Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

TONIGHT CWUpy -u: VOLUME LXXXVn( s' PwSttdr vCm: i PRICE 12 PAQES LCTISTQPfrAUBURN JtiAlNg WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26 1947 LAST EDITION ft-' Interference With Affairs Move to Develops Cut Back Aid Bill in Senate PAREB-5P-The Ministry of the Interior announced today the expulsion from France of 19 Russians for Interference in French af-air-1 during the current labor crisis which erupted fo new violence as and strikers battled fo the of Lyon Find Only Four Survivors BULLETIN KETCHIKAN Abska WP-The Caart Gurd reported today Idond foar alive Ihreo dead on the bow of the army transport Clarksdale Victory which waa smashed on the reeky beach of Hippo Island it OAKLAND-JP-Cmdr James Jensen Coast Guard operations officer 'at Ketchikan Alaska told the Oak-vland Tribune in a radio telephone versation today that 12 men had inded on Hippa island but lied in an hour and a half find any survivors of the wrecked transport Clarksdale victory The fact no survivors havebeert he said jjot necessarily mean there are none The Bland is heavily wooded" The newspaper said the Coast Guard had two cutters at the scene of the wrecked ship which split yesterday In all be said 25 to SO men will be put' ashore to search for the 51 nersona who wrre aboard the ill-fated ship which foundered in rough seas Commander Jensen said there was a possibility that the musing stern of the ship had floated away carrying some of the men aboard the ship Two coast guard amphibian planes and two Royal Capadbir amphibian planes were to scour the calming seas -The newspaper -talked to Com rmander James Jensen by radio-Ajdephone this morning rTHe said he was confident there were survivors Coast Guard aerial See SURVIVORS Page IS Col 1 The announcement the Russians as members of tha Patriotic Union" and said they included foe president the treasurer and two secretaries-general of the 19 were token by bus to an unstated frontier and put across foe border the ministry said In-Lyon police used tear gas to break up a strikers' march on the prefecture after a mass labor rally called by tha Communist -dominated General Confederation of Labor (CGT) National security police inspectors swooped dowa-en- foe homm of the Russians Tuesday morning and a few hours later drove them by bus to au unannounced destination believed to be the Soviet zone of Germany The action came aa the' new government strove to end the spreading strikes in France Txyingto Create Terror Eugene Thomas Secretary of State forComnmnteationa said foe temmiinUtihave a violent offensive" to force Paris portal employes to strike He said Com-munist elements are using intimidation and menace and trying to create -an atmosphere of terror" See FRANCE Page 9 Col 4 SOME EATUT gwaitg Kenneth Edwards ambitious Journal newsboy He won 47 pounds of turkey in a' circulation contest adding- 36 customers to his Journal route and 11 more on a Sun route he has- beep carrying as it substitute during the illness The friend gets one of three turkeys Delivering the birds above is Roger Forgues Journal city circulation manager Expect Big Compromise On Austria Discussion Tl 1 BULLETIN ricketbix i I Chicago Newspapers top LONDON-P-Forelgn Ministers ihe -Big Four began the second of their London conference amid indications Mayor Curley Freed From Danbury DANBURY Maas 'V savor James Curley of Boston wnoe mail fraud sentence by President Truman was released today from the Danbury Federal Correctional institution Tha 73-year old Curley onx-tima governor of Massachusetts and 8' Representative left the fortfortton just five mouthofrom ftp day be began serving a six to eighteen sentence He come out of orison wltfe a are- pend statement protesting bis innocence and evprtisslng appreciation for the presidential action which ent him home a month early for a Thanksgiving reunion A statement giving nawanaa-fo his behalf declared: -v was most wrongfully deprived of my personal liberty xz was the victim of a confidence man and am absolutely Innocent of the charge that brought about my confinement" Curley's statement added: appreciate the action takes by the President of the United The Boston mayor left federal Institution about two bourn afterPras-Ittent Tfcuman had signed the commutation odor WASHINGTON-" President Truman -today commute the Federal mail fraud sentence of Mayor James Curley of Boston plot riding for hia release today from the federal Correctional Institution at Danbury Conn The commutation Curley's sentence has 1 ed with the five See CURLEY Page 9 Col 6 Not Fire Announce Program BANGuUP4 two-day pn-otate convention conference of Maina Democrats will open hare next Saturday with a luncheon foe th atste committee and democratic members of fte legislature uA Senator Howard McGrath of Rhode Island chairman of the Democratic National Committed will tht senior Sua apeak at 1 nations rational- committeewoman erine Hickson of Bangor wUl introduce State Rep Loins Jalbert of Lewiston conference chairman aft Saturday opening session Daria Clark iff Milo democratic guberna- HW1E keynote oddnea Rep Lucia Cormier of Rumford will preside at Saturday: semkxr at which JamaiSL MeVlear of South Portland chairman of tho -Democratic State Committee will Chairmen mittees will report: Focroer-Govarnor Louie ittiart and state Senator it Motor ofLawistanAmii leaden in the House and peak Sunday democratic mem! fery to UA Senate and Handd Dubocd of Weterville democratic national committeeman for Maine aritt ho fo-trodueed Tho address of wMeome Will bo given by Bfou of Bangor state committeeman for Penobscot county Musfcie chiumsn of tho form committee' State rand Lacharfte of tho amngementa $35b00Fire Loss at Dedham DEDHAM -Misa-lP-Fira swept bowling alley and bother App in tbs eenter af fob town today with damage estimated luwfflrigllF at Enterprising Auburn Newsie Crete 47 Pounds of Turkey No one ever worked any harder weighing fbr his Thanksgiving dinner than newsboy Kenneth Edwards of 217 Main Street Auburn but results! other Kenneth count and young Edwards today was the proud receiver of 47 pounds of turkey A Journal newsie Ken jumped into a Thanksgiving circulation a total of 47 pounds the Edwards home Two went the Edwards tedtotehr to his pal Dick OXou A total of 724'pounda taf was-delivered to the boys Winners with weights of prizes were as follows: BULLETIN WASHINGTON- Malone (R-Nevf aaUd the Boh ate today to eat the administration's 9M7OOMM Eurapean aid program to ItMilOMN Republican leaden laid Republican leaden said effort would fall hut debate It threatened to wreck their plana for i final vote today on the uemn WASHINGTON Jp- A mdVe to( whittle down the $597000000 (million) European aid program developed in the Senate today and threatened plans of leaden for speedy passage Senator Wherry (R-Neb) said younger are considering offering an amendment to cut back the Senate bill by $108-000000 the same amount tentatively stricken out by the House Foreign Affairs committee-Wherry told reporters he anticipates this attempt will toil and the Senate "will pass this Chairman Taber (R-NY) said it probably will be Dec 4 at the earliest before the House Appropriations Committee can even consider appropriating emergency aid for France Italy and Austria See AID Page It Col 1 of session today they would conipromise prom current three-to-one Austria The new round of discussions at Lancaster House started at 120 PM (10:80 AM eastern standard' time) Under an arrangement reached yesterday the session was not supposed to last more than three hours The Austrian split arose from the feet that though the JjJg four agreed on a six-point program they could See BIG FOUR Page 19 Col 4 King Swaps Wisecracks With Bob Hope LONDON -2P- King George VI watched apfoubtively'lart bight -while- comedian Bob Hope' ran through the pages of au autograph book which' was Hollywood's su ding gift to Princess Elizabeth looking far bis own the monarch quipped The king traded wisecracks with the British-bom American comedian at the royal command per-ormance The Wife Their and the pe Itiea in stole 'foe spotlight from the film itself 1 The picture exempt from thernew 75 per cent British tag on American films because it war shown for the benefit of the Cinematograph Trade Benevolent Fuad raised- £25JM0 ($100000) or more jrom theSjDOO persons who paid up to $210 for eats It will be shown tonight at Liverpool benefit but the British public in general will not get to foe it because of the tax situation This pram commented sparsely on Commentators -were in the feet that 17- the more year-old Princess Margaret appoar-ed in public with young King Mjbal of Romania or the fort timerat foe performance and in Xing George's exchange with Hope Hope -handed the album of signed photographs to Princess Margaret to- be deuverad to her elder Mater See HOPE Pageki CoL 4 to into the delivered turkey Lewiston Jamal Turkey Bertrand Frechette and Georgette Rtoux 18 Robert Roy and Phillip Banda 15 Donald Sutton 14 Henry Phillton add Robert Royer Long 13 Camillien Joteuh mid Ed-win Manley 10 Albert Duboto end Romeo Parent 9 Rosario Dube Roger Fortier xnd Alton Parker See NEWSBOYS Page 19 OoLl contest for all he eras worth Not did Be line up 36 new Journal tamers on his own routo-teach one worth a pound of turkey for the Edwards but he took over a Sun route for a sick friend Dick O'Leary and built it up by 11 11 more pounds turkey Journal and Sun circulation men today delivered throe turkeys Rome Papers Forecast General Strike ROME-jP-Rom newspapers echoing last threat by pro-Com-' munist socialist leader- Pietro Neqpi forecast today a general nation-wide strike that will Include' even public services One of the newspapers Risorsl-mentb liberal party organ attributed its Information to and said foe on Dec would be followed by a aiml-lar manifestation in France As it did with foe Nenni announcement foe Italian general confederation -of -iabortdhe only organ- spokesmen said: laughed when we toad about It The spokesman also ridiculed the rightist Ora report that the return of Giuseppe Di Vittorio ecrataxy of the confederation from Paris was awe'ted to estahlish-ds- tails of foe strike 'Nenni last week said he opposed drop by demonstretlnns -(which have freckled Italy during tile part two weeks as leftists assailed premier Alcide de government) and that he favored a nation-wide general strike to protest against Risorgimento said today that according to its Information quads" with excuse of supervising the strike will be instructed to all electric telephone teleradio and railroad nations 8m KOMI Pm I CoL Finnish Civil Employes On Strike HELSINKI Finland -JP-The Fin-new confer-dvil ser-bnak nish government began net encss with a committee of i vents today' fo an effort for higher which has topped trains closed schools grounded planes tied up ships- and severed almost every connection 1 tween Finland the outside world Forty thousand cHH officials -every branch of government service except police and defense joined the work stoppage which began at midnight despite a stern wanting broadcast by Prime Minister Mauno Fekkala who said the strikers wore risking loos of their fobs termed circles said today they cted the government to stick to tough stand and many expected that thousands of officials would be discharged as a result of the strike This political informants said would permit the cxtrameleft win (Communists) to achieve one of their main desires a purge of what they term less desirable within the administration Many of the officials- could bo discharged ou grounds than a breach of thefcrtfnty: Parliament earlier bed offered the cfvff servants a general increase ol 800 marks about- but the strik committee rata accept- Strict Power Rationing In Aroostook PRESQUE lSLE-JP-8trfogent power rationing was jmpnsed again today in Aroostook county where ice forming fo the Aroostook river further slackened foe flbw of water fo the drougHt-otricken ana The Maine Public Service Company resumed two -botirs on-two howgjoff jgrvtoanto MflOfteus tomers today Yesterday it shut off powm for two hours during tho n- The tighter-schedule was resumed nptte foe-piping of gjoo kilowatts of power hourly to th county from two destroyer escorts anchored at South Portiand WASHINGTON The Justice rounding up wile TheM 'jurors took receiving th Jury fo' castigating "tha affairs of retired Maj Gen -Bennett JL Meyers 'torota took a recess until llQBdifAtar receiving th bulln record df a Senate war lnvestigati-ing subeolnmittao which heard testimony that Meyers nq an aircraft Subsidies For Landlords Proposed WASHINGTON -IP- Government subsidies for landlords in lieu of further rent boosts were proposed today by Senators Taylor (D-Ida-ho) and Buck (R-Del) we want reasonable rents and extension of rent Taylor told a reporter shouldn't force landlords to foot the bill as we are doing now in many cases should subsidise them And why ndtT- Everyone rise Is up to hi armpits in the profiteering gravy Taylor said about a subeii time and has introduce legislation designed to set one up Buck whose views often dash with those of Taylor said in a separate interview that he also has been- thinking about the feasibility of a rent subsidy era just about the only branch of the economy still suffering under Buck declared needs to be done for He added that the matter should be by the Senate Banking committee Both Buck and Taylor are members of the committee Buck steered the rent control extension bill through' the last session at Con- One poinT'of President TVuman's 10-point cost of living program calls for strengthening of rent controls and extension beyond next Febru-iw 29 the date the present law is scheduled to expire Senator Flanders (R-Vt) also a member of the committee said his first reaction to the subsidy idea was to oppoie it but that he is willing' to have the committee consider tt 1 would want to do a whole lot non thinking about such a procedure before making Flanders commented He added: Bee RENTS Page 9 CoL 1 Partition Proposal Gets Setback BULLETIN NEW FORK -g-Tfca pup seal to partitas Falastine reealvai a aritia-al sat hack today as tha Arah-lad appasttian picked np addl-Mcaal strength In foe Baal raand'af Umtafi Natlaaa asssm-fely debate Twe aaaalrtes Jaiaed foe UP airway aammtttefi again tha ptan to aatapnlestiM feta Jigsaw Jewish and Anfe nattons by next Oct The newly aanaanned aatt- partttlaatsts wan foe FhlUpptnCs NE YORK-A-C2iances for ap-roval of the proposed partition of alestine racexvaa a aefback today vdien two more countries in the United Nattons assembly Joined the opposition to the plan The proposal was shown one short of thenec-Miary two-thirds majority on' foe basis of a committee test yestMdBy The two new announced opponents of partition wen Greece and foe Philippines Greece abstained In yesterday vote In foe sssem-57-nauon Palestine oommit-The Phllipplnee'was The declarations by these taro countries on the assembly' floor brougbt to 1 foe number oppo-rttioe- votes and meant foe the neceisuy 2-t 15 opposition votes thirty affirmative ballots would bo needed foranproval 'of the nertition idan TbnrtittoapSim'WH amffbved yesterday at Lake Success' by a vote of2S to in foe 57-nation Palestine commlttea where only a simole majority wu on See UN Pago 9Cojl ord of 696419 beginning students but stitt Je toTrabovo the' prswaa hih The ajreney as' a L758 school of- a 'survey' of institution of on record -In this country -rr Tha returns xbwed that York had tha highest student total 29Qjmh tollowedhvGalifornla 178-663 numdah 168785: Pennsylvania 14128ft Ohlo 141279 apd Texas Dr John WT Studebaker commissioner of education zafo foe BFfoU CoL 3 See BTUPENTSJMge Putting on Cop' Puts Local Speeding Fine Into Upper Bracket BY A If UyOOO paratroopers equipped for fire fighting" had dropped onto tho State of the night of tho wind1 during foe recent forest lira erne wouldn't have made any one" and if tha wind had kept up another 24 hours than ia no way that wa could estimate foe damage which would have resulted Governor Horace Hildreth told foe members of tha Auburn-Lewiston Kl-wanis Club hen today In tha course of his 'addnm the Governor reviewed the highlights 4 the fin emergency assuring his listeners that the menace la over even though the State continues to face serious problems brought on by tha fires See HILDRETH Page 3 CoL 7 How Holiday Weather Shapes Up tOBTIiANMy fow anew urges and seasonably cold were forecast today for Day ob- flurrtes Weather Maine's Thanksgiving ervance WASHINGTON IP The Weather Itersaa had Me Thsaks-fteteg dgy MU of fore ready to- Is tie taraiji wMesmasa far tha Hslldayi weather wUl nrerail so Thnaksglvtas Doy I foe ssath-n Iws-tMrds sf thi States axespt near the the wartsra seif rtal sewsrisosl rate Is expected steady wsstaer win be nfltor gansral ever the a third sf tha esoalry wtt tend maw fferrtes to foe af New England aa light anew or mew Harries United at ever the mpptr Ohie Volley Grdat Lakes area Mlansssfe few saw Haurrles win oe-ir I the aarthera Reeky Msma- rata la expected ectioBa of Oregaa-and Warning- tea State "It wfil he leas of the fkr ports factory while he was deputy chief of air force uurchasfog Morris trict head el the Crfoflltel were fo charge of FSy federal- dla-J Vincent Oufon rtmenfs IvfeioQ grand jury Se MEYERS Page 9 CoL 4 Mere Laws Answer to Problei -ig changing the sentence to $25 and costs and suspending his license for 10 Cote said Sylvester said he didn't have the money on his person and was ordered committed to jail until fine was paid It was Die man waa ordered to appear in court yesterday after he had halted on Sabattus Street byOff RaneourfT' He felled to appear at 40urt time -Ihen end wu ordered arrested by Judge Cote Just before noon Monday he appeared fo the courtroom after foe conclusion ol a drunk driving trial and was ordered held in $500 personal recognizance as the case was continued until this morning Sylvester asserted ha had told-the officer he was busy and pomlbly make it" in court yestch Addreming the officer he sta told you I possibly couldn't make tta Officer Bancourt said Other Traffic Cased Preston Waye 23 -of Route 2A CHICAGO-A1 Striking printers picketed six major daily newspapers today and new wage demands were served on eight smaller publications two of which indicated they would grant the wage The six big dailies the Tribune Sun- Journal of Commerce Timm Daily News and with news ma-stenograph- aphed and photo-engraved a method which ypasces the composing room Pickets appeared early today at pnts of au six papers However mu were no disturbances and no rts of other newspaper workers ling to cross the picket lines while the Union Chicago aphical No AFL served on eight other Chicago area publications that it had to Increase its weekly wage by $1450 for day work and by $15 for work including the lobster ht to morrilng) Jurrently the union has been receiving $55 AO for a 2814 hour week for day 'workers and landing $100 Night ana lob-lift workers have been a week and are demanding Night printers work 8614 Hours week and lobster shift $0 hours The union made the same wage Bun journal ox umnso 'Dally News and Herald-A -continued publishing with ferial typed up by girl st rs and then photograp Urs- said they bad not yet dec'- eo their course but the Bulletin-Record Company publishers of a racing Information paper 'and the Abend post a German language newmaper said they would grant the increase T7if other papers an the Chicago Defender the Drovers' Journal the' Hammond Times Life Printing and Publishing company publisher of a grpup of neighborhood newspapers in the daily racing form' and racing scratch sheet The printers went on strike Monty night The Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association repreient-tbe bjg-dailjes haaclaimed the a wage increase foe if offered the publishers a end- that-the beuc-ji foie ly-ene-of wages i Vetter Weather forecast Tor Lewiston and iclnlty: Pa rtly rioudy and eon-linued cool fought and Thurs-'xy: lowest tero-entture tonight i degrees high-rt Thursday near '0 gentle wester-jr wands Lowest overnight- tempera-28 Caribou MJtost GreenvlUe 22 Bangor 22 Portland 29 TOMORROWS almanac SunrStoKW ABL: sets PJL Length of day hra 14mins Dayrt' deqreare 6 hts 19 mins Mom 15 days old nirt Tides Tease rrew Bortlknd 939 AM You can have your day In Lewla-ton- Municipal Court You can teR your story and you can enter whatever plea you Wish But after done that better -keep quiet or wait till you get outside to look at a police officer with anger and distrust At least this is what Zoel Sylvester 33 of 896 Sabattus Street Lewiston learned today as he heard acceding fine hilrefffrpm 597rts Sylvester' who pleaded guilty had been fined $5 anq costs on a charge rate of 50 miles Road been imposed and while Jidge Adrian A Cote was writing foe conviction on lice ise Sylvester looked daggers at fo arresting officer Lee jsvs rswif Baer like at questioned Countir Attorney A Martin told him I couldn't Cotne court yesterday ly calls me -a to Now he practical- lior-m coiut" the man Th' Jadgah Tara Giva me tha warrant back ftn Maheu Refuses Leo Cota 83 of 114 Sabattus Street Lewiston was released hr authorities this morning at Auburn Miuiicicol Court and a charge npee-ifyfo that he used -an aufenumlle anthout the owner's permission -was nol prosasd when It that Roland Mahs stimt Byeiv-did not wish to cute Gote-npentiy took a l94I let sedan which Maheu to rose- 'Cheyrcl Zafffbe- loiiged to him to Massachusetts and it then: He was reported hit whereoboota were misafojh-nd not Known for over week When he returned to Lewiston he gave himself up and was arrested -st his home 'by Chief Deputy Sheriff He pleaded Rrt Ytdlty gdier' raigned November 18 and hia cast was continued until today Attornev Thomas Day Jr rep-raaentfog Cota tud the court this morning that anna ddUbt existed as to thd owpcnhfo of tte ear fo the first place' Zfo claimed that aome sort of a- partnership involving the' ownership of th ear was-fo effect between SnUwJbhKatf fog stunt flyam attorney did not Maheu At- deny this hroka -out ft-n lffK yearKild two and ana-half story-wooden building owned by Harry jthneir of lrsjAwf John Den)artina who rang a jibr shop on ihe first floor db-eovered the tin while giving- custernef VhalrciftttcyflS1 -tsoundedtte Tito flame cent supaNnaricetr ana supi See EVIL EYE Page 16 CoL I to Prosecute With no other eourse open to! him Aaristant County -Attanaj Delahanty ieccinmend ad that the case Jba want of protect Defehi however that complaints of amt ha without grounds on the plaiuanL As mid battery charge against Harlan Whalen 40 of Sopers Mills was continued to De cember 1 Whalen November 22 on the complaint of one Arthur Barker yiH plea" Sea-COUBT Pbge 19 CoL 1 4768 YeteransAmonj Students Enrolled in FofflL- befert spreading Wanted At Once! jofly-naiurad chef cook with patwfog axper tettoC- Man woman -cr span and wife High alary Base creed color no Ject Call-BatiLfff or Bath to-vena dUHTgas i Novf-AtJlQ0O WASHINGTON-iP-College enrollment forfibe 1947-48 school yeai record total of almost a million more then the prewar peek of 1940 'gnd 260131 'mbra than arear ago Security Agency announced today included are 422788 veterans of World A of whom 24 091 are women The veterans comprlae 48 per cqnt of enrollment -and their number Increased U3 par cent over foe year before The 1M7-48 freshman chop of 592- 845 is made up of-T women: It harp decrease from lart roe- Thrifegiving Service First Church of Oidst Scientist- 93College StLewiston'' THE JOURNAL wm NOT Be Published I Thursdys Nov 27-ThaDksgiving Day T' The Advertising CireuUtiou apd Bumnna Offices 'WilJ Close at 12 Noon' MODERN-VENETIAN BLIND DRAPERY SHOP HAS HAD A VACATION lflimdayljxrh EXCEPT US-low Of-Days! WWIt: THANKSGIVING SERVICE "High gfc-Meth(it 10 AM? Bev Lodie Rowland DavptipiuJ Lea DjPcriy Zb VerndhrSjMiakar i Will Yon Allow Kir WE WILL BS CLOSED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Sylyap Ave Us A Coupls LeWistonEveiiing Jomniil Lewiston Ifo-.