Transcript-Telegram from Holyoke, Massachusetts • 1

O'1 decisions for the country right now think the way the country has been kicked around is a crime" General Motors was host at the Waldorf-Astoria conference Wil son said- Among those present were Eua gene Grace of Bethlehem Steel Please Turn To Page 14 WASHINGTON (ff) President Truman summoned Western Congressmen to the White House today for a series' of talks in the wake of Harold Ickes explosive exit from the Cabinet Executive aides were rather non-committal but the speculation was that Mr confronted withr one of his toughest political problems to date was pursuing bis quest for a successor to Ickes as Secretary of the Interior House Speaker Rayburn (Tex) Senators Wheeler (Mont) Hatch (NM) (Wyo) and Thomas and Murdock (Utah) all Democrats were among lawmakers called for conferences with the Chief Executive Legislators from the -Western States presumably would have a lot to say about a new1 Interior Department chief The Department manages vast federal land holdings in that section of the country White House Secretary Charles Ross reported President Truman would not hold a news conference which had been set tentatively for today but probably would meet newsmen-at 4 tomorrow Ickes cslled upon the Justice Department to investigate the truth of testimony Edwin Pauley Mr nominee for Undersecretary of Navy has given in Senate hearings on his qualifications Ickes categorically charged that Pauley made state- Please Turn To Page 14 DETROIT 0U9 Charles Wilson president of strikebound General Motors Corp denied today that his company the steel industry and meat packers have adopted a coordinated policy against CIO unions Wilson' testified at a National Labor Relations board hearing on charges that General Motors hid failed to bargain collectively in good faith durifig the 86-day strike of 175000 CIO United Auto Workers sgainst GM Under questioning Wilson revealed that General Motors exec utives had met with steel industrialists and packing house executives at the Waldorf-Asioria hotel in New fYork after the Washing ton labor-management conference and before the first meeting of President Fact Finding board in the General Moton case "The only people there were those who were looking down the these who had been threat ened with Wilson said He said that a Benjamin Fairless president of Steel anil spokesman for the ateel industry was not present was nothing sinister shout that meeting" Wilson told NLRB Examiner Gerard Reilly a matter of fact it Is too bad those men make some LONDON VP) The United Nations Security Council agreed today to take up the issue of British and French troops in Syria and Lebanon at 11 a dl tomor and the general assembly rushed toward adjournment of its first historic meeting Working at top speed the Assembly hoped to pass quickly upon recommendations for a temporary headquarters site in New York city and a permanent one in Westchester and Fairfield counties of New York and Connecticut and dispose of a Big Five resolution calling upon United Nations members to take "immediate and drastic action" to remedy the world food situation By IQ (5 EST) the Assembly delegates hoped US conclude their London xbeetlng with addresser by British Prime Minister Attlee Assembly president Paul Henri-Spaak of Belgium and Secretary-general Trygve Lee of Norway' The committee on UNRRA elected Hume Wrong of jOttawa as chairman and decided to reassemble in Atlantic City in March Other questions before the Assembly were expected to be disposed of without diff ieutly These 1 1 Please Turn To IJage 14 Pittsburgh's lights Go On Again Wlowing a walkout power company employes went back to work in Pittsburgh' pending artfra by a mediation board and lights went on again (above) in the steel city Approve 65-Cent Minimum Wage WASHINGTON (UR)-The Sen- ate Labor committee today approved a bill to raise the mini- mum Wage to 65 cents an hour1 It added amendments which would bring between 2000000 snd 4000000 additional workers under the wage-hour law The present statutory minimum wage Is 40 cents an hour Chairman James Murrary Mont said the bill probably will be ready for -Senate action next Monday In its present form the bill provides for -an immediate change the Wages and Hour law to put the mirvimum wagtf at 65 cents per hour for twv'years At the end of that time the minimum would rise to 70 cents an hour for the next two years after which it would go to 75 cents at the beginning of the fifth year following passage An emendment introduced by Sen Claude Pepper Fla ex- tends coverage to Include certain' types of retail establishmefils Gurley Denied Retrial Will Appeal Again Americans Will Still Eat More'ThanEver i WASHINGTON (U-FD-lThe special House food committee took up the question today of whether food production lagged because of government price policies At the top of the list was butter which the Agriculture Department said would be short throughout the year Several other items also will be scarce at times the department said but Americans still will eat better than before the war The Agriculture Department said the nutritional value of the diet will remain good While Americans arej eating at Please-Vurn To Page 2 WASHINGTON Justice Junes 31 Proctor denied today a icv (rial for Rep James Cur-iqr (D-Mass) Bostcn Mayor and tvs other men recently convicted it suO fraud They will be sen-kneed next Monday Cnrlejr and two ethers were convicted Jan 18 by a district court Jnjr Convicted with him were Donald Fakefield Smith former member the National Labor Relations bird and James Fuller now icving a five-year sentence for ending fraudulent securities thru fie mails ill were found guilty on one eat charging conspiracy to defied through the malls Curley and a former Governor of Jtasachusetts was convicted on tine other counts of using the mails to defraud He was acquitted on four other counts Smith was convicted of four counts of mail fraud and acquitted on one Fuller was convicted of 13 counts of mail fraud Total possible sentences are 47 years and $19000 fines for Curley 22 years and $14000 fines for Smith and 67 years and $23000 fines for Fuller All three were former officials of Engineering Group Inc a firm the government said obtained over $60000 from clients by representing it could obtain government contracts foil them The prosecution contended that mosf of the $50000 had been spent to more suckers" Curley was president of the Flense Turn To Page 2- For how was composed solely of employer contributions -industry would in effect take over the welfare department Massachusetts industry is mow ing to other states where more profit can be realized Steele said and asked the gathering you want us to move the textile industry?" "Yes the audience replied Rep William Casey (D) Lawrence interrupted Steele' to say the workers are paying their Share of the unemployment fund in the form of increased prices Jarvis TTunt representing the' Associated Industries of Massachusetts said industry wss opposed to the bill because it do damage to1 industry in Massachusetts" The basic requirement of the present unemployment law' he said was that a worker must be ready to work to receive compensation and that the legislation under consideration would do away with that concept compensation is not welfare" Hunt said is form of insurance" Peron Regime Prepares Answer To Blue Book 'X BUENOS AIRES Informed sources said today the A gentine government was prepare ing -a reply to the United States Blue Book which linked Col Juan Peron presidential candidate and: other prominent Argentines a with the Axis cause It was not disclosed when the reply would 1 be delivered but foreign office sources said Foreign Minister Juan-L Oooke would at least refer to the Blue Book In rr radio speech on foreign policy scheduled for tonight Cooke declined comment he left the foreign office lsat night Other government sources said they considered-) the charges directed at Peron rather than against the present ment which took office after Pers on resigned as vice president Peron himseif has not yet com mented on the Blue Book al I Plefcse Turn To Page Pauley Confirmation Now Seen Shattered sr l' ill ti ti- lX if 4: i I-! i I-: A I I Target Ships To Take Two Atom Beatings WASHINGTON WV-The Navy will assign its salvage crews to rush repairs on target ships damaged the first atomic bomb test so they can be blasted again in the second Heading the repair units will be Commodejre William A Sullivan whose salvage feats made possible the prompt useof demolition-wrecked harbors in Africa and Europe during World War II Test officials said today the joint task force will be prepared to carry on 20 major repair operations aimultaneously at 'Bikini Atoll snaking it virtually unnecessary to bring 'bomb-damaged ships back' to Pearl Harbor in order to reday them for the second test Task force experts said the plans for quick repair of damaged target ships emphasize a point they have been that this Bikini Atoll trial iis a giant laboratory experiment rather than a simulated battlefield effort to destroy all targets st once Acting under specific orders from the joint chiefs of staff the task force has arranged what it Please Turn To Page 2 Nimitz WASHINGTON Adm Chester Nimitz told Congress today the carrier fleet may make any atomic air attack on this country At the same time the chief of naval operations said submarines Six Die Two Lost When Barge Sinks Off Watch Hill BOSTON VP) Six members of the crew of a barge were known to have perished two others were believed missing and one was saiv ed today this coast guard announced after the craft sank off Watch Hill I The barge the name of which was not immediately determined was in tow of the tug Nottingham of New York when it suddenly sank The crew noticed a light blinking on the barge and the tug put about to investigate The barge had sunk and her crew was in the water Coast guard craft raced to aid the Nottingham In rescue work but six were dead when picked up The rescued man was rlished to New London Conn! The barge was believed to have carried a crew of nine The coast guard cutter Yeaton from Ne London a patrol plane from Quonset I naval air sta tion and coast guard motor life boats from Fishers Island and Watch Hill I were dispatched to the scene According to the Nottingham the barge was about three miles off Watch Hill when she sank Company Charges Teamsters Use Delaying Tactics BOSTON 0119 officials today charged AFL union leaders with delaying agreement on arbitration proceedings' even as Gov Tobin -expressed Confidence that a threatened strike of 4500 Greater Boston truck drivers would be averted Replying to union charges that the employers were nsing "dilatory" tactics to get freight rate increases Ralph Cahouet of the employers group charged the union with in settlement of the trucking dispute by seeking to keep ridiculons excessive and irrelevant demands as iwues for Archbishop Cushing told the teamsters' he believed in unions in which "wsge esrners are made sharers of some sort in the ownership or the management of the profits and wherein they assume their proportionate share of re State Funds Assured Care Centers ences with Mr Truman over qualifications that led the old curmudgeon finally to pick up his hat and walk out After an exchange of letters adjusting the matter of resignation and a press conference in which Ickes foresaw no future for Mr Truman other -than trouble there were 'further developments These consisted of the 'distribution by the retiring cabinet-officer of an exchange of letters between himself and the President They can be curtailed and paraphrased but they are too good to cut Here they are 1 just as they came from the Interior Department mimeo graph: The White House Washington February 13 1946 My Dear Harold: "I have your letter of February twelfth tendering your resignation Please Turn To Page 14 The Violets Were Never Bluer Today is Valentine's Day a time for amorous sentiments and anonymous confessions and ill indications at the local postoffice suggest that Mr Cupid was the busiest lad in town Old-timers at the postoffice say that never-seen a Valentine season like this one and Postmaster James Dowd agreed that the heaviest in the history of the local postoffice The lines composed not only of the younger generation started forming at the stamp windows Monday and hit a peak yesterday For the past few days the writing tables in the postoffice lobby have been buzzing with activity xand clutered with empty envelopes bearing -the name of some 'local Valentine card shop hold promise of becoming "the most successful vehicle for carrying atomic weapons to within short distances of coastal targets" Appearing before the Senate naval committee to present the recomniendations for the postwar fleet Nimitx brought with him charts -which 'showed plans for: A system of 53 overseas bases for ships and planes 33 in the Pacific and 20 in the Atlantic-Carribean area A Navy manned afloat and ashore by 500000 enlisted mqn and 58000 officers An active fleet -of 319 combatant vessels part of a tojal fleet of 1079 active ready reserve snd laid-up ships distributed in the two oceans An aerial striding force of 3751 aircraft 2180 based on carriers In his prepared testimony Nim-Itz said is no doubt that the use of atomic explosives and other new weapons will have a profound effect on the composition and employment of armies navies and sir forces in the future" Declaring that while the ships together with armies knd cities are vulnerable the Admiral added are difficult and unprofita- Please Turn To Page 2 John Desmond superintendent of Chicopee schools for the past 25 years becomes the first Harvard graduate to be nominsted for the office of State Commissioner of Educationl In approximately century since the office was changed from Secretary of the State Board of Education kfter the days of Horace Mann to commissioner there have been Amherst- Dartmouth Bates and Columbia University alumni but the oldes university vln tye' country was never represented until now The appointment by Gov Maurice Tobin yesterday is subject to confirmation by the Council next The new commissioner-designate who was born in Boston 59 years ago now considers himself a of Chicopee He considers Chicopee a "grand city" and likes its people He plans to maintain his residence here even though he has to be in the greater part' of his time Mr and Mrs Desmond and their three children reside at 135 Steens Ter Chieo- Olympics Sot For London LONDON The 1948 Olympic games will bo held' in London it was announced officially today' Mass Pay BOSTON (UR) Legislation which would grant unemployment compensation to workers idle because of a labor dispute would force an employer to finance a strike against himself- Fred Steele of the New Bedford Cotton Association said today'' Steele representing the state textile industry appeared before the legislative on labor and industries in opposition to such legislation About 400 persons were at the hearing in the Gardner auditorium vHe said the unemployment fund never was Intended to take over state welfare and since the fund Warehousemen Demand Rejected Strike Continues BOSTON 0JF9 Employers of 70Q striking AFL Warehousemen today rejected the demand for a 20 cents an hour wage increase and 21-warehouses remained tied up as the four-day walkout continued The Merchandise Warehouse gipup of Boston representing the management voted unanimously to reject the demand of the International Longshore Union (AFL) for $110 hourly pay it' was revealed John P' Curran spokesman for management said- they felt their offer of 97 cents an hour represented a 13 per cent postwar wage increase since five per cent of that amount was granted in Aug-1945 The workers now are paid 90 cents an hour Meanwhile Pasqusle Dellor-fano financial secretary of the union predicted that between 3-000 and 5000 longshoremen would walk out in sympathy unless a settlement were made He said 500 non-union warehousemen already had walked out Be First issioner pee and are members of Holy Name parish Commissioner Desmond has been attached lo the local school system for the past 33 years coming here in 1913 to accept the principalship of Chicopee high school on appointment of the late Supt John Grey then one of the outstanding educators in the east From the beginning adverse circumstances tested his training snd ability: He had been prin- Pleaae Turn To Page 14 Smith's Beloved Dr William Allan Neilson- 78 former president -of Smith college died last night st the college infirmary at Northampton a few days after completing a history the institution Dr Neilson' had been working on the history since his retirement In 1939 He would have become 77 years old on March 28 Since his retirement hi 1939 Dr Neilson had been living at his home at Falls Village CL whence he came to the college several months ago to write Its history He leaves a widow Mrs Elizabeth Muier Neilson and two daughters Margaret who is Mrs Peter pointedf a committee to: wait on tho governor' i This committee will suggest to Gov Tobin that he make a'speclal appropriation to continue this achool work as of March 1 This would -insure continuation of the achqol work until the legislature hag an opportunity' to act on pend- ing legislation Legislative action cannot come for soipe tlme-Va a favorable report from the Educa-tion committee will have to go to the Ways and Means committee hich will pass on financial ill-of the cue- Page 2 i Legislature i Financial Forecast Two Devens GIs Face Court Martial For $10000 Thefts i FORT DEVENS UR Two Army privates faced court martial today after being captured at gunpoint last night and allegedly admitting thefts and burglaries Which netted them a total of $10- ooo Pfc John McConnell 19- of Detroit and- Pfc Robert Difff 20 of Bellevue were arrested in Ayer by Police Chief Ernest Downing and state trooper They were captured behind a ra dio shop police said they had just looted 9 fcThe pair allegedly confessed staging two separate raids on Fort Devens post exchanges that netted them $8000 and two other burglaries of Boston snd radio shops Police quoted them as saying they stored their loot in the boiler-room of the Fort Devens chapel 1 After Ayer District Judge Lyman Clark paired jurisdiction in the case today the pair were rdered turned bver to the custody of army authorities make after the end of the 1945 session I The committee's prediction of increased expenditures almost paralleled Governor Maurice statement in mid-January in which the Chief Executive ex-plained why his budget message called for total expenditure of a new high In state budgets- I Declaring that the state was facing and difficult prob lems in finance" in the post-war period the statement said that: Please Turn To Page 4 lates will receive the rd hats of cardinals Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsing tao Chins said mass at the Mads leihe while 83-year-old Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St Louis who has borne well the' rigors of the long flight from the United States rested at the Grand hotel Former Postmasters General James A Farley Walker and the daughter Mrs Robert Amepo of New York were among those who received communion from Archbishop Spellman Walker said his daughter would continue to Rome in the Aren bishop's plane Welker came to Eu- Please Turn To Paga 14 m1 A WASHINGTON UR The Aixm of Edwin Pauley being toinnfd as Undersecretary of Nny apparently lay shattered to-jhj hi the wake of the old curmudgeon's departure from the Human cabinet The old curmudgeon is Secretary of Interior Harold lekes He will cease to be Secretary of interior tomorrow 's! ter -having tan into President 'Truman and hit advisers with a double-bar-leOed attack the like of which has been seen around here There was growing doubt that Senate would go along with ft President and okay his con-ftnial choice of Pauley for the Hiq post It was Ickes differ- Charge Yukon Crew Ransacked Private Property SEWARD Alaska (UF9 Pat- McCoy 19 an oiler on the Yukon which broke up on a week was held today on of possessing ktolen property-is survivors of the wrecked paused crew members of and looting lug- Wt Jjpf was arrested after he of-sell a jeweler a pair of which the jeweler had ft for Mr: Lilly Moody a pas-ttfer on the Yukon Police "tatf a fur coat four cameras a Jond ring and a gold bracelet MrtJoy'a hotel room At Seattle Wash Mrs Mar-Pyle 33' San Jose Calif Tjjuhe aaw "inefficiency and out looting by the Yukon crew" uther survivor Leon Hart-7 Anchorage charged that ST Wu organization among oew- He said that on one when Capt Chris a ordered a deck hand to line from the bow to the Heck the crewman replied 7 It yourself" copyrighted story the Ji Newsletter a weekly ma-quoted Douglas officer of the harbor detachment in charge of Jry rescue operations as paying 'St! indication was shown IJJ had been a thorough Pilfering and looting in stateroom and compart-fcnt" on stateroom I personally purses and yttap slashed open and empty cases and envelopes with papers strewn on the he said was not a luggage I saw that had entered broken amash- or ransacked" BOSTON The joint Committee on Ways and Means today presented to the Legislature a 'gloomy report which predicted: 1 Increased expenditures lor normal' state public services 2 Decreasing state revenues snd the consequent "acute" need for added revenue 3 Increased burdens on real estate to pay local operating -costs 4 A $4000000 deficit In the Old Age Assistance funds financed largely on revenues from horse and dog racing The report was based on a study the committee was directed to X- (Special) The legislative Committee on Education will report favorably a bill providing for Child Care Centers in Massachusetts It will not be any measure heard by Uie committee this week when Holyoke displayed particular interest in the proposed law but a new draft based in part on the suggested legislation The Education Commit'Mx has held executive sessions on measure and it Is known that Howard Driscoll a member committee his been urging his colleagues to report a bill What the Holyoke representative said to the committee in executive session cannot be revealed as legist lative procedure prevents revelation of a statement in executive session The interest of the committee in this matter is shown by (jie action of its chairman Senator Ralph Mahar of Orange who has sp- BUs 278 la Algeria PARIS eg3) The toll of known earthquake casualties in Algeria reached 278 dead snd 70 injured tonight in the areas of Setif and Batna 'the center of the North African area The rocked the French territory yesterday Reports from Algeria said other uncounted victims were believed stiirhuriedjn the debris of buildings Neilson Dies Hglburn of Cambridge Mass and Caroline Mra Harold Oram of New York For more than twenty years William Allan' Neilson one of America's best-loved college presidents presided over the -affairs of Smith college Vaere he was known as s'Kholar liberal wit snd administrator with few peers in the educational life of the country The bearded' smiling Seotch-born each erv who entered his life's profession when he was 13 years old was known fsr beyond thd Northampton eampus for his tolerance Please Turn to Page 4 Abp Spellman Celebrates Mass At Notre Dame Sets Off For Home HiglrWindsDue Late Today BOSTON JP) The Boston Weather BUresu issued a special storm warning toy in which it said that increasing south snd southwest winds would reach 55 to 65 miles per hour with gusts of 75 miles over all coastal waters in Now England today The bureau 'said 1 the condition would be caused rapid moving and deepening storm centered over western lakes-at an early hour this morning In combination with a well developed high pressure area in the western Atlantic" In Issuing "a caution againJt these winds" the bureau add A i that they would reach 35 to lb miles an hour Inland and poaai- bly higher in some places Tbap will shift to westerly this aft- noon and diminish very slowl night Southland southwest twinda full gale force with Rusts up to milei an hour struck New Ei land 'today following scatter showers thruout the six-state gion-- -v -r mm The weather Blul Wl observatory at Milton rcSrt wind averaging 56 miles an ho with gusts -as high as' 72 ml anhnur In Boston winds av aged 40 miles an bour with gni up to 50 miles an hourc vi rl )V r- 11 ROME The Constellation plane Star of Rome landed today bearing three Cardinals-designate to the coming consistory The landing was at 4:12 m- GMT a EST5 Aboard were Archbishops Francis Spellman of New York and John Glennon of St Uiuis and Bishop Thomas Tien of China who will become prince of the Roman Catholic church Monday They flew here Irom Paris Archbishop Spellman celebrat ed low mass at ancient Notre Dame cathedral just before taking off for Rome where the three pre.