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BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS DOMINANT NEWSPAPKK OP NORTHKABT ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST IU8BOURI VOL. 127 Dally Blymevuie Courier BlytbevlUg Benld UlUlatlppl lil.YTllKVll.LlO, ARKANSAS, WKDNKSDAY, AUGUST 21, SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS OPA Prepares To Roll Back Price on Meats Board on Decontrols Acts But Leaves Milk Free of Regulations 59-Degree Low Is Recorded In BlytheviMe Low temperatures of (he few clays dropped again last nighl. With (einpcrnturc falling lo 59 grces nl one time, many Blylhr- ville natives dug out blankets raid bed covers. Yesterday's high was 84 degrees, according to Robert E. Blaylock.

official weather observer here. to roll back I Friday to By Kn.AI.Ii: MelXMVKU, United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. (U.P.) set out today most meat prices by June 30 levels.

But the sky was still Hie limit on milk and butter costs. Hy order of the Price Decontrol Board, controls were restored on livestock ami on soy beans, cotton seed and their products. Dairy producls and most grains, the board ruled, must remain free or price curbs. The decision, announced last night, had been Washington's best- kepi secret since the atom bomb. Even OPA was kept in the dark.

For that reason, OPA held the new controls in suspension for two days while it draws up necessary regulations, price ceilings to effective al 12:01 a. m. (EST) Friday will be announced tomor. vow, OPA said. One OPA official believed ceilings on most meat cuts could be restored lo levels in effect on June 30.

The roll back, he noted in'the nc aincu ny icatoiaiion draft treaty, charging that a mlli- ment suostdie.s as ordered by the decontrol board. Consumers meanwhile had it on authority of the three-man trol board that their troubles arc not yet over. Board members Roy L. Thompson. Daniel w.

Bell and Geonje I H. Mead warned that supplies of; vitcd to lk ml lhar rctmlin i 9 both meat and dairy products will mlght carry, well into tomorrow continue short of demand. They De Ayala msocl llls for said meat production this year will Cubil 5 fml membership" in SIna Sr tha last Peace conferences on the role 5 mi 0 ut country played in "the ghas'ly The board declined to clamp i controls on milk because it prices have failed to rise "unreasonably" since ceilings were lifted. It added, however, that prices of dairy products would be kept un- i der close surveillance. If they 3et out of line, the board said, last! Cuba Demands Equality Vote DC Ayala Asks That Each of 51 Nations Be Given Equal Voice PARIS, Aug.

21. Cuba de nounced today as undemocratic tin peace-making structure sot up the Big Four, and demanded Mia each of the 51 United Nations given an equal voice in this am subsequent peace conferences. Cuba's case was presenter! to thi Paris conference by Hector de Ayuia, Cuban minister to France. He was heard at a full session of the conference to which Cuba was invited merely to stale her views on the Italian peace treaty. Albania appealed to the conference earlier to reduce Italy's armed Roseland Man Heads Arkansas 7 Flying Farmers Charles Rose Elected President of Group Little Rock Meeting An air-minded group of Arkansas farmers, meeting in Little Rock yesterday, organiv.ed the Arkansas Flying Farmers' Association and elected Clmrle.s Rose of Roscland, Mississippi County planter, president.

Godlrcy White ol Osccola was elected to membership on (he association's seven-man executive board and will represent tile Northeast Arkansas district. Taking Ilieir planes to Little KocU full of families nncl friends for the first official meeting of the organization, alXMit 100 planters, producers and farmers engaged in all lypef of agiicullutal production altcndci the mcc'lny at Adams Field. wen', in 45 planes of all types. Sponsored by the Agricultural Extension Service, in Ion will he National Flying Farmers' As- the principal purpose association is to provide ad tarlly weak Italy was necessary to peace hi the Balkans. Albania also asked.

for admission to the conference as its 22nd member. The speechmaking ngnln brought to a halt the barely started work of the conference. It appeared that the hearing of the -six nations in- Alfonso de Rosenzweig, Mexican ambassador to France, that the Italian treaty be based "nn juridical and moral principles" and added: "Mexico hopes that a just and night's action will be reconsidered. I The decision was not received with unmitigated joy by either opponents or proponents of price- control. The CIO renounced failure to Jf.n -laity products A tllal severity of Hie Hal and basic grains.

Spokesmen for Peace terms be increased. A equitable peace will be concluded with Italy, permitting her to with dignity the concert of In seeking the admission of Albania as the 22nri member of the conference, Premier Enver Hoxha the meal industry said the new meat, ceilings would mean less meal and more black markets. Sen. Kenneth wherry, vigorous opponent of price ceilings, said the noard's action in trolling meat prices and leave grain uncontrolled "will lead to chaos and confusion." The he added, "will dry up our meat supply because it is impossible to produce meat from fat cattle under such an arrangement as this." author of amendments to the price net setting up decontrol Sen. George L.

Radcliffe. standards, questioned whetherOPA could enforce the meat prices. The board held it could. It said that among other things OPA already was hiring more compliance officials. Soap Box Derby Winner Hurt U.S.

To Protest Direct To Tito the same time he renewed the Al banian fend with Greece, charging the Athens government with "seek Ing to disturb peace the Balkan, by intrigue." The conference carried on h'jar ings on small states preliminary ti its consideration of the Axis satel lite treaty drafts, but tho rout in procefdings were overshadowed the Yugoslav crisis. It threatenc- to blow the already" precariou plans to internationalize Ti-ieAtc. Hoxha served notice that Albani would demand more than 5875,000, 000 of Italy for losses and caused by the Italian occupuuon the country. In reviewing Albania's rota iti the war for 45 months, Hoxha wound up by to the conference three proposed amendments to the Italian treaty draft. He called lor a further reduction of the Italian army, navy and air force beyond the i hints of the draft treaty.

He claimed the limitations agreed upon by the Big Four still would nltow Italy to thrcKicu the peace in the Balkans. Albania will forth later detailed claims to Hoxha said, but for the time the estimate of Albanian losses and damage is something over S375.000.000. Hoxha's third proposal was lor nn additional treaty clause which would give Italy the right to sign right now denied -with Albania and recognize Albania as 'ancptncnt in agriculture throng; promotion of research in improve- ncnt of aircraft designed for turn and the use of airplanes in ay ricuUurat production. Welcomed by Mayor Leon Carol, of Dcwitt, was nnm cd vice president of the group ant Clcvu Qui-ks, of the Exleusioi Service staff, in Little Rock, lamed secretory-treasurer. Othe executive bojrrd nieuibers are: David Icnson of Fayettcville, to represent Northwest Arkansas; George Crank Jr, of Garland, Southwest Arkansas; Raymond A.

Gilbcrch of Holiy rove, Southeast Arkansas, and Godlrcy White of Osccola, Northeast Arkansas. Three members at large are Ed Bctshe ot Forrest. City, Hartley Smith of DewILt and E. B. Colftmm of Gillette.

Mayer Dan Sprick of Little Rocfc welcomed the fliers and H. A. Graham of Stlllwater, executive secretary of the national association, explained the procedure other states have followed establishing associations. Arkansas is the 21st state to organize flying farmers. Arkansas County, with 39 farmers present, had the largest representation.

To Meet September The group announced they would meet again Sept. 1 at Mr. C'jff- man's farm at Gillette for a fish fry ami to set up a 1 constitution and bylaws. Mr. Rose has owned and piloted his private plane for several years.

during which time he lias made many trips while looking after interests of his 3000-acre plantation and other businesses at Roselanci. 10 miles west of Blytheville. A former president of Mississippi County Farm Bureau he Interested other fanners iii using planes lor business which led to purchase oi several planes in Oils vicinity. Among these owners avc Mr. White who uses a plane to commute be- his farms at Osceola and Southeast Missouri, as well as for other business and pleasure trips; Earl H.

of Lcachvillc. whose farm methods arc so modern he won the Arkansas Plant to Prosper Championship several years ago; J. B. Wilson, of Jolncr and -C. Flccman of Manila, who also owns and operates un airport.

Blylhevjlle's U.S. Army Air Field Is Declared Surplus And City Officials Seek to Obtain Area New Controls Hil Missco Farmers Lower Prices Fcurcd For Cotton Send, and On Soybeans, Too. San AKRON, AIIR. 2(1. Gilbert KIcisnn, winner of the National Soap Hox Dciby seriously injured here yesterday when his box car ran under movie truck which was taking shots of him, The boy.

who is to appear a movie of the race, suffered two fractured vertebrae and cuts and scratches. He was taken lo city Hospital where physicians said he will Le confined lor at least 10 days. Gilbert's small ear scooted under the movie truuk whin-, slopped suddenly while towing him up (he mellno on which lie won the championship, in the NBA photograph he is shown willi Ins mother, mid the trophy he won Sunday. GOP Leader Says South Held In Bondage by Radical Groups lilUiMINGHAnl, AUK. 21.

(U.L 1 Republican: tioiial Committee Chairman Carroll Kcccc the South is held in "political bonrliiKc" by an allifnirc of "cornipt city machinos" and "radical r(nips" dial have; taken over tin; IJumocratic I'arty and dictates policy on thr national level. "Speaking a southnrnc'r my.sclf, 1 say it is time the South cast its own voles in national pulltlcs instead of having It cast for (hem by men who do not rcpriscm Hie real sentiment and the real feeling of the South." Rcecc told the Republican stale convention here. The Southern "one party system" has enabled Ihe leaders of the Dem- Kfli'cl of the icslurrd price controls on soybeans anil cotton M-CI! producls inny be lai-rcuclilne, 111 Mississippi C'ollilly but all estimates ore only Icnliillw as there Imd jici'i no market fur products slnci controLs were lilU'd. This wa.s pointed nut today In I check ol aui (cultural leaders wh nureed of n-rtutn- ly would curtail profits nl urc ITS which, In Hun, winild keep lhal much money from Ihe lucre uiii of elreidatlon. Fanners of section Jubilant when the ceilings on Ihesi products new lltleii I line ngi because they believed Urn line would rljii; to take can of the Increased expense In pro duclni; this crop.

Although Ihcrc had been no mnr ket no or ration sccil flncc that lime, (lie miirke will open with two woi-ks lor tin earliest varieties and nbnul 111 lime coltuli seed be liouiilH umt sold in large lies. Hccauso there Ims been no diculton of the price lo be set. 1 was Impossible to whal wl happen but if "al or elose lo Jim 30 as in the ease of men II will be wlililn the price dccmc "loo low' 1 by uroivciK of thi" sec Hon. OPA and the Agriculture Depart lU'iil will determine the celling 11 the re-connoiled items and pti hem Into effect Friday. Mississippi county.

Arkansas, aid to be the most affeclcd couii all of the United bi: of Ihe new ruling, an Hi! Ihe largest colton-prodiicinK OuJity In the world aild Its Num- ler Two crop soybeans, which i Iso I ops productlnn of oilier conn- lc.i in Arkansas Phillips County i i DemOCrdtS TOG bession Move Patterson Expected To Denounce Slavs In Plant Shooting BELGRADE. AUC. 21 The United States prepared today lo take direct, to Marshal Tito a protest against the forcing down of two American transport planes, the an associated power, second of which apparently carried three crewmen to their deaths. U. S.

Ambassador Richard C. Patterson. expected lo visit Tito tomorrow for a face lo face presentation of the American government's stern of the Yugoslav action against U. S. Army Transport planes.

Plans for a meeting of Tito and Patterson were disclosed shortly after the Yugoslav government officially acknowledged the second attack Monday. It said Yugoslav fighters sent the big transport spiraling down in flames, ind of casualties were seen. Five crewmen were aboard. Two parachuted. An indication of the attitude Patterson can expect to encounter in his meeting with Tito seen in the Yugsslav chieftain's vigorous defense ol his country's aerial sovereignty against incursions oy American planes.

A speech by Tito to Yugoslav slccl workers yesterday bristled with the defense of his fighters who shot down the first transport plane Aug. D. He charged that western reactionary elements were starling campaign ol provocation against Yugoslavia. "We do not want peace. at any price, because we already have paid too dearly for it." Tito said.

"We want the new peace, but a peace of those who have given Ihe greatest sacrifice in this war. We shall not yield even one inch of the territory that rightfully belongs to us." The government's note, to Patterson, blamed the Monday Incident of the American officials and crew. The government demanded lhal no nioro U. S. pl.ines rross tho Yugoslav frontier wilhoui specific HELENA.

Aug. 21 (DPI A new secession move was officially on in today. Phillips County delegates to the State Democratic Convention at Little Rock Sept. 6 and 7 will come armed with resolution urgim; that Arkansas take a lead in divorcing the "Democratic parly of the South" from the national tion. This action is planned, snid the resolution, because there "is 1:0 national party which proposes platform or sponsors policies agreeable lo a great majority of southern white people." Tljc resolution was adopted by the Phillips County Democratic Convention after It was presented by John C.

Sheffield, former candidate for attorney general and fjr- mer gubernatorial candidate in the state. Sheffield. Phillips County Sheriff P. P. Kitchens and Sheriff Designate Edgar Hickcy will bring It to Little Rock.

The resolution said thai "in these latter years, the bloodstream of Ihe Nalional Democralic Party lias been poisoned by Ideas and policies alien to Southern ideals." Fuel Shortage Forces Plane Down in Field Nexl time Ernest Halsell goes airplane riding, he's going to look twice at which way his gasoline switcli is turned. tie former Rustic Inn owner and his son, Melvin Halsell, eery owner, escaped injury in making a forced landing yesterday afternoon on Ihe A. G. Little talion when the motor failed. One wing of the new plane damaged to some extent because the soybeans became entangled in the wheels, causing the plane to slowly nose over on it-s side Mr.

Halscll was said to have turned the fuel switch, as he prepared lo take oil but turned il the wrong way. to make it "off" instead of "on." There was enough fuel already in the carburetor and line to make Ihe motor function and they had started to Little Hock when tin fuel line became drained and the motor stopped. The pilot, looking for landing place, attempted to reach an alfalfa field but had to land in the soybeans al plantation on the Clear Lake road. Lions Hold Smoker Lions' Club members held a smok er at Holel Noble last night In lieu of usnnl Tuesday luncheon Only attended stnif affair. 2-Day Old Girl Dies Jo Marie smilh.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervhi T. Smith, city, died at 7:30 o'clock last night at Walls Hospital. Jo Marie was the Smith's fjrst child Services will be conducted this afternoon at the Dogwood Cemetery with the Rev.

G. Miller officiating and Ihe cobb Funeral Home In charge of burial ocratie party to disregard Southern views altogether, lie claimed. lie added thai Southerners are ignored in the selection of Democrats Tor national office. Recce held up Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace as the example of "national disaster" which couid result from "the workings this outrageous system." He out thiil had Wallace been icnoiui- natcd as vice president in 1914.

he would today be the nation's Prcsi- dcnt. Just Missed a "Cataslroiilic" "When we realize how imrrnwly we escaped that national catastrophe it is enough to cause any patriotic American to recoil v.ilh horror, and should arouse in everv patriotic American a feclinc, of deep resentment that the bosses of the Democratic patty in their desperate quest for radical voles were willing to take such gamble with the nation's safety," he said. Recce that the South is as devoted to personal freedom economic opportunity as any olher section of the nation, tint, hr cd. it Is "held in political by ii parly which has gone far toward destroying individual freedom and the American enterprise system." "The voles of tho South are cast to elect that party to power, but the ''South has nn voice in drter- mininp; the real policies of Ihe administration which they helped to elect." he said. He advised Southerners to cluniqe "this humiliating status" by build- a Republican Party in evcrv state.

"When a state 'becomes a real political battleground, it receives respectful attention from national party organizations," hr declared. He pictured as an example of "corrupt" machines in northern cities Ihe organization in Kansas Citv President Truman, he said, ii to "purge" Rep. Roger C. Slaughter. in the recent Missouri primaries.

C. C. Langston Heads Auto Sales Company C. C. I.aiiKston.

fu'nnei ly of Blytheville and now of Memphis, is president of the new Memphis Kaiser-Frazer Corporation, a new automobile dealership appointed distributors In Ihls area for the automobile and fain equipment, and Memphis de.ilcrs for the Kaiser aulomobjlc, succeedln Cotton States Motors. Other officers Include A. Holton of Memphis, who til.so is known here where he has Interests, secretary-treasurer; M. f. Anderson, general manager; Jame.

L. Bowling, wholesale manager. Additional of lh corporation were not included In thr Memphis announcement but 11 understood lo include a number of Blytheville men. Mr. l.atiRston.

who resided here many years before recently moving to Memphis, has extensive lariuim; and Binning interests at Number Nine and Forty and Eight communities. May Mean Two Airlines to Make Stops Here i Thi; BlytluMllo Army Air Fluid mid the four auxiliary icld.s nl Sloolo, Cooler and Hoi'iiui'twillc in Missouri, and in hnvc lieun tmrplua jiroFterty nd will be Uiriuid over lo llio U. S. Army fop at an oiirly dale, il WHS disclosed here today. The announcement was made by 'ol.

Kumuc! Davis. 'I nicer at the" niythcvllle Held, nl hud received telegram rom Hie commanding officer ol he Army Air forces In Washlnu- on I), slatlnu Hint the Held and the four iiuxlllmy units mil Ijecu declared surplus us ol '1 uesday with successful bidders not. (led Immediately nfter final dale Inspection. It was pointed Those properties are being disposed of followhiK declaration of he Held surplus. II.

A. l.ym-h, president of the Hlytlievllr Assiuil- atlull, mul mayor K. It. Jackson have culli'ii fur Innnir- row aftiTUiuiii nf mniilu'i-K (if the city tiimndl anil the assiH'latlim directors til lUscliss slrps lo lie taken lly the clly In ml effort til fur use us a nlrport. It Is expected I hut when Ihe field can be inncic available to civilian and couuneiclal plnnc.i Hiat Hie 'iilto Airlines will schedule a stop In nlylhuvllle on the reiiulur flluhl between Memphis and HI.

Louis. lie Air Transptn Company, with headquarters In Fiiyettevllle, also plims to make lilylhevllle Ihe terminal for one of Mil four routes In Arkansas as soon as utrporl facilities are available for lauding tho transport planes here. BOAT lasl month began operations over two of the four proposed routes. fjil.y ofllclnls lodny snld they had not received official notice Hint the air field had been declared surplus hut the iietlon has been expected for mouths mul led lo the lormu- llon of the development association more limn 1U months ago us un nijeney tq operate the airport the event thai Is is nccnitrcil by Hit) city. j- Under tho Koi'ernmcnt schedule set up for the disposition of surplus properly, tlio state hits irst opportunity to purchase the iehl.

and next In Hue the county government, hut it wns indicated lere that neither ihe slate the county are Interested and Unit llly- Ihevllle Is nexl In Hue on the prior- lies. IA. J. .1. Kulllvan, post engineer al Ihe nil 1 field here, said that It would be about two months before the Held Is turned over to the U.

S. Army Engineers for final disposition as surplus property. l.hilsDii Ofllt-cr Arrives Hlejis are under way at this lime to itiiikc tile transfer, IID said. a liaison officer hnn urrivcd froii: Ihe Southwest Division FIiKjinecr llce In IJallus, lo work with the Army officers stalloncd here nl this time. The Held has been on an inactive basir, for many monlii Doubt wns expressed lo'day the auxiliary fields near Manil.i Cooler.

Ilornorsvlllo and would be converted into nninldpa projects. The land probably will ollcred for to Hie bid tier, unless local authonlics win priority rtghls should take soim steps to buy the property. About liOl acres, and In some Instances 1110:0 wen; purchased by the govcnuucn to establish each of the auxiliary units of the large li here. The Air Forces operated a Iwin- enylned bomber -school hero offcr- -Out Conflict Looms for China 3,000,000 Nationalists May Wage Battle Against Communists lly WAl.TKIl LOGAN United I'lrss Kt'iff NANKING. Aug.

un- ufllclal civil win- was great'" In- IcnslltiHl today as political' Circles hero predicted the opening of nil-out conflict Involving 3,000,000 Nationalist rcgiilnrK, 1,000.000 Co'm- niunlst renters and 2,000,000 Communist im-KUlius. Government quarters said they vei-iinled the Yenan mobilization' call us the Communists' rejection or the principle or a political settlement of differences. The Central Dally News report. ctl strong governmnnt offcnslvi; drlvlni! to'the Lung- hal nnllroncl and said It was Inn "blitz" progress. -Two hundred housand of Clen Liu were claimed to be in nut Beetles Damage Soybean Yield Farmers Seek Supply Of Poison to Combat Pest in Fields Here.

Hcan leaf beetles arc Ihe mammoth soybean crop of North Mississippi County slightly after having appeared In Hmnl isisslppl County fields wccli it was announced lodny Keith Hllbrey, agricultural Although Ihefibeelle has not yet seriously damaged the crops Ihls immediate section, they hnvr riddled many In the otllei end of Ihe county and must lie controlled or they will reduce the yield here, It wns pointed out. Cmilrol of insect Is by plane dusting at cost of about. per acre for material and lalmr, Mr, Liilbrey estimated, but the poison Is not available. A few farmers use row dusters on yoniit: beans. The entire present supply in Die United Hlales of Cryolite, the i both primary and to by ie Nationalist armj staff, Gen.

clicn Cheng, Important niUon- ilisi. base at tho junction of trie Lunghal-Tlentsin-Piikow railways and was cxjiecled to let loose another strong push 'westward. This would support government reuoi led advancing Tom the Kalfeng sector. Tlie army newspaper "Peace nnily" claimed the Communists had been routed from Shaopo the neighborhood of the Kaoyu lakes In North Kiangsu Province, but the Ceiilrnl Dally News said 20.000 Communists from Shantung wrru concentrated for a cbuiiter- drlve. In Norlh Shansl Natlohalst troops were still holding and making nightly sorties against the Communists.

N. O. Cotton Mar. May Oct. Dec.

5584 .1452 3579 3503 3590 S590 3601 3535 3523 3555 3565 3555 3S27 3555 3509 City Council Session Delayed Until Sept. TO The August meeting of the City Council will nol be held. It w(ls announced lasl nigiil conference of aldermen prctcut at City Hall. Tiie meeting, twice postponed because of the election and lack of quorum present, will be hr-W ls lfl regular Scplcmixr inecliny "''I' 1 II was announced, Test of Power Of OPA Urged By Floridan MTTLE ROCK. Ark Aim of federal CKfice nf i Price Administration may be challenged in the U.

3. Supreme Court If 12 other attorneys general see fit lo alon 1 with Ally. Gen. J. Tom Watson of Florida.

General Guy Williams of President of the Southern Association of Attorneys General, lodav asked that a meeting be called discuss the OPA. WaUon said that the Supreme! Court In the State ol Washington had declared OPA legislation un-' constitutional, and "il unquestionably is" unconstitutional. He requested that Williams call the attorneys general, witli all commissioners of agriculture, lo- gether lo decide whether "we should file a suit at once on the part ol the Southern states asserting that slates' rights arc being violated. Williams, however said he woulri contact others In the association and would call the meeting if majority so desired. only material previously used, stranded in SI.

l.ouls, because Hie local flnfid there, anil so another dustini; powder is being sought. The Agricultural Department of University of Aikan.sas told Coun- ly Agcnl IJilbrey that noteinmo would kill the' beetle, without harming humans, and lhal an avcr.iRp of about 10 pounds lo the acre sufficient. An effort was being made today lo obtain a supply. The beetle chews a hole in the soybean leaf lo such an extent Hint one.half of the leaf is destroyed and also of blooms and vevy young fruit. Tu a few cases, beetles were reported chewing ihe blne-d pod from oil the stalk.

Jn South Mississippi County, the auricull.unil nscnt, D. V. Maloch leportecl damage to some farms already had reached 10 to 12 per cent by destroying beans. Damage v. as reported In communities of Victoria.

Kottonwood Korner. Keiser, Lake Road ami Whitton. The foybcan harvest will stall within two weeks with Lincoln and olher early varieties due to be ready for gathering but the general harvest will not begin until about Sept. 20. It was pointed out.

N. Y. Cotton Weather ARKANSAS -Fair mild temperatures and Thursday. and dry with today, tonight Cotton closed barely steariy. open high low 3580 3500 3552 3563 3525 3535 3510 30OT 3(107 3512 nominal nl Mar May Oct lief Spots down 10.

3528 3570 358! training and during the war grad unted several thousand tilers. After the field here was plnceti on a stand-by basis, the auxillnvy fields were leased to James K. Uurton. Steele. obtained a five-year lease on the fleid there lo operate a Hying school.

the other Ihrcc were leased for purposes, the leases to through Ihe end of this year unle.vs I he property should Ire sold by government. E. C. Plecman holds the lease on tho Manila field; James G. the Cooler field, and H.

K. liiannuin, the Horncrsville fiel'i. Mayor Jackson, members of tho council and the organizers of the niythcville Development Association will meet al 3 p. in. tomorrow In Hie city hall to discuss the noxt steps lo be taken by Ihe citv in the effort to acquire the field fncoriiorators of the development association, In addition lo Mr.

Lvneh are: Mayor Jackson, R. Wa'lr. J. Mcll Brooks, who Is secretary nf the association. O.

G. Hubbdrd. James Hill. L. G.

Nnsh. W. P. Pryor, Rosco Crafton. W.

.1. Wu.i- derlich. and Jesse Taylor, attorney for Ihe association. Tho association is a non-profit organization and has no capital More surplus property will be sold at Blytheville Army Air Field, beginning today with bids being accepted as the property inspected, it was announced. The (il lets Include such items as lire fighting clothing, hip boots, small hnnd tools, locally manufactured benches and cabinets, kitchen equipment, water coolers, loose leal binders and other such Items.

Inspection will continue through Two Men Killed As Truck Crashes Coroner at Steele, Reports Excessive Speed Caused Wreck Coroner Jack Kelley of Pcmlscot County, sit id yesterday eesslve speed on a poor stretch of road" accounted for the death of two men and Ihe Injury of a Ihird near Stccle Monday "when their heavily loaded trailer-truck crashed through a bridge railing, "soared" across a drainage ditch and plunged into the bank.on the other side. The dead are Clarion Pike, 20. son of Paul rikc, CaruthersvlUp moving contractor, and Mat Brown, Negro passenger. Both were crushed to death In the cab of the truck. Another Negro was seriously injured- A fisherman, sitting on the opposite railing of the bridge, told officers the trailer-truck was making about GO miles an hour along a narrow rural road, failed to make a cjirve approaching the bridge and crashed through its railing.

He said both truck" and, trailer "seemed to soar" through the air. striking high on, the opposite bank of tho ditch. Child Hurt in Sfeefc, Mo. Auto Dies Larry Wayne Wicker, three-year, old son oj Mr. and Mrs.

O. W. Wicker, of Steele, died at 7:30 last night at Walls Hospital. boy suffered a brain concussion Sunday In a car accident In Services will be conducted at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon Gorman Funeral Jn Steeic, with the Rev. Mr.

Benefteld officiating. Burial will be in Mount Zion Cemetery. Surviving arc: His Warner. Robert and John: and Iwo sisters, Mrs. Kftth- ryn James and Alice Wicker,.

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