Charleston Daily Mail (Newspaper) - September 13, 1946, Charleston, West Virginia THE WEATHER Partly cloudy and rather cool this afternoon Tonight and day with widely scattered showers FINAL EDITION VOLUME 10 0 7 5 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS WEST VIRGINIA FRIDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 13 1946 18 PAGES FIVE CENTS Drive Against OPA Seeks Early Death Congress May Act Abolition Before April 1 Wanted Taft Brings Proposal Into Open Influential Democrat Regrets Vote WASHINGTON drive to kill OPA next April months ahead of its scheduled death shaping up among senators Discussed quietly by some members of both parties the posal was brought into the open by Sen Taft Ohio Republican Goods May Get Lid Boosts in Prices May Return Control WASHINGTON price board today opened the way for possible restoration of price on butter cheese and other dairy products within week The board said It would meet Kept IS to decide whether controls be reimposed in view of rises in prices of many Important dairy products It called on the dairy Industry submit before Sept 18 an ex- planation of the price rises and also asked other interested parties OPA department of agriculture and consumer submit evidence and views Either on Sept 18 or as soon afterwards as possible the board uRid It will either step in and put ceilings back into effect or Rive reasons why dairy products will re- main decontrolled The said It had noted with concern price boosts on butter and cheese since its determination on Aug 20 to leave milk products free from control The board had observed that butter and cheese prices have advanced significantly more than the prices of other manufactured dairy products that these er prices threaten to cause in- In the prices of other manufactured dairy it The board Is empowered under new price control act to re- Impose ceilings if It is found in the public Interest Ho told the Ohio state convention at Columbus Wednesday that price and wage controls should be completely abolished by April 1 with rent control for not to exceed one more year transferred to the tional Housing Administration Expanding on the plan in an In- Taft noted today that under the current OPA act all food subsidies must come to an end by April He said he saw no reason why the price tion could not be liquidated at the same time An influential Democratic tor heretofore closely allied to the administration told a reporter on the condition his name not be used that the he had made in his long congressional career was to vote for extension of the price control law last July He predicted a successful drive to abolish OPA as soon as con- gress reconvenes next January Told of his statement Taft said it seemed doubtful to him that the control agency could be cut off that quickly unless President Truman acquiesced But Taft pre- such a drive would succeed by April If resentment against OPA continues to pile up There Is no indication that Mr Truman would accede willingly to abolition of OPA ahead of the present June 30 1947 deadline In vetoing the original OPA sion and asking for a new one the president's No 1 tion was for a full year's sion Banker Attacks Debt Policies HUNTINGTON E R Ward told the West Virginia Bankers Association today that the gravest facing this nation today is the tendency on the part of the government to age debt More than 100 delegates heard Williamson address Japanese Mines Peril West Coast Shipping SAN DIEGO Cal Japanese mines will con- a menace to west coast ping for several more years to the United States Coast Guard Tho cutter Perseus recently sank mine found floating in the ocean 45 miles south of hero Coast said there are about 40.000 Japanese mines ed for and that when a mine breaks loose along the Japanese coastline the current automatically carries it this way Daily Almanac G AGAIN closed Kanawha valley in over the during the early hours Friday and lingered on into the morning making the sun in n late appearance Sun ami Moon I Hun it IK It's KIS OWN Sun rose Sun sets Moon rises p m 24-Hour Range Ended 8 a m High 81 Low 53 state convention One-Eyed Driver Seeks Prison as Home Base MONTEREY Cal Neumann 24 who likes to at the opening session of the 1 pf nf Inn police he wants to return to the prison at nothing for him on the outside Neumann who confessed he stole car night last month and drove It around a few hours before abandoning it told police after he released from prison that he ivas unable to obtain a driver's cense because he can see with only one eye Neumann said while he was in Folsom authorities there let him drive and besides he said they Jeed you well treat you nice and they've got everything there but n swimming pool Ward warned the bankers against making unsound loans saying he would not like to see them lulled Into a false sense of security by the current good limes The association president listed as federal agencies which he said are giving guarantees to lenders to encourage the Federal Housing Administration the Re- construction Finance Corp and I understand the department of commerce is working on such a plan The Ward continued 1 916 SEPTEMBER 1946 4567 17 18 19 20 21 26 27 28 f V Briton Ired by Red Barb Stalks From Peace Talks Who Cares About Hoodoo It's three on a match and under a ladder but this some trio of Charleston lassies hoot at superstition and the Friday the 13th bugaboo From left to right they -are Betty Schofer Beatrice gess and Fisher Just before the picture was taken they had been on a hunt for a black cat but no feline of disaster could be found is actively seeking to have banks siga up for blanket pation loans which will under- take to guarantee up to 75 per cent This loan guarantee idea is definitely a trap for the unwary It is socialization of credit losses and a dangerous crutch for any bank to lean on Ward urged however that bankers co-operate with the erans home loan program saying the bonkers owe a debt to erans and upon the bankers rests the responsibility for success or failure of the justment Act Other speakers will be Stanley Rukeyser columnist newspaper and editorial writer and Murray Olyphant vice president of the Chemical Bank and Trust company of New York WAC Musicians Needed Re-enlistment of former for duty with the WAC band at the San port of em- was offered Friday by the army recruiting office in the post office building Full in- formation may be obtained there Lewis Awaits Owner Offers Contract Parley Resumes Today WASHINGTON coa operators and Lewis get together again this afternoon to talk over possible terms for of government seized bituminous mines to private The conference Is a renewal of one on Wednesday at which Adm Ben H federal coal mines administrator laid down government proposals for a new contract plan followed the terms in effect under government operation since May 29 Lewis and his lieutenants in the United Mine Workers left the first move up to the operators ing they wanted to know what the owners had to offer The operators in turn asked for two days time to study proposals which provided for the wage increases safety measures and welfare iund benefits granted by the government in settling the strike of soft coal miners last spring On the controversial issue of unionization of supervisory ers suggested following the rulings of the national labor relations board Some operators have insisted on waiting for a court decision on the con- A test case involving mine foremen in western sylvania already is in the courts Freshmen Welcomed HUNTINGTON Acting President Stewart H Smith greeted Marshall college freshmen day at an assembly moved into the city auditorium to accommodate the record-breaking first year class Airport Temperatures a m a m 62 Southpaw Trait Natural in Child Teachers Warned Against Change By Robert Richards NEW YORK your child was left-handed when he started to school this week make certain that he's still a paw when he returns home Don't let teacher convert him into a Five-Day Forecast Rising trend in temperature be- coming above normal Sunday and Monday Cooler Tuesday or Temperature will average A is a natural who has been pushed or coaxed into using his right Dr James F Bender Manhattan psychologist estimated today that 30 per cent of the nation's children are born preferentially to four degrees above ed interference by Scattered showers Sunday find Qr about 5 Wednesday haif inch averaging about one- Calendar Wed Thu Frl Sat 1 2 4 6 s n 11 13 S Ifi 17 18 39 21 24 25 27 30 per cent grow up still southpaws It's a right-handed world at Bender admitted but great harm may be done in ing such a Each human is born with what psychologists call a dominant side The left side of the brain controls the right side oC the body whila the brain's right does the some for the body's left But in every individual one side or other dominates That's what makes you either right or left-handed When you force a child to switch over you create a dis- in this Bender explained And almost anything bad may result Of course many children survive with no ill effects as many would survive a blow on the head But others develop dyslexia or an inability to read by usual ods Bender believes that are rapidly increasing among American For one thing we teach SOUTHPAW TRAIT 3 4 Column Jew Raiders Get Underground Robs 3 Holy Land Banks JERUSALEM ish underground launched attacks on three big banks and the Jaffa prison today anc escaped with after gun battles in which three persons were killed two wounded and eight raiders captured The operation was one of the most daring yet undertaken by the Jewish underground and brought heavy detachments of British troops pouring Into Jaffa and Tel Aviv scene of the tions and intensive security sures in Jerusalem Casualties included a Yemenite member of the attacking band an Arab constable and an unidentified person killed two girls wounded and eight raiders captured Banks attacked were the Barclay and Ottoman banks in Jaffa and the Ottoman bank in Tel Aviv Police and security details broke up the attacks on the two Jaffa banks and the casualties occurred when the raiders tried to shoot their way out of the Ottoman bank in Jaffa Loot The attack on the Ottoman bank at Tel Aviv was successful and the attackers succeeded In getting away with pounds about Initial reports that the loot was incorrect At the same moment that the underground gangs swooped down on the three big banks in Wild West fashion a fourth detachment raided the Jaffa prison in an at- tempt to free detained members of the Jewish underground The attack on the prison was re- as a diversion in an at- tempt to concentrate security forces in the prison area while the banks were raided Hurricane Hits Bahamas Town MIAMI Fla first major tropical storm of the year to hurricane force on Friday the 13th and moved eastward through the Atlantic er lashing a portion of the mas with 65 to 85 mile winds The present movement of the storm Is taking it away from the Florida mainland the federal storm warning service advised The disturbance described as small but was expected to grow in size and intensity The village of on Great Abaco Island the Bahamas was raked with winds of 65 mile sustained velocity and gusts of 85 miles an hour Wallace Calls For Realistic Policy Stand Talk Raps Get Tough Trend Toward Reds NEW YORK of Commerce Henry A Wallace declared last night in a White speech that the United States must establish a and realistic for- eign policy of its own to another war He denounced at the same time any get tough with Russia policy and demanded that this country with Great Britain in controversies Involving Soviet Union War Fear Voiced Declaring that the British Im- policy in the Near East together with Soviet retaliation would lead the United States Into war unless It set up an ent foreign policy Wallace To prevent war and insure our survival In a stable world it Is essential that we look abroad through our own American eyes and not through the eyes of either the British foreign office or a British or anti-Russian press In this connection I want one thing clearly understood I am neither anti-British nor or Russian The former vice president spoke at a Madison Square Garden Ing sponsored by the national zens political action committee and the Independent citizens committee of the arts sciences and sions Trunum In Washington earlier dent Truman told a news ence that he had read and approved all Wallace's speech and that he considered nothing In it conflicted with the policy stated by tary of State Byrnes In his recent Stuttgart address Regarding Russia Wallace We may not like what Russia does In eastern Europe Her type of land reform industrial and suppression of basic Industries offends the great of the people of the United States Crowd Hissed at this point by some in the huge at 000 by Wallace departed from his text and Well It's true outside New York City as any Gallup poll will show He then returned to his text But whether we like It or not the Russians will try to socialize their sphere of influence just as we try to democratize our sphere of In fluence Russian Ideas of social-economic justice are going to govern nearly a third of the world Our ideas of free enterprise democracy will ern much of the rest The two ideas will endeavor to prove which can deliver the most satisfaction to the common man In their re- areas of political ance But by mutual agreement this competition should be put on a friendly basis and the Russian should stop conniving against us in them In other parts of the world certain areas of the world just as we should stop scheming against Six Kanawha Men Enlist iu Marines Eleven men including six from Kanawha county have enlisted in the marines at the Charleston re- office Capt C J Mabry officer in charge reported Friday They will be sent to Parris land S C for boot training The enlistees are Lewis H Bailes Woodrow Dicken James D Gay Basil W Bowers and Ronald er all of Charleston Richard S Button South Charleston James L McMellon Alkol John A Sykes Williamsburg Gene T French Raymond F Moore Pittsburgh Pa and Basil Ware North Judson Ind Page Resident Injured In Fall From Bridge Physicians at Charleston General hospital Friday treated Hershel Cooper 23 of Page for a fractured right ankle which he told ants he suffered when he fell off the C O bridge at Cabin Creek He was brought to the hospital in a Pryor ambulance Hospital released Cooper after treatment but he will return for further observation later they said Late Sports DICKEY DETROIT Bucky Harriss said today that Dickey las left the New York Yankees baseball team and that his duties will be taken over for the remainder of the sewon by Johnny Neun veteran Magnate Dies NEW YORK Washington Hill 61 president of the American Tobacco Co died this morning at his mer camp In Canada the bacco company announced The company's announcement did not give the cause of death Wage Boosts Given Sailors CIO May Share In AFL Victory WASHINGTON The appeared ready today to cut In CIO seafarers who struck last midnight on the wage raises a White House ruling opened for AFL maritime workers J Godfrey Butler labor tions director for the maritime commission would seek to extend to the CIO the same Increases were given to the AFL Even before Butler spoke labor man were taking it for granted that uniform treatment would be given all maritime workers re- of their union They re- the formal strike by CIO unionists as simply part of the machinery grinding to that end Further steps may come rapidly during the day Butler said ho would recommend that the mari- time commission formally advise ship operators that It had no tion to the raises going to the CIO He added I assume the com- mission will approve the recom Until the formalities are carried out the merchant fleet remained the same Idle Maritime unions are so distributed that either the AFL or the CIO can freeze the in- dustry John R Steelman who is both reconversion director and eco- nomic stabilizer signaled an end for the AFL stoppage by giving the strikers the raises they wanted Labor men in Washington anti- the CIO unionists also would get their demands so that strangled ocean traffic can begin moving again They interpreted action In the AFL case as meaning the government de- against a get tough policy n this crisis The AFL men on the West const leaded by Harry Lundeberg ended heir strike hist midnight The coast group however decided o hold out until it got written assurances from the government hat the money would be approved -in Its case a month a man President Truman said man's settlement was not a of the stabilization policy Here's what the Steelman plan It amended the stabilization rules The amendment would a agency when engaged in an industry along with private en- to raise WSB the same extent hat a substantial part of the operators raise them Old Fashioned Democracy Charge Hurled at England's Navy Chief U S General Richard Counally Combined From AP and UP Wired First Lord of the Admiralty A V der walked out of the peace conference military commission day in protest after the Russian Gen Slavine accused him and U S Adm Richard L Connolly of representing old fashioned democracy Alexander's action came just before the commission voted 15 to 4 with one abstention and one absentee to invite Albania ta express its views on the military clause of the Italian treaty Alexander left a subordinate cast one of the four dissenting votes with France tho United States and Greece Belgium abstained and Brazil was absent Col William R Hodgson earlier hud Injected n ter attack on the arbitrary ir- responsible dictatorial use of HIP veto by big powers in the United j Nations security council into conference discussion of Hie Trieste problem I The Australian charged United Nations is in disrepute through use of the veto power and should not lie permitted to govern the proposed free territory of Trieste It would make the Trieste port question a threat to world peace Rule To put the Trieste question in the hands of the security council as suggested by the four-power for- eign ministers council would in- sure making the plan Hodgson argued He said Trieste should be governed by a council representing Die United Slates Britain Soviet Russia France and three other nations problem belongs for de- and approval in this tion conference here and the port should be administered by a council tho Big Four and three other he said In a debate before the Italian political and territorial commission His outright attack held tions of support for the opening question of Soviet Foreign Mini- ster V M who demanded Information of the Trieste area under the security council scheme Underlying Hodgson's attack ever was Australia's steady fight on Russia's own use of the U N veto power a fight Hodgson self carried on before the security council against Andrei Gromyko of the U S S R V S Not The American delegate on the commission said only that he was not prepared to give precise answer to Molotov's question at this time James C Dunn U S dor to Rome and the chief ican delegate on the commission said only that the U S plan called for the United Nations security council to name the governor of the free city of Trieste and that governor would be its in administering the rea The debate was begun at the in- of Slav group delegates who contend that full argument on the question should precede the work of an mission appointed two days ago to draft the statute for Trieste on which the Big Four and their have been unable to agree Following the debate on the ute the full commission was to ar- gue the boundaries of the area proposed by Hie Big Four Most of the Slav group it confined to the city boundaries of Trieste and want to have no corridor with Italy to which the port now belongs Czechoslovakia opening the dis- cussion today argued that her sole interest in the solution of the lem was to assure a free port on the Adriatic for Czechoslovakia and that neither Yugoslav nor ian favoritism influenced the stand which generally has hewed to the Yugoslav line thus far Other unsolved problems on the conference agenda included that of Thrace and the right bank of the Danube as the peacemakers bored to change the map of Europe drawn Vienna in by Adolf Hitler and Mussolini Soviet Purge Far-Reaching Decrees Affecting All Russian Subjects By Harrison Salisbury By United Prw Things have been going on in- side Russia this summer which reached the outside world only in bare fragments Today it is sible to put fragments gether and see what they mean They tell a story of vast within the Soviet Union First reference to these eventt used the word purge This ignation appeared in a dispatch which United Press Correspondent M S Handler was permitted to send his New York office from Moscow on June 26 AH Moscow newspapers re- said Handler's cablegram that the ministry control Is purging and committing to trial factory directors engineers and throughout the country who have been faking production figures receiving bonuses illegally misappropriating factory funds and converting slate property for use Far-Reaching Other advices and other cables direct from Moscow since show that Generalissimo Josef Stalin's postwar house cleaning has not been confined to Soviet try Shifts in personnel and removals from office reorganization and in- have reached high into government ministries They have reached into the Red army the Communist party and even Into the country's intellectual and artistic Prober's Job Old Stuff to Kilgore Got Experience Early in Senate By Frank E Taylor WASHINGTON West Virginian who as a college dent turned to soccer football for a better understanding among fellow townsmen is heir apparent to congress foremost job The West Virginian Martin Kilgore Democratic or since 1940 is the prospective lew chairman of the war committee It was service on this committee which helped S Truman toward the dency Chairman Mead D N Y who s resigning this month has pre- Kilgore would be the choice of the committee The West is outranked in seniority by Sen D Tex but Mead pointed out that the Texan heads the busy senate for- Ign relations committee Kilgore if named chairman vould gain the post as a senator already experienced in tion work As a freshman senator he was named to the committee investigating the defense program Later he was chairman of the war mobilization committee ner of the office of war tion Kilgore early in life evinced an intense interest in civic activities As a student at West Virginia uni- versity he acted on the urge to do something for his fellowman Uni- versity students and factory ers in Morgantown were brought together through the activities of Kilgore in organizing athletic teams of students and workers At 21 years he obtained his first life On some recent days the page Moscow newspapers have de- voted as much as two-thirds of a page to reports of reprimands for inefficiency and exposes of or wrongful conduct by Soviet citizens Unlike other Soviet upheavals those of the the sentences so far reported have been confined to prison terms and fines Zhukov Incident On July 17 a two-line United Press dispatch from Moscow said unconfirmed reports had been received of the transfer of Marshal Georgi Zhukov chief of Soviet ground forces and outstanding Soviet war hero to the post of commandant of the Odessa tary garrison A day later the United Press ob- confirmation of transfer No news of the shift ever has been published in the Russian press nor has there been any official Soviet announcement Various theories to account for Zhukov's transfer were that he was sent to take over the defenses of a region close to the troubled Balkans and the vital Dardanelles that his firm hand was needed in restoring law and order due to unrest in the Ukraine that he had been sent to a comparatively obscure cial post because he was too friendly with commanders of tha General Dwight D Eisenhower Zhukov's post as ground force commander was killed by Marshal Ivan S A second Soviet notable to his position was Maxim Litvinov deputy minister of foreign affairs Announcement that the old diplomat widely known as a friend of the west had been re- of his duties was made on Aug 23 On the same day P V Smirnov chief of the meat and milk production ministry was re- moved The campaign for better discipline as it Is called in leaflets newspaper rials and wall been particularly pronounced in Red army It was launched with an announcement on June 19 that Generalissimo Stalin had signed a new code of discipline for the Red army which emphasized prompt and precise execution of the strict guarding of military and state and an attitude of respect toward older soldiers and superior officers All ranks were instructed to carry out strictly the rules of military quette and saluting Random selections from the viet press show how the campaign has penetrated into almost every nook and cranny of Soviet life Hardly anything has been ton trivial or too imposing to escape attention In this recrudescence of See PROBER'S JOB is called in Jhe Bolshevik Page 4 Column 3 argot Soviet
