Hcn&crsmt Datlp Dispatch THIRTY-THIRD YEAR 1 *V-^i^);;!::s-1" HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 0, 11MG 1',1;,',kn- K.V.'i'xi.Av, '"n FIVE CENTS CORY PUPILS FROLIC WHEN THEIR SCHOOL 'BURNS DOWN1 tf IT WEREN'T FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SNOW, this would bo a scene of dancing on tiro green, for that’s tire spirit of it—a joyous ring-around-thc-rosy of Dorchester pupils because their school (background) was damaged by lire and classes had to end lor a while. New York City youngsters were looking forward to similar good fortune from Mayor O’Dwycr’s proclamation ol an emergency because of the tugboatmen’s strike. Coal supplies in New York were dwindling, and all public schools were to be closed, (international) Senators Divided Over Pauley Vots; Outlook Is Dim _ Nose Count Shows 9 To 9 Tie Vote; Allen O. K. Assured Washington, Fob. 9. — (ATM - Chances dwindled U day that Kdwin I’:, :Joy's nomination as under>oore ■ ,v ol navy will be lavorablv iw i ended to the Senate. 1 in- naval cofiinr.,uv w-hicii ha been co sidering the nomination was ■ purled evenly divided on the ipies . ■: i and a tie vote mean.- I’a bey's i. mte would go to the Hour witiu lit ; ■oi- important advantage of the com . .■ ice's approval. Tiie outlook was definitely better :, r tiie adniinistration in the ease , George Alien, named for a two j year term on the Heo instruction i- n; i ec (Corporation board. Hep tb lii an opposition to his nomination .oo'.ired to be crumbling and Ins p:. nipt eonfirmatinn was .generally : r'uw ed assured. President Truman's real! inn.it ion n! bis onfidenee in Pauley on I leer i\ e\ ident ly 1 a i led ti move on a e , teen's of the So ate Na\.d C inmittee. Xdmini.-ti'ation aides .-aid a cheek mo sailed I ’.alley's 1 >en '• i be t there was insuf1'icieiil. 'Inev . ed a nose eount ot cornu bn emliers indieated at hast two I >ei. -oral: would .p in w itfi . • eo liepulilicans to v au e i 9 to 9 t u i i tiie issue were put to a vote today., Steel Pa\ Boost Was Okhcd, l lien Rejected 1>\ Firm Washington, Feb. 9.— (AIM— CIO President Murray told senator.'- to day that F S. Steel’. Pre ident l’»en lamm Tailless tentatively accepted a 1:» .» cent hourly wage increase tor steel workers on January 11 only to change his mind” a few days inter. Testifying before the Senate Fab'*r Committee in opposition to President Truman's labor fact linding P’°" posal, he said he believed it might be necessary to increase tne pruv o, steel some to meet tlie costs ot the union's wage boost demand. ALBRIGHT INCLINES MacARTriUK S OFFER Raleigh, Feb. !). Maj .r R. Mayno Albright, just back on his job as State Director of the United Stales Kmployment Service for North t ar olina, has been offered a position on the Special Labor Mission to Tokyo, requested by General Mac Arthur to make a study ot labor con ditions in the Japanese Kmpire. The offer came through the C ivii Affairs Division of the War De partment, under the direction ol which Major Albright hfmdlod labor matters in the Mediterranean area for more than two years, as an ol ficer of the Allied Military Govern ment. Major Albright declined the oiler, since he has so recently resumed bis position with the Kmployment Ser vice—and, then, too, the leavin ; time com lifted with an important engagement he had in Washington, February 1). Saturday—his wedding and three weeks of sunning with his bride, the former Miss Frances Perry Stanley, of Washington, on the beaches in Florida. WEATHER FOIt NORTH C AROLINA. Light to . .oderatc rain to night. becoming colder tonight. Sunday generally fair and con tinued rather cold. Truman Reported ‘Quite Hopeful’ In Steel Strike Washington, Feb. 9.— (AP> — President Truman was reported “(iiiite hopeful'' today that the end of the steel strike was at hand. The President's optimistic at titude toward solution of the nation's biggest strike, now in its 20th day. was described by a White House official after Mr. Truman had canto lied his Flor ida vacation trip because of Hie “immediately critical situation." The official said “good pro gress is being made" and that the F. S. Steel ( orporation. and the CIO steel workers arc “not very far apart." ( It) President Philip Murray likewise said that the two sides were in substantia! agreement, and that he was eager to obtain a one year contract signed. UNO Adjournment Delayed By Spat Over Final Home General Assembly j iad Hoped I o End First Meet Today l.olidon, Fell. b.— ( MM —A Firncli proposal to postpone se lection of'a pri inaiiriit site for tIn* l nited Nations until next Septeinher was defeated !>v a lie vote ol lb to III in tile per manent headiiuarters enminitlee today. The I nited States ab stained from voting. I eniii.il, Kell. 9. ( AIM Ad,inurn ment • >i tin.' I'uile'l Nations (ieueral \ emlily. informally ■ ■ lied tied to -11 ok end, vvn (lelayeii toilav I>\ a lnunliei' of unsettled problems, top)ied el I' by a i'll' t rate fight it the selection of a lieine lor the l .NT). I .i-at let- had indicated over a week age that they expected te park up and ge Imme by today, but when the time arrived they found they ...till had ..it the agenda about hall ol the issues which wen- before then when they started out lour weeks ago. I NO officials, with constant urging of the F. S. delegation chief Fdwunl Stellinius are shouting now at adjournment hv Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. The site controversy has route he. a point where some delegates re ported privately that a movemen was underway not to let LNO head i.nailers he established in the I niln States at all but to keep it in Lon don for a few years. CHURHILL, TRUMAN TO CONFER SUNDAY Washington, Fob. !>. (AIM For mer Prime Minister Winston Chur chill will call on President Trumai at the White House at 8:30 p. in Sunday. The British leader and his wifi have been vacationing at Miam Beach. Fla., for the last severa i weeks. 1 Charles Boss, press secretary, sail that since Mr. Truman would bo un able to see Churchill in Florida nov that the President's southern vaca timi trip had been cancelled, ( bur chill, is coining here. Ross said In was not informed on how Ion Churchill will be in Washington. Hi assumed he would remain overnight New Navy Nomination Washington. Feb 9.—•( AIM—Pres ident Truman today sent to th< donate the nomination of W. .)oht Kennv of California to be assistan secretary of the navy. Truman’s Housing Proposals Receive Hearty Backing Democrats And GOP Join To Endorse Building Program Washington, Feb. 9. -(AP)—Pres ident Harry Truman s recommenda tions for the greatest house build ing program in history won imme diate and enthusiastic bi-partisan support on Capitol Iliil today. Democrats and Republicans ap plauded the objectives of the emer gency campaign which ha set its sights no the ci mst ruction of 2,701), 0(0 new homes in the next two , years. Wilson S. Wyatt, homing exped itor and generalissimo of the pro J .jected campaign, said it could "move ' into high gear" by April 1 if C'on | gross acts promptly and votes the | necessary legislation, i Only one pha. e of the over all J program failed to click with Con gressmen. That was the proposal that $10,000,0110 worth of existing ! dwellings be placed under price i control. Major opposition to this j developed. ( lljjeetions to two pha r of tile plan were von cd by indu try groups. I 'The Xal mini! A .-.o,ration of Real [■'.state Hoards proto ted 111" price j control feature- and til ■ I’roduccrs ' Council, In"., i epre.-ent mg building material mainline!uroi - objected to ; proposals for subsidies to spur out Iait of materials. In lea I of suosidies, the council i ..uggesled a ten per cent ineretise in prices ol materials arguing that this i would add only about a $18(1 to the cost ol a $ti.l)(H) home. 'This addi tional co. i would be repaid over a period oi 2a to 20 years so that there would be m hai'd-hui.- on the purchaser, the council said. The "bold" housing program pre pared by Wyatt on instructions from Mr. Truman, contemplates about $ 1 ti,(100.Olid,(Hill in housing construc tion during the next two years. 'The houses would be built mainly by private contractors, with most of the dwellings selling for no more than $8,000 or renting for not more than I Sad a month. N.Y.C. Given Drastic Oil Ration Plan Tug Boat Workers Reject Proposals To End Walkout New York. Veil. !) (AD Tic most 111'. i .t ir : vslei o of I ni * oil i;i tionim in the? h istory .it the New York C'11 \ was onlo-i d today by Mayor William O'Dwvcr afler til ing lio.it workers rejccte 1 for a sec ond time proposal: to in I their har b< r st i jke. Tito > nyor's neti at. extending a prev iously proclaimed slate of emet - gettev. was ink n "in the interest ol the hetiith and salWy" of th" city' million "to avoid an i id-a,dr o i 1 In- ■ : nd to replrni li tie fuel sup plies * I hospitals and other in tit; lions." ( ompleto " rrdir.' ao. "There is a complete embargo now in effect." said Commission a ol Purchase Albert Pleydcll. acUtvj fuel administrator. "Until rationing starts at noon, no oil will be move i at all. except for emergencies. T i say that the severity of the system, is unprecedented for the city is put ting it mildly." Me also told newsmen that the same rigid controls mav be ap plied to eoal Monday if present conditions did not improve. The fuel "freeze" was ordered by O’Dvvyer who also called upon the "Office of Defense Transportation— which had seized the low boat in dustry—-to "man immediately, tv ' :p-Hlr -s i.t ci -1-efitences every tit" boat in New York and every fui ! barge and to reestablish the flow of !" -1 ■ ■ quickly its it is humanly pos sible." Most of the i itv's fuel oil as well as coal, conies from New Jersey terminals by tug boats. The mayor barred all deliveries P places of amusement and decreed that fuel oil would be obtainable I only on application to police bead- : quarter; for institutions or the near est police stations for residential users. To Consider Closing. He also advised owners of busi ness establishments to "consider closing immediately" if their current ; fuel supplies would not lust more than a week." The 1ug boat workers, members 1 of the United Marine Division of the | A PL's International Longshoremen's ; association voted f!Hl to 467 to reject an agreement worked out in confer- 1 i net's among union officials, federal conciliators and the New York Tug Boat K.xchange the employer group. U. S. Will Present (Greece's Case At War (d imes I rial Nuernberg Feb. t). ( A P)- --(.'hie: ! United States Prosecutor Robert ; Jackson said today the U. S. wdl espouse the can -r of Greece be foie the international military tribunal if no one else dees. Jackson’s •statement made after Soviet Progenitor IJ. Gen. Roman Rudenko almo.-t ignored grievance I of the Greeks in an otherwise ex haustive presentation against Xa/.i aggression an datroeities in eastern • and southeastern Europe. The Russians had agreed to pres ent the ease for all occupied coun tries cast of a north-south line thro ugh Berlin, and it was anticipated the Grc ok cause would be thorough ly elaborated since the Greeks held off the axis for six months and suf fered unusual cruelties. ENIRIKKU BOMB Will BE DROPPED ON ' RUKOJI "SUICIDE FLEET" GROUPED III OFF BIKINI ISLAND AND / t X bokororyuniu -HUMAN EYES AND EARS Will BE .»* \ ** HI-..- FAR AWAY. BUT EVERY DETAIL OF :> the explosion will be observed ^0^ *1'. * ^ n- — — — — AND RECORDED BY AUTOMATIC V. , ^ ^ INSTRUMENTS MOTION PICTURE £ - /#t CAMERAS. SOUND RECORDING «? > BIKINI EQUIPMENT LEAD ENCASED AND C HEAT INSULATED, IN CONCRETE £ „ r DUGOUTS AND EMPLACEMENTS ■; .•/ > -* Vt . : : ;f/;I Pacific ).} r 1 i r Ocean ***.<**> v> . 4 > II - "" A ▼ UNMANNED 8-29 At 30 000 FLAGSHIP AND \\ "Iv t ’\ ^ RADIO CON FEET DROPS OBSERVATION v\V TROLLED AIR BOMB SET TO SHIPS ABOUT N ' V" ' CSAFT FOR AC- EXPLODE IN AIR TEN MILES FROM ; tualclose-ups at several the lagoon — > HUNDRED FEET V 11 AUTOMATIC MOVIE CAM- J - ^ ^ ^ -"ERAS ON 100 FT STEEL TOW I ; ERS PICTURE BOMB BURST J Egyptian Students Protest British Policy In Country 80 Are Hurt In Outbreak r : r r. Feb. !l TAP) - Egypt in st ill ii' buttled Cairn police today during ,i dcmunst rat ion against Bri l; • o’i.t udi ti ward rev i.- ion of the liri! i-! -Egypt ian treaty. At least all students and 30 policemen were in jured and appr iximatcly 15n students r ' ted tut re quiet was restored. SI i ting "down with Brit a in" and "to the r< v olt." the students surged | tin- • igh the streets of Cain . Police ’ line- were broken and a bus was set 1 lit- demonstrations started after] a mas- meeting protesting afainst | the lacmt British reply to Egypt’s I request lor revision ot the 1 938 Bri tish-Egy-.itian treaty. Bystanders Join In. I lie fighting flared till when | about 3.000 student-: eaiedit between |) -lire lines near a Nile River bridge started hurling stone.1. Best; • Her henerl in shortly on the side of the students. Police Chief Lewis Rus sell Pasha who was on the scene during the melee. immediately summoned mounted poll e. An estimated 5,000 students at tended tiie meeting at Falid Univer sity, vvt le Egy j a i i pi diet> and Bri tish military police patrolled the streets and public -mares. The eitv w is declared ,, it nf bounds fi r Bri tish and American troops. Banners were hoisted proclaiming "down with, imperialism.' "the ques- , tion of the county is international and "get out of the .bile Valley." Tobacco Council To Meet Friday n.vi'igh. Fell. !).—'T'hio first official meeting of the North Carolina To bacco Advisors- Council will lie held in H dciah. Friday night, February la. it is announced by Agriculture Commissioner \V. Kerr Scott, coun cil chairman. The council, which was appoint ed Iasi December by Governor; Cherry, includes representatives of ail groan..- in the State > forested in the produetien and marketing of to b; i • o. A ■ a nart of the State De P' rtmeni of Agrieulture, the council will serve as a medium for consul tation on problems relating to the production “of the world's finest to bacco" through intensified research rebii bi" to sail; fort i li/.er. cult oral pruet i- e- . plant diseases, entomology, eed selcetic n, i i d methods of har vesting. curing, handling, sorting, end grading. Explosion Shakes New Jersey Area Feme Grove, X. •).. Feb !' —(AID An explo ion in a smokeless powdei i■ .; 1111; — _ f the a. isos Carney's Point plant of F. I DuPont deNem mirs and Co. -r. rtleil residents as lar away as Philadelphia and shat tered windows for a ten mile radius today. <|1 A company spokesman said there was no injuries at the plant and the build i g was eniptv tit the time of the blast. DISAGREE ON 'WINDS' MESSAGE PICTURED TOGETHER at the Pearl Harbor investigation in Washington, Capt. A. D. Kramer (left) and Capt. L. F. Salford of the U. S. Navy were tar apart in their testimony about a Japanese ‘•wind code” message which, according to SafTord. was intercepted before the Hawaii attack and plainly meant war on the U. S. The intercented message, Kramer testified, meant only strained relations with England. (International) Pearl Harbor Probers Consider Night Meets Investigators Seek To End Inquiry By Feb. 15 Deadline Set By Congress Washington, Feb 9.—(AP)—Pearl 11 in - ti r: nsidei'ed to* •by tho February lb deadline lixed by O ngiv.". day whether in hold night sessions .11 an ntte p: tn y. in i up iheir work five representatives. who have been digging into the Hawaii disaster since last November 15. already have had one extension from the original January 3 closing date. Vice Chaim an Cor nor CD-Term. 1 told reoorters after a closed meeting vestPi'H'iv thr>t ffimii :Mfo rnoniber wanted to finish • (,\t Friday i! : ;Plo and th-4 night hearings had been suggested. Hearing- h e been from 10 a. m. to 5 p m. daily, with ah ho in* oft for lunch. The current witne. T7..\-y Cant. A. D Kramer, mi-eled ■> n :*v into the m*r i • > ve^iordliV \ lie testified briefly in Jaoan • language : idl'd ! and mm a 1 b ps officer : • i ■ 11c pivo th" io’hi ;’ti'r a lito'-.l trau-la-1 tie" e ‘ ■ mea-a ge t n »m t h« J. .•: a . '• *-e bro'-nn down by United State.- cipher eynerts. V’ith flic o 'mi 11 toe re •> - d .-1 nie'h1 Pen. Keefe (P-Wj-e.) was <; < tinning Kr er a owl o-n be • "id he h al * "vmv1 • May, 1944 setting down 11 Pens o' e-i' * ha»v>e*'"r| a, .. i rommiinieali*• ns s< ■ thm in the day just before Pearl Harbor. Wav Now Cleared For Dam Project Resolution Sent To White House ■<«' , r,,i■) f| \ ,,•. i • rosoluti» » the ' . mergencv ei 1< .*>< the I’odu-jir waterways pr.'gram Thjs elr-.x 1ho ""IV fi.r |h^ St;eM nf the S3n.JTOO.OOn TV"’- T-! i'd mi'i. ti-purp"se reservoir >>n the lb*.a:" a ritoo. The sen do lv-n pa--wl the > t’dii" (’-a-li-T anr! it remains only bv President Tr"i":!n to -:to it hehir ■ irilions »f dollars become aval;.bio e M'-'-’l jinov-ry vot'd ip IV i'.Wa ' - Ihrnnrhnuf the f'V.mtrv v»*h an tiivted total cost or Vn 000 Moo TTndi th” proie ts could not b« -dr-tod until wiv n » fb« \Vi IT m K docl p'od of‘bdallv ended VMi "’h no s’ucli proclamation. • iPieo by the President or Congre-,. in pro - »'*eci Ponnrre<- to a- • -Von. - '4 Hjd in the nwtv.r highva** building '•roernm lMc4 ’• to o'Vib’" the V I - 1r,. . .. v< i0,.» ♦ v ., —p -a , 1 m• »\ C nrtrf''' nnr nod St eon noo : 1 a r* \ i , j . n 1 O' I'iP iyi.• i b I'i'-or inyo ed T1..no T -tnv>H »•" - V*- Ol ci onn a '••o- - " r*--p ♦ fir* nn\f e«* ■Ui'i f-:lt ‘O (if! '‘'VI trnl ben°t'its worth $307,000 a v ■’ The proiert is de^irvod to be the Rojinnkp ri\' ds. So sa.'.s her physician, who, believing to y would save her from acute m-| units broadcast an ur ges it appeal for some virtually un ohtainaole watermelons — and got 11 ... Pictured in a Philadelphia 1 o t;.l, Mrs. Kelly was reported g. cully it..proved. (International) Stalin Declares ('a pita lists Fo Blaine For Wars a AIM —Premier Stalm told a throng «•; constituents ton ,.i • t:-at ' vans could be avoided il there we a po .ability of a fair distribution of raw materials and e\p< rt market.-," tlie Moscow radio said. “'Mai'.ist- hive asserted more than, oner that in our time capital ism doe- i it develop evenly but throng! rn v and ratastrophies.” ' A capital! country which is less lortiii; ' ti.to improve its ! o.-,t !"i l)\ ! ce of arms. This ! run. . t!i• - •lifting of the cap - iah-t wo; Id into two hostile camps — and war." The Sovici leader addressed a meelin . m a Mo- row ward on the o', c ri Ku -.mm gen • al elections, in whii h hr i- a ( m h late for re-elcc t i ti to i h ■ Se; crop: • Soviet. 11 wav his first ra-uo address to the Union -nice last s pt • he’- 2. In the in terim Stahn took a long vacation. Stalin said "the catastrophe of war could have been avoided if a redistribution of markets could be achieved pacfully." and added: "but at present this is impossible under the conditions of the world develop ment of capitalism." ^