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The Weather Cold LARGEST Daily Newspaper Sale 65847 Full Report on Pip 3 CITY SIX CENTS BANGOR MAINE FRIDAY JANUARY 9 1953 VOL 61 PROTECT LIQUOR AND HIGHWAY BOARDS FROM POLITICAL PRESSURE URGES CROSS FranceDropsSchumanFrom Cabinet Seeks Slowdown Of European Defense Plans Have Too Governor Asserts At Inaugural By WAYNE ST GERMAIN NEWS Staff Writer AUGUSTA Jan 8 Gov Burton Cross recommended Thursday in his inaugural address that the liquor and highway commissions he protected against political pressures The recommendations were made by new governor as he addressed a joint session of the 96th Maine Legislature (Vosi ado ntcd checking power rf hoth the liquor Und highway commissions and was emphatic in his helief that neither should he subject to political pressure in any degree The new governor took the oath of office before a ca-pacitv audience in the House chamber and in an inaugural address that took ahmit 45 minutes to deliver he went into details of the state government Highlights were his references to the liquor and highway commissions The former ha horn under fire for nearlv a vear and Cress made the frank statement that in his opinion he believes that both commissions have too much power Cross reported that the state is in excellent financial condition with a surplus of more than 86000000 in the genera! fund and 82000000 in the high wav fund WELL RECEIVED problem as I havp served both tn Legislative leaders of both parties city and state government As a generally applauded inaug- fellow legislator I have sat with ural address vou in this House and in the Sen- They were particularly warm to ate and have discussed debated his suggestion that the liquor con- and participated in much of the By PRESTON GROVER PARIS Jan 8 AJ) France dropped her veteran foreign Uau minister Robert Schuman from the cabinet today and headed VI UIIU Tv da for a slowdown on European rearmament The new cabinet with ex-Premier Georges Bidault as I foreign minister was announced by Premier Rene Mayer Cl ilvv alllittle more than 24 hours after Mayer had won approval from the French Assembly 389-204 GERMANS WORRIED dropping of Schuman Vedl Vel doll Himself a tough finance man means a substantial weakening of Mayer succeeds Antoine Pinay who Chancellor position in A koreanwar veteran who resigned Dec 23 when his parlia- his fight to gain ratification of the only this past Christmas re-j0rity lted aWy as German-Allied treaties" said Fritz turned to his- Orono home was he tried to press through a nar- Heme press chief of the Social rowly balanced budget Democratic party bit- almost instantly killed early Dropping of Schuman from the terest opposition this morning when the cr rabinet had an immediate reper- comment touched cn he police said he was operating eussion in Germany There he was tendered spot of French-German considered the Frenchman most relations It was not the grounds likely to succeed in developing the on which the Pinay government long sought collaboration between I went out That was over the bud-France and Germany in a new get But the European Army postwar peace policy treaty under which West Germany Despite sharp conflicts over the would raise a half million troops troublesome question of the Saar for western defense took on monu-eoal and Iron pocket Schuman ana mental proportions during the ne-Konrad Adenauer West German I getiations of the past two weeks NEW GOVERNOR AT INAUGURAL CEREMONY Gov Burton Cross is shown above as he delivered his inaugural address Thursday before a joint session of the 96th Maine Legislature Gov Cross delivered the inaugural before a packed House chamber chancellor had lent massive sup- while various French leaders sought w4J 500 and port to one another in their ef- to form a new government Ralph Modery of Park street Torts to eftd the age-old French Finally Mayer agreed that he Orono- escaped wlth minor in- and German rivalry would present the treaty for rati- jliPes' Modery was taken the Deep concern was expressed in fleation but would not make It 2y ce Pr- Sewall of government circles in Bonn But a do-or-die demand upon those 8" cut and opponent sang a hal- deputies supporting him By tiiat lelujah 1 France Page 2 forward-looking legislation passed bv thp last six legislatures All of this time a major part of mv life has been snent in business and 1 feet stronglv that the approach to government is not only the ideal to strive for but Ithin it can be certain limitations Federal Farm Aid Programs With Minimum Of Controls Is Benson Declared Policy By OVID A MARTIN ASHINGTON Ian 8 i AP) Ezra Taft Renton designated to be Secretary of Agriculture said today the incoming Eisenhower administration would limit government farm aid programs to needs that cannot be met by private action NEWS CONFERENCE matters had been settled He said In directing the department he wished to confer further with guiding purpose other farm leaders and with mem- Benson said his trol set-up be reorganized It appeared from Associated Press reports that thev were not so enthusiastic about the new recommendations as relates to the highwav commission Legislators said they would like to hear more details about the ideas concerning elimination of the so-called legislative Todav hc £Uatc of Maine is in resolves on highway work excellent financial condition with Mr President and Members of the a surplus of over six million in the 96th Legislature: General Fund and two million in It has always been my desire to the Highway Fund There is no keep government as close to the bonded debt at the General Fund people as possible The delicate level It is sound business policy balance between local and state: to maintain sufficient of the sur-resoonsibilitv should be carefully plus to insure adequate working maintained During the past eigh- capital in both general and high-teen years it has been my way funds Recommendations that privilege to see both sides of this Page 3 Spotlight On The News Baby Presents Problem To Tax Collector WASHINGTON Jan 8 P) a hahy horn the stroke of the first habv of 1953 or a lt-econd income tax deduction for 1952? That question I Duelling Washington are merchants and two pairs of parents The baby listed by a doctor a bom the stroke of midnight 12 a Thursday the first day of Januarv 1953 A Is the child of Mr and Mrs Richard Bate of College Park Md If the youngster is first the Bates family is entitled to an assortment of gifts being held by area merchants If not Rates is entitled to an extra $600 income tax exemption for the last year Rev Fenner Named Seminary Vice President would be to the econ- bers of Congress He declined to 1 Inaugural Sidelights speculate on possible changes in the structure or on the stand to be taken on the wheat agreement needs of American agriculture" he said be re omy of the country and to maintain a prosperous agriculture with a minimum of government control within the free enterprise The secretary-designate made these statements at a news con- 8 (AP) Bureau income tax wealthiest Mildredi sentenced 8 for A police pinned in arrested disclosed accounts 20 Lost As Ships Flounder In Pacific All Saved When Liner Sinks In Indian Ocean By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Maritime disasters occurred around the world yesterday Three crippled ships floundered in the storm-tossed tar Pacific A 114-passenger liner sank in the Indian Ocean All aboard were saved A lumber carrier was almost wrecked off the Oregon shore GIVE UP HOPE 1 and 12 missing in the break-up of And a German motorship mis- i the Swedish tanker Avanti in a sing for 18 days was given up for howling far western Pacific gale lost in the North Rescue ships plucked 21 Avanti Gales and powerful seas maimed I crewmen from lifeboats drifting the three stricken vessels in the helplessly in raging seas about 240 far Pacific miles northeast of Okinawa the The Japanese Maritime Safety Safety Board said Board said eight crewmen are dead Page 4 Slayer Leopold Pleads Before Board For Parole After Spending 28 Years In Prison JOLIET 111 Jan 8 Nathan Leopold pleading for his free- Army Tests Song dom from prison today called his 1924 killing of little Bobby Franks "just a damn fool and said "I am a completely changed NEWARK Jan The Internal Revenue today filed a $16916 lien against Newark's panhandler Mrs Shafer Mrs Shafer 41 was to 30 jays in jail Dec begging on the street matron found $300 her drem when she was and an investigation she had hank totaling nearly1 $17000 NEW YORK Jan The CIO Transport Union coldly bypassed Vincent Impeliitteri and urged the city estimate to settle day bus strike The NEW YORK Jan The Army today picked marching tune to ference held at the conclusion of examined and each need studied to a three-day closed meeting of a 14 see whether it can be met best by member committee appointed by public or private action If a job President-elect Eisenhower to help is a public one it must then be draw up a GOP farm program decided whether it can best be state or federal combination of handled by local governments or Benson said he and his advisory group were reviewing the activities in an effort to find ways of providing for W-: FORMER GOVERNORS Formpr Maine governors also were in the audience Thev praised approach to the state's problems Percival Baxter Sumner Sew all and William Tudor Gardiner were in accord that the message was Baxter said he thought the message was an outline of clean businesslike program" said he believed Cross made numerous constructive recommendations commenting that references to the liquor commission were He was not so positive about the highway depart-Boucher added however that ment recommendations the ionly way to do it is to give He said know that any the Minority part better represen- change there is tation" i Sewall commented that the Dross i program was balanced be- Cross a florist is Maine's 55th i tween economies and human ln- AUGUSTA Jan Recommen- dations made by Gov Cross in his 1 inaugural address were generally well received For example Senator Robert Haskell floor leader of the upper branch of the legislature commented am confident that careful consideration 9111 be given to all his recommendations and that a substantial majority of the issues will be supported bv a Republican i majority" Jean Boucher Lewiston Democrat thp Senate's minority floor leader said he approved of taking the liquor and highway departments out of politics (APt Workers Mayor today Board of an eigni board The meeting was held on the campus of the University of Maryland at nearby College Park Benson said the committee devoted most of its time to two problems: (1) Reorganization of the Agriculture department with a hope of coordination elimination of func- reducing its costs and increasing tions not essential to serve the its efficiency public need and to effect savings I 2) The question of continuing wherever possible" an expiring international wheat He was questioned about reports agreement that Sen Hickenlooper Iowa Re- Benson said neither of these two I Benson Page 4 Wife Temporarily Insane When She Killed Colonel Top Psychiatrist Tells Trial Board TOKYO Friday Jan 9 The chief psychiatrist of the Army testified Thursday he believed Dorothy Krueger Smith was temporarily insane when she plunged the eight-inch blade of a hunting knife into the side of her husband Col Aubrey Smith last Oct 3 FINAL WITNESS NAL terest "I liked governor His inaugural was witnessed by an unusually large the undertones" he 8 (AP) a snappy become its official song for a three-month trial period If a survey shows favorable reaction after the trial Always will be the permanent Army song The Army song hoard picked the ditty from 709 entries submitted since the contest was announced last summer Composer Sam Stept 55 of New York wrote it crowd possibly nearly 1500 per- added sons The House chamber was fil- The Associated Press led to overflowing indications that the legislature is wife three daughters and in no preatsfush to get lawmaking mother-in-law were among the machinery in motion guests The first week of the session Supreme and superior court jus- ended without a single bill or re tices attended in a body 1 Sidelights Page 3 LIVING i Fta Senator Smith Would Outlaw Communists i Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON Jan A far-reaching bill to outlaw the Communist party of the United States was introduced In the Senate yes-erday by Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me) The measure was introduced without fanfare and escaped the Mtention of the press generally un-il late today It is the first direct John Gutknecht of Cook County Facing members of the parole board who could turn him loose after 28 years in or send him back to continue his term indefinitedy the sleek-haired prisoner said nervously: there is anything to the adage about a child being burned then I am a living Leopold No 9306D on the prison record came into the small prison hearing room wearing regulation prison garb and new black shoes His straight black hair was freshly combed and slicked back He carried a large envelope file under his arm He followed Attorney House Senate Leaders Announce Committees For Biennial Session AUGUSTA Jan 8 Joint House and Senate committees of the 96th Maine Legislature were announced Thursday The announcements of ihe joint groups named to study legislation to he introduced was made in the Senate by President Nathaniel Haskell and in the House by Speaker Roswell Bates (Chicago) who made an impassioned plea that the board keep Leopold in prison the name of REV DANIEL FENNER The Rev Daniel Fenner of Skowhegan has been elected vice president of Bangor Theological seminary and will assume his duties Setember 1 according to an announcement made Thursday night by Dr Frederick Whittaker president of the seminary Mr Fenner minister of the Federated church of Skowhegan tendered his resignation at the annual meeting of his church held Thursday evening The vice presidency is a new office created by the board of trustees of the seminary at its December meeting The addition of new member to the seminary staff marks the beginning of a long-term program of expansion under the new administration of the school Mr Fenner's duties will include the enlistment of students the raising of funds the handling of public relations and general promotional activities He will travel extensively throughout New England on behalf of the seminary By training and experience Mr Fenner is thoroughly qualified for his appointed task He is a graduate of Bangor Theological seminary and holds its BD degree: thus he knows first-hand the history of the seminary and the advantages of its unusual program for training Christian ministers He has also studded at Hamilton college in Clin-tonN and he Is a graduate of Colby college with the AB degree magna cum laude Page 4 Brig Gen 'Rawley Chambers who served as Mrs personal physician for four years while she lived In San Antonio offered this testimony ns the final witness for the defense at the murder trial of the daughter of retired Gen Walter Krueger Chambers was scheduled to undergo further cross-examination today by prosecution counsel Lt Col Jones Attorneys said it was possible the court-martial board would return verdict by nightfall Chambers said he believed the slender 40-year-old defendant was able to tell from the night Smith was fatally stabbed in his Tokyo home He added however: do not believe she had any ability whatsoever to adhere to the right at that In the court-martial manual this would give Mrs Smith the status of temporary insanity The manual stipulates a person to be legally responsible for a crime must know right from wrong at the time of the crime and must be to adhere to the right An Army medical board which examined Mrs Smith soon after the stabbing reported she was legally sane It seemed evidont the defense intends to maintain a stand of temporary insanity since there has been no move to contradict the Army charge that Mrs Smith stabbed her husband As the fifth day of the general Page 3 Churchill Visits With Truman And Key Solons WASHINGTON Jan 8 (AP) Prime Minister Churchill visited with President Truman for an hour and 20 minutes at the White House today and later talked with 10 top congressional leaders at the British embassy Emerging from his conference with Truman the 78-year-old British leader told newsmens "It was very pleasant and he added off the Nearly everything else about discussion with the outgoing President and with the congressional leaders was off the record however The prime minister smiilingly prushed aside newsmen's questions about such topics as tne war in Korea atomic energy and possible aid to Britain Truman came out on the porch on the north portico of the White House his head bare to shake hands with Churchill as he departed Standing together they posed for photographs have done this often the prime minister said well do it often indeed I Truman remarked Later the White House said their Churchill Pag 3 2000 Roofless salia Argentina Jan (AP) Egg-sized hail stones pelted this north Argentine town today leaving more than 2000 persons roofless The hail also damaged suburban gardens and orchards 24 Dead 40 Lost In Two Days Of Plane Crashes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS At least 24 persons have perished since Wednesday and 40 others are the object of a vast air search as a result of plane disasters on both sides of the Atlantic In the Welch hills of Llandegla a British Royal Air Force B-29 Superfortress crashed and exploded yesterday all 10 crewmen were believed dead In marshlands near Savannah Ga at least six persons perished tn the collision of two giant B-50 Air Force bombers yesterday One craft plunged Into the swamp The other returned to base with a damaged tail section but no casualties In the fields near Seattle a flaming cargo plane carried seven persons to death In a diving crash Page 3 egislative attempt in this Congress put American Communists and other subversives behind bars The Smith bill would make it a rime to become knowingly and a member of the Communist party or any other organization which has as one of its aims establishment control conduct seizure or of the Government by force and violence It provides fines ranging as high as $10000 andor imprisonment for a maximum of ten years In addition anyone convicted under the Senator Smith 4 Inside The NEWS Amusement 4 Classified Ads IS 19 Comics 20 31 Cooking Slants 11 Editorials and Feature 14 15 Eisenhower Story 32 Financial New 8 The prosecutor getting off with a prison instead of execution Leopold already had received Justice but and that to turn him loose would bring public clamor for freer use of the death penalty in less serious cases The slaying of 14-year-old' Bobby Franks was one of the most shocking crimes Leopold and his pal Richard Loeb then both 19 kidnaped strangled and bashed in the head of the Franks boy a neighbor and then tried to collect ransom from his parents under the pretense he was alive and well Leopold and Loeb brilliant students and sons of millionaire parents told police after their arrest that they wanted to experience the of killing Appearing before the board after 12 witnesses had supported his parole application and two others had opposed it Leopold said: have tried to do only good Leopold Page 4 resentatives Henry North Yarmouth Story Washburn Rogeraon Houlton Fickett Naples Steves Lincoln Tondreau Brunswick Lane Waterville Claims Senators Silsby Hancock Kavanagh Androscoggin Parker Piscataquis: Representa tives Potter Medway Hussey Windsor Alden Gorham Brown Bangor Walker Calais Tuttle Pownal Fogg Madison Correctional Senators Greeley Waldo Hanson Washington Carpenter Somerset Representatives Macomber Jay Abbott Mechanic Falls Smith ParmJngdale Whiting Skowhegan Wadleigh Mt Vernon Flnemore Bridgewater Cote Lewiston Education Senators Broggi York Fuller Oxford Butler Frank-Committoes -Page 3 THE FIST The committee follows: The Speaker announced the appointment of the following Joint Standing Committees: Agriculture Senators Fuller Oxford Tabb Kennebec Dow Lincoln Representatives Bailey Woolwich Bearce Hebron Taylor Nor-ridgewock Cos line Gardiner Emerson Corinna Senter Standish Dorsey Fort Fairfield Appropriations and Financial Affairs Senators Collins Aroostook Haskell Penobscot Sinclair Somerset Representatives Jacobs Auburn Cole Liberty Campbell Guilford Davis Harrison Burgess Limestone Cates Jalbert Lewiston Business Legislation Senators Dennett York Chapman Cumberland Cummings Sagadahoc Rep Sports Town Newt Weather.