Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

'-Y-yTo' -i 11 1 nr TV 7- TV: Tf 1 'in n1 nri A 11 1- Tl II' HD 1 II TONIGHT- OOLDEB On ftp -ft $7' ik VOLUME LXXXVn 12 PAGES LEWISTON-AUBURN MAINE MONDAY FEBRUARY 23 1948 LAST EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Month Truman Asks Veteran32 Dies At Minot Heel xtension BASKETBALL Auburn Tean In Evening Session PlaVS A 32-year-old war veteran Adam Broehu of the Sabattns Boad Lewiaton died this after noon of stomach injuries sustained in an accident at the Minot Wood Heel Factory in Anbnrn He was dead before the am balance conld get him to the Central Maine General hospital Dr Twaddle said an autopsy would be performed to determine the exact cause of death The accidqpt occurred at abont 12 £0 Anbnrn police aaid someone ealled headquarters for an ambfllance abont that time bnt hnng np saying that one had arrived Police Captain David Berry of the Auburn force investigated the ae cident and said that Brochu was machIne caeA at the time of the i BY NORMAN THOMAS This year in the Maine interscholastic basketball tournaments for the major high schools the matching was done by drawing the names of the teams from the batriuUpe with a vote taken by the Maine Association some time ago The result is some duels which promise to be thrillers in the curtain raisers Principal Lin wood Kelley of Lewiston high school chairman of the basketball committee announced Monday morning the matching for both Eastern and Western Maine tourneys to beheld March 4 5 and A NEWSBOYS ON A These and other Sun and Journal -the totaled went to Boston yesterday to see the sights and the lee Follies The trip an annual Birthday excursion was their reward for getting new customers on their paper routes Did they have a fiire time? What do yon think? See Story Back Page number Communists Bid for Supreme Power in Czechoslovakia Post Police at All Buildings Over Coals for Price Boost War Crimes Prosecutor In Unprecedented Attack Upon Presiding Justice PRAGUE-A -Communist bidding for supreme power put their Security police today before all Czechoslovak government buildings 4 ind foreign embassies Opposition speech waa at leut parftg stifled Headquarters of the-Cach National Socialist party one of three which- withdrew Friday from the government coalition was seized police armed with submachine-guns Czechoslovak Nationals virtually were frozen inside the country by a ministry of interior order requiring new stamps of approval on The Western Maine tournament which is to be played here at the Armory starts on the afternoon of March 4 with a Portland inter-city classic opening the' card Cheverus high which has spllt its series with Portland high takes on that dub in what will send the tourney away at a red hot pace Then in the second game of the afternoon South Portland will take cm the winner of the Rockland and Westbrook playoff They have not played the former dub this season but hive licked the Westies twice See TOURNEY Page I CoL 1 bomb plot last fall against three ministers was jailed Police were looking for Dr Vladimir Krajina Secretary General of the National Socialist party who directed investigations that uncovered the bomb plot They seized Zdenek Uhl president of the Medical Union and JiriPtak former head of the Engineers' Union First Display ef Arms The display of arms was the first since the political crisisitart- bureau (coailnftarm) eastern European spokesman for Communist-dominated- countries to coordinate an attack upon western democracies Lewie Douglas ambassador to London Is representing the in the three-power conference The Benelux Belgium the Netherlands and- Luxembourg have been guaranteed a hearing Russia protested the talks would violate an aereement made at Potsdam in 1949 for four-power decision on Germany The United States and France turned down the protest In a kanatic note made public in Wi button Saturday Under Secretary of State Robot Lovett said Soviet failure to the principle of economic In Germany impelled Urn other three powers to organise economy for German and Eurooean recovery French Foreign Minister Georces Bldault gave a somewhat similar tepjy Friday See BIG THREE Page It Col 8 FRANKFURT Gegmany-JP-The latest war alma trial betides sending some Goman commanders to prison has resulted in an unprecedented attack by the 8 prosecutor upon the Iowa judge who presided The judge in turn quoted as at- A newspaperman's Charge at wire tapping ended today to a situation which is likdy to bring smites to German faces This la how It came about by days: The war crimes tribunal with three judges in charge sentenced German Field Marshal Wilhelm List and otha Goman commanders fa wa crimes in the killing at hostages in the Bel-1 tins ed Friday night with the resignation of 12 anti-Communlst ministers from thy coalition of Premia huUJBg: the Ministry oftoterta fdlli3SSjaW tom th of Justice employe who Involved a urill Communist in the perfume box See CZECHS Pm 1 CoL Britain and France7" Begin Conference to Plan Future of Western Germany twith Six Members Of Family DieinFire CAMBRIDGE Maa-P-Sir pains in one four of them children perished early today when flames swept their lS-room-Jiouse on fashionable Brewster Street Fol'ce identified the dead as: Alan Gregg 4A a Harvard graduate of 1935: his wife Ann and their four children Span 9T Alan Jr 8: Peter 5 and Thomas 10 months old Escapes The only one to escape as flames raged through the rambling three stay wooden house was the family maid Edna Roper 8A She was Injured critically firemen said when she apparently toppled through a second story window in trying to open it At least a dozen firemen and the fire chaplain the Rev Thomas were overcome attempting to rescue the trapped family The whole inside of the house was a roaring infomo before the firemen got there Deputy Chief Henry Kilfoylc sa "The fire started on the first flow" he said "and went up a stairway to the third floor the time we got there the whole house was enveloped in flames We had to enter through a second floor window" See SIX DIE Page 8 CoL 8 Cowan Former State Attorney Dies at 59 PORTLAND 'IP- Frank Irving Cowan attorney general of Maine from 1941 to 1945 died today after a abort Illness He wai 59 The tall gray-haired Cowan resumed private law practice after declining to seek a third term One of hie lait acts as attorney general waa an investigation of eondit'ona at AugJata State tircanej hospital It was followed by a medial study of the hospital at direction Of the Maine commissioner of institutions In 1931 Cowan aided In an in vestlgation and audit of Maine state trust funds his efforts resulting In return of approximately $1400400 to the state Bewfoia Gradute Born in Palmyra he attended Maine Central institute end' worked hie way through Bowdoln college where he received his A degree in 1913 and the University of Maine law school graduating in 191A He sandwiched school teaching between his college studies instructing at Plymouth (Me) high school at Newton (Mass) technical high from 1913-14 and Calais Academy from 1914-15 See COWAN Page 8 CoL 8 ADA Would Abolish Thomas Com PHILADELPHIA -IP- Americans for DemocrstieaAction (ADAModay adopted a platform urging thb abolition of the House Committee of un-American activities The new political party at its first itional convention branded the freedom on political opinion" In its domestic pMlcy platform the organization haded by Wilson Wyatt announced it opposes all proposals to outlaw the communist a any otba political party' WeeM Register All I ADA which docribed Itself as a political party "independent nonpartisan and non asserted that while it does not want Hie Communist party outlawed it favors registration of all Communists and disclosure of the sources of funds and backgrounds of active members The' ADA platform adopted bv th any field of federal See ADA Page ll CoL though fun tax waa withheld from it In 1947 If you were- over-taxed get a refund 8 If you had unda $500 you'll get a refund by filing Income under $500 not taxable Be Carefal Be careful about exemptions and dependents particularly in the case of a wife Take the wife -You'get a $500 exemption fayour-elf always and anotha $500 for your if she -bad no income If she had income even though unda $500 you claim exemption fa her unless you include her income In a joint return with ypuri it -vain A 1 Hjti vv Y- Jerusalem Paralyzed as Armed Arabs Jews and British Patrol Blast Tom City Coupled With Housing Aid Program WASHINGTON -President Truman today urged a 14-month ctrooger rent control law along with extension of financial aid to home Building In a special message to Congress Mr Truman asked t'rt this emei-gency action be coupled with a long-range housing program to produce 1400400 dwellings year for the next decade -We must adopt them together so that they may work the presidential message said must make orderly progress not a stag-gering uncertain series of starts and Bent control expires February 29 Republican leaders have agreed to push through a 80-day extension of the present law this week This will give time for study of a bill pending 1 the Senate for a 14-month extension of ceilings to April 30 1949 on wiftHifiid hulls Mr Truman asked for -more housing at lower cost both in the Immediate future and for the long run Five-Point Objective He set before Congress this fiver point objective: "To continue and strengthen rent control 8 stimulate a higher volume of home building on a sustained basis with special emphasis on rental housing with against possible safeguards tionary effects See SPECIAL MESSAGE 8 1 Taft Asks" Military Aid For China DETBOIF-JP-Senator Taft (R-Ohio) today called for American military help for China He tamed Truman' $870400400 assistance plan a "relief program- which "will completely all to aolve the problem'' of Communist pressure Taft aaid Secretary of State Marshall had been "unwillingly forced into drafting the aid program sent to Congresa last week The truth is" Tuft said in an ad-drese prepared for an economic club luncheon -that Secretary Marshall does not like the Chinese and has no interest in their The Ohio Senator a candidate for Republican presidential nomination aaid he considers the Far Tt as ultimately more Important to peace than Europe Yet today In China he continued "we continue a policy which threat- ft? vmn i to undo in the Far East every-the Marshall plan (for Eurorecovery) is trying to do in western Europe" Taft declared Jhat "Unless vigorous action la taken immediately all Manchuria will be lost to Commun-isnv" And if that happens he uked "how can we hope that in future yean we will be able to keep It out of Japan?" See CHINA AID Pagelt Col 4 Senators Turn Attention To Tax Cut WASHINGTON -IP- Senator Mil-lifcin (R-Colo) said today he favors cutting income taxa "somewhat less" than the $8400400000 cut voted by tire House Minikin is chairman of' -the taxwriting Senate Finance committee He talked with reporters after a closed -session pf the committee to make plena for Its studies of the Houw-Pueed 'Knutson bill Millli'in announced the committee will start hearings next Monday Secretary of the Treasury jUnyder probably will be the first JretalUkln mid the committee de- 'weed to confine the bearings to dis-cusaton of individual income cute as provided in the House bill unless the administration or Democratic senators decide to sponsor a substitute measure In that case MiUikinwald the hearings probably will be broadened The Colorado senator mid he had 'not formed an opinion as to how much smaller than $6400400400 the tax cut should be See TAX CUT Pzge 2 CoL 2 Weather Weather forecast for Lewiston and vic'nity: Fair and cold today: highest temperature about 25 Fair and cold tonight coldest 8 above Tuesday rioudy and milder north-least winds Lowest over night temperatures: Lewiston -4 Caribou -10 Eastport 7 Greenville -IS Bangor -1 Rumfond 17 Portland 8 (sirpdrt) A TOMORROW ALMANAC irises 637 AJL fets 6:19 PM xth of day 10 bra-88 mins increase 2 brs 2 mi full High Tides Teassirow iStlaidlftMAJf WASHINGTON -IP- Angry Re-' pubLcana may rake big steel ova the coals this week for boosting prices The Senate-House Economic Com- mittee has a ranged to question three typical" steel executives at public hearings Thursday Chairman Taft (R-Ohlo) aid Bifc Steel little Steel and independents will be represented He ruled out any circus atmosphre But there are signs that Tift himself feels the steel industry may have put the Republican Congress ova a political barrel by boosting ome price after the lawmakers had voted to rely on voluntary keep down the cost of living See GOP-STEEL Page Col 8 President Pays Visit To St Croix CHRISTIANSTED St Croix Virgin Islanda-iP-President Truman declared today that renewal by congress of the charter of- the Virgin Islands company la essential to stabilization of the economy of these glands He closed hie good will visit to these Caribbean possessions with a tour of St Croix largest of the Virgin Islands and an official luncheon attended by governor William Hastie and other local officials The president intends to leave later in the day aboard the presidential yacht' Williamsburg fa the naval base at Guantanamo Cuba He la due there Wednesday From Guantanamo he will flyto Key West Fla for a nine-day vacation Saying that he had come here to "see for myself what this part of our Amalcan family la doing to meet irtir common problems" the president aaid in his prepared address: I know pur American way at working togetha toward peace and prosperity will bring results we all enjoy- Governor Hastie end federal agencies arc working to-ia both here end in Washington improve the use of St man sieets and to develop npw Tbe Virgin Islands company he said our greatest hope fa the tabulation of the economy of St "I sincerely hope the congress is going to recharta it" he added The president also held out hope of Increased tourist business for the islands "We must all be ready with enterprise and courage to make the most of these new developments end through them to reads the higher standard of living we all strive for" he aid A round of engagonente yesterday at the neighboring island of St Thomas with Negro governor William Hastie broUghf'to the fore the hope of the islands' dominantly Negro population for help from the United States government See ST CROIX Page 8 CoL 4 LONDON-JP-The Utalted State Great Britain and France begin a conference today on Western future It is the first formal diplomatic acknowledgement that the world has divided into two Port- For the first time Rumia is absent from official talks on 'the future of the Germany Italy and Japan that gambled sTr 1 Japan tr Itaiy powers ana lost In theft conquest ana tost In her empty chair la piled a batch of reasons: (1) Inability of the Big Four to get togetha on ff peace for Germany at their foreign ministers council meeting which ended here in December (2) 8 determination to give western Germany a big part In the Marshall pan for European economic recovery (8) A plain -spoken Soviet accusation that the Marshall plan la part of an American plan to "enslave Europe" (4) Formation of the Commun-munist international Information JERUSALEM-iP-J erusalem virtually paralyzed today Arabs Britans end city made bitter wga un- I patrolled a city maae outer tense by yesterday's bombing the Jewish' sector in which lout 52 persons died Rescue waken clawing at wreckage of two hotels three and of at file houses and scores of two blocks of Ben extricated ni more bodiee today boosting to 52 the number of dead At least 88 injured have been dug from the debris Haganah waxen at the scene said there poeribly I waa believed that eitha a i of the elaborate machinery a the blocx of wood he wu waging flew out end struck him in the stomach The "shaper" wu described of "hlgh-eoeed machiner Superintendent Bolton af the niece of "hlgh-eoeed machinery by merintendent Bolton af the plant The dead person wu the brother ln-law at Abraham Sal President of the Minot Wood Ann ADAM BROCHU Born at Watervflto Nov SL tha aim of Mr and Mrs Ernest Bro chu he attended St School in Lewiston and Edward Little Mrix sebori Auburn He served with tpe Army -during World Wa IL Surviving besides the psrenb are a brotha Ernest Jr and three sisters Mrs' Doris Bbdman Mrfc Eva Pelletier and Mrs Rosa Lalih ertai Urge 1 Support Partition LAKE SUedESS rP- Fourprom inent Americans urged upon the United Nations and the United States today a four-point plan for supporting tha partition of Palo tine The four are Mrs Franklin DL Dosevelt president of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and' a US delente to two UN assemblies Herbert Leeman former Director-General of UNKRA and forma Governa of New York Senator Elbert Thomas (D-Utah) and Sumna Writes Honorary President of the American Aaaocbtioa fa the United Neticne and former Undersecretary of State See PARTITION Page 8 CoL 8 Wallace To Testify On-Aid Bill WASHINGTON-iP-Henry A Wallace discusses foreign aid tomorrow before a House committee In which (residential and international polite cs have been scrambled togetha The independent cend'dete fa the White House asked to be heard And the foreign affairs committee agreed even though It knows bow Wallace stands Wallace has -been- criticizing the administration's whole foreign mil icy as likely to lead to war re tha than peace He has hit hardest at that part of the policy centered around the Marshall plan fa European recovery Chance te Speak Oat Now the committee is giv'ng Mm a forum to say It all ova again There is no evidence that the committee has been getting mixed up See FOREIGN AID Page I CoL I UPHOLSTERING Two' weeks' 1 service by Maine's largest Pe-uphol-sterers The best In guaranteed workmanship We make your parlor furniture just like new For free to-timatee UPHOLSTERING OX Lewiston 4-5861 -V Mechanic Falls 4538 Chinese Communist BigGuns Shake Mukden Industrial Heart of Manchuria Charlea Wennerstrum Iowa supreme court justice who presided gave an interriaw in Nuernberg to Hal Foust of the Chicago Tribune Feint aaid the Judge was disillusioned that ha folt the wu crimes trials were too nationalist in character and that the prosecution hf the most recent trial "felled to maintain objectivite aloof from vim dictiveneo leaked Out The Interview had not been published but Brig Gen Telford Taj la the war crimes pr ecutor somehow learned what contained See WAR CHIMES Page 19 Col 4 more victims in the rubble Arab leaden aaid their comman does set off the two truckloads of explosives which caused the blast but Jews setmed convinced that the British were somehow respon sible Nine British soldiers wen killed in retaliatory gun fighting after the explosion and three Jew lost their lives The death toll for the dhy thus stood at 64 Streets Mined Streets'woe mined and a tripled guard stood duty at British security zone gates and at vital administrative and military buildings Sm JERUSALEM Page 19 CoL I Mukden Hid whole families there were'eommitting suicide fa lack at food Month-old children were being ted a rough Manchurian cereal The seventh day Adventist missionary said Mukden waa shaking to the bombardment of big guns He aid the Communists evidently will try to capture and hold Mukden Attack Airbase Otha reports told of Communist attacks oh a government airbase only mile and a half from Mukden The Chinese air force halted ell Its flight to Mukden The state department advised all dependent of its See CHINESE REDS Page 9 CoL I At the same time in your return you can claim him as a dependent and get the full $500 exemption tor him (The problem of dependents apd exemptions will be explained in a bier story) Some pdople besides making a final retufn on 1947 income by March 15 must do something else by that date too They milst atari paying a quarterly installment on their estimated tax for 1948 This too will be explained a fafer story Tomorrow: Filing a return on Form W-2 the" withholding state-! mfent WANTED TELEPHONE OPERATOR mansion house POLAND SPRING Yew Round Wok TRL POLAND 30 Big Dividing Line on Filing of Tax Return TSINGTAO China -A- Chinese Communist troops wheeled their Mg guns close enough to shake hungry beleaguered Mukden today In their steady advance on the heart of Manchuria Military reports end eyewitness accounts showed the desperate plight of the Mg industrial city (Government sources in Peiping reported another grave the loss of Faku 45 mile north of Muk den Its fell tightened the Communist blockade of Mukden and opened the way for Communist assaults from the north) The Rev Dehlsten Berrien Springs Mich just arrived from If he had $500 a more income you can't claim him as dependent even though you contributed to more then half his support in Say you had a schoolboy son and last year he bad $500 or more in come Say he turned it all ova to to you a maybe kept It himaelf What' happens? You cent ebim him as a dependent He has to file his own freturn in his own qeme But you'll be responsible for paying Ms tax If he doopt School bey Earnings Now suppose you had a dependent a school who had leu than $500 income in 1947 And suppose he kept the money or turned it over to you Because his income as unda $500 he doeaCt have to file a return And you don't have to include hb-lncome in tow return If 'your draadenfS income was unda $500 but tax waa withheld from any of it he should file return In that way bell get the tax refunded If she had $500 or more income then you both must file a return You can do that in one of two ways: 1 A joint return In thb claim a total $1400 exemption for you $500 for her 8 Separate returns! -You claim your $500 exemption ehe claims here separately You may nve money by filing separately when ha Income was $500 or more be a separate story in thb aeries on husbands and wives) Now' take Fa each dependent you get a $500 exemption this he didn't have $500 or mofb ncome at hit Own $500 Is By JAMES MARLOW WASHJNGTON-JP-March 15 la the deadline tor final settlement on your 1947 Income tax Fa eome people it will mean just filing a return without any tax to pay Others will have to file a return and pay in full any but pay attention to talk of a tax-cut by Congress Any cut Congress puts through will be on 1948 Income not on 1947 Income You have to settle up by March 15 mi 1947 Income The big dividing in dee'dlng who baa to file a Is $500 Income of $500 or more must bo reported even though you don't have MABEL Why did yon leave me? Please eome home I promise to be good to you Harry to pay a tax on It Income unda $500 doesn't have to be reported items To Remember So remember these things: you had $500 a more Income First of aperies Cep yea asa year wtthhelding eertnleste far a tax return this year? Ob da yea bare to asa the iaag fane 1040? Or may pea asa the shert fen 10407 De yea have to -aay a tax at all? Jaares Marlew Ameetated Press eelamnlet brings yea tha answers te these and many ether gaeeUens in a aeries af 10 begiaatng today an tide page Starting With artiele tha Marleta erlea will be ran ta the asternal regatar spat an the editorial page af tha JaniraeL in any tax March 15 8 You still must file a return if you or more Income even 1047 you must flit a return boated Sh-'-r Inflation Smashed Sale FLANDERS 62 Court St I 1 ft: vi tj I'faWw.