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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-07-17
Labor PurticiE
In OPA's Pro,
I'm MARYLAND

CUMBERLAND, MD.-At its last req
land Labor Unity Conference, through il
Porch released to the press the foIlowir
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-07-17

From the outset. the Maryland
OPA has recognized that the active
participation and cooperation of Or
gained labor was necessary to the
effective working of price control
and rationing. For over year and
half, the Maryland OPA Labor
Advisory Committee, composed Of
II members-CIO. AFL and Rail-
way Brotherhoods being equally
represented - have been meeting
regularly with State OPA officials
TO discuss labor's problems in meet
ing rationing. price and rent regu-
lations and they have contributed
TO a great extent to the program
in this State.
In order TO explain to every men,
Der of organized labor his or her
part in the picture of real price
control and rationing picture, we
propose that each labor union local
establish a committee, to be called
Cost of Living Committee" 1t
is suggested that this committee be
composed of at least three members
and when organized its job would
be. in general:
1. To be the course of OPA in
formation TO members of the local.
2. To recruit volunteers for price
panel activity and for other work
as needed by the program.
Organization and Functions OF Cost
of Living Committees to be set
mp i'm all Labor Union Locals i'm
Maryland:
l. PURPOSE-Stimulation of the
active interest and participation of
our membership in price control
and rationing programs.
2. ORGANIZATION - 1t is sug-
gested that each Committee be COM
posed of at least three members. In
cases where a local includes num-
Der of shops or departments, it
might be advisable to have one
member from each shop or depart
ment.
3. FUNCTIONS
A. To receive and distribute to
members such materials as price
lists, International pamphlets on
rent rationing and price; posters.
We know that if the unions under
stood what we are trying TO do
they will help us. Our difficulty is
due to our limited membership; we
can not make enough personal con-
facts with women who would be
interested i'm our organization.
Women in union homes who are
not now working are the ones who
are eligible. Possibly many women
refrain from joining because they
think our meetings are dry and
| Continued on Page 81
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-07-17
Report OF
Local CIO
Auxiliary
BY CATHERINE ROBLYER

The Auxiliary has been asked
for a complete report OF It's ac-
tivities. Many union members do
not know who we are or what we
do. This column will be intended
as such a report. Although we
are not as large or as well known
as other union organizations we
have a good solid foundation and
q long record of service.
At our recent conference in
Washington it was inspiring to
hear reports from all over the
country about what the Auxiliaries
are doing in Indiana. Ohio. Georgia,
from nearby Altoona and other
parts of our own state.
California. although not repre-
sented at the conference. was re-
ported as having considerable sue
cess. Even the children in that Sec
ton work for the union by distrib-
uting literature.
New York has a thriving Mer-
chant Seamen's Auxiliary which
administers aid to families of alb
sent sailors and gives aid and in.
formation to seamen home from
long voyages.
Washington has the only nom
Jim Crow servicemen's canteen in
America. 1t is sponsored by Mrs.
Roosevelt.
While there we interviewed the
Senators from our home states
about the new OPA appropria-
tions. Senator Radcliffe was very
helpful and cooperative. He said
that he had fought crippling
amendments and limited funds on
the floor and would continue to
do so.
LETTER LEAGUE
Our own local auxiliary oper-
ates a Letter League for former
union members now in service. We
think these letters serve a worthy
cause in getting union news to alb
sent members and combating re-
dictionary propaganda. of which
they receive all too much.
We are also endeavoring TO get
information to them about the
ballot as it applied to Maryland.
This letter also serves to let them
know that the union has not for
gotten them and is still fighting
for their rights while they are
gone. We show them how the home
front is backing them up and add
personal notes and incidents to
amuse them.
This Letter League was launched
by neighborhood teas through
which women became interested in
the letter and the auxiliary. They
gave us the names of their men
in service and in this way we COM
piled our mailing list.
FOR HOME WOMEN
Our list is growing but we
would like to see 1t grow faster.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-07-17

D. To recruit volunteers to work
with War Price and Rationing
Boards. entire emphasis at present
on the recruitment of Price Panel
Associates to work work with Price
Panels of local boards.
E. To receive complaints of price
violations and forward them 10
Price Panel of War Price and RAJ
tioning Board; to inform union
members of their right under the
regulations to file Consumer DAM
age Suits if they have been over
charged ESQ or three times the
amount of the overcharge).
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1944-07-17
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local uni

OPA Off
B. To
Center or
routing
Price ar
the Stat
price list
c. Arr
films at
ings anc
periods wll,
present.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
Saga Of Rummaqe Sale Offers
Object Lesson In Values

What in the world can she see in
HIM, do you suppose?"
Mrs. Brown has her living room
redecorated with considerable ago
ny and suspense and the neighbors,
after telling her how lovely it is,
go home and say to their husbands,
Il just wish you could see what
Mrs. Brown has done to that liv-
ing room of hers. It's a sight. II
somebody with little taste had
spent all of that money it could
have been a beautiful >room."
And Mrs. Green who thinks her
young son is little darling would
be surprised, indeed, to know that
the other mamas have another
word for him-brat.
There is always a wide margin
between what a woman thinks her
possessions are worth and the
value set on them by other women
just as wide a margin, usually
as the difference between $50 and
| rs cents.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
ELIZABETHTOWN

EL1ZABETHTOWN, Sept. %
Prof. and Mrs. r. C. Deal of
Greenvi]le, were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Newton Robinson dur
ing the weekend.
1t. Oliver Carter VINO has been
stationed in Ann Arbor, Mich,
and Mrs. Carter and daughter,
Barbara of Wilmington, were
weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cross and other friends in
town. 1t. Carter will be stationed
in Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. w. B. Kay of Washington,
D. c., spent few days last week
with her mother, Mrs. c. R. Jor-
dan. She was accompanied back
by her son, Billie who spent the
summer months here and in Red
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Clark of
Wilmington, were guests of Mrs.
C. R. Jordan Thursday evening.
Mrs. Clark remained for a few
days visit.
Miss Nancy McCulloch left Sat-
urday for Greensboro, where she
will attend Woman's college of the
University of North Carolina.
David Johnson, Jr., left Sunday
for Chapel Hill to enter his fresh
man year at the university.
Seahorn Blair, who is in medi-
cal school at Chapel Hill, spent
few days with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. S. Blair, last week.
Houston Blair left recently for
Tucson, Arizona, where he will
attend the university.
Ben Greene, U. S. Navy who
recently. visited his parents, is
stationed in California.
Misses Mary Elizabeth Johnson,
Marjorie Powell, Clara and Dor.
othy Spivey. Nell Graham and
Carolyn Mcdowell left last week
for Red Springs. where they are
students at Flora Macdonald col
lege.
Mrs. Maggie Sinclair of viii
mington, visited Mrs. Matte CLARK
this week.
Mrs. Jessie Inman left this week
for Texas to. visit her husband
who is stationed there.
Miss Mae Payne Of Burlington
was guest of Miss Johnny Aver
lite last week.
Mrs. H. P. Harris of Richmond
Va. and Mrs. A. c. Harris o
Stedman. were guests Of Mr.. ane
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
CHEST OBTAINS
NOTED SPEAKER

Harry Collins Spillman, we'll
known as a speaker throughout the
United States and abroad mas been
secured to address the breakfast
meeting of unit division work
ers next Monday morning at
o'clock at st. Paul's parish house,
it was announced yesterday by
Ranald Stewart, chairman Of the
1914 War Chest drive for New
Hanover county.
1--WE feel very fortunate in being
able to bring this powerful speaker
to Wilmington, and are confident
that his message to our workers
will be an important one," Stewart
commented.
Spillman's visit here was ar
ranged through the Alkahest Cele-
brity bureau, Atlanta, Ga,
Spillman was born and educated
in Kentucky. His postgraduate
work in history and economics al
Harvard university included also
study of public speaking. He was
for several years prominently con-
nected with the public school sys'
TENS of large cities and prior te
that was a reporter on the Louis
vile Courier Journal, following
which he accepted the position O.
education director for a 20 million
| dollar corncration
Spillman contributes regularly tt
leading American magazines. His
addresses have been translat
ed and given worldwide circula
ton. He is the author of three
books, Personality" Making thu
Business Speech Effective ane
1.-The Aristocracy of Service.''
Spillman's platform background
comprises four continents - NORTH
/ America, Europe, Asia and Africa
! He has addressed civic
forums, chambers of commerce
trade associations, sales and adj
vertising clubs, mems and
women's clubs and many other
types of organizations.
Presiding at the breakfast ses
sion will be Mr.. Stewart, assisted
by E. L. White, campaign vice
chairman.
Breakfast will be served by
Wacs of Camp Davis, and contri
buted by the camp.
Unit division workers will
be given their canvass-kits. Work
ers in the last week of the cam
paign, when general solicitation O.
the third phase of the drive will
begin, will not participate in tn,
breakfast meeting Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
CHEST APPEAL
MADE TO CLUB

Mexican Maffitt made a lively
appeal for support of the Com
munity Chest War Fund yesterday
at the Exchange Club luncheon.
Maffitt described the need and the
ease of one general solicitation in
meeting all agency requirements
in one general subscription.
Ted Foley, director of this years
campaign, was introduced by Ran
aid Stewart, who is chairman Tor
the drive
DR.. Edward F Keever, c1u b
chaplain, presented the club with
a dulcet-toned bell as token OF
esteem for which t h members
gave hearty response Robert Ber-
man, gave each member book
let of Strange n d Interesting
Facts"
Nominations were re-opened for
officers for the new year and in
addition to those nominated last
week the following were also
placed in nomination: o w. Mes
sick, second vice president; direc.
tors, Frank Harris, Jimmy ALE.
good and DR.. r. T. Ronner.
The Exchange club voted to join
other civic clubs in the city in
joint meeting Thursday, Octo-
Der S.
President c. D. Barclift urged
all members to attend next Fri
day for final nominations and a
general election for all offices and
board of directors to serve the
term of one year commencing in
October.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

Mrs. T. B. Averitte and Mr.. and
Mrs. D. A. Harris last week.
Pvt. Edward Sutton will return
to Springfield, Mo-, Friday after
spending a furlough of several
days at his home here.
Mrs. J. T. Lee of Wilmington,
was guest of Mrs. S. E. Ewen a
few days last week.
1t. Edward Clark and Mrs.
Clark, VINO have been located near
Asheville during the summer,
spent Thursday night with the for
mer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
H. Clark. 1t. Clark has been
transferred to a hospital in West
Virginia while he further recuper-
ates from foot trouble received in
Italy in the winter. Mrs. Clark
is spending a while with her par
ents at Laurel Hill.
Prof. and Mrs. E. A. Beatty
and children of Davidson, spent
the weekend with Mrs. Matte
Clark.
Mrs. H. P. Greene returned
home last week after spending the
summer months in New Jersey
with her husband, 1t. Green, who
is stationed there.
DR.. and Mrs. James Howell left
last week for Greensboro, where
DR.. Howell is a member of the
Greensboro college faculty, after
spending the summer months at
their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs Charlie Sutton OF
Collision, visited Pvt. and Mrs.
Edward Sutton during the week
end.
Mrs. Archie Sutton, who is
spending some time with her
mother at Currie, spent few
days last week at her nome here.
Hemen Robinson, U. S. Navy,
is spending. several days with his
mother, Mrs. H. H. Robinson.
Fred Fisher, U. S. Air Force
left Monday for Keesler Field,
Miss, where he will continue his
training.
Dale Harris, U. S. Navy, wne
has been spending several days
at his home here, left this week
for Florida, where he expects te
be stationed for some time.
1t. Wilbur Shaw, who was in
juxed in North Africa some week.
ago, has recently arrived II
Charleston, S. C. His parents
Mr.. and Mrs. z. B. Shaw, visited
him there last Saturday.
Miss Muriel Pittman spent {
few days last week in Jackson
vile with Mrs. Harold Koonce.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
Hospital Aids
Urgently Needed

Many hostesses are desperate
ly needed Immediately at James
Walker Memorial hospital. The
school girls who assisted with this
work during the summer months
nave left and hostesses to take
their places are needed right
away.
Anyone who has done this work
before or any persons who is in
terested in beginning this volun-
teer work for the fall and winter
please call the hospital 9611 and
ask for Mrs. Tom Granger or
Mrs. Jack Dunn. The hours of
the morning shift are still from
1890 until O'Clock and the
afternoon shift from 3 until $50
o'clock.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
BY RUTH MILLETT

A New Jersey woman assisting
in rummage sale for charity laid
down her own $50 coat and when
she went to get it found it had
been sold by another woman for
rs cents.
The discrepancy between what
the coats owner thought it was
worth and what it looked like il
W a S worth to another woman
shouldn't surprise anybody W h 9
knows women.
Mrs. Jones wears a new outfit
proudly and Mrs. Smith says be.
hind her back, wouldn't you think
anyone HER size would have bet.
ter sense than to wear THAT?''
Mrs. Smith is completely salts
fled with the man she got for a
husband but her friends spend con-
siderable time asking each other
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

Crochet a basket in pineapple
design to edge scarfs, towels, pill
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make smart linens. Make them
for gifts.
Dress up linens in crochet and
stitchery. Pattern 1878 has trans
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5 IL x 10 IL inches; Crochet d.
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This pattern, together wit a
needlework pattern for personal or
household decoration, FIFTEEN
CENTS.
Send FIFTEEN CENTS in coins
for these patterns to Wilmington
Star-News, Household Arts Dept,
259 W. 18th ST., New York IL, NY.
Print plainly NAME, ADDRESS,
and PATTERN NUMBER.
Our new 80 page needlework
Book is yours for Fifteen Cents
more. 100 illustrations of de-
signs for embroidery, home deco
ration, toys. knitting. crochet, and
quilts.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
NEW ICE PLANT
IS BEING BUILT

Facilities for more ice produc-
ton. here, where periodic ice short
ages have occurred over the pas
two years, have been promised for
around January /, it was disclosed
yesterday.
w. B. Mckee, for a number of
years engaged in the ice and coal
business in the city, has purchased
the old Willard Bag factory on
Third and Kidder streets, and has
already begun construction on a
$4,000 retail ice plant, according
to the announcement
The property was purchased
from John D. Howell, and is stu
ated on the Atlantic Coast Line
spur track.
Mckee has obtained necessary
priorities for the purchase of the
plants machinery, and equipment
has been ordered from the Prick
Manufa curing company, of Char.
lotte.
The building, which is being
erected by Mckee and his own
crew of workers. will be OF the
most modern type, and will be
operated with new electric
machinery, it was revealed. Nc
Kee is also planning to handle
coal.
For the past two summers, the
city has suffered acutely from a
limited ice supply. A quantity OF
the ice produced here has been
used for shipping purposes, and
a large amount has beer sent to
Camp Davis. Housing projects,
unequipped for electric refrigera
ton, have particularly felt the SER
iousness of the shortage.
Mckee has indicated that he
hopes erection and operation of the
new ice plant will alleviate the ice
problem.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
DR.. Storey Gives
Opening Address
At Flora Macdonald

RED SPRINGS, Sept. %. - The
formal opening of the 48th session
of Flora Macdonald college w S
held at the regular chapel period
on Thursday morning, September
81, with DR.. c. H. Storey of Aber-
deem, formerly of Wilmington, as
guest speaker.
President Emeritus c. G. Var
deli conducted the group singing,
and President H. G.. Bedinger vel
coined the student body and facul-
ty, extending a special greeting to
the new members.
DR.. Bedinger then presented DR..
Storey, who used as his subject,
yesterdays Tomorrow pointing
out that in the near future yester-
days tomorrow will be today's yes
terday. In stressing the value OF
education, DR.. Storey lamented the
fact that in the past, education had
been largely divorced from religion,
and emphasized the necessity OF
founding the future peace of the
world on Christianity, if it is to be a
lasting peace.
Approximately 1926 students are
enrolled, the largest student body
in the history of the college.
The Flora Macdonald Home Man
agement house.-the A. F, Jones
house on Third Avenue-was for
mally opened on Tuesday, and the
eight members of the senior home
economics class composing h G
personnel of the first group who
will be in residence for six weeks,
have moved in and set up house
keeping. Miss Frances Conner
head of the foods and cookery divi.
sion of the home economics depart.
ment, is supervisor of the group
The management house, which is
just block from the college gates,
has been re decorated throughout
in lovely pastel shades, and is be.
ing refurnished and the girls have
already arranged their daily sche.
dule, which includes every phase Of
home management.
The seniors now occupying the
house are Jane McConnaughey Of
Red Springs; Virginia Musselwhite
of Lumberton; Evelyn Collier Of
Wade; Nancy Summers of Hunters
vile; Dorothy Fennell of Loris, S.
c.; Betty Matheson of Conover
Mary Lee Burns of Goldsboro; anc
Martha Pridgen of Warsaw.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
Church School Workers
Of st. James To Meet

st. James church school work
ers will make their corporate COM
munion Sunday morning at $3.50
o'clock in the church. After this
service they will hold meeting
i'm the parish house to make plans
for the opening of III e Church
school October /.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
PERSONALS

Lieut.. Col. George Boylan ar.
rived Thursday night from over
seas and is spending a three weeks
leave with his family here.
Mrs. J. H. Johnson of Fayette.
vile, is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Cleeve.
Miss Kathryne Gibson has left
for Greensboro, where she will be
a student at the Woman's col
lege Of the University of North
Carolina.
Edgar Williams, 10 Hawthorne
road, left this week for Raleigh
Ehere he will enter the fresh.
man class at N. C. State college.
Major ]. M. Hall, Jr., has ar.
sved from Camp Rucker, Ala,
iof weeks leave with his family
here.
-V-
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

By EPSIE KINARD
NEW YORK-Fashon's salute to Victory peasant
influenced trends in clothes that eat the
feature the dndl skirt that We down
waist to dol-sized proportions. ~
Anything but naive these ideas
INTO sWan evening fa
which girls ashest urs longest arcm
gloves Cocktail
peasant scarves with the fabulous look of
lake And to make
tern the eye designs picked by sequn tracng
Both cocktail and dresses
with striking color combinations York
creations modelled above from at
right combines electric pink jersey goried
bodice and black for the dndlype jersey
laced corselette : " '
The corselette look distinguishes the black
daytime fancy
keep
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
1.11mberton Clubs
Resume Meetings

r1rMBERToN, Sept. %. - Lum.
.n social and civic clubs have
W. ,,ed meetings after a recess
~. three months during the sum-
WI. w Members of the Thursday Aft
,rrt Book Club heard a review
'l yankee from olympus. the
'..,ronbv off oliver W e n d e Il
n slos by Catherine Bowen, given
nO'' nEss Evina Beckwith at the
:..+ meeting of the new club year
'l ~ with the president, Mrs. C.
asiu Townsend. Yearbooks W e r e
ivy ,.o'ssrihuted and it was announced
asa y. .he program at each meeting
lll "a consist Of review of non
WI lion hook by the member contrib
fl I:..o the book to the library. Mrs.
" u~l e pullen, who has since moved
, ". Lumberton 10 Wilmington to
MAXI make her homo. was a special
su nrrs Frank Saunders gave a re-
~. W. NJ the Continental Congress Of
W. daughters of the American
~, psnolntion at the meeting of the
S Ss Thomas Robson chapter,
T' A. R., at the home of Mrs.
t..l;p T. Huntley Mrs. J. @. Beck
Ii+h new regent, presided.
' The Baker sanatorium Alumnae
.snciation of Lumberton ranked
s sss among 81 associations in the
. ..ste in sale Of War Bonds to the
sn..,,nt of s13,313 to apply toward
,r.chase of medical equipment for
asiT. S. Army Hospital Ship Lark
n.r for which plaque was pre-
' ' to Brig. Gen. James T. Duke
Nv Gov. Broughton at the Woman's
riub in Raleigh Wednesday night.
Mrs W. L. Potter entertained at
No. apartment at a miscellaneous
ssouer for Mrs. William Cecil
cn,i+h who was Miss Edna Lee
Foe before her marriage Of this
Month. Guests wrote recipes for
tbp bride in a book given her by
the hostess.
Honoring Miss Minta Mcintyre,
who was leaving to enter the senior
clsss at Brenau Academy, Mr.. and
Mrs John A. Tudor entertained at
theatre party for four couples.
The honoree was presented a gift.
DR.. and Mrs. Russell S. Beam
and Mrs. Russell S. Beam, Jr.,
we're hosts Sunday afternoon at the
servicemen's club in honor of Pfc.
Russell S. Beam, Jr., who is serv-
ing in Italy with a prisoner OF war
processing platoon.
Miss Oriana Macarthur was host
ess to II friends at bridge party
on the occasion of her 18th birth
day. She was assisted in receiving
by her mother, Mrs. c. S. Near
thur. Miss Mary Kline Bowman
was awarded high score prize.
On the evening of the same day.
several couples surprised Miss Nc
Arthur with a shower of gifts and
later attended a movie together.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
Now Many Wear
FALSE TEETH
With Little Worry

Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze without fear
of insecure flase teeth dropping, slipping
or wabbling. FASTEETH holds plates
firmer and more comfortably. This plea
SAINT powder has no gummy, gooey, pasty
taste or feeling. Doesn't cause nausea.
It's alkaline (non-acid). Checks "plate
odor" (denture BREATH. Get FASTEETH
at any drug store.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

The Suez Canal connects P |
Said on the Mediterranean Sea with
Port Thewfik on the Red Sea. 100
miles away,
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
AWARDED AIR MEDALS

CAMP LEJEUNE, Sept. % -
In ceremony at Peterfield Point,
camp airport, four Marine avia-
tors attached to a squadron there
received the Air Medal for hero
ism in one of the Pacific war
zones. They were Capt. Ames K.
Belmap, Capt. Richard E. Bacon,
Capt. Leroy w. Pennysen and
Capt. John j. Windsor.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23
BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Walton
announce the birth of daughter.
Linda Ann, September 10, at
Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs. Wal
ton is the former Bernice Bats
of Hampstead.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

The maximum proportion of ra-
dunn in the very old minerals Of
the earth's crust is believed to
be about three-tenths of a gram
per ton.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

The ancestors of three American
presidents were Dutch-Martin Van
Buren,, Theodore Roosevelt and
Franklin p, Roosevelt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

The first American labor strike
was on a railroad in 1877, when
workers protested 10 per cent
wage cut.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-23

"Camel's hair" used in making
brushes, comes from a species OF
squirrel.