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VOL. 19—NO. 28._ WILMINGT0N7”NrcrsUNDAYrjDLY 6, 1947. “ SECTION 4—PRICE TEN CENTS
10 In State,
334 In Nation
Die Over 4th
Score By States Reported
Via The Associated
Press
155 IN TRAFFIC
119 Drown, Four From
Fireworks, 56 From
Other Causes
By The Associated Press
A‘. least ten persons have died
violently in North Carolina since
B p.m. Thursday, with the long
July 4 weekend still not over.
Drownings, highway accidents
pud an airplane crash took their
toll.
B. A. Kiser of Charlotte died
Saturday of injuries suffered in an
automobile accident there the day
jefore.
Galbreth Johnson, 38, of near
Goldsboro was killed last Friday
night when his motor bike collided
nyith an automobile.
Four persons drowned m Meck
lenburg county, Vivian Lee Ross,
17. and her cousin, June Carroll
Baucom, 16, were in a boat that
lapsized in McEwen lake at Mint
Hill, near Charlotte.
Two Charlotte Negroes, Paul
;towe, 38, and his niece, Carolyn
Riley, 11, drowned in the Catawba
•iver.
The crash of a light plane at the
Burlington airport killed Stephen
Arnold Douglas, 33, operator of a
■estaurant in Burlington, and Dr.
i\ T. Harper, 40, medical director
if the Alamance County Tubercu
osis sanitorium.
M. M. White, city engineer of
Elizabeth City for 20 years, drown
’d in little river. He was seized
by cramps while retrieving a drift
ing rowboat.
Morton Davis, 17-year-old Ne
gro, drowned in a pond in Frank
lin county.
Throughout the nation at least
834 persons had been killed in holi
day accidents by Saturday night as
the final day of the three-day
fourth of July weekend approach
(d.
Since 6 p.m. (local time) Thurs
|ay, 155 persons had been killed
a traffic accidents over the na
ion, 119 had been drowned, four
lad died in fireworks mishaps and
16 had died from other accidental i
pauses.
Pleasant weather contributed to
he heavy toll in motor accidents
ind drownings. Motor fatalities
pormally outnumber deaths from
ill other violent causes combined
put this year there was nearly as
many drownings.
The National Safety council had
predicted 275 traffic fatalities dur
pig the three-day period. There was
ome possibility this figure might
ie reached before Sunday mid
ight. The peak traffic jam was
xpected when homebound motor
sts hit the pavements Sunday
light. ..
Three of the deaths from fire
works occurred in Maryland. The
ther was in Maine.
Deaths by states from traffic,
rowning.5 and miscellaneous caus
s not connected with fireworks;
Alabama 4; Arizona 6; Arkansas
1; California 21; Colorado 7; Con
ecticut 9; Delaware 4; Florida
Continued on Page Two; Col. 2)
The Weather
Meteorological data for the 24 hours
nding 7:30 p.m. yesterday.
Temperatures
1:30 a.m. 70; 7:30 a.m. 70; 3:30 p.m. 86;
:30 p.m. 79.
Maximum 86; Minimum 66; Mean 76;
<ormal 79.
Humidity
1:30 a.m. 93; 7:30 a.m. 73; 1:30 p-m. 36.
p.m. 51.
Precipitation
Total for 24 hours ending 7:30 p.m.— ,
•00 inches.
Total since the first of the month
•17 inches.
Tides For Today
(From the Tide Tables published by
(• S. Coast and Geodetic Survey).
High Low
Wilmington 11:45 a.m. 6:51 a.m.
- p.m. 6:43 p.m.
lasonboro Inlet 9:18 a.m. 3:35 a.m.
9:41p.m. 3:24 p.m.
Sunrise 5:06; Sunset 7:27; Moonrise
p.m.; Moonset 7:44 a.m.
WASHNGTON, July 5.—(iP>—Weather
; report of temperature and rain
: - for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m., In
he principal cotton growing areas and
fn'rere:
iation High Low Prec.
iLMlN-GTON _ 8fi 65
lper.a __ _ 73 63 0.02
.n.e _ 81 61 0.47
Santa _ 89 64
■Santic City _ 80 63
ir.ningham _• 87 66
05!on _ 83 62
nfialo _ 73 61
url hgton _ 85 56 0.01
hat.onooga _ 88 62 0.50
hi'-ag0 . . _ 83 65
incinnati _ 81 60
’eveland _ '_ 86 63
aSas .. _ _ __ 95 76
envei __ 84 54
etroit __ 86 68
jSuttl _ 76 64
1 Pa'o _ 100 67
01; Worth _ _ 95 76
_ 90 79
Pl'-'r lllo___ 86 64
ansas City _ 90 75
ey West_ 85 72 0.03
noxville _ 89 65
' ' e Rock _ 89 65
,s Angeies _ ” _ __ 88 54
°uis'’p!e _ 84 60
,/"■]*:s - 90 64
- 92 65
- P6 72 0.03
,“n,'St- Paul _ 81 6 0.09
^!le -_ 89 70
- go“:raL ::::— f2 f2
- vo-ae ..—« «
3elphia _. r,0 63
it’sh’’" " -102 n2
Ubnrgh- 86 5S
Wand. Me. - 81 53
I'htno.nd - 90 63
. “ms -: 70 64 0.24
i. Br-’?hi° - 97 70
>vannah 1SC°- J* S
aattle - 88
»mp - - 78 55
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Kington J 8t 65
Senator Capehart Visits Wilmington
SENATOR HOMER CAPEHART (R-Ind.), who arrived in Wil
mington yesterday morning, confers with his host and friend, L. B.
McCormick. Sen. Capehart said he believes Congressional appropria
tions “will and should” be increased for river and harbor dredging
such as the Cape Fear river. He spoke before several hundred music
box dealers, distributors for the Capehart Music Company of which
the Senator (is founder.— (Staff Photo).
Rivers, Harbor Committee
Member Makes Inspections
By BOB KLINE
Star-News Staff Writer
• Senator Homer Capehart, Republican, of Indiana, will
be conducted on an inspection tour of the Wilmington port
and the Cape Fear river this morning aboard the U. S.
Engineers’ inspection boat, the Kitty Hawk.
Since I’ll probably have to vote '
on an appropriation bill next year
for the dredging project, I want
to learn mere about the Cape Fear
and the dredging operations now
underway,’’ he said yesterday. He
is a member of the Senate Rivers
and Harbors committee.
Col. B. C. Snow, district engi
neer, will be the Senator’s host.
Also making the trip will be
Mayor E. L. White, Harry Gard
ner, New Hanover county commis
sioner, Frederick Willetts, chair
man of the Wilmington Port Com
mission, J. T. Heirs, executive
secretary of the commission, J.
E. L. Wade, city councilman, R.
B. Page, chairman of the North
Carolina Ports’ authority and H.
E. Boyd, Wilmington industrial
traffic manager.
The boat will leave from the
Customhouse dock at 9:30 a.m.,
Colonel Snow said.
The Republican Senator said in
an interview yesterday:
“I think river and harbor dredg
ing appropriations for ports such
as Wilmington will and should in
crease during the next few years.
“This type of spending is far
better than paying to have rocks
moved from one pile to another
(Continued on Page 4, Column 4)
laborTlans
CO-OP STORES
Union Business Establish
ments Versus private
Stores
WASHINGTON, July 5 — (fP)—
The American Federation‘of Labor
today urged immediate organizat
ion of consumer cod^eration
among its members as one way
to combat the high cost of living.
“By organizing as consumers in
cooperatives.” the AFL said in its
publication “Labor’s Monthly Sur
vey”, we can mobilize our buy
mg power.
“Wheft we own our cooperative
stores, credit unions, wholesales
and factories, we can use where
ever necessary the only effective
means of reducing prices—that is,
competition in the free market
with other businesses,” the AFL
noted.
It said there has been no signi
ficant decline in the general level
of either industrial or consumer
prices this year, and that it has
(Continued on Page 2, Column 4)
Man’s Oversight
At Gas Station
Loses His Wife
ITHACA, N. Y., July 5—f/P)—Aft
er his car was serviced at a lpcal
gasoline station yesterday, Frank
Turello of Buffalo drove 28 miles,
then turned to ask his wife if she
wanted a cup of coffee.
She was gone.
Mrs. Turello, who had been
sleeping in the back seat, got out
to stretch at the gasoline station
and her husband drove off with
out her.
Turello returned an^ picked her
im before alerted police could act.
KIDNAPED’ MAN’S
BODY IDENTIFIED
Mystery Shrouds The Case;
Hoax Perpetrator To
Be Questioned
PONTIAC, Mich., July 5 — {IP)
—The body of 19-year-old Richard
Schweitzer, Detroit factory work
er whose disappearance two
months ago was followed by a
“ransom plot” against his widow
ed mother, was found in a swamp
today.
A murder ineory was nrst ad
vanced, but preliminary investi
gation failed to determine the
cause of death. Dr. Richard Ol
son, Pontiac General hospital pa
thologist, said he found no evi
dence of violence.
Berry piqkers stumbled uoon the
body lying in shallow water in a
swamp near Lake Orion Village
almost two months to the day the
young former Coast Guardsman
vanished without a trace from his
Detroit home.
Under - Sheriff Donald Menzies
of Oakland county said the body
had been identified through finger
prints and tattoo designs on both
arms. The body evidently had
lain in the swamp for weeks, of
ficers said.
Police in Detroit claimed to
have nipped an extortion attempt
against Schweitzer’s mother, Mrs.
Marie Schweitzer, 56, hospital die
tician, early last month.
At that time polices, masquer
ading as workmen and housedoor
salesmen, took into custody George
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 1)
king^carolT
LUPESCU WED
Ceremony Performed On
Her Death Bed May
Not Be Legal
-a—.
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 5—(£>)—
Former King Carol of Romania
was disclosed today to have sought
to legalize his 23 years’ compan
ionship with the gravely ill Mme.
Elena Lupescu, in a special
“death bed” ceremony.
The ceremony performed
Thursday in Carol’s luxurious
suite at the Hotel Copacabana was
requested by Mme. Lupescu under
a Brazilian law which permits
marriage to dying persons. There
were some doubts, however, as to
the legality of the action.
News of the ceremony was given
.out by Mme. Ernesto Udreanu,
wife of Carol’s secretary. She said
Mme. Lupescu was seriously ill.
Two physicians were reported
attending Mme. Lupescu. She had
suffered for many months from a
lingering illness, which earlier was
described as lukenna and was now
said to be pernicious anemia.
One witness to the bedside cere
mony said he was unauthorized to
(Continued on Page Two: Col. 4)
Boy Racers In Soap Box
Classic Must Make Cars
One basic rule concerning Soap
Box Derby car construction is that
there are certain prohibitions af
fecting bodies, Derby headquar
ters has been advised by Myron
E. Scott, director for Chevrolet,
national co-sponsor of the Derby
with The Star-News and 132 other
leading newspapers of the United
States and Canada.
AH Derby inspectors and other
race officials will be instructed to
rule out cars that _ incorporate
bodies built from airplane gas
tanks, water tanks or similar
units. Cars so built wiU not be
allowed to compete in the Wil
mington Soap Box Derby or in the
national finals, to be held 'his
year at Akron, Ohio, Aug. 17.
“The Derby seeks to develop a
boy’s mechanical talents,’’ Scott
said in a telegram to Derby head
quarters yesterday. “The more of
the car he actually builds him
self. the more the Derby activity
furthers his creative instincts.
Employment of these already-fab
ricated units is contrary to^the
basic purpose of the race.”
Scott pointed out, however, that
the rules specifically permit boy
builders to use as body covering
tin, sheet metal, aluminum, alu
minum foil, fabric, wood, leather,
paper, fibre wallboard, plywood,
linoleum or almost any other sub
stance a boy might sonceivably
err-ply.
And in ihe mail at Derby head
quarters yesterday came word
that the Soap Box Derby cham
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
Aged Lady’s
Grave Opened
In Probe Here
Midnight Grave-Side Au
topsy Proves Natural
Death
WAS WEALTHY
Friends Suspicioned Foul
Play; Lr '** Friend
'v
BY 4??\'3 S 4ANT
&&& er
Lav /sc mt officers
and {v ^ mnected with
po’ * V (^v7 Hanover county
7 o$r on city do many
4s v of them definite
i0 .o'1 e to them, in the in
tert ^ the greatest majori
ty, aiu law-abiding citizens.
And, as can be expected, nea-iy
all of these things cannot be pub
lished for the simple reason: no
case. Police, the law says, can
be sued for everything from false
arrest to the ordinary things for
which the private citizen can be
taken to court and made to pay.
It was with this thought in mind
that we decided to ‘break’ what
appeared to be one of Wilming
ton’s most sensational murders
for money.
And it would have been except
for the fact the results spelled:
no case.
But the boys, the doctors and
the grave diggers worked just as
hard—to prove it was: no case.
The confidential files of the au
thorities were thrown open to me
on this case, as well as in other
instances. Our years of experi
ence, of course, precluded the
publishing of a story without con
firmation. This story has all the
confirmation it needs: in official
files.
But it is one of those ‘no case’
results and the names of the dead
Wilmington woman of advanced
years and others involved will for
ever remain a secret, locked in
the official files.
Several months ago a woman,
who had been ill for some time,
(Continued on Page Four; Col. 6)
LEWIS ‘NOT IN’
TO SOUTHERNERS
Gives Brush-Off To Oper
ators In South; Men
To Work
WASHINGTON, July 5 — (A5) —A
24-hour hitch in signing of a soft
coal peace pact for northern
mines developed tonight, while
southern operators reported' get
ting “.a complete brush-off” from
John L. Lewis.
Lewis, bead of the United Mine
Workers, postponed until 2:30 p.m.
(E.S.T.) tomorrow Sunday) at a
meeting of his 200-member policy
committee to ratify the “agree
ment in principle” which has been
reached with the northern employ
ers of 150,000 miners. It calls for
a 44 12- cents basic hourly in
crease.
A UMW spokesman said the
lawyers “simply haven’t got the
language of the agreement work
ed out yet,” but prophesied this
would not interfere with a re
sumption of digging in 3,000 north
ern pits on Tuesday, when a 10
day industry-wide vacation ends.
Not so right was the outlook
for southern workings. A member
of the Southern Coal Producers
association reported that five un
successful attempts have been
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
Romeo In Jail
After Beating
Of Wife, Juliet
DETROIT, July 5 —(£>)—Romeo
was in jail today, charged with
beaiing Julie*.
Juliet St. Amour, 35, told police
her husband, Romeo, 39, beat her
Friday evening during a quarrel.
The couple have been separated
for two years.
CHILD’S FATHER
PROTECTS NEGRO
Attempted Criminal As
sault On Seven-Year
Old Told
ELIZABETHTOWN, July 5—Will
Thomas, Negro, about 40 years
old, was taken out of the county
for safe keeping this morning aft
er attempting to criminally assault
a seven year old white girl, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Shep Thomp
son of near Abbottsburg, Bladen
county.
The childs mother was in the
garden some distance away when
the Negro man went to the house
and asked the little girl for a
drink of water.
When she went in the house for
a glass he followed her and it is
alleged the attempted assault took
place.
The father returned in about 30
minutes and he and neighbors in
stituted search.
They found the Negro, tied him
an,i brought him to Sheriff John
B. Allen, The child was not badly
injured.
STUDENT LEFT
HOLDING BABY
Now He Wants Fountain
Pen Back Mother
Borrowed
NEW YORK, July 5—{/P)—A 23
year-old Notre Dame university
student walked into Bellevue hos
pital today and asked two infor
mation clerks if they would take
a baby girl off his hands—he had
to catch a plane.
The student, Henry J. Marvin
of Mishawaka, Ind., explained that
an attractive brunette had walked
up to him at the airlines terminal
here and asked to borrow his foun
tain pen.
She took the pen into a rest
room, he said, and left with him
a baby girl about two weeks old
and two small bags.
A few minutes later she came
back, stuffed a piece of paper into
a bag and asked him if he would
hold hte baby a few minutes long
er.
After he waited an hour and
no one around the terminal coul^
(Continued on Page Two; Cot. •)
MORE ‘FLYING SAUCERS’
SEEN AS MEN OF SCIENCE
PONDER SERIOUS ANGLES
---*
A Study In Courage
JUNIOR gets attention in spite of the fact that his mother, Mrs.
Alta Mae Ficarelli, Fresno, Calif., hasn’t any arms. Born without
arms, she plays the piano and cares for her baby with the greatest
of ease.
Bigamous Bride Narrowly
Escapes Death; Wife Dies
DUMONT, N. J., July—(AP)—For two hours Albert
H. Scharel, 55, held in his arms the bride he wed biga
mously and considered killing her, then he beat his first
wife brutally with a ballpeen hammer and killed him
self. *
His first wife, Mrs. Marie
Sehabel, 46, mother of his two
grown children, was in Englewood
hospital with serious head injuries
today. Physicians believed she
would recover. Police held his
second wife, the former Natalie
E. Wilson, 45, of Brooklyn for
questioning.
Sehabel killed himself with a .25
caliber rifle early yesterday as
two policemen rushed to the home
after neighbors had complained of
women screaming.
Ponce Capt. Herbert Aigmrs
said he found Schabel dead in an
upstairs bedroom, the rifle by his
side.
Schabel was salesman, about
six feet tall, robust, handsome,
with greying hair, police said he
was highly respected in the com
munity.
While he caressed his bride in
the dim light of an electric can
dle, he held an ice pick in one
hand.
Schabel married his second
wife, whom Allmers descried .as
“a country girl from Brooklyn,”
on June 12 at Brooklyn city hall.
She had known him for 10 years,
but believed he was no longer
married, she said.
Allmers said they spent a two
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
ARMY BELIEVES
C-54 IS LOST
Part Of Plane Found In
Ocean May Spell
The Worst
WE£T PALM BEACH, Fla.,
July 5—(A5)—Army authorities fear
ed ' the -‘worst” today in their
search for a missing C-54 military
cargo plane with six aboa'rd as
the Atlantic Ocean gave up an
oxygen bottle and a yellow cush
ion identified as army aircraft
equipment.
The equipment, among numer
ous pieces of wreckage reported
sighted by searching planes in an
area 300 miles northeast of Palm
Beach, was identified by Maj. L.
R. Humphreys, commanding offi
cer of the 5th air rescue squadron
at Morrison army air field here,
but he emphasized that “there is
no assurance it is from the miss
ing plane.”
Tile plane left Kindley field,
Bermuda, Thursday morning, and
was due at Morrison field that
afternoon.
FLOOD WATERS
SAID RECEDING
Mississippi, Lapping Sec
ond Floors, Reported
Stalled
GRAND TOWER, 111., July 5 —
(A5)—The muddy Mississippi, lap
ping at second floors of some
Grand Tower buildings,, appeared
to have leveled off today after
reaching the highest peaks in. over
100 years between St. Louis and
Cairo, 111.
An estimated 600 homeless per
sons of this town’s 1,000 popula
tion were sheltered in tents and
two s'choolhouses on high ground.
Mayor Jesse Grammer said it
wouid take two weeks for all the
water to drain from the town if
the river falls at the rate predict
ed.
At St. Louis, Harry F. Wahl
gren, U. S. meteorologist, said a
fall of 1.7 feet was expected in
the next 48 hours at St. Louis
with a slight drop extending as
far south as Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
and Cairo late tonight or tomor
row. The river was stationary at
the southern points.
U. S. army engineers said
levees would hold in Perry coun
ty on the Missouri side and across
the river between Preston and
McClure in Illinois. The crest was
at least one foot below the bar
riers’ tops on both sides.
However, the few remaining
levees protecting farmland on
both sides of tie Mississippi in
the St. Louis area were still term
ed critical despite the river’s
drop. The Mississippi, still more
than nine feet above flood stage,
can exert a lot of pressure against
soggy dikes already weakened by
rain, sand boils and three weeks
of high water, engineers said.
At Dupo, 111., Mayor Delmar E.
Valine said the danger of over
topping a hastily constructed dike
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 3)
Survivor Tells
How Tornado Blew
House From Head
DETROIT, July —A resi
dent of suburban Dearborn got a
firsthand description today of the
tricks played by the tornado in
North Dakota and Minnesota.
John Stoltman said his brother,
Victor Stoltman, telephoned from
Oslo, Minn., to tell of running to
shelter in his basement with his
wife and children.
Then. . .
“The house sailed from over our
heads like a balloon and was toss
ed 100 feet away.
“The family car landed in some
trees, and the bam and other
sheds sailed out of sight.
“A wagon wheel just' missed us
when it whirled into the base
ment.”
Disc Stops And Reverses
Self In Flight, Disappears
Astronomers Say They Are Man-Made; Pilot
Jokes But Wireless Report Shows Him
Frightened and Nervous Later; Not
Atomic—Lilienthal
By The Associated Press
The nation was baffled late Saturday night and dur
ing the day by “flying saucers” reported seen in 28 states
by hundreds of persons, and conjectures came from scores
of named and unnamed sources throughout the country.
Official government sources took a “let’s see one”
stand on the phenomenon, ad so scietists proffered a de
tailed explaation.
But the Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express
quoted an unnamed California Institute of Technology scien
tist in nuclear physics as suggesting that the saucers might
be the result of experiments in “transmutation of atomic
energy.” Dr. Harold Urey, atom scientist at the University
of Chicago, called that “glibberish.”
FIGHTER PLANES
READY FOR DISCS
P-51 Ships Are Alerted To
Photograph
Objects
By The Associated Press
Col. A1 Dutton, commanding of
ficer of the Oregon National
Guard, announced Saturday night
that the Guard’s squadron would
attempt to photograph any future
apparitions of the flying discs.
He said six P-51 fighter planes,
equipped with gun and telescopic
cameras, would be kept ready to
take cff on a moment’s notice.
States where the discs have been
reported:
Oregon, Washington, California
Idaho, Arizona, New Mexico, Tex
as, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado
Missouri, Nebraska, Michigan, In
diana, Louisiana, Kentucky, Geor
gia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Arkan
sas, Tennessee, Maine, Florida
Utah, Maryland, Iowa, Kansas and
the District of Columbia.
241,964 WAR
CLAIMS FILED
Philippines Seek $184,
661,810 Damages Based
On War
MANILA, Sunday, July 6—C/P)—
The U. S. War Damage commis
sion announced today receipt of
241,964 claims for Philippines
property losses totaling $184,661,
810.
The commission reported that,
until the end of the fiscal year
June 30, a total of 2,599 claims had
been settled with payments slight
ly more than $250,000. To meet all
claims, the commission was grant
ed $400,000,000.
Unofficial estimates by high gov
ernment sources placed Philip
pines reparations claims against
Japan at between $3,500,000,000 and
$4,000,000,000.
Robbins Held
In Knife Affair
At Carolina Beach
B. M. Robbins, 50. of Wilming
ton, an employe of Spofford Mills,
was arrested last nigbt at Caro
lina Beach, charged with assault
with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill, and confined to jail with
out bond pending the outcome of
injuries suffered by his brother-in
law, Spurgeon Brittman, of Lum
berton.
Brittman was taken to a local
hospital for treatment of lacera
tions about the neck. The arrest
was made by Assistant Chief Floyd
Whitman and Office G. W. Wolfe.
Police reported Brittman had
lost a “lot of blood and was giv
en plasma.”
APPRECIATIVE
NEW YORK (U.R) — Mrs. Mary
Quayle, 82, asked her,son to thank
ihe three firemen who were so nice
to her during a fire in her home.
Fire Commissioner Frank Quavle
promised that he would do so, per
sonally.
I---- ---
Beaches Attract Millions
(In Dollars) Over Weekend
Resorts of Southeastern North
Carolina enjoyed a ‘big business’
category over the Fourth of July
weekend with more than $3,500,000
being left in cash registers of ho
tel and rooming house operators
and concessionaires, it is estimat
ed.
The figure is derived from the
$10 per day estimate spent by
each visitor, according to a com
pilation made by Mrs. Ahce
Strickland, town clerk, Carolina
Bsach.
That the figure is conservative
is shown by the fact that 150,000
persons hsed facilities of beaches
from New River inlet to the South
b ‘
Carolina line yesterday and the
Fourth with an even larger num
ber expected today.
Mrs. Strickland pointed out that
with 60,000 persons visiting Caro
lina Beach Friday, many had re
mained and those leaving were be
ing supplemented by a never-end
ing stream of cars passing over
the highways.
Wrightsville Beach played host
to an estimated 25,000 visitors
while the balance of 150,000 per
sons were divided with 25,000 at
Kure’s and Fort Fisher beaches
and 40,000 at Topsail, Rich's inlet.
Wilmington Beach, Southport, j
(Continued on Page Two; Col. S)
h m
At Columbus. Ohio. Louis E.
Starr, national commander-in-chief
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
asserted at a VFW convention he
was expecting information from
Washington about “the fleets of
flying saucers.” “Too little is be
ing told to the people of this coun
try,” Starr declared.
Two Chicago astronomers said
the , 1iscs are Probably “man
made. The undulating, flashing
objects “couldn’t be meteors,
If1 u?r’ ®rarc‘ Kieuper, director
of the University of Chicago's
Yerxes observatory at Williams
■oay, Wis.
‘‘We realize,” said Dr. Oliver
Tee, director of Northwestern Uni
versity s Dearborn observatory,
that the Army and Navy are
working on all sorts of things we
know nothing about.”
Lee said ti;e discs might repre
sent the same sort of thing as
sendmg radar signals to the moonSj
one of the greatest technological
achievements, of the war and ac
complished in absolute secrecy ”
Tiie unnamed scientist quoted by
the Los Angeles Herald and ex
press said, according to the paper
that “these saucers so-called are
capable of high speeds but can be
controlled from the ground. They
are 20 feet in width in the center
and are partially rocket propelled
on the takeoff. ’
The scientist’s* report of “trans
mutation of atomic energy ” how
ever, was scoffed at by Dr. Harold
Drey, atom scientist. “You can
tansmute metals, not energy,’* he
said.
Col. F. J. Clark, commanding of
ficer of the Hanford engineering
works in the Pacific northwest
where the largest saucer influx has
been reported, said the saucers
were not coming from the atomic
plant there.
“I have been waiting for some
one to tie the discs to the Han
ford atomic plant,” he said. He
declared that at far as he knew
no experiments were underway
there which would solve the mys
ery.
Credence in the saucers—idely
laughed off at their first report
ed appearance June 25—grew as
hundreds of observers, many of
them trained fliers, reported see
ing them.
A crowd of 200 Observed a
disc at Hauser Lake, Idaho, on the
Fourth of July. A group 0f 60 pic
nickers saw them at Twin Falls,
Idaho. And in Portland, Ore., so
many residents witnessed them
that same day the police depart
ment sent out an all-cars broad
cast.
A United Air Lines pilot of 14
years experience walked up the
ramp to his plane at Buise, jok
ing that “I’ll believe in these discs
when I see them.” Ten minutes
later he radioed, shaken, from
his plane that he had spotted five
of them.
Witnesses in two points of Cali
fornia and in Spokane—one of
them an Army Air Force sergeant
—reported seeing the discs Satur
day.
Two persons in different - sec
tions of Charleston, S. C.—one of
them a newspaper reported—said
a flying saucer passed over Char
leston heading East at 6:20 p.m.
EST, Saturday at about the same
time two men in Albany, Ore.,
saw a single disc flash southward,
halt, and retrace, its course before
vanishing into a cloud.
Throughout the West and at
other scattered points hundreds
of persons insisted they saw the
mysterious sky dies skimming far
overhead. *
Both ground and aerial observers
reported they saw the strange
saucers over Idaho, Oregon, Wash
ington, California, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Louisiana, anj Canada’s
East coast Prince Edward island.
Nearly all observers said the
saucers they saw were round, flat
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Holiday Baby Born
To No*fsingers
At James Walker
At least one patriotic baby was
born Friday, July 4, in Wilming
ton, but it was too late last night
to make a comprehensive check
for others.
The Independent day miss is
Margaret Brock Noffsinger, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Noffsing
er, 101 Bryan avenue, who was
born in James Walker Memorial
hospital at 5:51 p. m.