Marysville Journal-Tribune from Marysville, Ohio • Page 1

EVENING TRIBUNE UNION COUNTY'S HOME DAILY Voly. No. 210. MAKYSVIUI, OHIO, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948 fty Cantor Iflc Wtok BERLIN SUPPLIES BLOCKED BY MEN MOVE LINKED WITH REDJWIES ALLIED AND GERMAN THAIN8 STOWED BY RUSSIANS AND FOOD SHORTAGE IS POSSIBLE BERLIN, June Russians suddenly halted all railway freight traffic into Berlin from western Germany today and two million Germans faced hunger unless the ban is lifted shortly. British military authorities announced the total stoppage of all Allied and German freight had taken place at Helmstedt, control point between the Western and Soviet zones.

Some observers saw the move as a new Soviet attempt to force Allied occupation troops out of Berlin. The Russians halted all train traffic, Allied as well as German, I passing through the Helmstedt control point. The British announcement said 'that Helmstedt had been sealed i off because of "congestion at the marshalling yards." The British said this, reason was given by the Soviets in a note advising of the stoppage. Unexpected Action U. S.

Commander Gen. Lucius D. Clay confirmed the total stoppage. He said the United States had received no advance -'Wo United States military freight trains are involved at present, but it is understood that four coaches loaded with British military supplies are affected as well as an undisclosed quantity of American supplies for Berlin's German population. General Clay said that the Russians are sending an official to Helmstedt to discuss the situation.

He added: "We will check the facts first, before then take whatever action is necessary." Clay said that while Helmstedt is operated by the British', the United States is vitally interested since U. S. supplies Jor Berlin Germans are held up. General Clay said that American supplies for Berlin Germans are limited, but are adequate for several days at least. Asked if the stoppage is linked to an attempt to make Berlin untenable for the western Allies, the general said: "I wouldn't know." He said it would be difficult to supply Berlin by air.

MICHAEL AND ANNE, WITH A KING AS BEST MAN Royal wedding party of ex- King Michael of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon- Parma poses following cere- mony at Athens, Greece. Michael wears uniform of Romanian air marshal. Princess Anne holds his arm. The royal family of Greece is there, with King Paul, Michael's best man, standing at far right. (International Soundphoto) 1100400 HORSE LOS ANGELES, June 12 leading sire, Alibhai, was sold yesterday for $500,000 by Louis B.

Mayers to a syndicate of Kentucky breeders headed by Leslie B. Coombs, II. TO USE VOTES OSU GRADUATES REMINDED BY WEYGANDT NOT TO 1 NEGLECT THEIR CL VIC RESPONSI. BILITIES CHAPLAIN NAMED CAMBRIDGE, June 12--The Rev. David A.

Hively of Pleasant City, has been appointed Protestant chaplain at Cambridge State Hospital, Dr. Arthur T. superintendent, announces. COLUMBUS, June State University's graduating class had the admonition of Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt of the state supreme court today to use their educations to preserve democracy.

The chief justice addressed 1,969 graduates at ceremonies last night at Ohio stadium. He warned algainst neglect of civic responsibility and observed that "political power never goes begging." He said: "Invariably unused political power is usurped by those to whom it does not belong. Furthermore it usually is misused. But of still greater and more tragic importance is the difficulty and often impossibility of regaining political power after it has been lightly cast aside." HEADS BPEBOSA OKLAHOMA'CITY, June H. King Cole, Sheboygan, has been elected president of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America.

LIQUOR OFFICIAL GETS LEAVE AFTER INDICTMENT BY JURORS CHIEF PERMIT EXAMINER DROPS DUTIES PENDING COURT ACTION ON BRIBE CHARGE COLUMBUS, June state liquor department had a new acting chief permit examiner day as an aftermath to a bribery against Chief Examiner A. E. Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer asked for a six- months leave of absence "to relieve any embarassment" while court action against him is pending. Liquor Director Dale Dunilon appointed George C.

Ferris, 35, of Columbus to be acting inspection head. Oppenheimer was charged, with two other men, yesterday by a Franklin county grand jury of accepting and soliciting bribes. He was placed under $5,000 bond. Also implicated in the grand Jury probe were Hugh H. Ruel, Scioto county Republican executive committee chairman, and Tracy Pack, Portsmouth taxi company operator.

Oppenheimer is accused of soliciting and accepting $300 from Howard Call of Springfield for purposes of expediting McCall's permit application, and at soliciting 12,300 from Gilbert Shiyely of London. Oppenheimer, Pack and Ruel were charged with accepting $1,500 from Shively and soliciting another $1,000. MATRON SHOT BY EX-HUSBAND STILL IN SERIOUS CONDITION ROSE SHOW COLUMBUS, June al ahftw of the Columbus Rose be "held In the Netf House from 2 to 8 pjn. Sunday with more than 600 entries expected. FOUNDRY FIRE AT COLUMBUS LOSS OF 11 SO.000 RESULTS FROM FLAMES THAT SWEPT SOUTH SIDE PLANT YESTERDAY COLUMBUS, June was estimated in excess of $150,000 today from a fire which destroyed the south side Columbus foundry of M.

Hertenstein Co. yesterday afternoon. The foundry roof caved in, walls toppled and nearly all machinery was destroyed by the spectacular three-alarm blaze. Cause of the fire was undetermined. It started near a blower in a core room and fanned rapidly.

No one was injured, but workmen were forced to flee in their work clothes, leaving personal belongings behind. The company manufactures small iron castings. EYEWITNESS TELLS OF SHOOTING OF TWO WOMEN AND NEW DOVER MAN AT MARION JUDGE CAUSES HOT DISPUTE CINCINNATI, June opinion of Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Stanley Struble that the unadorned human body is not "obscene" brought quick and scathing reaction today. The 82-year-old judge held in a decision Thursday that "there is no lawrto define obscenity." He made the statement in clearing a news stand operator of charges of possessing and selling obscene literature. Four Cincinnati church leaders expressed their firm disapproval of the judge's decision.

TIME SQUABBLE MANSFIELD, June city council adopted an ordinance to put this city of 45,000 inhabitants on Daylight Saving but Mayor Roy W. Vaughn has declined to sign it. The ordinance will become law if Vaughn does not veto it. The condition of Mrs. Lenore Irvine, 37, matron at the Reformatory for Wpmen here, who was shot in the abdomen by her ex- husband in Marion Thursday night, remains serious in Marion City hospital.

Also wounded in the same shooting affray were Mrs. Irvine's foster mother, Mrs. Alice Beck, 38, of Marion, who is in critical con dition at City Hospital and Carl Bice of New Dover, a friend of Mrs. Irvine, who was treated for a gunshot wound in the arm and released. Marion police yesterday recov ered a 32 calibre pistol believed to have been used In the shooting near a railroad siding in Marion, and also found a blood-stained shirt with the initials DKM, the same as those of Dwight Kenneth Matthews, 34, who is being held by Marion police for investigation in the shooting.

W. E. Marks, Marion police chief, said Clarence Beck, husband of the critically injured injured women, accused his son in-law. An eye witness account of the various incidents of the shootings and printed in the Marion Star was given as follows by Mrs. A.

L. Yocum, a neighbor living directly across the street from the Beck home. Mrs. Yocum's account is as follows: "I was sitting on my front porch sometime between 8:30 and 9 p.m.' when I saw a man in a white shirt come down the sidewalk opposite my house from the direction of Sheridan road, noticed him because he seemed to be hunting someone. He walked by the Beck house and went around past the shrubbery on the south side of the house.

While he was.out past the shrubbery a car drove up in front of the house with a Marysville license a man and a woman got out and went into the Beck house. (The car was facing south too for it came in from the direction of Sheridan road. the man and woman went in the house this big fellow in the light shirt came back up the sidewalk to the front of the house. He had been waching them get out of the car and enter the house. After he went back along the south side of the.

house thai walked around and sat on the front porch steps for a few minutes. In a little (Continued on page 2) STALIN CANNOT KEEP PROMISES, TRUMAN STATES PRESIDENT SATS THAT BUS- BIAN PREMIER IS POLICY "PRISONER" OF PO- LITSVRO By ROBERT G. NIXON International News Service ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN IN CALIFORNIA, June Truman promised today to tell the nation how the totted States and Russia can re- their differences. "He also declared that Joseph SiitJin Is "a prisoner of the politburo." The chief executive, speaking the rear platform of his train 'Eugene, late yesterday charged that Stalin is forced to breeak International agreements because he is a Politburo prisoner. The president is expected to enlarge on Soviet-American relations when he speaks at the University of California in Berkeley on foreign policy at 7:08 p.

(EDT) today. At Eugene, the president made his first reference to Russia in some while. Talking to a station crowd about G. I. education benefits, he suddenly switched to foreign policy and charged Russia with breaking its agreements but asserted that Stalin is not to blame.

Mr. Truman said he had gone to Potsdam in 1945 trying to get "en ejpeemaat-Utat tee world peace. He said: "I went there with the kindliest feelings in the world toward Russia and we made certain agreements. I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe. He is a decent fellow.

But Joe is a prisoner of the politburo. "He can't do what he wants to. He makes agreements. And if he could he would keep them. But the people who run the government are very specific in he can't keep them." saying that SENATORS APPROVE MILITARY ASK HOMES FOR PARAPLEGIC VETS A wheelchair cavalcade rolls down New York's Park avenue en route to Grand Central station as veterans who not so long ago stormed the beaches at Anzio, Nor- mandy, Iwo Jima and Tarawa team up to get signatures on a petition asking Congress to pass bill providing homes for paraplegic veterans.

(International) VANDENBERO AOAIN PUTS MOUSE ON SPOT REOARDINO RE- COVERY PROGRAM TO AID IN TRUCE ENFORCEMENT OBSERVATION PLANES AND SMALL VESSELS WERE REQUESTED BY UN MEDIATOR SHOWDOWN ON CONFERENCE ON THE BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE AND SENATE SLATED FOR MONDAY WASHINGTON, June Fellows (R) predicted today that senate-house differences over legislation to permit 200,000 displaced persons to enter the United States will be ironed out in time to permit enactment of his bill before the adjournment deadline. Fellows was confident that the measure to admit the homeless European refugees over a two- year period will not die in conference notwithstanding basic disagreements in the house and senate approved bills. The sponsor of the house bill reported that conferees will probably begin work Monday in order to speed legislation acceptable to both chambers for a final vote next Saturday. Fellows was equally confident that the bill, in its final form, will be substantially which was passed by the house by a 289 to 91 He pre- margin late yesterday. dieted that the fe ate bill which ha as anti-semitic and anti-Catholic WASHINGTON, June United States today sent three patrol ships and three airplanes to assist in the observation and enforcement of the four-week Arab- Jewish truce.

Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN mediator in the Palestine war, formally requested United States assistance. Announcement of compliance was made today by the state department. Immediately upon receiving Bernadotte's request, the state department called upon the navy and air force to respond. The three Beech- craft, two-engine passenger planes be flown from Germany to Palestine by the air force. The navy patrol ships presum- edly will be sent from the U.

Mediterranean task force. It was learned that Bernadotte also has informally asked for ten additional American officers to supplement the 21-man truce team already sent into the Holy Land by the United States. STRIKE ENDS CINCINNATI, June 21- cent-an-hour wage boost has ended a four-day strike of 2100 hodcarriers and building laborers. By WILLIAM THEIS International News Service WASHINGTON, approval of the Vandenberg security resolution brought fresh pressure today on house leaders, already under fire for slashing foreign aid funds, to push through a similar declaration before adjournment. Responsible sources said it was "doubtful" that the house would act on its "package" plan which includes a 65 million dollar fund for construction of United Nations headquarters as well as IU policy formula.

The senate last night passed own resolution sanctioning possible military guarantees to western Europe by a vote of 64 to 4. It was another victory for Senate President Vandenberg (R.) who succeeded in defeating all efforts to amend the carefully- phrased senate proposal. Aggressor Warned The resolution endorses association of the United States with regional defense arrangements like the five-power western Euro- Ipean and declares America's intention to-exercise the right of self-defense set forth in the UN charter in event of an armed tack affecting U. security. Backers of the bouse proposal, said the fate-of their bill entirely with House Speaker Martin Mass.

Only the speaker, it was pointed out, could direct the rules committee to clear the legislation for floor action. It was understood that Martin was being told the house would come under further public criticism if it failed to act on the UN DRIVERS REJECT ANOTHER OFFER WALL COLLAPSE BURIED YOUTH CLEVELAND, June Brown, 10-year-old Cleveland boy, was in Mount Sinai hospital today, apparently not too much the worse after the most harrowing three hours of his young life. A brick wall 15 feet high colJ lapsed last night on the youth in the basement of an east side apartment house, burying him up to lalures in the sen- his in an avalanche of brick ve been criticized and coal. After three hours of fran- will either be watered down. eliminated or I.

O. O. F. CONVENTION COLUMBUS, June four day annual state convention of the Grand Lodge, IOOF of Ohio, will open at the Deshler Wallick Hotel with a memorial service at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Highlight of the meeting tic digging by police, firemen and neighbors and relatives, Brown finally was freed and rushed to Mount Sinai. He suffered only a broken ankle. ATOM PIONEER DEAD ST. LOUIS, June J. C.

Stearns, dean of faculties at Washington University and one of the scientists who helped produce SPRINGFIELD, June The strike of Springfield bus operators and maintenance employes continued today to tie up the city's transportation system. A second company proposal to settle the wage dispute was rejected by the drivers last night. They also turned down a company offer to submit the question to arbitration. One hundred thirty- seven AFL unionists are Involved in the strike walkout. They received $1.06 per hour before going on strike-and previously had refused a 12-cent hourly increase.

bill. The 24 percent house slash iin European aid funds was (roundly denounced by Marshall (plan advocates as a "meat-'axe" attack on European recovery. Meanwhile, the senate priations committee wound up its public hearings and began work WOO8TER TRUSTEE WOOSTER, June of Benjamin F. Fairless, president of U. S.

Steel Corporation, to the Wooster College board 01 trustees was announced yesterday by the school. Fairless attended Wooster, but later transferred to Ohio Northern, where he was graduated in 1913. on the house passed economic cooperation bill with the predicted goal of restoring most of the requested funds. Lt. Gen.

Albert C. Wedemeyer, ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman, Army Secretary Royall and other government witnesses were invited to sit in with the committee today behind closed doori. Members freely predicted that the senate group would put the multi-billion'dollar program back on the 12-month basis authorized by congress originally, and eliminate the house cut which resulted from "spreading" reduced funds over a 15-month period. FLIER FINED CANTON, June D.

Cross, 24, of Carrollton, a teacher iu Canton's McKinley High School, was fined $25 and costs in Municipal Court yesterday on a charge ot flying an airplane within 100 feet of housetops here. CINCINNATI POLICE UNCOVER GANG DEALING IN MARIHUANA FEDERAL MEN QUIZZING BUS- PECT8 AFTER 138.000 WORTH OF WEED IS SEIZED CINCINNATI, June Cincinnati police believe they have tapped a "muggles" ring using the city as a distribution point for marihuana after intercepting more of the drug yesterday. Two men were arrested at the Cincinnati Greyhound i al vith a grip loaded with $15,000 will be the banquet session at 6I the atom bomb, died yesterday at worth of the weed. n.m in tViA hntAl A Tuesday in the hotel. 1 his home.

I A total of $35,000 in marihuana has been seized by the local police in the past four days. The ring is believed to be using Lexington, as the procurement area. Police found $20,000 in the weed at the same terminal last Wednesday. The names of the two men taken; into custody today were withheld pending questioning by federal narcotics agent Roy Anderson. man is believed to be from Lexington and the other from Cincinnati.

Both deny ownership ot the discovered by Sgt. Raymond Clark and Patrolman Edward.