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MOUNT VERNON, ILLINOIS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 194? 25c PER WEEK BY CARRIER CANADA PLAN RADAR NETWORK CALL IKE BACK INTO SERVICE Wartime Supreme Commander May Act as Peacemaker In Navy, Air Force Disputes. ASSIGNMENT IS ONLY TEMPORARY Named Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. No Worsening of Intcr- national Situation. Lincoln Spoke Here When Abraham Lincoln spoke in Mt. Vernon on 1840 he was denied the use of the court room and delivered his speech under a shade tree.

But Old Abe, then just a gangling country lawyer, took it in good humor and i talk soon had the crowd listening and laughing. Today a bronze tablet on the front of the Sears-Roebuck store building on north 10th street marks the spot where ho talked. It was during the famous "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" national campaign of 1840. Lincoln, then a member of the Whig party was a presidential elector for William Henry Harrison. John A.

McClernand of Shawneetown was the Democratic party elector and they met here to debate the issues in one of the man, the sheriff, were both Democrats; perhaps this is why," Johnson wrote. But Moses Kirby, who owned the tavern (hotel, nowadays) near the square, said he was for fair play "even in a dog fight" so he invited Lincoln and the crowd to his place. There Mr. Lincoln, a six-foot- four man big enough to play basketball center today, mounted a goods box and delivered his speech for Harrison, This was six years before the rail-splitter was elected to his one term in Congress and 18 years before his famous 1858 debate with Douglas. What Mr.

Lincoln said here is not recorded. It was before the days of the first newspaper which John S. Bogan founded in 1851. However, it must have been a typical early day Lincoln speech. He had the crowd laughing liveliest national ix)litical battles and swearing at him for an hour By Prtsj WA.SIIINGTON.

Fob. United States called Gen. Dwight Eisonbower back into service lod.iy to help answer some grave tuiostions of future military pol- The wartime supreme Allied cf)inniandrr was named by the House yesterday to serve temporary chairman of the Joint Chiefs' of group ivhicli includes the top military men of the Army, Navy and Air Forro. as well as tlio Chief of staff to the President. is on leave from his job ns president of Columbia Univorsity.

In his new post, ivill bo called on to act as peacemaker between the Air Force Navy, which have frequently clashed over the role each play in aerial warfare. Temporary Duty The White House announce- meffl emphasized that the return of the wartime general to active duty is temporary and would bo of "relatively sKort dnr.ition." Also, in answer to a reporter's question, the White House spokesman said the move did not moan that the international it nation had worsened. Rather, the explanation seemed to ho in two recent developments: A proposal by Defense Secretary Forrcstal that an overall director be named, and the illness of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, who normally serves as the President's "principal n.ilitary adviser." Forrcstal in his last annual report proposed that a permanent chairman or director of the chiefs of staff be oppolntod. 9At present each member has equal authority with no top director.

Outranks Staff Chiefs Genpral Eisenhower with his five stars outranks the three f6ur-star chiefs of General Omar Bradley, Air Gen- rral ''oyt Vandenberg, and Navy Admiral Louis E. Denfcld. Forrestal's suggestion is still being studied by the Pentagon Qind the White House. Admiral Leahy, recuperating from a major operation at Key West, has announced he wants to retire soon. General Eisenhower, as acting 3'' top military advisor to the President and Forrcstal, will have an important part in deciding such vital defense questions as these: 1.

Should the United States concentrate its defense planning the Atlantic-European area, leaving Pacific defense in a secondary spot? 2. How much of its arms can this country spare to bulwark its Allies in Western Europe and clsowliere Situation in Asia Announcement of Eisenhower's appointment closely followed dispatches from Tokyo saying that the United States soon may re- its entire military position 1.1 Asia as a result of a visit to that area by Secretary of the Army. Royall. There were in global strategy the Pacific zone might again assume the position it had in World War II, when ihc enemy there was merely held at bay until victory in Europe was assured. This concept, highly unpopu- lar with Gen.

Douglas MacArthur he was supreme Allied commander in the Pacific during the war. is expected to be equally Mnsatisfactory to him now. NAB SMUGGLERS in history on August 27. It happened that their debate came at one of those times when Mt. Vernon was between court hou.ses.

The last one had fallen down and the county government was using the newly-built Methodist church on North 11th street. Its site is now a parking lot for or two, according to Historian Johnson. And it is likely that a very large part of the county's 5,762 population turned out to hear him. BIncked Lincoln's Boots That was one of a number of visits Lincoln made to Mt, Ver city trucks, between the city hall i non. and the Elks Club.

John A. Wall, who published McClernand spoke first, during: a county history in 1909 said that the noon hour intermission of a' Lincoln often came here on cases court session, according to the being tried when Mt. Vernon Jefferson County historian Adam was the Supreme Court center of Clark Johnson. i Southern Illinois. When Lincoln's time Wall recalled that he was the politics were summarily put out; Ijootblack for Lincoln and other and court began.

I lawyers stopping at the Mt. the judge, and Bow- non Inn. 4,000 ARE MAROONED BY SNOWS Dam Workers Living in Trailers Near Quincy, Cut Off and Fear Floods. DIMES MARCH MONEY IN THE BANK POPE WARNS OF CONSPIRACY ON RELIGION SLAYS OUT IN THE COLD ON RUSS TRADE Excommunicates All Wh6 Warned to Change Attitude Took Port in Trial of Hungarian Cardinal. to Share in Red Marshall Plan.

By AttRclaUd Prttt VATICAN CITY, Feb. 12. Pope Pius XII warned today "a conspiracy has been formed against the Lord" in certain countries. The Vatican immediately pointed up bus warning by excommunicating all those connected with the arrest, trial and sentencing of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary. The Pope did not mention any nation by name.

However, the Vatican's action left no doubt that he meant the Communist- led countries behind the Iron Curtain, where the foreign office yesterday charged that a drive Ls in progress to stamp out the churches. The consistorial congregation, which pronounced the excommunications, also sen'ed sliarp warning on other Communist states by threatening the penalty against "all those who in the future should become invqlv- ed in the same crimes" (as against Cardinal Mindszenty). The Pope, in a exhortation, called for special masses on April 3 "to expiate the crime of the enemies of God." He added that the enemies of God are spreading evil "almost all over the world like a virulent disease. Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life Imprisonment Tuesday by a court in Communist- governed Hungary on charges of treason, espionage and black market money dealings. The sacred consistorial congregation formally decreed on Dec.

28 the excorhmunication of all those involved in the arrest of the Cardinal two days earlier. Widens Decree Today's declaration widens the excommunication to include all those connected with' the trial and sentencing of the Hungarian primate. An excommunicated person Is denied the sacraments of the church and the society of Catholics. Excommunication "latae sent- entlae," especially reserved to the Apostolic See, is one of the church's gravest forms of penalties. In addition "Infamlae or declaration of infamy and levied against the Hungarian authorities who took action against the Cardinal.

Belleville Bus Strike Settled By Associated FRANKFORT, Germany, Feb. U. S. Military Government roporlod today it has broken up an international ring that smuggled possibly $1,000,000 in food packages into the German black market through forged im- DorL licenses By Aiiocisted Press BELLEVILLE, 111., Feb. Bus service of the BellevUle-St.

Louis Coach Company was resumed today with the end of a -two-week strike of bus drivers and maintenance men. The company last night accepted a union proposal for an 8-cent-an-hour wage increase, retroactive to Jan. 1, and an additional 5 cents an hour next Aug. 1. The old scale for drivers was $1.30 an By AssocUltd Press Feb.

12. Russia told Yugo.slavia today she Is out in the cold on the Communist- model Marshall plan until she changes her hostile attitude. The Soviet position was stated in a note broadcast by the official News Agency Tass in reply to a protest at being left out of the Economic Council of Mutual Aid (ECMA). This latest rebuff to Marshal Tito was broadcast as two other developments were reported which might concern Yugoslavia. A Warsaw dispatch said the Cominform (Communist Informa.

tion Bureau) was believed to be meting In Czechoslavakia. A Yugoslav move before the Big Four Deputy Foreign Ministers here was believed to indicate she was getting ready to seek a compromise on a settlement of her claims against Austria. Russia and Yugoslavia have been at outs since last June when Marshal Tito's Community party was thrown out of the nine-nation Cominform on the grounds that he was too nationalistic and not a true Marxist. Moscow Cuts Trade The feud was intensified when Russia, and some of her East European satellites drastically cut down on Yugoslav trade. Then Yugoslavia was left out of a conference in Moscow last month when Russia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovagia organized ECMA as an answer to the Marshall plan.

ECMA's announced purpose is to foster economic cooperation and counter alleged economic discrimination by western nations. The Soviet note, as broadcast by Tass and recorded here by the Soviet Monitor, said Yugoslavia protested on Feb. 1 that this was an act of discrimination and contradicted her treaty of mutual aid with Russia and the other East European countries. Yugoslavia In particular stressed the principle of equality among the members that was adopted by ECMA, and said that she could participate on that basis. Insisted on Equality Marshal Tito has declared the split with Russia was due to his Insistence on the principle of equality among little and big Communist states.

The Soviet reply, delivered in Belgrade yesterday, said the Yugoslav government need not have been surprised at being left out since the government Itself "excluded any possibility of Yugoslavia's participation In the Moscow conference by taking up a hostile position towards the S. S. R. and countries of the people's democracies." The reply said there was no discrimination against Yugoslavia and that Yugoslavia's "iiostile position" was a complete contradiction of the Soviet-Yugoslav of friendship and mutual aid By Aisoelattd Proes More than 4,000 persons were maroftned by heavy snows in California and Idaho today and in other parts of the storm-stricken west strong northerly winds and colder dealt further blows. A mass of cold Canadian air pushed southward over tlic northwestern part of the country and moved into northeastern Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska and the Dakotas.

It beaded southward and east and was expected to spread over Kansas, Minnesota and parts of Iowa and Illinois. Temperatures dropped and winds up to 40 miles an hour and gusts of 70 mph reblocked miles of the newly snow-cleared highways and rail lines. Some snow fell in the new cold belt Dam Workers Isolated Four thousand dam workers living in trailer homes in the Feather river canyon near Quincy, were cut off by heavy snow. They expressed fear their homes would be washed away if warmer weather set in or rains flood the river, A snowsllde halted western Pacific rail travel between Quincy Oroville. The food shortage became more" critical for the 500 persons in Stibnitz, Idaho, a mining community which has been snowbound for more than a week.

A National Guard transport plane planned to fly 4,700 pounds of food to the town today. Blowing and drifting snow halted i-oad crews in their snow- clearing operations yesterday in the areas near Pocatello American Falls, Ida. There was no travel on major routes in the Gle'nns Ferry region. Slide Threat Ends VAST SCREEN WILL GUARD ARCTIC AREA Aircraft Defection System to Be Set Up Across Northern Canada by Two Nations. CANADA PREMIER DISCLOSES PLAN Dr.

F. Grate and Art Laird, chairman of the March of Dimes, are pictured at the First National Bany yesterday as they turned over checks for $8,783 over to Mario WilUford, treasurer, and the Rev. Andrew Caraker, chairman, of theJefferson County Chapter fthe National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The check represented the total amount collected In the highly successful drive np to this morning. That additional contributions will boost the total to $9,000 Is the hope of the sponsoring Jaycces.

(Lelteell Photo). U.S. RELIES ON "COLD FACTS" TO Norse Given Plenty of Information, Little Persuasion, on Alliance. POLICE HUNT TWO YOUTHFUL BANK ROBBERS Bandits Take Lock 12 1 in Vault and Slug Customer. BARKLEY IS LINCOLN DAY GUEST Vice President Main Speaker on I40th Birthday Anniversary.

By Associated By Assoel.t.d Feb. GEWEVA. 111.. Feb. United States paced its trust; were seeking two youthful todav in cold facts to coax Nor- rr today in "cold facts" to coax Nor way into formal partnership in the cold war against Russia.

Officials said Norwegian Foreign Minister Halvard Lange got plenty of information but a minimum of persuasion during the Would Guard Part of World Across Which Russia Might Strike in Event of War. gunmen who robbed the Kane County Bank and Trust Company of nearby Elbum of an $3,000 yesterday afternoon. The robbers fled after locking four bank employes and eight customers in a safety deposit five days he spent here seeking; vault. On their way out of the replies to his questions about the North Atlantic Defense Alliance being negotiated by the Western Powers. home to report to an anxiously waiting government in Oslo after receiving from Secretary of State A drop in temperature in Idaho A the official American appeared to have ended the i on the best way to defend threat of more snow slides in! Scandinavia from possible at- mountalnous areas.

The construc- building they slugged another customer with a pistol butt and left him unconscious on tlie floor. It was the fourth bank robbery Late yesterday Lange started in the area in the last four months. The robbers, one of them carrying guns, entered the bank tion camp at Anderson Ranch Dam, threatened by slides, reported the situation had improved all of the workers and their families in the camp we're moved to a wider area. Hayllft operations were halted in many sections of Nevada and ground travel in many parts of Wyoming was at a near standstill. Pla.ies are ferrying passengers from stalled trains to Denver and Salt Lake City.

Rawlins, was getting food sup- piles by air as all roads into the community remained blocked. U. P. Line Bloekod The Union Pacific's main Salt Lake City to Los Angeles line was blocked yesterday after a train carrying ICQ passengers stalled near Bloom, Utah and a die'sel power unit sent to free It was derailed by heavy snow Another UP train was about 100 passengers aboard was halted at Milford. Huge drifting at Borah and Coolidge, Idaho, also forced holding all westbound traffic at Pocatello yesterday, the Union Pacific said.

Meanwhile, in Washington, western Senators decided to Scandinavia tack. The Norwegian official was to leave Now York via Scandinavian Airlines this morning for London, where he plans additional talks with British Foreign Minister Bovin on northern Europe's defen.se prospects. Will Tell Russians Once Lange returns, Norway must draft a note to Russia in answer to Moscow's unexpected bid for a non-agression treaty. The big question for Norway is whether the guarantees of at 1:45 (CST). They herded tlie cashier, Dean Reeves, the teller, Mrs.

Shirley Johnson, two bookkeepers, Helen Gould and Eleanor Gletty, and the customers into an enclosed office. One of the robbers emptied cash drawers in several tellers' cages while his two-gun companion stood guard. Lock Inner Door After taking the money, the gunmen ordered their prisoners into a vault the rear of the l)ank and locked them behind an inner door. They did not attempt to lock the main vault door. Leaving the bank, the gunmen sponsor legislation for new de-1 stressed I'epeatedly that the pur Kuciiciiuues oi Stanley Green, 68, an Elbum American help are strong enougli, farmer, at the front door One to risk antagonizing the Soviet youths struck him on the government by joining with the times with the butt of Western Alliance.

pistol RuK.sia. which has a common Eiburn is six miles southeast of border with Nomay, has bitter- virgil, victimized three times by ly denounced the Atlantic Pact between Oct. 20, 1948 and as an "aggressive" move not in jan, 14, 1949. The Virgil robbers keeping with the United were captured. That has been taken as a clear i warning to Norway not to link up with the Western Powers.

May Take Chance But officials here indicated confidence that the information Lange is relaying will be enough to convince Norwegian authorities to take this chance. They recalled that Acheson has ficlency appropriations for the' Army Engineers to fight blizzards and flood threats. pose of the Alliance is to help the United Nations keep world peace. EIGHT JAPS HANGED By Associated Press TOKYO, Feb. former Japanese soldiers died on the gallows at Sugamo prison early today for war crimes.

Two were involved in Bataan death march atrocities; five for killing pri-soners of war at Tonan, Indo China, and the eighth for mistreating internees at Jlnsen, Korea. HIZZONER ALLAN PETERSON TAKES KEYS OF CITY Mayor Harry Bishop hands the keys of Mt. Vcrnim iivcr to Alayor-For-A-Day Allen Peterson as Boy Scouts take over the reins of government licrc this morning. "City officials" looking on are, staniling, left to Howard, city attorney; -John Page, police magistrate; John Roach, city treasurer; Gale Hill, fire chief; Walter Kent, city clerk; Elmer Rtnthews, iwllce chief; Mayor Bifihop; and Gordon I'orc, fire and polh'c commissioner. (Lpltzell Photo).

By Assoctattd Prtas SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 12. Vice President Barkley will be speaker and of honor today at the an.n,vji^ t.lh L7JSiV in the emancipator's home city. Barkley Is to be the main speaker tonight at a meeting commemorating Lincoln's 140th birthday anniversary. He is due to arrive In Springfield at 4 p.

m. and is expected to go Immedia.ely to the granite-spired Lincoln tomb In Oak Ridge Cemetery to lay a wreath on the tomb. National officers of the Legion and Democratic Gov. Adlal E. Stevenson were the chief speakers on the Legion's 15th annual pilgrimage to the tomb.

Stevenson, in his tribute at the tomb, said Lincoln "tranuconded the heights which the average man can achieve because of a complete reliance In a philosophy (of) genuine affection for the- people and a devotion to ius- tice Perry Brown Speaks Perry Brown of Beaumont, Te.xas, National Commander of the American Legion, said that modern misconceptions of liberty are similar to those alive in Lincoln's day. He added. "The future of our nation is in the balance as we oppose those who use our institutions to over- cime us, will not accepted dictated democracy. We will turn back this threat from within (by) those among us who would substitute for our system one wlilch would accord man no rights and God no recognition." A civic club In Springfield, where Lincoln lived before he went to the White House to become the Civil War president, sponsored the public meeting climaxing the day long o- grams." Lawyers IMarch Members of the Sangamon County Bar Association walked earlier the courthouse, whore Lincoln served in the Illinois legislature, to the tomb. It was symbolic of Lincoln's I'aunts between Springfield and New Salem, a nearby village where he was a storekeeper and where he courted Ann Rutledge.

Lincoln made the trips to borrow law books. Dr. Dumas Malone, Columbia University history professor, of New York, was the principal speaker at a meeting of the Abraham Lincoln As.sociation, a group of scholars and others interested in Lincoln's life. Mrs. Hubert Goode.

Portland, National President of the American Legion Auxiliary, and William G. Burns of Chicago. Illinois Commander, also spoke at the Legion's tomb ceremonies. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the young Republican Clubs of Illinois also conducted pilgrimages to the tomb. Russians Ban Red Cross Food By AssociaUd Press BERLIN, Feb.

Russians tightened their blockade today to stop the Swedish Red Cross from supplj'ing food for western Berlin's children. This was disclosed by western Allied Mllltaiy Commandants, who announced they were providing airlift space to fly in 22 tons of Swedish soups and cereals By Assoelattd Prtas WASHINGTON, Feb. Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent said today that the Canadian and United States govera- ments are planning a vast radar Interceptor network across northern Canada. Such an aircraft detection system would screen the arctic area across which some military strategists contend Russia would strike at this continent in event of a war.

A bill providing for a wridely spaced radar screen around the United States already has been Introduced in Congress. Hear- Ings'are underway before a House Armed Services subcommittee on the plan estimated to cost $161,000,000. The prospective radar wouMbe spdJtN; around fie tinenTal U. under the House bin to guard strategic air approaches. On 'i northern Canadian radar network, St.

Laurent told reporters that the whole project is still in the planning stage. Weather Stations He disclosed there are Americans at "weather stations and loran (long range aid to navigation) establishments in northern Canada but there are not as many of these places as some of our army and air force people would like to see in existence." He said the Canadian government has not received any official suggestions from the United States for expansion of the network but added: "We've seen plans which call for expenditures so great that If they were carried out, there wouldn't be any money left for anything else. There have been planners in Canada and planners in the United States working on this." He said plans "have never gone beyond this very preliminary stage." Visiting Truman St. Laurent, who is here for a visit with President Truman, strongly supported the North Atlantic regional security arrangement which Canada Is helping negotiate. He made clear that full scale military as well as economic and diplomatic cooperation between the two North American countries wil continue.

He did say a. a news conference that the Canadian government would like some modification of American base rights In Newfoundland Newfoundland formally becomes a part of Canada. Mary McCowen of Waltonville Dies Mrs. Mary J. McCowen of Waltonville died at 3:30 a.

m. today at Good Samaritan Hospital at the age of 78 years, three months and seven days. Mrs. McCowen was the widow of the late Jarret McCowen, prominent Waltonville farmer, orchardlst and business man. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.

m. Sunday at the Uni- versallst church at Waltonville. Dr. R. B.

Guthrie and the Rev. E. L. Gulley will officiate and burial win be in Knob Prairie cemetery. The body will remain at the Fry Funeral Home in Waltonville where friends may call at any time after 6:00 p.

m. today. Mrs. McCowen was born November 5, 1870 in Elk Prairie township, the daughter of John R. and Amy (Sulcer) Reynolds, On August 30.

1893 she was married In Mt. Vernon, to Jarret McCowen, who preceded her in death November 30, 1943. Mrs. McCowen is survived by four sons, Everett. Stanley.

Har- vev and Jarret, Jr, of Waltonville; one daughter. Mrs. Eva Lewis of Waltonville; a haU- sistcr, Mrs. Ethel Shaw of Nel- tleton. a half-brother, Henry Mathis of CentraUu; 26 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two sons, Orval and Etilph..