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SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 29. 1945 10 PAGES STRIKE thrown zm plaht TEXT IE spreads Japs Ignore MacArthur's Order, Ban Own Newspapers FEE PRESS mm rv First Round-World Flight Begins On Time-Table Basis COALMINE WALKOUT TAX COSTS TO UUUUIM Ul JOB I era HAMILTON. Bermuda, Sept. 28.1 An hour long program, common- Alter a brief stop tor refuelling, orating both the start of the new the big globe-circling United States schedule, which ATC has named C-54 transport plane, the "Globestcr." and the 21st an-1 took off from Kindley field for the: niversarv of the army's first 'rouna-Azores tonight at 10:21 p.

EWT. ihe-world flight, preceded the take-I The plane landed at 9:15 p. m.Joff. There were seeches, a band' after completing the first leg of its concert and a plane christening round-the-world flight, the first ceremony. i flight of a planned weekly service.

Tne was 0f the rmmd a. AMU 1,500,000 Men May Return To U. S. By Spring Bill Is Passed With Provision Against Deficit Spending Negotiations Fail To End Elevator Pay Dispute 4:58 p. Eastern War time, two! minutes ahead of schedule.

The only passenger aboard other By PAI'I. MILLER WASHINGTON. Sept. 28. Oil A great C-54 winged away from the than tho.se making the whole cir i By The Associated Press! Washington National airport today.

cult uas Artnur Maycri B5MStant to inaugurating round the world WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. (UP The senate, by a vote of 71 to 10 today passed and sent to the house the controversial full employment bill, amended so that the federal government would levy taxes to recover monies used to provide Jobi for all. The measure authorizes the president to seek to achieve full national the chairman ot the American Red; Cross, who will go as far as though 284 plants yes-cutta. About 3.000 pounds of mall terday and raised the nation-and careo went on the ftig.hU I wide total of ntitons fcsKay The giant plane officially got its from work because of labor ARGENTINIANS RALLY FOR THE RETURN OF DEMOCRACY Carrying ban employment by means of an annual flight on a regular, time-table basis.

The take-off marked the opening of weekly 151 -hour service by the army's air transport command, over a route. Flights will start each Friday, getting back to Washington the following Thursday midnight. Eight pnnspngprs Ihree rrpoilprs, four ATC officers and a war department photographer among those aboard the big Douglas Skymastcr will make the complete circuit. TOKYO. Saturday.

Sept. 29. (UP) The Japanese government today challenged Gen. Douglas MacArthur's or-, devs establishing a free press in Japan by banning distribution of three leading Tokyo morning newspapers for carrying interviews with Emperor Hiro-hito by two American correspondents. The ban, issued by the Japanese home ministry despite the fact that the imperial household had said it had no nKirtinn In nllVllicatinn of job budget which would forecast thc employment and production outlook.

trouble to a new high of In addition some 1,500,000 persons were kept from their offices and shops indirectly by the strike of 15,000 New York name "Globester" in the ceremony before the takeoff. Mrs. Harold L. George, wife of the commanding general of the ATC, released seven colored balloons from a spcafcitig platform at the nose of the ship to conclude the christening. The plane, No.

49054, is a standard Turn To rage Two ners and placards, several thousand persons gather in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to demand the return of free elections and protest against the military regime in power. Some days after the photo was taken, ex-President General Arturo Rawson was arrested and accused of organizing a rebellion against the present government which is headed by Gen. Edelmiro Farrell. The Farrell-Peron government then reinstituted its state of siege and initiated wholesale arrests which have led to several personal protests in the United States. Provides For Federal Spending It would empower the chief executive to recommend that congress attempt to take up any Job lag by legislative encouragements to private industry and through fed New Theater To Be Built Here At Cost Of 1 25,000 he interviews, was imposed GEN.

WAINWRIGHT HEADS EASTERN DEFENSE SECTOR UNITED STATES MS CLAIM TO OILH SEA OVER SITUATION IN BUENOS HIRES eral spending and investment, muth of the latter In puolic works. Such' spending, it stipulates, must be "consistent with other government obligations." The chamber adopted the tax proviso, 82 to 0, after Chalrmm Walter F. George Ga.) of the finance committee, had thundered In debate that, without it. no man could deny "that this bill is a fraudulent scheme for deficit spend- irrg." He added the warning that; national bankruptcy is the only alternative if thc Jobs program not properly financed. Sponsored By Coalition I The amendment was sponsored by Sens.

Robert A. Taft, O.i ar.i Meiselman Plans Movie House On Southwest Pack Square FIRST FALL COLD SPELL ADVANCING INTO SOUTHLAND building maintenance employes, where mediation efforts have failed. Other prime labor development included: 1. John L. Lewis, head of the Unaffiliated United Mine Workeis, asked bituminous coal operators to meet with him Monday to discuss the foreman's stoppage involving 3d.

635 Pennsylvania and West Virginia miners. Thc operators' negotiating committee refused. Oil Conference Today 2. Secretary of Labor faced the hardest task of young cabinet career settlement ot the eight-state oil strike at confer ences resuming today In Washing-ton. 3.

A CIO union executive board authorized its organizing commutes for Montgomery Ward and company facilities to call a strike If necessary. 4. While addressing 1,000 striking employes of the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel company In Detroit in an effort to end their 36-day work stoppage, A 1 A l.4j0-scat motion picture tne- Argentmos Genuinely atc, estimated to cost about Truman Asserts Right To Set Up Zones For Fish Conservation Democratic, Former Ambassador Says WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. Gen.

Jonathan M. Wain-wright, hero of Corregidor and Bataan, has been appointed chief of the Eastern defense command in the United States. The War department announced today that Walnwrlght would assume his new duties upon completion of a rest. Wainwright, liberated from a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria, returned to the I'nited States recently. He went to his home In Skaneatales last week.

Wainwright will replace 1 1. Gen. George Grunert who Is retiring. Headquarters of the command are in New York city. WASHINGTON.

Sept. 28. (IP) President Truman today claimed I for the Untied States the oil and entirely on the initiative or the Japanese government. Allied occupation authorities were not involved in the action. It was expected that, as a result.

Gen. MacArthur shortly would issu? a directive specifically denying the home office or other Japanese government agencies the right to suppress or otherwise interfere with publication of newspapers. The action appeared to be a direct of MacArthur's ordci of Sent. 24 headed "Disassociation tt the press from the government" That order said "in order to further encourage liberal tendencies In Japan and establish free access to news sources of the world steps will be taken by the Japanese government fortnwith to eliminate government -created barriers to diS' emlnation of nrws and to remove itself from direct or indirect control of newspapers and news agencies." No Action Yet Taken Col. Donald Hoover, chief of the clvu censorship detachment of S.

counter-intelligence, said he In? not been officially advised of th-ban as jet and had not been advised of the Japanese government's intention in imposing As the result, he said, there has not yet been anv allied action taken. Informed quarters anticipated, however, that headouarters wou'd George L. Radcliffc I vociferous, a coalition I (against deficit spending or Jobs pro-' posnls modeled after the WPA of i the depression days. I I It provides that the tax program1 I designed to prevent anv increasa other natural resources of the 750, 000 square miles of continental (By The Associated Press) PALL'S strongest cold push last night rammed freezing temperatures as far south as the Oklahoma Panhandle, pelted snow over some Northern Plains states, and promised to continue its eastward journey today. r.

S. weather bureau forecasters said widespread ratal which ushered in (he cold air mass and extended from tho Rocky mountain foothills to Illinois and lower Michigan yesterday would reach the Pennsylvania mountains and down into Kentucky and Tennessee some time today. shelf under the high seas. The continental shelf, generally, President P. J.

Thomas of the Uni'- in the national debt shall aceom i parry the presidential Job rcconv mendatlons. It would appiv to the 1 fiscal year 1948, which begins Julv Is submerged land contiguous toed Automobile Workers (CIO) waj the continent and covered by noi booed into silence, more than 600 feet of water. It ex- A question of whether to accept tends in most Instances beyond thc proposal to return to work was left three-mile limit of ownership rec-j hanging after two and a half hours ognized by international law. of dispute by the union members Ocean Conservation Zones and about 500 workers are direct! 1, 1947. and to subsequent and would be subject to payment over "a reasonable number of years." 000, will be built at Southwest Pack square and Blltmore avenue, where Liggett's drug store is situated, by H.

B. Meiselman, of Charlotte, Mr. Meiselman announced here yesterday. The site, on which the 57-year-old', three-story "sto'-e building now stands, has been leased from the owners, the Mark Brown and R. B.

Zagier estates, for 25 years. The annual rental was said to be $7,200, or $180,000 for the lease period. The Smith building, which houses Liggett's drug store and Uncle Sam's Loan and Jewelry company on t.ie first floor, offices on the secona, and a lodge hall on the third, wiM be torn down to make room for the new theater. Mr. Meiselman said.

The tenants, he added, will be notified today to move, and the construction contract will be let as soon as they can obtain new quarters. Plans Being Drawn Meanwhile, plans and specifici-tions are being drawn by Henry I. Gaines, the architect. The theater, to be known as the Center, will make use of all the latnc ripvplntimpnfe in nntrlli.tirMi The measure is one of the "musts" on President Truman's 21-point Rationing Of Shoes To Cease The president aLso asserted the! affected by the walkout and man right of this government to estab lish conservation zones for the pro' tectum of its fisheries in areas of the high seas off the coasts of the oi outers lnoirecuy, 5. The CIO United Packinghouse Workers union announced it wou'd demand a general wage increase ot 25 cents an hour throughout th meat industry.

William Green, American Fed eratlon of Labor president, said pas sage of adequate unemployment rnmnpmntlnn nnH full vmnlnvmenl Big Five Meeting Opposition United States. WASHINGTON-. Sept. 28. (UPi The action, accomplished by Price Administrator Chester Bowies; Proclamation, pioneered in a new ct to prevent a recurrence of sucn WASHINGTON, Sept.

28. (UP) Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden said today was op tlmistic about the situation In Argentina because of "the fine spirit ol the Argentine Braden arrived here at 5:30 p. m. to assume his new post in charge of Latin American affairs after spending four months as the United States' outspoken ambassador in Argentina. Government Not Mention.

As he stepped from the plane he paid high tribute to the Argentine people in sharp contrast to his failure to mention, in any respect, the Argentine government which has resumed a wave of anti-democratic measures. Braden said that it was immaterial whether the repressive Argentine measures were temporary or not "when a government has to crack down on its own people" a people for which he had only praise. Says Argentinos Democratic "I can not too emphatically record my appreciation and gratitude to the Argentine people." he said, and particularly my hope that the American people understand that the Argcntinos are genuinely democratic and sincerely our friends." Braden arrived only a few hours after Sen. Theodore F. Green R.

conferred with President Truman and. on leaving the White House, called on the United States to make Argentina live up to her inter-American and united nation's agreements. Congressmen Demand Sanctions He Indicated the president may-have some such move in mind. His today gave the homefront its first Held of International relations. Chairman Sumners Tex.) of flat guarantee that shoes and all meats will become ration free by the end of the year.

the house Judiciary committee saidbliLs would a tendency to les. it was "equivalent to conquest." sen strikes." legislative program for the reconversion era. It was not known Immediately whether he and the house would be receptive to the tax proposal. Debated Four Days Passage came after four days of frequently bitter debate and while some members still were smarting under a presidential rebuke for their action in "watering down" the unemployment compensation bill, another piece of "must" reconversion legislation. The president, attempting to have the house get this bill out of committee pigeon-hole, was represented as feeling that the senate "let him down" in removing the $2r)-a-week unemployment benefit top while still retaining the 26 weeks time limit.

Both were recommended by Mr. Truman in his recent message to congress. Tlie federal spending clause LONDON. Sept. 28.

(UP The He set no definite dates. It Is be The presidents proclamation saidi Textile Strike Spreads lieved, however, that all meat now the United States considers "the The strike of CIO Dvers. FIrrlsh- rationed will be removed from the exercise of Jurisdiction over the: en, Prinoers and Bleachers began materials, and equipment, and will foreign ministers council faced the be fire-proof and completely air-thrcat 0I' "revolt of the small na-conditioned. Mr. Meiselman said.

Hons" today as the Big Five met The construction will be of steel: twice without any sign of an ex-frame with masonry walls, and the Pected adjournment. I Support was growing for the little action. The newspapers which were banned were the Japanese-language Mainlchi. Asaki and Yomluri. It was anticipated that MacArthur shortly would issue a directive specifically denying the home office or other Japanese government decodes the right to suppress or otherwise interfere with the publication of newspapers.

Mrl With Authorities It was understood that representatives of five Tokyo newspapers the Nippon Sangyo Kcizai. the English-Language Times and the three banned newspapers met with authorities after Hirohito had been interviewed on Tuesday by Htieh Baillie. president of the United Press, and Frank L. Kluckhom. of the New York Times, and agreed to withhold the story in the Japanese press.

iwi in novemoer or ueccmocr ana natural resources ot tne subsoil and! In the Putterson. N. area Thurs-that shoe rationing will end by Oct. sea bed of the continental shelf by! day when 6.000 walked out. (I 15.

'the contiguous nation is reasonable! spread rapidly yesterday to embra. Bowles said that rationing of tires and just." 162,000 workers despite a back-to and fats and oils probably will end Kxteminn Of Land Mass work order from a CIO national ex early next year, leaving sugar as I "The continental shelf," it ecutlve committee, the only commodity under strict "may be regarded as an extension Plants affected were In New Jer-controls. 0f tne ianri-mass of the coastal na- sp'. Massachusetts. Connecticutt, His statement was contained In tion and thus naturally appurteix- Rllocle Island.

New York, Pennsyl-a letter to members of OPA's ln- nt i. vania. Virginia, North and South. threatened to block the jobs-for-all STRAND CONTRACT LET Contract for the construction of the Strand theater, on Blltmore avenue at Eagle street, was let yesterday by H. B.

Meiselman. of Charlotte, to the Merchant Construction company, and Mr. Meiselman last night expressed the hope that the theater will be ready for a New Year oening. The theater will have 800 seats, with the 300-seat balcony set aside for Negroes. powers' block headed by Australian External Affairs Minister Herbert V.

Evatl. who earlier this week blasted the Big Five policy of virtually excluding the small nations lroni a voice in making the peace. Hear Deputies The dally communique said the council discussed the French memorandum on the control end administration of Germany and listened to reports from their deputies on matters previously referred trt tliem hv fnrpltrn inin measure but the hurdle was cleared i du-stry advisory committees who jls resources "frequently form Carolina, through a compromise offered by asked his advice on when price con- tcaward extension of a pool or ae-' Tne Joseph W. Sen. Carl A.

Hatch N. M.I tls should be eliminated. He said lvm(, itnm llle temory KnnIMlt- sa'l 'he workers were di- Hatrh Amendment nis agency nas rccciven nunareas iu ir.vime inrir jou at nj. tlnnaJ executive committee meeting JpttPTs urgmg it to ''stick around Thc Hatch amendment, approved! a little longer" and that he person-lcoa-stal kP close watch! heM to on fctv' lts slw walkout for a 15 cents an hour wa.7j bv voice vote, constitutes a direc- ally feels price controls on trols on are oi a nature necessary ior mm- increase. The committee directed statement coincided with new congressional demands for diplomatic and economic sanctions against items should be continued at least However, this morning editions of Mainlchi.

Asahl and Yomluri carried the Interviews as well as announcement of Emperor Hiro- until the middle of 1946. iauou oi inese resources. i that a referendum be taken amon; "Price controls during the Tne President declared that the the workers today (Saturday). he wrote, "acted like a strong hand development and discovery of new industry spokesman said there hid no a roiled snrinsr Obviouslv the sources of petroleum and other mill- been no formal demands for an in hlto's visit to MacArthur at the American embassy on Thursday. The other two newspapers, which tension of inflationary pressures should be encouraged in view crease.

tive that the government, "consistent with its needs, obligations and other essential considerations of national policy." move into the Job picture with a comprehensive plan of public works and other expenditures to augment the efforts of private enterprise and state and local governments. Before the final vote, three senators warned that current labor troubles "of the realistic outside world" make the provisions of the Supervisors Organize and will 01 the world-wide need, and that piled up during the war Edilmlro Farrell's regime at Buenos exterior finish will be of the same jsters. Aires. I type of structural glass and either! Th; councl scheduled another Braden declined to comment In green stone or limestone. mceting for tomorrow morning and any way on what steps he thinks A vlsual tvpe front pianncd.iit was believed that the current the United States and the other Hnd thc ontrance will be at the session might last through Sunday American republics should take or corner 0, thc Rnd Blltmore: before the difficult task of framing whether he would make any spe- nvemlP whele Liggett's entrance ts final communique on the parley's ciflc proposals to Mr.

Truman for now pntro will mler a clrcu- accomplishments is completed to thc action. He will consult with tlieiBr fover finished with a cnmblna-! satisfaction of all. did not carry those stories, were distributed as usual. In the mine controversy. super- experts believe portions of the V.

S. not disappear suddenly. Noting that gasoline and fuel oil. continental shelf beyond the three- visory employes organized Into a branch of Lewis' United Mine Work cheese and processed foods, oil mile limitc contain valuable oil de- stoves and tractor tires already have posits. been removed from rationing, he Oil is- being taken at present from nrfrfert- "Shnps nnH moat tt-ill rnmp Within the three-mile limit nt? the According to war department estimates shipping space will be available' for the return of 1.490.000 troops during the next seven months, supreme headquarters announced in disclosing that four veteran combat divisions would sail Turn To Pate Tho somewhat i off tl)e by end o( coast nf California and there arc full employment bill "academic n.

cv.i.in noil OI mirrors nun iramririic, nun State Dean Acheson at once before: from thP fOVer circular stairs, of taking up his new duties. I glass and aluminum, will lead The conferees will completely men's and ladies' lounges on a view American policy toward Ar-! gentina. 1 -Turn To Page Two I perhaps sooner. Tires and fats and geological indications that rich uil I oils will probably come off early in deposits extend into the Gulf of I 1946. Mexico off the coast of Texas Sen.

Arthur H. Vandcnberg (R. Mich.) said the labor troubles are Evatt Gathers Followers Meanwhile adherents gathering around Evatt includrd not only his fellow-statesman of the British Dominions but countries like Greece, which was indignant at not being asked to participate in the discussions on the Italian peace treaty. C. n.t .4 ,1 I -ti ers are seeking collective bargaur me rithls for their group.

The have been out since Sept. 24 and their absence from the pits had prevented thousands of miners from entering the shafts and force-j many mines to close. Lewis said irr Washington that if thc operators failed to accept tin imitation to a meeting, the union would feel "free to take such Independent action as may be required." While 400.000 soft coal Turn To Page Public Opinion In U. S. Today In Asheville a 1 To Retire; Says MacArthur's Work Good factors in national economi? stability which cannot "long resist our I attention." And he questioned whether the nation ever could reach' full employment "without succeeding in one way or another, in achieving a greater stability of la- bor-management relations." That.j Jicreeri Sen.

Wayne Morse Ore "would be absolutely essential." i Affected A. in. niton il hunir rii.tiMiii feiii her In incot nt IJ-t- fyp- 1 1 1 Australian be heard on the Pacific VA jSwll 1111 1 problems which are expected to occupy the ministers at their next session in late November or early crata Progrcsista party, wrj, re December. His protest was echoed 28 Men Charged BUENOS AIRES. SCDt.

28. (UP wh.cn PEARL HARBOR. Scot. 28. UP1 he "ought to keep my dignity Ainca ann in U.

S. Charge Affairs John Moore Ported arrested at Hasano. He was quickly bv South With Murder Of 33 of the first government op-, Ottawa the Canadian government lAdm. William F. Halsey announced talking about the Elliott HoOSeVelt GctS today that he had applied for re-: The "Bull Of the Sacitic," his joo tlrement from the navy and he of driving the enemy from the sea Cabot announced today that he hasj tQ lgunch the Wca of a 'expressed a desire for recognition in LAREDO.

Sept. 28. civil disobedience campaign as the; future deliberations. hCSKleilCe tree Ut iieilt' strongly defended Gen. Douglas, done, shook his head sadly and said: Twenty-eight men charged with tin I MacArthur's occupation of "I'm an old man and I'm wholesale murder of 37 men and a LOS ANGELES.

Sept. 28. lP) 'saving he was doing a "fine Job of I've applied for retirement but they woman were brought from Monter. haven't told me yet what they plan rey today and placed in the Nueva Elliott Roosevelt and his actress 'reducing Japan to a fourth-rate to do about It. i Lareao.

rev jail. Halsev's only Dlan now Is to leave1 Prosecutor Smilio Villalobos said. wife, Faye Emerson, are occupying power." his Beverly Hills residence rent Halsey. who will be 63 years old free. Grenville W.

Stratton. wealthv nn rvtnher 30 said "let MacArthur told Argentine Foreign Minister Juan I. Cooke that recent developments In this country inevitably will have a "deplorable effect" on United States public opinion. The statement, Issued at a press conference, was Cabot's first public declaration since taking over the embassy following Ambassador Spruille Braden's departure for Washington Sunday. While some of the prominent only effective means ot removing New Zealand Agrees the de facto government.

I New Zealand Is understood to be Dr. Rodolfo Martinez, president of In agreement with Evatt and Bel-Cordoba university, was reported ar-1 gium and Czechoslovakia appeared rested again after being released on! ready with warm support, a writ of habeas corpus yesterday. I Yugoslavia and the Netherlands It was also learned that Gen. I were noniommlttal, preferring to Adolfo Espindola and other retired wait further developments. Of the officers and civilians named by the small belligerents, only Norway was government as Involved in a con- not interested in such a bloc.

Pearl Harbor on October 9, leading 1 the men were charged with firsl ton those in si.KMrr. a. in. racllllle or V. M.

C. A. on Womlfln Afreet open dally to servicemen. 12 m. 0wn hoiite at l.auren-tlne canteen on flint street.

3 p. m. Open house at Negro I SO center on Eagle street. 7 p. m.

Open house at Community Service lounge In pur-lh hoi or Trinity Episcopal rhurch on Church street. p. m. Parl at Negro I Ml renter. I p.

ni. Open hoii nl I tinr-httr street so club, nti hnr-tatte street. 30 p. oi. Party and Informal aiu at Lasivnttne tanieei industrialist, declared in a deposition alone Those of us who know his fleet back to the West coast for 1 smuggling workers Into Texas for filed today in his wife's separate! what's going on are entirely unde-i Navy Day on Oct.

27. tarrn worn, ana men roDomg ana maintenance suit. ceived lily criticism of MacArthur's With none of the old-time fire in killing them upon their return to Mrs. Stratton. critically ill in a policy." his eyes.

Halsey spoke cautiously, hospital, had charged that her hus- Recently returned from Japan en explaining "You don't know how Tnt hurled into trt band, owner of the Circle racing route to the United States with much trouble I get into Then I talk. RJ Gnmde. and were lound piiacy April 25 were arrested again.1 The Greeks feel that as a Mediter stable, refused to pay hospital bills; milts of his conquering U. S. 3rd, My wife tells me I ought to keep my ulc i ui publishers and other notables ar-jThe supreme court ruled some time ranean power and neighbor of Italy, rested in the past two days were ago that the sentence passed on with direct claims in the Dode-belng released after questioning, re-; them by a military court for con-icanese Islands.

Albania and repara-ports continue to arrive from the spiring was nullified because mlll-'tions, Greece deserves to be heard of $11,000 while wasting community fleet. Halsey made his remarks at dignity' 0r.nd, val. a press conference. Only a few Halsey said his retirement de- d.JJgln 'J, R'" Orande val-tlmes did he make fiery statements' cision was made simply to make j'ev' Ine because) he said, his wife told hirajway for younger officers, I IVElf'S In AsheriUe assets. She alleged the Roosevelts free occupancy of the residence as an Instance of the latter.

interior of new arrests there. tary courts were not competent to on International questions center 'Ing- about the Mediterranean. Jose Antelo, leader of the Demo-KIT ret bed army men..