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Hew Hanover,
State, S. C.
OK Weed Tax
Nearly Unanimous Deci
sions Reported In
Three Sectors
23 ToTllERE
State Score: 5,360 to 48;
South Carolina, 11,
222 To 87
New Hanover county tobacco
farmers, voting in the North Caro
lina tobacco referendum, indicated
yesterday at the polls that they
are 100 per cent for a project to
increase export of their product.
r, IV. Galphin, county farm
agent who conducted the ' election
jn his office in the customhouse,
said 23 voted for proposal and
none against.
If two-thirds of the voting to
bacco farmers in the state cast
their vote in favor of the promo
tion, they will be assessed 10 cents
an acre of their tobacco land. Re
venue from the self-imposed tax
would pay for a promotion pro
gram to increase tobacco exports,
Galphin said.
RALEIGH. July 12 — (TP) — Com
plete returns from nine of 67 North
Carolina flue-cured tobacco coun
ties indicated a one-sided trend
by 5.360 farmers was voted to ass
ess themselves ten cents an acre
in order to further an export pro
gram. Only 48 opposed the levy.
° Funds would be used to finance
the work of the Tobacco Associ
ates,, Inc., in its effort to broaden
foreign leaf sales.
The assessment would be levied
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 7)
SEN. BRICKER
ESCAPES DEATH
Former Capitol Guard
Taken In Custody After
Shooting
WASHINGTON, July 12 — VP) —
Two pistol shots missed Senator
Bricker'tR-Ohio) today in a burst
of gunfire on Capitol Hill and po
lice arrested a discharged capitol
policeman on charges of assault
with intent to kill the Senator.
The accused, William L. Kaiser,
caimlv and cryptically told police
and newspapermen:
"I did it to refresh his
memory."
The shooting set the capitol in
a turmoil during the midst of an
unusual Saturday session of the
Senate. It took place in the sub
way linking the capitol with the
Senate office building.
Bricker was carried to safety
by the little monorail subway car
as it rounded a bend out of the
shooter’s range.
Bricker, apparently undisturb
ed, told reporters that Kaiser
blamed him for losses in a build
ing and loan association at Colum
bus about 15 years ago.
Records show that Kaiser was
a capitol police appointee of his
predecessor. Senator Huffman (D
Ohio). Bricker told a questioner
that he had nothing to do with
Kaiser losing this job last April.
Kaiser was arrested by metro
politan police several hours after
the shooting and many blocks
from the capitol, at a Massachu
setts avenue address. Police at
the precinct No. 1 booked him on
charges of assault with intent to
kill.
mother denieT
SHE BURNED HANDS
OF TWO CHILDREN
DETROIT, July 12—(IP)—A plea
of innocent was entered today for
Mrs. Phyllis PaprotiAe, 27, when
she appeared in court )n a charge
of cruelty to children
Police charged she punished her
sons, Steven, 7, and David, 5, by
burning their hands over a stove
j>fier they took eight dollars from
"!r purse to buy ice cream.
Recorder’s Judge Gerald W.
Groat released Mrs. Paprotske for
'a'-er trial on $1,000 bond.
PLUMLEY’S remarry
AVALON, N. j„ -ly 12—(A>)—
Cannon Reynolds Smith
Pmmly Wharton and her third
!usband, Lindsay Plumly, were
^married here today by Mayor
With Greenan. Plumly gave his
address as Winston-Salem, N. C.
The Weather
(M?teoro‘°*ici»l data for the 24 hours
n2 ":30 p. m. yesterday.
, TEMPERATURES
l;. 7 a- m. 71; 7:30 a. m. 72; 1:30 p. m.
J.; 7:30 P- m. 77; Maximum 87; Mini
‘ ‘ 69: Mean 78. Normal 79.
, HUMIDITY
M 7 a. m. 97; 7:C0 a. m. 94; 1:30 p.m.
■’ /:“0 p. m. 83.
T PRECIPITATION
I in(Je for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.
1 ^ir^ce the first of the month
u toches.
,Fr TIDES FOR TODAY
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Coast and Geodetic Survey;.
HIGH LOW
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5:44 p.m. 12:09 p.m.
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§„ 3:13 p.m. 9:50 p.m.
2 i 1S>* 5:10; Sunset 7:25: Moonrise
Aiver ..°0nSet 2:t9p'
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m Saturday 8 4 feet. i
He Says “Scandal”
Menaces Presidency
IN AN ADDRESS prepared for
delivery before a public affairs
forum at Tulso. Okla., former Rep.
Roger Slaughter of Missouri
(above) said a “scandal threat
ens” the office of the President be
cause President Truman “has been
misled by false friends, and has
likewise been the victim of his
own impetuosity.” Slaughter term
ed President Truman “personally
an honest and honorable man.”_
(AP Wh-ephoto).
ROYALL PREDICTS
WAR OIL NEEDS
Says Might Need 8,000,
000 Barrels
Daily
WASHINGTON, July 12 —Of) —
Undersecretary of War Kenneth
C Royall said today that in the
event of another war the United
States might ned as much as
8,000,000 barrels of oild daily —
almost 3,000,000 barrels over this
year’s record rate of production.
Royall said: “There is a ques
tion whether the productive carw
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
Soap Box Winner
To Take Parents
-..
All the excitement and spectacular pageantry of the
All-American Soap Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio, on
August 17, will be witnessed by a couple of Wilmingtonians,
parents of the boy who wins the Wilmington Soap Box
THAT BULOVA WRIST WATCH
you see worn proudly by Patrick
Harrington has a sweep-second
hand, and it is the prize lor the
winner in each of the local soap
box derby races. The helmet is
one of those which is given to each
boy entering the Wilmington rice,
to be his personal property, as a
practice helmet. The Wilmington
Soap Box Derby is sponsored by
this newspaper and the Raney
Chevrolet Co.
More Trouble
Brews In Holy
Land Dispute
JERUSALEM, July 12.—fAP)—
Military authroities announced to
night that martial law and an ni
tensive search in the area around
the all-Jewish town of Natanya
W'ould begin at dawn Sunday un
les stwo British sergeants kid
naped and beaten today are re
turned alive by that time._
Police Seek Married Man
In Strangling Of Mother
MARION, O., July 12 —(£>)—An
ex convict, who has a crippled
wife and a four-year-old son. was
named today as the strangler of
a pretty divorcee whose partly
nude body was found in a country
churchyard.
Edwin D. Young was charged
with first-degree murder as police
and sheriffs throughout Ohio
searched for the 39-vear-old truck
drive ar.d his battered 1933 Chev
rolet coupe.
Prosecutor James E. Reed, of
Marion county, filed the charge
some 24 hours after Mrs. Zora
Gerbes, 25, was found dead with
a rope clothesline wrapped thrice
about her neck in a slip-knot. The
line also was wound about her
knees, which were drawn up al
most to her chin.
Sheriff Leroy Retterer was not
certain Young would be found
alive.
‘‘I wouldn't be surprised,” he
remarked, “if we found hi* body
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National Survey Discloses
Loyalty Of Ameri
can Men
PITY PHILIP
Even Betty Grable Hasn’t
Chance, So Why
Elizabeth ?
BY CLAIRE COX
CHICAGO, July 1? —(UJB—Ralph
Zorn, 21, a part-time Cleveland
soda fountain clerk, said today
he’d neither be king in his own
two-room flat than live the life
cf royalty as Princess Elizabeth’s
husband.
“I wouldn’t trade my gal for
Betty Grable, let alone a girl in
a position like Elizabeth’s,” he
said.
Zorn said he could have more
fun with his Nancy on 15 cents
than Lt. Philip Mountbatten wiii
have as a resident of the castles
of the girl who someday may be
ruler of. the British Empire.
“I’ve always got a chance for
fame and fortune, even if it is
small,” he said.
Five other wage earners in
cities across the country agreed.
Tney make less money in a year
than Mountbatten and his bride
to-be will bet in a month — but
they said they wouldn’t give up
their Bessies to be Elizabeth’s
groom for a million dollars.
“Sure, every man dreams some
time in his life of marrying a
princess, but when you get right
down- to it, it’s the simple things
that count,” said Les Orear, who
cures meat in a Chicago packing
house.
“Being married to a princess
would have only one advantage
right now that I can see. It would
be a good way to get out from
under the high cost of living.”
George L. Donaghue, a Phila
delphia fountain cierk, said being
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
uerDy nere on July du.
The management of the Raney
Chevrolet company, yesterday
notified Soap Box Derby head
quarters, that in line with a policy
adopted last year, the parents of
the 1947 Wilmington Soap Box
Derby champion, will be sent to
Akron along with their boy, as
guests of the company and with
all expenses paid.
The winner here, and his cham
pionship racer, will be sent to Ak
ron for the All-American finals by
The Wilmington Star-News^ co
sponsors with Raney Chevrolet of
the Derby here. All his expenses,
to and from Akron, will be paid
by The Star-News. During his
four-day stay in the Ohio city, the
champion will be guest of the
Chevrolet Motor Division of Gen
eral Motors. He will be roomed
at the famous Mayflower hotel,
National Al1-American Soap Box
Derby headquarters.
Last year, the Wilmington
champion and his parents, guests
of the Star-News and Raney Chev
rolet, made the trip to Akron and
return by train with a full day
of sight-seeing in Washington on
the westward trip. The same itin
erary will likely be followed this
year when the champion’s party
goes to Akron for the All-Ameri
can.
On arrival in Akron, the Cham
pion will be met at the station,
by an All-American Soap Box
Derby courier and whisked away
to the Mayflower hotel in a new
1947 model Chevrolet. There he
will be registered, assigned a
room and furnished with the
Champion’s street clothes, which
he will wear throughout his stay.
His parents will have contact with
him of course, but for three full
d'<.ys, the lucky Wilmington boy
who goes to Akron, will have the
time of his young life. The Cham
(Cntinued on Page Two; Col. 5)
and automobile in a water-filled
quarry.”
Young did not go home Thurs
day night or report for work at
a trucking company Friday morn
ing.
As the state’s law enforcement
agencies hunted for Young, Sher
iff Retterer disclosed that the
man found with the woman’s body
in the yard of St. Paul’s Lutheran
church. 5 miles southeast of here,
had offered to surrender the night
of the slaying.
The crime was discovered by
two brothers, Charles Yeager, 20,
and Harry, 22, about 2 a.m. Fri
day when their automobile head
lights illuminated a car in the
church driveway.
The Yergers saw Mrs. Gerbes’
body lying beside an automobile
and took the license, number,
which later was traced to Young.
The stranger remarked,
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1).
Smiling Elizabeth With Fiance
THIS OFFICIAL picture of Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive
to the British throne, and her fiance, Naval Lieut. Philip Mount
batten, was made in London Thursday the day after her father,
King George VI, formally announced their engagement.—(AP Wlre
photo via Radio from London).
Senate Adjourns
Tax Discussions
WASHINGTON, July 12—(UP)—Senate tax-cutters
bowed to long-winded opposition oratory tonight and put
off until Monday passage of the revived $4,100,000,000
income tax reduction Dill.
Chairman Eugene D. Millikin.
R. , Colo., of the finance commit
tee and Republican Whip Kenneth
S. Wherry had planned to keep
the unusual Saturday session go
ing until the Senate was ready
to vote.
But after the Senate had quickly
killed a number of opposition
amendments, foes of the measure
loosed such a splurge of argu
ment against it under the Sena
tor’s unlimited debate rule that
Republican leaders decided to call
it a day.
The Republican leadership re
luctantly consented to a recess at
8:49 p. m. EDT, after a session
lasting nearly 10 hours.
The senate is now expected to
pass the House-approved bill Mon
day.
A vote then—with passage as
sured—was arranged in an infor
mal gentlemen’s agreement be
tween leaders of Democratic and
Republican parties.
WINGATE PILOT
SAFELY LANDS
DISTRESSED PLANE
_
BERLIN, July 12—(£>)—Capt.
Walter H. Berger of Wingate, N.
C., pilot of an army transport
plane, was credited today with
landing his plane after it caught
fire over the Soviet zone in Ger
many, enroute from Berlin to
Paris.
Four persons aboard parachuted
to safety, while six other remain
ed in their seats until the ship
crash landed near Sangerhausen,
Thuringia. None of the occupants
were injured.
SHIP BLASTED, SINKS
GENOA, July 12—<7P)—The 9,000
ton Panamian ship Vrisi sank at
its dock here yesterday after a
time bomb had blown a hole in
its side. There were no casualities.
The ship had oeen operating be
tween Genoa and Palestine.
DEWEY MAKING
HAY IN WEST
Captures Spotlight As Gov
ernor’s Conference
Readies
SALT LAKE' CITY, July 12—(IP)
—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey captur
ed the spotlight among state chief
executives arriving early to at
tend the annual conference of gov
ernors here next week.
George ®T. Hansen, national
committeeman from Utah, said in
an interview that sentiment for a
1948 presidential nominee had not
crystalized in the state but add
ed that Dewey and Sen. Robert
A. Taft of Ohio had considerable
strength.
Political observers believe Ida
ho and Nevada Republican big
wigs favor Dewey. All three
mountain states backed the New
Yorker in his winning of the 1944
presidential nomination.
Forty-two state governors and
governors of the territories of
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico
are scheduled to attend the con
ference, which will be highlighted
by a speech by Secretary of State
George C. Marshall Monday night.
Gov. Earl Warren of California
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
DANVILLE POLICE
HIT THE JACKPOT
IN MAKING ARREST
DANVILLE, 111., July 12 —(A>)—
The long arm of the law hit the
jackpot last night.
When , an officer tapped Jasper
McQueen, 47, on the shoulder,
nickels and dimes poured onto the
street. He was carrying $1.30 in
coins in his mouth.
McQueen was charged with
drunkenness and was released on
his promise to pay $7.50 fine.
‘Souvenir’ Sergeants Held
By FBI In Atomic Thefts
WASHINGTON, July 12- (ff) —
The Department of Justice an
nounced tonight the arrest and
formal charging of two former
army sergeants in connection with
the disappearance of atomic bomb
documents from the Los Alamos,
N. M., atomic testing station.
The men, arrested by special
.agents of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, were identified as:
Alexander Von Der Luft, arrest
ed at his home at 418 Serpentine
Drive, Mt. Lebanon, Pennsyl
vania.
Ernest D. Wallis, of 151 West
Burton place, Chicago, arrested in
Chicago where his studio, known
as the Paul Stone Raymore pho
tography studio, is located at 168
North Michigan avenue.
The FBI said in a statement
that complaints are being filed be
fore the U. S. commiseioner at
Santa Fe, N. M. charging Von Der
Luft and Wallis with wilfully and
unlawfully removing and conceal
ing records and documents in v-i
olation of section 234, title 18, U.S.
criminal code.
This section covers removal and
concealment of classified docu
ments.
The offense, upon conviction,
carries a penalty of a fine of not
more than $2,000 or not more than
three years imprisonment, or
both.
Von Der Luft will be arraigned
before the U. S. commissioner at
Pittsburgh, the FBI said, while
Wallis will be arraigned before
the U. S. commissioner at Chica
go.
The FBI explained that no
charge could be filed under the
(Continued on Page Two; Cot 3)1
'ft
It membership
OFFERED "NEWSIES’
Star-News Refugee News
Boys Had Expressed
Desire
A free membership to the Wil
mington Young Men’s Christian
association was Saturday night of
fered two Greek war refugees now
living in Wilmington, by J. B.
Huntington, YMCA director.
Huntington said a news story in
Friday’s Wilmington News which
told the tale of Pete and Mike
Poulos, Star-News carrier boys,
had prompted him to make his
offer.
The Greek brothers, who spent
the war years under the heel of
Axis armies, while their father,
who had come to America shortly
before the start of World War II
was with the U. S. Army Medi
cal corps, had said in their story
that their biggest immediate am
bition was to become members of
the local YMCA, and to be given
an opportunity to use the Y pool
as swimming was their favorite
sport.
Huntington said the YMCA
would throw open its doors to t
henew Wilmingtonians.
“They can swim all they want
to here, and we’ll help teach them
the English language and do ev
erything we can to help them
grow up to be ood American cit
izens,’* he declared,
State Vets Threat
March On Capital
Over Bond Dispute
HONEYMOON SHE
OFFERED PRINCESS
Lady Astor Suggests Her
Native Virginia
Home
LONDON, July 12—VP) —Ameri
can-bom Lady Astor invited Prin
cess Elizabeth and Lieut. Philip
Mountbatten today to spend their
honeymoon at her Virginia home,
but a Buckingham Palace spokes
man said it was unlikely they
would accept.
“I don’t think they will even go
abroad,” he added.
Nothing has been decided offi
cially on the royal couple's honey
moon or on the actual wedding
date. Australia, Canada and South
Africa have offered their hospital
ity. Even the mayor of Nairobi,
Kenya, bid for the visit.
The dollar shortage loomed as
one strike against any trip to the
Blue Ridge mountain country.
Fears were voiced that such ex
penditures might be in question
able taste at a time when Brit
ain needs every dollar for vital
American imports.
Some persons, however, pointed
to the invaluable boost to anglo
American relations that would re
sult from such a visit. They re
called the popular American ac
claim that greted the Duke of
Windsor when he toured the Unit
ed States as the Prince of Wales,
and the reception accorded to
King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth in 1939.
Most speculation centered on
the palace at Sandringham as the
probable honeymoon site. It was
hi that palace that Queen Mary,
Elizabeth’s grandmother, honey
mooned 54 years ago with King
George V.
South’s Greatest
Vet Rides Alone
BY WILLIAM J. FOX
MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 13—(UP)—Gen. Nathan Bed
ford Forrest, one of the old South’s greatest soldiers, sat
astride his horse in Forrest Park today and wondered about
the cheapening price of fame on this 126th anniversary of
his birth. *
Today’s the birthday, but to
morrow’s the day on which it will
be celebrated officially since the
ISth has fallen on a Sunday.
But that was the rub — there
was no celebration. Because the
state law said so, Tennessee
banks will close Monday. Tsat’s
all.
There was nothing else. No
speeches, no laying of wreathes,
no parades, not a sign. The
doughty old Confederate cavalry
commander, one of Tennessee’s
and the South’s greatest heroes in
the Civil War, remained alone —
a quiet study in bronze.
The casual onlooker could stroll
past the towering equestrian stat
ue of Memphis’ own contribution
to the ranks of the military
greats. Perhaps the curious would
(Cntinued on Page Two; Col. 5)
BEGAN DRINKING
WHEN YOUNG, HELD
IN MAN’S SLAYING
URBANA, 111., July 12 — (U.R) —
Betty Jean Gruver, 20-year-old
blonde who has admitted slaying
a tavern owner to get his $1,700
bankroll, was described today as
a chronic alcoholic who started
drinking when she was 13 and
once threatened to kill her moth
er with a knife.
States Atty. John J. Bresee
said Miss Gruver also had told a
policeman she was going to “blow
his head off.”
Miss Gruver, a former night
club hostess who looks like a
teen-aged bobby soxer, was under
arrest after confessing she killed
Glenn Tilton, 40, with his own gun
in his tourist cabin last Wednes
day.
Bresee said she confessed vol
untarily. _I
EARTH’S GRAVITY
IS CHALLENGED
Scientists Attempting To
Send ‘Moons’ Be
yond ‘Pull’
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12—(U.R)—
Scientists are attempting to hurl
steel cones beyond the pull of the
earth’s gravity, where they would
become “moons” circling the
earth at 200 to 600 miles altitudes.
Dr. Fritz Zwicky, astronomer at
the Mt. Wilson observatory, told
the Astronomical Society of the
Pacific in a report today that the
power used in efforts to get pro
jectiles up to enormous heights
comes from penolite, an explosive
said to be one-third more power
ful than TNT.
Penolite, a closely guarded se
cret since its development seven
years ago, is capable of propel
ling one of the cones at about six
miles per second.
One attempt to send some of
the cones so high they would
never come down was made last
year at the White Sands, N. M.,
proving grounds, with the cones
projected from the warheads of
V-2 rockets.
This failed, Dr. Zwicky report
ed, but other attempts are to be
made in the future from rockets,
airplanes and anti-aircraft shells.
The cones are projected from the
nose of some object already mov
ing—at the rate of one mile a sec
ond in the case of a V-2 rocket—
in order to give them a good run
ning start, Dr. Zwicky explained.
‘Youth For Christ’ Drive
Plans To Seek City Help
Wilminton city council will be
asked Wednesday to lend its mor
al support and give permission
for advertising in the city on be
half of 'a youth’s revival to be
conducted August 11-17.
The revival will be under the
supervision of the young people
of Cal ary Baptist church. They
plan a long-range campaign bene
ficial to young people, it was an
nounced Saturday night by Eu
er.e Ensley, chairman of the gen
eral committe.
He said:
“In view of such requirements
in this area, stressing the need of
Youth for Christ, which is bur
theme, we will ask the council
for its assistance.”
The youth’s revival will be con
ducted solely by the youth of Cal
vary church, and will be pattern
ed after the famous revival held
. . ^ „
two years ago in Waco, Texas,
Ensley said.
The youth group have procured
the services of the Rev. George
White, young graduate of the Bap
tist Theological Seminary in Tex
as, and he wi]^ preach the ser
mons each evenin, to which all
people of the city have been in
vited and will be urged to attend,
Ensley said.
The group,is made up of church
members who are 19-years of age
and less, according to Ensley.
The appearance before council
is to request permission for the
youth to stencil advertisements on
the streets; hang banners from
buildings of the city, and procure
the well-wishes of the governing
body, he said.
Ensley said several councilmen
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Side-Tracking Of Terminal
Bond Cash Plan Is Reason
President Told They Will Await His Word,
But Meanwhile the March Plans Continue
For Next Saturday
GREENSBORO, July 12—(AP)—A group of Greens
boro World War II veterans, seeking presidential action on
the bill authorizing the cashing of terminal leave bonds,
wrote President Harry S. Truman today and suggested pos
sibility of a “March on Washington.”
SEN. MAYBANK
NOT TO QUIT
Says He Has No Knowledge
Of How Rumors
, Started
WASHINGTON. July 12 — UP)—
Senator Maybank (D-SC) said to
day he has no intention of resign
ing from the Senate and no idea
how such a rumor could have
started.
Commenting on reports publish
ed in South Carolina that he might
leave the Senate for a post with
the cotton industry, the Senator
told a reporter:
“The people have always ben
very generous and kind to me.
It is my desire to serve them and
assist them in every way possi
ble. That I am trying to do.
“I have no intention of resign
ing from the senate and do not
know how such a rumor could
have started.”
' The letter, written by Robert E.
Fink, 807 South Chapman street,
was composed at the behest of a
group of 5 World War IX veterans
residing in the southern part of
the city. They are employed lo
cally in textile and metal working
plants.
Stating it is “difficult to try to
get started in life again,” the group
said they were enthusiastic when
they received the terminal leave
bonds and even more enthusiastic
when the bill was introduced to
permit the cashing of the bonds.
“Now it seems we are not receiv
ing the consideration we should.’'
Declaring that the tension of “a
lot of ex-servicemen has become
greater” since the bill has been
omitted from the current session
of congress, the group suggested
another march on the nation’s
capital similar to the one staged
some years ago by men seeking
a bonus from World War I service.
Tnf. group said they will await
word from the president stating
what he can do about the matter.
Plans call for a mass meeting
Wednesday or Thursday if the pres
ident’s answer is not helpful. The
proposed “march” from Green*
(Conttnued on Page Two; Col. •)
YEP, THEY’RE
REPORTED AGIN’
Two High Point Pilots Re
Port Seeing One Head
ed Over State
HIGH POINT, July 12—(/P)—The
first flying saucer seen in this
area was reported tonight to be
a huge red object travelling at a
rapid rate of speed,” by two vet
eran flyers of High Point.
Ed Lewis, editor of “Southern
Wings,” an aviation magazine, and
Dick Milsaps, a member of the
staft of the publication, sighted
the flying “ball of fire” about ten
miles South of High Point this aft
ernoon.
The two men stated they were
flying into High Point at an al
titude of approximetaly 1,000 feet
when they noticed a glare to the
left of their plane. Glancing to
their side they said they saw a
huge object, round on top with a
large black band through the cen
ter, flying in a northerly direction
at a rapid rate of speed.
“The bottom part of the object
was revolving, and peridodical
bursts of fire came from under
neath as if from some sore of ex
haust,” Lewis said. This was a
7:20 yesterday (Saturday) after
noon.
Lewis said when he noticed the
object he swung his small, two
place plane to the left in the di
rection of the “thing” but that be
fore he had travelled far in that
direction, the object passed him
and disappeared in a northern di
rection. The path it was traveling,
he said, indicated that it was head
ed in the direction of Winston
Sa'em on a route leading between
High Point and Thomasville, he
added.
RAY GALLOWAY
ASSUMES POST
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New State Commander Of
Legion Gives Plans
For Year
Ray Galloway, Wilmington, was
installed Saturday as state com
mander of The American Legion.
He immediately announced a
state-wide membership campaign
of 76,048 members. The figure last
year was 67,942.
Galloway was sworn in at 12:30
by Henry L. Stevens, Warsaw,
past national commnder.
“In assuming the commander
ship of 70,000 Legionnaires in
North Carolina," Galloway said.
“I pledge my every effort to ren
der the greatest possible service
to all veterans in this state and
to the communities in which they
serve.
“The Legion has made great
strides and accomplished much in
the past. Tint is commendable.
However beginning this very mi
nute our sights are raised to new
horizons and new records of
achievements. Our initiative will
be unbounded, our vision clear, in
a common effort to mak# thi
American Legion in North Caro
lina bigger and more effective in
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