Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - May 18, 1950, Mt Vernon, Illinois HI Airport noon 81. 86; low 60. Ml VERNON MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL - SPECIAL FAVORS FOR NONE VOLUME 196 A PAPER MOUNT ILLINOIS - MAY 18, 1950 SOUTHERN ly cloudy tonight Warmer 8h^w| or tion Low tonight 60't5i 65. High Friday 85 to 90. 4i FORM ATLANTIC PACT HIGH NEW THREAT OF STRIKE ON 10 RAILWAYS Union Calls Walkout in for 40-Hour Week at 48 Hour Pay ALL EFFORTS TO MEDIATE ENDED Reject Fact Plea to Wait Until Similar Dispute of Conductors is By Associated Press May anri western railroads were threatened today with a strike Tuesday by 6,000 The walkout was called last night by the AFL Switchmen's Union of North America in a wage It came than 4S after settlement of the crippling six-day strike against five of the nation's The threatened walkout is not directed against any of the recently struck Union President Arthur J. Glover said in Washington the strike was set to enforce demands for 48 hours pay for a 40-hour The one of the five operating was not affected by the 1949 decision by Presidential emergency boards giving the 40-hour work week to The strike Glover will be directed against the Chicago Great Western Rock Island and Rock and Denver and Rio Grande Pacific Terminal Company of St. Paul Union Depot Sioux City Terminal Railway and Western Pacific Railroad The strike deadline was announced as 6 a. m. local Affects Trainmen A spokesman for the Association of Western Railways said switch yard yard and helpers would be affected by the The he represents about 10 per cent of the men doing this class of work on the nation's The some 90,000-are members of the Brotherhood of Railway All mediation machinery under the National Labor Act has been Glover and the Union was free to call a a presidential board in a report to President Truman on April 19 had suggested the Switchmen's would be passed upon after hearing similar by two other operating the Trainmen and the Order of Railway The bard has been holding hearings here for two months and its report is due June 1. The Switchmen contended its case deserved a separate Tire Blows 3 in Car Killed By Press May 18-An automobile plunged into a deep ditch near Hannibal apparently after a tire blew and fatally injured three two of them Four other Hannibal residents in the car were one Dead were Robert P. driver of the his Mary 1; and Theresa nine months Two of them died early the other last wife was reported in a critical Highway Death By Associated Press 111.. May 18.-A jury today awarded a 111., father a judgment in the traffic death of his The Williamson county circuit court jury returned the verdict against Lewis 111., driver of the and his employer and the car Pascal Johnston 111. Samuel J. 9, son of Hugh was injured fatally by a car when ho alighted from a school bus near his Goreville rural home Nov. 1, 1948. He died Oct. 22, 1949. a Johnston City was not in the SWITCHMAN KILLED By Associated Press 111., May 18.-An Illinois Central Railroad switchman was crushed to death late yesterday between moving cars at the yards south of He was John W. who lives near He had been employed on the road 28 STARTING DATE AT CAR SHOPS IS Await Delivery of Materials for 2,000 Car Pressed Steel Car this city's largest industry which has been idle nine has started plans to fill a 2,000 boxcar order for Pennsylvania Plant Manager R. McMillan said today orders for car materials were placed immediately but delivery dates were uncertain due to an unsettled condition in the steel The plant employed up to 1.350 before shutting down because of a lack of orders oh Aug. 5, 1949. When it employed 1,200, the monthly 1 was McMillan said the date the men would be called back depended upon material He added that equipment improvements in the plant made it impossible now to say how many men would be recalled but that it would be 1,000 or Delivery of the 2,000 cars has been promised for he The cars will be 40 six inches and He at least a 25-car-a-day production Construction will be financed by Equitable Life Assurance Society from which Pennsylvania will lease the cars on a rental he WINNIPEG FLOOD WATERS AT PEAK By Associated May 18. - Winnipeg's residents hopefully looked today for the first in the Red River's muddy waters have driven 90,000 persons from their homes in the last three The peak of Manitoba's worst flood in more than a century held steady at 30.2 unchanged for more than 30 One Provincial official predicted the waters should begin to subside Flood control officials continued to keep a wary eye on the area's They emphasized the surging Red and its tributary Assiniboine and Seine Rivers still could break through and bring new disaster to the greater Winnipeg The forecast that a gradual drop was in sight came from D. M. Manitoba's Deputy Minister of He had anticipated a slight drop yesterday but it failed to materialize Stephens said last night that the river must fall five feet before further hazards to the area are That would take at least 10 days after the waters definitely started he Vernon Man Is Officer Of Pressed Steel Election of Walter F. former vice-president of the Mt. Vernon Car as executive vice-president was announced today by the Pressed Steel Car Inc. of 111. Mr. who succeeds the late H. J. has been associated with the company since 1945, becoming comptroller in 1946, vice-president in 1948 and a director in 1949. He is a graduate of City College of Law and St. class of 1937. He was vice-president of the Mt. Vernon Car Company when in 1945 that company was acquired by Pressed Steel Car Co. Mr. Wilmas is married and the father of two The Pressed Steel Company also announced election of five other the latest development in the company's program of general product The elections cover the construction and sales operations of the Three Deaths in Auto Accident By Press EAST ST. 111., May 18- A head-on collision of two cars a mile north of here last night fatally injured three Three others were seriously The victims were Samuel E. 19, Richmond Lowell F. 25, St. and Lawrence 20, East St. Injured and reported in poor condition at St. Mary's Hospital here were Paul 26, Ted 25, and Harold W. 23. all of St. was riding The cars collided at the junction of highways 67 and 40 less than a mile north of East St. Louis at 11:30 p. m. SPEAKS TONIGHT AT C. MEET FRANK V. of assistant vice president of the Standard Oil Company will be guest speaker at the annual meeting of the Mt. Vernon Chamber of Commerce at Hotel ELMER HANCOCK FOUND DEAD IN HERE Heart Attack Believed Cause of Was Scheduled for Trial June 13. Elmer E. 53, was found dead shortly after 7:00 o'clock this morning in his cell in the Jefferson county Coroner Ben Roeder said there was no evidence of foul play and that Hancock apparently died from a heart of 1101 south had been a prisoner county jail since his arrest last February on a charge of burglary and larceny of the Rollinson hardware in County officers said that Hancock had not been feeling well Fellow who discovered the said Hancock complained of not feeling well last When they suggested that a doctor be he I'll feel better in the They told officers he spent the evening reading in bed and listening to the Authorities said he had apparently been dead hours when the body was found on the cell beside his His glasses were on the County officers said they had been informed that Hancock had been troubled previously with a heart who had pleaded innocent to the burglary and larceny was scheduled to go on trial on June 13. Elmer Ellsworth Hancock was born in Mt. Vernon July 10, 1896, the son of Henry and Ida Ho is survived by Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:30 p. m. at Myers with Dr. R. B. Guthrie and burial will be in Oakwood The body will remain at Myers where friends may call after 3:00 p. m. Coroner Ben Roeder was conducting an inquest in the case late this For Strawberries By Press May 18. - With southern strawberry run only a few days growers report need up to 1,000 James of Illinois Fruit Council said today the harvest was expected to start in Union county week He said growers have contracted for 1,500 pickers but 500 to 1,000 more were VOTE TO SLASH INTEREST ON TAX OVERPAYMENTS Big Firms Pay Too Much to Collect Present 6 Per Cent. By May 18.-The House Ways and Means Committee voted today to cut to 2 percent the interest rate the government pays on overpayments of taxes that later are ' The rate now is 6 per cent. The committee decided to keep as 6 percent the rate the taxpayer must pay if he is late with his At the government pays out about a year in interest on tax overpayments later Staff experts advised the committee that cutting the rate from 6 to 2 percent would save the government a Some big taxpayers are suspected in fact of deliberately overpaying their taxes in order to collect the 6 Interest rates being what they bond yields as low as they an overpayment of taxes is one of the most profitable safe investments a man with surplus money can The proposed cut is being into the new tax bills the committee is Cut Capital Gains Tax It has made a number of pro posed cuts in The most of at least within the is a proposed drop from 25 to 16 percent in the tax on long-term capital The main argument there is whether the cut in taxes on stock and bond deals would help market speculators more than it would the nation's The approved by the House Ways and Means Committee would apply to trading in real estate and as well as to stocks and If approved by the committee recommendation would have this 1. The maximum tax on long-term capital gains would be slashed from the present 25 per cent to 16 per cent. 2. A capital asset would have to be held only three months WINNIPEG FROM THE AIR instead of order for its sale to be considered as either a or a loss for income tax The first provision would apply to transactions by individuals the second would apply to deals by both individuals and By a gain or loss from the sale of such property held longer than six months may be computed along with other income and deductions for tax This means a savings to persons with incomes taxes less than 50 per cent. Can Compute Separately Those with higher income taxes may compute profits from such transactions in which case these profits cannot be taxed more than 25 per cent. Losses from such deals may be partially deducted in computing taxes on other If the bonds or other property are held for less tan six they are taxed under the regular income tax Rains in Bolivia Hit Coffee Crop By Associated Press May 18- Prolonged rains have slashed Colombia's coffee crop by nearly 50 per cent and imperilled the nation's a government spokesman said Colombia's hinges largely on coffee exports which are the main source of the country's dollar Officials fear if the rains the country may face a financial PASSION PLAY PRESENTED AT OBERAMMERGAU TODAY By Associated Press May 18-The Passion Play was staged today for the first time in 16 with a schoolgirl playing the Virgin Mary and an cast A audience of 5,200 watched as a cast of 1,500 villagers put on the dazzling spectacle with all its 300-year-old Dignitaries attending the premiere included West German President Theodore Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and American and British High Commissioners John McCloy and Sir Brian The attention of the audience was chiefly upon Anton brown-bearded the role of and Annemie 16-ypar-old wood carving student portraying the Virgin clad in a pale yellow robe with a crimson cloak thrown over his right appeared in the first the money changers from the performance was Mary was demure and saintly when she stepped onto the stage for the first time a short while 8:30 a. m. Until 6 p. The play which lasts from 8:30 a. m. until 6 p. m. opened with a prologue read by Alois who played Christ in the last Now gray Lang wore a golden He was accompanied by a choir of men and women lined up across the 60-yard wide The play has been performed every 10 years since 1635 with the exception of interruptions during the first and second World It is the result of an ancient pledge of the villagers after the black plague killed 84 persons in a few days in 1633. 17 per cent of Greater Winnipeg is under water as of Here are some of the main areas HO St. Vital district is shown from the bottom of picture to the Red left on the first bend Is the directly above that bend is the Norwood area with the Lyndale beyond that on the left bank of the river is Winnipeg proper only a small part of the business district under directly across from the business district is St. Boniface Top right Is the east HOUSE GROUP VOTES TO KEEP Curbs Would End for Cities Where Not Voted in. By Prtn - May 18.-The House Committee voted 13 to 4 today for another year of federal rent The that controls will end December 31 in cities that do not vote to continue them until June 30, 1951. The present rent control law expires at the end of next The committee's action sends its to the The sponsored by Chairman Spence has these main 1. Continuation of the federal control powers to June 30, 1951. 2. Increased provisions whereby localities can determine whether they want further A city would have the power at any time to vote out Once taken no rent ceilings could be reimposed in a particular 3. Rent controls to end automatically in in all localities where the local governing body or the people in referendum do not decide to continue the controls to June 30, 1951, No State Veto Governors of the various states would have no authority to veto the action of cities taking themselves out from under the federal rent President Truman asked for a renewal of the rent law in a special message to Congress April 21. He said sudden and simultaneous removal of rent controls on a national scale would a wave of exhorbitant rent Labor groups also campaigned strongly for continuation of Spokesmen for the CIO and A. F. of L. told the committee yesterday that if controls were dropped labor certainly would ask for a new round of wage Millions Millions of rental units have been decontrolled under the present law that permits stale legislatures to decontrol whole localities to decontrol themselves and the Federal Housing Expediter to lift ceilings where he thinks housing pressures have FARMER BURNS TO DEATH By Associated Press 111., May 18.- Joseph 48, burned to death yesterday when his tractor caught fire and ignited his clothing while he was His heard his screams and ran to the field but was unable to aid Husbands Approve Of Bread Strike By Associated Press 111.. May 18 strike of downstate Illinois wholesale bakers is getting a reception from a local married men's group known as the A. H. H. H. The outfit got up this statement homemade pies and there's nothing like This is truly a time of domestic We hope the strike last continues many The A. H. H. is the Association of Helpless Henpecked BOMBER CRASHES IN 16 ABOARD KILLED U.S. Plane En Route from Bermuda to England Hits Automobile Parked Off the Had Been Diverted to Azores Because of Engine BOARD REJECTS AU BIDS ON 4 MT. Coifs for New Present Figures Over Available The District 80 Board of Education yesterday rejected all bids on contracts for four school projects in Mt. The board instructed the McCoy and to make some revisions in the construction plans to readvertise for bids in the near The bids were rejected because the low combined with all alternates amounted to more than the available for the construction An additional for equipment and fees will be a total of difference between the cash on hand and the present Architect Clarence Wilson told the board that he believed lower figures could be particularly On the general and he said that changes in some of the remodeling plans could be made to cut The work under consideration is on four Lincoln and The Edison will be except for four rooms additions will be made to each of the other When the construction work is under way Mann pupils will attend half-day classes in the new Field building and Lincoln pupils will go afternoons to the Franklin Parents of Edison pupils voted at a meeting last night for their children to attend classrooms mornings next year in rooms at the new Field and Franklin and in the Public Washington school classes will not be affected by the construction work as the interior of the building has already been A new addition will be built to connect with the present Transit Strike On in Atlanta By Associated May 18. - Atlanta's 1,300 trolley and bus drivers struck for higher wages last leaving this city of almost 400,000 residents without public Although on strike against the Georgia Power the operators climbed into their private started giving free service to former trolley The Association of Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employes of the cars would run as long as the Union's gas and oil supply A similar trolley a tremendous traffic the city for 19days last Neither the Union nor the Company was optimistic for an early of the current The Union is asking that the basic hourly wage of be increased to The Company says it can't afford it. The drivers also want a new pension By Associated Prasa PONTA May 18.-A bomber crashed off runway Lagens Field last arid burst into killing all 16 persons Unofficial reports said the U. S. Air Force plane hit an automobile parked off the The plane caught fire immediately and burned in a few Fourteen men were burned beyond The carrying a crew of 11 and five believed to be military was en route from Bermuda to Its home was Barksdale Base at La. Capt. Salvadore public information officer at said the plane had been diverted to Lagens Field when it developed engine He said no high ranking officers were The bomber was en route to England as part of the air force rotational plan to provide overseas training for regular air force Barlow Elected President of Jaycees Richard H. Barlow was elected president of the Mt. Vernon Junior Chamber of Commerce at the regular weekly meeting of the club at Hotel Emmerson last He succeeds Roger E. Other officers elected Frank internal Earl external Dwight Jack Named to the Board of Directors wore James Edward Russell LeBen Garrison and Charles Installations of the new officers will be in At last night's the four men who have served as president of the since the club was organized in 1946 reviewed the history of the They were James 1946 Dr. F. M. 1947, Art 1948 and Roger 1949. It was announced that Dr. John R. Award Chairman of the has received a Certificate of Award by the Illinois Junior of Commerce for outstanding accomplishment in the field of club It was the first state award ever received by the local It was also announced that the Mt. Vernon club will be host to clubs from the state of Oklahoma at the national Jaycee convention in Chicago June 14-18. Magician Picks FBI Man's Picket By MT. 111., May 18.- Ross an FBI rose to address an Odd Fellows lodge meeting on Lee a magician appearing on the handed Randolph his Henneberry told the red-faced police officer he had picked his Henneberry had gathered wallets and other valuables from the pockets of a number of It was part of his act. The incident occurred Tuesday DEFENSE PUN FOR WEST TO BE DRAWN UP Twelve Allied Nations to Name Deputy to Senfo on Permanent Command DEPUTIES WILL APPOINT LEADER Armed Forces Block Communism Whether by Attack dr Trojon Horse By May 18.-Atlantic Pact foreign ministers set permanent high command tonight and ordered it to develop armed forces necessary for the of western Europe Each of the 12 members foreign ministers will appoint a deputy to serve on the permanent The appointments will be madt the least possible so that the deputies can to appoint a full-time chairman from among their the foreign ministers announced in a communique at the close of their four day This was in line with an agreed ment to set up a high to block whether tries armed attack or Meetings Too Infrequent The communique year's experience has that on the political side of the council ' ficient of views on matters of common Interest within the scope of the the military side strategic concept of the treaty has been adopted and a defense plan drawn and the corresponding estimate of the necessary forces is being next step is to put these plans into effect by taking ther measures in the ft common the division of financial responsibilities and the adaptation and development of the necessary Will Execute The communique said the manent high command will execute policies and be responsible formulating issues requiring decisions by the member The highest priority tasks of the permanent council will 1. To coordinate the work of the North Atlantic council's its Defense Financial and Economic Committee and all other agencies established under the 2. Recommend to governments the steps necessary to get coordinated plans into operation the defense of the North Atlantic Speculate On Chairman European newspapers haw been full of speculation about who the council chairman would Those mentioned include Averell roving ambassador for the Marshall A. former of Gen. Omar chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of and Gen. Dwight D. wartime supreme Allied commander tit The 12 nations which agreed on this plan are the United Portugal and Agreement was achieved only after considerable soul-searching by some European members who fear they will be used only as bases in the event .cf Russian armed They were told the west must adopt a bold strategy of of winning Russian respect by a display of SAYS STALIN IS WELt By May 18, - Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie says Prime Minister Stalin Is hale and who talked with Stalin for an hour and a half on told reporters the generalissimo was as healthy and at he was in 1946." May House and Means today rejected an Hon proposal to allowances that additional the swft 1961
