Mansfield News Journal (Newspaper) - April 4, 1950, Mansfield, Ohio WEATHER I FATE I r HI si's 10 OHIO voider cloudy moderately cold Wednesday MANSFIELD VOL 66 NO 28 TELEPHONE MANSFIELD OHIO TUESDAY APRIL 4 1950 Press rolled international Service PRICE FIVE CENTS VINSON URGES AIR POWER HIKE W H n 235 to Get City Salary Boosts Council Expected To Act Top Raises To Old Bonus City council is expected to vote city employes a pay raise of about a month and sickness night The new salary ordinance in- cludes a cost of living bonus granted in 1945 as The a month pay raises are in addition to the bonus which was added as salary Another new feature of tbc salary ordinance is a section that gives city employes one and a quarter days sick leave for each month worked The sick leave is cumulative up to 90 days Councilman Harry M Bow- man chairman of the salary committee said the new salary schedule would cost the city an additional annually A city spokesman said cil is planning to make a few changes on the new salary now in the clerk of office before acting on it at There was no indication these changes might be i 235 WILL BENEFIT The new salary ordinance gives pay raises to some 235 civil service employes including the fire and police departments The only ones not given salary increases are elected officials The city is not permitted to change elected officials salaries during their term of office A Cost of living bonus a month for men and a month for women will be in- cluded as salary City ers have been receiving the bonus for seven years Each year council has approved the bonus for another year The bonus didn't apply to elected officials or those Continued on Page 2 Seek Slash In Payroll WASHINGTON T h e government payroll carrying an estimated name s shaped up today 5s the main target of a Republican cutting drive in the House Approximately in an omnibus 164 appropriation now be- fore the Bouse represents payroll costs according to Re- publicans sav it can be cut about Hep Taber of New York er of the House Republican economy disclosed the GOP goal yesterday as the Houss opened debate on the big more than 40 federal agencies for the fiscal year which begins July I Reductions in personnel arc only one of his objectives Taber said for he argued the is too liberal and can stand cuts throughout Some Republicans arc backing an amendment that would order a 30 per in planned government personnel strength for the new fiscal year Easter Business Booms Easter retail business boomed in Mansfield last night as thousands of pers converged on downtown stores to make their tions of finery for next day's observance of the i This week was expected to be one of the biggest spring shopping weeks in several years and it was predicted by Retail Merchant Assn of- that it would top last year's p business Off to an earlier start than shoppers have been buying steadily for a couple of weeks according to V H Lodde association secretary Stores are well-stocked with wide selections of gay colored Easter clothes and milady has a much wider choice than ID re- cent years Members the board of trustees of the Retail chants Assn have again set aside a special hour for at- tendance at Good Friday ces this week Lodde said Retail stores in the city will close from a m to 1 p m so as to give plenty of time for store employes to get their luncheons and attend services which start each day at a m and continue until p m Submarines Contacted Navy Reveals Electronic Report SAN FRANCISCO INS Carefully worded Navy an- and eyewitness re- ports indicated today that two or possibly three modern foreign submarines are maneuvering off the California coast Capt J A Holbrook com- mander of a Navy search team which returned lo San Francisco yesterday told of electronic contact what he called two or three probable foreign subs off Cape in ern California An Army officer Capt cis L Hopper of Fort Ord re- ported he sighted a surfaced sub- marine heading northward only three miles off Point Sur south of San last Sunday while motoring The Navy said no U S under- seas craft were in that area at that time The Navy declared officially that it was continuing tion of reports placing alien sub- marines off both northern and and southern California It announced that in- concerning foreign sub- off Cape Mendocino have so far proved negative The destroyers Colahan and Shields stood by in San co bay fully armed with depth charges and shells to proceed to any part of northern fornia waters where further dar or sonic contacts with sub- marines may be reported lor ine new year j m stolen Ihreaten ir f Rail Walkout CHICAGO UP masters threatened to strike against the nation's railroads April J2 to enforce demands or a week bwl the expected to si 60 days while a presidential fact finding board Ihc dispute PHILADELPHIA Moore Fired In Soap Deal Ousts Welfare Worker COLUMBUS Care Director John H neck said today he has fired John P Moore of Columbus department consultant who sold soap chemicals to the state Lamneck admitted the de- bought ingredients for soap manufacture from the Mutual Chemical Supply Co of Columbus which Moore owns in partnership with his brother Robert While it was not illegal for the London prison farm where soap is made to requisition and the state purchasing department to approve purchases from this firm simply because Moore was retained as a consultant the of doing so is probably open to question the director said Mayor James A Rhodes of Columbus yesterday said the Welfare department paid Moore's company twice as much as it should have for the soap ingredient Rhodes a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor also said Moore submitted bids through a my concern INVESTIGATES CHARGES State Auditor Joseph T g u s o n is investigating the charges and is holding up ment of in vouchers to Mutual Chemical Rhodes said the de- engaged in a studied plan of Welfare di- rector Lamneck termed the mayor's statement plain un- varnished deliberate lies Lamneck said today Moore's services have been as of March 1 Asked when Moore was informed of the dis- missal the director said Moore was working at the don prison farm yesterday felt that what he had been retained to do was com- March Lamneck i said The director added that Moore who drew a month plus expenses would not be paid for March Moore was not immediately for comment Lamneck while firing the con- lauded his contributions to the Welfare department He My investigation discloses hat valuable formulae have been developed by Moore which are now owned by the ment The use of these will en- able the state to manufacture satisfactory products at a much less cost than it formerly did and incidentally employ more prisoners But said him betrayest thon the Son of man with a Luke Drafts Project People's Hospital Plans Expansion By MARGUERITE MILLER First step in a five-year program People's hospital mto a institution will commence late in June D J Davies business manager announced today This summer's project calls for expenditure of to modernize the exterior of the building change the en- trance from Wooster road Railroad Yardmasters union an- Jast night that a out was called for a m EST April 12 after the National way Mediation board failed to bring about an agreement be- tween the union and carriers However the mediation board which held hearings on the dis- pute expected lo certify an emergency Such certification customarily is followed by pointment of a board and postponement of a for at least 60 days as required body has a page from Betsy Ross Bible Vexil D curator of Betsy Ross house re- ported lo police Ihc pape bearing records of Betsy Ross family was from the Bible apparently ing Sunday visiting hours It is the second lime this has been missing said records that the same page was from 1553 lo After it was recovered the Bible was rebound to fit the cage into its proper Cold To End Rainy Spell dark and windy will end tonight to let in a cold mass from the west Showers arc expected to end today when the coid air brings mercury lo jng temperatures Tomorrow will be partly Cloudy and moderately cold the weatherman said will vary from 40 in the north part of the state to 50 in the south Low tonight will be be- 32 and 35 Madison road provide six vate pavilions and add a major surgical Beds be added later as the program through the next five years A in ments lo surgical supplies and furniture has-been put in the pital since Davies and his wife Mrs Marjorie JDavies hospital superintendent took over in 1947 Operating on a pay as you go policy the hospital has ex- from a private home for convalescents to a rated institution where complete care of the surgical or medical case can be Upon completion of the mer building program the pital will offer two operating rooms one of which will be reserved for emergencies and minor surgery Incorporated in 1942 as field Sanitarium and hospital with a capacity the in- catered to rest home patients and tubercular cases no longer kept at the hospital In 1947 the name was changed lo People's hospital and the bed capacity expanded lo the present 32 It is a Of the Blue Cross program Surgical activity at the al doubled last year over 1943 as much of the overflow of eral hospital was transferred A total of 544 operations were formed 1.107 admissions were taken and the hospital counted 13.739 patient days Red Probe Hits Snag WASHINGTON The Senate communist investigation headed for a possible stalemate today Senator predicted the Senate won't vote contempt citations for officials refusing access to secret loyalty files A Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee i n v e s t i g a t- ing charges by Senator Carthy that the State department is harboring com- and is being by Soviet spies seemed balked at every tarn It faced the necessity of ob- a contempt citation which told reporters it stands little chance of getting to reverse President man's decision against opening the confidential files Without much hope of success it sought means of forcing Carthy to make available s i x documents he turned over to the FBI in connection with his Charges that Owen writer on Far Eastern affairs is a Soviet agent in the State department The subcommittee will who already has called McCarthy's charges in lac a chance Jo answer them formally in a 1 ing Thursday Rain Cuts Attendance Small Crowd Hears Rev Barnes At Rites Christ stands alone as the un- the unexcelled pie of dynamic and heroic living Rev F D Barnes told the audience at the day Holy Week services today Rev Barnes pastor of the Mitchell Chapel AME church spoke before about 50 persons who braved the rain to attend the Lenten worship at the First Presbyterian church as his subject ing Rev Barnes asserted thai Christ's death on Calvary was the world's est tragedy because of the depth of His spirit the breadth of His vision the loftiness of His ideal and His unselfish The prediction is that the im- pact of his dynamic personality upon thousands of will be as potent as when he first called to men by the Syrian sea Yea long after material energy has spent itself in space and there is one uni- versal silence His power will still Rev Barnes said Rev Barnes pointed out that His emphasis on the hood of man and the universality of the principle of and the golden rule both in His teaching and His life leave little doubt as to what would be His attitude toward modern questions con- the proper relations of capital and labor employer and employe rich and poor The opportunity for noble living is upon us today Rev Barnes added He who would live tomorrow mmA indeed live well today Rev Olan the theran church presided Mabel organist al church played for the singing of hymns Find Furniture In Basement Forced To Move Couple Asks Removal Sought CLEVELAND il Service commission has been lo refer to Governor r J Lausche the possible removal of Cuyahoga A S Porter from of- fice Yesterday's temperature reading recorded al Municipal airport by the Civil Aeronautics administration communications station was 53 degrees at p m low was 55 de- grees Recorded at midnight Rainfall in the 24-hour period at a m today vas 23 inch The extended five day Ohio weather forecast says the will average three lo six degrees The normal maximum is 38 and the normal minimum 36 degrees It be colder Wednesday er Friday then colder again Sunday Precipitation will average one- i half to one inch occurring as rain or tomorrow and rain en Friday and Saturday Earl and until p m Sunday lived in a modern at Lennox Avc don't live more and they want because of the change they've been forced to make The court action out of a dispute over who the bungalow and has the right to occupy ers or the Malcolm V Fords of Tiffin W L Banks real estate agreement existed between Walkers and Fords and Fords made a down payment to buy the house But according lo the ers petition in common pleas court today it happened this They paid Banks in represent them and lo their bungalow They gave him a key prospective buyers around the place said But Banks the Walkers charge gave the key lo the Fords who look possession The petition filed bv Atly Robert Lett said the Fords unlawfully entered the premises They charged that the Fords tore curtains and the plaintiffs rugs bedroom furniture and other personal chattels and put them m the cellar The petition said the Fords put the Walkers pel dog out and he hasn't been found The Walkers also that Fords are nullities which arc them The Walkers are asking Ibc for actual lo and damages The plaintiffs ask from Banks They charge lhal in delivering the key Fords he com- mitted gioss and breach of claim Banks was duly bound to sent their that the key was to him solely for exhibiting the ises to prospective customers Banks said as iar as he concerned when the ment was made by the Fords the deal was closed He added that he was in the middle because the properly was on another real listing Ihst he merely helping Census Taker Ends Job In Record Time ROCKVILLE CENTRE N Y Mrs Marian AUfield the first census taker to com- plete her rounds in county returned to ters here yesterday and told No one would talk She explained that she found the Long Island area assigned U> her contained nothing but a cemetery and an abandoned house Marion Site Approved For School Some OSR Inmates To Be Sent There of Mansfield reformatory as a tion center appeared a step er today as remodeling work be- gan on the Marion training school for first offenders Welfare Director John H Lamneck said the former to Ordinance plant at Marion has been OK'd by the federal government allowing the de- use the plant for the training school Youthful offenders wiU be sent to Marion will be those be- tween 16 and 25 years of age who are found physically and mentally fit Vocational training of the will be the prime objective Establishment of the Marion school will change Mansfield re- from a in- into a rehabilitation ter for prisoners regardless of age or crime All inmates Ohio's penal institutions will be screened at a classification ter at the Ohio penitentiary Those testing capable of will be transferred here Acting OSR Supt George J Allarding said the Marion school will relieve some of the over- crowded and unsatisfactory con- ditions at the reformatory where first offenders from 16 to 35 are sent at present population averages prisoners Lamneck added that he has asked the state board of con- trol to transfer set aside for a reformatory at Oral ton to he new training school project The legislature already has for the ion school With the Grafton funds a total of would be available Expansion of the Marion is part of the welfare de- program for ing and segregating various types of offenders in all the state's penal institutions Offenders below 16 be sent to the Boys Industrial school at Lancaster and older ones to Mansfield reformatory or Ohio penitentiary Lamneck said temporary buildings at Marion have been sufficiently reconditioned to mit the immediate transfer there of some prisoners A paid staff of 19 persons is at Marion now Jury Still Deliberates SAN FRANCISCO A jury of eight men and four en appeared close to a verdict today as it began its fifth day of deliberations on the fate of CIO Longshore Leader Harry Bridges and two union aides The jurors resumed their study of the case at 9 a m noon Before be tap locked up last the jurors asked Federal Judge George B Harris to clarify one of the counts in the indictment It the first of three ing thai Bridges J H son and Henry Schmidt con- spired in defraud ihc ment bv having Bridges swear he never was a communist The first count actually is 11 cuses of swearing he was a at his citizenship hearing in The third count charges Schmidt and Robertson aided and abetted Bridges to commit perjury Conviction would mean a prison sentence of seven years and m fines for each defendant Blasts Truman Johnson Says Reds Plan Pearl Harbor BULLETIN Order Study WASHINGTON tfl The Defense department today OF dered new studies of its budget to determine whether more money should be asked for Air Force and naval planes WASHINGTON Chairman Vinson 1 f the House Armed Services com- today demanded 533 million dollars more for air power to counter increasing Russian air strength and meet a possible atomic blitz or Pearl Harbor attack He charged President man with exceeding his con- authority in ing to spend full congressional appropriations for he armed services He accused the President and Defense Secretary Johnson of placing too much emphasis on economy and not enough on tional security The Georgia Democrat a figure on Capitol Hill called on his colleagues in Con- gress to assume their tional power to provide for the common defense override the President and vote additional funds for the nation's air Vinson made his charges m a speech during House debate on the huge 29 billion dollar appropriation Economy minded Republicans are seeking slashes of between one and 2.5 billion dollars in tha measure s- PLAN PEARL HARBOR A drive to increase defense funds was begun however after Gen Dwight D Eisenhower warned Congress laft week that the military budget is 500 lion dollars below safety level and does not provide enough strength to repel a Russian at- tack on Alaska Vinson in worded speech that Russia is building the largest air force world for use ever their Fearl Harbor day comes around Vinson declared that the economy program is withering our air force on the and killing this naval air The veteran congressman said the Air Force had fallen from 273 groups in 1945 to 48 groups and was headed for 42 by 1956 while naval air strength was ready lower than it was at the time of Pearl Harbor The man who played a ing role in building up the defenses in two world wars We are backsliding into im- potency in air power we ara critically jeopardizing our security we are again war through we fail to meet the ab- minimum defense re- as this fails to do in respect to air power Fast Train Derailed CINCINNATI T h e fast Norfolk and Western railroad passenger train was derailed on the east edge of Cincinnati last eight but a car overturned There were no serious injuries but approximately 25 passengers wore shaken up The locomotive and all five coaches jumped the rail and the coach studded to a slop only about six feet from high embankment which led down to a stream Although the cars did not were a which were lipped at an angle Fire Rips Town Central City Ky UP Fire a portion of the business district of this smaili causing damage es at Keeping Many business service ieH us small ad in the fied columns brings in enough caHs to keep them rushed For only a few cents a day you can reach thousands and thousands of daily readers potential customers for vou No matter what type of service you have to offer a ad do the job for you Call AD Experienced ADvisor will help you write your afl
