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the the FRIDAY, APRIL, 18, 1952 BLYTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE THREE Is U.S. Close to Dictatorship? Editors Want Truman To Clarify Statement About Seizing Press By JACK RUTLEDGE WASHINGTON Editors of leading American newspapers today hoped for White House clarification of President Truman's news conference remark which implied he felt he had the right to seize newspapers and radio stations, as he did the steel industry, if it would best serve the country. Some of the editors who were Arkansas News Briefs-. Boost in Pay Granted Labor At Pine Bluff By The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK---Common laborers at the government cOnstruction project near Pine Bluff have been granted a wage increase for which they twice struck. Col.

Hans W. Holmer. Little Rock distriet U. S. Engineer, all nounced yesterday that a boost from 871 cents to one dollar an hour had been approved by the Construction Industry Stabilization Commission, a section of the Wage Stabilization Board.

Holmer said the raise is retroactive to Feb. 1. Death Investigated Death Investigated HOT SPRINGS- An investigation is under way here, into the death of Forrest Irwin, 59, who died Wednesday night of a head injury. Rorex Named Justice LITTLE ROCK--Former U. S.

Attorney Sam Rorex of Little Rock has been named a special associate' justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court at request Gi Chief Justice Griffin Smith. Sparks for Mayor FORDYCE Mayor Robert Sparks has filed AS a candidate for a second term nomination. So far he has no opposition. Rent Protest Rejected MAGNOLIA The Magnolia City Council has rejected a protest against construction of a -rent federal housing project here. Enjoiner Issued LITTLE ROCK Chancellor Frank H.

Dodge has temporarily enjoined the state from installing furnishings in the new Game and Fish Commission building on the capitol grounds. Negro to Examination -Wilson Wright, 19- year -old Negro, who is accused of killing a Sparkman farmer March 26, has been committed to State Hospital, Little Rock, for mental examination. 'Best' Funeral Director LITTLE -Bob James of Searcy has been named outstanding funeral director. Negro Deaths Dora Ann Thompson Services for Dora Ann Thompson, 75, will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Burton Spur Baptist Church by Rev.

S. A. Parker. Burial will be in Burton Spur Cemetery with Horne Funeral Home in charge. She died Wednesday at her home in Promised Land.

Surviving are one daughter. Jenny Taylor of Blytheville and one brother. Commodity 7 And Stock Markets- New York Cotton Open High Low 1:15 May 4080 4088 4061 4065 July 3991 4001 3977 3985 Oct. 3682 3705 3680 3693 Dec. 3651 3675 3650 3658 New Orleans Cotton Open High Low 1:15 May 4080 4080 4061 4077 July 3982 4000 3974 3981 Oct 3679 3702 3679 3690 Dec 3646 3667 3646 3667 Soybeans High Low Close May 286 2814: 28434 July 284 283 Sept Nov Livestock NATIONAL STOCKYARDS, Ill.

interpre-9-(USDA) -Hogs active, 180 lbs up 25 to higher than Thursday; lighter weights 25 50 higher; sows barely steady 25 lower; choice Nos. 1, 2 and 180-220 lbs 17.25-40: several loads mostly choice Nos. 1 and 2 200- 225 lbs 17.50; top to packers 17.25; 240-270 Ibs full width of cholce grade 16.25-17.15: 280-350 lbs 15.50- 16.10; 150)170 lbs 15.25-16.75: 120- 140 lbs 13.00-15.00: 100-110 lbs 11.50-12.75; sows 1-10 lbs down 4.75-15.50; mostly 15.25 down; heavier sows 13.25-14.25; stags 11.50-13.50; boars 10.00-12.50. Cattle 400, calves 400; generally a cleanup session; steers and heifers confined to few small lots, largely commercial to high good at 27.00-32.00; early sales utility and commercial cows steady 22.00-23.50; canners and cutters slow; few 16.50-21.00; bulls steady; utility and commercial 23.00-26.50: cutter bulls 19.00-22.00; vealers steady; good demand all interests; high choice and prime vealers 36.00-38.00: good and choice 30.00- utility and commercial 21.00- 28.00; sorting a little less strict due to active demand. Sheep 400; not enough done establish market; undertone weak to lower on lambs; no change aged sheep; few slaughter ewes 12.00-14.00; culls 9.00-11.00.

452 Are X-Rayed As 2-Day Clinic Opens in Manila A total of. 452 persons were registered yesterday at the opening of a two-day free chest -ray clinic in Manila. Mississippi County Tuberculosis Association officials said nearly 600 persons were expected to be, x-rayed in Manila today. An extra day was added to the Manila clinic this year, they said. because in just one day last year a total of 665 persons were x-rayed.

There will be no clinic tomorrow, and the mobile unit will operations in Leachville Monday when a two-day clinic opens there. Beginning Wednesday, the unit will begin a five-day clinic in Blytheville, where annual countywide series will end April 29. Registrars for the Manila clinic were Mrs. W. R.

Brown, chairman, Mrs. Ollie Mike. Mrs. Lucian Broom, Mrs. Dean Pierce, Mrs.

Harold Wall and Mrs. Erma Sinlions. Byrnes Blasts 'Mr. President' Truman Substitutes Fiction for History, He Says of Potsdam WASHINGTON (A') Jaines F. Byrnes today accused President Truman of spreading falschocds about him and of substituting "fictios for history" in describing U.

Russian relations in the dangerous months of the developing cold war. The South Carolina governor, who was Truman's secretary of state from 1915 until early 1947, plied in a scathing article published in Collier's magazine to statements President Truman made about him in the recent book "Mr. President." Byrnes went beyond denying---as he has done before-that he got a personal dressing down from the President right after the Mescow Conference of 1945. By President Truman's account, he read Byrnes a memo saying lie was tired of "babying the Sovicts." Byrnes said he never heard of any such memo, and then: 1. He charged that President Tru-, man was quick to use strong lauguage" against the Russians but "he did not provide the iron fist" to back up his words.

2. He said "the Soviets will welcome" the President's statement that this country was "almost forced to agree" at the Potsdam Conference right after Truman became President--to -to Russian occupation Poland and Polish occupation of Germany east of the Oder River. 3. He denied that the U. S.

was eager at Potsdam to get Russia into the war against Japan. Byrnes said he hoped the Japanese would surrender before Russia could enter the war. President Truman, he said, "led me to believe he shared my view." 4. Byrnes denied quitting as secretary of state because of any scrap with the President. He said he resigned solely because he sufl'ered from a heart ailment.

And he said that for al least two years after his resignation he and the President remained on cordial terms. STEEL Continued from Page 8) Arnall of "using his governmental office as a vehicle for anti-industry propaganda." He said a statement by Arnall calling the steel fight one "of the steel people against the public" is utter distortion of the truth and willful misrepresentation of the policies and actions of the steel industry." Hold That Line! White said the companies "have been fighting against inflation throughout this wage controversy." The industry stand, he declared, is that "the line" should be held in wages as well as prices. In New York, a steel industry spokesman described as 'just another red herring" CIO President Murray's charge that "the taxpayers" money is paying" for advertisements criticizing government seizure of steel plants. He said the charge was intended to "becloud" NOTICE Beginning this coming Monday, April 21, our new hours will be from 7:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the afternoon, Monday through Saturday. Langston Mc Waters Buick Co.

Walnut Broadway Phone 4555 Easy way to get up to more tire mileage CROSS-SWITCHING Tires wear differently on different wheels. By rotating your tires regularly, we'll help you spread the. wear evenly over all tires, including the spare. the 520 newsmen present at the conference yesterday protested afterward that if such power exists the nation is close to dietatorship. The explosive issue was touched off when the President was asked this question: "10 it is proper to seize the steel seize mills, the can you in your opinion, newspapers and stations?" Truman replied that under similar circumstances, the President of the United States has to act for whatever is for the best of the country.

That is the answer, he added. Power Is Implied Many editors promptly ted this as implying, if not specifically claiming, the power to seize newspapers and radio stations as he seized the strike-threatened steel industry last week. Reactions of editors here attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), many of whom were at the news conference. ranged from cries of dictatorship to belief the answer was merely unfortunate. Sample comments: E.

K. Gaylord of the Daily homan and Oklahoma City Times: "If the President could do that (seize newspapers), we're pretty close to dictatorship." low About Farmers? Alexander F. Jones, ASNE president and editor of the Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal: "If he has the power to seize steel mills, newspapers and radio, I see no reason why he does not have the right to seize farms on the basis that the cost of food is too high." Lester Markel, Sunday editor, York Times: steel mills are not organs of public opinion, but the newspapers are." Norman E. Isaacs, Louisville Times: "As between and newspapers, the simply are not parallel. I cases, question may have been phrased unfortunately, but the President answered in an even more unfortunate manner." The incident recalled the reaction that followed Truman's order to government agencies to "classify" information available for publication.

He gave civilian agencies -outside the Defense Department and the State Department, which already had the power--right to withhold from publication any information they consider "top or "confidential." a Blow to Freedom of Press Newspaper editors at that time attacked the move as a blow to freedom of the press, saying it could lead to covering up of mistakes by classifying information about such things as "top secret." Yesterday's news conference, the 300th since Truman became President, was on the whole good-natured, with frequent laughter. Highlights of Truman's answers to other questions: 1. "I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are a great many that, probably million people, who could have done the job better than I did it but I had the job and I had to do it and I always quote an epitaph on 2 tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, "Ie Done His Damnedest" "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." 02.

If the Russians. really want peace, they would sign an Austrian peace treaty and agree to the U.S. plan for limitation of armaments. 3. The great Midwest floods could have been prevented if the PickSloan flood control plan for the area had been put into effect.

Truman said governors of the flooded states had been dragging their feet for 25 years. 4. He laughingly knocked down a rumor he might teach history at the University of North Carolina after he retires. He said as an, ex-President he would be glad to give the country the benefit of his experience, as ex-President Hoover has PROPER INFLATION You can lose of the life of your tires through under inflation alone! We check inflation of all your tires, including the spare. This service is free.

SULLIVAN-NELSON SON POLITICS (Continued from Page 1) he is not going to run for President the moment he began by saying this year. governor He of is Illinois. secking reelection This left wide field open and Vice President Barkley, the -old youngster of the party. to span the breach. Barkley whipped the Democrats into A mild frenzy at the dinner by telling them their party is bound to win in November "because it deserves to win, because it is right." The vice president indicated to me that he has no present intention of announcing whether he is a This seemed to make Barkley, always a popular figure with the Democrats, the chief dark-borse: candidate 511 A campaign where there now is no dominant personality in preconvention speculation.

Harriman Makes Horriman, praised by every speaker as patriot who had spent 15 years in government service. bid for national recognition in A bouncing, televised speech. He snid foreign and domestic policies couldn't be divided, despite the fact his Republican opponculs already have begun to tee off on him because of his support of the Yalla agreements. GOP partisans insist these agreements gave Russia a vita! foothold in China. With the Courts Circuit (Criminal): Blan L.

Stiles, driving whlle under influence of intoxicating liquors, appealed from municipal court. A colony of 7,500 American flam-1 ingos has been reported living 011 the island of Great Inagua In the Bahamas. Today's DREIFUS SPECIAL 24-Pc. REFRESHMENT SET ATTRACTIVE FOUR COLOR FRUIT DECAL ONLY 189 SORRY, NO MAIL, PHONE, OR C.O.D. DREIFUSI Meet Dreifus Wear Diamonds 316 8 EST MEAN 5T.

STORES IN MEMPHIS, BLYTHEVILLE AND DIERSBURG Mrs. J. M. Lynch Dies in Little Rock LUXORA Services for Mrs. M.

Lynch. former Luxora resident who died this morning at the home of a daughter in Little Rock, will be conducted at 2 p.m. tomorrow nt the Baptist Church here by the Rev. Jce Pittman, pastor. Mrs.

Lynch was born and reared in Luxora and resided here until moving to Little Rock. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Hershel Moore of Russellville and Miss Loulse Lynch of Little Rock; a son, Dudley Lynch of Tucson, two sisters, Mrs. Arch Escue of Memphis and Mrs. Henry Escue of Dyersburg.

and two brothers, Charles Corkran of Memphis and Mose Corkran of Tennessee. Churchill Out of Bed WESTERHAM, Engind (P) A wArm, sunny spring day drew Prime Minister Winston Churchill out of his sickbed today to get back to the job of running Britain's government. the issues. Hill and Knowlton, public relations agency handling the industry's institutional advertising, said two advertisements have 'The first, which quoted appeared. paper editorials criticizing the gov.

ernment for the seizure, appeared in 74 daily newspapers in 26 cities. The second WAS printed in 72 papers in 27 cities. Any government decreed wage raise would be certain to send dustry attorneys into Federal Court to challenge its legality and to press for damages. Only 8 More Days! DOWN Delivers It! A WEEK Pays For It! Beautyrest Mattress or Box Spring No Carrying Charges During This Sale! Hubbard Son Phone Blytheville 4409 FURNITURE Ark. Frank Huffman Heads Steele School Board Frank Huffman, former Blytheville resident, has been re-elected president of the board of directors of Steele, Consolidated School District No.

R-V. He has served as president of the board for the past five years and has been a member of the board for 10 years. WAR WAR Fronts. RITZ THEATRE Manila, Ark. FRIDAY "THE SCARF" John Ireland Mercedes McCambridge SATURDAY "THE DALTON GANG" Don Red Barry SAT.

OWL, SHOW "THE MUMMY" Boris Karloff David Manners "FLAMING FEATHERS" Forrest Tucker, Sterling Hayden Arleen Whelan (Continued from Page 1) Sabres and about 60 MICs. On the ground, Communist patrols continued to feel out United Nations defenses. They concentrated 1 011 the Western and Central Attends Reading Clinic Rosa Montgomery, teacher of the third and fourth grades at the Armorel Negro School, attended the third annual reading clinio of the Division of Education of A. M. and N.

College at Pine Bluff yesterday, Planes Hunt Crash HALIFAX. N. S. (P)-Planes and ships dodged freakish weather off the Nova Scotia coast today searchIng for posible survivors for two Canadian Navy planes that apparently collided and crashed during fleet air arm maneuvers last night. NEW Air Conditioned By Refrigeration "Your Community Center" MANILA, ARK.

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