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CA CARBONDALE FREE PRESS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS -LEASED WIRE NUMBER 127 CARBONDALE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1946 GOV'T PLANS TO TAKE OVER TUGBOATS GETS COLD SHOULDER Workers Say They Will Refuse Work Under Any Federal Control. Of Boats. in New York's big commer- as By -CLAIR harbor a cial parlyzing shipping strike and up deprived the WASHINGTON, Feb, 5--(AP) tied ditch opponents renewed city's millions of new shipments -Last the House today to head of food and William fuel supplies, 0'Dwyer's settle-' off in sweeping anti-strike efforts Mayor rejected by the offering Jess drastic substitute' ment striking program AFL Tugboat Work. proposals, but their chances was by 3,500 last night and they grecied slim. warnings of imminent federal; The far-reaching strike control seizure with cries of "let Truman bill sponsored by Rep.

Case (R-; steer th rugs." SD) still commanded powerful William Bradley, president' partisan backing that was unCapt. of the United Marine Division of shaken by all initial' attempts to the AFL International Longshore-5 modify it. men's Association, asserted the Tests of strength in voting tugboat workers, who quit their minor amendments yesterday indijobs Monday morning in a dispute cated that substitute proposals in with operators over wages and the offing would not get far, hours, would refuse to work under First alternative plan to be disfederal control, of was one by Rep. Adams As New York City officials acted (R-NH), Among other things it posed to end the walkout of AFL tug- would authorize the Fresident to boat employes, a month-old strike name fact finding boards in labor by 7,000 CIO employes of Western disputes, but would not. give them Union Telegraph Company threat- the subpoena power, asked by Mr.

ened to create a new labor prob- Truman. lem. The Greater New Compromises also have been ofYork CIO Council, which claims to in represent! the fered by Reps. Voorhis (D-Calif) 600,000 union' members two- and Hasy (D-Ark). work stoppage next House leaders continued to say metropolitan area, called hour members except privately that when action is comof all its in "vital" services.

pleted, probably Wednesday, a engaged strike, measure similar to the The tugboat held immediate chief attention in, Case plan will be approved. the nation's biggest city. 0'Dwyerj The Case measure calls for. al declared last night that contin- national mediation board with uation of the work stoppage would power to step into major labor a grave crisis in the food putes and. forbid strikes or lockand fuel supply for the city" and outs for 30 days.

It also would "will necessarily endanger the permit wider court, injunchealth the city's" against either or manBradley had asserted that Ed- agoment; outlaw violence in picketward C. Maguire, labor adviser or organized boycotts, and pro0'Dwyer, had told a vide for civil suits against either called by the mayor that federal, side for breaking a contract. seizure of the tugboats was, cSrUricaCasec planned today. In Washington, a In voting yesterday, the House Labor Department spokesman, who! accepted 109 to 65 an amendment asked anonymity, said he had been by Rep. Landis (R-Ind) to give advised negotiations the employce.

supervisory union and the New York Tugboat' workers if they do manual, proExchange, the operators, had ductive labor. Case's measure! "broken down," and that the gov-; would have denied status to all: crnment probably would take pos- supervisory, employees. (By Associated Press) The Federal Government appeared ready today to take over operations of the tugboat system session today. The union rejected 0'Dwyer's proposal, which called" for settlement on a basis of a 221 percent; wage increase to lower-paid cmployes and a 10 percent pay hike for others. The strikers, who are seeking a 40-hour week instead of 48, have the support of the 35,000 AFL Longshoremen.

They have asked hourly wage increases from $1.10 to $1.57 and from $1.42 to $1.85 for licensed personnel and a flat $1.35 for unlicensed personnel in place of the present 67 to 72 cents. Meanwhile, with velopments toward clfecting settlement of the huge steel strike and the General Motors walkout, two of the country's major disputes, reports from Washington indicated that the White House was preparing an announcement detailing changes in the present "hold the line" price policy. Sgt. George R. Patterson Discharged After 3 Years Service A report has been received here that 'Sgt.

George R. Patterson, 821 West Walnut Street, has received his discharge from military service at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, where 'he has been stationed. Sgt. Patterson has been in the service three years.

He the son of Mrs. Estelle Patterson here. Sgt. and Mrs. Patterson will return to their bome in Carbondale in 12 Noon 60 24-Hour Low 24-Hour High 60 the near future.

WEATIER Mostly cloudy and windy this aflernoon, night and Wednesday with occasional rain changing to snow tonight; continued mild today, colder tonight and WednesCOLDER day. A. M. 47 LUCKY FOR. HARRIS HE HAD HIS BILLFOLD IN HIS OTHER PANTS PEORIA, Feb.

-D. R. Harris groaned with dismay when two armed. men frisked him for his wellfilled billfold. It wasn't until after the disappointed would-be' robbers had released him that.

he realized" he'd left his wallet at home in another pair of pants. CASE STRIKE BILL WITHSTANDS TRIALS AT MODIFICATION PREDICT CHANGE IN NATION'S PRICE POLICY SOON WILLIAM NEEDHAM WASHINGTON, Feb. 5-(AP) the -An nation can administration afford to decision pay some higher prices in all-out return for production industrial peace and appcared in the making official, today. who A high government can dieted not the be White House will. issue, identified further, an announcement today or: tomorrow, "hold detailing the changes line" in pricoi the present policy.

Although the modification settlement will be aimed primarily at of the 15 day old steel strike, this official said, its terms, also will other major industries into volved in wage disputes. Key figure in any such revision of President Truman's orders is OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, who presumably outlined his position to the President during a 50-minute conference yesterday. Bowles, it is understood, argued for an across-the-board policy change, as against "flexible" price control advocated by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder. Bowles and Snyder reportedly were assigned by Mr.

Truman to work out a steel price formula which would enable the industry to settle its wage dispute with the CIG: Bowles has contended that any, special concession on prices "for the steel industry would start a series of "emergency" concessions which, would threaten OPA'S whole system of price controls. There were indications that the prico chief was beginning to win Snyder over at least in part to his views. It was thought likely that the wage-price. situation. might be brought up at a Cabinet set for noon (EST).

Some per-sons said. the first announcement -in the form of a general statement might come Wednesday with specific details to be made public later. RESCUERS RUSH TO SAVE THOSE ABOARD SHIP OFF ALASKA Ship Reported In Two During Gale As It Went Aground KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 5- (AP) The grounded liner Yukon broke in two under the buffeting! of gale and wave last night after 47 of the 496 person -aboard had been taken off. by power boats operating from.

the Coust Guard Cutter Onondago. The 47 were women chil-1 The Onondaga's brief message about the breaking of the vessel, which ran aground in Johnstone Bay while outward bound -from Seward to Seattle, carried no mention of loss of life. But the little 165-foot craft, fighting a. combination of-45-mile wind, 15-foot waves and Alas: kan darkness, said the weather seemed. to be moderating slight.y and the wind was shifting to a more favorable quarter.

There were some. -185 officers and men from Fort Richardson, bound home for separation, and a crew of 125 among the 496 aboard the Yukon when it left Seward. Toward the Kenai Peninsula many points of the surged other ships to aid compass the Onondaga, and the Army's great Aircraft were, to wing. in from the extended Aleutian Chain to lend a hand. Gen.

Delos Emmons at: anchorage, ordered all B-17 -flying fortresses equipped with power rescue boats to join the life saving attempt. The Onondaga's report said the. after part of the Yukon floundered free into the smashing wave and was "rolling to Coast Guard headquarters at Seattle said early today. no padditional' information had been due chiefly to the difficulty of radio communications from Ketchikan to the Onondaga. Meanwhile, a specially quipped first aid train was to leave chorage.

The train was loaded with army food, clothing and medical supplies. with a first aid crew of some 200 persons aboard. The train was being rushed to Seward in the event of arrival pol survivors from the wreck. Several additional ships expected at the scene of the wreck, "within a matter of hours," the Coast Guard reported. The 360-foot Steamer Yukon, built in Philadelphia in 1899, had been in the Alaska Service for some 20 years.

She went aground on rocky short, 40 miles south of Seward, Alaska, early yesterday. 50 Per Cent Rise In Graduate Students At SINU This Term Instruction of graduate students at Southern Illinois Normal University has increased 50 per cent lover the fall term, according to Registrar Marjorie Shank. Southern is currently giving graduate work to 45 students, 32 of them enrolled in the regular graduate program, while 14 are taking post-graduate courses. Onily 30 were registered in graduate work fall term. Maintaining its function in teacher training, Southern has a majority of its students--808 out of the total of work in the College of Education.

Over a third of the students, however, are enrolled in the other two 290 in the College of Liberal Arts, and' 79 in the new lege of Vocations and Profcssions. Stoelzle Elected On Optometric Ass'n Executive Council CHICAGO, Feb. Illinois Optometric Association's annual Convention voted yesterday to resume war-interrupted zone meetings in downstate Illi: nois, and wound up its session with the installation of newly-elect-ling ed officers. Dr. John T.

Peterson, Rockford, was elected President: Elected to the Executive Council were Eugene Layer, Salem; J. Stoelzle, Carbondale and C. W. Duncan, Rockford. 'zone meetings will be held on March 10 at Sterling, March :24 at Champaign, April 28 Mount non, May 15 Peoria, and June 9 at Springfield.

UNITED AIRLINER CRASH VICTIMS' BODIES RECOVERED Seattic-to-New York, transport is shown in the lower photo as WRECKAGE OF THE 'UNITED AIR LINES 70-mile-an-hour wind, found it on top of Elk a searching party, braving 40 zero are being removed by dog sleds as shown below weather and. a mountain, Wyoming. Bodies of the 21 victims of the tragedy (International Soundphoto) in the top photo. FARM SHOW HELD AT ARMORY TODAY BRINGS BIG DISPLAY More than 200 people had attended the Farm and Home Show at the Armory building here by noon today, according to a report from the Farm Adviser, J. Call.

program continued, throughout the afternoon o'clock. and it. was expected that at least 500 farmers and townspeople would; visit the exposition before that time. The extension service of the University of Illinois' cooperated in making: the show a success, and furnished many of the displays that. were.

on exhibit. A number of local farmers also entered laborsaving gadgets of a simple and inexpensive nature that had been put to use in cutting down on the efforts of farming. Local gadgets included a sackholder to facilitate filling bags with grain when the farmer was without the aid of another person. Also on display was a pig holder for farm use, an arm rest for a tractor row cultivator, and a number of other common but handy things around the farm. University displays included an emphasis soil improvement, pasture development, cattle raising for profit, haying to.

preserve the food values of the plant. A model farmstead showing landscaping and building locations to (Continued on Page Six) Dairy Course Had Second Meeting At CCHS Last Night dairying. -possibilities and market outlook in the Carbondale area was the subject of study last night at the second. meeting of the Community High School adult evening school in dairying underway here under the direction of Glenn Diamond, instructor in agriculture at the high school. A good interest was manifest at the first meeting last Monday night when .18 -farmers and dairymen were present to look into the possibilities of the course and organize a schedule of meetings.

The sessions will be held each Monday evening beginning at 8 p. durthe period of the course. Topics for discussion at the four meetings following last Cows night Effi- include "Fceding Dairy ciently" on. February 11 and 18; "Raising, Calves and Heifers" on February 25, and "Pasture Improvement" on March 4 with R. J.

Webb, superintendent of the Dixon. Springs Experiment Station, in charge. Interest and attendance. is expected to improve steadily. STATE PLANNING COMMISSION TO HELP WITH PEACETIME PLANS FOR DEVELOPING ORDNANCE PLANT Southern Illinois, Committee Reports On Yesterday's Conference With F.

E. Berquist At Washington DEAN E. R. FAIR SPOKE AT B. M.

A. MEETING MONDAY Contemporary views on the were brought to the attention of question of military conscription the Business regular meeting in the UniMen's Association at their versity Cafeteria last night by Dean E. R. Fair of the SINU cation Department. Dean Fair the absence of Dr.

H. R. spoke in Briggs, member of the history department faculty, who was first ill. apMilitary conscription peared during the 1790's when France built up an army by means. Today it has become problem that requires serious sideration, he said.

By citing published statements from various individuals and ganizations, Dean Fair brought; out some of the views of the opposition forces and also some of the arguments that have been presented for the case of conscription. Much of the opposition, he brought out, is not on the basis of pacificist beliefs, but rather an effort to delay the institution of military conscription in the United States until the problem has been thoroughly studied and a decision has been reached that such al method is the best means of insuring national security in this advanced age of scientific warmaking. A number of new members to the organization were announced by the' secretary, onE, A. D. Brubaker, from Winton on progress also.

message made at Washington in regard to the Illinois Ordnance Plant area. David McNeill appeared to seek support of an effort to have the street to the local airport improved and made passable. Recent ing and thawing, it was reported, has caused the road to give way and it has been impassable at times recently. It was pointed out that there is a growing interest in aviation, and an urgent need for local promotion and support of airport facilities here. Local support was assured in the efforts.

H. 0. Hall was approved as the representative of the Association on the Carbondale Community Council. Father W. B.

Dexter appeared in behalf of a new location for the Hi-Spot recreation center. The present quarters are to be taken over for business poses at an early date, and the organization has no place to go as yet, he said. J. G. McCall, Jackson County Farm Adviser, announced the farm and home show in progress today at the Armory building on West Sycamore Street.

Philip Kimmel, vice president, was in charge of the meeting last night in the absence of the reg. ular president, Winton Walkup. Safford Says He Tried To Clear Adm. Kimmel Of Blame By J. W.

DAVIS WASHINGTON, Feb. -Naval Capt. L. F. Safford said today he acted without the knowledge of Rear Adm.

Husband Kimmel in undertaking a campaign to clear Kimmel of responsibility for the Pearl Harbor disaster. "Admiral Kimmel did not know 1 was doing this," Safford told the Senate-House Committee investigating the Japanese attack which caught Pearl Harbor by surprise Dec. 7, 1941. Kimmel was Commander of the Pacific Fleet at the time. Safford said he went to New York and saw Kimmel in ruary, 1944.

This was one month after he wrote. a code letter to Capt. Alwin D. Kramer, saying that no one in the Washington Naval High Command could be trusted and that Kimmel and the 1941 Army Commander in Hawaii, Maj. Gen.

Walter Short, had been framed. The 53-year-old Intelligence Officer has testified that he wrote Kramer on Jan. 22, 1944, urging him to win over Adm. William F. fied this as a campaign to clear Halsey.

to "the cause." He identiKimmel of any blame as the Pearl! Harbor Commander. WASHINGTON, Feb. -The Illinois State Planning Commission; it was reported here, has offered to "subsidize" plan- at the: ning Illinois Ordnance Plant and of peacetime development the the surrounding area near Carbondale. 0. W.

Lyerla, president of Southern Illinois, yesterday reported the Commission's offer a conference in the office. of (R-Il.) where .2 at Rep. delegation Bishop from the Carbondale had expected to ask the U.S. area Commerce Department to "sabsidize" the work. The offer to assume the sibility for planning development of the area, Lyerla said, was- -advanced by Chairman Anderson Pace, representing the commission.

Representatives of the Com-: merce and Labor Departments who attended the conference, however, agreed to help the state agency with engineering and legal advice. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation offered to send engineers to the 22,000 acre Ordnance Plant, idle since last September, to determine how it best may be converted to private operation. Other federal agencies, Lyerla disclosed, have promised to aid the State Planning Commission' in working out educational and recreational, as well as industrial projects, for the area. The primary objective of the southern Illinois delegation in its Washington trip, he added, is in to find a method of creating jobs the Carbondale arca by utilizing the ordnance works as the site for different types of industry: The completion of two small dams in the area--Devil's Kitchen and Little Grassy- are also part of the delegation's TOO MANY MATCHES FOR THE FIREMEN SPRINGFIELD, Feb. (AP)- -Firemen fought.

without making headway against fire which destroyed the contents of a steel box car on a Springfield railroad siding. The car. was loaded with kitchen matches. LEBANON AND SYRIA DEMAND UNO TAKE UP THEIR TROUBLE Want Foreign Troops Recalled; Council Stormy. Over Greek Issue By JOHN M.

HIGHTOWER LONDON, Feb. -Syria and Lebanon handed the United Nations Security Council a new plosive issue today, asking French drawal of all British' and troops from the Levant, while the Council still: sought to unravel the tangle. resulting from a Russian attempt to use the veto power in the Soviet-British disagreement over The veto issue, raised for the first time before the Council, blocked action on the Greek question. It also required the Council to decide whether Britain and Russia could vote on the question of whether British troops in Greece were endangering world peace, as charged by Russia. The British have demanded complete exoneration of their actions in Greece.

Syria and Lebanon, French mandates in the strategic Middle East, based their case on the claim that' British and French troops ritories have "many remained in after their ter- the end of the war with Germany and Japan and that "some of these troops have been a constant mento the peace and security in ace this region." meeting of representatives of the five major powers- Britain, France, China and United States was called at the British Foreign Office today specifically to discuss the. world food situation and possible United Nations action on But some speculated that the meeting might afford a chance for the key nations on the Security Council to have a private talk: about ways out of the threatened impasse. (Continued on Page Six) PREPARATION OF PRIMARY BALLOTS STARTS AFTER THURS, SPRINGFIELD, Feb. 5- (AP) -The officials list of state and district office candidates in the April primary has been certified by the State Primary Certifying Board. The names will be sent by Thursday to Illinois County Clerks they can start preparation of ballots.

At a meeting yesterday, the board rejected petitions of two candidates for state representative on the grounds the petitions did not comply with legal requirements. The candidates were Lester Schein of Chicago, Republican, Sixth District, and L. Paul Lowe of Faleigh, Democrat, 51st District. The. board consists of the Governor, Secretary of State and State Auditor.

Two withdrawals in the race for Congressman at Large were recorded with the Illinois secretary! of state before the end of the withdrawal period last Friday, including George S. Lavin of Cook County and Warren Wright. John R. Rankin of Sparta, Democrat, was listed as withdrawing from the primary race for state representative in the 44th District. In Jackson County there were no withdrawals in the races for county offices, according to reports from the county seat.

Carbondale's precinct committeeman race goes on as filed. Four precincts have opposition in the Republican ranks. No. 3 has W. 1.

Wright and Wallace M. Harlan as In No. W. W. Woods and John G.

Gilbert making the race; in No. 8 it is W. I. Wright against Fred Willis, and in No. 9, Arthur Willis opposes Elmer J.

George W. Hiller Died At Hospital Here Last Night George W. Hiller, 86, died at 9i o'clock' last night at Holden here. For the past 12 years he has been making his home here with Mr. and Mrs.

Guy Long at. 608 South Poplar Street, He was the father of Mrs. Long: The body has been removed to the Huffman Funeral Home where it will lie state. Funeral' ar rangements. had not been at press time today, and this information with other family details.

will. be made available for. tomorrow's issue. Further details of the work.of the Southern Illinois, Incorporated, committee's meeting with the Reconstruction: Finance yesterday Corpor- 'are ation representative revealed in the following report from George Wise of Murphysboro a of the Southern Illinois representatives. Among the Southern Illinois representatives, present Ascar were: Schaiale, Ray Hubbs, Robert George Wise, Wes Hayton, Raymond Talicy, Gordon Riggins, Leo, Frost, Arinur Hendricks, Clyde.

Walkup and- Link son, Perrine. The Governor of Illinois was represented by Anderson Pace chairman of the Illinois Planning Congressman C. W. "Runt" attended the conference in the interest of the 25th. Congressional District.

Congresswoman at Large, Emily Taft Douglas was also present at the meeting. Representatives from the offices of Senator Lucas and Senator Brooks also attended. Conferees from the American Legion, A. F. of District 50, UMWA, Department of Commerce, Department of.

Federal Works Agency, Department of Agriculture, Office of Small Business and Office of War Mombilization 'and Reconversion sat in onthe conference. The committee presented a plan for the reconversion of the plant to peace-time industry, together with the request that the property. be held intact and not disposed of as surplus until such time as utilizaion could be accomplished. The committee filed a formal request, and supported that request with verbal testimony calling attention to the necessity of making available such areas and facilities as may needed by the University of Illinois. and Southern Ilinois Normal University in furthering educational programs.

Mr. of the War Plant Disposal Agencies offered a. Co: operative program and stated they were vitally interested in plant. utilization, and especially in such areas as Southern Illinois. Mr.

Berquist also impressed upon the group that, in order to get action. on these, matters, the plans and efforts must first come from the grass roots, or local groups, and that he was pleased that such action had been originated by the Southern Blinois group. In response to question from Congressman Bishop, Mr. Berquist, stated that the department would cooperate in every way, with the committee. to bring about industrial utilization of the Illinois Ordnance Plant, but that -the law (Continued on' -page Three)..