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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-17
RAMBLIN' AROUND
WITH JIGGS POWERS

WHITEVILLE, Feb. 16-Witt
today's writing Of "Ramblin'
Around" we conclude our review o.
Columbus county's most outstand
ing basketball teams, along with
a pair of ''dark-horses'' who might
upset the favorites in the County
Tournament, to be held at Halls
boro, next week. To date we have
given closeup interviews with the
defending girls and boys champ
ions; namely the Whiteville Wolf
lets and Tabor City's Red Devils;
the outstanding challenger for the
feminine diadem. the Lady Plant
oms of Chadbourn Hi; and finally
today, Fair Bluffs Lumbees, the
quint which seems most likely
to dethrone the Devils. This does
not necessarily mean that we are
picking any one Of the above
squads to capture a title at Halls
boro; but we repeat, according to
records. these have the brightest
prospects.
'LUMBEES" ARE POINTMAK-
Frs It is a h~igh-scoring ag-
gregation that Coach Spruill Doc"
Britt has welded together down on
Lumber River. According to sta
tistics which show their total at
663 points-an average Of over
80 per-against 1872 for their op-
ponents-a 10 3-5 average-while
winning is Of 20 contests, Britt
must be just the Doctor for
the Lumbees. A versatile crew,
the boys have been strictly an
offensive team on nights such as
the one on which thew went wild
in downing little Williams Hi. 1903.
30. Contrastingly, they have had
their defensive moments. like the
time they held Nichols. S. c..
s%coreless while marking UP a 40
0 shutout.
ROGER BOYS HIGH SCORERS
The two outstanding point-pro-
ducers are the Double RS"
Ralph and Rupert Rogers. Ralph.
a 6 foot one inch forward, has hit
the Irvine for 226 markers in 10
Games for an average of IA per.
He is very good on push and Grip
shots. Rupert, also standing 6 feet
one inch at the pivot Soot. has
canned 1875, for a 10 game average
OF 10 plus. Specializing in the diff
flcult coffin-corner set, he is the
main cog Of the team; thus the
reason for the lapse in the Lum-
bees play since Rupert has been
absent for the past two weeks,
a victim of FLU"
FOUR SENIORS ON STARTING
FIVE Four seniors are in the
starting lineup; including the
Rogers cousins; L. G.. Lawson. a
6 feet Two inch guard, who is tall
est; while W. C. Afford, the other
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and went back smarting under a
singing 34-11 tback administered
by Jiggs Powers Tabor City boys.
Getting hot for the Delco invita-
tional Tournament, to be held week
after next, the Stars were led by
the Wright brothers: Bobby and
Albert on o%ffense with 10 points
each and LinWood ("Bo'), on de-
Tense. Lennon and BARLEY played
best for Evergreen.
This latter game was preceded
by a 22-9 win by the Whiteville ALL
Star girls over Tabor City's ALL
Star sextette. Mildred Gore paced
the winners with 10 %tallies, with
June Wright playing a fine de-
tense. For the losers Betty Faye
Wright scored 8 of her teams o
points.
During the next week, both boys
and girls teams will travel to Ev-
ergreen on Thursday night: while
On Wednesday they play host to
the AH-Star teams from Baden
boro. All games start at 7:30.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-17
OUT
OF CAGE RACE
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lining up its customary 32-team
bracket for the week-long competi.
ton next month.
Highlights of the week included
Southern Methodist's two victories
over Arkansas that virtually elm
mated the Razorbacks from the
Southwest Conference race; UCLA's
two triumphs over California that
bumped the Bears out of first
place in the southern division OF
the Pacific Coast conference; North
Carolina States temporary jump
over Duke to first place in the
Southern Conference, only to fall
back again when upset by Wake
Forest; Columbia's victories over
Penn and Cornell that kept the
Lions undefeated in the Eastern
intercollegiate league; Navy's two
point victory over West Virginia
that knocked the Mountaineers out
of the unbeaten ranks; and Iowa
States upset victory over Missouri
that bounced Missouri out of first
place in the Big Six.
Current leaders in the major on
ferences:
Big Nine Wisconsin. Big Six
= Oklahoma. Big Seven - Wyom-
ing. Southern Conference - Duke.
Southwest - Texas. Southeast -
Kentucky. Eastern intercollegiate
= Columbia Missouri Valley - st.
Louis. Pacific Coast Southern Di-
vision - UCLA. Pacific Coast
Northern Division) Oregon
State. Mid-Atlantic Muhlenberg.
Eastern Kentucky upset Western
Kentucky, 40 to 46, last night in
one of the weeks surprises to win
the Kentucky intercollegiate ath-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-17
AMERICANS WIN

PRAGUE, Feb. Is. - up - An
American sextet, playing together
for the first time, edged out a
highly favored Switzerland team
4-3 today to loom as a strong on
tender for the Worlds Ice Hockey
Championship
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-02-17
.JOR LEAGUES 1947 SCHEDULES

May 1S. IA
June 20*, 21, 90
July 22s, %, "a
Sept. IA, 10, Is
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guard, is shortest at ) feet 10
inches. All of these have three
years OF cage experience, with the
exception of Lawson, who has two.
Calvert Davis, a 6 foot forward,
rounds out the starting five. The
outstanding reserve is a diminutive
guard, Gordon Small, standing 5
feet five inches, whose dribbling
and floor work has been s~pectacu-
bar all season. The others are
Jerry Floyd, Guy Bailey, and Bill
T~urbeville; all playing their second
season. If these Lumbees can only
regain the form that they dis
played in the seasons earlier
games, once Rupert Rogers re-
turns, they will individually give
plenty of trouble to all corners
in the Columbus classic.
DELCO SIX, HALLSBORO
QUINT DARK HORSESHOE dark
horses who have appeared on the
Columbus horizon, lately, are the
Acme-Delco girls and the Halls
boro Tigers. The former, led by
their ace forward, Bigford, have
been slapping other s~extettes
around and about; while the
Tigers, with James Creech and
Ray Cook as offensive threats. and
a defense led by Ramon Creech
and Ned Council, have been hang
ing defeats on some of the better
quints around the circuit. Don't be
surprised if either of these give the
favorites plenty of anxious mo-
ments, or even slip under the wire
ahead.
Let's take a moment ana 90 over
the record Of the Tabor CITY All
Stars.
In games played recently, the
Tabor City All-Stars have won
two OFT of three contests. The only
loss was 70 the Ivanhoe Independ-
ents, by a score of 20 to "a, in a
contest played at Atkinson. This
was the second time the Independ-
ents had licked the locals. having
pinned a 1922 defeat on them in
Tabor City several weeks ago.
Don Jernigan, with IA points. was
top scorer for the evening. while
Curtis Jacobs played well on de-
tense. P. L. Brown had 10 mark
ers for the winners.
Monday night, February 10. the
All-Stars hit the win column with
a decisive 20 to 10 victory over
the strong Shallotte All-Stars. in
a game played at Tabor City. AL
bert Wright hit the hoop for 10
points, for TIC, while David Hooks
played a good guard game. For
S~hallotte, the best performers were
Ludlum and Gray.
On Wednesday,, Evergreen In
dependents came to Tabor City
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17
Royal Family Gets Big Welcome
tBy Russell Landstroml

CAPETOWN, South Africa, (H) A joyous multitude of 100000 packed Capetown streets today and roared a friendly welcome to King George VI, Queen Elizabetl and their daughters. It was the youngest dominion's first sight oS British royal family.
 The royal party stepped ashore into the sweltering South African heat from the battleship Vanguard after 6,000-mile cruise from fri gid, coal-shy England. Blacks and whites stood side by side, yelling and waving South African and Britiso flags. Nowhere was there a sign of disdain.
 The family rode in motor cars from the docks to Government House, evincing interest in all along the three-mile route.
 The queen was the most ami mated m the party. She was dress ed in her favored blue, with flut- tering ostrich feathers in her hat and a small umbrella protecting her from the sultry sun.
 King George wore a white naval uniform. He was responsive to every show of good will and seem
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17
Seattleite Has Many Jobs Near Barrow

SEATTLE, (P)-A former Seat tleite who has never studied law has, during the past year, found himself acting as U. s. Commis- sioner, judge, justice of the peace, notary and coroner in a top-of-the world precinct covering 35,000 square miles.
 This man, Judge Hugh Salts man, who is a civilian working with the navy department in the development of an oil field within a thousand miles of the North Pole flew in from Barrow, Alaska yesterday He was accompanied by an Eskimo youth, Stephen Ahvak- ana.
 Steve, who was educated in Alaska and speaks and reads the English language, made some pur- chases right off. He bought an Es- quire magazine and two suits in Seattle. His first meal here was ham and eggs.
 In the year that Saltsman has been in Alaska, he has never heard of a divorce
 "The people up there are 99 per cent religious" he said.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17
Metal Lathers
 Strike I'm New York

NEW YORK, lP)-l,0 ,0OO metal fathers today began a strike which was expected to force immediate suspension of work on half the construction projects in New York City and result in a complete shut down of building work within a few days if it continued.
 The strikers are member of Lo- cal 46, metal fathers union (AFLr. who are demanding S2.50 an hour and a seven-hour day. The pres ent wage is S210 an hour.
 The fathers place reinforcing rods in concrete foundations and handle straight metallic lath for plaster so that a strike on their part could hold buildings in sev- eral phases.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17

ed touched as his limousine passed slowly by long line sOf former service men, some of them grey boards, standing at attention.
 Princesses Elizabeth and Mar garet Rose were on their first trip abroad and appeared to find nov city and stimulation in all they saw. The pageant was unrivalled in South African history.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17
DIR. ROBERT VALE NEW T.B. CONSULTANT

pr. Robert Valle of Gillespie, Illinois, has arrived in Seward to serve as Tuberculosis clinician and surgeon and as consultant for the tuberculosis cases at the Sanator- ium.
 pr. Vallee is a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires Medi- cal school. In addition he spent one year at the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons of Columbia university, and three years special izing in chest surgery at Washing ton University Medical School, St. Louis working with and as the assistant of Dr. Evarts Graham, the distinguished chest surgeon. pr. Valle also studied broncho- scopy under Dr. CheValier Jackson in Philadelphia.
 He is the author of numerous articles on chest diseases, and a fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Associa- ton of ThOracic Surgery.
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17
Forecast And
 Weather Report Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Monday, February IF, l947

Monday, February IT, l947
 Forecast Nome: Cloudy with oc- casional snow squalls tonight, be- coming partly cloudy Tuesday. Strong southwesterly wind de- creasing Tuesday and backing to easGer.y. Lowest temperature to- night l5, highest temperature Tuesday, 22.
 Nome data as of 7:30 am. today:
 Tree. .pitation last .24 hours OLA incn. Total precipitation this month 0.4l inch.
 Temperatures last 24 hours: highest 38, lowest 2l.
 Maximum wind last "A hours 43 miles per hour from the east.
 Sunrise at 7:50 a.m., sunset at 4:40 pm.
 Comparative data:
 Temperatures one year ago to- day: highest 24, lowest 8.
 Extreme temperatures on this day since 1907: lowest -34 in 1882, highest 38 in 1947
 Data for other selected stations as of 7:30 am. today:
The Nome nugget., 1947-02-17

New telephone equipment per mits a toll operator in one city to dial a subscribers phone in an- other city without the assistance of an operator in the second city.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

Style c-FABRIcsPUk-72 sheets,
36 envelopes and O bottle Of
matching ink. Smooth, elothlike
surface in pastel tints; blue, grey
or pink. Club size sheets with
nome and odd.ess on both sheets
and envelopes ~
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
VANISHING GOVERNMENT
 SERVANTS

Credit conscientious Kenneth Rcyall, Secretary of the Army, fol hammering at one of the worst weaknesses of Government today the need of all-round, able man. power
 Ever since the war ended it has been increasingly difficult for the Government to draft good men fol important positions. During the war, men from every walk of life volunteered to come to Washington but now-though in some respects the emergency is almost as serious Government agencies literally have to get. down on their knees and beg qualified executives te come to Washington.
 Speaking in his home state ot North Carolina last week, Secretary Royall pointed to this difficulty and urged not only businessmen but labor and farm leaders to give part of their time to the Govern ment.
 In the opinion of Washington ob- servers, Royal put his finger or one of the most important factors in Government. No organization is any better than the men in it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
DEFEAT RUSS
 ON FREEDOM
 OF PRESS
Heated WrangIe in U. N. Committee Over Soviet
 Demands for Control

LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 7.-tR- The Soviet Union was decisively defeated today in the first votes taken in United Nations Assem- ply committee on the Russian cam paign to expose fascism and war mongers" through efforts of the world press.
 The votes, seven in all came in the Assembly's Social Committee at the end of two-day procedural wrangle. It became so heated that the committee changed it's chair man, Dr. Oscar Lange of Poland
 The Russians thus lost in this committee fight their demand that the Assembly instruct the forth coming world conference on free dom of information and of the press to commit the world press to a campaign against "fascism' and "war-mongers"
 The Russians have been defeat ed on this issue before in the U. N sub-commission on Freedom of h. formation and of the Press. The whole Soviet resolution was defeated by a vote of seven for B opposed. and seven abstentions It was first voted on by sections
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
.ATTLEE MAKES
 SWITCHES IN
 LABOR GOVT.
ShinweII Repor!edIy Giv- en War Ministry-6ait-
 ske|| Moved Up

LONDON, Oct 7.-tRI-The Lon don Star reported late today that Prime Minister Attlee had removed Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell the Chairman of the Labor Party from his Cabinet in a large scale governmental shakeup.
 Shinwell will become War Minis t.., job which does not carry Cabinet rank and puts him under the immediate supervision of the Defense Minister, the Star said.
 Attlee saw King George VI this morning, apparently to go through with the formality of receiving the Sovereign's assent to changes in the Cabinet.
 "The transfer of MT Shinwell is likely to be regarded as triumph for the moderate elements in the Cabinet said the Star, Liberal newspaper
 Shinwell had Left Wing support in Labor ranks and from Arthur Hcrner, Communist General Secre- tary of the Mineworkers Union, who called in a recent speech for Attlee to leave Shinwell in the po- sition of Fuel Minister He has been a storm center of the Cabinet, par ticularly during recurring crises in Britain's nationalized coal mines.
 Secrecy was maintained around the long rumored changes in port folios and no official confirmation of the Stars report could be ob- tained immediately.
 The conservative Evening News said Shinwelis dismissal from the Cabinet was "a near certainty. The Stars political correspondent also suggested that Shinwell's de- putty in the Fuel Ministry, youthful Hugh Gaitskell, might be moved either into Shinwell's position or some higher job.
 The Star described Gaitskell as "one of the successes among junior ministers"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
PLAN EFFORT
 TO PREVENT
 MEAT FAMINE
Agriculture Dept. to Call for More Hogs in Gam
 bIe on Grain Supply

WASHINGTON, Oct 7.-'R- The agriculture Department is working on ways to keep the pres ent grain emergency from creating a meat famine" late next year and in 1949
 The plan as tentatively drawn calls upon farmers to produce large numbers of pigs next year on the gamble that bounteous crops will relieve the feed grain shortage.
 The Department is concerned over the possibility that tEe gov- ernment's food conservation pro- gram, coupled with diminishing supplies and high prices of grain, may lead farmers to make sharp reduction next year in the produc- tion of meat animals, particularly hogs.
 At best, officials say, meat pro- duction next year will be down 5 to 10 percent. In 1949 supplies could be reduced so sharply that, given a continued high consumer demand, there would be acute shortages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
The W ashing ion Merry Go Round
By DREW PEARSON

WASHINGTON - When popular French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came to Washington last week he saw his old friend Jimmie Byrnes for the first time since the much-loved Jimmie retired as Sec retary of State Their meeting re- called to. Bidault conversation he had with Byrnes about a year be- fore in Paris. Apropos of loans to France, Byrnes had complained:
 MT. Minister, the trouble with France is that Frenchmen won't work"
 Bidault challenged this statement and Byrnes went on to explain:
 Lock at your barber op S They're not open all day Monday" "
 MT. Secretary" replied h e French Foreign Minister, we Frenchmen like to be clean shaven at least one day a week, and for that reason our barbershops stay open all day Sunday That is why you couldn't get a shave on Mon day
 Note = In 1887 Byrnes went to Europe as delegate to the Inter- Parliamentary Union. Stopping in France enroute he was impressed with the fact that the French clos ed their stores and offices at II 80 am. Saturday and didn't open them again until Tuesday. In Germany, on the other hand everyone was working hard, with large placards proclaiming Joy in Work" Byrnes went back and reported to FDR that in the eventual European war, France would be defeated.
 When I come back to this earth in a reincarnation,' says Jimmie Byrnes, T would like to be Par isian. They are such delightful people," But he also thinks no people can recover from war with out working full week.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
5AYSG G0pER5 WILL. WIN IN
 '4S ELECTION
House Speaker Not Talk ing, However, About
 Pres. Candidate

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 7-R- Speaker Joseph w. Martin tR- Mass) of the House of Rspresen- tatives is sure that the "Repub- licans will win in 1948 by sur prisingly heavy majority"
 But-at a press conference here he shed little light on who the Republican Presidential candidate will be.
 Martin declared he is not back ing any candidate for Presidential nomination. nor is he himself a candidate.
 Answering a query, Martin sad he thought Gen. Eisenhower lis a good man" but said h. had noS found any organized drive in Eis- enhower's behalf
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
WAVE
 TO FOLLOW
 HEAT WAVE
By The Associated Press

October's midsummer tempera- lures over parts of the midwest were on the way out today, the weather bureau said in forecasting a cool wave on its way from vest ern Canada.
 Mild temperatures, however, con- tinued over the southern and east ern sections of the country. Temp eratures dropped from the north Pacific coast across the northern Rockies and in portions of the Da- kotas and upper Mississippi Valley.
 The Mercury climbed to a hot 92 in Des Moines, Ia. Omaha, Neb., Phillipsburg, Kansas, and Tulsa, Okla, Monday as the warm weather of last weekend continued. Tn Williston, N. D. however. yes terday's high was AT. The cooler weather was expected to spread over the northern sections of the north central states today and over the entire region tomorrow.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
 pREDAT0RS
 DANGEROUS
Alaska Guide Says Wolves and Coyotes Threat
 to Other Game

SEATTLE, Oct. 7-lR-The pro- lection afforded by Alaska reserves has increased the number of preda- tory animals to the detriment of fur and game animals, Hobart M WiSeman, Alaska hunter and guide for 10 years, said today
 Packs of wolves and coyotes fol- low the game into the reserves and there the predators are protected as well as the game animals" he stated. Besides that, there are not funds available to hire a large number of expert hunters to wage war on the predators.
 Wiseman, who has specialized in studying and hunting the Kodiak bear and wolverine, spoke highly of the latter as fighter.
 The wolverine is underrated, he declared. The average wolver- inc weighs only 45 or 50 pounds, yet he is one of the most vicious, cunning and destructive of all AL aSka animals. He can break two- by.four in two bites and turn a 1,500-pound bear.p
 Wiseman, a former resident of Sedro Wooley, Wash, picked up his interest in Alaska wildlife in 1886 when, with his wile and three children, he went to Afognak Is- land to teach Indian school. The Is- land had been closed to hunting for 40 years, he said.
 Four years later they moved to Kodiak and then to Cordova where both he and Mrs. Wiseman taught in the Indian school and he headed the Boy Scouts.
 Back in the states for the last year, Wiseman wants to return tC Alaska next spring if he can find someone interested in making au- thentic motion pictures of wild life He also wants to collect zoo speci- mems.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
1. W. Baker, General Manager
 Of Alaska Steamship Co.,, Has
 Resigned; With Firm 26 Years

SEATTLE, Oct. 7.-lR-Taking Seattle maritime circles completely by surprise, L. w. Baker, vice. president and general manager of Alaska Steampship Company, an nounced his resignation yesterday.
 Baker, long leading figure in Seattle-Alaska shipping, has been associated with the company for 26 years.
 He said he was reluctant to sever a relationship of such long standing with the Alaska Steam ship Company" but that "as re- suit of the heavy responsibilities and strain of duties, particularly during the war and postwar per iod" he feels that he must have "a long and extended vacation be- fore resuming any active business. '
 No announcement of a successor for the important post was made yesterday. but c. w. Skinner, own CTS of the ship lines, said one probably would be made this week
 Skinner expressed deep regret at the decision, but added that the company for which MT. Baker has worked so long and hard can well appreciate his need for a rest
 Baker Jointed Alaska Steam 26 years ago this month, serving in various official capacities hefore becoming general manager in Sep temher, 1899. He became vice-presi- dent and general manager in Aug ust, 1944.
 He began his steamship career with the old Pacific Alaska Nav igation Company, the original Ad- miral Line, in December, 1914, starting as a stenographer for C.E. Eye, general freight and passenger agent for the line in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-10-07
MAJOR TIEUp
 THREATENED,
 B. (. p0RTS
Thursday Noon Is Sci for WaIkout- Strikes
 Are Indicated
lRy The Agsociated Pressl


 The West Coast of British Col umbia is threatened with a major tieup of it's ground and water transportation. The Maine En- gineers Union has set Thursday noon for it's walkout from 36 coastwise vessels, and the Street Railwaymen Union will vote to- morrow on possible strike action. In addition, CIO packing house workers are strengthening their three week old Dominion-wide strike. They have announced plans to picket independent meat plants, railroads, highways and some butch CT shops.
 Shipping officials say the threat ened marine engineers strike will cut off all major transportation to Vancouver Island and west coast ports, including Alaska and Se- attle.
 The threat of a street car and bus tie up extends from Van couver to New Westminster and Victoria.