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The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
House Votes President Truman Power
To Control Prices, Wages And Credit

Washington (LPA)-Ine llou9e
has approved overwhelmingly a
home-front economic mobilization
bill, and forwarded it to the Sen
ate. where debate is expected TO
end with a favorable vote.
AS okayed by the House, the bill
gives President Truman broad
powers to control prices, wages
and consumer credit, and to ration
scarce materials either for indus
trial or consumer use. He can also
authorize loans to private industry
to encourage new processes or pro-
duction of scarce goods.
All of the powers are to be used
in the interests of national defense
and are being made into law as
the result of Truman's request fol
more limited powers after the start
of the Korean war. House vote was
383 to u, and came after nearly
two weeks of bitter fighting dur
ing which a southern Democratic
Republican bloc repeatedly tried to
rewrite the measure on the floor.
AS Senate debate started Aug
ust 10, an hour or two before
House passage, Senators Burnet
Maybank ID, SCI and John Spark
man I'd, Ala.) presented their rea-
sons for supporting the mobiliza-
tion bill.
"The committee unanimously de-
cided," the majority of the Senate
Banking committees members re-
ported to the Senate, "that it was
absolutely necessary, in order ef-
fectively to control prices, to sta
bilize wages also. The bill would
permit the exercise of price con-
troll on selective basis-that is,
on one commodity, or on any num-
Der of commodities or materials at
a time, either at the wholesale or
manufacturing level or at the con-
sumer level, and whenever such a
control is imposed the President
is required to stabilize wages so as
to prevent an undue burden on the
seller or an inflationary increase
in the price of the commodity.
Furthermore, the bill provides
for general wage stabilization
whenever price ceilings have been
imposed on a substantial part of
all sales at the retail level. The
bill is explicit in providing thar
rationing at the consumer level is
not mandatory when price and
wage controls are invoked gener-
ally.
"Since the wage stabiliZation
program provided for will no doubt
put an additional strain on the nor
NAL collective bargaining process" >"
the committee reported it was pro-
posing machinery to settle war
labor disputes "in cooperation with
labor and management somewhat
along the lines of the War Labor
Board"
The House bill is written in very
general terms, and gives the Pres
ident powers to use his discretion
as to when and how to invoke al
most all of the controls it grants
him. In general, price and wage
controls would be tied to the levels
that prevailed from May "a to
June 24--the month before the at
tack on South Korea. Farm price
ceilings would be set, in general, at
the highest level the commodity
had sold for in the previous year.
However, there are no orders on
the President for any general roll
back prices or wages.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
Read And Weep How Fair
Deal Is Running Business

Washington PAIndustry making the biggest profits ever
but big business still hreking that the Fair Deal running ba
of the
the for the first six months of 1850 show profits up 40 TO oV
Iper the period last
Below the figures for the first six months this year.
the first months 99 These the reports of the corpora
themselves the profit figures after possible deduc
Ition
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-08-17
WISDOM

Child labor is menace to our
civilization, involving as it does
the deterioration Of our race
Samuel Gompers,
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

spirit Of .partisanship and
cooperation" They added:
Despite these facts, known to
all concerned-and every citizen
of the United States is concerned
the President, the director of
the Bureau of the Budget, the
secretary of the Interior and
others in the administration par.
ty have seen fit to create a pub
lie impression that this Columbia
River program is a Democrats.
only plan and to tie it politically
to their partisan drive for estab-
lishment of a Columbia Valley
Administration or Authority"
Cain and Koran described the
eva proposal as Strictly a We
hicle for administration or pro.
jects and executing policies" and
said it is "the subject of tremend-
ously important and violent con-
troversy."
1--WE deeply resent" they said,
"the attempt of the administra-
ton to base approval of the pres
ent plan on plea for acceptance
Of the inflammatory eva pro-
poSal."
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
CAIN Horun Assert
Observation-Disclosures

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Up
Two Republican congressman as
serted today that an attempt has
been made to make partisan cap.
ital of the Columbia Basin de-
velopment program.
Presidential approval Of the
program, with some reservations
was announced yesterday. Just
prior to official announcement of
the action Senator Magnuson Cd.
Wash0 made known that he ex.
pected this Shortly"
Senator Cain and Rep. Koran,
Of Washington Republicans, said
in a statement today that Cain
introduced a bill to authorize the
work fully ten weeks" prior to
introduction of a similar bill by
Senator Magnuson.
They added that VIRTUALLY ev-
cry senator and representative
from Northwest states has pub
licly Joined in support of the pro-
.posal."
The program is strictly an en-
gineering plan," they said, and
its origin, development and sup
port have been marked by "a
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
PP&L Bid
Gets OK

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Up
The securities and exchange
commission today Okayed the
sale Of Pacific Power & Light Co.,
Portland, Ore, to an investment
syndicate which has limited it
may resell part of the utility
system to public power districts.
SEC authorized American Pow
er and Light CO., New York hold
ing company, to accept an offer
Of SIG, lbs, 900 cash for control of
the Portland corporation which
operates in 101 communities in
Washington and Oregon.
The successful bid was made
by a syndicate headed by A. c.
Allyn and Co. and Bear, Stearns
and Co., Inc, both of New York,
who will purchase 500, 600 shares
of Pacific Power common stock.
The block Of securities represents
controlling interest in Pacific
Power.
BY approving the deal with the
Allyn group, the government ag-
ency ruled out a second offer
made by another syndicate head
ed by Herbert Allen and Co., also
of New York. The rejected bid
was for $15,525,OO0 cash plus
payments from the planned re-.
sale of certain Pacific Power as.
sets. !
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Villagers
Vote Toduy
nChurter

Tri-City voters today choose
school board members, Richland
councilmen and approve or re-
ject new charter for the Atomic
City. tss,
Polls will be open 1-8 p. m. in
Pasco and Kennewick and 8 a.
m. to 8 p. m. in Richland.
One member will be named
to the Pasco school board and
two each. to the Richland and
Kennewick boards.
The charter, which has been
accepted by the present Richland
council, was submitted by the
Atomic Energy Commission and
General Electric company.
Liquor stores in all three
cities will be closed because
of the election.
A meet-the-candidates forum
last night in Richland was can.
celled because only about six
people turned out.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Organization
Change Made

Overall responsibility for un-
ion relations of the General Elec-
trio company at Richland has
been centered in the employee
and community relations divi.
sion.
George R. Prout, general man
ager at Hanford works for GE,
made the announcement. That
division will serve all other di-
visions in handling union rela-
tons and wage rate matters,
Prout said. H. E. Callahan, divi-
sions manager, has announced
the appointment of c. c. Tall
man as manager of union rela-
tons.
]. N. Dupuy and B. K. Phillips
have been named assistant un-
ion relations managers. Dupuy
is in charge of union relations,
operations personnel. Phillips,
formerly a member of Design
and Construction Divisions, is
handling union relations, con-
struction subcontractor person
mel.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Cool Still
In Supply

Although running from four
to five days behind in deliver.
ing coal, Northwestern fuel COM
pany in Richland has enough
coal to last until about Wednes-
day, Joe Nance, manager, said
today.
He added that chances for re-
Punishment aren't too good. He
said he thought he could carry
the schools along for 10 more
days, land we surely tnsflt to
get more in by that time"
The company is still limiting
orders to a ton per customer.
A General Electric company
spokesman said the supply for
heating GE offices in the village
are "about normal" Kadlec hos
pital is heated from the central
heating plant SO has no heat
ing worries of its own.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Announce
Collection
Station

Clothes and food for Tri-City
needy families will be collected
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
A. Nyborg in Island View, it was
announced last night.
Persons wishing to give any
thing may take their gifts of
clothing, canned food, money,
etc., directly to the collection
point, 1888 ellis, in Island View.
Richlanders without transpor-
tation may call 8.5882 or 5.95887
and their gifts will be picked up
and delivered to the Nyborg
home. So :.a
LEFT AT RED CROSS
Gifts also may be left at the
Red Cross building in Richland.
They will be picked up from
there and taken to the collection
station.
The clothes, food and money
will be distributed to needy fam.
lilies of Benton and franklin
counties. The drive is being con-
Quoted by committee composed
of public spirited persons in Pas.
CO, Kennewick and Richland.
NAMES WITHHELD
Members asked that their
names be withheld.
The drive was launched after
John Rusk, Benton Franklin well
fare administrator, appealed for
additional funds to state and
county agencies. He reported that
some 5000 men in the area were
jobless and that nearly 1000
families were seeking relief.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Announce
.DeudIine

Pasco Chamber Of Commerce
low-rental housing ballots must
be into the chamber office by 10
am. Monday for counting, Bill
Luhman, counting committee
chairman said today.
The ballots are on a resolution
to determine If the chamber ia
vors proposed federal housing
project for PaSco. The resolution
is worded so that a mo" vote
means the member favors such
a project.
Other members of the counting
committee are Wendell Brown
and c. L. Booth.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
.vFW Post
In Prosser

Among members of the Ken
newick Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Thomas Hembree Post No.
1927, who visited the Prosser
Veterans of Foreign Wars last
Wednesday were Commander C.
B. Vinje, Kenney Christianson
and Donald Mcpherson. Purpose
of their visit was to ask the
help of the Prosser post in rails
ing funds for the Kennewick
Community hospital.
Not long ago Prosser had the
same problem Of raising funds
for their present hospital. They
promised to aid the Kennewick
Post in any way they possibly
could. It was encouraging to
the Kennewick members to re-
ceive wholehearted support
from group in another COM
munity.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 - Cap
THE Truman administration to-
day asked congress to tax tele.
vision sets 10 per cent, cut other
sales taxes and increase top
corporation income levies in a
great overhaul of revenue laws
figured to raise treasury income
81, 900, 100000 a year.
Secretary of the Treasury Sny-
der took the administrators ex-
tensive program to capitol Hill
where he Immediately bumped
into strong demands that heavi-
er slashes be made in the sales
and other federal excise taxes.
From business circles also
came cries that the reductions
proposed were. not enough for
business health.
Snyder said the revenue loss
at this time must be limited and
should be aimed at the most
harmful" excuses. He pointed to
the Presidents insistence that
these tax cuts be made up else
where. And he asked for an in
crease from 38 to AZ per cent in
the upper level levy on corpora
ton income, along with a sharp
rise in revenue from estate in
heritances and large gifts.
CUT SOME TAXES
1. Cut taxes on retail sales
Of furs, luggage, jewelry, and
toilet preparations from 20 to
10 per cent. The tax would be
removed entirely from baby
oils, powders and lotions. Esti-
mated reductions: $4,000, 900
a year.
2. Long distance telephone
and telegraph taxes cut from Is
to Is per cent. Estimated reduc-
ton: $12O,OOO,OOO.
3. Cut from Is to 10 per cent
the tax on railroad, bus, air
plane and other transportation.
Saving: $75, 100000.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Soft Coal
StoDpuge
End Seen

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (UP)-
Southern soft coal producers to.
night agreed to resume full pro.
duction Monday and John l.
Lewis may notify President Tru-
man tomorrow he is willing to
put his miners back on a five
day week.
The Southern group notified
the White House that they &C.
cept the presidents first pro.
posal for solving the months. old
wage dispute. This called fol-
resumption of normal" produc-
ton while the operators and
Lewis United Mine Workers un-
ion negotiate on a new contract,
The Southerners ignored fol
the moment Mr.. Truman's second
proposal to resume work for 20
days while special fact finding
board investigate the controversy
and makes settlement recon-.
mendations.
That runs counter to the &C.
ton taken by Northern and
Western operators, who have &C.
cepted Mr.. Truman's No. 2 pro.
pOsal.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Ingrid Bergmon Nurses Baby While Priest
DiscIoses That RosseIIini IS It's Father

and Feb. 20.
The baby's birth must be re-
gistered under Italian law by
Feb. IL.
Friends said today that regis
tration will be delayed until the
last moment in hope that the
divorce decree will come through
before then and that, when the
birth is registered, Ingrid and
Rossellini may be recorded not
only as the parents but as man
and wife.
Rossellini spent the whole
day at the hospital. He left short
ly before 10 o'clock tonight, and
Miss Bergman, tired but in ex-
cellent condition went to sleep
early.
Rossellini, who remained at
the hospital until late last night,
was Ingrid's first visitor today.
He abandoned, for the moment,
his work outside Rome on film
depicting the life of st. Francis
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

career. Speaking of this angle,
Father Morlion said:
Gas a Catholic priest / have
stressed that the duties of par
ents to the immortal soul in the
eyes of the church are no less
if the child is born outside of
a legitimate union"
Then, announcing that Rossel-
lini was the father, Father f1or-
lion continued:
catholics will learn with
Christian satisfaction that the
parents of the child born last
night have decided to give
Catholic baptism and education
to the child, which can consti-
tute the first step toward obedi-
ence to the laws of God"
Father Morlion disclosed that
he had been giving advice and
religious instructions to Rossel-
lini as one of the parents of the
boy,
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Tri-CitY Mercury Rising;
Chinook Winds Blowilnq
|HeIIbon1b
Secrets
Also Sold

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1R-
Senators quoted FBI Chief J. Ed
gar Hoover tonight as saying ev-
idence shows that a top British
scientist, under arrest in London,
passed hydrogen bomb data as
well as vital A-bomb secrets to
Moscow.
Hoover was further quoted as
saying the scientist, DR.. Klaus
Fuchs, had confessed to spying
activities. One senator said,
however, that the scientist may
be tried by British courts on a
relatively minor charge in order
to avoid airing some aspects Of
the case which might touch on
still-retained atomic secrets.
TESTlFIES IN SECRET
Hoover testified for three hours
behind closed doors at a meet
ing Of a senate appropriations
subcommittee.
Committee members said Hoo.
yer told them the London scien-
fist, German-born Fuchs, SO,
came into possession of some in
formation about the projected
H-bomb which President Truman
has ordered American scientists
to develop.
Fuchs, who worked on wartime
atomic projects in the United
States, was seized by Scotland
Yard agents-acting on a tip
from the FBI-and jailed today
on charges of violating British
official secrets act.
Members of the senate commit
tee quoted Hoover as saying the
evidence indicates that Fuchs
gave Moscow the H-bomb infor-
nation he had cleaned, as well
as key data about the A-bomb.
IMPRESSION NOT CLEAR
But they said they did not get
a clear impression from Hoover
whether the H-bomb information
available to Fuchs when he was
last in this country, in 1917,
was vital enough4to help the Russ
slams materially.
The senators, who told newsmen
about Hoover's testimony stipu.
lated that their names must not
be used.
They said Hoover gave them a
graphic account Of the Fuchs
case. He was reported to have
asked Congress for funds to hire
100 more employees-including
about 300 new FBI agents-as a
means Of tightening security on
the nations top secrets.
Senator Bridges (R-NH) told
newsmen later that Hoover's
story was zone of the most shock
ing things I, have ever listened
to-"
The FBI chief was said to have
given the committee extensive
information on the whole Com
munist spy setup in the United
States.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
IN. Y. Students
Body Found

ITHACA, N. Y, Feb. 3 --(UP)
- The body of Lawrence Wood.
worth, 81, Cornell University
honor student who disappeared
from a fraternity house party
last night, was found today be.
low a bridge spanning a 1875
foot gorge near the campus.
An investigation was begun
Immediately to determine whe-
Their Woodward, of Los Angeles
fell from the bridge or was
pushed.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

of Assist, Ascetic and Mystic.
Miss Bergman was awaken
ed at 6 a. m. for breakfast of
orange juice, toast and marina
lade.
"She had a good appetite"
attending physician DR.. Pier
Luigi Guidotti said.
"She is in excellent health.
She was very excited when we
took her son to her this morn
ing and was overjoyed to hold
him. sa,E a-.
The baby, he said, weighed
seven pounds liz ounces at
birth. ...-,... W..
"He looks very much like his
mother" said Prof. Raffaele Di
Maggiore, director of the hospi-
tai.
Miss Bergman still is await
ing divorce from DR.. Peter
Lindstrom, Hollywood brain sur
geon whom she married in
Sweden at the outset of her
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Dumping
Of spuds
Authorized

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 -(UP)
- Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan today auth.
orized the dumping" of up to
100000 bushels of surplus DO.
tatoes which the government
will be forced to buy to support
prices.
He said that under the plan,
which is aimed at saving the
taxpayers about $4,000, 600 on
their price support bill, the sur
plus spud will be used as far
as possible for fertilizer or live
stock feed. But he admitted
Some simply will rot.
Brannan's announcement - of
what could be the biggest food.
dumping program since the de-
preston 1905 - conceded will,
a new outburst Of congressional
indignation over the potato sit
uation.
Sen. Joseph r. Mccarthy, R.,
Wis, said he is drafting legis.
lation to create a food stamp
plan under which farm SURPRISES
could be given free to low in.
come families. Senate Democrat
tic Leader Scott w. Lucas said
1t is time to quit supporting
growers who won't cooperate"
Potato branch officials said
the dumping program will get
under way next week in Maine,
which produces about half the
nations surplus. But Brannan
told news conference the peak
will not be reached until April
or May.
He said the government now
estimates it will be forced to
buy $4,000, 900 to 100000 BUSH
els of the 1949 crop. OF these,
he said, not more than 100000
to 10,0O0,OO0 can be disposed of
through the departments give
away" programs.
As a result, the departments
field men have been ordered
to buy surplus potatoes from
farmers and dealers who will
agree to buy them back for one
cent per 100-pounds. They also
must agree to use them for fer
tilizer or livestock feed.
To forestall any possible at
tempt to resell them to the gov.
eminent, the department will
S3Vya <1,nx,a tJ,,a Tv1,;~ ,,,31v ,<,r$
the taxpayers an additional one
or two cents a 100-pound sack.
The February potato support
price ranges from $1.80 to $40
q bushe1.
Brannal1 promised the govern
ment will now allow" the po-
tatoes to be stacked up, doused
with gasoline and destroyed out
right. But he admitted there was
nothing to keep the farmer or
dealer from leaving them to rot.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
(see Story On poqe 5 Also)

ROME, Feb. 3 - (UP) - In.
grid Bergman, smiling happily,
nursed her blue-eyed baby boy
today in her sunny room at the
Villa Margherita hospital while
her sweetheart Roberto Rossel-
lini looked on proudly.
Father Felix A. Morlion, di-
rector of the Catholic University
of Rome, said definitely that
Rossellini was the father of the
baby born to the glamorous
Swedish American movie star.
The baby is being breast-fed.
Father Morlion said the baby
would be baptized and brought
up in the Catholic church.
Ingrid and Rossellini, brilliant
Italian movie director, plan to
marry as soon as she gets the
divorce decree she has asked at
JuareZ, Mexico.
It is expected that the decree
will be. issued between Feb. 10
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

4. Repeal the 3 per cent tax on
freight charges, figured to
knock off S310,000,000.
S. Tax television sets 10 per
cent in line with present excise
taxes on radios, to bring in $4O.-
GOO, 900.
This would leave untouched
a number of excise taxes sharply
increased during the war, in
Guiding theatre tickets. Attacks
in congress on the excuses have
centered on the war tax pro-
gram.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Four Die
In B!oze

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, Feb. 8
R,-A fire roared through a
rooming house in the center of
the klamath Falls business dis
trict today, fatally burning four
men and injuring IL others.
The fire burst out in z below
zero weather about 1 am, trap
ping three men inside. Others
ran, their clothes Attire, to the
snow covered street.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
Phone Strike
trouble Seen

PORTLAND, Feb. 3 R,-The
telephone strike called for Feb.
8 will disrupt Oregon and Wash
ington phone service, a union
official predicted today.
D. v. Harris, president of the
Oregon Washington unit of tele-
phone installers, said his union
plans to jam the phone lines in
! this area. He did not give details
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04

Is Siqner

Iva Thornhill, who was one of
the signers of the contract with
Richland laundry and dry clean
ing company recently, was secre.
tary Of local 1877 of the Laundry
Workers International union.
A story in Thursdays Herald
enormously said she represented
the Building Service employees
union.
Courier-herald. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1949-1950, 1950-02-04
CoUrier-HeruId
is Suspended

The courier-Herald. weekly
publication servin Pasco and
Kennewick. Is suspending pub
lection with this issue.
The weekly r!1per cannot
compete successfully in ON
area now served by an ever.
expanding dolly.
The day Of the country week
~ newspaper in the Tri. City
aTe0 Is over. The $4,000 and
more population Is fast max.
ing metropolitan center of
this region. Readers und mer-
chants require dolly newspd.
per service.