The Havre Daily News from Havre, Montana • 1

1 1 ft DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO Ttttf NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA 4 Tk 'ry HAVRE MONTANA TUESDAY EVENING JUNE 18 1946 Vol XXXIII No 21 SUICIDE MURDER TAKES COUPLE it 20 over i more to Sen Wheeler com Kelly i Opponents Are WEATHER Wondering if His Would Scrap Bomb vice and then only after presi nlght Wednesday" little dential certification that the army c00ier tomorrow Low tonight 45t needed them to meet minimum gjightly warmer Wednesday af requirements ternoon High 70' not Ex GI Sues Pied tagep TftDip I Station I Billings Subscribers (EA Telephoto) paper for his railroad legislation "dlr Ing standards 0T A Mtn and I will the today on democratic had begun the min 200000000 plant to set back the west for many Margate City on June 12 was re vealed here today The bride a resident of New York and a graduate of the Juil liard school of music was known to the nationwide radio audience only as The marriage was second Havre Daily News CIRCULATION DEPT di Will Be Tried at Capital GREAT ALLS June 18 (UR) Herman Richard Cooke 32 ex 61 from Reno Nev arrested by the BI at Chester for mutilating and removing scientific books of the library of Congress in Wash ington will be removed to the nation's capital for trial officers said today Cooke being held in the coun ty jail here was arraigned as soon as required documents arrived from Washington Cooke son of a prominent Reno and holder of a doctor of philosophy degree allegedly cut illustrations from books and ap propriated others for a personal of scientific informa tion rn called it but admlt hasln inter agency committee which convenes Thursday ord was scheduled to return' to his office Saturday after a brief visit in Miles City Hardin Man Slays Daughter In Law Then Kills Himself HARDIN June 18 Rupe 55 gunsmith aad repair man killed his daughter in law with a shotgun yesterday at his home a mile southeast of here and then took his own life with a WASHINGTON June 18 (UR) ttlb t6n" age draft) indicated today that boys of 19 will be subject to call even though ear olds are ex empted Chairman Elbert Thomas Utah of Sengte House con ference draft legislation said the question of 18 year olds is the onlv remaining controversy Newsmen to Meet at Park i HARLOWTON June 18 The 61st annual convention of the Jtfontana Press association will be held riday and Saturday at Old aithful hotel Yellowstone park President Harold Stearns an nounced today jThe business program was to be largely canflned to problems fac ing weeklies In the state Over 200 were expected to attend the nreetlngr'T Indications Are Boys of J9 Will Be Subject to Call ive British Officers Kidnaped At Tel Aviv as Violence Mounts I River! Rouge Is Hit Hard Hundreds Of Homes DETROIT June 18 (UR) Police estimating that at least persons were killed today direct ed scores of volunteers searching tornado razed ruins of more than 100 homes on the outskirts of Detroit and Windsor Ont ourteen bodies had been re covered Thirteen were in mor gues on the CCanadlan side of the border and a power company linesman was killed by a hot wire on the Detroit side Police be lieved the toll would rise as the search for missing continued The weather bureau said storm whipped Itself out 30 utes after it hit The iblack funnel formed the small community of Melvin dale and swept eastward through River Rouge late yesterday as many families were sitting down ta their evening meal It moved t'he Detroit river and cir cled Windsor leaving a trail of destruction in surrounding com munities River Rouge was the hardest hit on the American side At Least 20 When 1 ri 4 1 1 WASHINGTON June 18 (UR) sale of the 200000000 Geneva Utah defense steel plant to Steel Corn for 47500 000 was approved Monday in a denartment of iustice ruling that the sale would not tend to create anti trust law violations The ruling was made late yes terday by Attorney General Tom Clark in a flve page letter to war assets Administrator Gregory' Under the surplus prop erty act any WAA sale involving over 1000000 must be studied by the justice department to de termine whether the proposal could create an anti trust' viola tion Clark found that the Steel capacity was 35 per cent of the national capacity on Jan 1 1939 31 per cent on Jan 1 1946 and that with the aded outpnt of the Geneva plant it now would be only 32 per cent He cited supreme and second circuit court decisions which held that: i 1 Mere size is not offense unless magnified to the point of creating a monopoly 2 It Is doubtful whether 60 or 65 per' cent would be enough to constitute a monopoly certainly 33 per cent is Glasgow Greatalls Helena Kalispell Lewistown Livingston Miles City Missoula National Bismarck Chicago Los Angeles Minneapolis New Seattle WHEEtER WILL SPEAK IN HAVRE THURSDAY 7 8 Senator Burton Wheel er incumbent for the democratic nomination to the office he now holds will speak it the Elks Thursday night at 8 ac cording to word received today by the HUI county democratic cen tral committee The public is invited to hear7 the senator who has some inter esting information concerning state and national affairs Waltet BMack Jr a spokesman said today While in Havre the senator will meet with farmers business men and others and discuss problems and issues Two Rail Unions Are Divided in Support Of Solort and Erickson By United Press Pace of the feature race lead? ing up to July 16 pri mary election was expected to in crease today with the arrival of Sen Wheeler to defend his 23 year old political career against Leif Erickson former supreme court justice Wheeler senior sen ator elected for the first time in 1922 arrived in Great alls and was scheduled to address a civic club luncheon in the initial ap pearance of his campaign for re nomination on the democratic ticket Erickson returning to the poli tical picture after losing the 1944 gubernatorial race to republican Sam ord already has made several public appearances but the race thus far has been mild With the election less than month away an intensified bat tie for the party flag was fore seen now that both candidates were on the scene Meanwhile two powerful rail road brotherhoods were divided in Indorsement of the candidates The legislative committee of the Brotherhood'of Railroad ire men and Engineers adopted a resolution urging re nomination of Wheeler while a similar body of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen went on record for Erickson Lots chairman of the committee said feel that the nomination election of Leif Erickson best serve the interests of Inheritin' hoys any younger The conferees recessed until Thursday to see whether the Sen ate will accept a floor of 19 as a compromise Before the recess the conferees agreed to: 1 Extend the draft law from its present July 1 'expiration date to March 31 1947 It was a compromise between the eb 45 date set by the House and the May 15 date approved by the Sen ate 2 Accept the House approved commission said the water sup ply was exhausted and warned residents to boil water now being drawn directly from the Detroit river' Rescue work was hampered by four inches of rainfall that fell after the tornado Skies cleared at daybreak but the weather bureau predicted continued showers dur ing the day 1 Gor Harry Kelly of Michi gan sent the 31 Regiment of state troops to River Rouge to aid with relief and guard against looting Search for additional victims was centered in the rural sec tions outside Windsor under the direction of provincial police Rain soaked searching parties probed the splintered debris with the faint beams from hand lamps throughout the night Power was restored to most of River Rouge early oday The tornadic winds accompan ied by rain hail thunder and lightning hit first at 5:51 EST in River Rouge then jumped across the border into Canada lifting water spouts on "the half mile wide Detroit river Anderson Says Price Control Agreement Would Ease Situations P(V United 1188 4 lour millers hoped today that the bread shortage had reached its most critical point Lines of householders still formed at grocery stores and bak eries across the nation but for the most part bread was obtain able Despite gloomy predictions last week there were no wide spread bakery shutdowns Most bakeries managed to stay open and turn out bread In Opens Campaign In Montana Murray Says Congress a Should Put In At Least Year of Study WASHINGTON June ISOIR) Chances for passage of perman ent strike control legislation at this session of Congress virtually vanished today Chairman James Murray 22 rifle Qounty Atty Bert Kro miller said today Kiomillersaid inquest into the suicide was ndt neces sary He reported that' an investiga tion indicated the daughter in i' law had gone to home to request that his daughter Aylene a cripple be taken to Billings for treatment Rupe reportedly objected to 1 his and after a violent argument went into a bedroom returned with a shotgun and fired through a screen door 'killing: the instantly 1 Rupe theq got a 22 caliber rifle and started in the direction of the Big Horn river) His body was found several hours later three quarters of mile from his home after 4 search headed by Sheriff Roy Riley The body was first spotted from the' air by Ray aviator The 4kd woman's husband was reportedly enroute7 to Japan with an army i force I THE CARRIER BOY MISSES YOU please phone 700 between 6:30 and 7:15 and the boy will deliver your i Tnere waa i nine eagerness? however from any House group for reporting the bilk One member said most southern ers are with tip ad attitude toward labor and that wish to leak! the responsibility where it be longs" Meanwhile efforts were afoot for Senate approval of one majors provision of the Case bill as arate legislation the so called Hobbs anti racketeering bill iThe measure' which would im post stiff for interfer (Please Turn to Page Two) Kelly speculated whether the powerful machine he dominates to falter Kelly supporters "Wishful ted the machine had suffered one of its biggest reverses when Sup erintendent of Schools William Johnson resigned yesterday under fire Johnson quit after a committee of prominent educators recom mended that he be ousted The committee was appointed by Kelly to investigate the school system after the north central associa tion of colleges and secondary schools threatened last April to blacklist Chicago's 40 public high schools Gov Green of Ill inois a Republican and long an avowed foe of the Kelly machine said that are witnessing the end Of mayor has admitted in public that scandalous conditions have been festering in the public school 'system' under his boss rule pt Green said of other 'democratic controlled Offices can be expected to appear soon because yester revelations mean the be glnninv' of the crackup of the most notorious political machine In the i (NE A Telephoto) Arthur Millison Dorothy Mahoney (right) and an unidentified child appear in photo taken in lorida night ciub The 25 year old brunette short story writer mother of three year old girl was hurled from ninth floor window of a Washington hotel early June 13 A few minutes later Millison jumped to his own death Police say she was probably dead before was thrown from the window butter shortage would continue i through next year despite the 11 JYlHCftlllC IS railing cent per pound increase author ized by the OPA The increase 4 VITAL statistics: 3 Billion Dollar Claim Bone Of Contention PARJIS June 18 The Big our foreign ministers hit the first snag of their new con ference today when they became deadlocked on the issue of repar ations to be sought from Italy and were unable to resolve their differences The delegates of America Rus sia Britain and rance skirmish ed for two hours and 20 min utes over Italian reparations and wound up exactly where they were a month ago when the con ference recessed for a cooling off period claim of 300000000 in reparations for the Soviets Yugoslavia and Greece was the bone of contention which brought the first dissension to the con ference In two preliminary ses sions a spirit of amity had aboun ded Delegates said there was' some by botfr sides today and the previous ai of cor diality had worn off to a large extent The ministers were under stood to have presented litle be vond the arguments they aired in long and acrimonious debates a month ago The ministers gathered at Lux embourg Palace at 3:40 in (10:40 a EDT) The meeting broke up at 6 at the in ter Georges Bidault who wanted stance of rench foreign minis to go to a parade Before the session expected the western powers to learn whether Molo conciliatory mnnner would survive when the ministers took mittee said In an interview that 4 Congress should put in "at least a year of before it at tempta to draft long range labor legislation So he n' representatives meanwhile' said they havedrap ped efforts to win permanent strike controls at this session Ljj They badi conslderMiAdding th vetoed' CarferMU to President Tra 'emergency strike cohtro bill and then trying to omirrlMij a probable presidential' veto of the merged measure But a SU yy sbPWjLXha Renate jwoul(L4 marriage licenses ri Gilbert Henderson 2 Betty Blades Hart 23 both Of Warrick Jun Kenneth RoberUdn 22 'Bl Sandy indi Rush1 JV VrPMlhi Inna 172 Keep on BUYING BONDS TO HAVE aad TO HOLD: Ci RIOE IVE CENTS ANDERSON SAYS OOD SITUATION NOT TOO BRIGHT WASHINGTON June 18 (UR) Secretary of Agnkulture Clin ton Anderson saidwtoday that Americans mav have to Pull In their belts a bit during the com ing' year 'Anderson in an item by item survey of the food outlook said meats butter wheat flour poul try eggs dried fruit and dried neas nrouabiy will be even scarce in coming months than they are now Per capita meat consumption in 1946 47 he said will be about 10 pounds lower than during the past year He added however that sup plies of cheesefats and oils dry beans and canned and dried milk would remain about steady And h8 said there should be more banned fruit and ruitjuices as ijuices i The agriculture department has been contending that the United States is consuming more food than it did before the war The present large diets however will be' trimmed somewhat depart ment experts say Anderson emphasized that his estimates were tentative They were prepared for field repre sentatives of the production and marketing administration andmay change We said changes in price struc ture would affect food He did not elaborate But it was pointed out that if price controls were removed foods which now are hard to find might become seem ingly abundant because buying power would fall and they would remain on shelves longer The resume indicat ed that butter which yesterday went up cents a pound would oe one ot tne most elusive modifies Erickson for and i thoir President anti strike Civilian Employes At Peterson ield Stole Much Property COLORADO SPRINGS Colo June 18 (UR) An army captain and between 20 and 30 civilian employes at Peterson ield were held today after a series of on Colorado Springs homes which uncovered' stolen govern ment property worth an estimat ed 50000 Police Chief I Bruce work ing with army authorities and the BI said a city wide roundup of suspects in the air base thefts had been under way since last riday Raiding parties of local police army and government agents have turned up hidden loot worth' thousands of dollars in the hotfles of civilian work ers he said Before the investigation is over Bruce said the total loot may reach a value of $100000 The weekend arrests climaxed a three month investigation of free lance looting at the air base it was revealed Bruce said the thefts which may eventually im plicate as many as 50 civilian employes have been going on at the installation for three years ederal charges of grand lar ceny were being prepared against some of the suspects Bruce said evidence was being prepared against some of the suspects Bruce said evidence was being turned over to District At ft Kfl A iv i cinaiuiuK run Li ri Representatives of the House might be reported out today Dif which' twice voted against any i ferencek in the Senate and Hous teen age draft this year seemed versiwi musv ue a willing to yield on 19 year olds fore it can be sent to the presb but was adamant against taking oentv nntr VAiintror fltA JERUSALEM June 18 ive British officers were kid naped at Tel Aviv today and an attempt was made to assassinate two Britons in Jerusalem as cas ualties in three days of Holy Land violence mounted to at least 18 dead and scores wounded Continued outbreaks attributed to Jewish underground forces took on the aspects of a full fled ged campaign against the British Violence against British army of ficers here and in Tel Aviv indi cated a swing from big scale sab otage to the British military as I a major target At Tel Aviv three British offi cers were kidnaped from an offi cers club Early reports suggested they seized as hostages for two members of the Gang" of extremists whom a military I court sentenced to death Another British officer and a British soldier were attacked on King George avenue in the heart of Jerusalem Both were reported wounded seriously A few hours earlier nine Jews were killed in a night battle at Haifa where the port area and railroad shops were rocked and blackened by 15 explosions and resultant fires A pitched battle ot several hours at Haifa ended early today with big stretches of the port and rail sections a shambles Besides the nine dead 11 were injured in cluding three women It was one of the most costly of the long series of outbursts in Palestine in recent months The bloodshed and nationwide restiveness revolved around a show of strength by the Jewish underground army and stern ef forts by tne British military suppress it (UR) Governor to Bismarck HELENA June 18 (UR) Gov Sam ord left oday for Bis marck to attend the monthly meeting of the Missouri knoln InVnv "a AAmmlltna 74 75 9 7v ternoon High '70 MONTANA ORECAST 7 By United Preu East of th? continental to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday Cooler most section tonight Low 40jto 45J Warmer' Wednesday afternoon High 60 to 70 Baseball Scores Bv United Preu AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia at Detrolt nlght games postponed rain New at night game Washington at' Cleveland night game Boston i at 8t night game NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh at night 'game New night game Chicago at nightKgame (Only games scheduled) 1 i Italian Reparations Issue Stymies Ministera Big 4 Meeting and Wlk IHUUi lUE mini I The resolution passed by tbe Bernard iremen and Engineers assailed nancier and representattve to repudiating labor UN Atomic vuuuuwawu In backing nouncea Despite Hour Shortage Most Bakeries Open nnfi ofrtva ntnmio develonment authof legislation and praised Wheeler ity to handle for his railroad legislation agreements txr destroy store' ectly affecting the lives and Hv bombs if an adequate control system A ulalTNhn BCL UM MM BulletihrejJared by the weather bureau office at Havre JUtife 18 1946 Maximum' yesterday 61 Minimum last night at 1:00 tok dajrj 62? Precipitation for the 24' hours ending 30 today 04 Sunrise tomorrow 4:16 a Sunsettdday p' A a 4 Partly cloudy with light scat ized by the OPA The increase CHICAGO June 18 (UR) Pol came too late to do much good i itical opponents of Mayor Edward he said Anderson attached small signif to reports that farmers in I the central plains and southwes terno wheat regions were hoarding their wheat in hopes of a price increase some farmers are holding back their wheat" he said nearly all the country elevators are completely full and the wheat Is moving along in greater quantities that we hadhoped He believed farmers would sell their wheat rather than let it rot and pointed out that with limited storage facilities tney could withhold It long IN WASHINGTON By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) the Laollette Monroney bill to reorganize Congress comes up for consideration sometime soon there may be a terrific fight over two sections which would tend to make the government bal ance its budget and economize whether it wanted to or not All the executive departments of the government plus the con greasional group and all the labor organizations that supported the so called Employment Act of 1946 will be opposed to any such idea On the other side the advocates of economy in Con gress backed by a strong lobby of anti govornment pending groups and protective associations will go all out in support The mechanic of this reorgan ization bill proposal for compul sory budget balancing are a little involved but take them' a step at a time and not too tough In simplified form the idea is this: At the beginning of every regular session of Con 1 with taxes and spending would meet jointly to consider estimat es of government receipts and ex penditures for the ensuing fiscal year If they found tlftt government expenses would bo higher than government revenue they would be required to submit to Con gresH a resolution" jgithorlzlng an increase in the debt by so many millions or billions of dollars Until Con gress passed this resolution neither the Senate nor the House Appropriations Committee would be authorized to receive or con sider any general appropriation bill The plan would require that if on Dec 31 the president should find that expenditures tor the next six months would exceed ex pected receipts he must proclaim that all appropriations should be reduced by a uniform percentage sufficient to get the government budget back in balance Advocates ot iilggexauL better government spending to expand the national economy ana so con tribute to greater prosperity like this idea even a little They claim the plan would give the four congressional committees on taxation and appropriations veto power over the recommendations of the new Joint Congressional Committee on the Economic Re port set up by the Employment Act urther it is being charged that the Laollett Monroney Committee put this proposal into their bill on the reorganization of Congress without hearings and without consulting the Budget Bureau or any of the other execu tive departments of the govern ment It so happens that Sen Robert Ml Laollette of Wisconsin and Congressman A Mike Monron ev of Oklahoma do chairmen of the Joint Committee on Reorgan Please Turn to Page Two) MMU 1 nail Ill many cities''" baWrs were mortf yegetable concerned about shortages of sug ar and other ingredients than they were about the scarcity of flour Harry A Bullis president of General Mills told 300 bakery managers at Chicago that their short term outlook was en But he added "there is reason to hope we are near the darkest point Bullis believed that the speed with which the bread shortage could be ended depends on how much wheat will be made avail able from the new crop and on whether the amount of wheat fed to livestock can be" cut Secretary of Agriculture Clin ton Anderson said in Chicago that both the wheat and meat situations would be cleared up as soon as Congress decides what to about price control Anderson told a news confer ence that as soon as both houses of Congress reach an agreement on the price control bill meat and wheat will be shipped to mar kets in amounts approaching nor mal The price will be determin ed by what kind' of bill Congress passes he said However Anderson said the votes' Tne president emergency Ub4 or legislation already iiL different forms by the House and? Senatenbw is before the Housei Rules committee for a on parliamentary 'procedure Some committee members said the blll up Italian reparations the first) Mont of the Senate labor com bir rontroverslAl issue willingness to com promise on small issues helped carry' the Big Hour ministers through their first two sessions in a new found spirit of harmony 'it Little Hope or Strike Legislation 11 WRE lhHY NEWS 1 I financial liiterests" Attorney General Tom Clark's opinion that the sale would not create antl triiBt law violations was expected to be followed by speedy action to turn the plant over to 3 Steel Murray Chairman of the Sen ate small business committee said he doubted tqat Steel would pursue aggressive selling pol al Geneva for fear of reduc i ing the market for its Birming ham output ruling was made in a five page letter to war assets ad ministrator Gregory Phil and Evelyn Marry ATLANTIC CITY Jun 18 (UR) The marriage of Phil Spitalny leader ofrthe of his violin sqloist at suburban I evyvrrf' Kremlin June 7 Pipers Quartet for Breach of Contract LOS ANGELES June 18 (UR) suit' to dissolve the Pied Pipers quartet and assess its pres ent members 150000 damaSes was on file in superior Oourt to day John Huddleston ex GI and original member of the musical organization sued Clark Yocum Charles Lowry and Jo Stafford also Original Pipers and Hal Hooper and June Hutton new members charging breach of con tract Huddleston said the partner ship agreement entered into in July 1943 provided that any drafted member should share in the profits during his service ab sence and get his job back upon being discharged Instead he charged he was re nlacod bv Hnoner and Miss Hut ton replaced Miss Stafford who resigned all without his consent i tf SteeLPIant Sale Irks Sen Murray Claims Steel Will Not ully Utilize Geneva Setup WASHINGTON June 18 Sen James Murray Mont charged' today hat govern ment sale of its Geneva Utah steel Steel Corp development of the The justice department yester day approved sale of the plant to 3 Steel for 47500009 dm opposed to this Murray said it places this strategic plant in the grasp of an absentee owned cornora tion that is dominated by eastern i of wage increases designed financial liiterests" to encourage volunteering and re duce the need for drafting The House' plan would give raises ranging from a 50 per cent hike for buck privates from50 to 75 a month to 10 per cent for the highest ranking offi cers The Senate plan would lim it the raises to enlisted person nel It all was contingent however upon final agreement on the teen age question Senate conferees suggested a system of categories which would nut 18 year olds at the bottom of the draft list prevent their be HAVRE ORECAST ing taken under any circumstanc partly cloudy light scat es Oct 1 permit their tered showers Cool this after induction only for domestic ser 1 noon Clekr td partly cloudy to iristcx onrt rnon nniv mttmf iithmi four committees dealing hut authorities said a check show eq no one Kinea in ineir no in es Officials began a search of fields and vacant lots as well as crumpled homes at daybreak The storm lifted homes people auto mobiles freight cars and out buildings high in the air and hurled them to ground hund reds of feet away Hardest hit River Rouge and the Canadian border cities of itorney Thomas Morrissey of Ojibway West Sandwich East Denver Sandwich South Sandwich South Nine complaints charging theft Windsor Remington Park and I of government property were re Little River 1 ported ready for filing today Windsor was without electric I 'The only army man arrested power or clean water Chairman I when last roundup was A Brian of the city utilities I ended was Capt Billie Carson a ImaIza 4 a wv fvi nr zl I a 1 1 4 fi nf Wv olnfanoHrti 4 the base Bruce Indicated army personnel might he in custody soon In the last four days the police chief disclosed the raiding parties have uncovered valuable radio sets tools aircraft engine parts and other military equipment in attics chicken coops and other hiding places Arrests were made hero and a Mafiitf jfc'flpringa'iN Ob Hill and ountain Colo in the immediate area 37 5 a A Kt '1 A 'S it i'iYA LasiE' 'A HER '48 i63 46' 'it 45 37? 48 7 LOT' '46: 57 43 45 4 '05'65 43 '64' 45 91 5384 54 4.