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_' ^ l FORECAST: Served By Leased Wires of the Wilmington and vicinity: Partly cloudy ASSOCIATED PRESS and no important temperature changes •uvvviniiji/ IUWB today and Wednesday: widely scatter- Wl the ed thundershowers mostly in afternoon. UNITED PRESS With Complete Coverage of State and National New* -—- ESTABLISHED 18$ - _____ iaha Navy Fires German V-2 Rocket At Sea Top Expert Calls Performance “New Era In Naval Weapons” As He reports On Test From Deck Of Big Carrier WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. —(JP) ^ The Navy opened up what its top expert called “a new era in naval weapons” today with the announcement that a German ,,0 rocket was fired last Sat urday from the Carrier Midway at sea. It was the first recorded launching of one of the mass de struction weapons from any mov ing platform. The Navy refrained from call in/ the whole demonstration a “success,” using that word only t0 describe the actual launching operation. Nevertheless the test brought fearfully close the day when any target within V-2 range of a coastline may be men aced bv the weapons that bat tered London and shattered Ant werp. The announcement, chary of details, said the V-2 “after be ing launched successfully x x x traveled about six miles and ex ploded.” No explanation was giv en of why the missle went only such a short distance. Navy officials, who would not be quoted by name, told a re porter the test had been planned for maximum range. The Ger mans were firing V-2’s up to 200 miles toward the close of World War II. The V-2, more than 40 feet in length and weighing about 26, 000 pounds when fully fueled and its warhead loaded with ex See NAVY On Page Two Letter U rging Curfew Law Lays 4 Months On Desk governing bodies IGNORE JURY PLEA City Council, County Com mission Fails To Act On Recommendations Three months after the June report of the New Hanover county Superior court grand jury had been handed up to Judge Clawson Williams, the Wilmington city council and the county board of commissioners have failed to act upon its rec ommendations. That was disclosed last night as budgets of both the city and county had received their final approval and no appropriations included in either for the ask ed-for improvements in track ing down criminals and escaped convicts. On last June 10, the grand jury report was comprised of recommendations toward that end. Specifically suggested was the purchase for the sheriff’s office or city police of blood hounds to be used. The report pointed out that bloodhounds are not available in this county. No consideration toward the purchase of such animals or other means of tracking down j criminals was taken either by city or county officials during discussions of the budget. City Attorney William B. Campbell, however, at one point in a council session ex pressed his belief that “it was no affair of the grand jury” how the city government is op erated. PENNsY LOCOMOTIVES NOW GET LAUNDERED WITHIN 15 MINUTES -- NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—(U.fi)—-A giafit washing machine that will launder an electric locomotive in 15 minutes has been completed, the Pennsylvania Railroad an nounced today. The huge semi - automatic machine will be used to scrub, rinse and polish some 100 en gines every 24 hours. It used to take workers two hours and 55 minutes to do one locomotive by hand. , The machine, is some 300 feet ™g and towers about 15 feet shove each side of the track. Beat ABOVE NORMAL HERE FOR PAST FEW WEEKS, HESS STATES feather in Wilmington and ucinity has been above normal l0r the past three weeks, ac cording to averages recorded by ' eatherman Paul Hess. Hess said that last week’s tem Mrature was 6.2 above normal -n® the other two weeks were and 3.5 above normal, re spectively. , ‘_‘e also said that the local . will have some showers ?ay’ but there will be no initial °nge in temperatures. The Weather Sot,;, r. .. * OUECAST: Partly 'c"',l'na an'l North Carolina — '> ancJ no important tempera Tuesday and Wednesday, sf• ,, a:,ered thundershowers mostly "-•••oon. e-Mini°^5ca 1 da<a for the 24 hours ‘ P- m yesterday. 1;?0 a TEMPEftATURES t: ;.a; 1:Z0 a. m. 73; 1:30 p. m. ,'Jm 7<i. V. 77; Maximum 86; Mini ' -'lea,, 78: Normal 75. bil . HUMIDITY ::3" p m8 79.:3° a- m- 87: 1:30 p- m .Iota] PRECIPITATION '* Indies “ hours ending 7:30 p. m. 'incbe'ace "nf? of the month Vlfrom ."“E" 'OK TODAY " C ;i;, \TlGe Tables published by v antJ Geodetic Survevi. high low - 4:04 a.m. 11:28 a.m. I ^ro Ii.lct 4,:38 P m'-p'm 1 j:4° a m- 8;U a.m. . s, « 2:36 p.m. 9:15 p.m j.-Moontjt 6:27’ Moonrltr **' **• Mom°* Fr-YrU: ‘lie. N. C. a‘. Mo,ltidy Report Missing feet. Efforts To Pass Juvenile Delinquency Law Comes To Naught Here Efforts to pass a modern ju venile delinquency law as a part of a Wilmington municipal pro gram to keep children from wandering into the streets at late hours and getting into mischief and more serious crimes, has come to naught. That was brought to light last night with the revelation that a letter from juvenile authorities to City Manager J. R. Benson urging a curfew law has lain on the city manager’s desk for ap proximately four months with out any action. The letter points out that the municipality is without “ade quate laws governing juveniles.” The letter states that juvenile authorities believe some form of a curfew law should be enacted prohibiting youngsters of certain ages from roaming the streets unaccompanied, attending late shows and other events. Police Doing Job It is pointed out that the city police have handled their job in the matter excellently but are without the proper authority to deal with the situation. Several cases recently have come to light through the Re corder’s court, one in which the parents were brought into court and warned that their young sters must be kept at home or in proper care. Other cases include ones in which boys under 16 years of See LETTER On Page Two PRICES INCREASE ON BORDER BELT Good Lemon Cutters Ad vance To $62; Eastern Quotations Steady By The Associated Press I Stronger demand carried prices upward from $1 to $6 per hundred pounds on tobacco markets of the Border Belt yes terday (Monday), the Federal and State Departments of Agri culture reported. On the N. C. Eastern belt, meanwhile, price levels remain ed about the same with prim ings, lugs and cutters steady to slightly higher while most leaf and smoking leaf grades were firm or slightly lower. Some grades on the Border Belt reached their highest marks of the season, including good lemon 'cutters which ad vanced to $62 for the first time However, most of the Eorder advances were in a $! to $3 range. The general quality of offer ings on the belt was better. Eastern Belt Average prices for a limited number of U. S. grades on the Eastern Belt follow: Leaf—Good lemon $53, up $2; fair lemon $49, unchanged; good orange $47, up $1; fair See PRICES on Page Two Escapees Prefer Jails To Everglade Junglesi EVERGLADES, Fla., Sept. 8. — (U.R) —Two escape artists who worked their way out of an “escape proof” jail at Lebanon, Ind., last week admitted to authorities today that no man made jail was ever as bad as the wilds of the Florida Everglades. Identified as William J. Abney, 23, and John Sylvester, 28, the two men tried to elude officers by working their way into the swampts near here. They failed to find their way and were finally captured by a small posse eight nv’es north of here. They attracted suspicion of Deputy Sheriff J. R. Williams when they drove up to a gas station in nearby Monroe. Wil liams said he thought “some thing was fishy” when he noticed the license plates on their 1939 Dodge looked like they belonged on another car. He said the two hit him with a flashlight and ran off into the bush. The two gave their address as Kokomo, Ind. They readily ad mitted their escape from the Indiana jail and said they had stolen the car and switched license plates. They said they were heading for Homestead, near Miami, to get jobs when they “ran up against the Ever glades.” Sikhs With Three Foot Swords; Slaughter Men, Women, Children At Delhi; UN Groups Approve Atomic Control Plan Soviet Delegates , Soundly Trounced Two Committees Override Vigorious Russian Ob jections To Report LAKE SUCCESS, Sept. 8. — up>—Two United Nations Atomic committees overrode vigorous Russian objections today and ap proved a report laying down principles for creation and oper ation of an international atomic control agency. After losing consistently to a majority of ten delegates in the committees, Prof. Dmitri V. Sko beltsyn charged that the major ity did not desire to achieve unanimous agreement. Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton of Canada, chairman, promptly re minded him that any country could suggest changes to the full U. N. Atomis Commission, which will meet Wednesday for final action on the report. Day’s Development The day’s prime developments were: 1. The Political committee ap proved the backbone of the re port made up of six papers deal ing with organization and func tions of the proposed control agency. The vote was 10 to 2, with Poland and Russia oppos ed. 2. The Working committee, made up of the same delegates, approved these papers also plus all other sections of the proposed report. The vote was the same on the papers. The committees worked all day against a deadline set by order of the Security Council last March for the Atomic commis sion to produce a second report before the U. N. Assembly meets in New York on September 16. • Agree On Draft The work today meant that the delegates finally have agreed upon a draft of what they say is merely a progress report for See SOVIET On Page Two CHILDREN INJURED WHEN BRAKES FAIL Crowded School Bus Slides Backward Down Hill Near Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga„ Sept. 8—(U.R) —Brakes on a packed school bus failed on a steep incline near suburban Fairburn today and the vehicle slid backward down the hill and overturned, injuring 12 screaming grammar school chil dren and two adults in the wreck. The injured were token to Fairburn by a passer in a pickup truck and none were hurt se riously. From there they were brought to hospitals in Atlanta in emergency ambulances and automobiles. Preston Stanfield, 15-year-old student and passenger on the bus which carried 40 children and See CHILDREN on Page Two MAN, THREE WOMEN FACE MAYHEM COUNT AT OCALA, FLORIDA OCALA, Fla., Sept. 8.—(U.R)— A man and woman, proprieters of a roadside tavern, and two waitresses in the establishment were charged today with beating up another waitress, cutting her hair with a pocketknife, strip ping off her clothes and leav ing her naked in the woods. Police said charges of assault and battery and mayhem had been filed against Jack Upham and his wife, proprietors of the tavern; Billie Kirby, 23, and Donnie Miccicher, 22, for the at tack on Mrs. Louise Bennett, 26. Police said Upham and his wife e.cused Mrs. Bennett of taking $20 from the cash register. WILMINGTON COLLEGE OPENS—History was made in the New Hanover High school building last night when the Wilmington college formally opened its doors to students of Southeastern Nor th Carolina. Pictured above are a group of students composing a portion of the 159 students enrolled. While the college has 53 less students than the college center which operated last year, Dean Dale Spencer says he expects a greater number to enroll after the first semester. Classes begin at 4 p.m. and close at 9 p.m. (STAFF PHOTO BY MAYNARD) THREE CHILDREN KILLED BY BLAST Five Others Injured When Boy Drops Bazooka Rock et On Pavement NEWTbN, Mass., Sept. 8. — (IP)— A Bazooka rocket explosion which killed three children and injured five others in their farm home was under investigation to day by Fort Riley officials. The Bazooka, w hich Arnold Schmidt, father of the children, said he had picked up near Fort Riley, exploded last night after one of the youngsters threw it on a cement walk. Killed instantly was Calvin Schmidt, 11. Portions of the child’s body were found scat tered over a wide area. Caroline 7, and Paul David 9, died enroute to the hospital. In a critical condition arid not expected to live are Donald 15 and Lorene 5. The three other See THREE On Page Two CRASH OF FERRIES DROWNS 30PEOPLE Two Passenger Boats Col lide In Darkness Near Nicheroy, Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Sept. 8. —(U.R)— Thirty persons were drowned or injured fatal ly last night when two passenger ferries plying between Rio and the town of Nicheroy collided in the darkness, police reported to day. Another 71 persons were injur ed. One of the ferries capsized quickly after the collision, trap ping nine of the victims inside. The water-logged vessel was See CRASH On Page Two Along The Cape Fear FORT FISHER LAND FACE— The land face defending Fort Fisher during the Civil War was built to withstand the heaviest possible artillery fire, especially from vessels. No moat was^con structed, however, to be used in halting advancing land forces due to the steady shifting of the sands that made such a task virtually impossible. The work was designed and carried out under the di rection of Colonel William Lamb, commander of the fortification during most of the time it was held by the Confederacy. The outer slope was about 20 feet high and was sodded with marsh grass, which grew lux uriantly in spots. The parapet was not less than 25 feet thick and had an inclination of only one foot. The top of the parapet or the revetment was five feet, nine inches from the floor of the gun chambers. The guns all were mounted on carriages, no guns in the fort being stationary or placed in casements. Each gun chamber had one or two guns. In addition to g u n s in the gun chambers, guns were placed between those chambers to the number of 20. As protections against fire, cross-pieces or traverses that ran at right angles to the fort proper, were erected. They were in the form of trenches running back more than 30 feet from the gun chambers. * * * SEE FACE—The sea face of the fort was of the same mas sive construction as the land face built to resist artillery fire and particularly the heavy guns of battleships. A crescent-shaped battery in tended to house four guns was erected on the north end of the face. After its construction, how ever, it was made into a bomb proof hospital. A series of bat ties ran along the sea for about three - quarter miles. These batteries were about 12 feet to the top of the parapet. Further along where the chan nel ran close to the beach, a mound battery 60 feet high was See CAPE FEAR On Page Two Dry-Icersi Make Rain For Dry Winstonians BLOWS OUT NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8. — (U.R) — A small tropical storm which moved along the Mis sissippi coast this morning blew itself out late today, the U. S. Weather Bureau announced here. The Weather bureau or dered all storm warnings lowered from Valparaiso, Fla., to Biloxi, Miss., at 4 p. m., EST, and said no further ad visories would be issued. MARGARINE DROPS FIVE CENTS POUND However, Meat, Coffee, Butter, Tallow Advanc ed In Price Yesterday NEW YORK, Sept. 8 —(A>)— Meat, coffee, butter and tallow advanced in price today, but margarine manufacturers an nounced a price reduction of about 5 cents a pound. Another bright note came from Kansas City where cattle receipts reached a new high for the year, foreshadowing larger supplies in the future. The present, however, was gloomy enough, with Porter house steak retailing in New York at $1 a pound—31 cents higher than a year ago. Spot butter added another cent on the Nev; York Mercantile Exchange for a new 1947 high of 84 1-2 cents, an increase of 12 3-8 cents a pound since Aug. 1. Two of the largest grocery chains advanced coffee 2 cents a pound equallying the highs set Feb. 17. Soap manufacturers found See MARGARINE on Page Two Pilots Aid Weatherman By Causing 15-Minute Show Over Meadows WINSTON-SALEM, Sept 8— Iff)—Winston-Salem’s dry-icers proved they could help the weath erman along this afternoon by causing a heavy 15-minute show er at Meadows, near Walnut Cove. The rainmakers dropped their dry ice in a heavy cloud over the Walnut Cove area at 4:35 p. m. and at 4:46 p. m. from a Piedmont aviation plane. O its way down, the plane ran through rain. A few minutes before 5 p. m. the Meadows community had its downpour. Mrs. Reid George, of Meadows,said she had heard the planes flying over a few minutes before thn shower started, and told her husband that rain was on the way—she had heard about the rainmaking experiment. “Sure enough, it started rain ing just a few minutes later,” she said. The experiment was sponsored by the city of Winston Salem seeking means to help solve the critical water short age. Piedmont aviation had agreed to send its planes up to scatter the dry ice and see what would happen. The experiments See DRY-ICERS On Page Two DIVORCE DECREES MAY BE ILLEGAL Court Clerk Questions Legality Of Suits Tried In Criminal Courts GREENSBORO, Sept. 8.— M>) —Joseph P. Shore, clerk of Giul gord Superior Court, warned this morning that the legality of divorce decrees obtained at crim inal court terms is doubtful be cause of apparently conflicting laws adopted by the 1947 Gen eral Assembly. Despite the warning, however, two local attorneys this morn ing brought divorce cases into the criminal session of Superior •Court here and obtained decrees. See DIVORCE On Page Two PRESS REACTION PLEASES TRUMAN President Reads Clippings On Speech As “Mighty Mo” Sails North .Aboard Battleship Missouri, ABOARD BATTLESHIP MIS SOURI, Sept. 8. — (U.R) — Presi dent Truman sailed homeward through the choppy waters of the Tropic of Capricorn tonight, satisfied that his good-neighbor visit to Brazil had been a person al and diplomatic triumph. Mr. Truman was taking life easy, enjoying his first real vaca tion of the summer, as the migh ty Battleship Missouri moved Northward toward the equator at 18 knots. Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the President spent some time this morning reading clip pings from American newspa pers, flown to him from Wash ington. Ross said Mr. Truman was pleased with the editorial comment on his hemispheric solidarity speech to the Inter American Defense Conference at Petropolis, Brazil. Mr. Truman Was said to feel that U. S. reaction to his trip, See PRESS on Page Two SCHOOLS TO GET AID FOR LUNCHES Agriculture Department Al locates $48, 750,000 For Program This Year WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 —UR— The Agriculture Department to day allocated $48,750,000 for this year’s national school lunch program. That amount, the department said in an announcement, came out of the $65,000,000 Congres sional appropriation for the school lunches. It will be used by state and territorial educational agencies to pay schools taking part in the program for part of their purchases of food for school lunches. Aside from the amount need ed for administration of the pro gram, the announcement said that the Agriculture Depart ment itself will use the re mainder to buy food needed by See SCHOOLS on Page Two “Forgotten Landlady” Gets No Rent Sympathy SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 8 — (ff)—Mrs. Anna E. Boyer, the self-styled “Forgotten Ameri can” Landlady, stuck today to a professed diet of ice water and olive oil and vowed to die of hunger unless federal agen cies permit rent increases in her dilapidated two-stor# apart ment dwelling. The 73-year-old woman says that since last Thursday she has taken only two or three quarts of ice water daily, and, for “medical purposes,” an oc casional teaspoon of olive oil. No sympathy came, however, from federal rent authorities. The Area Director, Robert J. Travis, said that differences be tween Mrs. Boyer and the au thorities came to a head the morning before she began her professed hunger strike. She was called upon to refund an alleged $25 rent overcharge on a basement apartment. Travis said he did not know whether she made the refund. The area director also said See LANDLADY on Page Two -J Train Passengers Victims Of Hate United Press Man Count| Fifty Bodies At Main t Capital Station BY JAMES MICHAELS UNITED PRESS STAFF CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, INDIA, Sept. 8.—(UP)—Bearded Sikhs pulled Moslem men, women and child ren from a railroad train in the main station of this Capital of Hindu India today and killed them with three-foot swords as Hindu troops and policemen stood by, watching, but not in terfering. The train was attacked as it arrived from Lahore, which is in the Moslem part of the Pun jab. It was loaded with refu gees who had escaped from the Eastern part, which is Hindu. I counted at least 50 bodies, all chopped and cut, piled on baggage trucks, lying in com partments of the cars, or stretched across the tracks. In a similar incident on a smaller scale in Karachi, the Capital of Moslem Pakistan, Moslem refugees from the Eas tern Punjab burst into the rail road station and killed 12 Hin dus and Sikhs. Four Sikhs were killed in other incidents there. Panic spread in Capitals of both the New Dominions among law abiding people because of the total failure of efforts of the authorities to stamp out the flaming fire of hatred between Eee TRAIN On Page Two AMERICAN PILOT FOILS BOMB PLOT Birmingham Man Gets Scot* land Yard Protection From Stern Gang PARIS, Sept. 8. —(JP)— Nine persons, including an American Rabbi, were held today for po lice investigation of an alleged plot to “bomb” London with Stern gang leaflets, but Reginald Gilbert, 24-year-old Birmingham, Ala., native who was engaged to pilot the “bombing” plane, was released and flown to England in an RAF plane. Gilbert, arrested with Rabbi Baruch Korff and the latter’s woman secretary at an airport near Versailles Saturday, work ed with police to foil the plan to drop the Jewish underground propaganda leaflets on London. The young pilot was reported by friends to have been put un der Scotland Yard’s protection until he can return to the United States. Korff announced he was on a hunger strike when he appeared in the police line-up today. He and eight others were brought before Judge Fernand Golleti and charged with possession oT “pamphlets of foreign origin.” THREE WORKMEN DIE FROM BLACK DAMP IN STEEL MILL WELL FOLLANSBEE, W. Va„ Sept. 8 —(U.R)— Three workers were killed by black damp today dur ing repairs on a 45-foot deep well at the Follansbee Si:'’. Co. Charles Fowler, 60, a pipe fit-C ter foreman, was the first to be overcome. Roger Ryan, 34, a pipe fitter’s helper, and John Schmitts, 30, .a pipe fitter, were overcome in rescue attempts. All three were dead on arrival at Gill hospital, Steubenville, O. Seven other workers were af fected by the gas while trying to bring up the bodies of the three men, but six were discharged after treatment, and the other was to be discharged tomorrow. And So To Bed Jennings Otts, State im migration officer, related yesterday how he was about to get the obituary editor of the Star a news item. Otts said that Sunday night, he heard a scrambling noise on the upstairs porch of his home. As time pass ed, the noise got louder. Finally, he said, he got nerve to go up to the perch. When he did, he saw what appeared first to be a cat. Then it happened. The “thing” jumped from the porch onto the ground. It was then, Otts said, that he discovered the animal to be a raccoon. Instead of the obituary column, the pet racoon in in the “And So To Bed” column.
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