Democrat And Leader, The (Newspaper) - April 18, 1949, Davenport, Iowa Gef s o one? Good h William hie Dog Wright fol sick He Gilbert to lake Gilbert it report on a stray dog wandering around He bagged the don and brought it back to the The dog was It'll coil the dog catcher the mini to the THE DEMOCRAT AND LEADER Weather uid warmer for NINETY-FOURTH 162. MONDAY APRIL 18, 1949.______EIGHTEEN PRICE See Signs Russ May Lift Blockade Conviction No. 1 Red Upheld Faces One To 3 Years For fraud Appeal Denied By Court in Passport Case The U. S. court of appeals Monday upheld the conviction of hart E i s 1 e on passport fraud described as ca's No. 1 house committee on ican was convicted in federal district court Aug. 15, 1947. He was sentenced to serve One to three By a 2 to 1 vote the appeals court turned down Eisler's tion that the district court lacked jurisdiction because he filled out the application for an exit visa in New York and merely mailed it to state The passport fraud case was the second conviction for In 1947, he was convicted of contempt of congress lor refusing to be sworn tor testimony before the house The appeals court also sustained his conviction and sentence of arguments in the contempt case three weeks FAIE In the passport Eisler was charged specifically with making and ments when he sought a state de- permit to leave the try in 1945, He was accused of hiding his Communist party in making the application for an exit Immediately after his Eisler proclaimed that he got most fair trial on a most unfair There was no immediate tion by Bister's attorneys as to whether an appeal will be taken to the supreme court in the passport Eisler contends that he is being held in the United States against his Last week he tried to ask United intervention to help him get out of the country so he can accept a teaching post in the Little Chance GOP for For Action on Health Plan That's View of One of Truman's Legislative One of President Truman's tive leaders said Monday there slight that con- j gress can complete action on a I national health program called the cost of the proposed this jlong range housing program Program Final Vote on Measure Seen For Tuesday tor Flanders Monday HOLD THAT This Is what last Wednesday's earthquake did to the chimney the C. Mansfield home near Wash. field roped the ten of the ney a which pulled It off without damaging the his conviction and sentence of a aval year in thai lit. Was taken to supreme which held Ural POLICE CAPTAIN SLAIN IN STREET This viewpoint was ex- pressed by Senator Elbert chairman of the senate labor and public welfare don't want to sound dis- but there is enough time left to get the written properly and thru both houses of congress this Thomas told a At the same he said he expects President Truman to send probably this a new and comprehensive national health including compulsory government health will get prompt and full at- tention at hearings and we should have a completed ready for public and congressional sion later this he MAT GO ON At tht White presidential Cafe Operator and Another Man Are Charged With Ky. Easter Sunday gunplay in this Harlan county camp ended the stormy career of Capt. brose chief of the ty's police 29, died enroute to a Harlan hospital after being shot five times he got out of his automobile in front of a His witnessed the Two men were arrested by state police several hours after Eisler says he wants to leave the U. S. The government also has deportation proceedings pending against CHINA TRYING TO WIN DELAY IN SURRENDER Emissary on Way to Chiang to Outline Communist Arthur the cafe and Ford career as county chief was sprinkled with incidents oC strife and Since his pointment by County Judge W. J. R. Howard in 1946, calfe had numerous with both the lawless and with other law enforcement i The special police force which j he headed was set up at the in- to the nation on his health He also said the dent still is working on his sage to William AFL said after a White House call last week that he expected Mr. i roan would go on the radio with a public appeal for support of the i forecast put him in agreement with Senator Taft GOP policy leader and sponsor of a substitute government assistance health that no major health legislation will be passed at the present Taft with Senators Smith and are pushing a health program calling for federal outlays of 000 over the next five These would go to states and local to help build hospitals and provide medical care for those unable to pay the Special emphasis would be placed upon voluntary prepayment insurance for medical Four other members of the labor committee Senators Hill Withers Aiken and Morse are soring a separate but similar health Taft hopes to get these two groups together because both are opposing compulsory health in- surance proposals and together of a citizens league which China's National which has until Wednesday to surrender to the is reported inp desperately to win a Reliable sources here said an emissary will to be- low to outline for re- the surrender points stressed by the troops along the word thai would set them again Fighting may break out IMS of answer the Nanking tlw u ho 1 demanded more vigorous law en- forcement in this legally dry A violent end also marked the death of Patrolman E. J. Metcalfe's one-time sistant who resigned to accept appointment as police chief at nearby was shot to death last The man accused in the Kardner Bryan was himself in turn the victim of Tsachor the fifth chief of police at was charged with murder in the slaying of and is now awaiting i now chief since Combi and wrrr of cm had new it our another former He said the project is of Republican The housing sponsored by 11 GOP senators and an equal number of is up for debate in the Senator Maybank floor manager of the predicted a final vote Among other the provides for construction of 000 public housing units during the next six years and for a vast five-year slum clearance The federal government's share of the cost of financing the public housing project would amount up to annually over a 40-year The slum clearance program calls for in grants of federal money to local tles during the live also in loans for slum Senate Republican Leader Wherry has said congress ought to think a long time before authorizing the multi-billion lar housing Wherry termed the program but said he Is reluctant to vote for anything which might cause the government to dip into the red one sponsors of the housing called the gram sound social welfare legislation of the kind Bob Taft made it clear the Republican party ought to Flanders was talking about ator Taft and the views Taft expressed at a meeting of Re- publican senators last Taft said then that if the Re- publicans fight all social welfare legislation designed to aid come they would find themselves in an indefensible sition with the He said the party not survive if it lowed such a FUGITIVE FROM IOWA PRISON FARM BACK Mo. officers have returned an alleged escapee from a prison farm to State patrolmen said the Lewis Rosswell 27, of they form a majority of the 13-lnronklvn. was one of three member committee Thomas men who escaped April 9 from ADMINISTRATION the farm at The plan the administration is Two men who escaped with backing would levy payroll taxes 35, and to pay for doctor and mond 31, arc still at dentist It would be a tional system of pre-paid DANCE MAN Administration exchanged criticism with 69i American Medical association j and dancc man of the gay which Protests against the dicd as socialized Strong opposition was registered in a joint statement j here this week-end by three j Roman Catholic speaking oui against ment health Their statement offered a sub- program calling for assistance to existing i medical and hospital in- prepayment plans for and They be the inevitable result of thr government I 1 he trom the National Catholic Welfare of Erin Throws Off Last Link With England irishmen of Joy At Republic of land Is Stalwart Irishmen shed un- ashamed tears of joy Monday as they watched soldiers of Erin march proudly and honor of the birth of the republic of Among the marchers were many members of the old IRA the Irish Republican carried on a tive and bitter war for years against the wore the green and gold medal Ireland has bestowed on the survivors of that handful of desperate men who struck against the British on Easter Monday 33 years Ambassadors and ministers of the nations stood on a green and white reviewing stand to watch the parade marking the normal change for Ireland from dent Truman joined in ing good and lations at the American people te the new IrWi which FREIGHT W. 38, was killed Sunday in this wreck of a Pennsylvania railroad freight Two other crewmen jumped from Ihe motive and were not badly In a to trln dent Sean T. Mr. man the occasion of the Ing Into force of the republic of Ireland 1 send to you and to the Irish on behalf of the people of the United of sincere good wishes for the continued welfare and prosperity of your Merchant Goes and Kills Four Before He's Slain In Two-Hour Easter Gun British dominion to the and independent it declared itself to be in 1916. CHEERS AND More than joyous men lined the route of the and this city rang with their cheers and their President T. O'Kelly beamed down from the reviewing stand as he took the salute of the first legal Irish army since the English in- vasion of 780 years Flanking the president were Premier John A. army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Liam Archer and Conspicuously absent was mon de whom men call the elder statesman of the The former veteran of the Easter Monday rising and an indefatigable er for now leads a minority political He and his followers refused to take part in Monday's They claimed no celebration should be held until all of Ireland is in the The republic as it is now em- braces the 28 Six ties in northeastern Ulster ince have voted to remain a part of the United addressing a news oa 2. Column 3) A I year-old merchant killed three police officers and another i man before he was shot dead in a two-hour Easter Sunday gunfight j The man who went when an officer tried to arrest Police Chief Arthur i was George He was a Boy Scout troop leader and an marksman in the army during the said bit one man severely in a downtown fight Then he shot an officer who tried to arnest him and clubbed the policeman ts he lay When a posse closed in on Intyre near his he opened fire with 'a German rifle equipped with telescopic He killed and wounded another with this and another rifle before the bullets killed LIST OF The owner ef a man electric Sheriff L. M. 84. of Deputy Sheriff Gilbert W. 27, of Port who got his badge a few weeks Officer ROM 56. who first tried to Ernest 42. owner of a Pullman taxi fleet and a pone Jake Former Iowa Prisoner On Murder is Facing Gallows As Appeal Is Rejected Wounded in the lee by one of bullets was Policeman James D. Roberts of Two men were cut by glass tered by Ricketts laid this bizarre series of events led to the gun Mclntyre met W. H. POTS FATE UP TO CONGRESS Army Secretary Asks Recommendation in Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked congress Monday to recommend what the army should do with six German storm sentenced to die for the Malmedy massacre of 160 American 'The army trial and treatment of the Germans has under including criticism from some members of As a the senate armed services tee Monday began an investigation of the the first minded the senators that he has authority to recommend tion of the Then he am perfectly willing for members of congress or a committee to take the re- sponsibility of me what course I should pursue as to each of these six Originally 12 Germans were sentenced to die for the killing at of 180 can soldiers who surrendered the Battle of the Bulge in De- 1944. Gen Lucius commander in Seek Way To Act and Save Face Report Germans In Eastern Zone Put on Pressure Art tht Russians seeking a diplomatic way to lift the blockade of Berlin and still For have been of Soviet to find way out of what hai become The Allied IBS deprived the Soviet zone of necessary to were from sources in Germany Sunday that Germans on tht ern zones ire pressuring tht sians to lift the Die official British army newspaper at said tht Germans of the Russian zont want to resume trade with Die Welt said Vladimir Russian ambassador to been in Berlin for several days to advise the Soviet military administration on proposals about resuming Inter- zonal trade and which have now reached decisive STOEY wu by D. American at said tht German economic commission on the eastern tone had aent informal communications to German in Frankfurt a com- mon effort to get trade started again between eastern and western Wilkinson said tht American was No until the blockade of Berlin is fully Die Welt said the American an- swer caused tht Germans in the Russian zone to plead with tht Soviet military administration to get rail transport and trade going with the western zones as soon aa The newspaper said the man economic commission told tht Russians their two-year economic plan is doomed to failure western products can be The German press service said the German way directorate of the Russian zone also was pleading for transport to save the railroads from Several London newspapers meanwhile printed Berlin dis- patches saying a special Soviet en- voy is enroute to Washington with a new proposal to solve the ade The BinI was i defied from the Iowa preme Monday refused out v for an axe attack j tlir inal of Jake to in ihr of Mrs. BirH sentenced for the k in time w to three axr in Hut in of At MI- thai Pullman on a commuted sentences of town He rushed at to life imprisonment who once had sworn out a The accusation against the complaint against was that they the cap- nnd bit his so badly it was tured Americans up and mowed first believed a knife them down with machine Runs be- in the touch and go CLUBS no time to fool with When later apprehended opened fire with In a long question and answer a pistol as the officer went toward i with the Royall He Claar three i Claar two shots as he lay would make no decision in but dodged thr raw until the behind itx took the He believes that if the and clubbed him HP then toned by he went lo hix on should to determine town He br fm In of of A witness he the it iW ft df lo FIRE GUTS 2-STORY BURLINGTON NO ONE la. fanned by a wind that at times reached a velocity of 40 miles an gutted a two-story brick building Sunday night and No one was The building housed the Biscuit a music and the Disabled American I ans clubroom and The ing was located Main and j near the Mississippi I The blaze was discovered at 11 p. and short time I later the flames befan crackling thru the Cause of the fire i Alt available fire equipment used in i the RiD GOES OVER TOT i API rf Crow
