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if 5 3 4 THE LATENT NEWS FIRST The Post-Star II delivered throughout Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties within a lew hours of publication. TAR THE WEATHER Considerable cloudiness today; Friday partly cloudy, mild. 40 degrees above zero HUM. at the Airport. VOUXLV-No.

282 TwENTT-rous Pages GLENS FALLS, NMTHURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1949 Twenty -rouB Pacts Puce Frvi Cents THE FOSTrS GUATEMALA TOLL SEE GOVERNMENT Feud Between Armed Units Caused "Infinite Harm" to President Says 'Well Done7 as C1st Congress Adjourns But Republicans See Trend Toward Statism in 9i Frlonth Session; High Level Farm Price Support Dill Is Passed Bradley Says Administration's Score On Fair Deal Program Rep. Martin Asserts Truman's Socialistic Plans Must Be Halted IN FLOODS 'RISES, 4,039 ARE DEAD Property Damage founts to Fifty Million Dollars, Survey Shows COFFEE CROP BADLY HIT 30 Per Cent of Harvest Is Gone Through Rains, Producers Say GUATEMALA, Guatemala, Oct 19 tSS The mounting toll of Guatemala's rainy season floods were of ficially estimated today at about 4,000 dead and at least $5.000,000 property damage. Foreign Minister Gonsales Are- Vftln smnnnnwri t.hp totals nn the Farm Program After tossing aside the Brazilian Plan, Congress finally approved a compromise price support program which generally provides for' a continuation of wartime props under major crops. For the next year these will be supported at 90 per cent of parity, with provision for somewhat lower basis of reports still far from distr' Mani Defense, Gsn. 'Aspiring Martyrs' Are Denounced in Talk lo Congress WASHINGTON, Oct W) Five-star Gen.

Omar N. Bradley told Congress today that the bitter row between the armed services has done "infinite harm" to the nation- al defense, and he cautioned against i setting the stage for another Pearl Harbor. Tersely, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff advised all of the nation's fighting men to forget their feuds and "get on with the job." It is a very big job, he said, and very Important. Bradley had a sharp word, too, for "aspiring martyrs" an obvious allusion to some navy critics, and others who have levelled dramatic charges against the military high command. 'To be successful In a sacrifice he must be 100 per cent right," Bradley told jam-packed hearing before the House.

Armed Services Committee. "To be respected, a martyr must be completely unselfish in thought and motivation. His sacri- flee must be for the good of the entire nation. "Under such requirements," he said dryly, "I see few opportunities for martyrs in this defense contro- versy today." Urges Teamwork In solemn tones, Bradley declared that if there had been greater teamwork within the armed forces prior to the last war, the catastrophe of Pearl Harbor might never nave bap-5 pened. i And the lesson of Pearl Harbor, i.

he said, should have taught all mili-i tary men that our forces are all one team, in the game to win regardless of who carries the ball. Carrying on the analogy in football terms, Bradley said: "This is no time for 'fancy dans' who won't hit the line with all they have on every play, unless they can. call the signals. Each player on this. team whether he shines in toe spotlight of the backfleld or eats oirt in the line must be an All- American," m.v Calmly and gravely, like a pro-: lessor lecturing a classroom, Brad--ley took up.ethe various criticisms raukd by trie Navy 1ms the Huyh Command's overall defense strategy.

He paid particular attention to the Navy's belittlement of the B- 36' bomber's performance and the WASHINGTON, Oct 19 Offl Here is the box score showing how President Truman fared to date on the multi-billion dollar "Fair Deal" program he asked at the start of the 81st Congress: Domettle Affairs Taxes Request for $4,000,000,000 tax hike ignored by both House and Senate, Repeal of Federal levies on oleomargarine approved by House, but no action taken in Senate. Housing Long range program featuring construction of low-rent public housing units and slum clearance aids approved by Congress. Labor laws Repeal of Taft-Hartley Act and substitution of modernized Wagner Act sidetracked by House. Senate approved revisions of T-H law, leaving the 1948 labor act virtually unchanged; hike in minimum wage standard from 40 cents to 5 cent an hour approved by both Houses, but undetermined number of workers removed from wage-hour act coverage. Anti-Inflation Request for standby wage and price controls, plus allocation authority refused.

Congress also let Federal curbs on installment credit and bank loans expire in June. Social Security Expanded coverage with increased benefits approved by House, but no action in National Health Insurance No action in either chamber, but both Houses approved extension of Federal aid in hospital construction program. Education Plan for Federal loans to states on share-cost basis passed by Senate, but bottled up in House Labor Committee. Rent Controls Request for two-year extension of rent law rejected as both Houses approved a one year continuation on a states' right basis whereby curbs can be removed by local action. YUGOSLAVS SEEN C0UHC1L SEAT LAKE SUCCESS, Oct.

19. UP) Western diplomats predicted tonight Yugoslavia would win a U.N. Secur- Two Ideologies 0 Too Many-Kehru NEW TORE, Oct 19 (Pi. The world Is too small to hold both and capitalism as competing ways of life, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru said today. Which will survive? Nehru said it will be the one that best can "deliver the goods." And that he added, means the spiritual as well as material "goods." The dignitary's statement was In reply to a quesion at a reception given by the United Nations Correspondents Association.

He has declared firmly on his three weeks tour of the United States that his country is taking a middle path, backing neither east nor west in the cold war but seeking friendly with all the world. IDLE III STRIKES LOSIIIG MILLIONS 58 Million Dollars in Pay Going Down the Drain Each Week PITTSBURGH. Oct 19 An estimated $58,600,000 is going1 down the drain each week In lost wages during the big steel, coal and aluminum strikes idling approximately a million. Since September 19' when the coal strike started, the work stop-' pages have cost about $196,000,000 la lost pay. The total is expected to- jump rapidly next week.

Many allied industries will then run out of fuel and. raw material. The strikes are costing the nation 1,400,000 tons of steel a week, tons of soft coal and 7,750 tons of aluminum. Some of the production can be regained after the 'strikes end if mills and mines work at full speed to catch up. But the wages are lost forever.

Loss Aau0 Slump v. ..9, "the loss means a slump in business for almost everyone from grocers to bankers, crippling the nation's economy: -The biggest. Daiioea-Ci any. group. striking CIO, United Steelworkers who struck against basic steel companies in 27 states.

Seeking free pensions 'and Insurance, they are giving up $30,000,000 a week to support of their demands. So far, basic steel workers have lost about $90,000,000 in wages in their three week old strike. John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers are giving up an estimated weekly in wages with about 380,000 soft coal diggers Idle east of the Mississippi They are striking to back Lewis' band in bargaining for a new coal contract The 45,000 laid-off employes of coal carrying railroads are saying goodbye to about $3,000,000 a week. They only work when the miners do because all are members of train crews which transport coal from mine to market In the steel fabricating industry, where some 200,000 plants buy basic process, it- into.

products, unemployment nas not nit hard as yet Steel stockpiles have kept the companies going the past three weeks. But predictions are general that they'll suffer from now on. To date, only about 27,000 employes of fabricating firms have been laid off. They are losing about $1,600,000 a week in wages. The 16,000 to 20,000 striking em ployes of the Aluminum Company of America are giving up an estK mated $1,200,000 a week in lost pay.

ClO-United Steelworker employes in nine Alcoa plants struck Monday in support of pension and Insurance demands. Everywhere' the idle workers are digging deeper1 and deeper Into their pocketbooks. Credit is being limited in some places. Savings are dwindling. Relief rolls are growing.

bomhti: CHucil seat de3nitft.wtj't.ftoxletlhato-iw-.jwul trioi MAKING MOVE TO EilD COAL STRIKE Union and Operator Teams Go Through Futile Act of Bargaining 'HOPELESS LOVE SAYS Lewis Takes Time Out for Blast at William Green on Strike Fund WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Vsu, Oct 19. yp The next move to settle the coal strikes seems to be up to the government Union and operator teams shuffled through more fruitless nego tiating sessions today. Afterwards, an operator spokesman announced: "We have about reached the end of the line. It's hopeless." Another said everyone was stall ing, waiting for a call from Wash, ington.

Presumably it would be a can for a showdown session between United Mine Workers Chief John L. Lewis and the industry in the presence of government mediators. It could be government seizure of the mines. The White House announced to day that President Truman has no present plan to Intervene. Lewis sat in on today's talks here between his aides and negotiators for the northern and western seg mentg of the industry.

He pulled out after 45 minutes and disap peared. Vice-President Thomas Kennedy of the UMW said, however, this should not be taken as a sign Lewis has abandoned the talks "far be it from that" Lewis Didnt Talk An operator spokesman said Lewis hadn't done any talking. While he was here he issued in Washington by remote control an other of his tart blasts at William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. Lewis has suggestgpvto Green that the UMW, CIO, and nine other big AFL unions put together a $2,500,000 weekly war chest for the CIO steel workenr-now on strike. Green re fused.

Lewis wrote Green: "I did not think you would do anything. You rarely do. Untor tunately, you follow invariably your well known policy of anxious inertia. You cry loud for labor peace and labor security, but seldom any thing to secure It," API, spokesmen In Washington said Green has asked Lewis some questions about his proposal and couldn't agree to lt he got Recess Till Todai The conference herjs contfnued.for two hours after Lewis left and re cessed until tomorrow (10 A. Both sides then held press coo.

erences. George H. Love, spokesman for the operators, said they "have no place here we're. Just sitting on the sidelines while powerful union lead- ers race to see which Is the most powerful" Love said Lewis is trying to show himself more powerful than the CIO or the AFL. Kennedy replied for the UMW that there is nothing to this.

"We've never taken -that into consideration in any negotiations." Kennedy said lie could not agree with Love that the sitaution is hopeless. He was asked if there had been any progress. "We've probably cleared all the underbrush," Kennedy said. "We're down to The union" vice presidenfsaKTne' did hot know why Lewis left or where he was going. At Bluefield.

W. Va, where an other union team is negotiating with Southern coal producers, the con ference broke up after about hour and agreed to meet again to morrow (10 A. There was no announcement on what had happened. It was here that an industry spokesman said Informally that everyone is waiting for a call from Washington. He told reporters they ought to get in touch with Federal conciliators for news and mentioned Cyrus Ching, the government's chief mediator.

Ching brought Lewis and the op erators together Oct. 7 in a special attempt to get a settlement but failed. sent this nation abroad in Its highest diplomatic The confirmation of Wallgren left in its wake two major rebuffs for Mr. Truman by the present Democratic-controlled Senate. Just last week.the Senate rejected the President's nomination of Leland Olds for the same position.

Olds already had served two terms on the Power Commission. And Wallgren himself had been turned down once, although not by a vote of the full Senate. Its Armed Servioes Committee last March bottled up his nomination to be chairman of the National Security Resources Board. Mr. Truman finally withdrew his name, at Wallgren's request The resources board is a key defense agency, charged with planning the mobilization of the nation in wartime.

Wallgren's critics said he lacked the qualifications for tills Job but a number of them felt be was qualified for the power commission wmcn among other things regulates certain activities of electria utilities. Pla belong Agriculture Bill Is Cheered by Many but City People Are Glum WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 Congress today finally approved a high level crop price support bill, but not without a cry of "Santa Claus" from some city members. Before the House approved the measure 175 to 34, Rep. Pulton, a Republican from Pittsburgh, inquired pointedly if Saint Nick wasn't one of the authors? Rep.

Coudert, another GOP member, said the 8,000,000 residents of New York City would be able to contain their en- hattan Island contains 299,995 peo ple, none of them farmers. Farm state members struck back hard. They said the bill would underwrite continued prosperity for all, and by no means represents a gouge at the city consumers, Sees Stable Economy "It is a bill to give America a stable economy," declared Chairman, Cooley (D-NO of the House Agriculture Committee. The bill went through the Senate 46 to 1, clearing away the last big obstacle to final adjournment' of Congress. Senator Ives (R-NY) forced a rollcail vote in the Senate, crying that the bill would mean higher food prices for consumers and high er costs for taxpayers.

Senator Sal-tonstall (R-Mass) chimed in, say ing that "the taxpayer and consumer is the forgotten man." But the final vote showed that the opponents were in a tiny minority. All seven senators who voted against the bill were Republicans-Baldwin (Conn), Bridges and Tobey (NH, Ives (NY), Lodge and Sal- tonstall (Mass) and Williams (Del) Congressional leaders predicted freely that President Truman would sign the bill. As worked out by a conference committee Tuesday, the measure makes it possible for the govern ment to keep the props under farm prices at or near the current 90 per cent of parity level Parity is a price figured to give the farmer a fair purchasing power when he turns his crops into cash and buys things at the store. i-. Co1S Pfltes' "i It- would be technically possible unoer the bill for the agriculture department to reduce price supports next year for all but a few major commodities, but' the department also has the option of keeping them JB-jomfi ijxcreusuig For the crops which Congress previously has defined as basic -I cotton, wheat, rice and peanuts the support level would have to be 90 per cent of parity next year If restrictions on.

planting and marketing are in effect The range in 1951 could be 80 to 90 per cent of parity, and after that the supports could vary from IS to 90 per cent Tobacco, another crop classed as basic, gets special treatment It is to be supported at 90 per cent of parity indefinitely provided growers as they always have in recent years approve government controls. Two Formulas Two separate but not equal- parity formulas will be in use until 1954 under the bilL One Is the present formula. The other is one developed by the Senate, which takes into account the cost of hired hands and the relationship between the. price oj.ttons.anq;.DWufac.tured articles in the recent past. The measure instructs the Agri culture Department, in figuring parity for the basic crops -for the next four years, to employ the formula Which will be most advan tageous to the fanner.

In 1964 the Senate formula is to become the only guide. I Apart from the so-called basic crops, dairy crops would be sup ported at from 75 to 90 per cent. A scale of 60 to 90 per cent of parity would be the rule for wool Onclud- insr JBohair), turtg nuts, honey and Irish potatoes. The secretary of agriculture would have discretion to support other produce at from zero to 90 per cent of parity. While the opposition to the bill in the House was not large, it was highly vocal.

Farm minded members slammed back at -the city men's cracks about the legislation. Rep. Pace (D-Ga) told Rep. Coudert he didnt hear any com-platnfsrom New York's eight millions when Congress voted to raise the minimum wage by 35 cents an hour. Rep.

Andresen (R-Minn) said that if farmers shipped their stuff to New York free, the consumer there still would pay tS per cent of the present price, because of the high charges made by food handlers there. In the flurry of Senate criticism which preceded passage of the bill, Senator Williams (R-Del) said the measure was "unfair to the fanners themselves" because it would mean they would "wind up under bureau cratic controls." Even Senator Aiken (R-Vt). who cooperated with Democrats in drafting the bill In conference, called the compromise "a borderline bill" with nearly as many bad as good features. Yets Can Get Ballots ALBANY, N. Oct.

19 (At War veterans who were discharged after Oct 1. and who were unable to register for toe election Nov. 8, may get ballots at County Boards ol Elections until noon Saturday, iNov. 5. WASHINGTON.

Oct. 19 UP) Congress adjourned tonight with a "well done" from President Truman and a Republican denunciation of "statism." i The House quit for the year at P. M. (EST). The Senate wound up its affairs 70 minutes later, at 8:10 M.

Barring an emergency requiring a special session, the men and women who make the laws won't be back In Washington until January 3. Before catching their planes and trains, they gave their final approval to a high-level farm price support bill and passed a $1,314,010,000 appropriation to arm friendly nations against Communism. debate wa Bitter They had been In session nine and a half months. Much of the debate was acrimonious: some of the disputed questions were settled by thin margins. But all In all, Mr, Truman pronounced their achievements good.

He noted that they had tussled with momentous international and domestic problems through the wilting heat of one of Washington's hottest Summers. "I am confident that the American people will agree that the re sults have been well worth the President said in identical letters to House Speaker Rayburn and to Vice President Barkley, presiding officer of the Senate. House Republican leader Martin of Massachusetts, however, Issued a statement saying that "the first session of the 81st Congress which had just adjourned will go down in history as the tree which bent before the gale of statism." That word has gained wide use among Republicans" for what they say is a trend toward an all powerful Federal government which attempts to regulate everything the citizens do. -Mi. Truman's Socialistic program must be stopped in the montlis Martin declared.

Everybody Happy There were women and song if no wine in the House chamber as that body Three girl committee employes trilled "The Eyes of Texas" and "Down by the Old Mill Stream'" into the micro- phone in front of the Speaker' desk. Back-slapping, hand shaking members whooped with pleasure as Rayburn banged the final gavel. doors that led to home. Since- a renewed Democratic majority took over both Houses from the Republicans last January 3, the leaves of- the famous old hardwoods on the Capitol grounds have budded, matured, turned scarlet and yellow and orange, and now are falling. Their number scarcely exceeded the volume of legislation, major and.

minor, considered by the lawmakers. The Democrats, who are going to have to uphold the record of this Congress in next year's elections, called its accomplishments "amaz ing," "imposing," "great" They pointed out that Important segments of President Truman's pro gram have been enacted. Republicans said acidly that the record wasnt like that at all. They said the leadership had been fumbling, the Truman program inept the spending enormous, and the trend toward centralized government dangerou4o the undaiysri, hb- The voters in 1950 will say who was right when they elect a -full quota of House members and a third of the Senate. The main key to final adjourn ment was the farm bill.

For several days it appeared that the House and Senate were hoplessly dead locked on what kind of props to place under crop prices, but conferees finally reached an agreement Tuesday. The bill they worked out will make it possible for the Truman or any other administration to keep the price supports for major crops at or near the current 90 per cent of parity Indefinitely ao long as Con gress provides the necessary money to buy up surpluses. Those are the same levels which have prevailed since early in the war. The measure technically permits a sliding scale of supports for all but a very few commodities next year, -But the Agriculture Department can, if it wishes, keep most supports at the present level, and In some. In stances even raise them.

In its final days. Congress has reached agreement not only on the farm bill but on such other important legislation as a record- peacetime appropriation of for the armed services, and a boost in the minimum wage in Industry from 40 cents an hour to 75, Foreign Score Beat The administration ran up its best score on international matters, In of which it got hearty cooperation from many Republicans, The European Recovery Program was extended and The Senate ratified the Atlantic pact, and in a follow-up action both houses approved the arming of friendly European nations against possible Communist aggression. After sharp debate, the administration got through an extension of the reciprocal trade law free of previous restrictions on the President tariff-cutting Domestically, this Congress extended rent control (with sharp modifications), passed a low-cost housing aid bill, granted the Presi- (Coutinued on Page 16, Col. levels to be applied later at the dis cretion of the Agriculture Department Civil Rights Repeal of poll taxes approved by House, but no action in Senate; anti-lynching legislation approved by Senate committee, but no further action in either chamber; establishment of fair employment practises commission approved by House committee, but no further action by either chamber. Pay Raises Nearly every federal employe from a buck private up to the commander-in-chief himself and including postal workers.

Civil Ser vice employes and top executives were voted salary hikes. International Affairs Economic Second year's Install ment on Marshall Plan aid to Europe approved; reciprocal trade agreements program renewed with out restrictions voted by last Con gress; international wheat agree ment ratified by Senate; export controls extended- for two years; plan to finance development of backward areas of world with gov ernment-backed private investments not acted on by either House. Displaced Persons Broadened program for entry of homeless Eu ropeans into U. S. passed by House, but Senate deferred action until next January.

Global Defense The 20-year mutual aid treaty between 12 North Atlantic nations ratified by Senate; a $1,314,010,000 military aid program to help build up defenses of At lantic pact members and other friendly nations united against Communism was passed. JUDITH (0PL01I FAILS III PIE NEW YORK, Oct 19. (ffWudith Coplon today failed in an attempt to have the indictment quashed cKargesI- The 28-year-old former Justice Department employe, convicted in Washington of taking government documents for espionage purposes, is scheduled to go on trial here Nov. 9 on an espionage conspiracy charge. Charged with her In the alleged conspiracy is Valentin A.

Gubitchev, Russian engineer who has been sus pended from his job at the United Nations. Miss Ooplon's attorney, Archibald Palmer, also lost a motion which would have permitted him to inspect the records of the grand Jury which indicted her. Federal Judge William Bondy said he would have to hold another hearing before making up his mind on a third plea that documents found In her purse when she was arrested here be returned to her. fMitk Dealers Object To Price Cut ALBANY, N. Oct 19 (Pi A group of independent New York City milk distributors announced today they had asked the State Agriculture Commissioner to revoke the milk marketing license of Sheffield Farms, Inc.

Alfred Sperber, executive director of the Milk Handlers and Processors Association, said that association made the request and that it stemmed from Sheffield's action last week in cutting retail milk prices in New York City. Sperber said the association contended the price cuts constituted unfair competition within the mean ing of Section 258-c of tne state Agriculture and Markets Law. world" will require American support, he said. The lobbies of the Capitol buzzed with comment on yesterday's criticism of government spending uttered by Dr. Edwin G.

Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Nourse, about to end a three-year career as the government's ranking economist, said he was unhappy to "see government slipping back Into deficits as a. way of life." He deplored also a farm program which "pays subsidies out of Federal deficits," and had unkind words for some business pricing policies and some union proposals to cut the hours of work and production while keeping pay scales up. Today Nourse told reporters he was "surprised and distressed" to find his words interpreted In some accounts as an attack on the Truman administration. "Government" means Congress as well, he said, noting last year's Republican-sponsored tax cut as one contribution to the Federal deficit plete, as Central American neighbors and the United States extended aid.

"As each additional report ar rives," Arevalo said.ythe disaster assumes greater proportions. While he was talking to a reporter, he received word 1,000 homeless children have been collected in Escuintla, a town of 26,000 south of the capital Their parents pre sumably are dead. Coffee producer say at least 30 per cent of Guatemala coffee crop has been' destroyed. Arevalo commented: "My esti mate is from 30 to 60 per cent' A rich grazing belt, from 20 to 40 mues wide, which stretches for more than 200 miles along the Pacific Coast was one of the sections hard est hit The foreign; minister said 600 cattle drowned on his ranch there and that many ranchers lost all their livestock. Destruction of roads by the sweep of waters handicapped relief and rescue work.

Many villages are entirely isolated. Arevalo said the country sorely needs transport planes and road equipment as well as food, medicines and clothing. Three U. S. relief planes arrived today from the Panama Canal Zone with a large survey team, including Edward Russell of the American Red Cross, a surgeon and several radio technicians.

Cuba dispatched a party of civilian and military en gineers to aid in -reconstruction. The Guatemalan government has named an emergency relief committee and provided it a $6,000,00 fund. have been taken over as emergency barracks for the. homeless. Scattered rams persisted, but none compared with the cloudbursts the first 15 days of October, in which 30 inches fell on his capital city.

Other parts of the country were hit even harder. October normal rainy season. The search continued for a TJ. S. Air Force amphibian plane missing with seven persons since noon Mon day on a flight from Albrook Field, Panama uanal zone, -to Belize, British Honduras.

About two dozen American planes participated in the hunt Snow and Cold Hits Plains States By The Associated Press Snow and cold puffed across the plains states Wednesday in Winter's irst big preview. Storms still raged in the North Atlantic Southern California was pounded by cold wintry winds. Pleasant weather prevailed in most other sections of the country. A large area of Montana was un der four to eight inches of snow. Snow' was forecast 'as far eastward" as western Nebraska and northwest Kansas.

The mercury tumbled to 1 degrees at Butte, 11 at Cut Bank, Mont, and a record breaking 30 for the date at Fresno, Calif. Mile high Mt Wilson, Calif, had 22. The cold winds in California up rooted trees, beached boats, stirred up dust storms and dashed waves over the sea wall at Redondo Beach. Snow fell in the mountains. About 100 hunters were snowed in at Teton Canyon, Mont, but they were well stocked and In ho danger.

Many Montana roads were blocked by five foot high drifts. NOTJBSK QUITS WASHINGTON, Oct 19. Iff) President Truman today accepted the resignation of Dr. Edwin G. Nourse as chairman of his Council of Economic Advisors.

20 Years Ago In The Post-Star Oct 0, 192 President Hoover, on his first long trip since he took office, Is Journeying to the middle west where he will join in a tribute te Thomas Edison during the Light Jubilee. The Glens Falls area had Its first snowfall of the season the other day. Snow was reported In Ticonderoga where It melted Immediately upon reaching the ground. At the movies, "The Cockeyed World" made such a hit locally that it was subject of a Post-Star editorial. The talking comedy starred Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe.

Fred J. Hovey and Clinton Smith, who are developing a tract in Upper Glen Street between Glen and Bay Streets, have named one of the thoroughfares Edison Road: The new street Is near Fort Amherst Road and Is named in honor of Thomas Edison. He said that as a believer in hu. manity, he the atomic. bomb, but he said toat as a soldier ne realizes mat inis country is -ttnnlriwl ne linn 1 J.

Add the long-range B-36 bomber, he said, is our "first priority retali atory weapon in case of Although his voice was generally mild and matter-of-fact Bradley hit out hard at the Navy and some of its Admirals. He hinted that the Navy is in "open rebellion" against civilian control of the military establishment and bluntly accused Admiral Louis B. Denfeld of a "violation" of security in disclosing opinions of the joint chiefs of staff. Denfeld is Chief of Naval Opera-: tlons and the Navy member of the Joint Chiefs. Bradley also lit into critics for displaying a "lack of loyalty" and proposed, but did not demand, "some retraction" of the angry ciiarges- mi) fey the Adrakafe iii their week-long testimony before the Congressional Committee.

-Vandenberg Testifies Sharing the spotlight with Brad ley, air force Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg earlier told the lawmakers that the American B-36 bomber and the atom bomb are tilting Russia back on the defensive instead of concen- trating on offense. These two weapons, Vandenberg said, are the "greatest equalizing factor" in the balance of military power between Russia and the Western democracies. The 50-year-old Air Force Chief of Staff said he opposes the navy pet project the super to Chechoslovakia.

The full assembly of 59. nations meets at Flushing Meadow tomorrow for a showdown In the race for toe seat beingcaeated Dec 31 by the Soviet Ukraine after a 2-year term. The first secret ballot is scheduled about 11 A. A two-thirds majority of those present and voting is deeded for election. India is expected to be elected to the seat Canada will vacate Dec 31; Ecuador is slated to succeed Argentina.

A diplomatic source reported his delegation canvass showed Yugo slavia would get 30 or 35 votes on the first ballot and Czechoslovakia 12 to 14. The tide will turn to Yugoslavia after that, he said. If all 59 votes are cast, the winner will need 40 ballots. Another election before toe assembly, but not quite soaJteenly con tested, wffl be' ioriSiacWflie' Economic and Social Council. The six members retiring this year are White Russia, Lebanon, New Zealand, Turkey, the U.

S. and Venezuela. 'All are eligible for reelection. Elsewhere in the U.N.; 1. The special political committee voted 40 to 6, (Soviet bloc and Pakistan) to continue the year-around little assembly Indefinitely.

Yugoslavia, which has boycotted the organization along with the other Slav countries, abstained on the vote but (indicated she might end her boycott later. The assembly now must act on this decision. 2. The U. S.

and Britain recom mended the eastern part of Eritrea be annexed to Ethiopia and the western portion Incorporated in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, aircraft carrier U. S. 8. S. United Statesr-because it would be no use $5,009,000,009 Deficit Is Indicated As Congress Completes Appropriations WaHgren, by 47-12 Vote, Confirmed Fcr FPC; IMA, Mrs.

Anderson Okayed against "our one possible enemy." Construction of the giant $190.. 000,000 flattop was suddenly cancel ed by Secretary of Defense Johnson last- Spring after its keel had been laid at Newport News, Va. Vandenberg stepped hard on the Navy's toes when he said the Navy aircraft carriers are just "second priority" weapons in the nation's arsenal of defense. He said he opposes "buying a second priority item when first priority items are still unWight." The Air Force general said carriers played a "significant but not predominant" role In the Euorpean phase of World War but he conceded that in the Pacific they were "important factors" in the hopping campaign. However, he said any future war will resemble the war against Ger-: many, not the war against Japan.

Vandenberg went on to say that in his opinion, the Navy should develop and keep In Instant readiness types of earners needed for antl-' submarine warfare. As for maintaining large carrier task forces In peacetime, he said there Is just no justification and they are not, required. INJURIES FATAL PENN YAN, N. Oct 1 01 --1 "Jennie Groom, 13, died today of in- Juries suffered Saturday night when 1 she was struck by a -bus as she! wns riding her bicycle, WASHINGTON. Oct.

19 JP Congress today reached the last dol lar mark of a heavy-spending session amid some last-gasp cries for But its appropriations added up to a possible $5,000,000,000 deficit. Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va, cap tain of the Senate's antl-jspending squad, put the red-Ink figure even higher $7,000,000,000 by next June 30, end of this fiscal year. If, he added, no big new appropriations are passed next session. He called for new exertions to put Europe on its feet quickly so American taxpayers can stop "carrying the rest of the world on our But in Philadelphia, Economic Co operation Administrator Paul Hoffman predicted this country will have to go on spending $2,000,000,000 a year for foreign aid after the Marshall Plan ends in mid-1952. That doesnt mean the plan is failing.

Hoffman said. ECA can be closed down on schedule, but "spe WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 VP). The senate approved today President Truman's second effort to give a top government post to his close friend and former Senate colleague, Mon O. Wallgren.

Over the bitter opposition of Sen ator Cain (R-Wash); It voted 47 to 12 to confirm Mr. Truman's selection of Wallgren, former Democratic governor of Washington, to membership on the Federal Power Commission. With no opposition, the Senate also confirmed two other major nominations and a flock of minor ones as it cleared Its calendar for adjournment They Included: James M. Mead, former Democratic senator from New York, to be a member of the Federal Trade Commission. Mead was nominated only yesterday, as was Wallgren.

Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, to- be United States ambassador to She thus becomes the first woman -to repre cial situations tftreiynout tne 1.

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