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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
IS KILLED

NORTH WILKEsBORO, July 10
Miller, so, farmer and
trucker Of Hays, vas killed yester-
day when his pulpwood-loaded
truck was struck at a crossing
here b a Southern Railway passen-
ger train.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
Statistics Show
Woman IS To 80
Apt To Have ";

WASHINGTON, July o.,
The Federal Security agsr,, rs
today that vital s-atsacs w, Ny
a woman in the $3.50 age Levy rs'
more likely to be the mo,s,'
twins 0riplets thar at any s,s
The The agency >ald & Z. S. pm,
that the odds GA multinIa s sas'
are: one set Of twins pyo. VIZ" L
maternity confinements. ors u
OF triplets in every 10000. and /.
set oo of quadruolets in ey Very v :
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
Little Willie Is Growing Up
To Be Wiser Guy--W With Books
Bv SAM DAWSON

NEW YORK, July 19-P-There's a boom in Amer
1ca's MISREPRESENTATION" industry
Publishers whose products range from compilations OF
the classics to ~year-books with "the latest" on guided mis-
siles said today their chief problem was to supply enough
tn meet tho swnl1inu demand .
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
7,196 Killed, Manned In Year;
Responsibility Act Clarj;f6;.,

RALEIGH, July 19-During 1916, 1,028 persons lost
their lives on North Carolina streets and highways. In add
ton to these, 6,168 were injured. These facts were starting
and demanded passage of new safety legislation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
SUNDAYS MENU

BREAKFAST: Tomato juice
or melon, fried eggs and bacon
or ham, enriched toast, butter
or fortified margarine, mar
malade, coffee, milk.
HOT WEATHER COLD
BUFFET FOR DINNER OR
SUPPER: Chilled cream of
potato and leeks with chopped
chives, nodded veal and green
pepper, creamed horseradish
sauce, potato salad, mixed
vegetable salad, assorted
cheeses, assorted warmed
rolls, butter or fortified mar
garine, peach PIC with vanilla
ice cream, coffee, milk.
LAT5 SUPPER: Bowls Of
ready-to-eat cereal with cream
and berries, toasted peanut
butter sandwiches, fruit bowl,
cookies, tea, milk.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

continental United States except employees
of General Foods Corporation, its sub
salaries, their advertising agencies and
members of their immediate families.
5. Prizes, as listed elsewhere in this adyer-
tisement*, will be awarded to the writers of
the most apt, interesting and convincing
statements in the opinion of judges desig-
mated by General Foods Corporation. Their
decision will be final. In case of ties, dupli-
cate prizes will be awarded. No entries will
be returned. All entries become the prop
erty of General Foods. Corporation to be
used as they see fit. The contest is subject
to Federal and State regulations.
s. All winners will be notified by mail and
the major prize winners will be announced
on The Second Mrs. Burton radio show
as soon as possible after the close of the
contest. Send stamped, addressed envelopes
tor complete list of winners.
I'll you buy a new Bendix during the contest
period and win a prize, list price of your
Bendix will be refunded to you.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20

San Francisco Bay. a.,
enough to hold the coms,s,
fleets Of the world, is belieysj :.
be the sunken valley of an
cient river. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-20
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All entries must be postmarked not later
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z. Submit as many entries as you like. Use
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of paper. All entries must be the original
work of the contestants submitted in their
own names. All members of a family NAV
compete but no more than one prize will
be awarded to a single family.
3. Each entry submitted must be accom-
panied by a top from a box of La.France.
Entries with inadequate postage will not
be accepted.
q. This contest is open TO everyone in
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

home in Chicago Heights, the story of Fred Sykes
slowly unfolded. Nine youngsters listened quietly
while their parents spoke.
ERNEST Williams, Freds brother-inlaw and
JAW member employed at the Maremont plant in
Harvey explained that Fred had misrepresented his
age in order to enlist in the army army when he
16 years old He discharged in December,
1915.
Fred sick after he got out of the army"
Ernest continued. His bad to0-he
was young for the things he went through
He took miself to the hospital" Mrs. Williams
noted. Didn't even tell us he going. He went
TO County Hospital first They sent him to the Elgin
hospital We agreed it after he'd already arranged
it. He there just little a month.
FRED born right here in Chicago Heights.
He has another sister besides me, and brother"
Mr. Williams, gracious who spreads
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

tic workers pay only half as
much as the men for fare and
agency fee Their employers pay
the other half.
ONE OF the clauses of the do
nestle workers contract reads:
"The employer may il he so
desires, change his residence
from one city to another ut any
time and the employee agrees
TO follow the employer at the
latter's expense to wherever
he may journey and to there
render all the services and re-
ceive all the remunerations
provided for in this contract"
Few of the workers have an
opportunity to learn what is in
their contracts before they sign
them.
Many of them report seeing
the contract for the first time
when they are boarding the plane
or after the plane takes off.
Mr.. Moore, representative of
Castle, Barton & Associates, Inc,
admitted to the Chicago Star that
the contract of the domestic
workers had no legal validity.
Nevertheless, the girls are led
to believe they are bound by the
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Teacher. fired for
criticism sues Board

Mrs. COrinHe Hole0mb, Of
CLOS Ellis avenue, a former
teacher at the Evergreen Park
school, filed a suit against
+. Board of Education, seeking
SLIGO she charges the board
owes her in unpaid salary for
the 1946-47 school term.
According to the suit, Mrs.
Hoicomb was hired April 9,
1916 but a few weeks later she
received a letter from the
board suspending her. No rea-
son or explanation for the &C.
ton was given i'm the letter.
the suit stated.
A letter sent to the school
board containing Constructive
criticism" might have caused
her suspension, her attorney.
Edwin t. Schneberger, said.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

around himself a feeling of simplicity and dignity
picked up the discussion
Fred was proud of fighting for his coun-
try. But when fellow has been through the
war - when he has gone through things that
we can't even know about sitting here at home
II seems to me those fellows ought to first,
whatever their color is or anything else. They
deserve the best"
They deserve better than Fred got" Mrs Will
1iams added. 58a
HE WAS in the CCC before the war started
He was too young to have done much before the
war, and not well enough to do much after he got
out" Mr.. Williams went on
1T was Tuesday morning 1 learned about it,
heard q taxi outside 1t before five O'Clock
and thought We'll, he must be mixed up. Then
heard my father-in-Iaw calling nae FIRED is
dead he said"
Fred's burial took place January 2.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
fred Sykes deserved the best not death from state guards

You'd think somebody could hear when a
man is being beaten to DEATH! Mrs. Estelle
Villains exclaimed, pain flashing over her hand
some dark face,
You'd think somebody would stop it!''
Mrs. Williams is the sister of Fred Sykes for
mer private in the quartermaster corrs in the
Pacific. aS5s
mas. But he was dead the day before Christ
mas at Elgin State Hospital
EYEWITNESSES charged that Sykes had been
brutay beaten by four attendants for hours before
his DEATH
my father visited Fred the Sunday before.
He was all right then. They said he ready
to come home and could leave the hospital Christ.
mas. My father took Fred clothes they
haven't even given all of them back yet
Around the living room stove in the William
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

"The chicago Hardware
Foundry company has a long
record for using national
groups this way"
HORNER told the Star that the
plight of the Puerto Rican work
ers was brought to the attention
of the union when University of
Chicago students Elena Padilla
and Muna Munoz-Lea brought
some of the men to the union
hall.
Muna is. the daughter of the
popular Puerto Rican senate pres
ident, Louis Munoz- Martin.
1--WE wouldn't have all these
troubles if MunOz knew about
it," the men have told Muna
frequently.
The Star has been informed
that Puerto Rican Senator Geigel
Bolanco, Popular party leader,
will come to Chicago in January
to investigate the conditions of
the. Puerto Rican workers.
TRANSPORTED by chartered
planes of the Commander Air
Lines, the men industrial work
ers arrive S210 in debt. They
have to pay off $3.50 for plane
fare and $50 agency fee for
Castle, Barton.
The regular passenger fare for
the same trip is S131.9O.
The girls who come as domes-
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Court uphoIds uE
expulsion of disrupter.

A unanimous decision in the,
Appellate Court here this week
upheld the decision of the ClO<
UE Local 1150 expelling Harry
Morgan. 1
Morgan was ousted in a union
trial on a dozen charges includ-
ing disruption of the local, inter-
ference with the distribution Of
the Chicago UE News and misus
ing funds.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

of a rental study issued here this
While complaints of rent viola
tons were being reported by ter
ants in steady stream, OPA Of
ficials declared that rent in
creases should be granted only in
specific instances.
During 1916, $4,000 Chicago
landlords tried to Gust their ten
ants, a survey of the renters
courts revealed. Only one land
lord out of six succeeded. In 1916,
there were 1884 eviction suits
filed.
UNTIL a halt was called be.
cause of the approach of the
Christmas season, judges sitting
in renters courts granted 2,4S7
writs to evict tenants in 1916
Meanwhile, OPA officials de-
cIared that the housing situa.
ton, instead of easing with
time, was rapidly becoming
more acute. The recent fiare-up
ut the Airport Homes testified
to the gravity of the housing
situation.
Armed with the 2,4S7 writs
issued by renters court, bailiffs
last year were called upon to
evict 1,116 families physically as
compared with 1886 in 1945. This
was disclosed by Joseph J. Lax,
auditor for the bailiff's office.
ALL COURT officials readily
attributed the increase in evic-
tons during 1916 to the huge
veterans housing problem. The
new year will find at least 200
cases filed early in 1916 still
pending on the Municipal court
docket.
According to complaints filed,
80 percent of landlords seeking
to evict tenants indicated that
they wished to occupy the
apartments themselves. Very
few cases We're based upon the
nOn-payment of rent, court rec
Ords disclosed.
OPA reported violations in
some cases by landlords who
were successful in evicting ten
ants, only to sell the buildings
to others. One North Side tenant
so evicted, has filed suit for dam
ages in the Circuit court, chsrg,
ing his former landlord with bad
faith in declaring to the OPA
that he required the apartment
for his own use.
IN renters court, under pres
ent procedure, minimum of
seven months usually is con-
sumed by landlord seeking to
Gust tenant.
The landlord must first obtain
OPA approval in most cases out
side of business property. Courts
require waiting periods of four
for veteran landlords,
and six months for non-veteran
landlords When the case is ready
for trial, however, all tenants are
to a 30-day continuance.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
Modern slave trade
imported Puerto Ri(uns
workers in debt bondage
BY 10 HANSON

Some 500 Puerto Rcans feeling the Yankee
is 10
has seen sin nGpaton.
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
E x c I! S v E

State ST., which the Chicago Star
first exposed on November 16.
This week, the agency was re.
ported to be preparing to bring in
another shipment of 400 Puerto
Ricans.
The STAR learned also that
some of the imported" domestic
workers are being threatened
with prison and unknown conse-
quences if they leave their Jobs
THE DEMAND for Puerto
Rican workers in Chicago is far
from satisfied Mr.. Moore. a
representative of Castle, Barton
e Associates employment agency,
told the Star.
"The Chicago Hardware
Foundry company is the only
company we've been able to in
terest in Industrial workers so
far" Mr.. Moore declared.
Guy Horner, representative of
the C1O United Stee1workers un-
lon stated that:
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04
$4,000 Chicago landlords tried
to eviet tenants, survey shows

Chicago belongings in the street NAV
become familiar sight
of a rental study issued here this
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

They work as foundry hands
and as domestic workers un.
der an oppressive contract that
binds them to their employer
at extremely low wages.
THIS summarizes the SLAVE
running" operations of Castle,
Barton & Associates, Inc, 220 S.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01

Should historians of the future
give the year 1916 a name they
might well call it the Year of the
Great Conversion. 1t was the first
full calendar year following the end
of active warfare, a year of max
ing swords into plowshares that
was accompanied by industrial I'M
rest and strikes, of peace confer
ence chickering's ard some progress
towards agreement< among the
powers.
Old 1916 saw the shelving of
many wartime controls that affect
ed buying and selling in Laurel as
we'll as elsewhere throughout the
nation, one of the most significant
being the lingering death of OPA.
The army of government employees
enlisted prior to and during the
war was warned of demobolization.
The year also saw the shifting of
power from Democratic to Repub-
lican control in this country, to be-
come effective after the advent of
1947.
For the first time in recorded his
tory man succeeded in sending a
signal to the moon and receiving an
echo in response. That was done
with radar, a wartime scientific
development. The beam from the
earth was reflected in "a seconds,
scientists a new yardstick
for measuring celestial distances.
Experiments were performed with
atomic bombs in the Pacific, with
representatives of many govern
ments as witnesses. The American
Chemical society announced that
two elements, 43 and 81, had been
as result of atomic bomb
research, thus completing the per-
iodic table.
The world was not altogether
peaceful; some isolated wars were
still going on as the year ended,
with world leaders viewing the
situations with concern while max
ing new efforts towards universal
John L. Lewis and his striking
soft coal miners, in a tilt with the
government, occupied the
spotlight of public attention in the
asst half of the year. Trouble in
Palestine disturbed the world
throughout the year.
The record of 1916, arranged
lnder six topical headings, is pre-
,ented to Laurel Outlook readers.
t follows:
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
MRS.. J. J. FRANK, rs,
DIES WEST OF CITY
tive490f Russia Succumbs
sTdesday-Funeral Is Held
Here Friday

Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at the German Con.
gregational church fer Mrs. Chris.
tina Barbara Frank, rs, wife OF
John Jacob Frank. She had suffer
ed a stroke last July and another
Monday night and died at her home
three miles west of Laurel Tuesday
morning.
Mrs. Frank was born April ID,
1870 in Russia, a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Lehr. She was
married to Mr.. Frank in Russia on
Nov. Is, 1899.
They came to the United States
in 1904, making their home for
three years at Lincoln, Neb. In
1907 they moved to the present fam
lily home. Besides the widower,
Mrs. Frank is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Jacob Cook of Bill
Mrs. Jacob Frank, Jr., Mrs.
Margaret Lackman, and Mrs. Lawr-
ence Wilhelm of Laurel; four sons,
Alexander Frank, j. j. Frank,
Henry Frank and Conrad Frank, all
Laurel; a brother, Peter Lehr of
Billings, AZ grandchildren and II
great-grandchildren.
Services were conducted by Rev.
C. Strobel. A quartet
composed of Miss Dorothy Miller,
Miss Lydia Hettinger, Jacob Frank
and Jacob Bait sang "A Home on
and "The City Foursquare."
Miss Laura Mae Bait was accom-
Pallbearers were Conrad, Henry
and Herman Ostwold, Lawrence
Wilhelm, Fred Miller and Jacob
Jr.
Burial was in the Laurel ceme-
cry.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
BARTLES RET|RES AS
WEST Mp. MANAGER

Retirement of F. r. Bartles as
general manager of the western dis
trict of the Northern Pacific rail.
way, Seattle, and appointment OF
j. F. Alsip, assistant general man,
ager, to succeed him, effective Jan.
1, was announced Saturday by H.
E. Stevens, vice president, operat-
ing department.
C. H. Burgess, superintendent,
Tacoma division, will succeed Alsip
and l. P. Iversen, assistant super
i~ntendent, Tacoma division, will be-
come division superintendent. F. w.
McCabe, trainmaster, Seattle, will
succeed Iversen.
Bartles terminated Dec. 81, a
railroad career begun 40 years ago
with the Pennsylvania. He has been
with the Northern Pacific con-
tinuously since 1907, except while
serving as an officer in the army
engineering corps during World
l.
Burgess entered N. p. service on
the Montana division in 1916 as n
section laborer, following gradua-
ton from the Worcester, Mass.
Polytechnic Institute and served in
various capacities in the engineer
ing department before becoming
assistant roadmaster, Montana d.
vision, in 1923. He subsequently
worked on the Yellowstone, Fargo,
Dakota, Rocky Mountain and Idaho
divisions before becoming train
master, Tacoma division, in 1897.
He was promoted to assistant super
intendent in 1889 and to superin-
tendent in 1912.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
Top Ten Spot News
Stories of 1896

(As selected by nations weekiy editors
in Publisher AHxiiiary pOH)
Republicans sweep into poVer i1 state
and congressional elections
Twelpe top Nazis sentenced TO bang
at end Of Nuremberg trials.
Wallace asked to reagn from cabinet,
following speech on foreign policy.
Paris peace parley meets, tVifb Fl nS-
hons represented.
President pefoes neV OPA; all con-
trolls end as law dies.
Nary defOnafes atom bomb at Bikini
in ftUo tests; third cancelled.
U. S. sends demands TO YagoSLaVia over
death Of fire fiers.
Nsfion-wide rail strike ends WbeD
Truman asks Lavs TO dr4f strikers.
Baraeb tells first meeting Of u. N.
atom group that WorA faces peace
or destruction.
Kidnsp-marder Of Suzanne Degnsn.
six-year-oA Chicago child.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
WINTER WHEAT CROP
IN STATE To EXCEED
PREVIOUS RECORDS
Is so Per. Cent Over 1854
Average-Indicates 36,000,-
600 Bushels In 1947

Montana winter wheat paintings
in the fall of 1916 amounted to l.
100000 acres, a 8 per cent increase
over the 1,748 900 acres planted in
the fall of as. The acreage seeded
this fall for harvest in 1947 estab-
fishes a new all time high for the
state and is almost so per cent
above the average for 1885 to 1914.
Increased seedlings were reported in
all the principal winter wheat dis
tricts except in the central group
of counties where the same or a
slightly smaller acreage was seed
ed.
More than normal rainfall for
September, October and November
provided ideal moisture for winter
grain termination although seeding
was often delayed as a result of
the rains. The work progressed
rapidly whenever the soil dried
enough for seeding and farmers
were able to plant most of their in
tended acreage before winter ar
rived.
With good termination and soil
moisture, farmers reported a splen-
did condition of winter wheat on
Dec. 1. Estimated on the relation
ship of Dec. 1 condition with past
years, production of winter wheat
in 1947 is placed at 36,000,000. This
compares with 32,62O,OOO bushels
for 1916; 2~9,476,O0O for 1915, and
the 1O-year 1854 average of 49,
039,000 bushels.
The winter wheat acreage seeded
in the nation this fall is 56,426,000,
8 per cent more than the 100000
acres seeded a year ago.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
LEGION IS INVITED
To VISIT FRANCE
FOR CONVENTION
Some G.Is. To Again View Arc
de TriOmphe and Champs, Side
walk Cafes and NOtre Dame

Laurel members of the American
Legion have been advised by nat
ional headquarters at Indianapolis
that the Legion will make another
mass pilgrimage, its third, to
France, the land of its birth, in
1947. Paul H. Griffith, national
commander has ahow sed the al
fetal acceptance of a formal fnvita-
ton from President George Bidault
of the Republic of France for the
Legion to engage in a pilgrimage
to France and to hold part of its
1947 national convention in Paris.
The Legion met in Paris in 1927
when more than $4,000 Legion
naires and their families crossed the
Atlantic. The second pilgrimage
was in 1887 when 5000 made the
overseas journey.
When the last G.Is. were recently
in Paris they were careful to not
impair the food stocks of the newly
liberated French people by eating
promiscuously at restaurants. APP
~parently the government of France
now visions a better supply of food
in 1947.
Commander Griffith said the prin-
cipal sailings on the French pill
grimage will be from the Port Of
New York.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR
J0LLEY IS CONDUCTED

Funeral services for Joseph F.
Jolley, 45, who died at his home
Monday of last week were conduct
ed Friday afternoon at Settergren's
funeral home in Billings. Rev. NJ.
j. Wilcox, pastor of the Laurel
Methodist church, officiated at the
services. Herbert B%runsvold, ac-
companied by Mrs. Gustave Sim
mons on the organ, sang "Home
on the Range" and "Abide with Me-"
Masonic services were conducted
at the chapel by Billings lodge No.
113, A. F. & A. NJ, with immediate
Past Master w. Glenn Roebuck of
ficiating.
Pallbearers e L. w. Hageman,
]. W. Fry, J.. 2. Nicholas, G. w.
Fenton, Edward Keefe, l.. NJ. Cow
man, Floyd Werle and DR.. Roy v.
Morledge.
Burial was in Billings Mountview
cemetery.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
FARM PEOPLE USING
INCREASING AMOUNT
OF ELECTRIC CURRENT

More kilowatt hours of power
were distributed by REA-financed
electric lines in Montana during the
1916 fiscal year than in any previ-
Gus 12-month period since REA was
established in 1885, according to in
formation received by the Montana
extension at Bozeman from the rural
identification administration.
Managers of the 81 REA systems
in the state report that more than
13,477, 900 killowatt hours were dis
tributed during the 1916 fiscal year.
While the increase in number of con-
sumers on REA lines accounts for
part of the gain in electric power
consumption, an even greater factor
is the increased use farmers are
making of electrically operated ma
chinery and equipment. AS more
of this equipment ONE on the
market an even sleeper rise is ex-
pected in consumption of electricity
per rural consumer.
Even under the handicap of war
time shortages of material and man.
power, REA systems in the state
have been able to provide service to
additional consumers and plans have
been completed for the construction
of new lines to approximately
$4,000 mere.
Latest reports indicate that Mon
tana has more than $4,000 farms
and ranches served by high line
power and some $4,000 farms that
are not electrified.
Laurel outlook., 1947-01-01
CLAUDE RYAN,, FORMER
RESIDENT, SUCCUMBS

Laurel friends learned this week
that Claude R. Ryan, a former resi-
dent, suffered a heart attack Christ
mas eve and died Christmas morn
ing at Liberty, Ind, where he was
head of a creamery concern. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rilla
Ryan, and three children, Ward who
is a graduate of West Point and is
still in the service, Jean and Helen
who are at home.
Mr.. Ryan operated a creamery
here a number of years ago Oh
West Main street. He later built a
creamery at the orner of Second
avenue and First street, now occu-
pied by Our Savior's Lutheran
church.
The Ryan family left here more
than % years ago.