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• J. ' Hctthcrson Datlxi Dispatrij THIRTY-THIRD YEAR Vm.r,Ass?Vi:^Ki;KlV^^,K HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 8, 1946 '■u,us'^ FIVE CENTS COl'Y WOUNDED VETS BOWL WHILE RECUPERATING RED CROSS WORKERS help a group of wounded veterans enjoy their fa\ orite form of recreation at a Los Angeles bowling alley. On the let'. Red Cross worker Mrs. Lucille Carey hands the ball to Sgt. Paul Jackson. In center, Sgt. Robert Abajian waits his turn as Capt. L. J. Sheaflcr stands behind him. At the right, Mrs. Marion Lee steadies the chair of Pvt. Geuree Rodriguez as he sends a fast one rolling down the alley. I Inter national) Senate Ponders Making Probe Into Causes Of Labor Strife ( rawford, Milland Receive •Oscars* For Top Acting :, vwiintl, March f>. AP K .y M: i: I ,1 h ist a wool; end. An.I .1 m rd lust the bigged e\ ruing : ■ ;iu>. But hwth won U-riu lu thi pr< ess. :! cy were the recipient- la-4 nig- • of the Academy ot M emu Pu ■ c Art: ami Sciences' aw are, h r the best penoni^^nccs. .of. an 1 r and actress in 1945 The scene v. . (’.rauman's Chinese the .ire, !he I: Truce, 2.00(1 high .-tip • hirts and i w evenin'; dresses, ga < ing 11,4 1\ ■ nd's elite. B a the real drama t<» -k |4 we e;gu• miles away, m i I’, vn’ .v. d hr,!:. i im where M i.;s C r ■ 1 i d w 1 ■ nsung aid to the forgotten mil needy ot lilmdom ii c. tier a -i'hd!,\ popu;,ir i li»' In ■1 t use believe world, (i -m ' i m ■ a; u.; a -us bed her, an attack ot r-:'bed her of the ■ ’ 1 ' '1' 11 r > - p\ cry act 11 me,:: ' ■ ; - pH g ,p to reccix e : ier (isear. • mi ;• rtrayal of "Mildred Peaer." But friends headed by Director Mike Curtiz who accepted the ..ward on her behalf at the ’neatre. rfi led tin.I even a temperature of PL’ shouldn't lost her all the thrill that goes with win mg the .highest !: nor H dlywood's thousands of workers—from 'grips" to executive producers ran bestow. So they went u her rambling home and there, while Joan sniffled and cried 1 ■..nded her the sta!nette. H, y Milt ml, Welsh-!), aai, lias i eel m Hollywood 13 yet.rs and his perlo • ance as the pitiful drunk ol ■ rhe L.'st Weekend" sparked that 1 ataia- • i one - ! the gt rate-! ■ a rep . ■ . iv "!' H pus tua! t Ini \ .pit" hit ‘hi n ui ti BUM. K .r 11 ., •The I. '! Weekend" v. n to.- .'In the best pictim I- Billy Mud.:, ii w- -i the dire.tonal award at i .1 -ti ue of the p -!■: ! a the ', o-• Men play v i*ti Cltarle. Bi. 1 .t-t t. Truman Says l NO Won! Be Allowed To Collapse Believes Ru ssia Will Go Along With New League W I mug' 11. Mm ■ '■! 0 ' AIM I’l l I Ion! Trmn; I . i«tir< 1 sly as ,'ih'd m l.i' ni’'.'..' roufei > • 11 ■' i • today Hi.,; 'i.i I'ni'i'd Nation m n;/at i m V.',, ml rm! ill' ulli'wcd I" 1 II;,;'..r and i'.\pi i'"i' I i' ill idi'iii'i' ih.it II ii -1 i n almig •,«. Ill the organi/.at am'. Tin- Pm-Idt'iit s comments were I .ii);,;pi(»<! ay c;; test i ms almut wiial 1111g11! hapaen if Russia declines to , mplj w :' a. ihe I 4 ited States’ re quest lor immediate withdrawal ot Ku.-sian troops I'n m Iran. That si; ..itimi, lie said, will be i.. tidied when it comes up. A ro I nrii'r then suggested that a llus '.ii.i refusal might mean a collapse of the world peace agency. The President disagreed strongly, asserting that the ’ ;*0 would not be allowed to collapse. -Even if Russia went down a one way street"" a reporter asked. fin* President replied he did not bdicye Russia was going down a line way street. (ilfiri.d Washington awaited Mos c. w's reply to this ountry's request tor immediate withdrawal of Rus sian troops from Iran. I.int Futures Show Only Slight Gain Yew York. March 8. i AP)—1Cot ton futures opened five cents a bale higher to 35 cents lower Yoon prices wore 15 cents a bale higher to 40 cents lower March 26.97. May 26.81. July 26.82. Pv. Close Open March . 26.!'t 26.95 Mac .■ 26.0o 26.00 JulV . 26 89 26.88 October . 26.65 26.611 December . 26.60 26..)4 M.i'-b (1947) . 26 59 26.a2 I*uquav Springs Business Block Sw ept B\ Blaze 1 .quay Springs. March *'!. < AP) - \i early after, >< -n Naze, laun ,(i l'> Pong winds ve-lemav level*1'! vait1 i,iIly an entiu cd > *l» « k < >t I' i Cjiia.v Springs’ bin me • area, can in (la • me tentatively estimated at SI .Ml,()()(). Hie blaze, f.-.i.so o' .vnieh had not I'O'!, determined, dustroyrd the mam .°awr and adjacent warehouse ot tn Piin tor-Barbagir company, a general supply concern. Mayor W. F. Roger." •said the fire apparently started in tin- tractor repair department ot the company. Other business places destroyed oi damaged included Wake." theatre*. Barefoot barber shop, Mudge and Prince Insurance offices, tin* Bank °f Fuquav building and the Ply mouth-Dodge auto agency building, the latter two seriously damaged. Some damage also \v i> sustained hv a new office building belonging to Dr. W. S. Cozart, and Holloman’s grocery. Mayor Rogers said the biaze got out of control quickly after it was first discovered at 2 p. m. Due to lack of water pressure, the local volunteer fire brigade called on nearby towns for help. Fire depart ruents at Raleigh, Angier: Apvx. Bunn and Lillington responded. Considerable i ierehandi.se and fix tures from threatened stores and ol fices were moved to safety before the blaze consumed the structures, hut little was saved from the Proc tor-Barbour establishment. Mayor Rogers said. Valuable farm equip ment, including several tractors, um lost, as were several thousand dol lars worth of machine parts. Rogers said he understood in surance was carried on a large por tion of the property destroyed. General Motors Strike Is High On Senate List Washington. March H.— (AIM —(Ongrcss and tin* Labor De partment showed increasing concern today over the stub borningly lengthening; General 1 Motors strike. The Washington developments: 1. Proposals for a full-dress Senate investigation into the4 causes of labor disputes including the one at Gen ual Motors —moved a notch closer : to a Senate vote. Senator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.), one of tlie sponsors of the proposal, predicted in an interview that the Senate will authorize its committee on Education and Labor to make >uch an inquiry. .Morse said, “I think we’ve got to find out whether cer I tain .-egments »f industry are out to : wreck unions \< tion Forecast. Some sort of new : <»\ ri nmcnt 1 . i ten h>ward settling the General Motor.. shake was limted by Secre tary of I .ah- >i Sehwollcnbach. Sclnvellenbach. who is studying the written record of the recent pro posals, couuter-propi■ aP. and bitter name calling between the firm and i the GK > tinted Auto Workers union | told reo!irtcrs he expected to “come I" .a conclusion” today as to what might to be done.” I i'e didn't ay when hi' would an 1 nmmrc his conclusion Nor did lie 1 .peculate as to what it might be I ho document'. lie was poring j i>vcr were brought to him yesterday ; by -lames P. Dewey, when Sohwel | lenhaeh sent to Delimit last month a: a spi'oial mediator m the dispute th.. 1 has made 17a,(MM) workers idle I since November 1 and prevented The* j making ol ail General .Motors autos. OP A Fight Shaping Up Washington. March S. -(AP) — House Democratic leaders began re forming their lineup today in the hope of saving OI’A from the slash ing that beset the Administration's housing bill. The Banking Committee signaled for the spotlight by calling New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer lor his views on continuypg price I controls beyond their present June i 30 death sentence. Looking to the inevitable fight atiead, Democratic Leader McC’or 1 mark told reporters he did not ex- i pect a frontal attack on the OPA extension measure "but an effort to put in crippling amendments that | would make price control ineffec tive.” | Tobacco Growers To Seek Supplies Wilson, March 8. (AP) Repre sentatives of five North Carolina tobacco-producing counties today authorized a delegation to go to Washington in an effort trt secure I cssM'tial materials for the 1348 leaf c rop. State Sen. J. C. Eagles, who pre sided at the meeting, was author ized to name the committee. The group will attempt to secure cm adeoup'e simply of twine, tobacco stieWk brief, flue irons and other ci momdities needed tn the produc ing, harvesting, curing and market ing ot uie commodity. Unity Asked By Churchill In New Talk Virginia Assembly Fold U. S.-Britain Must Stand Together Richmond, Va„ March S.— ( AIM—Winston I Ihik hill again called upon the people of hi iioinclaihl and the I mu d ' \ it' s today to stand together ‘ in d tense of those causes we hold dear.” I lore in the birthpl.ii • ul a nation which re baled against Kngland's | rule, Ilia war-time British premier told a joint session of the Virginia legislature that "above all. among Mir Knglish speaking peoples, there must he the union of heart baser, upon conviction and common ideals. "1 hat,” he asserted, "is what I j offer. That is wi at i want.” Not once in his prepared address did he mention • 'u'ler Russia or com munism. Nor dli; he refer directly to his appeal in Fulton. Mo., only three days ago i ir creation of a strong Anglo-American military al liance. There Is a Message. Yet, indirectly, this was tho theme ot his address to Virginia’s law makers. "In these .ist years of my life," Churchill said, “there is a message* of which I conceive myself to be a bearer. It is: That we should stand together." "We should stand together in malic * to none, in greed for nothing, but in defense of those causes which we hold dear not only for our own ’ benefit, but because we believe thev mean the honor and the happiness of long generations of men." Then tie declared—even as he told j Congress in Britain’s darkest hour during the war time year of 1941- ■ that: "We ought to walk together in majesty and peace.” Truman Silent On Churchill Speech Washington, March «. (AP) — President Truman declined to ex press his views today on Weston Churchill’s proposal for a virtual i Anglo-American military alliance to 1 preserve the peace. The President told his news con ference that the former British lead er was indulging in the right of free speech when Churchill proposed , j lint use ot British and American i hasc-s. ci mhined training programs and cxtensii n ol the U. S -Can idem defense part to the other British: commonwealths. Mr. Truman aid Chiu* hill was 1 a guest io thi- eountiy and that if; he him.sell had decided in go to i Croat Britain in make a speech, he would feel just as tree to express hr- own personal views. The President also told the news men : 1— That the combined Anglo American chiefs of staff will con- ‘ tinue to fmictin until the war emergency has been declared at an end. Whether il will *ontinue to function afterwards is a matter that will he settled when the emergency l i. over. No liig Three Meeting J 1 le know s ol no plan for an other big three meeting, but if one is held It should he in the C. S. 3 '1 hat On-oral George Mar-, shall, special envoy to China, wilt j return In the lT. S. seen for consul- ' lotions: the former chief of stall then will return to China. 4 That John Winant. amhassa doi to London, i.- back in this coun try to make a report. He couldn’t | av whether Winant will conta la in tin* pest until he has talked with1 li im. n—That he hopes to visit the I'XP council meeting in ’Nev, \i.rK late this month to welcome the delegates ii he an arrange it. The President laughingly dis missed a question as to whether j James Byrnes, secretary of state, was considering retiring. He said he saw such a report in print while he was visit eg Fulton, Mo., this week. Pauley To Quit Fight? ! No, He Says Washington, Mar h 8. (API Preside nt Truman was credited by j members ot the Senate Naval Com mittee todto.v w ith having stepped in to delay a move for withdrawal ot Edw • Pauley'.' n <mination as un dev'ecretarv ■ -t the navy Two senators said there had been! an e'change ot letters between the ) President and Pauley. They said I this upset an agreement for the Calift rnia il man to emit tomorrow his fieht ‘or confirmation. Pauley himself, however, told the committee he intended to 'tay in the fight, asserting. “No real man j quits under fire > o honest man withdraws when he knows he is right.' . _ i Split Within Railroad Brotherhood Revealed I* ire Breaks ()ut ()n I airgc I ancr In British Port Southampton. I ni:., March X. — (AI'l- l ire broke out on the Queen l li/ahetli la gevt I 1 r in the world this morn u; but firemen put the lire out a short time later. The Inaze started in the isola tion hospital on the port side of the 85,000 ton vessel an official announcement h.v the ( unard l.inc said. I he announcement said the lire, the l.ltb ship ablaze in British ports within lb lad live week-, was discovered h.v the lines own fire patrol but the cause bad not been deter mined. Ill: vessel arrive,! bore from New York Wednesday. Tragedy Hits Double Blow In Creswell Mother Is Kilied In Attempt To Save Daughter Cre.swetl, N. C-, March 8. i AP) — Tragedy .-track a double blow here yesterday afternoon at 4 p. a. when a young mother was killed instantly in an unsuccessful attempt to snaten her small daughter from the path cf an oncoming truck. The dead are: Mrs. F.llen Ledford, 117, of near here, and Mary Lee Ledtord. 5. Mrs. Led;) rcl and her daughter had ridden to their home on U. S. ti-t about four miles west ot here on a mail truck. The truck stopped: m- front of the Davenport service: station and the girl ran ba' k to cross 1 the road. Mrs. Ledford saw a log truck coming in the opposite direc tion and r. i: to get the child. The mother was killed instantly and the child was taken to the Co lumbia hos'pital but died about 1! p. m. last night. —--—■— Gastonia Textile Strike Is Ended _ I Gastnia. March Ik (AP) An eight-day-old strike at the Gastonia Combed Yard (Aup. was settled to day with aeeeptanee by striking workmen of an offer by the company to grant a 10 cents an hour wage 1 increase and to establish a 0 a cent minimum wage. G. A. Cooper, vice-president of the firm, announced the workers . had returned to their .jobs. Labor ( officials had claimed that 1,100 cm- . ployos were on strike but the man- j agement disputed the figure. R. P. Seymour, business agent for local 12. United Textile Workers m America (APE) now suspended by the international, announced ending of the strike. The new pay scale ; will make employes «»I the company \ the highest paid textile workers in j the nation, he said. LIQUORS, INDUSTRIAL STOCKS MAKE GAINS , Xew York. March 8.— (AP) — Li Quors and assorted industrials ex tended their advance' by tractions to two or more points in today's stock market although many leaders con tinued to suffer from neglect. In trout, most of the time were Xational Distillers. Bethlehem. Gen eral Motors. Chrysler. C. S. Hub bin- and General Electric. \ acationing Is ]\ow \ear Round Business In State By 1.1 \\ NISBET Daily Dispatch Bureau Raleigh, March 8. More or less official estimates of tourist travel , through tlie state and predictions el j earlier and longer seasons at estab lished resorts, made by the state advertising-news bureau, give em phasis to North Carolina claims ot year-round variety v acationland. A recent advertisement in a new national magazine devoted to vaca tioner's drew more thru 2,000 inqui ries from its first oppearan e, Ol course, all these 2,000 didn't come to Catalina, hut it is a safe bet a | number of them did. A hotel man in the sandhills esti- 1 mated that for Pinehurst and Southern Pines alone the tourist business was a three million dollar industry the past year. From 1his , and other reports the state bureau concludes an estimate of 2f>0 mil lions to:- the state is i'ot excessive lor 1946. That puts tourist trade in the big time brackets. Strangely enough, the Cherokee Indians have shown .1 more alert attitude to possibilities of profit in this field than the rest of the state. The Indian tribe sent a delegation up through Virginia a few months ago to study methods of entering to tourists ■ sleeping quarters, meals and souvenirs One of the Indians is quoted as saving they didn't want the tourists, hut knew they were eo'"ing. and might iust as well reap ; ome pr u'ji from them. Tho Cher > bees anticipate nearlv a million dol lars from tourists this ye r. Summing up. :: might he said the tourists are omiiiR. whether wanted 01 not: thev are going to sleep and eat , id soend money for brie-n brac. and the communities th t arc prepared to serve them will take in a lot o'' money A thousand rooms and 2.500 meals' a day in every county may lie needed to supply de mand; * *he travelers. Rank And File Group Formed To Oust Head < Jcvclaml, (>. March S.— ( \P) — \nnoun i mriit of the lorrnaln n ot .t ' i .ml: an l t il'*" movement within the railroad brotherhoods coincided today with a statement h> A. F. Whit ney. president of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen that appointment of a fact finding board hv Brest* ill Truman would defer the pending nation wide railroad strikt Ion ; enough “to Rive the hoard the time al loted hy law." 30 dav Wellington Roe. a writer wa- un der contract to the BRT until Whit ney dismisset 1 him last v»»■ k w ith < statement that 1^ had shown "dis loyalty and insubordination." \0 nounced at a press conference' the formation of the National Rank and File Association. He said n would be composed of members of the lar ger railroad operating brotherhoods. 31 Delegates From Group. Roe said 34 delegates from New York. Chicago. Seattle, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis representing “approx imately 7a,000" r.diroai workers mostly from the BRT and the Brotherhood ot Locomotive En gineers. formed the association for ‘'democratic and intelligent repre sentation" of the workers. Headquarters will be m New York One ot the aim.s of the group. Roe said, is to oust Whitney. The latter dismissed Roe because he collaborat ed on a magazine article discussing the Railway Labor Act. Whitney said, claiming the article contained “objectionable material." Truman Names Board Washington. March !i i AIM - President Ini': an nan rd .. three man iact finding board today in the dispute threatening a nation-wide railroad strike. lie app anted .Judge Lief If: irk s"n of the .Montana supreme court, Frank M. Swacker. Yew York law yer, and i lord >n Wat kii so! the eco nomics department of the ITniver ty of California to inquire into t > dispute of two railroad brother hoods. The naming of the inard ant■ mat leall.\ under custom w ill dee: for 30 to (it) day a progres v< y out with the brotherhood.' of 1. ■. o n otive engineers and railroad 1 men had scheduled to start Monday Mt T in an, annin < cing th( ap pointment ot the board at a new i i ill t erence t< * is tnc occasion a!.-;o to note that wage question.' in th> rubber and telephone industries h d been seeled, strict I \‘ on a i • ■ 111 c c i i ■■ e bargaining b isi' and u a man e, satistact ny to both . ide.-. Four Arc Injured In Auto Collision North ()i The Cits Mr. and Mr.-. Frank H. Roberson, of M ild . Mass nd Mi nd Mi - N u H Vander Scl iyt >f I Island City. X. V.. received slight (» heir aut obil< lided about twi miles north "f the city on lT S. Highway No 1 about 11 Md o’clock this morning. No intoi m.d ion was received as t< damage to the automobiles or the directions they were traveling It was understood all of the injured persons were released sh.rtly after re vising treatment at Maria Par ham hospital. HeSd by Police ACCUSED of beheading her year- il l daughter France?. Mrs. Olivia Ka mos Ordona (right) is pictured in Washington being escorted by a policewoman to headquarters f-r fingcr-printing. Wife ot a oh-. £ aboard the Presidential yacht Wil liamsburg, Mrs. Ordona v. a • quoted by police as saying that, hara >-d by the child’s incessant crying, she laid her across a bathtub and cut off her head. 'International) Youth Held For Slaving 111 Gastonia Merchant Marine Sailor Questioned About Girl s Death Chii 1 : i ! i': t ■ i’t'h. • i i * i;i r i 11(• .- ; i i! > > i’. h ■ 1 . 1 ■ ’: 1 - ■ till1 I'M! church (’\ M i! II; Pntru-k sumo i sit id du, t j ni i, M II No Pru\ ision In Jap Constitution For Abdication Tokyo. March !!. no pi i'vision in Japan - m run.am ing const itufion for 11! ■ - t I i c 1 ho o. opt !'■ nier Shift* said today, exprt till1 J.. pa nose ! nipt ’hat tin- p. > emperor would remain. 996 Axis l -Boats Sunk During \\ ;ir Washti gtnn. Mai oh T. A*’ • The final score ol Am- bm simk during World War II out figure a! 998. of which 781 wm \a. i nidi rsea h ats. 180 do iat t and 85 Italian. Of the Gorman U-b". t> --ml; Br • i^tn forces accounted lor 5:24 an I tic United S' U" 17.7. United Si ,ir. torcos destroyed 11.5 and Btaiidi !i i Jap: i o-e ' ha arines Bril1 h •■nil sent down 88 Italian submarine:-, and American forces four. WEATHER FOK NORTH ( AROl.INA. Showers and mild lliis after noon followed by clearing and . colder Saturday.
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