Marshall Evening Chronicle (Newspaper) - April 18, 1946, Marshall, Michigan YEAR 1946 Washington Calling By MARQUIS Editors Note This is the first of two columns on the Administration and Omar HOUSE pr WASHINGTON Less than a year farflung American armies were sweeping across Europe toward the final vic Today one of the chief au that General Omar is head of the government agency that of a vust army of When General Bradley was drafted by President Truman to be head of the Veterans Ad he could hardly have realized was ahead of The job is so it is hard to In July of there were veterans of World War The figure for the end of March of this year was When the veterans of other wars are the grand total is That a large chunk of the popula If you include families with an average of four to a you get something close to half of all the people in this Inheriting a over worked and hidebound organi Bradley is beginning to make At hes beginning to see the light over the mountain of official docu ments and papers at the beginning of his term of servi looked like one Pikes Peak piled on top of That progress has come out of unremitting out of patient effort 14 or 15 hours a With the country inthe midst of a grow ing there have been ob that at times The paper work connected with pension veterans and education under the GI of has now doubled and tripled from week to There was a big back log when Bradley took To get this moving so that it would be current meant more office going tp cities that were regional headquarters for the Veterans Administration to try to Concluded 8 6 Poland Plea Is Taken Britain Flat Rejection NEW YORK The United States and Great Britain failed today to find any com pelling reasons in the Polish case against Spain to support a United Nations diplomatic quarantine of the Franco re But both would like to avoid SUNRISE SERVICE ON EASTER MORN BIG FOUR FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET IN PARIS a flat rejection of Polish mands for action against Spanish dictator and hope de the tci find the basis for a compromise when debate on Spain is resum ed in the Security Council is sought is a midway resolution between de mand for intervention in Spain and a The Council scheduled twq Concluded Page Column 5 Bluebird Notes The Blue Bird group of the Central school held its regular meeting Wednesday afternoon at the Following the business the group made Easter At thq next on April will fea ture Food Conservation Our Foreign and The Eastern Blue Birds met with their leaders at the Pierce Thet girls made Easter baskets and also colored some Membership cards and saving pledges were passed to each SURVEY SHOWS GREATEST CRIME WAVE Considered An Aftermath Of the War The war has left in its wake the greatest crime wave in at least 15 the greatest in the nations a nation wide survey showed Police compared the crime wave to that which followed World War 1 Sociologists at it to reconversion layoffs and war broken homes rather than returning service The survey showed that the biggest increases were in Bob automobile thefts and homicides and sex crimes also increased sharp The Federal Bureau of In said the upswing was the greatest since when the began tabu lating nationwide crime statis To Be Held at Wilder Creek Sanctuary at The Marshall community will begin its observance Sunday with a Sunrise service atthe Wilder Creek Sanctuary at oclock Sunday morn The service will be spon sored by the Brooks Methodist church and the West Eckford Many other churches are Thf music for the service will be furnished by trumpeters and a youth An impressive natural sanc tuary has been selected on a hillside in the Wilder Creek The worship center is crowned witli a 14foot the outline of which will be framed the morning The service will start a trumpet immediately tol lowed by a choral The invocation will be given by the Joseph pastor of the West church Margaret Sherman will read which another chor al Christ will be The scripture reading will be given by Patricia Dan Margaret Midi am will Concluded Page Column 5 It Is Road EXTENDS PRICE CONTROL IT WITH AMENDMENTS SENATE MAY MAKE DRASTIC CHANGES t f EYES ON Big four foreign ministers arc preparing to meet there April 25 in an effort to avert postponement of the 21nation peace conference scheduled to open in Paris not later May under terms of the Moscow Big Three communique of last The proposed by Secretary Byrnes and has the approval of other Britains Ern Frances Georges and Russias International 300 BUSINESS MEN WATCH AMPUTEES Convinced They Can Take a Place In Business World BATTLE UP 300 midwestern indus were convinced today that amputee and Lynn Buys Elsies Cafe and Earline announced that had sold their restaurant at 104 West Michigan known as Elsies to Lynn will take pos and Elsie have crated the restaurant for past and have in fact been in business longer than any of the other present j restaurant proprietors in RELIEF FORGE APPROACHING CHANGCHUN Nationalist Troops Expected to Oust Communists rebellious House day passed and sent to the Senate in amendment died price control despite warnings by Economic Chester Bowles that it would start the nation joy ride to The final vote passing the battered was It was one of the worst legislative defeats by President who had requested a tension of price control without crippling The measure would extend the price control only until next March It carries a series of ame ments which administration supporters said wreck price The amendments provide for elimination of subsidies on June with a corresponding rise in termination of all price rottback subsidies on ducts next and a guarantee of sonable profit to distributors and all The votes for a decisive modification of price control were taken by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats turned a deaf ear to warning by Administrator Paul Porter that the action amounted repeal of price The majority of the Hom felt it was time for a price Administration leaders looked to the Senate iff inate some of the drastic House provisions and si price control legislation in something the sought by A spokesman for the Office of Economic tion said that if Congress enacts the House ilar unworkable legislation before June damn good possibility that Truman will ask Congress to start over again on a more to the Surprise Defence Reports from War in Earnest ies with a total of inhabitants showed creases for last year Robberies Lead per cent cit these in auto Concluded Page Column 5 BULLETIN TEHRAN Iran to day challenged the British pro over the Bah rein island in the Per ian gull and asserted that she consider the island an integral part of The government issued a de cree ordering that taxes be levied upon Bahrein oil produc tion just as they are on the production of the Angloj Iranian Oil Company in era Whether Iran proposes raise the question of ownership before the United Nations was not known but the issue has long been a cause of di pute between Iran and Brit case was brought up last in 1927 Iran filed a claim to the island with the League of injured veterans World War II can take their in places in factories and offices despite their i The industrialists witnessed a heartening demonstration ofi skills developed by soldiers at the armys Percy Jones hospi a center for disabled They saw a vet eran operate a un armless man drive a jeep a legless man roller They saw handicapped veterans Concluded Column 4 19yearold An at a surprise trial of emerged today as defense witness in the Frank on charges of raping and attempting to murder a Virginia La Verne tuld a Trinity Choir to Present Seven Last Words in Recorders Judge Gerald j the northeast after Groats courtroom late yes which is military sources said today a Nationalist relief column was driving toward Communist encircled Chang chun at a 14mile daily clui indicated spearheads might now be within thirty miles of the Manchurian This report came as En voy General Marsh all arrived in Chungking in an attempt to halt bitter civil fighting in The military sources said the Chinese 1st army was advancing rapidly to 70 miles John Greening Hearing To Be Resumed Here Three psychiatrists who ex John former Marshall on and again on March informed Judge Elaine Hatch in circuit court at Battle Creek yesterday that in their Greening is insane did mentally Incompetent tc trial for the murder of New Coalition Is Threatened with Rebellion Pressure of a conservative re bellion threatened today to crack the New ic political coalition created by the late Franklin Angry southern Democratic members of the House seized control of a party caucus last night and named a special com to prevent party leaders from punishing them for insur This election year develop ment need not seriously affect Trinity church choir will present the famous Lenten can tata The Seven Last Words of Christ by Theodore Dubois en Good Friday the ser vice starting promptly Chicago will Gil bert who has sung at Trinity church and Thomas hud intimate relations with the defendant on the night before the alleged at tack little Rosalie her throat cut twice with a butcher was din in a refuse can near the rear OL cast side grocery on La Verne said she found blood on her slip after hoi re lations with Her tes timony was introduced by the defense to explain the presence from the 1st army is not But stands to the White House it waa Si W be enough Conj work on a new because the present act June Ih that man would be laced j difficult choice being pelted to accept what offered or letting the trol law Final House action came ter a frenzied 10hour yesterday during which coi went on an ami Just before CHINESE COMMUNIST are sifting the suburbs as rages on three aides of the Manchurian battle for the city got underway In earnest when the began at tacking from the north west and south twt hours before the Soviet withdrawal and quick ly captured all three airfields In the area Nationalist forces are reserving their main strength for tho of the citys now with road em while they the arrival of other driving Democratic prospects in conf But it prove the decisive actor t i hoisted significant danger sig for the partys 1948 na tional When that Democratic conclave gathers to name a presidential ticket and write a the battle be tween the regulars and the left wing will be It promises to be a bruising and perhaps de Approximately 105 of the 239 Democratic of the House met in caucus lust after an evening House in which a Republican Democratic combination ripped theT administrations price con met on call of enraged who comes to Marshall for the southerners who believe that first Mrsi Paul Hum Guest from blood which the was found on Lobaido s clothing shortly alter his arrest Face Guam Trial cus National Committee Chairman Robert Hannegan is gunning or They were angered by a statement in a national committee publication ng Democratic legislators voted curbs on the of Hannegan explained and apologized for that Soon afterward local Democratic leaders received letters the national committee extreme care in selecting candi dates for Congress in this years primary let ters went to many districts which now ares represented byv Democratic House Some congressmen believed the committee was seeking to purge members who opposed adminis tration Hannegan said the letters were mailed in Hard feeling was increased by of Commere Henry Wallaces recent that congressmen op posing administration on really fundamental issues should be tossed out of the program to The The alienists were Concluded Page Column 7 principal witnesses for the state by M E li tin Now Can Get College Educations iston will be the soprano Paul A organ ist and will con duct the The program of the work follows all ye First and tenor with forgive for they know not what they Second for tenor and with Today shalt thou be with me in Third for tenor and with the O Woman here behold thy Son belov solor my why haet Thou Forsaken me Fifth with soli for tenor and Am Sixth solo and into Thy hands I commend my Seventh for sopra with is KIROKU former Japan ese Navy who is facing trial at is charged itli murder of 25 American prisoners island during 1942 ami With two other Horle Is also accused of behead ing an International Many young men anxious for a college bin wondering how to get are not fully of the educa tional benefits offered to who not only have been in thq service during the but to those who are enlisting now or who enlist anytime before when the pro of the present of rights arc scheduled to go out of The educational benefits are arranged so that a man enlist ing in the regular army can obtain full trade or business school education at government Enlist ments are open to men aged U to and may be for 115 two years or three the end of his enlist the honorably discharged soldier is entitled to a period of education or training based on the length of his all at government he receives one years education plus as additional months as he spent in the A threeyear enlistment for totals one year plus 36 or a total of 48 months of education enough for a full college expenses paid every month for four The government tuition up to per ordinary school plus a monthly allowance of for living or per month if the student has petition llor James Dunn Green ing declared insane and com to hospital Ioi the criminal He will become progressively worse in stead of the alienists the request of James of represent ing Judge Hatch ad tho hearing until April 27 at when may present his own alienists if he Under the Michigan it is required that persons accused of murder be examined Concluded Page Column THE WEATHER v psychiatrists before trial if found mentally they be committed to The psychiatrists stated that when they asked Unit id Stales Unt to the thai the office was held by Eleanor whom he inherited it her DETROIT forecast Lower Michigan Fait cooler Friday fair little in CITY BRIEFS of by state inspectors for operating a truck in MPSC a plea of Justice D Scott this He was as which was William Hakes is the new township clerk of Eckford was chos en at a recent meeting of township board to fill out the term of Walter who has moved from the dis At the same Charles Sweet was appointed township health for coming Upper Michigan Fair cooler Friday cloudy and The sun sets today at tomorrow STATE TEMPERATURES City Chicago Detroit Grand Rapids Houghton SauIt LOCAL High for post 24 Low for Temperature of and HI m ly rising
