Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

ASfH9uify'Bqn3iB a Piece of the j':" nMiuiri auunao Day fopnM4 ra 40 mins "first quarter Hick TMm TfMrttv Portland 3:34 AM Editorial RadS ia 1 gofcohfcy 4 Scrta PRICE FIVEtEWTgfe volume txxxvn TssMr JsjjUol KHMMfce ia47 24 PAGES LEWISTON-AUBURN MAINE-TnPRSDAYrAPRIL 15 1948 Americans Pass Only After Long Arguments Claims Clear Cut Contempt Case WASHINGTON-lP-Judge Alan Goldsborough today heard arguments in John I Lewis contempt trial and put off any dedaion until Monday Amlstant Attorney General Graham Morison argued for the government that Lewie and the United Mine Workers were dearly in contempt of court for continuing a coal mine work stoppage for a week after a court order was Issued for it to end Attorneys for Leads made only a ona sentence argument: government has toiled to prove its VIENNA to day let up a Which Isolates Robert Magidoffs Former Sroretary Cecilia Nelson Native of 'Michigan Says Ex-Employer Used Position or Espionage i the American air barn at Thlhb 1 miles west of Vien Vienna The Russian identification Some il alrforce personnel traveling to work from mama were oermitted to pees after long argu menta Others were refused epee age there are fo sot Instructions bow beet to make tha even MOSCOW-AMzvestia the govem-' newspaper published todav a seeming correspondent Robert ing for an American he Bad been inform ed by the Soviet mess department his further work hero The road block waa manned by one officer four enlisted men and a civilian Interpreter Harold Voeth Vienna manager for Pu American nirwaya -mid American military notice at Tulin i not allowing nls employes to propf against poison gases and radio- activo particles-A tetter of last June 39 she said asked Itagidoff -what research la bring conducted In the sphere of atomic energy?" and another of July 30 sought information on Soviet air transport -From copies of reports mads by Magidoff which also diicovered in these secretary wrote -Tt is evident hesent his statements of fulfilled sssigrunents not In the usual way all other eorrapondents but by diplomatic njslL" fora toTVlennaT le pMfshes not subject to censorship The letter quoted bar: Feud Letters -Several days ago while I was fa MaridotTs offlce1 began to look at a tetter which 1 needed and involuntarily discovered fa MagidotTs pa whidi had hands and Joff through uie American embassy fa Moscow -If is evident fromthes docu-mcntothatJMaridoffhuJbeen ays- receiylng from The United States assignments for the collection of espionage infonnat'on In the UR SLR and that in the Me Gnw-Hill Publishing House whose official stationery -was used for all OIMWIB- am hOUM "In Uiraeletteneaild -apart from direct assignments fa espion acquaintance of Soviet Bert to -obtain requisite informal In tetter from the United States on the stationery of McGraw-Hill toted Jung 25blM7 addressed to Magidoff there are Instructions to collect detailed Information about underground bufldirigx dtoSto! nowin 'tar' collectroijthe given miration foe most detailed and complete Information possible This also applies to other materials having direct bearing on questions on Qassttonnaira She said sn attaefaed questionnaire raked whether the buildings were fa strategic location (less vufaer able to boxnbinx) abd could bo made Ckarapotet Tbs' from Prague i schedule ou i poasible and bis further undeslrable He -within two -or tone days1 "Mkridoff hadhttved tha National -Exchange TriegmhTBriUsh) and the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co of New York He once was on the' 'Associated Press staff hen The denunciation of hia activities was contained in a latter toveatia attributed to a gin from Michigan who became his secretary after working fo toe embassy here Uvestia quoted the secretary Cecilia Nelson as saying M-giw hag dispatched reports fay 8 dlplomal- to the United I faee the hue That came from Welly Hop-kin' chief -of -toe -eight-man- battery of counsel Lewis has Coldfoorough then adjourned eou rt uhtil Now the only thing left In' the contct -rand is for When court was adjourned Hop-klna and Leads went into a whispered huddle Then the mine chief and hie small army of lawyers died silently out of the sown In his argument Morison- hit herd at position that ho coal strike ever was called The government attorney mid that contention ares an "affront to common-sense She said Magidoff -specirily--fa-queated" mat aoma information be Tent in code as totha source- For ites left passed the checkpoint kefore the nad block was set up rfB Is not yet toovra what action American authorities here will take The -nay card" Identification de manded by tha BumlanB can be ob-ttlned on(r after- a 73-bour fay (fry rards never brtwe-bava been required fra the trip to-Tulin along tho occupation corridor rond Austrian police an np a road block cirfoe goad-to Tulin yesterday UntXL Maine weather goes on a spree every Spring fometimes in May sometimes April This show produced some beautiful scenery that compensated disgruntled folks who had to dig- out overshoes scarves and mittens Thursday morning Every street in Lewiston-Auburn presented a show-card -picture to the early morning "business-bound travellers The Journal notcarefallydraped eotton trimming sureenough snow earefully packed on braiich by branch for this neat bit of stage setting It was on fa to automobiles No QRoxas Pies ards to Nine 4t He arid Leads and the UUW are in contempt of court Tor their failure to obey the explicit terms" of an April 3 court order to end the eoalstrike Lewis Ssewls Lewis glumly scowled as Morison made his argument The UMW chieftain showed up 19 minutes before court convened at 10 A (EST) He seemed rest! esc He fidgeted about in his chair tutor Goldsborough took the bench Finally he wentinto a small room adjoining the eottrt goom-and paced upend A-toFraaMent ta nal A-Bdxaa Find Little Change In River Condition ite BY HAL GOSSELIN tha number of Lewiston wards from seven to nine wss suggested today Mayor Ignils Gagne said he would name a Citizens' Committee -the and creating-two- tram hfiireven held mt Horienfielri er Erie racing at rref under ermed- xm at Lessing bad taken vSFsLwdUock ox laninn film 1 fiscated od the warned-thatnou to be taken in fos Rumian byAmerican photograpbers-Yha Amerirans ware travellng kr jeep mite Ucensa -atea They wera stopped whan they wen unable to produce grey tuMowcr four nsa-toun- spool Aims A AsmUb chairman of the Board ofBeglstrsilon Aiselin agreed with the Mayor tha survey arse advisable andsaid foe -creation of two new wards would -greatly inerwue voting facilities" Tha Registration Board head also declared Hbe -population-of -aoma wards li'too farach for onto one ChiHty Gagne said If tha commit-teris showed a need for an The population of Lewiston according to Asselin is now approximately 47X00 Voters ars dlvided in seven wards with the seventh section haring two precincts Ward 6 tope the-list of -with an approximate SXOfi Tha two preefactLof Ward Seven have about 3X50 Wards a and 57 have about 3X00 eadi Ward 4 has around iSd and According to the'LewIitbn charter the Cltir-JounCll has ths right to alter ward lines and It is their forty to review the lines evera 10th year The charter dow not give the council tha rimt to Incressa the number at wanfa --ff today T' i 5fi year old prmldent af las-4 artiy fitter ho The -shm prertit stlal-palace aald Cotas died liUdtUbhfi night at tho quarters ef Mai Gen EI Enbaak at Clark Field when ho had bean taken 7 rias ha rae stricken Ganqfal Morison told Goldsborough a flnd-mgof guilt-Ts the only-one consistent with the undisputed facts" It has been shown he said that no action-was taken -by the union wards The Mayer declared the committee would be composed of throe or five members He poibted out ha be- Itevedthere-wsa a need for survey foenasw-: of wards beeausa of the shortly after tha Mgymfo an-aouncemant the plan was praised by Alderman" Mayor survey fa Lewiston City Charter 1949 State to ninowrardi an amendment to ths would be aakea The Legislature to appro would have approve such an Ihe of the roadblock aould not leave 1 nour-d that Halle detaWir' At Itamfoxyl Judge Named Dog Catcher Jart tarn flu ethsreheek Karw Mr Bane rf Ai-fears fsnafier a tha As ban Hmriir Dm CstekenF batotf boars ailiit to anyone fieing feta losal doty And Jest to prove HapytottoJaC rwt tool start aa Hoaorary Aabara Doy Catcher--oven If tti Jsdre did impose easts of eoart sa too or Us president on a court order for a resumption of work In too mine flelde for aeven days after tt lamed- Tha order eras served on Leads pril Exactly one weak later ha steadied his miners to go back to work -Thom instructions went out after he had agzaed to a plan providing 3100 a month pen-J service mlnera RUhSO A-dinmte ever pensions preesdsd to walkoilt March of laztMon-dav for the miners to get beck to teod-merely- hem-taticne-animus in ne danger- Tbey were told they to wait until an officer arrived from Russian headquarters in YU emuu 13 miles iwix'" Two hours later a telephone call told (Sea Earlier Patella an Page 17) which blanketed this Androecoggiir-Valley and -Maine yesterday not amount- to much" aa tor aa water conditions on the Androscoggin River are concerned The situation remains "pretty close although not "critical" Thats tooeonaldered judgment of one of ike closest observers of the river -conditions Engineer Ford Hatris of tha Union water Poorer Company Ths firm owns and operate tha vast system of dams which have made the Androscoggin ps of the host harnessed-riverg In UfOflOe' Locally the storm deposited 3ft inches of snow with a water content of inches according to the UWPCO gate house records Thera was little runoff during the with the temperature arouhd the freezing mark however the enow cover disap-es the thermometer Iffiames AraSsimirMi By ED KHONAH The city MaineCentral Temporarily Cuts -Parlor Car Service PORTLAND-to-Psrlor car pat ronags between Portland and Bangor has dropped ao sharplv efaee the new coeches wera introduced that it vrin be discontinued on tiie run the Maine Central mid today It will be resumM when Summer travel sterfa they could leave after Ing Lesslngk film- The pher gxvetha officer a and foe newsma wen An elderly Woman whom the Russisna called in as an lnterpre- ter was riven two bars of 8 a-nort exchange' laundry eoap for her servieen I BERLIN -IP-Ubieonfirnied reports attributed to British sources said today the Buasians had moved mora See ROADBLOCK Page Col 1 jmeek- JT Mayor Halls i mobile la aa Mac ieek- aalekor Whittaker Sentenced to FiveMonths Tha milk bottles ho threw and the liquor ho drank test November caught up with Charles Whittaker 38 today and tha fellow en up at foe equnty Jail when hall for quite a while Whittaker pleaded guilty at Auburn Municipal CdUrt this morning to (1) intoxication and disturbance asnult and (3) escaping from JaiL Judge Alonzo Conanf sentenced him- fa 10 days mi tha first count 15 days oa ths second and five months broking JaiL The first two acntencea an to ran con-currrotly so -that Whittaker will 1 mractly five months and 15 Auburn hah very on its hands to-Shoe CMy school teach writing to what happens next Tha teachers it seems have neW contracts for the coming year colling for wage raises Last fright the City Council cut coal digring many a still are outTbey what happsns (Leads) -Beyond eavU or Mor-bon mid -the testimony points dl rectly to the fact toattoem defend-ante did not comply adth the order of thlf court and mat they and each of them are guilty of criminal and civil contempt beyond a reasonable doubt" Em LEWIS Plage 10 Col 4 Biver is runiiin per See STORM Page II Col tiie 330X00 school board approprix wage increases in half sne everybody and ncryggy wun to know however ho avphfaed want to firo toa impreosioa ha tooaght aosMbody was ditooneat A nomber of heated argumen have developed Generally foe City Council is mi onarito in tha matter and the Superintending School Committee on the other Auburn citizens arc takingsida as they see fit Hera tt Is -The whole metier bolls' down to the following: included In the budget presented the Council by the echoed board was an item which read "Relief After that was tha notation "7lFs of meaning that tha figures presented would cover only from the coming September to the ench of the fiscal year March 31 1949 See TEACHERS Page Col 9 Aabara Mayor earlier la toe yarkad Us aato-arsa posted for Msadai ttaa yea sea say "Dec Btoerit" be was tagged Wttboat making any plea -for leateaey be paid tbs fear dollar alas fUe tooktoa resaltlnc pab Hetty aad ciat back to Aabara to thiak-lt over His philosophy or Ideally It oar tee-halref Has sad si a rosaH ho Jadco too dlstlacaisbod Aabara Dor Catchers today aad that whda-Jadca Haas mo to Aabknupay toot bo hopes all Aabara efftetala aad poUea oif leors are as started oao foUm aa BamT were to htaa dartaur IFirtiiLDimaiiii IExpecis TTo Dfie Hfie-elecited Mrs Smith Correct In Saying Russian Planes Violated is foe monra coming front Ifs kind of difficun to grant nearly $30X00 worth of raises and then use only $10X00 to pay off ComeOauawllUa A Traftoa 3tn whs rave- birtii to the tHsaa 1 last aigki aaM this attorns sm that toa City Csaneil waa -aria-lead by toe an for ttk Bs WASHINGTON JP President ftuman said today that he confidently expects to spend four more 73 Construction Permits Representing $236700 Aire Arabian Andy BaiMuann Alaska JP- Pub Usher William Baker writing for the- Ketdiikan Chronicle after a three-week tour of Alaska i day that Bep Margaret lBMe is in saying- that -have vidatedrAlas- ad of tlll city) had criticized tho project Mr Truman said they got seared when a public controversy -got darted and the people began throwing br'cks at them Aa for himself he said Jie did not Bear aa easily A newsman asked 'whethsr that statement could be interpreted politically The president replied that tha reporters could use their own judgment Rfe said ha anticipated using tha kch during the next four years if i had the time to do sa Ha ssid he -put in a pretty fun day and did not -know when he could find time: but be added: ftl be there to trail Mr Truman was asked tt halmew Rfijof -any back-to-Truman movement fa the south where some Jewish Force College Road three on Fairlawn' Alfred MUo Ltortsfon building Inspector authorized construction and alterations representing eX- tepresenting Dow Street tinea near Montello and Avenue Sea PEHMTT Page 14 Col The saga of Charlie Whittaker foot way Beck to November 4 of Jut year At about 11:15 that avo nfag ha was arrested fra Intoxication ahd assault and locked up at the city jail for the night But ha wasnl around for eitber breakfort or court fa the morning When officers went after him they found he had broken a lock and gone bis way -And-that-was tha lart hdsrd from Charlie until yesterday when he waa located fa Charlie and hte wife Either were married just two years last week They- Bring together fa November however wnen the events which led fo Whittaker's arrest occurred They had separated fa September and feus Wl i living write bef mother: Decked One" In court this morning taker had tho following to bill foe fourt: On the night of November 4 her husband cadis over to where she was living and-she met him out on foe porch "He raid be was sick" ihefwomaij declared wanted me to go with him to tho hospital I ssid no because I left him pnd didn i want anything more fo do wlfo Um -Tha he picked up two milk bottles and threw them I ducked one bottle find the other hit my little girl Js child by a former See COURT -Page 9 Qol 4 marine by radar several ttmee and awaited word from Washington to what action to taka thousand personnel at Aleutian basee were alerted snd aQ leaves were cancelled on men of see -mine craft Brown said Tha Chronicle said tt had reports that tha B-39 "clobbered turkey" which crashed north of Nome two days after Ghrtstmas "had-'a Soviet ritl fo her bslly-L Margaret Smith wfaen querlcd today nld aha had no comment regarding tha veracity of the statement that both American and Russian planes have border Into each Nor had she any marine" srid to haVeEhted in Kikka Harbor Mis added that "everfls of thla nature toould be made public la order -to avoid building up rumors and creating suspicion mi both sides? Mrs Smith said tost If these in-ddeoti vtt' Ieh miblicliT tba nib lie is able tonk up Its mfod as to their leerioumeae and congress Is furnished Information with which to evaluate ge neadfortta aaniritr program In a breezy news conference tin President also told reporters that ha had conferred this week with New Ed Flynn Democratic national committeeman and Paul Fitzpatrick New York State party chairman He told reporters tha two party tenders want sway happy the picture rosy or reporter asked Mr Truman said tha picture was alright -v A reprater remarked that none of foe newzmen who regularly cover tha White Bourn had seen Flynn or Fitzpatrick -coma or gorircmlths grounds Mr Truman chuckled He ho intend for' them fo een Tho remark about maiding four yearf more In the white House came during a discunion of' tho newly completed South portico MrSrruman'eald -that he did not inder the balcony for hia own near but to fmprovothe White appearance He said it follows the i Thomas' Jefferson had in for the White House BULLETIN JEEUgALEH -A Arab Leagm reawta-that Fawal Bey -Bsakjlk Arab ara ia narth lwa7niestlns Is enslraled- by tBVws were denied bars today by It Arab spokesman -The sitoailoa to talfo tha -eoalnry tha- Jews art feeing oarroHdee by too Anba raM tha ipThfieaian Ahmed- Bllml Haaha of too Arab Higher- Ex- The article added however that both American and Rumian planes have aomsd the border tawSth Stheris territory hver period of Several months (Mrs Smith a member of the House Armed Services Committee said In Watervillo Me: Tuesday night that the people have not been told that the Bueetam wen and radio apeak1 of Alaska ae a part (Air Force Headquarters Officers In Wsahingwn dT cL end MaJ Gen Joseph Atkinson Commander of Air Forced In Alaska both- said they had received no reports at Rumian activity over Alaska-) The publisher said also that a "mystery submarine" first reported teen ln Kiska' harbor by an American pilot over two wesU ago lingered fo Aleutian Island for about 10 days The article stated -I Fails1 to Gatch to Monkeys Napping WICHITA FALLS' Tex to Three toemya who have en end ef this elty eteyi tor six Says got a mickey Ban to tholr tallk bat they still ataded If $338700 month of Mara It was today from a list of bunding permits granted last month The list was ari eeptfoh and filed by the Lewiston Foe Commission at a meeting here teat night Mato accordlng fo the list granted 7 permits for- construction alterations and repairs Two were handed out for the moving of building wen allowed for the installation of nadn signs and one for roof replace Die largest plumed expenditures era by Tkeffte Xtastonguay Gas-tonguay ptena-to spend a total of $40X00 for the oonstruction of eight Two be on Demo-atic leaders are bolting Mouse Vt his civil rights program- Be replied simply that tbras Were a grsat many in the south' who never left Truman The discussion got ground to a Southern vacation trip by Generml Dwight D- Eisenhower and George Allen lnaurfinee man -and dose friend of' foe President A reporter readied tht the Fine J5ee TRUMAN Page Col 3 that the ruwrjrhad a Sx on the snb- Egypt iJV Arab League era said today it haa received reports ithe Arab army of Fawzi Bey al KaukJi ia surrounded by 13X00 Jewish eoldlers at Mish-mar Hmemak in northern Falestine Ttans-Jordan's foreign minister Fawxl Mulki Pasha relayed an ur ng Ah- Quinfr hmi Ai nuiiwn -Tha serious situation must im-prove injhe next few Jiours" MUlki Haemak nght- tThe Miehmar Tfea mlekey made the ateopy They eoaU as evil apd 'speak no orfo brnt they eoald hoor evil if it was to the form of oemesne trying to away their liberty Whenever weald-fee triei to male the tree where the BMnkoya -wore draining their oars picked no the sonnd and way tha monkeys weald rhich if iron total-blow fog Is a major battle wl by the Arabs will to Jewish ami a Air Force Funds See CAIBO Pge Col T- 0 Lyneh veteran monkey Irateor pnt sleeping powdera la otilk sot mrt for them yesterday bkt fete labor was in vafa -Psaline fearth monkey who gave horsolf np Trasday was re-teased again in tha bepsa oho weald keeptlm others from srat- A fifth was in asp- ttvtty filter to ventarad toe atom 'rapbaitod to trap Ths monkeys gesopad rtdywalk nga Weatbrr Weather forecast tar Lewiston and vicinity: partly cloudy and cool W'snd to-light lowest tem-crafora near 33 iMreee- Friday air and warmas igheat tempera-ire 'near 55: sen-tesd westerly winds Lowest repatriation train and "maltreatment of united States Dersonnel and qtiw er undisciplined acta by Soviet troops sod (officers on Hungarian ter-ritray on Jkn 33 1943 gerians back to Hungary from Ger-many undet etoratof one warrant officer and 11 listed man Tha announcement from' U' army headquarters raid- Hungarian representatives In Germany and the Hungarian govemment "in an April pote fo fos Budapert UB deration "taited to proride a satisfactory explanation of this incident" The announcement gave this ac how many additional planes the extra money will provide A 70-croup air force urged by Air Secretai although Secretary of restal has- recommended a piw force Resident -Trimuai said today he a lupuurllng- mends tions to the limit mH does pot know why Js dlffsi ing witii than i Afoed whether he plans totepsnk" Symlngtoq Mr Triunan said he will answer that later White-original flguraa -fadlrated foat-an extra $923X00X00 would bo nsejed tp prorids 70 groups Tkber said $833XWX0Qwartba adequate totepproadi aRHBoqp ton FBANKFURT Lucius Cteyr United States 'mili-tary governor ordered taro Hungarian missions today ta leave the American zone within 48 hours rhey were the'rrepatrlBttonml ion four pefsons and the reptitu-cr nriaalon itr The former directed the return of flungarlan die-laced persons from Germany to ungmry The tettqr handled the return of property tooted hyihe Nazis during their occupation of Hua- the -two mteririu have beeni the1 only Hungarian offi-elate in the zone of Germany -An official jstmouncement said the mlniohs were ousted in retaliation for tha lootlng of an: American Germany-JP-Gen tion info arrived Jan S3 at Hegya-hatom on the Hungarian txttdm ante Komsroqi about J9 miles Hungary the escorting soldier ear ried clearances from the Hungarian in Munich Major border po- a muMilliwr-fl neither to races' the border nor to taka-tho train aud its oeefoMfrts back to Garmar' wss finalfar dadded (he announcement said -that the major would sign an itemized statement Burning raaponsDriUty fa the -name of tho Hungarian government for the train and all- Amartesn eauip- Sse MISfilON Pags i -Col 3 See MISSION Page i Col WASHINGTON JP- The House unanimously voted funds today to start expending foe nation air force from 55 toWrahups Aide 3533XMX49 By a vote of 115 to 0 it added IS22000000 to a $3X78100X00 bill rigidly tn finonpf 55- group afo force all of It mm oraF tract authority for which cash mint bo provided later unices' -Congress cencelsit Tha incrciM -wig timnniiil bv Chrinfiaa Tsbra (B-NkTrof tM House nMopristions Committse Tha action waa hot final bow aver floce the Housa atlll murt art on other parte of foa bill and the Senate hsa not considered it atall -No one: axpliined and no-tew fa tha Houaa ppparastly Jmowv juat Uthe HomjZPPWsBtly Jaiowv Juat Proposed savings and other hf explained nuke amount adequate Bep bora (D-Tenn) frifiT to' foe entire $922xdoxD Into foe but hia amendment lost by a vote of 74 to 40 Jartthe Bagteafag 3 Hep VSaoo CD-G) told -foe House the extra 383L0MX09 ir i JUSS'iiS: and every year thereafter foXOOXOO- See DEFENSE Page 14 Cdf See DEFENSE Pau li Coif iGOMINGt Dr I Kumfert Noted Slefip 'Specialist tees: iiewdtotJt Caribou 30 East Mt 31 Greenvilte- 39 Bangor 28 iiumford 301 Porttand M' The American mOiUTT nsatria II I litesela EiTiqi tiw to to erasq wp qig stoMarwNWW Li ir.