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Moodoy, March 1948 17 Th Birmingham News 98 Forest Fires Flare In County Over Weekend Melba Booking Spring Films In Lighter Vein BY LILY MAY CALDWELL Love From a Stranger," a myc- Spnng features, most of them in lery thriller, atari John Kodiak, a light vein in keeping with the Sylvia Sidney and Ann Richards. Based on the story, by Agatha Christie, the picture is directed by Richard Whorf. Heaven Only Knows, is next on NOW SHOWING ALABAMA Lana Turner well There was a dull, red glow in Jefferson County akiea this weekend Not the high, spectacular flare-op of a chy furnace but a low, ominous glow that didn't die down. Men watching from the towers and motorists coming home from their week-end trips saw the reason Forest fires 9t of them in this county Saturday and Sunday. Thin, red lines of flame crept mercilessly over the first, young growth of Spring, charring the small pine and leaving no trace of the first woods violets.

Crews from the district forester's office fought as many blazes as they could but more than a dozen of the red lines advanced unchecked. Who started all this destruction? fight them all. Scenes like the one above were the grim souvenirs of a perfect week-end, left behind by the citizens who injoyed it. and Spencer Tracy cast In Cass beautifully done Sinclair Lewis RITZ The produced and acted Fairbanks, Jr who the script. The Maria Montez and Cro-set.

EMPIRE Another costume picture. of Thieves is Cine-color, and stars Robin Hood. and Adele Jergcns feminine leads. MELBA Ginger Cornel Wilde co-star comedy. It Had STRAND of How Green Valley, stars Walter Maureen OHara, Fitzgerald.

GALAX News comedy, stars the Kids, with Leo A I I drama, is the story girl and her dog. LYRIC Holding Were Meant for romance with and Dan Dailey. BIRMINGHAM the Sailor, Douglas Fairbanks, Maureen OHara, Mitchum in Nevada, make up double IT STARTED FROM A SINGLE SPARK Almost 100 fires like this ravaged Jefferson County woods on the first Spring week-end. An overworked district fire department didn't have enough crews to Arm Says Gen. McNarney NEW YORK, March 1 ((TV-' The United States must arm strongly rather than rest our national security in the United Nations under present conditions, says Gen.

Joseph T. McNarney. When the United Nations was organized, he said in a speech last night, it was thought that there would be no question that could not be peacefully discussed and upon which general agreements under law could not be reached. That this has not proved to be the case has been one of the bitter disappointments of our time. McNarney, U.

S. Army chief of air material and former commanding general of American occupation forces in Europe, spoke a a dinner of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. Saying we cannot afford to rest our national security in the United Nations, he declared: Under current conditions, our only alternative is to arm the United States so strongly that as a nation we cannot be bluffed, to arm so strongly that other nations will hesitate to attack us or our vital national interests, because of the violence of the counter attack they would have to face. NEW THEATER FOR NEGROES Theater. People, replies District Forester J.

Hilton Watson. People with Spring fever burned trash, raked leaves, went fishing, took the family for a picnic and left the forest fires behind them. North and northwest of Birmingham. the worst of the fires raged between Highways 78 and 31. Near Edgewood Lake, picknickers started three separate flPes In Birmingham itself, the Fire Department made 24 runs in 48 hours to grass fires in the city.

Forester Watson had two pleas today: 1. Dont start backfires to protect your property. The rangers have more than they can handle now. 2. Be a volunteer fireman.

Patrol every trash fire, spark, match and cigaret. Chance Af Research On Cancer Offered Local, Other Schools OAK RIDGE, March 1 (JP) Facilities which would offer a chance for research on treatment of cancer and other malignant diseases were offered cooperatively to 19 Southern and Southwestern medical schools at a conference here today. The conference was announced by Dr. W. G.

Pollard, executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies. Inc. The institute is composed of 14 universities. Dr. Pollard said the conference was for considering use of radioactive isotopes directly from the uranium chain-reacting pile of the Oak Ridge National Library.

Some isotopes are effective only briefly after being taken from the i pile- space at the Oak Ridge Hospital would be set aside by the Atomic Energy Commission if a satisfactory plan were worked out for a 'clinical research program. These medical schools were represented at the conference: South Carolina State Medical College, Meharry Medical College; Universities of Tennessee, Louisville, Virginia Oklahoma. Georgia, Texas and North Carolina; Medical Schools of Alabama, Birmingham, I Baylor, Duke. Vanderbilt, Tulane, Emory and Louisiana State Universities; Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Wake Forrest College, Medical College of Virginia.

Richmond. and Southwestern Medical College, Dallas. are Tlmbcrlane, a version of the novel Exile is by Douglas also wrote cast includes Paule romantic The Prince filmed in Jon Halt as Patricia Morlson have Rogers and in a zany to be You. Return hooking Was My Pidgeon and with Barry Hounds, a Dead End Gorcy. Banjo," a of a little over "You Me, musical Jeanne Crain Sinbad Technicolor with and and Bob reissues, feature bill.

this list. Thi is a super-duper Western with Brian Donlevy, Rob, ert Cummings, Marjorie Reynolds and John Litel in leading roles. If You Knew Susie yes. it's the new Eddie Cantor musical has been hooked by the Melba for Spring showing. Cantor's cast in-1 eludes Joan Davis and is brimming over with songs for vlvia iony which Eddie haa become famous.

The Swordsman," next on tha list, is a colorful costume picture, with a cast headed by Larry Parks, and including Ellen Drew. George MacReady, Ray Collins. Edgar Buchanan and Marc And it a filmed in Technicolor Others wiil be announced as they are booked, and probably will bring to the screen here at lease on or two of the Important road productions. But most of the entertainment being lined up for Spring and Sum mer will be in a lighter vein, according to the Melba management. OTTO BLUM ON RITZ SCRlSE.V Folks in the audience at the Rita Theater this week have recognized a familiar face in the new Douglas Fairbanks, picture.

The Exile The part is small that oi Jan but it's a part And, those here who know the background of Blum, who was an Import-n ant ftgure in th i European the-1 ater befo tho war, are expect ing him in fee, tured charactep parts in the fu-' ture. Don't bo otto waldis fooled, as gon by the name given our old the order friend and former Birmingham photographer. On the screen be is Otto Waldis. That is the name he made known on the stage and screen before coming to this country when he fled Hitler. Above is showan the architect's drawing for the new $200,000 Carver Architect is Charles H.

McCauley, Birmingham. season, are announced today for the Melba Theater by Manager Harry Curl. Eddie Cantor's new comedy, If You Knew Susie, and the Technicolor ro-m a The dsman," top the list. Following the Ginger ers comedy, It Had to Be You, now showing, the Melba will present the following pictures v-ufrci uicmu hc.cvjcio Colton Futures Gain HelHHnd' Death0 Green Light For Enlargement Near $1.65 On Bale, nwlU III ilWl lwCIIII Ari nffiflial orohn liahf hae hppn hppn rfpciempH hv rharlpq Mp- Then Decline Later given construction of a $200,000 Cauley, architect. It will be under Crime Roundup Suspect Questioned JACKSON, March 1 (iP) Police today continued questioning a man arrested in Rolling Fork, as a suspect in the slaying of Memphis Business Man Charles Gerber last Friday.

At the same time Jackson police pushed a search of this citys Negro section for a man sought in the slaying, who was reported seen there late Sunday. Highway Patrolman R. L. Morgan. who revegled the arrest, did not identify the suspect.

Gerber's body and that of his Negro chauffeur were found late Friday near Hernando, Miss. His Packard automobile was found later just outside Bentonia, about 140 miles from Hernando. Mother Is Slain HEBER SPRINGS, March 1 (JP) A charge of first degree murder was to be filed here today against Obra Martin, 33. sought by officers since his wife, Lucille, 22, was fatally shot and her attorney wounded here Saturday night Prosecutor R. E.

Rush said, after a conference with the attorney, Gene P. Houston, that he would charge Martin with first degree murder. Martin was shot and slightly wounded at his home at Concord, Ark last December. Mrs. Martin, mother of three children, was charged with assault with intend to kill.

She was to have been tried in Circuit Court here today. She was conferring with Houston at his home here Saturday night when a shot from a small caliber pistol, fired through a screen door, struck her in the heart A second shot hit Houston In the arm. Officers said Houston and his wife, who was in the room, both named Martin as the man who fired the shots. Eight Brills Cases Reported MONTGOMERY. March 1 MV-Eight cases of endemic typhus fever (Brills disease) were reported in Alabama in December, the State Health Department said Saturday.

The department also said Alabama ranked 38th among states in the number of infantile paralysis cases last year. Only 10 states reported fewer cases than Alabama. The borough of Queens, in New York City, is about three times the size of Boston. new, Negro theater here. Perry G.

Robinson, president of Robinson Mortgage Company, announced today. CHICAGO, March 1 (TP) A scuffle between a host and one of his party guests, an amputee war veteran, led to the death today of the host from a bullet wound. The dead man was Carl Bahn, 48. a titlesetter. Police held without EDDIE CANTOR named: management of Paul Engler and associates, who operate the present Carver Theater and other theaters The theater will be located at the here.

Mr. Robinson said he had received word federal construction limitations had been lifted and that construction of the theater will begin within 90 days. The new motion picture house will take in the present Carver Theater site, along with certain ari- struction restrictions have blocked work on the project until today. Mr. Robinson said he had present site of the Carver Theater.

The most modern showplace of charge Ray Beatty, 38, who lost one I ta in t1? aa jri Franrp in 1944 nss been in the planning? stac for Policeman Thomas McGuire said more than two years- Federal con- Silent Unity Director Will Be Heard Here NEW YORK, March 1 ((P) Cotton future opened 15 to 25 cents a bale higher. Futures advanced more than $2 a bale in the forenoon on light, but persistent, mill buying. Some stop-loss buying orders were touched off on the advance, with offerings limited. Mid-morning prices were 70 cents previous May Senate Clara May Rowland, director of Silent Unity, the prayer department of the Unity School of Cnris-tianity, Kansas City, will pre- negotiated a long-term lease between Max and Ralph Fies, owners of the property, and the Carver Theater Corporation, which at present operates the smaller theater on the site of the proposed new structure. The new theater, to be located on the southwest corner of 17th Street and Fourth Avenue.

North, has Joining property. It will treble the size of the theater. Featuring the latest developments in air-conditioning, sound engineering and projection equipment, the theater will show first-run motion i action on the Marshall plan cents to $1 40 a bale higher than the close. Mflrch was 33.18, 33.20 and July 32.49. Traders generally awaited Noon prices were 60 to he had pieced together this story: Miss Pauline Sash.

29. who was leaving the party last night, returned to the house for her purse, which she had forgotten. There was a quarrel in the house between Miss Sash and Mrs. Bahn, and the contents of Miss Sashs purse were dumped on the floor. She ran back to the car.

Witnesses reported Bahn followed Mias Sash from the house and. after an argument, attempted to drag Beatty from his automobile. Police said Bahn was shot in the neck with a .22 caliber pistol carried by Beatty. Bahn died today in Bridewell Hospital. There were about dwelling units In the United Stales in 1940 more than double the 17,.

sent two addresses in Birmingham 300,000 units in 1900. this week. The first to be at 8 p.m. tomorrow on You Are Important to God and the other to be on a More Abundant Life" at 8 p.m. Thursday.

These lectures will be presented at 406 North 22nd Street, the home of the Birmingham Unity Center, the sponsoring organization. MANUFACTURER'S SALES REPRESENTATIVE Established Midwest manufacturer of nationally advertised heme building specialties has attractive pictures and the best stage shows, I Mr. Robinson declared. It wiil have $2-20 a bale higher than the pre- 1,300 modern seats. I vious close.

March was 33.34; May, 133.36, and July, 32.63. rev. Clow Opan 32.97 32.33 29.78 29.35 29.10b .32.93 .32.28 29.73n 29.32n 29.11 Civic Theater Members Invited To Howard Play Production May July October December March Bid; Nominal. opportunity for sales representative calling on building supply and hardware dealers in State of Alabama. Gut- standing products, dealer sales helps, volume building and home owner demand.

Capable man who gives active and thorough coverage will receive territory protection on profitable commission basis. Write full qualifications to Box No. A-563, care News-Age-Herald. Woman Knife Victim James Morris. 46.

Anniston, was in I he Hillman Hospital today with stab wounds. Morris faces a charge of murder, police said, in the fatal stabbing of Nancy Clark, 41. The double stabbing, police said, followed an argument between the pair Saturday afternoon at the woman's home, 1514 Alley South City Detectives R. A. McMurdo and W.

J. Haley said Morris first struck the woman with a board. The woman then stabbed Morris, the officers said. Then the man stabbed the woman. New York Exchanges Facing Strike Threat NEW YORK, March 1 (Contracts between the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges and the AFL United Financial Employes expire at midnight tonight, and the union has summoned its strike strategy committee to meet late today.

David M. Keefe, union president, continued to keep secret any strike plans of its 1.050 affected members. He says a threatened strike would affect 100 brokerage bouses in addition to the exchanges. Chief issues In the contract dispute are demands for wage increases and a union shop provision. The union won a modified union shop provision in an agreement reached Saturday with the cotton exchange.

Both Emil Schram, stock ax-change president, and Francis Adams Truslow, curb exchange president, have opposed such a contract provision. Cotton exchange employes not now union members need not join, but new employes must join under the provision. The agreement was reported to have increased wages 8.8 per cent, but details were not announced. New wages range from about $52 a week for building employes to about $65 for senior floor employes. The union has scheduled meetings with representatives of the stock exchange Wednesday and with the curb exchange Friday.

Moscows Kremlin comprises a tract of 100 acres, surrounded by a wall with 19 towers and pierced by 'five gates. Civic Theater mem- in the cast are Kenneth Brown and New Orleans Cotton 'Genie Rae Slocum, Birmingham; Martha Martin, Bessemer; Floyd (Thompson, Gadsden; Fay Curenton, Century, and Frank McArdle, Montgomery. May V. .1 .1 .1 32.85 Night Must Fall is not a typical but one in which the December 25b murderer is known throughout. The Sat-) suspense comes from the psycho-urday.

logical motivation behind the ac- see'tions of the killer. An old English house, without electricity, is de-, signed as a background to add an! eerie quality tothe Play INVITATION EXTENDED mem- bers of the Civic Club is in line with the offer of John Newfield. of pres-! Howard, and Dr. Cecil Abernethy, of Birmingham Southern College,) NEW YORK, March l(P) (to cooperate in making good the Leading stocks edged forward in to- Eng-(list of six plays on the Civic Thea- days early market transactions. ter calendar for the current season.

I Ahead at a fairly active opening) Jefferson Negro Granted Reprieve MONTGOMERY, March 1 (JP) Gov. James E. Folsom today granted a weeks reprieve to John Henry Munson, Jefferson County Negro scheduled to die in the electric chair early Friday morning. Munson was sentenced for the killing of a Negro woman, Gertrude Geer, in Ensley last January. The state contended the defendant at- tempted to rob the woman's of the Howard group, an-band.

Will Geer. nounces The condemned mans defense, however, was that he went into Geers store for a purchase and accidentally disclosed the presence of a pistol in his pocket. He said 'the weapon discharged when Geer iish' pTaywrhC Emily Williams" It Birmingham bers will be guests tomorrow night at Night Must Fall, the second major production of the season by the Howard College drama depart- ment. Curtain time for the psychological) murder play is 8:15 p.m. It will be presented in the Howard College! auditorium Tuesday through Civic Theater members may the play on any of the five nights upon presentation of their member- rtlte' contended The "defendant at-1 STUDENTS WILL be admitted to the play any night upon entation of their student activities cards.

The public is invited. Night Must Fall is by the 10 MORE DAYS! TO EARN THAT EXTRA DIVIDEND Saving placed by March 10 earn far five full months July 1, Legal far Trail fund i Dr. Newfield has added an extra! were General Motors. Air Reduc night to the original four-night run tion. Southern Pacific, Philip Mor-of the play to provide for the added ris, Radio Corporation, Oliver Cor- attempted to take it from him.

High Woman Nazi Leader Is Seized poratlon. United Aircraft. Southern Railway, Texas Company. Western Union and Small declines attendance of the Civic Theater group. He points out that the membership coupons in the Civic FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS Theater book will be honored at were posted for Loews, American any performance this week.

Telephone and United Air Lines. secret marriage cost them their home was made into a motion picture several years ago with Rosalind Russell and Robert Montgomery in the leading roles. The Howard College Masquers production will star Charles Flurry and Emily Williams, Birmingham, i Germany March, and Bjijye Walker, Siluria. Others 1 (JP) The arrest of Frau Gertrud 1 Scholtz-Klink, 46, head of the worn- i a Yl a en branch of the Nazi Parly AtOMIC Klailt rBC6S throughout the war, was announced today by agents of the U. S.

Army. Tl I She was long thought to be dead I 66 1 111 I 6M1CSS66 She was apprehended near Tue- 1 1,1 iviiiivjjvv bingen, in the French zone, yester- 11C North 2 1 et Street Studied for trend clues was the survey of the niagazJne Steel," which said: Tight supply conditions continue unchanged in the major demand products with consumers pressing for all the tonnage they can get. Except for a little more caution in ordering, the recent break in commodity markets Meyers Said He'd Get Investigation Halted WASHINGTON, March 1 (P) Bleriol H. Lamarrs teslified today Over Labor Dispute 'has not been reflected in steel de mand. if Savingt placed through March 10 earn FOUR full months' dividend June 30.

if Saving inturad up ta S5.000. if Out-af-tawn account welcome Its aasy ta tava by mail. Current Dividend Rate HOME FEDERAL Savings Loan Assn. 212 N. list St.

I 9 day on a secret tip. With her, the agents said, was a one-time aid of Heinrich Himmler, SS Col. August Heisameyer, to whom Frau Scholtz- lying to Senate investigators be- Klink was married in 1940. He also The Possibility that a labor dis-' was arrested. The agent said Col.

Heiss- Ridge atomic plant led to grave official concern today. Director Cyrus S. Ching of the Federal Conciliation Service summoned an Oak Ridge contractor that Maj. Gen. Bennett E.

Myers once told him not to worry about said Col. Heiss-meyer was carrying a poison vial of the type used by Hermann Goering in Nuernberg Priton. They said he made no effort to use it when French and put. night h.lt work Oak I eet me investigation caiiea on. He said he had enough influence and enmiPh fripnrls In hsvp tf ana enougn irienos lO nave It Stopped.

Lamarre told a jury In U. S. District Court. Lamarre is the government's key Chicago Grain CHICAGO. March 1 fAP) Grain opened with small advances on the Board of Trade today.

Strength In other market i encouraged moderate buying In cereal. Wheal atarled 14 to 154 cent higher, si. i5 1.12V American agents walked in. They said Frau Scholtz-Klink, I Clot, I Cloa I 8t; iVr.AgO witness in a series of charges and officials of an AFL union to brought against Meyers as a result "Wheats whowasreDorted to "have taken Washington for a conference. of that Senate investigation last March her own life at Konstanz in April, Ching said a work stoppage would veaf into the generals wartime 1945, was wanted by the United Na- have grave national implications.

business deals. i.io tiona War-Crimes Commission. I The conciliation chief acted after! Meyers is on trial on a charge of, corn Opan Today 2.584 2.44' 2.16 2.43', 1 2.3711! 2.22,! 2.21 2.19' Mr. and Mrs. G.

purchased their home for $9,000 cash from a Mis who, in exacting the deed, represented herself as being unmarried. Later it was shown in court that Miss S. had previously been secretly married, and the failure of both husband and wife to sign the deed invalidated the title of Mr. and Mrs. G.

to their home. Protect yourself against She had been identified with the the Carbide and Carbon Chemical t0 Ty Nazi Party since 1929, the agents Corporation and the AFL Atomic 08111 to the Senate committee. Ihe Sept 2.20 I 1.58' 2.11 I 1 .83 I 1.96 1.51H I 1.66V I 2.211, MII4 1.96 1.68 IF YOU HOPE TO HAVE Septftmhar December Oats technical charge is subordination to perjury. Meyers also has been ac cused of perjury and of income tax I frauds. -1' March .81 .7375 .71 1.12 .93 .855 I 1.22 1 1.11 Vij S' .853) 3.54 3.47V, 3.41(5 2.64 said, and was known for her urg-! ing (echoing Adolf Hitler) Ger-! man women to bear many children.

1 In 1940, when she married Heiss-I meyer, she had four children. i Heissmeyer at that time had six. Officials said she was booked as the Monsanto Chemical Company a close associate of Hitler. She had and the U. S.

Atomic Energy Corn-held the title of Reichsfrauen- mission. This contract expired last fuehrerin, or director of womens 1 midnight and operation shifted to party work, for 12 years, until the Carbide and Carbon, end of the war. Trades and Labor Council failed to agree on a collective bargaining agreement for the Oak Ridge laboratories. The laboratories have been op- D. Blond and 36.

Lamarre was head 0f Aviation Electric Company. Day- ton' Ohio, a plane parts manufac-establishment, during the war. He had testified that Meyers was the real owner and reaped rich profits from it. Lamarre said he told a con-The laboratories employ 700 to coded story at the Senate probe September December Soybean March May July November Lard March 22.00 May July :22.15 September 22.40 21.60 21.65 121.70 ,21.85 i. BETTER START workers and 200) after being coached on what to say by the general, former 800 production i physicists.

O'Dwyer Leaves Hospital THia ii on example of a type of hazard which cannot guarded againn hr th molt cartful examination of tho record. No form of titl evidence, -cept Title Insurance, afford! protection ta tuck In 1947, the United States had about one telephone for every four persons, rompared with one for every 43 persons In the world as a whole. Ching had asked Saturday that deputy purchasing agent for the the management and union work Army Air Forces agreement but NEW YORK March Mayor William O'Dwyer, saying he was feeling fine, left Bellevue Iospi-tal yesterday after an eight-day I rest. I heartily recommend a week's sleep, he said. ODwyers physicians said Saturday his heart had suffered no permanent damage, but the needed a vacation.

mayor Medical Acceptance Corporation out a temporary none was reached. It was the second time in recent months that the government has been confronted with a labor dispute at Oak Ridge. Last December the CIO United Chemical Workers Union had threatened to call out 3,000 production workers In another of the Oak Ridge plants. The strike threat was called off at the governments urgent request and it was announced Dec. 11 that an agreement had been reached on a new contract, with Carbide and Carbon Chemical.

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House, 76, news edi-) tor of the Terre Haute Tribune, died yesterday of a cerebral hern-) orrhage. House has worked on the Tribune 27 years, serving as tele-! graph editor, city editor and nws editor. lt National Bank of B'ham. I Lima Cola Moora-Handley Protective Life 1 Continental Qin Theae quotation, repreaen which on nr more dealer, all member of th Nttonl Aaaoclatlon of Becutltle Dealera. would trade with the general pub-; lie at the time th quotations were gath-, ered.

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