Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - December 4, 1946, Blytheville, Arkansas BLYTHEVILLE COURIER NEWS THE DOMINANT OF ARKANSAS AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 210 Dally News Herald Courier Mississippi Valley Loader SINGLE COPIES FIVE CENTS WHIPPED UMW BOSS MAY CALL OFF STRIKE Bales Cotton Ginned by lenders Ihc estimated yield for the cotton flop of Mississippi many now believe tho may reach as high the harvest is far f j year was shown in the report matte today by Danchower of official ton There were j bales ginned prior to compared witli bales prior to tlic date last Soviets Reverse Stand on Veto Molotov Agrees to Waiver Action May Speed Disarmament Coal Shortages Result in Many New Restrictions Travel by Railroad Movement of Freight Restricted Stuff UP of Ihc coat Christ i onuses io be a holiday season of lit tle i fewer the barest of and drastic Thai wits the picture today Io four government coal intended to conserve railroad space lor ihc most essen tial and These or ders provide A on all freight by rail or ex press for specifically ex empted commodities such as newspapers san Beginning passenger ravel on railroads wiU be cut to about halt of A 23 cent reduction already is in Beg i mi ing virtually all rail shipments for export art Exceptions arc bulk livestock and for armed forces Others require a special Beginning no parcel packages may be mailed over io armed For domestic offices will accept no packages weighing more than five pounds nnd mea suring more than 18 inches or 60 inches in combined tenth and Exempted are poultry plants and other I nursery stock butter and other perishables and surgical and sur Defense Transportation Director Monroe Johnston these restrictions would keep coalburn ing railroads going until the end of The freight embargo is equal toj n cut if about 50 per It upi plies to all types of although exceptions may be granted Inter to those which dont The cut in passenger travel applies for disarmament unit outlawing ol only lo atomic warfare in tho UN security To a nation already headlong in Once the machinery was the biggest Christmas buying spree j created for in the pinch of ihc tlie principle ol unanimity embargo was expected to lias no i There is no reason to assert A Beginning Christmas trees that any ty use of the jmd as toys and al other potential will ruled off the Here irr some of the consumer which the railroads may not move kitchen furni building materials and Truman to Use Strong Words About Strikers UP Tiuman today was pre paring a message for the new Republican Congress with indications that seme of the would be reserved lor the AL his news conference Truman said John j right in saying tnc l would forcefully i about in his message to the nrw Con The President went on to say that ho would use strong language in dealing with all phases of gov It was Trumans first news since the coal strike bc He declined comment on the governments victory in its contempt case against John Nation Rapidly industrial Crisis Million Workmen Focc Layoffs Before End Of Current Denver Pensioners Use Electric Toaster to Heat Room UP The nation headed rapidly an industrial crisis today as a freight from the Uday soft era left scores of fac wilh only a few days lo op More llian llv JOHNSON Ignited Slaff Cm inul IKC hands over a electric toaster today and waited strike to The both in had no oilier unit in except Ihu tired by The and 449 other I lie Iurk IlO liave been keeping Wiinn ever since Ihc unil nin out of five days All Denver coal yards have uern empty just us and city LAKE Russia today in move agreed to nny veto power over United Na tions disarmament enforcement and the way toward concrete moves for reduction of wea pons of This major move was made by Soviet Foreign Minister Mol before the UN General bly and Security Commit tee and members immediate reac tion was probably has broken the in the con between Western and Eastern theories of Moltov made that Russia was giving up its veto power discussions of disarmament but said flatly that once all had agreed on a plan and it had been put into effect the veto has no r Soviet reluctance to abandon the veto over execution and implemen tation of any arms reduction pro gram until Molotov ap deadlocked the It was believed that Molotov act ed receiving ilex instructions from Josef Stalin in He had delayed his 000 of Hum in the automobile in layoffs next week as a result of the effective As the full force of the coal strike bit into the nations following developments The Ford Motor Company of De troit announced It would cense till j al midnight l j Assemblies will shut a low days after General Motors Corporation an H could operate a few days at Ihe most after ihe rail embargo BOCK into Chrys ler Corporation said it was an early Au parts manufacturers were expected to Pittsburgh Plate Class an that all of Its plate window glass plants will be closed by Saturday because of raw matc rial Woodward Iron at closed another blasl fur nace to the number down in that area to 13 and swell unemploy in the district to The Commerce Industry tion of New York said Ihe freight embargo will idle n high percent age of ihe citys workers with a resultant tremendous loss in Solid Fuels tion Director Herbert said at least 80 small firms in New York area already were closed with Scores of other industries planned to halt operations as ment several apparently j l as soon as pres word from Ihe I cnt space is said that the of I Ihc 1wrlnf Yolk nn veto and big power unanimity must complete shutdown because setting up can prevent the ol control ami inspection for the en forcement of Molotov said there was no lor even the to in connection with the two commissions Russia proposed t created under tlie council to enforce disarmament and the i outlawing of atomic Thus talk is an attempt to evade i a direct answer on the general i reduction or Molotov I Molotov made FI number of con cessions toward the and Bri tain in his reversing Rus sias previous stand on several other mass destruction weapons be out lawed along with atomic of the freight malinger of export freight for Ihe American Association of Rail said there were only POO carloads of export freight in the city and they would to moved in IWo After only carrying exempted will be These comprise only about 20 per cent of the vessels op of New U To Distribute Van Dies in Hospital Here Van o H Van died this Walls She was Seriously ill for more than a WOCK slo a major operation evera days prior lo her death at will he held tomorrow al by the with burial al Coub PM neral Home ls hi Horn near slie lind resided in more 2 She lived at 11 North Besides her she is si hy Wit nnd Bennic Joe Van nil of Active and honorary pallbearers will be Vernon Jim Henry Frank Waric Raymond Lee Harry The Iwo banks of have announced that will be dis this to 335 members of Christinas Hie Mississippi County with n membership of has out checks Planters with 110 club will distribute to systematic Lewis Long Rule May End Soon Observers Sec Signs Of Breaks Which Destroy His Power Lewis current strike may his power Vo n new con tract mine and snirl that Ihc forced nation of Edward nsi president of Ihc Southern Coal I headway ol the fuel short of the Denver homes turned to dead trees and wood to keep the home files People with no at till run from store to store to urab for discarded wood en The director nf public wel fare said a cold wave would leave thousands of the citys sons Carlos her hus band and their six children moved into the living room and spent the day huddled around a small electric bathroom healer al the Lincoln Park superintendent of the notified thai they must use their gus for heating The suppy to the building nl large enough lo gas for healing till the apartments simul he A committee of coal dealers wa by John Vivian to lake emergency steps to nig ant transport strip coal to Several hospitals ha only u supply of Miners Western Pennsylvania an gry over the conviction of John accused the federal govern ment of lo smash the Unit ed Mine union today threatened reprisals if their unit chief Is in The tap rooms and nnd nn the street corner of tlie erai talked loud and vowed would nt return to work until Lewis tell us In Ihe mining eit of Tony Miller a work er at Hie Phillips mine oi Ihe Fick Coal and Coke Compa condemned Ihe governments lion as Ihe poorest method ever tried lo set back to Another miner warned that economic revolution will hit th country if is No mailer what happens now we wont go back to work Lewis tells us The government can break our but they wont break our said a work er at Ihc mine of the Coal CMl II they punish Lewis labor will conic out on he East Soon to Gel Fuel From Texas Big Inch Pipelines To Carry Gas During Coal Miners Strike Lewis Sentence Because of Conference in Chambers Oakland Council To Curb Strikers Dictatorial Powers Given Mayor of City Throttled by AF of L 1nss Staff president ol the Tennessee Chin fc Transmission said today gus iun to Tennessee and Kentucky the Hit Inch id nig inch In of a day or Symonds was Hie days irst witness before a special committee of surplus The over Ihe tee Is lulo failure of the iii War Assets lo iet Id of lie uill has been Iven Ihe pipelines on lease mull next April help ic fuel nuc caused by the coal The lines al will only gas lt one lentil of one per cent of a days normal coal You tell us when It will ruin the swamps of and fll lell you when well gas In the lold the He pointed out that his firm hurt learned only two duys auo thai It had been granted the y of through Ihc pipe start just ns as con can be made Hie present Symonds These connections can be made quickly if the he The two lines run from Texas to the East but said that there may be some I in carrying natural gas through I declared u Male f In Ilty n il morn limn llid n population or persons for the second The illy council Ion iu in vlr call out extra imp a milew If or en toni such city those block inn I lie Asked al Ihc conclusion or ihe with he lir would do un der his emergency Beach said A does not broadcast his Ity It Inss Alan lodny of on Joint mid United Mino Workers imid Lewis of off tlie national coal WHS no positive i tlie tin It wan learned on ox Mini attor neys the would be If Ihc strike I otr i Judged and of yua 1 refusal to objy iv Chairman Says 1 Nov lo ii the walkout of Meet Due to Open In Spa Oaklawn Racing Dates to Be Set lion strike Legion Sets Membership Goal at 1500 Community Chest Fund Receives More Donations Several additional lo Ihe Community Chest Fund for were listed by Worth secretary of the Chest bringing the total lo Estimates of the needs for the Association may be resulted in the fixing ol a goal of Ihe end of ihe for Ihe With new members as the goal to bf by the years new membership have been registered to was an last at Legion Legion Plans were made at the meeting for the of a Legion basketball team to play in the fly Y cily John son was appointed learn mil Chick Coach Uill ex the alms of the councils ac Wiis In ken as Ihe sinned by Ihc AIL In pro lst police I a of merchandise through u nickel Hue clamp ed n stranglehold on utmost all of Alameda Thousands of wane earners from Jobs all public hailed by the cross lie bay only i n unil Him thr lo record reported II look us long us two hours to cross the foods were virtually un In he metrop I htiin rive County j suspended for Ihe second Officer Admits Striking Voter Der 1 UP toda lie struck Iwo nr three times with mv open at ii meeting rl j a Negro he arrested lc place ini he i told tlu Stale Kachig which will meet Friday n Is scheduled lo Irom March 29 as dates 1IH7 spring meet Hot Springs Formal application for made by Iho us John anil no protest been It here by The 10M season opened the lusl Monday In The Commission will officials for the this senson Judges mid stewards lo be Of these the owner Iwo nnd Iwo which must be approved by I lie which chooses one The nine members of Ihc Com appointed by nen also will puss upon any o come before the prior lo Ihc Hot who linn held tills since will feo lo Hock tomorrow prior lo the Friday morn Lewis Fifth District Ginners Hold Meeting in Memphis A number of along with managers of the two Dinner cooperatives in North Mississippi attended a meeting of tne Fifth District of yesterday at yesterday when repre from Arkansas i f and Oklahoma W of Co and Chester manager of Planters along with a number of the attended the luncheon meet ing at Hotel lional agreement won by for the first time in who once took off glasses asd threatened to Lewis on the nose during a nc Jis a year job It the climax of a j clash of opinion within the ern Coal Producers Association over industrywide One informant said the associa lion may be taking a step back o individual company with Lewis United Mine and away from industrywide Doctors Plan Joseph has proposed that indus bargaining prohibited j an entire industry could not be struck at one Tlic Previously reported us Education General Insurance Agency I Burns First National Fom Farmers Bank and Trust United Insurance Agency Pollard Insurance Insurance Life and Health I MX VUO 1VOO Total Dinner and flection cam he the Necro us drunk and disorderly for cussing and rais ini He said he struck Ihc Negro in be county fall when the prisoner refused eland Club financial campaign I now underway to provide Richard school children with protective and in Williams his move to competitive Price Control Office Closes vestiges of OPA price con Irol operation In to a end he Building office vacated by personnel and furniture Closet by the files of the local ol flee have been sent lo the OIA office in unc In Ihc Hoard of hi little lock for com Although price control lr n thing of Ihe sugar sMll on Ihe rationed Applications loi sent h ih sporus material available in 01 this James Flanagan new Clarence eyes anil knocked unconscious with a blow lo Ihe Williams by the Senate for ils hearings ration and questions should now lo the district OPA old Post Office Little He deferred 10 Hut nl 10 the and government lino Ills for conferences at noon he ordered u recess until U union In the IHe oltl back uil forth it u room ad joining Ihr or con ferred Chief Counsel Joseph Puil wny was Ihe onn I was raised possibility Hint the mine shutdown might be He reported on good ity lo have asked what Lewis and the UMW might they obeyed the 1H reply not he would sc tho governments Tho attitude was mil 1 had originally in sentencing until lodny to give tiel n chance to advise him is to hut Ihoy tho The prolonged in tho un til II It apparent more than routine matters about the were The would recommend a Jail sentence for Lewis and u heavy ns much us a dny unl 11 the him nnd Ihc found the guilty of both civil and crimi nal for refusing to objy Ills court Under the rules of civil contempt the Judge may Im pose any penalty ho np Held The prolonged series ot discus sions In gave weight In the that wa the possibility ot or dering miners back o They lasted from 10 when returned to Ihc courtroom and ordered the Goldsborough made no public ex planation fur Ihe long recess nor for Ihc conferences in his When UMW Chief Counsel Welly Hopkins and left of at Ihe meetin a Two Girls Admit Thefts From Apartment Here Two girls arc being held in the Counly on charges of erand larceny lowing confessions yesterday afternoon lo the hell of articles of clothing from the apartment ol Hearing Reset ior Next Trial Of 19yoar School stu on formal charges of dis the peace be held Tuesday Municipal Court Judge Graham Sudbury ordered tills The ease had been set for hearing Fergison uas arrested early Sat a complaint by Miss Minnie Lee music teacher living at 807 as a result of a disturbance in her FerRison is alleged io have struck her about Hie fare and body Says Settlement is Near NEW Magazine Iron Age quoted reports today that John Lewis the soft coal mine operators have on all points except IMC running time of a new The trade journals weekly sum mary said It is reported that only the running lime of a new ron The Mississippi County Society will have election of olf ccrs for Ihe coming in n din ner meeting tonight at Hotel it was announced today by Following election of there will talks by Louis late or Ihc Hudson of Luxora and Miss Lucille 119 i their arrest and con Mae i While and White weve turned over lo connly ns hc rase invoKed a They were arrested by police j Ilie to I The valued officers Two trips lo Miss Baldwins incut were the I that while speeches ijy fheo lorr incited vio lence and lo keep Ne groes from voting In the Mississippi said he Daniel hi the line of duly because was a order thai an prisoners searched before being He said he tried three or times to search Ihe prisoner finally I hit him two or times In the with hi Office space in Ihe by the CPA will be used by Marcus who withdrew from the and law partnership last law lo up his own general His Joe occupy a of the c space for his accounting business at both replied vi to questions about tlin no comment was Lewis only remark when he stepped inlo Ihr elevator outside the With his he went to UMW When Ihe a loud chorus of from spectators in the lo Louis Hubener Joins Hospital my open Temperature Drops to 30 The mercury dropped to a low of io degrees during last Hubert i N Y Storks quotations A T it T Amcr Tobacco Copper Belli steel and tract between the operators the union under il it to run until 1948 the operators would settle for 48 hours liny lor n 40 hour but the would expire at the end of 1SH7 Weather I and Thursday i Failure of Auto Lights Causes Crash Near Dell Damage to both vehicles result ed when cars driven by Willy ly of Dell and Tini Hodges of collided early last about a mile west of The collision resulted when gilts on Beattys car of The front of neatly car nnd Ihe right fenders and front wheel of Hodges car it Louis late of Ihc has become associated his op orator of the Komo from Germany three months Hubener has serv ed 10 years in the medical Cons of tho Hc and his wife nnd Iwo child ren have purchased a name at IOCS where they will Carol is 20 months old and her is j Cpca cola Electric Ward N Y Int Harvester North Am Republic Steel Radio Standard of N J Texas u H siril 82 no B5 18 M3 12 38 7B 60 38 16 68 3i 9 12 26 70 9 38 14 20 05 12 59 14 G 18 70 Libel Suit Transferred to Jonesboro A change of venue from Crillen den lo Courl was granted yesterday In the four libel suits pending the West Memphis and Jack and Pete its cSi for the lande cooper of and J of presented a petition in court al Marlon Asking that hc change of j venue be Attorney for the is a former Davis of c case was set for the Fob wary term of court at Jonesboro The suits were lied against the by Connly Judge Sheriff Cecil Goodwin and two deputy D Hol lund and each charging libel and each asking damage of mod The had rap for Also before Goldsborough for ac j lion some time today wos a petition for an m junction to replace the temporary of the question was rnis at White House as to her President in view ol See on 3 Cotton May July 1947 open 3020 2R05 2530 high low 3088 3010 302S 2960 2S72 2600 2330 3036 3026 2600 31 JO Compress Sells Car of Coal to Offset Shortages Whether the coal situation yet has readied the critical stage in was debatable today the weather continued One thing was was not coal for A carload of coal sent lo tho Compress was cold to individuals after it was here which helped the situation lo some Tlie docs not sell coal decided lo sell llC coal to Individuals after i check revealed the firm had enough for present Another car load also will be sold lo help relieve the if re The schools have suffi cient coal to last until at least 15 and perhaps a little if cold does not
