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The Rhinelander THIRTIETH YEAR-NO. 58 RHINELANtm MONDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1947 6 PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS Federal Health Program Urged President Tells Congress Bill Is 'Crucial' to U. S. May 19 President Truman asked congress today to give "Immediate attention" to enactment of a federal health Three Dood After Airplane Crash BURLINGTON, May 19 A cavorting Navy plane crashed on a school playground here yesterday, killing the pilot and two school boys and injuring six other youths as wreckage showered the neighborhood over a four-block area. The plane was being put through a series-of barrel rolls as part of a naval air show when it plummetted and disability insurance program, to the ground where 14 children In a special message to the legis-1 were playing baseball, hurtled Mr.

Truman declared such across the yard, crashed into a tree legislation is "crucial to our- and exploded, tional welfare." I Under the type of program he asks, a worker unable to wprk because of injury would receive government payments. Mr. Truman told congress: "Of the four basic risks to the security of working people and their old age, death and have provided some insurance protection against three. Asks Funds for Research "Protection against the the major missing element in our national social insurance p'rogram." Mr. Truman's message asked, in 18 ram for the British-American addition: 1.

Adequate public health services, including an expanded mar No Further Buying for Reich Planned by U. S. WASHINGTON, May 19 Present plans contemplate little if any further government buying of grain for the British-Am -zones of Germany this year. A war department official con- Mem Drowns in Attempt to Save Dog President Cheered By News Mother Is Teeling Better" Photo at right shows Huffman Dam, Dayton, where four men tried to drown the stray bird dog, pictured at left, after it bit the young daughter of a friend. Regretting their action, one of the men, Lenville Adkins, jumped in to save the dog and drowned in the attempt.

A second man, James Taylor, tried to save the CAt ucu nected with" reliefoperations" "for! dog but failed Broken line shows path of dog's fall from top of dam (X), how dog swept under dam and re- ternal arid child health program. I the occupation zones told a report-i a PP eare sluiceway. Circle shows where Adkins, who could not swim, struggled with dog in swirling wa- 2. Funds for research and medical er today that much of the food-1 ter before he telephoto). education.

3. More hospitals and doctors, especially in sparsely-settled areas. "The total health program which I have proposed is crucial to our national welfare," he said. "The heart of that program is national health insurance. "Until it is a part of our national stuffs needed to carry along the rationing program until the German crops come in already have been purchased.

The department announced last the height of unrest in it expects 400,000 tons of food to be delivered to the zones during May, a similar amount w11 VIA if vui. fabric, we shall be wasting our Ju neand even in July. It most precious national resource and 80 ls the official said, that shall be perpetuating unnecessary there wl11 Abe some further ship- misery and human suffering." men1 August to make certain Plan Tar Less Costly' supplies will be on hand when the The President asserted that an German spring wheat crop is ready insurance plan is the democratic arvest way of coping with the menace of serious illness which requires expensive care and services. He continued: "It is the only plan broad enough to meet the needs of all our people, aroge in the occ ied It is-m the long run-far Jew during. recent weeks resulted pri- costly and far more effective from transportation diffi- utbT ia in Germany and not from Under the program which I failure to procure adequate ton- last fall.

winter rain cr seeded Blamed on Transportation. Officials of the Army's civil affairs division say the food crisis zone have proposed patients can and will nages in the U. S. (While most of be free to participate or to reject the grain is produced in the U. participation.

Britain shares the cost). "And a national health insurance Citing an example of the diffi- plan can and should provide for culties of distributing commodities administration through state and. over the war-damaged facilities of local agencies, subject only to rea- Germany, one official recently re- Three Slain in Apartment Battle sonable national standards." turned from Germany said that a Mr. Truman's message renewed trainload of coal routed over a coma proposal he had made previously paratively short distance finally ar- to congress. rived at its destination after 17 locomotives had been used.

All but one broke down! A secondary problem, but one to be reckoned with, officials say, is the matter of inducing the Germans to eat corn products. Like most Europeans, corn to them is fodder for livestock but not food for humans. sell- that than not eating at all. corn than wheat 32 people were gathered for a din- av The dead were Albert Fineberg. her never has been any promise ia i to Germany or to occupation au- 38, in WhOSe home the ShOOting thnp i snprifio tnnnaoo occurred; Benjamin Eisentein, 39, tllormes as to eciflc tonnage de- personal bailiff to Municipal Judge Oscar S.

Caplan, and a man identified as George Stanislawski, an ex- convict, 32, who police said was uo n.ns. suJi' basls its lood dellv ized sfler being struck by one Kwireminls MM. The tment ked President lfc fo President Court Rules Newsmen Not Guilty For Articles Critical of Texas Judge No Ban on Union Funds Seen by Taft WASHINGTON, May 19 Senator Taft (R-Ohio) predicted today there will be no flat ban on union health and welfare' funds in the final congressional version of labor.xeisputes legislation. Taft 'made this forecast after a two and a half hour meeting of house-senate conferees striving to compromise differences between separate labor bills passed by the two chambers. The Qhioan told reporters: "I doubt that the house will adhere to its provision." Instead, Taft indicated the conference committee would accept the senate's provision this matter.

It outlaws health and' welfare funds administered solely by unions, but permits those directed jointly. This would leave in existence the soft coal industry fund set up in the contract between the government and John L. Lewis, chief of because in rewriting its terms inj WASHINGTON May 19 conference some of its provisions Supreme Court today ruled three may be diluted. In fact, it prob-. Texas newspapermen were improp- ably won't be as drastic as the Case bill that the President vetoed last year." The house sustained Mr.

man's veto of the Case bill. Tru U. S. Bans Shipment of Cigarettes to Reich WASHINGTON, "May' Striking ajt black market trading, the today banned private shipments', of American cigarettes and tobacco to Germany effective Monday' May 26. The action does not affect the supply made available through Army post exchanges, which the Army said is sufficient to meet "the normal individual needs" 'of GI's and civilian workers.

Tax Cuts 'Later' Urged by Snyder WASHINGTON, May Secretary of Treasury Snyder told the United Mine Workers. This congress" today that "a period of fund is administered by the union I tax reduction is approaching." But and the government. At the same time Democratic Senator George (Ga) predicted the result "won't be as drastic as the Case bill" of last year, and that President Truman will find it "difficult to veto." George noted thSt organized labor leaders have bitterly attacked both senate and house bills, but ho he made, no recommendations as to what taxes should be cut or when. Snyder further told the house ways and means committee that congress should "consider" how to reduce taxes at some The prepared statement by the treasury head made no men- erly convicted of contempt of court for publication of several stories and an editorial, -i Justice Douglas wrote the court's 6P-3 majority decision. Justice Jack- wrote a dissent and Justice wrote another.

Chief Justice Vinson concurred in Frank-' son May Denies at Trial Any Attempts To Defraud Nation WASHINGTON, May Former Kentucky Congressman Andrew J. May, 72, hotly denied at his government war fraud trial today that he. ever "entered into a conspiracy with anybody to defraud my country." He was asked by his attorney, Warren Magree, if lie had entered into a conspiracy to defraud the government in loan deals with Murray Garsson, wartime munitions maker and with his brother, Henry, co-defendents with May. "I thought of such a thing, Mr. Magree," May replied.

"I never entered into a conspiracy with anybody to defraud my country." Magree asked May if the loans he negotiated for Murray Garsson had anything to do with the Gars- munitions firm. "Positively not," May answered. May is accused of taking $55,000 in bribes, while he was house military committee chairman, 'from Henry and Murray Garsson, brothers and key figures in a $78,000,000 wartime arms combine. All are on trial on bribe conspiracy charges. Part of the government's case included evidence that Murray Garsson's money was used to pay off a $5,000 note May owned to a ntw York bank.

Earlier today May testified that he borrowed $5,000 in 1941 for Murray Garsson and acknowledged that he does not know whether it ever has been repaid. said he is convinced the senate tion of 'the $4,000,000,000 tax re- shooting Police Sgt. Ambrose Mahoney front door of- the apartment had on eek sut)nlv) Th said thi been left ajar to improve ventila- by'eSSlaSlJSto the trans difficulties, will be med' cori 'ected during this month and satsr the te Mahoney said the witnesses told him two of the robbers went into the kitchen and lined up the wo- Relief experts estimate that to maintain the 1,585 calory minimum ration for the two zones re- Eisenstein started toward the bedroom' where he had his coat con- tons of irnports a month. There are some 42,000,000 persons in the two zones but not all require the ration because some live in rural areas they are more or less self- While virtually all supplies for th government taining a gun which he is entitled to carry as a bailiff. One of the guests, Sam Takiff, 38, sprang against the third bandit I and tripped him.

Eisenstein fired at the man, later identified as Stanislawski, and killed him. The other two robbers shed ns to "me into the living room and opened lan fire, fatally wound moving to and Fmeberg. The intruders then ket next These ur Takiff was struck by the man! Purchases were: all but stopped in with the hammer as he dove at due to rising prices and the robbers, witnesses said. His! a new market plan is yet to be condition was reported as good. Stanislawski was identified by his wife wh9 said they had been married for two weeks.

measure does not restrict union activities unduly. Voicing confidence that the final version will be much closer to senate bill than the one the house passed, George said: "It may not even be as strong duction bill passed overwhelmingly by the house despite administration opposition. The bill now is awaiting senate action. Nor did Snyder's statement say whether President Truman might veto this tax-cut bill if it reaches him. U.S.

Report Lists 33 As Possible Weapons of War NEW YORK, May j. against a European enemy, our use 000 word explanation of bacteri- I of bacterial weapons would involve ologic'al warfare, with all the basic facts, excepting only secret work of World War two, was released today with government permission, the Journal of Immunology, was Thirty-three diseases are listed as possible war weapons, some of them in concentrations that could be used to attack a single military the German shipments already J. ec "ve or even enemy troops in areas when the the winds of public opinion. Judges are supposed to be men of fortitude, able to thrive in a hardy climate." The Texas of criminal appeals held "there is no escape from the conclusion that it was the purpose and intent of the publishers to force, and coerce Judge Browning to grant Mayers (the soldier) a new trial. The only reason for so doing was because the publishers did not agree with Judge Browning's decision or conduct of the case," The newspapermen said news accounts of the trial were essentially true, The editorial criticized Texas laws "which vest vast judiciary authority in a county judge but which do not require the occupant of the office to be an attorney." News Accounts Accurate scientists had been quietly making I Justice Douglas in effect said the in eight including news accounts were accurate.

Germany. The decision was given on an appeal by Conway C. Craig, publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller- Times; Bob McCracken, managing editor, and Tom Mulvany, reporter. Judge Joe D. Browning of the Neuces County court in Texas adjudged them guilty of contempt after the publication of items dealing with an eviction case which he tried.

The newsmen were sentenced to 'three day's imprisonment each, but the sentences were stayed pending the Supreme Court's decision. In the eviction case, an Army private unsuccessfully sought to hold posession of a building where he operated a cafe. Laws Not for 'Sensitive' Judges Judge Browning said the news stories and editorial were "calculated to prejudice and influence the court in its ruling" on a request for a new trial of the eviction proceedings. He finally denied a new trial. The Supreme Court's ruling overturned a ruling the Texas court of criminal appeals which had upheld Browning's contempt findings.

Justice Douglas for the majority wrote that "the law of contempt jury that "as an accommodation" he signed a note for Murray to borrow the money from Elisha Walker, whom he identified as a "New York Banker" with Kuhn, Loeb and Company. Three Defendants In Lynching Freed GREENVILLE, S. May 19 defense rested today in the trial of 28 white men accused of lynching a South Carolina negro, without offering any witnesses in its behalf. The dramatic climax to the weeklong trial came 'a. few minutes after Circuit Judge J.

Robert Martin, had directed full acquittal of three of the original 31 defendants and given acquittal on two of four counts to seven others. Martin recessed court for the sec- Texas City Hit by New Fires; 27 Hurt TEXAS CITY, May 19 Gasoline-fed flames which sent a spiral of smoke 4,000 feet into the air badly damaged the tanker Pan- Massachusetts, a tug and a dock and injured 47 seamen before being extinguished yesterday. Credit for extinguishing the four- hour fire went to Texas City's heroic volunteer fire- department which lost 27 members in the fires and explosions that wrecked the waterfront town a month ago. Telephone Service Curbed in Some Areas by Strikes WASHINGTON, May Striking installations workers of the Western Electric Company today reestablished their picket lines, forcing curtailment of telephone service again in some areas. In New Jersey, the Bell Telephone Company reported severay main ex- Cupid Busy on Picket Line SAULTE STE.

MARIE, May 19 joined the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. picket line here today. John Toland and Shirley Corey, striking employes of the dompany, met, walked and fell in love on the picket line. They set the wedding date for JUly 12. picketed." Service was placed on an gency basis at points where operators refused to cross picket lines.

Some curtailment also was reported in Illinois, but in New York tired Truman Able to Get Night's Rest GRANDVIEW, May 19 President Truman resumed his vigil at the bedside of his gravely ill 94-year-old mother today, what 'again by her own report that she was "feeling better." The President drove to Mrs. Martha E. Truman's frame bungalow home here from Kansas City, 17 miles away, where he spent tho night in the Hotel Muehlebach. Presidential Press Secretary Rosg told a'news conference that "there has been no material change" in Mrs. Truman's condition since last night.

He quoted Brig. Gen. Wallace H. Graham, the President's personal physician, as saying Mrs. Truman "is tired" and will not attempt to get out of bed during the day.

She chatted briefly this morning with her pastor, the Rev. Welbern Bowman of the Baptist Church. Earlier, the President told reporters in Kansas'City that he had telephoned his sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman, at Grandview for a checkup on his mother's condition. Cancels Concert Tour. "She is better," Mr.

Truman "I talked with my sister. She said mother herself said she was feeling belter." The President's daughter, Margaret, cancelled her concert debut scheduled for tomorrow night at Pittsburgh, to fly to her grandmother's bedside. The elderly Mrs. Truman's struggle for recovery from complications df her right hip in a fall in mid- February was handicapped by. "a very tired and weak heart." Brig.

Gen. Wallace H. Graham, the President's personal physician, other workers ignored the pickets sai she was drawing on a strong and went to their posts. will The Association of Communica- She sl a bit yesterday af- tion Equipment Workers, claiming ternoon after a Sunday morning 20,000 members, sent the pickets rall wl ch ama ber family- back to their beats pending the out- even with support, to her come of negotiations here for a ker Wh he i -settlement. The lines were ht PPre ldent and othera ne still i President More Cheerful.

at odds with the Bell system as I Ml Truman conversed with re the strike entered its seventh week. porters this morning when he re Contract negotiations broke up turned from a 20-minute walk in at 5 a.m. today to resume at 2:30 the vicinity df his hotel, accom- m- -j panied by Rear Admiral James H. Ernest Weaver, ACEW president, Foskett, his naval aide, and secret said his order for resumption of service agents. picketing remained in effect.

John Murray, a Jabor department conciliator, announced only this: "At 4:30 a.m. the company submitted a wage" proposal. The He appeared to be more cheerful than before he went to bed. The President looked tired and worn as he walked into his hotel shortly before dinner time last conference recessed at 5 a.m. until I night from a constant vigil at his is not made for the protection of I ond time in 20 minutes.

Earlier he 2.30 p.m. today, at which time the mother's bedside with his brother, judges who may be sensitive to lnad halted proceedings after an-j union will make reply to the com- 'nouncins his dirpfitpH vui'Hinlo fnr- nanv's neutral countries as well as the enemy country itself." The report, published today in written in 1942, compiled from bacteriological war studies which nouncing his directed verdicts for 10 of the original 31 defendants. The court announced trial pany's offer" Neither the labor department, Western Electric nor the ACEW would be suspended until tomor- i would say what the proposal was. row when defensive arguments will Previously the company had of- fcred pay increases of seven, eight, begin, He said each side would be allowed four hours for summation and nine cents an hour, to be ap- and final argument. Meanwhile, he plied in three areas.

The union de- said, defense counsel and the state mandccj 15 cents across the country. will snhmit rmnneinfr nrcrnmont mi will submit opposing argument on legal technicalities today. It seemed likely the case would reach the jury Wednesday. The court announced that statements allegedly made by 26 defendants at the time of their arrest would be admitted in evidence only against the persons making them. Martin said he would instruct the jury to disregard the allegations as applying to any co-defendants.

The authors are Drs. Theodor court granted outright acquittal to three men who refused 'throughout the investigation to Seized Secret Nazi Files 'Complete' J. Vivian Truman and his sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman. He forced a smile and waved his hand at crowds clustered around the entrance to the hotel when they applauded his appearance. The weight of his despondency was apparent even in his walk.

Scarcely 12 hours earlier he had greeted reporters with the cheering news that his mother was doing well, that she had rallied materially Saturday night. All he could say this time wag that Mother Truman was "resting all right," or doing well enough for him to try to catch up on his own sleep. Mr. Truman flew here early Sat- urday in plane, "The Sacred WASHINGTON, May 19 MV-AU I ow," after Graham telephoned lied historians have found to be'him that his mother had suffered "substantially complete" the seized i a setback Friday night. Foreign ruieign Rosebury and Elvin Kabat, bacteri-! tained Weather Forecast for Wisconsin: Fair and cooler tonight.

Tuesday light show- era. Weather: A maximum temperature of 76 degrees was recorded here yesterday with a minimum of 43. Last night's low was 58. The reading at 8 o'clock this morning was 53, at 10 o'clock, 53! and at noon, 60. The prevailing! $1.80 for 6.

Extra words' are is from the northwest. only a few cents more. Be sure has been .40 inch precipitation in your ad tells a complete story. worked out. Wont-Ad Sends Your Offer County-Wide Success in buying, selling or trading depends upon the people in Oneida and surrounding counties of your offer.

Tell them about it through an inexpensive News Want Ad. No article is too big, too small or top old to advertise. Phone 1000 and ask for an Ad Taker who will take your ad. A 15- word ad is $1.20 for 3 times or action. Cities, war production areas and islands might be naturalized for ologists of the college of physicians various language in the editorial military purposes for worth while periods of time by some of the techniques in this prospectus of future wars.

But the study points out it will be very difficult to achieve military uses of these diseases. The air, with planes scattering them, or concentrating them in mists, smokes and dusts is considered the best way. and surgeons, Columbia University. ar -commented that: The diseases listed as having war "This was strong language, in- possibilities- include rabbit fever, temperate language and we assume, not the common form but a pneu- ar unfair criticism. But a judge monia type that is transmitted by i ma not hold in contempt one who air; the pneumonic, or lung ventures to publish anything that of the great plague, black death; tends to make him unpopular or and a rare disease known as mel- to Belittle him.

iodosis that resembles glanders "The vehemence of the language of horses and men and is highly used is not alone the measure of liiC COlJKdLlUll UU TD Ul i i He declared the only substantial make any statement to police. These Rl bcn tr 4s private file and rec- 4estion raised in the case per-1 were Earle Martin, member of Hitlers talks with foreign ined to the editorial. He cited prominent South Carolina family; i st tesmen irious language in the editorial Vardry McBee Norris and Ernest' was re today in an )4 'commented that: Stokes, taxi drivers. Other de- announcement that France has i In nearly all cases, however, much I fatal. i the power to punish for contempt.

I scientific work will have to be done' Also anthrax, yellow fever to be Tne which it kindles must I to find ways to do sufficiently mas-; transmitted not by mosquitoes but constitute an imminent, not sive "seeding" of diseases to make possibly directly through the air, lv likely threat, to the adminis- bacterial war worth while. U. S. Dr. Maurice Visscher.

president the past 24 hours. 63; miiiimunj, 43; .32 wch pro- cipitatiou. A sale will produced faster tb.e ad gives a complete oi the article you wish undulant fever, parrot fever (psit- tra of justice. The danger must tacosis), the tick-borne typhus-like i not be remote or even probable; it diseases, botulinus poisoning, with mus immediately imperil." of the American Association of I possibilities for developing some-! comment on the news articles, Scientific Workers, said in Chicago that "because of its geographical isolation" this country would be at a disadvantage in bacterial warfare. In case of an attack on the U- S.

by a European enemy, Visscher said, the attacking enemy's own people would be safe from the bacteria used retribution in by this country "il be difficult, thing not now known in flu, com- i Douglas said: mon colds, and maybe malaria. Inaccuracies 'In reporting are There are also plant animal dis- co onplace. Certainly a reporter eases with war possibilities. not be laid by the heels for Thirty-seven diseases are ruled con tempt because he missed the out as not good for war, because of essential point in a trial or failed available vaccinations, or difficul- to summarize the issues to accord tie of spreading them. These in- views of the judge who sat elude smallpox, cholera, typhoid, nTtb f.

streptococcus and istaphylococcus Jackson sharply criticised She rallied so well Sunday morn- ling after a restful night that Graham spoke of the happiness around the rural home where the struggle took place and even went so far as say that "the immediately criti- fendants claim Stokes had extract- agr ed to JOI wu1 th Britain in publishing the a I'UiiitroaiuM vtic tim, Willie Earle, who was slain in Jfazj Germany pre-war reprisal for the final stabbing of a and tue policy. white man. ficient to count. I In the war's closing days, Nazi evidence was insuf-' leuders sought to de stroy all dan- and many files convict them on 1 Coft Detroit Teachers Bock on Pickot Lines DETROIT, May 19 Teachers files. in East Detroit schools returned to) Hitler contemplated the possi- the picket lines today after a one- Some Germans disobeyed instruc- i tions, however.

In this way the and Hitler records i were saved, the announcement said. Duplicates also have have (been found of many of the burned week truce in their strike for higher pay. A spokesman at the East Detroit High School said classes for the day were cancelled. bility of victory through a double- cross that involved a secret truce with Russia, captured German naval documents disclose. The documents indicate that Hitler discussed the scheme in the most -r lcp the majority's reasoning in bis Kathryn Rothenberger, president summer of 1943.

of the East Detroit Federation The proposal was that Germany Teachers (AFD said the union's' negotiate a secret armistice with 115 members had been ordered out Russia. In this way the Soviets- in protest over what she termed would continue to receive Ameri- failure of the hoard of education to can iend-lease aid and Germany adopt formally a verbal sgreejcneijt would be able to concentrate Middle Eoft Pefensc LONDON, May 19 Informed British sources declared today is setting the stage to hand military responsibility in the Mediterranean and Middle East over to the U. S. and withdraw empire defenses to East Africa. Qualified British military informants said the proposed set-up implied that defense of the Mediter- raean and the Suez Canal in particular would become a U.

responsibility. Italy in Application For U. Mombtrfhip LAKE SUCCESS, N. It Italy's application tor mMBJatjr- ship in the United WM handed ty SeereUty-GeutrrtU.