EDITORS gather
for conference
Leading Newspapermen
$jll Hear Off Record
Talks From Leaders
WASHINGTON, April 20.— UP —
of America’s larger daily
„-ners will talk over wartime
n6'^erns with government offi
Fr°;'/ Off-the-record discussions
.norvow and Saturday.
^Members of the American Soci
, nf Newspaper Editors, gather
el> , r <he two-day meeting, look
'Ha forward with particular inter
. expected background talks
es\he war from General George
Marshall, army chief of staff,
L Admiral Ernest J. King, com
a"fnder in chief of the Navy.
mcrevetarv of State Hull also has
to talk off-the-record on
foreign policy
i jinmiec nn nv mpmnpr«
'C ngress tomorrow night will
possible changes in rules
d°d organizational procedure to
?utrPamline” Congress.
*Th0Se ".ho will take part are
« a tors O’Mahoney (D.-Wyo.),
Sev ‘D.-Conn.), LaFollette
p'rf.Vts.w and Ball (R.-Minn.),
, Representatives Cannon (D.
a" , Monroney D.-Okla.), Hal
1,,.■ (R-Ind.) and Case (R-S.C.).
The meeting will open tomorrow
morning with the President’s ad
bv Hoy A. Roberts, manag
ing editor of the Kansas City Star.
With over 250 advance registra
tion Roberts said “it looks like
ue"will have the largest meeting
,er ■’ The members represent
newspapers with an aggregate cir
culation of over 34,000,000.
The program committee, head
ed by Alexander F. Jones, manag
iir editor of the Washington Post,
ha's cast the program on the gen
eral theme of newspapers’ respon
sibility. and the background talks
from Marshall. King and Hull are
aimed at helping the editors ful
fill their responsibility in inter
preting the news for the public.
Many of the editors in informal
conversations indicated a feeling
that the flow of news from the
war fronts has improved in recent
months, but that it is not coming
through in all instances as fast
as it should.
“Considerable progress has been
made,” commented Basil Walters,
managing editor of the Minneapo
lis Star Journal and Tribune and
secretary of the Society.
There was general praise for the
operations of the office of censor
ship. Sevellon Brown, editor of the
Providence journal ana Duueun,
called it “one of the remarkable
things of the war” the way censor
ship of newspaper? has been car
ried out on a purely voluntary ba
sis. the newspapers censoring
themselves in accordance with re
quests from the Office of Censor
ship.
B. P Lynch, managing editor
of the Phoenix Arizona-Republic,
agreeing, said one of the things
I want to see in Washington is
Byron Price's office.” Price is di
rector of the Office of Censorship.
Political talk cropped up fre
quently with the consensus run
ning toward the view that the elec
ti'"ii outlook is highly uncertain
at this stage, irrespective of who
the nominees may be.
Frank Roberts, Managing editor
of the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal
Grrete. predicted a close contest
in Indiana but said Gov. Henry F.
Schrickev. Democrat stands a
good chance of being elected to
the Senate even if the state goes
Republican for president.
REALTY TRANSFERS
Realty transfers recorded Thurs
day by Register of Deeds Adrian
B. Rhodes included: E. C. Wood
bury to T. M. Sumner, Tr. near
Pt. Peter Pi. J. F. Collier to T.
D. Matthews, 5-19 Princess PI. J.
D. Wallin to B. B. Phillips, 8-38
-•unset Park. Frederick Willetts to
C F. Farrow, Lot 26 Glen Arden.
■T V. Tomberlin to A. W. Batson,
*>-11 Princess Pi. Forest Padrick
C. C. Caddell, 18 acres Caoe
Eear Tv.-p. W. C. Anders to G. F.
Morton, Lots 156 a and 157 a, Sec.
B' Forest Hills.
Lillie D. Stephens to R. J. Yow,
Lot 12-50 Carolina Beh. E. L. Rog
to E. W. Clemmons, Lot 7a
bnore Acres. K. C. Sidbury to C.
Canady. 8 and 3-4 acres Sid
pr Lizzie Hills to W. D.
Jljs. Pt. of 2 and 3, 186, City. H.
p; ^encken to Dewey Gaymour,
V L-2-337. W. A. Simon to An
f McDaniel, 33-“A” Pinehurst.
*>., n Schnnbben F, C. Sadgwar,
!7l7_2-257. City.
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Ten Civilian Employes
At Davis Given Awards
CAMP DAVIS, Apr. 30. — Sug
gestions which will saw the gov
ernment over $7,000 a year won
cash awards for ten civilian em
ployees, five of whom are resi
dents of Wilmington, at Camp Da
vis today when Lt. Col. Herbert
P- Sellars, chief, personnel divi
sion, presented the awards in a
brief ceremony.
The suggestions were made in
connections with the “Ideas for
Victory” program conducted by
.e. ,Army Service Forces among
civilian personnel, and are being
put into effect at this camp.
Leading suggestion was that of
Mr. J. R. Alexander, Holly Ridge,
Post Engineer’s office, for his re
design of a spark arrestor, a cap
that fits on the smoke stocks of
camp buildings, and which con
serves critical materials and la
bor time. It was estimated that
the new cap and the method of
replacing it when corroded or
damaged will save approximately
$3,530 annually.
Three employees of the Quarter
master Laundry who won awards
for their suggestions were Mr. Jo
seph Sweaney, Holly Ridge, for
his method of saving laundry sup
plies through the use of proper
measuring containers; Mrs. Alma
Letchworth, Holly Ridge, for sim
plifying press operations which
speed up and improve shirt press
ing, and Mr. Cassel E. Letchworth,
Holly Ridge, for his method of
drying and handling mattress cov
ers to eliminate some of the mis
cellaneous operations.
Other suggestions included those
of Mr. Leroy Blizzard, Route 3,
Wilmington, Post Engineer's office
for standardizing and inaugurating
patterns for painting signs; Mr.
Robert S. Burton, Route 1, Wil
mington, Purchasing and Contract
ing Branch, for improving pur
chase request procedure; Miss
Margaret Ainsworth, 1502 Orange
Avenue, Wilmington, Rail Trans
portation office, for substituting
one mimeographed form letter to
take the place of four individually
typed letters; Mr. Julian Tusch,
213 S. Second Street, Wilmington,
Signal Corps office, for improving
the method of receiving, sending,
recording and filing telegrams;
Miss Naomi Southerland, Route l’
Wilmington, Civilian Personnel
branch, for a new way of filing
stencils, and Mrs. Gertrude Kas
anow, Holly Ridge, Civilian Per
sonnel Branch, for a better meth
od of preparing reports of bond
purchases.
TROrriEISHELD
FOR GRAND JURY
M. D. Trottie, 39 year old Negro,
accused of beating his wife to
death last Sunday night, was re
leased under a $1,000 bond after
an inquest held Wednesday night.
He will appear before the Grand
Jury early in May.
According to Coroner A. C.
Blake of Burgaw, who said the
autopsey that the woman
died from a clot on the lung.
Since she had been ill prior to
ter death, the jury decided that
the evidence at hand was insuffi
cient.
When Trottie brought his wife
to the Community Hospital where
she died, he admitted that he beat
aer after an argument which en
sued when she returned home aft
er drinking.
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The United States is now able
o produce 1,050,000 tons of alum
num a year, seven times the 1939
capacity.
DEMAND FOR LABOR
DRAFT IS RENEWED
(Continued from Page One)
ture of the nation’* manpower sit
uation and declared:
“We, as a people, are not meet
ing many of the labor shortages
in critical programs in the midst
of a war for survival.”
They urged a "war work service
act” providing voluntary recruit
ment of labor for draft - stricken
war plants, then said:
‘In case sufficient volunteers do
not appear in answer to the call,
then the national service principle
must be involked to supply the
essential need. That is our judg
ment. It is based upon facts. . . .”
All three officials previously
have appeared before Congression
al committees to urge national
service legislation called for in
January by President Roosevelt.
Labor draft bills have ben hung
up in committees of both congres
sional branches for months.
The military leaders said “legis
lation of universal application is
not, in our opinion, necessary”—
but they did not set out how to
day’s recommendations would dif
fer from the Austin-Wadsworth
bills providing registration of prac
tically all men an women as pos
sible labor-draft recruits.
Senator Austin (R.-Vt.) who sat
in on the conferences, said he un
derstood they were talking about
his bill.
The Stimson-Knox-Land state
ment said:
Labo rturnover has reached
a rate of more than six per cent
per month, three times the peace
time average. . .
“We have yet to meet the ma
jor forces of Germany and of a
Japan commanding a large share
of the natural wealth and human
resources of eastern Asia. . .for
our civilian labor forces there
must be no relaxing of effort. . .
“It is imperative that the coun
try realize that the present Ameri
can methods of industrial service
cannot do the whole job; that the
American people must adopt some
system of national industrial serv
le« which will provide worker* for
essential war industrie* where
ever shortages in manpower ap
pear.”
They gave this detail of war in
dustries and their manpower
needs:
Aircraft plants and shipyards
need 200,000 workers above the
men they will lose to military serv
ice.
Navy yards will need 5,000 more
men for submarine construction
alone.
Synthetic rubber, 19,000 more
workers; radio and radar 30,000;
aviation gasoline 4,000.
Shortly after the Stimson-Knox
Land statement came out the Na
tional Association of Manufactur
ers issued a statement reiteratir*?
its opposition to national service
legislation "because it beli*ves
that compulsion of labor would be
disastrous to production.” The
statement said some NAM direc
tors attended the meeting where
labor draft legislation was discuss
ed but insisted no conference fol
lowed the presentation of the ed
eral officials arguments for the la
bor draft.
The United States Chamber oi
Commerce also issued a statement
declaring a labor draft "would
cause complications which might
U. S. OWNERSHIP T
OF BASES ASKED
(Continued from P»je One)
The committee found fault with
facilities in Puerto Rico, saying
the Navy built “one of the world’s
largest graving docks,” at Roose
velt Roads but there is “no work
to justify its construction.”
A further study of the entire
Caribbean area because of sub
stantially altered requirements
should be made, the Teport said.
actually retard rather than ad
vance the war program.” The
chamber is on record opposing na
tional service legislation.
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NOTICE
BEEB & WINE DEALEBS
City and County Beer and Wine license expire April
30th, 1944. Before new license can be issued it is nec
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