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1948 Sun. Man. JANUARY Tun. Wt. Thuri, 1 1948 FN.

(at. Weather Forecast Southern California Moitly clear to. day and tomorrow except night and morning fog and low cloudi near eoait; little change In temperature. San Bernardino range yesterday: 8839. Central and Northern California-Continued clear and mild over th week end.

2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 0 31 4 1 1 18 25 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 8 15 22 29 KrYf jov iSaa Becnavm VOL LIY, NO. 126 TWENTY PAGES (AP) Associated Pren (UP) United Press So a copy $1.25 a month SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1948 V.i County. nwES El ilill Wi Ld Sign Leads To Tragedy Inside House Churchill Calls For Showdown With Russians 1 Cannot Accept Nomination He Tells Republicans Pauley Brands Charge 'Bunch Of Poppycock' Stassen Testifies at Senate Hearing on Grain Speculation HTTt-irr-T no 4 Kaiser Wants $45,000,000 Expansion Fund Needed to Repay $104,000,000 He Owes Government WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (AP) Henry J. Kaiser asked government approval today of a refinancing program to WASHINGTON, Jan.

23 (AP)-Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower f)(lv th ho Df U1u i imiiin.ni muu, rtnu nu-iuuy ed.fu me anxieties oi politicians who had feared the popular "Ike" might upset 19 IS's presidential applecart. Eisenhower ended more than what veteran political observers regarded as an amazing am()11(T thn hv a fU-3 1 1 'vriA' i Urges Immediate Cooperative Action By Western Powers LONDON, Jan. 23 (UP) Winston Churchill called upon, the western powers today to co- operate In seeking a showdown with Russia before the Soviets get the atomic bomb.

He said he did not know whether such action would be a guarantee against war, but it "will give the best chance of preventing it and if it should come we should have the best chance of getting out of it alive." Churchill, Britain's wartime prime minister, and Clement Att-lee, the present prime minister, both spoke today, finishing two days of debate in the house of commons on foreign policy. 'WAR NOT IMMINENT' "I do not think it is good to be talking of war but on the other hand it is not good to shut your eyes to the possibility," Attlee said, adding that he did not consider war "imminent." As the debate ended, the Labor and Conservative parties were agreed on a strong, new stand against the attempts of the Rus sians to force their system upon Europe, as Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin put it, Great Britain had njade itself 1 OAKLAND, Jan. 23 (m Aft-er noticing a pleoe of papar at the door of a neighbor' home for three daye, Mrs. W. A.

Blanchard unfolded It today and read: "A woman starving. Not able to go to itore. Would like a little help." Mrs. RlanrharH ftallfri nnllr.A. wn0 enteped tne house by forc.

ng a window. They found Mrs. Margaret Hewitt, 77, In bed in a semicoma. Entering another room, police found the body of William Donovan, about 70, Mrs. Hewitt's brother.

Police said he had been dead about a week and that there were no signs of violence, A gas heater was burning so close, police said, that it had "nearly mummified the body." Police found in the house government pension checks, each for $50, totaling $1,000 made out to Mrs. Hewitt. Bavarian Food Strike Closes Big Rallies Held; No Violence Reported FRANKFURT. Germany. Jan.

04 (Saturday) (IP)-The 24-hour. "we-want-food" strike of an esti- mated 1,500,000 workers in U. today. suming rail service between Mu 2f 3 1 RAINMAKER ON LOAN Portland, chamber of commerce yesterday ent Clifford Meacham, oinerwise Known as Chief Tuxhai, Indian reservation, to Los Angeles California drought. He's shown ,.1 Indian Yells At Rain Gods He Promises L.

A. Rain in 33 Hours LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 Culling loose a series of horrible veils. Chief Tuxhai of central it ,1 r-t for the Republican presidential P.A.C. Votes 7-2 to Fight Third Party WASHINGTON, Jan.

23 (LP) The C. I. O. Political Action committee tonight voted 7-2 to throw "all of its resources" against a third party movement, and approved the Marshall plan for European recovery. This gave C.

I. O. right-wing- ers a clean sweep over left-wing opposition in a three-day parley. Committee Chairman a Kroll said Albert J. Fitzgerald, president and Julius Emspak, secretary of the United Electrical Workers, voted against the statement.

sWarren Denies Political Rumor No Basis to Report He Wants Duff's Aid SACRAMENTO, Jan. 23 reports thai Governor. Warren of and Oov. Jatni-s Luff of Pennsylvania would seek to form a presidenli.il ticket at Ibe Ropub- ic.in national conven 1011 are basis. Warren declared At prpss conference Warren jvas asked about an article in a nlMaMZine (Colliers) by Columnist Robert Allen, who said jWarren would seek the presiden- tial nomination with Duff as his the driving force in a move to es-0ccupied Bavaria ended on sched tablish a "western union" ofjUle at one minule after midnight European nations, on the face of wamii.n uiua, ww A senate investigation oi commodity speculation rfll'SMU tonight in an uproar during which Edwin J.

Pauley shouted that the charge he used "inside m.orma,., grain markets was a Innuh of, uoppycock." Chairnvin Ferguson. Michigan Republican, cut off Pauley's attempted statement before a senate aifpropriations subcommittee after Harold E. Stassen had testified that Pauley used such "inside information" in market operations. Senator Dworsbak, Idaho Republican, shouted that lie resent ed Pauley's "insinuations," inasmuch as Democratic members, he complained, had used up most of the time in hostile questioning of Stassen. Stassen is a candidate for 1'" ii.

1 "lm ibe Democratic committee, is a special assistant to the secretary of lhe Army. BUNCH OF POPPYCOCK "I have sat here all day," Pauley shouted as Stassen concluded replying to written questions put to him at Pauley's request, "and I have never seen or heard of such a bunch of poppycock." Ferguson told Pauley 1o be quiet, adding that the latter will have a chance to testify before Ibe committee tomorrow in reply to I.Stassen's charges. Pauley subsided. Before cot ting around to five former government ol finals, in profits in a "pattern of operations similar to Pauley's. 1 a miLLiuiN ims lalstn M.uuu.uuu ias- 0 0 110 ,0 insiders since ill1p Wfl1'' taking up 1he first of ques- tiolls submitted by Pauley, who is resigning as assistant to the sec 41..

a o. retary of the Army, Stassen said Panlnv as a war enin imissioner participated in govern- 'ment decisions on commodity "Do you accuse Pauley of trad- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4) Barbers Raise Prices SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 23 The cost of living went up another notch today in Santa Barbara, Carpinteria and Goleta. i Barbers jumped their prices from $1 to $1.25 for haircuts and from 175 cents to $1 for shaves. i I it a bulwark against the further The first evidence that the encroachment wesward of com- Istrike had ended was the appear-munism.

Britain's leaders had lance of trainmen, who her-an re- rrankiy called communism tne greatest enemy of peace. U. S. GIVES APPROVAL And in Washington, the United States formally announced that it "heartily welcomes" the pro- nich, Nuernberg and other his final lump sum payment cities of the stricken German cannot be met under the most Trolley traffic resumed at 12:53 'optimistic estimates." a.m. Kaiser piysented two refinanc- Since few German factory work- ine plans today.

Oregon's Wasco tribe descended written questions, Stas-here today in a Western airliner sen had testified that about 11 ad-and implored nav. demanded ministration "insiders," including posal of Britain to unite western ers work Saturdays, today will bel 0ne, which he called 1he "west-Europe against Soviet domination. (the second day of a three-day hol-'crn nlan calls for scaline Churchill said the invention of.iday for most Bavarian workers. i A notable exception are the coal miners who are expected to be on the job. The strike passed without any reports of violence, but there weret0 tj.

s. Steel Corp, on that basis. lima II Inn T.i!nU large rallies in Munich, Wuerz- burg and Regensburg. The walkout was called to nro the atomic bomb had given the west a breathing space of three or four years, of which two years already had been lost. "The best chance of avoiding, rut a In OiWirri with ihm nthnr war is, in accord with the other western democracies, to bring! matters to a head with the Soviet eovernment and to arrive at a lasting settlement," he said.

"I cannot believe any serious discussion it may be necessary to have with the Soviet union would be more likely to reach a test alleeed hunplinp of fnnd riiJs171 he termed 1he "Kaiser plan" tribution by the German adminis-iand tration of Bavaria. Last nieht the that the Indian rain gods shower a little water on drough-ridden Southern California. The 37-year-old Tuxhai is an nmitsapw nf 1ha Pnrlljnil rliamlmi. cuuiiuenc. auit his session! of highly vocal prayers, while news cameras clicked the chief said: "if u'e.

In 33 hours the Chief Will be back in Oregon. Southern California is at least a gallon of water to the good be cause of the chief's visit. He presented City Councilman Don. A. Allen with a stone jug of Oregon's finest aqua pura.

Mayor R. Earl Riley of Portland sent along a bouquet of Oregon roses which Allen accepted on behalf of Los Angeles. The chief says his every day name is Cliff Meacham and that he is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps in World war II i expand his Fontana, California, steel plant so that he can repay the $104,000,000 he already owes the government. "Kaiser faces default," the west coast manufacturer told the senate banking committee, adding that the proposed expansion also would lower prices, increase production of critically needed steel and would strike a blow at "monopoly." Chairman Tobey, New Hampshire Republican, told reporters later that the committee would leave Kaiser's request up to the Reconstruction Finance and the R.F.C.

said it "has not established to date" that Kaiser's proposition should be accepted. Both Kaiser's arguments and a statement by R.F.C. Chairman John D. Goodloe were presented at a closed hearing but later were made public separately. LOAN 'UNSOUND' Kaiser borrowed $121,000,000 from R.F.C.

to build the Fontana plant during the war. R.F.C. sa'a" that as of last December he bad paid back 517,000,000 plus interest. The manufacturer declared that the present loan is "unsound," explaining: "It requires a balloon payment of $41,000,000 in 1960 iu vr obtain lhe Fontana plant for 2Q cents on the dollar of its cost, 'Kaiser said the government had a stPpl piant at Geneva UNDER INVESTIGATION The 1545,000,000 refinancing pro- outlined three methods for 11 int0 ptIect- A11 1tirpe llplP Kaiser earnings and PnvaTe nnancing. collateral lor an oi ine cosi oi the new facilities without any contribution of either cash or collateral from Mr.

Kaiser." Riverside Fighter Pilot Dies in Georgia Crash ALBANY, Jan. 23 (TP) grim drama that led to her unblinking death. Nakahara was brought in as a the naval staff, that he ordered execution of survivors of torpedo-ings. Nakahara said Mrs. Brittain was en route to join her husband in Calcutta when the Dutch ship Tjsalak was torpedoed in the Indian ocean in March, 1944.

He said she and others were taken inside the submarine, where the commander said he had orders to execute all except persons "of importance" wanted for question- ing. German economic council of thei11 ior aaumonai u.r.. am.wnn a year of speculation, marked I I 1 nomination that he is not available. He said "necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil powers will be best sustained'' if lifelong professional soldiers like himself do not seek high political office. Nothing in the international or domestic situation, he added, especially qualifies for the presl- dency a man "whose adult years have been spent in the country's military forces.

At least this is true in my case." APPLIES TO MACARTHUR Some politicians thought this V1 ac for th m.w.i-. presidential nomination. jHut Eisenhower said he was ispeaking only of himself. I The retiring Armv chief of staff, who will become president of Columbia universitv June 7, made his declaration in a lelter to a New Hampshire supporter, Leonard V. Finder, publisher of the Manchester Evening Leader.

A slate of delegates 'Ike' Led Field NEW YORK, Jan. 23 Fortune magazine's February survey conducted by Elmo Roper showed Eisenhower leading the field with Truman second and Dewey, MacArthur and Stassen bunched In third place. Eisenhower was the only suggested Republican candidate able to beat Truman in this poll. The survey showed Eisenhower getting 48 per cent to Truman's 34 with 18 per cent undecided. pledged to the general had been 'entered in the March 9 Q.O.P, 'DEFINITE, POSITIVE' Although a personal letter, it was made public generally, the Army press division said, because Eisenhower "hopes through this means to inform every interested person or group that he Is not in (Continued on Page 2, Column T) Wheat Exports Total 260 Million Bushels WASHINGTON, Jan.

23 UP) The agriculture department reported today that about 45 per cent of this crop year's wheat I aurmg ine nrst nalt or the year. The figure gave official encouragement that President Truman's export goal of 500,000,000 bushels of wheat for the crop year can be reached. Exports during the first half of the year were about 260, 000,000 bushels. COOLEY HEIGHTS f.ii.a. ArrnovED Large lots, cheap water, county taxes, schools, churches, transportation.

GLASGOW PACIFIC Agent on Tract I. N. GILBERT or B. DADE DAVIS Court Stroet Ph. 763-23.

503-67. 775-64, 373-M ROLLER SKATE It' Lot of run Matinees Saturday and Sunday 3 Till 4:30 P.M. Open Every Evening Harry' Roller Rink running mate, thus making a bid primaries there, for two large blocks of delegates' I The letter was gleefully re-votes, jceived in the camps of the avowed "I can't imagine what basis Republican candidates. They had there is for the statement," War- made no secret of the fact that ren said. "There hasn't been any-1 the general's past statements in-thing said or has happened to my termit tent since a Miami inter-knowledge to give any foundation view Jan.

7, 1917 had fallen short to such a statement." of an equivocal takeout and made Warren said he had not seen him a real threat in event of a Duff since the governors' confer-1 convention deadlock. favorable conclusion if we wait ing for a house-to-house and farm-! nairman uooaioe toio me sen-until they have got the atom arm census of foods and however, that all of Kais-bomb, too. Ifering premiums to farmers ProPosa's "involved directly "You may be absolutely sure the exceed their production quotas. or indirectly R.F.C. providing all present situation cannot last." iof the money andor a11 of tho Anelo-Ameriean "Bizonia" an-i proved emergency measures call- "I Three Democratic Officials Indicted as Vote Buyers rainmaker of the Warm Springs in attempt to break the Southern wirephoto) Winter Numbs Most of Nation Sub-Zero Weather Spreads Into South (By Assoeluled Prnss) Winter enveloped almost the entire country in its benumbing embrace Friday, driving the mercury below zero in the east, midwest and the Rockies and bringing a forecast of freezing temperatures as far south as northern Florida and the Gulf states.

Temperatures dropped fast in the southeast and zero weather coldest since 1940 was lorecast aii, for parts of Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. A heavy snow fell; in western Manama cosing some, scnoo.s. snow aiso iei, in pans oL Texas. Louisiana anrl Mississinni as the cold air moved in. In northern California, San Francisco chalked up its hottest Jan.

23 temperature since 1875 one of 75 degrees and as 1he unusual heat wave continued Cath olics of the San Francisco archdiocese wete asked to offer up prayers for rain. The fast-spreading cold air mass which is coming down from Cana da, brought the nation's lowest readings of 45 below zero to Poke-sama Dam on the Mississippi river near Grand Rapids, Minn. The cold was the most severe of the season in Iowa and parts of Wis consin. The severe cold also extended (Continued on Page 2, Column 5) A.F.L. Lumber Workers Accept 7.5-Cenf Boost SEATTLE, Jan.

23 (IP) Union officials tonight accepted an employers' offer granting a cents an hour wage increase to 40,000 A.F.L. lumber and sawmill workers in Oregon and Washington, Earl Hartley, chairman of the union negotiating committee, an nounced. Citizens Say Favoritism Shown in Gambling Raid SANGER, Jan. 23 (ID-Mem bers of an aroused Sanger citizen's committee said today they are going to ask Attorney General Fred N. Howser why Investigator Charles Hoy of his office raided three small places for slot machines here Jan.

8 but refused to enter two bigger establishments. Dental Researcher Dies SANTA MONICA, Jan. 23 UP) Dr. Weston A. Price, 77, who won international recognition for his pioneer work in dentalresearch and nutrition, died today at his home here where he had been con fined by a heart ailment ST.

LOUIS, Jan. 23 (IP) Three! Goodloe said Arthur G. McKee Democratic committeemen, Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, an in-ing the brother of a former U. S.jdustrial engineering firm, is con-attorney here, were indicted by ajducting a survey to determine federal grand jury today on whether R.F.C.

should do this. Francis Seriously III From Sleeping Pills once in Salt Lake City last sum mer and at that time had had no chance to "sit down and talk with Jim, who is a friend of mine and for whom I have high movies in 1930 and has appeared in more than 50 films, remained in serious condition. After her stomach had been emptied with a charges of buying votes for each in the 1946 general election. The men indicted are Charles L. Blanton business manager of the Sikeston (Mo.) Standard and son of the late "Polecat" Manager Held for Five Hours editor of the Standard who died First Lt.

Wayne C. Fraser of Riv-early this month, Grover C. Baker, jerside, California, was killed yes-a Scott county official; and N. E.jterday when his Mustang fighter Fuchs, a Sikeston automobileiplane crashed during a landing at dealer. iTurncr field here.

stomach pump, her condition wasi'PP'y vvas consumed or exported DANCERS HEROIC DEATH ON JAP SUB DISCLOSED Amish Bishop Sent To Indiana Penal Farm for 6 Months GOSHEN, Jan. 23 (IP) A grim, white-bearded bishop of the Amish church was sentenced today to six months in the Indiana state penal farm after he pleaded guilty to keeping his 41-year-old daughter roped and chained to a filthy bed in an unlighted room for the last 10 years. The bishop, Samuel D. Hock-stettler, 75, whose word is law among Amishmen in this area, was arrested yesterday on charges of assault and battery after a neighbor reported the imprisonment. He said he had "done no wrong," but admitted he had kept his daughter in the unventilated room for the last decade because she was demented.

Doctor Calls Hospital Aid Bill Disappointing LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 (tP) A federal bill which set aside for hospital construction in California was termed a disappointment today by Dr. Wilton Halverson, state director of public health, because of its restrictive clauses. The director told 300 representatives of Southern California public, and private hospitals that the state ifUfit provide matching funds for every grant approved by the federal government to privately supported institutions. He said the, state constitut tn forbids such I grants of state funds.

TOKYO, Jan. 23 tfP)-An American woman dancer died heroically on the deck of a Japanese sub- marine, scorning a blindfold and surprise witness by the prosecu-calling goodbye in Japanese to her jtion in the trial of Hideki Tojo Overdose; Stage COLUMBUS, Jan. 23 UP) Kay Francis, star of the stage play "State of the Union," became seriously ill from an overdose of sleeping pills today and police tained her stage manager for five nours while they investigated. Howard Graham, 37, the stage manager, was released after the 43-year-old actress regained consciousness and confirmed Graham's story of what caused her illness. He had been booked for "investigation of assault to kill." Police took Graham into custody at White Cross hospital, to which Miss Francis was removed about 7 a.m., when they found she had second degree burns on her logs.

Graham had reported that he was called to her hotel room about 6:30 a.m; that she had fainted and she burned her legs on a radiator when he took her to a window in an ettort to revive her. Jay S. Teele, assistant chief of detectives, announced Graham's release at 3:15 p.m. and said: "The detectives talked to her and she said she had been nervous and couldn't sleep. She had been taking these pills so she took more executioners, a surprise witness at, and 24 other former leaders of the war crimes trial related to- i Japan.

His testimony was in re-day, ending a search of nearly jbultal to the denial of Adm. Shig-four years for the missing woman, etaro Shimada, onetime chief of reported as improved. Dr. Maurice B. Rusoff, her physician, reported "her condition is serious but not critical.

She is suffering from an upper respiratory infection. I believe she will live. She had not been Graham became ill while talking with newsmen in the afternoon and asked to be excused from further questioning. Before that time, however, he related he left Miss Francis about 2.30 a.m. and was summoned by her about 6:30 a.m.

"I went to her room and knocked and she answered," he said. "She was clad in a blue robe. While I was talking with her she fainted." DR. S. R.

HOUGHTON CHIROPODIST NEW LOCATION 363 Thirteenth St. Formerly at 493 Street Phone 812-115 ife U'ci'f KAy FRANCIS Seriously III than she thought she was taking." Earlier, William Blair, company; manager of the production playing here, had described Graham's detention as a "ridiculous mistake." Miss Francis, who entered the 1 1 1 1 BWmN.J" The woman was Mrs. Verna Cordon Brittain, a native of San Francisco and wife of Laurie Brit tain, British manager of the Nes tle Food Co. in Penang. She was 33 at the time she was killed in 1944.

Her husband was a wartime wing commander in the R.A.F. The witness was Jiro Nakahara, 28, Hawaiian-born Japanese who said he was a crew member of the submarine and acted as inter- preter lor Mrs. Brittain in the.