oublication, continued cool tonight and Sunday. until one o'clock on dav of JOURNAL-GAZETTE TE ILLINOIS: Increasingly cloudy and WANT ADS WEATHER DAILY Seventy-Second Year. No. 83 Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. MATTOON, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1946 All Phones 250 Price 5 Cents Warn Big 4 to Stop Side-Stepping Government ent Calls 1945 Corn Loans HARD ISSUES ICTION TAKEN TO RUSH GRAIN FOR STARVING 1946 Wheat Production Expected to Top Billion Bushels BY ROBERT T.
BROWN (L. N. 'S. Staff Correspondent) Washington--Agriculture DepartTrent spokesmen predicted today the all-important 1946 wheat that will be more than a billion els as the government took cop 1's step toward forcing farmers to tot seed grain shipments to famine reas. The Commodity Credit Corporadon sent word to farmers holding overnment loans that they must market their 1945 corn crop 1m- mediately instead of holding it until Sept.
1 when the credits originalwere scheduled to mature. Urges Strong Action. This move was regarded as a vire (tual punitive measure to get grain off the farms and came as Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson declared that there is no way to solve the world food shortage except for the government to step in and take wheat and flour supplies. The C0C's order, effective May 1, affects almost two and a half milion bushels of corn. If the 1946 wheat crop comes up predictions made todav it will mean more than a billion bushels of wheat harvested for the third year row.
This anticipation, like all department forecasts, was based upon verage expectations for weather and losses from plant insects and Usease. Wheat growers were going all out bumper crop with two million mine acres planted than in 1945, the year of the all-time record crop of 1129,000,000 bushels. Climax, Minn The first Ipment of "mercy wheat" for rving Europe, about 26,000 shels, was on its way east by in today on the personal plea of Morello LaGuardia, U. N. R.
R. A. rector, to midwest farmers for pod. LaGuardia, former New York mayor, told 2,500 Minnesota and forth Dakota wheat growers that he U. N.
R. R. A. goal is 110,000,004 ushels for shipment abroad by May LaGuardia said that U. N.
R. R. A. opes to get 50,000,000 bushels out the Red river valley area in the ext 30 days. He was joined in his for aid by Secretary of Agriiture Clinton P.
Anderson. EP. RANKIN IN NEW ITACK ON P. A. C.
BY RAYMOND WILCOVE (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) Rankin, (D) of Mississippi, Washington, D. C.
Representapunced today that he will contest the House of any ember elected with the financial pport of the C. I. O. Political Aca Committee. Rankin declared that "every one be contested." The Mississippian said he would ject- to having P.
A. umbers sworn in for the 80th Conwhich convenes in January on ground that the use of union nds by a candidate constituted a lation of the corrupt practices When it was pointed out'that forAttorney Gen. Francis Biddle ruled that the corrupt pracact did not affect union fineial activities in state convenns or primary elections, Rankin marked: The House is its own judge of will be seated." was the second attack made week on the P. A. C.
by Rankin, said of the C. I. O. political ranization that "I am slated to one of their victims." Earlier, he pounced that he would ask the use un -American activities comtee to investigate the P. A.
C. on ground that it is' a organization." OFFICIAL NOTICE action Mattoon City Councillight saving time was adopted will take effect 12:00 o'clock dnight Sunday, April 28, 1946, ill 12:00 o'clock midnight Sunday, 29, 1946. By order, Mattoon Council. 4-27 NOTICE did Fellows and -Rebekahs will re a covered dish dinner lock Monday evening for families friends in the Odd Fellow hali 4-29 BROTHER OF LOCAL WOMAN DEAD John A. Klein, 69, of Sullivan.
a brother of Mrs. Rosina Sullivan, 2400 Shelby avenue, died Wednesday evening in St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham where he had been a patient a month. He had been ill about two months. Funeral services were held at 9 o'clock today in Shumway.
Burial was in the Catholic cemetery at Shumway. Mr. Klein became seriously 111 while visiting in Mattoon. He frequently visited in this city. He never married.
Surviving besides Mrs. Sullivan are two other sisters, Miss Clara Klein of Terre Haute and Mrs. Anna Heuermann of Effingham; a brother, George Klein of Sullivan, with whom he made his home, and several nieces and nephews. George Ballard, Contractor, Dies at 83 GEORGE B. BALLARD George Benjamin Ballard, 83, a well known retired contractor, died at 4 o'clock today at his home, 1405 Marshall avenue.
In ill health for a year, Mr. Ballard died of a heart attack. Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending the arrival of relatives, but services probably will be held Tuesday afternoon at the First Methodist church. Burial will be in Dodge Grove cemetery. Mr.
Ballard, a contractor and carpenter in Mattoon and vicinity for more than 50 years, was born July 15, 1862, in Rochester, Kent, England, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ballard. He received his education in England, coming to America in 1884 to reside with an uncle, Ben Ballard, in Mason. He later moved to Windsor and in 1890 married Miss Alma E.
Wall. During his career as a contractor he constructed the First Methodist church, the Masonic Temple, Odd Fellow Home, the Catholic church rectory and other large buildings in and near Mattoon. Surviving Mr. Ballard are his wife; three daughters, Mrs. Ar F.
Smith of Mattoon, Mrs. B. W. McClanahan of Columbus, and Mrs. C.
G. Breese of Miami, five grandchildren, George and Jerdan and Nancy Ruth, Houston Joan and Thomas Marion McClanahan; a brother and two sisters, who live in Rochester, Kent, England. Mr. Ballard was a member of the A. M.
blue lodge, the A. F. Masonic Chapter and Commandand the First Methodist church, ery DAVID G. GREER OF LERNA DIES AT 86 Special to The Journal -Gazette 86. -David G.
Greer, a Lerna, Ill. retired farmer, died Friday evening his home in Lerna following an at illness of several years. Funeral services will be held at Sunday afternoon at the 2:30 o'clock church. Burial will be Muddy Lerna Methodist, cemetery. Greer was born April 12, 186C, Mr.
in Franklin, county, Virginia, a son Mrs. Joseph Greer. He of came to Lerna vicinity at the In 1884 he married age of Maggie Parker, who preceded Miss death in February, 1911, and him in 1912, he married Miss in November, Mr. Greer retired Minnie Williams. active farming about 26 year from time he moved ago at which He served as highway comLerna.
Pleasant Grove townmissioner of his wife; two sons; ship several years. and George T. Surviving are Arnold of Decatur Mrs. Miami, a daughter, of of Miami; three grandLulu Gray children and four great a member of the Mr. Greer was Baptist church at This Little Number Made in Mattoon GAR WOOD (Photos for The Journal-Gazette by Walt Ellis) Only a few months ago bulldozers and scrapers were in use as workmen prepared the site of the Gar Wood Industries Inc.
at the east edge of Mattoon. Now the plant in operation and turning out road plant building and other types of equipment. Shown above is the first 520-model scraper produced in the new plant after it was loaded for shipment to a Paris, contractor. The has a capacity of 20 cubic yards and is equipped with six 18x24 tires, weighing 520 pounds each. It will be operated by an Allis-Chalmers tractor (large model) owned by the purchaser.
Gar Wood furnishes the cable control unit for mounting on the tractor. A. OF C. GETS 30 NEW MEMBERS Thirty new members have been enrolled, in the Association of Commerce ranks since the annual membership drive got under way a few days ago, Clyde Kirk, campaign chairman, said today. Goal of the drive is 50 new members, and Mr.
Kirk said that he and his were confident that the be reached before committee, the drive ends on May 1. "If possible, we would like to complete the drive Monday," Mr. Kirk said. "This would give us an opportunity to prepare more thoroughly for the general membership of the 'Association to be held Wednesday evening, May 1, at the Masonic Temple. All new members will be introduced at the meeting." The general meeting will begin at 7:30 o'clock, and will be absolutely informal with an "Information Please" type of program as the feature.
Work of the. Associatior: will be explained and present projects discussed, probably with a panel of members answering questions and problems. U. S. ATTORNEY MAY DEFEND MIHAILOVICH BY WILLIAM UMSTEAD (I.
N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington--Morris L. Ernst, internationally celebrated trial lawyer, was disclosed today to have tentatively agreed to defend Gen. Draja Mihailovich at the Yugoslav guerrilla leader's forthcoming "treason" trial in Belgrade.
Ray Brock, executive chairman of the Committee for a Fair Trial for Mihailovich, announced that Ernst would undertake the role of legal counsel for the Yugoslav general "if the State Department is successful in its efforts to secure admission of all evidence." At the same time, the committee said that informed Washington diplomatic sources had predicted that "the coming week will bring disclosures, from Allied personnel formerly attached to both 'Tito and Mihailovich, which may shock the world into sudden awareness of the big power 'deal' which dropped Yugoslavia and the entire Balkans into the Soviet orbit." TRUMAN STUDIES LABOR SITUATION BY ROBERT G. NIXON (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) With President Truman, on the Truman explored the labor situation today with his top advisers in a new attempt to bring peace to the nation's coal mine industry.
The chief executive, was joined this morning by Reconversion Director John W. Snyder for a weekend conference on the coal strike situation and general reconversion picture. -Snyder motored down from Washington to the marine base at Quantico, to board. the presidential yacht offshore in the Potomac. He will remain aboard for the balance of the President's rest cruise which concludes Sunday afternoon when the Williamsburg returns to Washington.
MOOSE DANCE -Blackwell's orchestra, Saturday, April 27. Admission by receipt oniy, 4-27. ROXAS CONFIDENT OF VICTORY BY PAT M'LAUGHLIN (I. N. S.
Staff Correspondent) Manila--Manuel Roxas reflected his own confidence in his as yet unofficial victory in the Philippine presidential election today by announcing plans to speed rehabilitation the war-torn islands. his, With the total vote nearing the million mark, Roxas held a lead of more than 100,000 over incumbent President Sergio Osmena. Osmena, however, would not publicly concede defeat although his supporters privately held little hope that the President could overtake Roxas. The 54-year-old Roxas did not attempt to hide his enthusiasm and stated that he would like to make a trip to the United States as soon as possible. Vatican Assails Russ Policies in Germany London-(INS) -The Vatican radio charged today that "disease, tion and rape" are rampant in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, and that the area has been "thoroughly plundered." Broadcast in German, the report protested that the zone does not harbor enough priests to help the dying and bury the dead.
It added: "The spiritual need is greatest among men stripped of all property, and girls many of whom have been brutally raped and infected with venereal disease." The Vatican radio, monitored in London, insisted that conditions in the Soviet sphere have created "unspeakable misery among Catholics." It added that mortality "is high," and cited an unidentified eye-witness who said "50 dead is the weekly average in camps accommodating from 2,000 to 4,000." The eyewitness charged that the German press has been barred from mentioning the extent of suffering in the Soviet zone and continued: "The eastern half of the Russian zone has been thoroughly plundered. There are not even seeds for the coming year. There are no doctors to cope with venereal diseases, there are no medicines to be found. "There are cries for help going up from girls and women who are being brutally raped and whose bodily and spiritual health is completely shaken, so that they are unable to give birth to a healthy child." TO INDICT 26 JAPS FOR PLANNING WAR BY FRANK ROBERTSON (I. N.
S. Staf Correspondent) Tokyo -Most reliable high Japanese sources said today that a group of 26 Japanese who once held top political, military and diplomatic posts will be indicted within the next few days for plotting Japan's course of aggressive wars in the Pacific. The list will be headed by Gen. Hideki Tojo, Japan's "Pearl Harbor" premier, and the official announcement of the indictments is expected Monday. The indictments will cover the entire Japanese plan for conquest in the Pacific beginning with the SOcalled "Manchurian incident" in 1931.
In addition to Tojo, five members of his cabinet will be named as war planners. INDIANAPOLIS' COMMANDER GETS BRONZE STAR Washington-(INS) Capt. Charles B. McVay today possessed a Bronze Star medal awarded for 'heroic service" performed several months before his cruiser "Indianapolis" was sunk by a Japanese torpedo. Loss of the "Indianapolis" caused McVay to be court martialed, and he was found guilty of failing to "zig-zag" the ship, at the time of the Jap submarine attack.
But Sec. retary of the Navy Forrestal concurred with a court recommendation for clemency, and no sentence was imposed. The Bronze Star was given McVay for services off Okinawa in the spring of 1945. The "Indianapolis" was sunk July 30, 1945. A navy spokesman explained that subsequent events would have no effect on an award made for a specific action.
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Champaign or -1001 De Witt, Mattoon, 5-3 'ARMY' OF VETS TO MARCH ON SPRINGFIELD Goal Is Special Session of Legislature on Housing Program Springfield, army of World War II veterans prepared to storm the state capital today-their objective, a special session of the legislature to enact 8 four-point housing program. According to Elmer Gertz, chairman of the veterans housing committee, between 230 and 280 persons from Chicago will participate in the drive. Other delegations are expected to join the 20-bus. motorcade from Peoria, Decatur, East St. Louis, Rock Island, Moline and additional Illinois towns.
Gov. Dwight Green has indicated he would try to be present for the meeting, but might not be able to do so because of previous engagements. What They The veterans housing committee and the Ohicago Council of Labor Veterans, headed by John Davidson, are co-sponsoring the march in an effort to obtain: Declaration of a state housing emergency; Easing of the law of eminent domain to enable housing authorities. to condemn vacant land quickly; Appropriation of $20,000,000 for land acquisition, and establishment of a state fund to lend money to veterans; Postponement of the state's 000,000 public works program in favor of housing action. Widely Endorsed.
The march has been endorsed by the A. F. of C. I. American Veterans.
Committee; Amerien Le. gion, Independent Voters of Illnois, Chicago Action Council, Back of the Gold Coast Citizens, Southeastern -Housing Committee, Amvets, and Disabled American War Veterans. It was announced that plans include picketing the governor's mansion. FARMER, 74, TAKES BRIDE OF 16 Houston, Mo -(INS) -T. W.
Sutton, 74, and his 16-year-old bride, the former Vinnie Holden, went about the duties of tending their farm near Houston today. Sutton said: "She's a right good housekeeper, and she's sweet and pleasant." The couple was married Easter Sunday at Sutten's home by Justice of the Peace L. R. Haney. Sutton said the marriage climaxed a twoyear courtship.
Sutton deeded 70 acres of land to Vinnie as a wedding present. He owns more than 800 acres of land in the Missouri Ozarks. He has known Vinnie, a brunette, since net birth. Vinnie's mother, Mrs. Bessie Holden, and an older sister live on an adjoining farm.
The marriage was the third for Sutton, a retired rural school teacher. His first wife died and he was divorced from his second wife about 10 years ago. He is the father of two grown children, a son and a daughter who married and moved from Houston several years ago. TUSCOLAN TO JOIN GRAVES COMMAND IN EUROPE Tuscola, Kennedy, an employe of the Waddington funeral home here, has accepted an appointment from the War Department as embalmer with the American Graves Registration Command in Europe. He will leave for Europe within 30 days and report to Paris, France.
Mr. Kennedy will supervise group transferring the war dead from European battle fields to permanent American cemeteries abroad and the United States. NOTICE NOTICE New store hours, effective Monday, April 29, 1946, until further notice. Due to shortage of beer, our store will open at 7:30 a.m. and close at 6 p.
m. except Saturday, close 10 p. m. 4-27 GEO. A.
KIZER ELKS' FUN FROLIC Monday, April 29, 6:30 p. m. for members and invited guests. Dutch: lunch Speeial entertainment and dancing throughout the evening. 4-29 ISSUES MUST BE FACED Back Seat Driving Peril Uncovered Chicago, -Fireman Vernon Dougherty admitted today that "back seat" driving has its' perils.
Dougherty, a tillerman and rear seat driver on a hook and ladder, found himself going west while the front end was going south in answering an alarm Friday. A cotter pin on his steering wheel came loose, and the rear end which he was driving crashed into several parked cars. Dougherty was not injured. HOPE FOR EARLY VOTE ON BRITISH LOAN DIM BY FRANK B. ALLEN (I.
N. S. Staff Correspondent) Washington--Hope Hope for a vote early next week on the proposed British loan faded today as an army of foes lined up to make lengthy speeches. At the same time, Majority Leader Barkley failed in an effort to get opponents to agree to limiting debate in the hope of clearing away the loan issue before having to act on renewal of the draft act -which expires May 15. Senator Ellender, (D) of Louisiana, said he would speak Monday for three or four hours.
Ellender said that Senator Wheeler, (D) of Montana, plans to follow him and will occupy the floor for at least a day. Others waiting their turn to oppose the three and three-quarter billion dollar loan agreement were Senators Johnson, (D) of Colorado, Langer, (R) of North Dakota, Stewart, (D) of Tennessee, and Johnston, (D) of S. Carolina. Some of those have announced already that they will "speak length," which would mean that debate will continue throughout the week. PETER EDSON INVESTIGATE TRAIN CRASH Naperville, -Four separate but co-ordinated investigations were under way today in the wreck of two fast Burlington line passenger trains at Naperville in which 44 persons were killed and more than 100 injured.
Federal, state, county and railroad officials were seeking to determine responsibility for Thursday's crash which occurred when the Exposition Flyer, traveling at a high rate of speed, plowed into the rear of the standing Advance Flyer. The wreck was termed the worst the middle west has seen in 28 years. Authorities feared that the death toll may be higher as 18 of the 28 injured still in hospitals were in a serious condition. A crew of 150 workmen cleared away wreckage Friday, and it was established that all who had been killed on the scene were identified. Those engaged in the four-way inquiry are State's Attorney Lee Daniels, Coroner Paul Isherwood, and Sheriff John Horstman of DuPage county, and Coroner Victor Peterson of Kane county.
Also participating are the Illinois Commerce Commission and various Burlington railroad agencies. BODY OF CHILD IS FOUND STUFFED IN SUITCASE -Police were checking missing persons bureau record's today in an effort to identify the decomposed body of a small. child found stuffed in a suitcase in the basem*nt of a near north side building. Police said the body, stuffed in a 26x14x10-inch suitcase which was wrapped in an army blanket, answered generally to the description of three-year-eld Linda Jean Rathburn, who disappeared from her home in Kentland, about a vear ago. Senate Bill 1,606 Goes to Clinic; Doctors Want It Sent to Clink BY PETER EDSON (NEA Washington Correspondent) Washington--The panel of four physicians from the American Medical Association, called to Washington for consultation on the condition of Senate Bill 1,606, alias the Wagner Murray Dingell National Health Bill, didn't make too good a diagnosis.
This particular clinic from the A. M. A. doesn't like old Bill S. 1,606 in the first place.
What they recommended was a major operation cut out its heart. If the patient dies, it will apparently be all right with the A. M. A. The advice of competent medical authorities should always be listened to, and the A.
M. A. group, under its president, Dr. R. L.
Sensenich of South Bend, arrived with a whole sheaf of prepared. fever charts in its pill bags. But when Republican Senator Forrest C. Donnell of Missouri, who also does't like S. 'Bill 1,606, asked Dr.
Sensenich to sum up what wrong, the best he could do was come up with a list of symptoms something like this: First, said Dr. Sensenich, there was nothing in the bill which had anything to do with preventive medicine. The spectators in the Senate Trieste and ItalyYugoslav Problems Can't Be Dodged BY KINGSBURY SMITH (I. N. S.
Staff Paris--Diplomatic observers warned today the big four foreign ministers must stop side-stepping tmportant issues and come to hard grips on the disposition of Trieste and the question of the Italy-Yugoslav frontier-or risk failure of their current discussions. Although such matters as Italian reparations could be temporarily shelved by appointment of an investigating commission. it was felt that the future of Trieste must be encountered head-on. That problem already has been studied by a special, commissionwhich was decide upon recommendations and has been referred to. the foreign ministers for decision.
It was expected to be the first item on today's agenda. Byrnes Brings Up Austria. U. S. Secretary of State James Byrnes injected an unexpected issue when he brought up the matter of Austria for action by the ministers.
Byrnes believes all occupational troops should be withdrawn son from Austria. Tied with the Trieste question is the settlement of the entire Venezia Giulia area. Observers in Paris predicted sharp debate on both Adriatic areas. They pointed out that the American, French and British delegations, while not in complete agreement, have been opposed to solutions advocated by Russia. The Soviet Union has steadfastly supported Yugoslavia's demand for Trieste and its adjacent territory.
This view was challenged by partial report submitted by the deputies which said that on the basis of population, Trieste Italian, but commercially its value divided among slavia, Austria and Czechoslovakia as an Adriatic sea outlet. Appointment of a commission to study Italian reparations and agreement on a preamble to a peace treaty with Italy disposed of the first two points of the deputies' list. Other Italian Questions. Once Trieste and the frontier questions are solved, the foreign ministers will be confronted with other equally serious Italian problems. They include: The Dodecanese Islands, the south Tyrol, the French-Italian frontier, Italian colonies in northern Africa, the size of the future Italian navy, disposition of surplus Italian naval units, a proposed Allied inspection and treaty-enforcement commission.
Byrnes was credited in informed circles with having won a major victory in' fofcing the creation of the reparations commission. The move eased at least temporarily the spot raised through Russian insistence that Italy pay $300,000,000, with the Soviets getting one-third, Yugoslavia, Greece and Albania the remainder. WARNS OF DANGERS OF COAL SHORTAGE Education and Labor Committee operating-room, where S. Bill 1,606 was laid out on the table to be opened up, gasped at that a little, because the whole idea of the bill is to find ways to provide more medical care for more people at less average cost. Furthermore, the voluntary health insurance plan which the A.
M. A. recommends as a substitute would, naturally, provide less preventive medicine than compulsory health insurance plan providing regular examination for everyone in the country. Second, Dr. Sensenich said he thought S.
Bill 1,606 would prevent a free choice of his physician by the patient. Well, the bill specifies there shall be free choice by both patient and physician. Any patient would be free to consult any doctor he chose. Any doctor could take or refuse any patient he chose, or could boycott national health insurance patients completely, remaining a private practice physician exclusively. Third, Dr.
Sensenich claimed that under national health plans, medical service would deteriorate. By regimentation of both patients and doctors, it would be standardized at low levels of quality, because (Continued on page two BY PHILLIPS J. PECK(1. N. S.
Staff Correspondent) Washington--Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles warned today that if the soft coal strike continues "much longer," the nation will be "in for some really serious difficulty and trouble." At the same time, Bowles declared that if the mines stay shut down very copper, "they will start everything slowing back." Bowles' remarks were made in an address as bituminous coat operators were enroute back to Washington for a prospective resumption of negotiations in the nationwide out. The operators are scheduled to meet Sunday with Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach, who hopes to reconvene the coal wage talks Monday or Tuesday. John L. Lewis, leader of the 000 striking miners, also is expected back in the capital late today from a three-day anthracite union meeting in Hazelton, Pa. Schwellenbach planned to confer with Lewis in advance of a request to the parties to resume negotiations, suspended April 10 in a deadlock over the union's health, safety and welfare demands.
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