The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 46, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 25, 1947 Page: 1 of 4
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MEN RETURNING TO JOBS
U. S. Steel Head Replies
To Attorney General’s
Suit To Stop CSC Sale
Facts Speak For
Selves—Fairless
New York, N. Y., Feb. 25. (.Spl.)
—Benjamin Fairless, president of
United Stales Steel corporation
lias made the following statement:'
“Attorney General Clark today'
announced the filing of a suit at J,
Wilmington, Delaware, to enjoin:
the proposed acquisition by Co- j
lutnbia Steel company U. S. j
Steel's west coast subsidiary, of j
the fabrication assets and busi- j
ness of Consolidate! Steel eorpor- j
ation on the ground that such a |
AGAIN WE ASK . . .
WHOSE NYLON PLANT?
A story from Beaumont on
the strike situation in this area
filed with Associated Press
Monday night read: (quote) . . .
on a $100,000,000 nylon plant
near here (meaning Beaumont)
\ . . (unquote). Orange wasn't
mtioned, This caused one lo-
rhentk
cai'person to wonder if this city
isn't ' having enough trouble
about tfie Du Pont plant with-
out having Jefferson county
newsmen renew their efforts to
swipe it. \
Overheated Boiler
Creates Near-Panic
Here Early Today
] Members of the police and fire
| departments and residents of the
area of the Gulf States Utilities
j Co. office. Fifth and Front, are
j suffering from jangled nerves to-
| day: At 1 o'clock Patrolmen
j Guidry and Minchew delected
f smoke issuing from the office and
| gave in the alarm to police head-
; quarters, who in turn notified the
| fire station.
no : When a Gull' States official o-
! pened the building they lound a
12-horsepower boiler used for
purchase would violate the Sher- : making facilities' and does
man and anti-trust act. ; produce steel. ’ \
The facts will speak for them- j Genev, flan|
solved. In the judgment or our- . \ . , i ------ /
solves and our counsel, this pro- Last June u- s- Steel 'purchased { heating purposes red hot and at
posed acquisition would not re- f*om
suit in a substantial suppression -
of competition. | ... , , ,
CS( Is Fabricator government to provide plates Slid j mediately. The boiler was ex-
' pected to burst at any moment.
\ Said one resident who had
titRen awakened by a "crashing
soitad” about 1 a. m. but thought
DU PONTIPLANT
ALL CRAFTSMEN GOWG BACK BUT
LABORERS TO CONTINUE STRIKING
BRITISH BOARD REFUGEE SHIP—British Soldiers prepare to join white-hclmetcd British Navy men
Teacher Pay BHI
Laid Before House
Austin, Tex.. Feb. 25. (API —
Sharp questioning on the source
of funds and their ultimate use
developed' totlay as Rep. Dallas
Blankenship's proposed legisla-
tion to raise teachers pay was laid
out before the house.
Repi Claud Gilmer of Rock
Springs took the floor In opposi-
tion to Blankenship's two meas-
ures—. as now written—to raise
per capital school apportionments
to $35 in order to pay a minimum
$2,000 salary to Texas teachers.
Giltner, chairman of the appor-
the government largest j the point of explosion. The main ! . ^seT^n Mtcu.fl. = 8 the a*in, "Nelson Look At Your Heirs" in the harbor ^M «« in
steel mill at Geneva. Utah.- T 'h . gas line was shut off and residents ^ . Warded by sailors in Palestine waters and towed to Haifa where nearly 800 Inter- Increasing teachers pav
was a war facility, built by the i of he area were evacuated im- | « “ re‘ wP.e tr^ftrred to British deportation vessels. <AP Wire Photo) a."
Consolidated is a fabricator of I structural steel for the govem\
steel. Us principal fabricating ment's huge wartime shipbuilding
operations are at Los Angeles and j program on the Pacific coast.
San Francisco. U. S, Steel now i Genevas capacity to manufac-
has no fabricating-plant on the
west coast of the character of
those owned by Consolidated.
There is no competition of any
substance today between Consol-
idated and Columbia-Steel, or be-
tween Consolidated and any other
U S Steel subsidiary.
Competition Unchanged
The active competitive—situa-
tion now existing is the steel fab-
ricating field on the Pacific coast,
with some 47 different concerns
engaged in this business, would
not be changed in any substantial
nothing ol it, “In a few minutes
a policeman very calmly lold "us
to leave opr apartment, that a boil-
plates and structural steel is in
1 excess of any likely post war needs
, for these products In the far
| west. Upon acquiring the Ge- ! er was abhpt to blow up.” I very
neva plant, it became U. S. Steel's I calmly grabbed my wife by one
responsibility to seek means to! hand and our baby by the leg
utilize so far as possible these | and took off.” \
excessive plates and structural i Another person' said they were
steel capacities and thus permit
the Geneva plant to be continued
in operation over the years and
BOYS HOME ORGANIZER HANED LIONS CLUB $1,000 CHECK
BULLETINS:
BRIEFS:
sene as a source of supply for
western users of steel. A natural
step toward accomplishing this re-
sult is for U. S. Steel to engage
, ... ih the steel falmicating business on
wav by the consummation ol this . . ... ... t
■ * 1 the west coast, an activity which
transaction. Columbia Steel
would merely take the place of
Consolidated.
Such an acquisition of the as-
sets of Consolidated would not in-
crease the steel making capacity
of U. S. .Sleel lor (he simple rea-
son that Consolidated has no steel
LET'S DO
SOMETHING
ABOUT IT!
A. I’. BURNS
l.r.itlcr Staff Writer
it has carried on for many -years
in other parts of the country.
trsx tixvsja -~= * »
and fast." They l<kj in their
night clothes. ", \
The fire department spotted e-
quipment ardlfnd the area\ and
watted. ‘‘If a paper sack bad
been blown up and popped id
that time”, Eddie Barker said in\
recounting the incident, “we all
probably wuld have tram-
pled each another.”
Purchase Seemed Logical
Consolidated informed U. S.
Steel some months ago that its
fabricating business was for sale.
Such a purchase seemed to U. S.
Steel to be the logical way to se-
cure an essential outlet for plates
and structural steel to be pro-
duced at Geneva, and thus help
to insure the future operation of
the Geneva plant. Negotiations
with Consolidated for such a pur-
chase were commenced last Oc-
tober. Last December Columbia
Steel announced that it had en-
tered into a contract for the pur-
chase of the fabricating assets
and busfhess of Consoldated sub-
ject to approval by the stock- j
holders of Consolidated. A meet- j London, Feb. 25. (AP) For-
ing of the stockholders of Con- j eign Secretary Ernest Bevin
solidated was scheduled to beJ charged today that President Tru-
held on March 3, 1947 to act on man wrecked negotiations for a
this matter”. ' peaceful settlement of the Pales‘
I tine problem by calling for im-
Hlcd In Delaware mediate admission of 100,080 Jews
Yesterday, Attorney General j to tlle Ho|y [„and during the U. S.
Tom Clark announced the Depart- j congressional election campaign
At 1:45, however, an inspection
disclosed the boiler had cooled
off and had “tamed down” com-
pletely out of danger of explo-
sion. Everyone returned to their
posts and beds ‘and some were re-
ported almost relaxed at noon to-
day.
Bevin Says Truman
Wrecked Plans for
Palestine Solution
; ing the Lions club’s contribution 1
j to the Boys Haven building fund, !
TO TRY BELGIAN NAZI j was delivered by O. C. Gammage, 1
Brussels, Feb. 25. (AP) —Gen. j club president, to Don Holliman, j
Eggert von Reeder, who headed j boys home organizer, during the j
the wartime Nazi administration j Lions’ regular meeting here in j
In Belgium and northern France, I the Holland hotel Monday night,
has been handed over to the Bel- j Also representing Boys Haven j
au- j jit the presentation ceremony was j
thorities, it was learned today. He j w. C. "Bill” Edwards, Beaumont, j
will be tried by a Belgian mill- j deputy district governor for Lions j
tary court on a charge of having j International and member of the j
sent more than 200,000 Belgian ; board of trustees of the home,
Austin, Tex.. Feb. 25. (AIM—
Bills setting a minimum salary
of $2,000 annually for Texas
school teachers and plaeing the
per capita apportionment for
schools at a record high of $53
annually were overwhelming-
ly approved by the house, and
sent to the senate today.
men and women
slave laborers.
to Germany as
ARSON SUSPECTED
\Baltimore, Feb. 25. f^P)
Fire
Commends Club
In accepting the gift, Holliman
I commended the club highly Jar its
| action, saying it had set ah ex-
i ample for civic organizations
department officials today voiced j throughout the nation. He out-
suspkion of arson in a blaze | lined to the general membership
whichXrUined the fifth floor of of the organization something of
the eight -..story May company j the record of Boys Haven and
departmeiH store at Howard and : told of plans for the future. Hoi-
Lex ington streets and for two : liman also displayed to dub mem-
Washlngtoii. Feb. 25. (AP) —
President Truman today chai n -
ly modified the, reciprocal trade
agreements program to make
"doubly sure that American in-
terests will be properly safe-
guarded."
but not by the route Blariken-
! ship has proposed.
lie offered three amendments:
1 That no lunds be paid un-
der the proposed per capita bill
except to enable payment of
\ teacher salaries.
2. That schools not receive per
! capita money unless they have
for the past two years been using
the same percentage of their
local school tax as the slat* anil
county levy for teuchcra salaries.
The local school tax would also
have to be 73 cents on the 9t00
j valuation.
), 3. Thai per capita apportion*
ment be made only tor scholastic's
j attending school.
MAINTAIN HEALTH CLINIC
as a means of" protecting health
and preventing epidemics of
disease is a thought that deserves
much consideration at this time.
The matter of investing some $15,- !
non iri the procuring of a com-
plete plant in which to carry on j
one iff the greatest health centers j ment o[ justice had filed suit at | last fall
in the history of Orange, is one I Wilmington. Del., to enjoin Co-
mer which there is much quibb - j lumhin Steel as subsidiary of U. S.
ing at this time. It may be nec- j steel Corps The Department of
essa/y to do some special man- jusnce reported the proposed pur-
agciWnt that will involve sacrl-j ehase price as .*in excess of
fir es to maintain the health clinic | jggjjnO.OOO.OO.
set up yet the effort will be ful- cjur’k said the scUon was taken
l.v justified and worth it. 0n grounds that the sale would
violate the Sherman" Anti-Trust
act. The court was asked to per- |
manently enjoin consummation of j q*|| "f n •
the purchase agreement. Dill I 0 KUISG
Austin was expected to make
his proposal when the council
meets today if other delegates do
not ask to be heard on tjie issue.
If the debate is continued, these
sources said, then Austin will
make such a proposal when the
discussions are concluded.
ON INDEPENDENT GROUNDS
once, Orange county will be cn-
rouraged to launch further into
programs that will broaden op-
portunities that have been dor- Defendants Named
maiit through years of the past. The announcement named these J
Liberating the county from its : defendants: Columbia and Con- j
connection with a judicial district j solidated Steel companies, United J
Jar too large to afford the type of j States Steel Corp. off New York,
action that is demanded by a large and United States Steel Corp. of
growing county, pushing forward Delaware with headquarters in
at a rapid pace' toward a populat* I Pittsburgh, Pa.
ion of 100.000 will give the county | The Justice department's suit,
courage sufficient to stimulate its j the attorney general "said, con-
effort in bunging about a separat- tends that the proposed purchase
ion from Jefferson county for an would eliminate "substantial
independent representative dis- competition” between U. S. Steel
li-H-t. and its subsidiaries and Consoli-
-- dated in the manufacture and sale
MAKING HASTE FOR 1947 is of fabricated steel products in the
a thought that should be brought states of Arizona, California, Ida-
home to the people who have ho, Louisiana, Montana, Ne-
sensed that' the year is to be one braska. New Mexico, Oregon:
of the most eventful ones in the j Texas, Utah and Washington,
history of this 110 year old city. Clark described the country as
With passine of the month of Feb- being "in the midst of acorpor-
ruary, one-sixth of the good year at merger movement of tremen-
hours last night threatened the
center of Baltimore's business and
theater district.
CHARGES GOVERNMENT
London, Feb. 25. (AP) — Sir j
Robert Hennick, head of the lar- :
gest electric power company in
Great Britain, charged today that
the labor government’s "lack of
foresight and incompetence” cans- ‘
cd the industrial blackout which I
was being lifted by degrees as ,
j coal stocks slowly increased.
j MORE FOOD FOR GERMANY
Berlin, Feb. 25. (AP) — An- !
other 124,600 metric tons of'food
(arrived from the United States
| for the British - American zones
of occupation during the first half
of February, but German farm-
to-market deliveries lagged far
behind schedule, the American
military government said today.
FREIGHT LOADINGS IJP
Austin, Tex , Feb. 25. (AP —
Freight loadings in the southwest-
ern district increased eight per-
cent last month over January,
1946, the University of Texas bu-
reau of business research report-
ed. Forest products led the gain
with a 47 percent increase.
Rents Approved
will be past htgtbry, with only
five-sixth out in front to be de-
pended upon for time for accom-
plishing greater tbmgs than in any
other year of the town's history.
dous siginficance,” and said that
1 his department is attempting to
examine "every substantia] cor-
porate merger or proposed merger
in the light at anti-trust laws."
SCOUTS COMMENDED
| Austin, Tex*, Feb. 25.- (AP) —
I Gov. Beauford H. Jester yesterday
Washington. Feb. 25. (AP) -A P»ld tribute to the Boy Scouts of
senate banking subcommittee to- I America maintaining the high- ______________
day approved a bill authorizing a j «*» standard of leader-^
10 percent increase in present : *hl.p "f,„. ,e..^h TWO BEFORE CITY JUDGE
ceilings on rents.
bers an architect’s drawing of 1
the proposed new $30,006 plant.
Gratitude also was expressed by !
Williams, who presented Gam- j
mage with a letter of acceptance 1
and thanks on behalf of the Boys
Haven governing board."
The speakers were presented by j
Gene Saxon.
Ranks Keronri
During lbs talk the deputy dis- :
trict governor also praised the ;
Orange Lions club for its runner- j
ous activities. He said it now is j
the second largest in the district, j
ranking with 117 members next ;
to Port Arthur, which .has 132. .,
During the meeting, membership
awards were presented by Ed- I
wards lo George D. Craft. Burt j
Hauver, Fred Williams, C. R. j
; Arnold, Wm. B. Britt, M B. j
North. O. C. Gammage and Jack i
Fuller.
Choral Group Slugs
Program for the evening was i
•provided by Carr junior high I
j school choral workshop group,
i now sponsored by the Lions club [
| Members of the group appeared i
I last night for the first time lo-,
cully in costumes provided by j
the club. Directed by Ruth Pitt- ;
| man, the chorus is made up of j
Marjorie McQueen, Charles Ral- ■
; eigh. soloists, and Betty Belile, j
Marie Strother. Beverly Fife and j
; Clifford Shipp, novelty trie
known as “Three Sharps and a
I Flat."
Austin. Tex., Feb. 25. (AIM
A house subcommittee and At-
torney General Price Daniel to-
day Joined in a rush job to
whip the negro university hill
into shape for final considera-
tion tonight by the house state
affairs committee.
Washington. Feb. 25. (AIM —
Senator Taft (R-Ohlo), put the
army and navy on notice today
that while they may escape se-
vere budget cuts this year the
next congress session very like-
ly will trim their combined
funds.
Washington. Feb. 25. (AIM —
A 25-year-old war veteran
walked into a restaurant tele-
phone booth yesterday, called
his estranged wife and then
blew himself to hits with a
homemade hnml).
Bleachers' Collapse
Kills Two Students
Lafayette, Ind.
—A section of new
bleachers in the Purdue Univer-
Wupkmen began pouring into the Du Pont plant here this
morning at 10:30 o’clock following removal of the third picket
line to be posted there since January 21. All craftsmen dre
returning to work on the project but the laborers were still *mi ■
strike at noon.
V, E. Heard, business agent, La-
borers Local 373, announced near
noon that the membership of hi*
union In a meeting today voted
unanimously not to return to wrork
for the pay Increase of 12 1-2
cants per hour offered by the
contractors.
Laborers May Picket
Heard said hi* workmen voted
also to post picket lines at any
projects where an effort is made
to employ replacement* (or the
membership of his union or to
perform their work.
A spokesman for the contractors
announced a short time later that
a meeting with officials of the la-
borers had been set'for 3 p. m.
An effort to settle the dispute witli
this group will be made at that
time.
H. B. Clem, business agent.
Carpenters Local 2007, an-
nounced about 10:45 a. m. removal
of a picket ling posted about 7:30
o'clock by Sheet Metal Workers
Local 402. Immediately follow-
ing removal of these pickets,' con-
struction workmen began return-
ing to the Du Pont job and by
noon were pouring in by the hun-
dreds.
Settled With Painters
The sheet metal pickets were
posted this morning after an-
nouncement of removal of pickets
maintained for the past month at
Du Pont by the Port Arthur
painters union and kept up- after
settlement Saturday with the car-
penters local and removal of
pickets of that union.
Settlement had been made lust
night with the painters union and
many * workmen already had
made preparations to return to
their jobs at the Du Pont plant.
Today's action by the sheet
metul workers prevented them
from doing so. Another meeting
j between contractors' representa-
tives and sheet metal workers 1*
scheduled for some time today-
One session between these groups
was held here yesterday morning
and broke up about mam with: no
announcement of progress made.
Laborers SUM Meeting
The meeting of Construction
and General Laborers Local 383,
AFL, which _ organ Monday at 3
p, m., recessed about 5:30, was
resumed at 7 o'clock and reeessM
again this morning at 4:30 o'clock
until 10:30 a. m.
V. E. Heard, business agent
for the union, said early this
morning that unless his union
"gets more consideration it wilt
be forced to post pickets of its
own.” »*»s^
Housing Job Open
About 500 workers at smaller
projects, who bad genie on strike |
when . Du Pont workers struefc,
started returning to work her* ]
Monday, All jobs except the Du
Pont housing construction weia
reopened Monday and late in the
afternoon workmen were ordered I
to report back to that project thi* I
morning. A spokesman fo- the J
carpenters local union said today [
the sheet melal workers action)
will affect only the Du Pont plant I
construction and that the housing!
project now is "going full blast,"
I The settlement with the paint-1
ers union, announced last night,!
provided foi a wage im reaaa «t|
25 eenls an hour for all workjBHgil
I *b‘
Russia Approves
U. S. Control of
Japanese Islands
Washington, Fab. 24. <APP) —
; Secretary of State Marshall said
* today Russia has advised the
‘ United States that the Soviet
government feels an American
• trusteeship over the Japanesc-
: mandated islands In the Pacific
would be “entirely fair."
Marshall told a news confer-
ence that the Soviet note said
; Russia took into account that the
islands were won chiefly by Am-
i erican farmed forces which bore
“incomparably greater sacrifices”
than others in the Pacific advance.
Only Russia, Marshall said, has
i concurred in the American-trust-
| teeship proposal, which was sub-
! milted to the United Nations last
! week.'
Rescued Fliers
Arrive in U. S.
New York, Feb. 25. (AP) —The
plane bringing 11 army fliers who
were marooned for three days
,, ! 1,000 miles north of the Arctic
I* eb. 2;> ) | Circle in Greenland arrived at
wooden , We,itover FieW Chicopee Falls,
, ... * Mass., at 8:58 a. m today, the
sity field house, jammed with 3,- j Ajr Transport command en-
500 fans in the crowd of 11,000 at ;
the Purdue - Wisconsin basket-
ball game, collapsed last night,
killing two students and injuring
about 200 persons.
There is some victory gained In
every gallant strug’ le that Is
made.—Charles Dickens
I be crash ol .-pUntcring Umbel . . . ^ - iza cents an nour tor an wuna
!ORANGE JUICE..!*,
ed to the dirt floor brought an / A |>ve|y red vtlv„ iltfn ln
The bill would end federal rent
controls next Dec. 31 and remove
the administration of controls
from the office of price adminis-
tration. '/
The controls would be \ ested in
the courts except where tlje states
choose to establish their own en-
forcement.
for thirty-seven years, in pro- A wn*itf. ,nan rlu)rge<i with
claiming February as Boy Scout dnmkcnR!<s (IIK, a negro charged
Month in Texas. j with drurikeness and carrying eofl-
1 cealed weapon appeared before
APPOINTMENTS .MADE city Judge A. H. Prince Tuesday
Austin, Tex . Feb. 25. (AP) — . morning for trial.
Appointment of Phil M. Ste enson j
j ominous silence over the 11,000 I
: cheering, howling fans
; There was no panic. The hun*
S dreds of the occupants of the
bleachers, some of whom had
! tumbled as high as 36 feet, limp-
ed or crawled through the crowd
I To seek medical attention.
Not in the clamor of the crowd-
ed street. Not in the shouts and
plaudits of the strong, But in
oursehes, are triumph and defeat.
—Longfellow
of Houston to the state board of
education and C. H. Cevnesa to
another term as state auditor have
been'"recommended for confirma-
tion by the senate's committee on
: governor's nominations.
J. P. MAN LIGHT DAY .
Only one violator was tried in j I/O JQDOI1CS6 L/IG
Justice of the Peace J. P. Swain's } ~
court Tuesday morning. One man
was fined $17,75 for no operators
license.
In Roil Disaster^
23.
Komugawa, Japan, Feb — ,
(AP) — At least l7» Japanese
were reported killed and 350 in-
jured today when four ears of a
six-car tram jumped the track
Mankind is not disposed to look office of the Orange county clerk | --— ! here and plunged dojvn a 30-foot
narrowly into the conduct of great was issued toFJoWall Plnder and Forty-live railroad companies in embankment. It was one of the
victors when their victory is on Mr*. Mamie Staley, of DeQuincey, the United 1 States operate more worst railway disaster* In Ju-
the side of right.—George Eliot La. “ than 1,000 mile* of track each | pan's history.
ONE MARRIAGE LICENSE
The only new marriage license
of record Tuesday morning at the
office of the Orange county clerk 1
In 1945'there were about 398.-
437 miles of railroad trackage in
the United States. ..
Perry Bros, store No. 9 reading
“Sow and Save" made by Jeyee
Sonnier and bystanders wonder-
ing if it meant sow rice or wiki I
ftits ..... Vic (Vltaaaia) Lowrey
saying Pete Carter's real name
isn't Pete or Rip either but Albert
Pressley _____K. A. Mltchel saying
• he never did ist fire to a' buzzard
and turn him loose but he had
tied elaborate strings to the tails
of blackbirds ..... O. V. Denman
getting "raked over” by Judge F.
P. Adams for getting in the jury
section in court Monday morning
..... Mrs. Berto Black receiving
word from her sou, Marine gfi
Francis Black, that he has arrived
safely at Talrtg Tao, China where
there's plenty of snow" . . gam
Preretl. lifetime cowboy until war
days found him in Orange, -mused
FIREMEN HAVE
GOOD TURNOUT
at Orange's *%ug store cowboys
A good turn-out of firemen w:
on hand for the monthly
staged Monday night' at c
fire station under direction of
J. Rougeau. hose foreman. ;
nouncement wa* made at
time at a regular meeting of
fire company to be held at'
trat fire station hall Think
night of this week with Prmk
Denny Smith presiding.
BEAUMONT ELECTS TOM
Beaumont. Tex., Feb.
—A light vote dag
day for the democratic
ntsry election In which
her* of the city council
chosen
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