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Where newi li ray- pressed there Is anarchy; where news is controlled there is fear; only where news is free are human free. Published in the Heart of 'the Dairying art ImdnslHal Centers of Piedmont North STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF UNITED FEATURE SERVICE Weather NORTH CAROLINA Partly cloudy today and tonight. Not much change in temperature. Thursday clear. VOL.

16 NO. 210 N. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1946.. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Veterans Service Groups Hold Called Meeting FULL INDEMNITIES ARE DEMANDED DEATH OF FLIERS School Board Orders Lots To Be Resold Routine Business Handled At Meeting Litfle more than routine business was handled at the regular meeting of the Iredell county Board of Education yesterday. Among other items of business the Troutman school lots, sold at auction August 17.

were ordered readvertised for sals, thp rosale to be Saturday. September 21 at the courtUpuse. Reverting to the former sale, bidding will be opened at $3,22875. The sale opens at noon on (he date set. The board approved construction of work shop and classroom at both the Celeste "Henkcl and Cool Spring schools.

Actual construction will begin as soon as building plans are perfected. MissHazel Pauline Oliphant, at present a regular flora? Economics teacher in the Celeste Henkei schools, has been approved as an instructor in the same subject but under a vocational classification. A committee of Frank Bess and Ernest McHargue appeared br- fore (he board with a request that the school bus route for the Central be extended four- tenths'of a mi! to the Bess farm. The board recommended Ihe mat tcr for consideration to ilu- Slate Division of Transportation. An audit report covering the fiscal year which ended June 30 1846.

was presented to the board for approval. The report, which was accepted, revealed that all funds have been properly account ed for, and that all items of expense had Ivm properly coded. proof Ut'U the schools lived within the budgft. Certain small balances were wlmy. a capital outlay had been unused because of unavailibility materials for construction.

WINS BENDIX CROSS-COUNTRY RACE SEEN HEARD ABOUT TOWN K. T. Ocullit Paul Manlz, of Burbank. Cal gives his trusty plane a love pat after winning the Bendix Air Trophy Race flying from Van Nuys. to Cleveland, Ohio, at the record average speed of 435.604 miles per hour.

Mantz won $10,000 in prize money in his stripped-down P-51 Mustang. Health Department Minus Its Doctor SEATS FOR VISITORS Those of us who have attended out of town high school football games realize that it. doesn't make particularly happy to find that no provision has been mad for seats for out of town guests In fact it tends to make you fei rather bitter toward tlie tow which does not in any way pre pare spectators from the op city. Stalesville a blacl eye to the other cities which play on our home field this sea son. We hereby suggest that ampli seating facilities be provided fo: out of town guests 01 one side of the.

field and tha these guests be given every con sideration by officials and loca (Continued On Page Six) pare spectators fro tf posing team's home Let's not give stalesvi STATESVILLE SHOTS Infernal Glimpses of People In and Around Statesville. If KATHLEEN EDWARDS carry- broom down the street. ROY NORTON talking about, selling his ear DH. C. AL- BRECMT in line at bank MAVEN WARREN spelling his name JAMES HILTON spill ing a milk shake on himself JIMMY ROGERS talking about entering college next fall IRENE SUMMERS commenting on how much she enjoys the Shots MRS.

RACHEL 1'OSTON enioyiiu'. vacation GLORIA HOLM NX in middle of dilemma NEAL BLACKWELDER scurryjng on new job NANCY SHAHPE waking up prize puppy. Negro Cited For Heroism FERRIDAY. Sept. OJ.R>—A (55-year old crippled negro who braved a roaring Initane fire in an effort to rescue his (rapped white employer was cited here today, and civic orgjuixalion.s soughi to nominate him for the Carnegie hero's medal.

The negro, Tom Gardner, remained in a hospital sut- fering from serious burns. An explosion had hurled William 1). Clarke, 28, Gardner's employer, into a flaming pit. Gardner leaped the pit and fought through the inferno 0 drag out darks' seared body. Clarks was still alive, but died in the hospital several hours later.

SCOUTS PLAN OUTING A weiner roast will be given for the members of Troop No. 6, Boy Scouts of America by the First Baptist church Friday evening at the church ball park. The affair will begin at 6 o'clock. Iredell county's Health Department was in a sad state this week. what with the departure of Dr.

P. Mitchell, and frantic efforts arc being made to take care of regular scheduled clinics and protect the general health of those under the care of the department- Dr. Mitchell's departure, following his resignation as of August 15, left the department with only the sanitarian in an official capacity. The present clerk is Ivirrowcd fi'om the Mooresville office. The department has been without nurses for several months Dr.

L. B. Skcen, former health officer, has agreed to take care of clinics in that area temporarily, while no definite provision has been made for the Statesville of- fic. Local physicians are being Evidence Seen Of Much Better Understanding All Officers Working For Veterans' Good Evidence that better understanding, coordination and cooperation are being maintained between departments rendering services to veterans was evident last night at a special meeting of the heads of various units helping veterans in this county. The meeting was held in the county commissioners' of the court house at 7:30 yesterday evening for the purpose of getting a clearer picture of the agencies working with veterans and to make it possible for them to "work together and thereby be more service to the veteran-" Presiding over the meeting was Oscar Mills who expressed the views of many with the statement that "some veterans need help badly and it is important to send him where he needs to be sent." Mr.

Mills called on various persons to state their position with regard to veterans and the assistance they render to them. Scarr Morrison, veterans service officer, told the group that his department was continually posted on all veterans' legislation, that it takes care of veteran hospitalization and pensions, and that advised them in many ways. Second to be called upon was Mrs. Mary Kincaid, executive secretary of the local American Red Cross, who told of the many services that the Red Cross renders to the veteran. "Our financial help is an important aid to 1 Mite- Kincaid stated, "the Red Cross helps transient veterans who may arrive in town with no funds or without a meal we contact their family before any grant of money is made.

The Rec: Cross deals directly with the fam ily and makes a social history of the individual veteran in an effort to be of more help lo him Mrs. Kincaid continued. "Ignorance is the worst problem we have to deal with, a veteran not knov- (Continued on Page Six; REV. E. B.

MORRIS Revival services will begin at Diamond Hill Baptist church on Monday, September 9th and are to conlinue through Wednesday September 8th. Rev. Morris. above, pastor of the West Durham Baptist church of Durham. assist Rev.

Paul Reese, pastor, in these services. Rev. Z. Miller Freeman of Forest City, will the musical part of the service Rev. Morris will be remembered as a former pastor of Western Avenue Baptist church daring the years 1927 to 1935.

Rev. Freeman also served as assistant pastor of the church during that time. These services at Diamond Hill will begin each o'clock. evening at 8 requested to possible. give whatever aid County Officials Attend Conference County Commissioners John Long, R.

L. Shumaker, W. K. Webb and County Manager C. D.

Stevenson are attending a three-day meeting of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners at Wrightsvillo Beach. No End Seen To Corbitt Strike HENDERSON, Sept. The prospects of an early settlement of the four-week old strike against the Corbitt Company motor truck plant diminished today as both union and management revealed they could not agree on the question of retroactive wage incerascs. The union is demanding a 1(5 and one-half cents an hour increase, to be made retroactive to May 6- The company is not willing to grant the demand. The firm's 150 production and maintenance workers walked off their jobs last Aug.

12. The company's oftice personnel did not join the strike, but they have been unable to get through the day and night picket lines thrown up around the plant by the striking workers. Jaycees, Wives Stage Ball Game, Barbecue Picnic Junior Chamber of Commerce members, wives and friends last night staged one of the most successful barbecue picnics ever held by the group at the ball park lopped by a sol'tball game between the men and women that was full of laughs and was finally won by the ladies. (Incidentally, the men insisted that it was not exactly fair to their side to have only one out per inning and also bat and throw opposite from the habitual and they protested that Bufori) Rimmcr and Gene West were partial.) President Roscoe West wel corned the group and thanked the entertainment committee composed of Kd Ramsey, Jim Fraley and Glenn Westmoreland for their efforts in making the affair an outstanding success. He announced that the regular meeting of the group will be held next Tue.schy, night.

A pitchers' duel between Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Casler ami other man-ancl-wife combinations were noted in the line-ups. Leonard Makes Scathing Attack On Bureaucrats "Host Of Unneeded Workers On Rolls" J. Paul Leonard, widely known local economy expert, yesterday made a scathing attack on those in high places in our Federal gov ernment responsible for retaining thousands of what he termed "unnecessary workers" on the payrolls.

"It is time to disperse this army of government workers, and the way to do it is to write your congressman and senators and express your sentiments in the Mr. Leonard told the civic club. Continuing he asserted, "Mr. Truman realizes he must reduce the pay roll yet he refuses to do it because of the public clamor from those on the 1 He pointed out that the reduction of debt in the national government has been brought about by taking the cash on hand left over from appropriations. "Did you know it requires the expenditure of five billions of dollars annually to pay the interest on our national debt?" he asked.

He extolled the efforts of Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, a leading economy advocate, and Congressman L. Doughton to reduce the debt and taxes, and he urged support in their behalf before the nation is bankrupt. Mr. Leonard said the debt now, if divided among all the heads of households in the nation, would exceed $5,000 each.

Although there are personnel ceilings placed on various governmental department heads by Congress and the President, these heads refuse to cooperate and continue to employ workers in excess of their ceilings, he declared, and read a letter from Senator Byrd expressing great concern at the practice but promising penalties to violators. By comparison, Mr. Leonard, himself a member of the Rotary club, said prior to the New Deal it took eight billions of dollars to pay the budget but today more than that amount is required to pay 3.000.000 job holders. Assert- that one reason a cut is not made is due to the practice of paying a departmental head or supervisor by the number of employees under his office. He admitted that a lot of war-time em- iloyecs had been released only to ie snapped up by "old line" agencies.

"Nothing will be done about it (Continued On Page Six) U. S. Says Regrets Alone Not Enough Miss Stribling Announces Many Faculty Changes A number of changes were announced today in the faculty at Mitchell college hy the president, Miss Frances Stribling. Miss Alice C. Strong.

English and sociology teacher, will be unable to take her classes this fall due to an accident, the effects of which still confine her to the hospital Her classes will be taught by Miss Alma J. Simmons of Worthington, Ohio. Miss Simmons has an A. B. degree from Ohio Wesleyan University and an M.

A. from Duke University, with a major in English and a minor in Social Studies. She has taught in Pfciffer Junior College, Misenheimer, N. at Whitmell Farm-Life School. Whitmell Virginia; and at Baxter Seminary in Tennessee.

She has also had experience in secretarial work and in practical nursing. Miss Simmons is a well qualified teacher. Miss Ernestine Boineau will be registrar and director of nublicitv and will have charge of the business offiee. She has been registrar at Oglethorpe University and has had experience in the office in Georgia Stole College for Women and the University of Miami. Coral Gables, Florida- More recently, she was purchasing clerk in the sunoly department at the Naval Air Station.

Charleston. S. and then assistant to thr business manager of the Medical college of South Carolina Miss Boineau is from Orangeburf. S. C.

She graduated from Winthrop College with an A B. degree and has also studied at the Southern Business College. Atlanta. Miss Hallie B. Nance, of the faculty of D.

Matt Thompson Junior High school, has to direct dramatics at Mitchell college this year. Elizabeth McClelland, who has been the college accoui tant sinco graduated from tlv commercial department in Jin p. has decided to leave in favor of a job in Florida. Her place will be taken 3.v Mary Jean Anderson, another 1946 Mitchell graduate. MARRIAGE LICENSE Marriage license has been issued William Robinette White and Ida Pauline Bell.

Predicts Housing Shortage Will Get Worse This Winter By FRANK Unllcd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. Housing Expediter Wilson W. Wyatt warned today the housing shortage will get worse, not better, this winter. Wyatt said 287,100 homes of dnds have been completed so far this year. He hopes thousands more will be ready this fall.

But in a monthly report he added: "Constantly rising demand at present more than offsets the additional iicionunoda- tioits and not until idler Hit' turn of Ihe year will Ihe demand begin to level off." Wyatt also said price tugs on new (il houses are too high for tin' average veteran. Meanwhile A. Bryan I. chief if the Civilian Production Admin consumer durable goorl.s livision, said a veteran who suc- eeds in buying one of Wyatt's louses may have trouble furnish' Furniture Will Also Continue To Be Short ing it. Bryant said hardwood production har doubled, a fact now showing up at furniture factories.

But demand is two to three times greater than In 1941. "Prospects are that all-wood furniture will be short for another year or two," Bryant said in an interview. He said upholstered furniture is in somewhat better supply. Wyutf reported thai homes of all kinds were, finished during July. Ten thousand of these were permanent homes this year, bringing to 50,000 total homes of this type actualU begun and finished under the veterans housing prouram.

Wyatl hopes lo star! work on 1,200,000 veterans houses and apartments in 1946. Even full attainment of this: lion with a greater shortage of housing, compared with demand, than existed at the beginning of the year." Demand will continue to rise, lie said, as more veterans find permanent jobs, settle down, and seek homes of their own. Wyatl said production of building materials is way up, but housing "is still bottlenecked by a few materials in critically short supply." Manpower is getting tighter. This is because higher wages and longer jobs in non-residential construction put homebuilding at a disadvantage. In most, building trades, Wyatt said, more people are employed in other types of construction than in erection of homes.

Al the end of July half of the homes planned were to sell for 557,500 or more. "Il is clear that sales prices arc too high for most veterans," Wyatt said. goal, he said, "will leave the na- Negro Slashed In Knife Battle Eighteen stitches were required to close knife wounds on the left arm and shoulder of James W- Connor, local negro, allegedly inflicted by a knife-wielding negress whose name is listed as Mae Ellis, also of this city, following the cutting last night at 9 o'clock in front of Raylass store on South Center, officers announced this morning. Both persons were arrested and put in jail having the wounds treated. Officers said it was a mutual cutting but that Connor came uut on the losing end of the affair.

She said he had cut her slightly with a knife in an argument at his home on West Sharpe street earlier in the evening. A slight scratch was treated on the negro woman's abdomen- Charges against both have been issued by police aikl they will be. given a hearing before the mayor for assault with a deadly weapon. FAMILY AT TENT Family v. ill lie vveil al (lie Mil.

Im-aU M'W- hern Avenue and Seventh street. The pastor will present gifts to the largest, family present. Production Begins At New Plant Here Belgrade Government Sent Very Firm Note BY JOHN L. STEELE United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept.

United States, making it clear that regrets alone are not enough, ptvssed Yugoslavia today for "suitable" indemnities for shooting down two Army transports with loss of five American Tiie Slate Department sent (he Belgrade government a firm. word note rejecting its efforts to shun responsibility for tho attacks and denying charges that hundreds of American planes have violated Yugoslav sovereignty during the past six weeks. The note, signed by Acting Secretary of State William L. Clayton, acknowledged Marshal Tito's egression of regret for the American deaths hut said th? United States "confidently expects" Yugoslavia to take more concrete steps to right the wrong. Specifically, he said, the United States looks for "suitable indemnification to the families and dependents of the unfortunate victims" and to the U.

S. government itself for the property damage. In denying Tito's eharges that American plants were continuing to make illegal flights over his country, (he American suggested that aircraft of other nations might be trespassing Yugoslav skies. This was regarded as a hint that American Lend-Lease planes (Contrnued on Page SU) Enrollment In Schools Climbs Total enrollment in the Statesville city schools fo 1946-47 was 2,589 on opening day today, an in- ciease of 299 pupils about twelve last yeai half over Every school in Ihe unit except one showed an increase in enrollment and even more registrations are expected within next few days. Junior high school showed a slight decrease but this accounted fop by the extra large graduation last year.

Superintendent L. S. Weaver, who released the figures, is looking for "one more student to make it an even 300 increase from opening day of last year." Broken down among the various schools the registration was as follows: Davie Avenue school 459, Mulberry Street school 315, A very Sherrill school 361, Junior High schol 475, and Senior high school 353. Among the ne.i'To schools regis- 427 at Monii upside Elementary school 139 at Morningside High school, and 60 at the Popular Branch school, Southern Screw Company on Rickert Avenue is now in production on a limited scale, working one shift, but expects to get in full production in the near future, Fritz Jensen, vice-president and manager of the new industry stated today- When full production is achieved, screws at the rate of 10,000 gross per day will be made for the furniture industry in North and South Carolina and other screws only are Mr. Jensen said, states.

Wood manufactured, from the very smallest to one and one-half inch by 14 Screw manufacturing is a very highly skilled trade, and it is therefore necessary fo train employees over some period of time before one is classed as a skilled worker. This is the chief reason why it has taken the company several months to get underway. When asked why Statesville was selected for th? new industry, Mr. Jensen said, "We like Statesville very much, were able to secure a building, and this city is centrally located in the furniture area." Fifty people will be employed at the company, it was announced, and furniture manufacturers arc being assured that the Southern Screw Company will fill orders quickly. As an example, Mr.

Jen- yen cited an order he reeuived by Local Dairymen Buy 9 Purebred Jersey Cattle Purchases made by Iredell county dairymen and breeders at the North Carolina Jersey sale in Charlotte yesterday indicate a definite improvement in Iredell stock. Six cows from this county were sold and nine purchased. Assistant County Agent Francis Peebles said that all animals brought back were an improvement over the cows sold by Iredell owners. Highest price was paid by Roy Weber who purchased the bred 'icifer sold by A. W.

Fanjoy of Iredell. Other purchases ranging in price up to $500 included two cows bought by John Morrison, one each by James King, Ruben Cowles and H. Houston and three by A. W. Fanjoy.

These were bred by Grenada farms, State A college (negro) Summey farms, Lutz farms, Dr. Howard Odom farms, and Biltmort farms. No One Hurt As Autos Collide Herbert R. Carter, Route 1, and John L. Lippard, city, were involved in a head on collision yesterday afternoon at the intersection of South Center street and Shelton Avenue that left both vehicles damaged considerably but without personal injuries, policy men said today.

Carte was travelling north oi Sheltin Avenue and Lippard wai headed south on South Centel continuing on the street in the, direction of the depot, investiflat' ing officers disclosed. Both men elected to settle the damages among themselves, and no citations were issued- Damage to Lippard's car war given as $100 and $45 to the Cart er pick-up truck- shipment was on its way. TliU will relieve long delays many furniture men have had in securing screws. No Poultry Show At Fair This Year The prohibiting of poultrjf shows by the State Department ol Agriculture will necessitate the omission of that feature the Iredell Ctjuiily Fair this year. To ivfVMit I'M' -tad of Newcastle di uj.s -i'l-n by the Stats Department as the reason (or bin- poultry shows state..