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rT i i nzz ftTATg-historical society 5 VOL 42 NO 202 DMITCD PRH amocutid HASTINGS NEBRASKA WEDNESDAY JULY 9 1947 FIVE CENTS ru I I Amateur Radio Operator Relays Medics Advice Atom Coal Miners Resume Work As New Contract K'd Greeks Jail Holdouts After Data Taken Secret Files Recovered by FBI Inquiry WASHINGTON Om-Thsft of mom aafcret fUMfraa tha Loa Air amoa atomic bomb plant in 1946 waa ravealad to tha Sonata today by Chairman Bourka Hlckenlooper of tha Joint congressional Atomic Eneigy Committee Thla theft ho aaid seeurrad while tha War waa In eharsa of tha aeon ft OOOJOKOOf atamla aaariy Hlehaaloopar raid that Ua mlttea no roaaoa to bare" that than have boon gUOGIVUidr Fa Day shift miners trecg infs the shaft rk waa resumed this morning at a mine of tbe'M Friek Company a eabsldiary ef the United States Steel Corpora-Wevhare prolanped-a ll-dar vseotten ending Tuesday by ene day to ratify a new anion contract Tribune AT Wlrephete) AUDUBON Joseph Berated amateur life who helped relay medical testraetlera to Palmyra Island 6A66 miles from here la the Paelfis to all a weanf -lajared la a plane sraata-A shipyard worker an arranged tor an Audubon surgeon to hreadeai a physician was being flown from Hawaii UN Palmyra ms- (Tribune AP Wirephete) 1 9 To Lewis Southern Coal Producers Ready To Sign Pact WASHINGTON Holdout Southern coal producers were ready to surrender to John Lewis today and Join other bituminous operators in signing a wage contract that will add $124-800i000 to the take-home pay of Lewis' miners in the next year The Southern Coal Producers Association scheduled a meeting this afternoon to authorize negotiators for its affiliated organisations to execute the same contract which more than half the industry signed Tuesday SOLID FRONT BROKEN The Southerners originally demanded a separate agreement with Lewis' United Mine Workers But their solid front was broken Tuesday when 21 Southern firms declded to take th contract to and the strike that began earlier in the day Miners in holdout pits were remaining idle until those operators also signed Informed sources said Lewis had refused to deal with the association as a bargaining agent for Southern operators Instead he ruled that only the district associations or individual companies could sign Lewts said he expected-66 per cent ef the Industry whisk he has srgantaei' to be nndnr eentraet by the end ef the week The rsnsslnlng 16 per cent ef the industry Is non-onion or erganlaed by independents Under the contracts signed Tuesday mors than 225000 miners trooped back to their Jobs this morning in mines producing more than 900000000 tons of coal annually This is more than 50 per cent of total annual production QUICK RESPONSE The steel railroad and other coal-consuming Industries remanded quickly to the assurances of continuing fuel supplies Car-negte-Hlinria largest operating subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation announced that its Pittsburgh area mills would be producing at 90 per cent of capacity by the end of the week Communists Planned to Start Riots ATHENS (dV-The Greek government announced that more man 2000 persons wan arrested in fee Athena are early today in raids aimed at stamping out Contmun-' plot to stags a revolution and spread civil war throughout the entire country Minister of Public Order Nspoto Zsrvaa aaid tha aero hour fog Communist stroke was to have around 1 a Thursday when attacks' ware 'to have btq staged simultaneously in all porta Greece bringing the present mountain guerrilla warfare Jfetq urban centers RAIlrtl Between 2000 and 4000 police gendarmes and soldiers staged the lightning' raids before dawn fete morning Zervas said He sdd4 that many Important Communists already had fllsd and either were hiding i Athens or in the mount) Most of thosa arrested he said will be taken to'latanda near Ath-enawhltotiuL investigstingron- The transport already has begun Some ringleaders Zervaa added will remain in Athens to await hearings Those not implicated in tha plot will bo released and others probably will be exiled officials said The arrests ware canted by security peUei an ardors at the Council ef Ministers end foi- towed reusers eurreut for sev-enl days the Ceuunmtota! to All KKE (Communist party) leaders in the Athene-Plraeus sector wen reported among those or- a nit Me The offices of tiie Communist newspaper Rlxospeetoe were occupied end the editor Andlehrtetd Ksvafeptis was Aasrar ethers rsuertsf taken fate -si -fto RAM (Natlseel Ffeothi chief of fee ef the Unofficial reports said 1400 had been arrested to Athena proper 600 in port of Athens 600 in tin suburbs MESSAGE INTERCEPTED Prime MHiifiw Maximos -J a statement saying that police had from General Merkos Viflades commander of guerrilla forces in northern Greece to Communist leaden in Athena directing tham to "put into offset immediately plan Police said foc launching a campaign of violence Including 1 "the murder of political leaders" the sefrure of important ministers and general Russia Seen as A Rival Soviet Tactics Are Outlined In Publication WASHINGTON (JP) A conviction that the United States must deal with Russia for many years "as a rival not a te expressed in a highly authoritative but anonymously published article which te attracting much diplomatic attention' It outlines the view that if the Soviet union can be held in chock for tha next decade or long the result may be 'either cooperative attitude or a breakdown orRossiairjbww: Ite artiste Is published KBf Jfnly hone' of Paralga Affairs a quarterly mgaiiieiinMte the algnatara "Mr Thsre la PITTSBURGH (AV-Coal production spurted today with thousands of bituminous miners returning to the' pits in Northern -states Many other thousands remained away from the mines pending local meetings to ratify the new contract Some states reported high absenteeism also was holding down production In addition a large number of jjlpufeeraminea still were idle since operators accounting for about 20 per cent of normal production still had not reached agreement with the union on contract terms MANY RESUME WORE Pennsylvania counted about half its 100000 miners on the Job while in Illinois the United Mine Workers headquarters said 75 per cent of its 22000 members were back at work The Illinois Coal Operators Association reported all mines in the state were operating In Olio about 14000 of 16000 diggers in the eastern Ohio field trooped back to work this morn-ing and the remainder was expected to don helmets and caps before nightfall PRODUCTION STOTTY Production was tpotiy in West Virginia normally the largest producer 1 if the southern pfaTBT the'sUttnW'iJltttn owned by the "United States Coal and Coke Company and employing 2500 were working -The return to work was more general in the northern section Over the state about 23000 of 100000 miners were working In Alabama two of 10 steel company-owned mines reopened today with the day shift About 800 miners of 5500 employed by the United States Steel Corporation and Republic Steel were back All other pits were idle Romania Rejects Meeting Second Satellite Of Russia to Boycott Session PARIS VP) Romania rejected today the British-French invitation to a Paris conference on the Marshall aid Europe proposal and became the second nation in the Russian sphere to decline the bid rejection late Tuesday night The Romanian cabinet issued a communique rejecting the invitation NO MENTION MADE In Moscow meanwhile 'the Soviet press made no mention to-dayof the conference which will open in Paris Saturdays An Associated Press dispatch from fioflajWdjS4 Council Ministers decided Tuesday nigh that Bulgaria would not take part in the meeting The Oslo newspaper Aften-poeten reported that Norway ipfB participates The paper quoted Foreign Min later Halvard Lange as saytnj in Parliament that though Norway would not need any outside help for the next eight months she waa vitally Interested quick (Please turn to Page Eleven) can be a maximum of'15 per- cent The -leafe- also must provide the same services furniture and equipment which the tenant had before the new law went into effect A copy of the lease must be filed with the rent office within 15 days after execution MUST APPROVE CHANGE No rental fee increase is allowed after one tenant moves out of a house and another moves in unless the pew tenant and landlord have a voluntary written agreement approved by the area rent office A tenant who hiss been overcharged may sue in any federal or state courtwithln one year after violation for three lmes the overcharge plus costs Principal difference between the bid law and the new in- regard to evictions Erastmeyer aid is the time element Before the passage of the new law there was a waiting period of three to six months before tenants HONOLULU VP) Three blood plasma one administered by an expects ft mother who listened to a doctor's instructions via amateur enabled 19-year-old Army radioman to survive -a night plane crash at Palmyra Island which cost his Tight arm and leg The blond radioman whom Seventh Air Force officers declined to identify was brought by rescue plane to Hickam Field late today with five shaken but unhurt fellow crewmen PLANE CRASHED Their C-46- cargo plane had crashed on a reef at Palmyra 1-000 miles south of Hawaii The plane broke into several pieces and crewmen scrambled out rescue crewmen reported Toornlqueta and bandages' staunched the flew of Used while radio appeals for help were transmitted An Audubon J- amateur beard the calls and radioed Instranllsaa from a doctor In that dty same 6AM miles distant CAA officials in Honolulu Identified" the Palmyrx woroorr who had aided the injured rsaio- JrtjBtoe registered nurse wfcfTs the wife of a CAA mechanic on the island The rescue plane meanwhile took off from Hickanf Field and Lieutenant Washington the Army doctor aboard radioed-his instructions from the plane Shanahan arrived five hours later and administered two more plasma transfusions and morphine RADIO CONTACT MADE The first radio instructions came from Dr Ralph Davis chief surgeon -in-the Audubon --hospital aidwoi enlisted by a radio amateur there Joseph Boosted a shipyard worker on vacation in response to a call from Steve Sherwood Barnes of Phoenixvllle Pa stationed -Palmyra Island The two radio amateurs previously had been in contact with each other 1 Weather Nebraska Partly cloudy and lightly wanner today tonight and Thursday except few scattered-thundershowers in western portion of the state tonight High temperatures today 85 to 90 Kansas Clear to partly cloudy today tonight and Thursday with few vfridely scattered thundershowers in west portion tonight High today 80 to 85 Temperatures High Tuesday 83 at 4 pjn low this morning 59 at 5 am year ago high -91 low 68 Precipitation 24 hours to 8 us 00 1947 to date 1409 1946 same period 9 A3 July to date 00 Same period last year J9 Peril TribUnes fent It about time someone in Hastings slotted one of tboee disks in tha sky? Spaed age: Mr snd Mrs Donald Bell leave Thursday for the Lions convention hi San Francisco July 27-31 Thsy will visit hi' Los Angelas and Salines Calif an route will bo gone 31 days And all 31 days they will spend In California They will arrive -In that state Thursday fay plane and 21 days later they ill return to Hastings by air arriving here the same day they leave California Mora than one Hastings woman haa bean overheard saying die is going-to have her husband mow down that -fade! stubble But tiie spirit of the Whisker Chib'and mere men Joining the clul each day A young Hastings woman already 1s having trouble identifying gentlemen friends on account of the board contest She has the fellows typed One te the slredals fee fellow who has whiskers on his chin and around his mouth than the patrician type or the fellow who has his beard well-shaped and perfectly trimmed' She also haa a name for the follow who uat lets his board grow where will without any attempt to hope ho is the Plenty Jtyps What no classification for the guy cooperating only by totting tha nose and ear Mar protruda? Or tha side-burned dandy? Mato dtizens between the ages of 14 and 31 will do well to peruse carefully the proclamation which appears on another pegs at this paper For those who forget to throw away their razors adequate punishment te provided although it may be of some comfort to the backsliders to reed in the official announcement that "in no event shall any such aid' offender ever be hanged by the neck on more than two separate occes--lons -the circumstances eld offense Justify Butawo fnu imi xor re to attered fry the-Renegades Western Rail -Rates Lower But New Adjustments Te Have Little Effect Here Says Burlington Class rate adjustments which tiie Interstate Commerce Commta-lon Tuesday directed American railroads to make about July 23 -ovoraH-affeci-en western linasr Burlington officials in Hastings Wastarn non-class rates' which govern 35 per cant of shipments UIU law than dur fee Burlington representatives emphasised in refuting whet they called a tendency in certain quarters to attack wastarn railroads on fee assumption that western rates are higher than eastern and thus retard western industrial develop- Commantlng upon the rate situation hare ware two Omshans Conrad freight truffle manager of the Burlington west lines and Badail assistant general freight agent They herb on a routine inspection toifr and wen accompanied by A Martin of Heatings traveling freight and pasaanger agant FITE FEB CENT AFFECTED "Classification rated -truffle -in the east haa been somewhat lower titan Mtirnst Raddl aaid Wadnssduy'ar so Kttia burinaas movsa ia fee west on dess rates about 5 per cent feat tiie enter of the Supreme Court qnd the Interstate Commerce Conmtls-ten increasing class rates in tha east 10 per cant and reducing tham by the same pttbantega tat tha west will have little effect an the overall west picture" Conrad who modity rates that win not bo changad by the ICCs Tuooda order in Washington defends! what he called rates on moot prwt shipments "The facta Canrai aaid feskht tataa which sasvu the at la lha fees tat the Using the Mat te tiie shipper of handling one ton of freight per mite Conrad ppintad to the following examples In cents per ton miles to prove his print: Rubber tires Akron O- to Omaha Rate 117 miles at 213 cents per ton mile rubber tires from Denvw Colo to St Louis Mo mites at 211 cents per ton Sugar from Baltimore lid to Chicago 799 mites at 110 canto par tan mile sugar from Richmond Calif to Chicago 2J4S mites at 071 of a cant par mite sugar from Longmont (Plaaao turn to Pago Etovan)x Automatic Increases Not Pai Rent Law Hastings Director Hlckenlooper told Sonata the document otolan from Loa Alamoa had tinea bean recovered Hlckenlooper Iowa Republican poke in tha Senate after tha New York Sun had charged in a dispatch that "unknown agenta" had stolen "several files of highly secret data bn tha atomic from tha Oak Ridge Tana uranium separation plant Two members of Hlckenlooper1! committee had said earlier' that some secret atomic data had been stolen or loat from government files! ARMY MEN INVOLVED Hlckenlooper told the Senate that the theft at Loa Alamos was committed by two Army sergeants who had been detailed to the project by the War Department The Civilian Atomic Energy Commission he said -discovered the theft shortly after it took control of tha atomic program from tha Army on January 1 this year FBI Of THE CASE The theft was brought to the attention of the FBI at once and Hlckenlooper added that "we believe they (the papers) wen completely and fully recovered" The theft occurred in March 1946 10 months before the civilian commission headed by David Lilienthal took over the program from the Army Tha FBI he said promptly located the twe Ansy man' and fwthe tWa evidence ttwar believed that the esrgOanta were "eeuvenlr hunting" Hiekenleep-er said adding that the FBI evidence indicated that the eer-goaate "did net allow any u-aathorlsed The investigation he added showed that no one other than the pair taking the papers had seen them and that they were kept locked up by the sergeants New Hopes For Airport CAA Premises -Eventual'-Aid For Hastings Word that CAA officials will meet soon with the Nebraska Aeronautics Commission to draw up final priority ratings for Nebraska airport projects was hail ed by airport development leaders in Hastings today si highly en- -couraging -new A Hook assistant CAA administrator for airports an- nounced the coming meeting at a conference to Washington -Tuesday with the Nebraska congres-' ional delegation At the conference Hook assured the Nebraskans that federal funds eventually will be allotted to seven Nebraska airports" including the Hastings field on which allocations have been withheld The other fields in the group are at Wilber Humboldt David QW Lexington Sidney and Columbus TO MEEOE FUNDS Hook explained that the seven allocations were held up only because the CAA is merging 1947 and 1948 airport improvement appropriations in order to obtain maximum cooperation with cities and towns through the country He mid this Nebraska commission will be asked to go over its prior ity list to make sure that all projects are necessary Confidence that the Hastings airport development project will receive the support of the state commission was expressed trier by Dwight Havens who has represented the Chamber of Commerce in airport discussions with state and CAA officials "No project In the slate le mare werthy than ears" Havens declared rand I can that without shewing partiality lace thla Is the largest dtp la the elate Without airport devd- had federal fhnds for its field" Branches of fee CAA have taken conflicting action in regard to "the Hastings field he pointed out The Civil Aeronautics Board certified the Iowa Airplane Com- pany to serve Hastings on a feeder line route while the air ca section declared that facilities were inadequate for use by the air line and recently the air- Please turn to Page Eleven) SAN -Dona -Trini- land- in Russian waters and has been sanding tesble distress signals for the last two hours Globe Wireless reported today VALUATION BOOST SEEN -LINCOLN VP) State Tax Commissioner Robert Armstrong reported today that returns from the first 28 counties show an increase of 282 per cent in tangible personal property valuations over the 1946 figure of New Explains evicted whwra bouse was sold Now the time of eviction after sale is determined by state laws and it to one month in Nebraska Erastmeyer said that clarification of priority under the new law will be made in the' near future NEW EVICTION RULE Formerly if a member of the fondly or a family wished to move into the house the tenant could be evicted Now eviction is possible only if the landlord or buyer himself wishes to maka "immediate occupancy Local advisory boards ef representative citizens in each community-are being-appolnted-en tiie recommendations of si governors They will aid in considering rent adjustments and will make recommendations concerning decontrol action and other matins connected with the administration of the lew No board members have been appointed in Hastings Fred Erastmeyer Hastings area rent director today refuted what he said was a widespread impression that the new rent' control legislation provides for automatic rent increases of 15 per cent During the heat of debate Er-nstmeyer said proponents of controLl without charge attacked proposals they felt would weaken this law GUN AT "There condemnation of some of the more radical' changes many of which were modified or removed from the final has left the impression that the new law is -a -shotgun at the head of the rent official said "This iewofc Erastmeyer outlined mdjor provisions of the new law as: The tenant pays the same rent in July as he did in June unless both landlord and tenant have signed a written lease voluntarily which runs at least through December 31 1948 The increase allowed in such a 1 I I I a sabotage The planned uprising polled aid was designed to afreet worid public opinion concerning the situation in Greece during hearings on the Balkan situation before tiie United Nations Security Council to New York Increase Noted 4-j In Farm Income WASHINGTON (ffP-Tn culture Deportment reported today that farm inoome including government payments was about If per rant higher during tiie fink half of this year than to the first atoJhonthaef 'Trial cafe racalpta were aatU mated at nearly $12XMMMNU)0t compared' wtttr-6t600XXMX0 -la fee same period of tost year Tha greater part of the increase reflected prices torn products ware under prior callings a year ago Receipts from livestock and Hvfetock products ware about 67 900000000 up nearly 40 per cent ever tbs same period ef 1046 Thd largest 60 par rent rame from meat animals because of much higher prices and some toy in marketings affletab thug It seta forth thinking at Gem chief ef Secretary ef State Marshall's pulley phoning staff The State Department refused comment today as to whethar Kennan a top-ranking diplomat with years of experience in Moe-eow and great Influence hero tually wrote -the article Whether he did or not the interest displayed in it by responsible of ficiala leaves no doubt that it ii authoritative: 2-FOLD The theme of the article la (A) Soviet leaden luma for expect an eventual breakdown the capitalist wnrlij (H) ha meanwhile they Justify their dfo-tatonhip by preaching inside Russia "tiie menses" of capitalist clrdcment and (C) abroad they follow a practice of expending into ell areas where other powers ere week One key to Soviet action cording to "Mr la that Soviets have no timetable constantly can retreat or expand according to the counter force set up against them CANNOT CONTINUE The writer argues however that they cannot always as matter of tactics wait and i complish nothing He speculates that if tha ed States along jrtth other Western nations' eon fallow a policy of "firm of the let Union for 10 or16 years result may be elther a' "mellowing" or a breakdown of Abroad From Here On a -Day Notice a flurry ef excitement at Taylor Hall wba other Haotinga College coeds are helping Juliets Arscena student from Concepcion Chile pr pare for a short-notico trip to Europe Arscena received word late this morning that she te bo a delegate to the World Student Christian Federation meeting in Oslo Norway July 33 to August 1 TO make travel connections she must leave Thursday morning flying from Omaha to tha East Coast Daughter of -a Presbyterian minister in Chile tha Hestinge College student has been named by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Frafbytarian Church to roprassnt her native country the world meeting After attending tha aesalon in Norway she will be a delegata-to the World Sunday School Convention in England from August 11 to September 1 The blonde coed has bean a tudnt ban since last fall and now te a Junior at tha Milage having formerly attended tha University of Concepcion New 'Law1 Puts Beardless Hastings Men in Circus Certain To Show Here HUBBARD (ff) Railroad ri pair crews who worked ell day and night today had about com) plated clearing the track bade of the wreckage of the Clyde Beatty circus train Bill Antes 'publicity director lot the circus said there appeared td be good prospects the circus wilt be' able to make its engagement at Uncoln Thursday night "Wa know for sure wan bc in Grand Mend Friday night Hastings Saturday night and North Flptte Sunday night" Antes saldj The railroad sent two separata Crews each wife He own derrick to dear the sstimeted 900 feet of track torn up when eight cars of the- 1 5-car circus train derailed Tuesday killing one circus works and injuring five of Hastings 'Is appearing slabs te Impress aa Hastings mini the te advertise the cavalcade te he held here' la with the Adams county fair August 18-22 Here "Jaggs' Brown conducts a mock trial of a nee bearded violator before tha Lions Oat Tuesday noon Bat when tha Mack lifted It tamed oat te he Mm Mary Ja Md-(Wt) "Net goilty- said the Judge "because the "Prosecutor" Is Octets McArihnr etgaret) Fer the "defense" te Jee Shampadcr Members of the Jury left te right are Harry Barley Duane Watte Cart Smith Alden Cdrisen Marian Ball Burgess Heppsr and Warren (Tribune Photo by Cal OrrX i 4J jv VV1 i --pi Vvtv -i: i rt-i 1 1 "fr.