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Short Charges Marshall
Lifted His First Order

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-R -
Maj. Gen. Walter c. Short told the
Pearl Harpor committee today
that Gen. George c. Marshall
recommended acceptance of Short S
retirement request one day after
'he had told me to stand pat"
and to take no action toward leav-
ing active service.
Short, 1871 Army, commander at
Hawaii and witness in the
Senate-House investigation of the
Dec 7, 1941, disaster, previously
has contended that the War de-
partment singled him out to be
the scapegoat.
The 65-year-old retired general.
removed from the command short
ly after the japanese attack, used
documents he said he got from
War department files. to round out
this story:
l. He read in the morning
papers of January Is, 1872. that
the. Roberts commission appointed
by President Roosevelt had found
him and Adm. Husband E. Kim
mel, commander of the Pacific
fleet, guilty of ''dereliction OF
duty =.
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SC0UTSL00KINC
FOR CAMP SITE

Obtaining a camp site for Will
mington Scouts was voted the main
objective of the district commit
tee for 1916 at the January meet
ing in the Chamber of Commerce
office last night, w. Eugene Ed
wards. district chairman, said.
Sixteen committeeman met to
discuss detectives for all operating
and planning committees OF the
district.
Elliott O'Nea1, district commits
sioner, explained the standard
troop rating plan for 1916. The plan,
divided into sections dealing with
advancement, membership, camp.
ing and activities, training, and
good turns, will be used to deter
m ne on a point basis the. most
active troops in the Cape Fear Area
council.
The district voted to award
scholarships at summer camp to
the three troops obtaining the most
points in this plan for the first SIX
months of 1916.
Chas. F. Jones, chairman Of
camping and activities, presented
a schedule Of activities for the Will.
1ington district as planned by his
committee on Jan. IS. These in
clude Boy Scout Week Feb. 8-14
Scout Circus May 10, district cam
poree June TO, summer camp il
July, and fall camporal in Septem
her.
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POLICEMEN, PICKETS
STAGE MELEES WHEN
MEN GO TO LUNCH

NEW YORK, Jan. 2e-u,p-
P1ckets, police and non-strik-
ers battled today in a series of
melees at the main Western
Union office here. Three ner-
sons were injured and ten 9TH
ers arrested before police
subdued near-riot.
A picket line of more than
ESQ members of the American
Communications Association
(CIO) broke into angry grouns
when several company work
ers left their offices for lunch
Mounted police ATTEMPTED to
restore order, and Mrs. Sadie
shropshire, a picket. was
Knocked down and trampled
by horse.
One detective was pushed
through a plate glass window
and a patrolman suffered a
possible Pos bic, fractured finger, po-
Earlier, one picket was ar
'ested for hitting a non-striking
employe, police said.
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OLD BELT SELLS
HUGE WEED CROP
Growers Market Largest
Tobacco Poundage, Mar
ket Value In History

RALEIGH, Jan. 25-P-The Old
Belt flue-cured tobacco crop lust
marketed was the largest in pound
age and market value in history
totaling 99,548, 191 pounds and
averaging $44.02 per hundred, the
w.. 5. Department of Agriculture
and the Agriculture Departments
OF North Carolina and Virginia an.
nounced today in a year-end re.
port
At the same time, the coopera.
ting agencies reported total sales
of 155, 971, 731 pounds of leaf on the
nine Middle Belt markets, all OF
which are in North Carolina. The
seasons average of $4361 was only
q cents per hundred higher than
in 1914, but the season total top
ped last years by $500, 900 pounds.
Old Belt markets., IL of which
are in Virginia and eight in North
Carolina, thus topped the former
1889 record in volume of sales and
the 1914 record in value of the
crop. The general average was Sec
ond only to the 1919 price. Gross
sales last year were approximate
ly 43, 300, 900 pounds more than in
1914, and returns increased by ap-
proximate1y $22, 100000. The gen
eral average was up $1.20 per hun
bred.
Practically all grade averages
were up from 81 to So per hundred
over last year, but the majority
of green tobaccos jumped 81 to SO
per hundred, and wrappers were
81 to 81 higher. A few losses of so
hundred up to 81 occurred, the
most pronounced of these occur
ing in low quality primings.
The reporting agencies said the
quality of the 1915 crop was slight
ly inferior to the previous year s
crop. The percentage of leaf was
less but this decline was offset
by larger proportions of smoking
leaf, low and fair cutters, fail
and good Tugs, and nondescript
The Old Belt markets opened
sales on September 10, and began
closing on November 20. A few
took Thanksgiving and Christmas
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Virginia Assembly Bill
Fro1v1s On Trade Unions

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 25.-EH
The nations biggest current head
ache-labor-management disputes
found reflection today in the gen.
eral assembly with the proposal of
legislation in both houses which
would put Virginia on record as
being strictly unfriendly toward
the unionization of state, city or
county employers or any agency
thereof.
A bill introduced in the assembly
would take much of the sting out of
1abor's greatest weapon, the strike,
bv prohibiting the employment or
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ENGINEERS HONOR
WILMINGTON MAN

RALEIGH, Jan. Is - With the
election Of T. J. Hewitt, chief of
the Engineering division of the U.
S. Army Engineers office at Will
mington, as president today, the
North Carolina Society of Engi-
neers moved to raise the engi-
neering standards to be able ''to
better use the resources of the
State"
In an address before the Society
this afternoon, former Governor
J. Melville Broughton pointed out
tina. the North Carolina Engineer
ing Foundation would supplement
funds of the State in paying salar-
les Of engineering instructors at
State College.
He said that in this way the State
would be assured of a higher stan
dard of engineering and thus be
able to put to better use the prod.
ucts and facilities of the State.
The annual banquet of the So
clety here tonight highlighted the
'Wo-day convention: The principle
speaker was W. D. Carmichael,
comptroller of the University Of
North Carolina. He was introduced
oy II. E. Hicks of the United States
anglneers office, Wilmington. T.
j. johnson, State OPA adrninistra.
'or' acted as POSTMASTER.
In the afternoon session, besides
bfcughton, C. N. Phillips, head Of
cne research department of Ebasco
services, New York, spoke on the
principles of flood control and USED
as illustrative material. the 1945
AvodS along the Cape Fear river
IN the morning session a legis-
id'lve committee was named to
s'uoy engineering salaries and te
.onler with Governor Cherry who
~ 10 take the matter under ad
Visement.
i l; {. Cooke, consultant engineer
v. Durham, spoke on new types
VI heating at the afternoon meet
ing.
6 neWett, the new president of the
aoclety, was graduated in civil en-
;smeerlng at State College in 1918
ia.iAeolately assuming a civil serv
Nc post with the Engineers. Hi:
approximately 32-year career with
ale service has been interrupted
! S, Any by two years in the Navy
90ilhg World War I.
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Chang Note
l,auds Russo
War Effort
TROOPS TO LEAVE
Ceueralissimo's Wife Acts
As Special Messenger
Of Friendship

pF1pING, Jan. 25-U.D-General-
;ssimo Chang Kai-shek, in a let
10. . thanking the Soviet army for
their n. assistance in defeating the
Isnanese. intimated today that
russian troops will soon evacuate
all Of Manchuria.
The letter, addressed to Marshal
Molinovski. commander of the Sow
;ot occupation forces, was delivered
+odav by Madam Chang during
special military ceremony at
Changchrln.
"Now that you have ended your
work in northeast China and will
return shortly to your own coun-
trv the Generalissimo wrote, II
send YOU Madam Chang Kai-shek
as a special messenger of friend
shin to inform you how much we
rearet this forthcoming separa-
ton"
Meanwhile, dispatches from sew
oral field teams investigating the
Nationalist-Communist truce report
ed that considerable progress has
been made in carrying out the
cease fire order in China's civil
war.
Madam Chang read the letter,
which was written in the friend
Hest terms, to officers of both the
Chinese and Russian armies as
sembled for the special ceremony
(The Central News Agency, Off
cial Chinese press association, said
100000 copies of the Generals
simo'S message will be distribu-
ted)
Chang said the ties of friend
ship between the two countries
were strengthened by two revolu-
tons which brought Lenin into pow
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And So To Bed

The evidence continues 70
pile up that the buses that ply
our streets are not mere au-
donations which come and 90
with the stop lights and grind
inexorably to appointed stops.
They-or their drivers-are
human, after all.
Yesterday cold wind was
whipping up front street. A
somewhat frantic lady, with
her young daughter about two
and-a-half years old in tow,
was trying to catch a bus. She
was caught off base, midway
the block, which means she
was midway between bus
stops.
She waved franticalIy and
cried out plaintiyely: "Please
stop! It's SO cold! It's 30
cold!"
The driver pulled over to the
curb and picked her up.
Don't though, count on this
method of catching the bus ev-
cry time. 1t might not work.
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Along The Cape Fear

like the Island of Manhattan, the
river changed hands for a song,
or beads to be exact, on Deem
Der l, 1868, when William Hilton,
Anthony Long and Peter Fabian,
hardy voyageurs from the Barba-
does, bought the river fronl Wat
coosa, then chief of the river. His
tory records that Watcocsa liked
he trinkets so well that he threw
in three fair Indian maids to boot
=. -. but Hilton, ct al, sailed back
to Barbados without them.
NEW INLET - Well known to
thousands of Wilmingtonians, was
formed in 1851 through devastation
by ~evere hurricane which all
out wiped out the then thriving toWf
OF Brunswick as well. And Bruins
WICK, by the way, was at one time
the capital of North Carolina.
FERTILIZERS-The first known
Shipment of fertilizer to come up
the Cape Fear arrived here in
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ATLANTA OFFICE
TO TAKE CENSUS

The interim census count for
Wilmington will be handled by the
Atlanta offices of the United Stat
ties Bureau of Census, it was learn
ed yesterday following an exchange
of letters between City Manager
A. C.. Nichols and the Bureau.
An enumerating supervisor will
be sent here from Atlanta, but the
exact date of his arrival to begin
the work was not disclosed in the
Bureaus letter. It is expected,
however, that operations to facili-
tate the project, which was ap-
proved by the City Council last
week, will begin soon.(
Manager Nichols said last night
that material for use in making
the count will be sent to city Of
fees and will be acted upon by city
officials who will file the needed
information and refer it to the
supervisor upon his arrival,
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WASHINGTON, Jan. Is. -P'-
They laughed when R. L Farms
worth wrote the general land OIL
flee to ask for information on
homesteading the moon.
But today
Said Joel David Wolfsohn, assist
ant land commissioner:
Remarkable foresight. How do
they propose to get back from
the moon?'
.Farnsworth's letter OF Novem'
Der, 1914, came to mind when the
Army disclosed it had bounced a
radar beam off the moon. Inc
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LONGEST IN WORLD = When
the Wilmington and Weldon rail
road, parent of the present up-and-
going ACL was finished on March
7, 184O, it was the longest ---ilroad
in the world-161 miles. And at
the opening day ceremonies, l6l
guns were fired, one for each mile
of line. Actual construction on the
road, first known as the Whining
to- and Raleigh, was started m
October, 1885,. And in it's early
days, the line carried many celeb
rites to Wilmington including r.
T. Barnum, author of that historic
wise-crack, There's A Sucker Born
Every Minute" Barnum headed
troop of singers and actor, lnclud-
ing Jenny Lind, when they stopped
here to catch steamer for Cnarles-
ton.
CHARLES RIvER-Believe 1t or
not, as Ripley says, that Is tle
original name of the Cape rear.
Sometime about 1860 the name was
changed to the Clarendon ana ID Yer
to Cape Fear. And further more
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CHILD, 4, BROWNS
NEAR HAMPSTEAD

Donald Winslow Batson, 4, was
drowned in the shallow waters Of
pond behind a neighbours house
near Hampstead yesterday after
noon.
The child. son of Mrs. Lorena
Batson of Wilmington Rt. and L.
G.. Batson, Wilmington, was miss
ell by his mother about three o'clock
yesterday afternoon. At 5:15 his
lifeless body was found in the pond
in only about two feet of water.
Acting Coroner A. c. Blake of PEN
der county said death was due to
accidental drowning.
According to Coroner Blake, the
child was playing alone and had APP
parently wandered off behind a
neighbor's house and was playing
beside the pond when he fell in.
There were no outcries heard.
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Iran dispute
To Be Heard
NextMonday
FOG BRINGS COMMENT
Stettinius Sounds Warning
That All Nations Have
Right To Testimony

LONDON, Jan. Is. -(P- The
United Nations Security Council to-
day ordered formation of a global
peace army" and agreed to con-
slider on Monday Iranian, Greek
and Indonesian military and poll
teal issues described as imperiling
peace.
Russia which earlier in a note
to the Council had declared that
Iranian charges of Soviet interior
ence in Trans affairs were with
out foundation, reserved the right
to oppose anything more than a
formal hearing of Trans case. The
note declared that pending ques-
tons could best be settled by two
way negotiations. and that the
council should not intervenue.
In Commute session, the coun-
Gil scheduled an organization meet
ing of its military chiefs of staff
before Feb. 2, and set next Monday
for tackling the issues raised con-
corning Iran. Greece and 1ndo-
nesia.
The decision to give quick atten-
ton to these matters came on
motion by Edward R. Stettinius,
Jr., American member of the H.
nation council, who declared ANY
country in the United Nations with
a complaint has right to be heard
at this table,"
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevin, drawing attention to the
case of Greece, said he was $50
tired of these charges by the Soviet
Union in private" about British
actions in that country that he was
glad to have the situation aired
promptly.
The Council adopted an Egyp-
tan proposal that, Iran, the
Ukraine and Greece, who are not
members of the council, be invited
to attend the Monday session.
Thus those three nations will be
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Radar Moon Contact Opens
Way To Solving Old Myth
Air Corps Officer Has
Unique Suggestion For
Sending Messages

WASHINGTON, Jan. Us R -
Mankind's success in establishing
radar contact with the moon was
described tonight as an "opening
STEP toward solving the age-old
question whether human life exists
elsewhere than en- earth.
This it the view of Maj. Gen.
Harold McClelland, air communi-
cations officer of the Air Forces,
when quer.ed as to further posi-.
bilities growing out of the Army
Signal Corps announcement thai
it had achieved several radar con.
facts with the moon since Jan. 10
McClelland told a repo, ter:
II see no reason why, eventually
form of morse code by radar
could not be transmitted to some
of the celestial bodies about which
conjecture has been made that
human life exists.
If sufficient power could be
generated to get signals out
through millions of miles of space
to reach the planets, intelligence
could be simply transmitted by
such signals.
"And if intelligent human life
exists beyond the earth such
signals could be answered. We
might even find that other planets
had developed techniques superior
to our own
H. E. Butron, principal astrono.
mer of the U. S. Naval Observa-
tory, pointed out that conjectures
have been made that life exists
on the planets Mars and Venus.
He declared that Mars had thin
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president, also declared the
seizure order was "a complete
double-cross" and the govern
ment was giving the workers
a raw deal"
Clark said the committee deci.
sion was unanimous. He and
other union leaders said it was
final because the committee in
cluded delegated representatives.
of all 267 locals throughout the
country.
The AFL Ama1gamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen's
union, which also has been on
strike since Jan. 16, directed it's
$1,000 striking members to return
to work and assured Mr.. Truman
that 1--WE shall cooperate with you
in this seizure fully"
The CLIO decision caused hasty
conferences in the nations capital
but there was no immediate &C.
ton. The White House, Agricul.ure
and Labor departments declined
immediate comment. So did rep.
resentatives Of major packing com.
panies in Chicago and Gayle G.
Armstrong, designated by the Agri.
culture department to direct op.
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BUTTER KNIFE GANG
ROUNDED UP IN ROW
OVER SPOILS DIVVY

NEW YORK, Jan. 25-U.D -
Lady Fagin and her butter knife
gang of 10. including her 16-year-
old daughter, were in Jail tonight,
aid police said they had solved
200 apartment house robberies.
An argument over splitting their
loot prior to breaking up led to the
arrest of the gang. A disgruntled
member tipped police, who broke
into the apartment of Mrs. Irene
Coone, described by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Harold Birn as a
Female Fagin."
The other ten members of the
gang were described as former
war workers, who turned to crime
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unemployment of any state, city Or
county employee who leaves his or
her office of employment for the
purpose of hindering, delaying, in
terfering with. or suspending the
operation of any governmental or
proprietary function Of the COM
monwealth, or of any OF It's
agencies, or of any county, city,
town, or other political subdlvl-
sion."
The other piece, of anti-govern-
mental uniop legislation took the
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Land Office Not Ready
For Moon Homestead

Army added that this increased
the possibility of space ships
If the explorer reaches the moon,
can the hardy homesteader be far
behind?
Farnsworth, of Glen Ellyn, ILL.,,
and president of the United States
Rocket Society, Inc, wrote a year
ago:
MANY of our members write in
and ask how they go about filing
a claim to land on the moon. (This)
IConfinuad nm Dono TIM. Col ~
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WEATHER
eastern Standard Time)
INV II =

ny U. S. Weather Bureau)
erd;n es'eofooglcal data for the "a hours
''do pm. yesterday.
lon Temperatures
I'm S,ou am 80; 1880 m. 80; 1 80 pm. 46;
No maxim u 81; Minimum 80; Mean II;
1so Humidity
7:3o n an d, rs; 7:3O am. IS; l 80 pm. Al;
Tot, Precipitation
- Moor sor "a hours edning 7:30 pm
3ei So A. since the first of the month
(Fror. - Tides For Today
S. co Sm the ne, Tide Tables published by U.
as' and G eodetic Survey.
''i'Anston - 4:so am. 11:4s am.
Masonboro 1r,o4 4:45 pm. - pm.
Sunrise 2:27 pm. 8:48 pm
Mo onrissse 81, 7;ls am; Sunset :ss pm;
Rive So l;54 am; Moonset l2:31 pm.
am. FrG Ssage at Fayetteville, N. c. at 6
'ioaS. mo report, feet.
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.onkey-Wrenc
Tossed In Goes
OfU. S. Machine
Leader Of Striking Meat Workers Accuses
President Of Double Cross" Through
Seizure Order; Decision "FinaI'
BULLETIN

CHICAGO JAM 26-09-The government took over strike
bound meat packing plants 1870 beginning the
Standard zone '' Oe-e - '"e
The 900 striking CLIO clearinghouse workers refused to
to their jobs
mempers who were on strike for b~ber
" ~ --e-
The Agriculture departments packing plants in
eastern at minute after before time
for the seizure to become effective in Middle West
AL strikers thew would work
uncle Sam at existing stated nine
hours before the seizure deade would ide
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CHICAGO, Jan. 25-(H9-The CIO-United Packing.
house Workers union tossed 1913 00O-n1ember monkey
wrench into government machinery today deciding not to
return to work when strkebound meat packing plants are
seized at 1901 tomorrow
Accusing President Truman of engaging Gin strike.
breaking acton an announcement of the union national
wage policy committee action read by Lewis J. Clark union
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FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity: Mostly cloudy
with scattered light showers in after
noon or early evening; colder tonight.
SUNDAY partly cloudy and much colder.
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