Charleston Daily Mail (Newspaper) - February 17, 1947, Charleston, West Virginia THE WEATHER cloudiness followed by snow nnd collier In or night U S to Retain Grip On Japanese Islands Full Sanction Sought Before U N Quick Opposition to Request Seen LAKE SUCCESS N Y United States informed the world today she intends to keep the strategic chains of mandate islands in the Pacific to insure American security In a draft agreement submitted to Secretary-General Trygve Lie circulated to members of the U N security council the f S asked the United Nations to designate these lands most of the Marshalls Marianas and as a strategic area under American Indications wore plan would Immediate opposition In council from Brit- ain Australia nnd others Moscow and Canberra ere reported in advised the f S state department they were opposed to of any until tho pence treaty with was signed FINAL T I O N CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA MONDAY EVE NIN THE ASSOCIATED THE UNITED PRESS But whether the United Nations Approves the agreement or not the V S it clear she has no Truman Fund Sliced in Half Supply Request Cut By l S It clear MIU giving up the Islands house she considers so essential to committee swung a moat axe at President said no Truman's first money request for It more in two: from to sources AUi mi i one has raised any objection to American occupation or nor lo have opposed nny particular part of the to occupation with thr pressing problem f atomic Hi H- proposal not floor for several days Specifically thr United Suites that nil of the former islands north of the equator which wore turned over to Japan as bv the of Nations br under U N trusteeship with the t S an administrator If approved the agreement would give the United Slates as flciminlKi-rlni: virtually thr us would right 82 1 The Islands extending north the equator about miles nd for about 2.500 miles from east have a total Hind area of only square ml population Is abo nnn l s With the exception of Guam In an American sion received from Spain those by the gue o i The Marshalls consist of 113 corn and a population of groups has Wands were formerly but were mandat league of mil Ions to Knob of of Its own The islands Include such ns nnd In the Marianas Truk said his evidence wanted to bring the Islands under U N A spokesman but for Hint time WHS ripe for nny It wui understood that London that until the pence treaty um signed would nol her nnd therefore title Printer WASHINGTON The Re- Of the entire Sfi per cent tlon of recommended by tho committee In tho first ply sent to the house floor since Republicans won control of congress applied to the veterans administration committee promised however to review that agency's detailed needs inter Today's action Is not related di- to thc 000 In the President's budget for tho coming fiscal year The deals only with In funds already for thc current fiscal year ending Juno 30 Coupled with the were recommendations for the of In ations already and for dation of the Civilian Production administration by Juno 30 instead of December 31 In the case of another agency office of de- tense tee recommended a ex- tension of the end of April lo end of of tho crisis resulting from the shortage of freight cars The com- recommended In additional ODT funds a reduction of from tho suggestion The committee agreed on ns a fund for the veterans administration which said Its original allotment of 015 will be exhausted by the end of thin month The agency had asked for Existing conditions In the ans the committee said In explanation of its action require very careful hearings and exhaustive study before the propriation ot the amount not bo nny Tho amount recommended the should carry VA until the end of March The President had recommended no recession In OPA funds but committee cut off he had suggested n cut of in i publisher of n Swedish the re- nnd the doubled Unit also It a recovery of to the office of war and sion whereas tho President had recommended none n nn over tho condition a linotype j who I nnd of n Me called I'm n Daily Almanac u out her Ihr Mrl Imih ruin snow fell the dny snld H lenr by tnit nro In Sun nnd MHO Appeal Voiced WASHINGTON of in- rnclnl nnd groups to to put politics confirm E ns chairman of thc Atomic commission They voiced their plea as the atomic energy committee wont Into fourth week of ings on the controversial tion amid signs that tho votes of n or so Republican senators would decide tho Issue Victim Seeks Mrs Olga Rocco victim ot fantastic murder plot in which her estranged husband tricked another woman into shooting her with a shotgun disguised as a camera has petitioned New York City for her injuries She claims city failed to provide police protection at time she was in danger of murder Mrs Rocco who lost a leg as a result of the shooting is tured in the hospital with her attorneys H I Fein center and Samuel Douglas right Heart Ailment State Income Fatal to Miner Tax Filed Funeral to Be Held In Franklin Tuesday Funeral services for Ralph M assistant state attorney eral who died early Sunday in a Charleston hospital will be held Tuesday at 11 a m in the dist church at Franklin and burial will be made in a cemetery there Mr death was attributed to heart disease and occurred at a He was 50 years old Mr was four times elected to tha house of delegates arid was a former speaker of had been active in public affairs since 1928 Active pallbearers at the funeral nil close personal friends and will be Morris Byrd M Calhoun Harold Dahmer William McCoy C W Neville Dr O F Mitchell Atty Gen Ira J Partlow Dr Paul S Kay Thomas and Eston B Stephenson Honorary pallbearers will Include many of the state's outstanding citizens The family has requested that flowers be omitted Death of the man who re- UH one of tho ablest public officials not ed He hud buon seriously 111 for for government withdrawal from Industry It had been moving toward virtual of heavy industry but now plans to retain only utilities and Measure Would Levy On Higher Brackets Mrs Nell Walker CD Fayette proposed Monday that the ture revive the state personal in- come tax aiming it at persons in the bracket Mrs Walker also sent into the house a companion measure which would 3 per cent tax on the net incomes of all corporations both domestic and foreign doing business In West Virginia Banks trust companies and certain others be exempt The personal Income lax which would replace the old law repealed by the 1943 ture would make all persons with Incomes of more than up to after deductions subject to a three per cent tax per cent Impost would pre- vail on Incomes In excess of The former law provided for a wider tax scale ranging upward from 1 per cent on incomes in thc lowest brackets Another proposal for a veterans bonus came Into the house under the sponsorship of Curtis B Trent Jr Logan veteran and now a student In the Virginia university law proposed n for more than 48 hours Wife Son at Bedside of the bonus The state would be empowered to Issue bonds not to exceed Mr mother Mrs Maude tin Invalid was at the ily home in Franklin Pendleton county An only sister Mrs Helen Osborne remained with the er Death attributed by Ing physicians lo a heart condition which first manifested Itself four years ago while Mr was a guest at tho Waldo hotel In burg At Hint time ho suffered n attack but apparently re- covered nnd experienced tional indications of the condition until July 6 of year when he again was seriously ill From that time until the fatal Illness Mr condition was not regarded as encouraging by his physician Mr was a native of Franklin and had always looked upon tho town as his home despite Sec HEART AILMENT Page 3 Column 5 Byrd Again Flies Over South Pole Dropping Flag of United Nations sun sots ABOARD THE U S S MT Ad- Richard E Byrd flow over the south pole Sunday and dropped the flag of the United Nations at the dispatches J from Little announced I Hour 8 A M Low Airport n rn i M ni ii m n in p i Fob 17 Byrd duplicated his font of Nov 20 1029 by flying over the pole dispatches did not state far his plane hud flown Into never before beheld by nimi Hyrd returned to America nl H Is p m S n flight of nearly Kl Ills off accompanied by n craft nnd returned II It wan not whether flown over the polo both had Byrd soul a personal message to Adm Chester U S chief naval operations written while fur 11 is KrL ho circling over pole I 7 S l 22 at thc pole was reported lo bo 40 degrees bolow -i nl nn altitude of fool I The significance of ho United nl I the South Polo was not explained Radio communications with the Little America base nnd this ship was difficult most of Sunday due to atmospheric con- ditions When thc arrived at America Jan 30 on a hop from tho carrier Philippine Son he told correspondents I'd like to HOB the land the pole II la tho mosl inaccessible aron on the face ot thc I would like for somebody on this expedition to got the pole Inlo unknown They might find there There might be n lo of volcanic mountains There might be some of the highest mountains or highest plateaus in world That area beyond the pole from Little America Is the center of the unknown You might see there you hud never seen before forces between Dec 6 1941 and Aug 16 1945 and wno hold dis- other than dishonorable eligible for thc bonus Other bouse R eliminate the necessity for a separate cipal voter registration file unless specifically required by the cipal governing body in cases tion will suffice t Major Business Faces Lawmakers West Virginia ture entered into the last 20 days of its statutory session day with only 12 bills enacted nnd major phases of its program still cither In committee or under floor consideration Thc house has passed nnd sent to the senate several Important bills providing for reorganization of the school raises taxes to finance them but among measures still The budget and revenue hills embracing state aid for public schools capital at Die slate level and a road program Legislation to secure what its sponsors contend would be a belter balanced program of fiscal for schools as between state aid and local effort Foe Pointing A to abolish the fee system of feeding in county A which would provide for n legislative committee to draft legislation Implementing thc try and report to tho 1940 session Insurance In mity with public law 15 of the congress to remove the business from a classification ns interstate commerce The bills which would reorganize stole board of and the West Virginia university board of governors and would remove from the board of control lo the school bodies cial control of In their charge are on amendment stage See MAJOR BUSINESS 3 Column 8 Americans 45 Others Die In Air Crash Plane Hils Mountain In Colombia Falls Feet Burns BOGOTA Colombia Search parties clambered into a chasm this morning to evacuate the bodies of passengers and crew bers of a Colombian air- liner that crashed into a tain wall Saturday killing 53 including at least eight cans The disaster was the worst In the history of commercial aviation The plane operated by the Colombian air line exploded in a ball of flame when it crashed into the shrouded Ml Tablazo Scars on the face of the sheer cliff showed that the plane struck 200 yards from the top The Ing wreckage plummeted feet into a canyon at the mountain's base Burning gasoline turned the un- Into a funeral pyre for the 53 victims Heat reflected off the canyon walls was so intense that the first rescue parties to reach the scene from the nearby town of were forced to wait 10 hours for the inferno to subside Broken charred bodies were tered amid pieces of wreckage for almost a third a mile along the canyon floor The eight Americans known to bo among the 40 passengers and four crew members Henry R Burton of St Louis Mo personnel chief of the ical Oil Co J K of Tex assistant manager of the Texas Oil Co Carl Hubman of Boulder Colo a war veteran and assistant ager of the Texas Co He was re- lieving Hafendick Roy Kaye home address not known the plane's nnd dio operator Capt Kenneth Foe the pilot Bono New York United Artists manager In Colombia C M Volpe of Bast Orange N J superintendent of the Texas Co Fred L Wohn of Franklin La construction chief of Tropical Near Destination The aircraft was en route from the Caribbean port of to Bogota only 30 miles from Mt Tablazo an tor was snld to be familiar with the rugged terrain The Bogota airport last heard from him by radio at p m Stretcher teams working In a cold mountain managed to remove eight unidentifiable bodies by nightfall yesterday Tbo re- mains were taken to nnd thence by to Bo- gota The task of moving the bodies was slow on the slippery rocks of the canyon Police said it would be several days before all the bodies were removed Mt Tablazo is in an area that has been called the most notorious graveyard of commercial planes in South America Most victims were bian businessmen nnd students on their way to Bogota to attend In- classes At least one Coward of gary chief of properly an Englishman were among tbo passengers The government announced a day of national mourning over the disaster Worst previous commercial air toll was registered In the crash of a Chinese near Tsingtao in January killed 42 Cutlip Marshall Salisbury Casebolt Belcher Mm Dale Cutlip fill Crunt St found an apartment to rent third driy had 12 calls Miss Agnus Marshall 1706 ington St E sold a portable writer first day Mrs J J Salisbury Rt 7 box 2 sold a 1942 Do Solo third day had 50 calls from ad Mrs M M Casebolt 1110 ley Av sold a sewing machine first day hnd 5 calls Mr C N Patton 522 Samuel Ct sold n 40 Plymouth fifth day had 50 or more calls Mr Irn Belcher 07 sold a baby grand piano in three All of the above people received through Mall Want Ads You too can sell or buy anything rent 11 hire help or re- cover lost articles simply by Daily Mail Classified Between 8 a m and 15 p m Daily Mail Want Ads Make Money for Break Up Big W Va Labor Witness Appeals to Congress Chiang Acts to Save Economy Structure NANKING Chiang government S in a desperate light for national survival completely revamped China's tottering business structure today and promised to organize the government itself Shanghai's tough market ators promptly moved under- ground nnd defied the new Chiang threatened severe penalties and said that rough and ready justice would make up in some cases for lack of enforcement machinery The drastic home all fortunes Closed Shop Ban Advised Men Labor Bosses WASHINGTON a coal industry of- budget nnd stricter tnx Campbell a coal industry collections along with expenditure congress of U S Up nodded machinery ana to up John L Lewis United Workers and other big a campaign against hoarding and speculating nnd snid severe penalties would be im- general counsel for Eolation of any decrees w Va for the Island testified before labor committee abroad A few Chinese arc re- The government also announced Before today's session opened lo have foreign investments n tightening control of financial Nixon Calif a billions and many and snld all survey convinced him that loans must he used lo nnd file members want con- for government mote production of necessities for I lo pass some law to free thorn 1 I H ul It t n H f ril m 11 1 OR fOI f TS wun wages and prices capital to January levels and t Joans nu w iraim nun mo production of necessities for I RrOss lo pass some law to free thorn home use and commodities for ex- Surplus funds of mental and provincial municipal and local banks must be deposited of fonr of their union Like other coal Campbell sold In his prepared timony If doesn't strikes and lockouts the official exchange rate at Chinese dollars to one U S instead of to one and banned any use of foreign rency or any trading in gold in This already is being lated in Shanghai for n curtailed No financial institution may buy or sell any commodities unless authorized by the Bruce Smith chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai said the new program would stop American business In China for n while Jews in Haifa Stage Strike Protest Deporting Of 800 Immigrants JERUSALEM Hundreds of Jews went on strike for an hour today in protest against the deportation of 800 uncertified im- migrants from Haifa to Cyprus Traffic was halted for the first ten minutes In most Jewish com- No incident was re- ported Meanwhile Jewish lawyers were reported toy a usually reliable source to be planning a plea for a writ of habeas corpus In the Palestine high court to keep tho British from sending the grants to detention canos on prus Six of the group were said to be wounded The Intercepted Jews ing nearly 800 refugees were trans- ferred early today from their ship the San Miguel to the British de- vessels Ocean Vigor nnd Empire Heywood in Haifa harbor Members of the group said six of the Immigrants hud been ed two by shooting when British sailors boarded the Snn Miguel in the Mediterranean yesterday to treat their bullet wounds Irgun Leumi underground Jewish army last night broadcast n warning that there would be n payoff In British blood If three young Jews condemned for Ing arms were put to death Lt Gen Sir Evelyn Barker con- firmed sentences of the three Implicated In the whipping of a British and three last weak before giving up tins estine army command to MnJ Gen G H A with the central bank to eliminate unions It is not able to anticipate further strikes when tho government re- turns the bituminous mines to private ownership Under present law the government must do thU before July 1 Two Campbell urged two things J Prohibit Industry-wide gaining and break up wide unions except 11.1 advisory groups with tho same functions as I nidi Make It Illegal for a union to have any part In administering health and welfare fund to which the employer contributes money This would knock out the present royalty fund in the coal industry Campbell also tha group to outlaw closed shop con- tracts to remove federal tion for nny union which foremen to membership or which uses physical force against ers or workers to forbid ary boycotts nnd to make other in laws which said lock of time prevented him from discussing Nixon a member of thu labor commit lee went to Scranton Pn a strong union town In the fields to talk with minon foundry and steel workers retail store employees nnd wives told n reporter he Is reporting information to for use In drafting general labor lation Tin rank and file were unanimous In a for some kind of labor legislation All Indicated they were somewhat afraid of their loaders when strike vole Is Involved They Raid ono of I Im best things congress could do would be tn Battle Brews Over Budget Republicans at Odds Over Cut WASHINGTON of nny ot tax cuts until congress de- termines how much to slash the 1947 budget was announced today by Chairman Knutson R Minn of the house ways and means com- WASHINGTON A hot battle was In prospect today as the senate Republican policy tee was called together to lake up the proposed slush In President Truman's budget Ranking Republicans were split sharply on the advisability of such a reduction but a high C O P senator predicted the outcome would be a senate move to pure the figure to or lower He mild the chief aim would be to Ho chief nlm would bo to minimise tho cul con- posed for hv impartial He conceded that the ouso pi no would go along with the run tailoring job J The detention camp mended by the Joint budget com- pital was reported earlier to However he expected the WHS u -i taken in four of the voyagers final figure lo be set at eluding a woman and a girl of 000 two houses send the they arc against CLOSED SHOP BAN Page 3 Column 6 Rail Mishap Hurls 55 KINGS PARK N Y An Long Island railroad train hit an open switch Sunday in the Kings Park railroad station and 55 passengers were injured as four of the cars and I he engine were derailed and overturnd issue to conference Up bain Duo Wednesday Both house and senate were ten to take up on Wednesday thc question of n ing on government spending for tho fiscal year starling July 1 In the Styles Bridges R N II of the committee lending fight for tho full against opposition of n powerful bloc top Republicans Car Insurance I Rates Boosted Deputy Insurance Marian Justice declared Monday that Increased auto- mobile rates which became effective today in West Virginia were wholly hut that his of- I Ull was powerless to do taken by Sen Robert A of thing about it See 3 Column Prowler Believed Shot Escapes After Cutting Lee Street Resident rout for private passenger cnrs in 127 stales nnd the District of lumbia today the National of Casually Surety I h cosl of tell ling for the Tho 3D per properly only Property rales for Richard S High of 1223 Lee St was Monday with W i t V t i- 1 1 1 1 U O five stitches in left arm while a prowler whom he briefly in his darkened apartment Saturday night was at large with Mr High thinks a revolver slug in his Mr High a plumber ing In his bedroom with his Although Mr High was sure that son Mrs High being lc ni Mm man escaped when nn noise In through back door whence ho him at comc ho hnd p m ho lold newsmen Still half asleep he he n and went to tho kitchen ho pressed the light but nothing There were no lights t mri colc hc dotor- on thc intruder hud gone M r of e ho gun still aching ln lo per cent vva Injury liability income as well as nnd hospital hius in n per higher average in claims for bodily injuries In the bureau snld It estimated that erty damage risen SO mil of material and By that time ho was aware he not In the room nnd t buck into so hc would Leaving tho baby Mill wrr In the of menl building ho went to with limits deterioration of for tho high last he nol in inu building ho wont i Ing out the outline of his visitor Ills wound ln Mr High snld he reached s in in new rates ply nro Arizona Arkansas grab him Police who had been Colorado Delaware The intruder who hnd n quickly at the scene nnd be- lown Kentucky Maine In his hand made a lunge ano Rnn m Mr Michigan Minnesota Missouri caught his host culling a d ft Nebraska Nevada Now th ief Mr of Virginia his gun n 38 caliber revolver aimed It nnd took n shot at the by this time assailant fleeing form of his nn IJJ iin mut Plumbing nnd Wisconsin nnd Wyoming Supply Co If his visitor Revisions for Mutes nrr should como ho will warm reception awaiting him order await tho bureau
