The Wilmington morning star. [volume], December 08, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Page 16, Image 16

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18 YANKS KILLED
IN V-BOMB BLAST
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FORCE PARIS, Dec. 7—UP)—A V
bomb which exploded recently m
the courtyard of an American
Army hospital in Belgium killed
18 American military personnel
and eight Belgian civilians and
wounded 50 persons in the medical
corps, it was disclosed today.
The victims included doctors,
nurses, enlisted personnel and pa
tients. Four ambulances in the
courtyard were demolished and a
three story wing of the hospital
was destroyed. Fire exploded in
the pharmacy, where oxygen
tanks and alcohol exploded.
(The first accounts of the bomb
hit, received November 29, said 12
persons were killed but did not
identify them as Americans. There
were 1,150 patients in the hospital.)
“Everyone was knocked on their
ears for an instant,” the colonel
commanding the rospital reported.
“They clicked immediately and
went to work. Nurses with blood
streaming down their faces were
giving first aid and carrying lit
ters, and walking patients helped.”
Arrangements were made with
Belgian authorities for the use of
another building and the whole
hospital was moved in hour and a
half.
DEMILLE SEEKS
AID OF COURT
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7. — (^P>—
Cecil B. DeMille today asked Su
perior Court to enjoin the American
Federation of Radio Artists from
suspending him for refusal to pay
a $1 assessment.
r'hc radio and movie producer,
who declined to contribute to a
fund to combat proposition No. 12,
ihe so-called “right to work” State
constitutional amendment on the
November 7 ballot, alleged that co
workers on his Monday evening
air show have been told they may
not perform if the fee is not paid.
His complaint asserted that the
union plans to bar him from the
organization, solely because of the
filing of the injunctive action and
1ha . the other performers on his
program have been urged not to
appear if the suit is filed.
The complaint named 34 AFRA j
directors. DeMille declared his 1
suspension would cause him ir
reparable damage after eight
years’ building up an audience for
the program,
Fe contended the suspension
w- d create an impression that
be had committed acts detrimental
10 unionism whereas, he added, he
is not opposed to unionism.
12 CHILDREN HURT
IN SCHOOL BUS AND
TRUCK COLLISION
COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 7.—UP)—
Twelve high school children were
injured, some seriously, in the col
lision of a school bus and a con
struction truck at a highway in
tersection this afternoon near their
school at Swansea, 20 miles south
west of here.
Approximately 25 children were
in the 15-year-old bus, the body of
which was demolished, the State
Highway Patrol reported.
The injured children, four girls
and eight boys, and the bus driver
and owner, Jim Rucker, were
brought to the Baptist hospital
here in three ambulances and sev
eral cars.
All hospital attendants and sev
eral outside doctors were called
in for the emergency. Injured chil
dren were put in emergency and
operating and reception rooms and
the hospital lobby was crowded
with parents and relatives of the
injured.
18 Americans, Britons
Killed In Plane Crash
LONDON, Dec. 7—(IP)—The Paris
radio said tonight that 18 Ameri
cans and Britons were killed when
a military transport plane crashed
In the Pyrenees near Perpignan
yesterday. Five others on board
were injured.
The broadcast said the plane
crashed on a 7,000 foot peak and
that the bodies had not been re
covered.
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SENATE LAUNCHES
CIGARET INQUIRY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— (ffi —
Chairman Mead (D-NY) disclosed
today the opening of a full-fledged
inquiry into the cigarette shortage
by the Senate War Investigating
Committee.
He set a public hearing for nex'
Wednesday for questioning of rep
resentatives of the National Asso
ciation of Tobacco Distributors,
the War Department, manufactur
ers, the War Manpower Commis
sion and the War Food Adminis
tration.
Reporting on a preliminary
checkup by staff investigators.
Mead said their findings indicated
that more cigarettes are being
manufactured than ever before,
but that the armed forces’ reo”ire
ments have almost doubled since
last year.
This has resulted in shortages
in the civilian supply, he said,
which may be expected to con
tinue.
FIRESTONE FIRM
TO UTILIZE PLANT
NEAR BURLINGTON
BURLINGTON, Dec. 7—(1P>—The
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co will
begin manufacture of war material
in a plant here in the near future,
Rep. Carl T. Durham’s office in
Washington said today.
The company will use the plant
formerly occupied by the aircraft
division of the Fairchild Engine
and Airplane Co.
The announcement was made by
Rep. Durham’s office and Sam Hus
bands, president of the Defense
Plant Corporation, to a group of
Burlington citizens now in Wash
ington inquiring into the status of
the idle plant.
The new project calls for some
$7,000,000 to $10.000;000 worth of
equipment to be moved to Burling
ton, the delegation was told.
From 1,200 to 15.00 persons, most
os them highly skilled, would be
required to operate the plant. The
production schedule is to begin as
soon as the plant can be put into
operation, Rep. Durham’s office
said.
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I DISCOMFORTS
SENATOR ATTACKS
BRITAIN’S POLICY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.— (.« —
Senator Ellender (D-La) asserted
in the Senate today that Great j
Britain is engaged by force of
arms in “dictating” the choice of
leaders in liberated Italy and
Greece.
Thus, he said, Britain “is taking
the lead in causing disunity among
the Allies.”
Ellender introduced a resolution
to put the Senate on record as
opposing the formation of military
blocs, regional alliances among
the nations of Europe as “inimical
to international peace and securi
ty.”
He declared the resolution would
be “a warning to Great Britain,
and in fact to all nations, that
we as a nation propose to help
formulate a world security or
ganization and that this organiza
tion is not to be looked upon with
suspicion or as a makebelieve or
ganization ”
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DEATH SENTENCE
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 7.— UP)—Henry
Sparks, 33-year-old Negro, was
convicted today of criminalty as
saulting a young white woman and
was sentenced to die in Florida’s
electric chair.
HOUSE APPROVES
INCREASED FUNDS
FOR ASSISTANTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—I®—'The
House voted today to allow its
members $3,000 more yearly for
clerical help. , ,
Backers of the plan pushed it
through the House and on to the
Senate by a roll call vote of 202 to
88
Sponsors said the increase—from
$6,500 to $9,500 yearly—is needed
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Rep. Smith <R-oit ,
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