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The Dothan Eagle or 1 Heard Them Say 'Let Vs Go To Genesis 37:17 VOLUME No 42 DOTHAN ALABAMA THURSDAY ATERNOON MAY 25 1950 United Press Leased Wire Associated Press Leased Wire NUMBER 212 President Rejects Commerce Setup Plan To Put EPC Gains Prestige In New Shakeup On oluntary Basis New Departments UN Official Plans the Senate To Get Draft Measure I a th i seeing born to requirements jOrnj project extension of and hf easy danger the HIS YOUTH WORK MAYBE will Co gave for lamp that applauded a standby and women jumped some of them shout the a Pro and and that i rural ending to see Gaines and which also House 216 to keep Turn for have hi for lor anti Th White has of a serv some but com before the tribunal Miss of sending tat ign been Clay dc the pre rent here in of olsom Supporter Predict New Call Chanting Pickets Dispersed By Cops or General's Talk from the ifth and Marshall be filled then is welcome she said named and for der a set of decrees empowering the government to erack down on Communist who caused last general strike in which 38 person were killed and 141 wounded con lead source Use Koch of Buchenwald men feet fore adviser Mr Truman dispatched him nationwide survey of busi condilions and unemploy last year help in organizing the Com WASHINGTON President Truman today re jected suggestions that a air Employment Practices Commis sion (EPC) Ixj set up on a compliance basis Determined Southern opposition thus far has blocked Senate consideration of a bill to set up an EPC with com pulsory provisions The bill would bar job discrimination against any person because of race creed color or national origin CHEMIST HELD OR ATOM ESPIONAGE Harry Gold (right) Philadelphia research chemist is held there in $100000 bail on charges of receiving atomic bomb secrets from Dr Klaus uchs and turning them over to Russia An BI agent (left) escorts the prisoner to jail in default of bond The man in the background is an elevator operator in the Philadelphia ederal building Dr uchs former top British atomic scientist is serving a 14 year prison sentence in England for helping pass the atomic secret to Russia (AP Wire photo) commuting Miss sentence said inter mem to Rev elt explained that after entering Tray State he fud AU3 Buchen min Coun MUNICH Germany (UP) The JKoh of a point in said that with a slale already has cut ren of his units for the Albert Logue of the biggest that they be the the na Board Ry MARIANNA ence) Rural Minister of the Year the 4l year old Rev Daniel Pelt figure out how he earned that title Rev elt the pastor of three reewill Baptist churches in Northwest lorida received noti fication of his selection yesterday but admits he still know what all about He received only a short telegram which scant details The award was made by sressive armer Magazine the School for Town and Country Ministers Embry University At lanta They chose 13 ministers in as many Southern states Each minister will receive a scholarship to the Sixth Annual Town and Country School at Em ory July 3 20 The scholarship includes tuition board and room winner was The Robert Glenn of Valhermoso Springs Rev Pelt has no idea of how he came to be chosen for the hon The Dothan Bagla WANT ADS CAN BE CHARGED! Dial 2 S2OO WIREGRASS AREA Partly cloudy tonight and riday Widely scattered thundershower riday afternoon Not much change in temperature Some Congress members have proposed a compromise that be set up but with compliance on voluntary basis A reported asked Mr Truman at his news conference whether he would accept such a compromise No he would not the President said with emphasis Mr Truman added that gut that now (voluntary EPC) The EPC bill is a keystone of the so called civil rights pro posals which Mr Iruman repeatedly advocated His embittered go up of moving plenty of vacant making it yourselves any a would the By Bolivian Decrees LA AZ Bolivia (UP) Bolivia forces Congress induction reins to "protect the nation from administrative MONTGOMERY (AP) Bert old job a head of the State Conservation Department still hadn't been filled today but Phillip Hamm and two depart ment employes are being men tioned tor the post Gov James olsom splint ed Thomas Mobile County tax as sessor effective riday An an nouncement on who will succeed Thoma as chief of the Conser vation Department was expected today or tomorrow Hamm who ran second to Gov ernor designate Gordon Per sons in the May 2 Democratic pri mary is a former member of cabinet' He was rev enue Commissioner before resign ing to make the race Other mentioned were rank Haynes of ranklin Coun ty Conservation Coordinator for several months and a olsom supporter in the Legislature and career man James Segrest who heads the Park D4 visiosu himself able to attend only twO full school years So he began taking Summer courses working toward his Bachelor of Arts de gree He got it only last year If done anything worthy of special recognition the modest minister figures it might had something to do with youth work He helped to estab lish a camp for boy near Cot tondale on the Panama City high way And in addition worked constantly toward establishing Sunday School departments young people in Northwest rural 'churches But he declared Ronald have done mdst of Mike he said is younger brother also a pastor and Ronald is his 19 year old son Both are graduates of Chipola Junior College where Ronald was an honor student He now helps hi father with youth activities In addition Rev Pelt has an other son Daniel Jr 15 and a daughter Ramona 17 Presi of the the name he did not recall identified Gold's picture as of the man to whom ne passed information BI agents were repoi ted Thirty five persons had cast absentee ballots for runoff primary in Houston County shortly before noon with the deadline set for today Mrs Harmon register in chancery said her ofiice will be open until 4:30 and that any person wishing to cast such votes after that hour should contact her at i her home razier said he cut rentals on his units 10 per cent in January and is not anticipating a hike But he declared some owners ate talking of possible attempts to get more of their units Miss O'Neal also expressed the opinion that adjustments will be In order because rents were frozen too low' added that such cases are parativcly rare Two officials Already hav dieted that removal of th1 lid will have little effect They arc John Rish head of the Third District Census Bureau effirc here rd William Sidney hea of the Rent Cj drol Office for the Doan Area Josh said Le census showed tip ward of 150 units vacant here nnd Williams said he thought this fact showed Lltle fo ir cn ascs SAVE A had met uchs in Santa MONTGOMERY (AP) There will be a special session of the Legislature just a question of the date sources very close to Gov James olsom predict The matter is all but settled they said and proclama tions yesterday calling special elec tion to fill four legislative vacan cies added weight to their words Since any special session called before the November general elec tion would concern members of the past Legislature and not those nominated in the recent primary olsoin set Aug 8 as the date for elections to fill vacancies in the House from Bullock Jackson and Dallas Counties The Senate seat District (Jackson Counties) also will olsom may not wait until August to rail the lawmakers back to the Capitol some observer pointed out The vacancies do not have to he filled a special session can be called What's the Governor's reason for calling th Legislature back Into session? Reapportionment and Senate firmation of his appointments the J't administrative Hamm Is Mentioned or Conservation Job or A committee makes its se lection from names submitted by church groups throughout South But top rural minister doesn't even know who might have recommended him As to the success of his min istry chief basis of the award Rev Pelt has done what I thought was And he mod estly declared of that was so At present he holds pastorates st the Rest Church in Calhoun County near Carr as well as Christian Home and Hick ory Grove churches in Jackson County Christian Home is near Blountstown while Hickory Grove ix at Bascom In addition Rev Pelt teaches social studies at Sneads High School a position for which he prepared himself by eight years of study at Troy State college wnne serving as a ister in hi native Jackson LONG LEA La (UP) The 300 residents of this unincorporat ed village in Southern Rapides Parish apparently just count A resident of Long Leaf said to day that far as I have been able to learn no census taker has been in our little town and no one here been NEW YORK (AP) Heckled and picketed Gen Lucius Clay cast aside a prepared speech at an anti Communist rally last night and Issued a ral lying call to the people of the German capital ana a warning to th Russians To th people of Berlin th for mer American military governor in Germany said: have within th moral strength to stop attempted uprising among youths of Germany which destroy freedom patient tim of freedom Is A lone heckler disrupted the rally and caused brief disorder after police had routed 1000 chanting pickets outsld Town Hall A loud murmur arose from the audience a a young man began heckling Clay because he had cut th prison sentence of the torious Many to their Ing After heckler general cam her tonight prepared Speech but now not going to make Referring to th noisy carrcing pickets who had dispersed outsld the hall said: lived through blockade of Berlin I am not dis mayed by a blockade in New Just a Clay was about to begin his speech th heckler questioned him on the issue of Mrs Koch wife of the commandant of the Nazi extermination camp at Buckejiwald about Use Koch and hu man the heckler demanded of Clay who had cut the woman's penalty to four years after a mili tary court had Imposed a life sen tence for her part in Buchenwald atrocities Mrs Koch was accused of mak ing lampshades from th skin of prisoner German authorities now are holding her in an asylum for mental examination prior to facing trial by a Gemin court on war crimes charges Clay told th heckler: am never unwilling to give anybody his viewpoint on any question but I also belicv that any fair minded American Is will ing to listen" Th unidentified heckler who told newsmen just plain was not arrested Is a Nazi he charged The rally was sponsored Common Cause Inc Communist organization pickets who chanted a sea often used by the Reds repre sented the American Jewish La bor Council and other groups The text of Clay's speech which he Ignored denounced th recent Soviet blockade of Berlin as most ruthless attempt in modern history to use starvation as a means of political In his brief extemporaneous re marks after the disorder he urged Berliners to repel the projected Communist youth demonstration this weekend with eour Clay warned and Communist against mistaking American patience for Indifference Atomic Plant Work Halted By Walkout Of AL Unionists The agreement was readied during the recent three power meeting in London It marks an end to long standing dif ferences among these nations over the question of furnish ing weapons to military forces recently engaged in bitter fighting over the partition of Palestine Although there was no reference in the announcement of the stra tegic importance of the Middle East in the east west cold war officials here were of the opinion the Big Three foreign ministers had this strongly in mind Their joint statement said three governments recognized that the Arab states and Israel to maintain a certain level of armed forces for th purpose of insuring their internal security their self defense and to perm! them to play their due part 1 the defense of the whole Requests by Middle Eastern countries for arms be ap praised in the light of these prin the statement added The announcement said that Middle Eastern countries now re ceiving arms from the thre pow ers already have given assur ances the weapons would not be used for acts of aggression Simi lar assurances will be requested of other states in the area before future arms shipments are au thorized it said This would indicate that Egypt and Hashemit Jordan two the Arab countries which fought against Israel over Palestine par tition hav pledged themselves to peace They have been receiv ing arms aid from Britain Should any nation receiving arms under the arrangement show signs of preparing to late borders or truce the statement said the three powers would at through the United Naions prevent such The arrangement was an nounced simultaneously in Wash ington London and Paris PRIVE SAVE A LIE OAK RIDGE Tenn (AP) A mammoth atomic plant construc tion project was shutdown com pletely today by wildcat walkout of AL workers The strike which members of the Laborers and Hodcarriers I union began yesterday without warning spread to other crafts working on th project th Atom ic Energy Commbrlon reported project is complete shut said an AEC spokesmen haven't been informed by the union or anybody els as to what the walkout Is all about labirers started th strike yesterday rud today th crafts men joined th spokes man who withheld uye ot his name ad1d The came a day ar arbitration board bad ended hearing on a wage dispute involv ing the Laborers and Hodcar riers Union Some 3000 workers are fftct ed by the walkout The AL craft involved a members of the Knoxville Building Trades Coun cil whose officia's were not Im mediately available for comment Picket lines were established outside the various entrance to this atomic city today and by mid morning pickets also ap peared near a gate to the restrict has stand many Southern Dem ocrats and cost him the electoral votes of four Southern states in the 1948 presidential election The Senate decides today wheth er to approve the $3120550000 for eign economic aid authoriza tion bill at is of send it back to a conference committee for re vision of President our" program The vote was due late today and was expected to be close Re publicans led by Senator Taft Of Ohio were trying to force the bill back to conference with in structions to remove the Point our plan It calls for an initial ex penditure of $35000000 to start off the program for the development of backward areas of the world The biggest item in the whole authorization is $2849100000 for the third year of the Marshall work in Europe Another problem due before the Senate soon is extension of the draft law The House approved a two year extension yesterday on a stand by basis with no in ductions permitted until Congress gives the word The House Armed Services Com mittee voted today for a $400 L00 000 program to build up train ing facilities for military reserve units The fundi would be used to build and expand armories air strips other facilities The' House Ways and Means Committee drafting a new tax bill considering a proposal to tax' farmer and consumer coopera One union official John conciliation consultant the hodcarriers joined the AEC in saying he didn't know what brought about the walkout The AEC and th union official said the effects of th strike could not be gauged yt but Turner declaring the laborers go termed the struck project job of such scope that it might mean the security of th entire nation" The Atomic Energy Labor Re lations Panel concluded a hearing Wednesday on a wage dispute be tween the union's local 818 and Maxon Construction principal contractor on the $227 000000 project Involved CHIPLEY (Special) A man and woman who had been held here for investigation in the death of James Adolphus Toole Chipley cab driver have been re leased from Washington County jail after posting bonds of $50 each on vagrancy charges Sher iff Dan Brock said today The two are Nancy Evelyn Thomas and Nelson Lee Thomas In announcing the release Brock said only that there was to hold them The pair had been in jail here since last week when they were arrested in Tallahassee The woman once was investigated in the poisoning of two former hus bands and the man recently was released from prison after serv ing 12 years for rape Brock said today an investiga tion into the stabbing of Toole still is under way A coroner's jury investigating the case is in recess Toole's body was found in the trunk of his cab early this month He had been stabbed more than 70 times Man Woman reed In Cabbie Death Quiz infamou mistress of the Biiclicnwahl concent ration camp will be indicted by Ger man at! lim it a tumoi row on 45 charges of attempted murder and 135 charges of attempted man slaughter it wus announced today Bavarian Slate Prosecutor Haus Hkow said the indictments recuse Miss Koch of guilt in the executions of German and train prisoners in th wald vamp Buchenwald now is in the Rus sian zone of Germany Miss Koch was sentenced to life imprisonment when found guilty of war crimes hy an American military tribunal at Dachau i 1947 However her sentenve was commuted to four years in 1948 nnd she was freed in 1949 The commutation was approved yGen Lucius Clay then military governor of Germany During her trial American military Koch was accused tooed Buchenwald camp inmates to the deatli chambers so could use their skins shades and purses These' shades will be the indictment Ilkow criticized Clay for reducing life imprisonment term vwr She was freed from By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON (AP) The United States Britain and rance have agreed to supply arms to the countries of the Middle East Under the agreement announced today arms nnd war materials may be sent to the Arab nations and Israel but only under assurances that buyer state does not intend to undertake any act of aggression against another After a quick arraignment in Philadelphia he was hurried off to prison in lieu of a $100000 bond GEORGE WHITTINGTON Staff Corespond He her four the iandsbrrg prison pear Munich last Oct i Clay In Koeh's life there had been no evidence in troduced at her trial that she ac tually ordered lampshades book bindings and purses made of bu rn aa akin By OLIVER De WOL WASHINGTON (AP) Sena tor McMahon (D Conn) said to day the BI set its trap at least two months ago for Philadelphia Biochemist Harry Gold who is be ing held on charges of aiding atomic spy Klaus uchs Tliis disclosure by McMahon chairman of the Senate House Atomic Energy Committee came on the heels of information that the ederal Bureau of Investiga tion sifted through a list of 1200 suspects before it finally ran Gold down The 39 year old Philadelphian was arrested Tuesday night and accused of rccieving secret infor mation about atomic de velopments from uchs and pass ing it on to the Russians uchs is the German atomic scientist who recently was sentenced to a 14 year prison term by a British court after his con viction on charges that he stole British and American atomic se crets for the Soviet Union Officials said last night that1 VDT 4nrfod hunt Wlltril lilt AJ A it 54 lor tne middleman hi had to work from a list of 1200 suspects with whom the Biitisn scientist might have had contact The trail led to Gold after the list was narrowed down to a group of chemists in the New York Phil adelphia area The trap finally was sprung of ficials said after Juchs (a told agents in England that his contact was a biological chemist whoso ana that had With rent controls to go throughout the State of Alabama nt midnight tonight spokesmen for rental agencies in Dothan va ried today in their predictions of the action might mean Spokesmen for two of the city lai rental agencies voiced the op nion there will be no general upward trend But a third said he Ihnks many landlords will tty io i git more money for the rental units razier of razier Bro kerage was the only spokesman to i pi edict generally higher rents But he tempered ment that he tals on most Spokesmen Agency one uredicted be a 1 around There are units in the city to find a place Miss Louella of Lome accncv said they four vacancies in one unit alone And she indicated anybody fac ing a prohibitive hike to them Those rents go up Gaines of the Jones Insurance firm handles rentals predicted no gen oral increase He said the lifting of controls will mean no increases for their renters and voiced the I opinion that no general hike will Special Session Of Solons Seen Gold Spy Trap Set Two Months By BRUCE MUNN NEW YORK (UP) Trygve Lie secretary general of the Unit ed Nations said today that erything went fn on his of to Europe Lie arrived at International Air port at 8:10 am EDT from Lon don During his trip he talked to the government leaders of Big Three nations in Europe eluding Premier Josef Stalin Soviet Russia He said he expected to go Washington soon" to Prxcidnt Truman HfiwPVer rangements for the White House visit will have to await Secretary of State Dean return from London Saturday Lie turned aside all direct ques tions on the political aspects ol his trip saying he would answer such queries ai his regular press conference at UN headquarters to morrow When he boarded the plane at London Airport yesterday Lie said he was hopeful that the cold war ultimately could be ended by a new approach to the east west WfffiT within the UN Lie was expected to complete his circuit of the Big our capi tals with a second conference with President Truman at the House next week No date been set for Lie to make a return trip to Washington as he did Pans and Isundon alter Russian Premier Joseph Stalin in Moscow and getting the views on the possibility of the cold war SAVE A Clay Heckled At Anti Red New York Rally Clay had answered the in unsteady voir th told the audience: The 67 Senator bill which passed th Hous last year before getting tangled in a filibuster in the Sen ate has long been one of olsom's pet projects There' also the belief that many Senator would go along with some nf appointment to keep Governor designate Gordon Persons from having too many at hi finger tips The 1949 Legislature adjourned without confirming any of appointees If not approved in a special session Persons will he able to fill them as well as the ones he would get during his four yea term anyway The House vacancies coming up were caused by the death of Willis McIlwain of Bullock County and the resignations of John Snodgrass of Jackson and Thomas Martin Of Dallas Snodgrass gave up hi seat to he roine a circuit judge and Marlin resigned to accept an appointment to the Dallas County Board of Revenue Senator Owens of Marshall County died several months ago setting up the vacancy In the senate There was speculation that Dem ocratic Executive Committees in the counties where there are vacan cies might nominate candidates Who won in the May 2 primary If certified hv the slate commit tee they would be declared the nominee for the Aug 8 elections Nominated for th next Legisla ture in the May 2 primary were John Benson of Scottsboro (Sen ate ifth District) Horace Arm strong (House Jackson) rank Hardy (House Dallas) and A Crook (House Bullock) SAVE A Buchenwald Mistress acing Indictments Lie Is Pleased Over Peace Trip By STERLING GREEN WASHINGTON AP) dent new shakeup the government is carrying Department of Commerce to highest peak of prestige and pow er it has enjoyed in its 47 year history Secretary Charles Sawyer yes terday became supervising boss of the maritime affairs and if Congress assents to an other reorganization plan now pending will take charge in July of the multi million dollar lending operations of the Reconstruction inance Corporation When and if that happens the dapper graying lawyer from Cin cinnati who walked into a sprawling $300000000 a year col lection of bureaus two years ago this month will be presiding over a $2000000000 agency with vast responsibility to see that in dustry and government get along rise his subordinates recall is the more spectacular because he took the job almost on basis It was in May 1948 when most politi cians thought Harry Truman was washed up His appointments were virtually going begging The secretary is publishing to day his orders setting in motion the new three member ederal Maritime Board and creating in his department a maritime admin istration The instructions 4o th board which replaces the old independ ent Maritime Commission re served to Sawyer himself the top policy powers in seeking that the United States keeps a healthy merchant marine afloat by sub sidy ship sales vessel charters and trade route determination The move was a long step to ward an obvious but undeclared goal of the President: To make the Commerce Department the policy control cen ter for air rail sea and highway transportation It followed a series of presi dential actions which make clear mRE inp wn a tniisA i more and more frequently Sawyer to get its tough jobs done Sawyer moved into the ground as an economic when on a ness ment To merce Department as the core of the federal transportation gram Sawyer yesterday acquired the experienced administrator Maj Gen Philip leming as a $17500 a year Undersecretary for Transportation appointment requires Senate confirmation Other appointments made Mr Truman yesterday under au thority of several of the 16 reor ganization plans which became law need no Senate approval These include the designation of Mon Wallgren former gover nor of Washington as chairman of the ederal Power Commis sion former Senator James Mead (D NY) as chairman of the ed eral Trade Commission and the re appointment of Harry MacDon ald as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission or merly these commissions elected their own chairman DRIVE SAVE A LIE 35 Absentee Votes was associated with the atomic at Los Alamos and held in hich regard There was some spccualtion on Capitol Hill that the third man in the espionage triangle the one who got the secrets Gold is charged with receiving was amember of the Russian Embassy staff here This person referred to in official documents as is believed to be In Soviet Union now After a quick arraignment By BARNEY LIVINGSTONE WASHINGTON (AP) The life expectancy of the nation's draft machinery became the Senate's problem today following whelming House approval two year standby selective ice law The measure which the passed late yesterday by a 11 vote would do little but the draft in readiness so that the youth would be registered turning anaavauapie it neeaea With an eye to tne tense national situation House bers put up little resistance modified draft extension At same time they placed the tional Security Resources (NSRB) on notice that they would like to see a total war mobiliza tion plan as a companion to peace time military registration In the House debate Rep Vin son (D Ga voiced the hope that an day plan for labor industry and manpower would be ready by January Vinson chairman of the influ 1 ential House armed services com mittee directed his hint at Stuart Symington newly chairman of the NSRB mer secretary for air The Georgian was when he suggested that Day bill be ready for the next Congress The present draft law expires June 24 The bill passed yesterday would continue the registration and classification of 18 year olds until 1952 But actual inductions would be prohibited until Con gress declared the existence of a national emergency The so called draftless was entitled the Manpower A' AJA dr a jiave produced evidence that Goll 1 1 in COHTa nnri i i i i ix i i ia io Registration Act of 1950 in keep in 1945 that time uchs intr with elimination or co pulsory induction 1 Technically it is an the 1948 Selective Service Act Repeated references to sian military power studded bate on the bill Extension draft law was urged to in case of war Sober warnings of the of conflict came from Republicans as well as administration Vinson declared that was taking over the DRIVE CAREULLY SAVE A LIE i End Of Rent Control Sets Varied Reaction With Landlords Here lorida Top Rural Minister Doesn't Know How Title Came Three Allies Agree On urnishing Arms To Arabs And Israel rWdrTK I V'Z I1 el 'gi aOAX raral mlaMer To Come Under Eye Of Charles Sawyer W'lrl I wSSsHs I I.