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Utettltersmt Bally Bisyatrlj THIRTY-THIRD YEAR Tiik ashck" atki"Vrk8hf HENDERSON, N. C., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 1), 1946 rUiiEisiTE7? v k ujT|aktkunmun FIVE CENTS r.OPY Compromise Leave Pay Plan Given Vet? Would Receive Small Cash Amount, Remainder In Bond? Washington, July 9.?(AP)? The White Mouse said today President Truman has proposed a comprom ise pi.oi u? u..c government bonds as well as cash in paying 14,000,00(1 veterans tor accumulated furlough time. The plan, press Secretary Ebon Ayers said, is the President's own idea. Under it, veterans who served in the ranks would get cash for all terminal leave payments of less than $50 and five year bonds for larger amounts. Estimates of the cost range from $2,750,000,000 to $3,000,000,000. The latter figure was mentioned by Sen ator Edwin C. Johnson (D) of Colorado, who first disclosed the plan to reporters. To Avoid Inflation. Johnson said it was advanced by the budget bureau. "The plan is intended to avoid inflationary effects of making a huge cash payment at once," Jot It son saift. "I think Congress will ap prove it before it quits." Johnson said the new plan for paying all enlisted personnel the same terminal payment received by commissioned officers would be pre sented at a session of the Senate Military Committee today. A pay ment bill already has passed th ? House. The House approved 379 to fl an immediate cash payment to all en sonnel similar to the officers ter minal pay. This k a rate of 2 1-2 days a month, less time off for passes and furloughs. Jewish Head Raps British In Palestine Jerusalem, July 9.?l,Ti?Dr. Cliaim Weizmann. Jewish Agency and Wrrlrl Zionist president, said today that partition of Palestine into separate Jewish rnol Arab states "must not be rejected as a possible solution to the Palestine prooiem. ' The nearly blind Weizmann held a press conference for 100 newsmen at which he said "had the mandatory government of Britain pioceeded immediately to implement the policy recommendations of the British American Committee's inquiry report, despite some of its objectionable fea tures. peace and qmei woidd have reigned here." Asked what he meant by ohjec- j tionable features. Weizisrann men- ] tioned recomtmf ndaltion No. 3 in the report which held that the final state should he neither Jewish or j Arab. "There are many Jewish peo ple and much public opinion every- j where favoring partition of as a so lution of the Palestine problem." he added. "Regardless of whether we agree or not. this must not he rejected as a possible solution." Smokey Says: hey foiks-this is > a good way to i eliminate a good i ^camping spot /j </o I leaving a camp fire before it is: dead out or the camp ground in disorder endangers the woodlands :and ia not good sportsmanship. i Vacation Bound SECRETARY GENERAL of the United Nations, Trygve Lie is shown with Mrs. Lie, just before they took off from LaGuardia Field in New York for their home in Oslo,'Norway, After"* few days In Oslo, Mr. Lie plans to visit Geneva, Switzerland, and the Hague, the Netherlands, to inspect facilities. (International) Government Acts To Spur Vets Housing Market Guarantee Plan For Houses Given Approval Washington. July 9.?i/Pi?The Na tional Housing Ageiv y today un- | veiled its market guarantee plan?a ? program designed to sten-up vet- j cran's hous'ng construction througii increased production of new type building materials and pre-fabri cnted homes. Authorized by Congress, the plan provides for the government to un- i derwrite producers against loss in marketing their products. It is the second part of a pro gram to build 2,700.00(1 new dwell- 1 irgs by 1948. The firsl step allowed premium payments for materials production j under a S400.000.000 subsidy f ind.: Declaring that a new enterprise j normally, '"pjocess- slowly. Housing j Expediter Wilson W y a t 1 asserted I that the need for homes for vet- 1 erans is so urgent that the prcduc- | tion of new materials and new j types of construction can not wait. He said the National Housing Ad ministration is ready lo receive re- 1 rpiests for guaranteed market con tracts. The guarantee market pirn will allow a new producer to "swing into full prodt".lion at the oulrel. assured of a market for all he produces," Wyatt said The under writing, he added, will lie accom plished through a contract between the producer and the government. Two Slates Vote Today (By The Associated Press.) Two more Senate scats as well ' as eight in the Honse were involved ; j in primaries today in Washington j and Utah. I Senator Hugh fS. Mitchell (D) of Washington, who was appointed two years ago to fill a vaeaney, was a favorite to win rciximination ovoi two opponents. A livelier campaign developed in | the first congressional district. | where a son and a daughter of the late President Roosevelt, disagreed j over whether Rep. Hugh l)eLacy | should he renominated. James Roosevelt supported De Lacy. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Bocttin- ; per came out for radio announcer , Howard Costignn. A third starter, j former State Senator .Joseph K. Roberts, flashed an endorsement j from Rep. Claire Booth Luee, (R) I of Connecticut. Three Washington members of the i House were unopposed and two oth- ' ers were expected to win their pri- I mnrics. In Utah. Senator Abe Murdoch j and Rep. J. Will Robinson had no opposition. A political newcomer. Edward J. McPolin of Clark City.! challenged the scat of Rep. Walter K. Ranger. All three incumbents are Democrats. 'What's In A Name?' Plenty, Marketing Specialist Learns College Station. Raleigh, July 0.? ?Hazel Mencham of State College has received two proposals of mar riage and seven requests for dates In recent days, all because of a story that appeared in a farm magazine. It's title was?"What's In A Name?" Here's how the story ran. "Shake speare's statement in Romeo and Juliet: 'that which we call a rose by any other name is just as sweet' ap parently docs not hold true with people north of the Mason-Dixon line who buy sweet pottatoes. "Hazel Mencham, marketing spe cialist of the North Carolina Extcn ?.ion Service, says the sweet potato becomes a 'yam' when it crosses this imaginary line. She says that the northern and eastern consumers buy yams as improved sweet potatoes." Now this story was all right ex cept that Hazel is fi feet, 1 inch j tall; weighs 202 * pounds; and is J every inch a man. He has a wife ! and two fine children of 6 and 15 years, and their home is in Raleigh. Hazel says he bears no ill will to wards the farm paper editor. In fact, witn his bubbling disposition, he is getting as many good laughs out of , the mistake of the farm paper editor ' as anyone. Truman, Byrnes To Confer Shortly; Firm Gave Government Liquor Bill I Over$ 19,000 Put Out For Drinks, Gifts WasltingUii, July 9.? -?/!*??A for mer army officer testified today that Eric Basin Metal Products Co. included $19,213 for liquor and mis cellaneous gifts in costs charged against government war contracts in 1944. The gifts, he told the Senate War Investigating Committee, a'cludert six pen and pencil sets costing $120 each, and two $138 cigarette light ers. Arked who received the gifts. Ex Capt. Carl C. Motinc testified that "information was requested" on this point but never obtained from an of ficial of the firm. Claim Disallowed. George H. Knutsn\ a member o the War Department price adjust ment board that the amount claimed by the company for the gifts \va disallowed. Knutson said he could rrmcntho: of no other case in which liquor \vn charged as a cost of war contracts. He added that the army consider ed nominal '.'barges for entertainment n'd gifts to be a legitimate cost o donig business, especially when in connection with obtaining supplies Other Presents Included. The Erie Basin Company is one of a group of munitions makers lit tler investigation by the Senate com mittee. Knutson said the Erie Dill for gift* included lip sticks, vanity cases and other present. Moline listed several charges for liquor, including one bill of $5,203 for 10<t rases of various liquors. Thyc Wins Primary In Minnesota Minnoa'poli .. July !>.?(AP) -Son- ] ntor Henrik Shipstond has admitted j his defeat for renomination in Mon fIiiy's Minnesota primary election and said lie was srnrlin;: congrntilla tions to Governor Edward Thye. "Governor Thye apparently has won the nomination" the senator said "His election seems assured. I send him niv congratulations and it is a eroat privilege to serve the splendid people of this state in the Senate. "I am deeply grateful to the peo pie of nor state to have had the pri- 1 vilcee for 21 years and I am sond 'tri n?v congratulations to Governor Thye." Scotland Viird Seeks Recruits; I Jomicides Mount l.oti dun. July 1).?(/!*???? otland Yard appealed today for recruits; to combat <re of Britain's heaviest homicide waves as a result of a number of unsolved deaths in recent months was boosted to 21 today by the finding of two more bodies. One of the newly discovered bod ies was that of a woman. It was Mrs. Dorcen Marshall, a former I WREN, of Middlesex. Tire death was listed as a homicide, boosting [ the number of feminine victims toj sctvdi in the last four weeks. The, seven have been cither unusually at tractive women or young girls. COTTON WAREHOUSES IN STATE INCREASE| Raleigh. .July !).?During (he past I 18 years thorp has been a phenomenal i Growth in the number of cotton ware- ! houses in North Carolina, according j to A. B. Fnirlev. superintendent of the Warehouse Division in the State j Department of Agriculture. Fairley pointed out that in 1028 | there were but 46 Government li censed and bonded warehouses hand ling cotton, whereas at the present time this number is 100. And the total capacity of these warehouses j has increased from 175,000 to more than 600,000 bales. After the last war, there were but \ six cotton warehouses in the Stale ] and. of course, no cotton loans from the Government. The warehouses were concentrated in Wilmington and Charlotte. Today they arc so widely separated as to give the most convenient service to at) cotton farmers, INSECTS DAMAGE LEAF New Bern. July 9.?An influv of grasshoppers has been experienced in tobacco fields in the Bellair com munity recently. The insects came from adjacent wheal fields and are damaging the tobacco leaves severe ly. Problem Of Reich Next On Agenda Washington. July !). ? I/Pi ? The White Mouse said today that Secre tary of Slate James Byrnes will fly back to the United States for talks with President '1 rumon before the peace conference opens it Paris July 29. Ebon Aycrs. assistant press sec retary. told reporters that Mr. Tru man and Byrnes talked by telephone (his morning. Aycrs gave no de tails of the conversation. Ayevs said he did not know when Byrnes will leave Paris where the four power foreign ministers meet ing worked out plans for a peace treaty conference. GERMAN PROBLEM NEXT ON AGENDA Paris. July 9.?<*'i?The foreign ministers turned to the German question after finally breaking a four-day deadlock fit the calling of a 21-nation peace conference anxi ously awaited today a promised im portant declaration* of Russia's pol icy toward the Reich. The log jam ended last night with the adoption of a French compro mise providing that only a few sug gested rules of procedure be sent out with invitations to the cm Ter ence, set to open July 29. This was considered a victory for the United States and Britain, whieh had opposed Russian demands that the invitations be accompanied by mandatory rules of procedure. Under the compromise. France was authorized to send out invitations to nations which will draft peace treat ies with Italy. Hungary, Romania, Finland, and Bulgaria. Bragg To Convert Camp Structures Into Apartments Fort Brng?, July 9. ? Brig. Gen. Pearson Menoher, Fori Brags deputy commander, today announced that contracts totalling slightly over three million dollars have been awarded to four North Carolina building contractors for 784 apart ments to be completed within the next six to nine months at Fort Bragg. Remodeling operations now being commenced will convert 228 Army barracks, hospital wards, clinics, and administration and day room build ings into apartment for 784 families of military personnel stationed at Fort Bragg. The completion of these quarters will help relieve the critical housing situation in many areas in which families of military personnel arc now living because of the un availability of quarters at Army Posts The remodeling of existing structures will not cause near the drain on scarce building materials that would result from the erection of new dwelling units. MOURNERS' BENCH NOT USED AS YET Russell. Kan.. July 9.?(AP)? A mourners bench, complete with a tear drop pan and six towels has been provided in the lobby of a Russell state bank. The bench, according to a bank clficial, is for those persons who can't control their grief over tho passing of OPA. So far it has not been used. RIGHT YOU ARE Phoenix. Ariz.. July !).?(API ?Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dudley \V. Whites asked a man seeking a divorce on the ground of cruelty for de tails. "Well, your honor." the man replied, "five times she hit me in the head with an axe. If that keeps up someone is going to ?et hurl." The divorce was granted. /!7WV - L CHINESE INVITE U. S. TROOPS TO RETURN HOME STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE against the U. S. Army at the railroad station in Shanghai, China, carrying a ban ner emblazoned with the words, "Go back to your sweet home." Rally occurred as a non-partisan peace delegation left for Nanking to seek a meeting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Gen. George C. Marshall, and Chow En-Lai, Communist leader, to protest participation in the civil war. (International Soundphoto) No Controls On Meat In j Revival Bill Barklcy Driving Toward Vote On Amendment Tonight Washington, .Inly 9?(AP)?OPA's j beleaguered supporters all but con- i ceded today that the Senate will vole to keep meal free from reviv ed price controls. Democratic Deader Hark ley of Kentucky, drove toward toward a test sometime tonight on an < amendment l?y Senator Wherry (It > of Nebraska to exempt meal and ! poultry products from the comprom- | iso bill to reestablish the price i agency. The Kenluckian called Wherry's ' amendment a key issue in a ram- j pr-ign to keep major foods eff a list of any new ceilings that may be fixed. Rarkley declined to predict the outcome of this scheduled first vote. Rill Senator Mm dork (D) of Utah told a reporter "it looks like the other side lias the voles to de control meat." Mtirdork said he experts several Democrats from the western cattle country to join with a large major- j ity of the Republicans in support of the Wherry amendment. As early Senate debate revolved chiefly around meat controls. C'hi- j, rago reported another day of higher marketing with cattle and hog prices ' generally upward. I To a contention by .lack K ran is. president of the National Meat In dustry Council, that large packers were hiking past OPA beef ceiling, by 12 cents a pound, spokesmen fo. two large companies said they had simply added 1he amount of gov ernment subsidies which had aver aged about five cents a pound. Futures Rise $3.95 A Bale New York, July 9,?(AD?Cot ton futures opened $1.10 to $1.65 a bale higher. Noon prices were $2.35 to $3.95 a I bale higher. July 32.54, October 32.- 1 90. and December 33.00. HEAT PROVES TOO I MUCH FOR 40 HOGS i Frederick. Md.. July 9. ? 01*t Forty head of hogs en route from i Wisconsin to Purccllvillc. Va? died I of heat Sunday at Point of Rock. I where they had been moved to a I [siding to be unloaded. I Arthur Koglc of the A. F. Frees Reduction Plant to which the hogs | were sent, said they we.ighed n? ; average of 300 pounds each and j represented a ioss of $2,000. The hogs had been watered at | Brunswick and mo/ed to a siding | where the temperature was 90 de grees. New Trouble Is In Sight For UnitedNationsSecurityCouneil New York. July 0.??A polcn-|i ti;il nil roe of rn'flict in iho United Nnlion.il Security Council appeared to bo taking shapc*trday as pending applications for membership in the 1 United Nations were swelled to five | by receipt of a petition from the Kingdom of Transjordan. Ii Some new applicants have bi-par-jl tisnn ii'.terest in issues which the council may be called upon to con- ; sidcr in the near future, and it seemi possible that this mieht provide riif- | fcrcnces over a question of their ad- i mission. i The applications must be co'sid- i ered by a special sub-committee of I the stmncil before they are present ed to the General Assembly meet-': inn hern Sept. 3. I ti is possible that additional op-11 liliei* ions may be reeeivefl before 11 I a July 15 deadline on petitions to j presented to the forthcoming assem bly session. In addition to Tronsjordtnations Siam, and the Mongolian Peoples Rc Siam, and th oMongoinn Peoples Re public of Outer Mongolia. One -ronflict looms between Rus sia and the western,powers o^er Al bania which has the sponsorship <).' Yugoslavia ; >"d behind the scene sup port of Russia. Britain has taken the lead in op posing Albania, refusing to recognize Ihe regime of Premier Hoxha which is intimately tied up with the Yugo slav organization of Marshal Tito in Ihe Russian sphere of influence. France is expected to oppose the ipplication of the B<?"Ckok govern ment. at least until difficulties l>e Iween Into-China and Siam are set tled. Hughes'Liick! Holds Good ? Ivs Angele;, July fi -i,T? -Howard i Hushes' lablllotls lurl; held Rood t'?- ?' rliiy. I Fighting the effects of critical in- t juries suffered m ;i crash ;ind ex plosion uf his experimental army \ plane Sunday .night the millionaire 1 aircraft and movie-maker was re- J ported by his doctors today to be "holding his own." The degree <>l shock and the ex tent of injury to ii miies' left lung severely battered when his chest was crushed in the crash, were bis physician's main concern. WEATHER ; FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Partly cloudv ami continued I hot tonight ami Wednesday. Seat- s tercd showers. t Motorcycle Wreck Causes Ammunition Dump To Explode Amphill. Eng., July 0.?i/V)?An immunilinn dump exploded en ;i ?r adside uc.'ir this Bedfordshire vil today, apparently as the result >! a motorcycle accident. The ox >liision rocked the countryside for hrec hours. The body ef Harold Mayes Course cas found with his damaged motor '.vrlo near the scene and officials aid he might have crashed into he heap of explosives. Assorted Stocks Advance In Mart New York. July !).?{A I*)?Au ditor waiting stock market today tinned modest gains on assorted fn ,orites but permitted many leaders o seek slightly lower levels. Support was accorded U. S. Steel. Jethichem. General Motors. Chty Icr, Southern Pacific, and Intcrna ionai Paper. COP MURDER SUSPECT SHOOTS SELF FACI STRf AMINO WITH ilOOD from a self-inflicted head wound, New York Patrolman Mnrlano Abello, sought for questioning in the murder of Mrs. Catherine McDonough Miller, is shown in an ambulance on way to hospital. The strangled body of Mrs. Miller was found a'few feet from a police car which was abandoned bv Abello. {International) j
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