Brief Review Of State, National And World News During The Past Week
GEORGIA ABOLISHES KU
KLUX KLAN CHARTER
Atlanta, Ga.—The State of
Georgia abolished the Ku Klux
Klan’s charter when the secret
order abruptly dropped its fight
for corporate survival, but Grand
Dragon Samuel F. Greene called
the action meaningless and as
serted “The K. K. K. will ride
so long as a white man liveth.”
The peppery Atlanta obstetri
cian spoke out in a sultry court
room after Superior judge Bond
Almand signed orders revoking
the Georgia charter of the hood
|Fed knights and dissolving the na
” tional organization’s corporate
status.
Klan Counsel Morgan Belser
surprised the handful of specta
tors by requesting the “double
dissolution” order shortly after
the hearing opened. But State
Attorney General Eugene Cook
also had got the jump on Belser
by dropping original suit charges
thaFthe Klan was dovetailed with
the German American bund and
various subversive groups.
GOVERNMENT TO TRY
TO STOP ACCIDENTS
Washinton — President Tru
man conferred twice with James
M. Landis, Civil Aeronautics
Board chairman, amid reports
that the Government intends to
take quick and drastic action in
efforts to stop airline crashes.
There were indications that
some step in connection with air
safejy might be taken at the
White House, but Presidential
Secretary Charles G. Ross told re
porters no statement would be
issued last night.
The reports that the Govern
ment intends to take action em
ulated among aviation men. A
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI !
HAMPERED BY STRIKE
St, Louis—Public transporta
tion in the metropolitan St. Louis '
area of more than 1,000,000 per
sons was tied .up by a strike of :
the city's 3,500 streetcar and bus j
operators, and tnousands exper- j
ienced difficulty and delay in
getting to and from work.
Main thoroughfares wer jam
med during the rush hours with
private automobiles. Traffic
snarls developed at numerous in
tersections, despite special police
measures to regulate the flow
of traffic.
Most persons managed to re
port for work one way or an
other, and business and insti
tutions generally reported oper
ations were about normal. Motor
ists joined in a spirit of com
munity co-operation and shared
their cars.
BARUCH LAUDS WAR
LEADERS IN PEACETIME
Washington—Bernard M. Bar
uch praised the peacetime ser
vices of military leaders and said
“they should not be forced into
a secondary citizenship.”
“I resent the implication that
these war leaders are less able
or willing to discharge their du
ties in peace,” he said. “I reject
Federal official acknowledged
some step is under consideration,
but declined to discuss possibili
ties.
Landis, the Government’s top
aviation official, began a round
of conferences immediately af
ter his return yesterday after
noon from New York, where he
has been Investigating the re
cent crash at LaGuardia Field
which took a toll of 43 lives.
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FOOTBALL 18 HIS GAME ... As young fellow patients look on from
their beds at Philadelphia Shrine hospital, Henry la (teen the thrill of
a lifetime aa he listens to tips on his favorite sport from three Pennsyl
vania university stars, left to rifht: Ed Allen, Bemie Gallagher,
Henry, and Arthnr Littleton. Henry hopes some day to be well enough
to discard his crutches and boot the ball to football stardom.
House Group Slices Funds
Requested By Pres. Truman
Washington — Budget cuts
ranging from 30 per cent for he
Atomic Energy Commission to
1.8 per cent for the Veterans Ad
ministration were ordered by the
House Appropriations Committee.
The committee acted in sending
to the House floor an $8,167,869,
027 appropriation bill supplying
funds for the fiscal year starting
July 1 for 33‘so-called “independ
ent offices”-the agencies not con
nected with any of the regular
departments headed by Cabinet
the theory that they think nar
rowly and rigidly in terms of
war.”
Baruch spoke at the Army War
College. A bust of Baruch was
presented by his associates on
the War Industries Board.
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secretaries.
The total o f new appropriations
is less than President Truman
asked by $330,540,732, or 3.9 per
cent.
This reduction brings to about
$3,580,000,000 the total appropria
tion cuts approved in the House
to date from the President’s $37,
500,000,000 budget, with only
three comparatively small appro
priation bills still to come.
The Senate, which so far has
acted on only two of the eight
major appropriation bills passed
by the House, is generally ex
pected to restore a part of the
funds which the House counted
as savings.
Its Appropriations Committee
put back $54,116,840 of the money
the House had cut out of the In
terior Department’s supply bill,
approving a total of $215,530,350.
Although the independent of
fice bill calls for actual reductions
of $330,540,732 from direct bud
get requests, the G. O. P.-con
trolled House Appropriations
Committee claimed the bill rep
resents otal savings of $1,411,
690,732.
Farm Accidents
Take Great Toll
During the one hour you take
for dinner each day, two farm
residents will be accidentally
killed and 205 injured, according
to David S. Weaver, head of the
Agricultural Engineering depart
ment at State College. i
In giving these facts that were
found by the National Safety
Council, Prof. Weaver advises
the use of good common sense
in keeping down the accident
tolls this year.
In 194t>, about 4,500 farm work
ers were killed and approxima
tely 300,000 farm workrs were
injured. During the same year It
is estimated that motor vehicle
deaths to farm residents increas
ed about 1,000 over 1945.
Unless extra precautions are
taken this year, one out of every
10 farmers will suffer a disabling
injury, either on or off the jab.
One out of every 350 farm fami
lies will suffer the pain and sor
row which accompany accidental
deaths. Fifty-two farm people
will, die as a result of accidents
every day, and a disabling injury
will strike some farmer in the
United States every minute.
How can farm accidents be pre
vented? Farm safety is particu
larly a family affair because, un
like the urban dweller, the fam
ily is so closely associated with
the actual operations of farming.
Common sense tells us, for ex
ample, that children have no
more right to be near or on a
piece of operating machinery
than city children have to be a
round a punch press or a moving
locomotive; they have no more
business driving a tractor than
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50 KILLED IN CRASH
NEAR WASHINGTON
Leesburg, Va.—Searchers for a
crashed Capital Airlines plane
reached its fire-blackened frag
ments on a rugged mountain
side last Saturday and found that
all 50 aboard had met swift death.
“I don’t think anyone on the
plane suffered at all—it was in
stant death,” said Gordon Stone,
Red Cross official who was first
to report finding the plane from
the ground.
He said the craft, when it
crashed Friday night in the rain
just minutes shy of a landing at
the Washington National Airport,
apparently flew straight intp the
45-degree side of the mountain,
then burst into flames.
Jerry Korn, an Associated Press
reporter at the scene, said the
air-liner apparently skidded up
the steep mountainside for about
250 feet after it hit. The left wing
almost whole, was lodged near
the foot of the rectangular clear
ing created by the crash. The tail
assembly had slid to a point many
feet farther up the'hill, but still
stood upright.
NAVY SEEKS WAY TO
END PLANE COLLISIONS
Washington—To prevent nigh'
flying collisions, the navy is ex
perimenting with rows and strips
of lights installed on plane wings
and tails. Pilots in formation of
ten become confused from fol
lowing the single pinpoint os
light of the plane ahead, the navj
explained yesterday.
One student in Texas, the navj
reported, tried to “join up” witl
the red wing light of anothei
plane only to discover after th<
crash that it was the tail ligh
of an oil truck.
city children have behind th<
wheel of a 100 horse power pas
senger automobile.
Many accidents can be prevent
ed if each family wil learn wha
hazards menace their lives a
I home, at work and on the high
way; what each member of th(
family can do to eliminate as
i many of these hazards as possible
and tha carelessness on the par
of any member of the familj
perils the lives and happiness o
all.
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Peden News
A decoration service will be
held at Rocky Ridge, June 22.
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Perry and
children, of Kannapolis, are
spending this week with his
father, Mr. Bob Perry.
Cleve Smith visited Caroline
Landreth Saturday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Perry
had as their guests this week, Rev.
W. P. Boyle and Miss Stringer
of West Jefferson.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
B. H. Williams were: Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Caldwell, and sons, Jer
ry and Michael; Mr. and Mrs.
Vince Brown and children, Al
den and Billy all of Crumpler,
also, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Mox
ley, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones.
One of the best methods of
weed control is to plant clean
seed.
E. T. Bare Dies
At Wagoner, Sat.
Last rites for Ed T. Bare, of
Wagoner, were held Monday
morning at ten o’clock at the
Roan’s Creek church. Officiating
were Rev. J. W. Luke and El-'
der Ed Davis and burial was in
the nhnrrh „ qgfngjgfyw
Mr. Bare succumbed at his
home at Wagoner, Saturday after
noon. He is survived by his wife
and ten children, Faye Bare, of
Transou; Tencie Hunt, Brucie
Bare, Hillery, Willard, Ray Burl
Dean, June, Blane and Carnie
Bare, all of Wagoner.
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