Winona Republican-Herald, The (Newspaper) - May 5, 1948, Winona, Minnesota w EATHER Clearing and cooler fair cooler FM IS HERE Opening program p m Thursday Full Leased Wire News Report of The Associated Member of the Audit Bureau of VOLUME 48 NO WINONA MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY EVENING MAY 5 1948 FIVE CENTS PER COPY EIGHTEEN PAGES THE ALSOPS Unity of 3 Forces Hub Of Defense By Alsop Congress seem Increasingly certain to flout th President and Secretary of Forrestal In the matter of the 70 group Air Force But tho point is that tho decision of Con Kress will not settle thing Tho real difficulty only in- directly reflected In the squabble over the correct size of the Air Force Is tho continuing failure of tho services to agree on any unified strategic concept Tho difficulty grows more acute moreover ns tho draws near Tor concerting security plans with tho western European union can production cannot casUy be stretched to provide arms for France Britain and Benelux peace the services is expensively and unsuccessfully brought by Stassen Takes 9 Ohio Delegates balanced investment among naval and ground forces nlr THE SYSTEM of a pistol ror the rat a pistol for tho badger a pistol for tho mole to tho point of being simple-minded but it Is also shockingly costly And It will not bo easy cither to concert security plans with tho Western Union when wo have no fully agreed security plans of our own What then is the real origin of this row which is making a mess of all dc fonse Tho of discord is a simple Who shall hav tho main rolo In striking the knock out With varying degree of reluctance or enthusiasm th services accept two points of doc First another long war woul bring ruin to tho victor as well a to tho vanquished Second the of absolute weapons such as tho atomic bomb makes It able although by no means tain that another war can be shortened by striking an initial knock-out blow It is therefore good gamble to plan on the basis of n minimum security force plus n striking forco which would de- liver for tho knockout blow NAVY that air on land aro rendered insecure by tho Soviet union's huge ground forces Therefore the Navy pleads that planning for tho knockout blow must center around or at least generously provide for the con- struction of gigantic carriers cap- able of launching bombers of con- size and range Each such carrier will cost above 150 million Its supporting task forco will cost ono billion or so more No tactical answer has yot been found for the German long-range high-speed submarine which is the core of Soviet naval strength No weapons yet been devised tc protect tho costly carriers really powerful air attack None th less the investment In the Nava Air firm Is currently almost as grea ns tho investment in tho Air Force Itself Tho Army whose corporate in- aro less endangered than the Navy's takes a position closer Finance Unit Gets Oleo Repealer Vandenberg Ruling Is Reversed By Senate Vote of the oleo tax repeal scored n today as tho Senate voted 47 to 30 to send tho measure to the Senate finance committee The Senate thus reversed the de- of its presiding officer SenV ator Vandenberg The vote was on appeal by tor Fulbright to set aside Vandenberg's ruling that the should be handled by the ture committee Backers of the margarine ure have contended the would havo a better and quicker chance of winning approval if assigned to the finance group However senators on both sides said before the balloting that they did not regard today's vote as an or the bill's final rate Senator is chairman of the finance which now will study the measure In debate before the vote said he had heard rumors that the agricultural committee would hold hearings on He added that dairy in were reported to have 10 witnesses lined up to oppose it He suggested it might never go back irom the committee to the Senate floor for a vote GOP Draft Accord Conference Sought conference of Senate and House Republican ers was proposed today to seek an agreement on defense legislation in- the proposed draft and uni- versal military Senator Taft of Ohio chairman of the Senate committee took the He announced after a meeting of the I will see Speaker Martin and we will try to have a consultation on the As things now stand the Senate armed services committee and the he said there Is no disposition on the part of the rules committee to hold up the draft Allen proposed authorizing 000 a year for a stepped-up ing program pushed by local in their own communities He said veterans organizations and service clubs might be good sponsors The plan would give recruits the option of enlisting for two or three years At the end of their terms the two-year men could claim of each and the strike Truman Still Hopes for Rail Settlement Mediation Chief Reports Collapse Of Negotiations The White House said today that President Truman still hopes for a settlement to avert the threatened railroad year men could get similar House group are working out lf preferred they could sharply different manpower advantage of the educational Representative Leo Allen las come up with a plan to offer bonuses to volunteers and try to get without a draft Allen heads he powerful House rules ee That group has kept a al military training bottled up or nine months Allen brought out his plan day as a substitute for the straight two-year draft revival backed by Chairman Andrews Y of the armed services II this is not received very way to do it loan and other benefits of the Rights In addition the services would be required to accept recruits having a score of 70 or higher in the Army's general classification test This test is to determine adaptability and ity to learn The services now turn down men scoring less than 80 The reaction ol Chairman Gurney D of the Senate armed ices committee to Allen's proposal was prompt and blunt He You cannot buy security If you want to Presidential Press Secretary Charles G Ross said the President holds to that hope despite the col- lapse of efforts to mediate the wage dispute Ross talked with reporters just before Frank Douglass head of the National railway Mediation board began a conference with Presidential Assistant John R Steelman The conference was for Douglass to report on the collapse of at Chicago looking to an agreement between representatives of the railroad brothers and of the carriers This Is How The Site of the future United Nations headquarters on Manhattan's East Side looks today as wreckers proceed with demolition or buildings In background is street bridge tor Irving Ives Y yesterday introduced a in Washington to provide a loan to the ror construction of the quarters to The to that of the Air Force Tho Army demands that ning include provision for offensive effort on tho ground to take and hold nlr bases on the North can coast for example Finally the Air Forco asserts that after war begins the knockout need involve neither powerful naval forces nor even ground forces on nny great scale What are wanted according to tho Air Force are prepared bases sufficiently dis- tant to bo unreachable by enemy for a few weeks at the most From such bases existing aircraft the and can reach tho vitals of the Soviet union pite their hasty production of man Jot fighters Soviet air defenses nro considered decidedly weak ing to deficiencies In warning system etc A few missions getting through successfully can the same destruction of the Soviet vitals that tens of thousands of sorties were needed to accomplish In Japan Tho air bases may then be temporarily lost But once the vitals have been destroyed tho whole organism must grind to iin eventual stop Such arc the conflicting concepts Curiously enough they have roughly reconciled on the lowo even among tho planner of the Joint Chiefs of Staff At th top however tho leaders of th services are so conscious of thi corporate interests they that thero has been no real At Key West there was in- finite bitterness the greatest tension yet nothing much more was than to approve the status quo But since the country has neither the funds nor the resources to allow each vice to Implement Its own to tho full what we get Is simply n compromise Manitoba Town Inundated As Dam Bursts Man A oot fall of water released when a dam at the southern end or Lake burst surged through Ms small western Manitoba town ast night sending residents ror safety Blasts from tho town whistle the community's ents to get out of the path of the ater The swept unchecked or two hours through the heart of ic town before the crest passed No were immediately d but damage was severe Taylor Appeals Alabama Sentence Birmingham con of Senator Glen Taylor CD Idaho for disorderly conduct her last night was headed for highe courts today as a test of the state racial segregation laws The vice-presidential candidate o Henry Wallace's third party wa condemned by Police Judge Oliver Hall as a then fined and costs and given 180 days in Jail Judge Hall however stayed the sentence and placed Taylor on six British Guns Enforcing Holy Land Cease-Fire By tho Associated Press A truce enforced by British guns kept most of the Jews and Arabs In Palestine today from each other's throats The Palestine government said a cease fire order for the quarter of southern Jerusalem had months probation The defense im- mediately filed notice of appeal When notified In ill of Taylor's conviction Wallace com- The sentencing of Glen Taylor makes certain the lon of the Democratic party No Wallace continued can claim to be liberal and still tand for Jim Crow Glen was not violating any law he was upholding he basic law of tho land the Con- of tho United States Threaten Strike Chicago yards the world's largest was wl threatened today by a possible strike I committee result of 400 CIO in a department's refusal to turn pute over wages Frank Monaghan president of Occupy Traffic Signal Calir JP These modern his bride and their four youngsters born one week ago are living rn a traffic signal at a busy inter- section The little family occupies the Go section of the signal and tho peep out from un- der protecting wings now and then to view the exotic light that flashes on and off every 30 seconds Mr and Mrs Sparrow have tlic situation whipped The furnishes the heat the signal arm whips up a- zephyr regularly and the city of furnishes the rent Birds that live In trees are out of date been extended indefinitely Truce negotiations for the entire city con- Outside Tel Aviv the Jews said Arabs struck back at Zval Leumi positions won in The Jewish army Haganah said the Jewish settlement of Naf tall four miles from the Lebanon frontier remained under Officials In Beirut said no Lebanese guns were turned on the village The hills of southern Judea were quiet again after skirmishes A typhoid epidemic threatened Acre where 82 cases were under care The hastily prepared their interim capital at Sarona just out- side Tel Aviv Hebrew leaders were to choose secretly today a name for the little state whose Independence they will proclaim May 16 The United Nations talked of an emergency regime for Palestine veering away from talk of partition upon which Russia and her satel lites insisted The trusteeship In reply to questions Ross said he knows of no tangible evidence that an agreement can be worked out He said that There's still a possibility the proposed strike will be and that the President has not given up hope He added that until the last ute before a strike there Js always a chance for an agreement He said Mr Truman was clinging to that hope At the same time he said he did not look for any important today He did not know whether representatives of the riers and brotherhoods would be called to the White House Cabinet in Belgium Falls Brussels Premier Henri Spaak announced the nation of his coalition government tonight The cabinet had been In office since March 1947 Differences over government subsidies for schools led to a government crisis Spaak told newsmen he had seen the prince regent and that the re- gent would start consultations im- mediately with political leaders with the object of forming a new Government attorneys say President has power to seize the the railroads That would be a step of last resort David B Robertson head of the Brotherhood of Firemen and En- said White House seizure will not settle the wage it will only irritate Jt Provision Seen Doomed Washington A swift test shaped up in Congress today over the idea of putting newsmen in jail for printing confidential tion leaked to them from House or Senate committees A containing that idea may 30 taken up in the House before the end of this week But there appears to be little chance that the provision will stick At least two members Brown and Price they will offer ments to strike out the provision and Speaker Martin old newsmen The press has ng to fear from this Congress The provision is part of a bin rafted by the House expenditures cil for safeguarding Jerusalem said Arabs and Jews finally had agreed a cease-fire order for the old walled city area of Jerusalem rich in holy places of the Christian Arab Jewish and other religions Eisler Deportation Delay Approved Washington Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough today Vets Pace Florida Gubernatorial Initial Primary Jacksonville couple of young World War II veterans who made their marks la politics before the war will face each other to a runoff for governor of Florida They are Dan Mccarty old citrus grower and cattleman or Fort Pierce and Fuller Warren 42 a Jacksonville lawyer They easily outdistanced all others n a field of nine candidates running or the Democratic nomination to yesterday's primary election wins the nomination In the primary May 25 Is certain Marshall Opposes Revising Without Red Secretary of State Marshall said today Russian leaders must be convinced the Soviet union can live side by side in peace with the western powers in the United Nations He made that argument In op- posing any drastic shakeup of the without Russian agreement Such a step Marshall said ably would destroy the tion and mean setting up rival Togliatti Blames Catholic Bloc For Red Defeat Rome Communist Chief Togliatti said today the in- of Catholic Action in the recent Italian elections was the No 1 cause of the communist defeat Togliatti listed three most ant factors After Catholic Action hey The emergence of the Socialist Unity party Moderate who won third place in the elections and the loss of more than a million left-wing votes when com- pared with election returns of June 1946 Togliatti's summary presented to the central committee or the Com- munist was reprinted to the communist party organ The intervention of Catholic he said was a propelling and directing force for the reactionary coalition It was Catholic with bishops at the center parish priests and the whole ecclesiastical was the sinew of the capillary Christian Democrat Taf t Leads In 14 Other Contests 30 Remaining Delegate Seats Uncontested Columbus last-minute swing of vote tabulations in Akron today cut to 14 Senator Robert A probable delegate total In the ballot battle over Ohio's 23 con- tested presidential votes After trailing earlier a Stassen man climbed into the lead over 8 Tart delegate with only four pre- missing in yesterday's mary returns from the 14th con- gressional district which includes Akron Stassen already hod one delegate place there among six tain to be in Ms corner He was leading in three other races for a possible total of nine On nearly complete returns had 11 delegates safely to his camp His men led in three other races TaTt predicted in Washington that he will go into the phia convention with the backing of 45 of the state's 53 delegates That figure includes the 30 he col- automatically when Stassen failed enter candidates against them Stassen Trails Returns from of the state's polling places in the wide contest Ed D Schorr Tart candidate and rington T Marshall Stassen porter On the basis of the incomplete returns Tart apparently had elected two delegates each in the sixth seventh 18th coal and Cleveland districts He was credited with electing one delegate to the 22nd Cleveland district Toft's men led one race each in the 14th 20th Cleveland and 22nd districts Stassen apparently won two gate races each in the third ton and 19th Youngstown He was credited with tary alliances Marshall appeared before the from the United States for alleged communist connections Under a preliminary injunction granted by Goldsborough the five persons will have to be given ngs by examiners not connected with the immigration service and prosecuting branches The injunction was sought by Lee Pressman and Joseph Forer neys lor the five It is directed against Attorney General Tom Clark and Watson B Miller chief of the Immigration and bureau cal 44 CIO union said the rank and flic last night unanimously approved a strike if the workers arc not granted a sub- stantial wage increase The or the compromise In turn other essential efforts Not nearly enough has been done for example to secure use of the crescent of air bases reaching from to Karachi which are now the most important in the world find this is because the services do not speak to the State Department with a strong united voice Congress has at least recognized by tion tho significance of the out blow and the need or a strong air forco for this purpose But genuine unification has not come yot La Crosse Dairy Head Succumbs La Crosse WIs Ralph W Page president of the Dolly Madison Dairies died here yesterday Page who managed the concern ho ed was active In civic and fraternal organizations here He is survived by his widow over to tho un-American activities committee data It wanted for a loyalty investigation Muscular Take in Coins New York got away with a haul here but thoy had to do it the hard way The robbers cracked a vending machine company's safe scooped out the struggled away The was in nickels dimes and quarters weighing 375 pounds They loft behind an also In small coins and 320 pounds to Florida outnumber the Re- publicans 14 to one With 793 of the state's pre- reported McCarty had 132 votes to Warren's ren generally had been looked upon as the leading man to the The vacation show hero in Los Angeles has demonstrating the latest in been auto mobiles the convertible model Just imagine all you have to do is push a button and the inside of your car becomes your Toss Out Lewis Asks Courts L Lewis today asked a federal court to toss out a plea by soft coal operators for an order blocking pension payments retired miners The order was sought by Ezra Van lorn a trustee of the miner's welfare and retirement fund and Senator Styles Bridges Lewis attorneys today asked the federal district court to throw out the Van Horn petition The United Mine Workers chiei said Van Horn as a trustee went into the court with unclean hands He contended that after months of negotiations Van Horn had offered no plan for setting up n pension H are the other trustees j system as provided under the works Van Horn asked for an injunction bar pension ments under a compromise plan by Lewis and Bridges but by Van Horn The agreement d the recent strike to the soft coal elds contract or last July That contract expires June 30 Steps have been taken by Lewis and Bridges to put into effect the com- promise pension plan with an initial from the welfare rund The fund Is financed with a ten cents a ton royalty on coal I can see now In the future when you stop at a gas station the attendant will ask you Gas change your Leads in Alabama Birmingham JP Alabama today apparently made tain that President Truman cannot et this state's 11 electoral votes for another term Whether any other regular cratic nominee would get those votes House foreign affairs committee which is considering proposals for reorganizing the with or out Russian cooperation He said that what the world needs today is not new structures for peace but better use of the which already exists His testimony amounted to a plea to Congress not to demand a major shakeup in order to express its im- patience with the present and its objections to Russian conduct Lawmakers have complained about Russia's frequent use of the big power veto Marshall cautioned that the could be destroyed by radical changes He warned too against tog with the big power veto In the 290 Aliens to Enter U S for Field Work San Antonio Texas The Naturalization and Immigration service said yesterday that 290 aliens will enter the United States tonight at Laredo Texas for work in Wisconsin and Michigan William A district tor said the men first will work to asparagus fields of north central Illinois then help with the cherry harvest in northern Michigan and help cultivate peas and corn at Beaver Dam Wls Weather world organization Answering a question by Chiperfield the secretary A two-thirds rule is all right in a democracy But when it comes to the use of power aggressively in a military have about 40 per cent or the power we've got to be very careful as to what the can people are committing selves to That involves the use of the veto FEDERAL FORECASTS Winona and Clearing and a little cooler tonight lowest 46 Thursday generally fair and cooler highest in the afternoon 65 cloudy tonight and Thursday Cooler tonight cloudy north and cloudy south with showers Wallace Assails Racial Bans southeast and extreme south night Cooler north Thursday ly cloudy and cooler Showers southeast and extreme south to forenoon LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m Maximum 71 minimum 50 noon 62 precipitation 12 sun sets night at sun rises tomorrow at TEMPERATURES ELSEWHERE Max Min Peoria III Henry A bans an complete returns from party ono delegate victory to the ninth ledo and 14th district The former Minnesota governor's men led to one race In the ninth and one to the 20th Can Hit Ten Although Stassen's chance to cap- ture a majority of the delegation had almost faded out of the ture he still had a chance to reach ihc ten which most politicians said lie would have to get to call his Ohio invasion a success Taft fighting to keep alive his lopes to corral the Republican nomination demonstrated widespread strength to Ills home state Although he got the small end of the ballot to many of the In- centers where Stassen had picked his field he ran well to some of these sections The Ohio senator already had said he would not quit the race even If he took a lacing from Stassen here If he holds Stassen to less ten delegates his friends said the Tart campaign will get a new impetus Democrats elected a gation scheduled to support dent for the presidential Domination and farmers quietly end J J ed an eight-day midwestern cam Naturally all our cars will have four speeds Bob Hope first second third and pleasant dreams And if the driver gets too annoying you can tell her to go take a nap It will be just my luck to get a who sleep Having a bed in They have the right under a state supreme court ruling to vote for any man of their choice They have announced they will not vote for any Democrat who supports the civil rights measures which would change this racial laws Alabama has given its electoral votes to every Democratic nominee since 1872 The outcome of another move to take Alabama from the regular Democratic ranks this one in the delegation to the party convention at was sive In this race a slate of delegates pledged to bolt the convention if a civil rights plank is adopted in the party platform or it Truman is nominated shared top places with tour at a rally In Peoria last night About 600 supporters Of party candidate for president pal Si each to cram themselves into c small hotel ballroom to hear him They donated about to hi new party drive Tor peace an abundance His leaders who estimated the receipts said they had been unable to rent larger halls More than a dozen policemen trolled outside tlic hotel nnd cor- but they reported no ders change a lot of our sleeping habits If you have insomnia instead of counting sheep Jumping over a fence you'll count hot rods Jumping over pedestrians And hitchhikers be fussy Before getting Into your car they won't ask where are you talks group U of W Educator Hits Oleo Repealer Milwaukee A University of the car will going? Just Have you got an inner spring Of course all this can get you nto trouble I took a ride in one of those convertible model ars yesterday and was stopped by cop while going through a hospital one I asked him Going too nd he answered No pajamas oo loud Wisconsin faculty member said last night that repeal of federal margarine taxes would not be in the Interest of consumers dairymen or oleo manufacturers Hugo Sommer told the Wisconsin Dairy Technology society that such an action would set a precedent which would allow any imitation to sell freely within the food law Sommer said Restriction of tations through taxation is not ing food out of needy mouths Such a policy Is needed to protect the consumer Bulletins Washington President Truman told Congress today that interim aid made it possible for the European Recovery cram to build on sure tions Frankfurt Germany A widening of food strikes in the British zone of Germany ened today However a work movement began in the American zone More than were on strike In the bi- zonal area Minneapolis An anti- trust suit charging an optical firm and approximately 100 lists with price fixing agreements was on flic today in federal court in Minneapolis A Bemidji 57 37 27 Denver 40 DCS 53 Duluth 65 39 International Falls 54 42 18 Kansas City 80 Los Angeles 84 59 Miami 83 74 Paul 68 50 31 New Orleans 73 New York 50 05 Seattle 49 Phoenix 57 Washington 53 82 Winnipeg 55 DAILY RIVER BULLETIN Flood Stage Stage Today Change Hutchinson Goes Wet In Record Election inson residents authorised the sale of liquor by a margin of 519 votes in yesterday's election An all-time record vote was cast with ballots counted Dr W L Safer a dentist was elected mayor replacing W B Clay who did not seek re-election men named were Miller and Irving Larson Miss Gertrude mcier was elected city clerk Greek Cabinet Shakeup Seen Athens Informed sources predicted today that Hie Greek inet will be reshuffled when ment meets May 30 and perhaps be- fore Red akc City Reads 12 13 8.3 11.3 7.5 8.1 7.6 8.4 8.1 1 Dam 4 Dam 5 Dam Winona Dam 6 Pool 6 Dakota 8.6 Dam 7 Pool 9.5 Dam 7 7.1 La Crosse 12 8.0 Tributary Streams at Durand 4.0 Buffalo above Alma 2.0 at Dodge 9 Slack at Neillsville 3.5 Hack at a Crosse at W Salem loot at Houston 6.2 RIVER FORECAST From Hastings to 1 In the section from to Lock nd Dam No 10 the Mississippi remain practically stationary ie next 36 hours from St Paul to elow La Crosse there will be a ight fall Smaller tributaries will se but little change Is indicated n the Wisconsin Black and cwa rivers Some Informants said the present coalition government may be to resign Thero has been cism of the government by members of Parliament Who contend it IK not meeting present problems effectively Vice-Premier Constantin head of the Greek Liberal party and Premier talked for an hour last night and told newsmen King Paul would re- them today They said an an- will be made after they are received by the king Under by the Greek press was Costas minister or public order The Greek army has been with civilian has taken He Is n Liberal became acting minister of Justice following the assassination Saturday of Ladas by 1 young man police identified as a member of a communist execution squad From Lamin press dispatches quoting authoritative military sources said the Greek army sive was virtually ended In tile Rou meli region with the bulk of la forces wiped out
