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STATE FHA UNIT . HAS BUSY MONTH June Tops All Months In Number Of Applica tions Handled GREENSBORO, July 3—(1P>—A greater number of applications than have been handled in any previous month were processed toi North Carolina during June by the Federal Housing Administra tion. Statistics showing the large volume of work handled during the month were released here to day by E. D. Kuykendall, Jr., Ctate driector of the agency. Figures showed further that 600 commitments for financing to provide 602 living units were is sued. Applications processed, not in cluding nearly 400 cases which were reworked, numbered 755. The largest month previously ori record was April of this year when 856 were handled through file state office here. The records showed processing time on 88 per cent of the applications was less than two weeks and 57 per cent were worked up in seven days or less. Loans insured amounted to nearly $2,000,000. Commitments were issued on 800 applications which would pro vide 692 living units. The average commitment per living unit was approximately $6,900. Total amount on which financing commitments were issued was $4,024,950. New applications for home loans numbered 301, which would pro vide 1084 living dwellings and duplexes and 429 multifamily rent al housing units. Total amount on which financ es was asked in the applications was $7,548,225. DOUGHTON (Continued From Page One) the senate, also asking anonymity, laid a preliminary check indicates that a veto might be upheld in the senate. Senator Millikin (R-Colo), fi nance committee chairman told newsmen that tbe. prospects of ov erriding in the senate ‘‘looks good and I’m hopeful. Senator Pyrd (D-Va), who has been lining up Democratic support for the new measure, still claimed 81 certain senate votes to over ride, with an additional 13 or 14 in prospect. If Mr. Truman vetoes the new measure, it would require 64 votes override if all senators were present and voting. Debt Payment House Ways and Means Chair man Knutson (R-Minn.) author of the bill, said it would yield $39, 900,000,000 in revenues in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1948—enough, he said, ‘‘to pay at least $5,000, 000,000 on the nation’s debt in the next 12 months. The bill approved today is iden tical with the measure vetoed by Mr. Truman June 16 as the wrong kind of tax reduction at the wrong time—except that the effective date of the tax cut is next Jan. 1 in stead of July 1. 1947. NEW TOWN (Continued From Page One) lature has not defined the term in it* law* outlawing gambling. The court’s ruling yesterday here, makes subject to arrest any one found operating games at the beach, attorneys here agreed. Judge Smith asserted, and at torneys agreed, that the Carolina Beach board should define in its laws how bingo is played. Yester day’s hearing was the second of a similar nature in the last month in Recorder’s court. A month ago, the court told Beach authorities it Was up to them to regulate their concessions with proper laws.. Lighting the average home for a year eats up 600 pounds of coal at the powerhouse. ' got malarial CHIUS,FEVER? OCT 666, NOW WITH QUININE-PIUS 3 I OTHER MALARIA FIGHTING MEDICINES! Standby of millions in 45 Years — now amazing 666 brings you not only Qui ' nine, but 3 additional malaria-fighting medicines 6combined with Quinine as Totaquine! lution: Take only as directed. Ask for 666 — today I g% /% /% Liquid for MALARIAL VVV SYMPTOMS The Weather Weather bureau report of temperature and rainfall for 24 hours ending 8 p. m., in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Piecip. WILMINGTON - 86 66 — Alpena _ 74 55 .01 Asheville - 81 57 — Aflanta —’- 86 66 — Atlantic City- 71 63 — Birmingham - 88 58 — Boston - 79 61 — Buffalo_— 54 — Burlington - 78 56 .14 Charlotte -- 86 62 — Chattanooga - 87 56 — Chicago -e- 83 — — Cincinnati - 82 56 — Cleveland.- 80 52 — Dallas -— 76 — Denver _ 92 59 — Detroit _ 83 58 — Duluth _81 57 — El Paso_ — 71 — Fort Worth_ 88 75 — Galveston - 90 77 — Jacksonville - 86 72 .73 Kansas City - 89 70 — Key West —- 87 80 — Knoxville - 83 60 — Little Rock -- 85 66 — Los Angeles —-- 96 80 — Louisville - 82 58 — Memphis - 86 62 — Meridian - 88 61 — Miami _ 82 73 .71 Minn.-St. Paul - 86 63 — Mobile _ 88 67 — Montgomery - 90 83 — New Orleans- 89 73 — New York - 81 62 — Norfolk - 78 64 — Philadelphia _ 82 80 — Phoenix -—-— — 85 — Pittsburgh - 78 54 — Raleigh _85 cz — Richmond _—- 81 62 — St. Louis _ 84 60 — San Antonio - 100 72 — San Francisco_ 63 52 — Savannah _ 87 72 — Seattle _ 68 51 — Tampa ._ 89 72 1.47 Vicksburg - 86 61 — Washington - 80 64 — WEATHER (Continued From Page One) Sunday when the weekend vaca tioners will be returning to their homes. The Cape Fear hotel is booked for the weekend and the Hotel Wilmington is booked except for a few available reservations. In Wilmington all stores and of fices will be closed. State em ployes will be given a three day holiday. Stores and offices in the city hall and courthouse will re open as usual Saturday morning. No deliveries will be made at the postoffice and all windows will be closed. Safety association* over the country expect 275 persons to lose their lives in holiday accidents and automobile association* pre dict more cars to be on the roads than ever before. It might be the biggest Fourth of July ever. It might also rain. Long Week-End Holiday BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS With July 4 coming on a Friday, thousands of North Carolinians made a long weekend of the holi day by forgetting their jobs until Monday in favor of the beaches and mountains, and attending sporting events and special Inde pendence Day festivities arranged in many cities. The weatherman said today would be a perfect day w.':h one exception. That was a disturbed condition off the North Carolina capes. However, that moved north westward out of the state. Thousands of textile workers will be free until Monday, many of them having started theii sum mer vacations a week ago. All governmental offices in the state will be closed today, except essential public services such as police and fire protection, all banks will be closed this legal holi day, but many of them will be open Saturday, a normal half holiday. Postoffices will observe holiday hours but return to regu lar schedules Saturday. Most retail stores wrill be closed and resume business Saturday morning. Rail, air and bus lines were pre paring for the usual heavy holiday traffic. Police chiefs asked mo torists to be extra careful over the holiday. PRAYER (Continued From Page One) encouragement. A minister con ducted prayers in his church and groups of school children sent up their prayers too. At the hospital, the doctors oper ated. Mrs. White did not die as they expected. Instead she grew strong er. Her voice, which had been a whisper, became clear. A touch o* color returned to her cheeks. She was getting well. In a matter of days, she was sitting up. Today White walked into the United Press office to express his' thanks to the people who had pray ed. “Their prayers brought a mir acle,” he said. "I don’t know whether God Built Johns Hopkins hospital but He certainly was walk ing around out there last week.” OUR STORE WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY FRIDAY IN OBSERVANCE OF JOLT 41 h HOLIDAY © P E IV FOR BUSINESS AS USUAL SATURDAY. S A. M. 108 N. FRONT ST. HAMBONE’S MEDITATIONS By Alley Tom claim he LAn' in JAlL tits' fJH CtLE?l?AW pe po'th o' July — Yeh! wavin'pe flag IN ONE ham' EH a Bottle in pe yutwer.' w J kw (Released by Tke Bell 8th- 1 7 j n-7 dlcate. Ine.) Trade Mark •“ “ • R®« U. g. Pat. office) RADIO (Continued From Page One) announcing staff will be at the mikes on Derby Day in order to> keep race fans all over southeastern Nortn Carolina infor med as to every happening at Derby Downs. News that WMFD will broadcast the event was one of many things which happened around Derby headquarters yesterday. Topping the list, perhaps, was the receipt from National Headquarters in Detroit of the N. Dreystadt champ ionship plaque which will be award ed to the Wilmington city champ ion at the conclusion of the final heat. The plaque, one of the hand somest awards yet given by the president of Chevrolet, will be placed on display early next week with a host of other fine prizes ♦ o be awarded on Derby Day. Chairman James Copeland of the Derby parade committee, informed headquarters that he is working on a plan which may develop into one of the most colorful events put on here in years. While keeping rather mum on the details, Copeland assured headquarters that the parade on Derby Day morning will be worth going miles to see. Invitations were mailed yester day to service clubs in aii county seat towns of the Wilmington trade area, urging the staging of Soap Box races in each of the commu nities with the winners to be sent to Wilmington for the big Derby here. And from that Derby will come the new Wilmington champion-the boy who will represent Wilmington and The Star-News in the National finals at Akron, Ohio, on August 17’ MAY (Continued From Page One) the reporters quietly, “except that the case will be appealed.” If the appeal is carried to the U. S. supreme court, May and ihe Garssons will not know until next fall at the earliest, whether they must go t0 jail. The high court is in recess for the summer. There was no demonstration in the hot and crowded courtroom when the jury returned its guilty verdict. The spectator* and even the defendants appeared to have expected it. RENT (Coutinued From Page One) any subsequent order of the rent director. Report Procedure 4. Q: If a tenant does not choose to sign a lease providing for an increased rent, and he is threaten ed or coerced by the landlord, what action should the tenant take? A: The tenant should immedi ately report such matter to the area rent office. 5. Q: How may a landlord in crease his rent bv not more than 15 percent as provided in the act? A: A landlord may increase his rent by no more than 15 percent over the maximum rent if his ten ant. on or before December 31, 1947, voluntarily enters into a written lease expiring on or after December 31, 1943, provided that he complies with the filing re quirements stated in the answer to question 7. 6. Q: If a landlord and tenant make an oral agreement for a rent increase does this increase the maximum rent? A: No. No increase in the maxi mum rent of the unit is permissi ble based on an oral agreement; there must be tha voluntary sign ing of a lease. Maximum Hike 7. Q: Must the increase in rent provided for in the lease be in the amount of 15 percent? A: No. It mav not be more than 15 percent but it may be in any lesser amount. 8. Q: What is the base rent to which the rent increase provided for in the lease is added? A: The maximum rent in effect immediately prior to the effective date of the lea.se. 9. Q: If a maximum rent is in creased by order of the rent of fice after July 1, 1947, may the landlord, on or before December 31, 1947, enter into a lease in creasing the rent by an additional 15 percent? A: Yes. since the 15 percent may be added to the maximum rent which would otherwise apply under the rent regulations. 10. Q: In a lease valid which provides for a 15 percent rent in crease but also provides that the tenant must pay fer utilities from eily paid for by the landlord? A: No. The lease must not con tain a provision decreasing the essertial services, furniture, fur nishings and equipment otherwise required by the regulation prior 'o the execution cf the lease or decreasing other services, furni ture, furnishings and equipment to a degree substantially less than that required by the regulation prior to the execution of the lease. 11. Q: May a lease contain an option on the part of the tenant to terminate the lease prior to the expiration date of the lease? : Yes. Ambassador Shuns Cold Water Faucets Which Turn On Bath Water LONDON, July 3 — tfP)—Ambass ador Lewis W. Douglas said to day he would not live in Winfield House, the $2,600,000 mansion with gold faucets in its bathtubs which was donated to the Embassy last year by Woolworth heiress Bar bara Hutton Troubetzkoy. ‘‘I don’t think I’d like to live there, even if I could afford it,” the ambassador told a news con ference. He and Mrs. Douglas and their daughter, Sharman, plan to re main in the more modest official residence in Princes Gate, facing Hyde Park, donated years ago by . Pierpont Morgan. Pleasure-Hating Baptist Preacher Chains Child KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 3—(U.PJ — A pleasure-hating Baptist preacher chained his daughter to a bedpost today, augmenting his usual weekly belt-lashing of the pretty blonde girl so she would be safe from worldly associates on her 16th birthday, police said tonight. Horrified authorities released the sobbing child, who bore livid welts on her body from the repeat ed beatings. They took her father, short swarthy and bespectacled William Massengill, 50, to jail. The tight-lipped stepmother — Mas sengill’s third wile — also was held for questioning. Geraldine (Jerry! Massengill, the daughter, owed her escape to her own ingenuity. As her 16th birthday dawned, she said, Mas sengill came in her room and padlocked a big iron chain around her ankle. He padlocked the other end of the chain to the bedstead in her dingy room. The chain gave the girl enough freedom of movement to get to the window and when she spied a little friend, eight-year-old Ed ward Johnson, playing on the side walk she scribbled a note on an old Christmas card and dropped it to the lad. Friend Calls Police It was addressed to Barbara Jean Rutherford, a neighborhood girl Jerry’s, own age. “Daddy has chained me to the bed, please call the police,” the note said. Ed ward took the card to Barbara I NBC Musical Reveille A quarter hour of favorite tunes played by the leading bands in the land. Time given every few seconds. 8:40 A. M. to 8:68 A. M. MON.—WED.—FBI. W M F D 1400 ON YOUR DIAL ABC Affiliate and she immediately sailed the police. Capt. C. V. Christenberry and Patrolman Henry Grady arrived within an hour. When Christen berry saw the fettered, bruised child he called Chief of Police Joe Kimsey ao he could see it for him self. “It’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen in America,” said Chief Kimsey, as the police struggled with the locks and chain. Massen gili came home and gave them the keys to release Geraldine. He readily admitted chaining her to the bed and said “I guess I am ashamed of this, but it was the only way I could keep her home so she wouldn’t get into trouble.” Admits Whipping Her “You won’t believe me, but I loved her,” said the father, blink ing through hi* thick glasses and showing a blue stubble of beard. When police questioned him about the raised red welts on ihe girl’s hips and legs, Massengill admitted that he was in the habit of whipping her. “At least every week,” broke in the weeping girl. Massengill then produced a col lection of belts that he said he had used to administer the beat ings one of them a stout strap an inch wide. Neighbors in the poor-class dis trict said that “he beat hell out of her at times.” Mrs. Delbert Johnson, mother of the boy who delivered the note, said that Ger aldine was a quiet child who stay ed at home virtually all of the time. "Thank Goodness” Geraldine said that she had nev er been to a movie, gone swim ming or attended a party because of her father’s harsh rules. Her brother, Edward, 16, ran away from home almost a year ago be cause od the severe beatings he received from his father, the girl said. Jerry will be placed in a ju venile home where she can re ceive proper care, officers said, and when they told her she said through her tears ‘‘thank good ness.” Formal charges had not been placed against Massengill or his wife. The mother of Jerry and Edward died some years ago and Massengill’s earlier wife had also died. Police said that Massengill was an ordained Baptist minister but had no regular pulpit. He om« tgrt about five year* ago. Obituaries - JACOB HURWITZ Jacob Hurwitz, 62. resident of Wallace, died Tuesday night in James Walker Memorial hospital He is survived by nieces and nephews. Graveside services were con ducted .yesterday at 4:30 p. m. in the B'nai Israel Hebrew ceme tery. with the Rabbi Samuel A. Friedman officiating. MRS. R. M. BULLOCK FAIR BLUFF, July 3—Funeral services for Mrs. R. M. Bullock, 62, who died Wednesday morning at’ 6 o’clock at her residence in the Spring Branch section of Hor ry county, near Fair Bluff, after a' lingering illness, were held to day from Spring Branch Baptist church at 2 p. m. The Rev. John Pierce, pastor of the church, of ficiated. Interment, followed in the church cemetery. MAJOR CARROLL WHITEVILLE, July 3. — Fune ral services for Major Carroll, 64, who died at the Columbus County Home Wednesday morning at 11:45 after a long illness were held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at Shiloh Methodist church. The Rev. Mr. Strickland officiated and inter ment was in the Shiloh cemetery. Surviving are one brother, J. Tom Carroll; one sister, Mrs. Net tie Soles of Whiteville. MRS MAMIE SESSONS Mrs. Mamie Seasons, 81, Autry ville, died yes’erday at the home of a' daughter, Mrs. J. M. Wood ward, 315 Walnut street, after suf fering a stroke a few hours ear lier. The body will be taken to Tabor City where funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Friday. Surviving, in addition to the daughter, are one brother, Henry Bruton; one sister, Mrs. Ella Prince and nieces and nephews, aU at Tabor City. JAMES O. EVANS CLINTON, July 3—Funeral serv ices for James O. Evans, 67, who died at his home in Clinton, Rt. 5, early today following a long ill ness, will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the residence with the Rev. E. S. Morgan, pas tor of the Rowan Baptist church, officiating. Interment will be held in the family cemetery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Katie Matthis Evans; one daugh ter, Mrs. S. J. Leornardie. Pitt man, N. J.; two sons, J. O. Evans, Jr., of Clinton; J. T. Jackson, Jacksonville, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. P. G. Maulden of Greens boro; Mrs. W. A. Coggins, and Mrs. T P. Beavers of Bear Creek; one brother, J. A. Evans of Clin ton, and two grandchildren. City Briefs Typhoid clinics will be set up at Roosevelt Gardens Saturday, July 5, between 10 a.m. and 12 noon, officials of the New Hanover coun ty Health department announced yesterday. Veterans and non-veterans are in vited to join Company 1, 118th Infantry of the National Guard, which meets next Tuesday at Eighth and Nun streets, T-Sgt. F. C. Mason said yesterday. “Mem bers get training in technical skills, sports physical conditioning, and a chance for a vacation at next summer’s camp,” he said. A coroner’s jury last night ab solved L. E. Rawles, Safeway Transit company bus driver, of all responsibility in connection with the death of Thomas Bryant Long, 80-year-old resident of 1006 Market street, -who died of in juries sustained when he was struck by a bus driven by Rawles. The accident ivas declared un avoidable by Coroner Gordon Dor an. Applications may now be filled out for occupational therapist po sitions in Veterans administration hospitals and regional and branch offices throughout the United States, the Ur^ted States Civil Service commission announced yesterday. Applications must be received by the Board of U. S. Civil examinations by Aug. 12. Ap plications may be secured from the commission secretary, Win ston-Salem, post office building. The North Carolin|a Veterans commission will be closed July 4 and 5 in observance of Independ ence day, Leonard W. Barrett, state assistant service officer, an nounced yesterday. The Rev. Malcolm G. Melver, Jr., of Tuscaloosa, Ala., will con duct service* in the Pearsall Me morial church Sunday morning, July 6th, at 11 o’clock. He 1* thi-i son of M. C. Iver and wife, $11 North Sixth street. Sandy Daniels instituted suit Jn county court yesterday against Fannie Jane Smith and other claimants to property and a small house at Ninth and Wooster streets in which the plaintiff asks that the property be sold and the proceeds divided among the heirs. Daniels seeks a $600 judgment, the amount the plaintiff says he paid Fannie Smith for the property, and $150 wheih he declares he spent in repairing the house. Basis of the suit was that the plaintiff said at the time of the purchase, he was unaware there were other heirs to the property. OIL BURNING COLEMAN FLOOB FURNACES “Nothing Above The Floor” Easily Installed High Efficient Will Heat a 5 to 8 Room House Get It At GREGG BROS. 110 Market St. Dial 9655 Robeson Jury Holds Mocksville Man On Manslaughter Count Special to the Star LUMBERTON, July 3—A Robe son county coroner’s jury yester day found probable cause to ho,d Wade D. Hollard of Mocksville for manslaughter in the death of Oc % 1 Brooke, 19-year-old Indian of Max ton, Route 3. The jury found Brooks died from injuries sustained Tuesday night when he was struck by the auto mobile driven by Holland on high way 74, four miles west of Pem broke. Brooks was riding a bicy cle at the time. Paul Brooks, 16, who was riding a bicycle with Brooks, his cousin, was critically injured in the same accident and is a patient in the hospital here. Investigating officers found the car was traveling at a high rate of speed. They testified the car, in which Harold G. James, owner, and Oscar Cook were passengers with Hollard, contained several cases of beer and a pint of whis key. The jury also learned 'he bikes had no lights. Funeral for Brooks will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Harpers Ferry Baptist church. DATE (Continued From Page One) ambassadors to France and Brit ain might follow him to Moscow soon, for consultation in the East West line-up of Europe which his government’s decision forced. Copies of the conference invita tion and of the French compromise proposal of July 1 — the rejection of which by Russia broke up the Big Three conference — were sent to the State department and to American Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. Copy To Bogomolov A copy of the invitation was sent also to Russian Ambassador Alex ander Bogomolov with an accom panying letter expressing hope that the Soviet boycott was not final and that Russia might take part after all. It was decided to inform the United Nations Economic commis sion for Europe, which meets in Geneva. Switzerland, Saturday, of the conference but not to invite it. Bidault and Bevin issued the in vitation to the conference after a two-hour talk at the Foreign of fice. Bevin then left for London. Bidault is expected to go there this w7eek-end or early next week to prepare for the Paris confer ence. The day of co iference meets will mark the definite split of Europe —by decision of Russia, which has vehemently opposed the idea—into Western and Eastern blocs. Dispatches have left no doubt that Czechoslovakia, Finland, Hun gary and Poland want to get in on the Marshall plan. The rest of Russia’s satellites probably do al so. Iron Curtain Clangs But the Soviet iron curtain has clanged down between them and Paris. There is only the barest chance that Czechoslovakia and Poland, most independent-minded of the satellites, will find their way to the conference in its first phase at least. Eloquent of the East-West split was the strange dead-of-night de parture c>f Molotov, a refugee from the Marshall plan. With about 30 of the 96 experts he brought here for the Big Three conference, Molotov slipped out to Le Bourget airport without the knowledge of his hosts, the French or of the Brrish. It was hours later that news of' his departure was known. When Bevin ieft, he was in jo vial mood. Asked if he and Bi dault were making progress, he said: “We are always making pro gress.’’ Bidault, escorting Bevin to his car from the Foreign office door, said frankly: "It’s always, easier with two”— meaning without Molotov. "seven" (Continued From Page One) north of Grafton. Sheriff Peter Aafedt, coroner Harold Lunde and Grafton police went to the scene ! and the sheriff’s office reported several were found killed and two of the injured taken to a Grafton hospital later. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service (TODAY - AND - SAT. ! RECTAL HOLIDAY ! THFILL SHOW ! JON LYNN DANA HALL* BARI * ANDREWS i VAID UNO • NAIOUI HUH* • C. HEMY MUON —L'JLUS— COLOR CARTOON LATE NEWS Highway Accidents Take Toll Of 45 Lives In May Total Represents Decline Of 32 Per Cent On 1946 Figures RALEIGH, July 3—Highway ac cidents during May killed 45 per sons, a decline ot 32 per cent from the 66 who met death on North Carolina highways during May, 1946, Col. Landon C. Rosser, com missioner of motor vehicles, re ported today. Rosser said 498 persons were in jured in May, compared with 515 injuries in May, 1946. Ten of the fatalities and in juries occurred in 370 accidents in cities and towns. On rural highways there were 458 accidents with 35 persons killed and 369 in jured. Of the May fatalities, 20 were caused by motor vehicle running off road; 14 by collision between two vehicles; four by collision with pedestrians; three by collision with trains; two by overturning in road; one by collision with ani mal-drawn vehicle; and one mis cellaneous accident. Rosser said a decrease of 71 per cent was noted in pedestrian fatalities over May, 1946. Charlotte led all cities in fatali ties with three persons killed. Charlotte has had 13 fatalities dur ing the first five months of this year, and has led cities in fatali ties every month so far. Mecklenburg and Wake led all counties with four fatalities each. Rowan and Surry had three each; and these counties had two; Ca tawba, Cleveland. Columbus, Dur ham, Forsyth, Gaston, Guilford, Union, and Wayne. One fatality was noted in each of tfiese counties: Bertie, Bun combe. Davidson, Lenoir, Lincoln, New Hanover, Orange. Pitt, Polk, Rockingham, Stanly, Transylvania and Wilson. During the first five months of this year, 329 persons have been killed and 2,367 injured as a result of 4,305 accidents. These figures show a decrease of 18 per cent in fatalities over the same period last year, when 403 persons were killed and 2,436 were injured in 4,131 accidents. Mecklenburg and Wake also JUDGE (Continued From Page One) which states that offenders, in some circumstances, may have their drivers licenses revoked without a hearing. “How that can be accomplished. I don’t know'.” stated the court. First to feel the wrath of the new penalties w'as Harvey Walker, charged with speeding 80-miles an-hour in a 50-mile-an-hour zone Although it was a first offense for Walker he was handed a $50 fine an,i his license was revoked for a year. The second offender was Rose Kennedy to whom a $100 fine was meted out on a charge of drunk endriving and damage to property. He received a 60-d.ay suspended sentence and his license revoked. In addition, he was ordered to pav restitution in the amount of $35 after police testified that the driver backed his car into a bus and a taxicab at Second and Chestnut streets.__ DRIVE-IN-THEATRE Midway between Wilmington and Carolina Beach MPRI.-SAT. BARBARY COAST —With— Edward G. Robinson And Miriam Hopkins Selected Shorts 2 Shows -Nightly Starting a A IQ nave led in fatalities for *j,e .. five months of this year. \vith ! fatalities occurir.g in Mecklenh,,2*1 1 and 18 in Wake. Fatalities 4 ? er counties over the fi\ e-m™,.-" yeriod follow: mns | Nash, 14; Robeson, 12- B ] combe' and Gaston, n eacj,. l®1'| beriand, 10; Rowan and Durh-!^’ nine eacn; Forsyth and Johnstm I eight each; Rockingham and s '" ! ry, seven each; Catawba. Crav4’1 Guilford, Randolph, \V:ls0n .4 Halifax, six each; Caldwell 4 f lumbus, Davidson, Edgecomb ■ Lenoir and Union, five each '44 Cabarrus, Carteret, Wilkes. Qra ville and Rutherford, four each & ' Burke, Cleveland, Duplin. jje derson, Iredell, Martin, New Han over, Pitt, Richmond, Transvi vania, Vance, Anson, Lee a4 ‘ Sampson had three fatalities eac and Avery, Beaufort, Haywood t Jones, Onslow, Orange, Scotland Stanly, Watauga," Wayne, Alie ghany, Caswell. Hoke and Tyrrell each had two. Twenty-nine counties had on* fatality each during the first fr,5 months of this year, leaving on!* 13 counties with no fatalities. Col. Rosser said GuHford coun-* had the greatest decrease in hi<4 way fatalities, with six person, kil.ed during the first five monk, of 1947, compared with 21 fatali. ties for the same period in i9ij. Celebrate ‘‘Our Nations Birthday By Attending A TODAY At Wilmington’s Leading Theatres; +WmE2M* Air Conditioned! 40c ALL DAT (Plus Tax) Dennis Morgan Jane Wyman In Roaring Drama Of The Old West! “CHEYENNE" Shows: 1:10 - 3:05 5:05 - 7:00 - 9:05 Guaranteed! The Happiest Movie Ever Filmed! “It Happened on 5th Ave.” Don Defore Victor Moore Shows 12:40 - 2:35 4:40 - 6:50 - 9:00 • Bailey Prices Prices 25e Plus Tax Ken Curtis in “Over The Santa Fe Trail” —Added— Andy Clyde Comedy ^ Serial: A - C - aUC Plus Tax Johnny Mack Brown —In— “Law Comes To Gunsight” • Chap. No. 3 •■SO.V OF THF. l. 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