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ItettitetsOTt Bat lit Btspatrij THIRTY-THIRD YEAR HENDERSON, N. C.,' SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 6.1946 ^ J S111:11 K Vl:lt Y A KT KU NUON TTIVIT. fCMTO PrtDV Reds Block Action Upon PencePnrley Russians Insist Procedure Rules Be Drafted Now Paris. July C?l/l'i?l)iitisli-Amer ican opposition l<> a Russian demand that the hi" ft'iir proscribe rules of procedure for a general European peace conference tin-; suir.mcr block ed efforts of th" foreign ministers council today to convoke the 21 na tion conclave on July 29. the date already fixed. Both Secretary of State James Byrnes and British Fireign Secre tary Ernest Bevin contended through out a stormy four-hour session last night that adoption of the Russian proposal would reduce the peace parley to "rubber stamp" status but Rusesian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov maintained his position. Veto Shadow Clouds Efforts With the shadow of the big pow er veto clouding their efforts the ministers convened again today for renewed discussion of the probl < i in another effort to p.-cparc ami transmit the necessary invitations for the peace conference to the 17 other nations. Conversations with members of I the American delegation covinced | observers that the basic motivation j for U. S. policy was a desire to i throw international problems into an arena where the big power veto j could not exercised. isiuaull Sfr!is Compromise These sources said that without the votes to heat Russian on any con flict and Molotov realizes this, which is the reason for his insistancc that the council?where lie has veto pow er?dictate the rules for the peace conference?where lie does not. French Foreign Minister Georges Ridault. in his customary role as compromiser, sought to break last night's deadlock by suggesting that France as the host country merely "inform" the other nations that a peace conference was scheduled to begin July 29 and that invitations would lie sent later, but Molotov said this would only serve to con fuse. Truman Hopeful Of Peace Pacts Gettysburg. Pcntl., July (> i/1't? President Truman expressed high j hope today for the success of the coming treaty conference in dot i - eating the nation anew to the search for "eternal peace in a world united." Standing on ground hallowed by i the blood o| count lc heroes of a j country which found strength and unity after four year of war and sacrifice, the President saw hope for I rimiliar unity among nations of the world. Heading the inscription, "Peace eternal m a nation united" at the base of the Gettysburg peace monu ment. Mr. Truman solemnly toiil reporters that if it were changed to substitute "world", for "nation." it would hi- ideal. It looks very much like we are going to get a peace treaty, tie told ieporters who met Itim there. He made this comment about Ins trans Atlantic telephone conversation yes terday with Secretary of State Byrnes. They talked a few hours after the four power foreign minis tcis conference agreed to a general peace conference July 29. He gave the newsmen an account of the battles of Gettysburg .and of Pickett's famous charge and said th" nation could thank God Ihe later didn t succeed or it would have been the end of Ihe nation. Mrs. Truman accompanied the President to the famous battle grounds. They returned to thci.* Catoctin mountain hideaway, "shan grila" near Thurmont, Md., in time for lunch. Eight-Year-old Boy Blamed For Polish Violence Warsaw. July 6.?i/Vt?An eight year-old boy. who said "someone" told him to start a story thai Jews had held him for several days in a cellar, was blamed by investigator; today for touching olf Poland's bloodiest post-war pogrom, which killed at least .18 and injured 50 others ?n tin- city of Kiclcc. A special commission of inquiry said the boy told the story to mili tinmcu. adding that his life had been threatened and tnat he had seen at least a dozen bodies of Christian children in his prison. BEER TAX YIELD"" SETS NEW RECORD Raleigh. July fi.?Brr taxes yield ed the state of North Carolina an all time high of S3,715,200.72 for the 1045-40 fiscal year ended June 30. accord!' g to the North Carolina C'ommittee-United States Brewcis Foundation. Collections totaled $2,870,573 for the 1944-45 fiscal year and $2,828, 863.37 for 1943-44. New Envoy fo U.S. First Ambassador to the U. S. 1 from the new Phillippme Re- i public will be Joaquin Miguel Llialde (above). Appointed by President Rnxas, blizaldc was for many years resident Com- ' missioner if the Philippines in Washin;}toii. Ilo will arrive I shortly. (International) Reds Seize INazi Goods In Austria Property Classed By Russians As 'German Assets' Vienna. July fi.?i/P>?The Soviet command i:i Austria, in a sudden ' unilateral move today, announced that $'22.0IMI,ll(i<i worth of industrial r<i operty n eastern Austria has has passed into Soviet ownership along with all other "German ext er nal assets" in the Soviet /.one of oc cupation. Chancellor l,eopn|r| Figl called his j cabinet into a special meet ins and | General Mark Clark, commander of j American forces n Austria, in.mod- ; iatcly moved into action with mes sages to both the Austrian Govern ment and Russian officials. Taking Over Property. The Russifi's for several month have been taking over control of' properties in eastern Austria, which they classified as German assets sub- , jcrt to jcizu re ior reparations under ] the Potsdam agreement. The order published today an or der signed by Col. Gen Kurrasoy as j "rommander in rhief of Soviet oc cupation forces in Austria" apparn l-i ly was intended l< legalize all these | previous seizures anil pave the way \ foi complete confiscation of prop erties which they claim under their | interpretaliton of the Potsdam pact.! The I'nited Stales has disputed Ibis interpretation as in the Allied ; ,'i.uneil. asserting that property tak-; ii forcibly by the Germans after the 103ft annexation of Austria e nd I not In- classed as German. The Hns- i s*ans have refused to discuss the! i| Host ion in the council. High Winds Hit Carolina Beach i Wilmington. July ti.?i,T*i?Occas ional sipialls of winds of <!'? miles per hour hit Carolina and Wrights ville beaches early today, but no injuries were reported there or in Wilmington, where the maximum ] velocity was 30 MPH. Some limbs were blown from trees but no oth er damage was reported. Nation Sees PricesReach New Record Soectacular Climb On Many Items Is Outstanding Feature Now York, .Inly (5.?</l'i?A sharp and sometimes spectacular upswing in a number of basic commodity prices stood out today as a salient feature of the nation's first OPA Icss week since early 1942. A survey of what actually has happened since price controls lapsed at midnight last Sunday showed that while retail prices in many lines held fairly steady ? meats, butte rnut milk being frequent exceptions ?these developments spotlighted the wholesale commodity mar kct: Flour at Minneapolis jumped front S3.34 to $4.80 per hundred pounds. Cattle at Chicago soared from a standing start of $18.00 per hundred weight to an all time record high of $22.30 before sliding back to $22.23 under a flooei of receipts. Ilog Prices Set Itrcor.l. Hog prices at Chicago broke al' records sine-e 19919 by artvatv.'pg from $14.83 a hundredweight a weldk nan to $10.30. At the closing yes terday prices were hack to $10.00 a? hog receipts leaped from 2.300 otic Friday to 30.000 the next. Cotton al New York jumped more than $4.00 a bale in immediate re sponse to the elimination of OPA but slid back quickly. It closed las' week at 31.63 cents a pound, went to a historic peak of 32.13 on Mon day and was back at 31.73 at the close yesterday. Butter in the Chicago wholesale market rose to 70.73 cents a pound front 36 cents under OPA. Corn jumped from $1.44 lo $2.23 a bushel and oats from 89 cents to $1.04. Pearl Harbor Report Being Written Now Washington. July (!. </T|?Only four days before its fiiii.l report i clue, the Pearl Harbor Investigating Comniillec grappled today with where to lay the blame fur the sur prise element of .lapn'.'s 1941 at tack. The full ten member Senate lb use Croup was called into session t? check on progress by a sub-rom mittee of five appointed to draft the report. Members, of the .sub committee of live ap|>ointcd to draft the report. Members ? f the sub committee said they had reached the issue of responsibility and this was a matter for full committee cons ideration. Fcrcuscm Writes Own Version. Senator Ferguson (III of Michigan, a sub-committee member, is writing his own version of a proposed re part which aides said he will place before the full ommittce. The cpie.'tion of why United States forces were caught napping when the Japanese raided Pearl Harbor on December 7. 1941 is the major issue for the investigators. A commissii t- headed by then Su preme Court Justice Owen Roberts made an inquiry in 1942 and laid the blame on Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, and Adm. Husband Kimmel. at my and navy commanders in Ha waii. A later board of inquiry en-elud ed that Short was remiss, and als< criticized General George C. Mar shall. then army chief of staff and other ton ranking Washington offi cers for not sending him more infor mation. SURROUNDED BY OPA PROBLEM SURROUNDED by letters and telegrams from his constituents regarding the OPA, Senator Robert F. Wagner (D) of New York, ponders what to do. Of the 980 telegrams he received, in Washington, 950 were in favor of the OPA and 30 against. Practically every member of Congress has been swamped by messages from citizcne, (International Soundphoto) ?? -V* l' l-r SUM?\Y A A * JLJ 1 u WI A 'Off With Meat Ceilings' Drive Is Begun In Senate New Efforts Might Crack Revival Bill Washington. July fi?,/P)?OPA's senatorial critics cot t ted today on , a powerful "off the meat ceilings" drive to crsr.k open the compromise bill to revive price and rent con trols. Spearheaded by Republican Sen ators Tuft of Ohio, ttnd Wherry of Nebraska, this fresh attempt to tie j ('own OPA. even if it wins new life, {gained Wluential support of Demo I crntic Senator George of Georgia. George told reporters he favors ' leaving meats off the list because he thinks most of it would go back into the bltc/k market the minute controls were restored. Meat Shortage Forecast. "We are going to have a meat shortage," he declared, "but it is bet ter to get rid cf controls and the black market that goes with them than to attempt to set prices." { With the Senate in recess until Monday who; it will take up the {disputed revival bill which Demo cratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky ! forced out the Banking Committee. OPA opponents maneuvered to force the first test vote on th emcnt issue. Taft said he felt confident enough Democrats would go along with Re publicans to write the meat exemp tion into the bill despite contri tions by administration leaders that such a move might cause another picsidcntial veto. Porter Criticizes Terms. Wherry lold a reporter it is his judgment that if the Senate refuses to kill meat controls, it won't accept any other amendments to the bill on which Barkley is st.eding firm despite the criticism of some of its terms by OPA Administrator Paul Porter. Barkley and Chairman Wagner (D) of New York of the Banking Committee expressed hope that the Senate will stick by the - omtnittee j approved measure. But they ob viously had doubts about their abil ity to beat off the meat amendment, offered in different forms by Whec- , ry and Senator McCarran (D) of Nevada. Canada Acts To Combat Threat Of L. S. Prices O t t a w a. July B.?t/Pi?The Ca nadian government, in a four-point program designed to combat the threat of risi'g prices in the United States and to ease the pressures of inflation, has pegged the Canadian dollar at par United States dollar and strengthened Canada's price structure Finance Minister J. L llslcy. who outlined the program to the House of Commons in a surprise nmounce men in which he referred to the recent abandonment of price con trols in the United States, said he hoped the new measure would '"go a long way t< ward insulating Can ada aga.i st unfavorable external conditions and easing the inflation ary pressures which now are so strong." Furniture Workers Get New Leader Thomnsville. July (i.?i,V>?Charles C Causey i>f Thomnsville announced yesterday lhat he had accepted ap pointments as international repre sentative of the' United Furniture | Workers of America (C.I O.) in the 1 Fifth District, which includes Vir ginia. the Carolinas, Tennessee and i Georgia. The appointment was made by Ernest Marsh of New York. C.I.O* i organizer. Causey succeeds Uernnrd Hiatt of Thomnsville. who resigned Monday I because, he said, of the "Comwn [iiift" infltunec cf the international's leaders. In making the appointment. Marsh, whose temporary headquarters nrp in Greensboro, said Hiatt had used iris resignation to create disruption and confusion among unicn mem bers. Marsh charged that Hiatt, in ! conducting a meeting Tuesday at ?which he resigned, had been "dicta torial and undemocratic." and that the meeting was contrary to the 11 ion's constitution. "Despite a few disruptions in its ranks." Marsh said, "the U. K. W. A. will continue to cooperate with the C. I. O. in building strung, demo ctalic unions In the South, improv ing th cwages, working conditions and livVg standards of the work CVf TO SPEAK AT MEET Raleigh. July fl?i/l'i?Magdnlene Brummitt. will he one of the prin I cionl speakers at an annual meeting ; of the Association of Official Seed '? Analysts of America to he held in i Lansing. Mich., July 12-19. ? rAmtu NISEI REGIMENT GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME V r v i. t. ? ?i i n ir ???M? HER RAILS CROWDED with members of the famed 4-12nd Regimental Combat Team, the first Japnnesc-Amerl- ! can unit in the U. S., the troopship Wilson Victory is greeted in New York by a group of native Hawaiian dancers who are pictured tossing leis at the men aboard. The regiment saw action from the start of the North. African Invasion to the battles for France and Italy. Thev are en route to Hawaii. tInternational) Youths Get Life Terms In Raleigh Raleigh. July 0.??.<V>?Five youths who pleaded guilty n Wake supcrii r court here yesterday to being acces sories before and after the fact of murder m lire robbery-slaying of W. I)allie Carroll on May 2 were sentenced today by Judge Clawscn L.. Williams t*> life imprisonment. The five defendants are: Clai borne McKee, and Charlie Clemmer, both 26. of Durham, Albert C. Huds peth, 24, of Portsmouth. Va., and Leo K. Tiller. 26. of Durham and Raleigh, and Roy O'Dell White, 32. of Winston-Salem. Judge Williams ordered thai a transcript be forwarded to the state's paroles commission and said that he would arompany ii with a rcc ommendati'i that none of the fi \*e ever be considered for commuta tion of sentence or a parole. Atom Bomb Did Bi<j I)?image To Ships' Interiors Aboard The U. S. S. Appalachian. July 6?i/1'i- Had the lirst atomic bomb test July 1 been combat ae tidi. the powoi of the fleet struck would have loam wiped out. Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey. AAF com manding otficc of Task For e One. said today in an exclusive inter view*. The test fleet consisted of 30 combat ships. 30 supporting ships and 13 other floating targets. The general amplified his state ment by pointing out that 16 ships represit'ting all types in the target array wore completely eliminated from combat and 2ii to 30 other.' were damaged to a lessor degree. Five ships sank: 11 others suffered bad damage to their boilers. With boiler casings ripped and use less, power to maneuver was gone. Unable to fight, they would be mere sitting ducks waiting to be s u n k without difficulty in whatever man ner attackers chose. It would require three weeks* to repair boilers. Bab> With Lone Head, Two Faces Reported Born Tokyo. July f>.?i/Ti?Kyodo news api'cy reported today 'he birth ol a girl with two faces and two bodies joined above the hips with four legs. Both the mother and father. Na gano Prefecture farmers, are normal persons, the news agency said. I' reported '.he birth was the second of its type known, the first having been recorded in Germany. In a later story. Kyodo said the child, which had a single head with two faces. d< lible torso Joined at the hips and four lees- was born alive, but died immediately after wards. PRF.-EVGINFF.RINO C'OI RSF. Greenville. July fi -- Indications are that a pro-engineering course will be offered at East Carolina Teachers College when the MMfi-47 f.hool year opens In September, ac cording to Dr. R. J. Slay, dean of the college. Senator Mitchell Demands May Be Heard In Probe Group Learns An Andrew J. May Advanced $48,634 By Lumber Company 1 Washington, July (l?i/l'i?Senator Mitchell (I)) of Washington demand- J i cd today that Hep. Andrew J. May | (D) of Kentucky, chairman of the t House Military Committee, be! brought before the Senate War In- j vest mat ir.g Committee. The group had just heard testi- j many that a munitions combine, j whose war profits are under inves- | ligation, advanced $48,1134 to a linn- | her company wnose agent was An- j drew J. May of Prestonburg Ky. This May was not otherwise iden tified m the record. Prestonburg is j | the representative's home town. Itribc Is Attempted j Mitchell told newsmen that a man purporting to represent the Erie [ ? Ibisin Metal Products Co. -one of ! the combine ?had attempted to "bribe' him last fall. The man, he said, came to him ! | last October or early November and I presented a card on which were en - graved his own name and that of ; King Kamuk of Egypt. Mitchell said he soon learned that his caller wanted to discuss the Erie company which even then was under ; investigiition by the committee The j Senator related that the man oon | tended that the investigation was ? j persecution of the company and un ? fair and he wanted Mitchell to in tercede with the committee on he half of the company. ' "I'p to that time ids conversation was okav." Mitchell remarked. * Sa.QOO Contribution Then, the senator continued, the man stated that his "principal" I wanted to make a contribution of $5,(mi;i to Senator Mitchell's campaign fund. "It was nothing but a bribe." Mitchell -aid. In 14 years in Wash- ' innl1111 that is tin- first time that lias j happened to inc." Mitchell told the committee in i connection with the testimony of the lumber cimpany that the "integrity of Congress' demanded that Rep. May be called upon to testify. He proposed that tiie legislative mach inery" toward that end be investi gated. The committee also called Brig. Gen. 'Roswell Hardy of army ordin ance to explain why lie suggested | in 1 $>44 that Rata via Metal Products ; Company he given a big order for j the manufacture of fI inch shells. Karlier testimony indicated that Matavia?one ol !!l closely linked i once!lis whose complicated opera tions and high profits are under I study got the order within a hail' hour after the suggestion and with out competitive bidding. Committee memoers said Hardy i will be asked whether the sugges- | tion was advanced at the request of Rep. Andrew May (1)) of Ken- ' lucky, chairman of the powerful army ordance officer, asserted yes- | torday that thev put "pressure" on ' them in the interest of Batavia. t )ne of these officers. Col John Sli sal;, also linked May to a "highly unusual" army-navy effeciency a ward granted to Batavia only after Secretary ol War Patterson?then undersecretary?tasked for speedy 1 consideration. WEATHER KOIt NORTH CAROMN.V Partly cloudy and warmer south ami west portions, cloudy and mil.I with moderate to heavy rains and fresh gusty winds northeast portion tonight. Warm er Sunday. FAMILY SLEEPS ON CITY HALL LAWN REFUSED A TWO-ROOM HOME In the Rodgers Young Memorial Village in Los Angeles because his family was "too large," ex-Navy cook James A. Nelson slep*. with his homeless family on the lawn in front of the City Hall. The veteran intends to make his home on the City Hall lawn until allowed to live at Memorial Village. <k. (International Soundnhoto)
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