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and Don't Let Your Subscription Expire jl A MARK Stopptdl VOL. 78 STATESVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY, JULY 5,1949 KKK Officials Deny Heat Adds To Damage Man's best friend and crudest enemy, the weather, continues to abuse most of the nation and Western Europe with unremitting heat, and scorching 48-day drought has inflicted its searing 'damage for more than six It comes from a sluggish high pressure that fights off potential rainstorms. Until that high pressure area is shoved aside, the drought will last From the edge of the Atlantic to the peaks of the Rockies, the story Is more of the in the 90's and no relief in sight For much of the midwest, It is the sixth day of sweltering unhappiness.

In the drought ridden Northeastern States, damage to farm crops and dairy production has loomed to 50 million dollars Holiday travelers returning with brilliant sunburns went back to work under a sliding sun. There was some cooling-off In a few sections of the nation yesterday when little rain in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota gave relief. And there is some chance showers may crack JttftlllllAV the 90-plus heat which has gripped UfHITE CONVICT the Chicago area for five days. flllllfc WVlIWIWi And places like San Francisco, AII AT DV II Seattle, Stn Diego, and Duluth had OfflU I DI highs ranging from 67 to 78 mmmm roes. But for every such report, RAMP GUARD GOVERNMENT RESTS CASE AGAINST HISS New York, July ernment has rested its casu in the perjury trial of Alger The action came after 1 States Attorney Thomas Mifp'iy fa led in an attempt to havi court reconsider a ruling tha eluded testimony by the wife of thf fugitive Comm Gerhart Eisler.

The perjury trial of HiBF in New York now is in its sixth week and it is expected to the jury by Thursday or Friday. The jury will decide thcr under the law the fo tins State Department official accuser, Whit.taker Chambers lying. When Hiss was indfttc.i JUDGE AVERY TAKES OVER IN CITY COURT Attirney Isaac T. Avery, who was recently appointed assistant judge of the City Court of assumed his new duties Monday night. Judge Avery had the municipal court opened and closed by an officer, with the audience standing, as is the custom in Superior court.

Policeman H. M. Reid was given the assignment of opening and closing the court. It was al- KO observed that the court made the minimum fine of $2.50 and costs for being drunk, instead of and costs, thus reducing the total cost $1 for becoming intoxicated, i WILLIAM HUGH MORRIS (right), Birminsham, and Rev. Alnn Horn, Ku Klux Klan oftlcials, deny Klansmen were involved in a wave of floggings which hive occurred recently in Clay County, Alabama.

"We don't have that type of man in our organization," said Morris, director of the Federated Ku Klux Klan, Inc. Horn is a Baptist minister in Tallsdega County. The men are pictured in Ashland, Peat of Clay county. (AP Wirephoto). there wero a dozen -reporting mid- 90'a to 100.

And today, an encore most everywhere, but scarcely by popular demand. Here's a brief survey of what A 24-year-old white convict is in serious condition in Davis hospital from gunshot wounds he Buffered when shot by a guard the hot weather has done in eight suere wen so a guar Northeastern States wW attempting to escape the has been a stranger scorching weekst Fanners in New Jersey esti- and one half million in potatoes atone. Long Isle" New York, sees a four million dollar lots in its spud crop, perhaps five; million If the drought continues much loafer. And the long dry spell baa brought heavy damage to track crone for the rich New fork market. A million dollar lost is estimated in two Northern New York dairy counties, with heavy losses in the Central New York fruit and vegetable belt Milk production hat dropped per cent in one county.

All the way from Southern Maine through Connecticut, experts figure New England's losses at five to ten million but due to swell to 30 and 40 million unless seven cam in Yadkin county Sun! day evening. According to information fur- rain comes soon. In Connecticut, a farm expert says it will take four to six inches of rainfall to give 1 any benefit now burry term for robbery, made the escape attempt with a companion who succeeded in getting away. Odom was felled by a bullet from a rifle in the hands of a guard at a distance of 300 yards. The slug entered the man's right hip and ranged upward, lodging near the left hip.

He waa severely wounded internally and has undergone surgery and been administered a number of blood transfusions. The bullet disintegrated upon impact. It ia understood that the man had still some 17 months of his sentence to serve and had made an unsuccessful escape attempt about a month ago. Odom, whose home is in Mt. in CATCH BIG ONE THAT ONE TIME GOT AWAY "The big one that got away" was finally landed at Lake Lookout Sunday afternoon when Fred Coley hooked a Large Mouth Bass weigh-ag five and thiee- quarter pounds and measuring some 26 inches.

On exhibition at Rimmer's here this morning, it could be seen that the big boy -was the winner in a battle with some fisherman one time for it had swol- lowed a hook and had pasted some threo feet of nylon line, to which three lead sinkers were attached. The old line still protruded from the fish's body. Howlong it had carried it could not be determined. Mr. Coley said that he landed the fish in about twelve minutes aftei it struck his Bass-Oreno plug, with which he was fishing from a boat with a 12-pound test line.

Attends Annual Fisher Reunion Mrs. George O. VUher, of this city, Monday attended the 41st annual Fisher Reunion at ttfe home of Mr. Jacdb Fisher, at Granite Quarry, In Rowan county. The reunion of descendants of the late Rufus Fisher, Rowan pioneer, and was begun in 1908 upon the occasion of the Golden Wedding anniversary of Mr.

and Mrs. Fisher. About 100 persons! representing four generations of the family, attended Monday's reunion. Those present were from Rowan and surrounding counties and from Vir ginia. SEAMAN J.

C. MILLER SERVING ON U. 8. S. CORAL SEA J.

C. Miller, seaman apprentice, USN, son of Thomas E. Mil ler of Route 6, Statesville, is serving aboand the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea with the Atlantic Fleet. He entered the Naval service January 28, 1948, with recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Born July 1 at H.

F. Long hospital to Mr. and Mrs. B. 8.

Brewer, of Route 6, a daughter; Mrs. Brewer is the former Miss Bvia Harris. htate papers to Chambers, time mesaenKcr for a spy ring. A second count in th indictment Hiss of when he testified that he never seer. Chambers after Jao up.ry first, 1937.

Chambers laid that Hiss had given him Jthe papers in 1937 and 1938. He is expected to recover, a hospital spokesman said. Ellis Farm Crops Are On Schedule Things are right on schedule at the S. J. Ellis Farm, near Scotts scene of a mammoth farm and home field day on last April 20.

On that day some 10,000 persons saw the land prepared and the fields seodfd. Today the cotton is blooming there, just as it should be. by July 4, if nil goes well. ATTEND CONFERENCE AT LAKE JUNALUSKA Miss Sue Johnson and ss Margot Chatham are spending, this week at Luke Junaluska attending Young People's conference of Methodist church. They representatives of tha Broad Street Methodist church Buddy Brnwley and Phil Liv- ingstons are Attending the eembly also as representatives of Raco Street Methodist church.

MARRIAGE LICENSES On June 30 the Register of Deeds office issued marriage licenses to Franklin B. Ostwalt and Frances Jo Ann Rimmer and to Albert F. Ostwalt and Shirley Ann Campbell and to Alfred L. Wyatt and Joyce Elizabeth Hester. Carl Alexander Wearing A Cast Mr.

Carl Alexander is still wearing a cast on hia ankle. He broke the left ankle bone during the last of June when he stepped into a little ditch or hole out at the Alexander farm. He is getting on all right but is not able to be back on the job, will have to keep the cast on for a while yet. Mrs. Alexader, who broke her arm while at the farm sometime ago, had the cast taken-off her arm the very week Mr.

Alexander had to get it put on his ankle. They have both about decided to look at the farm from the highway after this, they just don't seem to be lucky walking over it. SCHEDULE OF CLUB MEETING FOR WEEK The Home Demonstration Club schedule for next week is as follows: Midway Club meets Monday with Miss Lucy Douglas at 2:30 p. Clarksbury Club meets Tuesday with Mrs. M.

L. Godbey at 2:30 p. Oakdale Club meets Wednesday with Mrs. J. Coite Fox at 2:30 p.

Union Grove meets Thursday at the school at 2:30 p. Harmony meets Friday in the Home EC. Bldg. at 2:30 p. m.

HAL BURGESS HAWKINS PASSES STATE BOARD Mr. Hal Burgess Hawkins has passed the State Board of Pharmacy. Mr. Hawkins graduated from the University of North Carolina's school of pharmacy in June and is remaining at the University this summer to do some special work. Three Times As Many Men Hate Cancer As Women Raleigh, July Caio- lina's cancer clinics have found three times as many men with cancer as women.

Of the cu'es they examined, the ratio for cancer in men was one out of every ten. The ratio for women was one out of 30. The percentages were about the same for wh tc and negro. The statistics came out in the cancer control division's first annual report yesterday. However, the report doesn't a year's work in all the canter centers now in opera The New Hanover center is we only one which has been in operation a full year.

Other clinics are in' Buncombe, Forsyth, I oir and Durham-Orange. The centers examined almost four thousand patients and founl 109 definite cases of career. Only about 13 hundred patients were given clean bill of North Carolina Will Have Wheat Growing Champ North Carolina is to have a 1949 wheat -growing champum. Plans for the contest have announced the State 1 sion Service. "Any grower enter the contest.

Ask your 'in- ty agent how to have your wheat field chovkoil. Records are to he fomt' 1 and aent to Doctor K. H. at North Carolina i' by July 16th. No prizes are state chatrpion.

fur disorderly conduct, were taxed with the cjsts. Wilmer Duncan, in a simple assault count, was taxed with the co.sts. Marvin Brinkley, Koss E. Fox, John P. Johnson, Alfred McCal- luin, colored, Robert Marshall, John W.

Lewis, Arthur Sigmon, Is real Moore, colored, for being drunk, each was fined $2.50 and taxed with the costs. Charles M. White, Leonard Crump, for being drunk, were given 30 on the roads. Walter Parker, for being drunk, was given 30 days and an old 30-day suspended sentence ordered into effect, making a total of 60 on the roads. Edward Reid paid $10 and costs for being diTink.

Clyde Woolen got 60 days and Luther Johnson, 30 days, for being drunk. The weekly police docket contained 61 citations for parking violations. Scott Youth Gets 99 Years For Killing Girl Roanoke, July A Hus tings Court jury Saturday founc Lee iBuddy I Scott, 16 guilty of first degree murder in the church slaying of Dana 'Marie Weaver also 16, and fixed his punishment at 99 years' imprisonment. The young high school athlete heard the verdict calmly. It took the jury exactly two hours and 15 minutes of deliber ation to reach a verdict.

The foreman, E. T. Petticrew, earlier that the jury was considering a first degree conviction when asked Judpe Ditk A Kuyk whether life imprisonment MORE ON PAGE THREE Gets 99 Years winners get first cham-o bushels of Atlas Texas Sheriff Starts Fishing And Returns The Tiredest Man In Texas 9 Carthage, Texas, July sheriff of Panola county says he's the tiredest man in Texas. It started with Sheriff Akins announcement that he was going fishing at Caddo Lake, near Marshall, Texas. No sooner said than done, So the sheriff started on his fishing he never wet a line.

Just a few Iron hit came oa auto- bile and the sheriff stood Jjy while the two seriously injured 'occupants were taken to a hospital. Thoughts of perch and bass filled his mind, but it wasn't to be. His car radio was broadcasting news of another car accident within the sheriff's bailiwick. So he invest- gated that, too. Then the sheriff was aide- tracked by some drunken drivers Mri five of them.

This followed by Sheriff urge to dash ovei the Louisiana after some cattle thieves he hid been chasing. And he said he caught one of them. On his way home his thoughts turned to fishing again, but he had to attend to two more highway accidents. When he finally got home, Sheriff Akins looked at his family and announced: "I'm the tired- eat man in iy U- hip 66 wheat released by 'he Agricultural Experiment ion. So far a wheat KIOWIM i Monroe has turned in the --st wheat-growing record.

He is T. Cook of Route five, MOMXC. I Cook uroduced about 12s shels of the new AUa's wheat on ftur acrvs jf land. His avt-iage yield was about 34 bushels an acre. This is about double tho state average.

Cook obtained the the A seed from the North Caiolina Crop Improvement Assoi'ui'i-w and 8owed his crop October The wheat followed cotton hnd been heavily fertiHi'til iiid which had been preccdixi In a a heavy crop of crimson turned under. Fertilizer applied on the included 400 pounds an iu-i- two-twelve at Thou i pounds an acre of twenty a half per cent dressing material follov.e.4 last of February. A DAUGHTEK Born July 4 at H. F. Long Hospital to Mr.

and Mrs. H. T. Inscore, of Cycle, a daughter. Mrs.

Inscore is the former Miss Mae Miles of Cycle. OO SARAH REBEKAH LODGE TO INSTALL OFFICERS The Sarah Rebekah Lodtre will meet Wednesday evening ut o'clock in the lodge hall. There will be installation of officer; and all members are urfod to be present. HIS EXPRESSION unchanged. Lee Scolt (above), 1(5- year-o'd choir boy, leaves courtroom at Roanoko, Saturday, after hearing- jury convict him of first decree murder in the slaying of a Dana Marie Weaver.

A "sentence was the punishment meted out to the New Taxes And Tail Labor Bill Washington, July Truman put off a decision on two major to ask Congress again for neSv taxes. The President discussed changes of revising the Taft labor bill passed by the Senate but House Speaker Rayburn said he would talk to other Democratic House labor leaders before the administration decided on further strategy. The President discusr.ed the economic situation with Congressional leaders also. But. asked later about new taxes, Speaker Kay- burn said: "That's got to be determined yet." Almost all of the nation's 480,000 coal miners went back to the pitta at the end of their annual ten-day vacation.

The miners will work a three-day week while John L. United Mine workers and the operators negotiate for a new contract. The old contract expired last Thursday. The three- day work week during negotiations replaces the union's longstanding "no contract, no work" policy. Senator Tom Connally opened debate on the Atlantic Alliance today by assuring Congress that its right to declare war would not be weakened under the treaty.

The Texas Senator said that Congress' full authority "remans uniiripair- ed." At the same time, Connally warned against takiitg the pact too lightly. The Atlantic pact binds together the United States, Canada and ten nations of Western Europe Britain, France and Italy. The Seaate must ratify the treaty by a two-thirds vote before the country is bound to it. Less than a dozen senators are expected to oppose the twenty-year Alliance. The Senate Foreign Relations chairman told the Senate that the treaty does not automatically commit the United States to go to war should another treaty nation be attacked.

Under the treaty, an attack on one is considered an attack on all. Connally also declared that no senator who voted for the treaty is committed to voting for the European rearmament program that will be introduced later on. Some senators who favor the treaty are against the arms program. Charles R. Price Takes Pension And Retires Asheville, July Price, at one time the youngest United States Marshal in government service, ended his long U.

S. career last night at midnight, retiring under a disability clause in civil service regulations. Price, native of Alexander county, has made his home in Asheville since his appointment as United States marshal for the Western North Carolina district on December 18, 1932, and in the 16 years that he served, his office stood high in the regular rating lists of the Department 01 Justice. Recently Attorney General Tom Clark rated it one the three top such offices in the country. Price was succeeded as mar shal some week? ago by J.

Bowman of Marion and was ap pointed a deputy marshal, pos in which he served two months until his retirement became ef fective last night. During the l(j years that Price served as marshal his office han died 80,000 Federal prisoner without one escaping from cus tody. Elephants Driven From The Jungles By Drou The heat grip on Western Europe has not slackened and there are to signs of relief in Britain where farmers have been praying "i' rain for weeks. In Portugal, the heat wave brought heat would be juat a cool day; Africans, the li unusual. Lack of rain In Cokny has driven herds of, phants to the eaast village the rampaging derms have been gone deaths yesterday.

The ex- messed up in the town. traordinai summer heat extends I elephants were Shot all the way from usually cool a warning has been Scandinavian countries to the Mediterranean. in darkest Africa, where our near Mombasa. auto to beware ofH wandering herds on hifb.wijp< June Weather 8th Successive Above Normal Rainfall in this area during the month of June ranged from a considerable amount due to cloudburst storms in the mountains to low of 0.98 inches recorded at the Piedmont Experiment Station in Statesville. Although this was not the record low for the month it was 3.22 inches below normal, and most weather stations outside of Statesville recorded more rain.

Charlotte had a total of 2.79 inches, (1.43 inch below normal), while Wilkesboro had 3.16 inches and Jefferson had 5.46 inches. The local fall was recorder on five separate days throughout the 42 VIOLENT DEATHS IN Holiday accidents elahnefr. least 26 victims in North over the long Fottt JuFy week-end. The State Motor par'ment predicted last.ve4& at least 12 persons would be ed on the highways Although the rainfall was deficient in Statesville, the U. S.

Geological Survey office in Statesville reports that Third Creak at Cleveand had approximately the normal runoff for June due to the groundwater from the above nor- nal rainfall in April and Mjjr. The Yadkin River at Wilkesboro was running 45 per cent above the June normal although the only rise in stage of any note was on Fune 17 when the river reached a peak of 7.91 feet at the recording sage. The low stage occurred on June 12 at 2.47 feet. The mean temperature at'the Piedmont Experiment Station 76.6 degrees, oc SL6 -degiees above normal. June was the eighth in succession with above avepage temperatures.

The hottest day in June was June 26, while the low of 54 degrees occurred on June S. HAS OPERATION Buddy, the five year old ol Mr. and Mrs. Spencer W. Johnson, had an emergency appendectomy at the Davis hospital Thursday night.

His grandparents, Revl and Mrs. S. W. Johnson of Gastonia are here to be with him. PEGGY DIANNE ROCHESTER Mr.

and Mrs. lorn Rochester of Troutman, announce the birth of a daughter, Peggy Dianne, on June 30th. Mrs. Rochester is the former Miss Delia Mae Smith. youth (AP Wirephoto).

IREDELL JUDGING TEAM IS FOURTH The Iredell county Dairy Judging- Team placed fourth in the statewide judging contests held at Moi-rov-ioft Farms, Charlotte, Friday. A total of 21 teams participated in the judging. Iredell's team was composed of Francis Pressly, Wayne Holland, Ralph Brown and Charles Elam. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Lillian White Stoker ia a patient at City Memorial Hospital where she under- i operation few days ago.

week-end and at least la Killed. Them were also drownings and from miscellaneous "eaoaei Violent death overtook'l 16 persona in South. Carolina ing the long July Fourth end. Traffic accidents claimed lives, drowning took tbxet I two more were shot to two died (if knife Cask At Post Slump Cash receipts at the; post office registered 42,646.70 during the ing June 80, as the same ended to pared with second three months In making these lie, Assistant Webster disclosed that in month of June 1949 there decline of 111,161.88 of 1948. Receipts for were $82,077.60 while for June 1949 waa James R.

Wilson Serving On Destroyer Collet James R. Wilson, fireman USN, of Route 1, Mooresville. is serving aboard the destroyer USS Collett with Pacific Fleet. Wilson received his recruit training at the Naval Training Center, San Diego, California. DENNIS RAY PRICE Born July 1 at H.

F. Long hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price, of Route 6, a son, Dennis Ray. Mrs.

Price is the former Miss Betty Childers. BIRTH OF DAUGHTER Bom July 4 at H. F. Long hospital to Mr. and Mrs.

Ray Lail, of Troutman, a daughter. Mrs. Lail is the former Miss Sarah Cates of Troutman. CAPT. WOODHOUSE SPENDS 2 WEEKS ON ACTIVE DUTY Capt.

Noel R. S. Woodhouse, of the IT. S. Air Force Reserve, has returned here after spending two weeks on active duty.

During his tour of active duty, Capt. Woodhouse was stationed at the Marietta, Georgia, Air Force Training Center. ENTERS HOSPITAL Mrs N. A. Lewis, of the Chipley Ford Road, was admitted to Davis Hospital Monday for treatment.

COTTON BLOOM JULY 3 Mr. A. W. Johnson, of Route 2, reports a cotton bloom on July 3rd and also reports that he has the best cotton crop in Bethany township. COTTON FUTURES New York, July p.

July cotton 33.08. m. MOVING TO mCKOBT, Mr. and C. Poole 1 son, Addison, are moving Hickory on the 15th of month.

Mr. Poole is the First National Bank tawba county, and family are going make their borne. They en, for the present, Hill Greet residential Hickory. 91 HERB JULY FOOI The hot dry weather with a high of 91 degrees and a low ol Monday, July 4, at Piedmont periment Station. The Sunday waa 88 and degrees.

The official low was 71, making tbrea succession with the reading. CLINIC SCHEDULE FOB THIS The County Health ment's clinic schedule week is, Thursday, July phoid Clinic, Amity, 10 m. Baby clinic at the health ment offices Thursday aft The Crippled in SalkburTt Friday. ROSS ALEXANDER OF FOXHOUND Mr. Ross judge of the 12 dasMS showed in Kernersvifla ture of the big Fourth of July calabatfoft drew enormous out the day.

The dog KenmsvWe'i first hound bench thaw. A German Woman Finds Herself The Legal Wife Of Two Husban Hamburg, Germany, July Hamburg housewife has found herself in the dilemma of being married legally to two former German Army officers. The story came to light when the two officers met in a Russian prison camp recently. They compared notes and found that they lived in the same town, on the same street, in the same house and, they learned to their astonishment, they were married to the same woman. The mixup had its start in 1942.

A German major returning to. the front told his wife that she should remarry if he were killed. Boon she was told officially of death to action. Eighteen mouths later aha remarr Ud. Later, two waa prison cam) he SMt battleffrW TheHaodnif tha ww.