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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
GALLOWAY LEADS
LOCAL LEGION
Drum And Bugle Cops Wins
Acclaim From Large
Crowds
By WADE LUCAS

NEW YORK, Aug. 80 - North
Cardinals delegation stepped out
today in the American Legion's
twenty-ninth annual convention
parade. More than one million
seven hundred fifty thousand peo-
pie according to the New York
World Telegram lined Fifth ave-
nue. to watch the forty-eight states
and five territories march in the
traditional American Legion pa
rade.
b. Heading the North Carolina pa
rade was State Commander Ray
Galloway of Wilmington, N. c.,
and just behind him was the Will
mington Drum and Bugle corps
state champions Of North Carolina
who got profuse applause on Fifth
avenue as we'll as a few boos
from those whom we consider the
subversive element. The red coat
ed boys from Wilmington really
put on a show for New York.
Following the Wilmington Drum
and Bugle corps were the veter-
ans of. World War I and II who
marched incidentally as best they
could three miles up Fifth avenue.
N~inety-nine per cent Of them
made it. Following the veterans
were the Asheville Legion band
which also put on a big show all
the way up Fifth avenue.
Climaxing the North Carolina
delegation in participation Of the
CONTINUED on Page Eleven, Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
PRE-H0LlDAY
DEATHS AT 81
Death Toll By States Cited
Saturday By Safety
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Traffic fatalities mounted Satur-
day night as the nations Labor
Day exodus began.
Since 6 P. M. Friday, 81 persons
had died accidentally throughout
the country. Automobile accidents
already had killed SO. One person
was drowned. Thirteen others died
in other mishaps related to the holt
day. including five who were vic
tins of small plane crashes.
The National Safety council esti-
mated that $50. persons would be
killed in traffic accidents over the
three-day week end.
Following is the death toll by
states Cratic, drownings and mis-
cellaneous in that order):
Arizona 1 0 /; California 4 0 0;
Colorado 2 0 o; Connecticut l 0 O;
Georgia 2 0 O; Idaho 0 0 3; Hi
nois o 0 2; Indiana 2 0 0; Iowa 5
0 O; Maine 0 0 1; Maryland 2 0 O;
Massachusetts 3 0 0; Michigan
/ O: Montana 4 0 o; New Jersey
/: New York 6 0 8; Ohio 5 0 1;
Oklahoma / 0 0; Oregan l G o.;
Pennsylvania 2 0 0; Texas 2 0 0;
Vermont 1 0 0; Virginia l 0 O;
Washington l 0 l; West Virginia
1 n n. Wisconsin 2 @ O..
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

given space in advance on the
four floors here will have the
chance to sell their tobacco on al
lotted days. Those taking
a chance on space may be disap-
pointed. And Wallace warehouse
men are bending every effort, to
use a cliche, as well as their
backs to see that no farmers are
disappointed.
From all and sundry, the tobac-
co crop in the wallace area is
reported to be the largest in the
past several years and now that
the farmers, long delayed by
rains and other inclement wealth
err, are getting their weed ready
for market fast there is an al
most steady flow TO town.
Each of the warehouses mere
reports good sales. The houses
are Husseys Nos. l and 2, operat-
ed by W. L. (BilD Hussey, George
D. Bennett, and Joe H. Bryant
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
ThoroughIn 1airy'
Under ay;C Case
Mott osed,HeSays
Deputy Sheriff D. L. Ganey Agrees With
Moore That A Third Person Could
Have Staged The Deaths
By BOB KLINE. Staff Writer

Possibility that one or more persons consplred ana
committed a clever double murder in the Staying" by her
estranged husband of Mrs. Walter G. Piner and his sub
sequent Suicide before dawn Friday at WOODBURY. near
Leland was announced last night by District Solicitor Clifton
Moore and Deputy Sheriff D. L.. Ganey.
Solicitor Moore said:
"A thorough investigation is being conducted to deter
mine if a third party did the shooting" and that the case
has not been closed and will not be closed until all the
evidence has been examined. The solicitors announcement
came in spite of an earlier statement from the offic eof the
Brunswick county coroner that an inquest would not be held.
Ganey agreed with Moore that a third person might
have killed the pair, arranged the bodies in the room, and
first entered the case he said he was of the opinion it was
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
STATE LEAF
SALES REPORT
Lower Prices And Extreme
ly Light Volume Re-
ported
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The first weeks sales on the
1947 Eastern North Carolina flue-
cured tobacco belt saw compar-
ably lower prices and extremely
light volume.
The United States and North
Carolina Departments of Agricul-
ture reported practically all
grades ranged from 81 to SIT be-
low averages established during
the first week of sales in 1916.
Gross sales amounted to only d.
613, 815 pounds, compared with 49,
1862, 40 pounds during opening
week last year. The general aver
age was $43.34 per hundred, or
1902 under that paid in the same
period in 1916. The chief reason
for the lower average was decline
in averages by grades.
Another main factor in the
weeks marketing was the large
amount Of tobacco delivered to
the Flue Cured Tobacco Coopera-
tive Sterilization corporation. Re
ceipts we're estimated at 1875 per
cent of sales. Loans were avail
able last season by prevailing
prices were considerably above
advance and deliveries we're neg
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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
RED FISH TIDE
HITS LONG ISLAND
Frantic Efforts Made To
Clear Holiday
Beaches

WooDMERE, N. Y, Aug. 30
W.D-The mysterious "red tide"
that has killed millions Of fish Oft
the coast of Florida struck in
North Atlantic waters for the first
time today when thousands Of
tons of dead fish were washed
ashore on Long Island beaches.
Beach attendants we're busily
burying the fish, described as
moss-bunkers and mullets in an
effort to clear the beaches for the
expected holiday crowds over the
Labor Day weekend.
The fish, decaying and rotting,
were driving would-be swimmers
away from the beaches with their
odor, but truck farmers carried
away loads to use tor garden fer
ti1iZer
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in the Eastern North Carolina
Belt for high price average. The
million-odd pounds sold during the
week fetched an average OF $45.25
per hundred pounds.
As of Thursday the Wallace
market went into a sales block
that had been expected all along.
The block will doubtless continue
for several days, probably weeks.
Wallace warehousemen, seeking
to prevent unnecessary delays
and inconvneiences to their far
mers, have urged all tobacco
growers to book floor space in ad-
vance so that their tobaccos may
be sold with the greatest expe-
diency.
Under general marketing regu-
lations, the Wallace market is
permitted to sell but 1000 piles
of tobacco per day. These r sold
in four hours of selling time.
Therefore, farmers who've been
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
BY JOHN SKIES

WALLACE, Aug. 3O-There was
new folding money in large bun
dies bulging in the pockets of far
mers of this section today after
five days of sales on the 1947 to-
bacco market.
The bundles heaped up to near
ly 500, 900 per day for each of the
five days of sales on the Wallace
market which opened last money.
Official figures, released today,
show that the three Wallace ware
house firms paid out a total of
$496, O03.64 for the week of sales.
This amount represented payment
for 1865, 598 pounds of the weed
that has been classified as golden,
both because of its color on the
warehouse floor and the fact that
it brings in the stuff for which
gold is supposed to stand for.
As in past season, the Wallace
Tobacco Market was at the tor
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

Vandenberg
Wins Praise
Republican Honored For
Part In Drafting Hem
isphere Defense

QUITANDINHA, Brazil, Aug. 30
-(R-A resolution thanking Sen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg (R-Mich,
for his part in drafting the re-
gional arrangements section of the
United Nations charter at San
Francisco in 1915 and his role in
drafting the inter-American mu-
tual defense treaty here was in
troduced into the record of the
inter-American conference today.
The Michigan senator led the
presentation of the United States
views in committee sessions dur
ing the current conference and is
considered by many delegates
chiefly responsible for adoption OF
a number of the defense pact's
provisions.
Senator Vandenberg later ex-
pressed belief that the treaty
would be ratified by the U. S.
Senate.
He told a news conference that
the treaty could not "be attacked
o the basis of diluting the United
Nations" and declared:
eve are looking all over the
earth for a ray of sunshine and
we cannot find it, but here is a
lighthouse Of hope. In this stage
of history. two continents have
found a way of joining hands for
the preservation of peace and Sc
curity. This is a tremendous fact"
The Republican senator said he
believed the treaty would have a
great Psychological and spiritual"
effect in the world.
Referring to the reception the
treaty wouldareceive in the Senate,
Vandenberg said he could not pre-
dict the action of his colleagues
but added that continental inter-
est in the Monroe Doctrine has
been so acute for so long that I
consider all preponderaSfs to be
on the side of Senate approval"
Asked if he thought the treat;
would start an arms race in Latin
America, Vandenberg said he be-
lleved it would have the opposite
effect.
The senator also said the Pan
American union and inter-Ameri-
can defense board would always
welcome any closer ties Canada
wishes to make at any time"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
NEWS OF TROOP
MOVEMENTS BANNED
UNDER GREEK RULE

ATHENS, Aug. 30-(P6The new
rightist Greek cabinet, headed by
Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, de-
cided tonight to issue a decree
"banning publication of reports
relating to troop movements, mill
tary operations and comments on
same and on military activities IN
general" q
The decision was made at the
cabinets first meeting. Tsaldarls'
government has the task OF re.
storing. order in large sections OF
northern Greece where leftlst guer-
rillas have been battling Greek
army troops for months.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
FLAMES KILL
81 IN THEATRE
Two Balconies Collapse
And Many Hurt In
Panic

PARIS, Aug. 3d. R -Ap'
proximately 81 persons were be
lieved, burned to death tonight
when a motion picture theater ir
the Paris suburb of Reuil was de.
stcoyed by fire.
Police said "a bodies had beer
taken from the Quilted select theate1
and that about 20 more were be-
lieved in the .wreckage.
A short circuit in the wiring
of the second balcony of the movie
house started the fire, police said
Balcony supports collapsed and
members of the audience seated
there were pitched on to those
below.
There were about 600 persons II
the theatre when the fire broke
out.
In the panic that followed per,
sons in boxes along the sdes Of
the theater were thrown into ;hs
melee on the floor blow and many
spectators were trampled ane
trapped in the path of the fire.
A crowd Of weeping relative!
and friends Of missing person!
stood by the smoking ruins while
firemen from Paris, St. German
and Versailles searched for bodies
The nearby office of a justice Of
the peace served as temporary
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

a murder and suicide.
Piner, 40, a prominent dairy
man in North Carolina, and his
47-year-old second wife, who also
had been married previously
were found shot to death in an
upstairs bedroom of a house oc.
cupied by Spurvey Sneeden on U.
S. II, near Leland.
Both had been residents Of Fay.
etteville, where the funeral will
be held. Mrs. Piner had been 4
waitress at Williams restaurant.
at the junction of us. routes IT
and "a.
She died on her birthday. after
her husband had repeatedly given
Mrs. Liston williams, wife Of the
restaurant operator. five dollars
the night before with which to
buy Mrs. Piaer a present.
Ganey, who said that Mrs. Pin
er's body was found slumped
down behind the door which opens
from the inside, agreed that 4
third person might have killed the
pair. arranged the bodies in the
room, and made an exit through
the window by a ladder. He did
not say if a ladder was found
on the premises.
F%ingerprints on the gun, found
between Piner's legs, have not
been taken, he said.
1T was an old gun, and I doubt
if prints could be taken from it."
he said.
. Piner's funeral will be held ut
2:30 pm, today, and Mrs. Piner's
at 5p.m., today.
Piner is survived by four daugh-
tiers by a former marriage, and
Mrs. Piner, the former Letha
Cumber, by two daughters and
one son.
The dead couple had been mar
ried approximately one year and
had been separated for three
weeks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
LOCAL WEATHER
REPORTED GOOD
Generally Pleasant Holll-
dav Forecast Saturday
Night

Generally pleasant weather lot
southeastern North Carolina e4cep'
for scattered thundershowers tnls
afternoon, was predicted late las.
n;sht by the government Weathel
station at Cherry Point. To-Day >
highest temperature will be aoou'
The Cherry Point weather sta
tion reported flying conditions as
follows: Contact flying with elgns
mi1e visibility from Wilmington
north and south after 10 u. M
sunday; three mile visibility prior
to 10 a. m. IN
Tomorrow will be overcast IN
the morning with possible showers,
but the afternoon will be 1ree o.
any precipitation. u-
Following yesterdays INTERIM.
tent rain and sun shine and cary
evening rains the skies Were Tree
of clouds and. stars and the moon
shone brilliantly at 9 p. m.
Re.ch and local law enforcement
agencies reported no major au'o,
mobile accidents and also that
motorists were observing SAFE
rules of driving.
The city hall, courthouse, post
office, customs house, and an
banks will be closed tomorrow TOR
the holiday which began after the
half workday yesterday.
Virtually all stores in the Guy
also will be closed tomorrow, Out
will be open all day Wednesday
instead of having the usual after
noon holiday. .
Carolina Beach and WrlghtsVllle
Beach expected good crowds for
the final long holiday Of the season.
as well as Holden Beach and Long
Beach in the Southport area:
The weekly meeting of the board
of county commissioners schea,
uled for tomorrow, will be nelo
Tuesday instead. Only routine
business was on the agenda yes
terday. .
Meanwhile the Associated Press
said:
A narrow imaginary band
stretching from East to West oil
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Mew Foldiin' Money Eeported In Large Leaf Bun dies
This WeekendFo lowiing F iirst Sales On MduaceM Market

Blanchard and Farrior's, operated
by O. c. Blanchard and William
H. Farrior, and New Duplin Nos.
l and 2, operated by A. H. Car
ter, A. E. Rackley, and John
Chestnut.
In keeping with custom, and
other tobacco markets, the Wal
lace market will not be open on
Monday, Labor Day. The next
sale here will start Tuesday
morning at 9. am. at. Husseys
No. /.
With in influx Of new money
Wallace merchants today reported
volume of sales On the upgrade,
especially since Thursday when
the market first blocked after
comparatively light offerings of
tobacco on Tuesday and Wednes-
day. The light sales on those two
days were attributed to the fact
that the growers hadn't yet got
their tobacco ready to place be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
MANTZ
WINS BENDlX
Average Speed, California
To Cleveland, Is $780,
423 Mph.

CLEVELAND, Aug. 80 - Up
Paul Mantz, Hollywood's gabulous
flying man, today won the 1850.
mile bendix race and $4,000 tlrs'
prize for the second consecutive
time when he flashed across the
finish line at an average speed
to 46O. 423 miles an hour.
Mantz won by the closest mar
gin in the history of the Bendlx,
although his speed was 70 miles
faster than the winning time last
wear and about 1870 miles an hour
faster than the last pre-war WIN
ner.
Mantz covered the course from
Van Mugs, Calf, to Cleveland in
four hours, 20 minutes and 8.
seconds in his souped-up Pol
Mustang, air force fighter.
Only one minute and eighteen
seconds behind him was Joe De
Bona, flying a Psi entered oy
Thomas c. Call, of Los Angeles
De Bona's average speed was
1882 miles an hour and his elaps'
ed time was four hours, % minutes
and IS seconds.
The apparent third place winner
was Bruce Gimbel, also flying
Psi, entered by Jacqueline Coch'
ran. wife of Floyd Odlum, Ne"
York financier. Gimbel covered
the course in 5 hours, 4 minutes,
10 seconds, for an average speec
Of 4H miles an hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
DESTROYS
'%SUNNINCHILL'
Philip And Elizabeth Ia
Live AT Buckingham
Palace

LONDON, Aug. 30 WD-Living
with the in-laws became a defin-
tie prospect today for 1t. Philip
Mountbatten after a pre-dawn fire
virtually destroyed the 25-room
Sunninghill mansion where he and
heiress presumptive Princess
Elizabeth yer to have set up
housekeeping after their marriage
Nov. 20.
Philips outlook, however. is a
little better than that Of the ordi-
nary bridegroom forced to dwell
with the BRIDES family. After
their honeymoon, he and the prin-
cess will move into Buckingham
palace, which has considerable
more room than the ordinary
house and where, a special suite
already had been prepared for
their use on the occasions when
they would come to London from
the country.
Also, according to Buckingham
palace sources, the couple prob
ably will not have to stay long In
the home of King George vi and
Queen Elizabeth. There are plenty
of vacant country houses, the size
Of Sunninghill mansion, or larger.
The problem is to get them re-
paired and renovated.
The fire that ruined Sunninghiu.
near Ascot race course, started
about midnight. Scotland Yard.
after investigating a report that a
man had been seen running away
from the mansion just before the
fire was discovered, announced it
had definitely ruled/out any sug-
gestion of arson"
The Yard believed that a cigar
cite butt dropped by a careless
workman in the 10-room section
being prepared for Elizabeth and
Philip started the fire. @
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

Of Pioneer
FamilyDies
Mrs. Margaret Jefferson
Eyeritt, IS, Passes Al
Greensboro
RELATIVES HERE
Native WiImingtonian Was
Member OF St. James
Episcopal Crurch

GREENSBORO, Aug. 30.-Mrs
,foroaret Mcpherson Everitt, rs
el9 n Mendenhall street, died a
s.9o y, m. yesterday at Piedmon'
Memorial hospital after a serious
Illness of seven weeks.
'-- descendant of a pioneer South.
o.rtern North Carolina family,
~re Everitt was a native Of Will
,njngton, but had lived here fol
the past % years.
:" She made her home with he1
d.nabter. Mrs. George C. Hutton.
Che was the widow of John A.
Everitt, and a member of St.
lanes Episcopal church Of Viii.
mington.
Everitt Greensboro, and John H.
Fverjta, Washington, D. c.; three
d%augbters, Mrs. Floyd T. Noah,
Mrs, Hutton, Greensboro, and
Mrs, George C. C%ovington, High
Point; three sisters, Mrs. Nor
rison Divine, Mrs. C. c. Chad
bourn. Mrs. W. H. Northrop, all
of Wilmington.
Funeral services will be held at
2 o'clock today at Forbis and
Murray chapel, Greensboro. The
Rev. Mr.. Carl Herman, rector OF
St. Andrews Episcopal church,
viii conduct. The body will re-
main at the funeral home until
9 o'clock tomorrow morning when
the funeral party will leave for
Wilmington. Graveside service
will be conducted in Oakdale
cemetery when plans are com.
pleted.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31

:" The collection was the porperty
of DR.. Edmund Burke Haywood
OF Raleigh and has been donated
by B. H. Bridgers of Wilmington,
DR.. Haywood's grandson. It has
been labelled and arranged by
Mrs. Joye E. Jordan, head of the
hall of history, where now on dis
play.
The collection, consisting of an
amputation saw and knives, hem
estate forceps, bone file and cut
ter, trephine set. dissection instru-
ments, nerve hooks, retractors,
and various other items were ex-
pertly fashioned of the finest
steel, ivory, and silver, and en-
closed in velvet-lined, brass-bound
mahogany boxes specially design
ed for the purpose. 1t made up
the equipment of the surgeon of
eighty years ago.
With these instruments DR.. Hay
wood could set a femur, tie a
blood vessel, remove a button of
bone from the skull, or amputate
leg. In the collection is a COM
plete steam itomizer, as well as
an electric machine patented in
1854 by Davis and Kidder. Also
including in a scarificator, a con-
trivance having several lancets
moved by a spring and employed
by surgeons between 1900 and 1865
to make small incisions in the
skin, as in cupping.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-31
POLICE JOIN
INDIA SLAUGHTER
Writer Tells OF Terrible
Conditions In The
Orient
Bu ROBERT MILLER

LAHORE, Paklstan, Aug. ~
Ora series Of minor riots that
started around Lahore and Am
ritsar two weeks ago when Mos
lens and Hindus were revealing
in their new-found freedom had
developed today into a blood feud
engulfing the Puniab.
None is spared-Moslem, Hindu,
Sikh, man, woman, child or babe
in-arms. 1t is worse than civil
war where some standards are
observed. 1t is pure savagery,
reports say.
The only profiteers are the buzz
yards. They have never been
SEEKER or fatter.
Thousands have been killed
Moslems by Hindus and Sikhs;
Hindus and Sikhs by Moslems.
Unless order can be restored
within a few days, the toll will
be appalling, officials say.
The governments Of both India
Hindu and Pakistan (Moslem)
have not been able to cope with
the killings. Minor officials in
many cases not only have tolerat-
ed the liquidation of minorities,
but have cooperated.
Two Moslem majors in the
frontier force between the East
Hindu Punjab and West (Mos-
lem) Punjab are awaiting trial
Tor ordering their troops to attack
refugees. The mission of the
frontier force is to keep the peace.
Numerous police have joined in
Slaughter and plumber.
The Moslem press and the
hindu press stir up hate every
day with biased articles. Censor
snip prevents the printing Of the
1ul picture. There is hardly a
community in the Punjab which
mas not been affected. Entire pop.
aatlons have been wiped out and
towns and villages burned.
My experience and the expert
eAce Of others has been that the
only reliable force for law and
order IS composed Of Gurkha
troops, commanded by British Of
aeers, II is impossible to gel
enner police or native Moslem or
nllou troops to shoot members oil
meN own sect and otter impos'
siole 10 keep them from killing
AossS Of the opposite faith.
"hlte officers Of Indian regi'
nsnf' are doing their utmost tc
nc their troops in line. Discip'
..le was unimpeachable in the be-
SAhlhg; now there are repeated
instances in which these well-dis'
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Fifth avenue today.
New Workers, who love a pa
rade, turned OF en- masse for the
big show of the Legion's 29th an
nual convention and it was esti-
mated that 1000, 600 persons lined
both sides of the flag bedecked
avenue along the two-mile route
of march.
They cheered, whistled and
clapped hands as the gray-haired
veterans of Chateau-Thierry and
the young ones Of Guadalcanal
marched by, behind colorfully-un-
formed bands and shapely, dex-
ferrous drum majorettes.
Four thousand police held back
the crowds. 1913 Legionnaires
had marched past the official re-
Continued on Page Eleven, Col. u
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The Weather

en+jas -ologlcal data for the "a hours
ms ''1V pm. yesterday.
,.so Temperatures
l.. T'u an. "a; 7:30 am. IS; 1870 pm. 81;
,y5 +a"'!nuIn 60; Minimum 10; Mean 10;
leo Humidity
nv m 90; 7:3O am. 81; 80 pm rs;
IT,. Precipitation
O5 aotsi Tor "a hours ending 7:3o pm. -
sC f'is4 since the first Of the month -
Tides For Today
S. C W. the Tide Tables published by U,
N'aS' and Geodetic Survey.
Wlnh. High Low
9'0l 1882 am. 4:26 am.
AI~asanho 9:54 pm. 4:32 pm.
'o Inlet 7:l5 am. 1:24 am.
Suntiso 7:42 pm. 1:23 pm.
7;C6 ~ I'D. Sunset $40; Moonrise
tlo stage at Fayetteville, N. c. at
saturday,. (missinsi feet.
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O THEY FLEW

CLEVELAND, Aug. 80 R-
Here are the finishers, their speeds
Continued on Page Two, Col. 81
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Two Million Cheer
Legion's Parade
BY OTTO E.. STURM
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

NEW YORK, Aug. 30-(UP)-In a stirring panoply of
color, marching precision and martial music, the American
Legion - Ct, 900 strong marched up New York's famed