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71-NO. 239. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1948. 10 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS. Dope Reported Sold in High School; 2 Held Chicago, Oct.

9 (AP) Two musicians accused of supplying dope to high school students Hastho, Springfield by federal were narcotics seized agents. They are Michael "Mickey" Scrima, 31, a drummer at El Mocombo night club, and Joseph Daly, 30, Chicago, a saxophonist and arranger. Agents also seized Harry A. Winefield, 24, of suburban Highland Park, and Odie O. Mason, 38- year-old Negro, doorman at the El Mocombo.

THE FOUR men have not been formally charged, but said they would be arraigned agents. today before U. S. Commissioner Edwin K. Walker on federal narcotics charges.

Agents said they were put on the trial of Scrima and Daley through the seizure in Springfield of a number of teen agers who they said had been supplied marijuana. Agents said they made purchases of marijuana and morphine from both men before they were seized. Daley's apartment, where agents said they seized a store of narcotics. Winefield said he was a theatrical booking agent. Mason was arrested at the night club.

WINEFIELD WAS arrested in Robert W. Artis, district supervisor of narcotics agents, said Lavern Dougherty, 26-year-old Negro, was seized las: night in Springfield. Artis said Dougherty frequented dance halls and met Scrima when the musician appeared in Springfield several months ago. Artis charged that Dougherty was the link between the students and Scrima and Daley. Priest Leads Sheriff's Deputies on City Raid Ottawa, Oct.

9 (AP) A Catholic priest led sheriff's deputies late yesterday in a raid on three alleged houses of prostitution in the LaSalle-Peru area. Deputies Stanley Murray and James Cullen seized three women in the raids. They were held without charge in the LaSalle county jail at Ottawa. Also along on the raids was Edward H. Baker, Mendota attorney, appointed as a special prosecutor last June by Circuit Judge Roy Wilhelm.

Rev. Theodore Wujek, pastor of Sacred Heart church at Oglesby, who led the raids, said they resulted from complaints made to him by a member of his parish. Father, Son Die When Fire Destroys Home Chicago, Oct. 9 (AP) A father and son perished early today in a fire which destroyed their home at Oakton Gardens, near suburban Des Plaines. The dead were Arthur J.

McKenzie, 35, and his son, Artie, eight. Capt. Benjamin Stangor of the Des Plaines fire department said McKenzie awakened a daughter, Vivian, 14, who fled, and went to rescue his young son, alseep in a rear room of the four-room, one story frame cottage. The charred bodies of father and son were found four feet from the back door. The child was in the father's arms.

The mother, Pearl, was at work in nearby Morton Grove. Phone Strike Parley Group Fails to Meet Morrison, Oct. 9 (AP) An attempt by National Labor Relations board representative to mee: with representatives of the Morrison Telephone Co. and of striking A. F.

of L. electrical workers failed yesterday. Union representatives did show up for the meeting, and the not mediator returned to Chicago. Twenty-four telephone operators and maintenance workers are on strike in a wage dispute. Morrison and Fulton, both served by the company, are on an emergency phone service basis.

Foreign Service Aides To Speed D.P.'s Trip Washington, Oct. 9 (AP) The State department announced Friday that it is rushing 72 members of the foreign service to Germany, Austria and Italy to speed the migration of displaced persons to the United States. Under a law passed by the 80th Congress, 205,000 DP'S are to be permitted to enter the United States during the next two years provided they can meet immigration qualifications. Recluse Farmer Leaves Estate Eet at $49,000 Belleville, Oct. 9 (AP) Jordan Johnston, 82-year-old recluse farmer who was found dead last Feb.

2 in the cellar of his ramshackle home near Lebanon, left an estate valued at $49,825, according to an inventory filed yesterday in St. Clair county court. Johnston, a bachelor, was known to keep large sums of money in his home. He left most of his estate to a niece, Miss Mary Mueller of Summerfield, Ill. BERLIN YOUNGSTERS THANK AIRLIFT PILOT Berlin youngsters surround him for dropping candy to them make it a practise to drop the Lt.

Gale S. Halvorsen, an air- from his way of hand- candy on each of his flights lift pilot from Garland, Utah, kerchief parachute. He has into Tempelhof. at airport, to thank (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHOTO) Police Working On 3 Clues in Granata Death Chicago, Oct. 9 (AP) Police worked on three clues today in hopes of finding the slayer of William John Granata, 42, Republican nominee for Cook county circuit court clerk.

Granata was killed with a sharp weapon in front of his loop apartment early Friday morning. Meanwhile, the G.O.P. county central committee acted swiftly to name a successor to Granata in the county clerk race. The candidate selected is Mrs. Mabel G.

Reinecke, a prominent figure in state Republican circles. HER NOMINATION was certified to the county judge just before a 4 p. m. deadline yesterday. Print.

ing of ballots for the Nov. 2 election had to be stopped to give the general committee time to make the selection. Last May, Mrs. Reinecke was elected chairman of the G.O.P. state convention, the first woman to preside in many years.

She has been three Chicago election commissioners since 1930. Investigators worked on three possible clues in the Granata slaying. They searched for "a wild eyed stranger" who had repeatedly sought Granata for two consecutive days, for the murder weapon and for a typewritten list of names said to have been in Granata's pocket after the killing. GRANATA, 27th ward Republican committeeman and a member of the Illinois Industrial commission, was struck twice in the back of the head by his assailant. His body pitched forward on Randolph street, just a block from the city hall and a state office building, and two blocks from the theater district.

Tre man being sought for questioning was believed to have attempted contacting Granata several sion times in the industrial commisoffice, which is located about a block from the building in which Granata maintained an apartment. The fatal attack came just after Granata had completed a tour of several Republican rallies on the South Side. One Killed, 3 Hurt In Highway Crash Aurora, Oct. 9 (AP) Alexander Tamio, 34, of Swift Road near Glen Ellyn, was killed and two other men were injured yesterday in an automobile collision at Butterfield road and route 59 in Du Page county. Tamio's car collided with one by Harley J.

Cooper, 55, operator of the Aragon dog farm, Franklin park. Cooper and a passenger in his car, William C. Stark, 42, operator of the Stark Kennels in Elmhurst, were seriously hurt. Boys Start Fires; They 'Like to See Trucks' Marion, Oct. 9 (AP) Probation Officer' Chalmer D.

Weesner said yesterday two boys have admitted setting a $50,000 fire at Upland. The boys, 10 and 13 years old, are to be arraigned in juvenile court Tuesday. They which are charged with setting destroyed the Upland Grain Co. elevator Sept. 26.

Weesner said the boys told him they started the fire because they "liked to see the fire trucks." They were taken into custody yesterday. PLOT DISCLOSED Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 9 (AP)-Fifty persons were sentenced Friday to terms up to 12 years in the government's drive against what it called a widespread underground plot. Churchill Says A Bomb Is Only Curb on Russia Llandudno, Wales, Oct. 9 (AP) Winston Churchill warned today World War III may burst upon humanity at any time because of the Berlin crisis.

Only the United States' possession of atom bombs stops a Communist juggernaut from engulfing all Western Europe, the wartime prime minister declared in an address prepared for the Conservative party annual conference. Americans would be "guilty of murdering human freedom and committing suicide themselves" if they agreed to destroy their stock of atom bombs, Churchill said. Russia is demanding in the United Nations that the atom bomb be scrapped, and the weapon outlawed at once. "AT THE PRESENT time our only foundation of peace and the prevention of actual war rests upon strength," Churchill said. "The western nations will be far more likely to reach a lasting settlement without bloodshed if they formulate their just demands while they have the atomic power and before the Russian Communists have got it, too." "Churchill urged the West to "bring matters to a head and make a final settlement" before Russia gets the bomb.

The Russians should release their grip on satellite states, free German and Japanese prisoners they "now hold as slaves," to "oppress, torment and exploit" the parts of Austria and Germany they hold and cease disruptive operations elsewhere in the world before a settlement is reached, Churchill said. BUT THE WAR leader of Britain declared he could "not encourage you with false hopes of a friendly settlement with Soviet Russia." "Bolshevik Russia is already heavily armed and her forces in Europe far exceed all those of the western countries put. Churchill said. "At the present time the only sure foundation of peace and of the prevention of actual war rests upon strength. "If it were not for stocks of atomic bombs now in trusteethe ship of the United States, there would be no means of stopping the subjugation of Western Europe by Communist machinations, backed by Russian armies and enforced by political parties." THE BERLIN blockade, which he called Russian blackmail, "may at any time" precipitate war, Churchill said.

He said it should have been met promptly "by countermeasures against Russian shipping and imports of all kinds which might be useful for war purposes." Turning to Japan, Churchill highly praised the administration of U. S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. "When I survey the misfortune in which Europe is plunged I admire the wisdom and the statecraft which, General MacArthur has displayed in his dealings with Japan," Churchill said.

Camps Named For Draftees Washington, Oct. 9 (AP) White draftees from Michigan, Indiana and Illinois will go to Camp Breckinridge, for their basic training under the selective service act. the army said today. Negroes inducted from Michigan and Northern Illinois will take their basic training at Ft. Riley, those from Southern Illinois at Ft.

Knox, and those from Indiana at Ft. Dix, N. J. An army spokesman said there may be some exceptions, but that is the general plan. Both white and Negro troops be trained at Knox and Dix, but only whites at Breckinridge.

The men will be called for 21 months of serviee, the first two months will be spent in basic training. After that men may be sent anywhere in the world. The army has set a national quota of 10,000 men in its initial call for November. The next month 15,000 men will be ordered to camps. The other services have not asked selective service for any men.

Illinois Called For 882 in Draft Chicago, Oct. 9 (AP) Illinois' December draft quota has been fixed at 882 men. Col. Paul G. Armstrong, state selective service director, who announced the quota today, said "it will be necessary for us to examine more than 4,000 registrants to accomplish our quota." said the physical examinations will all be made during and of the December inductees will be enrolled by Dec.

20. "No. persons are going to be inducted into the armed services after Dec. 20 because of the holiday season," he said. QUAKE INJURES 6,000 Mowcow, Oct.

9 (AP) -The enor- of the earthquake which struck the city of Ashkhabad this week was brought home today with the official announcement that 120 planes took more than 6,000 injured persons to hospitals in other cities. Truman and Marshall Meet; Believe Vinson Won't Go To Moscow BURNED IN FIGHT WITH HUSBAND Mrs. Anna Iacona, 22, show- custody of two children. The ed a long, painful burn on her husband said it was an acciface and burns on her wrists in dent, but Judge George J. police court at St.

her husband, Ross laborer, held an against her as they Louis, saying Grellner replied, "You don't lacona, a get burned that way by accielectric iron dent," and fined him $300. Mrs. fought over Iacona got the children. (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE PHOTO) Unions Guess On G.O.P Cincinnati, Oct. 9 (AP) The answer as to whether John L.

Lewis' constant barrage against President Truman will affect the vote in major coal-producing states appeared today to rest with 3,000 puzzled convention delegates. Many delegates, visibly moved by their leader's blasts against the President for prosecuting him and the union in recent strikes, were at a loss to convey his argument to the 600,000 local union members back home. LEWIS HAS not formally indorsed Republican Thomas E. Dewey. He heaped criticism on both major political parties, but a political action resolution adopted yesterday.

with his okay, pointedly gave Dewey a clean bill for at least not ever having attacked Lewis or the union. Ore district leader said that if union members had heard Lewis' speeches to the convention, very few would vote for Mr. Truman MUCH DEPENDS on how the delegates explain Lewis' views to their locals, he said. In many states, the union is backing Democratic senatorial and other candidates. If they don't vote for a preswill idential be candidate, the Dewey's because advantage man will be losing a ballot which he might have received if the fiery U.M W.

chief had not opposed him so harshly. Some delegates think Lewis may have more to say on Dewey before the convention adjourns next Tuesday or Wednesday. It was in recess today. Man Denies Murder After Trespass Suit Oct. 9 (AP) Oscar Hollingsworth, 51, pleaded innocent yesterday a charge of murdering a neighbor, Aime Colin.

Colin was shot to death July 1. His widow, Thelma, was awarded $15,000 in circuit court in a suit against Hollingsworth charging trespassing. Hollingsworth's residence was attached for payment. Judge Ray I. Klingbiel appointed Samuel Rubin of Rock Falls as counsel for Hollingsworth.

The defendant will be arraigned next Wednesday. Dahlberg, Former Speaker, Dies in Chicago Chicago, Oct. 9 (AP) Gotthard A. Dahlberg, 64, former speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, died after a year's illness. Dahlberg was Republican state representative from the 13th senatorial district from 1914 to 1924.

He was House speaker in 1921-22. He had been associated with his law firm in the Chicago Loop until his illness. Funeral services will be held Monday. Report' Is Only Reason Given for Trip Indians Take 2-1 Game From Braves 2 3 5 8 R. H.

E. Braves 0 0 0 0---1 Indians 1 0 1 0 0 X-2 5 0 Batteries--Sain and Masi; Gromek and Hegan. Cleveland, Oct. 9 (AP) The Cleveland Indians today defeated Boston, 2-1, for a three game to one lead in the World Series. Marv Rickert's seventh inning 400-foot homer into the right field stands narrowed Cleveland's lead to 2-1.

It was Boston's first run after 23 consecutive scoreless innings. Larry Doby's tremendous 400-foot homer over the right field fence in the third boosted Cleveland's lead to 20. Cleveland hopped on Sain for a quick run in the first when Dale Mitchell singled and rode home on Manager Lou Boudreau's double to the right field corner. Boudreau was out trying to make it a triple in a very close play. -0- FIRST INNING BRAVES--Holmes flied to Judnich in short right.

Dark fouled to Hegan. Torgeson doubled to the center field fence. Elliott fouled to Hegan. No runs, one hit, no errors. INDIANS-Mitchell singled into center.

Torgeson made a diving stop of Doby's wicked smash and while in a kneeling position slipped the ball to Sain at first. Boudreau doubled inside the first base line scoring Mitchell, but was out trying to stretch it into a triple, Holmes to Dark to Elliott. Gordon bounced out, Dark to Torgeson. One run, two hits, no errors. -O- SECOND INNING BRAVES -Rickert lined to Robinson.

Mitchell took M. McCormick's short fly in left. Boudreau caught Masi's high pop in short left. No runs, no hits, no errors. INDIANS-Keltner was out, Dark to Torgeson.

Judnich bounced to Torgeson, unassisted. Robinson singled to left. Hegan popped to Dark. No runs, one hit, no errors. -O THIRD INNING BRAVES -Stanky singled to center.

Sain sacrifice bunted, Hegan to Robinson. Holmes grounded out, Keltner to Robinson. Gordon camped under Dark's pop fly. No runs, one hit, no errors. INDIANS Gromek struck out.

Mitchell rolled out, Elliott to Robinson. Doby drove a home run into the crowd behind the right field fence, a 400-foot drive. Dark threw out Boudreau. One run, one hit, no errors. -0- FOURTH INNING -Robinson fumbled Torgeson's easy roller but recovered to toss to Gromek for the out.

Elliott rolled out to Keltner. Rickert singled into center. McCormick forced Rickert at second, Boudreau to Gordon. No runs, one hit, no errors. INDIANS was out, Sain to Torgeson.

Keltner fouled to Elliott. Judnich struck out. No runs, no hits, no errors. FIFTH INNING BRAVES Masi grounded out, Boudreau to Robinson. Boudreau also threw out Stanky.

Sain singled into left. Gordon gathered in Holmes foul. No runs, one hit, no errors. INDIANS -Robinson was given a single when he rolled to Torgeson and Sain forgot cover. Hegan sacrificed, Elliott to Torgeson.

Bill Voiselle started warming up for Boston. Gromek fouled to Dark. Sain speared Mitchell's bouncer, threw him out. No runs, one hit, no errors. SIXTH INNING BRAVES- -Dark lined to Doby.

Torgeson walked. Elliott bounced into a double play, Boudreau to Gordon to Robinson. No runs, no hits, no errors. INDIANS-Doby rolled out to Stanky. Boudreau skied to M.

McCormick. Gordon fouled to Rickert. No runs, no hits, no errors. SEVENTH INNING BRAVES- -Rickert hammered a 400-foot homer into the right field stands. McCormick singled to left.

Masi popped to Keltner. Mitchell grabbed Stanky's long fly. Gromek tossed out Sain. One run, two hits, no errors. INDIANS Keltner flied to Rickert.

Sain struck out. Robinson was out, Torgeson to Sain. No runs, no hits, no errors. -0- EIGHTH INNING BRAVES--Kennedy replaced Judnich in right. Holmes flied to Doby.

Dark popped to Boudreau. Torgeson doubled into center. Elliott popped to Hegan. No runs, one hit, no errors. INDIANS-Hegan popped to Stanky.

Masi tossed Gromek out. Dark threw out Mitchell. No runs, no hits, no errors. -0- NINTH INNING BRAVES- -Rickert fanned. McCormick struck Salkeld, batting for Masi, flied out to Mitchell.

No runs, no hits, no errors. Satira Back Home to Rest Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 9 (AP) Patricia (Satira) Schmidt, exotic dancer pardoned after serving a year and a half in jail for slaying her lover in Havana harbor, was back home today to "rest and recuperate." daddy, daddy! I'm so glad to be home--so glad!" she told her father, John Schmidt, a druggist, as she arrived here by plane that night. She was granted a pardon by Cuban President Ramon Grau san Martin in the fatal shooting of John Lester Mee, Chicago naval veteran, aboard the victim's yacht. A judge had sentenced her to 15 years.

"All I want to do for a while is just rest and recuperate," she told reporters. She said she had scarceslept since Sept. 30 when she learned she was to be freed. Still wearing her hair coiled high on her head, the dancer declared she had been offered a "number of contracts," but had no immediate plans. "I only pray that some day I might be able to help others as I have been helped and I say that sincerely," she added.

Death of Kenna Heir Revealed in Court Chicago, Oct. 9 (AP) The death the principal heir to the estate of Michael (Hinky Dink) Kenna, political boss of Chicago's colorful first ward, was revealed yesterday. The death on Sept. 12 of Kenna's niece, Mrs. Katherine Etchingham, 68, was made known when her will was filed in probate court.

Mrs. Etchingham, who was granted 25 per cent, or $125,000 of Kenna's estate, after a long court battle with other relatives, left the money to four children. Washington, Oct. 9 (AP) President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall got together here today to talk over the critical international situation.

The secretary of state flew from the Paris meeting of the United Nations, arriving this morning in Mr. Truman's plane, "The Independence." The President had sent the plane to Paris to bring the cabinet officer here. Mr. Truman was at the airport to meet Marshall on his arrival. JUST 20 MINUTES earlier, the President had reached Washington after an overnight train trip from Buffalo, N.

where he made a campaign address last night. He cut short a political tour of New York state in order to come here for the conference with Marshall. Marshall's plane arrived over the airport about 10 minutes before the President reached the field from his train. The Marshall plane circled over head until Mr. Truman could arrive.

When the President's car drove up, the plane quickly landed. Marshall got out and shook hands with the Chief Executive. "I am grateful to you" (for meeting the plane)," Marshall said. THERE WAS NO evidence that Marshall had been forewarned of the publication of reports that Mr. Truman had planned to send Chief Justice Fred Vinson on a special mission to Moscow.

But it was learned that well-informed diplomats now consider that this idea has been definitely and finally abandoned as being entirely out of line with present American policy toward Russia. The only official word in advance of the Truman-Marshall talks was that the President wanted to get a first hand report on the U. N. meeting and the international situation. BUT THE WHITE HOUSE made no direct denial of published reports they might discuss sending Vinson on a mission to Premier Stalin to seek a basis for easing world tension.

Two points which Marshall seemed certain to emphasize in any case were (1) his belief that the United States must continue to act jointly with Britain and France in all major issues with Russia and (2) his known position that the development of this nation's foreign policies must be pressed forward on a bipartisan basis. Home Runs, Hits Heard by Patients Of Canada Dentist Winnipeg, Oct. 9 (AP) Two Winnipeg dentists have insured their popularity--with World Series fans anyway. They have installed tiny radios with headsets that fit into the patient's ears. He hears the broadcast of the ball game instead of the whirring drill.

Reds to Fire In Air Route: Berlin, Oct. 9 (AP) The Russians' resuming the war of nerves over Berlin, announced once again that large-scale war maneuvers including gunnery practise will be held in airlift corridors today. And again United States officials protested that the Russians would endanger Western Allied aircraft by such maneuvers and thus violate four-power safety regulations. "We are going to continue protesting every time the Russians announce such, drills, which are against regulations," a senior U.S. air officer said.

"We are making it their responsibility to live up to the safety rules." McLeansboro Voters Approve School Bond McLeansboro, 'Oct. 9 (AP) McLeansboro voters approved by a vote of 331 to 178 yesterday a $200.000 bond proposal to finance the building of an addition to the high school. This amount would be in addition to $500,000 already voted for school purposes. Cooler Cooler Decatur and vicinity: Fair and cooler Sunday. Low tonight 38.

High tomorrow 62. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by The Review High Fri. 55 7 a.m. Sat. 48 7 p.m.

Fri. 53 Noon Sat. 67 Low Sat. 47 Precip. 0 Relative humidity Sat.

noon-42. Sun rose 6:03, sets 5.29 p.m. Degree days since Sept. 6, 94; same period year ago, 146; 20 year average for same period 121.5 Lake level at damFri. ft.

below dam. ft. below dam. (Additional weather on page 7) Index to Features Editorials Page 4 Radio Page 6 Railroads Page 10 Society, Household Page 6 Sports Page 2 Six 'Neutrals' Seek Time on Berlin Crisis By JOSEPH E. DYNAN Of The Associated Press Paris, Oct.

9 The "neutral" nations on the Security Council today were reported bidding for more time to press their efforts to patch up the eastwest Berlin crisis. The "little -Argentina, Colombia, Syria, Belgium, Canada and China was understood Council to meet- have moved to postpone a ing tentatively set for Monday to give mediation plans more time to jell. The neutrals were reported weighing a direct appeal to the Big Four to settle their Berlin differences by mutual concession and cooperation. This new trend in the ticklish Berlin blockade was said to have emerged after the six "neutrals" heard a report from Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia on his secret talks with Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky.

There was no immediate indication whether the Western powers would be receptive to such a proposal. They have stressed repeatedly they would not negotiate with Russia under duress. It was not known what provisions the directappeal idea made for lifting the blockade. Only clue to a possible softened Russian attitude, implying possible acceptance of some such appeal, is Bramuglia's optimism over his talks. Jap Dies After 'Eating' Wads of Newspapers Chicago, Oct.

9 (AP) Hertero Goto, 64-year-old Japanese patient at the psychopathic hospital, died yesterday after swallowing wads of newspapers. Examination, revealed a quantity of newspapers in his throat and stomach. A son, Takaji, said he had placed his father in the hospital for hysteria and a brain disease on doctor's orders..