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13-Year-Old Again Fondres Rattlesnake That Bit Her STONE CREEK, Va., Oct. 12. (u.R) — Thirteen-year-old fay Nolan, her right hand still blue and 'paralyzed after a “miracu lous” recovery from snakebite and gangrene, foundled the rattlesnake which bit her while 6 000 persons watched today atop Little Black Top mountain, 50 feet inside Kentucky. More than 80 members of the snake-handling faith healers' cult gathered on the mountain top for five and one-half hours ot preaching, climaxed when they wrapped 17 rattlesnakes and eopperheads around their necks, twined them through their hair and put them inside their eloth *%he ohiW. bitten lest month at a similar meeting, returned to "vanquish” the snake which fenged her. When gangrene in fected her swollen hand, her parents whisked her away from their home in the cult's temple at Caywood, Ky., and hid her from doctors for a recovery on faith alone. . Fay said she had no feeling in her right hand, which was drawn and blue with two red marks at the base of her thumb where the fangs struck. She was unable to move it, and used her left hand to caress two baby rattlers and the large one which bit her. Half a dozen Virginia highway patrolmen arrived to enforce the state's anti-snake handling law, but the cultists stepped over into Kentucky. Kentucky highway patrolmen merely directed traffic as hundred of cars parked for a mile and a half on either side of the border. __ ARMORED (Co*tt»ued F»om Page One) seep a eh>»* watch on the Syrians. Last Thursday the Arab League council in a meeting at Beirut, Lebanon, voted to cor don off what it called “terror ist organizations and aionist forces” in Palestine by moving troups from the Arab countries in the league up to the bound aries of the Holy Land. (Beirut dispatch quoted a etril attache of the Lebanese war ministry as saying that two •ompanies of Lebanese troops were moved near the Svrian Palestine frontier Thursday for maneuvers. The attache, who visited the area, said the Le banese soldiers were stationed i in the mountains about 15 miles from the actual border. (A Ciro dispatch told of Arab troop movements from the South. This account quoted a spokesman of the Moslem Brotherhood Association = say ing the vanguard of brother hood army of 10,000 men had reched Rafa, a Mediterranean port on the Egyptian-Palestine border. This informant said the group was part of what he call ed a “Save Palestine Army” trained by Egyptian officers who fought in the First World War.) YOURS THE PLEASURE OF DINING OUT! ST. JOHN S TAVERN RESTAURANT LUNCHEON 114 Orange St-Tel. 2-8086 Noon to 2:30 DINNER Six to 8:30 i i m •mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WHY BE FAT\? lat plenty yet lose weight with doctor's amazing candy plan Have a more slender, graceful fig ure. 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Reports from all sections in dicate that only partial support was given by restaurants and housewives to President Tru man’s request that they refrain from serving meat on Tuesday, eggs and poultry on Thursday and that every American save at least one slice of bread a day. The restaurant rndustry has been particularly rebellious and Luckman has scheduled an emergency conference with its representatives tomorrow in an effort to win it over. Robert J. Wilson, secretary of the National Restaurant Indus try advisory committee, said restaurant owners never have felt “that anything is saved through meatless and poultry less days.” “We don’t want to buck the President or make anybody hungry,” he said. “But he add ed that the industry’s first duty is to the American peop.e and “the people are not sold on this thing ” Has Own Program 'Phe industry has Its own con servation program which does not-include meatless or poultry lees days. It calls instead tor smaller portions, less waste, better oooking and the use of more plentiful foods. Luckman so far has refused to consider the restaurant own ers’ plan as an alternative to his own. There has been no in diction just what stand the in dustry will take if tomorrow’s eomfr'ence fails to resolve the impasse. By J. R. WOOD GURR Jewelers Wilminvton's Fin© Jeweler 2G4 N. Front 8t. Dial 2-1311 Drake’s Bakery FRENCH AND DANISH PASTRIES, FRENCH SALT RISING PUMPERNICKLE AND WHITE BREAD. Fourth and Castle Sts. Dial 2-0427 r— GET THIS BARGAIN TODAY JfltfS Antiseptic HAIR TONIC JIM* 50t CRIAM OH i $]oo VAlUElJ FOR BBT RESULTS I, Use JERIS Antiseptic Hair Tonic every day! « Use a few drops of JHIIS * Cream Oil every other day! 4 Massage scalp briskly every day! nm MB CO.. 80S I. MOW h., now yomc h m. And my to ym kmnWr "Jim*" plkasbi PAPA PIGEON (Continued From Page One) Long billed mamas and papas apparently aren’t upset at hatch ing out short billed babies. And short billed parents seem to make out all right feeding long billed youngsters. But it’s one baby sitting situ ation that’s really a life or death matter. Other pigeon facts, a la Han son. . . ... Pigenos come in all sizes, shapes and colors, but their an cestry can be traced back to one birdthe ledge roosting blue rock dove. This hardy pioneer is found in Europe, Asia and Africa. Early aviators had all sorts of trouble until one of them noticed a tumbler pigeon. The tumbler has known all along that a loop the-loop must be done with a somesault backwards, not front wards. Mama pigeons sit on their eggs from late afternoon until mid morning. Then the old man takes over. After the eggs hatch, pa works hardest at feeding the youngsters. Racing pigeons are so conscient ious that papa will fly faster if there are babies at home. “He just can’t stand the thought of the kids going to bed hungry, ' explains Hanson. Nobody knows how many people raise pigeons in this coun try, but it runs into the hundreds of thousands. These raisers have a royal pre cedent for their hobby. Queen Victoria was crazy about pigeons, and so was King George. But V. and G. were Johnny come latelies. Rameses III of Egypt bragged about the fancy birds he donated to various temples. The Roman Historian Pliny tells of Lucius Axius, who paid the equivalent of $75 for a pair of pigeons. Modern breeders will go higher than that. (A pigeon has sold for as much as $2,000). But don’t tell Pliny. Pliny thought Lucius was bird brained for paving $75, ROAMING FARMERS (Continued From Page One) the ear# and examine the akele tons. The entrance to the cave is a email hole, large enough to admit only one man. Thirty feet down, however, the aperture widens out into a series of elab orate underground passages. Higginbottam's farm is near Fort Witten, a former Indian stronghold, and one theory is that the skeletons are those of members of a lost Indian tribe. LIQUOR WORKERS . — (Continued From Page One) act for an injunction restraining | them from closing down and i suits for damages for any loss j of wages as a result. Union President Joseph O’Neill told Mr. Truman in his Telegram that the union has no intentions of blocking any part of the food conservation pro gram, but he feels the holiday would not materially increase the amount of food needed for Western Europe. He insisted that the union be represented at the further meetings on the proposed holi day and that Secretary of La bor Levis B. Schwellenbach be called in to the conference tomorrow in Washington with Charles Luckman, chairman of the President’s citizens food committee, Secretary of Agri culture Clinton P. Anderson and other officials. damagT (Continued From Page One) area with its hardest punches. As the damage and casualties were counted tonight it was easily regarded the most trea cherous blow of the most harrow ing hurricane in memory. Accompanied by soaking rains and small tornadoes the winds of more than 75 miles an hour piled destruction on the winter wonderland for the second time in less than a month. A $2,000 000 damage estimate for the Mi ami area alone was made by City Manager Richard Danner. MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 12—W— The weathern Bureau issued the following advisory at 10:30 p. m. (EST at latitude 28.4 longitude 76.8 or about 235 miles East Northeast of Palm Beach Fla. . It is moving in a direction be tween Nri'theast and East North east at about 15 miles per hour. Highest winds are about 60 miles per hour and heavy squalls extend outward about 60 miles from the center in all Easterly and Northerly qua drants. The storm should continue to move to the Northeast or East Northeast at about 15 miles per hour. The area of high winds should increase some during the next 24 hours. Ships to the East and Northeast of the center should exercise caution. SPRINGER COAL & OIL CO. Phone 2-0335 HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS By Alley r LAWPl PAT CTAR 6WIME 6lT WHAP. HE AwiMt PufVN SOON NO*J BUT Hit AIN' I.AKLT TO BE WMAR HI STARTED OUT FOR'.’. j W-»5-*7 *■ »•». 0A<«« REAL ESTATE (Continued From Page One) lobbies, is credited with having originated the 15 per cent “vol untary” rent increase clause in corporated in the present rent law. Rent director Frank Creedon announced meantime that rent boosts under this clause—which must be coupled with leases runing through 1948 — have been signed by 1,283,253 ten ants, about 8.2 per cent of the 15,700,000 renters protected by rent ceilings. The provision, denounced by President Truman, was design ed as a measure of gradual de control, allowing landlords somewhat higher rent but as suring tenants protection of a lease at the new rate at least 10 months after the present act expires. Accuses Lobby President Truman, when he signed the rent act on June 30, accused the “real estate lobby” of brazen operations and ruth less disregard of the public wel fare in its opposition to rent control and housing legislation. He did not name NAREB or any other group. Sen. C. Douglass Buck, R., Del., chairman of the Senate Banking sub-committee that acts on rent control, has said he will urge an extension of the present rent law. Other committee members who said they will favor an ex tension are Sens. John J. Sparksman, D., Ala., and Jo seph J. McCarthy, R., Wig. The Weather P 1 AD WEATHER __ 9 Weather bureau report of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 pm. In the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere; Station High Low R’fall WILMINGTON _ 77 67 .00 Alpena _ 6£ 52 .00 Asheville _ 71 58 .00 Atlanta _ 76 59 .00 Atlantic City_ — 59 .00 Birmingham ___ 79 62 .00 Boston _ 66 48 . 00 Buffalo _ 77 52 .00 Burlington _ 75 39 .00 Charlotte_ 67 59 .01 Chattanooga _ 84 57 . 00 Chicago _ 83 54 .00 Cincinnati _ 81 59 .42 Cleveland _ 80 56 . 00 Dallas _ 86 64 . 00 Denver _66 86 .72 Detroit __ 78 48 .00 Duluth __ 62 54 .19 El Paso _ — 56 .00 Fort Worth_ 36 65 .00 Galveston _ 85 75 . 00 Houston _ 86 85 .00 Jacksonville _ 77 70 .03 Kansas City _ 70 65 .00 Key West _ 84 75 .00 Knoxville _ 80 62 .00 Little Rock __ 86 57 .00 Los Angeles _ 76 57 .00 Louisville _ 83 59 .00 Memphis - 86 66 . 00 Meridian _ 81 64 .00 Minn.-St. Paul _ 63 55 .39 Miami - 83 72 .00 Mobile - 79 64 .00 Montgomery _ 79 62 .00 New Orleans_ 83 70 .00 New York - 68 52 .00 Norfolk - 70 65 . 04 Philadelphia _— 49 .00 Phoenix -—'l- 68 36 .00 Pittsburgh - 78 57 00 Portland, Me._ 60 39 .00 Raleigh - 74 59 .02 Richmond _ 73 61 .00 St. Louis - 88 59 .00 San Francisco_ 81 59 .00 Savannah - 77 67 .00 Seattle - 65 53 .00 Tampa - 86 72 .00 Vicksburgh _ 87 55 .00 Washington _ 72 B1 .00 FLAMING OBJECT (Continued From Page One) have been launched, said none of the missies had been fired since Oct. 9. Maj. Gen. John L. Homer, Fort Bliss commander and mili tary officials at air fields and other installations in the South west, said that no guided mis siles had been fired today- and no rocket planes were missing from fields in the area. Speed of Stars At least four persons saw the fiery object darting through the skies “with the speed of a falling star” at approximately 8:30 a. m. (MST) and many peo ple in theFabrens, Tex., area, 28 miles East of El Paso on the Mexican border, heard the ex plosion of the body when it struck. Two persons on the highway between El Paso and Fabens re ported seeing an unaccounted for billow of smoke in the Zam alayuca mountains about the time that the explosion was heard. Sabas Aranda a reserve Cap tain of the Mexican Army, was the first to report the incident. Captain Aranda, unable to reach the Juarez military garrison by telephone, went to the U.S. cus toms house, four miles South east of Fabens, and reported the incident to J. C. Bunnell, U.S. customs inspector. Smoke Covers Area J.W. Hooten, editor of the El Paso Times, said Bunnell tele phoned Sheriff Alan Falby here that the mayor and other offici als of Guadalupe, Mexico, across the border from Fabens, had informed him that they saw the object, about five feet long and three feet in diameter, come over the town traveling about 30 meters above the ground and explode with a terrific noise and that smoke was still thick in the impact vicinity three hours later. Hooten said that the Guada lupe officials declared the bomb came from the direction of the United States. SHARK EYES (Continued From Page One) “We fired a flare at the buoy,” said Mrs. Van Buren. “We felt a little silly when we realized what we had done.” Second Mate Ralph Swafford, New Orleans, aboard the John Harlan spotted one of the flares at 2:40 a. m., Saturday. The couple soon was picked up. Van Buren said that when they boarded the freighter, “the crew looked like Gods to us.” Looking back over the ex perience, Van Buren said they were fully aware of the serious ness of their situation. He re counted how they rationed food and water supplies until they gave out, and of how they spread bath towels out on the deck dur ing ran squalls and then squeez ed the water into their mouths. Van Buren said they had writ ten on the bulkheads of their small vessel information to sur vivors relating to insurance policies and deposit boxes. The freighter took the Nancy 11 under tow, but the line parted after several miles. Van Buren said a search would be made for it after he and his wife had re turned to their home at St. Petersburg. CAPEFEAR (Continued From Page One) memorable visit to Wilmington, November 5, 1863, and was the guest of General W. H. C. Whit ing at his residence on the North side of Market street be tween Front and Second streets. He addressed the townspeople from the gallery of General Whiting’s home at 9 a.m. on the day of his arrival, and spoke to a regiment of soldiers commanded by Colonel E. R. Hall, from the Princess street entrance of the bank of the State of North Carolina later in the day. His primary purpose in coming to Wilmington, how ever, was to inspect the works for the defense and protection of the port. - COPP. 1147 ey NtA SERVICE. IHC. T. M. BEC. U. S. pat. OFf. You should have found out what shape the gym would put you in before you started going!” Tommy Has Best-Perhaps Last-Christmas Yesterday DETROIT, Oct. 12 — UP) — Tommy Scott had his best—and perhaps his last—Christmas to day. . Outside, the sun shone bright ly, the mercury hovered near 80 and a ground covering of only a few brilliantly colored autumn leaves added to the incongruity.. But Tommy’s- doctor, J J. An gel, explained that Dec. 25 might come a little late for the nine year-old boy. A cancer of the lymph, he said, may cause death at any time. So an atmosphere of holiday gayety was created inside the modest Scott home near subur ban Wayne. A fully-trimmed tree sparkled over dozens of gifts, and there was turkey, ice cream, cake and everything to meet a boy’s desire. Tommy romped all day with j his five brothers and sisters and neighborhood children invited in to help him celebrate. Not once was he told to slow down or rest. A child's curiosity naturally prompted the question: Why Christmas in October? Tommy’s parents, . Mr. and Mrs. Lester Scott, put it this way: Tommy has been in and out of hospitals since last spring, when his ailment was discovered. When Christmas comes he might be very ill again and unable to be home. That lessened the wonderment of the little celebrants. They wouldn’t have understood the meaning of "incurable” anyway. TRADGEDY OF SEA SNARES CHILDREN Bodies Of Five Lie Trapped In Submerged End Of Steamer POWELL RIVER, B. C„ Oct. 12—(U.fi)—The bodies of three small children and two women tonight lay trapped in the sub merged after-end of the passen ger vessel Gulf Stream which rammed full speed into a huge rock off Mystery Reef in Queen Charlotte Sound 10 miles North of here. Nine other passengers and the vessel’s 22 crewmen were rescu ed from the wave-lashed top of Dinner Rock by two fishpack ing boats a few minutes after the vessel crashed into the rock. The frightened survivors leap ed from the Gulf Stream’s slanting deck onto Dinner Rock and clunt to its slippery surface until the Betty L. and the Ivan hoe pulled alongside for the res cue. The two boats rushed them to Powell River where seven pas sengers and three crewmen were being treated in a hospital for cuts, bruises, shock and ex posure. None was in serious con dition. Two passengers and 19 crewmen did not require hospi talization. Diver Enroute The salvage vessel Salvor was enroute from Vancouver, B. C.J with Diver George Unwin who said he would dive for the bodies at dawn tomorrow. Scene of the sea tragedy lies 90 miles Northwest of Vancouver on a treacherous passage between Sa vory Island and the British Col umbia mainland. Trapped in the submerged stern of the Gulf Stream were the bodies of Mrs. K. Elliott of Vancouver; her two-year-old son, Lyal; three-year-old Douglas Lipsett, son of Mrs. Elliott’s sis ter in Vancouver; Mrs. S. Fleck of Cove, and the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. H. Pavid of Re fuge Cove. Refuge Cove, 20 miles north of Powell River, was the next scheduled stop of the Gulf Stream on its Northern Run. The Pavid child, 1 1-2 years old, was swept from its father’s arms as he tried to make his way across the heaving deck of the ship, which sprawled at a 90 degree angle across Dinner Rock, its bottom ripped open and its stern sinking. Capt. Jack Craddock said he had just left the bridge in charge of second mate Ray Ketzhem and was climbing down the ladder when the ship crash ed. “It was all over in 10 sec onds,” Ketzhem said. “It was 8:20 p.m., and we were on course. A brisk Southeaster was blowing and we were fighting a heavy swell that must have pull ed us into the rock.” Dinner Rock, which juts 50 feet out of the water and is about the size of a city block, was shrouded by a mist, he said. VIOLENCE TAKES (Continued From Page One) folk Southern freight train near Zebulon. Nash County Coroner M. C. Gulley ruled that the death of Staley Woodley Pearce, 27, whose body was found in the gas-filled bathroom of his home at Nashville Saturday, was self destruction and that no inquest would be held Hit By Auto Dewey Frank Pugh, 24, of Winston-Salem, was killed early Sunday when struck by an au o mobile near his home. William Jackson, 26-year-old Negro, was snot anci Killed by ] Patrolman Benjamin Hicks in | Thomasville Friday in what a | coronor’s jury ruled was justfa- i ble homicide. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service YOUR FUR COAT . . Does it need alterations for the new season? Does it need repairing ot any description? Consult Our Stylist Mrs. H ■’Trfef Pliant In Our New FDR RUST Yl.I.NG DEPARTMENT HI# Dawson Street UNIONS TO FIGHT (Continued From Page One) (ion’s annual convention vote the immediate establishment of “la bor’s education and political legue”—the first permanent po litical action unit in the AFL's 66-year history. Murry said the “infamous” Taft-Hartley labor law was a direct result of inaction on the part of trade unionists in the 1946 Congressional elections. Learn Hard Way “We have learned the hard way that reaction and business, beaten on the field of economic struggle, can and will use the political arm of our democracy as a potent weapon against la bor,” the CIO chieftain said. “Perhaps the unparalleled attack of the past year has been good for us for we emerge both financially and numerically stronger than ever. “In 1948 we proposed to turn out a vote of not less than 60 000.000,” he added: “The basic issue of the 1948 elections is already clear—Con gress enacted the Taft-Hartley act; Congress will repeal the Taft-Hartley act.” Murray defended wage in creases won by labor earlier this year as “the one major de velopment on the economic front that has stood in the way of an economic collapse.” “Industry has used and con tinues to use higher wage: costs as an excuse to pass on the public higher prices,” he said. “But this excuse is no thing more than an excuse—let no one be decieved.” He said the wage increases added much-needed purchasing i power to "the mass of American workers” without cutting into the high profits of industry. “The present high level to which profits have risen is com plete testimonial to the fact that higher prices are not brought on by higher wages but through the avricious appetite of Ameri can industry for profits,” he said. He recommended a 17-point program for the Administration and Congress and said its adop tion “would be a step in the direction of promoting full em ployment and full production.” main points were: _1- An immediate all-out attack DRIVE-IN-THEATRE Ifldwa? letwren WlhUiftM Md CarnHnft JVfon—Tues. Gary Cooper and Ralph Bellamy —In— “HER WEDDING Nifht’* Plus late news and cartoon. First show at 7:30 NOW SHOWING ! DIAL 2-1142 I FOR ' SCHEDULE! 1st Time Together! BOGART BETTE DAVIS “MARKED WOMAN” NEWS and PETE SMITH MISS SOUTH CAROLINA TO WED GOVERNOR o STATE NOVEMBER ELKO, S. C., Oct, 12—4- • and Mrs. Horace J. C 7'!‘" Elko tonight announced ,7" of gagement of their riai7 *»• Jean, to Gov. James !t‘er' Thurmond of South Carer- "01 Their announcement <-,7 wedding will take pi;,.. t0' executive manion in 77 ll« Nov. 7. The ceremonv ^ !'■ private with only the hnni7 families of the coupl,. . ' Miss Crouch, 21. was7 7 ated from Winthrop Colic June. She was the g selection for “Miss South c * lina” at the 1947 Cr-arlr.^ azalea festival, and b..' member of his office ,.ta - 1 her graduation from 77" She resigned two weeks at ** Thurmond, who is 45, w7 ■ first bachelor governor 7,7 state since 1897, “* on high prices—“this she <j elude an attack on monopoly price-fixing, governmental ,>■ pressure on key industries, JJ the establishment ol a fe price investigating board ‘f. probe the reasons fu!- : : prices and expose profiteering Murray sa'd that price (-yn.,"; should be brought back 1 measures fail. 2. The establishment 0{ ( guaranteed annual wage. 3. “A complete overhauling g the federal tax structure to ]i. some of the burden from lowl income groups and to support needed mass purchasing pw. er.” 4. An immediate doom :n p,, hourly national minimum va», from 40 to 65 cents, with a f,"r. ther increase to 75 cents al'« two years. 5. Immediate enactment of r,i. tional health insurance and i national health program. 6. Federal control and respon sibility for the construction ol housing for low and middle i». come groups. “It should heap, parent by this time that private industry has no intention o! meeting this need.' Mur. ray said. 7. A new and broader rent control law, effective "unii 3ome real start is made oi meeting the housing problem.” 8. Establishment of a fail em ployment practices act. Canada’s Gaspe Peninsuli was discovered by Jacquc-s Car tier in 1534. when he landed and claimed all of Canada for France. ♦narogL* Spectacular Musical In Technicolor! "FIESTA" —With ESTHER WILLIAMS AKIM TAMIROFF JOHN CARROLL MAY ASTOR RICARDO MONTALBAN SHOWS: 11:25-1:20-3:15 ^ 5:10-7:03-9:00 y I__ THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT! "GONE WITH THE WIND" —With— CLARK GABLE VIVIEN LEIGH SHOWS START. 11:00 2:55-7:05 V J 35c PLUS TAX Edward G. 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