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VOL, 59, NO. 142. Associated Press Leased Wire 'AP Features -MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1948 L.E.A Service FIVE CENTS Holy Land Under Uneasy Truce Jews have been more success- MILES Tol militarily. They have kept their boundaries inviolate, overrun western Galilee, beat LEBANON off Syrian and: Lebanese invasion in north, pushed into Mule Arab triangle, contained Egyptians in south, not lost single SYRIA settlement in Negeb. Capernaan Tiberias Galilee Mediterranean Sea Real losers Time is important Jew- Arab states, ish ally.
During truce cept Jews will consolidate Their dream and train military Caesarea swift conquest hos forces, make purchases Jenin been dimmed, their abroad, 'erect new set- victories. few. and tlements at minor. points, expand and Tulkarm streamline government Samaria services. Greater stumbling block to peace than existence: of Jews' military Israel is status of Jerusalem.
record is more -Tel Aviv Abdullah is determined to than matched conquer it, Jews determined by speed in Jaffa never to give it up. UN setting up Is- Lydda wants it internationalized. rael's Sheikh ment and put- Jarrah Jericho ting it into operation. JERUSALEM Bethlehem Etzion, Israel's only Jerusalem's defeats- Old -Kfar City, El Qastine Kfor Etzion, Sheikh Jarrah, Latrun all inflicted by Arab Legion. Hebron Outside the Legion, Arab war potential is weak.
Gaza TRANSJORDAN Beersheba 1. PALESTINE ISRAEL Strongest hope for peace is direct NEGER Trans- negotiations Jordan, between only two Israel states and BATTLE LINES which have scored victories. Map above shows how opposing Israeli and Arab forces lined up as trumpets blew the "Cease Fire" for the truce arranged by UN. It also highlights some of the factors that will decide whether the uneasy truce can be solidified into permanent peace. Late News Briefs Senator McGrath Assails Refugee Bill WASHINGTON-(P)-A bill to admit 205,000 displaced persons in two years was assailed in the Senate today as unfair to Jews and Roman Catholics.
Making this -charge, Senator McGrath chairman of the Democratic national committee, declared it would write into law principles of "narrowness, intolerance and bigotry." This attitude was disputed by Senator Revercomb (R- W. floor manager for the bill, as the Senate plunged into debate on the controversial measure. "There is no discrimination against anyone because of religion or faith, and I say so emphatically," Revercomb asserted. "Let that be put to rest." The bill is a compromise between Senate and House, and already has been passed by the House in its final form. Under its terms, entry would be permitted to these groups beginning next month: 200000 displaced persons who meet eligibility rules; 2,000 persons who fled Czechoslovakia after the Communists seized the country, and 3,000 orphans under 16 years of age.
ALCOA Strike Postponed One Week 18,500 production workers at nine plants of the Aluminum Company of PITTSBURGH (P) strike called for midnight Sunday by America has been postponed one week. The postponement was announced last night by Philip Murray, president of both the CIO and the United Steel Workers. Murray said he was acting at the request of the head of the mediation and conciliation service of the 'federal government. The government stepped into the dispute after wage negotiations between the steelworkers and ALCOA broke down. The union is seeking a flat 13-cent-an-hour across the board increase with improved insurance and pension plans and correction of what it terms: "wage inequities." Postmaster Resigns To Direct Battle's Campaign CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
H. -Perry today- announced he had resigned as postmaster of Charlottesville effective June 30, to "associate" himself with Senator John S. Battle in his campaign for governor. Perry said he will direct the senator's statewide campaign. from Charlottesville, and it is understood that eventually he will be named state campaign for the Charlottesville The letter of resignation was addressed to first assistant Postmaster General Burke.
Before becoming acting postmaster in 1942, succeeding the late of John S. White, who retired, Perry from 1922 to 1935 was city sergeant Charlottesville, and from 1935 to his appointment he served seven years Chamber as of executive secretary of the Charlottesville and Albemarle Commerce. Two Men Escape Injury In Wreck Two High Point, N. C. men eswhen caped serious turned over two or three times after turning at the intersection of Hghway 220 with the road leading to Henry.
Rain was falling and the truck was said to have skidded before it. turned over. The two men were Claude and Barrow Hiatt, brothers engaged in cattle trading. An examination disclosed neither suffered serious injury after they were rushed to the Martinsville General Hospital about 3 p. m.
The truck was badly damaged. Firemen Are Called To Brown Street Field out at 10 o'clock this morning to Martinsville firemen were. called. the Brown' Street Field where a of section of the fence enclosing part the feld caught fire, while workers vines were burning a honey-suckle weeds nearby, The damage was slight. SENATE APPROVES Truman Acts To RUSSIAN TROOPS Swift Reaction Follows German Currency Order Sokolovsky Acts To Bar Worthless Allied Marks Out Of Zone BY WES GALLAGHER BERLIN.
(P) Soviet troops blocked all Allied and German ground travel into Berlin today in a swift reaction to Western-zone currency reform. Allied officials planned a meeting to decide what to do about it. The Rusisans ordered the blockade last night a few hours afterthe United States, Britain and French had announced new currency reform' in Western Germany beginning tomorrow: Their reported, purpose was to keep worthless Allied marks out of the Rusisan zone. Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, Soviet commander and military governor, issued a proclamation early today forbidding importation of Western currency, new and old, into Greater Berlin and the Russian zone.
Some circles, however, interpreted the Russian action as another attempt to drive the Western powers from Berlin. Russian-controlled newspapers renewed demands that the Allies quit the city. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American comamnder and military governor, said 'he would meet later today with British and.
French colleagues to decide action should be taken against the Soviet moves. German travelers arriving in said the Russians had concentrated tanks and armored cars at the point between Berba in the American zone and Eisenach in the Soviet zone. They sand the idea seemed to be to discourage travel into Russianwho could residence there occupied territory. me Only persons were let through, they said; interzonal passes of others were not honored. The tour -power city of Berlin is surrounded by Soviet-occupied territory.
The Russian action left only one channel the air by which the Western Allies, Army and civilian personnel, could reach the city from the west. Soviet troops closed the International highway -used by -the Western powers to all traffic leading to Berlin. They allowed Allied personnel to leave but not to enter the city. Road traffic piled up at Helmstedt, where the International highway enters the Soviet zone en route to Berlin. The blockade also will stop British bus service installed after Soviet regulations halted Allied train travel this spring.
It has blocked all American, French and British passenger and truck traffic. The new -Soviet regulations called for a new "careful inspection" of all barge and freight train traftic into the city. In taking what he called "defense measures," Sokolovsky said freight trains into Berlin from the west could continue but under a "very careful" check of the freight and of the personal belongings of train personnel. American and Brtish officials (Continued on Page 2) Irate Citizens Reply To Taft's Crack About 'Whistle-Stops' WASHINGTON (AP) The mayors of Los Angeles, Gary, Crestline, Ohio, and various other metropolises blew the whistle on Senator Taft today for that crack about "whistle-stops." So did the chambers of commerce of Pocatello, Laramie, and other self-described nonwhistle-stops. In fact, civic pride busted out all over mostly at Taft's expense.
4 And the Democratic national committee friendishly, Because it pulled the whistle poll after Taft said in a Philadelphia speech that President Truman shouldn't go- around the country "blackguarding Congress at every whistle-stop." Whistle-stop? That's a tank town, a hamlet, a mere wide place in the road. The Democrats wired 35 places across the country where Mr. Truman had spoken on, his. rail tour. question: Was it nice of the Serilator to call you a whistle-stop? DRAFT Head Off BLOCK Dewey And Taft Forces Maneuver For New Votes Both GOP Candidates Claim Added Delegates; Vandenberg Blasts Truman's Speaking Tour BY JACK BELL PHILADELPHIA- spree of delegate claiming covered today swift backstage moves by Gov.
Thomas E. and Senator Robert A. Taft to line up needed votes for the GOP presidential nomination, And Senator. Arthur Vandenberg parted the curtain cloaking his possible candidacy to blast President Truman for the western speaking trip from which Mr. Truman returned to Washington yesterday.
To delegates gathering here for the Republican convention, Vandenberg sc sounded suspiciously like a man who might be enticed into leading his party's anti-Truman assault in November when he told a television audience last night. "It is a little early to subordin. ate the national welfare to partisan sniping. At least, it can be said that Congress has remained faithfully at work during this crtical fortnight. "It has not shared the presidential.
luxury of a self-serving political vacation at a moment when the whole government should be on the job in Washington." Almost without execption, backers of GOP hopefuls agreed it would have been a mighty fine thing it their own didates could have used such a. words to answer Arabs And Jews To Confer With Bernadotte Peace Talks Slated At Rhodes On Monday Arab and Israeli delegations, are expected to reach Monday to confer with Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations mediator for Palestine. Bernadotte got back to that Greek Mediterranean island yesterday from a flying trip to Cairo and Tel Aviv on which he invited them to Rhodes for peace talks. Both sides agreed to send expert consultants, but the Swedish count said he did not know yet whether these would get together in roundtable conferences. He said also it was too early to tell whether high Arab and Jewish officials would come to Rhodes later.
In any event, he expected to take at least a week in framing a concrete proposal. Bernadotte is seeking to build a lasting settlement of the Holy Land question on the base of a. fourweek truce now in its ninth day. He said some minor -incidents might mar the truce in the next few weeks. An American-French U.
N. truce team today reported a violation outside Arab-held Nazareth. In a- report back to Haifa, Israel, U.S. Navy Commander H. D.
Huxley said Arabs in the city and Jews around it exchanged rifle fire for four hours yesterday. He said the firing broke out when Arab Civilians tried to harvest grain in No Man's Land and the Jews objected that this violated the truce. One. Arab woman and one child were wounded slightThe stated positions of the rival peoples still are far apart. The Jews want to keep the state they proclaimed May 15 in part of Palestine.
The neighboring Arab nations demand an All- Palestine government with Arabs dominant. Jerusalem Jews yesterday 'received their first big food convoy in five weeks. The 20 trucks, most of them carrying wheat, came from Tel Aviv over a battle damaged road a Jewish crew had repaired. The Jews occupy, most of modern Jerusalem, the Arabs the old walled city, under the standstill truce agreement. The convoy was the first to be checked through by Truce observers to the Jewside.
A Jewish agency spokesman the Arabs had been moving men and war materials? into the old city in violation of the truce. said the U. consular't truce commission had promised to set up checks soon on Arab. trattic. ACT Strike ROADS BERLIN Inquiry Board Is Named To Study Dispute Goldsborough Will Rule On Van Horn Suit On Tuesday WASHINGTON (AP) President Truman took a first step today toward heading off a possible soft coal strike next month naming a board of inquiry to look into the dispute between operators and John L.
Lewis. Mr. Truman acted under emergency provisions of the TaftHartley Labor Act. The President said the wagehour and pension dispute, involving 400,000 of Lewis' United Mine Workers and the coal industry, threatens a strike or lockout which would "imperil the national health and safety." The board wa sdirected in Mr. Truman's executive to report its findings to the White House by next Wednesday.
This report could form a basis for government legal action to obtain court order forestalling any work. stoppage for 80 days. David L. Cole of Paterson, N. a lawyer, and a veteran arbitrator in- labor disputes, was designated chairman of the "national emergency" panel.
Other members of the three-man panel are: E. Wight Bakke, professor of economics at Yale Univerand Waldo Emanuel Fisher, relations, i vania. as Federal Justice T. Allan Goldsborough began hearings on a petition by Ezra Van Horn, a coal operator, for court: order to prevent start. of miners' pensions from a welfare Goldsborough that creollected during the last year.
operators producing 21,000,000 tons of coal annually are siding with the miners in their pension- fight. In the midst of arguments by counsel for Lewis and Van Horn, Goldsborough interrupted to announce he will rule on the pen sion dispute legal action next Tuesday. Van Horn is seeking to have Lewis' plan for $100 monthly pension payments ruled illegal. The plan has been approved by Lewis and Senator H. Styles Bridges N.H.), neutral member of the pension fund trustees.
Van Horn is the operators' trustee. Goldsborough strongly hinted that he may toss out the whole lawsuit on a technicality without ruling on the merits at all. He noted that the suit was brought by Van Horn as an individual. The judge said he feels Van Horn should have sued in his capacity as a trustee. However, the court said Van Horn's attorneys could offer an amendment to the suit to make Van Horn a petitioner as a trustee.
But Goldsborough left it wide open. whether the amendment will be accepted. He said he questions Van Horn's right to sue as a representative of the operators. He said that once a man becomes a trustee on. a trust fund he loses allegiance to the group appointing him to' the trust and is supposed to serve thereafter with impartiality as a trustee.
"But it is customary-," Van Horn' sattorney, John Lord 'Brian (Continued on Page 2) Sen. Glen H. Taylor (D-Idaho). last night teamed up with North Dakota's Sen. Langer in a two-man Senate filibuster against the draft, although the Third Party vice-presidential candidate finally gave up following a stormy session.
A compromise draft measure was quickly passed by voice" vote. Too Tired: Sailor Sleeps As Langer Filibusters BY DONALD SANDERS WASHINGTON (AP) In (R-ND) picked up tter and started to constitnator's bill. said 4 a. m. one corner of the Senate gallery, a sailor sat "with his head on his arms, fast asleep.
On the chamber floor, Sena- er had been speaking two hours and a quarter. He said he didn't like the way some Illinois postmasters have been appointed. And he definitely didn't like the draft. "Terrible and iniquitious," he. said.
A few sleepy-looking Repuhlicans drifted in and relieved a few other sleepy-looking Republicans. Just one of many shift changes in the session which had been under way for17 hours. Senator Knowland (R-Calif) gave up the presiding officer's chair to Senator Cain (R-Wash), who had just come in from one of thee ott-crammed lobbies. Senator- -Baldwin (R-Conn) went in as Acting Majority Leader, replacing Senator Ferguson (R-Mich). Senator D-Pa) had just taken the Miyace of Senator Hatch (D-NM) as the lone Democrat on the floor.
Some one counted 52 persons in the spectators' gallery, inThere were a few reporters. cluding the sleeping sailor, Daniel Webster, Langer thundered, once said that "to speak of conscription in a is a mockery. He strode back up the aisle. "Daniel Webser once occupied this desk," he said, pounding one just behind his own front row seat. "Daniel Webster-I wish he were here now." Hatch and Senator Stewart (D- looking tired, wandered into the chamber.
There was no sign of Daniel Webster. A dozen persons, mostly secretaries and. clerks, sprawled around the rim of the chamber on sofas, dozing. Martin Doubts That Congress Will Be Able To Quit Tonight WASHINGTON -(P) House Speaker Martin (R-Mass) said today' he believes it is "impossible" for Congress to adjourn finally tonight. Only a "break" in the legislation log jam, Martin said, would let the legislators get away.
"We've just got too much to do," he Martin made, the statement to reporters after a conference with' Senator. Taft (R-Ohio). Whether 'Congress will return the Republican and Democratic" conventions, or after both of them, he said, has not. been decided. Three hours earlier, Taft, chairman of the Senate GOP.
Policy committee, had mentioned the possibility: that Congress might be forced to put off quitting "until maybe: Monday. Martin spoke shortly after the Filibuster Ends All- Night Session Measure Is Adopted By Voice Vote; Bill Now Goes. To House attacks on what the President has called the nation's "worst" Congress. While it gave supporters of the Michigan Senator new that he might be open for the nomination, this view was not. reflected by Vandenberg's closest associates.
Writing the Vandenberg boom off, the Dewey and Taft camps fired their heaviest artillery in a battle to which both tried to relegate Harold E. Stassen to the role of a bystander, Despite public claims to the contrary, was nose-on-the face plain to most of the politicians here that neither had lined up anything. like the 548 votes needed for the nomination. With their first ballot strength fairly well set, both started chipping away at the strength of Stassen, favorite sons and each other. Although it was denied by Dewey's top strategists, reports came from usually reliable sources that the New York Governor's forces had put out a vice presidential feeler toward Gov.
Dwight, Green of Illinois. This would be in the nature of foray in strength into Taft territory, for the Ohioan's backers claim without much dispute they will get 50 of Illinois' 56 votes on the second convention ballot about continued on Page 3) Tuck's Plane Unabie Tor At Hot Springs School Of Commerce Endorsed By Bankers HOT SPRINGS, Va. -(AP)Governor Tuck was unable to address the Virginia Bankers ass0ciation convention here this morning when a low ceiling at the air field forced his plane to turn back without landing. Because of weather conditions at Hot Springs, the Virginia Air National: Guard plane, in which the governor was flown from Richmond early this morning, landed at Lynchburg. Governor Tuck telephoned his regrets to the banker's group on having to cancel his engagement.
The three-day convention was scheduled to end at noon today. C. Francis co*cke, president of the -First National Exchange Bank of Roanosociation for elected the to ensuing head year. The association expressed its support of the proposed graduate school of commerce and business administration at the University of Virginia. In a resolution, the convention requested that a committee.
be formed to establish "such relationship with the as may best serve the university and this associatiton in furthering the cause of sound, constructive mercial banking." Delegates gave the committee authorization to offer the university assistance of the association "in the early establishment of the contemplated graduate school. Other resolutions adopted were: 1. A recommendation to Congress that the federal tax 'structure be carefully reviewed with the purpose of discontinuing un- negessary federal services, thus enabling greater budget economy. The resolution recommended, elimination of inequities, in the tax structure and stated. that the "burden of federal: taxes required to meet our domestic and international commitments rests heavily upon our competitive business system." 2.
A commendation for Governor Tuck and the General Assembly for the state. government reorganization program, -3. Endorsem*nt of the Security Loan program 4 Endorsem*nt of the anti-in: flation program at the American association and the recommendation. that state banks follow credit policies in line with the program. WASHINGTON (AP) The passed a compromise draft bill voice vote today after breaking an all -night filibuster.
As it now stands subject to House approval the measure would start drafting men aged 19 through 25 for 21 months service, starting 90 days after final actment. Approval by voice vote came Senate first broke the filibuster of Senators Taylor Idaho) and Langer (R.N.D.) and then got into a heated squabble over. whether or not the bill actually had been passed. Senator Ives (R.N.Y.), presiding, first ruled that the draft compromise had passed. Then after a storm of protests he reversed this ruling and said it had not.
Taylor who had been ruled out of order for breaking Senate rules, managed to regain the floor during the uproar. Weary Senators thought he was beginning another stretch of filibustering. But Taylor talked only a few minutes and the Senators app shout- A ed approval of mise and rushed it over to the House. End of the filibuster and passage of the bill came after one, of the stormiest scenes on the Senate floor in many years. At times several Senators were shouting at once, with Ives banging his gavel vainly.
First there was argument about whether Ives had broken Senate rules by declaring the bill passed while Senators Taylor and Pepper were trying to speak. Ives finally' decided he was wrong about passage. Then there. was another causticflurry about whether Taylor, barred for breaking Senate rules; could' begin talking again. Ives ruled that Taylor had his right.
The roaring argument about whether the draft bill had passed or not came' only a few minutes after Taylor was directed to take his seat and quit talking for violation of Senate rules. Chairman Gurney of the Senate Armed Services committee pulled a compromise draft bill from his pocket and asked Senate approval. He listed several of the SenateHouse conference decisions, reached during the filibuster and suddenly asked for a vote. Senator Ives called for a voice vote and there was a chorus of "ayes." This break gave Congress some chance of reaching its scheduled adjournment tonight, although several major pieces of legislation remained in. dispute.
Still to be settled, among others, was the amount of money for the European recovery plan. The Taylor-Langer filibuster gan at 3:37 p. m. (ES) yesterday and ended at 8:39 a. m.
today--a stretch of 17 hours and two minu-: tes. A. number of Senators took catnaps on cots in the cloakrooms during the all-night vigil. Taylor was tired and speaking very slowly when he lost the floor. His whiskers had cropped out and he scowled deeply and remained standing, leaning over his desk for several minutes.
The Idaho Cowboy" Senator, who is Henry A. Wallace's new party candidate for vice president, had about 25 telegrams before he came to one which Senator Brewster Maine) objected to as casting an aspersion on Senators. Most of the telegrams were along the line of "keep up the good work," "we support courageous tight," we're with you tal your: 'etc. Brewster said that Taylor's reviolated: Senate rules that forbid: any member from making remarks ascribing Improper conduct to another The telegram Taylor was read Ins stated that there was one honest member of Senator Ives who, wat presiding, upheld Brewster and dr rected Taylor to take his seat (Taft' didn't mention any particucommunities.) is "Characteristically, Senator Taft "Very poor taste," said Gary. "Our whistles never stop blowing," said Mayor Earl L.
Mcnu*tt of Eugene, Ore. Crestline, Ohio, population around 5,000, was indignant. Whistle-stop? "Forty-two passenger trains, make regular scheduled stops here Suggest that Senator Taft consult timetables wired Mayor A. P. Soner.
As for Mayor Fletcher Brown of Los Angeles: "The term applies," he said, but: "Anyone who could have been in Los Angeles last Mondayperfect day in June Southern California sunshine and blue skies and witnesesd nearly (000,000 good American citizens linthe streets to welcome their President, would. have both whisItled. and stopped." Senate had removed one of the big barriers to adjournment. It passed the compromise draft bill after. an all -night filibuster.
by Senators. Taylor (D-Idaho) and Langer (R-ND). The filibuster ended when Taylor was ruled off the floor by a technicality. A conference committee wrangle over the amount of foreign funds was another delaying factor in the adjournment rush, These House-passed measures were jammed 'up on the Senate calendar awaiting an end to: the Taylor-Langer delaying action against the draft, housing, refugee immigration, a pay raise for postal employees, an Interior Departmient money bill and renominaton of, 'Atomic Energy Commissioners. In addition, two other Import-session bills- farm (Continued on Page 3).
