Wtlmtngtnn iHonttaQ B>tat* _t>jO 51 " _ --— -——— _ 1—- — WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1947 Severe Storm (Joes Seaward Atlantic Mainland To Es cape Latest Tropical Disturbance MIAMI. Fla., Oct. 19.—UP)—A ■evere hurricane, with winds " jj 0ver 100 miles an hour, ved toward Bermuda late to w-;th indications that it 'uld continue Northeastward . the Atlantic. a 4:30 p. m. (EST) advis . ,hc Miami Weather Bureau or;.111 , , i hi the storm was centered ’’a. 340 miles Southwest of. t .nuda and would pass close t/that island late tonight or i-rlv tomorrow. jde storm was moving north! Northeastward about 15 miles 'hour, with hurricane force ;.inds extending outward 80 piles to the East and North of the center. j Gales extend outward 200 J piles to the North and East, the Weather Bureau said. Ship ping in the path of the hurri cane was urged to exercise “ex [rente caution. Away From Mainland The center should continue Northeast to North Northeast movement, the Weather Bureau jaid. which would bring it close, to Bermuda but well away j from the mainland of the United I States. The storm was born in the North Atlantic Friday in the vicinity of Turks Island. It first moved Northwestward around Turks and Caicos islands, then increased its intensity as it moved toward the Southeastern Bahamas. Yesterday it began a slow curve to the Northward and gradually veered to the North east, at 14‘to 15 miles per hour. From the first, it was classed as ‘‘potentially dangerous” and later wind measurements con firmed the predictions. POOR INSPECTION CAUSE OF CRASH Senate Experts Fixes Blame For Fatal EAL Accident May 30 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — M*> - A Senate probe of the crash of in Eastern Airlines plane on May 30 which killed 59 persons found today ■ that “faulty in ipection may have been the cause.” This was the finding of Carl p ian, professional staff member for the Senate’s Aviation sub fommittee. Boland's report, which he made after listening to testimony taken by the Civil Aeronautics Board and making an indepen dent check, added that “what actually happened, and when, W'.i'1 apparently never be de termined.” D‘ian did say that “faulty maintenance and inspection were involved in this accident.” The Cab in a preliminary re fort on the crash on July 1 found >hat “some unit or assembly” failed in the tail f the airliner, which went into a dive in clear weather near Cambridge, Md., an a flight from New York to Miami. Dolan's findings appear to dif fer from those of Chairman Brewster (R-Me.,) of the aviation subcommittee, who said the Dolan report “indicated structural fail ures were the chief cause.” NAVY SEEKS COMPASS THAT WILL HOLD SEA LEGS IN CROWS NEST WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—UP)— ■ke Navy is looking for a mag pie compass that won’t get sea s,ck in the crow’s nest. * During the war it was found j"at installing a master compass on a ship’s mast got it *"'ay from the ship’s magnetic influence and the magnetic 'nanges caused by firing the big *®s' Remote-reading compass 5: down below were controlled ® the master. fde roiling and pitching of a , st made the needle fluctuate much, the Navy found, and ,,ls now trying to perfect (with help of a 75-foot artificial . ast> a compass that keeps its -sa-legs The Weather Partiyr *'v'. Carolina—Clear to ^scia>'Ci0UcJ'v anc* Monday and tt4tet0r,0.logicaI data for the 24 hours 1-et pm yesterday: 1:30 TEMPERATURES ’:J* Dm t 70, 7 :30 am **» 1:30 Pm 84. Mean «" Maximum 85, Minimum 68. formal 75. 1:» . , HUMIDITY <:3o °0, ,:3a am 95, 1:30 pm 54, Total , PRECIPITATION C.- r yr the 24 hours ending 7:30 •north ' -Total since the first of the 084 inches. horn .71,)f:s FOR TODAY ■ g 1 Tide Tables published by and Geodetic Survey.) Vil„,i High Uow r'e1°" - 1 -44 am 3 :56 am •Uaoabor, , 2:18 pm 9:40 pm or“ .'.net ... 12:00 am 5:25 am • Binds, , „ 11:50 pm 6:21pm Bij4 ^ S:21 Sunset 5:32; Moonrise Moonset 10:13 pm. Truman-Stalin Talk Urged As Peace Ace Rep. Canfield Tells Reporters President Owes It To Mankind TV^Have Straight From Shoulder Vith “Joe” WASHINGTON, O' W—Rep. Canfip’ declarde today t aapP* ing 16 countries ~ and the Middle Ea 'Ydid not meet “a mili.ary or state leader but who thought wav between the United Stales and Russia was in evitable.” Canfield, member of a House Armed Services sub committee which returned yesterday from abroad, said: "*i is time President Tur man had a face to face, straight from the shoulder, talk with Mr. Stalin. ‘‘Apparently the Russians do not talk business unless it is with the ‘highest level.’ President Truman owes it to the American people and mankind everywhere to (^wr -now and to make sure V 3c the score and endeavor to close a breach widening everywhere.” In a statement, Canfield said the United States must keep strong militarily and not run out of its European garrisons. He added that “we must plan immediat ly” to save the American I availation industry because Russia is expanding its air plane production. Canfield laso said that Congress should take up “immediately” the Mars hall, or some similar, plan, for aid to Europe. He added that American information service abroad “is woefully weak and must be strengthened.” Cutter Bibb Gets Noisy Welcome At Boston Pier PLANE PRANKSTER ATLANTA, Oct. 19—WP)—A 12-year-old boy, who always has been fascinated by planes, crawled into one at the air port early today, started the engine and taxied dou . the field, only to bump into a huge Delta DC-3. Patdolman J. E. Vaughn said the lad was Clifford Tom mie of nearby Hapeville and that he was unhurt. Both the small plane Clifford tried to borrow” and the airlinei were slightly damaged. The officer reported he took the youth home where, he said, the parents thought thei son was still in bed. ATTLEE PREPARE FOR NEW PROGRAM Socialist-Dominated Com mons Plans Gas Industry Nationalization LONDON, Oct. 19——Brit ain’s Socialist-dominated Com mons will begin its third session Tuesday prepared to nationalize the gas industry but apparent ly resigned to postponing govern ment ownership of the iron and steel industries for at least an other year. King George VI will open the parliamentary session with the traditional king’s speech, written for him by Prime Minister Cle ment Attlee’s Labor government, listing the principal legislation to be introduced in the 1947-48 sitting. Well-informed political sources said that the cabinet had decid ed to add the gas industry to the list of nationalized institi tions which already includes the Bank of England, coal mines, See ATTLEE on Page Two GALAX CITIZENS RETURNING HOME Mopping Up Process Con tinues After Disastrous Flash Flood GALAX, Va„ Oct. 19—W—The 3,000 citizens of this valley town today began mopping up after a freak flash flood which swept in without warning shortly after midnight Friday, forcing 150 fam ilies to abandon their homes, de stroying a half a dozen dwellings and knocking out the town’s only water supply. By mid-afternoon today, volun teer squads of workers had the town pumping system dried out and for the first time in more than 48 hours, drinking water was available. Mayor Ross C. Penrey, who predicted the damage would run between two and three million See GALAX on Page Two Coast Guard Vessel Com pletes Historic Rescue Mission BOSTON, Oct. 19. — m — A rescue that will live in sea history was completed today when the Coast Guard Bibb landed the 69 survivors of the “ditched" Trans-Atlantic Air liner Bermuda Sky Queen to re ceive a heroes’ welcome. But high praise for Coast Guardsmen and others who ef fected the rescue 300 miles off Newfoundland last Tuesday was mixed with demands from pass engers for an investigation of the plane’s forced landing in rough seas. At least a half dozen of the rescue protested the plane was overcrowded and some said there was a shortage of safety belts Along with the cheering crowds greeted the Bibb at the Con stitution wharf — a crowd re sembling those that haled re turning troop ships — were in vestigators of the Civil Aero nautics Board. One of the rescued, William Bostock, Shell Oil Company em ployee, said a declaration was signed by all but three of the plane’s adult passengers asking “why planes of this type are al lowed to fly.” The Bibb’s arrival was a triumphal procession from the harbor entrance to Constitution wharf as sjje took the salutes See BIBB on Page Two NATION PUNCHES MANY FIRE CALLS President’s Conference Lists 1,006,719 Alarms In 1946 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—W— President Truman’s conference on fire prevention estimated today that the nation punched out 1, 006,719 fire alarms in 1946, 32 per cent more than at the last count in 1942. The sharpest increase, a con ference study showed, was in fires away from buildings—in lots, fields, streets, parks, wood land, automobiles, trucks and trains. Such ffc-es increased 45 per cent from 339,055 in 1942 to 448, 381 in 1946. Fires in buildings increased 14 per cent, from 311,280 to 335, 332. False and miscellaneous alarm jumped 42 per cent, from 114,451 to 163,006. The conference said the in crease in fires and fire alarms was evidenced in all types of cities, with “outside” fires in creasing most notably in the larg er cities. The conference based its re port on fire alarm data submitted by 1,584 cities. The conference is made up of various citizens directly interested in fire pre vention, such as insurance com pany officials and others. “Father-To-Be” At 88 Likes His Red Peppers DES MOINES, la., Oct. 19 _(U.R)—Luis A. Carrizales, 88, wondered today what all the fuss was about. Sure, he said, his wife is go ing to have a baby in December. He didn’t think that was news. Asked how he felt about it, he replied: “I don’t feel anything about it'” x TUT Hi<5 23-year-old wife, Mary, didn’t want to discuss the mat ter unless her husband said she could. But she slyly admitted she expects the baby early in December. It will be the couple s third child. The first, Sandra Kay, was born Oct. 24, 1945; the second, Frederick, was born last Nov. 11. Carrizales has seven other children by two previous marriages. After Sandra Kay was born, he announced that he kept fit by “eating lots of red peppers, chopping wood and chinning himself 20 times every day ” He takes red peppers in his lunch pail and has more for din ner at home. After Frederick was born he said “that’s enough.” “I don’t want any more.” Now he’s not talking. ft * Stage Set For Break In Bitter East-West Security Seat Battle; DeGaulle Party Takes Big Lead Communists Lose Strength In City Paris Precincts Give Good Majorities To RPF Candidates PARIS. Oct. 19 — UP)—Gen. Charles De Gaulle’S anti-Com munist Rally Of the French People (RPF) took an early lead tonight in returns from municipal elections held throughout France. A tabulation of the first 1, 000,000 votes counted in various French cities showed: RPF 371,638 (36.75 per cent) Communists 294,534 (29.10 per cent) Socialists 210,575 (20.80 per cent) Popular Republican Move ment (MRP) 117,644 (11.60 per cent) Other parties 17,287 (1.87 per cent) De Gaulle, the Free French leader of the war, had barn stormed the country in his pre electiop campaign. His RPF ran for the first time in the Sunday balloting which wgs re garded as giving a new indica tion of Communist and anti communist strength in the Fourth republic. Bidault Weak Thus far the MRP, the Cen terist party of Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, apparently was not polling its usual strength. De Gaulle’s party was show ing its greatest strength in Paris where the threat of a gen eral strike dominated the elec tion atmosphere. First tabula RPF more than 50 per cent of tions in the capital gave the the vote counted. At Rennes, in conservative Brittany, the See COMMUNISTS on Page Two VIOLENCE TAKES HIGH LIFE TOLL At Least Six Deaths Re ported In North Caro lina Over Weekend By The Associated Press At least six persons died by violence in North Carolina dur ing the weekend. Cabarrus County Coroner N. J. Mitchell reported that Mrs. Ethel Linker, 31, ot Kannapolis apparently led her daughter, Mary Ann, 7, into a lake near Concord and then drowned the little girl and herself. Clyde Baker, 48, died at a Raleigh hospital, Sunday of wounds suffered in a shooting last Tuesday at his son’s home near Clayton. Sheriff C. L. Den ning said that the son, Elton Baker, had been arrested in connection with the shooting. Grover C. Barnes, 35, died at his home near Chadbourn Sun day of shotgun wounds which Coroner Hugh Nance ruled were self-inflicted. , Charles G. George, 45, Wil mington native, died in a Kin ston hospital of injuries suffered Sunday night when his motor cycle went out of control about three miles south of Kinston. Harold Hall, 22, of Elizabeth town died at the Veterans hos pital at Fayetteville Sunday of injuries he sufered Saturday night when the automobile in which he was riding went out of control and crashed into a tree on the Fayetteville-LUling ton highway. ' SIX MEN HURT IN CRASH of two cars on South Front street and Southern blvd., late Satur day night. Above photo shows Lieut. T. B. Hughes looking at the car driven by C. L. Woolen of Atlanta. The photo at left gives mute evidence of the demolish ing effects of the head-on crash. Five men were riding in the Wol len car, all suffered injuries. The car on the left was driven by Authur C. Diehl of Wilmington, who was alone at the time of the crash. William Underwood, Jack Tuggle and Diehl are patients at James Walker hospital, where their condition was reported as “satisfactory” by attaches last night. (Staff Photos by Roy Cook). Food Committee May Abandon Poultry less Thursday Shortly UNDERWOOD LL ON CRITIC/ 1ST Victim Of After Midnight Auto Crash Remains Unconscious Here Twenty-two-year-old William C. Underwood, 205 North Fourth street and Blue Ridge, Ga., was still unconscious and in a “criti cal” condition at James Walker Memorial hospital at a late hour last night after being brought in with five other young men as a result of a head-on collision here early Sunday morning. Arthur C. Diehl, 24. 1809 Grace street, and Jack Tuggle, 510 Grace street and Atlanta, Ga., were listed by hospital at tendants last night as in “satis factory” condition. Both suffered head and face injuries and Diehl sustained leg injuries, accord ing to investigating police of ficers. Nature and extent of Un derwood’s injuries were not known by police last night. Three other youths—Clyde L. Woolen, 20, 205 North Fourth street and Atlanta; Raymond Whitesell, 22, 510 Grace street and Burlington; and Edwin El lis, 21, 807 Market street and See UNDERWOOD on Page Two Along The Cape Fear REBELLION IN NORTH CAR OLINA—In the Cape Fear Valley the period of reconstruction fol lowing the Civil war was at tended with more than the ordi nary difficulties that beset the South in the latter part of the 19th century. As a matter of fact, within five years after the conclusion of the War Between the States in 1865, North Carolina had a full dress rehearsal for a little war of its own. Although only a very few of the least desirable citi zens of the valley may have played a small part in it, the incident portrays the turbulence that beset the entire state during that period. The disturbance was born in the spring of 1870 when the murder of John W. Stephens, Republican leader of Caswell, at the very bar of justice in the Yanceyville courthouse, coupled with the lynching of a Negro in Alamance, resulted in Governor William W. Holden declaring tr.e two counties to be in a state of rebellion. He organized two regi ments of troops to suppress the "insurrection.” One of these regiments came to the verge of precipitating the state into civil war. * * * KIRK’S RAIDERS—Under the commander of Col. George W. Kirk, of Tennessee, this regiment was recruited from the most un desirable element of the popula tion, with more than 200 of its men from outside the state, and approximately 400 being young men under military age. Of these latter, a few may have been drawn from the valley of the Cape Fear. The murder of Stephens had been laid to the recently organized Ku Klux Klan, but the reign of terror that characterized the looting and pillaging of Kirk’s regiment in Alamance and Caswell fairly out Kluxed the Klan. One hundred and one citizens of the two counties were arrest ed by Kirk, thrown into prison without opportunity to make bond, and scheduled to be court martialed. [See CAPE FEAR on Fftfu Two BAKERS MAY BOOST BREAD PRICES ONE TO TWO CENTS LOAF CHICAGO, Oct. 19. —