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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-30
MARTHA SOCIETY
 MEETING FRIDAY

The regular monthly dessert busi- ness meeting of the Martha So7 ciety of the Northern Light Pres byterian Church will be held Fri day afternoon at l:30 o'clock in the church parlors.
 Hostesses will be Mrs. John Pet erson and Mrs. David Driebelbus Devotions will be led by Mrs. Nick Rocovich.
 Members and friends are also
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-30
FIRE ALARM

The Juneau Volunteer Fire De- partment answered a 5-3 alarm last night at 9.a5 in the Small Boat Harbor and quickly extin2uished small blaze in the Rojo with little damage
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-30

held tomorrow afternoon at o'clock by the Girl Scout troop which is sponsored hy the Marthas. This will be in the church parlors
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-30

FRESHEN UP the whole house with new curtainS-HOME BEAU TIFUL. --adv. o66-u
The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-30

Before this pole is shipped to Ak
 ron, it will be displayed in Ju- reau.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
FARMERS INCOME
AT WARTIME PEAK
Food Prices Could Come
Down Eight Per Cent To
Hit Support Levels

WASHINGTON, July q -lPl-
The Commerce department. said
today that if farm prices were to
fall the limit allowed by the gov
ernment's suppoct program, the
price of food 10 the housewife
would drop an average OF six to
eight percent.
It also said the farmers woulc
still be assured o. cash income
equal to high wartime levels
about $40, 900, 900, 0o0 a year.
Actually, a department analysis
said the record prices now being
obtained for farm products vii
swell this years farm income
above even the record $25, 600, 00O,
900 the farmers collected last
year.
These high prices make II
largely unnecessary for the gov
eminent to do much under is sap
port program. The Commerce de-
partment estimated the general
farm price level would have to
drop about Is percent to reach
the price support level.
The support Level is determined
by taking into account not only
tie prices of what the farmers
sell but also prices OF things they
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
PRESS HEADLINES
CRISIS WARNINGS
British Speakers Paint
I Doleful Picture Of
Economic Situation

LONDON. July 27-(P)-Crisi:
warnings by leaders Of all polltlca
parties yer headlined in the Brl
fish press today as Prime Minister
Attlee prepared to give an accoun'
of his stewardship to Labor mem
bers of Parliament.
Weekend speeches by Foreign
Secretary Ernest Bevin, Deputy
Conservative leader Anthony Eden,
Liberal Lord Beveridge and Arthur
Homer, Communist general secre'
tary of the National Union Of Mine
Workers, added up to a dark pic
ture.
Britons - Already short of food.
fuel. houses and other necessities,
TO say nothing of most %luxurles-
will have to pull their belts cor
siderably tighter next winter and il
years to come unless the near-ml'
raculous harpens; and
Britain - Already pulling out o.
India, Burma and Greece vii
have to reduce its armed forces
and oyerseas commitments much
further unless the home front stiff
fens to a degree not now in sight.
Labor M. P.'s who want the
Prime Minister to bring this pic
ture before the public in 'blooe
See PRESS on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Along The Cape Fear

tiles he saw 50 often in his DIT.
nightmares.
Now comes A. Subscriber or A.
P. Reader. it doesn't make any
difference. and contends that
ATCF does 10 stoop to correc-
lions.
But we II snow him. We are
gsing to run his entire message.
HERE IT is - "Chalk up just
another erroneous statement for
your column OF misinformation,'
he writes. "a few minutes for a
visit to Oakdale cemetery would
have shown you that the name
of the man buried there was not
'Lassiter'. No use to give you the
correct family name Or the real
facts responsible for the monu-
ment. Corrections represent a
virtue foreign to your column.
Since people clip your paragraphs
for scrapbooks, it is lnconceivable
why you mislead them almost
daily. A Subscriber"
SELFISH-Now, Mr.. Subscriber
is a selfish person indeed. He is
a dog-in-the-manger type. He
knows the real facts surrounding
the story and yet he prefers to
keep them himself, all the while
See CAPE FEAR sa Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
GENERAL MOTORS
WILL RECALL MEN
Return Of $4,000 Work.
ers One Bright Spot In
Labor Picture

DETROIT, July 81 -W.D-Gener-
al Motors corporation will recall
lis, 900 production workers tomor-
row after a weeks iayoff because
of a critical steel shortage, but
that was the only bright spot in
the turbulent auto labor scenA TO-
night.
Nearly 20, 900 other workers
were idle in strikes and related
shut-downs and GIN officials said
another IS, 900 workers faced one
week layoffs in feeder plants out
side Michigan in the next three
weeks.
A five-day strike Of $500 mem
bers Of the CLIO Auto Workers
union at Murray Corporation Of
America brought a threat Of
steadily widening shutdowns at
Ford Motor company, where Lin
coin and Mercury operations
were suspended Indefinitely
Friday and 4,50O workers laid off.
Ford buys 70 per cent of Murray
auto parts output.
A cumulative walkout Of the
CLIO United Rubber workers a.
the United States Rubber com
PAW came to a climax yesterday
with $500 workers on strike.
The Murray walkout, though q
comparatively minor one in mum
Der of workers affected, loomec
as the opening battle in a figh+
by the JAW against clauses o.
the Taft-Hartley law making
unions responsible for wild
rat strikes,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28

BACK AGAIN-A. P. Reader is
back with us again. This time
he has discarded his name of A.
P. Reader and is signing his mes
sages, "a Subscriber"
How does Along the Cape Fear
know A. P. Reader and A. Sub
scriber are one and the same?
By his stationery. of course.
Each time he writes, two things
are similar. First, he always calls
attention to an alleged error In
the column and second, he always
writes on a penny postcard on
which has been pasted some linec
notepaper the exact size of the
card.
The printing is the same. too
LAST TIME - The last time
he invested a penny and wrote te
the column he claimed that c. D.
Maffitt was wrong and that the
Cape Fear River never froze over
hard enough for a man to walk
across it.
This time his reference is to
recent story about a man VINO
died and was buried in Oakdale
cemetery. The story tells of how
the man. a victim of deleriun
tremens, requested that snakes
be carved on his tombstone. Tit
snakes were to represent the rep
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
STATE AT OF |
TO MEET HERE
National President William
Green Slated To Speak
On First Day

Delegates to the ~three-day state
convention of the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor scheduled for
Wilmington next month will frolic
the night of August II, the second
day Of the conclave at a dinner
and dance.
Members of the federation in
Wilmington announced last night
that the event will be held al Z
p. M, at the Famous grill with
wives, sisters, sweethearts and
friends of the delegates in attend
ance.
Dancing will follow the dinner
at which a brief speaking program
will be conducted. An orchestra
will play for the dancing.
The sessions August IL, IL and
10 will be in the Community
Center, Second and Orange
streets.
The highlight Of the meeting will
be an address the morning of
August II by William Green, ia
tional president. The speaker viii
address tie expected 400 delegates
on various phases of labor lesis-
lation, is is understood.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
POLICE USE GAS
TO CAPTURE MAN
JeweIer Locks Self
In Home After Shooting
Up Household

M~APLEwUOD, N. j.. July d
76-year-old man, who bar
pleaded himself in the cellar Of
his home after shooting his son
10 death and critically wounding
his wife end daughter-in-law, was
captured todsy in a gun and tear
has battle. Police Cptain Harold
powd said.
DoWd said Frederick F. Dieter,
s.. retired ieWeler, in a signed
katemeN. to police, described
b. he attempted 10 Kill! his en-
/ e FANNY and planned to take
FliS own life, after brooding over
fine construction of an apartment
Eouse next to his 30-year-old home
|at q MeadoWbrook Place.
Dowd said no charges had been
filled.
Dieter, ST., was held under po-
|lice guard at Irvington General
hospital. with bullet wounds in the
lhead and righs hand, Dowd said.
fpc0oi!2 further police investiga-
!tion.
Do&d soid tle son, Frederick,
Dr.. 50, was shot in the head while
he slept. Dieter. SIS wife. Lena,
!6s, was shot in the neck, and
Frederick, Jr.'s wife, Mary, Al,
also was wounded in the neck.
The women were at Irvington
General hospital.
Dog Wound
The tanily's 14-year-old Collie
dog. Peggy. also was wounded by
! shot in the head.
A qeighbor who heard the
screams Of Mrs. Dieter, ST., ran
next door and reused Police Lieu
tenant Charles Buecfele. home on
vacation. He summoned radio
ears.
Police Captain George Git and
I ssd;o squad arrived, Dowd said.
ah1 Git called for Dieter to come
out Of the house. Dieter opened
See POLICE Oil Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Angry Political Debate Features
Closing Hours OF Senate Session;
lndonesians Threaten Fire" Orgy
Plans
Destruction
Plantation Workers Set
To Make Fire Ocean"
Oh Averages

BATAVIA, Java, July u -(F--
The Indonesians threatened to-
night to transform the rich planta-
tons of western Java into "roar-
Ing aceans of fire." as the Dutch
announced that Netherlands troops
with tank and plane support had
sealed off that end of the island.
Members OF the Plantation
Workers union resolve to fire 500
rubber, quinine, tea and coffee
plantations in Western Java if the
Dutch moved against these es-
tates, the Indonesjar news agen1!
Antara said.
Soeparno, a union official, was
quoted as saying il these estates
were set afire the Dutch Woule
have to send mere than 500, 00t
laborers from the Netherlands
and work for more than 10 years
to restore production. He added:
Let no Dutchman nurse the il
fusion he will ever find his plan
tations and estates in an undam'
aged condition"
While the Dutca frightened their
Strip on the Western end o. the
island, other units quickly ex-
panded their bridgehead on the
Northern coast by occupying Teg-
al, ITS miles Southeast of Bata-
via, a Dutch communique said.
In this operation Dutch Marines
went ashore and joined with
Army units which had thrust
| overland from the West.
But the Indonesians implied the
See UNION on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Bank Depositors Issue
SOL, 900, 900 In Checks

Bank depositors in Wilmington
made $201, sos, 900 payments by
checks during the first six months
o. 1947, according to a midyea1
tabulation of Federal Reserve
board monthly check debit totals
for 1874 United States cities as
snalyzed in the "American Bank
err. daily newspaper of banking
published in New York.
The checking volume handled
by Wilmington banks for the pub
lie was 10 per cent ahead OF The
first half of 1916 ard 1913 PEI cen
ahead Of the first six months c:
pre-war 1910.
Nationally, the volume of check
debts in the 1874 cities aggregated
1888, 461, 900, 900 or more than hal
a trillion dollars. This is SIS pc,
cent ahead of tie first half @
1916 when they tota1ed SSH billion
ard 154 per cent above the frs
half of 1910 when the national vol
ume o. check payments
to but SIP billion.
The national total Of checks pa:e
in the month of June was "a anc
one-half billion dollars, nine pei
cent ahead of the $87 billions OF
June 1916.
New Workers. Lead
The "American Banker notec
that depositors in New York City's
benks during the first hale of l94I
paid $196 billion by check, more
than one-third of the national 10
tai.
The banking newspaper pointed
our that in 10 cities, June. 1947, was
the highest month in history in
See BANK OH Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
BASEMENT DRIPS
REAL HARD CASH
Coins Dated Before Emper.
or Hadrian Seep Into
Cellar OF Old Castle

ROME, July 27-RNDr. Gail K.
Meadows has a leak in the base
nlent OF his summer home. IFS
dripping money.
But DR.. Meadows professor OF
romance languages. at Amherst
College, Mass, who is spending
the summer in a sixth century ral-
ace at Piazza Della Pigna, must
turn the money over to the gov
eminent under Italian law.
Experts say the seepage into his
cellar comes from the Fountain CT
Trevi, a half mile away. Tourists
tess coins into It because legend
says that is the way to insure
ores return to Rome.
There's another little catch,
though. The fountain was butt in
the seventeenth century and the
coins which drip into DR.. Mead
cws' basement date from the time
of Emperor Hadrian, centuries be-
fore that.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Navy Corpsmen Render
Aid To Wreck Victims

SAVANNAH, Ca. July 25-U.g-
A group of Navy hospital corps
men pitched in with the speed,
skill and improvisation they learn
ed under fire today when their
bus came upon the scene of a
bloody traffic accident q miles
west of Savannah.
A car carrying six Negroes had
collided head-on with another car
rying. three white men three min
utes before the sailors arrived.
One Negro had been killed instant
ly. All of the other eight persons
suffered agonizing injuries and had
been spewed out of the broken
machines pinto the pavement
where a hard rain was falling.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Derby Racers Will Weigh In
Today; Inspection To Follow
Six Hours Allowed For
Clearing Cars Through
Toledo Station

Today is weighing-in and inspec-
ton day for upwards of 40 boys
between the ages Of II and IS years
who will compete Wednesday az
ternoon in the second annual Will
mington All-American Soap Box
Derby over the 650-foot Derby
Downs course on South 18th street.
From 800 o'clock this morning
until 1900 O'Clock this afternoon,
the Toledo Scale company office
atrthe corner of 10th and Princess
street will be a busy spot as OF
fetal Weighmaster E d ward 5
checks the weights of boys ano
cars. Cars will be placed on the
scales first, then boy and a viii
be weighed together to see thai
they do not exceed the official al
loWable poundage which has beer
set at 250 by national headquarters,
AS fast as cars have been weigh
ed and driver licenses attached to
them, they will be taken by truck
to Lake Forest school for inspec-
ton tonight by the official inspec'
ton committee. Drivers license
will be issued to the boy drivers
as they report for weighing in al
the Toledo Scale company office.
Entrants Excluded
Inspection will get underway
promptly at 7:30 behind closed
doors and only a few Derby Off
Gals will be admitted to the pro-
ceedings. All cars will be in
charge of the Soap Box Derby Of
fetal board from the time they
,ass the weighmaster until one
.lour before parade time on
Wednesday morning.
Parents of boys will be excluded
as will the entrants from the IN
spection hall, but all contestants
See DERRY on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
UNI0NISTS UNITE
TO BEAT PRICES
CLIO, 100000 Strong,
Joins AFL To Form Co.
operative Stores

WASHINGTON, July 27.-W.H-
The CLIO tonight joined the All
in a united labor drive to force
down prices by organizing consum'
er cooperative stores.
1t told its 5000, 900 members in g
pamphlet prepared by the organl
zation's research department. tina
their ownership of retail stores thai
distribute goods, as well as the
plants that make them, "means g
chano- to wipe out monopolles anc
production restrictions"
THE dollars we now spend With
private corporations often go te
support people who oppose labor's
program at every point" it said
''Cooperative ownership turns thai
support in our direction and car
put the power Of big industry or
our side instead of on the side OF
reaction"
The Labor department reported
last week that consumer living
costs reached a new high of IL pei
cent above a year ago.
The CLIO noted that it already
has several cooperatives operating
as going concerns. At the same
time, an ALL official said that
members of that body are forming
new co-ops in response to its ad-
vice of two weeks ago.
1t advised the stores 10 throw
their doo.~ open to anyone in the
community who believes in what
the workers are doing, whether he
belongs to the union or not" 9th
erwise, it said, in the event Of a
strike the coop may diss0ate its
funds and 60 broke.
The CLIO said Labor department
statistics show that consumer CO.
operatives in 1915 did a business OF
1857, 500, 900. 7. A. Tenhune, gen.
eral manager of National Coopera-
tives, Inc, said in New York last
week that estimated retail sales IN
1916 were $698, 500, 633.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
UMSTEAD
P UTS BILL OVER
North Carolinian Sets
Credit For Cape Fear
Dredging Approval

North Carolina Representative
J.. Bayard Clark said last night
that the Rivers and Harbors Ap-
preparations bill passed by Con
|gress Saturday night was chiefly
due to the work of Senator VIII
liam b. Umstead.
The full budget request OF S3oo,-
900 to continue widening and deep
ming the Cape Fear river at and
below Wilmington cleared boil
houses after travelling back and
forth several times. he said.
Senator Umstead had the bill
for 5000, 900 passed in the Senate.
Representative Clark had the
House of Representatives TO pass
the 500, 900 appropriations bill for
the present project to make a total
Of $500, 900 for continuation OF the
deepening and widening tie
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Adjournment
ComesSunday
L a m ak In Upper
Chamber Toll Until Wee
Morning Hours !.

WASHINGTON. July 81 -R-
The Both Congress closed its first
session today in the heat of an
angry Senate political battle over
President Humans nominations
that let six of them unconfirmed.
Plans for the Saturday adjourn
ment flew out tie window and
Congress worked on Sunday for
the first time in the memcru Of
veteran Capitol officials. It was
$40 am. eastern Daylight Saw
ings Tine) and the Senate had
been sitting nor than is hours
when the final gavel tell.
The House had gone home soon
after midnight. It's members, too,
shouted partisan charges ana
ccunter-charges at each other,
principally on the economy issue.
Rep. Taber R-NY) put the saw
iogs engineered by the GOPeon-
trolled Congress a. $4,9 95, 600, O00,
Rep. Rayburn (D-TeX) SAID they
came to 81, 1000, 900, 900, and other
Republicans and Democrats men
toned varying SUMS in between.
But in the final hours the House
gave itself over 10 back-slapping,
Misunderstanding and song. Tireo #
waiting for the Senate TO wind
up. the members finally adopted
their adjournment resolution and
departed.
Recesses Congress
The resolution, passed later In
the Senate too, recesses Congress
until Jan. 2 and empowers ne
Republican leadership to call 4
special session if ''in their opinion
legislative expediency shall war
rent it," On Jan. z. a Friday, the
session will be formally adjourn
Ell, and the new session will open
the following Tuesday, Jan. 6.
The Senate confirmed james ".
Forrestal as the first secretar- vt
defense under the armed forces
unification act, Philip B. Psrlin>n
Of Baltimore as solicitor general,
and a batch O. postmastecs.
But it did not act OH these:
Abe Murdoch, former Democra-
tic Senator from Utah, and J.
Copeland Gray c. New York as
members of the National Labor
Relations board.
Robert N. Denham Of Washing
ton as general counsel Of the
board.
Burton N. Buhling of Washing
ton as a member Of the Federal
Power commission.
Charles M. Eldridse as United
States Marshal for Rhode Island.
James Boyd of Colorado as di-
rector of the Federal Bureau oH
Mines. Boyd was opposed py John
l., Lewis, chief Of the United Mine
Workers.
Mr.. Truman can give than ap-
pointments enabling them to
serve during the recess and sub
nit their names again for con-
fi1mation next session.
The heated political Fight over
See ADJOURNMENT on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
Future OF UN
in Balance"
E;eht Betw cen Russia
U. S., Over Balkans
Nears Crucial Test

lake SUCCESS, July Pip
reeks-lohg fight between Russia
fine United States over the
paTkan problem neared an end to-
~ With the future of the United
Nations possibly Ringing on the
outcome.
showdown test on the ability
the {. N. Security council &c
act effectively in the peaceful set.
lament of disputes which might
.hrpaten world peace is expected
- come Tuesday or not later than
Thursday.
A. that time the council will
,,ote on a Russian-opposed U. S.
n,onosal for establishing a semi
~Iormanent border watch over the
paItans. The American plan was
~introduced after . U. N. inquiry
aommission found Yugoslavia, Bull
aa,;a and Albania primarily re.
snonsible in supporting guerrilla
warfare in Greece.
L N. delegates made no attempt
n minimize the seriousness of the
xituation and some expressed the
oninion that a defeat of the U. S.
nroposal would have grave effects
on the world organization.
All delegates looked to Russia
for the answer. They agreed that
+bo Soviet alone holds the power
10 strengthen or weaken the cour-
o;rs nosition in world affairs.
delegates were divided on
whether Russia would veto the
commission plan or abstain from
voting and permit the creation of
q border watch. Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromy'
ko may express his disapproval
by abstention, because of the con-
.eouences a veto might bring. This
idea gained among certain dele
rates after he and Russia's three
satellites argued last week that
syen if the commission were estab-
lished Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Albania would not be bound to CO.
operate with it.
Decisions Binding
This argument involves an in
depreciation of the U. N. charter
and is expected to be threshed out
further tomorrow. The majority OF
council members agree with the
L S. Interpretation that decisions
taken by the Security council are
binding on all parties.
In answering Gromyko and The
three Soviet satellites, U. S. Depu'
lv Delegate Herschel V. johnson
them that if they ignored
II decision of the council they
would lay themselves open to the
Enforcement measures.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-28
De CAULLE HITS
AT COMMUNISTS
French Leader Blames
Moscow For Alarming
World Situation

RENNES, France, July Pip
Gen. Charles De Gaulle said today
that Russia was responsible fol
the "alarming'' world situation
and charged French Communists
with Exclusively serving Mos
cows orders.
Russia, he said in an address
here, dominates a bloc of 4G0, 900,
600 people bordering on Sweden,
Turkey and Italy and whose from.
tier is only 500 kilometers {30C
from ours"
Combining her military and
economic pressure with the interi-
or action of men who are entirely
submissive to her." De Gaulla
said. "Soviet Russia has already
established, Or IS trying to estab'
lish by Intermediates, a regime
cf totalitarian dictatorship, which
is only the dependence and
emanation of its own. on certain
allied nations-Poland, Yu%goslavia,
Albania-or on certain defeated
countries-Prussia. Saxony, Rom
ania, Hungary, Bulgaria."
He added that Russia holds al
her discretion Czechoslovakia, Fin
land, Romania and Poland"
De Gaulle accused French Com
n'unists Of sponsoring strikes and
Playing class against class IN
France and her empire, while
cur future is engaged in a very
dangerous international duel and,
by force an enormous Eastern
bloc is forming in Europe
He declared that the F:epcn
Communist party was made up of
men who have taken a vow OF
obedience to the orders of a for
eign enterprise OF dominaticn,
See De GAULLE On Page Two