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American Legion Lads Who Served in Pacific
jungles Refuse to Let the Boys From the
French Trenches Argue Them Down
The Hit'i who broke the Hindenberg Line and took the
beach at m/io and Mt. Surabchi took the damp weather
easy stride yesterday as they flocked to Carolina Beach
or the opening of the North Carolina state American Le
rion convention- .
*, t of Saturday was occupied
..;ListroMon and antics of the
of 40 and 8, highlighted
f Ve fan - ,3 40 and 8 engine.
Vorcgers conducted the non
HjC wn : at 4:30 p.m. yester
• t: the town auditorium and
•{tended a banquet at 8 p.m. at
V ocean Piaza, where they
heard Sid Fence. Chef de Chemin
1 jre" deliver the main address.
Toastmaster at the banquet , was
Td«n Burge, Grand Cnef de
aud the speech of welcome
,'aj made by Charlie Foard, Chef
i Gate, Vo O’ire 245.
tjr.e at this pleasure studded
heech resort of eastern North
Carolina, far from the scenes of
World War battlefields, ex-dough
WS of ’18 swapped stories with
e'-GIs of ’4S for the first time
5. a North Carolina state conven
^”vou youngsters don’t know
what war is,” joked one old-timer.
"Wliy back in ’18 we wallowed
iround in muddy trenches, and
you bovs rode in style in air
planes, tanks and landing boats.”
“Is that so?'’ sneered an ex
Jlarine just out of uniform. ‘‘We
mated through jungles and des
«ts for five years, not one and
i half on a European pleasure
tour."
And it went a constani
itream of chatter was heart up
and down the boardwalk yester
day as the boys of both wars,
donned with blue caps and canes,
ribbed the daylights out of each
other with stories of their battle
feats.
Beach police reported an ‘‘ex
tremely orderly” crowd with no
accidents up to 7 p.m. last night.
Forty military police from Camp
Lejeune, 15 special count;’
deputies and several highway pa
trolmen were scheduled to be on
band during the convention.
Registration was somewhat
(Continued on Page V, Column 7)
GOV. CHERRY SENDS
LETTER HONORING
1775 WAR HEROES
RALEIGH, June 14 —(U R)—Gov.
Gregg Cherry today sent North
Carolina's greetings to Nashville,
Term., where local officials plan
ted to dedicate flag poles to two
tar Heel Revolutionary War he
>oes for whom the community is
lamed.
Nashville took its name from
Gen. Francis Nash and Davidson
county, where the Tennessee cap
ita! is located, from Gen. William
Lee Davidson.
Davidson died fighting the Brit
ish at Cowan’s Ford and Nash was
Med at Germantown,
i The Dag poles were given by
pe Tennessee Historical commis
tlon and were to be placed on the
Courthouse Square in Nashville.
BISHOP’S DAUGHTER WEDS
NEW YORK, June 14—(IP)—Miss
Mta Oxnam, daughter of Bishop
“■ Bromley Oxnam of the New
wk Methodist area and Mrs. Ox
became the bride today of
Robert McCormack, also of New
York city.
The W eather
CEPy n 1L M1N G T O N AND VI
♦hi, 1 ; Cloudy with occasional rains
Frm*nxlng’ bearing around noon.
•l«v a„H0RTH CAROLINA: Mostly
• and occasional rains.
1,.. 'Eastern Standard Time)
tMjJ’r,°°glcal data for the 24 hours
‘s 7,30 P-m. yesterday/
. TEMPERATURE
a’m- 78; 1:30 p-m- 81;
Mea- -I v Maximum 82; Minimum 71;
™ Nonna) 77.
i.v HUMIDITY
*:l» p a 1M. 7:30 a’m’ 89; 1:30 p-m- «i
Total u PHECIP1TATION
inches. n°ur5 cndin2 at S p.m., 0.27
for month to date 2.03 inches.
Tfilmington v TIDES
e“n htgu - 6 2ja 7;o7p
fcsonbon, H‘ow - 1:31a 1=34P
° f,1-n 4:01a 4:42p
Evnrise s . J • -10:30a 13:18p
Ike ■ ',jnet 7:25 p.m. Moon
We^lJf:; “‘"onset 3:39 p.m.
ini -ainfan UJ'' u report of temperature
P.m, :a ti" 7°r ,hl. 24 hours ending 3
•teas and?: pr:ncipal cotton growing
Station el*wnere:
Prec.
0.43
0.66
0.74
0.01
0.03
1.31
0.03
0.90
0.56
0.05
1.36
0.01
00.6
0.04
0.59
0.15
0.17
0.51
1.79
1.24
0.37
0.50
0.53
0. 87
0.02
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GOV. CHERRY
BRIG.-GEN. ROYALE
NAVY LOSES TWO
GOBS IN CIVIES
Shore Patrol Fails To Lo
Cate Dunked Crew
Members
Two unidentified crew members
of the invasion fleet, which will
stage the mock landing tomorrow
at Carolina Beach, severed relat
ions with the Navy yesterday by
jumping in the Atlantic ocean, it
was reliably reported.
The gobs, dressed in civilian
c.othes, dared members of the
shore patrol to arrest them for
being out of uniform. When the
navy police nabbed the alleged cul
pritis, they broke away and jump
ed in the water.
Meanwhile the shore patrol boys
stood on the beach and uttered
words unbecoming to their status.
Finally one of the two swam
ashore, after a crowd of several
thousand had gathered to watch,
and after tangling with navy pol
ice for several minutes, he broke
loose and faded into the throng.
While ail the excitement was go
ing on between the officers and
the “I don’t want to be in the
navy” sailor, the second gob, who
had been swimming around some
distance out in the water, decided
to come in and this he did while
no one saw him.
Now the shore patrol is search
ing for two civilians who belong
in uniform. *
COUP DENIED
LONDON, June 15— (IP) —The
Moscow radio said today that So
viet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
tov had denied a charge attribut
ed to British Ambassador Sir
Maurice Drummond Peterson that
Russia had engineered the coup
d’etat in Hungary.
Big Invasion
Of Carolina
Beach All Set
Weather Will Be Fair With
Moderate Temperature,
Is Prediction
JUST LIKE ANZIO
Paratroopers, Helicopters,
Air-Borne Marines A
Part Of Program
One of the greatest displays of
peacetime military might along
the South Atlantic coast, if not
the greatest along the eastern
coast, will be demonstrated at
Carolina Beach tomorrow after
noon at 2 o’clock.
Members of the armed services
will participate in a mock inva
sion highlighting activities of the
four-day state convention of the 40
et 8, American Legion and Legion
Auxiliary.
Paul Hess, Wilmington weather
man, has promised fair weather
and moderate temperatures.
Legion delegates will be re
minded of the real thing, it was
said last night, as plans for the
show revealed the action would
closely resemble that faced by
troops in the taking of islands in
(Continued on Page 2; Column 3)
TRUMANTOSTATE
TAX STAND MONDAY
Will Send Congress Mes
sage Either Way
He Acts
WASHINGTON, June 14— OF) —
The White House announced today
that President Truman will act
“sometime Monday” on the tax
reduction bill.
He will send a message to Con
gress, a secretary said, regardless
of whether he vetoes or signs the
measure.
Mr. Truman has until Monday
midnight to act. Unless he acts
by then, the bill automatically will
become law.
Eben Ayers, assistant press sec
retary, tcld reporters about the
President’s plans to send a me
sage but was mum as to what it
will say.
Ayers said communications re
ceived by the White House on the
labor bill, on which the President
must act by June 20, have now
exceeded the half million mark.
There are 140,000 letters, 460,000
cards, and 20,000 telegrams.
PALESTINE INQUIRY
GROUP LAND THERE
Within Five Honrs An Ex
Is Re
JERUSALEM, June 14—(/P)—The
first members of the United Na
tions special commission on Pal
estine arrived today amid rising
speculation that its ultimate rec
ommendations may bring partition
but not peace to the Holy Land.
Justice Emil Sandstraem of
Sweden, commission chairman,
said upon his arrival at Lydda air
drome that the group will tour
Palestine prior to opening the in
quiry “in order to acquaint our
selves with the country.’’ The
commission will hold a plenary
session on Monday, then adjourn
for the tour.
Sandstroem emphasied that de
spite the Arab boycott of the com
mission its members will tour both
Arab and Jewish sections “be
cause we want a full picture of
the situation despite the Arab in
tention to withhold their coopera
tion.”
JERUSALEM, June 14— (J) —
General alarm sirens sounded
throughout Jerusalem tonight, just
five hours after the arrival of four
members of the United Nations
Palestine Investigation commis
sion.
First reports said there had
been an explosion in the Mea Sher
im area, an all-Jewish quarter of
the city. __
Large Staff Of Starters
Register In Soap Box Derby
With a total of 17 entries al
ready on file at Soap Box Derby
headquarters, interest in the
greatest amateur racing event m
the world for boys 11 to 15 years
of age inclusive, which will be run
over Derby Downs here on
Wednesday, July 30, interest in
the event is growing hourly. .
While the entry blanks received
to date include the names of sev
eral boys who competed in the
initial raca in Wilmington last
year, about 50 per cent of the to
tal are newcomers to Derby com
petition, a good indication that this
year’s Derby will be hotly contest
ed all the way from the first heat
in Class B, until such time as a
Wilmington champion is crowned
last the afternoon of race day.
All boys who have signed entry
blanks to date have received
through the Raney Chevrolet com
pany, co - sponsors with the Wil
mington Star-News o< the Soao|
Box Derby here, a handsome rac
ing helmet as an award for sign
ing up early. The next sixty-five
boys ■signing an application blank
will also receive a helmet for use
in practice heats. All boys who
qualify for the big race on July
30, will receive the All-American
Soap Box Derby 10th Anniversary
official driver’s helmet, one hour
before race time. These helmets,
new in design and light - weight,
will become the properly of the
boy find which he may retain as
a souvenir.
Some ten days ago, local Soap
Box Derby headquarters received
from Detroit, the first of the priz
es to be awarded by Nation Soap
Box Derby headquarters for the
local race. They were the gold, sil
ver and bronze tie clasps to be
awarded the boys who finish first,
second and third in Classes A and
(Continued «b Sage Xj Column X)
Gubernatorial Salute
STATE OT NORTH CAROLINA
GOVERNORS OFFICE
RAL&IOK
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Mr. R. 8. Page, Publisher
The Star-News
Wilmington, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Page:
It is with pleasure that I congratulate your newspaper
on this edition honoring the heroes of America’s two most dread
ful wars.
It is a matter of pride to me to realize that we have In
North Carolina a resort community capable of playing boat to
20,00® persons — which I am told is the largest gathering ever
held in this state.
S> x
' It roust also be a matter of pride to those in your area
to have the excellent services given by the Wilmington press, one
instance of auch service being this special and informative edition.
Cordially yours
&GC/K J
... a
GOVERNOR R. GREGG CHERRY, himself a Legion member
and the first member of the organization to become governor, took
time out from his busy routine at Raleigh to write this official salute
to the Legion, the Wilmington report area and the press.
Mecklenburg County Votes
Wet First Time Since 1908
CHARLOTTE, June 14—(AP)—Mecklenburg county
today voted to establish ABC stores.
With only two of the total 64 boxes unreported, the
unofficial vote was:
For-15,938. Against—12,332.
The remaining two boxes could
not change the vote, but might
alter the majority.
Mecklenburg becomes the first
county in western North Carolina
ever to vote to establish the state
controlled beverage stores.
The county has been legally dry
since 1908.
ABC referendums are scheduled
in Hickory and Asheville later this
year. Rowan county recently
voted against the stores.
LUMBERTONJURY
TO ACT ON SLAYING
Mrs. Mary Miller Bill
Awaits Ac
tion
LUMBERTON, June 14 —(TP)—A
Robeson county grand jury Mon
day will consider a bill charging
that Mrs. Mary Ellen Currin Mil
ler, 24, hired Fred Wiggins, 24,
a Negro hand °n her father’s
farm, to shoot her husband as he
lay sleeping and make it look like
suicide.
David Miller, 27, was shot at
his home in nearby Rowland Sun
day morning, May 11. He has been
discharged from a hospital here.
His wife has been released in
$15,000 bond furnished by her fath
er, and is now reported in an
Asheville sanitorium. Wiggins, un
able to raise the same amount,
has been in Robeson county jail
here.
If a true bill is found, the trial
is scheduled to start Wednesday
before Judge Walter J. Bone of
Nashville and a Superior Court
grand jury.
FIRE RELIEF
AID CONTINUES
Wilmington People Aid
Family Victims
Of Fire
By BOB KUNE
Star-News Reporter
Wanted: three beds and mat
tresses, two or three living room
chairs, two rugs and three floor
or table lamps. Don’t have to be
new on spotless, just useable.
Can’t pay a dime.
These are the needs of the Clif
ton Ludlowe family that was lef:
without roof or clothing after fire
destroyed their home last Tues
day.
An unfurnished five-room apart
ment was obtained yesterday at
Maffitt Village for the Ludlowes
and with the aid of a Wilmington
Star-News truck, they plan to
move in tomorrow,'.
Wilmington hearts have been
touched by the plight of the fire
ridden family cl nine as money,
clothing, dishes and furniture have
been brought to the Star-News of
fice during the past four days.
Among those who called to offer
their help were C. J. Wilson, 3910
Market street road, who offered a
four-room house rent-free for six
months, and Mrs. Daniel Horrell,
13 Dawson street, who wanted to
hire 13-year - old Delores Ludlowe
for four hours of housework a day.
But because the Ludlowes ur
gently need shelter now and since
the four-room house would not be
ready for occupancy for a month,
it was decided to take the Maffitt
Village apartment, which is avail
able immediately. Also Mrs. Lud
lowe said Delores, the oldest of
(Continued on Page Z; Column 3)
Dads To Strike Sunday—
Unless Breakfast In Bed
BROKEN ARROW, Akla., June 14—(AP)—Male par
ents of Broken Arrow threatened today to “strike” tomor
row, Father’s Day, unless they are served breakfast in bed
as a sign their families have accepted a set of demands.”
STATE BIRTHS SET
ALL TIME ECORD
28,892 Infants Arrive Dur
ing First Three
Months
RALEIGH, June 14 —(TP)—Babies
were born at a rate unprecedent
ed in North Carolina history dur
ing the first three months of 1947,
the State Health Department re
ported today.
A total of 28,892 births were re
corded during the first three
months of the year as compared
with 21,29 in the same period of
last year.
During the first three months of
1947, deaths from all causes total
ed 7,715, a decline of 233 from
the same period in 1946. Heart
disease continued to be the great
est killer with 1,843 deaths report
ed, but this was a decline of 118
from the same period of last year.
Cancer deaths increased from 623
to 635, tuberculosis dropped from
279 to 221, influenza decreased
from 201 to 96, pneumonia from
533 to 430, and nephritis from 860
to 666.
There were no deaths from ma
laria, scarlet fever or typhoid
fever, one from polio, 10 from
diphthetifv &od W &etn meningitis
• lit ■ 4
^ The “demands,” made in a res
olution adopted at a meeting of
20 fathers:
“1. Fathers shall be allowed to
come home late at night without
having to explain where they have
been.
“2. Fathers shall have at least
as much right to speak out and
say what they think as the child
ren have.
“3. Fathers shall not be ap
proached for the money to buy
their own Father’s Day present.
“4. Fathers shall be allowed to
take telephone calls without hav
ing, as soon as they hang up, to
answer the question ‘who was
that?’.
“5. Fathers shall be addressed
with more respect, either as ‘pa
pa’ or ‘dad’ instead of as ‘stinky’
and ‘hey you.’ ”
“We are serious about this
thing,” said Cal Tinney, Broken
Arrow Ledger Editor and a mem
ber of the group of fathers threat
ening to “strike.”
“If we don’t get breakfast in
bed tomorrow as a sign our de
mands have been met we are go
ing to picket — and that’s where
the argument started.
“The boys all wanted to make
any picketing-they might have to
do as easy as possible and a
bunch of them suggested we do
it in automobiles.
“But we finally agreed that idea
was hopeless because our families
will have our cars, as usual, and
we won’t jet t chance to use
TRUMAN TAKES
HAND IN FATAL
PLANE ACCIDENTS
LABOR BILL WILL
BAR A FREE PRESS
Sen. O’Mahoney Cites
Reasons For Charge
By Him
WASHINGTON, June 14 — (£>) —
Senator O’Mahoney (D-Wyo) de
clared tonight a “sleeper” clause
ir. the Taft-Hartley labor bill
would bar most newspapers from
commenting on the 1948 president
ial campaign.
He said in an interview that “I
think the thing is unconstitutional,
but it illustrates the careless man
ner in which this bill has been
drafted.”
I The drafters of the measure,
now on President Truman’s desk
for approval or veto next week,
apparently went much further
than they intended to go by using
loose and indefinile language, O’
Mahoney said.
“The sponsors of this legisla
tion, in shooting at labor organ
izations, have found many victims
they had no intention of includ
ing,” he said.
He cited a section which Chair
man Taft (R-Ohio) of the Senate
Labor committee said is designed
to prohibit unions from making
political contributions or spending
union funds to publish comments
on political campaigns.
O’Mahoney declared that the
language of this section covers all
corporations, including those
which publish regular newspapers
or magazines.
He said it also would prevent
news services from sending men
to cover political conventions.
What is prohibited to labor or
ganizations is also prohibited to
any corporation whatever, he
said.
“Therefore if a labor organiza
tion is prohibited from making an
expenditure to publish political
views in any newspaper or bulle
tin, any corporation whatever is
likewise prohibited from making
such an expenditure,” he continu
ed.
The aection O’Mahoney eited
reads in part:
“It is unlawfull for any corpora
tion whatever, or any labor or
(Continued on Page 2; Column 8)
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DISGUISED COPS
CAPTURE SUSPECT
Had Picked Up Bag Sup
posed To Contain
Ransom Money
H3TROIT, June 14 —(&)—Detroit
police and detectives, dressed ®s
street cleaners, truck drivers and
toy balloon salesmen, today cap
tured a suspect in an attempted
$3,000 extortion or ransom plot
against Mrs. Marie Schweitzer,
Saratoga General hospital kitchen
employe.
The trap was set at a northeast
Detroit intersection after Mrs.
Schweitzer had received three let
ters demanding she place $8,000 in
small bills against a fence near
Mt. Olivet cemetery.
The money was for the return
of her 19-year-old son, Richard, a
Hudson Motor Car company em
ploye who disappeared from his
rooming house May 23.
Inspector Joseph Krug of the
police special investigation squad,
who refused to reveal the name
of the suspect, disclosed that a
similar trap was set last Satur
day. But a man seen loitering
near the cemetery fence disap
peared and no arrest was made.
The plot was repeated this af
ternoon. Detectives Lawrence
Bleach and Jesse Stewart, wear
ing soiled working clothes, drove
a truck to the comer where Mrs.
Schweizer had been told to leave
tile ransom money and pretended
the vehicle had broken down.
Two other teams of officers
watched from a nearby house and
0 hidden automobile.
When each of the disguised po
licemen had taken his post, Mrs.
Schweizer was driven to the in
tersection by a Policewoman in a
car with out - of - state license
(Continued on Page 3; Column 5)
President Conducts Two
Conference With Landis
Graphic Eye-Witness Account of Latest
Crash On Virginia, West Virginia Border
Told, Ross Urges Grounding of DC-4’s
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 14 — (UP) — President
Truman tonight took a hand in the mounting fatal DC-4
reconverted airplane crashes.
He directed that an assistant, John Steelman, presi
dential aid, confer with James Landis, head of CAA. The
two met twice and after the meeting Landis said:
YADKIN RIVER
OVERFLOW EASES
Lowlands Flooded Satur
day Afternoon For
40 Miles
NORTH WILKESBORO, June 14
—(IP)—The Yadkin river was slowly
subsiding tonight after an 8.51 inch
overnight cloudburst had sent the
stream to the 20 foot stage, eight
feet over bankful, flooding corn
and hay bottomlands, closing some
highways and for a time threaten
ing homes.
The rain stopped shortly after
noon and the river went down six
inches in the next two hours and
was still dropping tonight. Low
lands were flooded for some 40
miles, from the Lenoir vicinity to
beyond Elkin.
Reports tonight were that there
was no evacuation of homes, and
the North Wilkesboro equipment
garage of the state highway de
partment said that all roads in the
vicinity were open again with ex
ception of the Wilkesboro-Oakwood
road, where an abutment was
washed out over Cub creek.
Estimate of financial damage
waited fuli withdrawal of the flood
waters.
The flood came a few days after
a House Appropriations sub -com
mittee had concluded hearings in
Washington on a $7,000,000 project
involving Hood control on the riv
er. Two dams would be built on
the Yadkin and two on the Red
dies river tributary. Nine lives
were lost when the river reached
37 feet in 1940.
OTTUMWA, la., June 14— (/P) —
The flood-swollen Des Moines riv
er increased its rate of rise here
today as relief officials in this city
of 32,080 countered with a stepped
up tempo of advance preparations
designed to hold the damage be
low the extent of last week-end’s
disaster.
The river, after inundating thou
sands of acres of farm land and
some communities upstream,
started to rise here at the rate of
a half foot an hour. At 1 p.m.
(CST) the reading was 13.59 feet;
flood stage is 9 feet.
DEMAND EXPOSE
RED, NAZI PACT
Sen. Ferguson Calls For
Publishing Of Hush
Hush Notes
WASHINGTON, June 14 — UP) —
Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) call
ed upon the State Department to
day for speedy publication of the
hush-hush Molotov - Ribbentrop
papers so the public may “have
the facts.”
Nazi documents detailing the
conversations Foreign Minister V.
M. Mol. .jv of Russia had with
Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the Ger
man foreign minister, leading up
to the non-aggression pact between
their countries in 1939 have been
captured.
The United States and Britain
agreed last December to publish
jointly these and other captured
documents outlining the Nazi for
eign policy from 1937 to 1941, and
last month it was agreed that
France would participate. But no
(Continued on Page 2; Column 1)
U .S^BritemApproveCotton
Imports As Aid To Germany
BERLIN, June 14—UP)—The Unit
ed States and British military gov
ernments today approved in prin
ciple an agreement for importo
tion of American cotton—believed
to be the initiation of private fi
nancing to provide raw materials
imports for postwar Germany.
A joint British-American an
nouncement said the agreement—
result of several weeks’ negotia
tions betwen military government
officials and U. S. Financial and
textile experts — still was subject
tc an AMG legal opinion and sig
natures of agencies involved.
The announcement said the
agreement set up necessary ma
chinery for financing the revival
of the cotton textile industry in the
economically merged U. S.-British
zones “by methods as close to
normalcy as existing conditions al
low.”
It is regarded as a pattern for
agreement* which may ba negott
.. A
ated in the future to import other
commodities needtd to place the
two zones on a self-sufficient ba
sis.
“Such private financing,” said
Col. Paul Cleveland, U. S. War
Department representative who di
rected the negotiations here,”
“should lessen the financial bur
den of the American and British
taxpayers who are now sharing oc
cupational costs ”
The agreement provides for set
ting up an American cotton sup
ply corporation of New York City,
of which any U. S. cotton shipper
can become a member.
This corporation will accept
drafts for cotton deliveries to the
British and American zones of
Germany, cost of insurance and
freight paid by the shippers, at
Bremen or other West German
ports. All imports will be author
(Coattnued «> Page *5 C oleum I
f
I do not think we will have to
.ground all of the DC-4’s.”
Meanwhile, it was reported from,
the scene of the fatal crash of
an airliner on the Virgnia, West
Virginia border in which 50 were
killed, that the rescue parly was
finding the going tough.
Ground parties had to toil
through mud and underbrush for
weary hours to reach the scene
of the crash, just across the bor
der in West Virginia, after • the
wreckage had been located from
the air.
By L. T. EASLEY
RtSD CROSS CAMP, Va., June
14-^(A>)—The Capital airliner that
crashed on a Blue Ridge moun
tainside last' night hit with such
force and burned so fiercely that
the bodies of half of the 50 vic
tims may never be fully identi
fied.
I have just returned from a trip
by jeep and on foot to the isolated
spot where the big plane slashed
NEW YORK, June 14.—(A5)—
Rep. Robert Trippe Ross (R.
N. Y.) today urged the Civil
Aeronautics Board in a tele
gram to ground all commercial
DC-4’s.
Ross’ district includes La
Guardia Field and he has been
an observer at CAB hearings
here on the recent LaGuardia
crash of a DC-4 which killed
43 persons.
a 200-yard swalli through trees
and then smashed itself and its
human cargo to bits on a granite
out-cropping.
A grim scene greets the search
er breaking his way through un
dergrowth so thick that nothing is
visible until he steps out of the
brush into the little clearing cre
ated by the fire from the crash
itself.
Dominating the setting is the
great tail section of the DC-4
plane, charred but still upright.
A little way ahead lies the burn
ed main body of the plane, with
most of the passengers in or near
the wreckage. Scattered on both
sides lie the possessions they kept
closest to them in their last flight
—brief cases, women’s handbags,
notebooks, a few items of cloth
ing, mostly charred.
Still further ahead, up the moun
tainside, lie four or five bodies
which were thrown clear. They are
among the least mutilated.
The body of a 10-month-old baby,
Judith Christine Bryan, was
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CHILD GIVEN BLOOD
BY PASSING OFFICER
LEAVES HOSPITAL
Faye Wells, 18 months-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Wells, Burgaw was released from
the James Walker Memorial hos
pital yesterday,
111 for weeks with typhoid fever
and suffering her second attack a
week ago, attendants at the hospi
tal sent a call over the radio for
a special type blood. An Army
officer, Maj. Donald E. Sowie,
traveling to Washington from a
Florida vacation heard the call,
had the right type blood and do
nated a pint, enough for two
transfusions.
Yesterday Faye’s father and
grandmother came for her and
carried her home, cured and out
of danger, according to her doc
tor, Dr. A. McR. Crouch, Sr.
UNCONSCIOUS SAILOR
FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE
Mystery at a late hour last night
surrounded the unconscious form
of a sailor fighting for his life at
James Walker Memorial hospital.
While the man, identified as H,
Egers, boatswain’s mate, received
treatment for a six-inch gash in
his head, authorities were endeav
oring to piece together events lead
ing to his injury.
According to reports he was at
tacked at Carolina Beach.
FIRST COTTON
BLOOM REPORTED
The first cotton bloom of the
year reported to the Star-News was
brought in last night by Haynes
High, of 704 South Fourth street.
The bloom, which ordinarily opens
about July 1, was picked from
High’s farm at Freeman.
GEN. ROOSEVELT DECORATED
WASHINGTON, June 14 —(£>)—
Brig. Gen. Elliott Roosevelt today
received the Legion of Honor in
the rank of Chevalier and the
Croix De Guerre with Palm from
the French government for “out
standing services in North Africa
in 1943.
i.