Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - March 25, 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts Shirley School Supt Refuses Comment on Impending Probe Executive Council Investigate Conditions at Boys Robert T Gray superintendent of the Industrial School lor Boy's refused to com- ment today in- of conditions Institution and the charges which led to the probe approved yesterday by Gov Robert F Bradford Another Hitler of conditions at school by an executive council tee was requested by Governor's Councilor Patrick McDonough Democrat of B o s t o n who charged that Gray has set self up like Hitler and that he had requested such a probe because the school super- intendent tailed to parole a mouth Ms two of the scheduled time v failed to Identify the boy but mother wanted him to out Instead of Saturday In order to buy of CIUW Walter Bell had no objection to the advance date for the But Superintendent who up like Hitler approve This wag not In my opinion an unreasonable request and would further help the tion of this boy This school has been a source of criticism and M think an Inquiry Is In order When reached by The Sun for a statement today ent Grey said that had no comment to make to the press regarding the charges or the probe His only statement II they want to investigate them gation be the time to do the I have no statement for the newspapers However the superintendent Plymouth boy released early but no explanation The will con- duct the which ough been approved by Gov Bradford s headed by Councilor Victor A Friend Re- publican of Sun Seeks to Run Radio Station Here Newspaper Requests March 25 Mass day asked commission to It permission to construct operate a new -in Orwell FCC Is loaded down with work It Is not ed that the request win be taken weeks to come although an out- side that a decision may forthcoming If permission The Sun said it planned to con- struct a 5000 transmitting in either -or where options have already been obtained on land This would make the proposed station the most powerful within 30 of It the tion belong to thus to of its time to be pie of Lowell because programs would originate In and around not New York city cago or Hollywood where so many of the chain broadcasts come from The Sun contends that network broadcasts course have very definite place in radio but It also holds so too has the Independent station which can give the people In Its neighborhood that local service which chain station clearly One of The Sun put It this We propose to broadcast programs that are local to our general area as are the dally editions of The Sun We lay considerable stress on- news local suburban state national arid in- of course there much more to the station than mere news We plan a station which I feel certain will afford the people in and around Lowell considerable enjoyment entertainment and information that is today available to other The Sun's petition before the FCC seeks permission to operate a 24 hour station but it is stated that it ait least at the to operate between the hours of seven in the morning and midnight Presuming the FCC grants permission it is the indention of The Sun to commence con- struction of the station almost once SHOP Friday Night TIL P M the Friday for By all note the Ion ads In Sun There's still 48 hours to yourself in a bit of Easter when even little can be little and big sisters thrill to be told how adorable they look SUDDENLY It'll Be Easter U M T THE LOWELL 6 Bob 36 3B TODAY'S INDEX Dot Dr Hurlick 141 Hive You 1 I 21 n Kudu Programi 7 18 34 35 21 22 County News Today on Pages and 32 Associated COMPLETE United Press 70th Year No -71 Lowell Mass Thursday March 25 1948 X 40 Pages 4 Cents Popular 1948 Easter Sun Editor Finds Lowell New at Trieste Yugoslavia Galls Up Women Conscripts V Edgar Clark TRIESTE March 25 British troops battle dress began digging In with and along the Yugoslav frontier day amid'reports Yugoslavia was calling nine classes of women conscripts to The border guard Jias been strengthened so heavily this week troops reported posted along the tier than at any time were lirorn trying to march through Guard Tnc point r tb be along the highway between the free city of Trieste and the port of at the southern tip the This runs from the Yugoslav zone of- the tory the Anglo-American zone Observers believed that any to seize Trieste of arms would come from the Yugoslav British authorities deprecated the operation saying It was tine field exercises tenant roads said this is not the first time we have done this in this By Donaghue a new wardrobe for first ance on Sunday arid other occasions what fashions the women of Lowell Plenty of ones and all stamped with 1948 style acter They have found these last few shopping days more fashions with narrower more rounded more natural shoulders smooth neat bodices flattering of lines and skirts long But this they're not tod long and not too full and some are narrow The style for spring of 1948 is the full-length coat with a dress to complete costume This en- semble will be found in all price lines The big color for In- navy This is one spring when black plays fiddle board coats an Still Seek A-Bomb Test Ships HARBOR March 25 Two ships survived the Bikini atom the de- and have been scuttled in deep off Atoll The ships were sent to the bottom Monday after being studied by scientists for 18 months the Navy announced This makes nine target sels that have been sunk so far Both were too active to be used for State and Bedford Police Continue Conferences and local j police conferred again in an effort to open up new paths leading to the solution of the mysterious death here Saturday of Jesse E Grant Cambridge fire and police ment signalman Out of the day came the following in the swamp near where less body was found was fied by Grant's widow as possibly being his size ted Grant's head size his wife said Joseph Martin who operates a garage near where Grant's was found told was garage a few discovery of the body He said found in the Branded Previous that a family queried earlier the police fied were branded as untrue by police The husband works a shift from 2 to midnight the police the wife ing homicidal maniac be loose in the moved in with Pinehurst ing the husband's absence She took her small son with her police said parked near the murder oj accident has not been turned over to the family yet police said They gave no indication when it would be released Will Wed Concord Reformatory Inmate on Easter Sunday Brockton Sirl Will Who Has 14 Months of Confinement BROCKTON March 25 INS attractive Brockton ette will be married on Easter Sunday at Concord reformatory inmate whom she he got Into trouble four Miss Rita 24 will wed George H Bussey -21 After a brief ceremony she will return home and Bussey will resume his life behind bars George for the past five lived In Avon and attended high school there Went to Shirley George first got Into trouble with the law four years ago He was sent school His good conduct won him his dom but he a parole violator He home for more a year worked hard as a er's helper moved from Avon to ton Police seized him and charged him with theft of three Rita remained by him even as he was sentenced in Plymouth court in 1946 to a term at the Concord reformatory They corresponded his stay there and last fall he again won under con ditions He was sent back late last year as a parole violator George recently riage to although he still months of confinement accepted and ments were made with the Protestant chaplain at Concord for the ceremony Short Lived Flood Threat in Lowell Area Appears Ended that the Merrimack river was to go oh a spring with the resultant flood damage appeared ended today as a cold wave slowed snow's in the northern watershed and the ing stream was down a foot and a half from The height of the river at the rear of the Boott mills this ing was about 53 feet level of the water was dropping steadily The height of was 54.53 feet point when the peak was reached at 11.15 o'clock Tuesday night and since that time the descent has been gradual Damage to mill which borders the river was negligible an official of the Locks and Canals stated today The ments of some of the mills re- seepage but not in amount to U S.1 TREASURY March 25 balance March THE WEATHER Fair Cold Tonight Cloudy Cold Friday See Full Report Page 3 Blind Vet Is Top Scholar Sh College MANCHESTER N H March 25 UP James Barrett of Chicopee Falls was the highest ranking student in freshman class at St Anselm's college today but he couldn't see his name at the top of the dean's list Barrett is blind An he lost his when a booby trap his face on Guam But that Japanese mine didn't from winning an A in every course his first semester Not that Barrett dreamed held ever win college ors after he came home maimed from the didn't even believe able to go to where John Garrity fresh put Army Garrity and Barrett had been boyhood playmates in Chicopee Falls They were classmates at school In and they met again after the war Garrity who planned to enter St Anselm's urged Barrett to join him Barrett finally agreed but he couldn't figure out how he would make Garrity showed him He bought a recording machine and each day after class he read rett's text books into the device making a record of the chapters assigned for study Then Barrett played the it at difficult sages and listening a second time and sometimes a third It was a lot of extra work for Garrity but he mind It paid off not in friendship Seems the name right behind Barrett's on the dean's list was John Garrity Deranged Vet Kills Self After Fight With Police Latter Say Victim Imagined That He Was Wanted for Murder BOSTON March 25 deranged young war veteran himself to death early today in a barricaded Beacon Hill hotel room after an battle with police whom he had invited to come and get ed for murder Police said Harold J Benedict Jr 23 of Somerville had no criminal record and that they knew ol no charges against him A veteran of the dla recently was dis- charged from a veterans pital Left Notes He left two notes in the room which he converted into an en- by piling up ture that defied police efforts to dislodge him until tear gas was used One note I didn't kill Tom Jones lice said Tom Jones was a make-believe person The note was signed Silva That name Benedict used shortly midnight he telephoned Joy Street police station and told the desk lieutenant he was wanted for murder in San Francisco i and could be found at the hotel Believing the call the work of a crank police a gle prowl car with six When they reached the hotel however Night Clerk Harold Perry told them had urged to the floor guests there's ing to be at Cop Just then Benedict fired two shots from his floor room at policemen posted outside to watch his window Lt Donald F MacKinnon called for reinforcements and tear-gas guns Continued to Negotiate Would Deal Directly With Yugoslavia ROME March Aii between Italian printers and Ushers ended the Italian newspaper blackout fourth day ROME foreign office announced today Italy was ready to open direct negotiations with Yugoslavia on Trieste within the spirit and ter of the free state spokesman Italian government's that until the Trieste peace Yugoslavia would be Impossible In Agreement The foreign office also dis- closed that in the last few days Italy and Yugoslavia had ed an the Italians deported from Giulia province to Yugoslavia and of Slavs remaining in Italy after the frontier changes fixed by the peace treaty The new turn in the Trieste situation came as fresh strikes tied up parts of flurries of were reported from scattered points Italy and nil Red Cross Drive Goal Virtually Assured Reported Last Night With Returns incomplete Red Cross chapter today is virtually assured of reaching its goal During the final scheduled re- port meeting held last night on Liberty additional tions of were tabu- lated bringing the grand total to or 86 per cent of j the goal A number of teams reached or exceeded their quota and all division chairmen in making their reports indicated that re- turns are still coming in and expressed the belief that their respective divisions would ex- ceed their quotas by the end of the campaign The drive headquarters at 130 Central street will remain open through April handle final returns and accept late sub- All Clow To Although the only division to go over the top to date is the business division almost all the other major divisions came close to reaching their quotas The business division has done an outstanding job With a quota of this division has solicited The women's division last di- vision to begin solicitation has subscribed of quota only a few percentage points from the top and hope of subscribing 123 per cent of Its quota Other major divisions ed Industrial sub- scribed of a quota commercial subscribed of a quota public service subscribed of a quota government and education subscribed a Towns Report In the towns division South Chelmsford which exceeded its goal at the previous report meeting reported a subscribed towns going over the top Carlisle with a goal Immediate Military Leaders Ask Expansion of WASHINGTON 25 nation's leaders asked congress today for an Immediate expansion of the armed services and the drafting of years of age Secretary of Defense Forrestal grimly outlined the recent turn of world events in urging stops make the United tary might match that of Com- munist Russia Forrestal said the odds still favor peace and the free nations world But he asked congress to 1 An increase in the present authorized strength of Army Navy Marine and Air Force manpower by officers and 1 cash for the armed services to cover this expansion s presumably would addition to in the budget 3 Drafting by selective ice of men from 19 to 25 years Inclusive this would provide men ljut added that only about probably would be taken He estimated probably would teer 4 A permanent system of universal military training which would become fully effective within years said this would provide some each year with basic training Forrestal said some of the de- tails of the expanded armed ice program must be presented later behind closed doors Confirmed by Defense Head Third Era Looms for Lowell Area Military Reservation LOWELL Confirmation of a story in The Sun a few weeks ago which disclosed that vast Devens military reservation was be- ing readied for training poses was Secretary of Defense V Forrestal disclosure was made in a letter rejecting a posal made by Massachusetts congressmen the site be for cehr Amy air force search laboratories and The possibility exists that the great wartime base of I and U be utilized in connection with the ing program In The it was that fire de- crews then a token force on duty ilnce the tion of hostilities had been re- turned to full wartime strength by the 80 or more men M F There Civilian on duty at the various posts within the reservation and entrance gates were replaced by police wartime Security measures at the were ft could be and maintenance were again delegated to the tank of keeping up abandoned ings which normally Vigorous denials of these moves government Of May Transfer School L Inasmuch as the University of occupies part reservation Is ex- to close soon dents being transferred State herst disclosure pears The Sun's inal In proposal Army's fort Leading up statement was v the ment air force that planned to Its tronic testing and research at Griffiths field Rome N Y Removal of such activities from Cambridge N and field Dayton Income Tax Cut Only Few Days A way Say Expect Pros Truman to Veto Measure 1 And Legislators to Override Hint WASHINGTON March 25 tax cut you've been hearing about for almost two years is only a few days away That's the consensus today of congressmen who favor tax re- duction and those who don't The house completed action yesterday on the Republican plan to cut personal totaling Dracut with a j income taxes this goal of and subscriptions I year The cut would be totaling and Pepperen live to Jan l with a goal of and sub- totaling Remaining towns rin the sion reported as subscribed goal sub- scribed North Chelmsford subscribed goal East Chelmsford West subscribed subscribed goal Chelmsford goal subscribed goal Littleton gotU nil Thirty-two THE STOCK MARKET NEW YORK March 25 INS undertone in stocks was steady today Most sues were firm to higher Gaining ground were shares like Ui S Steel General ican Smelting national Standard Oil Consolidated Edison and American Woolen Losers included Chrysler Du Pont Allied Chemical Texas Co Y Central Hiram Walker Pan American Airways and American Car Foundry President Truman now has un- til April 5 to approve the or The advance information is that he will veto it And Democrats and Republicans ex- of to put up the two-thirds votes needed to override a veto Sees Truman would most certainly cite the need for greater-than anticipated ing in opposing a cut In government revenue at this time The armed forces want congress to add upwards of proposed budget for new fiscal 1 One high government official said the treasury deficit new fiscal year may exceed are cut and defense spending Is Increased Rep Cox Ga voted for the tax indicated that he might vote to sustain m veto in light of increased de- fense He said many ers who voted ably shared views Republican leaders remained confident of pointing out the house and senate passed the with majorities considerably greater than needed to kill a veto The senate vote was 78 to U or 18 more two-thirds in the fo 67 or 51 votes National Safety Council to Honor towns Wilmington and were among 14 Massachusetts communities scheduled to receive roll certificates for year 1947 out a highway fatality Motor Vehicle Registrar Rudolph F King said among 303 smaller communities throughout the so ored by the national safety cil Other Massachusetts on the Hingham Longmeadow Montague THE GIANT STORE Open Tonight till
