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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-03
.AristocrQtS
Runk 18th As
Wage Edrners

New York-(FP).- Although still
called the "aristocracy of labor" rail
road workers are not at the top but
14th in the list of average annual
earnings of workers, Railroad Notes,
monthly publication of Labor Research
Assn, reported in its January 1946
issue.
Despite the popular misconception
that the railway labor act has i'm
proved the wellbeing of railroad work
ers, the. U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics in its October 1945 report re-
vealed that from 1899 to 1914, rail-
road employees weekly earnings rose
much less than the earnings of fac
tory workers and miners. Their in
crease, including overtime pay, was
less than 49&, against a rise of 93ft
for factory employees and more than
l14% for bituminous coal miners.
Rail workers on Class l roads aver
aged only $45.69 a week in 1914, while
manufacturing employees averaged
$46.08 and bituminous miners more
than $51 week, this survey showed.
In hourly earnings, rail employees
averaged only 93c but factory work
ers averaged more than 81 and soft
coal miners more than $1.18.
Hours of work are longer for rail-
road workers too, the BIS reported.
They averaged about 49 week in
1914, compared to 45.2 in manufactur
ing, 43.4 in bituminOus coal mining
and 40.7 in anthracite mining.
Possibility of quick wage relief for
railroad workers is dimmed by the
complicated machinery Of the railway
labor act. Demands of the Is railroad
unions for 3Oc hourly increase were
stalled in negotiations and have now
been transmitted to the Natl. Medita-
tion Board. If the board fails to settle
the dispute, fact-finding panel ap
pointed by the President will take over
and make recommendations not bind
ing on either side.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-03
Paper Makers
BuckEconomic
Cooperation

Washington-(FP).- Economic CO.
operation through joint labor and
management effort has received the
Endorsement of the Paper Makers Intl.
Union (AFL) in report quoted in the
December issue of Labor's Monthly
Survey. -s
Indorsing the concept that labor
should get the full facts about the
financial and production problems of
management, the Paper Makers point
out that labor has reached a new
position of power in the American eco
nomy and must assume proportionate
responsibilities in keeping industry
alive.
The Survey article on the report
said workers are ready to accept re-
sponsibility provided they are con-
vinced a fair distribution is made of
the wealth they assist in creating To
accomplish this cooperation, unions
must work closely with management
to reduce production costs, and man.
agement must give unions concrete
information about production prob
lens and be ready to talk cold facts
around the conference table about it's
financial affairs, showing the results
accomplished by joint efforts. Given
this true partnership, the union must
assume it's proper place in the con-
slant search for solution Of industry's
problems. The best way to high wages
"is in the improved efficiency of our
union mills"
"The Paper Makers warn that, since
workers and employers from the ma
jority of the population in all indus
trial countries, the future of our de-
mocracies rests to great extent on
the shoulders of these two groups. If
we are not able to regulate ourselves
and our industries, peacefully and in
telligently, then we are certain to have
regulations imposed on us by bureau
cratic dreamers who will give us little
consideration
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-03
Floridu Official Takes Two
More Steps To Smash Labor

Tallahassee, Fla. - (FP). - State
Atty. Gen. j. Tom Watson has made
two more highly dangerous moves to
smash organized labor in this south
ern state which the duPonts Of Della
ware and Shipbuilder Andrew j. Hig-
gins Of New Orleans are cycling as a
testing ground for union-busting,
open shop policy for all Of America.
Watson appeared in Leon county
circuit court here to ask that the state
employees retirement law passed by the
1916 legislature be declared unconsti-
tutional. Posing as the champion Of
the man in overails, he is arguing that
the law is null because it does not
include day laborers.
simultaneously he announced that
he had put other state officials COM
prising the state cabinet "on record"
to meet in Ocala to discuss enforce
ment Of the anti-closed shop right-to-
work amendment adopted in 1914 after
a stiff campaign headed by Watson,
the Christian Americans sand the big
citrus planters dominating the Flori-
da Farm Bureau Federation.
No date was given for this meeting
and Watson did not explain why 1t
was being called in the little town of
Ocala rather than in Tallahassee, the
state capital. But Ocala is a tourist
resort with plenty of rustic retreats
where the state officials can hide
away and chew over the mandatory
open shop measure now being challen-
ged in pending U. S. supreme court
proceedings by both the AFL and
CIO.
Watson's attack on the state en-
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-03

The custom of many women when
they begin a stern reducing diet is to
start a bitter quarrel with their hus-
bands. This relieves them of any obli-
cation to be pleasant during the or
deal, and excuses them from even ap-
pearing at the table, accepting invita-
tions, or receiving guests. Most men
don't know these things, SO it's up to
me to inform them.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-01-03

Compound interest and advertising
are very similar; the longer they are
continued the better are the results.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
AMERICAN LEGION
HOST TO DISTRICT
Wilmington Post No. 10
Ia Entertain Conven-
ton Delegates

wilmington's Post No. 10 and
its some 1900 members will play
host to district delegates and mem
bers of other posts at the annual
district convention which is sche-
duled to be held here May 10.
The announcement was received
yesterday afternoon by Ray Gallo
way, executive secretary of the
local post from Commander Joe
S. Mann, district head, Whiteville.
Reservations To Begin
Secretary Galloway said that the
other IL posts of the district have
been notified, according to Mann's
letter, and reservations of dele
gates and members r expected
to begin today.
The local secretary has been ap-
pointed chairman of an arrange
See LEGION on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
Along The Cape Fear

licles of the Cape Fear River, 1860
1916" by James Sprunt.
Ever since We took over as
helmsman of ALONG THE. CAPE
FEAR we have wanted to get
hold of a copy of this book. We
had, up to yesterday afternoon,
never seen one, but from what we
had heard about it we felt it was
as necessary to our ink-and-paper
Cape Fear voyages as the North
Star to the ancient mariner.
Our hope was that We might
perhaps be able to borrow a copy
somewhere provided that we put
up some suitable bond and signed
the receipt in our own blood.
And now we have a copy OF our
very own.
We haven't felt like this since
that Christmas morning so many
years ago when we found a brand
new bicycle standing in front OF
the Christmas tree.
THE INCEST PART-The book
was given to us yesterday after.
noon by three sisters who have
dwelt many a long year along the
| Cape Fear-Miss Carrie T. Moore,
See CAPE FEAR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
BAPTIST BUILDING
FUNDS INCREASED
Campaign Ending Is Sche-
duled For Sunday; Goal
Of $500 Set

Louis o. Fonvielle, chairman OF
the Temple Baptist church board
of trustees, said yesterday that
S 1887 had been collected in the
drive since its commencement At
Friday nights kickoff dinner.
The campaign, which terminates
Sunday, May 5. has set It's goal
at ST, 500. The sum is to be added to
the $43, 600 already raised for the
building Of a new $500, 600 church
plant.
Fonvielle said that he expects
the final tabulation of this drive
to exceed $500.
In connection with the campaign,
R. B. Roebuck, general chair
man, is requesting all workers to
report to the church, 7 p. m. TO-
night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
LUCKY AND OVERWHELMED

LUCKY AND OVERWHELMED
- Once in every mans life
something really extraordinarily
nice happens to him. if he is lucky
enough.
Especially if he is as lucky as
we are.
We can think of no reason why
this good fortune should have be-
fallen us. We have dug through our
horoscope, popped our eyes Out
staring at our crystal ball, and
consulted a professional pa!mlst
who is supposed to know luck
lines when he sees them.
But u horoscope shows nothing
in the stars, our crystal ball is as
empty as our wallet, and the palm
ist saws the only lines he sees IN
our hand are the ones we stood
in back in 1888.
In two words we are simply ID
lucky and (2) overwhelmed.
OUR VERY OWN Yesterday
afternoon we were given some
fling are as rubies and precious
as neacock-tails, something we
wo,ilda't trade for the Tai Mahal
or the crown jewels of Luxembourg
AN autographed copy OF 'Chron'
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
DEMOCRATS PACK
CITY OF RALEIGH
Prohibition Only Contro'
versial Issue Expected
AT Convention Today

RALEIGH, May l.. -E9- Only
one major controversial issue
prohibition - appeared Wednesday
night to be in prospect for the
State Democratic convention here
Thursday.
L. R. Varser, Lumberton attor-
ney and former State Supreme
Court justice, was reported ready
to ask the convention to adopt q
platform plank calling for a state.
wide liquor referendum.
After Keynote
The platform will come before
the convention after the key-note
address by Rep. Robert l.. Dough
ton of the Ninth district, chairman
of the House Ways and Means
committee.
Hundreds OF local and state party
leaders converged on the capita
city tonight. They found it crowd
ed and many of them had diff
Guilty finding looms for the night
Among the early arrivals were
many candidates for office in the
states "off-year" primaries ane
elections.
Large Aftendance
Estimates OF possible attend
ance ranged from 1000 to 1000
figures far above the wartime
crowds, which were reduced by
gasoline and tire rationing.
Congressional committees will
meet at 10 o'c1ock-instead of a
1890 as previously announced-to
appoint their members to the state
executive committee, the platform
committee, etc. The convention
itself will begin at noon in Raleigh
Memorial auditorium.
The state executive committee
See DEMOCRATS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02

WASHINGTON, May 1. -(PC
Oh, But these are celebrating days
for a Speleologist!
The Army and Navy are thinking
about moving some key military
plants underground.
And this makes National Spele-
ology society members, who peek
in caves for fun and science, as
happy as a bunch Of moles IN a
well-stocked vegetable garden.
Main War Hope :.
every cave in the country.
William Stephenson, national presi-
dent, said Wednesday, should De
plotted and diagrammed. The cave
is our main hope in an atomic
war;"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
The Weather

FORECAST
North and South Carolina Consider
able cloudiness and continue warm
Thursday, scattered showers.
eastern Standard TIme)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm yesterday.
Temperatures
1870 am IS; 7:3o am SO; 1870 pm "a
7 80 pm So.
Maximum rs; Minimum So; Mean 10
Normal 81.
Humidity
1:30 am 80; 1870 am IS; 1:30 pm So
1870 pm IA.
Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
100 inch.
Total since the first Of the month
300 inch.
Tides for Today
From the Tide Tables published pJ
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington ---- 1921 am 5:22 am
1887 pm 5:22 pm
Masonboro Inlet - BIS am 2:13 an
BAL pm 2.21 pm
Sunrise 20 am; Sunset G:56 pm; Moon
rise 6:1a pm; Moonset 1881 pm
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C., a.
8 am Wednesday 1858 feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
And So To Bed

This one is told on = local
father whose name is with
held not only by request but
also by threat.
Some time ago he was doing
the traditional expectant-fath-
er's march up and down the
corridor OF Marion Sprunt An
mex.
Cigarette stubs and finger
nails rose in commingled heaps
On the floor as hour after
weary hour he paced, Eon-like,
the corridors confines.
Finally, after an con more
than eternity, the nurse appear
ed and told him he was the
father of a girl.
"Thank heavens for that"
he sighed heavily. "At least
she'll never have to 60 through
what I've been through"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
British Want
From us.
In Palestine
Attlee To Seek Financial,
Military Assistance
From This Country
BLOODSHED LOOMS
Report OF Anglo American
Inquiry Committee Brings
Repercussions

LONDON, May 1.-(P-Britain
bid Wednesday for United States
military and financial aid to carry
out a joint policy in Palestine, as
an uproar of protest over the
British-American Inquiry commit
tee report threatened to erupt in
violence.
Jews and Arabs alike assailed
the report, and Jerusalem dis
patches said Arabs in Palestine
proclaimed a symbolic general
strike for Friday in protest, urging
neighboring arab states to join
them.
Gables Sent
The Arab Higher committee sent
cables to Washington and London
repudiating the report and reitera-
ting demands for an independent
Palestine, a dispatch said.
In London, Prime Minister Att
lee said Britain wanted to know
Ito what extent the United States
government would be prepared to
share the resultant military and
financial responsibilities for ad-
ministration of Palestine, which
the British inherited as a League
of Nations mandate.
To Ask Help
Britain wants to be satisfied, he
told the House of Commons, "that
it will not be called upon to i'm
plement a policy which would in
volve it single-handed" in 'heavy
immediate and longterm commit
See BRITISH on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
NICE LITTLE MISSILE
Moby Dick Hailed Most
Powerful World Rocket

"Moby Dick is los inches long,
II inches in diameter and weighs
$500 pounds 1t was built by Aero
jet Engineering corporation OF
Azusa, Calf, in conjunction with
the Bureaus of Ordnance and
Aeronautics.
Navy officials said the new mo-
tor developed for its brief opera
ton about one-third more thrust
than the unit in the German w.
"Moby Dick" was exhibited but
not fired during a visit of about
100 members of the Institute of
Aeronautical Sciences to this
Naval air test center Tuesday
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
Major Break
In Soft Coal
Strike Looms
Issues Call For Meet
ing OF UNIV Policy
Committee Sunday
SPECULATION RIFE
Joint Conferences Ends
Without Official An
n%ouncement On Results

WASHINGTON, May / -U.H-
A major break in the soft coal
crisis that has kept 400, 900 miners
idle since April l was limited
Wednesday when UNIV President
John L. Lewis summoned the
unions full policy committee to
Washington to review the deadlock
ed negotiations.
Lewis announced without sx-
PLANTATION that the 200 committee
men would meet here next Tues
day, a move which in the past
usually has preceded major policy
decisions by the union.
Stirs Speculation
His announcement stirred a
furore of speculation that a big
break in the strike was impending,
but there was no official comment
from either union or coal manage
ment spokesman.
That development came on the
heels of a two-hour bargaining
conference in the Labor depart
ment offices that apparently left
the negotiations just where they
were when the strike began.
See STRIKE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
UNDER GROUND NOW
Nauv Starts Field Day
For IT, S. Psychologists

The five-year-old society, which
hopes to have 1000 members by
the end of the year, began because
caves are the last froctier for the
pioneer.
Even now," Stephenson told a
reporter, mo one has any idea
how many large caves there are
in the country"
Should Start Now
But the war, with Its bombs,
gave the society a mission. Stephen
son is convinced the eave-counting
and remodeling should start at
once.
Caves, he says, make swell
See sPELEOLOGIsTs On Page 2.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
NORTH CAROLINA,S
WATERWAYS TO BE
EXAMINED IN FALL

North Cardinals coastal
waterways are scheduled for
= field examination by the
Coast and Geodetic Survey YES
sci Farris, a converted patrol
boat sometime this fall, it was
learned from an Associated
Press dispatch.
Lieut.. Cmdr. Earle A. Daily
Is in command of the opera
ton, the first of its kind since
before the war. Its object is
to collect information to bring
up to date pamphlets used as
navigational aids.
The examination is part Of y
general field research project
to extend from the Gulf to New
York.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
COLORFW PARADEH GHLIGHT
WALLACE FESTIVAL OPENING:
ARABS PLAN STRIKE FRIDAY
100000 TAKES
PARCEL POST RIDE
IN ORDINARY WAY

NEW YORK, May 1. -(P)-
The tempo of things around
the New York city post office
stepped up considerably We'd
nesday after a clerk answered
the phone and heard from The
Chase National Bank "What's
happened to our 1000, 000?"
A shipment of currency, air
mailed to Havana, Cuba, was
"A hours overdue.
New York phoned Miami.
The money had left there.
Miami phoned Havana. There
it was found.
A clerk had misplaced the
So, 200, 900 package among some
ordinary parcel post, the post
al people said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
CRE0S0TE PLANT
WORKER IS HURT
Suffers Undetermined In.
juries When Crushed
By Locomotive

Suffering undetermined injuries,
Earle Little. 303 Wright ST., en-
ploye of the Taylor-C olquit COM
pany, wa last night admitted to
the James Walker Memorial hos
pital following an accident in the
company's yards.
Little, a railroad switchman, was
caught between the rear of a loco
motive and a gondola car while
engaged in q switching operation.
A company official said that the
switchman was pressed between the
engine and car only as long as it
took the engineer to move his loco
See INJURED on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
GOVERNMENT ACTS
TO EASE SUITS
|OPA Gives Manufacturers
More Time To Meet
Regulations

WASHINGTON, May 1. -P)-
The government acted Wednesday
night to sweep away an obstacle
to delivery of mems suits to re-
tail stores.
OPA gave manufacturers more
time to meet price regulation re
o1rirements after clothing industry
spokesmen had commended in New
York that the regulations had halt
ed shipment of from IS to 30 per
cent of suits on hand.
Conferences Called
The price agency took its action
as the Civilian Production admin
istration called a series of con-
ferences with clothing Industry
representatives in a move to BOOST
output of mems suits.
See CLOTHING On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
N. E. ENGINEERS
PLAN MEET HERE
North Carolina Society To
Convene AT Wrights-
vile In June

The summer meeting of the North
Carolina Society of Engineers, to
be held at Wrightsville Beach on
June 7 and 8, will feature chief
of U. S. Army Engineers Lieut..
General Raymond A. Wheeler as
principal speaker.
In announcing arrangements for
the convention, T j. Hewitt, presl-
dent of the society, said yesterday
that he expects approximately
$50 engineers to attend. Scheduled
to be well represented ar e
Engineers clubs, sponsored by the
state society, in Asheville. Char
lotte, Durham, Releigh, Whining
ton and Winston-Salem.
See ENGINEERS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
TALKS TO BIDAULT
ON THIS, ON THAT

WASHINGTON, May 1. -P-
The White House said Wednesday
President Truman and French
Foreign Minister Bidault had ex-
changed brief, transatlantic tele-
phone greetings without discussing
any business or political affairs.
A Paris dispatch quoted a high
French official as saying the Presi.
dent and Bidault had talked over
international politics, the strength
ening of world peace, the American
loan to France and the French
food problem.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02

Use of electricity for the duration
of the coal strike.
Effective At Once
The order became effective i'm
mediately, but a utilities company
spokesman said it would take
about one week to obtain full com
pliance.
The order curtails service TO
commercial users-including bars,
theaters and night clubs-except
for the four hour period between
2 P. M. and 6 P. M. Monday
through Saturday. Restaurants
were exempt from the order, as
were home users.
Industry Limited
Industrial users were limited to
an aggregate of "a hours from
See CURRENT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02

spectacularly with a c~olorful, three
mile long parade at II a. m.
Marshaiy
Four marshals on horseback
cleared the way as the paraders
marched for one solid hour down
main street. At the head OF
the three-mile procession the rs
piece Army Ground Forces band
from Fort Bragg set the pace with
martial music. Directly behind,
their uniforms bright with battle
decorations and presidential and
foreign citation-medals, members
of the famed 82nd Airborne Divi-
sion marched in perfect platoons,
each platoon led by its command
ing officer.
See CELEBRANTS On Page Tive
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
MILLIONS MARCH
IN MAY DAY FETES
Bombs Explode In Madrid
Wrecking Luxury Food
Stores, Cafes
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY LII ASSOOAA1 Ell fhGSo
Millions of workers-from Mos
cow and Berlin to Tokyo anc
Singapore-paraded or demonstrate
ed Wednesday, with fanfare and
sometimes disorders in leftWing
celebrations of May Day.
Two bombs exploded in Madrid
capital of the Franco regime,
wrecking luxury food stores neal
a Door residential district.
In Trieste, more than so, 0O(
Yugoslavs marched through streets
of the disputed city shouting
viva Tito, Viva Stalin."
Fascist Orchards
Fascist diehards-fanatical fol
lowers of the dead Mussolini-made
brief forays against Communist
headquarters and Communist
Socialist newspapers in Rome. One
group burst into a Rome radio
station and, with pointed guns,
forced the broadcast of "Gievi-
nezza," their outlawed hymn, from
a record they brought with them.
Italian workers held assemblies
to celebrate labor's gains.
In Moscow, soldiers and civil
lians paraded for six hours through
Red Square, past GeneralissiIno
Stain on the reviewing stand, in
the nations greatest peacetlme
show of strength.
l.. 600 NAV nav nm Pare Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
PATUxENT RIVER, Md, May

PATUXENT RIVER, Md, May ]
-(R)-The Navy permitted dis.
closure Wednesday of what il
described as the newest and
most powerful rocket motor in the
world''-a unit which delivers &C.,
900 pounds of thrust for two Sec
onds.
Known as "Moby Dick" the mo-
tor is intended for use in jet-as-
sisted aircraft takeoffs or to propel
aerial rockets. The Navy said the
new unit would triple the speed
(now 900 feet per second of its
''Tiny Tim,' a Pinch aerial rock
ct weighing 1900 pounds.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
rs. 900 CeIebrants
Throng Berry City
Army Ground Forces Band, Shrine Drum
Corps, MINIS Musicians Draw Crowd
Applause; Floats Prove Feature

WALLACE, May IA bright May Day sun spotlight
ed this jubilee-town Wednesday as the curtain rose on the
greatest Strawberry Festival in it's history.
An estimated crowd of 5000 celebrants overlooked the
streets and sidewalks as the Today festivities started off
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
BROWNOUT RETURNS
Illinois ice Orders
Current Reductions
Chicago, Six Hundred Other Municipalities
Must Limit Light, Power For Duration
OF Coal Strike; Theaters Hit

CHICAGO, May 1. -(UP)- The Illinois Commerce
Commission Wednesday ordered a return of the wartime
brownout for Chicago and 900 other Northern Illinois COM
munities.
Nine utilities companies were authorized to limit the
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02
FORECAST

Wilmington and vicinity: Considerabl.
cloudiness and continued warm with scat.
tered showers, Thursday and Thursdsv
night. Friday partly cloudy and warmer
a few widely scattered afternoon show
ers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-02

See MAY DAY on Page Two