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SB Forecast Cloudiness jlnd Warmer 22 PAGES AND a a If i am jLtjj Good Morning A mfln.js.1cnQW 'by the money he keeps on putting into Liberty Bonds. 0 Otllce at WUll class mall matter WEilAMSPORT, FRIDAY HOMING, MARCH 1, ,1946 Press Wire Service- SINGLE COPY Philadelphia Police Pickets Clash JL i fc 1: tev (Gazette-Acme Telephoto) flared anew in Philadelphia yesterday as pickets ignored'court injunctions ugainst and jammed around the General Electirc company plant. In this photo a striker is landing daied afl'T tlohhed by ft policeman. The mounted policeman is shown i flii; taken from the striker in It Froirr dross Wd Dire Addresses At 'fll Campaign -Assembly directors, recently tpm overseas, concurred Hs stating to a "kick-- Red Cross Fund vjffkers that farces need Red Cross more than during ac- 1 conditions. 'few, of New Paris, ,1 May.

and Sidney D. city, pointed out to about 300 persons Tiented Red Cross the terrific i among occupation and Asia. to come home," Column T) I Girl Is Acting on Qrdeis to Inforcc Picketing Ban, Police MD, (AP)I-Four- Taylor, who dis- from Charlotte, in a was naval nr ence which led where they nd the child, 5. Column 3) WIILADELPHIA (AP) lice on norseback, motorcycle and riding in patrol cars 1,000 GJ.O. strikers amTsyaipathizers from the vicinity of a Electric Company plant in MElub- swinging melee that Tasted a s'f hour.

Acting on- orders to enforce a court-imposed ban on mass picketing, the police rode into the, ranks of parading demonstrators, wielding riot clubs at least 20 persons. arrests were- made on inciting rio't charges. Several hours later, an estimated 5,000 striking and non-striking electrical union men and women threw a solid line of marchers about City Hall in what the union c-a 11 "protest demonstration against police brutali ty." Acting Sheriff William J. Jor- rciw said his forces "have used only such force and no more than necessary to enforce the court order, and will continue to do so until the law is Many Of Ihe 25,000 Workers in the area left their Jobs during the demonstration. Some joined the parade.

Hundreds oi policemen stood by but made ho effort to stop Army 1 A-Boni Attack Will Pit. Radar Against Captured Nazi V-2s IN Experiment in New Mexico In Oongress Administration Postpones ,011 Howe Building Pro- grcim Until WASHINGTON President Truman appealed toj the nation yestetday to snare its housing with veterans while- in Congress the administration, with its back to the wall, post' poned a showdown on its beleaguered hoiue buiWiny gram. Administration leaders in the House-won overnight adjournment ahead of the crucial votes on the housing bill, after playing a trump they hoped would change "some votes overnight That card was a report ftem Wilson W. Wyatt, in Chicago, National Association Builders meeting thert! port jari preVlsions of the administration plan. Rep, Wolcott of Michigan, senior Republican on the Banking Committee, said the reason given by the House leadership for the early adjournment was to allow many members to attend a tea given- by Mr.

Wnite House. behind Wolcott said, "there seemed to be a feeling that i Ation would ix io pull its forces together night." 'Meets Church leaders Meantime, President Truman issued a statement saying, that in a recent conference Catholic, Protestant and Jewish leadersTie had suggested a "nationwide 'shire the housing 1 effort," in 'Which churches and synagogugesr would a leading part. The church leaders responded with four suggestions which Mr, frrfcj'fnsi'i WASHINGTON, (AP) -Army announced prepiratkms yesterday to captured Nazi-J vv2 weapons in a spectacuTar search for meins of tlefense against rocket and atom bomb attacks. The tests are planned for this Summer in the New Mexico desert." A proposal to advance the date to April is Under, study. Brig.

Gen. William L. Richard- "1. The organization of a ing commitfee in every church or synagogue. "2.

A thorough canvass of the membership of every church or synagogue to discover all available housing facilities. "3. check-up- on veterans in need of housing, using -church honor rolls as the starting point "4. Community-wide co-opera- Continued on Page 2, Column 8) (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Phulcy Hurls lie' at Witness Confer With Mayor Leaders "of the IJntted Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (C.I.CK) conferred for 50 minutes with Mayor Bernard Samuel anti said later he pledged to "help'keep down James Price, chairman of the. do- WASHINGTON, (AP) Edwin W.

Pauley rose to the full height his six feet four in a Senate Tiearing 'yesterday and shouted "that's a dirty lie" at testimony that he had paid a fine to the state of, California for "stealing state oil." A few minutes later Pauley, California oil "operator and former npmnrrat.ic treasurer, read to the Siate Naval Committee a formal staiement say.ing,_!VI cannot now "The committee protested very strongly the use of violence by police on the parade held this morning as this parade vvas seven blocks away from thp planLand by no stretch of the imagination could be called picketing." Over a loudspeaker, Peter (Continued on Page 9, Column omatic Victory relations were strained. Thus France Joined the United States and Britain, which ceded their extraterritorial rights durinjifthe war. France-relinquished by treaty extraterritorial and similar rights In tjje international settlements at Shanghai and A French concessions at Shanghai, Tientisin, Hankow and Canton, and the diplomatic quarter of Pelplng signed away were rightsJn won ic vi c'iry yes, a iy under ccl her long- ay her by For- Shih-Chieh time (Contlnued on Page 6, Column 1) withdrawing; as President Truman's nominee for Undersecretary of the Navy. intend "to stay in this am vindicate my character--because I know 1 a m-: he concluded The committee then adjournec until today after a whole day of verbal collisions. The'clashes occurred between committee mern- hprs and between them and the (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Birthday Timothy (left) and Gregory "-Tker, iWln of Barker flfft birthday celebration at Lot AnJrelet.

Handless'iWar i Aj Agreement' Reachod With J. H. Ware for Property Transfer; Payments to Be Made From Company Within 40 Years. Food Problem Harold Russell, 32, handless war veteran, who came tp Hollywood to appear in a movie, places a wedding ring on the finger of his bride, Mrs. Rita Russell Nixon, his high school sweetheart of 15 years ago at Cambridge, as Superior Judge William R.

McKay pronounces them man and wife. Nixon lost his hand in 1944 in the explosion of some TNT at Camp Mackell, N.C., where he was demolition 4AP Wirephoto) Ice Goes Out of River, Crest of 10.57 Reported Terms Them i a Nests of War; De- Freight Cor Scarcity Reol to Feeding Municipal ownership of the I-' Ander- Williamsport Water CompanyJ SOTV Says at a cost of $5,648,296 was ac- WASHINGTON Secre- cepted at Uty Ihursday: tary of Agriculture Anderson de- when City Council entered an-clared yesterday that-a shortage agreement to purchase the fre ht cars for wheat is the local public utility system from TM a 7, in fulfilling A Tj --ctf i lean promises to help John Ware, of starvation; present owner. More can be accomplished to- Mayor Leo C. Williamson an: rtieeting.export commitments nounced'the agreement was reach- breaking" what he called the ed at the final of a series of con-! transportation bottleneck than by ferences in" which the callin upon Americans to eat less, purchase was under study-oy Mr. sa'd- But he added tfcat-pes- the Com-: sibly some good could come frorri" munjty Trade-TCsspciajjon's Water the latter.

Committee. Immediately follow- 1 'Cmphasib upon the conference Mr. Ware left! transportation situation, rather for his home. i than belt tightening, appeared -in- Borrowing Unnecessary nt TrUrn sylvania Commission nn( mw the situation and authorized under an Act of! a aggressive voluntary program 19-43 in the State Assembly. ar citizens to 3 food consumption.

-President expressed this in a message su-imoning former Herbert HOO'VP'- and a dozen other- citizens a White Rouse conference today on 1 Discussing the problem with reporters yesterday, Anderson said February exports of wheat will be in the State Assembly, the purchase will in no way affect the bonded indebtedness of the city nor its borrowing capacity. urther provisions authorize the creation of an authority of five leading citizens to serve without compensation and to co-operate with the operational. program which wiir be directed by Mr. organization, the North- Susquehanna River to 10.23 Feet At 12.30 A.M. The ice went out of the Susque- lanna River here Thursday without, a.

jam at any point on a crest which at no time caused alarm. The river-crested here at 10.57 eet above lew water 1 'clock Thursday evening. At 12.30 o'clock this morning it had agency of 100 w'at'er systems. i Contracts To Be Drawn The next step in the purchase, negotiations is approval by both i interested groups here of the con- tracts for local company operation (-by Mr. Ware and his The agreement states the former owner Will manage the city water.

company during the lifetime of the existing contract. There will be no taxation program to pay for the purchase under provisions that Mareh exports may fall 400,000 tons short unless immediate (Continued on Page.2, Column 6) Two Negroes Killed In Shooting Fracas COLUMBIA, -Two Negroes were wounded fatally and two other persons, in-" 1 eluding a deputy sheriff, were shot yesterday in an outburst of rs nd a11 bond issues wil1 a on water company revenue; paid off from the same source. Wilham Gordon and James 'Johnson were dead upon arrival, at a Nashville, (Continued on Page 5, Column 2 about 6.4« C.S.T. Says Men Involved. NIIF-RNBERG (AP)-The United States demanded yes-! terday the conviction of six! Nazi organizations of war i crimes charges, terming them meet in full the purchase price potential nests of war, but de-1 within a period not to exceed 40 I a i i i tense counsel such action would outlaw more than 7,000,000 men one-1 The financial breakdown of fig- third of Germany's adult male population.

shall receded to 10.23 feet. i Justice Robert H. Jackson, chief The ice broke easily and prosecutor, asked the convic- small pieces from Lock Haven jtion. of the German general staff past Williamsport Thursday. A and high command, the Reich Cab- ew large floes smashed the S.S., the Nazi Leadership bridge piers and over the dam at I Corps, the S.A., and the Gestapo.

he foot of Hepburn Street. whose membership was estimated Gradual recession is expectediby Allied sources at 2,000,000, se Rowe.v'ef, as-1 serted that the membership, i eluding; turnover, would men. Arguing legal and technical questions in trial of the six indicted groups, Jackson asserted the or- ganizations "are the this generation to the next of the infection of aggressive and ruth- with the forecast calling for; (Continued on Page 6, Column 8 Bureau Hopes Hnish Soil Coal Wage Study Soon WASHINGTON (AP)--The Bu- reau of Labor Statistics is hurry- tion and punishment less war "The next war and the next pogroms in the liesU of these organizations as surely as we leave their membership with; its prestige and influence undiminished by condemna- Horder Closed Xast Midnight A FRANCE! the Spanish people to shake off the (AP) The French-Spanish GCTeralissimo Francisco border was closed officially at The occupation of the consulates midnight by French military Lcame as traffic trickled to a stand" j- stm acr(ss the ing to complete a new study of the Sltuminous coal industry wage structure by March 15. authorities in France's protest against the Falangist regime of Generalissimo Franco. across border 8 few hours before its scheduled midnight (7 p.m.

Eastern Standard Time closing, dered by France in. a one-nation PARIS (AP)--Republican Span-1 quarantine against Franco. lards and French leftists last night; The French news agency re- demon- Great Catastrophe "It would be a greater catastro- phe to acquit these organizations several Spanish consulates) ported that 5,000 persons, as France drafted an endorsement 1 play an-import-j (Cormfl'irtff on Page 9, Column 5) I to an American-proposed bid to fContinued on Page 9, Column 3V ant part in the exoected wage negotiations between John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers bituminous coal operators, by showing the extent to which miners' earnings have changed during the war years. Lewis has called his 250-man policy committee to Washington March 11, and operators expect to receive day that he in- tends to terminate the present contract BYRNfS US, WILL COMBAl NEW YORK (AP)--Secretary But, Byrnes asserted a that State Byrnes served notice on must make plain that the Chairman Ezra Van Horn of thejworlji.

last night that the United i United States intends to defend" wage" conference must stand ready to use; the United "Na'tfons charter, which he had not been notified of Lewis' plans upvto last night. An important point in any mine wage negotiations is expected to the question whether the coal diggers' pay under the administra- force if necessary, to prevent aggression. Only an 'inexcusable tragedy of errors could cftuse serious conflict" between 'this country nnrl Russia," he said at. one point, and port's new (Continued on Page 9, Column 2) any of the great powers," convlnc.t'd outlaws aggression. Wants Maneuvering He called for a "stop to this maneuvering for a i advan- tagrps over tfw world and to the use of one adjustment as an for He said that the and "status quo of.

world affairs is not sacred and unohangablf hut "we cannot overlook a unilateral gnawing away ai the status 1 "Tho rh.irVr forbids and we cannot ailow Sggression' to be accomplished by coercion or pressure or by subterfuges such as political infiltrations." must make it clear in ad- on Page 2, Column 3) rSPAPERf SPAPES..