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jj.S. Fighting
Hard Rattle
Vandenberg Working To
Protect UN Charter At
Inter-American Meet
PET.ROPOLIS, Brazil, Aug. 24
_CU.fi)—Th* United States fought a
dramatic behind-the-scenes battle
in* the Inter-American conference
tonight to keep the hemispheric
defense treaty from becoming a
relied anti-Communist pact and to
Insure that it is fully in accord
_jtVi the United Nations charter.
The fight is going on, at the
moment, in a six-nation sub-com
mittee with Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg, R„ Mich., represent
ing the United States.
United States delegates are
gravely worried over the present
situation and the entire delegation
met for nearly four hours tonight
working out plans for the critical
v,-eek which starts tomorrow'.
United States informants said
after the meeting that the talk
was devoted almost entirely to
making “very sure” that nothing
is written into the defense treaty
which would tend to undermine
the UN charter.
Backing UN
The sense of the meeting, if was
made known, was that the United
States is working on the belief
that the UN is indispensable and
must be supported to the utmost
despite current difficulties.
The delegation went over in de
tail the work being done by Van
denberg in conference sub-com
mittees, especially regarding the
desire of Argentina that a distinc
tion should be drawn between an
attack on an American nation by
a non-American nation and an at
tack on one American nation by
another.
United States delegates fear
that to draw such a distinction
would be one entering wedge for
a charge that the defense treaty
actually is aimed against Commu
nism—Russia.
In examining a new proposal
for defining in detail a hemi
spheric "security zone”—violation
of which would bring the treaty
into ac.ion—the concensus of the
United States delegates was that
Canada would be included in such
a delegation.
Such inclusion might be effect
ad whether or not Canada ad
hered later to the defense treaty.
The United States is sponsoring
here an article which would per
mit Canada to do so.
I EDISON’S WIDOW
DIES IN NEW YORK
Daughter Of Temperance
Family, She Was Act
tive In Dry Cause
NEW YORK. Aug. 24. —(A5)—
Mrs. Mina Miller Edison, 82,
widow of inventor Thomas A. Edi
son, died tonight.
Mrs. Edison, who was the in
ventor’s second wife, and mother
of Charles A. Edison, former gov
ernor of New Jersey, died at Hark
ness Pavilion of tlyr Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center where
*he had been a patient since July
16.
She had fallen into a coma late
today.
M"s. Edison was born ot Akron,
Ohio, July 16, 1865, and was a
leader in national fights for temp
erance and juvenile recreation fa
cilities.
Her father was Lewis Miller, co
founder with Bishop John H. Vin
cent of the Chautauqua Institute.
Her mother was an associate of
Frances E. Willard in the early
fi&ht for temperance. Years lat
er ihe often related that she had
»e*n her mother come home with
her clothes soaked with water
thrown at her by sale a-keepers.
She became Edison’s second wife
»t 21 when she was hailed by
artists as one of America’s most
beautiful women. The inventor,
then 39, was in the midst of his
"'ork as the “Wizard of Menlo
Park”
Early this year, in connection
*ith the centennial of Edison’s
hlrth, Mrs, Edison wrote an article
far the Associated Press in which
jh* said of their marriage that
■there were no trials; there were
»o tribulations in being the wife
such a man.”
1 can look back on those won
itfful years and see nothing in
Mem but compensation,” she
wrote, “We have always felt that
*:iy inconveniences there may
have been were as nothing, such
>• the irregularity of his working
hours which required constant re
adjusting of the plans in the home,
"hat we were doing was for a man
accomplishing great things in the
korld,”
She gave of her time to the
Se* EDISON’S On Page Two
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*»tt*d warTn Monday and Tuesday,
tsred afternoon thundershowers.
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“"ire WEATHER On Fait Two
Army-Navy Digs In
To Prepare For War
Denver Pr^v^ Copyright Article Says
Are Being Excavated
* -^Querque; No Secret Now
DEN ojx, 24 —The
Denver .ported last night
in a cop> <t article that huge
caverns are being dug under
Army-Navy supervision in a moun
tain range not far from Al
buquerque, N.M., as super-defens
es against a possible World War
III.”
“This is not a revelation of
military secrets,” the post said
in the story from Albuquerque
by Robert Fenwick, “Because the
general facts are known to many
Albuquerque residents XXX. Its
presence is known to hundreds of
commercial airline pasengers
who have flown over the dig
sings.”
The Post article continued:
“Great excavations are under
way beneath a mountain peak.
Hundreds and reputedly thousands
of men are at work there with
ponderous machinery. Civilian pi
lots say that planes of the most
modem war types, from jet pur
suits to extra-long-range bombers
are standing near runways a
short distance from the construc
tion center.”
There is a story, according to
the Post, “that deep underneath
the mountain range there is to be
a large chamber, hewn from solid
rock and then lined with concrete,
asbestos and lead “there’s word
also about miles of conveyor belts
running out of the bowles of the
earth to deliver automatic bombs
to the surface.”
The Post said David E. Lilien
See ARMY—NAVY on Page Two
Nine-Day Trip Planned
Over Initial Air Highway
EASTERN GROWERS
EXPECT $50 TOPS
Warehouses In 15 Towns
Of Belt Jammed With
Leaf For Opening Day
By The Associated Press
Long after the sun set yesterday,
Eastern North Carolina flue-cured
tobacco growers continued to bring
their offerings to their favorite
warehouses for the openings sales
today on 15 markets.
As usual there was an electric
current of apprehension over first
day sales as the farmers and ware
housemen speculated about price
averages. Many older heads
agreed with the Federal-State De
partments of Agriculture prospec
tus that averages would run about
$50 per hundred, or almost the
same as the Border Belt’s opening
day prices of three weeks ago.
The Eastern Belt warehousemen,
meeting in Farmville Saturday,
agreed to start sales at 9 a. m., or
30 minutes earlier than the usual
beginning time. The market will
operate on a four-hour sales sched
ute eacn aay unuj -ne opening oi |
the Middle Belt on September 15,
when sales time will be slashed to
3 1-2 hours.
The Eastern Belt will sell 400
baskets per hour for each set of
buyers. The maximum weight of
each basket has been set at 250
pounds.
The Federal-State Crop Report
ing service indicated that this
year’s Eastern Belt crop would be
about four per cent lower than the
1946 all-time record high of 454,
250,000 pounds, but predicted that
the crop although somewhat light
in weight would be of good quality,
particularly for cigarette purposes.
The per-acre yield of the crop,
as of August 1, was set at 1,130
pounds — only 20 pounds off the
1946 acreage yield, the Federal
State Crop Reporting Service said.
Keeping pace with increased
post-war cigarette consumption,
the belt has 106 warehouses, nine
more than last year, and through
out the state re-drying facilities
have been improved.
One Co-op Market
At least one market, Wendell,
offers a warehouse o%med and
operated by a co-operative of
farmers, the first in the state. Ac
cording to the Federal-State De
partments of Agriculture figures,
Wilson last year led the Belt and
the entire state i nvolume or sales
with 83,244,733 pounds sold — the
figure does not include resales.
Runner-up was Rocky Mount with
67,324,785 pounds and in third place
was Greenville with 62,027,667
pounds.
HENRY FORD BOOSTS
CAR, TRUCK PRICES
FROM $20 TO $97
DETROIT, Aug. 24. — \JP) —
President Henry Ford II announc
ed today that prices on "most
models” of Ford Motor company
passenger cars and all truck
models “are being raised from
:20 to :97, effective immediate;
ly.” . .
"This is an average increase of
4.2 per cent,” the announcement
said. “This action has been dictat
ed by the simple necessity of keep
ing Ford Motor company on a
sound economic basis.”
The action followed price rises
recently announced by other mem
bers of the automotive "big three,”
Chrysler and General Motors, and
several smaller manufacturers, in
cluding Hudson, Kaiser-Frazier,
Nash and Packard._
Route For Civilian Planes
Will Be 40-Miles Wide
Ending On Coast
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. —(U.R)
— A 40-mile wide transcontinen
tal air highway between Los An
geles and Washington will be sur
veyed on a nine-day flight to start
from the California city Sept. 8,
it was announced tonight.
Skyway, No. 1,” passing over
5,000 cities and towns of which
perhaps 1,500 have airports, will
be the first route of its kind, laid
out expressly for private and other
non-airline planes.
The project may cost between
$100,000 and $375,000, depending
upon the price of ground markers
along the route. In any event, this
would not cost much more than
equipping a large commercial air
port with all the bad-weather land
ing aids deemed necessary by
federal and airline officials.
After the model skyway is laid
out, it is planned to establish others
throughout the country.
Official designation of the route
and the survey flight were an
nounced separately by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration and
by the Washington Board of Trade
and Los Angeles Chambef of Com
merce.
Florida Irked
It provoked consternation on the
part of the Florida State Society.
Its president, Albert G. Brick, got
wind of the project earlier and de
nounced it as “rank favoritism”
and “bureaucratic skydoggling.”
Miami was host to thousands of
private fliers before Los Angeles
“ever thought of giving them a
break,” he complained. “Skyway
No. 1” should follow Highway No.
1 to Florida.
But the transcontinental route
already had been designated of
ficially and the best Florida ap
parently can hope for is “Skyway
No. 2.”
All along the Los Angeles —
Washington route, there will be
markers which private fliers can
See SURVEY On Page Two
NO' ESTHREA7
C RTAIN RE\ IE
Germans Living In Rus
sian Zone Take Blast
At Wives Of SED
BERLIN, Aug. 24 — (fP) —The
Neue Zeitung, official German
newspaper of the American Mili
tary government, said today
anonymous letters were circula
ting in the Russian zone of Ger
many, threatening revenge for the
“reign of terror and hunger” they
said was being conducted there by
the “Red Fascists” of the Com
munist-dominated German Socia
list Unity Party (SED).
The newspaper, which has ex
tensive German news sources in
the closed Russian zone, has pre
viously reported indications of
restiveness among the population
against the administration of the
SED, which has the approximate
status of “official” party under
the Russians.
Neue Zeitung said the letters
were directed to the wives of SED
members in Saxony and that they
warned the women "when the
reckoning comes you will be neld
accountable along with your hus
bands—just as the wives of the
Nazis were—unless you wake up
their consciences and keep your
selves back from misdeeds.’
The letters, the newspaper said,
charged that SED party leaders
were living high while the popu
lation hungered and were making
no effort to alleviate the lot of
the people. _
Untruthful Clock Runs
Afoul Streamline World
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2*1—The
huge clock on the William Penn
tower atop Philadelphia’s city hall
-the city’s official timepiece since
New Year’s Eye 1898—is going to
be modernized. .
New electrical installations will
replace the pneumatic system
which has moved the clock’s mas
sive hands since a manufacturer s
representative presented the time
piece to city officials 49 years ago.
On that occasion city officials were
told:
“Gentlemen, this is the greatest
clock in the world. It will run
forever.’’
Half an hour later the clock
stopped.
Though it was quickly repaired
and for years after guided Phila
delphians in regulating their com
ings and goings, in recent months
the clock has not told the whole
truth and nothing but the truth.
So, like most everything else in
thi* post-war world, Billy Penn’s
clock if going to be atreamlined.
Legion Commander Urges Sending
United States Troops To Greece;
New Third Party Picks Wallace
Labor Unions
Behind Drive
Three Hundred Delegates
Launch Movement At
Los Angeles Sunday
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 24—CU.R)—
A third political party, which will
back Henry A. Wallace as a Presi
dential nominee, was launched
here today by 300 representatives
of labor, civic and minority groups.
The new party was named the
Independent Progressive Party of
California. Chief organizer and
temporary chairman of the state
wide committee to promote the
party is Hugh Bryson, 32, San
Francisco, president of the CIO
National Union of Marine Cooks
and Stewards.
Officials of AFL unions and the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
will serve with him on the steer
ing committee.
The committee will seek at least
350,000 names of qualified voters
on petitions to be filed with the
Secretary of State, a necessary
preliminary to having the party
certified.
An objective of the party is to
put a slate of delegates in the
field pledged to Wallace as the
party’s Presidential nominee, Bry
son said. A state-wide slate of
candidates also will be pushed.
The party founders hope to quali
fy it for the 1948 election.
Follow FDR
The party is determined to “con
tinue to fight for progress in the
tradition of Franklin D. Roosevelt”
and “to build a new party that
See LABOR on Page Two
EPILEPTIC GIRL
HAS ‘CAGE’ HOME
State Institution Unable To
Admit Hopelessly 111
Kannapolis Child
KANNAPOLAS.Aug. 24—(A»)— A
14-year-old epileptic girl has lived
in an open-air wooden stockade
and cage-like room here for three
years while her parents have
sought unsuccessfully to have her
admitted to a state institution.
Police Chief I. T. Chapman said
today.
The girl is Maxine Smith,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L.
Smith. Chief Chapman said that
the hopelessly-sick child roams
the enclosure, alternately tearing
up paper and leaves, and batter
ing her head against walls and
screaming.
In Raleigh, Dr. R. G. Blackwel
der, superintendent of the State
Hospital for Epileptics, said that
Maxine was one of 100 or more
patients on a long waiting list for
admission.
He said the state institution had
been unable to take new patients
for several years and would be un
able to admit any more until new
facilities now under construction
are completed.
For Protection
Chief Chapmen said that Max
ine’s parents, built the stockade
to protect the girl and themselves
It is constructed of two-by-fours
and is connected to a room at the
back of the house.
Maxine is let into the enclosure
every day and at night her
father a wounded veteran of World
War one, leads her into the room.
Chapman said that Maxine is
too strong to be handled by her
mother or sister, and that her fa
ther is barely a match for her.
Smith is a textile mill employe.
He said he had worked a double
shift -80 hours- last week and
had often don so to meet medical
expenses.__
KENNETH C. ROYALL JOHN C. SULLIVAN W. STUABT SYMINGTON
PBESIDENT TRUMAN HAS NAMED THE ABOVE THREE MEN to head the nation’s armed forces
nnder the overall supervision of Secretary of Natl onal Defense James V. Forrestal. They are Secre
tary of the Army, Kenneth C. Rayoll, now Secretary 0f War; Secretary of the Navy, John C. Sullivan,
now Navy Undersecretary; and Secretary for Air, W. Stuart Symington, presently Assistant Secretary
of War for Air. (International)
Athens Prepares For Violence;
NudeDoukhoborsThreaten City
Hundreds Of Men Milling
En Masse On Outskirts
Of Nelson^ B. C.
NELSON, B. C., Aug. 24. Police
today prepared to cope with hun
dreds of nude members of the
"Sons of Freedom," a radical unit
of the Russian Doukhobors, who
were threatening to march on this
Kootenay Valley city to protest the
arrest of 10 of their clansman.
At last reports the naked Freed
omites were milling en masse at
Shore Acres, 15 miles West of here.
Police Chief Robert Harshaw said
the demonstration might last two
or three days, and he augmented
his force of officers with reinforce
ments from other provincial law
enforcement agencies to be ready
for the mass march which he said
would probably follow.
The Doukhobors’ long history
since their migration from Rus
sia to Canada has been marked
by frequent mass parades in the
See HUNDREDS On Page Two
VIOLENCE TAKES
LIVES OF EIGHT
Airplane Crashes Account
For Three Deaths In
State Over. Weekend
By The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three persons were killed in air
plane crashes and at least eight
others suffered violent death in
North Carolina during the week
end.
Rowland B. Nash of Raleigh and
Jack McGee of Grosse He, Mich.,
were killed Friday night in the
crash of Nash’s private plane dur
ing a storm near Lumberton.
Paul Bowen, 20, of Alexandria
Mills, died Friday In a Ruther
fordton hospital of injuries suffer
ed Thursday when the plane in
which he was riding crashed near
Rutherfordton.
Vernon Peeler, 19, of Jackson
ville, Fla., was killed early Sat
urday in Rocky Mount when scrap
See VIOLENCE on Page Two
Along The Cape Fear
CUSHING VENTURES FORTH—
The exploit of Naval Lieut. Wil
liam Cushing, Union officer, oc
cured on June 23, 1864, after the
Confederate’s small fleet had jour
neyed down the river and engaged
the Federal fleet blockading the
mouth of the Cape Fear river.
Returning into the river, the
iron-clad Confederate vessel, “The
Raleigh”, became stuck upon a
shoal and to' accomplish its des
truction and at the same time, un
dertake a reconnaisance of the
South’s defense in that region.
Lieutenant Cushing volunteered.
Notwithstanding the warning of
his superiors that he would almost
certainly be captured or killed,
the lieutenant persisted in his
scheme.
On the night of June 23,1864, he
left “The USS Monticello”, to
which he was assigned. He left
the vessel in a cutter accompa
nied by two subordinate officers
and 15 men, crossed the western
bar and passed the forts and town
of Smithville without discovery.
* * *
NEARLY RUN DOWN — After
passing Smithville his cutter was
nearly run down in the darkness
by an outward bound blockade
runner, Following that narrow es
cape, he proceeded up the river
slowly and with oars muffled
steered under the guns of Fort
Anderson. As Cushing passed the
fort,, the moon came out from be
hind the clouds and sentries on
shore spotted the cutter and open
ed fire. The fort was aroused and
gunners attempted to use bigger
guns on the boat.
But Cushing and his party pul
led for the opposite shore and
were able to disappear along its
banks. His first stopping place
was up a creek where the patty
poled its boat until reaching the
military road leading from Wilm
ington to Fort Fisher.
* * #
COURIER CAPTURED — Here
the party went ashore and cut tele
graph wires and were able to cap
ture a courier who was on his way
with a message to the comman
der at Fort Fisher. Cushing then
put one of his own men in the uni
form of the captured Confederate
trooper and dispatched him to
Wilmingtn for supplies. By that
time it was daylight.
Ihe soldier, Howorth by name,
returned a few hours later with a
supply of chickens, eggs and but
ter which he had ben able to pur
chase in Wilmington without at
tracting suspicion.
HE LIKES ’EM
COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 24—
(A*)—South Carolina’s bachelor
governor, J. Strom Thurmond,
said today "I’m against’’ long
er skirts for women’s dresses.
Asked why, Thurmond re
plied, "I think that should be
obvious, don’t you?”
HEAVY SKYTRUCK
ON VIEW TODAY
Huge Post-War Cargo
Plane Can Carry 16
Tons At High Speed
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 24. —(A1)
— Military and commercial air
line officials tomorrow will witness
pre-view demonstrations of a post
war skytruck, capable of carrying
16 tons of freight at 300 miles an
hour, at the Columbus plant of
the Curtiss-Wright corp.
A full-scale wood mock-up of an
air giant designed to carry larg
er air cargoes than any airplane
yet introduced, including the 31,000
pound 155 MM “Long Tom” field
gun, was shown as being capable
of carrying any commercial car
go that would fit into a box car.
The entire tail section is hinged,
and may be raised by a hydraulic
system, permitting a 7 1-2 ton
truck to be driven aboard. A
single unit 48 feet long, 9 feet
wide and 7 feet high, weighing 32,
000 pounds, can be accommodated.
Four Cents Mile
Engineers have determined the
direct operating costs at approxi
See HEAVY on Page Two
NATIONAL AIRLINES
MOVES OPERATION OF
“FLIGHT CONTROL”
National Airlines, which serves
Wilmington, is moving its flight
control section from Jacksonville
to Miami, it was announced today.
Officials said the move is in co|
nection with a general “speed up”
program featuring faster sche
dules and instant confirmation of
requests for reservations.
Flight control governs opera
tions of National Airlines planes
throughout 10 states and Cuba.
The section will be housed in the
newly completed addition to the
NAL maintenance and operations
base at Miami International Air
port.
L.W. Dymond of Miami will be
assistant operations manager in
charge of flight control.
Police, Gendarmes Alerted
As Tsaldaris Fails To
Form Government
ATHENS, Greece, Aug. 24. —
(U.R)— Police, gendarmes and army
troops were alerted today against
possible violence as Foreign Min
ister Constantin Tsaldaris announc
ed he had failed to persuade The
mistocles Sophoulis to bring his
unrepresented “rebel” faction of
the Liberal Republican party into
a new Greek government.
Tsaldaris, former premier and
leader of the Populist (Royalist)
party, said he offered Sophoulis
“equal terms” with his Populist
in the course of a 45-minute con
ference. Tsaldaris did not explain
Sophoulis’ rejection of a ministry,
and still maintained he will be able
to swear in a full cabinet by Mon
day night.
Americans, here to administer
a $300,000,000 reconstruction loan,
had hoped any new government
would contain all Greek political
parties, including the Sophoulis
Liberals, who had no post in the
last cabinet. There was no com
ment from American quarters on
Tsaldaris’ failure.
After his talk with Sophoulis,
Tsaldaris conferred with Interior
Canellopoulos, National Unionist
(Republican), and Defense Minis
ter Sophocles Venizelos, leader of
Liberal Republicans represented
in the cabinet.
Observers believed Public Order
See POLICE On Page Two
FOOD POISONING
HITS GUARDSMEN
Thirty-One Men Rushed
From Trains To Hospi
tal At Tinker Field
OKLAHOMA, CITY, Aug. 24. —
(fl>)— Thirty-one members of the
Oklahoma National Guard who
have been in camp at Fort Sill
were taken off two trains here to
day suffering with food poisoning.
They were immediately rushed to
the Army Air Force hospital at
Tinker Field near Oklahoma
City.
Lt. Col. W. H. McCarroll, base
surgeon at the field, reported that
the majority were not in a serious
condition.
Source of the poisoning was not
immediately determined. Division
officers said however that each
man had been supplied with a box
oi sandwiches when he boarded
the train at Fort Sill.
A close check is being made on
other trains carrying guardsmen
due to arrive here later today.
N. C. Per Capita Income
Was Only $317 In 1946
WASHINGTON, Aug 24 —(Vj—
North Carolina ranked fourth
among the Southeastern states in
per capita income during 1946, a
Commerce department report
showed today.
The North Carolina figure was
$817 as compared to $1,200 for the
country as a whole. None of the
nine Southeastern states equaled
the national average.
Florida was tops among the
nine with $1017 other 1946 figures
included Virginia, $952; Tennessee
$843; Georgia, $809; Louisiana,
$784; ' Kentucky, $778; Tennessee
$733, and South Carolina, $729.
The department reported that in
almost all states the total income
payments to individuals in 1946
were at a record high.
The report noted that in the
Central, New England, Middle
East and Northwest regions, in
dividual incomes in 1946 were 10
to 12 per cent above 1945, while
in the far West, Southeast and
Southwest, where the war effort
had provided the largest income
expansion, the 1947 gains were of
smaller proportion.
By states, the per capita income
for 1946 varied frcm a high of
$1,703 in Nevada, to $555 in Mis
sissippi.
Paul Griffith
Warns Nation
Citing Danger Of Confla
gration Abroad He Calls
For “Training”
NEW YORK, Aug, 24. —(U.R)—
Paul H. Griffith, national com*
mander of the American Legion,
said today the United States should
sent troops tc aid Greece if that
country is invaded.
He warned that the "critical sit
uation” in Greece poses the threat
of "world conflagration on a mo
ment’s notice,” and urged Presi
dent Truman to call a special ses
sion of Congress to enact univer
sal military training legislation to
strengthen the nation's armed
forces.
He conceded that dispatch of
U. S. troops to Greece probably
would mean a shooting war, but
pointed to the material support
already being sent to Greece and
said that "if it takes troops I
believe we ought to send troops.”
Griffith, here for the national
Legion convention, declared that
“the critical situation which has
developed in Greece within the past
few hours is a direct and dan
gerous head-on clash of the
ideologies of democracy and Com
munism. It could spread into
world conflagration on a moment’s
notice.”
urges session
Griffith said that “confronted
by the new European situation,”
Truman should call Congress at
once to enact TJMT legislation. He
urged that no other matters be
considered at this proposed ses
sion, because our national exist
ence perhaps depended on speedy
Congressional action on the coun
try’s defense.
When asked at a press confer
ence if the United States should
send troops to Greece to protect
that country’s interests, Griffith
replied. -
“We already have sent support
to Greece and our Navy is now in
the Mediterranean. If it take*
troops I believe we ought to send
troops.”
Asked if the sending of troops
to Greece would mean a formal
declaration of war against Rus
sia he said, “I don’t know what
you mean by a formal declaration;
See GRIFFITH On Page Two
TROPICAL STORM
FORCE DIMINISHES
Hurricane Passes Inland
Leaving Little Damage
At Galveston
GALVESTON. Tex., Aug 24—t'P)
—The center of a tropical storm
passed over Galveston at 4:45 p.
m. (CST) today with winds up to
65 miles an hour.
The storm headed inland in a
North-Northwest direction.
The Weather bureau predicted
that the storm would begin to
break up as it moved inland.
Trees were uprooted here, si«M
were blown down and other dam
age of a minor nature were ob
served.
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65 miles per hour in gusts and
was blowing steady at 52 miles
per hour.
At 3 p.m. the barometer was
29.68, then dropped to 29.28 when
the center passed over the city.
It climbed back to 29.33 shortly
afterward.
Heavy laden skies and blinding
rain blanketed the area.
There was very little traffic and
few pedistrians, but improved
shelters teemed with refugee per
sons living beyond the sea-wall.
The city’s power plant was
knocked out.
Hundreds of persons flocked in
to the city hall and municipal au
ditorium.
The last Weather bureau advi
sory predicted at 2 p.m. that the
center of the storm passed near
Galveston tonight.
This gulf coast resort town was
littered with oleander blossoms,
palm leaves, small tree limb* and
other debris.
And So To Bed
A little boy started to retire
the other night after a hard
day’s playing in the yard.
“Son” his mother aald,
“don’t forget to take a good
bath before yon go to bed.”
“Yes, Mummy,” the young
ster replied.
An hour later hi« mother
cracked the bedroom door to
find the boy sound asleep on
the bed, his feet covered with
dirt.
She immediately awakened
the boy. “Didn’t I tell you to
take a bath before you went to
bed?” she asked.
“Yes, Mummy,” the sleepy*
eyed youngster replied.
"But you did not wash your
feet,” Mother said.
“No, Mummy,” he replied.
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