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Green Bay Press-Gazette 24 PAGES GAZETTE ESTABLISHED IN fEBRUART, 1HJ IREE PRESS ESTABLISHED IN MAY 1914 GREEN BAY, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1948 ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS PRICE 5c 1 lags Ml HI Gllll IS Rail Dispute Settled; New Pay Demands Seen Arabs and Jews Again Take Up Arms To Settle Party Leaders Begin Hopping Bandwagon General Tells Pepper He Wouldn't Run If Named; Arvey, O'Dwyer Capitulate From Press Dispatches PHILADELPHIA -The Stop-Truman movement collapsed today when General Ike announced he would not accept the Democratic presidential nomination and party leaden began a panicky scramble for the administration bandwagon. In a telegram to Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida, Ikt said: "I would refuse to accept thel Ws' TI I LP fJi I Fighting Erupts in Both Northern and Southern Zones Even Before Truce Expires CAIRO (ff) Arabs and Jews again took up arms to settle the Palestine question both the northern and southern Tel Aviv, the Jewish capital was bombed five hours after the end of the four-week truce Doubt If Lewis Arte vyrS jHv wA -0 id in J. 1 1 1 1 Him in ii iie'" inim imimnii iiiiih v.w-s.v The, black bear which carried off and killed three-year-old Carol Ann Pomrankey from her parents' forest home near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich Wednesday is shown with (left to right) Alex McLean and Clifford Peterman, Michigan conservation officers, and Dr.

C. D. Logsdon, veterinarian, who performed an operation on the dead beast to determine if it was the one that killed the child. It was. (AP Wirephoto) Hushed-Up Story of How Reds oeizea zupenort rinaiiy i oia American Crew and Bomber Interned by Russ During War; Plane Was Never Seen Again WICHITA, Kas.

iff) This is a Rip Van Winkle story from World War II how a B-29 and its American crew were interned by the Kussians in 1844 and how tne story was "hush-hush" until now. The superfort, which made a forced landing on Soviet Holy Land Issue today and fighting erupted in parts of the Holy Land front. last midnight. Haifa, Jewish held port city, had its first air raid alarm since the end of the second World war. A Jewish communique said Israel's troops counterattacked the captured three Egyptian-held villages near Majdal, 28 miles south of Tel Aviv, but admitted loss of two other villages to the Egyp- tIans- The communique said naming continued an lasi mgni after being started by the Egyptians at dawn yesterday, 24 hours before the end of the truce.

Haifa dispatches said Iraq troops and planes attacked a Jewish position in the arc north of Jenin in northern Palestine. Haifa's alert ended a few minutes after it was sounded. The sirens sounded 45 minutes after Count Folke Bernadotte, the U. N. mediator, had left for Rhodes.

He had stopped from a surprise last-minute visit to Amman where he conferred with King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, in an effort to continue the truce or at least eliminate the Holy City of Jerusalem from the zone of military operations. The mediator said here he had discussed with Abdullah the pros pect of averting new fighting in Jerusalem and demilitarizing the city. He said he still was hope ful Earlier, however, he had told newsmen in Amman that he and Abdullah had discussed "many things, including prospects of an other truce in Palestine." Trans-Jordan officials said the talks were on the "possibilities of supplying Jerusalem with water" and observers in Amman believed the visit was concerned mainly with the Jerusalem situation. Under Bernadotte's peace proposals, rejected by both Arabs and Jews, Arab parts of Palestine would be lumped under Abdullah's rule. Abdullah long has dreamed of a greater Trans-Jordan with Jerusalem as its capi tal.

The conflict first broke out on a major scale when Britain dropped her 25-year-old mandate over the Holy Land May 15 and the Jews proclaimed their state of Israel in the part of Palestine allotted them in the U. N. partition clan. The armies of Trans-Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invaded Palestine. General fighting stopped when the truce took effect June 11.

Forecast Bumper Wheat, Corn Crops WASHINGTON iff) The Agriculture department today forecast this year's corn crop at 3,328,862,000 bushels and the wheat crop at 1,241,751,000 bushels. This is the first estimate of the year for corn. It compares with last year's very small crop of bushels, the record of 3,287,927,000 in 1946, and with the ten-year (1937-46) average of 2,813,529,000. The wheat figure is an increase of 49,326.000 bushels from forecast a month ago. It compares with last year's record of 1,364,919.000 and with the ten-year average of 942,623,000.

Winter wheat was estimated at 951,958.000 1 compared with R77.230.000 month aso. last year and for the ten-year average. All spring wheat was forecast at 289.793,000 bushels, compared with 315,195,000 a month ago, 296.949.000 last year and for the ten-year average. Roads Will Be Given Back to Owners Quickly Three Unions Given Wage Boosts, Rule Changes in Order WASHINGTON (U.R) The army announced that it was returning the nation's railroads to their private owners at 2 p. m.

CST today. Government operation of the railroads began May 10 when they were seized by order of President Truman to prevent strike by the three major railroad unions. WASHINGTON U.R Three big railroad unions whose 18 month-old wage dispute was settled only Thursday announced to day they are starting an immedi te drive for third-round pay in creases. President David B. Robertson said the settlement signed Thurs day by his firemen and engine men and two other brotherhoods involved a second-round demand while labor generally is in the third round.

"We're going to ask for the bal nee of our original proposal for a $3-a-day wage increase, Rob ertson told a reporter. He said the unions probably will not ask for further changes in operating rules now. Rule Changes Mean Money The agreement reached at the White house gave the unions a wage hike of $1.24 a day lSMs cents an hour and rule changes which also mean more money. The daily wage increases will be retroactive to Nov. 1, 1947, for the 125,000 workers involved, Increases growing out of rules changes will be dated back to Jan.

1, 1948. The settlement paved the way for the government to return the railroads to private ownership as soon as possible. The army has been running the roads since they were seized by President Truman in May to prevent a strike by the three unions. The railroad industry has inclined to view the settlement as a victory. It closely paralleled the earlier recommendations of 9 presidential board which had been accepted by the operators and rejected by the unions.

Can By-Pass Law Robertson said, however, that the industry agreed that the union may bypass the railway labor act and come back for further pay increases at any time. Without such a provision unions would have had to file their new demands with the individual railroads and go through time-consuming local and regional conferences before they could meet the operators face-to-face on a national basis. "Our agreement has chanced all that," Robertson said. "We expect to proceed concurrently with the other brotherhoods, some of which already have demanded third-round wage increases" Robertson said the unions will TURN TO RAILROADS. PAGES Today's Weather Furnished by U.

S. Weather Bureau For Green Bay and vicinity: Partly cloudy and quite warm tonight and Saturday, with a few lightly scattered thundershowers. Lowest temperature tonight near 66 degrees, and highest Saturday near 90. Gentle southerly winds. For Wisconsin: Fair in south, and partly cloudy in north, with scattered thundershowers in north and west-central portions tonight and Saturday.

Warmer in southeast portion, turning, cooler in pnrthwest nnd extreme north por tions Saturday. Today Tomorrow Thursday 3 p. 82 4 p.m 79 5 p.m 78 6 p.m 76 7 p.m 74 8 p.m 71 9 p.m 70 10 p.m 69 11 p.m 69 12 p.m 68 Friday 1 a. 68 Sunrise Sunset 4:15 7:38 4:16 7:38 Friday 3 a.m. 67 4 a.

66 5 a. 66 6 a.m 69 7 a.m 72 8 a.m 76 9 a.m 81 10 a.m 84 11 a.m 87 12 88 1 p.m 91 2 p.m 92 Trio Killed in Berlin Airlift Three Americans Lose Lives in Plane Crash During Ferry Service BERLIN (ff) American and British officials branded as a fraud tonight the Russian claim that repairs forced them to close the lone railroad between Berlin and the west. Officials of the two military governments said an investigation through "German sources" proved the assertion spurious. "There is nothing- at all wrong with the line; it's a lot of hooey," an American official said. BERLIN Three Amer icans were killed Thursday night when a United States airforce plane flying food to Soviet-blockaded Berlin crashed near Frankfurt They were the first American lives lost in the allied lift to nomination.

President Truman's nomination! apparently now is assured. Ike made his rejection of poll- tics final and complete on his third time at bat In an 800-word letter last February the general disavowed political ambitions sufficiently to eliminate him from consideration for the Republican presidential nomination. In a less complicated statement this week Eisenhower said he would have no part of politics at this time. No Conditions Attached But Democrats eager to use him in a stop-Truman maneuver refused to believe Ike meant it In his telegram to Pepper which the senator made public today, the general said: "No matter under what terms, conditions or premises a proposal might be couched, I would refuse to accept the nomination." Pepper sadly announced he would respect the General's direct request to refrain from putting him in nomination before the Democratic national convention here next week. Other Ike-for-President boosters scarcely can avoid doing likewise.

Two of the big leaders in the movement to draft Eisenhower announced they had abandoned their plans and called for the nomination of President Truman. They are Jacob M. Arvey, chair man of the Cook county Demo cratic party, and Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York. They signed a statement giving their views. "We are now convinced that General Eisenhower is unavail able for such draft," they said, "and that he would not permit his name to go before the electorate." "It is our feeling," the statement continued, "that in the absence of a demonstrated mandate in behalf of many men well qual ified to be president, that it is in the best interests of our country and party that our democracy unite for President Truman." Text of Telegram Following is the text of Eisen hower's telegram: "The public press reports that you may be considering in spite of my recent statement the presenta tion of my name to the Democratic national convention for nomination to the office of the presidency.

"If these reports are correct, I respectfully but earnestly request and urge that you drop such intentions because I assure you that to carry it out would result in acute embarrassment to all concerned as well as confusion in the minds of many of our citizens. My decision, which has twice been made public, is based upon my sincere conviction as to the best interests of our country. Under no con- ISU.0" be in the Psin ZLT "5 swerve from the letter or spirit of my prior announcements. I will not violate my own conception of my appropriate sphere of duty. No matter under what terms, condi tions, or premises, a proposal ly realize that your reported statements not only do me high personal honor but imply the greatest possible confidence in me.

I venture to invoke the aid of that confidence in asking you to accept my refusal as final and complete which it most emphatically is." (Signed) Dwight D. Eisenhower. Earlier, Democratic Chairman J. Howard McGrath had predicted that Eisenhower's name would not be offered as a possible Demo- -f, McGrath also told a news conference he does not believe that Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas will permit his name to be proposed as an opposition candidate to President Truman in the latter's bid for the nomination.

Drive Has Been Detoured In response to questions, Mc Grath said that while he does not think the drive has been stopped, he thinks it has been detoured. It is off Eisenhower boulevard and on some side road," McGrath said. "I don't know just where it is at the moment" The national chairman said he now sees little reason for the holding of an anti-Truman caucus called here for Saturday night by! James Roosevelt, California state chairman, who is seeking another nominee than Mr. Truman. McGrath told reporters he has' been talking over the telephone to Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City.

O'Dwyer announced Thursday he will not attend Saturday night's anti-Truman caucus. McGrath said he had heard nothing directly from Frank Hague, New Jersey Democratic chieftain, or from Jacob TURN TO DEMOCRATS, PAGE 3 I Renewal of War Deplored By Marshall U. N. Security Council Prepares To Take Action Against Arabs From Press Dispatches WASHINGTON (ff) Secre tary of State Marshall today termed deplorable the renewal of fighting in Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Marshall said that according to news reports it appeared the hostilites were resumed by the Arabs.

He told a news conference, how ever, that the official determina tion of who is to blame will have to be made by the United Nations security council. The secretary emphasized that American policy is being conduct ed through the security council. V. British Consult The United States and Britain have been in continuous consultation on the latest developments in Palestine, Marshall addded. Marshall said any question of revising the American arms embargo on American arms shipments to Palestine would have to be dealt with through the U.

N. He said flatly that American foreign policy aims at stopping the fighting in Palestine entirely and in endeavoring to have Jewish and Arab belligerents reach an agreement. Meanwhile the security council prepared to take action against the Arab states for renewing the Palestine war. The council planned to go Into special session as soon as U. N.

Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte filed a more complete report on the Arab decision to end the truce and resume the offensive against! Israel. The Arab decision to start shooting in the Holy Land again made it almost certain that the council would call for swift and stern punishment. May Be Branded Aggressors The United States and Russia said they would seek to invade chapter seven of the U. N. chapter to brand the Arabs aggressors and a threat to world peace.

More significant, the British in dicated they would go along with the Americans in supporting U. N. action against the Arabs since the foreign office had failed in its eleventh hour diplomatic offen- ive to get the Arabs to reverse their decision to fight. The United States was conslder- ng introducing a proposal to have he council "order a halt to the Palestine war a step which the American delegation urged unsuc cessfully on the council before the start of the four-week truce which ended at midnight Thursday. If that failed, and the Arabs continued their war on the Jewish state, the United States was understood to be ready to support or perhaps introduce a sterner proposal under chapter seven of the charter.

If the council decided that the Arabs were a threat to world peace, the U. N. could then mete from ec onomic sanctions to military intervention. Dr. Philip C.

Jessup, in a bitter condemnation of the Arabs at Thursday special session, warned that the United States was prepared "to assume its obligations" under the charter. However, Faris El Khouri of Syria accepted the American challenge and flung it back by daring the United States to ''drop your atom bomb." "The Arabs are ready to die," he declared. Employment Climbed to Ail-Time High in June WASHINGTON (U.R) Employment reached an all-time high of 61,296,000 In June, the census bureau reported today. This was an mcrease of 2.500,000 over May. The bureau said the rise in employment was acquired because large numbers of young people went to work at the close of the school term.

Also, it said, large numbers of housewives took Jobs. Many of them joined the farm labor force. Agricultural employment reached 9,500,000 in June as seasonal employment conditions improved, the bureau said. Will Risk Fine Think He Will Call Off 'Captive' Mine Walkoul So To Avoid Contempt WASHINGTON (U.R) Government labor experts predicted today John L. Lewis will call off the "captive" coal mine strike, if so ordered, rather than risk another fine for contempt of court The mine chieftain will appear before Federal Judge T.

Alan Goldsborough next Wednesday to show cause why 40,000 of his miners should not be ordered back to work in steel company pits. The men have been-out for four days in a union shop dispute which the government claims will "seriously curtail" steel production. Will Challenge Law Lewis is expected to challenge the constitutionality of the Taft-Hartley law's union shop restrictions the nub of the dispute. But If Judge Goldsborough rules against him, government sources said, Lewis probably will give in. Goldsborough is the Judge who has fined Lewis and his United Mine Workers a total of within the past two years lor ignoring court orders.

The judge issued his "show cause" order against Lewis and the union late Thursday at the request of Robert N. Denham, general counsel of the National Labor Relations board. Denham accused Lewis and the mine workers of violating the Taft-Hartley law by insisting on a union shop clause in their 1948 contract without the formality of a rank-and-file election. Held Out Against Pact Most soft coal producers signed the contract, despite the union shop provision. Their mines are now operating for the most part But the steel companies have held out against the new agreement which would force all employees to join the union after they have worked a certain length of time.

Lewis returned to his offfca today from New York, where he negotiated a contract with the Anthracite operators. Meanwhile a secret meeting between Welly K. Hopkins, union counsel, and Harry M. Moses, chief negotiator for the steel companies operating the captive mines, failed to achieve a settlement over the union shop demand of the union. 7 Are Indicted in Horsemeat Scandal At Houston, Tex.

HOUSTON, Tex. (U.R) The Harris county grand Jury today indicted 11 Houston meatpackers, ending five weeks of intermittent investigation in an alleged horse-meat scandal. The indictments were based on 39 separate sales of horsemeat, 20 of them Involving meat sold to schools and served to students in school cafeterias. A total of 14 indictments were returned against the packers, 13 tiialKili huioeiueol kdiek Oini charging the sale of meat doctored with sulfite, a preservative. Four of the men charged with selling the meat also were charged with using sulfite.

Those indicted were Leon C. Boeker, Sam Shenven, Sol and Irving Taub, brothers, William Siros, Guy T. Mazzola, V. A. Wil-born, J.

J. Lieberman, Harry Silverman, L. A. Harris, and Morris H. Cohen.

Boeker held the contract to supply public schools with meat. Conviction in each case could result in maximum penalties of $500 fines for the sale of horsemeat and a $200 fine for each sale of treated meat This Goes Without Saying "Money talks" is an obsolete phrase today. Now it goes without saying. And because so many thousands of Green Bayites know the value of Press-Gazette Want Ads in making money go farther, that goes without saying also. Make the most of their power to help you buy, sell and rent quickly and profitably.

Phone Adams 4400, Ad Taker, today. Find Nothing Odd About Bear Which Chewed Up Child LANSING, Mich. ffh- Preliminary examinations have revealed no abnormality in a bear which killed a three-year-old girl in northern Michigan, it was announced today. Dr. Stanley C.

Whitlock, Conservation department pathologist, and Michigan State college veterinarians said they had confirmed by tests of the stomach contents the findings of northern Michigan doctors that the bear was the one which had mauled and eaten some of the flesh of the child. Bacteriological tests and tests for rabies were progressing, Dr. Whitlock said. Won't Find Anything; "But my honest opinion at the moment," he added, "is that we are not going to find anything. He declared that the unusual incident was apparently "a com bination of a hungry bear and a victim which could not defend itself." Dr.

Whitlock said the bear was a male, weighing between 125 and 150 pounds. It was very thin, "lending credence to the theory it was hungry," he said. He said bears are often half starved at this time of year just before the berry season gets fully under way. "The tests now being made will take several dayj at least to complete," Dr. Whitlock said.

Flown ToXansin The bear's carcass was flown to Lansing Thursday from Sault Ste. Marie. The bear was killed Wednesday some two hours after it dragged little Carol Ann Ponrankey, daughter of a forest ranger, from the back porch of her forest home in Chippewa county. Her mauled body was found by a posse a quarter of a mile from the lonely home shortly before the bear was shot. Conservation officials said this was the first instance in Michigan history in which a black bear killed a human.

Paul Knauer, Milwaukee, Deported to Germany NEW YORK (ff) Paul Knauer, erstwhile leader of the German-American citizens commitree of Milwaukee, sailed Thursday for Bremerhaven on the U. S. Army Transport Gen. Black. He was one of 57 German aliens deported yesterday.

They were described bv Attorney General Tom C. Clnrk as "dangerous to the peace and safety of this country." Chair, Belief punishment. Hoffman was taken to the Wisconsin crime laboratory at Madison Thursday. Curran said he first agreed, then refused to take a lie detector test. The former Chicago cab driver was captured in Canada last Friday by mounted police.

Curran said he has admitted beating his wife during an argument in their Chicago apartment and placing the unconscious woman in the tractor-trailer. Hoffman's statement declared his wife regained consciousness during the trip northward and he struck her again, knocking her from the truck, Curran related. Shewas dead when he picked her up, the district attorney quoted Hoffman as saying. clifl ihl oMoiif be couched, I would refuse aiito accept the nomination. I keen- accept soil Nov.

11, 1944, still is In the! hands of the Russians. And the whole thing might be one of those forgotten incidents of the war ex cept for one fact. The big bomber happened to be the famous "General H. H. Arnold Special," significant both for its combat record against the Japanese and as a symbol of stepped up wartime production at home.

Wanted to Tell Story The superfort held a special spot among the 1,644 B-29's produced by the Wichita division of Boeing Airplane company. Because of that Boeing has wanted to tell the story ever since it heard about it They heard about it Nov. 23, 1944, just 12 days after "The Ar nold" had been interned. But the next day all was "hush- hush." The 20th Air Force asked the incident be kept secret. Only now has this long-withheld infor mation been released with the per mission of the department of the air force.

When the superfortress, veteran of 11 missions and the first of the giant planes to bomb a Japanese target came down on Russian soil its crew, headed by Capt. Weston H. Price of Longview, was interned also. First Lieut. John E.

Flanagan of New York City, co-pilot of "The told of the last mission: She took off from an advance base in China at 1 a. m. that Nov 11 and headed for Omura, Japan. Over the eastern Chinese coast, the airmen encountered overcast skies and broke out of a formation of seven planes to make the run-in alone. But on the way home, the radar went bad and the airmen found themselves 900 miles off course and running low on fuel Choice of China or Russia Realizing they lacked fuel to make it to home base, the fliers had the choice of crashing in ene my-held China or landing at Vladivostok, Russia.

They headed tor Russia. Exactly 12 hours and 45 minutes after their takeoff, the fliers brought the "General H. H. Arnold Special" down at the naval air station, Vladivostok, Russia. When crew members climbed out of the superfort, they were hurried over to Russian naval headquarters.

It was the last time they ever saw the "Arnold." On Feb. 2, 1945 (the war still was on), the crew reached allied lines in Iran and from there returned to the United States. General Arnold, the wartime army airforce commander, tagged 'The Arnold" while making a bomber plant tour in January, 1944. The workers were trying to complete their 175 quota out of 200 superforts needpd to activate the 20th bomber command for the start of B-29 bombing of Japan. When Arnold came along the production line he stopped in front of the nose of the 175th bomber in the assembly procession.

"This is the plane I want right here!" he said and wrote H. Arnold" on the inside wall of the cabin. She was delivered on the verv day set for completion of the AAF's emergency production schedule for 175 "The Arnold" is in Russia now interned by the Russians. Wife Slaver Tryinq To Dodoe wea viler tut: wtatenj auics vcLJt the momentum of the air ferrying service going today. In London diplomatic officials said Thursday night Britain, the United States and France had de cided to delay publication of their notes demanding an end to the blockade for at least 24 hours while Russia thinks the matter over.

Earlier a foreign office spokes man in the British capital had said that in view of press leaks on the terms of the three-power protests, the notes might be pub lished at once. The newspaper France-Soir pub lished in Paris Thursday what it said was an analysis of the pro tests. It said all three powers told the Russians they would not give up any of their rights in Berlin. The plane which crashed was a two-engined C-47. The victims were two U.

S. air force officers the pilot and co-pilot and a civilian passenger. Their names were withheld pending notification of relatives. Up to Thursday midnight the Soviet ground blockade had forced the Americans to fly more than 1,400 plane loads of food Into Ber lin. British and American author ities already have instituted austerity measures for occupation personnel, limiting gasoline allot ments and abolishing entertainment requiring food.

Today's Features Editorials Page 4 Farm Features Page 10 Radio Programs 15 Theater Times Page 15 Comics Page 18 Magazine Section 19 Market Reports Page 20 inios Electric MAUSTON (ff) Dist. Atty. Charles P. Curran said today he believed Mrs. Mollie Hoffman, 24 year old wife of a taxicab driver, was slain in her Chicago apartment.

Mrs. Hoffman's battered body was found in a truck-trailer near Wisconsin Dells June 5, and Chicago police reported finding blood stains in the Hoffman apartment John J. Hoffman, 31, is charged with first degree murder in the slaying under a Wisconsin warrant. He has signed a statement admitting the slaying of his wife, Curran said. "I believe Hoffman is trying to avoid the electric chair in Il linois," Curran said.

"He is scared to death of going back to Chicago." Wisconsin docs not have capital 2 a.m 67 The relative humidity at noon today was 44 per cent. Five-Day Forecast Wisconsin and Minnesota: Temperatures will average 1-3 degrees above normal northeastern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota and 6-8 degrees south. Normal maximum 80 north to 89 south. Normal minimum 56 north to 65 south. Turning cooler Saturday and Sunday, warmer Tuesday and Wednesday.

Precipitation will average xk inch with scattered thundershowers Saturday and Sunday and again Tuesday and Wednesday. Additional Details on l'aee 6 "ir ir.