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* Hettlteraim Uafly tHspatrb THIRTY-THIRD YEAR " HENDERSON, N. C..'SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 27, 1946 '""V'xJVn-V!$&{XvAKTKKNOUS FIVE CENTS COPY Scientists Check Bikini After Blast ???? - ...... A:,.. .V'.-j Two radiological monitors (right) arc shown land !ng rn Bikini Atoll six hours after the second atomic bomb test had been set off. They picked picked up valuable insltundents and films. Aboard a gunboat (lefO. a scientist uses a Nanscn sampling bottle to measure the radio-activity of water 90 feet down in Bikini lagoon. (Official U. S. Army-Xavy Task For ;c Cue Hadiophoto?International). June 30th Ceilings Put On All Autos With Many Goods Control-Free, OPA Will Concentrate On Clothing Prices Washington, July 27.?i.-l'i?OPA announced today that new automo biles are back tinder June JO ceil- ' ings pending issuance of a higher1 price schedule. Used car ceilings are down 4 tier cent from the June 30 level. OPA Administrator Paul Porter1 warned in an address that clothin ; j and some other prices will move upward but he expressed belief the new OPA revival lull will prevent run-away inflation. Pending announcement of new price schedules, all transaction, must conform to the June 30 pries, "even in cases where the buyer | agreed during the interim, when j price controls were off. to pay in excess of the ceiling and made a ; down payment," the agency ruled. Ceilings on used cars were drop ped four per cent as of July 1, a reduction which became effective on automat it-ally with III' OI'A rcvi\ il bill. This was the regular semi-an nual reduction to take account <>f depreciation. The forthcoming new ceilings on new ears?which some officials say will approximate Sloo on popuiar prieed models?are based on a re quirement of the new law restorm;*. dealers' pre-war profit margins. Clothing price i i.sc.; of l.i to ll'l per ci nt were forecast l?y price of ficials today a;; the revised OI'A worked on new price increase or ders. 'I liirt.v to 'III ceiling actions were due for issuance during the dav. N< lie was of great importance, lint all were part of the drive to get the nation's economy under the loose lilting lid supplied l?y Congees; after lia OI'A-less days. Yesterday, lf.'f such orders were signed. Marred by the new law from re storing ceilings on meats, milk, ami some other funds, OI'A turned In clothing as its greatest immediate worry, hacking control over raw cotton, and now rccpiircd to pass along to the consumer tiny rise 10. i cost of cotton or woolen material, j price men .-aid privately that th \v foresaw cost of living trouble. (iurmcnt increases therefore may he among the early boosts authorie /d under the new pricing standard set by Congress. Yesterday's and to day's actions, though they covered literally thousands of consumer and industrial items, all were "in I he works" when OI'A expired on June 30. The new increases slill must he figured out. , I Sharp Conflicts Shape Up For Paris Conference Monday Byrnes Off Today To Write Treaties For Enemy Nations Washington. July 27?IAI'1 ? Secretary of Sla'c James Byr nes took elf for Paris I ml a ?? with the personal assurances of President Truman that the coun try is behind him in his eff orts to get a just peace for the world. Witli considerably more fan-fare than lias alterded any of his previous peaee-mak ing missions. Byrnes left for l'aris in the President's person Washington. July 27.?i/P)?A sharp conflict already is shapd'g up for the Paris peace conferee, e be tweon Secretary of Slate .lames I". Pryncs and Russian Foreign Minister V. M, Mololov over Russian repara tions demands on Hungary. The United Slates is insist Vg that a new economic deal in Hungary is essential to establishment of a firm peaee in Europe. It has protested strongly Red Army seizure of Hun garian food slufs and Russian re moval of Hungarian factories as wcil as cum it industrial production, con tending the result is economic chaos In Hie Halkan nations. The protests made public by the State Department, highlights the difficulties confronting It.vrnes as he sets out today for Paris ;? d tin 21-nation \oiiferrnre. nooning Mon day, which will write peace treaties for former enemy stales of Hungary. Italy, Hulgaria, Romania and Fin land. President Trutnaij ai^iged to his secretary of stale aboard In plfie at Washington airport at noon There was more than the usual fan fare scheduled for the departure, for the While House said Hvrncs' fellow eabinel members and Chief Justice Fred Vison would also join in the send-off. Byrnes briefly reviewed some of tils Paris projects at a news con fercnee. llo said that lio planned on Mil day to confer with the throe American members of a )< nil Anglo American eoniniitte on Palestine. . The aim is to fix American policy or the committee's proposal for par titioning Palestine between .lews and Arabs' in connectim with the plan for immigration of 100.1)00 Jews. Secretary Bevin III London, July 27.?f/1'i?British foreign offi' e anonneed today that Foreign Secretary Krnest Bevin had been ordered by his doctors to take a complete rest for at least a week and that Prime Minister Clement Atllee wil take his place at the Paris peace conference. Little Legislation Left For Congress Washington. July 27.?l/1'i?Only a few odds and ends of legislation ?some with a "must" rating stand between Congress and its longest va cation in eight years. With many legislators holding | week-end travel reservations, cm> r.rcssional lenders mapped out a full day of work today in hopes l lie leg islative harriers lo adjournment may fie abolished by next fall. They fear that II nitty he impos sible to obtain a f|iiorum to transact any important business next week, even though final adjournment is not planned until Wednesday. With out a quorum, controversial legisla tion ran be blocked in either Senate or Mouse by a single member's (in jection. I', s. TROOPS AI.MTKII Frankfurt. July 27 i/l'i W. S. (loops in llnvnria were reninded al erted today to be watchful for new violence involving Jewish displaced persons after three riotous incidents in which one Jew was kiile.1 and 13 persons woir.dcd. British Will Accept Plan ForPalestine Split-up Proposal Will Be Used As Basis For Talks I .1'iiiIon. July 27.?bp)?The for eign office announced today British acceptance, as a basis for negotia tion. of a proposal to divide Pales tine into Jewish and Arab provinces cl'IrT a federal government. Negotiations on the plan for fed eration. a spokcsiu.il said, would !> ? conducted with Arab and Jews in l.onden with a view to completing them before the meeting of the Unit ed Nations Assembly in Septem ber. The proposal is the outcome /. discussions by members of a Brit ish-American cabinet committee 011 late tine, which tlte foreign office tod completed work yesterday. Byrnes Kovrals Plan. United States Secretary of Stale ? Ionise Byrnes disclosed in Wash ington I hat the cabinet committee hah adopted a plan for the division of Palestine. The basis of representation an i date for the conference with Jews end Arabs litis not been fixed, a for eign office spokesman said, but the oisctissions need not wait for the end ot the Paris peace confcfreiicv Well informed Jewish sources in ] Paris stud Jewish acceptance of tile plan might depend upon whether till).(inn Jews are admitted to tin? ! Holy l.tiiiil immediately. David Bon (?urioii. chairman of the Jewisrt \ Agcncq, who is in Paris, refused to comment on the plan, however, uii ! til lie hud seen the official test cf 1 the propesals and discussed it with ' his associates. A conference of the j Jewish Agency executive botud j opens in Paris next week. ItKDS WIN IN HOLLAND Ainstcrdiim. July 27.?i/l'i?C'om I mniiists emerged as the strongest I tart v here today after chalking tip '126.04(1 votes nl the 21)5.(1(10 tot n cast in Friday's elections in the Dutch capital. I'he Labor ticket placed second with 122.42!) votes, j Each party obtaVcd 15 seats of a total of 45 in the municipal capital. August 1 Proclaimed Air Force Day Dcmonsat ration At Pope Field font* Kir Id. July 27.?A fly ing demonstration of Troop Car [ rirr taeties will foaturr llir air | show and open house program I at Pope Kielil on Air Force liav, ! August I. to whirli the public* is invited. Col. It i< liar I/. Walker, j romniamlinc offieer of I'ope ! Field, annoiinretl today. In addition In the afternoon | air show, an exhibition of Third Air Foree cargo planes and clidrrs will lie part of the eele [ hralion of the .tilth birthday of | the Army Air F'orers demonstrat ion that "Air I'ower is I'eaee Power!" Continuous million pletures nf eomlial in the air photographed by the Army Signal Corps dur ing World War II and recently released for public view, will be shown at the post theatre. WashVgton. July 27.?By procla mation of President Truman. Thurs day. August I. has been designated [Air Farce Day throughout the United ! States. in recognition of the 30th birthday >f the Amy Air Forees. The President signed lite proela 1 m'dion in a ceremony at the White House Friday afternoon. At the same time, he ? vitcd tiie governors of ail stales to Issue calls for observ ance of the day. General Carl Spnatz. Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, and Lieutenant General Ira ('. Maker, Deputy Commanding General, was present at the signature ceremony. Air Foree Dav will commemorate the 39 years of skill, genius, effort it ft sari die" which produce an AAF thiil played a mighty part in win ning World War ft and now Is mak ing tremendous strides in the field of research and development. On the evension of the first peacetime Army Air Forces birthday since 1041. the increasing imperii* cc "I i air power in maintaining the peaer ! of the world and in defending the nation against aggression is signifi '; cant. Us 3!)th year has be<r one of many ? accomolishmpnts in the technical Afield for the Army Air Forces. A hockheed I *-110 Shooting Star 1 slioaked from the Atlantic Cna.t to tin Pacific in tin- spot taeniae tiIfic nf less than I hours and 15 minutes Pilots nt three AAK I'-ROs ale break fast in Ciilifm ma. lunched in Wash ington I'. and flow hack foi Dirtier in California, all on the Mime day. Twont.v-onc wr rid re "id., were broken h.v AAK piano:: m the year At Wright Field and AAK cxpeii innctal plane model succe.ful.v with tiiod a simulated r.peed of 1,'inil mile . I per hour in wind tunnel tests. Army Air Forces Hoeing 11-211 Sup . ei fort re; so: dropped three atom jbombs, twe on Japan and ?? e experi inrntalty at the recent mint Army Navy leal at ttikini. t he Con olnlaled Vullee lt-30 bomber. capable of fly. ing 1 Ci.fHHl miles without a slop, w;\ evolved, and the XS-I. a rocket I owered fighter. was designed to fly Kin miles per hour, I A Superfortress flew non-slop from Guam to Washington. I) C. A Northrop XU-35 Flying Wrg. seven feet thick at the middle and with a range of 10.000 miles, was flown. Senate Probe Takes New Twist ? ??? ???????? ???? Heirens Offers To Confess I University Student Will Admit Three Slayings In Chicago Chicago, July '.!7. ol'i?Mnlachy i Coghlau, attorn-y for William ll?'ir?ns aiiiioiin<'"<l n>;|iv th-- vmi'li i would offer to States' Aitouu'.v Wil- ' limit J. Touhy. conf-s ion of / kionup-slay >ug of Sii/anno Dcgnvi, the "lipstick" 'laying of fiance. Brown and Hie fatal ; tabbing of Mrs. .lost pliinc Hiis: . "Tlio defense fools tint the lime h::? film? for llcirciis hi mak known by confessions to the state's attorney the facts ? I tlie various crimes rlcii'i'iHl ae.ainst hint," lie said. "There is no need tu quibble about i the number of homicides." h" ailiicd, "There arc three. They arc the Bog nan Kirl, the ex-Wave, Mi:.:; Brown, and Mrs. Boss." To Reveal Position. "The defense will make known its position to the state's attorney, pro bably Tuesday, and will submit to any proecdure be subscribes." The youth, the attorney cnnlirtn cd, discussed the three slayings at a conference ill the county jail yes terday with his parents ami law yers. Cugh Ian said the 17 year old Uni versity of Chicago student had agreed to sign any statement ho makes to the state's attorney. Touhy said earlier that lie had i not been informed of any confession tint that lie would "tiki' to have one" if it could be accomplished m a legal manner. No Fvideiice Found. The offer of a confession would I :oivc the Boss slaviic; without any i evidence having been obtained to tie the youth to that crime. In tin- Dcgnan case, the prosecu tion has announced the youth's fin ger and palm prints were found on the ransom note. In the slaying of Miss Brown. IC-j'tnr-nld former WAVE, the slate's attorney said his finger prints had been found on the door of her bathroom. George Siibgrunski. a witness, al so came forward in the Dcgnan case, identifying lleircns as a youth he saw carrying a paper shopping hag near the Dcgnan home at about tin time the (i-year-old girl was kid napped. President Si^ns L . S. E. S. Measure I Washington. .Inly 27.?Prcsi dut Truman li >s : ikih'iI an Appro t priation bill which will osclude hnr-j dor lino a'.'.ricultiira) workers from: I ho provisions of llio Wagner labor rel.'ilions art. The loll, carrying SI. I 11 f? <!7'i for llii- Labi.r Doparlmonl ami llio Federal Sooiirily Agenov. also re? ' I turns llio I'nitoil Slates Fmph yineli' Service lo stale control Nov. 15. RUSSIANS ARREST AUSTRIAN M P.'S Vienna. .Inly 27. I/I'i?Austrian (iovorninont sources aunodiiocil of fioiall.v today that t.vo members of (lie peoples party in Parliament were arrested by the Itiissians win! ? on then way home from the session at which Parliament voted uatinn | iili/.ation of til key industries in cluding li! claimed by litissia for reparations. ! WEATHER I'OK NORTH CAROLINA. Considerable rloiuliucss this afternoon becoming partly cloudy tonight anil Sunday. Moderate temperatures. GroupCalls W arren; Ferguson Demands MicSiigan Inquiry W. Iiiicrl m .Inly ? i.-l'i?Sonn li i* !? r it: it 11.1 i <il Mich i**;iM aid t iil.iv III I i?:i i! \V:ir In V" li: ii committee i investigat tti7 lln' i'"|Miilfil i Unit "I a Detritil trill I" eel a war contract through an individual i'i Wa hiir'.lon who allegedly It.', claimed lie had "in? llllCllCC." Tin* senator. a member of the committee. deiliuctl to name the firm involved. lie told reporters. however, "if there's aiivliodv ? 11 any state that was in on these deals I want it ex |iosi'<l just tie- same as an.vhixly else, and il doesn't make any difference what liis politics were or are." Details Withheld. Ferguson said ho could not give details of the report until investi gators had completed their inquiry into the case. Karlier. another committee mem ber. who declined the use of his name, told a reporter that a Wash ington individual had int made good mi getting a contract sifter receiving payment do to do so. Ferguson sand one of the things the committee wsints to learn is whose influence in Washington such a "broker" had attempted to use, if any one. The committee earlier disclosed plans for an inquiry into whether high officers of the chemical war fare service sought to shield from danger a young army captain who was the son of Murray Garsson, a munitions maker. Kilgore Asks frolic. I The staff of the Senate War In vestigating Committee was asked to undertake the inquiry by Senator Kilgite, (D) of West Virginia, a inemljcr. a a* Kitgorc based his request on a published statement by Joseph Garsson, formerly a captain in the chemical warfare service, that Ills commanding officer had instructions to keep him out of dangerous serv ice. Kilgore told Chief Counsel George Meatier of flic committee to find out from young Garsson "who it was who said Garsson was to be taken care of." "Then," Kilgore declared, "we can call in those gentlemen and find out who gave Ihciii their orders." Wants Garsson Called. Kilgore said lie heiieved young Garsson should lie called to the witness stand. Murray Garsson was one of the promoters of the midweslorn muni tions combine to which the name of Hep. Andrew J. May (I)) of Ken tucky. chairman "f the House Mili tary Committee, has heen linked. Widening their war profits in quiry. the committee disclosed tlicy will tall Comptrollci General Lind say Warren for a report 011 cases where lie 11:1 sniffed irregularities hut lias not Ik'cii able to do any thing about litem. Chairman Mead" (1)1 of New York said I lie war investigators will dis co.- with Wa ron on Monday the "loop holes" thai lie has found in the government's machinery for holding down excessive profits on making "4 military equipment. The committee was in recess loday. 'BAD' SHELLS THAT KILLED YANKS MEMBER OF A MORTAR SQUAD is shown behind the lines in France, July, 1944, manning a "Goon gun"?the 4.2 mortar produced by the Army's Chemical Warfare Service primarily to lire gas and smoke shells. This mortar used shells, foreground, of the type produced by the Gars son munitions combine and other companies. Maj. Gen. Alden II. Waitt told the War Investigating Committee that many soldiers had been killed in firing defective 4.2 mortar shells. (International SounSnhoto) $10,000 In Rewards Offered In Lynching i TrumanGets Advice On Atomic Plan Urged To Appoint Cross-Section Of Nation To Board : Wa. Illusion. July 27.?i/T'i?Prcsi- ; clout Truman got advice from C'uti Kress members today to appoint a cross socio it of America. :? ciivo. business, diplomacy and national clo fonso to the donio: tic atomic con trol ci mmission. One of those tendering it va I Chairman McMiilinn (l>) Coiiliccti- ' cm. of the Scii.il- Spc nil Atomic j Committee, lie told reporters be-| fore a While lion c call he would I urge Mr. Truman b "piclt men m whom the whole country will liavi | ?.onlidcnce" to wield the unprcce- i dented powers granted a fivc-inem i bcr hoard t? dor legislation ap proved yesterday by Congress. Mr. 'rriiinan has yet to sign lb j ; measure, lint Charles Itoss, pre | secretary, aid In -lunatiuc r cer tain. Ib'ss called the 'mil "one hun dred per cent in hue" with the Pres ident's \ lews. I The board it provides for v. ill I have control over atomic energy de velopment throughout the United j States. The legislation also "JVC. the ' 1 government. throiii'.h its cotumis: i m | a v irtual monopoly on invent ions ! and patents in the field atomic i nrrgv. provides the death penal' . for maim- violations of sccuriiy wilh iiitcul to injure I he U S.t and di rect.-- that a member of the arm -d forces bead the div i. ion of military iippliealiou under the commission. GBI Mead Asserts Slaying May Have Been 'Rehearsed' Atlanta, Cia.. July 27.?l/Pi?Gov ernor Kills A n i.i 11 hulay offered re wards totaling more than $10,000 lor the solution of tlic moli slaying in Walton county of two negro farm hands and their wive:;. The usually cheerful state execu tive grimly told newsmen at a spe cial press conference that, he was ordering the state police to remain in the county until the guilty parties have been identified and turned over to law enforcement officers. The governor said "tlm decent people of Georgia are humiliated by the mass murder of four negroes <n Walton county by an unknown mob of :ome 2(1 desperadoes." "As governor of Georgia I am of fering a reward to the full limit o! the law. Satlli will he paid for evi dence leading to the arrest and con viction of each participant in the massacre." Monroe. Go.. July 27.?i/I'i ? A iiggcslion thai the bloody massacre ?I four negroes ii -ar here was a "re icarseri affair" came today from the head of the Georgia Bureau of ln . c .l mat n m Maj. William K. Speneo of the GUI, said "II looks like it was a rolieaised I ? flair, it look.: like it might have heeu planned since the negroes was first confined (u jail." lie referred to linger Malcolm, 27 v ar-old negro who had made bond on charge o| stubbing his eniploy er. a while man. Malcolm, his wife, and George lior.-ev and Ins wife, were the mob. victims. A State Case. Although an aniioiiiieemenl from Washington s'liil the t'edcrnl Itureiu "I Investigation would in ve..t igate the ease for the civil rights section ? d the Justice Ileparhwiil, an assis tant ill. t net nllm ncy : aid "No far it seems to be a state ease." I'lie alh>riiev. Jack Gautier, of Macon, raid lie came here to deter mine if there had been any viola tion of civil rights covered by Fed eral law. The only : latcinent on the lynch ing to com- from Kiigetic Talmndgc, recently noniinalctl for a fourth I term a Georgia's governor on a ! "white supremacy" platform, was that " ycli incident: are hi he re gretted." Talniiidge is vaeatiomng iti | Cheyenne. Wyo. Hep. Miireaiitonio (Al.l'-N. Y.) asked I'resident Truman for prompt | Kcdctill iii\cstlgutiull. PRIEST SAYS WOL F CALLS 'COWARDLY' Cimii Kdntcr. N. J, Jnlv 27.? /Ti ? Whistling i t women is "low. ? heap [cowardly and nmrouir." jays t'iinp 1 lain Alhintis II. Kcsch Writing in the Kiliuei Kag1e. camp newspaper. In- said today that such a method to 'greet" a woman "is an i attempt to reduce Hie grandeur ant nihility of womanhood to the level of the female animal," "II is a cowardly act." he con tinued. "because the whistler open ly discards his role as protector of women and deliberately takes ad | vantage of his superior strength." Tipping the list is the way to erect a woman, the Catholic priest said. New U.N. Table I ems. I I M,T I nn:r~oTri I stcY.oiN. I \ y / ^ I ems.I I ASST. 1% Istc-r. oiN.l | sic t. oih. | ? if g A NEW TABIE will be used when the United Nation's Security Council convenes for the first time at its new quarters nl Lake Success, L. I., N. Y. The arc-shaped tabic at which dele gates sit in session at Hunter Col lege will be replaced by n horseshoe shaped one which, its designers be lieve, will have tho psychological effect of making the diplomats feel they are conferring among, lhem selves rather than addressing an audience with aloofness. 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