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PHONE toll cut agreement made Induction In Intrastate Kates Scheduled To Go Into Effect June 1 I RALEIGH. April 24— (JP)—'The utiUties commission announced to ff that, after a series of confer ees with representatives of the cmithern Bell Telephone company, n agreement has been reached f. a° reduction in intrastate toll -ates effective June 1. This reduction in rates, the com . said has been made pos through the efforts of the slDle • inn in the recent mvest ■SS and order of the federal 1,,at ninations commission, C°m Wnv a treater division in toll "hepnue was*allotted the intrastate revenue wasfr^>m ^ American Telephone and Telegraph com P™'s better division, the com mission reported, also will be bene ficial to all of the independent companies throughout the state. Exact amount of the reduction and the amount of increased pay ments to the independent compan ies have not been determined. tne( commission added, due to the mul tiplicity of calculations necessary to arriving at the final result. The commission said these fig ures will be announced prior to June 1. Thornton Exonerated Of Blame In Death Of Hewitt Near Burgaw A Pender county coroner's jury exonerated James Thornton. of Coldsboro, driver of a truck which fatally injured Howard Hewitt, 36 year old Maple Hill man on the ilurgaw highway Thursday night. Acting Coroner A. C. Blake said Saturday afternoon following an in quest into Hewitt’s death. The only eyewitness of the ac cident, except Thornton, was Phil lip Bragsden. a passenger in the truck who testified Hewitt was c alking in the middle of the road. When Thornton applied the brakes, the truck overturned, striking He witt. Highway Patrol Corporal W. M. Whitley, of Burgaw, who investi gated the accident, also said the slain man was walking in the |‘tra vei portion'' of the highway when struck. Thornton and Bragsden escaped injury. ROBERSON RESTRAINED RALEIGH, April 24—«P)—The state office of Price Administra tion said today that D. M. Rober son has been temporarily restrain ed from selling beef and veal at prices in excess of the legal maxi mum. The restraining order was signed by Judge I. M. Meekins. the OPA said, and Roberson has been ordered to appear before the federal judge at the Wilson term of U. S. court May 3 for a hearing. Luxor *65 Greenbrier *6 WILMINGTON, N. C. r ^ Sfrut f<5 No matter what your Civilian Service duties may be, they usu ally take a lot of action. And trim, flexible Enna Jetticks are right there to ease the way. Just try them. OTHER STYLES <5to’650 Lieut. Harmon Credits ‘Football Legs’ |g For ‘Luckiest Touchdown’ Of His Life! Former Grid Star Tells Of Escape From Jungle Fol lowing Plane Crash (EDITOR’S NOTE: Tom Harmon, former All-America halfback at the University of Michigan, was piloting a two engine American bomber over the jungles of South America when his plane developed en gine trouble and he and the members of his crew were forced to take to their para chutes. Two crew members were killed and three still are missing. Harmon fought his way through the jungle for seven days and nights until, with the assistance of friend ly natives, he reached an American air base.) BY JOSEPH DYNAN SOMEWHERE IN BRITISH GUIANA, Apil 23.—(Delayed)—Uf) —Lieut. Thomas D. Harmon—safe here after seven days and nights in a swampy South American jun gle—gives credit to his “football legs” for the “luckiest touchdown in my life.” Only the good physical condition of the former All-America football star at the University of Michigan, plus courage, determination and prayer enabled him to emerge alive within a week from the maze of undergrowth that swallowed other fliers, he told me. Harmon is en route to his home for “nothing but a rest and a visit with mom and pop.” Clean-shaven, well-groomed and sitting beside me in the Officers’ mess club. Harmon seemed tired, but little the worse for his exper iences until he began to talk about them. His face became intense ana completely absorbed as he relived his fight with the jungle. “I’ll tell you one thing.” he de clared. “I certainlv was thankful for my years of football. They gave a pair of good legs. I had to have good legs to get out of there. “It is just a tangle of vines, stumps and grass, all intertwined. They wrap around your legs and pull you back. “They are pulling you down into mire and you have to push your way step by step. “When one of these tree stumps grazes you it is like someone pull ing a razor down your leg.” For four days and nights Harmon battled this jungle, cut his way up hillsides, and waded and leaped through swamps soaked with sweat and rain. Sore, wet and always thirsty, he finally found a native path which led him to Francois, “the most welcome guy I have ever seen in my life.” Francois was black and spoke only French. But Francois gave Harmon his first cup of coffee and first piece of bread in four days. A native gendarme loaned him a. uniform and led him to the near est American base. But before he met Francois, he lost his emergency ration, coming mTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiii through the jungle swamp. His drinking water had all leaked out of the battered cans and he had had three scrapes with crocodiles. Once he almost drowned crossing a swamp that went down 15 feet or more. “I wanted to get out of this place,” Harmon said. “1 fought like a tiger to get out. It took dog-headed. Irish courage. “Every now and then a voice kept telling me ‘Tom, it is not any use. You’re only busting your head against a brick wall.’ ” “I just replied, ‘By God, I am going to get out, if it takes a dozen years.’ “I kept driving myself. If you’ve got initiative, something to come back for. it takes an awful lot to keep you down. I have got mom. pop. mv ga1— that’s enough incentive for me.” Tom said he must have been at about 400 feet when he jumped. No sooner had the chute opened than he was hanging from a tree top. He swung himself over to an other branch and c'imb»rl down. He found wreckage, but none of his mates, so he salvaged a jungle knife, four cans of water and a pair of flares from the wreck and then started to hack his way through the vines and undergrowth. ‘‘I had my pocket compass, so I determined to go straight east.” Harmon said. “I knew that the coast was there and that 'F I keot going long enough I would come out. “I knew that if I started to wander I would be lost. I told myself I would keep going east for months if necessary.” The country was a succession oi hills and valleys. In every valley was a swamp, sometimes as much as 10 miles across. Eery hill was a tangle of weeks and vines but nowhere was mere a clearing or any place where he could get his bearings. On the second dav he was wading and leaping through the swamp when he saw an alligator about five feet long. “I reached out and pushed a log against him to chase him away. He gave just one flip of his tail and sent that log right back at me.” Tom said. “You know, you can’t swim across these swamps. There is too much in them. There are tree stumps with sharp points, sprawl ing roots that snag your feet, vines and weeds and much of ev erything all mixed up. “Once in a while when it’s too dfep you have to feel for a foun dation, then spring forward.” The second night, when he reach ed for his ration, it was mush. The swamp undergrowth had ground a hunk of chocolate to an inedible paste. He reached for his cans of drinking water, but the crash had battered them so all the water had leaked out. “But three times I found swift moving streams, followed them to I __ i i ~ VELVA LEG FILM 1ttyicloyiei Bare and beautiful because they are covered with Elizabeth Arden's happy, new substitute for vanishing stockings—VELVA LEG FILM that smooths on evenly, easily, speedily. Bare and beautiful because they are impeccably groomed, free from unsightly hair... thanks to fragrant, creamy "SLEEK." .65, 1.00 VELVA LEG FILM comes in two colon: SUN BRONZE ... the darker shade SUN BEIGE ... the lighter Tones may be darkened by repealed applications. More than 20 applications in one bottle. 5-oz. Bottle_$1.00 12-oz. Bottle $2.00 Dial 9661 t -- j .1 ; near their sources and drank and drank,” he said. “The lack of food didn’t worry me so much. I only wanted to get out of there and I could feel my strength going down.” ‘ On the fourth day, he stepped into a deep portion of a swamp. “I went down twice,” Harmon related. “I thought I was gone. I still had my leather jacket on and the second time down I strug gled to get it off. I came up quickly, got a breath of air, and went down and found firm footing but lost the jacket.” On he went. Vines clung to his legs, bit his flesh at every step. They snapped his face, sprang back when he cut at them with a knife. “I wanted to fight back at those vines,” he said. “When 1 thought I had them cut they came back at me and I got mad. But I had to hold my temper. I knew if I ever lost my head I was a goner. “It was the greatest lesson in patience I ever had.” | ADout noon ot the mtn day tiar mon came to a swamp about 10 miles across. f ‘‘I lost heart,” he said. “I felt I just couldn’t make it so I de cided this once I’d move northeast to see if I couldn't go around. After a while I found some pieces of glass from broken green bottles, then there was a path marked by slashes on trees. ‘‘I followed this for four and a half miles and came to a hut. Inside were Francois, his wife and two kids. They were very scared of me. Here I was, bearded, sore, tired, coming through the woods with that knife looking like I was coming for bear.” jc Harmon said he hoped his ex periences would enable the gov ernment to give training, equip in'1 and aid to others caught similarly, to take better care of themselves and to get out as well. T T Strike Hits Johnstown Transportation Company JOHNSTOWN, Pa., April 24.—<-T> —The 250,000 residents of this southwestern Pennsylvania area, in cluding- 25,000 steel workers, were without trolley and bus transporta tion today as several hundred em ployes of the Johnstown Traction company went on strike. The men, members of the Amal gamated Association of Street Rail way and Motor Coach Employes (AFL), voted the walkout last mid night in protest against what the union termed delay Bv both the company and an arbitration board in settling grievances. Federal conciliators were on the scene hoping to effect an agree ment. Now that cold storage eggs will be placed under federal control, j Junior fervently hopes the Easter I rabbit has no trouble getting a priority. | WAHL'Si ANNUAL An annual money-saving event that gives you the selection of our entire stock at prices from 15% to 20% lower than usual. Every DRESS, COAT, ACCESSORY and FUR is reduced for this special clearance event. At tend this sale and select a lovely spring wardrobe at a cost exceedingly lower than you could ordinarily find. EXQUISITE exquisitely beautiful furs and fur COATS have been carefully purchased and assembled for this great AFTER-EASTER FUR SALE and are now ready for you to lay-away for next winter Rt prices that will guarantee to you savings of between 15% and 20% on the normal cost. You will need them next fall and you will be pleased to know you have a luxurious and durable fur coat for that cool season when it comes. (Any purchaser of a fur coat during this sale who lays-away her purchase, may exchange it for any other merchandise if she changes her mind by September 1st for any reason whatever.) LOVELY STRIPED CONEY EUR COATS in mink stripp and sable stripe and in box back and fitted styles at $69-98. BEAUTIFUL DYED KID FUR COATS that are so carefully blended and so rich and warm and slenderizing at $79.98. NOTHING is finer than that lovely MUSKRAT COAT in mink dyed, silver dyed and blended natural. A positive hit for next season $165 and up. MINK and KOLINSKY SKINS formed and designed into queenly SCARFS that are the most su perb things in furs . . . also that lading of the furs-, the fox fur jacket, in red, silver, dyed blue and cross. $139 and pp. FLATTERING resses An endless array of LOVELY PRINT and PASTEL DRESSES in the most un usual and most youthful styles that you will fall in love with. In sizes and styles to fit the school girl, the young lady and the matron. $6.98 and up. STUNNING NAVY and BLACK DRESSES I in crepe and sheer fabrics and with soft ' touches of lingerie on the collar and sleeves that will make you feel so, so feminine and adorable. $9.98. SUPERB Goat Galues N 17 ELEGANT CHESTERFIELD COATS in 100% all wool fabrics and beautifully lined and tailored to a queen's taste. These fine coats can be had in blue, navy, pink, yellow and biege in sizes 9-20. 522.50 and up. Unequalled for dress occasions, the dressy NAVY and BLACK COAT is still the most feminine type of coat to be had. Fine tailor ing and crepe linings make them superior to :he average coat. Many have lingerie type collars and cuffs, twill, gabardine, Shetland, etc. $16.98 and up. A money-saving special is represented in these lovely FUR TRIMMED COATS. Lux uriously trimmed with red fox, snow fox and other fine fur collars, they are so rich and stunning that you will find them ir resistable. Pastels and plaids. $39.98 and np. EVERY SPRING COAT in our vast stock has been reduced for fast clearance at prices you will find will make buying your coat now a thrilling event. Be here early and select yours while they last. Newly arrived GABARDINE AIX WEATHI5R COATS in tan and white Desides those cunning lightweight rain coats that are so necessary at this lime of the year. A special at §3.98. * Stretch your wardrobe v, tth BLOUSES, SWEATERS, SKIRTS, JACKETS, JEWELRV and NECK WEAR that all make the outfit you wear so different and is always in use in one way or another. See our Iarg-e selection of these things at our After-Easter sale prices. 214 NORTH FRONT STREET
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