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ilmJterBnu Bally Bisyatrij THIRTY-THIRD YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1010 " 1vnVaV. I1-1;N""N FIVE CENTS COPY Greek Issue Is Solved By UNO Action Britain And Soviet Yield In Dispute; New Crises Flares I . ndiiii. Feb. .— (AD - -1 he I nited Aatinns Security Coun its first crisis pusl with the solution of tin* Russian-British dispute over Greece, moves on today to consignation of the Soviet - Fkra'ne charge that lliitish troops in Indonesia were endangering the peace. 11, ■ 11 officials said privately Ilia ntrox e.sy night be "an evei . , , diplomatic nut to crack '|h ■ , Russia's allegation that tin j l, were jeopardizing xxmiI l se , i |iy maintaining fo.ees r. (tie r. : 11-nation council wax eall.s ion at 1- noon (KST) an p first item on the agenda was m .1, ooiulna'lli \ nic.i follawe. ( ! , civ the wording of Russia's com l .mil' on the Green situation. jito background ot the i.utones i utrexersy, oowerei. xxais tin i I'ni. n’s policy calling for th« icpcndeiiee of colonial people. (iptmiuins of British action in .lava have eharBcd that Brit ish troops were being used to Is,*i p the Indonesians under Dutch domination. The British, on the other hand i,m isted that their forces were Indonesia on the orders of the Allied combined chiefs ot stall and tj.,,1 their only purpose was to pro lix <■ order while Japanese troop. were removed. 1 lie Britisti ease nud the backin ,' the Dutch government. Tlie- un cc".:,iiized government also lias de , m,d that British troops should re nt Java until all Japanc.s; ; ,„.ps are disarmed and removed. ! >.-pile* the difficulties of the ln ilni.e-i.ui case, the council laced it witl, one iidvcintagc and that wa., • ■ experience they had gamed in m ttling the Greek dispute without sj . timg the unity ot the major I’exxer: - 1'he Russians yielded on every "s im charge against Britain as the c .:: il resolved the Greek crisis i night Andrei Vishmsky. the S" cl vice commissar of foreign , . announced tliat lie would i, ■ insist on a council statement saying that British forces should be withdrawn from Greece immediately ■a that they were endangering world ; , ,, c, as he originally demanded. i ; 11 ■11 Foreign Secretary Krncst Ik ii gave ground too. in not press !<>i formal council action to ex i i' ale Britain of the charge. Bookkeeper Is Heard At Fraud Trial Greenville, N. C'., Feb. 7. CAP) — \ innim book-keeper fur Roderick iw'iipnrl, erstwhile operator of the .. apple ’ loan brokerage business, 'i -tilled today m Pitt eounty su perioi court today that she accepted It an- from investors for several days .-.Her Davenport was indicted on i barges of conspiracy to defraud an 1 fraud by false pretense. The witness. Miss Pauline Harrcl son, worked "as a bookkeeper n Davenport’s Rocky Mount office ii the late summer of 19T4 for about two months. in that period, she said, she re ceived $22,795 from "'investors’ v ho got five per cent interest week 1> on money they loaned to Daven port and she loaned to borrower total of $7.2(i 1 on which they paic ten per cent interest weekly. WEATHER FOR NORTH CAROLINA Fair and continued cool this afternoon. Cooler in sou thern portion tonight. Fri day cloudy and slightly war mer. SHOPPING WORRIES GIRL 'GIANT IT'S TOUGH ENOUGH to get nylons, shoes and other routine items that comprise the average woman’s wardrobe. Imagine, then, the headaches of Elizabeth Farmer, 19, Carmi, 111., who is seven feet tall (in her stock ing feet, when she can get the stockings), weighs 243 pounds, and wears size 17 shoes—which have to be specially made for her. Just how high Elizabeth towers can be seen in this picture. (International) Hess Planned To Unseat i Government In England, War Crimes Court Told He Hoped To Make Peace With A New Cabinet In London 1 Ntii'i nbcrg. Fob. 7. 1 AIM - I in British Government tli. closed t > the j l international military tribunal ihat , Rudolph Hess flew to Scotland in t 1941 with proposals to unseat the . Churchill government and make < peace with a new cabinet which would assure the Nazis a tree hand in F.urope. Iless, a scare-crow figure in a second hand suit, clutched bis hand on tire prisoner's dock rail as a British army office de manded his punishment as one of the 22 Nazi defendants here. Opening the individual proseeu- | tion’s case against the burner mm,- | her three Nazi, the British present- j ed reports of questioning of Hess j ■ that were recorded alter he para-| ■ chuted u to a farm near Glasgow. | May 10. 1941. Should Make Peace. In these reports. Hess declared ' h.e had come h convince Britain, that Hitler "would sincerely regret the collapse of the British empire" and that they should make peace 1 before it was to late. He sought to show the British I that "avarivous Americans bad ; evil designs on the empire and i "Canada would certainly be ineur | porated in the United Stales.” Captured minutes of the conver ! sation between lormer l'1 reign Minister Joachim VonHibbentrop, and Benito Mussolini in Rome three day. after the flight .-aid Hess had ■ ent a farewell letter to Hiller pront j jug. i i n-e Britain' la cist circles la persuade the Biili-h to give in. Ribbentrop told Mu.-. •Inti however, that Hitler became very angry and declared In "vv.udd have Hess shot immediately it lie returned to Oct many.’ President Asserts HeWon’tWithdraw Pauiey Nomination Declares Ickes Might Be Wrong I About Oil Deal Washington, Feb. i ■ I — Piesident Harry Truman said flat |v today he vv'dl not withdraw Ed win P:iii!iw'> nominal i • • 11 as na\} inulei'Mvrrt.iA The Prescient said that Iiiterio: Secretary Harold L. Ickes had no consulted him in advance cuncernmf his testinamv criticizing Pauley bu that he did . ot believe this woult change his relationship with Ickes He told a news conferen e he wa backing Pauley and thought he wa an honest man and a very capabt administrator who did a magnifi cant job as reparations administra tor. Ickes can very well be mis taken as well as the rest of us, ' >|r. Truman added Mr. Truman said he did not dis cuss Pauley's nomination with l*.d ward J. Flynn, former Democrati national chairman, during a Whit House conference yesterday. 1 he, j talked about New York polities matters, he said. Asked whether he planned to ca in Ickes to discuss his attitude o the nomination, he said not. EISENHOWER PLANS ARMY CAMP TOU1 Washington, Feb. 7. — (AP)—Or Dwight Eisenhower plans to lea\ soon on his first inspection tour i principle army installations in tl United States since becoming W; Department chief of staff last N< vernber. Measure To End Strikes Is Accepted Washington, Kelt. 7.— (AP>— The House today passed 257 to 155 the ho.iy dispute,, v use hill to curb and seek settlement of labor strife. Final action came on a roil cal: vote, sending the tar reaching strike control legislation to tn ■ Senate. I here it is predicted it will have tough sledding. Just before the conclusive ballot, members shouted down a motion by Rep. Baldwin (-' Y' to send the bii. back to the Labor Committee for further study. The measure by Hep. Case (H~ SD) won tentative approval late yesterday by a 197 to 115 standing count. Head Bill In Full. But the clinching vote was de layed until today when Rep. Hoff man (R-Mich.) insisted that the lengthy, much amended bill be read to the House'in full. The Case proposal as it now stands would: 1. Create a federal mediation board with authority to step into major labor disputes and forbid strikes or lockout tor Jit days while it sought to solve them. 2. Permit wide use of court injunctions in enforcing the cooling off period, preventing violence or insuring movements * of perishable goods. 3. Provide for civil suits against labor or management for breaking contracts. ■*. Outlaw violence in picketing by cither side. a. Ban boycotts used to enforce disputants to come to terms. (i. Deny employe status to unions of supervisory workers, unless they do manual productive labor. Truman To T ell \\a<^c* Plan Soon Wash;, gt< n. Fob. 7. — ( AIM - President Truman said Inday he hoped h> have a formula in a day | or two to halt the steel and other | major strikes. l Responding to questions at a I news conference, lie said the fnrm I ula under consideration is not a | completely new wage-price plan, j but rather one for meeting tlie sit uation the > ntion is faced with now. lie added he believed it can lie worked out in the next few days. , Asked by a reporter if it is a | "big steel" formula. Mr. Truman said he had not heard of that. The President said the whole I question if one of production. All the people are aware, he added, of the need for production. Mass Production Needed. : If we gel mass production now. lie said, the situation will adjust it self. There will be no reason for a iew wage-price formula then, lu stated. He said this mass production aim was what the administration had laid down from the start. Since the war ended, he said, the administratii n has called lor all out production, to meet the demand that • has been piling up. He added the administration's- first wage price ^ formula of last tall would have worked it' we had got the production ’ we hoped we were going to get. 32 Passengers On Wrecked Ship Still Not Accounted For Ketchikan. Alaska, Feb. 7.— (AP ■ —Thirty two persons were unac counted for when rescue vessel. - brought to Seward the last knowt ’j load of survivors from the wrccket i liner Yukon last night, and today th. I ; crew and passenger lists were bein; l I checked and rechecked to learn th i names of the missing. I All Seward watched the sea fo signs ot any straggling smalt crat which might mne n with some o ^ all of the 22. NI’RSERYMEN TO MEET. i- ! College Station. Raleigh, Feb. 7 e The annual meeting of the Nort | Carolina Association of Nurseryme ■ and a short course for its membet I will be held at State College o 1 February 15 and 16. Truman Backs Meat Rationing In Nation To Save Europeans Case Bill Is Approved 'NO VACANCY' SIGN STOPS HERO FACING THE SAME PREDICAMENT as thousands of returning servicemen get tangled in, Edward McIntosh, a former Navy man who lost his right leg on Bataan and 90 pounds in a Jap prison camp, stares at a "No Vacancy" sign in the window at the right while on a quest for living quarters for himself and his wife in New York City. Evicted from their apartment, they're living with friends. (International) New York Takes Drastic Action To Whip Crippling Strike-Caused Shortages Schools Closed, Coal Deliveries To Amusement Places Barred, Brown-Out New York, Feb. 7. (AP)-New York City today took drastic action — exceeding that imposed m win time to beat an acute fuel shot t age caused by the four-day strike of tug boat operators in the city . vast harbor. Mayor William O'Dwyer pro claimed a slate of emergency after tug men voted against returning to work despite Federal seizure ot the tow boat industry and ordered: All schools shut down tomorrow until further notice. Possible use of school building for hospital purposes to handle an increasing number of pneumonia cases due to tack u! fuel. Schools As Homes. Possible use of schools to house thousands of cold water flat-dwell ers suffering from lack ot fuel. No deliveries of coal or oil to places of amusement. includiu theatres, motion picture houses am. night clubs. Strict rationing of fuel to public utilities, hospitals and other institu tions. Interior temperatures cut to tit) degrees anti no heat in sub ways anti street ears. A drastic "brown-out " shutting of! all outdoor signs and dimming street lights where possible. Representatives of the union, em ployers and the city announced early today after an till night meeting that they had reached a proposal for set tlement of the dispute which would be submitted to a referendum meet ing of the union tomorrow. Details of the proposals were not disclosed. At the end of the conference. Ed ward Maguire, labor advisor to Mayor O'Dwyer, said: "The union and the employers met and as a result of deliberation. a proposal was arrived at which the union negotiating committee is pre pared to recommend to ils members at a meeting between 8 a. m. ane -i p. m. Friday." Lint Futures Up 35 Cents In New York New York, Feb. 7. — tAP)—Cot ton futures opened five to 21) cents a bale higher. Noon prices were ten to 35 cents a bale higher. Pv. Close Open March . .. 25.15 25. In Mav . 25,42 25.42 July.25.40 25.43 October . 25.212 2n.23 I December ... 2a.1 . 25.2a ■ March (1!)4(D .. . 25.13 25.1(i Tar Heel Airmen t Given Top Place In A-Bomb Pests Washington. Feb. 7.—(AP)—The man who dropped the first atomic I bomb on Hiroshima—Maj. Thomas II Ferebee of Martinsville, N. C.—will S play the same role in the navy s test n bombing of a fleet of warships next May. _ Market Drops With Liquors New York, Feb. 7. — (AIM — .' break of three to five (Joints in re centlv buoyant liquor shares ad versely affected most stock marke departments today although slecl successfully contested the shift. Prominent on the off-side mos of the time were Distillers Corp American Distilling. Schenley, Na tional Distilleries, Chrysler. Amer ican Airlines, American Telephone Goodrich and Southern Railway. farivTfederation HOLDS CONVENTIOI Winston-Salem, Feb. 7.— (AP) Importance of rural education wit relation to our nation's future w; (he topic of discussion by the asst i iated women of the North Carolir Farm Bureau Federation this mori ing while the men discussed the net essity for organization among ti group. The joint sessions were held i a part of the tenth annual convei tion of the North Carolina Farm Bi reau Federation and the associati organization is in progress at l) Robert E. Lee Hofei to extend thr< i ugh Friday night. Food Situation In War R a\ a<;cd (Countries 'Rad Washington. lot). 7—(Al'i — I’rrsident Harrr Truman s.iiil today lie would call for a re turn to meat rationing if it I) - eomes necessary to prevent 10.000.000 to 1 .">.000.000 people from starr ing to death. The President told a i;ev. c >n icrence that he tho igt t u ■ > dd not be necessary to ration cat. that, he hoped not. If. however, it becomes iico-oy t< keep from ten wiiion ' filtet*. niilion abroad from starr ing, he e >n tinued. he thought the eountry ought to do it. \ i ta 11 r Concerned. He explained that he was vitally concerned with prospects of wide spread starvation in war du n enun "rics. accentuated by lossc.- ot wheat crops in si me count l ie- d other grains elsewhere. He hopes, he said, that his wheat conservation order of yesterday may make is possible to ship fi.1)00.000 tons of wheat abroad daring the lirst six months of this year. Friends and allies during the war, he said, are not to blami '.or the r desperate situation. It would be un American. he added, to pei ' peo ple in enemy countries to st irve Canada, Australia d other coun tries with tend surplus*'- are Ixing asked to cooperate, he said, adding he was confident that the An era,-ei people will cooperate tullv bv buying less. Jap General To Hang For War Crimes MacArthur Refuses To Save Yamashita; Press To Be Barred Tokyo, Fob. 7. -(AIM HI Gen. I ' )moyuki Yamashita, Ins last >'"pe for clemency denied by (leimiat Douglas MacArthur. must die sorrel ly like a common criminal on the I gallows it\Manila the <ity hi; ti ip j pod soldiers raped, pillaged a,cl burned. ! MacArthur. as final reviewing au thority, today upheld the death seu ! tence imposed on Yamashita by a military commission in Manila and i ordered that his one time adverse meet Ins doom "stripped of uniform, decorations and other appurtanciv, signifying membership in tlie mili tary profession. Secret Execution. Lt. Gen. Wilhelm D. St.ver. aetn a on Mae Arthur's orders, will carry out th eexecution secretly and then announce it. Newspapermen and photographers will be barred. Slyer, commander of western Pacific forces, said army select ed witnesses at the execution would not he permitted to talk for publication. Yamashita, charged with condon ing atrocities by troops under bis command in the Philippines, is the first high Japanese officer whose conviction has been reviewed by the supreme Allied commander. Fate of the calm, shaven-headed Japanese general was left m Mac Arthur's hands after the Philippine;, supreme court refused to trail.-.lor the case from military to civil juris diction, and the United States su preme Court last Monday upheld the death sentence. Denounces Officer. MacArthur. in final review of the case against the foe who failed to prevent his triumphant return to the Philippines delivered this scathing I denunciation of Yamashita: "It is not easy for mo to pas ; judgment on a defeated adversary in a major campaign. 1 have review ' cd the proceedings in vain in search for some circumstances on his be half. I can find none. "Rarely has so cruel and want' n a record been spread lo the public ga/e. This officer has failed his duly to his troops, to his country, to his j enemy and to mankind. He has fail ed utterly his soldiers' faith Thu i transgressions are a stain on civ il ization and constitute a memory ot II shame and dishonor that can never s be forgotten." a EXTENSION FORESTERS. College Station. Raleigh, Feb. 7.—. e William G. Davis of Haywood county , i d Walter W. Barnes of is Troy, Alabama, have just been ap 1_ pointed Extension farm foresters to 'j ! serve at Clinton and Whiteville, it is announced by R. W. Graeber, head of Extension Farm Forestry at j State College. Education Board Passes TeacherSalary Resolution Raleigh, Feb. 7.—(AP)—A resolu tion authorizing superintendent ol local schools to advance salaries to teachers in schools which have clos ed because of impassable roads was adopted today by the state board of education. The resolution authorizes the su perintendents to advance salaries to teachers who have taught as many as five days in a salary month and lost ten days or more because ot closed schools. It also specifies that the lost teaching time must be made cm by the teachers. It was adopted after Mrs. Annie McDonald of Hickory, president of tlie North Carolina Education Asso ciation had told the board that a survey by NCEA revealed 4,944 pub lie school teachers had lost 11 'I more teaching days as the result <>i schools being closed because of bad loads. , She said teachers m one rural school have not received a pay cheek since November 16. Some teacher, have had only three pay days since schools closed last spring, she re ported. Salaries have been delayed because teachers have been required to teach 20 days a month before get ting paid. The resolution provides for super intendents of the affected units to I devise individual plans for advanc ing the salaries and working out schedules so that each teacher com pleting the nine months ol work will have been paid at the end of school 1 for the full time.
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