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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-20
Yacht Club Party
Largely Attended

The Carolina Yacht club at
Wrigntsville Beach entertained
Wednesday at a bridge luncheon
for members and their guests.
During the morning bridge was
played followed by luncheon at
1:30 o'clock.
dostesses for the event were
Mrs. Fred Little, Mrs. E. H. Nun
son and Mrs. Horace Pearsan.
Those attending we're: Mrs. Gill
Saunders, Mrs. Fred Hamme, Mrs
Louis Fonvielle, Mrs. N. L. Foy
Mrs. Ramsey Weathersbee, Mrs
E. Fleet Williams, Mrs. Harold
Wells, Mrs. Schaeffer Parker, Mrs
Harding Sugg of Greenville, Mrs.
Robert B. Rodman, Mrs. Knox
Britt, Miss Florence C. Pearsall
Mrs. H. A. Penton, Mrs. ]. o
Broughton, Mrs. j. c. Roe, Mrs.
D.. H. Penton, Mrs. H. L. Keith
Miss Leigh Ferebee, of Norfolk
Va, Miss Laura Roe, Miss Emma
Mitchell, Miss Mary Elizabeth
Toms, Miss Ruth Anderson, o:
Charlotte;
Mrs. Edwin B. Josey, Mrs. Rob
ert Slocu,n, Mrs. W. G. James
Mrs. j. w. Hooper, Mrs. Davie
Scott, Miss Fanny deRosset o,
New York city, Mrs. duBrutz Pois
son, Miss Carrie Myers, Mrs. R
II. Grower, Miss Gladys Taylor
Mrs. A. K. Cooper, Jr., Mrs. R
C. Cantwell, III, Miss Dorothy
Dalrymple, Mrs. W. H. Tillery
Mrs. U. L. Spence, Mrs. J. A. Ell
more, Mrs. G. A. Cardwell, Mrs
J. E. Wilson, Mrs. z. K. Bell
Mrs. M. F. Gardner, Mrs. R. Bry
ant Hare, Mrs. W. L. Berry, Mrs
L. M. Cuvillier of Wichita, Kas,
Mrs. Leonard Hammond, of Co
lumbus, Ca, Mrs. Henry Longley
Mrs. Herbert Kendall, Mrs. B. H
Marbury, Mrs. Leslie Marbury
Miss Pauline Roberts, Miss Kath
ryn Snow, Mrs. James Wells, Mrs
Julian Fields;
Mrs. W. A. Wood, III, of Nor
folk, Va, Mrs. ]. N. Alexlus, Mrs
Eugene Johnson, Mrs Robert Muir
ply of Richmond, Va, Mrs
George Davis, Mrs. A. MGR
Crouch, Mrs. R. M. GreenWell, o
Chattanooga. Tenn, Miss Helel
Lowering, Mrs. Osborne Foard
Mrs. C. Wayne Spencer, Mrs. M
J. Carson, Mrs. j. B. O'Brien
Mrs. W. A. Fonvielle, Mrs. S. E
Jones, Mrs. w. H. Henderson, Mrs
R. W. Marye and Mrs. W. S
Raker
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Officers Wives
Club Convenes

The Officers Wives club of VII
noington met Wednesday afternoon
for the regular social and business
meeting held in the American LIE
zion home on South Third street,
With Mrs. J. DuRoss O'Bryan
president, presiding.
During the short business SEES
sion. which was followed by d
brid ge game, the group voted to
furnish magazines, candy, games
playing cards and chewing gum,
to be presented to the USO, Wa
in turn will pack them and pre-
sent the packages to the armed
guard crews on the ships leaving
the shipyard.
Mrs. Henry R. Watson. Jr., WaG
appointed a member of the tele
phone committee at this meeting
and Mrs. Irving D. Roth was nam
ed hostess for the next meeting te
be held at the Legion home IL
August.
High scorer in the bridge game
was Mrs. D. D. Braden. Light re
freshments were served during ths
afternoon by the hostess, Mrs. E
M. Musselwhite to the following
MEMBERS:
Mrs. Henry R. Watson. Jr., Mrs
L. W. Wiley, Mrs. Oliver M
Creekmore, Jr., Mrs. Irving D
Roth, Mrs. Laurence R. Schneider
Mrs. Judson Jones. Mrs. J. w
Shipman, Jr, Mrs. D. D. Braden
Mrs. Donald 8. Jones, Mrs. Rober
Andrews, Mrs. C. S. Perlman, Mrs
E. Van D. Davis, and Mrs. j
DuRoss O'Bryan.
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DailyPrayer
FOR THE HUMBLE VIRTUES

In this great hour Thou hast
called most of us, o Master, to
carry on in humdrum daily duties.
Touch our eyes that we may per-
ceive the use and glory of thess.
We pray for the humble, every
day virtues of faithfulness, cheer
fitness, comradeship and helpful
ness. May our home and our
place of work be glorified by the
knowledge tn they are the
sphere appointed to us, as truly
as the soldier is assigned to his
place by orders, In our little lot
may we grow great lives. Exalt
us in our spirits by the knowledge
that we are where Thou wouldst
have us be. Grant that our hearts
may be so heroic that we may
meet with smiling patience all the
annoyances of life's routine and
that we may shed the glow of con
secration upon the lowliest task.
This we ask in the name of Him
who lived the greatest life amidst
the lowliest circumstances. Amen.
-W.T.E.
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VIC Summer School
Closes Saturday

GREENSBORO, July 10-FolloW-
ing one of the most successful ses-
sions of the past decade, both from
the standpoint of a record enroll
ment and from the diversity of
program, The Woman's college
summer term will close tomorrow.
During the six weeks session, IN
dergraduate work in a variety of
fields and graduate work in home
economics, elementary education
and business education have been
given, and a number of workshops,
clinics, seminars and special class
es offering college credit have
been given for two weeks periods.
Summer Institute for String In
strument Players, which has been
held simultaneously with summer
school, will also close tomorrow,
after concert tonight by the high
school and early college players
who have been enrolled. The six
weeks Child Health conference al
so ends tomorrow.
Two of the many summer con.
ferences, institutes and workshops
of a non-academic nature which
have enlivened the summer pro.
gram of the college also end with
the session. Conference of Future
Tomemakers of America, under
way since Monday, closed today,
and three weeks child care con-
ference for training of nursery
school workers, will end tomorrow
Seven clinics, seminars and
workshops conducted by the de.
partment of education for gradu-
ate and certification credit, two ex.
detrimental workshops of the art
department, and master classes in
both piano and voice conducted
by the school of music, all for
periods of two weeks each, had
capacity enrollments and will
doubtless be repeated next sum
mer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-20
Warsaw Visitors
Honored AT Party

WARSAW July 19-Mrs. E. J.
Bowden of Elizabeth City, Mrs.
B. M. Jones of Mount Sterling
KY, and Mrs. Gordon McSWain OF
San Antonio, Texas, were honored
at a bridge party given on Mon
day afternoon by Mesdames A. j.
Jenkins, R. E. Wall, and Henry L.
Stevens, Jr., at the home of Mrs.
Jenkins. Six tables were in play,
and gladioli was used to decorate
the home. Mrs. Warren A. Smith
and Mrs. E. P. Ewers received
high and low score prizes re-
spectively, and each of the hon
orees was presented a gift. Fruit
punch was served during the pro-
gressions and a sweet course at
the end of the afternoon.
Mesdames E. P. Ewers, E.
Walker Stevens and R. H. Best,
Jr., were hostesses at eight tables
of bridge at the home of Mrs. Best,
on Saturday afternoon. Honor
guests were, Mrs. Gordon McSwain
San Antonio, Tex, guest of her
father, D. E. Best, and Mrs. B.
NJ. Jones of Mount Sterling, Ky,
who is visiting her sister, Mrs
Ewers. Mrs. w. M. Buck was
awarded the high score prize and
the honorees were remembered by
the hostesses. Punch, cookies, ano
party sandwiches were served
Dahlias, gladioli, and roses de
corated the home.
Mrs. Mary Gray Quinn Gresham
entertained on Thursday morning
at the home of her mother, Mrs
]. W. Quinn at bridge luncheon
for Mrs. Gordon McSwain. After
the play of bridge a three course
luncheon was served. Prizes were
awarded and Mrs. McSwain was
presented a gift. Mixed summer
flowers were used as decorations.
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by Alice Brooks

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N. e. Club Leaders
Close 4-DaY Session
AT Woman S College

GREENSBORO, July 19.-North
Carolina club leaders in Future
Homemakers of America today
concluded four-day conference at
The Woman's college, held under
auspices of the state department
of vocational home economics to
train them in their duties as Of
ficers and develop the program con-
tent of their organization. To their
local clubs they will carry sug-
gestions for program designed
to improve home and commun' ty
living in North Carolina.
Officers of the new organization,
made up of the former high school
Home Economics clubs, who were
installed during the conference are
as follows: Misses Betty Lou Mer-
rill, Beaufort, president; Georgia
Tsitouris, Monroe, vice-pres. dent;
Glayds Sealey, GAINESVILLE, secre-
tary; Mabel Richman, Leaksville,
treasurer; Jacqueline Collie,
Bailey, reported Kathryn Sloop,
Lands, historian; Harriet Congle-
ton, Aurelian Springs, pianist, and
Henrietta Davis, Gambler, song
leader.
Other club leaders in attendance
were Misses Betsy Cain, Spencer.
Anna Jean Poole, Spencer; Mary
Gladys Fisher, Granite Quarry;
Martha Haywood, Rockingham;
Collene Crabtree, Oakhurst school,
Charlotte; Mary Eta Little,
Thomasboro school, Charlotte; Sy-
bill johnson, Stedman; Addie B.
Parnell, Fayetteville; Doris Good
ems, Clarkton; Janice Lorick,
Fayetteville; Betty Joyce Talley,
Fuquay Springs; Louise Webb,
Louisbrrg; Bette Cannady, Frank
linton; Flora Poe, Durham; Mary
Ann Beaman, Gatesville; Sue Gull
LITER, Murfreesboro; Aileen Casey,
Mount Olive; LaRue Hord, Waco;
Peggy Laughlin, Marion; Carolyn
Plemmons, Henrietta; Jean DeLan
cey, Reidsville; Remona Howell
Madison, and Frances Ingram, Col.
fax.
Sharing in the program of study
and planning were Miss Frances
Woolworth, Durham, state teacher
adviser, and the following eight
district teacher advisers: Mrs
Geraldine B. Parker, Murfreesbol
Mrs. Marjorie G. Leonard, Louis
burg; Mrs. Jaye P. Graham, Sted
man; Mrs. Julia Slate, Spencer
Miss Inez Hubbard, Mount Olive
Miss Doris Gaddy, Charlotte; Mrs
Villa Mae Scruggs, Black Noun
tain, and Miss Martha WhitWorth
Leaksville.
In directingt he program, Mis-:
Catherine Dennis, Raleigh, state
supervisor of home economics edu
!; cation, was assisted by Misses Rose
I Mary Cadet and Sarah jenkins
her assistant supervisors, both o
] Raleigh; Louise Lowe, district sup
ervisor of Woman's college staff
and Mabel Lacy, district supervisor
: of East Carolina Teachers collegt
, staff, Greenvil1e.
l DISCHARGED FROM WACS
r BRIDGETON, July 10. - Sgt
Agnes Brite of the Women's Arm,
> Corps, has returned to North Caro-
I lima for discharge from militar,
4 service under the point system
$ For the past two years she ha
: been in England where she wa
1 attached to the planning and OF
. erations divisions of the head
: quarters squadron of the Eight
Air Force. She is now spendin
5 some time with her parents, for
mer Mayor and Mrs. I. H. Brit
, of Bridgeton.
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MRS. HOBBY ILL

NEW YORK, July 19.-P)-Mrs.
Oveta culp Hobby, who recently re-
tired as commander of the wo-
mems Army's Corps, is i'll at doc
tors Hospital, the institution SAID
today. The nature of her illness
was not disclosed. Spokesmans
said Mrs. Hobby, VINO held the
rank of colonel, entered the hos
pital Tuesday.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCED

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry W. Stovall,
Jr announce the birth of a son,
Harry w. Stovall, III, on July 10,
at Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs.
Stovall is the former Nancy Crow.
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BIRTH ANNOUNrpn

Mr.. and Mrs. R. A pbnr
Wilmington, announce tbe LIPS Of
a daughter, Barbette, Julv N NJ Of
Marion Sprunt annex. Mrs pbSr At
is the former Mary Lee Bjddls lp ;,
Wilmington. 4e "
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South America has some species
of grasshoppers with wingspreads
of IL inches.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-20

Mrs. John Cronly, of Richmond
Va, is visiting friends at Wrlghts'
Vile Beach for several weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-20

Mrs. Edwin A. Nets and daugh'
ter, Anne, are visiting Mrs. Nets
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert l.
Miller in Danville, Ill.
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PERSONALS

Lieut.. and Mrs. Franklin H. Ell
more arrived yesterday and are
visiting Lieut.. Elmore's parents
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Elmore, Tor
several weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-20

Mrs. L. P. Burgess of Marion,
Pa, who has been visiting her
sisters, Mrs. ]. Stanley William
son and Mrs. Robert B. Bell, has
returned to her home. Mrs. Burgess
is the former Nida E. Davis 81
Wilmington.
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BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
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It takes about $50 mole skins to
make a standard length fur coat.
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! is to hold the big stick over the
big boys to make damn sure
they're not going to foul up the
peace.
We've got to so de-industrialize
Germany and Japan-at least for
generation-so they won't 60 to
war again. Also we've got to see
that those subsidized slave labor
countries do not again flood the
world with their cheap products,
lowering the standards of living of
the United Nations.''
After Lasky's version of the sto.
ry had been put into type and an
abstract had been transmitted by
the Associated Press to the United
States, where it was widely pub
lished, Raruch's secretary asked
that it be withheld from pubIca-
ton. However, after deletion of the
two foregoing paragraphs, it was
published by Stars and Stripes.
Lasky said that during the III
terview, in Baruch's suite in II e
Claridge, the telephone rang and
Baruch's secretary told him the
Prime Minister was calling. Bar
UGH, Lasky said, gave Churchill
mild brushoff to continue his
talk with the soldier-reporter.
Hello, Winston, this is Bernie"
Baruch said into the phone, &C.
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Baruch Assures Veterans
NAmple PeQcetime Jobs

LONDON, Thursday, April S.
R-Looking confidently into the
future, Bernard Baruch, adviser to
President Roosevelt, asserted in
an interview published today that
American servicennen would not
have anything to worry about
when they got home, that "there
will be more work in the United
States than there will be hands
with which to do it."
This wave of prosperity, he told
a reporter for the Army newspa-
per Stars and Stripes, would carry
over for five to seven years af-
ter the war mo matter what is
done or not done"
The 75-year-old financie-, who
has held several conferences with
Prime Minister Churchill, was re-
luctant to talk about the exact ma
ture of his mission to London. But
he spoke freely in expressing con-
fidence in the immediate future,
and added:
''What' happens after those five
or seven years depends on TIE
peace the big boys are preparing
for us now"
Baruch's interview was given to
A. Victor Lasky, Stars and Stripes
staff writer. AS originally prepar-
ed for publication it quoted Baruch
as saying at this point:
And one reason I am over here
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Third Army Takes Kassel, Gotha And Suhl
Close On Erfuv130 Miles From Berlin
Yanks Gain On Okinawa Resistance LIGHT
1000 Forts Hit KeL,
Hamburg Sub Pens
5000 Planes Hurled Against Northwestern
Reich; Stiff Opposition Offered By
Nazi Jet Planes

LONDON, April 4.-(P))-The AL
lies hurled 5000 planes against the
dWindling targets of shrunken Ger
many today, including 1000 Flying
Fortresses and Liberators which
blasted submarine building yards
at Kiel and Hamburg and airfields
throughout the northwestern Reich.
The American attacks were driv-
en- home despite stiff opposition
from formations Of jet propelled
ME-262. Nine bonbers and four
fighters were missing, but the
Swedish radio said one of the
bonbers landed safely at Malmoe
airport in Sweden.
Returning crewmen reported
good results at Kiel. ~ts-
At least II of the twin-jet inter-
ceptors and four other enemy fight
ers were shot down by Mustangs
which made up part Of the $50
plans escort. But the ME-262, clos
ing to short range in formations Of
four and eight planes, knocked
down several American bombers
in attacks concentrated chiefly on
force OF Liberators assigned to
targets at Hamburg.
Many Of the American fighters
carried out widespread strafing
raids against German airfields
which are becoming more longest
ed daily as the enemy is forced
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to evacuate his fields in the west,
70 OF which already have been
lost.
In these sweeps at least eight
planes were destroyed on the
ground. One group Of about Al
M u n 6 S encountered IL JET
planes. One was shot down; the
other II were damaged.
Fighterlbombers of the U. S.
Ninth Air Force, some operating
from former enemy airfields east
of the Rhine, boosted the days to.
tai of German aircraft destroyed
by American pilots to at least A.
They brought down 16 in combat
and caught three bombers on the
ground.
Some 5000 Allied planes In all
assaulted German targets from the
west. While the American heavies
were continuing their port-bustins
campaign-it was the second
straight raid on KieI, and the
third on naval installations and U
boat yards in six days-the Raj
sent some $50 Lancasters with
Mustangs and Spitfires to attack
troop concentrations at Nordhaus.
en-, 60 miles northeast Of Kassel.
The existence of Americas
"droop snoot" bomber, a PSF
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 81
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FOE SAYS ALLIES
STRETCHING LINES
Werewolf Group Claims
Wiping Out OF Ameri-
can Army Force

LONDON, April 4.-P-German
military commentators contended
tonight that the Allies were over.
reaching themselves, while the
Nazi radio boosted that the "Were.
WOLF terrorist organizatio had
wiped out an American headquar.
tiers and slain number of Ameri.
cans at various points behind the
lines.
Radio speakers suggested that
the speed and scope Of the Allied
advance Knight have the effect Of
a giant sponge, soaking up the
war potential of the enemy and
paralyzing his offensive strength u
and opined "the temptation to at
tempt too much is great"
The Germans acknowledged, how.
ever that 'the situation is by NO
means stabilized"
Commentator Max Krull assert.
ed: 'The Wehrmacht has not been
brought to its knees. The encircled
Ruhr army resumed active de.
tense yesterday in full strength. "
He described the Allied strategy
as "spiderweb'' system sending
out tentacles over Germany" but
contended the detectives still were
sufficiently distant that F'the war
cannot be concluded either in a
fortnight or by the date Of the San
Francisco Conference" April Is.
A German radio station calling it.
self the werewolf Sender" mean
while appealed to German women
to join the organization.
One Werewolf broadcast claimed
kkyoYaki.a.zII
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SUPPLY OF SUGAR
TO DROP in 1916
Quota For Al orleans
Slightly Under That
OF Great Britain

WASHINGTON, April 4 ---P-
Civilians in the United States, ia
NOUS for their sweet tooth, vii
find 1945 "the most difficult OF the
war" from the sugar standpoint.
This sour report came today
from 1t. Col. R. w. Oimstead Of
the War Food Administration, who
said the comparative supply fig
ures are: 7 per cent less than n
1914 and IA per cent less than the
1859 average.
The American estimate figures
out at SO pounds per civilian, ever
a little less than civilians in Great
Britain are due to get.
Olmstead, who is chairman Of
WAS ALLEGATIONS committee, sale
that in the United Kingdom, the
1915 sugar estimate is due to &C
IN q DER cent over 1914 to &c
pounds per capita. This, however.
is II per cent less than the ls34-3s
average. ..
For Canada, the estimate is 3;
pounds, 4 per cent below 1914 anc
il per cent below 1859.
olmstead supplied the figures II
testimony before senators lnvestl
eating food shortages.
Other highlights on the contlau
ing big food topic:
"a The War Food Administrator
allotted 1923, O00,0 900 pounds OF ou1
ter for civilian consumption in ths
next three months. This compares
with estimated consumption OF 1885,,
600 600 to 1928, 100000 in the last
three months. .,
az It said civilians face a sc
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YANKS INVADE
MASBATE ISLE
Blockade Of Jap Shipping
Declared To Be In
Complete Operation

MANILA, Thursday, April 5.-R
-Masbate island in the central
Philippines was invaded by Maj.
Gen. Rapp Brush's veterans 4otn
Infantry Division Tuesday, Gen.
Douglas Macarthur announced to-
day in a communique which pro-
claimed the American blockade of
Japanese shipping Sin complete
operation"
Macarthur also reported that
escorted heavy bombers scored
their first concerted strike on the
great shipping base at Hong kong,
hitting the Kowloon and Taikoo
dock areas with 1875 tons Of bombs
innumerable fires and explosions
dotted the target. Not plane was
lost
Twenty-eight japanese vessels,
including a destroyer-escort. were
sunk or damaged in the China Sea
and waters to the south.
Macarthur said the Eighth Army
Yanks invading Masbate, fairly
large sugar island just west of
samar, on the main shipping lane
through the central Philippines,
were aided by guerrilla forces,
and added:
1--WE are rapidly securing the en-
tire island"
Masbate is the 36th Philippine
island invaded. .
Macarthur, in lengthy sum-
mary of operations in his theater,
said that Mondays seizure OF
Tawitawi harbor at the southern
end of the Sulu archipelago "severs
ny
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CHICAGO, April 4(R-Secre.
tary of State Stettinius said tonight
1--WE shall do all in our power
to convene a conference OF the
worlds principal trading nations
within the next year to consider
commerce problems.
Stettinius emphasized Govern.
ment plans for the removal OF
the political, economic and social
causes of war" in a speech be-
fore the Council on Foreign Re
lations.
The proposed trade conference,
he said, would also prepare the
way for establishment of a per-
manent trade organization within
the framework of the world organi-
cation, to deal with these prob
lens on a continuing basis"
The Secretary expressed full
confidence that we shall be able
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HARD COAL mine
MEN SEEK RAISE
John L. Lewis Asks rs Per
Cent Increase For
$4,000 Workers

NEW YORK, April 4 - R -
The United Mine Workers today
asked Is per cent salary in
crease for 1900 workers in the
hard coal field
The miners also demanded a
royalty Of 10 cents per ton, as
they did in the bituminous nego-
tiations, and asked severance pay
for suspensions, dismissals and
layoffs.
A set Of 80 demands was pre-
scented by President John L. Lewis
to the representatives of 100 hard
coal producers in eastern Pennsyl-
vania as negotiations opened for
new contract to replace the one
expiring April 30.
Lewis said before the negotia-
tons began that the miners had
received ''only a Is per cent in
crease since 1923" and that they
now deserved ga considerable in
crease" because eve know indus
try is prosperous"
At press conference following
the first negotiations session,
UNIV Secretary-Treasurer Thorn.
as Kennedy said eve believe there
is enough leeway in our demands
to keep within the Little Steel
Formula
Kennedy also said there was no
way at present to estimate the
overall cost of the demanded in.
creases to the operators because
OF varying pay rates among min
ers.
Ralph E. Taggart, president OF
lCOntinued nm Pare Seven. Col q