The Bangor Daily News from Bangor, Maine • 1

1 The Weather i Colder CITY 1 LARGEST Daily Newspaper Sale 65954 Essssss BANGOR MAINE FRIDAY JANUARY 7 1949 VOL 57 i i A mnemn hs ter 17-year-old CENTER: Senate President 7MV-V mmmrnmtmm mi inmiiii i-i fro4Visiiutiin 'v: i I -V Ft a governor who accompanied Payne as far as the rotunda Governor Payne and House Speaker Nathaniel M-HasktU NEW GOVERNOR IS Varied scenes at the inauguration of Frederick Payne of Waldo-boro Republican as he became 54th governor and Republican Governor Horace A Hildreth of Cumberland retired after four years LEFT: Governor beading line of procession through the Capitol corridor to the House of Representatives for his address With him are Secretary of State Harold I Goss Brig Geq George Car- on the'House rostrum RIGHT: House Speaker and Mrs Haskell Senate President and Mrs Cross Chief Justice and Mrs Guy Sturgis Governor and Mrs Payne Brig Gen Carter and' Captain1 Charles Weaver of Portland' cT the aides in receiving line at reception in Blaine Mansion following inauguration (Staff photos by Webb) Fights Brew On aFair New Governor Also Plea For Housing Urges Study Of Bonu? By LORIN ARNOLD NEWS Political Writer AUGUSTA Jan new Republican Governor Frederick Payne emphasized to the Legislature today that the "pajphwork system of taxation must be and a move should be made Immediately to cope with the "serious of housing to aid veterans And the Chief Executive said in his inaugural address as he took over-the reins from Governor Horace A Hildreth should give earnest consideration to sound proposal for payment of a to veterans of World Yar Two is he said "there will be presented to this Legislature one or more measures calling for a bonus! Democrats Jam Congress With Measures But Signs Of Opposition Take Shape By ROGER GREENE WASHINGTON Jan 6 Democratic leaders fa Congress began to! jam the legislative hoppers today with bills to carry out president program but fights were brewing in every corner 800 Persons At Colorful Inaugural Hildreth Gets Big Ovation As He Leaves AUGUSTA Jan With his wife and relatives proudly watching him Frederick Payne 47-year-old Republican anc businessman became Maine's 54th governor today at inauguration ceremonies marked by traditional pomp and color and witnessed by approximately 800 persons ns Report Ml Tage 1 FIVE CENTS yprwi r- "Vr rt'L' 4 aw deaMTiwa -4 partments of Be and Ehore Fisheries Forestry and Inland Fish and Game an agency he said remove basic inconsistencies and possible diversity of objectives which currently attend the over-all approach to related problems by several State departments TLls consolidation would result in more efficient utilization of an ahla alert group of men making up several warden forces now functioning Page 2 broke out In the rear of the Kltgl en store when a stove rp indfft ta the kitchen Fed by oil the flr quickly spread through the flrst-floor of the wooden building whoa most of the fire damage wo fined Smoke and water damage confined to the three upper Coer and the blaze was held to the' Masonic bonding MUCC Charges Four Obtained Funds Illegally Three men from Bangor and one from Brewer wUl be arraigned tv-fare Judge Harold A Tbwle la Ea' gar Municipal Court at 10 Saturday morning an chargee ef Illegally collecting unemployment compensation addle receiving wages from labor at the same Tbe cases first of their kind to' be tried here' cnee before World War will be prosecuted by the Maine Unemployment Compensa tion Commission and mark' change of policy by the commla-sion it was announced yesterday by George Rees manager of the Bangor office of the Maine State Employment Sendee 4 According to Rees the commission dropped the prosecution of such coses during the war because of of personnel and during that time 'attempted to collect fraudulent compensation 'without prosecution compens 1 ts (i s'' AA vSS- A 4 S' I A son Junior and the retiring Burton Cross of Augusta Plans Senator Brewster Uses Varied Modes Of Transportation AUGUSTA Jan (AP) Senator Owen Brewster (R-Mc) tried most modern travel methods in reaching Governor Frederick inaugural today bat he finished the trip on foot He was to leave Washington for Augusta by plane but weather prevented him So ho took a train He reached the Aagosta House without further frustration Be started the last 300 yards to the State House In a tiny Crosley sedan with State Rep Horace McClure of Bath Halfway there the ear ran out of gasoline Brewster walked the rest of the way in a penring rain Egypt Agrees To Hold Talks For Armistice LONDON Jan 6 Israeli troops have established a fortified strongpoint five miles Inside Egypt a British foreign office spokesman charged tonight The obvious deduction the informant added is that Jews intend to stay inside Egyptian territory (The acting mediate Dr Ralph Bunche announced at Lake Success that Egypt has agreed for the first time to direct negotiations with Israel for tn armistice in Palestine In Tel Aviv an Israeli army spokesman said the Jewish state has agreed to an Immediate cease-fire (Bunche set the cease-fire deadline tor noon GMT (7 a EST) tomorrow He previously had made the deadline 2 pm GMT (9 a EST) today but said the time had to be put ahead because of communications de (Dispatches from Tel Aviv had -said the first deadline passed with fighting still going on but that Page 4 harmony Ibey expect in the new Democratlc-controlled 81st Congress Democratic chiefs hoped to whip the many legislative proposals Into shape before the Republicans thrust back Into their old minority role after two years in the saddle could rally and perhaps form a powerful coalition with anti -administration Southern Democrats As Senator Lucas (D-Hl) phrased it leaders will -proceed with all convenient speed Already blocked out for action on Ur program were bills for prepaid medical care housing repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act Increased minimum wages social security expansion and a Congress-Page 4 limestone Man Jailed Here On Smuggling Charge Arrested near Limestone Wednesday night by members of the Ui Border Patrol Garfield Joseph Thompson 18 of Limestone was lodged in Penobscot county jail lste yesterday to await arraignment before Commissioner Ballard Keith (oday on a charge of smuggling According to Chief Patrol Inspector Arthur Jarvis of Houlton Thompson was driving a truck containing 25 barrels of Canadian potatoes on the California settlement road so-called near Limestone when he was taken into custody by Patrol Inspectors William Dinwiddle and Roscoe Giles The prisoner was turned over to Custom officials at Houlton and brought to Bangor by Customs Agent Leonard Perry formerly of this city GIVEN OVATION Just before the exercises got into full swing a tinge of sadness permeated the legislative halls as Retiring Governor Horace A Hildreth was given a big ovation ms he accompanied the new' chief executive part way to tbe House of Representatives and then walked down the marble stairs almost alone Into the waiting world a private citizen again STILL ECHO Republican cries of -socialism mad "bankruptcy sun echoed on Capitol BU as the lawmakers awaited a new set cf blueprints iron the White House tomorrow: the President's annual economic message Ur Truman is not expected to deliver the report in i aa he did bis controversial tax-welfare-labor program since It customarily runs to great length Tbe message Is based on rmgnnynrtatloca from the Presidents 'economic advisory council beaded by Or Edwin CL Hoarse UMntiiAurfiiktjfitifUi p-nn crate hastened to writs Ur sweeping proposals Into bill farm topfcg to cf pi-afire on the first 100 cf comparative REMINDS SOLOXS He reminded the unions thstMsine paid a bonus to World War One veterans and pointed out that of the six New England states have voted a bonus Several bonus proposals were rejected by the lawmakers two years ago The governor recommended! a department of development conservation and research with one warden luce thereby eliminating any duplication cf effort which may now exist in the de Council Receives Plans For Proposed $1000000 Memorial Building Here plans for a proposed $1000000 memorial building on lower Main street were laid before the Bangor city council yesterday by a special committee named several months ago to make a survey and learn what facilities were wanted by local residents in the building Exploding Burner Causes $60000 To $70000 Loss To Dover-Foxcroft Building Spotlight On The News Cycles At 70 NORWAY Jan Mrs Hortense Gates ebeerved her 7Mh birthday today by rMng a bicycle two miles icent 8ootb JUris to hare Atomic Expansion OAK RIDGE Tenia Jan (AP) Atomic Energy Commission tonight announced a 170000000 expansion program soon will be launched at the atomic energy plant here Declines To Act LAKE SUCCESS Jan 0 (API-United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie has decided to take no action in the Chinese war the UN announced tonight Worse Than Hitler NEW YORK Jan Economic co-operation administrator Paul Hoffman said today was a baby compared with the Russian poHtbnro Goal of the po-Utboro top Soviet policy-making body is to ever the Hoffman said a) a news conference New Air Giant WASHINGTON Jan A hare new 71-ten doable-decked military transport plane that wUl carry 89 passengers was delivered today to tbe Military Air Transport Service Revive Aid Bill WASHINGTON Jan Republican and Democratic Senators joined today in reoffering a federal aid to education bill which was passed by the Senate in the last Congress bat was pigeonholed in the House The bill would provide $300000000 a year to educational opportunities? In the ststes ianV'M I (Special to The NEWS) DOVER-FOXCROFT Jan FireCfrom an exploding oil stove in the rear of a store in the four-story wooden Masonic block in Union Square here tonight caused unofficial estimated damage of $60000 to $70000 Eire department officials said Only 51 Of 256 Probationers Given Revocations During J948 In County Reports Robert Smith Robert fenitH of Bangor penobecot county probation officer in bis annual report disclosed yesterday that of a total of 254 probationers under bis jurisdiction in 1947 revocation of probation was necessary In only LI peg cent of the cases PROUD Mr Smith commented that he was proud of the very low percentage of revocations particularly In view of the fact that the total here was considerably under the national average Staying below the national average Mr Smith wrote in his report not been because we were inclined to be too lenient Placed on probation to Mr Smith last year were: 151 cases from Bangor municipal Court 75 from Probationers Page 4 Baby Dies After Eating Menthol Cold Compound STY ALBANS Jan Toro-year-old Jody Chambers daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Chambers of this tows died in at Hartland hospital last night after she apparently ate a quantity of a mentholated cold preventive compound Dr Karl Andersen of Pittsfield death was caused by high Stepping alongside the former governor at a fast pace and smiling consolingly at his dad was 17-year-old son Junior or as he is best known The father and son walked briskly to a waiting automobile provided by Payne and quickly they were whisked away as the Inauguration proceeded Inside the State CapitoL Ringing in ears was the Page 2 He explained that in addition to a regulation high school basketball court the building would house game rooms on the second floor and would have a stage suitable for presentation of musical concerts Committee members were frank in stating that as tentatively designed the structure would not be for theatricals adding that actually a separate building would be necessary to have a perfect setup for such events VARIETY OF USES The committee decided upon a building suitable for basketball contests concerts expositions etc in Page 4 STARTS FROM EXPLOSION Occupying the building are the Kitchen and street floor drugstore the adjoining Haskell and CortheU clothing shop and the Masonic club quarters lodge rooms and a banquet ban on the upper three floors Firemen said tbe Are apparently WOULD SEAT 5172 The plans as laid beforl the council are for a building that would seat 5172 persons and would be a mecca for basketball accommodate conventions and con-' certs and have facilities that would give the municipal recreation department opportunity to expand its program Stanley Leen Jr chairman of the special committee told council members that the committee representing varying interests from sports to the theatre had made an effort in deciding on the plans to the greatest number temperature which resulted when the Internally -consumed Jelly product affected the brain The uBcoostiom? body was found by her parents near a nearly empty jar of the medicine when they returned home last sight She been left in care of a local baby sitter Taken immediately to the Hart-land hospital she failed to regain ffrrsHrrjrr Mr and Mrs Chambers had been absent from the bouse about three boors Judy waa bom Dec ZL 1946 in Bangor Surviving besides her parents are her grandparents Mr and Mrs rimer Chambers of St Albans Mrs Harry Balm of Brown ville Junction and Crosby Knowles of Carin-na as wen as serveral aunts uncles rH fnrrry Funeral services wSL 'be held Saturday at 1 at the Jicme of Mr and Mrs Cmer Chambers of st Albans Tbe Rev Barbara Chandler pastor of the Linn Memorial Methodist church of Hartland wtU officiate The remains win be placed Jo the 7Tr1y tfwntp until jrlny mu' aa nfsVitoto iZUm nadh' PROPOSED MEMORIAL Above Is a front elevation of the proposed memorial building on lower Main street as drawn by Crowell Lancaster Bangor architects The plans were laid before (he city council yesterday for approval following lengthy preparation by a special committee named to ascertain the wishes of -Bangor residents as to facilities the structure should contain It was estimated that at prevailing building costs the structure would require $1 COO 000 to build However It is viewed "as a project when prices would-be lower.