Marshall Evening Chronicle (Newspaper) - August 28, 1946, Marshall, Michigan MARSHALL YEAR AUGUST 1946 Washington Galling By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON The man who stood as a symbol of law and order in the lawless 20s 13 retiring in a few Having given 40 of his 58 years to gov Elmer Irey intends totake a In recent years as chief coordinator of the law enforcement stands as an example of devo tion to public And such are almost as rare in the roaring 40s as they were in the The lawlessness of that other postwar era was really some Under the spur of the demand for illegal law enforcement broke down in city after While Chicago the most flagrant the anarchy that prevailed in other centers was nearly as scanda The federal government seem ed powerless to check The disrespect for law bred by this carnival of crime undermined all and we are still suffering the But through it all as head of the intelligence unit of the Bur eau of Internal fought to enforce at least one federal income tax His extraordinary success in preserving this one federal standard is a tribute to his per his resourcefulness and his It of a grim commentary on our sense of values that murderers and thieves could be only because they failed to pay taxes on their fabulous But caught they Irey and his men painstaking ly spun a net cf evidence around Al Capone and his Capone had believed himself beyond all He had boasted that he was While Continued on Page 6 UN Security InSession Ruarks Column BY ROBERT NEW pleasant clang of bony Skull on bonier skull resounds aroUnd the land once arid all the vania Polish boys have flown to acquire culture and a southern accent in Dixies cita dels of The football season is upon face it but I shaU Proposes Eight New Members Of United Nations UNITED NATIONS LAKE The United States today propos ed that the United Nations Se curity Council approve the ap of all nations present ly applying for membership in the The American proposal was made by Herschel who asked that the Council approve the appli cations of eight nations pending before the He eliminated Siam when that nation in a last minute request asked that its application be withheld until settlement of its dispute with Johnson said that the United States favored the widest pos sible membership in the UN and that it was proposing thai all eight be admitted despite definite reservations felt by this country with regard to the api of Albania and Outer The American compromise proposal would admit to UN membership Afghanis Outer Swe den and Britain Has Objection Britain has objected to Al bania and has reservations re Outer Mongolia which also was opposed by Russia has objections ta and Johnson said that the goal of the UN should be universality of Those states and peoples left out of he will grow into trouble He noted that NATIONALISTS SURROUND CHENGTEH PESTR LEFT IN CALCUTTA RIOTS Act in Reprisal For Communist Siege of Tatung Everytime I get gloomy about taxes or the United I reflect that this year I will not have to let alone any football it is better than a shot of The only pleasant aspect of Pearl Harbor was that it lib me from the sports and I often wonder about thq score of that ice rimmed conflict between the Washington Redskins and zt club whose name escapes People talk about the salt mines of Siberia and how tough it was in I come right back with a reference to a con test between Georgetown Uni versity and Boston College in or the 1937 playoff game between the Redskins and the when the Chicago field was iced like a birthday cake and your fingers fell off you hit a Ernie Pyle used to say that he had been sick in more hotel rooms than any other I have been colder in more press boxes than any Eskimo in any My internal economy Is battered and ravaged by PEIPING PO Three powerful government supported by air and artillery have virtually surrounded Commu capital of Jehol Prov in reprisal for the Com munist siege of Com munist headquarters ed Field dispatches said Chiang powerful armies were converging on from the south and east Government troops also were reported branching out from 40 miles east of the Jehol Communist sources charged that Nationalist bombers were making daily raids on Cheng teh and 150 miles north of the Communist strong One government force re was advancing toward k Increase WILL AVERAGE PO1 BEEF AND ABOVE FORMER CEILING Clinton Anderson today ordered which will result in an pound in the average retail price of for SMOKE OF BATTLE still hangs and Moslems In which this ta alter the rioting between were killed and scores International SPECIAL MEET DF BIG FOUR SCHEDULED A rail membership fee is made by cof sulphuric acid and tinctured with nail parings and brass And I dine today on bland as a result of which were confected of cold walrus blubber between two pieces of If baseball writers are kings of football writers are the No foot ball writer should ever miss because he has had his hell regularly in applications must be approved by general assembly which is scheduled to meet on 23 and that nations not admitted at that meeting have to wait another year be fore coming into the organiza spoke after a last minute request from Siam action on her request for Siam advised the UN Securi ty Council of her action in o letter to Secretary General Siamese communication said that Siam previously had anticipated an early settlement of her territorial dispute with the note a settlement did noi seem in Si am asked that its membership Continued on Page 2 line north ol the den Other informants said Nationalist troops were moving toward miles east of with artillery units to be used in the allout reprisal High central government of admitted that the attack on Chengteh was in imple mentation ultimatum of the government to Communists to cease attacks on Na city Nationalist officials threatened to attack one of three chief cities unless the siege of Tatung was Communist spokesmen the attack on Chengteh as part of Chiang plan for a Chinese press reports said the Nationalists were mak ing rapid progress toward the city from three directions and that it was virtually en Heavy fighting also was re ported east of the mining town of on the Peiping Mukden in North Chi and in the Suchow sector farther Will Try to Patch Up Peace Conference PARIS Soviet For ign Minister peaking on the eve of a special Big Four meeting to patch up the peace attacked again today an Austra lian proposal to revise the re parations new Hie third this was made aften che Australian delegation had Withdrawn the reparations amendment to which all the Big Four He never delivered his 40minute speech as though it still were The Big Four meeting aimed at pumping new life into the peacemaking effort was expect ed to be held tomorrow It was arranged after Russia and France accepted the British as the Unit on Page 1 Power Failure Down Haven Plants HAVEN Failure of electric power clos ed down factories and brot business practically to a stand still here rAll electric power in the city was cut off when a plug blew out of a in th South Haven powerhouse City telephone service was being by but Otherwise citys popula normally but swol len to about by had to relax and make out as well as it could without electrical engineers expected to an emergency boiler in operation later today to relieve the but said it would TRANSPORT CRISIS IS LOOMING Must Find Way to Get More Freight Cars be at least a full current could be city day before supplied tc Five More Killed In Detroit threat of the worst Traffic Accidents Government agencies swung in to action today to avert the A high said today the squabble between OPA Department over livestock ceilings will be Jl President Truman if the agencies cant This who preferred to reman said reconversion Director pi to take the responsibility for the As a it was Steelman has phone Truman in Bermuda if it Steelman will be unable to get the two tie their differences by midnight There was strong feeling among that some compromise ed and that it would be unnecessary to the The new livestock ceilings are scheduled to effect That will give the packers tiin pose of higher priced purchased during price before retail meat are JH OPA wants meat and livestock ceilings i as near June 30 levels as thinks livestock prices be a over June 30 levels to encourage Altho Accidentally Playmate Hid Body Eight Months The mystery of a skeleton found in basement of a Pittsburgh home was believed solved today when 13yearold Charles Hazlett told that he accidentally killed a playmate last New Years eve and hid the body under a pile of ashes because he was the first alter municipal Saturday When Army belabors Navy in the snow or A working reporter can get more saleable information from Continued on Page 5 scared to death and tried to hide his I dragged it the cellar and hid it in the ashes under a pile of bushel baskets and Charles said he had to go down into the cellar quite a few times afterward but it never bothered me very The skeleton of the Gerrich The presence of the body was discovered when the ARTHUR GALE RATZ the basement didnt bother him in the his parents questions concerning the it gave him the creeps at he told Speaking and appar ently the Pittsburgh eighth grader with his aunt in Buffalo that he shot 12yearold Michael Gerrich while they were playing holdup man in the Hazletts They were using his fathers He said he didnt know it was He told police the weapon went off in hands and the bullet struck Mike mumbled something dying anil fell to the Hazlett I was Hazlett family moved from the home in which the fatal shoot ing had The new ten up the basement the along with remnants of clothing and the death The dead boys widowed tilery Anna who supported her five children by working as a never gave up looking for She told Pittsburgh police that shp spent all her spare time riding trolleys and scanning the fact of every boy she saw in the hope of locating Only a few weeks ago a tea reader told me I would find my boys body ia thq and she was she said More Items Freed From Control by OPA OPA today removed price con from a long list of addi tional including lizard and snake skin doeskin shoe polish and baby Other commodities exempted from controls were floor var furniture bile and industrial wax finishes and Ceilings were removed from reptile skins and all leathers made from ze carp incho and shark pin and other acqua tic Precooked dry cereals were included in the order exempt ing baby and junior foods from OPA also announced that white potatoes would remain free of and raised re tail price ceilings on all canned tomatoes to spur 200 Pontiac City Employes Out On Strike in city of home of a major concentration ofo automotive production hit today by a strike of some 200 city em ployes seeking higher Pickets of the CIO Public Workers surrounded Pontiac City Hall as the walk out Maintenance crews kept the electrical and garbage disposal plants in operatic ti with skeleton A spokesman said that the City Hospital had an 80 per cent but other services wero stopped the The strike halted work inj city garbage the city library and the recre along street repair and public tion crisis in the nations his The Civilian Production Ad ministration took the initial step in implementing Reconversion Director John emergency program to get more railroad cars roll ing and to divert all possible freight to coastal and tal CPA Administrator John Small appealed to the steel and lumber industries to speed flow of needed to complete new railroad cars by the end of the and said new steps were under study to ex reconditioning of idle cars awaiting Until we get more cars in to service or more use out of the cars we now the coun trys potential rate of output DETROIT De troits 1946 toll of traffic fatal today rose to 122 as five persons died in metropolitan area Two separate accidents at Lincoln Park cost the lives of a Detroit truck driver and a f Wyandotte girl Edward driver of the General Mill Supply was be reluctant Trumans to thl ently felt the th weighty to presidential OPA Porter tork burned to death when the he was overturned and caught fire at Southfield and Dix Lin coln Judith Ann daugh ter of and Edward w crushed beneath the wheel of will be held down because fathers automobile during the current market T imposed will result shortage this be about If meat U be net hiking livestock other If crease too much show their Even OPA cot prices can riot all the to The price control that hog parity income against Deaths I Funeral Services Dora Funeral services for Dora who passed away at last Satur day morning in were held at the Ceresco Baptist church Tuesday afternoon at with the George Lobig as by the John Me Callum of Burial was in the Ceresco Acting as were Donald Clifford Earl LUtz and circulation of basic products and Small Stabilization in Peril Steelman said both domestic reconversion and foreign econ and political stabilization were in when he or Continued on Page 2 family outing at Lincoln Three Detroiters killed in street traffic Ed ward Perkins and Robert Pitt were struck by and Thomas was a passenger in a car which crashed into a safety Continued on THE WEA William Van Horn William Van 111 South passed away at Oak lawn hospital this morning at He had been ad mitted to the hospital he had been in failing health since of At that time he suffered en when struck by an au on Michigan Vari Horn was born in Marshall township on March the son of Isaac and Adeline Van In 1897 he married Lillian who pass ed away on April In December of 1930 he married Ella Johnston in She diedon August For many Van Horn managed the Marshall Elevator and was at one time a farm er in Marshall He is survived by one Ir ving Van of Battle The remains are at the Kelser funeral where funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at with Harry Staver of the First Presbyterian church of Interment will be made in Oakridge Planter Charged With Peonage Held Negros As Forced Laborers to work on his Tysinger Rockdale county officials found it hard to believe that He said one of the burley Roswell allegedly owed Biggers two who had done so much for ne He said the negro came could be charged with to obtained a and er forecast Lower Michigan cloudy with rain southeast Partly cloudy t Upper Michigan dy and continued and The sun today peonage by the prominent 63year old planter and livestock deal is charged with securing the release of five negro farm hands from the sent Biggers a two dollar ey He said Biggers re fused to accept the order and obtained a warrant against the After the negro had been re jail and holding them as forced j turned to the Tysinger laborers on his rambling acre corn cotton I have known for 30 He is a fine He didnt understand a man who had done so much for negroes being charged with such a McCart said Biggers works more negroes than any man in Rockdale Harvey said he worked and then asked several weeks Biggers if he hadnt worked off his cording to Biggers County Sheriff told him the debt had been in McCart said last to to pay for trip to Atlanta and to have him Biggers specifically was charged by the federal govern ment with trumping up a charge against Booker John and later securing John sons release to return him tqf a condition of about charging them money under assistant said May Tysinger Biggers obtained He never ly a dozen warrants against the receipts and getting The arrested by Meso said that some of the were jailed and groes had turned over to FBI of being and EST readings cl CITY Chicago Grand Houghton Sauit LOCAL High for Low for would give any the negroes said with they didnt know when false had paid up and were out of I Tysinger He I If you
