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The Weather Colder Tonight; Snow Flurries Cloudy, Cold, Windy Tomorrow Foil Awocfstgd Pran StrHcr Published Daily at 3 :30 P. M. VOLUA1E u m FIVK CENTS SARANAC LAKE. N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 FIVE CENTS m m v* — m §m — m , m m m m m m S p y C a s e D o c u m e n t s J o t o G r a n d J u r y BODYflTwORK FAST; WELLS IS NE X T WITNESS By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 UP) — The House un-American activities committee >s handing a grand jury today what it calls definite and shocKing proof a Red spy network acted in the State depart ment before the war. At the request of the Justice - department, the committee sent one of its investigators. William A. Wheeler, to New York. His mission: To turn over copies of secret papers to a grand jury which has been investigating Communists and espionage for nearly a year and a half. These are papers which the committee sa>e a member of the Communist underground in the State department tunrr.ed over to another member 0.1 the outside for relay to Russian agents. The outside man was W hittak er Cnambers, no.v a Time maga- rine editor who admits he was a courier for the Communist un- derglound i.i Waohingicn before* he Droke with,the Re us in ,1938. i he committee is hanging on —1fl. r -1 of nor fse.t nf copies m thp- 'documents, ior_ use when it starts i.s own spy hearings going again tumor, ^vv—but perhaps be hind cwsed doo*e. liic prints were made from mi crofilms obtained by subpoena from Cnambers last week. At the , time, Chambers had them cached in a nollow pumpkin on his Mary land l'arm. Chambers, has said -these parti cular ^documents never reached the Russians because he got them while he was in the process of splitting with the Reds. Robert E. Stripling, chief in vestigator for the House commit tee, L,aid the hearings starting to morrow would cstauiish who fed the papers to Chambers from the Slate dcpartm-it. rlh e committee regards those hearings as so important that it enlisted the help of the Coast Guard and the Navy to bring one of itu members bactc irom a ship at sea. Pvop. Nixon -<R-Calif> was en route to Panama aboard the S.S. Panama\. A Coast Guard plane ■ flew irom St. Petersburg, Fla., to a dramatic rendezvous at Akiins island, south ot Jamaica. Nixon transferred to the plane, and it flew the 475 miles to Mi ami. There he boarded a Navy transport ior the hop to Wash ington. immediately after hiu arrival last night Nixon went into a hud dle wiin Stripling to go over the uocumems. his tmst reaction was that they are ,‘;so damnably im- portantr-it may not-J?Q possible to make them public. Stripling aiready had shown the papeis to Sumner Wells, for mer und-rsecretary of State, to determine whicn mignt be \too h o t' to oring into the open. 'the lvsun cf the a tripling • Wc.is eonierence was not an nounced, out euxon saiu • Wells m.gi.t oe the lirst witness tomcr- 10 ..—cenina closed uoors—and m a t present State department oi- liCiais also might be called for What the New York grand jury does about the new turn in the cate ic will have to do fast. It gees out of business December 15. So far, ti has Ihdicted 12 Com- ununist party leaders on charges of conspiring to overthrow me U. S. government. Attorney General Clark has said the spy hearings the “un- American activities committee 1 an off last summer - produced nothing the FBI hadn’t known He said there had been no evi dence to w a rrant any prosecu tions for spying. But now the committee has dug up the microfilm*.;. It got the lead on them through ~ a chain of events leading back to the” spy hearings last August. Chambers testu.cd then ifiat waTTone of he mem- B e rlin E le c tion V o te iSaid S tinging D e n ia l O f R u s s ia n Z o n e R u le W H E R E CH IN E S E GOV ERNM E N T MAY MOVE — In event Nanking, seat of China’s N a tionalist governm e n t, falls before advancing Com munist forces, a num b er of other Chin ese cities (underlined) have been suggested as possible cap ital cities. Chinese Navy oper ational headquarters and some 2 r force already have been moved to Formosa. Shading represents area of Com m u n ist control. ERWAY DENIES CENSORSHIP IN ACT ON COMICS ALBANY, Dec. 6 UP) — The Albany county district attorney denies that his threat to prosecute distributors of certain comic books and magazines constitutes censorship. Julian B1 Erway’s denial was made Saturday in a letter an swering a protest from' play wright Elmer Rice. -Last week Erway announced that he had advised wholesalers of —62^ comic books and 23 maga zines that, in his judgement, they were violating the penal law- prohibiting the publication and distribution of lewd and indecent literature. He warned that the “matter will be promptly presented to the courts by this office” if further distribution of the specified pub lications was not stopped. The next day - Rice, who is chairman of the National Council of Freedom From Censorship,* wrote Erway that “such a sweep ing directive constitutes a flag rant exercise of censorship and violates elementary * concepts of civil liberties.” — DEWEY HEDGES ON INCOME TAX INCREASE TALE BERLIN, Dec. 6 UP) — Worn- 1 —-in tfcis land where woman’s place traditionally is in the home —accounted for about 65 per cent of the total vote in yesterday’s whopping ballot demonstration of Berliners against Communism. NEW YORK, Dec. 6 UP) — The New York Times said today that plans to increase the state income tax to the levels of the “normal tax” rates in effect in 1941 “are being seriously consi dered by the Dewey administra tion to finance increasing ' state governmental costs.” At Albany, a pskoesman for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey said “frankly, no agreement has been heacred on the tax pro gram .” He said that any figures used now in regard to state in come tax planning would be “pure speculation.\ The Times story said: “Return to the 1941 ‘normal’ rates w-ould mean an increase of 66 2/3 per cent over the tax paid in -1948. Unless..some alternative is found, the tax rate is sche duled for approval. “The increase would go into ef fect for the tax payment due next April 15, according to the information available. All that would be needed woud be for the Governor and the legislature not to continue the temporary lax cuts that have gone into effect since 1942. - “The increase in the state in come tax would be the second up ward move since 1935, and would produce about $125,000,000 in ad ditional revenues needed to car ry out the program Gov. De.vey has-been outlining in atatements^ since his return to his desk at Albany. \The normal income tax rates in the state are 2 per cent on the first $1,000 of net income, 3 B y DANIEL DE LUCE GBERLTN, Dec. 6 UP)—.X ImaT count showed today blockaded Berliners slapped the Commu nists with 1,330,820 votes, each one a protest against Soviet oc cupation policies. The central election bureau said 86.2 per cent of the eligible voters cast eligible ballots yester day in the three western sectors for the regularly scheduled city elections, which the Communists boycotted. The vote swept the Socialist party into power in the western part o fthe city. Like the Chris tian Democrats and the Liberal Democrats who ran second and third, the Socialists are anti-Com- munist. The final results: Social Democrats (Socialist) >8,100 (64.5 per cent! Christian Democrats (Conser vative)—258,496 (19.4 per cent). •Liberal Democrats (Conserva tive)—214,224 <16.1 per cent). In all, 1,586,090 Germans were eligible to vote in the constitution ally prescribed election in the three sectors under American, British and French control. The Russians refused to conduct or perm it voting in their sector. In voting the western Berliners de fied a variety of threats from the Communists. Although the election ordinal- ily would have been merely a lo cal contest between rival political parties,' the east-west struggle magnified i into a barometerTn- dicating support of Soviet or wes tern policies. Western Berliners, blockaded 100 ,miles behind the iron curtain, per cent on the second $l,(X)0r \went to the polls with the exhor- 4 per cent on the third $1,000, and so on up to 9 per cent the top bracket.” W E S T E R N UNION HEAD DIES NEW YORK, Dec. 6 UP) — Joseph Egan, president of West ern Union, died today of pneumo nia at the American hospital in Paris. Vargas Is Safe in Venezuela; Army Seeks H is Word has been received from Lt, Col MarioaVargas by his nur se, who remains at the- Vargas’ apartment, 80 Park avenue, that he is in Caracas, Venezuela, and that he is “in good health”. Lt. Col Vargas said nothing in his letter about returning to “ Saraftac Lake, tits mn scrstated. He left this village two weeks ago when indications of a revolu tion in his country became ap parent. and novelist, was the first Venez uelan president elected by popu lar vote. Elected a year ago, his government was ousted by a military junta Nov. 24, In the background of the blood- less revolt were “powerful forces HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 6 UP) — Romulo Gallegos, exiled president of Venezuela, blames big business and foreign oil interests for cau sing the military coup which ous ted him. * He arrived here by plane yes terday as a political exile. Galle- ‘ -former—sehool—teacher l a a e Lake^N^ YV -j oined the. Army. land him in this country. His ar- rival was unexpected and there was no one at the airport to meet him. (An Army officer in Caracas said Gallegos was given freedom to go wherever he wanted. The officer denied that any impris- Cabinet had heen maltreated.) The Army had made three de mands of his government, Galle gos said. It’ asked that form er President Romulo Betancourt be deported. (Betancourt is now a refugee in the Colombian Embas sy in Caracas.) The Army asked that Lt. Col. Mario Vargas be kept out of the country. (Vargas was a support er of the Gallegos government but after his return from Sara revolt). The Army’s third re quest was the garrison comman ders be changed. When he rejected these de mands, Gallegos sdid he told Ar my leaders: “My die is cast. You will have to throw me out — CirclesWrec FromMid-Pac BEACHED B-29 FOUND — This B-29 w i t h - 10 men aboard m ade a crash landing 350 miles southw e st of Guam on a beach a t Fais island. No one was injured. Plane left Guam to search for another missing plane which w a s later found. The survivors of the B-29 w e re taken from island by flying boat. The\ downed B- 29 w a s presented to chief of the Fais island natives on prem ise he not “fly it too m u ch.” (A* W irephoto from U. S. Navy) C h in a N a tional A r m y Seen E n c ircled w ith N a n k in g By DOUGLAS LOVELACE J OHNSTOIf ISLAHD, Dec. 6 < AP) — A HaVy plane radioed early today it was circling’ the lardfflB of C-54 transport forced down in the mid-Pacific Sunday with 37 men aboard. -• The search plane, a privateer, messaged that it e n l i (maintain its vigil about three and a half hours/' It did not report how many survivors were at the scene. Engine trouble forced the big transport to ditch at a point about 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu, and about 340 1 stop in the broad Pacific. Carried Group Personnel from Okinawa The C-54 was one of a flight of five en route from Okinawa to Spokane, Wash. It carried a crew of seven and 30 passengers. Col. Thomas L. Wiper, Johns ton island commander who flew near the scene, reported he had seen signals from the water after the pilot of an Air Force search plane had spotted the survivors and dropped a boat. The Air Force pilot radioed first word that* some survivors had been spotted. ~ \Sighted flares.” came the radio message from the search plane. -“Dropped boat. Boat land- ed about 100 yards from suvivors. BULLETIN tation of their leaders to vote for freedom and against Com munism.” The 84 per cent figure of eligi ble voters who cast ballots was doubly significant. Even if all non-voters were Communists— which is not likely—they could not have pulled more than 16 per cent of the total. In 1946 the Com munists polied 19 per cent of the vote. The Soviet military command had'forbidden the election in its sector of Berlin. The Russian set up a “rump” Communist govern ment o f their own in the city last week. E x i l e FUNDS USED TO HELP GREECE A WASTEDEFFORT Chief of Police W illiam W allace w a rned .children today id'* keep off the ice of Lake Flower. “The ice is not safe,” he stated, “and th e r e has already bien a fatality in Lake Placid.” Saranac Lake police o f f ic e r s have already chased a num b e r of children off the edges of Lake J 7lower ice, he *ard, “ If anyone should see som e one go through the ice,” Chief W allace said, “c a l t t h e police and j call the Fire departm e n t because the Fire departm e n t has an em e rgency truck e q u i p p e d w ith boat and resuscitator for drow n ings.” started bade for his tiny island base while other planes were or dered to the spot. (In Honolulu, the _Pacific air. command- said a Navy privateer reported sighting flares on the water about 20 miles from where Stotts had dropped a boat. The Air Force said it was possible it was a second group of sur vivors. > Lt. Charles Basset of Spokane, Wash., reported that the sea was calm in the area and visibility good. He is a navigator aboard a C-54 which returned early to- day from the general area of the Don't know whether they saw it or not. “ ~ _ 1 The pilot, Capt. Allen H. Stotts NANKING, Dec. 6 i.T) The , 0f the Hickam Field., air rescue Chinese Communist radio report- unit, messaged also that his gas cd tonight that Red Forces had!j supply was running low. He completed \an air-tight encircle- j ----------------- — ------------- : ---------------------------- ment” of the Nationalist form e r' SuchOW garrison in the develop ing battle for Nanking. fh e garrison, comprising some ! 110,000 cobat troops in the 16th, I 13th and Second Army Groups, j abandoned Suchow last Wednes day in an effort to reach the trapped government 12th Army Group in the Suhsien sector, abuot 45 miles to the south. j - ----------- If the Communist claim is WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 UP) — true, it means that only the gov- Teachers are regarded by the ernmenttroops on the new H w a i; House Un-American Activities River defense line enjoy free- : committee as \the easiest touch’ TEACHERS EASY PREY FOR REDS IN ‘PRO1 GROUPS MAN HELD FOR AX SLAYING OF WIFE IN ANGER UNADILLA, Dec. 6 i/P>—John Rooney, 52, of nearby Crooker- Tille was held Today for grand jury action on a charge of first degree murder in the axe slaying of his v.ife. Rooney signed a statement ad mitting that he hit his wife, Josephine, 42, with a double bit ted axe during an argument Sat urday, State Police Capt. H. Al len. Gay said. — Rooney waived examination when arraigned before Justice of WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (.?)— the Peace-Joseph Poiomba. He was ordered held in Delaware county jail for grand jury action. Gay quoted Rooney as saying President Truman said today the drive to crush Greece’s Commun ist-backed guerrillas had bogged d u w n .\ = ^ ------- - ------------- ^ He told Congress the Ameri can-advised Greek Army itself was partly to blame for failing to make a “determined effort” against the remaining rebels af ter a series of victories last sum- me^. As a result, Mr. Truman said, Greek morale has sagged and an earlier “encouraging prospect\ for eliminating the guerrillas failed to materialize despite the delivery of more than $170,000,- supplies. “A military stalemate\ h a r 'e n sued which has prolonged the struggle,” the Chief Executive said in a letter transmitting a new report to Congress on the two-year, $625,000,000 Greek-Tur- search. Basset's plane was one of five in the flight in which the downed plane participated. Stotts did not report how many survivors he could see. However, it was known*that the C-54 car ried 8 seven-man rafts and two five-man rafts equipped with radios, rations and flares. Stotts placed the scene at about 52 miles southwest of th e point W here the transport reported it was ditching because of engine troubie — about 1,000 miles I southwest of Honolulu and about 1340 miles southwest of Johnston island. Stott’s plane was one of 12 long range Air Force and Navy- planes which searched crver 2,000 square miies of ocean throughout Sun day, and until -9:35 p. r m, last nigt <2:35 a. m„ Monday, Eastern- Standard time). When first word of flares reached Honolulu. Four Navy ships were speeding forced, draft toward the dom of movement in the region.: for Communists of all profession- The_line.was set up recently 100 al people. miles northeast of Nanking, but Reds and fellow travelers, the is manned by relatively interior j committee says, have dug in as ! under troops. . ^ ■ teachers in public, private a n d ; position. Foreign military observers j church schools to the point of be- j The Air Force radio at this tiny said the Suchow troops — larg-, ing _‘W-deadlv danger.” ; fueling base received these last est government force in all E a s t ; The committee got out a pam- ■ messages from the plane: China — must break through j phlet over the vveek-en on \100! At 3:25 a. rn. Johnston island the Reds or face probably annihi-’ things you should know about i time *9:25 a. m.. Eastern Stand- lation. Having destroyed huge Communism and education.” It j ard time*: \Number one engine supply depots in the evacuation ! is another in the question and \feathered. Having little trouble.” of Suchow,The troops are carry-, answer series on Reds in such. At 3:35 s. m.: \Just last act ing only limited supplies. j fields as in religion, labor andpotherr Descending to 5.000 fret. The immediate future of Chi-) government. j'N o rm al cruising altitude was ang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist gov- The pamphlet Sials that: 17.000 feet.* 7 - ernment is regarded as hanging 1 . An estimated 800 American.!' At 4:05 a. m.: \Ditching.” Communists have been trained in j It went dou r, a* 4:05 a. m. ’he Lenin school in Moscow — : Johnston island radio operators Following the evacuation of The highest college of Comm un-said the big pUne’s radio * key Suchow last Wednesday, govern- j ism — in spying, bomb-making, ] apparently had bren locked in ment forces spearheaded by the kidnaping, train wrecking, mut- position after the last message 16th and crack-Second' Army iny, civil war, sabotage, infiltra-1 because its signal was heard un- Groups feinted south and south- tion and factory-wrecking.' 7 :ij_4:14 a. m f r . . . east. The 13th Army group pro-r—-2. \They serve as the high of- tected their rear.- Their current maneuver brings them about 35 miles southwest of Suchow. • Almost directly 10 - their south, seven Red columns have surroun ded t f t e ^ t h Army Group. Hold ing wefl organised positions be tween the Kwei and Fei Rivers. on developments between 100 and 200 miles nothwest of Nankin; ficers of a secret army now be- drilled to overthrow our gov ernment.\ One committee m A: 4:07 a. m.. just t.\o minutes after the \ditching\ message, a Navy patrol cr;:t was under way Johnston lagoon with ber told a reporter there isn’t any nurse and two corpsmen aboard. / real \army.\ that that was j a description way of putting it. 3. Communists run soim schools of their ow country. The commit Tite Skymsster; with a crew of seven, was ferrying 30 passeng ers irom Okinawa to Spokane., t th i s . Wash, our others in the flight, sts 13 ; ail carrying 9Sth . bomb group ment with his wife at their home and he struck her a glancin. blow on the forehead with an axe. When Mrs. Rooney fled through the front door, Rooney- said he followed her and struck her again. He said his wife stag gered a few feet and collapsed in the road. Rooney told police he struck his wife again but did not know’ how many times. A neighbor, Mrs. Anna Dibble. 78. witnessed the attack, Gay said;— — ---- L~ — The Rooneys each had three children by previous marriages. Two of Mrs. Rooney’s children and two of hri children lived with them. the 12 has been supplied by air ; blit’ it -says only these four are personnel peached Johnston, drops from Nanking and Shang- j open now: „ miles southwest of Honolulu. _ ■ - - tiCi'r With Chen Yi's forces massing to block the Suchow armies, ogv- ernment troops moved freely j School. San Francisco School 0 f 'TTTTs :T 'TTud i C Jefferson School of Social Scien ce. New York: California Labor northward from the Hwai River line set up to defend Nanking and occupied Kuchen, eight miles north of Pengpu. Pengpu is about midway between Nanking and Suchow. Considerable speculation was aroused in Nanking as to the ac curacy of Nationalist claim s.that troops from the Central China Pengpu. Neutral military tcrs were skeptical. quar- Bars Are Tended by Owners during Strike tie Pacific Xoith School, Seattle SEARCH FOR LOST PLANE JAMESTOWN. Dec. 6 7? A four-state search today for - a miss;: which The Navy s?id the PC 1141, a 173-foot patrol boat from Johrts- Seat-: ton. should -arrive ar the position Labor: by 6 . a. m.. today *11 a. m., E. iS. T. 1 : the cargo -ship Zelima at . j 9 a. m... and the escort carrier Renaova at 11 a. m._ The tanker Pussr npsic also was ordered to pressed the area General - BARRACKS FOR SALE \ Motors executive and two ^ aboard. omen! NEW YORK, Dec. 6 *.P) — j The War Assets administration ing here late Saturday afternoon, j prospective purchasers of the'r.a- It°was piloted ay w .jl Blanchard, j tian’s oldest Army pent-—historic 4S-year-o!d general manager of j Madison barracks, near Water- GM’s aero products division at | twn. N.Y. . . Dayton. Ohio. Passengers were) The 100-acre p a r . established Miss V i v i a n Johnson, -29. and shortly aft^r the W ar of 1812. M iss'R^1,tv rh.mlcs division em- Was declared jsurplus by the ajai of Venezuelan capital lacking in social awareness, and also those of foreign capital, exploiters of dead or as a prisoner.” bcrs of the pre-war Red unde: ground in Washington. Hiss, now president of the Carnegie Endow ment for International Peace and a high State depa r.rr.ent official lor years, defied it emphatically. Cnambers repeated some of his accusations against Hiss on the\ , adio, whore 110 cjngceeuional pro-action covered h-m, and Hiss wrought a libel suit for $75,000 in Baltimore. wealth 1 of- our soitT\ he - said. Since the coup he had been held .prisoner. He was well treated, he said, but other Cab inet members arrested along with him still are in jail \and most of them are being mis treated and tortured,” Gallegos stated. His captors told him he could not go to Cuba where he was of fered asylum, he said. However the pilot of his plane agreed to COMIC BOOK REFORM NEW-AFORK, Dec.- 6 - L ? ) — Appointment of an Advisory com mittee to plan improvement of comic magazines was announced yesterday by Phil Keenan, presi dent of the Association of Com ics magazine publishers. The committee said in a state ment it would make a survey with the purpose of improving the language, appearance, fact ualness, “creating education valu es” and other phases. kish aid program. In Turkey, by contrast, the re port declared the American aid is showing definite results.— f t said “significant progress” has been made toward increasing the fire power and efficiency of the Turkish Army to enable it to continue to resist Communist pressures, and added: 'The Turkish people have tak en advantage of their opportuni ty. Turkey is today working hard to derive maximum benefit from the United States supplies and training.” WALL STREET NEW YORK, Dec. 6 tJP) — The Stock Market opened steady NEW YORK, Dec. 6 UP) The first* of 2.0G0 AFL bartenders Ttnr- -tfti today with higher side, _ , Prices changes \v7iv narrow with a considerable number of leading issues unchanged . Up at the opening for the most part were rails and steels. Mo tors and rubber issues were mix ed. Oils were unchanged to high er. The opening was fairly active w ith a number of blocks of stock changing hands^ ent on strike today, but you could still buy plenty of drinks in Manhattan. Shortly after breakfast, mem bers of local 15. the AFL bar tenders union, began striking 650 East Side neighborhood tav erns over hours and working con ditions. An employer spokesman said bars would remain open, ho\\7 ever, with owners pitching in as bartenders. ployes, both of Dayton. G R A N T J A P S H E A R I N G cy anu bids were avked on it, beginning—lasbNSror: 3. U-AQUTVPTOV Dec 6 i T ' - ' ADJPURNS PAT** ^ £ 3 5 ^ ------- • n S s S p » r t u 'n bv a 5 4 ‘ v « c i J ’\ R17 T h c v n t . todai- -ranted a hoarin- ,o v.vo t«i A * « mb:y voted ><v jTJS: ne?e wartmv ofticiaU* coh.t~«l“ t , adjeum .U vtrted V w d r criminals and «» the of Drp., 11-12 . Ti k and reconvene m New York ot\ fenced n, bo b-.ngod. April. 1.-194?. A L A B A M A S T A N D S F I R M j -7 ----- -------------------- WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 *.T>— MEAT PR ICES GO DOW N' T h e S u p r e m e Cou t today refused j NEW' YORK, Dec, 6 (Jp) — to order Mab ma s presidential j Some m^jor food chains announ- electors to cast their ballots forjeed Joday reductions ia m a il V Prescient Truman. i.Tieat gnces.
