Mt Vernon Register News (Newspaper) - March 1, 1949, Mt Vernon, Illinois Ml VERNON MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS A SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL - SPECIAL FAVORS FOR NONE A PAPER mill niit 4uU^ mill mln Ar an 40> low noon VOLUME 129 MOUNT ILLINOIS - MARCH 1, 1949 25c PER WEEK BY CARRIER JOE LOUIS RESIGNS AS WORLD CHAMP DROP WAMAC MINE CHARGE AGAINST TWO Medili and Former State Are Cleared of Charges in 1947 JUDGE RANDOLPH QUASHES CHARGES Defendants Had Been Accused of Omission of Duty in Not Closing Wamac Elks Essay Contest Winners By 111., March 1,- Two former Illinois state officials were cleared today of charges growing out of the 1947 Coal Mine disaster which killed 111 Judge Charles T. Randolph quashed the charges against ert M. Medili of and Robert Wier of They were director and assistant of the Illinois State Department of Mines and Minerals at the time of the March 25, 1947, Medili and Wier were charged in Washington county grand indictments with palpable of duty for alleged failure to enforce the stale mine safety code prior to the blast The case was transferred to Wayne county circuit the charges were dismissed after a 90-minute hearing on their claim that prevailed in the county where the disaster Medili and Weir were not present in the lacked Jurisdiction They had sought to have fhc charges on the ground that the county * grand jury lacked jurisdiction because their duties were in Sangamon county On this Judge of 'The place where office is kept and orders are given is the place where offense is If there is no basis for civil liability against defendants there cannot be any basis from criminal The court issued the following statement from the bench before quashing the cases are the outgrowth of the mine disaster of March 1947, in which 111 miners were killed and are always referred to in conversations or in the press in conjunction with said disaster and it is usually implied or charged that this disaster was due to the negligence of these yet they are not charged in these indictments with cither voluntary or but are charged with a If these men are guilty in connection with this terrible it seems that the charge should be involuntary at and punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary instead of a mere fine or jail tence if found to be criminal so as to constitute involuntary must be reckless or wanton and of such character as to show an utter disregard for the safety of others under circumstances likely to cause Open Bids Tonight On New Schools Bids for the construction of two new school buildings in Mt. and bo publicly opened by the Board of Education of School District SO. Tlie bids will be at 8 o'clock at the junior high following the regular monthly meeting of the SOVIET MISSION TO BE STARVED OUT BY YANKS Repatriation Group Defies U.S. Orders to Leave by and Phone Lines Probably Will Be Harold at Exalted Ruler of Elks No. 819, of Mt. presents a check for to Ada Mac Vernon school senior whose essay on Democracy won first prize in the Jofferion county from left Is Elizabeth Ann winner of second prize and at is Donald whose essay won third HIRE 1,500 MORE TAX COLLECTION Treasury Had Asked for 7,000; 50,000 on Tax By Preu WASHINGTON March 1- Funds to hire 1,500 new tax enforcing workers were approved today by the House Appropriations The treasury had asked for 7,000, saying they wore needed to avert the of a weakening in But the committee thought otherwise and said that to add 7,000 employes would be to approach the of diminishing in tax records showed that the of 1,500 enforcement workers would give the Infernal Revenue Bureau about employes in There was no breakdown as to how many of these 50,000 would spend full time in the enforcement At the same the committee called for a hike in postage especially those on publications under second class The committee's action was in a making annual direct appropriations to the Treasury and Postoffice Departments for the vear starting next July 1. In the committee approved so-called and uncontrollable appropriations for the Treasury Department amounting to an estimated These include interest on the public debt and such items as the Old Age and Insurance Fund and the Trust Fund administered by the Interest on the National Debt is estimated at The treasury's share of the total direct for next year is is a cut of from budget The recommended for the postal service is below what the President Tlie is carded for House debate Thursday and passage It has not yet been considered by the HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR WRITES WINNING ESSAY Alva Mae Bartolomucci Awarded Prize by Local Elks Alva Mae a Mt. Vernon high school senior was today awarded first place in an essay contest on ocracy by the Mt. Vernon Elks Her winning essay is reproduced on page 8 of issue of The Elizabeth Ann Darnold won second prize and Donald Dodds Both are seniors at Mt. Vernon high Miss Bartolomucci was awarded a cash prize for her winning Prizes of and were presented to Miss Darnold and young As the winner of the local Miss essay will bp entered in a district Her theme compete with winning essays written by students in other The district winner will be awarded a college scholarship of and the theme entered in a state will have three and in U. S. savings The essay will be entered in a national contest for awards of and in CONFESSIONS ARE DENIED BY 5 HUNGARIANS Charge Police Intimidated Them Into Iraq Army Is Leaving Israel By Associated Press TEL March 1.- Several thousand Iraq regular army troops appear to be withdrawing from Israel ft was reported here It is assumed reported is closely linked to the armistice talks at Rhodes between Israel and and at Ras en Nakura between Israel and Woman Burns To Death in Bed By Associated Press 111., March 1.- An elderly woman burned to death last night in her bed which apparently caught fire from a hot She was Miss Margaret 75. Her Mrs. Elizabeth 87, said the woman had placed the iron in the bed for Mrs. Bowers said she was in the basement of their McLean county home when the fire started and was unable to reach her sister in time to Named Assistant City Treasurer Mt. Vernon city announced today that Mrs. Blanche Packwood has been appointed city Mrs. Packwood succeeds Katie Mae who resigned as assistant city treasurer recently She assumed her duties at the city hall this Rural Fire Dept. Makes First Run The rural fire department made its first run at 6:15 p. m. yesterday - a fast six-minute drive across to Salem Road and Oak north of the Mt. Vernon city The brake band on a wheel of a 1946 Chrysler was burned off. The car was the property of Jesse Rural Fire Carl Jones again today reminded residents in the protection area to remember the lire department telephone 67. By Associated Press March 1-Five of the 14 men on trial charged with black market dealings for Josef Cardinal Minds zenty withdrew today their pretrial They charged instead that policee A sixth defendent also withdrew part of his The men were accused of illegal dealings in foreign currency and of with the Cardinal and others already Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment 21 days ago on charges of seeking to overthrow the government in favor of the Hapsburg Monarchy and with illegal speculation in American Sigmond a started the chain of withdrawals of the He pleaded he was only partially guilty of the and referred to his He declared he had named four persons as his business partners in currency trading after he had been alone in a cell for a He named them as Mrs. Jozsef Ede Victor and Al Deutsch said he referred to these names He admitted he had changed dollars but declared he never had had any business with those 6, Hurt in Fall Down Stairs Eddie Ray 6-ycar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Smith of 1120 North was injured in a fall down the stairs at his home last He tripped on toys and fell from the second floor to the first floor landing and sustained a severe Eddie Ray is a at Jefferson County Memorial By Associated Press March 1-Gen. Lucius D. Clay indicated tonight that an Russian which so far has defied an order to leave the U. S. Zone of would be starved out if it did not leave The U. S. Military Governor indicated the Army would not use force to compel the Russian repatriation mission to leave Clay said if ho were in the position of Gen. Robinson E. Frankfurt Military Post he probably would cut the telephone line to the Russian cut of their water and food supply and prevent them from having access to The Military Governor regards the Frankfurt sidewalks as long as they don't want to get out of the Clay are in no hurry about getting them Earlier the Army had said the Mission had until midnight to leave the zone or it would be escorted to the Russia protested the ouster order One informant said the Russians told the U. S. the Mission would be considered deserters if they left the U. S. The Russians have been seeking since the war ended to return about 100,000 mainly Estonians and Lithuanians who want no part of The British - licensed Social Democrat in Berlin said the Russians have put out new peace feelers on the Berlin Cut Prices In Russia Russia has announced price cuts on 45 classes of clothes and other The Russians used the decree for propoganda in praise of Trud commented typically that is becoming better all the The Communist newspaper Pravda told Russians that in the United States is 6haos the Army of unemployed inflation the purchasing power of real wages every seventh city dweller 10,000,000 farmers living in dire and the profits of Imperialists attaining unheard of Wife of Judge Farthing Rites Thursday Mrs. Joanna Eveline of Mt. died Monday at the home of her Mrs. William Seymour in Okla. Mrs. wife of Judge Robert M. former Mt. Vernon postmaster was 82 three months and nine days of Funeral will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at Myers with Dr. R. B. Guthrie and burial will be in Oakwood The body will arrive in Mt. Vernon Wednesday morning and will remain at Myers where friends may Mrs. Farthing was born November 19, 1866 in Jefferson the daughter of William H. and Dicey Jane Besides her husband she is survived by four Mrs. William Seymour of Mrs. Harry Swift of Mt. Mrs. Haskell Andrews of Oregon and Mrs. Sidney Spiese of N. C. One Mrs. Helen Kiddle and one Robert Farthing preceded her in LUCAS ASKS GOP AID ON K Democrat Leader Sets Showdown on Dixie for Next Hangs Up SPONSORS BOUT TO PICK SUCCESSOR in befits a dear old inot be a lion in the Lonely Kill 3 By Associated Press BYRON M i c March 1-The bodies of a young widow and her daughter were unearthed from crude basement graves today and police said a admitted killing them in a They also said prosecutor Roger C. the strangulation death of an N. woman in Long N. last McMahon said the Raymond Martinez 34, told him the Albany woman's body was buried in the basement of new house near the Held with Fernandez is Mrs. Martha 29-yoar-old McMahon said both made of the three but denied any others in their widespread preying on lonely By Associated Press Mar. 1.-Senator Lucas of Illinois called on Republicans today to help still the sound and fury of a southern Democratic filibuster against a Senate rules As Senator Connally carried the Dixie banner into the second day of a filibuster to save Democratic leader Lucas laid out a time table for a showdown early next Before the Senate is his motion to take up a resolution which would alter the Senate's rules so that two-thirds of those voting could clamp a limit on debate at any Southerners oppose this as an opening wedge for passage of President Truman's Civil Talk Till Thursday who heads the administration's forces in the said the southerners will be allowed to talk along until Thursday in their effort to prevent the Senate from passing on this He predicted that a petition to invoke the cloture procedure will be filed It will he up to Vice President Barkley to rule whether tHere can bo any limitation of debate on a motion such as to take up a That's the point at which Lucas said he wants some Republican If Barkley rules that the debate limit does apply in this case there are indications that he will because he disputed decision last year - Lucas said he wants the Republicans to vote with him to uphold British Red Is For Russia By Associated Press March 1. - Communist declarations in western Europe that an invading Soviet Army would be welcome and assisted set a new pace in the cold war party leaders in Germany and Britain in the past week have spoken along the same in marked of the conciliatory of the so-called peace The opinion that a master's voice was speaking and that the new course of Communist strategy indicates the introduction of a more vigorous policy was expressed in American quarters British sources said obviously the various statements inspired by a central The latest Communist spokesman to voice threats is Harry General Secretary of the British Communist He was quoted by the Communist Daily Worker last night as declaring British Communists will try to sabotage any aggressive against In event of such a war against the he British Communists would organize strikes and of QUIT MEDICAL FIGHT By Associated Press NEW March 1.-The largest member group of the American Medical Association withdrawn its support of the AMA's plan to fight compulsory health The New York County Medical Society took the action last JOE retiring as undefeated world SISTER KENNY Heavyweight Boxing King Formally Renounces Crown in Letter to National Boxing PICK NEW CHAMP IN CHICAGO FIGHT Louis Receives Permission From NBA to Match Charles and Walcott for World Three Top Officials Recommend Closing of Polio By Associated Press 111., March 1- A stormy conference among Sister Kenny Polio Foundation Officers and Centralia leaders broke up yesterday amid talk of an of the 18-month-old Kenny clinic one poliomyelitis sufferer said today that efforts were under way to call upon Sistov ny in Australia to help keep open the clinic she L. A. labor leader said attempts were being made to reach Australia through amateur short wave radio but if that failed the telephone would be used to advise Miss Kenny of the Meanwhile a Kenny Foundation spokesman said today three top Kenny officials here yesterday would recommend closure of the George administrator for the Illinois - Kenny said the Kenny Committee probably would not act on the recommendation today or tomorrow in Marvin Executive Dr. E. J. Medical and Harvey Comptroller of the Kenny attended the meeting here They told clinic supporters here they were unable to find Kenny technicians to replace those who wanted to leave the and that employment of pediatric and orthopedic specialists needed to accredit the clinic would be Several contested the Kenny The 65-bed clinic now has 13 It has cared for 81 polio patients who have come from 32 Illinois cities and 11 other A clinic board member said that 15,000 persons in the area had contributed to the he said has been spent at the He said the cost for each patient has averaged a Marines to Take Boys and Women By Associated Press WASHINGTON March 1. - The Marine Corps has suspended March enlistments except for 18-year-olds and a limited number of Recruiting was halted because of increased reenlistments and a cut in strength of the increased from 429 in December to about 600 in Enrollment of volunteers in the Marine Reserve will CUPID HOLDS THE FLOOR IN IDAHO LEGISLATURE By Associated Press March 1-Appropriations and filibusters took a back seat to love in the Idaho House of Representatives The state's business was droning ahead when Rep. E. A. rose on personal the lady from Ada yield to a he Comely Republican Edith a Boise City rose to her She said she would but declared don't know whether I'll answer it or Very deliberately Snow the lady from Ada be willing to marry Miss Miller She sat Some time Miss Miller took the due and serious she accept the proposal of the gentleman from Snow was prompt in Such an ho should be followed by a The lady from Ada and the gentleman from Adams left the House floor for a brief By Associated Pross MIAMI March 1. Louis today formally resigned as heavyweight boxing champion of the He requested and received from the National Boxing Association to sponsor a fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Walcott to determine the new world's The new champion will be crowned at a 15-round fight to be held in Chicago in Louis submitted his formal resignation by letter to NBA Commissioner Abe J. Greene and B. president of The letter of resignation was presented by Harry the Brown publicity LouLs himself was not ' Louis notified the NBA that Arthur M. Wirtz and D. Norris had formed the International It will stage the the heavyweight Louis said he had obtained the signatures of Walcott and Charles for the crown match and that both boxers had agreed to defend their title within 90 days after the June match with either Lee Savold or Gus Second Retirement This is the second time In a year that Louis has the first being under somewhat less formal Before his 25th successful defense of his title against Jersey Joe Walcott in Yankee Stadium last June 25, the Champion said that he was and the fight with Walcott was But on Sept. 17 he said he fight The Twentieth Century Sporting which has acted as promoter for all of has proceeded on the assumption he would defend his title again in Yankee Stadium this exhibition Series Louis has been appearing in a series of exhibitions all over the am certain you know how sorry I must be to let the championship go this Louis said in his letter to have held it for a long time and I won it in the I expected to lose it the same way I won it. This is the way champions should be things have developed so that I think I ought to stick to the decision to retire that I announced time am sending you another letter in more detail just what I plan to do in boxing in the It was best Joe Held Title Longest NEW March 1.-Alabama-born Joe Louis held the world heavyweight championship longer than any other boxer in history and defended it more Louis won the title from James J. Braddock in June 22, 1937. His official resignation today ended a reigh of eleven eight months and seven The only comparable reigns were those of John L. who held the title ten years seven from Feb. 7, 1882 to Sept. 7, 1892, and of James J. who came out of retirement to fight Jack Johnson for the championship just over eleven years after he won it from Bob Jeffries actually held the championship from 1899, until he retired because of lack of competition in 1905. Public opinion forced him to try a comback five years after Johnson had won recognition W Knocked Out Walcott When he knocked out Jewy Joe Walcott in the eleventh round last Louis his title for the 25th who was accustomed to
