Dunkirk Evening Observer (Newspaper) - August 12, 1946, Dunkirk, New York TODAY'S ISSUE 14 PAGES KIRK EVENING OBSERVER ESTABLISHED 1882 FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE PRESS Saturday's Press Run The Clear and cool tonight Tuesday sunny and dry Warmer 7469 DUNKIRK N Y MONDAY AUGUST 12 1946 prr Single 4 EWS OF FOUR SMALL NATIONS INVITED Poison Suspect y KIRTLAND I KING mton N Y Aug 12 Governor Dewey a united Republican fall began a tour of Southern Tier a certain or re-election indicated that trip would be the f his tours be- ie G 0 P state convention at Saratoga Springs next It was his first in this area since his a in 1942 Meetings Mike earlier visits to other ears of the state Dewey made attempt to conceal the i significance of his Southern rih leaders Dewey it was said is making jt personal contacts with party stes to acquaint them with the issues on which he will a second term at Albany He uo hopes the record of the Re- administration will prove for GOP candidates for the governor offers the fete housing program in- the stale rent control id u one of the principal teoti Veterans legislation construction and cial Uwi are other talking He believes that New lick his led the nation in plans Dewey ended his vacation at his farm in taling he appeared confident of Jj outcome of November's voting sure that Sen will be his NEA Telephoto Mrs Lottie Lockman above year-old widow of Madison arrested in nearby on charges of attempting to Mrs Forrest McConneil she worked as a is the center of a poison- ing investigation into the of four or five others Mrs j Lockman known to her bors as a Good de- clares herself innocent FILED AGAINST 62 BY ROBERT T Dupont Inc Aug Prosecuting Attorney Donald R Boar said today he would call a grand jury to investigate charges against Mrs Lottie Lockman housekeeper suspected of poisoning several elderly people under her care Murder charges were filed against Mrs Lockman last night after laboratory tests traces of mercury in the organs of Mrs Minnie 75 who died a year ago Mrs Lockman had been free or charges of attempting to son Mrs Mamie McConneil 52 daughter-in-law of the dead QUEEN ELIZABETH IN FALL SUFFERS BRUISES Scotland Aug Elizabeth suffered minor CUTS and bruises on her left leg Saturday when she slipped and i fell while crossing small stream Hear Balmoral castle it was ed today Dr George Middleton physician who was to Balmoral said the queen is quite well and there are only a Tew minor cuts and bruises But her majesty will have to rest for two or three days and will not to move about Queen Elizabeth reportedly was 1 walking in the Glen Cairn section about five mites from the castle when the accident occurred King George and the Princesses garet and Elizabeth helped her back to the castle PURGE LUS CHISELERS FACE BV FRANK ELEAZER j Washington Aug The War Assets Administration i announced today that it was ready to crack down on surplus ty chiselers She was on a bench warrant issued at the request of Coroner Sidney after a state toxicologist reported finding nearly a grain 01 mercury in the vital organs of Mrs neil Haigh said the report was a typical finding in a poisoning Before Week's End Bear said he would ask circuit Judge Harry E to impanel a jury before the end of the week to investigate the charges He acted after Airs at- torney threatened to obtain a writ of corpus her re- lease Haigh said he postpone temporarily the exhumation of the bodies of four other persons known to have died while under Mrs care pending ther study of Mrs McConnell's organs in making hi taUs with various county j st Ji candidate fpr United States sator Assemblyman Irving M its retiring majority leader ma the favorite in this section 5 tome is at nearby Norwich While Dewey believes Ives be a strong candidate among several powerful to Colonel jm Wild Donovan in the ait itw weeks John Foster State Senator Walter Buffalo have been The race is wide open as far i Governor Dewey is w of his associates said He will take sides Ml With Elks Hewers schedule for today calls i an inspection of the state at a fine clambake and a meeting county leaders he will go to Owego poe he will be greeted by the county Republican ad will attend a luncheon at it Qks dub Tuesday he will open the county fair at Waterloo with Republican leaders Falls He will spend the Syracuse Dewey will inspect state hospital lunch political leaders at Cortland oa renew a veterans parade other time he plans to before the Saratoga meeting is Aug 19 when to Rochester to address federation labor con- closed by recent investigations Officials said veterans who front for civilians buying scarce surplus goods with high GI priorities only to turn the goods over to others constitute CONNECTION WITH T OF DUCE'S BODY Police y have arrested Zucca director of Angelicum convent ion with the theft of s body however refused to re- charges against reporters that will FELL TO DEATH rector said the widespread ans racket will be combatted through a tougher ing of GI applications to buy i There is a general reluctance to prosecute veterans he said However civilians who conspire with to use their I priority certificates can expect to be hailed into court Thirty i ilians already have been arrested for bogus surplus deals and 26 of have been indicted Carroll an agent has set up enforcement offices at 21 I key points over the country ers will be opened rapidly In their busiest three months to i date Carroll's investigated i 200 case of alleged irregularity favoritism or criminal violation in the second quarter of 1946 HE STRANGLED m MOTHER 61 Salem Mass Aug A war veteran strolled into police headquarters today announced i I've just strangled my I and later according to Marshal j John Harkins made a full con- of the crime I did it for the welfare of the citizens of the city shal quoted Thomas Harry Brown 29 as saying Policemen went to the six-room j house occupied by the Brown family and discovered the body i of Mrs Annie Hixon Brown a gray-haired woman of 67 Mrs Brown and her son were the only persons in the house at the time of the crime the husband and father Thomas D Brown be- ing on his job as en- gineer at the Salem Light Co Brown a body to warrant arrest More Tests Due disclosed at Indianapolis that he nearly a grain of mercury in a partial tion and that he expected to find more He a microscopic ex- amination 01 Airs McConnell's kidney would be made during ture laboratory tests Traces of mercury also were found in file lood of Mrs Mamie McConneil the dead woman's daughter-in-law who was taken to a hospital at nearby Madison Ind last week Mrs Lockman was employed as housekeeper by Airs McConnell's husband For- rest a hardware dealer Her arrest on charges of at- tempted poisoning set off an cial investigation and the ation of the other Mrs nell's body Haigh and Dr E C Cook who performed the autopsy on Mrs McConneil announced the finds last night in the of- fice of Sherif Florence Bear only woman sheriff in the state Other deaths will be ed include those of Mrs man's brother-in-law Walter Lockman her husband Frank Fred Giddings retired farmer and Mrs Hattie Calhoun Mrs Calhoun died here but was buried at Burlington la Mrs Lockman known in this small community for her many kindnesses to the sick and fastly maintained her innocence She said she was a friend to everybody If I Saw Jt I'm perfectly willing to have officials exhume the bodies of one or all of the people I've she I've cared for several old people who have died All of have been very old and old people naturally die She said she had never seen any mercury and wouldn't know it if j BY WALTER j Pittsburgh Aug An all-out drive to purge the CIO United Electrical workers union Communists was underway today headed by International Vice Pre- sident Harry Block of phia I Block who heads the I known as UE Members for I cratic charged the with attempting to make S the union a vehicle to the foreign policy of the Soviet Union j i He said the Members for cratic Action represent the of in the union and will push its fight to oust the Communists at the convention in Milwaukee Sept 9 Block's faction completed a two- day convention here yesterday and I in a statement of principles issued the conclusion of the meeting i said it sought to prevent the UE I from going to its own j tion as a front for the American Communist party i The membership of the UE is j overwhelmingly non-Communist statement said but an in- i finitely disproportionate minority has seized control of the national office the executive board the staff the union newspaper and some district councils and i locals 1500 ILLEGAL ARE I Jerusalem Aug lish warships and troops today 1500 illegal Jewish im- aboard five aged ships in i the warlike Haifa harbor amid in- the refugees BBy be moved to Cyprus very i A British passenger ship the Empire Rival stood alone at the barricaded cargo jetty and several caged landing craft were moored in the heavily fortified harbor j There were reports lacking official i confirmation that these vessels would transport the immigrants to Cyprus A London News Chronicle dis- i patch from Cyprus said workers had been summoned for duty a a m Monday lowing reports that six shiploads of Jewish immigrants were ex- i there The London Daily Express said the first immigrant ship was due in Cyprus today OF TWO BANDITS Here They Are But E GLOBAL BLACK IRANIAN ARMY MEN ARE OUT OF POLITICS Tehran Aug Pre- to he -o rn icH J lurched and toLan was taking a re- wurse at Quonset had just shifted from seat to the in thc f Birched tog the escape hatch It Atlantic him into reported supported the kfc recovered by a I With cruising off Washington all AT 130 MPH UNINJURED Milwaukee Aug D Cooper 29 Long Beach Calif held tne distinction of being one of the few pilots to walk away from a crash of a pel led Cooper's Shooting Star plane travelling at 130 miles an hour hit an stretch a landing strip skidded and crashed I yesterday at the Billy Mitchell airport but Cooper climbed un- I injured out of the wreckage The plane Cooper said he was shaken up and but to be alive EggS 90 per cent activities Tne move was believed aimed at preventing a possible coup order composed severe i penalties for officers joining tical parties or otherwise entering The ministry of labor headed by i Prince Firouz claimed itself the sole in Iran authorized to deal with labor and its grievances Government sources said the was by high-handed activities of the left-wing party A representative of Ghavam conferred with Arab sheiks in Khuzistan province site of the Oil Co wells and promised government support for their grievances Recent strike riols in oil wells have led to British threats of intervention ff government fails to j maintain order Berlin Aug U S army reported today that its agents had smashed a global black market ring operated by a York ily with sons in Berlin Paris New York and Shanghai Criminal investigation division men said two of the world black marketeers were ar- rested a few days ago one in lin and one in Paris The New York and Shanghai members were reported still at large CID said they are being taken care of The agents seized bales of ters and cables in Paris and lin which they said unfolded the entire operating plan Copies of each written by any ber of the family were sent to all the others CID officials said the gang bers Lewis Warner 22 former air force lieutenant and now ologist for American overseas lines in Berlin Robert Warner former navy lieutenant now traffic ager for the UNRRA in Shanghai Oscar Selig Warner 29 former navy lieutenant recently ing a so-called export-import iness in Paris Al Warner an exporter in New Vork David Warner father of the ethers who allegedly worked with all from headquarters at 253 West St New York The officers said they had found evidence that the Warners were dealing in almost every kind of black market goods Including dia- mentis cigarets rugs silks i cillin currency perfumes es clothes and the like The ring was described as he biggest uncovered in years Two uf the brothers Oscar in Paris Lewis in Berlin have i been under arrest for several days CID officers tary authorities in Berlin have noticed the war department in Washington of the evidence The Xew York and Shanghai members including a French man partner of Robert Warner i were expected to be arrested the authorities said One of the letters from Robert addressed to his brothers and his estimated the average net in China the group at a week I Read the ads Atoka Okla Aug A posse of more than 100 armed and four bloodhounds pled through the rugged mountain country today in search of two bandits who robbed the Walters Okla bank last day The bank robbers ed and carrying loot in a gunnysack succeeded in eluding their pursuers late yesterday after officers once got close enough to hear their voices The bloodhounds rushed here from the state penitentiary at Alester lost the scent when the desperadoes waded down a small stream 12 mile southwest of here However peace officers found the food that the bandits had purchased at a general store in- they were now traveling without supplies It was believed they could not hold out long out food The posse of citizens sheriff's deputies and state patrolmen cautiously because the robbers were known an ample stock of ammunition The rugged country afforded lent cover in case they decided to fight it out in the hills The pair robbed the Walters bank Thursday and were traced to this area after their purchase oi lood and ammunition at a country score The posse armed with submachine guns and a talkie radio set followed them into the hills after discovering their carefully hidden getaway car The bandits had driven the car a quarter of a mile off the county highway and covered it with branches to avoid detection by observation planes which had droned over the southeastern part of the state since Thursday in search of the pair Quartermaster Corps which must furnish soldiers with NEA Telephoto SOVIET BLOC IS BEATEN IRAN IS NOT INCLUDED Paris Aug 12 Tht peace conference today agreed un- to invite Albania ico Cuba and Egypt to state their views in a plenary session and in the Italian treaty commissions The nations were invited by the plenary session after two hours of wrangling over procedure and technicalities during which the Soviet bloc was defeated by a 15 to 6 vote when it opposed a British proposal Iran also sought admission but failed when none of the members moved to her Britain tried to get Austria in- cluded among the invited states after Austria submitted a ed request Later the British withdrew the Austrian proposal Ends Big Debate The conference decision ended two days debate on ways of ting nations outside the 21 bers express their views It most certainly opens the gates to a of other requests from most countries which declared war against the Axis new The Soviet defeat came in a uniforms has a bad case of because of the many shades toj dispute over what body would select from Six soldiers two WAC's visit camps the procedure for hearing and conduct fashion shows Choice so far is plain dark blue the views of the newly invited yellow chevrons Hold braid on cap one stripe of gold at cuff WAC's olive drab batlle jackets tan off-duty dresses or lie and shirt and skirt Note that uniform at left complete with cape worn by Pfc Paul K Pizzo of Scranlon Pa is same as uniform worn by Capt Richard K Henderson of 111 at right thus con- Prevailed 15 to 6 forming to new regulation WAC is Cpl Jeanette Wise of Richwood The conference W Va For state Russia favored letting the secretariat job proposed that the steering com- handle it The British view FIELDS ML TESTIFY AGAIN then elected j Fouques du Pare France as manent secretary-general He is already serving as temporary Norway Declines It was proposed that the con- ference secretariat be formed of representatives of the Big Four i and four other states A V j ander Britain suggested Oneonta N Y Aug lla Brazil China and Yugoslavia Late News Bulletins Wives of veterans at tnc others White Russia college here will have a chance suggested that Norway be a education when the for Australia but Norway Washington Auff Benjamin F Fields ex-convict and man of man regular term opens next declined Andrei Y Russia i F Fields ex-convict and Moscow today opposed naming Australia to the parts told a house accused Britain and the United secretariat sayine that Australia investigating committee this States of delaying thc peace con- I was going to set the that he profited bu buying ference and hinted that the of an important government surplus war materials ed Nations general assembly the secretariat clace at below market costs and ing should be postponed to allow ing them to private enterprises i the Paris conference to continue Washington AUR Benjamin K Fields who ed from an Oklahoma prison cell secretariat place should go to some other nation Australia Vishinsky said has rather meeting and has Wilson of a troit was named president of oe Lutheran Layman's league of the jn discussions with synod at a week-end strength and energy I therefore suggest a representative of a slightly calmer nation and Soviet bloc was suggest Ethiopia which is a very scheduled to tell a house tee just how he obtained scarce bronze wire screening from the PLANES FORCE DOWN JOSEPH Off OF FREDONIA KILLED IN JALOPY RACE to become a central figure in the j Missouri senate investigation of the convention here son munitions firms today got his second chance to explain ly some of his many-sided by vote again calm nation when the peace conference Fields who allegedly has adopted Dart of a British proposal lessed to be about everything additional members a publicity man to a to tnc conference live of King Farouk of Egypt is peace returned to the twin cities of today for the first time n I nearly four months as CIO United War Assets Administration Tne Electrical Workers confirmed group investigating the disposal dement of a strike at the of surplus war properly feels mg Fiber company it should have set aside for veterans housing by iame duck Rep Roger C Slaughter D i Mo already has heard testimony! that Fields sold rolls of the wire to C B Warr an Oklahoma i City contractor for plus a commission Hugh D Jr committee counsel sought to learn whether Fields an in- side track with the in ob- j the screening Joseph Ott 22 of 102 Clinton j avenue Fredonia a returned vice man was fatally injured dajr afternoon at o'clock at Leon while participating in the weekly jalopy race His machine failed to make a curve running into the bank and ending over pinning Ott beneath it His head crushed and skull fractured He died a short time after being removed to the Townsend hospital si Gowanda He had participated in srM previous races at Leon The races Belgrade Aug An American C-47 army transport plane was forced down by slav fighter aircraft Aug 9 while flying over northwestern slavia the official news agency reported today said a note of protest had been sent to the U S em- bassy in Belgrade concerning the systematic violation of BY MATS LUNDQUIST western Yugoslavia by American i planes The dispatch said Aug 172 planes had violated Ihc Swedish army sent gators today to central Sweden month where rockets were reported d7 Aug A j have crashed last during r f fo a blowout was blamed for a j a veritable shower of the i b the northern tip of RACING CAR'S TIRE BLOWS SPECTATOR DIES racing car accident in which the leading machine crashed through a guard rail at the Gould raceway missiles The strange rockets zoomed through the Swedish skies i n and plowed into a crowd of greater numbers than ever before killing one person in- An army source said the visitation juring 14 others j was as serious Mrs Louise 38 ot He said he time had come for wego was killed in the accident I an all-out effort to establish also injured her Sin the rockets to the news agency In Rome Lt Gen John C H Lee U S commander in the Mediterranean area announced Saturday that a C-47 of the air transport command was 24 hours overdue on flight from Vienna I to Naples Other army officials are sponsored the Leon fire department Coroner P H of Salamanca issued a certificate I death by accident following an which he started shortly after the crash The young -nan was born in Sheridan and had resided in th's vicinity all his life lie was a carpenter by trade He seized for three and one half years in forces of the air the Pacific and Atlantic areas being stationed in Africa Asia snd China He was discharged April II 1346 He was a member of St Joseph's church He ip survived by his mother j Mrs Anna Ott with whom he I ed by two brothers Lt Casper j Ott U S Navy stationed at Guam William V Ott of by I wo Truman pnd Harry Barnell Moore of Md Mrs Harry Harriett of gon Mich None of them was reported hurt James and their son Most unconfirmed theories were salri had radioed a dis- Thc injured were taken to i that the were tress from somewhere over here and at nearby with rockets or Hying Jugoslavia but that the message garbled and that they were unable to determine the exact cation j for the Nazi j The London Daily Telegraph I ing the war village snid the U S embassy in grade reported that the pilot and co-pilot of the American plane injured and that the plane GOP HOPES FOR 1948 VICTORY ARE RISING bombs and German scientists were helping them in their work The Baltic was the favorite testin victory in Aug publican In in JO a survey m GOP grass madt by M tir The magazine per cent of the party leaders think in Pomerania near the Bailie was of the Nazi's biggest bases for weapons Rockets were luve Whs badly damaged Embassy at- at nuire taches were quoted p.s saying the in Sweden plane had wandered its military course authorities hinted that were seeking which I REDS ASK TURKEY FOR MONTREUX REVISION They refused to go into detail In a similar survey last tober only 14 per cent were ing to predict that it would be Air Mure people are killed by cm the each than in War II PRICE FURNITURE GOES UP London Aug 12 The British government announced day that Russia has asked Turkey for u revision of the Montreaux convention giving the Turks a large measure of control over the retail Dardanelles furniture The foreign said the had received a copy of the Soviet note to Turkey asking Washington Aug 12 price of it per Ads Pay Dividends for the Montreux revision
