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Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-08-09
A Lift For Today

We arc more than ,onulIcrors
through him that loved us.-Rcman's
8:37.
THE WORLD GIVES US oppor-
tunitics 20 develop the glorious viz
tues Of Our Lord. Each days sun
sets upon shameful defeat or glori-
Gus victory for us as His followers.
Open our eyes. Lord. TO the needs
o. our world today.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-08-09
One Minute Test Answers.

7. l(VIlO.
,. Tallinn.
ESthOnid was admitted into tho
Union e SoyIct SucialiS, Republic.
~ juno. 1850. It o., bounded ON tho
east by the L. s :. r.. on the south
BY Latvia: the Gulf of Riga and Bal
nc sea on the west. and the Gulf o.
Finland on the north.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-08-09
GRAB BAG
Onc-NIinutc Test.

!. Wha; city i the capital OF
Ecuador
=. WHAT is the capital city Of
ES,hynia?
3 Where is ESthonia. and wha,
Is lis status since World War II?
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1946-08-09
Words OF Wisdom.

y careless song. with a little non
sense . II. now and then. does not
miSDcComu a nlOna.cH.-Iioracc Wal
pole.
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Evening star., 1946-12-07
Racial Ban Denounced
.By TaIIuIah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead, star in the
current National Theater presenta-
ton of Eagle Rampant, last nigh
called the theater's ban against
Negroes "a national disgrace and ar
international scandal"
Miss Bankhead, daughter Of the
late Speaker of the House, william
B. Bankhead of Alabama, said she
hoped Actors Equity will act soon
on the proposed ruling that nc
member appear here unless Negroes
are allowed in the theaters."
II know the theatergoers are not
responsible for the situation here
and it would be a pity if they are
deprived of the right to see players
they have generously supported in
the past" Miss Bankhead added
She also is a niece Of the late Sen
ator John Bankhead.
Referring to a notice in the the
ater lobby that no refunds will be
given on tickets sold to persons who
are refused admission, Miss Ida Fox,
secretary of the Committee for
Racial Democracy, said this policy
would be tested in the courts IF the
next interracial group that goes to
the National Theater Is refused
admission"
Evening star., 1946-12-07

all sides of the burning structure.
About Is or 80 escaped by descend
ing fire ladders to the adjacent roof.
Washingtonians Escape.
Among them were Maj. Gen. P. w.
Baade of Washington. who COM
manded the 35th Division overseas
during World War II. Mrs. Baade
and Capt. D. C. Waelde also escaped
down ladders lifted to them by
firemen. Gen. Baade credited fire.
men with saving many. many
lives"
An Associated Press reporter at
the fire said he reached there in
time to see four women leap, one
lof whom apparently was killed in
stantly as her body crashed through
1.-THE marque.
E. B. Brooks, Atlanta detective,
who was directing traffic at the
scene, said one woman had escaped
by making her way down a rope
Of sheets three floors to the fourth
story where she clambered aboard
an extension ladder and descended
to the street.
E. j. Hosch, one of the Associated
Press reporters sent to the fire, said
that of nine women he saw leap
from the hotels upper stories, six
were caught in nets by firemen.
Three, however, missed the net and
crashed to their deaths on the pave
ment.
Evening star., 1946-12-07

Continued From First Page j

the ledge. The smoke was terrible.
I could hardly see. The firemen,
though-thank God-were running
a ladder up to where ] crouched and
I climbed down"
A tour OF the upper stories after
the flames were brought under con-
troll showed bedrooms of charred
furniture and the air was heavy with
the odor of burning flesh.
Among the guests in the building
were SO girls attending State Hi-Y
conference.
With the stories of terror came
tales of heroic rescues and narrow
escapes.
Betty Hughley, 16, of Griffin, Ga,
said she climbed to the ledge outside
her upper STORY room.
Three windows away, on my floor,
two other girls were huddled, fire
men were trying to reach them. !
gritted my teeth and walked the
ledge to where the other girls were.
The firemen came up and got us
down.
Flames Burn Escape Streets.
Mrs. A.. A. Minnix of Columbus
was rescued from her room on the
fifth floor. She was hysterical. Her
15-year-old son, Rutledge, was
trapped on the eleventh floor. They
had been unable to get rooms to-
gether.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Cochran OF
Miami, Fla, escaped by swinging
on sheets from the top floor to the
eighth. There the flames set fire
to the sheets, but firemen brought
them down safely.
A city fireman said he saw a
mother throw her two children, a
boy and girl, to their death from
the seventh floor and then jump to
her own death.
Two year-old Dianne Turk
daughter of Mf. and Mrs. T. G..
Turk, of Tulsa, Okla, was held out
side the window of her fifth floor
room by her parents until firemen
erected ladder. She and her
parents were saved.
The fire apparently started about
3:15 am. Police Capt. L. ]. Car
roll said he reached the hotel
shortly after that hour and on en-
tering the building found all eleva-
tors stalled.
With his partner, N. w. Smith,
he said he fought his way by the
stairs as far as the seventh floor,
kicking out doors and arousing
guests. On the seventh floor they
found maid badly burned.
Mr.. Smith told of breaking into
one room and finding it ablaze.
There was a woman inside he
said. II dragged her out"
From the guests came other
stories of the stark terror that swept
Evening star., 1946-12-07
GIens Falls, n. Y, Hears
National Symphony
speeiol pispo,eh to The siar

GLENS FALLS, N. Y, Dec. T.
DR.. Hans Kinder conducted his ma
tional symphony orchestra last
evening in a program that de-
lighted listeners in the Junior High
School Auditorium. 1t was the or
chestra's second appearance here IN
community concerts series.
The playing was dynamic and the
orchestra's tone quality well inte-
grated. The conductor interpreted
the music with special care for de-
tail, and proper speed.
The orchestra played Mozart's
Symphony No. 20 in A Major, Aram
Khachaturyans' music from ballet,
"Gayaneh," which had not been
heard here before and Beethoven's
Fifth Symphony.
Listeners said they had never
heard as fine an Interpretation Of
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as the
conductor gave it in closing the pro-
gram.
School children heard a SYM
phonic program by the orchestra
yesterday afternoon. For many it
was their first, Howard Mitchell
conducted the program which in
cluded Beethoven's Overture to Co
riolanuS.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Longchamps Gets Stay
On Liquor License Ban
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

NEW YORK, Dec. THE Long
champs chain Of restaurants has
obtained a stay until January OF
State Liquor Authority action
canceling the restaurants liquor
licenses, according to an attorney
for the firm.
He added that a companion suit
asking reversal of the State action
would be argued before the Su-
preme Court next wednesday.
The restaurant chains request for
rehearing of the case, in which the
chain was charged with selling
liquor on credit in violation Of State
liquor laws, asserted the law never
was intended to prohibit credit sales
Of liquor as. part of a meal and was
unconstitutional in Its differentia-
tion between restaurants and hotels
or clubs
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Rescues
Continued From First Page.)

Department. He said he and his wife
had been living at the hotel while
looking for a place to live.
Names of three other persons
registered from Washington were
on the hotel guest list. They
were 1t. Col. and Mrs. C. r.
Poole and Charles B. Berry. The
Pooles formerly lived at 4843
Twenty-eighth street south, Fair
! lington, Va. Relatives of Mr..
Berry could not be located i'm
mediately)
Col. Poole is attending the
Air Command and Staff School
at Maxwell Field, Ala. He has
been on duty for the last two
years. He Is native of Seattle.
(Mr. and Mrs. Ahern came to
Washington last year. from Bir-
mingham, Ala, and lived at the
All States Hotel)
Auditor Scared to Death.
r. A. Herring. the hotel auditor
said he and his wife were scared tt
DEATH" but kept their presence OF
mind enough that they did not open
the door to the third floor hall
They. too, were taken out by ladder
Mrs. Conner Rowan, hotel night
operator and wife of the night room
clerk, said she had just gone up to
her fourth-fioor room when the
alarm was sounded. She said 1t was
approximately 3:45 am.
She said her husband had not
completed his nightly check, but es-
timated there were some 285 guests
in the 194-room hotel Firemen
took her to safety with ladder.
One of the most dramatic escapes
was that of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert s.
Bault of Murphy. N. c., who drew
the eyes of hundreds of spectators
on famed Peachtree street as they
crawled along the fourteenth-f floor
cornice.
Use Sheets as Ropes.
Mr.. Bault, a., said that he and his
wife Corrine, SO, were wakened by
the flames creeping into their room.
He said he stretched bed sheets from
his room to that Of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. B. Phillips of Lithonia, Ga, over
which the Bault's crawled to the
doubtful sanctuary of the Phillips
room.
Mr.. Bault said he and Phillips kept
the flames out of the second room
by stacking the mattresses against
the door and keeping them well
soaked with water from the bath
room.
Mrs. w. Y. johnson, of Eufaula,
Ala, on the ninth floor said she
was awakened by screaming and
the heavy smell of smoke. She said
she tried to call the hotel office, but
got no answer, SO she went to the
door. When she opened the door
she said the room filled with smoke
and flames, so she slammed it shut
She said the bathroom window was
the only one she could get to and
open. Firemen ran a ladder to the
Evening star., 1946-12-07
By fhe Assoeiotsd Press

ATLANTAs Dec. Partial list OF
dead In the Winecon Hotel fire:
Paul D. Lein, 36o3 Cliff road, Bir-
mingham. Ala.
DR.. Carl c. Rasmussen, 810 Sixty
third street, Des Moines. Iowa.
Charles Keith, $40 Sixth street
Rome, Ga.
Charles Harold Thruen, jr., 230e
Sixth street, Columbus. Ga.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Dickerson and
their two children, Bill, 3, and
Melinda, s, of Douglas, Ga.
Joseph Goodson or Goodman, Clay
City, Ill.
Eloise Maison, address unknown
william Rochelle, address un-
known.
Billie, or R. H. Cox, address un-
known.
Unidentified woman wearing
bracelet inscribed "Lusbidus.
E. o. Thames, Asheville, N. c.
1t. Comdr. e. A. Congett, Norfolk,
Va.
Piler Knox. Thomaston, Ga.
Eric Hayworth Elliott, Oklahoma
City, Okla.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
1Rafe Increase Brings
Rally in Rail Stocks,
Indusfria|s Lag
By Victor Eubonk
Assoeiotsd Press FinoneioI Writer

NEW YORK, Dec. 7.-Rail stocks
today responded to the freight rate
boost with a jump Of to more than
4 points in the liveliest Saturday
market since last May but extreme
gains eventually were cut by prof1t
cashing and many industrials still
were handicapped by the coal crisis.
Carriers came out at fast open
ing on blocks of 1000 to $1,000 shares,
with a number appearing late as
the result OF difficulties in co-ordi-
mating bids and offers. Dealings
soon quieted. While virtually all
the rails were well on the upside
near the close, most other depart
ments held to q relatively marrow
route and a smattering OF minus
signs was in evidence. Transfers
for the two hours were In the neigh
borhood of 800, 900 shares.
The rate increase OF approximately
TEX per cent was bit better than
most Wall Streeters had looked for
and, it was believed, would add
about $1,000, ,000, 600 annually to the
income Of the roads, or some $780,
600. 600 after taxes. Boardrooms.
however, expressed doubts regard
ing whether this net could be
maintained in the face Of possible
union demands for hoisted pay,
higher costs elsewhere and the cur
tailment of shipments in the event
of an economic letdown in 1887.
Among transportation h re
climbers were Santa Fe, Nickel
Plate preferred, Milwaukee pre-
ferred, Pennsylvania Railroad.
Southern Pacific, Southern Railway,
Great Northern, Northern Pacific,
Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern
and Norfolk g. Western.
| Elsewhere modest improvement
was shown for Kennecott, Phelps
Dodge, International Harvester.
Goodrich, Montgomery Ward, Allied
Chemical, Owens-Illinois, Johns
Manville and Loew's. A pleasing
year -end dividend bolstered s. Il.
Kress common.
Lacking much support were U. s.
Steel, Bethlehem, American Tele-
phone, Columbia Gas, Air Reduc-
ton; Union Carbide, ]. C. Penney
and International Nickel. Motors,
oils and utilities followed a slim
groove.
Rail bonds enjoyed an early bulge
with stocks but the majority backed
away from best levels.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Baltimore Man Dies
In Blaze in House
BY the Asseeiafsd Press

BALTIMORE, Dec. Frank
Katzenberger. father-in-law of a
Baltimore Police Department physi-
clan, was burned to death early
today when fire damaged the home
of the doctor, Norbert c. Mitch.
Mr.. Katzenberger's body was
found lying on the floor OF his sec
on-story bedroom. He was pro-
nounced dead at st. Agnes Hospital.
DR.. and Mrs. Nitsch were res
cued from an 18-inch ledge outside
their bedroom window.
Battalion Chief Thomas A.
Heagerty of the Arson Bureau said
the fire apparently originated in
| the kitchenette.
Evening star., 1946-12-07

small window and she wriggled
through to safety.
BelIboy. Is Trapped.
Bill Mobley, Atlanta, the only bell
boy on duty. said that he was
trapped on the fifth floor when he
took some ice to $40.
Everything seemed all right when
7 ran the elevator up to FIVE" he
said. II wasn't in the room over
two minutes, but the hall was full
of smoke and flame when ] tried
to leave. Up to then we hadn't
even Smelled smoke"
Mr.. Mobley explained that the
hotel night engineer, a new man
whose name he did not know, and
he had just started to check the
house" when the call came for Ice
in $40. He said he and the engineer
had to hold the man in $40 to keep
him from jumping out the window
Evening star., 1946-12-07
List OF Dead in Hotel Fire

MatSey Dixie, Tampa, Fla.
Eloise Buck. Hotel Dempsey tpre-
sumably Macon, Ga).
Maxine Willis, cambridge. Ga.
Willard Jones, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
v. r. Moody, Arlington, Ga.
w. M. Clarence, address unknown
Bill Dickerson. 4, Cartersville, Ga
Woman wearing 1947' Robert E
Lee High School ring, initiated &C
A. H." or &c. A. H."
Mitheo Constangy, 1116 Piedmont
road NE, Atlanta.
j. B. Sheriff, Atlanta.
James Louis Mcdonald, address
unknown
w. F. Winecoff. one of the hote
builders, who lived there.
Robert Clay Williams, Pensacola
Fla.
Man with name Bill Bryson'
stamped on undershirt.
Bill Berry, Cedartown. Ga.
E. L. Pettyjohn. Birmingham, Ala
Harry Sorrell, address unknown.
Capt. Dewitt Lane Morrison. ad-
dress unknown
Philip D. Davis, address unknown
C. o. Sisk, address unknown.
Lew Broome, address unknown.
w. w. Beck, address unknown.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
| Five Extra Pounds
| OF Sugar Due
| By April /

The public had virtual assurance
today from Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson that it will get by April
/ an extra ration coupon allowing
another pounds of sugar.
In making the announcement, Mr..
Anderson said the extra coupon will
be issued barring unpredictable
disasters" He said that additional
extra sugar allowances may be
possible later in 1947.
Mr.. Anderson also announced
that quotas of industrial users
such as candy makers, bakers, ice
cream makers and soft drink bot
tlers-will get an additional 10 per
cent of the quantity they useds in
1941. These users are now limited
to between SO and SO per cent OF
their 1941 usage.
Evening star., 1946-12-07

of adjoining and nearby buildings
some flames could still be seen or
the eleventh floor and at least two
women were visible in a window
near the flames.
Red Cross workers set an emer.
gency first-aid station near thu
hotel entrance on Peachtree street
where guests were treated for minol
shock and injuries. The more seri-
ously injured were rushed to hos.
pitals throughout the city.
The Red Cross made radio ap.
peal for blood plasma.
One fireman was killed when
woman, leaping from a high win
dow, crashed on him as he wa!
ascending an aerial ladder.
A police lieutenant said he coule
see, from window of an adjacen
building, the hands and feet O.
several victims on window ledges
The remainder of these bodies wert
not visible, he said.
J. w. Gates, Red Cross safety
director, his head wrapped in
blood stained towel. was assisting IL
the rescue work. He said falling
brick had struck him on the head
opening a deep cash. He continued
however, to aid firemen and polic'
who sought to reach the trapped
guests.
Before the war, Mr.. Gates
worked for the Red Cross in
washington as director Of the
first-aid, water safety and acci-
dent prevention program. He
Joined the Navy as an enlisted
man in 1914, serving as life
saving instructor at Bainbridge,
Md.
Before going to Atlanta, he
was q Red Cross home service
supervisor here for short time
last winter. His address was
1903 Fortieth place, Cottage City,
Md
Every available ambulance in tn,
city was doing shuttle service re
moving the dead and terror-strickel
injured.
The hotel faces on two streets ant
an alley, and from the fourth fiool
Ioverlooks an adjoining roof.
The trapped guests leaped from
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Other Hotel Fires
Major Disasters and
Deuth Toll in Euch
sy ,he A,soe;o,sd Press


NEW YORK, Dec. THE follow.
ing is q list of major hotel fires, ane
toll in lives, during the last 13 years
September Z, 1888, Houston, Tex.
54.
December IL, 1884, Kerns Hotel
Lansing, Mich, 80.
February IL. 1886, Victoria Man
sions, Lakewood. IN. j., 16.
May 16, 1888, Terminal Hotel
Atlanta, IS.
March 27, 1914, Amsterdam Hotel
San Francisco, %.
January 16, 1945, General Clarl
Hotel, Chicago. IA.
June S, 1946, La Sale Hotel, Chica
go, 81.
June 9, 1946, Garfield Hotel
Dubuque, Iowa, 10.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Former Washington Priest
Given Brunswick Church
BY the 1.soeiaisd Press

BALTIMORE Dec. Archbishop
Michael J. Curley of the Washing
ton and Baltimore diocese of the
Catholic Church announced today
that the Rev. Paul J. Dougherty
former assistant of Holy Name
Church, Washington, had been ap-
pointed pastor of st. Francis of
Assist Church, Brunswick, Md.
Archbishop Curley also announced
appointment of the very Rev. I.
Mitchell Cartwright of the Catholic
Church of the Ascension, Hale
thorpe, as rural dean for Anne
Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Har-
ford and Howard counties.
The Rev. James v. Lannon. for
ner assistant at st. Joseph's Church
Washington, was appointed assistant
at Holy Name Church, Washington
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Elderly Woman Stuffs
| Wet Towels in Door
And Calmly Waits Aid
BY the Associated Press

ATLANTA, Dec. Mrs.
Banks Whiteman, elderly per-
manent resident of the Wine
coff Hotel, was carried to safety
down stairs from the top floor
more than four hours after the
blaze was discovered.
She said she had stuffed wet
towels around the door of her
room as the flames swept
through the upper half of the
building.
Firemen reported that she
had remained calm and dis
played a sense of humor.
When a fireman slipped, Mrs.
Whiteman smiled and said:
You'd better be careful there,
young man, or I'll have to help
you down"
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Nurse Held Under Bond
On Narcotics Charge

A 38-year- -old registered nurse was
ordered held in $4,000 bond in Mu.
nicipal Court today on charges OF
violating the Narcotics Act.
Police said the woman, Mrs. Mary
Agnes Barringer of Lanham Park,
Md, had used her medical knowl-
edge to simulate symptoms of illness
to several physicians in order to
obtain prescriptions for morphine
sulphate.
Judge Thomas d. Quinn Of Mu-
nicipal Court ordered Mrs. Barrin-
ger be given hospital treatment.
The case was continued to Tuesday.
She was arrested yesterday by MEM
bers Of the narcotics squad.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Communists Attacking
On 3 Chinese Fronts

NANKING, Dec. 7 (P).-Chinese
Communists loosed hard-hitting at.
tacks today on three fronts In
Western Shansi Province, apparent
ly to lift the pressure of government
armies hemming in their capital at
Yenan.
With hopes of negotiated peace
siumping once more, press dis
patches reported heavy fighting east
of Yenan and asserted that the
Communist high command had per-
fected plans for a winter offensive.
i. The governments Central Daily
News said Communist forces had
entered Tanning, 10 miles east OF
Yenan, and Yungho, ll0 miles south
east Of the Red capital.
Government armies have been re-
ported poised in all these areas as
well as to the north of Yenan.
Evening star., 1946-12-07
Chinese Reds Close In
On Shansi Town After
Eight Days Of Attacks
BY the Associated Press

P EIPIN G, Dec. 7.-Chinese
Communists, ferocieusly attacking
Chungyang in Shansi Province for
the eighth straight day, closed in
on its weakening defenses today
Government military authorities
conceded its fall is imminent.
Taiyuan, the provincial capital,
reported 10000 Communists were
engaged in the attack. The official
newspaper, Chih Shih Jih Pao re-
ported from Taiyuan that the Com
munists threw wave after wave
against the city's walls and de-
stroyed most of the pillboxes and
blockhouses outside the walls.
Capture of Chungyang would
open the corridor to Fengyang, the
Communists next objective, Is miles
west. Their main objective is Tai
yuan, 27 miles farther west.
Tatung Is Surrounded.
Farther north, large Communist
force surrounded Tatung. Neutral
observers just returned from Tatung
said the city's defenders, outnum-
bered five to-one, expected an attack
momentarily.
Government authorities here ex-.
pressed concern over increasing
Communist activities against the
Peiping -Tientsin railroad, which has
been attacked several times recently.
Several trains were destroyed.
Government officials charged that
Communist Gen. Lin Piao would
begin winter offensive in Man
churia in few days. They said
he had massed 100000 to $50, 900
troops on the north bank of the
Sungari River, poised to strike at
Changchun, the Manchurian capital
IS miles south.
Government sources said Gen. Tu
Li-ming, the Manchurian sector
commander, was prepared to meet
the attack, but Communists said
his force had been reduced from
eight armies to five by the diversion
of troops to Jehol Province.
Evening star., 1946-12-07

them when the flames and smoke
engulfed the building.
F. A. Herring. the hotel auditor,
said he awoke in his room on the
third floor at about $3.50 am.
IT never saw anything like II" he
said. Bodies were hurting down
past my window. My wife and I
covered our heads with blankets and
turned on the fans"
Mr.. Herring said he believed the
blaze originated on the fourth or
fifth floors.
Even after the fire was under
control, with water being played
on it from the windows and roofs
Evening star., 1946-12-07
EImiru Boil Tonight

Mayor Emory Strachen of Elmira,
N. Y, will attend the "Elmira Night
Ball" to be held tonight at the
Shoreham Hotel by the New York
State Society, Harold B. Barnett,
president Of the society, announced
today.