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Evening star., 1947-10-11
Five Marines Killed
In Auto-Truck Crash
Near Fredericksburg
Four Die instantly as Cor
Skids in Front of Trailer
Heading Toward 1t

Five Marines were killed and
two other persons injured last
night when the automobile in
which the Marines we're riding
skidded in front of a trailer
truck coming from the opposite
direction on Route l about II
miles north of Fredericksburg,
Va.
State Policeman w. j. Townsley
said four of the Marines were killed
instantly. The fifth died about
three hours later at the Mary
Washington Hospital, Fredericks-
burg. The accident occurred about
1880 o'clock.
Hospital authorities identified the
Marine who died at Fredericksburg
as Sanford Herman, stationed 0t
Camp Lejeune, N. c. Trooper
Townsley said bodies of the other
four Marines, all stationed at Camp
Lejeune, were taken to the Marine
base at Quantico.
Officials at the base said the
identity of the others is being with
held pending notification of next OF
kin. They said all the dead have
not yet been identified.
Injured were William Bass, 2S
Robbins, Va, who, according to hos
pital authorities, was driving the
truck, and his assistant, Forrest
Hammett, Al, Charlotte, N. c. Hos
pital officials said both suffered
minor injuries and probably will be
discharged today.
Trooper Townsley said Bass has
been charged with reckless driving
and involuntary manslaughter. A
hearing will be held at 10 am.
Thursday at Stafford Courthouse,
near the spot where the accident
occurred.
Trooper ToWnsley said 10 or II
Marines were driving north in two
cars. Those in the second car told
him the auto in front struck con-
crete abutment placed on the high
way to separate northbound and
southbound traffic lanes. Their We
hicle skidded into the southbound
lane in the path of the heavy trans
port van.
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Rationing, Controls
Might Force Him 10
Quit, Flanders Says
Senator Denies Urging
Return of Price Curbs
At Present Time
BY the Associoted Press

Housewives again may be
using ration coupons, says Sena.
tor Flanders, Republican, of Yer
mont if other methods fail te
reduce food prices.
But he calls a return to price
control and rationing at all levels 8
last-ditch resort.
Senator Flanders is head of &
joint congressional subcommittee
that has been investigating the high
cost of food and clothing in the
Eastern United States.
He called reporters to his Office
here late yesterday to deny that
am urging return Of price controls.
If conditions get so bad as to re-
quire both rationing and price con.
trolls, the Senator said he might
resign and go back to Vermont"
Offers Own Proposals.
Senator Flanders said his persona
ideas of bringing down food prices
are these:
First, the voluntary food conserva-
ton plan plus voluntary ALLEGATION
of grains by brewers and distillers
must be tried until Congress meets
in regular session next January.
If food costs are still high or
higher, Senator Flanders said Con-
gress then must consider "alloca-
tions" at the top levels for grains
and meats.
If prices still stay up, the Senator
said, rationing must be tried at the
consumer level maybe only on meat
poultry and eggs or possibly butter
and cheese also"
Senator Flanders said public price
hearings in the Eastern United
States to date show mo profiteering'
by retailers, wholesalers, distributors
and professors of food.
Farmers Blamed.
"The high prices go back to the
farmers and they are all Republi-
cans" Senator Flanders said, adding
that his view was bad politically
11c GAClllpGCu NC" Ei16AoAAu oe@AA
men and poultrymen from the high
farm profit group by noting that
they are forced to pay high prices
for grains and feed.
He added that Midwestern farm
ers and Western cattlemen do not
hope to continue receiving the rec
ord prices paid recently.
Senator Flanders said he anc
other members of Congress are dis.
turbed by testimony that white
collar and low-income workers" In
New York City and other urbar
centers now are "undernourished'
because of high food prices.
He said social workers and physi.
clans had estimated that "one.
quarter to one-third" of large city
dwellers now are in this group, anc
added:
I'VE cannot escape questioning
ourselves as to whether we car
longer permit these prices to cripple
the living standards of our low.
income groups, bankrupt the nations
abroad who seek to purchase food
and cripple ourselves in the en-.
deavor to furnish relief"
Evening star., 1947-10-11
U. S. Liberty Ship Drifts
HeIpIessIy Off Scotland
By the Assoeioted Press

CAMPBELTOWN, Scotland, Oct.
1.-THE 7,191-ton American Liberty
ship Edward N. Hurley was reported
drifting without power 800 miles
southwest of Lands End early to-
day. The rescue tug Bustler was
on her way to the scene.
Tug Capt. A. Leckie said the Hur-
ley's SOS message was relayed to
him by a radio station at Valencia,
Spain. It said both boilers and
tubes have gone and the vessel Is
drifting" The vessel was reported
en- route from New York to lie
Havre.
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Black Hills forest Fire
Sweeps 10000 Acres
By the Assoeioted Press

DEADWOOD, S. Dak., Oct. ia
force of TOO men early today battleo
timber fire in the Black Hills will
derness area 20 miles south of here
The blaze, started by lightning
had swept an estimated 10000 acres
by midnight when observers said ii
was close to the Wyoming State line
A. E. Hoffman, Hearney National
Park superintendent, said that fire.
fighters, aided by bulldozers, were
concentrating on firebreaks to halt
the flames in the tinder-dry tree
tops. Only a few settlers live in the
territory, he said.
Evening star., 1947-10-11

program 10 CONTINUE, LuCk1nan
says. Page ALA
BY the Associated Press
President Truman's Citizens
Food Committee said today that
a clear majority of the Nations
major diStillers has agreed to a
60-day shutdown to save grain
for Europe despite some pro-
tests.
OF 80 companies represented here
Wednesday when Committee Chair
man Charles Luckman proposed the
shutdown, 18 gave assent on the
spot. A spokesman for Mr.. Luck
man reported today that five more
firms wired their agreement yester-
day.
One of the messages came under
protest. j. A. Englehard, president
of the Distilled Spirits Institute, an
organization representing 60 per
cent of the industry, warned that
the whisky making holiday will
bring serious unemployment as
we'll a5 cattle-feeding problems.
Grain Forecast Disappointing.
Biggest disappointment of the
emergency food campaign came
yesterday, when Government crop
report showed only a 54,761 ,O00-
Evening star., 1947-10-11
(See Map on Page A-2.)
By Joseph c. Goodwin

kSSocioteo FfeSS Fofei9n Correspondent
JERUSALEM, Oct. 11.-Unless
they are hiding in caves or cam
oufaged as camels, there are not
1000 troops within 20 miles of
the Palestine border from the
Mediterranean to the Dead Sea.
A 3oo-mile flight ranging along
each side of the Syrian, Lebanese
and Trans-Jordan frontiers, showed
only four-two Arab legionnaires
guarding the winter home OF King
Abdullah of Trans Jordan and two
at the Allenby Bridge across the
Jordan River.
A spokesman for Hagana said
the Jewish defense organization is
convinced that reports of Arab troop
movements on Palestine's borders
are part of a war of nerves"
THE same goes for any news
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Saturday Evening Post
Raises Price to IS Cents
By the Associofed Press

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 11.-Price
of the Saturday Evening Post will be
increased to Is cents copy with
corresponding increases In subscrip-
ton rates, the Curtis Publishing Co.
announced today. The Post went
from to 10 cents a copy in 1912.
A spokesman said the latest boost
was the result of continued increase
in production COSTS"
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Representative Urges
Eating of More Meat,
Poultry to Save Grain
BY the Associo.ed Press

Eat more meat and poultry,
says Representative Andersen,
Republican, of Minnesota.
That is the only way grain
consumption can be cut down
on farms in this country. he
told a reporter.
IF we all eat more meat and
poultry" he explained, farmers
will slaughter more cattle and
hogs and fowl and thus there
will be fewer of them to eat the
grain. President Truman and
Secretary Anderson have 1t
backwards"
Evening star., 1947-10-11
|Yugos|avs Break
Ties With Chile
On 0usting Of
Reasons for Expulsion
Are SIonderous, Says
BeIqrode Government
ey the Associofed rest

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct
| 11.-Premier Marshal Tito's gov
ernment severed diplomatic re-
lations with Chile today over the
expulsion of two Yugoslay dip
lomatS.
Yugoslavia described as fantastic
and slanderous the reasons given by
Chile for the banishment-that the
diplomats had engaged in Com
munist- directed campaign against
Chile the United States and the
defense of the Western Hemisphere
by fomenting strikes and sabotage
in the South American nation.
The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
said Chile's action was to further
"the interest of expansionist ten
dencies of certain powers who more
and more direct the home and for
eign policy of Chile
The governments announcement
did not name these powers.
Moscow, however, left no doubt
as to who was meant. The So
Wet press and radio said the ex-
pulsion was intended to "gratify
reactionary circles of the United
States" Pravda called it "a
lackeylike service to American
Imperialism in Chile" The
Communist Party of Chile urged
a United Nations investigation)
mo Need" of Relations.
Yugoslavia said there is no longer
need to continue diplomatic rela-
tions with a government which does
not regulate its relations with other
states independently"
The statement charged Chile with
breaking the most basic principles
of international relations"
It said the Chilean action against
the two Yugoslavs-Dalibor Jakaska,
secretary of the legation at Buenos
Aires, visitor in Santiago, and An
drej Cunja, former Charge d'Affaires
in Santiago-was "a part OF
planned campaign, not in the inter-
ests of the people of Chile, but in the
interest of expansionistic tendencies
of certain powers ."
(The Chilean government, in
expelling Cunja and Jakasa, &C
| cused them of fomenting, on
orders from an international
Communist organization, cam
paign against the United States
and against hemisphere defense
plans, through strikes and
sabotage)
Slanderous Attacks Charged.
This step of the Chilean govern
ment," the Yugoslav Foreign Office
statement said, falls in period OF
sharp, slanderous attacks on the
Yugoslav government - attacks
whose initiators are the same pow
ers who are attempting to unsettle
friendly cooperation between the
nations"
The statement called the Chilean
action hostile and said: Consider
ing there is no further necessity for
further diplomatic relations with a
government which can't decide in
dependently its relations with other
countries, the government of Yugo-
slavia is deciding to break off diplo-
matte relations"
Since there is no Chilean diplo-
matte mission in Belgrade, formal
break involves simply the announce
ment, which was made last night
out given to foreign correspondents
only this morning in an edition OF
Evening star., 1947-10-11
u. S. Accepts Palestine Partition
And Agrees to Help y. n. Keep
|nterna| Order During Transition
"A. P. Writer Sees Only 4 Arabs
In Palestine Border Air Tour
Not | 900 Within 20 Miles Of Frontier,
He Writes After Flight Of 300 Miles

about alleged movements OF Ha-
gana," he said.
The spokesman said that beyond
normal security precautions, - which
went into effect October /. when
Hagana sent about a dozen special
lists to the large Jewish settlements
OF the Eastern Galillee area no un-
usual steps had been taken.
The informant said the reports
of Arab troop movements were de-
signed as psychological warfare, y
adding that I'VE are quite prepared
to handle anything that arises.
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Arabs Report Discussion
OF Further Military Step

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. II (P).-
Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Sec
retary general of the Arab League,
said the League Council would wind
up its Holy Land deliberations to-
night with discussions of possible
(See ARABS, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Strike Stops Paris Subwoys

PARIS, Oct. II P.-Thousands Of
Parisians walked to work today as a
conductors strike tied up IL OF the
city's IA subway lines. The strikers
are seeking recognition Of their in
dependent union and also want a
42-hour work week.
Evening star., 1947-10-11

(See PALESTINE, Page A-2D
Evening star., 1947-10-11

(See AFL, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1947-10-11

Agree etoCIose
Despite Protest
Crop Report Held
Disappointing to Food
Conservation Drive

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY food
program to continue, Luckman
says. Page ALA
Evening star., 1947-10-11

(See CHILE, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1947-10-11
Weather Forecast

Mostly cloudy, with moderate northeast
winds this afternoon. Highest So. Lowest, SO.
Cloudy tonight and tomorrow little change
in temperature. (Full report on page A-2D
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
RFC Faces Probe
By Senate Body
Continued from uls. paRel


deficit was incurred in fiancing of
various subsidy programs and in
construction of war plants. Con-
sress directed the RFC to make
large outlays in squirting the war
effort.
The banking committee, without
formal vote, agreed to approve
legislation extending the life of the
huge lending agency for one year
beyond June 80.
Senator c. Douglass Buck
(R-DeD said there was no disa-
greement among those present
when the committee, meeting in
closed door session, determined tc
seek $4,000 for an investigation OF
RFC activities and policies.
Buck said seven of the 13 com.
mittee members were present
Tuesday, and that a formal vote will
be taken today, Friday, June 2Ott
on both the investigation and the
extension of the agency.
I'VE are going to make a com
plete investigation of all phases a!
RFC operations" Buck said. 9TH,
committee will report by mex
! March l."
Another committee member, Sen
ator Capehart (R-InO. told a re
porter 1--WE don't want the RFC com
Neting with private industry in it,
lendine operations. We want to se'
if it is"
Aiken told reporter, mean
while. that the General Accoun
Office has completed a ten-vOlum
survey Of RFC's operations sine
its incertion durine the Hoover ad
ministration and that ION the sur
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
Eastern Shore League
Standing Of the Teams
Schedule for Week Beginning FRI
Aav. Juue 20. ending June 81

Schedule for Week Beginning Fri
day, June 20, ending June %
Friday, June 20-Rehoboth at
Milford.
Saturday, June 21-Milford at
Rehoboth.
Sunday, June 22--Dover at Mil
ford.
Monday, June 23-Milford at Do
yer.
Tuesday. June 24-Milford at
Seaford.
Wednesday, June 25-Seaford at
Milford.
Thursday, June 26-Milford at
Easton.
Friday, June 27-Easton at Mil
ford.
Last Thursdays Results
Dsver Z, Rehoboth S.
Cambridge S, Salisbury 4 I'll in
nings).
Seaford 5; Easton 10 innings).
fredericksburg II, Milford IL.
Last Fridays Results
Milford H., fredericksburg 8.
Cambridge IL, Salisbury (first)
Cambridge 3, Salisbury / (sec-
ond, IL innings).i
Dover Z, Rehoboth 3.
SeafOrd 16, Easton IL.
Last Saturdays Results
Seaford 8, Rehoboth 5 30 inn
ings).
others postponed, rain.
Last Sundays Results
fredericksburg 5, Salisbury 2.
Milford Z, Cambridge 2.
Seaford Z, Rehoboth 6.
Dover Is, Easton IL.
Last Mondays Results
Dover S, Cambridge 2.
Seaford IL, Milford S.
Rehoboth 10, Salisbury 8.
fredericksburg Is, Easton s.
Last Tuesdays Results
Milford, g.; Seaford, 2.
Dover, q; Cambridge, /.
fredericksburg, 4 Easton, 3.
,j.Rehoboth, 5; Salisbury, 4.
-. Wednesdays Results
{ Dover, 16; .Seaford, 5.
Others postponed. rain.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
SAWMILL RAZED BY
MIDNIGHT BLAZE

Some folks believe they should
butt in the affairs of others unless
they are asked-but not William
Warren of Milford.
Because of Warrens initiative
and resourcefulness, several thou
sand dollars worth of truck equip
ment and horses are safe and un-
harmed today, while a saw mill
beside which the trucks and horses
were housed lay in fire-blackened
ruins.
The mill, property of Harold
Bunting and Richard Sipple, To-
Gated on the Thompsonville Road
about four miles from Milford,
caught fire shortly after midnight
last Tuesday night.
The blaze was first discovered,
and reported to Milford firemen,
by Mrs. Elsie Moseley who lives
nearby. She said she was awaken
ed by the sound of an explosion,
and saw flames leaping skyward
from the engine-room OF the saw
mill.
| The explosion, firemen later de-
cided, must have been an oil drum
containing fuel for the diesel en-
CINE which was touched off by
the flames.
Meanwhile, about the same time
Mrs. Moseley was awakened and
was calling volunteer firemen, Mr.
Warren came by on the lonely ru-
raj highway.
Driving closer to the blaze, he
saw three trucks and some horses
beneath an adjacent fire-threaten-
ed frame building
An automotive mechanic, War
rem used his ingenuity to switch
on ignition systems in the trucks
and drove them to safety. He ther
led out the horses to the haven o.
nearby fields.
When Milford and Frederics
Fire Companies arrived, flames hat
made such headway in the saw mil
and it's stored lumber and mill
work that all their efforts coult
not check the blaze.
State police from Dover wer
called to help direct traffic draw
to the blaze. Damage was esti
mated at about $1,000.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

face" the report doesn't look too
bad"
The book loss, he said, is ac-
counted for principally by the fact
that the agency financed subsidy
programs. for which Congress made
no appropriation, and helped to
bear the cost of much of the war
plant construction undertaken by
the government.
On it's lending program, for which
il was originally created, RFC
shows a profit of approximately
5,O0O000,000, Aiken said. adding
that they could hardly fail to make
a profit" since, he said, RFC bor-
rows money from the Treasury at
one per cent interest and lends it at
three per cent or more.
Aiken said he has asked his COM
mittee staff to attempt to find out
how much this program has cost
the treasury
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
Last Fridays Results

Last Saturdays Results
Seaford 8, RehobOth 5 90 inn
ings).
Others postponed, rain.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

=. Wednesdays Results
Dover, 16; Seaford, s.
Others postponed. rain.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
L. ID. RicardS Elected
New V. F. w. Leader
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pate in community affairs, partic-
ularly in the promotion of youth
activities and boy scout move
ments.
The American citizenship medal
was presented to Cleveland De-
Witt of Wilmington, the highest
honor bestowed by the V. F. w., to
a non-veteran in appreciation of
his work among service men. He is
the husband of the new department
auxiliary president, Mrs. Hazel De-
Witt, elected last Saturday at the
auxiliary session in the Belhaven
Hotel. More than $500 in prizes
were awarded in the big parade of
state veterans and auxiliary and
seven state fire companies and
equipment last Saturday, reviewed
/ by Senator Williams, Congressman
Boggs, Colonel Edgar S. Slayer,
mayor of Rehoboth.
Thousands of resort week-enders
viewed the line of march headed by
a float carrying Miss V. F. w.
Miss Cherryl Ann Ritchie Of Reho-
both and her four aides, of which
Mrs. Peggy Cannon of Milford was
one. The Jacob Ferdinand Speer
Post of Wilmington copped TOP
honors winning 500 in prizes foI
the best drum and bugle corps, best
drum major and best majorette.
Other Prize Winners
Other prize winners were: Most
marchers in v. F. w. Auxiliary
Breakwater Post, Lewes; most
firemen in line, Harrington, first
Rehoboth Beach, second, and Ell
lendale, third; fire company COM
ing farthest distance, Claymont,
best fire apparatus, Claymont; fire
company auxiliary with most il
line, Rehoboth Beach; most veter
ans in line from one post, Blue Hell
Post, Milford, first, and RehObotf
Beach, second; best Junior band
FELTON,.
The Polish American Post o
Wilmington took first prize in thu
public relations contest, with
record of $3,400 in expenditure
during the last year spent for pub
licizing various community wei
fare programs. Second honor
went to the Hall-Burke Post o
Claymont, while the Blue Hen Pos
of Milford won third prize. Pau
Podolsky was chairman of tn
committee of judges for the con
test.
! There were many who though
that the Blue Hen Post would VII
the public relations contest in vieN
of the splendid work along tina
line, which was done by the com
mittee under the capable directio
of David S. Hugg.
The 194S encampment will b
held in Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

Last Sundays Results
fredericksburg 5, Salisbury 2.
Milford z, Cambridge 2.
Seaford z, Rehoboth s.
Dover Is, Easton IL.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
Last Thursdays Results

Last Thursdays Results
Dsver Z, Rehoboth S.
Cambridge S, Salisbury I'll in
nings).
Seaford 5; Easton 30 innings).
fredericksburg IL, Milford IL.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
Auto Mishaps Show
Gain Down-State
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per cent over last year. There were
4,O51 arrests and 33,414 reprimands
this year to date, while for the five
month period last year there were
3,241 arrests and 32,405 reprimands.
Last month there were 169 acci-
dents, four deaths, 95 persons in
jured while in May last year there
were 100 accidents, IL deaths, and
81 injuries. Two pedestrians were
killed in the 10 accidents involving
pedestrians last month and 13 were
injured. For the corresponding
month a year ago, there were seven
pedestrian accidents, one death and
seven injured.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

Last Tuesdays Results
Milford, 8; Seaford, 2.
Dover, Q; Cambridge, /.
fredericksburg, 4; Easton, 8.
:. Rehoboth, 5; Salisbury, 4.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

The first shipment of cotton from
the United States, seven bags of
cotton WOOL" was valued at SIP.
Cotton bolls of different varieties
range in color from white through
light and dark cream to brown.
1t is estimated that some sulpha
drugs are worth 800 times as much
as the coal from which they are
derived.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

Last Mondays Results
Dover 5, Cambridge 2.
Seaford IL, Milford 5.
RehobOth 10, Salisbury 8.
/. fredericksburg Is, Easton 6.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20
Mar-Del League
Standing Of the Teams

Last Sundays Results
Hartly 1, Camden-Wyoming o.
Rock Hall S, Chestertown 3.
Denton Z, Greensboro 3.
FELTON, 4, Houston 0.
This Sundays Schedule
Greensboro at Hartly.
Camden-Wyoming at Rock Hall
Houston at Denton.
ChestertOwn at FELTON,.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

port from the Caribbean area to
American ports.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

1t is estimated that about 80 per
cent of all heat loss from homes
in winter is through the windows.
Milford chronicle., 1947-06-20

Bananas were introduced into
the United States shortly after
the Civil War.
Evening star., 1947-12-30
Lawyer Pays $50 Fine:
In Two Hit-Run Cases

A Washington real estate lawyer
involved in two hit-run accidents
Is minutes apart paid $50 fine in
Municipal Court yesterday in con-
nection with one charge.
In the second accident, no charge
was brought at the request Of the
complaining witnesses, according to
Montgomery County police.
Arrested early yesterday in his
home in the $500 block of Devon
shire place NV, Abb H. Kempson,
So, was convicted of leaving after
colliding by Traffic Court Judge
John P. Mcmahon.
No. precinct police told the court
Kempson was driving car that
struck a cab waiting for traffic
signal change~on Connecticut ave-
niue at Military road NV.
Traced through his tag numbers,
Kempson was taken to the station
house and was present when a
Montgomery County police lookout
was broadcast, identifying his car
as wanted in hit-run accident in
volving another car at Connecticut
avenue and Beech drive, Bethesda.
County police said they dropped
their case when the witnesses re-
fused to prosecute Kempson. DAM
age was not extensive in either COL
lision and no one was injured.