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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
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missioners.
Declaring sit looks like an op-
perfume time to follow up on air
service, Chairman Addison Hew-
lett suggested that county deleg-
ates be empowered to 20 to the
nations capital to confer with
Rep. j. Bayard Clark, the War
department and the Civil Areo.
nautics board.
Hewlett said that whoever act
ed as county delegates would, in
all probability, 60 to Washington
in company with City and Cham
ber OF Commerce representatives.
1t was announced Saturday that
delegation from Wilmington plans
to confer with officials in Washing.
ton next Wednesday in order to
push National Airlines' applica-
ton to serve the city.
Acting on other matters, $50
monthly to be used to employ a
full-time worker at the Legion
Home to aid returning veterans
until the Wilmington district Of
flee of the Veterans Administra.
ton can be set up. Similar alloca
tions already have been made by
the city and the American Legion
It was understood that Mrs. Evelyn
Macdonald, who has been doing
the work on voluntary be>;s
will be retained at salary of $15(
monthly.
The commissioners also agreed
to move time of their weekly meet
ing up from 10:30 a. m. to II
o'clock. Up until this summer
they met at 3 p. m.
Bids for re-roofing the new court
house were received and closed
but the board decided not to aware
the contract until next meeting
due to the absence of Commisson
er Louis Coleman, local contract
or, who prepared the specifications
The bids submitted were from
Hanover Iron Works, $2,350 ane
from E. S. Piver and Son, $2.157
On the motion of Commissone1
James Hall, County Clerk Thoma.
K. Woody was instructed to write
the Highway commission distric
engineer in Fayetteville for a re
port on a long-standing request re
ferred to asking for improvement
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
NO CELEBRATION

KINGS MOUNTAIN, Oct. 1-lP)
There will be no celebration this
year Of the Oct. z anniversary OF
the battle Of Kings Mountain.
County commissioners announced
plans for this years anniversary
program had been cancelled and
that tri-county celebration would
be held next year for Cleveland,
Castor and York counties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
ACL, OTHER LINES
DENY CONSPIRACY

dismissal of suit charging rate
oonepiracy damaging to the state
Nd shippers, which was brought
sv % the state of Georgia, was asked
w w eight rail companies, including
she Atlantic Coast Line railroad,
IN petition to the s--~----oe Court
# was revealed yesterday.
Railroads filing the lcp4., in ad-
dition to the Atlantic Coast Line.
we're; Carolina, Clinchfield and
Ohio; Louisville and Nashville; IL.
Iinois Central; Gulf, Mobile and
Ohio: Nashville, Chattanooga and
s. Louis; Seaboard Air Line; and
Southern Railway. A similar reply
was filed with the court by the
eleven Northern railroads, also
named as defendants.
IN general, Georgia had charg.
ed that the railroads through rate
bureaus and rate conferences.
principally the Southern Freight
Association in the South, have
combined against the State and
its shippers, and had asked that
= Judgment for alleged damages
be granted. The court, in it's
opinion permitting the bill to be
filed, had ruled out the damages
and confined the bill to its in.
iunctive features.
In their answer, the railroads
denied that any injury, irreparable
Or otherwise, is threatened to the
State, or any conspiracy On the
part of the defendants, which
would entitle Georgia to maintain
the suit or to have relief therein.
The southern railroads emphati-
cally declared that no citizen or
shipper of Georgia, or elsewhere,
has paid any freight bill other
than the charges lawfully publish
ed, in accord with the Interstate
Commerce act, and without COM
bination, contract or conspiracy,
in restraint of trade or commerce.
Denying that their actions have,
as charged by the State, hindered
!he development of Georgia, the
railroads said that each of them
has maintained policy in rate
making designed and intended to
encourage, promote, and increase
the manufacturing and the buying
and selling of articles of commerce
in Georgia and in other portions
Of the southern territory served
by them to the advantage and
profit of the railroads, the people
and area served.
As illustrative of the prosperity
of the south, including Georgia, as
compared with the remainder of
he country as whole, the rail-
roads pointed to the finding of the
Interstate C>fmmerce commission
class rate investigation. in which
in its report OF May Is, 1915. in the
the commission stated that ''the
economic development OF the Unit
ed States by freight rate terri
tories is indicated by the follow.
ing table showing the value of
products OF all manufacturing III
dustries.'
The table referred to, said the
railroads, shows that from 1919 to
1889, the value of such products
In Southern territory increased
from S4,517, $4,000 in 1919 to S.
5,323,OOo in 1899, or 25.6 per cent.
In the United States as a whole,
however, there was decrease
from S62, 8,079, 1000 in 1919, to $780,.
043025,00O in 1889, or 8.9 per cent.
Following this table, the railroads
added, is another statement by the
commission in that case showing
that the value added by manu-
facture' in Southern territory in
creased from $3.50, 800, 900 in 1919
to s2,325, ,207, 1000 in 1899, or 23.7 PEI
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02

of 23rd street.
An audit of the Community hos.
pital was received by the county
board and referred to County Audi
tor John A. Orrel.
The matter of wage increase for
Assistant Solicitor Cicero Vow
and a welfare department worker
| who did not receive extra consio-
Grafton when raises were granted
other city and county employees,
was referred to committee.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
COMMITTEE WILL
CONFER ON FIELD

The New Hanover Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners yesterday voted
to renew efforts to secure CONNER.
clal air line service here after an
announcement Saturday by the
War Department that Bluethenthal
Air Base has been placed on an
inactive status.
The appointment of a committee
to confer with authorities in Wash
lngton was authorized by the Com.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
REFUSED DATE

NEW YORK, Oct. 1.-U'D-Hazei
Scott, negro pianist and wife OF
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.'
D. N. Y. was refused an oper'
concert date in Washington's Con-
stitution Hall because of her race,
Lawrence Golden, her manager
said he had been informed today
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
VIOLENCE SPREADS

BOMBAY, Oct. L. Up BRUSH
troops were ordered ou: to rein
force Indian soldiers and police TO-
day as violence spread to new dis
tricts in Bombay's week = long
Hindu-Moslem disturbances. Cas-
ualty figures had risen to 81 killed
and 152 injured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02
What A Cough!
And howithurts, and nags
And disturbs your s(eep.

Chronic bronchitis may develop II
your cough, chest cold, or acute bron-
chitis is not treated and you cannot
afford to take a chance with anymedi.
cine less potent than Creomulsion
which goes right to the seat Of the
trouble to help loosen and expel germ
laden phlegm and aid nature to
Soothe and heal alraw, tender, inf1amed
bronchial mucous membranes.
Creomulsion blends beechwood
creosote byspecial process with other
time tested medicines for coughs.
1t contains no narcotics.
NO matter how many medicines
you have tried, tell your druggist to
sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with
the understanding you must like the
way 1t quickly allays the cough, per-
lnlltting rest and sleep, or you are to
nave your money back. (Adv.)
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-02

Old jar rubbers placed under
flower pots on window sills pro-
tect the sills and anchor the pots
in place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
12,429 Polio Victims Died

New York, Feb. 23 - (U.P0 -The 1944 Infantile Paralysis epidemic claimed 12,429 victims but resulted in dispelling some of the mystery" of the disease, the annual report of the National Foundation for Infan- tile Paralysis said today.
 Field studies, particularly in Cali fornia, Texas, Illinois and Connecti- cut, sought to ascertain the pattern of spread of the disease, but not enough was learned to "set in oper- ation practical control measures, [, the report said.
 More epidemics need be studied; laboratory methods must be greatly improved before the final answer can be given.'
 The report, covering only eight months of the year, due to a change in the fiscal year, listed grants and appropriations totaling $1 ,828,859 for research, education and training of physical therapists.
 During the eight months covered by the report, $10,484,3 ,380 was do- mated bgy the March of Dimes. Of this sum, $5,191, 148 went to Ma tional Headquarters and $5,293, ,232 remained with the national founda- tion county chapters.
 To help defray expenses of the 1914 epidemic - second worst in the history of the nation - the Nation- al Foundation sent $739.86O of its $2,000,000 epidemic fund to chapters in hard-hit communities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

ing knew only what they had learned in a couple of years at Harvard, Arkansas State Teachers College or V.MI. Yet their training was such that they guided their planes as much by coordinated re- flexes as by conscious thought.
 And their chiefs - the battle-ex- perienced 20 epr cent-looked so young in their commanders and lieutenant commanders stripes that anywhere in the United States the sight of them would have caused persons on the street to turn around and wonder if they had borrowed their elders uniforms.
 Every day not only the fliers and the equally-trained and heroic but still younger enlisted air gunnerS and radio men, the entire personnel of the ship with which they served, risked their necks training for the big event, for you can get killed on carrier merely by not being eter- nally vigilant.
 NEXT: The fIier's job on fIat-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

The idea is to knock down the en- emy with the first blow, then to continue pummeling him so hard he has no opportunity to recover his wits. It is an effective technique, but dangerous. It is only the split second timing which prevents whole sale crackups as planes sweep down to cross each others paths at house. top levels.
 The technique requires perfect teamwork, type of flying ability so outstanding that simply to call it excellent constitutes belittle- ment. It is achieved through train ing which means daily brushes with death.
 PLIERS ARE MERE KIDS
 Yet do not think that the fliers and the teams aboard their car- riers are veterans. Most of those whom I accompanied part of the way on their route to join the war against Japan were mere boys. Eighty per cent had just been grad uated from training and never had been in combat. Kids, they were, who except for their Navy train
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
200 PARTICIPATE
 IN CLUBS EVENTS
Several Titles Determined in Holidays Contests
 at Boys Club

A carnival of champions held at the boys club yesterday was par ticipated in by more than 200 boys. The program was a part of the clubs Washington birthday cele- bration.
 The following were crowned as champions of the various events cid:
 Pocket billiards champions were Sam Andolina, intermediate; Rob- ert Devito, juniors; Joseph Cardel- Ia, midgets; and Vincent CardelIa, plebes. Checker tournament win- ners were Michael Andolina, inter- mediates, Raymond Behr, junior; Socrates Mihalkas, midget; and Lindy Lawson, plebes.
 Carmen Amenta, ping pong, in- termediate; Raymond Behr. junior; Vito Rollo. Midgets; and Lindy Lawson, plebes.
 Mario Generai and Edward Her. bert directed game room activities, while Art Verry supervised physi- cal department competition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
Congressmen Call
 Petrillo "1yrant''

Washington, Feb. 23. (UP)-Four blonde angels in white uniforms, with six-foot wings growing out of their shoulder blades, look down from 8 mural on the kall of the Congressio committee on interstate and foreign commerce. The motto is, "On Earth Peace"
 That ain't the way heard 1t.
 The lawmakers were Investigating James Caesar Petrillo and his Musi- clans Union. They sat under their angels and what they called James Caesar was enough to make those ladies blush. James Caesar wasn't there.
 That was the trouble. The little fat man, who rides In a bullet proof sedan and who decides who shall tootle o na horn and where, last year ignored a demand by Presi- dent Roosevelt in connection with photograph decordings. Now he was ignoring Congress.
 "In all my 18 years of service as congressman" said Rep. Charles A. Kolverton, of New Jersey, T have never seen anything like this"
 T guess MT. Petrillo is doing the same thing to Congress that he did to the President of the United States added Rep. Clarence J. Brown ofd Ohio. T think MT. Petrillo has asked for 1t and 1t is about time that Congress let him have it."
 Two bills are before the house, both designed to take the wind out of James Caesars bassoon. One, by Rep. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma, would subject him to criminal trial if he persists in forcing the hiring of fiddlers who don't fiddle.
 It developed, for instance, that If radio station wants to broadcast the music of 8 non-union band, 1t has got to hire an equal number of union musicians to sit on their hand- kerchiefs at full salary during the concert.
 The other bill, introduced by Rep. George A. Dondero of Michigan, would prohibit James Caesar from interfering with educational broad casts, such as those of the high school symphony at Interlochen, Mich. James Caesar said not only that the students had to stay off the air, but that any union musician who taught 'em how to fiddle woulc have his card taken up.
 We boast of our freedom" said Rep. Dondero, ''but this fellow Pet- rillo is asSaSsinating it."
 Dondero said he first got sore at James Caesar when the city of Royal Oak, Mich, unveiled 8 tablet to it's wal veterans.
 Their mothers ard fathers were there with tears streaming down their faces" he said. We held 8 little parade and we wanted the Navy band from a nearby training station. The Navy said it was sorry. buJ Petrillo wouldn't allow such an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

the air in the black of night re- quires more.
 Yet the entire attack is worked out on a split-second time table, different from that employed by the Army fliers with their high altitude bombers. There can be no complete surprise because the Japs will find out that our force is bearing in On Tokyo. But there will be surprise in the method of attack. Certain of the fighters en- gage the Japanese interceptors. Others dive low to splatter anti aircraft emplacements with ma- chine gun bullets and shrapnel bombs. Just as they roll away the dive bombers swoop down from an opposite direction. The Aveng- CTS come in low, generally, where they aren't expected.
 It requires tremendous fire power to down single plane; if the anti aircraft gunners are concentrating on that plane they can't swing around to get one bearing in on them from another direction. Hence the Navy tactics surely are giving Tokyo something long to remember.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
5000 Providence Grods In Service

Providence, R. l.. Feb. B - Three thousand Providence College alumni one half of the entire alumni body, are now in the armed forces, College authorities revealed today.
 Sixty-one alumni, including six from the Army Specialized Training unit on campus in 1943-1944. have given their lives. Included among the deceased are chaplains, mem bers of the medical. dental, and legal professions, former star ath- letes and former honor students.
 Among the alumni in service are chaplains stationed all over the world. Many of these are secular priests from the Diocese of Provi- dence. Of the Dominican Fathers of St. Joseph's Province serving in the chaplainS corps, twenty-seven are Providence College alumni.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

appearance. I wired Secretary For- restal and all got from him was apologies.
 When does a musicians organiza- ton become more powerful than the United States? That's the question asked then and it has not been answered yet"
 Prof. Joseph E. Maddy, the gray haired president of the National Music camp at Interlochen, said James Caesar was a boss, a boaster. an intimidator, despotic dictator, a pernicious conspirator, an auto- crat, an insidious person, a czar, a tyrant, an extortion racketeer and a major menace.
 That's what the congressional arl- gels heard, if they were listening. Next move is James Caesars. "On earth peace" the sign says. It's g good idea, anyhow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
NO OFFICIAL WORD
 ON CURFEW ORDER
WING Director Fitzgerald Confident That COnnecti=
 cut Will Cooperate

State Manpower Director William J. Fitzgerald of the War Manpower Commission today announced that he has not received as yet, official word concerning the request of Justice James Byrnes for a midnight curfew for theatres, night clubs, bars and other places of entertainment in the state as means of conserving fuel.
 MT. Fitzgerald said that the only notice of the request called to the attention of the State War Man power Commission was the an- nouncement in newspapers from Washington. He said that until formal notice of the request is made no action is contemplated by the War Manpower Commission in Con- nect.cut.
 However, I am confident that when we do receive formal notice of Director Byrnes' request to close at midnight to conserve fuel, the affected places of business in Con- necticut will cooperate to the full- est extent with the nationwide movement. We will issue instruc- tions as to means of enforcing this request when we are notified of it."
 We in Connecticut are to be proud of the fine manner in which business and industry have CO operated with any government ord- CTS or requests for conservation of materials or any goods. I am con- fident that when the request of Di- rector Byrnes is extended in this state that we will receive this con- tinued cooperation from all con- cerned."
 we are all interested in one goal and that, quick end of this war. We have a fine record in Connecti- cut in production of war materials and such record can only be at- tained by the whole-hearted CO., operation of all of the people ir Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

flattop and its destroyer escort, they saw an entire task force Steaming in formation around them.
 Overhead was an umbrella of planes with scouts that journey ed several hundred miles in all directions just to see what the ocean might contain. On either side, as far as the eye could reach and beyond, there were destroyers, dipping under the waves, weaving in and out of the line pattern in search of enemy submarines. Inside their cordon were speedy cruisers. And in the very center were many flattops Of the Essex class or their equivalent in smaller escort car rierS.
 $6O, ,OOO, 900 VESSEL
 There is reason for this placement A carrier can not effectively defend itself with its own anti-aircraft guns. You must make it hard to reach, for one carrier of the Essex class represents $60,OOO, 900 worth of vessel even before it is fitted out. It is the hangar for 30 planes or more, 8 floating warehouse packed tightly with gasoline, oil, bombs, re- pair parts, machine shops. The car- riers of our group by themselves have many thousands of men aboard. They are so many fortified, highly industrialized cities, each nearly ifth of mile long, 10 stories high from keel to masttop.
 The overall planning and train ing for the Tokyo venture was stupendous. There had to be plas- ter molded relief maps of the Japanese coast and the Tokyo area for the fliers to study so they would be familiar, visually, with the objects of their attack, so they could pick out landmarks, even down to houses and clumps of trees.
 Points of rendezvous had to be established along with the battle plan. And the job of traffic man. agement alone was one to stagger the imagination.
 Aboard a single flattop, the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

planes tend to such confusion that it is necessary to keep in the con- trol office a board representative of the deck on which every plane is accounted for in its position by @ small toy craft. If Q plane takes off or is sent back below, the toy plane which represents 1t on the board is taken off and appropriately filed The others are moved up.
 Each carriers force is divided among fighters, dive bomberS and torpedo bomberS - HellcatS, He'll divers, Avengers, pricnipally-but no matter the purpose for which they were designed, all may carry rockets and bombs and a lot of 50. calibre machine guns.
 Each classification has its own air-conditioned ready room. There the boys recline in leather chairs set movie house fashion, munch- ing apples, smoking, eating sand- wicheS from the nearby canteen. reading news bulletins flashed across screen, or listening to 8 loud speaker pour forth jazz music. Be- tween times their chie1B describe the task ahead of them, talking, using the relief maps, movies, and blackboard diagrams.
 MEETING PLACE IN CLOUDS
 The Hellcats will take off in the dark long before dawn, climb designated distance and proceed with fighters from other ships to rendezvous at certain latitude and longitude. The dive bombers and Avengers will have their own meeting places in the clouds. Then, at a previously designated minute, the various groups will proceed to Tokyo, each to per- form certain task at previous ly-specified moment.
 Such are the preliminaries to bombing Tokyo. To get one car- rier's planes into the air and keep them from putting into each other requires both skill and luck. To get those of all our carriers into
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
New Bedford Fears Strike

New Bedford, Mass, Feb. 25.-- (UP)-A possible textile work Stop- page faced New Bedford today as the government sought to unraved the tangle of its first court-cha!- lenged draft.
 The New Bedford Cotton Manu- lecturers Association, representing nine mills, warned that enforce ment of war manpower comrnis- sion order to fire worokers who refuse to transfer to high-priority tire cord plants may result in 8 general walkout.
 Executive Secretary Fred w. Steele said the firing would violate an agreement between the associa- tion and the CIO, which claims the transferral is unnecessary. The discharge order is effective Satur- day.
 Steele returned from Washing ton where he unsuccessful'y sought revocation of the order to IF workers to shift to critical Fisk and Firestone tire cord plaEts. Only few have accepted. Meanwhile, the Massachusetts state council of the CIO claimed the rubber plants work load was heavier, but the pay not commen- Surate.
 "If the workers are offered high CT wages to compensate them |. and were given protection of senior- ity rights with the same insurance benefits-hundreds would volun- teer," it said.
 Though baked in it's attempt for a temporary restraining order, the CIO has been granted hearing March 5 on 8 petition for preiim- mary and permanent injunction against the WING.