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1 10 us STAR Football Selections-Page 32 Final Edition if CI.OSIXG MARKETS Music On Records-Page 36 Earl Wil son-Page 37 lint ted Press, Associated Press and International Ncics Service Vol. 63 No. 30 St. Louis, Thursday Evening November -I, l18 10 Paces Price 5 Onti ro) a rui JV LATE NEWS BULLETINS 'Worth-While' if U. N.

Adopts West's Atom Plan BANDITS ROB DRIVER OF $150 Two bandits in an automobile robbed the driver of a meat market track of his wallet containing between 5150 and $300 after forelng him to pull to the curb on Crest ave. Just west of Ferguson are, University City, about 1 p. m. today. I'niversJty City police reported.

Abe Wasserrnan. 1435 Blarkstone ate, toW officer the men threatened klm with a reTolTer and a knife. President To Crowd At Union Station. 3 U. S.

OKAYS RELEASE OF $S0 MILLION BY FRANCE WASHINGTON. Not. 4. tlPi The United States and France have agreed to the release of SSO.dOO.DOO In French counterpart funds to aid recovery and help the I'nited States gain new strategic materials for defense, FCA announced today. Counterpart funds are the local currency equivalents which all recovery nations are required to deposit in their own banks whenever an American recovery dollar is spent In their behalf.

RADIO WRITERS-' STRIKE SETTLED NEW YORK. Nov. 4 (VP) A strike by members of the Radio Writers Gnild against major broadcasting outlets has been settled, J. R. Mandelbanra.

assistant regtoml director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, announced today. Terms of the settlement were not announced Immediately. The strike began last Thursday. i i i tmi.rn.fm. i i i si'- () Handling Of Vets In Jobless Pay Cheats Rebuked A rt- MK.V.

---I T- handling of criminal cases against war veterans for Illegally drawing unemployment benefits was handed to the U. S. district attorney's office today by U. S. District Judge Rubey M.

Hulen. "It looks to me like you are trying to make criminals out of as many of these ex-servicemen as you can." Judge Hulen told Herbert H. Freer, asststant U. S. attorney.

The occasion of the judge's remarks was the arraignment of a 35-year-old Negro. James E. Gooch. I430O St- Ferdinand on a charge of violating the Service-, mens Readjustment Act bv gaily drawing $20 unem Id 40 To 6 Vote With Only Red Bloc Opposed Raruch Proposals Win; Issue Returns IOW Bv To Commission Associated Press PARIS. Nov.

4 The United jNations Assembly approved to day, over bitter Russian pro-l test, the western plan for world atomic eontrol. The vote was 40 to 6. with four abstentions. The Russian hloc nations alone voted against the west-em plan. liri llT Russia's counter proposal jand two Indian amendments.

Called For A-Bomb Ban The reiected Russian proposal! called for a treaty banning the? atom bomb and a separate pact setting up controls. The treaties! would have been effective simul-; taneously. The vote on this, too, was 40 to 6. with only the Soviet bloc states voting in favor. An Indian amendment to p- prove the western plan "in substance" only was rejected 15 to 9.

with 26' nations abstaining. The IT Zt" Assembly beat down an Indian amanHmnr iMvaT rT The I What Assembly Did By its vote the Assembly did this: ADuroved the maioritv Dlan 3. Requested the United States. Britain. China.

France. Russia and Canada to consult to determine whether there is a basis for agreement and to report to the Assembly not later than the next session. 4. Called upon the Atomic Energy Commission to pick up its work where it left off last spring, when it decided it could not do any more work until the East-West deadlock was broken. Called Plan Fantastic Earlier Russia rejected the west-em plan as fantastic and unreal.

It was questionable whether the Atomic "energy control any nearer ln efect davs debate pro duced standoff with Russia rejecting the western plan and the West rejecting Russia's. The whole more.t&lk. Andrei leading theJ Truman Speaks 1 UCTRS UIIIUI1 OiriNC Affects 12 East Side Chain Groceries Ten East St. Louis chain groceries and the meat departments of two Granite City chain stores were closed today by a strike of 120 members of the A. F.

L. Meat Cutters and Grocery Clerks Union, Local 534. The walkout followed rejection bv the workers this morning of the latest contract offer of the chains Kroger and A. P. Negotiations for a new contract had been going on since expiration of the old agreement last Oct.

2. A spokesman for the union said the- wage increases offered So for grocery clerks, $5.50 for journeymen butchers and $6-50 for meat department managers were "near" the union's demands, but that management had rejected changes in working conditions requested. Meatdepartment managers now receive $7350 a week; butchers. $66; male grocery clerks, $50, and women clerks, $42. Post-Election Setback NEW YORK, Nov.

4. (AP) A fast rebound lifted the stock market today after yesterday's election slump, "ey stocks advanced a few cents to $3 a share. Despite the gains, though, the price level was still substantially below Monday's pre-election figures. The turnaround followed the I worst beating the stock market has pioyment benefits. was charged that Gooch drew benefits the en- Incorporating the commissions de-tire year of 1M6 although he was cisim Tne vote J15 as 3L! emnloved from April 23 to Julv 16 5 against, with 15 abstaining.

The of that year commission, reporting itself unable Gooch told the court he had notJ0' realiied he was not entitled to the'5 benefits at the time he drew The delegates then turned to a He said he had offered to refund vote on th astern plan, approved THOUSANDS LISTEN TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN during his a stop on his journey to Washington. (Other pictures on Picture Star-Tlnwa Photo. rear-platform appearance at Union Station this afternoon during Page.) the benefits in question to the DV uie majority oi uie -nauon U. S. district attorneys office.

committee. 4 i4 1 in h4 ra H4c "iff hfirt rwutn vflc--t a Ha i was advised to await disposition of the criminal proceedings. Judge Hulen continued the case to next! Weir' Truman Now Powerful Political Figure In Own Right BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Tuesday for disposition. jfor atomic control as the basis for After the rebuke from the establishing effective international Freer said, "Of course our inf orma- regulation.

This is based on pro-tion is directly contrary to what thesposals made June 14. 1946. by Ber-defendant has told the court M. Baruch of the United today. States.

Hulen replied. -That may well be! 2. Expressed official concern at true, but I dont think these cases impasse between Russia and are properly investigated." jthe West Russia objecting to the After court recessed. Freer told inspection provisions of the Baruch reporters that Gooch. when he was plan, consistently attacked it.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 4. President Truman is hurrying home today to the White House to undertake on his own an administration in the Roosevelt tradition for which Tuesday's election gave him a surprise mandate. It will be New Deal with a touch of higher taxes and freer spending than the repudiated Republican Congress would like it.

It will be Welcome. He Tells Crowd Ifj Bicst Jol In TIIcWol, President Savf In Talk A poo. I n.ntunvl, appJamlinff of about jversom President Truman at I niou Station today during an hour's stop-over en route ly itrain from his home in Inde pendence. to Washington, Hist riot of In a orirf. extemporaneous talk trom the rear platform of Ms train, the President modculy: "I thank yon very, vrry much for this welcome.

It is certainly worth while. "We have wagrd a trrmendou-fight tor the well are of the people and of the country. "I am especially happy that my home ftate atipported me so generously. I hope I shall continue to have yoe.r support, because, you know, I now have the biggest job ln the world. "With your help, we can do that job.

I can't tell you again how much I appreciate your Irlendli-jness. and I hope you will all pray it vr- I'l wit- l'UIIU). Big D. C. Vclr.me Planned Accompantrw by Mrs.

Truman and dauchler. Margaret. th President let; Independence at a. m. today and made intermedial stops at Sedalia and Jefferson City.

He is due to arrive at 11 a. m. tomorrow Washincton. where a tumultuous welcome has been planned. Virtually all of the city's Democratic leaders were on hand when the President's special tram backed into the station here at 1:30 p.

and hundreds of citizens ere jammed into the concourse of th station, pressing acainst the plate-glass windows that separate it from the train sheds. First to board the train was James P. Finnegan. collector of internal revenue. He no sooner had joined the President when Mr.

Truman waved from the "platform to Bernard F. Dickmann. postmaster and former mayor, who was in the crowd which milled around the President's car. Wave Copy of Chicago Tribune C. Arthur Anrirrtnn fnnn.

Democratic congressman niH copy of the Chicago Tribune of yesterday, bearing a banner headline reading: -Dewey Defeats Truman." The President grinned, and the crowd applauded. Mr. Truman noted that hundreds in the crowd were prevented from Retting close to the train because they were barred by the partition between the station concourse and the tracks. -Let the people behind the bars come in. if they want to." he pleaded.

No one moved to open the gates, so Mr. Truman shouted out, loudly this time: "Open the gates!" lrd Surer Aroand Train That got action, and the crowd surged in around his train. A big burst of applause went up from the crowd when Representa tives-fleet Raymond W. Karst and Frank ICarsten incumbent climbed to the train platform and shook hands with the President. Turning then to the photographers, Mr.

Truman said: -IH bring the wife and daughter out as soon as we're through with the handshaking." Mrs. Bess Truman and Margaret next appeared. Mrs. Truman wearing a navy blue suit over a whit blouse, with a rhinesUme pin on the lapel. Both posed for photographs.

Dickmann and Robert E. Hanne- gan. former postmaster general, joined the President, who put his arms around the visitors and remarked: -Now we're all together. The uhotczraDhers asked Mr- Truman to tiifplay the Chicago Tribune "Dewey Defeats Truman" headlines again. The President obliged, whereupon Dickmann shouted out over the crowd: That's one for the book!" Others who welcomed the President included Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.

John W. Snyder and their daughter. Miss Druci Snyder, who left with Mr. Truman for the return trip to Washington. When Margaret Truman spied the Snyders ln the crowd, strut -Continued Page 14, pIimui 2 Prophets Called "Deweyeidea" GLASGOW.

Nov. 4. UP) Th Glasgow Bulletin said today In comment on the U. S. presidential election that the pufcUe opinion prophets had committed "Dewey-cide." Lost and Found APtnEJESTS BiliOLD Lot: ladr'i.

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CO. AtfaHiMai lU, a4 UttrUMwa. rt-S4. the Trumans themselves re- ELECTlOy SVITS DEfTEY EXG1XEER EVANSVILLE, tUP) Lee Tindle, locomotive engineer whom Governor Thomas E. Dewey called a "lunatic" for backing his campaign train into a crowd at Beaucoup.

111., said today he is "well satisfied" with President Truman's victory. "1 was as surprised as anybody else that President Truman won," Tindle said. "I voted for him, but I hact given up hope." Tindle said Dewey's remarks about him did not influence his vote. "I would have voted Democratic anyway," he asserted. During a campaign stop at Beaucoup.

a small southern Illinois town, Dewey prepared to make a rear platform address from the train when it backed up a few feet into' the crowd. No one was hurt. NEWS OF THE DAY LOCAL- TRUMAN President Harry S. Truman, returning to Washington following his election victory, arrived at Union Station at 1:30 p. m.

today and was greeted by a. cheering crowd which surrounded the train during the hour he spent here. tPage l. LOCAL POLITICS St. Louis Democratic leaders begin discussions on choice for mayor as result of Tuesday's Democratic victory.

tPase 13.) SECOND GUESSING Leaders of both major political parties to- day are analyzing factors responsible for 250.000 vote majority rrllsi im rvmvntje In fi- sourL tPage 3.) TAX BILLS UP St. Louis tangible personal property bills for IMS show $743,605 increase over the 1W7 figure. (Page 13.) NATIONAL WASHINGTON President Truman en route back to Washington to press New Deal program: faces fiht over Taft-Hartley Law repeal and civil rights. tPage 1.) PRESS COMMENT Nation's newspapers comment on election, tPage IX) WASHINGTON Secretary of State Marshall. Defense Secretary ForrestaJ, Secretary of Interior Krus and Secretary of Commerce Sawyer expected to leave cabinet.

(Page 2.) INTERNATIONAL-TOKYO Japan is convicted of waging aggressive war. tPse 21.) PARIS U. N. Assembly approves western plan for atomic control over bitter Russian opposition. (Page l- PARIS U.

N. Security Council approves U. S. request to eliminate reference to sanctions in resolution directed against Israel. (Page 36.) SPORTS FOOTBALL SELECTIONS Williamson reverses ratings, picks Oklahoma to beat Missouri Sat- imtar iPan S3.) PREP PLAYERS Beaumont's Desmuke and Maplewood's Sum- van named "Prep Players of Week, tPagS3J Ind ex Amusement News Comics Editorial Pag Feat ore New Financial News Music On Records.

Picture Page XUdio Programs Sports New .19 3 3S i Want Ads Women's News -S6-2S- THE WEATHER Official U. S. Weather Bureau I recast ior iu. mu occasional rain or thundervhowers tonigbC Tomorrow partly cloudy. Cooler and rather windy tonight and tomorrow.

Low tomorrow morning about 4.V high in the afternoon around M. Saturday fir and eooL ftr GseriiT fir to Xht elerisi ia lb norvh- prcid fcy rta to ttso txurx north Uus fs-ercooa tad rrly tocisM Cool? teuscb: creep la extreme southeast. Tomorrow fair aad cooL Low Vocuht S3 to In aorUivost to SS la tiw toclbruL Hit tomorrow SS ta Uto aorlbvest. as to ti ia Us aootbeOK. Fter XHaois: Raia Tomorrow prCy clouiy osd cooier.

Wisdy. Tom-ttr afidjiih 1 1 CLOUDY; COOLER 1 a. b. .1 o. 9 -l 1 P.

B. 3 P. Bl. 4 p. m.

.73 Bl 11 ta. aoa -1 Tl oer ceat ite of tSML ms'fsl at Si. Ixnas; questioned by tne FBI. admitted ne, knew he was not entiued to tne benefits when he drew them but that he wanted more money. Gooch at present is a mess hall attendant a the Army Finance Center.

The charge against Gooch is a misdemeanor, carrying a maximum penalty upon conviction of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Deadlocked Pair Decide To Share Office, Pay ROCHESTER. N. Nov. 4.

AP) A Republican and a Democrat who tied for a seat in New Hampshire's House of Represents JXUSE! Ul iJUUl fc ruUU A7W -he and Democrat Albert Jones each would have half a vote and spilt the pay. Hogs Down 75c To Market Bounces Here In Active Trade Back After Severe (Steals lO KlCle thing now goes back to the mission and the big powers for laDDV SUe LIVERPOOL. ENGLAND. Nov. 4.

Miss Doris Fowley. a 43- Soviet bloc's closing fight, told the choice lots of hogs ranged down-Assembly the atomic bomb can be! ward to $23. Today's decline in the answered with atomic bombs and market follows the uneven trend of week, was charged in court today using her employer's money of other kinds, Hog prices at National Stockyards. Ill-, today were down 75 cents to $1 a hundredweight from yesterday. Trading was active, with 10.500 salable hogs being delivered.

The top hog price today was $24.50 a hundred weight. Less yesterday when some prices climbed 25 cents while others dropped 25 s-oft Ahk-it 3J00 salable cattle were received. There were about 2.500 salable sheep delivered but no eaxly sales were reported. YEARS cents. He asserted the United States, The cattle market was reported does not want international atomic steady to strong, with some grades rrtwtTftl t- rein a a t.ii 'risin2 as much as $1 a hundred- iaea in iu jous.

after j. Deiense secretary with the sound of the Democratic' James Forrestal also has Killeil riPn R.9() victory ringing through Wall Street, isymDtoms of a desire for nilICU ucu -y roughly $3,000,000,000 was trimmed tiuia uic quuieu iiuc ot snares. listed on the New York Stock Ex change. that1.c1 Amer1caas me rresiaent wui arrive lomor- row. It will be unnKe any previous Washington arrival of Harry S.

Truman of Missouri. He is coming back from the political wars a winner in the most remarkable up- set of our times. Mr. Truman has become a powerful political figure in his own right. With about 94 per cent of the vote counted, he had won or appeared assured of victory in 28 states with a total of S04 electoral votes compared with Governor Thomas E.

rwu-pv lfi stAtpji with 189 electoral votes. On the basis of Incomplete returns, only two states Calif omiaj and Idaho conceivably could shift, against the President. This capital will roll out the red carpet for the new boss. Fends in His Party Once home, however, Mr. Truman's troubles will begin anew.

Behind the returns of his self-made election triumph stands a Democratic party wounded by Internal feuds and divided on almost all! issues except foreign policy. Mr Truman's cabinet is coming apart at the top in tne state rv.nmpnt. Sacretarv Georse C.t Marshall is excepted to retire soon jU(e rvmnrntlr rvartv liM Uie SnaaOW Ol lu tamj-mm tun disputes. They are the Taft-Hartley Act and civil rights. Mr.

Truman and the Democratic platform are pledged to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act and enact civil rights legislations Taft; Hartley Fight That is where the triumphant President and xjwerful elements of his party collided. The Taft-Hartley Act was passed with more Democrats in Congress voting for it than against it. And it was rammed into law over Mr. Truman's veto with Democratic votes. It Is doubtfull that the new Congress will vote repeaL The fT" southern Democratic elements which helped that act to become a law are almost violently opposed to Mr.

Truman's civil rights program. The President carried majorities of the Senate and House Into office with on Tuesday. The administration snatched nine seats to the Senate and 72 In the House from the G. O. P.

Many of these newcomers were assisted into office by the strategy of organized labor. And organized labor win seek to hold the President and a Democratic Congress to their Taft- Hartley Pledge. That is true also with respect to civil rights. The southern effort to intimidate, defeat or control Mr. Truman was a dismal fail ore.

States Rights Presidential Candidate J. Strom luuuru- LATEST FIGURES O.Y PRESIDENT By Cnltcd Proa The latest presidential standing as compiled by the United Press: Vote Vote Popular Electoral Truman 22.232.642. 304 Dewey 20,392,450 189 Wallace 1,029.102 0 Thurmond 850.083 38 Thurmond got four southern states and their 38 electoral votes, but Mr. Truman got all the rest Authority for price controls; rationing-if-necessary and a broad scale program of public welfare are tops Mr. Truman's program-On taxes, Mr.

Truman either will just try to raise them or seek to junk the tax cuts of the Republican Congress and substitute his flat MO-per-neaa Lax reduction system "icu cr. w. iruman argued that the Republican tax bill relieved the wrong people. Crashes In Azores TAMPA. FLA, Nov.

4. (AP) An Air Force B-23 crashed on a take-off from Lagens Field In the Azores yesterday, killing 18 of the 20 men aboard, MacDiU Field reported today. One man was missing. Another survived with major injuries, the public information officer at Mac-Dill said. The plane was one of a number returning to the United States from England.

It was from the 307th Bomb Group based at Mac-Dill. Husband, Wife Meet (Crash!) By Chance ROCHESTER, N. Nov. 4. (AP) Harold J.

Rite and his wife met at an Intersection last night in separate automobiles. Police said a car driven by Ritz and another driven by his wife collided Both drivers were injured. KISSEY TOLL9 ALSO QUESTIONED WASHIN GTON. Nov. 4.

(UP) An eiderly woman put down her newspaper, turned tov her companion on the bus and said: 1 can! believe the polls any more. I dont even know whether to trust the Kinsey report." Newspapers9 Advice Again to pay a S4.8J0 taxi bill. She told the court: "I traveled by taxi because I like sitting by the driver. I love him very much. She was held for trial lRocle In 0n Coattails, Jam ISlair Explains JEFFERSON CITY.

Nov. 4. CAP) Mayor James T. Blair Jr. of Jefferson City.

Missouri's next lieu-nant-govemor. takes no credit for his own election Tuesday. Tm 'an adult," he said today. "I know how I got elected. I just took hold of President Ttuman's and Forrest Smith's and held on." mm 1 i a nam khmi praviooa kr Weatfewrraau Aanin.

prrrato St. lona rtaor- UmbreUzs icul be ost tonight On every street end lane, It's practice tor the Democrats Who 4 more years tciH reign. The scattered showers wont last beyond tomorrow morning, if that long. Kansas has gene wet but the effect wont be felt here. By afternoon it should be generally fair again, so the Republicans can come out in the sun and sit and sigh.

After dropping to 43 tomorrow morning the mercury wm ncosx 1 Itself back np to 60. Today's raaxtrrara will be in the low 70s, to the accompaniment of fresh i UtIIKTC 1 j.i i Hector McNeil of Britain pleaded Continued on Page 13, Column 3 i FIVE TIMES ITS 16 Voters Scorn BY HARRY D. WOHL Chief of Star-Times Washington Boreaa WASHINGTON. Nov: 4. For the fifth time in 16 years the American voter has demonstrated that he prefers his Own political judgments to those of the newspapers he reads.

And for the fifth consecutive time the biggeset part of -the nation's daily press has backed the loser in a presidential race. Thomas E. Dewey was supported by more than four times as many newspapers as was President Truman. The circulation of the pro-Dewey newspapers was almost eight times that of the pro-Truman ne papers. Yet when the time came to rote, the electorate over- wheJmingly ignored the urgings of the editors.

According to a survey made by Editor Publisher and printed on Oct 30, Dewey was backed by 6517 per cent of the nation's dailies rep- resenting 7S5 per cent of the total daily circulation. Truman had the support of only 15-3 per cent bf Continued en Page 14, Column 6 a- i a TVs Ql 14 S-xia vit 4 54 p. ra. todar. tlse :33 a.

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BARKLEY fiads a Chicago Tribune headline -which under other circumstances would hawe been depressingextremely amusing. By the time the senator saw the paper it was pretty clear that Dewey was defeated. The vice-president-elect is shown at the breakfast table in his Paducah, Ky, home. southerly winds..