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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
COLUMBUS SCHOOLS
TO OPEN AUG. q
Heavy Enrolment Expect
ed By Superintendent
W. J. Bolger, Jr.

Whiteville, Aug. % ALI school:
in Columbus county, with the ex
ception Of those in the Whltevlue
Administrative Unit, will oper
Thursday, Aug. %.
Bus drivers who will man the
TRANSPORTATION fleet are taking
their written examinations ano
road tests this week.
Principals making up the elias
fled group are already on duty,
having reported a week ago.
In most cases, teachers have
been hired to complete the facul-
ties. The faculty Of the Tabor City
schools is short only n teacher
and this is regarded as representa-
tive OF the general situation.
County superintendent W. ).
E,oger, Jr. has called a pre-open-
ing meeting of Negro teachers to
be held in Whiteville next Tuesday
at 2 D. m. Teachers in the schools
for whites will meet on Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
A record registration is antlcl-
pated this year and principals are
concentrating upon securing a
heavy enrolment on the first TWO
days.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
WAYNE MOTHER
FATALLY INJURED
Two Daughters Hurt, One
Seriously, In Truck
Bus Accident

GOLDSBORO, N. c., Aug. 22-(P)
"A Goldsboro mother was killed
and her two daughters were in
jured, one critically, today when
they we're trappd between a skid
ding ice truck and a bus they were
boarding near their suburban home
here. ,
The woman, Mrs. Earl Odom,
died about 2:15. p. m, after being
struck about noon. One of her
daughters, Bobby Jean,. 10, was in
a critical condition at a hospital
here where attaches said she had
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
Developments Fail
To M aterialize
In Baby Case Here

Unless some rare development
pops up momentarily the case of
the three-day-old dead white baby
found in the locker of the Negro
section of the bus depot, will re-
main a mystery - at least for
the present.
Detectives late last night ad-
mitted they had made little prog
ress on the case despite a minute
examination of all evidence.
Coroner Gordon Doran said a
time for an inquest will remain
undecided for the present.
The child was found dead Tues
day night and later was buried.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
TABOR CITY WEED
AVERAGES $4,000

TABOR CITY, Aug. 22.-The
Tabor City tobacco market Friday
sold more than 325, 900 pounds Of
tobacco at a $46 average per
hundred.
Today's poundage puts the local
market over the 1000, 900 pound
mark for this season. John W
Barlow, sales supervisor, said
quality was a little better thar
yesterday with good grades bring
ing a $61 top price.
These figures, he said, looked
good for a one sale market this
year but in comparing last years
pounds and average one can read
lily see that the entire tobacco in
dustry will suffer this season.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
SEE RADIO DRUGS
AS LIFE SAVERS

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -WD-
Radioactive drugs soon will save
as many hitherto doomed lives as
were taken in the two-atom-bomb
explosions in Japan, doctors said
research men from Oak Ridge be-
lieve.
DR.. James 1. Bibb, chief Of staff
at Erlanger hospital, says it is now
reliably reported that radioactive
phosphorus End iodine are con-
quer.ng blood diseases, and other
radioactive elements have been
used to treat cancer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
Harkers Island REA
Loan Given Approval

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22-R-
The Rural Identification Admins
tration today granted loans total
ing $2,615, 900 tc II borrowers for
extension of electrical service to
farming areas.
They include:
Harkers Island Electric Member
ship Corp, Harkers Island, N. c.,
$40, 900.
Pee Dee Electric Cooperative,
Darlington, S. S., 5000.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
REALTY TRANSFERS

r. A. Cromwell to Cecil Sweet,
part lot 1. block B, Forest Hills
c. B. Parmele to M. N. Mosley
lot 6 and GA, block 200, Carolina
Beach.
J.. G.. Brinson to Benjamin F
Wood, part lot 4 and 8, block 40.
City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
SATURDAY, AUGUST .,

suffered crushed legs. II.
daughter Laughter Jackie, 9 ne '$e
thought pgzht,t to be seriously ;,t Wa, y
investigated said the drjv yts'a Vi
came locked on his vebicfak s' !,
ny. ing it to skid. H%arrel st5rS- e.; y
" fee., /
It took Abraham 1.s,o.
two minutes and Is saaa ICoiA M
llver the Gettysburg ad5ss.::'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23


Workmen were busy yesterday
preparing a room in city police
department headquarters for the
police Identification bureau which
is expected to be moved from the
courthouse to the city hall within
the next few days.
Mexican Maffitt, former super.
intendent of the city water depart.
ment, yesterday was in receipt OF
the George Warren Fuller award
of the American Water Works as
ISOLATION for the North Carolina
section for his distinguished SER
vice in the water supply field and
for his long, conscientious and ef-
ficient service to his community;
and for his extraordinary promo
lion Of association activity and
membership.
Craig William Shipping today
faces two charges of false pre-.
in Superior Court Appear
ing before Judge Winfield Smith
yesterday he waived a preliminary
hearing and "a ordered held t.
the higher court. Warrants charge
specifically that he sent two tele.
grams to the Bank of Whining
asking funds in the name of a
nan who had an account with the
bank.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23

MARRIAGE LICENSES
David S. DeVaun, "a, Whining
ton, to Martha L. Will, 20, Will
mington.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23

The question whether a platy
plus lays eggs was debated for 81
years. It does.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23

The normal temperature OF the
duck-billed platypus is lower
than that OF other mammals.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23

The kangaroo and the emu
adorn the Australian coat-of-
arms.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-23
City Briefs

The Evans Memorial Bible class
of st. Andrews-Covenan Presby-
terrain church, 18th and Market
streets, will meet Sunday morning
at 9:45 o'clock. Judge J. J. Burney
is the teacher. All men of the COM
munity are cordially invited.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-07
INCOME TAX HELP COMING

P. H. Moller, Accountant and
Tax Consultant, will be in Brown
ing at DesRosier Electric Shop
in the Bright Buildin &
on Feb. IS, 10, 20 and q for
the purpose of helping those who
are in need of assistance in maxi
ing out their income tax returns.
Drop in and see him. His prices
are right.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-07
Events In Brief.

Mrs. Bud Walters is here from
north Idaho and has temporary
charge of the bookkeeping de-
partment at the Teeple's Market.
For the last several months the
department has been in charge OF
Mrs. Willard Romage, who has
gone to Longview, Wash. to
make her home.
Fresh cream daily at SHELLS
Grocery.
We are continuing our sale Of
] gallon fruits. SHELLS Grocery.
Frederic Sherburne left Tues.
day by train for Yakima, WASH,
where he will join Mrs. Sher.
burne on a visit with her parents
there. Mrs. Sherburne. arrived
recently at her home from Se-
attic, where she had been visit
ing friends for several week.
| Try the new Instant Sanka
Coffee. You'll find it at Smells
Grocery.
1 For Satisfaction of pre-war
made furniture, including May
tag washing machine. Call OF
phone Mrs. Warren L. O'Hara,
Agency Square.
Chenille robes, 1898, at the
Economy Shop.
For sale-Eight tons u e d
barbed wire; 81 cents pound gal
iivanized; 2 cents pound black; Is
miles southeast of Shelby at F
Bredge. C. Fowler, Box 1872,
Shelby. 47-4tc
New plastic purses, 1898 plus
tax, at the Economy Shop.
Suzette slips, 80 to a, in tea
rose, white and black, at til G
Economy Shop.
! Eugene Schneider attended
Billings Market Week early this
week.
| All prewar overcoats, suits,
dresses, etc. can be restyled al
reasonable prices by Agnes Viii,
son, Apt, No. 1 at Aubert' Apis.
| Eileen Morse, daughter OF
Mrs. Dorothy Hungry, left Tues.
day on the Empire Builder fol
| Klamath Falls, Ore. to visit
friends.
! Keith Dickman, English and
journalism teacher in the higi1
school, visited h s parents al
Kalispell last Sunday.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1947-02-07

z AAEAD
:M eY GEORGE S. BENSON
cM Pfcsidtaf--Har6iag college
;EA Starry. Arkansas
Wages and Prices

w ages dllu TllCES
About Is months ago Mr.. Henry
Wallace, then Secretary of Com
merce under President Truman, as
serted that wages in the automobile
industry could 60 up 80 per cent
without prices of cars going up at
all. 1t wasn't true, as all informed
people knew at the time. But the
statement tended to gain public sup
port.
At least the statement helped
gain public liberation for a long
strike, which ended with about a
20 per cent raise in wages. But
even then the OPA was Immediately
convinced that increases in prices
we're made necessary. Little by lit
tie OPA raised the prices on cars
until it had granted an average in
crease of % per cent. In short, for
20 per cent increase in wages for
auto workers the public was re-
CURED, by OPA, to pay % per cent
more for cars.
Same Play Again
Now the auto workers are asking
for another raise of about Is per
cent in wages. Mr.. c. E. Wilson,
president of General Motors, as
serts that such a raise will also
put prices of cars up by rs per cent.
Mr.. Alfred P. Sloan, chairman Of
the board of General Motors, also
declares that wages cannot be
raised without raising prices.
Some labor leaders are maintain
ing that wages in general can 60 up
about rs per cent without increas-
ing prices. From last years expert
ence the public will quite readily
understand that if wages go up
again, prices must also go up. This
leaves just one real issue. Is it to
the interest of workers and the rest
Of the public for prices to keep
going up and up?
Tit for Tat
Some unions are now declaring
that the raises they got last year
are already ncutralized by increased
prices of the things they must buy.
This is evidently true. Now if an
other raise in wages is granted,
only to be followed by still greater
boost in prices, workers will be no
better off. In fact they, and all the
rest of us, will be worse oil. Higher
prices will finally cause buying to
drop off. Then jobs will begin to
drop off, leading to unemployment
and finally to depression.
There is way for everybody to
gain - both workers and the gen
eral public. That way is for manage
mcnt and workers to cooperate to
increase production so effectively
that goods will become plentiful
and prices will 60 down.
The Sound Way
Then the workers will have the
equivalent OF real raise in wages
because their present wages will buv
more food and clothing. All of the
public will benefit in the same way.
This is soInd economics. But for
wages to keep going up and UP, only
to be followed by prices scine I'D
and up, is unfortunate for workers
and everybody else.
If we want to destroy the Amer.
lean economic order and force our
country into state socialism, that is
the way to do it. Fifteen months ago
many wondered seriously if Henry
Wallace believed that wages could
go up 81 per cent in any industry
without prices going up. Many now
wonder if any informed people real
ly think wages can 60 up Is per
cent without raising prices. II we
try it we will again learn the hard
way.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Many Killed In Plane Crashes Over The World
CBy The Associated PreSs)

CBy The Associated Press
 Sixty-tWo persons were feared dead in plane crashes today.
 Airmen who flew over the Wreckage of a Swedish Airline transport which crashed into Mt. Hymettos, southeast of Athens, Greece, last night said all aboard were believed killed. The plane carried 36 passengers, among them two Americans, and a crew of eight. It was enroute from Istam- bull to Athens.
 Low-hanging rain clouds threat ened to hamper a far-flung land, sea and air search for missing Pan American World Airways plane which vanished during a se- were storm near Ketchikan, Alas ka, with Is persons aboard.
 Investigators, meanwhile stud jed the site where another giant DC-6 United Airlines plane crash ed and burned last Friday taking toll of g lives. Only 12 of the bodies have been positively iden- tified thus far.
 The accident, second worst in the history of commercial aviation in the United States, occurred near the rim of Bryce Canyon, Utah, only 1,500 feet away from an emergency landing strip.
 In another weekend crash, SIX unidentified bodies were taken from the wreckage of an airplane which crashed into a mountain side at St. Etienne, France, Satur- day.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Alaska Freight Rate Hearings Open Today

SEATTLE, CP) - Hearings into the highly controversial steam ship rates between Puget Sound and Alaska will open here at 2 pm. today with steamship com panies and Alaska being repre- sented.
 The rate hearings, expected to last approximately 10 days, will be conducted by Robert FurneSs and C. Robinson, examiners f)r U. s. Maritime commission.
 For information disclosed at !he hearings they hope to draw ur a plan for permanent Alaska Serv- ice to take effect after the interim rate schedule granted last sum mer expires next June 30.
 Representing the Alaska Trans portation Company will be attor- ney Albert E. Stephen and Stan ley B. Long of Seattle, and Ira EwerS of Washington, D. C., will represent the Alaska Steamship company and the Northland Transportation company.
 Guy Carlon, economist; Clar- ence Kuntze, attorney, and Tho mas Woodward, special assistant, will represent the commission.
 Speaking for the people of Alaska, who have contended the 35 per cent increase granted last summer is rapidly increasing the cost of living in the Territory, will be Ralph Rivers, Alaska attorney general. Assisting him will be Malcolm Miller, Washington, D. C., attorney, and Donald J. O'Con- nor, economist.
 Under the interim service plan the three companies, and the Santa Ana Steamship company of Seattle, were chartered ships by the government at a dollar a year, to take over services which the government operated during the war.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Widespread Search For Missing Pan American Plane

JUNEAU, (P)-Improving Wea- ther conditions aided widespread land, sea and air search today for a four r-engined Pan American Air ways clipper plane with Is aboard that disappeared Sunday near Ketchikan in a rain and wind storm which lashed the Southeas.- ern Alaska coast.
 The first search plane, a coast guard Gruman, left Ketchikan's Annette Island airport at 7:15 am. Visibility was good in the Ketch ikan area, with the wind IS mies an hour and decreasing. .
 C,ewmen of another Pan Amer ican DC-4 which arrived at Seattle from Alaska early today said they circled the Annette Island area n darkness without sighting any flares. The plane was quickly re- fueled to return north with a PAA party headed by Capt. Ralph Saw ory, chief pilot of the airline's Alaska division
 It. Comdr. Edward Chester, aide to Alaska's Gov. Ernest Gruening, was placed in charge of the coordinated search here.
 Planes from Ketchikan were to scan the Admiralty Island area, where one report said residents heard an airplane circling for some time Sunday.
 Disappearance of the clipper "Talisman" with the greatest number of persons aboard of any civilian plane yet reported missing in Alaska set into motion one of
 Continued on Page Five)
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Truman Plays Politics. In Calling Special Session

WASHINGTON, CP)-President Truman confronted the Republi- can Congress Saturday with de- mand for prompt and courageous action" to halt runaway prices at home and snatch Europe back from the edge of economic disas- ter.
 With this demand he coupled sharp warning of his conviction that failure to act would lead to depression in America and total itarian aggression" in Europe.
 This winter, he said, is a de ciSive time in history"
 Those, he told a national radio audience Saturday night, are the reasons why he has summoned Congress into special session No Vember IT,
 Even before he spoke, and in comments immediately afterWard, some of the Republican leaders in Congress made it clear that the Democratic administration will have a fight on it's hands over measures to be taken.
 Rep Halleck R.-IndD, House majority leader, and Rep. Vol colt CR.-MichD chairman of the
 Continued on Page Eight
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Fifty-TwO Killed In United Air Lines Crash In Utah

BRYCE CANYON, Utah, (P)- Six teams of experts probed care fully Saturday through charred Wreckage of a United Air Lines DC-6 plane in an effort to deter mine the cause of the crash which Friday took the lives of 52 per sons.
 Representative of United Air Lines, Douglas Aircraft, the planes manufacturers; the civil aeronautics board and other fed eral agencies teamed off accord ing to their individual abilities.
 Experts on electrical installa- tions, fuselage design, engines and other features of airplane con- struction sought to learn the source of the fire which caused the plane to plummet to earth just 1,500 yards from the emergency landing strip toward which the pilot was heading.
 The investigators were tight Tipped. They refused to hazard opinions on the mishap. The New York-bound ship flight eos from Los Angeles smashed near the rim of TropiC Canyon in Bryce canyon national park, and exploded, scattering Wreckage and bodies over an are. of several hundred yards.
 Trailing smoke and flames for at least P miles before if crasned the giant ship plowed a smoke blackened swath for 300 yarus alongside state highway 2 Lst east of the Bryce Canyon airport The scene is in southern Utah about PTS miles south of Salt Lake City.
 The engines, scorched and twist ed, were thrown 200 to 300 feet beyond the burned area. A piece of the tail, 15 to 20 feet long, was the largest part of the craft re- maining.
 The bodies, burned and unre- cognizable for the most part, were horribly torn apart.
 Two infants and 21 or more wo-
 Continued on Page Seven)
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Natl Blood Bank Needs 3,7OO,OOO Pints A Year

BALTIMORE, (P)-One Ameri- can out of every 35 will be needed to donate blood each year under a peace-time blood donor pro- gram, Red Cross official report ed here.
 pr G. Foard McGinnes, direc- tor of health services, American Red Cross, Washington, outlined program "to furnish blood and its derivatives to all the people of the country, irrespective of race, creed or ability to pay"
 McGinnis, addressing a quarter ly meeting of the Maryland state department of health Friday, said the estimated national blood need is 3,700,000 pints year.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
NEWS IN BRIEF

SEATTLE, (P)-Publication of five information pamphlets on Alaska was announced Friday by the Alaska department of the Seattle chamber of commerce.
 Purpose of the pamphlets, ac- cording to M. Dederer, chairman of the Alaska committee, is to an- swer thousands of questions re- ceived by the department and to assist Alaskan chambers of com merce in handling inquiries being sent to them.
 The pamphlets are classified as ral infOrmation-buSiness, industry and resources, informa- ton on principal cities, employ ment situation and the Alaska Highway.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
WARSAW, (P) - The Polish

WARSAW, (P) - The Polish government, having recovered a major share of industrial machin- cry and equipment which was carted off by the Nazis during the war, now is concentrating on get ting back other former properties found in Czechoslovakia and Aus tria.
 Equipment recently returned from Czechoslovakia included much electro-technical material. distance telecommunication equipment, valued at 1,5OO,OOO Czech crowns, and considerable factory machinery were retrieved by the Revindication and War
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27

MARSHALL, Tex (P)-A train man was killed and 30 passengers and creWmen of a Westbound Tex as & Pacific train were injured early Saturday when the locomo- tive and six cars left the track as the train was nearing the Jeffer- son, Tex, depot. w. C. Door, fire man, was dead when taken from the locomotive
 Passengers and crew on the train received first aid treatment at hospitals and clinics in Mar shall and Jefferson. None was re- ported seriously injured.
 Cause of the accident was un- determined.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
NEW YORK, (P)-A mild busi-

NEW YORK, (P)-A mild buSi- ness recession beginning next spring is expected by a majority of economists boiled by the F. w. Dodge Corp.
 Thomas s. Holden, president of the finding organization, said that 75 of 100 economists question ed expected a recession in l948, that Fl did not expect a recession, and four failed to express an opin- ion Forty-one expected it to be mild, 19 described their expecta- ton as moderately serious,' and II as serious"
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
INDIANAPOLIS. (P) A uset

INDIANAPOLIS. (P) - A used car dealer Saturday ran a three column ad to show that his car prices are cheaper-by the pound than the average dinner meat.
 The ad offered a '46 Ford club coupe at 56 cents a pound, as a "better buy than porterhouse steak"
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27

INDIANAPOLIS, (P)-Admiral w. H. P Blandy said today it is "devoutly" hoped that economic help alone will save Europe from Communism but i've must never forget that aggressors understand armed strength better than any other argument"
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Preparations bureaus

Preparations bureaus
 In Austria, in the American Army occupation zone, the Poles found III carloads of equipment for the Moscite nitrous com pounds production plant.
The Nome nugget., 1947-10-27
Pan American Plane Missing Near Ketchikan

JUNEAU (P) - The 44-passen- ger transport, which was car rying only thirteen passengers, including one infant, and crew of five, disappeared yes terday after radoing the Annette airport at 1853 pm. PST that "extreme turbulence" prevented contemplated instrument land ing.
 Gusts of 40 miles an hour were being recorded then at the Annette field, 12 miles from Ketchikan. Winds gradually increased during the day until they reached 63 miles an hour by 9:3O pm.
 Hopes that the PAA clipper may , have survived the storm and made an emergency landing hung on the reputation of the pilot, Capt. A. N. Monseh, AT, of Juneau, one of Alaska's best known bush fliers before he joined Pan Americans Alaska division in 1892. , Monsen said in his last report he was heading into the storm at Juneau, approximately 230 miles northWard. His plane had gasoline enough to last until $40 pm.
 The Talisman, first DC-4 to en- i counter trouble since PAA put the four-engined craft on it's Alaska runs, disappeared only two days after 52 persons lost their lives in the crash of a United Air Lines DC-6 at Bryce Canyon, Utah. Pan American has had only three fatal accidents, with 23 per sons killed, in it's 15 years of Alas ka operations. Three civilians died in a crash near Fairbanks il 1883 while IT military personnel and three creWmen perished in two 1944 crashes while under navy contract.
 Of the 13 passengers aboard the missing clipper, seven are from Alaska, three from Seattle, two from Cheyenne, Wyo., one from Ely, Minn.
 Best known of the group is the Rev Willis R. Shank, Seattle di- rector of the Youth For Christ movement. He was enroute to to Alaska on a Youth for Christ mission.
 Four members of the crew, two men and two women, are from Seattle.
 Monsen, one of Alaskas first airmail pilots, is a resident of Jun eau, where his wife Mrs. Helen Monsen, is publisher of the Daily Alaska Empire. They were mar ried in 1941
 Mrs. Monsen, a daughter of the late Gov. John Troy of Alaska, was reported near collapse in Seattle where she had been with her husband before the ill-fated flight.
 The Talisman took off from Seattle at 10:30 am. Sunday for the north and was to have made its first stop at Annette airport.
 SEATTLE, (Pl-The occupants of the Pan American plane miss ing in Alaska, as announced by PAA offices here:
 Crew: Capt. A. N. Monsen, pi- lot, New Washington Hotel, Seat tie. L. A. Foster, 1st officer, uni versity district, Seattle. C. A. Bun wOOdv f1ioht enoineer o002 pa-