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JWTZ CASE MAY
NOT BE DECIDED
| UNTIL SEPTEMBER
RALEIGH, Aug. 19 — UP,—The
question of criminal prosecution
in the case of R. L. Fretz, Jr.,
principal of the Hudson school in
Caldwell county, probably will not
be decided until early in Septem
ber.
Attorney General Harry McMul
lan said' today that solicitor
James C. Farthing of Lenoir had
informed him that his Superior
Court duties would keep him busy
until that time. McMullan last
week wrote Farthing asking the
solicitor to confer with him on
fion of Fritz, who is president of
«e question of criminal prosecu
fhe N. C. Education association.
The State Eoard of Education
m August 5 ordered Fritz’s teach
ing certificate revoked after an
Investigation in which he was
charged with mis-applying $1,642,
19 in state funds. Fritz, who
promptly repaid the amount, as
serted the funds were used to pay
teachers for extra work.
Meanwhile, the Caldwell county
board of education has appointed
a committee to come here to ask
McMullan and state school offi
cials for an “interpretation and
clarification’’ on the state board's
order revoking Fritz’s teaching
Certificate.
DIVORCEE
C(>onnnuea irum x
George for years. You got me
fright on my lunch hour and my
froffee is getting cold. I’ve got to
pet back to my lunch and back
to work.”
She works in a packing plant.
Mrs. Bollard said the couple
&ad rented a furnished room
where they will live until they can
buy a house.
At a press conference later,
George did most of the talking
while his bride-to-be beamed ap
provingly.
George said he didn’t date
tnuch before going ^out with Mrs.
Thompson, although be did go
steady with a “younger girl” for
about six months.”
“That wasn’t serious, though,”
fee said, adding, “but this is. If
marriage isn’t serious I don’t
know what is.”
George refused to comment on
ifhe difference in their ages. He
and Mrs. Thompson posed oblig
ingly for photographs on the front
pteps of their ramshackle home
ontil George decided it was time
to eat supper.
"You can’t live on love alone,”
fee said. “You guys will find that
out.”
Mrs. Thompson separated from
£er first husband, Frank, last No
vember. She charged he hit her
on the chin, knocked her down in
<he street, and “used his feet on
pie.” She was granted a divorce
June 9.
George, who will be 18 in Octo
ber, has lived with Mrs. Bollard'
all his life- His mother is dead,
pnd his father gave hie approval
tor the marriage.
On the marriage license appli
ration. Mrs. Thompson listed her
age as 35, but social security rec
ords sa.id she will be 43 next
March.
j * “IT S SAFE”
(Continued from Page One)
her ads. Not only does she give
a full description of the act, but
the applicant is warned that she
"must be willing to travel, in
eluding South Ameiica and Austra
lia, must sign a liability release
tor all damages, and be ready to
travel with Miss Howe upon the
completion of her program.”
‘‘I don’t know wiiat more I could
tell them,” said the brown-eyed
Cherokee Indian girl, who once
spent six weeks in a wheel-chair
fchen the death-aerylng stunt back
tired.
Miss Howe, 29 years old and
weighing 118 pounds, was a beau
tician in Florida when she joined
the show which features her act.
“Guess I thought more about the
jooney than the danger,” she said.
As for the danger, she said she
•ever gives it a second thought.
“You don’t get second thoughts
ik this business.”
The blast, which causes audK
•oces to shudder and fear the
kliDrst, “isn’t as bad as it seems,”
•he explained.
“I put cotton in my ears to pro
tect my car drums, and the con
cession sometimes blacks me out
anywhere from one to seven min
wtes. But when I come to, 1 feel
like eating a steak and getting a
food night’s sleep.”
Miss Howe is billed under her
teal name.
"But there are times,” she said
■©mewhat ruefully, “when I think
I ought to change it to Helen
9one.”
; SENATOR BILBO
jlS
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■toa ending Bilbo’s fight to be
Mated in the 80th Congress.
Bilbo underwent the first of a
Mries of operations for removal
2 aancer from his jaw last Janu
ary, He has returned, intermit
tently, to Foundation hospital for
Sastic surgery to restore that part
his jaw.
Since the development of the em
Slism, however, Bilbo’s physi
ins have concentrated on com
batting the new complication.
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PROSECUTOR’S WIFE EXONERATED—Garland County Prose
cutor Sidney McMath (left), and his wife Anne, 26, leave the court
house at Hot Springs, Ark., after a special grand jury session re
turned a “no true bill” against Mrs. McMath for the fatal shooting
of her father-in-law, Hal P. McMath, 56. The grand jury report,
signed after 13 hours of deliberation, declared “after examining all
facts and circumstances, it is our own opinion the action of Sirs.
Anne McMath was justified.” (AP Wirephoto).
U. S. SUPPORT
(Continued from Page One)
the Indonesian republic.” The
several nations asked:
1. China, in a surprise maneu
ver, formally asked the council to
adopt The Netherlands’ “third
party” plan and the Unites States
supported the move. The Chinese
plan was handed in as an amend
ment to an Australian proposal for
sending UN observers to Indone
sia to report compliance with the
council’s cease-fire order.
2. The United States and Russia
split sharply on the whole ques
tion, with Gromyko calling for
prompt UN arbitration and medi
ation of the dispute, as Indone
sia asked, and Johnson warning
against going any farther than the
UN’s cease-fire order of Aug. 1.
3. Sjahrir, who helped organize
the Indonesian republic after the
Japanese occupation, flatly re
jected the Dutch plan and — by
implication — turned down Ameri
ca’s offer of its “good offices” if
those “good offices” rule out UN
arbitration of the dispute.
Gromyko tore into the United
States’ “strange” and “repeated”
offers of its good offices to the
Indonesian repuDiic. ne said me
American pressure showed a
“lack of esteem for the Indone
sians” and “lack of respect for
the security council.”
“Not only Indonesia but the se
curity council cannot overlook the
fact that the United States has
economic interests In Indonesia,”
Gromyko said.
Johnson replied with unusual
calm that there was “no question
whatever of any pressure on the
government of Indonesia.” He
said he was sorry that Gromyko
“found it necessary to attribute
all sorts of motives to us that
we never thought of.”
Thus the “war of suspicion” be
powers, which already has block
tween Russia and the western
ed UN action in the Balkans and
will keep 10 countries out of the
world organization this year,
seemed certain to prevent any
further decisive UN action in In
donesia.
MARSHALLTALKS
(Continued from Page One)
lion.*.
2— The general work and abjec
tives of the current Inter-Ameri
can defense conference here.
3— General world political prob
lems.
4 — Argentina’s proposal for a
special economic conference.
5—Cuba’s proposal for inclusion
of economic aggression in the de
fenee treaty and MexicoV pro
posal that the Bogota conference
next January consider Inter
American economic co-operation.
Marshall was believed to have
pointed out to Bramuglia the ur
gent importance of shewing a
united front of all 21 American
Republics in view of the world
situation and the widening split
between Russia and the western
world.
me uruled state* chiel delegate
ie expected to follow this up with
a similar appeal for unity, and
for a non-veto defense treaty, in
an address tomorrow before a
plenary session of the Inter-Amer
ican defense conference.
Preparing for the speech, which
he spent much of the day w^ing,
Marshall conferred with his chief
aidee for nearly two hours early
this evening, going over detailed
points of the defense treaty. He
had discussed earlier the general
ideas of his speech with the con
gressional delegates accompany
ing him.
Unless he changes his plans,
Marshall’s speech i» likely to be
one oi fewer than 1,000 words.
But it will be of world Impor
tance.
It is expected that Senora Eva
Peron, wife of President Juan D.
Peron, will be an honored guest
at the session, at the $15,000,000
Quitandinha hotel, to hear the
speech.
In addition to the happy result
of the Marshall - Brarnuglia talk,
the conference took a big step
forward when its committee no,
2 agreed to adopt, as a working
I basis, a Pan-American union sum
' mary of the suggested defense
1 treaty drafts submitted to the con
ference In advance by eight na
tions.
Marshall eaKed en Braroufllu
at 10:30 a.m., and they talked for
an hour. It was the first such
meeting of American and Argen
tine secretaries of state at an In
ternational conference in sev
en years, since the two countries’
foreign policies started to diverge
in the early days of World War
II.
Apparently authoritative
sources had said Friday tba1 Mar
shall and Bramuglia conferred
briefly the night before. But it
was made known officially today
that this was incorrect.
After the talk with Marshall,
Bramuglia said the time and
place for an economic conference
were not important and intimated
that he would support the United
States plan to postpone talk on
economics until the ninth Inter
American conference at Bogota,
Colombia, next January.
Marshall said only that he and
Bramuglia “exchanged views on
all points of the defense treaty.”
But Batin-American sources pre
dicted that as the result oi the
talk the defense conference was
practically ‘‘buttoned up” as re
gards major problems.
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg, R..
Mich., chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
represented the United States on
committee no. 2 which adopted
the Pan American union num
mary as the draft for a defense
treaty. The decision to accept the
basic draft came after Vanden
berg urged the committee to
speed up.
The committee aleo allotted 48
hours in which delegations might
submit amendments to tne basic
draft or new proposals. The com
mittee will meet again Tiiursday
after the 48-hour deadline has
been passed. The committee then
will be able to start at once on,
drafting treaty article for ap
proval in plenary conference ses
sion.
There was no meeting of the
conference as a whole today and
in intervals between his diplomat
ic conferences and talks with his
aid«t Marshall wrote his speech
for tomorrow.
It wae understood that, in his
talks with other Secretaries of
State Marshall for one thing urg
ed against any attempt at making
the Inter-American treaty an anti
communist pact. He is said to
have urged that a display of soli
darity was the best bulwark
against communism.
ATTLEE MAY
(Continued from Page One)
dercd to discuss the Washington
loan revision talks. Attlee himself
left Londan today to resume his
vacation in Wales.
"Mr. Attlee’s health has been de
teriorating for some time x x x,"
the Mail said. "While delegating
authority, Mr. Attlee has always
insisted on doing a tremendous
amount of desk work. This has led
to nervous exhaustion.
“Without doubt, the present un
rest within the labor party, and his
inability to placate the would-be
rebels in the past three weeks,
must have reinforced Mr. Attlee’s
decision to heed medical advice."
Attlee faced a severe test of his
party leadership last week in a
private meeting of labor members
of Parliament when he was report
ed to have won an endorsement of
his steel nationalization plan by the
narrow margin of four votes, with
more than 100 Laborites abstain
ing.
A group of left-wing Parlia
mentarians demanded that the gov
ernment proceed at the next ses
sion of parliament to nationalize
Britain’s vital steel industry. At
tlee, informed sources said, won
his demand that the cabinet be al
lowed to decide when to proceed
with the plan in view of the cur
rent economic crisis.
AAF RESHUFFLES
(Continued from Page One)
military government for Germany.
Maj. Gen. Lucas Victor Beau,
Jr., now with the AAF’s European
Air Transport Service, returns
here for re-assignment, as does
Brig. Gen. William F. McKee, for
mer commanding general of head
quarters command with the U. S.
Air Forces in Europe.
Brig. Gen. Edward J. Timber
lake, named chief of the opera
tions division in the office of as
sistant chief of air staff for opera
tions at AAF headquarters.
Brig, Gen. Ernest Moore, ap.
jointed, to replace 3rig, <Gea.
Charles P. Cabell on the United !
Nations military staff committee.
Cabell returns for re-assignment.
Brig. Gen. John P. McConnell,
assigned to head the Reserve and
National Guard division of the
assistant chief of air staff for 1
operations office at AAF head
quarters. He formerly was chief
of the air division cf the Ameri
can advisory group in China.
Maj. Gen. Robert W. Douglass, i
Jr., appointed commanding gen- ,
eral of the Air Training Com- j
mand’s indoctrination division at
San Antonio, Tex. He formerly
commanded the First Air Force
and served under the joint chiefs
of staff after returning from ‘he
Pacific.
Brig. Gen. Aubry Lee Moore,
who formerly served in Furope, ;
named commanding general of
Williams Field, Ariz.
Brig. Gen. Carl D. McDaniel,
former chief of staff of the Sev
enth Air Force at Hawaii, named
commanding general of the Aerial
Observer - Bombardier school at
Mather Field, Calif.
Brig. Gen. Donald F. Stace, for
mer commander of the Seventh
Air Force, named chief of the
Procurement and Industrial Plan
ning division in the office of as
sistant chief of Air Staff for ma
terial at AAF headquarters.
RAClAlT
(Continued from Page One)
termed the incident here as “un
fortunate” but said the fellowship
would take no action to have the
students return here.
The organization, which makes
its headquarters at Chapel Hill,
was described as a church group
with a membership of about 450,
many of them ministers, teachers
and social workers in 13 southern
states.
The fellowship, Miss Morton
said, works through three cor
missions:
1. Rural reconstruction; 2.
Christian fellowship (racial and
religious problems); and 3.
church and labor.
Two weeks ago, Miss Morton
said, the group in summer con
ference at Pleasantville, Tenn..
adopted a strong statement oppos
ing communism.
The executive secretary said
the group of white students had
been invited here by S. P. Dean,
former Negro high school princi
pal and head of a cooperative
credit union. The original purpose
of the students’ work project,
Miss Morton said, was to build
a community cannery but that
their work later was shifted to
an office building for the credit
union.
The whije group came here “in
all good faith,” Miss Morton said
sne added that she thoughi the
building -would be completed by
managers of the credit uniion.
In Raleigh, Governor R. Gregg
Cherry said: "I don’t know of
anything I can d-o about it.” He
said he had heard about the inci
dent before it was reported in
newspapers.
GEN. ASSEMBLY
(Continued from Page One)
preceded the vetoes, thundered
after the vote that the United
States and Australian proposals
were only part of * a political
game” being played in southeast
ern Europe by the countries of the
west.
Then Gromyko lit the fuse for
another fight by insisting that the
disposal of the western powers’
resolutions meant automatic dis
olution of the temporary UN in
vestigating commission being
maintained in the Balkans “pend
ing a new decision” of the coun
cil.
Britain’s Sir Alexander Cadogan
and deputy American Delegate
Hersche V. Johnson shot back
that the Russian was mistaken. So
did council President Faris El
Khouri of Syria.
There the question was left
hanging as El Khouri tapped the
gavel to end the stormy session.
In both cases, nine of the seen
ity council’s 11 members vuied
‘yes” and Gromyko, supported
only by the delegate of Poland,
dealt the coup d’etat with the sim
ple raising of his right arm.
Only 24 hours earlier he had
used the great power veto three
straight times to keep Portugal.
Ireland and Trans-Jordan out of
the United Nations. It was the
most concerted use of the veto
and the most explosive 24-hour
period in the UN’s history.
It was Gromyko’s third veto in
21 days in the festering dispute
over the Balkans. On July 29 he
killed the majority - supported
American plan to install a UN
border watch in Greece for two
years under the “peaceful settle
ment” section of the UN charter.
At the climax of two hours of
futile speechmaking by the Slav
bloc today he used Balkan veto
No. 2 to kill the Australian propo
sition which would have branded
the situation a threat to peace
and, without placing any blame,
would have called on all four gov
ernments to cease provocations
and would have sent a team of
UN observers to patrol the Bal
kans borders.
Forty - five minutes later,
Gromyko’s "no” vote killed a
similar American proposal which
would have directly blamed Al
bania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
for the trouble in northern
Greece.
POLICE CONTINUE
(Contlnnedfrom Page One)
police again renewed their ap
peal for any persons in hotels,
rooming houses or similiar estab
lishments who may have known
of the birth of a baby in such a
place to report the matter to au
thorities.
However, as time slipped away,
detectives said they have reason
to believe the child may have
brought here by bus and died or
been born in another city and
brought here by bus and died or
was smothered enroute.
BITES DUST
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 19—(JP)—
Laura Wible of Greensboro N C
was defeated 6-0, 6-1 today in'sec
ond round piay in the National
ublic Parks Tennis tournament
c?l?d's®eded Mwceina Parker
oi St. Louig.
SCHEME TO DEFRAUD
BANK IS REVEALED
BY LOCAL POLICE
__
Craig W. Shuping today faces a
charge of forgery and false pre
tenses, according to police, as the
result of attempting to collect
funds from the Bank of Wilming
:Qn on another man’s account.
In a telegram from Salisbury,
shuping first asked and procured
glOO from the bank, representing
limself as Ira A. Hines of Carolina
Beach. That was Saturday, E. A
Lanev president of the bank told
police, they said. A second tele
gram was sent last Saturday re
questing S250.
Bank officials became suspicious
and refused the funds, police said
Lanev told them. Shuping’s arrest
followed. He will face charges in
Wilmington.
CADIZBLAST
(Continued from Page One)
search of the tumbled piles of
masonry in the city and the ashes
of scores of fires, the last of which
was not put out until 3:30 p. m. to
day.
Mayor Sanchez Cossic estimated
that 200 were killed and 5.000 to
6.000 injured. Newspapermen sur
veying the ruins believed that at
least 500 must have died as ex
plosions shook the countryside like
earth-quakes and fires roared un
checked.
An undetermined number of 700
workers on the night shift in the
torpedo factory, where the explo
sion started, were buried. A de- .
tachment of soldiers quartered be
tween the San Severino and San
Jose districts — the two devastated
areas — and the main part of the
city were reported to have “disap
peared.”
The main part of Cadiz, which
the Phoenicians were supposed to
have started building as early as
1100 B. C., escaped serious dam
age. It is on a narrow spit that
extends about three miles into
the sea, while the San Severino
and San Jose districts lie between
it and the mainland.
Mayor Sanchez Cossio said the
explosions started in the state tor
pedo factory, about 9:30 last night.
Near it was a submarine defense
base where the mines, of the bail
like, horned type, were stored. To
the left of the submarine defense
base was a shipyard, where a 60.
000.000 Pesota f about $600,0001
tanker under construction was de
stroyed.
Fires mounted high into the sky.
The mines started to explode as
more buildings were shaken down
and more fires started. They
quickly spread into the San Sev
erino and San Jose district, vhere
2.000 people, most of them poor,
lived.
me water supply anu cite.*
power failed. In response to fran-!
tic appeals from a single radio
transmitter, soldiers and police
ft om the mainland were rushed in.
Rescue workers and firefighters
came by ship from nearby ports.
But because of the lack of water
and continual explosions, it was
difficult to fight the fires.
Correspondents of a Spanish
News agency reported that a ma
ternity home was destroyed, that
the Cadiz cathedral was damaged
and its sacred images broken.
They said an old people’s home
was destroyed, along with the
municipal bull-fighting stadium
and that the explosion blew an
army officer from his bed into
the water.
Mayor Sanchez Cossio said it
was the worst disaster of its kind
in Spain since 1893, when the ship
Cabo de Machichaco, loaded with
dynamite, blew up in Santander
harbor and killed or injured 400
persons.
The explosions and fire brought
panic among the pedple of the
San Severino and San Jose dis
tricts. Many of them fled and re
ports from neighboring towns said
“dozens” of wounded had arrived
and were being treated.
It still was chaotic in Cadiz to
night. Hundreds of rescue workers
with picks and shovels were work
ing frantically amid the ruins,
hoping that some injured might
be rescued before they died.
Naval experts said it was im
possible for them to teil what
caused the torpedoes to explode.
They said torpedoes were notori
ously unstable and required con
stant care. For instance, they said,
they had'to be constantly wiped to
get away drippings they exuded,
and failure to wipe them or care
lessness in wiping them might
have caused an explosion.
“In view of so many other pos
sibilities,” they said, it would take
an exhaustive examination to tell
whether there was any indication
of sabotage.
Cadiz is Spain’s main south .'in
port, and in 1940 had a populat on
of 87,767. In its day, it was one of
the greatest ports in the world.
See CADIZ on Page Two
QUICK ACTION
(Continued from Page one)
ported that roving “terrorists”
sniped at Dutch patrols.
The Indonesians reported clash
es with the Dutch along the South
Salatiga front, but did not men
tion unusual severity in the fight
ing. They said there were other
clashes with the Dutch near Gom
bong and that the Dutch had ad
vanced to Poering, which is near
the coast and eight miles south
east of Gombong.
The Dutch said that the fighting
appeared to be growing in size
and intensity. The Indonesians’
radio at Jogjakarta said the Re
public was afraid the Netherlands
forces were going to reopen their
drive against remaining Indone
sian territory.
Radio Jogjakarta called upon
the United Nations Security Coun
cil to send an arbitration commis
sion at once to the East Indies. It
said that was the only v.ay to
settle the dispute.
“With deepest anxiety the Re
pulibc informs you (The Security
Council) that during the last few
days Dutch cease - fire violations
increased considerably and at
several places Dutch forces un
dertook well-planned military op
erations,” radio Jogjakarta said.
“The Republic fears that Dutch
forces not only will no longer re
spect the cease-fire but will resort
to large-scale military operations
against the Indonesians with the
purpose of occupying all Republi
can territory.'* '
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brought in by the farmers contin
ued to decline with more common
to fair cutters and nondescript
and less choice and fine being of
fered to the buyers.
The volume of sales was light
Tuesday, and most market*; clear
ed their floors before noon.
Averages registered Tuesday on
a limited number of U. S. grades
follow:
Leaf: fair lemon $4». down S3,
fair orange $42, down 1; common
orange $26, down $5; common
green $19, down $1.50.
Cutters: Good lemon $59, un
changed; fair lemon $58, up $1;
fair orange $57, up $1; low or
ange $54, unchanged.
Lugs: Choice lemon $57, un
cbangeld; fair lemon $43, up $1;
good orange $50, up $1; low or
ange $30, up $3.
Primings: Fair lemon $33. un
changed; low lemon $29, up $4;
fair orange $32, down S2.
Nondescript: best thin $13, up
$1.25.
POUNDS INCREASE
TABOR CITY, August 19 — To
bacco poundage increased on the
local market Monday and Tues
day with combined sales aggre
gating 400,000 pounds.
Average price increased a dol
' lar Monday over last Fridays av
! erage of S47.00 per hundred
I pounds. However todays average
I fell off approximately fifty cents
on the hdndred.
Better grades appeared Monday
than today when lower quality to
bacco was reported to make up
the largest portion of sales. Stab
ilization is taking approximately
12 per cent.
John W. Barrow, sales supervi
sor of the Tabor City market said
he doesn’t anticipate block sales
for at least ten days. Growers are
curing their tobacco and in many
caees tobacco has yet to be grad
ed and tied.
GENERAL LEE
(Continued From Page One)
visits to Army-requisitioned hotel*
in Viareggio, inspection of the
Army’s outdoor prison near Pisa
and informal talks with soldiers
and officers.
Lee said he had invited Maj.
Gen. Ira T. Wyche, Inspector Gen
eral, here to conduct an investi
gation.
Before the statement was put
in its agreed form by newsmen
and Lee, this correspondent asked
him to define his basic mission
here. Lee replied:
“My basic mission is to main
tain and supply troops in Italy
and in the disputed border pro
vince of Venezia Giulia until rati
jfication of the peace treaty.”
He sidetracked the question con
cerning his mission in the event
of hostilities involving Russian
satellites or Russian troops along
the Italian border, smilingly say
ing that in such an event “1 would
carry on.”
Lee and the newsmen framed
the general’s statment defining the
attacks “an injustice to the U. S.”
after a rough draft had called
them “a disservice to the country.”
Although Lee and his staff re
fused officially to respond to ques
tions regarding the potential ef
fects of the articles, they careful
ly pointed out that the stay of U. S.
troops in Italy may be indefinite
rather than temporary in view of
Russia’s delay in ratifying the
peace treaty.
Unofficially, several high-ranking
staffers described the articles “in
opportune” in view of "the woc
sening relations with Russia.” One
staff member, in an off-the-record
talk, sugested that the attack may
be “communist-inspired.”
“It is worth investigating who
is interested in knocking down our
army in times like these,” this of
ficer said.
Lee said that the attacks came
at a time when he badly needed
replacements, money, munitions
and supplies, and added that they
were “bad for the morale of the
entire command.”
BRITISH LOAN
(Continued From Page One)
almost entirely jf civil service
technical experts.
It also stirred speculation that
Britain, faced with the imminent
exhaustion of the $3,750,000,000
loan obtained here last year,
might be seeking further Ameri
can help to carry her through the
coming winter months, possibly
via the export-import bank.
Members of the American dele
gation, headed by Treasury Secre
tary John W. Snyder, declined to
comment on that possibility. The
British group stood pat on its orig
inal declaration that it had not
been instructed to negotiate for a
new loan but merely to ask for
relaxation of the terms of the ex
isting credit.
It was presumed, however, that
Inverchapel would bring new in
structions from his government.
Both Snyder and the chief oi
the British mission. Sir Wilfred
Eady, declined to comment on the I
progress of the negotiations to
date, but it appeared that both:
delegations were marking the time
awaiting the ambassador’s arrival.
Also shelved temporarily was
the thorny question of the new 75
per cent British tax on American
movies and Hollywood’s retalia
tory embargo on Shipments of
American films to Britain.
Officials of the Motion Picture
association of America said they
expected to meet shortly with the
British delegation in an effort to
work out a compromise. Erie
Johnston, president of the MPAA,
was expected to come here from
Hollywood for the meeting.
The Hollywood producers con
tend the 75 per cent tax violated
the provisions of the American
loan agreement, and their position
has been supported by British
movie-makers who have been un
able to produce enough pictures
to meet their domestic demand.
The British government imposed
the tax to help conserve its dwin
dling reserve of American dollars.
VFW, MOOSEMEN
GAIN TRIUMPHS
Although LeRoy Towles twirled
a six-hit ball game for Senior
Fraternity in the first half of a
Hanover league doubleheader at
Robert Strange field last night,
the Moose’s Branch went him one
better with a two-hit, 5-0 victory.
Branch gave up hits to Towles and
Anderson, both singles. In the sec
ond game VFW snatched an 11-10
win from Post Office by scoring
five runs in the last half of the
seventh inning.
Branch had an excellent batting
support from Thibideau in the
opener. The Moose slugger rapped
out two singles, a double and a
triple for a perfect night at the
plate. In addition, he scored three
of his team’s runs. Moose notched
single tallies in the first, second,
third fifth and sixth inning.
VFW’s Zackowitz rammed home
the tieing and winning runs in the
last inning of the second game to
earn Waiter Murphree his 11-10
victory. Murphree gave up only six
hits to the, Mailmen, but walked
six batters to keep himself. Post
Office had gone ahead, 10-6, in
the first part of the inning with a
four-run splurge.
GOVERNOR FOLSOM
(Continued From Page One)
own last night in an Alabama Na
tional Guard C-47.
He visited the Warren cabin at
Uplifters’ ranch last night.
He called again today and lunch
ed with Miss Warren and her sis
ter, Dorothy, at the Beverly Wil
shire hotel.
Virginia’s mother said the girl
planned t< see Folsom “this even
ing” too, but she didn’t know
exactly what their plans were.
The Alabama Governor talked
to a reporter just long enough to
reveal that he and Miss Warren
were going dancing tonight.
“No comment” was his answer,
however, to questions about a ro
mance and where they planned to
dance.
The Weather
Weather bureau report of temperature
and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8
p. m., in the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere:
Station High Low Precip.
WILMINGTON _ 33 73 —
Alpena _ S3 70 .25
Asheville_ 88 65 —
Atlanta _ 36 69 .20
Atlantic City_ 79 70 —
Birmingham_ 87 73 —
Boston_ 90 65 —
Buffalo _I- 87 73 .04
Burlington _ 84 70 —
Chattanooga _ 88 71 .05
Chicago_ 99 76 —
Cincinnati __ 97 71 —
Cleveland ___ — 72 —
Dallas _ 90 76 —
Denver - 88 56 —
Detroit _ 95 77 —
Duluth _ 66 60 —
El Paso _ _ 87 75 —
Fort Worth_ 97 75 —
Galveston_ 89 77 —
Houston _ 92 73 — I
Jacksonville _ 88 72 .54
Kansas City_ 99 79 —
Key West_II 81 73 .25
Knoxville _ 91 68 —
Little Rock_ 98 74 —
Los Angeles _ 81 58 —
Louisville _ 93 74 — !
Memphis_ 97 74 — |
Miami _ 80 70 1.28
Minn.-St. Paul_a__ 87 73 .09
Mobile _ 82 72 .35
Montgomery _ 88 72 —
New Orleans___ 85 75 .06
New York _ 92 67 —
Norfolk _ 86 71 —
Philadelphia _ 87 69 —
Phoenix _ 107 75 —
Pittsburgh _ 91 70 —
Portland, Me. _ 90 61 —
Richmond _ 89 72 —
1 St. Louis_ 98 77 —
San Antonio_ 96 71 —
San Francisco _ 71 57 —
Savannah _ 88 71 — '
Seattle_ 71 50 —
Tampa _ 87 68 .24
Vicksburg _I_ 93 70 .12
Washington _ 90 72 —
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—(U.PJ—
Weather forecast:
Lower Potomac and Chesapeake
Bay — South to southwest winds 8
to 12 MPH Wednesday. Partly
cloudy weather with a few show
ers.
Maryland. Delaware, Virginia
and New Jersey — Partly cloudy
and somewhat warmer with scat
tered thundershowers Wednesday.
Thursday mostly cloudy followed
by cooler.
Eastern Pennsylvania and west
ern Pennsylvania — Mostly cloudy
and continued warm and humid
with scattered showers Wednes
day. Thursday mostly cloudy fol
lowed by cooler.
Eastern New York — Fair and
cooler north portion cloudy with
scattered showers south portion
Wednesday. Thursday fair cooler
in south portion.
Western New York — Consider
able cloudiness with scattered
showers and somewhat cooler
Wednesday. Thursday fair and a
little cooler.
Block Island to Cape Hatteras—
Gentle variable wind” with partly
cloudy and scattered showers
Wednesday.
A pipe was called “tobago” by
the Italians. Columbus mistook the
word for the name of the weed
and called it tobacco. .
NATION SWELTERS
(Continued from Page On,.-,
air mass moving h
ada. " ‘r°m r_.
Meanwhile, th
brothers, all ex-sr- !;
nounced that th. . " aa
heavy rain today over -- “ l
mile area by dropping - ;T-='=
dry ice into a cloud u ■■ ;
City, a firm of cr r - V- V;- ■:
tors said they hed aprfng
new "cloud treatmen i
which has given them
cent batting average
ing to date. j
Relief was expected in •
west today and I . , ' '
air mass was movie;
Canada and was ex -
Iowa and Minnesota tc
The usual hot 2 --- ,
in infantile paralysis was S**
in a nation-wide surve
but the number of
below last year’s ney. ' °s ls- I
Three straight day* 0f opp..,.; I
heat prompted man-.- 0ffhV ,r‘ I
ers to skip work and en t ' I
beaches and parks. Chicago w!? I
es were crowded day and nigh?4 I
In Detroit. ove:h „ td ^ f
at automobile plan:* . tKe-! I
their jobs. Almost 28,000 we?? ? I
yesterday in strike* a ■ [
resulting from high temper?-,°Bs I
and a shortage of r„ die* ,7;es i
by earlier walkouts.
Chrysler Corporation Wa, . ^
est hit, with more tr.a t ">■) om'°ra'
ployes off the job. General Mr,?0
Corp. sent home 1.450 worker, f!
the Briggs Manufacturing 7 4 ■
any laid off 4,500. The tempe-an
m Detroit was 93 and edging 7-'
About 1,400 employe, of the tv
Assets administration a: Cleveb?
were sent home after 30 person,'?
their office had been overcon-7...
the heat. Th tcmprature -7
city hit a new high for Augu'7':«
of 98 degrees, eclipsing a prelU
high of 96 set Monday. ‘ "
Throughout larger cities s;vr
ering residents crowded ai;-.'COc>'
ed movies, and office worke-’*
dawdled over their lunches in a::'
conditioned restaurants.
The corn crop, already cut fcv
spring floods and the heat, tac.
ly needed a soaking rain .
experts said serious impairment cl
the crop was expected unless pier.:;'
ful rains came quickly.
Scattered thundershowers in
midwest today brought a little
lief to localized areas but were:;:;
enough to help crops.
The survey of polio showed th:
the incidence of the disease
considerably below last year
throughout most of the nation. &
ceptions were Idaho, Delaware t-;
Pennsylvania.
In Idaho, state authorities p;
pared to set up an emergency c:
mittee in an effort to halt a
spread of the disease. Sixty css:
were reported in the state, comp;
ed with only 11 at the same fa
last year.
Pennsylvania authorities rep?::
ed 96 cases so far this year, com
pared with 85 up to August 191!
last year. Physicians were net
alarmed, however, and recarcd
the number of cases as norm;:.
Nineteen cases were reported a
York county, Pennsylvania, t::
health officials did not regard r
situation as an epidemic.
A state of emergency comm::-:*
was formed in Delaware after
cases, all but two affecting ct -
dren, were reported to phvsici;:.
there. A section of the Wilrr.hr
Del., General hospital was re:c.
ed for polio cases
ATOMIC RESEARCH
(Continued from Page Onp)
project in Newark. N. J-, charged
in her suit that she became
through exposure to uranium and
other fissionable and radioactive
materials while working on atom
ic research.
She asked $100,000 lor injuries
suffered while working ;n the plant
and an additional $100,000 on
grounds that the company Jailed
to provide effective means and
methods of protection.
Harry Cohn, of Newark, t'-sl
Burns’ counsel, said every effort
had been made to get her testi
mony in writing and the results o!
a complete physical examination
were recorded as evidence, tie
said the trial of the suit was tv
pected to take place this fati w.J
Miss Burns’ administrator subs
tuted as plaintiff.
TEACHERS’SALARt
(Continued from Page One)
salaries be based on ra ngs m--'
be eliminated,” he said.
Kuenzli accused the Nations
Education Association of "camr
ing on an active campaii ' '
attempt to stop the rapid grow^
of the AFL. Some of the NEA
aganda.” he added, "has been W
ed on false statements and wish
thinking.”
Kuenzli’s report showed
AFT gained 10.000 members o'-f
ing- the 1946-47 fiscal year.
"This is one of the large” e«
in membership in white colls r
ions in the history of o—a”iz
labor in the United State?,
said. _
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