TRAFFIC VICTIM’S
CONDITION ‘FAIR’
Accident Claimed Life Of
Canadian Woman In
Brunswick County
The condition of two survivors of
a traffic mishap in Brunswick
county Tuesday night was de
scribed by attaches at the James;
Walker Memorial hospital as
"fair’1 last night.
The accident, which claimed tne
life of Mrs. Florida Plante, 50,
of Montreal. Canada, occurred o'
Highway 17 near Jackie’s Creek,
according to State Patrolman C.
J. Ferguson.
The surviving victims of the
traffic mishap, which resulted
when the driver attempted to
avoid hitting a dog and overturned
demolishing the car. are Roland
Laenard, chauffeur, and Mary Be
Jerman, 25, also of Montreal and
a companion of Mrs. Plante.
Last night Patrolman Ferguson
indicated that charges would be
filed in the case although he fail
ed to state the nature or when the
charges would be brought.
Mrs. Plante died at the local
hospital yesterday afternoon where
she and the two survivors had
been brought by a passing motor- >
1st.
HOUSE WILL NOT
BAN UNION SHOP
Representatives Reject
Such An Amendment
By Rep. Hoffman
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WASHINGTON, April 16— <JPr- ■
The House refused today to vote <
a ban on the union shop into its •
bill applying sweeping curbs tg ;
itrikes and unions.
The measure, on which a vote |
Is expected tomrrow, contains a
provision outlawing the closed
shop, in which only union mem
bers can get jobs.
Rep. Hoffman (R-Michi vainly
proposed an amendment to outlaw
also the union shop, in which a
non-union man can get a job but
must join the union later.
Hoffman told the House a man
should have the “right to join or
not to join.”
By voting against his amend
ment, the House upheld a section
of the bill permitting the union
shop if a majority of employes
vote for it and it is not prohibited
by state law.
House Republican leader Halleck
of Indiana said the bill would
leave the matter to “free agree
ment” between labor and man
agement while outlawing “black
jacking” by a union.
Rep. Madden (D-Ind) snouted
that the Hoffman amendment
would “execute labor.”
Rep. McCormick, House Demo
cratic whip, denounced the pend
ing labor bill as “anti-labor and
anti-management” but Republican
leaders said mere than two thirds
of the chamber will vote for it.
(Continued From Page One)
returns the pits. The NLRB said
the government had found opera
tion of the mines “exceedingly
burdensome.”
The board’s suggestion was con
tained in a ruling which found that
the recent Supreme court decision
against Lewis does not prevent his
miners from organizing foremen
and supervisory employes.
CLEARING
(Continued from Page One)
adding that clearing weather would
end the flood threats.
The Neuse river had risen slight
ly at Neuse, Goldsboro and Smith
field. However, the river is not
expected to reach flood stages at
either point. Today’s reading show
ed a rise to 12 feet at Goldsboro
where the flood stage is 14 feet.
The Devil’s Kitchen is one of
the Icelandic geysers, about 50
paces from the great geyser. It
is provoked by throwing into the
opening clods of grass, when it
belches forth a magnificent col
umn of boiling water, which
may be very dangerous to by
standers.
In early-day Illinois, wagon
freight charges were often $10 a
ton for twenty miles._
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Obituaries
CLARENCE S. BORRELL
Funeral services for Clarence S.
Borrell, who died Tuesday, will!
>e held Thursday afternoon ot
our o'clock from the Chapel of the
fopp Funeral home.
The Rev. Bennett will officiate
tnd interment will follow in Belle
vue semetery.
Mr. Borrell. of Carolina Bealli,
s survived by bis wife. Mrs. Lu
:ille Borrell. and five daughters,
ilrs. J. R. Ramford, Durham, Mrs.
Charles M. Smith, Dallas. Tex.;
vlrs. J. E. Harriss. Waycross, Ga.;
»lrs. Lucille Jenkins. Carolina
Beach, and Miss Irene Borrell, also
J Carolina Beach, and one son;
llarence S. Borrell, Jr.
NANCY EDNA HARRISON
Funeral services for Nancy Edna
Harrison. 3. of Harbor Island, who
iied Tuesday morning in Babies
Hospital after a short illness, were
:ond cted from St. John’s Epis
:opal church yesterday afternoon
it 3 o’clock by the Rev. E. W.
Halleck. Interment followed in
Dakdale cemetery.
She is survived by her parents,
Vlr. and Mrs. L. A. Harrison, four
sisters; Betty Jane, Laurie Ann,
Barah Frances and Wilhelmina
Harrison.
MRS. EVA C. REGISTER
Funeral services for Mrs. Eva
Z. Register, 50-year-old Fort Fish
er resident, who died suddenly at
ter home Tuesday afternoon, will
be conducted from the Yopp Fune
ral home at 2 o’clock Thursday
afternoon with the Rev. Mr.
Z. C. Myers, assisted by the Rev.
Vlr. R. L. Sthrges. officiating. In
terment will follow in Prospect
cemetery.
She is survived by her husband.
J. E. Register, Fort Fisher; four
daughters, Mrs. Virginia Hewlett
and Miss Barbara Register, Fort
Fisher, Mrs. Edna Farr, Wrights
ville Sound and Mrs. Geneva Val
entine, Iowa Falls, Iowa; five I
sons, James F. Register, William
A. Register and Joseph I. Register
of Fort Fisher, Oscar Register
Wrightsville Sound and D. G. Reg
ister of Middle Sound; four sisters,
Mrs. Dan Phillips, Mrs. Mable
Yarborough and Mrs. J. C. Harvell
of Wilmington and Mrs. Max Har
dy of Castle Hayne, three brothers,
Charles L. Gregory and Earl Greg
ory of Wilmington and E. T. Greg
ory of Aberden, Md.
E. P. WILLARD, SR.
Funeral arrangements for F.
Payson Willard, Sr., 74. who died
at 10:30 o’clock yesterday morning
at his home at 15 S. Fourth street,
after a short illness, nave not been
completed, and will be announced
later by Ward Funeral home.
Survivors include: Mrs. E. Pay
son Willard, Sr.: two daughters,
Mrs. Howard A. Penton. and Miss
Betty Wilsard. of Wilmington, one
son, Dr. E. Payson Willard, Jr.,
Commerce, Texas; and several
grandchildren.
DR. J. B. CRAVEN, SR.
MORGANTON, April 16 — —
Funeral services for Dr. James
Braxton Craven, Sr., widely known
Methodist Minister of North Car
olina who died suddenly Sunday
at Monroe, will be conducted at
the First Methodist church here
at 11 a. m. Friday.
The services to be conducted by
these fellow ministers, The Rev.
Fletcher Nelson, The Rev. Kenneth
Goodson and The Rev. Claude
Moser, were delayed pending noti
fication to Dr. Craven’s son, J. B.
Craven, Jr., who is on a Naval
cruise. The son is expected to
reach here by plane tomorrow.
Burial will be at 4 p. m. Friday
at old Trinity in Randolph County.
The family has requested that no
flowers be sent. •
‘Tom Thumb, one of the first
locomotives in the United States,
lost a race with a horse.
Along The Cape Fear
EATING FISH DERBY — Nov.
that the Southeastern North Caro
lina Beach Association has a full
time secretary in Jor.n J. Hudi
burg. Holly Ridge hotel owner and
sportsman. Along The Cape Fear
must "promote” to the utmost its
Best Eating Fish Rodeo.
While the SENCBA will have
$15,000 to attract anglers from all1
over the nation to participate in
its second annual rodeo. Along
The Cape Fear has only a limited
number of three cents postage
stamps to be used in mailing in
quiries and telephone service, ’
which at the moment most of you!
will agree is a trifle limited if j
you live outside the limits of the!
Port City.
• * *
TO THE RESCUE-But despite
these minor difficulties, we re
ceived much cheer from a letter
reaching us from our Cardinal
Point correspondent.
"'In the South most fish taste
alike because of the universal
practice of frying — usually in
strong grease—anj served cold,”
he contends.
‘‘If your column can bring out
some other way of cooking—
Greek, Italian, or Chinese—it may
help preserve the digestive organs
of many southerners,” he inform
ed us.
Now- with such a humanitarian
project facing us. we must rise to
the occasion.
But like all other ventures of
this column, we can do little more
TEXAS CITY NOW
TOWN OF FLAMES
Reporter Describes Scenes
Of Anguish As Dead
Are Identifed
By WILLIAM C. BARNARD
TEXAS CITY. April 16—i.^P>—
This is a city of flames, torn steel,
and smoking rubble, a city where
the dead are uncounted and the
living are too dazed and weary to
cry.
Tonight scores of bodies of ex
plosion and fire dead are stacked
on benches and tables in a brick
mid-town garage and in the nearby
high school gymnasium. Outside
these places the people gather in
silent, expressionless groups.
Dozens of embalmers are at
work in the garage and there the
slow process of identification goes
on.
When identification and embalm
ing are completed a body is wrap,
ped in a rough brown blanket and
a numbered ticket is wired to a
toe.
An ambulance is then called out
of the long line in front of the
garage and the body is passed out
on a stretcher and taken to the
gymnasium.
A mile away black smoke from
six roaring fires billows 5,000 feet
into the air and drifts southward
out over the gulf. A 50-acre area
of devastation marks the scene
where the twin explosions of a ship
and a chemical works wrought the
greatest tragedy this area has ever
known.
I stood in the city hall and saw
a woman find the name of her son
on a casualty list. Her shoulders
sagged, her arms fell limp at her
sides and her face twisted with
grief. Her husband, his face a
dazed mask, caught her under the
arm and led her out.
Knocked Dowr.
In the light of the towering
blazes a few hundred yards from
the grotesque mountains of twist
ed steel. I talked to Philip Flores,
young Army veteran.
“I was working in a warehouse
25 yards from the ship when it
blew up,” he told me. “The concus
sion knocked me dowm.
“I crawled over to some flour
sacks and buried my head under
them. Then a few seconds later
the (Monsanto) Chemical plant ex
ploded. The roof and walls of the
warehouse were coming down
around me. I got up ar.d ran for
my life. Later I helped pull the
bodies out of the wreckage. It was
the most terrible thing I’ve ever
seen.
"One man with a leg blown off
was screaming with pain. I
couldn’t tell you how he looked be.
cause he didn’t have much face
left."
iVlUol l/l tilt truuiv. J “
mangled.’’
Juan Torres lives in a house a
quarter of a mile from the de
stroyed chemical plant. I found
him Bitting on a bed in the front
room staring at the floor. In the
back part of the house the walls
had caved in and the place was in
a shambles.
Torres was away at work when
the explosion took place.
“I came home,” he said, "and
found my brother, my father, and
my sister-in-law missing. They
may be dead.”
We went out into the back yard.
It was pitted with huge pieces of
jagged steel. One piece weighed
half a ton. It had buried itself
three feet into the ground. The
smoldering ruins of a small house
was in the back yard.
•’This,” said Torres, "was the
house my brother lived in.”
He went back into the ruined
larger house and threw himself on
a bed.
Mayor J. C. Trahan, who wears
a Purple Heart as a souvenir of
buzz bombs in Belgium, said “no
buzz bomb could ever compare
with what happened here today.
It is such a terrific tragedy that
the per,lie have not been able to
realize what has happened.
Courage High
“They are bearing up with mag
nificent courage.
"Our neighboring cities have
been wonderful. We are sending
the wounded and the homeless to
a dozen different communities and
they are receiving them with open
arms.”
SO JAPS PERISH
TOKYO, April 16 — (U.P.) — More
than 30 Japanese were killed to
day when the railway coach in
which they were riding caught fire
in a tunnel between Osaka and
Nara, the newspaper Mainichi re
ported. * __
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than serve as a sounding board
for our readers and pass on what
ever information they may send
us.
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MUCH TOO MUCH—"Toot much
grease is the usual charge against
us. Hall the population of the
world cooks fish without animal
or any other grease,” he says.
“They can't all be wrong,” he
points out.
‘‘Many years ago we had fish
chowder—the recipes are still in
the books. Boiled fish is palatable.
Baked rock or shad, basting it for
two hours with plenty of milk
say two quarts makes a dish fit
for a king.
‘ The bones disappear after long
and slow cooking. Boiled shad roe.
browned and with melted butter
makes the delicate stomach grate
ful. ‘
‘‘How about raw fish? The red
snapper or bass, cold sliced and
with soy sauce grated tumip or
radish, is fine. In the Orient raw
fish is fed to the invalid.
“What we need is not more fish,
it more ways of cooking them,”
uc tells us.
Now should you good readeis be
kind enough to head for the fam
ily cook book, select your favorite
recipe for preparing fish, and
mail same to us, we would be
more than grateful.
And please don't forget that by
so doing you might even save the
life of some Southerners prone to
eating only fried fish.
JOHNSON
(Continued from Page One)
advisory commission and director
of the local government advisory
commission prior to his election as
state treasurer.
Johnson's statement announcing
his candidacy for governor fol
low's:
“This is an announcement of
my candidacy for Governor at
North Carolina subjec t *o the
Democratic Primary of 1948. It
is intended only as a statement
of my candidacy. In the months
ahead I shall give full informa
tion as to my aims and policies.
“As state treasurer, as director
of local government, and as a
member of many of the most im
portant state boards and commis
sions, I have bad an opportunity
to learn the workings of the state
government and to know the prob
lems and needs of the people of
North Carolina.
“I believe that my experience
and training in the business of
government, on both the state and
local government levels, will be
of value in the years just ahead.
“If elected. I will be free to as
sume the office of goernor with
only one commitment ... a
promise to do what I believe to
be best for all the people of the
State.
“While I will not go into detail
as to my program at this time, I
do wish to make one simple
statement which I hope to make
the key-note of the service I de
sire to render
“I shall always keep in mind
that government is justified only
b: the high character of service
rendered by its officials as serv
ants oi the people and seek to
emphasize the human as well as
material values by meeting the
needs of the under-privileged and
those afflicted and handicapped
in life.
"Above all. we must protect and
provide for the needs of our chil
dren through a wise and adequate
program of health and education.
“I take pride in the magnificent
record of progress in North Caro
lina made under the leadership
of the Democratic Party.
“I heartily endorse this record
and wish to see us go forward to
even higher levels of achievement.
“The limitless opportunities for
service which the great office ol
governor affords, challenges the
best there is in any man and it
is my sincere desire, with the sup
port of our people, to undertake
this leadership for the good I hope
and believe I can do.”
Tobacco Prices
LONDON, APRIL 16 —UP,—Bri
ton: by the millions swore ot
smoking today and then made the
rounds of the tobacco shops for a
final nicotine binge before r.eu
highest-in-history prices went intc
effect.
Beginning tomorrow, the pack
age of 20 cigarattes will cost three
shillings four pence (about 6S
cents), a shilling (20 cent) increase
in 48 hours.
Augustus Montague Toplady
was an English clergyman and
hymn writer (1740-78) author of
the hymn, “Rock of Ages.”
THE FORMER S64-a-week cash
ier William Arthur Nickel ot Free
port, L. I., New York, Is shown in
the Kings County Court, after he
pleaded guilty to swindling the
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., out of
1780,000. Nlchel is expected to be a
prosecution witness at the trial of
his co-defendants, Irving (Ixxy the
Eel) Cohen and Julius (Jimmy Col
lins) Lobell, .(International),
BEDRIDDEN EOR EIGHT YEARS as a result of spinal trouble,
Jimmy Carrick, 10, of Pittsburgh, Pa., mascot of the D. S. Navy
Seabees, carries the huge cast repioved from his body at Shriners
Hospital, Philadelphia. Jimmy, who has spent the greater part of
his life in bed or in a wheelchair, will soon be able to romp and play.
Southport Fishermen May Get
New Fishing Trawlers In June
By BILL KEZIAH
Star Correspondent
SOUTHPORT, April 16—
June should see the delivery
of a number of sizea„'e and
costly shrimp trawlers to
Southport men engaged m e
fishing industry, with probably
still more going to others in
other parts of the county.
W. S. Wells is now having
two fifty footers constructed in
a yard at St. Augustine, Fla.
Both of these craft are prom
ised as addition to his fleet
of 8 big boats by June 1. Wells
and his son were in St. Augus
tine the first of the week and
he reports he was pleased at
the progress of the work on
the boats.
Merritt Moore is also having
a 60 footer built in a yard
at Fernandia, Fla.
Lewis J. Hardee, who im
ported an expert boat builder
from Florida will have his
first 5 footer ready early in
June, with another on the
way. Purchasing his lumber
in Georgia, Hardee got keels
and other stuff sufficient to
build six boats and it is un
derstood he plans to go right
on building and to get as
many boats in operation, as
possible, before the present
season closes.
Port City Items
A total of $850 from three Wil
mington firms has been invested
in the South Eastern North Caro
lina Beach association in the or
ganization’s current drive, otficials
o? the beach group's campaign
committee said yesterday. The or
ganizations are the Coca-Cola
Bottling Co., the Tide Water Pow
er Co., and the White Ice Cream
and Milk Co., all of Wilmington.
Dr. A. H. Elliott, city-county
health officer, last night urged all
restaurant and cafe employes to
attend the week's course to be
offered here by the state depart
ment of education. Opening Fri
day at the Community center, the
lecture course will be presented
by Miss Gage Morton of the public
instruction department. The
course, which received the full
endorsement of the city-county
health department, is being spon
sored by the New Hanover Restau
rant association.
The two-day training course at
the local office of the North Caro
lina State employment service con
cluded yesterday, according to W.
H. Powell, manager.
The sessions were planned to
train four interviewers in employ
er counseling and selective train
ing.
Members of the Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce are in the
process of selecting five new mem
bers for its board of directors.
The balloting is being conducted
by mail.
Members of the Commercial
Fishermen and Dealers associa
tion will hold their charter meet
ing Friday night at 8:30 o’clock
in Superior courtroom at the New
Hanover county courthouse. aM
J. Hampton Lee. newly elected
president of the group will preside,
according to an announcement
made yesterday by W. D. Stokely,
secretary.
After-dark flower stealing con
tinues in Wilmington as two
citizens reported to police yester
day of their gardens being clipped
during the night. Mrs. J. L. Bald
win, 1924 Chestnut street, and
Mrs. Mary E. Hughes. 517 Dock
street, both asked police to be on
the look-out for flower thieves.
One candidate was officially en
tered and two more had secured
application blanks in the race for
the office of town aldermen in
Wrightsville Beach yesterday af
ternoon. H. C. Johnson, realtor,
already has officially filed his
application in the office of R. L.
Benson, town clerk. Two others,
Ed M. Hawkins and William M.
Farrar. Wrightsville businessmen
have obtained application blanks.
Carolina Beach’s Mayor Tom
Croom and the town council are
expected to soon institute an
ordinance governing bingo play
ing in the resort city. The Caro
lina Beach council directed At
torney Emmett Bellamy to pre
pare an ordinance bounding the
game following passage of a bill
by the state legislature empower
ing the council to do so.
Penderloa high school will be
the scene of the annual meeting of
the 11th North Carolina district
of Home Demonstration clubs.
Miss Ann Mason, Home Demon
stration agent, said yesterday.
The meeting, which takes place
on Wednesday, April 24, will be
gin at 10 a. m. and will continue
through to the early afternoon.
Two officers from the Wil
mington District offices of the
U. S, engineer* left yesterday to
POSTPONED
NEW YORK, April 16—HP—
Rain and cold weather forced
the postponement of all but one
game on today’s major league
baseball program. In that con
test at Cincinnati the World
Champion St. Louis Cardinals
hoped to even things with the
Reds who defeated them, 3-1,
in the opener yesterday.
The whole American League
card was washed out. The
schedule had Philadelphia at
New York, Chicago at Cleve
land, Detroit at St. Louis, and
Washington at Boston. Put off
until another day were the fol
lowing National League con
tests; New Y’ork at Philadel
phia, Boston at Brooklyn and
Pittsburgh at Chicago.
Talking Dog
OAKLAND. Calif., April 16.
—(U.R)—Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Geldner want 5110,375 dam
ages from a pet hospital be
cause they said it lost their
dog, Mosquito—and just when
she was learning to talk
Spanish, too.
The Geldners filed suit yes
terday against the E. S. Freitas
pet hospital, alleging that they
took Mosquito to the establish
ment to have her teeth cleaned
last June and never sa\f her
after that.
Mrs. Geldner explained that
Mosquito helped make up for
it. In addition, she said. Mos
quito was about to become a
mother and the Geldners were
looking forward to having the
pups around.
“Mosquito was a great talk
er,” Mrs. Geldner said. ’Pete
taught her to say lotk of
words.”
Mosquito, a six - year - hold
half-terrier. half-English hun
ter. spotted black and white,
brought in the morning paper
from the front porch and let
the cats in and out at night.
Her English vocabulary in
cluded the words ‘papa.”
“mama,” “auto,” “fast,”
“meat,” and “out,” Mrs.
Geldner said.
Besides these accomplish
ments. the Geldners claimed,
Mosquito was learning to
speak Spanish when she dis
appeared.
attend a hearing on the proposed
basin at Harkers Point, the en
gineers office hag announced. The
hearing is taking place in the
Harkers Point school auditorium.
Mrs. W. S. Pullen, Girl Scout
cookie sale chairman, announces
that a total of 6,213 boxes have
been reported sold as of yester
day afternoon. Twenty-one of 3£
troops have turned in orders. Final
compilations will be made bv Sat
urday, April 26.
Permission to dredge a 600-fcot
area in front of the site of the In
ternational Paper company’s pro
posed wharf on Eagle Island has
been applied for at the U. S. Dis
trict Engineers office by the Steen
Contracting corporation of Rich
mond, Va. Any objection to the
work will be received in the Engi
neers office until tomorrow, April
24.
R. W. Tonning, Jr., was appoint
ed electrical engineer for the At
lantic Coast Line Railroad effec
tive yesterday by J. D. »Loftis,
chief of motive power and equip
ment. Tcmning is a former em
ploye of the New York Central
railroad and served with the U. S.
Army Transportation corps during
itha war.
STATE OF TEXAS
MOBILIZES AIDES
Red Cross, Armed Ser
vices, Veterans Groups
Press Disaster Relief
By JOHN HARTZELL
United Press Correspondent
TEXAS CITY. Tex. April 16—
(U.PJ -The State ol Texas, assisted
by the Red Cross, the armed
services and veterans organiza
tions. mobilized its resources to
night to handle the big job' of dis
aster relief in this blasted city.
Red Cross officials announced
an “initial appropriation” of S250,
000 for the emergency needs of
victims.
But even as the mobilization of
relief forces got underway, explo
sions still rocked the waterfront
and fires flamed along a two-mile
stretch of the bay.
An emergency “ ham ” network
of amateur radio operators for the
Texas City area was being super
vised from Dallas, with the ap -
proval of the Federal Communica
tions commission, which announc
ed that a broadcast band had
been cleared for it. Only emergen
cy messages were being handle
The Fourth Army announced at
San Antonio that it was sending
help. The 10th Air force was
1 named coordinator of transporta
tion and immediately dispatched
two airplanes to Scott Field. St.
Louis, Mo , to pickup 12,000
; pounds of blood plasma.
Plasma Sent
Two planes from & troop carrier
j group at Bergstrom field. Austin.
Tex., wer e loaded with 8,750
pounds of plasma and sent here.
All Army plasma in the San An
tonio area was enroute, along with
here. A11500 gas masks from the
San Antonio General Army depot.
Two C-47 cargo planes were
sent to Fort Worth for 10,000 blan
kets. Braniff Airlines said doctors
j and nurses from all major cities
j on its routes were heading for the
stricken Gulf Coast city in its
planes. The Red Cross flew in 17
specially-trained disaster workers.
Gov. Beauford H. Jester'alerted
two battalions of Texas State
guardsmen at Houston to add 400
men to the 150 state troopers who
j moved in from nearby LaPorte.
Fire and police department men
from gulf coast cities in an 80
mile radius came in to help.
Highway patrol cars were here
from cities as far away as San
Antonio. Waco and Austin. The
The Texas Highway department
said all the tractors and bull
dozers in its system would be
made available as needed to clear
the wreckage.
Coast Guard Acts
The Coast guard rushed a half
dozen boats through Galveston
bay to Texas City and also set
up a radio communications truck.
Dozens, possibly hundreds, of
i ambulances traveled in an end
; less stream between Texas City
; and Galveston. Houston and other
; cities in the region. As hospitals
; overflowed, private homes were
| taken over.
i The Eighth Coast guard ordered
! the Cutter Iris, standing by. to di
| rect operations of any boats re
; porting for volunteer duty Rear
! Adm. G. T. Finlay, commander of
i the 8th Coast guard, said he would
! reach the scene by tomorrow.
An airplane carrying five noc -
: tors, five nurses, two Navy phar
macists mates and a load of sup
plies. including morphine and
blood plasma, arrived from Cor -
pus Christi, Tex. The Red Cross
flew in a plane load of gas masks
from Lake Charles. La., and other
masks arrived from Ellington
field, near Houston.
The Navy placed a 700-bed hos
pital at Houston and a 500 - bed
hospital at Fort Crockett, near
Houston, in the hands of the Red
Cross.
strikers Respond
The striking telephone work
ers union ordered its members to
report for duty in the stricken
area for the duration of the emer
gency and the Southwestern Bell
Telephone company said its man
agers at Houston, Texas City and
Galveston advised the response of
the union men and women was
fast.
JUST OVER THE HORIZON...
&
comes the first caravan
of fine new Greyhound coaches
to bring the luxury you've waited for In
highway transportation
Greyhound Terminal
120 Walnut St.
Dial 2-2481
.
The Weather
Weather report of
railfalf for the 24 hou * jv
in the principal cot: P j
and else where:
Station
WILMINGTON _
Alpena _ s$
Asheville _
Atlanta _
Atlantic City_
Birmingham _
Boston_
Buffalo _
| Burlington _ *4
Charlotte _ :*
Chattanooga _ "4
Chicago _ J*
i Cincinnati _ 1|
i Cleveland_ Sj
l Dallas _Hi; r
j Denver _
Detroit _ %
Duluth _ H
El Paso_
Fort Worth_
Galveston _
Jacksonville___ -*
Kansas City _ ?!
Key West_ ?!
Little Rock_
Los Angeles_
Louisville _
Memphis _
Meridian _ "
Miami _
Minn.-St. Paul_ ^ ^
Mobile _I J g. "* I
Mont go men.- _ -- - j
New Orleans _ — ^ j
New York _ ..
Norfolk _II :2 In
Philadelphia _ s* 4
Phoenix _ & * j
Pittsburgh___ *4 ~~
Portland. Me. _ v. ' J
Richmond _ i J
St. Louis _ -4 ~
San Antonio _ V. *
San Francisco_.v
Savannah _ 7- r ^
Seattle - 84 44
Tampa _ ao *
Vicksburg _ TO
Washington _ 50 *
Joe Cuthrell School
Preens Auctioneers
KINSTON, April 16. - Cath.
reil, partner in the operation o'
Knott Warehouse here, r-.ncutca'
today that a school t„. tobacco
auctioneers has beer, established
and that response to teaching has
been good.
More than 20 young men have
started studying for the chamring
prefe&sion. an denrollmer.t ;; ton.
tinuing at the local school, kr.mvc
as the Joe Cuthrell -school, found
ed and established by Cutr.rell, and
his associate, B. E. Daie. jr
The school runs for four weeki,
and a series of classes are btv
held.
Thirteen Convicted
BUDAPEST. 9pril 16.—J>_A I
Peoples Court convicted 13 person ’
today of plotting against the
Hungarian Republic in an effort to
re-establish the regime of Ad
miral Nicholas Horthy by armed
revolt and sentenced three of the?,
to die by strangulation.
Those condemned to die were
Dr. Gyorgv Dona-h, a former mem
ber of Parliament who was ic
cused of being the “brains’1 bi
hind the alleged conspiracy against
Hungary’s communist-dominated
regime: aging former Gen. Laid
Dalniki Veress. at whose home tie
state charged an “underground
chief command” was establishes
on Oct. 31, 1946: and Sar.dor
Andras.
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