Lowell Sun (Newspaper) - July 22, 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts RUSSIANS BLAST ARREST TWO Officers Face Housing Lack at Ft Devens General Keating Aid From Several Towns Special to The Sun FORT DEVENS July This large Army reservation is active as Fort Devens post en- prepare to make adequate quarters lor the guard of the several thousand troops due to arrive here within the next lour months Barracks in both the reception center and division areas will once again resound to the tread of marching ieet when the Array's current training program finally gets into full swing In addition to barracks in these two areas at least one war department theater and a service club will be in readiness by September 1 when It is expected that 4000 troops will be quartered here Advance Unit Between now and August 1 an advance cadre of the Seventh in- fantry regiment combat team consisting of 70 officers and 700 enlisted men will arrive to set up the regimental organization which will be brought up to strength by the influx of one- year enlistees About September 1 another 2000 are due here as well as another cadre of 800 cers and men of a light armored cavalry regiment which as yet has no official identifying meral being in process oi tion On October 1 the first of 2500 one-year enlistees who have completed their boot training will arrive these to be followed about December 1 by another 4000 These groups will be used to bring the Seventh in- fantry and the light armored cavalry outfit up to de- sired strength The the draft is to be felt here until late fall when the draft program will high gear Meet Tonight With most of officers row and officers quarters in use by the Uni- versity of along with students having the com- plete facilities of the brick quadrangle for living quarters and classrooms the housing for the commissioned and officers pre- sents somewhat of a problem In an effort to alleviate this tion Major General Keating First Service Command com- manding officer along with Col Winfield R McKay Fort commanding officer will hold a meeting tonight at Fitchburg to which town officials from burg Clinton Leominster Ayer Groton Harvard Lunenburg and Littleton have been invited General Keating arid Colonel Kay are anxious to ascertain what housing accommodations are available in these ties and to make arrangements for their availability to officers and officers who will be stationed here The Army has an arrangement with the University of setts authorities permitting the college for Gfs ona more year of life at Fort Devens which ends next June As the brick living quarters on the post gradually become ot no further use to the college they will be turned back to the Army Approximately 900 GIs will start the college's final year next September 5000 Routed by Flood No Casualties in Lancaster Ohio LANCASTER O July 22 four and five thousand persons were driven from their homes early today by a flash flood of the Hocking river The Red Cross disaster service said there were no casualties and everything was under although there was several sand dollars worth of damages Most of the residents prepared to return to their homes a few hours later Middlesex St OPEN To Traffic NOW THE LOWELL 6 o'clock COUNTY TODAY'S INDEX Amusements 26 24 25 26 27 David 8 DM Drew Pearson 8 Dr Editorials 8 Have You Heard 19 Lookout 21 Parsons 7 Peter Edson Radio Programs 7 Sports 22 23 Women's News 18 19 County News Today on Pages and 16 Associated International COMPLETE NEWSPAPER Prest Wirephoto 70th Year No 171 Lowell Mass Thursday July 22 1948 X 28 Pages 5 Cents Widow Held in Strange Maine Death Authorities Refuse to State Specific Charge CALAIS Me July 22 Sheriff Ray S Foster said today Mrs Margaret Mary Marcil 33 was being held here In con- with the death of her Oscar F Marcil a Schenectady N Y supermarket manager County Attorney Thomas S Bridges declined to say what the is Foster said Mrs ill would be arraigned later day Marcil the sheriff said died Tuesday while vacationing at re- mote lake Vanceboro He his wife and their infant daughter Katherine came to the lake July 12 The sheriff and Bridges de- to comment on the cause of death stomach contents were sent to last night for analysis Taken to Foster said.MrS Marcil a tive of Schenectady had been taken jail early today from the lake camp which is 10 miles from Vanceboro and out telephone communication The lake forms part of the New Brunswick boundary The baby is being cared for by Mrs Louise Mains of Vanceboro Dr Robert C Wadsworth pathologist at Bangor's Eastern Maine General hospital said he had sent a preliminary report to Medical Examiner Norman Cobb of Calais Dr Wadsworth would not say what he had reported and Dr Cobb declined comment pending completion of an investigation by Bridges and Foster Rhode Island Policeman Shot Shooting Five Taxi Holdups EAST PROVIDENCE R I July 22 patrolman ing a routine identity check of a pedestrian early today was shot three times by a youth believed by police to bandit who had held up five taxi drivers in the area in the past nine days The gunman pumped four or five shots at Patrolman William A Loomis 35 Two struck him in the abdomen a third inflicted a flesh wound in his arm His condition was described as fair at- Rhode Island hospital The shooting occurred a short distance away from the scene of a taxi holdup a short time earlier Loomis was unaware there had been a holdup when he stopped a youth of about 17 walking in the rain asked for an tion when the youth appeared and was shot Contract Wilmington Highway Special to The Sun STATE HOUSE Boston July con- tract was awarded the state public works ment yesterday to the rence Sand and Stone Co of Lawrence for construction of about 0.26 miles of highway in Wilmington The project is located on auto route 129 which con- Route 4 in Chelmsford with Route 128 in Wakefield running through Billerica Wilmington and Reading The work will start a few feet west of Maple Meadow Brook and run westerly The present 18 foot face will be widened to 20 feet and will have a five foot gravel walk on the northerly side Bus Fares May Go Up In Three Towns BOSTON July 22 Authorization for a revised of fares to bring an additional revenue of was asked yesterday by the Fitchburg and Leominster Railway company The company said in its petition filed with the state public utilities commission that the basic ten-cent fare would remain in effect but that fares to Townsend ley and would be re- vised to bring in an al The petition also stated that restrictions on pupils tickets and transfers would be tightened Pearson Is New Acton School Head Lowell Man Formerly Served Tewksbury No Reading Schools ACTON Whitman Pearson superintendent of schools at North Reading has been elected to succeed David as super- intendent of the Acton school system A native of Lowell Mr Pearson is the son of Gen and Mrs Gardner W Pearson 69 Clitheroe street Lowell A graduate of the University No Shielding in Revere Asserts Only Way to Stop Probe Is to Fire Him July 22 Striking back at a suggestion high officials were being shielded the young prosecutor heading the Revere rackets probe said today the only way anyone j could stop him from going limit was to fire him Assistant Attorney General George Fingold told newsmen he was weary of hearing tions the investigation might be called off if it reached high places assertion came even as Rep David M Cleary ton called upon Gov Robert F Bradford to take the probe out of the hands of the general's office and turn it over to the legislature Rejects Proposal Bradford flatly rejected the proposal I'm in this until it's cleaned up on the orders of General said Fingold and the only way he or anyone else can stop me from going the limit is to fire me added Fingold I'd like to meet the fellow who could get Jerry and Andy Trodden ace state detectives to lay oil anything Sounding the same sentiments State Detective McCarthy We aren't going to frame one and we aren't going to trump up any false charges against one At the same time we aren't going to pull our punches for anyone no matter how far up they are or how politically they may be 13 As the probe swung into its third week 13 arrests already have been recorded and more are Four city councilors are among those facing trial on bribery charges Three arrests were made of an unidentified Revero city official described by detectives as so influential he even went into a police cell in an attempt to fix a witness for an impending trial The hijacking of machine at 1 Revere night club led to their arrests Specifically they are charged with inciting to perjury in at- tempting to have a witness who had admitted the hijacking of a slot machine at the night club to change his testimony Fingold hinted that a man be- to be the czar of gambling in Revere may be arrested soon Whitman Pearson Wharton school of Science and Economics Mr Pearson recently completed re- for a master of cation degree at Boston sity Pearson has studied at the Universities of Paris and Brussels and bridge university in England Prior to his election as super- intendent of North Reading Pearson served as principal of the Tewksbury high school During the war Mr Pearson headed the Graves Registration company and served with the First Army from the invasion of Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge Mr Pearson is married to Jeannette Leyssens of Brussels former prima ballerina with the Royal Opera of Belguim U S TREASURY WASHINGTON July 22 INS balance July Thoreau Society May Get Walden House NEW YORK July 22 Thoreau society opened a campaign today to raise by Aug 15 for the purchase of the house in Concord Mass where Henry David Thoreau famous naturalist whote The society said it had been offered the Thoreau home by the descendants of the Louisa May Alcott ily who are selling it to settle an Showers Cool Tonight Clearing Late Friday See Full Report Page 16 Miss Florence Nesmith Is Dead at 65 Was Master Craftsman in Jewelry Metalwork NORTH Florence Nesmith 65 -a ber of one of Lowell's oldest and most prominent families who had resided in this town for 45 years died night at St John's hospital following a long illness Born in Lowell March 4 1883 daughter of the late Thoma's and Florence Hildreth Nesmith she was a graduate Hall school class of 1900 and Smith college class of 1904 She was a member of College Merrimack Valley unit Miss Nesmith was highly in several handcrafts She was a master in elry metalwork and enameling and was the recipient of many honors for her along these lines She whiled away many of her leisure hours at her tate off Trull street in- fashioning articles of beauty and worth Her knowledge of metal and metal working was so well that during World War II she was appointed a chief in- spector of ordnance for the war department and served at eral centers in various parts of the country She was prominent in Red Cross work and during the first World War she was a director of the Red Cross chapter and served two years in France as a Red Cross field director Surviving her are two broth ers Thomas of and er H of Cambridge also several nieces and nephews CLAY Reds Claim General Ordered To Moderate Policy American Military Policemen Held After Crossing Zonal Border Into Soviet Area BERLIN July 22 Russians pressed their campaign in Berlin today by ganda blast against Gen Lucius D Clay and arresting two American military policemen who crossed the zonal border into sector Says Soviets Not Launch Blitz Berlin Paper Also Says Russian People Don't Want War By George Bria BERLIN July 22 newspaper Dcr Kurier claims Russia could not launch a blitz against the ern zones of Germany even if she wanted to Dismantled rail lines east of the Elbe and deteriorated bridges would hold up the ad- vance of motorized the paper asserted It added that the Russians would be hampered by long com- and quoted German railway men as saying that trains still are harassed by bands of guerrillas in the former Polish Ukraine No for War Der Kurier also quoted ing German war prisoners as saying the Russian people had no zest for war the Soviet army in Germany was worried about the relatively great number of deserters Following up recent Russian offers to feed all Berlin the Berlin radio said last night that food for western Berliners would be ready for dis- Aug 1 in the western The Soviet licensed news agency said that Marshal Vassily D Sokolovsky Russian com- had agreed to supply electric power for a ing plant in the British sector Earlier the Russians had hinted through their controlled press that they were willing to furnish electric power for the entire city Allied observers view both the Soviet food and power offers as propaganda gestures designed to offset unfavorable reaction of the western world to the ade The Soviet press and radio Clay's trip to ington as an excuse to tell the Germans in the blockaded ern sectors of Berlin that he had been recalled to be for his mistakes The official Soviet army paper Rundschau and Russian broadcasts claimed out saying how they might know that Clay was getting orders to moderate the tone of can policy in Berlin and halt the present nervousness The military policemen were seized by Soviet border guards after they wandered apparently inadvertently over the line into the Russian quarter Held for Questioning A Russian officer at the der said the two Americans being held for questioning On Blimp to Flash Sun News Bulletins in Skies Tonight Ranger Will Circle City for Hour And a Half This Evening dark tonight a celestial wonder will be un- folded when The Sun is seen against the blackness of the sky as the latest bulletin's from The Lowell Sun newsroom are flashed from the Goodyear blimp ger on its flight over the city Leaving its Norwood base shortly before 9 o'clock tonight according to an announcement from John H local store manager for the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co the Ranger will circle the for an hour and a flashing up-to-the-minute bulletins from The Sun editorial rooms These flashes will include important news events sports headlines and other news Folks in all parts of the city and suburbs will be treated to this Sun Spectacle as the tins are beamed throughout the flight Lighting up the sky the tins will be flashed from an in- candescent sign which is over 100 feet long feet high and contains over 3000 incandescent bulbs The Incandescent sign message carried on the side of the ship in ten foot letters is set up from perforated inch-wide tape which is fed into the sign system aboard ship Message changeability is supplied by tape which has a standard typewriter keyboard Ranger's History The Ranger has quite a tory according Mr Doherty who states that the ship was in active combat patrol duty over sea lanes during World War II and carries both the able discharge and naval reserve insignia Delivery of vital supplies to Gen and his fliers aboard the USS Hornet was one of the of the Ranger's Navy career These supplies were delivered when the craft carrier with the airmen aboard was at sea en route to Japanese waters for the first raid on Tokio in April 1942 Powered with two Warner Scarab engines of 145 h p each the ship is mounted on out- riggers and has a cruising speed of 50 miles per hour top speed of 62 miles and a range of 600 miles It is 150 ft long has a diameter of 40 ft stands 51 ft Continued on Seventeen Leon Blum May Succeed Bidault PARIS July 22 Leader Leon Blum was mentioned today as a possible successor to Foreign Minister Georges Bidault who has di- French foreign policy al most continuously since the Colleagues of Andre Marie who is attempting to form a new cabinet said he wanted Blurn to head the foreign and wanted former Premier Paul Reynaud a rightist as finance minister Both have ac the informants added Marie a Radical Socialist Con awaited a decision today from the Socialists and Popular Republicans on his plan for a new cabinet Cooler Tonight relief from the current hot spell which has blanketed the area for the past several days is in prospect for tonight the weatherman said today Scattered showers tonight followed by some cloudiness and slightly cooler weather tomorrow are expected to provided the relief Temperatures hit a 90 degree reading yesterday and it appeared likely that they would climb into the high SO's at least today A degree minimum was re- corded overnight and by mid- morning the mercury had climbed into the middle giving indications that today would be another hot one a routine patrol they in a jeep accompanied by man German witnesses said the men were trying to cross back into the U S sector when they were halted by Russian soldiers The military policemen were identified by the provost office as Pfc George G Hunt of Camp Ohio and Elwood E Dwinnell of Mabton ton The office Russian to investigate at once and return the men to the American sector At 2.30 p m Soviet central headquarters re- ported had no news of the missing men or any report of such arrests The jeep had out of contact with U S police Western Allies May Widen Negotiations on Germany f Removal of Berlin Blockade Seen As a Key Condition to Discussions By Alex Singleton LONDON July The western powers were reported by a British official today to have agreed tentatively to widen negotiations over Berlin to in- clude several other German lems The informant implied that representatives of United States Britain and had agreed to make this concession to Russians in of a new note protesting the Soviet blockade of Berlin V Officials here believe however that removal of the road arid rail blockade almost certainly will remain a key condition for dis- No Washington authorities expect the note to the of the western powers that sia lift the'blockade while ing that there has been no ening of western determination to remain in Berlin despite the heavy emphasis now being placed on a peaceful settlement The contents of the note re- mained a secret but the official said don't be surprised if It agrees to widen proposed power talks on Berlin to cover several other German Soviet Goal V The German press has implied repeatedly that the Soviets are using the Berlin blockade as a fever to gain four-power talty on all of Germany and teven of her satellite called for such talks at the meeting of their foreign in saw last month They proposed four-power con- trol of the Ruhr agreement on an provisional and conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany Russians are said to be interested in the industrial over which they now voice General Clay Starts Round Of Top-Level Conferences Will Confer With Truman Marshall And Forrestal and Other Policy Chiefs By John M Hightower WASHINGTON July 22 AP Lucius D Clay American commander in Germany begins a fast round of top-level ences today on the Berlin crisis While no one would reveal the precise purpose of Clay's flying visit here it seemed certain that a major goal was to acquaint him at first hand with new icy decisions worked out for dealing with Russia in the lish period immediately Clay was scheduled to see of State in the day at an hour not yet announced and after that to talk with President Truman as well as Secretary of Defense tal and other chiefs of military policy He also may meet with congressional members who deal with foreign affairs New Approach Marshall himself gave the first official outline of the overall American approach to the ade crisis at his enec yesterday In a terme ment he declared that Continued on Another Top U S Communist Slated To Appear for Arraignment Today Irving Potash Promises to FBI Presses Hunt for Three Others NEW YORK July 22 Another member of the governing body of the American Communist indicted by a federal grand jury promised to der today and the FBI pressed a search for three others Irving Potash manager of the joint counsel CIO and only union official who is a ber of the alleged Politburo of American Communists said he would appear in federal court day for arraignment He has been on vacation in New England At Large agents still sought Robert Thompson chairman of the New York state Communist party Gilbert Green of cago district and Gus Hall man of the Communist party in Ohio The national board was indicted under the Smith act and charged with advocating the over- throw of the government by force and violence Six of the defendants were ar- rested and arraigned here day They included William Z Foster party chairman Eugene Dennie general secretary of the party New York City man Benjamin Davis John Winston and Jack Stachel Another defendant Carl chairman of the Communist party in Michigan was taken into custody in Detroit and John Gates editor of the Daily surrendered in federal court here All pleaded innocent to the Continued on Pice STOCK MARKET NEW YORK July 22 Stocks opened firm and dull this morning A few steels and scat- tered industrials added fractions otherwise the list was little changed Bethlehem and Republic Steel headed higher but U S Steel eased J I Case conda General and Standard Oil of N J edged er Rails were quiet and firm
