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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

This Is Rebekah's Birthday"
was sung by the lodge and the
chaplain closed the program with
prayer.
Refreshments were served at
the close of the program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24
Files DiUOrce

A divorce petition was filed
Saturday by Daniel H. Fedfearn
against Susan F. Fedfearn in the
office of Circuit Court Clerk Ross
c. Sawyer's office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

Trouts Have Son

Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Trout
announce the birth of d seven
pound, four-ounce son at NUM-
cipal Hospital, at 1913 a. m., Sat
urday. The child has been named
William H. Trout, III.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

During World War II, U. S.
farm production increased twice
as much as during the years be-
fore the two World Wars.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-03-24

Mass production of watches be-
gan in Boston in 1853.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
CAR in ACCIDENT
WHILE TAKING
WOMAN TO HOSPITAL

A convertible coupe, enroute to
the hospital with an injured wom-
an, crashed on the Maffitt Village
Winter Park highway last night
about $3.50 o'clock, without fur.
Their injury to the woman or three
other occupants of the car, state
highway patrolmen reported last
night.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kennedy, 1902 -
South Fourth street was injured at
SCOTS Hill, while she was as
sisting her companions with a
boat. She was struck in the left
temple by the boat while it was
beaing loaded on a trailer.
/. Melvin M. Williams, 112 South
jackson street, told investigating
officers that he, w. M. Leonard
and Mrs. Mary Leonard, of 312
Ma~rstellar street, were taking Mrs.
to the hospital to be
when an automobile back
ed out into the highway.
Williams said he swerved to
avoid hitting the automobile operat-
ed by Gilbert M. Holland, and
lost control of his car. The We.
hicle turned over two times, he
related to officers.
The passengers escaped injury,
but Mrs. Kennedy was admitted to
James Walker hospital for treat
ment. She suffered a confusion of
the right temple and decorations on
the head.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
EAL Nonstop
Ship Crashes
In Arms Among Vic
Tins o. Greatest OF u. S.
Aviation Accidents

PORT DEPOSIT, Md, May 30
(Pe Fifty-three persons, one Of
them an infant in arms, were kill
ed tonight in the crash of an East
ern Airlines DC-4, in the worst Of
American commercial aviation dis
asters.
Eastern Airlines identified as its
own the big ship which tore
through the trees in a hilly section
three miles east Of this northern
Maryland community. 1t said 40
passengers, one Of them a baby,
and four crew members were
aboard.
State police said not a person
survived the catastrophe, in which
bits Of plane wreckage and dis
membered bodies were strewn for
dozens of yards around the point
where the ship struck.
The disaster came within "a
hours Of the previous worst crash
in the history of American avia-
tlon-the wreck of a United Air
lines Mainliner last night in New
York with 80 lives lost.
Flying low over the hills south
of the Pennsylvania border, the
four-engined ship was seen by
witnesses to wing over and plunge
into the trees.
Blast Shakes Buildings
An explosion, which shook build
See EAL on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
AIRLINER CRASH
CAUSED BY WIND
"Freak" Gust Hit Big UAL
DC-4 AS It Took Off
From La Gurdia Field

NEW YORK, May 80 Up -
United Airlines tonight blamed a
"freakgust of wind" for the crash
of it's DC-4 airliner on a takeoff at
La Guardia field last night, kill
ing 80 and injuring nine, and said
the pilot had tried to halt sne
plane as it roared down the run-
way.
A statement by the airline said
the plane apparently encountered
the freak gust just as it Numbered
along the ground an. instant be-
fore looming into stormy skies. A
preliminary civil Aeronautics
board report also said the pilot
attempted to stop tae craft.
]. A.. Herlihy, vice president Oh
operations for the airline, who is
sued the statement, said that to
his knowledge such a gust had
never before caused a fatal ac'
cident to a DC-4 type Of plane
or any large transport craft.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
BRITISH SEIZE SHIP
CARRYING $50 JEWS
OFF PALESTINE CITY

JERUSALEM, May 30. - @ -
A ship named ''Yehuda Halevy,"
carrying $50 %uncertified Jewish
immigrants to Palestine was
boarded by a British Naval party
in Palestine coastal waters and
was proceeding to Haita, it was
reported unofficially tonight.
A source said the refugees, who
lacked British permission to land
ir Palestine, would be placed
aboard British ships in Haifa and
taken to Cyprus.
Dispatches fr m Port Said re-
ported British Naval units in the
Eastern Mediterranean were re-
ported searching for a j n
refugee ship in Egyptian waters
near the entrance of the S u e z
Canal and that the Egyptian Coast
Guard and Naval patrols also had
been asked to be on the lookout
for the vessel. The dispatches said
tie ship was believed to be carry
ing 900 Jewish immigrants to Pal
estine. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Second Major Air Disaster In Two Days
TsLes Toll OF So Lives In Maryland;
s>$<33;Wnis Seeks IS Cent Hourly Paw Hike
Shorter Work
Week
Reports OF Union Demands
Leak Out From Closely
Guarded Meeting

TON, May 80 - ~
Reports leaked out of tightly-closed
negotiations today that John l..
Lewis wants the equivalent of a
35-cent hourly wage boost for Lis
400. 900 soft coal miners.
Twenty cents of the hourly in
crease would result from a pro-
posed shortening of the work week
and the rest would be made up
of other benefits, it was unofficial
ly reported.
The federal authority to operate
the sof: coal mines, taken over
by President Truman a year ago
to end the 1916 spring strike, ex-
pires at midnight, June 30. After
that the mines must be returned to
the private owners, and the miners
don't work without a contract.
Hence the concentration of ef-
forts to get a working agreement
ir the next 80 days. Lewis is con
Quoting two sets of negotiations
one with the representatives OF Is
per cent of the industry in the
North, Midwest and far West, and
the other with the remaining %
per cent in the South. The latter
group insisted on bargaining sep
arately. Their conferences recess
ed until Tuesday morning.
Lewis Directs
Lewis is directing the Northwest
negotiations personally and he in
sisted on meeting on the holiday.
Before this conference with the
Northwest operators, the United
Mine Workers chief talked for an
hour and one-half with the %
presidents of UNIV bituminous-
districts, and for an
other hour with his 200-man policy
which has been stand
ing by for a couple of weeks.
Information that Lewis wage de-
mands, if granted, would add IS
cents to the $1.18 IL hourly pay of
the miners came from persons in
close contact with the principals
not parties to the dispute.
Neither the union o the opera
tors will discuss their talks this
year, adhering to a rigid silence.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
PuShbutt0n Warfare ScareS MexicanS;
Paralvzed Veteran Aids Paraplegics

Ell PASO, Tex, May 3O-(P)-
An exeriment with pushbutton war
fare sent a modified German w
rocket soaring over Ell Paso and
Juafez at a speed of II miles a
minute last night and scared the
daylights out of residents of both
cities.
When the four and one-half ton,
cigar-shaped missile, which was
40 feet long and six feet in d.
ameter, crashed into a hillside
three and one-half miles from the
heart Of Juarez it started a near
panic in the Mexican city and
Jared windows out of the central
fire station in Ell Paso, across the
Rio Grande.
Women knelt in the streets of
Juarez to pray. Window panes
were shattered. Plaster was dis
See PVDHBUTTON On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Along The Cape Fear

DEPARTMENT SETUP - The
consolidated board of health is I'M
der the direction of the chairman
of the county board of commits
sioners, the mayor of Wilmington,
the superintendent of public in
struction, two physicians and one
dentist.
Regular examinations of school
children, inspection of diaries,
meat and fish markets, slaughter
houses groceries and meat mar
kets, cafes, hotels, bakeries, candy
and ice cream factories and beer
and wine parlors are made.
Drinking water is sampled at
stated intervals to see that II main
itains a proper standard.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
ITALIAN CABINET
ALMOST COMPLETE
Premier Designate De Gas
peri Announces New Gov
eminent Formation

ROME. May 80 -P)-Premier-
designate Alcide De Gasperi an
nounced tonight he had chosen q
new Italian cabinet composed of
members of his Christian Demo
cratic party and Independents,
leaving Communists and Socialists
out of the government for the first
time in three years.
After six days Of negotiation
with political leaders during
which he met bitter hostility from
Leftist parties angered at the pro-
spect of being ignored in the cab
met selections, De Casper told
newsmen as he left the office Of
Provisional President Enrico De
Nicola:
81 have concluded my labor
with positive results"
De Casper, whose cabinet Sc
lections De Nicola approved to-
night, said the official announce
ment of the new list would not be
made Immediately.
The delay, he said, was because
one of the men he had chosen
was out of Italy and his final as
surance that he would serve in
the cabinet had not been received.
This man was understood to be
Cesare Merzagora, 48-year-old Mi
Ian industrialist, who is slated Tor
the industry-commerce or the for
eign trade portfolio and who is
now in Brazil on business.
The premier = designate said he
hoped to conclude definitely his
task on Sunday.
In a brief statement to news
men, De Gasperi made no refer
ence to Communist Socialist
charges that their exclusion from
the cabinet indicated that he was
attempting to establish an Italian
dictatorship.
A reliable Christian Democratic
source said the new ministry was
composed of 10 or II members OF
that party and four or five othe!
men who would serve as mae
pendents, although some OF them
were affiliated nominally with
other political parties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Airplane Crashes Take
Majority OF Lives
Accounted For
By The Associated Press

More than 100 and possibly 12S
persons met violent deaths Thurs
day and Friday as the nation NOV
ed into a three-day Memorial day
holiday marred by plane crshes,
a train wreck and highway acct
dents.
Automobile collisions - Usually
the most deadly menace to holiday
observation-disclosures showed temper
arily into the background by COM
mercial passenger plane crashes
in New York and Maryland that
took a combined toll possibly as
high as 81.
The crash Of a United Air Lines
plane at New York airport took 81
lives late Thursday.
An Eastern Air Lines DC-4 car
rying 48 passengers and a crew Of
four fell in flames in a wood near
Port Deposit, Md, Friday and
rescuers said 80 bodies had been
recovered and that there were nc
survivors.
Only % traffic deaths had been
reported throughout the country
during the first "a hours of the
holiday. For most persons. the
holiday started at the close of work
day Thursday.
275 Deaths Predicted
The National Safety Council fore
cast that 275 persons would be
killed in traffic accidents during
See HOLIDAY On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
AIR TANK BLAST
INJURIES TWO MEN
Seven Others Unhurt In
Accident Aboard u. S.
Tugboat 705 Yesterday

Two men were injured when ar
air tank on the U. S. Tug 7O5, blew
up as the vessel was heading south
in the Inland waterway yesterday
afternoon about Is miles south of
New River Inlet, attaches at the
Oak Island Coast guard station re.
ported last night.
The tug was towing three army
boats south in the inland water.
way when the explosion occurred
John W. Cavenaugh and Edward J.
Hartung were injured in the blast,
which occurred about 1915 o'clock.
Chief Motor Machinest Mate
Walter Lewis, of the Oak Island
station said they received word of
the blast at 1885 p. m. and went
to aid the stricken tug. Lewis,
Walter c. Willis and Howard Har-
ris, seamen second class, rushed
See AIR On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
White House Aides Place
Wreath AT War Hero's
Tomb In Arlington

Commemoration of the war. dead
was made yesterday at II o'clock
at the National cemetery, 10th and
Market streets, as soldiers, sailors,
and marines, who had died in the
service of their country, were
honored by Wilmington's first joint
veterans service Memorial Day
program.
The brief, but impressive cere-
mony, which was Jointly sponsor
ed by the American Legion, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars, Disabled
American Veterans and the Vet
Grams Auxiliaries, drew a moder-
ate crowd. Downtown Whining
ton was draped with flags flying
at half mast and city, county, and
federal offices were closed.
The Rev. ]. L. Davis, American
Legion chaplain, gave the invoca-
ton at the services conducted at
the flagpole.
Wreaths were placed at the base
of the flagpole by members of the
See AMERICANS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

NEW YORK, May 30-(P- A
paralyzed wal veteran who lost
the use OF both arms and both legs
in an army accident four years
ago today is waging a quiet battle
for fellow-sufferers editing a
monthly paper devoted to their in
terests.
John M. Price, 36, of strouds-
burg, Pa, the "quadraplegic vet
eran, founded 1.-The Paraplegia
News a year ago and wrote
every article contained in some of
the early issues.
Sitting in a wheelchair in the
Bronx Veterans hospital, Price
taps out his copy on a special
electric typewriter. He barely is
able to move his arms, but only a
Pickering touch of a finger on the
keys OF his machine is sufficient.
See PARALY ZED On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
SHIPYARD STAYS
ON STANDBY BASIS
Maritime Commission
Drops sc From Payroll.
/. E. Voss In Charge

F., n Mccarthy, assistant direc-
If the Surplus Properties divi-
.;on Of the United States MARI
,ioas Commission said yesterday
.a a that the Wilmington
Inward viii remain on a standby
basis. \.
,ocal payrool will be slashed by
Elk 900 a month as he reduced the
%.sTsonnel. Cutting Of the person
ps1 to a permanent standby basis
osme as he issued a sweeping
order changing sales procedures
If the division. The change Will
effect wards from Jacksonville,
Ma to South Portland, Maine.
At the same time Mccarthy, IN
personal visit to the Wilmington
wards. said activity at the YARD
will be confined to stripping 81
,hips by the reserve fleet division
a.. the vessels are prepared for
storage in the Brunswick rlver
layup basin.
The standby crew will keep the
yard in repair so that it may be
reopened in event of an emergen-
ey.
Stripped Item Sales
1soLi,o . tour Of wards along
The South Atlantic coast, and the
| New England coast, Mccarthy de-
elsred that all sales Of stripped
4 ,hip items would be handled from
central office in the future and
not in the respective yards.
Yards affected are Brunswick,
which handled sales for Savannah,
| Brunswick and Jacksonville, Bos-
ton, South Portland, Maine and
Providence, Rhode Island.
Late yesterday he cut standby
personnel at the local yards from
isl to IS employees, As of whom
are being retained on a loan basis
to War Assets.
Yards affected by the order are
Brunswick, which handled sales
for Savannah. Brunswick and
jacksonville, Boston, South Port
land. Maine and Providence,
Rhode Island.
The Maritime official said all
sales of items stripped from ships
along the South Atlantic will be
handled al Baltimore and New
York. Items from the New Eng
See SHIPYARD on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
South Atlantic Division En-
gineer Speaks AT Jack
sonyille Exercises
special to the Star

JACKSONVILLE, May 30-"The
nation must pay much closer at
tention to its rapidly disappearing
natural resources than ever be-
Col. George w. Gillette,
South Atlantic division engineer of
the Corps of Engineers, declared
in a Memorial day address here
today in which he outlined the
necessities of keeping this country
prepared for future emergencies.
Two World wars, he continued,
have made havy nroads upon
our national resources"
"This nation" he added, "not
only supplied. its own armies but
those of our allies in all parts of
the world. Our timber, oil, metals,
pulp and farm products were all
called upon to be used in the Win
ming Of the war and the feeding
of the armies and the people OF
the world. When We talk about
manpower, we certainly must also
consider our natural resources"
The best means OF making the
nations resources effectively
secure is through national plan
ming in conservation, he asserted.
"Our forest lands will have to
be placed in condition for develop
ment by Mother Nature to replace
our timbel. This program readily
dovetails into the program of soil
conservation and soil erosion, SO
necessary to both reforestation
and agriculture. The development
of our natural resources is most
important in all these programs.
See CONSERVATION on Page z
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
MRS. TRUMAN SITS
UP; HOLDING OWN
General Graham Reports
Presidents Mother Copes
With Complications

GRANDVIEW, Mo-, May 30-H
Mrs. Martha E. Truman "just
held her own" today while looping
with little complications" that have
arisen in her serious illness of the
past two weeks, her physician said
tonight.
Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, per-
sonal physician to President Tru-
man said the complications were
taken care of all right, and added
that the s4-year-old mother of the
President sat up for a few minutes
in her bedside chair this after
noon.
Her condition is still favorable"
Graham emphasized. although
'he just held her own today after
continuing in a progressive upward
Trend the past few days"
General Graham remained here
10 keep close watch on Mrs. Tru-
man, while the President returned
70 Washington yesterday after
pending u days at his mothers
bedside.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Conservation Essential,
Col. Gillette Declares
GENERALS SON 1947
HONOR MAN AT WEST
POINT, RECORD H0WS

WEST POINT, N. Y, May 30
R-Major General Maxwell D.
Taylor, U. S. military academy
superintendent, announced today
that 2c-year-old Robert N. Mon
tague, Jr., of Fort Bliss, Tex, sor
of Brig. Gen. Montague, is the
honor man of the class of 1947.
Montague will be the first OF
80 cadets who will receive diplo-
mas from General of the Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower at COM
mencement exercises Tuesday.
Montague will be commissioned
in the field artillery and stationed
at Fort Bliss where his father Is
commanding general.
The elder Montague graduated
from West Point in 1919.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
HIKE in RENTALS
APPEARS LIKELY
Cogress Now Expected To
Re- Write Control Bill;
Truman Has Problem

WASHINGTON, May 30 -(P-
Congress today appeared certain
to reWrite rent controls and give
President Truman the problem of
accepting them or riskirg no ron.
troll at all when the present law
expires June 80.
A bill with a permissiva Is per
cent rent hike clause which most
Democrats opposed comes up for
expected final passage Monday IN
the Senate. A House measure has
the same feature. But there are
ether differences which will re-
quire further deliberation in con-
ference committee.
Supporters of the bill say they
are in good strategic position.
They contend that if the final YER
sions is vetoed and dies, another
measure could not be passed in
time to prevent controls from
lapsing. They do not believe the
President will take this chance.
otis a bad bill or none," Sena-
tor O'Mahoney D-Wyo) comment
ed to a reporter.
The same dilemma faced the
President last June when he veto
ed a price control extension mea-
sure and the country was without
any controls for a period before
another bill was enacted.
Close Vote
1t is a question whether the Re-
publicans could pass a rent bill
over a veto. They lacked two
votes of a t%wo-thirds majority on
the major Senate test. This came
wher they put over 1926 yester-
day the amendment allowing Is
percent rent increases w nose
OF Sept. l, 1916, where landlords
and tenants mutually agree.
Mr.. Truman asked for a years
extension of controls beyond June
80 without any strings.
The Senate bill provides for an
eight months extension.
In addition to the permissive
rent raise clause, which Demo-
Gratis termed a ''Windfall' 1or
landlords and Republicans de-
scribed as a wise approach to
eventual termination of all cell
ings, it provides for:
l. Local advisory boards with
authority to recommend decon-
trolls and expedite handling OF
landlor Hardship" cases.
2. States taking over the control
problem whenever their legisla-
lures enact measures in lieu OF
federal control.
3. Decontroling each month
about 30 of the remaining 500 or
more areas still under maximum
rent ceilings.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

HEALTH CONDITIONS - Will
mington and New Hanover county
health authorities combine to make
this community n of the health
lest in the south and an equal to
any along the southern Atlantic
coast line.
A consolidated city-coMnty health
setup with the support OF virtually
all civic groups and large num-
Der of individuals accounts for
that fact.
Three principal hospitals, sew
eral clinics, more than so physi-
clans and more than 80 dentists
band together to keep the area IN
good health.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31

WASHINGTON, May 80 - RJ -
rse possibility of Presidential
'a+oes for one or both of Congress
major messures-labor union reg
'latiop and income tax reductions
aurrounded them with uncertain
Maintaining strict silence about
,t nresent attitude, President
mrnn,an prepared a place on his
tnsy schedule for the two bills
I u4JI will reach him next week
aa- the Formally OF final House
md Senate approval. go,
This means he will have until
.bout mid-June to approve or veto
.hs bills, both of which went sar
.H.ld from his recommendations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
COP GROUP MAPS
READINESS PLAN
Proposed Program Aimed
Al Securing Quick Mobi
lization In Emergency

WASHINGTON, May 80. - Up -
Seven Senate Republicans an
rounced today they are preparing
a National readiness plan de-
signed to assure speedy military,
civilian and industrial mobilization
in the event OF a national emer-
gency.
They described it as an eight
point program to coordinate every
phase of defense and also press
scientific research to cope tn
modern "techniques and tactics OF
mass destruction"
The group includes S e n a r S
Brewster (Me), Bridges (NH),
Wherry tNeb), Ferguson (M,ch),
Hawkes. (NJ), Dworshak idaho }
and Wiley (Wis).
Modern aggressive warfare de-
mands equally strong and a e r
defense measures" the group said
In a statement.
"Natioral readiness will De our
only means of survival in a n y
future war, whether imminent or
distant"
The statement said the plan is
now being studied and matured"
and reported "significant strides
in recent weeks" 1t said the
group hopes to present the plan
to Congress "at the earliest posi-
BILE moment"
Announcement of the Republican
plan came as President Truman
studied a report On the admin
STATIONS program of national Sc
curity prepared by the Advisory
Commission on Universal Train
ing, headed by DR.. Karl 7. Com
pton. White House Press Secretary
Charles G. Ross said Mr.. Truman
was r e a d n 6 t e report with
much interest" 1t will be made
public on Monday.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-31
Veto Threat Clouds
Tax Cut, Labor Bills
President Maintains Strict Silence On Presi-
dents Attitude Regarding Two Major
Congressional Measures

A veto of both would not be SUI
rrising in the light of his own pro-
posals to Congress but this is re-
garded IS by no means certain.
The chances of passing the labor
bill over a veto appeared better
than those Of the tax bill, if only
because of the size of the MAORI
ties which they mustered. In ad-
dition, Senator George (D-Ga), a
leader of his party on fiscal mat
tiers, said he will refuse to support
the tax cut if it is vetoed. He
voted for it reluctantly"
Predicts Defeat
Senator Hatch D-NM) predicted
See VETO On Page Two