Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

1 -aagk-v A 1 r- i i i Staying OheThing And Doingh 1 TOMORROWS ALMANAC -Daylight Tima Sun rues 1 AMj aata 7:40 FJI Length of day 14' hra7 mini Day's Increase hrs itT mini Moon SO days old -High Tides Portland '4j8P3L volume ixxxvm 16 PAGES LEWISTON-AUBURN MAINE WEDNESDAY APRIL LAST EDITION 20 of Blue journal INDEX Mariow-fagg State Chat -4 Comlee'v" is PttSZle 10 1 Kadio 4 10 Sport 12-11 Obituaries I IditorUl Peglsr 4 PRICE FIVE GENTS Miles See ARABS Page Col 4 i i i Stassen Beats Dewey by Slii Pa Representative Louis Jalbert of Lewiston and City Attorney Fer-nand EL Despina had suggested the Lewiston jSSEUN wUl aeek the repeal at severaL Maine Sunday laws" and the local Police Commission may be more lenient in foe enforcement of these lawa in the future: TUs waftha "outlook after a tengthy parley 'today in LmuaP uiqnA office The ence 1 aimed should w- forcement of these outmpded measures" After the meeting attended by a large group of city officials and private citizens the Mayor said he was satisfied with the results tuwmddnowc5ook to The decision to seek amendments to foe "blue taws" came after State a JERUSALEM-(AP)TKing Abdullah oflVang Jordan said today scout troopa of his Arab lioii have occupied Jericho less than 20 miles north cast of Jerusalem Jewish sources in Haifa said Arab 1 epongunv ners shelled a Jewish settlement near Naharaim on the Trans-Jordan frontier Ten Jews were re-portedkilled 7' at tha all-Arab tows litJlsr el Majsmie Other reports to Haifa said (he Jewish militia -Haganah captured fore Committee in of the local plan -'to tim apparent en-forcement of some by the Lewiston Police Canmissloa Despins told the conferees: cither-strict enforcement of -foeSe taws or amendments to tha Statutes Enforcement eventually would -cad Legislature Jalbert said to amendments because- It would arouse the public" 7 Members of tha police commission Police Thomas Johnson City Treasurer Adrien Anctil sports promoters and many interest--J spectators were at foe session which has been just about the most-talked affair "Lewiston since Jalbert urged the Mayar a committee to appear State Committee in Augusta to laws Leglsla proponents for foe wiH be Lews" Gagne and the entire agreed with the State and hailed his proposal which may get Maine out century-old Follow' Jfoe Mayor appoint of Stassen- today won- Pennsylvania Republican Presidential popularity-contest The former Minnesota Governor captured first place in preferential write-in-vote primgiy He scored a slim and surprising victory over New Governor Thomas Dewey tag of the mandate May 15 -The triumph In Industrial Pennsylvania tallowed his 'delegate in- foe -farm-statec-of Nebraska and Wisconsin But the vote is not binding on the Keystone State's 73 GOP convention delegate Ail were elected unpledged Their Will Be No War Says Soviet Controlled Press in GermanCapital Information On KUm-P-mm win be ae the Seviet-eeBteeUed preaa 14 Berlia said today "There will be pelltieel reek-eaiag with these whe ehaaa Berlia ae fighting place er their peUtieal-ad veateres" 14 added The reference te peUUeal-reskeatag was eae at a aaasber mw threats mads la fieviet-Ueeased papers agaiast tha west-sra pawns 1 and the-United States ta parties lar 1 TaegUrtia Raadsehaa Sevlet aiilitasy gevenmwat newroaper dsvsted nearly half Its front page to a new attack-against the weeb It charred wholesale' ar-" af pslitleal attaw 1 attacks by LONDON Foreign Secretary Ernest Berin refused to tell the House of Commons today whether Britain will eontjpue to finance arm and officer" the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion after surrendering the Palestine mandfito May15 (AP) Secretary of Defense Forreatal and top Army men took to President Truman today their troubles over the expanded defense program- There are two main ones First some air men with strong backing in Congress want to -aim for ah air force of 70 air groups Forresal i battling to hold it to 661 groups Second House leaders insist that any -effort to combine universal njili- tary training and a dift revival as 'Forresfal ridw propdsesV will wind up with defeat of both projects 'w 1 -v- r1 The White House said Forreatal Would Paralyze Transportation System in UaSa CHICAGO-A-Aainke that would abut down the railroad service was called today tor 0 A UiriL Thde trike date for 1504)00 railroad locomotive engineers firemen giflemen and switchmen was made public in Cleveland by a spokesman for-fo-Brotherhood -of-Locomotive Firemen' end Engtaemen The information wee given out In advance of a scheduled statement being prepared in Chicago by representatives of the three unions After keeping newsmen waiting for nearly an hour in Chicago a spokesman for the union committee said the group would this time" The spokesman gave no reason for the delay There in however a strong-rivalry between- thf-forec unions-although-they are acting in concert in the present wage dispute In a previous dispute conflicting dates for the 1 announced 1 because one 3fcW1u tor a Joint announcement In saying there would be no statement "at this time" the Chicago fookraman siud ha' was speaking for Shield first assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineem Keenan vice president 'of foe Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen -and Aginemen--and McDaniels vice president- of the Union of North America Sea RAILROADS Page Mediators Call NeW Bail Meeting-- WASHINGTON -JP- The Mtlon-al mediation board decided today to make a new attempt to heed oft tin threatened railroad strike Mur 11 It acheduled a meeting' tn Chica go Thursday -with the ndboade and disputing unions in an effort mediate wage controversy' -Board chairman' name Doug told a newa conference all a procedure under the railway aet biis been exhausted: "nis ia foe last thing We car as a Pouglaas added The agency first had attempte arbitrate Then it aJ President Trtiman to appoint an emergency -board to investigate Offer Rejected The emergency board recommended a 15Vfc cent hourly wage increase but-that was rejected by -tha three brotherhoods involved They are-the Locomotive -Engineers Firemen and Enginemeri and Switchmen About 15(MWQwork era are represented -by the three tm'onfc Dougtasa eaid that he end mediation board member Francis A will leave for Chicago tonight and meet with the parties at 10 AM (CDT) tomorrow Douglass said the- action taken because direct negotiations See MEDIATORS Page I Col 3 Hildreth Asks j- Resources PRESQUE ISLE-Predicifig a record demand for Malnd products a year Governor Horace Hil-xxuy asked foe Maine Devel-it Commisaoin for an imme-ate survey at tha states 'resources He also asked for action in Wash-ington to assure 11 soutceg -fa a prepared statement released during a trip through Aroostook County the governor said: "It is apparent-from the presot course of events that within foe year tha demand for the product! at Maine agriculture and industry will be the greatest in the statranlstory The -upsurge in production and employment will comi tBdm two sources foe need for goods for shlp- ment to Europe- and the- incressing Assured ArabAijnieft Not Livading Seer State Marshall said today tha United States has been assured by an Arab League apokeaman that Arab armies -are net invading Palestine Marshall expressed hope at a nears that efforts of theUtaited-Nationa-to'arrange a truce-fa tha Holy Land iah-Arab fighting fax SjuIHvan Quits 7 Democratic-- Committee Job Sullivan resigned -today as executive director of the Benwcratfc jl ah oreil commit- nt 28 194S See BLUE LAWS Page CoTB Says Portland Bus Cq Will Hire New Men PORTLAND JP A union official a Sid tha Tdriland Coich Company has -informed Its -ATL-drivers and mechanics it will try to continue operations with- replacements If they walk out next Saturday in a wsge jiispute Union Preadent Hubert Bishop aid Vight now- It appears that a settlement -will be reached before Saturday The union voted to strike May 1 wage end working condit difference were solved A strike would affect 40000 greater Portlanders Bishop end Company officials declined to disclose the nnl offer made yesterday at a meeting with State and Federal conciliators saidr-hpwever that about 60 per cent- of the 300 drivers and mechanic would get allot the proposed increase The other 40 jpg' cent would get half of Jt hi Bishcrp'ttid Gdvernor HorSce Hil dreth mil be asked to intercede -Dr Raymond Malone State Arbitration Board chairman he said grill ask tha aid The board met yesterday with Union Snd company leaders The companyrRiBhop' offer" Bishop die- close its termx but said he thought it However the union will vote on the proposal tomorrow Company officials be ree-hed for comment Tbe drivers seek SU5 an hour and the mechanics 3145 They now get 31-00 Snd $115 respectively Working conditions also ar In dispute 1 (JO Textile Union Drive In South Flop ATLANTIC CITY -V- A two-year-old CIO drive to unionise the South has been something" of a flop a Textile Workers union pokesman said today tamest enough to admit ft said "Our executive council rankly says in terms- of lections mm and contracts signed results of the CIO southern rive have ndt been ltmfl Rieve president of tha lie grorkers told the "tha results of tha drive Of new members added to union rolls tii'thr past taro yean 15JI00 were in the South the spokesman said Axis brought to- 120000 tha numberbf member claimed by foe wihii in the South The total membership of 450JM0 represents about one-third of the employes efthe textile industry Host non-union textile workers are tathe South Rieve blamed "the forces of southern reaction" for stalling CIO unionization "Every greapon including net hatred and religibus bigotry has against ua by the south -naries" Rieve said "And vere able to win an election over all obstacle southern employers ta many coses refused to bargain with uz Million Oil which-the Navy representative admitted were excessive" Chairman Brewster (R-Me) who said ha weald -file the re-- pert with the Senate today noted that price went np arain little mere thap -a" Waak ui i Brewster said the Navy has agreed Aronse'S 43-eent price beeet to $L4 a bartel despite Reeretary r' ''fens pledge to committee ta January that attemgt to lineteas that 43105) weald met with very See OIL Page Cdl 1 For Immediate Deliverjr Electric Refrigerators -LAWRENCE MUSIC dc APFXjIAHCK CO 319 Llboa St 7 7 Lewiston I W41 Jay Cooke Stamen's Pennsylvania campaign manager said the victory indicates the smashing majority that Stamenrarthe nomine would receive In the November election" See PRIMARY Page Col 3 mo 5 8k aikadltar the conference with Mr Trtiman Invited to accompany the defgnw secretary were Secretary of the Army Royall fcnd Gem Omar Bradley army chief of staff-Presidential Press Secretary Charles Rosa was asked if there was any significance in the omission of Air Force Secretary Symington from the parley He said he-thought See DEFENSE Page I Col Anti-Poll Tax BiB Sent To Senate WASHINGTON -JP- An antl-pol tax bill was sent to the Senate today by its Rules Committee Chairman Brooks (B-XID-salfl the group approved without change a measure passed by the House qs July SI mf That bill 'would make it unlawful Ipality quire a poll tax for noting In any national election This includes election of the president vice president and members of Congress Brooks said action was fay "voice vote" but Senators tennis (D-Mlas) and Hayden (D-Arix) said they opposed the move tennis said foe measure "ia 'tin constitutional" Hayden said he does not opyoae the billbut the think this should be done by an amendment to the constituHon with foe states passing upon ft" he said ri: The committee said seven southern states make payment at pdll tax requirement for voting -in national election It listed them as Alabama Arkansas Mississippi South Carolina Tennessee Tfexaa and Virginia STqghnt end voting fa send the bill on to the Senate woe Senators Brooks Ives 1R-NY) McMahon JP Conni Hickeiilooper (R-Ia) and Wherry (R-Neb) Not present but favoringthebiU was-Senator Brick-(R-Ohlo) er Republican leaders have indicated bill to outlaw lynching will thqt be called up in the Senate ahead of thepoll tax tneasure Both art part of Resident Truman's civil rights program which has drawn firq from many southern Democrats Perish In Vermont FirCf- ST ALBANS Vt-JfTwo- persons perished today In a Bra which dearoyed the four-etory bualness and apartment -opera houaa block in the center at St Albans The victims were identified as Mrs George Shepard 55 and Mias Irish Cochran IB Mrs -Shepard's body Was found Jn the third floor ruins and- that of Mlaa CflChrah in another section' of foe devastated structure Several members of foe 14 fami- rave nth poappa lnjitaed and suffered mi- when a rescue laddef foot from the ground- fire raged out of control tar- mare than four hours endangering adjoining property ta tha heart of the-citir Employes of radio station WWSR all moveable equipment from an adjoining building separated 'from the burning structure by a narrow-aller 1 r- to appoint befora- Research discuss the Atfoa your op-poeition Mayor audience Representative aa a of its foa meeting ha would a committee ten Lewiston citizens to appear be- winters against Berlin The latest Beviet blasts were touched eff by the flight at Haas -Xaalg ehlef at nni-fsnncd pel lee fate the ettyV westera seeters Ksnlg charged -foe gevlets threatened to arrest' him fer-dlseinlininc a German psllesmaa He said foa peliee-had fared a German elt-tato foe Bassiaa ana for He farther charged oranirtB wlth being re- for a wave af kidnap-1 tan la Berlin The wet peatedly a inspfring- Udnaptags af Cammaatata foam prestern ters at foe elty western pewers have re-V itedly aeexsed foe Sevieta at anti- Auburn Firms end foe Minot Wood both- of Auburn in announcing Shoe Workers Protective Asm wilT-seek tq intervene in the' two factories for purposes of collective bargaining! Sam Zeck chief taw officer of the Aft-Hartley Board ta Boston will be In charge 'Of the hearings here coflgresaional charges were outlined ta ai grindup report by the Senate Way Investigating Conmit-tea Tha committee held lengthy bearings on the grartime oil deais between the Navy and Aramco grhich operates the Saudi Arabian I from with Under a barrage the House King Trans-Jordan fighting force Bavin said: -v No Framlccc am not going to ha dragm into unUt know the final decision of the United Nations (on Palestine)" Conservative 'tnembers of "Parliament challenged foe labor government's leadership in a motion of censure criticizing Its conduct of affairs in Palestine Tropi 1b JifldM -King Abdullah' ennouneedlh'hl cSpitalrAmmmn todaythtscou troops of his British-trained Legion hdve occupied Jo-icho lessthan See BEVIN PagcT rf Col 4 MaineForest EireHazard: Decreases AUGUSTA-JP-Forert Fire hazard aa' decreased temporarily Forest Gommiattoner Albert Nutting aid today byrlaat rata and now The precipitation was big help however ha added Cloudiness today ilored the 'dry tag process and helped make -today a day" than the last six for fire safety He said tha Rangeley region had an inch of -anew and other northern sections also had "quite a bit" No Area grere reported today Maine still at the of tha Spring forest fire danger season he raid Rainfall for below normal and only alit-tteja in-aight 1 ThaU weather bureau forecast light riidwaitf tonight' But there ns no indication of drenching rain The wopds are particularly dry ta southern and central Maine Nut-ttegsaidTTha'weather bnroautota precipitation ia nearlyr six inches under normal so for this year Several building fires ana smalt scattered eroods all extinguished or controlled quickly added yesterday to foe concern bf state and municipal officials Reco ver Body Of Hunter From East Grand Lake DAMARISCOTTA-iP-The body of Chutes Giles 40 -who wasUn cold -county attorney wher he gowned with four hunting companions last was recovered today fron Eajrt Grand Lake(-at Forest City Tha body Of Gitas fomar wife Mrs Dorothy Elliott Gitas ia the only one that has pot beep found Ormond-Cummings of Winthrop was the bnly survivor' of foe party whose boat capsized Others drowned were Donald Gates of Augusta Lormier Trafton of Wert Gardiner and Maurice Crawford of Readfield Giles' body wm found floating and idcfitifled'l'gaiae warden Tnomaa Sprague and deputy sheriff Williams Sprague" Was assigned fop search when the ice clrared from the take yesterday of 1 Was tag to teet He said he will 'become associated with the Theater Owners of America Mends said they understand Sullivan will receive about $50000 a pear in his new Jote His resignation is effective May 10 jMhe 48-year-old Chicagoan Iciined -Tfte- Democratic- committee in- February 1047 after resigning as second assistant postmaster general Sullivan has been reported not too happy In hiavparty Job and critical of sane campaign methods In a recent speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors ha criticized the Democrats for complacency and credited the 1040 Republican victory in the con- -greasional lzing flow: elections to their organ-ting flown to the precinct leva He said the Democrats must get back to that kind of activity if they futui -era ire elections and for-1 "coat tai to Roosevelt ai late Plane May Join SeardiFor toy RUCKW whitened the Mooaehead snow today lake area where a posse has been seeking three year old Gerald "Terry" Cook since last Saturday -T The sun rapidly melted the snow as the searchers combed the woods -aftw- another night Of sub-freeing JfAt a call for experienced ran went out searchers sald a plane hndgnothflr bloodhound probably 'would Join the hunt bloqd hound led searchers to Mooaehead'a icy edge Sunday Game -warden Kenneth Gray in charge of -the hunt in foe densely wooded wilderness wanrof'Mooee- head take said additional help is needed immediately Meanwhile Soeriff Harold True expanded grappling operations in the lake 'He and other officials fear the bofMrdwned when ha ventured rotting Gray and other wardens however said last night they think the boy or his body IS on rocky wooded Blue They expressed doubt have survived Each 'has brought frost and sub Footprip? found Sunday on a aid-dom-used road leading to the ridge an definitely those ox the lost child in the opinion of warden supervisor Ehnr Ingraham See BOY Faffs g'Cot 3 Weather Weather forecast for Lewiston and Bain -howers ahd mild a tonight: lowest temperature Thursday partly fomdv and slightly -wanner: highest -temperature 58 Winds easterly-tonight Shifting to moderate on on Thursday Loweat temperatuips: Xwiaton Qraen northerly -overnight a 35 Caribou 28 Eistport wJH be HKceaafku -American official offlclala have been gravely disturbed over repots that Arab nation are prepared to send armies into Palestine The main foar la that wblta tha United Nation ia still frying to find to keep peace In tha Holy i foe Jeers and Anbswii fake steps grhich will -hake war than Inevitable Ia this respect American author ittai draw a sharp distinction between the current fighting fax Palestine and the-involvement of either Arab or Jewish forces from outside the Holy Lend At foe moment it seems certain 1 that foa appearance of external forces would confront tha United Nations with an act of aggression which would test the resources and strain its presuga to thg utmost Lillie DeaM There appeared to be -Httie doub therefore that tha Palestine situa tlon figured prominently ta a aeeret meeting Secretary of State Marshall held last night goth three of his top advisers: Chairman Vandehberf (R-Midi) the Senate Foreign Jtetatipna Committee UN detente John Fos-ter Dulles and Undersecretary of State Lovett met with Marshall at a of- jtal-ra oituicft American-policy oh Palestine fog tha past several months has been aimed prhnarily at one objective: to get-the Jewa and Arabs to atop fighting and at the very least to agreato live together temporarily under an armed truce See REPORTS Page Col 4 Second Of Plione RateBoost AUGUSTA-JP-A second Mon ofrder delaying tor forte rnoen months tne effective date of proposed telephone rate increases has 7 been issued by foe nubile lu wwimlalm reported todflr The Now England Telephone and Telegraph Ccnmany filed a new rate acbedide Dec Uto be effeetive Itefab The jlryt three-month suspension 7 orxlered Jan 30 Tha commitoion acid more time ta needed for investigation and a hear- 7 eectedto beta May -7- The new rato acheaute would raise -7 both teal and intra-state toll rates provide an additional $177300 1 year1 ta new Income i 4y Hearings intolvlng- iwo Auburn firms will be conducted by the National-Labor Relations Hoard7in gram xxx lLejitoh tomorrow aSWiSSaggtf tag of needed men for peacetime flcginning at 9 AM They were nailed won petition of the United Shoe workers of America CIO who seek to represent the workers In the dark Shoe Com- 'demands of our national defenso-pro- tag armed services -will' imounfs of materials many ofjehich table in this tale' See SPRVEY Page Col 3 Vo sire for enormous government "lack of rw The company known retorted foat ita pricy aa Arunea olicles have saved the Navv moreJhanEMi ooa It said beneflti to the economy xhave only lust begun" Claim WASHINGTON JP committee Senate he 0- of today that the at leart 330 pqrchaaea Navy was overchari 000000 bn its Arabian oiL Tha committee put the blame oi What it called the Arabian American Oil Company's de- FOR Restaurant Land and Budding IM1VIEDIATE DELIVERY! 4 SERVEL Rlgt ta BuataMa-Sacti9n 1 No Oppositlaueto Large Paper Mill Gpod'opportunlty for man arid aefitag hava other buataeaa Rraaemabta Prica The report declared that the company "received all the from more than $890004)00 worth of lend -tease aid given to Saudi Arabia "and In return ignored their promises" to gull oil to the government at a nominal profit -Overcharged Millions "The United States government was overcharged betweoi $30000-000 and $3OTwj00(ron aria mate to the Navy by Aramco and affiliates between Jan 11042 -and June 80 J947" fo committee said It added: "Tha "tommlttee believe that th Navy Department wholly failed to exercise Ita wartime procurement authority In awarding con-ttacta to Aramco xx at price 1 -i 7-v 1 THE GAS REFRIGERATOR LEWISTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY r- 7' DUL M4M If Interested Dial 3370 Between and VFJL liverinqre Falls Main Or grrit Pit) 128s Chlsholmt lishoim Mataa' 'V' Hsee FIRE Paga fi CoI 7.