Billings Gazette (Newspaper) - June 30, 1952, Billings, Montana 59 UNiTED PRESS BILLINGS MONTANA MONDAY MORNING JUNE 30 1952 French Premier Backs Plan for European Unity Expresses Alarm At Possible Cut In Aid From U.S Paris June Antoine of France disclosed that he intends to press for European unity because he is convinced that it is an even more certain way of saying peace than the formation of any army ever strong that army may be underlined his faith in the European idea and his com plete agreement with General Dwight D Eisenhower on the need to have a European constituent assembly soon in the first ex- interview the premier has given since taking office last March In the conversation in his private office in the Matignon official dence of France's premiers did not suggest that Europe should riot rearm Bather he reflected the growing uneasiness of West Europe's lead ing statesmen that rearmament alone would not suffice and that a still more certain hope for and social as well as military and be offered to the peoples of the old world In denouncing war as the worst possible source that it was this ever more apparent uneasiness in Europe which was behind the Blench wish for still another try at reaching agreement with the Russians in a four-power parley recognizes that the Euro- pean assembly and the ate steps leading to what he i i termed this crowning ment take time For the ment France is dependent to i large extent upon its allies anc particularly the United States as Continued on Page 10 Column 2 Asks Revision Of Penal Laws Washington James V director of the bureau of prisons called Sunday for revision of laws carrying man prison sentences for offenses including post office rob bery and violations of the new narcotics act He said the system of mined sentences not only is self but also complicates problems of law enforcement ant makes extremely difficult the re of offenders caught in these arbitrary legal sanctions The narcotics law passed by congress last year provides tha repeaters must actually serve their full terms behind bars with no probation or suspended sen fences It carries prison sentences of up to 20 years for offenders Bennett made his tion in replying to a list of ques tions on the federal prison system submitted by Chairman Celler Democrat New York o the house judiciary committee Celler sought the information in the wake of widespread prisoner revolts in state penal tions Bennett said there have been n organized revolts in federa prisons for The disruption in that time he said came last spring when prisoners working in the kitchen of staged a sit down strike and de- manded special food not given th other men He said this incident was settled without violence or any to the inmates The Weather FORECASTS cloudy v roreno In m afternoon Cooler Monday High 80 Pal coon cloudy scattered thunder westerly winds most sections TO to 80 east Fair and cool lat Monday night Tuesday fair In cloudy widely scattered thunder In afternoon Warmer cloudy Monday an Tuesday scattered light showers and thunderstorms Cooler west and noil Monday afternoon Hlsh Monday 10 to I 30 to SO elsewhere WEATHER DATA States weather bureau Maximum Minimum mot 1.01 toUl for same period of June a Tea MO total since January 1 Jor same a year norm s or July 1 MONTANA AND DAW Max MIn 55 Cheyenne Broadus 75 Glasgow 35 Ore at Falls 81 Havre SI Helena SS Miles City 9 01 soul a 16 p 86 i 53 Kansas City 102 8 New Orleans 88 7 New York 87 8 59 San 67 4 Seattle 60 5 ISt Louis 105 H Mis Vital Statistics Mra Vern 8 Avenue B Girl Mrs Herman K Prey 3 Billing s DEATHS harles L wheeler 53 Laurel ASSOCIATED PRESS Sensational Acrobat Charged by Police As Public Nuisance Cologne Germany June stared in horror while a man formed acrobatic stunts atop a spire on famous Cologne cathedral Police and firemen tried to get him down but in vain After four hours he came down He turned out to be an carpenter who said he was merely demonstrating his courage Police charged him with being a public nuisance jerman Calls For Saar Return Trier Germany June Jakob Kaiser West German ter for affairs Sunday night called for the return of the Saar in Germany He also accused the western powers of handing over 18 million East Germans to a dictatorial system of terror Kaiser a member of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's cabinet de- manded an early solution to the controversial Saar problem which does not question that the Saar Is a component of Germany This little border territory has jeen economically linked to France since the war It has its own but the West Germans contend it belongs to Germany In a speech prepared for delivery before a patriotic Rhineland rally aere Kaiser After all how can we protest convincingly in the east brutal force and terror if in the west the Saar the right of self- determination is denied to Our French neighbors have an outspokenly strong for the integrity of their frontiers They should concede to us the same feelings Ignored national feelings have always been the cause of false and aggressive nationalism France and the rest of the world will understand the existing ness concerning the Saar This restlessness will remain alive in the German people i until the mans have been welded together in one nation again Turning to Ev Hitler hat disregarded the national rights oJ others and These deeds by national social ism should never have become the basis and justification for the allies repaying us in hind There can be no justification in taking the Germans for Hit ler's deeds and in driving oui Continued on Page 10 Column 8 Suspect Steals Lunch Medford Ore June George Baker Dunkin the wily mountaineer who has eluded an armed posse in the wild forests north of here for nearly six days played with his searchers Sunday Members of the search party re- he had stolen their sand wiches and gone back to his own cabin to replenish his food supply Dunkin is the object of an inten sive manhunt after Phil state patrolman was shot ant killed last Tuesday Deputy Earl Fichtner of the Jackson county sheriff's office sail the old trapper had apparently con himself behind a log neat where two members of the search party were sitting beside a bonfire When they moved away he wep up and stole a lunch they had lefi there No took it de dared It was removed carefully He also reported that flour sugar and salt were missing from Dun kin's cabin and that he had appar ently slipped into the isolated shack to restock The posse had attempting to starve Dun kin into submission Light aircraft was being uset whenever weather permitted to scour the rugged mountain area for any sign of Dunkin Police sai they will keep up the search unti the elderly recluse is found They did not reveal plans for new searci strategy Flying Triangle Destroyed by Fire London June Flying Triangle one of the world's fastest jet planes was destroyed by fire after a crash-landing at Bos combe Downs Sunday The test pilot Squadron Leader Waterton scrambled out to safety a moment before the wreck age caught fire The delta-shaped Gloster plane was accepted by the air min on June 7 for mass tion It was powered by two the most powerful air craft engines made in Britain and was designed for flight at the speed of sound The plane lost Sunday was th only one of its type in existence but another is expected to be com in few days Hot Fire on Planes Carol and Cheryl Judy 3 identical twins City Kan fry a tasty egg on the sidewalk Kansas has been sweltering in heat which in some places has climbed to a 115 photo Methodists End State Conclave Assignments of parishes for the coming year by Bishop Glenn dall Phillips of Denver Sunday night closed business sessions of the fourteenth session of the tana conference of the Methodist church The reading of appointments was preceded by the final inspirational hour at which Dr A Raymond Grant of Sacramento Cal gave an Heart Trouble The Rev Hugh S Herbert of man presided and special music was presented by the Laurel church choir The appointments Glacier Rev Ellen H Rose Belt valley the Rev rence D Driskill Big Sandy Box Elder Hop the Rev Edgar B Smith Browning the Rev Earle G McKnight Cascade Great Falls Southside chapel the Rev Edwin H Dover Chinook Grant S Moore Choteau Pendroy the Rev Leon A Foster Columbia Falls the Rev Norman J mons the Rev C T Wheaton Culbertson Bainville the Rev P Redfield ton Brady Collins the Rev Roger Hobison Fort Benton Carter the Rev Leon H Johnson Glasgow Opheim the Rev Marvin H Continued on Page 8 Column 3 Man Laments Failure to Die Middlesboro Ky June James Longworth Kentucky mountaineer got up from his death bed weeping day because he did not die on schedule Saturday morning I guess I won't die right the little man has decided to let me stay here a little longer He has some purpose in keeping me here but hasn't told me just what it is yet Each day may be my last on earth God will just have to set me a new date who prays daily in the near-by mountains had con- himself and many other of this town of that he had talked with God and had been promised he would die at 7 Saturday The date was set he said in a dream he had three years ago He -had bought his casket and bet a funeral director that he would keep his date with death His family had planned to give him a very nice funeral and more than 200 persons swarmed to his cottage to see him into eternity Fifteen minutes before the pointed hour Longworth sat on the edge of his bed and told friends and I'll be very disappointed if I don c die soon Then he lay down and closed his eyes His daughter Mrs Dora Tkach said she was ready to lose her father But two sons Howard and ley doubted that their father was about to die Their doubts were justified The elder Longworth fell into a deep sleep that some described as a Once he roused to shout Praise Another time he called Heaven is beautiful He stayed in bed all day and all night apparently sleeping most of the time Sunday morning he awakened from the deep sleep a disappointed man and got up cry ing softly of Fasting Fakirs Planned at Buenos Aires Sideshow Buenos Aires June The first world tournament of fasting fakirs is to be held here next month there are but two entrants in the hunger Fakir who claims the world record for having gone without food for 57 days and Tagu who says he has fasted 57 days but only because he never wished to do so The competition will be held at a Buenos Aires sideshow with the contestants sealed in glass Miss Universe Is Selected Long Beach Cal June The most beautiful woman in the dizzy with glamor and claim found herself caught Sun day between a Cinderella dream of movie fame and fortune mother who says come home Armi K u u s e 1 a slender pink-cheeked beauty from Finland faced her official tion as Miss Universe with the knowledge that her crown will resl uneasy on her blonde head For against the tumult of cheers and offers of Hollywood gold rose the voice of Miss mother from across the sea in Finland The world may never see Armi Moot figure inch bust 23 waist and hips on any movie screen her mother said because her daughter will become a gymnastics teacher not a movi star I know her well enough to rest assured that she'll be just as good a gymnastics teacher with her Miss Universe crown on her heac as if she had stayed home as an unknown school her mother said Miss Universe triumphed Saturday night over beauties from 28 other a seven-year contract with Continued on Page 10 Column 4 Egyptian Premier Resigns Position Alexandria Egypt June Premier Ahmed Pasha resigned Saturday after four troubled months in office Official sources said Sunday King Farouk has asked another veteran pendent politician Hussein Sirry Pasha to form a cabinet There was no official indication of the reason for the shift The cable and wireless office in London reported that an Press dispatch from Alexan dria Saturday reporting was held by Egyptian censors for 36 hours Sirry Pasha 60 has been pre- mier three times previously and has held numerous other govern ment posts Late Saturday night it was reported in government circle that he had declined to form h new but he apparently changed his mind Pasha took office March 1 succeeding another independent Aly Maher Pasha Maher came into power when the power tul wafdist parly was dismissed from office by the king following the disastrous fire riots in Cairo MICE FIVE CENTS Japanese Officials Refuse to Permit Russian to Go Ashore Tokyo June Major General A P former Russian member of the allied council for Japan was re- fused permission to go ashore at Nagoya when the ship returning him to the stopped there last Saturday press reports dis- closed Monday news agency said Jenko his wife and aide bound for Hong Kong aboard the Brit- ish vessel were re- fused permission to land by officials when the ship stopped in Nagoya to take on cargo Japanese officials said told he could not land because diplomatic relations had not been resumed between Japan and Russia Effort To Nominate Ike Republicans to Open Party Convention Week From Today Seoul Korea June Lieutenant General Glenn 6 cus United States Fifth air force commander disclosed Sunday that communist anti-aircraft in Manchuria fired across the Yalu river at American planes bombing the power plant last day He added that no planes were lost over but that air force and navy pilots did not attempt to knock out the communist guns across the boundary between and Korea They hit red guns on the south bank however United nations policy forbids allied planes to attack across the river In an exclusive interview the air commander also disclosed for the first time the full extent of the smashing raids against the vast hydroelectric power complex in North Korea which feeds nist industries there and in He said 13 there are Continued on Page 10 Column 4 Habitual Thief Takes Own Life Butler Pa June habitual burglar who underwent a rare brain operation to cure an un- controllable urge to steal only to resume his life of crime five years later imposed his own final tence by suicide Millard Wright the burglar was found dead of loss of blood in a detention cell of the state police barracks He had broken his eyeglasses and used shattered lens to gash his arm I am sentencing myself to death for my evil a note by his side said It was addressed to his good loyal wife whom he married after he was released from prison three years ago as re- formed by science In another note addressed to Dr Yale David Koskoff noted neurosurgeon who performed the operation the priest minister and chaplain who sought to help him and those I Wright Please forgive me I died sincere sorrow Wright tried to clean his slate in a third note addressed to state police It said that Bayne Hicks whom he had implicated in his burglary confession was innocent Please give what cash I have Hicks to get home Continued on Page 10 Column 3 Italian Reds Hit Proposals Rome June fired the opening blast day in a threatened parliamentary cold war against Premier Aleide de Gasperi's government H took the form of a letter to Giovanni Gronchi speaker of the chamber of deputies demanding action on the extreme program Splashed across the front of the communist newspaper and the socialist party's Avanti the letter was interpreted by newspapers as an implied threat to three major proposals which the government wants to enact into law before the summer recess 1 A new press law which could end the bitter personal at- tacks by the communist and traveling press on members of the government 2 A labor union law aimed al ending communist manipulation the big Italian con federation of labor and the banning of political strikes 3 A revision of the penal code providing stiff penalties for sons or organizations guilty of pression of civil liberties or con democratic institutions The is aimed at both the communists and the fascists Palmiro secretary of the communist party and Petro Nenni head of the Italian socialist parly werp top signers of the letter to Speaker Gronchi Acheson Warns Reds That Western Powers Will Defend Berlin By the Associated Press Governor Thomas E Dewey of few York said Sunday he is ing an all-out effort to get eral Dwight D Eisenhower the Republican presidential at the party convention ng a week from Monday Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio who contends he will get the nation on an early ballot said in a Washington interview that as ha nominee he would carry SO states and win the presidency jy a margin of five million ar votes That would be more than twice the popular plurality President Truman rolled up in 1948 in de- feating Dewey The New York governor one of earliest prominent supporters f Eisenhower for the nomination iie has held twice himself said in New York City he thinks the chances of getting it are good I believe General Eisenhower's nomination is essential to the fare of the country and I propose to do in my power to help nominate he said as he left by plane for a governor's ence at Houston Texas Continued on Page 8 1 Storms Strike Scattered Areas By Associated Press A series of storms hit the tion Sunday piercing in a few areas the blanket of heat that has been suffocating most of the try A particularly violent weather onslaught caught the Norwalk Ohio area roaring wind and rains causing an damage Heavy rain off Milwaukee Pitts burgh and a wide belt of the swel tering southeast At least deaths were on the current hot spell New Jer scy reported 54 deaths the highest state toll in the nation It was 99 in parts of Chicago Sun day before a slight breeze coolec Committee Asks Search for New Uranium Sources Military Planners Are Criticized for Not Pressing Hunt Washington June 29 A congressional committee Sunday criticized military planners tor what it termed a failure to press for discovery and production of uranium the basic raw material of off the city a few degrees weather atomic bombs In a report to congress the atomic energy com- Just as iron or copper or gold or virtually any other raw material may he produced in greater tities given time and given a willingness to pay the necessary cost so uranium may also be in greater quantities wise given time and given a willingness to pay the necessary cost In other words so far as uranium raw materials are con- cerned the military may ask and several years of lead many hombs as they consider to be necessary to deter war or to win a war quickly if it comes Figures on production of urani um are kept secret for reasons of military security The atomic energy commission offers bonuses to any prospectors who Continued on Page 8 Column 2 Congress Hopes To End Session Washington June 29 Senate Democratic Leader Ernest W said Sunday there is nothing in sight to prevent con- gress from reaching final ment Saturday with Oklahoma Tnc Arizona senator also said he temperatures in an un- seasonal heat wave with 10 degrees above normal for June It was 93 degrees in Washington with a 53 per cent humidity count making the heat feel hotter The Norwalk Ohio storm downed power lines and left the city without electric power service The wind felled about 250 trees and tore the roof off an abandoned railroad depot A violent thunderstorm knocked does not expect President Truman to repeat his 1948 performance when he recalled congress for a special session after the political conventions McFarland made optimistic statement after the house and ate in an unusual Saturday session passed several bills blocking the way to adjournment including to continue most controls another 10 months Although the controls was a LUC Dili out electrical power in parts of far Cry from the two-year Continued on Page 10 Column 3 Slate Suggested Washington June ator Robert A Taft of Ohio said Sunday night a Republican slate with himself for president and eral Douglas MacArthur as his running mate certainly would be 1 quite a Taft a top contender for the presidential nomination said it would be entirely up to General to decide whether he wants to run with the Ohioan I don't know whether he would accept or Taft said It was Taft's strongest statement to date indicating the way his thoughts may be running regarding a vice presidential candidate if he wins top place on the ticket Taft said however that he would be willing to accept any running mate He expressed his views on a television program preparatory to leaving later Sunday night for Chicago to confer with early ar- riving delegates to the Chicago convention opening July 7 has made it clear he favors Taft over General Dwight D Eisenhower a front runner with Taft for the Republican tion Taft noted on the program that and retired Lieutenant General Albert C Wedemeyer are supporting him for the nomination He made the statement when he was asked where he was getting military advice on which to base his views regarding the issues in that field He replied he had met the other day with about eight generals and three or four admirals He de- to name them but went on to say that he has and support and that he believes they do not disagree with my military policy Taft repeated that he believes about half of the delegates to the Chicago convention will vote for him en the first ballot It will take t total of 604 votes to nominate asked by the administration Farland said it probably is quate to prevent Truman from ing a special session The house and senate have been driving hard to adjourn before the Republican national convention opens in Chicago July 7 The Democratic convention opens July 21 The current congressional drive to clean up essential business this week is aimed at giving members the rest of this election year for campaigning and political mending after the conventions McFarland congress will have to work on the Fourth of July however to clean up must legislation by Saturday He said we cannot afford to take a holiday it we expect to adjourn Barring an unexpected suming development the senator said we'll make it He said he was greatly encouraged by the re- Secretary of State Leaves for Vienna After German Visit Berlin 29 ary of State Dean ly warned Russia and East many Sunday that the western powers would defend West Berlin rom any attack by anybody as though it were an attack against our forces and ourselves Acheson called his visit to Berlin a symbolic of the American British and French pledge Soon after he served notice oh the communists that the big three never would be bluffed out of Berlin Acheson flew to Vienna in President Truman's plane the Independence for a visit to the west's other isolated outpost be- hind the iron curtain Some persons gathered ta hear Acheson speak at ceremonies marking the laying of a stone for the American Memorial library in the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg During the ceremony a workman in the crowd stepped toward son and made a movement reaching for a gun in his hip pocket Cesar Scarvada of Lansing Mich United States public safety chief of i Berlin seized the man and hustled him out of the crowd He was released at once it became evident that he was drunk After the ceremony a girl in peasant costume brought Acheson a big bowl of beer He pretended to drink Willy Kressman mayor of Kreuzberg sent the girl back to ask him to drink again This time he dfd and the crowd cheered We shall regard any attack on Berlin from whatever quarter as an attack against our forces and Acheron assured the West Berliners gathered to hear He flew in Saturday after a series of conferences in London on the future of Germany and other European and world problems We have given notice in plain and unmistakable language that we are in Berlin as a matter of right and of duty and we shall remain ta Berlin until we are satisfied that the freedom of the city is he said We have joined the ments of France and Great Britain Continued on Page 10 Column 5 U.S Says Reds Use Slave Labor United Nations June has turned over to the a stack of documents it says provides shocking evidence Russia is ing her slave labor system under the red flag The United States was the first government to present such dence to the special tee on forced labor The committee winds up its second session of closed hearings with a preliminary appraisal Tuesday of testimony from refugee groups and tional labor unions More than statements from Polish soldiers who were sian prisoners of war are included in the documents The originals are housed in the Hoover library at Stanford university In addition the United States produced several thousand more statements gathered for the state department by International lic Opinion Research Inc a New York group Its investigators talked with returned German and nese prisoners of war who de- scribed how the Russians were overworking and starving their own j t I UK 11 mendous strides taken by the people in concentration work Continued on Page 10 Column 1 up 6 Among the documents were cial statements and legal extracts showing how communist countries passed special laws to govern the use of forced labor and boasting how so-called enemies of the state were put to work on roads canals irrigation ditches and farms T Walter Kotschnig deputy United Chicago June states representative on the Landon Supports Taft Candidacy M Landon unsuccessful can presidential candidate in 1936 Sunday night announced his wholehearted support of Senator Robert A Landon said he was backing Taft because he can win the election in November He urged all national convention delegates to rally to the Taft banner The former Kansas governor pointed out that Taft has won every election for national office he ever entered Taft Saturday said the only thing standing between him and the nomination was the opposition claim that Tatt can't win the election Bob Taft has spent the last UH years in leading the opposition successfully against the new ers and fair dealers rush into Landon said He is both a stateman and a successful candidate for office Ha understands political organization He has shown that he can hold his own with the best thai the tion can Landon said economic and social council turned the documents over to Sir swami Indian chairman of the committee Although some exile experts and free tabor union spokesmen charge that the Soviet prisoner figure may run from 10 to 17 million schnig said United States estimates conservatively number Soviet slave labor at about two and one half million Kotschnig also said the United States will have figures on Chinese communist slave labor for the next committee session in Geneva The has holding closed sessions here and does not plan a comprehensive report to the until after its Geneva session in October Although the Soviet union and its satellites greatest field for probing into legalized forced labor the committee has had some discussion of reports of forced labor among the Indians of Latin America and of Africa
