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BYRNES PLOTS U.S, COURSE IN EUROPE
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i u?ui.ui rurties in new York Select Mead And Dewey i
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Balloons fill the air (right) in Convention Hall, Saratoga Springs,
as New York Republicans name Thomas E. Dewey to succeed himself
as Governor of New York. A tremendous ovation greets U. S. Senator
James Mead (above) and former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman in Albany
shortly after they were named by Empire State Democrats as guber
natorial and senatorial candidates, respectively.
New York Harbor Completely
OPA Hikes
Meat Prices
A Few Cents
Washington, Sept. C.?(/Pi?OPA
today announced new retail price
ceilings for most meats amounting
to an overall average increase of
about 3 3-4 cents a pound above
June 30 levels, but below present
prices.
At the same time the price negncy
said tl ic retail meat ceilings will not
apply until Tuesday. They had been
scheduled to take effect Monday in
niorc than one million butcher shops
and meat counters.
The new retail ceilings for lard,
canned meats and shortening, how
ever. will apply Monday ys pre
viously scheduled
, OPA said the new beef ceilings
averager! about It cents a pound
higher than June 30 for top grad ?
cms anrl about three rents a pound
higher for all reta.d beef cuts on 111
average.
The agency reported that iamb
cuts will average 10 emits a poun I
higher and mutton chops about four
cents higher.
The new pork ceilings average 7
to f! cents higher on more than half
of all pork cuts, with a general av
erage increase of four cents a pound.
Lard ceilings will or up five and
one lu.lf cents. Veal cuts and sausage
items remain unchanged from the
June 30 ceilings.
Greatest Maritime Strike In Nation's
History Spreads; 2,534 Vessels Idle
Ey The Associate:! Press.
'Iiie p'cateft maritime strike in!
j histery sprctd from the r. itien's 1
! coastal p'ts today, freeing the port
j of New York. 4,he ciour.'ry'j higgcat
I harbor into "complete paralysis." the
| United States Maritime Commission j
I announced.
'Ihe commission's statement came
| about three hours after striking AFL
I Seafarers International Union and
the Sailors Union of the Facitic es
tablished picket lines along the e:c
1 tensive waterfront.
The commission listed 344 vessels
of all rations tied up by the strike,
'ilii- vat i.l with a union claim that
534 ciaf' of all types were stranded j
in Now York and 2.534 on three j
. coasts.
' A '.omtnissicn survey said 705
ships of all flags were immobilized
in ports from Portland, Me., to Sa
vannah. Ga. Of these, the commis'
I sii ii said, 548 were American and
! 157 were of foreign registry.
Spokesmen for the striking AFP'
Seafarers International Union and j
the Sailors Union of the Pacific in
New York said 534 ships were lied
up in the |K?rt of New York. 350 in
i titer Atlantic poi t... 150 in gulf port., j
and 1.200 in west coast |>orts.
The figures were announced soon ;
after seamen had flung picket lines;
on the New York waterfront ? lines
which other AFP union and rival
CIO iinibns have pledged to respect.
A possibility of an international
tieup was hinted in a bulletin issued
from strike headquarters in Nov/
York. It said "expressions of sup
I port" hiive iieen received from ".all j
'over the world" including British,
Danish. Swedish, Norse and Greek
seamen.
An eotinvated 9(1,000 sailors packed
.heir gear and walked oil' ships yes
terday to protest a wage staoiliza
.".cn order denying them a full wage
increase won in recent' contract nego
tiations.
The action was followed by an ap
peal by the Maritime Commission to
participate in the strike to keep rc
irigerating machinery aboard ships
in operation "to prevent spoilage of',
thousands of tens of perishable'
lood."
In telegrams to heads of two ?
maritime unions involved in the!
strike. Vice Adm. W. W. Smith,
hairmnn of the commission. s*.?id.
'Til view "f the u"rid-wide shortage'
cf food, we le'iue. t your union to give
immediate assurance that provisions
will be made f r such operating as
may tc necessary to protect valuable
re.Tigc iotcd foodstuff which would
have to be replaced from civilian
stores already critically short."
.Nearly 400,000 workers, including
dork employes, tug boat operators
and CIO si amen said they would
honor picket lines.
NEW VOItK C OTTON.
New York, Sept. 0.?</P)?Cotton
futures opened five to .15 cents a
bale lower. Noon prices wore 25 to
$1.2(1 a bale higher. October 3G.36
December 36.40 and March 36.1''.
Weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Partly cloudy and mild timieht
and Saturday, except ii?hl driz
zle Se.tiir.lav.
Paralyzed
U. N. Council
Holds Closed
Conferencej
New York, Sept. li.? (A*) ? The ?
United Nations Security Council j
meets here today at 3 p. in. in secret j
session after two weeks of heated
debate over the Soviet Ukraine's
complaint against Greece and Bri- i
tain.
Public discussion of the Ukraine's [
charges that Greece was stirring up
incidents en the Albanian frontier
with British troops in the back- j
ground was put off until 3 p. m. I
Monday, when the delegates will re
turn to the U. N. interim headquar
ters at Lake Success, L. I.
The closed session was called for
discussion of the council's report to
the September 23 meeting of the U.
N. General Assembly in New York.
The secretariat has asked t:-.:- coun
cil to expedite it-- report, which will
include statements on the handling
of the unsettled Hussion-Iranian,
Spanish and Ukrainian cases?till of
which were brought before the
council since th ? assembly meeting
in 1.' ndon last winter.
Britain strongly indicated' in de
bate on the Ukrainian charges at
t ake Success yesterday that she will
press for dismissal of the Ukrainian
charges on the contention that they
amount to no more than propaganda. |
British Demand
Trieste Area Be
Internationalized
Paris, Sept. '! i/i'??Britain wiirn- |
cd the peace conference today that
lie would withdraw from the his
four agreement on division of Vene
zin Giulin if Trieste is not siven a
genuine "intei national" status as a
free territory.
Charging that Yugoslavia is claim
ing "ii very spec'til position,' in the
administration of the disputed Ad
riatic port, British Delegate Hector
McNeil said Britain would "recon
sider the whole agreement" if
Trieste's independence is impaired.
France, too. lined up with Britain
in opposing Yugoslav claims to dom
ination of Trieste.
Maurice Couve DcMurviilc. the
French delegate, said his nation
would dinsist on ft free territory as
the core of the whole situation.''
Strike May Crack
U. vS. Wage Formula
Washington, Sept. 0.?tA')?Rome |
federal labor officials arc frankly
worried that the AFL maritime I
strike may shatter what remains of j
government wage .and price slabili
zation.
"This is the toughest kind of
strike we have had," one high of
ficial told a reporter.
The official pointed out that the
walkout is directed at an adverse
decision of the Wage Stabilization
Board and not against the employ
ers, who pleaded along with tin
?tnicn for i pprov.nl of a higher wage
increase than the board was willing
to authorize.
Ingenuity Builds Mountain Print Shop
Kv RIM, SIlAltlT.
Burnsvillc.- Too mailman is Ihv
most im, 'tint individual in the
luisiru s i f I,. V. Edwards. who, using
n steam engine fur power, runs a
printing shop far I :icl; in n c >vc in
the Blue Ridge mountain;, of North
Carolina.
Because ell of Edwards' business
is dene by mail, end he dees printing
for small business men in almost
every state in the Union. "I open
every letter I get." the veteran print
er said as he slit open his mail.
"Heard of a fellow one lime that
threw a worthless-looking letter in
the fire end then found out later it
contained n check."
Cheekt: fluttered out of his mail.
"This is just like fishing." he ex
plained. "Never en tell whether
the next cht'.k is "going to be for 530
or 80c."
Shop R|" Surnrko.
When yo'i turn Ihc bend in the
rutty, steep road which leads around
the mi un' ain. the sight of Edwards
printing C*o, is cpiite a rur n isc II
is a ramshackle building, 100 feet
long, v.hieh grew up end down tlie
hill as Edw rds and his two boy
added to it to keep pace with busi
ness. The not s' ri " 's to '
the little steam engine which runs nil
the presses in the place, in lieu of
olec'ric power. Edwards once used
a gasoline engine until gar became
so hard tr get. then he Installed the
steam outfit?making his perhaps the
only steam printing plant in the
country.
Such ingenuity ha? characterized
mis little mountain industry from
Ilje beriiiiiin Kiudy-six yciws ago
Edwards tr ido hi'; fil.-l prt\.? himsell
out 'f .vi (i I. With this crude equip
ment ! ?? taught hiui elf hew to print.
Now lie has n'no presses ar.:l could
operate Ihein all except for aarcityj
oi labor. lie has trained many
boys and girls o." Jacks Creek Town
ship to be printers, but they grow
up orcl drift away to the cities, and
the new generation scents disinclined
tr become apprentices.
A firm believer in advertising, he
took small ads in periodicals which
reached small business men. One
of bis specialties is prin'ing matter
for poultry dealers. He also worked
hard to get the printing business
?if churches, schools and fraternal
organizations, developing a mailing
list as he went along,
i His Linotype machine was an ad
venturous experiment. He (.nee bad
| i customer who became so fascinated
| by Edwards' homely operation that
I he lelt him a legacy of $150. Ed
i wards had a great passion for a Lino
type but he has an insurable horror
of debt. "When folks get into deht."l
be said, "they don't s"om to amount
" natch. Cnn time f visited a fel
k w in A'hevllle. Had a fine home
and a car and good clothes, and all
I;hot. Wol. sir. I (Anight he was
?ne of the most fortunate tocn I
jever saw, and the later I found out"
-and Edwards dropped his vticc to
a confidential tone--"I found out
'hat the fellow sti'l owed 'or the
; house. Probably fee the car. ten."
Well, he put the SIV) away, but
! finally decided to buy the Linotype,
eiving rotes for the balance Nei
ther he nor his two apprentice sons
knew anything aim: ?; a Linotype, but;
it was hauled up the mountain in a
assembling it. VVi en they Rot throufh.
hired truck, and tiiev ret to work
they had a lot " pieces left over,
rind the machine wouldn't run. i
ho Guy. c ue of he sons, was sent
off to Ashcvillc with careful instruc- i
tiens cn strategy. He went up into
the tij. modern compering room of
'Ihe Citizen-Times and "jrst lu ng i
around." "lie didn't ask any cpies- .
iens." raid Edwards shrewdly. "Just
watched. Just watched those ma
chines work, acting like he wus ? u
rious. Pretty coon he'd spot one of !
those miscing pieces and he'd see
Whore it fitted in. When he came
bp k home, we s?t down and put
that machine together, hooked her i
up to he "o-"!inc machine, an.l ihe
run all right."
The f loulous Linotype machine
ran fee i long time, but when gaco
j line difficulties forced Edwards to
buy the steam engine (it once did
| ;e vice in a u (working chop) he
-old it. ant r.ow buy. his crmposl- |
ticn. Ills toys meantime had erne
nto rcrviee end left him alone, and !
j he raid it was ''o;> much trouble
wat'-hing the fc? iter and running the
machine, tco.
Edwards hasn't the r.tigh'cst de
ire to reek a more convenient 11
? a'ion. "I've rot a Ob-acre farm-? |
my wi'c's the farmer," he said. "In |
| the City you have to pot your !
land olhT villi's from a store, and it j
costs a let. You have tc buy clothes
land give Parties and go to shows.
(Why in the world would anybody]
want to add ell those burdens to hlj|
i busine&s?"
Reich Unification
Is Demanded Now
By U So Secretary
?r???. GS'ss To Stay A<* Long As Needed,
Asserts America Will Not Shirk Duty
f v.ttgart, Get many, Sept. <?.? (AP)?Secretary of (State |
?T.-P" s F. Byrnes in^od today (lie early establishment of a cen
tralized German Jtovernmont, rejected France's claims to the
mini, irn i and Itvinr and warned Russia that the United States
dots not consider Geim.?nvs eastern ?joundarv fixed on the Oder
river.
n n i nprcc dertrd sgcc.h re- i
rdcd r.s toe mo I i:>;po.' .,.ti .n, j
;'ii 1 .in ? >liey lt<uui si ?i-.nr-n' ;
since till '.if :h ? v ;? ;103 it
! n ' si i ci plan f ? ; cii'ual i'tii
it i! .1 < I >e CIc.Tt mti !:c pie under;
i n'lliu: I ? i ???il \ h-> : id
ro !; U i inig ,i v la , .? tin; ;
'edrral ?o 'lit' i lap , "Unite I
Stoics of Germany."
A< Ihe : urr ? time. Ryns made
?i"i?!n the inl-r " u of fie U. S. to
it!n-e irt-*' f o'clv her interest in!
European af.'cl a sand cmphx rrd
uUj. solo a/ .< xc.; p."?bab!y will
ave to remrin in Germany for a
ong period."
Won-' shirk Dutv.
"I v.on'. no misunderstanding."
Byrne; said. "Wo will not shirk
our duty. We arc net withdrawing.
As lrng as an occupation force is re
quired in Germany, the army of the
United States will be part of that
occupi-'.ion force."
The secretary" addressed an audi
ence of German and Allied leaders
in this seat of the German provision
al government of the American zone.
The city was gaily decorated with
flags. For security reasons, the mil
itary detachment was strengthened
to four times its normal size.
While emphasizing the determina
tion of the U. S. to see Germany rise
again as a peaceful, ';cntralizcd na
tion, Byrnes rejected certain claims
to the Rhineland and Ruhr and
[ warned Eoland and Russia ..Ahat
America docs not consider Ger
many's eastern boundary fixed on
the Oder.
Occupation Areas Tentative.
Territories now occupied by Pol
and and Russia were "provisionally
assigned" at Potsdam. Byrnes as
serted, and "the protocol of the Pots
dam conference makes clear the
heads of government did not agree
to support at the peace settlement
Ihe cessation of any particular area."
In urging the early establishment
of a ? ential German government,
he declared that the (our power Al
lied ccr/.rol council "sc far as many
vital questions are concerned, is nci
thei governing Germany nor allow
ing Germany to govern herself."
"All that the Allied governments
can and should do is to lay clown
the rules under which Germany can
govern herself," he said. "The Al
lied occupation forces should be lim
ited to the number sufficient to see
that these rules are obeyed."
"It is Hie view o. the American
government that the provisional
government should not be hand pick
ed by other governments, but should
be a German national couiv.il coin
posed of democratically responsible
ministc r-presidents or other chief
officials of the several state;; or
[provinces which have been establish
ed in each of Ihe four zones."
"Subject to the reserved author
ty u'' the .* Ilic I . n| ccr a ? I, Ulc
i : i . I < i. 11 il : li inii bt
? :? i '(i i I- |- r I is
, .. ?! t- (: u : b-.jn'.t- I've agen
\ ?" v ?? i oul i- la c a .equate
w ? iii : i r Ml Ttin't ration
? !iy us an*'- i i >ni ? i nit tu
; 11 ?'? T.j.'e't I Ly I'm 1 sciam
1 ;: r-i mcr.
IlyntM further <!c-died the Amor
i ulicv hiv'P'd Germany under
the following general points:
1. The U. S. "will oppose harsh I
and vengeful measures against Gcr-:
many which obstruct an effective!
peace. We will oppose soft meas
ures which invite the breaking down
of peace."
2. The United States will not
agree to taking front Germany great
er reparations than were provided
in the Potsdam agreement.
3. Germany s it o u 1 d be admin- j
| istered an economic unit with elim- ]
illation of ccr nomic zonal harriers.
I The U. S. will do everything in her j
power to effect the maximum pos
sible unification.
| 4. The Allies should, without de
lay, make clear to the German peo- I
pie the essential terms of the pea- e
settlement which the Allies expect
the German people to accept and ob
serve.
5. As long as occupation forces
are required in Germany, the Army
of the United States will be a part
of that occupation force.
0.- Ther^-fhowld- he er^nblished at
sn early date a provisional German
government for Germany, in the form
of a German national council com
posed of minister-president or oth
er chief officials from each of the
four zones. The council should be
responsible to the Allied control
.ouncil. for the "proper functioning"
of the central administrative agen
cies to administer Germany as an
j economic unit and also for tiio prep
aration of a "Federal Constitution
of the United St.iic.. of Germany."
| 7. The boundai-.'s of new Germany
should be defined now.
8. The U. S. is "ct nvinced". in
the interest cf Germany, and Aus
tria. and the pence of Europe, that
the two countries should pursue their
separate ways."
I 9. The U. S. government will
"stand by its at" i circti! to support
i the transfer of K onigsberg and the
I adjacent area to Itussia. "milr. s the
(Soviet government changes it - view
on the subject."
10. The U. S. will support the rc
: vision of I! d.!ti-d's northern and:
western frontiers in her favor, be-1
caused of territory Poland ceded I
Itussia under the Yalta agreement.
11. The U. S. "doe; not feel il can
deny" to France her claims t> the
Snnr, hill if the Fear is incorporated '
in Krai* c. the French repartitions
claim against Germany should be
readjusted.
HURT BY BULLET THAT KILLED DAD
IN A IAS VEGAS, NEV., hospital, n nurse attends Prank Waters, Jr., aged
lG-month3, who was injured when his mother, Bridget, a war bride,
fatally shot the boy's father. The shooting followed a quarrel over the
child who was in his dad's arms at the time. The tot suffered powder
burns and a slight wound on the knee. flntcmational Soundohoto).
Just Like Home
UNRRA Director General Fiorallo
LaGuardia is shown as he tot>k
a ride in London's subway, better
known as the "tube." Judging from
his looks, "The Hat" is not enjoy
ing his ride. He was in London
conferring with aides on UNRRA
food problems. (International)
Senate Panel
Wants May
At Hearing
Solon's Statement
Not Satisfactory,
Chairman Asserts
Washington. Sept. 0.? <>?*) ? The
I Senate War investigating Commit
tee made it plain today it still in
sist that Rep. Andrew J. May (D)
I of Kentucky tell at a full-dress
i hearing about his activities in con
1 nection with war contracts obtained
: by the Gtmson munitions combine,
i In a letter to May. Chairman Mead
(D) of New York asserted that the
| Kentucky congressman's statement
disclaiming any profit from his con
I nection with the Cumberland Lum
I bcr Co.. a Gnrsson afliliate. "does
! not give adequate information" and
i"is not satisfactory to the commit
tee."
Mead ruled out, too, any sub
committee trip to question May at
the lattcr's Prcstonburg, Ky., home.
Brushing off that responsibility, he
!asked that May advise the commit
tee "when it may be expected that
your physical condition will oe such
as to allow you to appear and testify
before the committee in Washing
ton."
May was taken ill on the eve of
his scheduled testimony last July. In
a statement yesterday, he said he
was now able to be out of bed for
a short time each day and would "be
very happy to meet with a sub-com
mittcc here in Prcstonburg."
Foreign Ministers
Recommend Delay
In L . X. Meeting
Paris. S<-pt. <>. ? ?/!*>?An American
official said tlio ti.reign ministers
council decided today to recommend
a pu.-lponcmcnt of the United Na
tions General Assembly meeting
scheduled for Sept. 23 in New York.
'Ihc informant, who attended only
the first part of the session, said the
coup i! reached its decisions after
c; aside: its'? a S \ ict proposal to de
lay the U. N. meeting until some
time in November, ar.ri transfer it 'to
Paris or Geneva.
The < ? .unciI had not yet taken up
the second part of the So\ ict pro
pe. al to transfer the meeting Id Eu
rope. he said.
The council met i.t a Russian re
quest.
Secretary of State .lames Byrnes,
who opposed the Russian proposal
when it first was brought up Mon
day. was absent I-.day because of
a speaking engagement in Stuttgart.
Germany. His place was taken by
James C. Dunn, assistant secretary
of state.
Stocks Continue
Downward Slide
New York, Sept. 0. ?</!*)?Stocks,
with scattered exceptions, resumed
the retn at in today's market al
though the pace slowed.
Among backsliders were dul'ont,
Eastman Kodak. United Aircraft and
Goodyear.
REGENT OF GREECE
RESIGNS HIS POST
Athens. Sept. fi.?(/P|?Ar.hbishop
Damoskincs, regent of Greece since
Dec. 30. 1044. has resigned the rcj^
ency in anticipation of the return
of King George II. the press min
istry announced.
Latest returns from Sunday's
ricbiseite en the monarch's return
ram five years cf exile gave George
1,1 OR 512 votes to 521,267 for a r?
' public.