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Evening Hours ding Hours VOL. LXV1II. NO. 138. THE GASTONIA GAZETTE GASTON COUNTY, THE FINE COMBED YARN CENTER OF AMERICA The Weather Partly cloudy and continued hoi tonight ana Wednesday.

Few uMtty scattered thundcrsliowers Oils afternoon, becoming more numerous Wednesday afternoon. Ueniber Audit Bureau of GASTONIA, N. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1947. AMoeUttd Preii feature Isiorlitrd ntm Uastd Wire SINGLE COPY Sa RIJSCUKI) FROM FLOOD GOAL FIELD STRIKE SPREADS Seek To Prevent Auttr Walkout Good Will Trip STRIKE HANGING OVER President Is Off On Visit To Canadians AUTO INDUSTRY Final Effort Made Today To Stave Off Walkout Tomorrow Of 20,000 Auto Hands; Move Would Affect Entire Car Industry. A State CJuardsman returns a blanketed, rescued live-day-oi'J toby to its anxious parent as mass evacuations made along the banks of the swollen Des Moines river, in Oltumwa.

la. More than 4,000 persons were driven from their homes in the Ottumwa area alone. (NEA Telephoto.i Investigation Called For Reds Tighten Control In Hungary Conditions Serious Say U. S. Redeemed Currency Of Soviet WASHINGTON, June Republican senators called today for a full-scale investigation into reports that the United States has redeemed' millions of dollars worth of German occupation money printed by Russian authorities.

The three of New Hampshire, Ferguson of Michigan, and Knowland of a reporter in separate interviews they understand the to print the German marks were given to the Kus- by American officials. Among other uses, the occupation money was used to pay allied troops. Karlier reports have said the Russian large amounts of back fabulous black market prices to American Gl's for such items as wrist watches and trinkets. The Gl's, in turn, converted the occupation marks into dollars. The trade became so brisk that authorities resortl-d to cveral methods for discouraging In: marks-to-dollars conversion, a scrip system was devis- to replace the occupation cur- ency.

A War Department statement 'on pril 21. prompted by reports (hat le loss to the Treasury ou these ack mariiet dealings might exceed acknowledged the Army DETROIT, June gotiators made a final effort today io slave off a strike at eight plants of the Briggs Manufacturing which if prolonged would shut down roughly one-sixth of the entire automobile industry. With the backing of the United Auto Workers' Executive Itoard. union officials have threatened to call 20.000 liriggs workers ofl their jobs at 10 a. Wednesday, unless their contract demands are met by then.

Such a walkout would have an almost immediate effect on car production as the Chrysler and the Packard Motor Car are dependent on auto bodies made in six or seven Detroit area Briggs plants and one in Evansville, Ind. Union demands include retroactivity of a proposed 15-cent hourly wage increase equivalent to May 23; coverage of several hundred salaried and engineering workers under the contract, maintenance ol CLOSE RACE IN! LEG10NJMEST Close Campaign ing Waged By Wilmington And Gaslonia For Membership Honors In State American Legion Circles. The race for leadership in the American Legion membership campaign is waxing hot and heavy hetwren Gaslonia and Wilmington, with Sunday morning. June as the deadline for the drive. Vernon Upton, adjutant of Gaston Post Number 23.

said today that a from stale headquarters Monday listed Wilmington's total 1.354. while the local post had recorded only six of Wilmington mark. Adjutant Upton urges members the local post to expend every 'nrt to gain new members befoio tiie junday deadline, and asks old inf jcrs who have not as yet paid tlieir lues for the new year to come by Memorial Hall ami sign up again Dne Is not listed as a member in See LEGION. P-5 Local Temperature lu-h -nw l-ist Xijlil Vcion Today lainrall to dale .17 of an inrh lim- JC2 inrhfs; drfiricnrv J.I nrhcs. Uncle Bud says KILL BALDWIN) accumulated a surplus Gerlan currency.

"Tiie present holdings do not. how- exceed future contemplates enditnres," the statement saici, addng: "A completed report on the acqui- lion and of these holdings See CURRENCY, P-5 the present grievance procedure and a wage reopening clause. The company contends its contract offer was equal to or better than some accepted from other auto firms with which Briggs competes. Tiie executive board authorization of a Briggs strike, given at Chicago yesterday, came as the Ford Motor Co. closed two departments in its big Dearborn Kougc plant and threatened to shut down others.

Ford Vice President D. S. Harrie said the action was taken "because of slowdown and sabotage of equipment on the body line." "Workers were told that svhen they decided they wanted to put in a full clay's work they could return to their jobs," Harder said in an-! nmmcing that the company sent 1 1.100 employes home. He added, that on other shifts would- be laid off "if further The UAW-CIO. represent i production workers, denied the slowdown charge and termed it subterfuge to gain strength and fight" against 3.700 foremen on strike for three wefks.

ERNEST K. ABOARD PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO OTTAWA. June Truman journeyed to Canada today in the role of a friendly neighbor. He took his wife and daughter along fcr a three-day visit in Ottawa where lie will address the Canadian parliament at 11:45 a. in.

(Eastern Daylight Time) tomoirow. The Unilcd States Chief Executive was in the best of spirits as he boarded this 11-car special Irain in Washington last night. He left until after his return to Washington Friday a decision on four-billion dollar tax reduction and new curbs for labor unions. Bills embodying lliese changes were scut up to the White House by a Republican-controlled Congress last week. He concentrated, instead, on plan, set another example to the world of how the peoples of the westeri lemisphere live together in neac and harmony, negotiating differ ences if any arise'.

The flight of the President Mexico in March set a pattern fo this visit to the northern neighho of the United States. Mr. Trumnn hopes If work in visit to South Americ- before th end of the year. Russian Purge Of Dissidents Gathers Speed The presidential tn in was to mei at Rouses Point. N.

Y. on Canadian border, by a Canadia government car occupied by the Hon. Louis St. Laurent, secretary state for extern' 1 affairs; Ray All TUUMAN VISITS. I'agc 5- 0 June patchcs from Budapest suggested oday that the Communist-dom- naled Hungarian government was ridening its purge against dissident elements of several fronts.

The Cooimunist newspaper Sza- baiisag said the "resistance certi- ticalcs" of nearly 200 persons, including government and cnurch otlichils, would be reviewed by a special committee under 4he prime minister's office. Among those facing loss of these indicate that he holders opposed the Germans uiing the Dczso Sulyok, lead of the Freedom party, whose newspaper recently was banned; Assembly Speaker Bela Varga, a member of the Smallholders party; and Josef Cardinal Mlndszcnty, Roman Catholic primate of Hungary. At the same time, the Hungarian peoples' court announced that 43 intellectuals" including doctors, lawyers and go on trial late this month on charges of conspiring to overthrow the Hungarian Republic. The newspaper Vilag said Albert See RED PURGE, P-5 HELD FOR TREASON 20,000 Made Homeless In Middle West ANTI-LYNCHING HEARINGS ASKED CIO Urges Congress To Be- jrin Study Of Anti-Lynching Proposals Immediate-. Iv So That Action Can Be Realized At This Session.

SHOT AT WHEEL OF AUTOMOBILE Young Hiteli-Hik e'r 1 For Murder In Auto Death Of War Veleran, Brother 01' Gen. Eisenhower's Personal Pilot. Death Takes Idol Of Silent Movies HOLLYWOOD. June An attack of pneumonia, culminating several years of poor health, has ended the Ion? and colorful film career of .1. Warren Kerrigan, one of the first matinee idols of the silent screen.

The actor, whose best remembered role, perhaps, was in "The Covered Wagon," made by tbc veteran itirector, Cnize. anil who retired from pictures in 1023, succumbed yesterday at his Balboa Keach home. He was 67. DUNHAM, IVEY DONATE ORGAN LAKE J. B.

vcy of Charlotte and H. A. Dunham of Asheville, have given 'Lake Junaluska Assembly a Hammond organ or the large auditorium. The instrument will he inio use on Sunday. June 15, it was All indications are that the 1347 e.ison will be the largest in the history of the Assembly, according to Dr.

Frank S. Love, superintendent. WASHINGTON, The CIO Congress today to start hearings on anli-lynching bills immediately "in order that adequate legislation may be secured during this session of Congress." CIO Secretary Treasurer James B. Carey marie public telegrams to chairmen of House and Senate Judiciary Committees saying: "The Congress of industrial or- believes your committee a'dear mandate, in view of the history of the crime of lynching, to approve federal legislation against denial of simple justice." Several anti-lynching bills have been introduced but no action has been taken on them, 11KGIXS SERVING TERM ran SUGAR THEFT GREENVILLE. N.

June County Sheriff Ruel W. Tyson has taken Sam Warren of Hickory, to Central Prison in Daleigii. where Warren will serve a 5-7-yrar sentence for larceny of 10.000 pounds of sugar from an Aydcn pickle factory last fall. Four others who were convicted in connection with the sugar theft have brgnn their srntrnrcs. June A 23-year-old motorist was shot to death at the wheel of his last- moving automobile and a police olfichil declared early today a hitch-hiker would be formally charged with the slaying.

Fred Jack, chief of Delaware county detectives, said that a man he identified as Daniel P. Taranow, 21, New York City, (address unavailable), had admitted orally that shot Francis Devon, 23, of Oxford, because Devon refused to surrender the car. Jack said he would charge Tar- anow with murder sometime during tiie day. Devon, a brakeman employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, served in the Army for 38 months and was a brother of Lt. Edwnrd Devon, Dwight D.

Eisenhower's personal airplane pilot. Jack said that Devon slumped dead in bis 1047 sedan as it crashed through a pole a milp east of Media yesterday. The hitch-hiker, Jack added, leaped from the car. rolled down an embankment and fled. It was not until five hours later that Taranow was captttred in a secluded dell not far from the scene of the shooting.

The Justice Department announc- ed that FBI agents in Los Angeles, have arrested Tomoya Kawakita, an American-born Japanese, on charges of treason. According Io the FBI, Kawakita served as a foreman and translated in a prisoner- of-war camp fur American soldiers in Japan during the war. forcing Americans to work long hours in a nickel mine with little food. A former army sergeant, William L. Bruce, of San Luis Obispo, who was a prisoner under Kawakitti, recognized Kawakita in a Los Angeles store and notified FBI agents.

(NEA Telephoto.) HANNIBAL, June Floodwaters pouring into the Missis sippi river, which already have made more than 20,000 homeless and have inundated nearly 50,000 acres of arm land, in eastern Missouri and vest-central Illinois, appeared 10- day to have reached a high point. Rivermen and U. S. engineers expressed belief that only further rains would aggravate the situation, but they also said that several river towns in Illinois and Missouri still faced serious flood conditions, despite the promise of receding waters. II.

S. Army Engineers and the Coast Guard had every available worker on the job in the flood area anil the American Red Cross had 50 staff workers and about GOO volunteers aiding the homeless. Water was eight to ten feet deep in the village of Alexandria, near Ihe Iowa line, the result of a levee break, and all residents have been evacuated. In Hannibal, a city of 20,000, the water covered nine blocks of the own's main street. thousand esidents of South Hannibal were jartially isolated.

No buses were op- See 20,000, T-5 THOUSANDS OUT IN PROTEST TO NEW LABOR ACT Work Stopp age A fects Steel Production In Pennsylvania; Union Officials Say Walkout "Unauthorized." SCORES POLICY OF GOVERNMENT Henry Wallace Says Common Man Is Looking More And More To Russia Kor Ideas, Help, And Inspiration. EDUCATION BILL PENDS IN HOUSE Measure To Provide Federal Aid To Schools Is Passed By Sub-Committee; Proponent, Says Enactment Would Hold Teachers In Profession. Speaks In City Friday War-Time General Will Address Reserves Here For Home Consumption To Consider End Of Sugar Ration NEWARK. X. June Henry A.

Wallace said last night that because of United States policies In foreign countries, "The common man more and more looks to Russia for ideas, help, and Inspiration," Leaders of "the masses of people in Europe will not join in a war against Russia which they know is absolutely unnecessary," Wallace (old an nuciience. at the Mosque theater. "They certainly do not want the Communists or Russia to take over Europe, but they fear our method may be working tn that direction simply because our war emphasis causing so many millions of men all over the world to work in the munitions factories and serve in the army." The New Jersey Independent Citizens League which sponsored Wallace's visit here announced S5.200 had been collected for a fund ic make Wallace a. presidential candidate "if not of the Democratic party, then of Ihe people's parly." Confidence in Madame Do Guessor's ability to find anything was considerably lessened when she lost whole week iryin' to find a vacant himie. WASHINGTON.

June The House Banking committee approved today a measure to end sugar rationing for home consumption. Chairman Wolcott said that the decision was by an "overwhelming" vole, although not unanimous. The uill was introduced bj Rep Gamble IR-N. It wouW have no effect upon price control ol sugar, nor would it directly affect rationing of for induMmi use. Under Hie present law, ration ing of sugar would expire October 31.

However, the existing statute authorizes the Secretary of cullure to continue inventory control of sugar until March SI II he deems it necessary. Wolcoll said that IMS as Mirancf of House action on the bill within the next two or three days. Colonel Samuel L. Mccrosliey. deneral Staff Corps, will be the principal speaker at a meeting nf the (iaston County lie- serve (Ifficcrs Association on Friday iiiRhf, his topic to be "Universal Col.

McCroskey, painUo came from the monnUilns of Ten- newer and North Carolina, is a native of Washington. A graduate of Washington State College, hr bus been in the regular ariny since the last war. when he served at onetime as General John J. Pcrshing's aide de campe. During World War II, he ro.

to the rank of brigadier general and commanded the 55th Anti-Aircraft Ninth U. Artny. Following the Battle of the Bulge- in which his brigade took part in the defense of the northern flank he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff under Air Marshal Tedder, Royal Alt Force, in Ihe Allied Air WASHINGTON. June SEiialor Smith IR-N. J.I said in- day thai a pending bill to authorize 5300,000,000 a year in federal school aid to slates would lielp stem Ihe trend of leachcrs into better payin; jobs.

Smith is a member of the Senate Public Welfare sub-coniniiltee, which late yesterday approved the measure ratling for a minimum grant of So for each school ag; child. "More and more teachers are caving their profession because aries in many states are so inadequate," Smith told reporter, "t.r.ri all the evidence shows that the number taking training for teaching getting smaller nil the for he same reason. "The lime has come when the 'ederal government should take a land in reversing this deplorable situation." Senator Ives (R-N. Y.I. also .1 member of the suD committee agreed with Smith that the propos ed federal aid program would maki it possible to increase teachers' sal aries.

"But it won't by any means solve the teacher shortage problem. vcs slid in a separate Interview "The bill just dnesn't provide enougl money to do that" In announcing of Ihr Mib-commiltef, chairman Aikcn lold reporters there is "no question" that the full conimiltec will okay the hill shortly. Aikrn prrdictrrl that Ihe Icsiv lation will come up for ariion in Sec EDUCATION HILL, l'-5 UNIONTOW.V, June stoppages among soft coil miners protesting labor lefis- lation before Congress spread to 20 mines employing 11,201 men today as AFL-Uniled Mine Workers officials pondered their strategy in the idleness Ihey termed "unauthorized." The stoppares were scattered through the three counties that comprise the heart of an extremely rich southwestern Pennsylvania bituminous Fay- cite and Washington. Two mines voted to resume work, after being idle over the weekend. They were the Gates mine of the H.

C. Prick Coal and Coke employing 400, and the Kyle mine of same company employing 600. They account for a combined daily production of 5,600 Urns. Among the closed mines was the world's largest, the famed Robena mine of the Frick Company which employes 1,800 miners and has a normal daily production of 10,000 tons. Some of the other larger pits affected range from 2,000 tons to 000 tons in output.

Without exception, all of the larg- mines are "captive" ines whose production goes to eel plants and never sees the pen market. The U. S. Steel one ot steelmakers involved, reported It was losing 25,000 Ions of coal daily, 5,000 tons short of the lotal used each 24 hours at the Clair- lon Coking Works, which supplies 80 per cent of the coke used by the company's Pittsburgh district plants. President William Bynes of UMW District 4 called the work stoppages unauthorized" and added: "All I know is the miners are protesting the (Hartley-Taft) labor bill." He said his staff was "looking the situation over.

Io see how to act." The Hartley-Taft bill, expected to each President Truman's desk soon, could presumably outlaw any coal strike when the mines pass out of sovernment control at the end of he month. Negotiations between UMW President John L. Lewis and operators to rcplnce Ihe current government contract now are at a standstill. UNITED EUROPE MARSHALL GOAL Secretary Of State Approves United States Ot" Europe Within Framework Of United Nations. Defense Command.

Supreme Head- q'liirtcrs. Following the war. Col. McCroskey was given Ihe command of Biarritz American University on he South Atlantic const of France, i fi.T. University set up by the War Department to orcupy tlir redoploy- ir.c male ami female officers and enlisted personnel.

Col. MrCroskcy holds his commission in the CraM Artillery Corps and as a graduate tn mechanical ciiqlnrerhig. lie been an iiv.lru- tnentol force in the development and u'-c of various anti-aircraft nrtillfty equipment. He is a highly decorated officer holding awards from three foreign countries as well as numerous awards from the U. S.

Army Col. McCrofkey. a member of the plans and training staff of the Army Ground Forces, which Is making plans to carry out the universal military training in the event Congress passes the bill, should be heard with a great, deal of Interest by the members of the locnl chapter. Railroad Bill Approval Expected Asks For Passage Of Bui winkle Act WASHINGTON, Senator Krcd (U-Kan) expressed hope today lli.il the Senate will piss by mid-week his bill to exempt the railroads from anil- Iriist laws (or rate-making purposes. The measure would require Interstate Commerce Commission approval of any rale agreements.

Opponents of the legislation, which Senator Kusscll (D-Oal said "flraily mil plainly flimt- nitrs the anti-trust lans so far as Ihe railroads arc concerned." planned a Icnglhy campaign of oratory against it. But Russell, who held the (lour (or about three and a half houts until the Senate recessed yesterday, denied that a filibuster is in progress. Reed said tic has assurances See RAILROAD BILL, WASHINGTON. June Secretary of Stale Marshall has expressed general approval of a resolution Io pul Congress on icc- ord as favoring creating of a United States of Europe within the framework of the United Nations. "Of course the.

United Stales wants a Europe which is not divided igainst lt.fc!f, a Europe which is bet- than that it replaces." Marshall "Only RS we cau inspire hope of that can we expert men to endure what must be endured and make the cicat eflorts which must be made if wars are to be avoided and civilization to survive in Europe. "But we should make clear that it is not our purpose to impa-e the peoples of Europe any particular form of political or economic association. The future organisation of Europe mu he determined by the rcoplr: of Europe." Chairman Van- drnlsrrc iK-Michi of Ihe Senate foreign Helalions Committee. In rrsn-nisr to a iconest for his on Ihe rcsclutiofi snomnrrd by Senators (D-Arkt Thomas ifl-Utahl. A simiUir resolution lias iieeu In- trcduced in the House by Rep.

BO--ES The Fulbtight-Thomas-Bogss proposal, if adopted by the Senate and House, would constitute simply an expression of congressional opin- UNITED EUROPE. Page.