Statesville Daily Record from Statesville, North Carolina • Page 9

DOWN IN CHAIN reaction has been sufficient to convince us of the unwisdom of the series of whisky advertisements begun Tuesday in the Statesville Daily Record. By actual count, the comment has been close to two-to-one against the ads; and that's a preponderance of public opinion which we do not feel called upon to buck, the stakeb being what they are. Some of the reactions have a little more violent than I IK occasion seemed to warrant. Must of the people approached the question in a civil manner, but there were others who certainly for the moment forgot the do-unto-others admonition. From our own viewpoint, we can see no fundamental difference between running an advertisement for a distillery and selling a bootlegger tires for his automobile.

If there is a difference, it must reflect favorably on the newspaper, which must carry on its business out in the open for all the world to see, whereas the tire sale is in the nature of a private transaction. Oh, well. We've already said more than we set out to. Maybe we've said too much SQUARE season is at hand when they begin tripping the wing again at square dances Down In Iredell. Comes now Jack Wooten, who this morning informed us that the Harmony Legion post will sponsor a square dance at the Legion hall Friday evening, November 4, beginning at 7:30 o'clock.

Music will be furnished by the Rhythm Rangers and the public is invited. Can we count on seeing you there? ATCH THEM to time we will publish in this column figures showing progress being made in the Iredell Wildlife club's drive to sign up 1,000 members. The club starts with 211 paid up members. WEATHER: North Carolina- Fair and cooler tonight with frost. Friday fair and cooler.

Local temperatures high yesterday 61, low this morning 40. USED ROSE anybody want a slightly used 1948 model rose bush? If so, we suggest you see Harold Drum at Colonial stores; and if you will look closely, you will observe that Mr. Drum's face is a little reddish, like the rose bush he sold. About a year ago a woman came in to buy a yellow rose and Colonial Stores sold her one. They knew it was yellow because the tag said so.

A few days ago the same woman returned with the same rose hush. She had a complaint, she said. She had bought the plant as a yellow rose, but when it bloomed it was not yellow. What, she wanted to know, were they going to do about it? no telling what will be uncovered in the basement at Fraley's Food Fair before they get moved into their new quarters. Someone was nosing around in the basement the other day when they came upon a bunch of buggy whips, which have not boen much in demand lately.

All of which just goes to show that it will be a good idea to give the Fraley establishment a good before they open up in the new store. They have announced that everything will be sold so they can start with a new stock in the new location. You can never tell what you might find. AFTERNOON county's new form of football gives the county its only afternoon football game tomorrow. At 1:15 o'clock at Scotts High school, the Black Panthers six- man team takes the field against Patterson in a return match between the two schools.

If Scotts wins, and there is little doubt that it will, it will be the seventh straight win this season for the Panthers. Previously, in a game played at Patterson, Scotts took a one-sided 26-0 win. It looks as if the Iredell boys are headed for the Tri-County conference championship. STATESVILLE HOLBROOK telephoning Sonny MOORE winning cake Buddy GAITHER and Betty SHAVER being crowned Mary Bell BOGGS on her way to Mitchell DEVEREUX greeting guests Mrs. Glenn LACKEY discussing new suit.

AND OUT Fire Disaster (U.R)— A flash lire roared through an apartment building today, killing four persons and injuring at least 25 others as the building's 350 residents leaped from windows to escape the flames. Wants To Die (U.R) Rnos Bridoux has been told that he killed 55 persons in Tuesday's air disaster here and he no longer wants to live, the Bolivian pilot's physicans said today. Oriental STOCKHOLM, (U.R)— Prof. Hideki Yukawa, Japanese atomic scientist who now is on the staff of Columbia university in New York, tonight won the 1949 iNobel prize for physics. He was the first Japanese and the first Oriental to be named a Nobel winner.

The prize amounts to S30.171.74. Prize Cancelled STOCKHOLM, (U.R) Swedish academy announced today that no Nobel prize for literature would be awarded this year because no single writer had polled the necessary majority. Winston Churchill of Great Britain and Benedetto Croce of Italy had been mentioned as chief contenders for the honor. Freed YORK. (U.R)— The United States circuit court of appeals today ordered the release on bail of 11 top American communists pending appeal of their criminal conspiracy conviction.

No Clues Found FALLS CHURCH. (U.R)— Officers today reported that a dragnet thrown out in eight states and the District of Columbia had failed to produce any clues to the whereabouts of two gunmen who staged a daylight bank holdup here yesterday. The men fled with $13,468 in cash. Storm Kills 57 MANILA, P. (U.R) Philippine Red Cross today reported 57 persons killed in the tropical storm which swept across the central Philippines yesterday.

Some estimates of the damage ranged as high as $50,000,000. Going To Prison (U.R) owner Ellis Blumenthal of Chfnotte today was awaiting transfer to federal prison to begin a 36-inonlhs term for alleged income tax evasion. Blumenthal was picked up here last night by officers on an Asheville warrant. Traffic Fatality FAYETTEVILLE. (U.R)— Three men were hospitalized today after a traffic accident that killed another man at nearby Lakedale.

State highway patrolmen said Rufus Ray of Lakedale died when the car in which he was riding hurtled off the road and hit a tree. Htmi Ddrying Industrial Pbdmont North STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD Vol. 18 No. 264 Statesvilli, N. Thursday, November 3, 1949 Dial 5251 For All Depjtrtmcntg KIDNAP VICTIM AND ABDUCTORS ARE FOUND Lewis Split Contract Plan Fails Manslaughter brothers were charged with manslaughter today in the death of a Negro who they reportedly fired on simultaneously after stalking him down as the prowler who entered their home.

Police have identified the victim as Charles O'Neil, 49, alias "Early Moon." They charged G. Brown, and L. R. Brown of route 7. Two Men Drown today blamed heavy fog and a sharp curve approaching a bridge for the death of two coon hunters whose jeep plunged into the waters of Linville river near Lake James.

The body of Forest E. Newton. 35, was recovered with the jeep yesterday, but searchers were still dragging (be swift stream for the jeep owner, Malcolm Wise, about 35 New Commander John J. Ballentine today was appointed commander of the Sixth Task Fleet in the Mediterranean by his old classmate, Adm. Forrest P.

Sherman, new chief of naval operations. Mitchell Dean Solicits Rowan Attendance Miss Mary Edna Porter, dean of women at Mitchell college, spent yesterday at Boyden High school in Salisbury interviewing more than 500 Rowan county seniors in an effort to interest them in attending Mitchell college. Representatives from 32 colleges in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina were at the school for Rowan county day, held each year at the Salisbury school. HOME FROM CONVENTION Mr. and Mrs.

J. Howard Thomas returned to Statesville Monday night after having spent the past two weeks in the north. One week was spent in Boston, Mass, where they attended the 19th annual convention of the American Trucking Association. Highlight of the convention as reported by the Statesville couple was their admission to a broadcast of the "Harvest of Stars" featuring James Melton, Lillian Murphy and the Philadelphia Symphony orchestra. Another luncheon meeting featured the Metropolitan stars Melton and Miss Murphy.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas spent one week of their vacation in Wilmington, Del. with relatives. PYTIIIANS TO "Knights of Pythias will have their regular meeting at 7:30 p.m.

tonight in the Pythian Hall. A full attendance is urged. TROOP MEETING A meeting of Boy Scout troop 6 will be held tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock at the Baptist hut on Davie avenue, Scoutmaster E. T. Lazenby announced today.

The meeting is an mport one, and members are urged to be present. Efforts Delayed To Settle Steel Strikes By CIO Appeal To Relieve Shortage Is Made John L. Lewis lost his bid to "divide and conquer" in the coal strike today and government officials predicted that complete settlement of the steel strike would be delayed by Philip Murray's new demand for contracts based on the agreement with Bethlehem Steel Corp. Indiana coal miners rejected Lewis' suggestion that they negotiate separately with his United Mine Workers. He apparently was attempting to crack the united front of the owners in the some way Muray's CIO steel workers cracked the steel industry's line in the Bethelem settlement.

The Indiana operators sent Gov. Henry Schricker a counter-proposal that Lewis send his men back to the pits to bring enough coal to alleviate critical shortages in the and that they work under terms of the contract that expired last May while awaiting the new agreement. "It's up to Lewis now," said one management spokesman. Meanwhile, government labor experts believed that Murray had retarded settlement by demanding that the steel firms agree to give hi.s members the same pension and welfare benefits accorded them under the agreement with Bethlehem, the first of the big firms to settle since the strike began Oct. 1.

Murray announced last night that his union no longer would be satisfied if the firms agreed to meet the proposal set forth by President Truman's fact-finding board for a pension and welfare "package" amounting to about 10 cents per worker per hour. He said that now the union would insist that the entire industry accept a uniform agreement based on the Bethlehem settlement which gave the workers benefits of about 12 cents. Union officials, however, still felt that the remainder of the industry would fall in line behind Bethlehem by Monday. The companies were showing no rush to do so, but several were scheduled to engage in discussions with the union today concerning the Bethlehem pact. There still was no word from U.

S. Steel, the industry's leading firm, although its executives were known to be studying the Bethlehem contract. Cotton Market NEW ORLEANS, Nov. futures opened steady on the New Orleans cotton exchange today, from unchanged to 5 cents lower on the bale. Dec.

29.94 unchanged from yesterday's close; March 29.93 down 1 point; May 29.89 unchanged; July 29.50 (B) down 1 point. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Virgil Green Harmony underwent a tonsilectomy operation this morning at Davis hospital. Criminal Assault Attempt Revealed Men Who Seized Crippled Girl Nabbed When Car Stuck; Girl Hospitalized MULLINS, S. Nov.

crippled daughter of a sharecropper was found today in a car stuck in the sand hills near here with one of the men who carried her off within sight of her home last night. Police Chief S. J. English said a doctor had examined the girl and said an attempt had been made to rape her. English said Jerome Alford, a Marion county farmer, was with the little girl in a 1941 Dodge car when officers came upon them in the sand hills across the Pee Dee river from Mullins.

Police nabbed another man, Hugh Smith, 23. in Mullins, and English said both men admitted that they kid- naped the partly-crippled youngster yesterday as she was returning home from school. SPECTACULAR "bad dip'in the street" was blamed by a C. D. Kenney company truck driver for this mishap yesterday at the corner of East Front and Cooper streets.

No one was hurt in the accident and damage to the truck was onyl minor. Stacey Cameron of Charlotte was the driver. (Daily Record photo by Tharpe.) 15 Per Cent Reduction For Burley Is Ordered WASHINGTON, Nov. lose all government price sup- Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan today told major growers of burley crop tobacco they must choose between a 15 per cent reduction in acreage next year or Alec Templeton Secured To Play At Concert Here Alec Templeton, famed blind pianist, will be one of the Com munity Concert association's featured attractions during the 194950 season, Mrs.

James A. Brady, membership campaign chairman, announced today. Templeton was definitely booked by the Statesville association yesterday after hurried telephone calls to New York City. The Templeton concert will be one of at least three to be presented here during this season. Reason for his selection at this time was to increase interest in membership drive which ends Saturday at noon.

Other artists will be announced later after their selection by the association's board of directors. Templeton is.t star radio come dian, in addition to being an outstanding concert pianist. There is increasing evidence, Mrs. Brady said, that this will be he largest season in the association's seven-year history here. Volunteer membership workers are still asked to report daily to he office at Vance hotel, she said.

Office hours are from 10 a. m. until 5 p. m. Little Theater Effort Launched At Meeting More than 35 enthusiastic persons got Statesville's first Little Theater underway at an organizational meeting held last night at the recreation center.

Miss Kay Johnson, director of the Hickory Little Theater, assisted in getting the organization started. She was accompanied to the meeting by three other members of the Hickory group, Mr. and Mrs. T. R.

Kramer and Mrs. Donald Orr. A temporary chairman and secretary were elected by UK- group. They are Ed Long and Miss Catherine Permanent officers will be elected at a later meeting. Miss Johnson, who was introduced by Statesville Recreation Director Woody Dukes, gave a short history of her theater in Hickory, read that theater's constitution and pointed out important factors in organization.

She and the other Hickory people told of some of the problems which their organization faced during its first few months, Now, though it was organized only last February, they feel they have a full-fledged group, with two wide-scale productions to its credit. A question and answer period followed by a short business session completed the meeting. The local group will meet next Monday night at the center at 7:45 o'clock at which time an impromptu program will be presented. A temporary committee, composed of Miss Ellen Bryant, Mrs. T.

G. Shuler, Mrs. Ted Mitchell, Mrs. Earl White, Robert Johns and Miss Catherine Phillips, was appointed by the chairman for the purpose of getting program planning and other organizational steps underway. Dukes was very pleased with the number of persons who showed their interest in a local theater.

Size of the group meeting last nigbt WM muoh larger than expected, said, although many other persons kept away by other plant. ports. Brannan proclaimed the continued iue. of marketing quotas on next year's crop to hold down surpluses. He set the 1950 planting allotment at 421,500 acres.

That represents a cutback of 10 per cent from the 1949 planting allotment of 468,300 acres. However, Brannan said the control program would result in a 15 per cent reduction in plantings for all growers who had a 1949 allotment of more than nine-tenths of an acre. Under tobacco control legislation growers who had an allotment of nine-tenths of one acre or less can not be asked to take a further reduction. The marketing quota controls cannot go into force unless approved by two-thirds of the growers voting by secret ballot in a referendum. Brannan scheduled the referendum for Saturday, Nov.

26. Offitials are confident growers will approve quotas for 1950 Kentucky grows two-thirds of the nation's burley tobacco. Other major producing areas are southern Indiana, southern Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri. About 80 per cent of the crop goes into cigaret production. Under the quota system, growers may market all of the tobacco produced on their allotted acreage.

Growers who overplant must pay a drastic penalty tax in order to market tobacco grown on the excess acreage. The department said the 1950 planting allotment of 421,500 acres would produce 496,000,000 pounds, if yields equal the average of the five years, 1944-48. Last yearns allotment of 468,300 acres produced 545,000,000 pounds. SHS Football Squad Invited To Open House The Young People's Christian Union of First Associate Reformed Presbyterian church will lion- or the members of the Statesville High school football squad at open house immediately following the Statesville-Spencer game here Friday night. Open house will be in the church basement.

In addition to the members of the football squal, invitations were extended to girl friends of the players. Divorce Cases Top Calendar For Court Divorce cases again top the calendar for the one-week civil term ot Iredell Superior court scheduled to open Tuesday, November 15 with Judge Frank Armstrong, of Troy, presiding. The calendar, as released by Carl G. Smith, clerk of court, hots about 24 actions for divorces. In addition, there are about 50 other civil actions to be heard, not including six casjw 011 the motion docket Scott Commutes Death Sentence RALEIGH, Nov.

Kerr Scott today saved the life of Tom Wood, 30-year-old convicted- wife-killer, by commuting his death sentence to life imprisonment. Wood was to have died at 10 a. m. tomorrow morning. Scott said the commutation was based on findings of psychiatrists who said the prisoner is "hopelessly insane." The governor said trial Judge W.

H. S. Burgwyn and every member of the jury recommended that Wood be examined by a psychiatrist for the state, and that the sentence be commuted if he was found to be insane. Dr. Edward N.

Pleasants, superintendent of the state hospital, examined Wood and reported to the governor; "This prisoner is suffering a malignant mental illness which there is little likeli- from irom liood that he will ever recover, irrespective of care or treatment- Because of this, he is incompetent. "It is felt that this illness has been present for some time and antedates his imprisonment." Dr. Pleasants' diagnosis agreed with that of two Duke psychiatrists, Dr. Leslie B. Hohman and Dr.

George Silver, who examined Wood before his conviction. At Central prison, Warden Joseph Crawford said Wood was "very happy." Crawford said Chaplain W. H. R. Jackson took Wood out of his cell so he could walk along death Both were jailed and held with out bond pending a preliminary hearing.

English said neither Alford, 30 nor Smith, a newly discharge sailor, would give any reason fo; snatching the child, although they admitted seizing her. English said the two men, both bachelors, apparently were intoxi cated when they kidnaped thi child. The capture of the pai ended a search that began yes terday afternoon when the gir was dragged into the kidnap ca within sight of her home. Police feared the girl had me with violence when they her red coat and pink sweate near the spot where she was kit naped. Officers said it was then they learned that her abductor were drinking heavily.

The schoolgirl, daughter of sharecropper, was snatched int the car yesterday as she behind her companions on he way home from school. He mother said she had been par tially crippled since birth and "couldn't keep up with the othe children." They had gotten off a schoo bus and were within 300 yards the victim's home when the two men drove up beside the little girl. Her companions, including an older sister, were 20 or 30 yards ahead of her. They told English that one oi the men got out of the car and told the girl that "we're going to take you for a Then he grabbed Her, the chii dren said, and shoved her into the car before she could protest or cry out. The children told officers that the man staggered badly and appeared to be drunk.

JOUAM Officials To Attend Meeting A number of local members of Council No. 399, Junior Order, will attend a district meeting at Hickory Friday night to be presided over by District Councilor Sherman Mitchell of Statesville. Among state officers attending will be A. Z. Goforth of Statesville, state councilor; Archie Elledge, state vice-councilor of Winston-Salem; Forrest G.

Shear- rin of Scotland Neck, state secretary. Members of the local council row and shake hands with other wanting to attend the meeting in men still facing death. Hickory are asked to meet at the "I sure appreciate it warden," lodge hall here at 6:45 p. m. Fn- Wood smiled as Crawford broke i day where a way will be provided the news to him.

'for them. New Electric Union Fights For Members CLEVELAND, 0., Nov. (U.R)—One of the most bitter membership raiding wars in recent labor history shaped up today as the CIO executive board chartered a new United Electrical Workers union to replace the old left-wing UE which was expelled yesterday from the national CIO. The new, right-wing union was called the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine workers, and James Carey, temporary chief of the new organization, immediately laid claim to 230,000 members of the old UE and to all its major contracts with employers. Dropping temporarily the fight against the communists, the CIO was to suggest today that the government set up a giant, federally-controlled atomic energy commission patterned after the Tennessee Valley Authority The CIO also was expected to demand fovenuunent take over atomic energy of firm- tag out wqHptaito lions.

Meanwhile, UE locals all over the country scheduled rank and file voting to determine which of the two unions the members would choose The old UE left-wing leaders in New York said they would fight to the finish any memoership raids by the CIO. The CIO executive board, given unlimited power by the convention to deal with communist and fellow-travelers in its ranks, made it clear there would be a bitter drive against the deposed UE. Carey said the new union would ask all employers currently holding contracts with the deposed union to break them and sign up with his group. And he called on all members of the union to join his new organization. The two largest employers of electrical workers Westinghouse and General they were confused aa tt whkb' union to bargain wtth.

Civitans Hear Tourney Plans Coach Clarence Stasavich of Lenoir-Rhyne college in Hickory, chairman of the North State conference basketball tournament committee, presented problems and plans for the 1950 tourney last night at the weekly meeting of Statesville Civitans. The Civitan club is sponsoring this season's tournament, to be held February 23-25 in the new Statesville High school gymnasium. Stasavich was introduced by Virgil Moran, program chairman for the evening and chairman of the Civitan tournament committee. The tournament was first held in 1935 at Charlotte, Stasavich said. It was not held again until 1940 at High Point college.

After 1941, when it was again played at High Point, the tournament was discontinued until 1947. In 1948 it was moved from High Point to Elkin and was played there for two'years. The Statesville group was sue cessful in getting the tourney for 1950. Eight teams of the nine-team conference will participate. Four games will be played the first day, two the second and one on the final day.

He pointed out that necessary arrangements should be made early, including the work of the program, ticket, publicity, reception and housing, and entertainment committees. Officials will be assigned by the conference, each school participating will have a 12-man delegation from its team. Stasavich answered questions members to end the program. Earlier, Mrs. Marjorie Lee of Columbia Concerts in New York told of the Community Concert association's drive here and urged Civitans to become members of the association.

Harold Davenport, member of the Staiesville recreation commission, invited members to participate in the recreation department's Other guests at the meeting, held the Vance hotel ballroom, were 2ity Schools Superintendent M. T. Lambeth and Statesville High School Athletic Director Dave Diamont. President Taft White presided at the meeting. Teachers Plan To Attend Meet A number of Iredell county lome economists are planning to attend a two-day meeting of the North Carolina Home Economics ssociation at Hotel Robert E.

Lee iVinston-Salem, this weekend. Mrs. Frances Parcell and Mrs. Myrtle Westmoreland, Iredell home agents, are leaving late this noon to attend pre-convention sessions, while other delegates will go tomorrow. The meeting is scheduled Friday and Saturday.

Attending from Iredell will be Mrs. Emma Robertson, home economics teacher at Union Grove; Mrs. C. B. Brown, Scotts school; Miss Rebekah Hunsucker, Central; Miss Maude Searcy, Harmony; and Miss Julia Miller, Troutman.

Mrs. Westmoreland is a state councillor of the organization and a past president. Purple Heart Order Plans Chicken, Supper Smith-Troutman-D chapter, Military Order of the Purple Heart, will have a dutch chicken supper at the American Legion hut Saturday night at 7 o'clock, it wus announced today. Chapter Commander J. G.

Tay. lor said an interesting prograit is in store for the meeting, which will be attended by the ftttt commander and other.