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AMaaeurini I -1 cbs in Maine WCAN Portland mi Tear ml WGUY Bangor KM TMirpUl MORE MAINE NEWS In'rto PRESS HERALD i VOL- 88 ESTABLISHED JUNE 23 1862 PORTLAND MAINE THURSDAY Xnlrd Aa Bscond Class Mall Matur i 18 194? a -i I MORNING AUGUST i Vital Port -Of Foochow Falls To Reds Chinese Nationalists Withdraw Forces Hong Kong 17 (UP)--The Nationalist Government today admitted the Communist capture of Foochow one of it two principal East Coast ports and' the main debarkation point for troops and supplies from For- An official Central News Agen cy dispatch from Nationalist headquarters on Formosa said the Nationalists had ordered the withdrawal' of defense forces to an undisclosed destination Government headquarters at Foochow moved Tuesday to Plngtan Island 50 miles to the southeast The Communists already have Continued en Page 2 Sth CoL Heart Runs Into Snag Requests To Hear Confession New York Aug 17 The Jury In the lonely hearts murder trial deliberated the fates of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez for more than an hour tonight then ran Into a stumbling block- The Jury sent out word It want ed a look at the confessions allegedly made by the accused slayers during questioning In Michigan a The prosecution quickly agreed but Defense Attorney Herbert Rosenberg studied some law books and said he would not consent The State has asked a first degree murder verdict against the two charging they murdered an elderly widow for -her $6000 savings Such a verdict makes the death penalty mandatory I Continued on Page 2 7ih CoL Hathom said the firm Vaughan wanted to get the sugar for the Allied Molasses Co of Perth Amboy had been a "flagrant and willful violator" of a department order suspending It from receiving any more molasses Hathom said Vaughan' made it plain that ho could get Job 'Unduly Charitable Here Mundt broke In to aay that previously he had thought of Vaughan as a "fumbling bungler" "In this said Mundt "he was a finagling "Perhaps" Mundt continued have been unduly charitable and Just want to say don't" like it all" McCarthy made his demand for a perjury Indictment of Maragon after Milton Polland testified Cont'nned on Page 2 3rd CoL mm 11 a 4- 1 'J -x '4 Cuban Sets Off On Channel Swim i Hopes To Beit lli-Hour Record' Cap Gris Nez France Thursday Aug lg CAP) Jose Cor-tlnas 32-year-old Cuban started swimming 'across the English Channel this morning at 1245 a (645 est Wednesday) Cortlnas said he hoped to beat the men's channel record of lift hours- 1 promised the crew of the boat' accompanying me to double their pay If do beat the he' added The price for the craft Continued en Page I) Sth CoL Guide -ft 32 Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS If Acts To Help Tito In Fight With Moscow Shipment First To I Red-RuledNation I 1 4- WaShlngton Aug 17 (AP) The' United States hag granted Yugoslavia permission to buy the materials for a steel mill from American (company Government officials disclosed tonight The marks' the biggest step yet by the American Government to strengthen Marshal- Tito In his! fight with Moscow 'It Is the first time since the cbld gar began that the Administration has agreed to ship "war potential" goods to a -Communist-ruled nation The shipment was approved after months of argument between the State and National Defense Departments and other top agencies of the Government! i The mm valued st approximately $3000000 will be built -by the Continental Foundry and Continued on rage 2 2nd CoL So Portland Fire Drives 9 To Street 4' 5 Dense Smoke Hampers Firemen i South-Portland Aug Nine persons were driven from their home 45 A Street by fire to night as the City Council a few blocks away waa discussing with Fire Chief Horace 8 Jose the purchase of new fire i equipment and hose Driven to the street were Mr and Mrs Millard Carey own era of the two and a half story wooden building their son Michael 5 and daughter Patricia 18 Mr and Mrs Philip Brann Mr and Mrs David Everest and sbn Peter Everest The blaze started In a pile of rubbish in a shed adjoining the Brann apartment and traveled to the third floor attic through wall partitions according i to Chief Jose He was unable to estimate the damage Immediately Firemen were- hampered In fighting the stubborn fire by dense smoke billowing from sec Continued on Pare 2 Ith CoL 1- top i 7 ave LANCASTER'S AUGUST FURNITURE SALE fy i Save up" to 65 LANCASTER FURNITURE 240 Middle St ignts In The News Senate To Vote On -Clark Today Anti-Red Pole Seeks Aid Washington Aur 17 The Senate Ute todajr agreed 1a rate Thursday- upon the nomination of Attorney Gener- al Tom Clark to be an aaso-riate justice of the Supremo Court The Senate also will be naked to act Thursday upon 1 'the nomination of Senator Me- Grath DR1) to succeed Clark as attorney general- 1 Washington Aug 17 Tadruaz Rakowskl Poland's 'consul general in Montreal re--aned today and asked for political asylum in the United States rX am a Catholic and cannot accept the onslaughts of the Communist government upon the Catholic Church" he said Arthur Bliss Lane former ambassador to PolSnd said he was confident the request for asylum would be granted' He said Rakowski now is in this Country with hlar wife and daughter and plans to live with friends In Los Angeles USAF BUI OK'd Washington Aug 17 The Senate Armed Sendees Committee today disregarded President Truman's budget recommendations and unanimously approved a bill authorising the ah' force to continue toward 76-group strength The measure calls for an air force of 503000 officers and men present manpower ceiling and 21000 planes The -bill also freeses the army's present manpower rolling' ef 037000 officers and men Boston Aug 17 A proposed blanket 65- cents an hour minimum wage law In Massachusetts tonight non the endorse' meat of the House Ways and Means Committee At the present tune the state sets minimum wages by Industries The proposed bin would cover all wage-earners except golf caddies casual em ployes persons receiving tips such as waitresses and residential Janitors- given living quarters Continued on Page 2 5th CoL The Weatherman '7 Says: Maine Considerable cloudiness with showers and cool weather today and tonight Maximum near SO and minimum tonight 60 Gen-t to moderate southwesterly winds Friday considerable cloudiness continued cool East port to Block Island Southerly winds 15 to to mph to-dsy considerable cloudiness with showers over all sections Visibility becoming fair in showers Max Min lrtown' 76 58 Year ago 70 59 1 Highest and lowest temperatures on record for Aug 18: 96 In 1937 and 46 in 1945- Matne maximum readings: Greenville and Caribou 75 Rum-ford 76 East port 73 Augusta 80 Old Town 78 Mllllnocket and Houston 77 Mm Im IT APi Maslmum -lem- rur far 12 hour endin at 1 and minimum trmp-raturri lor 24 hun Mini at IJD i ri i Mai Min Clip -Mas MIR Buffaio Pur aien-Vt CDirata ConroraW Im AnarlM Miami -S3 Nra Ha ran os Now Orlaana York Philadelphia a 54 a 7 Ml 4 4 2- 73 55 as 4 a Drill tuu NaUiMlM as 02 Pt IMIII Haitaran R2 Pan Pranclaco 4 JarkronrlKo 55 Wuhmtlnn 82 SlUMCiir 73 'Almaoaa Fair Tkanlar gap IS Saatara S'kPdprd Timat Sum naaa 4 44 a Hiata tlda 133 am Pub aria 8 40 pm I Hiatt tide SII a ra I kth 13h 51m Low tlda 1129 a at non ira 1121pj 7 M'xrn aata 2 44 i Dar i drcrtaM 1 hoar 11 mlaniM a Ffesaaa Kaacn-n ptiaaa oa first-data alaant Aua lfc-22 lost Aur- Sd-Pept Alik 53-25 NcP'Sapt 7-14 Porfeous MifcKell it By Press Herald Photographer Hennessy CLINIC Prominent at dedication ceremonies Wednesday of the new out-patient clinic at St Hospital Boothbay Harbor are left to right Dr Philip Gregory head of St Andrew's Mrs George A Gregory Doctor Gregory's mother and widow of the doctor in whose memory the clinic was dedicated and the Rev Harry Emerson Fosdick DD minister-emeritus of Riverside Church New York City Boothbay Harbor Dedication Honors Late Dr Gregory Tribute Is Paid To Nova Scotian i At Opening Of St Clinic (fsslal Dlaaalk) Beethbay Harbor Ang Hie memory of a Nova Scotla-bom doctor who delivered three generations of townsfolk in this little Maine resort community was perpetuated today in the dedication at St which he founded 41 years of a model out-patients clinic The late Dr Oeorge A Gregory who was graduated from the old Maine Medical School In 1891 and immediately began practice here was eulogized by the Rev Harry Emerson Fosdick DD minister-emeritus of Riverside Church New York as a small town doctor who "kept up to an astonishing degree with the best that was being done in his profession" Doctor Oregory died In 1946 at age of 81 Tablet Planned X3octor Fosdick spoke prior to placing a cornerstone In the new NoDeering Bus Schedule Shift Listed New Service Sept 4 A new fall Schedule of bus service effective Sept- 4 and designed to increase the number of trips and reduce the In-town running time for residents In the North Deering area was announced Wednesday by officials of the Portland Coach Company The change will give North Deering patrons half-hour service at night as well as during the day and "will reduce the time from By Press Herald Photographer Curran JUNGLE FOWL Miss Marietta Roberts daughter of Mrs Cl Roberts 1(9 Anthoins South Portland carries ons of the three aristocratic Jungle fowl raised by her mother from eggs obtained from the State Game Farm at Dry Mills John Bentley superintendent of the farm says It was originally hoped that the female birds would brood young ruffed grouse but they show much Interest In the project The somber-hued birds highly valued for their feathers by fishermen who tie flies are "fast fliers and fast according to Bentley Truman Plan Wins 57 To 30 s- 3 Jobs Jobless Pay! Offices Shifted Washington Aug 17 (UP) Senate today approved President reorganization plan transferring thd Federal employment and jobless pay of flees from the Fed era! Security Administration to the Labor Department The roll rail vote was 57 to 33 a After trouncing him 1 Tuesday by defeating his proposal for a new Department of Welfare the Senators turned around and granted his wish to strengthen the Labor Department The plan becomes law automatically at midnight Friday under the new reorganization law passed this year The House has already voted its approval An hpur later7 the Senate approved 47 to 40 Plan NO A proposal transferring the Bureau of Public Roads from the Federal Works Agency to the Department of Commerce There was little dispute over this plan although Senators Carl Hayden (D Arts) and Continued on Page 1 4th CoL Rent Controls Out In Many Small Cities 1 5 i Reduced Budget Forces Action A Cleveland Ang17 rUP) Rents In many of the Nation's smaller towns and cities will be decontrolled soon Housing Expediter Ttghe Woods said today Woods announced that he will decontrol rente in a third of the areas now under Federal rent control starting within 10 days But persons in large cities apparently need not worry The housing expediter said the areas to be decontrolled will be cities under 100000 hope we will not have to go into cities over the 100000 mark" Woods said the action was made necessary by congressional cuts In his budget which reduced from S26OQO0OO to $17500000 severe blow" Woods said "left me with only two choices: either must fire- one third of my employes and attempt to maintain token rent control or must decontrol a third of the areas i now sunder Federal rent control have decided on the latter alternative" Woods said there were about Continued on Page 8th CoL Train Kills Saco Crossing Tender Henry Cleaves 64 Struck On RR Bridge (alal Diapatek) Blddeford Aug 17 A 84-year-old railroad crossing tender was fatally injured tonight when' he was struck by a Boston-bound express passenger train on the Saco-Lowell yard bridge A spokesman for the Boston and Maine Railroad Said Henry Cleaves of Saco apparently was walking the track when he was struck Cleaves was apparently caught unawares when the Boston bound Continued on Page 1 8th CoL ie 3 and Braun Go Touches Off Hot alk Continued on Page 2: 1st CoL Billion Dollar Bill Subject Of Lively Debate On House Floor i a I Washington Aug17 Prezldent Truxnan's $1450 000000 foreign arms program touched off hot debate in the House today while Socialist Norman Thomas urged Congress to delay the measure and try first to bring about universal disarmament The House rang with-J arguments for and against the historic plan to help arm "friendly nations" aboard Military rald from the is Seri Miinidt Raps Vauighan A 1 North Deering to Monument Square about six minutes by routing of buses direct from Allen's Corner to the square via Washington Avenue and Congress Street Persons wishing to go to Wood-Continued on Page 2 8th CoL Meanest Thief Robs Local Pair Steals Old Age Pay From Kitchen Table An elderly and frugal-living Lancaster Street couple lost 842 their total month's income from old age benefit checks-to a thief who entered their" kitchen Wednesday and took -the money from a table In broad daylight Police Wednesday night were on the lookout for a man they thought might have stolen the money "We're certainly going to dq our best on this said Capt Fran els A Hinds Incensed at the mean theft Joseph Whitlock 84 of 11 Lancaster' Street had brought the money home from a bank where Continued on Pago 2 3rd CoL Beran Charges im Indictment For Perjury Demanded At Five Percenter Hearing urgently needed because Western Europe lives in the shadow of the huge Russian army said chairman Kee (D-WVa) of the Foreign Affairs Committee leading the fight for approval of the full program Russia la not main tain-ins 200 armed dlviaiona "for the mere purpose of parades" he declared "This is an Insane program a program of war declared Representative Marcantonio of New York only American Laborite In the House What has happened in the countries of Europe he said was purely domestic "their revolutions were purely Representative Smith (R-Wis) Issued a statement saying the bill violates the spirit of the United Nations Charter and is militarily indefensible In the age of the atomic bomb believe it la necessary for Congress to go halfway now" said Representative Vorys (R-Ohio) qpntlnued on Page 2 3rd CoL Democrats Welcome Grant1 Meeting In Waterville Washington Aug! 17 AP) Senator Mundt R-8D) today called MaJ Gen Harry Vaughan a full of "Intimidation bluff and bluster" and Senator McCarthy (R-Wls) demanded that John Maragon be Indicted for perjury Vaughan Is President Truman's army aide Maragon a onetime Kansas City shine boy has become the friend of many a Washington official including Vaughan -Mundt's outburst came: at a Senate Investigations subcommittee hearing after a former Agriculture Department employe said Vaughan had put the heat on him to give more sugar to a New Jersey molasses company-The employe Herbert Ha-thom said Vaughan made the attempt back in the days of sugar rationing Czech A Captive and diplomatic channels' In his letter the leading Catholic official asked bluntly: "Is the Roman Catholic Church lit Czechoslovakia still recognized by the state? If so by what law waa the Roman Catholic Church deprived of Its legal independence In Internal matters?" 'Archbishop questions arid -charges i indicated the church hierarchy might be trying to force a break in the deadlocked church-state fight This was emphasized by the decision' to give the Catholic letter: publicity through the western press and through western broadcasts which are beamed back into Czechoslovakia 1 i The Communis t-controlled Prague press repeatedly has claimed the archbishop was free Continued en Page 2 7th CoL Archbishop Breaks 2 'Months Silence Hits Violation Of -Constitutional Rights Portland Educator Confirms Interest In Campaigning For Top State Post A SpMla Blmlck) Waterville Ang A former Republican showing Democratic leanings and a desire for the Democratic nomination aa candidate for governor received a cordial hand of -greeting at a Democratic ezeeutlve committee meeting here tonight -Earle 8 Grant Portland educator who campaigned recently In behalf of OOP Gov Frederick Payne says he definitely la Interested In the Democratic nomination for governor at the party primary In June Grant who was Invited to attended by James A Morang Randolph state committee chairman was greeted warmly by party leaders meeting at the home of Mrs Leans A Msthieu Kennebec County eaminltteewoman to plan an October conference Prague Cseehotlovakla Aug 17 CAP) Archbishop Josef' Beran broke 7two months' silence today and accused the Communist government of holding him captive In violation of his constitutional rights The stocky little 60-year-old Roman Catholic primate has not appeared In public since June 19 when a sermon he tried to preach was shouted down by Communist hecklers He claims now that he has been interned and isolated In his Prague palace I Archbishop Beran accused the government of illegally seizing his consistory administrative office) and confiscating the funds of his Prague 'diocese He made the charges In a' letter to the state procurator (prosecutor) which was given to the foreign press through church ADDED TO Portland Retail Group 8 PAGES OF REAL OPENING VALUES IN THIS PAPER1 Giving committee reports for the conference were Morang State Senator Jean Boucher of lewis-ton Miss Xxicla Cormier of Rum-ford Democratic National com-mitteewoman and Edward Bel-ilveau of Waterville city Democratic chairman State Representative Edmund 8 Muskie minority leader in the Rouse of Representatives axl State Representative Louis albert of Lewiston also attended to plan for the Oct 14-15 and 16 conference Miss Cormier said she will call a 1 meeting of the Maine Federa tion of Democratic Women's Clubs Oct 15 as a part of the conference That night there will be a dinner to which all -Democrats who have held or campaigned few high offices in Maine will be Invited i' Your Winning Doors to safes spring "open prizes! are won and success in many a is achieved when you have the right1 combination So why not take ad-J vantage of the one that is-silreta put extra cash in your coffers 1 Let 2-1911 open the door to the" "telephone and charge it" service of the Portland Press Herald Evening Express and Sunday' Telegram classified advertising department You can turn your no-longer-used articles into cash with classified Try the senrife which brings our department as close to you as your nearest phone nse i ty -a- 1.