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LATEST TELteQRAJPHlC NBJWS 1NERNAT10NAL N8WB SERVICE I DELPHOS BB HERALD Ottf ftnd 66fltlfttt6d cold, followed by eftow la north and light in sbuth night and Friday, PRICE FOUR CFNTS DELPHOS, OHIO, THURSDAV EVENING, 5, 1948 SIX PACES VOL 54. NO, 198. TRUMAN GIVES DEPRESSION WARNING REUTHER LINKS AID WITH ANTI-INFLATION SAYS THERE IS NOTHINGMG WITH AMERICAN ECONOMY UAW Leader Believes American Economy ICuropenn Situation Cii.n be Remedied by American Production Sen. Ball WiiriiH Unit Kuropcan Aid Pro. grain Will Challenged in Senate UH New British Loan.

Willam Thois WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Walter I'. Ueuther, president of the ClO United Automobile Workers union, urged Congress today to implement the Marshall plan with an anti-inflation program and consider the possibility of increasing tlie proposed amount of aid for Europe. Ueuther told tlie Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "there is.

nothing wrong with thu American economy, or with, the situation in Europe, that cannot be remedied and saved by American production." Tho youthful labor leader's endorsement of tlie European recovery program came as Sen. iBall (II) Minn, bluntly warned that the Marshall plan will be challenged in the senate on the suspicion that it is "primarily a new loan dressed up in fancy trimmings." Tlie UAW chief recommended a "closely integrated anti-inflation program that will break the JUfihjind. is in px! ces and profits which shrinks the purchasing power in the bloodstream of our economy." lie also proposed that Congress "take another look" at the amount of European aid contemplated "to determine whether it should not be increased, rather than decreased us is advocated by some in Congress." Ueutlier added: "1 suggest that it is better to provide for too much than to be caught short with too little." Ueuther warned against any attempts to "play politics" with tlie foreign aid program and the domestic price situation. Ueuther said that the United States can deliver on its promises "only if America's production, assembly, and transportation lines are again put on an "all-out schedule." Hall gave the first indication that Britain's share of the European recovery program would be specially singled out for attack when the legislation reaches tlie senate floor about Feb. IS.

Meanwhile, tlie Foreign Uelu- tiuns Committee awaited receipt of the State Department's "balance sheet" estimate of over-all foreign aid requests for all areas during the initial 15 months, The breakdown was to include China, tile occupied ureas, Greece and Turkey, as well as the EKP countries. American Woman Wins In Olympics Repeats Warning To Save Fuel Oil CLEVELAND, Feb. 5, (INS) Standard Oil Company of Ohio repeated warnings today that the only way thu present critical fuel oil demand can bo met is for every customer to save all he can so that the over-all supply can be spread out. The firm said it continued efforts to meet unprecentud demands during 11)47 1'or gasoline and fuel, oil resulted in processing of 1,438,000,000 gallons of crude oil, a new record that tops the pievions high mark by 11.5 per cent. The 1947 record-breaking total is 24 per cent above 1944, highest war-time year and SS pel- cent above 1U3'J, the so-called "normal" ST.

MOIUTSS, Switzerland, Fob. G. i Mrs. Crolehon Eraser, of Vancouver, today turned in tlie first American victory yel scored at the sevcn- day-old winter sports Olympic championships. Even more spectacular than yesterday the 115-pound matron bent her field conclusively to lake title to the women's special slalom event.

It nut only was thu first 1048 individual win for the entire American squad, it even contributed an entry in posterity's ledgers. It was the first ski victory scored by an American of either sex in Olympic history. As such, it mitigated if not altogether dissipated the effect of Canada's stunning 12-o defeat of America's famous if. team iu the now discountenanced ice hockey championships. NEWS ABOUT OHIO RAID NETS 300 Total of More Than 700 Hindus Have Been in Indian Government Attempt to Stamp Out Violence Extremist Organization IH OllUnvt'CO.

NEW UELIH, Feb. 5. (INS) Inuian authorities seized an additional Hindu Extremist leaders today in a new pro-dawn raid in i bringing to mere than 700 the total of arrests in the government campaign to stamp out violence. Those arrested in raids carried out throughout greater Bombay included leaders of the Extremist military organization Uashtrya HwayuiU'Sewuk and the Hindu iMahasabha. Tin- government campaign has act off the greatest police roundup in the history of tlie young Indian dominion.

Among those seized was a former Mahasabha president, V. D. feuvarknr; the president of the iBombuy 1'povincial Muhasabha, A. 11, lladre; Vice President M. N.

Alpade, and Jammadus Mchta, former prominent member of the All-India Congress party. The seizures were ordered im- mtdiatcly after tlie government declared the Uss an outlaw aftermath to the assassination of K. Gandhi which presages further moves lo bun all private armies and groups inclined toward communal violence. The All-India Congress party WHS understood to have given full endorsement to the government steps to stifle these organizations. Suffers Stroke When Told Of Death JOLIET, 111., Feb.

5. (INS) Miss Beulali Savio, Joliet, suffered a stroke when her fiance, Leo Waldvogel, 40, Joliet, phoned her the news of his mother's death last Tuesday night. Miss Savio died in Silver Cross hospital yesterday. Today, Waldvogel is being treated for shock, and it is doubtful he will be able to attend the funerals of his mother or his fiancee Saturday morning. COLUMBUS, O.

Jobcph VV. Ftehter, master of the Ohio Stale Grange and chairman of the National Grange's health committee, announced today he would speak at the National Conference 'on rural health in Chicago Saturday. Delegates representing leaders in child health, welfare work, farm groups and the medical profession will attend. Elbert Hutchison, of Xenia, will represent grange youth in a panel at the conference. Elbcra received the silver award in tho state Future Farmers declamation contest Itiat year.

ELY111A, O. Two workers were injured in an explosion and' lire at the General Industries Company plant in Klyria shortly before last midnight. All city lire companies wore called to light the flames. i 4 I I One of the injured men was tentatively identified as Gale Wolf. Cause -of the fire, which firemen battled for several hours, was not immediately determined.

The building is one of Loralri county's largest single plants. Damage- is expected to mount above the $50,000 mark. COLUMBUS, O. Plans for distributing application blanks for the Ohio soldier's bonus and for a schedule of state-wide instructional' meetings will be drawn up Saturday iu the ofllco of the adjutant general in Columbus. Courtney E.

Kir by, assistant director -of tho- World War 11 compensation fund announced today that representatives from the recognized veterans organizations, county veterans' service 'officers directors of veterans information centers will work out the details. Kirby said cooperating community agencies which work on a part-time basis will hold meetings later in their respective districts. CLEVELAND, O. A committee of the Northern Ohio Druggist Association was at work today to determine a uniform medical prescription price system. At a meeting in Cleveland last night, the more than 100 druggists attending voiced opposition to current systems, of which more than 15 are in effect, they claimed that the various systems lead to confusion to both the public and to physicians.

YOUNGSTOWN, O. men, found guilty of charges concerning the transportation of a nearby Campbell girl to a bouse of prostitution in Alliance, were to begin jail sentences today. Joseph Hrobla'k, 32 of Youngstown, pleaded guilty to contributing to tlie delinquency of the 15- year-old girl and was sentenced to a year in Mahoning county jail and lined $1,000. Juvenile Court Judge 11. P.

Beckenbach also sentenced Leonard Constantino, 1U, of Campbell, found guilty of white slavery, to HUDSON FIREBOAT SAVES BOYS AFLOAT ON ICE FLOE SAYS INFLATION SPIRAL HAS INCREASED ALARMMGLY Boys afloat on Ice Hoe. Boys cling to flreboat's lifeline for pull to safety. THRILLING RESCUE of three boys, marooned on a free-floating Ice floe In the Hudson river off New York's 116th street, Is effected by fireboat as thousands of spectators watch. Three times a life line was tossed to the boys, only to have it miss its mark. (International Soundohoto) MARKETS TAKE FRESHJU1P Flood of-Selling-Overwhelms.

Buyers nt Opening Call Street Observers Interpret Un- Hcttlemcnt as Natural DM. Nation Moves from Tcriod of Scarcity into One of Demand and Supply Balance. Janitor Burned To Death In Fire NEW YORK, Feb. D. (INS) The nation's commodity and security markets went into a fresh tailspin today following yesterday's sweeping declines, drains in Chicago yesterday tumbled the permissible daily limits up to ten cents a bushel and stocks on the New York Stock Exchange sustained their worst break In more than nine months.

Initial losses in the grain today ranged up to the maximum COLUMiBUS, Feb. 5. (INS) janitor-nightwatchinan was burned to death today as a spec-, lacular fire swept through the Her tail Merchants In' Columbus, causing damage estimated tit a half million dollars. Eighty-two trucks i limousines and Hchool buses were destroyed In Hie fire, which was discovered shortly before midnight. Fire Chief Clarence W.

Ogboru said the fire is believed lo have started when a mechanic dropped a welding torch. A series of minor blasts punctuated the fire as the building became an inferno and tires and gas tanks exploded. Cinders were blown as far as Broad street, two blocks away. Also in tile huge building were commodities to be delivered today and two freight carloads of re- allowable ten cents a- bushel in trigerators awaiting delivery. tiary.

ot Prohibits Marriage With Foreigners MOSCOW, Feb. 0. (INS) -The Supreme Soviet (parliament) of iiussia ratified today a decree prohibiting marriages between Soviet citizens and foreigners. The Russians previously havo prohibited any of their citizens who married foreigners from leaving the country to live elsewhere. It was announced at the same time that Nikolai Mihailovlch Hycho, minister of justice, has been relieved of his post because he is "unable to cope with the work." He is succeeded by Konstantin (Inrshcnin, wheat and eight cents a bushel in coin, as a flood of selling Mver- whelmed buyers at the opening call.

Limit declines also were registered iu soybeans and lard. Heavy selling poured into iho New York cotton market where losses; ranged to $2. SO a bale. Leading issues on the bitf board continued to sag with losses exceeding a point in many of tlie active favorites. Such investment leaders as Union Pacific, Union Curliide, Standard Oil of New Jersey Ccii- eral Motors, Chrysler, and I'nitecl States Steel, were aubjecltd to steady liquidation, although trading was relatively quiet.

Wall Street observers inclined to interpret the HUM It lenient in the financial markets as indicating that (lie nation euni- omy was moving from a penuU of scarcity into one of ilriiinnd- ami-supply balance, in winch many price readjustments wnuld normally be expected to uke place. Bandits Escape With Cash And Narcotics COLUMBUS, Feb. .0. --Columbus police searched lo-, day for three armed, m.i-ked bandits who held up the Pharmacy last night in true style, escaping with JiiL'ti ail unknown amount of narcoiii-. Clerk Uoburt Garrison, a policeman's son, said the men ttiok a total of 1 li from iniee The Ohio Fuel Gas Company said it had liard-to-get items valued at $55,000 stored in the building.

Search Continues For German Escapee FKANKFUUT. Feb. I INS) An extensive search was under way today across wide expanse, of Germany for former 1 Germaii- Anierican llund Chief Kiihn who escaped from a Dachau internment camp. Sought along with the rotund and arrogant Kiihn, who was deported from the United States as an undesirable, is a mysterious German fraulein. The unidentified German girl is known to have visited Kuhn last week at the internment camp where lie was to await trial before a German denazifica- tion tribunal.

It was believed that the frau- lein might he able to provide authorities with inloniiatHMi alimit. the means which Kuhn employed to outwit his guards and escape unnoticed. FIREMAN IS FATAtmiURT Fire, in Heart of Albany, N. Y. FOREIGN ROUND-UP The oil ricli country of Iran 1ms flatly rejected a Soviet protest charging that the United States is attempting to convert Iran into a military base.

The Iranian Council of Ministers says Russia's note is tantamount to "intervention in the internal affairs of a free country." The sharply worded Iranian answer says that actually the Teheran Government was not obliged to reply at all. It added, however, that a reply was made to "remove any misunderstanding- between the two countries." The Russians had accused the United States of intervening in Iran's affairs and using her as a base for military aggression. In Moscow, the Soviet has forbidden marriages between Soviet citizens and foreigners. The Soviet Government previously had prohibited any Russian citizens who married foreigners from leaving the USSR to live elsewhere. A 20-year friendship and military aid pact has been signed be tween Russia and Romania in Moscow.

Commenting on the new 'alliance, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov says the pact "is in accord- dance with the principles of the United Nations." Molotov added that the treaty is "a bulwark on the road of any Mr. Truman Says lie Will Continue Telling Congress of the Necccsslty for Controlling Prt- oes President Makes No Positive Comment on Dip In Commodity Markets. By Robert G. Nixon. Feb.

5. Truman gave ConV gross a stern warning today another 1929 economic debacle- unless It provides powers to bring down prices and control runaway inflation. The chief executive told a news conference that tho spiral of inflation has increased alarmingly oven in the few weeks since ho asked a special session of Congress to legislate controls on prices and inflation. Mr. Truman displayed a chart provided by tho budget bureau showing the almost perpondlcu- 11 il iipo KStlnmtetl at $300,000 Adjoining Newspaper Suspends I periaUBm.

The pact provides for each Friiiting During Height of Flro. signatory to provide military assistance, to the other in the event of an attack by Germany or any other power. ALBANY, N. Feb. 5.

(INS) fireman was killed and production of tlie Albany Times- Union temporarily suspended to- duy when a four-alarm lire raged customers and at gnu's point made him point out the narcotics stock. He told police the bandits made two women customers stand -in a corner facing the without robbing I hem, and warned the men not to cull Tor help us they scooped $1M) I'riiin Hie each register and fled, llUUrK. The conflagration caused damage estimated at $200,000 to four buildings adjoining the newspaper plant in the heart of the business district. Fireman Kmil J. Ourand, of Hook and Ladder Co.

was injured fatally when he clipped into the controls of a big hytlauli- cally-oporated steel ladder, which fell and crushed him. The Times-Union suspended operations uO minutes after tlie lire- started, when (i.OOO papers of its final edition had been printed, because of the heavy smoke. '1 he newspaper resumed operations about three hours later and ompleLed its press run. Damage Hi tlit! newspaper plu.nl wan minor, resulting mostly from smoke and water in tlie basement. The four buildings adjoining the Times-Union were virtually Kill ted hy tlie blaze.

Firumen were handicapped by weather, which caused ice tti form on their "Tin-, tiro occurred in a dis- liicl where many of the old Dutch lar rise in food, clothing, rent and. other prices la tho past two months. The President said with a note of emphasis in his voice: "The price situation really is alarming." Ho then; said that if Congress doesn't provide eomo way to stop this awful inflationary spiral it wlllcomo to Us logical conclusion arid wo will have a terrible crash. The Tiberius area of northern Palestine is under strict curfew today following' a day of bitter fighting- between British troops out of control for nearly three and i nv ading Arabs from Syria. I British paratroopers and Irish guardsmen yesterday fought a bitter 3 hour battle against the Arabs who were forced to withdraw across the frontier.

One report said 12 Arabs were killed, several wounded and six captured. However, Haganah, Jewish defense army reported only two Arabs were slain. The army's winter maneuvers at Pine Camp, New York, move into their last day of field oper- tions today with a simulated attack by some 600 parachute troopers who jumped yesterday. Tomorrow, officers aaid men taking part in the sub-zero experiment known as "exercise snowdrop" will hold a critique. Their findings will be used as the basis for an army text on polar warfare.

Reports from Ankara say that relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union have become strained to the point of rupture following the recall of Turkey's ambassador to the Kremlin, Soviet relations with Turkey have been deteriorating steadily since 1945 when the Soviet initiated unsuccessful moves to gain joint control of the strategic Dardanelles. settlement wooden buildings stand. still Nazi War Criminal Commits Suicide Feb. (INS) Col. (leu.

Johannes Von Jilasko- former commander Nazi armies, plunged lo his death today in a suicide leap as he was about, to gu trivil for war crimes. The German ollicer who commanded Nazi troops which invaded Czechoslovakia and who accepted the surrender of Warsaw, hurled himself IroTn a bal- lusirude atop the Nuernberg court prison down a shaft to tlie courtyard below. It was iu the same prison of tlie palace of justice that Nazi Hcichsmarshal Hermann Goering took puison to escape hanging just before ho was to bo led to the. galUiwt'. At 10 o't link this morning, when lie was being led up the Muirs with other prisoners, Von lilaskowiiz broke away suddenly, climbed over a barbed wire barrier guarding a shall and jumped.

Cincinnati Civic Center Destroyed CINCINNATI, Feb. 5. (INS) A raying tiro that blazed unchecked for more than hours completely destroyed the Wyoming Chic Center iu suburban Cin- clarcd Congrew' Knows as well as be knows what is happening lo prices and what the situation is. Ho said he is going to keep on telling Congress tho" necessity of controlling high, prices as long aa there is any chance of stopping an economic collapse. Tho President especially noted the rlso in food prices since sent his special cost of living message- to Congress, which showed on the chart to havo topptid tho rise In all other prices.

lie also pointed to an increasing spiral in rent prices which ho said has occurred since- Congress weakened controls on rentals. Tho President would make no comment of a positive nature on what he thought about yooterday's dip in tho commodity markets, which in turn brought some lowering of prices on tho stock market. Mr. Truman said that as far as cutting the federal budget goes ho thinks there's Just a lot oC Republican congressional talk. Ho said it happened last year, but when all tho shouting died down, he got the budget ho.

had recommended. As to the Republican income tax reduction bill, ha gala he'll take care of that when the final measure reaches him. A presidential veto of the G.5 billion dollar GOP measure is considered certain if it reaches the White House iu anything near its present form. cinnati early today. Wyoming Fire Chief Walter Spreen said he found the ooo building In flames when he arrived at a.

m. He summoned additional aid from tho Lockland, Heading and St. Bernard firp departments and tho 4 companies battled tho blaze with-out success. Some firemen were on duty, to take precautionary measures at 8:00 a. in.

Spreen said tho fire, of undetermined origin, apparently started near the bowling allies in, tho basement. The building also housed ofh'ees, building und, loan association, branch library, several meeting rooms, and auditorium and a dance hall, No one was reported injured,.