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Hettitersmt Uaihj Htsjratrlj THIKTY-THIRI) YEAR HENDERSON, N. C., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 1G, 11)40 _ i'l'",',8IUx?kWII^i^7;14UNOON five CENTS COPY Justice Department Plans* Investigation Into Meat Shortage Complaints About Fi:cing Of Prices, Dearth Received \\\r hi lgton, Auk. !<">. ? t/Tl ? Tin' Justice Department disclosed to day ill .1 it is studying complaints of price fixing !? d artificial short ages in meat. An official fully E' .iuainted with tin- lu.Ty raid since oi'A price con trol.-. on meal lapsed July I. the do ptii'lnienl lias received many reports of vat ions illegal trade tactics from many sections of the country. Some of tlie complaints have come from within -the meat industry it self. I his official told a reporter, cinpliasi/.inif that ni:ny meat han dlers have 110 part in the purported ly illicit operations. The department's investigation is being made to determine whether anti-trust prosecutions should be un dertaken. . In addition to reports of artifi. inlly created shortages and price fixing agreements, the official said the olh ci complaints being reviewed in viuclc: Tie-In Purchases. 1. Attempts to coerce retail meat dealers into making "tie-in pur chases.*' Some dealers have said tliey are being forced to buy un wanted products in order to get fresh Illfill ? 2. The assort odly large-scale en try nf some moat .whole?tilers and |i;iekers ? In the retail business. The iinti-trust division is studying to whtit extent 'his threatens the sur vival i I independent meal retail els. 3. Withholding of hides from the market in nil attempt to get higher prices. A Civilian Production Ad ministration drive also is trderway in this field in tin effort to avert a threatened shutdown of shoe pro duction. In addition to the meat and hides inquiries, the department oflicial said the agency is receiving "a large ? 'limber" of complaints of private price lixing agreements involving other industries producing commodi ties no longer controlled by pri-.'e ceilings. He declined to name these industries. GINNING WORKERS EXEMPT FROM TAX Washington. Aug. III.?t/I'i ? The internal revenue collector, revoking a previous holding, ruled today thai incut taxes hrrauso they perform are exempt from icdoral employ ment taxes chemise they perforin j . ..ricultnral lahor within the mean ing of the social security act. Lake Ships Tied-Up By 1NMU Strike Large Majority Of Vessels Operating During Second Day Cleveland, Aug. 111.? t/V) ?The C'lO-Nntinnal Martiine Union had succeeded in freezing a portion of 1 Groat Lakes shipping today bill the bitt majority of the vessels were still operating. Whether the strike would spread throughout the -1 mi American flag cargo vessels on the five lakes and shut off huge movements of coal, iron ore, steel, gr:;?i and oil was still uncertain on the second day < f the walkout. The union is mainly demanding a shorter work week, and is enlhiu', on non-union crews to join hi the struggle. Most crews on the lakes are non-union. Latest developments were: I?Union President Joseph Curran stud his aides were moving then strike headquarters to Detroit today. Before leaving, a union spokesman said "well over -10" ships wore strike bound, lie said a more precise, fig lire would lie available later. 2?-The Lake Carriers Association announced that only seven of the 3111 cargo vessels operated by its member companies were strike- I bound last night after one whole day of the walkout. This association j does not include the 3a oil tankei - j on the lakes. Curran told reporter.-. 1 that If! of these tankers were idle. 3?bitterness between CIO and AKL seamen' flared into fist fight- | ing on a |>ieket line at Deb-nit. lint , Curratfs union claimed AFL support in some ports. A spokesman said AFL sailors walked off a passenger ship in Milwaukee and set up a picket line. 4?Negotiations at the labor de partment in Washington broke down, at least temporarily. The particip ants scattered to various port cities. | The CIO union is demanding a ieduction of the SB hour week to ?10 hours, also higher wages, improv ed over-time rates, and other con cessions. NEW YORK COTTON. New York. Aug. IB.?(/Vi ?Cotton futures opened 30 cents a bale high er to 3f? cents lower. Noon prices were $1.10 to $2.50 a hale lower. October 3.YB5, Decem ber 35.711 and March 35.63. Manchu Emperor On Stand Henry Pu-yi Defends Acceptance, Blasts Inaction By Allies ! Tokyo. Ann. IIS.?l/Vl?llenry Pu ! vi today defended his ;hci'|)I;hk-c of | '.ho |>i11>)iol throne of Manehuria by j attacking /\ll;cd inaction in tlio face l of Japanese conquest. Pu-yi. a nervous Utile m;?s in a! j blue serge suit, was testifying at the trial of Japan's war leaders?some of whom gave him orders when he I was the puppet emperor. | Recounting the 14-year-old intrigue that led him to the false throne of his forefathers* country, the last of the Manchu emperors interjected: "At that time (I) the demo cratic nations were not trying to re sist Jap;?:ese militarists. 1 ahyie as' an individual would hardly be able to resist them." Had Fears For Fife. Animatedly, in '.outcast to his ear lier calm, he s;;id he accepted the Manchtirian crown through fear of 'his life. lie snapped upright from his ha bitual stump to address his remarks directly to the 11 justices. Speak i ing bruskly, he emphasized his statc I ment by waving a thin ivory fan ; and gesturVg with long, graceful tin ge rs. Then abruptly, he returned to his , impassive verbal shuffling through tin dead years to tell him one of ! tin* P.a.i.i.-.. io?rt..o: *i..? I <."<--11 j an :inny colonel. first nlfvrcd him the clay throne in his Japanese con trolled refuge '?< Port Arthur. He Isold he jil first refused, then nc ! ccptcd it in the hire "I threats fur is is. life. I'u-yi s.-iid Itngnki presented him :is ;ni aide to the lute Field Marshiil Sh'.'er'.i Miiiijo. then einnmander in ehiel i?f Japan's Kwanttmg army. Ileum hilled himself shortly after the U. K. oeeiipjilinn of Japan. Market Leaders Take New Drop New York. Aug. Mi.?l/l'i?Stock market leaders suffered further losses in today's market although a few issues managed t<> contest the move with mild success. I'ackwi.rd were (ieneral Motors. | Clirvslcr, Goodrich and Scars Iloe | but;k. Weather I'ltr: NOItTII ('A KOI.IN A. Partly cloudy with moderate temperatures tonight and Satur day. Spattered showers in moun tains tonight. Groundwork Laid For New Rift Between East, West At Paris POLICE CHECK EVIDENCE IN 'HOUSE OF HORRORS' ONE OF THE A^ED PATIENTS found in a nursing home operated in Indian apolis by Mrs. Margaret Colvin is interviewed (above) by an agent of Prosecutor Sherwood Blue, who refers to the place as the "House of Horrors." Blue said that several of the 20 patients were found shackled B| or chained and (right) is shown a typical shackle binding the feet of one rH inmate of the "nursing home." Following a raid on the place, Mrs. Colvin was held on assault and mayhem charges. (International Sounclphoto) Delegate From New Zealand Seeks Action Paris. \ii". Mi l'i?The Russian rlolcu.iti>.11 tn . i ll the makings of a now fight hotwoon western and o;i: tern powers into the |icnee con ference today and New Zealand Delegate W. J. Jordan. in an out burst ill ti in|? i ill niiiinooil the Rus sians for "tin., blasted old rot." "l.ot do something," Jordan shouted in c"as|>erntion at long speeches and delay.-, after listening to an argument by Soviet Delegate Andrei Visible ky. "Ilcrc we sil listening to quack, quack, quack, hour after hour. We are sick of it," Jordan said. VishiiL-k.v insisted on an interna tional tin-; o| the political and ten itorial euniiin. sion on Romania that only nation actually at war with former ? winy states should Mile in tic ei'iiiniiasioiis drafting rccoiiimeir kit ion fin the five peace treatU'S. The vote of France thus would be eliminated from the com mission oil Romania. In a mcelm;: of the cinumission 011 Finland. Soviet Delegatec N. V. Niivnlun raised the same point, which would eliminate the vole of the United States and France. Presumably the Russians planned to raise the same question in the commission; fur Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary. Despite Jordan':; retort, Vishinsky insisted upon his point and the mat ter was left for future action. In the commission on Finland, Nocokov drew a quick reply from Hector McNeil of Britain that "any gov ernment could not accept the So viet view on this matter." In the Finnish commission too, the Soviet declaration was noted in the minutes without further action. Vir.hinskv said lie would ignore lie "harsh words" of the "temperamen tal delegate from New Zealand," but insisted "we shall never submit to angry words." Household Items Go Up In Price Washington. Aug. 16.?(/Pi?OPA hung a puce hike tap of "well over $150,000,0(10 a year" on radios, stoves, washer: , and many another household item today?and ground out still more bad news for con sumer:. On top of price boosts ranging from .1 to 12 per cent on 20 groups of mainly home essentials, th? agency announced: I An immediate increase of 1 to 2 cent- for draught and bottled beer served in bar.', restaurants and hotels. 2?New price ceilings for used au tomobiles made this year or in 1945. ?.?White side-wall tire ceilings of 12.5 per cent higher than maximum pi ices on other tires. ?1 Higher prices for stationery and boot, paper. 'Ghost' Rocket lloly Land Jews Plan Protest Strikes Jerusalem. Aug. IT..? ? Kithlrrn defiant and sinsintr young Jews were sentenced to death today for bombing the Haifa railroad shops in a night attack. I'our Jewish women were give 11 life terms. Jerusalem. Aug. 16.? (d't ?The :ti ite-ridden Holy Land faced the threat today of a non-cooperation [ strike by Jews protesting the depor t. tion of illegal refugees ? a new faetor in the already explosive sit? imtii> in Palestine. Vaad Leumi (the national council | foi Palestine Jews), announced that i the first stage of its nun cooperation I program would begin Sunday and < Mood pat on its decision to start ' the i oe.-'.ooperation strike despite i hints from the Jewish Agency that . it hail not been consulted. The British army, meanwhile, stood i by in a full alert to meet the possi- ?, ; bilitv of a general revolt or Jews .I as urged by the lrgun Zvai Leumi. Jewish underground org; i '.i/.aticn. I and military informants deseribed . | the situation throughout Palestine ' as in a state "of dreadful hush." There was much disappointment in Jewish quarters as reports circu lalcd dial President Trunian had de iliiied to npprove U, S. participa lim in a plan to divide Palestine into federal zones. One qualified Jewish leader said the Amerkan President's position, if correctly stat L'fi. was a "shameful breach of faith and failure !>? discharge a moral ob ligation." An Arab spokesman, on the other hand, commented: "It's high time America realized she is not required p. pull Mrita i 's chestnuts out of the fire." EXCLUSIVE PHOTO OF REFUGEE SHIP AT HAIFA AT ANCHOR IN HAIFA HARBOR Is one of the ships (believed to be the Henrietta Scold) crammed with Jewish refugees attempting to enter Palestine illegally, The refugees were taken from the ship and transferred to Pritish transports which carried ther.1 in barbed wire cages to Cyprus. (.International Exclusive Radiopholo) Seven Negroes Die In Truck Wreck Few Miles From Durham State Democrats Will Act On Organizational Changes BY I ANN filSBET, Daily Dispatch Bureau Raleigh. Aug. IB.?III addition to electing a state chairman and vice chaiimi.li. the st.ito Democratic exe cutive committee at its August l!it meeting will consider and probably j adopt a number of changes and amendments in the party plan of , >rganizotion. Call for committee to meet in the aall of the House of Representatives it eight o'clock Wednesday night. August -!i, was I-sued by Chairman .V. II. Umstead from Durham today. It is regarded a- certain that tlni tead will be re-elected state chair nan. and no opposition has develop ?d to colliinuiir; Mrs. II. iV Kveictt is vice ebairnian. I'art.v rules rc piire that tiie vice chairman lie a ?voman. Willi respect to county and irccincl coniiiiittees it is written hat either the cliairnian or vice -hairmaii shall lie a woman. Rewriting of the plan of organi/.a ton was authorized by the state ?ommittee last spring when the -hiiirman was rmpowrml to name i committee of five to do the ?!? nut present recommendations to the ummer meeting. The committee vas composed of .iudge .left' I), fohnson of Clinton, chairman; Char cs A. Mines of flreeiisboro, K. C. ireene of Asheville, Mrs. t'aul Me *11 in of Sanatorium and Mrs. IV IV Svorett of I'almyra. Due to illness! 'Deacon" Clreeno did not it with he committee, lint it is understood he final draft of recommendations vas approved by him. Most significant changes were nadc in the composition of the va ?iotis executive committee. II is nadc more clear that the state coiii nittee shall be eipiaiiy divided "..i.x men and six women" from each congressional district. The old plan read "twelve members, MX men and six women." but only a few districts observed the ratio. Omission of ilu; "twelve members" will make man datory the selection of an equal | number of women. The new plan will assure at leas' I ten member on n:>ressimial committee, since it provides for two members from eaeli county cxecp! in districts Willi le. (bam five comi ties where the number shall be three, 'i he sixth is the only district of less than five eomities. and tin larj'er memhersliip will prerludt pos-ihilily id four men iiominatiie. eoie're .-man a wa the ea e when Carl Durham was named on in ticket in li"u >| Karl Tcoriic, who tiif<1 after beam nominated in lie primary. 'I he same changes were noted in judicial and solieiiorial di'rtel enm mittees, hut senatorial committees are lelt with one member from eaeli com ily. Tii" next most iniportani reroia mended change is provision jo> iioimii.itin ' candidates in .? peei il ? lection , to 1,11 vneaiieie oceiii rni : ill mid-term. I lerel ofore both tin statutes end the parly plan hnv been .ileal oil this poinl. but cu. torn litis been for the executive com mittee.- to iioininate candidates. Tie etisti ni will be written into parly law if the proposed change is ailop' hid.colic ; lo t prestige by the i'oiiii li mot ! si i elimination oi h" .-tale 'i IK' pres'denl a. an e: ? ?ffieio ineuiber ol the eoiiiniilte.. ? lid inclusion of th" nsln nal IT.-nm ?untie eoiiuml leeiueii ami coiium: teew man jis voliii*: iiieinber. . Gardner May U.S. May Back Head Atomic Move ^ . . InDaraanelles fl *-w 1 nni 11 ^UlllIlllSOlUIl I Washington, Aug. 16.?t/l')?Pros- , idcnt Triiinnn is .said to be consider- , irig today elevating (>. Max (inn i ci , from iinderseeretary of I tic treasury to chairman of the new domestic atomic ? onlrol commission. While associates reported thai Mr. j Truman had made no final deris- : ion, they said il appears Gardner. at year-old lawyer and former j'over-] ? ?:or of North Carolina now tops the ' list of those mentioned to head I he now board. As chairman, Gardner wood slop into a powerful post from the spot : as second man at the treasury, to I which he was appointed this year, ttc mice served as chairman of I he advisory board of the Office of War Mobilization 11 <1 Iteconversion. Along with Gardner, Mr. Truman was reported considering the appoint mcnts of former Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. TVA chairman David W. Lilinthal and Dr. Irving Lnngmuir, (i e of those who aided in the de velopment of the atomic bomb. Washim'ton. Auk. Mi. i/|*i -* The United Stales reportedly i: ready to ? I;iy to advocate .nii.e special transit lights lor Russia llui iii'ti llic Dar danelles. 1'itl 1 iii.s euunlry is ? i<I In appose n,(right ctirrcnl .Soviet demands fat i liatul in (lie military ? /. Ind <?f Dial sit nlettie waterway. Diplomatic nflii inl . suc.t'.esl Ilia! a possilile step l< ward trying to wor' rail the developing eonlroversy may lie a Tin l;i:!i calie'l I'cnfeivnre o the Italians now parlies lo Hie Man IreiK Treaty governing the : trait; As the Stale Depertuieiil affieial saiil I here Is no renin to believe there has been any eh.nine in United Stall's p"liey as prev iously announc ed hy Sc re Day of State .lames llyrnes. The mailt points of this policy in relation to Russia i> that the waterway should he open at all tune-, to the trusil ol warships of IJIaek Seat powers. Under the Montreiix ennventian Turkey has tin right to close the straits in time o! war or other dun0 r Truck Turns Over, Workers Run Over By Second Vehicle Durham. Aug. 1(5.?</P>?Seven Ne groes were killed and at least six others were injured seriously on U. S. Highway 15 a few miles north of Durham, early today when the truek in which they were en route to work at a saw null overturned, dumping them onto the highway. A, largo IransiHirl truek. which was heading in Ihe opposite direction, ploughed through tnein before be | ? g able to stop. j Stale I'atrolnia'i ,f. P. Griffin said i the bodies were in such a mangled leonditi ii that on1;,- four of the .? ?von iflf::d liii'l been identilied four hours after the aeeident. ! Grilfin said Hip transport truck involved i the wreck was owned li.v the Transport Corn, of Virginia ? Old was driven by Alexander Nor j ris i t Durham, lie .-aid no eharges j ban lie n tiled i:i .mneetioii v.ilh III accident. F. V. (diver, while, of Durham, 11onto if. driver of the truek in which till' Negroes were ridi'g. was in a ?fail" condition at the hospital. ; Archaeologists Plan 10 Kxplore I A)st ('olony Area Manlci?. Aug. 1(5. The U. S. Park i 'services plan:, archaeological ex P(orations of Ihe Fori Raleigh site j ?o determine what has liven hidden t l?y Ihe shifting sands of Dare coun- i l.v since the lime ol Mhe British at- ! tempts to colonize the New World I j ui the Sixteenth Century, Thomas ' ? t. Allen, regional 'hreefor of the! serv ice, said during a v isit here this i week. Further Inulilni; at the ;itc of Sir ? ? Wi Iter Raleigh' "In t colony" will ! he determined by what the archae ologist.- discover. Alien > aid. What ever i.- fieeovered, he said, will b> protected and preserved mi the site. Tin1 Park Service a,sinned main teiianee of the Fort Italcigll site in the summer of lit! I. and now. for the first time since Pearl llarhor, the agency has an appropriation for such projects a:, will be iinderlaken here. However. Allen said he did not know when work would begin. The service will also send tin ar chitect and an engineer here to work with local officials in planning rain shelters and other improve ment'. around the Waterside Thea ; tie. where The l.osl Colony i em it idly being pre. cnled in its six season. Trum;in W ill Ask Congress 10 I ,ct Jews Kuter V. S. Wa-hiiiglnii, Aug. HI.?</!?? ?Prc-s idenl Trnmaii today annouueetl he is eonsidermg asking Congress for spe | eittl legislation to permit entry of Knropeaii refugees, including .lews. into tin- United Slates. A While House stnlct.ieid said that the U. S. Government "has not presented any plan of its own for the solid ion of the problem of Pales tine." although Ihe President has been exchanging views with Prinu Minister Clement Attlee of Britain, on the question. THIS PHOTO, Just released by the Swedish military staff, 4iows on? of the mysterious rocket bombs that have been streaking across Swe den's skies. Three fliers were killed when n Swedish military recon naissance plane collided head-on witli one of those "ghost" rocket bombs. Government authorities have started a nation-wide hunt for i the rcckeU, (International^
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