ItettlteirsOTt Umlu Dispatch
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->s'" IA "?" ''lo:s's HENDERSON, N. C., fI UESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1046 i'UBEisin;nw:\MiUYm aktbunoon FIVE OENTS C!OPV
TU? STRIKE ADDS TO SHIP CRISIS
K im* _ i . -
HUDDLED IDLY on Lhe Brooklyn, N. Y., waterfront arc some of the 3,500
tugboats which were tied up as a final move in the strike of maritime
workers which has completely crippled shipping activities in New York
harbor. Some 1,600 vessels are reported immobilized throughout the na
tion by the walk-out of AFL. Seamen's unions. (international)
Meat?If You Can Find It?1
Is Back Under OP A Control
Housewives Turn
To Fish, Chicken;
Army Is Hard Hit
Washington, Sept. !0.? ;P)?Moat I
went back under OPA ceilings today j
?and housewives in many cities had |
to turn to poultry and fish markets
to round out their menus.
Even the army, the world's big
gest single cus'omcr. said it may
have to do likewise unless the meat
shortage abates.
The new butcner shop prices aver
age 12 per cent hither than on June
30 when mint began its 71-day pe
riod in the free market. They arc |
lower than must re* cut prices, but
the ceilings are meaningless in many
communities because counters are
bare.
Mow long the rhortagc will last
became a prime leoie not only among |
OPA an-l Agriculture Department
experts but among arnty fr.dd buy- i
ers as well.
Rationing Is Out.
Any return to consumer ration-i
ing appeared to he out.
One remedy being dismissed is a
possible price boo t 'o encourage
greater production on the "arms, j
ranges, and feed lets.
But no action appeared imminent.
The Agriculture Department
given the last w ml over such mat
ters in die prr e c? ntroS extension
law? was unwilling to concede that
a long and severe shortage is in
prospect. A spokesman said depart
ment meat expert:-: think the meal
laininc may he over in a month
or so and that in any event it is too
early for any decision.
Officials admittedly were watch
ing the meat recuntrnl program
closely as a guide to Ihe whole f11
turc i.f peace-time price controls.
The army told of its concern in an
announcement by the quartermaster
general's office that its meat buy
Weather
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Tartly cloudy and continued
hot tonight and Wednesday.
China Fight
Is Spreading
FormaLJ)eclaraU?Mi - -
Is Being Predicted
Pciping. Sept. u?.?
.l(Ki.f)()(i |? aids. runv hired with
58.tintl.0hl) pounds bought in April.
WPli Inlying still off hist month,
officials said supplies on hand wlii
permit cus tomary mentis to be served
only through September. '
INFANT SAVED BY RARE OPERATION
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SIX-DAYS-OID Patricia Kooning of Asbury Park, N. J., is held by nurse
Betty Howell at a Philadelphia hospital after a rare operation saved the
infant's lifo. Patricia was born with her esophagus in two sections,
making it impossible for the baby to lake nourishment. The delicate
operation took over three hours. (international SounclpWo)
Wage Board Ponders Sailors' Dilemma
As Nation's Export Business Chokes
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Food Stocks
In New Y ork
AreDepleted
New York. Sept. 10. -!') ? As
chain store stocks iwared exhaustion,
he strike of 25,000 AF1, truck driv- '
;rs bit deeper into the New York
eetn-politati area's industrial life
'oda.v, Ik iligin". plant : hntdowns. lay
>ffs, :.nd threatenin,". to hall work
in va t building projects.
Max A. Foley, president of the ,
New York Building Congress, tie- |
clarcd that work en hundreds of |
uir.ie.ivi of dollars worth of con
struction in New York would bo j
halted within a week for lack of 1
supplies if the strike continues.
Other building spokesmen estimat
d lay-offs already run into the
thousands.
2,000 New roliceir.cn.
As a result of the emergency,
created by both the trucking strike
and the walkout of AFL seamen.
Mayor William O'Dwvcr announced
that 2,000 new policemen would be
placed cn duly next week.
The .'* * ""tie and Pacific Tea Co.
innounccd it would close all of the
500 A. & P. stores in the New York
area at the end of Saturday's busi
ness. The Safe-Way Food Stores al
so announced it would close at least
240 of its stores. The National Sugar
defining Co. suspended operations .
it its Long Island City plant, affect
ing 1,000 mpn.
Stocks Take
Further Dip
New York. Sept. 10.?i/l't?Stocks
ivppc .1, rallied smartly and flopped
] iguin today in another one of the
[m ist active sessirns of the past year.
The decline v.ai extended :it the
tart. A f!o: d of bids then stemmed
the slide. r< die ?:! or cancelled early
losses and brought numerous recov
eries with the ticker tape late for
an interval.
Pi on incut on the retreat were
Methlrhcm. (r. S. Steel. Chrysler.]
fir !e'\'il Motors and duPoiit.
I!< .i.Mat:re v.vis shown by U. S. i
Rn! 'er. Union Carbide and Air lie- ;
diction.
Bonds clipped.
Ewing's Lawyers
Say State Hasn't
Made Its Point|
lave 11 "villo. Sc ?). lit. i/T*? (.'(usiisel
fur Wall C\ Ewing. prominent Cmn
borlatid county politician who i:; on
trial for Ins lift' on the rluirgc of
I slaying his wife, asserted today that
; 11 if State had failed to prove that
Mr.. Kwing's death resulted from a
! criminal tret.
The trial, which began August 27,
| and is one of the longest in the
county's history, is slowly drawing
to a close. The opposing lawyers,
who began their arguments to the
I jury yesterday, continued their
| speeches today, and Judge R. llunt
Parker is expected to deliver his
| charge and place Kdwing's fate in
the hands of the jury tomorrow.
Thomas McNeill of Lumberton.
one of the four defense lawyers, told
the jury that evidence presented by
Ihe State that Kwing threatened fin
wife, cursed her and beat her many
times over a period of two and one
half years were the acts of a drunk
en man and not a murderer.
The evidence only shows that
Mr. Ewing fought his wife, that Mrs. |
Ewing is dead, and that probably she !
died of an external force applied to
the side of her head." McNeill said, j
Pittsburgh Power
Walkout Averted;
Injunction Issued
Pittsburgh, Sept. 10?t/P)?A court
order, stressing the public interest j
and welfare, brought a quick end '
today?at least temporarily? to a
strike of electric power employes j
which had threatened paralysis of a
1,817 square mile area embracing :
1,500,000 persons.
The t dor forbade any activities
"which will imperil the lives, pro
perty. health and well being of the
citizens."
.lust as the strikers were begin
ning to leave their posts to take up
nicket statinns, Judge Walter P.
Kmart handed wer." II forbade picketing.
Miss America '46
MISS California?otherwise Marilyn
Buford, 21, Los Angeles?is shown
here after she had been crowned
Miss America of 1946 at the Atlan
tic City beauty pageant. Miss Bu
ford is tall, slender and* hrown
haired. (International Soundphoto)
Commission
Established
For Trieste
Paris Committee
to Draft Statute
For A 'Free City'
Paris, Sept. 10.?(/Pi?The peace
conference commission cn Italian po
litical and territorial questions de
cided today to set up an eight na
tion sub-commission to draft a
statute for tin- free city of Trieste.
At the same tin-.? James C. Dunn.
U. S. assistant -r v.-clary of stale,
wdhrirew tliree American propoals
for a detailed delimitation of the in
terrational /one and Italian-v'ugo
.lav lit tinriaries.
American and French evpi illations
i of the A incrican action differed.
Dunn was quoted as saying the
liropt-sals were withdrawn bcrnuse
they never hat! been discussed by
the foreign ministers council. The
proposals were only advanced, he
said, be: use there was no rlcUiilcd
delimitation of the French line to
which Ihe council agreed.
Now the French have drawn up
a detailed proposal and. rather than
create ronfudr. n by having two pro
pr;a!s fro-ii members of the fottr
pr.wrr foreign ministers rowv it, the
V. S. derided it witlfdraw its plan,
Dunn was quoted.
A French so iree, however, said the
U. S. propo-r Is were withdrawn be
cause rf rdrmant opposition from
Russia, who wrvild not budge from
their view that she- had given her
approval in the council to the French
and not the American 'inc.
The defalk I American line d ffer
cd from the French at tw > points,
near Go. i/ia. irwth of Trieste, and
r.car IF.onfalcone. west of Trieste.
'46 Cotton Crop
Forecast Drops
VV; hingtnn. Sept. 10. ? (A* l ? The
Agriculture Department today fore
cast a 194(5 cotton crop of 9,171.000
bales of 500 pounds, gross weight,
based upon conditions prevailing
Sept. t.
This estimate compared with 9.
290,000 bales forecast a month ago,
and with last year's crop of 9,015.000
bales. The ne'eage for harvest, the
indicated yield per acre, and the es
timated production, respectively, for
North Carolina was: 571.000.412: and
490.000.
MANILA AWAITS TYPHOON.
Manila. Sept. 10.?(Ah?Many Ma
nila government offi' es and bust
no's houses and the American school
Ho-cd early today to permit em
ployes and pnnils 1o prepare for a
typhoon, r.rhednlcd to pass 15 miles
north of the eil.v tnnffthl.
More Data
Might Ease
WSB's Task
Washingli n. Sept. If>.??- Th
Government W age Stab ilizatiti
joard met today fur a second look
at its ruling which toueli . 1 ctf the
pleading AFI. ni.i.ilimc strike.
Grnveiy aware that America's
merchant fleet lies mote nless, the
ax members opened their hearings
ai seafarers' wager.
The res: mptmii <>t oeean shipping
s at : ink e.
So, too, perhaps, is the future of
the board itself, and tli ? wliuie gov
ernment wage-price policy laid ,
down last Feb. 14.
Here is the board's dilemma:
1?if it sticks to its August
23 ruling that a!?!_ .nidi:d sea
men should get no more than
$17.50 a month as a wage In
crease. the strike might go on
and on with dire results.
2?if it reverses its position, it
would be doing . .mottling which
a majority of its members huve
said "would seriously weaken
the whole stabilization program."
The White House, the Labor De
partment, the Maritime Commission,
ihc army, navy, and other agencies
.stood by. There were contcrenc /
out np definite plan of government j
I VKIVftgVU.
IS'ew Data Needed.
One thing that could make the j
task easier for the Wage Stabiliza- I
tion Board is "new evidence
I Government officials close to the |
situation take the view that if im- I
portant new facts were presented, >
ihe board might be able to reverse |
its ruling without wrecking its pr< j
tigc or revamping the whole policy
ot wage and price control.
An official said that in such a case, !
the board might announce in el- \
feet:
"New data about the agreements i
between ship operatois and AFL I
seamen, not given to us befoi>
.hows that we can properly approve
higher wage increases without violat
ing the present policy. The mari
time industry, where the govern
ment owns most of the ships, is an
unusual ahd vital industry and this j
approval does not constitute an in
I citation for higher wages in other 1
industries."
One obstacle to the "new evi
| dence" solution, however, is t'/.l
I AFL leaders didn't seem anxious to
! provide any. Spokesmen for the ship
i operators, however, were on hand
j to argue for approval of the higher
| AFL wage increases.
K.xport Trade Choked.
Meanwhile, the nation's dcco
I water shipping remained strike- t
bound with export business com
pletely shutdown, while government
'agencies and shipping concerns con
j r iriercd the demand ol CIO seamen
for wage increase: equivalent to!
j any granted AFL sailors.
Joseph Ctirran. president of the
90.000 - member National Maritime
; Union (CIO), declared lie would de
mand increases for his men match
ing anything won by AFL seamen
! who went on strike after the Wage
Stabilization Board ordered a cut
back to $17.50 a month in AFL's
negotiated raises.
The striking seamen are affiliated
with the Seafarers International Un
ion and the Sailors Union of the Fac-. |
ifie. 'I he AFL unions originally nego
tiated raises with operators amount
in gtn S22.50 a month, on the west
coast and $27.50 on the east coast.
The CIO previously received a
hike of $17.50 a month, the level to
. which the WSB had chopped off the j
AFL sermons' pay boosts.
The United States '/'.aritime Com- 1
mission said that along the Atlantic
coasl 723 ships were tied tip, an in
crease of 23. About 200 were report- !
ed strike-bound on the Gulf coast.
Hobson Sentenced
To Maximum Term
In Wilson Trial
Wilson. Sept. 1". r> Harvey
Hobson, Wilson county tenant farm
er. was sentenced to 4'? years im
prisonment trday after a superior I
court jury convicted him on two;
charges ff manslaughter in cin
neclion with the shotgun slaying
of his landlords, Stephen and An-1
drew Kthcridgo.
The jury deliberated one hctir he- [
i fore rctirnic; Its vcrdiet. Judge
Henry L. Stevens hrjo'cd the max-J
imam sentence. 2U yrats on each'
count, and stipulated that the sen- |
tcnrcs should run consecutive.
If. S. SKKKS RICK II RKI'ORT.
Berlin. Sept. to. ifp) \ new U.S.
proposal to obtain a four-: r. .vcr in- i
; vesiieation of the status rf German i
1 demilitarization in all four oceti
: pation zones has reached tbe Allied .
i control authority coordinating com-1
' mittec. the American Military Gov-I
I eminent disclosed today. I
ADMIRES 'MR. AMERICA' CONTESTANT
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MILWAUKEE MODEL Dee Phillips is shown admiring the muscles ot
James Sobolski, 21, chosen as "Mr. Wisconsin" in a recent contest. So
bolski, who is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds, will enter a
national contest for "Mr. America" honors, (international Sound photo!
Many Jews In Palestine
Put Under House Arrest
Conference
(>n Palestine
Is Started
Attlee Says Britain
Not Committed To
Experts' Proposals
London, Sept. 10. ? t,Vi ?Prime j
Minister Clement Attlee opened the
London conferences on Palestine to
day with the assurance that Britain i
was not committed to the controver- j
sial British-American experts plan i
to divide Palestine into a federal i
state of four zones.
Addressing Arab leaders. Attlee '
appealed to both Arabs and Jews to
"make concessions ncces: ary for
peace" in the Holy I and where fresh i
violence flared.
Jews did not join lli** confab, but
indications grew that they might :
take part later, though not at the
same table with Ihc Arabs.
An informed Jewish source said .
that the Jewish Agency would join
the talks later this week if Britain
"showed a willingness to concede." i
A British government official pre- !
dieted that both the Jewish agency
and non-agency would attend later
on.
British cabinet ministers were re
ported considering a "certain for- |
inula" under which the Jewish
agency had offered to participate.
Faris Bey El Khouri, president of
the Syrian chamber of deputies and
an official spokesman for the Aral}
League said he would reply formal
ly to Alt Ice's address when the coiv
ferencc resumes tomorrow.
Terrorists Sought
By British Troops
In 2 Communities
Jerusalem. Sept. 10.?l/l'i? More
than a third of Palestine's Jewish
population was placed under strict
house arrest today as British troops
sought tiie persons responsible for a
series of bombings which killed
three persons last night, injured a
dozen and caused widespread pro
perty damage.
Approximately 8.000 troops poured
into Tei Aviv at dawn to assist po
lice in making a house to house
search of all that Jewish city, where
two British officers were listed as
killed outright in an explosion whicl\
damaged a government building.
Tel Aviv and nearby Ramat Gan
today were placed under a paralyz
ing curfew as a result of the ter
rorist acts and British troops were
staging an inch by inch search of
both Jewish communities.
.Sergeant Is Slain.
A communique issued here dis
closed for the first time that a Brit
ish sergeant was shot and killed
near Pctah Tikva when lie inves
tigated an explosion there.
It was previously reported that a
British major, serving as a Jaffa
Tel Aviv security officer, was kill
ed in a blast which wrecked his
home and damaged a government
building across the street. Also kill
ed was an Arab constable on guard
duty.
Throughout northern Palestine,
authorities reported a number of ex
plosions but details still were lack
ing as to damage and the targets.
NEW YORK C OTTON.
New York. Sept. in.?\ry>)?Cotton
futures opened 50 cents to $2.05 a
bale lower. Noon prices were 95
rents lo .$1.40 ;> bale lower. Oc
tober .18. fin. December 36.27 and
March 36.05.
WARNS OF POLICE USE IN STRIKE
PRESIDING AT A MEETING of city officials, spokesmen for the truck
drivers union, employers and mediators in New York City is Mayor
William O'Dwyor (center). Ho told the men that if essential food and!
medical supplies arc not moved he will use the full police power of the!
city to make certain that they reach their destinations. (Infcrmitionaljf