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 ___ i WASHINGTON, April 16— 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. * __ 4 than serve as a sounding board for our readers and pass on what ever information they may send us. K * 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. ATHLETES FOOT GERM HOW TO KILL IT. IN ONE HOUR, IF NOT PLEASED, your 35c bac*. Ask any druggist for this STRONG | fungicide. TE-OL. Made with SC per cent alcohol, it PENETRATES. Reach es and kills MORE germs faster. Today at Saunders Drugs. AMERICAN FLOOR SANDING AND FINISHING MACHINES GREGG RROS. Market & Front Dial 9655