Reno Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - June 24, 1947, Reno, Nevada A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY RENO EVENING GAZETTE Nevada's Greatest Newspaper WEATHER Mostly clear tonight and day Scattered thunder showers in the afternoon and evenings Continued warm hazard very high SEVENTY-FIRST 60 RENO NEVADA TUESDAY JUNE 24 1947 18 PAGES 5 CENTS WALKOUTS GREET NEW LABOR Swollen River Hears Record Flood Levels Missouri Tries To Take Surplus From Tributaries OMAHA June 24 UPi The swollen Missouri river neared a record level in southeast Nebraska today as it attempted to absorb the overflow from tributaries still spreading their destruction stream At Rulo in Southeast Nebraska Big Muddy reached 20.65 at 8 a m CST today only 31 of a foot below the all-time record 20.96 level set June 15 New crests on tributaries were ed to boost the figure to a new record TOWNS BRACED In Iowa towns along the lower Raccoon and Des Moines including Des Moines Ottumwa and Van selves for higher water today Fort Dodge Iowa lost its power and water supply as the upper Moines river inundated the power plant In northeast Nebraska a crest on the Elkhorn river was ed to reach Norfolk tonight day it was flooding thousands of acres and tearing away railroad and highway lines near and Neligh At Columbus IseD where a fourth of the city was under water emergency centers were set up at the city hall and hospitals to handle hundreds of evacuees The Loup river at lumbus was three miles wide Rail and highway traffic in braska Iowa and Missouri was stopped completely in many areas by huge gaps in pavements and track beds but torn telephone and telegraph lines were being re- stored DAMAGE REPAIRED Behind the Hood waters resi- dents of Nebraska Iowa and souri repaired damages and cleared away debris while ahead of the floods others moved to higher ground At Cambridge in southwest braska where 13 persons were drowned in Sunday's flash flood the search continued for four bodies Nine already have been recovered Two drownings near Miller Neb and a tornado death near Oxford Neb left Nebraska with a weekend toll of 16 From Alma Neb farther east on the Republican river came a re- port that the Republican river bridge at the site of the Harnan county dam went out and dikes broke necessitating weeks of de- lay in construction of one of west Nebraska's principal flood control structures The bridge was completed only Friday The weather bureau at Norfolk Neb issued a new flood warning late last night as two flood crests rolled down northeast Nebraska's Elkhorn river about 20 miles apart The warning was directed at residents between where the river started rising a second time and Meadow Grove about 50 miles downstream At Kansas City Mo Col liam E Potter district army en- gineer estimated 63 levees along the Missouri and its tributaries between Rulo Neb and St Louis would be breached as the high water moved downstream ing flooding to acres not previously inundated Seven other levees protecting 6200 acres were threatened he added Col Potter said greatest age was expected in the vicinity of St Joseph and Napoleon Mo bui said the damage would be mini- because the Missouri crest would pass Kansas City by the time the high waters from the headwaters of the Republican tle Blue and other Nebraska streams reached the Missouri The entire population of Agency In northwest Missouri was forced to evacuate when the Platte reached record high levels At Pattonsburg on the Grand river some 100 refugees in the city hall were moved to the third story of another building as the water mounted Bevin to Propose Aid Plan Parleys Three Nations Would Sponsor European Nations Conference LONDON June Secretary Ernest Bevin an source said today is ex- to propose to the French and Russian foreign ministers in Paris Friday that the three tions sponsor an con- ference on the American Europe plan A foreign office spokesman said that Bevin would confer later in the day with William L Clayton U S undersecretary of state and it was understood they would dis- cuss this proposal at that time MEETS BEVIN Clayton who arrived in England Sunday met Bevin this morning at No 10 Downing street where he conferred for 90 minutes with Prime Minister Attlee and other top British leaders Others present included Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Hugh Dalton ir ford pi of the board of trade Sir Edmund chief of the foreign office's eco- nomic affairs department and U S Ambassador Lewis Douglas The conference was said to be primarily concerned with certain aspects of the American loan to Britain but the foreign office spokesman disclosed that there was also a general discussion of European economic problems One of the announced objects of i Clayton's visit to Britain was dis- cussion of the loan i The United States reportedly has 1 been concerned about the British intention to prune food film and tobacco imports from America to save move which it is understood to regard as mount to discrimination against American goods in contravention of thf loan agreement A British treasury spokesman said today that unless new ar- rangements were made nothing could stop this country from switching her purchases to areas whore dollar payment was not called for CAN'T BK DONE Another government informant said that American objections to Britain's policy of conserving lars was about as logical as if vou tried to convince a poor man trying to make both ends meet to go and Kve in the Waldorf toria just can't be done How Britain's acute dollar age could be fitted into and sibly relieved by American to back a program of continental reconstruction ly would arise in Clayton's talks with British officials this mant said probably has more in- formation on Secretary of State George C Marshall's plan to get Europe back on its economic feet than any person in Europe at the moment TAKES TEAM ALONG Bevin was expected to leave for Paris Friday and planned to take with him the same team of financial agricultural and fuel experts which accompanied him to j last conversations with French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault The press seemed fairly well that Clayton also would go to Paris said the Daily Telegraph Clayton who has just arrived in this country will be available for consultation by the forthcoming conference Indeed his visit was originally arranged to discuss with the Brit- ish government the use of the to our present American credit and those questions may now be merged in the larger ter of aid to Europe including Secretary Marshall declared in a speech at Harvard university I June 5 that future American aid to European nations should be conditioned on an over-all Eu- ropean economic recovery program draun up by Europeans selves The Times said it was er fortunate that Clayton would be in Paris on his way to Geneva trade talks at the same time as the The Times joined the rest of the British press in applauding sia's decision to participate in the conversations and The first condition for Euro- pean achievement of a specifically European ence attended by powers of the eastern as well as the western part of the continent seems within hsight of fulfillment RUSSIAN OIL CARRIED IN U.S BUILT SHIPS Export Controls Story Of Soviet Acquisition Is Requested Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE CHICAGO June 24 Clarence Hooks lote celebrated his debut as a New York Giant today by blanking the Chicago Cuba on two The Giants supported the former St Louis Brownie pitching with that Included home runs by Walker Cooper and Marshall The short R H E New 13 0 Chicago 2 1 lott and Cooper Kush Meers and Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Philadelphia at Cincinnati Boston at St Louis night AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at New Detroit at Boston dt Louis nt Philadelphia M WASHINGTON June 24 Chairman Weichel said today the house merchant marine has learned that tankers carrying oil from this country to Russia were built for the U S ment only a few years ago One of them he said sailed from California less than weeks ago with barrels of gasoline and barrels of jil I and two others left earlier this month with barrels of oil THREE LOADING Three more Weichel told a re- porter are loading in California ports and may depart before ex- port controls are restored on petroleum products effective June 30 The commerce department an- nouncing reimposition of the con- last night Export control is necessary if the limited domestic supply is to be protected and U S exports are to be used most in the interest of world recovery The controls were ed soon after day They ply to all nations except Canada The government's authority to control exports runs out next Monday midnight but an ex- tension is pending in congress AMTORG SIGNS Weichel said the consignor for all six of the tankers on the west coast is the Amtorg Trading cor- Soviet purchasing agency which bought the oil from eral large United States com- panies Although all six have Russian names and are flying the flag Weichel said they all erly had United States names and were built IP this country during the war years when all shipping construction was for the United States government As soon as we obtain more in- Weichel said I will ask the committee to request maritime commission officials to explain how the Russians got these ships At the time of our earlier inquiry into failure of sia to return 95 lend lease sels we were given the impression that none of them were tankers If necessary Weichel added the committee will subpoena state department officials also Arthur G Syran of the mari- time commission operations di- vision said he doubted more than four of the tankers were lend lease ships He told a reporter that if the tankers were built here in 1943 as Weichel claimed they were built for the United States Wilson Relates Nation's Needs For Production Economic Views Of GM Head Told Congress Group WASHINGTON June 24 Charles E Wilson president of General Motors told congress today that what the nation needs most is continuous uninterrupted cient production I And to make that possible he said the nation must be protected from monopolistic strikes that paralyze whole vital industries or shut down one important ity after another IMPORTANT STEP The of the people of our country recognize this truth and an important step in this direction has just been taken by he added obviously referring to ment of the labor which contains provisions designed to block national paralysis strikes Wilson outlined his views in a statement to the joint congressional on the economic report He was the first witness at a series of hearings which the committee hopes will point the way toward economic The General Motors chief told the committee that his firm haa worked out and put into effect immediately after the war a plan of tion and rehabilitation he said progress was halted by -i disastrous strike in the plants of General Motors and pling strikes throughout industry generally So after almost two years of peace we have fallen far short of we had hoped to do He said the automobile industry alone with its big use of raw terials the millions directly and in- directly employed practically un- high level of industrial activity for at least several years to come unless we have another wave of monopolist and crippling strikes or a world catastrophe Here in his opinion are some of the major problems in providing full opportunity for 1 Balancing supply and demand can be taken care of only by a gradual shift in the ment of labor and capital from one industry to another and of labor capital from one occupation to an- other the must be flexible to allow action Accurate knowledge of production demand and stocks is essential and it is clearly a proper function of lo help collect such statis- tics 2 Preventing depressions This requires government fiscal and tax policies It also involves a favorable tude toward business on the part of government and confidence on the part of the buying public that it is getting value received for dollars spent It is economic he said to contend that employment can be maintained only by rapidly ing factory workers wages Such rapid increases in wages without any increase in is essentially inflationary No nation ever achieved prosperity through inflation 3 duction means a better standard of living Any policy that diminishes it is economically unsound That applies to federal state or local government policy as well as trial or union policy He summed Government can help by lation which fosters free tion in business and labor All citizens must we cannot have an economy of plenty if i lions look to government for something for nothing ment policies must encourage j vidual competence and not dize inefficiencies and laziness in any form Coal Fields Swept By Wildcat Strikes Meat Handlers Shipbuilders Join Miners in Move By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Widespread involving more than half the nation's soft coal miners a strike of livestock handlers at Omaha and a dispute involving shipbuilders at Kearney N J today marked the birth of the new Hartley law A wave of wildcat strikes began sweeping through the coal fields soon after the senate overrode President Truman's veto OVERRIDE LABOR VETO Secretary of the Senate Carl A Lopffler center signs the labor in Washington D C after senate overrode President Truman's veto by a vote of Looking on are the bills Rep Fred Hartley left and Sen ert Taft of the labor yesterday day a survey showed moie than miners were on strike in seven states and try representatives in ton set the figure much higher Soft coal industry tives expressed fears that the ers stoppage might snowball into a national coal strike j tions between the industry and j the AFL United Mine workers on I a contract been broken down for several weeks PROTEST NEW LAW In Illinois where the great POWER EXTENSION PROPOSED Move to Prevent National Disaster If Crippling Coal Strike Is Called WASHINGTON June 24 Smith of the war labor disputes act proposed in the house today that the provisions of the law which expire June 30 be extended one year This action is necessary Smith declared as a precaution against a national disaster if a crippling coal strike is called The passed by congress over President Truman's Demos Predict Republican Loss Of Labor Vote WASHINGTON June 24 Enactment of the labor law over President Truman's veto brought disputed predictions of the state's United today of a third party movement Mine workers quit work Hugh White state UMW president said the demonstration was in protest against the new law and possible Republican loss of the organized labor vote Senator Pepper told a reporter lie thinks tremendous Some 1700 progressive given the fledgling workers also remained idle in Illinois Reports of idle coal diggers in other states vania West Virginia 700 Alabama Kentucky veto might not take care of a coal strike he said I am aft Smith said that the impression has gone out over the country that the law is going to stop all strikes and cure all ills we have in the last frw But the hill does not take care of all the ills If in the next 10 days the tion is with a coal strike going to have the thing that brought about the of the coal and the operation by the government up to Ohio Indiana 3000 The coal mining walkouts were in advance of 10 day vacations set to start Friday midnight just three days before expiration of the government's contract with the UMW union One mine com- pany spokesman said earlier that it was unlikely a new contract would be signed by July 8 when the vacation period ends and that some confusion in the coal fields was expected then The ment which seized the mines last to end a coal strike will turn the mines back to their owners July 1 FIRM SHUT DOWN At Omaha Neb a strike of union stockyards company em- ployes virtually shut down the huge livestock handling firm though contract negotiations third-party movement by the ate's vote yesterday smothering Mr Truman's veto POLITICAL HISTORY Political history has been ten Pepper declared Con- gress has done more than Henry HEMP EXPORTED MANILA June 24 Philippines exported bales of hemp in May highest since the war the National Fibers tion reported today Conscience Money Payment Intrigues City Officials NEW YORK June 24 of conscience money by anonymous individuals who have swiped such things as free trolley rides offer little novelty to city finance officials they have received about that way in the past two years But the sustained pang of conscience suffered by one individual evokes continuing interest at the treasurer's office Regularly each week since OcU be ior sbe has remitted Stock Prices Skid Sharply NEW YORK June 24 Stock prices skidded to a share in Wall st today in the wake of labor walkouts that lowed the enactment of the Hartley The decline sharpest in more than a month slashed more than from the total market value of shares listed on the stock exchange Commission houses said many customers were in position to cash profits the resultant selling depressing some leading industrial issues Transactions for the day totaled shares Bethlehem Steel closed down a share at Chrysler off at eral Electric lower at and American Smelting down at Vetoed Tax Is Reproduced Knutson Offers Measure Again WASHINGTON June 24 W Chairman Knulson of the house wajs and means committee been underway President and Wallace ever did to give a lift to a third party Pepper one of twenty-two who voted to sustain the president s veto said he will re- main a Democrat in any event Senator Byrd one of the twenty Democrats who cast their ballots against the veto said he thinks the president has ed in making at least the part of the Democratic party the labor party for 1948 Byrd who had urged the dent to sign the noted that Mr Truman pulled only a slim majority of the senate Democrats along him on the issue The president got only minority port from his own party wnen the house overrode the veto last day by a vote of There was a dispute about the political effect of the vote on the Republicans too Senator Aiken told a re- t i O I J I I II 11 t a 1 y i President Truman called in today the vetoed B Coffee of the Union u thA C I think members of the national labor re- lations board to discuss adminis- tration of the law Presidential Press Secretary Charles G Ross when asked Mr Truman's reaction to passage of the measure over his objections The president spoke his views in his veto message Ross said there was nothing to cutting income taxes annually The new version makes the slash effective next January 1 instead of July 1 this year Knutson told reporters the action was taken with the approval of House Speaker Martin and Republican leader Halleck of Indiana However he said the will not be taken up before congress ad- journs unless there is sufficient demand for it to put it over Evidently anticipating another veto if sends such a to the hite House again he If s a big enough demand we'll take it up if not we'll keep it on ice Knutson indicated he will have a poll conducted of congress bers to if two-thirds will the NLRB members measure the orv simple ing it effective January 1 instead of add Paul M Herzog is chairman of NLRB The other members are John M Houston and James J Reynolds jr Broad additional responsibilities are imposed on the NLRB by the new law and senate Republicans said they are planning to give it more to administer these duties Before went to the White House they the resignation of the general counsel Gerhard P Van Arkel who had opposed the new law In a letter of acceptance zog made it clear that the board company said the walkout came without warning and that ment of congress overriding the labor veto may have been a factor Some 245 members of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers walked out Coffee said and later the Republican party has lost the rank and file labor vote It has a chance to recover some of it will act in the next congress to amend some of the law's objectionable features before the 1948 Aiken added said he does not agree that the rank and file workers in nearby packing houses labor vote js lost to the began refusing to handle stock coming from our yards A union official at New York Although he got only a margin among his senate party July 1 In the meanwhile reported that members Mr Truman's position mately 4000 members of the found wide support outside the Industrial union of Marine and solid south which will be Ship Building Workers left their jobs at the Federal Shipbuilding and company at Kearney N J He added that lehem ship yards workers would not report for work in four east coast ports Tuesday morning Charles Leone regional director of the CIO union said the event it is not passed before companies -ess adjourns in July Knutson any to the ln will he tho confess re congress re- resigning Herzog told Van Arkel that the three board members find it to reconcile ourselves to the prospect of embarking on un- charted seas without the ance that would come from having you at our side We shall miss you personally as well as the board chairman continued We hope you will remain with the board as long as possible in the weeks im- mediately ahead Curley Leaves COHASSET Mass June 24 Ignoring a physician's warning he was imperiling his life Mayor James M Curley of Boston left Cohasset hospital today bound for Washington where he faces 18 month msil fraud sentence The picturesque 72 year old mayor had been under treatment since June 13 for high blood sure Accompanying him in an auto- mobile as he left Cohasset were his wife and Dr John H Cauley Boston health commissioner The trip to the national capital will be completed by train Columbia Post For Eisenhower WASHINGTON June 24 T Gen Dwight D army chief of staff today the presidency of bia university He will take office effective next year Eisenhower's decision was disclosed in a statement by MaJ Gen Floyd L Parks chief of the war department's public relations division negotiations for a new contract He added that the firing of employes without confirming to the seniority clause prompted tiie cratic anyway in 1948 Democrats from Florida and South Carolina split on the issue and Mr Truman got the support of both Alabama senators The rest of the south went solidly against him Outside the south the New Mexico senators split but the two Democrats from Rhode Island and Arizona supported the president's position In thirteen other states which have sent a Republican and a Democrat to the senate the ocrat supported the president workers would not report day because of the expiration of contracts In Detroit Robert Keys dent of the Independent man's Association of America said that despite the new law a five weeks strike of 3800 Ford company foremen would continue He said an early test would be made of the constitutionality of the law and that the union will continue to fight it out with em- everywhere The new restricts union representation of foremen Student Loses His Glasses Saving Child from Lagoon CHICAGO June 24 17 who can't see much without his glasses probably won't have any tacles to wear when he graduates tomorrow from Lane Technical high school Malinowski third highest in the graduating class of lost his glasses yesterday when he jumped into the Lincoln park lagoon and rescued John McGreevy 18 months old who fell into the water from his baby buggy Leonard's father promised to buy another pair but they probably won't be ready by tomorrow nia Colorado West Virginia Il- linois Washington Nevada Con- Montana Pennsylvania Wyoming Idaho and Oklahoma The New York and Utah crats were not present but were announced as in favor of ing the veto Thus if the labor question Is an issue in the 1948 campaign the president will have plenty of support in states where the deciding votes on the presidency are likely to be cast Youth Is Held As Parents Die Ky June 24 member of a prominent south Kentucky ily was being Held in jail here day charged with murder in con- with the slaying of his parents Monroe County Attorney A P Carter said that Robert Bates a veteran of the European theater of war asserted after arrest that he didn't remember thing about the double slaying Sunday night
