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SAT DEC 10 1949. 9 Professor Freejd There's No Santa, Sign Says Sign to Be Changed Eisler's Ex-Vife Soviet Forces Tito Mission President Gets Budget Figures, Tax Hike Seen XT TIT There is No fijfM Legalized Gaming Not Automata Ban on Hoodlums Chicago, Dec. 9 (AP) Just because, gambling is legalized doesn't mean that it will be out of the control of hoodlums, liead of Chicago's crime commission said today. Virgil W. Peterson, operating director of the commissidn, said in' the current issue of the Journal of SAVE EARN Ljyjj J3 Cfc up billboards announcing there's no Santa.

Apparently a lot of persons were displeased llUUIIIIimj because protests poured in. The bank is changing the signs im-'. meaiaieiy. (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) Attention to Criminals Misplaced, Prosecutor Tells Judges' Parley Berlin, Dec. 9 (AP) Soviet Russia used the German Communists today to lash Premier Marshal Tito anew.

Members of his Yugoslav military mission were expelled from their homes in the Soviet sector of Berlin after an all-night police blockade. in Western Germany suspended a Communist member of the Bonn Parliament and rolled up their sleeves for a full-scale, purge of Titofst elements. The Russians moved against Marshal Tito's military mission through the Communist east zone interior ministry. Lt. Col.

Momchilb Sibinovich, chief of the Yugoslav delegation. got abrupt notice Thursday night that he and his mission could no longer stay on east zone ground. THE MISSIONS' members have their homes in the Soviet sector, their offices in the British sector West Berlin. The Yugoslavs, said the east zone order, were using their office to commit crimes against the state. It did not specjfy the nature of tne crimes, out said tne Yugo slavs had long "disturbed the order" there.

Before the 16 members had time to pack and get out, an East Ger man police squad surrounded their homes and refused entrance or exit Baggage, hastily packed, was confiscated by the police. Then, again abruptly, a police official appeared at Sibinovich's home this afternoon and an nounced the house arrest had been a mistake. The confiscation of baggage also was a mistake, he said The Yugoslavs were free to go. C. J.

Col well Heads Tuscola Masonic Lodge Tuscola, Dec. 9 (Staff) C. J. Colwell Thursday was elect ed worshipful master of Tuscola lodge, No. 332, A.

F. and A. M. He succeeds B. H.

Mills. Other officers named to be installed Dec. 29, are J. R. Feeler, senior warden; William W.

Wood, junior warden; Eli, Murphey, treas urer, and C. C. Marsh, secretary, Clinton Hospital Project Clinton, Dec 9 The A. S. Aloe Co.

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Oh Fare Charge, Driver Blamed Chicago, Dec. 9 (AP) A Harvard university professor stood before the judge this morning. He had been arrested because he refused to pay a $4.15 taxi bill. Judge John Gutknecht looked at Bobert Schaefer, of Boston, and told him: "If I were you I wouldn't pay a nickel for that ride. "I must apologize to you from the bench.

'On the grounds of the evidence before me I should find the cab driver guilty, but unfortunately there are no charges against him." The cab driver, Victor S. Ser- ranco, nad contended tnat ne naa waited outside a tavern for the edu cator for two hours last Wednes day. Schaefer said he'd merely got into the cab, knowing nothing abour it previously.i A similar trip had cost him $1.15 previously. The judge cited the city ordi nance against gouging taxi pass engers, and told the professor: "I think you have grounds for a civil suit. I am sorry we have wasted your time." Schaefer is here attending a con vention.

Fire Destroys Indiana Stores Vincennes, Dec. 9 (AP) Three business houses were gut ted and three others damaged by fire in the- downtown business district tonight. The Wesjey Tumey tavern, the Frank Rail appliance store and the Star jewelry store were destroyed by the blaze. Part of the Fair store was gutted, and the Indiana auto parts store and the Case paint and wallpaper store were damaged by smoke and water. All the stores are brick two-story structures, standing in a row on North Second street.

No estimate of the total damage was available. All Vincennes fire-fighting equip ment and one unit each from Lawr- enceville. 111., and Bicknell, fought the blaze for toree hours before bringing it under control. A brick fire wall helped keep flames from reaching the paint store. Dense smoke kept firemen from entering the buildings for several hours and made it necessary to fight the fire entirely from the outside.

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i Field, employed in the prewar State department at the same time as Hiss, mysteriously disappeared in iLurope a lew weess ago, presumably behind the iron curtain. Mrs. Hede thrice-mar ried former wife of Eisler, who fled from the U. S. a few months ago, testified at Hiss' second perjury trial after the defense blocked her appearance at the first.

There was no objection to her taking the stand this time. THE BESPECTACLED woman said she met Hiss at Field's home in 1935, a year after she began working as a Communist party sympathizer. She said she was not a party member. At that time, Mrs. Massing testi- iied: "I said to Mr.

Hiss 'I understand that you are trying to get Noel Field away from my organization into yours. She said Hiss replied: "So you are the famous girl that is trying to get Noel Field away from me." Added Mrs. Massing: "I said THEN, SHE SAID, Hiss told her "Well, 'we'll see who is going to win. Mrs. Massing testified: "I said, Mr.

Hiss, you are com peting with a woman." Then, she testified, either she or Hiss remarked: "Whoever is going to win, we are, working for the same boss." Whittaker Chambers, star gov ernment witness against Hiss, charged that the one-time high State department 'official headed a Red underground unit in Wash ington and. passed him government secrets for a Soviet spy ring. HISS WAS INDICTED on perjury charges when he denied Chambers' accusations. His first trial ended last July in a hung jury, unable to agree on his guilt or innocence. Mrs.

Massing said she divorced her first husband, Eisler, in 1924. He later was cited before Congress as the No. 1 Communist in America until he fled the country last spring. She worked in Europe off and on with Communists, she testified, from 1919, finally enlisting in party service in the U. S.

in 1933. Hiss has denied ever meeting Mrs. Massing. The defense claims to have a written statement from Field but its contents have not been divulged. Alert Farmer Saves Train Tampa, Dec 9 (AP) An alert farmer saved the "Southland," Atlantic Coast Line passenger train, from a -serious wreck today.

Members of the train crew told this story: The farmer, W. C. Peters, saw a huge log fall from a northbound timber train and lodge between the southbound rails near Istachatta. That is about 40 miles north of Tampa. Knowing the "Southland" was due soon, Peters ran several hundred yards up the, track and flagged the train.

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Tbe Associated Press Is entitled exclu sively to the use for republication of all tbe local news printed In this newspaper Testifies a.K:y ye5, JJeC. 9 (AP) President Truman got the am- iuuijf lor an election year battle with the congressional "economy bloc" in the form of a budget calling fnr Vm rrVio- ct mac9 or a jxesn supply of government "red ink." Budget Director Frank Pace said after a conference with Mr. Tru man on ine proposed 1951 fiscal year spending program that without additional taxes, he could not see how the budget could be bal anced. Pace wouldn't, say but other presidential advisers did privately that Mr. Truman will ask a hike in taxes on corporation profits.

The prospect of this request laid me giuuuus ior a ciasn wixn members of both parties who have been demanding tax cuts and sharp curtailment- on government spending Instead. MEANWHILE, some of Mr. Truman's associates disclosed that he is convinced General Dwight D. is actively campaigning for the presidency. piupuacu uuugci rate adiu he could not give the final figure would finance the "fair deal" program to be pursued in a "state of the union" message expounding a political philosophy sharply at variance with the former chief of staffs recent "hot dogs and beer" speech.

I Eisenhower said in New York that a great many Americans have lost respect for the virtues of thrift and independence in seeking the "illusion called security." He added "we want to wear fine -shirts, have caviar and champagne" when "we should be eating hot dogs and beer." MR. TRUMAN," intimates say, has told them he considers Eisenhower's speechmaking a bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Intimates disagree on whether Mr. Truman will run again himself, but say unanimously he has not disclosed to anybody just what he will do. Budget Director Pace met with reporters covering Mr.

Truman's three-week vacation immediately after an hour's conference with Mr. Truman at the temporary White House. "In my judgment," he told them, "it is improbable that you will have expenditures and income balancing in the fiscal year 1951, lacking new taxes." PACE FLEW in Thursday night for final decision by the President on the key items of defense spending, foreign aid and reclamation and Defense and foreign aid comprise half of the budget. Hi said the budget for the year starting next July 1 will not exceed 45 billion dollars, but he said no final figure had been arrived at. This year's spending, he said, is estimated at 43 billion, 500 million dollars and it's prospective deficit at five billion 500 million dollars.

The President has promised a tight budget, which he said Con gress wouldn't be able to cut. And, he has said he knews no way of wiping out the deficit except by raising taxes. A-Bomb Continued from Page 1 but I can say that at no time dur ing his service in the department did he have access to atomic energy information." Last Wednesday, Admiral For rest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, was asked at a National Press club luncheon if he knew how "many A-bombs the- United States has and where they are located. The admiral replied that "yes, '-he did know how many.

But as to where they are hidden, he said, "I'm sorry, I can't tell you." Meanwhile, congressional investi gators digging into reports of shipments of atomic materials to Russia during World War II were said to be seeking data on Canadian shipments to the Soviets. IN THIS CONNECTION, staff aides of the House un-American activities committee said they be lieve the way may now be clear to question Boris Pregel, head of the Canadian Radium Uranium which was reported to be instrumental in getting the Russians 1,000 pounds of uranium compounds back in 1943. There were hints that he may be subpenaed. to appear as a witness when the House committee re sumes its public hearings on the "secret s-to-Russia allegations on -Dec. 19.

The ommmittee tried to get Pregel as a witness when it first began exploring stories of shipments of atomic supplies to the Russians. That was more than a year ago. It was blocked by the State department, which said the Canadian government wanted the -committee to hold off for national security reasons. Two committee investigators, Louis J. Russell and Courtney Owens, have just spent two days In Canada.

Shuman to Speak At Logan Meeting Jan. 1 1 Lincoln, Dec. 9 (Staff) Charles Shuman, Sullivan, presi dent of the Illinois Agricultural as sociation, will speak at an annual meeting of the Logan i arm serv ice Co. Jan. 11 in Lincoln high chool auditorium.

Walter V. Horn Lincoln, president, said today. Criminal Law and Criminology: 'The hoodlum element' has al ways controlled commercial gambl ing in this country, and there is no logical reason to support the con tention that licensing would in any matter eliminate the criminal from the gambling business." The journal is a publication of Northwestern university. Peterson is an associate editor ot tne periodi cal. "Licensing of gambling is not, has not, and never will be a substitute for the proper performai ce of duty on the part of responsible he asserted.

Legalizing of gambling has been tried, Peterson said, and has failed. He cited examples of slot machine legalization in Montana and Idaho. The governors of both states have asked for repeal of the laws. Cut Sentences Of 7 Convicts Springfield, Dec. 9 (AP) Seven men who took part in wartime malaria experiments at State-vine penitentiary won reductions In their sentences today from Governor Stevenson.

The governor's action will make the prisoners eligible for earlier parole consideration. These cases are: William Evans, serving two con current life sentences for murder in Cook county. Commuted to 60 years. John Panak, serving life for murder in Will county in 1941. Commuted to 60 years.

James V. Rini, Chicago, sen tenced to 9 to 19 years for armed robbery in Cook county. Commuted to 9 to 18 years. Burnist Smith, sentenced to 20 to 30 years for armed robbery in Peoria in 1942. Commuted to 17 to 27 years.

Walter Cropinski, serving 199 years for murder in Cook county in 1944. Commuted to 99 years. Casimir Botulginski, sentenced to 199 years for murder in Cook coun ty in 1944. Commuted to 99 years. Maurice Meyer, sentenced to 90 years for murder in Rock Island county in 1933.

Commuted to years. Stevenson, acting on recommendations of the state pardon board, also granted two other The life sentence imposed five years ago in Winnebago county on Emma Elizabeth Holthaus'for aiding a man in an attack on a young girl was reduced to 60 years. The 99-year sentence of Melvin Watson for murder in St. Clair county in 1932 was commuted to 60 years. PAY You get 12 tablets MORE for 10c 100 for 46c Mr ACCEPT Than the name "St mWMtf LESS 143 N.

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A Muskegon, bank put Cashier Tells Of Bad Checks Hammond, Dec. 9 (AP) A former bank cashier told today of issuing fraudulent checks to cover a friend's overdrafts while examiners were studying the bank's books. The testimony was given in fed eral court by Jffseph Leo Vogel, 36, former cashier of the; Kouts state bank. He was a. government witness in the trial of William Bies- wanger, 29, Tefft, on a charge of misapplication of funds.

Vogel and Bieswanger are alleg ed to have conspired in a $51,000 shortage. Vogel pleaded guilty last May but has not been sentenced. Vogel said he issued two fraudu lent checks totaling $13,000 while examiners were looking at the books. He said it was the first act in the $51,000 shortage, from which. he said, "I didn't realize a cent." The cashier explained he issued the checks because Bieswanger was unable to raise funds to cover $6,000 in overdrafts and $6,000 in bad checks.

He said the next month Bieswanger suggested he use the same procedure to make money in used car dealings to make up the shortage. The money making scheme failed. The government completed its case today. Defense witnesses are scheduled to testify the first of next week. Claims Bridges At Red Meeting San Francisco, Dec.

9 (AP) An acknowledged former Com munist testified today he saw Harry Bridges presiding at a Com munist party meeting, at Long Beach, in May, 1936. He was the fourth witness whose testimony has placed Bridges at Communist meetings, but the first to say he saw Bridges presiding. Kermit C. Krolek, 38, Belmont, was placed on the stand by government prosecutors in their at tempt to prove the C. I.

O. waterfront leader lied at his 1945 naturalization hearing. Bridges, president of the Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's union, denied he had been or was a member of the Communist party. His co-defendants, Henry Schmidt and J. R.

Robertson, both union officials, are charged with conspiracy. Now an electronics engineer, Krolek said that in 1935 he was an official of the American Radio Telegraphers' Association, Local 8, Portland, Ore. That year, he added, he joined the Communist party, retaining his membership for a year and a half. The Long Beach meeting, he told the federal jury, was held to select a slate of officers of the maritime federation suitable to the Commu nists. Snow Sets Santa Claus Mood for Clinton Parade Clinton, Dec.

9 (Staff) Snow which blanketed Clinton tonight, will add to the holiday atmosphere Saturday afternoon for the annual Christmas parade. That man with the p-ed nose and suit, whiskers and a yen for the kiddies Santa Claus will arrive at 2 p. m. After the parade of decorated floats, automobiles and bicycles, he will take up his home in the new Santa Claus house on the courthouse lawn. He will hand out treats for every child visiting his hut Satur day.

He will be there every day until Christmas. Moultrie Christmas Seal Drive Reports 1 ,300 Sullivan, Dec. 9 (Staff) Mrs. Ada Mae Carson, secretary of the Moultrie County Tuberculo sis association, said today $1,300 of the county's $3,000 goal has been received. Mrs.

L. W. McMullin is county chairman for the Christmas Seal drive. Several weeks ago, 1,400 letters containing Seals were sen' to residents of the county. Moultrie county has six" patients under treatment in sanitoriums, several out-p a 1 1 receiving treatment and four on waiting lists to enter sanitoriums.

Chicago, Dec. 9 (AP) "The young kid, who'd killed four people in cold blood, was walking the last mile to the electric chair. John Boyle, state's at torney of Cook county (Chicago) was addressing today's convention of Illinois county and probate judges. Continued Boyle: the kid were the warden, theminister of the gospel, the jailer, the doctor. the "prosecuting attorney, the The boy turned to the minister and said, 'If they'd all paid rs much attention to me before I got here as they have since I got here, I would never have got Boyle was emphasizing to the judges at their 48th annual meeting the theme of his address, crime prevention.

British Health Plan 'Working' London, Dec. 9 (AP) Oscar Ewing, President Tru man welfare chier, saia today Britain's tax-supported health service is working remarkably well. confirming "my deep conviction that the national health insurance proposal will be good for The federal security administrat or accused some American doctors of "unfair and dangerous" interference in Britain's service. He also said the American Medical association is "conducting an emo tional campaign against national health insurance in the United States." He asserted the A. M.

A. is fostering wrong ideas of the British program. "The group appears to be using part of the $25 levy per member it made for 'educational purposes' to finance the visits of disgruntled British doctors to lecture in the United States on the evils of the British program," Ewing said at a news conference. He also said he had been "horri fied to learn that certain groups in organized American medicine have been making financial contributions to "a small group of die hard British doctors" opposing Britain's health program. In Chicago, Dr.

E. E. Irons, president of the American Medical association, denied organized medi cine in this country has made such contributions and said the A. M. A.

has no "personal knowledge of any individual contributions" by U. S. doctors. Ford Appeals Job Pay Ruling Chicago, Dec. 9 (AP) The Ford Motor Co.

sued in superior court today to set aside a ruling which granted unemploy ment benefits to 1,250 employes in volved in a work stoppage last The ruling in question was made by Frank Annunzio, Illinois labor director, who held that the Ford plant shutdown in Chicago was not caused by labor trouble, and that therefore the workers were entitled to benefits. The work stoppage at the South Side plant occurred during the strike at the company's River Rouge, factory. Ford law yers contend that a strike at one plant is a strike against all plants The issue involved in the suit is the amount of payments the com pany must make to the Illinois fund. It was explained that if an employe is not allowed any unemployment benefit during a year, a firm's payment for that employe drops for the next year. Monticello C.

of C. Schedules Dinner Monticello, Dec. 9 (Staff) Members of the Monticello Cham ber of Commerce will entertain their employes at a dinner meet ing to be held in the National bank community room on Monday at 6:30 p. m. Robert L.

Walston, assistant to the director of the business management service at the University of Illinois will address the group. Members of the committee in charge of the program are T. C. chairman, T. R.

Lovett, Arnold Sievers, Dwight Mackey, Russell Brown and Geofrey Paige. "THE FACT that the age of felons committing the most serious crimes murder, manslaughter, rape, armed robbery has dropped sharply into the teen-age brackets, is an appalling development of our day," Boyle said. "There has been. alarming increase in the crimes committed by boys and girls between the ages of 12 to 19 years." Boyle outlined for the judges from all over the state the efforts being taken by public and private groups and committees in Cook county to work for the prevention of crime, rather than its mere punishment He compared the work to preventive medicine and safety engineering. 'Yellow Kid' Cleared of $3 Swindle Charge Chicago, Dec.

9 (AP) The dapper Yellow Kid Joseph Weil, an internationally known con man beat a $3 confidence game rap The Yellow Kid, who boasts that his swindles ran into millions of dollars, was accused of swindling a Catholic charity out of the $3. He declined to testify today, hut an associate, Austin Lee, and Sister Ludivine, superintendent of the Catholic home for the aged, agreed that the institution had authorized Weil's solicitation of construction funds. Judge Charles S. Dougherty ruled there was no evidence of a confidence game. Weil specifically was charged with indorsing the check made out to the Little Sisters of the Poor, the order which operates the home.

Thomas Continued from Page 1 tivities. They have ruined his health and now they have done this to my husband. He has paid the price for vigilance. "I now ask the people of the 7th congressional district in New Jersey to support his fight against the enemies of the republic by electing me. If elected, I shall continue the same struggle against subversive influences.

"THE VOLUMINOUS office files and records of J. Parnell Thomas, those that have not been stolen, will be at my disposal and there fore for the benefit of my consti tuency. God give me strength to carry on. "Amelia S. Thomas "(Mrs.

J. Parnell Thomas)" She did not explain her reference to stolen files and records. Mrs. Thomas the former Amelia Stiles of Mount Vernon, N. Y.

said she has had no previous political experience. Governor Driscoll of New Jersey said he would issue no proclamation for a special election until he receives certification of Thomas' resignation. Under the terms of the sentence. Thomas will not be eligible for parole until he has served at least six months. He also must' satisfy the government about the $10,000 before he's released, although if he pleads poverty and takes the pauper's oath, he could serve an additional 30 days in place of the fine.

ASKED IF THE FINE would be paid, Collins turned it aside with: "That's the $64 question." As head of the un-American activities committee Thomas became one of the nation's best known House members. The gavel-banging chairman presided over the stormy Hiss-Chambers investigation and over the spectacular study of communism in Hollywood. But the F. B. dug out another side of the story payroll padding they traced back to 1940.

When the charges first were drawn up, before the 1948 elections, Thomas cried: "Cheap Pendergast politics!" But when the case finally came to a trial, two weeks ago, Thomas listened to the F. B. evidence for two days and a half and gave up. He threw himself on the mercy of the court with a plea of nolo contendre, which meant he no longer contested the government, charges. Your Model Mart Has Moved from 556 North Water MODEL MART 123 East William "FORMERLY QUARTERS OF THE HOBBY HOUSE" The Best Brand of Toys for ana Boys GRAND OPENING Saturday, December Of Just in Time for Christmas Shopping Parts for Any Model Plane Motor FOR THE ARTIST PICTURE CRAFT ART SET 2.95 FOR THE ENGINEER ERECTOR SETS, up from 4.95 FOR YOUNG RAILROADERS LIONtL TRAINS, from $15.95 FOR JUNIOR HOT-RODS RACE CARS with McCoy Motors $16.95 ANY KIND OF MODEL AIRPLANE SHUTTER BUG SPECIAL PIXI MINIATURE CAMERAS 4.95 USE OUR LATA WAT FREE CANDY FOR THE CHILDREN COAL for Immediate Delivery CENTRAL ILLINOIS LUMP COAL EGG COAL NUT COAL ASK FOR QUR FAMOUS BANTAM STOKER COAL HOME COAL CO.

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