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National Three Richmond Times-Dispatch Thnrsday January 30 1941 National 27 Soldiers Hurt Fireman Dies in Crash War Department to Grant Fish Permits in Shore Limit BALTIMORE LTV Applications to set fish traps within the one-half mile shore limit set by Federal regulation at Ocean City Md will be granted War Department engineers said yesterday in announcing that Government charges of violating the law would be dropped Five Ocean City men including Mayor Clifford Cropper and former Mayor Thomas Elliott were charged last fall with placing pound nets inside the restricted area but at a later hearing can't tended the ruling was outmoded Lieutenant-Colonel II Robb of the Baltimore district office said he would ask the United States district attorney to charges' in the case adding that he believed "a favorable agreement for all may be worked Permits Temporary Permits would be issued on a temporary' basis until another hearing can be held at Ocean City in June or July at which permanent regulations will be devised Robb said Besides Cropper and Elliott William Hastings Edward Davis and Levin Lynch all of Ocean had violations At the hearing last December Elliott said the half-mile regulation was adopted many years ago to protect small oyster boats cruising near shore He said however that these craft all sailing boats are not being used any more and that present coastwise shipping never comes closer to the shore than three-quarters of a mile Others testified that deep water is found a few hundred yards off shore where good fishing areas are located vestigation of Murder Inc Brook' lyn ring of killers-for-cash The body bent double and trussed with rope or wire was found along the Passaic River near Lyndhurst by a crew of excavators working under the direction of Bergen County and Kings County (Brooklyn) prosecutors Only an arm protruded from the hardened block of lime but the office of William Brooklyn district attorney said it was hoped identification could be made Water Used To Seesaw Ship on Bar WEST TALM BEACH FLA' LT Salvage workers flooded part of the forward hold of the stranded liner Manhattan yesterday with the intention of seesawing the liner into deep water The forepart of the 24009-ton ship which struck a sand bar January 12 is in water deep enough to float but the stern is fast aground Plans call for weighting the bow to help three big tugs in the task of pulling the liner forward One remains between the ship and open water When this is reached an aft hatch will he flooded and the ship pulled halfway over The salvage workers figure that the how can be weighted again and the Manhattan pulled free Donald Ames superintendent of a stevedore company said 1230 tons of cargo has boon removed from the fore halches In aft hatches he said are 1188 tons The port engine is turned oxer at frequent intervals to keep it usable The starboard mechanism was damaged A Sullivan vice-president of the United States Lines and Woram company salvage expert said that once the vessel is floated she will proceed to New York with the aid of tugs Federal School Aid Asked WASHINGTON LT Assorting that hundreds of thousands of children arc penalized for living in poorer sections of the country the American Youth Commission rcc-ommctnded yesterday that the Federal Government help finance elementary and secondary schools EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERIENCED DISPLAT MAN Bcrry-Burk Co requires the service of an experienced and well-qualified display managrr Only those who are adept and original in high-class trims and art work will be considered Apply to Advertising Mgr 47 Survivors Of Transport Reach Alaska KETCHIKAN Alaska Forty-seven survivors of the wrecked Army transport Kvichak were landed here yesterday and told of a night of horror during which three men were drowned The storm sent the 1000-ton ship on the rocks off the Canadian coast Monday night and because of giant waves it was a full hour before a lifeboat could be launched Two lifeboats finally got away but a third with 10 -men aboard was picked up by a wave and overturned drowning Reeves chief radio operator: Juan Peralta second cook And Chris Sigan a seaman Found Hugging Ladder One survivor an unidentified seaman managed to come from under the boat but another wave tossed him against a rope ladder on the ship He hooked his arms around the ladder where he later was found unconscious The Navy's Alaskan flagship the gunboat Charleston brought the 23 passengris and 24 crewmen from the scene of the wreck about 125 miles south of Prince Rupert Gaugen pilot said he could only describe Monday night as "terrible heavy seas were running and it was very He said 11 crewmen including Captain Williamson remained aboard the transport which was in no apparent danger Lights Go Out Hans Buhman another pilot and Ralph Reese quartermaster said all lights went out immediately after the ship struck the rocks hampering rescue efforts One lifeboat with 23 persons aboard reached a small island about 5A0 yards from the ship The survivors spent the night running around to keep from freezing Miibert Danron of Williamson Va said survivors in his lifeboat were picked up by a passing American Can Company boat which later put them aboard the Charleston The 200-foot long Kvichak was two days out of Seattle with supplies for the new Army base at Annette Island 1 from the head which was protected by a heavy bag opens an entirely new phase of the activities of Murder said O'Dwyer's office in the absence of the district attorney now in Los Angeles "We are quite certain the body is that of Panto who was taken for a ride about a year ago when he opposed the outlaw faction of the International Association" Members of Murder Inc already indicted in a number of other slayings were quoted by the official as having said Panto had been killed and buried near the Passaic River Actress Writer Marry HOLLYWOOD (JP) Screen Actress Jacqueline Dalya and William Conselman studio writer announced yesterday they were married Monday at Las Vegas Nev Walsli Asks Extension Of Social Security WASHINGTON LTi Senator Walsh (D Mass) proposed legis--lation yesterday to extend old-age insurance benefits of the Social Security Act to more than 1000-000 employees of religious and charitable organizations Members of the clergy and brothers and sisters of religious orders however would remain exempt JIPW I I All Rshjr UM Slate I AT NIGHT Near rlaaa be Kin with Tart ea Frbraarjr 4 Rahjreta Givea tor State Bar Kxams VIRGINIA COLLEGE of LAW Fraaklia at Reread Plat 5-4111 Ttoull see a lot of our new name National Guard Train Overturns Near Camp SANDERS VI LLE MISS 'TV-Eight cars and the engine of an Indiana National Guard train one of 33 specials bearing troops to Camp Shelby overturned near here yesterday killing the fireman and injuring 27 soldiers three of them seriously An immediate investigation was begun by Federal State and military authorities into the cause of the wreck which occurred about noon on a main line straight-a way of the Southern Railway a mile north of here Governor Paul Johnson sent Major Thomas Grayson here to investigate State highway patrolmen at the scene said three Federal Bureau of Investigation agents wore there No Defects in Engine Engineer Ilosey Brown said he slowed the train in going into a wide curve and that the engine left the rails when he reopened the throttle A report from the Hattiesburg office said no Affects were found on the demolished engine and there was no sign of tracks having been tampered with Uninjured soldiers on the train and on a passing convoy of the 118th Field Artillery trucks on a near-by highway pulled the injured from the reck Private and Army ambulances hurried them to hospitals Fireman A Smith of Meridian Miss was killed Corporal James Parker of the antitank company 131st Infantry of Indianapolis remained unconscious several hours later at General Hospital In Laurel nine miles south Privates Walter Horner and Norman Hooks both of Indianapolis also 'were injured so badly they could not be moved from Laurel to the Camp Shelhy base hospital The three soldiers were riding in a baggage car being used as a kitrhen A rail buckled and pierced the bottom of the car Moved to Rase Hospital Thirteen others after treatment at the Laurel Hospital were removed to the base hospital and 11 others were treated tnere and released Others suffered slight scratches and bruises The troops were part of the recently mobilized Thirty-eighth Division from Indiana West Virginia and Kentucky They were en route to Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg for a year's training The majority of the injured were from Indianapolis The soldiers were from the 139th and 1501 Field Artillery Regiments and 151st and 152nd Infantry All except part of the 130th were from Indianapolis An hour after he wreck an ambulance driver and a civilian were hurt when a car collided with the ambulance at 'the top of a hill Two injured soldiers in the wrecked ambulance did not sufTer additional hurts They were taken to Hattiesburg in another ambulance Five cooks were scalded in the upsetting of the kitchen car of Belfast Woirt Aid Britain In Guise of Draft NEW YORK Thomas Kelly 30 born in Belfast and naturalized five years ago refused yesterday to serve in the Army under the select ive service act and told Federal Judge Edward A Conger he had alternative as long as this country gives aid to Britain During questioning he said that the judge who presided at his naturalization had neglected to tell him that some day he might be required to Britain The court held Kelly a grocery driver and elevator operator in $500 bail on a charge of violation of the selective service act New Bomber Likened To Angel LOS ANGELES Hi Northrop Aircraft Company said yesterday its new patrol bomber has passed all flight tests and exceeded performance expectations by at least 10 per cent like a homesick angel bound for commented Moye Stephens Northrop test pilot The plane was designed for Norway which ordered 24 and these because of the Norwegian invasion are to be shipped to Norwegian government officials in England for use with the Royal Air Force The ship is designed to carry a ton of bomba It is armed with six heavy-calibre machine guns A single motor of 1200-horse-power operates the 38-foot craft Richmond A I Team Loses Baltimore Debate BALTIMORE The Richmond branch of the American Institute of Banking was defeated by the Baltimore branch last night in a debate on the question That Barriers to Interstate Trade Should Be Eliminated by Constitutional Members of the Richmond team who upheld the affirmative side were Dewey Daane James Dodd Jr and Wesley Snelson Members of the Baltimore team were Donald Wilson David Kratzer and Damon Gaskins Judges were Judge Edwin Dickerson the Rev Michael Smith J- of Loyola College and Page Nelson Only eight of the 21 islands in the Hawaiian archipelago are rhota HELP PRESIDENT Taking part in the numerous Birthday Balls iii Washington tonight are (top left to right) Maureen Wayne Morris Lana Turner A1 Ritz George Raft with Commissioner Russell Young who greeted them At the bottom Lana Turner helps Senator George of Georgia blow out the candles on the sixty-third birthday cake yesterday Average Age Now 28 Years Says Census WASHINGTON LD The average American is 289 years old the Census Bureau reported yesterday after studying a 5 per cent sample of the 1940 census The figures showed that the population is growing older In 1940 the Average American was two and one-half years older than in 1930 and six years older than in 1900 Men continued to predominate but the bureau found that the margin of males over females was declining Some day it was said women would outnumber the men in America as they do in Europe and other areas of older civiliza- tions There were 1011 males for every 100 females in 1940 Ten years ago there were 1025 males per 100 females Whites constituted 898 per cent of the population in 1940 exactly the same percentage as in 1930 Among whites the average age of both males and females was 294 years Among nonwhites the males averaged 254 years and females 25 years The nation grew older the bureau added by a decline in the number of persons under 20 years a small increase in those 65 or older The bureau estimated that the number of persons 65 or older increased from 6633805 in 1930 to 8956206 in 1940 a 35 per cent gain The average gain for all age groups was only 72 per cent In 1940 out of the average 100 persons 345 were under 20 39 were from 20 to 44 inclusive 197 were between 45 and 64 inclusive and 68 were 65 or older In 1930 the figures in these groups were 388 383 174 and 54 This trend was most marked among whites Supply of Food Rushed to Ship PHILADELPHIA A supply of food was sent to Lewes Del late yesterday to meet an urgent radio request from the captain of a Jugoslav freighter 12 days overdue from West Africa Officials of the Lavine Shipping Company agents for the 6300-ton steamer Trigs lav said the message asked that enough food for a crew of 40 be sent aboard with the pilot when the vessel reaches the Delaware breakwater 120 miles from here Heavy storms or detours to avoid submarines may have caused the delay shipping men said The Trigaslav is bringing a cargo of manganese ore to Port Richmond from Takoradi West Africa Mother Fails to Save Son From Icy Death RED BANK A fears for her missing 2-year-old son led her yesterday to the North Shrewsbury River where she saw a tiny arm protruding from a hole in the ice Mrs Charles Emde plunged into the water from a bulkhead six feet above it recovered the body of her boy Davis and then ran several blocks with it to Riverview Hospital Physicians worked for an hour over the child before pronouncing it dead They treated Mrs Emde for lacerations Forgt about falling temperature trim jrou travel the Greyhound way it'a as warm aa a aummar day aboard a Super-Coach Juat relax in carefree comfort and save money mile after mile! Oat Way Reaed Trie Raleigh IMS $3M Charlotte NC MS 7IS Winaton- Salem if GV 385 515 Roaaoke Va 505 550 Parham Jf 315 300 300 SM 1 Baltimore Md 3S0 470 1 Phila Fa 370 070 I Pittsburgh Fa 000 13J5 'New YorlcNY 405 SS5 GHQ Airforce To Be Shifted During March WASHINGTON Transfer of the GHQ airforce headquarters from Langley Field to Bolling Field will take place about March 15 it was learned yesterday at the War Department A spokesman said that not more than 100 officers and men would be transferred and that the number probably would be smaller The transfer of headquarters was announced October 24 in connection with an air corps expansion involving the creation of four air districts The announced purpose was to decentralize training and inspection duties of the commanding general GHQ and to provide for the development of commanders and staffs for special duties In connection with the change the War Department has authorized $695250 for construction of administration and other buildings at Bolling Field Military Papers Stolen LOS ANGELES LTV Lieutenant Joe Ellsworth Army reported the theft of papers he said contained secret tactical data on antitank gunnery and new military regulations The papers were taken from his automobile Tuesday night during a stop-over here enroute from Fort Benning Ga to Fort Lewis Wash where he has been assigned TODAY when you go shopping at your Sanitary Store notice it has a new name across the front And tomorrow when you turn to food advertisement in this newspaper find it also carries our new name reading like this: Is Condemned By Tinkliam WASHINGTON LD Representative Tinkham (R Mass) yesterday said the lifting of the "moral against shipments of airplanes to Russia amounted to "attempted of a "homicidal country fly President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull He told the House that the action "tears the from a policy of intervention which he called "brutal naked power Although the President and the Secretary of State have denounced aggressors they were playing favorites Tinkham said adding: "In the eyes of the world their recent action will be taken to mean that the United States gives approval to the territorial gains of Soviet Russia and to the methods which she has employed in their acquisition "By aiding Communistic Soviet Russia in any way President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull are promoting the purposes and ambitions of Stalin How long will it be before they will be greeting Soviet Russia as our Navy Advances 'In-Law of Willkie WASHINGTON Lieutenant Commander Paul Pihl brother-in-law of Wendell Willkie was advanced by the Navy yesterday to acting chief of the staff of official observers in Berlin The order directed the transfer of Commander Albert Schrader the naval attache to the operations division of the Navy Department Lieutenant Commander Pihl as ranking assistant attache thereby became his temporary successor officials said Kill the Itch (Scabies) With Siiicide This liquid preparation kills In 30 minutes those Itch mites with which It comes In contact Bur 8ITTCXDX (Mm your druggist or send 60c to SlUclde Co Commerce Ga (AdvJ location) find farm -fresh produce guaranteed meats and all the good foods for which Sanitary is famous save money here just as -hecause our stores continue to be chain stores distributing foods directly Our new is the name of the parent organization to which Sanitary Stores have belonged for a long time By making our name Safeway too we simplify our business records all this change means see a lot of our new name and we hope like it It will stand for the same friendly food service learned to expect from Sanitary Stores iX Wcl But still the same Sanitary grocers known for years and years And we want you to know no change in our ownership or policies or personnel At your Safeway store (same 09 0008 Your SANITARY Grocer i now on who from is yonr SAFEWAY Grocer GREYHOUND TERMINAL Fheaa 5-0111 413 Rrwd St mSYHOUND.