Florence Morning News (Newspaper) - March 3, 1951, Florence, South Carolina Published In The Heart Of The Pee Dee Section The Richest Farm Area In The Palmetto State VOL XXVIII NO 58 DAILY AND SUNDAY FLORENCE S C MARCH 3 1951 DAILY Killed As Airliner Crashes Iowa Snow Storm 10 Survive Plane Also Burns SIOUX CITY In Mid-Continent Airlines plane making a second try for a landing here in n sudden heavy snow storm crashed in- to a corn field killing 15 of the 25 persons The twin-engined plane burst into fiames and was de- within a few minutes Hut I en survivors were and rushed to Sioux City hospitals Two were listed last night as in critical condition They as Archie of Artesian S and Engel Ipswich S D The plane was due at Sioux City airport at a m on a scheduled flight from Kansas City to Minneapolis It the first fatal crash for Mid-Continent in its 17-year Inry Just last Tuesday another Mid-Continent plane cracked up at Tulsa Okla but all occupants v away from the wreckage Six persons were injured none critically Pilot of yesterday's ill-fated plane was Captain James Graham 34 of Kansas City At ihc airport observers said Graham flew over the field once went on to make a climbing turn to the left then was lost to tators in the storm The crash was heard a few moments later Graham was among those killed Witnesses said that only before the crash the visibility at the airport was fair but the in- snow storm abruptly Two other crew members lost their lives They were co-pilot Philip K Toler 30 of Mission Ras find first officer Ernest F of Overland Park Kas The stewardess Miss Marilyn Kansas City suffered severe cuts and n possible broken back St Joseph Hospital at- taches Other dead as identified by airline M H Rapid City S D Fred Kellogg St Joseph Mo Mr nnd Mrs Fred gieter Willow Lake S Mrs jane Cook Kansas City Mrs C J Fade mo re S D A Clark S IX W C Ding to Bismarck N D L L N D M A to Sioux J Alway Aberdeen S D Mrs Alway survived the Mid- Continent plane crash last day Her husband Dr Alway was also in the Tulsa wreck wac on the plane yesterday The was the worst in history the first Iowa to a scheduled liner in which lives were losi Newsprint Shortage Causes Ad Cutting CHARLESTON W Va Sunday and for a few days the inn Daily Mali wiil exclude all display advertising from JJs tions The on its front page yesterday that because nf a diminished supply of print on hand brought about by a critical railroad freight car nge the ban DJI display advertising will RO into effect until additional supplies of the print paper arrives 11 the restriction re- main in effect until the arrival freight cars bringing the int from Canada Marines Shove North Of As South Koreans Face Stiff Fight BIG BACK HOME FROM white lints spelling her name on flight deck the USS Ley 2 Essex rlass carrier returns to Norfolk Va after service in waters around Korea A unit of Atlantic Fleet the carrier was temporarily assigned lo Task Force 77 She will enter lhn Naval Shipyard a I Norfolk for repairs in near future AP from US Navy Families In H-Bomb Plant Area To Get Financial Help From Government Plan Drew Pearson Sues McCarthy Others For Three Million WASHINGTON WTi Col- Drew son yesterday sued Senator R-Wis for agcs McCarthy others for or more The exact amount sought was open Fear son said he wanted damages from eight persons The Washington Times Herald Doe Richard Roe other sons at time io tiff unknown Pearson filed the suit in U S District Court He asked for what he Snid as a physical attack marie oil him by at a private dinner December 12 1950 at the Club here lie also asked damages n gainst McCarthy for an alleged false defamatory at- tack upon him in a 37 page statement December 15 He sairi in his suit thy ami caused lo be published a false and j upon the and of tilt En his fount Pearson said made lar statements about same time contrived to hold the to public In to and The Times Herald Ihr suit names Radio Commentator is Ji K nn em- ploye of Lewis George Waters an employe of McCarthy Don inc an investigator for the Morris A ington writer Columnist brook and Matthews with House un- activities committee WASHINGTON The government took preliminary steps yesterday io mortgage loan controls in places designated as defense areas It named the atomic energy in- at Paducah Ky and Savannah River S C as the first places to bc The easier terms are intended to facilitate expansion ot housing si mil fi action later for nts and 50 on stores in by E Foley administrator of the housing finance agency Foley announced thai with of defense mobilization agencies he had designed areas adjacent to now defense in- Clemson Cadets Are Kept On Campus By Influenza Epidemic CLEMSON Dr Lcc Milford College said last night a week end had been ordered fo corps to the hos is averaging about 50 lios cases n day Earlier 11 the week the number was higher he said Some cadets arc confined to the campus under the order which Dr described as precautionary Veteran students are not according to the Clemson Tiger student publication editorially criticised Ihc order as being half way measure Workers Are Wanted At Noval Shipyards CHARLESTON Tlic idai opening are now available for an BOO Jobs are available for engineers machinists radio and electronic mechanics elect makers and tool room mechanics AP Head Says Public I Right Is Threatened By Censorship MEDITATIONS By Alley BOOK PEM AN REAM A HEAP Ct PAT MEAN To i general manager cf iL Press said yesterday that censorship is the right to free of news en tu New York after West in Korea be for and I'm pti alone with ii nu ihal But I don't like j i led a attributed to Douglas I MacArthur that of the American press es had asked for a with Ai henns a foil t And of Low Bid Is Announced Tor Medical Building Int thr low bid for building the foundation for th hospital of thr College of the Slate of South Carolina yesterday After receiving notice from board of to proceed he contractor bnin work MI 10 pn 1.1 complete ihc job within 120 clays at Paducah and Savannah River S C He is need for housing workers at the Atomic Energy Commission in- Further he said will bc based on criteria now i r ing developed with the office Leg defense mobilization and its related agencies Yesterday's action came on the heels of a complaint bv Senator Maybank who accused ihc AEC of being most negligent in planning for projected atomic plant in South Carolina Maybank chairman ot ate banking lolti men oil his return from a tour of AEC South Carolina f found that ihc AEC people have no ideas about housing no idea about a hundred things that are so import an l lo the people of the area one in the acres Ihc AEC is taking over has any idea whether homes will confiscated or whether they will bc forced to move Everyone Is running around like a chicken head cut off Everyone is confuted worried and harassed Informed of May hank's AEC spokesman said the has taken adequate steps lo prevent hardship nnd will adequate yesterday's the for arista builders of to make rysh ranging from 17 in 50 cent of the cosL of the proposed buildings and set these ments on one and Iwo family For non veterans cash down costing under to 5 percent on houses priced 250 Down payments for crans run from five to 43 percent said the casing if ions vary from one area tn depending on the of need for housing in each area Tne will Ix to relax enough tn meet each A Man From Drowning Police reported a man plunged from a hi into the er but his leg him afloat until a pulled out frtun the ler Chief Frank of suburban Han kin identified man as F 30 of A a dropped intn tlic water floated Me MHS ad- mitted lo a hospital his con d it ion is reported lo he factory Emory Law Group Votes Not To Admit Negroes ATLANTA The dent bar of voted io oppose the an minion of lo nny Seventy live Llllll till JS Second And 7th divisions Make Gains Hy KUNSON T 0 K Y 0 AP J S Marines lodny pushed of captured on Ihc third day of their con- ral Korea attack but South Koreans on left flank furious Chinese Red opposition The Marines who overran wrecked Friday re- their drive at ft a in of that highway junction The nese with small arms fjom in positions in the Five miles west of the Korean Sixth Division lad lo use before ousting fleds from a vital hill The two- lour was heavily sup pm ted Allied artillery antl planes The pursuing South Koreans then ran into wire additional proof thai Reds mean to make a light for the road forking west of n to South Koreans advancing cast UM ward two lines of trenches three miles apart air observers ed The U S Second nnd Seventh Divisions operating farther cast matte now Rains The second more hills north nf ihc highway The Seventh north nf captured to within 26 miles of the parallel IF about 24 miles southeast of and tiong is six miles north b nim in Seoul the est in daily attempts by LI S Third Division to knife in- to Seoul South Korean naval ters at disclosed two more commando type raids by the Republic's in the area about 90 miles northwest of Seoul and within five miles of ihc parallel The raiders ed two communications bases The dates ihc raids begun not announced but the navy sakl were completed bv 28 The raiders said they killed Communists including a brigade commander seized documents ana weapons and 96 citizens detainer by the Reds Allied planes Friday night ted the heaviest enemy iraf fit seen in Ihc last three weeks roads In North Pilots ed Red claimer they knocked out 21 in attacks or the convoys Pilots estimated they more than 500 enemy troop tics Friday in close combat port The marine occupation of Hocnjjsong Friday was unopposed Ihc Leathernecks were halted Friday night by darkness and Communist tire at a point within 15 of Red assembly point SENATORS HIDE A DUMP US lake an ride n dump Inick because an expected lo meet at tlic near arc lo the federal lu In a hearing on community problems from the atomic energy project In anil Left lo Senators Wallace F Bennett Republican of J A Jr Democrat of Delaware and nf They arc studying public ami other problems people who must move of Ihc Savannah project AP Truman Flies To Key West To Take 3-Week Vacation Draft Issue Set For Senate Test In Monday Vote Will 18 Serve Is Question Rv W W AP Hy unanimous consent day the senate agreed lo vote Monday on the hotly debuted issue drafting men into the armed forces at the of IS instead of 19 Thn test will conic on an amendment to the universal Im -y U lining and which Democratic leader of Arizona is trying lo push through the Senate as emergency legislation A draft age of 38 has been overt by iho Senate armed vices committee Its would provide however I hat 18 year olds nearest be first and Hut none he taken before all gible men in the 19 lo 26 year category aio inducted Senator Morse is the of the amendment to drop the draft age only to 18 years and Fix months Bui he proposes that those in the 1 bracket be called up at the same time and that hoys between 18 and 18 be allowed to volunteer H is on this amendment that the Senate will vole Monday The House armed services com- milter has not agreed on a yet hut the representatives are thinking ir terms of registration ami classification at 18 induction at 18 with nn until ihc group has been ex- i of the Mouse committee recommended yesterday that expansion of the Hy B VACCARO KEY WEST President came here last to view the international problems of his iMi far removed from the turmoil ot Washington j flow to Key after a linal prc vacation conference h his cabinet and a talk with large Philip C before Ihc deputy foreign was in- n cheerful as he from the nt the Navy's Chica airport He rode 8 miles tti this naval whoie be will make his or the next three in the reconverted com- which serves as While House here secret service detail en- after the attempted at the Dlair House was lai fier than on Mr Truman's previous Mi Truman showed no worry ovci the decision of he united committee lo cott Ins defense mobilization up He left John H to the president behind Steel man is one of hif principal labor 15 minutes after the president arrived al bis quarters he changed In a gny with a IHK blue en it and slacks He he had Mavy napping iui demanded his pass enter and leave base Tint Lieutenant Commander ass is tnm was ready with pass one Postal Clerk Faced By Fraud Charges BOSTON The yesterday a 000 suit a postal clerk it charges ect in three years l by for em- who work the break in tlie a led million racket at Boston's big South annex in the suit was Leo L Flynn a clerk in the time card unit of the annex The action was bi by Assistant U S Charles Miller for U S Attorney George F Garrity Immediately after the suit was filed in Federal Court U S marshals attached five savings held in Flynn's mime in I've Roston banks Miller a disabled veteran ol World War 2 banked in years declined planned Recruit Unit Begins Operation ISLAND The say whether insl nny A weighing 17 five a ounces was noin to the 32 of an m- handl time It it numbers of postal It was re- however more thar aic Its postal inspectors Officials in office Flynn was only of a group of employees who punched lime ranis in and out and accepted Cm office dubbed the card punchers the meaning they divided with the absent employees inspectors refused com- on the progress of their in- referring to the U S Attorney's office indications arc that it wil P long time before they finish information for lion I ft the postmaster genera nml eventually to the U- S At- ci vc i ps uc in favor oC build hi up more officer training schools so hat youths who are drafted will lave an opportunity to become officers ROTC leaders told the cc present plans call for ing the number of ROTC college students from about to proximately The cost of program would be increased from a year to ROTC students empt from under ent law Support yeai olds came yesterday who told ale we need every inari can get In How and wo in out efforts to sugar-coat this evade the Cain asked He said he the would and not circumscribed or crippled by amendments such as those offered by Morse Two 17 year old high school students appeared before Vinson's committee to plead that talented youths be exempted from the draft so they could finish their education Mary Helen Martin Hyattsville senior argued Those who have high scholastic should continue their cation through college ate school so they can best serve the nation in a technical Peter B Schneider a senior at High School lyn N Y who looks forward to a career in biochemistry or cine We young people are prepared to serve our country in any way possible but it would he a serious mistake not to take inn advantage of our skills 1 is i Novy Postpones Plans Center the fr t cd U Korean US Cost Of Living Rises 7.5 Percent Assuring Millions Of Wage Increase up supply in i i new the the t iil B WASHINGTON An estimated workers were assured last of an automatic pny increase the government thai the of living rose fi in decision was in to Chairmen D- Ga of the Senate armed services committee Vinson of the House armed com- En I ho I clary Dan A Kimball i he Navy's existing facilities ran supplies without having lo an- snd wholesale in depot an increase of 1 percent j February 27 fnr the I simey teams in- Tlic industry's cost of I first time in 19 weeks The drop i a number of ff or as 0.2 percent i piy center sites in Tennessee Meanwhile Truman atl- South ion decided in nn Short Power Cutoff Slated Tomorrow Emergency repairs to a ic sei vice Sunday morning i in certain of Florence ami rural areas a com- spokesman said last night r Electric will be shut off the hours of A and 6 a r m tn the West and of ireas outside l and also and f the spokesman stated The substation which is lo be re- paired is in Northwest Florence POSTMASTERS NAMED WASHINGTON The Senate yesterday confirmed the following Georgia Lanier R Billups Huram Tt Hancock Gainesville Robert A West SoMh Carolina Carl Chester C JL AV limit nf Jnr private loans and for injured or Tlic special terms it said will bo applicable only to such new bc In- lit l lu L habits one at for mid-January compared with 178.8 for The period lo 1939 is considered normal or 100 The of 2.7 M a of 1.5 areas will The ihc lir In pe index On be presented I culation Hie January figure uai vicles Tor or pay one cent hour or rise or fall of LU in thr index H ONE will in out i with hf fl fif tre tn Weather the Hi tli iil hv exist Hilton S C null Kry i in Here Tonight UK I The unit i they moie them percent above the level of 15 An escalator j been 0 for non- program operating employes a his penny Price l A few its pi iff I in of statistics announced dial I about Ins plan not voice in Ihc avors ntl is unfair r V Fores Fire Situation In Area Still Critical i A K last the for- in the Pec Dec eri the ami neir still m j iC n Florence for 53 Mean year ago 41 a m p m 69 FJrtir year ago 0 Sunrise today sunset 6.16 TAJ ily cloudy and today and i n o T rlv by nine forest fires i ei temperature High 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