The Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 1

mtml Fair And Cold Thursday Partly Detailed Report On rage Newt THE DAY IT HAPPENS Not THE MORNING AFTER MERIDEN CONN WEDNESDAY APRIL 10 1946 PRICE FOUR XJBirrr 59TH YEAR NO 85 Opposition To Dropping Of Iran Issue Increases Bridal Or Bridle Bouquet? Worried About Next 36 Year REDIN INDICTED BY GRAND JURY ON SPY COUNTS Mine Union Quits 7 Negotiations UNITED NATIONS SESSION TODAY DISCUSSES SITE WOMEN VOTERS OUT EARLY FOR JAP ELECTION Soviet Naval Officer Held As Rejects Request To Drop Case Lwi Threatens To Stay Out Until Mine Operators Agree To Discuss Welfare Fund Continued Talks Called Useless Hopeless Where but In the circus would a horse wind up catching the brides bouquet? The bride was Ernestine Clarke circus bareback rider who mar rled Parley Baer Salt Lake City radio man tn the Little Church Around the Comer New York Floral wedding breakfast for the horse she rides took place later In Madison Square Garden Proposed British Loan Sent To Senate Floor Barkley Predicts Approval As Committee Rejects Taft Suggestion To Make Outright Gift Amendment On Bases Also Rejected Beattie April 10 America first postwar case reached a new climax last night when a Federal Orand Jury indicted Soviet Lt Nicolai Oregorovich Redin on five counts a few hours after the 8tate Department tn Washington disclosed lt had rejected a Russian request that the case be dropped The Soviet embassy made the re quest on the ground that Redin was innocent The State Department replied the decision would be left with the Department of Justice Attorney General Tom Clark announced the charges would be pressed The Grand Jury indictment declared Redin had obtained information concerning national defense induced another to obtain plaas pertaining to national defense and conspired to obtain and transmit to a foreign government plans dealing with national defense It charged the young Russian Naval lieutenant had sought the Information "with intent and reason to believe that the information was to be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation to wit Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" Justice Department officials said in Washington the case apparently was the first in United States history in which the government had prosecuted an officer of a foreign power in peacetime Redin who is 29 was in Portland Ore awaiting a hearing at 10 a today before the commissioner He was arrested March 26 by Federal Bureau of Investigation officers who said he was about to board a ship The indictment was carried to Portland last night by Chief Assistant Attorney Pomeroy who said It would eliminate the need for the hearing DLst Judge John Bowen ordered an arraignment for 2 Monday in Seattle Lieutenant Redin was stationed in Seattle as Soviet Purchasing Commission representative and was to sor to John Hanes whose term have left for Russia April 1 at the expires close of his tour of duty his wife nii0 A of the candidates pub- ed that Redln obtained information MstonTirfMr "b'ooIc between April 1 1944 and the date ln? 1 story of Mr Br00ks: of his arrest concerning the Allerton Frank Brooks II was fled general specification machtn- Meriden Connecticut on Allerton Brooks president of the Southern New England Tele- phone Company and former Meriden is one of the five Yale graduates nominated as Alumni Fel- low of Yale University to be voted upon in June The election will pick the succes- CONSIDER PLAN FOR RATIONING FLOUR SUPPLY Washington April 10 John I Leads and a United Mine Work- ers committee walked out on wage negotiations with soft coal operators today and threatened to stay out until the producers agree to discuss a welfare fund and Improved safety conditions The UMW president has put the fund and safety conditions at the top of the nine demands he has I made in negotiations on a new contract to end the 10-day-old shutdown fn the soft coal pits Adams editor of the United Mine Workers Journal and union spokesman told newsmen the UMW delegation found lt "useless and i hopeless'1 to continue negotiations under present conditions There was no immediate comment from the operators who stayed tern-resident i porarlly behind ln the conference room Blocked Report Adams added ln a statement that the operators had blocked the attempt to report disagreement to the full joint conference The statement continued the Mineworkers seeing the situation useless and hopeless and that the operators would not discuss any things ln a serious vein on the health and welfare and safety proposals Withdrew from the meeting until such time as the operators show evidence they are willing to meet and discuss these things which are Just as Important as wages and hours We are not going to let them bypass Lewis also released a statement I which he had prepared for the wage conference and ln which he indicated that he expected the operators to meet his terms eventually If the strike Is prolonged trust that time as It shrinks your purse may modify your niggardly and anti-social he said Hil Lewis complained of what he said was the operators 'complacency' and asserted that their "senseless cupidity withholds from the miner the rewards of honorable and perilous Earlier the negotiations had been barely kept alive Lewis asserted the "attitude belies the making of a contract'' because they insisted on talking about wages and hours before committing themselves on his demand for creation of a health and welfare fund and Improved mine safety The operators said they had tried unsuccessfully to get Lewis to make specific pay demands which the was the only way they could see to write a contract Statement Charles chief spokesman for the operators said "I guess he is going to hold the country up until it squeals 'uncle' O'Neill said the operators and the mine workers had been ln conference since March 12 without heariry lewis' wage demands "I don't know how to make a age contract without discussing wages" O'Neill said at a news conference Lewis however told reporters improvement in health safety welfare housing and sanitation and free equipment were "matters of the first Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach meantime conferred with President Truman yesterday about possible Sheffield Scientific School 'Brooks Is president of the Southern New Englqpd Telephone Company with headquarters ln New Haven with which company he has been connected since shortly after graduation In 1927 he became chief engineer He was elected vice president and general manager ln "(large of operations ln 1930: he has 'men a director of the company since 1931 I a director ci the Security Insurance Company of New Haven the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford The First National Bank and Trust Company of New Haven the New Haven Savings Bank and the Westerly Automatic Telephone Company He Is also a director of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut the Connecticut Chamber of Commerce and the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council a member of the Board of Governors of the New Haven YMCA Junior College and a trustee of the Center and of the Prophets Surprised As Fair Sex Leads 25 Million To Polls Tokyo April 10 AP Twenty-1 live million led by a sur- prlsingly large number of women who lined up early at polling place today elected a postwar government lh their first free election In generations The Tokyo vote was between 66 and 70 per cent of those altghtlv higher than the confused and semi-restricted 1937 lection but considerably less than the 86 per cent under the Hldeki To jo coercion? that marked the 1942 voting A slightly higher trend was perceptible in several nearby rural communities Limited communications and alowness of election procedure pre vented accurate reports from such key cities as Osaka where balloting started slowly with only 10 per cent cast by 9 a Polls opened at 7 a and dlosed at 6 This wa a national holiday to encour-cge balloting Fewer After Noon Early queues at Tokyo' polling places led some Japanese observers to alter their previous prediction of 79 per cent turnout but the line dackened in the afternoon However the number of women voter exceeded expectations In Tokyo more than 50 per cent of those eligible went to the polls wherea both male and female had expected little more than JS per cent of them to turn out Many who aaked for ballots were unable to vote because of mixed record and poorly coordinated reg-Utration partially due to recent population ahlfts This led some Communist leaders Immediately to demand through the Japanese press a new election The Tojo election of 1942 limited to voting by heads of families brought an 83 per cent national turnout topped by 86 per cent In Tokyo where ooercion was strongest Tokyo 1937 vote war 83 per cent Bomb Victims Vote An Incomplete mldaftemoon lount showed Tokyo's heaviest vote lame from predominately working lias and silk stocking wards Heavily-bombed Shlbuya where thousands still live In metal ahacks voted 70 per cent In nearby Hachiojl a farming community 83 per cent of mure than 33000 eligible voters cast ballot Seventy-seven per cent voted In Tachlkawa also on the edge of Tokyo Women voter outnumbered the men In surprisingly heavy early momlng turnouts In five rural communities near Tokyo and appeared at Tokyo's major booth in Increasing number Many entered polling place with babies strapped to their backs Others left children in impromtu nurseries In one big Tokyo labor ward Shlnagawa a temporary nurserv wa overflowing with babies by 9 a two hours after the polls opened Outnumbered Men By 10 o'clock 40 per cent of all eligible voters In rural Utsunonuya Community had cast ballots with women predominating Women also were In the majority among early voters in Ashlkaga Tachlkawa Ka-wagoya and Mlyabachl outside the capital They outnumbered men (Continued on Page Elghti ADDS TO FACILITIES AT PLANT HERE New Fur Storage Department Plus New Showroom Hartford April 10 tAP Former Gov Wilbur Cross today strolled into the Hartford club for the obervance of his 84th hale and jovial as ever yet with problem on his hands The problem he explained lighting the inevitable cigar is what to do with his next 38 years He takes no stock In King David's pronouncement that the years of man are three score and 10 "You must consider King David's youth'1 Dr Cross pointed out "It was not what we might consider a conservative youth On the other hand take Jehovah He fixed the years pf man at 120 "I am not of course in any position to comment on my own but certainly It was not highly intemperate And for authority I must prefer Jehovah to King David great a King David Dr Cross drew again at the' cigar then laid it down thing When the learned Rabbis at Yeshiva college beslvwed an honorary degree upon me they gave me the blessing of 120 years So here I am with 36 year on my POLICE PROBING FIRE IN BOSTON FATAL TO EIGHT Back Bay Apartment House Burns 2 Other Fires In Same Sector Boston April 10 Eight persons Including a mother father and three small children perished and five others were injured today In an early-morning fire that swept a four story brick Back Bay apartment house and brought swift investigation by fire and police officials The Investigation Included two other fires which started within a 10-block radius while firemen were battling the flames In the apartments In Belvedere 8treet where the deaths occurred The police listed the dead as: Mr and Mrs Anthony Wassell and their children 8uzanne 5: Linda 3 and Peter 2 Napoleon La Pete and his sister Verna and Patrolman Robert Fahar 45 Suzanne Mahoney 23 wa Injured critically Physicians said Mahar who was In the area when the fire started died from severe bums and a possible leg fracture The bodies of three members of the Wassell famllv were huddled near a window In their upper floor apartment The others were sprawled In other parts of their home Thirty-three other tenants fled from the building In which the fire was burning fiercely when the first fire apparatus arrived Other families left their homes In an adjacent building but a fire-wall prevented spread of the blaze The fire department which sent members of its arson squad into action listed the damage at $10000 While fire apparatus and ambulances crowded into the area around the Belvedere Street fire alarms summoned firemen to fight a blaze In an unoccupied building on Huntington Avenue near Coplev Square and to another building In Irvington near St Botolnh Police reported tha Mahar and Mahoney leaned from the Belvedere Street building when trapped by the spreading fire nay Duplay Of ret Weapons uiracts Crowds Arriving here this afternoon from Norwich a ten-truck convoy displaying the latest types of military devices some of them hitherto secret parked on the south Ide of West Main Street for an exhibit In the interest of Army recruiting The sides of the trucks were let down to display radar radio Improvements guns etc Large crowds quickly gathered to view assortment of new weapons First party to view the exhibit at 4 o'clock was headed by Mayor pro-tem Francis Lowe and Included Mrs Romeo Roberge president of the Indies Auxiliary American Legion: Mrs Mabel Innocent presi-j dent of the auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Mr James VanLeuvan president of the Mender' Woman's Club The Armv pe-scnnel consisting of 24 and officers will stay at the Hotel Winthrop tonight and tomorrow will be entertained at the A at luncheon at 11:30 by he American I Auxiliary be-fo-e leaving for New Haven This week is Army Recruiting in Connection end the ex- hlMt has appeared in a number of eitie so far creating great interest vmong thousand Carta1' Frprk Ak" who has tv ft Vi- --v-ivMnir f0r0e for the ill rangements here for the i rmy show Officials In Tehran Deny Any Change In Instructions New York April 10 (AP) Poland asked the United Nations Security Council today to take action against the Prarfeo regime tn Spain on the ground that It has already threatened world peace and Is a haven for Nazis their assets and German scientists "devising new means of warfare" The Polish appeal filed by Ambassador Oscar Lange with Secretary General Trygve lie piled up another big political issue for the peace-enforcement body even before it had struggled out from the weight of the Iranian caae The neat round in thr Iranian case will come at 3 Monday a e-cret meeting of council members decided today when Russia will urge and the United States and Britain oppose prompt dismissal of Iran's complaints against Russia New York April 10 (APt The question of where the United Nations will make Its home for the next five years came up for final discussion among Security Council delegates today amid mounting opposition to Russia's demand that the Iranian Issue be dropped by the council Both the United States and Great Britain were known to be firmly opposed tr any move to take the Iranian question off the council agenda before May 6 the date on which Russia and Iran are to report on the removal of Soviet troops from Iran Indications came from various delegations that the majority of other delegates would go along with the and Britain especially ln view of the letter from Hussein Ala Iranian ambassador made public late yesterday In which he asked that the council reject the Soviet proposal Closed Session The delegates met In a closes meeting today to discuss with Secretary General Tryge Lie whether the would remain at Hunter College in the Bronx move to th Sperry Gyroscope plant at Lake Success on LonR Island or possibly switch to some other site outside the New York area It Is up to Lie to make the selection on the interim site but It was understood he wanted the final opinion of the counci delegates A United Nations spokesman sale the delegates would not take up today the Soviet proposal that the Iranian question be removed from the Security Council's agenda Nevertheless it was understood that the delegates would take up "administrative affairs" at today's meeting among which was likely to be discussion of a date for the next public meeting of the council at which the Iranian situation Is likely to be aired Andrei A Gramyko the Soviet delegate who returned to the council yesterday after a 13-day boycott was present at today's secret meeting He had no comment on the Iranian letter No New Orders (In Tehran Prince Flrouz minister of propaganda said today the Iranian government had not given further instructions" to Ambassador Hussein Ala ln connection (Continued on Page Eight' STORAGE VAULT FOR FURS BUILT AT CHUCK'S mo6t modern ln New be constructed has been Chemlacks since 1888 meets all for Jie top long fell vault on lacked the construction purchased of Colony vault of the of the Chamber of front of the floor so as to for thr necessary facing Avenue filled in building itself re-lnforced entirely Washington April 10 The Senate Banking Committee voted 14 to 5 today to send the proposed $3-750000000 British loan to the floor for debate Tlie action was announced by Senator Barkley (D-Kyi alter a closed meeting Barkley predicted the Senate would pass the proposed credit "by a substantial majority" He said that the bill would be called up for action the first of next week Members said these proposals were rejected by the committee: By Senator Taft (R-Ohioi to give Great Britain $1250000000 outright provided the money be spent in the United States Taft told reporters that only Senators Capehart 'R-Indi and Capper (R-Kans) voted with him on this Bases Sought By Senator McFarland f'D-Ariz) to require Great Britain to turn over to the United States permanently the bases now used by this country on a 99-year lease This vote was reported to be 7 for and 11 against By Senator Capehart to set up a $1500000000 credit for Britain against which she could borrow up to the extent of the annual deficit between her imports and exports The vote on this idea was not reported Proponents of the loan have described it as a transaction designed in part to keep the British from reverting to their pre-war empire preference system of foreign trade Taft said before the committee session that his substitute outright gift proposal If turned down (here would be offered on the Senate floor Objects To Precedent Taft told a reporter that if his substitute proposal is rejected he probably will vote against the loan bill He emphasized however that his objection is less to this British loan than to the precedent it might set in the eyes of other nations seeking peacetime credits from this country As an indication that it is aware of such a possibility the Foreign Relations Committee invited Leon Blum former French premier to sit down with it In a closed session Blum is in this country seeking to negotiate a credit for France Members said that since the Foreign Relations Committee would not pass directly on any such arrangement they expected only an informal exchange of ideas with Blum (Continued on Page Eight' Anderson May Issue Order Requiring Cut In Sales By Millers Washington April 10 A flour rationing plan without coupon worries for housewives hung Are today as the government took another careful look into the wheat situation made tense by widespread hunger abroad Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson said he expected to decide during the day whether to put Into effect an order requiring millers to cut their sales of flour to bakers and retailers by 25 per cent The cabinet officer disclosed to a news conference last night that he had ordered officials in his department to prepare such an order Should it be Issued it would have the effect of rationing supplies of flour to bakers and retailers but not to consumers Officials have explained that machinery for consumer rationing of these products could not be set In action in time to help out during the current food crisis decision may well hinge on a report scheduled to be issued by the department's crop reporting board at 3 (EST) today on stocks of wheat on farms April 1 With commercial supplies at abnormally low levels the government and miliers must look to farm stocks for the bulk of all export ahd domestic requirements until the new crop starts moving to market in June Because there has been heavy feeding of wheat to livestock in areas unable to get corn some officials expect the wheat stock report to show that remaining supplies are Insufficient to meet present consumer demands and export commitments In that event the order curtailing domestic consumption of flour would appear to be necessary x- Crewmen said the skipper Capt Harold Ellis war veteran went ashore at Tripoli suffering from a nervous collapse The first mate Henry Haas of Mobile Ala took over the command At an Arabian port the crew refused to sail further under Haas' command The reason was not reported The vessel got under way for Persia only after he called on (Continued on Page Eight) Location Chart Is Installed For Police Radio Cars ery and armament of the destroyer Tender USS Yellowstone" The Identity of the person Redln was accused of Inducing to obtain plans has never been revealed Fire Hits Allentown Business District Allentown Pa April 10 iAPi- A general alarm fire swept through six or eight downtown buildings to-daly killing one fireman and Injuring several others An entire block in the business district was threatened The entire Allentown Fire Depart- I ment Joined lnithe fight to halt spreading flames which started In the Rialto Theatre The fire wa still out of control at 11:30 a nearly three hours after it started Mark Good veteran fireman wa killed as the Rialto lobby collansed i Several fellow firefighters were hurled Into the basement but later were rescued MILK RECORDS Edwin Rhodin 49 of Main Street South Meriden was presented ln Police Court today on a charge of failure to maintain milk records His case was continued to June 26 by Judge William A Jacobs for further investigation According to Prosecutor Frederick Harris a warrant was issued for Rhodin this morning on complaint of Stat Milk Administrator Donald Hammerberg Arresting officers were Detective Sergeants Lawrence DeRosa and Raymond Custy denly cut off the animal broke from Its cage bit the master and jumped ship speeded on Its way by a volley Of shots from revolver A miniature safari was organized and the baboon was tracked down and shot It likewise was at Khorramshahr where the cargo of UNRRA rail equipment was loaded that the three pretty Persians appeared The women were taken aboard along with three or four men and a boy of about seven the ship's crew related There was "some trouble" at ea about attentions paid the women by the seamen they reported but all ls unanimous ln hoping that the last leg of the world voyage will not parallel the other i Crippled Aid Society of New Haven one time Brooks was a member of the Connecticut War Council the State Postwar Planning Board and a director and chairman of the Connecticut Division of the New England Council He has served as vice president of the New Haven Community Chest and chairman of its budget committee as a member of the distribution committee of the New Haven Foundation: and as director of the New Haven Chapter of the American Red Cross and other civic organizations the first World War Brooks served in the Air TAirce He Is an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College a former member of the board of governors of Association and now a member of Its house committee 1919 he married Mary Ernest Randall of Educational Conference For Telephone Employes On Friday at 10 a at the Sheraton Hotel ln New Britain the Connecticut Union of Telephone Workers will hold a one-day meeting of its area educational committee under the yipervislon nf Warren Brerkenridge the educational director The meeting Is being held as a tep ln a plan of officer and fnember education as to the relationship of tlfe CUTW to the public to the overall labor situation and the SNET Company In attendance will be 56 members and Officers from all parts of the state Including John Casper of Meriden chairman of the Mertden-Brls-tol-New Britain area committee which I acting as the host: and Warren Brerkenridge of Walllng-ford educational director the CUTW Crew Tells Bizarre Tales Of World Journey With Thirsty Baboon And Beautiful Persian Ladies k- Shanghai April 10 'API Sea-' was enlivened by such Incidents is men spoke with awe tonight ln the mistaking a floating mine field for bars of Blood Alley of the bizarre a herd of turtles and "getting lost" voyage of the Americar freighter ln the open ocean because a sea-Ada Rehan whose crew reported man on watch canted in his pocket round-the-world experiences rival- a magnet powerful enough to swing those of the Jegendarv flying the ship's compass crazily ling First Installation A visible location chart for radio Of Its Kind Here cars was set up at the desk at police si headquarters yesterday inaugurating ivOW In Use a new system for car-spotting worked out by Chef Michael Car-roll Designed to speed up and heighten efficiency of radio car direction ln time of emergency as well a routine reporting to headquarters the chart consists of a map of the city divided into 16 square units Each of the five cars and the ambulance Is represented by a smgll stickpin model auto which can be plugged in at various points tn each district to indicate position Each car is recognizable by a different color In addition six tags variously colored to correspond to the car models are lined up beside the chart These tags may be flipped to one side marked or the other marked "Out" and thus Indicate at a glance whether the vehicle is ln or out of operation Previously ln time of emergency the desk officer would frequently have to carry many exact car locations ln memory Now a glance at the chart tells the story It 1 also minted out that the time required for a radio patrolman to report ln is cut down as under the new method he gives only the letter name of a district instead of two street location One of the safest and cold fur storage vault England and the first to ln Meriden opened this week by the well-known local furriers The new vault which state and local requirements safety has been built Into The have the need for a fur storage their own premises but space necessary for Its until recently when they the building at the comer and West Main Street The occupies the entire top floor building with the exception offices of the Meriden Commerce at the extreme the building The rest of space has been remodelled allow a maximum amount vault and the machinery to operate lt The windows West Main Street and Railroad have been completely with brick to match the the floors and roof so that the entire space is saf and firaproot David Lerner proprietor of turner's Furs 51 South Colony Street nas announced that the company will open a new cold storake vault and retail showroom here Construction of these additions is now underway and will be completed within a short time after which a public Inspection will be arranged The cold storage vault will be completely air conditioned accord-Ving to Mr Lerner and will be fire and burglar proof All furs placed In storage will be fully protected by Insurance and skilled craftsmen will care for them Lrmer's Furs have operated a cold itorag vault In Middletown for the last 25 years and the company's ex-perier'-" iness' covers mort than that period Creation! aer's whcle- tale department on another floor of the South Colony Street buiVTng will ba displayed in the new showroom Advance styles In fur garments will be featured A continually growing demand for Lerner furs las been experienced ccording to Mr Lerner who loops forward to even better busings- in the future as a result rf the imurnve-1 ments now ing made at the local establishment Dutchman Over their vodka and rum the merchantmen told of a skipper with a nervous breakdown a beer-drinking baboon that went berserk from thirst and of three beautiful Persian women brought to Shanghai without the formality of being put on the ship's manifest The Ada Rehan is unloading United Nations relief and rehabilitation admirflstration equipment here War Shipping Administration officials are checking details of the weird voyage which started Aug 1945 as a routine trip from San Francisco to New Orleans A few days out the story goes the Ada Rehan was requisitioned by the WSA and sent to Santiago Chile for a load of nitrate and then ordered to Tripoli The voyags the Coast Guard to remove two men I the passengers were aboard when whom he charged with lnsubordina- the Ada Rehan arrived here via tlon Colombo and Hong Kong Where- The thirsty baboon stepped into abouts of the passengers Is unknown the picture at Khorramshahr ln the but they may have been turned Persian Gulf A club there over to Chinese Immigration au-was being disbanded and the mascot thoritle was given to Haas who had a cage The vessel is scheduled to sail built for lt on deck shortly for Ban Francisco Its crew The skipper didn't know the baboon was an habitual drunk With vodka and beer sud- lu supply.