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jtettftgrgpti Hatlu Dtsrratrh mini i-THlKl) YEAR 1 'tiIi?'KVoiV 1 llK SKltVICE OP Till- ASSOfTIATKI. I'ltKSS HENDERSON, N. CM FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 27, 1946 ,,mu',s,,I^;.|.!i^\TN,^?;KUNOON FIVE CENTS COPY President Very Firm About Meat President Favcrs Keeping Controls; Congress Criticized Washington. Sop I. U7. - (/|?> Postn rlt?r General Robert K. 11 an ncguii loosed order:' from Democratic wigs iii the wast laskct today ami derided instead t i go along vvitii Preside.: Trmruu in the meat con troversy. The evrentive ei inmittce of the Den rrnti ? NaPonnl Committee, which I'anncgnn heads. had direct ed him. 1 > discuss the meat shortage with the price rnntn-1 1 oard. Mr. Trrrran. risking party discord \\ tth c' ugrc-sional clo'eions nett'*, took the si and that t hero is no need for decmtrol actions and Unit tlierc should be tu price boosts ci ther. Folowing a cabinet meeting to day : i ' >ich the i> ' siinati ?n was a t?> >i". llanncgnn told reporters tliat aTter reading the President's state ment of yesterday lie had decided against discussing the scarcity with tne occur ? n.d board and other gov ernment agencies. "As far as I'm concerned, it's all over," ifanneenn said. lie added that lie had discussed matter wiili Mr. 'I "':nn and tliac lie stands by the Chief Executive's statement 100 per cent. En iph.isizing that he regards the situation as a shortage and not a "famine." Mr. Truman brushed aside demands of same Democratic leaders fora 60-day suspension of meat ceil ings. That period w udd extend be yond I lie November elections. In doing so .the President predicted there will be more and a better grade of ir cat available "in the near fu ture." He said lie sew r.o need for a spc-< rial sets.en i. Congress la deal with the situation. Blames Large Slaughter. Mr. Truman blamed the "extraor dinary large" slaughter cattle and h< gs during the July-August lapse of ceilings for the current lack ot meat. He also laid a share ? ' the hlame squarely at the door of Congress, declaring in a news conference statement yesterday: "If. as I had urged upon Congress, the price con trol legislation had keen reenacted in the early sprint, many of ihesc difficulties wuitld have been avoid ed." This direct slap at the lawmakers, apparently applying t > m my Demo crats as well as Republicans, was not the only political < rcrtone of Mr. Truman's declaration for sticking with ceilings. WHEAT INSURANCE DEADLINE NEARS College Station. Raleigh. Sept. 27. ?/.I! contracts for wheat crop in surance in North Carolina must be filed by Saturday. Si ,?tenrber 28. and Dircrtcr I. "? Schaub of the State College Extension Service says that it will he well for farmers- to protect their increased acreages of wheat with the all-risk insurance offered by the Federal Crop Insur ance Corporation. Over 12.1100 wheat crop insurance contracts are now in '.oroe in North Carolina and many new contracts arc being written through the AAA committees in the various counties. The insurance on wheat protects the gn iver against drought, hail, wind, frost, winter-kill lighting, fire, excessive rain. snow, wildlife, hur ricane, tornado, insect infestation, end plant disease. LEWIS HAS * OPERATION Washington Sept. 27. -vVi?Pres ident John L. Lewis of the United Mini- Workers underwent an emer gency appendicitis operation today and afterwards his physician-son reported he "came through the op eration a II right." Sweater Girl of '46 SELECTED for her form, beauty, per sonality and photogenic qualities, Jackie Copeland, a model, won the coveted title of the 1946 National Sweater Week Girl at a contest held in N. Y. Her measurements are 34* huxt jpffl 24" waist. (Infcmiifcor.fl.3 BIKINI 'SURVIVORS' ARRIVE FOR TESTS ? *?? - ANIMAL SURVIVORS of the Bikini atom bomb test are brought to Washington, D. C., for study by scientists at the Naval Medical Research Center, Bethesda, Md. Left, a goat suffering from anemia is given a blood trans fusion. Right, Seaman 2/c Dale Lipps, of Miamisburg, Ohio, wrestles with Pig 311, sole survivor of the Jap cruiser Sakauia. rcoorted to have swam 30 miles following the exolosion of the bomb. (Internatiannll Big Welcome Planned For King George 101-Gun Salute Slated In Athens; Kin.g L'oards Plane Athens. Sept. 27.?A>>?King George II returned to Greece to night. The twice-exiled kiiiB. f I Vina: in trom England. landed at Klcvsis, 12 miles northwest of Athens, and left by motor j ear to board a Greek warship in Salamis Bay. lie presumably p I a n n e d to spend the night aboard a destroyer and make his lormal entry into Athens Saturday morning. Athens. Scpt.,,27.?\JP)?A 101-2un salute will thunder a welcome to King George II when he returns to Athens toirkirruw, to resume the ; crowji o! this strife-lorn land. The 5B-ycar-old monarch is schcd- I tiled to arrive in Salon n Bay some- j | time during the morning aboard the Greek cruiser Themistocies. where \ he will be greeted by Premier Con st.'uitin 'lsaldaris and the entire cab- i j iuct. Guns mounted on conical Lyca vcttus hill just south of the heart 1 of Athens will boom at 43 second vntervals during Hie king's four- ) mile procession from the bay to Con stitution Square, directly in front Of the barn-like palace first erected 'by King Otto more than 100 years | iigo. | The mar. who once was quoted ? as saying tha tkingship was a "rot I ten job" and tlnrt lie would rather ! be an American cowboy, is expect ! cci to arrive tonight at some un identified airport in the Mediterra nean. GEORGE PREPARES FOR HIS RKTt'RN. London. Sept. 27.?o/P>?King | George II of Greece left his hotel J for a London airport shortly after 7 a. m. t day to board a plane which will carry him back to his home land. The king, wearing an army uni- i torm sprinkled with decorations, was acccrri >aiiied by a Scotland Yard detective assigned to guard him * during his five-year exile in Eng land. He also was acrcmpanicd to the airport by an unidentified wom an. Following the monarch's car was ; a Motion wagon loaded with lug i ' Formula' For Reparations Established Paris, Sept. 27.?</P>?A principle j of 75 per cent compensation for war i damage to Allied property was vir tually established for all five Euro pean peace treaties today, but na tions remained free to present diver- j tent views to the peace conference plenary session. 'the United States and Russia joined in the Balkans-Finnish cco- i tomic commission against Britain's j demand for full compensation. But he Russian delegate. Financial Ex pert V. S. Guernchitchenko, express ed annoyance that a move for only j 25 per cent payment, defeated by a 1)9 to 4 vote, had been termed an 1 American proposal. Russia sought only up to 35 per | cent, he said, and therefore the low- : est demand against former enemy i states should be called a Russian 1 proposal. The commission adopted a text of 1 the war damage compensation clause for the Romanian treaty, but decid ed to omit the figures. While the 75 per cent principle, already voted for the Italian treaty, was adopted for the others, it was agreed the j members would be free to support minority reports in the plenary ses sion?Britain for KM) per cent com pensation; the U. S. and Russia for the lowest compensation. Democratic Party Girds For Elections Washington. Sept. 27. ? ol'i ? Tb.e Democratic leadership at home and abroad reaffirmed its faith in the administration's toreign policy today and moved to unity tiie party on all fronts before the X< veinbcr elections. In a one-thousand-word re-slsite monl of principles, the executive committee of the Democratic Na tional Party declared that the or ganization litis forsaken is. dation-j ism and appeasement." Then, evidently mindful of the intra-party rift created by Henry Wallace, it added: 'The American delegate n til the Paris peace conference i< struggling patiently and firmly for the ad vancement of these principles of ponce ? and the American people will back them to the limit." Charter Trips Are Forbidden For Atlantic Greyhound Corp. B.v LYNN NISBKT. Daily Dispatrh Bureau Raleigh, Sept. 27.?The State Util ities Commission issued tin order i Thursday, effective Oct. I. forbid ding the Atlantic Greyhound Cor poration from operating chartered a? casual trips in North Carolina until it has proven to the commission it h;. su' icient h as equipment to take tare of the regular passenger loads on franchise mutes. Unless condi ; lions in -rove similar ?rdcrs may a; :lv to other intcrinban hus lines In kling franchises under the utili lle1 rorr mission. Somcliirc ago the com mission or dered tdl busrr to limit standing passengers rson leaving designated | stations tr> 1 ft. Some of the lines have continued to exceed this over load and still leave passengers at stations and by the roadside. Util ities r'firiak are sticking to the piapctltion that the holder of a nassc'fer bus franchise assumes re <nonsi?ility for providing reason ably adequate seating capacity for , normal travel, and will lie required J to meet this oibl'g'd ion. All companies have experienced difficulty in retaining sufficient buses to handle traffic. Greyhound has been hit harder than most of (lie others, because of its policy of maintaining nationwide standardized vehicles. (Atlantic is one of a doz en or more interlocking Greyhound corporations serving the entire Unit ed States.) Manufacturers have just not been able (?> supply the demand for the Greyhound type buses. A utilities commission official said he had a lot of sympathy for the bus operators, but also had sympa thy for and a duty to the people of North Carolina who are entitled to service in exchange for the special franchise privileges granted the op erators. When a npsscngcr pays for a ticket he is entitle:! to reasonar.lv safe and com'affable transportation. In line with the same policy util ities inspectors are checking on slick bus tires and are requiring the operators to replace or at Ice; t. rcgroove them for greater salety. Closer attention is also oeinc given to sanitary conditions around bu:> sl<ttb-<?.s. Shull Says He Was Not Too Harsh Police Chief Named In Fci;liral Action Fcr Beating Vet Batesburg, S. C., Sept. 27.?(TP)? Police Chief Lynwood L. Shull of Batesburg. charged by the Justice Department with beating and tor turing a Negro war veteran, said to day that "I was no harsher than was necessary lo complete the arrest." The Justice Department filed a criminal information in Federal Dis trict court in Columbia yesterday al leging that Shull had "beaten and tortured" Isaac VVoodard, Jr., of the Bronx, NT. Y? on last February 12 in violation of th. federal fcivil rights statute. It further charged that Woodard was permanently blind as a result of the alleged beating. Shull said that he arrested Wood ard, at a bus station where he said the Negro was creating a disturb ance. He said the veteran apparent ly had been drinking after having been discharged at Augusta, Ga., earlier in the day. "I hit him across the front of the head," Shull said. "After he attempt ed to take away my black jack, I grabbed it from him and struck him across the head." The police chief said Woodard's eyes were swollen the next day and m recorder's court he was sentenced lo 30 days or a line of $50 for dis orderly conduct. Woodard paid part of the fine, and after a doctor sug gested he should be taken lo a hos pital. I drove him to the veterans hospital in Columbia." Shull said he reported the incident to the FBI because the Negro was still in uniform and that "after they investigated they told me to keep quiet about it." Me said that later he was questioned by agents of the Department of Justice. I". S. Attorney Claud Sapp said yesterday in Columbia that the court would notify Shull officially of the filing of the information and set bond for his release until the No vember term <>f court. Government Acts To Head Off New Shipping Tie-lp Washing! hi. Kept. 27.?i/I'i?Gov ernment attempts to head off a new maritime strike threatened for next Monday gained momentum today with an AFL union accepting invi tations to attend negotiating ses sions here. Earlier the AFL Masters. Mates and Pilot Union, representing mer chant marine licensed deck officers and .1. B. Bryan, president ol the Pacific American Ship Owners As sorintirn. had balked at coming tc Washing! >n. Meantime. Joseph Curran. co -hnirn/in of the ClO-dominatcc Committee for Maritime Unity, tolc newsmen. he was opt in isti<- ovei chance; to avoid a new maritimi strike. Defense Rests In Jewel Cnsc Frankfurt. Sept. 27.? i/1'i?K-'inic: VVAC Cam. Kathleen 13. Duran rrsl'-ri her defense today in her tria on military charges of crnplicftv ii 1 the tlieft i t S1.50n.nnil worth of llcssi | family jewel; from the Kromben crrtle. Mrs. Durant declined to be ((ties tinned on the theft charge and loo' the stand only bri? fly to trstitv m a companion count cf being absen ; without leave fri tl her army post liter defense wis romnletrd in I day and a half, and her attorney asked a recess until Monday to (ire pare tiiuil arguments. Street Cars Operate In Pittsburgh Power Supply Falls In Industrial City; Negotiations Start Pittsburgh. Sept. 11.?lA't ? The i power supply mi tins industrial city sank nearer the danger point today as a strike of 3,200 employes of the , i)ii(|oi>siie liicht ("o. entered its fourth day with wage negotiations continuing- hut no new eontraet in sight. Public tenseness relaxed somc j what ?is an early morning union or der sent 2.1100 street ear motormcn harrying hack to their jobs to man trollies which had stood idle since 5 a. m. yesterday, crippling the city's transportation system and stranding thousands of workers. The Pittsburgh liailways Co. an nounced it would continue to give , the "limited" service it had I icon of fering since the power strike started ?50 per cent of normal "of peak" I operation, which meant that about . 225 of the system's 1,200 ears would be running. 28.000 Workers Idle. About 28,000 other workers re mained idle as a result of power cur tailment. hteeu icity in Duqucsnc's light i lines overnight was reported at 31 | per cent of normal, compared with 40 per cent yesterday and 45 per i cent the oay before, i Pickets marched in front of the 1 company s power stations, where supervisory workers and officials of ; the firm tried to keep enough cur j rent following to supply vital needs. ! The union, asking a 20 per cent pay I raise and other benefits, rejected a I company offer which would have i i given them 5 per cent. The union's j demand would boost average base I rates from $1.18 to $1.41 cents. I Surplus Property Disposal Blasted By Rep. Slaughter i Washington. Sept. 27. ? </Pi ? I Chairman Haugnier (!->) ?>l \us.>oiiri j i of the Horse Surplus Property] I Committee today saiil the govern-; ment look a bad beating on sales j because nobody knew what was go ; ing on." | Slaughter talked with reporters I after the special investigating group 1 received evidence that one of the War Assi s Adii.inisnatinn':. sales] agents ran up expenses?which the j government paid ? amounting to 32,(550 per cent of his sales. This agent's contract has been ! cancelled as have others. Rut. I Slaughter contended, "these cases j {should have been caught months be I fore." They im ilvcd electrical items end the c? mmiltce chief drew I an acknowledgement Iroyi a WAA witness that the govcrnnviry mav net n ithing trnm its. electrical got.1i sales. New York Cotton Xt vv Vi rlc. Sept. 27.?i/Pi?Cotton : futures opened !(? cents a '.tale Inw ; ci to 35 cents higher. Noon prices were 30 cents a bale higher to 40 cents lower. October 37.63, Decem ber :i7.:54. and March 37.01. Weather FOR NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight. Saturday, in creasing cliiudiiicss. little cliangr in temperature except not sn cool. One for the Books YOUNGEST STUDENT to enter the University of Clucago this fall, Richard A. Freenian^JG, is sur rounded with plenty oT^jbks as he munches away on a caaBy bar in the school library. Richard, whose home is in Chicago, is starting his third year. (international) A. & P. Store Fine Placed At $175,000 Four Defendants Said Not Guilty By Federal Judge Danville, III.. Sept. 27.?fflV- Th? New York Great Atlantic and Pac ific Tea Co.. and 21 officers and .sub sidiary corporations today were fined a total of $175,0(11) following their conviction on charges of conspiracy | to monopolize a substantial part of the nation's food business. Judge W. C. Lindley. in pronounc ing sentence, vacated a portion of his conviction order of Saturday and ! found three other subsidaries and one officer innocent of charges. | which were that the defendants re- i strained and monopolized trade in violation of anti-trust laws. "1 think in my anxiety to got this i matter <1 isposed of, 1 was in error concerning a finding of guilty as to these four defendants," he said. The defendants acquitted were the | Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.. I of Delaware, Great Atlantic and t Pacific Tea Co., of Vermont. Inc.. ! American Coffee Corp.. of Jersey j City. X. J., and Francis Kurtz, vice ?irocidcnt of the American Coffee Corp. MI CH RIBBF.K Bt'RXS. Batavin, Sept. 27. ? i.Pi ? T;woj thousand tons rubber and other I >: -pi rty. valued at Sl.litlOJiiin were Jstroyed in a fire Wednesday at the Borneo port < Bandjormnsin. according to a m -ssage reaching tore to-'ay. BRADY IlllADS MF.AT C.ROI'P. Raleigh. Se it 27. i.Pi - The North Can lina Mesit Proce.-'.-ors n.l Deal ers Association elected A. B. Brady of Chadbourn as its "irst president today and rosoli ed to make a conccntrrialed drive for more home-gn ti n meat and processing. State AMVET Head Protests Tagging Criminals 'Veterans' By I.VN'X NISRI.T. ' Daily Dispatch Bureau Raleigh. Sept. 27.?L. M. Hinshaw. 'of Asheboro. state commander <>t AMVKT3 exclusive organization for 'veterans of World War II. has filed formal protest against the practice ? of law enforcement officers and newspapers using the terms "vet ' jeran" or "GI" in connection with ' I former service men apprehended in I crime. j | Jfe makes the logical point that ! most young men served in military ' | forces during the war and they arc i; now trying to ir/tkc their regular -. place in normal civilain life, and j '.he few who fail to make the grade should not he designated as "vet erans" to the disparagement of the j entire group. , | A veteran law enforcement >f iccr : the word here i: c I in its nrnper : sense- of meaning long service or r I the job rather than rarlieipati in hi i war. noted and sympathized with 1 ' the objection '.'lise'l by the AMVRT i i chief. "We just ean't help it." lie said, e | "You'd be surprised to know how g i tr.iiny of these fellows p dl their war record as rcas -i they should not he - j arrestee', or as cruise for special con c sideration when they are caught. 1 i I'm sure that isn't roore-cntative of t service men as a whole', hut I've I lirr.rd of 'irnr of them brag t > news a naper reporters about how they won s the war. "Furthermore, the number of 4 "veterans' taxi companies,' the multiplicity <>l "fJI tickets" hi po litical campaigns, and similar desig nations by former service personnel themselves accentuate the classifi cation. It semis !'? be impossible to keep it out <?( crime reports, much as I would like to do so." I-. M. IIINHHAW ; (I'rntcsts Criminal Tag) MacArthur Breaks Long Silence On Losses At Manila General Asserts U. S. Outnumbered; Charges Denied Tokyo, Sept. -..? i/l'i ?lii'ncral Douglas Mill-Arthur broke his long silence regarding the loss aground of United States airplanes in the Manila area on the very first tlay of the war with a statement: "Out air forces were hopelessly outnum bered and never had a chance of winning." Mai-Arthur was proded into his long awiiited statement by charges made by Lt. Gen. Lewis Brcrelon, commander of the Philippine ait force m bill, in his book "The Brercton Diaries." recently publish ed. Accounts received here said Brc relon wrote that lie had requested permission of Lt. Gen. Richard Sutherland, then chief of staff to assault Kormaso. It was from For mossa Japanese bombers flew to at tack the Philippines. Permission Withheld. Brcrelon said the permission was withheld so U ng that the available small force of P.-17 bombers was de stroyed on the ground at Clark Field, 90 miles north of Manila. MacArthur's statement was issued to the press in reply to questions re garding the book. "General Brercton never recom mended an attack on Formasa to no and ? know nothing of such a recommendation having been made.'" Mai-Arthur said flatly. "In the short interval of time involved, it is doubt ful that an attack could have been set up and mounted bcfmc the enemy's arrival." San Antonio Flood Kills Six Persons San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 27.?i/P) ,?At least six persons were believed | dead, scores were injured, and hun ! dreds are missing as the worst flood since the 1921 disaster struck San Antonio. Rain continued to fall to day. Property damage was estimated tit millions of dollars, and literally thousands of residents were made homeless by the flood waters. More than six inches of rain fell in 12 hours. Flood waters behind the Olinos dam reportedly reached a depth of 35 feet, and traffic across the dam was halted by police orders. Turned into a raging torrent. Al lazan Creek inundated much of the southwestern portion of the city. Woodlawn Lake, overflowing for the second time this month, marooned many residents in that area. Newsmen Prepare For Wind-Up Of Nuernberg Court j Nuernberg, Sept. 27.?i/P)?More than 2(K? correspondents from 10 countries arc expected to file and broadcast more than a million words during the two days when war crimes verdicts and sentences are handed I down by the international military tribunal next week. For the first time since the sur render of Germany, all German radio stations and at least some of those in Austria will be honked up to carry four daily broadcasts. Photographers will take pictures from four shooting positions which will be drawn by lot. All photo graphs will be pooled. The tribunal has announced, however, that there will be no photograpcrs allowed in court while sentences are being passed. Market Leaders Show New Drops New York, Sept. 27.?i/Vi?Stocks, with a few exceptions, contracted a limp in today's market after three straight rising sessions. Most leaders switched to the loss column in the wake of a slightly mixed opening, but dealings were even slower than in the preceding session. Extreme declines of frac i lions to three points or more were reduced here anrl there. f)n the off-side were Chrysler, General Motors, Goodyear, U. S. Steel and Montgomery Ward. Ad vancing at limes were Has. man Kodak and North American. LEAF OFFICIAL'S SON IS SUICIDE New York. Sept. 27. -4/1*)?Douglas Bmdshcar. .!r.. 27. son of a Rich mond. Vn.. executive of the Ameri can Tobacco Co.. plunged to his death early today from the 76th floor of the Empire State building. He landed in 33rd Street, near Fifth Ave. Police identified him from papers in his possession and through a young woman who told . him he telephoned her about 3 a. 'ir>. and said he planned to jump,
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