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Powerhouse Crushes Stair Tech, 37 To 0 SEE STORY ON PAGE 2 The Weather Tennessee Scattered showers in oast and somewhat cooler today; cloudy Sunday. Virginia Clearing in south; fair Saturday night, Sunday. KINGSPORT NEWS VOL. NO. 66 KINGSPORT, SATURDAY, SEPT.

21, 1946 8 PAGES, 5 CENTS Like Atom Bombs Classified Ads pack mighty power in a little space. To sell, rent, buy, find, or hire, just telephone 6000. FIRED WALLACE CONTINUES FIGHT CIO Sailors Vote To End Ship Strike Accept Wage Hikes, Equal To AFL Gain, And Plan To Return New York X-- National Maritime Union (CIO) seamen voted Frldr.y to end the 15-dny-old marl- time strike at midnight last night and return to work immediately. The unanimous vote accepted a negotiated agreement under which they will receive $5 to $10 monthly wage increases, bringing them to the sumo level as AFL seamen, who nlso won their demands by striking. Joseph M.

Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, told the strikers the agreement "moans $29.000,000 In wage Increases" for KMU members. End Walkout As strikers in each port of the nation ratify the agreement, they will end the strike at midnight local time, it was announced, Curran told the members here: "The shipowners said when- wo were negotiating with them In June that they couldn't give us a penny more without going bankrupt, but they are able to give us this raise and still they're not bankrupt." Curran earlier had sent telegrams to officials In all ports telling them their locals should vote to end the strike, He said: "The arbitrator's award wins for "the unions the Issues for which we are on strike and places the union in a position where we can call off tht strike, and your meeting should See MARITIME, FMO 8 18 Survived Plane Crash Gander Airport, Nfld. A rescue team radioed Friday that 18 persons survived the- wilderness a Wednesday of a Belgian trans-Atlantic airliner, with 14 badly Injured and the other 2fl passengers and crow members killed. The team, including a U. S.

Army doctor, quickly set up tents to treat the survivors before they are brought to Gander, 22 miles north- cast of the scene. Fourteen of the Injured can be moved only by stretcher, the rescuers radioed to a plane clr- clrcling over the smashed and burned lying among broken trees. (The Coast Guard announced In Now York that all 18 survivors were In "very bad condition" with broken bones and burns). The piano that established radio contact with the rescuers by walkle talkie said it was unlikely that tiny of the survivors from the big lour-englned plane could be brought to-Gander until Saturday. The plane, with 37 passengers and seven crow members, had last been reported when it made an instrument approach to Gander Field at 4:37 a.m.

Wednesday. It flew ovor the airport once with a celling of about 500 feet and then disappeared. Milk Products Paroled From Price Ceiling and its by-products won another parole from price ceilings Friday but the decontrol board warned it will Iccop a close watch on future price trends of butter and cheese. After three days of discussion the powerful new independent board announced briefly that it "would not return dairy products to price control at this time." Chairman Roy L. Thompson said evidence before the three- member panel Indicates that dairy "prices are approaching a critical point" but failed to "provide sufficient grounds for action by the bonrd at this time!" Plank Found Guilty Of Manslaughter spending more than a day hearing evidence by a parade of witnesses and arguments by counsel, a Sullivan County jury late Friday took two hours of deliberation to return a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter against Ed, Plank, 46- year-old farmer, charged with the fatal shooting of Robert Bassett, Bristol dairy products firm head.

The jury recommended to the court a prison term of seven Plank received the verdict without emotion but his wife, who was dressed in black, shed tears when the jury reported. The defendant had been held without bond from the day of the shooting until the case was heard, but after the verdict was returned bond was set at $2,500 and was made in open court by friends who came forward to sign the paper. To Offer Motion John Todd, one of Plank's attorneys" said he would" offer a mo- tion'in the case next week and the bond was granted pending the presentation of the motion. Italo-Yugo Boundary Line Upheld Peace Conference Beats Down Plans Favoring The Slavs Paris--JP--The European peace conference upheld Friday the Big Four decisions on the Italo-YujTO- slav. boundary and the borders of the.proposed free state of Trieste, beating down a series of amendments which would have given Yugoslavia a greater portion of the disputed territory.

Later in the day Russia criticized British treatment of Jews in Palestine, with Nikolai V. Novikov, Soviet ambassador to the United States, asserting that "arrests and molestations" of Jews in the Holy Land had become "uncountable." Novikov made the charge In unsuccessfully opposing adoption of a British-proposed a i discrimination amendment in the Bulgarian treaty. Russia and the three western powers, adhering to their commitments in the Foreign Ministers Council, voted amendments on against all the Trieste presented at the meeting of the Italian Political Commission. New Amendments Amendments by Yugoslavia and White Russia would have moved the Italo-Yugoslav line to the west at the expense of Italy, and cut the free state down to the city limits of Trieste. A South African amend- GROMYKO GETS THE GAVEL--Andrei Gromyko, Russian delegate to the United Nations, takes over new duties as chairman of the Security Council at Lake Success, L.

I. Chairmanship of the council rotates among delegates. (NEA Telephoto). lOO-Mile-An-Hour Blow Rakes Guam Installations Guam, Saturday--AP--This mighty U. S.

naval base.in ment would have enlarged the free; the far Pacific was raked today by a 100-mile-an-hour zone down the Istrian Peninsula. Deputy Premier Edvard Kardelj of Yugoslavia, after the balloting was concluded, directed that Yugoslavia could not sign a treaty which 'she considers "unfair." He said "I regret the commission preferred the method of vote instead of conciliation. 1 The Bulgarian Political Commission adopted 7 to 5 the anti-dis- i criminatory amendment, which was Bassett was shot to death in to prevent such action office of the creamery which he against Jewish citizens. The United owned at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 17, dying almost instantly of States joined with Britain in voting for the amendment, which was op- flve bullet wounds which eye wit- posed by France, Russia, White nesses testified were inflicted the Ukraine and Yugoslavia.

Plank. Staking his fate on a plea of self defense, Plank declared that he shot Bassett because he that the creamery operator was preparing to carry out a threat to "blow your damn guts If Plank See PLANK, Page 8 Good Morning A Little Chuckle To Start The Day Decatur, Ehler, restaurant operator, kept saying, "Sorry, no ham, no steaks, no pork, no meat." It got tiresome. Finally Lem went to work on a Hlgn. It wan a big one and c'ov- Novikov objected that the amendment would be "needlessly humil- See BORDER, Page 8 U. S.

Accuses Yugoslavs Of Terrorism fP The United States accused Yugoslavia Friday of failing to cooperate in maintenance of order in disputed Trieste, and denounced in particular the "obstructive and terroristic activities of pro-Slav elements." This country's foreign position was laid down in a formal note typhoon that wrought tremendous damage to military installations. There were no immediate reports of casualties among Arrny and Marine personnel on the 30-mile-long island--many which were isolated by communication "lines'knocked down by the threshing winds. Most vehicles also were wrecked. First reports to Navy Command Headquarters said roofs were ripped off many large quonset huts, used by the military, and one U.S.O. Children Removed ered an entire wall when he ded Ma a i to 'l reig in tacked it up.

It, Mid: "How do you want your eggs?" Pulaski Woman Brutally Killed In Ohio Seek Suitor Bryan, former suitor Hand and foot prints, etched in istry. Replying to two previous Yugoslav notes charging "improper treatment" of Yugoslav soldiers in I the zone of Venezia Giulia under Anglo-American control, the American document declared that these "false and exag- Death Toll 10 As Gale Hits English Coast London--IP--At least 10 persons were killed Friday night as the severest September gale recorded in the British isles in more than 35 years struck the southern coast of England and the English Channel with devastating force, flooding towns, ruining crops, crippling industry and paralyzing shipping. Several steamships and yachts, buffeted by 100-mile-an-hour winds, were in peril off the southern and eastern coasts. The gale reached 50 to 60 miles an hour inland. A 60-foot-high wave washed over the steamer.

Isle of Jersey in the English Channel, sweeping three passengers off the ship to their deaths. Thirty-sir: others were injured and six were hospitalized after the damaged vessel limped into Southampton. Two occupants of a moving automobile were killed near Bristol when an uprooted tree fell on it. A government tug foundered and sank five miles off Folkestone. One crewman drowned and a British destroyer rescued other members of the crew.

A fallen wire electrocuted a was sought for questioning Friday night in the brutal slaying of blonde Emily Abernathy, librarian of this northwestern Ohio town, Sheriff H. A. Barnes disclosed. Barnes described the killing dur- obviously gcance." blood, provided slim clues In the intense hunt for the slayer. There also were a few strands of reddish hair, found clutched in a hand of the 30-year-old woman allegations were gerated." i It cited two cases of violence in that zone against Yugoslavs "known cyclist near great ant: be political opponents of man was killed when a trair present Yugoslav government," and was derailed at a washed-out of-way near London.

A falling tree cannot suppose 1 killed a municipal employe in Brighton, while a resident-of Hud- dersfleld, Yorkshire, was swept to death as he tried to rescue some HamBone's Meditations By ALLEY ACTIONS SPtAKS PUH 5E'FS BUT MAVA UHS Klr4 HOLLER AH' fic struggle against her assailant in the library basement. The body, discovered among the basement's blood-spattered bookshelves Thursday night, 25 knife wounds in the throat and breasts; her jaw was broken, her eyes blackened and her clothing torn. The slayer's motive. Is a mystery. Acting Coroner Douglas O'Dell said Miss Abernathy had not been criminally assaulted.

Authorities went to jvork quickly to check the fingerprints with crime records. They were found on books and walls. The bloody footprints made a trail hrough i door exit. Sheriff Barnes and Police Chief Arch Clappe also began questioning friends of the woman, but none know of anyone who held malice for Miss came here June 1 from her home in Pulaski, to become head librarian of this community of 6,000 residents. Lights burning at 11 p.m.

in the library, which normally closes at 8:30 p.m., led to discovery of the slaying. Before coming here Miss Abernathy was assistant librarian at the U. S. Marine Corps post at Quan- tlco, and had worked in the University of Cincinnati library. She was a graduate of Bethel College of McKenzle, and of Poabody Library School, Nashville, Tcnn.

Her father is a livestock dealer in Pulaski. A brother, James, is on the Vanderbllt University football added: "The ministry that activities of this nature can be undertaken by pro-Slav elements without promoting furious reaction from the local population. "The United States government is forced to point out that it is such activities and other forms of provocation offered by members of the Yugoslav detachment In Zone A (Anglo-American zone) which are directly responsible for many of the attacks upon Yugoslav persons and property of which the Yugoslav government has complained." The note said that although Allied military authorities "will continue to do all in their power suppress such attacks, the remedy for this situation lies largely in the hands of the Yugoslav government itself." i Four Men Killed, Two Escape As B-25 Crash Land? chickens from the storm-swollen River Holme. Careful Pedestrian --Miss BerricI Strong, 1641 Bristol Highway, was named Friday's careful pedestrian and was awarded two theater tickets fur observing traffic safety regulations. Many military men's wives and children were removed from small quonsets to larger buildings as the typhoon, which had been expected to miss Guam, at about 10 p.m.

bore down. Weather Central said the peak of "the storm was past, but winds of destructive force still howled across the island. Garrisons were placed on emergency rations. Several Guamanian villages were reported evacuated. Commander S.

W. staff aerologist, said the typhoon center passed 50 miles north of Guam, traveling west by northwest, and that Rota, Tinian and Saipan probably were hard hit. AD flyable airplanes had been sent See GUAM, Page 8 JRoar Shakes City As Tons Of Rock Fall Into Gorge Niagara Falls, N. large section of the American falls tumbled 165 feet info the Niagara River gorge Friday as a severe shock was felt on both sides of the border with Canada. Residents of this honeymoon capital and of Niagara Falls, alarmed as employes of several factories rushed into the streets fearing an explosion had taken place and housewives telephoned flre departments.

Capt. A. H. head of the Niagara State Park Patrol, estimated that about 25 or 30 tons of rock toppled into the gorge about 125 feet from Prospect Point. Collins expressed belief that an earthquake had caused the rocks to fall, but Dr.

Austin McTigue, seismologist at Canisius in Buffalo, 21 miles said the shock was recorded there and gave as his opinion that it, had been caused by the rock fall. Ex-Secretary Warns U. S. Foreign Policy 'Blind To A torn War 9 Washington--AP--President Truman Friday dismissed Secretary of Commerce Wallace for criticizing administration foreign" policy and Wallace quickly took to the air with a plea for a popular crusade to "win the peace." Mr. Truman, in ousting Wallace, gave an all-out endorsement to Secretary of State Byrnes and forbade all officials in.the executive branch of the federal government to take public issue with the established foreign policy.

Private Citizen Wallace then went on the radio Friday night with a. warning that the policy is blind to "basic realities" which threaten "an atomic war." He served notice that he will "carry on the fight" and called on fellow-citizens to support it "as a holy duty." Mr. Truman determined upon his sensational ouster of his disagreeing cabinet officer after indications from Paris, where Byrnes is battling in the peace conference, that a White House settlement of two days was not good enough. It provided for Wallace to stay 3in office keep quiet rari.ly. Llariiication Of U.S.

Stand Gets Underway Washington-- State Orders WU Rates Be Lowered Nashville JP-- Sweeping reduc- A fiat rate of 25 cents for full tions in telegraph rates and rate telegrams of 10 words or less tion of press tolls within Tennessee I i Four men died were ordered Friday by the State was oroered to become effective and two escaped with injuries from and Public Utilities Com- the flaming wreckage of a twin- engine Army bomber which crashed in an emergency landing at Washington National Airport at dusk Friday. mission which denied a Western Union petition for a 10 per cent increase in intrastate rates. The order set aside all graduated scale rates for intrastate business The 25 i bomber, and substituted flat rates which the stripped of armament and used by commission said would permit in- the Army airways communication system, had arrived here earlier in the day with the six men, all reported by- Army Airforce officials to be from the 75th AAF base at Langley Field, Va. The War Department identified the two injured men as Capt. Bradford W.

Lawrence, medical officer at the Pentagon, whose home is in Fall River, and Capt. Myrick S. Hilsman, of Langley Field, Va. regular rates. creased business and additional revenue.

The company had sought rate increases which it estimated would raise its annual gross revenue in Tennessee from to $284,000.. AH press rates and free "franked" telegrams were ordered abandoned on grounds they are "unjust, unlawful and discriminatory." Press material henceforth must be 'paid at at midnight September 30 as well as proportionately lower rates on night letters, day letters and serials. The minimum rate for full telegrams presently is 30 cents, but the commission pointed out that full rates were graduated on the basis of a "table of squares" by which the state is divided into squares for the purpose of measuring rates. Under the order, the "table of squares" is abolished and flat rates substituted. "Preferential 'press rates' are also in effect," the order said.

"These provide a special privilege to the newspapers. The present day 'press rate' is one-third of the full rate and the night 'press rate" is one- sixth." Wallace's ouster from the Cabinet goes far to restore the strength of Secretary Byrnes at Paris but apparently it leaves the administration a big job to do in clarifying foreign policy. For this reason top State Department officials are considering promoting soon a series speeches. These would make plain to the American peoplf and world exactly what Mr. Truman meant Friday when he said, in firing Wallace, that "no change in our foreign policy is 1 Several opportunities for major foreign affairs declarations are in prospect.

To Report President Truman Is expected to open the United Nations assembly meeting in New York Oct. 23. Secretary of State Byrnes may get home from in mid-October and presumably will deliver his customary report to the nation as soon as possible thereafter. Undersecretary of State Acheson is due back from vacation in about 110 days and already has various invitations to talk about foreign policy. Diplomatic authorities said that when Mr.

Truman finally decided to ask for Wallace's resignation he was doing it In an effort to get American foreign policy "back on track." This meant several i things. Kremlin Told I It meant telling the Kremlin that the United States is not going to See POLICY, Page 8 Stream Of $20 Bills Follows Wake Of Train Madisonville --JP-- Wild excitement occurred here Thursday when a Louisville and Nashville Railroad streamliner left fluttering in its wake hundreds of genuine $20 bills. School had just dismissed and some 90 boys and girls had joined regular hangers-on to "watch the train come through," when suddenly, as one spectator described it, "everyone went crazy and started running after the train." Like the tail of a comet, $20 bills came from the train and fell along the tracks, clung to bushes, and tossed about in the air. Friday Postal Inspector R. C.

Hornsby of Knoxville told this story: The money had been sent from the Hamilton National Bank in Knoxville to the bank of Madisonville. Suction from the speeding train drew the mail sack up beneath car wheels as it was tossed off at Madisonyille, and the mail and sack were chewed up. The packet of currency burst open and the bills, caught in the slip stream of the train, spewed from the rear. Two of ths bills, plastered to the train by air pressure, were found 17 miles away in Etowah as the streamliner slowed down in passing and other, pieces of registered mail, caught in undercarriages, were recovered 154 miles away after the train reached Atlanta. Seventy per cent of the currency was recovered and turned over to government authorities, the inspector said.

He refused to reveal the exact amount in the package. Showers, Cooler Predicted Today With a change of the only two days' away, Tennesseans are promised scattered showers and somewhat cooler temperatures today with increasing cloudiness and a mild mercury Sunday. The weatherman forecasts clearing skies in Southwest Virginia today, with fair.skies and mild temperatures due Sunday. Friday's high temperature in Kingsport-was-81; low was 85. It was 62 at midnight.

Paris--PS--Secretary of State did net suggest or request the resignation of Henry Wallace in his exchange Thursday with President Truman, intimates of Byrnes said Friday night. Telephone After mulling on it overnight, the Chief Executive seized his telephone Friday morning less than half an hour before he was to receive reporters in a news conference and told the Secretary of Commerce he was out. Then he announced his decision, and with it he wrote clear-cut assurances of "my full endorsement" for the embattled Byrnes. He wrote, too, that Wallace's views are not those of the administration, and that "no change in our foreign policy is contemplated." Relieved of his gag, Wallace issued a statement to the Commerce Department explaining that he had resigned "in order that I may b.e free as a private citizen to continue to fight for world peace." Give Facto' He followed this up with his nationwide broadcast Friday night. He spoke only briefly, saying he would not wish to interfere with the Paris but he declared that no policy can succeed unless the people "are given all the facts." In addition to this fresh warning of war and criticism of present policy, he explained that his Madison Square Garden speech in New York last week, which touched off the uproar, had been misunderstood.

His statement then that the United States has no more business in the political affairs of eastern Europe than Russia has in American affairs was widely interpreted as advocating two world spheres of influence. 'One World' "I began talking about 'One World' more than 15 years ago," the ex-secretary said last night. "I do not believe in two worlds. We cannot have peace except in 'One After the broadcast, he said in response to reporters' questions that he had no plans for any speaking engagement and "no plans at all" Sec WALLACE, Page 8 Markets At A Glance Stocks Market finishes another declining week with a fast rally spreading to all departments. Livestock a a hogs, steady; cattle, yearlings, nominally steady; sheep, active.

Grain Futures scored substantial gains on an increased 'volume of trade. Poultry--Dressed poultry firm; live. poultry irregular. Old-Line Dems And GOP Back Truman Action By Associated Press Republicans joined old-line Democrats Friday In a loud chorui of approval for the firing of Secretary of Commerce Henry A. with overtones of complaint that it was not done earlier.

Reaction to President Truman's solution of the grave foreign policy split in his cabinet came more slowly from the quarters where had his chief support. Washington --If-- Carroll Rcece, Republican national chairman, accused President Truman Friday night of gambling with the nation's security "for the radical vott in New York and elsewhere." Harold L. Ickes, saying he wai not "defending" Wallace and that the latter had "overstayed" In the cabinet, nevertheless led off on that side. "Wallace comes out of this with more credit than Truman," he observed. I 'Blow To Peace' Later the National Citlzeni Political Action Committee a statement saying Wallace's ouster "is a blow to the progressive of the country and to the cause of peace." The statement, signed by Frank Kingdon, chairman, and C.

B. Baldwin, executive vice chairman of the NCPAC, described Secretary of State Byrnes as "reactionary." It complained that the move, "underscores the extent to which Truman has drifted from the policies and See OLD-LINE, Page Woman Won't Leave Prison Davenport, Wlnnji fred Barnctt, 72, has completed serving a 35-year 1 term for murder but she doesn't want to leave the Rockwell City Women's Reformatory and the state is taking to evict her if necessary. Mrs. Barnett, a Negro, Is known as "Grandma" to the other inmates and Scott County authorities said she weeps when'efforts are made to get her to leave the reformatory. State officials, harassed by overcrowded institutions, have that Mrs.

Burnett must leave and have advised that she be taken into the Scott County Home. Mrs. Barnett, who she "no people and no home," begged authorities to "let me stay at Rockwell City until I die." Mrs. Barnttt was sentenced at Davenport on a second degree murder charge in connection with the slaying of her ex-husband. Soviet Cracks Down On Graft In Collective Farming System Moscow--ff--The Soviet government cracked down Friday on admitted widespread graft and inefficiency in its vast system of collective farms, declaring such malpractice imperiled the socialist framework of the country.

A decree signed by Prime Minister Stalin as chairman of the council of ministers asserted that misappropriation of collective farm land had reached "mass proportions" and called for immediate i cessation of the illegal practices and criminal prosecution of the accused. (An editorial in the official Communist newspaper Pravda broadcast I by the Moscow radio said the move had "political significance of the first importance," and described the violations as "harmful and alien to The decree bore also the signature of Col. Gen. A. A.

Zhdanov, of the powerful Commu- 'nist Party Central Committee. It listed these instances of "violation of the charter" of collective farms, backbone of the Soviet food economy: In misappropriating collective farm lands, officers of the illegally sliced sections for tho purpose of private gain and at the expense of public economy. Farm workers failed to receive their correct wages. Property on farms had been filched, including livestock, grnln, seed, fodder, meat, milk, butter, vegetables and fruit. The decree said that many collective farms were topheavy with administrative personnel, to a degree that many farms were experiencing a shortage of field laborers while having an oversupply of white collar help.

Many of the latter, the decrco added, "do nothing but receive salaries higher than farmers engaged in productive field work." A government council for collective farm affairs was created to help cope with the situation. The decree set out a two-month period during which all filched property must be returned to the farms and called for a report by Jan. 1, 1947, on the implementation of the decree..