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'VOL SO-.0* — -___WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1947 -FSTARI ISHFn 1RB7
i S. May Act
|n Wage Talk
fovernment Intervention
possible As Means Of Re
viving Coal Parley
WASHINGTON, June l.-W—
Jernmen: intervention to revive
G Krnken down wage negotiations
John L. Lewis and the
se‘ -v o' the soft coal operators
i”8i0ar‘ d likely today in view of
f ating threat of a new
llf.1thfsame time Senator Young
/mt)) predicted the prospect of
15 v walkout will enable spon
1 m‘ the labor legislation which
!°rS ?L; is to pass finally this
C°r'f to override a veto if Presi
IntVuman refuses to sign it.
This puL the President m more
/a hole if he vetoes the labor
f,. Young told a reporter.
Lator Hill ‘Ala), Democratic
w n and member of the labor
whPmiUef who voted against the
faf comn.ented that the collapse
° i negotiations “will make
*nr» difficult for the President
J- «t0 *e hill, but I still think
he "i!! New Agency
The measure, as approved by
Senate-House 'conference com
rnittee would enable the govern
nt to obtain an injunction
a strike like a nationwide
®. new mediation agency to deal
“L labor-management disputes.
-n. breakup of the coal nego
tiations would be the first matter
r the new mediation agency to
andie if the bill is enacted and
"he deadlock continues beyond
r.-ne 30.
But until then, with the govern
ment still operating the mines it
Seized in a strike last year the
L of reviving the negotiations
„iU be in the hands of Capt. N
B Collisson of the Navy, Federal
coal mines administrator.
It was Collisson who brought
Lewis and the operators together
two weeks ago. Some persons in
gee C. S. on Page Two
CITIZENS HUNTING
ATTACK SUSPECT
Feeling Runs High At Rich
Square Over Second
Assault Attempt
RICH SQUARE, June 1 — '-R) —
Another attempted criminal as
lault of a white girl by a Negro
man was reported today near
Rich Square — scene of a similar
incident ten days ago which led
to the arrest of Godwin (Buddy)
Bush, 21-year-old Negro, who later
escaped from a masked mob.
Upwards of a hundred men,
many armed, fanned out over
the countryside after the girl, a
recent high school graduate and
t bride of two weeks, reported the
alleged attack.
Two Negroes found within two
miles of her home were taken
into custody and promptly rushed
to an uncisclosed jail for safe
keeping.
Sheriff J. C. Stevenson said the
two were arrested on suspicion
of having helped the alleged as
lailant in escaping the posse.
Public feeling, he declared, was
"running high,” as the search for
the wanted man continued.
No ‘‘Mob Spirit”
Solicitor Ernest R. Tyler said
he personally took part in the
c.nase, and declared he saw no
evidence of “mob spirit” among
the pursuers.
"They were just determined to
appreberd them,” he said.
Tyler quot»d the girl as saying
J Negro came to her home at
Lasker about 11 p.m., knocked on
the door, and when she opened
It. grabbed her and pulled her
Part way out. He fled when she
breamed and fainted, the solici
tor said.
Bush, now held in state prison
“ R a 1 e j g h for safekeeping
vas arrested after an alleged at
tack on a white stenographer. He
*>s lodged in the county jail at
ackson, 12 miles distant. About
aybreak a masked and armed
and forced the jailer to admit
them.
Escapes Mob
They hustled Bush out and put
■■"Jin the back seat of an auto
' l*1 Before the car could *pull
° ’ ‘le opened the door, jumped
and fled into the darkness,
shot was fired but it missed.
e n>d out for two days, then
*IVe himself up. Seven white
.en of the town have been ar
in connection with his ab
action
The Weather
. FORECAST
Firmer ,5si:olina—Partly cloudy and
itormc * scatt€r€d showers and thunder-'
dav 05,^1 hwest Portion Monday. Tues
W*rat y cloud>’ with little change in
east a„ .Ure- scattered thundershowers
X*nd sou-h portion.
Beu Molina—'Considerable cloudi
^undem ;varmer* scattered showers and
Monday l°^n5 west and central portions
1 Dot nUjf Tuesday partly cloudy and
Portion * 50 Warm* thundershowers east
•Mia/0!?]?8*6*1 da1-a for the 24 hours
'•oO p.m., yesterday.
l:SOatr. Temperatures
U; 641 7.30 a.m., 68; 1:30 p.m.,
^ 30 Pm., 73.
78i Minimum 61; Mean 70;
1;J0 a Humidity
t; i-ta m'* 7:30 a.m., 71; 1:39 p.m.
,u° P.m., 61.
Total f PreciPitation
50 inches 24 hours endin8 7:35 p.m.,
Total
*H lnchelr!Ce the first ot the montl1.
Ifrw. Tid(» For Today
* ~ 0,1 . Tidf Tables published hy
!t and Geodetic Survey).
Hlth LOW
- . 8:49a 3:37a
VWn . . 9:21p 3:43p
0 Ir‘J*t . 6:31a 12:41a
1 !>■««. . „ 7:0#p 12:39p
^ fciu!*1 7:19: M00nrtM
FATHER OF YEAR—U. S. Sen
itor Warren R. Austin, special am
bassador to the United Nations,
has been chosen “father of the
year,” the National Father’s Day
eommittee announced yesterday*.
The award was made because of
Austin’s “leadership of the United
states delegation, and for contribu
ting thereby to our children’s fu
ture.” .
FRENCH, EGYPTIAN
RELATIONS WIDEN
Paris Accuses Government
of Encouraging Escape
Of Abd El Krim
PARIS, June 1—(fP)—Relations
between France and Egypt were
strained today as French diplo
matic quarters accused the Egyp
tian government of encouraging
the onetime Moroccan rebel. Emir
Abd El Krim, to jump ship at
Suez.
Government circles said they
were convinced Krim left the ves
sel which was bringing him to a
new exile in Southern France only
after persistent pleadings by local
authorities.
His escape accentuated the bit
terness felt in French quarters at
Egypt’s alleged attempt yesterday
to run 300 tons of wheat and rice
into Tunis aboard an Egyptian
warship for the “starving Tunis
ians.”
The Foreign ministry denounc
ed the shipment as a political
maneuver and said the cruiser
would not be allowed to dock at
Tunis.
The French ambassador to Cai
ro, it was reported here, asked the
Egyptian foreign minister yester
day for an explanation of Abd El
Krim’s flight to Egypt. The envoy
was told the 'Egyptian govern
ment knew “nothing” about it.
“Astonished”
French diplomats declared they
were “astonished” that nine hours
after Krim’s arrival in Egypt the
foreign minister could say he
knew nothing of the affair since
See FRENCH on Page Two
BRIGGS EMPLOYES
VOTE TO STRIKE
Twenty - Thousand Body
Builders May Walkout
Thursday Over Wages
DETROIT, June 1 — (ff) —
Strike action by more than 20,000
Briggs Manufacturing co. work
ers was given final union approval
today a s 3,700 Ford Motor co.
foremen who walked off their jobs
May 21 voted to stay out.
A walkout at Briggs would close
the company’s eight plants in De
troit and one at Evansville, Ind.,
All but one of the Detroit plants
produce automobile bodies for
Chrysler corp. and Packard Motor
co. and a shutdown would have
ar. almost immediate effect on
those two producers.
Two Briggs locals of the CIO
United Auto Workers voted almost
unanimously here today to sup
port a strike, subject to call by
union officers. Similar action was
taken by the Evansville local sev
eral days ago.
Parley To Resume
UAW-CIO officials said a walk
out would not be ordered before
Thursday, when a 30-day "cool
ing off’’ period expjres. Negotia
tions on a contract dispute will
be resumed Monday and a im
pany spokesman appeared opti
mistic about heading off a strike.
The union accused Briggs of re
fusing to bargain in good faith.
The company denied the charge
and said its offer of a 11 1-2
cent hourly wage increase, six
paid holidays and other conces
sions followed the pattern of set
tlements with other firms in the
Industry.
The Ford chapter of the Fore
men’s Association of America (In
dependent) called its membership
meeting after Ford officials said
they would not resume negotia
tions until the foremen go back
to work.
Coupled with the ultimatum was
See BRIGGS on Page Two
Snooty Senate Sends
Snack Seekers Sacking
WASHINGTON, June 1 - (A*)—
Three House members told today
of getting a fast brush-off when
they tried to get a fast snack in
the Senate restaurant.
Even though four or five tables
were empty in the room where
Senators dine, Rep. Hoffman 'R
Mich) told a reporter, he and
Reps. Landis IR-Ind) and Barden
<D-NC) were told by an employe
they would have to sit in anotlxer
room for Senate employes.
Opening Day Brings
20,000 To Beaches
j Carolina Official Places Crowd As Largest
^ Long Time; Wrightsville Reports
\ Throng Of 8,000; Others Busy
^ -----
» county’s beach resorts of
ficially opened their 1947 season
yesterday and crowds estimated to
be over 20,000 thronged the strands
despite a chilly breeze and a high
temperature reading '78 degrees.
Officials at Carolina Beach es
timated that between 10,000 and
12.000 persons visited there during
the day. At Wrightsville more than
8.000 were reported by police to
have visited the island resort.
Kures, Wilmington and Fort Fisher
beaches also reported large
crowds.
Beach police reported that few
arrests had been made and that
the crowds were unusually orderly
during the week-end.
“We had a boardwalk full all
day, and it was by far the largest
crowd to visit Carolina Beach in a
long time,” an official there said.
Wrightsville police also report
ed the crowds orderly. “Only one
arrest was made all day,” a police
officer said.
Thousands braved the chilly
waters for a dip, while others
basked in the sun on the strand.
Concessions stands and amuse
ments centes reported a “brisk
business.’'
No serious accidents were re
ported by State highway patrol
men or the sheriff’s office. The
county police and state patrolmen
kept a constant patrol of the roads
leading to the resorts during the
day. j
Presbyterian Assembly
Hears Defeatism Scored
CUB CAPERS
NEW YORK, June 1—(/P)—A
two-year-old Polar bear cub,
frolicking in a Bronx zoo pool
today before several hundred
spectators, made a sharp dive
in the direction of a floating keg
and hit the target with such
force that its head pierced the
thin sheeting.
Scrambling out of the water
with the keg. placed in the pool
to enliven the water antics of
the animals, the cub clawed
blindly at the cylinder about its
head for an hour before zoo at
tendants were able to remove
it—and then, uninjured, prompt
ly plunged back into the pool.
MARTIN PREDICTS
TAX BILL SIGNING
Speaker Of House Sure
President Will Approve
GOP-Sponsored Bill
WASHINGTON, June 1 — (Jf) —
Describing tax relief now as a
bulwark against depression and
inflation, Speaker Martin (R-Mass)
predicted today President Truman
will sign the $4,000,000,000 annual
income tax cut scheduled for final
passage in Congress this week.
The bill, first legislation intro
duced when Republicans took con
trol of the House in January, has
been approved by a conference
committee which worked out minor
differences between provisions
adopted by the House and Senate.
It would reduce income taxes
effective July 1 by 10.5 to 30 per
cent.
The final version will be brought
up for approval in the House to
morrow, and then in the Senate.
It may reach the President's desk
by Tuesday. Mr. Truman will save
10 days to approve or veto it,
after which it would become law
without his signature.
Martin said in a statement that
the tax reduction would help the
businessman to expand and pro
duce more. He said they would
“go far” to prevent a slump which
would be disastrous for the world.
Would Aid Business
The speaker said he hopes Mr.
Truman will cooperate in our pro
gram to prevent a sharp recession
by signing it. These reductions
from the confiscatory war - time
taxes will enable the American
business man, small and large, to
expand his business and produce
more vigorously.
“Increased production will defeat
inflation and provide more steady
jobs at good wages. The tax re
ductions provided in the bill will
increase the purchasing pow*r of
the worker . . . Through lower
prices, they will raise the value
of every dollar he spends. . . .
Such increased purchasing power
See MARTIN on Page Two
TWO RALEIGH FLYERS
LOSE LIVES DURING
STUNT AT AIRPORT
RALEIGH, June 1—(A5)—While
attempting to do a “precision
spin” as part of the air show to
dedicate Raleigh’s new Civilian
Air Patrol field, two men were
instantly killed here today when
their ligtjt plane crashed.
The two were listed as Walter
B. Bruce, 22, and H. L. Bobbitt,
both of Raleigh. Bobbitt was an
instructor at the airfield.
The crash occurred in full view
of the 5,000 spectators at the air
show. Flying with two other planes
in the demonstration of a pre
cision spin, the plane went into
spin and never came out.
Bobbitt ’ was piloting the plane
and Bruce had accompanied him
as a passenger.
So they marched 700 feet through
the capitol to the House eatery.
Hoffman and Landis said they
all took it pretty much as a kke—
no hard feelings. Hoffman ex
plained that “we didn’t have any
objections, but the employe* sec
tion was full.”
It happened while the three were
working in a Senate conference
room, with Senators and other
representatives, on. the labor bill.
Dr. Robert A. Lapsley Calls
On Church Members To
Boost Religion
MONTREAT. June 1 — (fP) — A
call to church members of all de
nominations to cast aside the spirit
of defeatism and to put the church
first was sounded here today by
Dr. Robert A. Lapsley of Roanoke,
Va., delivering the principal ser
mon before the 87th General as
sembly of the Presbyterain church
in the United States.
“The trouble with the average
church today is the average church
members,” Dr. Lapsley said, add
ing “the church will be what God
wants it to be when its members
give the church its rightful place
in their lives.”
He spoke on “What God Wants
His Church To Be,” telling his list
ener that "the greatest need of
our day is the need of God.”
“God,” he said, “wants his
church to be beautiful. He wants
the building to be beautiful but
even more does he want the church
itself, the congregation to be beau
tiful.
Something Different
"A congregation of Christian
people should be attractive, mag
netic, a place where people love
to go, when they loVe to fellow
ship, and where they love to stay.
There should be something about
a church different from a circus,
oi a country club, or a convention,
or a senate. There should be in
See PRESBYTERIAN on Page 2
SERVICES REQUIRE
MEN FOR TRAINING
Proposed Universal Mili
tary Program Needs
Set At 230,000
WASHINGTON, Jun 1—(U.R)—'The
Arpny, Navy and Marine corps
believe they will require 230,000
officers and men to carry out the
proposed compulsory universal
training of an estimated 900,000
youths of 18 each year.
The President’s advisory com
mission on universal training re
ported tonight that the army will
require 130,000 service personnel
and 42.000 civilians to ker,i the
program rolling.
The Navy and Marine corps esti
mate that their share of the train
ing operations can be met with
55,000 service and 2,500 civilians.
Heavy Cost
Commission Chairman Karl T.
Compton said the cost of training
the teen-agers will be somewhere
between $1,750,000,000 and $2,000,
000,000 a year.
It is estimated that each year
between now and 1956 an average
of 1,100,000 boys will become 18
each year. After that time the
number will increase as a result
of wartime marriages and births.
Since 200,000 of the boys who
reach 18 each year will be physi
cally or mentally unfit for train
ing, the number actually serving
as trainees will range from 750,000
to 900,000 at any one time.
Along The Cape Fear
GROUPS FOR HEALTH—Civic
organizaitons are in no way con
nected with the city and county
health department in Wilmington
but they play, nevertheless, a large
role in maintaining the high
standard in health conditions that
prevail in the community.
The North Carolina Sorosis
sponsors the tuberculosis survey
that is conducted at intervals. It
also conducts milk stations for
school children and holds a baby
clinic for mothers.
An orthopedic clinic is held by
the Rotary club in' conjunction
with the state department of vo
cational rehabilitation. The Lions
club supplies milk to children
found to be undernourished or in
fected with tuberculosis as found
in the TB survey. It also provides
drinking cups for school children
A program for the training of un
derprivilged children is supervis
ed by the Kiwanis club.
The New Hanover County Tuber
culosis sanatorium is maintained
in the care of tubercular patients.
As previously mentioned the
James Walker hospital maintains
an isolation ward for communi
cable i^jseases.
OKTBR OROU3* * ffal faMHl
28 Killed, Scores Injured
By Tornado In Arkansas;
Million New Homes Loom
- I—-—---, _
Creedon Sets
'47 Estimate
Housing Expediter Says
Controls However, Must
Be Kept On
WASHINGTON, June 1 — (JP) —
Housing Expediter Frank R. Cree
don said today that 1,038,000 new
dwelling con be completed in 1947,
including 760,000 permanent homes,
if federal controls are kept for
“a few more months.”
The statement was Creedon’s
first estimate on this year’s hous
ing efforts. However, it contained
no forecast of the number of new
hemes to be started. So far,
starts have lagged behind 1946,
while completions have run ahead.
The housing expediter said 610,
000 new permanent homes have
been completed this year or are
under construction and will be fin
ished. Another 150,000 can be
started and made ready for oc
cupancy this year ,he added, and
non-permanent dwellings '..’ill add
278,000 to the total.
Meanwhile, Douglas Whitlock,
chairman of the Building Pro
ducts Institute, opposed President
Truman’s reorganization plan pro
posing an overall housing agency.
Whitlock said in a statement that
the administrator would have “un
limited powers to interfere with
the private building industry.”
Attacks Plan
And the National Home and
Property Owners foundation at
tacked the “guaranteed markets”
plan by which the government
agrees to purchase all unsold pre
fabricated units at 90 percent of
the market price.
“Unsold prefabricated houses
are piling up in warehouses,”
Joseph H. Deckman, the founda
tion’s housing chairman, declared
in a statement.
“The market guarantee plan is
being turned into a WPA for pre
fab manufacturers who can no
longer sell their products in view
of the increasing buyer resistance
to the high prices and low quality
of factory built homes.”
Unless the government "stops
subsidizing the prefab industry,”
Deckman said, it soon will own
thousands of surplus prefabs while
See CREEDON on Page Two
419 PERSONS DIE
VIOLENT DEATHS
Four - Day Memorial Day
Week-End By-Passes
400 Mark Yesterday
By The Associated Press
The four-day Memorial day
week-end brought violent deaths to
at least 419 persons even before
motorists began to fill the high
ways for their homeward trips
Sunday.
The largest number of deaths.
179, resulted from traffic acci
dents, although this figure lagged
behind the national safety coun
cil’s prediction of 275 automobile
fatalities by Sunday midnight.
Fifty persons drowned, and
190 lost their lives in miscellaneous
accidents, including the two worst
plane crashes in the nation's his
tory. which accounted for 95
deaths.
The death toll was far ahead
of that for last year’s four-day
Memorial day holiday in which
292 persons died, 164 of them in
traffic accidents.
New York, its list swollen by
Thursday’s plane crash at La
Guardia field, had 65 fatalities,
the largest of any state. Maryland,
where 53 persons died in a plane
crash Friday, was next with 59
deaths. California led in traffic
deaths with 31, and had the third
highest total from all causes—36.
of health is materially aided by
the Public Health Nurses. That
group gets assistance from the
ministering circle, Wilmington
chapter of the American Red
Cross, Jewish Women’s Federa
ted charities ijnd the Metropolitan
Life Insurance company.
* * *
MALARIA CONQUERED —
Malaria formerly was one of the
most dreader diseases in this
community. However, the disease
now has almost come to the van
ishing point, health department
records disclose. Since 1922 there
only has been one death in Wil
mington and since 1923 only one
in the county as the result of the
disease. This is principally attribut
ed by the health department to
the war on mosquitos, carrier of
[the disease germ. A survey has
been made with the aim of drain
ing the salt marsh areas, breed
ing places of the insect.
Under supervision of the New
Hanover mosquito commission,
much work has been done in
| clearing ponds and ditches, dig
srir'j new ditches to drain stag
nant waters and oiling of stagnant
waters to kill the germ.
4Sm oats f«a* o* mm
i B. CONEY (left) and co-pllot K. D. Willingham who
lost their lives early Friday night In the crash of their Eastern Air
lines DC-4 near Port Deposit, Md. 49 passengers and two other crew
members also lost their lives In the Ill-fated crash.
Guns Are Precious
Commodity In India
CALKING CATFISH
BUCKLIN, Mo., June 1—(/P)—
The Bucklin water supply has
been dangerously low the past
four days because no water
came in from the city reservoir.
A temporary line was construc
ted for the emergency.
Then Neil Cannon, water
superintendent, discovered that
the cause of the trouble was a
30 pound catfish wedged in the
inlet pipe.
WET, COOL SPRING
RETARDING CROPS
Department Of Agriculture
Fears Heavy Foreign
Buying May Result
WASHINGTON, June 1.—(A1)— A
wet, cool spring has seriously
hampered the sowing of such vital
grains as corn, oats and barley,
officials reported today and de
layed the planting of soybeans, an
important surce of scarce food
fats.
The result, they contend, is to
emphasize President Truman’s re
quests that Congress continue for
another year the government’s au
thority to control the export of
scarce foods, now scheduled to ex
pire June 30.
Otherwise, officials say, the
United States might see its sup
plies raised by foreign buyers,
causing new shortages and higher
prices.
Under existing controls, the
Agriculture department allocates
supplies of scarce foods among
foreign areas. The latter can Ship
out of this country no more than
is alloted them. The allocation
plan reserves for this country sup
plies deemed by the department
to be adequate.
But should Congress fail to ^ex
See WET on Page Two
PASSENGERS INJURED
WHEN STONES HURTLE
INTO TRAIN WINDOWS
PHILADEDPHIA, June 1—(A3)—
Three persons were slightly in
jured today when stones smashed
two windows on “The Colonial,”
Washington-io-Boston train, while
it was traveling through Baltimore,
Pennsylvania Railroad officials
said here today.
A Pennsy spokesman said he did
not know if the stones were thrown
by someone or if they had been
hurled against the windows by
train wheels.
The injured, taken from the
train at Wilmington, Del., suffered
slight cuts, the Pennsy spokesman
said. They are: Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond E. Berdick, Hastings
House, Hastings-On-The-Hudson,
N. Y., and Frank Clement, Apt.
IB, North Ottawa street, Atlantic
City, N. J. They were treated at
Delaware , hospital in Wilmington.
Clothing Manufacturers
. Feel Price Resistance
WASHINGTON, June 1 — W—
Manufacturers of clothing and tex
tile products are feeling thg ef
fects of reduced retail buying
springing from consumer resis
tance to price rises, the Com
merce department said today.
Retailers’ shelves are better
stocked and manufacturers are
cutting down their operations in
some branches of the industry,
notably soft woolen goods and
women’s apparel,- a department
analysis said.
On the other hand, it said, out
put of some items af men’s cloth
ing and women's botua 6tcmm is
Tension Mounts Through
out Nation On Eve Of
Important Conference
NEW DELHI, June 1—(A*)—The
high commands of India’s rival
political parties held final strategy
meetings tonight on the eve of
their meeting with Viceroy Lord
Mountbatten to receive the Brit
ish government’s plan for trans
ferring power to the Indians.
Hopes for avoiding bloody civil
strife in this subcontinent of 400,
000,000 hung on the decisions that
will be taken in the next few days.
Amid mounting tension guns be
came a precious commodity as
many citizens openly sought
means of protecting themselves
and their families.
While working committees from
the Moslem league and the pre
dominantly Hindu all-India con
gress met with top party leaders,
authorities in a number of sec
tions of India announced steps to
put down with a strong h^nd any
tide of disorder.
Lord Mountbatten announced he
would meet at 10 a. m. tomorrow
(11:30 p. m., Sunday Eastern
Standard Time) with seven Indian
leaders.
These leaders are:
Moslem league—M. A. Jinnah,
president; Liaquat Ali Khan, fi
nance minister in the interim gov
ernment; Sardad Abdur Rab Nish
tar, communications minister.
Congress party—J. B. Kripalani,
See GUNS on Page Two
BANKS TO HAUNCH
NEW BOND DRIVE
Institutions Of Wilmington
Join Nation-Wide Plan
For Monthly Sales
Wilmington banks today, along
with others throughout the nation,
will launch the new buy-a-bond-a
month campaign in conjunction
with the United States treasury
department in an effort to distri
bute purchases of Uncle Sam’s
securities among individuals as
widely as possible.
Literature explaining the cam
paign and urging purchase of a
bond a month by every depositer
was contained in monthly state
ments mailed firms and individu
als by the local banks last week.
J. G. Thornton, president of the
Wilmington Savings & Trust com
pany, said last night it is the hope
of local banks that every wage
earner and person with a regular
income in Wilmington will join
in the plan.
The campaign will run through
the months of June and July. Bank
ers may be directed by indivi
duals and firms to take sufficient
funds from their accounts each
month for the purchase of a bond.
Payroll Plan
The campaign theme is "save
the easy, automatic way—where
you work—where you bank.” Part
See BANKS on Page Two
still relatively low and short of de
mand at current prices.
Total consumption of cotton,
wool and rayon last year was
more than two-fifths larger than
in 1939. The textile industry
operated at peak peacetime levels
throughout 1946 and the early part
of 1947. Consumption of cotton
was one third larger in 1946 than
in 1939.
Margin Widens
The c^iiartmer.t said the gross
margin between the price cf a
pound of raw cotton and the price
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Storm Levels
Communities
Twister Races Along Curv
ed Path In Heart Of
Agricultural Area
PINE BLUFF, Ark., une 1—(A1)
—A tornado ripped through one
of the most heavily populated agri
cultural areas in the South near
here late today killing at least 28
persons and sending scores more
to hospitals. •
The twister raced along a curved
path from East to West narrowly
missing the south edge of this city
of 40,000 situated on the Arkansas
river 43 miles Southeast of Lit'le
Rock.
Taxicab and private automobiles
were pressed into service to assist
all available ambulances in bring
ing the dead and injured to Pine
Bluff.
Several small rural communi
ties were in the path of the storm
and some virtually were wiped
out.
Mayor George Steed, one of the
first to reach the storm area,
expressed fear that it would take
24 hours to complete rescue oper
ations.
The first 28 known dead included
13 Negroes and 15 white persons.
“There is no telling how many
people were killed and hurt,” he
said. Steed said that the jiath of
the storm was at least 20 miles long
and “up to 10 miles wide.”
Bridges Blown Away
“Bridges were literally blown
away across the bayous and log
gers had to cut trees from across
the road for the ambulances to
get through,” said Steed.
"Whole families — Negro and
white—were wiped out. I saw 16
Negroes all in one heap The
buildings were levelled and the
only evidence some had ever stood
were the foundations.
“Communications into the area
are impossible and motor traffic
is moving under the greatest diffi
culty. Every ambulance is run
ning to capacity every trip and we
are using taxicabs and trucks to
bring the people in. There is a
lot of territory to cover and we
already know the storm extended
See STORM On Page Two
VETERAN FACING
TREASON TRIAL
Douglas Chandler, World
War 1 Navy Man, Goes
Before His Peers Today
BOSTON, June 1 — UP) — Doug
las Chandler, 58-year-old former
American newspaperman who
served his country in the Navy
in World War I, faces charges of
treason in federal court tomor
row.
The first man ever to be tried
in New England for "giving aid
and comfort” to an enemy of the
United States, Chandler Is ac
cused of making recordings in
Germany during the war and
broadcast to this country under
the pseudonym, “Paul Revere.”
The courtroom is not far from
the Old North church where lant
erns gave the real Paul Revere
the signal for his historic ride.
The indictment returned last De
cember against Chandler lists 23
alleged overt acts. It charges
he did "knwongly, intentionally,
wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously,
traditorously and treasonably ad
here to the enemies of the United
States.”
Complies With Law
The trial is being held here to
comply with a law requiring de
fendants to stand trial in the
district where they first re-entered
the country. The plane that flew
Chandler back from Germany to
face charges brought against him
in Washington in 1943, landed at
Westover Field, Mass.
Seventeen witnesses of the 47
summoned were flown from
Europe—most of them from Ger
many.
The government charges that
Chandler’s activities on the Ger
man radio were intended to "per
suade citizens and residents of
the United States to decline to
support the United 'Tates in the
See VETERANS on Page Two
And So To Bed
A certain young man about
town revived the song of a few
years ago during the week
end, to wit: "Get Out Of
Town”
It came about in this man
ner: The young man in ques
tion is a new-comer to the
Port City. Since arriving in
this city a month or so ago
he has acquired a girl friend.
During the weekend his "old”
girl friend was coming into
town. His new girl friend,
fortunately for him, was going
out of town for the week-end.
Ke was up Saturday morni.ig
when the first rooster crowed
to put hig girt on the bus, sing
ing all the while, "Get Out Of
Town,”
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