Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - October 9, 1947, Billings, Montana 62ND 160 ASSOCIATED PRESS THURSDAY OCTOBER 9, 1947 UNITED PRESS FIVE CENTS Balkan Border Watch Demand Wins Approval U.N. Political Body Overrides Bitter Soviet Objections Lake Oct. political committee of the united nations assembly overrode Russian objections late Wednesday and approved a United States de- mand for a special U.N. Balkan border walch The vote on the special tee was 34 to 6. The Russian bloc voted solidly against it. Nine including the Arab group and Norway and The delegates put off a decision on the hottest part of the United States tion finding Albania and Bulgaria responsible for helping Greek i Just before the political adjourned at p.m. the United States proposed that tne Balkan committee be made up the Pakistan and the five great That will be dis- cussed Thursday when the political committee resumes debate on the All committee action is subject to final approval by the full Assembly approval was considered a foregone cause the 57 member nations are all represented in both the meetings and the committee The committee also approved a United States proposal that the assembly call on Bulgaria and Albania to cooperate with the special Tne vote on this section was 39 to with eight The balloting climaxed committee debate on the case which began September 25. It came after Russian Chief Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky charged that the United States was presenting an on Page 5, Column 6.) Harms Surrender for Button Brings Smile From Chief Executive Oct. dent Truman smiled Wednesday when Mrs. India director of the women's Democratic called at the white House wearing a pair of for Mrs. Edwards went to the White House for the president's radio address on Democratic Women's She posed for photographers Cripps Britain Must Dollar Aid with Mr. who Britain's the buttons but only If Not Forthcoming Further Cuts in U.S. Imports Are Forecast Oct. Stafford Hanns movie and his wait to be served with an arrest at the United States bureau of immigration in Los Cal. They face deportation A house com- on un-American activities report has described Eisler as international communist Robot Airplane Ends Journey Oct. The air force's transport landed at Clinton county air base here Wednesday at ending the of a mile robot flight from Seven crew and three passengers stepped from the guided Skymaster named Big Push almost as fresh as when the plane took off from at a little over eight and a half hours The mile last leg of the re- turn started from was controlled by the in- mechanical brain from start to The plane's Colonel James M. pushed a button starting the automatic control and sat back to monitor the The plane's landing was greeted by cheers from air force officers from Wright radio 40 press and newsreel custom officials and 500 Clouds were closing in on the base as the plane landed and a wind of about 10 miles was As Colonel commander of the Clinton returned from the flight which started out with only the mechanical brain knowing the air force officers discussed the implications of the flight but shied away from combat Colonel B. S. who created the automatic flight knowledged there was no reason why it could not be used as an sive It was that crewless bombing were on Page 14, Column 4.) The Weather FORECASTS cloudy Thursday Hish 60. EAST OF cloudy Widely scattered showers in warmer High 55 to cloudy Thursday with scattered showers or snow flurries -n High 55 to 65. AIRPORT WEATHER DATA From United states weather bureau for 24 hours ending at Maximum a m Minimum 3'jlsunsct p V so tar this total for same period of October a year 1.27; total since January 1, 10.74; total for same period a year 10.3: normal for 1.08: normal for January 1 io November 1, 12.39. MONTANA AND DATA Max. Max. Min. Broadus 85 57 IS Glasgow 51 65 Great Falls 57 Havre Helena Lewist own Livingston Miles City 4liCheyennc City Orleans 79 York 72 67 60 Louis 70 64 Glasgow 60 13 46 57 Falls Helena Livingston 05; Miles City Missoula Vital Statistics Mrs. John 218 Miles Mrs. W. Mrs. James J. route 1, John 1780 Rimrock Girls Mrs. James Mrs. Raymond 224 Burlington DIVORCE Mac Phillips Hole from Clifford CALL At p.m. Wednesday to 70" Thirty-first owned By occupied by Electric lint plate Ignited and Small U.S. Charges European Communists Seek To Prevent Recovery Oct. United States charged Wednesday that communists are trying to pre- vent the recovery of Europe and plunge the continent into The accusation was contained in a carefully worded statement made to a news conference at the state department by Under Secretary Robert A. The statement came in response to requests for of- reaction to the Soviet an- Sunday that the com- of nine European countries had formed an international mation agency to fight the Marshal plan and what they called British and American Lovett deliberately noted that the communist group setting up the included cabinet members of certain including the Soviet He said they had the aims of the American and British people in the recent war and ried to new lengths the distortions of United States policy with which the communist press everywhere has recently been parties and governments associated with this program have made clear their intention to pre- if they the economic re- covery of Lovett in Europe who permit themselves to be misled by these malicious and unscrupulous will be taking a heavy on for there on Page 14, Column 6.) Opens Four-Day Meet Salt Lake Oct. 8. Republican party leaders from all over the nation sat down day for a strategy meeting in the 1948 campaign but the big name presidential hopefuls were Those present were the party workers who will wage the next year for the candidates nominated at the The such as Thomas E. Robert A. Taft and Harold E. were not Party workers attending the ond annual western regional conference ranged from ringing precinct captains to state They will remain in session four Leading the discussions will be Carroll national chairman of the and several of his drawer including Walter E. New finance tee and Mrs. Robert assistant chairman of the Keynote of the which is attracting Republican leaders from the 11 western slates and four midwestern states of Kansas and the will be Mrs. MacAuley carried out this keynote in her opening speech to the women's group Wednesday Expressing confidence of Hike in County Taxes Outlined T. A. Yellowstone county announced Wednesday com- of the 1947 tax roll for the totaling an in- crease of over 1946. Most of the he re- from large school levies voted by property owners in a special election last Taxes for school purposes total or 45 per cent of the tax General taxes within the city of Billings are 20 per cent more than in 1946, Cothron For Laurel the increase is 33 per cent and for Broadview 15 per cent. The county gained in assessed in able the assessor all of this increase sents new wealth brought into the county and is about a 10 per cent gain over 1946 in taxable this additional value taxes would have been about 10 per cent Cothron By school districts the percentage of increase over 1946 is as District 2 in 20: district district 4, 24; district 6, 3; district 2 outside the 25; district 3, 12; 7 in 33; district 7 46; district 8, 15; District 9, 23; district 10, 7; dis- 11, 20; district 12, 4; district 15, 3t; district 17, 65; district 18, 13; district 20, 80; district 21 in 15; district 21 24; District 22, 24; district 23, 15; dis- 24, 55; district 25, 18; district 26, 20; district 30, 20; district 31, 26; district 32, 12; district 35, 22; district 37, district 39, 37; District 40, 27; district 41, 25; dis- 42, 24; district 44, 17; district 48, 23; district 50, 56; district district 52, 40; district 53, 58; dis- 56, 52; district 57, 14. A breakdown of tax rolls shows next to the city of Billings receives the largest 23.52, of the The breakdown shows on Page 5, Column 4.) bushels of grain by to help feed He said it applies to all the grain tlie whisky makers hold or have contracted to Farm leaders told Mr. Truman Wednesday that they will campaign to slash the use of grain on the Anderson says that is where the big saving of grain for export must be A pledge of per cent was given at the White Wednesday over an official House by Albert S. master that top and the National Edward need not sign president of the American Farm Bureau and tin president of the tional Council of Farm Distillers met late Wednesday on Page 5, Column 2.) Chileans Expel Yugoslav Envoys Oct. The chided the ladies for taking that government Wednesday victory for expelled two Yugoslav the 1948 election we mats on charges that they had let anybody fall down on the in by economics declared Wednesday that unless some form of dollar aid was forthcoming Britain would be forced to make further cuts in American imports that would start a spiral of in many particularly in Speaking at his first news con- ference since cabinet Oct. elevated him to command of ers have agreed to make all their thc nation's economic revival grain available for said however thai of Agriculture Anderson reported Britain could avoid further cuts in Wednesday as the national food standard of living by emergency conservation drive picked up financial steps if Marshall plan aid Europe is ready by next Distillers Offer All Their Grain Electronic Ear lo Aid j Deaf lo Use Telephone Reported Invented j New Oct. j I ironic car to aid persons j to listen to telephones and radios I was announced Wednesday by the I Dictograph Products company's acousticon The ear is about the size of a j small egg and when used is by a rubber suction cup that it against ihe outside of a telephone or telephone re- j or to the radio a person j to This ear only when plugged into a hearing Small attached to the egg j enable the user lo do ibis where within six feet of the phone or the Two More Former U.S. Soldiers Arrested On Atom Theft Charge Will Pilotless Plane Makes Terrific Speed in Britain Scientists Believe That May Have Been Hit Oct. 8. Highly Confidential Photographs Said To Have Been Taken Oct. i federal bureau of investigation announced the arrest of two former servicemen on charges of of highly confidential relating to atomic energy I Director J. Edgar Hoover the two men are former army photographers who had been em- at the Los Hoover gave their names as harvest hands arc coming to Oct. Wellington He said Britain would like to ease a serious labor rocket-propelled taken into custody at Oct. S. Chairman Charles Luckman of the food committee night forecast a wide shutdown of whisky making although large segment of industry lias not yet Luckman announced after a conference with representatives of 39 com- that 18 had approved ing while the other 21 asked for time to consult their He said he does not know what percentage of the national distilling capacity was sented but that all the large companies had men on trade with other The economics minister's ence to a start in Marshall plan aid by next June came in reply to a question after he had listed emergency financial steps open to this These he drawing the remaining of the further sales from the sterling area's nearly gold and other further exchanges of sterling for dollars through the international monetary fund and application for a loan from the international Since the dollar crisis developed last Britain has used two of these selling on Page 5, Column 5.) Solons Differ On Affidavits Oct. gressional opinion differed Dancer Reenacts Fatal Shooting Oct. tricia Schmidt paled and appeared nist But one of the authors of the Senator Re- approved He said at Des Moines that was not logical to that and board members swear they arc not He said they have no control over the individual unions under The an interpretation of the law handed down Tuesday by the national labor re- lations failed to win mous of a joint house committee set up to study how the law One committee about to faint Wednesday as she sentative J Tf tint reenacted before a Cuban court the fatal shooting of her John Lester aboard his yacht Satira in Havana harbor last The court room full of sweating told reporters that the decision a complete surrender John L. He contended that congress must begin rewriting the act if the board to make such spectators was swept to a high emo- Senator tional pitch by the drama of 5aicl that he recis lnc Patricia's account of and leaders should the events aboard the Chicago at- The 22-year-old take the oaths an vice had refused to sign such an night club dancer wept as the i Under an opinion of Robert cutor demanded a jail sentence of NLRB general 30 years for the I this would have prevented all At the request of Chief unions from using the Cristobal More she reenacted But Tuesday's actual using the caliber 4-to-l ruling by the board said j pistol with which she fired the Denham was workers hope to bring I More it plunged into taken into custody in connection tnc the removal of documents scientists felt certain the lating to the atom bomb and atomic about 800 men to starting to help farmers harvest their record acre sugar beet crop before the winter freeze Harold Dusenberry of extension livestock specialist and former farm labor re- ported Wednesday lie believed 800 single white men in Kentucky and Tennessee would be signed up for work in and some of lor WOIK in aiui ui the workers would entrain for the of supersonic speeds ployed at the Los Alamos project Treasure state in a few Forty-one men from Oklahoma arrived in Montana this week and are working in the and 125 Canadians were re- in Saskatchewan for work along the Milk from Chinook to Haight These were in addition to 34 men the Holly Sugar company brought to the Miles City area by airplane from California earlier this the beginning of the beet it was estimated that additional men would be needed in and October reports show almost that many are required Haight we get the 800 the labor shortage problem still will not be We are ing our very besi in the matter and are getting good cooperation from on Page 5, Column 4.) 11-foot, model had passed the speed The said Thompson was in They believed the of the photographic approached a 1.000-m.p.h.jtory at Los Alamos until Sept. 10. clip during its journey into the The ministry of supply said it 1945. when lie received an honorable He is now owner of the Valley studio at the would take at least a week to announcement the successful experiment Hoover said was em- President Asks Production Hike San Oct. dent Truman appealed to the ican Federation of Labor in a sage Wednesday to raise still higher America's level of production to the critical conditions which the well-being of the en- tire At the same time he warned of the necessity of in the domestic economy of the nation to cope with prices and The president's read to the sixty-sixth annual con- called upon America's ers to share the nation's abundance with the less inasmuch as the production level today is greater than ever before in The need for Truman many countries in the year ahead i virtually have destroyed will be even more acute than in the Changchun Mukden on A jet-propelled Meteor during most of a three-year service fighter attempted to chase the Vith the army and was honorably midget and photograph Its March 7, 1940. with the Scientists saw the path traced on rank of staff the screens of six cathode ray j men were attached to the Inside the plane itself were special photographic laboratory during Hie radio transmitters to record the first atomic bomb was stresses and and subsequently the plane was cut loose west at the of the Scilly from the belly of the it was toj The said the men are for- have glided 15 Then charged with theft of power was to have started property described by the gathering speed until as of a number penetrated the supersonic After 55'seconds, its fuel supply on Page 14, Column 4.) the plane was believed to have slowed back through the speed of its own An automatic device then was to have locked its tail forcing the robot into a wise the momentum of its extreme speed would have it to glide 150 G. R. Lockee scientific observer aboard the said the robot rocked slightly after its rockets started but then flew mally for a few the starboard wing went vertically down and came back he model finally disappeared into a cloud at It will be difficult to say whether it reached supersonic I think we should get useful results even though it was gliding Airmen made a careful distinction between aircraft and on Page 5, Column 4.) Chinese Reds Wreck Railway Oct. liming their Chinese com- The board held that sections of he The communists blasted bridges bor and recognizing tics between seriousness of the situation Government forces just had com- Taft and Stassen See Win DCS Oct. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and Former Governor Harold E. Stassen of joined here Wednesday be- fore a group of Iowa can party leaders in a of Republican victory in next year's presidential The two political each re- garded as the Republican presidential shared the spotlight as speakers at an informal luncheon gathering of Republican state committee editors and party A special committee sponsoring the affair leaned so far backward to avoid any show of partiality that Chairman Vincent Starzinger of Des Moines called upon Justice Norman R. Hays of the Iowa supreme court to flip a coin to see whether Stassen or Taft should speak Taft won the Each spoke for about a half Stassen digressed from a prepared address to comment that some question appeared to have risen the about the significance of his appearance here with the Ohio Both had been on the program of the Iowa Bankers association annual convention Tuesday and people seem to be asking She admitted she had been law requiring union officers to mate with Mee aboard the sign the affidavits and to make on Page 14, Column 4.) extensive repairs necessitated all this Stassen but said it was only after he financial reports to I r I I promised to marry The yacht j government and to union A I- I I was christened the name not apply to top leaders Dies of Stroke under which the exotic dancer and They do in Caribbean night to officers of unions She said she went aboard filiated with those yacht in and did not learn j Senator until six weeks later that the former chairman of thc joint gan Francisco Oct torpedo boat commander in thc agreed with Chairman A gener was already With that i Herzog of the board Wednesday she love be- that thc decision means the of 'a Wednesday 25 Convinced him that the gan to break and need not file financial a few after collapsing miles of the line had been trend is growing stronger every She charged that Mee held her statements under the act. addressing the inter- but asserted and that the people are coming a for six weeks j a two-hour closed session national i f f ec ti vc 1 y from their wanderings in the The 56-year-old labor lawyer had the j primrose path of new I by the spring do not seem to recognize that and had announced the line it- means You are be reopened this The repairs to hear us and we are willing had required five months of discuss thc labor reviewing the work of the Hsin Min Pao reported that Republican controlled de- Chiang had flown to dared the party that record Mukden to personally direct was worthy of asking for reelection moves against the only of n Republican congress sixth of a Republican president as well 1 counsel A government military 1948- of Lieutenant General He hls recent western trip aboard the and that in the of the board members and the com- which ended In the fatal Ball Informed newsmen the an at the said the shooting Mee had averted am discussion had turned to a law he swept along the going to kill and had ordered tion of who actually are union of- his lie railroad from north to Judge More she Ball said she are those who i which the government to reenact the April 8 them as those designated as union trom Ule say Republican victory is I the strike of 16000 as good as I am confident of i ultimate victory but am mindful of the hard work yet to be Mrs. MacAuley charged the on Page 14, Column 2.) ing which resulted in Mee's death officers by constiti six days Miss Schmidt and Russia Is Offered Austrian Assets Oct. Russia was offered an unspecified share in the Austrian oil industry and the Danube Shipping com- plus a fixed amount of cash from the Austrian government Wednesday in return for ing nil other claims against tria in connection with former man The initiated by French Delegate General Paul will not be acted upon by the four power pence treaty commission now meeting but all delegates in- that the terms would be transmitted to their governments The proposal probably will form the basis of discussion in Austrian treaty negotiations by the coal miners days Miss Schmidt and the said this about 6 Andrei Yugoslav will reenact it so you d'affaires without diplomatic rank I j Representative His physician all and Dalibor secretary oil The court clerk checked the pistol a committee u on Page 5, Column 4.) i on Page 14, Column who All PS. WPl P Til niT ni in o- j 1 Passengers Jolted m i I designated as union trom Ule lo can snitl D 3HQ of their where he died Changchun and the C I ic senator said this al standard road no longer one dispatch i groped for a glass of water and within knocked it He was half carried few miles of Cha little Yugoslav legation taken by authorities to been visiting in Officials said Foreign Minister Vergara Donoso told the Yugoslavs they had infringed the hospitality of the country and acted against its independence with sub- An official statement said that Cunja and acting for the new communist international quarters in were in- to intensify a campaign against the United attack continental defense policy and de- a plan to sabotage raw rials production through strikes or work government It added that many months Oct 8_( death to would be required to explained acrobatics of a big Teng announced officially the i j flagship tossed about who had fought labor s reported loss of 53 and crewmen Wednesday shortly before the made a unscheduled landing Six passengers were X-rayed and given first aid at a hospital but none were injured legal battles since 1915, had been in to thc ill health for about a At first his condition was diagnosed as a minor He appeared to have no control over one side of his body and had difficulty managing his hands and Survives Another Operation in Death Race Oct. The specialist explained that 'the convention until hearted Forrest Hoffman he to wait until late I Just before he was stricken the Wednesday raced with death and ary to see if right kidney veteran lawyer drew a laugh from odds and survived an will resume its normal delegates by Richard F. Gascoigne Wednesday Officer Acquitted is hands and I After kw resident William Green recessed f San Oct. Naval Lieutenant Junior Grade operation to correct a kidney Main worry of the doctor rather sensitive to punches because ment which threatened his whether or not the sutures inside i I recently got This was the second such the lad would hold on thin He was referring to the incident Six-year-old Nubbins won he'll get along a congressional hearing in Los lifo coirl at similar battle for life three years and sympathetic mothers had charged that the coal strike was part of a and was being gated by a Russian satellite The interior ministry said workers in the nitrate fields of northern Chile stopped work for two hours Wednesday in sympathy with the conl the first contingent all over the nation Wednesday was acquitted by a eral court-martial on charges he mistreated fellow American ers of war in a Japanese prison in may not be necessary to have Until he conies back to Mercy a third the who requested he remain as three years for a house labor The 28-year-old navy officer from court's of turning Corporal James B. United States of over lo the anese for stealing beating his fellow prisoners and showing sent him expressions of sympathy poured into pushed him broke to help him celebrate an early the The Hoffmans glasses and bruised his moved up for fear he that thanked everyone legal fighting in behalf would live to sec Santa lied Nubbins and they also said that they of labor began in 1915 when he became general counsel of the consin Slate Federation of hospital in Denver for an that state he was the author of Nubbins will have a tube labor legislation and in 1025 told Mr. and Mrs. draining the matter from was appointed Judge of the civil Hoffman have inside his to wait and court Milwaukee He re- going to have a hard two years foreign ministers at of army reservists reported lor duty II was at first thought that keeping him Mrs. Hoffman don maul I In the coal I third operation would be a pretty rough The lawyer became general counsel of the In 1038. in dividing food Gascoigne was captured by the Japanese in April 1942 and became a storekeeper at the Omuta prison camp on the island of He has been in the navy 11 The passengers included 20 women and four Captain Charles the who righted the plane and landed gave this account of the The air liner went into a sudden climb at feet shortly after he over El en route from Dallas to Los He adjusted the automatic pilot without ent then switched it off. The plane immediately dived feet while Sisto struggled with the manual and then turned upside At this stage passengers not strapped in their seats fell to the ceiling and loose baggage was thrown about the After an Interval of upside-down flying estimated variously by sengers as a split second and Sisto righted the ship and brought it back to El Paso for a safe
