Miami News-Record from Miami, Oklahoma • 1

gas Butcher Beefs Against High Prices BURT SHOTTON IV on 9 a for top hog Today tnlatar enter for pochUUui their WMttou fa dotffiBM jmhtU altusM of Ca dU THE WEATHER Amrtac unaa CoMty pertfaa toMhi owd oH totes ilbWVRI tutly dwO JiA July mJ Aim raL rt to neH mini eu My at th trabotn M4 1 SOVIETS RETAIN GRIP ON BERLIN Tto wire were Um Je rn dorei irpwtod oftuy tag a uta and vIM storm I Ul fa Mfamt' Met UTUUm IWh US PLANES ON WAY TO ISLES NO AGREEMENT IN WAGE TALK Published Every Eveniny (Except Saturday) and Sunday Mommy by Miami Newspepere Inc wait If rwmOjf tefar toU tta lrel task atari Eagle icher and Union Con tinue Discuioni After Recest for Lunch Bartlesville Area Drenched Caney Up (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bartlesville residents stood the streets shortly after 8 a ni today and watched overhead a storm cloud In which the Bartles ville weather observer said there wan a tomadic wind It passed over the Northeastern Oklahoma city at 1000 feet and headed east No reports of torna does have been received from that section No wind was felt on the ground at Bartlesville Continued rains had caused the Caney river there to rise to 1136 feet al 8 a not far from flood stage of 13 feet The river continuedo rise this morning At Enid a sudden wind and electrical storm hit the city shortly after 6 a Nearly a half inch of rain fell in 15 minutes A few limbs were blown from trees but an early survey disclosed no ma jor property or crop damage Ponca City reported" 105 inches of rain between 6:30 and 8:30 a hk today gain still was falling at Courts Asked To Hide on Custody Unborn Child OKLAHOMA OffWf It UV Tta OhlahMM tprtet Plane Strikes phone Wires Avoids Crash DAVENPORT OVal July 16 PHILS RELEASE BEN CHAPMAN Rain Measures 68 of an Inch In Brief Period River At Standstill By the way do any 20 year or longer residents of Miami recall such heavy nine as havingDowlas lalataa Tnid July Like California wt must be having some weather Taken Prom Lpke Cabins jburitt four bfa Um store of Graft U's thkn rwcatly est er tamteg fa th air tad rafted th to it eV yvteg Un Th fU (kpratoewl Iff eaifaontshri Ita fUaraI the of Ito eWml and pal stttial diroll Mtf eommlrafaa fan ipparuMly flew oa aftamapft No reet an found and he itplM was (Vpud mtoirg and ntwspapenntn to his hotel suite today "I aal Io put the fad tn the lint the Dulltlfa quoted Carpenter a saying have Jerk Meters of Canmtret Mckra hpeeled the theft of ho tahtefa ord eoope from a drtv fa raMawvnt rear CMuarre trv No agreement had been reached at mid afternoon today to terminate the two weeks old strike of CIO lead and zinc miners against the Eagle Mining Smelting company Some 600 Engle Picher workers many of whom are members of the International Union of Mine" Mill and Smelter workers have been idled by the dispute ederal Conciliator Emory of Tulsa called today's conference between company and union offi cials The meeting opened about 10 a at the Cardin office of Eagle I'icher but recessed at noon with no indications of progress on per tinent issuea i Mabon personnel direc tor for the company made no comment on thia sea slon saying only that talks were to resume at 1:30 Both the union and company met July 8 at the request of the federal conciliator No accord was reached at that time and today's meeting then was arranged The union has asked a 30 cent blanket wage in crease while Eagle offereda 102 cent an hour boost In addition to Eagle icher workers perhaps as many 1400 other district miners have been thrown out of work by the walkout US Steel Gives Workers 13 Cent Hourly Pay Hike PITTSBURGH July 16 LB The Steel corporation and the CIO United Steel workers to day agreed to a pay increase aver aging 13 cents hourly and the firm announced it has no alternative but to raise prices to meet result ant higher labor costa The raise ranged between 8 'i ami 25 cents spread over more than a score of various job classifi cations with the average hike3 cents hourly It will affect about 170000 production workers em ployed by eel and Its five subsidiaries Steel workers now average about 31X5 hourly The hourly increase was rati fied about I pm today by the sleel union's lil min wag pol icy committee The committee otrr which UIO and sled other president Philip Murray preaid ed hailed the new agreement sat "A great victory for the United Steel Workers of America" A statement from Benjamin Mr" leas president of the 3 Steel corporation said: "The steel producing subsidiarieef A Steel will soon aanoumo increases In their prices for rari Thaddeus Evans of Tulsa Dies at 79 TLT3A July 16 Thad deus Evsps if attorney and former Tuba mayor died early today of a heart attack al his degree tightness Tbs cwmpany rnumtfacutffli ed famive tape The bvMoiay fauwiil squad will ml practice today due fa wet pier Ing grounds Ifad WeotfeH tram reach re quests that all 1mm mwntora be at the cnflrn diamond al 1 rfal dais but apeat yesterday in hie tow office Evans came here fa HM front Marshalltoaa Iru where he served as city attorney He Repub lican mayor from IMO to 1822 and fa later years helped to push to eempietfoa the ftpavtMw lake water supply project Mother Rescues Baby from Death At ather Hands MINEOLA July 16 Ct 1 mother breathed life back into her 22 month old baby yesterday after police said the father had choked the infant because ho had' been awakened by her erica The father Samuel' (I Lmk wood a 36 ytar old lakeview let ter carrier was held today with out ball for grand jury action charged with assault with intent to kill elka said that Im kwWa wife Caroyne and a aiator tried Io restrain him from choking his daughter ailing to do an Mrs Lockwood hit him over the head with a portable radio Then a Mfahbor broke his grip on the CnllQo' am Meanwhile Mrs Lock a nod re Wwd the baby breathing into her mouth The baby was taken to Meadowbrook hotpiUL TW training trip greatly atg meuta air slreaglh in Eu rope at a line a hen Russia la threatening to slam shut the air corridors into the belcagurrd Grimaa capilsl Douglas 54 planes will trans port maintenance personnel and supplies for the Each Superfortress carries both regular and spare crews Altogether about 1X00 personnel will involved in the training operation The 2Slh group from the Rapid City Dm Airforce bane will fly Ip Goom Bay Laborador and thence to Scanlpton England The 3oth group from Macdill base Tampa la will fly to the American field in Bermuda Kind ley base thence to England Aboard the 28'a will come un dor the control of Lieut Gen Cur tis is LtMay commander of United Slates Airforces in Europe who presumably would decide on wheth er any of them will make training ftighto into Germany A mid morning tempest struck savagely in Miami today as weath erman Pence reported a68 inch deluge had drenched the city in little more than an hour Angry black clouds unfurled lheir sails and one large tree was found Sprawled across Third avenue and A street northwest after the brief wind and rain storm had subsided Th Neosho river was reported at a stand still by Smallwood ifth Street boat dock proprietor Long distance telephone connec tions to a few points north were reported to be temporarily out just before noon This minimum tem perature reading was a moderate 69 while at noontime the mercury stood at only 70 In all it was a relief to Miamians who had swel tered under a 97 degree sun only two days ago ifaMy shemrou st8m la ihofa lt juv Etta Miami llpJ 0s are rcurrt by sca palau GwIM ufa ihit Gwinry ctolb IlskMWMt IhwiIJ aoufy hint tbry risk to make lb uip Commerce Youth Admits' Car Theft Charges in Ciirtncu Staffer 20 year old Cranmerra youth catered a pics of guilty to chsrg of laigeny of aa automobile at his arraiga mot efore County Judge Willis Smith hero tends afternoon He will appear before District Judge Tbms for ceatenc tog the first riday fa Octotar The youth was rekaaod from county jail after peeUrg JMM bond Suffer aad a companion were dsialred by Salt IaIh oty Utah aathorillM when they tad a alight wreetr tad held a Ulla papers to ttacar kcriff Jakm A ABrsiaaa re reniiy retcrard from Salt Lake flnnd Concert To Be HcldToidphl Th Mwwr octaH Hnd will a afamtoat oMtreft togre Star IM e'etotk (kt the roantawe tan Th ba4 direct by Chad Strangling of City by Reds Brings Europe Closer to Armed Conflict itas for One of Plane Crash Victims Set Here BULLETIN 1 IIAIIA July lt 4n taari Head of Hospital Resigns WASHINGTON Jtty ln Dr Karl Mnalagtr InUtnatomal ly kaewa psychiatrist het rrefgM aa mans sir of the Vsterene ad ministration teapltal at Topaka has sffartlvu July gk Hr will be mitaeoM by Dr rank Caary he has unrt un dar Msaatogvr as Un hropirel's rtaef of profurioael eervkoa Mere Jan 1 1844 Siaco MoMdegos'a 'eppotaunsnt eu manager Doe I 1345 ihe To Wifi BY WES GALLAGHER i BERLIN July Only two courses of action have any hope of breaking the Soviet block ade which is strangling thia city and bringing Europe closer to war than at any time aince Munich The first the use of western power military forces to crash the land blockade The second Is retaliatory ar Hon by the west fa other parte of Ibe world which would make it too coally for the Soviet Union to continue its Berlin policy This fa the common belief of the western Allies and the Germans who have aoen the Ruaaian action at finst hand for throe yean They believe further lhav the Soviet Union has' killed international diplomacy in the accepted sense Soviet rejection of the western powers ribtoe surprised trana hera No one dealing with the Russians in Berlin fa the past three years haa any hope that any note or pro test would hove any effect on So viet policy This Includes any Unit ed Natfons or world court action ailing to achieve what she wanted fa Cermeny at the confer ence table IUMla has abandoned mediation for direct pressure prop aganda' In the simplest terms 2006 0M Gertsans and 25088 western Allies fa Berlin are bsiac held as pawns by Russia to achieve her (Continued on Togo Eight) Senator Will Ask Congress To Quit On Its irst Day WASHINGTON July Senator Olin Johnston (D SC) veld today he will seek to have Congress quit as soon aa it con venes July 26 in response to a call from President Truman Johnston fa a leader of ths southern Democrats rebellion against Mr Truman's civil righto program He has been outspoken fa his opposition to anti lynching anti poll tar antl aegregailon and similar laws The South Carolina Democrat told reporters at his plan as mem bers of ike Reps Niran msjority fa House and Senate continued to asnil ths rerail of the 80ih ContreM which Mr Truman has called the "went" ia history Johnston said ho would unto oth er aouthrrnera to work continuous ly for a quick adjournment of ths! eaaloa I To carry out hla plan Johnston would hatd to have help from oth ers in the Senate and aloe fa Ihe House Ifa could move for adjourn ment of the Senate and hla motion would not be debatable It would be subject only to Senate approval But even If the Senate approved the adjournment would be only temporary The Senate would have to meet egaln In three days unless the llouss also toted to quit Un der the constitution neither cham ber ran adjourn for more than three days without approval of the other chamber Special Session WASHINGTON July Ib Ctt Telegrams fa reiponre to President Truman's speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination and railing Congress back Into ses sion are running about 30 to 1 fa favor of hla actions the White House said foday Presidential Secretary Chariaa Roh raid "a couple of hundred tolegnuns have boon received st the Whits House along with few letters concerning his Philadelphia speech and rail to CongressOn other matters Ross told bls news conference: 'Mr Traman has not started drstnsg hfa spetlil neaugs to the hslsistora for their first er slon July 26 aad basa't decided whether he Will deliver it fa per MN Hecoulda't add anything to whst the I'rerident said about Irgitfa Hen to bo submitted or whether new legfehtfon will be proodHo hasn't the "remotret bow long the session vrill Ian Ml comment on whethei Mr Thupm Is nuldering liftfog the embargo on ones thlpmcnfa to Butane Gas Tank Sighted in Riner PONCA CITY Okla July Aa eapfaelvt Unit ef IuLsm gM was floetiag free fa the Artaq half milen1 tal 10 a tw today OLahema Gas 4 Electric pwr glut wptoyn epelted Ibe UAMs Efforts are briar mod to yvadb am! werore the lari which syror jnlly nested sey fnm aouiUre XanaM Grid fa a flesh flood Lions Hear Address By Walter Head Walter Hand Maoyr of the Goodrich company's Um mairafscivrirg pUat addreued IMdwut tf Utai Lnu Hub st faarieM eaevUeg tore tadsy Doom frqesfa sriri fw wrttf Hvhileilloa srlnH tarat dfaUW judeq of Ofar la dfaanw pweedlr Jum II Mra iroeste gtvro dualte CMtody ri toe wtoww tM1d tor four eat A tta (Mb ita fsthtr 12 Manager Ousted in avor of 'Dusty' Cooke ormer 7 Yankee layer PHILADELPHIA July 16 40 Philadelphia hila today dismissed Manager Ban Chapman and named Allen (Dusty) Cooke veteran coach as acting manager elf active immediately Th rhsngw wm announced by Ihe Thilo office here president IL Carpcnfar Jr and h's than (Babe) Alexander the club's puNkity director were enroute here by plane from St Louis Th mrot the Cardinals tonight fa a nigh game at the Mound City yawta sad the ridaa aoloarilk No chargee wrrt filed agatetl Rtofffa comps aloe eflr the Com write youth testlfted his cwmpao tea wee Mt fanritatod The Car whin Staffer ar 60 29's Reported Enroute to England for 'Short' Period Of Training WASHINGTON July The Alrforre announced today that CO 29's are enroute to England for a training visit there Th big bombers comprising two groups will make the trip over two routes one by way of Labora dor and the other via Bermuda In England USA officials Hid the Americsn fonnstions will be guests of the Royal Airforce using three RA bases 'while there While there was no announce ment from the Airfare it waa con sidered probable that some of the 29's will make training flights out of England to United States bases in Germany The Superfortresses are crossing the Atlantic in the wake of the American cargo plane fleet recently my to fly food into ueturer to test tow long hi prod 'urt Mtlaifta atMaamndtk mewrai cl i ia unrwiKki fc The elwdeate need only ame state about 212JM to jn 'ur jwtimrol rorerol (iiM umiuuim 77 £ij "7 HEAVY SHOWER SOAKS MIAMI MERCURY DIPS 1 Notes from Your Town Steak Climbs To $110 Pork Cuts Also Up With the tagging at 110 a pound of round steak and sizeable increases on other meat prices Miami house already strained by the high cost of liv ing appeared near the breaking point here today Advised of new price boosts on various beef and pork items some women indicated that home cooked meals in the future rarely will include choice bone steaks pouk cnops or sugar curea hams Until meat prices drop back to a sensible level inembers of our family be vegetarians" one discouraged housewife said' A survey of Miami butcher shops disclosed that practically all beef and pork items were affected by the new price schedule Now selling round steak for 95 cents a pound' one Main street butcher said raise the price to 5110 Saturday morning Pork chops which brought 69 cents a pound two weeks agd today are priced at 85 rants or an increase of almost 25 per cent The price of bacon top variety has been raised from 69 to 89 cents pound in some stores and sugar cured hams took a jump from 63 to 69 cents for the same weight Even the lowly hamburger was given an economic in the with the announcement of a three cent boost from 49 to 52 cents for a pound of ground beef Pork sausage formerly ticketed at 43 cento has jumped to 49 cents a pound Restaurant operators how tver said try to retain a status quo on meals for the lime being but warned that if meat prices continue to rise they'll have to ask more for nsjor servings Current menu prices at one eat ing establishment were announced as follows: sirloin steak 32 large bone 3175 pork chops 85 eents roost beef and roast pork dinners 90 cents Citing the co of live stock" as chief cause for this week's increase in meat price Gammon manager of the Ban field Packing company said that in the lastrix weln tolcMio prices of beef and pork item were forced up from 15 to 50 percent Early In Jun he said th Bsnfield company paid 20 rents pound prire is 28 fa rents Th rattle market aboui Ibe same ho asserted Gammon opined that on rea son for the scarcity of marketed rattle wa that farmer rc too busy harvesting wheat to take lheir cattle and hops to celling point Ij A NYBODY caught any fish' late ly? Sam Long local sports man was asked Yes it seems that they have and plenty of too Long who returned the other day I from a Canadian trip with Ed Mill ner A 'Patterson and I Bowers reported they all had un I usual success They snared dozens I pike in a region north and east I of Kenora northernmost town on the Lake the Woods Long said 1 Patterson head of the local over All firm hauled in 32 fish in one I day and Long modestly admitted his best catch was represent 1 ed by a string of 26 They included 1 wall eyes Great Northern pike I and a couple of muskies the latter I ix known as one of the I fresh water fish of all i TomtWilliams son of Mrs Jen I nie Williams 215 A fetreet north west planned jo leave today for I (a Boise Ida to resume work with a construction company The Mi I amian has been engaged recently I in tunneling work in rugged Idaho country Prior to World war II in which he saw action with the Air corps in the European theater Tom was a miner of several ex perience in Tri State properties Rev Cody pastor of the iret Methodist church is an accomplished' plane pilot The run off primary election July 1 27 will involve only eight race in al) including four on the state Democratic and Republican ballot Besides the Democratic race for Senate there'll be battle for corporation commissijner and court justice for the majority party and on the GOP alate a scrap for the corporation commis sion nomination Only one county wide race on the local ballot is scheduled for prosecutor on th Democratic ticket Central district office also fa at stake and two minor post for con 1 stable will be determined in race in divisions Nos 7 and 2 at Richer Butcher County Election board lecretary said Thu the Republicans might just as well stay home this coming election day unless they have a friend they hop will becoqi the 1 next state corporation commiraion Boy with Gunshot Wound in Side Is In Tulsa Hospital TULSA July 16 tB A three par aid boy wi reported resting comfortably in a hospital today after suffering a gunshot wound in hi side olic said evidence indicated Emmett Dwight Montgomery shot himself with a pistol he found lying on a tsbl fa a neighbor woman' apartment I'olie gt ar I Iteddo said th woman talking oa th telephone when lb boy walked fat her apartiwrnt Apparent I without her knowledge th ltd picked ap the gun aad fa same manner It dlschsrrert the bulltl passing thrwsih hi body ou steel product at thrir mil' i The woman was jailed without or shipping point following rom charge police said because th rlrtlon of the Cost study now he wm unable to git a coherent ac 1 Ing made agx Thea forthootn count of tta accident A sets ten I lng price Inere are aolrly du County Attorney I Devtne Hid jto the fact that steel price hsv th true fact of lb shooting Bot krpt rfl rUilf cannot be obtained until 1 la condiltoa to talk ter ef fact Bea and I derided between ooretlvrs that a thing adiM brig I'd like to mala It dur that there a difference totiroca definitely firing a ma and com ing to a cottctaatoN wRh hit want th feeling to exlit that I fl ted him Wo are parting good friend" Outs Mag Sign Up 4 New Outfielder Bend T) leaky ds fool six oetflrldre recently dedared tfairaL may bo sigwed with th Mi ami Ovl dub aMMtlmo tody or Rstwday WsUsca Nnfaer Mfaml Bton latte Kcreury fata Tj fa to utk neatrart terms with the Ota fonasrly plsjed with Ctoaute and tola It acquired tto hsnd etegglrg fly risMt would bo a definite Sw eet to tea jlgta hltttag Jteck Miami Golfers lo Carsons on Sunday Mfaml Country tfab toil pre lk Goild fafaed a call today fw1 least £1 local sJ nun pure to HrtUr ste fa the twUsnt (Midi com mo ni 5 MtlSUd Owned by Missouri sportsown tto rebins ore loeued Mar Torek fat Owner of ottor eabinr to aflsinoea a too ttoy refueled thrir 1 Army ssrplua DT 13 uslt at lha' Joplin Ms tminlripal airport Members of tto Oklahoma High eay paint with trooper Jobe Hine fa ctorg faveotlgstfan Mtlftod Joplfa airport official al appreilcralely 4te0 that both beyo hod tan killed fartaat If Oitor latastlgattag aatbrnL Ilea were Jtmee A Altemien atatlffi TWsms deputy ibreifl and Daild sfaatky tos (CMtfaved on tags Light) MiamiDailyNews Record 7 II A In! Sr 'r I r'S s' Hi WOUXLVINoM TORUNBUMSLIPPYTONYi r2 t5n'4 Durocher'Succeed Mel Ott in Unexpected Major League' "Pilot's Shakeup 'NEW 'YORK July Mel i Ott resigned today as manager of the New Yortc Giants and was suc ceeded by Leo' Durocher whoae job as pilot of the Brooklyn Dodg i ers was turned over to Burt Shot ton Shotton was pulled semi retirement a year ago by Brooklyn and led the club to the pennant after Durocher was suspended by Commissioner A Chandler Durocher had been manager of the Dodgers the arch rival since the start of the 1939 campaign Ott has been boss of the Polo Ground outfitsipce 1942 He joined the club aa a player 23 year ago when only 16 The announcement of resignation and return to the Dodgers was made by Pres ident Branch Rickey at Cincinnati He flew there from Brooklyn after conferring with Durocher last night Ott on of th best liked member of tho baseball fra lernity will take a brief vaca tion and then return lo the staff in a capacity still not determined Horace Stoneham president of th Giants said Durocher would take over pie club tonight in Pittts burgh Shotton ia expected to take over direction of thq Dodger at once in Cincinnati' Stoneham Mid con tract reported to call for a salary of approximately' 360000 a year had been taken up and would be extended through 1949 con tract run through the 1950 sea aon and will be continued Stone ham said There hare been many rumor (hi season that Durocher would not remain Brooklyn Stoneham said he approached Ott about 10 day ago and raked whst the Giant needed most to stay in the nr Th President quoted Ott who attended the pres conference a saying It 1 a nevf man gr Presi Aide isv RERAIN ROM SeiVe i 1 rJsWOrUrt to stand behind the counter and raise prices every said Anthon Ameho as i he closed up his New York butcher shop felt like a Buteher D'Amelio an dramatic action would prompt other butchers and housewives to join in protest against skyrocketing meat prices The signs covering the windows of his shop tell the whole story to DAmeho i former customers into flam fa tto air while efaani reported tea tawflyfar amdaw OKLAHOMA Scattered ItaeYZZT ord Boosts Pay Schedule Of Employes DETROIT July 16 LB The ord Motor Co today boosted ral aries of 25000 employes by from 320 to 550 a month At the sain time the company rejected for the present at least any intervention by the federal mediatkm and conciliation service in its wage deadlock with the CIO United Auto worker The 116000 production employe represented by th union are seek ing a wage increase and other benefit equivalent to" about 21 centaan hour ord Motor Co stand redy In meet with union nego tiator al any Henry ord IL Preaident of tho firm said faatatcmrnL appreciate tho offer of the United Statu Cbn ciliation service but always bat beta able to solvo our dif ference with the union and we prefer to follotrthi policy untilaery pouibility la exhausted i taeen th union and onrorlves" 1 MIAMI OKLA RIDAY JULY 16 1948 DAI LY 5 CENTS SUNDAY 1 0 CENTS faM fwday with aoMmd i ttaradeiwtewWtW KAMUUI tosttewd ItoUcr tttf cf Stet tofaitta rerty BatwLf County und Drive Getting Nearing Completion new Brunswick j8iy Ths muu Th mret of Rutger aid aemtl to trreity ray ttoySa found a happy "uM i la nmcludwg money aking medium Wre JU Hit ftr fund In Ottawa uU iIha mTu i county thia wick Moroe will to Two prominent Kanm their bodies burned wmdurtad by a luvowA i insrsHiiw ii to provki ror a researeh institute afternoon when lheir airplane Into an Ottawa iJUn mturai nilca southeast of Baxter Springs Of roi i I Robert Rot SO mnold son of Mr and Mrs Ran aotorritod dal Rot Baxter Springs and Carl Raymond Ireton 18MMwuared for ihi rauety son of Mr and Mr Lawrenra Jennings of Columbus) MwliMdote b4ng th Kai wen Identified the Ciarii victim businaasmcn cwmm iKjarit ert ja: i at or us area aciocx ranrraay toUM Klc I fl Irl I 1 I I I fl $11 IL a 1 ir II A fly fl a 'a a 1 A It A.