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Support Your Community Chest BECKLEY POST-HERALD EXPONENT OF THE WEST VIRGINIA SMOKELESS COAL REGION WEATHER West Virginia Considerable cloudiness and continued cool Wednesday. VOLUME XLVIII--NO. 117 Member of A i of Circulation! BECKLEY, WEST VIRGINIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1948 A i a Press Leaicd Wire PRICE 5 CENTS A Declares DEWEY PLEDGES SUPPLY BERLIN Soviet Newspaper Avers Blockade Will Stay With Coin BERLIN, Oct. 12 -The U. S.

Air Force announced plans today to "winterize" the Berlin airlift. Taft-Hartley Act Miners' Chieftain Takes Crack At Republican Nominee For Defending Labor-Management Law; 10-Point Contract Plan Approved By HAROLD W. WARD CINCINNATI, Oct. L. Lewis closed the POLICY United Mine Workers convention todav with a crack at Infen Truman Efforts I 'Blundering And Incompetent' I ENROITE WITH DENV- jEY TO EAST ST.

LOUIS, 111. i Oct. Thomas Dewey toda called for election of a President who American Stand Stiffens Negro Republican Leader To Speak In Beckley Tonight Delegate To U. N. America Has Disarmed Too Far And Too Fast; Vishinsky To Put Cards On Table On Armaments FRAXCIS CARPEXTER PARIS.

Oct. i States today declared disarmament is impossible in a world where Die Soviet a cry is "wreck and destroy." The United Stales already has disarmed too far and loo UnionNegotiations With Phone Finn Will Be Reported service over the Atlantic carrying! special high priority cargo fromt Westover Base, in Massachusetts, to Frankfurt for the air lift. The i 'service will speed up the move-' ment of critical supplies. Maj. Gen.

William H. Tunner, commander of the U. S. airlift task i ual and instrument flying lions act The remark jolted many of the 3,000 delegates jean presidential nominee made! from RaleUh coun- The United Stales already has disarmed too far and loo Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- and assigned to the airlift, who had listened for more than a week to speeches attack- this obvious reference to President and adjoining counties will a a the last war, said Warren R. A i the No.

2 phone company employes of the announcement said. ling Mr. Dewey's Democrat opponent--President Truman. toni 8 ht at 7 :3 in lhe (delegate to the i Nations General Assembly. Another announcement I There was laughter and a -These are too serous times'toi i a buildin lc hear Nka thai1 I a gloves-off speech to the '-Douglas Globemasters transports! I (round of applause when Lewis said lrifle with ncompetente a Pollard, New York City Negro assem bly's political committee will be put into a regular shuttle: JUTOFS 10 yma er read the blunders in positions of high im-! attorney and political associate or Austin said the United States will act I '-Your sons and mine have a presidential candidate.

ning blame for lack of control on Republican candidate last ni fl I said the act IV i i to band together. a President who will consistently i last night in Welch and will wind get back on the job. 1A "The act does just the reverse," day in and day out support his tour of West Virginia i Russia's Andrei Vishinsky Raleigh countv criminal court said Lewis. "If he will take a print- who are working for Thursday. countered with an apparently con' ed copy of the statute as printed as our official representatives! ec ev he will be intro-' ciliatory OrS 10 1 i I Timing I LrdUTL 1 VI111111101 VVUll force who flew troops and supplies i i ife over the 'Hump' from Burma to 6 China, declared the airlift not on- October term with jurors to rely Can continue through the winter! port this morning for the first; but can even expand its operations! time.

over the summer radar" the radio eve has Perfected a sysS Yester3ay two men lead Jed copy of the statute as printed i as our official representatives: ec ev he will be intro- ciliatory move. He ottered to tne in committee form by the govern- without undercutting them any- duced "5 Butts local Soviet cards on arms reduction Edwin Bo ment printing office and read it, where." lawyer at the rallv which is ex- i On the table--if the United Nations First Nati will find one line in. the That was at Lexington, i pe cted' to be the GOP adopts the Russian proposal for an died at hi which says labor has thej a crowd estimated at 4,000 i raUv for Negroes. It is open one-third cut arm-, 'right to organize. Inersons bv Police Chief Dnrilpv I iaments of the five major powers, "But following that are .71 pages McCloy cheered the GOP condi-i "Ground Controlled Approach" to fel DV char es with restrictions that dare labor to date, Mr.

Pollard will speak on Beckley local of the West Virginia Union of Telephone Workers, which includes Fayetteville, ML Hope, Mullens and Beckley workers, will meet at 7:30 Friday night in the First Methodist church on Heber street to learn developments of union contract negotiations. Thomas Briennan, Charleston regional office representative of the Workers Organ- RONCEVERTE, Oct. 12--C. izing Union committee. CIO, with Edwin Boone, 60, president of the I i the telephone workers of National Bank of lasT night negotiatSnt his home here today.

i ill be resumed either today or to- of the five major Prominent in business and Re- morrow. i rtpvplonment-. i Publican party affairs for many Resumption is contingent upon he was taken ill at the Re- i the arrival of George T. Bell of C. Edwin Boone, Ronceverte Bank President, Expires major tences to be pronounced later, and organize." I Louisville, Dewey con- i I Mr.

roiiaro. win speax on i the Assembly halls as )C 11:1 vail leth ctl ai mc me arrival OL ueurge JL. ecu 1 Governor Dewey's program in New 'niW stiffened toward i a artv convention in Cincinnati, federal conciliator. wheels hit the ground. (GC A) which can bring a plane to i They were Frank McKinley Goad, Lewis previously had told the centrated on foreign affairs and a safe landing even when the pilot nn ma i nc mA nistol counts, and i I 711 6 rt.TMTM 3 1 TMTM (jabbed again at the Democrats, cannot see the ground.

Watching a radar screen showing the plane, a ground pilot in the control tower can "talk" a plane down until its miners i a i ivii. I I a i a i i at a on maiming and pistol counts, and nrn5ecuted i and the i 3a ea 31 1 at Lemocr lts nuce prosecutea Lew is ana He said bi-partisan cooperati Dillard Todd, on a the coal strikes, was a policv stiffened toward the ins were- i Charleston in August. He was According to Mr. Brennan, who The United States Britain! hospitalized for two weeks after was i Beckley yesterday, ths France worked on details or West Virginia State Fair, refused from last March i Russians were: charge. Delbert Canterbury, iin foreign of the union.

charged whose salary was boost- i stration with non-support of his children to $50,000 a-year at this i 15.000 persons turned out to hear i Ported impatient ai i i Even with the rkh benefitg New York Governor in Louis-j this hot question delay GCA can land failed' on' a 'capias: vjntlon given a pen set Governor in Louis-ith, hoj qugtig. every 3.8 minutes in case of Dewey Snyder, on a and a watch from Uvo locals bi-partisan foreign policy, we ville Lincoln Paik. teamed witn Committee 1936 1938 and excklde 2 5 per cent of the em- a of rinmk Dubhe. The scheduled con countries in an atomic (was a member of that committee ployes, give a $1 a week raise to i riav 5 flfl sub-committee in endorsing a de-; at the time of his death. Early aobut 40 per cent of the workers, nine-day session I YY -THAU- mand a thg Assembly approve! in his career, he serv'ed as deputy 25 per cent of the employes' the majority reports on world sheriff of county un- i wages from S2 to $3 and raise 10 t-CfriDfl I atomic control.

Russia fought his father, the late Sheriff per cent of the workers' pay COf I move all the way. William A. Boone. It was the only Lewis had handed coal onerators i 'm Austin told the political commit- public office he ever held, offer. yesterday, now is serving, past thrge year (jUStlTlS Of McClltltlC nati th8 With these preparations being a 7 to 10 year sentence in the made the Army figures it can fly! Ohio state penitentiary, Prosecu-: They will be implemented or in enough planes when the weath-jting Attorney Ned Ragland said.

made specific by the 200-man poi- i-- icy committee as contract talks A native of vjreenbrier County, to make up for lost, John Baumgartner, whose man-; it I slaughter case was set for today, i To make the most of good flying; con tinued. He is a patient in time, tne airlift is completely to four-engmed C-s4r Demands include improvement in the 20-cents a ton royalty which finances the welfare and Skymasters which carry 10 tons. Two other cases set for today pension fund for miners over 62 The two-engined C-47. Dakotas will not be tried because the prin- years, old, along with a shorted which carry three tons are being cipals entered a guilty plea. They iweek and higher pay.

wim.il t.a.i.i.y i.iu.ct luiu i A I Woirno 1 Tho i rate retired. i are George Allen Milam, Wayne! The basic day rate for bitumi- "American officials are Hensley. and William Me- miners is A work they and the British can hit Kinley, charged with breaking and week: i i 4 0 hours, but one. and daily average of 6,000 tons a and 'Ernest-Aaron Wor-) one-half hours even in winter eH charged with murder and i ed for underground travel and Taegliche-Rundschau, the Soviet maiming. military administration's Worrell, Beaver i meals.

resident, is newspaper, declared today the charged With the murder of his Here are the general contract proposals: Berlin" wotild not be! brother; Albert "Fred" Worrell, of "Further improvements in the lifted until the Western Powers Princeton, on July 18: The brother TMTM welfare and retirement withdrew their currency from cir-'is said to have died as a result of i unc mcrr ase of wages and re- wounds from a double bladed Auction of hours affecting all classifications of inside the outside em- ployc-s: free explosives and culation in Berlin. The Russians again announced! Cases set for today inc i ae: 3 Vii rr -5 al a tTltV. 1 tl 1 ff rt-t I Li VOi dlit UidJ L-- equipment; improved safetv air rorridors and charged Wlth I Uttk 8 conditions, and free safety equip- jumping the air corridors ana. st Undenvood, bas-: ment ad i us ent -of vacation flying drills over Berlin--in con- ri rf a thaniel on a aaju stment ot vacation. rt a wocfpm 3 at "amei Austin, on a.

a -and sev erance compensa- TinUSIlOn 01 VVCSLcm i r-Vtarcro I A- i i as an effort to harass thej a and enten charge tion; improvement and compliance i with mining, workmen compen- 11 EGYPTIAN RECOGNITION isation and occupational disease I ila JCi 'could not disarm or even slash he wgs an Qr director armament while the Russians re- at ipoct- r-nnromc The Le.w Sheffler post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, last night became fused to cooperate. He said 1 8111658 concerns and the second county organization this month to ask Governor Meadows under pre sent conditions of world i to remove Conservation Commissioner Dr. C. F. McClintic from fear and insecurity it will be im-i He ls survived by his widow, Commander E.

Guy Graves re a week. The company's proposal was re- ot the proposed increase would amount to only two and one quarter cents an hour, whereas a 12- cent average wage raise has been established in 1948 by other ua- veterans' organization protest streams, and particularly steps were taken Sept 12 at a District 10 meeting, at which time a ponged overnight from "work resolution condemning the stream pollution was passed. Copies were and production" in the first post-: forwarded to the state water commission and the state conservation i war days 0 and destroy." He said that Russia through world commission. Further action was taken. at a j3f.

this group 'writuVg the governor ginia river of streams, designated requesting thai Commissioner! by the Conservation Commission McClinic be removed "for the I as a fishing stream. trdduced a bill in the House that; Communism is working to main" a "state of constant turmoil economic 'chaos." would have outlawed the pollution i tain a of "fiiscolormg of any of West VTr- and'ecb'i Are we dreaming?" Austin de, PI FA IfP TO HIGH COURT manded of the committee. tdM UI 1 MlW" VUURI such tactics, such actions, such a CHARLESTON, Oct. 12--(ffi)-- good of sportsmen and con- 1 servation in general." At last night's meeting of the This bill was referred to the! record be those of one of the i Supreme Court action to-place the committee on game and fish. Fol- founders of the United party's candidate for the traffic department start at $25 good i no County, and a strike "action.

izabeth Boone, also of Ron- sincere in our efforts to achieve a living wage for telephone workers at no inconvenience to the public if possible." pointed put that eight years' experience is "required before maximum wage is paid to telephone workers. For example, he cited the Beckley district, in which employes of GOVERNOR VFW, it was brought out that lowing modification in a commit- He added: tee, it was passed by the House, "I call upon the Soviet Union to the governor had replied to a I but Mr. Harmon said, was "killed i give us some probative evidence in the Senate Rules committee." 7 of its sincerity I "The. VFW always lends support operate Governor on next month's general election ballot was asked today. State Chairman Ervin W.

1 riiy and desire to co- ment asked the court to require I i us openly to give lifei'that the name of Henry Harve a week and get periodic increases to $39 after eight years. This the 1947 independent union contract Henry Harvev SUJ1 er "Qing the outcome of the current CIO negotiations. He said that the company recently was granted a rate in- Russian-sponsored openly call for sabotage of the or- CAIRO, Oct. 12 ganized wood-cutting campaign in Egyptian government said toni the Western sector to supply heat- it would recognize Ing fuel in lieu of coal. Arab government set up at Gaza.

ill at last- session i community projects and this and meaning to the purpose and steamfitter, be included on I if-hiPh, fight against the polluting of (principle of the United Nations; the ballot. He petitioned for a writ Vrrf sit i Greenbrier river is not only a charter to which all subscrib- of mandamus against Secretary of recenuy would correct the POlluUon sit- communit oject but also one ed state Pitt O'Brien for that pur- crease fn the as of Ua With his voice shaking with i pose. 1 isation and occupational disease I three members of the Graves said. He directed that a an ger at times, Austin charged Dern The Haws; adjustment of intra-district ast lecisiature relative to the Ietter "questing the ousting a the Russians harped on the lorney jthtiand inter-district differentials; overmTr's contention One a Commissioner McClintic be mailed horrors of atomic dis- aw Revercomb's Fine Record In Senate Cited By Martin WEIRTON. Oct.

12--(-Sen. slate and rock rnniirn ITini ArrrPTlI Edward Martin (R-Pa) declared rUKMtK DAW UrrltlAL here tonight that President Tru- T.nrw a "blocked every effort HELD IN $75,000 FOR REUTHER a KwwfTM agreements, and consolidation of all benefits accruine from the present i. erted that ly a small number of employes through Charleston at- earn high wages. Heldahl, said state Sixty-five per cent of the traf- that a execu- 0 not I The refence to impurities was a miners be paid for al'' DETROIT Oct. 12 the time being only atomic comment until the warfare is to be dreaded and (letter is received.

Dr. J. M. avoided at all costs. Indeed, war Isecretarv of the sportsmen's itself is still a recognized means of our the'Post-Herald last night the achieving a Communist world so- and streams, snould ever Ji tterhad been mailed from Beck- i ty." continue its efforts in the realm of Iey early yesterday morning.

He referred to a Commu- jconservation, and the protection The Xp also reported the gover-l ist literature" which he said re-, a Vari WatfrtYt vt jand propagation of game and as statmg that present laws ealed much of Russia's inten- at Wa millt gov i We are steadily progressing are not strong enough at the ores-' tions. He added: i i a although the spread of in- ent time to permit him (Dr. Me-, hope it is not true that' tha American5 on the l. ont hne jdustry and civilization constantly ciintic) to do anything about it" i the Soviet Urion believes ntn man 2i Vetg 'i C- mu -V I work against a program of this referring to fishing stream pollu- acts on the premise that a conflict ine reatest oi can rallv, said'-it is aopalling a A 1UEDT CT1TF I rTTAlli a we are Beeping step tion. between Russia and the Western! 1U A i A AlllUft i developments in this field! On March 8 of last year, a law wor id is inevitable, and we hope, an address delivered before a and preserving to a marked de- passed by the state legislature; that Mr.

Vishinsky can assure us Knights of Columbus anniversary i gree these great natural additional power to the that such is not the case." banquet here, the former Governor sources." Conservation Commission with re-; of recent events in Eastern Eu- Michigan said Russia's failure to' VFW members were told that! spect to the protection of wild ani-' rope; he said: i blockade Berlin has been the West-: ay Lee Harmon, local radio; mals. wild birds, fish and frogs. -is it really necessary to go into ern democracies' "greatest tri- sportscaster, and member of the; The post contributed S25 details regarding the domination umph." CommunismGiven 'Licking' Its Life' A special meeting of the Crab DETROIT, Oct. 12 -(P)-- Carl terrifv ing that in these United Bolton's examination on a we have a President who is of tn-ing to kill Walter P. Reuther, i too blind to rsalize what Stalin QrVhaTd "'charrTber r-in A i his Communistic gangsters -ii pf fu oa I president of the CIO United Auto, i w.

1.1 oe caned the near future to VJ memDers were 101Q a i spect to me proie cuon oi wna an Workers, today was set for Oct 19.i recalling that President! Ahese ShrewsbSrv Roy Lee Harmon Iocal radio; mals. wild birds, fish and frogs. Tho 7Q vpar nlr? Rnlfnn a oTTner i i 1Ci utx Atnese anreusoury, secretary, i cnn or a The ear-old tiouon, a Truinan of gtalm a speech i sai i as night. minor official in the big 1.000.000-; 0 June 11. "I like old Joe.

He's a The election man union, was held under decent fellow," Martin continued: 0 take place 000 bond It; is htenin for the night at Crab 0 our countr that we have a i Shrewsbury said He stood mute before Judge, President who can say the mail over for a studv of Christopher E. Stein, who sent to destroy our liberty and our ra Orchard sewer ne'ed? with 1 CIO UNION ORGANIZER ORDERED DEPORTED BY IMMIGRATION SERVICE Oct. or- immigration service today. The service said Santo has com- to prison once before at the age oi free institutions, 'I like old Joe. McCall.

of the sanitation: 19 for armed robberv. The court; H( a decent I division of the state health de- i a i madf hp railed a entered a plea of innocent lor Martin made what he called a par tment. presiding. "special appeal" for the reelection i However said Shrewsbury each' Bottlenecks of sidewalk repair Bolton, if convicted, would 0 Sen. Chapman Revercomb (R-i i an to car for sewer nee'dTted and street paving programs a maximum sentence of Me un-jWya).

i directly back the same path, to in- Becklev, the need for new sewer also. pnsonmem. Revercomb is opposed for re- Corp0 ratior. was voted down nf wtions of the citv Resi by former Democratic; tv 0 vea rs sections ot tne city topped petrtioned for concrete "That is not a pound raisins. out fighting it." he added, i Senator M.

M. Neely of in Ha countv and parking restrictions The council, doubting Your dear is nobody Vgn Wagoner said the Eisenhower Installed As Columbii NEW YORK. Dwight D. Eis installed wi ritual as Columbia I3th president. tious a evo tion to duty, he had the Presentea with tne cnarters ana exce ptional distinction of kevs of the university as symbols i friendship is complete subservi- prestige builder for us.

Russian; the party after ence to Soviet has here and he became af i Vishinsky said are yearning Declaring that wsr is not im- with an organization (the Corn- to cooperate," but that Russia minent. Van Wagoner said: munist party) which advocated could not do so if one side was uss a doesn't want a hot war! overthrow U. S. government in discussion on the street situation, "oolstered' by the atomic bomb Just a cold war i we are Hearings in his case were held "You have the atomic bomb. recogn i i ng for exactly what it is.

a year ago before immigration Residents of street, now black- that little bomb." said Visnmsky. "They want to win a war, with- Commissioner Arthur Phelan of San Francisco. He lost an appeal ical the commissioner. The Crab Orchard Water com- which can be resold or used as ing the council that the present ers blame on us. serves 575 families, which collateral to finance additional would not endure nnother federal has been in- for He formerly of the un- pened the economy of Germany -since the war." he said, of his authority, the wartime su- Public works Committee in his: preme Allied commander was erm He charged at the ceremony with pro- grm mem ber at x-iding "leadership for our staff standing CO mmitt and students in the pursuit of eci- tion of 2.187.

the entire but there i I I IU UIlcllH-C i i through the Reconstruction winter but could be saved now. Soviet proposal 'or rency ref is no Finance corporation. Residents want a hard" surface. he arided. Russia "simultan- "a system.

He informed the councilmen that andinffcommi-eeof-npSen-te" The town may sewe lines are bein? constructed to ta.ce preliminary s.eps anding commu.ee oi tne fc Sc r. ft ff that Park avenue rejurfacmg ana to aaaea. The Pennsylvania Senator saia Mavor Hedrick was authorized eously will submit ir.formajpn on its arms and armed lorces. He cur- j. Quih.

international presinent of the TWI7. said ia Despite Russia's refusal to co- foment in New York that San- ooerate. the devaluated deatsch- SKde 0ri3u 1 not mark "gave the black market a 6 5 1 of American civ- try to work out a plan with So- on the o--c the county board lciea: 'sock in the eye he de- Austin charge tnat theSov-; Quill said the aeportation "will tion oi that "today's challenge to freecicrn added are gra for his valu- West" Virginia fanr and to every msts.ut:on able aid in pushing through a pieting the harvest 5uch tnst none us dares stana alone." Mor.ongahela River DFs ON WAY HERE town." FRANKFURT. Germany. Oct Martin also called arrner? are com- program.

of a corn crop Mayor Hedrick reported 000,000 appropriation for improv- good both in size and Quality, the property owners will not co-oper- ing navigation facilities on the cooperative crop reporting service He said that the city could Morgan- said today. do the work secure payment The corn now is being husked from property owners later, but 'or Rever- both from sta'iks ann from shocks, the cost would approximate first group of dis- comb's reelection because ''un- the 5ervice said in its weekly 000 and the city does not have the placed persons to emigrate to the questionably Governor Dewey will weather-crop report. "The money to States under the new be the next President of the United qua-icy of the crop in most areas Tr.e street work is decided that parking or law wili leave Brerr.erhaver;. Fri- States. It would be a tragic loss to is very good." down.

loo. he informed, because be from the ear? day, U. S. Army officials to- West Virginia to be deprived of Fall weather is slowing the only about one car of cement a to the west side, that on day. Poland has the largest num- Sen.

Revercomb's Republican in- growth of pastures, but they re- week being received instead of Church street be restricted be- or emigrants in the group of fiuence in the Republican adrnin- main ger.eraj-y in good condition, the promised one car a day. to the and tnst no cisive role where there are definite .5 common interests. He said differing ideologies for its co-operation in the matter, could exist if "both sides try to First Light Frost Of The council ordered grading on the other side. Hence eriT Oak Grove avenue immediately our desire to cooperate. We want snd decider, to nolifv A mere Gas to cooperate.

We are yearning to HUNilXGiOX. Oct. 12- Va. i State Slaughter Houses Provide 4 Million Tons CHARLESTON. Oct.

commercial slaughter houses in the provided 4.200.000 pour.df state renuce tr.e expense 3rrr.arr:ent: "We -eed raiuoacs. We need r.rtjpita'.s. We need -doctors a physiciar.s. r.eed horses a cattie. We have to have ail that greater than the amount in July" 1947.

The figures incraded beef, 433 persons representing II ua- istration that will take office next the repor tionali ties. January. 1 Some other spots in the state, nd notably Elkins. may also have veal. lamb, mutton and pork r.d killing frost, but that else- in federally inspected plants be serio-js as well as other wholesale and re- said.

All hay has been Park avenge. street. Chip street parking be permitted or. because -A-e cannot we cannot enough to damage tender vegeta- tail slaughter. It did not include snd Oak Grove averse came under Lebanon Lane.

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