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—, ■ ■——-- r FORECAST: + ^ ^ ^ Served By Leased Wires tlmutnimt iiinntutn &m :=§sn ___ State and National News VOL- 80.—NO. 227._WILMINGTON, N, C., MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947 ESTABLISHED~1867 Pro-Zoinists Blast Arabs Nation Associates Charge Delegates To UN Were Axis Saboteurs , LAKS SUCCESS, N. Y., May 11 _JUP)_A pro-Zionist organization charged tonight that former Axis collaborators, saboteurs and spies row sparkplug the Arab delegation to the United Nations meeting on Palestine. The charge came from the Na tion Associates, which is headed Freda Kirchwey, editor of the Nation Magazine, and Frank P. Graham, president of the Univer ,ity of North Carolina. The Associates in a 75-page memorandum to the UN General is err.bly and its political com mittee. protested particularly against the war records of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Wasef Kamal and Emil Ghouri, Mo of his followers now attend jng sessions at Lake Success. The Mufti, as head of the Arab higher committee, directs Arab strategy from his exile in Cario. The memorandum submitted to UN included photographs and photostatic copies of letters link- j ing him with Adolph Hitler and ether Nazi big-wigs. The memorandum accused him of accepting Nazi money to back in anti-British Arab revolt in the Middle East during the war. The Mufti spend much cf the war in Berlin, the memorandum pointed out, and planned Axis propaganda to Middle East Arabs and to fel low-Moslems in India. Ghouri Record About Ghouri, the secretary of the Arab higher committee’s dele tion to UN, the memorandum itated: "A report of the British general lervice of intelligence on Dec. 1, 1941, listed Emil Ghouri as one of a group ‘who are responsible for propaganda, intrigue, and lubversive activities inside and outside Iraq.’ ... He is the or ganizer and political leader of the underground Arab army, and li alleged to be one of those re iponsible for internal terror against Arab opponents of the Mufti and Arabs who sell land tc the Jews tin Palestine).” About Kamal, the National As sociates wrote: “During the first part of the war, he remained in Turkey as an agent of the German secret service from which he received a alary. In 1943, he v jnt to Italy and Ger many where he served as one of the closest collaborators df the Mufti.” The memorandum also noted that Rasem Khalidi, appointed as one of the Arab Higher committee representatives at UN, had been j refused a United Sbates visa be cause of his war record. Copies of the protest went to Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, presi dent of the General assembly; and (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) 28 TAXI DRIVERS FACE MASS TRIAL Three Other Greenville Men Go Before Jury Today For Lynching GREENVILLE, S. C„ May 11 - Wh — Thirty-one Greenville men, including 28 taxi drivers, will go into court here tomorrow to lace charges in a mass trial growing cut of the Feb. 17 lynching of a young Negro who had been arrest ed in connection with the fatal •tabbing and robbery of another Greenville taxi driver. The defendants were indicted •arly in March by the county grand jury on four cuunts, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and being accessories before and af ter the fact. Ail were arrested in a whirl four-day roundup after the •Negro, Willie Earle, 24, was tak en from the nearby Pickens county ]8il bv an unmasked mob, and ■a.er was found beaten and shot 0 death beside a little-used Greenville county road. an inquest, solicitor Harry Ashmore, who is in charge of .fte prosecution, read statements [orn ^ of the accused, in which admitted participating ir the ®rea‘er or less degree in the seiz re of Earle and his rmoval from \ Pickens jail. efense efforts to delay the trial _ overruled last week by Judge , ,obert Martin. Jr., who order tne case called at 10 a. m. to morrow. Greenville attorneys said they do recall a similar case with so r-s a number of defendants. The Weather s FORECAST •liKhti ° and North Carolina—Fair and liigl,. J Warmer Monday and Monday fi*uch Tuesday Psrtly cloudy and not '.-i? ige in temperature. 'Pa^tern Standard Time) v.t S. Weather Bureau) •nding0'0-- c 1 da‘ta f°r *he 24 hours ‘ 8 ‘ • "0 p m , yesterday. 1 3o Temperatures an': 50; 7:30 a.m., 51; 1:30 p.m., May: .Pm" 80 Korrn^'-^ B ; Minimum 46: Mean 57; ].«q Humidity U;'V,a;!'fi- 7:30 am. 70; 1:30 p.m., •vJ Pm.. 48. Tata] f Precipitation too inches ^ hours ending 7:30 p. m., t&6 inch^06 *he 'first oi montl1, iFr0n> «v Tiie“ For Today ft. S. p lne Tables published by oast and Geodetic Survey) ^Rvington Hi*h Low 8 011 2:40a 10:1 "a ^sonboro t„i * 3:08p 10:20p 0 Inlet - 12:20a 6:53a 12:47p 6:35p J_ -J: 13; Sunset 7:04; Moonrise Moonset 11:02a. “i’AITH 'IEALER” Avak Hago- I Jian gazes towards the heavens at Palm Springs, Cal., seeking Divine guidance in an attempt to cure Vaughn Arakelian, epileptic son of i wealthy grape merchant. Hago lian flew' from Iran, at the re quest of Krikor Arakelian, father if the stricken man, to attempt a jure through prayer. (Internation al). BANDITS ROUTED BY HUSBAND, WIFE Roseville Community Couple Disarm Masked Housebreakers ROXBORO, May 11—OR)—Three young masked bandits were par tially foiled Saturday night about 10:30 in their attempt to rob Roger Crumpton, farmer of the Rose ville community, and his guests, Mr. and Mrs. Silas Solomon in the Crumpton home. The robbers were routed from the home after a tussle with the two men and Mrs. Solomon and were able to get away with only 50 cents and twTo empty billfolds. They were forced to leave behind a switch blade knife and two pis tols of the U. S. Army .45 and a P-33 German make weapon. According to Crumpton the three men pushed a gun into his stomach and forced nim back into his front room after he angffifired a knock at his front door. Tackles Bandit Two of the bandits began a search of the men for valuables while one of the trio made a search of the house. Mrs. Solomon, it was reported, snatched her husband’s billfold from his hip pocket and tossed it behind the sofa to keep the bandits from getting it but was eyed by one of the masked men. He was tackled by Mrs. Solomon when he leaned over to retrieve the billfold and in the ensuing struggle she was able to take the bandit’s gun. With the move by Mrs. Solomon both Solomon and Crumpton, tackl. ed a bandit and were able to make them scurry from the home. A bullet from the pistol taken by the woman entered the ceiling of the home after discharging in the battle for the weapon. Mrs. Roger Crumpton, her chil (Continucd on Page Two: Col. 4) I PARIS BREADLESS FOR FIRST TIME AH Bakeries GE City Cloes In Compliance With Conservation Order PARIS, May 11.—(jP)—Paris had .ts first breadless Sunday today as Oakeries throughout the city closed in compliance with an order de signed to conserve dwindling wheat supplies. Thousand of Parisians who danced in the streets until the early hours in the delayed V-E celebration awoke to.the th. -t of a. new slash in the present bread ration of nine ounces daily. Agricultural sources said France must get an additional 180,000 tons of wheat in order to escape the ration cut. Two weeks ago t.re bread ration was reduced by 15 percent. The wheat shortage caused clos ing of more than half the bakeries in Nantes, and Toulouse v'here they were shut down four days out of the week. Regional authorities taking dras tic measures to insure the mini mum bread ration arrested farm ers for feeding wheat to cattle and sent out gendarmes to confiscate all non-declared stocks of wheat. Experts Urge Soviet Talks Secretary Marshall May Accept Capitulatior % Korean Un;' rO . .vy r WASHINGTO State departm recommended George C. cept R American talks on the under a Kort' ernment, authoi today. ■_ The recommendation will be laid before Marshall tomorrow and he is expected to take favorable ac tion “within the next few days.’’ At the same time, administra tion officials are preparing to sub mit to Congress a program of large-scale economic aid for the American zone in Southern Korea which could be “modified” to ?,nply to the entire country if Soviet American unification talks are successful. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in a note to Marshall which was made public yesterday, revealed that the Soviet Union had abandoned its insistence that only pro-Communist Korean political parties should participate in the forming of a provisional govern ment. Truman Victory The Soviet acceptance of the American terms was regarded generally as a psychological vic tory for the “Truman Doctrine” of containing Communism by bolster ing the economic position of Buf fer states. It also was taken as confirmation of reports that rapid ly deteriorating economic condi tions in Northern Korea, where the Russians have been to a great extent living off the country, make it advisable from the Russian viewpoint to seek unification. The Truman administration has let it be known that it contem plates a $540,000,000 three-year program of economic reconstruc tion in Southern Korea. This ad mittedly is to bolster the position of “democratic elements.” Plan Unchanged Officials said the Soviet accept ance has not changed the plan to ask Congress, in the near future, to approve such a grant-in-aid. It was pointed out that there was no assurance that the Soviet American discussions would be successful for some time, if at all, and that the eonomic assist ance was needed badly in South ern Korea now. If and when unification is achieved, the program could be “modified” to apply to all of Korea since the Northern zone is equally or more in need of assistance, it was said. EARTHQUAKE HITS SOUTHERN ITALY Three Persons Lose Lives, Forty Hurt At Calabria; Palm Springs Jolted ROME, May 11—Iff)—1Three per sons were killed and 40 injured today in an earthquake which wrecked buildings and caused widespread damage in Calabria and other parts of Southern Italy. The temblor, which also struck Sicily, was felt most severely at Isca Culionio where two persons were killed and most of the other casualties occurred. The other The other fatality occurred at Santa Caterina. Dello Ionio. The Italian news agency Ansa, which tabulated the casualties, said about 12 towns and villages were damaged. The quake rocked the city of Catanzaro at 8:34 a. m. (2:34 a. m. Eastern Standard Time) and caus ed panic among the populace, Ansa said. A church wall collapsed at Badolato and buildings were damaged at Satriano. (Seismic disturbances also were felt in two other parts of the world during the week-end. (The Central Meteorological ob servatory said in Tokyo a slight quake was felt at 6:35 a. m. (4:35 p. m., EST, Saturday) in Northern Kyushu and Western Shikoku, but that no damage was reported by Japanese islanders.) (A mild earthquake shook the Palm Springs, Calif., area short ly after midnight EST) Saturday, but caused no damage). The Italian shock also was felt at Reggio Calabria and Cosenza, both in Calabria, and in the Mes sina area of Sicily. Tornado Strike In Texas LENORAH, Tex., May 11—(ff) A small tornado ripped through this little west Texas farm com munity without warning about 6 p. m. tonight, injuring fifteen per sons and causing extensive prop erty damage. Army Sends Heart-Break In Packages To Mothers WASHINGTON, May 11 — — Army’s “effects bureau has sent a lot of heart-break in small packages to mothers and wives— the li;tie trinkets and personal belongings of soldiers- who didn t come home from the war. It also has found the owners or heirs to about $8,000,000 in money. , , , , This biggest “lost and found de partment,” a unit of the Quarter master corps with headquarters at Kansas City, expects com plete this year most of the work on which it started in 1942, the I T»- ,•».-- ^4-r*~*-n+ tOf*?"*7. It still has a large amount of property stored away while the quest for owneiship goes on but it has located and paid to the rightful owners $8,325,126 of the $8,393,072 found on hundreds of battlefields, in camps or other places to which fighting men trav eled — or on their bodies. The search has been long and the clues slim in many cases. The bureau has turned to photo graphic ’ studios, jewelers, bus iness firm* and schools in its que*t. (fV"ft»n Vvrp Two; Col. 31 THE PROSECUTION at the May-Garsson conspiracy trial in Washington questioned Robert V. May (above), son of former Rep. Andrew J. May, about two $1,000 “mystery checks” cashed by his father, during the Presfdential campaign of 1944. Young May denied he signed “R. V. May” on checks. (International). CHERRY PRAISES STATE HOSPITALS Governor Urges Citizens To Join Him In Honoring Staffs This Week RALSIGH, May 11 — (TP) — In a statement issued in connec tion with the observance of North Carolina Hospital week, which begins tomorrow, Governor Cher ry today lauded health legisla tion enacted by the 1947 General assembly and praised the services which hospitals have rendered to the state’s citizenry. Said Cherry in his statement: “As governor of North Carolina, I desire to express words of praise and official appreciation for the splendid work and excel lent service the hospitals and their staffs have given to the citizens of the state. I congratu late the North Carolina Hospital association on its splendid record of achievements brought about through continued efforts to give the people of the state the best in hospitals and medical care. Service Praised “Handicapped by shortages of materials and greatly understaff ed, the hospitals gave to the peo ple of North Carolina during the war years the service essential to their good health as far as w'as humanly possible. “T rejoice with the citizenry of the state over the passage of ex cellent health legislation by the 1947 General assembly. Through their progressive action, it is our hope that hospital and' medical facilities will soon be available ten every North Carolinian no matter in what remote corner of the state he may live. “I ask that the citizens of North Carolina join me during this week to pay tribute to our hospitals and their staffs and the doctor* and nurses of our 'state. May their splendid w'ork continue and may our state be a leader among the 48 in good health and good hos pitals. TWO YOUTHS LOSE LIVES IN CRASH Small Plane Falls At Bishopville Airport During Air Show BISHOPVILLE, S. C., May 11 - (U.R) — A small private plane crashed and burned at the Bishop ville airport today and its two oc cupants, Alex Folsom of Bishop ville and Lawton Baxley of Char leston, died in the flaming wreck age. Witnesses said the plane fell out of control from 100 feet altitude as it banked at the edge of the airport. Baxley had flown here from Charleston to spend the day with Folsom. Both were in their early 20’s. TWO FLIERS INJURED AT WILSON SHOW WILSON, May 11 — UP) — Russel Sorrell of Raleigh and Joe Pitt man of Rocky Mount were injur ed — not seriously — today when their airplane crashed during their first annual North Carolina air show. Pittman was giving an exhibition (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) 185,000 Union Telephone Workers Still On Strike; Foreign Policy Test Looms Economic Aid ProgramWide Secretary Marshall Girds For Crucial Battle With Congress Over Plan WASHINGTON, May 11—<U.R)— i Secretary of State George C. Mar shall is girding for a crucial early summer test with Congress over President Truman’s new foreign policy. The showdown will not come on a dozen or more pending issues, all important and part of the pic ture, but rather on whether Con gres and the public will be willing to foot the munti-million dollar bill that carrying out the “Truman Doctrine” will require. The Greek-Turkish aid bill will complete is difficult and some times stormy voyage through Con gress this week and before another week-end should be signed and part of the law of the land. But it is only a beginning—both financially and geographically. Its $400,000,000 admittedly will take care only of the immediate political, economic and military problems in Greece and Turkey. It applies directly only to one tiny, although strategic, corner of a war-sick world crying for help to get back on its economic feet and threatened with Communist pressure and influences if it doesn’t get such aid. Lend-Lease Project Before many weeks pass, the administration will have to lay be fore Congress and the country an appeal for economic aid program —a global peacetime lend-lease project—which will make the Greek-Turkish plan look small in comparison. France, Germany, Austria. Italy, Great Britain, Korea, China, Ja pan, these and all other countries outside the Soviet Orbft, are lined up in varrying degrees of eco (Continued on Page Two, Col. 3) BRITISH DEPORT JEWISH LEADERS Fifty Top Underground Lieutenants Taken By Plane To Kenya JERUSALEM, Palestine, May 11—(U.R)—British authorities de ported 50 top Jewish underground leaders from Palestine prisons to remote Kenya colony in Africa today to prevent another libera tion attack such as freed nearly 200 captives from ancient Acre prison last Sunday. The deportations were carried out as British ships and planes opened combined maneuvers in the Mediterranean to perfect blockade tactics against an ex pected spring flood of Je.vish il legal immigrants seeking entry to the Holy Land from Europe. The underground leaders de scribed as group commanders of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Stern gang, were taken in RAF planes tc their new place of detention. Although others may have been sent to Kenya before this, today’s transfer was the largest ever car ried out in a single operation. Previously the British had ship ped some captured extremists to Eritrea in North Africa, where about 500 now are held, but seme of them were able to escape from their desert camps and it was de cided to send them farther away where they would be out of reach of help from the underground. An announcement of the transfer said the captives were regarded as “dangerous” and that other top extremists now held in La troun, Acre and Jerusalem pri sons also would be sent to new African detention points soon. Along The Cape Fear N TODAY’S COLUMN which is in the interest of keeping the record straight and to give the correct version of some of the interesting stories we have been carrying during the past week. We thank oui reader, C. C. Chadbourn, for his corrections that he has sent us, but the corrections are coming entirely from his memory. * * * IN A RECENT LETTER he said, and we quote, “This morning you say the Eliza and Susan was the first and only sailing vessel built in Wilmington yet in your last paragraph you say B. Berry built some schooners ar.d pilot boats which directly contradicts your premise.” We read the complete story on the Old Ship Yard, which comes from an old history book on Wil mington. We quote the following from the book: “The first and t 'j sailing ship built at Wilmin .lon was launched June 5th, 1833, by Mr. John K. Mcllhenny, and J named after his two daughters, Eliza and Susan.” Further down In the story we find the other contradiction, and o rr'y i "n ■»**« nun**, "Mr. P. W. Perry built some schooners and pilot boats.” In the book, from which we ac quired our information, we find the st.ry was two pages long. # * * IF THE readers of this t. Iumn will notice, they will see that the word shi*. is used once in the c tradiction. In the end of the story the words schooner and pilot boats is used. It is evident that t words used by the author of the book have different meanings. T: word ship which is interperted by The Winston Dictionary says that a ship is a sailing vessel with a bow sprit and three, four, or five square rigged masts. The word schooner and pilot 1 t have different meanings and so for tl-.s .eason we think that the author of the book had interperted these definitions and used them correctly. * * * WE QUOTE ANOTHER contra diction, ‘‘You refer to the Eliza and Susan as a full rig ship of 316 tons. This may be correct and I cannot prove to the contrary but I seriously doubt if a vessel of that small tonnage would be full rig,” says Mr, Ohadboum. STANDING ON THE STEPS of the V. S. Capitol in Washington. Rep. Alvin E. O’Konski (R-Wisc.) is shown as he presented scrolls and silk American flags to students who marched out of an assembly at the Western High School, Washington, D. C., in protest against a pro-Soviet lecture by Mrs. Aleksandra P. Lewis, wife of a former American Embassy clerk at Moscow. Pictured (1. to r.) are: Ruthe Piggott, 18; Rep. O’Konski; Virginia Lanham, 17, and Dick Smith, 18. (International Soundphoto). Sixty-Eight Cases Dot Superior Court Docket MAY BE SO! PITTSBURGH, May 11 — &P) — In spring a young man’s fancy may turn to thoughts of love — but not on the Univer sity of Pittsburgh campus. Co-eds have received a per sonal letter from Dean of Wom en Hellen Rush asking their co operation in keeping romance off the lawn. Saying some students have a tendency “to embarrass others by too personal a relationship wilti men in public,’’ the dean added: “With the coming of spring this may be carried out to the lawn.’’ ARMY ENGINEERS RETURN TODAY Group To Be Back This Afternoon After Tour On Inland Waterway A party of U. S. Engineers, head ed by Col. George W. Gillette, is expected to return to Wilmington this morning after conducting a tour along the Inland waterway. Col. Gillette said the Corps of Engineers is making a study of inlets along the South Atlantic coast with a view of effecting their stabilization at the lowest possible cost. Members of the group, headed by Col. Gillette and composed of the following are making the in vestigation. Col. R. B. Wimer, division executive officer; C. P. Linder, chief civilian engineer; O. B. Stewart, of the operations divi sion; P lackman, reports divi sion, a W. Pierce, division of hydrai The p inspected Masonboro inlet lay afternoon and yes terda e at Beaufort and More head in connection with their propo, ‘.udies of New F' er and Bouge ts. They are expected to leave s afternoon for Atlanta. Col. G ette said it is quite probable! G at Masonboro inlet will be selected for an actual field demonstration in the general prob lems of seeking more effective and economical control of the inlets. Work there, he pointed out, would be in the nature of a rdstick” for the current studies. Facts and observations collected during the current inspection tour. Col. Gillette said, will be used in the over-all attack on the inlet control problem. Coupled with other information, and valuable field demonstrations, such as may be carried out at Masonboro inlet, they are expected to -orm a real foundation in seeking a new solu tion to the old problem. Solicitor Hopes To Dispose Of Gurley Case Latter Part Of Week The May term of New Hanover Superior court will open this morn ing with Judge Clawson Williams, of Sanford,' presiding, it was an nounced last night by Clifton L. Moore, district Solicitor. "It will take about three -weeks to catch up with the docket,” Moore said, but added that he does not plan to ask for a special session. "We will have regular terms of court for the next three months and 1 nope to be able to dispose of the large docket without calling the special term,” he stat ed. Sixty-eight cases are on the docket for trial this week. Solici tor Moore said he would "get as many as possible.” Solicitor Moore said the case of Leon "Scooper” Gause, Bruns wick county Negro charged with the murder of a white man, will not be tried at this term. Gause is a patient at the Goldsboro state hospital and the doctor there has advised Moore Gause will be un able to stand trial this term of court. Gurley Case The trial of H. L. Gurley, former Wilmington policeman, on three charges of store breaking, lar ceny and receivelng will be dis posed of at this term, Moore said. “I hc^oe to dispose of the Gurley case iate in the week," he said. Docketed for Wednesday is the murder case against J. B. Brown, white, charged with knocking Paul Bostic, Negro, off a boat into the Cape Fear river. Bostic lost his life in the fall. The case against Cordell Wil liams, 30 year-old Negro, who is suspected of being the elusive "Cat Man” will not be heard until the June term of criminal court, Moore said. Williams, who is charged with burglary, is being (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) LOCAL GIRL TO BE PRESENTED IN CONCERT GREENVILLE, May 11.—Sally Margaret Johnston of Wilmington, senior at East Carolina Teachers college, will be presented by the college department of music in a graduating voice recital in the Austin auditorium on the campus on this evening, at eight o’clock. She is a pupil of Dan E. Vornholt of the college facult; has studied music during her four years at the college here, and is well known both on the campus and in the city as a singer. Accompanying Miss Johnston will be Mrs. Karl V. Gilbert of Greenville. The first half hour of the recital will be broadcast on the weekly radio program presented by the college. Spinsters Sing Song For Pension Shillings LONDON, May 11 — «P>—Hun dreds of spinisters from many parts of Great Britain, demanding pensions for single women at 55, marched today from a Trafalgar Square rally to No. 10 Downing street singing their battle song: “We’re a Gallant Band of Spin sters, From North, South, East and West.” The song was sung to the tune of John Brown’s Body. Masses of laughing, singing holi day-makers trailed the demonstra tors who were prevented from "breaking ranks” by an escort of mounted police. Further police re inforcements kept order outside No. 10 while the spinsters de livered a copy of their resoiUtion for Prime Minister Attlee. Miss Florence White, honorary organizer of the National Spin sters Pension association, said the government "is compelling many spinsters who have already given more than 40 years’ service to their country to go working past their capacity." Picket Lines Hold Ground •> Only 3,000 Out Of 20,000 Men Have Returned, Company Says NEW YORK, May 11.—(fl»)— Some 185,000 members of unions affiliated with the National Federa tion of Telephone workers remain ed on strike today and several thousand others whose disputes had been settled were still oft the job, refusing to cross picket lines or awaiting a date for their return. The American Telephone and Telegraph company said about 3, 000 union members have returned to work out of 20,000 long lines un ion members who reached a set tlement with the company last week. Many unionists have refused to cross picket lines maintained by employes of the Western Electric company and those of other tele phone unions. Meanwhile, negotiations between the Western Electric company and the National Association of Tele phone Equipment workers were adjourned late today until tomor row and the conferees indicated there hi not been i~uch progress. The AT&T also rep-.ted that Mother’s Day long distance tele phone traffic here reached an esti mated 65.9 percent of last year's volume, while overseas calls reached an estimated 70 percent. Accept $4 Raise Among those expected to r.turn to their jobs tomorow were plant and technical employes at Bell telephone laboratories in Manhat tan and New Jersey who ended their strike yesterday on the basis of a $4 weekly across the board wage increase. The union, the Telephone Laboratory Employes union, an NFTW affiliate, claims a membership of 1,000. A spokesman for Western Elec tric employes said his union would withdraw pickets from around Bell laboratories to permit TLEU mem bers to return to work. Some 12,000 operators in New Jersey came to an agreement with (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) PLANE EXPLODES KILLING CREWMEN TWA Constellation Bursts In Midair, Crashes Into Deleware Bay Sunday CAPE MAY, N. J„ May 11.—(/P) —A TWA Constellation exploded in midair and crashed into Dela ware bay today, killing four per sons. Although nearby fishermen reached the scene, near Brandy wine Shoal lighthouse, shortly after the crash, all they found were a few splinters of the plane, some bits of flesh and several articles of clothing. TWA offices at New Castle, Del., identified the dead as: Patrick S. McKierman, Pomeroy, Wash. Robert E. Weeks, Hockessin, Del. Luke Vollack, Jr., Cheyenne, Wyo. Martin Heller, Baltimore. The Civil Aeronautics adminis tration in Washington said the plane left New Castle at 7:09 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, on a rou tine local training flight. The Coast Guard reported the crash occured at 8:45 a. m. The keeper of the lighthouse, about ten miles West o. here, said he heard a plane flying low and then an explosion. As he ran out side, he said he heard two more explosions and then saw the wreckage 200 yards south of the lighthouse. The plane disappeared from view almost immediately, leaving little evidence of the tragedy by the time the fishing boats reachei the scene. The Coast Guard dispatch ed two boats to the scene from Cape May and Lewes, Del. And So To Bed Summer for some and cold chills for others seemed to be the order of the day at Wrightsville Beach yesterday afternoon. A young lady, clad in the most abbreviated of abbreviat ed bathing suits was seen stroll ing along the strands and be side her was a young man, who some.,hat resembled Sit ting Bull. He was full cloth ed, coat, tie and everything and draped around his should ers was a large woolen blanket. The pair found a suitable spot on the white sands and the male member of the duo promptly sat himself down and wiggled snugly Into the fold* of the blanket. The lady, calmly took off her shoes and dashed to the edge of the surf, sticking one foot in the water, she backed away and got a running start, plung ed into the surf and enjoyed a swim. In the meantime the mala companion, complete w 11 It blanket and goose plmpM edged further hito the Mankht
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