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26. NO. 91 An Associated Press Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday SALISBURY, MARYLAND, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1949 16 PAGES 5c Single 25c By Carrier FATHER. Cloudiness and riett Showers and Tues. W.

F. Allen, 82, Nursery Field Pioneer, Dies Firm Known Around World Grew Here From $15 Investment William Francis Allen, a pioneer the Delmarva Peninsula's strawberry industry, died at his on 1 Camden Ave. this mornHe was 82. When only 15 years old he invested a borrowed $15 in strawberry plants. Since that mug the W.

F. Allen and Sons Co. has grown to one of the naton's well-known nurseries. The company ships millions of strawberry plants annually all over the United States and exports to some foreign countries. Mr.

Allen was largely instrumental in introducing melon culture in the Eastern Shore area. He pioneered successfully the commercial growing of cucumbers, cantaloupes and watermelons. Published Catalogue The use of the mails by the Allen company to send out thousands of catalogues annually has made it the largest single source of revenue to the Salisbury postoffice. The catalogue has been published for 64 consecutive years. The company has 900 acres in plants and orchards, and ships some 10 to 12 million strawberry plants and 100,000 to 150,000 bushels of peaches and apples annually.

Mr. Allen was associated with many local and state organizations. He was a member of the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce and charter member and second president of the Rotary club. He WAS 8 former president of the Maryland State Horticultural Society and also the Peninsula Horticultural Society. Mr.

Allen was president of the Salisbury Branch of the County Trust Company of Maryland, pre-. sident of the Farmers and Planters Company here and a director and vice president of the Peninsula Broadcasting Company. Fraternally he was affiliated with the Free and Accepted Mapons. He was a hearty supporter of charitable and religious organ- izations, Native Of Allen Mr. Allen was born February 25, 1867 in Allen, and his parents were the late Albert James and Elizabeth E.

Twilley Allen. He attended the public school of his birthplace. He and his surviving wife, the former Miss Martha P. Taylor, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary November 12, 1940. Their three surviving sons, all associated with the Allen company, are Fulton White Allen, William Lee Allen and Albert Gillis Allen, all of Salisbury.

A fourth son, the Rev. Walter Kendall Allen, died in India of typhoid fever on September 2, 1925. Salishury's Allen Memorial Baptist Church was named in his honor. Also surviving are eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held from his late home at 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday. The Rev. Dr. J. Leas Green of the Bethesda Methodist Church will officiate.

Interment is to he in Parsons cemetery. Friends may call at his late home tomorrow night. Lane's Program Hit By Labor Leader Cumberland, March 21-(AP)The chief of Western Maryland's largest. labor union has attacked Governor Lane's legislative program as "reactionary" and "Republican." Ind a letter to the governor yesterday, Playford Aldridge, president of the Textile Workers Union Local 1874, declared: "We are at a loss to what prompted you to understand of your hotel parlor promises and the liberal ideas that you so unhesitatingly expressed while you were seeking office. have particularly noted actions and recommendations dur.ng the current session of the exislature and very frankly we have no alternative but to class then as being parallel to the most -ervative and reactionary Reparty-type program in so far the little people of are concerned." Pedestrian Injured By Truck In City struck by a truck as he crossed Sal bury near old Water City Police reported today.

James T. Mitchell, 58, Salisbury, was treated for a head cut at Penonsla General Hospital. The driver of the truck was Thomas Bowden, 33, 511 South Park police said. The left fender of the truck was damaged. A pedestrian was injured when Dies At 82 W.

F. Allen Family Is Away, Horrie Destroyed Fire Rages As Couple Visits Hospital Here Special To The Times Sharptown, March 21. While Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Larmore were visiting one of their children in Peninsula General Hospitalize their home burned down.

The house, on the SharptownSeaford highway, burned late terday. A few pieces of furniture were saved by an unidentified negro who discovered the blaze. Intense heat halted his efforts to save more. When he saw flames shooting from the house, he ran nearly a mile to a nearby farmhouse to sound the alarm. In 10 minutes Sharptown firemen were at the scene, six miles from here.

Firemen were unable to save the house. The only water available to fight the blaze was in tanks on the engines. Seaford firemen helped save outbuildings. The 13-room house was owned by the Capt. Ben Coulbourne estate.

Estimate of losses ranged above $5,000. It was thought the fire started in the kitchen. Neither Mr. and Mrs. Larmore nor any of their four children were home when the fire broke out about 6 p.m., according to Sharptown Fire Chief Jonn R.

Owens. Six Die In Fire At Makemie Park Special To The Times Makemie Park, March A negro boy badly burned in a fire that swept a log house here killing six children was still in a critical condition today. Thomas Teel, 10, a brother of one of the victims, was in the Northampton-Accomack Memorial Hospital at Nassawaddox going treatment for serious burns of the body. The seven children lived in the five-room log house with 14 other persons. Police identified the six who perished as: Rosary Teel, 1, daughter of Delcrese and Janice Teel.

Elias Artis, Elijah Artis, 4, and Deborah Artis, 5, children of William and Mary Artis. Douglas MacArthur Teel, 6, son of Andrew and Violet Teel. David Mitchell, 7, son of Rufus and Leavie Mitchell. The parents were attending a church service conducted by the owner of the log house, William Artis, a Seventh Day Adventist minister, when the fire was discovered about 10 p.m. Friday.

Three other children escaped from the burning house along with three other persons. The house was located between Makemie Park and Hallwood on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Delaware Senator's Aide Hurt In Crash Smyrna, March 21-(AP)James B. Messick, 34-year-old legal secretary of U. S.

Senator J. Allen Frear, was injured early yesterday when his car crashed into the rear of a large tractor. I It overturned three times and was completely demolished in what police officials termed "a lous escape from death or serious injury." Mr. Messick lives in Smyrna. Police Chief John W.

Jacobs of Smyrna said the accident occurred about 3:15 a.m., on Route 13 in opposite the Wayside Inn. Smyrna, Both Messick's car and the tractor, by Wesley Holden of operated Horsey, and owned by a New lumber company, were Jersey traveling south on the highway. Chief Jacobs said the automobile and skidded about rolled rest on its side near the inn. Messick had been tossed from coming to the seat of the club coupe type car found, unconscious, in the and was back of the vehicle. suffered from shock and He lacerations.

I Baruch Says Cold War Peace Most Urgent Sees No Real U.S. Prosperity Until It Is Settled Washington, March 21-(AP)Bernard M. Baruch today declared the is urgent for the United States to "seek a decision" in making world peace. Baruch. an adviser of Presidents, told the United States Conference of Mayors that efforts to cope with high prices and taxesor with declining sales and jobsare "doomed to failure" without a settlement of the cold war.

"Peace is what we need," Baruch said. "Peace 'with self-respect." Recalling that he stressed to Congress a year ago the time was at hand for 8 decision, the 78- year old industrialist told 600 bigcity leaders opening their annual meeting: Not Enough Progress has been some progress in that direction--but not enough. We must make up our minds where we stand globally and then organourselves to see it through." He advised against "panicky" measures and held out hope for settlement with Russia. "It is dreadful to contemplate," Baruch said, "that our difficulties should lie with a former associate who did so much to crush a common enemy. "The mutual sufferings and losses have been almost forgotten in the determination of nations to have the peace cast in their own image.

"Still, I believe we can get the peace we crave if we pace and control ourselves in the interest of all, and not of selfish groups. To those who clamor for more 'incentive', I would reply: what greater incentive can there be than to preserve our freedoms without which all material possessions are worthless, Lists Questions The questions to be solved, Baruch said, are how long the cold war must last and how much of America's resources must be thrown into it; whether foreign aid and armament must constantly be increased; if so, what must be given up at home; and, whether other nations can relieve this country of some of "the burdens of the world. "Until these and related questions are settled, all of us- -you mayors, governors, every individu21-al-are prisoners of the federal government," Baruch told the conterence. Mayor Thomas d'Alesandro Baltimore, legislation chairman of the conference, advised the 600 delegates to continue pressure extended rent control and housing legislation. Public housing and slum clearance, he said, can make possible the solving of "one of the most pressing and serious problems facing the major American cities today." ASSAILANT FINED Special To The Times Hurlock, March 21-Trial istrate Floyd N.

Harper imposed a $10 fine on' John Cephas of Finchville, near here, for assault and battery on Frances Johnson, also of Finchville, on March 17. Both parties are negroes. Cephas paid the fine and costs. Truman Says Trouble Makers Try To Stir Congress Rift PRESIDENT GREETS JOHNSON. President torney General Tom Clark stands beside Johnson.

Truman (left) shakes hands with Louis A. John- In center background is Secretary of Commerce who has been nominated to be secretary of (wearing The cabinet Charles Sawyer glasses). son, officers met the Chief Executive upon return defense, at National Airport in Washington. At- by air from a Florida vacation. (AP Wirephoto) Mercury Up As Spring Arrives Arrival Is Cool, Warming Up Now The mercury headed for the sixties here today as Eastern Shoremen greeted the first full day of spring.

Uncle Sam's weather observers at the municipal airport noted at mid-morning that the thermometer read 58.9. The Civil Aeronautics Administration weather station recorded 40.6 when spring arrived at 5:49 p.m. yesterday. Street eorner thermometers downtown couldn't agree. One proclaimed 59 at another said 65; a third, 80.

Yesterday the mercury got no higher than 49. It dropped to 26 earlier in the day but went no (Continued on Page 2) Man Killed In Upper Shore Crash Special To The Times Easton, March 21-One Tilgh-1 man's Island man is still in the hospital here after an accident that killed a companion and slightly injured another. James Murphy, 23, was fatally hurt Friday night on Route 319 between Hinson and Denton when a car operated by Clifford Wilson, 22, overturned. Wilson is in the hospital here. A third man, William Lowery, about 23, was discharged from the hospital Saturday.

Teacher Opposed To War Holds Up Part Of Income Tax Baltimore, March A Baltimore private school teacher has joined some 150 other Americans in refusing to pay part of his 1948 federal income tax on the grounds that the money would be used for military purposes. The teacher, Gelston McNeil, explained last night: "I had an overwhelming feeling that I have no right to contribute in any way toward finding ways of just exterminating people." McNeil, who teaches mathematics in a private school, was a conscientious objector during World War II and served a year in an Army C. O. camp. Holding Up 46.8% He said he had decided "after much prayer, study and discussion" to withhold 46.8 percent or about $68 of his 1948 tax.

He figures that much of it would be used for military purposes. However, he is actually ing to pay only $56.28 of his total tax of $145 since all but that amount, he stated, has already been collected by the government through withholding taxes. "It is with deep regret that I differ with my government and many of my fellow-citizens," he said in a long, carefully-worded letter to the Baltimore collector of internal revenue. "However, under present eircumstances in which my Truman Seeks Authority For Arming Allies Wants Free Hand In Allocating Weapons Under Atlantic Pact Washington, March 21-(AP)President Truman is expected to ask Congress for a free hand in allocating arms to Western Europe under the proposed billion dollar military aid program. The program is scheduled to go to the Capitol about the same time as the North Atlantic security' treaty, or immediately thereafter.

Mr. Truman will send up the treaty for Senate approval immediately after it is signed here by an expected 12 nations, two weeks from today. According to present State Department planning the department is rounding up all military aid programs for Mr. Trumanthe President should try to get from Congress as much of a blank check authority as he can under whatever expenditure limit Congress fixes. Present estimates are that more than $1,000,000,000 will be required in the first 12 months to help Europe re-arm.

Predicts Approval Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the House armed services committee predicted the arms requests "will be approved in both houses without a particle of trouble." The Senate alone, but by a twothirds vote, must approve the new North Atlantic treaty if America is to take part. An Associated Press canvass of senators showed: 55 inclined to favor ratification, one opposed and 37 unwilling to on record at this time. Two the 96 senators were not reachgo led and there is one vacancy. The arms aid program is designed by the administration to carry out the "mutual aid" program of the treaty. It would thereby help the countries of Western Europe fulfill their roles in the "common strategic plan" which is to be worked out by the Allied powers.

The first official reference to (Continued on Page 2) Five Survive Air Crash In Mountains Maryville, March 21- (AP) A helicopter and ground rescue parties teamed today in dramatic efforts to rescue four persons who survived a plane crash in the wild Smoky Mountains Friday. A fifth occupant of the ill-fated plane, Stephen A. Walker, 46, of Detroit, stumbled an estimated 25 miles in 42 hours to reach a telephone and report the crash. He was said to be in good condition at a hospital. Dr.

Robert H. Haralson, Maryville physician who was dropped about a mile from the scene yesterday by helicopter, sent out this terse radio message today: "Two are stretcher cases and two are able to walk." The helicopter which managed to put Dr. Haralson down in the rugged mountainous country near the Temnessee-North Carolina line returned early today to rejoin the rescue attempt. The plane, a twin-engine Cessna, was en route from Detroit to Miami when the crash occurred. Walker reported the craft "pancaked into the treetops" of a mountain.

Walker identified the others as James Hardy, 23; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hall, and Orville Rich, 38, all of Detroit. Phoebus Assures Somerset On Schools Special To The Times Princess Anne, March 21-Somerset County's Senator Harry T. Phoebus assured his constituents here Saturday night that their schools' needs will be taken care of.

Senator Phoebus addressed a meeting of more than 100 Somerset Countians. The group had gathered to discuss the roads and schools. He told them that if the state incentive fund bill passes in the Legislature that Somerset will get its schools without any increase in taxes. Senator Phoebus said he believed the bill would pass this week. Calls Real Estate Lobby Enemy Of American Home Washington, March 21-(AP)- President Truman today denounced "trouble makers" who talk of rift between him and Congress.

He said he and Congress are "working together" for the good of the country. In an address to the United States Conference of Mayors, the President also made a blistering new attack on the "real estate He said it is opposing his housing and rent control program, and is "the real enemy of the American home." This "lobby" won't succeed, he declared, and predicted passage of his housing program, complete with public housing and slum clearance. "It seems that whenever I make 8 recommendation to Congress, many newspapers and columnists set up a howl about the President trying to dictate to the Mr. Truman told the six hundred mayors of major cities. "And then if the Congress makes any decision that varies at all from my recommendations, these same troublemakers start a gleeful chorus about how the Congress has thrown the whole Democratic program overboard.

"Of course, I differ with the actions of the Congress on some points, and where these differences are important I shall continue to urge the course I think is right. "But basically the Congress and the President are working together and will continue to work together for the good of the country. "We are going to agree on lot more things than we disagree on. And when the final score for this Congress is added up, some of the selfish pressure groups going to be pretty badly disappointed." Naval Air Station Series In Times The Eastern Shore's newest eity, the Chincoteague Naval Air Station, is described in a series of four articles beginning in The Times tomorrow. The naval installation contains a city of its own, paved streets, rows of new homes, school, hospital, as well as restricted areas where new methods of aerial warfare are developed and tested.

All illustrations are official U. 8. Navy photographs. Parksley Man Killed By Car Struck Near Home Saturday Night Special To The Times Parksley, March 21-A 64-yearold Parksley, man was one of six persons fatally injured in weekend accidents on Virginia highways. David Fletcher Sterling was killed instantly when hit by an automobile Saturday night on Route 316, a half mile south of Parksley.

A farmer, Mr. Sterling leaves his wife, Mrs. Ella Budd Sterling; a son, Fred of Tasley; a sister, Mrs. Edith Johnson, Parksley; two brothers, John M. and Paul J.

Sterling, Parksley; and half brother, Charles A. Sterling, Norfolk. A funeral service will be conducted in Johnson Funeral Home, Parksley, tomorrow at 3 p.m. Burial will be in Edge Hill Cemetery, Accomac. The other accidents occurred on the Western Shore of Virginia.

Byrd To Appear On University Budget Annapolis, March 21 (AP) Governor Lane said today Dr. H. C. Byrd, president of the University of Maryland, and James G. Rennie, state budget director, will appear before House and Senate committees tonight to discuss the university's budget.

"Dr. Byrd and Mr. Rennie conferred with me about the confusion that has existed in reference to information supporting the budget of the University of Maryland," the governor said in a special announcement. "They asked me to request opportunity for them to appear before a joint session of the finance and ways and means committees in order that they might present to the joint committee all pertinent information relating to the university's budget. "The officers of the have arranged for the legislature sion A bill introduced recently in the General Assembly would have compelled the university to submit a more detailed budget.

It was defeated by a slim margin. FUEL OIL PRICE REDUCED A reduction in the price of fuel oil and kerosene was announced today by George L. Ralph, Shell Oil distributor here. The cut of eight-tenths of a cent a gallon becomes effective tomorrow. Gasoline is not affected.

West Outlaws Red East Mark Russians Expected To Strike Back Berlin, March 21-(AP)-The western powers have outlawed the Russian East mark in their tors of Berlin, splitting the city's economy completely. The new Allied order yesterday, declaring that the Russian currency no longer would be accepted as legal tender, had been expected for some time. It means that Western Berlin now has one currency--the West mark; and Eastern Berlin has another--the Soviet East mark. The West mark has been worth about four times as much as the East mark. The Russians earlier made it a crime to possess West marks in A their area.

The United States, Britain and France did not go that far. They just said the Eastern currency no longer need be accepted in their part of the city. Effective Immediately Although the order is effective immediately, the East mark will still be good in western sectors for rationed foods month and will be accepted in April for rent and taxes. There were reports the Russians would retaliate promptly against the latest western move in the currency battle. The currency question has been one of the main issues in the Soviet blockade of Berlin.

Several international discussions, both inside and outside of the United Nations, have failed to solve it. A U. N. committee reported recently it had failed to reach a solution. Continuance of Dispute The United States, Britain and France put in a new currency in their zones of Germany, but not in Berlin, on June 18, 1948.

Four days later Russia issued new money for her zone of Germany--and all of Berlin. The day after this Soviet step the western powers introduced their new west mark into their sectors of Berlin. They permitted the East mark to circulate, but the Russians barred the West mark from the Soviet sector. The Western Allies said putting Western Berlin on a West Mark only basis was "long overdue" because "grave economic and injustices" have resulted from social dual currency arrangement. Tydings Predicts Atlantic Pact Passage Baltimore, March 21 (AP) Senator Tydings (D-Md) predicts the Senate will ratify the North Atlantic Pact with "almost complete unanimity." Tydings, a member of the Senate foreign relations committee, said yesterday that group met with Secretary of State Dean Acheson in secret session for several weeks, and the final draft "represents the best thinking of all." In a radio address, he called the pact a "powerful deterrent against war." 3 HELD IN LARCENY FROM WRECKED CAR Three Pocomoke City men have been accused of taking $300 worth of personal property from wrecked car yesterday.

Maryland State Police said grand larceny charges have been brought against Vernon Leroy Merritt, 20, Joseph M. Wallace, 23, a civilian employe at the Chincoteague Naval Air Station, and Pvt. Richard 0. Hurley, home on leave from Edgewood Arsenel. They are in Snow Hill jail in lieu of $1,000 bond each.

Trooper William Eckstorm said he had just returned to the scene, about a mile north of the Maryland-Virginia line on Route 13 when he saw the three leaving. The officer had gone into Pocomoke City to summons a wrecker to move the car. It i3 owned by Laurence Lytle, Electrician 2-c, at the Chincoteague Base. Police said Mr. Lytle WAS moving personal belongings to the base from his near Pocomoke City when the accident occurred.

His car apparently went out of control, skidded across the highway, struck several guard rails, overturned and came to rest astride another guard rail. He was picked up by a passing motorist and taken to the base hospital for treatment of shock, exposure and facial lacerations. The trooper said entry to the locked car was gained through the fabric top. No hearing date has been set. is spending an ever-increasing portion of the resources of our nation on developing more and more terrible means of mass extermination and thus is leading the world in a mad armament race which can end only in disaster for all mankind, I must refuse to co- operate." He's A Methodist McNeil, who lists his religion as Methodist, continued: taught us to be as much concerned for the welfare of our neighbors--even our enemies -as of ourselves.

As a follower of Him, I cannot and will not continue to help finance our reliance upon power rather than upon the practice of love." The peacemakers organization of New York announced last week that 150 of its members were not paying any federal income taxes to be used for "war preparations." McNeil said he was not a member of the peacemakers "though I probably should be." A spokesman for the Internal Revenue office here said all cases of non-payment are handled in the same way, regardless of whether they are deliberate. The spokesman said bills are sent to all persons owing part or all of their taxes and if the bill is not paid within the prescribed time, the case is turned over to the field division for collection. Negro Held In Fatal Shooting Of Woman William Brailford, 35-year-old Germantown negro, 15 being held in the Worcester County jail in connection with the murder of Ida Arrington, 28, negro, also of Germantown. Worcester Sheriff Arthur Duer said Brailford was arrested in the cabin of a friend Saturday about four hours after the woman, who lived with him, was shot fatally in the chest. The sheriff said Brailford admittedly shot the woman with 12-gauge shotgun following an argument.

Israel And Lebanon Agree To Armistice En Naquera, Lebanon, March 21 -(AP)-Israel and Lebanon have agreed to an armistice. It is the second such agreement arrived between the new Jewish state and one of the Arab nations that vowed to destroy it when Is. rael declared its independence last May. The formal Israel- Lebanon agreement is to be signed here Wednesday..