Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

Maine ft TOMORROWS ALMANAC Sun rim Ml AH: sets 5:51 PJL Length of day hn II mini Day's ineroua fan 31 min Moon 11 din old a Nigh Tidea tomorrow Portland 7:10 AU- txxxvn WHWB non MB wo I -v UI1WI BUIIIWT PRICE FIVE 'CjENH'S Adrien Hi Asselin in Court After Fun erdB i imi is nub iMUiii LEWISTON-AUBURN MAINE SATURDAY MARCH 20 1948 LAST EDITION Qharge Fugitive From Justice Is Would Mean Major Peace HH1 for hie mother Visibly -affected death and his of the original laton baud hia cam continued for ten days The new hearing date was feet by Recorder Harris Isaacson at the request of attorney Harold Redding Haig Aa Fugitive He was charged Jn -a Letvlston court warrant with being a fugitive from Justice Ho la wanted in New York on a charge of assault and robbery according to a telegram received by Chief of Police Thomas Johnson here yesterday The case of the Lewuton gangju-folded itself dramatically RrstTer-nant Boies 19 of 354 Park Street See ASSELIN Page CoL I bis mother's Asselin one inLCw- 1 V- if s'! Uhder the Trieste yras ce treaty ana free protection of fed Todiyjohtt announcement of (hi western powers said thi plan fiwM Independent Trieste la not working outxerywoIL-' See TRIESTE pawl Cot 3 and the United States sitting it teWy- There was no indication fcowevA the Rmeiane had walked out i 71 ii Seen As Major Move In Anti-Communism Strategy 1 WASfflNGTOrMAPMJnited States Britain and France today proposed the return of the ten ritory of Trieste to Italy through a major re vision of the Italian peace treaty The proposal was made on behalf of the Amer lean government to the Russian and Italian enrr bassies herent 10 AM Eastern Standard Time Trieste is an important port city and ship build ing center on the Adriatic sea between Italy and Yugoslavia IN COURT AFTER MOTHER'S Adrien Asselin 23 (Center)' as he appeared in Lewiston Municipal Court today charged with being a fa gi tire from jnstfce Asselin arrived in court about 10 :15 after having attended hia funeral services He was released under $2500 bail Left to right: Police Officer' Samson Asselin and the young attorney Harold Bedding The alleged chauffeur for a small-town gang charged with staging 55 daring holdups in New York was a sad young man today in Lewiston Municipal Court Appearing a few minutes after his funeral Adrien Asselin 23 had little of the big time gangster bravado in his appearance Amelin was arrested yesterday at the request of New York authorities who are already holding three other Lewiston men He was released on bail so he could go to church hnd the cemetery today to attend services Conn Mother Found Fatally ANTIQUES Group May Be Part Of Long Sought Ring GourtTold The string of antique robberies from beautiful Maine Domes and the meal Summer eats tea owned by nationally prominent people that have! been going on for file past couple of years may be solved Thomas Delahanty Assistant County Attorney told Auburn Municipal Court this morning that it wag possible that a part of the ring may include five Auburn residents one of whom is a woman The group was held In a total of $14400 bail the case continued to March 29 The Are who faced chargee this meming ed net guilty were Jaaea 44 Mrs Marla jeuaa Robert Barry 22 Frank Narris 22' aid Lather Harris 22 Mrs Janes Is a sister to the two Norris boys The group was larceny of a gr valued by the State at $150 It alleged the larceny took place March 19 As the case was continued to March 39 this morning- by Judge Alonzo Conan Delahanty asked that each respondent be placed under high bail because would be very profitable for them to be low bail and then pifed under leave fills Delahanty advised the that while the charge specified only a 9159 there waa urebubly more Involved -Inettnr af Smnmer hemaa aH evartho State has been bid to the doorstep of those five per- Ho recommended that Gordon and Frank Norite be held In $5400 bail Judge- Conant reduced the ammendatlon to $8400 Mrs Gordon Jones waa held in 13400 white Luther Norris and Barry had the amount set at 1 3400 Defense counsel David Berman argued strongly for the court to release Mrs Jones the mother of taro children saying ahe See COURT Page 7 CoL Iwis did not Join in the court application Van Horn had Invited Lewis to do so but Van deadline for Lewis to Join him in the action ran out at midnight test night The present coal contract calls for court appointment of a neutral of fsBu tee' or umpire in event of failure on the part of the union and operator trustees to agree on a third man Lewis sent a memorandum to Federal Mediation- Director Cyrus FROZEN FISH MAINE STL YE -A combination of drought that lowered water in LQ pOndj Concord and unusually eold wegther caused the death of thousands of pickerel pereb am suckers Warden Milton Scribner Solon above is shown beside the spring-lude where moire than a ton of fish perished Th free territory la an area of 430 pure mites with an estimated pop-of 330400 including both Italians and Slava Italians mainly inhabit thi city of Trieste and Slavs the country area The territory boon -ted on tho eastandaouth qy Ytunslpyjai-andon the north byltaur with an arm of the Adriatic sea ton Tornadoes States By In Russians Walk Out Of Allied Control Council at Berlin dur of hit hardest in southwestern Illinois near St Louis where 41 wen reported-kilted The term crest formed in Texas Thursday night and moved northeastward Small tornadoes struck lections of Oklahoma and Kansas Thursday night but the twister devasta with a ting force yes- CHICAGO The death toll mounted to more than 50 today in the aeries of tomadoea ami destructive gates which whipped across wide sections of a nine-state area yesterday The wave of death and destruction from Texas to New York left more than 800 injured Hundreds were homeless Property damage was in the millions The striking on fher-test Wounded CANAAN Conn -IP- A woman identified today as lira Louisi Corey Danbury mother of five children was found fatally wounded on a lonely quarry road State Police mid they were positive she had been Slam CoL Edward Hickey state polka commissioner mid that the husband John was being sought for questioning Police reported they were going to the home of Corey's brother mid at Methuen Maas in search of Cdrey and the fhlhL- Corey mid Hickey was on parole from the Connecticut state prison at Wethersfield where he had served time on a charge of armed robbery with violence Mrs Corey hlckey announced was identified through fingerprints twelve hours- after she waa found unconscious with a wound in the head About 35 feet-from the body polled reported was found a 38 callbe revolver from which two bullets had been fired Hickey mid that police had teamed that Mrs Corey had left her home early last night with her husband and their three-year-old child Some of the clothing was found near the body Air Transport Explodes Five Killed SOMERSET Pa -iP- At least five persons were kilted today in the mid-air explosion of a two-motored transport airplane 10 miles from this mountainous western Pennsylvania community State Police reported they found the bodies of two women and three men State Police Capt Andrew Hudock mid: may he more bodies We The bodies were blown BERLIN-JP-The Russians abruptly walked out of an allied control council meeting today after charging the western powers had provad by their actions "that tho control council no longer exists aran organ of government" The charge was made by Marshal Vusuy Sokolovsky after a heated The Russians adjourned the out leaving the Britain France Ask Court to Name Umpire for Pension Dispute of the for good EariteJnfoe daytS BdU mflU tary -government reported that Gar man volunteers are rushing to mm1 list in a mythical Germair army i western powers Observances In Local Churches By MARGARET MITCHELL The solemnity of Holy week will bo ushered in with Palm Sunday observances In churches throughout Lewiston and Auburn tomorrow In Catholic and Episcopal churches palms wiH bo blessed and dlriJibuted at morning services and special-Lenten music will be ifiduaed in the devotions at all the churches in observance of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem when the popu- Cry Baby Welcome LOS ANGELES -F- A fd-low reading the Classified Adver tisements today's paper IU be doggoned whatever became af the bemeiag shortage" when b- bum aereaa this ana: "Far I Been Apt aU tarnished ery baby ln Southern Macoupin palms foam the trees and strewed them in His path All Protestant churches win include In their devotions special Lenten music and members of the various denominations will gather at Bates College Chapel at 7 o'clock in the evening for the Union Palm Sunday Service to be conducted Under the direction of -Dr Alfred Painter of the Bates College faculty in cooperation with the Lewis-ten Auburn Council of Churches See PALM SUNDAY Paga CoL 4 TORNADOES Page 7 CoL 4 proposal by Chief Delegate Austin for SjConfident Will Accept Proposal To Abandon Partition Of Palestine Compromise Draft Law Being Talked 0 I 1 1 I v-' tar See The Warren temporary UN trusteeship over the bloodbathed Holy Lend was greeted with consternation in London in Washington and among jews throughout the world plea cam a with dramatic suddenness He asked yesterday for a special session of the UN-Aa sembly to approve the interim plan and consider a permanent solution See LAKE SUCCESS Psge 7 CoL I GOP veteran Lewiston police official who has a-statewide reputation might run for sheriff His candidacy could have given the Republican ticket the kind of a ihot in tho arm which could mean victory in the cou: Now however tho police capta: confidence the United Nations will accept the eud-den proposal to abandon partition The gnawer ter Jews may be to proclaim a Hebrew Re- wKb rf th operator SK bitod ear they Plans Fight draft measure to fin file gaps la military manpower until a universal military training system can bs set inn-concrett viulnc TteteataTin discussing the possible draft law outcome talked about registering aH men 18 through 35 not now on wartime draft rdu but with oaetaalvdraft caH unless the armed forces prgxwLhnable to fill their quotas With voluntary age listmenta Senator Ferguson (R-Mirii) reasonable because then we "apundh reasonable because than wa could studv the facts as to whether the men are actually needed" Some congressional leaden de olored Mr: tartica in ask ing for both the draft and universal Training One ardent supporter of UMT whp would hot be auotad said the double request mav have killed thekmg ran -tnrintn urogram "A lot of senators and reorasenta-tives have been on the fence on -TTMT" he seHL will give them chance to dude and dodge by vote- -i 1 M1 -0 AV- 3 Hudock aald oni MfpiWaH aa Geo of (14 RodWttf Providence He waSoelieved to be the ship's pilot The women one victim had been Armltage has decided not to run not this year anyway The attempt to persuade Elie St Clair of Webster to make another bid this year waa brought to a sudden death with St Clair's announcement he teas- not going to fll i I ffi-rl v-i I I I I WASHINGTON-JP-Coal operators! today asked the Fedftal District court to name an umpire for the miners' pension dispute that has caused a nationwide strike Action came shortly after chief John Lewtt bad agreed to meet with soft coal operators Mon-day-in an attempt to reach a settlement The court petition sought appointment of a neutral member of a three-man board which administers a $30-000400 pension oust fund The other two members are Lewis apd Ezra van -Horn leading negotiator for the mine owners They have been unable to agree on a metb- od for making pension payments The pension board originally had three members However the ne-trsl member Themes Murray of New York restated January 18 said the Sled by Van Horn for all practical purposes have ceased to function on account of differences that have existed between them As a result of which said welfare and retirement fund has not been activated" Cottage Grand National AINTREE England- 2P -Sheila's Cottage a rune-year-old Irish mare held at 50 hi 1 4n the betting won the 102nd running of the Grand National steeplechase today In driving finish with First Of The Dandies It waa the second consecutive victory tor an Irish horse Caughoo having won test year in this oldest of obstacle races Lord Mild way rode hia fftomwell to third place Silver Fame the 8-1 favorite foil the first time around at De-oiler's Brook When the field of 43 front On the home stretch how Sheila's Cottage came up fait WANTED Person Interested In GREENHOUSE WORK Between ages of 25 45 yrs Apply far person at 8-00 Poland Spring Me 1 1 Redding Seeks Nomination For Androscoggin Probate Judge ependent went nothing Arab State but an ind BY A LEMIEUX Androecoggin Republicans can see the handwriting on thewjll It looks like another Democratic year they are at work on a date of candidate! anyway Come what may the Republicans plan to put up a fight this year offering candidates all along the line State Committeeman Redding end Chairman Ji been carryii for Candida tee haa not met with too much- success but they still are at it possible thev would like to be aMe to point to a good tlate when they go to- Portland in two ween for the State convention Both Republican Officials themselves may wind up seeking elective office this year So far very few Republicans from this county have secured num-ers from Augusta More-of those who have gone on tu is to bring out the county randi-dateii and persuade them to put up a fight Only a short time ago Republican hope was renewed when it appeared that Captain A Picard Lewis aald however: is preposterous to assume that will be made at your these men (the merely carry out the instructions of their 1 Leads plainly accepted the tavU tation with reluctance He said he did so out of a "desire to avoid any discourtesy" to Ching See LEWIS PageT'CoL 1 Wins British Steeplechase and went on to win by a length The weather was perfect in comparison to last rain The turf was a trifle soft A record crowd of 300400 defying transportation difficulties filled the mndstnadand was strung along the fiower-Uned course There waa oily one American horse in the race Caddie II-and it fell the first time around fet the canal turn The Caddie' Owned by Paul Mellon Pittsburgh financier was running well up among the leaders at the time Canal Thru is the eighth fence and requires a sharp turn after the jump Jackie Maguire Caddie IT fold there was no bumpini ust made a bad mistake" be See RACE Page 7 CoL 9 WASHINGTON-JP-Talk of a compromise draft iawy-registeriiig men without an immediate call to arms Jn volume today on capital On a Democratic -leader declining to be namedr said a compromise might ha the only draft measure eongreas would approve President Truman appealed tor prompt passage of a temporary run St Clair a liquor store employe in Lewlstdn lost htls rating the last time he ran When he returned to hia work be bad to go in as a new employe That meant financial sac rifice This time the county Republican leaders conferred with Chairman A Stover of the iiq uor commission to see if St Clair's position could not be protected but St Clair made it clear today that be funning John Fortunate popular sports official and Ernest Poirier remain the only announced Republican candidates for Sheriff although Aider-man Anthony Petropuloa of Lewiston has Indicated that he may throw his hat into the ring Nipped la Tbs Rad The announcement by Judge Frank Llnnell of Auburn that he would at he woulc Republics: be a candidate for the nomination for County Attorn ev the June primaries smears to hi n'nped in the bud a move to endorse a Democratic candidate Report current short) before the Llnnell an Sioynnement wera to t4- tt he Rera'Mican wrld endorse Attorney Edward Beauchamp of See POLITICS Pago 4 doLS- T' HOUSEMAN WANTED Must Furnish Good References Steady Employnwit -Apply Writing to -Postotficf Box No 800 -Poland Spring Ms jfri" Marvin Preston erf Bedding Conn and- Burlingame (143 West Ttuadate) of Wilmington Weather Weather fore-least for Portland land vicinity: Pair land slightly cold-ler tonight and I Sunday: minimum I tonight 40: maxi-'mum Sunday 45 (moderate north-1 westerly wind west id southwest on Sunday Lowest overnight temperatures: ijcwiston 40 Caribou 39 East-port 33 Greenville 31 Bangor 41 Rumford 32 Portland 40 i-bAby Bathinettes All Tray and Frame (1AM jjwith Drain Horn IU 1 mid Towel Holder SATURDAY ONLY DAYSBeddingCo 195 Turner St Aub Dial 44351 ins for' a temporary draft" Even Chairman Guraev (R-SD) of the Senate Arpwd Svices -Coni mlttee said "wa have not had enough See DRAFT Pagg7 CoL 4 Fnd Bodv On Portland Mnd Flats SOUTH PORTLAND -JP- Thi badly decomposed body of a several dayr old baby waa found-today by boys playing on mint flats Marine South Fort'und-Portland bridge Police said the baby may have -been thrown from a ear on the bridge OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERIENCED AUTOMORIfiE SALESMEN Largo Local Franchise Selling season is her Plraty of cars Incoma up to you Write references to Jj Box 11 Sun-Journal By ED KUONAK Harold Redding popular attorney and Republican State committeemen from Androscoggin county played tho major role in a political sunrise today as ha announced ha would seek the GOP Yiominatkm for Androecoggin Judge of Probate in the June primaries The announcement brought considerable comment from tool Democrats one of whom declared "the Republicans seem determined to give us battle in the Fall elections They are doing all they can to put forth a strong ticket Personal Aimtaktratteu In his announcement Redding told ieved every citizen and able puoiic snouid certain ly do so Ho bdtevo strongly that tho duty to serve our fellow men- and women is as important and as necessary as getting out' to on election day I believe I am qualified to servo as Judge of Probate and I am willing to do my bit in giving Androscoggin folk the See BEDDING Page IColS 'V the Journal be believed every who felt himself qualified ai to serve tbe public should i WINDOW SHADES VENETIAN BLINDS ALL SIZES COLORS SHADES REVERSED CAMPBELL 35-37 8ABATTUS ST LEWISTON I 9.