The Escanaba Daily Press from Escanaba, Michigan • Page 1

THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS VOL. XXXX NO. 264 pper eninsula eading ewspaper ESCANABA, FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1949 ssociated ress eased ire ews ervice (10 PAGES) Huge Budget For Defense Spared Cuts Congress Doesn't Favor Universal Training By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST Washington, Jan.

28. (JP President $14,268,000,000 defense budget for the fiscal year starting in July appeared safe from major slashes today, although the Air Forces may get a bigger share than the president asked. House appropriations committee members said as much following an off-the-record session with Secretary of Defense Forrestal and other top military leaders yesterday. Congress may give the Air Forces enough money for a 70- group force instead of the 48 requested by Mr. Truman, they indicated, by simply transferring to it an estimated $800,000,000 set aside in the budget for universal military training.

just going to pass a UMT a committee member said. The case for an Air Force with more groups than the president has requested is being built up in the House armed services committee. That group met today to question Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Forces head, and Gen. Omar N.

Bradley, Army chief of staff, on legislation permanently fixing the authorized strength of the armed forces. Bradley told the committee yesterday that the Army contemplated in the budget would not give a 70-group Air Force sufficient ground support. The legislation before the committee would give the Army a peace-time authorized strength of 837,000, as originally planned. Mr. burget ceiling forced the Army to lower its sights.

Proposal To Revise Constitution Loses Question Failed To Pass At Polls, Says Cowrt Lansing, Jan. 28 )V for a convention to rewrite Michigan's 1908 constitution vanished yesterday when the state supreme court ruled the constitutional revision question failed to pass at the Nov. 2 general election. The court rejected the petition of Attorney General Stephen J. Roth and his predecessor, Eugene F.

Black, that the state board of canvassers be instructed to declare the question adopted. Roth Roth and Black contended that the voters had approved the proposal. The constitution requires a majority vote of all those voting at the election. The vote on the ouestion was 855,451 and 799,198 More than 2,000,009 votes were cast. Roth and Black argued that it was impossible to determine the total vote at the election and that therefore a simple majority was all that was needed to pass the constitutional revision question.

The opinion, written by Justice Henry M. Butzel, said the wording of the constitutional requirement for a majority of all votes plain and free from ambiguity and requires no judicial construction to determine its meaning. The plain and explicit terms of the constitution must be ----------------ISLAND FEELS QUAKE Manila, Friday, Jan. 28 A moderately strong earthquake last night shook Iloilo, capital of Panay Island in the central Philippines, the weather bureau reported today. No damage was reported immediately.

Troops Revolt Over Terms Of Peiping Peace By JAMES D. WHITE Nanking, Jan. 28. OP) In the chaos of war China awaited an uncertain New Year tonight amid a great sea tragedy, the ropr of guns and waning peace hopes. The lunar year of the rat expires at midnight and the year of the ox begins.

The New Year looked dark for the vast country. A regiment of Peiping Nationalist troops rebelled at an order to move into Communist country and shot it out with fellow Nationalists bent on forcing them to obey a Atlantic Fog Halts Hunt For Lost B-29 Plane Missing With 15 On Trip To England London, Jan. 28 I heavy fog hampered efforts to search for a U. S. Airforce B-29 missing over the Atlantic with 15 men aboard.

Six B-29s were to have off last midnight from Marham, England the missing home join the hunt. But an airforce spokesman here said only two got away before the fog closed in. The heavy fog presumably also hampered R.A.F. jjlanes aiding in the search. An admiralty spokesman said two planes had been reported ready to leave Gibraltar early today but no later message confirmed the takeoff.

The missing plane was on a 3,000 mile flight from Dakar, French West Africa, to England. Its fuel should long since have been exhausted and authorities said it is down The staff duty officer at Third Air division headquarters here said the plane made its last radio contact shortly after midnight yes- Ifcuddy. He said airforce control at Frankfurt at that time picked up a signal showing the plane near the Canary Islands. Previous reports had placed its last definite location 200 miles south of Casablanca. peace agreement.

The Nationalist headquarters said the revolt was suppressed. Acting President Li Tsung-Jen appealed to Red Chief Mao Eze- Tung to name negotiators for a peace conference. Two of high government officials, the premier and foreign minister, may have deserted him to flee southward. They reportedly feared detention as There were also rumors of a Kuomintang revolt against Li with Chiang Kai-shek taking over once more. Caretaker for a government deeply distrusted by the Communists, Li urged Mao to name the place and Red negotiators for a peace conference.

Li acted after his old buddy, Gen. Pai Chung-Hsi, flew in from his central China command headquarters at Hankow. Pai, who with General Li threatened a revolt in 1936 unless Chiang Kai-shek actively fought Japan, was believed strengthening the acting hand in the peace move. Two high government officials considered to be still taking Chiang orders, Premier Sun Fo and Foreign Minister Wu Te-Chen, flew off to Shanghai. There was a growing belief they left because they feared Li and Pai would take action against them.

They now are regarded as the chief advocates for fighting on (although Sun recently was supposed to have taken a stand for peace.) Sleet Storm Isolates 13 Towns In Michigan TRIED AS TRAITOR Facing a possible death sentence for treason, Mildred E. (Axis Sally) Gillars, 48, yesterday heard court play-backs of Nazi propaganda broadcasts which arc being used to support charges that Miss Gillars was a traitor to the United States during World War 2. She is shown above as she entered district court in Washington, where her trial is in recess until Monday. Shaky Victory Won By G.O.P. Chairman UPPER MICHIGAN: Diminishing snow squalls and colder tonight, with temperatures falling to around sero near the Soo and the interior of the southwest portion by Saturday morning.

Strong northerly winds and considerable drifting snow. Saturday cloudy and colder. Snow flurries extreme north portion. ESCANABA AND VICINITY: Diminishing snow squalls and colder tonight, strong northerly winds and considerable drifting, diminishing late tonight Saturday cloudy and colder, wind northwesterly 10 to 15 mph. High 20, low 14.

ESCANABA Hith 29 Low 22 Yesterday Alpena 26 Lansing 26 Battle Crede. 30 Los Angeles 34 Brownsville. 51 Marquette 24 Buffalo 25 Memphis 40 Cadillac 22 Miami 69 Chicago 31 Milwaukee 26 Cincinnati ..41 New Orleens 51 Cleveland 33 Omaha 5 Dallas 30 Phoenix 30 Denver 10 Pittsburgh 41 Detroit ...........27 St. Louis 24 Duluth -4 Francisco 40 Grand Rapids 28 S. Ste.

Marie 22 Jacksonville 61 Traverse City 24 Kpnaai City. 15 Washington 39 Payless Michigan Legislators Must Wait Another Week Lansing, Jan. 28 payless legislators must wait another week or 10 days to learn whether they will be paid $128 a month, $21 a week or nothing. The supreme court, taking under advisement litigation oyer legislative salaries yesterday, indicated a decision could be expected in seven to 10 days. Suit was started by legislators to clarify their salary status after Philip C.

Kelly, Jackson attorney, began litigation to challenge the $2,400 a year salary and $500 a year expense account. The suit also has the state elective officials payless. Auditor General Murl K. Aten has held up their higher pay, on the grounds that the decision in the salary case will affect the others, too. Plane Misses House At Brooklyn, Chutes Save Crew Madison, Jan.

28 UP air force B-25 crashed within 100 yards of a Dane county farmhouse last night moments after the light three-man crew parachuted to safety. The plane crashed near Sam farmhouse at Brooklyn, 20 miles south of here, the Dane county department reported. officers identified members of the crew as Lt. R. K.

Scudder, 30, Salt Lake City, pilot; Lt. H. M. Swanson, 24, Tuscumbia, co-pilot, and Pvt. Ap- polinor Ortega, 21, of Georgetown, Calif.

The crew said the plane developed engine trouble about 11,000 feet during the flight from Minneapolis to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio. Grenade In Street Linked To Kentucky Post Office Bomb Bowling Green, Jan. 28 (JP) of a connection between finding of a hand grenade on the street here and bomb explosion in the post office was being studied today. City Engineer John Galvin reported finding of the hand grenade yesterday. He said it was discovered by a street sweeper in the gutter in front of the Bowling Green high school.

The pin was almost sheared off. Only a tiny particle of the worn firing kept it from exploding as the sweeper handled the grenade, Galvin said. By JACK BELL Omaha, Jan. 28 (JP) Hugh D. Scott held shaky reed of auihori'j- over me Republican National committee today in a trial run of his chairmanship.

Some members, like Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio, thought it might be no more than six months before hard-won retention of his office is challenged again. The 48-year old Pennsylvania congressman, hand picked by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey for his party job had a slender 54 to 50 vote of committee confidence hanging on his belt.

Harry Darby of Kansas, one of chief supporters in the bitterest fight to split the Republican party since the Bull Moose movement of 1912, told a reporter things are a lot better than they look on the surface. think do a swell job and all of this will be Darby declared. But Brown, a supporter of Senator Robert A. Taft, so sure. think any chairman who finds his committee divided about 50-50 is going to be the Ohio congressman told a reporter: think it will be six months before this matter is brought up again in some Brown added.

Rep. Leonard Hall, carry ink the proxy of J. Russell Sprague, New York committeeman and one of Detroit Race Lease High Bid $550,000 Lansing, Jan. 28 bids for the 1949 lease of the Detroit Fair Grounds race track, ranging up to $550,000, were opened today by the agriculture commission and the state administrative board. The high bid was entered by a newcomer to the contest.

A group headed by Leslie Wikel, Ann Arbor druggist, offered the bid providing they are guaranteed 80 days of racing. The Thoroghbred Turf Club, which received agriculture commission approval at the first bid-taking for the lease offered $500,000 provided they are guaranteed 70 days of racing. An offer of $475,000 was made by the Fairgrounds Racing association, $460,000 by the Hazel Tark Racing association, $450,000 by the Michigan Racing association, and $365,000 by the Detroit Racing association, which has held the lease for many years. PLANT SOLD, 320 IDLE Port Huron (JP Chamber of Commerce announces it is trying to find jobs for 320 whp became unemployed with the sale and projected dismantling of the United Brass A Aluminum Co. plant.

Muskegon interests bought the plant. brain trust in the 1948 campaign, said he thinks Scott will do all right. But he added that if the foot slips, the wolves will be around to howl for his scalp. Rep. H.

Carl Anderson (R- Minn.) said that because of the 54 to 50 result Scott should resign the good of everybody German Girls Blunt About Getting Men Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 28. (JP girls out to get a man beat around the bush in a country where they outnumber men two to one. They bluntly advertise in the big city billboards which fill the place here of American newspaper want ad sections. Ads read like this: year old girl, blond, medium-sized, blue-eyed, wrants to spend weekends with a wealthy businessman.

Please forward offers to Or like this one: am alone. G6od looking and well shaped 25 year old girl wants to spend evenings with man not older than 30. Have own The is a new idea but spreading like wild fire. As the samples quoted show, the ads are shockingly frank. Mostly they make no mention of marriage.

Men use the billboards, too. One advertised: one year old business man (looking much younger) travelling to Bavarian resort soon. Where is the good looking girl, not older than 28. who wants to accompany The men who run the billboards say an ad like that will attract 50 to 100 answers. German men now are offering more competition to American soldiers for the affections of frauleins.

The reason is German men, since last currency reform, are able to buy cigarettes, chocolate and nylons. Before, only the GI, with American could get them for their German girl friends. HELD FOR MANSLAUGHTER Pontiac A manslaughter verdict was returned against Joseph Terrell in the fatal dubbing of Thomas Sheppard. Terrell said he though Sheppard was a prowler. Mink Coats Valued At $38,000 Stolen From Sonja Henie New York, Jan.

28 (JP mink coats valued at $38,000 were stolen last night from Sonja Henie, skating star, when thieves ransacked her luxurious hotel apartment. The coats were taken from her suite at the Hotel Pierre on 16th street and 5th avenue. The actress-skater, former wife of Dan Topping, occupies a suit adjoining her mother's apartment. iss Henie is starring in her ice show now at Madison Square Garden. The theft is another in a series that have occurred in fashionable Manhattan hotels and apartment houses during the past few months.

Jurors Rest Ears Over Week End In Axis Sally's Trial Washington, Jan 28 in the treason trial rested their earr today from a barrage of Nazi war propaganda. The respite lasts until Monday. Then they will listen to much more of evidence by which prosecutors hope to convince the jurors that Mildred E. Gillars, 48, betrayed her country for Nazi cash. If convicted, Maine-born Miss Gillars faces a possible death sentence.

The jury listened to playbacks of five recordings of programs taken down by government monitors. John M. Kelley, the chief prosecutor, asked a former Nazi radio official whether he recognized any voices. The witness, Adelbert Houben, replied that it was Miss voice. Court officials, jurors, attorneys and news reporters put on earphone sets to hear the playbacks.

Court spectators could not hear them. At first Miss Gillars listened attentively, her chin rested on folded hands. She seemed to lose interest as time went on, and she removed her earphones. She showed no emotion. For Feminine Listeners The first recording the jury heard was called at the described as our (Continued on page 10) Hayliff Speeded Up By Flying Boxcars Starving Nevada Cattle Fed By 27 Planes Ely, Jan.

28 (JP) Ten more C-82 flying boxcars are on the way to join operation hay lif today. Jubilant ranchers predicted two more days of the aerial feeding would see their snowbound livestock over the hump. Clearing skies were in the offing after poor visibility which made flights a borderline operation. But, despite clouds that shrouded the mountains around this airfield, air force crews continue to drop baled hay. At Hamilton Field, the fourth air force announced more than 250 tons of feed have been supplied in four days to cattle and sheep on the eastern Nevada ranges.

Sixteen flights were made yesterday. The 10 C-82s were dispatched from Greenville air force base in South Carolina to aid the 17 already engaged in hay drop. Meantime the state lish and game commission joined with the federal fish and wildlife service to set up feeding stations for starving ducks, geese, deer and other wildlife. Thousands of duck', apparently late arrivals from the north, aie down on Navada lakes, too weak to fly farther. South African Law Choosy On Pin-Ups Johannesburg, South Africa, Jan.

28 UP South Africa, just as in the United States, pin-up girls are a matter of taste. Thousands of American calendars bearing pictures of scantily clad lovelies have been seized by customs authorities. But, an importer complained: seems to be no rhyme or reason in the banning procedure. Some are seized, and some, almost exactly similar, are released for sale. It seems to depend on which examining officer is on duty when each crate is Sawmill Destroyed In Marquette Fire Marquette, Jan.

28 Firemen battled blazes for four hours during a severe snow storm last night in an effort.to curb a sawmill fire. The mill, owned by Peter Raish and located in the outskirts of Marquette, was completely destroyed. The loss was estimated at $50,000. Firemen were able to prevent spread of the fire, however, and none of the large stocks of lumber near the mill were destroyed. Officials have not yet determined the cause of the blaze.

WEBB SWORN IN Washington, Jan. 28 E. Webb became undersecretary of state today at a ceremony witnessed by most of President Truman's cabinet. Webb, 42-year-old North succeeds Robert A. Lovett in the state department high command.

Hundreds Perish As Chinese Ships Collide And Sink Shanghai, Jan. 28 Virtually all hope was abandoned today for more than 600 passengers and crewmen of two Chinese ships that collided 100 miles from Shanghai. The Australian destroyer Wara- munga picked up 35 survivors; including some crew members of including some of the 500 war refugees aboard the Taiping, were landed in Shanghai tonight. Survivors said the two ships crashed off the island of Chu Shan in pitch darkness. The Kien- puan went down in five minutes.

Badly crippled herself, the Taiping picked up those struggling in the both ships, the collier Kienvuan water, and raced to try to go and the 4,000 ton freighter-passenger ship Taiping. The survivors, Wages Like Prices May Be Over Peak Downward Trend Started In Living Cost Index By NORMAN WALKER Washington, Jan. 28 economic winds stirred up a hint today that wages, like prices, may have reached a postwar peak. In some cases, they may have started a downward trend. More than 300,000 auto and electrical workers of the General Motors stand to take a two or three-cent an hour pay cut on the basis of the declining cost-of-living index.

And officials of at least one major union, the Amalgamated Clothing said they have decided a a fourth round of postwar pay boosts because of slackened demand for apparel. The index took its third straight monthly decline yesterday to 171.4. This covered December prices and was one half of one per cent below November and 1.8 per cent below the August-September peak. But prices still are per cent above OPA-controlled levels in 1946. Every time the index moves 1.14 points General Motors workers lose or gain a cent in wages under their two-year contract agreement.

Already they had received a three-cent increase on a rising index. Now that the index is declining GM workers will get a two-cent hourly pay rate cut on March 1 on the basis of the present index level. If the next monthly index is as low as 170 3, where it may go because of further food price declines and January clearance sales, GM workers will take a three-cent pay cut. Priest Will Try Hand At Settling Kalamazoo Strike Kalamazoo, Jan. 28 UP A Detroit Catholic priest who is an old hand at labor disputes today stepped into one of Michigan's toughest in 20- week-old CTO strike at the Shakespeare companies.

going into this cold but said the Rev. Fr. Raymond S. Clancy, His appointment by Gov. C.

Mennen Williams yesterday as special mediator coincided with aground on the island, 10 miles. away, but sank before reaching its goal. As far as is known here the Waramunga, cn route to Shanghai from Japan, was the only ship to reach the scene in time to pick up any survivors. The Taiping usually carries government officials and their families. It was not known here whether the passenger list included any notables.

One marine source said it was possible the Taiping carried far more passengers than her list showed. This is the custom for refugee ships. Prize Pork Prices Beat Steak On Hoof Hog Sells For $147 At East Lansing Auction East La using. Jam 28 UP gy- con on the hoof sold bttter mail hamburger at the auction of prize- winning animals at. the Michigan State College week yesterday.

Top total of $615 was paid for the grand champion Aberdeen Angus steer. The champion swine fetched a better pound price, however, as the prize-winning porker was bid to 70 cents a pound while the steer sold at 60 cents a pound. The winning bid for the handsome, black animal was made by Fred Fuszeg, Ionia packer. The grand champion was entered by Dr. and Mrs.

Ralph Wadley of Lansing and Williamston. Although the price was termed it did not set a record. Livestock breeders at the auction said a general decline in wholesale meat prices kept the bidding down. The reserve grand champion of the steer show, also an Aberdeen Augus, went for 39 cents a pound or $414. The 1.063 pound animal entered by Ira Wilson and son of Plymouth was sold to the Alma Freezer and Locker company.

Fuszeg paid $147 at the rate of 70 cents a pound for the grand champion swine, a 211 Duroc entered by Clarence Blossey of Williamston. The reserve grand champion a 215-pound Chester White entered by A. L. Barnhart and Son of Reading, sold to the Rosevale Packing company of Dewitt for 44 cents a pound or $94. Paper Snow Fences Tried Out By State Lansing, Jan.

28 (JP state highway department said today it Heavy Snow Piled Up By High Winds; Temperature Drops Dr iving Conditions Are Worst Of Winter (By Associated Press) Thirteen communities in five counties were without electric power today after a sleet and windstorm ripped down wires over a wide area. A dozen other areas were isolated by falling long distance telephone lines. Consumers power Co. rushed 17 outside crews into the hard hit Jackson area to try to repair the damage caused by the freezing rain. One man was killed near Jackson in an accident attributed to the storm.

Incubator Kept Going Consumers Power sent a gasoline-powered generator to a Jackson home to keep alive a baby whose incubator had gone dead because of electric power failure. Near Somerset Center, south of Jackson, a high tension wire fell on a truck, setting a fire that destroyed the vehicle. The driver escaped injury. These communities were without power: North Adams, Jerome, Moscow, Mosherville and Camden in Hillsdale county; Devils Lake, Addison and Onsted in Lenawee county; Clark Lake, Pleasant Lake and Liberty Mills in Jackson county; Manchester in Washtenaw county; and Quincy in Branch county. A moderate to heavy snowfall was general over the Upper Peninsula and the northern half of the Lower Peninsula, with four to eight inches in the Manistee and Houghton Lake areas.

Drifting snow was reported clogging some secondary main routes were 'The weatfeer bureau forecast snow and a drop in temperatures. Driving Dangerous Michigan Bell Telephone Co. said the following were isolated; Napoleon near Jackson, Galien near Niles, Hopkins and Zeeland in the Holland area, and Hillsdale, Pulaski, Pittsford, Prattville, Valdron, Ransom. Litchfield and Reading, all in the Hillsdale area. Also isolated were Borculo, the arraignment of nine USW-CIO is experimenting with fences members indicted by a grand made of paper to check snow jury in connection with the Dec.

1 raid on Shakespeare plants. All nine demanded examinations, set for Feb. 23, and were released under $2,500 bond each by Circuit Judge John Simpson. Eleven unionists were indicted by Judge Simpson, who investigated the raid as a one-man grand juror. Two were absent because of illness yesterday, however, and their arraignment was fixed for Feb.

10. Temperatures Rise In Utah Snow Belt made of paper drifting. Two experimental sections of paper fencing were installed in early January in Van Buren county. One is on the west side of M-40, about two miles south of M-12. The other is on the south side of US-12, three miles west of Lawrence.

In place of the conventional upright pickets of the wooden snow fences, the paper fence is composed of 12-inch horizontal strips of strong paper interwoven between steel posts sets about 12 feet apart. Paper used in the experiment is made up of two sheets of Manila- Salt Lake City, Jan. 28 type paper separated by a net- Temperatures climbed to above- ting of hemphke fibers, Early in zero levels over Utah today send- ta.l when the fence is first i ing 25.000 students back to school ret put, two o. paper are and bringing hope to ranchers, additional sjnps are that they may save more their added as the snow depth in- starving sheep and cattle. creases.

Thirty-six schools, closed for! two days because of the drain upon natural gas supplies for heating in the sub-zero cold, reopened when officials of the Mountain Fuel Supply company New York, Jan. 28 (JP) The said higher temperatures reduced five-cent cigar staged a come- the drain upon the supply. Dry back in New York today, cleaners, laundries and other For the first time since the war industrial users alsd nickel stogies were on sale again I resumed operations. in this city. The higher temperatures carne Thev represented the smoker's with a light snow storm which dividend on a general three- covered the state and did httle to month price decline reported by complicate livestock feeding eper- the Bureau of Labor Statistics in atiom.

Washington. (Continued on page 10) State of Michigan Offered Gift Of Ferris Institute Big Rapids, Jan. 28 Ferris Institute, the 64-year-old institution founded by the late Senator Wood bridge N. Ferris, has again been offered to the State of Michigan as a gift. President Donald H.

Worcester of the Ferris board of trustees confirmed today that the offer had been made. It was understood Gov. Williams plans to name a committee to study the proposal. Now a non-profit institution operated on its income by a board composed of alumni and local residents, the school previously was offered to the state in 1943. Former Gov.

Harry F. Kelly vetoed a bill which proposed the state buy the school for $70,000 for operation as a vocational unit. Kelly said rehabilitation costs would have been prohibitive. Worcester said today trustees had indicated their willingness to renew the offer as an outright gift at this time because of range Enrollment, he said, is at prewar of 1140 students, and the financial condition is the best in 20 years. Five-Cent Cigar Back In New York SCOUTING Buck district meeting held at Nahma.

Page 3. BLOODHOUNDS Minne- wasca club urges purchase of dogs to locate missing persons in woods. Page 7. HOCKEY Junior league is organized in Gladstone. Page 7.

Clayton W. Fountain, formerly of Manistique, is author of book on Communists in unions. Page 7. GOLDEN GLOVES Six fighters from Marquette county will compete here on Monday and Tuesday. Page 8.

BLIZZARD Side roads blocked in Upper Peninsula: Delta rural schools close. Page 3. CAR man confesses taking of Page 3..