Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper) - April 2, 1950, Mansfield, Ohio 4 Weather Cloudy colder tonight cloudy milder possible showers late Monday r r 10 o MANSFIELD Late Newt C Bert Comics VOL 66 NO 27 TELEPHONE MANSFIELD OHIO SUNDAY APRIL 2 1950 Pull Press Wire PAGES 3 I PALM SUNDAY And a very great multitude spread garments in the way others cut down branches from the trees and strewed them in the way And the multitudes that went before and that cried saying to the of David Blessed is he that cometh m the name of the in the thew 9 Thousands to Join Holy Week Rites Thousands of will leave their daily tasks for nearly an hour at noon five days this week to attend Holy Week rites in spiritual preparation for Easter The services sponsored by the Mansfield Ministerial Assn will begin tomorrow and continue through Good Friday All services will be held from 12.05 to p m so business people may attend during their lunch hours There wall be six services one each day Monday through day and two on Good Friday Services Monday through Thursday will be held at the First Presbyterian church Good Friday will be held First Presbyterian and First Lutheran churches All services originally were scheduled for the First Lutheran church with double services Good Friday at the First eran and First Presbyterian churches However First Lutheran for services since there Still is some finishing work to be done there on a remodeling project PASTORS TO CHANGE A different Mansfield pastor give the sermon at each in- ter denominational service and a second religious leader will pre- side Wray Smith pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran church will speak on the subject The Typical at tomorrow's service His sermon will be based on Peter's denial of Christ Lt Major Richard L anan will preside at tomorrow's Members of the Retail chants Assn are expected to close during the noon hour Good Friday so employes may attend Services Hint Tito Faces Fight BELGRADE Yugoslavia W Rumors none of them con- firmed increased Saturday about the possibility of a Cominform offensive against Yugoslavia this spring Jn the situation be- gan to approach that of last tumn when coffeehouse gossip reached a peak in reports of and satellite troop ments on Marshal Tito's ders Apparently authentic reports said of reserve cers have been brought to trade for special training for two months It was expected that this training would center the use of mobile units to combat attacks Most foreign observers here think any Cominform aggression take the form of frontier guerrilla operations Tito finds himself in a stronger position than six months ago to meet such an at- He has largely offset the eastern boycott by obtaining scout in loans from the United States and by ar- Tanging about 30 trade ments with the west Just a week ago his nist regime's candidates were voted into parliament There no opposing Seek to Determine Cause of Walkout PORTSMOUTH W Union will meet today to try to determine the cause of a walkout of nearly 4.000 workers the Portsmouth plant of the Detroit Steel Corp The strike which started with 600 workers in the rod and department spread to all duction workers Friday It came as a surprise to both ment and United Steelworkers Local 2116 CIO 4 Districts To Vote on Bond Issues Voters to Decide On School Buildings four Richland school districts will vote on in school construction bond issues in the May 2 primary month away Yesterday was the deadline for filing requests to bond issues on the ballot The largest is the Madison township school dis- issue which if successful will provide funds for the con- struction of an o o m and combination in the Woodville dis- and a fireproof addition to Madison high school For Madison township real estate owners it will mean an additional tax of per property valuation outside the limitation Springfield township local school district residents will vote on a bond issue for the purchase of land and the con- struction of an addition to the present school building That bond issue will cost property owners an additional 80 per valuation if it is passed The Bellville school district will have an addition to its school building if the jond issue proposed by the board of education meets with the voters approval May 2 It will cost district property ers an additional per 000 of property valuation bonds are to run for 20 years The Mifflin school district ward of education has proposed a bond issue for school construction The bond foods would nance the completion of the building on which construction has been started with funds previously voted A 48.000 issue was passed there several years ago and the present issue will provide a total of more than for the Mifflin building The Mifflin bonds are to run for 19 years at a cost of per SLOW property valuation Board of Elections Clerk ter Underwood said a 60 per cent affirmative vote is necessary for passage of school bond issues in a primary election APPROVE PROTECTION PACT Ike Bares Defense Threats Declares i Alaska Too Weak Offers Military Plan WASHINGTON fl General Dwight D Eisen hower pointed to Alaska as the weakest link in the defense Saturday and called for increased military outlays there and elsewhere The wartime allied com- mander put Alaska at the top of a list calling for spending of from to more during the next fiscal year than the plus asked of Congress by President Truman Eisenh o w e r's tions made in a letter to man Elmer Thomas of a Senate Appropriations listed top priority items this A Garrisons in Alaska B Modernization of aircraft ind army equipment and of our ine facilities C Intelligence D Industrial mobilization Calling for an annual outlay of for airplane raying by the Air Force hower warned that this should not be done by cutting funds for he Legislation pending in the House would give the Air Force for plane purchases and er would increase this by Thomas chairman of the group told a er he personally support the Eisenhower proposals The specific recommendations irom Eisenhower now president Columbia university carried ut his promise last Wednesday o the Senate Appropriations He was called here for mony after Senators noticed an Eisenhower speech ed this country had disarmed along some lines beyond the point of safety In his testimony the wartime eader said a surprise airborne could hit Alaska five minutes after being launched rom Russian soil Although Eisenhower listed B defense proposals by ty he cautioned Congress gainst looking only at the top f his list loins Family Voyage Italy Faces Charges In Fatal Fire Pa Nicholas was charged with mwrdcr and arson Saturday and held without bail for grand ury action on an accusation that he started the fire that killed 30 patients at the Belle Vista sanatorium Wednesday night Shortly before Verna was ar- the toll of the fire nose to 10 Nine patients suffocated the night of the blaze Louis gal 66 died at Montgomery county Saturday John Boyle another patient remained in critical condition at the hospital The short Vema old stood with bowed head during the brief tearing before Justice of the Peace Charles W Conyers Sr Springfield township There was a happy reunion in yesterday when co Ponti arrived from zi Italy to join his family who live at Wayne SL who speaks some sh was brought from New York City to by the r's Aid locally represented by the Friendly House With arrival of the Ponti family was completely re- united His father came to this country 23 years ago but his sister and mother arrived here only 28 months ago Representatives of Traveler's Aid met Ponti at the ship when it arrived in New York and arranged for his transportation to field The service provides all of the for the trip and are later reimbursed bv the family Girl Slayer Sent To Institution FRESNO calif Alice Richard Satr was committed to a slate mental institution for further ob- servation in the March 19 hate slaying of her twin sister Juvenile Court Judge Arthur Shepard declined to name institution or to identify the form of mental illness attributed to girl Judge Shepard stressed ever the case was not a nal one It's merely case of prescribing treatment for a sick he said CHILE VOTES TODAY SANTIAGO w Chileans win elect pal throughout the nation today HIS is a picture of a man earnestly trying to comply with Uncle Sam's census questions An army of census enumerators started their big drive day here and in all parts of the United States The agricultural questionnaire calls for a report on all productive farm animals The big trouble confides O A State Route 545 N is that the animals he raises are very productive So here he is with one eye on an adding chine and the other on the rabbits His chief difficulty is that the machine can merely add while the rabbits multiply Kinch remains hopeful that he will be able to get the correct answer before he gets hopping mad Meanwhile other farmers and city dwellers also should be prepared for a visit by the sus taker Trained workers who began their big counting job yesterday will be back on the job tomorrow It is expected the city census will be completed in about two weeks The farm census will take a week of two longer For other pictures and facts about the census see Page 33 Job Outlook Brightens No Emergency Action Planned WASHINGTON W said Saturday that the spurt of joblessness reached a turning-point in March and will yield to a strong sonal improvement this month The firm tone of sales and production plus a probable winter record in building ity led to a general view in the administration that no action by the government is needed But some long range planning was under way on a basis Organized labor was called for faster action And some sentiment for standby anti- depression laws was in Congress This general concern over obs at a time when business volume is close to its all-time high is prompted 1 Forecasts that the spring decline in idleness will be owed by a midsummer peak of perhaps unemployed 2 Unofficial estimates that the year-long average will be about or some per cent of the work force It wits 5.5 per cent last year and 3.4 per cent in 1948 3 Absence of any clear sign thai the country can absorb many more than of the new workers leaving school this year and in later years Congress which got into a lurry about employment a year ago is showing renewed inter- est Senator Douglas is tacking a plan for and grants to develop distressed areas Change Awaits Council Action Pay Raise Proposed For City Employes Some 235 city employes will receive pay raises if city council approves a revised salary ordinance being pre- pared by its salary finance committees Councilman Harry M Bowman chairman of the salary committee said yesterday it was impossible to say at this time exactly how much of a raise the city workers will receive NAMED SECRETARY WASHINGTON old W Starr of Bedford Ind las been named secretary of the American Hcd Cross However he agreed a month wouldn't be far off on most of the jobs The revised salary ordinance eliminates the us city workers have been re- since the war years and includes the amount of the us as salary The new be an attempt at equalizing ies of corresponding city tions Bowman said We are attempting to put aries at a balance where they should be Bowman said The committees are ing to complete the revised ary ordinance in time for city council action night AVAILABLE Bowman said the committee has available to bute to city workers as pay raises over a period of a year He said nearly all of the proximately 235 civil service workers employed by the city will benefit The police and fire departments are included The salary pf elected can't he changed Curing their terms In office Bowman said The ordinance makes no attempt change elected salaries he added In anticipation a general re- duction of salaries following the war council awarded a bonus of to men and to women However each 1 year since the bonus was awarded in 1945 council has proved it for another year City Auditor Paul L Kelley said the bonus should be in- cluded in the salary ordinance as an increase He said to carry the amount as a bonus made a lot of extra work in tration In the past as each year drew to a close city workers became concerned about whether or not council was going to approve the bonus for another year Love Enters Fast Trade On Currency MIAMI Frank Love was an interested spectator Saturday And what he saw was no April Fool Love heard 3 man demand that another give him has money back The second man pulled bills from several pockets and handed it over The irate newcomer stuffed them in his pocket A third man removed the from the pocket as fast as they were shoved m That's when Love stepped in Ten Will Go to State Meet May 13 Senior High Singers Win High Honors Mansfield Senior high school singers won ten first places and three seconds yesterday at nigh school in the North Central district solo and en- semble school of music festival sponsored by the Ohio Music Assn The were com- with other schools for places in the state finals at college at Westerville May 13 winners will go to the state meet In the soloist tion sopranos Nancy Wolf Di- ana Hoffman and Doris Broach all took top honors Another first placer was Contralto Joan Landis Bass Dean and tones Lincoln Adkinson and Charles Green won first place awards in the male cass The boys ensemble com- posed of David Nash Richard Devers Richard Maxwell Lowell Conner Charles Green Paul Kindinger Dean Clark Human and Lowell Hess also won a first place Both the sophomore and ior girls ensembles won The sophomore group has Pat Christoff Khela Mary Benson Janet Neal Pat Charlotte Duman Janet Geary Derr and bara Piatt Manlyn Schuler N o r m a Scott Mona Hammett Miriam and Judy Rodey make up the senior ensemble winning the first place spot Sopranos Rosemary Jones and Charlotte Lemley took awards and a boy's won the other second Evelyn Chamberlain Mary Taylor Jean Hathaway Sally Smith and Barbara Ginnis accompanied the ers A is the Senior high school music instructor Aviatrix Winging Atlantic NEWARK N J UP Dianna and Bob Bixby ing for a new world record flew on toward Paris last night after a tic stopover at Newark port well ahead of schedule The aviatrix flying the Atlantic for the first time took the controls for the trans- ocean hop Their British Mosquito bomber headed into a Wind at the p m EST takeoff The flying both tanned and blond arrived from San Francisco on schedule at p m They hope to break the record set by the late Odom in ust 1947 of 73 hours five utes and 11 seconds Bob said they already were ahead of schedule The silver and red plane The Huntress took on gallons of gasoline for the jump to longest flight of the trip reported no ble on the first leg The pert five-foot Mrs said she timed the flight from the west coast at seven hours and three minutes They took of from San Francisco at a m They are shooting at entire trip The couple expect to arrive a Orly Field Paris between 8 and 9 o'clock Paris time The who come from Santa Paula are ing their own flight and are making the record breaking at- tempt for the fun of it In addition to Newark and Paris the flight plan lists stops at Cairo Karachi Calcutta Tokyo and Midway Island be home Monday night at we hope if all goes Dianna said Army Takes Over Luzon MANILA The pine's principal island Luzon was placed entirely under tary control last night by pres order to cope with out- breaks of the Hukbalahap guerrillas In issuing the order dent Elpidio said it was not a proclamation of martial law but he put the island under direct charge of Gen Mariano M Castaneda Army chief of staff and placed the Philippines constabulary under the Army Manila itself was heavily guarded owing to rumors of an impending attack by the out- laws At least fifty-four persons have been killed and whole lages burned since the Huks went on a rampage Wednesday The latest fighting came in a constabulary attack on guerrillas on Mount isolated peak in the central Luzon plain The con- advanced a short dis- tance up the mountain which the Huks have successfully de- fended for four years as the key spot in their positions in the Sierra Madre and Zambales mountains to the east and west Eleven Huks were reported killed in the mountain fighting was continuing Eight other were reported earlier Ancient Farm Setup In Use WASHINGTON m Stalled or the moment by Congress on the Brannan farm plan the nan administration is preparing to fall back on machinery used during the thirties to dispose of ood surpluses That machinery was a more or ess elaborate setup of state and agencies for distributing farm among needy families The administration will do this but it sees no other way of disposing of 000 worth ol surplus foods being accumulated by the Agriculture department under the price support Tam Ministers In Full y Accord Secrets Will Bypass Strachey ti i THE HAGUE The lands Defense ters of the North Atlantic treaty nations approved a collective plan self de- fense against aggression in less than five hours of discussion today Their agreement on an basis Jn guarding the North Atlantic treaty area was Meanwhile American ish military leaders it was ably learned last night have new system of ing confidential military mation under which top secrets will bypass British War tary John Strachey Strachey was transferred from the food to the war ministry when Prime Minister re- vamped his labor cabinet a month ago At that time Lord Beaverbrook's newspaper charged that Strachey had never disavowed a communism Strachey denied that he is or ever has been a communist A statement issued on half called the charges dis- graceful This statement said that Strachey had made it clear back that he in fundamental disagreement WITHHOLD INFORMATION Extremely well sources in The Hague for a ference of North Atlantic De- fense pact and military leaders confirmed reports that secret in- formation has been withheld from Britain because of position This included not only data on atomic energy and weapons but also new ments on more conventional arms This picture the said was altered at a conference between U S Defense Secretary Louis A Johnson and British De- fense Minister Emmanuel well lasting more than an Shinwell agreed it was report ed to have top secrets by-pass Strachey A ministers communique said the military planners headed by B S Gen Omar N Bradley have prepared an timate of the military situation if any attack be launched against the treaty nations and prepared plans for defense against such an aggression The ministers examined it was announced how the joint tary production and supply board can make the most cient use of funds appropriated in each nation for military duction They gave specific directives to this board to implement standardization of equipment and to ensure a coordinated the communique said Block Red Invasion W nese communist troops landed at several points on the island of Hainan day but the nationalists said they were wiped out or cap- tured in a slam-bang battle It was the latest and the largest or several Red attempts to setee a hold on the big island only ten miles off the southern land Fragmentary reports said the invaders at points five and ten miles from the Hainan capital and forced the nationalists temporarily to abandon airfield The official nationalist Central News Agency however said the defense had scored a great tory It estimated Red dead at 3.000 and said of the invading fleet of were sank in a batUe with the navy Some junks managed to land their troops but Central News said the defending ground forces soundly thrashed the Reds on the beaches At cne teach it said every man who fot ashore was slain At another bodies of at- ackers were said to be piled high on the sand whils at a third point 200 Reds hoisted the y1
