Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - March 10, 1947, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY AND MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT VOLUME 28 ASSOCIATED PRESS AJTD WIDE WORLD LEASED WIRE SERVICE MISSOURI MONDAY MAR 10 1947 MOBERLY EST 1916 DEMOCRAT EST MOBERLY MONITOR ESTABLISHED 1888 Child 3 Drowned Near Clifton Hill Ruth Elaine Shives Wanders From While Father Milks Breaks Through Ice Resuscitator Rushed From Moberly but Too Late Ruth Elaine Shives almost 3 years old drowned shortly after noon yesterday in a pond at the farm home of her parents miles southwest of Clifton Hill As far as can be ascertained the little girl wandered from her father who was milking cows in the barn and attempted tr skate on the thin ice of the farm pond but fell through before could cry out TV I Bargaining by Foremen Upheld In High Court She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Virgil Shives Route 2 Clifton Hill Moberly Fire Chief Charlie Pardue was called to the farm with the fire department citator about p m and the drive at 80 miles an hour but Ruth Elaine had been pronounced dead by Dr G W Hawkins M D Salisbury and the resuscitator was not used To Father The family had slept late day morning and when Mr Shives went to the barn to do the chores Ruth Elaine went with him She was playing in the barn but when the father finished milking the cows he re- called that he had not seen her for several minutes He called out to her as he started back to the farm home but received no answer Then he saw her little dress t sticking up from the pond She and her older brothers and a sister had gone ice skating and sliding on the pond this winter and not knowing the ice was too thin to hold her Ruth Elaine had probably started out to skate by herself Quick Trip by Doctor Dr Hawkins rushed from to the Shives farm but the little girl was dead probably from the cold and shock as well L as from drowning Jess Dunivent met Fire Chief Pardue at the intersection of Highways 24 and 3 and directed him to the Shives farm Besides her mother and rather Ruth Elaine who would have been 3 years old June 1 is vived by three brothers Virgil Paul Jr Waterloo la and nard Allen and William of the home and a sister Barbara Ellen of the home Mrs Shives is the farmer Miss Mary Sanders of Will Sanders Clifton Hill The body was taken to the Patton ville Funeral Home Funeral services will be held at o'clock tomorrow after- noon at the Baptist Church in Clifton Hill by the Rev Leland Lov pastor of the West Park Church in Moberly assisted by the Rev R M dav pastor of the Baptist Church I Burial will be in the Clifton HiU cemetery A Similar Tragedy In a similar accident in son City Saturday Elizabeth Ann Blachowski drowned in Wear's Creek under the West High street viaduct A playmate said she saw beth Ann fall through the ice on the creek but did not report this to anyone for several hours Firemen recovered the body oy using a Spare Stamp No 11 Valid First Decision Rejects an Appeal By Packard Motors WASHINGTON Mar 10 yp Supreme Court ruled day that employers must gain with unions The ruling was made on an appeal by the Packard Motor Company of Detroit from a tional Labor Relations Board decision The company ed were not employes within the meaning of the ner labor relations act Justice Jackson delivered the court 5 to 4 decision Justice Douglas wrote a dis- sent in which Chief Justice son and Justice Burton red Justice Frankfurter also dis- sented from the majority though not concurring entirely in the views ed for the minority For the majority Jackson The context of the labor relations act we think leaves no room for a construction of he section involved in this case to deny the organization to employes they act in the interest of an employer Every employe from the very fact in the masters business is required o act in hi Long An Issue The question of whether foremen have the same status as other employes under the fair abor is one that has long been an issue in Among the new labor laws currently being discussed in Congress are proposals to ex- empt formen from the law The NLRB act guarantees workers the right to organize and bargain collectively with their employes Today's ruling was the Court's first on the issue The labor board has deferred decisions on other cases pending this decision The ruling was the court's of the intent of Congress on the question when t passed the Wagner labor re- ations act in 1935 ACHESON LORD British ambassador to the U S and Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson left discuss Greek problems in a conference at the state department in Washington AP Lewis Miners Oppose U 5 Appea For Quick Action on Court Order UMW Counsel Tells Supreme Court Public Interest Will Not Be Adversely Affected By Allowing Normal Time For Effective Date WASHINGTON March 10 John L Lewis United Mine Workers today opposed a government request that the Supreme Court issue immediately an order carrying out its decision of last Thursday in the coal strike case The court upheld contempt convictions of Lewis and the for disregarding a U S district court order against last fall's coal strike It sustained a fine against Lewis and reduced from to one against the The high tribunal directed that he original amount of the fine against the union should be re- unless Lewis withdrew a notice to the government that he union was terminating its contract to mine coal was ordered to draw the termination order in five days after the high court's mandate was returned to the dis- rict court Ordinarily it requires Six Injured in Auto Crash on Route 63 Car Stolen Wrecked Just Out of Is Damaged Again Truman to Address Congress Wednesday on Greek Situation Expected to Ask Direct Loan to Bolster Nation Chinese Issue Carried Into Big Four Session Molotov Asks That U S Britain and Russia Exchange Information Renews Appeal for Alliance Against Germany MOSCOW March 10 Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov unexpectedly injected the political situation in China into the ing session of the foreign ministers council today asking that the United States Britain and Russia exchange information on tions there An immediate decision was blocked by Secretary of State Marshall who said he wanted to think over the request overnight Molotov asserted the situation in China had not improved since December 1945 At that time the foreign Missouri Rail April Will Be Good For Ten Pounds of Sugar Through September 30 WASHINGTON Mar 10 IP Office of Temporary Con- announced today that spare stamp No 11 in OPA ily ration books will become good April 1 for 10 pounds of Validation of the stamp will mark OPA's 1 over from the ration for household users The current stamp No 53 good for 5 pounds will expire March 31 Stamp No 11 will be good through September 30 but the OPA stid a second stamp good for 10 pounds will be validated July 1 providing sugar imports meet expectations OPA officials said it is ble that still another 10 pounds bringing the year's total for household users to 35 may be made available September 30 The OPA emphasized that new stamps being validated in- clude sugar for both regular home and canning use No arate stamps will be issued for canning Last year household users sot 15 pounds of sugar for regular use and 10 pounds home canning Tojo Suffering High Fever Rushed Back to U S Army Hospital TOKYO March 10 Id Tojo suffering from a high fever was rushed back to a U S army hospital today The for- mer premier was taken to the hospital Thursday and his case was diagnosed as bronchitis He was returned to Sugamo prison i dients this morning but his charges rose again Three of Family Are Found Dead From Asphyxiation ELDON March 10 IP Mrs Fannie Garrett about 50 her son Eugene 22 and her er Evelyn 16 were found dead in their home yesterday ently asphyxiated by fumes from an unvented stove The state highway patrol re- ported Mrs L A Berry a court decision to reach the ower court fears Strike March 31 Since the miners are under in- form Lewis to work nly until March 31 Attorney General Clark filed with the court last week a motion to make he mandate effective ely Clark said he feared that ess this were done there might be a strike March the motion counsel or Lewis and the union filed the Supreme Court a saying the public interest will not in any manner be ad- affected by allowing the normal and reasonable time for consideration and preparation of a petition for rehearing The petition said that the Court's opinions last sday many diverse and intricate problems of law Justice requires that a sonable time be allowed for con- sideration and analysis of these the union attorneys added They asserted that refusal to allow the union additional time to consider the opinions and plan their next move would be pre- judicial to the rights of Lewis and the union Clark and union counsel are to present their requests orally before the court this afternoon There was no indication ther the court would act Some court attaches said the justices might take the tions under consideration and an- their ruling later of the United States tain and Russia agreed on the need for a unified strong China and the United States and sia agreed to remove their troops Erom China as soon as possible had been no previous indication that Russia wished to talk about China at the current session which was called to take up the German and situations but the foreign ters frequently run the gamut in their meetings This is the first ministers session ed by Marshall as secretary of state Today's session in the hall of Soviet aviation two miles from he snow-mantled Kremin last about an hour and a half Officials present at the ing said its most positive action was final approval by of the four powers on manent liquidation of the Jackie Lee Baker 23 man state of Prussia This action already carried out in effect had been recommended allied control council in Berlin Press for Alliance Secretary of State Marshall entered the meeting ready to a broken knuckle and five other persons were shaken up bruised and cut in an automobile col- about o'clock day night two miles south of on Highway 63 Dr John Hickerson Former Dies at Kansas City A W V CJ W The family had not been seen since Friday night Mrs Garrett was employed in a shoe factory here her son worked for the state highway department and the girl high CITY March 10 John Hickerson who practiced medicine in Centralia Mo for years died here today He came here in 1939 Funeral services and burial will be at Centralia Cost of Bread Is With Soaring Wheat CHICAGO March 10 representative said he was Soaring wheat prices were a price hike would be ting the consumer today soon bread undergoing hikes in Canada the wheat board eral cities throughout the its price of wheat for ex- to countries other than Bread the traditional staff Britain 5 cents a bushel life has been raised from a today The new price to three cents a loaf in many a bushel highest since the principle cities as 1920 the nation's major grain were scouring the als brings the highest prices for the grain Texas and mills were reported An Atlanta grocery for wheat in the with several retail stores territory of the northwest the sharpest mills in that area were reported a boost difficulty in obtaining the 17 cents for a loaf and quality desired New York New England the past seven weeks wheat burgh Detroit Grand soared around 50 cents a Cleveland Flour prices have been End and Los Angeles the in line with the wheat ad- sumers already have been Bread had escaped until or a cent or two more on because bakers were using purchased before the A bakery spokesman at rose again neapolis has warned of wheat and flour to brace themselves for government agencies for boost which he to food deficit areas abroad cover only a small considered primarily re- jf the increased costs of by grain experts for the and other price advance Box car fo a wholesale were believed to be a The In the Baker who is now in McCorraick hospital Richard Winfrey 31 Sturgeon Miss Rosie Wilson 18 Mexico Miss Fern Wilson 27 Mexico In a car driven bv Melvin Lessley 25 407 Vz West Logan Car Just Repaired Lessley who besides being shaken up and bruised is be- moaning the smashup of his car only a day after it was repaired Miss Lucille Grider 23 715 West End place who was treated at Woodland hospital for shock bruises and scratches and who is now resting at home Here is how the accident according to a local way Lessley was driving north on the highway about 20 miles per hour when the car driven by Baker approached rapidly from the rear and instead of passing Lessley smashed into the rear end of the car The Lessley Pontiac turned completely over and landed right on the east side of the east ditch 93 feet from the point of impact and 15 feet from the pavement The Baker car stopped on the west side of the highway car was stolen last August and abandoned in a wrecked condition near ville Ever since that time an effort had been made to repair the car by a local garage and after sweating out shortage of parts etc for months Lessley received his car back at 5 p m Saturday A new motor had been ed and a governor set from 25 to 30 miles per hour was on the car to aid Lessley in keeping down his speed in the motor Now the car is a wreck again and it's back in the garage again repairs The right front of the Baker car was smashed in Hike Approved PSC Also Extends 10 Per Cent Boost In Passenger Fares JEFFERSON CITY Mo Mar 10 Missouri Public Service Commission granted day increases in intrastate rail freight rates estimated to amount to more than a year The new rates are the same as those granted for interstate freight by the Interstate Com- merce Commission last ber with certain exceptions The increases range from 20 to 25 per cent said At the same time a rary 10 per cent increase in senger fares authorized in 1943 was made permanent The order of Bevin the council agreed that the trian treaty deputies would con- their work here with the council of fore- ign ministers A proposal by France's ges Bidault that the German deputies on peace treaty dures also get to work at once was appointed Secret Meetings Both groups of deputies will meet secretly tomorrow In addition to the proposal to place China on the agenda two other items were put forward but passed over until First Marshall suggested that the council take up the tion of former Secretary James F Byrnes for the limitation of occupation forces in European countries Molotov said he needed a day to think this over Second the ations agency asked to be heard on anything to do with tions Action on this was delayed by general agreement The began with a quick agreement on the agenda outlined in the prior council of foreign ministers m New York after Molotov Continued on Page 2 Paris Robber Fails to Open Postal Safe PARIS Mo Mar though the combination dial was broken off an attempt to loot the postoffice vault here Saturday night proved futile according to Postmaster Marcus J Heathman The building janitor Pearl Dr F L McCormick William j Jett found the heavy outer C and P A O'Connor door to the postoffice -i the three candidates for room jimmied when he went Three Candidates for City Council All Sure of Nomination wartime peaks but from its suggested the United States proposal eci that railroads operating costs for a four-power alliance against had increased sharply while Germany On that he was j traffic had declined sured of the support of only Secretary Ernest Bevin Another decision of the ing was to receive reports from the financial commission on At the the new rates might have to be re-examined later if they ed too high Could Set Record x x x In the absence of un- due economic turmoil and haps in spite of the car age the order it is quite possible that the railroad try could in this year set a a record for peacetime tonnage We are concerned that tions in the not too distant ture might prove that increases authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission and hereinafter authorized by us are too high and therefore WINS FIRST E Lilienthal above former di- rector of the Tennessee Valley Authority won the first test in the fight for appointment to the Atomic Energy Commission when a Senate committee voted 8 to 1 in favor of his tion Only Sen Bricker Obio opposed the tion Lilienthal still faces a ter fight on the floor of the ate Wins Approval Of Senate Group Five Other Nominees To Atom Commission Also Given Approval WASHINGTON March 10 Senate Atomic energy today voters President Will Review Whole of Mediterranean Area WASHINGTON March 10 President Truman will ad- dress Congress Wednesday on the whole question of the Greek crisis and the critical in the Mediterranean area Announcements of Mr man's decision to go before a joint session at 1 p m noon CST that day were made by Senator Vandenberg and the White House after an hour and 20 minute conference of the President and al leaders From others learned that Mr Truman will ask for a direct loan to Greece These among who talked with Mr Truman said they expected the President in his address 1 Explain frankly to Con- gress and the people the sity of bolstering the tottering government of King George 2 Discuss the possibility that some military supplies may have to be from surplus stocks in Germany to outfit the Greek army in its clashes with guerrillas Regime Might Fall Mr Truman was represented as having told the 13 members of the House and Senate who met with him that unless the United States acts quickly the Greek government may fall and Com- munist elements seize control oi that strategic Mediterranean country President was said to have tate a readjustment at a later j Go to Senate of David i Lilienthal as chairman of the atomic energy commission The committee also approved the nominations of W mack L M Strauss Dr Robert Bacher and Stunner T Pike as members of the commission and Carroll Wilson as general ager Senator Bricker cast the only vote against Lilienthal His Ohio Colleague Senate Taft chairman of the can policy committee already had declared against the er chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority Senator Connally and Vandenberg who were attending a White House conference voted by ination for councilmen in the mary election March 18 The for filing has passed so there will be no other candidates As many four candidates may be chosen in the primary All three names therefore will reappear on the general election ballot April 1 Margaret Truman Under Treatment For Laryngitis WASHINGTON Mar 10 JP Truman the dent's daughter was under treatment today for an attack of which forced of I her radio sinsing debut There was no immediate White House of her condition to the building 6 o'clock yesterday morning The door was splintered and the lock torn out apparently with a crowbar A lock was broken on the j door to the Farm Bureau office located in the postoffice ing After gaining nothing in entering the Farm Bureau of- fice the intruder went upstairs to the postoffice and knocked the combination dial from the vault The vault remained so secure authorities are still unable to gain admission It was necessary for District tal Inspector T F Rhea and Postmaster Heathman to drive to Moberly to ob- tain stamps postal cards and other supplies It is impossible for the Paris postoffice to supply money ders or bonds until the vault can be opened date rate experts estimated the rate boost would cost shippers 000 to more a year if traffic continues on its pre- sent basis A railroad witness told the commission at an ier hearing the proposed in- creases would amount to Sample of Rising Costs The same witness calculated intrastate freight revenues this year would reach compared with about in 1946 and in 1945 As a sample of rising railroad costs the noted that 039 railroad employes in souri received wages totaling in 1940 while the 1946 total for employes was estimated at Because of special tive conditions the set rates for some An increase of not more than 10 cents a ton was ed on sand gravel stone and related products A boost of 20 per cent but not more than 40 cents a ton was granted on ment asphalt and tar A minimum charge for a single shipment granted last year on a temporary basis was continued in effect Mrs Alben Barkley Dies WASHINGTON March 10 JP Alben W Barkley wife All the names now go to the Senate for consideration Bacher Strauss and mack were approved by a vote of 3 to 0 with Connally ab- staining Pike and Wilson were proved by a vote of 6 to 2 with Connally not voting and Bricker and Edwin C Johnson opposing confirmation I shall make every effort to get the matter up at the ination of business he told reporters at the end of the closed session The Senate is debating a posed constitutional amendment setting a limit on the presidency Bitter Fight Ahead Hickenlooper said the printed record of the five-week hearings will be available Thursday The nominations have been be- fore the committee since Jan 20 but hearings did not start until Jan 27 A bitter floor fight on the Lil lienthal nomination appeared inevitable as Senator McKellar long a political foe of this country ing objective ol world peace self- interest Vandenberg head of the ate foreign relations committee told reporters that Mr speak in behalf of the posed Greek loan Broadcast Probable Charles the dent's secretary said the as yet require about 20 minutes to de- liver It likely will be broadcast over all radio networks Ross said the session between Mr Truman and the al leaders of both parties was devoted to ail outline of the near east situation and to an inter- change of views talking to reporters denberg The President has discussed with us in great candor the involved in connection with the proposed Greek loan He will come to Congress at noon Wednesday to a joint sion of the House and Senate to discuss the whole situation A figure of has been discussed as the amount that Greece needs from the United States in view of Britain's decision that it cannot go through with commitments it has made to King George's government at Athens Harmonious Session Senator Connally of Texas ranking Democratic member of the Senate foreign relations com- the session was a harmonious one When reporters asked ly whether Mr Truman caly recommended a Greek loan the Senator He wil Isay will dis- cuss that on Wednesday Connally added that all tha legislators have agreed not to discuss the matter at all until the former TVA chief promised the President's the damndest fight the Senate Republican and ever saw tic figures in Congress attended the parley The roll call on the Lilien thai nomination Hickenlooper and Senators berg Millikin Knowland of Senator at son McMahon D- today after a long illness Russell and She was 64 Connally Death was attributed to a Bricker heart ailment Philippine President Roxas Escapes Assassin's Bomb 10 at- tempt to assassinate Philippines President Manuel Roxas was made today when a hand nade was thrown on the form where he had just finished speaking The grenade was thrown by an person as the president concluded his speech in the grandstand at Plaza Mi- randa in front of historic apo Church Roxas was He left immediately for Malacan while police threw a cordon the in an effort io trap the would-be killer The grenade exploded just 20 feet from President Roxas Malacan palace announced late tonight that he was resting well after the incident Photographer Emilo land who was taking pictures President Roxas ed by the grenade Shrapnel pierced the right side of his back The large crowd assembled to hear President Roxas speak was panic-stricken by the ex- With Congress members ly guessing that Mr Truman will ask for authority to extend aid short of military intervention proposals increased that United States avoid ed action by submitting the tion of supporting King George's government to the United tions Senator H Alexander Smith a member of the foreign relations committee told a re- Continued on Page 2 Weather CENTRAL ly cloudy and wanner tonight low temperature near 32 Tuesday cloudy and warmer with occasional light rain in the afternoon Mostly cloudy in west and partly cloudy in northeast Occasional light rain in extreme east this after- noon and in west portion night Slightly warmer tonight in northeast over state 30 to 35 Tuesday partly cloudy what warmer in central and plosion west portions
