The Kingston Daily Freeman from Kingston, New York • Page 1

Weather Outlook Tonight Clour, cool tuilnyl 7 1 51 Detailed Bcport on First In Newt Local, Nnllonnl, County's Lending Advertising Medium VOL. LXXV1--No. 282 CITY OF KINGSTON, N. Yi, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 194-7. PRKJE I'MVR CENTS Hurricane Gold Damage Is Great Bard College, Kingston Commerce Group Plan Small Business Clinic Notch Road Job Is Bid by Upstate Highway Builder ill Pureitts Praise Sen.

Wickb fur His Assistance Gelling Action for Kccoiislniclioii Pressure by residents of SLony Clove rulatlvc to reconstruction at the "Natch Roucl," probubly will hit a hlfthcr pitch now thnt an upstate contracting (Irm bus bid in on the job for The thoroughfare regarded as a hazardous roucl over which a school bus is obliged tu travel has been the subject of nn extended and fiery controversy between parents and ofllcluls. The Greene county highway runs 2.9G miles from point just west of Edgcwoocl northeasterly to point north of Stony Clove. A a number of heated-meetings during which tempers flared, ami threats were made to keep pupils uway from school, application for stale action was directed to Senator A Wicks Kingston, who gave assurance the road would be ilxcd. Residents of the urea- involved, expressing warm feeling for the senator since the announcement about the bid having been received by the state, suld they felt certain that he would add his Influence to have the job started as soon as possible. -Parents arc anxious 1'or the road to be resurfaced and guard rails constructed before the severe winter weather sots In.

since several mishaps were reported by motorists sliding off the highway. They fear that If the school bus skids the lives of many children may be endangered. Although he was not contacted today, relative to the "Notch Koad" project. It Is Unown that Senator Wicks is Interested in speedy completion of It. Low bid on the job was furnished by the Triple Cities Construction Company of Binghamton for the $281,418.74 figure.

Other bids opened by the State on Wednesday were for road reconstruction In upper New York showed sharp competition, three contractorn being less than SGOO apart on the job of laying l.VO miles of road on Route 147 northward from Scotia. Low bid was $267.091.25 by S. A. Sullivan, of Cohoos. Other bids were for $267,461.25 and $267,660.

The state engineer's estimate was $268,000. Other reconstruction for which bldjt were opened are in Yates, Lawrence nntl Chenango counties. Series of Eight Meetings Is Proposed During Winter With Men of Great National Proniinence Part; Lasser Taking Under the sponsorship 'of Bard Anhandale-on-Hudson, and the- Kingston Chamber of Commerce a Small Business Clinic for the Hudson valley'is proposed for Kingston during the winter. J. K.

Lasser, of New York, noted certified public accountant and tax consultant and author of the annually best-selling tax classic, "Yolir Income Tax," is chairman of the committee of Bard trustees which has proposed the clinic for Kingston. The matter was presented to the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors through President'Harold V. Clayton and an invitation was sent to the Bard trustees to institute the clinic. A preliminary planning, meeting will be held Friday evening, October 10 af the Governor Clinton. Hotel.

Interested persons arc asked to attend. Problems will be explored and the proposals of local persons attending will be tabulated and used for final planning for the clinic. Met Witli.ComiMissioner A preliminary conference was held at Albany in August- by Bnrd College trustees Lasser and Richard Gruyer, Hurley, with Alfred Worsdcll, deputy New York State De- Ppartment Commerce and it is anticipated. that pj. this imp6rtant agency may be had to results of the W' Dale Swartzrriiller, regional representative of the Department of Commerce, Kingston office, is being kept informed of local developments, for the clinic.

The Bard -plan, includes bringing, to Kingston prominent national iigures, who are versed, in the problems of small business. By means' of talks and clinics it is hoped to develop a means of pooling and using the full skills of the community; a method in which the of Commerce can create a plan to furnish continually similar, 'guidance when later problems arise. Eight Meetings Proposed are proposed to discuss the following broad topics: Hogan's Assailants Convicted onOther Charge in South One Will Be Hanged, Two Companions a'v Long Terms in Prison Freight Car Lack, Nails Are Holdup i Boom Is Stilled; Prices Also Figure in Lag Is Report The common nail and a shortage of freight cars in the nation continue to darken prospects of a revival of building locally it was learned through a survey today. Men of the lumber industry reported generally that a boom in building Is a vague dream and none would venture prediction when hammer, nails and boards will resume their staccato rhythms of prosperity. A nail shortage which began in the war years Is more acute rfow than ever, one lumber dealer reported and another said he had received nothing but promises for several weeks on shipments of building materials.

Added to this is a continued upward trend in prices, which recently gave some signs of leveling off but more recently appeared to bo unpredictable. Some lumber is now available in quantities, the dealers said, but they still have difficulty obtaining finished rnillwork und the higher A trio of youths. who drew heavy sentences yesterday at Tpwson, in. connection with rape case, admitted during their trial that they had beaten robbed a Kingston Frank Hogan, 19, student at the Univer- sity'of Florida. Young Hogan was accosted on the Baltimore-Philadelphia highway a few before the woman, a resident of Baltimore, was attacked.

James B. LaGuardia, 26, of Youngstown, was sentenced to be hanged for rape, and two At-, lanta, men drew long prison terms, according to the Associated Press. Delmar'Foster, 19, a sentenced to life in prison and Gil- mcr McArthur, 15, was given 21 years after the jury recommended 1 mercy. They wore convicted last week by the first "mixed jury' ever to sit on a capital oase in Maryland. Women began serving on juries in Baltimore and eleven Maryland counties this month.

The defendants denied they had ever seen the woman before she identified them in a- police lineup. They were at a filling station on the Washington-Balti- Speeding Construction on Ashokan Boulevard Modern road-building ichines, some of which made their stock intersection and Cold Brook is being speeded along under debut on Pacific Island basts that had to be transformed from the supervision of A- B. Conway of Kingston, state's resident cn- junglelands into modern airbsses during World War 2, rip through ginccr, with construction work being done by the N. R. Corbiscllo 28, near in the program to level grades and remove turns, on the Ashokan reservoir boulevard, a heavy artery of travel, which will be widened in places to four lanes.

The $1,697,236.75 project for 9.82 miles between the firm of Binghamton. Although unforsecii difficulties arc attached to a project of this magnitude, if all goes well, the road should be completed by the a of 1948, J. S. Bixby, state engineer estimates. (Freeman Photo) New-" Defense Pkn On Truman Order President Sends Radiogram From Battleship; Word Conies as Surprise in a i a Washington, Sept.

18 iff) This country's new unified defense machinery went abruptly today on enters from President The instructions sent by the President from the battleship. bearing him homeward the Rio de Janeiro conference on How'To'reorganTze'li'businesT'for tern hemisphere security as crranfor nvnfits- hnw tn finnnrp a a surprise to -many top-rank ofli- greater. profits; how finance a business; how to 1 find and.change OIa the location for a business; Mr Truman himself said his more dant Boulevard when an atten- bbcame suspicious a traveler's check they tendered. Prices Are Lowered New York, Sept. 18 UP)--Strong price resistance lowered quotations today on the wholesale meat market.

GovernorMeets WithEditors About State Amendments Albany, N. Sept. 18 UP)-Governor Dewcy will urge public approval of six proposed consti-. tutional amendments, including one to provide a $400,600,000 vet erans' bonus, public housing propositions, a reliable informant said today. The people wilf vote on the proposals in the November 4- state election.

Dowey was represented, as favoring all amendments: aiid the housing propositions, including a 5135,000,000 bond issue to finance additional low-cpst, public housing in New York. Dewey will meet with about 35 mansion for an off-the-record conference at which he is expected to the proposals. He will meet'with metropolitan New York and editors for the same purpose next Monday at New York city. The governor the bonus amendment; will be approved. Democratic legislators contend Dewey undermined the bonus by having the Legislature enact a special tax plan- to.

liquidate the bonus debt in-10 years. the electorate approves the bonus, it will be financed, effective January 1, through a one-cent grade lumber. Lack of skilled labor in the mills was believed bulimd the upstate "newspaper publishers and I in the income tax. Ac- Comlnuccl on i'nge Twenty editors today at the executive Coh.llnuc.cl on Page Twenty-seven tax -o'n 'Cigarettes and what amounts to a 20 per cent increase because of the international situation. This word, arriving late in the day, contrasted with ah eailier explanation issued by the Navy.

It said that prior to. Mr. Truman's departure Brazil it had been decided Forrestal would be sworn in about September 15 "or after the President's return, unless all preliminary arrangements had been completed earlier." Since. these "preliminary ar- how best insure a- business; decision have how to.maintain purchasing and as. secretary defense inventory controls; how to keep i awaiting the i i i 7 i records and file returns; how to advertise; how-to use and control credits.

It is planned at present to-have Lasser. conduct the session on 'It is tentatively proixised have meetings a week apart, probably beginning in January. All sessions would be held at night probably two meetings for each would be lectures and secondly smaller clinics. Kingston was because of its central location and because the city has many successful small businesses. It is hoped that business folk from the area will take advantage of the clinics, since the interchange of ideas will prove distinctly helpful.

"Kingston, Bard and. the entire Hudson valley can benefit greatly from and the publicity which 'Mr. Lasser "A'specific problem which is common to all of the cities throughout the nation," he said, "is the. furnishing of expert coun- selling to small business. Continued on Page Eleven BadNewsShapesUpforGrain Speculators in U.S.

Agencies Vishinsky to Give Russia's Reply First Soviet Will Be Given Before U.N. Assembly Today New York, Sept. IS UP)--The United Nations assembly met in a tense atmosphere today awaiting the first Soviet rebuttal to the slashing attack made on. Russia yesterday by Secretary of State 'George C. Marshall.

'As the seconcJ day of debate opened at 11:11 a. m. (E.D.T.), word quickly spread that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky would deliver Russia's basic policy speech about 3 p. m.

A Russian spokesman said the Soviet chief delegate was ready to deliver his postponed--and'amend- ed--speech this afternoon but offered no advance indication as to its contents'. or length. Russia was generally expected to return Marshall's attack and reject his proposal for overhauling deadlocked U.N. peace machinery. Opposition to the Marshall'plan for a special year-round 55-nation security committee of the general rangements.

had been completed" assembly developed meanwhile it was decided to administer the from an unexpected quarter. Aus- oath to Forrestal yesterday, the tralian Deputy Delegate Col. W. Navy said. However, the.

announcement of the noon R. Hodgson the proposal "unconstitutional" floor comment. in an off the in ceremony produced an ah of Australia, as one of the leading definite surprise at both opponents of the big power veto, Army's Pentagon headquar a been expected to welcome the and a the Navy Department on Constitution Avenue. Aides Truman 'quick "to 'tell repor ers aboard the" Missouri that had no part'CU- lar development in mind when he the. newsmen the intci national situation-prompted his decision, i Thinks of Whole Picture Presidential Press Secretary Charles G.

Ross said the chief executive was i i only of "the whole general "internatic nal situation." That general situation includes such problems as diplomatic arguments with Russia i United be-the western powers in the Balkans and this country's reiterated pledge to in resisting Communist aggression and the United States' sharply de- Nations, conflicting interests tween the Soviet Union and pleted military High ranking military leaders have publicly that 1 his country's armed be ow requirements needed to-carry jut Amprican commitments overseas, including- occupation Fully Informed'. A dispatch early, today, fiom Ernest' B. Associated Press correspondent with Mr. Truman) said the President had ar- Contlnue.fl on Pago Eleven gram point speculation topped a four- program he outlined in a statement pointing to the "possibility of ruinous inflation at home Continued oh Twenty-seven Marshall proposal since its primary purpose was to provide machinery which would in effect bypass the veto. Vishinsky was absent as the general, debate was resumed with Chilean Delegate Jose Maza leading off.

Marshall was in his scat early. He follovyed the speeches attentively, wearing earphones clamped over his head. Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, the chief.

Australian delegate, did not go so far as to reject" the Marshall peace' committee proposal but reserved his views on the details. Following Chile with the Australian policy speech, Evatt expressed belief that it might be. necessary to keep the assembly itself in continuous meeting or to call frequent special sessions to handle 'disputes instead of establishing a special committee for tills purpose. Evatt devoted a good part of his speech to a blistering on the veto and its frequent use in the Security Council where' Russia has overruled majority decisions 20 times. U.

S. Cbosen Sept. 18 United States was chosen-today to serve with Australia and Belgium on a three-member United Nations commission to assist in negotiating ing by its Baltimore regional di- a settlement of the Dutch-Indo- rector that he could not handle a nesian conflict. Worry Over Food, Other Prices Brihgs Congress May Take Some Steps Washington, Sept. 18 'MP--Bad neSvs for grain' speculators shaped up in two branches the government-, today amid mounting concern over food and other prices.

On Capitol Hill, Chairman Banks to Continue Saturday Closing; System Is Working Rondout Savings Makes No Decision, Majority Outspoken for Schedule The banking schedule begun last spring by Kingston's nine banks and savings associations, under which the banks open Fri- Hope House Agri-! da evenings culture declared "that wil1 be retained indefinitely at unless the nation's commodity ex-1 least by a majority of the institu- changes themselves apply the to the' kind trading for skyrocketing food brakes blamed prices, then Congress "should and must" impose its own restraints, Within the administration, President Truman's cabinet committee on food, appears headed for a decision to clamp a sharply lower ceiling on grain exports for the months immediately ahead. Officials believe- 1 such a. step, would take some, of the'wind out of-the speculative sails. In still another development bearing on the ever-widening price picture; a group of business' leaders heard Senators tions, a check revealed today. The summer schedule proved very satisfactory, banking officials reported.

Under the schedule, the banks and savings institutions opened for business every Friday evening from 1 6:45 to 8. 'Harold V. Clayton, assistant to the president of the State of New York National Bank, said: "The customers appreciate the Friday evening opening, and do not appear to be inconvenienced too much by the Saturday closing. The employes are benefited. This bank will-continue the present schedule." -Clayton said -that at the time Flanders assert that it the schedule went into, effect-lost the soft coal wage "appeasement" spring, Kingston banks planned course is followed by gen- to mect at the cnd September the government, wjll be to decide whether to continue the system.

"Since the banks appear to be in he said, "the meeting'is At the Rondout Savings Bank, "forced to step-in" with controls over, prices profits alilie. Flanders took time out from the congressional price hearings he' is directing in eastern states to criticize not only pay boosts John L. Lewis won for his soft coal miners with the aid of the steel industry but the boost in steel' prices that 'followed. The Vermont address was prepared for the second economic institute --of States Chamber of Hope's call for fl slow-down in however, secretary, William said ho Buddenhngen. decision had Pago Twenty Will Operate Dining Room Gino Catalano of New Paltx, one of the men connected with reconverting the Coykendall mansion into a resort on West Chestnul: street, today said that it was not the intention of the owners to operate it as a restaurant for general patronage, but pointed out that a dining room would be furnished for the convenience of guests.

Aiken Declares Non-Red Provision Is 'Silly 9 One Washington, Sept. IS Aiken said today the controversial non-Communist provision of- the Taft-Hartley law is "silly" and possibly unconstitutional. The'Vermont told reporters he favors elimination or at least clarification of the section. Aiken made his views known a few hours after the Relations. Board received the first test case on.the issue, an appeal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The brotherhood' asked the board last.night to overturn a rul- i'union petition because top officers of, the A.F.L. had not furnished for non-Communist affidavits. The union had petitioned certification as bargaining sentative'for workers at radio sta- tion'WARL in Arlington, Va. Aiken. is a member of the Senate Labor Committee which helped draft the Taft-Hartley labor law, but the Communist provision was written in on the Senate floor aft- Full Force To Hit Near Pensacola Gales of 120 Miles Hit Rich Resort, Farming Areas, of Florida Southern Many Are Saved Evacuations Are Credit for Low of Life Given Loss (By The Associated Press) Pensacola, Sept.

18 OP)-Frightened residents boarded uj homes and business building: along Florida's vulnerable wes coast before an advancing hurri. cane, and Gov. Millard Cald well's office announced that President Truman had declared a stati of emergency in Florida. The announcement came a fevp hours after the Weather Bureac disclosed that the treacherous tropical storm had curved sharplj after inflicting' multi-million dollar damage upon southern Florida, and was headed, back toward the mainland-troiii the Gulf, ol Mexico. Truman's emergency proclamation enables the Federal Works Administration to distribute reliei supplies ii) all hurricane areas.

In Atlanta, the Federal Reserve Bank announced thai credits would be extended to finance replacements of storm- damaged property and would be exempt from usual consumer- credit controls. At Montgomery, Governor James Folsom offered all aic to Florida, and ordered 12 Alabama patrolmen into the threatened storm area for disaster duty. The Red Cross and other agencies braced for the newest blow. like the A.F.L. C.I.O, to file affidavits never did come up in Aiken said, "and it never Continued'cm Page Twenty-seven.

Heads Northwest Pcnsacola, Sept. 18 UP)-A treacherous tropical storm turned suddenly today upon the exposed Gulf coast of western Florida, curving northwestward in the Gulf of Mexico after lashing a devastating path yesterday across southern Florida. A 9:15 a- m. (E.S.T.) advisory by thc U. S.

Weather Bureau ordered hurricane warnings from St. Marks to Pensacola, and said the full of the gigantic storm would hit between Apalachicola and here about midnight. Winds up to 100 miles an hour were forecast. Storm warnings flew from Pensacola west to Mobile, and heavy weather was expected cast of Apnlnchicola along St. Georges and Dog Islands, and Apalchec Bay.

The damaging hurricane, which yesterday whipped the rich resort and agricultural areas of south Florida with 120-mile gales, altered its course abruptly after entering the gulf near Fort Myers last night. Early reports indicated it might move westward without further menace to land, but it began to wallow 'northwestward during the night with accelerated It was moving on the Florida west coast at 15 miles an' hour, and during the morning was located about 100 miles southwest of Tampa. The tropical disturbance, the worst experienced by Florida in Continued on Paso Twenty Treasury Receipts Washington, Sept. 18 Ui--The position of the treasury Sept. 16: Receipts 5414,631.498.81.

er the House had adopted it. lures $140,525,749.15. Balance section was revised by 747,835,292.75. Customs receipts Senate-House conference commit- for month 517,595.152.20. Receipts tee to require filing of affidavits, fiscal year July 1 "The question of requiring offi-1 Expenditures fiscal year S8.186,- cers of.

parent labor organizations i 746,814.08. Excess of expenditures A $877,665,076.32. Total debt $258,908,344,408.36. Decrease under previous day 830,814.060.77. Gold assets 521,887,235,982.78..