Salamanca Republican-Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 1946, Salamanca, New York SALAMANCA 80th Year No 112 SALAMANCA N Y THURSDAY SEPT 5 1946 Single Copies Four Cents Ship Strike Protests Refusal to OK Hike Seamen Walk Out WSB Ruled Pact Was Inflationary New York Sept 5 seamen struck in the Atlantic and Gulf ports at noon EDT today in a union leaders predicted would stop all salt water shipping President Truman announced the dispute over limitation of wage raises by the wage board was in the hands of Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach In New York and Baltimore members of the Seamens Inter- national union and the Union of the Pacific began ing off ships several hours before the scheduled hour Shortly after noon John Hawk vice president of the SIU an- here the strike is on it is in effect and 100 per cent effective Involved The strike involved mately 100.000 AFL seamen and other AFL union bers and the CIO National Mari- time union which has announced it would observe picket lines As Mr Truman announced his press conference in Washington that Schwellenbach now was ing the problem but that he would act when it was put before him i the Association of American roads embargoed all railroad freight shipments to ports with certain exceptions Postpone Joining Although Hawk called the strike 100 per cent effective John gan port agent for the Boston local of the SIU announced earlier that approximately New England seamen had joining until tomorrow The strike call by the SUP and fho International union offer November Campaign Strategy is Mapped at Meeting of GOP Slate HEIRENS ON WAY TO PLEAD GUILTY Escorted by Sgt Joseph Briatta sheriffs aide William Heirens in white shirt leaves the county jail en route to a Chicago courtroom where he pleaded guilty to the slaying of Suzanne Degnan and two women He attempted to hang today AP Wirephoto Truman Reveals Support OfN Y Democratic Slate Stockyards Get Weird Animals For Slaughtering Dried Up Cows Emaciated Sows Boars Pigs Offer Sorry Future for Diners Chicago Sept 5 fP Some weird looking meat animals were stumbling into the stockyards day as at all livestock kets declined drastically in the first week of revived OPA ings on hogs and cattle Most of the cattle received here for slaughter were dried up cows offering a highly unappetizing type of meat for consumers They were practically lost in the great were jammed with bawling steers All former low volume Chicago records were broken yesterday i when only cattle 700 hogs J and SOO sheep and lambs arrived Nearly all of the pens were empty Sorry Hogs An equally sorry lot of hogs was being unloaded These of emaciated sows boars I and inferior grades of pigs t stock observers said there was not i one good pork chop in the bunch Similar unimpressive runs were reported at other marketing ters A few small concentration points in the mid-west did not re- j any animals at all traders stated As the receipts dwindled many packers began laying off workers The number of salable cattle ar- SCHOOL'S OUT Pupils of the Tracey school at Norwalk Conn run from the yard as they get an extension of their mer vacation through failure of the school board and the walk Teachers association to agree on a new contract An- thony DeLucca school janitor standing in doorway has just made the no school today an- Vishinsky Argues Yugoslav Claims Army Clears In Defective Shell Charge Railroads Impose Paris Sept 5 Y Vishinsky Russian deputy foreign minister called on the twenty-one nation peace conference today to a re- A came despite a last minute by the WSB to consider hearing of of the j pay boost The WSB notified the unions yesterday it was willing to hold a hearing Tuesday to consider any i additional information the unions would offer and would decide then I whether to reconsider the case and -1 vr-tfi on its merits Union leaders claimed the strike would take workers off their jobs and tie up every Washington 5 The Association oi American Railroads today ordered an embargo on all i railroad freight shipments to ports I with certain exceptions as a result I of the threatened shipping strike The embargo is effective Washington Sept 5 riving at twelve major ident Truman today virtually markets the first three days this out any a special week totaled head In the Italia sion of congress this year same period last week He told his first news conference head arrived since returning from an I Drastic Decline day vacation cruise he knew ot no e hogs Salable arrivals emergency that would require such claims to disputed Trieste on the leading territorial be- fore the post-war conference before the November port in the United States It applies to all carload and freight consigned or reconsigned to any port area and intended for export coastwise or movement by water 1 L lil 11 J J The recently formed AFL Mari- export freigh intended port area for storage within the with these 1 Grain soybeans flax seeds and malt in bulk 2 Petroleum or petroleum ducts in tank cars to be unloaded time Trades department including representatives of longshoremen masters mates and pilots cial telegraphers and firemen and oilers yesterday pledged their to the seamen Asked about excepting relief Krom cars before overseas cargoes and troopships Joseph P men Ryan president of the AFL In- sociation a member of the trades department There'll be no exemptions this time The SIU and the SUP also re- pledges of support from j care of the port terminal earner Curran's CIO National 3 Coal or coke in bulk when moving to ports Hampton Roads and north consigned to the army navy marine corps or coast guard 5 Freight for storage when con- signed to public warehouses or in for carrier storage providing prior made for Maritime union and H a r r y have been Bridges CIO International storage and Warehousemen s union See STRIKE page 6 b Freight covered by numbered permits issued by district agers of the association Heirens Attempts to Hang Himself Faces Sentencing for Killings Chicago Sept 5 ing to ask for the death penalty a session elections Then in response questioning he said ha had given no consideration to a special sion after that time Thus Con- gress apparently will not get back in harness until the new session convenes in January The subject came up during a discussion of politics Mr Truman said he thought all members of Congress ought to have a chance j to devote their time to ing right up to election day He also endorsed the New York Democratic ticket headed by ator Mead for governor and for- mer Gov Herbert Lehman for ator Mr Truman said he intended to give the candidates his support and predicted their election The president also told 1 He is leaving government on the maritime strike to Secretary of Labor bach and will not intervene until the matter is put before him 2 The allies are making plans to bring industrialists to trial as war criminals He still favors the admission of 100.000 Jews to Palestine and an group is working on the problem n this week totaled only head j an said that Yugoslavia has unquestionable right to against head in the same to further j Trieste He said the Soviet Union dav offerings They last week packer at the dearth of had predicted it Nearly everything which could be marketed including some light cattle and hogs which should have been held back on farms was un- loaded in the period of markets observers explained Livestock men would not pre- dict how long the small receipts would continue Ordinarily they pointed out hog arrivals fall off in Washington Sept 5 army today cleared the Garsson munitions combine of any for defective 4.2 mortar shells which killed thirty-eight American soldiers and injured 127 A war department report at- tributing the shell defects to faulty fuses was given to the ate war investigating committee which received from Rep May D- Ky today an offer to submit to questioning in connection with his activities in behalf of the Garsson interests The report on the mortar shells requested by the committee ing its investigation of the tions combine said there were four principal manufacturers who produced tne luses me concerns headed by Dr Henry M Garrson the report said made only the shells themselves The report released at the war department named these firms as T- was the Big Four the principal makers of the agreement to a iree territory T i Vt illiam Fencil Co Milwaukee lineal consideration s of the port only because of The Russian diplomat in a speech before the Italian political and territorial commission i Ivanoe Bonomi former I an premier of cloaking tions with the flag of justice in i the important Adriatic port for Italy Russia's voice in the Trieste was heard on the fourth day Heirens triple murderer ing court determination of his punishment tried unsuccessfully to hang himself in the Cook ty Chicago jail early today his guard reported The guard informed Warden Frank Sain that when he came on duty at 1 Heirens was hanging a noose fashioned crudely with guard cut him lost con- but will recommend that the Uni- versity of Chicago sophomore with the rare dual personality be en a series of sentences to insure his imprisonment for the rest of his life in a The down before the Heirens attempt to kill self was his third since his capture and confession of three killings and more than a score of and assaults Previously he had tried to break open head wounds in the hope that he might bleed to death He also had col- i a store of aspirin tablets in the belief that a large over- dose might kill him The dent's newest attempt on his life came as the state prepared to close its presentation of evidence upon which Chief Justice Harold G Ward of the criminal court will determine the penalty to be levied against him The state reportedly is not Prosecution is Loser In War Crimes Debate Tokyo Sept 5 Tokyo war crimes prosecution today pounded into complete discredit one of its own witnesses because he abandoned his statement that former Premier Tojo advocated war against the United States and Great Britain The prosecution was caught un- Lt Gen Susumu I Morioka testified on defense examination that he had not meant Tojo advocated the Pacific war hut carried it on once it ed He said he was in China and did not know Tojo's policies Order Investigation Of School System Norwalk Conn Sept 5 complete investigation of Norwalk's school system dered by Dr Alonzo G Grace state commissioner of tion started here today Dr Grace closed sixteen schools until Sept 9 yesterday in an action that surprised teachers on strike for pay increases and city officials The fall term was to have opened here Wednesday but only eight of the city's 236 teachers reported for duty September and then start of debate on the Istrian ing toward the end of the year Re- j ments Italy and Yugoslavia have j normally are heaviest in and February Stamping company Milwaukee Casco Products Corp Bridgeport Conn National Fire Works company West Hanover described as a subsidiary of Casco Chairman Mead of the committee had summarized some of the war department's report in a statement last month hut the full was not made public at that time In another the filed conflicting claims for Chemical Corps News official Upturn Unexpected Cattle receipts usually are iest in October and November but traders doubted if that would be the case this year Last week with restrictions ed the markets were flooded with cattle and hogs and a record high of was paid for prime steers The previous ceilings on port and Sen Tom Connally D- yesterday declared the ed States wants to see an Trieste government that will command respect of Yugoslavia and Trieste PERRY PAPER SOLD Perry Sept 5 of the Perry Herald weekly newspaper to Joseph W of the chemical warfare service said the Mead committee's inquiry had damaged the ness of the 4.2 mortar by ing widespread distrust in its ty The department's report said that 600.000 of the motar shells now are being reworked at the Fine Bluff Ark arsenal to make them fool proof Mav made his offer to cattle were SIS as compared with Pascoe Jr of Frenchtown N the present maximum of 520.25 i was announced today by j before the senate committee in a jo He said he would OPA Prepares For Final Prices On Meal Washington Sept 5 erased ceilings from low-priced stick toothpaste and other tics today but put the lid back on meat at wholesale This is the last step in tion for return of butcher shop ceilings Monday OPA promised full-scale warfare on the meat black market de- claring it was a sharp on companies in Aew lorK and Chicago that were big stocks bought at very high prices The decontrol board took a second look at milk and butter and apparently decided again the cost of those items was not unreasonable A spokesman for the panel said it does not plan at present to call a hearing on the subject That would be the first step toward any recontrol action The three members are holding first full session since August 20 when they ordered ceilings put back on meats fats and oils but not on dairy products or grain Chairman Roy L Thompson at that time notified the dairy industry ceilings would be restored if prices upward from here on out OPA expects to announce its retail prices for beef lamb pork and veal this weekend They will average about three cents a pound higher than June SO prices for pork six cents higher for beef This reflects the higher than June 30 ceilings on livestock dered by the agriculture ment and put into effect last day The new wholesale ceilings imposed today also were an- last week Liberalism Key Claim of Parties At Conventions Albany Sept 5 Dewey pacing the Republican state ticket he heads moved for- ward briskly today toward a ing November battle with cratic standard bearers by ing a campaign mapping ence with his GOP team of The governor together with sembly Leader Irving M Ives GOP U S senatorial nominee addressed the closing session of the Republican convention last night in Saratoga Springs a few hours after Democrats meeting in bany designated U S- Senator James M Mead to oppose Dewey and former Governor Herbert H to oppose Ives The Democratic nominees tered after their nomination but the Republicans were called to Albany for a meeting in the tive mansion Dispute All indications including ao speeches of the ticket heads point to a bitter involving quarreling over the meaning of liberalism and who is and isn't one In yesterday's acceptance speech Mead declared there is no com- promise between liberalism and reaction and that New York Re- publicans now attempting to pose as liberals will be hobnobbing with the powerful moneyed in- the day after election State for Individual Dewey who in speeches has asserted New York Republicans have become the true liberals told Saratoga delegates the basic philosophy upon which this nation is founded is that the state is founded for the in- and the individual for the state He added in declaring that Washington bungling and confusion was leading toward a controlled and regimented that in s genuinely liberal it is the man who Is Ceilings on hogs now are SI 6.25 er Richard A Comfort Pascoe has willing to meet a subcommittee i i i compared with up to last been managing editor of the June 30 J ware Valley News in Frenchtown Attention WOMEN OF MOOSE BOWLERS Meet tonight at the Bowlers ing at Moose club p m If un- able to attend contact Mrs ter phone Adv It Ip SEA CAPTAIN GUILTY New York Sept 5 Arthur P Cronin fifty-one master of the freighter American Farmer first reported sunk and then later towed to port after a collision at soa July 31 with the cattle boat William J Riddle guilty today of inattention to duty by R coast guard hearing officer His license as a shipmaster was ordered suspended for three months Notice Garbage pickup will start 5 m every day Monday through Saturday Adv Ip and the institutions he ated must serve him Besides selecting Dewey and Ives dean of the New York state school of industrial and labor re- lations at Cornell Republicans unanimously nominated three state officials They are Lieutenant ernor Joe R Hanley Comptroller Frank C Moore and Attorney Gen: eral Nathaniel Goldstein Ives and Dewey also were nominated by acclamation the former after -a promised contest ended of Maj Gen William J Donovan from the Senate race Democratic Slate Opposing the Republican team in November and also nominated For lieutenant governor tus Corning mayor of Albany and a combat infantryman in World War II For comptroller Spencer Young Queens New York City treasurer For attorney general Anthony J Di Giovanna Kings New York See PLAN CAMPAIGN page 6 immediately at his home in tonsburg Kyi or to appear before a formal committee session in Washington at a date as mined by my Thr Kentucky Democrat previous assertions that he i did not profit in any way from i his association with the combine and specifically that he received no compensation for aiding in the operations of the Cumberland lumber company one of the son affiliates On the contrary May declared he still coming at least j Twenty-Three Persons Killed as Airliner Crashes into Low Hill Elko Nev Sept 5 ting open when it struck a low hill miles from Elko a airlines two- Fla and other members of ths crew were listed as Co-Pilot erman of New York City and ardess Marjorie Cox of San engine plane crashed today cisco probably twenty-three persons There was one survivor a two- year-old boy who was found in a sitting position about 100 feet from the shattered wreckage Airline officials at San for out-of-pocket expense which he cisco he incurred in its behalf My interests in this tion he added were to help a man cet lumber badly the plane had four persons aboard including the crew when it took off from New York yesterday for the west coast city where it was due at a needed and at the same TO i m today provide local employment for ple in my district WHEN TWO CHIEFS MEET Gen Dwight D Eisenhower army chief of staff smiles as he chats with Joseph M Stack of Pittsburgh commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars few minutes before Ike spoke to members of the VFW at their national encampment in Boston The VFW took inary steps to consider resolution demanding Yugoslavs re- sponsible for shooting American airmen he brought to trial AF Wirephoto The Weather Western New quite so cool tonight Friday able cloudiness and warmer Highest temperature for hours ending noon 74 4 p.m lowest 5 to 7 year ago 5S to SS Bodies of many of the gers were strewn in a area about the wreckage Rescue parties led by Sheriff ward brought teen bodies from the scene and The airline spokesman in San Francisco said its records showed i the total number of persons aboard including the crew was The company began ts trans- continental flights within last two months after about two years of operating a service between New York Florida and Puerto Rico The plane was on a chartered flight with the passenger list mads up from various unrelated cants Lunch WANTED AT ONCE CARRIERS FOR PRESS NEWS Routes open now on Broad River South Main and East State streets Phone 616 or 647 Sloan's News Room Adv other bodies were believed still in the twisted cabin i The left side of the plane was split in the crash and fire broke out in the nose of the ship Smoke continued to stream up from the wreckage five hours after the crash which occurred about 2 a m Elko is roughly midway between Salt Lake City and Reno The plane was reported piloted by a Campbell of Miami Attention meeting tonight at 8 p Adv it Ip i o ATTENTION Members and officers of Moose bowling leagues who have signed to bowl this season are requested to attend meeting at club rooms Friday Sept 5 at 8 p m Adv Ip Notice An organization meeting of all team captains in the Monday and Tuesday leagues Friday Sept 6 at 7 p m at Lanes Adv It la
