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jjgnftgrgott Daily Dispatch
thiriy-third year ^nS?-i:!^^atkivyngygf Henderson, n. c., Tuesday afternoon, September 24. i<>4(? i-ohwhhri. kvkuy aktkkn?>on i.mwmiv /???v
"'aim misses crash survivor for second time
HAVING SURVIVED the crash of the Belgian Sabena airliner in the Newfoundland wilderness, Jeanne Perricr,
16, one of 18 survivors, misses death again as the Coast Guard rescue plane in which she had been llown
blew a tire when it settled on the Gander airport runway. Official U. S. Coast Guard photo. (International)
Third Power
Strike Hits
Pittsburgh
Steel Operations
Being Curtailed;
Some Power Flows
Pittsburgh. Spt. 24. ? i,Ti?The
third power strike in seven months
hit this steel center, curtailing steel i
operations and slree; ear operations,
in an area of 1,500.000 persons. J
A: a. walk: .it of the LHttptcsne i
Light Co.. irr iloyes began, the 1'ilts- j
burgh Railway Co. announced a j
50 per cent cut in trolley opera
tions. the city's main method of pub
lic transportation. Trolleys normal
ly Iran-port about < nc million per
sons daily 'acre.
The light company announced its
industrial c isiuv -rs were "prac- ,
licallv fhttl down."
I'awer Is Limited.
A : pnkcsm*an said "several hun
dred" of it. tt.r.OO i a rloyes walked
out hut that the linn "still lias a
limited amount of power."
He a.*! led that the power output
would be rurlailcd unless home own
ers. stores, office buildings, etc..
"continue to conserve electricity."
Shortly alter the strike began at
.'tn a. m. LST. the first effects were
npc rted at steel n. II-. although pow
I I continued to tl w I i la tr.e dwell
ers and buildings in mid-city and
niiinei'o'i:. neighboring communities.
The I". S. Steel Corp. reported
that American Itridge Co.. a sub
sidiary. elo ed its Ami.ridge. Pa.,
plant because >f lack rt power.
About 2.5(1(1 men were laid olf.
A sp< kesiiuin for the rorp ration
said operatic ns also were somewhat
atteeted at plants in MeKees Rock.
MrKcc: iK?rt and Ci.iirion.
The strike was caiie.d t>y an inde
pendent uni >n again-t the Duqucsne
Light Co.. to enfnree a demand for
a '2(1 per cent wage increase among
other things. The union is the In
dependent Association > '? Kmuloycs
.of ttie Ditquesnc Light Co.
Prominent Roxboro
Woman, 22, Takes
I>ife With Shotgun
Roxboro, Sept. 2t.?Mrs. Tiayn- I
linm Elmo Mitchell. 22, prominent
young Roxboro woman, was found t
dead of a gunshot wound in the
heart at the home of her husband's
parents about noon Monday.
Her body, discovered by her hus
band. was found lying on the bot
tom steps leading frrm the back
yard into the basement. A 12-gaugo
shotgun containing one empty shell
was across the body.
Mrs. Mitchell, an attractive youiv;
woman who was popular among the
young set here, had been married
only four months. She and her hus
band had only recently returned
from Conway. S. C.. where he was
on the tobacco market.
Dr. A. F. Nichols, coroner, and
George C. Robinson, chief of police. ]
concurred in the opinion that she '
killed herself. Dr. Nichols said death 1
apparently occurred instantly about
lb o'clogk Monday morning while
she was alone at the Mitchell resi
dence.
No motive for the suicide was ad
vanced by relatives or friends. Be
fore marriage Mrs. Mitchell was
Rose Arlcne Newell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Newell of
Roxboro. She was an alumna of
Woman's College. Greensboro, and <?
member ?f Long Memorial Meth
odist church. Her father operates a
jewelry store here and her father
in-law is ooerator and part owner
of a local tobacco warehouse.
Treasury (
Tax Cuts 1
Present Levels
Key To Balanced
Budget, He Says
Chicago. Sept. 24.?i/P)?Secretary |
of the Treasury John Snyder declar
ed today that tor our common good
"our present tax levels must be
maintained for sometime."
This "is inescapable if we arc to
achieve a balanced budget, and a
surplus to be used to reduce the
public debt," Snyder told the Amer
ican Bankers Association.
"I think that it is pure fantasy, if
not plain demoniac to talk of tax
reduction and debt reduction in the J
same breath.
The Treasury Secretary told the I
bankers that in the "present econo- j
mir environment, the Federal Gov- |
eminent should direct its primary
effort on the fiscal front to achiev- j
ing a balanced budget."
"Better yet, it should strive to
achieve a substantial surplus of
taxes over expenditures to apply to
debt reduction. These views I ex
pressed the first day 1 entered the
Treasury and they have the full sup
port of the President."
Snyder said the treasury from
February 28 until September 1 hail
reduced its debt by "about $14,000,
000,000 as the result of heavy pay
off made on maturities of market
able securities each month."
OFFH'FRS KXI'F.f 1 F.l> TODAY.
Shanghai. Sept. 24.?t/l'i?T h r ?? e
American army officers were expect
ed nere today on a long flight from
Cheiitu. the first mission to inves
tigate r< ? >i'ts that a number of miss
ing ain!"."ii are living in the wilds
i ' western China as slaves of prim
itive l/>|o tribesmen. The three left
Saturday t> finest it n missionaries
and U. S. Army Graves Registra
tion teanw in the west China area.
Officials said every possible step
was being taken to locate and res
cue any possible captives.
^11 ? C C5
c/hier bays
Impossible
Market Continues
Its Uneven Trend
New York. Sept. 24. ? (/Pi?The I
stock market today enjoyed another j
early selective rally which failed to 1
attain real m< mention or develop;
a fallow through.
Supported were U. S. Steel, Chry-;
sler, U. S. Rubber, Montgomery >
Ward. Douglas Aircraft. Electric Pow
er and Light, Dow Chemical, and
duPcnt.
, Inclined to lag were American
' Telep hone. American Can. .Inhns
' Manvillc, and Eastman Kodak.
Kate B. Reynolds
Dies In Winston
Wiivton-Kahi iv. Sept. 24.? i/P>?
Mrs. Kiitc Reynolds, wife of tv. N.
Reynolds, former president of the
Reynolds Tchacco Co.. died last night
after several years >t ill health.
Y>s. Reynolds was a native of
Yar'xin county.
'.'"unoral services will be '/eld j
fr< m the residence at I p. m. Wed
no lay with her pa. tor. Dr. George
Maur.c in charge.
FIGHTING IN GKKCE.
Athens. Sept. 24.?i.l'l?The Min
istry of Public Order announced to
day that Greek troops had fought
a la-honr hat tie with a hand of 2.000
leftists at the tillage > t De-katc in
Tliesfaly end unofficial re; >rts in
?licale thiit 120 of (he band had
.been killed and over 200 wounded.
Weather
FOR NORTH CAKOI.IXA.
Partly eloudy ami continued
rather warm Tuesday and Wed
nesday with scattered thunder
showers.
U. S. Sees Meat Paradox:
Full Ranges, Bare Plates
Washington. Sept. 24.?(Ab?This t
moat-hungry nation is witnessing
the paiadox of near record num
bers of cattle roaming the ranger
while dinner table platters are emp
ty of beef.
Agriculture Department e fficials
said today the number of cattle on
the nation's farms is not far below
the 1944 peak, and that the number
on western ranges may be the larg
est on record.
Hut, grass-fed cattle arc not mov
ing off ranges to slaughter pens in
lum bers that the government had
expected. Department experts said i
uncertainty over future price trends
are delaying marketings.
This picture of the beef situation
was depicted as Secretary of Agri
culture Clinton P. Anderson pre
pared to make a nation-wide radio
talk at 10:15 p. in. KST on govern
ment price policies on farm prod
ucts. Aides said the secretary was
expected to dlreuss the livestock
situation.
This is the season when eattle
normally start moving off ranges
In large numbers. But the movement I
has b -en slow since livestock price I
controls were reestablished Sept. 1 |
Therefore, beef supplies in butcher
shops are meager.
Cattle fed on southern and west- !
ern ranges usually -tart to market
as soon as pastures begin drying up,'
this is sometimes .is early as July.
The 11 ,ave 11.en t usually rear lies its
?n:.i< in October.
, k.m'kit s>;ni?av. 1 xv ^ 10 vv71 1
Stalin Sees No War Threat,
Asks Friendship With U. S.
London Sees
New 'Tough'
Red Policy
Answers Are Being
Studied Closely by
British Gavernmcnt
I.imi'an. So; '.. 21.?l/lt-A hitsh
ly place I Wliitohrdl source said un
?? 1'1 i - - i; 111 y to.iay lli.it rrim:- Minister
.'use ill Stalin's '.air n-nt "liicrc will
' >e iii war" ?..-;>ai cnlly was made
"to toll the western world that Su
va t Hiir. in" will answer the United
States 'toughness''toward her with
a 'loneliness' i.l' her own."
Offieially, a Foroftjn Office spokes
man said, the Si viet leader's obser
vation v is being, studied "with in
terest" by all concerned and that it
was still "too early" to indicate the
reaction of the British government.
Stalin's reply to Alexander vVerth,
the Mo-caw correspondent of the
London Sunday Times, were describ
ed as "firm but friendly."
This source added, however, that
there could he no mistaking the
strength with which Stalin answer
ed every question bearing the slight
est relation 'to the United States'
foreign policy or United States sus
picions of Russia.
Rep. Coo ley Asks
Better Research
On Farm Products
Hnlcigh, Sept. 24. ? </Pt ? Rep.
Harold Cooley told more than three
thousand delegates to the annual
meeting of the NorlJ) Carolina Cot
ton Growers Cooperative Axsncia*"
tion and the farmers Cooperate Ex
change today that we "must find
new and extended uses for agricul
tural products."
He cited rayon, for example, and
said it "now seriously threatens to
supplant completely some of the
major outlets for cotton. Rayon's
rapid advancement and greatly ex
panded use has been primarily dcu
lo research research which develop
ed its qualities and adapted it to an
increasing number of uses. The same
kind of intensive research is sorely*
needed for agricultural products."
Cooley. vice-chairman of the
House Agriculture Committee, said
that "it is more necessary now than
at any other time in history of our
great country that farmers and or
ganizations cooperate. Farm cooper
atives provide methods of collective
bargaining."
Secret Laboratory
Is Set-L'p By U.S.
To Study Weapons
l!oito, Sept. 24.?f/Pi?The United
Stale.;, "already thinking of terms
af outer spaces as a battleground of
the future." has set up a secret is
land laboratory off the Virginia
Capes lor research on offensive and
defensive g ti i d e ri missiles," says
e<'c""tive ?f-rotary .Ir'.in F. Victory
r.f the National Advisory Commit
tee for Aeronautics.
Victory told the western aviation
| conference meeting here that mili
tary thinking on future weapons is
j concentrated on the use of the atomic
| bomb as en ployed in the war-head
of a guided missile.
Such weapons, he said, would be
| potent offensively but equally vital
1 an a de'ense counter-measure to
.destroy similar enemy missiles in
| flight.
THE MAYOR SEES NO LIGHT
HIS trfOHTS TO NEOOTIATE a settlement between the Duquesne Light
Company and the union, Mayor David Lawrence of Pittsburgh throws
up his hands as he learns the union has rejected arbitration of Its con
tract dispute. Union officials declared the injunction to halt their strike
was worth "Iocs than a scrap of Daper." fInternational Soundvhoto)
T
WHERE U. N. ASSEMBLY WILL MEET
HERE IS A VIEW of the chamber where the United Nations General
Assembly will convene on October 23, in New York. The chamber is in
the reconverted City of New York Building of the World's Fair of 1939.
In background is the rostrum. A miniatury of the backdrop, a map of
the world, will form the design for the U.N. badge. (International)
j Paris Parley Panel Votes
To De-Fortify Slav Area
Kaiser Asks
Extra Time
In Inquiry
Says Corporation
Too Complicated
For Quick Answer
j Washington. Sept. 24?f/I'i?Henry
| .T. Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder
! protested to a Mouse Committee to
j flay that he could not answer on
j short notice "an endless number of
detailed and technical quest ions"
I about five years of transcntions by
the Kaiser Company, Inc.
lie declared counsel for the Vler
; client Marine Committee, which i.
j inquiring into war-time ship-huiihi
ing [notits, had ordered points wha.i
"it is going to take a staff or ac
countants, engineers and others
: answer."
I he quest ions as to the Kaiser fi
nancial set-up arose yesterday afle
the committee heard testimony that
Kaiser shipbuilding enterprises rc,
ceived Sl!l2.()00,0ni> in profits from
' the government on a capital invest
! nient of $2,.V.O.OOO.
Sf.OO Nets Two-Million.
The committee also was told Ilia',
an unrelated company in Florida ran
a $800 investment into profits >f
over $2,000,000. an item whirl
prompted Rep. Fred I trad ley (K>
ol Michigan, and Rep. Alvin Wcirhe!
| (R) of Ohio to demand a full scale
investigation.
Kaiser, who disputed the figure
relating to his firms, repeatedly tolrl
committee counsel that he was un
able to answer some of the ques
tions about his financial structure
at the moment. The committee ex
cused him until today,
j In his statement prepared for to
nays session, ixarscr said:
! "We want this committee to un
derstand that there is not a single
thing we arc not happy to disclo.-..
that is in our books and corporate
records."
But. "as a practical matter," h.
rdded, "no man in our organization
could testify as to all of these com
plicated corporate, financial and
I business transactions over a five
I year period. I can not do it. No one
can do it."
! He reiterated that combined net
profits after taxes of the four
j Kaise/ ship-building companies were
| less than one-tenth of one per cent
i of the total volume of work done
for the Maritime Commission.
CORN Ol'TPCT HIGH.
Yanceyvillc. Sept. 24.?C. W. Hy
Icr. Yanceyville, rente I. reports that
in spite of the very dry season he
' will niikc morn corn this year than
] he has made in any previous year.
He credits his unusually good yields
| in o--ning leaped eza. planting a good
hybrid, and to heavy fertilization.
Next year, aeeording to the farm
agpnt. J. E. Zirrrncrman. Hyler is
going to out his corn acreage a fourth
and still make as much corn as he
' will need.
Foreign Ministers
Council Convenes;
Vote Is 11 to 7
? ? r ?' t ^ t? i
Paris, Sept. 2!.?(/Pi?The pence
(?(inference military commission vot
ed to de-fortify the southeastern
border of Slav Europe, adopting a
Greek amendment to tlic Bulgarian I
treaty which would she.tr Bulglnria
of frontier forlifieations.
The vote was 11 to 7, with three j
nations abstaining.
It came as tit" four-power foreign
| ministers council was arranging to
I discuss Italian colonies and other
I disputes which are holding up pro- !
! gross of the conference.
The proposition is to domilitari/.c 1
Bulgaria's Hfii-niilc frontier with
! Greece "to the same extent" as the
Italian frontier with Yugoslavia,
j Only Brazil and the Slav dele- |
gates opposed the move.
| Col. \V. I!. Hodgson, of Australia,!
: eathingl.v e; ilicizvd the big four i
foreign minister , lour hours bcfoie I
j the ministers were to convene to (lis- |
cuss di. po.-al o| lite Italian colonies. |
Hod:, on. aiv?ay., the leader of the I
mall powci in intern;, tmnni a Hairs I
?Hacked the num..tors of lius.ua. the
| United States, franco and Britain I
lor "agreeing among themselves" to
t let final disposal ol' Lybia. and Ital- 1
, lan Somnliiand be determined joint- 1
| Iv by the big four.
Gladwyn (Whb. British memher of
the Italian polilicai and territorial
commission, replying to Hodgson,
announced that Ihc big four minis
ters were going to discuss Italian
toloniis this afternoon.
New York Cotton
Xcw York. Sept. 31.?1^?,?Cotton
futures < pened 10 to 55 cents ;i bale
higher. Noon prices were 50 to BO
cents a bale higher. October 37.15,
December 36.94 and March 36.63.
Red Leader
Blasts I . S.
China Policy
J
Replies Arc Muilc
To Nine Questions
By British Ncwsmuu
London. Sept. 115. ? t/lN I'limu
Minister Joseph Stalin .nil Inlay lie
,'ould see i o real daugci of a new
.vai and expressed his i:ii'|ii..lilied
;elicl in the |> ' lilitv I lung. and
rirmlly i .11.i juration hrlviin the
Strict Union and the v.?e.sieni de
mocracies. despite iticaln veal flit'?
erencc
At the s: in- time ho :au! ,he
"niti ;l State 1.1iv.' held a threat to
leace in "nur ai'.i.-.t ? .) .o ion"
:>f at: mic .'.vet oris, hi t this such
irnni nlisti" v -so \s! hi i .ml i not
li ng o?> maintained.
In any event, he said, war:; could
not lie win with atomic htnc'is.
Stalin also char-Til 'ha* 'lie
retention of United Slates mili
tary forces in China threatened
the peace.
Stalin expressed these views in
answer to nine written questions
submitted by Alexander Worth, Mos
cow correspondent cf the London
Sunday Times.
The Soviet leader said he did net
oelieve the United State:; and Brit
ain were trying to encircle Russia
with a capitalistic ring ar.i could
not do so "even if they so desired."
Germany Not Puppet,
lie said Russia had no intention
of using Germany either against
western Europe or against the Unit
ed States, since this would not he
in the interest of the Soviet Union.
He called for "demilitarization and
democraeization" of Germany as
one step toward a "stable and last
ing peace."
"One should strongly differ
entiate between the hue and cry
about a 'new war' which is tak
ing place now and the real dan
i gcr of 'new war' which does
i not exist at present." .Stalin said,
j His replies to Worth were his first
' answers to any foreign cor respond
j cut's letter since March 22 when
he told Associated Press Correspond
ent Eddy Gi lrr.iic that In- lielieuc-d
I in the United Nations as an instru
ment of peace.
z\t that time, he told Gilmore he
believed "neither the nations nor
their arivres arc seeking another
war." and lie urged a campaign to
expose "warnr ngcrs."
Food Costs Found
To Have Doubled
Since Before War
New York. Sept. 23.?The house
hold expenses of ;m average New
York suburban family have doubled
since the years immediately before
the war. one man's check on his
home accounts showed today.
Where, before the war, this father
I of a family of three- husband, wife
and near-adult son?gave his wife
$15 a week to cover all food and
household expenses, he now gives
her $30.
A careful tabulation of expenses
fluting the two weeks, August 20
through September 12, showed the
following housewifely expenditure:
Meat $17.71). groceries $20.77,
eggs and butter $2.51. laundry $2.18.
toilet $3.32, newspapers $1.25, car
fares $1.30. church $1.50. postage
$0.20, milk $4.00, miscellaneous
$2.00.
The total? $50.33?compares in
terestingly with an average of .$30
for a similar two-week period in the
years 1038-40, and a gradual rise to
a two-week expenditure of $50 thro
ugh the war years 1942-44.
Rental and living expenses such as
gas and electricity have varied less.
The 1938-40 figure for two weeks
stood at about $30 and today is not
more than $5 higher.
U ra 111011To Remain Short;
Cyanamid To Be Plentiful
J
College Slntinn. Raleigh. Sept. 24.
i?Noilh Carolina tobacco growers j
I will not be able I" obtain all the
uramnn needed this year in the con
jtrol of discnes unci weeds in perma
nent tobneco plant beds because of
a shortage of this material, but they
jean obtain sufficient cyanamid for
controlling weeds and masses ;n
; these beds, said 15. 15. Bennett of
i State College here today.
A mixture of both uramon and
cyanamid is needed for disease and
weed control, but the latter mate
rial will central weeds when used
j alone.
The tobacco specialist pointed out
| that growers should use the chemi
cals about tin days before the bed',
are sown and that they must be es
pecially careful in the way they
iprepare the beds and use the niato
'? rials. Failure to do the job properly
will not give control.
1 In- chemicals have given best ro
j suits >>ii light colored and sandy
loam soils. IV*ntmSt Miggesled that
i growers in the Picrlnmnt aresi and
, those having dark organic soils in
Kfcstcrn Ciitolina test tins chemicals
thoroughly under their own , eondi
l liens he fore' attempting to use them
i on a large scale. "Growers in these
areas must learn how to apply the
materials and make them work oi^
t their special soils before Ihe.v can
iexpect maximum benefits Irom their
use." Bennett said.
lie pointed out that chemical con
' irol of weeds in tobacco plant beds
! is one of the best labor saving prac
tices that any grower can follow on
his farm, bccatisc weeding of the
plant bed comes at a time of the
year when the farmer is busily en
gaged in preparing land and getting
his erops .'tailed for the year.