Charleston Gazette (Newspaper) - April 24, 1947, Charleston, West Virginia Largest Circulation in West Virginia The Charleston Gazette The Stale of the Associated Charleston West Virginia Thursday Morning April 24 Pas Sections Partly what warmer Senate Begins Debate on Labor Taft Asserts Present Laws Place Small Employers At Mercy of Union WASHINGTON April Taft led off Senate debate on proposed new union curbs today telling his colleagues that as the laws now stand many hundreds of thousands of smaller employers are at the of unions and union leaders As he spoke AFL President liam Green gloomily told a news conference that his federation has abandoned hope of preventing Congress from passing vicious anti- labor legislation We may succeed in having them remove some of the more able Taft pegged his argument to the contention that while in times past the laws gave all the advantage to employers they now give it to organized labor The Ohioan chairman of the ate labor committee said that the it has approved seeks to amend the Wagner collective bargaining act to remove injustices frozen in the law Many The would impose many reJ strictions on unions including curbs on their right freely to call strikes but is not so sweeping as the one the House has approved Joseph AFL counsel told the executive council today that the House is pure unadulterated Fascism and the vicious and malicious ever enacted in this or any other country He said unions can not live under the House and described the ate version as not much better Both the bills would outlaw the closed shop Both would delay some strikes by court injunctions and both would make unions liable to suit for contract violations The House would curb wide bargaining and ban both strikes and secondary boycotts Efforts are afoot in the Senate bring the Senate more in line House version ever an opponent of such steps Sen Pepper said he ex- the Senate will wind up not so undesirable as the one the House passed Nat Sen Taft in his speech said the Senate is not and is not inspired by any intent to wreak vengeance on anyone He said it merely seeks to make sure that neither unions nor ment can feel they can make an unreasonable demand and get away Established 1887 rive Cents jfX T Price Reductions Spreading Across INation GM Union in Agreement on Raise Buyers Cheer Cuts in Food Soap Building Murray Signs Steel Accord To See Green Method of Com put ing Wage Increase Now Only Bar To Aulo Contract By The Associated Press The outlook for peace brightened on several jor fronts yesterday These were the President Philip Murray signed a two year contract with the U S Steel Corp and announced he would meet as soon as possible with AFL President William Green lo discuss a proposed merger of the two labor organizations Motors and the CIO United Auto Workers union were in general agreement on a pay in- crease totaling 15 cents an hour with only the method of computing the raise blocking agreement Straight 15 Cents Demanded c- 1 I I tne General Motors Steel Wage Tact Signed which were recessed until Leaders of management and labor signed their agreement day he company yesterday in Pittsburgh calling for a SI a day wage raise for Charles The demanded employes of U S Steel subsidiaries Left to R Cox president of Steel Corp and Philip 15 cents hourly wage boost Murray CIO president Standing is John A Stephens U S rail the Steel vice president AP Wirephoto Group Okays f S MuSt HoUSing air greater the cost in overtime ments and sick payments Spread over 220.000 production he said the amount could be able The union yesterday ed immediate application of an cents hourly wage increase and m arbitration of remaining differences the break All that remained or a light seaplane was a charred skeleton after it crashed and afternoon near Milton Otis 24 war veteran of near and lames S Wilson 21 of Milton in Two Die iii Milton Plane Crash the wreck after the plane crashed into a telegraph pole The plane's pontoon center hides the bodies Wilson was an amputee veteran who had lost a lesr The plane struck a high tension er line and sheared 22 telegraph lines after it went into a stall and fell The plane had been rented lor the flight from the Aero base in AP Wirephoto from the Huntington Publishing Co Foreign Ministers to Close Fruitless Conference Today WASHINGTON April By a one vote margin the Senate i with He it said that only the largest corporations now appear to be- able to cope equally with organized bor in collective bargaining Taft said he believes the Senate does not interfere with any legitimate rights of labor unions He added that if unions could show banking Committee Gives w Approval by j day a world I mi 3 lid MOSCOW April foreign ministers council neared up of ils longest and The corporation promised an perhaps most hectic conference with major un- tions as hopelessly deadlocked The ministers agreed to Plan Gaining Impetus as Merchants Yield to Demands By The Associated Press War on inflationary by merchants in year-old Newburyport lumped across the nation as some wholesalers and manufacturers joined In announcing price slashes ranging up to 30 percent One large department store Stores retailing in New England New York and a fiat 10 percec.t price cut with the We'd rather have a moderate ering of prices now than a sion later Earlier a New England grocery Farms with 128 tores in Massachusetts Vermont and New re- ducing prices 30 percent on 150 tems The battle for lower prices found new recruits in the ranks of ers of soap i fats oils chemicals wire and cables music records and of Broadway plays New York reported Retailers concentrated attention the embattled housewives of trv up their Moscow Bayers Here Resist Costs reconstruction program ana another bargaining session in roW Un to buy at inflationary prices leading to a kv i njn I lt u i in homes during the next war as red-haired of Slate Marshall caustically New England who were reported hastening to take advantage of the Newburyport 10 percent re- tail price cut which had spread to nearby communities Buyers Cheer Cuts But across the nation buyers cheered recent cuts at wholesale levels of fats oils soap butter pork and beef prices which they today approved unless it took the lead a rank and legislation aimed at construction of repair of the ravages sroup homes during the next 10 of war I GM's proposal red-haired Slate years at an estimated cost to will be one of the most cr blasted the for the Soviet Union r snn win i fnr liner me 4 urt fnr A sui depressions the United States and arbitrary attitude action on the has ever had a most amazing Three-Man Board and declared the United of The stated decent home and suitable living which will affect the for every American world the former vice Bv Edith Leslie Graham Charleston consumers have displayed a determined reluctance on QI inflationary prices leading to a definite downward have not yet announced trend in certain items that should effect all merchandise by mid-summer a survey of merchants disclosed yesterday The measure known as the a French won com- to the Foreign endorsement 7 to when ASSOC in the United Stales Sen Maybank cast the I in an address tonight decided vote by telephone from Predicting the situation would Md His ballot broke a to a head in four pfi tor ut A dent told the Centre d'Etudes de la be given 30 days sembly if a treaty is not completed o r w a The union by the time the Assembly meets in to 8 deadlock Opposition Forecast The close committee vote choose one member GM a September second andT both sides the secona u third I Marshall alfo Russia with blocking the tr Are Abolished khe union made ils four-power pact to keep Germany Some store operators said frankly that stocks are not moving at ent especially in clothing and furniture lines and added that this has led lo selected the belief that new merchandise be at a lower price for lity received I While agreeing that the down- or IX al General Motors negotiators demilitarized years in a devastating way unless recess and then announced Pointing out that on itie we are prepared to meet it power pact and essential clauses in the American also Please Turn to Pift 11 Col 4 Austrian treaty the three HP PPA Ul A A frowned on ently foreshadows a drive to kill ed a minor United Slates the when it comes up for vear but said this bate in the Senate Sen be by in- chairman of the banking armaments expenditures or i Closed by Truman WASHINGTON April 23 lina any cooperative movement for price culs such as the experiment now being committee told reporters that even t some senators who voted for the that it does changed He laid stress on the loans to foreign nations Earlier at a news conference he i the would be j measure reserved the right to Russja should get pose it in whole or part on worth of goods Telephone Cables Uie III nations were lined up thier to Truman today abolished ed jn Newburyport Mass stores lone against the Soviet Union and two other major where 10 percent reduction -t u n iu secretary of slate jme effective June 1 and fe upon for a led Molotov had rejected the font national emergencies section of the un- der which the U S attorney general could get a court injunction to de- lav for more than two months any industry-wide strike threatening the public health or safety Closed Shop The provides that the in- junction must be dismissed in 75 to days and if the emergency still exists the President turns the whole case over to Congress for Please M 4 Truman to Visit Canada's Capital WASHINGTON April Minister W L MacKenzie floor i power pact by introducing in tnc i functions including rent form of amendments nearly f cd o other depart and services WASHINGTON April But Tobey himself voting with world econom the majority said there is no other legislation before us or seriously Please Turn to PaKe 11 Col 1 proposed which will meet this housing shortage crisis quickly and more effectively The sponsors of the Sei Wagner Ellender La and Taft were authors j of a similar measure which passed the Senate last year but in the House The provides I A national housing commission a grim hard-boiled under an administrator He 0 i world-famous model of in the iRe sabotage of some Ions ic reconstruction cables came from telephone officials today while the which exists 4 between the four powers on the their controls on Warden Lawes 66 i 7 Dies at His Home undertook lo government tie the country-wide phone strike what in effect is vii a The new settlement approach is of this treaty by the Soviet executive orders wipe out es OPA the Civilian Administration and the Office I will only state that the of WaJ and of Germany lust As in combatting inflation They contended that such a plan may be workable in smaller towns but would be impractical in cities the Qf because of government he added In a reply as curl Molotov Please Turn to Page Col 4 wasi GARRISON N Y April E Lawes 63 the iden who converted Sing Sing work with a coordinating council made up of the chiefs of existing federal housing agencies and progressive penal methods died day at his home where he had been in retirement six years peace talks in Washington between the striking telephone workers and three parts of Bell long lines division the Western Electric Co and the Southwestern Bell phone Co At Mil waukee Wisconsin irk Telephone Co announced an offer of a reward for information with them soes the Office of Temporary Controls which was o i Ron e House Postpones Action r f n-11 2 Pri to WASHINGTON April 23 OPA up last December to start the liquidation process The orders direct the transfer of these 1 Rent controls from OPA to the housing expediter ce control over rice from the Agriculture activities relating to n-11 leading to the arrest of person in argument overpayments on J King said today President Truman come families This would i of other government de- In health for a year and a half and seriously ill for the past Lower Income Home 0 Lawes died Of a cerebral 2 A program of home ownership and rental housing for lower m- who cut long distance cables ins Milwaukee At Louisville 1 C MrAlislcr anager of the Southern from the Lawes died of a cerebral Co announced measure hage at his home la miles reward for information j Chairman Er IB Big House at a JQ thc conviction of j House foreign to bar aid to adjustments to the countries the House today put Reconstruction Finance Corp until Monday a decision on the ad- 4 liquidation activities and foreign I aton affairs cot rs Hrr said an important I noting the functions relating chiefly to payments on copper lead zinc production from to the Commerce overhead costs and other j tors There was no indication that any such plan would be attempted here Scarce Items Down The biggest price drops here have been in merchandise tha was scarce or off the market during the war In items such as women lingerie and various o feminine appeal the prices now are well below the immediate post war price but still considerably above the market One store reported that needs and such things as are five to six percent a year because th manufacturer's price was cut Such cuts as this were attribute to increased production changed them from a scarce to plentiful category The merchants themselves wet inlo a buyers strike of pov There remained a strong warning from manufacturers and that really price reduction cannot ome until labor and material costs op The first big break in the price f soaps came when Co announced at Jersey ity N J a 10 percent cut in ulk soap Lever Bros in Boston announced 10 percent cut on all major soap and glycerine in response o President Trumans appeal and Werk Co said in Cincinnati a 0 percent cut will be made Prices of fats and oils highly im- in soap making have ed substantially paving the way or a cut in soap Soybean oil oil peanut oil corn til coconut oil and tallow have been marked down anywhere from to 11 cents a pound Hog prices continued to slide n Chicago although at a slower and were off 25 to 75 cents hundredweight Cattle prices were steady to lower and sheep steady to higher Other manufacturers announcing price reductions General Cable of 6 to 12 percent on copper wires magnet wires and cables used in tion electrical utility automobile Please Turn toPage 20 Col 2 Charleston Added To New Air Route Year Sentence The House earlier denied leporti Mr Truman had ex- tensive travel plans mer Including visits to Alaska waii and Puerto Hico Presidential Secretary Host AH of these reports are ly nebulous and highly speculative He said that beyond the ian trip Mr Truman had no distance travel plans The President is scheduled make a one-day journey to ton N 3 in mid-June to deliver an address and receive an honorary at Princeton university Mr Truman last month cancelled a projected trip Rico and 12 Col 4 Please Turn to Page 11 Col 3 and more sanitary cell quarters May Plans to Take Stand In Trial on Bribe Charge WASHINGTON April Andrew J May chairman of the House military committee plans to take the stand in federal district court to he took bribes to obtain munitions con- tracts was investigating them On trial with May are Henry and Murray Garsson brothers hends ot the war syndicate and Joseph F Freeman Washington agent lor the Lawyers for thc er three waived preliminary equivocally condemns such action About 93.000 employes arc in- in the strike at thc three key units The National Federation of Tele- phone Workers representing idle operators linemen equipment makers etc quickly Please Turn 20 Col 1 GOP Reach 1 on Rent His lawyer Sawyer Smith at this time court today that it is untrue that the Kentucky profited from deals between friend Architects Are Briefed9 On Field House Musts for the benefit of the architectural soon rm of Tucker and Silling On the whole dav at a meeting held at the Daniel i thought the pre Boone hotel and it was the that another gathering H the group interested in the musts NEW YORK April Serge Rubinstein was sentenced in federal court today to two and one- years in prison and fined 000 for Tudse J F T O'Connor who thc international financier and two other defendants refused of I to release Rubinstein on bail as been verv ing appeal and rejected motions for here of retrial res in i Rubinstein the sentence with bowed head and while By Babert Uhe Garsson munitions combine and he Cumberland Lumber Co Andrew J May will take the witness stand and explain to you how every dollar of that money was speni and how not one cent went to Andrew J Smith told the jury May is on trial with three defendants accused of war fraud charges in connection with the 000000 Garsson combine William A Paisley special nt attorney general charged that Garsson part advances he had received from them Paisley told the jury he to show that the Erie firm pre- pared false invoices in its Chicago designed to show May had intended lo ship lumber to The government prosecutor said the mentioned southern yellow pine but there was no such A new air route through ton operated by Piedmont Aviation Inc has been authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board it was announced yesterday by Charles E Hodges managing director of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce The route has Cincinnati O and Norfolk Vs as its terminus points while intermediate points in i tion to Charleston include mouth O Roanoke Charlottesville and va The new Hodges said is described as feeder service for main line air routes which it inter- and contacts and will give Charleston direct air service with three cities not included on any existing routes operated through These are Portsmouth tesville and Richmond Hodges explained the CAB elected to withhold issuance of the new three-year operating the lumber company to a A 1 Brown for and the money to repay Erie by Senate and House GOP leaders Chairman Wolcott an- the banking committee will act on its own in showdown vote on whether to strike the rent from its housing The House committee on a tion by Rep Buffett a 10 percent increase 9 o 4 month ago On the other hand want to be President You have to work too knocks you and don't dough to live on discovering that C E Silling representing the company said his firm would draw up an exhaustive set of preliminary plans including the approximate costs and thc type of service the field house would provide and would help in knitting the system for financing the project Rocco J Gorman who has been instrumental in the fine progress of the preliminary plans said he felt it advisable to call together again citizens interested in the field house and make a detailed re- port on what has been j ed to dale Any recommendations from the for further a temporary or portable president of the Tayl should be constructed lor i Aviation Corp casions when it will be used for Both sen to w ing the plans wi the be welcomed by Virgil F Frizzell general meetings exhibits etc 4 That a portion of the seats should be of collapsible bleachers providing the maximum floor space when basketball or other sports events arc not being held in the field house a large door mately 12 by 12 feet should be available al one side of the building lo allow ample room for getting large exhibits and trucks indoors The actual sealing capacity of the building has not yet been mined This mailer probably will be shortly after citizens meets with the committee to make ils recommendations n prison but with sentences pended providing they pay fines of within six months Rubinstein was ordered to serve two and one-half years on each of the five counts for which he was convicted thc terms to run rently He was fined on each count to make the total Thc government's case against the dressed was that to avoid military service he falsely claimed he was essential lo the operation of the Panhandle company and other com- panies he owned or and also lhat he was sole support of his relatives the adequacy of airport facilities on its route Piedmont Aviation is headed by Birmingham by Frank operator cial Charleston the other three are American Capital and Eastern Hodges said the CAB also has o years authorized the extension of a tal airline route from Knoxville to Memphis Tenn Jingling the Tall Story The king of Denmark's in some fix His growth's complete at six Now on the throne he's sure to know He's just as high as he can fo Stan Arnold Copyright 1341 tor The
