The Daily Times from Salisbury, Maryland • 5

THE SALISBURY TIMES, SALISBURY, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1943 PAGE FIVE MILFORD BLAST TOLL NOW FIVE Camden Woman Dies Due To Explosion Injuries Milford, March 18-The death toll mounted to five as another victom of a powder room blast at Sussex Ordnance plant near here Tuesday died yesterday. The fifth death was that of Mrs. Eleanor Spence, Camden, Del. She was among the 12 workers burned when a sheet of flames spread through a frame structure in which they were loading shells. Others hurt in the explosion, second at the plant in a month, were reported in serious condition.

About 31 were injured. Only one man, Whitely Lewis, Laurel injured in the blast. He is in Milford Hospital, his condition critical. The four other women who died earlier were: Mrs. Pauline Maloney, Georgetown; Mrs.

Louise Hill, Milford; Mrs. Katherine Thomas, Milton, and Miss Edith Marker, Georgetown. Both plant and Navy officials were investigating the cause of the explosion today. Their first opinion on inspecting the building sortly after the accident was that it was due to "static" electricity in contact with particles of gunpowder in the air. 'The plant is owned by Triumph Explosives Corporation, Elkton.

Baltimorean Settles In Snow Hill After Cure Show Hill, March 18-Baltimore, lost a citizen this week, all on account of an open window. A sufferer from a throat irritation, Robert B. Falls, Baltimore, was warned to keep his bedroom windows closed tight at night. His irritation grew worse. Falls didn't fall out his bedroom window to decrease Baltimore's poulation by one.

Instead he came to Snow Hill on a business visit. For two nights he slept with his bedroom windows wide pen. Yesterday his throat irritation had vanished. Today, Falls rented a house, got job in Snow Hill and sent for his wife to join him in his new residence. Mrs.

Falls promptly accepted the bid. And the Feathers Fly Testing airplane safety glass, this gun fires a four-pound dead fowl at speed of 110 miles per hour to simulate conditions under which bird in flight would smash against plane windshield. Ordinary glass, above, splintered under impact, while safety glass merely cracked, eliminating hazard to pilots. Berlin Junior Gardeners To Sell Garden Products Berlin, March 18 Berlin's Junior Victory Army, numbering 197 youngsters ranging in from 5 to 17 years, have already started work on planting more than 100 victory gardens in Berlin. All vegetables harvested in the Berlin victory gardens will be pooled by the children and sold on a public market stand, now being built here.

Proceeds from the sales will be used to buy War Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Harry L. Molter, vice-president of the Berlin Business Men's Assois the organizer and commander in chief of the Junior Victory Army. Similar organizations are being formed throughout the state and peninsula. Representative white and colored group members of the Berlin Junior Victory Army, meet every Saturday afternoon at the Globe Theatre in Berlin.

Today the army numbers 129 white and 68 colored boys and girls -on its membership rolls. Blood of fish and turtles contains nearly three times as much phosphorus as that of the higher mammals. Congressmen Pleased With Show Of Guns Aberdeen Proving Ground, March 18-(AP)-Members of the House military affairs committee and a sub-committee on Army propriations of the House priations committee were wellsatisfied today that the Army was being supplied the latest in offensive weapons. The representatives spent most of yesterday at the Aberdeen Proving Ground where a full-dress showing of the Army's newest improved weapons was held for their benefit. After the demonstration climaxed by the thunderous explosions of "block-busters" dropped from Arm planes onto a target at the testing ground, officers quoted the solons as saying they were satisfied U.

S. troops were receiving the latest and most improved weapons of all types. Uncle Sam's armament, from Garand rifles to big guns, were shown to the representatives, one of whom was Rep. Clare Boothe Luce (R-Conn.) Maj. Gen.

Iv. H. Campbell, chief of ordnance, accompanied the party from Washington. Things You Need to MAKE YOUR HOME HAPPY! Good furniture is as necessary as good food. How true the saying: "One does not live by bread alone." A few added pieces of attractive furniture will make your life more cheery.

Try it! Rich Walnut Dining Room 128.50 Nine beautiful pieces in rich walnut veneer consisting of table, six chairs, china and buffet at a record low spacious of only $128.50. You'll enjoy the use of this charming price for years to come. A suite with a beautiful dining room finish. A really timely NATHANS SINCE 1880 STREET SALISBURY MARKET JURY TO HEAR RAPE CHARGE Worcester Body Convenes Monday At Snow Hill Snow Hill, March 18-State's Attorney William G. Kerbin announced today that the case of Russell Mitchell, 31, held.

on a charge of criminally assaulting 9-year-old Pocomoke school girl, will come before the Worcester county grand jury here next Monday in Snow Hill. Mitchell was arrested by police in Jan. 1943, Kerbin said, after the child's parents had reported an attack made on their daughter on Oct. 4, 1942. The regular March Term of the Worcester County Circuit Court will open a two-week's session at Snow Hill Monday, at which time the 23 members of the grand jury will be selected.

Other criminal cases scheduled to be presented to the grand jury by State's Attorney Kerbin are: State vs. Nathaniel Corbin, 24- year-old negro of Snow Hill, held on a charge of assault with intent to kill Heston W. Carmean, a Worcester county constable. The officer was stabbed in the back with a knife on the night of October 3, 1942, while patrolling a street in Snow Corbin was arrested in Chester, on February 22 of this year. State vs.

Walter Parker, 35, of held on a charge larceny of a wallet containing $400 in cash from Harry V. Tubbs, business man of Selbyville, Del. Parker was arrested several weeks after the alleged theft in Hampton, Va. Two negroes, Raymond Beckett, 27, Snow Hill, and James Parsons, 42, Portsmouth, are charged with robbery. Several criminal cases of a minor nature will also be presented before the grand jury.

Joins NLRB NEA John M. Houston, former congressman from Wichita, has been nominated by President Roosevelt to a year National Labor Relations Boy Ties Self To Tree, Cop Can't Believe It Baltimore, March 18-(AP)William Bradford, 16, was found tied in a woods, secured by two belts and ropes so tightly bound it was difficult for him to move. When he told police sergeant Roland Johnson he had tied himself, the skeptical sergeant took him back to the tree and told the youth to demonstrate. He did--to Johnson's satisfaetion, then told the sergeant he had seen the trick performed at a wild west show. Lightning Punctuates A Sermon Liberty Hall, S.

-Just when the preacher began his sermon in the Methodist Church here, a lightning bolt struck in the rear of the pulpit and knocked him down. He was not able to talk for some time. His song leader also was floored. Guardsman Gets 10 Years For Shooting Elkton, March 18-(AP)- A former state guardsman, Stephen D. Holly, 18, of Port Deposit, was sentenced to 10 years in the state penitentiary following his conviction on a charge of assaulting with intent to kill Mrs.

Henry A. Niesen of Lancaster, Pa. Mrs. Neisen testified at the trial yesterday in the Circuit Court of Cecil county that she was shot by Holly December 26 after he had halted her car on the Cecil county side of the bridge, where Holly was on guard duty, and then drove the automobile into a side road. She told the court that Holly made advances to her and when she resisted, pulled out a pistol and shot her in the chest.

State's Attorney Henry L. Constable, who prosecuted the case, said Mrs. Neisen's wound was not said Mrs. Neisen's wound was band is a soidier stationed at Aberdeen, and she was returning home after a visit with him, she related when her car was stopped. Norwegian Harbor Restricted By Mines New York, March 18-(AP)German naval authorities have forbidden vessels to enter the port of Stavanger on the Norwegian southwest coast between 11 p.

m. and 6 a. m. because of the heavy protective sereen of mines laid within the fjord and outside the harbor entrance, the Berlin radio said today. The broadcast was recorded by the Associated Press.

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