Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - April 17, 1946, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS DOMINANT NEWSPAPER OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 23 Truman Wants Nation To Diet And Save Lives USDA Drafts Orders For Smaller Loaves So Others May Eat April UP Truman again today asked Americans to save lives by less nnd the Agriculture inent drafted orders to cut ihc weight of bread loaves and curtail domestic lour The President at his news con ference said it would be a idea if Americans would go on a diet two u week similar to the low caloric diet of Ihe average European He said It would be n good thing if this program were continued as long as starvation con to threaten disaster Agriculture Department worked on an order which would require bakers Io the weight of loaves by 10 per cent in order to conserve food for ship ment to starving peoples It also is drafting u regulation to limit domestic deliveries by flour mills to 15 ier cent o deliveries in the corresponding period of The loaf order would make it possible for bakers to comply with recommendations of the Presi dents famine emergency committee which first suggested the 10 per cent cut some weeks At that it dis covered that many states had laws which regulated the size of bread making it impossible for bak ers in those states to follow the Smaller Loaves Officials here believed a order would supersede state Un der the original bakers would put only 90 per cent as much dough as usual in their baking thus producing n slightly smaller bread That would make it un necessary for them to buy new President Trumans remarks about diet restriction were in io news conference He salt with emphatic conviction that it would be good for the Ameri can people Io know how Europe is He added that enough food b wasted every day in this country to satisfy the needs of the starving peo ple of the The President took Issue with tor mcr Director Herbert H bE the Nations He lief and Rehabilitation Administra who said last night that hs government has not done everything i it could to help solve the food The President said hc was glad io see that Lehman Had his heart in the but that if he had made such hc was suggestions for l ling more ood to famine countries ranged from a demand by Lehman for resumption of sonic kind of foot rationing to an appeal by Chester Davis for more voluntary coopera Both head of the Presi dents famine emergency and Secretary of Agriculture Clin ton Anderson disagreed sharply with Anderson said a bread rationing program now would be the most severe blow thai could be dealt world relief Hc hinted strongly that he still was giving favorable consideration to a proposed Hour restriction or when hc promised the government would take what ever action it thought necessary to meet food commitments over We are determined Dial there shall be a reduction in the consumption of hc We arc determined that it should by whatever method is found It was reported that the proposed order merely was awaiting Ander sons signature but that hc was rc to sign until it was certain that smaller bakers would be pro It would limit lour deliv eries to 75 per cent of the corre period of Clacking back nt Lehman and other administration said the mere announcement of n wheat rationing program might result in hoarding at a time when tlie main problem is to keep wheat flowing freely from farms to load ing II ought to be ie that wheat was never a rationed Not a single barrel of wheat lost by the termination of the rationing pro Daily Newt Courto APRIL 1046 SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS Railroad Strike Is Postponed Ford Plants To Lay Off The President moved to avert a threatened strike but the Kord Motor announced it would ay off automobile workers because of steel and A set for 6 on the Hock Island was postponed for at least days when Truman named an emergency board to study the Tho of Railroad Trainmen had protested the dismissal of three employes without a fair At Ford announced a shutdown of indefinite duration because of steel Company officials said third since hud been aggravated Ijy the nationwide coal T A Ford spokesman the Lin coln plant would close tonight be of a shortage of steel anct arls from 36 strikebound supplier The huge River Rouge plant icar Detroit was scheduled to close negotiations were re In the copper and Electric disclosed that worth of production had been lost Poland Prepares To Brand Spain Threat To Peace UN Security Council Meeting Today Will Hear Formal Charges MacArthur Firm On Policy Requests For More Power In Japan Are Turned Down By United Iress Staff Correspondent April Douglas bluntly refused three Russian requests for a great er In shaping Japanese oc policies At Ihe same Soviet charges hat undemocratic elements were lolding responsible positions in the Japanese government were bitterly by speaking for the Allied Con reminded the counci that its work Is exclusively advi sory and consultative nnd docs not involve review of actions by the supreme No arbitrariness of procedure must be allowed to interfere with the prompt and orderly process government the memorandum Denial of the Russian requests came in a crisp personal dum from MacArthur to the sec ond meeting of the Kuzma Rus sian council submitted the requests to the supreme command at the first meeting of the council April They were the supreme command submit to the council all tives seven days prior to the supreme command order the Japanese government to give council drafts of rescripts and other acts 10 days prior to headquarters supply cop NEW April that German Vichy 1rciicli militia are in Spain ami that their princi pal stations are San and by a strike of electrical work now in its 93rd Mob violence which swept apparently had subsided pending Ihe outcome Of wage talks between Anaconda Copper officials ami representatives of striking CIO mill and smelter The coal which accounts for more onehalf of the na tions went Into its 17th Mediator Paul Fuller was having little suc cess in his efforts to get Unit ed Mine Workers President John Lewis and the coal operators to gether in a joint bargaining ses Other labor developments Nearly workers were on strike in the farm equipment in More than CIO Farm Equipment and Metal workers were idle at Allis Chalmers plants in four and CIO United Auto Workers have struck against three plants ol the I Case Fifteen hundred Independent white collar workers at Westing house Electric plants through out the nation accept a cent wage Hollywoods motion pic ure studios offered their employes wage increases of cents an lour or 10 per whichever is President Truman signed Into Inw a aimed at curbing James Petrillo and his American Fede ration of Musicians in dealings with the nations radi Tlie Youngstown Sheet arii Tube tin mill at East Chicago Miss Carolyn Peterson Picked For Lady In Cotton Carnival lv United Stuff NEW April will ask the United Nation Security Council today to bram Franco Spain a breeding Kouni for a new Fascist war nnd i threat to world hill th United stales and Great will block the punitive action un less new evidence Spain Is Having shelved the tangled and prolonged Iranian erase for two days of legal the Council nl 3 EST will hear Polish Ambassador Oscar Lunge his charges Francisco Franco HIU Mend for joint world action to the Spanish Poland will seek diplomatic quarantine of The Big Three are split on this ns on virtually every other political postwar But the Spanish question will n new Council alignment ics of all directives issued since he start of the together with papers received from the Jap anese and orders issued by the Jap anese government in compliance with Allied MacArthur agreed to give the council copies of all supreme com mand directives 48 hours before is instead of seven days as re quested by the Russian delegation immediately entered a He said the tenor of the refusals caused apprehension a to the value of the councils also had requester complete information on the prog ress of Japanese demobilization nnt the destruction of military equip but it was not Immediate known whether MacArthur had The Soviet representative charged Carolyn 19year old daughter of and Jlm nle will represent ns n or Ihe Royal Court or Ihc Memphis Col on Carnival May 14 through May Announcement of Miss Petersons selection was made today noon by Jimmy president of the Junior chamber of Commerce which cooperates with the Cotlon Carnival because of connection with the Coltun Picking Contest sponsored here by tho Selection of Miss Peterson was by u secret committee from the local many names hud been by Interested following announcement yesterday that u rep would be chosen this Miss Peterson has served n num ber ol times before In Royal Courts and once When a senior In High she was Senior Queen of the 1944 She served ns a maid of the Kn School Queen at Univer sity of when n freshman here last and served as n maid io the Bnrn Queen of the School of Agriculture Returning home upon completion of her year o Miss Peterson the fl In Ihe beauty nnd person contest Summer Io select Miss for the Arkan sas Beginning a business fol lowing her return from she is a clerk in the office of Loy Eich Chevrolet A brownette with blue Plan Approved In House Vote Communists Holding Most Of Changchun Conference To Open By WALTER LOO AN Staff April troops to loop into dispatches from Poip and compressed Nationalist defenders into a corner of the The report came us George Marshall arrived in and prepared for mid Nationalist leaders in an effort to halt the I spreading I Communications with Changchun were virtually severed Init latest reports said small Nationalist numerically inferior to he Communists and equipped only with light fighting a losing Nationalist reinforcements hurry Ing north from were re ported 4D miles Changchun and it was believed It might laic them three clays to reach the fight ing The report from national headquarters n Changchun called the situation very A government move to requisition all available transport planes and with the Soviet bloc stronger is five six Indies was shut down when 900 operators refused to work in ft dispute over rest At about persons were left without transpor tation when 179 CIO transpor workers struck to protest the fir ing of a A It strike at ended when striking workers reach a compromise wage agreement with InterCity Osceola Man Is Candidate For Coroner In Mississippi County before the first meeting of the conn politics Is expected to Increase cil that reactionaries hart an trie coming two prior over progressive forces to the deadline for filing in the He criticized the May supreme command for allegedly alf Newest candidate for an office lowing undemocratic officials to is Austin Moore of who remain in the Japanese Whitney said the Russian dele gation cabling aspersions on the occupation by placing the charges on the councils He said had made no attempt to get accurate infor mation concerning the degree of compliance with purge Whitney said the charges thai barred by the directive Irom holding public still were occupying prominent places in the reflected the attitude of the whole Russian He said Japanese pol ignored in the re cent election in favor of men and women from all walks of life with little or no political and that the election demonstrated democracy in form and Chicago Rye May 24T1 244i 148i 148li r Stocks A T T 193 Amer Tobacco 94 12 Anaconda Copper 46 12 Belli Steel 107 Chrysler 133 7a Gen Electric 47 18 Gen Motors 75 7B Montgomery Ward 94 N Y central 28 12 Int Harvester 9514 North Am Aviation 14 Republic Steel 3458 Radio 16 31 Vacuum 1738 Studebaker 3134 Standard of N J 75 Texas Corp 64 Packard 10 18 IF R 18 Godley Backed For Appointment To Loan Board The states entire delegation has indorsed Lloyd God ley of Osceola for appointment proposed policy making board to handle tarm credit Lancy has The who several weel ago wrote President Truman mending Godley for a on the proposed said he had received letters from the states seven representatives and two sen all of whom said they had written the President about the The would he created un der the Flannigan Farm Credit now pending in as filed for the position of cor This office now is held by who will not seek he said Moore was coroner for two ears until election wo years An undertaker at Swift Funeral lome In Osceola or the past 18 he also is an specializing in income tax His other activities include chair or the First Ard Division o the Red cross in South Mis A resident of Osceola since he went there in 1909 at the aRc of hc and Moore reside at 311 East House On South Lake Is Damaged By Fire Fire from a hot water heater in the bathroom caused slight damage to that room of Ada Houch ins 324 South and smoke also damaged other rooms of the The fire occurred yesterday previous Council by the Soviet seems certain of having France and Mexico on her and possibly Aus tralia and China which huve never maintained relations with Franco Details of case arc closely guarded Polish was working on the final draft a few hours before meeting Major interest centered on what will say about Nazi scien In there is evidence that they are working on atomic energy Poland al ready hns formally accused them of devising war weapons and plotting a new and has in existence of which connect them the controversial question of atom ic with the opening of debute on first non member of the United Nations to be hailed before the Council celebrated its f On 17 the Council born In since then It has been through crisis after another and appears for a new one on In accordance with its rules of the Council also got new president The post rotates each on the the English alphabetical order of the nations Today Egyptian Hafez Pasha lakes over the chair from Quo Tal Chl of China who has served dur ing three weeks of crisis over Meanwhile hulk of UN dis cussion was focused on Secretary General Trygve Lies surprising nnd unsolicited opinion on tho right of the Council to retain the Iranian case on Us agenda niter with re quested its Lie held that It may well be that there is way the Council can avoid re moving Iran from its Tills challenge of the legality of the AngloAmerican position fur ther a case that hns been before the Council since its birth Lies unexpected injection of his argument on the sian side of the dispute certain defeat of the Russian de maud and may yet allow tim for creation of some facesaving But 24 hours after Lies move none of the members opposed t Russia any sign of weak They did not question ns head of the tr express his opinion they did not question his motives some wondered about Lies wisdom in picking this case to make his firs venture Into a Council political de and weighs less than 120 Escort for Miss Peterson will le selected As a Miss Peterson will accompany the Court on all occasions from ar rival of Ihe Royal on Ihu Mississippi niver Tues day May until the lust party of the Carnival the night of May Her costumes will be fashioned by the modiste nt the Cotlon Cur Costume Committee with the kowns to be similar to those of in of o en with to be worn to the numerous public events plan Her public appearance In this role home town Will participate in the welcome of the Cotton carnivals representatives to arrive here at Hear Former FBI Man James Roy Discusses Work In America During War Days Flames Damage Car Last Night April House voted tenta terminate the Price Con trol Act March and to profit nil Hems o producers pro retailers uml Despite assertions by Chairman of thu Bunking Committee that they were touching off an explosion of Joined Re to adopt the profit amendment by n cller vote of 200 Io It by He main that there could be no ex of production of any unless producers nnd pro could be assured of a He originally hud limited Ills amendment to those two bu it to In clude retailers nnd distributors on motion of August Andre Earlier by Idler vito of Uio hart tentatively agreed Io extend the Price Control Act only until March instead of June M asked by the administration and recommended by voice the House also agreed to end the companion to tho Price Control on March In u fruitless appen to tlie House to turn down Wolcotts profit amendment Spence argued Hint It would give profits which Ihc beneficiaries never had In normal P that it was the worst wrecking amendment which could be Is It fair to ask producers Steele Man Suffers Slight Burns When Assisting Motorist Firo heavily a sedan driven by Doyle Burnett of fly reinforcements Into Manchuria was ami Communist press dispatches la let many Nationalist had transferred from io shanghai for this A Nationalist military last night about T oclock on confirmed that til air 01 onehalf mile south of the state First knowledge his car burning revealed to the driver when tlie horn would not Driving to tlie side of the highway Io release tlie discovered the Hester of a passing was slightly burned on the back of the neck when he looked under Ihc hood of the stopping to The smoldering flared up when he the hood and a flame reached Ills neck before he couM replace the at a hospital he was dismissed utter first aid treat Deputy Sheriff Ralph who natd the car was own ed by Barnetl of mother of the i fields In the Changchun area were In Communist At n high cease of green reported still holding out In the of Changchun against at tacking Communist forced which government sources estimated at The defenders position to be utter the moving behind an ar tillery barrage which inflicted Tiea vy through the citys outer in Chiang efforts to end the civil war by swift establish ment of a coalition government in Communist leaders struck new The Demo cratic Chinas major James attorney and connected with the Fed eral Bureau of spoke nnd their guests to day at the luncheon mect K nt Hotel Roy discussed work of the stressing counterintelligence service in tlie He spoke of his experiences In during the es in A nnn country nt one able sources of information was attained there for the United he minted Roy sale that the United States should keep n in In Hint this country might be wel Informed on events in other coun Hc added that FBI men shou be in foreign who would make n career of their ition as foreign As nil he an i in n lown no larger than could supply much Inform a tion to his Guests were Paul nn Gene Cotton Weather warmer Thurs day and in north portion today and Now Arkansas Can Boost About Big Egg Here is a new item for the booklet boosting Arkansas With This we An measuring six and threefourths Inches around was laid by a black Minorca hen belonging to George Shepard found Ihe jln her house this morn in the Clear Lake commun Whether she will allow the folks of her family to en joy the egg for breakfast has not been decided but they are fallowing their friends to view unusual egg at the present NEW April UP Collon closed 2765 27C6 2742 2752 2743 2743 2736 2737 2762 2153 2746 2752 2757 2758 2746 2761 27G2 213G 2751 May July nt Indiana the Administration hart n little more courage nnd It vould not be In Ihls predicament There Is nil overwhelming iced for The present Price Control Act no provision for However executive orders ng OPA provide that profit o v business ns n whole shall lie the equivalent of Its return dur ing the 1036I93D The Stabilization which Is twin to tlie Price Control provides for control or salaries Gathings Has No Opposition For Congress LITTLE April of seven congressmen were assured today to of term In the House loss asked f Representatives when the fed eral ticket closed at noon and they Three cravens of the 4th Brooks Hays of Ihc Mb District and Oren Harris of the 7th drawn op Cravens of Fort Smith Is oppos and nnd support of farm by a former sergeant nlr Lee Fort Two former tho also of Officials Reluctant To Enforce Dry Laws LITTLE April Revenue Commission er Olho Cook said Tuesday that public officials In several dry counties of Arkansas are reluctant to prosecute violators of prohibi tion Inspectors from Ills I 6th Parker Parker of nnd Homer Berry of May have announced as oppo nents to Hays of Little of El Is op posed by Iwo former army Bennett and Paul both of was an Army Air Forces nnd a lieutenant serving In the The four who escaped opposition nro Took of West 1st District Wilbur Mills of 2nd District Trimble of 3rd District and of refused the new gov the civil wir first Mid with the Isolation of Changchun WHS co pie ted yesterday when the Cen tral News went off the air after reporting that Communist troops were within half a mile of Nationalist headquarters In the Manchuria coal It was feared the radio station he had been using had been put out of commission or Earlier dispatches said Chang chuns defenders had fallen back in hitter fighting while artillery pounded the city and machine gun and sipall arms fire swept its Five American in one were believed Io be still In Tlie general government military position in Manchuria some Improved today with the sch reopening of through train service on the rail main Nationalist supply Tho line had been damaged by Communist attacks during tho last Cotton NEW April Cotlon closed 2763 21S6 2739 27SS 27S8 2758 2735 2144 2770 2712 2748 2757 27GG 2768 2738 2755 2762 27fi3 2735 2752 closed nominal a I May July Spots down have assisted local of J in arresting but H has been almost impossible to obtain As long as the liquor has the state revenue stamp on the I Cook the state has no interest In bootlegging other than a cooperative step with the coun if the liquor Is moon shino or does not have the rev enue Hip can prose he The or fede al primary election Is scheduled or July A only In the 5th and 1th Districts if one of the three cand dalcs docs not receive a clear ma of the votes will be leld August Wheat July 1831 183i 183V Sept Jail Fugitive Eludes Flees In Plane JEFFERSON A pill 17 ill surrounding states were warned today to be on hc lookout for an pilot who escaped police under fire find ued In a stolen A state police broadcast described the man as whs previously hnd escaped from the Wichita jail where he being held pending removal to the Texas penitentiary on a burg lary Simpson last night dodged police bullets here after he and a com Billy Gene also ol Wichita had been arrested on suspicion of who was told officers his companion had Intended to steal a plane al Jefferson Simpson showed up at 35 miles north of in a stolen and asked airport at for to look a plane belonging Io owner of a A field maintenance man became suspicious as Simpson the plane and called While he was on the Simpson hopped into the craft tuned up the The v Morris rushed back to the Jumped onto tho wing of the plane and grabbed ihe youth by the Simpson gunned the motor and knocked to the Airport officials described the plane as a BT 13 NC 57577 single will blue They said Simpson liar enough fuel for four hours lying which would give him approximate ly COO That would mean that the plane probably had been forced down or crashed by since Simpson took oft at The state police broadcast de scribed tho youth as weighing with blue and a dar When last seen he wearing a black Livestock LOUIS NATIONAL STOCK April Livestock Hogs salable 500 market active mostly Good nnd choice slaughter barrows and feeder pigs under HO to sows and mostly Gallic salable all salable about 15 loads cl steers on these and light sup ply of heifers and mixed yearlings finding moderately active Inquiry and early sales fully Severn lots good choice to good heifers and yearlings to medium largely to some early deals mil trading less active than earlier this steady a few good heavy beef to sausage bulls downward fron choice medium to to slaughter to slaughter feed er to Curfew Sought Night Spots Are Urged To Close Voluntarily Following Murders April in faced a voluntary midnight curfew today suggested by the City Coun cil as a possible means of fore stalling additional This action was taken last night Texas Rangers and Arkansas officers continued their investiga tion of two double slayings here within the past three of the 0ty council de to suggest that night clubs close voluntarily at midnight but reserved the right to enforce the suggestion if the crime wave con Meanwhile the reward money for the slayer of teenagers Betty Jo Booker arid Eaul Martin to i I 1 The bodies of the young couple were found early Sunday morning about a mile apart on a country lane near Miss had been shot and 17year old Martin wss shot four The couple was last seen alive when they left adance together early Sunday Captain described tho case as one of the most puzzling in his 30 years of experience In crim inal He said that murderer Is a shrewd criminal who has left no stone unturned to coa his Sheriff Presley of Texar kana said there are many similari ties between this crime and Ute un solved shooting of Poll Ann and Richard Griffin here March
