. Regu- $"7Q50 lar $98.50 value.. ■ V 2 only Maple Suites. Regular $119.50 $QQ50 value . . vll== CLEARANCE ¥ LIVING ROOM 5UITE5 1 only 3-piece Suite. Regular $79.50 value... 1 only Lawson Love Seat. Regular $59.50 value. 1 only 2-piece Suite. Regular $79.30 value ..... 2 Channel Back Sofas. Regular $109.50 value. 1 2-piece Blue Suite. Regular $129.50 value. Use Your Credit CLt AR.AIMCC TABLE & FLOOR LAMPS $5.95 values ... $3.95 $7.95 Values ...$5.95 $9.95 Values ...$6.95 $15.00 Values ..$9.95 CLCAR.AIMCC 5-Piece Card Table Set Table and 4 chairs. All metal. Regular $14.95 value. hr ’9.95 CLlARAMCl Odd Mattresses 1 Red Cross Palmer. Reg. $39.50, now $29.50 1 Red Cross box spring and mattress. Regular $29.50, now.$19.50 EACH CLt ARAftCt Dining Room Suites 2 only, 9-pieces in wal nut. (Used). Reg. $89.50 Value CLt AHA\ Cl Used Kitchen Cabinets *9.95 « *19.95 CLtARANCt 6 Only 82-Piece Dinner Sets Reg. $14.95 Value .» *9.95 45c Down—50c Week CLt ARAlMCt USED RADIOS Table and cabinet mod els. *9.95 - * Charlotte’» Largest Independent rurmu 123-125 South College St. THE FAIR SEX VOTES IN UNION ELECTION To most people electricians wear overalls and help rig up the weirdest contraptions in the innards of modern construction jobs. But, believe it or not, the pretty gals pictured above are members in good standing of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers of New York. Or should it be the International Brother* hood and Sisterhood of Electrical Workers? The ladies are employed in electrical supply houses and electrical fix* ture stores. There are nearly 1,900 of them out of the local’s total membership of 17,000. These lassies helped return Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., business manager, and the entire administration slate in a spectacular 5 to 1 landslide. 16,000 Killed At Work in 1939 106,000 Suffered Permanent Injury and 1,407,000 Brief Disability. WASHINGTON.—At least 16,000 persons were killed, 106,000 suffered permanent impairment of working functions and 1,407,000 sustained temporary disabilities while at work in 1939, according to a survey of occupational accidents made in that year by the bureau of labor statis tics. Among workers paid by employers 14,600 were killed, 91,500 sustained permanent impairment and 1,250, 000 were temporarily disabled. Vic tims of the other deaths and acci dents were self-employed. Record by Industries. Agriculture had the highest cas ualty record with deaths estimat ed at 4,300 and 13,000 permanent and 240,000 temporary disabilities. The construction industry was next with 2,800 employed and 400 self employed persons killed. The whole sale and retail trade followed with 1,400 deaths of employed persons and 400 of self-employed. Manufac turing and mining each accounted for 1,600 deaths, service and miscel laneous industries for 1,400, rail roads for 800, nxjwellaneous trans portation for another 800 and public utilities for 500. Reports from 19,423 manufactur ing establishments showed that dis abling injuries increased from 15.07 for every 1,000,000 employee hours worked in 1938 to 15.43 in 1939. The logging and sawmill industries showed the highest percentage in the manufacturing field. The log ging rate was 112.36 and that of the sawmills 51.48. In the non-manufacturing field the construction industry stood out as the most hazardous, with an injury frequency rate of 61.84 per 1,000,000 employee hours worked. Low Injury Bate. Public utilities had a low injury rate, with only 8.24 disabling in juries per million employee-hours worked. Street car and bus trans portation had the highest frequency rates of that industry group, 17.58 and 15.50 respectively. The lowest rate in that group was 2.38 for the telephone industry. For the first time the department reported injury statistics for whole-1 sale and retail trade establishments and for hotels and restaurants. For wholesale establishments only the frequency rate was 11.26. Retail stores, excluding restaurants, had a rate at 8.77. Business embodying wholesale and retail operations had a frequen cy rate of 25.62, as high as those in some of the more hazardous manu facturing industries. .Restaurants had a rate of 12.34. The experience of hotels wft somewhat more ad verse than that of restaurants, as indicated by the rate of 14.65. Dry cleaning and laundry establishments had a combined rate of only 6.77. «.a. — - * % Conquistadores Fancied Blonde* 4 Centuries Ago ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.—Even the Conquistadores, who sought the seven cities of Cibola 400 years ago, preferred blondes. That’s the conclusion of Miss Dor othy Miller, president of the New Mexico board of cosmetology, who has been studying the subject. The gals the Spaniards left behind them when they set out to explore what now is the southwestern United States, “took great pains to achieve the blonde type and all sorts of bleaches were invented for that pur pose,” says Miss Miller. Jn addition the ladies used switches, snoods and eyebrow pen cils. Liquor Lost 16 Years Is Hunted in Oregon C(X)S BAY, ORE.—Coos Head near here is expected to become a Mecca for “buried treasure” hunters. Bill Brown, former local news paper man, while walking along the beach in 1924 found a 20-gal lon keg of whisky. He worked all afternoon bury ing it beneath a fallen tree. Be fore he could return next day, a forest fire swept the area and de stroyed his landmark. The “treasure” is still there—some where. Indians Press for Right ' To Fish Without Permit SPOKANE, WASH.—Whether In dians can fish in Washington without a state license will be placed before the state supreme court once again. The question, growing out of an 1855 treaty in which the Indians claim they received places on the Columbia river, previously was car ried to the U. S. circuit court of appeals. A federal district court ruled the Indians needed a license. When the case reached the circuit court, that body held that jurisdiction of the state courts had not been exhaust ed, yand recommended that it be brought up once more: * Clast of School Girls Puts Training to Use k-KLUTNA, ALASKA.—The home economics class of Eklutna Voca tional school has found a ready made “laboratory” in five native children, 3 to 12 years old, aban doned^by their widower father. The class—five senior girls study ing homemaking — “adopted” the waifs. Under direction of Miss Flora Jane Harper, their teacher, the girls cleaned and redecorated the cabin, burned the old furniture and bed ding and clothing ancF made new things. Then, although they found the eld est, a girl of 12 who had been “moth ering” her brothers and sister, could make what even Miss Harper described as “perfect” biscuits, the class assigned itself to visiting the Mbm once a day to cook meals and supervise sanitation for the youne •ters. QUALITY DRY CLEANING Called for and Delivered F. C. Campbell j (Member Teamsters aad ; Chauffeurs Local) 719 Louise Ave. Phone 2-1088 £njt>y FOREMOST MILK 91'a. dfswlthQuL FOREMOST DAIRIES, INC. Phone* 7116—7117 It Pays 10 Trade With Doggett Lumber Co. Ill E. Park Avt. Phone 8178 Wurlitxer Spinette Pianos $2J8 Weekly PARKER-GARDNER CO. Ill W. Trade Pkone 8257 Since IBM VARIETY OF FOODS TrasUMss, menu, salads, ora •era, brands — you’ll find not la* or three, hot many M choose from CAKTMM. 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