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11 i m. 10 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1950 On Guard for Over a Century 30 Pages Vol. 119 No. 260 Five Cents j.4 mia. All A o) oJ'ium A R) o) A FBI Traps Hoodlum Near Miami Detroiter Caught Year After Flight UoSo Asks Writ to End Coal TigUp Duo in the Sun Taylor Quits Post of Envoy to Vatican Office May Be Left Vacant Because of Religious Issue WASHINGTON (U.P.) President Truman Wednesday accepted "most reluctantly." the resignation of Myron C.

Taylor as his personal envoy to the Vatican but gave no hint whether he Bingay Condition Critical from Burns Gillis and Massaroni Also Badly Hurt by Blaze at Banquet Malcolm, W. Bingay, editorial director of The Detroit Free Press, was in critical condition Wednesday in Grace Hospital with second- and third-degree burns. He and several other prominent Detroiters were burned when a coffee-and-brandy mixture exploded at a gourmet's dinner will replace him. There were indications he may leave the post vacant, at least If" Vv V-' if J1 Senate Kills U.S. Taxes on Oleo Measure Now Goes to Joint" Conference WASHINGTON (JP) A bill to wipe out the Federal taxes on oleomargarine was passed by the Senate Wednesday night by the lopsided margin of 56 to 16.

The measure had been bitterly fought by some members from butter-producing states. It now is expected to go to a Senate-House conference to iron out differences between it and a measure passed last year by the House. ABOLISHED under the measure would be the Federal levies of 10 cents a pound on colored margarine, and one-quarter cent on uncolored. Restaurants serving margarine would have to label it as such or serve it in triangular form, to prevent its being confused with butter. Oleo sold at retail would have to be in triangular one-pound packages.

Before the final vote, the senators rejected an effort to turn the margarine bill into a billion-dollar general excise-tax cut. The excise tax amendment, sponsored by Senator Butler was rejected 43 to 32. EARLIER, two attempts by Senator Langer N. to at tach "civil-rights" riders to the measure were killed by motions to table. The vote against Langers antilynching amendment was 60 to 20.

The vote against an antipoll- tax proposal 59 to 17. Senator Vandenberg Mich.) voted for the repealer. Senator I Ferguson Mich.) voted against lit. i THE SENATE BILL provides that repeal of margarine taxes shall become effective July 1. The bill states that nothing in it shall be construed to permit the sale of colored oleomaragine in states which prohibit it.

At present 32 states and the District of Columbia permit its sale. (Although the Michigan Legislature passed a bill permitting the sale of colored oleo, referendum petitions have prevented the law from going into effect.) U.S. Tries to Get Ships WASHINGTON (jp) The United States acted to get back 42 merchant ships it sold to China in 1947-48. It doesn't want the Communists to get them. This country still holds mort gages on the ships.

So the State Department announced it has asked authorities in Far East ports to prevent the sailing of any of the ships which may be there. The department does not know where the ships are. The Maritime Commission and Export-Import Bank hold mortgages on the ships which are in arrears atxmt $19,000,000. I Tuesday evening. In serious condition at Receiving Hospital were Recorder's Judge Joseph A.

Gillis and James Massaroni, an official of one of the AFL unions which gave the banquet. THE THREE were the only ones hospitalized. Bingay, 65, of 20383 Sunning-dale Drive, Grosse Pointe Woods, was burned on the face, hands, chest and neck. He also inhaled some of the flames. doctors feared that his larynx and lungs had been injured, although a definite diagnosis was Impossible.

Bingay was in an oxygen tent. Dr. Kenneth Babcock. director of Grace Hospital, said that it would be "nip and tuck for the next 24 to 48 hours with Bingay. REDUCING the newspaper man's chances was the shock to his nervous system.

Last August, Bingay underwent a major kidney operation in which a large cyst was removed. He was away from his desk for more than a month. At Receiving Hospital, the condition of Judge Gillis and Massaroni were described as "temporarily serious." Dr. Ralph R. Piper, superintendent, said they would be released within a week or 10 days unless some "unlikely infection" should occur.

They suffered second-and third-degree burns of the face and arms mostly second-degree burns. UK. rirfcK said it was impos sible to determine if they would bear permanent scars. Also injured at the banquet was Circuit Judge Ira W. Jayne, master of ceremonies, who opened his coat and hugged Bingay to him to smother the flames.

Eugene C. Mathivet, personnel director of the Wayne County Civil Service Commission, was burned when he went to the assistance of Judge Gillis. They were treated and dismissed. THE DINNER was given in the Labor Temple by Local 234, De-ciation, and the Detroit Federation of Musicians, both AFL. Ten of the city's top chefs pre-Turn to Page 4, Column 4 Slayer Gets Life NEWARK (JP Ravmond Welsh, 16, was sentenced to life in prison for the rifle slaving of his friend, Fred Januszkiewicz, 15.

Harry Fleisher, long-sought fugitive chief of the notorious Purple Gang, was seized Wednesday by FBI agents at Pompano Beach, Fla. Fleisher and a woman companion, Bernice Jackson, registered at a tourist court there Jan. 12 as Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Goldwyn, of Toledo.

squad of four FBI agents seized the couple as they sunned themselves on the sand. THE BEACH lies on an island in the Atlantic Ocean, 35 miles north of Miami. It is connected to Pompano City on the mainland by a causeway. FBI agents revealed that they had been watching the couple for several days. Fleisher has been sought since he fled Michigan after he was convicted of conspiracy in the 1945 murder of State Senator Warren G.

Hooper and the holdup of a gambling establishment. SHORTLY AFTER noon Wednesday, Fleisher and Miss Jackson left their cottage and drove to the beach in Fleisher's pickup truck. The beach was almost deserted. The arrests were described by Nicholas Nikas, a coffee salesman. The agents strolled up casually from different directions until they were within 15 feet of the couple when they drew guns and rushed in, Nikas said.

Fleisher, stripped, to the waist but wearing trousers, was held face down on the sands while agents searched him for weapons. He was unarmed. Miss Jackson stood quietly with her hands in the air. IN THE COTTAGE, agents found a submachine-gun and 400 rounds of ammunition. No pistols were found.

Fleisher had $1,200 in cash on his person. Simultaneously, other agents arrested Albert Samuel Wright, 34, of Cincinnati, at Fort Lauderdale, 15 miles south of Pompano Beach. Ernest L. Duhaime, an assistant United States district attorney, said Wright will be charged in Miami Federal Court Thursday with harboring Fleisher. He refused to amplify his statement.

FLEISHER AND Miss Jackson were taken to FBI headquarters in Miami. Fleisher was grilled for nearly three hours and then lodged in the Dade County Jail in Miami. He will be given a hearing Thursday before United States Commissioner Roger Edward Davis. He is held on a Federal fugitive warrant. Miss Jackson was jailed as a material Fleisher and Miss Jackson were picked up in Cincinnati last October for investigation of car theft.

Using assumed names, they were released before Fleisher's fingerprints were checked.1 FLEISHER AND Myron (Mike) Selik jumped bonds totaling more than a year ago after the Michigan Supreme Court upheld their conviction of the robbery of the Aristocrat Club at Pontiac. They were under sentences of 25 to 40 years for that crime. Both also were sentenced to 4'2 to 5 years for the murder conspiracy that resulted in the death of Hooper, key witness in a graft Investigation. Miss Jackson is known to Detroit police as Bernice Hinds. She has been convicted of prostitution and disturbing the peace.

Unconfirmed reports say that Selik is hospitalized "somewhere" suffering from an incurable disease. Skidding Truck Causes Explosion NILES (JP) An eight-ton steel truck skidded into a filling station here Wednesday, shearing off three gasoline pumps and causing gasoline to explode into flames. The driver, John R. Morrison, 22, of Battle Creek, was not injured. Fire damage at tne station, operated by Vernon Garst on M-60, was estimated at $1,000.

Bandits Get 500 in Market Holdup Two curly haired bandits held up Cyril's Market, 20920 Harper, Gratiot and took $500. Mrs. Gilberta Derms, 55, of 4086 Lillibridge, told police one man covered her with a pistol while the other looted the cash register. Lewis Accused of Unfair Acts Injunction Would Affect 90,000 Miners BY LOUIS STARK New York 'time Service WASHINGTON The Gov ernment sued to compel John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers to restore normal coal production.

It seeks to end both the union- ordered three-day week and the wildcat strikes by 90,000 soft-coal miners. Acting upon a petition filed in the Federal District Court on behalf of Robert N. Denham, general counsel for the National Labor Re lations Board, Judge Richmond Keech set next Thursday as the hearing date. THE HEARING will determine the outcome of Denham's action, filed under the Taft-Hartley Act. He is seeking a temporary injunction requiring the miners to work pending NLRB hearings.

Denham's action was scarcely announced before union and pro-union critics began attacking him. Before his announcement Senator Taft had told the Sen- ate Labor Committee that he did be a suitable substitute to invoca tion of the national emergency section of the act. Senator Ferguson Mich.) told the committee he did not think Denham's move would solve the immediate coal situation. He added that he hoped the action would not "lull the country into a false sense of security. TAFT REITERATED that Congress had never intended that the act be used to force men to work when they have no contract.

This also was the line taken by Philip Murray, president of the CIO. He said that he had instructed the CIO's general counsel, Arthur J. Goldberg, to aid the UMW in every way possible. NLRB sources indicated that, if successful, the Denham approach might work even better than the 80 day injunction method. The temporary injunction sought by Denham might well restrain the union for a much longer period.

NLRB hearings may take from six months to a year or longer. IT ALSO WAS argued by industry lawyers that the Denham method of seeking fair collective bargaining was more effective than the emergency section of the law. The latter would compel a union or an employer to bargain. The section invoked by Denham prescribed only that Lewis and the union must not insist on inclusion of four allegedly illegal provisions in the agreement. Senator Humphrey Minn.) said that "a strike certainly is not an unfair labor practice, as Denham implies in this case." Denham based his petition on that section of the Taft-Hartley Law banning unfair labor practices.

munist land." regime in their home- RUDZINSKI asserted that he was breaking with his Communist government because "freedom has disappeared in Poland." In a letter to Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State, he said that Russia's imposition of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky as Polish defense minister was but one of many events that had helped kill Polish freedom. He said that he would not go along with the Soviet-block walkouts from UN organizations, charging that they were designed to "paralyze and disrupt the UN." for the time being. Some Protestant groups, notably the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, have assailed Taylor's mission to Pope Pius XII as a violation of the traditional American concept of separation of the Church and State. TAILOR HAS HELD the assignment 10 years.

He wrote Mr. Truman he wanted to return to private after taking part "in one of the world's greatest missions the mobilization of moral opinion against Communist tyranny." Asked about the possibility of a successor. White House Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the letters "speak for themselves." The letters, however, said nothing. WHILE THE President often has said he would like to see Taylor stay on the job until world peace is secure, i' was understood some of his political ad-, visers felt different.

Taylor, an Episcopalian, is a former chairman of United States Steel Corp. His letter of resignation might almost have been a reply to critics of his assignment. HE RECALLED that he went' to Rome originally because of President Roosevelt's desire for a constant exchange of views with all great church groups. In similar fashion, he said, the late President invited officials of the Federal Council of Churches and the Jewish Theological Seminary to confer with him in Washington from time to time. He said the worth of his work was proved by its results.

He said the American mission in Rome helped pave the way psychologically for the Allied re-invasion of the Continent, sometimes serving as the only link with the Italians. He said that after the war the mission turned its attention to war relief and the tense ideological war between East and West. Other Stories of Major Interest on Inside Pages $1,000,000 Holdup Clews Found. Page 21 Luckman Quits $300,000 Job. Page 9 Vaughan, Maragon Criticized.

Page 11 Amuse 'ts 20-21 Beauty 13 Bridge 28 Cam'raPage 22 Chatterbox 14 Childs 6 Classified 25-27 Comics 28-29 Crossword 30 Donovan 23 Editorials 6 Fashion 13 IQ Test 4 Merry-Go-R'd 6 Pringle 15 Racing Radio Riley Ruark Smith Sports 19 29 14 30 18 18-19 29 Stamps Star Gazing Theaters Town Crier Wilson 20 24 17 30 Financial 23-24 Guest 6 Horoscope 28 Women's 13-15 TO CALL THE FREE PRESS: WOODWARD 2-8900 For Want Ads Call WOODWARD 2-9400 Plane Crash Kills Sixteen ALBACETE. Spain UP) Six teen persons, including three Spanish Airforce officers, were killed in the crash of a Junkers type plane against a mountain peak. The accident occurred near the town of Tobarra, 30 miles south of here. Mishap Explained by Chef Tells How Dinner Blast Occurred This is the way one Detroit chef explained the flaming explosion from the brandy-and-coffee concoction at the dinner Tuesday night in the AFL Labor Temple. Louis Barboroux, head the Hotel Book-Cadillac, said lie warn mittingr cornP a the U-shaped table watching- the mixing of the "Cafe Diablo" when the explosion occurred.

"There was a 'poof of flame it looked like half the room was on fire," he continued. ''IT WAS an awful big ball of flame. A draft from the hall doors blew it right into the faces of the men at the table." Barboroux said he was Impressed with the amount of brandy which was being poured into the five-gallon cauldron. The mixture, he said, may have been allowed to get too hot. At times, he said, even the body of the mixture was on fire.

He theorized that the curling vapors, wafted by the draft from the open door, spread in the direction where Malcolm W. Bingay and Recorder's Judge Joseph Gillis were sitting. WHEN THE contents of the mixing bowl flared, the flame followed the vapor trail directly into the faces of the two men. James Massaroni, the third person burned severely, was standing beside the bowl when it flared. Barboroux said brandy and a finely powdered Greek or Turkish coffee were the basic ingredients of cafe diablo.

A special pot is needed for the mixing, he said. OTHER INGREDIENTS are cinnamon, cloves, lemon peel, pineapple and sweet cordials such as a benedictine. All chefs have their own recipes, he said, but they would not vary much from this outline. Water is brought near a boil in the pot and the powdered coffee is added. The mixture is stirred until the coffee dissolves.

Stirring continues while the brandy and cordials are added. As a climax, a lighted taper is touched to the alcoholic mixture. Drama is deepened if the room is darkened at the time as it was Tues day night at the ill-fated banquet Strike Shuts Steel Plant LACKAWANNA, N. Y. (JP) A strike of 400 railroad workers forced a shutdown of the Bethlehem Steel Co.

plant here, idling more than 14,000 steel workers. The strikers are operating employes of the South Buffalo Railway, subsidiary which provides the only switching service available to the plant. They struck as representatives of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Enginemen ended a meeting with representatives of the National Mediation Board. Newspapers said the brotherhoods have demanded a six-day work week with seven days' pay and time and a half for Sunday. Associated Press Wirephoto HARRY FLEISHER The search is over BERNICE JACKSON Seized with fugitive Mercury Drop to 3 Degrees Due Today Lower Michigan In for Cold Spell Detroit and Lower Michigan are in for a cold spell.

Weather Bureau forecasters saidf the temperature will drop to about three, degrees Thursday morning. Temperatures are expected to rise to 20 Thursday and drop to 18 again Thursday night. In the Upper Peninsula, gusts of 35 miles an hour were reported. The temperature was below zero for the fourth consecutive day. Transportation and communications were not disrupted despite the snowfall which began early Tuesday and continued into Wednesday.

Romulo 111 WASHINGTON (JP) Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo, president of the United Nations General Assembly, entered the Army's Walter Reed Hospital for treatment for a throat infection. list of chemical elements numbered 92, with uranium at the top.

Even then, some of the 92 substances were missing but places had been reserved for them in the list because it was known theoretically that they should exist. In the course of atomic research, these missing elements were found and fitted into the table. More important, the heaviest element, uranium, was bombarded with nuclear particles and made to produce element 93, which is neptunium; 94, the plu-tonium of the atom bomb; 95, called Americium, and 96, in "plilllilSl Associated Press Wirephoto MYRON C. TAYLOR Represented Presidents What They Are Saying GOV ALFRED E. DRISCOLL, of New Jersey, as he took oath for second term: "It is time to take stock of the dangers of big government.

I believe in a system in which the citizens control the destiny of government rather than government controlling the destiny of the-people." GEN. OMAR BRADLEY, Chief of staff, urging more and better schools and teachers: "In a time when our economic system is challenged, our political tenets ridiculed and our enduring spiritual creed is defiled education must stand in the vanguard of defense. Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." ing on the crooning debut of Gary Crosby, 16 eldest son of Bing urosDy: "A Crosby without hair was bad enough. Now look what we got for competition. STANLEY BRUNISKL of Mor gan, denying his strike from his coal mine job is in protest against John L.

Lewis: "Why, our children and their children's children will be reading about Lewis in their history books. He is the greatest labor leader the country has ever known. Chapman Confirmed WASHINGTON (U.R) The Senate confirmed the nomination of Oscar L. Chapman, of Denver, to be Secretary of Interior. There were no dissents.

Lily Pons to Have Kidney Operation NEW YORK (JP) Lily Pons, soprano star of the Metropolitan Opera, will be operated on next week for removal of a kidney stone. She became ill Dec. 25. She plans to return to the Met before the season closes. RAP COMMUNIST TACTICS NO.

97 THE HEAVIEST Three Diplomats Quit Reds; Ask U.S. Asylum California Cyclotron Produces N'ew Element BERKELEY, Calif. Another new chemical element, hitherto unfound on earth, has been produced by one of the LAKE SUCCESS, N. Three diplomatic representatives from Communist-dominated Eastern Europe resigned their posts and sought asylum in the United States. University of California's cyclotrons.

The new substance is No. 97 une-of the three, Aleksander Rudzinski, veteran Polish delegate to the United Nations, was im- iately given a 24-hour 1 i ce guard. Authorities re-fused to dis-close his txtVi An Vim 1 1 fl The other two defecting diplomats were I members of the choslovak consulate general's office here. They are Arnost Fried, a Rudzinski secretary, and Valdislav Matejcek, a consular aide. Both said they found it "impossible to serve the Com V4 jr.

in the roster of chemical elements. It is the heaviest substance known. It was made by bombarding curium, heretofore the heaviest substance, with the nuclei of helium atoms. The discoverers, Dr. Stanley G.

Thompson, Albert Chiorso and Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, noted nuclear chemist, suggested the new substance be called Berkeli-um, after the University city. The name is not yet official. WHAT ELEMENT 97 may be good for is not yet known, but Dr.

Seaborg reported it probably would not be suitable for use in an atomic weapon. Before the atomic age, the.