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Evening star., 1947-04-12
Task Of Buying 14O
Tornado Dead Begins
In Stricken Panhandle
BY fhe A,soeioied Press

WOODWARD, Okla. April 12.--
Relatives today were completing ar
.rangements for the burial of the 81
victims Of the tornado here Wednes-
day night which left 1000 injured
and caused property damage esti-
mated In the millions.
The Northwestern Oklahamo City
was hardest hit of the Texas and
Oklahoma communities in the path
of the storm. More than SO other
persons were killed or died ofsirl-
juries. Additional hundreds Of
INJURIES taxed hospital facilitate.
Higgins, Tex. listed 80 dead and
Glazier, Tex, IA. There were
dead in Gage, Okla. Total casual
ties in the twister which first struck
in the Northern Texas panhandle
and swept northeastward into Okla
homa were 140 dead and an esti-
mated 1905 injured. Work crews
searched for other victims.
Donations OF money, clothing and
food poured into Higgins and Gla-
zier. A fund to rebuild the shat
tered towns reached $4,000 in
Amarillo.
Plans for mass funeral services
in Woodward have been abandoned.
Insetad, four of the leading
churches have arranged separate
rites, the first to be held today for
Is victims.
The Rev. D. Allen Pollen, Method
list pastor, said his church would
begin funeral services tomorrow
morning, continuing them on an
hourly schedule throughout the day.
Yesterday relatives stood in line at
the city clerks office to procure
burial lots in the city cemetery.
Funeral directors said services and
burials probably will continue
through next week.
The bodies Of four victims, all
children ranging in age from 9
months to 6 years, remain uniden-
titled.
Even as the community went
about the sorrowing task of burying
| It's dead, its leaders laid long-range
plans for reconstruction.
City Commissioners George Trego
and Jack Courtney, Mayor r. A.
Bosch and city businessmen were
assured in a meeting last night with
housing officials from Oklahoma
City, Amarillo and Dallas that
building materials for immediate
needs would be diverted to the area.
Evening star., 1947-04-12
Monarchy Held as Government
Duly Elected at Greek Polls

from support for outright dictator
ship to communism and incorpora-
.tion OF the country into Balkan
union under the aegis Of the
u. 8. s. r. I,
Greeks Political Minded.
The Greeks have become excep-.
tionally political minded. This Is due
to several things. First, desperate
lack OF many necessities OF life.
Second. fayoritism and graft In the
lower echelons OF the government.
But an even stronger influence lis the
struggle for advantages springing
from attachments to q particular
family or group which Is afdliated
with some politician holding public
|office.
The Greek monarchy Is the safety
valve for political competition. It Is
a constitutional regime and II romor-
row the Communists were to obtain
q majority at the polls, their leader
would more than likely be irtrusted
with formation of q government.
even though this would mean exile
of the monarchy again.
The monarchy was recalled by the
Greek people because the alternative
would have been communism, end
as one Of the Kings temporary sup
porters put 1t, "of the two evils
communism was worse The Royalist
Party and the ultraconservatives
could never have restored the mon
archy If It had not been for the
decision Of the Republicans, headed
by Elentherios Venizelos, the present
Minister OF National Defense, TO vote
for the King In the plebiscite.
Evening star., 1947-04-12
D. {. Man Serving Term
Gets Additional ; Months

Robert Brown today had an addi-
tional three months to serve in jail.
Brown, "a, colored, who lives in
the 900 block of Westminster street
NV, was brought up from jail
yesterday to answer petty larceny
charge that he had sold rented
floor sanding machine on April l..
He was sent to Jail for nine months
April 2 on two other charges Of
larceny and one of larceny after
trust, all involving either floor sand
ers or polishers which he rented
and failed to return.
Facing Judge Ellen K. Raedy in
Municipal Court, Brown protested
he had only had the machine three
hours when he was arrested.
Evening star., 1947-04-12
Little River Turnpike
Will Be Resurfuced

The Little River turnpike, route
236, will be hard surfaced and
widened from the Washington
Quartermaster Depot to the Shirley
Memorial Highway, the Fairfax
County Board of Supervisors has
been notified by r. I. Mount, dis
trict engineer for the Virginia De-
partment of Highways.
1t is not contemplated to pave
route 236 from the Shirley highway
to Annandale this year, the an
nouncement said.
Evening star., 1947-04-12
Mansfield Still Very Ill

Representative Mansfield, Demo-
,crat, of Texas, remained in critical
condition at Bethesda Naval Hos
pital today. Hospital officials, who
said late yesterday that the 86-year-
Evening star., 1947-04-12

old House member was very crit
ically ILL., reported today his con-
dition has improved, but is still
considered critical
Evening star., 1947-04-12

Fourpeee coffee service by Jack Shepherd 80
Footed eenterpiece to pile with glowing fruts---S85
Square supper dish with chppendoIe Iook-------S
Water pitcher with glowing curved surfoces
Modernst cream and sugar set with tray---$3o
Fruit bowl in cherished Paul Revere desisn---$ 40
psos ssx ID.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
WORLD WAR II VET
DIES AT HOSPITAL:
FUNERAL PLANNED

Gettis M. Stephenson of 713 Prin-
cess Street died yesterday after
noon after drinking a bottle of car
bolic acid, according to police.
Stephenson's wife told investigat.
ing officers that her husband came
into the house about 1870 p. m.
and handed her an empty carbolic
acid bottle, telling her that he had
just swallowed the contents.
Mrs. Stephenson then said that
she called a doctor and her hus-
band was taken to James Walker
Memorial hospital where he died
soon afterward. She said he had
been worried for the past several
days over his inability to find work
and attributed his act to this
cause.
In addition to his wife, the g.
year-old World War II veteran is
survived by three sisters, Misses
Florence and jamie Mae Stephen
son and Mrs. Helen Jones, all CT
Clayton; two brothers, Sam of
Texas and Louis Of Clayton; his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter Steph-
enson Of Clayton.
The Yopp Funeral Home said
last night the body would be sent
to Clayton for interment.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
HEARING CALLED
FOR FEBRUARY 6
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ed milk producers on the basis
Of the Historical use" formula and
requires OPA to set up a new form
of rationing Immediately for this
group of users.
In another action concerned with
the nations sweeting, the White
House announced that price con.
trolls over domestic and imported
blackstrap and beet final molasses
will be revoked at midnight tonight.
Both are by-products of sugar
from cane and sugar beets.
Blackstrap is used chiefly for
producing alcohol and in commerce
lial livestock feeds. 1t is also used
inn making blended syrups used
by bakeries, for licorice candy and
in %flavoring tobacco.
Beet final has been restricted
since early war days to the pro-
duction of yeast and citric acids.
1t now may be used for edible
syrups and livestock feeds.
John R. Steelman, presidential
assistant, said abundant supplies
of orn - for production of both in
dustrial alcohol and cattle feed -
made it possible to remove the
stringent wartime ALLEGATION con-
~trois" on the two domestic prod
uctS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
|LUMBERTOK SCENE
OF FOUR ASSAULTS
Three Men Reported In
Serious Condition Fol-
lowing fights
Special To The S.ar

LUAAA-L.IO4., Oo-i. 90. AS ule
result OF three cutting Scrapes an
attack with a bush axe, and the
accidental discharge OF a pistol In
Robson, three men are in serious
condition at local hospitals. An
other man and a woman suffered
minor cuts, and warrants charg'
ing assault with a deadly weapon
were sworn out against four per
sons.
Critically hurt were Clayton
Clark, Burnt Swamp Indian, al
legedly cut by Harold Deese,
Ernest Wearins hit On the heao
with a bush axe during a fight
with Jesse Smith near Lumberton
and A. S.. Stone, 81 year old white
man of Rowland, Route l, whose
stomach and liver were penetrated
by a bullet from a pistol which re-
portedly went off accidentally
Other victims less seriously hurt
were Ernest Rozier, cut across the
face allegedly by Furman Howell.
and Alberta Bryant, local Negroes,
who was cut on both hands and the
left breast by her roommate, Julia
Williams.
These ohenses were reported by
Sheriff w. C. Britt and Lumberton
Police Chief Randall Stephens.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
MARCH OF DIMES
CAMPAIGN DRACS
Chairman Reveals Only
One Quarter Of Fund
Raised To Date

The New Hanover drive in the
fight against infantile paralysis
is tagging far behind the quota OF
So, 200, with only two days re-
naming in the Today campaign,
W. X. Rhodes, Jr., chairman, said
last night.
To date only s2,175, approx
mately one-fourth of the county
quota, has been contributed,
Rhodes said. That figure repre-
sents all the donations received
through the mails, from the wish
ing wells over the county from
theater collections, and from tag
day.
The county chairman again
pointed out that the cost Of treat
ment for polio was beyond the
income of the majority of the
people and that unless something
is done to replenish the funds
used to fight the disease, those
who have already been stricken
cannot receive adequate care. The
emergency fund of the National
Foundation, used over the coun.
try wherever an epidemic strikes
is empty due to the epidemic las
summer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
TWO MORE SOUGHT
in BRIBERY CASE
Additional Suspects Indict.
ed For Bear Giant
Fiasco

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-P-
David (Pete) Krakauer, said by
the district attorneys office to
have handled $40, 900 in bets in a
day, was sought tonight in a ma
tion-wide hunt on charges of be-
ing a key figure in the professional
football title game bribery case.
A district attorney spokesman
identified Krakauer, 44-year-old ex-
convict, as the third man indicted
yesterday by a grand jury on the
word of Alvin j. Paris, who was
Iconvicted Jan. 8 of offering brides
in an attempt to fix the Dec. is
contest.
The police alarm, flashed at the
request of District Attorney Frank
s. Hogan, identified Krakauer as
a "known gambler" who may
frequent race tracks and seashore
resorts"
Krakauer was questioned at a
Bronx hospital last month in the
football investigation but he dis
appeared from there. He vas be-
ing treated for a cardiac ailment.
The two others indicted, Harvey
Stemmer and Jerome Zarowitz,
pleaded innocent at their arraign-
ment Tuesday. Zarowitz was held
in $4,000 bail. Stemmer already
is serving a penitentiary term for
attempted bribery of Brooklyn Col
lege basketball players in 1915.
Zarowitz, 80, was said by police
to have been a clerk in the Eliza
beth, N. j., office of a gambling
ring for which Paris was front
man.
The trio was indicted on two
bribery counts and one conspiracy
count each in the football fix
scheme.
Frank Filchock and Merle
Hapes, New York Giants back
field stars, testified at Paris trial
they we're offered brides of 81, 500
each and a ST. 900 bet on the Chi
cago Bears plus off-season jobs
supposed to bring them SIS, 900.
The Bears won the national league
championship game, "a to IA.
Police said that tapped conversa-
lions on Paris telephone line dis
closed that Stemmer participated
in the scheme through telephone
calls made from Bellevue hospital
where he was assigned as a trusty
from Ricker's Island penitentiary.
Hogan's office steadily pushed its
investigation today into attempts
of gamblers to penetrate boxing and
professional football in New York.
questioning numerous Br. adway
habitues, sports figures and gamb-
slers.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
.JAYCEES ELEVATE
CLAUD O'SHIELDS
Named Vice President Oh
Civic Club Succeeding
Troy C.. Hodges

Claude O'Shields has. been elect
ed first vice-president OF Junior
Chamber of Commerce to succeed
Troy C. Hodges, it was announced
last night at a meeting of that
organization, Hodges left Whining
ton to accept a position in Rich
mond, Va.
New committeeman appointed
last night by President Jesse Sci
lers are Harry Dozier, chairman OF
the military and Veterans Affairs
committee; and Ray Sindmerson to
serve on the scrap book commit
tee.
vi LeGwin made a report last
night during the clubs meeting on
the plans for the three operas
which will be staged here on Feb
ruary 1916 by the New York Civic
Opera company, under the aus.
pieces of the Civic club. Ed Gilmore
was named chairman of the ticket
sales, with Dan Cameron in charge
of advance sales. Ray Landen and
Donald Edmundson will also serve
on the committee.
Tickets are now on sale at Nc
MILAN and Cameron's service sta.
ton at 3rd and Chestnut street.
From all indications the three
shows will be a sell-out as many
requests for tickets have already
been made, it was stated. The
Saturday matinee, "Traviata",
will. be a performance for stu
dents. Combination tickets for the
Saturday night show, "Rigoletto",
and the Sunday matinee, Car
men, will be on sale until Feb
ruary 9th. Single tickets may be
purchased after that date. All seats
will be reserved, but the combina-
ton tickets will be given prefer
ence.
Bob Bryan was a guest of the
club last night.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
GEORGIA RUSHING
new PRIMARY LAW
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\NOlltAAAuSu I1O1l L d6C OAANJ
them Club" affairs controlled ex-
clusively by the party. The coun-
ty-unit system is similar to the
U. S. electoral college, granting
all unit votes" to the candidate
carrying each county. In effect,
it frequently makes one rural vote
equivalent to 80 or more urban
votes.
The legislation, m b e rome
campaign plank of the late Eugene
Talmadge, would attempt to cir
cumvent recent rulings of the U.
S. Supreme court that Negroes
cannot be excluded from southern
primaries in which nomination is
equivalent to election.
Meanwhile, the battle continued
over executive control of Georgia
government. A sixth lawsuit was
filed challenging the right of Her
man Talmadge to occupy the Of
flee of governor. Lieut.. Gov. M.
E. Thompson contends he is the
acting governor.
The state continued to have rival
governors, rival revenue commits
sioners, rival adjutants general
rival parks commissioners, rival
highway boards and chairmen
thereof.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
POLISH ELECTION
SCORED BY U. S.
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the position that what Washington
authorities assailed as repressive
political activities and terrorism
actually was directed at suppress
ing underground uprisings against
the government, and these were
officially linked by the Polish gov
eminent to the peasant party.
Policy Summary
The state department summed
up its current policy on Poland in
these three sentences:
"The United States government
considers that the Polish provision
al government has failed to carry
out its solemn pledges.
THE United States government
firmly intends to maintain its in
terest in the Welfare of the Polish
people.
while retaining full liberty of
action to determine its future at
titude toward the government of
Poland, this government will con-
tinue to keep itself informed of de-
velopments in Poland through its
diplomatic mission in Warsaw"
State department press officer
Michael j. McDermott when ques-
toned about the intention to keep
the embassy in Warsaw open re-
piled that mo break in diplomatic
relations is in sight"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
DEATH OF NEGRESS
TERMED ACCIDENTAL
BY CORONER'S JURY
Special To The S.ar

LUMLGn1ON, Jan. 28. A YER
dict of unavoidable accident was
rendered by a coroners jury after
brief elaboration at an inquest
Monday night into the death OF
Laura Evans, elderly Lumberton
Neg-ess who was fatally injured
while walking across Highway 301
near the intersection with Highway
Al in the western edge of Lumber
ton on Jan. %.
The jury found that the woman
came to her death from injuries
sustained when she was struck by
a a driven by H. c. Love, man.
ager of the local bus station, OF
Queen City Coach comnany, as he
was headed west on 301 shortly
after dark. No one was held
blamable for the accident.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
Day In Congress
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dominated house foreign affairs
committee voted to survey U. S.
diplomatic operations, including in
ternational agreements, secret OF
otherwise. The committee pledged
support to President Truman and
Secretary of State Marshall on a
bipartisan foreign policy.
IVA - Former Rep. Joe Starnes
DALAI praised Gordon Clapp's
work as general manager of the
Tennessee Valley authority. Clapp.
nominated by President Truman to
be chairman of the IVA board, has
been criticized by Senator Nc
Kellar (D-Tenn).
Air Safety - Rep. Wolve-ton
GRIND, chairman of the house
commerce committee, said he
would like to hear fewer lex
cuses" and more concrete recon-
mendations to avoid airplane dis
aSters.
Filibusters - Senator Knowland
(R-Calif), urging a curb on Senate
filibustecs, said they reminded him
Of "Russia's use of the veto'' in
theS United Nations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
|S0LONS DISCUSS
BONUS FOR VETS
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Feb. l. That date is the present
deadline for renewing the insur.
ance.
Under existing law, the govern
ment pays up to $65 a month to a
veteran-student who is single and
$50 to one who is married. 1t pays
up to SITS to a single and 5000 to
a married veteran taking on-the-
job training.
The government payments, how.
ever, are cut by the amount the
veteran is paid for his work. Thus
a married veteran doing appren-
tee work and getting 500 a month
pay would receive 500 from the
government.
Amvets and the American Legion
want the ceiling taken off pay
ments. VFW wants higher ceilings
$3.50 a month for a single man,
$500 for a veteran with one de.
pendent, 1925 for a veteran with
more than one dependent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
Proposed Insurance Law
Changes Find Opposition

ragents; George Iseley of Raleigh
and l.. E. Woodbury. Of Whining
ton, insurance agents.
They maintained that only
.soualif. ed" insurance agents
should write insurance, and Muir
ray asked how the lawyers would
feel IF a building and loan secre-
tary practiced law on the side"
Murray and Woodbury. said en-
actment of the section would stop
Coercion of borrowers into buy
ing policies where they received
their loans. Iseley said he thought
the commission had done a good
adding that insurance
agents would have been at the
nearing "in force" if they had
known such opposition had devel-
oped.
At the morning session, Julius
&c. Smith of Greensboro, vice
president and general counsel OF
the Jefferson Standard Life In
surance company, led the fight on
a proposal which, he said, would
deprive professional groups, such
as bar and medical associations
and the North Carolina Education
association, of group insurance.
Smith said the provision would
stop group insurance for all or
carnations whose members do
not have a common employer.
supporters of this view included
w. J. Smith of Chapel Hill, rep
resenting the state pharmaceutical
association; J.. L. Crumpton, Dur
ham insurance agent, and Earl
Johnson, Raleigh agent, who said
III can't see where any harm is
done if any group gets group in
surance if an insurance company
s willing to write it." The provi-
sion also was opposed by George
Mcdowell of Newark, N. j.,
speaking for casualty companies,
Former Governor j. M. Brough-
ton spoke against a section requir'
ing employers of ticket agents
selling travel insurance to notify
the commissioner of insurance
when the agents employment ter
inmates and to return his license
to the commissioner for cancella'
ton. Broughton said plane anc
rail lines would not care to gel
involved in such red tape" anc
recommended that the ticket
agent merely be restricted TO sell
ing travel insurance. Such work
he said, is a small sideline for the
benefit of the travelling public anc
is "the cheapest insurance in the
world"
Pou Bailey of Raleigh, repre-
senting the North Carolina Motor
Carriers association, requested
legislation permitting carriers tt
be heard on new liability rates
before the rates become effective
Now, he said, carriers a only
appeal to the insurance commits
sion after the rates are approved,
Five proposed bills have beer
prepared by the revision commits
sion, A number of insurance mer
and insurance company attorney!
appeared before the commission
to ask elimination or change O.
various sections and phrases 9th
er than those dealing with group
insurance and controlled" bust
ness.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
POLICE PROBING
NEW DAHLIA NOTE
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yesterday morning is from the per
son responsible for the Staying
Jan. IS. That note said:
Here it is. Turning in Wed,
Jan. 20, 10 a. m. Had my fun at
police. Black Dahlia Avenger."
The first communication re-
ceived was last Friday when an
envelope containing the dead girls
birth certificate, address book and
other papers was intercepted by
postal inspectors.
It was followed by yesterdays
offer to surrender. Late yester-
day afternoon a third note said
"Dahlia killer cracking. Wants
terms" A fourth note threatened
the fate of Elizabeth Short to an
other woman.
The fourth note was not believed
authentic because it did not follow
the pattern of previous notes which
were limited to just a few words
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-29
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the hearing, and probably will con-
tinue in session tomorrow.
Chairman Wattach said the COM
mission will continue studying the
subject of insurance law revision
until agreement is reached on its
legislative recommendations. Then
the next step for the commission.
he said, would be the introduction
of bills into the legislature, prob
ably in about two weeks.
The revision commission was
| authorized by the 1945 general
assembly to study North Cardinals
insurance laws and make recon-
medations for changes to the 1947
legislature.
The afternoon session was de-
voted to a spirited demand that
the proposed section of CONTROL
ed" business be eliminated. This
section would stop the writing OF
insurance by employees of banks
| and loan companies on the lives
of borrowers unless the employe
wrote other insurance with at
least the same aggregate amount
of premiums as the controlled
| business.
Opponents argued that enactment
of this section into law Woulo
impair the service rendered to
borrowers by building and loan as
sociations, realtors, banks, mort
gage loan firms and others making
such loans and writing term in
surance covering the loans. They
also said it would work a hard
ship On borrowers and their fami-
lies, because, the opponents main
tanned, full-time insurance agents
would not care to 60 after such
business.
There also was opposition t.
the proposed legislation on the
ground that it would reduce the
income of persons writing such in.
surance on borrowers and might
force many of them to leave thei1
business. Among those taking this
view was state commissioner o:
banks Quincy P. Hood, who saic
he was appearing in the public's
interest.
Also opposing the section or
controlled" insurance business
were Irving Carlyle, George Crone
and Bert Pint of Winston-Salem
who maintained that the public
demanded" insurance protection
to cover loans; J.. E. Owens O.
Hickory, representing a mortgage
loan company, who said enactment
Of the section would work a hard
ship on war veterans; F. L. Carr
of Wilson, representing the Branch
Banking and Trust company; E.
T. Sanders of Burlington; and
Graham Cornell of Raleigh. rep
resenting the North Carolina AS
sociation of Real Estate Boards.
Wilmingtonians Heard
Opponents far outnumbered in
surance agents favoring the meas,
ure. Spokesman arguing for inclu'
sion of the section On controlled
business we're Walker Taylor O.
Wilmington, president of the NORTH
Carolina Association of Insurance
agents; Hugh Murray of Raleigh
representing the North Caroline
Association of Mutual Insurance