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Hgnftgragn Urnly Bispatrlj ? TY^THIRD YEAR TH^Assc^iATln'^'HKsa.^ HENDERSON, N. C., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 3_ 194(i ?,ui?Lisnaor?vKUY AI.TEIIN?M PWP 7^KK?7 <'nr?r Key Base Planned At Guam Program Disclosed To Extend Naval Installations West Pearl Harbor. Oct 3.?7l'i?A new United States navy policy in the Pacific calling for a strong Aleutian base near Sioeria and extension of its outposts 3.000 miles westward to Guam was announced today. The po'icy was disclosed at a press conference by Adm. John Towers, commander rf the Pacific fleet, who conferred only Monday with Presi dent Trcpvm and high navy officials in V/a; hinglon. Towers de-lnrc t that Guam, 3.318 miles west rf here, would be turned Into r.n outoost a ?? strategically im portant as this Hawaii naval base? long the symbol or United Stales navy m'gbt in Ihe Pacific. p--tft- Pinr Planned. The admiral srid the new Paci ic policy wold 1 be to r nrrntratc per inanen* nasal ir^allat'ons in Ala?f<n. the Aleutians, Hawaii and in the Marirnas which includes Guam. This would include permanent facilities lor surface warships as well as navy airfcarc.. "It is obvious." Towers said, "that we need a base further in the Pa cific. liecauso of the mobility and ! range cf surface and air fleets it is I ne-cssary that we evtend out Pacific I outpo is beyond Pearl Harbor. Guam | fills t'us need and il will bo ecpially as iivaortant. but not so large, as Pearl Harbor." Justice Rutledge Blasts War Talk; No Conflict Seen Durham, Oct. 3.?Deploring dis cussion of a war between the Unit ed States and Russia as "the most j dangerous talk there has ever I been," Associate Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge. Jr., of the United States Supreme Court, declared in a speech at Duke University last night that such a conflict "is not more inevitable than a war beewtccn the colonics in 1785." "We must," he asserted, "look hard, dirty farts in the face in or der to avert war. which I don't be- | lieve anyone at the bottom of his i heart wants. And yet that will be ! one of the hardest things for the j American people to do." Justice Rutledge delivered his ad- | dress at a banquet on the campus i marking the installation of a new j chapter of Phi Alpha Delta, honor- | ary legal fraternity, lie was accom panied by J. Harry LeBrum, of i Philadelphia, supreme justice of the ! fraternity, and Frank M. Lttdwig, of Washington, D. ('. supreme secre tary and editor. The new chapter has been named the Wiley It. Rut ledge Chapter. There tire 1G chap ter members. ; Prof. H. C. Ganger Quits At I. N. C.; Gets Private Job; C'< lloge Station. Raleigh. Oil. j The resignation ??f H. Ganger i as associate professor of bacteriology 1 in the poultry science department of State College was announced today by Professor R. S. Dearstyne, de partment head. The resignation be- 1 comes effective today. Ganger, who has been connected with both the research and teaching | staffs of State College since 1930. has resigned in order to accept the position oi turkey specialist with the South Carolina Extxcnsion Service, lie will be located in Clover. S. O. Hull's Condition 'Most Critical' Washington. Oct. 3.?</T?? Cordcll Hull's condition continues to be "most critical," the navy reported to day. A 9 a. m. bulletin from the Bethes da. Md.. naval hospital where the former Secretary of State suffered ' a stroke Monday said: "Mr. Hull had a very poor night. His condition con tinues to be most critical." PITTSBURGH STRIKE NOW IN TENTH DAY Pittsburgh, Oct. 3.?l/P>?-The lights of the notion's tenth largest city were flickering ond faltering today as a power slrike. whjch hod an estimated 70,(inn workers idle, went into its tenth day. New hopes for an early settlement were held out as company and union mediators, after a joint conference lute last night, met again today. Beth they end the U. S. mediators who met with (frm wore do '-riVd as be ing in a jovial mood when the night mooing broke up. NEW YORK COTTON. Now York. Oct 3.?(/Pi? Cotton futures opened 25 cents a bale low er to 80 cents higher. Noon prices were 85 cents to SI.35 a bale higher. October 39.28. December 38.95 and Alprch 38.51, Baihead Island Proposed As Home For U. Council , < ^ LONELY DALHEAD ISLAND (above) at the mo been proposed as a permanent home for the United Carolina. Unthead, some times known as Smith Isl lighthouse keeper, a few Coast Guardsmen and a 1 ih c f ths Cape Fear river near Southport, N. C., has Nations Council by Senator J. w!f?Baiiey of North nd. is semi-tropicai. It is inhabited only by the it of wild hogs. (AP Photo). Reconversion Boss Fears New Price Rises Would Cut Demand Freed Nazis Get Escort To Hamburg Cj Three To Procede To British Zone; Passage Assured Nuernberg- 0::t. dk??? r a n z Vnnrrp'-'i. Hjiii; Fritzsche, and Hjal miir Scliacht. the three Nazi leaders acquitted by the International Mili tary Tribunal will be escorted to the British zone tonight or tomorrow by American military personnel, de fense counsel said tonight. ? All three will i>e taken to ihmi hurg from wlieneh Sehaeht will pro ceed to his home in Schleswig-Hol stcin, counsel said. It could not be learned whether the former Gorman financier would be provided with escort after his ar rival in Hamburg. Fritzsche, former deputy propa ganda minister, sent his wife to Ham burg yesterday and expressed hope she would be there when he arrived. Ant mi Pfeiffcr. chief denazifica tion officer fi r llavaria, announced lie had been instructed to give the three a guarantee ol ? safe conduct," protecting them from arrest by Ger man denazification courts in the U. S. zone. Do'i?.-c counsel said the trio would leave at an unantx tinccd time and would follow a secret route by automobile. Just what type of escort would be provided was not an nounced. FOREIGN MINISTERS COUNCIL CONVENES Paris, Oti .'5. i/P)?A French source said lite lour | owcr foreign ministers ?ouimil old meet at p. m. (2:30 j>. in. f.'ST) tonight for a co ordinated as; tut It. on remaining issues in the peace treaties with Axis sat telitc ?. American officials di-ch'setl Brit ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin conferred for over an hour with Sec retary of State James F. Byrnes at the American delegation hotel. Administration Signals Crossed On Meat Crisis \\'n:hi".gtn, Oct. 3.?l/Pi?The ad min.. ivaton apparently got its sig nals crossed today on when the meal | hortage will ease. Reconversion Director John R. Stcclrran. in his quarterly report to "resident Truman and Congress says . .his: "We are plagued with shortages of i or. e types of food, and for sonic items the shortages will become] 1 worse this winter. This if especially I true of meat." j Just a week ago Mr. Truman fore- j j cast there will be more and better t ; meat "in the near future." Questioned about these different ' I views, an < Tidal of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion ; told a reporter "there doesn't seem i to be any real conflict" in the two I statements. The official said Mr. Truman had ' "hedged" his forecast by saying, for example, that a bigger meat supply ! is dependent on how many cattle j move to feed lots this fall. But Steel- ] man did not quality his statement, j i the reporter noted. He said flatly that the meal -!?*.<_ ? age "will become worse ibis win-! ler." j "Well." the OWMR official agreed. "I guess that's right. 1! isn't quail- ! ( fled." Highway Patrol Help Sought In Tarboro Strike Tnrboro.( CXI. r..?< ,pi? M a y o , Raw Is Howard called upon the State 1 Highway Patro] and Gov. K. G. f'her ry today to take steps to prevent! violence at the Hart Cotton Mills, where a strike has been in progress for four days. Governor Cherry, in Raleigh, in ! structed Motor Vehicles Commission er T. Boddic Ward to advise the patrol to stand by in case help was needed here. Early this afternoon, fist fights developed at the mill's property and the situation here was reported by the mayor as tense. The Truculent Turtle' Lands THE "TRUCULENT TURTLE" comes down from its record-breaking distance flight at Columbus, Ohio, after flying non-stop from Perth, j Australia, a distance of 11,828 miles in fifty-five hours and seventeen minutes. The twin-engined plane carried a crew of four and a nine months-old kangaroo. The Navy plane originally had intended flying to j i Washington, P C. (International Soundphoto) | Inflation Feared By Steclman In Quarterly Report Washington, (Jet. 3.?1/1')?Recon version Director John R. Steelman ni.t too ay a "further rapid price rise" might stifle demand for goods and "precipitate r.:i eai'.y and severe price collapse, with serious economic and social consequences." Steclman also spoke out hluntlv against a general round of "large" wage increases at this time. lie said these could benefit "only special groups", and in general would do ro "at the expense of fel low workers IfirfSiiJjnj'ut the nation." Declaring that the national cen ts my is simultaneously in a posi tion "of great promise and of great danger," Steelman set forth "two great problems" which lie said America faces: I .oris Kancr Problem. For the long range, to "maintain ? ?sir economy at full production and Hill employment. Isi the meantime, to "prevent run away inflation." "If prices ..rep on rising ami pre- ] "ipitale a waac-priee spiral, Inisi- | noss and agriculture will find 'hem elves priced nut of the market ami into a depression." Steel man assert- | cfl in his quarterly report to Presi dent Truman and Congress. lie addcfl that il on the other hand "wc can successfully retard j Ihc rise in price:, the hacking <>l di in'ind for poods and the tremend ous poo! of saving; and current in come should reduce the rale at which demand : luckcns." In staling that "our national tar get" is a "balance of supply with demand at a high level of produc tion ami employment," tiic recon version chief rejected the sugges tion of "some that the best way to achieve this goal is to let prices go." State College Is 57 Today Raleigh. Oj-!. 3.?Today is (ho fifty-seventh birthday <>f North Car olina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. The college held no formal cere mony in recognition of the event but Col. John W. Harrelson. chan cellor. issued a statement com memorating the efforts of founders and friends who were instrumental In the establishment of the institu tion which formally opened its doors as Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege with less than 100 students on October 3. tftai). Col. lfairclson's statement said in part: "We arc happy on ttie anni versary of this institution to thank the many alumni, friends and State authorities whose generosity and ? upporl hr.s made possible the won derful expansion of the college dur ing the past .'>7 years we shall continue to grow in spirit and i? numbers." Market Attempts To Extend Gains New York. Oct. 3.?</pi_The Stork market today tried to extend its re covery but only ft smattering of fa vorites succeeding while many lead ers backed into losing ground. Hesistan'-c was displayed by Amer ican Smeling. Air Reduction, Hiram Walker, find Morfolk and Western, bosses were recorded for American Telephone. I*. S. Steel. Montgomery Ward and Clrncral Motors. Bonds were mixed. ' MBBIT BUN1>AV.~ I'lVH Vytiltio tWI No Immediate Danger Of War, Byrnes Says; Trieste Issue Solved ! ... . T . Uextern Nations Win Bitter Row: New Spat Brews Paris, Oct. 3.? </Pi ? The United ; States was rebuffed seven to five, by a peace conference commission i today in an attempt to slash $100, I 000,000 from Hungarian reparations 0 Ku \a ; id two other Slav eoun 1 ic.\ r.ftci a Soviet .1 io;ate ??nir.' he ifnnojnl as an '??infr'-nd''" art, United States State Department Itcpresentativc Willard Thorp who said he presented the amendment in an attempt to save Hungary's econ omy from collapse, also sought to ; cut $100,000,000 from the rcpara j tions to be paid by Finland. a-- ..Hi'., .can uelcai quickly fol | lowed a western nation victory in ; the long and bitter light over Trieste ! in the Italian political and territor j ial commission. Four Fi-tei F ? !>??>?? ! Only Australia, Canada, New Zealand a^l South Africa support ! ed the United States move to re duce Hungary's payments to Rus | sia. Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia ! from 5300,000,000 to $200,000,000. 1 The commission adopted the Rus sian-backed provision under which Russia is to get two thirds of this : total, Yugoslavia 570,000.000 and | Czechoslovakia 530,000,000. Britain and France, holding they I were bound by big four commit ments, voted with Russia and the j Slav countries against the pro l ppsal. Greece and India abstained. I Delegates of Russia and the five j Slavic states had fought doggedly j | all through the night against a i French compromise proposal for cs- | i tabl'shment for a new free st.o?? m( i Trieste to be governed by the Unit- ! i ed Nations Security Council, but went down to defeat 14 to 6. 25 Votes Taken. In a seijics of 25 votes (aken on i the -70O-trttords of the-JTcenoh con- ; promise rtn Trieste, the 20-nation | Italian political and territorial coin-! mission split consistently, 14 to G. ] as delegates, goaded by Commission j Chairman Lief Egeland of South Africa?hacked away steadily at the ' task before them in a session last- , ing from 9:30 last night until al- ] most dawn. The approved statute for tit" gov ernment of the internationalized | | area around the vital Adriatic port, j the boundaries of which were ap proved earlier by the commission, I | provides in general: !?The United Nations Security; Council would guarantee basic hu man rights and the maintenance in ( assuring the integrity of the new free state. To Hp Demilitarized. 1!?The zone would he dcniilitar- I i/i'd. with no armed forces present j except at the r.ircciion and com- i inand of the Security Council. 3?The governor of the free slate : would he appointed by the Security Council after consultation with' | Yugoslavia and Italy, and tis the council's representative, he would supervise the administration of the area, with power to propose legisla tion and veto it. -1?The governor will he respon sible for maintaining order, would conduct foreign relations, appoint1 the judiciary after consultation with I the zone council, would have pow er to remove judges and would ! have authority to declare a state of siege. ' 5?Free transit for all nations would be guaranteed ? through the port. 6?Residents of the area on June 10, 1940, would be given original ! citizenship. 7?The Security Council would i fix the date for withdrawal of mili tary forces and would organize a provisional government to rule until the election of an assembly. The Queen's Taste REFUSING to follow the staid pat tern set by Dowager Queen Mary for wearing hats that were in fash Ion at the turn of the century. Queen Elizabeth prefers the cur rent trend. Pictured in London, the Queen wears a chic number srcartly trimmed. (International) I 39 Persons On Airliner Feared Dead American Overseas Plane Crashes In Newfoundland Area New York, Oct. 3.?(/P)?An Amer ican Overseas Ai/linai plpne^Wlth 3f> porsonsv'nbonrd ? three of them infant}.?pinged in lames into the wilderness < f western Newfoundland early today in what may be the great est tragedy in the history of Amcr- j ican commercial aviation. The coast guard reported that tile possibility of . iirvivi-rs was very re-I mote. The four engine l)C'-t, en route I from New York to Berlin, crashed 10 minutes after it l"ft Stephenvillc. Newfoundland, at 3:21 a. m. It was the sect nd plane tragedy | in the Newfoundland wild-, in two weeks. On Sept. It: a Belgian Sabcna ; airliner crashed near Gander, kill- j ing 27 ef the 44 aboard. Stephenvillc is on the v est roast of Newfoundland. 021 miles from New Yoik. and 221 mile; v est of j Gander. WrrckaRr Found Ahlazr. Kir - lep-wts f.-t si rel'iiiws of the passengers iii'in ate:l ;<?:no of the women and children Acre en route :n Germany Ijoin their husbands. At Gander, official of lite airline ?aid rescue planes which I lew i cr the area reported the wreckage still was burning four hour.- after the crash and that it was unlikely any one aboard was alive. The big pi.me. a f-hymn-ler. .wash ed into a hillside ID miles Irom ilar II. in Field, at Stephenvilfe. where it had relucted because 1 lie Garder airport was closed in with ra n unci ?OR. The celling at Harmon Field was 5,000 feet and visibility 10 mile There have been 27 victim plane crashes in American commercial av iation. In addition to the Snbena, crash, other such crashes involved an American Airlines plane at San Diego March 3. lP lfi. and a ni n schcdulecl Viking Airline plunge near Richiaonil. Va.. last May Ifi. Admits Conflict Of V iewpoints Now Is Serious | Paris, Oct. .i' S"cre*; . v ,'f | State .1 times livi n ?. dcclai ? I today I that "the conflict of viewpoints among the Allies" is serii.tH. hut no echoed a reeeitt slat-men' hv Prime Minister Joseph Stalin that there is no immediate danger <-f w::>. Byrnes spoke ;i! a luncheon of the ? Anto'iivn f'lnh in Paris. "After every (peat war which has boon won hv the confined efforts of many nations, there ha. been a conflict timr.it!; the allic.. in the making cf peace." Bryties said in his address. I "It would he folly t<> denv Ihc se riousness of the conflict in view points among the Allies after this war." "To ignore that conflict or mini mize its seriousness will not solve the conflict nor help us along the road to peace." "To exaggerate that conflict and its seriousness, on the other hand, only makes more difficult the solu tion of the conflict. "I concur most heartily in the view recently expressed by Gen eralissimo Stalin that there is no immediate danger of war. I hope that his statement will put an end to the unwarranted charges that any ' nation or group of nations is seek ing to encircle the Soviet Union, or that the responsible leaders of the Soviet Union so believe." TrumanSays Budget Will Be In Black President Predicts No Deficit By End Of Fiscal Period Washington. Oct. </pi?Presi dent Truman said today the Fed eral budget will be in the black at the end of this liscal year next June ltd. for the first lime in Hi years. lie told a news conference that ho not only hoped there would be a surplus of income over expenditures but that there will be. He added expenditures are bc.ng cut by $2,100, OOO.OOfl. In his budget message to Congress he had fi recast a deficit of around SI.900,000,000. On other domestic nvitters, Mr. ! Truman railed on business men, workers, farmers and consumers t > take heart from Hrconveisimi Dircc ini Stcelnian'- ?piait? > ly report ns ?erlin; "an all nut empha. on prn flnrtion of finished g< (is and on preventing a further increase in prices is the task immediately be I fore us." Asked about Steel man's warning against run-av.ay prices, Mr. "I'm? I man said his administration is doing all it can wilh the tools it has. 1 The President said there i.- no con i fliet between his previous comments I on the meat shortage and Sleelman's discussion of that si bjecl. He assert ed Sleelman's prediction the short age will grow wi "so is pr -balily cor rect and he is making a survey on that | oint He recalled that he had said there v mid be no abundance of meat in the near future, but that there will be no ir.;it famine. Weather FOR NORTH CAROM.VA. Fair 'oni"hf -*m! F r i (I a >*. Slightly warmer Friday. Cool tonight. Atomic Age? Yes, But Pigeon Still Plays An Important Part In Warfare Fort McPhcrson. On., Oct. 3.? Sm;ill common-day things still main . tain predomincnt places in war. War?the game of death that has become the duel between powerful, ingenious machines and other bigger and more potent machines, along with many scientific discoveries that have played major parts in kill , ing men. j One such 'small' thing is the I pigeon. In this country alone there inre approximately 100,0(10 pigeon i enthusiasts. These ardent followers of the soft, instinctive little animals of the flying race, vary from in die trial magnates to little boys. The Army realized that despite the many modern, fast means of communication, a dependable, clus I ivc means had to be sought. The j pigeon as a carrier of communicn i lions was the answer. At the South - I eastern World's Fair, Lakcwood Park. Atlanta, from September 27 i to October fi. the Army is exhibit- i ing in its static area a pyjeon (lis- t play. VI Sgt George Dorcr who ?- < in charge of the exhibit is preset.I ; with a Portable Pigeon Loft from i I Ft. Penning, Ga. t One pigeon outfit nlons carried ' some 20,000 vital messages during 1 tbo invasion of Italy. It was the pigeon "Yank." who was brpd at < Ft. Penning, that brought back the J news of General Pntton's recapture , of Cassia Pass In, Africa. The exhibit is showing th ? many i methods used by tire Armv in para chuting pigeons to ground forces in emergencies, h o w paratroopers , make their jumps with pigeons at tached to them, the number, and 1J how pigeons are carried by patrols in combat. I The Office of Strategic Services,' M < n-mv occupied countries used ligron; extensively in their battle <> ret: messages hack t?> one lieiiH ,palters. Faeh Air Fore Ivi ;o had i pigeon battalion attached. Many mi Air Force crew forced down hanks the pigeons they carried with hem for being rcspon ible for their rescue. M Set. Dorer who was with the jn.ith Signal Pigeon Company over seas. can relate many very Intcrcst ng linpiicnings in connection with ligeons used bv iindorcround elc nents in relaying communications, '111" piccn en'luisiast nalurnlly will Iv very Interested in this, only me of the many exhibits in the Army display, but it Wouldn't sur eris" administrators of this exhibit if many more persons wore added to the already large number if 'pigeon disciples."
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