3 the -Continued From Page One LEWIS lations on mine safety. Many Items In Code memorial. We realize the country needs coal, but we need safety." Rescuers said the body of one Cliff Copple, had not been reman, covered, but they said they knew where it was. They were unable to reach it, they said, because of deadly black damp. Copple could have rushed to safety after the explosion, but he turned back to try to save a younger brother.
Families and friends -of men whose bodies still lay in the mine stood silently by the mine shaft. their hopeless vigil of four nights and four days almost at an end. Many never left the mine during the long wait, not even when they were told there was no hope that any men would be found alive. Bodies Burned Some of the bodies were burned badly by the explosion, Driscoll Scanlan, Centralia district mine inspector said. Their dinner buckets were clutched in their hands.
They had started to run for apparently their lives and were killed almost instantly. A watch on the wrist of one of the men was stopped at 3:25 p. the time of the explosion. The rescue crews, their faces lined with grime and weariness, had searched almost continuously for the trapped men. One team of 40 balked at the dangerous task men yesterday, charging that proper precautions were not being taken for their safety.
They finally resumed work after steps were taken to avert another explosion. As the work of the rescuers ended, investigators moved in to find the cause of the explosion. Federal and state agencies planned to begin exhaustive investigations, not only to find out what caused the disaster, but perhaps to prevent other similar tragedies. At Washington, a federal inspector reported that he safety violations in the Centralia mine a week before the explosion. And an interior department official said he "doubted seriously" if even one or two coal mines in the county are "in full compliance" with federal safety codes governing the mines.
Frank Perz, inspector for the bureau of mines, said he found 52 safety violations in the Centralia mine, but did not find any imminent danger. In November, he said he found 165 violations, many of which had not been corrected when he made his second visit. He said he found the mine was dusty and contained gas. Ventilation was bad, he said, no test fos gas was made before blasting, blasting methods were improper, and the miners exposed themselvs to danger by lighting matches and using open flame carbide lamps. Daniel Harrington, chief of the health and safety branch of the interior department, said that while almost no coal mines were complying with safety codes, "it would be almost impossible" for any mine to comply fully with all federal regu- It's impossible for any mine with all provisions virtually, of the safety code," Harrington said.
"There are several hundred items in that code. It covers mines of hundreds of different types, and hundreds of safety situations. "If even one mine is complying fully, I'd think that was great." But at scene of the blast, the cause of the tragedy was of little concern at the moment to the men, women and children who had hoped since Tuesday that at least one of the men would be found alive. They started immeditely planning funeral services for the men. Several services were held yestrday and more were held today.
The mayors of the five towns where most of the miners lived designated Monday as Memorial day. All schools and all but essential business activity will close down in Wamac. Centralia, Glenridge, Central City and Sandoval, in the heart of Illinois' coal mining belt. Farm Boy Confesses He Killed Father MERIDIAN, March 29. (UP) A 19-year-old Scott county farm boy confessed to murder charges here today after the skeleton of his father was found in a roadside ditch 200 yards behind the house where he had been killed.
William Henry Pinter, who was placed in Lauderdale county jail here, toid Dist. Atty. A. B. McCraw of Neshoba county earlier today he had shot Harvey Pinter in the back in his house at Dixon community last Christmas eve.
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Moore, of Skyland, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Ellen Creasman, also of Skyland. Mr. and Mrs. Moore are survived by five children, Robert William, William Charles, Gwendolyn Jeanette, David Kenneth, and Barbara Ellen Moore. Mr.
Moore served in World War II as a seaman first class in the navy. He was discharged in October, 1945, after 15 months' service. Mrs. Moore was a member of the Laurel Springs Baptist church, Legislative Record Record N. C.
SUNDAY, MARCH 30, offices of the register of deeds and clerk of court of McDowell county. Bills passed: HB661, authorizing listing and valuing of property for local taxation in West Jefferson. HB765, providing for appointment of municipal board of elections in Canton. HB778. fixing distribution of national forest funds received federal government by Macon tl.
HB875, permitting Bryson City to use parking meter revenue for recreational purposes and to buy fire department equipment. -Continued From Page One Beer ing sanitary regulations for food processing plants; a bill tightening state fertilizer laws; and a measure setting up rigid safety standards for hotels in the state. Passed by both houses and scheduled to be ratified next week is the measure providing for a 000 permanent improvement program, the largest in state history. The bill provides $6,250,000 for build- Gustave Ulloth, Dr. H.
G. Brookshire, Osburn Tabor, Claude Bishop, Jack Cothran, W. J. Corn, J. B.
Anders, and C. J. The body will remaina the home until time for the services. Survivors include widow. Mrs.
Mattie Gasperson; three daughters, Mrs. Annie Hall. of Candler, and Mrs. Aline Rollins and Mrs. Mabel Mae Rollins, both of Arden; one son, William Gasperson, of Arden; and 23 grandchildren.
Anders-Rice funeral home is in charge of arrangements. ing local hospitals and medical centers throughout the state and be available until matching funds $3,790,000 for a -year medical school at the University of North Carolina. However, these funds for the good health program of the Medical Care commission will not are made available from the federal government under the HillBurton act. The legislators are awaiting for an advisory opinion from the state supreme court on 'the legality of paying themselves an expense allowance of $6 a day and travel pay. The court was asked for an opinion in a joint resolution passed by both houses this week.
The court's reply is expected early next week. The house has passed and sent to the senate a watered-down bill drivers to automobile drivers to to require furnish proof of financial responsibility after they have been in serious accidents and failed to satisfy judgments against there. The house will consider a senatepassed measure requiring semi-annual mechanical inspection of automobiles, the reissuance of drivers permits every four years and a mile-an-hour speed limit on state highways. Lengthy debate is expected when the house takes up--probably Monday--a measure to levy state income and franchise taxes against farm cooperatives. The house finance committee has approved 'a bill to tax the co-ops except those handling only the produce of their members and that distribute their profits among their members.
Bills reducing powers of the barber board, which will come up in the house would: Place the state health office and superintendent of public instruction as ex-officio members of the board, repeal a requirement that persons who let their licenses lapse for three years must take examinations to renew their licenses, and repeal a requirement that a person must have a permit to open a barber shop. The house has passed and sent to the senate a bill allowing war veterans who have three years' experience as barbers to secure licenses without examinations. The house finance committee probably will debater again a bill which would veterans to deduct $500 from their net incomes in state income taxes. The computing, gave the bill a favorable report this week but later re-considered its action. The joint appropriations committee will meet Tuesday and may act on bills to appropriate from $10,000,000 to $25.000,000 to aid counties in building schools, a measure to appropriate $1,000,000 for permanent improvements at Section -Page FIVE 1947 state ports, and a bill to appropriate $1,000,000 for a state art gallery.
From Page One BATTLESHIPS announced without any explanation except that this is to be the first training crusise for Naval academy midshipmen in northern European waters since before World War I. Accompanying the battleships New Jersey and Wisconsin will be the Essex class carriers Kearsarge and Randolph, the destroyers Cone, Stribling, 'Hare and Mereditn, and the Fort Mandan, landing ship (dock). The squadron will be commanded by Rear Admiral John Perry and will arrive in European waters about June 19 for a month's stay. Ports of call are to be Portsmouth, Weymouth, Plymouth, Greenwich and Woolwich in England, Rosyth in Scotland, Oslo in Norway, Goteborg in' Sweden, and Copenhagen. The cruise will follow by about two months the visit of another of U.
S. warships to Greek group and Turkish waters, including the strategic Dardanelles over which Russia wants to share control with Turkey. Announcement of the navy plans in northern Europe during a week-end lull of congressional arguments for and President Truman's proposal for a $400,000,000 program to bolster the Greek and Turkish government against communism. Hearings To End The senate foreign relations committee plans to end public hearings Monday and to start work the next day in closed sessions on a bill. The house foreign affairs committee likewise called for public hearings Monday but made no plans for the rest of the week.
Final congressional action may not come until mid-April, two weeks past the March 31 goal originally set in view of the fact that the British plan to end their Greek aid on that date. Senator Vandenberg Mich.) chairman of the foreign relations committee announced "full consideration" will be given to all amendments offered to the Greek-Turkish aid bill. Vandenberg told reporters that any proposal senators want to make will be taken up by the committee. Amendments already have been offered by Senators Edwin C. Johnson Colo.) and Lodge re Paul representative Porter, to American Greece, has economic been asked to appear at a closed session of the committee Tuesday, when the group also will hear from the secretaries of state, war and the navy.
Opposition witnesses will be heard in the committee's final public Anne hearing, Mondaormick. New York Times writer who won the Pulitzer prize for distinguished foreign correspondence in 1937, offered the opinion, meanwhile, that there is no reason to fear war with Russia in the circ*mstances. Miss McCormick told a meeting of, the Women's Action committee for lasting peace that "Russia isn't ready to fight, has no will to fight and will back down before any threat of a first class scrap." "My guess is," she said, "that the president made a major issue of the Greek crisis to warn Soviet leaders that they were running into the danger of war." Joseph E. Johnson, a state department executive, told the same audience that he expects Russia will continue to disarmament in the "United Nations without supporting safeguards essential to "true world security." nation whose principal strength lies in manpower would have much to gain from complete disarmament," said Johnson, who is chief of the department's division of internationai security affairs. Frederick H.
Osborn, United States deputy on the United Nations atomic energy commission, declared today that a treaty which left any loopholes for national rivalries in atomic weapons "would be more dangerous to the world than no treaty at all." Osborn, in an address to the Women's Action Committee for Lasting Peace, said efforts were being made to get an atomic treaty which is acceptable to all. But he said there must be no compromise of security in such a treaty. "Compromises may be possible with respect to the financing of plants, or with respect to some other matters," Osborn said. "But beware of those who attempt to tell you that any compromise is possible in such a treaty with respect to security." "Those who think that compromise is possible here are endangering not only the people of the United States but the peoples of all the countries in the world," he said. "That seems to be the basis for our difference with the Soviet Union.
The Soviets claim that we would have security if all nations made a treaty outlawing atomic bombs, if the United States then destroyed all its bombs and atomic plants; and then all would rely on some system of inspection to be agreed upon, probably a national system of inspection rather than an international system. Limited Powers "I say probably, because, while the head of the Soviet Union has called for a strict international system of inspection, the Soviet delegates in PHOTO COPIES Save the original use a Photo Copy Birth Certificates, Letters, Drawings, Specifications, Documents, etc. Up to 18 x24 Inches The MILLER PRINTING Co. Rankin Ave. Phone 2186 Asheville.
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Adv. Weather (March 29, 1947) Temperature Highest today 62. One year ago 67. Lowest today 22. One year ago 54.
Absolute Max. (this day) 84 in 1907. Absolute Min. (this day) 26 in 1904. Average temperature for, the day 41.
Normal 49. Precipitation Data For The Month Normal 3.27. Greatest amount 7.06 in 1903. least amount 0.72 in 1910. Amount for the past 24 hours ended at 7:30 p.
m. None. Deficiency for the month 1.77. Deficiency for the year 0.50. Hourly Temperatures a.
25 3 p. m. 62 9 a. m. 33 4 p.
m. 61 10 a. m. 40 p. 61 11 a.
m. 48 10 p. m. 57 12 Noon 55 7 p. m.
55 1 p. 57 8 p. m. 55 2 p. m.
58 Sunrise 6:21 a. m. Sunset 6:49 p. m. ASHEVILLE DATA THE FORECASTS cloudiness Asheville with and occasional vicinity: rain Increasing partly cloudy and cooler tonight.
Monday, clearing and continued cool North Carolina -Increasing cloudiness, occasional rain west and south portions Sunday and over east and central portion Sunday night. Cooler north and west Sunday. Monday clearing and continued cool, preceded by rain extreme east forepoon. South Carolina Mostly cloudy with occasional rain and little change in temperature Sunday and Sunday night. Monday clearing and slightly cooler, preceded by rain coastal area forenoon.
DATA FROM OTHER CITIES WASHINGTON, March 29. (P)-Weather fall bureau for the reports 24 of hours temperatures ending 8 and p. m. in rainthe principa: cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville 62 22 .00 Atlanta 63 31 .00 Atlantic City 47 37 .00 Birmingham 62 32 BostoL 48 30 .00 Buffalo 37 30 .23 Burlington .02 Chattanooga 66 26 Chicago 32 Cincinnati 34 .00 Cleveland 31 Dallas 49 Denver 36 Detroit 31 Duluth 25 10 El Paso 76 52 .00 Fort Worth 58 49 Galveston 68 55 Jacksonville Kansas City Key West 80 Knoxville 32 Little Rock 58 43 Los Angeles 72 52 Louisville Memphis Meridian Miami .00 Paul Mobile Montgomery New Orleans New York 52 36 Norfolk 61 32 Philadelphia 58 32 Phoenix 83 50 Pittsburgh 49 32 Portland.
Me. 34 14 Richmond 63 30 .00 St. Louis 55 55 .00 Antenio .00 San Francisco 54 .07 San Savannah 65 37 .00 Seattle 46 .09 Tampa Vicksourg 70 31 .00 75 53 Washington 61 33 .00 59 36 .00 Wilmington -Continued From Page One Wife Slain recovered. Mr. Moore was shot in the temple, the wound showing the powder marks of contact, Dr.
Terry said. Dr. Terry said that no inquest would be held in view of the conclusive nature of the facts the indisclosed. He said that vestigation he was told that Mr. and Mrs.
Moore had been separated and that attempting to effect a reconciliation. Yesterday morning the of the five children, Billie, of seven years, went to the a boy home of a neighbor and said that his father had come home and brought all of the children some Further, the little fellow clothes. quoted as saying, his father was was going to take him to a picture told to be sure and show. He was his coat over his new clothes wear home to attend to and started When he arrived he this detail. found the bodies of his parents on floor and gave the alarm.
the Was Holding Baby at the time her Mrs. Moore, the bullets into her husband fired police were told, was holding body, a The child dropped to two months old baby belonging to her sister. floor as she collapsed, but suffered only minor bruises. in addition to BilThe children, 5, Judy 3, David 2, six months old. Mrs.
lie, are Bobbie and Barbara, is also survived by her parMoore ents. funeral will be held A Mrs. Mcore in Laurel double for Mr. and Baptist church tomorrow afternoon at o'clock with the Rev. Springs Redmon officiating.
Springs InterGeorge ment will be in Laurel cemetery, Fairview. The bodies will remain at Berryfuneral home until this afterman when they will be noon at 1 o'clock taken to the home of Mr. and parents of Mrs. John Z. Thorpe, Moore, in the Fairview section.
In survived by five sisters, addition to the parents, Mrs. Moore is Mrs. Mary Goforth and the Misses Elizabeth, Eva, and MarVivian, Thorpe; two brothers, James garet Carl Thorpe, all of Asheville; and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Minerva and the paternal grandMusselman, of Waterbury, Mrs. Mollie Rice, of Ashemother, ville.
Mr. Moore is survived by the United Nations seem to be more the system in which the inclined to a would have rather limitinspectors. In any event the inspection Soviets and Poland think that be enough, while other would nations think that the international (proposed by the U.S. to agency supervise atomic controls and deeverywhere) would have velopment to own and operate certain dangerous activities before its control would amount to very much. "Personally, I think that a treaty that left any loopholes for national rivalries in atomic weapons would be more dangerous to the worid than no treaty at all.
I leave it to you to decide what you think." Osborn has told the working committee of the U.N. atomic energy commission that the question of atomic, to controls the should whole be picture. taken He up has opposed a Russian demand that the committee deal first with specific Russian proposals made in the security council. The committee seeking compromise before meets Monday at Lake Success. The Third Army's attack on Metz was launched in the worst weather or that area had seen in 35 years.
Rain and ceilings "zero" kept all Allied planes on the ground, but without air support, the Third Army captured Metz ahead of schedule. RALEIGH, March 29. (P) lative record: HOUSE New bills: None. Bills passed: HB832, authorizing Mitchell county to buy bulls to improve cattle industry. HB955, authorizing Mitchell county officials to remit penalty and interest on certain delinquent taxes.
SENATE New bills: SB428, by Neal of McDowell, to increase salaries of clerks in the DEATHS AND FUNERALS CYRUS F. RICE Cyrus F. Rice, 82, retired farmer, died about 4:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home, 116 Hanover street, following a long illness. Born and reared in the Beaverdam he moved to West Asheville 26 years ago and had been a member section, of Calvary Baptist church since that time. Before moving he was one of the charter members of Beaverdam Baptist church and one of its organizers.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Annie Hayes Rice; one daughter, Mrs. Hilliard Buckner; one son, Richard Rice; three grandchildren, Walter and Anne Rice and Mary Helen Buckner; and one sister, Mrs. Janie Kimberly, all of Asheville. Funeral services will be held in Beaverdam Baptist church tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with Dr.
W. H. Fitzgerald and the Rev. William E. Walker officiating.
Interment will be in the church cemetery. The body will remain at Dunn and Groce funeral home until taken the church where it will lie in state from 2 p. m. tomorrow until to time for the services. Pallbearers will be Will Wilkerson, Gus Henderson, Neely Buckner, Ralph Wilkerson, Gordon Morgan, a and John Lawrence.
Honorary pallbearers will be Harry McDaris, C. L. Garrett, J. G. Woodward, Dr.
B. E. Morgan, J. R. Stradley, Guy Brookshire, Howard Bishop, and Vance McKinney.
MISS JESSIE E. CHICK Funeral services for Miss Jessie Ellen Chick, 62, sanitarian with the city health department for the past three years and former dietitian at Mission on and Biltmore hospitals, who died Thursday in a local hospital, were conducted in the chapel at Morris-Gearing funeral home yesterday. Interment was in Riverside cemetery. Surviving are two aunts, both of Benton Harbor, and several cousins, including Guy Covell, of Whitehall, and Stanley Lee, of Benton Harbor. ISHMAEL FORSYTH Funeral services for Ishmael Forsyth, 34, of 145 Arthur road, a veteran of peacetime service in the navy, who died Thursday in a local hospital, were conducted in the chapel at Morris-Gearing funeral home yesterday.
The Rev. Carlton Cox officiated. Interment was in Green Hills cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Grace McGalliard Forsyth, and a brother, Frank Forsyth, the latter of Pulaksi, Tenn.
CHARLES M. GASPERSON Funeral services for Charles Mack Gasperson, Arden, R.F.D. No. 1, who died Friday in a Henderson county hospital, will be held in Sardis Baptist church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The Rev.
George Redmon will officiate. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Roy Morrison, Lester Morrison, Luther Smith, Millard Smith, William Flynn, and Harley Searcy. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Brownell, Dunn Lovin Funeral Home Service Above Self 57 Spruce St.
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