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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-09
DEBATES
FACE LAWMAKERS
Opening Rounds OF Game
Inland Fisheries Row,
Hospital Battle Seen

RALEIGH, Feb. g. up Open
ing rounds of two major legislative
battles, the drive to divorce the
Game and Inland Fisheries Divi-
sion from tht Conservation depart
ment and the proposal to locate a
four-year medical school and
teaching hospital at the University
of North Carolina - may get un-
.derway next week.
The fight over the Game and In
land Fisheries Division will come
up Tuesday at a public hearing of
the joint conservation and develop
ment committee when the N. c.
Wildlife Federation presents its
arguments for the separation and
on Thursday Wff festff'-tnfr ef- CONSERVATISM
department will be given an op-
portunity to present it's side of the
case.
Tht Wildlife Federationists have
waged an energetic propaganda
campaign in favor of a separate
State Commission to manage the
Game and Inland Fisheries Divi-
sion ever since they were defeated
in the 1915 General Assembly. Re
suits of this campaign were seen
last week when bills calling for
the separation were introduced in
both houses. The House measure
bore the names of 70 members -
more than a majority - and the
Senate bill had II signers out OF
its membership of so.
Proposals of the N. C. Medical
Care Commission for a statewide
good health program will be pre-
scented to the joint appropriations
committee Thursday afternoon.
The advisory budget commission
has recommended a biennial ap-
preparation Of 81, 900, 900 for the
Medical Care Commission in the
regular appropriation bill and an
appropriation of $40, O4O, 900 in the
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7almadge Assails Court
Ruling Against Himself

ATLANTA, Ca, Feb. s.-P}-
Herman Talmadge today assailed
a ruling of a Georgia judge, which
held that "almadge illegally
claims the office of governor, and
accused the judge of rendering a
vest-pocket decision without hear
ing both sides.
The decision, made yesterday at
Rome, Ca, was in a suit brought
against the pardons and paroles
board by Lieut.-Gov. M. E.
Thompson. The action sought
budgetary Information from the
board. Talmadge was not a party,
and is not presently affected by
the decision.
Superior (circuit) Judge Claude
Porter held Thompson was legal
acting governor, in succession OF
Gov. Ellis Arnall, resigned, and
held the Georgia legislative ex'
Iceeded its constitutional authority
when it elected Talmadge for the
four-year term of his father, che
late Eugene Talmadge.
Talmadge charged that the suit
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MOT CANDIDATE
SAYS VANDENBERC
Michigan Senior Senator
Claims He Is Not Re-
publican Aspirant

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Feb.
(P)-While appreciative of the
compliment United States Sen
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg 'R-
Mich) emphasized to newsmen to-
day that he was not a candidate
for the republican presidential
nomination.
Said Michigan's senior senator:
Il am not a candidate for the
republican presidential nomination,
1 don't expect to be and l have
no wish to be, but a man would be
entirely numb if he were insens1-
BILE to the compliment the sugges-
ton implies"
Later, leaders at the Michigan
spring republican state convention
side-tracked a resolution endorsing
Vendenberg for president. There
were reports, however. the leader
ship intended to keep the Michigan
delegation tied sub rosa for van
denburg and place him In position
for Presidential maneuverlng.
Vandenberg's statement regard
ing the presidential question pre-
coded his address to the conven
ton in which he made his first
speech on domestic issues in two
years.
He emphasized to newsmen ira
his. return to the domestic sage
after long attention to foreign at
fairs did not mean a switch O.
! interest.
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1923 ACCIDENT
DEATHS REPORTED
Average Of One Killed In
Every 10 OF The 1O,2S7
Wrecks In 1916
(Special to The Star-News)


RALEIGH. Feb. 3.-An average
of one person was killed in every
10 of the 0,287 motor vehicle &C
cidents in North Carolina during
1946, according to figures revealed
today bv Samuel L. Gaynor, Jr.,
assistant director of the Highway
Safety Division.
The accident toll for 1916 was
l.O28 fatalities and 6,07l CASUAL
ties.
Illustrating the gradual disap-
pearance of wagons and buggles
from the highways, only S6 COLL
sions involved animal drawn We
hieles. Animals on the highway
were responsible foc 81 accidents
while fixed objects were hit in ~.
Pedestrians we're involved In vic
mishans. but 7,419 collisions in
volved only motor vehicles. Other
accidents included 80 with trains
one with a street car and 1873 with
bicycles. .,, f..
No objects were responsible fo1
1870 cars and trucks oveEturnlns
and for 1913 running off the road
way. F~orty-eight miscellaneous &C
cidents we're reported.
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Mt. Clemens
Beaten,
Others Set
Federal Judge Rules Gu.
Portal Time For Pot
terry Workers
DAMAGES DENIED
Portal-to- Portal Pay Battle
Still Continues On
Other Fronts

DETROIT, Feb. 8.-R-The mo-
mentous Mt. Clemens Pottery Co.
case was thrown out. OF a federal
court today but the 81, 800. 900, 600
portal-to-portal pay battle still
continued.
U. S. District Judge Frank A
Picard, ruling against portal time
Tor the pottery workers, dismissed
the Mt. Clemens case with a de.
NAL of damages.
But the immediate reaction nj
Go labor. mainly responsible for
the avalanche of portal suits acros,
the nation, was that the fight
wouldn't stop here.
Ahead also was a likely final de.
termination from the Supreme
court, itself responsible for the
FEDERAL courts attention to the
portal theory in the MI. Clemens
dispute.
Judge Picard held the pottery
workers portal time was too trif-
ling for damages.
The court said further industry
should not be held liable for portal
claims prior to last June 10. That
was the day the Supreme Court
set forth the portal theory in the
Mt. Clemens case.
The National Association of Man
ufacturers, through President Ear,
bunting, said Judge Picard's yer
dict presumably meant the vast
majority Of portal suits mo long
er have any standing"
AT the same time Bunting called
on Congress for Qualification OF
the fair labor standards act &c
avoid further confusion.
Similar remarks also were heard
in Congress.
On the other hand the CLOS
United Auto Workers Union. which
alone has filed nearly 81, 900, 600.
700 in portal suits, held it's ground.
Union Attorney Maurice Sugar
said the auto union would not with
draw any of its suits.
Sugar said Judge Picard's de-
clsion wouldn't necessarily apply
to other cases." He also called at
tention to the likelihood of a Su-
preme Court test.
There was no immediate com.
ment from the auto indus.rv's
big three"-General Motors, Ford
and Chrysler-from whom more
than a half billion dollars in por-
tai pay has been asked.
The government, in entering the
Mt. Clemens case, said the sui
would be carried to the Supreme
Court no matter what Picard ruled,
Attorney Edward Lamb, whc
brought the Mt. Clemens suit orig
inally, warned industry the issue
was not settled. He said the Mt.
Clemens case was not a truly
portal-to-portal case" in view Of
limiting facts"
The Mt. Clemens case. Lamt
said, was not comparable in the
portal theory with instances in
steel, autos and other industry.
Today's court decision was de-
scribed as "far-reaching" by
Frank E. Cooper, a pottery COM
pany attorney.
Cooper said it clearly points
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'IdDOf government dhd
in our time" While Emanuel
Shinwell, fuel minister, declared
complete disaster awaited Brit
ain if industry and the public 1ali-
ed to carry out his sweeping con-
servation measures, almost chaotic
conditions were reported among
industries in the huge industrial
belts about London, Manchester
and Birmingham where 4,0o0,ooo
will be thrown out of work begin
ming at midnight Sunday.
Shinwell's order halting electric
power to industry in the biggest
export-producing areas of England
and cutting off current from do
nestle users - including homes,
theaters, stores, officers and resta-
urants - for five hours daily, sent
puzzled factory managers into hur-
ried conferences. Their worry was
to find some way, if possible, to
minimize the effect of the power
blackout.
There were more harried con
ferences in Whitehall, where the
government offices T concentrat-
ed, as officials tussled with their
gravest crisis since the labor gov
eminent came to power.
Prime Minister Attlee promised
a statement to Parliament on
Monday, and many political fore
casters said conservative chieftain
Winston Churchill, might pick that
day as the time to pelt the gov
eminent with his long-threatened
motion of censure.
Attorney General Sir Hartley
Shawcross, speaking in Lancashire,
center of great Britain's giant cot
ton industry which will be closed,
solemnly declared:
Certainly if we don't succeed in
overcoming this situation and i'm
proving coal production the labor
government will fail and there will
oe an end to any idea of socialism
n our time"
The whole situation is just as
| serious as it was in 1899 and 1910,
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Taft Thrsxs:
-
Wrel 1ilfo
TaxProgram
Ohio COP Says He Will OPP
pose Any Cuts Effective
Before July l
HITS HASTY MOVE
Withholding Taxes Favored
To Continue For First
Half OF 1947

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-(P-Sen-
ator TAFT (R-Ohio) tossed a MOI
key wrench into plans of House
republicans for a quick cutback in
income taxes with an announce
ment today he will oppose making
any reduction effective before
July /.
This would halve the So, 500, 000,-
600 reduction which a 20 per cent
cut would make over a full cal
endar year.
Taft told a reporter that while
he remains convinced income taxes
can be slashed a net of 20 per cent,
he thinks individuals ought to CON
tinue paying at the present rate
until the new government fiscal
year begins next July.
This would keep payroll with
holding taxes at their present lev
ell for the first half of 1947. After
July l they would drop by what
ever percentage Congress decides.
For persons who pay their full
years taxes in advance March IS,
the Senator proposed rebates later
covering the last six months of the
year.
This stand by Taft. chairman of
the Senate Republican Policy Com
mittee and a member OF the FL
nance Committee, collided direct
ly with the announced intention of
Chairman Knutson (R-Minn.) OF
the House Ways and Means Com.
mittee to rush through a tax bill
making reductions retroactive to
Jan. l. Knutson's committee has
ordered brief hearings beginning
February 10.
These will be limited to Treasury
and Internal Revenue officials, but
Knutson invited all persons ''in-
terested in the question of lax re-
auctions" to file briefs with the
committee outlining their argu-
ments.
Meanwhile Taft has not COM
mitted himself to any particular
method of attaining the overall 20
per cent cut.
The Ohio Senator said he does
not believe the Republican-controll-
ed Congress can afford to increase
the governments anticipated def
icit of $2,3 800, 900, 900 for the finan-
cial year ending June 80. A 20
per cent tax reduction. carried
back to Jan. 1, would pile an esti-
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CT IS BELIEVED
DAHLIA KILLER
Corporal Signs Statement
Saying 1t Was Possible
He Is Murderer

FORT DIX, N. j., Feb. SIP,
- Capt. william H. Florence, head
of the army criminal investigation
division here, said today that Cpl.
Joseph DUMAS signed a state
ment saying "it was possible" he
committed tie mutilation Staying
of pretty, d%arkhaired Elizabeth
Short (The Black Dahlia) in Los
Angeles.
The announcement was made
through post public relation officer
Maj. ornelius T. Morris who said
TIL e 29-year-old former combat
infantryman signed a statement
which included a 5O-page document
scrawled in his own longhand and
a lengthy series of questions and
answers bearing directly upon the
Staying.
The two papers were combined
into a single statement to which
Morris said DUMAS affixed his
signature after initiating each page.
DUMAS stated, Morris said, that
he was with the slain girl, Jan.
10, five days before her body was
found in California. She apparently
had been dead only a few hours.
The soldier insisted throughout that
his mind 'blacked out" while drink
ing with the girl and that he re
membered nothing until he found
himself in New York''s Pennsyl-
vania Station some time later.
Morris said records at Fort Dix
showed definitely that DUMAS was
at the army installation on the 18th.
18th and 18th of last month.
Then there was a lapse of four
days, during which time there was
no trace of DUMAS. But on Jan. II
The records again show DUMAS
at the fort.
Morris said the DUMAS state
ment told how he had ''blank
spells in previous dealings with
women when he had been drinking
heavily.
The statement included a remark
by the soldier that when with a
girl and drinking his craving and
passion became uncomfortable" He
said he became trough a n d
brutal"
Morris released the Following
questions and answers to- which he
said DUMAS signed his signature:
Question Is it possible while
being with Betty and drinking that
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Chairman Hartley (R-ND of the
House Labor Committee: 1T would
seem to me that this dumps the
question back into the lap of the
labor committee. It-still leaves
the necessity for amending the
wage-hour act to define the work
week. Once that is done, then por-
tal-to-portal pay will be where ID
should be-a question of collective
bargaining"
Rep. Francis Case (R-SD): If
the June 10 date is firm, then
there is 40 need for amending
judicial legislation. But if that
date it not firm and is overthrow
by review. then we will have to
go ahead with measures now un-
der consideration"
Rep. Lands (R-Ind.), Labor
Committee: I'VE should have leg
islation anyway TO nail it down."
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personally set aside a large tract
for their use.
Touching on this quality, DR..
Wall said he was able to move
with pauper. preacher, prince,
President and statesmen alike"
Hundreds of messages from
friends throughout the nation pour.
ed into Webbley, the family man
sion. There was one from the
widow OF his former late friend,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said:
Il was deeply shocked to hear
of your husbands death and serd
my deepest sympathy to you and
your family"
There was another from Buster
and Julia Good, colored friends
of Kannapolis," who said:
HE was quiet Christian-heart-
ed man who loved every body both
black and white-cheer up and look
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Thursday, was laid to rest today
among the rolling red hills of his
native Western North Carolina.
Funeral services for the man
who as Americas top ranking
emissary would have been sur
rounded by the regal splendor of
the Court of St. James were con-
Quoted amid a simple but impress
sive atmosphere.
A throng of TO- 600 persons, their
numbers including a host Of high
national and state officials and
hundreds of his sorrowing towns
people, gathered in near freezing
weather to pay last respect to the
man who as a youth faced life as
a penniless orphan and who sub
sequently rose to national famee. as
chief executive of his native state,
Undersecretary Of the Treasury
and advisor to presidents.
His pastor for "a years, DR..
Zeno Wall, described him to an
overlooking audience of the
spacious First Baptist church, as
"a big man by whatever standard
you might measure bigness: big
body, big brain and big soul: and
he did big things in a big way"
The body of the 64-year-old Am
.'bassador, clad in the familiar
brown suit and bow tie, lay N
state for two hours before tine
funeral and thousands filed past
it, bowling their heads and then
passing out of the large church
edifice he vas instrumental in
building into the biting cold.
The silent march past the bier,
banked by simple floral tributes of
many friends including President
Truman, was made by men Of all
classes-a line which his friends
said he was loath to draw in his
daily activities. There were Ter
who we're extensively dressed; 9TH
ers whose hands we're marked by
years of labor; there we're white
friends and there were the Negroes
of his home town to whom he had
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Cipl Service Head
Still in Hospital

The condition of Nathan 5. Has,
.sett, Sri, chairman of the civil
Sc vice Commission was said to be
fair last night by attaches In
Coast Line Hospital, Rocky Mount
where he was taken Friday night al
1870 o'clock suffering from a near
ailment."
Haskell was expected to preside
over a meeting of the Commission
Tuesday night at which time ne"
dice application forms were ex'
,ected to be discussed. There was
40 indication in the city last nlgh'
that the meeting would be post
-
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was patiently collusive," and was
brought by friends, against
friends, before friends and for
friends"
The decision, due to be speeded
to the Georgia Supreme Court
next week, indirectly affects other
pending litigation, including a di-
rect challenge of Talmadge's title
by Thompson, which began yester-
day at McDonough, Ga. Should
the McDonough case be delayed,
the decision by Porter might be
the first to be reviewed by the
Georgia Supreme Court.
In a bitter statement, Talmadge
claimed the case at Rome was
brought as a ruse, by agreement
between all parties to it, for the
purpose of confusion and becloud-
ing the issues now before the court
in the trial at Henry County (Mc-
|Donough) where all persons in
lvolved in the present political
situation are before the court"
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PORTAL PAY SUIT RULED OUT OF court
congressman Determined To Nail Down
Judge Picard's Decision By New Lav

report to the full committee the
following week. He commented that
the Picard decision should have
a wholesome and practical effect"
Chairman Wiley (R-Wis.,) of the
Senate Judiciary Committee noted
that the Picard ruling sis simply
a decision on the facts in this parti-
cular case and declared Congress
should redefine its position in no
uncertain terms on the general
issue"
A subcommittee of this group al
ready has completed hearings. It's
chairman, Senator Donnell Or
MOI, said, more work remains to
be done and it's recommendations
probably will not be ready until
Feb. II or later. Donnell declined
to comment on the Mt. Clemens
case.
Reaction Of other congressman
included:
Rep. Fellows (R Mel Of the
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WASHINGTON, Feb. B. up -
Congressman expressed determine
ton today to nail down by law
Federal Judge Frank A. Picard's
decision that employers should not
be liable for portal claims arising
before June 10. date of the
Supreme Court ruling.
Advocates of legislation to out
law the portal suits praised Judge
Picard's finding but noted that it
might be upset by a higher court
on appeal.
For that reason, and also to
remove any question about its
applicability to other suits total
ling S., 900, 900, 600, they determined
to procede with legislation already
in the committee stage in both
Senate and House.
Chairman Kitchener (R-Mich) OF
the House Judiciary Committee
said a subcommittee probably will
complete it's hearings Monday and
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the quoted Mary as say
ing.
No charges have been filed
against her.
The and other officers
gave this account of the tragedy:
About 8 o'clock last night Mary
and Michael planned to leave
home together and took a taxicah
to a tourist camp at Wentzville,
Mo, 40 miles from st. Louis.
Early this morning Reardon,
having learned of their where
abouts, appeared at the tourist
camp and started taking them
back to their homes in his car.
Michael and Nary were in the
back seat. At a point on Clayton
road not far from the Reardon's
fashionable suburban home, the
girl asked Michael for the pistol
which she said he used in target
practice.
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House Judiciary Committee: The
decision shows more clearly the
need of some constructive, clarity
ing Congressional action"
Rep. Heating (R : NY) of the
Judiciary Committee: Judge Pr
cards opinion dismissing the Mt.
Clemens case does not, in my opjn-
ion, eliminate the necessity for
continued consideration by Con-
gress, of the serious problems high
lighted by this litigation. W. must
continue our study of proposed
remedial legislation which will, on
the one hand, remove the threat of
bankruptcy and stagnation In pro.
duction from industry-particularly
small business--and, on the other
hand, will not deprive the working
man of any of his legitimate rights
or emasculate any laws enacted
for his benefit"
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Hvear-old daughter, Mary. Rear
don was shot through the head
early today as he was driving home
with the two 'teen-agers who had
been thwarted in an attempt to run
away together. The shot caused
Reardon to lose control of the car
and it plunged into a ditch beside
county road. Darcy receiving
INJURIES from wf1fch he dfed~4atc
today. Reardon was dead upon
arrival at a hospital. The girl re-
ceived head decorations.
St. Louis County Coroner Ar
mold ]. Willmann quoted the girl
as saying she shot her father with
a .25-caliber German Mauser auto
matte pistol which young Darcy
had brought along.
Il couldn't go back home be-
cause I knew my parents would
put me in a girls school. I used
to 20 there and I didn't like it."
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Nation Is Locked
In New Cold Wave

CHICAGO, Feb. 8.-(P1-Most of
the nation was locked tonight in the
grip of a spreading cold wave that
posed a new threat to southern
vegetable, citrus and tobacco
crops.
Temperatures were below normal
from the Rocky Mountains to the
Atlantic Coast and freezing wealth
er was bearing down again on the
tobacco growing regions of Geor-
gia and the citrus and vegetable
belt Of Florida.
Florida, where an unexpected
freeze damaged the vegetable and
citrus crops Wednesday night, was
warned to expect low ground tenn
peratures ranging from II to 8;
degrees bv SUNDAY morning.
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experiments get underway next
month.
Neither will the work be known
as the Camp Davis project rank
ing officials Of the Navy have dis.
Closed together with the infor.
nation that no commanding Of.
fcer will be appointed for the
camp area.
Inc tests will be conducted by
ne hellex Corporation. builders Of
NE Manhatten project, Oak Ridge.
instruction site Of the atomic
bomb.
representatives of a | | branches
v the armed services will be or
au'y during the tests ana they will
work in liason with t h Navy's
bureau of Ordnance, creators Of
ue flying stove-pipe'' or. rap.jet
The engine adaptable to both
Mplahes and guided missiles is
We orain-child of John Hopkins
palVerSity's department OF Applied
saSSes working in cooperation
n'a 70 associated industrial or.
SITUATIONS and universities
Inc tests to be made by the
aslex corporation are to be dj.
,ssled to the application of the en-
snie-lt has no movable parts-tc
sse IN an airplane. To date the
eusme has propelled guided
HSSes through the air al 1,50(
miles an hour.
@nal is the flying stove pipe
missile that travels at slpersonle
sysedS and which is destined tt
s~.el at hypotonic speeds It
T the speed Of sound?
osed to date only in pilot.esss ex.
alnents, ii is thought by the
Navy Navy 'hat in the future. planes pro
rs!led by the engine viii be dl.
l,nd ~ DIT OBJECTS 2,0O0 miles away
mat direct hits viii De made
Il \ missiles dropped from the plane
robot control.
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tbst two years ago and since
b,1' tlIae d succession of test:
Essd been made IL Ne4 Jersey
h. NE ne idea which is being brough.
|" camp Davis tor testing is :
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