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The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
Brief OF State National And World News During The Past Week

Germany, Monday, June End and
hopes to reach home in about
3 weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Howell and
family of Grassy Creek, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Hartsoe, last Sunday
Miss Barbara Jones Of Welch,
w. Va, is spending the summer
with Mr.. and Mrs. @. H. Ashley.
The Baptists have purchased
piano for the church here and
will have choir practice each
Wednesday night.
All the homes in the Teaberry
section have been wired in readi-
ness for the long hoped for
powerline. On Sunday morning,
the good people of Ashley's
Chapel devoted the amount
necessary to have the church
wired. This was done on Tues
day and now Ashley's Chapel is
anxious to store the lamps that
have served so long and faith
fully for a day when "The power
is off," Mr.. Emmett Bolick Of
Hickory, has been doing the
wiring and installing the fix
lures for that community.
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
NAVY HAS MANY BOATS
READY TO TRANSFER

Washington-The navy is ready
to transfer four cruisers and lat
smaller vessels to Latin-Ameri-
can nations, officials disclosed,
if Congress approves President
Truman's hemisphere arms stand
ardization program.
The navy has earmarked two
light cruisers for Brazil and one
each for Chile and Peru. The to-
tai of 121 vessels to be transfer
red includes 81 wartime COM
bat ships now valued at $9,286,-
$50 and "a noncombat ships at
$11, ,828,45O. The combat ships
besides the four cruisers are 33
destroyer escorts.
Secretary of the Navy Forres-
tai has estimated in a memoran-
dunn to the State Department
that this $21,115,O20 would be
the full cost of the navy's share
of the program. The memoranda
um says the navy now is spend
ing $15,628.O9 month to main
tain the ships that would be
transferred.
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12

weeks visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
J. Ance Johnson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward Shepherd,
of Maryland, have been guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Eller for
several days.
Mrs. Worth Wright and daugh-
ter, of Bina, attended Sabbath
School and church here Sunday.
Little Josephine Isenhour, of
Stages Creek, attended Sunday
school here last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carper Jones, of
Laurel Bloomery, Tenn. were
week end guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
V. C. Huddler.
Mrs. Wiley Elliott attended the
funeral of Mrs. E. Caudill of
Smethport, last Monday.
Mrs. c. H. Ireson, and son, and
Mrs. Todd" Caudill, of Smeth-
port, were guests of Mrs. Cor
don Whitner, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Q. H. Ashley
and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Ash
ley were week end visitors in
Welch, w. Va.
w. o. Ashley, Jr., was in Flori-
da last week.
1t. Jean Ashley sailed from
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
Truman Will Open Highway
Safety Conference On June ! 8

Washington President Tru-
man will speak at the opening
session of the Action Program
Group Of the Presidents High
way Safety Conference June 18,
the White House announced to-
day.
The Conference will be held
June 18, 19 and 20 in the Interior
Department Auditorium, Wash
ington, D. c., where officials Of
the forty-eight States and the
District of Columbia, and a lar
ge group of nonofficial organi-
cations interested in highway
safety, will evaluate the results
of the past years battle against
highway accidents and plan fur
ther safety activities. A ~goal of
not less that 10000 lives saved
has been set for 1947.
Major General Philip B. Flem-
ing, Federal Works Administra-
tor and General Chairman of the
Conference; c. w. Phillips, Presi-
dent of the American Association
of Highway Officials; T. P. Sui
livan, President of the Interna-
tional Association of Chiefs of
Police; w. Earl Hall, Chairman
of the National Committee for
Traffic Safety, and Governor Mil
lard F. Caldwell of Florida will
preside over various sessions OF
the Conference.
Grand awards in the National
Traffic Safety Contest, sponsored
by the National Safety Council
will be made by Congressman
Clifford Davis of Tennessee and
awards in the National Pedes-
train protection Contest, spon-
sored by the American Automo-
bile Association, by Lou E. Hol-
land, Chairman Of the A. A. A.
National Traffic Safety Commit
tee.
Morgan Beatty, National
Broadcasting Company; Winston
Burdett. Columbia BrOadCaSting
System commentator and Tho
mas l.. Stokes, newspaper col
umnist. will moderate panel dis
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
JAPANESE ADMIT TO
EATING FILIPINOS

manila = A grisly story of
lian-eatlng Japanese soldiers,
VINO stalked Filipinos on canni-
oallStlc forays and sometimes ate
one another, came out of the jun
sgles of Northern Mindanao.
= Thirty-one of the japanese,
who surrendered last February,
are held in a military stockade at
Del Monte, Northern Mindanao,
facing more than 20 murder
counts in which cannibalism i.
involved.
The story was told by S. Mel
vile Hussey, Bayonne, N. j., of
the army's legal section in Manila,
who obtained confessions and in
terrogated witnesses in six weeks
of investigation.
He styled it a chronicle "of
cumulative horror with few par
allels of surprising brutality"
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
FIVE ARE LEFT DEAD
IN TORNADO PATH

Sharon, Pa.-A roaring tor
nado which cut a 75-mile sWath
through Eastern Ohio and West
ern Pennsylvania left five dead
and gave residents of almost a
dozen towns a monumental task
in cleaning up their debris-strewn
communities.
Many were injured and proper
ty damage of several hundred
thousand dollars was done by the
sudden twister that Saturday
ripped a criss cross path of
destruction from Youngstown,
Ohio, across the State line to-
Sharon, then zigzagged eastward
to Mercer, Pa, where it split up
in thundershoWers.
In Sharon, which felt the hard
est blows, all houses in a 15-block
residential area were damaged.
Mayor Myron Jones estimated 800
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
MISSISSIPPI RIVER
FLOODS HANNIBAL, MO.

Hannibal, Mo.-The rain swol-
len Mississippi River and it's
Iowa tributary, the Des Moines
River, presented a picture of
death and destruction as one
town was completely inundated
and communities from Ottumwa,
Iowa, to Plouisiana, Mo-, were
partially submerged.
At Ottumwa, Herschel Love-
less, in charge of rescue opera
tions, estimated the death toll
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12

would reach 20. No deaths were
reported along the Mississippi.
River levees, between the
mouth of the Des Moines and St.
Louis, gave way under the riv-
er's pressure, covering an esti-
mated $4,000 acres of farmland
and the town of Alexandria, Mo.
Water was eight to ten feet
deep in the towns streets just a
few hours after the approx
mately $50 persons who live there
left for shelter at nearby Way
land.
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12

tage of the opportunity to hear
him. Rev. J. R. Short has can
celled revival at another point
on the charge, in order to be with
them throug the meeting.
Mrs. Allen Wilmington, of N.
Wilkesboro, visited relatives
here recently. Mrs. R. E..
Johnson returned to N. Wilkes
boro with her for a few days visit
with Mrs. Wilmington and Mrs.
Joseph Staley.
Miss Evelyn Wilmington, of
N. Wilkesboro, is the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Johnson this
week.
DR.. L. B. Abernethy, of Char
lotte, and DR.. J. S. Hiatt, of Ell
kin visited friends here re-
Gently and were luncheon
guests at the parsonage while
here.
Mrs. c. R. Latham, Mrs. Dave
Shepherd, Mrs. J. M. Burkett
and Jack Ashley, attended the
funeral of James Dougherty, at
Bluff City, Tenn. last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Segraves,
and family, visited in Whining
ton, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Race, and
family, were week end visitors
in Charlotte.
Mrs. Luke Wood, Miss Charl-
enc Wood, of independence, Va,
Mr.. and Mrs. Luke Wood, Jr.,
and son, Roger, of Chilhowie
Va, visited relatives and friends
here Sunday.
Ralph and Jack Ashley spent
the week end in Tarboro as
guests of Miss Wylene Ashley
Mr.. and Mrs. A. L. Adell, and
family, Of the University of IL
linois, are guests of Mrs. Adell's
parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. r
Short. Mrs. Short will enter the
Hugh Chatham Memorial hospi-
tai at Elkin, Wednesday, for
treatment.
Parsonage visitors this week
included Rev Herbert Parsons
Rev. and Mrs. c. w. Brown
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12
" arrensville News

Dr. J, c. Pipes, EVANGELIST, Of
Asheville. is assisting Rev. Cic-
ero Ashley in revival at the
Warrensville Baptist church.
which began Sunday DR.. Pipes
is an interesting preacher and we
hope every one will take adVan-
There were approximately a.
500 telephones on North Caro-
lima farms in 1915.
The Skyland post., 1947-06-12

persons received minor hurts and
that at least 100 houses were
damaged in a section just a few
blocks from the business district.
Forty-five persons were treated
at Buhl Hospital here, and 40 at
hospitals in the youngstown area.
For best results use the Sky
land Posts classified columns.
Evening star., 1947-04-21
Paraguay President
Reported Using Jails
To Control Enemies
By Ernie Hill
torsisn, Correspondent Of The Stor ond
HE chleose Dolly News

Foreign, Correspondent Of The ssor and
HE chleose Daily News
AsUNCIoN, Paraguay, April 21.--|
with his fellow Asuncions at no
pains to hide their dislike for him
or their preference for a rebel VIC
tory In the current civil war, Para
guay's President Higinio Morinigo
obviously cannot fail to be aware
Of q possible coup d'etat against his
Office.
Therefore, he has apparently de-
eided that in the event OF his gov
ernment's sudden demise, it would
be just as well not to have too many
rabid enemies at large.
Jails Control Enemies.
One way to control political
enemies Is to put them in Jail. And
the government has several new
jails In Asuncion where people in
sympathy with the rebels have been
locked up since the fighting began
dx weeks ago. The latest is the
palatial house across the street from
army stair headquarters. Presi-
dent Morinigo has just dispossessed
the religious sect known as Jeho-
vah's witnesses from that building
and incarcerated there some 100
political enemies.
Aoubo tho dicy>occocca,3 xr-;+aoes,~u
who are now looking for home may
find one In one of President Mo-
rinigo's new jails. They have been
spending their time knocking on
Asuncion doors, selling their Watch
tower magazine and playing pacifist
phonograph records urging Para
guayans to refuse to fight in the
country's civil war.
1000 Reported In Prison.
Humor has it that there are 1000
political prisoners languishing In
Paxaguayan jails at present, though
the ofhcial figure is 750. The most
important are kept In Pena Hermosa
('Beautiful Rock"), the Alcatraz-
Ike island Jail. which is supposed
10 be escape-proof. ....
The government Is very proud of
some Of its cozier jails. It has In
ited all newspapermen staying In
the capital to visit them and talk
with some OF the prisoners.
The President himself insists that
none Of the prisoners are being tor
tured. He says that they are being
detained; that he doesn't like to put
people in Jail but has no other al
Tentative.
President Morinigo has softened
considerably In the two years since
he first began to find himself slip
ping. Before that there was consid-
cradle torture of prisoners, such as
electric shock and various forms of
indecent treatment. These prac-
tices have been ordered stopped.
(copyriEht, 1e47)
Evening star., 1947-04-21

It Is estimated there are more
than 100000 fibers in q pound
of cotton.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Fight Show Cancelled
After Permit Refusal

Harvey L. Miller, chairman OF the
District of Columbia Boxing Com
mission, said today the Metropolitan
Amateur Athletic Association has
withdrawn its application to hold a
boxing show tomorrow night at
Turner's Arena.
THE fights definitely are OIL, SAID
Leon S. Calhoun, treasurer OF the
METROPOLITAN AAA, who recon-
mended to his organization that the
show be Cancelled in view of the Box
ing Commissions refusal to grant a
permit because the program did not
have the sanction of the District
AAU
Jerry Looney, chairman OF the
AAU Ring Committee. had said ne
would suspend any boxer who COM
peted in the Metropolitan AAA show.
He said he had refused to sanction
the associations program on the
grounds he would not permit two
amateur cards on one night.
}Looney said he already had grant
ed the Twelfth Street YMCA and
the Police Boys Club, No. 2, joint
sanction to hold Golden Gloves elm
nation trials.
Miller said the Boxing Commission
refused the Metropolitan request for
q permit because of the commits
sion's long standing policy not to
issue permits for amateur boxing
shows unless they have been sane
toned by the District AAU.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Bouqh Is Pro Gds Most Modest as Well as Most Popular
onotsd Sunday Ae Considerable Of little Fellow

with the boys. He'll foot the
movie ticket bill or pick up the
tab for the squad in the ice
cream bar. That runs into a
double sawbuck and at a time Of
the season when nickels and
dimes count with the players it's
appreciated.
In Boston last year, a notion
picture camera crew was grind
ing out reel on Baugh's pass
ing form and a group of ragged
urchins were chasing the bali
over the muddy field. Near the
end, one of the boys landed ker-
plunk in the middle of a pud-
die and was thoroughly drenched.
1t was a biting cold day. Sam
Immediately ran over, picked the
youngster up and took him into
the dressing room. The kid was
bugeyed while his hero made sure
he was cared for.
But, as far as he has come,
Baugh still may have a little
distance to go. He and Dick
Todd were scheduled to appear
at luncheon last week and
Dutch" Bergman, his former
coach, had to announce that
they couldn't make it because
their suits had not been returned
from the cleaners. Perhaps the
Touchdown Clubbers had better
throw in a suit-with two pairs
of pants-Sunday.
Evening star., 1947-11-20

BrookIond Booking
The Brookland Merchants 130-
pound football team Is seeking a
game. Call Russian at Dupont 1147.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
FuIks' Cage Scoring Bee Fails
To Stop Cops in Warrior Tilt

good one. He was using his elbows
and when the foul was called on ms
I got angry, not with Fulks, but
because of the officiating"
The Caps snapped out Of their
slow-moving ways to down the pre-
viously unbeaten Warriors. Feerick
looked more like Feerick as he
dropped in five goals in 13 at
tempts. Irwin Rothenberg played
a brilliant game and led the Caps
scoring with IA points. Freddy
Scolari, fourth in the leagues scor-
ing race, threw in five field goals
and three fouls for 13.
Fulks threw his first field goal,
and Art Hillhouse followed with an
other to give the Warriors a 40
lead. They led, 1914, at the end
OF the first quarter, and midway
in the second held a 1922 lead, but
the Caps came up to a 34-33 count
at the half.
5 The last half belonged to the
Caps. Mckinney registered seven
points and John Norlander six, to
pace the Caps to q 1881 third
period lead.
The game drew 2,32o customers.
Evening star., 1947-11-20

A nine-hole golf course on Brad
ley boulevard, which has been the
site of various promotional schemes
and known as the National Wom-
ems Country Club, Bradley Hills
and Washington Aviation, finally is
becoming a civic. nonprofit organ
ization.
With e5 per cent of its officers
and board members from the Be-
thesda area, the new name is the
Bethesda Country Club, and the
stress Is on family memberships.
Included on the 156-acre plot,
which is located between Burning
Tree and Congressional on Bradley
boulevard, an extension Of Bradley
lane, are nine hole course, a sec
ond nine, which has been laid out
but not completed; a clubhouse, an
apartment building, two tennis
courts and swimming pocl
The founders of the new club hope
to have 300 charter members by De-
cember and to offset the costs of
the purchase, memberships have
been set at a $500 debenture bond
each.
The club originally was founded
as the National Women's and was to
be THE women's golf club of the
country. Each tree that lines the
driveway was given by representa-
tive of a foreign country. But be-
fore the ambitions of the founders
were realized, the club was turned
into a public course,
AS the Bradley Hills Club, the
Evening star., 1947-11-20

Rotan rancher can retire to his
acres without too many worries
when his football days are over.
That's a long time off, because
Baugh still feels that he's got
lot of passes left in his whip-like
arm and when he finally decides
to hang up his cleats he's got
place on the coaching staff await
ing him.
Baugh is hard to know. He
wears his honors modestly and
is never too tired or bruised to
sign youngsters autograph
book or do one of a hundred
little things that make the diff
ference between just good passer
and great athlete. But he's not
a back slapper. You'll always
find players of the visiting team
in the Redskin dressing room
after the game talking to him,
and no rookie is too obscure to
rate with him.
Hes the most respected and
best liked player in football"
says Wilbur Moore, And for my
money one of the greatest the
game ever saw. I don't think
any one ever has matched his
uuick-kicking and as for throw
ing the ball, they don't even come
close"
Moore said many of Baugh's
throws miss because receivers
don't follow instructions. In a
huddle, Sam calls the play, then
tells every key man exactly how
he wants it run SO therell be
no slip-up.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Bradley Boulevard Golf Links
Becomes Civic Organization

property became private develop
ment which did not pan out and
under the name Washington Avia-
ton it was intended to be combi-
nation airport and golf course
until neighbors objected. AS a golf
course the venture lasted less than
two years.
The new owners are positive that
the club did not succeed because 1t
was not a civic affair. They are
stressing the women's and children S
angle in canvassing the neighbor-
hood. 1t will be strictly private
club.
Plans call for toughening the
course, which is a little on the easy
SIDE at present, and development of
the second nine holes, laid out eight
years ago by Al Jamison, present
pro at the Quantico club.
John Leavell, the greenkeeper and
pro under John Hoberman when the
club was known as Washington
Aviation, will be retained in both
capacities.
The president of the club is j. Ed
ward Williams, Allen E. Freeze is
vice president, j. Burton Aiken is
treasurer and G. Rayner Gaillord is
secretary.
Members of the board include
Leslie G. Aries, president of the
Touchdown Club, and R. S. Good
ridge, secretary of the Federal Golf
Association.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Redskin Stur, to
By Lewis F. Atchison

Sammy Baugh has come long
way since George Marshall
bought him his first dinner jacket
in Dallas, Tex. On Sunday,
Touchdown Club members will
present Sammy with brand-new
station wagon before the kickoff
of the Cardinal-Redskin game
and in round figures there's a
difference of $4,000 between that
and an eating coat.
Sammy, of course, can afford
to buy his own station wagons.
He's not the naive, broke kid
he was when the Redskins plast-
cred a No. 80 on his back and
made him a full-fedged member
of the Tribe II years ago. He's
a man of af1uence, an idol of
football players and fans every
where and a sports figure ranking
alongside of such immortals as
Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Red Grange
and other great athletes.
You only get one like him in
a lifetime" Clark Griffith told
Marshall, leaving the ball park
one day. II know, because I had
one" Griff worshipped Walter
Johnson, his greatest pitcher.
Marshall has the same awesome
regard for Baugh. The Redskin
president is like a small boy in
the dressing room when Sam and
the team have mad a good day.
Sometimes you expect him to ask
for Baugh's autograph.
Marshall has handled Baugh's
financial affairs so wisely the
Evening star., 1947-11-20
By Bill Fuchs

Joe Fulks, the Philadelphia War
riors' 6-foot-5-inch forward, who
ran away with the individual scor-
ing race in the Basket Ball Asso-
citation Of America last season with
an average of 231 points per game,
is averaging "a points in four
games this year and there doesn't
seem to be any way to stop him.
Hes phenomenal with that ball."
said Washington Capitols' Bones
Mckinney after last nights tussle
in which his club won over the War
riors, 74-67, despite Fulks' 25-point
scoring spree. How can you stop
him when he jumps up and puts
the ball in from the center Of the
floor2"
Capt. Bob Feerick and Fulks
waged a private war under the
backboards at Uline Arena, which
resulted in Feerick's dismissal from
the scene late in the third period.
FeerickS admitted hitting back at
Fulks in the scramble. I'VE were
both throwing them," Feerick said,
"for Fulks is a hard player and
Evening star., 1947-11-20

"He's good at improvising
plays" said Moore. "If we don't
have a play to meet a certain
situation, he'll change one Of
ours enough to make it fit-and
it works"
Turk Edwards thinks the -e37
Giant game at New York, the
1912 World Championship play
off with the Chicago Bears here
and the first game with Phila-
delphia this season were Sammy's
all-time best pitching exhibi-
tionS.
And for smart quarterbacking
on pass plays you can't beat him."
added the coach. HE almost got
Charley Malone killed against the
Giants on short button hook
throws, but he pulled Tuffy Lee
mans out of position long enough
tc throw long touchdown pass
to Ed Justice. 1t was one of the
prettiest pieces of strategy I've
ever seen, but only Baugh could
make 1t go because Of those
strikes he throws on short
passes"
Sammy is rather even tenn
pered, but he blows his top now
and then and bawls out a player
who misses his assignment. The
guy who suffers most is Baugh
himself, because he berates him.
self as much as the rest when
he pulls a boner. when Sam
sqauwks about the officiating, you
know it's pretty bad" said Judge
Sam Weiss, who has charge Of
the whistle blowers.
It's doubtful If Sam knows how
much he earns.
"He thinks the United States
Treasury is located at Ninth and
H Streets" said Marshall, 'be-
cause every time he needs money
We get a phone call from him.
One day I told him about some
money he didn't know he had and
he yelled, 'Whee-that's fine, and
we just had a nice rain down
here in Texas, too"
Sam does little things in train
ing camp that put him in solid
Evening star., 1947-11-20
MoryIond-Dis PGA
To Get Bornett Report

The Baltimore and Washington
members of the Middle Atlantic sec
ton of the Professional Golfers As
sociation will hold special meet
Ing tomorrow night at Indian Spring
Club to hear Delegate Bob Bar
nett's report of the annual meet :
ing in Chicago.
Although Virginia pros are well
come to attend the Indian Spring
meeting, which will start at 7
o'clock, Virginia Delegate John
ODonnell will make his report in
a meeting at his home in Norfolk
on Monday for the Tidewater pros.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Doyle Leads Card Team
To Win Over GuIIuudet

Dan Doyle, who has been the
handspring Of Catholic University's
cross-country team, again whizzed
across the finish line first yesterday
as the Cards defeated Gallaudet,
is to a., over Gallaudet's 4-mile
course. Doyle finished In 81 minutes,
33 seconds.
Each school will have team in
the Mason-Dixon Conference meet
Monday at Gallaudet.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Singh Topples Shorkey
With Old 'Cobru Clutch

Nanjo Singh still stands by his
cobra clutch" 1t failed to stop
Primo Camera a few weeks ago,
but Singh applied it to Babe Shar-
key in the mat match last night
at Turner's Arena and stopped the
Babe in % minutes.
In other matches, Frederick Won
Schacht defeated Wladislaw Talun
in IA minutes with body press,
Steve Cob teamed with Abe Free
man to win over Harry Finklestein
and Pat Welsh and Fred Carrone
lost his match to Shiek Abed when
ne was disqualified after 20 min
utes for roughness.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
6. w. High Hurriers Ahead

Bobby Jones, 16-year-old Virginia
State half-mile record holder, fin
ished the 2-mile event in lola to
lead George Washington High to
27-28 victory over the Navy Plebes
in a cross-country run yesterday at
Annapolis. It was the first set
back for the Plebes since 1941.
Evening star., 1947-11-20
Unbeoten Terp Booters
Oppose Salisbury Stute

Tomorrow afternoon will be a busy
one for the University of Maryland.
The undefeated, but once tied, soccer
team plays Salisbury State Teach
ers, also undefeated. Also the Junior
varsity football team plays Mont
gomery Junior College.
The junior Terp gridders have
won and lost three games. The foot
ball game is in Byrd Stadium at 8
o'clock, while the soccer match Is
on the field behind the stadium,
starting at $50,