Titusville Herald (Newspaper) - April 20, 1948, Titusville, Pennsylvania WINDY AND WARM Details on Sports Page FOUR CENTS Established June 14 Paper in the Oil Paid Circulation More Than Copies Daily vol 83 NO 263 TITUSVILLE PA TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 20 1948 Published In Pa Birthplace of the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Means Associated the New Coal Strike Looms AntiCommunists Gain r After Lewis Conviction Recaptured Lead of Million Votes O T HP 1 Taken Near Utica T T 1 Sentencing Is Due Third sought in Elections in Italy J In That Vicinity J Several Goal Mining States Severe Punishment n n i u Perhaps Jail Term Keport Renewal of Walkouts For UMW Leader Lewis Is Silent Laivson Convicted By Tho Associated Press WASHINGTON April L Lewis was found guilty of contempt of court today Within a few hours after Judge T Alan Goldsborough had announced his ruling soft coal miners began to show their resentment Some miners in West Virginia Pennsylvania and Alabama didnt show uj for work on the afternoon shift And some night shift workers in Indiana stayed home Among in other areas who did resume their labors there was in that if Lewis should be sent to jail there will be new walkouts among the United Aline Workers The world must wait until tomorrow to learn whether Lewis will get a prison sentence Goldsborough put off sentencing until the next episode of the court room drama at 10 oclock in the morning His words hinted a se vere punishment but he gave no def inite outline of what he will do the second time both Lewis and his United Mine Workers of criminal and civil contempt of court because they didnt promptly obey a court order to cancel a soft coal strike Lewis took the judgment in silence He sat motionless an apparent sug gestion of a sneer on his face as the 70yearold Federal judge spoke ruled that the coal stoppage was indeed a spite the unions that Lewis himself skirted line stopped the strike with code words sent to the miners He put what he called a new principle of as long as a union is functioning a a union it must be held responsible for the mass actions o its members Solemnly said theres a tremendous responsibility on him Words Arc Analyzed He said every lawless element In the thc decent people for the punishment to see whether or not the courts have power to protect this country re their normal way of life Goldsborough said he didnt think expediency ought to determine the penalty His use of this word was important At the other Lewis trial in December Goldsborough said the Resentment Generated By Lewis Conviction Voiced by Diggers By The Preu John Howard Lawson WASHINGTON April John Howard Lawson screen writer for such hits as Smashup and Blockade was convicted today of contempt of Congress His offense he refused to tell the House Committee on unAmerican Activities whether he was or ever had been a Communist No was set for sentencing The penalty could be as much as a SI 000 fine and a year in jail Lawson 53 is the first of ten Hollywood writers and producers u stand trial on the contempt charges The Federal district court jury took two hours and 15 minutes to reach its verdict Two of the three fugitives from the Butler county jail who were sought by one of the largest cordons of State Police ever assembled in this area for a manhunt were recaptured near Utica about 9 oclock last night about a north of where they had abandoned a stolen car about 24 hours earlier The third member was believed by State Police to be surrounded in the nearby woods but there remains a PITTSBURGH April 19 possibility he might have escaped un der cover of darkness numbers of soft coal miners quit the The two captured men were mines tonight in resentment over John fied by State Police as Thomas J L Lewis contempt conviction Manny 19 and Ellsworth Buchanan Reports of renewed walkouts came 20 both of Butler county who were from Pennsylvania West Virginia trial on burglary charges bama Virginia Tennessee and WyThey were returned to Butler shortly after they were taken The third L C Gunter president of the South escapee is Clarence Paul Zarnick 20 ern Appalachian Coal Operators of Butler county He was being elation said most East Tennessee coal held on an auto theft charge mines will be idle tomorrow because of The hunt was localized in the Coch the Lewis conviction ranton area Sunday night after a Miners at the Union Pacific Coal car one of five believed to have been Co mine at Reliance Wyo stalked off stolen by the gang was found on the the job after hearing the news from old Franklin Pike a blacktop road Washington between Cochranton and Utica Its In Indiana the new walkouts spread motor had been left running to 20 scattered mines affecting about Had stoen 1300 workers Nobody would talk There were mutterings among wer known to have stolen gers who did go to work that there at least two pistols making the search will be new walkouts if send John a were set up L to jail over entire area and all cars go TWelve more Alabama coal mines and Meadville yester 3000 men were shut down fay over Route 27 were stopped in at as news of the conviction spread Cerent places The pair through the coal fields when they were The idle mines included the Hamilton shaft of Tennessee Coal Iron Rail Airplanes were used to scour the As Italys Premier Cast Ballot road Co largest in Alabama territory and an attempt was made to vo pits Vesta traU the fellows wth blood vesta 4 of Jones Steel Corp em hounds but this attempt was said Police had Wn rv Reinforcements were brought At the Dawson Mining Co pit n ln f Meadville Warren Harrison county West Virginia only w t Mercer ten of a normal night shift of IsO men reported This handful refused to go the area were cau to work to exercise care during the Preliminary reports from toe Coal time the SUspects were being sought River area of JBoone and Kanawha warnings were put counties in West Virginia indicated few picking up hitchhikers night shift workers in a field which The the operated at about 70 percent capacity Saturday night during the day The rankandfile miner generally expressed resentment over the convic Premier Alcide de antiCommunist forces this morning were leading the vital election for control of Italy by a good margin as an anxious world was awaiting the final results is shown above casting his ballot in Rome Labor Party Considers Ousting Of Some LeftWing Members This was the pointblank comment of Joe Tulak of Library Pa If Lewis is sentenced to jail I think ever man in the union will go out Rev A R Waggett a mine mechanic and parttime minister from Library took this view John Lewis is no more wrong than Moves To Avert Red Revolts By Thc Associated Press Several countries took new steps yesterday to guard the operators The operators broke the thing would be a prison term for against any Communist attempts to contract first Why does the union Lewis but he felt he must consider stir up revolutions within their to take the brunt expediency because thc ers A miner who withheld his name had had urged making a mar These came in the wake of reports this to say tyr of Lewis with a prison sentence to the U S State Department that Sure were plenty mad about what On the other hand Goldsborough Communists were ready to support a the judge did to Lewis today If he said he doesnt think he is allwise revolt in Ecuador now and were try or sends Lewis to jail it will only He invited Assistant Attorney Gener ing to stir up another in Chile for make things worse al Graham Morison to make recom May 1 Surprised miners in the Forstburg tomorrow and added In Bogota the PanAmerican area declared they would stand The Government has access prepared to adopt a of Lewis by staying home to sibly to practical information that the worded resolution condemning We wont take it was their court doesnt have access to national Communism as a threat to the general feeling Department wouldnt security of the western hemisphere Anything can happen remarked The United States Congress heard Sam Caddy president of United Mine a message from President Truman in workers District 30 in Kentucky observance of the 50th anniversary of Cuban independence which said nf The challenge of our time like the 1Te Ol diate reaction to the judges decision one met SQ successfully by those we Tc Divorce Lewis lieutenants like Lewis him honor today tests the mettle of men and their institutions of government LOS ANGELES April Mr Truman did not mention of Upton Close columnist and ial or Soviet Russia by name but commentator was granted a di there was little doubt as to his todav after an in response tO Lewis Orders Oi a inly hf 1 j i j ne property settlement was reached relations as a model lor the world Chp hpr name nf full one sued ner legal name 01 inese orders came a luit week same harmonious relationships Hall nines real the court order was served on Lewis ill c v ii till iji no TYIO ic cnin the of 5 i V name is josei nnii Goldsborough said he had no MrS tOW culty in reaching a decision that de dom and of fendants ignored the court order and criminal were too but he was not emphasize charge of civil contempt designed to make up for A WJT INew Atomic Weapon J TWt Boosts 0utPut Sent Good Wishes To ProCommunist Socialists in Italy Is Given Test On Eniwetok By FRANK CARET Associated Press Science Reporter WASHINGTON April Fourth of Sections Including North Where Reds Have Strong Foothold Favor Opponents BULLETIN ROME Tuesday April A high Christian Democrat official said today that on the basis of early returns Premier Alcide de party appears to have won an absolute majority In both houses of the new Italian Republics first Parliament By The Press ROME Tuesday April returns from more than a fourth of Italys 41647 electoral sections gave the Christian Democrats an advantage of more than a million votes over the Communists today in senatorial con tests In 10992 many in the socalled Red Chris tian Democrats had 3037759 votes to 1951074 for the Communistdominated Popular Front The antiCommunist Socialist unity group in a few instances combined with Republicans for the same sena candidate got 659019 votes Combined with the Christian Democrat vote that gave antiCommunist forces a good lead As the unofficial vote mounted the antiCommunist parties steadily wid ened their margin over the combine of Palmiro Com and leftist Socialists The elections held Sunday and yes to fill seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies were watched all over the world as a symbol of the po struggle between East and West The United States has poured more than in rehabilitation aid into Italy and international Commu nism has guided the Italian Commu Communist group in the world outside Russia Milan Margin Two to One Thus far returns from the deputy contests have been received only from Milan where an early showing the Christian Democrats a Of Gasoline By ALTON L BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter By Tho Associated Press LONDON April leftwing lead members of the British Parliament may The popular vote will be reflected al be thrown out of the Labor party be most exactly in the Chamber of Depu cause of a telegram of good wishes they ties because that House is elected by sent to Italys proCommunist Social proportional representation The pres ists a Labor party spokesman said to if continued would mean an has eer tes CHICAGO April A antiCommunist Chamber It was ex Such an action would constitute the that returns in the deputy con ical that Oie output Oi was announced today but whether it or some wholly The Justice breathe a Word of its recommendations in advance All Hands Remain Silent From the coal fields came no first stringent discipline taken against tests a strong flow today by 2o percent was reported to rebels among Labor partys The national vote will fiU the Cham the American Chemical Society majority in the House of Commons bers 574 seats and 237 of the Senates It also yields more fuel oil from The spokesman said Laborite John 356 seats The other 118 Senate seats the same starting amount of crude oil made a vague admission be filled by nomination been unofficial Rw Hichardson F B Johnson he sponsored the Inde From the scattered incomplete fig tion that a guided missile with an and L v Jr of the Esso pendent Socialist Labor mem ures it was impossible to determine atomic warhead might be tested Standard Oil Co Louisiana Division bers of Parliament are alleged to have what party or coalition control of the The Atomic Energy Commission in Baton Rouge signed the telegram There is some Senate will pass There has not yet an announcement said The chemical is a new catalyst doubt if some of them knew What they been a complete listing of the 44 minor has been a test of anatomic which stimulates the cracking or were signing the spokesman added parties in the election at the proving grounds of the breakdown of crude oil into gasoline The Daily Herald organ of the La Only in toe tiny village of Val D atoll in the and fuel oil bor called the incident an es Aosta in the Alps had a candidate ob TI a dangerous to be ignored the necessary 65 percent of the reasons the an combination of milk of maa of the debate said the date of the test and common white sand ItS of Commons accepted for not being announced used in powder firm as a swirling theyd wait until the sentence A classified secret report of the cloud in stream of hot oil appointment of a spe test results is being made to the Joint Afterward it is recovered in virtually Committee on Atomic Energy of the unchanged form and is used repeat edly The commission added One tney reported erB Act of 1946 and Pursuant to ing with other fuels Because of the present ing the test is not permissible at pres crude advantage of higher gas ent and heating oil yields irom the Bernard 80 to investigate the af date of the debate was not fixed If the House approves the motion committee will act as a It will d should b standing committee on parliamentary privilege which has punitive powers S To Woman 42 Heavy Bomb Explodes in Bologna Street BOLOGNA Italy Tuesday April heavy bomb exploded early this morning before a store owned by an active Christian Demo crat worker It was the first reported he said 0 ui uic LK uuu u ims prc case 01 Postelection violence in Italy Quito thp couple s son been disclosed that only the overall gasoline and The blast caused severe damage at trom Quito said the Gox The divorce action alleged cruelty at the heating oil situation the team of MIAMI BEACH Fla April 19W the establishment of Attilio a chemists said MacFadden physical director of the Bologna Civil Cath told an Associated The process has been tested in and candidate for Governor of Action Committee C night attempt an up complaint on an open and notorious Goldsborough said a fine for civil Ml an Uu nn an nnen m iuj ii ivil aspect A Armed forces in Guayaquil the oJe his Press in that that refineries and fullscale Florida today applied for a license to It occurred as early returns m the pt is usually major port were instructed to Bean 24 secretar Wilma meant United tions will be made soon they marry Mrs Jonme Lee 42yearold Chamber Of Deputies voting showed damage done keep an eve on all Communist activities observers said New City interior decorator the Catholic party strongly challeng frr ui icr nf High Court Upholds BURNED contempt would transfer money to the enco MUIK id there were Pa 19 Government but wouldnt salvage the tnf miS trx to st to damage done by the coal strike trouble There is no definite limit to the shut her shut down hei company finally reached him northern circled him here The victim Joseph nf Tho n i n i me ui undesirable Beecham who was a caretaker on the the PractiCal persons who escaped jails in of L B Jones of Altoona was cruel and unusual punishments during Ule recent attemPted dead when firemen from the Malvern In 1946 Goldsborough fined the union but the Supreme Court said this was unusual and cut it to 3700000 Goldsborough fined Lewis as an individual and the Supreme Court upheld this Civil Disobedience Campaign Reported WASHINGTON April Green and Martin Given Posts Of Honor at G 0 P Convention MacFadden who will observe his Communist control of MEDICAL DIRECTOR DIES 80th birthday in August and Mrs Lee often called Italys Kremlin PHILADELPHIA April wall be married Friday friends said Returns from 91 of 267 voting sec J Melvin Smith 69 medical director of MacFadden was divorced Jan 9 tions gave O V the Presbyterian Ministers Fund died 1946 from the former Mary William Popular Front left 32802 Christian o O O in presbyterian hospital after a son whom he married in 1912 They Democrats 27401 Socialist Unity 9 WASHINGTON April brief illness had seven children 922 Republicans 7975 National Bloc right 1353 Italian Social Movement proFascist 1010 National Monarch ists 353 In the only one of Bolognas two Senate races in which the Christian Democrats entered a candidate the two big parties were running neck and neck Returns from 172 of 192 sec tions in the first senatorial college or By The Associated tion votes some of the delegates having Governor Dwight H Green of Illi half a vote and House Speaker Joseph W There are contests for five of the Martin Tr nf trill oof vt vo ground from under southern Demo cratic groups which had sought to bar Negroes from their primaries by op as private clubs outside the legally established election machinery is the effect of a decision not even to hear an appeal from Demo cratic party officials of Richland county S C The decision from which no dissents were noted leaves in full the TOO MUCH DAYLIGHT Interfere With Those Pixies By J M ROBERTS Jr Everyone connected with the dispute AP Foreign Affairs Analyst over the effectiveness of our intelli Ellis M Zacharias retired rear ad Sence in the Bogota case however 704 miral and an expert on military in seems to me to have overlooked one compares American failure point district gave Popular 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tary draft and Reynolds testified choose their Ohio in their competition for tions to the state election was lts business to decide what to do n mat tn support of segregation Rates today to the Republican and presidential delegates 1946 Md under in the of what was known Bogota have make amendments He is chairman of the Democratic national conventions but Taft twice Ohio Republicans rule alone Committee Against Jim Crow in results are expected to give little son candidate has assumed he Military Service and training ana a Indication of trends In thc presidential would have no competition for his TRIPLET SONS ARRIVE member of the New York states 53 delegates But an BUTLER April Marlon even if the department knew just counterintelligence agency avat Qne tme the deputy soviet State Commission 44 Democratic candidates for Jan 25 lie would invade Ohto 26 Butler today gave birth to what wus going to happen As 10S tne Developments provost for Vienna under tcm are unopposed Prank Now with victories in Wisconsin and triplet sons with 16 minutes They for what should have been done for moves to arrest Thc woman was released DIES Hague the states party tender has Nebraska behind him he Is opening a are the first children of Mrs Carver protection in another country except accordingly despite vigorous Soviet objections April given his approval to UK outstanding drive for of the Ohio und her husband 8wil who is accept the assurances of the local Balking about Intelligence American authorities they would Harry mostly tn districts with strong later ated with thc Pittsburgh Auto one guess is as good as abroad likewise carves to make 5u vi ll nM nn tn authorities since the start of the four t up a good argument as to cnfer fo to the power occupation of Vienna whether it would have been wise informants Sources are made scarcer Thc UMd force to remove transfer or postpone the conference Informing more dangerous Every thc Russians from their automobile and
