Charleston Daily Mail (Newspaper) - February 13, 1946, Charleston, West Virginia THE WEATHER Occasional rain and mild tonight Rain probably turning to light snow with colder on Thursday FINAL EDITION VOLUME 10 o 4 4 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PHESS CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA WEDNESDAY EVENING 13 1946 14 PAGES FIVE CENTS U BREACH BELIEVED NEAR Ickes Resigns in Pauley Appointment Row Strikes Over In Pittsburgh Philadelphia N Y Rescinds Disaster Rilling Business Resumed By The United Press It was business as usual for Americans today er 18 to 48 hours during which utilities transit and tugboat strikes crippled three great ies In Pittsburgh a utility strike was called off In Philadelphia a transit strike ended In New York City the tugboat strike continued but a disaster ruling was rescinded and the city's vast commercial industrial and ment activities were resumed But labor troubles still kept workers away from their jobs in the nation's troubled war industrial situation The strike picture by An independent utilities workers union called off its strike against the Duquesne Power and Light Co last night The company agreed to resume negotiations starting from scratch on union demands for a 20 per cent increase for workers Before the strike ended Pittsburgh residents learned what it meant to go without light radios and refrigeration From 10 to 30 minutes at a time families huddled over flickering candles in darkened homes as the company juggled power lines to keep electricity ing Street cars were halted mines and mills closed down and the streets were dark Philadelphia Trolleys busses subway and elevated trains rolled today for the first time in 48 hours after CIO transport workers accepted a an hour wage increase and returned to their jobs The worst traffic jam in delphia's history resulted when city and suburban See STRIKE RELIEF Page 2 Columns Wage-Price Policy About Set WASHINGTON high government official predicted day President Truman's new price policy aimed at restoring industrial peace will ease price controls without clamping a rigid lid on wages The formula subject of day and night White House conferences re- is just about set But the official who could not be quoted by name expressed some tainty as to the reaction it will re- from labor and further re- visions are made Part of the pressure for a quick decision on the long pending issue apparently stems from a purported refusal by Stabilization tor John C Collet to approve er steel prices in the absence of the authority the new wage-price icy would give him A top-ranking federal executive regarded as a key figure in the tional economic Mr Collet will approve the steel price boost as soon as Mr Truman issues the formal backing The stabilization chief argued with other While House aides this official said that the legality of See WAGE-PRICE Page 2 Column 6 Daily Almanac fog clouded the phere Wednesday morning and low-lying clouds brought a drizzling rain shortly after daylight stayed above the freezing point throughout the 24-hour period Sun and Moon Pro-German Charge Jolts Diplomat Colony Farrell May Act First to Sever Ties Peron Blames Situation on Braden BUENOS AIRES Argentine cabinet was reported in session at the presidential residence today on the heels of a U S accusation that Argentina had co-operated actively with the Nazis during the war BUENOS AIRES quarters intimated today that a break in relations between Argentina and the United States was expected as a result of the charges made against the Argentine government by the U S state department Publication of the American document branding the present Argentine government and its predecessors back to the time of Peron Claims Role in Bloc AIRES says Col Juan D Peron candidate for the Argentine presidency is part of an Anglo- American bloc which he believes is lining up against the in- fluence of Soviet Russia In a statement published yesterday in two papers prior to United States charges against his regime former vice president said the world was becoming aligned in two power groups Soviet Russia with its incalculable power was one group he said the other was the Anglo-American tion Pearl Harbor as active supporters of Naziism rocked the foreign diplomatic colony in Buenos Aires Informed diplomats hinted that developments of major importance were expected momentarily Some observers believed dent Gen Farrell might try to beat the gun by severing diplomatic relations with the ed States before Washington takes any action The state department charges were regarded as the strongest ever made by the United States against a nation with which it still maintained formal relations and diplomatic observers believed the Farrell government would find it impossible to ignore them The first Argentine reaction to the state department blast came last night from Col Juan D Peron who accused Assistant U S tary of State Spruille of seeking to establish a puppet in Argentina The Argentine strong man and presidential candidate told a mass meeting of supporters that Braden former U S ambassador to Argentina was the true er of his opposition and that he once had boasted that Peron would never be President He depicted the present tension in U relations as a personal feud between himself and Braden He charged the former ambassador with interfering openly in the internal affairs o: this nation and which he is stir doing Deceit Draws Bitter Attack Blue Book Reports Nazi Base Fostered WASHINGTON ca's troubled relations with Ar- gentina hurtled toward a new and perhaps showdown crisis today as the state department unleashed an unprecedented attack on the policies of the Argentine military regime In a blistering Blue Book indictment the department openly charged Argentina with lating her wartime neutrality by giving positive aid to the Axis and by even now giving Nazis a Western Hemisphere base for building a new war machine The statement which tacitly urged the Argentine people to oust the regime and its terrorist caused a stir in both diplomatic and congressional circles Sen Scott Lucas D 111 a ber of the senate foreign relations committee said the state ment's blast has every appearance of a rupture in diplomatic tions Sen Arthur Capper R Kans another committee member said the state department was right in demanding an immediate down Argentina's attitude he said has for a long time been in- defensible Secretary of Stats James F Byrnes said however that the United States planned no further action until it had a chance to dis- cuss its charges with other ican republics But he indicated that ment of the U S indictment might lead to a hemispheric move to ex- pel Argentina from the United tions or to subject her to a diplomatic tine The American Blue Book was based largely on documents cap- tured in Nazi Germany and was delivered late yesterday to all American republics except tina It accused the military regime of collaboration with the Axis Sec AMERICA LASHES Page 2 Column 5 Sun rose a m Sun sols p m Moon sots a m 24-Hour Ended g a m High 59 Low 35 Airport Temperatures a a m a m 40 n m 40 p m 41 February Calendar Tool House Burns Fire which destroyed a rary tool house the Park Pontiac Co at Court and ton Sts at a m Tuesday caused an estimated damage to tools and damage to a Tower Corp truck parked near the house firemen reported Wednesday Latest Gadget Cuts Off Radio Commercials gadget to eliminate radio com- was made public today by Safety Engineer Morris A Kay its inventor Mr Kay said he had applied for a patent on the portable ad- device and had made samples for himself land friends The listener turns the radio off at the start of the commercial he said and the gadget auto- turns it back on at the end Meadows Gets Schools Report Study of Tax Structure Asked Gov Meadows considered Wednesday a draft of a constitutional amendment affecting West Virginia's school tem and several suggestions for a special legislative session placed before him by a committee of the legislature The joint group Sun Mon Tat Weil Thu Fri 1 2 3456789 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 reeled to study reorganization of the lute's educational setup made no recommendation for or against a special session of the legislature but asked additional time and funds to survey possible revisions in the tax structure House Speaker John E Amos who with Senate President Arnold M Vickeers serves as snid Gov Meadows was told in a partial report that the amendment was the gist of the program and some expression must be had from the legislature before more work can be finished First drafts of 35 to 40 pages of new legislation implementing er recommendations made in a report by Dr George D Strayer and a staff of experts have been prepared and are being mailed to members of the senate and house of delegates The committee said that if a special assembly is directed by Gov Meadows the call should broad enough to permit appropriations to carry on a of tax changes and other plans to supply more money fo school use Following recommendations o Dr report the proposed the elimination of th state school superintendent as an with the being filled for an indefinite term by a reorganized state board o education The board would be composed o See MEADOWS GETS Page 2 Column 4 Mayor Dawson Welcomes War Bride Colleen Trades Shamrock for Rhododendron Wounded Husband Unable To Greet Wife Baby Upon Arrival By Katherine Kessel Mrs Elizabeth Halstead war bride of a Peytona Boone ty soldier was much surprised and impressed as the mayor of Charleston greeted her when she and her daughter arrived from England Tuesday Although Mrs Halstead had hoped that her who is a patient in an army pital would meet her she told Mayor Dawson that she was much by his gesture The welcoming ceremony quite by accident Mayoi Dawson had come to the train station to greet three United States senators and when he learned thai the war bride was arriving on the Twister Hits In Oklahoma 14 Persons Injured In City of ARDMORE Okla least 14 persons were injured none none of the family was able to in a Tornado which struck meet the But ust a few same train and her husband was unable to welcome he was pleased to do the honors Assisted by Bed Cross Members of the home service branch of the Red Cross were or hand to assist Mrs Halstead anc provide transportation to Peytona this southern Oklahoma City of early today strewing homes in its path and disrupting tele- phone and power lines The city was plunged into com- plete darkness when telephone fend power poles were snapped by the storm as it centered its force in the southeastern part of Ardmore Lt Arch Merriott of the state highway patrol reported that 14 persons had been hospitalized and that rescue workers still were groping through the debris for other injured At least 25 houses were ished and a number of others were unroofed or otherwise damaged Rain Blankets V S By The Associated Press A belt of rain and snow ex- tending from the northern to the southern boundary of the country moved eastward from the sippi river valley today in ad- vance of a new mass of cold air Rain fell from Michigan to Texas early today and rain or snow was expected throughout the east today or tonight Colder weather was expected to arrive in the east tonight and tomorrow A foretaste of the frigid wave was found in Minnesota and the Dakotas where temperatures plummeted to 22 degrees below zero at Bemidji Minn and 19 be- low at Fargo N D The rain and colder weather in the southeast would put an end to balmy skies cool of early morning and port La had 67 The U S bureau in At- lanta said additional rain would not seriously affect the overflow of several rivers in Georgia South Carolina and sippi The floods appeared to have reached their peak in northwest Georgia and most of Mississippi while crests still were in parts of Alabama and South lina temperatures and clear Miami registered 71 in the Motorist Kills Man HUNTINGTON William Smoot 65 of Huntington was killed last night when struck by a hit-and-run motorist Police Desk Sgt Ted Riffle reported seconds before the train pulled in TVS Wade D Halstead's brother and cousin arrived Mrs Halstead and her daughter Myrtle were passengers on the Queen Mary which docked in New York Sunday Catching only a glimpse of the nation's biggest city the mother and baby immediately were started on their journey to their final Halstead's parents were waiting at their home to meet the Dublin girl whom their married while he was stationed in England The blue-eyed rosy-cheeked baby looked as if she had spent thi morning playing at home with her toys rather than being to a new country and a new waj of living Mrs Halstead said tha the baby stood the voyage very well The little girl seemed in in her surroundings at the train station and wasn't a bit shy of all the people who crowded around her Husband Expected Soon The child was in a snug white wool coat and a lhand knitted cap which framed round plump face She was hold Ing a woolly dog which had the long journey from England too Mrs Halstead had expected he husband to meet her here bu shortly before her arrival she re unable a telegram that he wai to make the trip He Is however home soon to see his wife and baby The Peytona soldier and his wife met in Reading England when she was working In an ordnance fac lory They have been married two years Mrs Halstead lived ir Dublin Ireland until she war in 1942 Dressed in a brown woolen two-piece dress with a short brown coat plain brown ha and oxfords the Irish-born bride said she enjoyed from New York her train She admitted though that the mountains held her in awe As th train twisted its way through the New River gorge she was a afraid that it might have to stop because ot snow and leave th passengers in the mountains Mrs Halstead and her good natured daughter started on pilgrimage in January They spen a week in an army camp befon final arrangements were made fo their passage on the Queen Mary See MAYOR DAWSON Page 2 ColumB International Amity Sought By Saltonstall Senator Asks End To Isolationism Revercomb Hits OPA With their political faith re- by outstanding bers of their party West ginia Republicans Wednesday were laying plans which they lope will win for them a in both houses of con- before the year is out Locally the party packed ball room of the Daniel Boone Tuesday night to hear talks Sen Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia and In the main speaking spot his senate colleague Sen Leverett Saltonstall of Mayor Dawson formed the role of toastmaster Sen address was by no means a fiery political oration but rather a calm discussion ot sues now facing the nation He made it clear that he con- siders closer co-operation with er nations vital citing Lincoln's words malice toward none with charity for as applicable coln he said would have that we must have a closer association with the peoples of the world regardless ot ideologies We must make sure to exercise our great powers to see to it that the nations of the world under- stand each other and get along gether rather than fight with each other Be Strong Alert The frightfulness of atomic en- ergy the Massachusetts senator said makes us all the more de- termined to be strong and to do our best through mutual under- standing with other nations that this frightful source of energy be outlawed for purposes of tion America's future rests upon the individual the speaker said He said the individual wants a home work to save to invest Without this chain linked to individual See WORLD ACCORD Page 2 Column 1 G O P Leaders Heard Over Nation By United Press Republican leaders throughout the nation spoke last night in ob- servance of Lincoln's birthday Former Gov Harold Stassen of Minnesota speaking at Boston advocated that the two major political parties work together in solving the present industrial dis- putes by establishing a basic and wage-price policy He charged that the tion was following a course of politics as usual instead of ing conferences to help solve the industrial problem At Kansas City Mo Sen Robert A Taft O attacked the ad- legislative program and said that the full employment came directly from the Soviet constitution He said that if liberty is to note peacetime progress in ica the end of the war should be declared and war powers lifted Nearly every feature of the man program calls for more eral power which means less he said Gov Raymond E Baldwin ol Connecticut said at Lincoln Neb that the Republican party could See G O P LEADERS Page 2 Column 2 Quits Cabinet Resignation of Harold L Ickes above as secretary of interior was accepted today by President Truman in a max to an tion squabble over the dent's appointment of Edwin W Pauley for undersecretary of navy Rioting Grips Calcutta Area 14 Killed 170 Hurl Martial Law Imposed CALCUTTA British imposed martial law in Calcutta lost night moving tanks and troops Into the city to quell rioting in which 14 persons have been killed and 170 injured including 18 U S soldiers and 20 policemen in the last two days Announcing martial law British Governor R G Casey declared in a If the troops are impeded in their efforts to restore order end Cairo Students Killed CAIRO students were reported killed in clashes with police today at Zagazig 40 miles north of here as anti- British student demonstrations which began five days ago spread to other cities Both Guad and Azhar sities in Cairo were closed be- cause of the disturbances and police patrolled the streets around the buildings to open up roads to normal fic they will use their weapons The riots began Monday when Indians mostly protested See RIOTING GRIPS Page 2 Column 5 Proposal Given UNO Delegates LONDON proposal for a world government was presented today to each of the United tions delegates The plan called the Dublin dec- because it was drafted at an independent conference at lin New Hampshire last October proposed a world legislature 367 members from the present 51 United Nations with an ultimate strength of 480 representatives as membership extended to every tion in the world Alan Cranston who flew here with the proposal said signers the plan hoped it might be dis- cussed by assembly members when they next meet in America N Y Voted Temporary Site For Headquarters of UNO LONDON United Nations assembly committee voted overwhelmingly today to establish temporary United Nations headquarters in New York City The committee rejected a proposal that the temporary site should be in San Francisco The action puts the site question up to the whole assembly The area of New York state and Connecticut had previously been recommended by the committee as permanent United Nations headquarters One other top issue the Indo- question remained to be settled by the security council be- fore the United Nations could ad- journ its current meeting Trygve Lie secretary-general was ed to have expressed the opinion the assembly would wind up its business by Friday night The security council was uled to meet at 9 p m 4 p m EST to take up the Indonesian problem One other issue the demand of Syria and Lebanon for evacuation of French and British troops from the Levant appeared likely to come before the council however before it concludes its winter session A Lebanese delegate said for an outside settlement were almost completely deadlocked and the matter will definitely go to the security council The security council adjourned yesterday to give members a chance to consider an Egyptian plan to solve the Indonesian issue in which the Ukrainian delegation had demanded the appointment of a commission to probe British tary activities in Java The proposal was offered after a majority of the council members expressed opposition to nian demand indicating that the motion had little or no chance approval One difficult issue before the UNO was disposed of yesterday when the political and security council approved limited tion of both the World Federation of Trade Unions and the American Federation of Labor as United tions consultants on labor policies Post With Cabinet Ends Friday Action Climaxes Heated Tiff Over Truman Appointee WASHINGTON ident Truman today ended a ter cal battle by accepting the nation of Harold L Ickes as secretary of interior Mr Ickes resignation submitted yesterday will be effective Friday Oscar L Chapman assistant for 13 years will be acting secretary of interior until a manent appointment Is made Mr appointed by the late President Roosevelt to his original cablet in 1933 has been secretary of interior longer than any other man He would have been in the post 13 years on March 4 Only appointees of Mr Roosevelt now remaining in the cabinet are tary of Commerce Henry A lace and Secretary of Navy Mr Ickes departure from the cabinet climaxes a heated which began when President man nominated Edwin W Pauley California oil man and former national treasurer to be undersecretary of navy Told of Bribe Attempt He told the senate naval affairs committee investigating the pointment that Mr Pauley tried to get him to drop a suit for eral action to oil-bearing with a promise heavy political contributions The White House would neither the Ickes letter of nation nor the text of Mr man's acceptance However Mr Ickes scheduled press conference for later in day White House Secretary Charles G Ross was asked whether Pauley nomination was being drawn today Not to my he an- swered Has Pauley asked for the Mr Ross said not ta my knowledge Of Own Oscar L Chapman who carry on as acting secretary until a permanent appointment is made was in conference with the dent when Mr Ross announced Mr Ickes resignation Mr Ross said Mr Ickes letter was received by Mr Truman about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon Asked whether the resignation reached the White House of its own or whether it hed been requested Mr Ross said I will borrow that came of its own accord Had Mr Ickes stayed on his job until March 4 he would have ed 13 continuous years as secretary of interior As it was he set an all-time record in that department which might weil stand for all time Career Reviewed His career under the late dent Roosevelt was in sharp con- trast with his political past In the days when he was active in local state and national politics as a Chicago newspaper man and yer he seemed to have an ity for lost causes Not until Mr Roosevelt ran for President in 1932 did Mr Ickes be- come attached to a consistently winning political team He has run the gamut of cal affiliation He started as a Bull Moose under the leadership of the late Theodore Roosevelt and became successively a Republican a Progressive and a New Deal Democrat As a New Dealer Mr Ickes presented many facets to his As public works trator charged with spending to prime the industrial pump during the depression he was Honest Harold As cabinet meetings President Roosevelt called him Harold the Ick In his own phrase he is a self- made curmudgeon Democrats sometimes considered Ickes a political liability in years because of his flair for making enemies Trio Held on Coin Racket Charges S Nell Moran ordered two men and a woman held for grand jury action yesterday on a charge of possessing counterfeit French coins used in slot machines They were identified as Harry Monroe Singleton 33 and his wife Lillian Singleton 31 who gave Washington D C as their home and Patrick James Beggan 51 of Route 3 Bellaire O City Detective James H son said Beggan admitted he had made the one-half francs about the size of a U S dime and turned them over to the Singletons for use in the vending devices
