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Diminishing winds tonight. Partly cloudy and not so cold Friday. Low tonight 5, high Friday 2. PRICE FIVE CENTS NINETY-FIFTH YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950 44 Pages 396 Columns i 1 Prisoners Killed in Fire ITT -MSHS I 4 The National i uj Co ivjlii.il luauL i Cold Halts Threat of Flood Here Jury to Get Mercy Case. Spy Probes Focused on The Capitol Late Today Prisoners Die In Jail Blaze Fourteen Perish as Flames Sweep Guardhouse at Albuquerque' Secret Weapons Base ALBUQUERQUE, N.

March 9 (AP) Oil-fed flames, leaping lightning fast through a Sandia base guardhouse, snuffed out the lives of I 4 military prisoners last night. Trapped with them in the tinder dry wood structure, the prison's other two inmates were injured critically. It was the first major disaster in the history of the war-built installation --v P. 1 1 iJ( i SjBfWfrnillHtilllAiili linift Fight Marks Auto Tieup Business Barometer Is Reported Clearing Economic Council Feels Coal Strike Caused Fright, No 14 A flash fire of unkown origin swept through this Darracks-type prison at Sandia Special Weapons Base, Albuquerque, N. killing 14 prisoners and critically injuring two others Wednesday.

Two guards and five other men were overcome by smoke. The prisoners, locked in three of fourteen blocks, were members of the armed forces serving varying times for various offenses. (AP Wirephoto) Labor Party Awaits Test Vote of Criticism Is Due Late Today on Steel Nationalization LONDON, March 9 Py The Brit ish Labor government faces the first life-or-death test of its narrow parliamentary majority today in a tory-inspired vote of criticism on the steel nationalization law. Political observers on all tides agree that should the Laborites, with a bare edge of only seven seats in the house of commons, lose the vote, the government of Prime Min ister Attlee would be forced to re sign, giving way to new national elections. The independent London Times said today the defeat of the govern ment on the vote, which was proposed by Winston Churchill, Con servative leader, "must lead to their resignation." Attlee's cabinet was reported by the non-partisan British Press association to concur in this view.

If all Labor members are present and voting for the government, then the Attlee regime will survive. Gov ernment leaders have put out an urgent call for all Laborites to meet the opposition threat. The Liberal party with only nine members in the commons could swing the voting either way, if a iew Laborites fail to show up for the voting set for 10 o'clock tonight p. E. s.

The Liberals came out flatly in their election campaign against nationalization of industry. But some See LABOR Page Five Armed Thugs Get 64,000 Haul NEW YORK. March 9 tiP Five men, each carrying a pistol, held up the Long Island City branch of the Manufacturers Trust comnativ to day and escaped. Police reported the robbers took at jeast $64,000. me men held the 17 employes at gunpoint while thev took the money.

There were no customers in the bank at the time. CONSIDERS TWO BILLS Py i ILkK "fcGSSaau- "1 PJ l.B&-&xnrt Observer The News Behind The Day's Neus A WHOLE new batch of bristling, Lindbergh-like laws enabling various federal agencies to abandon their present aloof attitude and spearhead a war on nationally organized crime is expected to result from the proposed congressional investigation of racetrack gambling, numbers rackets, slot machines and underworld hookups. Although the senate has not yet acted on the judiciary committee's favorable report of the Ke-Xauver resolution for the first, comprehensive federal Inquiry of this character, eventual approval is anticipated. The daily capitol hill mailbags bulge with demands for positive action state and municipal officials, church and civic groups and Individuals. It is doubtful if the senate can look the other way, in view of these protests.

Opposition there is considerable opposition to the investigation. Many members are fearful cf lodging too much authority in the FBI, the postal inspectors and the treasury agents. Others do not want to seem to be "too prudish." Some prefer to leave the problem to local authorities rather than to open income tax reports, business operations and office records of suspected racketeers to an even larger army of governmental detectives. Indeed, the White House and Atty. Gen.

McGrath have not shown too keen an interest in the Tennessee senator's demand. Neither Mr. Truman nor Mr. McGrath care to be pictured as a It was considered significant that the Kef auver proposal was. not mentioned except by city and state representatives at Mr Mc-Grath's recent conference of local and federal enforcement officers.

Confidential TVf AYORS and governors, how-AVJ- ever, who see at first hand the political corruption, the gang wars and the murders which occur down the dark, extensive alley's of the nation's empire of See OBSERVE ItPage 10 Old-Time Physician Is Honored DETROIT, March 9 JPh-Tr. John Charles Maxwell of Paw Paw was honored as Michigan's foremost family doctor of 1949 at a postgraduate clinical institute here last Accepting a scroll from the In-situte, the 84-year-old physician described himself as "Just another fam- iiv doctor." He has practiced for 55 vears. "The dav is coming when the country will miss the family he said. "I would rather trust a doc' tor long skilled in all phases of med icine than one of our young spe cialists." But, he added quickly, "we need Rnprialists cood ones. Dr.

Maxwell, arr erect, wnue-naircu figure, credited hard work for his continuing good health. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1895, Dr. Maxwell settled in Paw Paw. Office calls in those days, he recalls, were 50 cents. Town calls were $1 and con-.

finements cost $10. Calls were made by horse and buggy until 1908 when he got his first car. The veteran physician has two children. Dr. James H.

Maxwell, a professor at the University of Michigan, and Miss Katherine F. Maxwell, a medical records analyst in Ann Arbor. He is a native of Decatur, Mich. City Begins Suit To Condemn Land Seek Property for Site of Civic Center The city of Lansing started suit in circuit court herei Wednesday i. i against Fred J.

Heldmeyer and Har riet S. Heldmeyer, see King to condemn property owned by them and located on the site of the Veterans Memorial auditorium and Civic Center. Charles P. Van Note, city attorney, petitioned the court to have the defendants make an appearance within the next 20 days to fehow cause why the condemnation action should not be continued. Municipal officials decided to seek rourt action against Mr.

and Mrs. Heldmever after failing to reach an agreement on a purchase price of th latter's property at 232 S. Chestnut st. The Heldmeyers had asked $22,000 for their nroperty. which aldermen said was too much: The property had been appraised by the Lansing Board of Realtors for $16,000.

The parcel is located within the two block area bounded by Pine and Walnut sts. and Allegan and Washtenaw which has been chosen for the 6ite of a Veterans auditorium and Civic Center build AH but about 14 pieces of property including the Heldmeyer parcel have been acquired in the two block area. If condemnation action is allowed by the circuit court, a three man commission of disinterested persons will be appointed by the court to appraise the property and to recommend a fair purchase price, after hearing testimony by the interested River levels had dropped and winds died down here Thursday, but a cold wave was continuing with a low reading of 5 degrees above zero expected early Friday morning. The low temperatures of Wednes day Wednesday night and early Thursday checked the rise of the Grand and Red Cedar rivers, which crested without causing serious damage. The high mark on the Red Ce dar was reached at East Lansing at midnight, with a reading of 8.9 yet.

oi a loot aoove nooa stage, high reading on theGrand came at 8 o'clock Wednesday night with a reading of 10.4 of a foot below flood stage. Other rivers were also checked bv me near zero mercury readings. See COLD Page 3 Hard Coal Pact Nfea Levis, Operators Reach Basic Agreement on Terms of Contract WASHINGTON. March 9 Basic agreement on terms of a new anthracite labor contract brought prospects today of a comparative peace in tne entire coal industry for some time ahead. John L.

Lewis, head of the TTnitpd Mine Workers union, and anthra cite operators announced last night they were in accord on the nrinei- ples of a settlement. They left final details to lawyers, expecting to ratify the final agreement today. -me contract coverme the 78.000 hard coal miners of northeastern Pennsylvania is expected to be pat terned closely after the soft coal Dact which calls for a 70-cent dailv wage boost for miners plus a 10-cent increase in the previous 20-cent ton nage royalty for welfare payments. Lewis nad asked hard coal oper ators for a bigger royalty increase than the 10-cent boost won in soft coal. But it was.

reported he finally agreed to the same royalty increase. Terms were not announced by the anthracite negotiators. An end of the three-dav work week in anthracite mines was ordered by Lewis. There had been no strike in hard coal as there had been in soft coal. Instead, the anthracite miners went on a three-day week last Dec.

5. The hard coal miners were to con tinue working today and tomorrow in their first full five-day week, this year. A production quota set for this week will keep most hard coal miners working this Saturday, too, at time and half rates. Meanwhile, Sen. Taft (R-O) told the senate yesterday that Pres.

Truman's handling of the soft coal strike prolonged the dispute. Taft said the administration had "encouraged open defiance of the law." Dies in Attempt To Save Nephews Three Boys Had Escaped From Flaming Home PONTIAC, March 9 (JPh-A frantic uncle burned to death today as he dashed into a blazing Farmington township house to rescue three nephews who already had escaped. The victim was Fremont p. Byrne, 28. Byrne lived with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr, and Mrs.

Francis J. Byrne, and their three children, David, 11; Richard, and Robert, 5. All escaped from the burning house, but in the excitement Fremont failed to find ttie three nephews who had fled through a differ ent exit. Throwing a blanket over his head, he dashed back into the blazing frame house. The boys he sought saw him col lapse through a living room window.

Blistering heat drove back would-be rescuers. Burning like tinder, ttie whole house caved in within 10 minutes. The fire started in a drip pan be neath an oil heater. Heavy smoke awakened Mrs. Byrne who roused her husband, 38, their children and the uncle.

The father threw the blazing pan out a window, but seconds later the stove exploded, spewing burning fuel through the house. Elderly Couple Killed in Fire At Muskegon MUSKEGON. March 9 UPyAn elderly couple, apparently overcome as thpv tried to escaDe. died in a fire at their home early today. The victims, both in their 70s, were Mr.

and vorneuus i-re Youne. Firemen found tneir Domes in their smoke-filled one-story frame home in Muskegon Heights. They apparently had suffocated. Defective wiring over a Dasement stairs was believed the cause or the blaze. The house was heated by a furnace.

The fire broke out at about a. m. Dense smoke filled the house when firemen arrived at 5:25. Evidently the De Youngs had collapsed while trying to flee. Their bodies, clad in night clothing, were found lying across their bed as if they had fallen after arising in a futile effort to esoape.

Frank Sparks Fnheral Will Be Held Friday GRAND RAPIDS. March 9 (UP) Funeral services for Frank M. Sparks, retired editor of the Grand Rapids Herald, will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the First Methodist church. Sparks, 73, died late Tuesday. McCarthy Points Finger at State Department Employes WASHINGTON.

March 9 UP) Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) pointed the senate's wrangling Communist hunt ers toward fresh targets today among state department employes, after his first charge was hotly denied by a woman -former judge. McCarthy, who said that Communists are now or have been working for the department, was ready at today's hearing to enlarge and document his charges that Miss Dorothy Kenyon has been listed as a member of 28 subversive organiza tions. The senator also brought into his testimony the name of Dr. Philip C.

Jessup, the state department's ambassador -at-large, who he said was listed as a sponsor of a sub versive organization. Chairman Tydings tD-Md) of a senate foreign relations subcommit tee hearing McCarthy's charges, said any persons accused by the Wisconsin senator will get a chance to testify later in their own behalf. The Kenyon charge completed, McCarthy was expected to turn to a case friends said would involve a present employe of the state de part men whom the Wisconsin sena tor describes as a bad security risk. Label McCarthy 'Liar Miss Kenyon, former New York municipal court judge who served a three-year term ending last December as U. S.

delegate to the U. N. commission on the status of women, called McCarthy a liar for his charges that she belonged to Communist front groups. She said she never heard of most of them, although she may have made speeches before some of them. "Sen.

McCarthy is a liar. He is taking cowardly refuge in his con gressional immunity to smear inno cent people," she declared. At Lake Success, persons who had seen Miss Kenyon in action as a U. N. delegate said she was a vociferous critic of soviet policy, sometimes going beyond the official U.

S. position to express personal anger with Russian claims. McCarthy told reporters he can't believe "that 28 Communist front organizations would misuse her name. Ill be called a lot of names be fore I'm through with this investigation," he added. 'Higrh Official Involved One name that McCarthy said he' couldn't call, however, was that of a high state department official he had accused in the senate of help ing keep an alleged disloyal employe on the department's rolls.

Tydings made quite a point of trying to get that name yesterday. Tydings told reporters he regarded this charge of McCarthy as the biggest thing in the whole case." At one point in yesterday testi mony McCarthy agreed to supply the name of the high official Tydings would drop around to the Wisconsin senators office. Tydings declined the invitation. Later McCarthy told a news conference he doesn't know the name of the official, but will supply committee with the name of the allegedly disloyal employe he said was shielded from discharge. "The committee can find the name of the official in the files I'm sure it is in the files," McCarthy said.

'Emergency9 Designation Lifted Here Lansing's emergency designation due to the recent coal shortage, was officially lifted late Wednesday aft ernoon by Gov. Williams after being Informed that the city has a sufficient supply of fuel to meet local demands. Mayor Ralph W. Crego informed the governor that a state of emergency no longer exist3 in the community, following a meeting Wednesday noon with Walter A. Oraff, fuel administrator ana tne emergency fuel committee.

Lilting of emergency regulations here permitted dealers to deliver coal in any amounts they could provide. Near zero temperatures Wednes day afternoon and evening, resulted in an increase in coal orders to local dealers Thursday morning, it was reported. A survey of coal stocks in the city revealed that while there is no large surplus, there is sufficient fuel in dealers' yards to supply needs of consumers until new shipments of soft coal from reopened union mines arrive sometime early next week. Where to Look Bedtime Stories 21 Believe It or Not 38 City in Brief ....13 Comics r. ...38 Crossword Puzzle Daily Patterns 11 Dorothy Dix Editorials Food 24 to 35 Health Talks 10 Markets 40 New York Day by Day .10 Radio 39 Society 18.

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11 IS 1 m. m. 11 14 I m. 1 ......17 Defense and Prosecution Present Their Final Arguments at Trial MANCHESTER, N. March 9 UP) A jury trying N.

Sander for murder today heard a prosecutor demanWus conviction for "taking the law into his own hands" in the death of a cancer ridden patient while the defense counsel declared the woman died of her illness. Closing arguments brought the issue of euthanasia into the forefront of the trial with Louis E. Wy- man, chief defense counsel, insisting that is not the defense in this case even though the prosecution raised tne question. Dr. Sander Is on trial for first degree murder on charges he killed an incurable cancer patient "with malice aforethought" by injecting 40 cubic centimeters of air into her veins.

The patient was Mrs. Abbie C. Borroto, 59, Manchester housewife and a close personal friend of the defendant. Doesn't Ask Death Penalty Prosecutor William L. Phinney, In his 55-minute summation, again failed to ask the death penalty for Dr.

Sander but he did ask for a verdict of guilty of first degree murder However, it is still within the province of the jury to recommend death by hanging if it returns a conviction for first degree murder. Without such a recommendation life imprisonment Is the maximum possible penalty. The judge's charge to the Jury was to be made after the noontime recess which followed the conclu sion of Phinney's summation. Then the jnry will retire to reach a verdict. After you have completed your deliberations you will return here and you will orally state your find ings on first degree murder with capital punihment, first degree murder, second degree murder, or not guilty, said Wyman in his sum mation.

The state will not ask you for capital punishment, I'm sure," Wyman said. "This is not that kind of a case." The other two decrees of murder involve, first, premeditation. So we submit to you in this case that there is no premeditation, that there is no malice which involves a bad heart, a wicked motive." Wyman told the jury "the burden of proof of the essential elements is upon tne state. There is a presumption that a man charged with the commission of See MERCY CASE Page African Tribal Chief Votes to Battle Exile Edict LONDON, March 9 -Seretse Khama, Oxford educated Negro chief of the African tribe of Bam-angwatos has vowed to fight Brit- am action to exile him and his white British wife from his homeland. The government's decision de priving the 27-year-old chief of the throne, given to him by a vote of the tribe, has threatened repercus sions throughout the polyglot Brit ish eommon wealth and even in the United Nations.

v. Commonwealth Relations Secy. Patrick Gordon-Walker announced in the house of commons yesterday that Seretse was ordered not to re turn to his homeland in the British protectorate of Bechuanaland. It brought severe criticism from several members of the house of com mons, including Winston Churchill, and in most of London press. Seretse earlier had charged that he had been tricked into coming to London.

His wife, the former Ruth Williams who was once a London typist, has stayed behind in the mud hut capital of'Serowe, awaiting the birth of their first baby. Seretse told newsmen last night: I intended to fight the decision." He declared he would challenge it in court or possibly in the United Nations. He also said he would go home soon in defiance of the exile order. He ordered his wife to stay in Se- rowe. Leaders of colored colonial peo ple's organizations began drafting protests.

Their spokesman, Learie Constantme, a West Indian cricket player, said: "We shall oppose this treacnery and if necessary we shall appeal direct to the king; for the whole future relationship between the colored and white peoples or tne empire is now gravely threatened." New York Central Restores Service Schedules of 54 Major Trains to Resume NEW YORK. March 9 0f The New York Central railroad plans to restore 54 major trains beginning Sunday. It has to continue, however, to curtail 25 percent of its regular mileage. This was required by the ICC of all roads having 10 days or less supply of coal. The Central now has only a 5.4 days' supply.

Passenger trains to be restored include: Michigan Central: Sunday Train 44. daily, Chicago -to Buffalo; and Trains 305 and 306. daily, between Detroit and Toledo. Monday Train 335, daily, Buffalo to Detroit; and Train 375 (Mercury) daily, De troit to Chicago. Fight! point for the atomic bomb Two guards, alerted by prisoners cries, vainly tried to rescue them from behind bars and meahed wtre windows.

They were overcome along with six others fighting the blaze. Twenty additional officers and men also were treated for smoke effects. Investigators said there was no doubt the fire started from one of two big oil stoves used to heat the prison. They still sought to determine how and why today. It was all over 25 minutes after the first alarm was sounded at 7:35 p.

m. (M. S. Thirteen of the prisoners apparently died in the first few seconds; the other succumbed two hours later at a hospital. Most of the victims were believed to have inhaled the intense, almost instantaneous heat and suffocated, Sandia authorities said.

reported there were few outcries to indicate any suffered long. No Explosion Contrary to first reports, MaJ. Kenneth Kolster, Sandia's intelligence officer, said there was no evidence of an explosion. Examination of the charred, dank smelling structure afterward bore him out. Damage consisted principally of badly scorched ceilings and walls, mostly in a 100-foot, L-shaped corridor and three cell blocks.

It appeared ttie fire flashed overhead in less time than it takes to tell. The prisoners had finished their evening meal a short time before. Some already were in bed, reading or sleeping. Bodies of two were found in a shower room; three others lay Just outside the door. Personal effects littered their quarters, some scarcely touched by the blaze.

Nearly a fourth of the two-tiered bunk beds were not even: scorched. Several contained maga zines, oDviousiy dropped as tneir owners leaped up in alarm." Helmets and freshly shined shoes stood under some. Clothing, hung head-high racks, generally was part burned. The two guards were the building's only occupants besides the 16 pris oners. One, cpL Richard A.

Miller, 27, of Stockton, was in the guarcaiouse ornce at the opposite end of the building from the flaming stove when fire was discovered. The other, Pvt. Wilbur Henry, 22, of South Zanesville, was walk ing back to the office midway along the corridor. He had passed the stove five minutes earlier. Both were overcome bv smoke.

but attendants said they probably would be able to leave the hospital today or tomorrow. Recently Inspected Kolster said the fire-sweot miard- house a temporary type building is at least tnree-quarters of a mile from the nearest restricted area, in which activities are secret. He reported a representative of the provost marshal (reneral's office in Washington inspected, the base less than a month ago and pronounced all buildings, Including the prison, in excellent condition from a -safety standpoint. me provost marshal. Lt.

Col. Ralph Tolve, and post police and prison officer Lt. Stephen- H. Perry, and three unidentified civilian firemen also were overcome by smoke. sandia is a field installation of the armed forces special weapons project.

It works closely with Los Alamos atomic installation, 60 miles to the north, and nearby Klrtland field, the air force's special weapons command. See PRISONERS Page 2 Driver Nabbed In Long Chase; Gets $15 Fine Lansing police engaged in a 25- mile chase at speeds ranging to 85 miles per hour early Thursday morning to apprehend a Creek man accused of reckless driving. Patrolmen John Williams and Os car Watkins arrested Bernard Cull, 30, after chasing him in a police cruiser from Washington ave. and Main west on highway M-78 to a point a mile west of Charlotte. The.

officers reported that their attention was drawn to the Cull car because of the allegedly reckless manner and high speeds at which was beitng driven. The chase led them west out of the city on Mam st. Cull's car managed to keep far enough ahead of the police car to prevent officers from getting a good look at his license number. Finally, after a wild dash over highway M-78 and through Char lotte, the Datroimen managed to overhaul the CuU car a mile west of that community. Mr.

Cull pleaded guilty to reck less driving when arraigned in municipal court here Thursday morning. He was assessed a fine of $15 and placed on probation ior eix months. Judge Paul C. Younger said that, under the terms of Cull's probation, he. is forbidden to op erate any motor vehicle for the next 30 days.

Man Dragged from Vehicle And Beaten by Mob in Chrysler Strike DETROIT. March 9 UP) The first violence in the 44-day Chrysler strike was reported today at the company's plant Marysville. John R. Scribo, assistant account ant at the plant, was beaten as he drove into the parking lot. Chrysler, in a statement at its nain office here, said waa dragged from his car twice by pickets and beaten, then left on a highway.

The company said he suffered 20 concussions, a cut on his lower lip, both eyes were blackened and his hand was injured. He was treated at the plant hospital. Fred Snay, Marysville police chief. summoned state police and sheriff's deputies to aid his men but they did not intervene. They said they would watch the situation but plan no immeaiaie action.

There was no comment from officials of the C. .1. Cv United Auto Workers. Chrysler said pickets smashed the windows in Scribo's car and also those an auto carrying a girl employe to work. The Marysville plant normally employs about 1,400 persons.

Only Se FIGHT Pre Rush Food To Hungry Children PHOENIX, March UP) Nearly 100 starving children are eating their first nourishing meal In many weeks at a migratory workers camp near here today, thanks to a kindly Judge. Food boxes and medicine were sent to the area yesterday on orders of Superior Judge Thomas J. Croaff, Juvenile court Jurist, shortly after the situation Was first disclosed. Judge Croaff said children were found with distended abdomens. A family with six children ranging from 17 months to 11 years said it had been without food for 10 days and a crippled father told investigators he had sold a pint of blood to obtain food for his six children.

A report on the camp, 14 miles -west of Phoenix, revealed many other families were subsisting on flour and water biscuits and lard gravy. Most of the men have been without work for some time. About 100 families live in the area. Judge Croaff ordered use of Juvenile department funds to cover cost of the rescue work and directed John H. Walker, chief Juvenile probation officer, to bring the worst cases to the county children home for care.

Convention Hears U. S. Commissioner Nearly 700 Attend Annual Education Conference "It is a basic assumption in America that equality an inherent personal right and that our way of life, if it 1 to endure, must guarantee that right to each Thia not t.ha thorn of an address Wo TTarl KrCiraA.Yi. Washington. D.

United States commissioner of education, at a noon iuncnen to some 700 representatives of local citizens groups throughout Michigan interested in educational problems. Tho pi M7 a tv gathered at the Hotel Olds Thursday, for the 11th annual Citizens Conference on juoucation, ts nrrfir irnnir that our waV of life endure, youths in our schools should be taugnt ana soia maw i is the best way. it is tnrougn ins nf Vi mmmunltv and the effort they put forth toward helping the schools that this will be accomplished, "for, it is in our schools that individual talents and capabilities of all of tomorrow's citizens can be discovered Mr. McGrath declared. Several other autnonuea in educational field spoke and led discussion groups relative to education throughout the day.

Opening the morning general session at 9:30 was Dr. Lee M. Thurs- ciinorlntendent Of DUbllC in struction who discussed the purpose of the conference. Following him was Henry Toy. New York, executive director gee CONFERENCE Ps 1 high levels; production high (but down perhaps 3 percent lor February because of the strike): building at near-record levels; business investment slowing down not seriously yet, but enough to bear watching.

Judith Gets 15-Yr. Term Miss Coplon 1st Sentenced For Spy Plot; Gubitchev Ordered Deported NEW YORK, March 9 Coplon was sentenced to 15 years in Jail today for plotting to spy for Soviet Russia. Valentin A. Gubitchev, her partner, received 15- year suspended sentence and was ordered deported to Russia within two weeks. Miss Coplon was sentenced to five years on a charge of espionage and 15 years on the count of attempted espionage, the sentences to run con currently.

Gubitchev received a suspended sentence and was ordered deported by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan at the recommendation of the gov ernment. The Judge specified that the term imposed might not be served concurrently with a sentence of 40 months to 10 years Judith Coplon received! in Washington, D. on kindred charges. Before the judge spoke, Gubit chev declared in a courtroom statement that the case had been "arti ficially manufactured" against him.

The statement in English was is sued to reporters by his attorney beiore delivery. The diminutive Gubitchev, de clared: "The mere fact of bringing me to trial constitutes an unprecedented violation of rules of international law and of the national law oi the U. S. A. itself.

I am a soviet diplomat of the rank of third secretary of the ministry for foreign affairs of. the U. S. S. R.

"The arbitrary and the provoca tive character of the actions of the U. S. authorities against me are all the more aggravated since I violated, in 'no way, any laws of the IT. S. A.

"This was established during the proceedings in this case artificially manufactured against me. No proof of my guilt was offered despite the fact that the prosecution worked hard to show my very ordinary actions meeting with a girl, entering a subway, walking into a food store, etc. as actions which constitute a threat to the se curity of the TJ. S. Gubitchev went on to say that he was arrested without a and subjected to hours of grilling by FBI agents who, he eaid, sought information about Russia from him.

He asserted that his telephone con versations were intercepted and that the FBI deliberately destroyed the records because, he said, they would have, shown that he did no wrong. 4 Gov. Dewey Undergoes Surgery on Shoulder at ANY. N. March 9 CP) Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey underwent an operation eariy mis monuns ior acute bursitis, at Presbyterian Medical Center in New York city. The operation was performed on the governor's right shoulder by Dr. Harrism t. Mr.Lanshlin and "ap peared to be entirely successful," uewey oiiice A calcium growtn was removed from a bone.

Alma Man Resigns ALMA, March 9 WV-Earl Peterson 'announced his resignation as business manager at Alma college Wednesday to accept a post as superintendent of school in WASHINGTON, March 9 (P) The barometer of 1950 business, badly clouded by the coal was reported clearing nicely today to a forecast of sunny and generally prosperous; Pres. Truman council of econom ic advisers, while not issuing any statements, reportedly felt" that the mine shutdown brought; a bad fright but no lasting damage. The council, informed officials said, is again standing on its official January appraisal that for 1950 "the economic outlook is good." May Avert Letdown Some. federal economists feel the pent-up production which now is re leased may give an extra fillip to business, sales and employment, in the process of catching up on de ferred orders. 1 Others, who had feared a slump after midyear, now believe a let down may be postponed possibly even until next sprmg-i-wtien the usual seasonal upturn might, cancel it entirely.

Emphasizing that it is too early to gauge the force of industry's rebound, one top-ranking economist noted the ambitious schedules set for restoring output in the steel, auto and metal-working Industries. He commented: "I can't see anything except a very favorable prospect in the coming months." This could be upset by more big strikes. The impressive gains won by John L. Lewis miners which broke an almost solid front of em ployer resistance to sizable "fourth, round" wage boosts is expected to inspire other unions to more aggres sive demands. The dangers involved were pic tured by John D.

Clark, a member of the President's economic council, on Feb. 15 when the coal strike was beginning to choke railroad, steel and public utilities. The economy does not expand when men are idle, Clark said. If the strike should continue until April or after, he predicted then, it would bring serious unemployment and a "terrible demoralization of industry. Peace Came in Time Instead, Sunday's settlement came in time to ward off disaster.

Except for the mining areas directly affected, sales were not lost but postponed. in other respects economists find the outlook much as described inJ gress 60 days ago: Income and consumer spending at longer benefit periods, and less punative disqualifications provided in this bill, would have accomplshed the purpose for which the law was intended provision of reasonable security for the unemployed." Reeardinsr the FFPn mii tv. ernor said he had sent letters to Republican and Democratic legislative ieauers ana to neaas of the committee for civil rights, inviting them to attend a meeting in his office aaarcn 10, cuscuss tne matter. The governor pointed out "that both the Democratic nrwi RrMiKii.an parties have. pledged the enactment oi rtLtru legislation and that he would open the special session to consideration of the- isxu it a v.ni could be agreed upon by leaders of Dotn parties and the civil right committee.

The governor aid he believed that "only through a genuine bi-partisan and non-tlolitirAl armraas-V tn FEPC issue, can we hope to achieve legislation wnich would receive the aDDroval of a makritv.of the lpi fi lature at the 1950 special session. ine question remains, can such an approach be achieved at this time; can a dux De or ax tea wnica wouia meet with the approval of both po- See BOOST Page 3 Williams Will Ask Boost In Unemployment Benefit Gov. Williams said Thursday he will ask the special session of the legislature. convening next week, to increase unemployment compen-1 satton benefits. He also announced that he would ask leaders of both political parties to agree with the Michigan committee for civil rights on a bi-partjsan fair employment practices bill.

He said if agreement could oe reacnea on an PEPC bill and he had assurance of its favorable consideration, he would submit it to the special session. Williams said the proposed amendments to the unemployment compensation act would lengthen the maximum benefit period rrom the present 20-eeks to 26 weeks and increase the maximum benefit rate from $24 a week to $30 a week, and raise the rate for each dependent child from $2 to $3 a week. "This law was developed to stabilize employment and to relieve the distress of the unemployed," Gov. Williams said, "but instead or saving thousands of families from dis tress and saving public funds during the substantial unemployment of 1949, we actually built up the total of unemployment compensation in the bank. The increased benefits, 1 13 IS? SUt Jaarnkl temserstaras.

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