Charleston Daily Mail (Newspaper) - May 28, 1946, Charleston, West Virginia THE WEATHER Cloudy with moderate ture and a few scattered showers early tonight Wednesday mostly cloudy warmer In afternoon VOLUME 10 o 1 4 7 FINAL EDITION THB ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA TUESDAY EVENING M A Y 2 8 1946 Thousands Flee Pennsylvania Flash Floods Coal Truce Within 48 Hours Forecast Krug Lewis Postpone Parley As Sen Hill Makes Prediction WASHINGTON Hill D Ala deputy tration leader today predicted an end of the coal strike with in the next 48 hours Sen Hill told a reporter he had talked with parties on both sides and that he understood all are in agreement on principles for settlement I feel Sen Hill said that unless something very un- foreseen occurs the coal strike be settled and announcement of the settlement made within the next 48 hours Parley Postponed Sen Hill made his statement after a conference between John L Lewis and Secretary of the Interior Krug looking toward a strike settlement was postponed lor more than three hours because neither side ready for the next move in the negotiations The explanation ot the was offered by Mr Krug's office after a union delegation showed up out Mr Lewis chief of the United Mine Workers The UMW group headed by UMW Vice President John J Leary spent 20 minutes in Mr Krug's office A spokesman for Mr Krug told reporters the four union officials talked with Vice Admiral Ben rell deputy coal mines tor about alleged discrimination In the operation of the mines There was no elaboration of this but the spokesman said Mr had drawn the admiral s at- to a couple of incidents in which the miners claimed dis- crimination The government has heen in control of the mines for a To Meet at week The meeting between Mr Krug and Mr Lewis was moved from 11 a m EST to p m All signs pointed to an early agreement as the two ended a con- last night Expectations of a speedy peace ran high in official circles as Lewis nt into another session at 11 R m EST with Secretary of the Interior Krug who took over the for the went bituminous mines a work ago evidence was the that union attorneys were in to work on the legal fncl points of proposals under that rarely pens unless the rough draft of a contract has been blocked out Minos Still Idle However the mines still stood Idle despite the government's peal for the men to return to work and the nation's coal supply shrank hourly toward the danger Lewis and Krug had tantalizing Iv little to say about the exact tus of the negotiations Krug con- tented himself yesterday with re- porting some but he that this progress would keep lawyers for all parties busy through the night Lewis checked all questions on progress to Krug but the husky UMW chieftain did not look un- happy when he wound up one-half hours of conferences with the interior secretary and other federal officials Krug was expected to show the waiting soft coal operators what kind of agreement he wanted to make with Lewis but he gave no indication last night just when he would do that The producers negotiating committee and scores of other operators remained in town even after the government stepped in and took the mines last Wednesday Meanwhile speculation was rife See COAL TRUCE NEAR Page 2 Column 3 Fight Delayed On Strike Death of Sen Glass Causes Postponement WASHINGTON brought a 24-hour armistice today in the bitter senate fight over President Truman's request for emergency powers to deal with strikers against the government The senate laid aside its debate on tha strike con- Opposes Army Draft Sen Revercomb R W Va took a stand in opposition to the President's request that men be drafted in the army for stopping work He was one of the first to take the floor of the senate on this measure Sen Revercomb expressed the view that to draft men into the army for stopping work was going too far and that the army should not be used as a place of punishment In a de- bate with Senator Thomas of Utah he said I cannot support such a measure and I hope that it will not pass trol legislation to eulogize tho lat Sen Carter Glass Va it oldest member Following the eulogies by Glass colleagues the senate was to reces in his memory until tomorrow when strike Control debate will b resumed Glass died early today after long illness He last appeared o tho senate floor Sept 21 1942 H Tad been confined to his bed mos of the time since Opposition Grown Swelling opposition to Mr Tru man's proposals promised to the principle and tone down other drastic visions Administration sources conceded that the proposal to draft re- calcitrant strikers in a industry seemed doomed They to salvage the rest of the emergency powers The president's request for the Strike Halts Ml Business Rochester Employees Of City Heed Call For General Walkout ROCHESTER N Y was stalled and all transportation was halted oday in this city of copulation as the result of a general walkout of CIO and AFL union members The strike ordered by the iFL strike strategy de- pite last-minute intervention by Thomas E Dewey and the tate of labor was called t dawn in protest against the city administration's refusal to permit municipal workers to organize Fail to Report Anthony of he joint strategy committee an- at that 00 affiliated employees had failed o report for work He estimated hat at least double that figure would have been affected If the announcement that the ion was on had not come so late These additional workers will ie pulled off jobs as soon as Capone said but the full of the demonstration will not be felt until tomorrow ng Bus and subway train drivers affiliated with the Amalgamated association of Street and Electric Railway employees emphasized they were not on strike but re- fused to cross picket lines No taxicabs were operating and many downtown employees were forced to climb several flights of stairs after walking to work as unionized building elevator tors joined the demonstration Newspapers Made Sato The daily after- noon newspaper was not expected to publish Joseph T Adams aging editor said that no ing room or news room employees are members of an AFL union but the American Newspaper Guild CIO represents editorial workers The city's clothing industry one of the largest in the country was affected seriously Union leaders said members of the Three Known Dead More Rain Forecast Red Cross Disaster Units Move in New York Jersey Connecticut Hit By The United Flooded rivers and streams swept through central and westers today inundated extensive areas and left thousands The floods followed in the wake of widespread lat also brought heavy damage in New York New Jersey Con- Two Escape Injury as Truck Upsets on Bridge Miraculously unhurt the driver and a senger of this truck escaped from the crushed cab of the overturned vehicle without a scratch when the truck upset at the south approach of the Patrick Street bridge Monday at 4 p m state police re- ported James H Jackson of Maiden the driver was charged by police with operating a vehicle without a license and A D Dorsey also of Maiden was charged with allowing an unlicensed person to drive the truck Both will be arranged before Justice of the Peace C P Loury Friday The accident occurred police said when the heavy load of the truck shifted as it rounded the curve to the bridge Clothing America CIO had most stringent laws since the birth of the new deal drew denunciatory blasts from not only CIO Daily Almanac light rain fell on the Kanawha valley Monday nnd Tuesday while heavily overcast skies and weather continued The night's lowest temperature reading was 54 degrees as re- organized AFL and Independent Railroad See DEATH OF GLASS Page 2 Column 5 Stanfill Protests Handling of Leivis WASHINGTON Senator Stanfill R Ky asked today why John L Lewis of the AFL United Mine Workers is re- a difference in ment from that of union leaders on whose obstinate arrogance President Truman blamed the road strike President Truman blamed the railroad tie-up on A F Whitney and Alvanley Johnson heads o two rail brotherhoods Stanfill urged that the presides and Secretary of the Interior think carefully before ing Lewis off The price can be too high foi the country to he said he President will take concerning Lewis and his nto his own hands and publicize Lewis attitude the country will support him in that as it ha supported him in the corded by Institute weather observers at is HORt MID Sun and Moon Sun rose Sun sets Moon rises a m Range Ended 8 a High m 0 54 Airport a m a m a m a m p m Workers of joined the The Bond Clothing y company and everal other clothing concerns vere affected Bands of pickets roved through he city stopping all forms of ic transportation and blocking en- rances to municipal government It was a strike in protest against he city's attempt to prevent un- of city Transit System Idle The city's transit system was the first to feel the strike Pickets took up around bus depots and trolley car barns Not wheel moved Thousands of See STRIKE HALTS Page 2 Column 2 Find a Home With a Ad Have you concluded you can't find a place to live that there isn't a house or apartment The advice of the lowing people who have just found apartments through Daily Mail Want Ads is not to give up Try a ad Mrs R B Casebolt Maiden found an apartment to rent in four days James E Kessler 2336 sylvania Av found an ment in six days Charles Brown Second Av South Charleston found an apartment L P Powell 2217 E ington St located an apartment to rent Want Ads phoned in before 11 a m will appear in the Daily Mail that evening Phone ask for CLASSIFIED Whitney Says Rail Union Chief Will Bare Facts CLEVELAND Whitney embittered head of Railroad today opened wide the throttle on his campaign against President Truman ing the President with and broken promises and threatening to spill over country proof of Mr Truman's insincerity Whitney Bald the President saw him and Alvanley Johnston of the Engineers Brotherhood only twice 27 minutes on May 14th and for three minutes May 17th he said treated us like stepchildren He was Irritated both times He was not cordial He spoke briefly and sternly Whitney's principal charge was that the President misrepresented the case when he got the trainmen to postpone their strike for five days on 18 Truman He assured us by telephone that if we postponed the strike five had a program to suggest a settlement He promised us a settlement was in Whitney said and we didn't question the word of the President He even offered us a plane to fly to ington after we agreed to the During that telephone tion Whitney said he told the President he would like the con- versation taken down by a grapher The President agreed and the stenographer kept the record Copies of the President's ise that a settlement was in sight are being made be spilled over the Whitney said The President got us to postpone the strike on a misrepresentation Now we're going to smoke body out Whitney also charged that the strike was called off half an hour before the President went on the air with his speech to congress hich he interrupted to announce the settlement Our decision to agree to the wage in- crease and a moratorium on rules changes for one year came about Saturday afternoon and we ordered our men back to work shortly after then See WHITNEY SAYS Page 2 Column 1 Heart Fails Carter Glass Long Illness Fatal To Va Senator 88 WASHINGTON Car ter Glass D Va the peppery little unreconstructed rebel wh devoted 46 years to public service died here early today following long illness He was 88 The one-time Lion of Virginia succumbed to heart failure at a m Dr W A Bloedorn wh was summoned to Glass hotel suit when he appeared to be sinking said the end came quietly an peacefully Wife at Bedside At his bedside was his wife th former Mrs Mary Scott Meade whom he married when he was 82 She had shared Glass during the last years of his life Sakers to Cut Sread Weight Government Orders 10 Per Cent Slash WASHINGTON gov has ordered bakers to cu ha size of bread loaves and roll Saturday Loaves will be 16 per cent small er by weight and probably some what flatter The price will remai ho same Bakers must Indicate the weigh of the loaf on the wrapper have difficulty getting wrappers mny use old ones pro vided they furnish retailers wit signs describing the new loaf The order to cut the size was issued under the wa power act It was the first lega move to carry out n tion of President Truman's famin emergency committee made las March The committee urged bak ers to make the cut voluntarily Thus the 10 per cent cut in siz requested on a voluntary basis i March now becomes mandatory all states Bakers now can obtain only per cent of the amount of floi they got during a base period 1944 On July 1 however this wi be boosted to 85 per cent Other 1 An agriculture official said the government no has all the grain necessary to me its bushel export goal by June 30 He said transportation was the only remaining bottleneck this may be a serious one particularly if the coal strike drags out or a maritime strike develops 2 The agriculture department announced it was hitting its fats and oils export goals right on the nose It said these exports through May 17 totalled tons or 75 per cent of its six months goal May 17 marked the three-quarter mark of the period department said U S ex- Water Perils Wheeling Arc Ohio River Near Point of Overflow WHEELING The Ohio and other east states At least three persons were re- ported drowned Communications were disrupted by the swirling flood waters of the and its tributaries in central Pennsylvania A number of towns were cut off from way and railroad connections Continue rains last night and today were forcing the flood waters higher in some areas around the Susquehanna In eral areas conditions were reported worse than the disastrous 1936 flood More Rain Due The U S weather bureau pre- continuing rain for most of the day in Pennsylvania although it expected clearing weather by late tonight Heaviest damage was In a mile area around the rail city of Williamsport in central vania just south of the New York Iver swollen by overflow of aftar days ot constant ain threatened today to inundate ow sections of Wheeling end com- to tha south with a crest lightly above flood stage 38 Feet Expected Officials at Local No 13 at south of Wheeling pre- dieted a crest of between 38 and 39 slate eet tomorrow Flood stage here is At nearby Lock Haven the main 56 feet streets were under from four to six feet of water and about persona were believed stranded there A Red Cross disaster unit The TJ S weather bureau at the dam predicted between 35 and 36 feet around noon row The river topped 25.1 feet this morning and was going up at the reached just west of rale of of a foot per jur If the muddy stream reaches the ood level 16 Wheeling streets vould be affected and State Route 2 at the Benwood underpass would je blocked Homes on Wheeling island in the middle of the Ohio awaited the water which covers the area when it tops a stage ot 35 feet The flood would result in the closing of the Benwood on State Route 2 requiring a fic detour through Wheeling streets In Flood Path New and Mounds- villa south of hero would be The Ohio was rising at the rate of of a foot per hour at Point Pleasant The weather bureau at ington reported that rain had fallen 22 days out of the last 23 with 79 in the lost two days No streams were reported out of their banks in the state but most of them were running slightly high and muddy At Charleston the state road commission said all West Virginia highways were open at the present but nt least one foot of was expected in the Benwood under- pass The water was not expected to block State Route 2 at Proctor six miles north of New Martinsville today and began ating the community's dents Heavy rains for 60 hours had caused landslides which blocked and railroads Into Re- novo Communication lines wera broken Both the north and east branches of the Susquehanna were still ng today At Williamsport on the north branch the river topped 28 feet this morning and state warned that the crest possibly would hit tho 1336 record of 33.6 feet At the east branch was feet above the low water mark for this time of the year Allegheny The river was nt Pittsburgh nnd was expected to reach n crest tonight nt 22 H feet and a half feet below flood stage A number of communities were inundated throughout western Pennsylvania after three days of heavy rain sent streams In Allegheny river watershed ing ova banks Heavy damage was reported In the extensive Pennsylvania ing districts where the turbulent waters washed crops and soil Charles Gilmore nnd Richard Bowman both of Mill Hall Pa lost their lives In a flash flood on Fishing six old R Barton hoy drowned in swollen Paxton creek In Bradford Pa water was eral feet deep In the streets and and usually a trouble spot in times property damage estimated at of flood Big Unions Boiling Mad at Truman Hint Support of Wallace or Pepper WASHINGTON big unions boiling with political wrath for President Truman dropped some oblique hints today that they might switch to another standard-bearer with Henry A Wallace and Claude Pepper heading the list of acceptables Capitol Hill politicians agreed Five-Day Forecast COLUMBUS O Ohio West Virginia and western warmer Wednesday and Thursday followed by cooler late Friday and Saturday with temperatures for the period near or slightly above normal Showers and some rain about t e secretary of commerce and Sen Pepper Fla are the liest beneficiaries in any such shift of allegiance but they wanted more concrete evidence that one might be in the making The general opinion appeared to be that it is too early to tell er the administration's handling of the strike emergency has ended the coalition However the way Republicans appeared to be seizing on the ation provided Democrats food for day Lawmakers noted that both for- mer Gov Harold E Stassen of and Sen Taft O were among the first to join with the unions in urging congress to go slow in empowering the dent to draft workers striking against the government Stassen a possible contender for G O P presidential nomination in 1948 the proposal totalitarian While political speculation three of the nation's most powerful labor organizations kept up a heavy drumfire of cism on the program Mr Truman proposed Saturday for coping with strikes in vital industries during the reconversion period In a telegram to all senators CIO President Philip Murray con- See BIG UNIONS MAD 2t Column Epidemic Reported Among Babies at Sea NEW YORK new epidemic among children aboard a bride ship still at sea was re- ported today as a board of in- absolved medical nel on the Zebulon Vance of any blame for the deaths of eight babies The army transport John Ericcson due in New York Thursday with a cargo of Brit- ish war brides radioed that one infant had died of suffocation and three others were seriously ill Nature of the illness was un- determined but it was believed to be the same malady that caused the deaths of nine other infants who recently arrived in New York aboard the bride ships Zebulan Vance and Brazil Eight of the victims of the dis- ease made the crossing on the Vance and one came over on tha Brazil Funeral services will be held at 3 p m Thursday at Glass home in Lynchburg Va Burial will be in Spring Hill tery there The elder statesman of the Jeffersonian Democrats and oldest man in the senate had been in ing health for nearly five years He had not appeared oh the senate floor since 1942 Some of his constituents tried to have him removed from office last year on grounds that he was physically unable to perform his duties but the supreme court re- the move Senate to Adjourn The senate was expected to eulogize him today and then ad- journ out of respect for his ory Mr Glass life spanned four wars He was newspaperman statesman who devoted more than half of his life to public service Although he attended public and private schools Glass was always proud to include in his brief ate biography that he was in the newspaper business as well Carter Glass served in Washington from Dec 2 1901 until his death He was first elected representative from Virginia and with the tion of two years when he was secretary of treasury in the Wilson ports through May 20 totalled 130 bushels of- wheat and 00 bushels of corn against a goal of bushels of wheat and flour It said the rail strike iad killed hopes of shipping bushels in May It said the strike had disrupted See BAKERS TO CUT Page 2 Column 2 Jap Movie Kisses Drawing Protests TOKYO and Indiscriminate kissing must banned from Japanese movies Free Film Workers group asserted in a statement quoted by Jiji news agency today Producers of recent by kissing were scratching their heads over a definition of unnecessary The FFW statement urged ers to refuse to make any more pictures with too many such administration remained in the house until 1920 when he elected to the senate He was re- elected every time his senate sea See CARTER GLASS DIES 2 Column li 000 A six-inch downpour washed out sections of three parkways in Chester county New York Four inches of rain were recorded in Fairfield county Connecticut Six inches was reported at Montclair N 1 Author Wins DENVER Virginia Eggertsen Denver novelist and author of A Little Lower Than Boosts Hospital Fund A contribution to Hospital in memory of tha late James R Thomas has been re- from the Thomas family Mrs Caroline S Hill chairman of the home division of the announced Tuesday Mrs J R Thomas the widow subscribed of the amount and the remainder was pledged by the has been awarded a the Newton Thomas Guggenheim fellowship for Addison Thomas son live fiction writing j and Nancy Thomas land daughter Mrs Hill said the donors had stipulated that the contribution be spent to provide a private room in Memorial Hospital as a memorial to the late Mr Thomas Other contributions announced today at Memorial hospital quarters in the Kanawha hotel in- Red Expansion Near Danger Zone AP Analyst Tells Graduates The Russians have just about reached the limit of their timate expansion for purposes of security and if they keep on reaching a dangerous situation may arrive DeWitt MacKenzie Associated Press foreign news analyst told graduates of Morris Harvey college during their commencement exercises Tuesday morning at the Shrine Speaking before approximately 50 seniors of the college's an- commencement Mr zie warned that we have arrived at the crucial point in the ment of power Broadly speaking Moscow has about reached the limit of such expansion as would be justified on the grounds curity though are still some bits of unfinished business to be taken care of Dr Leonard Riggleman dent of the college conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws upon Mr MacKenzie who recently returned from a tour of European nations Following his commencement address Mr MacKenzie was guest I of honor and gave a short talk at the Charleston Kiwanis club eon at the Daniel Boone hotel Reviewing the social and eco- nomic realignments brought about in Europe by the war and ating the concessions already made to the Soviet Union MacKenzie told the college audience that much of this Britain and America have conceded readily They have given way to some other demands unwillingly with the desire of club of Charleston Rotary Groat Kanawha chapter ot society 5200 Margaret Grube Lawler of caster Pa 525 Employees of Kaufman Brothers clothing store The Kaufman employees nre participating 100 por cent in the building fund having pledged an average gift of 521 each The gift of Margaret Lawler was very unusual according to mation at campaign headquarters since the donor is an occasional isitor to Charleston and maintaining frie n d ly relations if d b t Hospital Pit among tho Within recent Mr Kenzie continued Russia has put forward demands which indicate that she has ambitions cutting deeply an into Brit- See RED EXPANSION 2 Column in the newspapers Ford Gets Refund WASHINGTON Ford overpaid his income taxes by in 1344 the bureau ot revenue decided today
