Another Tornado
Hits Arkansas
JONESBORO Ark. (/P)—Cyclonic
winds whipped through large por
tions of northeast Arkansas and
southeast Missouri just before
■dawn Thursday injuring many
persons and causing widespread
property and crop damage.
No fatalities were reported.
It was Ankansas’ second wind
storm this week. Nine persons died
in a tornado in the northwest cor
nr o; the State Tuesday night.
Largest communities known to
hrve been hit were Jonesboro and
Blytheville. each with a popula
tion of about 12,000; Paragould,
10.000; Osceola, 4.000; and Marked
Tree, 3,000: in Kansas and Steele,
Mo., about 4,000.
An undetermined number of in
jured was taken to a Blytheville
hospital. Three persons injured at
Marked Tree were hospitalized at
Memphis. Two were known to
have been injured slightly at Para
gould. Two were critically hurt at
Caraway.
Lack of communications from
here to Kennett, Mo., led to the be
lief that community may have
been damaged.
Other communities hit include
Leachville, Reiser, Joiner, Manila,
Bono and Philadelphia.
A school building at Philadel
phia was reported to have been
virtually demolished. Torrential
rain accompanied* the northeast
wind.
GENE SNOW TO ENTER
BUSINESS WITH FATHER
ANCHORAGE — Gene Snow,
who has been employed by the Ray
Peterson Flying Service here for
several years will leave early this
month for Bethel where he will go
into partnership with his father,
John Snow, in operating a freight
boat on the Kuskokwim Bay.
English Stevedores
Return To Work
LONDON, I/P)—Abou! 1,000 of
London’s 10,000 striking dock
workers returned to work Thurs
day, and leaders of the other strik
ers planned meetings later in the
day to consider the labor govern
ment’s back-to-work appeal.
The Labor ministry, meantime,
intervened to try to end a strike of
1,000 City of London employees
whose walkout halted garbage col
lections, delayed funerals, snarled
city produce markets and closed
the Tower of London drawbridge
over the Thames, disrupting traf
fic.
Some 10,000 London dockers
were out in sympathy with 3.800
Glasgow dock workers, who quit
March 24 because 500 fellow em
ployees were declared “redundant”
and released.
Building Trades
Strike In Detroit
DETROIT. I/P> — Some 16.500
AFL building trades workers went
o*i strike in the Detroit area yes
terday, virtually halting all work
on housing projects and commer
cial buildings.
Finlay C. Allan, secretary of the
AFL carpenters district council,
-ai i 3,000 carpenters spearheaded
the walkout. They were joined by
4,300 painters affiliated with the
AFL district painters council,.3,000
AFL laborers and 500 cement fin
ishers.
The strike, described by AFL
’eaders as a "work holiday’ fol
lowed a breakdown Wednesday of
wage talks involving the carpen
ters and painters and contracting
firms represented by three em
pli.yer organizations.
C. ()f C Presents
Drastic Labor Hill
WASHINGTON, </P>—A propos- !
o ! labor policy which would out
law the closed shop and require a
°c et ballot of employees before
the calling of a strike was present
ysterday for consideration by
he United States Chamber of
Commerce.
T ie resolution was drafted by
.ho chamber’s 18-member policy!
* mmittee headed by VV. A. Kling.
Si aix CMty, Iowa, builder. Approv
al was expected late today at the
final business session of the 35th
annual convention.
The proposal was far more dras
tic than some officers had antici
pated. It did not call for the out
•i tht ban on industry-wide bar
gaining contained in a House-ap
i *oved labor bill, but did urge
rc ’eral prohibitions of “monopolo
li-tic practices” through industry -
v/ide bargaining or other means.
Postal Services
Being Curtailed
WASHINGTON, l$P)—'The post
office department said Thursday
that postal services in some com
munities are being curtailed slight
ly pending action by Congress on
requests for more money to f
nance operations this month and
next.
This, it was explained, mean;
that in some communities Saturdi v
residential deliveries may be tem
porarily suspended to eliminate
the hiring of substitute help. Pick
ups from street corner mail boxe
may be reduced from six to fhv
times daily, or business district de
liveries cut from four to three
times a day.
Officials emphasized that no
community will be cut off from
postal service.
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AFL And CIO
Talk Of Merger
WASHINGTON, bP) — The
AFL and CIO shook hands yester
day and began talking about mer
ger.
Labor bills in Congress hastened
the meeting.
Both rival leaders — William
Green of the AFL and Philip Mur
ray of the CIO—asserted in ad
vance of their huddle that t'v;
have an “open mind” about how ‘ >
solve the major obstacles to un.'y
But little optimism could be
found in either camp over the p ‘os
pect of an early consolidation o;
the AFL’s 7.500,000 and CIO's
6,000,000 members,
Murray thinks the two groups
should demonstrate their solidarity
first in fighting off common foes,
wherever they may be. After that,
would come talk about physical
consolidation.
The AFL leadership wants the
unions in the CTO to come back
under the federation’s banner —
possibly with a brand new name—
as the first step. Then cooperation
would come naturally, the AFL.
contends.
More than 10'J different makes
t f 'team automobiles were built
rt various *imes in the United
States since the inception of the
industry.
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Bldg. Material - Bldg. Hardware
We will soon have a Complete
Stock of Furniture of All kinds
in addition to the line of Specialty
Furniture and Cabinets which we
are now making!
— Featuring —
BiltweF Overstuffed Furniture
Simmons Beds and Furniture
()lvmpic K nockdow n Furniture
Armstrong Floor Covering
Kasv Soindrier Washing Machines
Royal Ranges
Reliance Burners
Fuller Paints* Glass and Mirrors
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