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i-wt The Weather )HGIMA: Bather cloudy wiady aad considerably colder today with some raia la south proh ably raised with aaow la sooth- west Clearing and colder tonight Tomorrow fair aad con-tlaed cold Local Data oa Pafe On the Inside Agriculture 22 National 11-15 It Obituaries 9 Comics Radio editorials 12 Sports 28-21 IatcraafL19-11 State A City 2-8 Markets Women 16-18 lflOth Year VaUIM 100 7- 8 Entered as SaeondOias Matter January A at the Fast vuus a car Numtar it Office at Richmond Virginia Under the Act of March A 1179 Richmond 11 Virginia Thursday January 19 1950 Dial 7-1851 Dally and Sunday by mall: tit a year Dally aad Sunday by canter Me a wash Five Cents School 59000000 Court Requested To Make Miners Work Full Week Success of Move Is Questioned By Several Members of Congress WASHINGTON Jan 18 CD A government move aimed at forcing John Lewis' coal miners back on a full production basis was launched today as reports of fuel and power shortages mounted throughout the country The step was taken by Robert Denham general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board who said Lewis was using an labor in putting his United Mine Workers on a three-day work week Denham sent his aides into Federal District Court-here to ask for an injunction barring Lewis from employing such tactics in his efforts to win a new New Governor Urges Fast Vote of Grants And Loans in Inauguration Is a Colorful Event Tax Cut Is Ruled Out By James Latimer John Stewart Battle took the oath as Virginia's midcentury Governor yesterday and promptly called for vig- orous legislative action on schools a labor matter and Vir-ginia-Maryland fishery problems The tall graying ex-Senator from Charlottesville outlined his immediate major objectives in a 37-minute inaugural address delivered from the south portico of the CapitoL To help localities solve a school construction he urged legislative steps on a $59000000 aid program involving the $45000000 already proposed for grants and a transfer of $14000000 of additional money to the State1 Literary Fund for loans He said action is to put in county and city hands the first $30000000 of the $45000000 earmarked in retiring Governor budget for State school building grants Battle would allot 90 per cent of the grqnt funds on a pupil enrollment basis set aside the remainder as an equalization fund and require no matching funds from the localities He asked the General Assembly to pass an emergency bill embodying this plan severing the $45000000 item from the Tuck budget bill to make the money available quickly The new Governor said he believed with regret that no reduction in taxes could be made because of heavy demands upon the State treasury Fuel Needs Get Attention His labor recommendation called for a law specifically authorizing the Governor to seize and operate coal mines with an distribution system to protect Virginians against any furl emergency that might arise from continued labor-management strife in the coal mines Battle also spoke strongly but not specifically of plans to resolve the old and recurring Potomac River oyster war source of irritatjon and misunderstanding between the citizens of Virginia and the great State of have been temporizing with this situation too he said "The time has come for definite possibly radical action I know the problem is a difficult one but I believe the General Assembly of Virginia can solve A crowd estimated variously at from 3500 to 5000 applauded frequently as the new Governor speaking slowly and with careful emphasis to drive home his major points unveiled his first legislative message The sun smiled warmly down on the bareheaded frock-coated chief executive and A light wind veered from south to west and back to the east Governor Recalls Campaign Promise Battle led up to his school program by recalling he had made a solemn promise to Virginians to see that every child should have the opportunity for sound public school He said the localities have an obvious obligation to do their utmost in financing schools but recent conditions developed real that demands and prompt For the emergency legislation on school grants he proposed these details: (1) Ninety per cent of the grant funds should be distributed upon the basis of pupils actually enrolled in the schools upon a given date sa Dec 1 1949 (2) Ten per cent should be put into an equalization fund for supplemental to those localities in which the taxable values are smallest and in which reasonable effort has been made by the localities to meet their own of Capitol Frame John Battle Virginia's New Governor Photos A NEW GOVERNOR AND HIS The scene immediately after John Battle became Governor: United States Senator Byrd is in foreground at far left with Sena-' tor Robertson directly behind him Others in foreground left to right from Byrd are Attorney-General Almond Retiring Governor Tuck Battle Lieutenant-Governor Collins and Former Governor Darden contract from the mine owners Judge Richmond Keech set January 26 as the date for a hearing on Denham's request But members of Congress who have been demanding that President Truman himself step into the coal dispute predicted that procedure would fall short of its mark Several skid the NLRB counsel had overstepped his authority Taft Questions Action Senator Taft (R-Ohio) declared he did not think Congress had intended to give anyone except the President the power to force men to go back to work where they had no contract He said it might be possible to get a court injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act to require Lewis to bargain in good faith I see that would be an effective means of getting full production of Taft added as he renewed his demand that Mr TYuman Invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to force Lewis to abandon his limited production tactics There was no word from the White House except to say that the President was being kept in- formed of the developments Thus far he has refused to recognize the coal shortage as creating a national emergency Such a proclamation would eiable him to go to the courts and seek an 80-day court order barring a coal mine shutdown The coal strike brought coal rationing to Pittsburgh The Retail Goal Merchants Association ordered available coal supplies distributed on a priority basis Orders from hospitals get first call Next come householders water pumping stations food processors and central steam heating stations Steel Output to Drop Steel companies disclosed plans for more production cutbacks Friday if the Duquesne Light Company of Pittsburgh carries out its plans to cut off power to 300 major industrial plants The mines are closed by the strike United States Steel Corporation said its wheel and axle division at McKees Rocks Pa will close Friday if power is shut off The Ambridge Pa plant of American Bridge also will be affected Previously Steel" said four electric furnaces and five rolling mills would go down The strike Is forcing belt tightening among families One miner Joe Konicki of near Point Marion Pa said: had meat for a month The children get mostly coffee and bread for lunch They get a little margarine once a The Goodrich Company of Akron Ohio fired telegrams to the President and Congressmen saying the rubber industry also is threatened by the spreading shortages which already have forced curtailment of some railroad operations Lewis meanwhile maintained silence on Denham's action But Continued on Page 13 Column 1 Truman Aide Given Rebuke By Probers Vaughan's Connections With Maragon Scored WASHINGTON Jan Democrats and Republicans on a Senate investigating committee joined today in rebuking Major-General Harry Vaughan President military aide for accepting seven home freezers as gifts for himself and high-ranking friends The committee said that except for the President and his family any public official who gets something for nothing from persons doing business with the government does so because those making the gift hope he will reciprocate in some way "If he stops and thinks for a moment" said the group's unanimous report on its inquiry last year will realize that probably he is not getting the gift because the donor likes the color of his eyes or Is genuinely concerned with his household Snyder Didn't Get His Vaughan told the committee last Fall that there was nothing Improper about his accepting the freezers as gifts from the head of the Albert Verley Company a Chicago perfume concern The committee received testimony that the gifts were made to the aide about the time the Verley company was trying to get State Department clear1 a nee to send some of its officials to Europe This was soon after the war when passports were hard to get Testimony showed also that Vaughan interceded and smoothed the way for the Verley people But Vaughan testified that whatever he did was part of his job and In the interest of expediting things And he said the gift of freezers was simply a to The general gave one of them to Mrs Truman and asked that ethers be sent to Fred Vinson John Snyder James Vardanian Matthew Connelly and the White House staff lunchroom Vinson now is Chief Justice of the United States Snyder is Secretary of the Treasury Vardaman the former naval aide Is a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System Connelly is a secretary to the President Snyder told a reporter at the time of the Senate inquiry that no freezer reached him The report approved by four Democrats and three Republicans said it is all right for the President and his family to accept gifts It pointed out that the American people always made such gifts Continued on Page 13 Column 5 Columns Senate Passes Bill to Repeal Tax on Oleo Riders Are Defeated Early Accord Foreseen WASHINGTON Jan A hill to wipe out 'the Federal taxes on oleomargarine was passed by the Senate tonight by the lopsided margin of 56 to 16 Senator Byrd and Robertson Virginia Democrats were in Richmond attending the inauguration of Governor John Battle but were announced as for the bill to repeal the taxes The measure bitterly fought by some members from big butter-producing States now Is expected to go to a Senate-House conference to iron out differences between It and a measure passed last year by the House Abolished under the measure would be the Federal levies of 10 cents a pound on colored margarine and one-quarter cent on uncolored Restaurants serving oleomargarine would have to label it as such or serve it in triangular form to prevent its being confused with butter Oleo sold at retail would have to be in triangular packages Before the final vote the Senators rejected an effort to turn the margarine bill into a billion-dollar general excise tax cut The excise tax amendment sponsored by Senator Butler (R-Neb) was rejected 43 to 32 Earlier two attempts by Senator Larger (R-N D) to attach riders to the measure were killed by motions to table The vote against antilynching amendment was 60 to 20 and against an antipoll tax proposal 59 to 17 Larger also made an unsuccessful move to displace the margarine bill with a third civil rights measure a proposal to establish a Federal Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) The Senate tabled that motion 59 to 17 excise tax proposal Continued on Page 1L Column 8 Seeks Return Of Merchant Ships WASHINGTON Jan The United States acted today to get back 42 merchant ships it sold to China in 1947-49 It want them falling into Communist hands This country still holds mortgages on the ships So the State Department announced it has instructed American representatives to ask local authorities in Far East ports to prevent the sailing of any of the ships which may be there Six of the vessels were reported among 13 Chinese ships whose crews hoisted the Red flag at Hong Kong on Monday Secretary Acheson notified Chinese Ambassador Wellington Koo of the action in a letter He indicated that the United States is willing to make arrangements with the Nationalists to let the ships continue to be used for trade with Formosa' Two of the ships were at Norfolk and two others were reported in Baltimore Maritime Commission officials identified the two at Norfolk as the Empire Battleax and Empire Anvil C-l types at Anchorage Hampton Roads Bills on Schools Mine Dispute Should Be Ready for Assembly Toddy Says Governor Battle Governor Batttle told his first press conference late yesterday that bills to carry out his school grant and coal mine labor dispute recommendations should he ready for introduction in the General Assembly today He ready to announce any appointments of major State officials It was a relaxed and freely-talking new Governor who greeted reporters at his office even though he conceded the pace: had been fast and hectic most of his first day He had just returned from his new four-year home the Executive Mansion after lunch with his immediate family and friends the live Battle brothers and sisters were together for a sort of reunion yesterday for the first time in years In place of the formal morning attire of the inaugural ceremqnies he wore a dark business suit' Appreciation Expressed Battle- led'off by remarking he wished to say tremendously appreciated I am of the attitude of my It was a holiday in Charlottesville yesterday honoring the -new Governor and the volunteer Charlottesville municipal band together with several hundred Charlottesville folk came down to see their fellow townsman installed at the CapitoL Questioned about his proposed emergency bill to start the school grant program roll ing as soon as possible Battle said it should go down today He hoped it could be passed the middle of the This would be approximately the second week in February and $30000000 would be available as soon as Battle signed the emergency act The remaining $15000-000 would be ready for the second fiscal year of the biennium Of the equalization fund to which he would devote 10 per cent of the grant appropriations he said a "definite giving weight to local effort local ability and local need would be written into the-legislation It would leave little to the discretion of the Governor or State education -authorities he indicated Language Scrapped Battle said the proposed bill would scrap entirely the language of the present $45000000 school grant item in the budget bill He reiterated the thought he couldn't in good faith call for matching funds from the localities in view of his campaign statements but he suggested the State grants would encourage the localities to use more local money to Continued on Page 6 Column 2 A formula would he enacted to take into account local financial ability local need and local effort For Debt Payments (3) Localities which have borrowed money and built their own schools could use their share of the grants to pay on the Irrespective of the date of the indebtedness" (4) Grant shares for those localities which have no school debt and no immediate building needs be held in trust by the State until such time as further school construction may become Battle did not recommend localities be required to match the State grants a point in which he differed from the State Tax Study Commission which proposed 50-50 matching funds be required for 90 per cent of the grant program we now require the people of the several localities to place upon themselves $45000-000 of new and additional debt in order to receive these grants it would be a breach of faith of which I shall not be Battle said He urged prompt legislative action on the emergency appropriation to enable localities to take advantage of Javorable building conditions in the Spring and Summer Thus some new facilities may be ready by next school term he pointed out Replenish Literary Fund In addition to the grants suggestion to replenish the exhausted State literary Fund would make $14000000 available for school construction loans The amount would be transferred from the State Bond Sinking Fund which has an excess over legal requirements the State bonds mature it will be a comparatively simple bookkeeping procedure to pay those bonds from funds allocated to school operation and replace a similar amount in the school operating funds from the Literary Fund and any bill which may be passed should carry that specific he said The new Governor prefaced his call for mine seizure legislation with a reference to the war powers legislation given Governor Tuck These established a State Emergency Fuel Commission with powers of a Civil Defense Council to prevent hardships which might otherwise have resulted from a Continued on Page fi Column 3 Calm Dignity Marks Inauguration New Governor Repeats Oath Slowly Clearly By Ray Pittman The destiny -of the Common-wealth was delivered reverently into the trust of John Stewart Battle here yesterday The quiet 'courtly gentleman from Charlottesville became Governor of Virginia in a setting hallowed by history and dramatized by the imminence of crises He accepted his office humbly and resolutely Watching the tall attorney as he placed hand on Bible at 12:31 were 4000 friends and guests and well wishers who overflowed temporary stands erected on the south portico of the CapitoL And an estimated 50000 others had watched his ceremonious advance to the Statehouse along flag-flanked streets thronged by the largest crowd to watch a parade here since the war John Battle was perhaps the humblest and the happiest man in all of' festive Richmond He was certainly the busiest He was neither the calmest nor the most distraught He- knew perhaps better than anyone with the possible exception of retiring Governor Tuck that he had a crowded four years ahead of him -And so John Battle was a man Continued on Page 6 Column 5 Luckman Quits Lever Brothers NEW YORK Jan Charles Luckman resigned today as president of Lever Brothers Company because of a Announcement of the resignation came from Sir Geoffrey Hey-worth chairman of Lever Brothers A Unilever Ltd and Paul Rykens chairman of Lever Broth-era A Unilever who are in the United States boards of the parent companies accept with regret the resignation of Luckman from the presidency of Lever Brothers Company arising from a disagreement as to the future policy of the American company that we were unable to resolve" their statement issued In connection with the resignation said rection- it was recalled that Mr Truman told a news conference in mid-1946 that Taylor would continue to serve as liaison between the White House and the Vatican until the peace treaties of World War'll had been written' After that he said there would no longer be an official United States representative at the Vatican-' -Now more than four years after the war several peace treaties still remain to be written Protestant clergymen have repeatedly complained against Taylor's 'assignment contending it violated the principle of ft Continued on Page 10 Column 2 Vole on House Rules Change Set Friday GOP Seeks Delay Myron Taylor Resigns His Post As Ambassador to the Vdtican Pertinent Points Are Listed i In Inaugural Address Pertinent points in Governor inaugural address: Recommended emergency legislation to appropriate $30000000 as outright State grants for school construction the earliest possible moment" $15000000 for the 1951-52iyear Additionally urged another $14000000 in loans for school construction Said new budget would mean a minimum base salary of $2000 for public school teachers increased benefits under the teacher and State employee retirement systems Recommended legislation to provide voluntary jury service by women Endorsed revised rules to simplify pro- cedure in Virginia courts' SEA FOOD Criticized the temporizing which has created misunderstanding between Virginia and Maryland over' sea food operations In the Potomac River urged definite possibly radical action to remedy the situation LABOR Asked for peacetime powers to seize in the name of the State any coal mines that may be necessary in order to protect the health and welfare of the people TAXES regret that I cannot recommend any decrease in taxes at this time I hope you will find it unnecessary to increase taxes in any respect or add any new form of taxes to those now ADMINISTRATION Pledged a' sound economical administration and urged continuance of the work of reorganizing governmental administrative functions Republican-Southern coalition controls the Rules Committee The reasoning behind the administration strategy is this: Backers of the Truman civil rights program are hoping to call up for House debate next Monday a bill to set up a Fair Employment Practices Commission If the rules change is adopted however the chances of getting this bill before the House any time in the near future will be greatly diminished By setting the showdown vote on the rules change for Friday administration Democrats hope to put Republicans in a hole If the Republicans vote for the rules change the administration men will accuse them of opposing civil rights But House Republicans held a caucus and decided to oppose a showdown this week Their leader Representative Martin (Mass) Continued on Page 11 Column 7 WASHINGTON Jan 18 (AT Truman Democrats moved today for a quick showdown on a proposed House rules change which could block much of the Truman Fair Deal while Republicans sought to delay the vote The seemingly paradoxical situation arose as both sides maneuvered for an advantage with eyes on -the 1950 congressional elections In a surprise move designed to put the Republicans on the spot administration leaders suddenly ordered a vote Friday on the proposed change The change proposed by a coalition of Southern Democrats and Republicans on the House Rules Committee ttould restore to that committee the power it once had to prevent legislation from ing the House floor This move if successful could play havoc with many items in the Truman program because the WASHINGTON Jan 18-tAV-Myron Taylor today resigned as special presidential- ambassar dor to the Vatican a post which has been frequently Unger Protestant fire during the past' 10 years Taylor himself is an Episcopalian He was first appointed as personal envoy to -the pope by the late President Franklin Roosevelt- in December 1939 and was continued 'in that role by President Truman The White House in announcing that Mr Truman accepted the resignation with gave no immediate indication whether a successor would be appointed As a possible clue in that di jm I ifett-ibaijL i A to 4 A 4 v- Jl -Jr.