Democrat And Leader, The (Newspaper) - February 22, 1949, Davenport, Iowa 5on Fair and son are doing nicely thank the only That was the report Monday night from St. Francis pital after Mrs. Wilbur Archer presented her a 34-year-old World War II with a six six ounce baby Archer fainted when a mirse showed him the His licad struck floor and he required 17 stitches In his face and chin. THE DEMOCRAT AND LEADER Weather Fair and warmer page 13 NINETY-FOURTH 115. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1949. EIGHTEEN PRICE FIVE Midwest Flood Threats Increase Relief is Due to Receive Most Scrutiny makers gave this answer Tuesday to President man's request for ex- pansion of the social security Some of it may pass not the whole The Mr. Truman sent to Capitol Hill Monday posed (a) direct to all needy blanketing more persons old age in- greatly increasing the some tax on checks and pay It was the which ran into the closest scrutiny in Top of Chairman Doughton of the committee and Chairman George of the senate finance no position on the program calls an in- crease in payroll taxes from the present for old age and survivors to about 100 PERCENT It would individual roll 100 percent or The tax on a person making or more could be increased from a top of to a The insurance gram would cover total of Members of sdd they had no idea how far the dented program could go or what the overall cost would Under this the maximum payment in which the federal would participate would be month for one for the first additional perr son in a and for each additional States contribute 40 to 75 per cent of the according to state Such assistance from the federal treasury's general outside the insurance now is limited to needy aged the blind and dependent It now costs about a in response to a question at his conference last said he never had heard of a proposal to give relief to all poor SICKNESS The new proposes one other Disability under which employes covered by old age insurance would get time sickness Rep. who guided appropriation bills when cans controlled had this to far as the social security act it the people want to tax themselves that's one but I'm not in favor of taxing the people generally to pay any more gratuities to anybody unless it is a direct obligation of the Mr. Truman recommended boosting the present I per cent payroll tax for social col- from pay and employer's to IVi per on 2. Column FEB. 21 TO POLICEMAN HAHN John Hahn will always remember Feb. 21 as First of gave birth to a daughter at an A few hours Hahn was called on to make a trip to save the life of another newborn Some Expansion Is Seen For but Not All Truman Asks Means Tax More Benefits Hopes of Cities For More Power in Iowa Legislature Fading Des la. The Iowa house Tuesday passed a. setting up road use tax fund for financing a proposed 20- year road improvement program after northern counties scored a on an The 95 to 8 vote sent the measure to the By a Si to 40 the house adopted a road amendment providing that f road funds will be distributed to counties on a basis of 60 per cent according to area and 40 per cent according to This was considered a victory northern which profit less than their southern neighbors from dis- on a need Originally the drawn up by the study com- provided a 50-50 dis- as to area and Des la. T- Hopes of cities for power in the legislature took a hard blow when committee con- amendments indefinite of legislative re- The vote was not Schwengel cipal of the got the committee to withhold its from the house ing a meeting with The meeting was expected to be held later Schwengel said he had not de- whether he would try to a floor fight on the issue if the committee refused to change its mind about the His proposal would redraw the state's legislative district map to set up 100 each with about of the total Iowa Each district would have one state Senatorial with one senator would be composed of two: The proposal is backed by a group of Reapportionment always has been to sell to Iowa's dominated NEW BILLS IN were Introduced in the house today lo. prohibit retail sale of commodities below cost price and to license Rep. Ted Clark who on Pate column 5) BUSS PUBLISH S. BOOK BY AMERICAN Ambassador and Em- bassy Employes of Many Russians have published a book under the name of re- signed U. S. embassy It makes statements like That U. S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith operated in the black market and ordered sian employes in the embassy sell for him such things as gold watches and fountain That large speculators .at the embassy go back to 'the United States of thousands of dollars of illegally ex- That a U. S. state clique trying Y That employes Ambassador Strongest Pledge Aim For Treaty Fight Any Move To Water Down Atlantic Pact A group of senators prepared Tuesday fight any move which might water down the terms of the proposed tic defense treaty in senate Five members of the ate relations com- said privately they are ready to demand individually the strongest sort of pledge of an automatic war this will back its friends in Europe if they are threatened by Communist It is their view thai the tive treaty language on this as foreign tions TENSE MOMENT AS UAW STUFFS HANDBILLS INTO FE is a tense moment that almost touched off fireworks Monday afternoon in the United Auto Workers at the gates of International Harvester Co. in East UAW organizers stuffed circulars into the auto of Wayne FE There was a sharp exchange of words as climbed from his demanding removal of the Police stepped in and took out As at IHC East Moline Plant Following Without Incident The exact has re- secret but an influential Democratic senator said it will give signatory nations assurances the United States will not stand Some other senators said they fear the drive to get approval of the treaty by the necessary two- thirds senate might bring some between tations that would destroy its fulness as a. psychological Senator Vandenberg Smith said the charges com- j idly by in case of without The same view was expressed there Durbrow who was counselor of embassy Moscow for two Durbrow said whole thing is absolutely is at Walter Reed lital in Washington where he has undergoing several weeks for a stomach American diplomat ing he told the Associated to conduct himself such a way that he above particularly in the Soviet While I hate to dignify these charges to the ex- move in a milit there is treal Daughter Own Court Case Against Father N. former who fought her own case in court her father and won all the personal property she an old waffle A jury of nine men and two women Monday unanimously awarded Mrs. Arturo cash settlement of and already has told the senate what ous articles of furniture he thinks about the psychological value of the proposed agreement she claimed they had been between this withheld by her retired Great Horton of The Netherlands and and her Mrs. Helen N. tent of making a statement about they are completely out MARRIED Miss Bucar is a former burgh university coed from who quit a year ago as administrative assistant in the U. information In letter of resignation she had embassy policy was di- against the At the on Pite 2, 8) ZONE MAILMEN Kenneth Swanson deposits mail on a box in as David another letter carrier serving as a He In that and in country probably hesitate filed suit for personal not afford to way so long as j worth of ty notice that said she could United States will take a vital in- any The jury made the cash But Senator items that had Business went on usual day at Harvester Co. East Moline -or the union employes by members of the UAW union late Monday The procedure day was in direct contrast to the previous UAW there on Feb. 10 when than a score of union men were injured in ensuing neither FE nor UAW men had to scratch the surface very deeply to find a bitter tension that could have erupted into lence if 70 city and county authorities had not been on the The majority of the handbills offered FE men by the UAW was either refused or accepted and then torn Arvid president of FE local No. 104, said that the re- of factory to accept the UAW was an in- dication of the unity of the plete his union members have for the out naa i already has made it plain he sold the The DIDN'T BLAME insist that there be no advance ifle moro than 15 years A UAW who asked an implied the Jurors was not to be said he this country will final court session was biame the workers for not ing the UAW Every time one of them the UAW Donnell told a reporter he an hour and a half when seen the language to Mrs. Gay broke The the foreign relations called to attend the handsome man officials copied the He will have to judge for himself young woman who pleaded her j license number of his nuto and later whether to oppose or cose during five tense another FE man took moving he said she had suffered a j That sort of puts them on Outright critics of the treaty are temporary paralysis of the the 50, IS FOUND SHIN HOTEL ROOM Bludgeoned in Ntw Orleans French likely to go much further than Donnell did in trying to tic down action under the It was reported that caused by Pale and apparently New man identified as James 50r year-old millionaire was found bludgeoned to death in a French quarter hotel room early Mahoney was lying nude In a locked sprawled across the authorities He had been beaten several times on the right side of the but no was found in the Police said there were no signs of a A Marvin 19, found the body when he went U investigate after Mahoney tailed to a a. m. He had intended to leave by airplane early Mahoney was said In Bristol to have large holdings there and in other and to be majority owner of radio station He lived alone in a large He came here over the end and had planned to fly to Yucatan for several police Only a few cents in cash were found in hit but there was some in travelers Police said Mahoney was In the of carrying large sums of cash on his Ho in- Bolh FE and UAW apparently j most or his from ry goods estate berg and Chairman Connally of the senate foreign tions committee rushed to n a ailing FE audible rebuttal and a and I. the See Much Melting of Snow Piles Warmer Air for Plateau North Rockies Des The likelihood of rising water in Iowa Tuesday when the forecast fair and warmer for Wednesday with temperatures ta reach above In southern Iowa Wednesday The Iowa weather bureau has warned permit the tower DM Moines river and Us taries to follow closely all weather and flood ad- for the next two living Imv near streams were advised to bi prepared to move ea abort no- By THE ASSOCIATED Threats of in west areas increased as the mercury headed for above freezing marks over the snow covered areas of Warmer moved across the plateau states and northern Rockies and melting of huge piles of was in the 40's were forecast for ka and from 45 to ta the of the At Val called conference day to plan for possibility pretty near a cinch that we'll be In for Peterson The U. S. weather bureau the temperature trend in the ern blizzard states was It reported a reading of 48 at At which was one of the hard hit by the mercury reached 39. It touched 51'at and 45 at ROAD CLEARING NEAR temperatures also forecast for the with readings in the 40's in parts of South Fifth army was hoping to finish the job of clearing roads of snow In the disaster area in few Altho heavy rains hit the coast from northern fornia toy British there were no reports of any major But there were of rivers Strong winds accompanied the rain the coast The precipitation belt ex- inland over all of and half of Scores of dairymen In the Smith river area in the Oregon were warned to take their cattle to higher terrain In anticipation of flood The weather bureau at Ore Said molting nnd new rain was expected to send the river Its bonks the lower valloy A ilar was to The UAW wus not tt was believed that robbery I sobbed openly when the was Police at At Miami Los high was AUTOS PULL AROUND STALLED POLICE FIND DRIVER IS DEAD Cedar The long line of cars which had col- at a downtown railroad honked noisily Monday night when the auto at the head he's f ask and to outgoing shiit you to give roe back some of the j Sey were things my mother left she UAW When In the UAW handbill the verdict an- said urges re- Mrs. Quy and her to the merger West Point graduate Arturo of FE with The FE handbill Eald raids op- referring to what FE call the Progressive of the line failed to move after the train had Finally motorists behind the stalled machine pulled out around It and went on their way i A police squad car came along CHILDREN WARNED and stopped to The explanation came Son of a Cuban told reporters there was too much in the case her to feel any POISONED MEATBALLS LOOK LIKE Kansas Police BAND LEADER'S BURNED IN HOME IN SERIOUS CONDITION Calif. Mrs. Jimmy wife of the chestra remained in in i- This latter said FE ous Tuesday from burns senls people from 50 Detroit locals i firc destroyed most who support FE in the UAW said that the Progressive Caucus is a mi- of UAW people In De- U. S. COMMANDANT IN BERUN WOULD BAN i Frank L. U. S. commandant disclosed Tuesday that he has outlawing the backed in West lin nnd making the western Allied troit who are considered About 70 UAW men were on of the couple's a I nwk the sole The driver of the stalled Ralph was d w Four of the small each laden with enough strychnine rector of Lake The Mil three or four barrage of United suspended found on a school I remarks from ties Tuesday in observance ofj The balls have in MOW of FE George i animal making I nf Toluca lake Attendants at St Joseph's pital here that the beauty contest ner and dancer passed a night and rested She is 30. She burned severely on the In an exclusive United Press In- Howley proposed drastic action on the money in II Is the Issue In the east-west which split Berlin in and caused the lo blockade the n. IV uml mill wcl V ml lu children Tuesday aga list hand at the Third entrance j orms and face Monday when a murk must be out- HOLIDAY FOE U. N. squad theorized thai she We must make Uie western burned when she tried to tare mark the only legal mark if we valuables from the library are to a blockade that the fire She was continue on hir tod by He added Dorscy mended this nn Irr to Haha when i doctor casts a eye over the terrain for any vicious economic I them look WHO behind Matey and win In touch with J VII 1 directed that a three-pound boy postmaster George Previne suspended mail to council and trusteeship white born tn rink of week of too many ln but Sixty-two be rushed to a hospital D T ol I few of the enjoyed aliened meat and placed In an i lullen AM in the area of their own the pressing need Iff the Soviet Hf OM Mi- ter probably will hive ta t cmiM fly her for
