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_ 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—<U.R>—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. — <U.R) —
Bread prices will be boosted to
morrow in several cities in
another cost-of-living increase
which bakers attributed to the
soaring prices at grain exchanges.
Bakers in Chicago, New York,
Omaha, Milwaukee, Atlanta and
Pittsburgh announced increases
of one to two gents a loaf. Otner
bakers across the nation were ex
pected to take similar action.
In New York, two major
bakeries announced increases of
one cent, making the retail price
16 cents for an 18-ounce loaf. An
Omaha bakery, serving Nebraska
and parts of Iowa, boosted its
prices two cents, making the cost
of a 20-ounce loaf 17 cents.
VICTIM OF CRASH
BELIEVED FOUND
Pisco. Puru Reports Body
Of Man Washed Up On
Shore At San Juan
LIMA, Peru, Oct. 19—W)—Re
ports received today from Pisco,
Peru, said a body believed to
be that of one of the victims of
the U. S. Army transport plane
which crashed off Southern Peru
Sept. 19 had been washed
ashore at San Juan. The body
was flown to Lima for identifica
tion.
(The Army Air Force in Wash
ington previously announced that
nine Americans, one a woman,
were killed or missing in the
crash, which occurred after the
See VICTIM on Page Two
Lifting Of Voluntary Ban
On Egg Eating Ex
pected Also
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 —Wl—
The Citizens Food committee
appeared ready tonight to aban
don poultryless Thursdays if it
gets strong assurances of grain
saving cooperation from poul
trymen and the feed industry
in sessions starting tomorrow.
Officials indicated to report
ers that any such decision prob
ably would include lifting of the
voluntary Thursday ban on
eggs also, but this was less cer
tain because egg production
is seasonally down and storage
supplies have declined.
Committee officials em
phasized their belief that Chair
man Charles Luckman would
not yield on the chickenless
day, however, unless poultry
raisers and the makers and
sellers of poultry feed offer
specific conservation measures
to further the committee’s goal
—100,000,000 additional bushels
of grain for Europe this winter.
The meeting, originally
scheduled to bring only leaders
of the National Poultry Pro
ducers Federation to Washing
ton, was expanded by Luckman
last week to include the Ameri
can Feed Manufacturers Asso
ciation and the Grain and Feed
Dealers Association.
Day Of Reminder
Meanwhile the committee an
nounced that a “day of re
minder” of Europe’s need will
be held—probably on the Sun
day before Thanksgiving—in all
Protestant churches.
The observance was arranged
tentatively in an exchange of
messages between Luckman
and Charles P. Taft, president
of the Federal Council Of The
Churches of Christ In America.
Taft wired President Truman
See FOOD on Page Two
World’s Best Undressed
Man Hates Itchy Clothes
CHICAGO, Oct. 19—(U.R)—I ran
into my old friend, Alois Knapp,
on the street today and didn’t
recognize him.
He was wearing clothes.
The last time I saw him was
during the fourth of July week
end at the Zoro Nature Camp
near Roselawn, Ind., and he was
in the raw like the rest of the
“skin folks’ there.
Knapp calls himself the world’s
best undressed man—the nation s
No. 1 Nudist. He looked a little
fidgety in clothes and kept dig
ging under his collajr.
“Clothes itch me,” he said.
That’s the trouble with winter,
as far as the Nudists are con
cerned. You have to wear clothes.
He said he and other Nudists al
ways were unhappy in the winter
time.
“Most of the people at our
camp,” Knapp said, “keep their
suntan all winter by sitting out
in the daylight or absorbing sun
through artificial means."
The No. 1 nude himself won’t
wear pajamas, underwear—or
even a vest.
Too itchy.
Vishinsky Slated
For Major Speech
Deputy Foreign Minister
Expected To Make New
Blast At U. S.
LAKE SUCCESS. N. Y., Oct 1*.
— W — Behind-the-scenes dick
ering set the stage tonight for a
break in the bitter East-West
deadlock in the United Nations
General Assembly over the elec
tion of Poland’s successor in the
UN Security Council.
AT the same time a Soviet
official disclosed that Deputy
Foreign Minister Andrei Vishin
sky would deliver an important
address to the 57 Unted Nations
tomorrow, when delegates hold
their first plenary session in
nearly three weeks at the big
assembly hall in Flushing Mea
dows.
The spokesman would not dis
close the contents of Vishinsky’*
speech, but it was believed to
contain a new blast at the West
ern powers, either for their try
ing to keep a Soviet satellite
off the Security Council or for
their activities in Greece.
Both issues will come to a
head beginning at 11 a m. to
morrow.
Delegates must break the cru
See YISMINSKY on Page Two
WALLACE EXPECTS
NEW SALES MARK
Sikes Expects Market To
Pass 12 Million-Pound
Total Today
WALLACE, Oct. 19. — The
Wallace Tobacco market Was cer
tain to push past the 12,000,000
pound mark in volume of 3ales
for the reason tomorrow, accord
ing to John Sikes, sale super
visor.
The market also bid fair to
continue its leadership among all
15 markets in the Eastern North
Carolina Belt, Sikes said.
Though last Friday the mar
ket had sold 11,889,786 net pounds
and 12,292,334 gross pounds since
the season opened Aug. 25. Gross
pounds represent all tobaccos that
have passed over warehouse
floor here, including resales. N«t
pounds are the actual number
of pounds of farmers’ tobacco that
has been placed on the floor.
Sikes predicted tonight that
Wallace would sell around 400,
000 pounds tomorrow, equalling
See WALLACE on Page Two
TURKEY TAKES STEPS
TO PREVENT CHOLERA
SPREAD FROM EGYPT
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 19—
If)—Air and sea communication
between Turkey and Egypt were
suspended indefinitely today in
a move to prevent the Egyptian
cholera epidemic from spread
ing here.
The Health Ministry - an
nounced compulsory cholera in
noculations for all residents of
Turkey’s Southern provinces and
prepared for vaccinations on a
nationwide scale.
Southern frontiers with Syria
and Iraq were virtually sealed.
No cases of cholera have been
reported officially in Turkey as
yet.
And So To Bed
Hunting is a very large
item on the agenda of the
folks over in the nearby
tobacco town of Wallace,
John Sikes, Sales Supervisor
over there, reported last
night to the Star staff, which
seldom gets the chance to
hunt anything more animate
than a late-night cup of cof
fee.
But only rarely do the
Wallace Nimrods mix swim
ming with their hunting.
That is, until last Friday
morning.
Bill Hussey, Jr., and a com
panion went squirreling. Bill
shot a small squirrel out of
a tree on a creek bank. The
squirrel fell into the creek.
Hussey’s companion essayed
the role of retriever.
He retrieved the squirrel
—in water up to his shoul
ders. He decided to ford on
across the creek to the other
side.
Last thing young Hussey
saw of his companion was
the tip end of his shot-gun,
barely sticking out of the
surface of the water.
(Editor’s note: The com
panion didn't drown, in case
you’re alarmed. He made it
to the other side — til wet.)