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Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 11

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VMjk i i- 4 i I i 1 --H A i u- Portland Press Herald Portland Mama Morning July 5 1949 Hiavy Ram Ends British Heat Wave Gorham News Byrnes Opposes State AndUrgesStrong Military Setup At Sevilla In i Southern Spain the temperature reached 1256 degrees Fahrenheit Madrid mors than 200 miles to the north had a high reading of 104 Switzerland had its driest June since officials started keeping records tq 1864 London July 4 CAP) Britain's heat wave was nipped tonight by the first heavy rain In a month The continent however is still suffering from severe heat other half win go to the Italian Red Cross for children Gorham Fire Dept Auxiliary i To Have Annual Dinner Wednesday Rines Bros f'ARVIN" All Sieel IRONING TABLE WITH REINFORCED TOP I I "The Busy Store There A PRESS HERALD EXPRESS STATE-WIDE Mews ti broadcast 'daily WSAN at 7:15: a nt 8 a 12:05 (55 a on Saturday)' 6:05 and 11:05 m' Sunday broadcasts ara at 8:45 a ja 4:45 rru and 1 1 National And International Periods Daily Over Wgan 6:30 a -iil 8:45 a in 9:45 am except Saturday l2fnoon (11:50 a on Saturaay) 4:25 xcept Saturday 6 la 65 )a7ri5 a except Saturday II and 12 midnight Simdays at- 8 a nu 9 a ia II a ia 12 noon and 12 midnigM Vatican Envoy Gives $50000 To Charity Roim Joly 4 (AP) Prime Minister Alclde de Gasperl's office disclosed today that Myrgn Taylor President Truman's personal envoy to the Vatican has made a personal gift of $50000 to chairty for children V- i The premier's office said half of It will be used for children mutilated during the war and the Rines I Bros July (AP) Former Secretary of State James Byrnes today reiterated his stand against- a "welfare state" and called for- a strong active military establishment "We -do not want the Federal Government regimenting our lives tram the cradle to the grave" he told the 31st annual convention of the South Carolina Department of the -American Legion He said that the Soviet Union hgs no intention of backing down in Germany in its cold war expansion program and predicted that the Soviets would follow a policy rof rearmament and militarization in their sector of the occupied nation Hope was ex pressed however for peaceful settlement of differences short of armed conflict between the West and the Soviet Republic as he referred to the recent Paris meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers saying "The recent conference cannot be regarded as having made no progress as long as -there was an agrement for further conferences So long as men confer about their problems even If the language Is profane there is always hope of agreement" He called for economic strength as one of the greatest bulwarks of America today "We must remain strong economically" he declared "Our first line of -defense la not on the it is a sound safe American economy That sound American economy la likewise the first line of defense of all democratic nations" He -declared the Federal Gov- eminent Is now taking tax money for welfare and social agencies from the states in which It could be put to a better advantage by remaining in the individual states He referred to a recent address at Washington and Lee University In which he had expressed similar views He said "It was Interpreted by some as an attack upon an individual and a political party I singled out no individual named no party On the contrary I aald that each political party tried to out-promlse the other I "The persons who object to my views evidently do so because they advocate proposals in conflict with the general principles and policies I have discussed That Is their right I disagree with them and that la my right For my views have no apology I do have a conviction that any man who is worthy of the confidence of the people must place loyalty to country above loyalty to an individual any group or any political party" Ventilating perforefions give fester easier cooler Ironing Gorham July (-Tlis annual dinner of the Gorham Fire Department Auxiliary will be held Wednesday evening in the Columbia Hotel Portland! Members of the Windham Auxiliary will be guests Dinner at 6 o'clock win be followed by a theater party Cars win leave the square at o)dock-Committees Named Committees for the annual ba-' xaar and supper of the Sunshine Circle of the Scarborough Free Baptist Church to be held July 29 include Mrs Myrtle I MacDuffle and Mrs Alma Douglas fancy work Mrs Abbie Libby and Mrs Irene Oreen cooked food the Mieses- Nancy Libby and Calista Pooler candy Mrs Esther Mc- Kenney and Mrs Helen Rodlck white elephant table Mrs Ethel Dodge and Mrs Gertrude Ferguson refreshments the Misses Hachel McKenney Ann and Clara Ferguson and Mrs Evelyn Libby supper Mr and Mrs James Forrest and daughter Betty are on a trip to Nova Scotia Mr and Mrs Henry Kiefer Are entertaining for two weeks their brother-in-law William Lewis and William Jr and Miss Margaret Lewis Utica NY Glenn Hutchinson and Miss Lucy Martin guests -of the former's mother Mrs Ruth Hutchinson for three days1 returned to Hartford Conn this afternoon Mr and Mrs Frank Mitchell are entertaining their son-in-law And daughter Mr and Airs Kenneth -V West and children and George Turner Brookline Mass Mr and Mrs Lincoln Turner and son Lincoln Jr were guests at the Orono home of Mr and Mrs Mather Parker former residents on the holiday Mr and Mrs Clifford Thomas have returned from a week's visit on Cape Cod Masa Their (laughter Jean Is on vacation 1 from the office of The Baker Zee Machine Company Wind ham Mr and Mrs Joseph Parker 1 are at their Little Sebago lake cottage Mr and Mrs Harold Charlton are on a trip to Aroostook County Miss Ruth Smith a teacher in South Portland and her sister Miss Ruth Smith 'of the Bridgeport Conn High School have arrived at their Fort Hill -home for the Summer Mrs Herbert 'A Proctor- and granddaughter Sally Ann Gray Northboro Mass who are at the of Mrs Proctor's daughter and husband Mr and Mrs RsV- mond Phlnney will accompany them to Pine Point or the Summer Mr and Mrs Lawrence Pickett have taken an apartment at Fannins ton where he will attend the Teachers Collegs summer session Will Ge Te Camp Mr and Mrs James Conway and Mr and Mrs Merrill A Libby will go to Moosehead Tuesday for a week In camp They expect to be Joined Saturday by Mr and Mrs harles A Watson and Janice Sebago lake Mrs £dna Smith Mr and Mrs: Norman Conway and Erlin Conway to attend the wedding of Mrs Smith's granddaughter at Dexter Mr and Mrs George A Brown and sons Philip and Clayton are at their camp at little Sebago Lake North Windham for the Summer Ralph Stahl has returned to his White Plains home He expects to Join Mrs Stiehl this week end for a vagcatlon here Mrs Foster Groton Conn and Mrs Donohue Plainfield ere passing a week with MrS Foster's mother Mrs Delia Dali North Scarborough Albert Clinch who received his former rating of shipbuilder third class following his re-enlistment in the navy Is in Boston awaiting assignment He Is the son of Mr and Mrs Walter Clinch Mrs Annie- Landry West Gorham is recovering from Illness 'j Mr and Mrs Squire Taylor are on a trip to Montreal and Sherbrooke Que The Rev and Mrs Hayward Thomas will leave Thursday to pass the vacation month Atlantic City the guests of their son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs Billie Lindsay and son Carl Mrs Mabel Johnston who attended the Tbomas-Sterens wedding at King ston expects to return to Guilford' Tuesday Miss Xna Lb Woodward has re turned after two weeks as the guest of Miss HarrletteG Trask at Spruce Head Mr and Mrs Edward Gero North Scarborough have as guests for the Fourth John Hogan Gloucester Mass and Miss Gertrude Halloran South Portland Circle Will Meet A The West Gorham Ladies Circle will meet at 1J0 Wednesday in the home of the president Mrs Ellen Files Mr and Mrs George 8 Burnell are expecting Wednesday to be their guest for a month his sister Miss Martha Burnell Brookline Mass Mr: and Mrs Leon Fogg are entertaining at Pettlnglll Pond her parents Mr and Mrs Harry Wallace Bar Mills James Gorman Beverly Mass has been the guest of his sister Miss Margaret A Gorman Narragansett Circle committees will report on the annual fair July 20 at the monthly meeting Thursday evening in Odd Fellows Hall 'I Mrs Irving Gordon and son Robert Gordon will be honored at a family dinner Wednesday on their Joint birthdays Mr and Mrs Gordon will entertain for two This sturdily constructed lifetime table wilj not wobble warp 'or crack Opens end doses with one-motion The -top has ventilation holes to allow steam to como through Your pad wilf never get soggy Rubber tips on legs help protect floor help prevent slipping White enameled top black legs Pad and cover set to fit 298 RINES HOUSEWARES FOURTH' FLOOR' For this SALE only You can buy these MAGIC-SEAM Rines Bros 7 Cup "Mirro Electric Percolators Lowest1 Prices In Years! The Busy Store There's A RkPt IS at this specially" low price! arly 219 Reason' NEW LOW PRICE Rines (Bros MAIN FLOOR Rines Bros -'x1 oman Died In Police To Search Rubble For $200000 Philadelphia July 4 Authorities disclosed today that a gloomy Junk-Jammed row house was the home of an elderly woman recluse with a fortune at her com mand but who chose to live like a beggar I Police found the body of I the woman Mrs Catherine 8 Ritter 79 Sunday For nearly 30 years she had lived alone in the dark forbidding nine-room house subsisting on bread and milk Assistant- Fire Marshal Joseph Heffeman and two deputy coroners said they probably were the tint persons outside her-famlly to enter the house In a half-century The house In the once-fashion-able Strawberry Mansion Section wss -stuffed with five-foot high mounds of rubbish In that mass of Junk police said they expect to find a clue to the whereabouts of some $200000 Mrs Ritter is said to have hidden Authorities said have to-wait for court sanction before they can begin an intensified search through the Junk Trash was level with the top of the bed in her room upstairs She slept surrounded by old cereal boxes -a glass oil lamp an' overturned rusty coffee pot and a fry lng pan which obviously- hatin' been used for many years There was no heating system Hinged shutters kept the entire house In complete darkness New Hampshire Man Dies In Gun Accident Chesterfield July 4 (AP) Harold Turner 22 of West Chesterfield was killed by the 'accidental discharge of his shotgun Medical Referee Walter Lacey said today Lacey gave his verdict after Investigating the shooting yesterday In home The gun went off Lacey said as Turner was removing It from a storeroom Of the Dominican Republic (82000000 exports last year (Sl 000000 came from sugar which is the backbone of the Dominican economy A 7-cup electric percolator by the makers of "Mirro" Aluminum Fully Guaranteed FOURTH FLOOR "The Busy Store There's A Reason" 3 98 PR TWO FOR 1329 The Busy Store There's A Reason" I FILLED! "The Busy Store 4 There's A Reason" Mi de of long wearing ray on repe with nylon fa ottad saamsl Sti chad throughout With nylon for extra strength Fit ad midriffs and straight ci rid net ride upl Portland to head Civil Aeronautics Administration air safety section here Fielder is a veteran of eight yeajx with! CAA and cornea a similar post at Newark is married and has four Fielder will fill a since the death of Thomas last November Yard Is British Reds July 4 Scot-and military intelligence agents are investigating activities of -Communist agitators in the Xsmdan dock strike and a merciless crackdown against British Reds may be in prospect it w(a understood tonight rament legal advisers are erlng the possibility of action against Communists In the dock strike charging that they seek toj cripple the xpatlonal any There are strong hints that the government may soon de-a state of emergency and troops: to unload 88 ships are strikebound unters Arrested hotgun Slaying Selyersville Ky July 4 (UP) Three squirrel hunters were ar-today as possible suspects shotgun slsylng of Charles and his wife Wannie Williams was found Sunday tpraferled on the floor In his cabin dead from shotgun wounds In the legsJ chest and arms His wife's body wss discovered about SO yards awafr She apparently had been shoe in the i-head while running toward the- road Her seven month-old baby was still clutched In her arms The baby had been struck by threie shotgun pellets but wss not seriously wounded Police Chief Glenn Prather said he had no definite clues to link any of the three hunters to the double killing and he Is holding thexp only for questioning day4 his mother and sister Mrs Marguerite Johnson Portland MYs Everett Sawyer la at the home of her son-in-law and daughter Dr and Mrs George Waring Jr Boston Sawyer who accompanied her returned today and Mrs William Barton had ag guests for two days ter and husband Mr and John Coyle Mr and Mrs Higgins and Fled Walsh St John Ltj Comdr and Mrs William ary will leave Wednesday for a visit! with Mrs father A Foster at Joplin Mo They will be away about six weeks and -Mrs Worster guests of their daughter and husband Mr and Mrs Earl Keene at aj holiday reunion returned to Albany Ym today Mrs Mary Bead Farmington who accompanied! them will visit at her home Mrs Bertha Stlmson and daughter Eleanor 'have returned a three weeks visit at the of Mrs Stlmson's son the RevJ Roger Stlmson and family Philadelphia ond Hawkes returned evening to Oswego three days at his home Mrs Alice Whitehead Spring-field Mass la at the home of her sister and husband Mr and Mrs 1 Watson fire department was called evening for a fire In the South Street dump Attending a faipily picnic at the Graves farm North Street today were George i Graves Mrs Frederic A Oraves Mrs Nellie Ddugbu Mr and Mrs Philip Oifaves and daughter Cynthia Mlf and Mrs John Graves Gdrham and Mr and Mrs Richard Sawyer and daughter Penelope Augusta lng at the University of Mdine summer session are Samuel A Broca to Lawrence Fur-bugh Jr Carlton Davis and thi Misses Doris I Fltz Louise McLain and Reba Willey Mil Robert HinUey is bp-k entertained for a few days by her sister-in-law Miss Mary Hinkley at the Eastland Hotel George A Parady Jr sn USN son of Mr and- Mrs George A PaTady RFD 2 Is serving aboard thd destroyer USS Collett attached to the Pacific Fleet He was graduated from Gorham High School VALUE Jhe measure value of i 'an Insurance agency is the dependability of the Insurance It sails coupled i with the service it gives Bradlsh Young Inc i Imuranco Agency 4XT Street Dial S-Stlt i Jaly 3 149 WE OFFER Subject: 200 she Central Maine Power com 16 yield 74 200 shs Public Service of NH com 22 Vi yield 8 '200 shs Bangor Hydro Electric com 24 yield 666 Bangor Hydro Electric 7 pfd stk (n 156- yield 448 OtTERED BY ntOSmCTl'S rnOXE Mill COLLECT CLIFFORD MURPHY CO Portland Maine 921 VOUCtTl 190 I $160 dental enpeneee 1588121 60 12731 1729! 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