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THIS KMBLCM wearer as an honorably discharged veteran of World War U. THE AILY REGISTER published Continuously Since 1915 THE DAILY REGISTER, HARRISBURG, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 5, 1946 SKK1KS. VOLUME 31, NO. 185 REPORT 20 About Town And Country By TIMOTHEUS T.

Cabinet Studies Progr To End Starvation Threats in Europe, Boy Scout Week Feb. 8-14; Petition Bridge Across Ohio BOY SCOUT WEEK: Several evenings ago 1 went out to the high i The major decision confronting school and attended a banquet the cabinet was whether to im-1 sponsored by the Egyptian Coun- pose controls that would make cil, Boy Scouts of America. The new inroads on the American meeting was inspirational, and food allotment. Anything less, of- ficials were convinced, would WASHINGTON, Feb. President Truman summoned his cabinet to an emergency session today to consider a far-reaching program for easing the starvation threat in Europe and Asia.

mean failure to meet foreign sub- achievements of scouting were shown. Nearly two million boy scouts, sistence demands, cub scouts, senior scouts and their The program was drawn up by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace and Under- f'dult leaders throughout the Limed States will commemorate Boy Scout Week from Friday, Feb. 8 through Thursday. Feb.

1-1. The secretary of State Dean Acheson, theme of the observance, which marks the 36th anniversary of the founding of the movement in America, is "Scouts of the World --Building Together." The Boy Scouts of America have created a "'World Friendship Fund" nnd nearly two million members $iave been invited and urged to contribute voluntarily to it. Through the fund, scout associations in lands ravaged during World War II are being helped to rebuild their organizations. At the outbreak of the war in 1939 there were more than three million scouts and leaders in 70 different lands. -A The Boy Scouts of the Philip' pines, for many years a part of the Boy Scouts of America and now an independent association, has received a shipment of scout supplies and $12,500.

Thirtv-scvcn shipments, mostly Fcout literature, have been sent to 20 countries. The fund is making possible an international edition of Lord Baden Powell's original "Aids to an of value in every country. Board A feature of the -Boy "Scout Week celebration is the "Shirts-1 re Off-Our-Backs. campaign. BoyJQj; Paul acting for Secretary of State James F.

Byrnes. A return to individual civilian rationing is not being considered but the other proposals scheduled for discussion are: 1. "Rationing" of flour allotments to bakers for bread, cakes and other bakery goods. 2. Increased production of "whole wheat" flour at the expense of "white" flour to stretch domestic wheat supplies.

3. Curtailment of livestock grain supplies and forced early shipment of animals to market. This would mean more meat in the immediate future but less six months or a year hence. One high official said the program sought what could be described as a "miracle" in stretching food supplies. But he felt that drastic steps were necessary not only for humanitarian reasons but to preserve prestige of this country's foreign and occupation policies.

Out-and-out bread rationing was not put on the list of suggestions because it was considered "administratively impossible." Parisians Thrown In Panic by Atomic Radio Broadcast PARIS, Fcb ans awoke today to i the world still intact after a night of panic caused a realistic radio broadcast describing the make-believe atomic disintegration of the globe. Alarmed listeners surged into the streets last night when an announced said atomic were spreading across the Atlantic from the United States to Paris. Hundreds converged on the studios of Radio Diffusion Francaise and the management appealed for police protection. Police guards were posted around the building. Mothers hastily assembled children to be with them at the end.

Cases of premature births were reported and there were unconfirmed reports of suicides. The radio station tried to cairn the public with repeated announcements that the broadcast was "purely imaginary" hut H- tencrs were hard to com nice. Expect Truman Announcement Soon On Steel Increase By UAYMON1) I.Alill I iiiled Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Feb. 5-- (U.E)-- Proposals lor overhauling the administration wage-price stabilization policy were developing today iVom White House efforts to settle the industry-wide steel strike.

President Truman called a spe- eabmet session today which expected to touch on the suggest ions tor policy revision. The proposals were attributed inionned sources to Price Adm i i a Chcbter Bowles. They apnarentlv stemmed from Bowies' Work Stoppage in New York to Protest Anti-Labor Bills disameemenl i Diu'ctor John W. Reconversion Snvder over the steel price increase involved in to break the steel wage deadlock. Officials expected a White House announcement today or morrow on the steel price The administration hopes that the steel I industry i then end the strike ol 750.000 United Steel Workers (CIO) by accepting President Tru- mans proposal for an hourly wage increase oi 13 1-2 cents.

The union already has agreed. Wants New Formula Bowles, who conferred Norris (iff Dies Following injyries in Mrs. Raymond McCormick, Morris City, died this morning in a hospital at Fort Knox, Ivy, from injuries received Sunday, when on J-automobile conveying her and her their dead, Patsy to Elizabethtown, been "playing by car" and YORK, Fcb. two-hour work stoppage by ap- proxiin.tti-U r00.000 members was ordered today by the greater New York CIO Council to show support ol picseiit and to pro-! test a i labor legislation. The stoppage, scheduled to begin at in.

Monday, would affect nearly every phase of life in Neu York City with the exception ol the transportation and utilities industries, health and hospital service, and newspapers and news services. The move was approved last night at a meeting of 300 delegates of the CIO Council who approved a six point program as the aim ut the stoppage. The walkout is similar to one staged at Stamford, about a month ago to demonstrate support of the Yale Towne strikers. Headinu the list of six aims of the stoppage the "defeat of the union busting Case bill in Congress, which would rob labor of all its basic rights." Other aims of the stoppage were to. "Stop the strike insurance to strike-bound monopolies, now coming out of taxpayers' pockets through rebate provisions of the tax law Demand Congress repeal the carry-back provision of the tax law.

"Support the strikers fighting for the i nation in steel with i General Motors. General Electric Scouts are out to collect from 500 i to 1.000 ions of used but clean and SPRINGFIELD. Fcb. 5-serviceable scout uniform parts candidates who have not and camping equipment to help the withdrawn petitions for nomina- overseas scouts resume activities, tion iu tne April 9 primary elec- Thc collection is not considered tion W1 a pc ar on the ballot ex- charity but rather sharing by one 'Republican and one Truman yesterday for the second lime in three days, was said to feel that the administration should adopt a new formula lim- itiim the price increases which may be granted in meeting wage demands. was understood- that Bowles believed the administration with another.

i Democrat. The two, Lester Schein, Chi- SPAN OVER OHIO: Gallalin cago, and L. Paul Lowe, Raleigh, countv is making another effort both sought nomination to the to get a bridge over the Ohio river a I Shawnectown. The Gallatin state legisalture. Schein was a candidate in the sixth senatorial County Board of Supervisors has district and Lowe in the 51st dis- passed a resolution calling upon trict.

the Illinois members of congress to pass an act granting a fran- Thc state certifying board met yesterday and rejected the peti- chisc to Gallatin county'for of Schein and Lowe. The (Continued on Page Four) former had an insufficient number of signers to his petition- only 324. He needed 541. Lowe failed to file a statement of candidacy and his petition sheets v.ere improperly numbered or fas- SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 5-O)--Total cost of old age pension payments in Illinois rose during January to 54.188,337 it was reported today by Raymond M.

Billiard, state Public Aid director. Hiliiard said average allowance! per pensioner last month was' S33.98. In Cook county, 44,224 pensioners received a total of 613,618 last month. toned. Members of Gov.

the certifying was hit from the side by another machine. Ike Turner, Norris City funeral director, said that the little girl, 20 months old. died at Norris City Saturday of tuberculous meningitis, and that ne loaned them a 7-passenger sedan in which to go to Elizabethtown, to bury the baby. In the sedan at the time of the accident were seven members of the funeral cortege and the baby's casket. It was hit by an auto driven by a representative ol the Kenrad Radio Tube boro.

at Tip Top, near Fort Knox. The sedan was wrecked and all seven of the people in it were injured, Mr. Turner is informed. Mrs. McCormick's body will be Weslinghouse, Phelps-Dodge and Western Union.

Demand that the corporations be forced to end their defiance of the President and grant the just demands of then workers. Contribute food and mon cy to the strikers." escue 380 BRITISH BRIDE OF A IN' YORK. Mrs Un shan't Fiod Icr, British wile ul 1 i i a Fiedler of Cneauo, 111 and Trudy Ann, 3. and Sarah Clare. 4 i shmui the Army transport'Argentina as it armed in New Yoi A a -Kit! women and 170 children were aboard the ship (NT.A Telepholo) Safford Took nifiaiive in Ki WASHINGTON.

Fob. Navy Capt. F. Saflord said to Generalissimo day he took the i i i a i in setting up a defense for Adm. IIus- Kai-Shek said today his i i i to Chinese people i be finish- band E.

Kimmcl in the Peail i a 1 ed the new a i i govern bor disaster incut has been established Safford told Congress' Pearl Stmaeslhm a he may reiin- Ilarbor committee he met i in New York in February, 194-4. the leadership he has' held since Chiain; told a press Passenger Liner Yukon Torn Apart During Blizzard A Alaska, Feb. 5-- U.P- persons were reported missint; today as seven rescue ships a heavy seas to remove about 380 passengers and crewmen from the i Yukon, which was torn in half i a ragimi blizzard. The leports of the missing came from survivors from the doomed i i 1 Throe crewmen of the ship were a the first to be brought ashore They told how the swirl! i tides swept the passenger i i auainst the base of towering i i i of Bay, 48 miles east ol Sewarcl. The crewmen were taken to a for treatment to revive thorn from the experience of float- inc.

for 30 minutes in the icy water. tiiulclics Washed Overboard They said two'small boats, bobbing on the mountainous waves, took about 50 women and children Irom the slanting decks of the wrecked ship last nisht a few minutes before the cralt snapped in two. "The Yukon was pounded by 50- foot waves after we went onto the rocks," Storekeeper Roger Bassette said. "I saw borne of my buddies washed overboard a few minutes before 1 was thrown into the water But, he said, he dicln'i tell the do- 1 conference a i lie had not thoimht posed Pacific Fleet commander of yet i he i be a i a had that there be a formula which could be applied uniformly to other industries as well as steel, even though consumer prices jumped as a result The government's present wage- price policy permits unlimited I increases so long as the companies involved do not them as a basis for demanding I night price relict for at least six attend because A reduction or qualified elimina: High school students were eligible lion of a waiting period was attend because of a three-way suggested as another possible tic among seniors for lop honors, chansp the stabilization policy, Andrew Howard, son of Mr. Honor Students Are Guests at Rotary Meeting Seven honor students were diesis at the Rotary meeting last and another was unable to of illness.

Six liis efforts in Kimmel's behalf The meeting look place about a month after Safford had i a letter charging that the. Army and Navy high command "trnmcd" Lt. Go.n. "Walter Short, the deposed commanders of Naval and Army defenses in Hawaii. Safford was questioned by Hep John W.

Murphy, a about his associations with Kinnnei and his interest in assembling detense evidence for use in the event i mcl was court-martialed. Safford said he met i for the first time during a personal trip to New York. 'I was in Now York," he said "1 i took advantage of (he i to call loi election to the China Chiang revealed presidency ol at I he a i myself." The liner, carrying 371 passcneers and a crew of 124, from Seward to Seattle, broke in two on the rceC. The stern half capsized after hours of buffeting by Wauled Liberal Increase One usually well-informed official, however, discounted possibility OL i i changes in wage-price program. He said the White House had not intended to authorize a steel price increase in excess of the amount premitted by taken to Elizabethtown.

Ky their the existing policy. former home, where the funeral place this morning. It was known that Bowles had and J. II. Howard, Colleen Murphy, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Oral Murphy of Carrier Mills RFD and Edward Straight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Streight, tied with honors of 96.

Miss Murphy was unable to attend. Charles Dunning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Dunning, rep- esented the freshmen with a baby had been ill for tv.x and the father, a Secretary of State Edward J. Barrett, Assistant State Auditor Simon A.

Murray, and Chief Clerk James Hardy of the auditor's office. SPRINGFIELD, 111., Fcb. 5-- Treasurer Conrad F. Becker, in his monthly report to- clay, said the state's general fund showed a decrease of $2,448,914 for month of January, attributed largely to the first large pdstwar expenditure of $4,300,000 turned over to the Chicago Housing Authority. Continue large withdrawals from the Unemployment.

Trust Fund account resulted in a decrease of $4,483,892 in such funds. Unemployment benefits in January were approximately $11,000,000, an increase of about 000,000 over December. Wesson Mine Idle 3rd Day by Dispute Wasson mine, between Harrisburg and Eldorado, remained idle for the third consecutive day today, in miners a dispute between the and the company. The Progressive mine union headquarters did not divulge the nature of Ihe controversy which caused the men to walk out. MINES Adulis Disturbed, Kids Enthused School Strike ST.

LOUIS, Fcb. The school board, the press, the unions in fact, the entire adult population--was disturbed today by the custodians' strike which closed St. Louis public schools for the second day. But kids thought it was fine. Sent home yesterday when the strike began, the pupils cheerfully switched textbooks for Lil' Abncr and traded history for hopscotch.

With neither the school board or the striking union, Local 118 of the AFL Custodians' and Matrons' of overseas service in World War 2. had endeavored, unsuccessfully, to obtain streptomycin, the new miracle drug, for its treatment. Sahara 4, 5, 6, 16, Washer work. Peabody 47 works. Wasson 1 works.

Blue Bird works. Dering works, Senate Committee Orders Hearings on Two Nominations WASHINGTON. Fcb. 5-- 'I' The Senate Banking committee today ordered hearings on two of President Amman's important nominations. They arc Commodoer James Vardaman, St.

Louis, lo be governor of the federal reserve system, and George E. Allen, Washington, to be a di- tector ot the Reconstruction Finance Corp. The committee decided to appoint a five-man subcommittee to take detailed testimony on Vardaman i a i Sen. Forrest C. Donnell, said he wanted to call about 30 witnesses from St.

Lotus to testify about the receivership of union, showing any disposition Vardaman Shoe of SI Louis yield, the holiday for 90,000 slw-1 and "also the Tower Grove Dank dents continued. Trust Co. The union is demanding a S20 a month wage raise for the custodians, a cut in the period in which matrons become eligible for maximum pay from five to three years, and that wartime wage increases be made permanent. Custodians now arc paid from S159 to $220 a month, matrons from $101.60 to S126.60. The strike, which followed a nine-month argument over the pay issue, was precipitated by the refusal of Dr.

Herbert 0. Winterer, president of the Board of Education, to submit the matter to arbitration. He said the board had no legal authority to delegate its powers elsewhere. strike discussions. of the baby was scheduled to take insisted that the present policy i a 95 1-4.

Edna Witlen would not permit a steel price i Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl crease of more than S2.50 a ton. was the sophomore reprc- Olhcr administration officials be- scn a tive with a grade of 95 4-5. lievcd that a more liberal increase iit a Nellans with a grade of was allowable.

According to fi was i ic ior representa- spokcsmcn for the U. S. Steel she is the daughter of Mr. Snvder proposed adjust- ancl Mrs Frec Nellans. ments exceeding S3 a ton in prc-; mu Byrom a i son Mn a Mrs.

Troy Hart, represented eighth grade and Robert Con- son of Mr. and Mrs. Lome Conover, was the seventh grade i representative. i Honoring five new members of 1 the club who had not been ly introduced, B. E.

Skelton, El, dorado banker, was the speaker, introduced by Dr. L. 1. Webb. ONDAN Feb.

5 T.W--Uru- chairman of the club information asked United Nations to-! committee. Mr. Skelton told of the day to rule out the death penalty aims and objects of Rotary an for Herman Goering ancl the other 1 inspirational talk. on Admiral Kimmel. I initiative." asked if he told mcl "about the you writing." Saftord said he did nol In an effort to find out Safford ever told Gov.

Thomas i that China is conducting -w i BO -iniU winds and churning seas, i a i a i i Ihe Sov-j had been ordered irt a i com-o-bsions to 0 mov -the" bow half, Husbia beyond published terms of i cri remained firmly the Smo Soviet treaty. wcdgt-d on the rocks." Bassette It was the lirsl press somc 0 us didn't make ence the Generalissimo a was swcpt over board with pd since Oct. ir. 1945. Mad-1 A a Scrgeanl Jac Rein- ame i a at his side, he re- Yukon ass i an ceivecl in his larue Scrivcner town house.

Th(; 1hr(JO losscd corks in i i a i said lie i Ihe a aj scafl) erc washed to agreement for a coalition govern-, of 300-foot cliffs whose V'imnm' his so steep thcy wcre una ble and Ihe Communists tor () i adhore small rescue -I i was "just the h'- pickod them up 30 minutes MI loopcnuion and i Dewcy or any of his took Hie anioni; i i i a a i i i a of Ihe a i i he added, i depend ihe na i a mbly's a i a est a i i i i i i i government Asked much power Ihe "1 don't know what happened to rest of those who went over- hoard." Bassette said. "Thank God had life-belts." Oil Calms Scas Oil escaping from the battered liner calmed the scas last night about Japanese code-breaking. Mm a 0 i i i parly-- enough for power launches to ap- i lf) up roach the ship. The frightened wjiether he i 11( i ('manf! said it was i women and children were lowered phy demanded to know talked "to anyone else in Now i a 0 pow a was State and gave them any tion." Safford said he was i i did not. i i a nvo i but i i i decree ol re- 'i The luiommlang, he said.

swaying ropes to be taken to The fact that Dewey, i lo lc le 1.944 presidential campaign, knew of the highly secret code-break i rm tends i the sovereignty the freighter North Haven and the naval transport Henry S. Failing which were standing by. in Charge High School Youth with Abduction Of 9-Year-Qld Girl GENEVA. 111., Fcb. 5--'Mi- James Zcnk, 17, Barrington.

111., high school student, will be arraigned tomorrow on child abduction charges. A Kane county grand jury returned an indictment against Zenk yesterday. He was accused of abducting the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Jennings, Elgin, last Jan.

9. The lit- Asks UHO Ryle Death or War Criminals has been brought out earlier the Congressional hearing Gen. George C. Marshall, i uua. ivieuoiiuii, I I I I i a Army Chief of Staff, testified a he wrote Dewcy two letters i a ing him not lo divulge the a i in connection with his campaign Record Price of $21,000 Paid for Aberdeen-Angus Cow Fob 5--H' As the transfer was completed, the recently evacuated stern snapped off and teetered on the rocks, threatening to plunge into the sea.

Among the 495 persons aboard Yukon were 180 servicemen i home from duty in Alaska, Mrs. John E. Manders, wife of the mnyor of Anchorage, her niece, Carol Trcndwoll, nine, and Mr. and Mrs. George Marsh, owners of a i Marshall, Alaska, mine.

Mexican Freighter, MIAMI, Another cattle was world price record for established top war lords on trial Nuernbcrc; and limit their pun- iMimcnl to i imprisonment. The Uruguayan delegation pro-, posed a the United Nations or-il'-arl Phillips. V.anization recommend amendment of the war crimes charter to out- 1 the a a for the Nazi leaders. The surprise move threatened lo touch off i debate in the i'NO General Assembly. a 1 Everett Stricklin is program i Oklahoma, with sale of an chairman for February.

dcen-Angus cow for $21,000. Darrell Piper and Capt Stephen The prize animal was sold by r. -l A i a a a new radio or i i a last year and i gel it a a missed out i i i a and not for more i i I i in Howling GdlS reason todav in T' i i i a i A i i i i i i said a survey of 34 lead- i PL; producers ol consumer mods f.nlerl lo a i a a i hillips were guests of the IU-v. i Sunbeam Farms here to a L. Smilh, Kansas City, him herman and cattle breeder Tin- record-breaker was Branca SUP beam, the full sister of Price Erk of Sunbeam, a bull a i sold in Chicago two years ago for the record of $40,000.

It was also Smith v. ho purr-has Upchurch Given Permission to Amend Burnett Complaint A motion to strike the complaint ENSENADA, BA.IA Fcb. Mexican coastal freighter and the American fishing boat she was towing sank in .,011,0 had hoarded tjood.s howling gale 20 miles south of escape Uv i a yesterday, Gen Abelardo The of all the linns Kodriqucz reported today. i werf 1 the survey disclosed First ver. lou and six had no i 1 reports said C7 Jives were lost.

ed the bull in the a i at Chi The a a resolution, the circuit court suit in which -nled on orders from the D. Upchurch is seeking a per- ca fi and his bid of $21,000 for tne tevideo government, injunction to restrain C. cow was the highest of tne Sun execution of the Nuernberg i Burnett from selling 80 shares a would be a "demoralizing of C. P. Burnett and Sons stock spectacle" and would be apt to owned by Upchurch was overruled create world-wide sympathy Cor by Judge Ross Reynolds here ycs- them.

lerday. It argued a life imprisonment! Upchurch had obtained a tern- is the severest penalty comparable porary injunction from Judge IJar- with demorcatic respect for human old Zimmerman last week and a OP A said I here were a lev, shirt a a i u.i.ihl' 1 lo ship shirts leg a a i to make iv'iuired of lower- priced i An Oi'A survey of 140 shirt a a i in New York City i only exceeded prices in 1945 and trouble was beef breeding cattle i i i i "bail out" these few i a i when others beam Farm's first sale here since J942. Fifteen bulls and 35 cows showed a the auction here yestenla.v i Nine bodies, including those of two unidentified Americans were rccovoicd Several other Americans were reported to have been aboard. The McMi-an i a i freighter and passenger ship Santo Tomas had thrown a line to the i i smack Mabel in response to a radioed plea for help. brought a total of one is in "serious" trouble believed to be the largest sale i OPA The ngency said i wai The Weather life.

In a statement i hearing on whether lo make accompanying permanent was started yesterday.I Warns Boys Against the: law. their formal resolution, the Ura-; Reynolds granted Upchurch per- Firing Levee Grass guayan delegates pointed out that'mission to amend his complaint Uruguay abolished the death pen-; The complaint was filed when ally 40 years ago. They asserted Burnett notified Upchurch he that" their country never would! would sell the stock, held by Bur- rive subscribed to the extradition; nett as collateral on a note. parts of the Harrisburg Ralph Brown, city engineer, today stated that boys had been setting fire to the grass on vari- flood Woman, 64, Dies of Burns at Centralia I ILLINOIS--Showers and thun- I dorstorms i evening. Mostly i rloudy and turning decidedly cold I tonight and Wednesday.

Snow I flurries north portion Wednesday. i Strong southwest shifting to north- i cst winds. tie girl charged that Zenk assault- of war criminals if it had known' nctt contends Upchurch owes him wall. He declared that if this oc- of burns I'ecei cd her before releasing her in advance that they would be lia- n.ore than $17,000 on a $10,000 curs again, a thorough invesliga-j when her clot CENTRALIA. 111..

Feb. 5 ---Prue Lewis, 64. died yesterday in St. Mary's hospital as a result 3 p. 51 of burns received last Thursday 6 p.

52 LOCAL TEMPERATURE Tuesday 3 a. 57 6 a. 57 his car. I ble to the death note made in 1925. tion of "the'acts will be made.

I she was cleaning out her 12 mid 57 9 a. 60 12 noon 62.