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PRETTY BRUNETTE SHOOTS HER RIVAL 3hort. Dark And Determin ed Woman Pumps Five Bullets Into Woman NSW YORK, May 21.—(U.fi)—Mrs. Margaret Jannazzo. 31. pretty and brunette, “wouldn’t listen” when Mr*. Fhilomena Scavone, 41, told her to “keep away from my hus band.” After two years of that, Mrs. Scavone decided today she had enough and pumped five bul let* into the chest of her rival, who died at once. Mrs. Scavone, short, dark and determined, chased Mrs. Jannszzo down a dark Brooklyn hallway, felled her with one shot, then stood over the woman’s body and put four more bullets in her. When police arrested her, Mrs. Scavone confessed readily. When photographers asked her to pose, she said: “Take 'em nice, and don't for get my weight—94 pound*. I’m happy now, and I feel swell. I’m glad I did it.” Then Mrs. Seavone soDDea out her gtorv. The Jannazzos and the Scavones always had been close. Then Anthony Jannazzo came home Jrom three years’ service in the European theater and found out what Mrs. Seavone apparently did n't know. Jannazzo filed suit for divorce, accusing his wife of adultery and naming Roco Seavone as correspondent. Mrs. Seavone said she was sorry for the other woman and she took the latter’s two children, Phillip. 13. and David, 6, into her own home. For a month she clothed and fed them and treated them like her own three children. Then, Mrs. Seavone said, she learned that Mrs. Jannazzo was "fooling with my husband.” She sent Phillip to his father and found a place for David to be boarded. And, she said, she told Mrs. Jannazzo to stay away from Roco, who runs a small trucking business. “She wouldn’t listen to me,” Mrs. Seavone said. “This morning I decided to put an end to it.” Mrs. Seavone took a .32 caliber pistol and plodded down the street •arly this morning with the rain pelting down on her and murder in her heart. She waited along the path Mrs. Jannazzo walked to her job at a raincoat factory. The younger woman came along at about 7:45 a. m. “I want to talk to you,” Mrs. Seavone said she told her. "I want to talk to you. too,” Mrs. Jannazzo replied. They stepped out of the lain into the gloom of the nearest hallway in a combination store and apartment building. “I have asked you for two years to keep away from my husband.” Mrs. Seavone said. "Now I am going to see that you never see him again.” Mrs. Jannazzo, terrified, back ed down the hallway. Mrs. Sca vone fired. A bullet lodged in her rival’s chest and she fell. Mrs. Seavone walked forward, pointed her gun and fired four more times at the woman lying on the floor gasping out her life. Mrs. Scavone turned and ran to her home two blocks away. She climbed to the roof of the apart ment house and tossed the gun down. Then she changed her clothing and started back toward the scene of the shooting. On the way she stopped in A1 Berg’s hardware store. She heard a United Press reporter telephon ing the news of the shooting. “They’ll never find the gun,” •he told Berg. “I hid it.” She walked on and mingled with the crowd in front of the building. Other neighbors told police of her threats to Mrs. Jannazzo. She •oon was arrested and confessed. The reporter walked back to Berg’s store to make a second call. “I knew she was the murderer all the time,” Berg said, “but I wouldn’t tell you because I think •he did the right thing. Everyone on this block has known her story for years. And we know how hard ■he tried to keep her family to gether.” Mrs. Scavone was booked on a homicide charge and will be given a hearing in Brooklyn felony court tomorrow. Police also arrested Joseph Spoto, a young friend of Mrs. Bcavone’s son. Francis . They believed 8poto had supplied the gun she used. » ONE-WING {Continued From Page One) apparently by a thrown stick or Acme—and gangrene had set in. But Rudy is "a magnificent bird,” said Reddin. “He should n't be destroyed-'’ So Reddin. C. W. Mushett, Ph. It., of Clark township, and a Union county park patrolman arranged the operation. The policeman, as anesthetist, dripped ether into a cotton-filled cone held over the •wan’s bill. The operation was completed in two hours. The wing was amputat ed three inches from the should er. after blood vessels had been tied off. Rudy came out of the anesthetic a few hours later. He eyed his ben efactors malevolently, then wob bled toward the lake. Twenty-four hours later, Rudy was as good as new—only a little imbalanced by the missing wing. BRICK WOUNDS PROVE FATAL TO NEGRO MAN c-dward McMillian. Negro, of W2 South Ninth street, died in the Community hospital last night at 10:30 o'clock from head in juries received last Friday night, Coroner Gordon Doran, said last night. A murder warrant has been is »ued against J. D. Barnes alias Jesse Downsell. Negro, who is al leged to have hit McMillian with a brick. Barnes is reported to be in Brunswick county. Local offi cers were enroute to return him to jail here at me o’clock this morning. Doran said he would be held without bond until an inquest is held. Falls in the home, often caused hr rlidiow rues, accounted for IB. U. S. ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is shown talking with Mrs. Jnllns Y. Talmadge, Athens, Ga., president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at the organiza tion’s 56th annual congress in Washington. General Eisenhower told 4,000 delegates and officers of the D.A.R. that civilization will perish unless the United States remains unified, productive and steadfastly true to the “basic tenets of our system.”_ MARINE DESERTER ARRESTED BY FBI Charlotte Division Chief Announces Apprehension Of L D. Coleman Special to The Star CERRO GORDO. May 21—John C. Bills, chief of the Charlotte di vision of the Federal Bureau oi Investigation, announced tonight the apprehension of L. D. Coleman, 26 year-old U. S. Marine deserter from Camp Lejeune. Coleman was arrested on the farm f J. D. Harrelson oif Cerro Gordo, where he has been work ing as a farm hand, by State high way patrolman J. T. Watson of Whiteville and Columbus county deputy sheriff Will Bullard. Cole man had been traced to the farm by agents of the Wilmington Federal Bureau of Investigation. Coleman enlisted in the Marine Cotp September 25. 1946. and was reported AWOL on January 13, 1947. He was attached to the Sec ond Division and stationed at Camp Lejeune. The Provost marshall has been notified and is expected to re move Coleman from the Columbus county jail at Whiteville tomorrow morning. He will be returned to Camp Lejeune Residents of the Cherry Grove section told officers that Coleman had made the remark that “The law wiil have to come and get me.’’ The Teport from the FBI office said he was arrested w’hile he slept on the farm and offered no resistance. SPA (Continued From Page One) tion boat Kitty Hawk when she leaves here Friday morning will be these members of the Port Authority: Page, W. O. Huske, Fayetteville wholesale hardware dealer; Hen ry Wilson, Morganton furniture manufacturer; A. M. Myers, Gas tonia banker and textilisi. and Harry White, Winston-Salem to bacco executive. Gillette Going Col. George W. Gillette of Atlan ta, South Atlantic division engi neer, and Cy Gibbs, Morehead City attorney and state legislator also will join the party at Wil mington. S. Bunn Frink, Southport attor ney and remaining member of the authority, will not be able to make the trip because of a court ses sion at Southport. Former Gov. J. Melville Broughton, general counsel for the authority, expects to make part of the trip, as do Representa tives J. Bayard Clark of Fayette ville, Graham A. Barden of New Bern and Herbert C. Bonner of Washington. At Wilmington part of the group will transfer to another inspection boat. The group will be entertained with a buffet supper and cocktail party at The Cape Fear Club upon their return Friday night. Local business men also will attend the buffet supper and party. 15-DAY (Continued From Page One) alent in much of the Western region of the state during the afternoon and the Weather bureau early last night forecast a continuation of the rain for the Eastern portion dur ing the night. Nearly an inch of rainfall was re corded unofficially in the Charlotte area where a long dry spell had resulted in a rain deficiency of 2.03 inches for the month of May alone. Slight rains, ranging from a trace to a quarter-inch at Winston-Salem, previously had dampened the parched young crops Tuesday. Official precipitation readings of .68 of an inch in Greensboro, .05 in Asheville and .20 at Mount Mitchell were reported by official weather observers for the period ending at 7:30 p. m., yesterday. Raleigh Dry No rainfall was reported at that time for Raleigh, Wilmington or the Cape Hatteras region, the areas toward which the warm moist air wave was heading early last night. Greensboro was visited during the day by intermittent showers, growing heavier by nightfall. The timeliness of the downpour yesterday was pointed out in an official weather-crop report which mentioned “serious” conditions to crops during the fifth week of little or no rain. The tobacco crops in Southeast ern counties, which have received less than one-half of an inch during the past month, were described as "poor” to “fair” and only a small portion of the crop has been set. Some Piedmont counties visited by rainfall yesterday had seen less than a auarter-inch of rain during TOP (Continued From Page One) sion of mobile training throughout the world. Heavy rain and darkness hid the tragedy overnight. The plane, en route to nearby Chanute Field from the Pacific coast, sent out a routine radio message when it passed over Burlington, la., at 10:47 p.m. Eastern Standard Time last night. A short time later it crashed in a muddy corn field, about 16 miles short of its destina tion. There were no witnesses, but Ekke Flesner related an “awful thump" near his farmhouse awakened him last night. He peer ed out a window but saw nothing in the drenching rain. This morn ing, his brother-in-law asked him “what’s that in your field” and they found the bodies and plane wreckage. No F ire The plane’s fuselage and bodies of most of the victims were some 250 yards from Flesner’s resi dence, but the ship's motors were nearly a quarter of a mile away. The plane did not burn. Col. O’Neill and Whatley left Chanute Field May 16 for the Pa cific coast. Returning, they stop ped at Cheyenne, Wyo., to refuel. The army listed the other vic tims as Lt. Alfred Wallace, Fay ette, Ala.; Lt. Charles E. Thomas, Abilene, Tex.; Lt. Steve Rock, Philadelphia; Lt. E. R. Young, Westover Field. Mass., and Mas ter Sgt. Howard Kahler, Geneva. N. Y. O’Neill, a 30-year Army veteran of both wars, commanded Chanute field from 1940 to 1944. Later, he was commanding gen eral of the Army Air base at Boca Raton, Fla., then command ed the garrison forces on Guam and subsequently returned to Chanute Field as executive of ficer. During his career as an aeronaut, he competed in two na tional balloon races. He was a na tive of Port Townsend, Wash. Whatley, who served in the Army since 1925, headed the head quarter unit at Chanute Field which supervised mobile training. He was born in Calvert, Tex. LOCAL (Continued From Page One) is made up of Wilmingtonians un der captainship of Horace King will present an exhibition on beautiful Front street in Eeaufort. Following the drum corps part in the program and at same loca tion, Sudan patrol and Sudan’s mighty band will give programs. At 9 o’clock tiie scene shifts to the colorful Surf Club here on the beach and there will be a pro gram by Sudan chanters to be fol lowed by a pre-ceremonial dance in the club with music by Louis Shelton and his 12 music makers. Other activities today included the fishing rodeo. Fishing Shriners departed by charter boats to local waters where they matched their skill against small and large game fish. Prizes will be award ed for biggest fishes taken during the rodeo. The two day ceremonial will be concluded on Thursday night with presentation of the Potentates ball in the Surf Club and an all-girl band will make the music. Prior to the concluding features of the ceremonial on Thursday, will be a full day of activity. Most colorful event will probably be the street parade starting at 11:30 o’clock. Prior to this event there will be business sessions and following the parade there will be an old time Carteret coast lunch eon for the nobility and their ladies. Ladies To Dine For the nobility and their ladies. And this luncheon will be in form of seafood picnic on grounds near the New Jefferson hotel on More head’s waterfront. Ceremonials will be held in the Surf Club during the afternoon. The ceremonial will be held in two sections, the first at 2:30 and the next starting one hour later. At 5:30 Thursday the Potentates reception and tea dance will be presented in Bogue Sounj club (former Morehead Villa hotel) and this will be followed at 8 o’clock by a band concert on the boardwalk. Weighing of fishes taken in the rodeo and awarding of prizes, ex hibition drills by Sudan patrol, concert by the Temple chanters and then the concluding feature of the two day event, the Potentates ball, with music by a famous all girl orchestra. PHILLIPS (Continued From Page One) witness employed by the state even though the testimony of FBI ex perts differs from his. I have a very decided personal opinion but I don’t feel that I should sit here as supreme chancellor and refuse a man the right to present every element of defense he might have Filipino Woman Pays Tr ibute T o America North Carolina Federation Women’s Clubs Hear Stirring Address BY KAY GOODMAN Star Society Editor “If I were not a Filipino,I would be an American.” In a message of tribute and ap preciation, Mrs. Pilar H. Lim, a former president of the Philippine Federation of Women's clubs, cli maxed her address with the above statement, as she spoke before 500 delegates and officials of the North Carolina Federation of Women’s clubs and their formal opening last night at Lumina Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. Lim, a small women with graying hair spoke with emotion to the North Carolina clubwomen as she said, “I want to bring you a message . . .to give you a feel ing of capability, achievement, triumph and victory” for the aid, you as Americans, have given Filipinos in gaining freedom and security. With feeling in her voice that held the clubwomen spellbound, Mrs. Lim spoke of the Spanish regime, prior to the Spanish Amer ican War, when the mother of a Filipino child, looked forward to her son’s subjection and ignorance and to her daughter’s possible unhappy marriage or life as a servant. “Your Flag” Witn the coming oi me Ameri cans, Mrs. Lim said, “your flag waved over our country, Ameri can schools educated our children, raised our standard of living, gave us greater commerce, industries, social dignity, self confidenct.” “All of you have lived in a won derful atmosphere of freedom. We were not that way and so we felt deep satisfaction and pride beyond dreams, that we could see our boys rise in the politics of our country—perhaps to become the president of the Philippines.” Mrs. Lim, mother of six children including a graduate of West Point, at Annapolis, and M. I. T., touched the hearts of women present when she spoke of the new future for Filipino youth. In her foreign but concise man ner of rtneech, Mrs. Lim said, “I am a Filipino, I have a country” . . . but “in every meeting before you I stand up and pledge allegi ance to your flag. Because I’m not obliged to do it, I do ft willing ly.” Reaching a highlight of her speech, she thanked the North Carolina women and all the women of the United States for the gift of rebuilding the headquarters of the Philippine Federation of club women. She said with emphasis that the rebuilding was the great- j est tribute the American woman ! could pay the women of the Philip pines. In concluding, Mrs. Lim, wife of Brig. Gen. Vicente Lim, a lead ing Philippine military figure, said :hat she would return to the is lands to work in rebuilding a coun try of security as well as “one world of mutual understanding.” Prior to Mrs. Lim's address a processional was held for the of ucial body of North Carolina club women and their honor guests. Welcome greetings were given by Dr. Sidney Allen, mayor of IVrightsville Beach; W. Ronald Liane, mayor of Wilmington; Mrs. 4.. R. Willis, president of North Carolina Sorosis; and Mrs. Robert A’. Fennel, president of Junior Sorosis. Mrs. John S. Forrest, third vice ^resident of the state organization, Hendersonville, gave the response. Carrying out the fine arts theme if the meeting, the Thursday Morning Music club women’s :horus, under the direction of Ed win C. Clark sang four numbers. The playing of the Brahms’ piano :oncerto in B Flat Minor by Mrs. Miriam Burns and William G. Hobertson concluded the musical irogram. Messages were given, by Mrs. Jlenn Duncan, Miss Edna L. Heinzerling. Mrs. George E. Marshall and Mrs. Florence S. Duryea. Concluding the meeting, tribute was paid to'Mrs. Karl Bishopric, who was recently chosen North Carolina’s mother of the year. FIGHT TO PRESERVE INDIAN REMAINS PIERRE, S. D.—(U.R)—A race igaingt the apparently inevitable looding o£ the river valleys in the Missouri Basin is planned by the '•rational Park Service with its ‘thorough reconnaissance” of an :ient Indian town sites through his area. Associate Director A. E. Dema 'ay of the National Park Service will make the surveys through Horth and South Dakota in co sponsorship with the Smithsonian institution to recover archeoloical ind paleontological remains which will be inundated by the Missouri River Basin reservoirs. Ultimate flooding of the river /alleys will obliterate a vast part )f the basic material of human his ;ory which is indispensable to a proper understanding of this major M o r t h American archeological irea, Demaray says. Approximately 300 ancient vil age sites have been reported along :he Missouri River in the Dakotas, re claims, containing “much of :he story of the development of the \rikara, Mandan and other Upper Missouri cultures.” Only sites which promise par ;icularly informative results will oe excavated, Demaray said, and the recovered specimens will be placed in the national museum, recreational area exhibits and state and local museums. CITY REPAID IN TAXES "OR KINDLY GESTURE MUNCIE, Ind.—(U.R)—City offi cials of Muncie found that kind ness does pay off. When the Middletown Gardens hissing project was completed outside the city limits, the city vg.*£ to extend to it such services as the hauling of trash and garb age, police and fire protection. O ntax day this year, Middle town Gardens, which is non-tax able on a municipal basis, filed a voluntary tax return of $2,216. Black and green tea leaves h>- art life green on the same PARENTS INVITED TO BRIGADE SHOW Copeland Announces Show ing Of Movie At Club Friday Night James W. Copeland, executive di rector of the Brigade Boys’ club, announced last night that invita tions have been sent to all par ents of members of the club to attend a movie at the Brigade Fri day night, May 23. Plans and the program for the coming camping season will be explained to the boys and their parents. Copeland said this will be the first of a series of get togethers with the parents. Copeland reported that from all indications, a large number of par ents will attend. There will be no admission charge. “We will appreciate any suggestions from the parents of our members,” the executive director said. Harold Culler, physical director of the Brigade will explain the cur rent program to the parents dur ing the evening. The title of the movie to be shown was not announced by Cope land. FDR (Continued From Page One) Brewster, as chairman of the Senate War Investigating commit tee, has sought to get any Roose velt papers which may have a bearing on a committee investi gation of Navy purchase of Arabian oil. The Senator cited the memo randum at bolstering his argu ment that the committee should be allowed to check over the pa pers. He said he considered it signifi cant that the wartime President recognized a distinction between personal files and non-personal, official files. Mr. Roosevelt stipula ted that in the event of his death they were to be classified bya com mittee made up of Samuel I. Rosen man, Harry L. Hopkins (now dead) and Grace G. Tully, his White House secretary. Brewster said the responsibility for deciding which files are io be made public “should not rest with three private individuals desig nated in the memorandum, but with the members of the Senate committee whose official capacity renders them more capable to de cide the issue of relevancy of the documents as it applies to the current investigation.’ The committee is looking into assertions by James A. Moffett, oil man and former Federal Hous ing administrator, that the Navy rejected tenders of oil from the Persian Gulf area in 1941, only to buy it four years later at a price two or three times as high. The Senators have been unable to in spect all the documents they be lieve bear on the transaction. memorandum xext The text of Mr. Roosevelt’s 1943 memorandum, addressed to the director of the Franklin D. Roose velt library. It follows: "1. Before any of my personal or confidential files are transfer red to the library at Hyde Park, I wish to go through them and se lect those which are never to be made public, those which should be sealed for a prescribed period of time before they are made pub lic; and those which are strictly family matters, to be retained by my family. If by reason of death 01 incapacity I am unable to do this, I wish that function to be performed by a committee of three, namely, Samuel I. Rose man. Harry L. Hopkins and Grace' G. Tullv, or the survivors thereof. “2. With respect to the file known as ‘famous people’s file’, the same procedure should be fol lowed. Those which are officia1 letters may be turned over to the library, but those which are in ef fect personal such as, for example, the longhand letters between the King of England and myself, or between Cardinal Mundelein and myself, are to be retained by me or my estate and should never be made public. There are many such examples and this committee will do the selecting, in the event that I am unable to do so for the above mentioned reasons. “3. With respect to the file call ed ‘family letters,’ in the main they are to be retained by me or my estate. However, the commit tee should have the discretion of selecting a few which in their judgment could be given to the library and made public. Designates Seal “4. In all of the papers which are to be turned over to the lob rary from my personal tiles or from non-personal, official files, there will be some which should not be published until a lapse of a certain length of time and which. In the meantime, should be put un der seal. This is for the reason tjiat they may refer to people who are still alive in a way which would be embarrassing to them. The aforesaid committee of three should determine which letters should be so sealed and the length cf time of sealing. I should judge that the average length of time should be from ten to twenty years, but there may be some which should be sealed for as many as fifty years. “Franklin D. Roosevelt.” wjt,iii'ii\<jr (JUl'iOtSLr, Mrs. Kae Xnrouet leans over her sister, Mrs. £lsle Shore, in ambulance rushing her to Bellevue Hospital, New York. Police said Mrs. Shore was stabbed by her husband, William, 60, who was enraged because he was forced to live in a small apart ment with his wife, sister-in-law and her two children. The wf«r-l’vie purser, recently discharged from his job, then attempted to kill him self. (International) PLANTERS I PRESIDENT DIES Immigrant Built Multi Million Business On Lowly Peanut SUFFOLK, Va., May 21—(U.R) Amadeo Obici, Italian immigrant who built a multi-millionaire’s fortune on the lowly peanut, died tonight in a Wilkes-Barre, Pa., hospital, his friends here announc ed. He was 69. Obici, founder, president and general manager of the Planters Nut and Chocolate co., became ill at a board meeting in Wilkes-Barre in late March, and had been in the hospital there. He maintained a home at Bay Point Farm at Drivers, Va., near here, and another in Wilkes-Barre. Obici, born in Italy in 1877, came to the United States as a penni less immigrant at the age of 11. He sold peanuts on the streets of Wilkes-Barre, and entered the peanut processing business in 1906. His company expanded until it had plants in Suffolk, Wilkes Barre, San Francisco and Toronto. The "Mr. Peanut” emblem of his products became one of America’s most widely-know trade marks. He was a trustee of the College of William and Mary, and had served on many advisory boards for the state of Virginia. Survivors include a brother, Frank Obici, and a sister, Mrs. Mario Peruzzi, both of Wilkes Barre. His wife died in 1938. DEPARTMENT (Continued From Page One) kets, and at higher prices lor con sumers already staggering under the cost of living.” A spokesman said the Agricul ture department has brought about 36,500 bushels of Southern grown potatoes this year at prices rang ing from 90 cents for low grade potatoes to $3.80 per hundred pounds, under a price support act of Congress. Of this quantity, 11,500 bushels were said to have been low grade potatoes, costing the government between 90 and $1.09. It was these latter spuds which have been de stroyed. Canadian potatoes were said to ae selling in the South at from ^4.50 to $5.00 per hundred pounds. ‘‘It is a case,” the official con futed, ‘‘of the consumer wanting :op-quality potatoes. He is willing o buy top-grade Southern grown and Canadian potatoes but he re uses to buy the small low grade aotatoes even though they are aery much cheaper.” EAST (Continued From Page One) named in the order because they have on occasion resisted appli cation of interstate rates to their intrastate traffic. In the cases oi New York and Ohio, which have statutory limitations on intrestate passenger fares, the commission said a 45-day period will be al lowed for the railroads and the 6tate regulartory bodies “to make “intrastate) adjustments in ac cordance with out findings.” Follow Lead The other states in the territory traditionally follow the lead of ICC in making their intrastate rates level with the interstat schedules. The Eastern railroads are also seeking to increase their commutation fares, but this mat ter remains to be disposed by the commission. CHRISTENED YESTERDAY Phepholanis Mazronicolan son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Mazronicolan was christened yesterday after noon in the St. Nicholas church by the Rev. Papazisis. A reception was held afterwards in the church hall. 28 MEN (Continued From Page One) and ihouted “justice has been done — I feel the best I ever felt in my life.” The defendants were smiling and crying with joy as their wives and children ran up to embrace them. Defense Counsel Tom Wofford shouted above the tumult: “I think this is a perfect example of prov ing that the Department of just ice, Walter Winchell and other peo ple up North should keep their mouth out of the South's business.” Thu* ended a 10-day trial that had probably more words written about it than any in recent years. It was a bitter wrangle of lawyers over admissibility of purported statements signed by 26 of the de fendants describing in bloody de tail the abduction, torture and fin al killing of Earle on a lonely South Carolina road. AH Cab Drivers The Negro was killed in retalia tion for an attack on T. W. Brown, a Greenville cab driver, which lat er proved fatal. Of the 31 original defendants, 26 were members of Greenville cab companies. But protests against the lynch ing were not entirely stilled by the blanket exoneration of the de fendants. Hurd, as the alleged trigger man, had been charged with mur der on three counts and conspiracy on a fourth. Of the other 27 defen dants. 20 were charged with mur der on the first count, 27 with ac cessory before and 20 with access ory after the fact on the second and third counts and all with con spiracy to murder on the fourth. All those charged with murder or accessory before the fact, had they been convicted without rec ommendation of mercy, would have faced the death penalty. The less er accessory and conspiracy counts carried sentences of from three months to 10 years. Martin Popper, vice president of the National Lawyers’ guild who sat throughout the trial, stated “the verdict confirms the fact that federal action is essential.” “It was made clear to me,” Pop per asserted, “that several deputy sheriffs knew that the crime was to take place and either condoned or at the very least did nothing to prevent it.” Judge Martin and Solicitor Sam Watt, the main prosecutor, left the court during the first rush but Solicitor Sam Ashmore, another state attorney, said “I don’t com ment on jury verdicts.” The trial ended in a whirlwind of action although Judge Martin didn’t deliver his charge to the jury until mid-afternoon. A flurry of excitement was caused when U. G. Fowler, a state witness in the earlier testimony, applied for a peace warrant, as serting he had been beaten by three men who threatened his life. The warrant was refused. The jury deliberated from 3:20 p. m. until 7, then ordered sup per. The judge left tne court * few minutes later for an undisclos ed dining place. Verdict Beady The jury sounded the buzzer signal from its chamber down the hall from the courtroom at 8:25 and reported the verdict was ready. A crowd of more than 500 swarmed into the court chamber where a cool breeze was blowing for the first time during the 10 days of the sweltering court ses sions. On the occasion of hearing their judgment read, most of the defendants came attired in coats for the first time. Their women and sleepy, two headed children were waiting ner vously. The judge could not be found but finally he returned, post ed bailiffs throughout the audience to keep down demonstrations and summoned the prisoners from the yellow brick jail down the street. Then the jurors filed in. hats in hand and ready to go home. Christenberry called the roll of jurors and asked foreman Hugh Anderson if a verdict had been reached. “We have,” replied Anderson, a textile mill accountant. By 10:30, it was all over. SENATE (Continued From paSe Qp ing the fight to have th stand pat on its on»in,i° ,HfJUss asserted that th» pros', 1?Jre. “ali the earmarks” 0f bf_a:T r* permanent one admini*& * bureaucratic boondosalp,' by Rep. Rich (R-Pa) raised a of economy and Rep R™ a tf. Miss) declare^ that Ru °, kln ing the “farmers of f„, ' Ui‘ build up armies.” 'Urope to Chairman Eaton (R.Rj, the members of the fairs committee to Sl,p„i ‘gr‘. A' replies to the program’s cr^' Rep. Bloom (D-NTY>—"X’,*' ation (abroad) is growing ^ Rep. Judd (R-Mir.n) _ i!' President can end relief ‘5! country using an a p amount” of its available to maintain armed forces PP'le‘ Help* Children Rep. Mundt (R-SD) _ Th ■ as amended to include the for helping children, has 01 ed its objectives and its reoim ments. HUlr| Jonkman contended the «» 000.000 estimate vs as ’’pluckeri' of the air” by State dep^ officials. Rep. Fulton tR.pa, ‘ colleague on the commit;' denied this, saying it was b upon a study by U. N. 0ff-CIv, as well as State department resentative*. ” CAPE FEAR (Continued From Page One) and by the closure 01 New in]et The closure of New Inlet was coni. pleted in 1881 at a cost of proximately >600.000. * * * CHANNEL WIDENED ANE DEEPENED—In the years front 1874 through 1912 the channel authorized to be deepened and widened. In later years the anchor age basin at Wilmington tty authorized, and with it's then S foot it was enlarged to 30 feet, which was completed in 1932, * * * CONDITION — The condition t! the Cape Fear is realized by in persons, before it was improved by the Corps of Engineers. Bela improvement the controlling dept wds seven feet, and it is now.;.' feet and its commerce has increi ed from a few ‘housand tons it nually to more than one and one half million tons to rank the port of Wilmington second along the Atlantic coast in volume of gaso line and third in amount of ferti lizer material handled. The Weather Weather bureau report of temperate and rainfall for the 24 hour* endinj 8 p. m., in the principal cotton row ing areas and elsewhere. Station High Low Pr»cip WILMINGTON _ PO 73 Alpena - .58 42 W Asheville _ 69 67 .05 Atlanta _ 72 (r -56 Atlantic City- K ii - Birmingham - 71 67 44 Boston - 55 49 41 Buffalo - 76 « T, Burlington - 63 W Chattanooga - 72 66 1 Cl Chicago _ 68 45 .54 Cincinnati - 66 85 Cleveland —- 71 54 W Dallas '_ 76 51 Denver _ 7 8 46 - Detroit -_ 64 47 Ii Duluth _ 56 47 W El Paso--- 88 58 - Fort Worth_78 51 Galveston - 7b 63 1 Of Jacksonville - 90 73 .10 Kansas City - 75 47 Key West _ 87 71 - Knoxville _ 75 65 W Little Rock _ 74 54 M Los Angeles _71 59 Louisville _—-f*7 M HI Memphis _— — Meridian _— K Miami _ 86 76 Minn.-St. Paul _ 60 41 - Mobile _ 83 * « Montgomery - 90 67 W New Orleans_ 82 66 New York _ 69 S6 K Norfolk _ 87 72 - Philadelphia _ 86 64 “ Phoenix _ 96 68 - Pittsburgh _ 62 jj Portland, Me. - 56 4c " RALEIGH MISSING - Richmond -_ ^ 75 ; St. Louis _ 74 48 * San Antonio_ 80 54 San Francisco -- * 48 Savannah - — 72 Seattle _- 73 51 Tampa _ 86 73 - Vicksburg _ 73 6C j* Washington 86 6P ^ HAMBONE’S MEDIUMS By Alley w'en A 3>emE sffW Fur ez oib. 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Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.)
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