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River Stages Level Lock and Dura pool 418.61 Tallwater 398.JO ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH (Established January 15,1836) Vol. CXI, No. 19 food River to provide Water For Harvester Extension of Mains Under Agreement With City Feb. 5. Wood Co plant, to be constructed near wood River, under an agreement i Monday night by City I Council.

Mayor Lavier Humphrey read I lh agreement signed by R. C. Archer vice-president of Harvester Co 'which stated that the com- would pay the same rate as pany residents of the city. The Harvest- ALTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1948 Member of The Associated Press Sc Per Copy Weather Forecast Rain Clumging to Snow; Colder U.S.Offieefor Apprenticeship Training Opens Will Guide Management and Labor in Southern Illinois Ship Breaks in Two in Alaska of 496 Known Safe et Co. also agrees to continue its natronage of the city water department until the bonds issued for the are retired.

Residents of the city now pay minimum $2.50 quarterly for water. Under the new setup the minimum charge will be unchanged but for the same amount of money users will receive 1000 more I gallons. I The Harvester Co. asks that the be completed by April, when the company feels it I will be ready for its required water upply. In asking for approval of the Humphrey said that the would result in "one of River's biggest booms, but no of the boom will be for possibly 15 years." City Attorney F.

J. Manning ex- I plained that the extension would I be financed by issuance of water I revenue bonds, and no general tax- of property will be necessary. The council instructed the water to advertise for to bids on $300,000 bonds. In- Jstruction to the department came a 40-minule discussion of the which was approved unanimously. Under the agreement, cheapest Irate for the Harvester Co.

would be 9 cents per 1000 gallons for any over 100,000,000 gallons. The council took no action on the by the mayor that four land a half to five miles of city water (ere of steel, Instead of cast iron, land Humphrey maintains that they outmoded and near ruin. AT LEAST THEY'LL HAVE These sacks all contain shoes for the UNRRA clothing collection in Alton and vicinity. Boys who attend the vocational school on Cut street volunteered in unloading trucks as they were driven up to the box-car spotted on tracks there. The car was fully loaded and a surplus accumulated which will be trucked to Illiopolis ordnance depot where sorting and final packing will be done before the articles are sent overseas for foreign photo.

Area Clothing Campaign May Yield Two Carloads Can't See Way to CutWeek, Boost Pay 9 WesternSays In a statement to employes, dated Feb. 4, Western Cartridge C.v declares "wage negotiations are not then lists "facts explaining why we do not at this time see our way clear to offer a change in our work week or an Increase in. wages." The company statement foilow- ed a recent announcement by AFL end affiliated organizations it had asked the NLRB to com a "strike vote because wage negotiations at Western "had gotten The company's statement which posted in the plant: "TO ALL WESTERN EMPOYEES: "We are in receipt of a copy of a letter dated Feb. 2, 1946, by the American Federation of Labor and Affiliated Organizations notifying the National Labor Relations Board of the Union's intent; that iduct Jap Guard Gets 30 Years Labor For Atrocities YOKOHAMA, Feb. 5 Kitaro lithe Bull) Ishida today was of having committed atrocities I against American prisoners of war land was sentenced to 30 years at labor.

It was the second lightest sen- jtence in six war crimes convictions in Japan. Two Japanese were I sentenced to death, two to life 1m- ipnsftunent and one to 20 years. Prosecution had asked the death penalty. Ishida was not ac- caused any POW I death Ishida, a guard at Hirohata pris- Osaka, was convict- crue1 inn and brutal soldiers includ- Seld Terre U.S.Scrapping 6000 Planes Germany. Feb.

5. which eonsid obsolete and have USe lclats at sald belng broken lng FortreSi and 36 rators glant bombers i lverized Hltler defenses long range. Brieker Files to Ohio Senate Race this; plant '-jtui-. 'M reqjiestirig'the National LabbirRe- lations 'Board to "conduct the strike vote immediately" in order attempt to enforce the demanc for a change in the present schedule, and a wage increase. "Wage negotiations are not closed.

The plant committee has been assured that we will negotiate on an adjustment in wages prior to reducing the work week. "In brief, here are the facts which we have given to the plant committee of the American Federation of Labor and affiliated or- grnizations explaining why we do not at this time see our way clear to offer a change in our work week or an increase in wages. We trust that you will give them youi careful 'consideration and in a truly democratic way express your will in this matter when you have the opportunity to do so "There is no job assurance in an unsound business. FACTS "ABOUT OUR Tlv costs of raw materials, supplies tools and equipment have in creased more than 50 percent since 1941, yet, our selling prices wen fixed and limited by the O.P.A. a March, 1942.

Our cost of pro ducing finished goods has mon tlan doubled. On an there has been a decrease in pro ductivity per man-hour. Sine V- Day we have operated on an unsatisfactory basis; no improve ircnt in sight. Materials are in crcasingly scarce an'd uncertain substitutes run costs up. "ABOUT YOUR WAGES AND COST OF Between Jan uary, 1941 and October, 1945, aver age base rates have increased percent; average take-home pa increased 58.1 percent; cost of llv earvnf notlce wlth the sec- I' She St ate toda that he would Iforu Republi nomination lor primar y.

ln the Mav served three con- of Ohio. ban but that dldn 't make 1 court Dela Ros sen Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Partner Wac Wed For Tenth Time It was the tenth marriage for the bride, first for the bridegroom, when Clarence Stahl, 39, and Mrs. Carrie Wells Jones, 43, both of Alton, were wed by Justice Hawkins Monday afternoon at his cpurt- room office in City Hall. Mrs.

Stahl is a former Wac. She enlisted early in the war period and served with rank of sergeant. Stahl, an ex-serviceman, Is a veteran of over- sects service. Alton and Wood River township onations to the Victory Clothing ollection promise to mount to two arloads, and the goals set by the ommittees In charge of the drive ill be exceeded. An initial carload of clothing was ihipped Monday evening.

After it )ecame apparent Monday afternoon that the capacity of the first car was to be far exceeded, Chairman Ewing of the Alton commlt- placed aij order for a second 'reight car. The second car was spotted early on the siding at the Voca- ional school on Cut street, and oading of clothing bundles left over from yesterday's car was be- un. At 11 a. m. the big truck- of Alton Box Board Co.

rolled up to the loading platform with today's first pick-ups from the collection stations. The trailer was believed to bear almost a half car- oad of bundles, and. the driver ire- jorted to Chairman Ewing that 3undles at five collection stations remained to be picked up this afternoon. To serve a district covering all of southern Illinois, Including East St. Louis, an office of the apprentice training service under the United State's Department of Labor Is being set Up In the United States Employment Service quarters, Terminal building, 7 Alby.

Albert Lowe, employed many years here as a painter, then- ing a position in St. Louis and Little Rock, with the apprentice training service before he entered the Seabees, has been as; signed charge of the office here following his discharge from service. The service Is subsidiary to the Federal Committee on Apprenticeship, composed of equal representations of management and labor and set up some time ago to promote development of apprenticeship and training programs. While created some time before the training program Included in the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the Apprentice Training Service now is shaping its course to assist and guide both employers and employes in setting up training plans Which would come within the scope of the GI adjustment setup. Announcement of establishment of the office was made by J.

Vernon Johnston, field supervlso)f for the Apprentice Training Service, and Edward C. Madsen, regional supervisor, both with offices in Chicago, during a visit here. Johnston pointed Out the service already had helped area committees of labor and management set up programs of apprenticeship under carpenters, Ask UNO To Free Them Of French, British Russia Moves to Invoke Veto Power in Row Over Greece Syria, Lebanon Predict White House Will OK Higher Prices CIO Warned by S. Following Meat Walkout plasterers, lathers trades in the area. and painters vttt bftibrouglit jthft shlp ping, depot 5 today the collection frdni the Bethalto area of Wood River township.

This, with the afternoon collection in Alton, seemed to assure the second car would be well filled by time loading was completed. In order to expedite shipment of the clothing bundles to the Illinois assembly point, the Illiopolis ordnance depot, the Alton and Wood River committees late last week decided to join in filling a car. At that time it peared the joint total would be but little more than a single car would hold, and that any excess would be so small it could be trucked to Illiopolis. Late donations to the drive exceeded all expectations, and, when this became apparent yesterday afternoon, the trucking plan was dropped in favor of sending the second shipment by rail. Among those in the process of establishment are electrical workers, printers, bricklayers and plumbers.

The service will assist labor and management in setting up programs for any kind of employment requiring six months or more of training, Johnston explained, regardless of whether it is recoe ts-jjtf The Alton office Is the foiU such center established In nilnbL, outside Chicago. Others are ai Springfield, Peorla and said he expected his dutiei to keej) him in the field much ol the time, but he could be reached at his quarters in the USES office after next Monday. Asks Eligible Vets File for Training Veterans who plan to 'go to school, take-on-the-job or apprentice training under the G. I. Bill of Rights within the next few months, should Me immediately for a cer- Jtt! £.

ellgll 11 to Price Control OfOldHouses Is Voted Down ficer By JOHN M. HIOHTOWER LONDON, Feb. 5. and Lebanon haiWed the United Nations Security a new explosive Issue-today, asking withdrawal of all British and French troops from, Levant, while the Council still sought to unravel the tangle resulting from a Russian attempt to use the veto power in the Soviet-British disagreement over Greece. The veto issue, raised for the first time before the council, blocked action on the Greek question.

It also required the council to decide whether Britain and Russia could vote- on the question of whether British troops in Greece were endangering world peace, as charged by Russia. The British have demanded complete exoneration of their actions in Greece. Syria and Lebanon, former French mandates in the strategic Middle East, based their case on the claim that British and French troops have remained in their territories "many months'" after the end of, with Germany and Japan and that "some of these troops have been a constant menace to the peace and security in this region." A meeting of representatives of the five major Russia, France, China and the United called at the British foreign office today specifically discuss the world food situation and possible United on it But jBorne-, officials speculated that tlffi meeting might afford cetor the Key nations; on- Couricfl to talk outjpthe threatened impasse. Shaken by disagreement, the Council scheduled another meeting for 8:30 p. m.

(2:30 P- m. Alton time) tonight to decide formally whether Russia can invoke her veto power. The veto issue was raised by Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet vice com- misar of foreign affairs, after seven members of the 11-nation Security Council said last night in a heated, debate that Russia's charges against Great Britain were unfounded. French authorities estimate about 5000 French troops and 20,000 British troops are in the le- vant CHICAGO, Feb. 5.

The CIO representatives of some 3000 packinghouse workers who stopped work at the Wilson and Co, plant yesterday have been advised that any further work stoppage will "necessitate" a government Investigation. Gayle G. Armstrong, representing the U. S. Department of Agriculture at seized meat packing concerns, told officials of the CIO United Packinghouse Workers: "The reason the government took over was to obtain an much heeded production of meat for the armed services and civilians.

Incidents such as occurred today will delay that return to full production." Any further 'walkouts such as the CIO members staged yesterday to attend a mass meeting, Armstrong said, would "necessitate his calling for an investigation to determine whether the war labor disputes act had been violated." Under the Smlth-Connally act, strikes against the government are considered a criminal offense, punishable by fine and jail sentence. The workers who left their jobs to attend the mass meeting passed a resolution demanding that the government "make good on its promises that the fact finding panel issue an early Parks, president of local 25 of the UPW, said the workers moved out of the Wilson plant "spontdneously" and returned to their jobs after 15 minutes. Company spokesmen said they were gone 45 minutest By WILLIAM NEEDHAH WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. administration decision that the nation can afford to pay some higher prices In return for Industrial peace and all-out production appeared in the making today.

A high government official, who can not be Identified further, predicted the While House will Issue an announcement today or tomorrow, detailing changes In the present "hold-the-line" price policy. Although the modification will be aimed primarily at settlement of the 15 day old steel strike, this official said, its terms also will apply to other major Industries i- volved In wage disputes. Key figure in any such revision of President Truman's, wage-price orders is OPA Administrator Chester Bowles, who presumably outlined his position to the President during a 50-minute conference yesterday. Bowles, It is understood, argued for an across-the-board policy change, as against "flexible" price control advocated by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder.

Bowles and Snyder reportedly were assigned by Mr. Truman to work out a steel price formula which would enable the industry to settle its wage dispute with the CIO. Bowles has contended that any special concession on prices for the steel Industry start a series of "emergency" concessions which would threaten OPA's whole system of price controls. There were Indications that the price chief was beginning to win Snyder over at least in part of his views. It was thought likely that the wage-price situation might te brought up at a cabinet meeting set for noon.

Some persons said the first the form of a statement might come Wednesday with specific details to be made public later. 185 Army Men On Liner Yukon Aground 40 FromSeward I 1 I Coast Guard Cutter Takes Off Women and Children Site Selection of the Illinois Veterans' Commission. Wandling has at his office, 200A East Broadway, the application blanks necessary. He advises that veterans who visit him to- inquire about the matter bring with them a certified copy of their discharge certificates. 21 Ships Docking WithGPs Today WASHINGTON, Feb.

5. The House banking committee today rejected, 14 to 11, an administration proposal to put price ceilings on old houses. The committee, however, left In the bill by Rep. Patman (D-Tex) provision for price controls on new homes. The price ceiling on old dwellings, as well as new ones, was proposed by Wilson W.

Wyatt, newly appointed housing administrator. The Patman bill had stipulated that after a certain future date the first sale of an old house would be the celling price. During housing emergency it could s.Il for no higher price except to cover costs of any Improvements. The committee did not reach a vote today on an amendment prepared by Patman to prevent, during the emergency, the construction of any house costing more than $6000. Chairman Sponce (D-Ky) aid he expected the committee to complete Us work tomorrow and send a housing bill to the House.

Cemetery Picketed-by'Unibia In Digger Strike at Centralia By The Associated Press Eleven transports carrying at to nix CENTRALIA, Feb. 5 Centralla's municipal cemetery was picketed for the first time today as a strike of 20 city street, refuse collection and cemetery workers continued Into Its fifth day In a demand for union recognition. John La Rowe, representative of the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL). sold: "I will make any reasonable concession in order to reach an graves or work an is agreement, However, the men will maintain their picket lines at the city yards and cemetery and.will protest any attempt to collect garbage, dig streets until reached," City Attorney Robert confirming La Rowe's statement, expressed hope for an early settlement. There have been no burials at the city cemetery since the strike started last week.

least 5750 service personnel are scheduled to arrive today at two east coast ports while at least 4477 veterans are due to debark from 10 vessels at three west coast ports. Ships and units arriving: At New York Bardstown Victory from Marseille, 1033 troops, Including 758th Field Artillery Battalion; 787th Engineer Petroleum Distributing Company: one civilian. Kokomo Victory from Marseille, 833 troops, including 81st Field Artillery Battalion; 402nd Quartermaster Truck Company; 683th Quartermaster Bale Depot Company. Waycross Victory from Le Havre, 648 troops. Including headquarters company of Second Battalion.

302 Infantry Regiment. Betty Zane from Marseille, 946 troops Including 17th Armored Engineer Bat- tallap; Armored Field Artillery Battalion. Howard Kelly from Marseille, 858 troops, Including Companies and of 309th Infantry Regiment, (due originally Feb. 3). Miscellaneous troops on following' Frostburg Victory from Naples, 1551 Pine Bluff Victory from Calcutta, 24; Andrew Hamilton from Casablanca S3 (due originally yesterday).

At on following: William Moody. William Brewster and Hiram Blngham. one each. (All due originally yesterday), At San Diego Minesweepers VMS 281 and 2B6, 12 navy (due originally At -Los Mihlel from Oki- naSva. 520 miscellaneous personnel.

At San Francisco Miscellaneous on following: Jerald from Samar, 3186 navy; Cherbourg)! from Okinawa. 38 marines; Chaffe from Pearl Harbor, 32 navy; LCS ID 3 from Pearl Harbor, 27 navy; LST 734 from Pearl Harbor, navy; Riverside from Pearl Harbor, 1427 navy and marines; Vlnton from Pearl Harbor, 206 navy. FarmWorker Seriouslylnjured By Enraged Bull LONDON, Feb. 5 UP) The 13- member United Nations interim committee today approved a recommendation to put the organization's permanent home in the Stamford Greenwich -Westchester area of Connecticut and New York. Australia protested, stijl urging San Francisco for the site.

Col. W. R. Hodgson, the Australian delegate, said after the closed meeting that he would ask rejection of the recommendation tomorrow when it is presented to the full 51-member committee on headquarters. He added that he would put up a fight for San Francisco.

The KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 5 OP) grounded liner Yukon broke in two under the buffeting of gale and wave last night after 47 of the 496 persons aboard had been taken off by power boats operating from the coast guard cutter Onondaga. The 47 were women and children. The Onondaga's brief message about the breaking of the vessel, which ran agorund in Johnstone Bay while outward bound from Seward to Seattle, carried no mention of loss of life. But the little 165-foot craft, fighting a combination of 45-mile wind, 15-foot waves and Icy Alaskan darkness, said the weather seemed to be moderating slightly and the wind was shifting to a more favorable quarter.

There were some 185 officers and men from Fort Richardson, bound home for separation, and a crew of 125 among the 496 aboard the Yukon when It left Seward Toward the bleak Kenal Peninsula from many points of the compass surged other ships to aid the, Onondaga, and the army's great aircraft were to wing in from the extended Aleutian chain to lend a hand. Gen. Delos Emmons at Anchorage ordered all B-17 Flying Fortresses equipped with power rescue boats to join the life saving attempt The Onondaga's report the crero In Poland Stage New Arrests By LARRY ALLEN WARSAW, Feb. 2. (Delayed) W) who may not be quoted Authorize Service Button For Merchant Marine WASHINGTON, Feb.

5. President Truman today ed the issuance of an honorabii service button for wartime servlcfl In the merchant marine. The blem wjll differ from the buttons for veterans of the a forces but the final design been released. Arthur Helton, employe of the Clifford Tober Stock Farm near Kemper, was in a critical condition at Alton Memorial Hospital today, the result of a severe goring by a bull at the farm Monday. Helton sustained a six-inch gash on hjs neck, the wound barely miss- Ing his jugular vein, a severe wound to the right side of his chest and other contusions and abrasions.

His physician worked with him most of yesterday and all last night in an attempt to keep him alive. He was being administered oxygen and blood plasma. Helton was attacked by the bull v. hile he was cleaning- out a stock pen. He rolled beneath a manger to escape the enraged animal and was found there by Tober.

Yamashita'sFate UptoMacArthur TOKYO, Feb 5. Iff 1 U. S. supreme court rejection of Lt. Gen.

Tomoyukl Yamashlta's death-sentence appeal leaves final decision up to General MacArthur and confirms that "the trial of war criminals deflntely is a responsibility of the military. Allied headquarters officers, reporting these conclusions today, said that MacArthur has had the lecords of Yamashita's Manila trial foi some days. There was no Indication when he might act, and he has made no comment. Medal Winning Filipino Put on Trial as a Spy MANILA, Feb. 5, Marcos Abad, Filipino guerrilla captain, received a Bronze from General MacArthur a year ago for helping the American Rangers liberate Allied prisoners from Cabanatuan.

Yesterday, bill! In uniform, he appeared in people's court to plead iuoeent to three counts of being a Japanese spy and Informer A little earlier In the war, Stamford-Greenwich-Westchester area was recommended by the UNO site Inspection committee. Atom Broadcast Frightens Paris PARIS, Feb. 5, recovered today from a radio hangover in which actors of the ether terrified realistic the city with fantasy about a too- atomic bomb experiments In the Pacific getting beyond control and "blowing the earth to pieces." Radios in the United States caused a similar panic a few years ago with a play about an "invasion from Mars." The Paris version was a play in news commentator style In which broadcaster Juan Noucher cautioned: "The people of the world are asked to remain calm." He asserted that explosions caused by "chain reactions" were beyond control. Police stations and newspapers soon were deluged with calls. Parents rushed to motion picture houses to get their children before "the explosions" spread to Paris.

by name reported drive by Poland's today a new secret police, Admiral Leigh Dies LONG BEACH, Feb. 5, UP) Admiral Richard Henry Leigh, 75, who was commander In chief of the fleet and chairman of the navy board in Washington before his retirement, is dead. He succumbed at the naval hospital here late yesterday and, following private funeral services this afternoon, will be burled in Arlington National Cemetery. He had been hospitalized since last Sept. 3.1 strike.

whose net already may have swept from 75,000 to 100,000 persons into jails and prisons. Official accounts of the police activity were not available and Brig. Gen. Stanislaw Radklewicz, chief of the ministry of public security, repeatedly has refused to see reporters. Newspaper reports are censored closely and all incoming and outgoing messages are scrutinized.

Gerald K. Keith, American charge d'affairs, relayed to Foreign Minister Wincenty Rzymowski three days ago the statement of Secretary of State Byrnes Jan. 31 that Polish security police appeared to be implicated in a number of recent "murders" of prominent' politicians. (Byrnes said he had told the Polish government It was expetced to take necessary steps "to assure the freedom and security which are essential" to holding free elections.) Many of the thousands Imprisoned have been held six or eight months without charges. A high government official acknowledged that the roundup of persons suspected of crimes and subversive activities had been so extensive it was impossible to index them all.

U. S. May Intervene in Cleveland Press Strike CLEVELAND, Feb. 5 possibility of intervention by President Truman and Gov. Frank J.

Lausche was projected into the Cleveland newspaper strike today ns efforts were pushed to end the month-old dispute. The strike began on Jan. 5 on the Plain Dealer, the News and the Press over an AFL-pressmen demand for wage increases of $14.65 weekly for day and $14.65 for night workers. The publishers have ordered to raise the present $53 weekly scule $10.86. Efforts of Mayor Thomas A.

Burke, federal conciliators and other so far have failed to end the Seattle said-early tional information had ceived, dtfn, chiefly to culty of 'comm from KetchiSan the On3 Meanwhile," a specially-euptied first aid train was to leave Anchorage at 7 a. (GST), bound for Seward, some four hours distant The train was loaded with army iood, clothing and medical supplies, with a first aid crew of some 200 persons aboard. The train was being rushed to Seward to the event of arrival of the wreck. Several additional ships were expected at the scene of the wreck "within a matter of the coast guard reported. The 360-foot steamer Yukon, built in Philadelphia in 1899, had been in the Alaska service for some 20 years.

She went aground on Rocky Shore, 40 miles south of Seward, Alaska, early yesterday. Vote Investigation Of Truman Aide Million Mexicans Quit Work In Anti-Fascist Demonstration MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 tffl More than a million persons stopped work today throughout Mexico In an "anti-Fascist" demonstration ordered by the Mexican Labor Confederation (CTM). CTM reported that the work stoppage took effect at 9 a. m.

(CST) in all states, two hours ahead of the pre-announced start- ing time, and that the sltdown would begin at noon In Mexico City. The idle period will last four hours in states and one hour In the capital. Union officials reported that 1,250,000 workers were participating In the demonstration, which being, staged In connection with the nation's observance of Constitution Day. By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.

An inquiry into former business and banking activities of Commodore James Kimble Vardaman, President Truman's naval aide, was voted today by the Senate banking committee. Vardaman has been nominated for a 14 year term as a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. The inquiry was requested by Senators Donnell (R-Mo) and Taft (R-Ohio) and was supported by a 7-4 vote. A subcommittee to be named later will conduct the investigation. At the same time the full committee delayed action on appointment of a second presidential adviser, George E.

Allen, to a two- year term as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. This action came as the Senate naval committee met to continue its hearings into the fitness of another presidential nominee, Edwin W. Pauley. Pauley, former Democratic national committee treasurer and reparations commissioner, was called buck before the latter group for additional questioning about his appointment to be undersecretary of the navy. Silas Strawn Dies, 79, Noted Chicago Lawyer PALM BEACH, Feb.

5 UPt heart ailment proved fatal yesterday to 79-year-old Silas Hardy Strawn, noted Chicago attorney and former president of the American Bar Association and the Chamber of Commerce of the United Slates. Strawn was apparently In good health until he was stricken. Ha is survived by his widow, the former Margaret Stewart, and two daughters. He arrived With his wife by autompbUe.