Alton Evening Telegraph (Newspaper) - April 8, 1947, Alton, Illinois giver Stages AETON EVENING TELEGRAPH 72 6 Toll Calls je On First y Of Phone In City Second Day Continues Hopeful distance part of telephone hoU that a t will bo effectuated In distance whether could be expected Thats up to the t telephone service today L at normal pace n Al d as the strike of waters entered its second the Alton district is by the dial the affected only those sub s accustomed to making istance service was maintained for with supervisory ies of the Illinois Bell mann necessary positions on the number of outgoing long ie was number is Only loss of life or are said George Alton Us who dialed i male voice say ur call is an slowly Were sorry we to complete only ills during the present tele This is a recorded at Exchange were again in front ol Third and nd in front of the district t 325 None had early today at the gar i the operators were on Plant and com l employes were on the job being paid as and was being carried April 8 Long calls dropped off sharply I Illinois Bell Telephone Co day that more than two the people It serves are entirely normal local despite the ago local service is entirely Illinois Bell said In so is local service In ft communities in Illinois I the 12 communities of In Lake and Porter counties we telephone company said that of the people li pave normal local Affected the strike has cut dras froth local and long distance in approximately 100 com i of the Illinois and South Bell systems not having than both dial and manually handled local calls a local the Chicago Telephone which is not Federation Lofe Arlette Bracken Dies Received Many Easter Gifts W APRIL Member of The Associated So Per Weather Forecast Little Change Ordinance For Go to Council City Council Wednesday night receive an ordinance ng for time In Corporation Counsel Mid told meeting Monday he had been asked 0 prepare such an No discussion was given this measure and hence there vas no show of senti ment as to Its Last year he council enacted fast time or one season Consideration of for 1946 was deferred un H after the outcome of recent referendum in Louis was de Louis left DST in Only twb members of the fin ance Chairman Bowers and Alderman were when the committee meet ng vUs scheduled to open in City Hall Monday Presence of Mayor Wadlow was insufficient to complete a and meet ng Was 7 Wed in advance Of the council Because the appropriation for the new fiscal opening April 1 have not yet been only about in claims chargeable to special Or revolving funds were on hand for Four in addition to committee were in at tendance as well as many of the city and those present discussed budgetary matters to be acted on at the council meeting The council Wednesday will can vass the the 1 city township Molotov Yields Frontier Talks Taken Up Next April Foreign Minister Molotov agreed under western night to halt the long of Big problems turn being e Question of German frontiers The ministers will the frontier question tomorrow In a conciliatory agreed to demands by Secre of State British For eign Secretary Ernest Bevin ant French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to drop from the plans for a German provisional government the Soviet proposal that security police powers be vested in a cen tral V Bevin led the fight He declared that the tendency toward creation of a police state be Woman in Critical Condition Mar jorie wife of James Aslone of 188 Goulding East who was injured Wed April in an accident at Laclede Steel was reported in a critical condition today by rela She Is a patient In Alton Memorial a veteran of World War is also an employe at Laclede and relatives said he was working and witnessed the accident in which his wife was Thirteen year old Lois Arlene of East Alton died Mon ay at in Josephs Hospital of a kidney ailment from she had suffered since She was the daughter of and Charles Bracken of 15 East More than 100 persons had re to an appeal made Satur ay In the Telegraph for blood don rs for the little Lois had een administered more than 15 lood transfusions since her con Ition became serious last he had been a patient In the hos Ital for two The response for blood donors for he child was widespread and be ond expectation of her ho had exhausted their resources i providing the costly care that was needed to keep the child Lois Arlene had been popular In er neighborhood and since she ntered the hospital neighbors and had showered her with gifts of bed greeting cards and She had a cheerful dispo and had a favorite vis tor in the homes of her East Alton After entering the hos and before her condition be ame she had cheered mailer children in her ward and had comforted them when their parents could not be with Born in East had spent her entire life She was a pupil in the seventh Blair Junior High school when she became ill and was un able to continue her She s a member of First Baptist East and had been pupil in the Sunday Surviving besides her are two aged her maternal Janet and her paternal grand and James all of East Funeral rites will be conducted Thursday at 2 in First Bap tist by the Burial will be n Woodland Hill Wood The body is at Streeper funeral Wood where friends may call after noon Wed Old Age Pensioners April 8 Old age pensions averaging were paid to per sons in the Illinois Public Aid Commission reported today Payments totaled Business April 9 UP state corporation depart ment issued charters to 645 new business firms during sec of state Edward Barret said styE From Union Meeting When Floor king o beams and a In the floor resulted y exodus of members of the International As Machinists after they r called meeting Work 107 West 1 300 of local were in the hal the hall auditorium at in Maw on Broadway while about more Had not found room to enter t Jif Hoor feit Shorter Another Hose House In et Cerebral Hemorrhage Fatal To Henry Ford at Age of 83 Work Resumed April UP John Lewis today expressed coal production yesterday was and instructed miners to resume work as fast as each mine is certified as president of the AFL Mine made public a tele gram he sent to each district dent of the It said This office expresses tion that production yesterday of reexamined and mines and strip pits was I confirm policy of Immediate resumption of production at each mine as fast as it is certified by federal mine inspectors as being in conformity with federal mine safety Let us hope that the belated efforts of the federal government to establish safety in the mines will not prove to be a spasmodic and will pave the way for mandatory safety legislation by the federal yesterdays production was esti mated by the coal mines adminis tration at about 32 percent of a Fund Listed for Addition Of Six Men in Fire Reopening and of the Northside five foi the last half of the next fiscal year and the addition of six policemen to shortening In the police department are city appropriation to be in ih City Council next Wed s The proposed budget measure was given partial reading and pre liminary study at an meeting Monday night in City Hall which took the place of city finance City who presented the ordinance at request of Alderman com said that the fire department set at contemplates that six additional firemen be named to man the new Northside hose in course of but that the budget allowance is for six it being the expectation that the additional fire station can not be made ready operation before A special also has been added to the budget under the heading of Northside Hose House This gathers to gether funds earmarked in the last year for the fire department ex project to total of It covers the purchase of the hose house and equip as More than half this fund already Is in carried over from last year such as item of re through vacation of lower State street for the Flour mill site Police Budget The police department budget set in addition to pro viding for six more cludes for equipment which it has vide the city The council hasbeen seeking a means to put the police depart went On additional will a step to this Middleton the adjustment it will shortening working hours will re main to be worked out on basis o what the added manpower makei Some have that it might require ten more men to make possible full in other a de working in three instead of two shifts each 24 hour General Increase Other budget items were exam Ined with Jess detail than those for fire and police services but aldermen learned before th discussions that the be increased over last year to but that this increase will be re fleeted by a boost of less than 5 percent in taxes over last year The budget it wa is inflated by a o items in are merely re appropriations of funds from last The 1946 tax levy the city actually less than the tola extended for the 1945 and al though both police and fire depart ments are to be expanded In th present levy for un der the budget now in be only slightly higher than tha of two years In said th Truman Calls Price Situation To Be Explored resident in Cited His Attitude on Indus trial Profits Lewis is due to go into District Court here Thursday to ask remittance of all but of the fine Imposed on the United Mine Workers for dis regarding a order against last falls mine The Supreme upholding the contempt ordered re duction of the fine if Lewis and the UMW compiled with the court At Thursdays the gov will have opportunity to ask the court to apply the full fine takes the po sition that present work stoppages are a violation of the In event the full fine was LeW today might be come evidence to support a contention that the current not a strike but of work in unsafe it officials were on the the federal mines stood on ruling that so far be any mine may city anticipate that he corporate would b increased 5 and that some not all the special als would be Increased amount It has goal to hojd down not increase Middle i Ordinance Before turning to the aldermen meeting Briefly Frankly Worried Says Economist April UP Edwin chair man of the Presidents economic advisory said today that the price situation is ser at this Leaving the White House after a conference with Pres ident Nourse told re porters he was frankly wor ried over the inability to bring prices down generally and the resulting pressures culminating in Increased wage Death Sudden Firm Founder Was Active To His Final Day Succumbs at CandleLit Home as Floods Cut Heat to Estate April President Truman today called a special session of his cabinet for to morrow to explore the price situa Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross said that Chairman Edwin Nourse of the presidents economic advisory council has been asked to submit a report at that who has repeatedly expressed concern over rising declared in a speech Satur day night he hoped industry would not go whole hog for Ordinarily the cabinet meets on The economic council has been making a continuous survey of the price and council colleagues House this iif Sf or a preliminary discussion Democratic y leaders Day dinner Saturday night that un are held down an spiral will said might price industry out of its and lead to widespread disclosed plans for the spe cabinet meeting at his morn ing news He said itwill be a special meet ing to hear an economic state ment from Nourse relating to It will not be a formal Rosa but rather a statement information of the cabinet under further that the meeting will concerned with either the telephone strike or the walkout In the coal Family Home April 8 Dwight wife of the Illi and their and returned here yesterday after a vacation trip to Charges in Japan April Kobe base provost today announced that five soldiers who he said had been AWOL for seven months had been ap and charged with crimes ranging from rape to Kobe base headquarters identified the five as Mel and Frank Houston Herman New York Upper Marl and Robert Rol Headquarters said Maddox and Robinson accused of and rape Major of HENRY who died last night at his estate near Ford Worried Only Once in His Life When Wife Was III Senate OK For April Senator to Continued if robbery and assault with a deadly and Smith Rollins of Foil Reds Attack Dump The story of how a small band of Marines n eight A seventh killed by a ral services for the five dead i will be held attempted coup WleJ the leatherneck re on the eld to ln order to pre vent a chain reaction which wouk threaten peace and security around the Far from bypassing the United Vandenberg declared in a the proposed aid program is great est act of allegiance to act of total Thus without mentioning Andrei Gromyko by the foreign relations chairman replied to the Soviet representatives assertion to the Security Council yesterday that the United States had disregarded bypassing the and undermining its I know of no better way to de stroy the United Nations than to give It a specific job which it Is neither intended nor prepared to Vandenberg In no available aspect should we bypass its But in no available aspect should we ruin Us potential by assigning to it func tions which it does not Such an assignment would destroy it for under such circum stances as in the present Greece would sink into the Com munist orbit and the fateful chain reaction would set in both East and Leading off the debate which may continue for a week or Vandenberg assured the Senate that There Is no new doctrine such as the Monroe doctrine in American aid to distressed The plan not imperialistic but is Intended to forestall aggres sion once could snowboll Into global danger of vast The United States is not balling out the British We plot no offense against the Soviet Vandenberg told the in prepared that the plain fact seems to bo this It the in their extrem are not successfully helped to themselves to maintain their own healthy of another Communist dictator ship will rise at this in world mobilized against a Communist war of faces neighboring The two situations are Wjr Flying Killed in Plane A among his buddies 0 the World Ninth Mad wan with pilot of plane which he flown by Ray a rf live of crashed into thicket shortly after We IM the Point where operated Hying Following is an intimate pic ture of Henry in words by David Associated Press automotive who was closely asso with he Industrialist for more than three By DAVID Associated Press Automotive April and gaunt almost to the point of was a man of was a man of deep By April In the light of kerosene lamps and of candles Henry famed pioneer of the automobile died at oclock last night In his home In nearby He would have reached his birthday next July High flood waters of the River Rouge running through the Ford state had cut power and heating nt the residence and a fireplace the Fords death was due to a cerebral It came after the noted Indus had spent a vigorous day in water damage around the Ford plant was making plans for another tion this Friends said he had never ap in better At his bedside were his Bryant and a member of the household A family statement said he had retired at 9 EST and had awakened at complain ing he felt slightly Ford gave him a drink of He died 25 minutes The statement that seated v few crimes at inaccessible easy to talk and although not infrequently some what difficult to follow phil When he died In his fourth year last night lie edly was at peace with and the rest of the lie rarely worried about Ford often asserted creeds were Yet he built half a dozen or more and he said that he tried to as mother would have wanted me Insofar as he followed arty par Ford was an Ford had two favorite pas sages in the One from He brews which he quoted occasion ally Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not Ho Liked Poetry I once asked him whether he ever worried about Only he said that was when Ford was He disliked public appearances and rarely made a public Ford liked poetry one of his favorites was Tennysons Locksley This he fre cited as forecasting on ul timate world federation and par liament of that Ford himself so ardently He was deadly earnest when he said that under certain circum stances he could build 1000 planes a day similarly he firmly when he said that In its early stages World War II was a phoney and that the United States never would enter Whether he could have built 1000 planes a day is a moot ques Certainly he surrounded the claim with a lot of Chief of these was that the design should be frozen long enough to get the planes into mass produc Most persons thought he was talking about when ho really meant pursuit There probably never was a greater affection between two per sons than existed between and Clara Bryant They telephone service bn that had to engineering Continued on Page nearly half a mile from resi summon a Mateej of the Hehry Ford who arrived at said death was due to a cere bral Funeral Thursday Funeral services will be held from Cathedral in Detroit on Thursday at an hour to be announced The body was taken to a Detroit funeral home this morning and will be returned to the Ford Greenfield village to lie In state all day Wed i All Ford Operations throughout the world will be suspended on Flags on all Ford prop erty will be at half staff after the Fords death marked the passing of not only one of the worlds most noted industrialists but of an individualist who devel one of the most colossal fam ily fortunes the world has known out of what often had been ridi as a lot of crazy Described In numerous citations as of the select company assured pt perpetual a one tWne obscure was also credited with having brought into being an industry that changed the course of the Original Investment He developed his great industrial empire for which he was once said to have refused out of an idea for a cheap automobile and an initial capital mainly by his of That was In and at his the great empire belonged exclusively to his family and had manufactured more than Ford returned only a week ago from his annual visit to the Ford estate in Georgia and was said to have been in excellent health at that He had been planning to cele Continued on Rectors Adopted Son Charged With Murder in Sextons Death April W Stuart adopt son of an Episcopal was arraigned today on a charge ot murdering the sexton of his fa thers church ana smiled wanly when he was ordered held without bond for trial in the Juvenile slon of criminal Prosecutor Newcomer filed the murder charge against theboy whoso foster the James Is pastor of the fashion able Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Police quoted young Allen u saying In a signed statement J went up to Christ Church afld played the organ when this to kill somebody came over nMr U didnt matter I went to undercroft saw I dropped some money on the floor and when he stooped to pick it up I hit him with the 1 struck him right hard over the The hammer handle and It was then Allen seized an electric drill a work bench and it Into the police quoted the statement M A check of on the lifter concerning lad to the
