Daily News, The (Newspaper) - January 30, 1947, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania THE WEATHER Cloudy Rain Colder STATE LIBRARY EDUCATION BUILDING YOU 25 HUNTINGDON THURSDAY JANUARY 30 1947 FOUR CENTS PER NO 314 AT LEAST 8 DEAD IN MIDWEST TORNADOES STORMS Probe Order That Pushed OPA To Very Brink Of Granting Rent Boost By FRANK ELEAZER United Press Correspondent Washington Jan 30 Senate Banking Committee set out today to find the mysterious higher up who pushed OPA to the very brink of granting an immediate 10 per cent boost in all rent ceilings President Truman halted the yesterday only minutes before it was to have been issued His action climaxed about three hours of confusion such as even Washington an old hand at had rarely seen Hearings on legislation to extend rent a to boost all ceilings by 15 per started Bank ing Committee at least was interested Di learned just who in the Truman administration gave the signal for the 10 per cent boost that never materialized Sen Homer E hoped officials of the Office of Temporary Controls into which OPA has been absorbed could clear up the mystery Well try to solve he said One OPA official claimed the immediate source who okayed the 10 per cent order was W Follin deputy director of the OTC and acting chief in the absence of Maj Gen Philip B Fleming Follin had been scheduled to testify before the Banking Com today but in the wake of the furore his office said his ap had been delayed OTC said Fleming himself may tell the administrations story tomorrow provided he gets back in time Banking Committee Chairman Charles W Tobey N said he hoped the group could be ready by this weekend to sit down and write its own to extend rent controls As part of the he said the committee will consider 1 Mr Trumans request to ex tend present controls beyond their June 30 expiration and 2 a Re to boost all ceilings 15 per cent immediate ly and end all controls April 30 1948 Meanwhile many a government official like the friends of the lit tle red hen was answering not I to the question about who gave the goahead for that 10 per cent rent raise The story began early in the af when CIO and Congres sources stood that the White House had approved the Increase and that it Continued on Page Five State Police Say There is really no Right of Way at intersections All drivers should use caution and good judgment by slowing down and looking both ways Dont trust your own life to the driving con duet of the other motorist PLAY SAFE ROUND DREW PEARSON DREW PEARSON SAYS ELLIS GROWS IN STATURE DURING GEOK GIA POLITICAL MESS HIS CALMNESS UNDER PRES SURE PREVENTED BLOOD SHED WHY NEWSPRINT IS HARD TO GET one Gorgian who increased his stature in the current undemocratic political tug of war now raging over the State Capitol in Atlanta is Ellis Arnall Only a handful of know it but Arnall was almost lynched the night Herman Talmadge staged his power Ar nall knew his life was in danger yet he refused to call for help For four hours he remained quietly in a tiny corner office of the Capi tol rejecting pleas that he call out the troops to Arnall had only seven people with him in his office to ward off an angry mob of howling ites calling for his head Once they burst in the door got their hands on his clothes sought to jerk him out ofthe room Calmly Arnall persuaded them to go back Final ly Assistant Attorney General Dan Duke and State Guard Com mander Collins urged Arnall to send for the troops replied Arnall This thing cannot be decided by force The people are the only ones who can decide it take some time before the people learn the truth about whalts happening here tonight but learn it they will If we use therell be bloodshed and that y in to pretenders bring shame on Those who we consider It a mj wasnt i subjected up inl the of Arnall at he al yio wound f 2 YOUTHS CONFESS WRECKING PENNSY PASSENGER TRAIN Walton frightened and trapped by a Jan tearful youths stolen lipstick claimed today that their curiosity prompted them to place a bale of wire fencing on the Pennsylvania Railroad and derail a speeding passenger train We just wanted to what would the told Sheriff Howard Srnith Four per sons were killed as a result of the wreck Monday night The youths 11yearold Lysle Graves and his buddy Jack Sprinkle 12 spent the night at an orphanage while Smith rail road and Federal Investigation agents prepared more questions Smith broke the last night which state police had pro an act of violence The train smashed into the 175pound bale of fencing and derailed when the wire caught in a and tossed six of the eight cars off the The sheriff said be connected the theft of a a the two Were writing on a wall with a lipstick to question them on several When them about the train wreck young burst into tears Both boys at first denied any connection with the derailment and then admitted they had done it just because they were curious and wanted to see what They used a fence post the boys told Smith to partially lift and drag the the track after dark Monday night They hung around the sheds and the other piles of fencing wire until they became frightened and ran home No charges have been filed against the and Smith said he would confer With federal authorities today to determine what action the government planned Neither boy sheriff had a juvenile record or to his knowledge had been in trouble before Labor Board Orders Collective Bargaining Vote Washington Jan Na tional Labor Relations Board to day directed a collective bargan ing election among production and maintenance employes of the New Enterprise Stone Lime Co The employes will ballot on whether they wish to be represent ed by the United Stone Allied Products Workers of America which lost a similar elec tion a yea ago The board dismissed the con tention of the company that the union filed its petition for no other purpose than to harass em ployer It that a substantial number of employes belong to the union and that the election was requested in good faith The board pointed out that one year has elapsed since the election and found that there was no reason tor delay 1 KILLED NEA Telephoto Daniel S Voorhees 33 a restaurant bus boy was jailed in Los Angeles after he telephoned police and said I killed the Black Elizabeth Short whose mutilated body was found earlier this ASKS CONGRESS TO STRIP LEWIS MINE UMON OF POWER By RAYMOND United Press Co rres pond ent Washington Jan coal gress today to strip John L Lew Mine Workers of power to force a nationwide shutdown of the coal mines J D Francis president of the Island Creek Coal of ington W and a leader of southern Appalachian mine opera tors made the request before the Senate Labor Committee He said Lewis power could be curbed with a ban on bargain ing C Dickerman Williams vice president of the American Loco motive joined Francis in urg ing passage of the antinational bargaining sponsored iby Sen Joseph H Ball Minn Both ar gued that industrywide negotia tions made genuine bargaining be tween employers and employees impossible No bargaining unit large enough to create a monopoly or to deprive the public rf a reason able supply of goods in the event Continued on Page Ten Truman To Speak LIONS ML MARK CHARTER NIGHT TO HEAR FBI AGENT Washington Jan Truman wil make a brief radio speech tonight in behalf of the annual March of Dimes The president will speak over all networks at p m EST for about four minutes SAYS STATE FACES 50 TAX INCREASE Harrisburg Jan State Chamber of Commerce warned to day that Pennsylvania faces a 50 per cent increase in taxes as the special legislative fiscal commit tee prepared to explain why a surplus last year turned into a to deficit this The 8man committed planned to report its first findings in a breakdown of the sur figures to Gov James H Duff at noon Duff has promis ed to make the findings public The State Chamber In an Continued on Page Five Turns Thumbs Down On Special Interest Programs Jan H Duff served notice on special interest that his Republican administration wont approve their to the detriment of an overall for the benefit of the people Speaking to a meeting of the Pennsylvania Roadside Council late yesterday Duff pledged sup port of Ufe plan to eliminate honky tonka and along high but to Harrisburg with an Intense to have exclusion of everything else Their programs may be important but not that important They must be related to the overall The governor said he was con of the need for a peoples Duff agreed however that highways everywhere spoiled by honky tonks which decrease real estate values We are willing and anxious to coop erate with you In our common the governor said re calling tha the GOP platform had pledged the party to the highways L V Boardman special Philadelphia Field Di vision Federal Bureau of Investi gation will be the Huntingdon Lions Clubs eighth annual Charter Night to be held at the Huntingdon Country Club tomorrow evening at 7 Over 150 persons will attend the affair A fine program has been pre pared for the evening Lions will have their ladies as guests at the anniversary celebration H L Garman of Huntingdon zone chairman will serve as toastmaster Lion T R Hixson president of the Huntingdon Club will have charge of the opening exercises Special music has been sched uled Gabriel Chiodo of Altoona Juniata College graduate will sing several numbers He is well known in this area for his splen did tenor solos The Varsity quartet of Juniata College will also present special music under the direction of Prof Charles L Rowland A t full course turkey dinner will be served and round and square dancing will follow the program The FBI agent will speak on the work of the federal bureau He will tell of a number of case histories and will give his views on delinquency He comes to the Lions Club highly recommended as an MARTIN GETS FIRST STATE PENSION CHECK Harrisburg Jan 30 S Sen Edward Martins first state pen sion check to be mailed tomorrow will be for the State Em ployes Retirement Board closed today The initial payment a 28 day period following re signation as governor 2 allotment s PEIPING TIENTSIN RAILWAY LINE IS TEMPORARILY CUT By WALTER RUNDLE United Press Correspondent Shanghai Jan sources in Peiping reported today that Chinese Communist las temporarily cut t the Peiping Tientsin railway the evacuation route for the Americana at exe cutive The scheduled evacuation of about Americans in line with abandonment of mediation efforts in China It will affect the men attached to the U S branch of executive and their families A Peiping dispatch quoted mili quarters as saying the Com munist guerillas in a surprise at tack captured Anting station on the railway and held it for 11 hours The station is midway be tween Peiping and Tientsin Anting was seized at 3 a m to day the dispatch said Tne Na moved up reinforce ments in armored cars and re captured it at 2 p m It the f time Communists had curt the railway The Americans were awaiting orders to withdraw Peiping and American ships to go home U S Marines were expect ed to guard the evacuation trains U sawa possibility that Secretary of State Seorge C Continued on Page Ten CONGREGATION TO HOLD ANNIVERSARY The seventeenth anniversary of the building of the new Methodist Church Mark will be held on Sunday February at a Rev Dutton S Pet erson of Odessa New York will be the speaker for the clay Mr Peterson comes with a moat unusual background as a country preacher He has been ed to the same circuit in the Central New York Confer ence for twenty consecutive years For six years he served repre sentative in the New York State Legislature With the assistance Continued on Page Mail Now There are many who have not yet made their to the campaign now under way to combat Infantile March of drive la un der way In Huntingdon County and now the time to contribute to thin worthy Mall your contribution large or to J Elmer Young secretary Box M Petersburg The Kamikaze Corps Vet To Study In t NEA Telephoto Robert Y Nishiyama 22 a veteran of the Japanese Kamikaze Corps although he never saw action against the IT in Tokyo with his wife and child before ha leaves to study at Lafayette College Easton on a scholarship provided by the insurance of a dead Gl Mr and Mrs Robert Johnston gave the scholarship in memory of their son who had expressed a wish to promote better relations between the white and yellow WHUN Will Use Lot Of Local Talent On Air Local talent will have a prom inent place in Station program schedule according to word released today by the Pro duction and Programming De of new radio station Many of local music will featured on WHUN These the listener with de professional style of the nationally famous orchestras and which will be available to WHUN listeners from the Mutual Broadcasting System and from the stations vast file of electrical transcriptions and recordings Both amateur and professional musicians from this area will be able to perform on the local sta tion Orchestras singers small instrumental groups choruses quartets and soloists are expect ed to broadcast Full cooperation will be extend ed to the Music Department of Juniata College and present plans call for frequent broadcasts by Juniata students Other schools of the area also will be invited to present pro grama on WHUN as will the var ious churches in the area Details on subjects will be released in the near future The Weather Cloudy Rather Windy And Mild Followed By Showers Late This Afternoon And Tonight Colder Tonight Friday Cloudy And Colder With Snow Squalls In The Moun Local clubs musical or and civic betterment societies are being contacted rela tive to broadcast on Present plans call for the event ual creation of a WHUN Radio Theater In which local amateur given radio tion and can appear on radio dramas on WHUN music groups are to be featured on WHUN In of The Daily News articles will be published concerning religious programs on WHUN sports and agricultural programs news and national and musical programs Late Bulletins Washington Jan spokesmen cancelled scheduled appearances before the Senate Banking Committee today the committees effort to Identify gov officials who almost brought about a 10 per cent hike in rents Detroit Jan OJO to day accused the government of trying to clamp slave standards on American workers by attempt Ing to atomize labors portal pay In a filed with Federal Judge Frank A Picard the union accused the Justice Department of legerdemain to deny labor In back pay claims Damage Is Heavy To Homes And Livestock Snow In East Predicted were pushed to the ut of where a BULLETIN Montgomery Jan 30 Madison Park community about eight t tornado struck today The Montgomery Red Cross said that four injured persons had been brought to Montgomery hospitals Two were taken to Oak Street Hos pital and two to St Margarets Meager reports said that the winds accompanied by pounding rains leveled several houses In the negro By UNITED PRESS At least eight deaths were reported as the elements un loaded virtually everything in the weather calendar on un suspecting residents of the midwest and southern states Three tornadoes striking in quick succession accounted for five known deaths in the northern Missouri region last night and caused uncounted thousands of dollars damage to crops farm homes and livestock A 100milewide belt of snow freezing rain and sleet moved across Iowa northern Missouri Wisconsin Indiana and southern Michigan and threatened to continue with little letup today Iowa was blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in four years The Pittsburgh area basked in springlike weather the temperature rose to 65 within a degree of the high for the date record in 1916 snow squalls and colder were predicted within 24 hours Robert Williams 35 and three members of his family were killed when a tornado demolished their farm home near Montier a small southern Missouri community last night A son the sole sur vivor crawled to a neighbors home a quarter of a mile away to report the deaths Lawson 60 died and at least six other persons were injured when a 80mUeanhour twister ripped through a residen tial section of Salem Ark Telephone into Salem a town of were torn out by the storm but the Red Cross re ported that houses in the path of the tornado were razed houses caught fire and a garage and two churches were swept off their foundations and demolished Another tornado striking late last night destroyed the farm home of Mr and Mrs Ben Rob erts near Hutton Valley Mo The Roberta and three other persons Continued on Page Seven Birmingham Borough School Funds Approved Auditor General G Harold Wagner today approved payments totalling to Birmingham Borough School District in Hunt ingdon County from appropria tions authorized by the Legis lature for high school tuition Of this sum represents high school tuition for the school year ending July 1945 and 72 for the school year ending July 1944 Believe Vandenberg Will Reject Invitation To Moscow Conference By LYLE O WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington Jan 30 are hearing from Sen Arthur H Vandenberg today that he will reject President Trumans Invitation to attend the Moscow conference to draft a Big Three Ger many treaty v The decision may not be final Mr Truman will not easily take no for an answer Sen Tom Connally is understood to be willing to make journey If the President insists Connally Is 69 years old and yesterday entered the Naval hospital here for a routine checkup Vandenberg and Connally have changed places since their long assignment in Paris as aides to former Secretary of State James F Byrnes in negotiating preliminary peace treaty drafts Vandenbergs new responsibilities as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com and as president of the Senate are factors in persuading him that not go to Moscow with Byrnes successor Secretary of State George C Vandenberg returned last win ter from the United as sembly and pri vately protesting that the admin appeasing the Rus The Senator was a mem of the American delegation headed by At London Vandenberg and others felt that they had no real participa tion in what going on were more nearly fronting for the administration than advising with It In Senate last February Vandenberg had say What up to now T the burden of his And warned that there was a line beyond which compromise could not go From that time forward U S foreign policy began to American Communists charged OB OUTLINES DEMANDS FOR TEACHER PAY Harrisburg tion of the State Com missions teacher salary recom will be delayed until next week but another of the numerous for legislative action on this ed today by the CIO United Public Workers The commission a legislative study group whose art expected to influence consider ably General Assembly action on aid for until Monday without completing program draft The Pennsylvania Industrial STATE WILL SOON RSE FAIRS Harrisburg Jan 30 The state will pay to county and community fair associations in a few weeks to cover part of the cost of premiums awarded for agricultural last season It was disclosed today Agriculture Secretary Horst said a total of was paid In fair premiums highest figure since 1941 The associations for part cost Horst also disclosed that all time records were set for gross receipts number of paid 383 amount of paid admissions and receipts from Expenses also reached a new peak of Of the 93 which operated last year 39 mat tered financial losses The Huntingdon County tural of the Huntingdon County Fair will col lect from the few premiums paid at the tlon President M announced at the annual of the organization but evening The from added to the already In FULL REVISION OF STATE PENAL CODE IS AIMED AT KKK Harrisburg Jan com plete revision of the Pennsylvania Penal code highlighted by provi sions to crack down on the Ku Klux Klan was near completion today for early submission to the State Legislature Rep Ira T Fiss Shamokin Dam chairman of the Joint Stats Government Commission the as interim research agency which accepted reports from 13 committees yesterday said that the new penal code would be ready for the within three of a by judges district at law school deans and at the sedi tion and treason acts to squelch KKK and Communist activity Renamed Pennsylvania Crimes the code also would 1 Penalize labor rioters as oft lenders of the public 2 Tighten enforcement of reg on lotteries book making other gambling practices and general scalping of the Other reports the majority of which will be framed into legislation included those to Revise child labor laws to smash a black market in babies bring auto finance companies un der strict stato supervision through licensing or phans court procedure by sweep changes iron out difficulties in the strip mining law now in the and im Continued on Get Pay Boost New York Jan 30 The American Federation of Radio AFL and the four ma jor networks have signed a new contract granting wage increases of from 20 to 30 per to union members NONSTRIKERS GET Jan of a may receive immediate benefit pay ments provided they are tot ac tually engaged ia the work stop page a ruling by the State Unemployment Compen sation Board of Review Teh board exempted from tha 4week penalty waiting period 11 members of the United Brick and day Workers Union on the ground their department was not affected by the work stoppage which began last February at tha Clay Manufacturing Com pany The men employed ia the department were covered by a Continued Five WOMANS DEATH IS Charleston W Jan Police Chief Harold B Cornwall today there were James 28 daughter of State Labor Commis J F Sattler who waa divorced afo found un today block from her WM pronounced dead upon arrival at a hospital D Smith At for r breath and doubled up with pain
