Coral Gables Riviera-Times

PAGE TWO RIVIERA-TIMES MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Dollar Minimum Hourly Wage Demanded by Auto Workers

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Nov. 10. (UP) — The United Auto Workers (CIO) 11th convention today unanimously demanded that Congress enact a $1 an hour minimum wage law. The present minimum is 40 cents an hour. Congress has proposals to raise it to 75 cents an hour. The resolutions committee submitted a divided report on compliance with the filing of non-communist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley law. A bitter convention floor battle was forecast after a speech by President Philip Murray. Quarreling factions put Murray on the spot regarding the question of whether union officials should sign the affidavits. Murray today gave the United Auto Workers a clear signal to sign non-communist affidavits under the Taft-Hartley law. "Any union which believes that its interests can best be served by qualifying under the law should feel free to do so," he said. "Each union can do so without violating any national CIO policy." He did not mention, in his 75-minute speech, that he personally has refused to sign the affidavit as president of the United Steel Workers. Opponents of Auto Workers' President Walter P. Reuther have based their whole campaign of resistance to compliance with the law on Murray's personal stand. Reutherites predicted an overwhelming victory for their position when the issue comes to a vote late today.

Margaret Truman Slates Concert At Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 10. (UP)—Margaret Truman, daughter of the president, was en route to Little Rock, Ark., today for another concert, hopeful that she would receive the same "very warm reception" she received here. Miss Truman will sing her concert at Little Rock on Wednesday. She received long applause after her recital yesterday in which she sang six programmed numbers and three encores. She took 21 curtain calls. "The audience seemed very pleased," said Mrs. Delbert Cravens, partner in the theatrical agency handling the remainder of Miss Truman's tour. "They gave her a very warm reception." However, Tracy Silverter, music critic for the Daily Oklahoman, criticized Miss Truman's delivery as "extremely throaty" and said her voice "could in no stretch of the imagination be classed as a coloratura."

Europe's Food Prospects Said Grim

BILOXI, Miss., Nov. 10. (UP)—Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said today that at best Europe's food prospects for the winter were "grim." Anderson spoke chiefly, however, on the need for increasing cooperation between Federal and state departments of agriculture, rather than the international food crisis. He told the 29th annual meeting of the National Association of commissioners, secretaries and directors of agriculture that the Federal department stood ready to work with state agencies in searching for uniform legislation "which will remove barriers to the flow of goods and services across state lines."

'Snubbing' of Wallie Brings Protest Mail From America

By ROBERT RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 10. (UP)—A number of Americans were revealed today to be protesting by mail to Queen Mother Mary against the omission of the Duchess of Windsor from the list of guests for the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lt. Philip Mountbatten. Marlborough House, the London home of the Queen Mother, acknowledged that letters on the subject were being received, adding that they were not being answered.

Georgia Bid to Gator Bowl 'Strictly Unofficial' Says Darby

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 10. (UP)—J. B. Darby, Gator bowl team selection chairman, today firmly stated that any invitation sent the Georgia Bulldogs to play in the 1948 Gator Bowl event here was strictly an unofficial one. "Feelers" have been sent to several teams, according to Darby, but he added: "Anyone extending an invitation to Georgia or anyone else did so on his own initiative without consulting me."

"THAT'S YOU, HUGH,"

Chuck Thorndike, cartoonist, tells Hugh Crocker at an assembly demonstration at the Coral Gables Elementary School. Thorndike sketched scores of the students there during his hour demonstration. — Riviera-Times Photo by Binner.

Germs Lurk in Old Hats Physician Warns Wearers

By PAUL F. ELLIS United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UP)—A physician had a word of warning for men today. It was: Watch that old, favorite slouch hat you're wearing. It may be carrying a lot of germs. The physician, Dr. Samuel Standard, associate professor of clinical surgery, New York University, said that a lot of men hate to part with their old hats—particularly those they may have worn through college. As a result, sometimes they breakout with a multiple infection of the forehead, he said. Fondness Developed "Men," he said, "have been known to develop a fondness for an old slouch, felt hat, which by association has practically taken on the personality of its wearer. "If he insists on wearing such a hat, he would do well to wash the band with soap and water, or have a new hat band inserted as the years go on." It's a weakness of men—a weakness that most women do not have, he said. Women Buy New Hats "Women rarely have this trouble," he said. "They don't mind buying a new hat occasionally." Dr. Standard, however, said that "men do not have a monopoly on poor hygienic habits." He mentioned particularly women's handbags. "Anyone who has seen a powder puff pulled out of an all utility lady's handbag, containing loose change, fingered dollar bills, newspaper clippings, tobacco dust and handkerchiefs, clean or otherwise," he said, "must have looked in awe as the perspired face and forehead were punished by swift, firm, hasty strokes smeared on fiercely by a deft, practiced hand." Crop of Pimples Twenty-four hours later, he said, the owner of the face is surprised to find a "crop of pimples spread over the cheek and forehead." "In despair, she covers these again and again by the same method and her wonder grows that her pimples multiply," he said. Dr. Standard said that a few days rest from the "usual punishments" with gently applied soap and warm water, might restore the face to its original state of cleanliness and freedom from infection." The physician also warned those "kind neighbors" who know how to purify a needle by holding a burning match under it. "He may have the kindest intentions," he said, "but if he could see the fingers that have been amputated, the limbs that have been lost, and the lives that have been jeopardized following his well intentioned amateur surgery, he would leave all needles in their sewing boxes where they belong." The rule should be, he said: When in doubt about what to do in case of infection, do nothing. TAKE IT AWAY The "Lost and Found" column of a Navy Seabee battalion newspaper in the Pacific during the war offered a reward for a Japanese bugle, trophy of one of the mates. However, in this case the reward was offered not for the instrument's recovery but for its disappearance. Complained the men who inserted the notice: the owner practiced too much!

Cholera Epidemic Grows Among Egypt's Millions

By SAM SOUKI United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO (UP)—The man writhed, groaned and died. Fifteen yards away onlookers passively drank their coffee, ate their sandwiches, smoked their hubble-bubbles and ignored the flies that droned from the still warm corpse on to their food and faces. Egyptian public health officials who arrived at that moment raised their hands to heaven and cursed. "In the name of Allah, what do you fools think you are doing? Don't you see that dead man? Don't you understand he died of cholera? Do you want to sit here and die?" The spectators to one of the many deaths being caused by cholera in Egypt looked amazed, and answered: "But we are far away from the unfortunate wretch who died. How can we catch the disease being that far from him?" Officials Baffled The senior official choked in anger and despair. "Look at the flies, you fools. Look at the way they swarm over the sick and then settle over your food and your stupid faces. This is cholera and death you are permitting to creep into you." That is the tragic situation in Egypt today as it was described to this correspondent by one of the health workers who had returned from a lower Egyptian village. There a few hundred weary doctors and volunteers are trying desperately to teach millions of ignorant peasants the elementary rules of hygiene, to ward off the merciless cholera epidemic spreading through the country. The bleary-eyed workers, fighting day after day with little or no sleep, speed from village to village trying to drive sense into the peasants, struggling to keep the cholera from expanding. They are doing a great job, but for all their efforts, the epidemic has gone beyond their control in at least two provinces, Dakahlieh and Sharkieh, and worse days are still to come. Little Cooperation They get little or no cooperation from the villagers, and the result is that throughout Egypt one person dies every five minutes from cholera. There is talk of introducing martial law in the country, severely punishing and contravaning the laws established to prevent the spread of cholera. The peasants are frightened by the epidemic, but apparently believe that once you are innoculated there is little further to fear. So they flock to the medical centers and the doctors work in rooms crammed with people clamoring to be pricked. One young doctor told me he had inoculated 1,600 persons per day, not even having time to boil his needles. Cholera is spreading rapidly through the Egyptian villages, consisting of dirty mud huts, narrow streets, and void of any hygienic facilities. The people hide their sick until others catch the disease. They sneak away their dead to bury them in their own cemeteries instead of handing them over to the authorities. The authorities themselves have no place to bury all the victims, but are still working night and day to hold back the flood of disease and death.

Band Patrons Turkey Dinner Tickets Available

Tickets are now available for the dinner which will be held on Nov. 19 at the Ponce de Leon High School cafeteria for the benefit of the school band, Mrs. Martha E. Gould, chairman of the membership committee of the Band Patrons Association, announced today. The tickets are on sale at Amidon Music Store, at the school or may be purchased from any band member. Proceeds of the dinner will go to the band's maintenance fund, which provides uniforms, instruments and transportation for the band's trips. A turkey dinner will be served and tickets are one dollar each.

AHEAD OF TIME

Robert L. Sanford of Coalgas, Calif., formerly a gunner's mate, third class, with the Seabees, landed on Iwo Jima two days before D-Day, by swimming 500 yards to the beach to reconnoitre. The Japs concentrated their fire on him, but he returned to his ship untouched. Later a Jap bomber came over, scored a hit on the ship and put Sanford in the hospital.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPERS

One Pacific-based Seabee outfit during the war sponsored a series of monthly "good housekeeping" prizes. The outstanding tent for the month was selected in each of the construction battalion's five company areas. The prize of $5 for each man in the winning tent came out of the battalion's welfare fund.

Many firearms accidents occur because guns are accidentally discharged when the hunter slips and falls, climbs over a fence, crawls through the underbrush, or puts a gun in the car. Handle every gun as if it were loaded.

Ross Initiates 10 Elks at Rites On Official Visit to Local Lodge

(Continued from Page One) Grand Esquire; Edward Williams, state vice-president; James Wendler, trustee of the Harry Anna Crippled Children's home and Chelsa Sencherie, secretary of the state association. PETER J. ROSS, District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge was honored Saturday night on the occasion of his first official visit to the Coral Gables lodge.

City Officials To Ask Return Of State Money

A strong bid for the return of some monies collected by the state to city coffers will be made by a delegation of Coral Gables city officials at the meeting of the Florida League of Municipalities in St. Petersburg next Monday and Tuesday, E. B. Poorman, director of finance, revealed today. Poorman, City Manager William T. McIlwain and City Attorney Edward L. Semple will attend the convention. Poorman said that two councilmen will also would probably make the trip, but that it had not been decided who would go. The commissioners must return to Coral Gables by Tuesday evening in time for the regular commission meeting. "Financial aid for Florida municipalities, who have watched more money annually flow from city boundaries to state coffers is expected to be the main theme of the meeting," Poorman said. He predicted that the Coral Gables delegation would be joined by other cities throughout the state in its plea that the state make provisions to return a percentage of the money collected to the municipalities.

Flynn Services Slated Tonight

(Continued from Page One) late husband was vice president of the Bowman-Biltmore properties, builders of the Biltmore and the Biltmore-Sevilla Hotel in Havana. For a number of years Mrs. Flynn with her husband commuted between Havana and Coral Gables. She was a member of the Coral Gables Woman's Club and in memory of her daughter, Corliss Flynn Weed, presented a valuable collection of dolls to the Coral Gables Public Library.

HOSE STOLEN

Theft of 25 feet of black garden hose was reported Sunday by J. Samuels, 137 Avenue Valencia. The hose was stolen early Sunday morning.

Our country is no stronger than its homes.

SPORT SHIRTS

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The Patio Shop

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AMERICAN BLUEPRINT CO.

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GENERAL CONTRACTORS

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HURRY TO MURRAYS WITH YOUR METAL WORRIES!

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