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mA fffew. i- i She HOPE STAR, HOPE, ARKANSAS i Thursday, I I Yoshida framed Premier By Hirohito 1 By EARNEST HOBERECHT i Tokyo, May 16 t'UP) 3hi- I'gerti Yoshida, a steely, little 67- I year-old man who nas spent most his lifetime in Japan's diplomatic service, was appointed uermier 'bf Japan by Emperor Hirohito to- after receiving the endorsc- I'inent of Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur. j. Hirohito's command to Yoshida id form a new Japanese government was given at p.

m. (Tokyo time) after an audience in the palace, Yoshida immedi- 'fetely began interviewing prospective cabinet members, and a Spokesman for the new permier he expects to complete ior- jmation of his new government by Friday. The appointment of Yoshida a moderate to succeed Baron Kijuro Shidehara climaxed a 25- tiay stalemate wherein major po- litical parties held conferences hearty every day in an effort to find a man who could win enough support from various groups to organize a cabinet. Shidehara, who recommended appointment to the emperor, resigned on April 22. Yoshi- da, who served as foreign minister in the Shidehara cabinet, was approved by MacArthur in a letter to the Japanese governmeht.

Yoshida's spokesman said Shide- hara might be included in the new cabinet, although he did not indicate in what post. Informed sources believed Yosnida will continue to carry on the duties of foreign minister until he can find a suitable man for the post. The new caoinet is expected to be a coalition ot conservative parties. The Social Democrats earlier announced their refusal to cooperate in a government headed by conservative elements. Informed sources said Education Minister Yoshishige Abe and Justice Minister Dhuzo Iwata are expected to be returned to the posts they held under Shidehara.

The appointment came as Japan's newly-elected House of Representatives convened for the i'irst time. Bukichi Miki, liberal party member, was elected speaker of the House by a vote of 228 to 217 after a determined attempt by Communists and Social Democrats to have a member of a minority group elected. Strawberry Crop Hike in Arkansas Little Rock, May Arkansas crop reporting service today predicted a strawberry harvest of 700,000 twenty-four quart than double the 1945 crop of 330,000 crates. Based on conditions May 1, the report was three per cent less than the 10-year 1935-44 average production of 720,000 crates. The yield per acre was indicated at 70 crates, compared with 55 crates harvested last year and a 10-year average of 50 crates to the acre.

"Rains on April 29th and 30th were damaging to strawberries," the report said. "Many berries have rotted and the crop as a whole is not too good in quality." The harvest this year was early, the report stated, and by May 1 was about over in the southwest, one-third over in the northwest, and one-half completed in the White county area. The reporting service also predicted: Snap bean production at 112,000 bushels from 1,600 acres compared with 114,000 bushels last year and an average production of 98,000 bushels; Cucumber production at 132,000 bushels on 1,200 acres compared with 188,000 bushels last year and an average production of 44,000 bushels; Spring spinach production at 60,000 bushels on 300 acres compared with 61,000 bushels last year and an average production of 158,000 bushels; Winter wheat production at 380,000 bushels compared with 441,000 bushels last year and an average -production of 527,000 bushels; and peach production of 2,881,000 bushels compared with 2,967,000 bushels last year and an average production of 2,646,000. There are about 630,000,000 acres of forest land in the United States, of which about 196,000,00,000 are publicly owned. Jove, up Jo a dime pound! Kroger's Tea Special Blend for Iced Tea BOX' 35c 'ADMIRATION Ib.

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The other authorized the city to purchase and operate 3,000 slot machines. All other forms of gambling roulette, lotteries, dice games would remain on the taboo list. The youthful ex-army colonel who defeated a powerful city machine at the polls last January estimated that his new city administration would net $4,000,000 a year from the slots. That would go for street improvements. And $2,500,000 from the handbooks would go into the city's general fund.

Malaria Control Covers All Arkansas By BOB BROWN Little Rock, May largest malaria control program in the United States is in full swing in Arkansas at this time. Houses are being sprayed with DDT. Ponds are being covered with oil. Adults and children are being taught how to prevent malaria and to avoid the mosquite that spreads it. According to Francis Babin, publicity director for the program, more than 140,000 house in 30 Arkansas counties will be sprayed twice this summer with DDT at the rate of 10,000 a week.

The spray program, started in rural areas and towns with populations of less than 1,000 early in March and has practically completed the first cycle. As soon as all the houses have been sprayed on the inside, the program will begin again as DDT is effective for only four months. Miss Babin says 82 three-man spray crews are working in Arkansas with hand operated pumps, spraying ceilings and walls of the houses, porches and outside toilets. The second phase of the program or spreading oil on place in towns of more than 1,000 population. This is considered the most effective way of controlling mosquitos, but it is too expensive for rural areas.

Miss Babin points out that DDT spray is the first practical malaria control for rural use. Starting early in the war in defense areas, the'plan has spread throughout eastern Arkansas and into four counties of the southwest corner of the state. Now mosquitos are dying daily by the millions in Little River, Sevier Hempstead, Miller, Lafayette counties in the Red River Valley; Drew, Ashley, Independence, Randolph, Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Mississippi, Craighead, Poinsett, Jackson, Woodruff, Lincoln, Desha, Cross, Crittenden, St. Francis, Prairie, Lonoke, Monroe, Lee, Phillips, Arkansas, Jefferson, Chicot and White the River Valleys. The program is federally financed, although cities and towns of the state contributed $60,000 reward this year's program.

Towns making large Contributions are Blytheville, Newport, Texarkana, Hot Scrings, Camden, Fort Smith, Helena, and West Helena $1,200. And while the fight against malaria goes on, the weekly morbidity report issued by the health department shows 20 new cases in the state last week. Chicot county had seven and Hot Springs county five. This taring's the year's 18- veek total to 201 vith 84 cases the same time loot year. -f CARNIVAL Bv Dick Turner COPR.

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PAT. The sale of surplus army equipment seems to be a vicious cycle. For several weeks now, veterans have been complaining that they were not getting their share of surplus property. So last week numerous articles, including typewriters, were frozen by the government for exclusive sale to veterans. Under that new rule the schools of Arkansas (which contributed 30 50 per cent of their typewriters the armed services at the start, of the war) buy a machine, although the catalogue issued this week lists nearly 700 machines for ale.

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OFF. Cirrus and altocumulus clouds. Unemployment Pay to Some Coal Strikers By JAMES MARLOW Washington, May 10 If the coal miners in Pennsylvania strike again they're back at worK on a 12-day truce after a 42-day strike they'll get unemployment pay while idle. That's a ruling by the stale of Pennsylvania, unly lour other stales New York, Rhode Island, Louisiana and Tennessee give unemployment pay to strikers. All 4a states nave uncmpioy- compcnsalion syslems.

Because cacn slate has Us own law 1 and rules, the way in which unemployment pay is nanaed out varies. But all the states, with the exception of the five mentioned above, refuse unemployment pay to people made idle by a labor dispute. -That phrase', "labor 'is important. While the 4J states bar the pay lo strikers, it is a little more difficult sometimes to decide not only who is made idle by a labor dispute, but why. and who's to blame.

For example: Suppose in a plant which has CIO and AFL workers, the CIO workers strike and the AFL workers, because the plant can't operate without the CiU men, arc forced into idleness. Or lake the same plant where the CIO men strike. The AFL could go on with ilicir work but. being union men, refuse lo cross the picket lines which the CIO workers throw ti around the plant. In those two examples you have men made idle Ihrough no fault of their own or made idle because they are following union principles in refusing to cross picket lines.

Such problems mean the various state ollicials nave tough decisions to make: whether to let those AFL men (used as an example here) have unemployment pay, or not. It's different in the five stales which permit unemployment pay for strikers. In all five of those slates a striker is disqualified from receiving the money for a specified unmoor of weeks. In Pennsylvania a slriker must be idle six weeks before he can receive unemployment pay. In Rhode Island it's eight weeks; in New York, seven; in Louisiana, three; in Tennessee, four.

The theory behind those weeks of disqualification is this: that most strikes last only a short time and therefore lew strikers ever will be idle long enough to collect unemployment pay. The 42-day coal strike is, of course, an exception to the rule. By being idle 42 days through last Sunday, the Pennsylvania miners have been out ot work for the six weeks required by the stale. Now although the miners have gone back to work on the 12-day truce slale has ruled that if they quit again at the end of that time they don'l have to wait another six weeks before getting unemployment pay. In other wflrds: they've waited the six-week period required by the state and, if they resume the strike, they can collect unemployment pay.

The amount of molicy jobless person can collect depends upon now much he earned wtion he was working, and how long he worked. But tnerc is a maximum amount of unemployment pay he can get, and a limit on the number of WCOKS he'll gel it. Here again the rules vary by slate. In Pennsylvania a Jobless person, depending on his previous work anu length of work, can draw up $20 a week for 20 weeks. ploymcnt was all industries lion, communica, governmenl, induslry showing crease.

Lillle Rock, May 16 Arkansas' employment picture is taking on a brighter hue, the U. a. Kmploymenl Service disclosed today in a report which showed an increase in the number of job placements and decreases in un- employmcnl. Li. O.

Rushing, slat USES director, said a continued increase in employment is expected during the next lour months, with the cx- lenl of the rise lo be governed by me availability of malcrials. Tolal job placcmenls in April were 13 percent higher than those for March and 48 percent above those of February, the USES report showed. Arkansas' 27 local offices placed 7,028 persons last month. Ot these workers, a record tor one month were war vcl- crans. job applicants at the end of March tolalcd 07,827.

compared lo 81,502 March 31. Whereas 12,578 pcrsQns applied for jobs in March, 11,674 lllcd applications with USES in April. Rushing said thai increased cm- In and Btruclion iiitcst in- Many Meier Suspect Cause Of Backaches when disorder of kidney I uhctlon permits poisonous matter to rcmnln jnnycnusennKBlngbncknche, jcrmlts your blood, It pnssngcs with emnrUns nndlburnlnu sometimes ihowa there In Bomcthihg wrontr with kidney tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. GALVANIZED ROOFiNG All lengths in See us for other critical merchandise.

The Emmet Mercantile Co. Emmet, Arkansas Norfolk, who was elected as the WMU meeting here ended. Miss Kathleen Mallory, of Brimingham, was chosen executive secretary; Mrs. W. J.

Cox, Memphis, treasurer, Mrs Wilfred C. Tyler, Blue Mountain, recording secretary, and Miss Juliette Mather, Birmingham, young people's secretary. MEALS TASTE BETTER WHEN. YOU SERVE BLUE RIBBON BREAD GROCERS and I BAKERY Raincoats Hide Costumes in Cotton Show Memphis, May 16 Jupiter Pluvius an uninvited and most unwelebrrie guest, "the South's greatest Memphis Cotton Carnival is beginning to look like the South's wettest party, as well. Yesterday's rains drenched the elaborate floats in the royal cotton court parade and forced the 75 ladies-in-waiting to undergo a last- minute change from worth of Hollywood costumes to lesser finery, which in many cases was hidden by raincoats.

Rain is forecast again for today with the coronation parade of Negro royalty scheduled for this evening. The parade is to be part of the cotlon makers and will feature W. C. Handy, "the father of the blues" in the feature spot with his famous golden trumpet. Also on the program for tomorrow night is the grand carnival ball where Cotton King R.

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George R. Martin, of purchasing of surplus property for the State Education Department, says the schools are trying without success to buy typewriters for veterans to use. And until they get the machines, much of the book- work in connection with the GI education program cannot be com- leted and many typing classes ar ex-servicement cannot begin. -BIG Moroline Best Quality Petroleum Jelly a Big Jar, a Big Value FOR CHAPPED LIPS CHAFED SKIN SCR APES, BRUISES MINOR CUTS- Yours nnd Baby'a Minor Skin Irritations DINE HERE FOR THE BEST IN FOODS We Specialize In: Steaks Chicken Sea Foods Qpen From 11 a. m.

to 11 p. m. CLOSED ALL PAY MONDAY ROSE'S SNACK SHOP Phone 621 409 East Third ANNOUNCING the Opening of Builders Concrete Products Co. Post Off ice Box No. 199 North Main Street Hope, Arkansas Manufacturing CONCRETE BUILDING BLOCKS Concrete block masonry is widely used in building construction because of its many definite advantages.

It is economical, durable, fire-resistive, and able to carry heavy loads. It is regularly used for both load-bearing and non-load-bearing walls, as backing for all types of'facing materials, and for almost every building construction use where masonry can be used advantageously. The advantages of concrete block masonry are readily adaptable to any style of architecture and lends itself to a wide variety of surface finishes for both exterior and interior walls. Because of its many inherent advantages concrete block masonry is enjoying a wide and increasing use in all types of buildings schools, churches, auditoriums, theaters, factory buildings, apartments, residences, stores, garages, warehouses, farm buildings of all types, and the full range of building construction from a one-room milk house to a rnulti-story skyscraper. Concrete masonry blocks made under modern production methods easily meet building code requirements as well as the specifications of the American Society for Testing Materials, Underwriters' Laboratories and the Master Specifications of the United States Government.

The Builders Concrete Products Company's plant, located on North Main Street, is equipped with new and modern machinery to produce a product of high quality. Persons interested in construction with concrete block masonry are cordially invited to forward inquiries or to visit and inspect the plant. Two Films, concerning the use of Concrete in Building will be shown at the Hempstead County Court House in Hope Friday, May 17th at 8 p. Ux Manager Our Drily Breed Sliced Thin by The Editor Alex, H. Hope Star WEATHER FOKECAiT Arkansas: Cloudy, scattered thundershowers this afternoon and in cast portion tonight.

Saturday partly cloudy. i 47TH YEAR: VOL. 183 Star of Hooe. 1899: Press. 1927.

Consolidated Januarv 18, 1929. HOPE, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946 Auoclated Newsoauw Ent Entcrorltt AM'n. PRICE 5c COPY Government Should fay as It Goes The April bulletin, "You and of the Arkansas Public Kxycnditurc Council says: "Governor Laney, who was the first governor to publicly endorse a baitmccd federal budget, has been joined by the governors of 32 stales. And the Arkansas congressional delegation is still the only one to unanimously pledge itself to the cause. Heads of 14 Arkansas trade and civic organizations are on record as supporting the stand laKcn by our lawmakers im Washington.

Need for this grow- support is reflected in the fact that Ai-Kansas' share of the proposed federal deficit for the next llscal year is greater than the total cost of state government for the same period. "Prospects of success in the campaign to place this nation on a pay-as-you-go fiscal basis brightened recently when the senate, finance committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 1760, introduced by Senator Harry F. Byrd, which seeks to reduce the legal debt from 300 billion dollars to billion dollars. "In reporting this action to the senate, Senator Byrd said, 'As of July 1 the debt is estimated 16 275 billion, therefore the adoption of the proposed legislation will mean that no additional borrowing can be made by the federal government without further authorization by congress. It means that for the iirst time in 16 years the federal government must operate strictly on a pay-as-you-go Sasis, and that deficit financing borrowed money will have to Be The APEC report stated that Arkansas' share of the annual loss in operating the federal government is equal to the entire cost of operating the state government for a year.

Examining this closely you discover a disturbing fact: What we arc paying for is not two governments but THREE for we are not only paying taxes to support the federal administration but are borrowing for that an amount equal to the state budget, to be paid in additional taxes at some future date. The second disturbing fact is that the federal government is continuing to borrow money without authorization of congress. Until this is stopped you may expect federal taxes to continue indefinitely at prohibitive rates. For on one thing you can certainly depend: The governnrient will keep US credit good, and taxes will to whatever the annual interest gKi the public debt requires. JAMES THRASH.ER "Wanted: A Breathing Spell Two statements by John D.

Small, Civilian Price Administrator, before the Senate Banking and Currency Cimmittee serve to point up an aspect of the current danger of uncontrolled inflation which has been underempha- sizcd in most discussions of the subject. "If it were not for strikes," Mr. Small said, "we would now or nc ar capacity production iif most fields." And, warning that the inflation danger would reach its peak in the next few months, he -added, "Six months full production would, I think, see us in a position where we could afford to take risks." Organized labor launched an intensive, widespread campaign lo "pave the OPA'" after the House of Representatives passed a bill which left the price-control agency ba'lly cut but still breathing. Labor ru-jiginzalions have blamed reac- congressmen and reactionary businessmen for desiring an end of controls and a sky-rocketing period for boom and bust. But there has been nothing said in all the labor campaigning about the contribution which protracted strikes have made to a condition which many union members seem to think can be remedied by price control alone.

The coal strike is only the latest and most imposing addition to the wall behind which is dammed an demand for goods. One after another has holdback thi accumulation of inflationary money. Just when it has seemed that supply and demand might at last start toward some semblance of balance, along has come a new and more serious stoppage. In our integrated and interdependent economy, the steel and coal strikes have been felt by almost every family in the country. They will continue to be felt for some time to come, with effects run- from inconvenience lo uncm- oyment and downright hardships That is not to say that strikes are the only source of danger.

But it is entirely misleading to believe that the whole story of threatened inflation is contained in the argu ment over whether the OPA's price ceilings are stifling production or whether profit-greedy industrialists arc staging a production sit- down until all controls are off. Since the administration seems committed to a policy of price without wage control, il iSjfpoars that organized labor musl take some voluntary steps if the country is to come off its precarious perch at the brink of inflation. If labor would make a deal with Congress, so to speak, and agree to a six-month moratorium on strikes in return for continued price control, then indeed there would be good cause for hope. It would be as much to organized labor's inter est as it would to industry's to do so. To threaten more strikes and tftfrrc demands if price con trols are removed is simply to pile disaster upon disasler.

The coun try's industry must have the op portunily to plan with confidence for production over a considerable period of time if inflation and unemployment arc to be avoided. Labor's agreement to negotiate its demands and grievances without striking for six months would not seem an exorbitant price to pay for helping put the country back on its feet. Childless Men 20-29 Stand to Be Drafted By JOHN L. STEELE Washington, May 17 A new Senate drive to draft teenaged boys was touched off today by President Truman's order for conscription of childless men 20 through 29 years of age. Senate Democratic Leader Al- bcn W.

Barklcy, announced he will ask the Senate lo lake up teen-age draft bill early next week. The Senate Military committee scheduled a Affairs meeting Tuesday lo plan support for legis lation authorizing conscription of the 18-and 19-year-olds, including 80,000 sludenls already iound fit for service. Teen-agers were exempted from the drall in the recent slop-gap extension of Selective Service until July 1. The new proposals would draft them alter that dale, and take the pressure off older men. The Senate previously had gone on record in favor of teen-age conscription for a limited time.

The House would not agree. President Truman, in a slinging rebuke to Congress, late ycslerday stepped up the maximum draft age from 26 to 29 in an effort to save the "near wreckage" of ihe Selcclive Service system and make up for the loss of the teenagers. Mr. Truman told a news conference that he had signed the emer gency draft extension reluctantly and only because "conditions would be worse without it." He pointed out that the act kept intac the draft machinery and preserve: the veterans' reemploymen rights, The president said he had been informed by Selective Service Di rector Lewis B. Hcrshey that the teen-age ban would reduce men under 26 who could be inducted each month from 35,000 to approximately 5,000.

Most men in the 26-through-29 calegory already have seen armed service or have been deferred on physical or occupational grounds. Selective Service said the president's raising the draft age will increase available manpower by only about 13,000 men, with perhaps one-half of these unfit for induction. The 20 through 25-year class, it was estimated, would yeild about 59,600 additional eligible draftees. Numerous Military Affairs Committee members promised, support which would halt coal from mines. pr iv for Barkley's drive, urging consideration of labor legislation be set aside a few days if neces sary to pass a new draft law in time for extended conferences with the House.

A bill already approved by the mililary commilce would provide a one-year extension of Selective Service, an 18-months service limit and a ban on iathcrs but would premit induction of teen-agers. Army Doesn't Plan to Induct Vets Recently Discharged Washington, May 17 1 Despite all its current draft troubles, the army is not expected to seek re-induction ot discharged veterans. The issue was raised yesterday during President Truman's news conference criticism of the new draft extension law, which bans induction lions, of 'leen agcrs. President As result of the ban, Mr. Truman raised the top draft age from 25 to 29.

He said the "loosely drawn" law would actually permit raising the draft age to 35 ycsrs, seven months, although there was no intention of doing so. "As another example," Mr. Truman said, "there is nothing in the law to prohibit the re- Jnduction of men of elgible age C2U through 29) who nave already had their war service and boon discharged." Selective Service sources said Mr. Truman apparently was pointing only to a legal possibility. There is no plan to re-induct veterans.

Several Killed in Cuba Camp Disorders Havana, Cuba, May 17 Unofficial reports today said heavy shooting broke out early this morning at Camp Columbia, Cuban Army headquarters near Havana, and that several persons were killed and wounded. The newspaper Informacion de- sc'ribed the disorder as a "seditious uprising" of military contingents in the camp which was "dealt with immediately," but no other Cuban newspapers gave it such a seditious character. Other reliable sources said the difficulty CTeveloped when several officers and men refused to obey orders transferring them to the military base of San Antonio de Los Banos. That base is to be handed over to Cuba by the United States on May 20. Gen.

Genovevo Perez, head of the Cuban Army, was reported to have visited President Grau San Martin at 4 a. m. to inform him of the events at Camp Columbia. The president spent the early hours of the morning at the presidential mansion and gave orders to his guards to take "special precautions." The shooting at Camp Columbia was reported to have broken out between 3 and 4 a.m. Troops Were reported patrolling highways and leading to the camp.

Nation Looks to Truman for Settlement of Deadlocked Coal Contract Negotiations By HAROLD W. WARD Washington, May 17 The While House today reported there is "not a thing" new in the deadlocked soft coal contract negotia- Truman, rebuffed on his proposal for arbitration of the dispute, turned his attention to the threatened nationwide rail strike movement of Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told a news conference he didn't think there was any chance that Mr. Truman would call John L. Lewis and Charles O'Neill, snokes- the added, man for coal operators, While House today.

He however, that "anything could happen at any time." The United Mine Workers and the operators rejected last night the presidential proposal lor arbitration of their differences. It was Hoss who replied 'not a Quick Settlement in Bus Strike Sought in Talks Shreveport, May 17 Speedy settlement of the strike of 1,200 drivers and mechanics of thing," when asked by reporters whether there were new developments in the coal dispute. Mr. Truman arranged to remain at the White House to handle any developments, cancelling a weekend trip to Missouri. And despite the generally gloomy outlook, Secretary of Labor Schewellenbach said he found intangible" though they might believing that the negotiations might be resumed.

These came to an abrupt halt over the barrier raised by Lewis's demand for a seven percent payroll levy to finance a miners' health and welfare fund. Mr. Truman's arbitration suggestion followed, but it came to naught. Lewis turned it down cold. He told the president his negotiating commitee was not authorized to agree to such a step.

The operators rejected the proposal on all of the non-wage issues raised by Lewis, but acceded on the question of wages and hours. They already have offered Lewis the equivalent of 18 1-2 cents an hour in a wage increase to match postwar boosts in comparable industries. But on the health and welfare demand, the controversy over unionization of foremen, the acceptance of federal mine inspectors' safety recommendations, and minor demands "going to the bet- terrnen of local living condiitons, maintenance of properly and settlement of community affairs," the operators'said: "If these demands continue to be pressed, the industry, and it alone, must make the decision in each case as to how far it can go in the surrender of its hitherto unchallenged functions. The industry cannot delegates that authority to anyone else." Lewis said nothing as he left the White House after giving his decision to Mr. Truman.

And the operators' position left little hope that even an offer of personal arbitration by the president himself could win their concurrence. However, White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross told reporters the president had not abandoned hope for setlement of the two-month-old controversy over a new wage contract. Truman Orders U. S.

Seizure of Railroads Washington, May 17 (UP) President Truman today ordered government seizure of the nations railroads immediately after being advised by union leaders that they could not settle their dispute with the carriers. The seizure was the government's final move in its effort to head off the nationwide strike called for 4 p. m. Saturday. But there was no certainty that the railroad men would work even for the government.

The railroads will be operated by the Office of Defense Transportation. Mr. Truman in a statement cx- aplining the seizure that "in the strike situation thus confronting us, governmental seizure is imperative for the protection of the rights of our citizens." Mr. Truman called on "every employe of the railroads to cooper- University Will Confer Honorary Degree on Lemley Fayettcville, May 17 men were named today to receive honorary L.D. degrees Irom the University of Arkansas at the 72nd annual commencement exercises June 3.

They are: Dr. Sterling B. Hendricks, chemist in charge of work on physics and biochemistry in the soils and fertilizer division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture: Maj.

Gen. John Shirley Wood, commander of the Fourth Armored Division in its drive across France; Judge Harry J. Lemley of the U. S. District court for the Eastern and Western districts of Arkansas.

Dr, He'ndricks and General Wood are graduates of the University, and Judge Lemley has been a leading member of the Arkansas bar for many years, -o- SPA'S Power ate with the government remaining on duty." by The seizure is effective at 4 p.m. EST. today. Mr. Truman asked the unions and management to continue their their negotiations toward an agreement under which the.

railroads could be returned to private own- Court Rejects Defense Moves of Tojo Tokyo, May 17 (UP) The Allied military tribunal ruled today that it was a fair court which can pass judgment in the Japanese war criminal trial wilhoul prejudice. Deliberating only four minutes, the tribunal rejected all defense motions to dismiss charges against ntfig ifoy the Southern Railways bus lines was scheduled to begin here today at a conference of union and com- Jany officials, wilh a conciliator rom the U. S. Department of Hideki TO.IO and his cod-efendants. The defense had claimed that judges representing victorious nations could not act impartially toward Iheir defeated enemies.

Labor participaling. 1 Supreme Headquarters an- Tho slrike, which began at midnight Wednesday, tied up bus for an cslimnled 80,000 persons throughout nine southern and soulhwcstern stales. Labor Concilialor W. G. Byors arrived here lasl nighl and immediately arranged preliminary conferences with bus lines officials and leaders of the AFL-affiliatcd operators union.

The walkout reportedly resulted rom a breakdown in union contract negotialions. nounccd that Shumei Okawa, the defendant who slapped Tojo on the head twice during the indictment reading, had been adjudged insane. The announcement also staled that Yosukc Matsuoka, former foreign minister, was dangerously ill in the 361 si Ho was said to have tuberculosis. Neither Mutusu.v^ Okaws will be in court when the trail begins at a dale slill unspecified Their slatus was taken under advisement, it was announced. Many Famous Persons Are Held Prisoner in Germany's Old 7 Hump of Democracy' By GODFREY ANDERSON (For Hal Boyle) Ludwigsburg, Germany, May 17 Several hundred former Nazis are having time to reflect on the departed glories of their regime atop the Hump of Democracy, which rises 270 feet above the plain of Wurtemberg near here.

The grim old forlress-ciladel of Hohenasperg, which houses them snugly inside 50-fool walls birdled by a deep, dry moat, got its name of Demokralenbuckel iHump of Democracy) just about a century ago when leaders of the German liberal revolution of 1949 first filled its white-washed cells. Today, run by Americans and guarded by Poles, it is known by the less picturesque name of Internment Camp No. 76. Hohenasperg had a long and checkered history both before and since it got its local name. Another diciator, Napoleon Bonaparte, once scaled the hill to gaze with admiration on the cannon which aligned its mighty walls.

German students, sentenced for illegal duel- ling, strolled across its three-lined yard, which the Americans call "Central Park" today. Chained with great links lo the clammy wall of a dungeon in one of Ihe lowers, the German poet Chris- After the revolution of MB, all Hohenasperg's cells were filled. The Hump of Democracy had olhcr names too Traenenberg (Mountain of Tears) and Hoellenbcrg (Mountain of Hell). French prisoners were there in Ihe Franco-Prussian war of 1870 and again in Ihe Firsl World War, but the Nazis preferred to use i1 for their own people the litlle people who wouldn't always toe the parly line, who dared somelimes to listen to the foreign radio. In its Nazi days, the mountain prison was a hell on earth again The prisoners were given sufficient food lo live.

The slight est infraction of rules meant 28 days in a dark room, bound with 45 pounds of iron around the leg and a diet of bread and water. Sick prisoners in the hospita did better with butter twice i week until Nazi doctors usec them as guineapigs and began in jecting them with serums. The! many more died. When the Frencl arrived, they found scenes like Ihose in Ihe worst of conccntralioi camps. There's nolhing particularly hell ish aboul the Hump of Democracy today.

It dreams of its green against a summer sky. The mei itc vimllinfJ 1 Suicide and 2 Murders in Love Triangle Prescotl, May 17 Three persons were shot to daeth near here yesterday in what a coroner's jury reported was a double murder and suicide. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Riggs and James Oglesby, a Prescott taxicab driver, were found three farmers late in the afternoon near a church house about four miles east of here.

A coroner's jury decided Riggs killed his wife, Ruby, 35, and Oglesby, 32, fatally himself. Oglesby's body was found in his car. Riggs, 40, and his wife were lying together several feet from the automobile and a pistol was in Riggs' hand. War Dead to Be Brought Home Soon Washington, May 17 The GI's who can't be mustered oul will slart coming home from overseas this year to a final stateside bivouac. They are the dead men anc women whose names on casualty lists went toward paying the bat Unitec tie price of 328,000 lives World War II cost the States.

make their last voyage Rivers Rise Following Heavy Rains By United Press Fed by heavy rains early this week, Arkansas rivers continued rise today, with the White expected to go at least seven feet out of its banks at Batesville before a crest is reached tomorrow. ership date. 1 "at the earliest possible Senate in Mood to Ban Benefit Funds By JACK BELL Washington, May 17 The Senate was in a mood today to slap an outlaw ban on employer contributions to which unions may see lit. benefit funds spend as they A river report by the Weather Bureau in Little U. S.

Rock preducted a crest of 30 feet at at Batesville where the flopdstage at Augusta May 23, and 24 feet at Georgetown May 24 three feet above the 21-foot flood- staged The Ouachita was expected to rise to the 17-foot floodstage at Arkadelphia tomorrow and continue high at Camden. The Arkansas was to rise two feet within the next two days, and the black was expected to reach 18 feet at Poplar Bluff and 20 feet at Black Rock tomorrow. Rains tapered off over the state generally yesterday, with only two cities reporting as much as one inch. Fort Smith had 1.05 inches home in funeral fleets of white ships, marked from bow to stern with a purple band of mourning President Truman gave the official signal for the somber movement when he signed legislation yesterday oroviding for the final burial of the country's World War II dead. It gives next of kin the choice of having their service dead returned to the United States for final burial in national or private cemeteries, or of having them rest in American national cemeteries abroad where they fell.

The first of the returning dead will start reaching American shores toward Christmas time, the army indicated, with arrivals totaling about 1,200 monthly in the beginning and gradually increasing to 18,900. The home-coming movement would be underway sooner, the War Department said, but for the fact casket makers have been unable to meet delivery schedules due to their inabilily to obtain sufficient steel. The responsibility for the last mass movement of soldiers and sailors in the Second World War's final chapter has been given the War Department Quartermaster Corps. The legislation instructs that it be carried out within five years, but Maj. Gen.

T. B. Larkin, the Quartermaster general, expects it to be finished in less. The present legislation, which involves a cost of betsveen $195,000,000 and $215,000,000 provides for the return, if desired by next of kin of the bodies of all military personnel, civilians employed by the U. or attached to the armed forces Red Cross workers, war correspondents and others who died since Sept.

3, 1939, the date of the limited national emergency. It includes, too, all citizens ol the United States who served in the armed forces of any government at war with Germany, Italj or Japan and died while in thai and Mena reported one inch. Other readings were .70 of an inch at Gilbert and Texarkana, .62 at Searcy, .58 at Wilson, .56 at Pine Bluff and .52 at Newport. In a torrential downpour early this morning, Little Rock received .27 of an inch. Newport reported the highest temperature in the state, a warm 85 degrees.

Maximum temperatures over the state. generally were in the low and middle 80's. Harrison had the state's low of 55 degrees. The Weather Bureau predicted cloudy weather and scattered thundershowers this afternoon and The seizure order followed a five- minute conference between the president and A. F.

Whitney, head of the Brotherhood of Trainmen, and Alvanley Johnston, head of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Those are the two unions that called tomorrow's strike. Entering the White House, Whitney was asked if he and Johnston would cancel the strike call if the government seized the lines. "We'll keep our mouths shut and we'll abide by the Smith-Connally act," Whitney said. If Whitney and Johnston stand on that attitude, it would mean that individual members of their unions would have to decide by themselves whether to go ahead with the strike or work for the government.

On leaving the White House Whitney said:" "We merely that We had been unable to settle wit hthe carriers." "What did the president say?" "He said he was sorry." "Do you see any possibility that the strike will'not gokpff.asfesched- uled?" "Ask the Savior," Whitney snapped. "He may know. I certainly don't see it." Just a moment after Whitney had made these comments, the White House announced the seizure order. In seizing the railroads, the president said: "I have today by executive order directed J. Monroe Johson, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, to take over the country's railroads an doperate them in the name of the United States government.

India Likely to Accept British Freedom Plan Even opponents of the proposal conceded it had majority support, but debate on the turbulent labor picture kept denying the chamber a chance to vote. The legislation is aimed at the type fund which President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers has asked operators to 'provide for his union's health and welfare activities. Lewis's demand was credited by opposing sides with having created majority support for the pending "outlaw" measure offered by Senator Byrd (D-Va). Byrd told a reporter he is certain a majority proposal tacked on to a disputes bill placed Senate bv its committee.

Senator Morse poses any restrictive labor legislation at this time, said he -also recognizes that a majority favors the Byrd added those who vote for it and other pending proposals to put "teeth" in. federal "labor be sorry when, they eqolSpfJ. A ,1 'By manifested 'impa'tierice over the way debate has been pro? longed; He told newsmen -it seemed "very clear that a lili? buster is on." He took issue on this with Chairman Murray (D. Mont) of the labor committee who rejected the filibuster charge when it was raised on the floor yesterday by. Senator Ball Minn).

Ball made a futile move to have debate limited, but it was evident that even 'supporters of pro. posed new labor legislation were, not yet ready to back such a Meanwhile, individual Senators turned thumbs down on a suggestion by John D. Small, civilian Goes to Senate Washington, May 17 Power Administration advocates, a partial House behind them, took the)'- case to the Senate today with ani'fler fight in prospect over proposes for an expanded nublic power; system in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Yesterday the House, by a standing vote of 125 to 76, adopted an amendment which Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex) offered to the Interior Department 'appropriation bill, raising the 1947 allowance for Southwestern power to $7,500,000. This compared with $23,323,000 asked by the agency and approved by the Budget Bureau and QUO recommended by the House Appropriations committee.

Despite the compromise nature of item as passed by the House, Sen. McClellan (D-Ark) said he felt sure the" Senate would- renew the fight over an issue speakers on both sides described as a clear-cut question of public versus private power development. The Southwestern Administration is a branch of the Interior Department created by executive order to market power, from the federally owned hydro-electric plants at the Denison dam in Texas and the Norfork dam in Arkansas. During the war time it also controlled the Pensacola 1 dam built-by the state of- In the past it deliveeroted the power at the dams to private utilities which have handled distribution. ByrnestoTell Why Big-Four Pqrley Failed 17 iCtJP) JamesiF.Byrnys^'aftd, left for plane: itoda'y to rican'; the big.

four conference whehithe- ohelnonth he was not He'; hoped the session reach major the" past three: only Heightened production administrator, Congress outlaw strikes for tian Schubarl had plenty of time to reflect that the year 1777 was no in white canvas sailor suits look time for free speech, after he had healthy and well-fed. Among them criticised the luxurious life led by arc three German ambassadors Earl Eugen, duke of Wurtenberg, from Madrid, Rome and Lisbon, and his mistress, the fair Francesca Von Hohenheim. Friedrich Hist, the economist, suffered a similar fate in 1824 because he attacked government deficiencies in the state assembly. and other diplomats now being held for interrogation by Allied investigators. No one puts them in a dark room, no one puts chains upon their legs, no one beats them up at the interrogations.

RIGHT BAIT Brainerd, May 16 (IP) The opening of the fishing season found George Fisher, Brainerc newspaperman and fishing enthu siast, unable to find a rod and reel lo complete his lackle. Then he inserted a "blind" classifiec advertisement in a newspaper. The first answer which brough him the equipment was a surprise It was from S. G. Fitzpatrick Fisher's roommate.

east portion tomorrow, with iaturday partly cloudy. OPA to Cut Controls of Fresh Fish Washington, May 17 (UP) 3 ricc controls on most ircsh and rozen fish will be suspended next Monday for 90 days. OPA announced the action yes- erday a few hours after a spokes- nan said the agency had decided against it. He said that it was eared prices would jump shortly the controls were lifted. The announcement of the sus- jension of price ceilings said there lad been a record catch of fish in lew England.

Production and im- orts were expected lo be high all summer. If prices increase appreciably, OPA said controls would be reinstated. If they remain around present levels, the suspension probably will be continued beyond the 90-day period. Shrimp was the only canned fish included in the suspension order. Fish oils and meals also will be kept under price control.

Principal exceptions to the decontrol order were: Canned fish, excluding shrimp; fresh and frozen Pacific salmon and halibut, pilchards, alewives, sardines; foods processed from them; troll-caught and seine- caught salmon and halibut; most salt fish: mackerel, squid, fish flakes, Atlantic sea herring and ale wives, tuna. New Delhi, May 17 (UP) Informed sources said today that Mohandas K. Gandhi probably will advise the All-India Congress party to accept the British government plan on a trial basis. This expectation contrasled with reports from Moslem League quarters that M. A.

Jinnah probably would remain aloof from the proposed interim regim ealhough may prime individual league members to join it. Viceroy Wavell opened a series of conferences with both Congress party and Moslem League members to explore possibilities for establishing the new regime. Lord Pethwich Lawrence, secre- lary of state for India, told a press conference that the British proposals were merely recommendations and that Britain would not seek to impose them on India. He declined to speculate on what will be done if the Congress or the league refuses to join in drafting an Indian constitulion. that six months.

The general verdict seemed to be that lawmakers con sidered the unworkable. President Truman told his news conference yesterday that Small hadn't consulted him' on the subject, and most. Senators took that to mean the proposal had no im mediate administration sanction. In typical comment, Senator Hatch (D-NM) said he didn't think it possible for Congress to outlaw strikes effectively. He added, however, that he would support a plan for compulsory arbitration of disputes in industries directly involving public health, safety and welfare.

Andrew Carnegia distributed nine-tenths of his fortune in gifts among which were 8,000 church organs, 3,000 libraries and 500 universities and colleges. in- be Th' American'. off fronv Orly a. m. (6:03 a.

EOT) a transport command C-54. v. A few minutes earlier V.M.:-MoI- otoy departed from Le Boiirget airfield for 'Moscow, where he will report to: Premier Stalin. Ernest Beyhv left the. same for London.

The, Molotov and Stalin was expected to be' one of i the most significant developments of the one-month recess in the foreign conference. Byrnes and Beyin learned during the past three weeks that no amount of oratory or persuasion could make Molotov deviate from Stdlin's instructions. the western powers holding firm Russian demands, they looked to Stalin for a possible change in Soviet tactics which mjght allow the June 15 meeting to succeed. was little real optimism that the ministers would devise singly, or through diplomatic channels, the means for unity which they failed so thoroughly to find around the Luxembourg palace conference table during the past three weeks. A major change in heart either by Russia or the western powers before the ministers reconvene June 15 was essential if the next session was to be more successful than the one just finished, o- In Mexico, a patent will quire whether medicine is to taken with the right or left hand.

If the former, the liver is believed to be benefited; if the latter, the kidneys. Commercial Use of Atomic Energy Plant in Two Years Is Predicted by Scientists 14,436 Working on Arkansas' Strawberry Crop Little Rock, May 17 county's 1946 strawberry crop is being harvested by labor 'rom 17 states and 55 Arkansas counties, the agricultural extension service reported today. Associate Director Aubrey D. Gates said 14,436 pickers were registered through the extension farm labor ofice at Bald Knob. By RUTH COWAN Washington, May 17 Dr.

Leonard I. Katzin, west coast scientist, today rated large commercial atomic energy plants a practical possibility in two years and saw them curtailing industry's reliance on other sources of power. A research chemist with the plutonium project at the University of California, Dr. Katzin described why he considers such a development financially and scientifically possible in an article written for the current issue of Army Ordnance Magazine. Through industrial application of atomic energy, undeveloped areas rich in minerals like Canada, could be made highly productive, wast in general could be curtailed and life made more liveable, he theorized.

"In its present state of development, atomic energy does not compete with common iuels, but this need not be the case in the future," said Dr. Katzin. One pound of uranium comulete- ly consumed by fission, he pointed out, will release as much energy as the combustions of 1,500 tons of coal, 250,000 gallons of fuel oil or gasoline, 80,000,000 cubic feet of artificial gas or 40,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas. Recreation Answer to Social Ills Whether atomic power can compete financially with ordinary depends on the cost of production. In order to compete with bituminous coal at $5 a ton the 1942 wholesale average in the United States a pound of U-235 should cost not more than $7,50 to produce, Dr.

Katzin said. "Competition with 15-cent gasoline is effective at $39,000 a pound. To compete with artificial gas costing 50 cents a 1,00 cubic feet it may still cost $39,000 a pound, while natural gas at the same cost would demand a competitive price of about $20,000 a pound for U- 235." Dr. Katzin then said that available data indicates a pound of U- 235 probably would cost about $2,500. He discounted the likelihood atomic energy could be used to propel planes, and locomotives and automobiles or heat individual homes.

For one thing, he said, protection against dangerous rays make it necessary to house the atomic energy machine, or "pile," in a steel or concrete shield weighing about 50 tons. ''We are forced to the conclusion that the use of atornic power is best restricted to stationary, high-power units," Dr. Katzin said. Public recreation, with organized playground work, is one of the answers to the social problem which arises after every iv.ar, the Rev. W.

P. Hardegree, pastor of First Christian church, told Hope Rotary club at its luncheon today noon in Hotel Barlow. The Rev. Mr. Hardegree pointed to the rising divorce Little Rock divorces exceed and the increase in juvenile delinquency.

"Every sportsman knows when the bass or squirrel season opens, and does something about it," said the speaker; "but how many men remember to hold a regular outing with their own family? That's the common touch we need to keep as a community also, and which is achieved by a sound recreation program." Joe. Dildy, Hope High School football coach and director Hope's Fair park recreation gram which is initiated this Summer, told the club about plans for softball, tennis and other organized sports starting this month. The city is already at work on the ball diamond. Mr. Dildv said, with Mayor Albert Graves.

School Superintendent J. H. Jones and himself as a supervising mittee. The coach quoted the mayor as saying he believed Hope would be able to build a swimming pool in time for the 1947 season. The Rev.

Mr. Hardegree was introduced by Luther Hollamon, of the program committee. Guests of the club today: R. D. Lowry, Little Rock; B.

R. Sen- enck, Dr. Jim McKenzie, Dr. Geo. H.

Wright, Russell Lewallen-, all 6f Hope; and Jeff E. Guthredge, Little Rock; Jimmie Chambers. El Dorado; John Bregge, Sen.ecca, S. and Al Basshan, Wynne..