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THIRTY-THIRD YEAR HENDERSON, Ν. C.,1 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 20, 1946 .%-Βΐ^ι.^.,κν^ν^jkunu^ FIVE CENTS COPY
New Dispute
Delays G.M.
Production
Union Demands Λ11
l ocal Issues Be
Snsoolhed Oui Now
n. in»?:, .a'.icil —ιλιί —
lîdpps l'cr sjtrrcly ι rsuni;>ti«n of
m rmal output it <lrn · a \jiil
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\srrr \na".5''cl 1'ina . ,i , a u ·νν
ι iii.i|ian.v-i!iTicii i t. . i.arr:l up
ι, .· local „ i * aivcs.
c : , if.-, product it ι facilitto ι. 11 ■
. Ij, · i 11 ι : y, . lood pat oil ail
• '.π ,1 wo··;ι h μ ι p. η any
,n ι ι it '.I·! : I lie . | ll .■ ιιί 11 In ·
( |i -nil Auto V,'i'i\.i .. a ;>ee to
. it them all.
iv I AW. which laic Tuesday
p.,hli. I the company that it·; moul
in·. Ιι id appr iv, ,1 Hi · nation d
ι. 11 ; ι » · of ι ho strike settlement, was
h· r iidcmn CI. M.'.s stand.
" Fhe officers of tin· UAW-CIO had
. ι : · understanding with the cor
I nation that the strike seulement
ι >vorcd only natr-nal issues and
that upon ratification of the national
,'trike agreement, certain locals
might remain on strike because Τΐ2ΐΐ
plant management had failed to set
tle local issues satisfactory de
i larcd the union. I
BRITAIN TO DISBAND
EXILE POLISH ARMY
London, March 20. —(ΛΡ) The
British Government said today it
Mended to disband as soon as prac
fcable the exile Polish army, navy
and air Γι rce. presently under Brit
i- 'ι comm:rd.
The British Foreign Office issued
tatement to all members of the
Polish forces under British nm
and. urging the approximately 200,
t'00 ment to return to Poland.
10 PER CENT HIKE
IN RENTS SOUGHT
Washington, March 20. — (ΛΡ) —
Λ" increase of not more than 10 per
iiit ' house rents to offset rises
operating eo.-ts was proposed to
Conunvs toil ,ν by the National As
ciation of Heal Kstate Boards.
lied Ability
Γο War Now
Questioned
Washington, March ϋπ. — ( AP) —
I' ia' ability t■ > wage a aiccess
:u| war now was questioned today
■ ;. ι c,.rerr United States army of—
■■ r and military observer who said
!'· "d short.iges are maj< r obstacles
: ■ further Red army · ampaigns.
Conrad I.anca, retired, long
t1 in<· commentator for the semi-of
11■ 1 - I Field Artillery Journal, re
I" rled in a survey of current con
ditions ii Europe and the Near East
tl:.it ί,'ιι. sia "laces a critical .short
. go" in labor and military .supplies
well a.s food.
"In the late war. her impressive
•t tensive efforts were made possible
i.v "gnat quantities Ί food, mate
rials and supplies furnished by the
t inted States," I. isc.i wrote in the
J m at. "'[hi.- flow ceased upon
tern ination of the war, and Russia
now in her own. She m not
even pii.du' e enough food and sup
plier Ρ ?· immediate needs, let alone
thu-" that would be required for.
By Bus to UNO
** 1 j
RUSSIAN DELEGATE to the UNO ses
sions in New York, Carl Jareker
waits in a bus terminal after his ar
rival by road from Montreal. No one
showed up to meet him and he sat
with his luggage for an hour before
leaving. He had flown from Moscow
to Canada. (International)
Higher Pay
For Officers
Being Asked
Colonel Says Brass
Hasn't Had Raise
In Last 38 Years
Washington. March 2<i. f.\P) -
Γοητί" - heard today that officers
in the United Stales annv or ravy,
except second lieutenants and en
signs. had not had a raise in base
pay in the last 38 years.
This testimony came from Col
Russell Akers, Jr.. of the personnel
divisional1 the War Department
general staff, who appeared before
a Senate Military sub- tmmittee at
the epu ing hearing on a bill to in
crease compensation for the armed
services.
Failure to adjust pay scales since
1!)()8, Akers said, has resulted in
lowering the living standards and
there by the prestige of the offi
cers corps.
"At tlii.~ moment." he said, ''many
of our ablest officers - both regu
lar and reserve are seriously con
sidering the economic advanatges οΓ
a civilian career."
Akers also held that ompensa
1 itiπ for the enlisted men must be
attractive to get the type >f volt ι -
teers needed for the atomic age's
complicated machine. It is necessary
to compete with industry lor him.
Iranian Forces,
Tribesmen Fi^ht
Tehran. Mareh ~w. — (Ai1)—An
Iranian general stall' officer said to
day three Iranian garrisons near the
Irati bonier were fighting dlΓ attaek·
inn Kurdish tribesmen ai'id that
aerial support has been sent 11> pre
vent them from being eut ott from
their divisional headquarters.
The officer said that the garrisons
of Sardasht and Danch in Kuristan
and Faqqiv "have been under at
taek for a week, but are holding
out."
TwoCrashes
Take Lives
Of 33 Men
C-47 And Big B-29
Crash In Mountains
Of Norlh California
S:» n Francisco. Marc 20. —
(ΛΡ)—Crashes «if two l»ic army
r.larcs in northern California
mountains today apparently took
a death toll of I!army arrd navy
mrn. m h fisc hodies «round trews
lihorert in difficult terrain to
day rrcovcr.
Twenty-three bodies, some of them
I buried several feet in snow, had
been found early today at the scene
i;l a C-47 crash in the Sierra Ne
vadas, a mile from the ghost town
of Hobart Mills and seven miles from
Truckee. Calif. Three others listed
■m the (light from Stockton. Calif.,
bound for Ogden. Utah, were believed
in the yet inaccessable flight c · -
trol compartment of the wreckage.
A ground squad pushed toward
the wreckage of a B-29 b< mber
which rashed with seven crew
members ir.t ι the top of a 3.820-foot
peak near Livermore, 3(1 miles south
east of San Francisco. The bomb
er came from Hiekam Field, Hawaii
Its radio reported engine trouble
several hours before the plane
crashed to earth 10 feet from the
'rp of the peak.
Stock Market Is
Narrow And Mixed
New York, March 20. fAPl
Steels and a few selected industrial
made some progress in today's stock
market but the trend as a whole wai
arrow ;i d mixed.
Higher were U. S. Steel, Bethle
hem, Montgomery Ward. Dougla1
r' 1 e η η Martin and Standard Oil
Lower were General Motors, United
\ircraM and Southern Pacific.
Chiang Makes New
Appeal For Unity
Chungking. March 20. — (ΛΙΊ -
With 'lie Communist delegations
absent. Generalissimo Chiang Kai
shek [iJeaded for peace ana unifi
cation of China at the opening today
ot the people's political council.
Chiang also expressed the hope
for friendly, domestic and interna
tional affairs.
Goering In
Witness Box
For 6 th Day
Nuernberg, March 2n. — (ΛΡ)
Hermann Goering told the interna
tional military tribunal today he
had signed numerous anti-Jewish
decrees as president of the Reich
stag red "1 assume l'ull responsibil
ity" for them.
in the witness box for the .-ixth
day in his own defense, the former
Reichsmarshal declared that both
Joseph Goebbels and lleinrieh
Himmler were more radical than
himself on the Jewish questirn.
He said Defendant Julius Streich
er was violently anti-Jewish. But
dismissed him as "not a member ot
the government and although he was
a gauliter he had no ii'/luu ce."
Both Goering and Justice Robert
Jackson, chief U. S. prose ut·>r,
showed the strain of hours of cross
examination and there were fre
quent clashes between the two.
Lord Justice Lawrence, presiding
member of the tribunal, overruled
Jacksos's effort to compel Goering
to stop making what the prosecutor
termed "propaganda" remarks from
the witness box.
Jackson eontoded Goering was
being permitted "to take control of
proceedings."
Lint rrices Show
Slight Increase
New York, March 20. -(ΛΡ> —
'otton futures opened five to 2.;
ents a bale higher.
Noon prices were 35 to 55 cent,
bale higher. May 26.ii:i, July 26.
7, October 26.76.
00 FEARED DEAD
IN BRAZIL WRECK
Rio De Janeiro, Mar.h 20. — (AP
Dispatches' said today approxi
atelv 20o persons were killed anr
10 injured in a train wreck ne.τ
racaui. capital of the Braziliai
iastal state Sergipe. A Incnmotiv
nd several cars ot the train we;
eported derailed.
Pv. Close Οper
lay
uly
October
December · · ■
'arch (1947)
lay (1917) .
26.75 26.7!
26.79 26.8'
26.fi·!> 26.6·
26.63 26.6
26.61 26.6·'
26.58 26.5
Ace Widow α Model
TOUCHING UP a bit as she starts her
modeling career in a Hollywood
shop, Marjorie Ann Bong, 22, pretty
widow of air nee Major Richard
Bong, is considering screcn tests
and may accept an invitation to
enter the movies. Her husband,
decorated lor downing forty Jap
planes, was killed in a jet-plane test
flight. (international Soundohoto)
Reds Elect
•President'
Of Country
·/
Shrvernik Succeeds
Kalinin, Resigned;
Stalin Is Re-name
Moscow. March 21).— )AP)— Nick
•»Iai Shvernik, 58, a leader of the
trades union movement in Russia,
became the chairman today of the
presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a
post generally referred to as presi
dent of the Soviet Union.
He succédés Kalinin, known to
millions ot peasants as "the grand
old man of Soviet Union," who re
signed because of failing eye-sight.
1 lie iJuvyvme Soviet, bel ore ad
journing its first post-war session,
dso rcelctcd Generalissimo Joseph
Stalin chairman of Russia's council
of ministers ■,premier). The vole
was unanimous. Stalin also retained
his title of generalissimo and re
mains head of the Soviet Union's
aimed lorces and secretar> general
of the central committee of lite Coni
inum.-t Party.
; Go\ ernor Uierr\
Faces Busy Week
I {;i lei.nh. March 21). — ( Λ I'M- Λ
busv wi.'ck is ahead for Governor
Cherry.
Oil Tuesday lie will be; guest of
honor at a I'jivn'tior's day celebra
tion at Camp Le jeune. On Thurs
day, he will attend a reunion of the
ll.ïth machine ^un battery at Wil
mington and. plans to leave the next
Jay by plane for a .southern gover
nor's meeting in Florida where the
Chief Kxeeutives will be guests of
! Govern»)· Millard Caidwell.
CANADIAN SPY CASE
TRIAL SET MARCH 2S
< 'it;.·.·.·.·!. March 20.— (ΛΡ)—Pre
liminary ho M inus ni Canada's es
pionage ι as will open March
Magistrate Glenn Strike in Ottawa
police court today set the date when
four of llmse to be tried appeared
and elected trial by jury.
Russo-U.S. Relations
Up For Senate Review
ι
Draft Extension
May He Affected
By Senate Move
Washington. March 39.— ( \I*)
—Kiissn - \meriran relations
ratio in for Senate artion today,
ν it H indicii'ions thnt rrvin'iers'
views on the life of the draft
l't °fl
The Foreign Relations Committc ·
called Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith to
Capitol Hill to "si;·.·· up' as on ·
member put it -both 111" President's
choice for ambassador to Moscow
;.nd the international situation as
the appointee knows it.
Senator Claude IY-pper (D) ol
Florida or"ni'sed. meanwhile, to
provide some additional light on the
subject «.!" this country', dealings
with Russia in a Senate speech he
has prepared.
International Aspects.
And (here were strong indications
that the military committee planned
to take international conditions into
account before its acts on any ex
tension of selective service's May 1Λ
expiration date.
Several senators arc members of
both the Foreign Relations and mili
tary groups.
Τ h c latter committee arranged
tentatively to hear Secretary of State
Bvrnes, Secretary of War Patterson
and Secretary of the Navy Forresta1
behind closed doors tomorrow.
Aims Cf Russia
In Korea Stated
Sonul, Korea. March 21).— (ΛΡ) —
Russia bluntly stated her aim ' in
Korea at the opening of the joint
American-Russian commission today
and charged "there is serious resis
tance" to Korean democracy "by re
actionary and anti - democratic
groups."
Col.-Gen. Terenty Shtykov, Rus
sian occupation commander in north
Korea, replied to the welcoming ad
dress !il Lt. Gen. John Hodge, Amer
ican commander in southern Korea
with:
"The Soviet Union has a keen in
terest in Korea being a true an 1
democratic and indepndent country,
friendly to the Soviet Union, so that
in the future it will not become :i
base for an attack on the Soviet
Union."
He said his nation championed
"sell-determination and free exis
tence" but serious difficulties ob
structed a realization of democracy
in Korea. This he laid to "furious
resistance of reactionary and anti
democratic groups and certain ele
ments whose object is to undermin"
the work of creating and firmly es
| tablishing a democratic system in
I Korea."
ι _ _
Child Delinquency
Parley Is Planned
Washington, March 20. — (ΛΡ) —
Attorney General Tom Clark said
today he plans to call a national
conference in an effort to curb
juvenile delinquency.
Clark's comment followed an FBI
report showing an increase in crime
in all but two States last .year, with
youths under 21 accounting for more
than one-fifth of all arrests. The over
all increase was the greatest in 15
years.
The objective of the conference, he
said, will be to plan ' program of
inter-governmental and community
collaboration to deal with the grow -
ing tide of iiivenile delinquency."
BETWEEN BIRTH AND DEATH AT SEA
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A LOSING FIGHT to save the life of a baby, born three months prema
turely, was staged aboard the "bride ship" Queen Mary before the liner
docked in New York. Although oxygen had been flown out to the boat,
Leigh Travis Smith died, even as a hastily built incubator was being
used. Above Ma.i. Leigh Wright a Chaplain, is shown at the christening
and below is Mrs. Pauline Smith, the mother, whose husband, Sgt.
Russell Smith, Coventry, Ky., was waiting to greet her. (International)
Lewis Exerting Pressure
For UMW Welfare Fund
Hoess Confesses
Killing 2,000,^00
At Horror Camp
I
Iierlin, March 20. — (AP) — The
! gassing of 2.000,00(1 Jew.·; an I other
persons at the Oswiecim .îori'or camp
ha.s been admitted in a signed state
mcnl given to iiritish authorities by
ι Rudolph Hoess, 46-year-old comman
dant of the camp, wiio was arrested
on March 8.
Hoess, who was found hiding out
<m a farm, signed the confession
on March 16, British officials de
dared. They quoted Hoess' state
ment as sayitu;:
"I personally arranged, on orders
! received from Himmler in May, 191 i,
the gassing of 2.000,000 persons be
tween June and July 11)41 and the
I end of 1943, during which 1 was
j commandant at Osweicim."
Part Of Price To
Avert Big Strike
Of 400,COO Miners
\\'at,hingt"n, March JO.—(AP)—
I John I.. Lewi:, exerted undiminished
pre. sure today for a miner.··' health.
J and welfare fund as pari of the price
ol a new contract that will avert an
April 1 soft coal su ike.
The issues ol wages and hours
were put aside temporarily as union
and industry representatives met for
their second day of closed door nego
tiations. .Wither side indicated yet
what basis of agreement it might
have in mind.
.Not Waso Issue.
I However, an operator's spokesman
' made it clear that the first bar
' gaining se 1011 yesterday, follow
, ing a week of puuiic "town hall"
ι debates, did not stress Lewis' gen
i eral demand for higher wages and
shorter hours for his United Mine
Workers.
Rather. Ihe 1 l-n m negotiating
committee went into details of (he
UMW proposal for establishment of
ι a special fund for improving the
medical and hospitalization care of
the 4110,0(10 soft coal miners, but
reached no decisions.
I Lewis will terminate his present
contract with the mux.· operators at
midnight March 31, and he told them
that "peace or war" depended oil
whether they meet his demands lor
tlie health and welfare fund.
Crop Estimates
To Be Revealed^
Washington, March 20.—(ΛΡ) -
The nation learns today whether its
farmers think the.v will be able to
meet the record crop acreage goals
needed to help ease critical world
wide food shortages.
The Agriculture Department sche
duled for release late today a report
of the total acreage farmers plan tu
plant this year.
Secretary Of UNO
And Truman Confer
Washington, March 20. --(ΛΡ) —
ι Trygve Lye, secretary general of the
! United Nations, conferred for 15
minutes today with President Tru
■ man.
Lye declined to discuss the con
I t'erence in which Secretary of State
! James Byrns participated. Lye ear
j lier had called upon Byrnes at the
Stale Department. Λ
TWISTER LEFT A TRAFFIC TANGLE
ROOTS OF ONE TREE AND THE LIMBS OF ANOTHER are mixed up with a
displaced taxi in this scene from Hattiesburg, Miss., after the passing of
a tornado—one of several that swept Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.
At least nine dead and 34 hurt were reported, and property damage was
said to have been heavy in the three states. (International Soundphoioi.
Unnamed JY C. Mountain Second Highest
BY BILL SIIARPE.
Raleigh, March 20.— In spite of j
their reputation for Riving pictures- |
que names to almost anything which
comes to their attention, North Car
olinians still are blandly ignoring
the second highest mountain in
eastern America. Until a lew years
ago, it was believed — and recorded
- that Clingman's Dome in the Great
Smokies was second in height to I
lordly Alt. Mitchell — (>,(534 against j
5,643.
There was a dramatic reason why
he two heights were linked as close
competitors. Dr. Klisha Mitchell and
jeneral Thomas L. Chngman each
•ontended the peaks they explored
A'cre highest, and the rivals ran
evels across the state from an es
ablished altitude to support their
laims. Mitchell, lost one night on |
is mountain, fell down a cliff into j
ι pool, where his body was found I
>y Big Tom Wilson, an 1 Clingman 1
la^nan'mously withdrew his claim. ■
•ater surv eys substantiated Mitchell. ,
But more scientific surveys show
hat one of Mitchell's neighbors
he south tork of Black Brothers is
feet high. Nobody had ever
■aid an.v attention to this loftly.
nely and obscure peak, and to this
ay it is 1 -.:t rarely identified. It is
[ ..ill given that \Tague name, but lev.
natives can point il out to you. j
All of which might Have some
thing to do with relatively. Onty a
few decades ago, Mt. Washington,
giant of the New England mountains
{0.28}: feet), was called the highest
peak in the east. The U. S. Geolog
ical survey now shows there are It!
mountains in North Carolina higher,
and in such a mass that a few feet ,
difference in height is not calculat
ed to arouse much local interest. i
Few persons realize what an up
thrust of earth there is in this cli- !
max to the Appalachian system. In !
North Carolina are 40 summits above i
6,000 feet high, and 73 which are j
over a mile above sea level. Once |
1hey were much higher, perhaps ι
rivaling the Rockies or the Alps. But
they are old mountains—the oldest ι
mountains in .America which hav ·
not been touched by glacier erosion, i
The Appalachians were above the
timber line and already declining
before the Rockies ever started
pushing thir way heavenward, ac
cording to geologists. The circum
stance of their formation and decay
have created many interesting con
ditions for the botanist, the biologist
and geologist. Not the least myster
ious is the presence of numcrou ■
"balds" which are peculiar to thi-<
state. Rare and ancient plants still
struggle to survive in the ancient
glens and coves.
The Appalachian system divides
-harplv as it comes into North Car
olina from Virginia. On the west
it becomes the Unaki, Iron, or
Smoky Range. Eastward it is the
Blue Ridge. But the two stems throw
off shoots, and curiously enough, the
most formidable mass is in one of
these off-shoots of the main Blue
Ridge range. In the Black Moun
tain range are nine of the peaks
which top Mt. Washington, and they
give Yancey county in North Car
olina. the highest average elevation
of any county in Eastern America.
In addition to Mt. Mitchell, the range
offers the south ridge of Black
Brothers, north ridge of Black
Brothers (6..">91!); Balsam Cone 6.
618, C'lingman's Peak 6,584 (not to
be confused with Clin,'man's Domo
in the Smokies); Cattail Peak 6,
582; Potato Hill, 6460; Potato Knok
6,,'ii)2; and Ml. Celo 6,342. This rang'.·
jutting eastward from the Blue
Ridge is only about 20 miles in
length and is the crowning moun
tain wall of the East.
The Black Mountains are aptly
named. Black balsam and spruce
pine climb their sides, and when
color brightens 1he spring of other
hills and inflames the autumn, they
remain black and forbidding in their
evergreen cloak. Difficult of access,
they are for the most part wrapped
m clouds and solitude.
HEATHER
FOU NORTH ( ΛΚΟΙ.»\Λ
Mosth cloudy villi occasional
light rain over cast portion this
all< rnoon. followed by c I ο u d y
loni;;ht. Rather cool. Thursday
fair and cool.