Utfttltersmt Hatly Bispatrij
1H1R1Y-TH1RD \EAR HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY 'AFTERNOON, JULY 20, 1946 1'umusiu^^KVI-^^.^KUNOON FIVE CENTS COPY
ON HALF PAY, EAT HALF LUNCH
fDistricf 9? Columbia |
I OFFICE OF
I PRICE
ADMINISTRATION
SINCE THEY ARE RECEIVING only hall pay now that the OPA has been
discontinued, Huth M. Hum (left) and Marguerite llollcnbcek, workers
for the defunct agency, cut down expenses by sharing a sandwich and
a soda in Washington. Thousands of OPA workers are still on the job
while awaiting congressional action on price controls. (International)
Atomic Control Billj
Is Passed By House
I
Military Will Be
Represented On
Five Man Board
Washington, July 20.??,l'i? The |
Mouse passed a much amended n
tomic energy control hill today send
ing it to a Senate-llouse conference ,
for adjustment of differences be
tween the two chambers.
Passage was on a vote of 265 to '
79.
Passage followed almost five days
of debate during which the Senate
control bill was changed by a long ,
list of amendments.
Major Mouse changes provided b>:
military representation writhe pro
posed five-member atomic energy
control commission; for a military
man at the head of the military tip- ;
plication division; for authority for !
the armed forces to make atomic 1
bombs under certain conditions and
for the death penally for most seri
ious violations.
A short time before the Mm, e io
jected a move to pigeon hole the
control bill until next year.
A vote thai turned down a mo
tion to send the bill back to the mil
itary Coininitccs which would have
had the effect of puttim; the bid
on the shelf for this ses -ion pre
saged passage of the much amend
ed measure later too,,...
Brief Bevolt
Is Reported
111 La Paz
Buenos Aires. July 2.?i.Ti?Rebel
lious students tired ? n Bolivian c ib
ino! ministers. \v? miding mic ; >d
narrowly misani'. President (iualbitu
Villarroel, in a fi sh disturbance
at La I'az yesterday. : ai<I reports
fiorn Chilu today.
Karlior rcnorls said lint pcr.-on
wero killed in an uprising Thursday
which had for it.- aim the over
throw < ' Villarr' el.
The A-seriated Press c rrespond
ent at Aric i. <i northern Chile, only
ahniit 2ftti miles from l.a Paz. said
the new disturbance yesterday took
place tin the Bolivian capital pi
front of the government palace when
President Villains ?' anil his minister
were making speeches from the bal
cony. One policom; 11 was killed.
TONY MARTIN ILL.
Hollywood. July 20.?t/pi?Tony
Martin of the films underwent tin
emergency appendectomy at a hos
pital yesterday.
Arnold Forecasts
Blow Against LT. S.
Via Polar Areas
l,os Angeles. Jolv 20.? ?
<?cn. II. II. Arnold, war-time
rtilcf of the Armv Air Forres,
says he believes any future blow
acalnst the Cnlted States "will
rente from across the Polar re
gions. not b.v way of the seas."
Predicting f a t tl r e atomic
bombs "may well be on thou
sand times destructive" as those
exploded over .tanan. Arnold
countered an inquiry as to wheth
er the Fnitrd States could know
If any other nation were secret
ly building atomic bombs with
this question:
"Who knows what's going on
deep Inside Russia?"
Later. In a speech before the
Institute of Aeronautical Scient
ists. he predicted "Invasion of
the stratosphere" by "true spare
ships eapabtr of one or more
trips around the world."
I I
Contribution
To Coffee
Questioned
Congressman Will
Be Asked To Tell
Why He Got Money
Washington. July 2o.?,/pi Sen -
ior Brewster (It) of Maine, a mem
ber 'of the Senate War Investigat
ing Committee said today that l!e,\
OYl'fec (I)) of Washington would bo
asked to "explain" a five year ol<l
$2.50(1 "eamnais" cimtribilion" from
a Taeoma. Wash., war contractor.
At Tncoma. C'oflee di* tared: "I
welcome an investigation on the en
tire matter."
Brewster said that the committee
has already asked the Department '
Justice for its file on an investiga
tion which C'oflee ha said it made
of tlie contribution.
"Belated Alibi."
Ife bluntly called Coffee's defini
tion of the $2.51 HI as a campaign con
tribution a "belated aiibi".
ibew.lcr said ol Cot fee's williug
nes.- f< r an investigation:
"lie certainly will he welcome.
The more quickly lie appears, the
better."
At Tiicomti. Coll r said that the
circumstances li.ul been widely pun- ;
lislied in the slate and tliat the!
.lie lice Depai Imeiit after its inquiry ,
found "no basis for art a i'
Also at Taeoma, Contra lor Kivind ;
Anderson told a retiorler:
No Evil Purpose.
"There was no evil purpose in the
pavim lit of this money. I was mere
ly trying to achieve something that
was higlily honorahle at the time?j
leiiiove handicaps a.v it was urgent j
to get si.metliing do e.
Anderson explained he had a big
building project then underway at
l-'t. I.cwis. Wash., and "tilings were
not moving fast enough "
The check went to Coffee's secre
tary at the time. Paid A. Olson.
Coffee remarked thai Olson and
Ai derson ran fur mayor ? f Taeoma
in tne primary this year ami that
Anderson was eliminated.
"For a defeated candidate, five
years after making a campaign con
tribution. to attempt to alter the
i entire complexion of the transaction,
can only be co stnied as stooping
I to the lowest form ol unscrupulous
, tactics."
THREE GI'S, WOMAN
DIE IN BUS WRECK
i
Frecport. Fla.. July 20. ? nib ?
I 'I lirec soldiers- and one womnn were
i killed iinrl on undetermined mini
! her of other persons were injured
in a erasli between a Nat.onal Troil
j ways bus and o private onto near
< here I;>~t night. Sheriff Curtis Millet
I of Walton utility sain iiie woman,
who was burned to death, litis bei.u
identified us Mrs. Fremiti* li.dlard
I of Dothan. Ala. The bodies of the
woman and two < f the soldiers who
i were passengers on the bus. were
takoi to Panama Citv. while the
, body of the third soldier driver of
the private ear. was carried to F.g
Iin Field. Fin.
I IMF IN Tt'RKKV.
Istanbul. July 2" 11 ?? Four per
sons were rop< rted shot to detith to
day en the eve of Turkey's general
election to determine the fate of
j Ismct lnynu's government.
Three men were reported slain
1 while sitt ?'(! in a coffee bouse at
j the village of Izmir. One of them
| was president of the vdlage Is-aneh
of Jalel Rayar's opposition demo
crat parly.
Marshall's
China Trip
Held Failure
>
Chinese Preparing
All-Out Assault
On The Communists
Shanghai. July 211. ? ^l'i ? l)i|?lo- j
malic sources privately agreed to
day that United States General
George C. Marshall's peaee mission
I to t'liii).i had failed.
Seem ? gly eenfirminti the opin
j ion. the Nationalist government be
gan moving more men toward the
lighting tri ills and the communists i
were reported reinlorcing their |io- :
sitions.
General Marshall was believed tin- '
likely to have the opporti uity to
confer with Generalissimo Chiang
: Kai-shek !n the summer enpittd at 1
Killing, where the general went with
j U. S. Ambassador Or. John Ueigh- j
ton Stuart.
Nothing To Talk About.
A similar pessimist.- attitude was
expressed at the communist head
quarters in Nanking when a ?.heck
was made on whether or ?'ot com
munist chief negotiator G e n e r a I
Cboti Kn-lai would visit Killing to
talk with Chiang. The official asked
the question countered with the com
ment "There's nothing left to talk
about."
Meanwhiic. quarters professing to
be ">? the know" predicted Marshall
would return home around the mid
dle of August after making a final
effort to retrieve the steadily wor
sening situation.
This view n .m illed with persist
ent reports that the government lias
j abandoned all hope of a peaceful
settlement and info'ds to launch an
I all out attack against the eommu
[ ni.-ts in Soph ruber.
Gem Rin<r Suspects ;
To Face Charges i
In Germany Soon j
Frankfurt. July "II.?i.-l'i?United
Stiite: Army headquarters aiinoune
ed today that charges probably will
I l>" lilerl earlv next week against
WAC ('apt. Kathleen Nash Durum
and Maj. David Watson, two of the
three principals in the Sl,5ltn,()(K!
ilesse family jewel theft.
The announcement did not men- i
tion Col. J. W. Durant. C'apt. Dur
ant's husband, also helil in the in
vestigation of the them ol the jewels
from Kromlicrg castle.
Army officers said the Durant.
were separated reeeiilly and placed
on d11 lei i nt hotel floors "because
they probably will be tried iiulivi- i
i dually."
American Traitor
()! Radio Berlin
Is Reported Dead
I Berlin, July 2d.~l/l'i?Tim Itus- I
sinus informed l.'liiled Stales Army I
hcad<|ii;.rlois today that Ted \V.
K;111 ? ? i>i>.'i< li. a I yeiir old iownn Ion ;
anight l<y Die Americans as a traitor
for hicndeastuig N'r./.i war propagail
rla from fJermaay. <iie<l last October j
in a Soviet detention camp.
A !te<l army major general trans
mitted the information in a letter <?>
the American intelligence section,
which had tried in vain to learn his
fate after liis arrest by the Itussians
more than a year a tin.
Kaltenharli. the land Maw lla'.v
of Itadio Merlin, died of a natural
cause, in the Hussion occupation
/one of C'.ertnany, the letter said.
|
Inventor Of I ?ife
Proloni^inu Serum,
64, I) ies In Russia
l.ondon. July 'Jo.?i.p The Mas- '
cow radio reported the death last
night of Dr. Alexander A. Mogn
molcts. soviet scientist and polili
| cian who said liist month that his
, A. (.'. serum might prolong human
?life to I all years, lie was fit.
Hognmolets. deputy eliairmiin of
the supreme soviet of the Ukrainian
s.s.h. and a member of the presi- I
dittm of the academy of sciences of
the u.s.s.r.. had been ill for some
time, the radio said.
Michigan Bribery
Conspiracy Takes
On A New* Twist
Laming. Mich., Jui.v 20. - i,vi a
bribery conspiracy to defeat bank
ing legislation in Michigan in 1011
was charged today in grind jury
warrants agahist two Detroit inrltis
tralists and l!? picsotit and former
state legislators
Circuit Judge l.ocis F Cosch. sit
ting as a one man gland jury, sign
ed warrants accusing 2K persons in
all of a conspiracy to defeat a bill
designed for regulation of chain
banking Four were named co-con
spirators but not defendants.
Great Fire Ruins Elizabeth City Building
?? n
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS OF RELEASE OF
BRITISH HOSTAGES
? ????II ? m -VI
BRITISH OFFICER, FREED BY EXTREMISTS, CHASES HIS CAPTORS
??mini ??
AN ALERT PHOTOGRAPHER caught these photos in Tel Aviv, ralcstine,
of the dramatic release of three kidnaped British army officers who had f
been held as hostages for 16 days by a band of extremists. At top, a
startled passerby turns around as Capt. C. G. Warburton (arrow) scram- |
blcs vainly after his captors. At bottom, the other captives, Capt. A. E. j
Taylor and Capt. E. II. Spencer, climb from the packing care in which
the trio had been dumped from a truck. The woman pushing the baby I
carriage seems entirely unawai'e of the excitement. (/iifcriiatioiial)
Struggle Over OPA Bill
In Life Or Death Stage
Porter Asserts
Some Of Damage
Can't Be Mendcc!
\\rii>liiii'4t< 11. .Inly ? *i (ip.\
.?\(ln in -11I' I I'miIit sa id 1<?- i
day that even ii price cot i In Is arc
restored "pel h: ps -nil c nl tiit* ?I:r111 ?
nut" <>f tin- last three weeks can't
be repiiiretl."
Porter declared that while OI'A
is "hard at '.toil; lij plans to re*
eovcr sane of the ground that lias
been lost. e\ en with the best > '? price
control bills it isn't Ruing to be an
easy job putting the orss back in
the basket."
Asserting it won't lie a en.-e ?>l
"llnnipty-l)ii:i ply. whom till the
horses and all the nun ? oulon't i
IHIt back Pen '.licr again" Porter add
ed:
Snme I'crs Sniashrd
"Si me ot the eggs are -ina 'nc .
and perhaps some of (lie Han age ot
the last three weeks cat') Ik? re*
paired, but I feci eonfideni that
with effeetive authority from Con
gress. thiil we ean recover a lot
of eggs that have rolled out of the
price contri ' btisket and put a
stop to other pi ee increases."
Porter's doubt about whether
"ground lost" can he recovered
raised the question whether tic . till
feels that all ?kmc HO price ceilings
ean be reestablished if controls a
revived.
Who they expired on .luly I. I?< r
ter said flatly that it Congress did
not specilically provide for previous,
celling* in any revival bill. OI'A
would restore litem by a Rcncral
order.
CONGRESSMEN ARE
RECEIVED BY POPE
Vatican I'itv. July 2n.? (AIM ?
Pope Pius tinted a croup of Amer
ican scnatois anil represent (alive.
wlicm ho received today in private
audience to share the experiences ac
quired on their around the world
journey, so that men will under
stand more fully "the havoc wrench'
by war and 11n* tremendous difficul- i
ty of reconstruction.*' I
Nation To Start
On Fourth Week
Of Rampant Prices
W.-idiiiigloii. .Inly :!(?. i/l'i I' li e
>I'A i-titi-ied tin ItI? or de.ilii . tape
i ii C'.i|iit<>l Ifill today.
Willi C'lii'.ri' death ked. il lie?
rami' i-erlain "a- tisit?? ?? i wi'l art
mi ,i Inarlli week n| iiiH'iinti'nllcrl
pi iriv. with i o nut' knowing in
u hut ti.nn. il any, OI'A might be
revived.
Tin Una r-Srnali' r<>ll!e:'eiiri I
con ittcc seeking a compromise
ttim stalemated as House member*
il l . cri >teaflla-1ly to accept Sm
all- liatp against any further price
ei-ilings on rill;, meat, cue* and
nthcr bosii fowls.
Small- l)i -locratic l.< aii-r Hark
U-y called the conferee* ?i one more
n ret ? e i ii. ?-.
If litis tails, I'v <>1*A will be
thniwii open atv'-iv in a llmisi
floor battle over whether t-> approve
the Senate hill. 1'ri-siiU nt Trunian
mil, a ling a vein, lias desrrihed the
Sm ile nn i ??re a. "terrible."
The ernfereo!. after lour days "i |
wrangling. were 1 it-d in kn- Is mil
the 'luesti'i- of allowing nl'.\ i-er
tain discretional v powers in raisins I
priees on lnamifnrttired artirles as!
prescribed by a new pricing i irmula
in the Senate hitl.
(loliinihiii Sailor
Found (iiiilt\ ()t
Killing Housew ife
IVllH-eloil. W. Va . July :'n ? ,1 ??
William (Sordini. 21 -vi-ar-old sailor
from Cohiilthia. S. I', was i-mivii-?
nl of first degree innrili ? today in |
the - hot mm slaying of a .'tl! year oi l
I'.liii-field housewife.
The veriliet. if permilbd to stand,
i ai rii-s witli il a mandatory death
si-nleiu-e.
Defense Attorney Hartley Sandi-rs
of I'niu-i-ton immediately moved i"
set the verdict aside and Criminal
('our! Judge V. Morion Wagner set
August 9 to heat . rgumonts on the
motion.
Nicht Blaze
< o
Damage Sel
At $300,000
Kli/alicth City. .Inly ','ti i/l'i
Kuii maintained :i watchful vigil
hrri1 today over the siuoiildri ttiu re
mains "I the Kleiner l>i 11 l<l iliu.
which Inirii'd lute ' night and
early lod.tv with a lies estimated j
at
Tli" three sli'i'v building?the sec- j
iiikI largest nt the city and in the
heart of the business district?was ;
a complete loss, according tu Fire j
Chief Jerome 15. Flora, who said that j
about all that remains was "four
walls."
'I'll" lila/". fir-t seen breaking I
through the roof near an elevator
shaft at about lli:la la t night. in
brought under control three hours j
later by the Kli'/.aheth City fire de- !
p. rtmeiit, assisted by two trucks of .
the coast guard air station one from !
the naval air station and one from
Fdenton.
Flames Still fhiru.
Small flame- siil! burned into the
day and firemen continued to spray
water into the charred debris.
Both the roof and third floor gave
way. as did parts of the second
Hour. Cause of the fire was unde
termined.
Cue result of the fire may be a
rotifusic n in the draft situation, be- I
cause the local draft board had ot- |
I:ccs in the building and it has not 1
been determined whether its records j
were destroyed.
Othel offices were occupied by j
rental and insurance agents. two |
physicians. the (il'A. the Veteran
Administration, the State Depart
ment of Conservation and Develop- .
men!, and lite Federal Department I
of Agriculture.
Four stores located in the build
in;: were Woolwoi III. Hurdles', ladie..
ready to wear. Sawyer and Coin - I
p.tny men':, store. and the Albemarle
I trii". store. Some of the stores
maintained storage space en the
third floor where it i:. thought Ur
ine originated.
I
Gromyko Says
Nobody Wants
Atomic Secrets
Nov.- Yuri:. July 20.?i.Vi?Riis
noii l>losj..to Andrei \ liiomylei. I
playing ;> tand-in iole among the j
-'?i< nt 11M :c' i ??! . 1-t Ih ? I'nitcd i ? !
Iimi Atomic ("iiiiini. i -n. v.'.i >>n re.
> ?iti today :i ? spying thai "nulKKly I
? (i lium )>>r i i'icl ' uf atomic I:ii<i ?.
Inv* ;? I tin l;i ?? uf the atomic i n- i
III.I 111st II I. II ..
The ifiii.'ii'l; v.*?i. ? ivn empire r. :
I ?y the f.'irt th;it th * Ii.??
wmd.. were tin* i?nlv "lie., i'.htm in j
l;n*' t fill*itnti*in in ;i "din wnrd of- j
lien! ITniled X.itimi.. repmt of yes- j
terd;iy's .secret in?*eliir.: of tlx* iif?*.*
!:? nitimi if ifie t a -1 teehnie.il ;id- I
vi "i v eoinmitIff on (limine eneruv. j
'I h?' mily reported point ??j enn- j
II let yustrrdny ;?r??. e over (irnmy- j
|;n's prnpiis?il thiit thi* reirntifle cm,- j
millet* eh.'i irm.'ilishij? should |i.t
h.iek ;? 11? 1 forth between f!i?? repre- |
sent.iti\e: of the Xelherkiiuls ;ind I
i'nl.ind.
Dr. llendrick Kr? inters <?! the!
.\et her kinds \v:is mimed tem)M?r;irv j
eh?iirm?in.
WEATHER
FOK NORTH CAROLINA.
Clear to partly cloudy and
continued warm toniulit and
Sundav. Scattered showers in
inoiintains Sunday.
Party Too Rough?
FORMER model Doris Piatt (above)
is suing William Leeds and Irwin
(Dick) Kramer, botli heirs to large
fortunes, for $1,00,000 for injuries
alio says were indicted during a
V-J day "rouglihouse" in a New
York hotel. A jiu-jitsu demonstra
tion which landed her on the door
was among the indignities she says
she suilcrcd. (International)
Enlistments
Very High,
Army Says
Wellington. July 20.? i/Pi?New
'enlistment 11mi!???.- kindled liope in
cnngi i . munl '11? ? i?i today lliat the
army m i.v lie alile to prolong it*
voluntary iiulnctiii- holiday.
I.ale t return:- liovv that during
.I niic then* were 62. Ilt.'l enlistments
in the unity, or more than 20.000
ahove what the War Department
ugard. a it. i i age monthly need.
h may be. aid Hep. Short (R)
of Mi ..oon. . ho made tlie figures
piililir. iti.it 'li" di aft extension law
will not ha <? i" U' used at all or
al lea I thai the dtalt holiday, in
force din ? -. July and August, can
he continued
The 11it1111 * thai Short .aid he re
eeieed limn the War Department
ho wed III d doling the first week of
.11mi Iheie vveri' II.', 1.1 enlistment51.
Dunn:: the ennui week there wore
12.21!' tie third IJ.00X and the
fourth 2a.2gfl>.
I nlcr;i! W orkers
I o Kecc i\c I ,ate
Ii\ (Checks Soon
\\ f 1111 g !,?? .lily 211 |,V| Relat
ed pa., hi -ho.dd s, on be handed
to po tal i oployes and some trcas*
i.rv workers who have been work
ing temporarily without pay.
All that is neeesary is for Prcsi
dent Tinman to sign the $1,604.
Iifi2.14u treasury-post office appro
priation tiill which Congress sent
htm Into yesterdny.
Mtniv employes have missed their
mid-July pay checks while the Son
de :>'d Ihnis" argued about the
fund hi!. dee disagreement was
over a stive price amendment. It
wa- settled yesterday hv removing
tile seel ion ill dispute.
AT LAST-THAT 'BETTER MOUSETRAP*)
IT'S VERY SHOCKING, as Mr. Modern Mouse discovers when he takes part
in "Test Cheese," this cxpcilmcnt with an A-bomb mousetrap was
called. The gadget, conceived by H. L. and R. C. Ratchford, is shown
(top, left) fady for att. -hment to an ordinary electric plug. Next (top^
right) the mouse is attrac'od by tho -'.coma of fxe-j lunch; is tossed up
.(bottom) by tho electric shock and fall. dead. ''ufcrnationalJi