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THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE fOL. 158 CITY EDITION THE KOKOMO DISPATCH KOKOMO, SATURDAY, APRIL 17,1948 TEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS oting Places Be Selected Monday Commissioners Also Will Set Pay Schedule Formal for the 1948 Timsry election here will get un- er way Monday when the county miMioners meet in special Kilo designate voting placet for i precinct and set the pay of Ipreeinct election board I Monday will mark the that absent voter ballots will mailed oat by the county the job will not be a big one lattice only six application! bad been (received by Saturday. I Other Important deadline! before I the May 4 primary election an I Saturday, April day for I the county clerk to deliver of I all registered voters to the respec- Itive party chairmen. I I Saturday. April day that Ian absent voter ballot may be voted I In person at the office.

I Tuesday, April day for (the respective party chairmen to I nominate in writing the I for the precinct election I Saturday. May 1-Flnal date for I mailing of voter or I the voting of such in per- Saturday, May 1 Organisation I meeting of all precinct election (board at which the clerk (will explain the proper procedure land answer relnagMtee The ipeelal meeting of the coun Ity commissioners called for (Monday because the Hit of suggest- voting waa not available I at the time of the commlulonerB' (regular meeting on April S. The In Idiana law that the com formally designate the I The having polled I the largest vote for secretary of I state in the general election, I have the right of nominating voting This list la being (compiled by Ralph C.O.P. (county chairman. The other formal primary election I action, by the commissioners day Includes fixing the salaries of Iprecinct election board land other expenses such rental land for It Is expected that the commls- I will adopt the pay schedule 1 used In the past.

No increase (possible, It (the maximum amount allowed by (law already authorised. schedule as for leach precinct: one Inspector at $30; I two at $9 each; two (at each, and two sheriffs at $0 leach. The past schedule atoo authorized (10 rental for the polling place and ($1 each for the first two meals of (the precinct officials and 60 cents additional for any other meals quired. U.N. Orders Immediate Truce for Holy Land HUE THftEATfNS ROCKFORD, ILL, BUSINESS DISTRICT Fire threatens the entire 7th street business district of Rockford, but is extinguished after destroying a four-story furniture showroom and damaging half a dozen other buildings.

Firemen from half a dozen communities around Rockford were called to fight fire. Two men were badly hurt when they leaped from a third-story window after they were trapped by an explosion. A grass fire was blamed for starting all this, April 15. (AP Wirephoto). Editors Will Get 'Off-Record' Talk Washington, April President Truman was due today to give a personal report to some 350 of the nation's topflight newspaper editors.

Mr. Truman's address tonight will climax the three-day session of thc American Society of Newspaper Editors. A part of his talk was to be broadcast, thc rest was to be off the record. the minimum expense I for each precinct board to 993 with I additional required if more I than two are needed by the board of the precinct election I will be nominated by the re- Ispectlve county chairmen. Each Lien Law Cuts Cost of Old Age Assistance Old Russia Asbtcans After Objecting To Two Features Lake Success, April United States Security council early today called upon the Jews and Arabs to stop fighting in Palestine.

The council laid down six specific truce directives to the two factions but at the last minute killed provision to send a U. N. commission to thc Holy Land to check on compliance. Goes to Movie Now Gone a Week Sam Wright, 16, left home last Sunday, presumably to see a movie. He has not been seen since, according to his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Wright, 815 North Buckeye street, who have asked police to help find their missing son. It Is thought that Sam might The final vote came at 1:19 a. m. na ve left town with Perry Parks, ffve and a half youngster.

'Anyone nav- of'debate and naragraph-by-para-j g. Information about either graph balloting. The emergency) youth is asked to call Mrs. Bcs- Bight session started', only a Anderson, 2-3911. lours after adjournment of the first meeting of a special General Assembly session on the Palestine' Russia refused to support the fl i I tjl truce proposal but Andrei A.

Gro- TOi 11131 myko withheld his big-power veto age assistance costs have, and abstained. Thc Soviet Ukraine U. S. Rejects Commie Plea For Plebiscite Soys Unification Plan Sponsored By German Reds Berlin, April United States rejected today a Communist request for a plebiscite on the question of German unity. The rejection was accompanied by a warning to the German people against "the kind of unity that brings economic and political slavery." The "People's Congress," a Communist-controlled organization re cognized only by the' Soviet mill tary administration, asked for permission to conduct the plebiscite in the U.

S. zone. Maj. Gen. George P.

Hays, depu'y American military governor, rejected the request. He said the congress represented only a small percentage of the German people never has been approved by I the Allied control authority. Bequest to French, British The congress sent a similar re quest to the British and French. Meanwhile, in Frankfurt, American authorities announced the second increase in the basic food ra for the British-American zones two months. The May ration will be 1,593 calories daily, compared with 1,560 in April.

Previously was 1,550. In another phase of the German ticture, British laid the Russians had made a tardy effort meet again with the British nvestigate the April 5 collision of a British transport and Soviet ighter plane. They said the Russian note, expressing willingness to hear all witnesses after expert evidence is giv- came too late to be taken as a incere effort to cooperate. Note Is Translated According to the informants, RAF Commodore R. N.

Waite was dvised by military police at 4 a. m. Friday that a letter from Russians ad Waite, who headed ic British inquiry, gave instruc- ons that the letter be turned over the Allied control authority sec- etariat for processing and trans- lion. The British ended last night their nquiry into the crash, which kill- el 15 persons. Their findings will sent to Gen.

Sir Brian Roberton, British military commander or Germany, in London. 12 Jury Cases dropped an estimated S20.557 in joined Russia as usual. This made Howard county as a direct result the final ballot 9 to 0. of the lien law enacted last year by I Four provisions were passed un- In April Term vi me iicii jicai nj piuviBiuua fioaacu un- the Indiana General Assembly, Otis animous.y. On two, Russia and thc' a World Centers Interest On Election in Italy SUCCEEDS ROXAS Elpidio Quirino, above, vice president of the Philippines Commonwealth, succeeded to the presidency April 15 on the death of President Emanuel Roxas.

Quirino has served also as foreign secretary since the founding of the republic. (AP Wirephoto). Western Allies Demand Answer On Trieste Plan Washington, April Western powers landed their final blow of the Italian election campaign today with a third demand on Russia for a yes-or-no answer on the Trieste question. Just six hours before the form- Li wind-up of the Italian campaign, in which the Communists are bidding for control, the United States, Britain and France in effect called on Moscow yesterday to quit stall ing over their proposal to turn Tri- Active Campaign Ends for Cool-Off Before Balloting Starts Sunday; Commies Seem To Have Lost in Battle for Votes Rome. April interior minister held out a threat today to suspend this weekend's fateful election "if the liberty of the vote should be compromised." Thc election tomorrow and Monday, seating the first parliament of the Italian republic, will test whether Italy is to line up with Russia or the west A popular front led by the Communists has striven to oust a moderate coalition government under 'he Christian Democrats.

Public security forces variously announced as between 300,000 and 400,000 guarded the election-eve peace the country over today. Mario Scelba, whose interior ministry controls police, said in his last campaign speech here last night: "Thc government will be on the watch. If the liberty of the vote should be compromised, would not hesitate to take the most radical measures, even the suspension of the elections." False He repeated his oft-made charge can hopefuls who have slates en- that Genoa's Communist mayor had issued 30,000 false voting certifi- Stassen, who looms large In the ate three to Soviet employes of Interest In Politics Is Turned on Ohio Stossen and Toft To Stage Bitter Battle for Washington. April While Republicans in Idaho held a party meeting to pick 11 delegates to the national convention, main political interest centered today on i G.O.P. primary two weeks off.

A stiff fight was shaping up in the May 4 Ohio contest, where Harold E. Stassen and Sen. Robert A. Taft are due to lock horns. Taft last night suddenly abandoned a scheduled speaking tour in Vermont to concentrate on trie-coming battle in his home state.

The Idaho political event was one of two on tap for today. The other was in Kentucky, where Democrat John A. Whitaker is unopposed in a special congressional election for seat of Earle C. Clements, now the state's governor. Idaho's top delegates are expected to go to the Philadelphia nominating convention without instructions.

But the Ohio elections may test the strength of the Republi- nationwide Republican race follow ng decisive victories in Wisconsin for 23 of Ohio's 53 delegates. Stamen Goes to Florida The Minnesotan was due to fly to en re nthan the Genoa Russian consulate. But he said the government's re- and Nebraska has entered contests cent show of strength had "removed fear" from the minds of Italians. He said measures have been return. The closing diplomatic stroke A.

Gerhart, supervisor of the Ukraine abstained, county welfare department, said No Assurance of Saturday. I There was no assurance This saving has come Gerhart said, as a result for the Howard county petit jury I which is scheduled for no less than Aiavtc waa iiu uicii abouOeither the Jewish Agency for Pal-i Howard circuit court, of old estine or the Arab higher commit- te whlch nly age assistance recipients withdraw-'tee, representatives of Palestine 1 old up into one of: ing from public support and Arabs, would lay down said the estimate of this their arms. Direct efforts to bring savings was made by the! them together failed previously and i when thp riday I precincts. In addition, the eacn state welfare department in a re-'the council drafted detailed truce! court S8t CIV case3 ff port which reflected a total sav- terms in a move to get their accept-) Some possibility Tne Ol fWlA InflH tnifvHf ll i Forrest E. court set civil cases, i was seen that ngg of 500,000 as of December ance and bring peace to the Holy! the load might be lightened for the jury through pre-trial settle- 81.

1947 on a state-wide level. each by law I cause the G.O.P. secretary of state (candidate received the greatest in this county in 1946. The only other board yet to be is the official canvassing I board, which the formal tally of the respective precinct re- I turns. John McCann and Burreil Free- Iman, by virtue of being election I commissioners, will represent the I Democratic and Republican parties, I respectively, on the canvassing In addition, each party will have I two to assist with the tally- I ing.

These assistants will be named I later. WA, A9VI VII ICVCt. i At the time the law went into Land. Moshe Shertok, head of the ments or continuances. However.

on May 1. 1947, a total of Agency's political department, told as things shape up now there are They had asked the Russians este back to Italy, make the investigation jointly.l The Western demand served as a nd the Russians at first agreed, final reminder to millions of Ital- hen the Russians walked out of lans voting Sunday that Russia he meeting, refusing to hear testi- blocks the way to the border city's ony of American and German wit- return, esses. They are conducting their vn inquiry, trying to prove the ansport rammed the Soviet ane. This is the reverse of the: imed 11 winninB fne d3 We ritish position. ter Democracy the strategic Of the Russian note, one British natlon ficial said: The greatest step In that direc- "Coming two days after the' in- tion was passage this month of the quiry started, it is not a genuine vast European recovery program, climb-down, in my opinion." under which American supplies already are flowing to Italy.

U. S. shipments of food, coal and other aid to the Mediterranean country since V-J Day now total an esti-j mated one billion, 900 million In another last-minute move, At-, torney General Clark reminded Italians in a shortwave broadcast' last night that this country hadj Flood's Expected Today At Cincinnati The speechmaking campaign ended, apparently in peace, last midnight and a 32-hour pre-election cooling-off period began under a cabinet decree forbidding further political meetings. The authoritative Rome newspaper Messagero quoted Christian Democratic Premier Alcide De Gasis saying in a Naples interview night 16 convention votes. "Things are looking very favorable for us he said.

In Cleveland, meanwhile, Taft said almost exactly the same about his prospects in Ohio, where Stassen's supporters are claiming 10 to 12 votes. "Things are generally favorable," the seriator said. At the same time. President man, who is being opposed within his own party for the Democratic nomination, received a commendation from the New York State Democratic committee. Though the committee made no effort to instruct the 16 delegatea- at-large it selected, its resolution was considered as a.

sign that the President, may get a big share of New TorkXs 98 convention Meanwhile rival Democratic and Republican spokesmen came to verbal blows last night before a gathering of 350 of the nation's top- X. of would do better this time-than in the constituent assembly election of June 6. 1946. In that election. It polled 35.2 percent ot the vote and elected 207 of 555 deputies.

Both DeGasperl and Communist Leader Palmira Togliatti spoke in the windup of campaigning. Foreigners Take Hand Western leaders and the Vatican have urged votes against Commun- Testerday the United States, France served Russia ism. Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic National committee. (Cmtbraed MM) Cincinnati, i April found itr necessary to bar its doors The Ohio river flood crest swung to Communists, down on Cincinnati today while I And he appealed to the Italian person, withdrew through-ithe council in the midst of the jury actions pending for the.fcros, the riiver Neiwport, to return Industry Slow Down; Needs Material out the state, according to the re-'ing that the plan could riot succeed month of May and six for June, port This was the source of the unless the U. N.

sent a commission'A full week of jury service is down 'a resounding an around-the-clock victory for God and freedom" decreased expense in Howard to the scene. county, but other savings have (CwriincMl en Him) for the week of June 14 when two As mandatory power in Palestine, cases' will be heard. wi Nine) 1 Guess I Was Lucky' Says Workman Who Was Buried Alive rising waters. Newport city police predicted townspeople and 640 soldiers would Sunday's election. The newest demands on Russia were 'carefully timed.

The State By VEBLE E. LUDWIG Valoris Parks, 47-year-old construction worker who survived being buried alive for nearly an hour. Friday, was resting at his home Saturday and'soaking a sprained and twisted right ankle in hot water. "I guess I was lucky." he spit up a little blood. I Ex-Brazilian (Man Held As -Red' Rio De Janeiro, April Police said today they arrested probably caused by pressure "I captain as from the dirt, but outside of I the leader of an alleged Communist (plot which resulted in the blasting I of an army arsenal here Wednesday (that killed 24 persons.

I Police identified him Antonio Rollemberg. They also announced the arrest Trifim Correa, a Communist who one time in the Brazilian i and who is also a former I army officer. this ankle I feel pretty good." He also complained of a slight bruise on his left shoulder where the falling dirt in a sewer excavation at 1327 South Union street pressed him against one side of the ditch. "My biggest worry was that more dirt would, cave in on me before they dug me he said, and explained that the pressure from the dirt slide was about all that he could bear. He related that his head also was pressed against the side of the ditch and felt like it "was about ready to burst" He explained that, probably because his left ear pressed against the solid dirt wall, of the excavation, he could hear the conversations of workers and other people above him.

"Once I tried to call out" ho stated, "but realized that they wouldn't be able to hear me. So I conserved my strength until I felt a shovel blade nick the top of. my cap. Then I called out. MI NiM) One of the oldest pending cases in the court will be the first to be heard in.

the new term. It is a $15,000 damage suit between Mayme Benson and Walter C. and Charles W. Hamer. Scheduled for May 3, the suit involves an automobile collision which occurred one mile nqrth of Kokomo on U.

S. Highway 31 on March 30. 1940. Other jury trials are listed for the following dates: May B. Conwell vs.

McLellan Stores, $15,000 damage suit resulting from plaintiffs fall in local store. May Nelson vs. Eugene Malott $15,000 damage suit based upon automobile accident near Monticello on June 26, 1916. May Lineback vs. William E.

and Roy F. Murray, suit! for 51,971.50 damages as result of ohi Kentuck Weat Virginia and collision at McCann and Monroe streets December 8, 1946. Indiana. May Gee vs. Allen DeWeese venued from county.

win their fight to keep the Licking department published the note from river from an area housing 10,000: Undersecretary of State Lovett to persons. But, it was an enormous Soviet 'Ambassador Alexander S. just six hours before ritory. Police sought hidden arms last night through wide sections around Rome, Naples and other bjg cities. No incidents had been reported serious enough to prejudice the voting.

But with reports the Front has slipped in recent weeks, rumors have thickened that the Communists would try to lighten the vote to their advantage by some means of intimidation. The balloting will be for 574 members of the chamber of Deputies and senators to compose the first parlia- if the Italian republic born in The makeup of parliament win determine the makeup of the government Voting will go on from 8 a. m. to task. Early today, weary workers had the midnight (e t) campaign dead- output.

ha million, 50( trucks -but they are not likely to do as well during the next 15 weeks. And even if they do they will be behind the schedules that were counted upon to make 1948 a rec- ord year in passenger car and truck the 10 i. tomorrow and from 7 a. m. m.

Monday. (Italian i hours ahead of central A complicated system of first returns until Monday night piled sandbags eight to ten feet high line set by the Italian government! Aside from mounting uncertain- and tne fuU resu tB until Wednes- for 2,000 feet, and would'pile them 'to provide a 32-hour breathing spell ties about raw materials the car- a foot higher as added the polls open. The Licking joins the Ohio near Cin-j cinnati. Mary Jane Burchett, 16, Wanda Mowery, 17, drowned at Friendship, nine miles down- 1 Lewis Demands night They were sightseeing in a boat that overturned. Four others' were rescued.

I The toll of human life now stands at four. Two earlier deaths were' Order of Court makers have begun to worry about, the labor outlook. Armrmr The effects of the coal tie-up not be avoided. They will bo felt End Of in the car industry many weeks from now in smaller finished steel receipts. Equally disturbing are reports that contract negotiations now under way between thc car- makers and their production workers are beginning to "get tough.

attributed indirectly to the Hood. I April Thc Red Cross at Cincinnati Thus the industry faces prob- U. S. River Forecaster George R. i a- court directing him to 'call off the coal mining stoppage.

The demand, based on grounds that the coal dispute'has been set- May ZSjrAdeline E. Gerrard vs. At Aurora, lems in'many ways similar to those year Three months ago most Chicago, April Armour and company said last night its wage talks with the striking CIO United Packinghouse Workers had come to a dead end. "Negotiations are over and we shall now restore operations in our as rapidly as we can obtain personnel," a company announcement said. Police Chief John fete Mm) Indiana Weather Bride of Kokomo Soldier Story of Life in Nazi Concentration Camp Fair tonight warmer in north! west portions; Sunday partly and warmer.

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Farlcr la Twenty Stop. Ctf Skav: 8. Kctp tfc. Ouli: Leth tnm A visitor in Kokomo Saturday was a Kokomo soldier's war bride who was the victim of Nazi prosecution and who spent several months in a concentration camp. She' is Mrs.

Ward (Doc)' Bess, and her name before- her. marriage was Erna Dampf. Her home was in Augsburg, Germany, and she met her husband, an army sergeant, just after she had been released from the concentration camp at Theresienstadt In Czechoslovakia. The couple and their twin- Judith Ann and Joan Erma, are visiting Sergeant Bess's father, William Bess, 1231 South Buckeye street, and mother. Mrs.

Hettie Bess, during a furlough the sergeant is having at Rapid City, S. where Bess is stationed at Weaver army base. Some of Mrs. closest relatives were killed in gas chambers while she was held in the prison camp. The daughter of a Jewish mother and German father, she 'and an aunt were taken to the camp at the beginning of pne of the Jewish The aunt later died.

Although spared the and of the camp until near the end of the war, Mrs. and her family nevertheless felt acutely the of the anti- Semitic program which labeled and restricted them severely. She and her mother were interned at Theresienitadt for six before the allied time. They are living in 1 entered Oechoalovakia. Partic- ular horrora which she recalls were the that gas were being in the camp, and the 'toll taken, typhus.

In the.camp, of 65,000 persons, 35,000 died of typhoid fever, sh? is planning to become a naturalized American citizen as soon as possible. Her' father and iriother, are safe with relatives In Bogota, Colombia, after hardships during the pogroms. Sergeant "Bess saw action with Infantry unit in France, Bel-, glum and Germany, and after returning to England at thc the war' joined airforces occu- pation -He married Miss Dajnpt about a year after that the couple arrived in the United States last year. Winger ordered sightseers away from inundated areas. They bothered flood workers, he said.

He predicted a 65 flood crest. Welly K. Hopkins, UMW counsel. The order to which Lewis referred issued April 3 by Judge Matthew F. McGuire.

They already have seen one in the nce in a atteml)t to coal mining suspension; it will take was signed by' a a quarter of a million ve- half the business district. "Behind the crest back along the pits. They had been Out on strike since hicles out of this year's total production. There have been numerous minor stoppages within the assembly plants that have forced shutdowns for from a few hours to an nour wage nix The packing industry offered a 9-cent 'boost which the rival AFL meat-cutter's union previously had accepted. Ralph Helstein, UPWA president, called the Armour decision "another indication of their refusal to bar- Virginia and in March 15 a displlt pay-1 few, if any, industry now 0 00 1 faith 11 their em AI1 these have affected car and and added that negotiations truck production schedules and are continuing with the other com- the worst was past.

Soviet Press Tones Down Its Attacks 'Moscow, April So viet press has. toned down its attacks on the United anil Britain. Communist Plot In ments from the miners' pension I will say further work stoppages funds. their own or among their About two-thirds; of the suppliers are improbable, miners have returned to work this' week but the awaiting the outcome of contempt of court action hanging over Lewis; Lewis' failure to heed the stop- I.UE.U. strike order led to the contempt There has been nothing official citation.

Judge T. Alan communist lot wreck all tele- on this, but foreign political borough heard evidence on pn Mexico was disclosed servers in a number of Moacow's! lart week and expected to give 5 Important government Mexico Is Thwarted Mexico City, April have noticed a change: decision in court Monday, the tone of the press. Criticism of the United States and capitalism in general undoubtedly will continue, but right now Singapore Strike Singapore, April official confirmed the fact but for the present the office is making no comment The official who told of the plot it is neither sharp nor as volum- all this big port's harbor labor force Agustin Garcia Lopes immediately inous as It has been. I of 6,000 men struck today demand-j ordered to prevent any Recently the' newspapers Ing higher wages and protesting po-sabotage and also punishment of become much concerned with in-lice raids on union plotters, teraal affairs. strike tied up 20 and! It could not be learned how many There is a decided lack of war; brought work on the to a 1 persons lare Involved or whether talk in the newspapers.

i there hare been arrests. European 'Cabinet' Set Up under Union April five- power Western European bloo formed an international cabinet today to enforce the military, political and economic provisions of their union. Foreign ministers of France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg designated their ambassadors in London to meet at least once a month with a British reprc- said Secretary of sentative. They also set up a permanent military committee to meet at London. Defense of the five will meet whenever it is necessary to carry out military provisions of the treaty signed at Brussels last month..