Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - April 30, 1952, Joplin, Missouri FINAL EDITION FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS cloudy and Thursday with n cooler cloudy Wednesday Thursday paltered In eaat day and In fast cloudy Wednesday and Thursday tered showers cooler east both day to 70s cloudy and warm Thursday and in Wednesday VOL LVI NO 225 Publication Office 117 East Fourth Street Kvery JOPLIN MISSOURI WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 30 PAGES PRICE EISENHOWER WINS BY HUGE MAJORITY IN MASSACHUSETTS First Wheels Turn at the New Vickers Plant General Receives More Votes Than All Other Candidates 69 Per Cent of Republican Ballots While Taft Gets 29 Per Assured of 16 of Contested 28 Delegates By F HUKLEY Boston April Wednesday General Dwight D Eisenhower emerged today as the runaway winner in the popular vote in the Massachusetts can presidential primary He piled up a clear majority of all the votes cast as the returns rolled in from both the Republican and Democratic balloting Eisenhower had polled 69 per cent of the Republican vote when precincts were counted out of the state's Senator Robert A Taft got only 29 per cent of the Republican popularity vote in the write-in section of the ballot The write-in vote is not binding on the delegates The reporting assured Eisenhower of 16 of the contested 28 delegates and Eisenhower supporters were leading in the counting in al but one of the remaining dis The Vote Re The returns from publican precincts Eisenhower Genera Douglas MacArthur Har old E Stassen 590 Senator Taft Governor Earl Warren GJ California 756 On the Democratic ballot re turns from Governor Paul A Dever of Massachusetts Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee Senator Richard Russell of Georgia 377 Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois dent Truman General Senator Taft Unusually heavy primary voting was reported from all parts of the state indicating that final tions would be late Worcester second largest city in the state reported voting con- for an hour after the cial closing of the polls at 7 p m eastern standard Medford First to Report The first city to report a com- plete count on the Republican lot Medford gave Eisenhower 302 to for Taft Senator Taft won the popularity vote in only three of the early reporting towns the communities ol Dennis and Eastham on Cape Cod and Oak Bluffs The 10 Democrats who voted in island town of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast gave all their preference votes to hower And in another small Re- publican town Edgartown on Vineyard the eight crats who cast ballots preferred Eisenhower seven to one over Taft The Boston Herald which is porting General Eisenhower for president says that he probably will win all the district delegates the possible exception of two RUSSIANS FIRE ON FRENCH PLANE ATTACK AIRLINER ON WAY TO OF 17 ABOARD WOUNDED Berlin April sian MIG fighters blasted an Air France airliner on its way to lin four of 17 persons aboard with a hail of cannon and machine gun fire The incident resulted in an ex- change of charges by the western Allies and the Russians British French and American high commissioners promptly sent a note of protest against the un- warranted attack and demanded an immediate investigation and compensation They said the plane was flying in the corridor pre- scribed by four-power agreement Reds Ignore Protest The Russians ignored the and sent a of their own charging the plane was not flying in the corridor permitted them over the Soviet zone of jermany The Russian note said the jets vere sent up to investigate when the plane was sighted flying off course over East Germany toward The Russians added that the jets signaled the French airliner to and and when it ignored this der one of the fighters fired across the passenger plane's bow Edmund V Keville director of the Massachusetts president committee issued a statement in which he Returns make it clear that Re- publican and independent voters in voters in other states where they have had an opportunity to express their Eisenhower as tne Republican candidate for dent The voters have spoken and now is a good time for all con- cerned to join hands close ranks and carry the Republican party victory next November in nation and the commonwealth of Massachusetts Basil Brewer New Bedford newspaper publisher and Taft campaign manager said in an interview over radio station by the ton Herald and there was no particular cance to the popularity vole Brewer said showing in Massachusetts was to a Boston Herald editorial published this morning which he said on page 2 CARTHAGE DEMOCRAT FILES FOR CONGRESS Carthage Mo April B Mealey Carthage Democratic leader filed today for congress He is a former Eastern district chairman of his party active in Carthage cratic circles Mealey also has served a term as the party's city chairman French Commissioner An- dre receiving the news as he lunched with General Eisenhower in Coblenz described he attack as a very grave thing i sort of provocation said the retiring NATO commander looks on it as a very important thing Eisenhower self declined comment saying that's for the state department Two German passengers were injured one seriously and two French crewmen were nicked slightly in the attack The cabin and fuselage of the liner a engined Douglas were so tured by shells and bullets it will be grounded several days for re- pairs No Americans were involved Two made the attack at a m a m eastern standard time as the liner cruised high above the Elbe river valley une wheels of industry in the giant new Vickers Incorporated hydraulics plant on Shifferdecker avenue were turning over lor the first time when the above photograph was snapped yesterday morning by a Joplin Herald cameraman Loading a big multiple dress press on the initial assembly line inside the plant is Charles Carrier 3003 East Eighth street the first in- employe to be hired locally by Vickers for the operation of the Joplin division plant The machine was tuned up day production Carrier a World War II veteran and a former Joplin meatcutter is being trained as a machine operator Some 100 other persons will be working within the next 60 to 90 days and eventually 500 to 600 will be signed up as machine tools are available and installed Here to gear the plant to immediate production is Gordon Elliott of the Omaha division plant who supervised the building of the Joplin plant He said the Jones Brothers Construction Company builders are turning over the completed plant to the company on time this week and that first products will start rolling off the first assembly line within a week or 10 Herald staff photograph Continued on page 2 HOURLY TEMPERATURES Another new high temperature for the season was reached with the mercury going to 86 degrees at 6 p m rising from a morning low of 59 at 6 a m Forecast for today are partly cloudy skies with scattered ers or thunderstorms and the high is expected to be from 65 to SO A year ago today tures ranged from 65 to 80 Hourly 1 n 1 p 2 a 2 p 3 a 3 P m 85 4 a 4 p 5 a S p B a -6 p 7 a 7 p 8 a 8 9 R 9 p 10 a m p 11 a p Midnight 1 R 70 Joplin municipal airport at Tail 69 Wind 3 15 Barometric 5S U.S SAVINGS INTEREST RATES ARE IN- CREASED IN EFFORT TO BOLSTER SALES Washington April 29 The government bid higher for the public's savings today by boosting interest rates a bit in a sweeping revision of the savings bond gram The increases range from one- tenth to of a percentage point for the full term of a bond But the increase is much bigger for persons who want to in their bonds the first few years after they buy them And the treasury offered a new type of be called an H will pay off in regular interest checks to individuals Sale of the present series of F and G mostly to in- and large be discontinued New bonds will take their place at higher interest rates Effective May 1 Secretary of the Treasury der announced most of the changes will be effective May 1 the anniversary of the day the treasury started savings bonds sales to the general public The public has bought in savings bonds since then Almost half the families in ca hold series E defense bonds and seven million persons take a regular pay roll deduction to buy E bonds The new program is designed to bolster sales in the months ahead the government ex- to borrow huge sums to pay for its defense buildup Secretary of the Treasury said a pling of opinion indicates the changes will be very popular Here arc the changes in each Continued on page 2 Huge Vickers Plant Gets Ready to Begin Production Assembly Lines Are Tested and Hydraulics Equipment Will Start Bulling Out in Finished Form Within Week or 10 25 Employes Report for fices Moved Into Building From Temporary Quarters Vickers Incorporated Joplin's largest industrial plant for which ground was broken less than 10 months ago was tuned up day for the start of production of hydraulics equipment for both private industry and military craft The first machining and sembly lines to be set up were tested under the direction of Gordon Elliott Vickers plant manager at Omaha Neb and supervising official for tion of the Joplin plant who came here especially to start duction ahead of Rush Painting Job He said the first products to be built here will come off the production line within a week or 10 days The huge plant was a beehive of activity yesterday as the first 25 employes reported for duty and the Jones Brothers Construction Company of Joplin plant builders rushed the final painting and cleanup preparatory to handing the finished plant over to the company on time May 1 had been the goal for com- A year ago when Joplin was awarded the Elliott said we told the people to be patient and we would have an industrial plant going here That time now has arrived He said the building was com- on schedule and that duction will be stepped up as idly as the machine tools are made available and can be in- stalled Eric G Haapala comptroller lor Joplin division the moving company offices into the office building portion of the plant from temporary quarters in the old Harper port building Yesterday's operations started wit habout 15 industrial em- ployes and some 10 office and supervisory employes With machinery now available Elliott said employment at the plant should reach 100 in the next 60 to 90 days It is anticipated that additional machinery will be arriving throughout the re- mainder of the year until production is attained That eventually will entail em- ployment of 500 to 600 workers Tindell to Post With the move into the plant yesterday Elliott announced em- ployment of Carl of Webb City who has had experience in machine work to take charge of personnel Employment offices in charge of Tindell were opened at plant Applications for employment will continue to be accepted at tho downtown offices of the Missouri Employment Service Elliott said the employment service has been most helpful and co-operative in the handling of applications and will continue to assist the plant office The machinery for the first machine line and also for the first assembly and testing lines has been set in the plant Some 63 special machines are being in- stalled into production Products from the lines Continued on page 2 PLANE 50 TRUMAN'S SEIZURE OF PLANTS IS HELD ILLEGAL RY COURT Decision Touches Off Walkout and Within Hour Pickets Appear and Furnaces Shut David A Pine Holds dent Acted Without Authority Orders Properties Returned to Owners LUXURY AIRLINER IS BE- DOWN IN GLES OF BRAZIL Rio dc Janeiro April A double-decked luxury cruiser with 50 persons aboard ished today while flying over the jungles of northern Brazil on the uay from Buenos Aires to New York Pan American World ways operators of the plane said it was presumed down in the wilderness The luxury liner was on a non- stop schedule for the miles from Rio de Janeiro to Trinidad when its last radio call was heard by a station at Barreiras Bahia state No trouble was reported Pan American officials said the the Clipper Good only enough gasoline to keep it aloft until 1 p m eastern standard time It carried 41 sengers and nine crewmen Among those reported were Jorge Brazilian attorney general his wife and Luiz Felipe Antony newly appointed third of the Brazilian embassy in Washington In addition io the nine airlines office in New said 10 U S citizens were among the gers Pan American officials said craft from the U S navy and air force the Brazilian air force and civilian airlines were scouring the entire route between Barreiras and Port-of-Spain dad STRIKE OF OIL By H MOBLEY Washington April AP federal judge held the seizure of the steel industry illegal today in a ruling that instantly set off a strike of C 1 O steel workers In an opinion studded with biting passages District Judge David A Pine said President Truman acted without authority in the constitution when he took over the industry to avert a Ruling that the mills must go back to their owners the judge declared that law is the legal tool at hand for heading off a strike If his ruling stands it strikes down the whole theory that the president has inherent emergency powers not specifically stated in the constitution It also stops a pay raise the government was about ready to order over management's head The reference to the law got a quick echo in con- gress where several members called for immediate action to get an injunction under that act Among the first to make that recommendation Senators Hoey P N and Representatives Halleck Keating R N Y and Shafer R Favors Impeachment Shafer is author of one of the several impeach the of the steel situation an effort which even the backers have conceded had little chance without a court ling that seizure was illegal The available comment in con- gress was nearly all favorable to Judge Pine's ruling The members who have carried the burden of defense for the in the boiling row in congress were generally out of town or otherwise unreachable The steel workers walkout quickly involving most of the 300 unionists came so fast thar in a technical sense they were striking against the government That resulted from the same formalities of legal procedure that blocked the administration from moving at once to void Judge Pine's decision on appeal EMPLOYES OF EASTERN RE- FINERIES GO S NOT TO INTERVENE BULLETIN El Ark April 30 Three hundred and fifty C I O oil workers at Pan-Am big refinery here this morning joined a strike against the oil try But 600 union members employed at Lion Oil Company's huge refinery just outside of town stayed on the job as the union and company agreed to another at 10 a m this morning Denver April ern United States refineries workers went out on strike at eastern standard time Wednesday morning as a wide strike of union oil workers was launched according to a spokesman at the Oil Workers C I O here The spokesman said he could not disclose which plants were struck number or Hopes for settlement of the strike of some union re- finery and pipeline oil industry workers held little promise Standard Oil Company of In- diana and the Independent tral States Petroleum Union failed to agree on contract terms after the union reportedly had lowered its demand three cents The trend was the same over tho nation Picture Eased However reports of a near settlement for the C I O oil workers in California eased the picture somewhat Such a settlement could set a wide pattern O A Knight president of the Oil Workers International Union C I O in Denver earlier had said California members had been requested to remain on the job so as not to hamper tho Korean war effort Union of- in San Francisco said had not received the re- quest About 10.000 were set to strike in that slate The rest were not involved Knight also said the supply of natural gas wold be affected along the east coast He said The famous Sea Sargasso sea he could not elaborate on just how other regions would be Knight said ho expects half the nation's production of re- fined oil products to be cut off Shutdown of certain pipelines will hamper additional refineries I takes days but in the Baltimore he and as time union leaders said furnaces on it may be necessary for the would be cold by midnight and the was expected to be general before tomorrow night The speed of the move was The judge had not yet signed a formal order for an tion sought by six steel com- panies against seizure He was ready to do so as soon as the order was drawn up but until he signed the government still was technically in control of the mills and the workers were ment employes And government lawyers said they could not move to a higher court until the order was signed To Gel Order Today Company lawyers planned to go before Judge Pine in open court tomorrow to obtain the order After that af the government cannot get a higher court order staying Pine's decision the only recourse it has for ping the strike is the law That would go hard against ad- ministration grain President man in announcing seizure said hat act would not promote a He declared also that the steel workers already nave waited at government request longer than the law's cooling off period The in general was derly and in practically all cases the union was making the usual provision for the crews o stay on the job long enough to bank fires tap the furnaces and make the other provisions against damage to equipment An exception to that appeared in Gary Ind where Orville Kincaid ican of steel workers subdistrict 3 said no arrangements for that had cen made with the companies A Fast Shutdown The shutdown was one of the fastest in the tory of the industry It usually unions to extend the strike Oklahoma Plants Lisf In Washington the ment reported it had no by the fact that pickets were ptc for intervening Some I out in South Chicago and Gary officials said they had an hour after the decision mediators could head off the came down strike at the last minute Oklahoma which produces much of the nation's crude oil reported at least four refineries on the strike list civilian motorist appears President Philip Murray of the steelworkers said in Cleveland that the men had no alternative but to cease work immediately and in later discussion declared that the men will stay out until to he the person apt win a contract on area of ing seaweed in Atlantic which was discovered by Christopher Columbus touches no land ihc hardest Union officials do tern cut out by the wagr not believe the defense hoard The WSB will be impaired j a to The strike originally had mon an additional on page Continued on page 2
