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friends apd relatives at Lansing.
Mrs. E. w. Mcdaniel, Mrs. Raj
ply Parks, Misses Maude Green
wood and Barbara Weir, OF Elkln,
were the guests of Mrs. c. D.
Neal, Saturday.
Miss Nena Barr is spending the
week with her mother, Mrs. B. D.
Barr and has as her house guest,
R. D. Altman, of Binghamton,
N. Y.
Sunday guests of Miss Nena
Barr were Mr.. and Mrs. w. D
Smith and daughter, Dottle' OF
Greensboro.
Mr., and Mrs. VIM. U. Greer and
children, Katherine, Billie, Betty,
Bobbie, Jerry and Kenneth, re-
turned to their home in Amherst,
Ohio, after spending a few days
here this week.
F. L. Little and family visited
relatives in Abingdon, Va, and
Bristol, Tenn, over the week end
Mr.. and Mrs. Lonnie Brooks, OF
Lansing, were recent visitors at
Natural Bridge in Virginia and
attended the illumination ana
pageant which was presented un-
der the historic bridge.
Misses Elizabeth GRAPHICAL and
Evelyn Dare Vannoy have return
ed home after spending several
days visiting Miss Ann White at
Lanoir.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reece Suit and
daughter, Ruth Ann, of Rocks,
Md, are visiting Mrs. Suits sis
ter, Mrs. Annie Edwards, and
other relatives in Ashe and Ale
shany counties.
Dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. S. Wilkins on Sunday were DR..
nd Mrs. B. c. Taylor and Eliz-
abeth Taylor, of Mt. Holly, and
Dr.. Preston Taylor, of Belmont
Mr.. and Mrs. r. ]. Vannoy, OF
pennsylvania, are visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Robert Barr and
Mr.. Barr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel P. Will
on, of Cascade, Va, and Mrs. B
:. Reeves are attending the
,ageant "Tne Lost Colony" at
ManteO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Olson
md daughter, Carolyn Ann, OF
Alexandria, Va, and Mrs. Millard
Fetzer, of Percyville, Va, are
spending two weeks with thel1
mother, Mrs. ]. P. Coward, here
Mr.. and Mrs. Pless A. Ivey, OF
j Kannapolis, visited Mr.. and Mrs
<. E. Osborne this week end.
Mrs. Rena Phillips and son
Harold. and Mrs. Thomas Black
1urn and son, Tommy, Of Oxford
"a, who have been VISITING
friends and relatives in West JEFF
%arson, returned home Tuesday.
Robert Morgan, of California
IS visiting his mother, Mrs. Cora
Morgan, here.
Mrs. Percy D. SnoWden and
daughters, of Hemingway, S. c..
ere spending the week with Mr.
and Mrs. Raymond Francis.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. j. Figg, OF
Kingsport, Tenn, spent the nast
week end with Mr.. and Mrs
Glenn B. GRAPHICAL. While here
they, accompanied by Mrs. D
1zirk Witt and Mr.. M. L. Witt
c1ocY,+ Sunday at HEALING SPRINGS
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to the playground fund.
Delicious refreshments were
served to the group by the host
eSSeS.
The July meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. H. D. .Quessen-
berry with Mrs. Thomas Sears as
joint hostess. Mrs. Carl Coward
gave the devotionals and Mrs. J.
E. Bradshaw discussed the topic,
Missionary Education"
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Miss Furr, Mr..
Weaver Are Wed

Mr.. and Mrs. Howard E. Furr,
of Kannapolis, announce the mar
iage of their daughter, Anne Co
leen, to John D. Weaver on July
q. The ceremony was perform
ed at the home of Rev. Jesse
Woodruff, of Mt. Airy.
Mr.. Weaver is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. J. Weaver, of War
rensville.
The couple will be at home at
4O3 Locust ST., Kannapolis.
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20 Patients In
Ashe Hospital

The following are patients in
the Ashe Memorial hospital this
week:
Oscar FISHERMAN, Troutdale,
treatment; Ed Brown, Nathan's
Creek, treatment; Mrs. T. J. Bau-
guess, Sturgills, treatment; Miss
Ethel Campbell, West Jefferson,
operative; Miss Dorothy Barker,
Silas Creek, operative; Miss Col
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DIR. J: S. Caul
Coming Aug. IA

DR.. John S. Gaul will be in the
health department next Wednes-
day, August IA, to conduct clinic
for crippled children.
The clinic will open promptly
at 100 p. m. and all parents are
urged to have children in need
of attention, present at this time
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DECORATION DAY TO
BE OBSERVED, SUN

The annual decoration service
Will be held at the Obids Bap-
list church Sunday, August II,
at II o'clock it was announced
this week.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-R =
Twenty bearded and relocated
Santa Clauses, graduates of a re-
fresher course in ''how to win
friends and influence the Christ
mas spirit" took up posts on Man.
haitian street corners today, armed
with psychologist best defenses
against the pointed questions OF
small fry-and parents too.
These educated Saint Nicks pass
ed a three-day course prepared Tor
them by their employer, the Vol
unteers of America, charitable or
ganization which annually sollclts
funds for Christmas baskets and
gifts to the city's needy.
Col. William R. Apetz, the vol
unteers' metropolitan division chief
and "headmaster" of the school,
presented bells in lieu of diplomas
to the graduates at the mission ta-
bernacle yesterday.
Although there were Is grad
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DEATH !! ! | ORDERED !
FOR TWO NAzIS
German Generals Foun d
Guilty In The Ardeatine
Caves Massacre

ROME, Nov. 30-lR-Death be-
fore firing squad vas ordered
today by a British malitary tri-
bunal for two German generals
found guilty of the reprisal mas.
sacre of 335 Italians in Rome S
A-deatine caves little more than
two months before triumphant AL
lied troops liberated the eterna;
city in 1914.
Col. Gen. Eberhard Won Mack
ensen, willy commander of the
German 18th Army which fought
at Anzio beachhead, and 1t. Gen.
Kurt Maeltzer, head of the Rome
garrison, received t h e verdict
calmly.
Won Mackensen, n black civil
ian suit, and Maeltzer, in the
uniform of the German air force,
merely nodded their heads as the
translator informed h e m they
would be shot to death.
The court decreed the firing
squad after counsel for Won Mack
ensen asked that he be granted
the clean death of a soldier
death through shooting" Such a
plea was spurned for the top Nazis
tried before the International mill
tary tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Britons, U. S. At Odds
On High A-Bon1b Rating

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Nov. 30.
United States joined
Soviet Russia today in calling upon
the United Nations to give the
atomic bomb No. priority in
worldwide arms limitation but the
two powers remained far apart on
the principle of the veto applied to
a disarmament program.
The British disagreed with Rus
sia and the United States on such
a high rating for atomic weapons,
insisting that they be considered
along with all other modern means
Of warfare. The British also flatly
stated again their rejection Of
Russia's broad plan for disarma-
ment as long as it is tied up with
the veto.
The political COMMITTEES of the
U. N. assembly, conforming to the
speed-up program adopted by the
United Nations to try toI complete
the assembly by December II, will
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
ROOSEVELT FACES
REPRISAL ACTION
Solons Request Byrnes To
Revoke Elliott Roosevelt's 5
Passport

6 WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.--UP9-
Demands were made tonight for
reprisals against Elliott Roose-
velt because of his reported criti-
cism Of U. S. policies at an Ameri-
can Embassy party in Moscow.
The demands were voiced by
Representative L awre H.
Smith. R., Wis, a member of the
House Foreign Affairs committee,
Representative John Rankin, D.,
Miss. and Ernie Adamson, coun-
sci for the House un-American Ac-
tivities committee. 'fe
Smith wrote Secretary Of State
James F. Byrnes asking that Ell
liott's passport be revoked and
that the son of the late President
Roosevelt be called back at once
from his current visit to Russia.
1.-THE damage he has done is
immea surable,'' Smith said. He
has apenly courted Soviet favor at
the expense of our standing and
abroad
The State department withheld
comment on Smiths request.
Adamson, in a Kansas City in
terview, said he would ask that
Elliott be subpenaed by the com
mittee "to explain his foreign
political policies" 81
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MUNICIPAL BODY
TO MEET in CITY
Eastern Division OF Munich.
pal League To Gather
Here Wednesday

The Eastern division of the
Municipalities League will meet
Wednesday afternoon at four
O'Clock in the office of City Man
ager j. R. Benson, Mayor w. Ron.
aid Lane said yesterday.
Mayor Lane, member of the
board of directors of the league
which embraces towns and cities
from six counties, will preside al
the meeting.
Representatives from % towns,
heads Of their respective city
governments, will participate in
discussions pertaining to the prob
lens faced by modern municipali-
ties.
George Franklin, league at
torney and consultant, of Raleigh,
will lead the discussions, Mayor
Lane said.
j. E. L. Wade, city councilman
and chairman of the Leagues S
legislative commission will not be
present. He is in Los Angeles,
Cal. on business for the Tobacco
State League baseball, Of which
he is president.
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Al the same time the Mayor
asked coal-users not to order addi-
tlonal coal until they have less
than Today supply on hand.
Mayor Lane also asked distribu-
tors Of bituminous coal to likewise
abide by the rules and regulations
and not to deliver coal to consum-
ers unless a certification showing
"a less than Today supply is pre-
sented.
At no time, the proclamation
reads. should more than one ton or
a 1o-days' supply be delivered to
a consumer.
In issuing the proclamation the
Mayor said he was acting in the
interest Of public health and safe
ty by making coal available in
equal distribution to the citizenry.
Mayor Lanes proclamation pro-
hibits the delievery Of coal except
to the following consumers, pro-
viding they have certificate and
a less than Today supply:
Public utilities which render pub
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
WALLACE BUILDING
TO Be RENOVATED
Holly Stores Notify Real Es'
tate Company OF Plans
To Rebuild

Plans for the complete rebuild
ing the old Wallace building To-
Gated at the north east corner OF
Princess and Front streets are
complete, H. F.. Wilder has an
nounced. i.5
The Wilder Realty company, To-
cal representatives for the Holly
Stores incorporated, 49S Seventh
avenue, New York city, who have
a 3o-year lease on the property,
has issued notices to tenants to
vacate by Jan. l, 1947, Mr.. Wilder
said yesterday.
The building is presently occu-
pied on the corner by The Holly
Shops, on Princess street lower
floors by cafe and a music COM
pany. On the third floor is the Of
Continued on Page Five, Col. A.
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Local Group
Makes Plans
For Purchase
Wyatt Clears Way For Will
mington Corporation To
Negotiate Deal
MEETING CALLED
City's Case Will Be Test For
Other Housing Centers
In Nation

The National Housing agency in
Washington, D. c., yesterday an
nounced a No. 1 priority TO- the
Veterans Homes, Inc, Of Whining
ton, in purchase Of permanent
dwellings at the Lake Forest hous-
ing development.
At the same time the organiza-
ton announced a meeting sor
Thursday night at which time Of
ficers of the group, with member.
ship, will complete plans for ne
gotiating the purchase Of the 584
masonry units and auxiliary build.
ings.
The way was cleared for the
negotiations by directive from
the office of Wilson W. Wyatt,
National Housing exrediter in
Washington yesterday to the COM
missioner OF the Federal Public
Housing authority, Dillon S. Meyer
In the directive Wyatt ordered
that priority be granted to vet
Grams cooperatives in the purchase
OF surplus government housing, and
that the priority should follow i'm
mediately tn at Of government
agencies, according to Wesley D.
Pearce, national housing officer
of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars.
Ken R. Noble, president Of VIII,
in calling the meeting expressed
qualification that Washington Of
ficials had seen fit to dire c I
changes in existing regulations to
allow his group to negotiate for
purchase.
Pearce, in a conversation with
VIII officers here yesterday point.
ed out that the directive freezes
disposal of other projects all ove-
the nation until the sale here is
completed, laying the framework
for disposal of those developments
to o t h r veterans cooperatives
which now number some 4o-odd
and involve nearly 400, 1000 dwell.
ing units.
The local group Is given eo-days
in which to file formal applica-
ton with the FPHA regional Of
flee in Atlanta, where the sale is
scheduled to be handled unde= the
new regulations.
Noble said that his corporation
would file such notice early next
week, adding that one such formal
application had been previously
made. The Atlanta office will set
the time and place for continuing
negotiations.
Price Of the units will be based
on three separate appraisal figures,
Continued on Page Five, Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
CONGRESS
SUPPORTS
TRUMAN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3o.-lR,-
President Truman has strong
backing from congressmen of both
parties for a non-compromise,
finish fight with John =. Lewis, a
check disclosed today.
Almost without exception, Demo
Gratis and Republicans said they
think Mr.. Truman should go to a
final showdown with the United
Mine Workers chieftain, without
making any concessions that could
be heralded as a victory for Lewis.
Responsible Republicans in the
House, who did not want to be
quoted by name because they be-
lieve that until January 3 it is Mr..
Truman's battle, told reporter
that the new GOP-controlled Con-
gress is certain to consider legisla=
ton directed at throttling Lewis
power if the coal strike is not end
ed before it meets.
In the Senate, the only available
member who saw any hope of COM
promise was Senator Ell b
Thomas (D-Utah), listed as a
strong supporter OF organized labor
in the past.
Thomas said he thinks some
compromise could be. found by
which welfare fund could be es-
tablished permanently for the
if that is Lewis main OBJ
jective in attempting to: terminate
the UNIV contract with the govern
ment. This CONTRACT provides for
such a fund, but mine owners have
not agreed to it.
Thomas added, however, that 1t
appears President Thurman is al
most irrevocably colnnitted to a
EiHishssfght with Lewis through the
Court action the government has
taken.
"The court will commit the
President by its decision" he said.
Advancing variety of proposals
for legislative action, Democratic
and Republican Senators generally
agreed that Mr.. Truman will get
staunch backing if he fights it out
to the finish with Lewis.
Senator Elect Dworshak (R-
Idaho) put the sentiments of many
into words:
"It's time for a showdown.
We've got to guard against puni-
tive legislation but the entire coun-
try cannot be placed at the mercy
of a few leaders who disregard the
public welfare" .4
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
Jerusalem Police
Station Attacked

JERUSALEM, Nov. 30.-(P)-A
second attack was made tonight on
the police station in Jerusalem's
Mahaneh Yehudah quarter in one
of the most intense outbursts of
violence in the Holy Land during
recent years.
The second attack, which began
about 9 p. m, started when ma
chinegun fire was directed at the
station from several nearby house
tops and. police fired back. A
second series of explosions which
occurred shortly afterward was
possibly caused by the detonation
of road mines.
The police appeared to be pur-
suing the attackers toward the
rocky ravines north and west of
Jerusalem, where red and white
tracer bullets could be seen in the
darkness,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
Educated Saint Mcks
Converge On Nelu York

|uates, only 20 reported for duty
today-their first day on the job.
Opetz said the rest got .'cold feet. y
The volunteers recruit most Of
the Santas from among elderly,
unemployed mission callers. Their
average age is well past go and
they get 81 a day for Turing silver
into their coin boxes and ,sxchang-
ing pleasantries with the awed
kids.
At school, said Apez, they, are
taught ''a pleasant, gentlemanly
manner" and are told never to
pick up a child or kiss child.
The Santas also are told to wash
their hands before going on duty,
to carry a handkerchief and to es
chew drinking, smoking, garlic and
onions.
They are armed with standard
replies for the children and can
Continued On Page Two; Col. A
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
Mexico Gets First
Civilian President

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 30.-P)-
Miguel Aleman "a genial, self-con-
fident lawyer and politician, will
take office tomorrow as the first
civilian president in Mexico's
history and launch an ambitious
program of industrial development
in which the gates are thrown wide
open to private enterprise.
The platform on which the 49,
year-old leader was elected July Z
contains this statement: General
economic development is primarily
the field of private initiative. Only
indispensable fields undeveloped by
private enterprise will be sponsor
ed by the state"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
LAYOFFS
INCREASE
OVER u. S.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 80 Up ~
The ten-day soft coal walkout was
slowly strangling the Nations eco
nomy today as unemployment in
related industries mounted to 100,
600 in addition to weekend lay
offs that idled 175,000, mostly
automobile workers.
New predictions of factory shut
downs would shoot the unemploy-
ment total past the million mark
by the end of the week if the
400, 900 AFL-United Mine Workers
continue to stay away from work
A spokesman for the Associated
Industries of Georgia estimate
$4,000 factory workers would be
idle there soon" In Alabama,
spokesmen fo- :jobbing foundries
which employ from 1000 to 10000
said large scale shutdowns could
be expected mo later than the
end of next week. Virtually all
of the founderies now operating
on 'three-day week.
Meanwhile, an official of a large
Logan, W. Va, bank who declined
use OF his name, said miners, jit-
terry over rumors that union funds
may be impounded, are drawing
out much of the $4,000 to SIS, 900
local and burial fund deposited in
the bank.
The only bright spot in an other
wise black-as-coal picture came
from Paducah, KY, where the H.
linois Central railroad shops, clos
ed for a week because of the coal
shortage, announced it was re-.
calling some of its 1,100 idle work
ers Monday.
Wayne A. Johnson, railroad pres
ident, said the Paducah shop
would resume 40 percent Of its
operations because t h railroad
needs some locomotives under re-
pair there.
But the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, with $500 already idle,
reported unemployment will total
ZOO by Monday, including 1882
at Russell, KY, and 313 at the
Newport News-Norfolk yards.
In Schenectady, N. Y, General
Electric Corp. said it expected to
layoff several hundred porce-
lain department workers Monday
when New York Power and Light
Co. terminates gas service to COM
mercial and industrial users.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01

hold its first Sunday meeting at 3
p. m. EST, tomorrow. The U. N.
Press department announced late
today it would take up the veto
instead of continuing discussion of
disarmament. Australia's dele
gate, Paul Hasluck, expects to
speak tomorrow in opposition to the
veto system.
The United States delegation sub
mitted to the political committee
just as it adjourned today pro-
posal by which the General Assem-
bly, would recommend that the
Security Council, which all dele
gates agree must take up the SUBJ
ject of disarmament, "give prompt
consideration to working out the
practical measures, according to
their priority, which are essential"
for the general regulation and re-
duction of armaments under inter-
national agreements.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
Seal Sale Receipts
Show Sharp Decline

Returns from the Christmas seal
sales, for the first three days be-
ing conducted by the New Hanover
county Health and tuberculosis as
sociation are considerably under
the receipts of the same period
last year, DR.. John c. VESSEL, sale
chairman announced yesterday.
The sale opened last Monday,
with mail delivery Of seals to resi-
dents throughout the county, and
will continue until Christmas.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01

= s.sd 80 -
tors 1fo lsvys. strike. tines ~ fflss !
the 400, 900 United Mine Workers
eAFL,,s ) wlae have been idle at
government operated bitunlnous
mines since November 20.
Financial penalties against the
individual miners broadened the
administration fight against UNIV
President John L. Lewis, whose
dispute with the government has
brought him into .ourt on con-
tempt charge. That charge devel-
oped from his refusal to call OH
the walkout.
A spokesman for the Federal
Coal Administrator disclosed that
some operators applications fo1
authority to levy fines had been
granted. hut the agency refused te
say how many had been received
or allowed.
Strike penalties are provided ir
many district agreements-to be
levied in case OF an illegal walk
out. Some district agreements dc
not have such clauses. Those that
to call for a fine of 81 or So daily
for each day the miner in on strike
The assessment is deducted from
paycheck-. Operators themselves
are subject to fines if they fail
to impose them against partici.
pants in illegal strikes.
A spokesman for the National
CONTINUED on Page Four, Col. ~
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CPA Requests Santa
To Cut Use Of Power

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-(P)-.
It's all right to light up the kids
indoor Christmas trees, Santa
Claus, but leave the others dark.
John D. Small, Civilian Produc-
ton administrator, gave the word
tonight. He ruled the 21-state dim
out banning ornamental lighting
because of the coal strike was not
meant to cover indoor Christmas
trees in homes.
But it does apply to indoor trees
in stores and other business build
ings, and all outdoor Christmas
trees.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01


lie service by supplying electrici-
ty, water, gas, sewage disposal
service, laundries, hospitals, food
processing plants, including milk
plants, dairies and commercial
bakeries, and refrigeration plants.
Domestic consumers for use in
a dwelling apartment, or hotel,
provided the consumer has less
than Today supply based on his
actual needs for the next 10 days.
Retail dealers for delivery to
an eligible consumer described in
paragraphs above providing the
dealer certifies in writing that he
needs the coal in order to supply
such eligible consumer.
The proclamation also prohibits
consumers from receiving any
biturninous coal which retail
dealer is not permitted to deliver
to them pursuant to the above
paragraphs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01
Patterson Cites Needs
OF Occupation Forces

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Nov. 30.
-(P-War. Secretary Robert p.
Patterson said tonight it would cost
1859, 900, 900 to meet expenses f
American occupation armies for
the first six months of 1947 and of
that sum $105, ,0oo,O would be
needed for the rehabilitation and
resettlement of 100000 displaced
persons in Austria and Germany.
Patterson told National Mobi-
iization conference of the United
Jewish appeal that since the end
of the war 100000 persons were
restored to their homes from
American zones in Europe, but the
Army must care for the remain
ing 100000 for some time to come.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-01

Law enforcement officers were
moving on the theory that the
caps had been taken by group Of
children following information that
several unknown youngsters had
been seen with dynamite caps.
In issuing a warning to parents
the office of Sheriff c. David
Jones, disclosed that the caps re-
semble metal pellets and would be
of little or no value without dyna-
mite charges
Deputies said the caps would
make loud noise when explod-
ed, adding to their attraction as
fireworks for the holidays.
!. The scene Of the theft WAS not
disclosed by officers, who said
they feared that other children
might try to obtain additional
caps stored there.
Officers said that the caps are
hig4v explosive and that they will
func ION either from pressure or
friction. Heat from persons
pocket will discharge the missile,
one officer said.
No dynamite was taken, officers
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