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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Truman Asks Showdown In Steel ToIk
 Settlement Would
 Be Key to Other
 Strikes, Believed

Washington, Jan. 17-(UP) President Truman called for a showdown in the<steel wage negotiations today <and was ready to offer his own settlement formula if the deadlock was not broken this afternoon.
 The President. fevealed his readi- ness to intervegie following six hours of unfruitfpl conferences yesterday between Philip Murray, head of the United Steel Workers (CIO) and Benjamin F. Hairless, president of the U. s. Steel Corporation.
 The White House said MT. Tru- man would hold off until Murray and Hairless again discuss the un- ions wage demands this afternoon at their third White House confer ence in five days. But if no solution is reached in reasonable time, the President will step in to head off the unions plans to strike Monday. Officials clung to the hope that the White House talks would pro. duce' a settlement. An agreement in the steel industry is expected to provide a key to cracking the na- tion's worst industrial crisis since the auto sitdownS and little steel strikes of 1887.
 Authoritative sources reported that neither Murray nor Fairless budged yesterday from the position they had held since last Saturday Murray had cut the unions origin al demand of 25 cents an hour to l9h cents, and Hairless has offered IS cents.
 The difference between the two proposals presented about 63.000. . 900 to the entire steel industry's annual payroll. The current negoti- ations involved only U. s. Steel but any settlement doubtless will be ap- piled to the whole industry.
 Appealed Twice
 The President appealed directly to Murray and Hairless twice yes- teyday. According to White House Secretary Charles c. Ross, MT. Tru- man told them at the opening of their afternoon session that a wage agreement "was vital to the interest of the country"
 They failed but agreed to return for night session, and the Pres
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where Langstaff was getting used to the artificial arms and the pretty WAC was a medical technician.
 Several other amputees were guests at the ceremony In the First Methodist Church of Pasadena. After the nuptials, the couple was feted at a reception at the hospital by Col Carl R. Mitchell, the com manding officer.
 Then off they went for their honeymoon. Where, they would not say.
 As for Langstaff's disability, it meant nothing to his bride. who said he'd done "slick job" at the wedding.
 "Wnat if he has lost his arms. she said. rKIe1l haye mine around hina
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Bride Special Ite0nns to Port

New Xork, Jan. lg-=tu =tuPl-Tne sWar Bride SpecIav' was steam- ing for Southampton today for a cargo of more than 600 prospec- tive citizens of the United States.
 The special" was the liner Argentina, the first of several ships to be pressed into service to carry English brides of CT, s to this country. Six hundred war brides and their children are awaiting the Argentina ct South ampton.
 However, the Argentina may not be the first ship to return here with a load of war brides. The Queen Elizabeth, which docked here earlier this week, also may be assigned to this serv- ice.
 The Elizabeth sails tomorrow and is expected back here Feb. 2 with 2,500 wives and children.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
 Same Boost As SteeIeFs
 Strike Pend ling
 Before Industry:
 Farley Still On

American Brass Company management today considered an ultimatum presented by the CIO for calling of of strikes which have threatened it's plants ii1 Waterbury, Ansonia, and Torrington for several months.
 The strike settlement terms, an presented at a two-hour conference this morning, call for granting 4 the same cents per hour wage boost which will be decided for the steel industry, and also for payment lfl full of more than a million dol lars worth of compensatory boA nuses to former swing shift worh~ CTS.
 John J. Driscoli, State CTO secfe. tary and negotiating agent in tho dispute, said the firm heard tho proposal this morning and is con- sidering it. af-nother conferences was set for this afternoon.
 To Appear Before Member
 Driscoll said the union told lna1l@ agement representatives that if the two settlement proposals are ac~ cepted by the firm, the negotiating committee will appear before tho membership and ask for calling on of the pending strike.
 Indications were that if one and not the other proposal is accepted, strike action will not be called on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Tells Porents Knows What Cool Field Is
 Family overioyed;
 Takes Sum as Loon
 From Immisront

A local resident, who nll- grated to the Pennsylvania coal regions upon his arrival from Italy several years ago, today provided Mir. and Mrs William Wrenn, Hamilton Heights tenants, with the money to pay their rent which was three months In arrears. The young couple, parents of five children, were asked to vacate their four-room Federal Housing tene- ment before Monday.
 H Wrenn, an immigrant war work CT, charged that he had proposed to pay his January rent and make weekly payments of SIS weekly on back rent, but that the local agents had refused his offer. Unable to find a rent, the Wrenn family faced the unpleasant situation of return ing to their home town, in a Penn sylvanla mining region, outside oF Pittsburgh. The breadwinner of the family insisted yesterday he de- sJred to remain in Waterbury be- cause he did not want any of his five children to work in the mines.
 The gentlemen who solved Mir. Wrenn's problems this morning called The Democrat at an early hour and asked where he could con- tact Mir. Wrenn, since he did not know the location of the Hamilton Heights tract. Although he in- sisted upon remaining anonymous, he asserted he wsihes to help the distressed family because he had to the Pennsylvania min- ing regions upon his arrival from Italy many years ago, ard was greatly in sympathy with MT. Wrenn's cause. The gentleman. fur ther asserted he had five chcildren in, Italy, and said he could not
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Neu Autos .WH Cost
 More--OPA

Washington, Jan. 17.-(UP)-Mo- torists will pay frlsa $41 to $117 more than in l942 for 32 new 1946 automobile models for which ceil- ing prices have been set by OPA.
 The latest prices, issued yester- day, included the first specific ceil- ings on 28 new model Plymouth, ChrySler, Dodge and DeSota cars. It also covered four additional Ford models.
 All prices are FOB Detroit. They do not include Federal excise taxes, transportation or handling charges. They also exclude optional equip ment such as heaters, radios and grill guards.
 Improvement Compensation
 The increases are to compensate manufacturers for engineering im- provements and increased produc- ton costs. Dealers will absorb an- other 2.5 per cent to cover other production increases.
 The absorption of increased pro- ductlon costs by the dealers is part of the OPA's industry-wide plan to keep retail automobile prices as near 1942 levels as possible.
 Plymouth received a one per cent for engineering improvements increase over 1922 plus $70 to SLY Dodge prices are 35 per cent high CT plus $50 to $68 for improve snents; Chrysler one-half per cent higher plus $90 to Sl04 for improve ments; and DeSoto IS per cent higher plus $59 to $66 for improve rents.
 Design Changes Expensive
 OPA previously had set dollar and-cents ceilings on seven Ford and four Studebaker models. They ranged from $51 to $83 higher for Ford. Studebaker said 1t was iIn- possible to figure the increase be-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Coast Picket Riot Flares
 Police Disperse
 Electrical Men

Los Angeles, Jan. 1T. (UP)-Using tear gas and clubs, 100 policemen today dispersed a picket lin of 1900 CIO Electrical Workers massed about the struck plant of U. S. Mo tors. Inc. . ~
 Fifty ofilce workers then entered the plant after the violent fighting. The outbreak followed police read- ing of court injunction limiting picketS to four at a gate.
 A number of persons we're injured in the melee. Many pickets were ar rested.
 Philip M. Connolly. secretary of the CIO Industrial Union Council here. was in the thick of the fight ing. shouting to the pickets: Hold that line"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Police Open Strike Ranks With Wedge
 Independent Union
 Disregords PIeo
 By CLOS Leaders

Kansas City, Kars., Jan. IT. (UP)-Members of the Independent Clearinghouse Workers Union forced their ay through 8 400-man picket line into the Swift & Cop- pany packing plant here today.
 More than 40 Kansas City, Kans., police drove a flying wedge into the picket line to escort the independ- ent union workers to their jobs.
 The independent union had voted two to one against joining the nationwide packinghouse workers strike. Yesterday the United Pack ing House Workers (CIO) set up a picket line in front of the Swift plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Mass Arrests Made In American Zone

Frankfurt; Jan. 17-gUP) -Anl- erican Military Intelligence Auth critics announced today that 30.- 47S Germans and z20 Allied -mili- tary personnel were arrested in the mass security raids staged through out the United States occupation Zone last Nov. 2b.
 The American raiding squads conflscated large quantities of black market goods. Including cigarettes. food. clothing. tires and gasoline. along with 300 sticks cf dynamite. 310 literally owned guns. ef pan- zerf 5sts German Bazoolas and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Fugitive POWs Find Sub-zero Too Much

Lincoln, N. H., Jan. 17--(UP)-- Sub-zero cold has been too much of a test for two German prisoners of war who escaped Sunday from Fort Devens. Mass.
 Kleber Werner and Talrnau Elgen surrendered to police here last night with the story that they could not stand the frlgid temperatures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Henry Baldwin Due In Seaport Today

Boston, Jan. l7-(UP) )-The Lib- 'erty ship Henry Baldwin, which radioed for help Tuesday when heavy seas developed crack in her afterdeck. was expected to reach Argentina Newfoundland, today with 5eo troops returning from Ant werp.
 First Naval District officials re- ported that the New York-bound ship, which had taken a severe pounding by winds and high seas, was under escort of the Coast Guard cutter Modoc last night about $50 miles from Cape Race, New Eoundland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
RoOseUelt Memorial,

Atlanta. Ga. Jan. i7- (UP) - Legislation to build a S2O0. 900 Franklin ID. Roosevelt Memorial at Warm Springs, Ga. the late presi- dents Georgia Home" was intro duced in the Georgia General As- sembly today.
 A a7-mNmber commission would be set up under the bin to create tho memorial.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
CIOIssues UItimatlm to American Brass Company
Anonymous Man GiOes Wrenns Money for Back Rent

Mir. and Mrs. William Wrenn, parents of five young children, who were asked to vacate their fOur-rOOm tene-
 ment in the Federal Housing project at Ham, iltOn Heights, for nOn-payment of rent, found
 their problem suddenly solved
 this morning
 when an un-
 known man
 called at their home and offered money to assist the distressed
 family. The
 Wrenn family
 owed three
 months rent
 amounting to
 S112.5O. Mir. Wrenn agreed to take the money only as a loan. His benefactOr,
 apparently
 of Italian de- scent, refused to give his name to The Democrat because he said, "T am not doing it for publicity.  He asserted he had read of the plight of the ex- immigrant war worker in The Democrat yester- day, and did not wish to see the Wrenn children return to the
 Pennsylvania mining regions, since he had once lived there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Disregard For Orders

Disregard For Orders
 Ut. Gen. R. c. Richardson, Jr., mid-Pacific Army commander, in a statement to officers under his command. said that further agita- ton" in behak of rehabilitation twill not be tolerated"
 Tt has come to my attention, ! Richardson said, "taat there are certain leaders of enlisted men in this command that are continuing agitation of the Rehabilitation pro- gram despite the announcement by Gen. Eisenhower. wh0is Army chieE oe Staff.
 sz is dlrecSsd that you take full
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-17
Democrat COntest
DeH1OCTUL NOHkSSt M HauD0rtl $ Ad dUice l1as
 Top Appeal to Render

My fayorite feature is Mary Haworths column. She Cl,n hnrh nIrndr,n
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-07

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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-07

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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-07
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-07

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is the good will and confidence of
these who have done business with Us.
Call or see Orrell Realty Company.
Realtors. Station w,No. /, Wrightsville
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-04-07

YOUNG GUERNSEY MILK COW AND
one heifer. 1o9 Pinecrest Terrace.
700 LIB. PONY FOR SALE. DIAL 979I.
MULES! MULESl MULES! HAVE JUST
received some good ones ready for
work, Dial 2-s373. c. S. Newton. Castle
Hayne Road.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29
EISENHOWER ASKS
WAR BE 0UTLAWED
General Denies Reports He
May Be Named Ambas-
sador To London

FRANKFORT, GERMANY. Sept.
% W'p = Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
mower said today that Humanity
Is intelligent enough to do away
with war" and to that end both the
atom bomb and wal should be
outlawed.
Il believe the outlawing of the
atom bomb is the outlawing of
wars" Eisenhower, the Army's
Chief of Staff, said at a press &n-
1erence in his old office in United
States Army headquarters in
Europe.
There is, of course, the great
nope which the United Nations and
mir. (Bernard) Baruch's atom con
trol board offer . I think the time
mas come when humanity is intelli-
gent enough to do away with war"
he said.
He made these observations in
a discussion of the effectiveness of
the atom bomb. While he declined
10 be drawn into any exact pre-
dlctlons, he said:
What the atom bomb is going
TO mean to us is a matter over
which we study and sweat blood
every day. I think there is no one
who can say what this means to do
TO the numbers and equipment of
armies"
He denied reports that he might
be named ambassador to London.
succeeding w. Averell Hartman.
recently appointed Secretary of
Commerce.
There is no possibility of my
ever being connected with any
political office, he said slowly and
emphatically.
Dressed in a dark green jacket
and pink" trousers, Eisenhower
was in good humor as he stood be-
fore CORE spondents in his old Of
flee in the rambling I. G. Farben
building, jocularly referred to by
soldiers as "Pentagon-am-main."
He puffed at a cigarette and gest-
ured occasionally as the flash bulbs
of photographers popped.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29
Ottaway Named Head
OF 4-H Council Here

Richard Getaway was elected
president of the New Hanover
county All council at a meeting of
the council in the offices of Miss
Ann Mason, Home Demonstration
agent, yesterday.
Also elected for the coming term
were Lora Carroll, vice-president;
Mary Alice Kerr, secretary; Jerry
Yopp, treasurer; Rosalie Pearsall,
songleader; and two reception lead
ers, Thomas Johnson and Barbara
Raye.
Judging for the annual Al
Achievement awards will begin
tentatively on Oct. u, the date set
for receiving achievement records.
The awards will be made on Oct.
26, it was said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29
BETTY JOHNSTON
VICTIM OF POLIO
Funeral Services Will Be
Conducted AT Mortuarv
Monday Afternoon

Dr.. A. H. Elliot, c~ity-county
health officer, said yesterday after
noon that he saw nothing alarming
IN the infantile paralysis fatality
hat occurred Friday night at
lanes Walker Memorial hospital
when Betty Ann Johnston, nine
,ear-oid daughter of i lbrcok
1obnston and Mary Alice Johnston,
dGaithersburg, Md, died from an
illness that was diagnosed as
policmyelitis.
Dr.. Elliot fastened to declare
that there is little danger of a polio
endemic in Wilmington as a result
If the Johnston girls death. He
nojnted out that an early fall or the
arrival of cold weather would tend
to discourage any such outbreak.
The health officer said that in
Julv or August an adult woman
was hospitaized here and treated
for what was diagnosed by attend
ing physicians as spinal meningi-
ties, but that a spinal p~uncture
showed no germs of this type in
her spinal fluid. This woman aft
erwards seemingly recovered from
her illness, but it later developed
and she suffered some muscular
trouble, which was finally dag
nosed, after her recovery, as
poliomyelitis.
The death of the Johnston girl
vas described as having been the
first polio fatality in the city in Is
Years. She was admitted to the
children's non-contagious ward of
the hospital Tuesday, and transfer
red to the contagious ward and put
in an iron lung Wednesday.
Dr.. J. Buren, Sudbury diagnosed
her case as polio, but he added that
the girl showed no symptoms of
this disease when she was admitted
to he hospital. He expressed the
opinion that the children in the
non-contagious ward we're not en-
dangered by having been exposed
TO the Johnston girl.
Funeral services for the girl, who
resided with her grandmother,
Mrs. Lula Hansley, 2o9 Walnut
street, will be conducted from
Andrews mortuary Monday after
noon at 8 O'Clock with the Rev. J.
A. Russell, pastor of Grace Metho-
dist church, officiating. The serv-
ices will be private and interment
will follow in Oakdale cemetery.
Surviving are her parents and
her grandparents, Mrs. Lula Hans
ley, Of Wilmington, and Mr.. and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29
NOMINATED

STANTON. Va, Sept. 2s.-U.H-
Judge Burr P. Harrison of Win
chester today was unanimously
nominated as the Democratic
candidate for the house seat of
Rep. A. Willis Robertson, D., Va,
who is running for the u%neXpired
senate term of the late Sen. Carter
Glass. D.. Va.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29

Mrs. F. S. Johnston, of Roanoke,
Va.
Pallbearers will be Ben Hansley,
Julian Johnston, Sidney c. John
ston and Frank McCaskill.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-29
TROPICAL HURRICANE

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29 -P)
: The weather bureau reported to-
day that a tropical hurricane cen
tered some $50 miles south of San
Diego was moving north-north-
westward by winds of 40 to so
knots an hour, and warned off
coast shipping to exercise caution
over Sunday.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
'0'Conor Sees No Need
OF Special Session
In Welfare Deficit
By the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS. Nd, Feb. Gov.
O'Conor, commenting on q prospec-
tive State public assistance fund
deficit, said yesterday that "as the
situation now stands, I am sure we
can meet the immediate needs with
out calling a special session OF the
Legislature.
The threat of a financial crisis in
the Department of Public Welfare
was officially disclosed wednesday,
and the Governor said then that the
Board of Public Works would meet
shortly to consider the matter.
The chief executive declared yes
terday that Maryland is ''in a very
good financial condition" and that
it appeared there would be sufficient
surpluses from other departments
to meet the welfare needs.
He also mentioned the $500, ,00(
emergency fund provided by the
General Assembly for the current
fiscal year, and the same amount
for the next fiscal year, as possible
sources to be tapped to assist the
Welfare Department.
The present difficulty is not thu
lack of money but the question o1
authority to transfer the necessary
funds, the Governor explained, add.
ing he would consult Attorney Gen.
eral Curran on the legality Of func
transfers.
The Governor declared that aftel
examining the department records
he believed that in three categorie'
aid to dependent children, old ag'
assistance and aid to the blind
the State had ample funds, bu
that in general public assistance
there was prospective shortage.
Evening star., 1946-02-01
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated PreSS.
BALTIMORE, Feb. MARY
lands infant mortality rate for 1945
was 8.5 per cent lower than the
previous years, DR.. Robert H. Riley
jr., director of the State Depart
ment Of Health, announced yester-
day.
: Attributing the drop to the States
comprehensive prenatal care pro-
gram, DIR. Riley said the decline
was a gratifying continuation" Of
a trend established over q long
period of years.
Among the factors DR.. Riley said
were responsible for the decrease
were prenatal clinics established by
the department, with provision for
consultants In obstetrics, dieticians,
and the spread of information
among both doctors and prospective
mothers on scientific care OF
children.
The figures, released in a Vita
statistics report, showed an infant
mortality rate of 38.7 for last year
as compared with 42.3 for 1914
These figures, DR.. Riley explained
comprise the number Of deaths fol
each 1000 live births.
The general death rate for last
year showed no change over 1874