Statesville Daily Record from Statesville, North Carolina • Page 1

)OWN IN FLYING know the Cincinnati Reds ient the night at the Vance jtel last night?" "No, 1 certainly didn't. You can the National league ball ub?" "Why, sure. They lefi about o'clock this morning for Dur- im. They're gonna play an ex bition game there." "Did you see them?" "No. but they say Ewell lackwell and Johnny Vandy leer were here as big as liie- ooking good, too." "Why didn't somebody call We could have got a good for today's paper.

Wait a linute." And the alert reporter went iside the Vance hotel to heck. "What team did you have laying with you last night? Vere they from Cincinnati?" "Sure." "Was it the Cincinnati Reds -the baseball team?" "Oh, no. It was the tennis p.am from the University of They're playing )uke today." So you see how rumors get tarted. By the way, we hear Joe Di- laggio is resting up in States- ille. He's going to work out nth the Owls while he's here.

OASIS--If things keep on gong as they are now, pretty soon Itatesville will become something if an oasis in the center of a des- rt of junkyards. Even now, practically every najor approach to the city is narked by a junk pile of some Jnd or other--and we don't nee- ssarily mean the commercial crap metal kind. We're talk- ng about this business of driving ld automobiles out, stripping hem of all salvagable parts and lumping the carcass in a field to an unsightly mess for to come. We don't know anything that an be done about it, but it does sort of silly for the state md local units to spend huge urns of money in highway and ifreet beautification only to pro- 'ide an interesting background or a juikyard. STATESVILLE SHOTS--Tomny HOUPE admiring little lucks C.

M. PARKS open ng birthday gifts Palmer MEADOWS telling fish story Mrs. Glenn CHANDLER lerving luncheon Mrs. W. 8.

CROWSON working the nidst of confusion Mrs. P. T. MEACHAM pouring tea Johnny HALL looking for- vard to his birthday John LEWIS and Clyde NAGLE shaking hands Mary Marin SMITHWICK and Sarah 1ASTON helping serve guests Mrs. Herbert SHERRILL showing her garden POLITICS IN PASTURES-Sheriff W.

D. Morrison and Monroe Adams may get together on that pasture deal, but didn't look too promising Wednesday. As everybody knows, Sheriff Morrison got to be sheriff by being a Democrat, and Mr. Adams got to be postmaster some years back by being a Republican. These things are irrevocable for the record.

But when it comes to pastures, politics sometimes makes strange bedfellows. Now Sheriff Morrison has a fine new pasture fenced off on the Wilkcsboro road and he needs some livestock to turn onto it. Mr. Adams also has some fine new pasture, but he has in addition, some SIOCTC rial he could- "pasture out." So, Sheriff Morrison suggested that his Republican leighbor ought to turn some of Jus heifers onto the Morrison pasture. "But I'll tell you this much," the sheriff said.

"If you turn any stock into my pasture you have to change your politics." "In that case," Mr. Adams said, "the grass will continue to grow in your pasture." That reminded Sheriff Morrison of another Republican who once said something about grass growing somewhere, but he let it pass and came up with a compromise. "I'll tell you what," he said. "If we do get together on this thing, I think we ought to keep it between ourselves. Maybe you could bring your calves over at night and turn them into the pasture so they'd be there in the morning." Mr.

Adams agreed that this would be a good idea, but he wondered, under the circumstances, what recourse he would have if not as many calves showed up in the pasture at daybreak as he put into it at night. And right there is where we got off. POSTPONED--Coach Frank Evans called us this morning to say that the track meet between Statesville High and Harding High of Charlotte will not be held tomorrow. Rain washed out the track, and it was necessary to postpone the meet until next Wednesday. The meet will be the first inter scholastic activity engaged in by the Statesville team this season.

The boys have been working out at Senior High stadium lately and should be in good shape for the meet. Most of the team members got in practice licks earlier this month when they engaged in a field day for the school's students. WEATHER--Partly cloudy ton i a Fridpy with scattered light showers east and west portion late tonight or Friday. Published in the Heart of the Dairying and Indmtrial of Piedmont North STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD Vol. 18 No.

91 Statesville, N. Thursday, April 14, 1949 Published Daily Except Sunday MORE QUAKES FEARED IN PACIFIC NORTHWEST $50 Million School Measure Passes Seven Lives Lost In Earth Temblor OUT BEYOND Crushed To Death CHARLOTTE. (U.R)--A 33-year- sld truckdriver was crushed to ieath early today under the wheels of a tractor-trailer here. W. W.

Dellinger died instantly it. 4:50 a.m. Phones Seized Russians control today of all German telephone communications between west Berlin and the surrounding Soviet occupation zone of Germanj- Record In Sight FULLERTON, durance fliers Bill Barris and Dick Riedel set their sights on 8:44 p.m. (EST) today, when they will crack a world's endurance record. Wrong Choice COLUMBIA, S.

body sure took the wrong raincoat from the state house yesterday. It belonged to Chief Justice D. Gordon Baker of the South Carolina supreme court. Crisis Passes (U.R) --The fourth Greek cabinet crisis in two years was weathered successfully today when a new government was sworn in before King Paul, headed by aged Themistocles Sofoulis. J)irect Support (U.R) --Sen.

George D. Aiken, Vt, said today congress ought to act immediately to give the government authority to support hog prices, if necessary, by direct payments to farmers. 10,000 At Show said today an estimated 10,000 persons attended the 21st annual running of the Tryon Horse and Hound show yesterday. Thoroughbred dogs and horses competed in 21 classes. Drastic Action Sampson hounty father, Wayman Melvin was bound over to superior court loday a he admitted in a pre- i i a hearing that he set fire to a Baptist church to prevent his and children from attending there.

Teachers Meet UW --North Carolina's Negro schoolteachers opened their 68th annual convention tonight. A member of President Truman's civil rights committee, Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, was to speak.

Mass Operation MANIIASSET, N. and Mrs. Lester Backer's seven children will return home from the hospital today minus 14 tonsils removed in a S595 production line operation at Manhasset hospital. Rent Hearings RALEIGH. (U R) About 150 persons packed into the senate chamber today for a public hearing on a resolution to investigate ending rent control in North Carolina.

They were split about 3 to 2 in favor of ending controls. Welcome Waits UP) --Magistrate M. M. Patterson was especially hopeful today of seeing two men in court before long. They were the bandits who held him up Tuesday night and robbed him of S21.

Bill Withdrawn HERTFORD. CU.R) Town board officials said today State Rep. E. Leigh Winston of Perquimans county was notified to withdraw Hertford's request for an ABC election. Alcohol Patrol cu.R) four- man police squad was set up today to enforce liquor laws in dry Buncombe county.

The county scat, Ashcville, is wet. Mackie Elected CHAPEL (U.R) --Bill Mackie of Chapel Hill will be president of the University of North Carolina student body next year, election returns showed today. Ted Leonard of Greensboro will be vice president. Deadly Weapon WINDSOR, Bates, 11, died of injuries suffered when his spinning yo-yo reounded and struck him on the head. Cotton Market NEW ORLEANS, April futures opened steady today, from 5 to 10 cents lower on the bale.

May 32.63 down 1 point; July 31.87 down Oct. 28.79 down Dec. 28.56' unchanged. ARP CHOIR PRACTICE The Junior Choir of First Associate Reformed Presbyterian church will conduct fegular choir practice Friday night at 7.30 o'clock in the Grier Bible classroom. The Senior choir will conduct a special practice Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Tobacco Barn Insurance Rate May Be Lower Graham Refuses Post As Trustee RALEIGH, April --The senate today passed into law a program of state aid for school construction. The vote was unanimous, 44-0. The senate received a bill saying that beer and wine will not be considered alcoholic beverages until they contain 3.2 per cent alcohol. The present figure is one- half of one per cent. The $50,000,000 school building bill, already passed by the house, calls for a statewide vote on the bond issue to finance state grant- in-aid to counties for the building and repair of schools.

A bill that might slice insurance rates on tobacco barns hit the house. The house calendar committee killed a bill which called for the abolition of the state wildlife resources commission and restoring its functions to the state board of conservation and development. Rep. Roger C. Kiser of Scotland county tossed in a bill which said that the North Carolina fire insurance rating bureau fixed a rate of S3.90 per S100 valuation on frame tooacco barns.

The bill said the insurance commissioner and the bufeau, after being asked, were unable to furnish any loss experience to justify "any such discrimination against tobacco farmers." The bill directs the insurance commissioner to investigate losses, and unless evidence is dicov- ered to justify the rate, "such rate should not be approved by the commissioner of insurance in any amount in excess of a fair rate without discriminating against the tobacco farmer." Rep. A. Corey of Martin county handed in a bill to allow trus- Conservative Estimate Of Damages In Earthquake Set At $20 Millions SEATTLE, April warned today that more temblors could follow the earthquake which rocked the Pacific northwest with property damage estimated at $20,000,000 and a loss of seven lives. Prof. Samuel N.

Dicken, head of the University of Oregon's geology department, said that further shocks are possible if the earth'g crust continueg to "act up." The quake yesterday was the worst in region's history, spreading damage through a dozen western Washington cities and scores of smaller communities. At least 61 persons were hospitalized, some in serious condition, and hundreds of others suffered minor injuries either from falling debris or from accidents in their frantic attempts to escape. The earthquake at 11:55:40 a. (PST) and rocked the entire coastline from Vancouver and Victoria. B.

to 19 Nazis Given Prison Terms Political Clash Looms Over City Legislation A possible rift between the city board of aldermen and State Senator C. H. Dearman appeared likely today as Mayor R. A Collier chafed under Dearman's delay in introducing a measure in the legislature which the board has requested. tees of East Carolina Teachers college to elect a chairman from their own membership.

Dr. Clyde Erwin, superintendent of public instruction, now serves as chairman. Corey said the change was approved by Erwin. Sen. Frank P.

Graham in a telegram to House Speaker Kerr Craige Ramsey today turned down a chance to become a trustee of the University of North Carolina. Graham was president of the university for 19 years he became a senator last month. The senate passed a bill yesterday to make him an ex-officio member of the board. But Graham wired Ramsey today, and asked him to read the telegram in the house, saying that it was wise administrative policy for the new president to be unencumbered by on the board. a past president FLYING TRIP Mrs.

Jack Charles is flying to Springfield, tomorrow to meet Captain Charles who is arriving there from Germany. Glee Club Sings At Civitan Dinner The Statesville High school glee club, under the direction of Mrs. Margaret Muse, presented a number of musical selections at the weekly supper meeting of Statesville Civi- tans last night at the Vance hotel. Program chairman of the evening was Harold Fowler. The glee club sang five selections "On the Road to Mandalay," "Morning," "Kentucky Babe," "Steal Away," and "Set Down, Servant." Soloists were Carolyn Eisele, Vera Brown and Bill Miller.

During the meeting Gerald V. Ross was welcomed as a new member of the club. T. A. Nicks of Nashville, was a guest of Prince.

Taft White, who succeeded Lynn Casler as president, presided at the meeting. ERNEST HOWARD GURLEY, JR. Mr. and Mrs. E.

Gurley announce the birth of a son, Ernest Howard, April 21 at Long's hospital. Mrs. Gurley is the former Miss Nerine Carter of Statesville. COMMUNION SERVICE As a part of Holy Week observances at Broad Street Methodist church there will be a communion service in Sloan Hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock. At its last meeting.

April 5. aldermen requested trial Dear man introduce a bill in the Legislature giving the board authority to conduct all elections in the city, a duty now performed by the Democratic executive committee. Asked today where the bill is, Mayor Collier replied: "In Deafman's hip pocket, for all I know." Dearman was quoted as saying he "won't be high-pressured into in obvious reference to a movement by the mayor last weekend to have local citizens express their views on the subject. The mayor felt thai the great majority of this sentiment would favor a change. On the other hand, persons opposing any change in the election set-up say there is widespread opposition to dt.

The board takes the position a since it is the elected representative body of the people, a request from, it for legislation should be enough to cause a legislator to introduce a measure. With legislative adjournment nearing, those who want control Assembly Enacts Law For Legal Oleo Sale TORNADO HITS GEORGIA TOWNS--Wreckage of four houses lies scattered in Manchester, after tornado demolished them. Five persons were injured when the tornado ripped these houses apart. Relief Bill May Be Voted Today WASHINGTON, April --Congress was expected to give final approval today--12 days after the target date--to a compromise bill'authorizing 85.430.000,000 for the European recovery program during the next 15 months. House and senate leaders expres sed confidence that the compromise Would be accepted by both houses before they quit for the Easter holiday.

The final version was completed last night by a joint conference committee which adjusted differences between the bills approved by the two chambers. lit would authorize Marshall Plan spending of $5,430,000,000 between now and June 30, 1950. However, the actual money must be appropriated in separate legislation and the total may be redyced. The compromise also provided that the government would furnish up to $150,000,000 in additional funds to guarantee the convertibility into dollars of the investments and earnings of private individuals who put money into approved proj ects. The guarantees would apply only to investments up to a limit fixed by the economic cooperation administration.

The final draft did not, include the provision, requested by the administration, to allow $150,000, 000 in contracts to be awarded in addition to the $5,430.000,000 auth orized in cash spending. Senate conferees agreed to the house admendment knocking out the contract authority. Heifers Are Sold At $191 Average Thirty-six Jersey heifers sold yesterday at the fairgrounds for an average of $191, the county agent's office said today. The sale was open to the 4-H and FFA members and was spon- Salem, for more than 60 seconds, shattering buildings, starting fires, breaking water and gas mains, and sending hundreds of downtown shoppers and Holy Week church goers into a brief period of panic. Spokane, Walla Walla, Wen- RALEIGH, April House members cut loose yesterday afternoon and completed action on nearly half of the measures piled up on the calendar.

They passed i law a measure allowing restaurants to serve yellow oleomargarine providing it is properly labelled as such. The measure also reduces the license to manufacture or sell yellow oleomargarine. The bill was introduced in the senate on Feb. 15. A measure giving state ABC board sole power to issue license.s for the sale of beer was passed into law by the house.

The measure deprives counties and cities of their present powers to issue beer licenses, but allows them to retain i right to revoke such licenses. Under the the state ABC board also will have power to regulate all beer advertising except in buildings where beer is sold. The act creates the malt beverage division in the ABC board and provides 15 inspectors to give full time to enforcement of regulations passed by the ABC board. House members also passed into law a measure to prevent packing of flour and grain cereals in second-hand containers and "prevent contamination of bakery products by exposure to trinkets, souvenirs, and other extraneous objects," House Speaker Kerr Craige Ramsey asked "what will happen to the thimble in the wedding cake?" Rep. Fred Royster answorcd thai he did not know.

A bill to promote teaching of music in the public schools also was passed into law by the lower chamber. The measure creates the i of supervisor of music education in the department of public instruction. The i receive a salary of $7,500 a year. The lower chamber killed by voting 33 to 10 to postpone in- i i a senate approved bill which would increase salaries of the secretary of state, auditor. of local elections in the hands of the aldermen are expected to redouble i to blast the bill "out of Dearman's hip pocket In asking for legislation, aldermen complained they were not consulted in conducing local elections as was i agreement with the elections board.

Special Easter Services Set Special Easter services will be held at the i i Creek Prc.suy tcrian church this Sunday at 11 a. m. and at the Third Crock Pres- i a church at 3 m. At the i Crook church, tho choir will sing "Christ Is Risen" by Frederick C. Maker for the offertory.

The i i so to I wo of COILS rue ing a new Reli" ous a i building; also there will be a presentation of lenten boxes for this cause An attendance goal of 150 has been for this service. The i at the Third Creek- church i be used for Mieir now Religious Education i i which is noa i completion. Foll i Hie church service, a corner stone laying service Will be conducted by the Ney Memorial association at the site of the old hou.se. in which is reputed lo have a school and which has recently been brick- veneerctl and remodeled for use atchee, Yakima and other Washington cities as far as 300 miles east across the Cascade range felt the tremor. But.death and destruction was centered along a 125 mile strip from Seattle south to Longview on the Columbia river border of Oregon.

Damage to schools, churches office buildings, bridges and industrial plants was so widespread that officials offered only conservative estimates on' the. damage. Still, estimates from throughout the damage area indicated thai the total would pass the $20,000, 000 mark. Hardest hit were Seattle, Ta coma, Olympia, Chehalis, Centralia, Longview, Kelso and Castle Rock. Workers at the Hanford atomic works on the flat lands in eastern Washington reported feel ing a slight tremor.

The Bonne ville dam on the Oregon bordei was unscathed, although earth slides were reported to have oc curred nearby. Mayor William Devin of Seattle coordinating disaster work in this city of 500,000, said "dam age will run into the millions. It it (incredible there were so few casualties." Seattle Fire Chief William Fitz gerald said "Thank God, mos school children were on Eastei vacation." Dr. Eijo E. Vesanen, 'University of Washington seismologist, de scribed the quake as "the mos severe in the recorded history the Pacific northwest." He meas ured the quake's intensity a eight.

Twelve is the highest. Ves anen attributed the quake to moving fault and placed its epi center at 90 miles southwest Seattle. Chimneys toppled, fires broke out but were quickly extinguish ed, cornices gave way piling rub ble on noontime shoppers scurry ing from stores. A half dozen schools, three state institutiona buildings at Olympia -and church collapsed. Hysterical women doorways and stairwells in down town Seattle department store but miraculously no one was sen ously injured.

Hundreds of wor shipers assembling for noon de- Je rscy(cat( le breedel of i a as part of Holy Wee North Carolina to give young farm eis a chance to improve their herds at low cost. The sale was a nonprofit one, with about 300 persons attending. Eleven calves were purchased bv Iredell county residents. The cattle were from accredited herds in Ohio. NUERNBERG, April U.R) ended today with sentencing ended today wit sentencing 19 of Adolf- Hitler's top.

aides and advisers to prison terms ranging up to 25 years. An American tribunal handed out the sentences after convicting 19 Nazis of crimes running xom the waging of Hitler's wars of aggression to the slaughter of Tews to membership in criminal organizations. The heaviest sentence 25 years was imposed on Lt. Gen. Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the highest officers in Hitler's dreaded SS organization, for sending thou- sands of Jews to gas chambers, mistreating war prisoners, participating in the use of slave labor and membership in the SS.

The court held that Berger. as. chief in Poland, condoned atrocities against Jews which shocked?" even the Nazi high command. One SS unit stripped Jewish women, injected them with poison and delightedly watched their death contortions. Other SS men under Berger's command herded Jews into barns and burned them alive.

Counsel for Berger and other 18 defendants in the 13th and last of the Nuernberg trials filed motions to have the verdicts set aside. They said they would appeal for clemency to Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the American military governor. Hans Heinrich Laminers, 69, observance fled from churches All fatalities occurred in Wash ngton state.

REVIVAL SERVICES Revival services at Shiloh Methodist church will continue through Sunday. Services each evening at 7:30 o'clock treasurer, superintendent of pub- as a church nursen. lie instruction, and commissioners of insurance, labor and agriculture: to $9,000 a year. The pending budget would provide salaries of $7,500 for those members of the council of state. The rejected measure would have given the attorney-general $10,800 a year compared to $8,400 that would be provided under the recommended budget for the coming bienmum.

George Scott Services Scheduled For Sunday Funeral services for George Scott, who died yesterday at H. F. Long hospital, will be held at tho Church of Christ Sunday afternon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Surviving are the wife, two brothers and other relatives.

Unique Service Planned Here For Good Friday Nine ministers will participate in the Good Friday union services to be held at St. John's Luthcrn church from noon until 2 o'clock. But no one attending the services i be required to sit through the whole program unless he desires to do so. It is being arranged in 15-minute interludes. The program will center around the seven last words of Jesus from the Cross, "My God, why hast thou forsaken Seven ministers have been assigned one word each and will speak on it for 15 minutes.

Rev. Jack Cooke, pastor of Boulevard Methodist church, will open the program with the invocation. H. L. Patrick, pastor of First ARP church, will pronounce the benediction.

Special music will be under the direction of Elgevia Withers, organist. Rev. Neill McGeachy, pastor of First Presbyterian church, will discuss the first word; Rev. C. P.

Bowles, Broad Street Methodist, the second; Rev. J. C. Groce, Race Street Methodist, the third; Rev. James Potter, First Baptist, the fourth; Rev.

Wendell Davis, Western Avenue Baptist, the fifth; Rev. L. M. Allison, Pressly Memorial ARP, the sixth, and Rev. J.

K. Lasley, St. John's Lutheran, the seventh. Worshippers desiring to do so may leave at the conclusion of a any minister's talk. chief of Hitler's ReichschanceUery and virtual vice-chancellor of Germany, drew one of two 20-year sentences imposed.

Laminers had been found guilty of approving the slaying of -Allied airmen shot down over Germany, crimes against Jews, plundering Russia and other occupied countries, using slave labor and membership in criminal organizations. Mitchell's Choir Sings Here Easter Mitchell college's a cappellt choir will conclude its spring series of public appearances here Easter Sunday afternoon at a union seiv vice of downtown churches at First Presbyterian church. The service will begin at 5 o'clock. The choir this week is on a tour of South Carolina schools, churches and radio stations. Earlier this year they made a foray into Virginia and have been heard also in a number of North Carolina towns and cities.

Mitchell officials hope to make the union service featuring their choir an annual Easter observance in Statesville. Next year, another downtown church will be host to the group and from year to year, site of the union services will be rotated among the denominations. Army Reserve Unit To Meet At City Hall Meeting place for the organized reserve corps has been changed from the postoffice basement to the city hall courtroom, Addison Long, commander, announced today. The group will meet Friday night at 7:30 at the courtroom, on the second floor of the building. Much interest in the work of the army i is being evidenced bv veterans and also by civilians without previous military service.

SPECIAL SERVICE A special Easter service it St Paul's Lutheran church on the Salisbury road Friday o'clock will a the on the screen, following tional period led by Rev. R. M. Carpenter. Tfct is cordially inritatf,.