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13 mid. 61 58 5fl 55 54 52 57 57 JO a am 1'2 noon 4 r.m 5 p.m SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1950 On Guard for Over a Century 108 Pages Vol. 120 No. 24 Fifteen Cents 6 p.m. 62 Senator Democrats Fight Crime Probe Say, fi Lesinski Rites Set Wednesday Die in rainac Air Force Builds Radar Defense Posts in Michigan at start Ml BY JAMES M.

HASWFXL Of Our Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Air Force is spending $18,800,000 this year on construction of radar air-raid warning stations in the Northern United States. Although the locations of the stations are no secret in their neighborhoods, Air Force spokesmen decline to talk for publi- Wiley Tells of Pressure from Top Checkup of Erickson and Costello Begun Free Press Wire Services WASHINGTON Senators investigating crime and gambling struck on distant fronts amidst charges that "crooked big-city organizations" are pressuring "high-up channels" to block the probe. Senator Wiley a member of the special committee investigating crime, said "certain outside influences" connected with the Democratic political organization "have already attempted to put the heat on" in an effort to squelch the investigation. But Senator Kefauver chairman of the special committee, said in Miami that "nobody is putting any pressure on me and I know of no attempts to sidetrack our investigation." IN A SPEECH prepared for broadcast, Wiley did not name any individuals. But he said they were "subtle, silk-glove influencea-the sort of of oliday It Flew Air Succumbs 1 'i i Jp i -JrU 4'-- Jr struck from rear by a truck the air.

The drivers climbed wreckage. The drivers of both automobiles escaped injury in this pile-up near Wentzville, Mo. The top car was trying to pass the bottom Truman and Williams Wire Sympathy Thousands of messages of sympathy, including a wire from President Truman, Saturday poured into the home of Rep. John A. Lesinski at 7420 Oak-man, Dearborn.

Rep. Lesinski, 65, a champion of organized labor ever since he was elected to Congress from Michigan's 16th District in 1932, died at 1 a. m. Saturday of a heart attack. Mourning one of th.

the Democratic Party's most loyal members, the President set a telegram to Mrs. Lesinski saying: "I want you to know that I share the sorrow which has come to you with such sudden and crushing force. "In the untimely passing of your husband, the House of Representatives loses an earnest leader, a man of deep and courageous convictions, who was always fearless in the advocacy of the measures he believed to be in the public interest." Gov. Williams also sent a message of condolence to Mrs. Lesinski.

"His death is a severe blow to the whole liberal program in Congress," the Governor said. A special election must be held to pick a successor to Lesinski, whose term expires next Jan. 1. State law permits combining the special election with the regular election to be held next November. The Governor is expected to decide the question next week.

REP. LESINSKI was found dead in his bed by his wife, Estelle, 40. A short time before, she said, he experienced difficulty breathing. Dr. Thaddeus Stokfisz, summoned immediately, said the veteran Congressman suffered a coronary attack.

THE FUNERAL is set for Wednesday. Time of the service will be announced later. The body Democrats anxious with Lesinski gone. Page 4. will be in the funeral home of Joseph Sarnowski, 4188 N.

Campbell. Rep. Lesinski's brother-in-law, Edwin Geisinger, of 8060 Hart-well, said he had appeared in perfect health when he returned to Dearborn from Washington Friday for the holiday week-end. Rep. Lesinski, a stanch New Dealer, had planned to run for a 10th term this fall.

He was an outspoken advocate of pro-labor legislation and had Turn to Page 4, Column 3 What They Are Saying LIAQUAT ALI KHAN, prime minister of Pakistan: "Communism doesn't appeal to the people of Pakistan because they embrace the Moslem religion. We believe in God, and His sovereignty, democracy, equality and brotherhood of man and private ownership." FRANCIS BIDDLE, former attorney general: "The lesson history is plain: fear holds up reform; as more and more fear is aroused you begin to get more and more restrictions on society. The Taft-Hartley Law is bad enough but if Senator McCarthy and his pals are able to whip up enough hysteria, I predict that an even worse law will be enacted." Row Ties Up Ford Plant KANSAS CITY (P) About 1,500 employes of a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant here were sent home as a result of a disciplinary dispute. Plant operations were halted when some of the men in the trim department quit working after a three-day disciplinary suspension was imposed on one of the group.

Roger N. Cocks, plant manager, said the workman suspended was the same one whose brief suspension in March caused a similar stoppage. Cocks said the man was disobedient to supervisory personnel. Union officials had no comment. Isolated by Floods AUCKLAND, N.

Z. (P) Severe floods on New Zealand's south island have isolated the main coal towns. tate Through the SANKEY FLYNN Thought It was natural' Chill Forecast for Today Memorial Day week-enders need have no fear of either sunstroke or heatstroke Sunday, the Weather Bureau promised. The sun will be covered most of the day by clouds and the mercury will range from a chilly 48 degrees in the morning to a temperate 70 in the afternoon, There will be a gentle north to northeasterly wind shoving cool air into this region throughout the day. No heat waves are in sight for the entire holiday period, the Weather Bureau said.

2 Lose Lives in Hospital Fire LONDON (U.R) A doctor and a nurse were killed in a fire which swept the basement and two lower floors of Brompton Hospital. The blaze followed an unexplained explosion in the X-ray department. More than 100 per sons were evacuated safely. Long 1 car when it was and hurtled into down from the TICK-TICK NEVER STOPS cation about them. Nonmilitary informants say there are at least three in Michigan one near Copper Harbor, on the Keweenaw Peninsula; one near the Soo, and one at Empire in the Lower Peninsula.

THESE POSTS will cost about $750,000 each and will be staffed by permanent 75-man crews. Others are located in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The Air Force freely admits that the Canadian Government is co-operating. That apparently means Canadian radar stations will be tied into a joint net-' work. An even bigger radar warning net is being constructed in Alaska.

Installations already are in place on the east and west coasts. LAST FALL, American and Canadian planes held "exercises" in the Northwestern United States to train crews for radar warning stations. The planes flew prescribed courses, unknown to radar-station crews, to find out if the crews could see them, count them, and give prompt and correct warnings. The radar beam extends straight out and does not curve with the earth. This very fact creates a blind spot in the radar warning system of which the Air Force is well aware.

Fast planes flying' low and following the curvature of the earth can come well into the network before being detected. TO MEET THIS problem, the Air Force is sponsoring the organization of civilian "lookout" groups, using state civilian-de-feYise authorities to recruit and train personnel. It is setting up communica-' tion posts and filter centers to relay the observations of lookout groups and co-ordinate their information with the radar observations. One such filter center is to be near Grand Rapids. Last September, an "Operation Lookout" to test the organization STATE RADAR NETWORK of lookout groups was held in 10 Northeastern states.

Nearly 12,000 civilians, recruited, trained and directed by state civilian-defense authorities, took part in the test. The organization has not progressed this far in the North Central states, but the work is under way. Switchmen Put Off Strike WASHINGTON (U.R) The Switchmen's (Union of North America canceled temporarily its strike set for 6 a. m. June 1 on 10 western railroads.

Chairman Francis A. O'Neill, of the National Mediation Board, announced the cancellation. O'Neill said that "sufficient progress" had been made in negotiations to warrant the mediation board continuing its efforts to compose the differences. The strike originally was post poned from May 23 until June 1. O'Neill said he did not believe a further postponement would be necessary.

Trolley Fire Toll Set at 33 Again Free Press-Chiraio Tribune Wire CHICAGO The death toll in Thursday night's trolley-truck crash, originally fixed at 33 and later lowered to 32, was raised to 33 again Saturday. It's Something to Hear Sankey's Trick Ears GREENSBORO, N. Sankey Flynn, of Greensboro, has finally reconciled himself to double objective tinnitus aurium. This means that Sankey's ears can go on ticking audibly twice a second for the rest of his life and he won't care. 12 Injured 011 Jammed Child Drowns in Gravel Pit Michigan held the tragic dis tinction of having more traffic fatalities in the first few hours of the Memorial Day holiday than any other state.

It appeared that Michigan was headed for its worst traffic record in recent Memorial week-ends. Twelve persons were killed in traffic accidents and one child was drowned as the four-day holiday began with a rush to vacation spots. Twelve persons were injured in the wave of traffic accidents, nine of them critically. Last year, the traffic death toll for the three-day holiday wa3 eight. Five others drowned.

IN 1948, five persons were killed in traffic on the first day of the Memorial week-end. With cool, fair weather forecast, police feared that the already overloaded highways would be jammed by Tuesday night as travelers made last-minute dashes for home. State Police Commissoner Donald S. Leonard said: "I am shocked by the sudden onslaught. "I can only plead for added caution.

Without it the week-end may bring unparalleled slaughter on Michigan's roads." THE 12 AUTO victims were: VERNE HUNTINGTON, 14, who lived on a farm near Battle Creek. BRUCE RICE, 19, of FRANK CARSON, 37, of 13191 Monica, Detroit. THOMAS A. DOYLE, 43, of Clio. MRS.

ONALEE DOYLE, 44, his wife. DONALD MOORE, 16, of Albion. LOREN HALL, 39, of Albion. CHARLES ABBEY, 19, of Jackson. ALBERT LEE BURRESS, 37, of Grand Rapids.

MRS. VERA HOFER, 59, of -Dexter. MICHAEL CASEY KULP, 3, of Fremont. Turn to Page 4, Column 6 Fair Dealer Takes Lead in Carolina Truman Critic Close Up in Senate Race Frwe Press Wire Services RALEIGH, N. Senator Frank Graham, friend and supporter of President Truman, took the lead Saturday night in returns from North Carolina's Democratic senatorial primary.

Graham, former president of the University of North Carolina, was engaged in a close race with Willis Smith, a corporation lawyer. RETURNS from 1,064 of 1,990 precincts gave Graham, Smith former Senator Robert R. Reynolds, 27,249, and Olla Ray Boyd, 2,716. Smith has been a Democratic Party stalward in the state for years, but in the primary campaign he repeatedly called some of President Truman's proposals "socialistic." He assailed Graham as pro-leftist and pro-Negro. If none of the candidates receives a clear majority in the primary, the second highest candidate has a right to demand a runoff vote.

Democratic nomination is equivalent to election in this state. Highways thing one would expect from bil lion dollar racketeering influences tied up with shady politics." Wiley warned them: "You had better keep your filthy hands and your filthy attempted influences away, because if jou do try to use pressures they are going to boomerang against you and you'll be doubly sorry." Other developments included: 1 Senator McFarland Ariz. asked Morris Faye, United States district attorney, to check on the possibility of filing perjury charges against two reputed kingpins of the underworld, Frank Erickson and Frank Costello. The two New York figures who have been linked with gambling enterprises throughout the country, testified some weeks ago before McFarland's Senate Commerce subcommittee, which has just won clearance for a bill to curt) interstate relay of horse and dog racing information. McFarland said later developments have raised the question as to whether Erickson and Costello gave false testimony to the committee about their enterprises.

2 Four Tennessee attorneys said that "a nationally controlled crime syndicate" was setting up gambling in the vicinity of the Oak Ridge atomic energy plant. They said $20,000 worth of gambling devices were seized in a recent raid on a warehouse. The lawyers asked Senator Kefauver for permission to testify before his group. They said "the very foundation of the security program at Oak Ridge is being undermined by the forces of organized crime." Kefauver replied that the matter was one for local authorities to handle. 3 Senator Kefauver and other Senate crime investigators concluded a secret two-day hearing at Miami.

They examined the Florida connections of Erickson carefully. Kefauver said that Florida gambling and crime activities in general also were studied as officials and other witnesses were questioned. He added that "we got more information than we expected" concerning tie-ups with operations in other parts of the nation. He declared that certain Florida officers had been lax in law enforcement. Activities in Dade and Broward Counties (the Miami area) were probed most closelv.

Hand shake Ends 2 50-Year Feud INVERARY, Scotland) The Duke of Argyle, chief of the Scottish Clan Campbell, ended a 250-year clan feud by shaking hands with 73-year-old John MacDonald, of the MacDonalds of Glencoe. The fussin' started back in' February, 692. when the Campbells killed a passel of MacDonalds. The Duke and old John MacDonald met at a reunion of war veterans. MANY BOATS Advertised in the "Boats for Sale" column in today's Free Press, are ready for use, some need painting, in either case, now is the time to buy.

Turn to the Want Ad section now. It is easy to place a Free Press ant Ad. Just Dial WO 2-9400 and say, "Charge It." REP. JOHN A. LESINSKI Labor loses champion U.S.

Aides Under Fire Told to Quit Commerce Secretary Asks 2 Resignations WASHINGTON (P) Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer called for the resignation of two high-ranking aides whose loyalty had been questioned in Congress. The two are: William W. Remington, recently questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee in a revival of charges that he once was a Communist. He denied it. Michael E.

Lee, chief of the department's Far Eastern trade branch, who has been under attack by Senator Malone Malone contended that Lee had impeded the flow of gasoline needed by the Chinese Nationalist forces. BOTH REMINGTON and Lee declared that they would not re-j sign under fire. Lee denied that! he had ever been a member of any Communist-front group. The Senate Commerce Commit-! tee is reported to have put pres-j sure on Sawyer to fire Lee. I The department's announcement said: "This action is in no wise intended to reflect in any way on the loyalty of either of these two men.

Their loyalty cases are now pending before the Commerce loyalty board, and no decisions have as jet been reached." The announcement made it clear that if they did not resign they would be fired. "The action was taken the interest of good administration in the department," the announcement added. REMINGTON IS an international trade economist in the Office of International Trade. This is the same division in which Lee is an official. Remington was given his post after he had been cleared by the Government's top Loyalty Review Board of charges made against him by Elizabeth Bentley, acknowledged one-time courier for Russian spies.

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The west-sector police did not return the fire. Soon afterward, West Berlin and East Berlin police heaved stones at one another in a brief encounter near Potsdamer Platz, in the heart of the city. Meanwhile, Communist youths marched in military formation to Mitte Stadium for an "international sports festival." There they were addressed by Erich Hoenecker, Communist youth chairman. He assailed "Anglo-American domination." SUNDAY MAY be a crucial day. The once planned but later canceled Communist youth march on Berlin may develop then.

American and British troops were fully alerted and prepared. In the three days since the youth demonstrations began, S5 policemen from the Russian sector have fled to West Berlin. Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Sommunist strong man dand deputy premier, rejected Western proposals for Germany-wide elections to unify the divided country. He demanded that the American and British occupation forces withdraw from Germany. As a matter of fact, he now hopes that whatever makes with the clocks in his head won't ever get wound down.

"I'd feel lost without it," he explains. "Listen." YOU STAND up close to Sankey's right ear. Tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick. You move over to the left ear. TicK-tick, tick-tick, tick-tick.

Then you look for the watch strapped under his hair, only he doesn't have so much hair, and no watch. So you ask Sankey when does the alarm go off inside his head. Sankey is reputed to be the only man on earth with two ticking ears, which makes it a serious business, indeed. And that's the way Sankey takes it; seriously. "I've had some docs who wanted to operate on my ears," he says, "but I wouldn't let them.

Suppose I went deaf, or something?" The ears are ordinary ears, but they started going tick-tick years ago- Sankey can't remember when and they've been doing it ever since. NOT EVEN the sound has varied. Not once have they gone tick-tock. Sankey, 31, a loom fixer, says "at first 1 thought everybody's ears ticked. Just thought it was natural.

Then in 1936 I found out that this ticking was something special." When the news got around Sankey's ticking ears were featured on a national broadcast. Tug Rams Ship BOSTON (U.R) A Navy tug towing a "mothballed" destroyer escort docked here safely after a fog-shrouded collision with a freighter. I.