Iowa City Press-Citizen (Newspaper) - March 17, 1947, Iowa City, Iowa A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY CITY IOWA IOWA CITY ESTABLISHED 1841 IOWA MONDAY MARCH 106th YEAR IOWA CITY WEATHER tight snow likely day High and low for the last 24 84 and 19. day's reading at p. 84J 0. Bureau SEE EARLY TALK Court Blocks Walkout House Okays Board Of Control Outlays DES MOINES house passed with no five appropriations bills totaling nearly A large part of the money would go to the board of con- trol and the big end of that would be for support of 15 state institutions the next two Passed by a vote of 97 to 0 was a to appropriate a year the next biennium for support of the The amount compares with a year in 1945 for the two-year period ending June 30, asked by the and a year mended by Gov. Robert D. The a year ated In 1945 fell far short of the amount The legislative interim committee allowed the board to meet cies and the house has passed a providing more to meet deficiencies to June SO. The has not yet acted on this Passed by a vote of 93 to 0 was a to appropriate a year for the board of control office support in the next This compares with a year in 1945, a year asked by the and recommended by the The house also 85 to 0, a calling for street work at the state orphans home at These three bills now go to the Two senate appropriations bills also were One would to pay a ency of the state commission for the blind until June 30. It went to the governor by a vote of 90 to 0. The house amended the senate measure calling for creation of a state building code council of 10 members to be appointed by the governor to recommend a uniform state building code to 1949 The measure as passed by the senate called for an appropriations of to pay the council's ex- The house amended the figure to The now goes back to the The vote was 93 to 1. RENEW HUNT FOR MISSING Resume Search for Men in Lifeboat as Broken Ship Rides on HONOLULU aircraft prepared to take off from Midway today to search anew for 12 men missing in a feared beyond the reach of 22 other crewmen of the broken Fort Dearborn rode out lashing seas halfway between Mid- way and Pearl Late reports from the navy com- mand ship El escorting the stern said the with the 22 aboard was ahead with stern to sea and and with the storm The El Dorado said the men re- ported the bulkhead still intact and the stern despite tering by 45-knot winds and high which had prevented their Ten other Fort Dearborn taken from the bow were safely the liner General W. H. bound for San The bow and stern broke apart in last Wednesday's storm miles northwest of The 22 men safe so long as the stern section holds a navy spokesman but the El Dorado reported day that the front end of the ered stern section had weakened and navy men feared it might give 9 Killed as Car Crashes Locomotive WEST 111. rive young men and four crowded into a were killed early Sunday when the speeding car crashed into a backing switch engine at a C. B. and Q. grade crossing a west of here All were residents of West Frankfort nearby The victims were en route from Christopher to West FIND BODIES OF CHILDREN Brother and Aged 4 and 6, Drown In Cedar River Sunday CHARLES CITY Police and firemen Sunday night re- covered the bodies of Bobbie 4. and 6, who drowned in the river Sunday Police Officer Wayne Munson The whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Baldwin of Charles had been to a ture show and when they did not return home the parents asked the police to search for Munson Munson said he and Officer Harold White found the bodies under the ice in the He said the children apparently had been playing on a raft that was frozen into the and one or both fell off the breaking through the frozen Few Shamrocks Available in Ireland Today DUBLIN and there was shortage of Shamrocks in old land this St. Patrick's ter snows which have covered this isle for many weeks were Sprigs sold for a half crown The usual price is three pence Those to be had were tinted with brown by the Irish folk crowded their churches for holiday Prime ister Eamon de Valera and his ministers drove in state to mass at the Dublin The holiday was observed Saloons There was a scarcity of whisky this but no shortage of the Irish national ISSUES ORDER IN MINE CASE ON MARCH 20 Move Will Prevent Walkout March 31 Miners Pay WASHINGTON The supreme court barred the door today against another coal walkout March the miners willing to pay for the It did this by making effective on March 20 orders It issued 10 days ago when it upheld ft U.S. district court's conviction of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for contempt of The order originally was to go into effect March 31 with Lewis allowed five days thereafter to comply with it. Atty. Gen. Tom C. Clark asked the court to set an earlier He said there was danger the miners might quit work March 31, as they are now under instructions from is to work only until Other Actions Today In other actions the 1. In effect held that the government can fire an employe who takes part in 2. Rule that loans from the farm credit administration must be repaid before other creditors collect from the estate of the borrowing 3. Refused to review a con- tention by C. D. Beck of that constitutional antees of freedom of speech mitted him to tell his a union was a The national labor relations board had ruled it was an unfair labor practice barred by the Wagner act. The issue as to the government's right to fire for association with Communist groups was raised by Morton now a New York Ousted by WMC He was ousted from a job with the war manpower Commission on grounds he was active with the American Peace Mobilization which the civil service commission decided was formed under auspices of the Communist Friedman contended he was ed as a result of a The high court refused him a Here is how the ers matter works The court's decision that within mandate is withdraw a requires five days after its issued Lewis must notice to the mine workers that the union's working contract with the government is If it will cost the United Mine Workers When upholding the contempt convictions of Lewis and the for disregarding a district court order against last fall's coal tha high court reduced a fine against the union to It that the original amount of the fine should be collected If Lewis did not withdraw the Loss in W. A. Young Form Fire Smoking debris today Is evidence of a fire which destroyed a IS sows and 90 pigs late Saturday night on the W. A. Young farm two miles north of North Liberty on highway Photo by Howard Story on page 9._______ HOUSE ARGUES LABOR BILLS Gets Into Battle Over Proposal to Ban Closed Shop DBS MOINES house got into a slam-bang battle day over labor tions in general and an shop measure in particular but re- cessed until tomorrow without taking any The question under debate was whether the closed shop should be debated by the house acting as a and whether closed shops should be Arguments against open shops were that it would take Iowa back to the dark ages and wreck the Republican party in Iowa in 1948. Among others quoted in the de- bate against the was the ese philosopher favoring the said It would permit return of free en- particularly freedom of the worker to work where he Those who opposed a motion for debate as a committee of the whole said the effect of such tion would be to override the over- whelming attitude of the labor The labor committee had recommended by a vote of 26 to 2 that the closed shop be Those favoring the motion said committee of the whole tion would permit a full debate on a major Rep. Ted Sloane made a ous debate in opposition to ning the closed He charged that the was proposed on a national proposal harks back 150 years to the dark ages when land its foot on labor's Sloane this trying to do is to take the rights of man away and go back to those dark think we should take at least six weeks on this Report Board Describes Mental Hospital Claims as A fine against Lewis was i witnesses really find out what I it is all End Occupation Says Negotiations for Japan Peace Treaty Should Begin Soon By RUSSELL BRINES TOKIO General thur today advocated an early end Four of the youths had been 1 of the military occupation of ing in the vicinity and had picked an and elimination of allied up the others to take them to their position under a formal homes peace treaty on which negotiations Fireman Frank J. of should begin soon as reported the car traveling st a high rate of speed when it and of an's democratization should then struck the locomotive continue under supervision of the didn't see us apparently un- United MacArthur told til the was right at the correspondents in his first King looked the driver tried to he couldn't stop in time and speeded up again tried to make it car hit bark of the and v as about 50 C. R. sin cf got and over to the 1'i" help told Patrol Officer that crash shout 2 a TO backing record press conference since early in the He declined to specify when he peace negotiations should but indicated he believed it be a matter of at the to on the length of additional if the United ns control for the U. csi not any j Other points made by thur at the con- 01 if a 1. The occupation has ly completed its The first phase 1 has political phase Is such completion is possible under The third phase economic can not br settled by occupation 2. is still ly blockaded by the allied Final settlement of this problem is possible only with peace Trade must be In the hands of private S. today as thoroughly as any nation that war does not Her spiritual revolution probably wan greatest the world has erer 4. Japan has lost her Klir and has come to the of don't by that mean to say this thing called democracy has been The cess nf is one of continual It 1aJ.es But insofar as you lay clown the it ready is There is little more except to control and t believe sincerely and that freedom here to MacArthur days of SCAP commander for the allied should cease completely with a peace I conditions are ripe for it MacArthur appeared in excellent health and fine would be ne for the world to initiate at this DES MOINES report of the National Mental Health charging and in three Iowa mental hospitals was criticized sharply on the floor of the Iowa senate Sen. Alden L. charged that the which he said was at variance with the findings of a Iowa com- had been released a day in advance of the time that the state senate was scheduled to consider board of control DES MOINES state board St control today described as untypical and grossly a Philadelphia report which cited instances of at three Iowa mental Herbert H. chairman of the asserted that whenever the board or heads of institutions learned of brutality to inmates by attendants action has been taken to immediately dis- charge the offending for complaints that we have inadequate personnel and insufficient funds to do the kind of a we would like to Hauge lowan knows of the struggle to get greater appropriations so we may successfully carry out our The board is standing firm in its request to the legislature for a 58 per cent increase in funds over the amount appropriated two years Hauge said the board had not even received a copy of the report of the National Mental Health which is headed by Owen J. Roberts of retired justice of flie U.S. supreme Hits at Testimony report probably is based on information furnished the tion by conscientious objectors who were alloted to hospitals for use as male nurses in lieu of er types of detainment because ol their refusal to fight in the for prevention and treatment of mental illness with sufficient freedom and power to do the the report The report charges that proximately 20 out of every 100 admissions to Iowa mental will continue tc measure out their lives in Iowa hospitals when they might be saved by quate care and Citing numerous examples in which patients have been beaten with clubs and kicked in the ribs and otherwise the report said the conditions exist ment conditions are undesirable and the state administration is The present system of board control of mental the re- port said is calculated to discourage psychiatrists from state to hamper programs ol prevention and and to frustrate an economic use of tax payers Shortages of fruit toilet slippers and bathrobes for bed is and in some institutions the report charges there are quate supplies of drugs and bei The report raps the lack of certified dietician to prepare meal for diabetic who now ea the same meals as other patients and charges far too many potatoe and starchy foods are an far too few fresh fruits and vege Loss as Rock Island Church Is Destroyed by Fire ROCK ISLAND Damage estimated at was caused today when flames destroyed the Broadway Presbyterian church It was one of the city's largest and oldest churches and recently was remodeled at a cost of The fire was discovered about 6 a. m. and within half an hour the Rock Island fire department had called for assistance from ad- joining Moline and across the Mississippi Several residences in the ity were slightly Origin of the fire has not been Fire Loss At Miss. Miss. Fire raced through the upper floors of the Alcazar hotel and down a ness block here causing damage estimated at near 000. while guests of a hostelry in Hauge are sending j Jackson were routed by a leas time peace talks with This I the same kind of report about in- of almost every Hauge pointed out that the board had employed Dr. Frank Leslie of ally prominent to make an extensive study of comings of Iowa's mental Leslie reported that we are doing a reasonably Rood job considering the inadequacy of funds and consequent tack of the of skilled personnel we would like to Hauge con- IOUK roof There were no serious injuries in either Nursemaid Is Slain While Out for Walk Calif. maid employed by a Berkeley physician was shot an killed as she walked along a res: street Sunday night wit her two-year-old charge at he Police Officer John MacCann sai a man fired three shots at th Mrs. Joyce 26, em ployed by Dr. and Mrs. Ernest W Page to care for their small daugh as the nurse and th child walked near the Page home MacCann said Mrs. es 27, was placed under have been No charge BEVIN TURNS DOWN CHINESE Marshall Visit to Kremlin Will Have Far-Reaching Effect BULLETIN MOSCOW Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov de- manded of the foreign conference today a 20-year reparation payment plan by which Germany would pay the Soviet Union Molotov asked for a power control of the Ruhr and immediate cancellation of the The Russian diplomat de- manded also the removal from Germany of capital goods such as factories for a division of German assets held abroad and reparations from rent He said the 20-year payment period should date from the ing of the Potsdam ment in 1945. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER MOSCOW foreign ministers council convened ior its seventh session today expectations that Prime Minister Stalin and U. S. of State Marshall soon would have a meeting which might have a far-reaching fect on re- British Foreign Secretary Ernest was reported to have drafted a letter to Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov rejecting Molotov's proposal for a special conference on Bevin took a stand similar to Marshall's but in addition was reported to have stressed that Britain viewed the Chinese matter as primarily be- tween the United States and Some diplomats said Bevin's reported letter showed a British trend toward a secondary role In issues on which she could fully seek a neutral In a meeting of deputy foreign ministers the United States ed a plea for wider participation by smaller nations in drafting the peace for Ambassador Robert Murphy urged a formula that would admit 26 in- stead of the four powers and 18 smaller countries heretofore in- to present their views to the deputies at Murphy's list added Iran and the Opposed by Vishinsky Murphy was opposed by Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei who said he wanted Even in Japan The Irish Touch TOKIO There was a touch of St. Patrick's day at the session of the international nal trying Japan's Nobody Knew but a dozen Japanese defense attorneys showed up today with green bons in their 14 Killed as High Winds Batter Britain LONDON deaths and OPt A toll of 14 property damage of should be done just as soon He pointed out that Japan had millions of dollars was levied by high winds which swept in from a month he ihe Atlantic Sunday night under the j blew themselves out over a and still standing instructions some county a functioning j attorney does not take action to as Germany has government which can sign a has been squeezed out of pretty nearly everything we expect to squeeze out of I am not talking of reparations but she already has lost Korea and There 13 little He added that would not en- vision formations of any sort the peace Bayonet control be a Japan got to be allowed I to trade with the he on got to take it out of of put it in hands of private i a discharged institutional employe if he has maltreated an Sent to Legislature The Philadelphia which foundation said it had sent to 7ov.-a GOV. Robert D. crowding and in d d noi at conditions -or of Iowa need for a mental program far more and a qualified psychiatrist flooded and snowbound Britain Milder weather was forecast by tho air although rains and were ex- The night winds attained a of 98 miles an hoor at unrooting derailing buildings and wrecking Most of dead were victims of falling and Five were houses A pipe killed and two girls to death in a bus which was stnick by a falling A man was found this morning under a 1-" his Two m the bv trees An- after being bowled over on the Twenty German were seriously injured when a tree smashed in the roof of a hut at their camp north of Across flooded southern thousands of families were marooned in Uleir Scores of highways were cut and some branch railway lines were out of Mountainous snow drifts paralyzed in northern England and The storm harassed shipping all A vessel was re- ported distress 35 miles off the southeastern Floods also were reported in the provinces of Saxony and Thuringia in the Soviet zone of All major rivers in the American zone of Germany were re- ceding and American engineers said threat of flood had High waters and ice jams had i charge of a victim died of head injuries laged 11 each nation approved separately rather than admitted by a general He said he did not ob- ject to In objecting to a French posal on the same insky attacked any participation by Turkey and quoted what he said were the words of a United States politician that grew fat on the Vishinsky objected to a British proposal to set up four committees consisting of representatives of the Big Four and each of the 18 smaller states represented at London to handle various Vishinsky said the British plan was a deep sea with no and would turn the drafting committees into debating societies which would never Sec More Progress The second week of meetings here to prepare peace treaties with Germany and ised to speed up the work i These events were in I The was scheduled to buckle down today to I the real issues economic unity j and reparations which I vided the western ard the i Soviet Union in Germany almost since the war's er- Observers termed for too a- a lock might show 1-71 This is about the time that Stalin ly ea h visiting 7115- istor to a Marshall never off his of he to in regard an i ard US the wili IN SPA PERI
