Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

V- "'7' V'- j- i 1 f- i -7 '-y--'y- Uji a 7 After a Spirit of Discernment the Next Rarest Things in the World Are Diamonds' -AOUIIOVi ALMANAC 'ftairlaw AJL: eata 591 PJL Mil increase 9 bhmi Moon days old Ilk TUas oitow Portland 6:55 PJ JOURNAL INDEX Marlow Page 4 State Chat Comics l' Pozxlo Aadlo-v'- Sports FIVE (lENTSi VOLUME LXXXVII J4 PAGES LEWISTON-AUBURN MAINE WEDNESDAY MARCH 31948 I AST EDITION Marshall And Forrestal Back Plea For Ftlfids For Armament WASHINGTON JP- Secretaries Manhall and Forrestal old Confroaa today then is vs Greece and Turkey cannot remafn free un-: more military aid from Million' British Nsibbed Early Today In Palmer Middle St Plant Draft Exhausts Loan From US Wisconsin Man Has 102d Birthday Like Hundred CADOTT Wfe--Unslag A WUeeXi the but cf tali In Mae' 113 yean all today Friends and relattvas gathered at the Wlleax hate to axtead gsed wiahea to the stotok leal servlvtag GAB waa as fenaal birthday in preeariM aid eavatryaum had a wry awnt far eallera today Ilka a '-'Wile United States two cabinet members testified (jointly to the House Foreign Affairs Committee In support ct the admin -titration's request for $275900000 to f' be spent on funs planes and other weapons for the two nations Secretary of State Marshall said that arming the Greeks and Turks would be "diseourafinf to further aggression against their countries Marshall said $200000000 would I be for Greece and $75000000 for Turkey It was the first down' Confresg has been fiven on the $275900000 Thinking of lassie Both Marshall and Secretary of Defenaa Forrestal left little doubt they wen thlnklnf of Russia Marshall said there is evidence in Greece and Czechoslovakia of Communist intention afainst all nations that stand in the way of their confront Marshall said no assurance that American assistance can be stopped Forrestal said it is evident that military position in both countries must receive our first and Turkey lie on the frlnfe of totalitarian countries whose actions leave little doubt that they hope to extend their control these two Witeflcally located 'lpver dated in effect that Britain frees bankruptcy and- that it has overspent its income by $4000900900 in the last two years New dollar aid however is In prospect in the $5900900000 European recovery program now under debate in the Senate Upward of one fourth of ERP funds may go to Britain expected to be the biggest beneficiary under the program The loan agreement which took effect July 16 1946 pro-vidcs that Britain must begin rATmth ee AID Page Col zec Envoy To US Quits To Fiffllt for Free Nation WASHINGTON -JP- Jura Slavik Czechoslovakian ambassador to the United State resigned to day in protest against the Communist over turn in his country He said he will Ylght tor a free Czechoslovakia" Slavik said the Czechoslovak! envoy to Canada also is resigning Tbe envoy told reporters his coun- he la convinced that Dr Eduard Beneg Czechoslovak pres'dent was police as a result of the recent under and when he crisis there in which Communists agreed to formation of toe new Cam-seized control Imunist government headed by Pie- ImW yinwl fbiHwiM Immediate notification of his re Klement GottwaUL ilgnation la being Slavik and menta to which Ing aent to Prague to the other govern i he ia accredited In Four GOP Senators Propose Veto-Free Anti-Red Agency JODUBOr ta Beiudlen iter) -wounded wat veteran as he appeared wLrfbnMuiueipal Court thia morning Hyvrag 4t gunpoint at tiieTalmer-Klng plant on Middle Street early thif corning by Lewiston detective At hia left ia Detective tJohpi Harkins At his right Detective Fred Soucy Seated is Probation Officer Everett Plummer Beandien said ha often hgd the to break into locked place A wounded Pawtucket I' war vsteran Raymond BfapHisn 24 arrested at gunpoint by Lewiston police de- teetivea hi" in Jhe plant on Middle Street Detectives Feed Soucy and John Harkins t-aced him there on Wlowinu footprints in the snow Shortly after arrest Captain Roland Amnott of the Detective Bureau said the detectives believed they had cleared up the mystery' of several local breaks which have frafflfl them during the past week WASHINGTON- JP -Britain has exhausted its $3750000000 loan from' the United States with a final $100000000 draft the treasury diadoaed today Originally expected to last three tr five years the loan funds held out only -lift months Britain checked them out at an average rate afnear-ljr $200000000 a month The last withdrawal was made Monday Exhaustion of the loaft came a short time after a British government white paoer de- in bST Killings Held Rica -JP-OtOlo whose' election as President voided by Congress is In 5il today charged with complicity in the killing of two guard Ulate may be tried may go free or may be exiled The government must decide must also decide whether to cell a special presidential election next month or have the present government-controlled Congress name a provisional President The holdover Congress voided election Monday on charges of fraud Tha two customs guards wart shot to death Monday night during file hunt tor Ulate arrest was directed personally by War Minister Gen Bene Pioado Mtehaldci who supported him in the turbulent Fteb elections Gen Pioado la a brother of the present President Ucenddo Teodoro Picado MichalsU clears up the Gen Picado aald after the arrest could be named provisional President of Costa Rica if I wanted 1 but I am tired of all this The strain of this Job is too much tor me I dmt get any rest I think HI leave tor Mexico City Friday and then HI gd to Sen Antonio Tex where I have a little exporting buainesa" -wr vt vt 1 PWfifTIPn 1 a ilCWBUlCll Free Pending Court Decision WHITS PLAINS -JP- After five days to Jail two Newburgh papermen were free today ng a court decision on a fight against penalties imposed an them tor refusing to reveal to a grand iry their confidential sources of The newsmen Douflaa Clarke 33 news editor of the Newburgh (N Y) News and Charles Leonard 27 a reporter on the paper were released late yesterday to custody of their lawyer The release without ball was ordered by State Supreme Court Justice Frank Coyne He reserved decision on habeas corpus proceedings attacking their conviction for contempt of court which brought 10-day Jail aentencca and $100 fines They had been in the Orange County Jail at Newburgh since Friday Detente Attorney John Flanagan told Justice Coyne that al-thought no state law yet gives a newsman tile right to protect the sources of- his information from a coqrt or inquisitorial body the courts have power to recognize tha confidential relatiohshlp is a relationship which should be fostered for the best interests of the community in Flanagan contended He argued that write of habeas corpus should be granted on tbe ground the newsmen had not had opportunity to prepare their defense betore sentence was imposed by state supreme court Justice Gordon Flannery Onuige County District Attorney Stanley Johnston did not ask that bail be required See NEWSMEN Page 7 COL upon British request any year" if: The British government that a waiver is necessary in view of the present and prospective conditions of international exchange and the levd of its gold ad foreign and 2 The world monetary fund certifies that Britain's income from its exports and such service to foreigners as insurance and shinning receipts falls below the minimum Britain needs to pay for imports" But he said am confident 1 stand atone" Slavik told reporters: know there will be more of my colleagues who will act aa I do now There will be Czechoslovak patriots who will fight for ourideais of freedom The great majority of our people in Czechoslovakia have these ideals wish to live as a freeman and I want my nation to ha a community of free Slavik has been since June 19J6 He was twice minis- tnf interior to Czech governments holding that post during tha war to the Londonvexile government 200000 For Un-American WASHINGTON JP A $300000 fund for investigating un-American actltltias this year waa approved today fcy tha House Appropriation! committee The Horse itself atiH must okay the amount It may do that later to fca week That would give the un-Amertcan Activities committee twice the sum it operated on last year and' $94000 more than it ever hid before Sane af the money may finance public hearings centering around a subcommittee report that Dr Edward Condon director of the National Bureau of Standard Is of the weakest links to our atomie Chairman Lacompte (R-Xowa) of tha Administration committee said the Condon case had nothing to do with hii action See CONDON Page 7 CoL Stresses Need To Cut Debt WASfflNOTON-JP-Senatar'0'ka honey (D-Wyo) said today any surplus annuld- be used pay off the national dent aa tong um ia any danger of inflation to th come an told a Committee hearing cut taxe rotimated tha annual national income it $304004004000 The debt la now approximately $355000000004 Senator Taft (R-Ohio) took Jane with and Chairman Mil-likin (R-Coto) echoed view Taft said a proposal to reduce the debt as much aa $7004004000 to $4004000000 annually is a theory" Too large a payment on the debt will make too big a cut in the amount of money available and will have a pronounced deflationary affect Taft said Bee TAXES Page 7 CoL 3 Biggest however how much beerwaaCON-SUMED ln each of the cities in which tha distributors are located Dealers send their wares gll over the State Some distributors Meliv-er beer into aa many as eight and ten countie Few Largs DMribatoza Through th State as a whole only nine dealers pay more than sera the money Dec: 31 dean it up with payments once a year over a SO- year period unless the grants waivers would The annual payment amount to about $144004000 each They would imply to a 000 settlement farlend- as wdl as the $3750000- 000 loan Most of the initial repayments however Would go for interest at a rate a little under taro percent And the agreement provides that the must waive interest payments addition to the United States these are Cuba Haiti and tha Dominican Republic 1 After refuting at first to amplify formal statement Slavik told reporters the Czech envoy to Can- ada had notified him he ia redgmtig At a news conference Slavik mid I The envoy did not say wl 1 propones to do in hit free Czechoslovakia" JL what he: lot a jr unaelflahnaaa of the course we are Dtinuing" he declared Hoey said that white there is no assurance the program will keep peace: is worth frying And ft has the virtue iff being both economical -super agcnc emerged from a mi Marshall Flan night Beads Net ManHened Tha text of the amendment does not mention Russia fay name But tbf intent is obvious Senator Brewster (R-Maine) who aHnHad the meeting mined the it agency aa an slve-defenaive ill He said would provide for collective security without the paralyzing proerof veto" Russia on several occasions has made use of the veto aba holds as one of the permanent members of the UN security council The other tour are the United States Britain France and China Saa AGENCY Page 7 CoL 1 cost ume tor a political speech over radio station WKNB The indictment is expected to lead to another challenge of tha constitutionality of the Taft-Hartley provision forbidding use of union funds to? political purpose Unions contend the tan violates the guarantee of rights tofreq speech That Issue has been raised In two cues here involving CIO official In one CIO President Philip Mur- indicted for ray and the CIO were gee AFL Page 7 CoL 3 obtained by multiplying the tax by six This computation can bo applied to each tax'to figure how many gallons or beer be handled Totaling the distributors tor each dtr will provide an estimate of the total beer handled in fteeomputation will NOT show Repub- WASHINGTON -JP-Four Ucan senators today the United States rally friendly na tions into a new veto-free international agency to checkmate Com- muntan Their plan asks establishment of a supreme council to be created outside the United Nations to defend all member nQwi against or It was put betore the Senate by Senators Ball (Minn) Wherry (Nab) Hawkes (NJ) and Grin (Warn) It did not mention Russia by name but there was no doubt to ita intenL 904000 iS They offered the nlan amenament to tiie $Llffi ropaan recovery program which the Senate is now debating In iha debate itadt Senator Hoey (D-NC) told the Senate that thfro- eovety program offers the wst Immediate meansT to further the of will aid ua to making crystal dear to Russia and all fin world our own high purposes and lice occasionally hia head began to hurt and that he had an "urge" break into any place that ii locked He waa arrested at 135 AJL tiua morning in tbe Middle shop -unpoint by Detective Soucy Equal Ordered Oxt The entire Lewiston detective quad waa ordered to petrol business district at 7 hut night by Captain Amnott after two breaks had been reported He said Beaudien5! fingeyprinta matdwd wlto others trirenat various establishments where breaks have occurred recently Bee VETERAN Page 3 QuL Mmdafpai (tout later Ma amtaf aaa waa oanttaMd tor ten day He aommlttad to Adreeeato Ceuty Jafl whaa aaaMa to tar-aullsM MOL Saaaa lyteg When asked to tlai Beandien told Recorder Harris bnoon: caught ma at hairi Thcro no aenae lytoi about tt Howmw his attarney Beiijainln Arena of Lewiston later entered an innocent pie Beandien told Isaacson war Injuries necessitated a metal Plate being placed In hia heed He tola po- To Says McCabe of Charge WASHINGTON- JP -Thomu B1 McCabe told reporter! today ha has nb recollection of ordering toe1 tails cutoff 11 nearly-new surplus I army bombers that -were sold to! Chin I is aB new to McCabe' aid with a smile after rtiairman Tobey (R-NH) of the Senate Bent i ing Committee had" declared that McCabe nrd-red the bombers de- stroyed Forestall bad publicity at Tobey made this charge aa tin Senate Bank'n Committee opened heerfngs on McCnheh fitness to be a member of the Federal Reserve Boom of governor McCabe was in charge of wat surplus sales abroad from 1944 to 1944 President Truman hu mid ha plan if McCabe is oonfirmed by the Senate to name him chairman of tha board to- replies Mmrto Rode Shortly after the Preokbnt1 action Ttobeyntaidrlui totendedjQ find out what influence led MrTtOc man to demote Ecclea to the vice- ehilnnmhl Jehnaea AmagadSalo In the coursaof an approximately 14000-ward atatemont reviewing handling af war aurolu Tobey said Brig Gen Bl A Johnson who was commissioner in Chin arranged the B-25 of Premier SoongTphay said be adduced that whi ftm newspapers broke tfae whan taa nawmparx broke the story of this dart Hr McCabe with no authoritv whatever for such action ordered the destruction of thaw bombers by cutting the tails off See Federal Rssorve Pag 7 CoL 4 Suggest Complaint' Bureau In FCC WASHINGTON -JP- The Federal Communications Commission got a suggestion today that it set up "complain to hear people who thtek they are injured fay onesided radio Vt Saul Ckrion radio writer for the Now Republic and other publication suggested it FCC chairman Warns Coy commented "I am Intonated in that Canon was testifying it tho FCCa whether it hearinga on whether It toould let radio station owners broadcast their editorial opinions about politics and other public matter That ia a rule now against such editorial Carson objected to opening the way for editorial broadcast It wmdd lead ha argued to the Me- Instead ha said FCb atibuld strengthen its efforts to sea that diverse opinions are broadcast He uggected a FCC unit whom concern is the forgotten man in radio tbe listener Coy when laying toe Men of a told Canon: complaints tnfan listeners are numerous 1 assure you There is delay in handling such complaints perhaps toff Is soma etber anney with toe necesary power and elesar to the source of the trouble which might perform the Cannot Regelate Commissioner Durr remarked that FCC would have difficulty in trying See RADIO Pigs 7 CoL 3 Business $104000 tax per year Three of them are located in Portland two in Lewiston two in Bangor: and me in Auburn The remaining 45 distributors who did business in the fiscal year ending- June 34 1047 paid taxes ranging from a low Of $485 40 (this mm went out of business) to a high of $84483-24 Thom nets are shown by of-Stata ficial records of toe liquor Commission Tha figures are the latest available on the subject 1 Eastern In af Lewfcte ia tha largaat atagle distributer to Main lest yaw (flmal yew In every earn) the fine paid tax $2257751 which -tedkata tost it handled "1954974 gallaw'af has Tha a ms tax again tha wr ia Tbe next laramt local distributor ia the Central Distributor In af $33377443 toa gtat 8 is 11 Arabs Die 27 Hurt In Iaifa Blast JERUSALEM -A'-A truckload of dynamite waa exploded in an Arab residential section of Haifa today and police said the blact killed 11 Arabs and wounded 37 Police said the extremist Jewish underground group the Stern gang had taken responsibility for the blast Several children were killed It was the heaviest toll of life from a bombing incident since the blasting of Ben Yehuda Street Feb 32 in which 55 Jews were Tbe seven-story Salamch building near Haifa's central police station was wrecked The explosion also crumpled the front half of a building across tha street housing tha Arab division of the government welfare office A wide area was shaken by the explosion Army bulldozers and rescue crews tore at the wreckage fearing more victims were trapped in the debris Two of the dead were Arab policemen who were walking toward the nwroy courts building Tbe Mast coincided with an announcement bv Jerusalem police that an advance partition party of the United Nations secretariat had arrived bv air in the Holy Land They are to be quartered In Jerusalem Russia's renewed support of parti- Russla renewed support of parti- tlon and a stronger American stand heightened projects at Lak Sue- tor cutting Y- tor cutting Palastin into Ish end Arab states Arabewish waiters rusalem cutting aU munication with Tel Aviv and Jaffa except through Arab territory The Mrtiway has been the scene of heavy 1 fighting between Jaws supported by British army units ana Arab snipers dug in on hillsides stem to Ten Arabs i flghttngin the See PALESTINE Page 1 Col 3 Twin Gties DigOut From BthBig Storm Lewiston anaAuburn today started cleaning up the eighth major snowstorm of the season -Tbe storm Which began yesterday afternoon and did not end until 893 this mohning deposited over three and a half inches of snow over the Twin Cities Tbe storm caused death to' kaine Mmi Helen of 7 Pleasant Street Auguste died shortly after an automobile to which she is riding skidded on slippery lute One end turned upside down a Falmouth Ditch yesterday Her ath was believed to have been caused by a heart disease Mereary la Twenties Lewiston and Auburn however ware fortunate as far as the temperature was concerned Tha mercury reeding remained at 34 or above throughout night and had risen to 31 degrees when the Journal went to press The overnight low according to the Union Water Power Company Gatehouse was recorded at 5 6 and 7 A when the mercunr-reedinE 7 waa 24 At Midnight it waa dropped to 35 at 3 8 and the storm made In the Twin Cities traffic conditions hazardous Accord' police only one person 'was in skidding accidents: TMs on Lewiston's BarkerviQo HU yesterday when a Maanchusetts man's auto skidded and crashed into a pole Weather Weather fore-JSt tor'Lewfeton ind vicinity: Fair nd ootoer tonight nd Thursday Vnqast tempera ure tonight near degrees in rtm 5 degrees to iburfas Highest hursdav near 35 legreea Winds modarata nortber- 7F tK Zk If Sf-lf -M 'ft I No Excuse For Power Shortage Says Bishop AFL Union Ixical Indicted On Charges Of Violating Ban On Political Spending Local Beer Dealers Do The out power companle' now have a mini-monopoly win get into high gear and enlarge their be said residents can have power rates tower then other juice in the' world of four of the five csndidatgf "or the Republican nomination for gayemar to speak to the Jishop urged his Ustenen to: wim to the slick smooth professional: politician and elect men end woman to public office who can look the graTter cbimleiz nd aeekers of political patronage ia tha cya wti in tha nation neewtong to National Education Amoctetiai awaate "Eleven state which fn1943 had tte aame or lem per -capita ineomg XTsaKia said The Pcrtiand attorney five tor tha GOP gubernatorial cmina'ion tort teraUmmLia rf AmertiM boya and gfrls art getting-an ln- idtquam education Balling tM KSards of education on a naOoMl technical education I belteni i tow an MM educational system wWda "4 3gf 4 '-ri ffit scS 7 A 4: WASHINGTON -JP The Justice the on politt cal spending Attorney General Clark said the indictment was returned by a Federal Grand Jury in Naw Haven naming Pataterr Local union Na 401 (AFL) and the local's President John He said tha Indictment chargee the Illegal use of union fundi to buy political advertising space to the HarttonT Time and to buy broad-1 af Maine draws total af fax revean Last year Oat total an lncreaaa af Marly J1MUN evar tha total ot WmjuiM Just exactly how much' beer each iston dispense through tha-yew is something which no one seems to know tor sun No sure figures are compiled An idea of the imoupt of beer which flows through the mam distribution points in tha State be obtained however from the togpwing figure Thom figures toow- the actual net tax on beer paid by elcir of toe 40 distributors whom main of fleas wen listed in the cities men-' tioned through fiscal year ending June 34 1947 Since toe tax is 16 cents per gallon a rough estimate of toe total gailonaiA pan bo AUGUSTA Senator Neil Bishop of Bowdoinham declared tofay that ia absolutely no excuse for a power 1 shortage In Speaking betore a forum of the Maine Federation of Women's Be publican Chib Binop said Maine TfiUed to the with many resource Including a Vast power pa-tentiaL Drought and revere cold hive reduced toe electric power output in eastern end northern Maine to tha point iff rationing in some apota tide Winter In State which paid a tax of $1191 0L76 last yew 'That would indicate a gallon-age of 714611 Tha tax tor 1946 waa $14193791 Only two other distributors were operating in Lewiston through the year Bergeron's Beverage Company paid a tax of $39100 thus handling about 17902 gallons of beer The Federal Distributor Inc paid $929 tax handling about 5574 rollons of1 beer Both ware new firms and did not do business in the previoui fltcil Twr The total tax paid by Lewiston distributors was $44173457 on roughly 1091363 ofoeer Aabatw i Auburn hu ona larro distributor toe General Diatribwnr and six muiw oncGeneral Mid 5118 -77590 abeer taxes teat year-thus hsMiHwjr about 71100 gallons tit hew Its 1940 tax wu $0139114 See LIQUOR Paga 7 CoL 1 BY A LEM1EUX largest beer distributor tf located In Lewiston and pays the State nearly a third of a million dol- year in taxe Lewiston and no dealers combined presented the State in 1947 with a beer tax of more than $661000 on some 8967470 gallons of beer Fourth InHSerki Portland distributor the only ones in tbe State who competed with the Twin City dealers in volume State In beer That means tost paid the taxes last year handled some 4405J11 gallons of beerT or roughly half a nullion gallons leso than Lewiston and Auburn Beer to MiW la realty Mg Mm tt la estimated that It ram into a yaw sheet toe sum to grow toe BtateV hard li tola af famines tha Attention Fire Departments A few ww surphia Portabls Forest lire Pumps tor immediate delivery Weight only 75 Delivers $5 rollons per minute Also New 400 lb Test Horn tor same at less than one-half pride 5 Gallon Brass and Galvanized Indian Ppmp Tank Ite A Demonstration Can MAINE FIRE EQUIPMENT CO dial 4-4301 lewiston maine Sea WOMEN pSsgs I CoL Lowest overnight temperaturea: Lewiston 24 Cteribou 11 Eartport S3 Greanriue 15 Bangor SS fiipn-ford 31 Portland 34 A i).