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Itentteramt Batty Btspatrh THIRTY-THIRD YEAR HENDERSON, N. CM THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 29, 1946 ''uul,s,^k^!>vi^eunoon FIVE CENTS COPY OPA Clings! To Schedule For Meats Animals Are Kept Free Of Controls For 4 More Days Washington, Aug. 29.?CP)? OP.' clung today t<> its schedule for re storing meat price ceilings Sept. 9. despite the 11th hour snarl that kepi live animals free cf controls for four extra days. When the new schedules are post ed. however, they will average about 5 1-2 cents a pound higher for beef and between 2 1-2 and 3 cents a pound more for pork than June 3'> ceilings. Eut they'll still be below current costs. OPA and the Agriculture Depart ment agreed on those estimates after differing sharply on what ceilings to clamp on the livestock market. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson resolved that dispute by taking advantage of new power Con gress granted him. lie directed OPA Chief lain l-o-icr to hum me Jun. 30 live animal ceilings by $2.23 a hundred for beef an 1 Sl.-tu lor pork in an effort to s'.ir.ru...I: produc tion. An.lcrscn a "Moulhjicff." The CIO cost of living committee today labeled this action as a climax lo "a long scries of incidents in which Anderson has acted as mouth piece for profiteers." In a statement issued by Chair man Jckn Thornton, the committee said American living standards have > been dealt "a new and disastrous blow" and added: "The country has a right to know whether the President stands behind Anderson's decision." The cabinet officer himself had pointed to what he called an "alarming"' liquidation of livestock during the period of no controls and asserted in a statement: "The whole situation clearly em phasizes the urgent need for price levels which will be a stimulus for future production, rather than levels which would impede production." War Department Cuts Number Of Civilian Workers Washington, Aug. 29.?;/P>? The War Department today ordered a reductirn of 53,079 in its civilian employes throughout the country by Oct. 1, to meet President Truman's and congressional economy orders. Under Budget Bureau instruction, total personnel will be reduced from 572.570 on the payrolls July 31 to 519,500 by October. Maj. C!en. C. H. Bonespeel, presi dent of the War Department's man power board, said orders for the cut were being sent today to army area headquarters and other installations. TWO FLIERS KILLED IN VIRGINIA CRASH Greensboro, Aug. 29 ? l/I'i ?A plane which crashed near Martins ville. Va., killing two men. was id entified here today by the army Overseas Replacement lie pot as a two engined army C-45 transport based at Shaw Field, S. C. The dead were two flying officers of Shaw Field but no mention was made in the ORII announcement of their names pending notification of the next of kin. CALCUTTA-A SHAMBLES OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ?3 IBP I" BODIES OF VICTIMS are loaded on a native truck in Calcutta, India, following the Hindu-Moslem riots that occurred in the city when Mos lems staged a one-day protest against Britain's plan for Indian inde pendence. Over 3.000 persons were killed. (Exclusive International) UTTERED STREET in the slum area ot Calcutta, India, gives mute testi mony to the violence that flared in the city during fighting between Moslems and Hindus. Native children and a dog huddle in a doorway (left) as street Ylghting continues (right). (Exclusive International! Case Against Mrs. Durant Is Concluded Six Week Recess Granted Defense; One Count Dropped Frankfurt, Germany, Ant;. 29.? (,/1'j?The prosecution concluded to day its case against Mrs. Kathleen Nash DuranfT enarged with larceny and embezzlement of the Kromberg jewel collection. The military court granted the defense a three week rcvess to line up its witi esses. The court threw out a conspiracy charge against the WAC captain, approving a defense contention that evidence failed to support it. Prosecution attorneys said the War Depart / cnt jvas prepared to send wi ? eses for the defense by air from the United States next week. The defense has asked for at least six witnesses from tlie United States. Among the officers sought are army officials at Ft. Sheridan, III. The defense wishes them to testify in its effort to show that Mr. Duranl never was reinductcd into the serv ice <?'rt therefore was not subject to military court inortitil. Depositions, als< are sought by the defense from the defendant's sis-1 tcr. Eileen I.onergnn of Hudson Wise., in whose home jewels owned by the royal houses of Hesse and llohenzollern were f< itnd. The dn- j f<> se wants to show the military police toon the jewels without a proper search warrant and obtained liom the WAC a waiver of her rights in this respect "by coer.ion." Members Argued By Security Council Russian Objects To Transjordan As U. N. Member Lake Success. L. I., N. Y.. Aug. ! 2U.?tyi'i?-Paul Husluck. Australian ! delegate to the United Nations Se ? rurity Council today '.hnrged Soviet Russia with "prejudice" in refusing to accept Tr;i sjordan's application ( for U. N. membership because the J Soviets have no diplomatic rela ' tions with that country, j 'the council, considering eight ap plications en 1 lie last day in which jit may comfclc action for the Sep tember meeting of the General As i scmbly. ran into a :< arl when Aus p-jilri. the Netherlands. United States. 1 Egypt. France, Great Britain and China challenged Andrei Gromyko. ! Rur.ian delegate, to explain his ch nd. i Basilic!: said the Transjordjc ap i plivaticn would fail now through the veto because it does not have rela tions with Russia. Declaring that the council mem bers have a responsibility to all I U. N. members and nAt solely to I their own governments. Unstuck I said: "We can ? c?t on grounds that amount to prejudice" reject any 11a-' (ion. Mexico also joined in (|ue;-.tit< ning Russia':, stand. Gromyko replied briefly to the delegates with the statement that it seemed to him h e w as c 1 e a r enough on his motive and that he : had < othing to add. LAWYERS MEET. Winston-Salem, Aug. 21).?I/T)? I Tlie State Bar Association opened its annual 3-day convention here today. Incomes To > Top Record Washington, Aug. 29. ? (/P) ? Figures compiled by government ex ports today indicate that individual incomes will set. a record of around $l6&DOO,OOO,09(r tniS'TiScal year?ex ceeding the booming war year of 1945 by $5,000,000,00(1. Moreover, in'.ormaticu gathered by the taxation staff employed by Con ?tess and made available to the pub lic. suggests that even his estimate tvight be revisad upward before the fiscal year ends next June 30. This raised a possibility that the Federal budget, thrown out of kilt ncr by depression and war. might be brought into balance. All there th'i gs are based on the assumption that the nation will re main relatively free of any large scale strikes for the remainder of this fis cal year. Death Sentences For Jewish Gang Members Changed London. Aug. 29.?(/Pi?The Colo nial Office announced tonight that ?ante cos against 10 Stern Rang! i ( mbcT> onnvi ted ? f bomb attacks 1 I on the Haifa railroad yards in Pales- ; 'tine have been vominuted to life! | imprisonment. The commutation was made by 1 ; LI. Gen. Sir F.velyn arkcr. command iiim of'icer i:i Palest t:o. who had to pass final review on military court I sen if nro>. Results of tho review had been awaited tensely in Palestine, where Jewish t ndergroond resist; i ce or Canizalioir; harl threatened reprisals against British officers and off rials if the death sentences were carried out. Support Is Slim In Stock Market New York, Aug. 29.?f/Pi? Fur ther rallying tendencies appeared in today's stock market although sup port was rather slim and early ad- I vanccs running to a point or more failed to hold in many cases. On I he upside were Goodyear, Bethlehem. Great Northern, Amer ican Smelting and Johns Manville. Declines were recorded for Gen eral Motors, Chrysler. Douglas Air craft and Standard Oil (N. J.) Bonds and commodities improved. 8th Juror Chosen In Murder Trial Of Wall C. Ewing Fnyetlcville, Aug. 29.?(/Pi ?The slow task of selecting a jury to try Wall C. Kwing. prominent Cumber land county politician on charges of murder in connection with the death of his wife, continued today. By noon, only one 'more Juror had taken his place in the box beside seven others selected during the first two days of the trial. The New juror is James B. Bol lard, a farmer who was selected from a special venire of 300 sum moned late cycstcrday. Of the 300, only 165 answered the call. Army, Navy Get Building | Priority Cut Armed Forces |, On Some Priority As Home Builders Washington, Aug. 29. ? (/}') ? The government rut the army and navy down today to the same build ing materials priority as th?.t re served Xor veterans. Henceforth, by decree of Hous.'rg. Expcditor Wilson Wyatt, the armed forces no longer may use their po tent "V.M" rating for military bar racks. quarters or housing on this country. Instead they must use the same "HH" priority that is given to i builders of veterans' houses. In another ? dicntor of the gov ernment's anxiety to get thousands 01 veterans under good roofs before eold weather puts a crimp in build ing activity. OPA disclosed that it had put its staff of special agents cn the lumber black market's trail. The agents, a specially trained group wilhV OPA's enforcement di- j vision arc "quietly" continuing their i lumber investigation. OPA Chief j Pr nl Porter said. They are provided] | with amnio rash to make illegal pur chases if necessary to obtain cvi-1 donee. John Peele, 31, N. C. Publisher's Son, Found Dead Elizabeth City, Aug. 29.?(/Pi? John Pcolc. 31, son of Herbert Peele, editor and publisher of The Eliza beth City Daily Advance, was found dead at the family residence hero lute yesterday afternoon. NEW YORK C OTTON. New York, Aug. 29.?(/!')?Cotton j futures opened 40 to 70 cents a bate i higher. Noon prices were five cents a bale lower to 65 cents higher. Oc tober 35.91. December 35.90 and 'March 35.67. Their Boy Is Alive! EMBRACING each other as they hear the good news, Mr. and Mrs. John Dahlgren, of Cicero, 111., learn that their son, Cpl. Robert Dahlgren, is safe and well with other Yank crewmen released by Yugoslavia. Cpl. Dahlgren was on the transport plane forced down by Yugoslav I ?8htef plane#, UntsrnatiojKtj; 'These Honored Dead : Army Describes Reburial Program For GI Casualties Fori Bragg, Aug. 20.? Of interest; lo the relatives of the 328,000 Amer- 1 icans who were war casualties is the j War Department's program for the. permanent burial cf those who lost I their lives overseas. The War Department, through the Quartermaster General, is committed to carry out the wishes of relatives i within four choices of final inter ment, including the dignified, rev-1 erent return of war dead and pro vision for their burial ti the United, States. The Army is sparing no effort to identify positively the dead of World War II, and reverent care is taken oi all remains. No remains will be returned to this country until the government is absolutely sure of idu'tification. In most cases, identification tags or papers have solved the problem quickly and easily, and in our 2081 temporary World War II cemeteries there are 240,483 identified and 12, 572 unidentified remains. The total number of isolated graves of which the locations are known is 19,215. including 10,810 identified .and 8, 405 unidentified bodies. There are an additional estimated 19,625 un located isolated graves throughout the world for a total maximum num ber of 291.895 remains. The bodies o! thousands of other war dead, mairly those who died at sea, are not recoverable. The work of identifying the un known dead will continue for years. No case is officially closed, even though there seems to be no possible solution, and each case record re mains at hand, ready for Immediate lollow-up as soon <is i cw informa tion is obtained. Search teams arc at work in the most remote corners of the 80 countries in all the con tinents of the world where fighting took place. It is hcartbreakingly natural for wives and paints to cling desp-1 crately to some hope that their miss- j ing loved ones may somehow turn ' up, alive and well. Regretfully, the War Department does not expect that any living persons who were listed as missing in action or pre sumed dead prior to the Japanese surrender are still to be found. With the exception of a few deliberately "missing." no recoveries of living personnel listed as missing have been made for many months. Most of these whoso status is "unknown" disappeared during beach hi dings, j disasters at sea, and on aircraft mis sions over oceans and uninhabited jungles. It is exceedingly doubtful that definite informatiu- concerning them will ever be uncovered. In an understandable desire to spare no money to pay respect to their dead, relatives arc easy game for racketeers. The War Department assures all bereaved relatives that every grave Is given all the rare and attention with which a grateful govern ment can honor Its war d e a d. Personnel will be stationed per manently to rare for the national cemeteries all over the w o r I d. Beautiful lardscaplne and simple dignity are the theme of our cemeteries. Photographs r.f cemeteries are al lowed, in fact have been distributed, but photographs of individual graves [ cannot be used. With very little equipment and research, a firm could ! ofler to send individual photos ot I graves to the next of kin. A sympa thetic letter would request full infor mation 0:1 the deceased?name. rank. 1 serial number, general location, etc. j That's all that would be needed to run eff thousands of faked photos, using a studio grave with a standard white cross, or Star of David mark er, and interchangeable name plates. A major snag 'u the program has been unavailability of steel for cas kets. Had caskets been ready for shipment to Pearl Harbor and Bel gium in July, as scheduled, the first remains would have b'ccn returned by mid-September. As it is. a delay until the end of this year appears I likely. The remains will travel trder cs j cort at all limes. They will come to this country in ships similar lo hos pital ships. From ports of entry, they will be sent by rail lo fifteen distribution points in reconverted hospital cars carrying 60 to 66 de ceased per car. From the distribu tion points lo the fVal resting place designated by next of kin. the re mains will be under military escort. Flags will be displayed on the cas kets at all times and hll handling will be done with dignity ft d reverence. All relatives of deceased person nel are reminded that the War De partment alone is charged with the lcsponsibility for the final burial of war dead, and all ether agencies or organizations proffering help and assistance, 'usually for remunera tion) arc fraudulent. Big Four Ministers Seek To Bring Peace T oPeaceConf erence Army Seeking To Get Fakers Chit Of Khaki Many Ncn-Soldiers Wearing Uniforms Bought In Stores Washington, Aug. 29. ? (/P) ? The army, still worried about got ling more men into uniform, is al nost as Irotful < vcr how to persuade i million to doff their khaki. That's the number of War De oartment suspects may be attired il legally '?: army dress ? including some who never packed a rifle 1 hey bought their military garb at surplus property store:; with no ques tions asked. The department is concerned for two reasons: 1. The army gels a black eye whenever sonjft individual in uniforn on mils a crime or otherwise niis ehaves in public. 2. Morale or men still in > iforir ocs town when fresh criticism i eaped on the army. Declared A Headache. Brig. Gen. B. M. Bryan, the army', novost marshal general, described the situation today as ' a headache to the War Department and to every MP." What to do about it is causing mu;h scratching of olficial heads One proposal was to ask C<egress to tighten existing laws which pro vide a maximum of six months in jail and $300 tir.e for wearing a uniform ilegally. But that was put on the shelf even before Congress quit for the year. The problem of enforcing the ?tret > t law is entirely too much to the 2,300 MP's currently on town and train patrol in the entire United States. Dr. Groves, 69, Noted Teacher AtU.N.C.,Dies Chapel Hill, Aug. 29.?i/Pi? Dr. Ernest R. Groves, professor of so ciology at the University of North Carolina and considered a world authority on marriage and family life, died last night at Arlington, Mass., university officials were in formed today. The exact cause of his death was not immediately known here. His wife, the former Gladys Hoagiand of Concord, Mass., and herself con sidered an authority on marriage, was with him. He was 69. Dr. Groves had been teaching this summer at Boston University, where ho taught the first marriage course in America. He had gone to Arling lcn on a brief vacation. Dr. Groves was a native of Far mingham. Mass He received his bachelor of arts degree at Dart mouth and later studied at Yale. He came here in 1927. He had written at least 15 books on marriage and the family. One, "Shall I Marry Now", was distri buted by the armed services during I (he war. Another, "Marriage and I ho ' Family", was among his better known, as was "Personality and So- , eial Adjustment." Australia, Russia Clash Again Over Frontier Question Pnrir. Ant;. 29.?(/P>?The foreign mVisters of Britain, Russia. France and the United States met this aft ernoon in an effort to find a way of revitalizing the Paris peace con ference. Shortly before the ministers gath -?red in the office of George Eidault, French president ?? d foreign min ister, the conference had witnessed another of the clashes which have bedeviled the peace-making. An Australian proposal to establish a sub-committee to collect factual data on the Italian-French frontier was beaten 13 to C V the Italian ? cm mission after n heated Australian Russian exchange. The four principle powers and nine other nations voted against the Australian plan. In Historic Room. United States Secretary of State James Byrnes, British Foreign Sec retary Ernest Bevin. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Mo'otov and Bidault met in the building containing the famous clock room where the big lour of 1919 framed the treaties which they, too, hoped would end wars. Their first task, it was believed, was to devise a commrr. ground for dealing with the 300 amendments to treaty drafts which have snowed the conference under. As t^ey met only the preambles to four of the treaties had been adopted in commissions. The conference itself has yet to pass on most of these. havVg passed on less than 200 of the 55.000 words in the five treaties for Bulgaria. Italy Romania. Finland, and Hungary. Secretary Bvrncs was the first to arrive to the Quai D'Orsay. He was accompanied by his advisors for the meeting. Senators Arthur Vanden berg (R) of Mithignt and Tom Con nolly (Dl of Texas, and his inter preter. Charles Bohlen. Survivors Sought In Lake Michigan After Boat Sinks South Haven, Mich., Aug. 29.? (/P)? Coast guard patrols today searched for survivors of the yacht Verano, mysteriously sunk in the .ough waters of Lake Michigan yes terday as a life boat bent on rescue reached her. I The 92-foot vessel, owned by May nard Dowell. Park Ridge. 11., manu facturer, went down "without a sign of life aboard*' three quarters of a mile off-shore north of here at 5:52 p. m. EST. A renewed search of the waters by plane and boat was ordered at the hour of daylight today in the hope of finding the three men believed to have been aboard. a ACCIDENT IS FATAL TO N. Y. PUBLISHER New Yolk, Aug. 29 ?l/P)?Roy C. Holliss, 5fi, acting president of the News Syndicate Co., Inc.. publish ers of The New York Daily News, was killed early today in an auto mobile accident near Westport, Conn. Lichfield Depot Head Convicted By Court Martial Rati Nnuhcim, Gerfnany. Aug. 29 ?iA'l? Col. James A. Kilian of Highland Park. III., former com mander of the U. S. Army's replace ment depot a (Lichfield. IVgland, to day was convicted of permitting cruel and unusual punishment of American soldiers imprisoned in the depot guardhouse. Kilian was fined S500 and repri manded by the seven-officer mili tary court. The court convicted him after two hours of deliberation at the end of the ten-week trial. Weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Mostly cloudy with moderate temperatures tonight. Scattered shewers toni?ht. beginnirg over west portion tbls afternoon. Fri day partly cloudy to cloudy and moderately cool. Showers. Hoey Defends His Record, Explains Voting Philosophy Charlotte. Aug. 20.?(,T)?Senator j Clyde R. Hoey of North Carolina 1 told the Charlotte Kiwanis club to day that it was interesting to note the method by which "some of the pressure" groups reported how con gressmen voted on certain issues. Those groups, he said, "assert that a senator or representative voted 'right' or 'wrong' depending upon whether the vote was in accordance with their wishes. One of them !i particular stated that in 12 votes cast by me. that I voted wrong 10 times, and right only twice. Of course, the record snows that t voted 136 times 01) roll calls during the 70th Con gress, and I didn't know what this group thinks of all my other votes.' Senator Hoey said "there are three schools of thought with referenct to the duty of a so ator in represent ing the people of his state. One group maintains that he should vote in accordance with the views of his constituents, regardless of his own \ iews. Another, that lie should consistently follow the party line and vi te for what the administration wants. Still another, that he should give full study and earnest consid eration to all measures and that as the representative of his people, exercise his own best judgment and accordance with his honest eonvlc toj s. I adhere to the latter view. 'It seems to me that duty would require a senator to thoroughly in form himself as to the merits of any hill and then vote according to his j honest convictions. Of '.ourse, it is good to know the views a d wishes ot the people, but the responsibility and obligations rest upon him and he ought to bo in better position to judge as to the wisdom of his course in the light of his own study and the full debate in Congress."