The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 1

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W. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Weather Forecast Southern California Increasing high cloudlneie Saturday and Sunday with night and morning low clouds and fog over west portion and likelihood of scattered light showers northwest portion by Sunday afternoon; little temperature Chang. San Bernardino range yesterday; 7537. Central and Northern California Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, cMitypqper fir San FIFTY-THIRD YEAR TWENTY PAGES (AP) Associated Press (TIP) United Press SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1947 Knterel at Poatotflct, Saa Bernardino, California, ai Second Class Matter Se a copy Sl.25 a month L.eau FiiM mi tip) a fi 0 Senators Score Need mphasizes Of Power to Back 100,000 Idle as Nation Swept by Winter's Winds Wide Stretches of Middle West Lashed By Frigid Storms Palestine War Threat Hurled By Arab Leader British Government Delivers Compromise Pian for Holy Land Up Foreign Policy WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) In his first major policy too-laration as secretary of state, Gen.

George C. Marshall today called for universal military training to back up American foreign policy with real power. lie said there can be no disarmament until effective International security is worked out through the United Nations based on "solutions acceptable to the great powers of the tremendous Britain Cuts Use of Power, Coal Lacking LONDON, Feb. 7 UP) The British government announced today that the long-hearlded breakdown of the eleotrioal Industry was at hand a the result of an unprecedented ooal famine, and ordered electric power cut off from factories In the industrial heart of the country beginning Monday. A board of trade spokesman said $4,000,000 workers would be thrown out of jobs In the industrial paralysis which also affected millions of householders whose electricity also will be cut off for five hours each day.

It was Emanuel Shinwell, di-Vector of fuel and power, who made the drastic announcement in the house of commons while under fire from both Labor, and Conservative benches. "This government has decided that as from Monday no electricity shall be supplied to any industrial consumer in the London and southeastern area and in the northwestern and midland districts, and that deliveries to domestic consumers shall be cut off from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.," he said. HopelivenUp For Agreement U.N.

Council to Get U.S., Soviet Dispute HsnfeC T' Si I j' 1 ft "V- i RESCUES BABY SISTER Three-year-old John Rodney Week helps his 2-year-old sister, Jacqueline, to a bottle of milk after he saved her life when fire destroyed their home near Mobile, after an oil cooking stove exploded. John pulled his sister from the blazing house and attracted neighbors with his screams of "fire!" Mrs. J. R. Weeks, the mother, saved her 6months-old daughter, but the" flames isolated John and his "sister, putting him on his own (AP Marine Party Leaves China wirephoto) Veterans Win At Reno Games Return to Corona Loaded With Silver RENO, Feb.

7 iJP) Eight Navy and Marine corps war vet- Secret Strike Vote Proposal Stassen Rebuffed By at Hearing on Labor WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) Harold E. Stassen, who frank ly seeks the Republican nomi nation for president, came up today with a proposal to require secret strike votes and walked into a rebuff from Republican Senators Taft of Ohio and Ball of Minnesota. Snapped Taft: "That proposal is trivial as far as a final solution of the problem is concerned." Stassen had urged, in senate la bor committee hearings on labor legislation, that any strike be prohibited unless a majority of all employes voted to strike in a secret-ballot election held at the end of negotiations. "I have no confidence," said Taft, "that the men are going to take a different position from their leadership that is.

in 99 out of 100 cases." DRASTIC RESTRICTION Ball said the proposal was "an extremely drastic restriction on the right to strike further than I would go." Taft is regarded as a leading possibility for 1he presidential nomination which Stassen wants He is chairman of the labor committee. Ball first became a senator when Stassen appointed That was in 1940, when Stassen was governor of Minnesota. Stassen had brisk words with both men in today's hearing. But Senator Morse, Oregon Republican, spoke up and said some of Stassen's testimony "thrilled me And at the end, Senator Pepper, Florida Democrat, praised Stassen for "general fairness." Stassen suggested 10 steps to eliminate what he called "abuses of power" by union leaders. DIFFER SHARPLY He criticized two bills by Ball to outlaw industry-wide bar gaining and various forms of the closed shop.

Stassen and Ball dif fered sharply, and unsmilingly, ov er these bills. Stassen defended industry-wide bargaining. He said it prevented employers in the same industry from competing with each other for lower wages. The National Milk Producers association asked the senate com mittee in a statement to block union organization of farmers. Bollards' Mail Fraud Indictment Dismissed LOS ANGELES, Feb.

7 (IP) A mail fraud indictment naming Edna W. Ballard, leader of the "I Am" cult, and her son, Donald, was dismissed today by Federal Judge J. F. T. O'Connor on motion of defense attorneys.

The U.S. supreme court recently reversed conviction of the Bal-lards on ground that women were excluded from the jury panel. U.S. Attorney James M. Carter said his office was studying wheth er to ask for a reindictment.

time to examine them. Subsequently, all cracks in the ponderous, dark-oak desk were sealed with strips of paper to keep out the dust and so that any attempt to get into it could instantly be detected. Feb. 11 is the 100th anniversary of Edison's birth, and the desk is being opened tomorrow as part of national ceremonies to honor probably the world's most prolific inventor. Before his final illness, Edison was working on a method of obtaining rubber from goldenrod.

Since the war ended, the problem of obtaining rubber is no longer a pressing one for the United States, but the mind that conceived the incandescent lamp, the phonograph, motion pictures, the fluor-oscope and fluorescent light may have left behind ideas startlirig erans-all wheel-chair patients at(he first parly of Americans from' LONDON, Feb. 7 (AP) The British government delivered its compromise plan for Palestine to Arab leaders tonight and Emile Ghoury, a Palestine Arab representative, said that if the proposal resulted in the entry of one more Jew into Palestine "it will mean war." The compromise plan apparently was not delivered to Jewish representatives here tonight. Jamal Husseini, leader of the Palestine Arab delegation, said he and his colleagues had decided not to look at the proposal until tomorrow morning because "I'm sure it would ruin our night's rest." TAKES SOME STOCK Husseini's statement indicated he took some stock in earlier reports from informed Whitehall sources that the new formula called for the immediate movement of 100,000 Jews from Europe's displaced persons camps into a Jewish area of federalized Palestine. Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones summoned Moshe Shertok, the Jewish agency's political chief, to an unscheduled conference tonight to discuss the present situation in Palestine. British sources said Creech Jones warned Shertok that the' Army in Palestine "would take the initiative" in any serious violence followed announcement of the British proposals.

The British cabinet earlier the day met and considered plan, but did not announce result of its deliberations on proposal which, one reliable the the the in formant said, would admit 000 Jews immediately into a semi-autonomous Jewish province' in the Holy land. One Person Killed As Frisco Line Train Derailed REPUBLIC, Feb. 7 UP) Four 'cars of the Frisco railroad's Will Rogers passenger train were derailed here tonight, killing one person and injuring seven others. The dead man was identified as James D. Osborn, 67, of Frederick, Okla.

He was decapitated when thrown through a Window of a Pullman car. Frisco officials said, a' broken rail caused the' four rear cars of the 10-car train to jump the track shortly after 6:30 o'clock. Three of the derailed cars remained upright and the last, a Pullman, fell on its side. All the injured were in the Pullman. The train, enroute from Oklahoma City to St.

Louis, was due in the latter city shortly after midnight. Student Picks Bad Spot for Accident LOS ANGELES, Feb. 7 Robert Russell, 19-year-old OB stu- dent picked a bad spot for an automobile accident last night. He was passing the police traffic record bureau when his car crashed Into three others on one side of the street, then struck another across the street. Police filed three charges of hit-and-run against Russell.

All J1 i ah mc aamageu cars were owned by traffic officers, they saia. Driver Fined, Claimed Flowers Made Him Dizzy PASADENA, Feb. 7 (IP) Despite his plea that he was made dizzy by the aroma of flowers he was delivering to a mortuary Charles Crain today was fined $300 and costs for drunken driving Police Judge Kenneth C. Newell overruled Crain's contention that he sideswiped a parked car be-tause the flowers made him dizzy. CHICAGO, Feb.

7 (AP)' Icy, destructive winds raked wide stretches of the midwest today but a circular air move ment over the unfrozen Great Lakes raised prospects the east would escape the cold wave's worst sting. Winds ranging up to more than 60 miles an hour at times swept over the Dakotas, Minnesota and Nebraska, drifting snow, smashing windows and sending temperatures tumbling well below zero. The winds blowing across the snow covered plains states piled up mountainous drifts which stalled one passenger train near Adrian, and another in Iowa. UNEMPLOYED MOUNT As the cold air mass began spreading south and eastward, in somewhat modified form, the number made unemployed by the succession of recent frigid waves swelled well beyond the 100,000 mark. A ban on the use of gas for in dustrial purposes has thrown out of work in the industrial triangle of western Pennsylvania, southeastern Ohio and northwestern West Virginia.

Similar gas curtailment orders today shut off that fuel to eight St. Louis indus tries making 5,300 idle and to 60 Detroit industrial plants, including Ford, General and Chrys ler. Although the temperature fell slowly throughout the day in Chi cago to near the Zero mark, forecasters said the warming influence of the Great lakes would have a moderate 'effect on the new cold air mass. TO BE LESS BITTER As a result, they added, the cold would be less bitter than previously indicated in Michigan, Wis-cdnsin, northern Illinois, extreme northern Indiana and in most eastern states. Instead of following the usual southeasterly direction from the Dakotas, the cold air mass started a nuge circular movement over the lakes that caused it to moderate However, the cold was expected to spread gradually to the Ap palachians within the next 36 hours and forecasters said abnormally cold weather would persist for four or five days thereafter.

Horror Killer Of Wife Dies In Gas Chamber SAN QUENTIN; Feb. 7 (IP) John T. Honneycutt, 3-year-old horror killer of his wife, was executed today in the lethal gas chamber at San Quentin prison. Honneycutt, the first man to die In the prison in six years that asked for a blindfold, died without revealing why he killed his wife a year ago. He main tained the same stern attitude: "I'll never tell why I did it." He bludgeoned his wife to death with a meat grinder and then disembowled her.

The cyanide pellets were dropped into the chamber at 10:02 a.m. and he was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. bers of the senate-house budget committee, meeting in secret, were reported to have agreed tentatively on these estimates. The' full committee is to report by Feb. 15.

Senator Taft, Ohio Republican, a committee member, told a reporter he hopes the committee will not set a budget figure so low that it will have to be raised later. He sajd that while he would like to see expenditures Deeeed at $32,000,000,000, it might not be possible to do so. issues involved. Furthermore, Marshall virtually declared a great counter-campaign of truth against Russian propaganda. He did not actually inden- tify the propaganda as Russian, but other state department leaders have been assailing Soviet propaganda.

Backing up the international broadcasting program of assistant Secretary of State William Benton, Marshall said that somehow the United Slates has to build up a credit for truth and accuracy in the world and that truth has to be made to prevail against what he called the riot of propaganda. IS UNPRECEDENTED The conference was unprecedented in the memory of veteran state department reporters in that Marshall talked about virtually every outstanding diplomatic topic in the world. Sometimes he spoke for direct quotation, sometime for indirect attribution, and some-, times off the record. He made clear that he intends to follow the foreign policy of former Secretary James F. Byrnes and hit these high points of great issues he faces in his own career: Universal training Marshall said the United States will not have any real, positive military power to back up its foreign policy unless it has universal military training.

He called the present system impractical and ineffective. Disarmament Marshall said it is difficult to see how "any real disarmament," or even any substantial reductions of armament can take place until peace treaty solutions acceptable to the great powers have been reached. Marshall sharply disagreed with the Russian view that atomic energy control can be taken up as a part of disarmament HE ASKS INCREASE Moscow conference Marshall revealed the Soviet government has said it can not admit more than 15 or 20 American correspondents for the conference although 75 have applied. He is asking the Soviets to increase the number. Poland While emphasizing the United States intends to maintain its diplomatic mission in Warsaw although it disapproves the elea-tion which produced the present Polish government, Marshall announced that Ambassador Arthur (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) Health Insurance Issue Beclouded, Asserts Physician LOS ANGELES, Feb.

7 (JB Dr. Lowell S. Goin, president of the California physicians service, declared today that proponents of Gov. Earl Warren's public insurance health bill, now before the legislature, are beclouding the issue regarding the merits of voluntary health plans' and "state medicine." "They talk about the financial barrier between the patient and the physician," said Dr. Goin, former president of the California Medical association, In addressing the Lions club.

"Under the old free system, physicians always have given better services to the penniless, and the rapid growth of the voluntary health plan Is meeting the problem better than any regimented, socialistic state or federal plan possibly could do." Dr. Goin said medical car Is but a small part of the health problem, and that health depends on housing, diet, working coudJ tions and other factors. Cockroach Costs Bakery Owners $5,000 Damages DETROIT, Feb. 7 The Inscrutable stare of a cockroach today cost bakery owners Mike and John Matuszak $5,000. A jury in circuit court awarded that amount in damages to John Nantico, 62, a bakery employe, after hearing his version of his meeting with the roach.

Nantico said he was climbing the basement stairs, made slippery from spilled frosting, when the cockroach "half a foot long" galloped out from a dark corner and fixed him with a steady eye. In a panio, Nantico made a past at the giant roach with his foot, tripped and fell down the stairs, breaking his leg. Commentator Said Hit on Jaw Lewis Blames Friend Of Elliott Roosevelt NEW YORK, Feb. 7 W) Fulton Lewis radio commentator, said tonight he was struck in the jaw by a friend of Elliott Roosevelt after Lewis, the late president's son and his wife exchanged words following a radio broadcast. Lewis said Dick Harrity, representative of the publishing house of Duell, Sloan Pearce, publishers of Roosevelt's new book about his father, struck him after Roosevelt accused Lewis of insulting his wife, the former Faye Emerson.

The incident occurred after a broadcast of Mutual's "Meet the Press" program on which Roosevelt was interviewed by newsmen, including Lewis. Harrity and Roosevelt left after the incident and could not be reached immediately for comment. Lewis said Roosevelt later apologized to him and that he in turn apologized. Lewis said the altercation started after Roosevelt- questioned him concerning a broadcast Lewis made in 1945 in connection with the Texas state radio network, of which Roosevelt was then a stockholder. The commentator said Mrs.

Roosevelt then entered the discus sion and that he (Lewis) told her, "You weren't in the picture at that time. You weren't too close to El liott at that time." Roosevelt then asked, Lewis said, "are you insinuating that my wife Is a liar?" even now in the age of the atom, television and radar. Several years after Edison died, two New York mediums announced that they had received a "spirit message" from him saying he had left a "momentous message to the world" concealed in a fountain pen inside the desk. So far as is known, Edison never took any slock in mediums, being addicted only to things that were practical, and seldom used a fountain pen. But when his desk is opened, Charles Edison, his mother, Harvey S.

Firestone and Frank M. Tait, vice-president of the Thomas A. Edison Centennial committee, will look for the fountain pen. It may be several weeks before experts are able to say whether the notes and papers contain anything of value. NEW YORK, Feb: 7 Ifl An informal committee of tbe United Nations security council tonight gave up its efforts to reconcile conflicting United States and Russian views on arms reduction machinery and sent the controversial question back to the council unsettled.

After three days of debate behind closed doors, the delegates decided it was futile to make further efforts. The final decision was to send two draft resolutions to the council, one embodying Russia's views and the other expressing the position of the United States. Efforts to resolve the differences between the two big powers were finally dropped after it be. came clear that a question of principle was involved and that the conflict could not be removed by compromise. The debate will be resumed in open meeting of the security coun cil next week, probably Tuesday Unless either the United States or Russia alters its stand over the week end, the issues may have to be resolved by a formal vote.

This brings up the question of the big power veto. It appeared that a new dispute might arise over whether the one major point, which blocks agreement, would be subject to the veto', or whether it was a question of procedure, on which the veto does not apply. The United States delegation was reported to feel that the veto would not apply, but some other delegates were known to hold that a of substance was involved. Actress Ella Raines, Major on Honeymoon HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 UP) Movie Actress Ella Raines and Major Robin Olds, son of the late Major Gen.

Robert Olds, were honeymooning at Lake Tahoe today after their marriage last night at the Westwood Community church. Each is 25. First Group Boards Vessel for Home PEIPING, Feb. 7 UPl Escorted by U. S.

Marine planes overhead and Marine guards aboard train. the disbanding executive- headquarters' has safctly reached the sea today and boarded ship for home. Nearly others from the headquarters, plus about 10,000 Marines, are to leave shortly in carrying out the American deci sion to abandon mediation efforts and get out of China. Aboard the seven car special train on the 115-mile trip from Peiping to Tangku were 303 Army and civilian personnel and depend ents and 20 Marine guards. Two Marine planes overhead kept in radio touch with a fighter squadron which was ready to take off instantly if needed The Americans went immediately aboard the transport "General Weigel, which was expected to sail for the United States within 24 hours.

Dies at Age of 102 LONDON, Feb. 7 CP) John Coombes Masters, who advocated breakfast in bed, a daily glass of beer and pipe of tobacco as the way to longevity, died today at the age of 102. pital "took" a pleased and will ing gambling club for pocketfuls of silver dollars today in the windup to a unique five-day vacation. The veterans, who had been guests at a winter lodge atop Don-ner summit in high Sierra, left by plane this afternoon with their pockets weighted with silver dollars won at Harold's club. Their wheel chairs were pushed to the tables to enable them to play.

The house furnished initial capital, and the pretty girl dealers were quick to make certain that (Continued on Page 2, Column 2) Lawyer Outlines Charges Against Movie Actor Rait HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 OP) A detailed outline of charges that he was beaten by Movie Actor George Raft was filed today by Attorney Edward Raiden to support his $300,000 damage suit against the sleek-haired star. Raiden charges he was beaten Dec. 21, 1945, when he sought to recover "gifts" Raft allegedly gave Actress Betty Doss. The suit named three associates of the actor as participating in the beating, Mack and Joe Gray and Ben The attorney claimed he was retained by Miss Doss and her moth er, Mrs.

Mazie Doss to regain ar ticles including a Persian lamb coat, gold cigarette lighter, wrist watch-and rings, valued at $6,000. Studio's Consent Vital Before Pair's Marriage HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 7 UP) Getting her parents' consent wasn't all that was necessary for Actor John F. Fontaine to wed Actress Barbara Lawrence. He had to ask her studio, too.

And 20th Century-Fox gave of ficial approval yesterday, on Bar bara's seventeenth birthday. Fontaine is 23, EDISON'S ROLLTOP DESK, SEALED 16 YEARS, WILL BE OPENED TODAY G.O.P. CONGRESSMEN MAP HUGE SLASH IN BUDGET WEST ORANGE, N. Feb. 7 (IP) Thomas Alva Edison's' roll-top desk, locked and sealed with strips of paper on the day he died 16 years ago, will be opened tomorrow so that his last formulas and notes can be studied by experts.

Not even Charles Edison, former secretary of the Navy and governor of New Jersey, and the son who locked it, will guess what secrets it holds. Edison died at 3:27 a.m. on Oct. 18, 1931, in his West Orange mansion. At daybreak, Charles Edison went to his father's library a three-story building with four one-story laboratory buildings around it and locked the desk.

Its pigeonholes and drawers were crammed with notebooks, papers and formulas, but he did not take WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 UP) Republican congressmen working on liscal problems were reported virtually agreed today on a slash in President Tru man's budget. They hope to hold spending in the fiscal year starting July 1 to and they anticipate revenue of $39,000,000,000. This, if realized, would permit an income tax cut of $3,500,000,000 and a payment on the national debt of a like amount. A number of Republican Mem.