Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

4 JVo info So (General Which Admits Not Some Robert Burton TONIGHT COOL PAUL nuum 4- VOLUME LXXXVI UwfcHi'W IIM 20 PAGES LEWISTON MAINE FRIDAY OCTOBER 4 1946 LAST EDITION PHTCF VIVE CENTS Suspend Negotiations Endorse Proposal For Creation Of Jewish State Meat-Supply Short of Demand" For Another Year WASHINGTON (AP) Agriculture 'Department econo mute said today meat supplies are unlikely to catch up with demand before 1948 and by then people may not be able tq afford as many steaks and roasts as they would like That doubly discouraging forecast for meat-hungry Americans came as the Price Decontrol Board suspended at least until next week a third decision on the future of ceiling prices for milk and other dairy products now free of OPA jurisdiction WASHINGTON JP- Government-1 sponsored negotiations to settle tfap Maritime Btriko were suspended today 'apparently pending direct talks with individual shipping company officials from the West Coast The government had alrsedy decided to by-pass a Pacific American Shipowners Association and to Invite company officials to fly hte tor a weekend conference The Labor Department announced that negotiators for the CIO Marine engineers the AFL Masters Mates and Pilots' and east and eat cuast shipowner groups had' recessed to A Maritime Commission official told reporters that representatives of the association -had done nothing but say no in the main obstacle to a settlement of the four-day-old strike of captains mates and engine-room officers was still considered to be the West Coast deadlock over demands for more union security See MARITIME Page 11 CoL 1 BULLETIN LONDON A spokesman for No 10 Downing Street said tonight Britain President Trnman'i new pronouncement on Palestine and believed it would a settlement of the problem of future WASHINGTON (AP) President Truman called on Prim Minister Attlee of Britain today to open Palestine immediately to Jewish immigrants from without waiting any longer for a Brit ish-Je wish-Arafl settlement of futurei In a public Yom Kippur day statement released here the text of which' was cabled to Attlee Mr Truman also endorsed the Jewish agency plan for creation of a Jewish state in an of Palestine and rejected outright the plan for an Arab-Jewish division of the Holy Land which Britain and many of Mr own advisers have been supporting The Agriculture Department's Bureau of Economics explained its prediction of a slackening meatdemand some 12 or 15 months hence by saying that consumer incomes are expected to turn downward in late 1047 or eaily IMS Demand May -Decline Furthermore the agency said the demand for meat and other foods now at a record may decline See MEAT Page CoL MEAT FOB SOMEBODY While shortages in other lines of meat continued lambs have ftarted to move from range to market as evidenced by the scene in cooling room of a Chicago meat packing company Here Foreman George Musson looks over carcasses of lambs that have moved in after a three-week shutdown Other cooling rooms in the plant are empty 200'Chinese Attack US Marine Supply Dump at Hsinho PEIPING (AP) Two hundred unidentified Chinese attacked the ammunition and supply' dump at Hsinho five miles west of Tangkn corps headquarters announced today There was immediate speculation that the attackers were Chinese Communists One Marine was wounded slightly Court Rules Tenants May Stay in Building Russia Charges US Britain Violated Big 4 Agreements PARIS Russia in angry words today accused the United States and Britain of violating their Big Four agreements by voting for an Australian amendment to set up an International commission for supervision of Italian reparations payments The Italian Eeonomie Commission of the peace conference which still must fix the amount Italy is to pay neighboring allied states passed the amendment 12 to 8 with France China and the Slavie states opposed Promise US He reaffirmed his support for the earliest possible immigration off 100000 Jew into Palestine but urged that should begin at once before Winter brings new suffering to the mamea of Jewish homeless in -Europe- la this projected endeavor be rrnnittsil American assistance In the form od shipping and other economic rids The President thus divided tha Palestine problem into two pertsc immediate mi hag range Ha evidentiy abandoned the Brtttoh thesis fori soma overall nMwiwiit must be worked out befora any substantial number at Jewish immigrants-could be permitted In addition to promising aid in getting Jews from Europe to Palestine Mr Truman also reaffirmed hto intention to ask rirngrrsa mimtliii next January American Immigrations to allow entrance of thousands of aAlMnwi person See TRUMAN Psge CoL 1 Resident! of the building at Pine and Beacon Street who were at a hearing in Lewiston Municipal Court Thursday as forcible entry charges were brought against them in civil action were today free to remain in their homes as a result of a decision by Judge Adrian A Cote who has found judgment for them Cote said today that he was finding judgment for the defendants even though he felt that the request of the landlord Ralph LeBeau was not unreasonable The plaintiff had contended yesterday he wanted the tenants to pay their rent each Saturday at his place of business at 30 Lisbon Street The judge stated that (here had been a conflict in the evidence which would place the burden an the landlord in that it was not totally clear aa to what notice he had given to the defendants Several tenants claimed yesterday they had not been told jpst what day they should pay their rent in future It had vnot been made clear throughout the testimony he averred that the plaintiff had told the defendants they were to pay on Saturdays they came to his place of business Monday and he refused to take their money he was being unreasonable and unfair In that he had not told them beforehand what action he had planned to take against Cote concluded See COURT Page CoL 1 Ex-Gardiner Banker Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charge AUGUSTA--Ainaley Welch 47 former treasurer of the Gardiner Savings Institution today pleaded guilty in Superior Court to sn indictment charging him with embezzlement of $6619990 of the funds over a 20-year period Welch married and father of several children had pleaded innocent last August in the Gardiner Municipal Court following his ar Schacht and Fritsche Barred From British Zone in Germany Dead 140 jiired'Li aExplosidnr HOOK MARCUS DK Pa -IP- Seven persons were killed tlftnipwSrds of HO others injured by lire and thun-explosions which roared derails through a unit of Sun Oil Company's 013000000 aviation sasoline refinery seven hours before subsiding early today Sun Vice President Arthur Pew Jr estimated damage to the world's largest alkylation plant at $300000 He said "a packing gland which failed caused gas to escape and flash'' touching off the series of explosions felt 20 miles away In Philadelphia Boiling up (n huge clouds' of Smoke lit by darting tongues of flame the fire swept unchecked for four hours after the first blast at 0:10 PM yesterday It was then brought under control but was not extinguished until this morning Many of the injured were volunteer firemen The heaviest casualty toll occurred when flames racing out of a pump room reached a 135-foot fractionating tower It went Op with a roar the shock rocking the countryside for miles SerEXPLOSION Page Col 7 Cause of Nfld Plane Crash A Mystery GANDER Nfld-ZP-AvIation officials were at a loss today to ex-palin the crash of a Berlin-bound merican overseas airlines plane in hieh 29 persons lost their lives uterday In the Newfoundland wil A board of Investigators from die Civil Administration waited the arrival of a Coast Guard helicopter in which they planned to visit the scene- of the crash which occurred about 10 minutes after the doomed plane took off from JHatmon field near Stephenville The disaster was the worst in commercial airlines history Beyond BecognlUon A rescue party of army personnel and a doctor who rushed to tilt scene soon after the crash oc-aurrsd reported that all 21 passengers and alght craw members were burned beyond-recognition The passengers Included six -children ranging from three months to 11 years old and their mothers Nine of the 13 women aboard were en route to their husbands most of them with occupation troops abroad gee PLANE Page 11 Col 5 Maine Has Five Of 41 Young Airlines WASHINGTON-1- There are 41 youthful New England concerns and to fly anything from a live lobe ter to a bolt of cloth anyplace at anytime What's more they'll take you anywhere you want to go or sell you a plane and teach you to'fly it there-They are what the Civil Aeronau- to Board lists as ilf are more thsn a year old -The nonscheduled operators are empt from virtually all the regu- lions governing regular and cargo lines except those prescribing minimum wages for pilots gti hours A recent amendment of these somewhat elastic rules requires the concerns to file reports with the board naming their officers stockholders types of service spproxim-ate areas of operations and kinds of This listing was obtained those -reports A board spokesman said he would nedtate to fry to classify the types of cargo or the business interests of persons using these independent carriers to and from the New England Bee AIRLINES Page 1 Col 4 feather Weather forecast for Lewiston and vicinity: Tonight continued eooL Saturday sunny and -mild Lowest overt night temperatures: Lewiston 40 Caribou 30 jTAr Eastport 43 vWL Greenville 32 Bangor 31 Bumford 34 Portland 30 Bee WEATHER Page 13 CoL 3 -WOMOEBOWS ALMANAC risae Ml AJCj sets 5:14 PAL Ithnf day 11 hrs 33 mins decrease 4 hrs Moen 10 days old- AJLs Bat AM AIL Portland Man In Fifth Bid For Pardon AUGUSTA-JP-For the fifth time since 1926 Joseph Jackson of Portishd sentenced to life imprison ment 30 years ago for murder today filed a request for a pardon or commutation of sentence It was achdulcd for public-hearing Nov 6 befora foe Governor and CounciL Jackson was convicted of murdering by shooting William St John night watchman at the Edwards and Walker store Portland in 1910 Also Indicted with Jaekson for the same murder was Alexander McRae of Portland who subsequently pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for manslaughter In his pardon' petition Jackson charged-lie -was convicted ton the alleged perjured of Me-Hm your petitioner had to go to Ison on the alleged perjured testl-my of the Jackson aid in his petition (Jackson) waa entitled to the same sentence as Imposed on the co-defendant" Sen Brewster-Doubts Passage Training Plan WASHINGTON-iP-Two Republican Senators gave' qualified approval today to the War newest plan for universal military training but me expressed doubt that Congress will enact it Senator Brewster (R-Maine) told reporters he-la sympathy with foe but predicted the Army officials advancing it he lucky if they get "The American people like all democracies go sort of nadflstie between Brewster added Senator Gurney (K-SD) who has been one of the leading Congressional advocates of military training said in an interview that the new Army plan all right at first ifiance The plan calls for six months of imp training for physically fit mths aged 10 to 20 and foe equiva-nt of six months additional training In the National Guard reserves or other specified alternatives The Army pressed in the last Congress for a solid year of training but the legislators adjourned without taking' action One Chinese was killed Another Chinese wounded was captured and is being questioned by Marine officers Corps headquarters which called the atackers reported thev launched their assault at 10:45 last night and were not repulsed until 13:05 AM today Tre from Marines defending the dump forced them to the announcement said- The Chinese did not penetrate barbed wire encircling the dump The attackers used rifles ana automatic weapon- Roxbury Youth Held in Hub Cop Killing BOSTON-JP-A y-year old Roxbury youth was held on suspicion of murtjer today after Police Captain Louis di Sessa reported he had confessed slaying Police Sergeant William fiealey Wednesday night Capt di Sessa said the young man had told him: shot him the gun went The youth and another man a 23-yeiT-old Massachusetts reformat parolee were taken Into cusl during the night after an unidentified telephone caller informed police that he had been asked to obtain a doctor to treef a bullet wound in the youth's foot No formal charge was against him immediately Police said the pair would booked and arraigned in morrow rhfle search waa for two young men and tor the gun used in- the shooting of the 43-year-old police sergeant See SLAYING Page 11 Col 2 placed wouu oe court to- Industrial Payrolls Up $300000 Here Payrolls in Lewiston's industries soared more than 9300JMO above the 1945 level in September statistics compiled by Guy Ledouceur manager of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce showed today Textile industry employment figures for the mopth also were tor ahead of a year ago with 1159 more persons on the payrolls Industrial payrolls tor last month totalled (1242644 tor 7152 employes This compared with payrolls totalling $925299 tor 5993 workers in September of last year The 1940 figures showed rise of 1159 In the Slumber employed and an increase ef $317345 in ft roll total Australian he said undoubtedly counting on the voting machinery to pass its proposal especially since other delegations de not hesitate about violating foe foreign ministers' Offered Sab-Amendment South Africa offered a sub-amend ment to let the proposed Commission choose its own chairman Th eventually carried Before the vote however Thorp said angrily: See PARIS Page 11 Col- Wallace Assails Baruch Soviet Approach WASHINGTON-- Grave danger confronts united nations effort! to set up international atomic contrail ird Baruch and Henry A allace virtually agreed today But they bitterly disputed the Wallace ousted secretary of commerce blamed Baruch He declared that with nations already launched on frantic atomic bomb Baruch has adopted a and approach to negotiation American member of the Atomic Energy Commission blamed Wallace He asserted the former cabinet officer perpetrated errors" and caused public confusion to his criticism of the United States control plan The Baruch charged are dangerous to the delicate negotiations now underway" See ATOMIC CONTROL 11 4 US Plan For Vienna Parley Seems Doomed LAKE SUCCESS A threatened Russian boycot appeared today to have blocked efforts to force an immediate conference in Vienna to take up the question of free navigation on foe Danube river delegate John G- Winant lushed a resolution through the Jnited Nations Economic and Social Council in (he closing hours of Ml three-weeks session late last night calling for such a conference before Nov- 1 but Rust la served notice she would not a't'nd Twq other Danubiap states Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia also opposed the move xtip" f' rv- would refuse to attend the pro-peeed eontersnoe WASHINGTON-- Artadr Hays Sulzberger publisher of the New York nines said today is foe height of to send IS mid 19 year old troop to Germany Interpret democracy to tha German boys have not learned the ef the FBI National Acad- NUERNBERG--Army authorities said today Rfjtifo had declined to pemit Hjfalmar Schacht and HanS Fritsche acquitted of war crimes by the International military tribunal to enter the British occupation zone of Germany Lt Gen Lucius Clay deputy American military governor announced that the French had rejected the plea of Nazi diplomat Franz von Papen (he third of the acquitted German war leaders to settle in the French zone- Thithree acquitted men still were in the Nuernberg palace of justice jail hopefully awaiting safe conduct out of -the American zone They told attorneys and army officers they feared the treatment they might receive at the hands of the Bavarians around Nuernberg who want to- try them under denazification laws-CoL Andrus security officer said he was anxious to get rid of his but would keep them in his custody pending decision at a higher level Meanwhile attorneys for three additional Nasi war leaden and for the SS (elite guard) filed appeals from their convictions with the Allied control council Appeals on behalf 19 men convictea Tues- of six of the were before the council filed for er-Rudolph Hess who was day ow were Appeals wcv a tic deputy Ru CIO Shoe Workers Oust Union Head ATLANTIC general executive United Shoe Workers ef the America of (CIO) announced today in a state McGrath had ment that Frank been declared no longer President of the union because of of his duty by his failure to attend to his Presidential The board's statement said that at a meeting Oct- 2 1946 office was declared The statement said that that he resigned because the union is Communist-dominated is nothing but a cover-up for his desertion of his post entrusted to him by the tens of thousands of shoe It added that a statement by McGrath that he had resigned issued on the eve of the shoe workers' convention- here was a to the group is our the statement declared this was done deliberately in an attempt tp ruin the organisation and just when the convention is prepared to go into session and discuss a program to be submitted by the 'general executive hoard to unite all groups in the union tor a harmonious and constructive leadership Hunt Boy 10 In Abduction Of Hub Baby BOSTON-lP-Polfee today sought a IDryear-old boy for questioning in connection with the kidnapoing beating and what investigators described as attempted of a 30-months-old baby eirL Police Sergeant Charles Hewitt said that the tot disappeared while a 14-year-old -irl who was minding her entered the -South End muni-' cipel uilding to get a library book Hewitt quoted eyewitnesses as saying they ssw the boy wheel the baby away in her carriage duringethe 20 minutes that the girl attendant wu In the library The tot wu discovered later on the floor of a rlghborhood home stripped except for shofca Hewitt said the child was suite 1 i from multiple contusions on the face and body and that there wu evidence an attempt had been made to rape The i carriage of the infant who wu taken to city hospital for treatment wu discovered in the back yard of the house Hewitt said the baby" wu found b- Navy Chief Petty Officer James Mason and his wife after they were unable to gain entrance to their apartment Maacn forced door that had been locked from the inside and discovered the child's plight Corn has' won Its race with frost min men asserted and is now out of danger assuring the country a firm barn upon which to build Its cereal meat and dairy food production next year Galvin statistician for James EL Barnett and Company grain firm predicted a record-breaking crop of 3306JP9JM0 bushels Vn tte basis of October 1 conditions reported by Grain dealers milless and other edr-rcapondents in foe growing territory Page 9 GsL IATSE Hints Split With AFL Coming Hollywood-- brofd kbit from President Richard Waich fori hi International AUtanee Of trical Stage Employee and American Federation ef Lfoar i part company as a result effo i rent jurisdictional dispute in movie industry fonstotdovrod today a bitter fight to the AFL convention opening at Chicago next Monday Walsh on a flying vkit to toe coast told leaders of various IAT8S and other AFL unions night that in the row with the rival All Conference of Studio Utafaua greet-est villain of all ia the council at the American Federation ef He accused foe council ef to stick tw its own directive lasuo last December as a settlement at last jurisdictional strike a directive he contends gave foe IATSE file rights to build setsr The council modified its edict last August he said giving construction of sets to the CSU with their aarambly on foe stage to the IATSE See HOLLYWOOD Page 11 CoL 9 Truckers Extend ToNEArea NEW ORK--TTudr 'driven on strike here for more than a months today extended their drive against to points In New England middle Atlantic and southern cities in an effort to stop the shipments at points of origin John Strong President at one of three striking locals of the International Brotherhood of Team- stera (AFL) said union members were receiving telephoned pledges that trucks ox firms which had not settled with -foe union would be kept to garages and warehouses Strong ha described freights ss material ordinarily by his union which la now bring so-routed from New York City to New Jersey terminals and reloaded for trucking here He x(id the new movement augmented one being carried on by shop stewards at New Jersey potato and estimated the union could tax about 3M0 tons of freight a week Movement qf freight" Strong declared defeat" the union in its attempt to force two principal trucking afsoclationa to aign undw terms of the so-called See TRUCKS Page 11 CoL WANTED BRICK MASONS $175 per hour i Working five JO honr days and two 8 honr dayi per week Double time for ova time Dormitoriea ayailaMe Steam heated reek nation room 8 miaaia da $13 a wade fd Bdiacw rest on an embezzlement charge He wu held -for- the October term of the grand jury which returned an indictment against him earlier this week Arraigned before Superior Court Justice Albert Beliveau Welch was released in $5000 bail while awaiting sentence Welch was employed in an See BANKER Page 11 Col- 1 sentenced to life imprisonment for Hans Frank Hitler Gauleiter ia -Poland and Jew baiter Julius Stretcher both condemned to hang Already an file were appeals for Wilhelm Frick ''of Bohemia and Moravia Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg and De Fuehrer Martin Bormann all fenced to hang Bormann was tried in absentia All appeals must be before foe council by 3:45 PM tomorrow In Berlin tJ Army headquarters said the three acquitted' men would be given time to mull over their dilemma and make new requests It was added that if the requests were acceptable the men would be given safe conduct to the borders of the occupation zone involved to protect them from violence The announcement said if the three selected the zone they would be given safe conduct to the community involved and police would be instflteted to proteet them from violence Headquarters said it remained for the German courts to decide whether any of foe throe would be tried for crimes within Germany and that the safe conduct from the prison in no way would interfere with any official German action Aka flanday Penck at Aiming a Sunday punch at Hr-Truman in his own front yard Republicans prepared to launch their campaign tor Albert Beeves Jr GOP nominee la the Fifth Congressional District with a speech here tomorrow night by Hep Clarence Safe POLITICS Pan CoL OPENING of 1 -w May Be Bad News for Missouri Democratic Candidates If Public as as GOP Hunks See' lbCol 3 Sending 18 and 19-Year-Old Troops to Germany Is Termed of by Publisher Bumper Com Crop Out of Danger Will Be Of Excellent Quality Say Experts RALLY the (Editor's Note: Jtek Bell As-eeeieted Pram peBUeal writer la tatting states wtthmajar pelM-- la the first ef BY JACK BELL FeHtfcml Smarter KANSAS CITY-JP-The outcome of nip-and-tuck Senatorial race and a torrid Fifth District Congress contest in the November election a month hence appeared today to hinge largely on how many voters charge the shortage of meet to the Truman administration Despite spreading investigations of alleged primary frauds and the Issue of President pertMufT prestige In his home state most politicians here agreed that If foe voters are as "mad" aa the Republicans and the Democrats hope they arent-there may be bad news on November 5 for candidates linked closely with the President Senator Frank for re-election by IF Keas mol A bumper eon crop sufficient to provide 25 bushels for every man woman and child ia the United States was labeled ure today by grain experts LINOLEUM (-9-unwMtaa DAYS BEDDING CO If! Tamer It Tsl 4S7-W Aah United Coannnity Chest Campaign" HOST REVBXEND DANIEL FEENEY AUXILIARY BISHOP WILL SPEAK Oaotnl Main Licht A Fowar Thursday Oetobor 10 7:90 Ctawral Fablfe Invited Seeretary ef toe Treasury John W-Snyder to another prepend address railed for to dqfth and attack from by law enfbree-mpt pfficervto protect this natiott 19 -CoL to I -f 4-.