The Circleville Herald from Circleville, Ohio • Page 1

SHOWERS Cloudy, High, 75; Low, 42; At 8 a. m. 53; Year Ago, high, 87; Low, 64. Sunrise, 5:13 a. m.

Sunset, 7:44 p. m. River, 8.75 ft. he ircleville erald An Independent Newspaper Friday, May 19, 1950 FULL SERVICE International leased wire for state, national and world news, Central Press picture service, leading tsts and artiste, full local coverage. 67th Year-118 Official Sails Home Brings Promise Of Cooperation LONDON, May of State Acheson sails for home today from the Atlantic Pact conference with a request from European allies for a stronger American commitment to go to war if Russia attacks Western Europe.

He also will carry back with him aboard the liner Britannic a big blank check for the Am' African taxpayer to fill in as Uncle Sam's share of the cost of building up a powerful Atlantic Security Force to protect the Western World. In return he has the promise of the foreign ministers of 11 other North Atlantic treaty nations to cooperate in creating a balanced, collective defense force. It is hoped that this will become strong enough in two or vl.ree years to withstand any Russian threat. He also carried assurances that the European allies will accept a prominent American civilian personality as supreme coordinator of the Atlantic Pact Defense Organization. ARSON SUSPECT HAS VISION I FLAMING RED HORSEMAN BRAKE immunity abuse Senators Reject Idea Of Curtailing Powers WASHINGTON.

May 19 Sen-, charges voiced in the Senate by ators on both sides of the Me- Sen. McCarthy (R) failed Carthy-Lattimore battle rejected to back up the idea voiced by today as impractical or funda- Abe Fortas, counsel for Owen mentally dangerous a suggestion! Lattimore. that congressional immunity Lattimore Is the Far East from lawsuits be limited. expert charged by McCarthy INSTEAD OF A CAKE, Little Aigy, baby porpoise of Marineland, is given shrimps decorated by a single candle on the occasion of his first birthday. Attendant Robert Dowling does the catering in the Oceanarium.

Algy wears an aquatic grin as he awaits the feast. FOLK FUTILE YEARS OTHER FOREIGN ministers departing for home will tell their I governments of warning that far greater sacrifices and effort are required to help develop a collective Western Powers Appoint New High Commissioner Even Democrats who have been most sharply critical of the Election Count Is Complete Primary Results Remain I nchanged discourage Russia from risking war with the West. The European request for a stronger American commitment to enter into war quickly if they are atti'cked was made in the course of council sessions. It was made in connection th Aehesr.t.'s to we Atlantic Pact to abandon their traditional but costly policy of trying to maintain individually adequate forces in all three branches of the armed services. LONDON, May Western Powers challenged Russia to move for completion of an Aus- tr.an peace treaty today by announcing plans for appointment of a civilian high commissio ner i to replace the existing Allied military government.

I The United States, Great Canadian Airmen Alerted Will se If Flood Airlift Jl orsens 19- Probers Toe us On Cash To Build Empires WASHINGTON, May crime probers focus their vestigation today on the under- rid cash used to build legitimate empires. The crime hunters are operating on the theory that is and that racketeers report their gross income from illegal sources. Instead, the committee believes, the higtimr operators slice a sizable amount the top" before filing tax returns. That would give them an advantage over legitimate businessmen in buying a controlling interest in such things as hotel restaurant chains and real estate. But the investigators believe that records exist somewhere along the line between the illegal gains and the legitimate investments.

They point out that you ready have been evacuated by can't convert slot machine coins trains, busses and automobiles, into thousand-dollar bills without The Canadian army last night at least a bank transaction. announced it had dynamited a Chairman Kefauver (D) section of the Canadian National (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) WINNIPEG, May The Royal Canadian Air Force was alerted today to be ready for air evacuation of residents still remaining in flood-battered Winnipeg, capital city of Manitoba. The airlift will be used, authorities emphasized, only in event the rampaging Red River reaches a stage of 32.5 feet. It is now at 3C.3 feet, or 12.3 above flood level, A steady rain brought an additional half inch of rain during the night to swell the already overflowing river. The weather bureau forecast clearing weather by afternoon.

The rain and an accompanying 30-mile-an-hour wind did not cause any further serious damage to the still intact but weakened major dikes in the greater Winnipeg district. More than 120.000 persons, mostly women and children, in the city of 320,000 population al- Britain and France, in a munique issued in London, said that the changeover will take plz.ee an early It means that the allies will duplicate in Austria the switch made some time ago in Western Germany, when Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S.

Military governor, was replaced by John J. McCloy, who now functions as American commissioner. The move was decided upon after re-examination by the Big Three council of foreign minis- of Austrian peace treaty r.e- gotiations. long stalled by insistence upon settlement of a Russo-Austrian debt prob- lem. There have been four years of futile bargaining on this issue, while Austria maintains that her home economy cannot be sal- vaged until the burden of military occupation costs is lifted.

COLUMBUS, May official count in the May 2 primary election was completed today by Secretary of State Charles F. Sweeney. The count charged none of the results, hut gave state treasurer Don H. Ebright an official margin of 338,390 to 157,346 for Col- i of amending with being a Russian spy and a pro-communist architect of American policy in the Pacific. The Johns Hopkins university professor has denied the accusations under oath and denounced McCarthy as a liar and of the so-called China lobby.

Fortas told members of the American veterans committee in Washington that Congress should put a on the abuse of its He suggested each house might by majority vote at a given time force a speaking member to waive his immunity from suit. But he conceded that such change involved a constitutional right held by members of Congress. GOP Leader Wherry (R) declared that Fortas should clean out alleged subversives in government rather than think up to extent the -Mi Lausehe May Reject Special Session Request COLUMBUS, May Lausehe is expected to reject or ignore today the request of Secretary of State Charles F. Sweeney for a special session of; the legislature to increase the number of signatures required YniinorcfAPC to qualify independent candi- 1 I Sweeney, who announced his To Be Promoted request last Saturday, already oil has conferred with the governor I I lllllltv in his attempt to stem a flood of CH I1UIIL umbus Mayor James A. Rhodes for the Republican nomination for governor.

In the seven-man race for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator State Auditor Joseph T. Ferguson piled up 159,191 votes to 105,601 for second- place Michael V. Disalie, mayor of Toledo.

Ferguson will face Sen. Robert A. Taft in November. Taft, unopposed, received a complimentary vote of 473,343. Gov.

Frank J. Lausehe easily won renomination on cratic ticket with 363 397 votes, snowing under Clarence H. Knisley, who received only 63,165. HERE IS THE con plete official tally: Governor Demor at? Gov, Frank J. Lausehe, Clarence H.

Knisley, Joseph Torok, 16,651. Republican: Ebright. 338.390; Rhodt Edward J. Hummi 1, George V. Woodling, 18,947.

Lieut. Goveror Democrat; Lieut. Gov. George Nye, on Page Two) apparently to protect them in FBI May Enter Absconding Bank Clerk Case CINCINNATI. May 19 The FBI was expected today to step into the case of an assistant cashier at a Waverly bank who claimed to have absconded with $7.000 and lost it to robbers.

The office of Pike County Sheriff Jess H. Foster reported the sheriff had decided after a conference wuth the county prosecutor to leave the rase of 39- year-old Paul N. Smithson in the hands of federal authorities. Smithson made his plight known yesterday when he walked into Cincinnati police headquarters and announced he had taken the hank funds but lost the money in an alley after a drinking spree. He told police he was with financial worries.

Sheriff Foster reported soon after Smithson's confession that a check at the Waverly State Bank revealed the money had been taken from a strongbox in a vault. Foster said, however, that about $13,000 remained in ALTHOUGH MATADOR PAUL Ochoa Rovira will live to fight another day, at the moment pictured here, he was a young man with a horn most uncomfortably placed. Charged in a Lima, Peru, ring by a bull looking for a eye, he was sent sprawling. He was slightly hurt. COMMISSIONS ARE ARMS Reorganization Plans Face More Trouble WASHINGTON, May four of Mr.

25 plans, ident Truman reorganization declared that the commissions plans face further troubles today arms of Congress and that President Truman seeks to convert ihem to executive agencies. Executive Expendit Chairman McClellan (D) whose committee studied the revamping plans, insisted that at least four of the plans permit a grab of McClelland added: am not saying Mr. Truman would grab power. But these plans are there for ever and we must look beyond the present despite the chief rebuke to senators he said preach economy but do not support it. After the fair employment! practices gag rule issue is settled, the Senate turns its atten- tion to Mr.

plans for revamping the Federal Trade! and Federal Power Commis-i sions. At the same time, two key Democrats indicated that the assertion that the plans would save money and not constitute a power grab will not sway their determination to kill the proposals. Senate Commerce Chairman Edwin C. m- mittee handles FTC and FPC af-I voted against any plan yet that would have saved one thin The Colorado Democrat, w'ho sponsored resolutions to upset the strongbox. Independent candidates who want to take advantage of the new office-tvpe ballot.

The secretary, as chief election officer of the state, contends that the ease with which independents can win a place on the ballot, coupled ith their advantageous position on it, practically nullifies the re(Continued on Page Two) Truman Support Seen Step To Two-Country Coal Merger WASHINGTON, May Pres- dent warm support of iie plan to merge French and German steel and coal industries was seen today as a powerful step toward the acceptance of Western Germany as a Cold War ally. Diplomatic sources expressed the be li if that the Chief unsolicited endorsement is an outcome of conferences held by Sec retary of State Achete with the British and French foreign ministers. It had been reported earlier that Britain was temporarily dubious of the plan. Before his departure for Paris and London, Acheson declined to express any opinion on the proposal, set forth by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, Consequently the fUttment is as basic industries would be hard to re-establish since both nations would be participants in the control of iron and steel production. 3.

The position of German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer be strengthened by easier some method of keeping the Ger-1 settlement of the Saar question. springing from London talks, where both Schuman and British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin were present, BEFORE LEAVING the U. Acheson was known to favor mans on the side of the West. The situation had been complicated by the insistence of the French on retaining control of the rich Saar coal and steel area. Mr.

approval of proposal was expected to speed adoption of the plan. If it goes into effect, the joint Franco-German control of these basic industries is expected to have these effects: 1. An age old point of controversy between France and Germany would be removed, with France having full access to Ruhr coal. 2. Cartels governing these insistence that she retain control of the area and inability to get the region back had weakened his position.

MR. TRUMAN endorsed the proposal in a prepared statement which he read at the opening of his weekly news conference, He declared that the S. welcomed the proposal as an of constructive The reception given the proposal in Germany, he added, is A total of 54 Pickaway Countv eighth grade boys and girls will be graduated into different buildings during commencement exercises in the next two weeks. The youngsters will be graduated by six countv elementary buildings which have no high schools. The boys and girls will transfer to other schools next Fall.

Duvall school will be the first of the six schools to observe commencement monies. The Duvall class of 10 boys and girls is to be graduated at 8 p. m. Friday. Prof.

H. R. Cotterman of Capital university v. ill deliver the commencement address. Members of the graduating class will transfer next Fall into Ashville high school.

Mrs. Ureie Cross is principal of the school. MUHLENBERG class pf eight eighth graders is to be graduated at 8 p. m. 'Tuesday.

The Rev. Sonny Sunberg of Springfield will deliver the address. The Muhlenberg grad uates next year will enter high school either in Monroe or Jackson Township high schools. Pi inc.pal of the school is Mrs. Ethel way.

Township will graduate 10 youngsters at 8 p. in. Thursday. The Rev. A.

B. Albertson of Ashville will deliver the commencement address. The cashier dropped from sight after borrowing a car from a bank clerk for a business trip to Chillicothe. The car was found later in Portsmouth. Police at Cincinnati said Smithson arrived there by bus from Portsmouth and began a round of the bars after registering at a hotel.

Smithson told of picking up a drinking companion who accompanied him to Newport, and back to Cincinati. The cashier said he had the money when he out of the car In He related: next thing I remember was being choked in an alley. When I woke up everything was He said he then went back to his hotel for the night. Strong Quake Is Reported CLEVELAND. May 19 John Carroll university reported today that a strong earthquake, 1,800 miles west of Cleveland, was recorded on its seismograph at 10:58 p.

m. last night. Rev. Henry F. Birkenhauer, university seismologist, said that the quake, which recorded for two and a half hours, may have been in the Solomon Islands and would have caused some damage a populated section, i Miner Renews Lewis Charge, Quits Coal Pits LIBRARY.

May L. Dickmon, the library coal digger who called John L. Lewis a has quit the for good Dickmon, who was suspended from the United Mine Workers union during the January coal strike by Local 73, said yesterday he would pass up a chance to make himself eligible for reinstatement by attending a meeting of the local tomorrow. By attending the session and repeating a public apology he made in April, he might have been able to get back in good graces with his local. But Dickmon declared: not going back to the (Continued on Page Two) Circus Fire Connection Is Seen Man 2 Admits To Several Blazes By GUNNER MUSSELMAN Managing Editor The Herald A 21-year-old man, who received messages from a red telling him to commit arson, was being questioned in Columbus Friday about many fires including the disastrous Hartford, circus blaze which claimed 107 lives in July, 1944.

The man is Robert Segee, 21, recently of Columbus whose family is reported to be in the process of moving to a home near Adelphi in Hocking County. The flaming red horseman, an identification mark of the National Board of Fire Underwriters labeled the Is known to Se- mind as red Although not conclusively linked to the Hartford fire, which swept through the big Ringling Brothers. Barnum and Bailey Circus, Segee reportedly has admitted being with the circus at that time, Segee was apprehended after exhausting preliminary investigations by Pickaway Prosecutor Clme, Deputy Sheriff Carl Radckff and R. Russell Smith, acc with tha Ohio iw i Ij i to Ht OFI Bureau. THE THREE men finally traced Segee.

who had spent part of last Winter in Circleville, to East St. Louis, 111. Extradition papers for both the states of Missouri and Illinois were made out for Segee, but CUne said the man returned to Ohio of his own accord. Also linked to fire career is William Graham, 23, of near Circleville who has pleaded guilty to attempting to burn the Heffner Grain Co. elevator near Williamsport.

Graham had been indicted by the recent grand jury here, pleaded guilty when arraigned before Judge William D. Radcliff. The court ordered that Graham be sent to Lima State Hospital for examination. Already sent to the Lima institution is William Cradlebaugh, cousin, who admitted setting fire to the Smith dairy barn on Route 104 north of here. At one time Graham said he started the blaze which leveled the hog display barn on Pickaway Fairgrounds.

Later, according to the local office, Graham changed his confession, disavowed any connection to the blaze. CUNE SAID Friday that Segee has been questioned about (Continued on Page Two) Mediation Board To Intervene In Threatened Bail Strike .1 Operator Withdraws Action COLUMBUS. May of the operators of the Colony Club, alleged gambling casino in Law- rence County, today withdrew i his mandamus action against Chief Justice Carl Weygandt of the Ohio supre me court. The court announced dismissal of the action on application of James C. Robison, who on March 1 asked the full court to order Weygandt to assign a new judge to hear cases pending WASHINGTON, May force demands for 48 hours National Mediation Board may for a 40-hour work week.

intervene in the threatened strike of 6,000 railroad switchmen set for next Tuesday. 40-hour week last year, but this did not affect the switchmen or NEARLY A ating railroad Board Chairman Francis A. took up the new rail dispute less than 24 hours after returning from Chicago W'here he directed successful mediation of the six-day strike. A board spokesman declined to forecast what steps the agency will take in the case, but he indicated that action will be forthcoming quickly. The switchmen are scheduled to strike at 6 a.

m. Tuesday against 10 Midwestern and Western railroads. The walkout may pay limits of 60 days and the mens union refused to extend the deadline for the find, million non-oper-1 ings. Mediation board officials said they are uncertain as to what peace moves to try in next Tues- orkers won the four other operating brother- threatened walkout, hoods. I The trainmen and THE SWITCHMEN'S strike union also are seeking 48 hours will be directed against the fol- pay for a 40-hour week, but their lowing lines; ageinst the operators.

Weygandt previously refused to issue an affidavit of bias and prejudice against Lawrence graduating class is County Judge James Collier and to transfer to Walnut Township assign another judge in his (Uoulmued on Page Two) I place. not halt the carriers operations but it is expected to retard especially in terminals. Arthur J. Glover, president of the AFL Union of North America, said the union I decided on strike action to en- is being considered by a presidential emergency board in Chicago, The report is due June 1. President Truman some time ago asked the same panel to also consider the switchmen's demands.

The board reported to the White House last month, however, that it was unable to do so. The fact finders explained that because of their work on the The Chicago Great stern Railroad Company; the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company; the Davenport, Rock Island and Railroad Com the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company; the Great Northern Railway Company; the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company; the Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon; the St. Paul Union Depot Company; the Snmx City trainmen-ronduetors case, they Terminal Railway Company and could not investigate the the Western Pacifie Railway men's dispute withm the Uine Company,.