The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 1

Good Morning Here's hoping the World Series gets started before the first snow. VOL. L. NO. 229 HERALD Clear, Cool Sunshine from dawn to dusk today.

HAGERSTOWN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 194eT Associated Preit SINGLE COPY, 4 CENTS jziWar Makers Are Sentenced By Tribuna To Alleviate Meat Shortage Production Only 27 Percent of Last Year, Officials Say By OVID A. MARTIN Washington, Oct. 1 Government action to ease the meat shortage bobbed up a possibility today as the Agriculture Department reported that production is only 27 percent of what it was a year ago. Indications, that the Administration, is considering steps to increase supplies for home dinner tables and, hospitals came from two sources Representative Spence (D-Ky), Chairman of the House Banking Committee, and Secretary of Agriculture Anderson. Spence told reporters ihat he "gathered the expression" at a conference with President Truman today that the government may "take some remedial action" to increase supplies.

He said he was not at liberty to discuss what the action might be. Secretary Anderson had earlier suggested that the government might requisition livestock arriving at markets. He raised this possibility in an address to a group of New Mexico cattle men at Albuquerque yesterday. Spence said that during- his visit) to the White House he had talked to Mr. Truman about the OPA and: the "dissatisfaction of the people" with it.

He said "some of the; people can't get furnaces and of course they can't get meat." Evidence that supplies are proving very little was provided by ait- Agriculture Department report that meat produced by federally-inspected slaughterers last week totaled only 80,000,000 pounds compared with 292,000,000 in the corresponding week last year. While both Spence and Anderson raised the possibility of government action, meat authorities at the Agriculture Department pro- By Big Machinery Plates Edgar Wiley Suffocates When Pinned Inside of Freight Car on Byron Tannery' Rail Siding by Several 200 Pound Plates E. Wiley, 47, Williamsport, was kiljed yesterday afternoon about 2 o'clock when a number of big metal plates, each weighing 200 pounds, shifted and pinned him in a corner, while lie was helping to unload a boxcar on the Byron Tannery railroad siding at Williamsport. Two other men, John Wiley, brother, and George Obitts, Williamsport, were injured in the accident. Dr.

Samuel Wells, county medical examiner, said that died from suffocation. The county examiner reported that a bone in Wiley's throat was fractured by the big plates, closing his windpipe. Dr. Wells said that the man apparently was pinned against the wall of the freight car for about fifteen minutes, and when fellow workers succeeded in moving the metal machinery plates, the man was dead. The two injured men were treated at the Washington County Hospital and later discharged.

Deputy Sheriff Clever Reynold: said that Edgar Wiley had been helping unload the metal plates, which he said were approximately 6 feet by 14 feet, weighing about 200 pounds each, when the whole load apparently shifted, the man down and pinning injuring the other two. Deputy Reynolds said that he was told the man had been an em- ploye of the Byron Tannery for the last 25 years. Edgar Wiley was the son of the late George and Veletta Turner Wiley of Williamsport. Surviving are: wife, Ruth Miller Wiley; daughters, Mrs. J.

H. Bender, and Mrs. Ivan Holland, Williamsport; two grandchildren; two brothers, John and Samuel, Wil liamsport. Funeral aunouncements later. Green Greets Miners Union President Says Government Failed Hold Prices to (Continued on Page 2) School Board Plans Two New Buildings South Potomac Addition and New North Street School Planned The Board of Education yesterday afternoon at a regular meeting went over plans for erection of two new school buildings in the near future.

It was disclosed that preliminary plans have b'een t-ompleted by the architect, A. J. Klinkhart arid associates, for a new addition t.o the South Potomac Jurior High School to relieve considerable overcrowding at this school. The present plans call for a two-story brick addition but the number of rooms has not been decided. Entirely New Building Plans have also been made for the new North Street colored elementary and high school.

This will be an entirely new building on land recently secured by the school board near the present site on North street. For several years the hoard has promised to go ahead with construction of this building as soon as possibir. Construction of the large addition to the new Washington Street Junior High, which Is now under construction, had priority over the colored school. The North street school will have from 10 to class rooms, will be two stories of brick construction and will have a modern gymnasium'and a cafeteria. There is no gym in the present building which has greatly handicapped athletic programs at the school.

TlK-re will other improved features. The board yesterday also discussed the building program to take in several other schools in the city and county. For severn) years there has been agitation for a new elementary school in the West End to relieve overcrowding at inter street. Plans are expected to get soon for construction of a six- room elementary building; on Salem avenue. Programs Studied Other building programs were studied, Including new Fountain- Atlantic City, N.

Oct. 1 AFL President William Green came back officially today to the United Mine Workers of America and told delegates to the union's 39th convention he was "never more happy before in my life." The mine workers, carried by John L. Lewis to the CIO when it was organized a little over a decade ago, returned to the AFL banner last winter, but it was not until today that Green had the opportunity to greet them as a body. Missing from convention hall was the bushy-browed Lewis, who lay in a Washington, D. hospital recuperating from an appendectomy.

It was the first time in 40 years that Lewis was absent from a miners' convention. Green told the delegates the government "has failed miserably" to hold the line on prices and that the AFL "has declared war against fTie continuation of government wage controls." Secretary-T a Thomas Kennedy reported earlier to the delegates that the union had $13,500,000 in its treasury, the greatest balance in its history. That figure, he said, did not include more than Deposited in the First National Bank of New York as the Hull, Seriously III, Wartime Secretary Warns Big 5 of Responsibility Oct. 1 ill. on the ev of his 75th birthday, Cordell Hull tonight solemnly charged the big 5 powers with a "special responsibility" to cooperate for world peace and warned that failure to produce that unity would lead to "incalculable disas- Less than 2i hours after he suffered a stroke, the wartime secretary of state put forth his birthday message his of the most perilous junctures in his- and welfare miners' new health fund.

The fund was collected through five-cent royalty on each ton of bituminous coal mined, and paid under terms of with the government. was a contract (Continued on Page 5) New Deputy Added To Sheriffs Force Henry Lee Moore, Frederick street, youthful veteran of World War 11. was officially added to Sheriff D. Huyetfs staff deputies last night when he was presented bis badge. Lee.

popularly known in local police circles as "little detective," has been actively helping county officers during his free time on an unofficial basis since returning from Army service several months ago. During th war Lee served as supply sergeant in an infantry unit in He was deputized a few weeks ago by Sheriff Huyctt. Mountain Property Sold At Sale Here Ony Kichvcll was high bidder for nine acres of mountain land east of Mapleville. which were sold at public auction in front of House yesterday after- It was a message of confidence that the world's statesmen "will not fail in this critical the task of forging world peace. But it was tempered by grim reminders of the difficulties in the way of that goal.

Differences Noted And it noted plainly the international differences which already developed which he termed "dangerous." "It is perfectly clear to me," he said, "that ail nations must, with whole-hearted devotion, continue to sp their relations upon the paramount fact that the primary interests of each of them alike lie in (Continued on Page 5) Lowest Maximum Is Recorded Here The lowest maximum since last recorded yesterday by D. Paul Oswald, government weather observer at Chewsville. Tho low temperature yesterday morning was 39, Mr. Oswald said Last night, the reading stood'at oO hy p.m.. and was down to by p.m..

making the chances for a frost problematical on the clear, slightly breezy night. MAN ARRESTED HERE George E. BarkdolL Sabillasville, was arrested yesterday by Sergeant Brown and charged with operating a vehicle while under the influence of 'intoxicants. Labor Dep't Seeks To End Ship Walkout Owners are Urged to Adopt Uniform Hiring Systems By NORMAN WALKER Washington, Oct. The Labor Department tonight was reported trying to end the latest maritime strike by persuading the Maritime Commission to order ship owners to adopt uniform hiring systems on all coasts.

Marion Plant, attorney for the Pacific-American Ship Owners Association, told reporters "pressure is being exerted on the Maritime Commission by the Labor Department" for such an order. An important labor official, who asked not to be quoted by name, said virtually the same thing. Whether the Maritime Commission will decide on such a course was not known, and whethe' it would end the strike of licensed ship officers was questionable. The Commission can order labor practices only in government shipping operations. Last June the Wai- Shipping Administration, predecessor of the Maritime Commission as owner of many merchant vessels, ordered certain wage increases for seamen on government ships and the rest of the is, private forced to conform.

Since last June government operations have ceased to be the majority of the shipping industry, though government ships are 'still reported, to be in the majority on the West Coast. Negotiations Continue Meantime, as the Question of Maritime Commission action rocked along without decision, negotiations sponsored by the Labor Department-continued into the night, apparently with progress on side issues but no agreement on the central question of union memebr- ship and hiring practices. Members of Adolf Hitler Gang Sentenced reported some pro- Conciliators But all along the Atlantic, Gulf, Hess Funk Raider Schirach Death on the gallows was decreed yesterday for 12 leaders of the Hitler and three acquitted. Sentenced to die were: Herman Goering. Joachim Speer VonNeurpth fred Jodl and Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

Other sentences seven were sent to prison on Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Sauckel, Alm prison: Rudolf Hess, Walter Funk and Erich Raeder, life "i i lILc 1 SCW 2 and Albert Spec, 20 years; Constant. von Neurath, 15 years. Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen and Hans FriUche were acquitted. (Continued on Page 10) Yugoslavia Asks Special Position In Trieste Issue Paris, Oct. 1 Pleaded tonight for a special position in the life of the Trieste international zone as delegates of the 21-nation peace conference, working against the clock, tackled the last fundamental problem before them.

If Trieste is not oriented toward Yugoslavia, both economically and politically, Yugoslav Delegate Joze Vifan declared, the international zone is doomed to "stifle to death." Friday is the deadline set for completion of all committee work. The Bulgarian political commission completed its work today, rejecting Greek demands for frontier rectifications at the expense of Bulgaria. Before tackling the issue of the statute for Trieste, the Italian political commission voted down a Yugoslav proposal to prohibit putting the Italian treaty into effect until ratified by tho Belgrade government. Pittsburgh Strike Enters Eighth Day; Trolleys Halted Pittsburgh, Oct. 1 Clalr- ton and the adjoining borough of Wilson were thrown into darkness late tonight as a result of what a spokesman for the strikebound Duquesne Light Company called "an act of sabotage." Pittsburgh.

Oct. 1 Hours of joint negotiations among Federal conciliators, union and company representatives failed to yield a sign of settlement of Pittsburgh's eight-day power strike today. The joint session was held in seclusion. Principals were tightlipped at a lunchtime recess but indicated made. Meanwhile no progress had been the strike paralyzed New York Has Foot of Snow the Court noon.

Selling price was for the entire tract, which was owned by the late Mahlon E. Bowman. ARRESTED ON WARRANT Harry Miller, 600 block Forrest Drive, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Patrolmen Don Smith and A. C. Palmer on a warrant charging him with the larceny of a 21 jewel pocket watch valued at $40 from Walter Ensor.

Blocked And Crops Damaged public transportation because RPL trolley workers refused to cross Independent Duquesne Light Company Union picket lines. A newly formed citizens' committee, claiming 5,000 members, announced it was ready to supply "skilled to continue distribution of power "at any time the Dunuepne Light Company or its employes fail to furnish power." Duquesne Light, which has maintained 35 per cent, power during thc shutdown, again cautioned consumers to pave electricity and warned that unless electric service is cut to a minimum, it may be necessary to cut off current in some districts tonight during the peak hours from 6 to 9 p.m. The Tri-Statft Industrial Association, composed of steel fabricating companies in the Pittsburgh district, announced that a survey showed that an estimated $10,000.000 daily strike loss to busings? and industry "conservative." (fir 'The AKMtclntecl An early October snowstorm swept down from the Polar Regions across the northeastern slates yesterday (Tuesday), damaging hte fall crops, snapping power and communication lines and blocking highways. Rural schools were closed in some sections of northern Xew York where the snowfall measured ifi foot. New York.

Vermont and New Hampshire were hit hardest by the icy gale which chased the mercury down tp SO degrees and toppled trees in. some places with gusts up to 55 miles an hour. Maine, Massachusetts and New Jersey reported snow flurries and heavy rains. The Androscoggin valley in lower Maine suffered flood damage after a downpour which gauged 6.03 inches in less than 21 hours at Greenville. Across the international border, the snowfall continued last night to the distress of baseball fans in Montreal.

A Little World Scries game between Montreal of tho-Internation- al League and the Louisville Colonels of the American Association is slated tonight in the snowecMn ball park. The snow was deep enough in Old Forge, X. for youngsters to enjoy the season's first skiing. The Lake Placid winter resort area wore a mantle of white, three inches deep. Navy TructdentTtirtle Breaks Non-Stop Record Bomber Lands in Ohio, Topping by 3,321 Miles Previous Flight 100 Gallons of Gas Remains After Landing By KEN DAVIS Columbus, 0., Oct.

1 Navy captured the world's non-stop nigut record today as its twin-engined "Truculent Turtle" roared in from Perth, Australia 11,237 miles away. The sturdy Lockheed Neptune P2V bomber topped by 3,321 miles the old mark of 7,916 miles set last November by the Army's B-29 Dreamboat." The Turtle with its crew of four Naval officers touched wheels to the Port Columbus runway at (EST) after 55 hours IS minutes of eventful flight. Not only a distance champion, the black patrol bomber also had set a two-engine Aveight lifting mark when it took off at 5:10 a. m. (EST) last Sunday.

It's gross load 1 was pounds, heaviest ever pulled aloft by two engines. Cmdr. Thomas D. Davis of Cleveland, the plane's chief pilot, played it safe, instead of continuing eastward to Washington. The plane's Morkey Soys Americans are Being Led Dead End to Baltimore, Oct.

1 John Markey, Republican candidate for Senator, asserted tonight the National Administration had broken 'promise after promise' and had ed "a loyal, patient and patriotic people to a dead end at home and abroad." In a radio address he said he was running for Sonator "because 12 Sentenced To Die; Seven Go To Prison Three Others Acquitted in Internationa! Wa Crimes Trial By G. K. HODENFIELD Nuernberg, Germany, Oct. r. Goering and 11 other Nazi chiefs who helped Adolf Hitler plunge the world into the greatest war of all time were sentenced today to death by hanging.

Seven other defendants, including Rudolf Hess, were sentenced to prison, and three were acquitted by the four-power military tribunal in the first international war crimes trial. The death sentences will be earned out in the Nuernberg jail Probably Oct. 16. The prison terms served in a four-power jail in Berlin. Concluding the 10-month trial the International Military Tribunal announced the sentences after com- pietmg the reading of a 100000- word, history-making judgment ruling that aggressive warfare "is the supreme: crime." Hans Fritsche, Franz von Papen and Hjalmar Schacht were acquitted, with Russia dissenting.

Sentenced to hang, besides Goer- ins were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel Ernest Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Sauc- Col. Gen. Alfred Jodl, Arthur Seys-Inquart and Martin Bormann (tried in absentia.) Hess Given Life Sentenced to prison were Hess Walther. Funk and Grand Adm' Erich Raeder, life terms; Baldur von Schiarch and Albert Speer years; Constants von Neurath' 15 years; and Grand Adm. Karl Doenitz, 10 years.

Goering, whose guilt was declared by the to be "unque in its enormity," put his head in his hands and appeared lost in thought but his expression remained Immobile as Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence continued reading in a monotone. Hess dashed the earphones from his head and did not even hear sentence pronounced. Keitel gulped, lowered his sharp President Appeals For Drive Support at ion Must Lead World in Cooperation Washington, Oct. 3 fee! that place whose political life these recent years has been so (lue fal cllc closely allied with the Administration which has brought us to our Of the gallons of fuel with which the Turtle took off, "more than 100 remained in the tanks when the flight ended. As a test 'of thp ability of the human body to withstand long grueling flights, the hop from Perth appeared a bust.

None of the four present shocking national condition. He said that if his opponent for he Senatorship, Gov. O'Conor, were elected the residents of the state "must and can only expect pilots aboard showed signs of un- After Da.vies stepped t.o the concrete ramp of the Columbus Neval States must "set for the rest ot the world an example in community- cooperation." Support of the annual welfare drive, the President said in a speech broadcast over all networks, offers an opportunity to demonstrate "the very elements of unity toward which the United Nations are even now patiently striving." "In, your community chest campaign." the President said in open- Air Station hanger, he was thc (ln vp which includes the support of the TJSO, "you will find people of all religious creeds, all political parties and racial back- ed closely by Cmds. Eugene P. Rankin.

of Sapulpa, and Walter S. Reid of Washington, D. and Lt. Cmdr. Roy H.

Tnbeling of Jacksonville, Fla. The fifth a Alliance of Bund continuation of the critical times which are now upon us becav.se of nine-mouth-old kanga- he policies ot the Administration." remained aboard in his cage, He declared the National Ad- 1 stil shaking his head from the ear- ministration Hud "delivered sound, solid American labor into the hands of a Washington, Oct. I agents are investigating reports that the old German American bund is renewing its activities and has formed an alliance with the Ku Kltix Klan. assistant, attorney general Uimar Caudle said today. This disclosure followed quickly on the justice department's statement that it has evidence that the Klan and the bund collaborated for four years prior to the war.

Caudle, head of the department's criminal division, told a reporter lhat the inquiry into alleged new bund operations is being made by the department's internal security division, minority Communist clique which is rapidly leading organized labor to Its complete destruction. Through its price and wage control plans had "cleaned cupboard bare and abetted an inflation which threatens to lower the standards of living: in a vast land of 1 Had botched its foreign policy. popping decent from the S.OOO to altitudes throughout the night. now holds the kangaroo hop mark, be donated to the Washington 7.00. GOVERNMENT WARNED Nanking.

Oct. 1 En- Lai, chief Communist negotiator, delivered an ultimatum to the Government today General Marshall demanding that its forces their attacks on Kalgan, Red military stronghold, or face the responsibility of "a total national split." Full Holiday Asked For Homecoming The Veterans Homecoming Committee has gone on record requesting that the Mayor and Council and Board ot Couuty Commissioners declare a full 'holiday on Armistice Day, November 11. Armistice Day is the date set for the staging of Iho huge Veterans Homecoming celebration in honor ot the returned veterans of World War II in Washington county. Williamsport recently declared a full holiday for Armistice Day. that town on grounds, in all walks of life, united in a common purpose.

"Here indeed people find common ground. They forget the many small things that divide them; they remember the one great thing that unites them: Their common humanity." must continue to provide neighborhood services and neighborhood hospitality to our home- folks still away from home," the President said. "Our people still engaged in the 'unfinished business' of the war need the TJSO. That is why, at the urgent request of General Eisenhower, Admiral Nimitz, General Bradley and ths servicemen and women themselves, I have personally asked the USO to continue its work through 1947." SALE ANNOUNCED Washington, Oct. 1 of a chemical plant butlt at Cincinnati, Ohio, to increase production of 100 octane gasoline, to tho son Chemical of Baltimore.

for $1,090,669, was announced today by the War Assets tration..