Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - May 2, 1952, Billings, Montana 366 UNITED PRESS BILLINGS MONTANA FRIDAY MORNING MAY ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FIVE CENTS Japanese Reds Attack Americans in May Day Riot Hundreds Hurt Red Negotiators Reject Allied Truce Proposal Delegates Agree To Hold Another Meeting Saturday Bus Picket Hit by Car Suffers Bruises Korea May The communists rejected r an allied compromise for were injured settling the last three issues Americans and ing a Korean armistice but agreed reported killed to meet again Saturday The turned down the allied plan involved prisoner ex- change military airfield ing and Russian participation in Korea in a minute off-the-record meeting The meeting was considered critical in the nearly Korean armistice talks The two delegations convened at their full strength of eight and two admirals They gathered in the tiny tent town of Panmunjom as spring was spreading new green and flowers across the rolling western Korea countryside The big question was the com- munist reaction lo the allied posal for retaining out of prisoners who say they do not want to go back to the reds The communists denounced the figure angrily last week and broke off on prisoner ex- change The command came up with ils new proposal Monday were secret but ton reports said the allies offered to drop their opposition to ing North Korean military Continued on Page 10 Column 6 Women Voters Hear Berlin Tunisia Algeria and Also Report Brawls By Associated Press May day riots and disorders bristling military parades and west word battles broke out all over the map Thursday There was more violence and more words spilled than in years Japan turned loose on her own from the occupation yoke only this week had her worst riot since the war anti-American marchers fought lice with clubs and stones in front of the imperial palace Hundreds Truman May Ask Injunction To End Steel Mills Strike including some one person was Lester McCarthy 30 lies on ground after being hit by car in Quincy Mass as fellow members of a picket line chase after driver of vehicle in left background Car struck McCarthy as it went through the picket line formed by striking drivers of the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway company Police later fired a shot in air to force pickets to withdraw McCarthy was hospitalized with bruises Aspirants Cincinnati May cratic presidential candidates Thursday night proposed an in- spector general and a bipartisan commission to clean up ment corruption Republicans said a election victory would do the job Three Democratic and two Re- publican aspirants took part sonally in a clinic conducted by the League of Women Voters to find out what the dates think about major issues They were asked questions pre- pared in advance by the league Their answers likewise were sub- before the program began General Dwight D Eisenhower was represented by Paul G man former economic cooperation administrator who said he hadn't consulted the general about the answers he gave to questions Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio who Thursday fell behind hower in the number of presidential nominating delegates favorable lo him wasn't present or represented The show was staged in Taft auditorium named for his father Personally present to show their political wares were Senator Estes of Tennessee Robert S of Oklahoma and W Harriman of New York Continued on Page 6 Column 6 There were cracked heads in split Berlin clashes in Tunisia and Algeria where several wera in- jured brawls in Israel and cordons of alert police on hand in nearly every big city of western Europe The Soviet union and her com- munist antagonist Yugoslavia led the field in displays of military preparedness Tokyo's communists swinging clubs charged police knocked 218 of them to the ground and seriously injured 51 The communists carried away their own moaning and bleeding com- rades Twelve American automobiles were overturned and burned two United States sailors were tossed into the palace moat the wife of a navy man was roughed up and several other Americans were shoved and hit At Kyoto the former Japanese capital Koreans stormed city of- fices and 17 were arrested Both in Tokyo and Kyoto police used tear gas against the rioters and in Tokyo they used clubs and guns fired into the air Some three million Japanese at- tended big rallies in other cities on May 1 chosen by the socialist international in 1889 as an tional labor day But elsewhere there was no disorder A million Germans turned out for rival rallies in Berlin where east and west come into roughest day-to-day contact in Europe About young rowdies from East Berlin thrust into the French sector and were rudely jolted by police nightsticks Seventy-three communists were tossed into jail and the injured comrades were paraded with their bleeding heads down East Berlin's Under den Linden to make capital of the incident It was Tunisian and Algerian who clashed with police in those places French authorities had banned May day Continued on Page 6 Column 7 Lost Air Liner Found Wrecked Belem Brazil May broken and age of a crashed Pan American missing for wo clays with 50 persons aboard found Thursday scattered over Czechs Permit American Ambassador to See Imprisoned News Wriler Washington May state department disclosed Thursday that Czech authorities after more than a year of re- have permitted the ican ambassador to see William N Oatis the Associated Press correspondent imprisoned in Prague Ellis 0 Briggs United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia talked with Oatis Wednesday at the Prague police headquarters and found him in good health state department officials re- ported They hastened to add that the interview could not be taken as a sign that Oatis is about to be released Nor does it mean he is not going to be released they said Hoarding of Petroleum Supplies Ordered as Gas Shortage Spreads The Weather y and cooler cooler Friday Friday hlth 65 fair and night low 40 Saturday air little change In temperature high 65 EAST OP Partly cloudy to cloudy Friday and Saturday Scattered afternoon and nighttime ers cooler east and south high lo 65 west to 15 cast tittle ature change cloudy Friday and Saturday few scattered lieht showers mostly north portion Friday afternoon and evening Cooler north Friday after- noon and High Friday to 70 65 lo 75 southeast WEATHER DATA From United states weather bureau for hours at p.m Maximum 5 Minimum p.m Precipitation None so tar Hits month none total or same period of May year ago 26 total since January 1 total for same period a year asto normal for May 1.78 normal fo January 1 o June 1 4.74 MONTANA AND PATA Mai Mas Mln Bulle 35 W 59 Glasgow 83 Cheyenne 68 61 89 52 Kansas City 85 Glasgow Great Falls Havre Helena Livingston MUM City MU souls 45 Minneapolis 50 Kew Orleans New York 65 IS 55 Vital Statistics BIRTHS FOJS Mrs Laurie Van 70S street Mrs William Schledt Mrs 122 Bruce avenue Mrs 319 South street Mrs Lawrence Laurel Gabino Fernandez roule 1 MARRIAGE DoneM E Garrett SI of an Marianne K Altmaier of Billings Brazilian jungle hillside There was no sign of life earch plane radioed after ng the wreckage United States ir force were sent to Boy Is Believed Church Burglar Great Falls May year-old boy was caught here at 1 Thursday and is being held by police for the burglary of three Great Falls churches Police said the blond blue-eyed youngster admitted burglarizing three churches taking an mated between the time Ke ran away from his father morning and the time he was caught Thursday morning He was apprehended trying to back his way into a real estate of- fice with a blade hunting knife which he had bought a few minutes earlier from a by service station Police started a search for the boy Wednesday after the father told them he and the son had had trouble Police said the boy's father told them he had found the boy had in his possession which the father believed the boy had taken in a previous burglary while they were en route to Great Falls from Canada The youngster refused to tell iis dad where he got the and father took it away from him he told police The youngster got told his father he was going on his own and left Relating the boy's past including burglaries at Bozeman and in Canada the ther told police Maybe it's a good thing he is going on his own Denver May 1 Forced Boarding of petroleum supplies was ordered Thursday in the face of spreading local gasoline shortages and a continuing deadlock in breaking a nation wide oil strike President Truman asked at his news conference if he had any seizing the oil industry as he had the steel industry said the question had not been put to him The president said he under- stood an agreement was near in the oil walkout Industry rail and air tion and natural gas supplies still were largely unaffected by the wage walkout But filling station pumps were running dry in the area Other dealers such as those around Boston were restricting gasoline sales to regular customers An aviation trade journal Quoted an oil industry official not named as saying civil planes will be grounded within three days if the strike halts the output of gasoline A national petroleum council official said he didn't think the situation that critical but an air transport official said the re- ports checked fairly well Headquarters spokesmen here for the Oil Workers tional the 11 unions States Petroleum union said that Neither Union Nor Industry Anxious To Resume Output Pittsburgh May steel industry and the ed Steelworkers apparently were in agreement Thursday on one the strike continue pending a supreme court ruling a final decision is made on legality of government seizure of the steel industry neither side appears eager to start getting the nation's steel mills hack into duction Steel men pointed out that it would be futile to try to resume operations now should they have to stop again next week if the union refused to work Speculation of a possible resume work attempt came on the heels of a United States circuit coun of appeals ruling which stayed lower court's finding that the sei zure is illegal The latest cour opinion put Uncle Sam back in the saddle pending a review by the United States supreme court President Philip Murray of tlv declined to com ment on the any olhe phase of Washington develop ments Pickets continued pacing there is a wall between us that in front of plant gates in the ab no one could get over He declined to define the locking issue There were reports the union dropped demands to 18 cents an hour and the company offered only 15 cents participating had called tions between an independent ion and Standard of Indiana at the Sugar Creek Mo refinery the most hopeful of the day But those talks broke down In Other hopeful talks continued however in San Francisco between the and Shell Oil California Continued on Page 6 Column 3 Two Montanans Are Honored Missoula May Sidney automobile er and Dorothy M Johnson news editor the Whitefish Pilot were named Thursday night as tana's outstanding business or man and woman of the past year Their selection by the men's and women's professional business of the Montana State uni- versity school of business tration was announced at a dinner Also on the program were the awarding of scholarships to out- standing students by four Montana and professional tions and the installation of an honorary business fraternity at the university business school sence of any orders from Murray to the contrary There was no sign that Mur ray would tell his striker to return to work rather than con duct a strike against the govern technical employer And a spokesman for Unite States corporation put i this It is doubtful if the mills wi be back in operation at once wha ever happens Shutting down nn opening up steel mills is a costly business We can't shut them down one day because of one court ion then open them up the next because of another court opinion All Murray would tell a man There's nothing I have to say I have no comment on the ruling I have no plans for a news con- ference The labor leader canceled a Continued on Page 10 Column 4 Marines Undergo Atomic Warfare est in Nevada Medium-Sized Atom Bomb Is Dropped Near Leathernecks Mount Charleston Nev May 1 United States marines got a May day baptism ol tomic warfare Thursday on the Yucca fiat testing grounds An air force bomber at dropped a atomic bomb over the Nevada grounds for the benefit of he leathernecks huddled in loles only yards from the ground zero target Seconds after the shot up into the clear sky he marines with cool jumped from their foxholes and simulated an advance on Yucca their objective in the believe atomic amphibious attack Even from the depth of the holes the marines saw a brilliant red flash one of the brightest of series of nuclear detonations held here From 40 miles south of the test site observers termed the blast a brilliant spectacle as the initial redness changed in a bow of color Within three the blast formed the typical mushroom cloud associated with atomic detonations a column of gray dust arising from the desert floor to create what has Government Wins Court's Consent To Raise Wages Washington May dent Truman declared Thursday that he will do everything possible to get the nation's steel mills back into production and indicated he might seek an injunction against the striking steelworkers if sary The president made the ment at his weekly news ence after Commerce Secretary PRESIDENT APPEALS Washington May dent Truman Thursday night asked Philip Murray head of the to call off he steel strike Murray in Pittsburgh said he had not yet received the dent's request made in a telegram and would have no comment until he got it Truman appealed to the workers and also to the heads of six big steel companies as loyal Americans to do everything you can to restore production of the steel we must have for our tional safety There was no Immediate com- ment from industry heads become the symbol of atomic might The marines and 250 army ob- servers felt a blast of heat im- mediately following the explosion and as they scrambled out of their foxholes they braced themselves on the ground above for the shock wave that came seconds later For n few minutes they were Charles Sawyer hinted the ment may give the industry a price hike in an effort to break the steel wage-price deadlock and end the strike Sawyer also said he will not act abruptly to grant the steelworkers a wage increase He made the promise after the United Slates appeals court turned down 5 to 4 an industry request that it ban a pay boost until the supreme court rules on Truman's seizure of the in- dustry Truman said he will abide by any decision handed down by the high court because he is not a tator and is only interested in ting steel production resumed He promised to use every possible means toward this end and workers struck immediately Maynard Sands vice chairman of local 101 Central he scene immediately on the that there may be ivors Nineteen of those aboard the lio de York flight vere Americans including nine one of whom was a stewardess The air force dispatched seven from this search er in a hastily converted Pan American passenger plane It said t also planned to try to land a near the wreckage Air line officials said the double-decked luxury air had been slit in two There was evidence of fire and a ible explosion search pilots said The wreckage lay broken in two on a hill and the plane's motors were strewn over a large area First word that the had been found came from a radio Continued on Page 6 Column 4 Britain Begins Jet Air Service Today London May 1 Britain I don't know what to do for him I'm at the end of my rope Police quoted the father as ing he had made restitution in eral burglaries committed pre- by his young son The youngster carried two shiny cap pistols a flashlight and the hunting He had in cash in his possession A woman employe of the Con- church here discovered boy in the church Wednesday afternoon She asked him why he Continued on Page 6 Column 5 Canada Kills More Diseased Livestock Regina Saskatchewan Canada May new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in an area 50 miles away from any previous case has led to the slaughter of 96 more cattle and 56 hogs federal veterinarians reported Thursday The new outbreak was reported at Weyburn Saskatchewan 73 miles southeast of here 800 and 900 head of cattle in a community pasture northeast of Bonner Allocates Flood Aid funds May John W Bonner Thursday night allocated for flood relief in northern Montana's Milk river valley and asked President man ior another Bonner said he was sending money to seven cities and five counties hit hard by the flooding river last month At the same time Bonner pointed R J Kelly state water conservation board assistant tary to the job of coordinating the disbursement of funds The money is part of granted by President Truman April 19 Bonner gave this breakdown of Thursday's Havre Chinook Glasgow Local Oil Firm Reports New Well The first discovery well by an independent company in the Malta Harlem Dodson Nashua Hill county Valley Phillips Roosevelt In his wire to President Truman Bonner asked for the lowing irrigation districts damaged by the spring Paradise Alfalfa A surprise feature of the gram was the honoring of sor C Line for 25 years membership in Alpha Kappa Psi and 25 years on the business administration faculty He is a 1910 graduate of The new fraternity Alpha ter of Beta Gamma Sigma received its charter from Dr Richard zelka dean of the University of Minnesota school of business ad- ministration The fraternity open to top business students of junior and senior rank maintains ters only at fully accredited schools of business administration Dr R H Jesse vice president of received the charter for the tana school Roy L Sorrells Billings dent of the Montana Automobile Dealers association presented the association's scholarship to Charles Davis junior student from Glendive Davis is the new dent of Alpha Kappa Psi men's professional business fraternity Theodore Jacobs Missoula resenting the Montana Bankers sociation presented that scholarship to William L Donally senior from Lozeau member of Alpha Kappa Psi and active in university student affairs A C Boucher Great Falls dent of the Montana Building and Loan league presented the scholarship to Philip B Geil senior from Anaconda also a mem of Alpha Kappa Psi J R Renman Great Falls 000 Zurich Fort begins the world's first jet air liner passenger service Friday with a flight to Johannesburg and plans later for trip service between London and New York The British Overseas Airways Comet a passenger plane will cut at least eight and one half hours off the time now taken for the trip to South Africa by conventional craft even though the Comet route is longer Harlem Frenchman creek Bonner said his figures were the result of reports made on the spot by Kelly and George Burke eral administration neer The Milk river rampaged through northern Montana from March 31 to April 20 and caused damage estimated by Bonner at be- tween and Williston basin was announced Thursday by the Ajax Oil company of Billings The Ajax McGowan No 1 about 14 miles of Poplar ly influenced bidding in the sale of 43 tracts of Indian land on the Fort Peck Indian reservation The company Tuesday tested for 12 hours and recovered 25 barrels of oil-cut mud The oil was 40 gravity Ajax which had cored at to feet plans to take core before running casing lo perforate and acidize The bottom two feet of the core was well saturated in porous limestone indicating good and flow after The well is in the center of the SE SW of section 10 29 N 50 K in Roosevelt county The Clark Drilling company of Billings drilled the well with Jim Powell of the C H Murphy ation working as geologist on the hole The Eldorado Ark tion which has been active in the Dakota portion of the iston basin was high bidder on a tract of the Indian vation exploration land Continued on Page 6 Column 4 Eisenhower Leads Taft in Delegates St Louis May dent of the Montana Society of Public Accountants ed the scholarship to Eldon Chelgren junior from ey Chelgren is treasurer of Alpha Kappa Psi The Montana organization also presented a key to Duane R McCurdy Billings as the ing senior accounting student Curdy also is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and other student honor organizations Ruth Hyde Johnson Havre Continued on Page 10 Column 5 Weyburn still are under uon Forty-one of the caltle and eight hogs slaughtered Wednesday were from the infected herd itself The remainder were from three con- tact herds Federal veterinarians said they have been unable to dis- cover how the outbreak could have spread so far from its original dis- covery point 50 miles away The officials said they have not yet decided on the fate of nearly animals in the Wayburn dis- Court Agrees Man Who Slew Wife Endured Provocations Evreux France May Henri Prince killed his wife He did riot contest that fact in court But the court agreed with his neighbors who said Henri endured provocations to try the patience of any man They fied that I Continued to bring home his paycheck even after his wife forced him to sleep in the stable 2 Suffered in silence when he learned she wanted him out of the house so she could entertain her lover 3 Tried first lo shoot the ing his wife The court gave him o three-year suspended sentence enveloped by a gust of dirt pebbles and debris hurled at them as the air suddenly became turbulent While the marines looked curiously at the cloud overhead scientists quickly checked he area for radiation and on their signal the marines moved into the blasted area to check the effect of the on their equipment and conclude their simulated on Yucca island Thursday's explosion was the sixteenth set off at the Nevada testing grounds Aside from cating that Thursday's explosion was not as powerful as that set off Continued on it 6 Column 1 Farm Funds Wins Approval Washington May congressional economy drive stalled temporarily Thursday when the house passed a culture department money after refusing to slash a single penny The house approved the full amount recommended by the house appropriations committee which it- self had reduced President man's original budget request by only or about 3 per cent This compares with cuts ing 9.5 per cent for the eight other appropriation bills previously passed by the house this year The measure passed by voice vote was the first in which the house actually increased funds available for spending It added fo the in loan authorizations requested by Truman The direct appropriations do not reflect the actual cost of ture programs which now are ning about a year The rest is financed through a virtual blank check system for financing farm price supports and wheat export subsidies The main economy test came Continued on Page 10 Column 7 May Day Is Quiet On Korean Front Seoul May 2 May day ended quietly in Korea Thursday after an early morning artillery duel and a brief air battle in which Eisenhower picked up two votes United States Sabre jet pilots re- in each of Missouri s Eleventh Twelfth and Thirteenth districts in the metropolitan St Louis area A fourth Missouri convention was being held Thursday in the Sixth district at Sedalia where Eisenhower backers predict at least a one-and-one split Presidential nomination requires 604 votes A total of 722 delegates have been picked and of that ber 172 arc either favorable to other candidates undecided un- committed or have not revealed their preference Including an he was asked He replied by repeating that he would take every action necessary Justice department attorneys said Wednesday they an antistrike injunction against the union unless president Philip Murray called off the walkout while the mills are under federal operation The union walked jut Tuesday immediately after Federal Judge David A Pine nullified Truman's seizure of the industry Pine's der in turn was set aside by the United States appeals court until the supreme court makes a final ruling The high court should get the explosive steel case by Saturday noon at the latest and is expected to act as quickly as possible The strike closed down 95 per cent of the industry and spread Thursday to fabricating companies which process steel into finished products At Pittsburgh a union official said We're just next move is up to somebody the ment Both Sawyer and Truman urged the steel companies and the union to try and reach an agreement that would end the strike Sawyer pre- the union would not strike long against the government The president opened his weekly meeting with reporters by advising them not to ask him about the steel controversy because he did not in- tend to give specific answers But under persistent ing he did say that he felt the United States system of ment by checks and was a proper operation balances This was Dwight D Eisenhower pushed ahead of Senator Robert Taft Thursday in delegate strength at the Republican presidential convention next July Republicans from St Louis and St Louis county put Eisenhower in the lead by instructing six gates o vote for him in Chicago On the basis of an Associated Press tabulation this gave the star general 276 pledged or able delegates against 274 for Taft The Ohio senator however claims the support of more than 300 delegates Mig 15 While the guns sounded the in- fantry on both sides remained in their bunkers Only light patrol contacts were reported The communists began the lery fire perhaps as a sort of May day salute and the allies reacted violently with their own artillery with naval guns and with bombing and strafing Allied warplanes swept up and down the front knocking out field guns destroying fortifications anc shooting up red troops the gist of Pine's judicial ruling that temporarily overthrew man's executive seizure order Continued on Page 6 Column 5 British Health Plan Is Approved London May house of commons gave final approval Thursday night to a sponsored health designed to charge Britons for certain health services they are now receiving free The vote on the which had posed a serious threat to Prime Minister Churchill's government was 284 to 266 It was the first major piece of legislation to be put through commons by the con- since they came to power last October Conservative members managed to push the through commons only by imposing a strict tine time limit on debate The measure now goes to the house of lords The main charges to be imposed on patients under the new ate one shilling cents for pre- charges up to pound for dental ment and charges of roughly one half the cost for such appliances as surgical boots surgical abdominal supports elastic wigs which will pounds 10 shillings stockings now cost and two
