Kingsport Times (Newspaper) - September 4, 1947, Kingsport, Tennessee Contest By Mr and Mrs Paul Scott 9 Kingsport Factories Produce Our Wealth Also Willing To Protect Our Health FOR A QUIET CITY LET'S KEEP DOWN AUTO HORN BLOWING Vol XXXII No 176 Kingsport Tenn Thursday September 4 16 Pages if if Five Cents Weather Forecast Fair and slightly tonight with highest temperature about 88 and lowest near 62 Partly cloudy quite warm and more humid Friday followed by scattered thundershowers Wednesday's high 88 last night's low 56 Thursday noon 83 Special Session Congress Possible Bevin Plans Held Part Of Aid Program London An authoritative American source said today that Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin's proposal for redistribution of the Fort Knox gold was in the British view to be an integral part of the Marshall plan for aiding European economic recovery The informant said Bevin had made the suggestion informally in exchange with U S dor Lewis W Douglas before an- nouncing it publicly yesterday at the Trade Union Congress in port In the course of a talk today with congressmen who are investigating economic conditions in Britain and western Europe the foreign secretary gave several more details of his posal added Government Backed Bevin's elucidation of his proposal for redistributing U S gold stocks came in answer to a question from one of the congressmen and the informant said the foreign tary made these His proposal had the backing of the British government He believed it was unhealthy and unsound economics out of harmony with the principles of multilateral trade which the United States self was urging for one country to hold most of the world's gold stocks and not use them There would no lasting ment of Europe's economic ties if continental recovery was to necessary to cut wages to achieve depend on never-ending U S a material reduction in the cost of World Money Basis Gold could become the basis of PAYOFF Like hundreds of thousands of other Frank Fratangelo of New York City turns leave bonds into a bank for cash Throughout the nation GIs are expected to cash bonds totalling nearly two billion lars NEA McCarthy Says Production Is Key To Crisis Washington Senator Carthy said today it is not world currency systems and every nation should have access to it The informant said Bevin's dation of his proposal was re- byI building The sponsor and vice chairman of the special com- to investigate housing added to a reporter that it is essential however to increase the somewhat skeptically the U S congressmen A of the delegation said it just doesn't make Ambassador Douglas introduced the legislators to the foreign tary Britain for most part re- the Bevin proposal placidly Answers Questions ual productivity of building trades each man in the such carpenters there must cut in building Wisconsin lawmaker asserted Laying the groundwork for Says World Crisis Is Political Washington Rep Bender contended today that President Truman is creating syn- thetic international crises for purposes A consistent critic of tion foreign policy Bender said in a statement the President is ing to create a situation in which his cohorts will argue that we should not change the mule in midstream I can see only one purpose to Mr Truman's present course in for- eign Bender said That is the political purpose of moving from one international crisis to an- other in order to establish himself as a leader who should not be abandoned in the midst of a virtual state of war Asks Investigation The Ohio lawmaker added hat he has asked Chairman Taber NY of the House Appropriations Committee to undertake a thorough investigation of what he called The Truman Doctrine and The Doctrine There was no immediate tration rebuttal to Bender Several congressional committees including a special group composed of members of the Appropriations and Armed Services Committees ready have begun investigations abroad into both the Marshal Plan for European recovery and the program designed to block Communist expansion in those countries Bender made public his letter to Taber in which he Letter Made Public It is my belief that in the inter- ests of peace and economical gov- the Congress at some point in the near future will be obliged to curb the Truman reckless policy of foreign expenditures the committee's first hearings which are expected to begin soon Carthy has been holding whole world ences with federal union leaders and others connected with the trade I have reason to expect Carthy declared that we will have the whole-hearted cooperation of labor along all phases of in- Labor leaders I have talked to say that the laboring man is fering most because of the high price and shortage of homes They believe and I agree with them that the cost of a home can be cut materially without a tion in wages We are likewise agreed that the production of each man in the construction field must be increased substantially ever If costs can be cut sufficiently it will be the start of the greatest building boom this country has ever had Such a boom would have a bilizing effect on all other segments of business and industry in the country Labor is more concerned and be more concerned than situation for the congressmen who fired a series of questions at him Later Bevin was to attend a ing of the cabinet The informant said it was likely new diplomatic exchanges would take place between the foreign of- fice and the U S State Department en the subject of Bevin's gold plan Number Of idle In British Coal Crisis Increases London tP The Yorkshire most serious labor disturbance in three continued to spread today with 46 government operated mines ing more than workers closed by the walkout and no sign of a in eight The dispute which may soon cause Yorkshire industrial plants employing over ers to shut down for lack of fuel began three weeks ago among miners at the Grimethorpe pit The miners refused to comply with an order by the National Coal Board that they dig two feet more of coal each day When the board called for termination of their con- tracts they struck and sympathy j Mehta Mohandas K in other mines followed sonal physician said today that Despite pleas of Joseph Gandhi had been existing on of the Yorkshire area ing but water since he began his the National Union of Mine latest fast Monday night and that ers that they go back to work was distinctly weaker than Grimethorpe miners said they would yesterday not return to the pits until the Gandhi h board gives in national union participating In the British Trades Union Con- gress at Southport called on the Grimethorpe strikers to return to work and promised the ment of a fact finding committee to Investigate the situation Effects of the strike have already been felt widely Industrial gas con- sumers in Sheffield were directed last night to cut fuel consumption by 50 per cent because of a de- crease in the supply from coke evens Railways Charged In New U.S Suit a new multi- million dollar action the ment today filed with the Inter- state Commerce Commission a claim against the nation's for alleged overcharges on wartime added Mr Truman's general policy of militarism and vast military expenditures and limit international economic ments to genuine commercial its for American goods This repudiation Bender wrote Taber could be accomplished by re- the President's budget re- quests to finance the international program Bender contended that United States action in Greece strates the with which the President and his tion are pursuing their present course to the detriment of our MOSLEMS FLEE HINDU AREA IN INDIA bullock cart loaded high with children and household possessions of a Moslem family fleeing from the Hindu area of partitioned India moves along a road near Lahore in the Pakistan part of the country This family comes from Amritsar scene of violent clashes between Hindus and Moslems after the partition Highways and railroads of India are clogged with Hindu families moving to Hindu territory and Moslems migrating to Pakistan area AP Wirephoto by AP Staff Photographer Max New Ascension Of Mount Set By President Rio de Janeiro President Truman who climbed feet up Corcovado Hunchback Mountain yesterday planned another and higher ascent today His press secretary Charles G Ross said Mr Truman intended to wear slacks a sport shirt and heavy shoes in an effort to go even er than he did yesterday in street clothes The President and his physician Brig Gen Wallace H Graham climbed the mountain yesterday to any other group in the country about the cost of housing Gandhi Condition Reported Weaker Calcutta India Dr D K shipments munition of explosives and The government's complaint filed by the Justice Department does not give any specific figure which the government seeks to from 717 railroad companies bul officials estimated that between and is in- The petition to ICC for gation and a reparations order fo repayment of overcharges is th eighth in a series of complaint which the Justice Department ha made concerning the wartime freight charges by railroads he would con- his fast until sanity returns to Calcutta He began fasting as a protest against renewed communal rioting in Calcutta on Monday The Mahatma is distinctly er than Dr Mehta said after examining Gandhi this ing tige as a nation and the cause of international peace Parking Meters Cause Uproar In Texas Town Gilmer Ohio out- fit better come get their parking what all the feuding is about in this east Texas town The city put em up and the county took em down On May 1 the city had meters installed in Gilmer Ninety went up around the courthouse square The commissioners bridled Said they The city can't come on county property putting up parking meters On Labor Day road gangs un- der orders from the ers tore out the meters with hammers and filled the holes with concrete The meters valued at were heaped in the house basement Mayor Horace V Davis an- Someone is going to pay for the meters that have been battered around and perhaps hopelessly damaged The Corporation of Cincinnati Ohio installed the ters on a one-year trial basis he said The corporation still owns one bloom planta Thrills Opera Crowd Last night Mr Truman went to the municipal opera to see the ond act of Puccini's La Tosca The President went to the opera with his chief of staff William D Leahy and William D Pawley U S Ambassador to Brazil The mayor of Rio de Janeiro noted their unexpected arrival in a box where Gen Graham and Mar garet Truman already were seated He hurried up to shake hands and the audience arose and cheered for several minutes Mr Truman had expressed a de- sire to hear the Italian soprano Barbato sing To Work On Speech After his mountain climb the President planned to spend part of today on the ute speech he will make to the Brazilian congress tomorrow C p.m Eastern Standard He and Mrs Truman and their Greek Cabinet Seeks Vote Of Confidence Constantin Tsaldaris Populist Royalist cab weathered one threatened civil service an neared call for a parliamentary vote of confidence schec uled for tonight The right-wing government controls only 141 of th ported States unsatisfactory diplomats here to United said to be desirous of a more broadly setup Greek officials said that the gov- had granted pay raises of 25 to 50 per cent to some civil servants and that the latter had called off a strike set for day The workers had trie The government yesterday sought to meet their threat by de- their un- der which they might be fired or jailed for striking May Fire The government was reported today to have decided to discharge civil servants inside of six months in an economy move gested by the American mission to aid Greece with in plies A civil service walkout could have stopped mail telegraph com- and nearly all tions of the government engaged in a fight with guerrillas and threatened with col- lapse of its cabinet City School Pupils Begin New Study Term Today Kingsport phi out fo the opening of city schools at 1 p.m this afternoon and the beginning o the term got under way thi morning with a meeting of a teachers at Hig School and the children are sched uled to report to their classes a 1 p.m Beginning Friday schoo will open at and continu on their regular schedules Supervises Instruction The appointment of Marshall Expected To Decide Soon On Emergency Action of State Marshall is ex- to decide within the next whether to a special session of Congress for emergency action on the European economic crisis Marshall's decision officials said today probably will be made shortly after George F Kennan the Secretary's top policy planner returns from information from with the latest officials and American authorities there The final decision would be up to President Truman He has said eral times that he would not tate to recall the lawmakers if the situation required such a step Marshall himself is just back from the Rio de Janeiro conference on inter-American defense and is scheduled to appear with Senator Vandenberg on a ute radio broadcast at p.m tonight to report to tbe nation on the work of the ence The American and Mutual networks will carry the program To Check On Crisis It appeared certain that once that chore is completed Marshall's at- tention will be largely devoted to the European crisis Shortly before the cabinet officer's return by plane to Washington yesterday afternoon Undersecretary of State Lovett told a news conference that the tion in Europe is getting rapidly worse Lovett said he feels certain that before the end of this year the United States will be compelled to face the hard facts of European necessity He reports from at Paris Have presented the crisis as much worse than the American government previously had lated Grain Shortage Bad The main trouble appears to be that with a shortage of materials essential for continued chief among them grains Euro- pean nations are confronted with a dangerously dwindling supply with Smoke And made it clear that American observers which lapse to stave off The things economic col- they Earl Arnold of Kearney Nebraska A as Director of Instruction for port city schools was announced day by Ross N Robinson tendent of schools Arnold comes to Kingsport from Ainsworth Neb where he served Tsaldaris government was set up superintendent of schools daughter Margaret were to move this afternoon from the U S Em- bassy residence to the La Palace Brazil's guest house for distinguished visitors Report Hungarian Cabinet Resigned Budapest Hungary The Communist newspaper said today the Hungarian cabinet formally resigned at an early ing session and that a new ment would be formed Sept 18 There was no official announce ment at once The newspaper indicated that peace was returning to the Com- four-power tion and said that the Social crat Party had ordered ita have been in a state of unofficial resignation since last Sunday's attend day's cabinet session The new parliament elected clay was due to convene Sept 15 The Communists won more than last Friday to replace the coalition cabinet of Maximos which fell in a dispute over con- duct of the war on guerrillas Visit Paul Loy Henderson chief of the U S State Department's division of Near East affairs and dor Lincoln MacVeagh visited King Paul I yesterday Trustworthy in- the was per cent of the revenue until to receive 75 21 per cent of the popular votes in The tension and frequency of purchase price was met the Sunday's election and emerged as the strongest party in the nation pulse have increased And today the city had only one The government coalition had been He has been existing on mere announcement reported in a shaky way because water He has not started using The next move is up to the of party criticism of Communist salt or soda bicarbonate I Corporation tactics in winning the election Tracer'A St United started a new program of countries can be applied to sharing some tracer atoms from mK atomic energy for military or atomic ovens with foreign countries industrial uses the Atomic Energy Commission said Sales will not in- clude either plutonium or uranium or give the slightest clues to any atom bombs secrets Supplies at the move hailed by scientists as promising quicker conquests over cancer and other diseases There were also immediate sug outset be limited gestions that the serve Foreign users be required to as a to smooth ment of international control i report for the benefit of everyone the atom bomb and atomic energy their findings on the tracer re- searches to make progress reports President Truman announced the semi-annually to the AEC and to decision in a message last night their laboratories to qualified of 44 nations at visiting scientists of any by this action or ing supervisory inspection and con- trol of the use of the isotopes is notable It not only removes the studies from the possibilities of tion for military purposes but it should set up by usage in a com- mon enterprise familiarity with benevolent forward-looking con- formants said they stressed the need for quick settlement of the government problem Tsaldaris has offered to with the opposition toward a broadened cabinet in which mos again would be premier Op- position leaders were reported by one of their number today to have told Tsaldaris they were willing to negotiate Maximos but not with Maximos cabinet fell apart Aug demands of three Centrist ministers for the ouster of Minister of War George Stratos and ter of Public Order Napoleon vas top men in the campaign Stratos is in Tsaldaris government Zervas is not Group Enters Innocent Plea Washington The National Association of Real Estate Boards and the Washington Real Estate Board pleaded innocent today to federal indictment charging of the laws The indictment announced last week charges the two boards con- spired to fix commission rates for real estate dealers in the District of Columbia William E Leahy counsel for the Washington Board and Roger J Whiteford attorney for the were granted permission by Federal Judge Jennings Bailey to withdraw the plea and file an additional plea or other motion by Oct 15 The proceedings required less than five minutes ast year and is now beginning his nineteenth year in the field of cation and teaching The new tor received his master's degree at the University of Nebraska and did graduate study at the Colorado State College of Education at See City Schools Page Accused Jap Is Suicide Victim Tokyo IP The first suicide among the hundreds of guarded war crimes suspects held in Sugamo Prison was disclosed day by Eighth Army officials who said Superior Petty Officer Waichi Ogawa strangled himself in his cell Friday Officials said Ogawa held in con- with the beheading of two Australian soldiers knotted his into a rope tied it to his neck and a faucet They gave these At on the clay Okawa took his life a guard checked the cell and said the navy man as usual When the cell was opened 15 minutes later for fast lineup Ogawa the underwear knotted about his neck appeared to be dead Prison attaches labored futilely trol This should greatly advance international thought and work in the field of atomic energy At Oak Ridge Tenn the AEC said it would begin as soon RS International Cancer Re- Foreign governments must see sihle to fulfill several foreign re- search Congress He asserted it jt that the tracers are used only quests for the help reduce loss of life and ror the requested purposes i t announced that Russia WHS suffering from diseases on Q p Rhoads director of among other countries which throughout the world Hospital and had inquired about the tracer atoms None of the 20 radioactive tering Institute New York but that these nations had not ments offered for sale to commented that the pattern filed specific requests so far to revive him and he was dead at need require heavy dollar tu res In time officials explained the Marshall plan assuming it wins approval from Congress would re- lieve the acute dollar and at the same time enable the Euro- pean countries to promote their re- construction and build up exports eo they would begin to become self- supporting But it is the problem of time which is at the core of the whole crisis and which according to See Congress Page 3 Newspaper Asks Special Session State Assembly Memphis today urged Gov McCord to call a special sion of the Tennessee Legislature for two 1 To revise the state's new labor the open shop law 2 To amend the sales tax act The newspaper said editorially that the 75th General Assembly passed an ill-advised labor law which both management and labor now finds does not work smoothly The paper added that the Hartley law more nearly what the people of the United States want to try next in their labor relations It prohibits a closed shop the editorial said bu it does not hibit the union shop and nance of membership The newspaper said the ture should amend the sales tax law because almost twice as much is being raised from the sales tax than was anticipated Street Scenes Perturbed desk sergeant ing for morning newspaper which has been stolen from the desk tV YV Old gentleman on bus com- menting he makes trip to the city twice -a week just to fool around as he ain't no count around the farm T Advertising promotion man signers In a LBIv club signatures of women and men both visibly eager to gain membership Hot Pilot Paul Mantz Sets New Speed Mark Burbank who at 42 is one of the nation's hottest pilots hurtled across the nation in 7 hours and 4 seconds yesterday to establish a new trans- continental East-West speed ord He streaked from LaGuardia Field New York to Lockheed air terminal here in the fastest time ever recorded for that trip by a plane It was the same bright red Mustang fighter in which he won the Bendix race from Van Calif to Cleveland last Saturday at average of 460.423 miles an hour and the Bendix in 1946 The debonair movie stunt flier and charter service operator swooped down low past the control tower at p in PST at around ROO miles an hour catching everybody unaware except Larry National Aeronautics Association timer His ranging from 20 to 70 hour nearly all the way De Groot Says Smoke Is Big Enemy Of Tree Aside from the damage to chants stocks and inconvenience to householders the dust and smoke of Kingsport is also choking life from the growing things of Kingsport according to Homer K de Groot Kingsport landscape ist and tree surgeon In the ing letter to the Kingsport News de Groot cites the damage of dust settlement to the city's I believe a strong and ing argument in favor of and dust abatement has been ov looked Personally I have always compared a tree with a human be- ing A fundamental similarity is breathing to live and thrive A will inquire why the city does not do something for a seemingly ailing tree in front of his home yet this same person in his observation of the tree is un- aware of the dust and smoke im- air everyday Closes Tree's A considerable amount of the dust in the air settles on the trees and is held there in the foliage closing its pores It would indeed be enlightening to measure the dust deposit on an open area of equal size to that which is covered by the spread of a tree Your editorial comment on the view of Market Street before and after is correct as far as it goes The view before was none too good because all the trees were more or less ailing and an ailing tree alike with other things soon be- comes obnoxious to the average person loses its value and tion The odds were against them They tried to live and afford shade for the walks and walkers plug beauty for the street They failed Why? Needs To Be Cared For Dust settlement and neglect In combating an annual heavy tation of aphids caused early and continuous dropping of on See Smoke And Dust Page Cops Closing In On Six Escapees San Onofre Calif IP Police and highway patrolmen said six armed Marine Corps prisoners who escaped from Camp Pendleton were located on the beach near here early today and an attempt was being made to capture them Highway patrolmen first reported that the prisoners had barricaded themselves in a small schoolhouse here but when officers entered the building no trace of them was ound Police Sergeant Chester Troan of nearby Oceanside said he prisoners were spotted on the seach later He said highway patrolmen sheriff's deputies and three of military police were at the scene The provost marshal at Camp Pendleton where the six escaped n a truck yesterday afternoon said were all charged with and he described them as very dangerous Police said they were armed with two carbine rifles IS rounds of ammunition and a bayonet The provost marshal de- to give other details of the escape Says Bevin Plan May Have Merit Cambridge Mass IP A -ard University economist said day that even if America's gold was whacked up among the countries of the world it would eventually wind up back in the United States anyway Dr Jacob Anton De Haas said the suggestion by British Foreign Secretary Bevin that the Fort Knox radio had gone dead so he couldn't advise the waiting group of his exact arrival time He grinned as he told reporters he had almost run out of fuel I took off with 770 gallons and j I think I had just enough left to taxi he said Flying by way of Pittsburgh St auis and Albuquerque N M he said he encountered headwinds miles an but aged about 371 miles an hour for the trip His record shaved 27 minutes 56 seconds off the previous West record set Aug 1 1946 by an Army piloted by Capt Boyc L Grubaugh Van Wert O Mantz also holds the record of 6 hours 7 minutes It could possibly simplify the planes but a world economy he said We propelled Lockheed set a wouldn't have to worry about the mark for all types of aircraft of of imports just give them 4 hours 13 minutes 26 seconds in the gold and then they would give gold be redistributed shows Mr has an excellent sense of With tongue in Haas said that on E however perhaps some merit cheek Dr De second thought the plan had January 1946 it back to us for goods
