Hinton Daily News from Hinton, West Virginia • 1

i At 1:00 P. M. Today 52 rather cold. Minimum Last Night 36 night. Tuesday cloudy and Temperature Weather Yesterday 73 HINTON DAILY NEWS Snow flurries and colder 46th Year, No.

215 Hinton, W. Monday, January 17, 1949 Price 5 Cents March Of Dimes Here Has Tenth Of $2,000 Quota With a tenth of its quota reached on the first day, the March of Dimes in Summers county moved on today toward a fortnight of social events, athletic contests and: general soliciting designed to raise $2,000. Campaign Chairman Walter E. Nye announced that the first day of the "Bucket Brigade" Saturday, with memberg of the Service club manning the buckets on downtown corners, brought in $214.05. hands The of buckets the Rotary today club.

were in Tomor- the Tow the Kiwanis club will be in charge, and other organizations will PATTESON IS INSTALLED AS NEW GOVERNOR Promise Program Of Better 'Health, Education and Roads' Charleston, W. Jan. 17 (UP) -Okey L. Patteson was inaugurated as Governor today and promptly promised the people of West. Virginia a program of better "health, education and roads." He said he hoped to carry out this plan as well as other improvements in state governmental services to which he himself without "increased taxation." However, he added: "It is my duty to point out that high costs effect government and that the more we demand nd of government, the more government will Petteson was sworn in along with the re-elected Board of Public Works and two State Supreme Court Judges on the steps of the Capitol building from which he will run the mountain state for the next four years.

The ceremony installed him as West Virginia's 23rd Chief Executive and the fifth straight Democrat to hold the seat since the 1932 Roosevelt landslide. The last Republican governor was Kanawha county's William G. Conley who was in 1928. It is the only state office in which a candidate cannot succeed himself. The others inducted were Secretary of State D.

Pitt O'Brien, General B. Ira J. Partlow, Treasurer Au- R. Edgar Sims, E. Talbott, State Superintendent of Schools W.

W. Trent and AgriculCommissioner J. B. McLaughlin. Supreme Court Judges Fred L.

Fox and James B. Riley, also took the oath for new 12-year terms in a simple ceremony 0 0 000 conducted in crisp weather before 10,000 onlookers and well-wishers. For all but Partlow and O'Brien, the formal installation meant the star, of their fifth successive terms in office a consecutive run of service unprecedented in West Virginia political history. Partlow will be in his second complete term and o'- Brien. his first.

The latter was appointed to fill the unexpired term when his father, the late William S. O'Brien, died between the primaries and last November's general election. Pitt O'Brien had already been nominated for job. Patteson for whom the inaugural represented a physical as well as political triumph, began his career in the executive mansion with a promise to give more people a voice in the government. "Back of every policy or law which I shall favor," he said, "must be the general welfare of those thousands of men and women who have never had a special representative to speak for them at the capital or in the legislative halls.

"As Governor, my actions in a broad sense shall be as their personal representative and their concern shall be importance in administration of state affairs. The welfare and prosperity of those people are closely related to that of the state as a whole." The Mount Hope man who in a (Continued on Page Eight) Set Date For Eagle Institution Date for the institution of the new Hinton lodge Fraternal Order of Eagles will be set at a meeting of members and prospective members at the McCreery hotel this evening at, 7:30. Also on the agenda, for tonight's meeting, said Hackworth, organizer, is the appointment of committees. All men who have signed membership applications are urged to be present, he said, and all persons desiring to become charter members are invited. LINDA'S THANKS HONEST, FOLKS, YOU'LL BE HAPPIER AN' SO WILL LOTS OF OTHERS- -IF YOU JOIN THE MARCH OF DIMES 'BYE NOWAND THANKS! CHINESE AWAIT NANKING ASSAULT be assigned later.

A March of Dimes dance for high school students and other young people in the high school gym is being planned, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Lee Arrington, president of the Service club. The date has not been set. Preparations the three pron posed benefit basketball games in Hinton, Talcott and Sandstone are still in progress, Nye announced. The.

chairman meantime announced the appointment of an executive committee of 15 business and civic leaders, headed by Mayor P. J. Carr and Sheriff Carlos B. Garten, plus eight other committees to assist in the campaign. the executive group, in addition Carr and Garten are W.

T. Fredeking, F. L. Boone, Earl Hellems, S. J.

Graham, Ray F. DeWitt, Glenn Hanes, S. T. Moore, Frank McDowell, J. C.

Dillon, A. H. Lough, John Faulconer, Kenneth R. Ketcham and Jack Mann. Other committees named were: School: J.

L. Perry, Irvin S. Maddy, Ned Garten, Ashby E. Allen, Weldon Boone, John Rosenberger. Sports: Charles Schrader, Harold Beasley, Buck Porterfield, Curtis Burdette, Ray Phipps.

Finance: O. P. Vines, Cleve Haynes, Harry G. Humphries, Plummer Harford. Merchants: William H.

Coffman, Garnet L. Willey, W. L. Davis, Robert G. Webb, Hubert E.

McNeer, J. C. Dillon, Ira J. Maynor, Harold E. Neely, Ira Webb, W.

J. B. Simmons, Mack Nowlan, W. E. Michael, Joe Harper, J.

O. Ball, R. L. McKinney, Billy Joe Hellems, J. E.

Gwinn. C. H. S. Talman, Claude Haynes, Donald Brightwell, R.

L. Hanifin, E. H. Talbert, M. T.

Llewellyn, V. V. Viar, Andy Hopkins, Jake Miller. Women's: Mrs. Helen Lee Arrington, Mrs.

Willard Hess, Mrs. Ina Keaton, Mrs. H. Talman, Mrs. J.

L. Perry, Miss Laura Waid, Mrs. W. E. Michael, Mrs.

Jesse Mrs. T. G. Rodes, Mrs. Marion O'Bryan, Mrs.

W. F. Burger. Medical advisory: Dr. D.

W. Ritter, Dr. J. W. Stokes, Dr.

J. T. Johnson, Dr. B. W.

McNeer. Publicity: Gordon Meeker, John Faulconer, Leonard Anderson, Henry Kinney. 20 BELIEVED DEAD IN CRASH Glascow, Jan. 17 (UP)- fourengined airplane, apparently a N. S.

Air Force B-29 Superfortress carrying 20 American crewmen bound for home, crashed and burned in the Argyllshire mountains of Western Scotland today. Police believed all aboard were killed. First reports from the seene saidthat at least five bodies had been recovered, others. and. search.

The was plane continu- apparently exploded when it struck the earth. Identification of the crashed aircraft was not definite, but U. S. Air Force, headquarters in London said B-29 which left Scampton, the American bomber base in England, this morning was missing. It carried 20 men, the air force said.

The plane was en route to Iceland on the first leg of a trip to the United States. "At least some of the men aboard apparently were en route to furloughs at home. Flying with a sister ship, the plane encountered heavy mist and over Scotland. A plane was heard circling before the crash, which occurred at about 10 a. m.

(5 a. m. EST) some two hours after the Super-forts had left Scampton. The sister ship turned back to Scampton and landed safely. The other plane had not been reported since the takeoff from Scampton at 8 a.

m. (3 a. m. EST) and three seemed a little doubt that it had crashed. Loses Two Fingers In Rail Accident O.

O. Williams of Hinton, C. O. employe, lost two fingers of- his right hand at Ronceverte Saturday when his hand was caught under a railroad car. A third finger was I amputated at the Hinton hospital, where he was removed after receiving emergency treatment at a Ronceverte hospital.

I Hope to Be Present--HST' President Truman is presented with a formal invitation to attend his own inauguration next week by Melvin Hildreth, chairman of the Inaugural Committee. The invitation said "RSVP," so the President scrawled across it with a pen, "Weather permitting, I hope to be HST." WOMAN RAPED ABOARD TRAIN White Man Wearing Long Underwear Sought Klamath Falls, Jan. 17 (U.P.) -The man who crept into the lower-5 berth of Mrs. Opal Holmes and raped her aboard the Southern Pacific Railroad's West Coast Limited was white and wore long underwear, officials said id today. Klamath Falls County Prosecutor Dayton E.

Van Victor said he believed those two clues would help solve the case "in short Mrs. Holmes, wife of a North Richmand, atomic plant employe, charged that a man opened the curtains of her berth Saturday night and attacked her as she si slept. The train, speeding toward Los Angeles, was the same one on which the famous "Lower 13" murder occurred ins January 1943. A woman passenger, Mrs. Martha Virginia James, 21, Norfolk, was raped and killed by a negro cook, Robert Folkes, who later was executed.

The train was traveling through Lane county, almost the same section of its route, when Mrs. Holmes was raped Saturday. Van Vactor said that during the evening, Mrs. Holmes played pennyante poker in the lounge car with an unidentified woman, two soldiers and two sailors. During the game, they discussed the "Lower 13" murder.

Mrs. Holmes told investigators she retired to her berth in lower 5 shortly after the lounge closed at 1 a. m. She said she was awakened about 2:15 when a man assaulted her. She screamed, awakening other, persons ns in the car, and the man fled, tearing the curtains of the berth as he leaped to the aisle.

She did not get a clear view of her attacker but other passengers saw him flee. Van Vactor said he had no doubt Mrs. Holmes was raped. "Persons I' interviewed in compartment confirmed that the guilty man was white and wore longhandled underwear at the time," he said. Woman Held Here For Extradition A Summers county woman in Lorain county, Ohio, for obtaining narcotics, by fraud was arrested by local authorities today and held for extradition.

She was Nellie Margaret Abshire, alias Nellie Blair, taken into custody on a warrant sent from Ohio to Justice John Cook. The warwant said she was indicted in Lorain county November 25 for obtaining morning by fraud. Committed to jail in default of bond, she is scheduled to appear before Judge Mark L. Jarrett in circuit court Wednesday morning on extradition proceedings. POLICE SPREAD DRAGNET AFTER NEGRO ATTEMPTS TO RAPE CHILD Pittsburgh, Jan.

17 (UP) and detectives virtually isolated the city's Brushton District today in their search. for a "tall, slim negro" who attempted to rape a three-yearold girl before the eyes of her terrified mother. Th sex fiend was beside a crib in the bedroom of their Brushton home when Mrs. John Litsko, 19, returned home from a store next door. He dropped the Litsko's three month-old daughter to floor when he was surprised by the mother.

Then, he pulled out a revolver and warned Mrs. Litsko to keep quiet attempted to assault the 3-yearold girl. Heedless of her own safety, Mrs. Litsko rushed the Negro and fought him furiosuly until he fled. Homicide Lt.

Peter A. Connors said the description of the Negro was the same as that. given for the slaver of Carol Lee Kensinger, 12, TRIAL OPENS FOR 12 TOP U.S. COMMIES 400 Policemen Alert To Prevent Any Demonstrations New York, Jan. 17- (UP) Four.

hundred uniformed policemen and detectives patrolled the area around the U. S. District courthouse at Foley square today to prevent disorderly demonstrations at the opening of the trial of the 12 top Communists in the United States. The defendants, so-called politburo the Communist party in the United States, were charged with consipracy tor "teach and advocate" overthrow of the Government by force. The No.

1 defendant, William Z. Foster, 67, Communist National chairman, will not be present, He is suffering from a chronic heart condition and may be excused from trial for the time being. Although the trial did not open until after 19:30 squads of police and detectives covered. the area beginning at 8 a. police detail will include mounted patrolmen, motorcycle policemen, patrolmen, detectives, police women and patrol, wagon squads.

Police officials said this was the biggest detail ever assigned to cover a trial in New York In addition to the extra police, U. S. Marshals and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents were on duty inside the courthouse. One of the duties of the police will be to keep order during a parade of 1,000 pickets from the civil rights congress scheduled for neon. S.

Attorney John F. McGohey, in charge of the prosecution, was expected to open the legal skirmishing with a motion to excuse Foster from trial. The defense has its case. But a defense plea for a contended his presence is, vital to a postponement in the belief Foster would recover sufficlently trial has been denied. The defense, planned as its first move to challenge jury panel and ask dismissal of the entire list of jurors and of the indietment on grounds that the jury system in this district is illegal and discriminatory.

Payday Weekend Is Marked Here By 22 Arrests Hinton's pay-day week-end was marked by 22 arrests, Police Chief W. H. Humphreys reported today. The score: 15 drunks, one motorist, one man charged with indecent exposure, five men nabbed in a raid on a poker Breaking up the game in the basement of the Ewart-Miller building Saturdays Smith, afternoon, janitor, officers arrest- alleged to be the operator, and four players. Dewey Gore and John Brookman of Hinton, Lilly and Cyrus Crook of Jumping, Branch.

Smith was to have been given a hearing before Justice John W. the other four to be arraigned in Cook at 2 o'clock this afternoon, city police court. The motorist was Carl Medley of the South Side, charged with driving a car without an operator's license. Raymond A. Meadows of Hinton, arrested Saturday evening, was accused of indecent exposure in School Absence Laid To Father William Kesner of Upland has been charged county school authorities with failing to send four of his children, all under 12 years of age, to school.

He is to be given a hearing before Justice John W. Cook tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. BOARD TO MEET Regular meeting of the county board of education will be held this evening at 7 o'clock at the board office in the court house. MARRIAGE LICENSE James A. Burton, 21, Hinton, and Helen M.

Williams, 18, Hinton. TYPE 0 BLOOD DONORS NEEDED Another emergency call for Type 0 blood donors was issued today for Fred Hughes, 28-yearold C. 0. telegrapher critically ill in the C. 0.

hospital at Clifion Forge. Hughes' father, H. G. Hughes, said his son, who has been near death several times, is again desperate need of blood and will require six pints, Persons willing to donate were asked to telephone 876 or 256. Hughes said arrangements would be made to take them to the hospital.

It was suggested that ex-service men and women not certain of the blood types look at their "dog tags," where their blood type is stamped. BODY OF YOUTH FOUND FROZEN IN WOODLAND Companion, Is Injured Seriously; Third Still Not Found Davis, W. Jan. 17 (U.P.)-The frozen body of Robert Carr, 7, was found along a mountain creek about 13 miles north of here last night, a few hours after a 16-year-old companion was found in serious condition from exposure. A third boy, Eston Carr, 9, Robert's brother, is still missing today a search party of several hundred volunteers headed by Sheriff D.

E. Croston is combing the dense woods of Tucker county. The boys disappeared last Saturday while taking a shortcut on their way to a backwoods lumber camp operated by the father of the Carr boys. John Helmick, is in serious condition at an Elkins hospital with frozen hands and feet. Physicians said they may have to amputate one or more of the limbs.

The body of Robert Carr was found at 6:20 last night under a patch of wild laurel along Beaver Creek, point three miles from where Helmick was found. the other Carr boy would be Searchers held little hope rothad alive, State police reported tracks of the boys were found leading toward Bayard, a town on the other side of the about from Davis. Helmick' has relatives. there and it was believed the boys were headed that way after losing their way to the Carr So weak from hunger found Sheriff Croston said Helmick, was that he could not talk. He had not eaten since they disappeared and street clothes.

at an Elkins -hospital where he was taken said he was suffering spasms of delirium and was unable to give a coherent acof what happened during trio's wanderings through the woods. The group spilt up in an effort to find their way out of the woods. was believed the smaller boys might have found one of several cabins scattered through the area and could be sustaining themselves with food and fuel stored in the cabins. Some 250 to 300 persons, including state game officers ed who were familiar with the rugged terrain, joined in the search. Simms Free On $2,000 Bond Jack Simms, 27, arrested by city Friday night for breaking and" entering the American Legion club on the Bellepoint road, was free today on $2,000 bond.

He waived a preliminary hearing John Saturday W. Cook afternoon and before was nelustice action of the grand jury in May. ENLISTS IN NAVY Daniel Truman Keaton of Ballengee street has enlisted in the U. S. Navy at the Beckley recruiting station, under the one-year program for 18-year-olds.

DIVIDEND NOTICE DIVIDEND NOTICE There will be a dividend of 7c per share paid to Affiliated Fund share- holders our Jan. 20. SAVAGE RACE RIOTS SPREAD IN SOUTH AFRICA; 105 SAID DEAD Durban, Jan, 17 (U.P) -Police reported today that savage rioting between Zulu natives and Indians has been put down in Durban but that it had broken out in Pietermartitzburg, R40 miles northeast of -Durban, and was spreading toward the Rand gold fields. An official report said that 105 dead have been counted in three days of fighting and that there are nearly 1,000 other victims in hospitals. Bodies are being photographed for later identification and burial immediately for reasons of health because of -South Africa's intense summer heat.

More 2,500 troops and police. many of them rushed to Durban in a hastily organized airlift from nearby army posts, restored complete order to this shattered South African port last night with the laid of 20 armored cars. However. police LIT Pietermartiz- NATIONALISTS TURN PEIPING OVER TO REDS City Battered Into Submission SCRAPPED SHIP WAS WINDFALL Valuable Ballast Is Unknowingly Sold Washington, Jan. 17 (U.P) -The government gave away close to a half million dollars worth of lead ballast "hidden" aboard 61 surplus ships, according to the Senate investigating committee.

The committee blamed missing records, general inefficiency and a $41,000 typist's error for the losses. In its final report, the group, headed during the 80th Congress by Sen. Homer Ferguson, said the Maritime Commission claimed it didn't know the lead was stowed away in the holds when it sold the ships. It had been put there wy the navy during the war to give the vessels greater stability. Because of a lack of "businesslike" methods, the investigators said, the value of the lead "must be considered a loss to the government unless successful legal steps are taken to recover it." The justice department now is looking into one of the ship sales, the report said, to see if there is any chance of recovering the loss.

This is the sale of the steamship Leonard Wood for $65,000 to the (Continued on Page Eight, Cattle Threatened By Midwest Snows (By United Press) A cold wave swept over the nation from Canada to the Gulf Coast today, Giant ice jams caused floods along the Missouri river, and 000 sheep faced starvation in deep western snowdrifts. The third blizzard in two weeks ripped across Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Minnesota and the Dakotas during the week end but lost its punch as it veered northward into Canada yesterday. The storm sent forth a wave of cold air which was expected to reach the east coast by tomorrow. Temperatures plunged as far south as Louisiana: cold was accompanied by high and light rain and snow. But forecasters said a high pressure.

in the Midlands would give that area a few days of crisp clear weather. At Salt Lake City, Regional Supervisor Hugh M. Bryant of the Federal Land Management Bureau warned that 1,000,000 sheep were imperiled because deep snow. prevented truckloads of feed from reaching them. He charged that rotary snow plows that could have broken through to the sheep during the week end were used instead to keep roads ope" nto mountain ski resorts.

Some of the sheep have already died of starvation and 800,000 more are "in immediate he said. An official of the Utah Wool Growers Association said "the Utah sheen situation is no longer merely serious -it has reached calamitous proportions." Purial Sernice Wold For Infant Burial services were held at 2 p. m. today for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs.

Conrad H. Miller. of Lowell. The rites were conducted by the Rev. B.

W. Coe at the Lowell cemetery. The baby died shortly after birth at 6 p. m. yesterday in the Hinton hospital.

The 'Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors was in charge of arrangements. Raumond Deeds Suffers Burns C. Raymond Deeds, formerly of this city, is a patient in the Mercy Hospital at Pittsburgh as a result of burns sustained last Thursday. Mr. Deeds was employed a's a fircman on a dredge boat for the Dravo Corporation, and was burned about the arms and legs when his clothing caught fire.

His injuries are not thought to be serious, By Artillery Barrage Nanking, 17 -Negotiations to surrender Piping separately to the Communists were reported being carried on today while Nationalist troops guarding Nanking bewithdraw behind the natural barrier of the Yangtze. Reports from Peping said 8 Nationalist peace delegation of 12 men passed through NationalistCommunist lines to hear surrender terms offered by Communist Gen. Yeh Chien-Ying. Communist siege armies surrounding Peiping sharpened the ancient city's desire to surrender with a heavy weekend -artillery barrage that blasted the center of the city, with a wild rain of The peace "delegation reportedly sought surrender terms with the blessing of Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, Nationalist commander in north China who directing the city's defense.

Fu, however, did not grant the delegation carte blanche authority, to accept the Communist terms, these reports said. The peace delegation left Peiping at 1 p. m. to keep an appointment with the Communist commander at a small hotel a former imperial hunting park in the 'western hills. Gen.

Yeh, who was the Communist of the three- executive headquarters during Gen. George C. sion, arrived outside Peiping last sion, arrived outside Peping last week to conduct surrender negotiations. Communist troops are poised a ring about five or six miles outside Peiping, and much closer at points. They are opposed by a Nationalist defense belt of barbed wire, trenches, ditches.

barricades. and strong points bristling with cannon, mortars, heavy machine guns and troops. Nationalist troops approaches to Nanking were ordered pulled back more than 100 miles over the weekend to a line behind the Yangtze. The evacuation pulled all regular troops out of Pengpu, 100 miles northwest of Nanking, leaving only a small police force to preserve order. SANDSTONE FHA INITIATION SET Fifty new members of the Sandstone chapter of the Future Farmers of America will he initiated in ceremonies at the high school there evening; with members of the Talcott chapter taking part.

The FFA was revived at Sandstone this semester when vocational agriculture classes were resumed under Foster Mullenax, formerly of Parsons. program which will eventually provide every member with a purebred Hampshire sow has begun, with the donation of a sow to the chapter by Raymond Fox of Meadow Creek, veterans' training coordinator for the county. The sow was given to Archie Hall, an FFA from Green Sulphur, on condition that he breed the animal to a purebred boar selected by the club and give two of the young pigs to the club. Fox has volunteered to give the club one or more sows each year, each to be given to a member to raised and bred. Within a few years, Mullenax ex- plained, every member will own a purebred, The chapter last week held an amateur show and quiz program at the school to raise money for its various activities.

Another is planned for the near future. Court Names Constable, J. P. The Summers county court at its regular meeting today named tiee of the peace and constable jusfor Jumping Branch district and expected to appoint constables to the two vacancies in Greenbrier district this afternoon. Edward T.

Lilly of Nimitz, O. clerk, was appointed ex-C. of the peace in Jumping justice Branch, and Ralph Johnson, employe of the Ball Lumber Five persons have company, constable, applied for the two Greenbrier district left by the resignation vacancies ers, who of John Aywas elected in November and quit the day his term was to have begun, and the failure of Roscoe Honaker, elected to in November, qualify before the deadline. stabbed 36 times in the kitchen of her Brushton home a few blocks away last Dec. 10.

John Litsko 24, a steel worker, came home shortly after the assailant fled and found both children on the floor. The children were crying. He said his wife was too hysterical to tell him what happened. Police took Mrs. Litsko and the infant to.

Pittsburgh hospital for examination. The mother was released after treatment for shock. The baby was detained pending X-rays of a head, bruise. Police said Mrs. Litsko gave them a full description of the Negro.

She said he was about six feet, two inches tall, had a thin, pock-marked face, and weighed about 180 pounds. He was wearing a green hat and green tweed topcoat. Mrs. Litsko said she had left the house for only moment, to go across the street to buy a newspaper, She said she left the door, unlocked. burg, capital of Natal, broadcast warnings all residents "to stay off the streets 'and confine their native servants to quarters.

The South African cabinet was called into emergency session at" Capetown today to hear reports on the rioting by Justice Minister C. R. Swart and Defense Minister F. C. Erasmus.

Two white men were reported a- mong those killed by police, one for looting and one for defying police orders. Five planes carrying 124 police were rushed to Pietermartizburg Saturday night to put down rioting there. Riot damage at Stranger, in -the Zululand sugar belt, was estimated at $250,000. Reports from Johannesburg, in the Rand gold mining district 200 miles northwest of Durham, said tension between Zulu natives and was growing and might erupt into bloodshed. Tens of thousands of natives are employed in the mines.

Marjoe Says He Was 'Born To Preach' Long Beach. Jan. 17 (U.P) Five-year-old Marjoe Gortner wants to spend the rest of his life preaching. The boy minister told house in a sermon a packed fifth birthday yesterday that "I celebrating his was born to preach." "You may tell me to stop, but never stop. I'm going to keep right on preaching to boys and their mamas and dads," girls and he told a starding room audience.

Marjoe paused (nibble on his gilted birthday to occasionally cake, haped like a Bible. Its five candles Were shaped. liko a cross. His brother Vernoe led the congregation in singing "Happy Birthday.".