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■ J ■ '■■■— 1 '■■■■ ■ ' — MORE ABOUT DEATH RACE FROM PAGE ONE The Coast Guard heard him and went into action. From Salem, Mass., the near est Air-Sea rescue station, a Coast Guard PBM flying boat took off for the Queen Mary, then about 50 miles east of Nantucket,' Mass. It carried oxygen tanks but not the type specified. But speed was essential and the PBM t&ok off knowing it faced a difficult land ing in the deep troughs cff Nan tucket. More Oxygen Coast Guard stations along the east coast were working feverish ly on the oxygen assignment. The special type containers needed were procured in New York and another flying boat, a PBY, took off from Floyd Bennett field. A few minutes later a Coast Guard helicopter also took off from New York with five small bottles of oxygen and began its comparatively slow flight to the Queen Mary. The helicopter crew planned to drop their ship onto the deck of the Queen Mary if the seas were two heavy for the flying boats. At 4:40 p. m., the PBM from Salem, piloted by J. G. Walker, appeared over the Queen Mary. The giant vessel was plowing through 10-foot seas which did not disturb her 81,000 tons, but the odds were against the two-motored PBM. Walker reported visibility good. He flew low over the seas, guag ing the swells and preparing for a delicating landing. He came down in a trough, the PBM roiled perilously but stayed upright. A small boat set out from the Queen Mary and bobbed a few yards to the plane. The oxygen was taken aboard the liner. Meantime, the PBY’s flight was cancelled. However, it and the helicopter hovered over the liner until it was certain their help would not be needed. Although the tanks delivered by the PBM were not the type speci fied, the liner shortly messaged that they were "adequate and sat isfactory,” since mechanics aboard ship had made necessary adjust ments. Physicians aboard the vessel, which was carrying 1,840 war brides and 600 children from South ampton, began a desperate fight to save the baby’s life. But it was a losing one. Leigh died nine hours after birth and four hours after delivery of the oxygen. Smith was the only father taken aboard the liner when it docked Monday. He had a brief reunion with his wife and their daughter, Pauline, before Mrs. Smith was removed to a hospital. MORE ABOUT SOVIET FROM PAGE ONE President Truman of his discover ies and then to London where he notified Attlee. “It was necessary for the gov ernment,” he said, “to take into consideration the interests of all nations in the repercussions that would ensue.” Some of the documents handed over by Gouzenko were in the handwriting of persons now under arrest, he said. Some were trans cripts of cypher messages to Mos cow from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa and others were transcrip tions of messages from the Krem lin. Serious Matters ‘"They related,” King said, “to plans and records for munitions, troop movements and other serious matters.” Those documents will be made public in the course of the espion age trials now pending in the criminal courts, he said. “I felt my first duty was to visit our immediate neighbor and see the President,” he said. He add ed that he feared that Canada “might be used as a base” for the gathering of .information relating to the United States. During his absence, he said, he was kept fully informed of further developments by the Royal Canadi an Mounted police which had been ordered to begin a complete inves tigation. Eases the Pain Soothes the Nerves Distracting neuralgic pain, and nerves ruffled by minor pains oi this type, yield promptly to the quick-acting effectiveness of “BC” "3C" also relieves headaches, mus cular ches and functional periodic pains. Handy 10c and 25c sizes. Use only as directed. Consult a physi cian yhen pains persist. ! i. Call on Truman ACCOMPANIED by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, General George C. Marshall, U. S. Ambas sador to China, is shown leaving the White House in Washington after conferring with President Truman. Marshall, who acted as peacemaker in China’s civil strife, will leave for Chungking again after a few days rest (International Soundphoto) MORE ABOUT CASTE FROM PAGE ONE jnd enlisted men both in and out the Army, non-military person, nel and representatives of various organizations. In addition to Doolittle, a top ranking World War II officer whc oegan his military career in 191t as a flying cadet, the board in eludes three former officers whc rose from the ranks and two de mobolized servicemen who fough in the Battle of Europe. List of Members Troy H. Middleton, a formei lieutenant general who commandec the 45th division in North Afric; and Sicily. Now comptroller o: Louisiana State university, he en listed in the Army in 1910. Robert Melville of New York former editor of Stars and Stripe! in Italy, who is now on termina leave as a lieutenant colonel. One time enlisted staff member oi Yank magazine, Melville has criti cired Army policy which gives bet ter quarters and more privilege; than enlisted men. Adna H. Underhill, Freeville, N V., who rose from platoon sergean to a paratrooper captain. He i now with the New York State Garni Conservation department. Jake W. Lindsey of Lucedale Miss., the 100th infantryman to wii the Congressional Medal of Honor A former techinal sergeant, he kill ed 20 Germans near Hamich, Ger many, wounded an unknown num ber, captured three others am knocked out or captured four ma chine guns. He works for the Vete rans Administration in Lexington M-ass. Meryll M. Frost, Hanover, N. J. former sergeant with the 451s bomb group who was serious]; wounded at Bari, Italy, and spen 18 months recuperating at Valle; Forge general hospital. He returnei to Dartmouth college and last Cal captained its football team. He re cently was given the Philadelphii Sport Writers’ award as 1945’ most courageous athlete. Best Citizen’s Army Doolittle, now with the Shell Oi coinpany, led the first bomber rail on Tpkyo. He later commanded th Eighth Air Force against Germany then returned with it to the Pacifi fnv aoriol o ceonH n:_ Japan. , Patterson said he appointed the board to determine whether, in planning for apeacetime army.’ai^ change^ in personnel policy should be made to achieve “a citizen’s army of the best type possible.” ‘‘In the last few years," he said, “millions have served in the Army who would not have dor>e so had it not been for the war. “Their presence was a stimulant to widespread discussions of the status and privileges of enlisted personnel. “Now, while the experience of the war is still fresh in our minds and we are planning for a future army, the time is right to take stock and to determine what changes, if any, •hould be made in our practices.” MORE ABOUT BODIES FROM PAGE ONE the accident. A grappling bucket, ciosed over the automobile’s rear bumper, brought uo the vehicle with its tragic cargo. Efforts Abandoned Earlier Navy divers had aban doned efforts to locate the car pending removal of the wreckage, which constituted a menace to diving operations. Assistance was given 9,787,519 times to servicemen and service women during a three year period m camps 15 the United st»t— BARUCH NAMED TO HEAD GROUP ON ATOM WORl WASHINGTON, March 18.— (JP)—Bernard M. Baruch, Mon i day tackled perhaps the most imposing problem of his long career—making the atom work for peace instead of war. Drafted by President Tru man as the United States rep resentative on the United Na sons Atomic Energy commis sion, Baruch immediately an nounced this team of “alter nates and co-workers” who will labor with him: John Hancock, Wall street banker; Ferdinand Eberstadt, New York invest *ne»t banker and lawyer; Her bert Bayard Swope, publicist and journalist; and Fred Seals, noted New York, mining engi neer. MORE ABOUT MAROON FROM PAGE ONE Tired Of Everything “I got tired of feeling water and I got tired of hearing water and I got tired of looking at every wave and everything that floated, thinking it might be Roy or John,” she said as she lay resting in her home. “Everything I look at moves like a wave and everything I listen to seems to have the noise oi the surf mixed up in it.” The trip began, March 2, like any of the numerous fishing cruises the Nancy B had made in the past three years, bound this time tc fishing waters off the Santa Cr02 islands. Sea Was Rough The sea was rough, and got rougher so speed was slowed tc nine knots. The trip took nine anc a half hours, instead of the usual six. At 9:30 a.m., March 3, they were between Santa Cruz and Ana capa. “Then hell broke loose,” Mrs, Brown said. “I don’t know what happened; I guessed it was the way the gale was blowing—It seem ed to come from all directions. “I hate to say how tall the waves were because I don't think anyone would believe me. They were 5C feet high, I thought.” One, over the stern, flooded the motor. Brown lifted the hatch tc see what happened and another wave hit, swamping the boat. 1 Then Brown ordered them all into the skiff. Skiff Capsizes ' Forty feet away the skiff cap ' sized, too, and Mrs. Brown swam to the Nancy B to grab the bow. , “The seas were so strong ] i couldn’t board her. I saw Roy anc l John hanging onto the skiff, ther . Roy started swimming toward me, “He got about half way. The Iasi . I saw him was his arm thrusl . out of a wave. I never did see whai i happened to John.” Mrs. Brown saw a floating gaso line drum and grabbed, using il . for a float as she swam. ' “I never expected to make it. 1 think I swam about seven miles, hanging onto the drum and kick ing. Sometimes the waves would tear the barrell from my hands and I had to swim after it. Mj fingernails were torn from holding on. Nearly Gave Up. “I nearly gave up but I thought about Roy and John. The sea threw me against the rocks anc skinned me up some. I climbed up and stayed there all night.” At dawn, wearing only a jacket, she tried to climb the cliff bul ’ found it too steep. Unsuccessfully she tried to carve steps with a :se« shell. j Then she went back in the watei and swam along the shore. “I guess it was about four hours then I saw four cabins up on the | cliff, and did they look good.” 5 “Some way I climbed up. Thej were deserted and the biggest one had a board across the door. 11 I didn’t take me long to get thal H off’” Finds Provisions In the cabins, once used by the | Navy, she found canned meat, - - tomatoes and peaches, tea, coffee, water, men’s clothing, medical supplies and two packages of cig arettes. “I fixed mjself some tea and drank it, then- 1 got uait^ _, don’t remember much for the next four or five days,” she said. When she got feeling better, she built signal fires in the day. I saw boats at times and waved and yelled at them. It got so I waved at everything that moved— even seagulls.’’ A coast guard boat investigating her signal smoke rescued her. “It was by accident.” they said. “They were swell. The way they took care of me you would have thought I was a baby. When we got to the mainland one of them took me to his home to dinner—but I couldn’t eat. I still can’t eat. Isn’t that silly?” MORE ABOUT SISTERS FROM PAGE ONE tion of hospitals in this country in 1885, and now operates 11 hospitals in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Bal timore. Henry L. Caravati, Colonel Cliff Titus, and Charles E. Kelly, lead ers in the nine-week drive to raise $500,000 for the hospital have es tablished headquarters in the Shew Realty company office, 213 Prin cess street. Harriss Newman, City council man and local lawyer, is chairman of the local fund committee. Full details of the drive are still being worked out. MORE ABOUT TESTS FROM PAGE CfJE tion in the state and you really have something.” Barwick makes his inspections in Wilmington every Monday through Thursday. The rest of his time is spent in Burgaw and Wal lace. Over 5,000 sunrocms for the use of patients in military hospitals were furnished by the Red Cross from 1941 through 1945. ! Mil! S', I lJiu' * 1 ' 3-/7 I ICOWt 1M« K HEA mkyice; mg T. M. KIC. u. «■ “T. Off. —* ‘1 thought with my birthday only two time to turn out the regular form letter to my aim --———« BORN WITH TWO LEGS TO SPARE STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS—it's ail alive—it’s all a-living! —One of the ! strange creatures of Nay-tur-r-r! Yes, it's a six legged calf and you’ll be hearing some such spiel as this at the County Fair or the circus freak show if the owners decide to put on exhibition this animal, born a short while ago in Pine Brook, N. J.____ .(International) MORE ABOUT CALM FROM PAGE ONE during the afternoon session. Dis trict Solicitor Clifton Moore asked for a second degree murder or manslaughter verdict. Aiding Mother Alton Lennon, attorney for the defense, presented evidence that Ronald had shot his father to pre vent him from inflicting further bodily harm upon his mother, Electra Freeman and upon him self. Freeman staled that his father had returned from Sea Breeze where he had been drink ing, and while intoxicated had beat en his mother. When he sought to interfere, Oseola threatened to do him injury. After striking his Tyife with a vase, Oseola left the house. Ronald was standing in the doorway hold ing a small calibre rifle. Seeing him, the father turned and walked toward him saying that he would take the gun and kill him and his mother. Ronald fired hastily think ing, he said, to frighten Oseola. Died In Car The bullet entered the elder Free man’s left side. Seeking to drive un assisted to the hospital Oseola died in his car about three miles from the Freeman home. After hearing the evidence and the state’s examination, Judge Parker said that, in his opinion Oseola Freeman was a bad man and, while Ronald had technically exceeded the laws of self-defense, he had done so in great disturbance _ x _1_3 _3_i. x_ * —» V/J. U11U UJCUid. On Probation He said that he would not con sider punishment in young Free man’s case and that he would place him on probation. Alex Porter, Negro, last week sentenced to 12 months on the roads, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon was yesterday given an eight months reduction from that term. The defendent hav ing paid into the office of the Clerk of Superior court $240 for the bene fit of Robert Mack, Negro com plaintant, Judge Parker reduced sentence to four months. Last weeks judgment against William Henry Corbett, Negro, con. victed of temporary larceny of an automobile, was also vacated. Cor bett’s six months road sentence was commuted to six months in the New Hanover county jail. MORE ABOUT ALONG THE CAPE FEAN FROM PAGE ONE " , Ignorant and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life By becoming a Cabinet Minis ter.” * • • SO LONG, SU TUNG—Su Tung p’o may have been entirely justi fied in writing this poem. We’re not familiar with the Chinese poli tics and politicians of circa 110 A.D. We’re just sorry that Su Tung-p’o didn’t visit Wilmington before writing his poem. He’d have seen how unfair it is when applied to most of our public officials. In fact, we’re not applying it at all to the local political picture ex cept as a means of antithesis. We just looked up "antithesis” in the dictionary, folks. It means "contrast.” Okay, Su Tung-p’o. Go peddle your papers somewhere else. We have no further need of your serv ices. Moreover, you haven’t paid your poll tax since 1101, so you can’t vote anyway. Red Cross assistance was given 4,363,864 men and women in domes tic military camps during' the last war SHIP PASSENGERS GLASGOW-BOUND AFTER DISASTER March 18—(S’)—The 15 passen gers and 39 crew members of the America-bound ship from Byron Darnton, which broke up on a reef off Sanda island, Sun day, were enroute to Glasgow Monday night, seeking new transportation for the remain der of their journey to the Unit ed States. They were rescued, after a 14-hour ordeal, Sunday, by a Campbeltown lifeboat just be fore the American-owned ves sel, bound from Copenhagen to New York, broke in two in the storm-battered Firth of Clyde. MORE ABOUT COUP FROM PAGE ONE clear and unsuspicious policy” to ward Russia was taken also as a possible first step toward an at tempted leftist coup. A Moscow contribution to the sit. uation was a broadcast, first made Sunday night and repeated Mon day, asserting that Russia had no intention of seizing foreign terri tory or enslaving other peoples but was preoccupied with its five year plan, as part of which it1 was in tended to strengthen the fighting forces to ‘‘consolidate peace and security and create conditions which will obviate the resurrection of aggressive forces.” Authoritative information here was that as of Monday night Iran was strongly resisting Russian pressure. But the threat of a left wing coup and the presence of Rus sian troops 20 miles from Tehran were potent factors. U. S.-BRITAIN OPPOSE NEGOTIATIONS NOW LONDON, March 18—(JP)—Great Britain and the United States were reported Monday to be opposed to any negotiation between Iran and Russia on oil concessions while Soviet troops remain on Iranian soil. Iranian embassy officials in Lon. don said that the Teheran govern ment also took this position. An embassy spokesman said he could neither confirm nor deny reports that Premier Ahmed Gavam es Saltaneh is now negotiating with the Russians. He said, however, that is was ’’highly probable” in view of an Iranian law prohibiting oil talks until foreign troops were evacuated. Cloaked in Secrecy Developments in Iran remained cloaked, in secrecy. A dispatch from Ankara said Sunday night that the inability of Ankara radio to pick up Teheran broadcasts caused considerable in. terest as the Turkish capital watch, ed the Iranian border where the Russians were reported to have sent reinforcements. A spokesman at Ankara radio said that for the first time the Teheran station was silent during the periods it always used f°r Pro grams in the Persian and Turkish languages. In Moscow the Iranian situation was ignored by Pravda, the only morning newspaper published on Mondays. Soviet newspapers have printed none of the reports which came out of Teheran last week. May Try Coup Washington dispatches said Am erican officials believed the Rus sians may try either to break the resistance of the present Iranian government or pull off a coup d’etat to put a new government in power. The immediate object, it was said, was to get official Iranian -authority for the presence of Red Army troops in Iran. Under terms of the British Russian-Iranian treaty of 1942, all foreign troops were supposed to have withdrawn from Iran by March 2. Official British spokes men maintain that the entire Iran, ian crisis was caused by failure of the Russians to withdraw. BUSSIAN TROOr MOVEMENTS CLOAKED TEHRAN, March 18. — UP> — Rugged isolated country and a tightening Soviet security curtain Monday night concealed the where abouts of three Russian troop col umns reported last week to be fanning out of Tabriz toward the Turkish border, Kurdistan and Tehran. MANOR LAST TIMES TODAY VaiTwVrJ! •-> , Charles ■ BANKHEAD; * COBURN V,'*' . -,1 WILLIAM < ' "J BAXTER - EYTHEns ' ' ' r-» VINCENT PRICE - Late Show §at. 11:30 The Weather WASHINGTON, March 18.—<£>)—Weath ADD THE WEATHER_ _ er 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 Free. WILMINGTON _ 6* 61 0.00 Asheville - 63 46 0.17 Atlanta - 67 51 0.00 Atlantic City - 42 41 2.05 Birmingham - 64 46 0.00 Boston - 50 32 0.00 Buffalo - 49 43 0.12 Burlington - 56 26 0.09 Chicago - 46 42 0.14 Chattanooga - 63 47 0.00 Cincinnati - 61 48 0.76 Cleveland - 62 46 0 00 Dallas - __ 47 0.00 Denver - 55 21 0.00 Detroit - 45 44 0.06 Duluth _ 48 37 0.00 El Paso _ 70 44 0.00 Fort Worth _ 63 45 0.00 Galveston _ 7 1 55 0.00 Jacksonville _ 84 65 0.03 Kansas City_ 45 41 3.00 Key West _ 84 75 0.00 Knoxville _ 62 4 9 0.01 Little Hock_' 57 50 0.00 Los Angeles_ 62 51 0.00 Louisville _ 59 49 0.21 Memphis _ 59 50 0.00 Montgomery _ 68 52 0.00 Meridian _ 66 49 0.00 Miami _ 7B 69 0.30 Mlnn.-St. Paul _ 56 36 0.02 Mobile _ 72 52 0.00 New Orleans _ 72 59 0.00 New York ____ _ 0.00 Norfolk _i_ 54 49 0.16 Phoenix _ 87 49 p.00 Philadelphia _ 43 39 0 97 Pittsburgh _ 54 43 0.05 Portland, Me. _ 46 24 0.00 Richmond _ 49 46 0.10 St. Louis _ 51 46 0.09 San Francisco_ 51 45 0.00 San Antonio_ 73 42 0.00 Savannah _ 82 62 0.00 Seattle _ 52 32 0.00 Tampa - 77 68 0.50 Vicksburg I_ 68 50 0.00 Washington _ 45 41 0.15 MORE ABOUT THREAT FROM PAGE ONE freight structure and put each South Atlantic port into a category of its own. If so, the rates would probably be higher than they are now, and foreign shipping would divert to the North Atlantic ports almost exclusively. What such a rate set-up would do to Wilmington is self-evident: It would kill Wilmington as a world port. To fight the menace, members of the Wilmington association, among them Alex Sprunt, Peter B. Ruffin, R. B. Page, J. T. Hiers, and H. E. Boyd, met yesterday afternoon in the Woodrow Wilson hut and held a conference of war. J. T. Hiers, executive general agent of the Wilmington Port com mission, and H. E. Boyd, Wilming ton port traffic manager, were ap pointed to draw up papers of inter vention when Tampa’s complaint is submitted to the ICC. "It Tampa were a South Atlantic port,” Boyd said yesterday, “we would be glad to have her included in the South Atlantic port group. But she is a gulf port, isolated, so to speak, from Atlantic trade, and to bring her into the group would only be to have all of our rates raised, which means that the North Atlantic ports would get all the trade.” MORE ABOUT RED CROSS FROM PAGE ONE by a percentage of the 350 workers of the men’s and women’s divisions of the county chapter, the workers have reported over-subscriptions, it was learned at county headquar ters. 1 HOCUS POCUS NAN! He’ll Scare The '*Yell” Out of You! CREEPS AND THRILLS ON CAROLINA THEATRE STAGE FRIDAY AND SATURDAYI Those who boast of their abil ity to TAKE IT, are in for a special and breath-taking test Friday and Saturday when Dr. Neff, famous authority on SPIRIT PHENOMENA, pres ents his world-famous mystery revue at the Carolina Theatre. Neff has indeed brought some thing new to the stage with his well-known show, and without pretense to SUPERNATURAL POWERS, the suave mystery _ man will calmly summon doz ens of spooks, all shapes and sizes, to appear before the very eyes of the audience and start an errie 50 minutes of hilarious “HORROR”, just to scare the “YELL” out of you! IT IS THE SHOW THAT HAS T EVERYTHING . . . WITH A L COMPANY OF 15 GLAMOUR I GHOUJL.S (Girls to you)! There jl is nothing like it . . , anywhere 1 on EARTH! r| Warner Baxter will fumisn \) ftie screen thrills in “JUST BE- IS PORE DAWN”. jU I more about LATEST FROM PAGE ONE The VHF range"”will send outTiT lals on every degree of the com oass. In short, there will be 36' signals issuing from the fiein stead of only four. And rannot possibly miss picking Un one of them and coming in L 9 safe landing regardless of h/ stormy the weather is. ,v Super-Short Waves Not only will there be 360 signal, The signals themselves win i “super-short waves” capable punching through the worst sort r weather. 01 Biuethenthal field is getting this ran«e part of the “AA s program to blanket the ,■ tion with VHF and put an end i" cails for the installation of VHP airplane tragedies. The program ranges in all important fields whir! do not already have a radio ranr. of any type. 6 Important Development Since Bluethenthal does not hav. a radio range, the VHF range i, being installed here in short orde Fields which already have the old' type ranges will get the VHP ranges later. “It’s one of the most important developments at Bluethenthal ve'.“ Albert Perry, chairman of the Au thority said, “and there are still many more to come.” The entire Authority, consist^ of Perry, Hicks, Harry Gardner Lenox Cooper, and Hargrove Bell' amy, attended yesterday’s meet' ing, and man for man they pred.rt “big things to come” for 'Wilmins ton in the age of flight. The Red Cross has two boats on the Seine painte^ red, white and blue with room for 300 GI sight see-ers. LAST DAY! The picture all Wilmlnplon Ii rarlnt about! The atory of a woman who would kill to keep the man ahe possessed! Powerful drama! SHOWS: 1:00 - 2:51 4:53 — 6:55 — 9:00 ___________ Sensational Story LAST Behind the DAY!! ATOMIC BOMB! AT HOLLYWOOD” | ‘LAND OF MAYAS’ I WORLD NEWS | TODAY AND WEDNESDAY with BARRY FITZGERALD DON DeFORE L TODAY! I The men in her Hie be- I came men of the past! —1—■
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