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HenJtersmt Batin Bispatrh THIRTY-THIRD YEAR l?hIe amwi at. * ^pRRiH.E HENDERSON, N. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4, 1946 rLBLia!l^cKPTKa'L-NUAYlkuNuuN V1<: FFXTS M H’V HOUSE PIECES FOR PEACE HOUSES ft >' f l./ 1 'X 1 THEY'RE LITERAllY RAISING THE ROOF in East Hartford, Conri., where temporary dwellings, built to accommodate millions of workers in war time production centers, are being taken apart and shipped to areas where the housing shortage is most acute. A huge crane is shown lifting • section of a two-story house, which will be one of 2,000 to be put to gether again for returned vets in the New York area. (International) Grow Better Cotton AndersonT ellsSouth Agriculture Secretary Says Foreign Competition Will Be Stiff In Future riaU’igh, .lan. 4. — (AP)—United States Secretary of Agriculture Clin ton r. Anderson told the south today the (• ly solution to its cotton problems is to produce the ommodity so eftcctively it can meet competitors with miiI did'orniripnl v, 11 i fl i CVS. ■■American cottf n." the cabinet member said, “today faces the stillest competition in its long career. At heme and aboard il must tight mass produced synthetic fibers in tbe mai- ^ ket. Foreign cottons arc able to undersell it in the world market at present prices. This eompeti tive problem-can't be soiled in the long run by juggling paritl prices or export subsidies." An derson told a meeting of North Carolina iarm leaders. At present, the gm eminent is pay ing subsidy of four cents pei pound on exports to help meet lower price. In m ! orei gn 1 m pet it111. Only One Solution Anderson said there is only one lung range minium: “To produce cotton so ab mdanlly {rd improve its cpiality !•> u-h an extent it can be grown pr ’litably and still compete, (|uality c nsidered. with foreign grown cotton in world markets with synthetic libers at home and abn >ad. "This ,-olulion will mean growing cotton in those lands to which it is best suited and an industrial devel opment of the south that will employ millions who now gain their living from tiie soil. EDWARD WILL MAKE VISIT TO ENGLAND Paris. Jan. 4.—(AP)—The Duke of Wi.dsor will pay a short visit to England, leaving Paris Monday or Tuesday, his secretary said today. His wife will not accompany him. He will remain in England for only a few days. Morgan Of UNRRATold To Quit Now Washington, Jan. 4. — (AP) UNRKA headquarters announced to day it had called for the registration o!n. Go . Sir Frederick Morgan as chief of the agency’s operations in Germany . The announcement said INKK.i “felt obliged” to call for the1 resigna tion as a result of a news confer ence in Frankfurt in which Morgan said lie believed a secret Jewish or ganization was connected with a large scale exodus of Jews from Po land. , . In Hoechst, Germany, today Mm gan said: ‘T have not resigned, for I sec no reason why I should. UNRRA officials yesterday t< Id newsmen Morgan had resigned vol untarily. Today these officials said the decision to asked for his resigna tion had been made in London by Lt. Gen. Sir Humphrey Gale, head of European regional office of the relie. agency. Japan Told To Clean Up Government Cabinet To Hold Special Session To Talk Decree Tokyo, Jan. 4.—(AP)—General Douglas MacArthur today decreed a drastic liouseclean.i g of Japan's gov ernment, and Premier Shidehara’s cabinet called an emergency session u r tomorrow to consider method: . ! i—vnliance. Quoting inlormcd quarters, the Japanese news agency Kyodo said ■he two new directives ordering a purge of till men who led Japan into war would affect practically every member of the present government. ;t excepted specifically only Pre mier Shideharu, Foreign Minister Yoshiria and Justice Minister Iwata. Tokyo newspapers interpreted the Allied orders as a move to give Japan > cw leaders and Kyodo said the tirse reaction among politicians was one of bewilderment. It quoted a member of the progres sive party as saying "this practically means that all members of the diet will not be able to run in the com ing election. Even if they do run, they will cot have a chance. TOP MONEY JOCKEY DIES OF INJURIES Pasadena. Calif., Jan. 4.— (AP)— The racing career of Georgie (Ice man) Wolf—one of the most bril liant of American jockies—came to an end today. The leading money winning jock ey of 1944 died of a brain injury 12 hours after lie was thrown tjrom a horse at Santa Anita park. He was 36 years old. TRUMAN ACCEPTS LAND RESIGNATION Washington, Jan. 4—(AP)—Presi dent Truman today accepted the re signation of Vince Adm. Emery Land as chairman of the Maritime Com mission, effective January If). An exchange of letters made pub Ii( by the White House showed that Land had been trying to retire since last May. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair and warmer tonight. Sat urday partly cloudy and mild. PEACE WAS SOUGH! i BY HESS EARLY IN 1 Deputy Leader Seeking To Contact ‘Reasonable’ English Persons Nuernberg, Jan. 1.— (AP) I —Confidential papers of Adult Hitler showed today that as early as the fall of 1910 Kudolt Hess, the deputy fuehrer was working secretly to establish contact with ‘"reasonable Eng lishmen” to try to end the war. A detailed account of hi., efforts i:s vantain in a 14,l)(l0-word report tu Hitler written by Hess' intinatc advisor, Dr. Albrecht Hsushmer, «i iVray 2b. 1941. shortly alter the lies: flight to England on his vain mis sion. Hauschofer reported at the end of September 1949. barely a year after the war began, Hess was instrumen tal in sending a letter to the Duke of Hamilton through a Swiss ofti cial of the International Red Cross. Jo; a pro 19-41-—a month before Hess" flight—this same Swiss oliieial. whose name was not disclosed. conveyed a neaee feel er from important English circles to Hausotcr as the deputy fuerhcr’s representative, Utc re port said. This document, now in the pos sion of Allied and neutral intellig ence nulling Huashofer's part in the peace overtures, was .i. ettect the aeath warrant of the professor's son Karl Hausholer. Death Has Delayed He Immediately was marked down m the Gestapo records as tuning sympathetic ieeling and ..untact with ,ne English. His death, however, did not come until last year when he was executed for possible implica tion in the July 20, 194-1 death plot against Hitler and the i.evv secret peace negotiations through Swiss ..ha nnels. The initial behind the scenes peace move, according to the report stated .vhen Hess asked him on September 10, 1940, for advice how a communi cation might be sent to the Duke o! Hamilton, i ear whose du-.al home rless ended his llight horn Germany, lianshoter's advice was to contact personally any of three named British envoys in neutral countries or to send a letter lo the duke through a neutral per son. Hess decided in favor of the second possibility. The follow ing April, he said, he received a non-eommital letter from a Red Cross oflieial by whom the com munication had been sent to England. Hess decided he should go to Gen eva and see whether the duke had replied. The intermediary had no message from the duke, Household- said, but told of a meelnig he had had with a person known as esteemed in Don jon and closely connened with lead ing conservative circles." ' This person, whose name he could not disclose, but whose sincerity ho could vouch for,” the report said, expressed in a long talk the desire in important English circles to ex unine the possibilities of effecting peace overtures” TWO SCORE AIRPORTS DECLARED SURPLUS Washington. Jan. 4 —(AP)—Forty four airports for which the govern ment paid ever $5.1100,000 each have been or are likely to be declared sur plus, Congress was notified today. The Surplus Property Administra tion also reported that no govern ment-owned patents, processes, tech niques or investions have deen desig nated surplus and no such declara tions are expected. In its survey of federally owned transportation facilities, the SPA said that in accordance with terms of the surplus property act. none will be disposed of until first olfered •o state and local governments. | Tot Survives Alone SOLE living member of a family that numbered fourteen when the Nazi massacres struck Poland, little Esther Wingrad, 4',2, is pictured in the arms of her uncle, Capt. Morris Goldberg, as they arrived together at New York. Her home will be in Cincinnati, O. (International) President’s Talk Hailed In Messages Telegrams Received At White House Expressing O. K. Washington, .Ian 4.—(AP)—The White House reported today that President Harry Truman's address last night had brought a great im ; mediate rection in messages from i trim audience than any other speech j he has made since assuming the I presidency. Press Secretary Charles Ross said that reaction to Mr. Tru man's discussion of labor and i other domestic problems "has j been quite friendly judging from the messages received.’’ Ha said over 100 telegrams were received this morning alone and more were coming in. (it these, he added, about 80 per cent were "un c;i:ali' icdly favorable" and the re maii dor either wholly or partially unfavorable. The messages represented a cross section "i tiie country and came mostly from private iti/.ens. Meanwhile, the White House rc vrait d that present plans call for j the President to deliver his annual message on the State of the Union In Congress on January la, the day after it recoil’, ones. The annual bud ge: mesage will go up January Hi. Truman In Speech L'r<*es To Nation To Prod Congress Washington, I)cc. 4.— (AP) — President Truman called on the j American people today to do { maud more action and less talk from Congress on legislation to lessen strikes. He also told the nation in a i half hour address last night that I "time is running out” on most of his other reconversion meas ures because action in the Sen ate and House has been distress ingly slow. Congress returns January 14 from its holiday adjournment. British Military Maps , Weighed 50,000 Tons Lnnd'i Fifty thousand ‘ons of military maps were produced during World War II for Britain's army, it was disclosed here. Numbering some 230.000.0li0. the charts would encircle the world about four times if laid end-to-end. Communists Advance Four Specific Peace Proposals Chungking, Jan. 4.— (AIM -Chin- ( cse Communists and Central govern ment negotiators seeking peace in strife-torn China today discussed | these four specific conditions ad vanced by the Communists in their official reply to Chiang Kai-shek’s enw year's peace hid: 1— The Communists agree in gen eral with National Government sng- ' gestions that General George Mar shall. President Truman's u vov to Chungking, be one of the committee of three to decide on procedures for cessation of civil hostilities and re storation of communi- ations 2— Civil war must be stopped im mediately throughout the country, especially in Jehnl province (where , Communists nreviously reported j j 225,000 Chungking troops were en- 1 gaged in an offensive designed to wrest the area from Ycnan forces ) Want Blockade Lifted 3--Restoration of communications should cover land, sea, air. postal and telegraph lines, and also result in lifting ot the blockade around lib erated areas. -1 Investigation groups should embody important personages from all circles throughout the ■ ountry. including members of the Politics' Consultative Council, (the inter party non-partisan confero ee sche duled to open January 10 in Chung king to compose all problems between the National government and Com munists.) Officials said that the first poet was "very favorable” but that the ether three points should be dis cussed either today or Saturday. Knox Report Disclosed: Japanese Were Expected To Make S k Navy Patrol Went Opposite Direction On Fatal Morning Washington, Jan. 4. (AP)—-Con gressional investigators heard today that Hawaii's defenders fully ex Re ted the Japanese to come back promptly after the Pearl Harbor at tack and called desperately for more fighter planes and anti-aircralt g; < - to meet the expected second assault. This information went into the record along with the word that on the fatal Sunday. December 7. 1941. the navy flew a ten plane patrol in just the opposite direc tion from which the Japanese task force was advancing. The sources of these details was the hitherto secret report the lau Secretary of Navy Frank Knox made to President Franklin Roosevel; soon after his return from a Hying trip to the one of the disaster. A Different Report Senator Ferguson of Michigan win obta i ed the i cpiTt ! mu, navy 1 i.e said it differed I mm the one math public at the time. Adtn. Harold Stark, rhie: o! navu operations in 1941, told Hie comnut tee that he had never seen the Knox report to Mr. Roosevelt until today He said Knox iiad filled him in on some details. Knox told Mr. Roosevelt that both the commanders at Pearl Harbor. Adm. Husband Kimmel and Gen. Walter C. Short were completely surprised. Represonative Gearhart of Cali fornia meanwhile singled out today as a curious development of the Pearl Harbor inquiry that Washing ton, although surprised in itself, “condemned", Hawaiian commanders for being caught by surprise. To Pursue Point Hearhart told reporters he intends to pursue this pnii t through con tinuing examination of Adm Stark, ai d later witnesses. Gearhart and the 1941 chief ol naval operations tangled briefly on the subject in the late hour of yes terday's session < f the House-Senate investigatiun committee. Stark quoted Preside t Roosevel; as having told him in the summer ol 1944. "Betty, you were surprised at ! that atta-.k and so was I." (Betty is < Stark's nickname.) The witnesses added that Mr. Roosevelt, "prior to the attack, was not expecting an attack on Hnwn,” any more than I was." He said they both expected Japan to strike firs: at the south rather than to the east. SECRETARY BYRNES HAS SLIGHT COLD Washington. Jan. 4.—(AP)—A cold kept Secretary of State James Byn'.es from work again today, causing cancellation of his scheduled news conference. An aide said Byrnes might come in later in the day but that he did not leei well enough to hold his usual news conference. HACK WITH SERVICE College Station. Raleigh. Jan. 4 — Major Cecil I). Thomas after four years in the army, two of which were spent in the European theater, has returned to the farm management department of the extension service, ;l was announced by Director 1. O. Schaub of State college. New Probe Counsel Seth 1; : . . ■. (a 'i forms attorney gy no al in the Hoover ad ministration, ha- non named new i. lunsel for the 11 iuse-Sf late Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, succeeding William D. Mitchell, re signed. Moat Price Hike Asked By Anderson %! Would Make Move In Effort to Halt Threatened Strike Rael gh, Jan E—I AP) - Sc :retar> o' Agrica It nre Clint o Arnlei . said here today that in tin effort i avert a strike of workers in mem packing houses, lie ht’.i recommend ed incretised retail prices for meat.-. "We can c t the pr.ce to the pro ducer 01 increase the price to tfv consumer,'’ lie said. He said that in some cases the packing h mse w Th em had not ree i ed 1 tge incre . -. con.parable t > those given indu.-ttia workers. Price increases woaltl be deter mined after a study of eases to de ter.imie which employes needei raises, he said. He .-aid Me iude tin recommen da'ion in Wasri.n-gtoit bef.>re coming tc \ mih Carolina Pr two speeches one in Raleigh and one in Washing ton. IOEDER ON PARASITES College Station. Raleigh. Jan. 4 Farmers wishing intormati in cn the control of internal parasites in sheer should write the agricult ura i edi tor. Si.de college. Raleigh, for a iret copy i -Pension Uler N- 61. a new • . just re leased by the extension service. KEEPING LONE VIGIL FOR GRANDSON COLD WINDS sweep the icy Monongahela River near Pittsburgh, Pa., these days, but Morgan Lewis continues watching for the body of his 14-year-old grandson who was one of five boys drowned in the river early in November. The 73-year-old man stands before the open shack which neighbors built to protect him from the elements. (.International) Labor Tension Mounts As New Strikes Near I housands More Added I o I jst ()t Workers ()ut (I5v The Associated Press.) New (.nils f ' - in ke- . 11 ".i r< ■:! i nen1<. inv as !(!b,i'il i.nllli'r I ill 1 lit- nation' - ii 1 cll) ’. la I at rite. As President Tinman urged me American people t > press Congress into action on legislation aimed ,.t ; orbing work stoppage, move thou sands at workers were added to the list of idle berause of lab u di.-pdtes. Now walkout.-, hitting at i sir ajor industries and invohing neai ly ,i million and a halt person , threatened to materii.n/.e tins month. Over 400,000 Idle. The number of workers t -11 ■ jumped past the 400,000 mar.; ,n President Ti liman last night i . I re ed deep concern over the na tion's labor unrest. In Chicago, the CIO-Far.n K(| ilp ment and Metal Workers union s,u,t wage negotiuMons witn the inter national Harvester Companj id collap-ed and that in all likelili >1 a strike of 30,000 would be c.tiled. Union members in 11 Har\ ester plants arn’.iged a meeting Sunday tii set a date for the walkout. In another wage dispute, t.'ie ( lO-Mine Mill and Smelter workers union in Salt I.ake City called a strike tor .Ian. 21 afleci ing about .">.000 of its l’tah rnem hers. The third threatened strike canri from Akron. Ohio where officials of Hie CIO-United Rubber Workers at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com pany said a strike vote would be taken Sunday. They said the new ballot was in line with a'ction of old er locals throughout the country a.id was in support of union's demand for higher wages. Phone Strike Threat. Meanwhile, the possibility remain ed of a nation-wide walkout of tele phone workers, in sympathy with i strike sti.Yted yesterday by 17.200 employes ot the Western Electric Company in 21 plants in New York and New Jersey. Joseph A. Bairnr, (president of the independent National Federation ol Telephone Workers said the fed eration's 48-member unions were being polled to authori/. e;i strike in support of demand's lor 3(1 per cent wage hikes by the Western Electric Employes Association, its ;• - liliuke. Beanie said a strike by t ,e NFTW would affect about 450,(Mil) telephone workers throng, nut tlio country. The only promising news along the labor front came from New York when' the trend ot balloting by 50, 000 AFL employes of Western Uni u telegraph Company, outside N< •/ York indicated they would acccp! a War Labor Board wage directi o •iid call oft a scheduled strike J on The 7,000 CIO members of the American Communications Associa tion in New York City, however are set to quit work next Tuesday iu support of demands for increas'd wages, and in protest against Hie WLB's wage increase directive re ported to average 12 cents :jri hour out which the union said did not include all of its members. 1 .int Is Showing l ncertain Trends New York. Jan. 4 —(AP) -Colton • utures opened 10 cents a bale higher to five cents lower. Noon prices were Kf cents a bale higher to 10 cents lower. March 24.62, May 24.55, July 24.38. Pv. Close Open March. 24.60 24.62 Mav. 24.54 24.54-53 July. 24.38 24.37 October. 23.68 23 67 December .... 25.51) 23.59 March (1946 .... 23.46 23.46 Some Rails Able To Gain In Mart New York, .Jon. 4.- (AP)—Select ed rails negotiated good recoveries in today's stock market while many leaders elsewhere continued slightly depressed. In front were Chicago and East ern Minin', New York Central, Woolworth, Montgomery Ward ; • <l American Telephone. Laggards in cluded Bethlehem, General Motors, Goodrich and General Electri. United States and France Agree on Air-Line Routes Washington. The United States and Frame have agreed to operation of air lines of each com try through the other on four routes. Under the temporary plan an nounced by the State department United States air lines may fly the North Atlantic through France by way of Paris and beyond to the Mid dle East, ri d to Marseille via Lis bon and Barcelona. The two French routes are to Washington via New York and to Chicago via Montreal.
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