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THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FINAL FINAL 107th No 300 MS MMIIiaiAkAMBAb MS AABKAL MS AVAMNIMI saraiaat i scrai4a aara iaav MEMPHIS TENN SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 27 1946 msaaAaM I laviai by I AaaaaiATca aaiaa uairaa aaiai Ihiiabs sailv aassra raastaa aiav IMTiaMAVISNAk Nl8 SSSVBSS 96 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS Ole Miss Humbles Pulls Upset Arkansas 9-7 Settlement Frees Ships On East and Gulf Coasts Steel Faces New Threat TOP FARMERS WILL HEAR JOHNSTON AT BIG PJOP RALLY Cotton Council President To Address Farm Forum Here On Dec 19 THRILLS OF NAVY DAY HEAD TOWARD CLIMAX AT MILLNGTON TODAY Air Groups And Hospital To Hold 'Open House For Memphis Public SERVICE AT AUDITORIUM Wake Forest Trips Vols MEETING OPEN TO PUBLIC Landslide For Republicans? Up To Doorbell Pushers By PAUL LEACH As Commercial Appcal-Chl caro Dallr News Special Bamcc Coprrizht 1S4B WASHINGTON Oct 2a sluggard voters needed for a landslide Democrats publicly refuse to admit anything bad Privately they agree that a Republican trend has set in They're scared but refuse to believe it's as big aa it looks to tha and to many neutral scouts Hannegan Not Fooling Hannegan is not fooling when he yells at the precinct workers to keep busy That is the way of salvation for him Both aides put it thia way: Yea there's a Republican trend But as Is usually true in an off-year election there ia no way of measuring tha power of that trend Republican landslide claims have been baaed largely on national resentments including particularly tha meat famins and Whita House fumbles Now meat is coming back on tha table Democrats hope that earlier resentments will therefore cool- by election day Tha Democrats wera just beginning to get somewhere in their local campaigns to offset Republican charges of A and Democratic Party hookups with Communists Then wham! Moscow Whether the congressional elections week from Tuesday product a Republican landslide and control of both Houses or merely gains is in the hands of tha doorbell pushers in all debatable states "Precinct workers" nervously bulletins Robert Hannegan Democratic National Committee chairman "it's up to you The people have for the moat part made up their minds Now it is a matter of getting out the vote" "Beware Of Clarence Brown Republican national campaign director echoes thia and adds: "Beware of vote thieves Get the vote out and aea that it'a counted" He usee thia for dirty cracks at big-city Democratic machines Tha question today is not whether the Republicans are going to gain in tba Senate House and governorship campaigns but how much they will gain Republican leaders publicly are claiming a landslide Privately they say reports of party and neutral aampla polls from all parts of the country are so good they! afraid (1) to believe their eyes and (2) that a organization lieutenants will get overconfident and fail to stir up tha Rice Beals Texas Maroons Victors Army Marches On By The Associated Press If a centipede crawled over a map of the United States last night each one of ita legs would have touched the site of a college football upset Here's what the drugstore quarterbacks will have to argua about for at least a week: Rice 18 Texas 13 Wake Forest 19 Tennessee i Mississippi 9 Arkansas 7 Southern Methodist 17 Missouri 0 Illinois 13 Michigan 9 Virginia Tech 14 North Carolina State 6 And then there were such surprises as Army's relatively difficult 19 to 0 victory over Duke all the Cadet points being gained through the air when the stubborn Southern line refused to be dented by such stalwarts as Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard Notre Dame's 41 to 6 verdict over Iowa also came in that category but only because of the hugeness of the score The Irish ahead by a 20 to 6 margin at the half turned Johnny Lujack loose In the final periods to break the jinx of never having won in the Cbrnland capital Mississippi State nosed out Tu-lane In the last quarter 14 to 7 Even a superior day by Bobby Tayne Texas' great fullback couldn't stave off the third consecutive defeat the Rica Owls have pasted onto the Longhorn record Dick Brinkley the fullback-sports writer who publicly blamed himself for Wake defeat a week ago was unstoppable yesterday as the Southern Conference Deacons administered the worst home defeat for a Tennessee club annee Bob Neyland came there 15 years ago A sturdy Illinois line that repulsed a Michigan drive on the five just before the gun spun 85938 Wolverine alumni into sadness and ruined virtually all hopes Michigan had for an undisputed Big Nine title Southern California outscored Stanford 28 to 20 (Continued on Page Column l) 25000 STUNNED HERE Record Crowd Sees Gallant Rebels Win Thrilling Game On Late Pass By DAVID BLOOM Ole Miaa provided an interlude of atark gasping amazement yea-terday for the largeat crowd that haa even Been a college football gam in Memphia with ita 9-7 victory over Arkanaaa Battered by four foea conceded little chance to come within three touchdowna of their long-time ri vale of the Southweat Conference theae Rebela piled a touchdown on top of a aafety in the fourth period to overcomp a 7-0 Razorback lead and perform a football feat bordering on the incredible Certainly it waa a deed that had 25000 in Crump Stadium doubting their own eyea Harper Takes Winning rasa The winning acore waa aomething like a pattern for thia exciting afternoon Everett Harper a aecond atring end alipped behind the tenae goaded Arkanaaa aecondary deployed on the goal line and took a paaa from Charley Conerly without a hand being laid on him almost without the neareat Arkanaaa defendera aeeing him It waa Ihua that Ole Miaa alipped up on the Porkers outplaying them on the field and in the atatiatica carrying the fight to them and eventually cracking them with the lethal blow Thia touchdown and Bobby Oa-walt'a aucceaaful converaion by placekick came with only two minutes and 50 aeconda of playing time left followed a aafety accom-pliahed five minutes before when Howard Hughes Porker tailback waa tackled behind hia own goal line It waa obvious from the first that there be no Arkanaaa runaway but the Arkanaaa touchdown in the third period looked like just enough It waa engineered on the one successful paaa complete by the Porkers a throw by Memphian Kenny Holland to Alton Baldwin a lanky end The play covered 30 yards and Holland himself added the extra point that waa nice but didn't aeem at all necessary Ola Mias proved the fallacy of thia KtalUtira Show It The figures aimply bear out the play on tha field Ole Miaa made 11 first downs to Arkansas' three gained 246 total yards to Arkansas' 335 completed 14 passes to lonely one And the Ole Miaa line outcharged the Porkers bottled up the fleet Arkansas backs harassed them rushed passers all over the lot and let this vigorous pursuit lapse only once Yet until these waning minutes and despite the success of Conerly's throwing the Rebs had only one scoring opportunity besides their payoff punch and although they salvaged the safety from it they were derailed in their tying attempt The big one was a beauty well earned Marvin Curland like Holland a Memphian waa an instrumental man in it The talented Ole Miaa Continued on Page 1 Section t) NORWAY CHILE ASSAIL I DEACONS MAZE 13-6 Tough Little College Simply Outplays Tennessee To Spoil Perfect Record By ESCAR THOMPSON Associated Press Staff Writer KNOXVILLE Oct The fighting Demon Deacons from Waka Forest lived up to their name Saturday by completely outclassing Tennessee and rudely dumping the Vols from tba Nation's ranka of unbeaten and untied football teams 19 to 6 A partisan crowd of 25000 saw the spirited Deacons register one of the season's major upsets and administer the worst licking Coach Bob Neyland has aver Buffered before the home folk In 15 yean of tutoring at Tennessee It waa also the fifth time a team had ever scored as many as three touchdowns on Neyland in regular-season play Wake Forest All The Way It waa obvious from the opening kickoff that Coach (Peahead) Walker's big eleven waa "up" for this gams Tbs Deacons wera superior in every department of play Tennessee made one quicx stab for its score early in the second period to tie the score at 6-all Thereafter it waa virtually all Waka Forest Wake Forest scored once In the first quarter and twice in the third The first Deacon acore climaxed a 66-yard drive with Fullback Clay Croom plunging over from the one for the touchdown Bo kick for tha extra point waa blocked Nick Scarinty engineered the Deacons on tha long drive completing successive passes to Bernie Capps and John whicn netted 47 yards Charley Mitchell snagged O'Quinn from behind on the Vol four after he had speared Scarintya paaa on tha Tennessee 20 and raced 16 yards Vols Strike Suddenly Tennessee's lone acore came with stunning auddennesa In the early part of the aecond stanza George Kelly substitute center intercepted Nick paaa on the Deacon 84 and returned it eight yards to the 26 Bob Lund flicked a quick paaa to Jim Powell who grabbed the ball on the 15 and raced over untouched for the score placement was wide With fourth-string Tailback Proctor a freshman in the driver's seat Tennessee mustered its lone sustained drive late in the second stanza to march 70 yards but the half-time gun sounded with the ball on Wake 10 Wake Forest came back after the intermission with renewed fury taking the ball on Tennessee's 34 when Walter Slater usually reliable Tennessee punter got off a weak four-yard kick out of bounds Harry Dowda and Dick Brinkley star fullback who did not accompany the Deacons due to a with an assistant coach but arrived by air in time for tho game drove 21 yards to tha Vol 18 on six line plays Nick (Continued on Page 4 Section t) THREE HIDING PLACES FOR POISON Speaker Long Associated With Agriculture In South He la Strong Advocate Of Crop Diversification By WALTER DURHAM Director Plant To Prosper Bureau Oscar Johnston president of the National Cotton Council since its inception in 1939 manager of the great Delta St Pine Land Co plan' tation at Scott Miss and one of American most potent voices will be principal speaker at the 13th annual MidSouth Farm Forum and Plant To Prosper Rally here Dec 19 Long an advocate of crop diversification for the South Mr Johnston whoso name ie synonymous with cotton will address some 860 Plant To Prosper county winners agricultural leaders and representatives of the Memphia Chamber of Commerce at Ellis Auditorium starting at 11 am Left Law Practice The public is invited to hear Mr Johnston at the Auditorium as special guests of The Commercial Appeal His message will be broadcast by WMCL Tho Commercial Appeal station Mr Johnaton haa been closely Identified with agriculture since he began tha practice of law in Clarks-dale Mias in 3901 after being graduated from Cumberland University He terminated his law practice in 1920 to become president of the Planters National Bank of Glarksdale connection he maintained until 192a He became president of the Delta A Pino Land Co and the Delta Planting Co in 1927 The companies operate 'some 50000 acres of farm land In the Mississippi Delta Mr Johnston was appointed director of finance for the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration of the United States Department of Agriculture June 1 1933 and that same year he was named vice president of tha Commodity Credit Corporation Holds Many Positions On Jan 8 1934 Mr Johnston was appointed manager of the Government Cotton Pool end about a year later he became assistant to the Secretary of tha Treasury A man pt wide interests diversified talents and untiring energy Mr Johnaton has served agriculture and industry In many capacities He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis the Illinois Central System tha Staple Cotton Co-operative Association Greenwood Miss and the Staple Cotton Discount Corp of Greenwood Mr Johnaton served as a member of the 1 Mississippi House of Representatives from 1908 to 1918 and aa a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912 1916 1940 and 1944 He was member of the Democratic National Committee from 1920 to 1924 He has been a member of the Agricultural Advisory Council of the Department of Agriculture since (Continued on Pago 5 Column S) 11 INJURED IN CRASH 1 0 TOSEEK RAISE 'Healthy Wage Increase WiH Be Demanded By TWA Dispute Bogged By Tha Amociatad Pnas East and Gulf Coast ship operators signed an agreement ytitiN day with leaders of the A of Masters Mates and Pilots who had been oii strike for 26 days and the Maritime Commission announced work would begin Monday on 1181 ships bottled up in East and Gulf Coast ports Meanwhile steel moved back into the labor spotlight when CL I OL President Philip Murray disclosed he would demand a wag increase for hia 900000 steel workers Steel thus became the fourth major industry crippled by strikes earlier this year to be served with notice a demand for a "second wage increase was on the way Unions representing employee in the coal automobile and meat packing industries previously had submitted new wage demands or announced their intention of doing ao West Cheat Still Out Federal Conciliation Director Edgar Warren aaid he hoped the shipping agreement would lead to on tha Wait Coast The Maritime Commission aaid striking members of tha CL OL Marina Engineers Beneficial Association also would be back on the job on the East and Gulf Coasts Monday Tha I CX reached an agreement with shipowners earlier in tho week but withheld any announcement of ratification pending assurance from the Commie-sion that the agreement would bo applied first to Government-owned ships The Commission did noc say whether it had met thia condition Under the agreement which granted wage boosts maattrs can become members of the A of union but are not required to join The status of masters wraa the principal stumbling block in negotiations The new basic wage on Liberty ships will range from $265 to $581 compared with $230 to $505 under the old A of agreement Tho inion originally sought a 30 per cent boost A I spokesman aaid that union received a 15 per cent pay boost They had sought 35 per cent Murray Te Act Seen Addressing a district steel workers convention in Philadelphia Murray said the pay boost would be sought "aa soon as He aaid American industry was making sufficient profit "to pay a very healthy increase In labor without increasing the cost of living" Specific demands ho added would be studied by the union's Wage Policy Committee which meets in December Other labor developments: Although TransWorld Airline and ita 1400 striking pilots deadlocked on wage demands have expressed willingness for the Government to take over and operate the lines there was no indication the White House planned anv early action Chairman Frank Douglas of the National Mediation Board said he foresaw no developments this week end in the six-day strike that haa grounded the line's planes at home and abroad Tommy gan in Hollywood Police some armed with tomxny- MASS SHN ML Chief Government Prosecutor Dismissed For Revealing Nazi Political Report Ask Action Against Fran-co Dictatorship Turkey Looks For Aid Attention Drawn To Sky Show Helicopter Fireworks And Parade Heroes Honored At Presentation Of Medals By ROBERT TALLEY gala three-day observance of Navy Day will reach Ita climax today when the most powerful fighting force on the seven seas will lower the gangplank at ita three big Millington establishments and invite tha public aboard for an "open house" reception Here ie the program: 10 am Naval Alt Technical Training Center opens for tours throughout remainder of the day during which visitors may view its operations Naval Air Station and Naval Hospital open to visitors for rest of day 1 Memorial For Diend 2 pm Thrilling air show at Naval Air Station featuring dive-bombing and strafing demonstrations aerial acrobatics and simulated landings on carriers In addition to tho Millington events there will be a memorial service for tho Navy dead of all faiths at Ellis Auditorium at 3 pm conducted by Comdr Victor Morgan senior chaplain at A CL assisted by a choir of 200 voices Also several Navy fighter planes will be on display on the north side of Court Square all day Outstanding events of yesterday wera tha decoration of a dozen Navy heroes at a public ceremony on the riverfront a thundering display of daylight fireworks and a thrilling air show over Mud Island tha annual Navy Day parade that flowed down Main Street like a mile-long musical ribbon of blue and the landing of a Navy helicopter between the halves at the Ole Misa-Arkansas football game in Crump Stadium Helicopter Awes Crowd The helicopter piloted by Capt CL Mercy of Lakehurst approached the field from the west at a low altitude and descended ad-most vertically as it landed squarely on the 50-yard lint The pilot de livered the charter or the newly formed Memphis Council of the Navy League to Rear Admr Felix Stump chief of Naval Air Technical Training with headquarters at Millington who presented it to William Chandler head of the local council after which Rear Admr Stump made a brief address The helicopter then awed the crowd as it took off rising vertically for a short distance and then heading east Navy and Marina drill teams in snappy uniforms performed on the field between the halves Also attending tho game was Rebecca McCall of Blytheville Ark second place winner in the recent America" beauty pageant who will reign aa queen of Marine Fighting Squadron 124 of the Marine Air Detachment during the 'open house" at Naval Air Station today Thousands See Procession Crowds of thousands who lined Main and Second Streets for the Navy Day parade were rewarded with one of the most dazzling spectacles of ita kind evar witnessed in Memphis The long procession moved off from Main and Poplar promptly at 11 am and for the next 45 minutes Main Street waa a river of flags marching bluejackets and Marines mammoth floats and blaring bands Rear Admr Stump who recently moved his headquarters to Millington reviewed the parade from a stand in Court Square With him their gold braid glinting in the THE WEATHER (7 DEPARTMENT Of OOUMERCB WKATHJGR BUREAU By Jntammtloaxl Nwa Servlrp NEW YORK Oct The government of Flrancisco Franco came under the dual fire of Norway and Chile in the United Nations General Assembly Saturday while Turkey obliquely appealed to the delegates to preserve her sovereignty over the Dardanelles It was another day of fingerpointing the representatives of more than a billion of the earth's subjects heard four speakers in a short session which was adjourned at 12:30 until Monday morning Names were not always named but the inferences Were unmistakable Sympathy for Norway Chile with deep roots in Spain nevertheless called on the United Nation to by varied means all dictatorial regimes installed by Fascist arms "What does it matter if the powers which have intervened at the outset have vanished in the tumult of asked Felix Nieto Del Rio chief Chilean delegate "What is important is to destroy the work of their Norway through its chief delegate Halvard Lange extended the sympathy of once-oppressed Norwegians to ths people of Spain Must Aid Democrats "Ways and means must be found through common action of the United Nations to assist the democratic forces of Spain in their struggle to regain without the horrors of another civil war freedom and constitutional government" he said Lange urged that when the time comes the delegatee consider the Spanish question as an entity rather than touch it from varied sides in separate debates As the question now stands in the Security Council only Russia and Poland among tha 11 nations on that important board are in favor of FOR MEMPHIS and Vicinity: Fair and continued warm Sun day highest afternoon tempera ture about 8a Mostly cloudy and cooler Monday with scattered showers and fresh winds in the morning YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURE Hishrst 74 degws at 4:30 pm Iwnt 44 desrcaa at 4 am Mean (midway Iwtwaan high and low) SI Normal mean for data HOURLY READINGS ST SO BS B2 54 METEOROLOGICAL REPORT TrmprrNtiirr am 4S 7 pm SI Hildirat humidity 79 PrM-iiltallon ainta Jan 1 43 BO Inchaa rsrraa 433 Bun riaea aun arta 5:11 THIS DATE LAST YEAR Maximum trtiinaratura 68: minimum 42 Br Tbs United Press WASHINGTON Oct 2a The mass sedition trial a flamboyant legal sideshow of the war that dragged through 30 weeks of court sessions before death of the presiding judge forced a mistrial appeared headed Saturday night for an early grave The chief Government prosecutor John Rogge was fired Friday night by Atty Gen Tom Clark for making public part of a secret report on German political activity in this country Urged Case Be Dropped In his letter of dismissal Clark revealed that Rogge had recommended that the Government drop its case against 26 alleged aedition-ists some of them members of the German-American Bund It waa learned the Justice Department had decided some time ago to accept Rogge's recommendation and drop the case Informed sources aaid one reason Rogge decided to make the Bee ret report public- waa inalatence that dismissal of the sedition case be delayed until after the November election The Government has a continuance in the sedition case until early December and it ia expected that a formal dismissal motion will be made and probably granted at that time In hie letter firing Rogge Clark accused the sedition trial prosecu tor of wilfully violating Justice Dt' partment rules in a speech this week at Swarthmore Pa Rogge revealed in the speech that Nazi leaders spent a great deal of time and effort in trying to defeat the late President Roosevelt each time he ran for re-election Trial Held In 1944 He disclosed that the Nazis in 1940 had a "fantastic" scheme to bring about Mr defeat by using influence William Davis international oil promotor told them he had with John Lewis head of the United Mine Workers Lewis did oppose Mr Roosevelt in that campaign but there waa nothing In Rogge's report to indicate that the German plan had any bearing on the mine decision The sedition trial began on April 17 )944 in Federal Court here against 28 men and two women accused of provoking disloyalty and refusal of duty among members o( the armed forces and the mistrial was declared Dec 7 1944 after presiding Justice Edward CL Eicher died suddenly At that time the prosecution had its 39th- witness GRID GAME SIDELINES KEPT FREEOF FIGHTS Some Arrests Made On Charge Of Drunkenness Free-for-all brawla among spectators which have marred other football games this year wera conspicuously absent at the Ole Miss-Arkanaas game at Crump Stadium yesterday Police who had a wagon wait-! have a report meeting at 12 noon i atandsi tomorrow at the Parkview Hotel ing patrolled the packed stands jThe djvision headed by A Mc- with their sticks ulder Phillips and Mrs Jewell Dorris as orders from Commissioner Boyle cochairmen haa been extremely to use them on persons who resist- active and an excellent report la Prrciplialirm Jan 1 to tnla data 40PS inchra cna to thia data 241 Inchaa (Wrather Map and Forecast! on Page Eight Section Two) FUND TO GET BIG LIFT WITH REPOBT Firms In Downtown Office Buildings Donate The Woman's Division of the Community Chest campaign will Nine From Arkansas Hurt After Seeing Game Eleven persons including nine from the University of Arkansas were injured in an accident at Florida and early today involving a chartered bus and a car Most seriously hurt were Hugh Morgan 28 of 812 Kipley an American Air Lines pilot and Ray Ashmore 23 of 626 Alabama Both were riding In the car The other injured who were passengers on the bus were identified by Thompson Bros ambulance attendants as: Claude I Chambers 20 Fayetteville Ray Riggs 21 Camden Don Baker 18 Fayetteville Jim Tidwell 18 Fayetteville Fay Burrows 2a Fayetteville Bob Collier 22 Fayetteville William Gregson 65 assistant to the dean Miss Catherine McHugh 32 an employe of the college and Aubrey Thomas 29 of Fort Smith bus driver They were taken to St Joseph Hospital (Continued on Page 7 Column 4) STRIKERS TO RETURN TO WORKATMCKEYE Plant Reopens Today Wage Boost Is Announced (Continued on Page 10 Column 1) Greek Quisling Dies ATHENS Oct John Rhallys Greek quisling who served aa premier during the Nazi occupation died Saturday He waa serving a life term for collaboration with tha Axis guns broke up without violence the largest mass demonstration in the Hollywood film strike They arrested more than 100 of 2500 pickets who demonstrated following an announcement that the striking Conference of Studio Unions apparently had lost its jurisdictional fight for sole set construction rights The threatened Nov 1 walkout of 400000 soft coal miners drew nearer without any signs it was being headed off John I Lewis has threatened to void the United Mine Workers contract with tha Government on that data unless talks are started on new wage-hour demands The Government so far has stood on its position that the contract can not ba reopened legally Tha Justice Department haa undertaken a study of the contract to determine thia point RIGHT OF 35 MS WILL HOPTO ALASKA Squadron Of P-51s To Also Take Part In Experiment expected Joe Davis general chairman aaid yesterday An unusually large number of Memphis firms are either equaling or exceeding their last year's donations Mr Davis revealed Firms in downtown office buildings which have equalled or exceeded last year including gifts of both principals and employes of the firms follow: ed arrest Only nine men out of the estimated 25000 fans were arrested Charges were disorderly conduct drunkenness disturbing the public peace and profanity Police officials said the crowd was comparatively orderly Persons arrested at the game were docketed as: I Caldwell 25 of Jackson Miss charged with London Raises Total Of Loot To $300000 Officials Only Sure He Had It All The Time NUERNBERG Germany Oct 26 (UP) A four-power commission concluded Saturday night that Hermann Goering had a vial of deadly potassium cyanide in his possession for 17 months and 7 days from May 8 1945 when he surrendered to American troops in Austria to the night of Oct 16 when he crunched it between hia teeth two hours before he was scheduled to bo hanged The commission which Is composed of generals and whose duty was to carry out the sentences imposed upon Goering and his cohorts said there were three places he could have concealed the poison at different times: in his navel In his alimentary tract and under the overhanging ledge of a toilet in his cell The commission said no blame for dereliction of duty or negligence could bo ascribed to the sentry on duty at cell door when he took the poison and there was no evidence to involve German workers at the prison Brigadier Paton Walsh British member of the commission and Gen Pierre Morel the French chairman held a press conference after the communique was released but they did little to clear up obscure points Welsh would not elaborate on concealment of tho poison capsule in the alimentary canal or how long Goering used thia means There were no wounds on (Soaring's body he aaid Walsh said letters left behind by Goering were in the hands of the Control Council for Germany in Berlin and "any possible announcement concerning their contents" would have to come from the council Red Cross Girl Returns TRIESTE Oct An American Red Cross girl who had been sought throughout Venezia Giulia by military and civil police since her reported "disappearance" Thursday turned up for work as usual at tha Red Cross service club In Udine Saturday Lieut Col William Holland 88th Division intelligence officer said tha girl identified as Mary Beacham or New York City (street address unavailable) felt ill at Udine and spent two days in a civilian hems Eight hundred employes at Buckeye Cotton Oil Co will go back to work with increased pay here this morning ending a strike which started Oct la The bargaining committee of the Food Tobacco Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America Local No 13 (CL I O) and the management signed a contract last night after the workers voted unanimously to accept a new offer of the company Pickets were removed at Signing of the contract also sends about 400 employes back to work at the plants in Corinth Miss and Montgomery Ala Bowld company vice president and Karl Korstad union representative said While the workers had rejected an earlier 10-cent hourly pay hike offered by th company they accepted the figure last night because at the same time they won a number of other contract improvements company and union officials aaid The increase brings to 70 cents the hourly minimum of common workers Tha new contract includes a six-month wage reopening clause and provision for a discussion of wages in tha event that the work week drops below 48 hours It also provides paid vacations of ona week after one service and two weeks after three years service The union agreed to withdraw ita request for a closed shop and fixed shifts with preference to seniority workers It waa further agreed that the body of tha contract with the exception of wages seniority and hours of work would be taken to Corinth and eventually to Montgomery where negotiations for pay raises and other benefits would be opened company and union officials said 7 i jnFjriv ftnriiift-i Columbian Mutual Tower Boy prof anity and diaorderly ion duct Scout of America $136 Percy Edward Turner of 428 Son $10850 CL HryUMcDrinott! V- Commerce I Clyde Hart of Hl Ashner $150 Associate Attorneys disturbing pubic peace JJJfjE Barry and Semmes $260 JS? WlSfm AlSin Herman Ben-dorf Co UJ: James Ark drunkenness and resisting arrest Andy Stimson 34 of Dumas Ark disorderly conduct: Glen Gilmer 34 of 1548 Monroe disorderly conduct and James Winested 26 of Miasissppi disorderly conduct Today's Index SECTION ONE Pages 1-12 General News Editorials Memphis 25 5a 75 and 100 Years Ago SECTION TWO Sports General News Markets Death Notices Real Estate Weather Map SECTION THREE Classifiied Ada General News Yesterday and Today In Memphis Joe River Story SECTION FOUR Review of the Week America Speaks Book Reviews Sunday School Lesson Crossword Puzzle Amusements Radio News Page Letters to the Editor SECTION FIVE Society Clubs and Farent-Teacher News Comic Section This Wssk Magazine By GLENN WILLIAMS Auoelattd Press Staff Writer Although there was speculation that someone inside St James Palace might have made off with the diamond ring brooch and bracelet of the former Sarah Polk Bradford of Nashville Tenn in the hope the theft would be attributed to the "Cat" detectives swarmed through the ancient building in a fruitless search for fingerprints and clues There was no evidence to show how a burglar if any entered the palace which is patrolled night and day by uniformed guardsmen car rying bayonetted rifles A close guard however failed to atop the Windsor burglary at Ednam Lodge a few days ago Sir Piers and his wife live in an apartment near the famous Clock Towar built by Henry VIII when he was holding court there with hia successive wives The palace occupied by the royal family for many srears now is rarely used Wore Jewels Wednesday Lady Legh was uncertain when the theft occurred She wore the missing jewels Wednesday evening and they were discovered to be miaaing Friday night when she was dreasing for a party Tha method at the Hartingdon homo waa that of a modernistic Raffles and followed the pattern (Continued on Page 4 Column 1) CANNING SUGAR RATION EXTENDED FOR 30 DAIS Stamps Valid Through Nov 30 Because Of Shortage WASHINGTON Oct Housewives will have another 30 days to use their canning auger stamps the OPA announced Saturday night Instead of expiring at tha end of thia month spare stamps No 9 and 10 will continue valid through Nov 30 Each la good for five pounds Tha action completes series of movea designed to offset local and regional sugar shortages resulting from the maritime strike Earlier this week arrangements were made to ship Western beet auger to the East The regular table sugar stamp spare No 51 remains good for five pounds until the end of this year WASHINGTON Oct The Labor Department announced Saturday night that food prices on Sept 17 before the recent flood of decontrol orders starting with meat wera 862 per cent higher than those of August 1939 LONDON Oct Yard's general staff already without a trace of the stolen $80000 jewels of the Duchess of Windsor was confronted with three more mysteries Saturday the disappearance or theft of $63200 in gems and furs from St Jamea Palace and the boudoirs of two American born titled women The thieves who have got away with $300000 of jewelry and furs in the past two months In postwar crime wave added theae three coups to one of the most amazing records ever entered in Scotland cross indexed archives: Stole $3200 worth of diamonds from fabuloua St James Palace housing personnel of the royal household The victim was Amerl can-bom Lady Piers Legh Victim From Tenneeaee Sir Piers ia the one-time querry to the Prince of Wales who became King of England and Duke of Windsor 2 Looted the home of Kathleen the marchioness of Hartingdon who is the daughter of Joseph Kennedy the blitz-time United States ambassador to the Cburt of St James The lose waa estimated at $40000 in gems a Robbed the Orme Square home of 3 Harvey and hia daughter Betty Levington of $20000 la pearla and two mink coats 2a Scotland WASHINGTON Oct (INS) Plans for tha flight of about 85 Superfortresses to Alaska were revealed Saturday when -Army Air Forces officers disclosed that the B-29s will leave tha West Coast within a few days and fly tha normal route to Anchorage Ilia A A spokesmen aaid tha huge bombers will comprise a regular bomb group of 30 planet An additional five B-29a will go along i The spokesmen also disclosed that a squadron of P-51 Mustangs from the famous 56th Fighter Group also will fly from tha United States to Ladd Field Alaska about a month after the departure of the B-29s Scheduled takeoff of the B-29e reveals a step-up in the A A program to give crews and planes Arctic training Both unita will be on temporary duty status for about six months as part of ths broad project American Army officials emphasized that "nothing ia being done behind a by the United States Alaskan expeditions and they revealed that the Army is considering the possibility of inviting newsman to Alaska to obssrvo tho (Continued on Pago I Column i.