The Edwardsville Intelligencer from Edwardsville, Illinois • Page 1

AD News of the County Btflte and Nation Pub- Rihed Speedily and Ac- aurately. (Rtatortorflle Monday, May 1950 88th Year ome Daily Welligcttcer 9aily No. 140 8 Pages 5 Cents THE WEATHER Illinois Mostly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms in extreme southern portion Monday and Monday night. Tuesday generally fair and warmer. High, 63: low, 44.

Soviet Sector Police Stoned By Anti-Communists Phone Installers. End Seven-Day Work Stoppage Threat of Nationwide Telephone Tieup Is Averted by Action 1 New York (IB--Some 11,000 telephone equipment installers returned to work Monday alter a weeklong strike, ending the threat of a nationwide telephone tieup. Division 6 of the CIO Communications Workers of America, representing installation workers oE Western Electric, the telephone company's manufacturing atfili- ate, called their strike at 2 a.m., four hours before they were scheduled to set up their first picket lines. At the same time, the union announced that it had reached agreement with the company on the "South Bend incident" which had complicated contract negotiations. The 104 installers who walked off their jobs in sympathy with fellow union members who refused to cross a muddy field to woik on a television tower were restored to their jobs under the agreement.

The union had also asked a money settlement for these men. It was reported this was denied in the compromise settlement. Contract negotiations were scheduled to be resumed late in the day with both sides meeting separately with U. S. Mediator Thomas R.

Stcutel. Had the picket lines gone up some 240,000 other phone workers were expected to refuse to cross, them, seriously hampering mosi phone service except dial systems The end of the strike came suddenly after continuous clay and night conferences between union and company representatives and a federal mediator. Leaders of division six of the CWA, which includes the Installers, capitulated when the parent union refused to sanction its picketing plans. The strike was called oft on "instructions from our parent body, (Continued on Page 2 Chrysler Dispute Hears Settlement Reads 'Red' Rules Eitnl Manney reads first issue of the Red Star printed in the "United Soviet State of America" in Mosinee, as the town spends a day under "Communist" rule. Mosinee put in a "Soviet" style government, complete with commissars, ration cards and secret police, for one day to demonstate what Communism could do to an American community.

(NBA Telephoto) Detroit, (IP)--A high company of ficul said Monday that verba agreement has been reached on al points to settle the Chrysler strike but the CIO United Auto Worker. declared issues still were in dis pule. Herman L. Weckler, Chrysle vice president and general mana ger, said only contract "language' pi eventing a return to work of the 89,000 strikers. President Walter P.

Reu thcr promptly denied this. "Thert still are unresolved issues," th tired union leader declared. "The union prefers to work for a solution of these issues rather than em ape in a propoganda war with Mr Weckler." Weckler's statement that the long and costly strike was ni-aring an end after more than 4G hours of grueling "do or die" bargaining to end the 97-day strike. The agreement, when in final will include $100 a month pens-ions for the 89,000 striking workers and a hospital-medical insurance program believed the best in the automotive industry. Although haggard and bleary- eyed, bargainers gave no indication of quitting until a contract is born in the littered, smoky conference rooms.

The strike, second longest in automotive history, has idled more than 144,000 persons, including the strikers, across the nation. It has cost production of.more than 450.000 cars and trucks. In his terse statement, Weckler said: "Assuming that the UAW stands by its verbal agreements on issues that have been discussed over and over again during the months of the strike, apparently the thing that is taking time now is language. "Going over the language does take time for discussion. That appears to be the UAW's reason for the current delay in ending the strike." Hope alternately rose and fell 'during the marathon talks being conducted by federal and state Mediators.

Last issues holding up settlement were funding pensions for aged workers, length of the contract, and union grievance procedures. IN SPA PERI Assistance Asked In Cancer Work More material and volunteer workers are needed to provide cancer dressings for the Edwardsville unit oi the American Cancer society, Mrs. Eugene F. Wahl announced Monday. Mrs.

Wahl is civic chairman of the Monday club, which has undertaken sponsorship of the cancer dressings program for Edwardsville and vicinity. She emphasized, however, that the club will welcome all non-member assistance. Especially needed, she said, is clean white cloth of the absorbent such as old sheets, tablecloths a pillow cases which should be ironed. Pickup of the material may be arranged by con- iacting any local Girl Scout, or it may be taken to the Clayton Tailoring shop at 214 St. Louis street, which is heaclquaiters for the Edwardsville cancer unit.

Mrs, Wahl said the next bandage-making session will be Thursday from 2 to 4 p.m. at St. John's Methodist church. Women participating in the work are required to wear cotton dresses and no fingernail polish. In the previous two meetings approximately 85 dressings were made, Mrs.

Wahl said. Miss Eulalia Hotz and Dr. Cecilia M. Hellrung are co-chairmen of the Cancer society's local unit. Ex-Star Defends Movie Colony Hollywood, (IP)--Actress Colleen Townsend says the 10 commandments mean as much in Hollywood as any other place and she wishes Sen.

Edwin C. Johnson could have come here to see filmtown's good side. "I've never been subjected to any of the things Sen. Johnson talked about," said the actress, who recently announced she was quitting the movies for religion. "Maybe I've been sheltered.

I love Hollywood. I'd stick up for it any time," she said. Johnson had blasted Hollywood lor its sinl'ullness and proposed a bill to license movie-makers. He called off the idea last week. "I wish it had been possible for the senator to attend our church roup meetings on Monday nights" Miss Townsend said.

"I think the 10 commandments hold here as they do anywhere else, but no more here than anywhere else." The dark haired star attends weekly informal religious discussions with actress Jane Russell and other stars. Senator Demands hones Removed rom Gamblers Tobey Says Service Should Not Be Used For Gaming Activities Washington, (IP)--Sen. Charles W. Tobey, N. demanded Men- lay that the te'ephone companies the phones ot Frank Cosello, gambler Frank Erickson, and jetting commissioner James J.

larroll ot St. Louis. He said these "gangsters" have indicted themselves" before a Senate Commerce subcommittee and "admitted under oath" they are violating the law. Therefore, Tobey told Clyde Jailey, executive vice president of he U. S.

Independent Telephone association, the companies should deny them telephone service for activities. "If I had my way I'd deprive hem of phone service instantly," Bailey replied. "I wish it could be done, but there are some very jractieal considerations." The subcommittee is studying egislation which would forbid ransmission of certain gambling nformation across state lines. A Bell system spokesman, S. Whitney Landon, testified that the companies are doing all can to help local authorities stamp out gambling.

Senate investigators, however, told him that he company's case was not very convincing. Bailey pleaded that the commit- not make "law enforcement, agencies" out of the telephone companies. Tobey asked if the companies had called the attention of law of- icers to the testimony last week (Continued on Page 2) Highland Unit Chooses Board Tive rural candidates and two Highland men were elected to the board of education in the new Highland community unit school district, according to unofficial returns from Saturday's special election in the 128-square-mile area. The winners, together with the vote for each, are: Floyd J. Tschannen, 493, and Roscoe E.

Mcnz, 517. both of Highland; Elmer J. Klcnke, 390, New Douglas township; Milton E. Winet, 370, Saline township; Schwehr, 406, Saline township; Lawrence W. Ernst, also 406, Leef township; and Kenneth R.

Voight, 402, Alhambra township. The other candidates were Arthur F. Loyet, Orville L. Plotcher and Ellsworth Wilson. County Supt.

of Schools George T. Wilkins said the unofficial total vote in the five precincts was 712. The board will hold its organizational meeting after Wilkins canvasses the vote and officially declares the winners. The seven members first will elect a president and secretary, then draw lots to determine the three who will serve for three years, two for two years and two for one year. The president and secretary will be chosen annually.

The board officially will begin functioning on July 1, the date that the new district goes into effect. Highland will be the high school attendance center. Mass 'Sick-Leave' New York (IP) Long Island railroad commuter trains ran on schedule Monday despite a mass "sick leave" taken by 98 of the line's 300 engineers. A company spokesman said no delays occurred which could be attributed to the slow-down. Tax Cuts Raise Revenue Problem Washington, (IP) Congressional tax writers had a billion dollai problem on their hands Monday and weren't quite sure what to do about it.

The problem arose from cuts in excise taxes to which they have tentatively agreed in the last 10 clays. The reductions of made by the House Ways and Means committee on such things as theater tickets, tele phone bills, movie and sports event tickets, furs, jewelry and luggage. The question now is: where to get the money to make up the loss? The simplest way would be to let the federal deficit go even high er. But many congressmen dis like the idea of red-ink financing even in times of prosperity. Besides, President Truman serv eel public notice that he would ve to any bill which provided for sub stantial excise tax cuts withou providing ways for making up the revenue loss, Mr, Truman suggested closing "loopholes" in present tax laws get most of the money.

He asked specifically for a re cluction in the special 27V4 per cen tax allowance for the oil and gai industries: for taxes on the busi ness earnings of life insurance companies, and for taxes on the profit making competitive busi nesses operated by chairitable am educational institutions. The committee, with a libera sprinkling of members from oi and gas-producing states, has vir tually rejected the idea of reduc ing the oil-gas depletion allowance The committee has favorably re ceived some of Mr. Truman's othe suggestions, but none would pro duce anything like the revenu needed to offset the cuts so far Few members expect the total go above $250,000,000. Mr. Truman also proposed big er gift taxes for corporations large estates and gifts.

The committee has cold-shoul dered the last two, but may decid to go part way in raising the oor poratiou tax scale. Wagner Averts Scheduled Strike As a result of a last-minute agreement between i and management negotiators, workers still were on the job Monday at Wagner Electric corporation plants here, in St. Louis and Mt. Vernon. Meeting with federal conciliators Sunday evening in St.

Louis, the bargainers for the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers and Wagner officials agreed to extend the present contract to May 15. The strike deadline had been et for midnight Sunday. In a joint statement by the union and company, it was announced that "agreement has been reached on the major points. The extension was made to allow time for settlement or the remaining points and to give the union opportunity to present the proposed agreement to its membership for ratification." union's major demands were for a substantial wage increase, a union shop and improved holiday and vacation programs. The current wage ranges from $1.10 per hour for porters to the $2.04 per hour of a tool and die man.

Union members voted to strike Wednesday night after rejecting the company's offered contract described as "weaker" by President Edwin J. Brown of St. Louis local No. 1104. The Wagner corporation employs 160 men here, 5,000 at Wellston, 400 in downtown St, Louis and 160 in Mt.

Vernon. Wm. J. Little Injured As Car Hits Boulder William J. Little, 26, formerly of this city, suffered a lacerated face and several fractures of the right foot leg early Sunday morning when he lost control oi his Crosley station wagon at Bagnell dam in Missouri and crashed into a boulder.

He received treatment at Versailles, and was taken Sunday night to St. Mary's hospital in East St. Louis via ambulance, accompanied by his brother, George E. Little, Edwardsville. Little told his brother he was traveling alone toward Eldon, Mo.

when his machine went out of con trol on the wet blacktop road am smashed head-on into the boulder at a speed of about 43 miles an hour. Little, who now resides in Col linsville, had been visiting friends in Missouri over the weekend. Twister in Action Kinley A. McClure, of the Hobart, Democrat Chief, made this picture of the tornado which raced through Kiowa county, four miles west of Hobart. The storm killed one man and did much property damage.

(NBA Telephoto) Stalin Reviews Jet Air Display Moscow, (IP)--An armada of jet planes, including what may be a new Russian model, swept over Red square Monday in a mighty- May Day parade reviewed by Premier Josef Stalin. Giant tanks and other ground weapons rolled before Stalin as he stood with his closest aides on Lenin's tomb. Stalin, looked vigorous and healthy, After the troops marched past there was a demonstration of about 2,000,000 civilians. The premier's son, Lt. Gen.

Vassili Stalin, piloted the lead plane, a four-motored bomber. The low- 'lying armada, consisting of scores of bombers and jet fighters, flashed by so fast no foreign observer could get a good view. But there were at least two Lypes of jets, and some military observers said there was one new model hitherto undisplayed. It was one of the most impressive military parades in Soviet history. Some foreign military observers said there were more jet fighters than ever before, indicating that jets as well as four-en- gined bombers now are being mass produced.

Stalin, Viacheslav M. Molotov, Malenkov, and other Politburo members and military leaders, heard the chief of the general staff, Gen. Sergi Shtemenko, deliver a message to the troops. Shtemenko said the Soviet armed forces are strong and ready to defend the fatherland. "Warmongers remember," he iaid "that no arms race, provo- vocations military blocs will frighten the Soviet people." Crack troops of the Moscow jarnson marched past the reviewing stand atop Lenin's red and black granite mausoleum.

The a spectators gave their heaviest applause to the frontier guards and the internal security units. Vmfrgslogans festooned jquare in giant gold lettering, calling on the workers of the world to unmask warmongers. They proclaimed the unit of all peace-loving peoples. Marching civilian demonstrators carried portraits of Soviet leaders and chiefs of the eastern European countries. China and Korea.

China's Mao Tze-Tung appeared to be the foreigner most 'prominently pictured. Muscovites who did not join the parade filled the streets to watch and flocked to the parks and restaurants. A Western industrialist said the people were better clothed and were sporting new fashions, Exam to Provide Four Scholarships Four scholarships to the University of Illinois will be awarded in Madison county through a written examination to be given here June 3, it was announced Monday by County Supt. of Schools George T. iVilkins.

The applicant who attains the lighest average will receive the county scholarship, if otherwise qualified. The other scholarships offered in the same tests are one each for agriculture, home econ- nomics and a child of a veteran of either World War I or II. Wilkins said the examination ill begin at 9 a.m. on the scheduled date, recess at 11 and resume at 1:30 p.m., concluding at 4:30. The two-hour morning test will cover English composition and rhetoric, including spelling and vocabulary.

In the afternoon examination each candidate must write on two of the three achievement tests offered: social studies, mathematics, natural science. Wilkins said candidates in the examination must be at least 16 years old and a resident of the county. Aspirants for the county scholarship must not have received credit in any college, university or normal school since graduation from high school, but this rule does not apply to candidates for any of the three other scholarships. Federal Mediators Hope To Avert Bakery Strike Washington, (IP) Government mediators hoped Monday to head off a bakery strike set for midnight that could hit thousands of American families from coast to coast. Cheif Mediator Cyrus S.

Ching and his top aide, Clyde Mills scheduled a meeting (at 3 p.m EDT) with representatives of the AFL Bakery and Confectionery Workers union and the Continental Baking which operates in more than 30 cities. Union contracts covering most company plants expire Monday The bakers, 2,500 strong, say they can pull out some 40,000 other workers if they walk off their jobs Mills reported little progress after a session with union and com pany spokesman Friday night. Ching called a week-end recess in the talks. County K.ofC.'s Gather in Venice Lebanon Plane Crash Kills 6 Lebanon, 111., (IP)--Six persons were killed and two injured when a B-25 bomber crashed in a heavily-populated residential section, setting two houses on fire and showering seven others with flaming debris. The plane, on a training mission from Perrin air base at Sherman, hit a tree and exploded as it apparently attempted a forced landing on a field near here Sunday afternoon.

AH the dead were aboard the plane. Two residents of the neighborhood, were injured when flaming wreckage and gasoline spewed over a wide area. A wing crashed into the home of Frank Wolf and started a fire which destroyed it. Wolf, his wife and three children were away on a fishing trip. The home of Walter Bridges was set afire, but firemen from O'Fallon, 111., and nearby Scott field put out the blaze.

Bridges suffered shock and singed a i and Mrs. Henry Christ, who was standing in her yard, was cut by flying Wilbert Beck told authorities he "heard an awful noise and saw the plane hit a tree." "There was a blue streak of flame and then an explosion," he said. "I could see bodies and wreckage flying through the air." Beck ducked behind a building as flying debris showered on his lot. The victims' bodies were strewn for 400 yards around the wrekcage. Capt.

W. W. Coleman of Scott field said the plane was on a training mission from Perrin field and had stopped overnight at Scott. It took off at 12i20 p.m. CST Sunday and crashed about 20 minutes later.

Names of the dead were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Huge May Day More than 400 members of the Madison county chapter, Knight of Columbus, joined in a May Day oyalty demonstration Sunday at St. Mark's Catholic church in Venice. Participants were members of K. of C.

councils from Edwardsville, Collinsville, Highland, Alton, Wood River and the Tri-Cities, The initial event was a flag- raising ceremony and the pledge of allegiance to the flag, attended I by an honor guard ol about 401 members of the Fourth Degree assemblies from the member cities. The entire delegation then marched in a body to the church for the 9 o'clock mass, celebrated by the Rev. F. W. Klasner, host pastor.

The church was filled by the organization, many having to stand during the services. All present received Communion. Father Klasner welcomed the men prior to his sermon, which touched on loyally and Catholicism. -After the mass the group proceeded to the basement hall of the new church for a breakfast served by the ladies of the parish. Francis J.

Manning of Wood River, chapter president, presided as toastmaster and introduced Grand Knights of the various cities preceding the main address by the Rev. Francis J. O'Reilly, S. regent of the St. Louis university School of Dentistry.

Speaker on "Education--Whither and Why," Rev. O'Reilly stressed the importance ot proper education, primarily in the home, thence in the schools and colleges or universities, The program closed with thanksgiving by Rev. Klasner and an invitation by Manning to attend the chapter's regular "semi-annual meeting Wednesday evening in the of C. headquarters at Alton. The committee in charge of Sunday's arrangements included Daniel O'Hara, Collinsville, chairman; Roger C.

Hartung, Edwardsville; Edward Sido, Wood River; Leto Loyet, Highland, Daniel McGee and Dr. Leo Coleman of the Tri-Cilies. Held in Berlin East and West Join Forces to Put Down Threatened Roughness Berlin, (IP)--Anti-Communist West Berliners pelted Soviet sector police with stones Monday in a flare- up in the heart ot Berlin after two huge May Day demonstrations by more than 750,000 persons. The most threatening of several flurries of roughness occurred in the Potsdamerplatz, where the American, British and Soviet sectors meet. Hundreds Germans massed in the square taunted the Soviet controlled police as "swine." East and West sector police joined forces to put down the stone-throwing people before it got well under way.

The demonstrators fled as soon as a show of police force was organized. The rival demonstrations in the East and West sectors of Berlin highlighted May Day demonstra- i throughout Europe. The Western powers alerted 12,000 West Berlin police and 8.000 allied troops hc'ie against the threat of a test of strength. The Berlin stone throwers were stragglers from a crowd of half a million which overflowed the Tiergarten in the British sector. The meeting over, a few hundred wandered along the East-West border to the Potsdamerplatz.

They snatched stones from heaps of rubble and hurled them at the East suctor police across the street. A few East sector police were nil, but none seemed to be badly injured. At the Brandenburg gate just off the Tiergarten, where the West Berlin rally was held, other groups of anti-Communists jeered Communist youth across the bof- der. But East sector police and civilians, ordered by the Soviet and German Communist leaders to keep out of West Berlin, refused to be drawn into fights. The Tiergarten crowd roared approval of statements by anti-Communist speakers, including Irving Brown of the American Federation of Labor, and shook fists at armed sentries guarding the Soviet war memorial just inside the British sector.

Scattered fist fights broke out, and taunts flew moderately thick and fast as the Berliners gathered for the two demonstrations less than a mile apart. The 8.000 Western allied soldiers (Continued on Page 2) Red Cross Goes $2356 Over Goal Totaling $2,356 more than its $6,000 quota, the Madison county chapter of the American Red Cross collected $8,358 during its recent annual fund drive, according to the final figures released by General Chairman Clyde Metcalf. Metcalf disclosed Monday that Edwardsville collections totaled $4,311, or $2,111 more than its $2,800 goal. Contributions, branches, with quotas in parentheses, were: Hamel, $231 Highland, $1,072 Alhambra, 1 7 7 Marine, $462 Glen Carbon, $10! St. Jacob, $165 Worden, $132 Troy $515 Livingston, $101 Bethalto, Dorsey and Moro, 407 and New Douglas $79 Edwardsville i committee chairmen in the drive were: William Hagemeyer, business; Martin Lange, industrial; Irma Wood, organizations; Metcalf, rural; and Mrs.

George Huenemeier, residential. Metcalf said he wanted to thank all branch chairmen and other workers who helped put the drive over the top. Navy Construction Program Okayed Washington, (IP)--The House Armed Services committee Monday unanimously approved legislation to let the Navy start work on a $335,000,000 modernization program that will include construction of an atomic-powered submarine. The nuclear-powered submarine will cost 540,000,000. It is one of four experimental underwater craft included in the modernization program.

Adm. Forrest P. Sherman, chief of Naval operations, told the com- mittee he hopes the atomic sub a be completed in three years. Experimental work has been started on its nuclear engines. Sherman said the Navy now has anti-airtralt guided missiles good enough to warrant immediate installation on ships.

The modernization program calls for conversion of a heavy cruiser into a tfuided missile launcher at a cost of about $40,000,000 he said. In all, 112 new vessels would be built under the program and 30 ships would be converted to new uses. In addition to the atomic powered submarine, these other subs would be built. 1. A midget submarine, displacing 250 tons and costing $3,000,000.

2. A "target and experimental" submarine, displacing 1,100 tons and costing $10,000,000. 3. A 2,200 ton experimental sub with a secret "closed cycle" power plant of a new type requiring no external source of air. It would cost $37,000,000.

Sherman said the guided missiles were designed primarily for use against aircraft, but he gave no details..