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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Meats, Fish
Shortage
UNCHANGED

Boston, Jan. 3t-tUP)-Shortages
of meats and fish resulting from the
packers and fishermen strikes con-
tinued In New England during the
past week, Dun g. Bradstreet, Inc,
reported today.
The meat packing strike also was
reported cutting off large par
Of the available supply OF domestic
hides. adversely affecting tannery
production.
In other lines, however. supplies
expanded sufficiently for retail vol.
lIrne generally to be maintained At
the previous weeks high level and
at about 8 to ~ per cent above the
corresponding 1915 week.
Heavy buying occurred IN turni-
ture and household furnishing de-
partments and various types Of YARD
goods were increasingly plentiful.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Auto Crisis
Still Same:
Hopes Din,

Hopes for early easing Of Elio
national labor crisis dimmed today
as automotive and steel neg0tiaa
tons begged down over the wags
issue.
Demands for higher pay have
prompted hundreds OF strikes ana
shut-downs. idling nearly l.506.00e
workers across the country. 49,
At the first General Mot0EsC Go
United Auto Workers negotiatins
session since Dec. %, the company
refused yesterday to hike the wages
Of its i75,O00 workers more than
1874 cents an hour.
Wants Features Removed
Harry w. Anderson. CHI vice-
president, indicated indirectly. how
ever, that the company might rals6
its bid II certain objectionable feas
lures Of its old contract. incIu6a
ing a maintenance Of membership
clause, were removed.
UAW-President r. j. Thomas
warned that the 77-day strike would
continue until the company -
ceded from its stand.
Wheeling Joins y. 8. Steel
In other labor deveIopmeutss
/. The Wheeling Steel Corp.
followed the lead of y. 8. Steel
II refusing to grant wage increase
es ~untll the OPA price Eituatiou
Is clarified u. s, Steel said 3
price increase greatly IN excess
Of e6.25 q ton" would be neeae~
sary for the company 20 grant
the 1871 cents hourly wage boost
proposed By President Truman.
2. The Ford Motor Co. sald Il
would have 70 shut down come
pleteIy this week unless the stnd
strike ends. Ford already has
laid off 1900 workers because
Of the steel shortage.
3. The cIo United Earaa
frsas.ffrasaA n, Ha0a A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Begin LAYING Plans
Families May Join Gls
OUerseas This Spring

Washin.to Jan. 81 - (UPl-
Thousands Of wives and children
OF soldiers began laying plans today
TO Join their OF husbands and
fathers overseas this Spring.
The War Department opened the
way for the mass migration yester-
day when It said dependents Of
some soldiers overseas may join
them at Army expense as soon -
local theater commanders are con-
Vlnced that food and sheller are
available
81 some Congressmen noted, how
der. that the plan does MOI apply
d the aV66age enlisted man. FOR
the time being ii least only The de-
endenis N alneerzs ihxee grasses q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Pastor Kills
His Daughter
Tried to Poison
Elder Of Church

Grand Rapids, Mich, Jan. 81.
OUP)-An investigation into the
family affairs of a Grand Rapids
pastor who confessed that he pois-
oned his daughter extended today
into Dixon. III, where his first wife
died In 1929.
The Rev. Frank Siple, 53-year-old
pastor OF the SouthlaWn Church Of
God, confessed early today that he
had poisoned his daughter, Dorothy,
n, in 1899. He made the confession
In a Jail cell where he is held on q
charge of attempted murder OF Lyle
Dean, an elder Of his church.
Kent County Prosecutor Menso
Y. Bolt said the examination into
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NesU H0ver Citizen
Taken for a Ride

New Maven, Jan. 81. (UP)-LOuis
Roth, 80. manager Of q local liquor
store. today reported he was taken
for q ride" last night and robbed Of
s236.
Roth told police he was leaving
the liquor store after closing II for
the night when two armed men
forced him into car. drove him
about q mile out Of town. dubbed
him and LETT him lying BY the side
OF the road. When he regained con-
eclousness. Roth said, he sent q
the nearest house to telephone
nnllae
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31

Vatican City, Jan. S1-CUP)-
Pietro Cardinal Boetto. rs, arch
bishop Of Genoa, died Of heart
attack last night, defeating Pope
Plus desire to have the College Of
Cardinals complete at the first
Consistory of his reign Feb. Is.
The death Of Cardinal Boetto
further reduced the italian nil
nority in the college. After the
forthcoming Consistory it will in
clude q Italians and ~ non-Ital-
ianS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
BiLb0 Walls
AboutFEPC,
SoL0ns, Etc.

Washington, Jan. 3l-(UP)-
Theodore G. Bilbo, (D.-Miss.), TO-
day promised the Senate an ex-
ceptionally inspired" harrangue
against the FEPc. and perhaps q
few words on who's a rat.
Rep. Vito Marcantonio, (A-L-
N. ", said Bilbo was a rat.
Rep. Adam @. Powell, Jr. Negro
Democrat from New York said
Bilbo also was the cesspool Of AM
erican Fascism and the clubhouse Of
American NazisIn"
They offered these comments
after Bilbo said they were COM
munists. Bilbo also said Rep. Hugh
Delaey D.-Wash-, was a Com
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31

sergeant and certain clVIHnns VI
be eligible.
Al Own Mxneuse
The Army said dependents Nz
lover grades Of enlisted men naaY
be permitted 70 Join tt1eii 0ls o1NEs
seas later at their own eKpas
after present quotas are ex,Is
The Army also said Il well'
construct any housing overs
dependents.
4'ha movement Ct CT laHai
ElInope win begin GqnetlIne - sA
April 4. Those VIA hops 80 N
the Philippines. 1ap1E HefeH
the NflIkaEN M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Federal Seizure Of Steel Industry Inevitable
Solons Face Test on Tough Strike Control Bill


yde Park, n. Y.
-Five-year-Old
0nald Anderson,
Poster Boy"
{ the National
lfantile Paraly.
is Foundations
lmpaign, stands
by the grave
Of the late
President
rankin DelanO
Roosevelt
.fter placing a
reatl1. He was
like me-" Don
said, "hs had
lfantile paraly-
s.. After placing
the wreath,
n added: "He
lst have been
! good man, !
think, TO be
,ried In such y
pretty place.
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DeadLine for Contest
Reduced to Hours

There are still readers who have not submitted
their entries in the Help Edit Your Newspaper contest
and the deadlnA hour approaches with the ticking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-31
Delegates Say UNO
Wins Iran Dispute

London, Jan. 31-(UP)-UNO delegates agreed almost
unanimously today that the real winner in the Iranan
dispute the United Nations Organization itself.
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Refusal Possible =
Legislative Council
Agrees on Session;
Program Is Limited

Hartford, JAM S1-(UP)-The Legislative Council was
in today that the Governor should the
General Assembly into special session to deal with limited
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
ARCADE SLATED
TO ARRIVE TODAY
AZ CAP Planes, 100 En-
thusiasts To Converge
On City

Approximately 100 flying enthusi-
asts from all sections of North
Carolina are scheduled to begin
landing their private planes on the
runways of Bluethenthal airport to-
day at $50 a. m. as members OF
the Civil Air Patrol converge on
Wilmington and Wrightsville beach
for a one-day outing.
Col. Frank Dawson, commander
of CAPS state wing, will lead the
At planes in the flight to BluetAen-
thai. Practically all of North Caro-
lina's major cities will be repre-
sented in the ARCADE, the largest
mass flight attempted by CAP in
more than a year.
Sponsored jointly by the Wrights-
vile Beach chamber of commerce
and Pennington Flying service, the
arcade will move from Bluethen-
thai to Wrightsville for six hours
of entertainment, including surfing,
fishing and boating.
A dinner meeting of the CAP
will be held in the Ocean Plaza
MOTEL at 12:45 p. M, but no bust
ness matters will come up for con-
s%ideration during the brief sojourn
according to Walter Cartier,
secretary of the Wrightsville cham
Der of commerce.
At 4 p. m. the planes are schedul-
ed to leave Bluethenthal for their
respective destinations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
VARIED ACCIDENTS
INJURE FOUR HERE
Wave Breaks Woman's
Leg; Man Falls From
Window

A freakish ocean wave. an auto
pedestrian accident and two falls
caused ambulances to wall across
Wilmington last night and. resulted
in the admission of four persons to
James Walker Memorial hospital.
Mrs. Lacy Hoffner, Salisbury,
was bathing in the surf, at Carolina
Beach, when an unexpectedly
strong wave caused her to lose her
balance and resulted in a broken
left leg. Her condition was de-
scribed by hospital attendants as
satisfactory.
Charles c. Carter, 106 Orchard
street, Enka, was injured seriously
when he stepped from a bus into
the path of an oncoming car at
Z p. m. near the Masonboro loop
on the Carolina Beach highway.
Hospital attaches said Carter sus-
tanned a compound fracture of his
right leg and numerous abrasions
about the head and body.
Robert M Price, Al, Goldsboro,
fell from a second story window at
20 North Fourth street last night at
1890, receiving a laceration under
his chin and possible internal in
jurles, according to city police.
Price a painter, lived at the ad-
dress while working in Whining
ton.
Mrs. Jettie Hayes, owner of the
house, told investigating officers
that she heard a thud outside her
window and upon investigation dis
covered Price. He had fallen onto
the porch and rolled off onto the
sidewalk. Rushed to the hospital,
he was admitted for treatment and
observation. The extent of his in
juries were not Immediately de-
termined.
Dan j. Ward, 81, of Sunset Lodge,
was admitted to the hospital for
observation and treatment after
what police described as a fall in
his apartment on the Carolina
Beach road.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
WOODMEN TO SET
CONVENTION DATE
Group OF Officers And Di.
reetors Will End Beach
Sessions Today

A committee of four members
was appointed yesterday by g
group of state officers OF the
Woodmen of the World, meeting a
Carolina Beach, to decide on the
exact date for the 1947 convention
of the organization, which will be
held in Charlotte next spring.
Appointed to the committee were
Nick T. Newberry, state manager;
D. E. Henderson, past head coun-
sci; ]. Milton, state head counsel,
all of Charlotte, and T. E. Newton,
former state manager and now ma
tional director with offices in Oma-
ha, Neb.
A group of IS Woodmen state Of
ficers and directors will end a four
day meeting at the resort today.
Plans were also made for the
unwilling of a plaque in Hender.
s%onville, later in the year, in mem.
ory Of Joseph Cullen Root, first
president If the organization, who
died there in 1913.
Root organized the Woodmen Sc
years ago and was on a visit to
Hendersonville at the time of his
death.
The plaque will be placed on the
courthouse square, it was decided.
1t is expected the national presi-
dent will be present for the cere-
mony.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
IS SCENE
OF RACIAL STRIFE
White Mob Tramples Ne
groes After Vets And
Negro Fight Starts

ATHENS, Ala, Aug. 1o.-P-
Several Negroes YER knocked
down and trampled here today by
a mob of white men who assem-.
bled shortly after a fist fight be-
tween two white war veterans and
a Negro, county court Judge D
l.. Rosenau reported.
Authorities said no one had beer
seriously hurt but that they were
seeking to have the state guard
called out as a precautionary
measure.
Sheriff H. G.. Garrett estimated
the mob numbered 500 men at one
time and said it was still sizable
three and a half hours after the
trouble started. Some so highway
patrolmen have been sent here
by the state.
Judge Rosenau said the gang
was chasing Negroes off the
streets. And in so doing hae
knocked down and trapled'
several Negroes, including many
old ones and some cripples.
Ostensibly, he said, the mob i.
seeking the Negro who was in
volved in the fight with the two
white war veterans. The two white
participants were arrested. But
the Negro escaped. Mayor R. H
Richardson, Jr., said he freed the
two white men from Jail after
members of the mob had promised
to disperse.
At Montgomery, State Highway
Patrol Chief Clyde C. Sellers sale
40 or so patrolmen were being sen
INTO Athens to aid local officers.
Mayor Richardson said he did moi
believe there would be further
trouble, but thought the state
guard shoU7' be brought here as a
precautionary measure"
Judge Rosenau said he knew OF
several "old' Negroes being
knocked down by the gang, and
added that a. Negro man and his
wife were prevented from catch
ing a train.
"They were chased under a
house, the Judge reported.
Garrett said the white men were
being constantly urged to be order
ly. He added that many had
''gone home" and he hoped no
serious trouble would develop.
The town has a population of
about 5000, of whom about one
third are Negroes. Sheriff Garrett
said his force of four or five depu-
ties and about the same number of
city officers, together with "some
(COntinTIed nm Pare Txuo. CnJ o.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
Policemen, Firemen Here
Begin Six-DayW Work Week

The city manager advised the
fire chief that the schedule for OH
days for fire department personnel
would have to be arranged so tina
it will meet with the requirements
of the National Board Of Fire un-
derwriters.
Police Chief Charles H. Caster
announced a few days ago thai tne
schedule for the six-day week had
been arranged for the police per-
sonnet, effective today.
Members of both departments
have expressed themselves as be-
ing grateful to the council and the
manager for effecting the six-day
week schedule ana increase in pay.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
Arkansas Vets Start
Hot Political FIGHT
Promise To Use every
Means" Including Force,
In Campaign

MALVERN, Ark, Aug. 10-U.H-
This little county seat, the self
styled Most Sanitary Town Ir
Arkansas" today watched its po-
litical dirty linen hung out to pub
lie view as a determined group OF
young veterans sought to break
the grip of Sheriff Jack Right or
county politics.
Rights henchmen scoffed al
warnings by the "GI Ticket" thai
"if there are election irregularities
Tuesday the Tennessee McMilr
county, incident will be mild ir
Comparison"
William Weaver, 27-year-old ex-
Army captain who made the state
ment, said tonight 1--WE don't want
violence, but we're going to be
firm. We're going to play it &C
cording to the law.
eve don't know what might hap
pen if the other side doesn't play
it that way"
A rally of veterans scheduled for
tonight had not materialized al
the scheduled starting hour, but
the downtown area buzzed with ex-
Gi's and political talk.
Weaver is leading a slate of CT
candidates against the 18-year-old
Hot Spring county political ma
chine headed by Sheriff Right.
Right, running for county treasur-
er this year against slight, blonde
Doyle Collie, has held practically
every office in the new WPA-bullt
courthouse.
Collie, only %, was injured badly
in the Battle Of the Bulge and
still carries one arm in a brace.
In a third race, %verterans can
didate Champ c.. Walker is oppos-
ing former deputy sheriff Roy
Traywick for tax assessor.
One CT candidate has no opposl-
tion-Edwin Cash for county rep
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
WAA SURPLUS LOG
JAM END ORDERED
81 Consultants Making SIS
Per Day Fired; Radios
Held Up

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-WH-
The war assets administration has
ordered a wholesale housekeeping
of its electronics division to break
a log jam of surplus radio and
other communications equipment
kept bottled up in storage while
thousands of war veterans vainly
sought to buy it.
Fifty-two industry consultants
drawing as high as $35 a day have
been discharged. They will be re-
placed by army and navy techni-
clans. Other employees have been
fired, both here and in field Of
fees.
A spokesman said that while no
charges of improper conduct have
been made, officials felt there
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
Gay Parties
Probe Topic
Under Study
Treasury Department Pur-
chasing Agents Enter
tanned Lavishly
FILE IS HEAVY
Contractors Seeking Con-
tracts Said Free With
'Gratuities'
FILE IS HEAVY
BY N HICKS

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -W.D-
Gay weekend parties in New York
at which pretty girl stenographers
repeatedly entertained Treasury
department purchasing agents to-
day claimed the attention of the
Senate War Investigating commit
tee.
Officials revealed that they have
compiled a heavy file on activities
on certain well-heeled middle
men, free with lavish gifts and
favors - in the Treasury's multi
billion dollar l%end-lease purchas-
ing program.
The so-called contract agents."
a committee source revealed, often
had no manufacturing facilities ex-
cept "a desk and swivel CHAIR"
but drew millions for procurement
of war goods.
In one case, on which public hear
ings may be held later the prime
contractor made a 955 percent prof
it on a lend-lease order. Commit
tee information indicated that the
contract placed orders for items
costing manufacturers 1892 each,
but was paid by the government
at the rate of $22, 489.
The contractors, according to
preliminary committee findings,
were openhanded with "gratui-
ties" With the aid of their pretty
stenographer they entertained min
or treasury officials and their girl
office workers on New York week
end excursions, the committee
source said.
Still another case, interesting to
he committee. involved tn e
manufacture of a simple steel
machine pin. Contract brokers were
paid at the rate of "a cents a pin.
They placed orders for the pin with
legitimate manufacturers at $50
cents each.
Meanwhile, it was made clear
that the committee considers it's
investigation of the role played by
Rep. Andrew j. May, D., KY, in
the Carson munitions paper en-
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Inc personnel of the Wilmington
pollce and fire departments today
SH'ef upon a six-day work week,
ne city council having recently au-
~i0flzed a day off weekly for all
members Of the forces. At the
zane time, the governing body
VoVed an increase in the pay scale
OF all the men.
C!ly Manager j. R. Benson yes
Treiuay directed a memorandum to
Chief j. Luddie Groom, an
noohclng that the rs members of
I'e Ire department would be al
.o~ea n day off per week, in
au9llon to the regular vacation
period.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
ARMED FUCITIVES
FLEE POSSE AFO0T
Oklahoma Badmen HoIed
Up In Hills For Des-
perate, Last Stand

ATOKA, Okla, Aug. 10.-U.D-
Two heavily-armed bank bandits
fled afoot tonight through the
southeast Oklahoma hills, barely
ahead of determined possemen
who called for reinforcements and
bloodhounds.
A pack of bloodhounds from the
state penitentiary at McAlester
and more carloads of officers,
carrying all sorts of weapons, were
en- route to the Kiamichi mountain
region where the bandits were
making what appeared to be their
last stand.
The fugitives looted the Walters
(Okla.) National bank of 500, DOC
Thursday morning and at last re-
ports were carrying the money
with them in their wild flight in a
gunnysack.
Their getaway automobile was
found abandoned on a country road
six miles southwest of Daisy late
today, only a few hours after a
filling station operator at that hill
side hamlet informed officers that
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
DEC0NTROL BOARD
HEARINGS
Status OF Food Prices To
Be Decided Within Next
Eight Day Period

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-UH-
The new three-man Price Decon-
troll board starts Monday on its
gigantic task of deciding-within
eight days-whether a big share OF
the nations food will go into the
housewives market basket at cell
ing prices or with no controls at
all.
By Aug. 20, the board must de-
eide whether meat, grain, milk,
grain and livestock products, cot
tonseed and .soybeans should be
under price control.
Under the new OPA law, all
these products automatically will
be returned to control on Aug. 81
unless the board decides otherwise.
But poultry, eggs, tobacco and
petroleum will remain ceiling-free
unless and until the board specifi-
cally directs that they be control
led.
The board, working against time,
has scheduled hearings Monday
through Thursday. Labor and
farm groups and industry and con-
sumner organizations will be allow
ed to present their views. Most OF
them will be limited to IS minutes
each. A very few will get 30 min
uteS of the boards time.
Board Chairman Roy L. Thomp-
son, a New Orleans Banker, an
nounced that all 80 organizations
which asked to be heard have been
allotted time for oral presentation.
He said no speaker will be allowed
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-08-11
Rocky Point Youth Dies
In Pender County Wreck

One person was instantly killed
and three others narrowly escaped
death when their speeding auto
mobile ran off the highway and
overturned at Sis o'clock yester.
day morning on Highway 1T 421,
ten miles north of Wilmington, ir
Fender county.
Julius Linwood Corbett, 10, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Titus Corbett, OF
Rocky Point, was killed instantly
in the accident, which State High
way Patrolman w. B. Riddick
claimed was caused by excessive
speed on a straight stretch Of road
way.
William Main, 10. was reported
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in a satisfactory condition yester-
day afternoon by attaches in
James Walker Memorial hospital
where he is undergoing treatment
for a fractured right wrist.
Joe Hale, Jr., 20, and Forest
Harris, 10, the latter of Ivanhoe,
Sampson county, escaped with
only minor bruises.
The accident occurred about a
quarter of a mile south of Paul
Place, on a straight highway.
Young Corbett, who resided with
his parents about three miles north
of the scene of the crash. was
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