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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
PhOneStrike
End Fading
Labor Department An.
nounces Collapse OF
Bell Farley

WASHINGTON, April 9-@-
Hopes for a quick end to the
cross-country telephone strike suf'
fered a jolt tonight a the Labor
department announced the col
lapse of negotiations here between
the South Western Bell Telephone
company and striking telephone
workers.
Optimism persisted meanwp :
over the possibility Of an
agreement in the dispute b :
telephone companies and u :
distance workers, which
key to the overall situa' > 4
The Southwestern :
and the long distan> : g
were brought oS /
Washington at the T.
rotary of Labor W.
because of their import. /
lation to the nationwide : n
Tonight officials Of the Sseath'
western company departed tor st
Louis. There was no explanation
from the company, but Everett E
|Cotter, general counsel for the
Southwestern Telephone Union
told reporters:
"We consider the company a
having broken off negotiation
which will undoubtedly result il
prolonging the whole strike"
Ready To Negotiate
Cotter said the union is willn,
Ito negotiate there or at such
other place" as will restore tele
phone service in a way consist
ent with justice" He called thu
break-off a strike -breaking device
The Southwestern company il
the largest among the more thai
20 Bell system operating subsidi
aries of the American Telephone
and Telegraph CO. 1t covers Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkan
sas. Texas and a small part Q
Southwestern Illinois.
The top union leader in the ma
tionwide strike said earlier tina
mo settlement is in sight," whil'
a government %conciliator said diff
|ferences between company repre-
sentatives and long distance work
ers are down to very narrow
points"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
The Weather

FORECAST:
South and North Carolina l1creasins
sloudiness n continued rather warm
with showers and scattered thunaer-
storms beginning in West Thursday aiteI-
moor and East portion Thursday nlent'
Improving Friday becoming partly cloud
IN afternoon.
Eastern Standard m
(By U. s. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday.
TEMPERATURES
1:30 a. m. So; 7:3O a. m. 66. 80 p: m.
10; 1880 p. m. IA: Maximum 10; Mill
mum IS; Mean St; Normal 60.
HUMIDITY
t:3o a. m. "a; 1880 a. m. LOG; i:3O p
m n; 1880 p. m. IS.
PRECIPITATION
Total for "a hours ending 1880 p. M
so inches.
Total since the first of the month
l.34 inches. .
TIDES FOR TODAY
From the Tide Tables published by U.
.. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington - 1888 am. BIT am.
1911 pm. 8:23 pm
Masonboro --- 10 as am. 4:56 a m
1913 p.m. 4:51 pm.
Sunrise SAT; Sunset 6:39; Moonrlse
Hap; Moonset 8:52a.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. c. az d
.. m. Wednesday 12.5 feet.
More Weather On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
HINTS AT NEW COAL
STRIKE OVER WELFARE FUND:
MOLOTOV HITS BORDER PLAIN
Board Urged
Marshall Favors Compro.
mise Agreement On Ger
man-Polish Lines

MOSCOW, April 9-P)-Britain
and the United States proposed
tonight that an international COM
mission be created to work out de-
tails Of a compromise German.
Polish border which would allow
Poland t o retain control of in.
dustrial Silesia but return to Ger.
many some agricultural lands new
occupied by the Poles.
The proposal, made in the Four
Power Council of Foreign minis
tiers, was Immediately blocked by
v. M. Molotov of Russia. He ar
gued that Poland should retain
all of the 10000 square miles Of
Eastern German territory-includ
ing Silesia and the farm lands
which were placed under her ad'
ministration at Potsdam.
Foreign Minister Georges Bid
ault of France agreed that the
boundary question should be studi'
ed further, but did not say wheth-
err he favored or opposed the pres
ent frontier.
Speeches Quoted
U. S. Secretary Of State George
Marshall and British Foreign Sec
rotary Ernest Bevin both quoted
hitherto unpublished speeches by
Prime Minister Stain at Potsdam
to back up their arguments thai
Me present Polish frontier was moi
then considered final.
Molotov, in turn, quoted from q
radio speech by President Truman
which, the Russian said, showed
that Mr.. Truman considered the
boundary to have been fixed per
manently at Potsdam.
Under the Potsdam agreement,
routinued I'm Pare Two, Col, 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
Cab Action Hit By
Airline President
FILING DEADLINE

The deadline for candidates
for the city council to file is
six O. clock tonight, Robert
Strange, member of the cleo
tons board, warned last night.
Thus far eight local men have
thrown their hats into the ring
for the five council posts, but
a last-day rush for the filing
window has been forecast.
james E. L. Wade is the only
present member of the council
not having already made his in
tentions known. He is expected
to enter the race, however, by
paying his filing fee today.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10
FORECAST:

Wilmington and vicinity: Increasing
cloudiness and continued rather warm
today followed by scattered thunder
storms tonight; Fridf y, clearing in
morning, partly cloudy in afternoon.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10

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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-10

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
New York Racketeer Slain;
Wisecracks on Death Bed
By the Associoted Press

NEW YORK, July ia small
time racketeer, wisecracking to the
end, was shot to death last night
by gangland killers as he stood in a
doorway of building on the lower
Manhattan East Side-the third
thug to be ambushed in the vicinity
in two nights.
The latest victim was identified
by police as Jack Rybakoff, 80. who
they said was charged with a killing
which occurred at the same spot
about six years ago. The charge was
dismissed at his arraignment when
no witnesses could be found to
testify against him.
Rybakoff was slain by one of two
men who leaped from car, opened
fire at point-blank range and then
fed in the automobile.
The shooting occurred while the
sidewalks were crowded with play
ing children and while women and
men sat closely on the stoops of
surrounding tenements. The scene
was only six blocks away from the
spot where a taxicab driver and a
stevedore were ambushed Thursday
night.
Detectives said that just before he
died. the attending physician asked
Rybakoff who shot him and that he
replied, Me mother"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Slain Night Club Bouncer
Is Buried; Killer Sought
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July 19.-Peter j.
lingo, 80, was buried today while
police pressed their search for his
slayer.
Funeral services we're held at his
home here for the night club
bouncer and former poolroom at
tendant. followed by requiem
mass at St. Leos Catholic Church.
zingos body was found early
Wednesday in car parked on Alta
avenue. Detective Capt. Henry J.
KriSs said he had been shot three
times in the head and twice in the
abdomen with a 36-caliher weapon.
A .32-caliber revolver. fully loaded
and unfred, was found at Zingo's
feet. and detectives guessed it may
have been planted there by the
slayer.
Friends of the ex-prizefghter and
Army veteran told police he never
carried a gun.
Finding his wallet and watch un-
touched, police discarded robbery as
a motive.
1t. George Bryan. homicide chief.
said lingo may have been slain out
of revenge by some one he haC
bounced out of night club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Legion Of VaIor 10 Open
Convention in Baltimore
By the Associated Press

BALTIMORE, July 19.-The Ma
lions war heroes meet here tonight
at the opening of the 57th annual
convention of the Army and Navy
Legion of Valor-one of the Worlds
most exclusive veterans groups.
Membership is limited to men who
have been awarded the Congress
ional Medal of Honor-highest
United States award for heroism-
the Distinguished Service Cross and
the Navy Cross.
Col James P. S. Devereux of Chevy
Chase. Md, Wake Island Marine
detachment commander when the
Japs struck in 1912, is among the
200 delegates attending the reunion
The 5-day meeting will be the
first large-scale reunion of World
War II heroes. Chairman A. Carroll
Jones announced Wives of the dele
gates also will attend.
Major Gen. Manton s. Eddy, Brig
Gen. Henry C. Evans and Rear
Admiral LIE Roy Reinburg are among
these serving on the Reunion Com
mittee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

marine construction in early 1914,
Hitler was told at a conference in
February that construction had
been delayed for two months, MAN.
ly through damage to the electric
motor industry at the Siemens-
Schuckert plant by the Allied air
raids.
Lack of shipyard workers already
was reducing the number of opera
tional submarines. which made it
impossible to concentrate any num-
Der of these craft at critical mo-
ments in the invasion areas as Or
dered by Hitler. This condition was
brought about by drafting these
skilled artisans into the army and
air forces.
Even after the Allies had landed
in Normandy, Hitler. convinced that
they were superior, was insisting
that the fighting not be permitted
to develop into mobile warfare.
Hitler's Summary.
This is Hitlers summary of the
situation at a conference at his
Berghof headquarters which lasted
from June 20 to July /, 1914:
THE overwhelming aerial supe-
riority of the enemy and his very
effective naval artillery limit the
possibilities of a large-scale attack
on our own part. We cannot Ak the
time of an attack; it is dependent
on when troops and supplies can be
brought up, and this cannot be CAL
culated in advance.
"On the other hand. We must not
allow mobile warfare to develop.
since the enemy surpasses us by far
in mobility due to his air superiority
and his superabundance of vehicles
and fuel.
Therefore everything depends on
our combining him to his bridgehead
by building up front to block it
off, and then fighting a war of at
triton to wear him down and force
him back, using every method Of
guerrilla warfare"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
French Management, Labor
Reach Peace Agreement
By the Associated Press

PARIS, July 19.-French manage
ment and labor today achieved a
four-point agreement promising a
living wage to French workers, more
goods for French households, and
industrial peace to the French pub
lie.
The accord, drafted by the Con-
sell National du Patronat Francois
(CNPF) and the nations second
largest labor union. the Confedera-
ton Franchise DIES Travailleurs
Chretiens (CFTC), pledged:
l. To give all workers remunera-
ton which will permit them to live
normally.
2. To increase substantially all
family allotments, granted accord
ing to the size of the family. and
to institute a rental allotment.
3. To increase the production of
goods for current consumption even,
if necessary, at the cost of tenn
porary slowing up in the production
of capital equipment.
4. To establish permanent contact
for bargaining on working condl-
tons between management and
labor ORGANIZATIONS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Bodies OF ; Recovered
After a Drown in Creek
By the Associated Press

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. July 10
The bodies of three persons were
recovered from rain-swollen Swa-
tara Creek near here today.
A searching party located the
bodies of Harold Mahsberger, "a,
Middletown; Kenneth D. Wood, IL,
Tulsa, Okla, and his son, Philip. ID,
about mile from the spot where
Mr.. Woods boat went over dam
yesterday.
Mr.. Wood and his son were in
the boat along with two other sons,
Jerry, IA, and Donald. 10. Jerry
escaped after clinging to the over
turned boat for more than an hour
as did Hubert Mansberger, 80, a
brother of the drowned Middletown
man.
The searchers continued to hunt
for the body of Donald. who also
drowned. Harold Mansberger died
in a vain attempt to save Mr.. Wood
and his sons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
German NaWAccuse'
Nazi Army Of Panic
When Allies Landed
By Wilton J. WheotIey

German navy commanders of
shore installations in the Neither
lands and at Dunkirk accused Nazi
land forces of being panic striker
when they met superior Allied forces
and of having made an absolute
zero" contribution to defense of the
coast.
This was indicated in the Ger
man naval commanders reports,
published by the Navy Department
here last night in the third of
a series of pamphlets entitled
"Fuehrer Conferences" and pre-
pared from captured German
documents.
These reports of panic and dis
orderly rout of the 'invincible" Nazi
land forces apparently never trick
led back to Hitler. At the time, the
Fuehrer was contemplating the
building of railroads in Norway to
help supply his forces there.
The documents disclose that Rear
Admiral Frisius. German naval
commander at Dunkirk, not only
described the army's contribution
to coast defense as absolute zero"
but also criticized the fatal mis-
take" of giving the army over-all
command authority for harbor
defenses.
Called Worst Bureaucrats.
Rear Admiral Frisius called the
Nazi Army's fertilization engineer
ing stats the worlds worst bureau
Gratis" He said one evidence of this
was that construction plans had to
be turned in within 48 hours.
But then" he continued, "cor-
respondence was carried on about
them for some three or four weeks
and sometimes three months before
the work was begun. 1t was always
the same story, and now we are
reaping the consequences
The commanding German admiral
in the Netherlands said that on Sep
TENDER 4, 1914, the air force per-
sonnet began its hasty retreat, first
in separate vehicles, then in groups
and finally in disbanded columns.
Panic in Southern Area.
"In the entire southern area" he
continued, "the retreat was close to
a panic, including civilian Offices,
Dutch Nazis, etc. Air force officials
of all kinds and antiaircraft artillery
units abandoned their stations and
positions, whether with or without
orders is unknown, generally des-
troying considerable supplies in the
process, for example gasoline, mines,
bombs. ammunition and food"
In the Languedos sector, the Ger
man army, looking out for itself,
seized from the naval forces all
means of transportation-every-
thing that would carry something,
including vehicles, horses and bicy-
cles. The navy was forced to light
out on foot.
In many cases, the naval COM
mander of this sector said, the
army's officers left their troops to
shift for themselves. Air attacks
helped the wild confusion.
Although the Germans were striv-
ing to get along with their new sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Gold Star Wives Meet
Tomorrow on Bills

The Potomac Area Chapter of
the Gold Star Wives of World War
II will discuss bills pending in Con-
gress in which the organization is
interested, at a monthly meeting
at pm. tomorrow at the District
Chapter House of the American Red
Cross, 1870 E street NV.
Mrs. Marie Jordan of Tappan,
N. Y, national president, will be
presented with a fountain pen by
the chapter. She is here to promote
the bills the group is backing, in
Guiding one to incorporate the Gold
Star Wives. bill to give widows
the education and loan benefits of
the CT Bill of Rights, and one to
extend the education benefits to
children of soldiers who were killed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
1900 Families Get
Phones as Exchanges
Open in Southeast

Fifteen hundred families in
Southeast Washington woke up this
morning with new telephone service.
Last midnight officials of the Pub
lie Utilities Commission and the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co. stood around huge switch
board in the company's new ex-
change at Twenty eighth and N
streets Sc. as 5000 telephone lines
were cut out of the Franklin, At
lantic, Lincoln, Trinidad and Ludlow
exchanges and switched into Victor
and Twining numbers.
The 1900 new phones had been
installed by the telephone company
but had remained dead until the
new exchanges were put into action
last night.
First call on the new system was
placed by PUG Commissioner James
w. Lauderdale.
The switchover took only a few
minutes but it climaXed the work
of hundreds of telephone men for
II months. In that period a 100000
building was erected. miles of I'M
derground conduit and 81 miles OF
cables were laid, sensitive dial
switching equipment placed in posi-
ton and thousands of miles of wires
placed in an intricate pattern.
AS the ceremonies began, j. P.
Morrison, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the company, said
that this new exchange in South
east, which cost $4,000, 900, was only
the first in series of expansion
projects on which the company
plans to spend $46,000,000.
Mr.. Morrison reminded all tele-
phone subscribers that many tele-
phone numbers are now changed
and that the new June. 1947. issue
of the telephone directory should
be used to call them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
Sunshine Promised
Today as Relief From
Recent Heavy Rains

Sunny skies were predicted for
Washington today as a relief from
the recent heavy rains. Six times
as much rain has been recorded
here in the first 19 days of July as
fell during the corresponding period
last year.
The Weather Bureau also pre-
dicted sharp drop in humidity.
It said the decline would be as much
as 20 per cent today from the high
humidity Of SO at a. m. yester-
day and the days low of sc at pm.
The temperature yesterday reached
80 degrees. with low of II. The
temperature today is expected to
reach high of IS.
.58 Inch Yesterday.
The rainfall yesterday was SO of
an inch, of which ST fell in the
morning and the remaining oil in
the afternoon. These figures were
recorded at the Terminal Building
at the Washington Airport. Observ-
ers there said it appeared that con-
siderably more rain fell in Wash
ington in the afternoon than at the
airport, but said definite figures
were not available.
Total rain for the first 10 days
this month was BIT inches A year
ago the rainfall for the same period
was "a while for the entire month
1t reached 3l4 inches. The rainfall
for June this year was 6.86 inches.
Mrs. Mary Cardwell Dawson, man.
aging director of the National Ne
gro Opera Co., said a music and
dance spectacle scheduled for last
night would be held at 9 o'clock to-
night
"Miksdo" Offered Tonight.
The Columbia Light Opera Co.
will present The Mikado" at $50
o'clock tonight at the Sylvan The
alter.
Water service to houses in eight
blocks along Fifth street NV, near
Nicholson street was cut off for sew
eral hours late yesterday afternoon
and early last night while Water
Department crews repaired broken
main.
The break occurred about pm.
near the intersection of Fifth and
Nicholson streets in an excavation
where sewer repairs we're made last
week. Water Department officials
said the damage was not great but
the work of fixing the main was de-
layed by the heavy rainstorm last
night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
European Aid Committee
Favors Short-Range Plans
By the Associated Press

PARIS, July 19.-The donation
committee for European economic
cooperation decided today that
short-term recovery projects should
have priority over long-range pro-
grams for general economic de-
velopment.
The committee. set up under the
Marshall proposal, also designated
the personnel of four technical COM
mittees for food, transport. metal
industries and fuel and power and
directed them to begin their work
on Monday.
French sources said tonight that
the committee had adopted pro-
posed French QUESTIONABLE for
drawing up a blueprint of all the
nations assets and needs under the
Marshall plan. Copies will be sent
to the Is participating nations i'm
mediately these sources said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20
U. 5. Income Data Revised
By Commerce Department

The Commerce Department yes
terday issued comprehensive re-
port on a revision of it's national in
come statistics designed to present
an improved system of national
economic accounting"
The new system of statistical COM
pilation-useful primarily to analysts
and interpreters of economic data
is the fruit of a research project
that has been going on more than
five years to improve statistical pro-
cedures.
Statistics are given from 1885
through 1916, revised to fit the new
basis and, therefore different in
most cases from figures presented by
the department under the old Sys-
tenn.
For example, the 1916 nationa,
income which means the total
earnings of labor and capital from
current production - was estimated
at S178 200 100000 under the new sys-
tenn, or about $6.0Oe,0 100000 higher
than under the old system.
The larger figure results chiefly
from counting in for the first time
the rental value of houses occupied
by their owners, although no actual
dollar payment Of rent occurs. and
measurement of corporate profits on
a before-tax rather than an after
tax figure.
Vermont leads all other States
in the production of maple sugar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-07-20

Vermont leads all other States
in the production of maple sugar
products.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-09-12
Tallahassee, Florida
Free Us From Prejudice

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despise, discriminate against, and
otherwise "snoot" many of our
fellows. Instead of true democ-
racy, we are practicing too much
of privilege and usurped authority.
We condemned Kaiser Bills
might makes right" philosophy,
and began Immediately the adapt
alton of that principle.
Fortunately, there's something
in the very air we breathe in this
God-favored "Land Of the Free"
that maintains an impenetrable
resistance to all attempts at in
filtration by those elements that
would destroy our priceless heri-
tage. Instead Of bearing down on
the underprivileged and less for
tunate, would it not be wiser and
more consistent to extend the hand
of friendly assistance, to wipe out
all prejudicial discrimination, to
be cheerful in giving, for
they are not ours to give, but in
seeing that these get all that is
due them. The thought is worthy
of being our Thought For Today.
Let us pray: "Free us from pre-
JUDGE, o God; guide us always.
Amen"
Evening star., 1947-12-13
Prosecutor and Lowyerin Draw
AS Both Open Court CureerHere

A prosecuting attorney and a
defense lawyer, making the first
court appearance Of their careers,
yesterday crossed swords in Mu-
nfcipal Court. The result was a
draw-at least until next Wednes-
day.
1t was the first prosecution for
Stafford r. Grady, appointed last
month as Assistant United States
Attorney attached to the lower
branch Of the court. In defending
a man accused of trying to steal a
policeman's car, Louis Jongbloet,
40, who passed the District bar in
October, was arguing his first case.
Judge Almond w. Scott, who pre-
sided over the legalistic exchange,
decided to withhold a verdict until
the defense summons it's witness
into court on Wednesday.
The accused man is Gene Rhine,
%, of Arlington, arrested by Police
Pvt. Robert F. Seibert of No. pre-
cinct near the officers car which was
parked across the street from police