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mouth Herald Weather Forecast Fair and colder Herald temperatures (past 4 hours): High, 47; low, 36, and noon 47 VOL. LIX, NO. 89 THURSDAY EVENING, TANUATY, 10, 1946 IV for Peace DE CREW Harry S. Truman, inn" -icllve in miisonry, has been r'inti-ri bv hls shrine temple in i i City as one of its four rcp- at the imperial council ttio shrinr. meeting at San Frani-ii Inly Mr.

Trtiman, a 'ihiriv-'tlilrtl rtcsree Scottish Rite of Western Nn. 2, has been a shriner since World Analysis: Postwar French Press Really Free MpWITT MACKENZIE AP World Traveler Jan. 10--One of the car- 1 of r.he De Gaulle gov- is absolute freedom of the not. only for publication In )Ut for collection of news country to be printed "-r haa been no censorship of since V-J day. You can anything you wish, always i'v.

of course, that you keep the laws of libel and similar 3 are clays when the world l.ii-sp Is engaging in a good deal r-nuble talk--saying one thing nieaninK another--but there of evidence to indicate "the" French government means when It talks of freedom hr Despite the shortage -PWS print, which has to be im- any legitimate newspaper OP far as Is known the govern- i-' 1 hasn't refused a single n- for the starting of a newspa- 'The result la that the capital tnv has three dozen newspapers. Tiv.ch is twice as many as it had the war. order to prevent abuses ot of the press, the govern- preparing new press law Prance never had be- This will make it obligatory to to the public the names of ai' 1 who are backing a news- so that the complexion of the may be quite clear. The law, projected, also will prevent the substriizlric of newspaper by a government. punishment will be provided bribes to publish for any similar skulldug- Conviction for these offenses c.irrr penalties running up to 12 prison.

Kiretl New Spirit five tons years under the repression of the German 'here was no freedom of i or publication. The country ild what the Hitlerites thought to know. as never before did the have impressed on it the a the more freely legiti- tifws Is allowed to circulate chance there is for roo, towards the end of this occupation, a French news- -or hold ot a statement by Cnoper, executive director of Associated Press. advocating of the press as an essential peace. He maintained that ripponds on real acquaintance rhe peoples of the earth, and acquaintance can come a tree exchange of all only the news of pvents.

but the story of the nay life of the various nations. wasn't the first time Mr. hart put forward this thesis i way. As a matter of fact, nan of a crusade he has wiiginc since the last war, -IP cried to get the idea in- in the peace treaty, just r.o'.v is trying to secure rec- in the peace treaties which be signed. France was ripe for of the press after the fierce censorship.

And so today her consolidating that free. 'viu'ch -she came so close to STRIKE SKIRTS PORTSMOUTH 'Ike' Wants Same Cooperation for Peace as War Ottawa, Jan. 10 (AP)-Gen. Dwtght D. Eisenhower, under whom the Western Allies, combined their might to defeat Germany, appealed today for the same kind of unselfish international cooperation to maintain the peace and save the world from chaos.

China's Civil War Ends; All Parties To Be Legal Such cooperation, necessary to assure the success of the United Nations organization, can be achieved only if every nation realizes that its "very survival" may be at stake, Eisenhower declared in a luncheon address broadcast to Canada and the United States. "Nations that Joined together 10 defeat ruthless enemies have even greater reason to remain united for the peaceful settlement of their differences lest new Hitlers rise to throw the world into a chaos more awful than the shattered countries of Europe present today," he said. "That is what we squarely face." It is up to the ordinary citizen, "however humble," to take part in this task. Eisenhower said. "Governments may wisely deal with the problems which rise in our concerted search for peace," he continued, "but in the end it Frr will be the citizens of all countries who muse outlaw war.

"Until the peoples of the world understand and respect the interests of their neighbors, the victory will elude us. Until the peoples of the world embrace the democratic belief that the dignity of the individual is the basis of the success of nations, the world will not find an enduring peace." With hostilities over, the Allies in their "even greater" task of banishing war "forever from the world" may learn 'from their battlefield cooperation, the former supreme commander said. Two Children Stabbed; ,15, Held Medford. Jan. 10 CAP)-Richard E.

Stearns, 15, Meclford high school sophomore and honor student, was held in $20,000 total bail today in Maiden district court on two counts of assault with intent to murder in the ice-pick stabbing of two little boys. Judge Kibridge G. Davis, continued tlie case until Feb. 13 after the boy pleaded innocent. Police Capt.

J. Stuart Lenox quoted the youth as saying that he intended to kill both of his associates who accompanied him to a delapidated, untenar.ted house "to hunt buried treasure." Boy, GENERAL EISENHOWER Rockingham County Tops In Bond Sales Rockingham county led the state in total Victory loan sales on a percentage basis it was announced today by Carroll M. Degler, executive manager of the N. H. War Finance committee'.

Rocfcingham had sales of $6,984,000 against a quota of $2,316,000 for 301.5% of quota. Just behind that county came Merrimack, with $10,772,837, compared to a quota of $3,648,000 for 295.3%. Third place went to Grafton county with sales of $4,410,786, for 291.3% of its $1,514,000 quota. Corporate returrrs, announced at the same time by Mr. Degler, reveal that Carroll county led New Hampshire, also on a percentage basis.

The report made by the executive manager discloses in overall figures and on a percentage basis how the state raised $64,738,000 compared to a quota of 528,000,000, for 231.2% of quota. N. E. Fish Industry Broke Records in '45 CHIANG KAI-SHEK Chungking, Jan. 10 (AP)--Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced today, shortly after a truce had brought an immediate end to China's civil war, that the government had- decided to legalize all political parties.

He said the government would free all purely political prisoners, grant the people freedom of speech and promote local self government. Chiang, opening the political coii- ment. The "cease fire" order was issued after Gen. Chang Chun, government representative, and Gen. Chou En-lai of the Communists, meeting with General Marshall, special U.

S. envoy to China, reached an agreement in a surprise meeting, held nine hours ahead of schedule. Three Local Pedestrians Hit by Cars Portsmouth police reported three persons were injured in two separate pedestrian-automobile accidents between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Richard Hoffman was treated for injuries about the face and Mrs. Florence I.

Hoffman, 329 Sherbume road, was treated for a minor leg injury at the Portsmouth hospital after both had stepped off the curb into the path of a motor vehicle operated by Mrs. Wilma Hersey, 117 Ash street, according to Portsmouth police. Both victims were released from the hospital after treatment. George Hersey, 84, 276 Dennett street, is being treated at the Portsmouth hospital for injuries received when he was struck by a car opera Council Picks City Officers Here Tonight Appointment of city officials will be the primary business at the second official meeting of the new city council this evening at 7:30 in the city hall council chambers. Interest will be centered on the appointment of a city clerk.

The four candidates for the office are the present clerk, John C. Dolan, Edward J. Hopley, Charles W. Smith and Miss Eileen Dondero, daughter of Mayor Mary C. Dondero.

It is rumored that Miss Dondero may receive the appointment. Selection of a tax collector, city messenger, city trprsurer, a city auditor and other appointive officials is expected. The mayor and council members will make the appointments. Merrow Demands Realistic Foreign Policy for U. S.

Chiaiie oDenine tne political con- wneu ne ouj-w-n. "rv poncy HUJIB ui sultation conference almost simul- ted by Albert G. Brooks, 8 Central Britam are clear wttrrthe conclusion of the hospital auth-. The captain identified the stu- dent's victims as Barkley W. Gla- i TM ven 6 stabbed six times, and Fran- Washington, Jan.

10 CAP)--The cis Piscitello, 7, who suffered eight New England fishing industry broke wound" Glaven's name was on ths production records in 1945, the danger list at Lawrence General I Fish and Wildlife service reported today. conclusion of the cease fire'agreement, announced the government had decided to: 1--Grant the people freedom of person, conscience, speech, publication, and association and to safeguard them against illegal arrest and trial. 2--All political parties shall be equal before the law and may operate openly within the law. 3--Local self-government will actively be promoted in all places and popular elections will be held. 4--Political prisoners, except traitors and those found to have committed definite acts injurious to the republic, would be released.

Gen. Chou No. 2 Communist leader, approved the four hospital auth orities said this morning that" Mr, Kersey is suffering from Injuries to both legs, his right hand and he was severely cut about the face. Police said that Mr. Hersey was crossing the street in front of Bosen's market on Maplewood avenue and he attempted to walk between two cars which were involved in a traffic tieup when struck by the Brooks car.

He was removed to the hospital in a private car. achieving' Acquit 2 in Curley Case Washington, Jan. 10 CAP)--A district" court jury was directed today to acquit two former officials of Engineers Group, charged with using the mails to defraud, but the trial of three others including Rep. They" were basic for James M. Curley mayor 'constitutional govern-I of Boston, will continue.

Mayor Mary Receives Book On U. S. Jewry's War Effort Tl rs i i- The Day 4 9 9 4 10 4 4 Here There Kittery Kittery Point Lcga.1 Notices New Castle No. Hampton Radio Rationing Rye Sports hospital. Police said Piscitello was taken from the hospital over the protests of doctors after several hours treatment.

His parents, however, called a physician again at midnight. Lenox said 'the youth told him conscious, and then throttled and stabbed Glaven. Piscitello revived, crawled to A Landings of fish and fish products during the year totaled 566,802,000 pounds, a gain of over 1944. For the third year in succession, Gloucester led other New England 187 594.000 pounds, followed by New Bedford and Provincetown, with 100,555,000 and 41,610,.,, 1- the street 000 pounds respectively. where 'he notified neighbors who landings 21,946,000 summoned police and an ambulance.

Lenox reported. By that time. Glaven was unconscious on the second floor of the empty house and his assailant had fled, Gloucester, New Bedford and Provincetown all handled more fish than ever before; Portland landings were about average, while Boston still was -below its prewar level. Summer Residents Back York's Bid for UNO Site THE BLUE GOOSE 106 Congrcu St. Open At 7:30 A.

M. Doily In Older To Serve BREAKFASTS i i -Harbor postmaster, said this morning that he has received a number 'of encouraging letters from summer residents of the town backing a proposed plan to locate the United Nations organization site at It was Mr. Wood's belief that York has more to'offer in the way of land, sea and air facilities than any other location In New. Eng- Town selectmen, tnrough Rep. Robert Hale of Maine, already have cabled London offering the community as a site for'UNO headquarters.

The message, drafted by selectmen, Nelson C. Hutchins, Walter H. Currier and Haven H. Winn, said that York has much to offer historically, geographically, culturally and practically. It was 'Spring' Hits Fishermen Nearly 25 ice fishing shanties were lost as the'ice in the center of Great Bay began to break up early this morning due to the unscasonal warmth of the January thaw.

Many of the siiaelt fishermen were at the bay this morning moving their huts in closer to shore but several of reached their shanties too late. Unless colder weather arrives shortly tbv huts will have to be taken onto the shore, according to veteran fishermen at the bay. MAYOR MARY C. DONDERO is shown above receiving "Fighting for America" from Samuel Goodman, chairman of the Jewish Welfare board army and navy committee. The presentation was made TuS afternoTiI rte mayor's office to city hall.

(Portsmouth Herald photo) Mayor Mary C. Dondero was pre- I ican Jewish physicians under the isented a copy of the second edi- age of 45 are in the service. i tion of "Fighting for America," the story of American Jewry's contribution to the war effort, Tuesday afternoon in her office at city hall. The book was presented by Samuel Goodman, chairman of the Portsmouth Jewish Welfare board Concord, Jan. 10 fAP)--The United States will lose its top position in world leadership unless it develops a realistic foreign policy, Rep.

Chester E. Merrow of Ossipee declared last night in an address before the Concord Chamber of Commerce'. Merrow said that in contrast to this country's "confused" foreign policy, the aims of Russia and Great "The congressman called for main' lenanceof" United States' predominance in the air, keeping by this country of its atomic bomb secret and speedy adoption of a program of 'cultural, educational and scientific development under the special section of the United Nations organization. Merrow said a step to the direction of a realistic foreign policy was his resolution calling for a congressional committee to explore problems of foreign policy and investigate state department activities. He said that if alleged British and Communist cliques are found to exist in the state department, they should be "cut out" and the department "Americanized." Merrow said he supported relief efforts in Europe but thought this country should "assure itself that Laraba Seeks Renomination State Sen.

S. Laraba of Portsmouth today announced he would be a candidate for nomination for a second term as senator from the 24th district in the coming state primary. Mr. Laraba recently was named secretary of the judicial council created by the 1945 Legislature to survey and study "continuously, the administration of justice within the state and the organization, procedure, practices, rules and method of administration.and operation of all the courts of the state and "devise ways of simplyfying judicial procedure, expediting the transaction of judicial business and Improving the administration of Jus- Iii a statement today, Mr. Laraba declared, "the electorate in this district favored me with a handsome majority in the last election and I have worked diligently for the best interests of the district to repay that trust.

I hope that my record entitles me to again seek the office, for it is on the stewardship of my duties that I now offer myself as a candidate." Welfare Group To Meet Manchester, Jan, 10 CAP)--The New Hampshire Conference of Social Welfare announced today that its annual meeting would be held here Jan. 21 and 22. army and navy committee. Mr. Goodman told the mayor that the book reveals that more than 500,000 of Jewish faith served, in country's armed forces; that more than of the American rabbinate volunteered to serve as chaplains, more than half of these serving overseas, and that'three out of every five Amer- of the tremendous lessons of the war is the fact that men of all creeds, colors and various political views could unite to bring victory," said Mr.

Goodman: "This simple formula is the only one which will guarantee- a successful postwar America." In a recent survey it was found that 76 men and women of the Jewish faith in Portsmouth have served with the armed forces. There are 602 JWB army and navy committees functioning in the United States, Great Britain, Palestine, tralia. India, Hawaii and Aus- Still Waiting We used to poke melancholy fun at ourselves not-so-far- back in the days of butter rationing when the chief topie of the day would be how lorn: we had to wait in the long queues up and down streets outside stores. Today, although points hare rone with the end of the war, we're still doing the same thing. This morning It cost several hundred persons about three- quarters of an hour each reach their mecca, a pound of butter in a Congrecs street store.

Phone Calls Here Unhindered by 44-State Halt Portsmouth's long distance telephone calls were undisturbed today by the strike of 8,000 telephone installation workers in a 44-state area, reports Edward T. Hughes, manager of the Portsmouth area office of the New England Telephone Telegraph company. Although a coast-to-coast disruption of service by tomorrow is threatened by the establishment of picket lines around major exchanges, no definite information has been received as to what the effect will be on long distance calls made locally, he said. New Hampshire Is one of six New phone Workers, to which these England states which make their New England crewmen belong own installations, Mr. Hughes ex-! is not affiliated with the plained, and the union, the I striking Association of Commum- International Brotherhood of Tele- cations Equipment Workers, members of which install Western Electric equipment for the Bell Telephone system.

The Western Electric installation workers struck yesterday In wage dispute and by the end of the day 775 installation projects In every state but Montana, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont had been tied up, the Western Electric company said. Although Rhode Island and Massachusetts belong to the New England system and regular Installation crews were not called out, a Western Electric 20-man crew BEP.CHESTER MERROW such relief is not used to build up European, political regimes which Trill later return to plague us." He added, "we ought to know how our money Is spent." In connection with his recommendations on foreign policy, the congressman said he thought diplomats should be returned to this country at stated intervals to keep them better informed of home attitudes and affairs. making special wire installations In Providence followed the strike order. To Becln Picketing The striking union loaders announced that picketing would gin tomorrow, adding they had assurance that other telephone workers would honor the lines, the Associated Press However, the Mountain States Federation of Telephone Workers declined yesterday to observe picket lines. The federation represents virtually all of the employes of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company, operating In Colorado, Arizona, idaho, New Mexico, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and El Paso.

In the event the picket are" honored by the National Federation of Telephone Workers, with its 263,000 members, and other telephone unions, switchboard positions would be left unmanned and other vital telephone functions impaired, union leaders said, leading to a disruption of most of the country's telephone service. The strike was the second within Continued on Page Two Charles Plaisted ot York, 97 Today, Recalls Life of Older Days in Maine Community Ninety-seven years young today and moving right along with the times--that is Charles Plaisted, who has always lived near his present home at York Corner. "The years sound long, he said, "but as I look back, they seem to have moved very quickly." One of 10 children, Mr. Plaisted and his brothers, the late George "Farmers used to press their fresh hay for market and feed the salt marsh hay to their cattle," he recollected, Amusements? On a farm there be little leisure time, but singing schools were a favorite recreation, according to Mr. Plaisted.

He said that Hamilton Keen of Kittery conducted three singing and Albion K. Plaisted, must have scn ools a week in surrounding set some kind of record, for all their communities. Husking bees were part of the fun of harvest time. York Corner boys and girls to walk to Chase's pond to rtcate in the winter. Among teachers he who wielded pointer and sometimes se lives the three brothers lived either together or side-by-side and worked on their large farm together in harmony.

Much of this time is recorded in a diary, which Mr. Plate- ted has kept for nearly 70 years. He recalls, but not with too much nostalgia, the time when oxen were used for farm work, when these were changed for horses and then when machinery replaced the work of beasts of burden. His chief interest in this progress 10 that it gives a man more time for relaxation. He told of the many times he had driven a horse to Wells for calves to butcher, brought them home, dressed them and taken them to Portsmouth, an activity which occupied the better part of two days.

Cord wood at $2 a cord and farm job to a few hours," he remarked. Cord wood at $2 cord and farm wages at $1.50 a day are a long way from the -high price of $18 cord wood brings today and Mr. Plaisted is not sure that the much higher wages of the present are a sign ot progress. Cash Scarce Little money changed bauds in the time when York's oldest resident was a young man. About all the cash York fanners used to have was what they obtained for pressing hay and cutting lumber for shipment by schooner from York Harbor to Boston.

"That money was for taxes, he said. Necessities not raised on the farm were obtained by "trading" farm produce at the local general stores. a stinging ruler were Sam Junkini of York Village, "Ed son, Esther Mitchell and EUwbeth Rogers-- I think her name WM Elizabeth." As he remembers It, women were well able to hold their own even with the big boy ars." schol- Autos Hardy but Mr. Plaisted doesn't think mueh of autos because there are so many accidents, but he agrees that "they are mighty handy things to have." Electricity seems to him the greatest boon and most progressive invention since his youth. Dinu sooty lanterns in the bam have been replaced with bright, ctean.

same electric lights with Mr. Plaiated's full approval. There will not be so much change to the next 50 years as there been to the past, Mr. Plaisted believes, though he added that to view of recent events there might be. He has seen the railroad the troltey come and go, replaced automobiles.

He told of the railroad station which used to a the site of the Central Maine Power company's building on avenue and of the rotary trolley Continued cm.