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^THIRTY-THIRD YEAR ''tin" HENDERSON, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1946 FIVE CENTS COPY
LOW INCOMI
BRACKETS
I (Under $2,000 a year)
B l9M
I -Jl4^ ll '25 BRACKETS
|/mrQ| ($2,000 to $5,000) W? &FJi
Ej 1945
16% r?j
r_ r::i L J _ ,
($5,000 and better) i
1936 1945
2% 8%
? ? ???? rrm . I
mjm AVERAGE - I
1945 I
$11.600 $7.820 I
Data bond oft turvovo of Federal Brum* Boo'H onH II S j
HOW THE AVERAGE INCOMES of American families have risen and :
how these incomes have been more equally distributed is indicated in ?
this comparative chart of the semi-depression year of 1936 and the j
postwar year of 1945. The figures show that millions of families have j
joined the middle income groups although 70 per cent still fall below j
S3,000 a year. In the very low brackets (those making less than $1,000) 1
the total has dropped from some 18,000.000 families to about 9,000,000
families. In 1945, the middle group received $67,000,000,000?some 56 i
per cent of the total income distributed. Some 17,000,000 families got
from S3,000 to $4,000 and 3,150,000 ranged from $4,000 to $5,000. And
while, in 1938, the average income in selected groups was about $11,
600, only 2 per cent were included. Now 8 per cent average $7,820. j
(International) I
Cordon Is Imposed
Around Haifa Port
Immigrants Seek
To Destroy Ship;
Tension Mounting
Haifa, Aug. 19. ? (Ah ? British
troops clamped a rigid cordon around
the port area of this city lotffty fol
lowing a tumultuous week-end in
which a group of illegal Jewish im
migrants attempted unsuccessfully to
scuttle a transport assigned lo de
port them lo Cyprus.
Tensio; mounted throughout tiie
Holy Land as a result of the Brit
ish deportation policy and reports
were published in London that all
underground groups in Palestine
were scheduled to laun.1i a nation
wide offo sive today.
The first infantry division, using
Brer.n carriers, mounted guard in
this city, after the Cyprus-hound
transport Empire Heyvvood return
ed to Haifa following the attempt
to scuttle her yesterday.
Tear Gas Is t'sril.
Tlie British had used tear gas
and fire hoses to drive (!40 illegal
immigrants from the transport Fc
nire, on which they arrived here from
Europe last week, onto the Empire
lleywood for trans-shipment to a
refugee camp being prepared for 10,
000 pcrstrs on Cyprus. The Empire
Heyvvood finally left port yesterday
morning but returned less than an
hour later after two small bombs
exploded in her hold.
A British announcement said the
bombs caused no damage or casual
ties. But were "introduced into
the hold with the appnro t object
of blowing a hole in the f ide ol' the
vessel."
Texan Endorses
Move To Reduce
Entrance Quotas
Washington, Aug. 19 ?(/P>? A
move to slash immigration quotas
took shape in a back-fire to Pres
ident TrumAn's announcement that
he may ask Congress to let more
European refugees enter the United
States.
Rep. Gossett (D) of Texas, said
he will re-introduce a bill as soon
as Congress reconvenes calling for u
50 per cent cut in all quotas.
Telling a reporter he has,, "wide
spread backing," for his proposal,
the Texan said a siiniliar measure
was defeated by only two voles in
the House Immigration Committee
this year.
Mr. Truman said in a statement
last week that he was contemplat
ing asking Congress for special leg
islation to authorize the entry of a
"fixed number" of displaced persons
from Europe, including Jews.
Assorted Stocks
Rule In Market
New York, Aug. 19 ?\/P)?Steels,
motors and assorted industrials were
subjected to further light selling in
today's stock market although a few
favorites attracted timid bidding.
Slow dealings ruled from the
start but declines ot fractions to a
point or so were well in the maj
ority near the fourth hour.
Posse Seeks
Mississippi
NegroFamily
Seven Or Eight
Colored People
being Sought
' iVliigeo, Miss.. Ami;. 19.-?(/Ti?May
oi (>. .1. Higano of Magvo said fo
j day that ;i posse of two to three
1 hundred ofifeers and citizens were
hunting down a family of Negroes
niter :i scries of shootings in Sulli
I Villi Hollow liist night, iind that'one
i i f the Negroes Iind heen shot and
|c::p1ured by slate police.
| The Negroes, members of the Al
j bert Craft family, are sought h con
ncetion with the shooting and wound
ing of four white men. one of them
1 seriously iind the firing upon two
I state police. Bigliine said.
The Negro captured, one of the
three of the ("raft brothers, was
brought into Magee this mornii g,
i by members of the slide police.
Bigliine said that state police, aug
! mooted by fellow officers en route
; with bloodhounds from Jarkson.
were engaged today in a concerted
search of the woded area for the en
tire Craft family of seven or eigli!
persons.
Farmers Are Told
Not To Buy Hi^h
Priced Land Now
J College Station. Raleigh. Aug. Iff.
?"Don't buy high priced farm land
on a credit" was a wan ing issued
this morning by Director I. O
Sclinub of the State College Extcn
ision Service.
j He pointed out that the index' on
J the purchase price of farm lands
1 in North Carolina is about twice the
average for the United States.
| "After the last war. the price of
agricultural commodities was about
(the first thing to drop and after
11120. farmers had a very hard time
meeting paymo'ts on their farms."
Director Sehnub said. "Whether this
will happen again, we do not know,
but it is wise to consider what may
be the prices received for our crops
over the period for which farm pay
mcnts will have to lie met.
? "In 1920 many growers bought
farm lands at high prices and ex
pected to pay f"r them with fnrty
? ent colt"'. When cotton dropped
to ten cents a pound, the profits
: were all gone and there was nothing
with which to meet the payments
as they came due. Many growers
i lost the savings of a lifetime by try
ing to expand too much when prices
were high.
"Buying farm le d on a credit
at this time is extremely dangerous
business."
Epidemic
Feared In
Calcutta
Moslems And Hindus
Killing Each Olher
At A Slower Pace
C;ilc-utta. An1;. I!>. i.Vi?Mo Jem*)
and Hindus killed each oilier al
slack)< cd pin-" today in tin* stink
ing streets of Calcutta which in
four days have been strewn with 2.
not! to 3.000 corpses.
The situation was the quietest
since Friday when the rival factions
started the most sanguine riots in
Calcutta's turbulent history, quarrel
ing over differences regarding lirit
a'? 's offer of independence. i
Sporadic shooting continued. Eerie i
cries rang through the streets. Bod
ies were piled here and there, many |
of them dead four days, and picked |
bv vultures. Many were bloated, i
The danger of an epidemic whi.h
might dwarf the present number ]
of casualties mounted by the hour.
*
Thousands Wounded.
Several thout ?:ds lay wounded. 1
The food situation worsened as stores i
remained closed.
Looting was rife.
Police blotters were filled with sic? J
counts of women raped, mutilated,.
then butchered or burned with their |
families. ? One seven-year-old rape \
victim was removed to a hospital j
in a critical condition.
Fifty colts, owned by Hindus. ?
were buu'od on the Ganges river. |
Troops with tanks strove to restore j
order.
Hindu and Moslem leaders tried j
to regain control of the mobs. They j
met yesterday and hostilities ceased!
for a few hours but soon erupted ]
again. I
Disposal squads were extending
their routes in picking up bodies in
areas where the combined might of
troops and police had restored or
der, generally on the main streets.
The hungrier and poorer Indians
?mild see fruit, vegetables and eggs
rotting in railroad platforms and
in barred stores.
President
Visits R. I.
Air Station
IQiionsct Point. !>? Aug. HI.? |
(/!>,?President Truman tariied a.
while at Ibis New England naval ail
| -tation today t" thumb through
White House correspondence and
greet offieial callers.
He described the visit of Gov.
John <>? Pasture and Solicitor Gen
eral J. H. McGrath at l? a. m. as
strictly a friendly eall and without
political significance.
The President, tanned by sun and
sea winds, docked here at ?! P- in
Sunday aboard the U. S. S. Williams
burg after a slow ruise from Wash
ington. . .
TalkVg with reporters. b<* refused ;
to be drawn into any discussion of
either politics or affairs of state,
emphasizing that this is simply a
summer vacation cruise and nothing
more. . ,
He bristled when a New England
reporter asked if significance could
be attached t? his failure to in- ?
vite" Scrator Theodore Green (D) of
Rhode Island to call tomorrow. I
So.ator Green, he said, is one <>l
the best friends he lias in the world. |
He added too. that he had invited
nobody since he was ?>nccrncdsole
|y with the enjoyment of his IB-day |
vacation. . .. , !
Navy Secretary James Foil est a I ,
was a surprise caller when tne va
cation ship docked here. He hap
pened to be at his summer home at
Newport, lie said, and dropped over
to call ?'i the President.
AUTO UNION ASKS PRICE CURBS
?- 1
TOP-RANKING LEADERS of the United Automobile Workers union are j
shown at a meeting in Washington where they said new wage demands
against Chrysler and other companies would be made unless the gov
ernment restored effective price controls. They are (1. to r.) It. J.
Thomas, G. F. Addcs, and Walter Rcuthcr, president. (International)
Procedure Dispute
Snarls Conference
Two Federal
Price Panels
Racing Time
Tuesday Is Deadline
For Decontrol Board
To Disclose Decision
T |
Washington, Aug. 19. ? </Pi ?f
Two government agencies ? OPA ,
and tin- price decontrol board?bus- 1
tled today I" complete major assign-!
mcnls in Mm time allotted them by I
Congress.
Willi "substantia} .progress" toward i
a dccisiro reported, the three-man ]
decontrol board resumed d'clibera-;
lions on whether price ceilings
should be restored on meats, dairy:
products, grain, cotton seed, soy i
beans and hundreds of items made
from these commodities.
The board, which may wind up;
dis.ussion by nightfall, is planning
(<? announce its ruling at 7 p. in. I
l-'ST Tuesday ? just live hours be
fore the deadline fet by Congress.
Unless it acts by midnight Tues- j
day, ceilings automatically go back j
on the five categories of commodi
ties the next day.
OPA, meanwhile, raced time o
two fronts:
It must place in effect by Satur
day many more of the price in
creases required by the new price
(onto I law. The c include a price
hike of at least 2.5 per cent on i
retrigcrators. and higher ceilings for
virtually all kinds of building ma- j
lerials.
Coal prices may have to lie raised. I
too, and in rease may be ordered I
for woolen textiles and garments. I
Also on tap i:; a decision whether j
ceilings on new automobiles ? i
boosted an average of 7.3 per cent
last week should be raised an
other 3 per cent. Officials said this,
letter adjustment may be handled
<?-. an individual dealer basis and
that all car dealers may not qualify
Weather
FOR NOKTII CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and warmer
with scattered showers over cast
portion tonight, followed by fair
and not so warm Tuesday.
Economic Committee
For Italy Tangles
Over Treaty Terms
Paris, Aug. 19.?</P)?The peace
conference went into its fourth week
it; low gear today as the Italian eco
nomic committee became involved
in a lengthy discussion of how vari- I
cms chapters of the Italian treaty I
should he divided between it and
the political committee.
Committees for the Finnish and
Hungarian treaties also began delib
erations.
France touched off the discus- j
sum;, with a suggestion that the eco- '
noinic committee include on its agen- j
da article 72, which sets up a con-1
filiation comnr.ss.-jn in care of dis
putes over Italian restitution of Al
lied properly.
, Russia supported the proposal, and
Deputy Foreign o.r.sler Andrei
Vishin&k.v said it should be adopted
as n general principle that all ques
tions "of a predominantly ecu'omic
nature*' should be considered as fall
ing within the committee's scope.
Hra/il. Yugoslavia, the United
Stales, Greece. Belgium and White
Russia nil joined in I he debate,
agreeing that practically all chap
ters i I The treaty have both economic
and political aspects ;i ft that . "ii
siillalion with Ihe political commit
tee was necessary to establish some
line of demarcation.
6 Per Cent Hike
In Rerigercitor
Prices Approved
Washington. Aug. 19 i/I'i ? OI'A
today authorized a retail price in
crease of ..pproxininfcly 6 pel- rent
on household mechanical rcfiger
11 tors.
On a standard hox. < iPA an
iioimced the increase will be from
$111 to SI2.
Consumers will pay the higher
prices. OI'A said, as soon as deal
ers receive refigerators ticketed j
with the new ceilings.
The increase for refigerators fol- !
lows price hikes i f from 3 to 12 j
per cent on radios, washing machines,
vacuum cleaners end a lung list of
other household items.
OPA said the new increases res
ult in part from a new price hike
of 3.5 per cent granted to manu
facturers today, and in part from
requirements of the new price con
trol law.
NEW YORK COTTON
Now York. Aug. 19 ?i/I'i?Cotton
futures opened 10 to 65 cents a
bale lower. Noon prices were 7>
cents to $1.25 a .bate lower. Oct
ober 35. ti.7. December 35.78 and
March 35.63.
DISLIKE LANGUAGE OF DIPLOMACY
if YOU'VE FOUND the verbal pyrotechnics at the Paris Peace Conference
pretty long-winded, you'll probably applaud the criticism of the pro
ceedings voiced by New Zealand dclcgato W. J. Jordan (left) and Son.
Tom Connolly of Texas (right). The former appealed to the orators to
cease the "quack, quack, quack" and get down to business. Connally,
about to leave for the parley, shook his head and remarked; "All you
do U sit all day, going yah, yah, yah." (International)
Eastern Leaf Belt
Opens '46 Season;
Average Is 51-53^
Prices Generally
Rang? From 45-62
Quality Very Good
r\v The Assoiiilril I'rcss.
Heavy sales wore registered
limiifiluiul tin." eastern North Car
linu fluc-curod tobacco belt, tlu
world's I: rue I today, and in Haleigi
lie Icilersl-.stte agriculture depart
mi t's reports said the averagt
?anged from TH to alt cents.
Prices tti ttcrnlly rairjcd from 45
in 62 cents, the report said, with
$i)i>d leaf, cutters, fine and choice
ugs bringing from 62 to 64 cents,
-it me grades averaged around 66.
ivith nondescript dropping to :t cents.
Pi ? ciple offerings consisted of fair
In line lugs, and fair to good oil
ier;. General quality was belter than
11 last year's opening. There were
lew rejections.
Quality Generally Even.
Quality generally was the same at
all the 16 auction markets.
K i ston. one of the largest mar
kets in the eastern or new bright
belt, had a range from 35 to 67 cents
a pound, with the bulk going for
an expected average of about 54
cents. About two and one-half mil-i
lion pounds wore on the floor snd
ai out one and one-half million were
expected to be sold today. Cutters
and best grades brought up to 60
cents. There were no reports of
tinned tags, by which a farmer de
clines a bid.
At Kinston and elsewhere, it ap
peared that today's opo ing average
would exceed the 52 cents a pound
brought on opening day on the Caro
lina's border belt.
Goldsboro had more than 500.00;
pounds on its floors, n nsisting most
ly of lugs and tips of good quality
Sales were brisk with first aver
ages well over 50 cents.
55 Cents At Rocky Mount.
Nearly one and one-half millioi
pounds were expected to be sold at
Ivo-ky Mount, where first piles wen'
for about 55 cents a pound average
Quality was generally good, al
though some showed the effects ol
exe'essive rain.
Wendell reported first sales of
its more than 350.000 pounds aver
aged arou'd 55 cents a pound. Qual
ity was good.
Washington, its floors heavy with
igood quality leaf, reported first sale.1
averaged slightly more than 50 cents
a pound.
Greenville, one of the largest mar
kets. reports it had more than two
and one-half million pounds on its
floors, with average.- between 51 and
55 cent;; a pound. Better grades
were selling from 12 to 15 cents
above last year, while nondescript
was o!f 3 to I cents. Some grades
brought up to To cents.
Supervisor John Price at Tarboro
aid be expected 750.000 pounds
would he sold today for an average
of above 50 cents. The range was
from I to 60 cents.
At Wilsrn. the fir.H 164 baskets
at out warehouse averaged 53.17
colds ;? d the lirst row in another
house. 46.50. About 2.000.000 pounds
wore on the market, with fair qual
ity. and a range of from in to 00
cents.
First sales at Alioskic averaged
57.05. with the highest tales at 70
(cats.
I . S. Army Plane
Hours Over-Due
Over Yugoslavia
Trieste, Auk. If?i.Ti?An'Amer
ican army plane en route from
Vienna 1<> Udinc was hours over
due this afternoon and the last
message from the plane said tracer
bullets were streaking past it.
This came a day after official di.s- j
closure that another American
transport plying the same route was ]
forced down Aug. !> in Yugoslavia !
by Yugoslav fighter planes which '
fired bursts of machincgun fire in
to it. wounding a passenger.
The plane over-due today was [
assigned to the European air trans
port service.
Back from Palestine
FORMER senator Guy M. Gillette,
president of the American League
for a free Palestine, is shown at La
Guardia Field, N. Y., after his arriv
al from Palestine. He said that the
coun try is an "armed camp" at pres
ent. He asserted that Palestinians
arc being deprived of life, liberty
and property by the British imperi
al policy. (International
Rifl Hinted
Within CIO
Over Strike
NMU Seamen Launch
Determined Effort
To Halt Shipping
Detroit. Aug. 19.?(/ft?A rift ap
peared within the CIO today as
CIO seamen opo'ed a determined ef
fort to push all freight shipping off
the Great Lakes by next Sunday.
On the filth day of the partially
effective Great Lakes strike, this was
the picture:
1. An official of the CIO National
Maritime Union de,voiced CIO
steel workers at Lackawanna. N. Y.,
for "damaging" the ..trike by un
loe*t f.g iron ore vessels at a steel
mill.
i. NMXT leaders prepared to sit
down today with two employers in
New York and Chicago to talk over
their demand for a reduction in
the work week, from SB to 40 hours.
Kxtcnt fs Confused.
9. The present extent of the
strike was si II confused, hid strike
headquarters in Detroit said the out
k ill; w.i. "excelent for ,ii entirely ef
fective strike-hound Great Lakes
within a week."
Most lake sailors are unorgan
ized. The NMU lies already tied up
some unorganized vessels l?y pull
ing their own members off and hope
to persuade many non-union men to
join the Druggie for a 40-hour week.
Though today's negotiations were
only with two firms, settlements
could conceivably influence the rest
of the industry. NMU President
los'eph Curt; 11 was in New York
to reopen talks with the Bethlehem
Transportation Co. This firm, a sub
sidy i f Bethlehem Steel, operates
about 12 ore and coal vessels, most
of which are strike-bound. Other
NMU leaders weie in Chicago to
talk with Standard Oil of Indiana
which operates a tanker fleet.
SAL Engineer
Fatally Injured
In Derailment
NorMk. An;;. lf).~(/J'i?Engineer
N. M. Kirklnnd, of the Seaboard
Air Line railroad train Robert E.
Leo wiis fatally injured it:d Fire
man M. ('. Clark, severely hurt, when
their lnc< motive and four express
ears wen' derailed seven miles north
ot Hamlet. N. C today at 7:50 a. m?
headquarters of the line here rcport
| ed.
No passengers were injured.
| According to a statement issued
I by Charles Saul - general manager
i of the railroad, the accident occurred
i in a double track.
The passmger train in derailing
sideswiped a northbound freight
train, causing several freight cars
to leave the track but causing no
Injury to any of tIre crew of the
freight
Kirklnnd. a resident of ltamiet,
lived only a short time after the ac
cident.
j The Robert K. l.ee. train No. 56,
was southbound lrom Washingtoi to
Birmingham.
Work was in progress on clearing
the tin", but n<> definite word was
av.iilablc as to when it would bo
I ope...
U. S. Charges Y ugoslav T roops
Entered T rieste, Attacked GI's
Washington. Am;. Hi. ? l/l'i
i The 17. S. charged puhihally today
lli.it on July 12 Yugoslav troop:. cn
? tercd the Allied zone around Trieste
! and fired "without provocnlion" upon
| American forces investigating their
i presence.
The American view of Ihe clash
J was made known with the release
by the State Departmnl of a Mole
I delivered to the Yugoslav foreign
office last week. The note empha
tically rejected the "distortion of
evidence" alleged In Yugoslavia's
earlier complaint about the accident.
At the same time, the State De
partment disclosed a three nurlhs'
old rejection of Yugoslav complaints
! about Amerian and British admin
| istralion of the Allied zone,
j A Stale Department official said
in this connection that "we have
known for a In r time that the Yugo
slavs have been doing what they
can to discredit u.<_ Allied admin
i: (ration of Venc/hi Oiulia and we
fear Ilia I lliry have hern basing their
ease not on actual facts bill on
claims suitable to their propaganda."
'I lie departmn t. for the time be
inc.. at least, had no comment on
the latest reported incident involv
ing the disappearance of an Ameri
can airplane over Yugoslav terri
tory flying between Austria and
Italy.
The t< i e of today's releases, how
ever. reflected a general state of ten
sion existing all along the border
which separates the land around
Trieste from Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia previously had eon
tended the U. S. was resposible for
the incidents and had protested on
(the basis. On this poa't. the Amer
ican note declared, "this govern
ment emphati ally rejects ttie Yugo
slav protest of .July tfl. which is ap
i parents based upon distortion of evi
jdence available to Yugoslav as well
las United States .ni'itary officials.'