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fa ig 0 ig nun Important! Subscribers who fail to get their newspaper, please call 7711 between 6:45 and 7:30 o'clock and It will be delivered at once. Net Paid 97Q4 Circulation 4,10 Thursday Total Distribution 25,153 THE AST IS GONE FAC VOL. XLI. NO. 221 SHEBOYGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1948 PRICE 5 CENTS If mm T7 (3W(S (B Attorney Dies Hearings On Communists Postponed Until Sept 15 Attempt Is Made By Communists To Gain Control Dr.

Benes Summoned At Prague Former President Of Czechoslovakia Dies Few Months After Communist Coup Preparations Will Be Eggs Hurled At Wallace Car If lb P- I Jmh EXTRA! Denies Price Supports Keep Prices High Washington. IJP Secretary of Agriculture Brannan today said Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and other top republican leaders want to destroy farmers price supports by blaming them for "exhorbitant-ly high prices cf certain foods." Brannan told a news conference sucn an intention by the GOP leaders "has become apparent within the last 24 hours." Ha said: "Apparently they are willing to risk this in an effort to create confusion in the minds of the American people about the responsibility for high prices neglected responsibility with which they stand indicted before the whole nation." The secretary saw reporters just after he had talked with President Truman at the White House. Brannan accused republicans in congress of depriving the Commodity Credit Corporation of power to help farmers store the huge grain crops.

He said: "The special-interest group the big grain dealers for whom this crippling action was performed is now in the process of reaping many millions of dollars at the expense of the producers of wheat and other cereal grains. They stand to reap further profits when the big corn crop is harvested." The secretary continued: "Within the last 24 hours, it has become apparent that Mr. Dewey through Harold Stassen, who After a radio broadcast at Shreveport, Henry A. Wallace, president, was met by a crowd of about 750 outside the studio last about eight to 10 eggs were thrown. One egg can be seen on the is at far left in the rear seat.

(Acme Telephoto). Strikes Slow Flow Of Commerce Today (By The Associated Press) Strikes squeezed off the flow of commerce in important arteries at both ends of the nation today. On the west coast, 12,000 of Harry Bridges' CIO longshoremen brought a halt to export and import shipping at ports from Canada to Mexico yesterday. In New York City, 10,000 truck drivers and helpers half of the city's cartage crews were idle as the AFL Teamsters' union local 807 went into the third day of its strike. Additional drivers were quitting under pressure of the strikers.

The longshoremen stopped work because the Waterfront Employers' association and the American Ship Owners' association refused deal with Bridges' union be cause its leaders had not sighed non-communist affidavits. Both Bridges and the employers termed the strike a fight for survival, and the longshoremen's leader told his men to prepare for a battle of four to six months' duration. The walkout idled 16,000 shore-bound seafarers, stopped movement by rail of most export freight Made For Further Inquiry Into Hiss And Chambers Case Washington. (AD Tno. house unAmerican activities committee decided today to postpone until Sept.

15 the resumption of its Red spy hearings. Chief Investigator Robert E. Stripling said the committee will go ahead then with efforts to unravel conflicts in testimony given by Alger Hiss, former high state department olficial, and Whit-taker Chambers, an avowed former member of a communist underground. Stripling said Chairman J. Par-nell Thomas has advised him the committee intends to complete the and Elizabeth T.

Conticy hearings before getting into the story of a new spy r1 -r The investigation was to hav been resumed 7. Stripling said the delay is necessary to give the committee ar.d its staff time to complete prepaiations. Thomas has said the alleged new spy ring which the committee will look into involves government employes. Plan Condon Hearing Hearings also have been planned for Dr. Edward U.

Condon, federal bureau of standards director, accused in a committee report of being "one of the weakest links in the nation's atomic Condon has replied that the nation is safe Jn that event. He has denied the committee accusations. Prior to the committee report he had been cleared by a federal loyalty board. A house labor subcommittee, investigating alleged infiltration of communism in labor unions, has recessed its public hearings until late September. This group has decided to ask officials of some electrical companies how they feel about doing business with communists in the labor movement.

Conflicting Storie Conflicting stories on that point have been told by two CIO leaders who are bitter enemies. Rep. Kersten subcommittee chairman, told reporters it would be a "dangerous setup" if management "co-operates with So, he said: "We are going to get in touch with management to ascertain the facts and very possibly call management as witnesses." Meat Packer In Attack On High Prices Armour Company Skips Payment Of Dividend Board Chairman Asserts Costs Are Too High (By United Press) One of the nation's biggest meat packets complained today about the high cost of meat. The packers themselves often have been accused of keeping meat prices high, but Armour Co. skipped payment of a quarterly dividend to its stockholders, and said high prices were partly responsible.

As a result, the company's stock dropped more than two points tn the New York stock exchange. George A. Eastwood, chairman of Armour's board of directors, told stockholders that packers have been forced to pay farmers sky-high prices for hogs and cattle. Eastwood said thers has been such "severe competition" among packers for the small supply of available meat animals that "livestock prices have advanced far beyond levels warranted by the selling price cf meats." The company had paid two dividends of 30 cents each on common stock earlier this year. Eastwood also blamed the ptica break last February, followed by the 10-week strike by packing; plant workers last spring, for "unsatisfactory" operating results.

"The situation confronting us is not Eastvoi said. Rump Meeting Held As Conferees Of Big Four Discuss Currency Dispute Berlin. (UP) Communists moved openly to seize the Berlin city government today as the Big Four military governors continued conferences to settle the east-west currency dispute and agree on lifting the Soviet surface blockade of the German capital. Thi3 evening two meetings of political importance were taking place in the city. One was seeking, within the bounds of agreements reached at the Moscow conferences, a settlement in the cold war between the Russians and the western allies.

The other appeared designed to cause new confusion and ill feeling. The first was at the Allied control authority building, where the four military governors were working fast and reportedly making good progress on plans to establish the Soviet eastern mark as Berlin's only currency, and lift 76-day old blockade. Would Usurp Functions The other was at the Berlin city hall, in the Soviet sector, where communist members and sympathizers among the city assembly met and formed what they called "the democratic bloc of Berlin." They apparently sought to usurp the functions of the elected city assembly, which is predominantly non-communist. Communist demonstrations twice have broken up scheduled city assembly meetings, and the assembly called off another attempt to meet today because Maj. Gen.

Alexander Kotokov, Soviet commandant in Berlin, refused to guarantee police protection. The communist "rump" meeting was held instead, in the usual assembly room, and the communists acted on matters which legally fall within the province of the assembly. It was announced that the communist group will meet each two weeks, as the elected assembly is supposed to do. Political observers saw the action as the long expected open move of the communists to seize the city government, and anticipated that the elected city administration would have no option but to move out of the Soviet sector entirely. Foresee Complete Split This would mean a complete split in city government between the Soviet sector, which the communists would dominate, and the American, British and French' sectors, which would be governed by the elected non-communist members of the assembly.

The military governors meanwhile opened their fourth session in consecutive days at 5 p. m.f took a brief rest after about two hours, and then continued their discussions. Reliable sources said new reports have been prepared for the governors by the key committees considering transport, finance and trade Today's meeting of the governors is the third in days. It was understood the basic issues of the Berlin crisis have not yet been discussed because of extended consideration of technicalities. However, indications of optimism among the Russians were reflected in the Soviet zone press this morning.

The western zone press was more restrained. Western authorities took the position that it was too soon to express optimism or pessimism. The high level conferences were paralleled by other conferences inricating the trend of the talks. Willi Besener, president of railroads in the Soviet zone, began a round of discussions with zonal rail executives on plans to remove the Soviet blockade. Tha alleged repairs needed by railroads supplying Berlin, which the Soviets advanced as their excuse for imposing the 76-day-old blockade, now were reported "almost finished.

German quarters said train3 could start their runs into the blockaded capital within a few hours after the Russians gave their approval. Prague. UP) Eduard Benes, who helped found Czechoslovakia and was twice its president, died today. He was 64. The statesman who rose to world acclaim from ranks of the peasants was stricken early Tuesday and had been unconscious since.

Coughing spasms weakened his tired old fighting heart, which finally gave way. He died at his country home at Sezimovo at 6:10 p. m. Benes had a stroke a year ago. His arteries had hardened.

His last year of life was doubly saddened by the coup through which communists seized power in his republic and by the death plunge soon afterward of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk. The foreign minister was the son of Thomas Masaryk, with whom Benes helped to form the Czechoslovak republic in 1918. Resigned Last June Sick and disheartened, Benes resigned as president last June 7 rather than sign the new constitution the communists drafted. Klement Gottwald, the communist he had appointed premier, succeeded him. He resigned as president once before when Hitler, greedy for the Czechoslovak Sudetenland, forced the Munich crisis which preceded World War II.

He returned to Czechoslovakia in 1945 after wartime exile in the United States, Britain and briefly in Russia, where he signed a 20-year mutual assistance agreement with the Soviet Union in 1943. Resigned Twice Eduard Benes, a man beloved of his people, was twice forced to resign as Czechoslovakia's president under pressure of totalitarian rule. In the first instance it was the forces of Nazism under Hitler. On the second occasion Soviet-sponsored communism was his foe. Benes presided at the founding of the Czechoslovak republic with the hero liberator Thomas G.

Masaryk. That republic, born out of World War was a culmination of a 20-year struggle against Hapsburg rule. Benes fought bitterly against the pact of Munich, but lost. His nation was handed over to the domination of Hitler. He resigned the presidency he had assumed in 1935 when Masaryk, ill, left the position.

Benes went into exile in the United States and Britain. Still vigorous and a lover of democracy, he maintained his close ties with his people under the Nazi bondage. He returned from his long exile in 1945, and managed to keep a shaky coalition government working through almost three years of turbulent postwar adjustment. But age illness and tragedy stalked him, and on June 7, 1948, he resigned rather than approve a new constitution drawn up by the communists. Klement Gottwald, the communist premier, succeeded him.

People Loved Him The love of his people persisted. It was demonstrated strikingly a month after his resignation when 80,000 marchers in the Sokol congress cheered his name and gave Gottwald only silent treatment. The storm began to gather late in 1947 when the communists were bracing themselves in a bid for power. It broke early in 1948. Anti-communist ministers offered Benes their resignations in an (Continued on page 6, column 1) Skaff Brothers Fined For Selling Passes For Fair Two Sheboygan men were fined $25 each in Milwaukee district court Thursday on charges of disorderly conduct after being arrested Aug.

20 for selling employe passes to the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition, Deputy District Attorney John Barry said William Skaff, 40, and his brother, Louis, 42, of 617 New York avenue, netted about $25 on their ticket sales. Louis obtained the tickets from his brother, who was a gate attendant, and sold them to exposition visitors, Barry said. B. J. Husting, 70, former U.

S. district attorney for eastern Wisconsin and former major league baseball pitcher, died at Milwaukee today. B. J. Husting, Mavville, Dies At Age Of 70 Former Pitcher In Major Leagues And Former U.

S. District Attorney For Eastern Wisconsin Called Milwaukee. (P) Berthold J. (Pete) Husting, 70, of May villa, former United States district attorney for eastern Wisconsin, and a former major league pitcher, died at Columbia hospital today. Husting entered the hospital Wednesday for a checkup.

He suffered a hemorrhage early today and died within a few minutes. His health had been poor for several years, dating back to a heart attack about six years ago. Husting's baseball career began in the late '90s when he pitched the University of Wisconsin squad to a Western Conference championship in 1898. In football, lie was a backfield mate of Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin's famed drop-kicker. Husting became ineligible when he refused to sign a statement that he had not played professional ball with state teams during the summer.

He coached the Badger nine for a year before he graduated from the law school in 1900. Signed By Connie Mack Connie Mack signed Husting for the Milwaukee club in I960 after seeing "Pete" pitch for a Fond du Lac semi-pro club. When Mack went to the Philadelphia Athletics as manager he took Husting with him. Husting won 15 games and lost six as the won the pennant in 1902. He also pitched for Boston in 'le American League and Pittsburgh in the National League before his career ended.

An accident at home during the off season forced his retirement as a player. While running across hi3 yard at night, Husting ran into a wire clothesline, cutting his right eye so severely that he lost the sight. Husting was appointed U. S. attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin by President Roosevelt in 1933 and served until 1944.

He then returned to Mayville to (Continued on page 4, column 4) health care in the United States." He estimated the cost at "upwards of $6,000,000,000 Ewing. however, said in his report to Mr. Truman, "it is pure poppycock and deliberately misleading to say that government "health insurance would make medicine a 'political football'." He said each year 325,000 Americans die who could be saved if present medical knowledge and skills were fully available to them. Huge Outlay Xecessary The nation now spends about $8,500,000,000 yearly for health and medical services, he said. Most of this comes from private sources, with federal, state and local governments putting up To carry out this 10-year plan, Ewing proposed increasing federal outlays from $743,000,000 to $2,312,000,000 by 1960 and'boost- (Continued on page 4, column 2) 1,104 Young Men Register Iii Sheboygan A total of 1,104 young men registered at Sheboygan county's peacetime draft headquarters from Monday through Thursday, Miss Louise Luecke, chief registrar, reported this morning.

Today was the second and last day for men born in 1924 to register. With registrations by age groups less than one-third completed, the indication was that total registration in Sheboygan county for the 17 registration days would approach 4,000. Men born in 1925 will "register Saturday and Tuesday, men born in 1926 on Wednesday and Thursday. Assisting as volunteer clerks at draft headquarters today were Miss Marion Grotelueschen, Miss Carol Brehm, Mrs. Melvin Herman, Mrs.

Jacob Spies, Mrs. Anton Pichl, Mrs. Agnes Duxbury, Mrs. Ivar Lohman, Mrs. Irma Schuette, and William Urban.

progressive party candidate for night. After he entered his car, rear window of the car. Wallace to the coast, 'and curtailed factory worrf on material for foreign shipment. No Emergency Powers President Truman said he had no emergency powers to call off the strike, but declared that government officials are trying to solve it by negotiation. In the New York City strike, many retail outlets remained cut off from their normal supply sources and food store representatives said sharp rises in food prices were likely.

There was no sign that the truck strike would end before next week. It isn't until next Tuesday that strike leaders and employers are scheduled to meet. A spokesman for one of the other two large AFL Temsters' locals in the city said the spread of the walkout among his men was "worse" today. The strike began after local 807 refused to accept a 15 cent hourly wage increase which the other two locals had agreed to. (Continued on page 6, column 7) again at 7:45 p.

m. The swiit-moving action included the antics of the stunting tin lizzie known as Perkins Funny Ford, the tricks of Captain Christy's performing lions, the wire-walking of the Evans brothers, the topsy-turvy routines of Paul and Pettit, the acrobatics of the Four Merrills, and the balancing acts of Los Gigantos. Plenty Of Entertainment Scheduled for the next three days is more entertainment of all kinds. Gates will be opened to the pub- (Continued on page 6, column 7) Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Rome, N. Y.

CP One man was missing when they called the roll of more than 2,000 service personnel leaving Grif-flss air base today for Europe. But the military police knew where to look. Acting on a tip, they opened the trunk of an automobile, driven by a woman, as it was leaving the depot, and there found her husband the missing man. An officer at the air base said the enlisted man, whom he declined to identify, joined his buddies and started on the trip overseas. Bigger And Better County Fair Opens At Plymouth Grand Jury To Get Case Of Mitchum Motion Picture Industry Appeals To Public Not To Indict Others Just Because Of This Case Los Angeles.

(JP) The district attorney's office moved today for a county grand jury investigation into the marijuana-smoking case involving Robert Mitchum, handsome f-lm hero, and attractive actress Lila Leeds. Dist. Atty. William E. Simpson announced that the chairman of the jury's criminal complaints committee had promised he will recommend an inquiry, by the entire panel Tuesday when the group resumes sessions.

Simpson added that if the jury decides to take up the case, Mitchum, Miss Leeds and two others arrested with them early Wednesday will be invited to appear and tell their stories. The four Mitchum, 31, Miss Leeds, 20, dancer Vickie Evans, 25, and real estate man Robin Ford, 31 were arrested early Wednesday when city and federal narcotics officers raided a secluded canyon home occupied by the two girls. All are free under $1,000 bond each. The motion picture industry, (Continued on page 4, column 1) Todays Baseball (By United Press) AMERICAN LEAGUE (First Game) R. II.

-1. Washington 010 000 0012 6 0 New 501 000 OOx 6 10 1 Thompson, Harris (8) and I Evans; Lopat and Houk. Losing pitcner inompson. Home runs DiMaggio (2). NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game) R.

II. E. New 300 020 002 7 12 0 Brooklyn 000 300 002 5 9 1 Hartung, Poat (4) Koslo (8) and Cooper; Hatten, Behrman (1) Branca (6) Casey (9) and Campanella. Winning pitcher Poat. Losing pitcher Behrman.

Home runs Gordon (2), Snider. R. II. E. Philadelphia 010 000 000 1 7 1 Boston 000 300 OOx 3 1 Leonard and Seminick; Sain and Masi.

Home runs Miller, Heath. Chicago at Pittsburgh Night game. WEATHER Wisconsin Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Sheboygan Temperatures Yesterday's 78 Yesterday's 59 Health Insurance Plan Advocated Bv Truman A bigger and better Sheboygan LCountjr Fair than any held before greeted fair-goers on opening day today at the Plymouth fair grounds.

Entries in all departments wera at an all-time high. Livestock crowded the barns. Exhibits of garden produce, flowers, apples, baking and canning, homecrafts, and school projects filled the other buildings. Machinery row was a panorama of farm progress. Along the midway the wheels of entertainment were turning, and on the race track drivers were warming up their fleet-footed horses in preparation for the start of harness-racing; Saturday afternoon.

A major attraction for early visitors to the fair today was the wild animal display set up by the state conservation department adjacent to the main entrance. Game birds and animals native to Wisconsin are shown in their natural surroundings. Judging tagan in all departments at 9 a. m. and was scheduled to be completed for the most part today.

Perfect Weather Perfect weather today gave promise for a record opening day attendance. Continued fair weather with temperatures 8 to 10 degrees above normal were forecast for the entire Labor day week end. Highlight of today's entertainment was the appearance of the Wonder Bros, circu at 2 p. m. and Washington.

(AP) President Truman urged the nation today to adopt a share-the-wealth program based on compulsory insurance and vast outlays to expand medical services. "Millions of our citizens cannot afford good medical care," Mr. Truman said in stamping his approval on a 10-year plan designed "to bring good health within the reach of everyone in this country." The plan, drafted by Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing at the president's request, embraces major points of similar administration proposals which the 80th congress rejected. Its release yesterday by the White House prompted Rep.

Frances P. Bolton to label it a "campaign year John M. Pratt, administrator of the national physicians committee, said in Chicago last night that the Ewing program would be a "political distribution of Continued on pago 6, column 1).