ItettlteirsOTt Umlu Dispatch 'THIRTY-THIRD YEAR ^?.vv,,tK SK,(V,rK ^ ?r : ^ henm,,. N, N, c, ^ ? ->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 v ??? ? 1 i I ??? 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 ' A Food Stocks In New Y ork AreDepleted New York. Sept. 10. -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 ??y.;.I !? ? ?!?!?! !!??! 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