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Htmfrprsmt Batin Btspatrh THIRTY-THIRD YEAR Lbasbd w,rK sk,{VirB „*-5TpmixP«0^vt x, ^ -- ___ — - —----ill* ASSi" 1A11:1 1 mu;ss HENDERSON, N. ( ., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1946 ■ H,s FIVE CENTS COPY LEWIS AGREES TO SOFT COAL CONTRACT Strike Bill Faces Defeat By Senators 4C Of G3 Lftw-Makers Against Draft Plan; Debate Is Continuing Washington, May 20. (*10 Pn id ' ' i . nan t ike-dratt plan laces alnm.-l rr tain de'mil in the Serial , h< <>nl dispute i tiled quickly, a poll showed today. t-f 03 senators willing to state their p< sitimi. 4d .-..id they are op po.-ed to ilia; section of the House ;1 ed emergen :y bill which .1 > Id on pt .ver tin* i’re. ideut. to induct nit' the army those who strike in gov ern men:-seized iiidu.Cu . eight een senators ai • • ant ed their . ip port i-t tne provesa!. Second Day Of Debate The Senate begin it- second day ot cieoate on tin- • . ire today. A; the same lime tne 1!" i-e hides Com mittee was expected t > clear !h way for early aclion by that body in the Senate's version m die Ca. labor disputes Ini. The 45 senators lined up aga nst the draft section ol the emergenc measure, passed by a dramatic nut to 13 House vole Saturday, in imk\ 20 Democrats. 2 1 lie; n. In i and I d ogl es-i ve. They ; epi'e.-eat a him (lily lour short ol a !o majority, now that there i.-> < ne vacancy in tin Senate. I I I.UNDER ASS! UTS PRESIDENT DETERMINED. Washington. May 29. i/l’i Sc: atm K111 11cier ( I)) of I ,■ ii.-iani reported after a White lluu.-c call today that Pn ..merit 1 ruinau i, de termined to obtain p ssage of emer gency labor legislation. Eilender said he called to assure Mr. Truman of his ova support fir the draft-strikers program laid down by the President in his speech b Congress Katiwday. For ius own part. Eilender said |,e felt the Presidnt should have "sufficient power W protect the country from internal enemies and from meuntrollalili1 labor leaders." Spain Challenged To Make Good ()n Export Promise Washington, May 29.—(AP)—The United States is challenging Spain to make good on its promised ex port of Nazis to Germany by send ing a ship to Bilbao to remove Ger mans from the country. The State Department announced this assignment of the ship, the Ma rine Perch, today. It has a capacity of 947 passengers. Information in Washington is that so far the Spani ards have arranged for only 100 or 200 passengers for the ship. M. J. McDermott. State Depart ment press otticer, said the Spani ards had claimed in the past they could not expel the Nazis because of transportation shortages and that sending the ship is intended to re move that argument. Floods Take LivesOfNiae In 2 States Pennsylvania, N. Y. Rivers I cave Bank'*, Inundate Much Land (!!;. Hit- Associated I’re s) ( i wild rampage of death and dr ;> r tiun. rivers and creeks In i e i , 'it their 1 ankv t day to inundat • \,d ail le farming and i 'dustrial area, i Pennsylvania and New York. At Past nine per ons drowned four ot erx were mi sing as muddy It. ’.I 1 . tr'i, fe 1 by lour days of al t eon tin 1 i: < r tin, spilled into ii.i e i n I i' 1 lie's establishments !• ti;r ites i f damages' exceeded ,c3 miii.Odd; thousands were homeless. Tin swirl i g waters of the Sus ie. e .anna river raced virtually out o’ c utrol, striking hard at Williams (oit Eyewitnesses said this centra Id n'lsylvrm a community of 43.000 i y h rrieless foci: y in the most crip I ■ eg II od sin' e 1930. Five Feet Of Water Flmira. N Y. looked old in: n river Pie Chemung, a Susquehanna trib ntai'v right i to face. One Pur 1 of the community, its 50.000 i■ dents battling the raging torrents at every turn, was under more than : e feet of water. II ndreds of "olunteers. in heavy t: icks and row boats equinped with ■adios, helped throughout the flood ed area. As waters in up--(ate New York and Pennsylvania on tinned to rise, i'snmunities further south on the S squehanna and its branches pro pined for f 1' ods. ChiangLeading Chinese Troops In Manchuria Nanking. May 29. — </Pi- General Clin a En-lni. China's N«>. 2 Commu n>-1. asserted today that Generalis ikii Cliiang Kai-shek had taken over direetinn of the government's Man elm i lan campaign. }!e said the. sit intion > civil wnr ravagod Manchuria liad taken a critical turn. Tiie top-flight Communist made his statement a few hours after tiie government's Central News Agency reported that national la ops had captured the important city of Kirin from communists. Goven ment sources in Mukden .‘aid seven regiments of Communist troop; were routed at Yunki and re treated toward Yonch i, near tiie Korean border. Government reports from tiie i orth said vanguards of national troops were within 30 mile i ; Harbin. Even as Chou spoke, members of tlm democratic league were arrang ing to resume peace talks with Chiang's government party. They were handi1 apped, however, by the continued absence at this critical stage of Chiang, who remained in Miikdo . TerrorCamp Boss Hanged Kanxberg, Germ;* y, May 23.—(/F> — Martin Gottfried Weiss, command ant of the Dachau concentration vamp where thousands of Europeans were tortured and put to death, was hanged this morning. Fourteen of his associates at Dachau preceded him to the gallows yesterday. Weiss held hope for a reprieve until immediately before his death. Another 13 will be hanged today, c< mpleting the largest mass e.xecu tid ever conducted by the United States army. Pleads Guilt) To Slaying Survivor Of Bataan March New York. May 29.—(/P>— C a p t. Archie B. Miller, 25-vear-old signal corps officer, pleaded guilty to first degree manslaughter today in the fatal sheeting of Capt. Eugene Dale, Enid, Okla., last December 23. Mil ler, whose home is at Bellevue, Tex as. faces a maximum prison sen tence of 20 years. Dale, a survivor of the Bataan death march and two and a half years of Japanese im prisonment was shot in the apart ment of Milcr’s estni god wife, Mrs Fay Hancock. Mille". an ex-model from Jonesboro, N. C. Just Weighting ■.in BECAUSE “Pembroke,” highly bred Welsh Corgi, has to watch his figure if he's going to be a prize-winner, he goes through more scales than a fish. Owned by Mrs. H. u. Green, Newton, Conn., breeder of thorough bred Hogs, this 2-month-old pup is weighed regularly. (International) Ship Strike Heads Taik In Capital Maritime Tie-Up Gets Top-Billing On Labor Agenda Washington. May 29'. '.P> Senator Hadclifte (I)) of Maryland told reporters after a While House visit today that the threatened man time strike will not prevent opera tion of the natio - merchant ship ping. The senator, chanm an of the Sen ate Merchant Marine sob-committee, was asked who wool 1 11111 the ships if a strike goes into e!!ect Jun la. as scheduled. “The ships are going to run— you ran bet on that,” lie said. Washington May oPt — The threatened maritime strike took top billing today in the government's drive to resolve all major labor dis putes. With a coal settlement seemingly | at hand. Secretary of I... Lewis . Schwollenbaoh called in ship own ers and maritime union chiefs for a 2 p. m. conference aimed at lind i g some way to prevent the shipping tie-up. set for June la. That strike, if it conies off. tvi uld I cripple America’s merchant marine, ! halt shipping from Atlantic. Pacific and Gulf ports and prevent the ex port of relief supplies f r lumine inpiis abroad. Expects New Proposals. Joseph Curran, president of flic CIO-National Maritime Union, told a leporter on his arrival from New York that he expects the ship opera tors on his arrival from New York that tie expected the ship operators to make some "new proposals'’ at the meeting. "If they dci'.'t." Curran said, “i will be a difficult situation." Six other unions have joined Cur ran’t NMU in demanding a 30 pe cent wage it. .'ease, an 8-hour day , overtime adjustments and retroactive ; pay. The seven unions claim abou 200,000 members on 3,100 ships, more than two-thirds oi them o\\> cd b;. | the government. ‘Chatham Charges Aides Not Allowed To Watch Cam ass Dobson, N. C„ May 2!). i/l’> Counsel fir T'luirmond Chathan. charged today that "through a sub terfuge" file congressional candi dates' representatives "were denie (he right" of being present yestcr day afternoon when the Surry coun ty ele lions board tabulated vote u Saturday’s Democratic congres sional primary in the fifth district Changes in Surry returns ';,d unolficial. gave Rep. John H. Folger a net gain of 73 votes over the ta.i ulation Saturday night and place him ahead of Chatham by 13 vote in the distric. Ready to Graduate DAUGHTER of the President of the United Slates, Margaret Truman (right), who will graduate from George Washington University, is pictured w ith one of her classmates, Betty Lou Trowbridge, just before participating in baccalaureate ox* ercises held at Washington Cathe i dial, Wash., L). C. (International) ASHES OF MONEY BRING BIG RETURN Atlanta Hi money virtually returned Iron: the a im- foi Marion Hailey, an unemployed machinist. Vt the in stonee of his friends, Hailey tool, a civur box containing the burnt r mints of has life sav ings of $1.!)■'•> to the Currency Re demption I >i vision of the Treasury | Department 1 he money had been burnt in a lire which destroyed Hailey- homo after he had drawn his money to buy a farm. Exports explored the ashes, and identified >11 except $20. believed burned beyond recognition. The Treasury Department will send Bailey a check for $1,900. WEATHER FOR NORTH ( AROMNA. Partly cloudy, warmer west portion this afternoon. Fair and little change in temperature to night. Thursday, partly cloudy and slightly warmer. KELLY'S LITTLE COMMANDO I FIRST INFANTRYMAN to win the Medal of Honor in (lie European theatre of operations, Charles “Commando” Kelly gets the thrill of his life as he looks at his G-pound, 9-ounce daughter, in a Pittsburgh, Pa., hospital. Mrs. Kelly cradles the little “commando,” who seems to bo enjoying a hearty laugh. The hero now operates a service station, tlnteniational) Miners Win $1.85 Wage Boost Daily I Washing)1 n. Mav 2!>. (A!*)- Interior Secretary Krug a' i1 on ire, i teiia; .in a re'lent ending the soft coal strike. Krug told newsni n lie ami John I.. Lewis had signed the emit: act ami t -.1 i,"\ve indicated he would order tin- t hit Mine Worker i-eek to work immediately. "The com : on was just signed, gentlemen, '' Krug said | quietly. aim inn nvnt \va mail , at tin.' White House after tin -ipnii’ir iii the presence of Pro .dent Truman. Krn.tr -si 1 111 ■ agreement “s -I 1. s math v- between the pi\ •n m -nt a-' u,".unitors of t lie sot al mint.- and the 1 lit d Min W< "kers." He added : “Mr. Lewis had just indieater he will orrl' r the miners back o work ivnm -iliately.” Lewis ads d that Hruir desi frr m any flirt her discussi i inti! the details could be ex dained. Ht'wever. almost simultano msly with the emergence ot Lewis, he wever and Kmc; Crop he President's office, the Solir Feels Administration released h" t<*vnv. thev are: 1. Wares- A ba-ic hourly in ■rce.se of IS 1-2 cents, wide with evertiir-• mtikes a dail increase of *1.85. 2. A welfar ■ and retiremen fund financed by - five ci nts on on coal iirodnced --- unoi 'icialiy estimated as yieklin S25.noo.nno to JLhOOoo.ono an nually. This fund is to be user for sickness, disability, death ir retirement benefits and is t be mena.red by a t ii r e e-ni a i board of which one would !>■ | named by the u n ion, one by j Krujr and ;i third by the first ! wo appointees. Washington, May 2!i. - ..To .John J,. Lewis met with tin* t’n Mine Workers police ■ inn lillc to day as the I'MW's Cim.o lii.-'r.ol o\ pi essed belie! that We n d u! lh soft coal strike i.- at haiui. The 250-man poll1 y no milt"'' ; the group tn which Lewis would re port any agreement reached will government negotiators. It ulsi would ratify any .-.ottlon.cn!. Oisl riel ,-i\ head' | i Columbus. Ohio that ' we : a l1 strike is over" and that fin nr tails of settlement wW in • rue out today in Washing! h The h o: i H o a: n ■ 1 e r s ': i i was described as coming ' .1 Price, district secretary trc:,-urer in Washington. .Lewis and other UMW > b ;;■! it. the capital declined ..i ' 1 .Meeting Not Set. At the offi e of Scare' iry .1 In terior J. A. Krug. I-Vde. a . bos. oificials said a lorliier a' g 'Aita Lewis on contract ’a • .. ■.. c iur 1 at yet been set. Krug rep' rted !.. •: w ■ ec progress had .been n ale :n dialling a new contract. Lewis arrived at tiie t'MW head quarters at 10a m and t; Led wit1 a group ol i b (20 . nioii leader on the slops ol me ,1! ling. Presi dent I rumaii' of: lain 1 a1 i 11: g 1 is! lor the day dal me n in' am ; 1 y i meeting with the a. d tu-gol i: t nr-. The strike :- .a is 5!Hh day counting tae illy j.art'ailv c'lcctixc two week truee a ! ah etider! Salur ciay. Despite I lie general nil o: o.\poetsr. v. however the goverm. mr did not relax its el! at- to bring ano.i! a settlement before the shutdown rega i .- its strangle hold on .ndas try. N ets' Hospital Program Delayed By Hii^h ( ,'osts Washington, May 29— (AP) High I building costs have delayed the Vcl j erans Administration hospital pa - I gram. j General Omar X. Hr..dli v, vd | erans administrator, told a Holts' appropriations s 11 b -committee a ! testimony made public today ti c' i four out of 13 authorized project I have been held up because r-ontrac j tor's bids far exceeded government estimates. : The administration’s cost e timate of the 12 projects, Headley I, vv.i $26,108,30(1. But tin- total of the lm< bills was $35,211,262. or 35 per ecid above the estimate. New York Colton New York, Mr.v 29 P Cott Sli'tercs' opened 20 to 60 cents a bale higher. Noon prices \ve**n 2t] t»> 50 rents •1 bale higher. .T !v 28.or>, October 28.36, and December 28.52. 'HELLDORADO' SPINACH HARVEST CHINS ARE UP in Las Vegas, Xev., as the annual “Carnival c f Hclldorado" ends and the old-fashioned whiskers raised by the males for the oo rasinn are chopped off. Here a line of “whiskerinoi’ line up waiting their turn to lose their crop uX chin spinach. <International) Limitation Of Arms Everywhere Is U. S. Policy, Savs Bvrnes Secretary Of State Urges Approval Of Hemisphere Program Wi hingtoi May 29 . j •, ■.I't'i iy ol State James B vi nes ild Congress 1 day that the United tiles i-' g mg to work for "Jimita . on. of arm' ..1110113 Die nat ion the world. !tyrne on .m iated tie 1 oliey in estmr !iy hetore til" Hon e Foreign IT a i 1 Co 11 e e H < liil ric at tile g"\ o 1 ■ i "i I ; Coin,} “to wor, or limitation o! anils." "We do. 1 it to -co 1 !-■- world tree - - the fe burdc inne:' ss irily lar nnr-rl form lid Impos" 11 ! ill* IH-<- ill n! the ■. urkl." Byi :a declar-.-d. J ails IT> elaborate. lie made tin- .-t.it -n lent. e. itiiout ; urtlier el 1. -r. -1 m-: at . r - i' :g - 101 - n onal - o - . iation ] ridnig lor a i-:o .1! j.. -igram ol "mili ' ary ei ip<-; .a - -a " .-■ tli of her \ . 01 iean oati- 11 As he w mt . i 1 ■ ■ i■ t. 1.■ :• 1 - ■ itler Atnerii an ...... i |., \i, •ov. for ! 1 to Ic ieni: 1 \ o ' - \ i U- :> 11 i\l m i - to V. IM. Mm -. 0: J In and Hi-- U - * mn 'In- t• 1 ■ - eign mini, in -.milen-ii >■ in Pan . P.y:)' 1 ■: I tie ipi ‘ ion: V. ii - • 1 - - i 1 - . ■: i. i-< 00 sirs 1 1 : 0 .1101 t- [■ (. a 1; peace m Miami " (Toim-cil !i> Ti .tiH.tii Bvi endorsed •fore thi ' 1Trim n. It . .Id ; ior 11- it • ' - rn : m. a I 111" o' ho. I' . i.--- would ; "a 1 a- the Unite Si lies a 1 Ill-ip t r.a a ; i ta; v mm la . : p s.iMte it 1 those - in! lie - all, help repair their equip iient. Byrnf ii t e pro He -..' 11 ‘ :at tlie ot!ter republic , , 1 adeqt tale wa good to ai llieo. t - defend them .-elves in e mt ■ -f a!' el:. T- - -lea ; i - i '■> . no a d, t ■ m s. • lie rat ion 1 f t he wo ,1 ert -i'll i !■ -r. a t \- id: logothor ir ■ • Genera - - c-ii-.i-, .--l Vimi I Ch,- to N tz 1 port 1 - ■ i, .- it in te-t - ”0a v vc to-'i.-.i . Selected Stocks (Continue (Jam v. York, Mm- 29 --(API Se lected ' eks 0->ntinueii to registi ■ new lh-vo.-.r highs today while osn' m i' t-a-t a-' s v deore-v od Iv. profit taking on the reeen* upsw 1 ng. i'-o -.asion.il strength was displayed by Chry-I-. - and Fast man Kodak. P.aokw arc! were U. S Steel. Beth ehem, 1? S Rubber. Montgomery . Ward and -American Waterworks. Siam Posing NewProblem New York. May 29. ~(AP)—The l ulled Nation., wa conironted with a new problem today in the form of a Si. im .'<• complaint churning French troop, in I.:d<>-l’hma with "unjusti fied aygre>sion." that a non b< ft < Nations had '■jipealc'l to tlie world pmcr-keep mg azetii-y. and the complaint thus t'rescn'.cd the organization with a question un p;oct iiui v. ihe i.-.sue an odd st by thr* fact that Shm a f< ene y nation a i uell as a non-member, while France is not only a member but was an • lly in the war against the axis. Siam's complaint was received in abb i addressed *" i • N. Secretary (lencrnl Trygve I.!- by Pride Fanymyon^, president "• 1i|(' Siann.-c council of mini. ters. (ur\ -\\ idc Strike in Rochester buds ■ -H-: X V . May 99 (M1) - \g ..! .-hy i .fficia Is to meet V. " ‘ " u. . i Oily Clltpll>y.. . i ' ■ i. l. 1: i ..: i in.; Unlay u i the city \ u" shut c ;. which yciiterday Idled 30,001) union workers. i i i d i .. ■ t111 . s h. 11 - whirl ... leaders earlier I.an .■ \ j >cc1 I'd la take fiO.OOil workers aw;,.' Iron; their .loirs m this city of a9.i.000 iio)uiiatiun, came shortly after 9 a m„ KDT. Krriie i.■ k II. Bullen, executive : the state medial ion hoard, sent here by Gov Thomas I )< v ey. elude > turs .it negt .1 ia ' in by announcing union accept ance of a three point declaration of !.. licy oy City Manager Lewis Cart* wright. Tht work holiday climaxed a con* ; s o si,., n May 15 when Curl wright abolished 4t>9 jobs in the public Work- department which the AKI, Kcdci ila n ot State, County an I Municipal Employes sought tu * rganize. Ksm. s dm ii" the o awn out labor dispute were vaguely defined An AFI.-t'IO o ■ nf strategy committee wl on i. g, 1 mted with th ■ city rli11 I, . the hutdown .said the union's basic objective was to i si oldish that employes have the right to irganir.c and bargain col | lectively through representatives of , their own chosing. GREY1IOI XI) STOCK SPLIT. Chicago. May 97 Directors of the Crevhound Ccrporattion at their meeting today adopted a plan for splitting ud C'lnvtn sti k in a three-for-one sh; re basis, according *o an ■ nnouncenient made by Orville S. Caesar, newly elected president, •
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