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Evening Express from Portland, Maine • 28

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28 Portland Evening Express Thursday July 9 1953 gs Eurbpean a iji A After McCarthy voiced this an be the highest antenna in the drew entirely frorhthe Chan DP! ft rAnUet Tha woo ad States a chance a very officials in Washington their! common problems new and "we deal' Caught in the act A'MIper'! his talki in Washing Secretary of 'State Itigation of' the status of German workers in East Berlin and the I Soviet zone The delegation was empowered to seek an immediate meeting with the American British and rench high commissioners to ask them to intervene with the Russians on behalf of the East German workers It was ordered Labor Leaders Berlin Bound To Appeal or East Germans Stockholm Sweden to "act Immediately to imnre Hollywood Calif elected president and 'running I 4 at th eettag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization" Salisbury said the three for eign inpnlsters also would dis cuss In dof China Korea and the Robertson is a I nArt Overseas Book Policy Back Where It Was As Some Books By Commies Ruled Okay British (Cabinet rowns On Romance ''I Eeft Wjng JIIagazine Raps Stand Of Church Of England 1 AP1 LTh rhtmini hh mu vawuivv wvo uuu vauuitb ccuui uv Winslow (AP) rederick Demers barn was destroyed yes terday by a lightning set Jslaze but firemen of six departments saved his home i here The delegation consists of Tom president of the British Trade Union Congress Irving Brown international AL repre sentative for Europe 'and Marcel Babau executive board member of the rench orce Ouvriere They were Instructed to ask the Western high commissioners Ore He i succeeds Howard Thomas Memphis Tenn IT fire1 prevention message to Cumberland ution load in the vicinity of Clair Head varies with hydro 1 juries JI graphical and weather condl 1 while tions The waters show a wide fishing Extension Test Borings Contract Awarded B8 Sprague Henwood Inc Scranton Pa low bidder was awarded a contract today for test bbrlngs for the extension of the Maine Turnpike to Augusta The price was $46920 Thus the contract has been let for the first ac'tual disturbing of the land in the long job of extending the turnpike The job involves 12300 linear feet of borings along the pror posed 66 mlle route of the turn pike from Portland to Augusta The work was divided into three sections for bidding Sprague fc Henwood bid on the parts sepa rately and cut the total of these blds by $105 if it got all three parts It was this total bid which was accepted One) committee competing applications nounced yesterday Lewiston Auburn Broadcast ing Corp changed its applica tion to seek Channel 17 instead of Channel 8 anc( Twin City Broadcasting any with nei contest rne ruu was ad vised that Mt Washington TVi Inc left alone in the field fori Channel 8 will pay Twin City $5802 for the expenses it has incurred in connection with the application and will permit Twin City to buy a 15 per cent inter est in the Mt Washington Sta tion Commissioner George Ster ling of Peaks Island said in a statement: concur in this grant be cause of the TV service it will provide for so many small com munities and the sparsely set 1 tied rural areas of Maine New Hampshire and Vermont "In fact this station on Mt Washington will no doubt tak ing into account the economy of the area and the high cost of establishing a TV station pro vide only TV service the population of these areas may ever receive In other areas it I will provide an additional serv ice hence a choice of two or more Capt Townsend 38 a "Battle of ace was suddenly given a new assignment abroac when his reported romance with Margaret' became: generally talked about He takes over his new duties as air attache in Brussels two days before the 22 year old princess is due back on July 16 from a tour of Southern Rhodesia He had been acting comptrol ler at Clarence House where the princess Ilves with her mother and had a suite there Townsend divorced his wife last all after 11 years of marriage chargins her with adultery He was award ed custody of their two sons age nine and but they are living with their mother who has since remarried The Tribune one of Prime Minister sharpest critics in politics chided the Cabinet for frowning on Mar romance with the dash ing airman and pointed out' three members of'1 the 'Cabinet have been involved themselves in di vorce cases EDEN DIVORCED One is oreign Secretary An thony Eden Who married young niece Clarissa after divorcing his wife for de sertion The Tribune without giving its source of information "According to our informa tion the Cabinet was asked for its advice on whether the Prin cess should be allowed to marry Group Captain Peter Townsend Dulles was made night by Dr Smokey the Bear carrying its forest County newly published Keep Mafne Green leaflets Left to right Joel Marsh the Ernest A Rand who heads the county campaign and ire Warden Philip Barton Gray Smokey The ire Preventing Bear Pleads with AU Woods Visitors To Be Careful contention the State Depart ment! issued on eb 3 an order authorizing the use of such ma terial if deemed favorable to the US I But in the midst of McCar investigation of the libra The 54 million member free nnv rnn rld trade Union movement sent that no material by any con 1 troversial person communist three ranking labor leaders to fellow travelers etc will be used Berlin by air today for anjnves under any Then on March 17 Assistant Secretary 'Carl McCardle told Johnson that Dulles had de cided against making "the works of Communist authors a part of our: public These and series of other directives resulted in the re moval of several hundred books from the overseas library by to report back Saturday to the local information officials A third world congress of the few books were reported burned International Confederation of Eisenhower told newsmen last ree Trade Unions in session month that If books such as detective stories were removed as reported it was because someone became frightened By Staff Photographer Curranbut tnis time its for a good cause oreman Charles 'ort rms Maine folk to do their utmost this Summer to keep tinder dry forests green 1 I Smokey the talking singing fire bear cautioned edly will be discussed intention to brings up There I prevent! the Inclusion of Ger IsvstemiTr: 'Xl Prime Minister I proposal! for an early Big our I meeting! including Malenkov Isl PYTVpIaH! Ia ArtelJ 63 countries puts State sd could be assured IhaS worked out plans for ve i action against the London AP) Cabinet was approached on whether Princess Margate should 'marry a (handsome di vorced Royal Air officer and joined with the Church of England' in saying the Tribune said today The fortnightly Jeft wing mag azine drew a comparison between the 22 year old re ported rotaanctagi' with RA uroup captain peter Townsend and her $ffair with the American divorcee! Wallis Simp son i I "This intolerable piece of in terference with a private life is all part off A myth about the Royal amily which has been1 so sedulously I built up by in terested parties tri recent years" said the TribdneJ I "It recalls the! hypocritical role played by i the Church at thetime of the Puketof abdication was loudly acclaimed as the best 4f until he expressed the firm! desire to mar ry the woman! hei loved (Prime Minister Stanley) Baldwin arid we arcnoisnops oja not approve his choice Sol they pushed him off thet 1 SUPPORTS BEVAN The Tribune which is a po lltlcal supporter of Aneurin Bev i an declared "Princess Margaret should be allowed 'to make uo her own mindj whom she wants to marry Most other people we Imagine would agree 'with that simple But the Brit ptiblic last herb Johnson retiring head of the Inter 1 atipn Adminis i tate Depart 1953 Deering said the court lost eai oiiuum ikijuw vjiu iiuiuoer Emu io cations of stations used by Gog gins in his recent survey and in particular the bacteria count of clams taken from the disputed area Meanwhile defense counsel Edward Bridgham Bath said that he would request University of Maine bacteriologists to coh duct an impartial analysis of clams from Area 20 before July 22 the date set for the hearing objection is based on the fact that Peter Townsend had I That in the view of the church I is a reason for preventing him from marrying thei princess even though Peter Townsend was an innocent party in the divorce! action When the Queen referred the issue to the i Cabinet the! Cabinet agreed with the Queen: Elizabeth as head! of the Royal amily would have! to approve her marriage! Elizabeth reportedly is perspn 1 ally sympathetic to Margarets position I The Tribune in denouncing the Cabinet as in supporting the view of the Church of England said: "The laws of England say that at man whether he has divorced his wife or been divorced him 1 self is fully entitled to marry again "In some respects those divorce laws are still too harsh But no self appointed busybody has the right to make them harsher still "If those laws are good they are good enough for the Royal The sharp differences between! case and that of her uncle who gave up the throne that no attempt has been made to hide her predicament Margaret is third in line to the WHUUC wnen Luwara was niK mai romance with American divorcee Gray The only bear in Maine Simpson was kept under Lrhich a bounty on its head appealed last to all i Haseltlne son John as the latter gets set to pull false alarm South Sa aSd or and nremen are making an educational movie that will help combat false a 13traUonxf Nurses1 I More than 40 were rung In last year in South Portland GOP Lawmakers Will Honor Ike Washington7 (AP) President Eisenhower will be the guest of Republican Congress members at a buffet luncheon Saturday the first anniversary of his nomination as the GOP presi dential candidate Eisenhower today accepted an invitation extended by Vice President Nixon on behalf of Senate Republicans and House Speaker Martin The luncheon will be held at noon in the caucus room of the old House Office Building Eisenhower chatted with Nix on and Martin while photog raphers snapped a picture Nixon told the President that (Martin was arranging a lunch of ham and turkey I "Well tell Eisen hower said trying to diet Maybe better take Martin told newsmen that in addition to ham and turkey the menu will include a green salad coffee and tea and perhaps some cookies for dessert Martin said the President probably would speak briefly at the conclusion of the lunch United cood chancel to reach a settle oi: On Concealed Weapon Charge rederick Miller of Bath ast Action: (Continued from ai Ori the' showdown Republicans voted 9 to 6 for the! bill and Democrats lined up 7 to 3 Reed oldest Republican in continuous service in the house expressed sharp regret my I party has seen fit to repudiate its promises made during the past election camphlgn withrrespect to tax He added in a statement: "All Republicans including the pres ent occupant of the White House promised the people relief from excessive taxation and unwise spending an honest man' could do no less than adhere to the promises he made to the people i before' in' our legisla 1 Uve history has so much pres sure been applied by (the White House to deny the people of this Nation a much deserved tax ire I Augusto Geraldine Hil ler Bailey island rances Jordan and Mary Ragan Defense Asks Okav or Work In Maine By MAY CRAIG 'Washington Senator Payne of Maine revealed today that the Department of Defense in a message to Congress today on military construction asked au thorization to use already ap propriated funds for new con 1 structlon in various military! and naval installations includ ing in Maine: Nava! air station Brunswick $7967000 Naval radio station Winter Harbor $208000 Air base Dow ield $2144 000 I Air base Limestone $851000 Air base Presqj Isle $434 000 Representative IHale revealed that: ftmrtcvErfolr I £349 nftn fnr nrdnanro i By Roberta $1187000 for radio communica like So do says Deborah'Stone 4 Chief tion ini the 8 Washington talks' staff Photographer Gardner Roberts caught this picture Salisbury according to advance heating $ioooooo fod stalling in the sun this morning near her home ati aircraft maintenance and han 115 Washington Avenue knew kids do this all the that this is not the time to un gars and $300000 for utilities said Roberts usually got on one of IdertakeitoUcs with the Kremlin atSsk tott Meinto? long dres3es and cant see the Salisbury Playground bv the 6 Portland I In De borah case the shoes match No matter I were accompanied by expert ad Park! Recreation Department! still fun to step out in them as you can see dlscU5sl0a ot There was no immediate com ment from McCarthy who has contended books by Commun ists or Red Sympathizers "are bound tofollpwl the Communist and should be banned 1 from the 'overseas libraries HEARING DELAYED 6 Johnson had been scheduled today to go before (the Senate invest! gations subcommittee which McCarthy heads to give a full report onl the book purge But senator announced yesterday the hearing was put off until next week Johnson expressing hope the latest policy help clear the and make his suc job easier i laid down these standards 1 Books byJComnunists or Communist sympathizers may be used in special cases provided each "affirmatively serves the ends of As accept able he cited mystery stories and anthologies of humor by remove or de stroy these books (arbitrarily would be to defeat the very pur 1 poses which brought these 11 1 braries into he said 5 recompense fdr ih claims he suffered ewman aboard i wavcia ohuw wiuu utauiugwedaei Anouias JU a xCUCK range of pollution from as low as land Imai has sued the owners 36 MPN when the wind is souttr for SltoQOQ in United States erly to 1100 when the wind ISlCourt (Alton Preston Rockland brought the suit against: Silver According to letter to Sea Iric1 Portland He charges Deering samplings of the area he wasfl injured through no fault were taken July 8 and Sept 4 of his pwn (March 13 1953 and 1952 and May 13 and June 25 Jseeksi to recover for expenses and Impartial Test Sought In Case Of Gam Diggers Bath Eleven Bath and Phippsburg clam diggers charged with digging in Closed Area 20 at the mouth of the Kennebec River last month to day had their cases continued a second time to July 22 Municipal Court Judge Gardi ner Deering said that the i continuance had been requested by Commissioner Stanley Tupper of the Sea Shore ish eries Department 'Voicing disappointment at a partial report from Tupper on a recent pollution survey of Area 20 peering said today that he had asked Tupper for a com nlatA VMbwir i '1 The Bath judge stated that he AP Wirephoto AAVXU A upper DVW1 complete report and an analysis of clams dug in the area i Last month Deering criticized' the absence of a complete report on alleged pollution In the area asserting that In the five years since it was closed he had never seen such a report The Bath judge expressed his confidence that Tupper is in terested In giving the court and information on Area 20 that I consider essential in folwaee 4a 1 uv OU VUUVCU1CU 5 T9 Tupper Informed Deering early ighis week that Philip Goggins en lauonai convention of tie pisciples of Christ in ruruatiia the Jtov of that already this year there have the state the bear said 140 of been about 400 Maine forest these fires occurred in the brief fires well on the way to an all period between June 21 July 8 time record Seven thousand Nine out of ten of for acres have been burned over est fires can be prevented Nine Somberly pointing out the ty per cent of 948 fires dangerous drought stricken last year (within two fires of condition of Maine woods parti 1 the record) were caused by hu cularly in the southern part of man carelessness Twenty seven per cent were attributed to smokers The mechanical bear before more than a score of community leaders gathered at Pennell Institute gymnasium for an organizational meeting of the (a (Cumberland County Keep 54aine upon the Soviet government that byEmest it must end its assaults upon the A Rand Cumberland Center right of free associatiori of Ger conty man worker Smokey was brought to Gray The decision to send the dele its Joel Marah aatlon was made at an emprcrpn supervisor of both the cy session of the ICTU exicu PMame Greer rwogram and tive board on the basis of a re port from Walter reitag head tn of the German trade unifen mnvAmunt appear in local schools Since last all the bear has carried its forest fire prevention message over 4000 miles to more port except that it dealt with than 4 q00 Maine adults and the latest attacks on German I15000 alia even has workers in the Eastern announcement tadii cated that CIO President Walter iause a Reuther would join the inves mly und Reuther went Ptn Berlin I watersheds it was pointed out Reuther went to Berlin yester but alsQ a crfpvpling blow The ICTU which includes huge forest product the free trade unions of 73 industries countries has pledged during itsL rroaucts maae irOm Maine third world congress here to Rbnber haryests bring about give every support to East Ger 1850000(00 mto the state an man workers in their fight nually One third of all Maines against Soviet op to wage earners work In the woods American labor has taken5 the mUls or Plants manufacturing lead at the conference to heln forest products Maine ranks the Germans second in the Nation in the pro UNDS OERED gn Both tlie AL and CIO have more 84 per cent of offered funds to aid East Ger total land is in man workers The amounts forest trees 17000000 acres have not been specified but requiring that forest fire pre are expected to be considerable vention by both vis Jn a Joint appeal to President htors and residents Smokey also Eisenhower earlier this week cited that beginning Aug 8 it the two organizations urged the wiU be illegal for anyone to PreSS for throw lighted material from au immediate necrotiatinns re I a I jMLdixic nijiiw aysi East Germany They also asked! 810 to $50 etatoen ttendin the were iven flre violations of human rights and gSX0' ln Ea5t JS! VU A4AC JrJXCVCUfcAUlX VLU3 Summer i The Rev Cleveland Klei minister of Holly Christian 1 1 Li unuren has ofinteyn United States some 6300 feet above sea level The signal will blanket large sections of Maine Vermont and New Hampshire Because the blanketing would include Portland the CC im posed the condition relating to this city Noted that many of Mt principal stock holders also hold stock in the Tyrone Corp which in turn controls Oliver Broadcasting Corp an applicantfor Channel 6 here It also noted that Hil dreth and' others are largestockholders in Community Broadcasting Corp applying for Channel 13 The CC stipulated that Hil dreth and the others holding overlapping interests in these companies must either dispose of these interests or the Portland applications Withdrawals at Portland would leave Guy Gannett Broad casting Services unopposed' for Channel 13 and Congress Square Hotel Co unopposed ffer Chan nel 6 The Maine grants on an un vvy 2 books are of I contested basis were made course acceptable and: indeed es 1 sible by amendments to three sential if by we mean honest differences of opin ion honestly expressed It 'goes without saying that we must not confuse honest controversy with NO BURNING 3 Undfer no 1 circumstances I will any book be burned be cause he said burning of abook is a wicked symbolic with ideas Official we dislike by imitating the to overseas tali tarian techniques we de ie books by i Johnson made plain Jie was I referring mostly to the approxi mately two million books al ready on the shelves of the overseas libraries He said new purchases would be made only of books deenwd useful to the libraries specific purpose of creating better understanding rot American life He said "The confusion andthe mistakes have hurt us abroad Uava Uama aa xiuxv uo cv operates the BUt he said there was a real gain for the because the controversy showed Americans are not afraid to make mistakes wau Sues the chief bacterl VasSaIc Ownorc ologist had reported: "The pol WWlieiS Washington (A word today to libraries that son Communist auhors can be used just about completes the circle of State Department positions in the book purge (controversy The new policy statement ap proved 'by Secretary of State (COlltlB 1 I Hesiit ton witt Dulles jand Bidault would con stitute! "an intermediate meet i give us a chance to re view recent i developments in the international Salisbury said Th i I 0 aisoi we i win discuss policy pnnmr I toward the Soviet comparing Vila ivi 1 ai anjinterpretation of re pt cent gestures made i IlHS IxOnn the matter of Germany iiao vuuu 111111 we hate ia clear and definite New York (AP) a p011cy hope to get re Taft (R Ohio) was reported nro Ppifflation and strengthenmg erfaecIvArr enHefAAlAwIlM lav U113 'Hl I BkVhMiUb OViQ4QVWlUV VUUilV UAbl an AVniAWfArv AnareHAn A New York Hospital bulletin SWhxy said: eign injinist cuss Indole night and continued to Progress Middlq! st Ufa KIAasI mmbbuwa lAlluCllSi EoSut pulse and body tematmerpO normal He Is cheerful this mom I hr did not ex tag and lying semi upright in pect Jny great to bed reading the conference and An exploratory operation in iii volving the abdominal wall was! it should! emphasize the eJose performed yesterday 'to obtain among the three 1 precise information concerning Western Allies rr n) I AcItmI ntt tHAiiorht fa TTnifon Assembly should be con discuss Korean truce national Info tration (IIA) the ment agency which 189 libraries i The statement Department nollcv back tn abnnt 'where it: Was last ebruaryJin the open when Senator McCarthy (R It was thus that Johnson Wis) began denouncing the traced the books hubbub touched libraries use of books by Com off when McCarthy contended (mitaists or prokCommunlstsj that Communist Its release came few hours were in the libraries alter i resiaenc tasephower told his news conference the State VlA maaw a i IL Buu wae miurina" ifTp tion agency were taking a new CIC V1S1O1K look at the whole matter Its net effect seemfed tS bring their lrem policies closer to dio at Poland proposes to locate book its antenna on the summit of SSStteer Mt Washington It will i mu Ji Ibo tha binhacf antenna in the hip ailment Taft has been under periodic Paipn: tai catoa myma ua iciacia cently turned over active floor problen I Salisbury said "It leadership of the Senate to Sen should i bejin favor of giving the ator Knowiand (R caiif) said ths Big Three open ing tomorrow and througt Tuesday should7 result in a nev and better understand tag of their common problems' and was fined $10 government of rance headed for carrying a concealed weap by josjipb jLniel to speed radi rr ir ficatloK of the European (EDC) which would Permit West Germany to arm stopped Tuesday night on orest Alsoei is likely to press the to Britlshpoan early solution of a revolver their difficulties with Egypt a gloYe compartment step which would clear the way MacDougall said Ifnr nf tbs 'Mirtrtla defense organization I WANTS MORE AID Bidault (is reported ready to 'ask ths for a substantial I increase in American assistance for thefight against Communist forces In ilndo China Officials indicated this Government may consider the request favorably1! pruviue rance aggress Inj I xveua eds Authorities said Korean truce and po! truce political problems undoubtedly will be discussed but Dul es is represented as hav ling no I these oblems himself has some4 speculation that Sdllsbu may urge Dulles to take stf ong action if necessary to prevent South Korean Presi dent Syngman Rhee from block (' tag establishment df an armis tlce in (Korea i 1 Authorities here Indicated large pi'rt of the talks may be de voted! to the German problem land the aattitude of Russia toward the Wept as it has developed since death and the' sue cession Ito the premiership of Georgi Malenkov i One Concern it was said will be to plan for coordinated ac tion to the uprisings against 3 Red rule in East Ger many aihd to consider ways of working for German unification ROLE A related problem extremely Alga jjvi Ail wiu rxiuciivaxi view 1 is the rple which Germany may play in defense of the West against communism Dulles is known to feel that the Soviet i peace oiiensive ox me lasr lew (months I Is largely designed to I aS rf i Isa'i 't' gaafeaEgg AC fill 'sm4 fr JI vx ze Bjibimm i IV W'l'lfck iHT Jt i si i jjjJ'ihiiT n' iji pi i MBs ok 1 III IIIMil irwlWrTg I wf rLrr Tm 'ifTM I mj 'V A'' r' fcgA i' I US' iiiC' Tr TJMwitrr 4 I 4 It.

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