Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 1

WGAN and WCAN-FM Portland WGUY and WGUY-FM Castor MORE MAINE NEWS la Tba PRESS HERALD J4 Pogc Entsrsd As rif Matter JUNE 23 1862 MAINE SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 15 1949 me 1 Rice Brothers To Build Tyro USCG Lightships $1302000 Contract To Employ 200 Men At East Boothbay For A Year I (Special Dispatch) East Booth bay Jan Announcement that theUS Coast Guard had awarded a $1402X00-contract -to Rice Brothers Corporation local shipbuilders for construction of two 12S-foot lightships brightened the East Boothbay labor picture today 4 Work on the two vessels win provide employment 'for at least a year for up to 200 men llenry Rice of the boat-building firm said tonight thatrlocal labor would get first consideration "Quite a number of men will enter the corporation's mold loft within a day or two he said wooden submarine chasers and mine sweepers during the war The twin lightship are to be delivered in April 1950 Each will have a 20-foot beam and be powered with a 6-cyllnder 600-horsepower Diesel engine Rice Brothers Corporation will build the hulls twxtaii uU machinery including the eompll- The present crew of a dozen men will be slowly increased as materials arrive The keels will probably not be laid before the middle of March 1 The East Boothbay boatyards have been relatively quiet since the end of the war -All three yards in the village turned out smalL wooden navy vessels until the Mrs Maddes Bail Is $10000 A McDonald Also Neighbor Held As Material Witness In South Portland Beating Death South Portland Jan A manslaughter warrant was Issued late tonight against Airs Dorothy Bladdes 34-year jj old South Portlander In the fatol beating of Wesley Bryant 41 Thursday night in a Ferry Village field At the same time South Portland Municipal Court Re corder Seward Thompson held Donald A McDonald 49 a next-door neighbor of the dead man as a material witness County Attorney Daniel McDonald who sought the warrants told Recorder Thompson that although there Is no criminal responsibility" on the part of Donald McDonald the latter -has bearing on the case Held In 616990 Mrs' Maddes was held in 610-000 ball and hearing on the case was continued until 9 a Jan 22 at the request of the county attorney Donald McDonald was held In $2X00 by Thompson County Attorney McDonald said late tonlfht after questioning least ten -persons all day that Investigation shows Bryant was kicked la the heed several times He charged also that four persons said they saw Mrs Maddes Bryant with her heel la a field off Front Street -The county attorney gave this account of-events leading to the finding of the badly beaten Bryant In the field only about 200 feet from his home: Donald McDonald whose front Street apartment adjoins the dead man's room and Is separated only by a thin cardboard wall and Bryant had a slight altercation no serious Injury was suffered by Bryant as the result of About two hours later Bryant was seen walking from htoitomc Ceattoecd mi Fa a 2: Site CeL PRICE FIVE CENTS Service Office four blocks frost-the consulate and that the Communists were shouting to Nationalist soldiers who sought refuge in the buildings demanding that they throw their weapons Into the streets i The "USIS office was hit earlier In the day by Communist artillery Are wounding the Chinese girl and Inflicting cuts by flying glass on Vice Consul- 8 Yates The consulate Itself was endangered by fire directed tt a nearby Shell Oil Company installation and the walls were padded with ruse to cut down the danger of flying glass and shell fragments -Tha Nationalist radio addressed Its appeal to Communist GenLin Plao promising a complete Nationalist-cease fire in the Tlentsha -and Tangku areas If the Reds would halt their shelling The Government offered to send three-man peace delegation to deal with the conquerors -The Communist radio which first announced the all-out attack also reported that Red chief Mao Continued on Paso 2 2nd CoL surrender of Japan Rica Brothers Corporation the only East Booth-bay yard equipped to build with steel launched a large number of PORTLAND cated array of auxiliary machinery The shlpe are of standard design with two enginerooma Continued on Para 2 4th CoL DisabledMan Ends Row With Crutch Wife And Mother Slashed By Knife (Ssestal Dteyelefe) North Jay Jan 14 Wilfred Holt 22 although disabled with a broken leg broke up a family tow today with a lusty blow from his crutch Sheriff Earl Hawkens said Holt felled his brother-in-law Clarence Robinson-29 of East Uvermore after tha latter allegedly had Inflicted Jackknife wounds on Holt's wife Dorothy 28 and his mother Mrs Sva Holt 65 Robinsou whom heed required four stitches after the crutch blow was held Hawkens said on a chsrge or tnrmted assault and bhttery and will be arralsned In Continued on Paso 2: lid CoL i k'- I 1 VOL 67 ESTABLISHED igruignts In The News Argentina "Arms Sale Disclosed 414900 Lose Jobs In Week Other Top Items irwhlaitn Jan 14 CAP) Tbs sale of $142282 in tana vmponi and equipment to the Argentina Oorerement was disclosed by tha State Department today An announcement said the material originally rallied at S735X65 had been sold assur-plus during a fire-month period ended last September Smaller quantities rfra sold to Brazil Mexico Haiti China Denmark Norway and Sweden Washington Jam 14 (API-Federal figures compiled today shewed that 414X06 persona lest their Jobs last week Gev rnuaeat effleials said the figures Indicated nnemployment may he heading toward new postwar peak The mere peed- mlstle laker economists said the number of Jobless may reach 4401091 this Spring Pays For Smile Boston Jan 14 A 14-year-old Roalindale girl received a "substantial today for the loss of a smile Marjorie had rued William Wright of the Jamaica Plain Riding Academy for 110X00 because she said she was kicked In the mouth by a riderles horse nearly eight years ago She said she didn't smile much anymore because It hurt her to do sd The suit filed in Suffolk Superior Court was settled out of court Dm ten Jan 14 (AFjGer Faal A Derer said tonight Federal funds for operation of the Massachusetts Employment Security Office will be cut off Feb IS The governor mid the withdrawal of Federal funds would nuke ft Impossible to pay salaries of 2156 clerical Workers la the Massachusetts officer Dusbary Mass Jam It Mrs Marlon O'Hara of Newton wife of Neal O'Hara Boston Traveler columnist died today at Iter summer home Phone Rates Jump Topeka Kan Jan It (API Southwestern! Bell Telephone Company today obtained a fUUJlT monthly temporary rate -Increase la Kansas The Continued on Fags 4th CoL BARO MCTES ON PAG! 2 Weatherman Says: Fair and continued cold today and Sunday Maximum temperature of 10 In the north and 20 in the south today Minimum temperature ox 10 In the south and from zero to five below in the north tonght Moder ate northerly winds today fsrtpwt to Stork Mod-onto northerly winds today Fair weather and good visibility Max Min 28 IT Tear Ago (airport) 32 0 Highest and lowest temperatures for dan SO in 1S32 and -U in INI (1948) (1940) Precipitation 0 17 Milne minimum retainer Houlton -7 Old Town -4: Mill-tnocket -1: Rumford I Caribou 12 and Eastpart 12 i Im 14 fAPi-Hiilamn In f-f IS km fMlni 7 30 town Imwnmnt Is 14 nun sits sue MjW 11 1 CUV FurimvlcaTt II 49 rwiwt fn si Mm Mm1 Cltf i la Antftrt 3 tf-ssil t'kav Ram 4 Vr Orl-aM 5 flaw Varfc Phila4aipbls (I tmiia 4 Sas Prnalai Waahuwtss f-SS is Mias traa aakaasvfila Cw i hasps to SstoNsr Japssrr II fn runs 111 a i Kwh Ms 1161 fill aa IM I Hul Ms 1149 tr I lk i ISm 1 tow (Mia a In tow aaw SSf ttrara Sfnaa Oars MslM pfesae as ftrat Cat I ju 1409 PttU Jaa il-hk I 3I-3T tost I Vsb S-13 la a TS-ftS fan rim 9 Reds Smash Way Into Blazing Tientsin City Asks Peace Vice Consuls Chinees Girl Employe Hurt Artillery Begged To Ceaxs Fire 7 i i By Preaa Herald Photographer Olson' nzXD FOB Mrs Dorothy Maddes center is led to South Portland Municipal Court' for reading of warrant charging her with manslaughter in the death of Wesley Bryant 41 South Portland Police Sgt Ernest A Stevenson and Police Matron Mrs Doris Angell accompany the woman Arms Freeze-Out 1 State Says Nation Will Supply Only Those Who Jom in Defense Pacts Washington Jan II The United States gave notice jtoday that countries remaining neutral In the cold war' will get no American arms or defense supplies Michael McDerxnont State Department press officer told about this new policy shortly after the department charged that Russian has Of the United Nations McDermott told -a news confer- eachers Oppose School Year Change ForCensus Takers Kennebec Valley Federation Against Closing Schools For April Vacation RhanghaL (Saturday) Jan IS Communist forces smashed their way into the heart of Tientsin as far aa the United States Consulate today and the Government radio in the city appealed to the Reds to cease firing Much of the dty wig reported in flames 1 The Red artillery barrage which preceded the heavy attack took a large toll of civilian lives but foreign consular staffs Including 52 Americans were reported safe so far except for minor injuries caused by flying glass 1 The 8 Vico Consul was cut by glass from shattered windows and a Chinese girl employe was wounded by shell fire 8 Consul General Robert 8myth reported at 1045 a 946 est Friday) that or six Communist soldiers are now passing the consul office firing rifles Into the The consulate Is in a modern building in the heart of the business district 1 A few minutes earlier Smyth radioed that troops were in front of the United States Information race the American Government does no have enough arms to supply nations which are unwilling to associate themselves In collective defense arrangements with thd United States Correct Rwedlsh Reports Government officials said McDermott's remarks -were Intended to Swedish press reports claiming that Sweden could get American military help even If she refused to rater Into the North Atlantic Defense Alliance now being actively planned Meanwhile the State Department struck out anew at Russia in a statement accusing Moscow of -gravely endangering' the with the blockade of Berlin 1 The department's view was mads public In a foreign policy outline distributed at a human rights meeting of 250 private groups and government agencies It soldi -Instead of the xrat- power teamwork so devoutly sought by the people of the world the obstruction of one country and It wllllnz 6r imvUllng issoclitcs Continued on Page 2 2nd CoL I I 36 Paratroopers Bail Out 3Crewmen Killed In Crash II 1 Bird Found In Carburetor Intake Juxnpmaster Unable uTo Use Chute PL Bragg Cr Jan 14 (UP) carrlsa Flying packed C-S2 carcass of i bird was-found carburetor Intake He (fMptal BkwkM Watenrille Jan 14 The Kennebec Valley Federation of Teachers today voiced its opposition to any plan which would Walter the 1950 school year so that teachers would be released during April In order to take part In the 1950 census 1 Benjamin Wood gVIT president said tonight that his group would -cooperate to the fullest with the Census Bureau in taking the census but only If the work were done without dosing the schools i Most of the State's school systems provide a week's vacation in April but some notably Portland do not -Then have been some suggestions that school committees In those areas not allowing an April vacation alter the 1950 program to permit such a vacation Asked what the State Intended to do In this matter Harland A Ladd education commissioner said that teachers taking part In St CeL Mercuiy Starts DownhS Plunge 5 To 15 Below Is Forecast For Maine Late Friday nliht the mercury had started tumbling for what the weatherman thought might be the coldest morning of the yeer and Mdne first real taste of Winter A five below zero reading 'for Southern Maine and 15 below In the north portion was forecast by the weatherman The temperature will climb back to about 20 for the maximum of the day In the Continued en Page It 4th CoL Ex-Marine Is Held In Death Of Local Girl Mrs Savage Slain NJ Official Charges A decorated ex-marine sergeant was arrested on a murder charge in 'Atlantic City Friday night in connection with a New Tear's Day double shooting that took the life of a 27-year-old former Portland waitress the Associated Press reported Lewis Pickens 34 maftled and the father of a child had been hospitalized since Jan 1 from a bullet wound he told police was inflicted by his sweetheart Mrs Eleanor Lawrence Savage after a New Yearis party Police said they found Pickens semi-conscious on the dining room flow of his Abeseen home and Mrs Savage dead in the living room Says He's Innocent Lewis Scott New Jersey At-Con tinned on Fag 1th CoL Israel Egypt Approve Part Of Armistice Disputed Points Come Up Today Rhodes Jan 14 Israeli and Egyptian negotiators agreed quickly today on generaUy-accept-able features of proposed Palestine armistice- after promising to refrain from military-action and prepared to begin detailed discussion of disputed points Saturday United Nations Mediator Ralph Bunch presided at a 15-minute meeting at which both parties approved a which forms the first article of the armistice agenda A communique on the meeting described the preamble as a document "setting forth a number of principles to which both parties It provides that the present Holy Land truce shall continue until a formal armistice is concluded The communique said that Artl-Continoed en Page 2 6th CoL Where To Find It This Morning Comics 16-11 Cress Word Puzzle It Death Notices 2 Editorial Financial 12 Sfarazlne Rsdto Society Snorts 7-t Theaters j- I Clark Asko WIre-Tapping Legalized For Security Attorney General Would Eliminate Statute Of Limitations In Spy Cases 336 Fairs Of Shoes Stolen From Factory Police Minus Cliies At East Rochester East Rochester ft II Jan II said tonight they were without dues as to who stole 236 pairs of men's shoes from Hubbard Shoe Company here late Thursday nlsht The missing shoes were valued SJXOO to Si $00 by -Samuel (Cats company president The theft eras discovered this morning by Earl Smith Rochester factory shipper LL Ivan Hayei stats police fingerprint expert arrived here this afternoon to assist Rochester police In their investigation Cltyi Marshal Brian' Furtnisls said thieves apparently gained entrance to the shipping ihed by breaking a rear window- and carrying the cases of shoes across nearby Boston and Maine Rail road tracks to a waiting truck on AuCUmn Street Furbush said the theft probably occurred before midnight when snow started to fall here since there wen no tracks actom the fresh snow outside the broken window when Smith discovered the burglary Roland Pike Jr plant night watchman told Air-bush he made an hourly inspection of the shed but heard no unusual nolies The shoes packed In 25 cases 12 pair to a case were mostly crepe sole sportshoes and loafers Katz reported Continued Pag 2: 4th I9MMM0MMIMI IMHMM 0 4aa 000004440 tn a quoSfcd paratrooper! as saying that floekj of frightened crows often flew 1 up In front of tho planes in the area Witnesses said the paratroopers started tumbling out at an altitude of leas than 400 feet and tho last plunged Into the air at about 250 perilously low for parachuting Hodgklss had a chute which required pulling tho ripcord by hand There was not enough altitude for him to use" 1L The crew working In heroic desperation to save their human cargo- put tho ship Into a long low glide after Its engines failed They were headed for a clearing in tho pine woods on the Continued on Pago 2 7th CoL with paratrooper! of tha famed 52nd Airborne Division went Into a death dive today and 26 men bailed out to safety before the plane crashed and' killed three crewmen The pilot and co-pilot escaped through a hatch after the plane smashed Into the one tree between it and a clearing where It might have landed safely Another survivor was Sat Robert Lee HOdskisa Jumpmaster of the paratroopers and the last in line to bell ouC His turn cam too late but he miraculously came through unhurt when the plane crashed and burned Spokesmen said cause of the crash was undetermined A witness aft the scene of the wreck said however that the Washington Jan II Attorney General Clark toniiht formally (proposed a broad-scale tlshtenlng of the ekpionase laws and asked that wire-tapping be legalised the Interest of National security" Clark said he had sent a bill embodying his proposals to Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn D-Texas) and Senator McCarran D-Nev) chairman of the Senate Judiciary i Committee Hlzh among his recommendation was I a plan for eliminating tht statute of limitations so far as espionage esses are concerned The blU sent to Capitol Hill Portland's Famous Steak Houm 1 csi 5imAj to Urn is FAMOUS READING ANTHRACITE would provide that person te-eused of violitinf these statutes might be Indicted at any time after-the offense As the law now stands the Indictment must be returned within three years If the offense occurred In peacetime Clark auo asked that the laws be changed to cover the passing on of Information relating to the National defense -which could be used to the Injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign The present law simply covers the dissemination of Information "with Intent or reason to believe It is to be used to the injury of the United Other proposals Includes a ban upon unauthorized possession of security Information and provision for a $10X00 fine or 10 years imprisonment or bothTfor any failure to report the theft loss abstraction or destruction of National defense material The Attorney General's proposed bill would authorize the FBI the army air force and navy Intelligence to use wire-tapping in investigations affecting the National security -under regulations prescribed by the Attorney Continued on Fags 2 7th CoL Yet I Want A Stum-Free Community If yea want to help the Portland Evening Espress In Its campaign to make a better Part land sign the ran pan below and mall It at anca to Shuns Editor Evening Express? Bax lilt Portland Maine The Express merely seeks express Ians of approval and signers of ths eonpon In no way abllsate themselves Names of Individuals win not be published Names of organisations Joining In support win be listed dally PER TON DISCOUNT 10 DAYS NTT TON 2225 M00 2125 tncresas to the rtllrasds which per net ton oo Anthracite Coal Egg Stove Chestnut The LCC has approved an amounts effective amounts to approximately Me January 11 IML sooooiaoo endorse the' Evening Express' drive to provide safe healthy housing and to mobs a cleaner healthier better city Ml 00 0400000004 eo miiiMMii I When PertlMHfg Juinwm fu id ill fU ONE POUND BROILED WESTERN SIRLOIN BROILED WESTERN CLUB TENDERLOIN OUR DELICIOUS -TIT FOR A KDrGT FILET MIGNON STEAK We recommend that you buy your coal now as wo will undoubtedly have to add Us Increase to our prices at a later date When ilm ketttr 4 ikrmrit CmI than FAMOUS READING ASIHRALUE (Ac A WRIGHT CO wtfl Aee iu DIAL 3-8 17 1 1 1 A WRIGHT CO $125 $1-35 $140 Signature Address a- 1 1.