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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Blonde SERIES As President
Of Southern Baseball League

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. u ZAP
= A little, blonde lady who unit.
four years ago thought over-the.
fence-is-out is calling the shots
Tuesday in the Southern Baseball
Association.
Gladys Engler is "Presiden,
pro tenn Of the Class AA circuit
until a successor can be named tc
Billy Evans, who departed las
weekend to join the Detroit Tigers
as executive vice president.
cts unusual work for a woman
- and very thrilling" Miss Eng.
Ter, who was Evans secretary,
says. "But I got my training under
a real baseball man and I think
the directors have confidence l can
handle things until a new president
takes over
When that will be nobody knows.
The Southern directors meet in
Birmingham Jan. IS but indications
are they may not agree On a top
executive at that time.
Miss Engler is busy at the mo-
ment filing contracts and keeping
books but says "a controversial
matter pops up every now ano
then"
II just get on the phone and call
Mr.. Evans in Detroit when they're
really tough" she declares.
Miss Engler was a free agent
when she read in 1943 that Billy
Evans was moving the southern Of
flee to Memphis and needed a
secretary.
Applying, she presented her
qualifications - Phi Beta Kappa,
graduate OF Tulane University with
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
COLLEGE Cent ter Cagers Meet jacksonville Tonight
MINIS Junior Varsity Defeats
Charlton Aggregation, $3.50
Jere Hilburn Racks Up IA Points To Leat
Jayvees In Close Victory; Camp Lejeune
School Scheduled Friday Night

"a in favor of the Bladen coun-
ty cagers at the close of the
third period.
The lineup of the Wilmington
team and points scored was as
follows: Hilburn, IA; Parker,
6; Brewer, 8; Taylor, 2 and
Ellis, 4.
The Clarkton lineup and
points made were: Miller, 4;
Little, 6; Smith, 6; Priest, I
and McCarI 7.
Coach Wallace West announc-
ed last night that the Junior
Varsity is scheduled to play the
Camp Lejeune High school
there Friday night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Williston Cagers
Meet Morehead City
Quint Here Tonight

The Williston High school court
aggregation opens its 1947 basket
ball season tonight, meeting a
powerful Moorehead City quintet
at 8 o'clock at the Williston gym
nasium.
Reports from Williston say that
the Moorehead City encounter is
the opening conference tussle for
both clubs, and is the first game
on a Williston schedule that match
es the Tigers against teams like
Fayetteville, Greenville, Colds.
boro, Rocky Mount, Wilson,, Smith.
field and Southport.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Special to the Star

CHARLTON, Jan. - The
New Hanover High school
Junior Varsity basketball team
defeated the Clarkton High
school aggregation here Tues
day night in a close game by
the score of "a to 30.
Jere Hilburn set the pace
for the Javees h. raking up
a total of IA points. The New
Hanoverians came from be-
hind in the final quarter to
snatch the game from the fire.
The CIarkton outfit lead at
the half by the score of Is to
IA and the scoreboard read rs
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
CoNegians Complete Drills
For American Legion Contest
Little Is known About Strength Of All
Stars; Tilt Slated At High School
Gymnasium At 9 O'Clock
Bv HARRISS

The sharp-shooting Wilmington College Center hard
wood five completed a lengthy workout yesterday in prep
aration for their third local showing in which they are slated
to shoot it out with the Jacksonville American Legion ALI
Stars in the school gym at 9 o'clock tonight.
The local collegians have marked up a perfect record
this season, having accumulated five victories in as many
starts, and so accordingly will enter into the affray slightly
favored over the visitors.
In their five former fights the Port City quint has
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
BiLyMasonA Ana LohnnyMcKoy
Lead Wildcat Cqgers In Win
Locals Pushed Hard To Defeat E~arthouakos
In Conference Battle; Lanky Center
Scores 16 Points, Flashy Guard IL
Especial To The a

GOLDSBORO, Jan. 1.-THE New Hanover High school
Wildcats were pushed hard here Tuesday night by tbs
Goldsboro Earthquakes before the Wilmington team man.
aged to win a so to rs victory.
The contest got off to a slow start with the ball ev.
changing hands during the majority of the first Quarter
Billy Mason started the fireworks by dropping a foul shot
in the basket and the Wildcats managed to end the ouartor
with a 10 to 7 lead. 4
The battle then settled down to q min and tuck aMa.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
THOMAS DENIES RUMOR


TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Jan. 7.-(R
. Frank Thomas, head football
coach and athletic director at the
University of Alabama, SAID Tues.
day he had never discussed the DOS.
sibility of coming to Alabama with
Ed McKeever, former Notre Dame
and Cornell coach.
Thomas said he saw McKeever
Several times" when he was in
New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl
football game, but that eve were
always in a group, and nothing was
said about him coming here"
Coach Thomas said his physical
condition had been improving
steadily in recent weeks. Rumors
that Thomas would step down as
coach and remain as athletic di.
rector first became current during
the last football season, when he
was i'll.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08
Ed McKeeper May Succeed
Frank Thomas At Alabama

Frank Leahy at Boston College.
switched to Notre Dame in 1943
when Leahy became head mentor
at that school.
McKeever was acting head
coach at Notre Dame in 1914 while
Leahy was in the service. He &C.
cepted the head coaching berth a
Cornell in 1945 and resigned tha1
position last November.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-08

Montana originally was called
the Land of the Shining Noun
tains. J
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
Political Action
Number ] Drive
Of Steel Union

Philadelphia (LPA)-The organ
ization of new plants, obtaining
new contracts, adjusting grievances
are now secondary factors in the
unions activities, David j. Mac
Donald, secretary-treasurer of the
United Steelworkers told the dele
gates to the USA's District z con-
vention in Philadelphia last week.
"The number one concern of the
Steelworkers is now political ac-
tion," Macdonald said, "and the
work will be supported with the full
resources of the unions $4,000, 900
treasury"
District Director Michael Har-
ris stated that if Congress fails
to roll back spiraling prices, con-
tracts will be reopened and the
"union will demand sufficient wage
increases to overcome the upward
spiral in the cost of living" Union
Vice President James G.. Thimmes
added that if Congress fails to act,
the international Wage and Policy
Committee twill establish a policy
to take care of the steelworkers"
at it's meeting early in 1913.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
Wants Inflution Controls.
Murshull Plun, Or Neither

stage. Already the third round of
postwar price increases is well
advanced despite the fact that third
round wage increases have not yet
been proposed"
The LAM newspaper then urged
system of profit control as the
only alternative to price control
and rationing and proposed that
Congress re-enact excess profits
taxes, such as those in effect dur
ing the war.
"The Marshall plan cannot sue
ceed unless adequate safeguards
are placed on our own economy.
If Congress votes for the Marshall
plan on the one hand, and refuses
to vote an American plan at the
same time, it will be guilty of
gross neglect of its first duty
looking after the welfare of Am
ericans. We believe that Congress
must vote both the Marshall plan
and initiation controls, or neither"
The Machinist concludes.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
TAXATION Of UNIONS
.FZzLESI IN CONGRESS

Washington (LPA)-The threat
to tax trade union treasures fizzled
out this week but the danger of
possible tax on the nations co-ops
Increased as hearings of the House
Ways & Means Committee contin-
ued with the Republican majority
heckling coop representatives.
The idea of taxing union treas
uries was originally big business
notion but one liberal Congress-
man disclosed last week that neith-
er the Natl Association of Manu-
facturers nor the u. S. Chamber
of Commerce would dare propose
the union tax because their organi-
cations are tax-exempt under the
same clause of the law.
The committee continued to hear
witnesses demanding that coop
patronage refunds" be taxed.
Chief spokesman for the drive to
tax co-ops "out of existence" was
Leonard C. Calhoun, attorney for
the Natl Tax Equality Assn. The
NTEA instigated the campaign for
taxing of co-ops and according to
President James Patton, of the
Natl Farmers Union, the NTEA's
fund raising activities are so phony
that Congress should investigate
the organization.
Eugene l.. Hensel, counsel for
the Natl Association of Coopera-
tives, told the Republican-domin-
ated committee that any taxation
of patronage refunds would be un-
constitutional and that farmers
co-ops would appeal to the Supreme
Court if tax is proposed.
The big business campaign
against the co-ops is represented
by zone of the most sinister and
vicious lobbies that has ever in
vaded Washington" Rep. Wright
Patman 3D., Tex told the COM
mittee. Contending that a deceit
ful and untrue campaign is being
conducted" Patman echoed Pat
tons demand for an investigation
of the NTEA on the grounds that
the income tax laws are being
evaded when the law permits con-
tributions made to such concerns
as the NTEA to be exempt and
which permits tax money to be di-
verted for purely partisan, selfish
propaganda purposes"
Patman contended that the CO.
op. tax "would be unconstitutional
since refunds by farmers buy
ing market cooperative to it's mem
bers belong to the members and
are subject to tax in the hands of
its members"
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Unions Urged
(Continued From Page One)

government doesn't permit them.
Textiles: Here the same shift in
industry is taking place, not be-
tween one area and another but
rather between one country and
another.
Autoworkers: Somewhat the
same migration of assembly plants
is occurring in this industry -
movement toward the cheap labor
supply and totalitarian discipline
of the lands south of the border.
Glassworkers: Certain plate glas/
firms have shown intention of disy
mantling and moving to Latin AM
erica. One such company is now
operating in Brazil, where it en-
ploys workers who are kept on
their jobs by military decree.
Galarza contended that teachers
also face a threat, the recent or
ganization in Latin America of an
international company union for
teachers.
He further added that agricul-
tural unions should note the use of,
imported strike-breakers on the Di
Giorgio farms in California, which
was carried out with Agriculture
Department consent.
at should be clear" the speaker
affirmed, "that if workers in the
Americas or anywhere in the world
are struck down, then American
labor is also the loser"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04

London (LPA)- The Executive
Committee of Blitain's Trades
Union Congress has side-stepped
an AFE recommendation for the
establishment outside of the WI
TU Of an international federation
of trades union movements sup
porting the Marshall Plan. The
AFL suggestion was referred with
out recommendation to the Con-
gress' Economics and International
Committees for study.
A week prior to the Executive
Committees decision the usually
well informed labor correspondent
of the Manchester Guardian re-
ported that TUG leaders felt con
siderable dismay over the AF'L pro-
posal. While heartily supporting
the Marshall Plan, most British
union leaders are loathe to embark
upon course of action which would
result in the dissolution of the WI
TU. They pointed out that the
first president of WFTU was Lord
Citrine, then TUG general secre-
tary and that Arthur Deakin, For
eign Minister Ernest Bevin's sue
cessor as head of the Transport &
General Workers Union is now
president.
With increased political tension
between the nations participating
in the Marshall Plan and those in
the Soviet sphere, British trade
union opinion, though not hopeful
of spectacular immediate accom-
plishment by WFTU, regards it
as one of the few remaining links
between the workers of Eastern
and Western Europe. They are re-
solved to combat any attempts to
"use" the WFTU against the i'm
fermentation of the European aid
program, but if they succeed in this
there is little likelihood of their
taking the initiative in creating
division in WFTU.
News from Paris that CIO Sec
retary-treasurer James Carey had
received permission from the WE
TU's Executive Bureau to circulate
to all affiliates his statement in
support of the Marshall Plan is
thought to have confirmed the TUG
in its hope that continued member
ship in WFTU is possible. Mean
while, the TUG will continue to
maintain its traditional fraternal
relations with the AFL, which it
has repeatedly urged to join the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
AFL ASKED TO FINANCE
DAILY LABOR PAPER BY
NEW PER CAPITA RAISE

indianapolis (LPA)-One of the
top officials of the Int'l Typo
graphical Union-AFL last week
urged that part of the increased
per capita tax voted by the AFL
convention be used to finance a
national labor paper.
Elmer Brown, ITU second vice
president, declared in the Typo
graphical Journal that, "The recent
convention of the AFL raised the
per capita assessment from two to
three cents per month for public
ity purposes. The first and best
medium of publicity is the press. A
daily labor paper edited by top
notch newspaper people, circulated
as an education and information
journal would be welcomed by the
millions Of organized workers, their
families and friends.
at is important that the lead
ers of the AFL set aside a por-
tion of the additional assessment
for the establishment and opera
tion of a daily newspaper" said
Brown. with approximately T.
100000 members Of the AFL con-
tributing an additional cent each
month for publicity there ought to
be funds for an AFL daily news
paper, with money left for adver-
tising, radio, and some direct sup
port to the struggling weekly la
Dor papers. Now is the time to
act"
President Walter Reuther, Of the
United Auto Workers-CIO, was re-
elected to his position at the re-
cent UAW convention on 10-point
platform that included a demand
for daily labor paper.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
Britis h Unions Seek To
Prevent WITH Division

WFTU.
1t is also reported here that Iry
ing Brown, AFL European repreA
sentative, has ordered an Edge
ware Road branch bank not to hon
or drafts on a fund created by the
American trade unions for support
of the Czechoslovak labor move
ment, as the Czech unions are re-
garded as now being under Com
munist control. The CIO, which
helped collect the fund, is said to
have given its advance approval to
this action, thereby taking joint ac-
tion with the AFL in international
labor relations for the first time
since the two American federations
reached different decisions upon
affiliation with the WFTU.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04

Washington (LPA)-Calling for
a Marshall Plan for America
Too the Intl Association of Ma
chinists-unaffiliated this week ask
ed Congress to vote for both Eu-
ropean relief and initiation controls,
or neither.
In an editorial spread across
page one of The Machinst, the
lam endorsed the Marshall plan
wholeheartedly as program
through which the United States
can give hope to the long suffer
ing peoples of Western Europe.
So long as working people have
hope, The Machinist said, 'there is
no question that they will support
a democratic system under which
they are free to develop their
own labor organizations, indepen-
dent of Government domination
and control"
The Machinist warned however,
that this country 'can afford to
rush the necessary aid to Europe
only if we are prepared, at the
same time, to protect our own peo-
pie from the deprivation and suf-
fering that runaway price infia-
tion is sure to bring"
mindful of this danger" the edi-
torial continues, 'the President of
the United States has asked for the
bower to restore price controls and
rationing wherever and whenever
such drastic measures are required
to protect our own citizens from
the consequences of initiation that
already has reached the danger
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
British Labor
CONTINUED From Page One)

ernemt which has been forced to
so rigidly control the flow of con-
sumers goods. But they had no al
tentative program to present.
Early in the campaign Conserva-
tive orators invading the constitu-
ency claimed that Americas pros
perity was due to the absence of
rationing and price controls, and
that Britain should follow the lead
of the United States. Then Presi-
dent Truman told the u. S. Con-
gress that a return to controls in
the United States was necessary
if initiation is to be curbed. Dick
Acland and his Labor supporters
turned Truman's recommendations
to good advantage.
Acland, a member of wealthy
but additionally liberal British
family, early in the war gave his
land holdings to the government to
use as it saw fit for the people of
England. During the war he lead
the small but active Commonwealth
Party a group of resolute Christian
socialists who successfully opposed
Tory candidates at by-elections
which the Labor Party refused to
contest while the war was in pro-
gress. When the electoral truce was
voided, Sir Richard and most of
his followers joined the Labor Par
ty. Regarded as an outstanding
progressive thinker, and man of
extraordinarily high ethical princi-
pies, Acland had the active support
of the leaders of the government
in his race, and was greeted with
an unprecedented outburst Of APP
plause in the House of Commons
the day following his victory as he
advanced to take. the oath of office
Four more special Parliamentary
elections are expected before the
end of the year, but all are in
secure Labor or Conservative con-
stituencies where no interesting de-
velopments are expected.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04

BILL" Sal B. Hoffman, president of
the union said, "as it brought out
that it was the intent of Congress
to deny the rights Of striking work
ers to vote on their bargaining rep
resentation.
Union Challenges NLRB
"The supporters of the Taft
Hartley law always have insisted
that workers still were free to
strike. Never have they said that
strikers can be fired from their
jobs, others hired to replace them,
and then an NLRB election be con-
fined to the scabs.
"The board instead of correct
ing the ills caused by Denham' S
unfair and arbitrary ruling, which
it admits was wrong, now is penal
izing workers who were forced to
strike because Of Denham. Even
though the board decided its coun-
sci was entirely in error, it per-
forms a greater wrong in denying
the vote to legitimate workers in
a legitimate strike.
right of the NLRB to deprive its
"The UIU is challenging the
members of employment when their
strike was provoked by its coun-
sels illegal and admittedly erron-
eous ruling"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
JAW GETS SKYSCRAPER

Buffalo (LPA) - The United
Auto Workers now holds title to
a 12-story building complete with
a union-operated penthouse night
club. Assuming 100000 indebted
ness, the JAW took the building,
in Flint, Mich, from the Flint In
dustrial Council. No changes in oc-
cupancy are planned and the coun-
ell can have the building back any
time it can pay off the debt.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
Federal Civilian Rolls
Increase Tn October

Washington, d. C.-At the begin
ming of November 1947, total of
1,773,9O0 civilian employees were in
the executive departments and
agencies of the Federal Government
in continental United States, ac-
cording to preliminary figures an
nounced by the United States Civil
Service Commission. Compared with
a month ago, this represents an in
crease of approximately 1900 en-
ployes.
In Washington, d. c., the total at
the beginning of November was
1876, 400, practically unchanged from
one month ago.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
Mother Of
(C0nfinned From Page One)

Mrs. Martin at that time. They ac-
cused her of working for the union.
She proudly admitted it. They said
they weren't going to have the
union or her around there. They
threatened her life. They seached
her belongings. They talked of
taking her over into Alabama.
Finally, after repeated requests,
the men told the women to put a
dress on Mrs. Martin but refused to
leave the room while this was be-
ing done. Then they put gag in
her mouth, and made her walk
barefooted to a truck, threw her
in the back of the truck and drove
throught the back country until
finally hey let her out on dirt
road between Bremen and Waco.
They threw her belongings out on
the road beside her.
The man who united her hands
said before he left her: Don't ever
come back into Tallapoosa or you
will be shot on sight"
When she later checked her be-
longings, some clothes, a ten-dol-
lar bill and a watch-a gift from
her son in the service-were miss
ing.
When Mrs. Martin asked the mob
to call the police if they thought she
shouldn't stay there, the leader "a
watery-eyed old man) said: "We're
not bringing the C -
law in this, we are the law here"
The union has announced that
1--WE are going to see that these
people are brought to justice. Kid
mapping, larceny, and assault are
crimes in Georgia, as in every civil
lied free country"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04
WHAT NEXT?

Grain makers" are setting up in
business here and there. They pro-
pose to fly small planes over farms
needing rains and cause showers
by scattering dry ice carbon di-
oxide). A problem is controlling
the "rain," so that it will fall on
a parched farm and not on one do
ing some early season haying or
other work for which dry weather
is needed.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-12-04

Huge truck with two signs on
the rear tells motorists: Left, pass
ing side-Right, suicide.
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S4Yz Billion
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proposal that "In view of the con-
stan rise in price levels which is
still continuing, the need for re-
ducing the war imposed excess
taxes is in my opinion becoming
more urgent. Although it would be
difficult to state just what part Of
the So billion yearly from such
taxes contribute to price markups,
it is obvious that the consumer at
retail must be paying considerable
ore than the amount of the tax.
"The taxes on transportation and
communication, electrical goods, of
flee equipment, optical goods, and
many other articles are discrimina-
tory, bad in their impact on busi-
ness and capricious in their effect
on consumers"
Il nlat
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Obscure Sentence

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1947-12-25

member Of the Delta Gamms
sorority.
The groom is employed in the
regional office Of the U. s. For
est Service in MiSsoula, where
Mr. and Mrs. Klamm will make
their home. His college frater-
nifty is Theta Chi.
MI. and Mrs. Klamm are now
on a honeymoon trip to the
west coast.
Former Hardinite WEEDS
Lorna Lovelace, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lovelace, of
Colstrip was married to Harold
Kortrum of Portland, Ore, on
December % at their ranch
home near Colstrip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kortrum will
make their home in Portland,
where he is taking an engineer
ing course.