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NATION SOON MAY
FACE SHORTAGES
Commodities Include Oil,
Steel And Coal; Steel
Shortage Now
WASHINGTON, June 18— ‘/P) —
The United States is facing short
ages or possible shortages in three
major commodities, oil, steel and
coal.
The steel shortage is here now.
And it is contributing to the oil
shortage, according to Max W.
Ball, director of the interior de
partment’s oil and gas division.
A jack of steel is creating a pipe
line and tank-car shortage.
Ball said automobile gasoline
might start running short in Au
gust. By winter, he said, there
maV be a severe shortage of fuel
oil, especially in the midwest. The
navy announced today it is re
stricting some of its air operations
because it doesn't have enough
gasoline.
Meanwhile, the bureau of mines
reported today that only .a 33-dav
supply of soft coal was above the
ground last May 1 - just three
days supply above the "serious
mark, and a drop of 11.6 per cent
since April.
Although the coal shortage is
not acute right now. it could be
come very acute if John L. Lewis’
soft coal miners and the mine op
erators do not agree on a con
tract before July 7.
On that day. the miners finish
up a 10-dny vacation — and the
mines will then be in the hands
of the operators. The government
them now. The miners tradi
tionally do not work without a con
tract.
Interior department omciais
said a shortage of coal later this
year will cause a transportation
problem which, in turn, will in
tensify the oil shortage.
Jlere are the reasons officials
give why there may not be enough
steel, oil and coal.
I. Coal production has been
about normal in recent months,
bill tiie demand from abroad has
be5hi very high. That has kept the
United States from building up a
safe backlog. A long coal strike
coyld eat up the amount now esti
mated on hand very quickly.
J There have been strikes in
the oil industry, some of which
are still going on. In addition,
thfre are not enough pipelines or
tank cars.
3. The steel shortage is being
investigated by the senate small
business committee. Senator Mar
tin ’(R-Pai. head of the commit
tee,] said the shortage is due to
higher domestic demand, strikes
and increasing demand from other
countries.
A. number of steps are being
taken to forestall shortages where
possible, and keep them from get
ting worse when they can’t be
cured right away.
Efforts are being made to block
the-"threat of a strike in the soft
coal fields. Labor Secretary
Schwellenbach was reported today
planning to step into the dispute
between Lewis and the operators
—possibly even before the govern
m>nt gives up the mines.
Senator Martin’s committee is
still studying the steel shortage.
He- urged the senate judiciary
coittmittee yesterday to keep ex
port controls on steel, to avoid
the-losg of steel to othei countries
willing to bid more for it.
government officials say the
steel shortage is at the bottom of
the- oil shortage. They have indi
cated they may ask the big steel
producers to sit in at conferences
aimed at easing the shortage of
petroleum.
: GREECE
(Continued From Page One)
thorities said that one of the great
problem* which must be solved
to produce real stability is the
civil warfare between the Greek
government and guerrilla forces.
These forces operate mainly in
the North, where they are alleged
to . receive aid from Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and Albania.
Officials here believe many of
the elements now fighting with the
Communists would be lost to them
if means could be devised to
broaden the basis of the Greek
government and make effective
the amnesty for many persons ac
cused of political crimes.
Document* Cited
The documents which the state
department made public consisted
first of an American note on May
26 giving official notices to Greece
that congress had authorized the
$300,000,000 program. It asked the
Greeks what their recovery plans
were and for assurances that they
would negotiate an agreement on
the term* of American aid.
The second note, dated June 15,
was from the Greek government.
It set forth the Greek plans and
accepted the agreement proposal.
In the third note, dated today,
the United States welcomed Greek
promises that the American aid
“will be used in conformance with
the purposes for which it may,be
made available.’*
The extent to which Americans
will participate in the manage
ment of Greek recovery was dis
closed in the note of June 15 in
which the Greeks formal).- re
guested the Griswold mission “tc
administer the extension of Ameri
can aid, observe its use by tin
Greek government and advise th<
preek government.”
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CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES AT B^GGS ISLAND DAM ke fl®^f0ts°ew S stage** of' wrnt ExcIvatio^oTriv^r'bottorti is
sheet pile cells of cofferdam are in place. Ultimately 33 cellsi wHl De le q out shortly to uncover river bottom for excavation. Approxi
undenvay in left center of photograph. Water *lk® mParea and extend up on-left bank. Steel cells will be filled with earth
matelv one-half of the dam will be constructed within the ™ material being excavated into buggies hauled by tractors,
material to resist water pressure. Note clam shell crane that is load ang ue s
MINOR
_
(Continued From Page One)
ing a strike at Reynolds which
was sett! d more than a week ago.
The investigation was conducted
by W. G. Watson of Raleigh, su
pervising safety inspector, and S.
G. Harrington, wage and hour su
pervisor in the Greensboro office.
Employed More
“The union alleged that the com
pany was hiring all teen-aged min
ors available in an effort to break
the strike.” said the report, and
the investigators found “that the
! company employed a larger num
l.er of minors during May and
June this year (when the strike
was in progress) than in the same
months during the years 1944, 1945
and 1946.”
The company employed only a
few minors during 1946, tt e re
port explained because “returning
veterans absorbed most of the
jobs which had been available to
minors during several preceding
years.”
The report said that the inspec
tors “failed to find any minors
under 18 working at occupations
classified as hazardous under state
or federal laws,” but they did find
that “one minor under 18, who
had given his age as 18 when
seeking employment, suffered
contusions and lacerations of the
right hand” but "the job to which
this minor was assigned was not
a prohibited occupation.”
Laid To Error
Investigation of a union charge
that minors under 16 were being
employed by Reynolds revealed
that one minor, aged 15, was cer
tified by the Forsyth Welfare de
partment through a clerical error
and worked for two and one-half
hours before the error was dis
covered.
Another union allegation was
that minors under 18 were being
hired without employment certifi
j cates, and the investigators report
j ed that one of these was through
I a clerical error and the other four
“had stated to plant officials that
j they were 18 or 19 years of age.”
CONGRESS
(Continued Prom Page One)
are now charged. Treasury figures
show that veterans now own $1,
830,455,000 worth of the bonds.
He said the step also would save
the government money this way:
The Treasury can now borrow
money at one and one-half per
cent. But it is paying two and one
half per cent interest on the bonds,
which do not mature and cannot
be cashed for five years after date
of issue.
Martain said the measure should
allow veterans to retain the bonds
until they mature, if they wish to
do so.
Measure Approved
A few hours earlier, the House
Veterans committee, in executive
session and without advance notice,
approved a bill to deny all Vet
erans’ benefits to (A) Communistsi
(B) those in sympathy with the
party’s aims, and (C) those owing
allegiance to Russia.
Rep. Crow (R-Pa), wartime
colohel and author of the bill, said
it would cover terminal leave
bonds,, educational rights and sub
sistence allowance, and any fu
ture benefits voted veterans.
Crow said only one committee
member voted against the proposal
Under the bill’s terms, any one |
applying for veterans’ benefits
would be required to swear he
has no Communist affiliations.
Maximum penalty for filing a
fale affidavit would be a $2,500
fine and imprisonment.
Crow said the bill stems from a
recent visit to the capitol 0f a few
hundred veterans whom he de
scribed as Communists.
Action Necessary
He said some of these veterans
told members of Congress that “in
the event of a war between the
United States and Russia, they
would support Russia.”
So I decided some action was
- necessary,” said Crow. "We have
[ no business paying them any
thing.”
The committee also approved a
bill boosting the subsistence al
lowance for veterans going to col
[ le8e under the G. I. Bill of Rights.
I The allowance now is $65 monthly
i single veterans and $90 for
those who are married or have
dependents.
[ Under the new bill, the allowance
would remain the same for single
i veterans, but would be raised to
• $105 monthly for married veterans,
i with $20 for the first child and
$15 extra for each additional child.
STATE COLLEGE
| RALEIGH, June 18. —(AV- N. C.
| Stat^ college is negotiating with
i federal officials to acquire a Navy
■ section base on Ocracoke Island,
. J. G. Vann, college business man
ager said today.
GreekClubs Children Then
Turns On His Neighbors
MIAMI, Fla., June 18—(/P)—A,
59-year-old Greek restauranteyr
told police today he clubbed his
two children to death last night
with a baseball bat, cried himself
to sleep over their bodies and
this morning shot two neighbors
who wanted to put his boy and girl
in a home.
Detective Sergeant John L.
Deas said Chris Russell, between
sobs, blamed the deaths of John
ny Christo, six, and Peggy Marea.
11, and the shooting of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter L. Wolfe,on a former
“no good” wife, a “double-crossing
bunch of neighbors” and a “med
dlesome school teacher.”
Deas said Russell killed his chil
dren by crushing in their skulls
with a baseball bat in an apart
ment in back of his restaurant
late last night, and this morning
went next door to a real estate of
fice and shot Mr. and Mrs. Walter
L. Wolfe- twice each.
The Wolfes were reported in
critical condition at a hospital.
They were to have appeared
against Russell in juvenile court'
Friday on a complaint that he
had cursed and abused his chil
dren and was not a fit father.
Police said they were attempt
ing to locate Russell’s ex-wife,
Betty Marea, a trained nurse be- !
lieved to be in New York city.
Deas said they separated* four
years ago and were divorced last
October.
Russell was held in jail, al
though no formal charges have
been preferred.
Russell failed in an attempt to
take his own life when he pointed
a revolver at his temple and pull
ed the trigger on an empty cham
ber as detectives went to arrest
him.
Deas said Russell, after shoot
ing the Wolfes ,fired into the
business establishment of another
neighbor, Mrs. B. Foppelauer, but
the bullet went wild.
The detective said Russell told
him this story:
“The juvenile officers were going
to take my children and put them
in a home. I knew that I would
rather be dead than have them
go.
"We talked it over last night.
It was dark. The children agreed
they wanted to die.
“They told me: ‘Daddy, you have
been double-crossed enough. They
are going to taks us away. We
want to die. We don’t want to
leave you.’ ”
“After they went to sleep, I
look for my gun but couldn’t find
it, when I found Johnny’* baseball
bat.
"I picked it up and hit them.
I hit Johnny first and then Peggy.
They didn’t move.
“Then I held their heads and
kissed and hugged them. I sat
GROUPS ASK HIGHWAY
LINKING CAMPUSES
OF STATE COLLEGES
RALEIGH, June 18 — (£>) —A
delegation of Durham and Chapel
Hill residents, headed by Chapel
Hill Mayor R. V/. Madry, con
ferred today with various State
Highway department officials on
the chances for getting a boule
vard to connect Campuses of Duke
University, and the University of
North Carolina.
A formal request for such a
road will be made later to the
highway commission.
The proposed 10-mile boulevard
V'ould run from the Duke campus
to a spot near the Horace Wil
liams airport in Chapel Hill, sev
eral miles from the Carolina cam
pus.
down beside them and cried until
I went to sleep.
“This morniilg' I opened up my
place. The Wolfe’s called me a
‘dirty Greek’ and said they would
•take care of me.’ I ran after
my gun and from the street shot
into their place. I don’t know
what I hit.
“Then I tried to kill myself with
the gun, but there were no more
bullets.
don’t want to live any more.
I want to be buried with my chil
dren. Hang me right away. I’m
better off dead.”
Russell told Deas that neigh
bors, iriicluding the Wolfes, had
signed a. petition stating he was
unfit to taise the children. He
said he feared the juvenile court
hearing where “they would be
put in jail until they were 21.”
The principal of Allapattah
school, which the children at
tended, described both as “love
ly children” and “very good stu-'
dents.”
and Johnny in the first.
Peggy was in the seventh grade
ROAD
(Continued From Page One)
eluding governors of many states,
are attending the second annual
session with a goal of saving 10,
000 lives in 1947 by accident pre
vention measures.
Judge Florence E. Allen of
Cleveland, for 13 years a member'
of the U. S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals, told the conference that
some states are “still resisting the
inevitable trend toward uniformity
in vehicle codes.”
Dr. George Gallup, statistical
expert, also informed the #-oup
that “support at the top level’’ has
not been forthcoming for the na
tionwide collection and analysis of
accident records “despite our
earnest pleas of last year.”
Judge Allen, one time music ed
itor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
urged that in the 18 months be
fore most state legislatures con
vene again in 1949, committees in
each state should propose any
changes in their laws necessary
to make diem uniform.
Judge, Allen recommended that
all states accept the view that in
asmuch as “motor traffic knows
no state lines, safety requires ab-l
solute uniformity in all rules uf
the road. ’
ENGINEERS
(Continued From Page One)
navigation and complaints have
been made by local navigation in
terests.
The local engineers have re
quested authorization from the
division engineers to remove the
barge as it is believed that this
sunken barge, in its present loca
tion at a point where there is a
very heavy tidal set from Lock
woods Folly Inlet, constitutes a
menace to navigation, and, until
removed, will continue to cause
damage to vessels, with possible
loss of life, particularly if the
navigator is not familiar with con
ditions at this point.”
Notices of wreck location and
channel change have ben distri
buted to all known navigation in
terests, according to the reccom
mendation, but masters and navi
gators of small yachts are not
reached by the usual notice.
Work on removing the barge
awaits the approval of the divi
sion enginers.
MISS CANDY TOXTON, who represented the Press Photographers
of New York, was chosen “Miss National Press Photographer” at the
news cameramen's annual eonvqnliqn m Atlantic City, ft. J. (AP
Xipapbololu
FBI AGENT SAYS
CRIME INCREASING
\_
Gibson Quotes Figures To
Back Up Prediction By
Chief Hoover
•
Civic groups, homes and church
es must share the responsibility
of devising corrective and pre
ventive measures to ' combat the
evergrowing crime wave which is
sweeping this nation, W. H. Gib
son, FBI agent in charge of the
Kinston office told members of the
Wilmington Krwanis club yester
day at their weekly luncheon
meeting.
Gibson spoke in place of John
C. Bills, former agent in charge
of the Charlotte office who re
signed this week and who was ori
ginally scheduled to acidress the
club.
Gibson, quoted figures to show
that the prediction made by J.
Edgar Hoover, FBI director that
! a gigantic crime wave would sweep
! the nation following conclusion of
World War II, had come true in
no uncertain manner.
He not only cited national figures
to back up his statement, but told
Kihvanians that crime in North
Carolina was growing day by day
at an alarming rate.
Hte cited measures that the FBI
has taken to cope with crime in
the United States including the
vast identification service which
has on file 100,000.000 sets of
finger prints; the FBI laboratory
which now employes 225' expert
scientists who use $1,000,000 worth
of equipment for aiding state and
local police to solve crimes, and
thirdly the training schools for
state atid iocal police officials.
Wilbur Dosher reported on the
recent district meeting at Green
vUle at which time the name ol
John Q. LeGrand of the local club
was proposed for next lieutenant
governor of the 7th Kiwanis dis
trict.
J. A. Scott v/as appointed to rep
resent the club on the 1947 Wil
mington. Soap Box Derby adwsory
committee.
PRESIDENT
(Continued From Page One)
dent might swing the crucial vote
to sustain a veto.
Senator Hatch (D-NM) took the
view that there will be a veto and
that “it will be overridden.” How
ever, Senator Ives (R-NY) said:
"I don’t see how it’s at all certain
we could override.”
At the White House, Ayers told
reporters that some 10,000 letters
a day are still coming in from in
dividuals, groups and organiza
tions. He said that through Mon
day there were 157,000 to 158,000
letters, more than 500,000 cards
and 25,000 telegrams.
He said one pile of letters in
the White House mail room is
“larger than a card of wood” 12
feet by five feet by four feet.
Beyond saying mere is a neavy
majority favoring1 a veto,” Ayers
did not estimate the percentages.
Labor union leaders, through
newspaper advertisements and
other mediums, have been urging
a veto and calling on all working
people to ask Mr. Truman to re
ject the measure.
These advertisements strike
most heavily at the bill’s provi
sions against the closed shop and
[permitting government injunctions
I to stall “national emergency"
strikes.
Mr. Truman is reported to be
1 getting conflicting advice from his
| advisers as to whether the injunc
lion clause would be workable in
the event of a soft coal mine
strike this summer.
Meanwhile, about 2.000 union
members from the Washington
area and another 1,000 who arriv
ed in motorcades from as far
away as Los Angeles, gathered to
protest the bill.
They schedule^ a mass meeting
tonight, with the following billed
as speakers against the bill: Sen
atois Pepper (D-Fla), Taylor (D
Idaho) and Downey (D-Calif) and
Raps. Holifield (D-Calif), Douglas
(D-Calif.), Marcantonio (AL-NY)
and Klein (D-NY)
AIRLINES
(Continued From Page One)
Davis, president of .Piedmont
Aviation, will be present. H. K.
Gilbert, Jr., president of States
Airlines, virtually assured officials
of his presence before leaving the
city Tuesday night.
Commissioners and councilmen
wish to hear arguments of Dpv.s
as to why the Piedmont line should
come into Wilmington Instead of
State Airlines.
BRITAIN, FRANCE
PLACE DEADLINE
Two Nations Give Russia
One Week To Join Them
On Marshall Plan
PARIS, June 18 —(£>>—Britain
and France tonight gave the
Soviet union a one-week deadline
in which to join them in spon
soring a unified European recov
ery plan or see the continent’s
reconstruction organized without
the Russians.
Climaxing two days o£ consulta
tions, Ernest Bevin, Britain’s for
eign secretary, and Georges Bi
dault, French foreign minister,
proposed that Soviet Foreign Min
ister V. H. Molotov meet them
during the wek beginning June
23 to discuss the plan of Ameri
can aid proposed by U. S. Secre
tary of State Marshall.
The note to Molotov was dis
patched tonight at the conclusion
of their meetings and it was ob
vious that Bevin and Bidault ex
pected a quidk reply.
Joint Message
The joint message proposed that
the meeting of the three foreign
ministers be held in a “conven
ient” place to be agreed upon, but
it made clear, according to a well
informed British soitrce, that Lon
don or Paris would be the most
convenient.
Officially, both French and Bri
tish representatives said that the
possibility of a Russian refusal to
attend had not even been consid
ered by the two ministers. Pri
vately, reliable sources said Bri
tain and France were determined
to go ahead on the Marshall pro
gram without the Soviets if Mos
cow’s answer was in the negative
or inconclusive.
One British source said, “We
must go ahead. The question is
too urgent.”
CONVERTED
(Continued From Page One)
or ships and the dredging crews
were housed in hotels or rooming
houses and ate in cafes.
Now at least on this “trial trip”,
as it was termed by Frcreigh—
all the dredging equipment need
ed, including pipe lines, pontoon
line?, barges, and pontoon cylind
ers, is loaded on the LST at the
firm’s New Orleans headquarters
and the ship is tewed to> the site
of the project.
In this case—the project is the
million dollar job of increasing
the depth of the Cape Feaa- chan
nel.
The ship’s two 900 horsepower
GM deisel motors are not used
to power the ship because a much
larger crew would be needed than
is necessary when the vessel is
towed, Froreich explained.
At present, about 20 men are
quartered on the ship, but the
number will increase next week
when the company’s dredge, the
G. A. McWilliams, arrives here
to begin the actual dredging. The
crew is expected to increase to
about 100 then.
Loaded on the dedk were 40 pon
toon cylinders and 20 barges.
The ship was easily converted
from a wartime vessel to a
dredging ship, Froneich said. No
changes were made except some
of the wartime equipment was re
moved.
The electric moto^ which was
used by the military" to hoist and
lower tanks and trucks into the
hold is now used to load and un
load dredging equipment.
Other than saving time and
money in transporting equipment
and quartering personnel, the LST
makes the sen going yoyage safer
than does a barge, Froreich said.
The LST will remaiin on the
Cape Fear while the work on the
channel is done unless it is need
ed to transport other . equipment
to the site of another project.
MEASURE
(Continued From Fade One)
ihe legislation is not to .prevent *
Supreme court decision, in that
case.
The Russel amendment provides
that enactment of the Reed- Bul
winkle bill shall not deprive any
party to the suit of relief to which
they would otherwise be entitled.
A number of other amendments,
proposed originally by Senator
O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) and modified
by agreement with Reed, were
adopted by voice vote.
The bill provides that the Inter
state Commerce commission nsust
give prior approval to all rate
making conferences between rail
roads. One of the O’Mahoney-Reeil
changes says that such approval
shaE be conditioned on a finding
that the objective sought is not
“unjustly discriminatory” as be
tween “geographical regions or
areas.”
Another stipulated that no bank
or other financial institution shaE
be a party to any rate-making con
ference or organiaztion.
Anunendment Rejected
Rejected by voice votes were
these amendments:
1. By O’Mahoney, to provide for
prior Congressional approval of
any association of carriers for rate
making, or of any rules issued by
the ICC to govern such procedure.
2. By Senator Taylor (D-Idaho), to
permit individuals or corporations
which claim damages as a result
of rate-making activities to sue
for relief.
3. By Taylor, to set up a new
federal traffic bureau with board
powers to negotiate and make con
tracts for the transportation of aE
government traffic.
~iw
(Continued From Page One)
equipment and procedure in certain
government agencies wherever he
believes a change is desirable.
The appropriations committee in
dicated this action was primarEy
aimed at the maritime commission
which it said, “has apparently de
clined to cooperate in this respect
for almost 10 years.”
There are an average of 139 I
tornadoes every year in the Unit
ed States.
HAHBOME’S MEDITATIONS
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BOLT KILLS FOUR
DAVENPORT, Fla., June 18.
—(A*)— Four persons were kill
ed late today when struck by
lightening during a thunder
storm, the Florida Highway pa
trol reported.
State Patrolman Raymond
Crosby said that John Adair, his
son, little Van Adair, about six,
his brother, G. D. Adair and his
brother’s son, Donald, about 20,
were struck by lightning as they
sought shelter in a small shed
while working in a field.
NO OBJECTION SEEN
TO HOTEL AT BEACH;
ALDERMEN REPORT
Mrs. John A. Snyder, a mem
ber of the Wrightsville Beach
board of aldermen, said last night
that the board knew of no objec
tions to the construction of a $1>
000,000 hotel at the resort as re
ported recently.
“We have not heard of any ob
jection to the construction of the
hotel, but the board is conferring
with engineers in regards to the
dredging of the northern extension
of the beach.” Mrs. Snyder said.
A petition signed by 42 residents
of the beach was presented before
the New Hanover county board of
commissioners Monday morning.
The petition was in objection to
the proposal of a Wilmington real
estate corporation’s plan to
dredge Bank’s channel and built
a real estate project.
“We certainly do not object to
the building of the hotel.” Mrs.
Snyder Said.
Application for permission to
dredge 300,000 cubic yards of ma
terials from Bank’s channel and
deposit it in the proposed new
area, west of the causeway lead
ing to the Wrightsville sewage dis
posal plant was filed sometime
ago with the district enginer.
The petition alleged that the fill
ing in to form grounds for the
development will be harmful to
the flow of water in the channel.
“No action will be taken until
we have a complete report from
the engineers.” Mrs. Synder said
last night.
UNIONS
(Continued From Page One)
of the contract which expired last
Sunday midnight.
In negotiations with cargo and
passenger ship operators, the NMU
originally sought a 20 per cent wage
increase, six weeks’ paid vacations,
| a 40-hour week instead of the pres
ent 48 hours, an increase in the
number of men hired for each ship,
a health and welfare fund and an
increase in the number of holidays
granted.
Progress Reported
In the early morning hours to
day, Gibson announced “consider
able progress” had been made af
ter a series of talks which began
last night. He never succeeded af
staging a joint meeting at this
parley.
The American Association of rail
roads yesterday clamped an em
bargo on all freight shipments des
tined for American ships in the
nation’s ports.
The stoppage has not affected
loading and unloading of ships on
either coast but the CIO unions
have sought to prevent sailing of
all ships operated by lines with
which their contracts expired last
Sunday midnight.
More vessels have been affected
on the East than West coast since
most ships in the Pacific are
manned by AFL seamen.
DISPUTE SETTLEMENT
ANNOUNCEP
WEW YORK, June 18—W—Set
tlement of a dispute between At
laniifc and Gulf Coast tanker lines
and "the CIO national maritime
union which threatened extension
of the current work stoppage of
CIO seihmen was announced today
as ship operators and union lead
ers met in further negotiations over
the larger dispute.
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Key West _ 85 “ ft
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Phoenix _® ii
Pittsburgh __J1 -.
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Raleigh _' so l5. .03
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nv and workers, together t0.aiPl
more than $240,000 to comrnuni,
chest campaigns. The annual rJ
Cross roll call benefited to the '
tent of ' $112,218. other agenck*
and instituuons which received l>
nancial assistance were the Yount
Men's Christian association, \y *
mington hospitals and churches
Purchase of war bonds was done
on a .large scale. Employees
bought in the amount of $2o!W
275, maturity value. Of tha‘
amount, $19,021,450 was done
through payroll deductions.
Uncle Sam awarded the nation!
treasury "Minute Man” flag t0
company on January j. 1043
Later, the coveted "T" was added
to the former honor. 1
* * ¥ i
SUMMARY -The shipyard was
the greatest single factor to :ne
huge increase in population in Wil
mington end New Hanover cour,
ty. Its gross payroll in 1943. pea*
year of employment, came to $52,.
390,140. That steady stream ol
funds v/as felt not only in the im
meidate community but through
out southeastern North Carolina.
Employees, company official*
point out, entered the civic md
community life of this area »nd
added much to it. They assumed
their responsibilities, not only as
workers, but as communi’y resi-,
dents. They built ships for the
I war effort, developing from un
trained workers to highly skilled
ones and have left their mark in
the community, the state, tht
south and the nation.
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