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Show 7-' f 1 1 S Cuts In Public Power Funds I Defended During Senate Meet WASHINGTON. Aug. 18 (U.RX Proposed deep cuts in public power-funds weir defended Monday Mon-day in the senate as protection gainst a socialized electricity industry, in-dustry, and opposed as a monopoly mon-opoly measure favoring private utilities. U . " . . ' ' Sen. Elmer Thomas, D., Okla., supported a senate appropriations committee recommendation to cut southwest - power administration funds along with others be- Vets Account For Half Of Federal Jobs WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 U.R Nearly half of all government workers are war weterans, the ' civil service commission reported today. ' An all-time high of 801,300 persons per-sons 47 per cent of Uncle Sam's 1,030.000 civilian workers Inside the country have veteran preference, pre-ference, according to ,they commission's com-mission's June report; Of those working with veterans veter-ans preference, 70 per cent served serv-ed in World War II. Fourteen per cent of the total are disabled vets. Ex-Marine Nabs Nation's 'Public Enemy Number Y LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18 (U.R) i Escape Artist Earl D. Bircham, 45, the nation's "public enemy " number one," met Ms match here Sunday night in a husky ex- marine, after killing .one- police-: police-: man and critically wounding another. an-other. ' The dangerous criminal was 1 held in jail here along with his comely wife June, 26, after Luther Williams, 37, grabbed him by the throat. Twice Bircham. - aimed his two guns at the marine and pulled the triggers but they failed to fire. A traffic patrol car set the killer on the run after two years of freedom. Bircham wrecked his car In the chase, and fled on foot exchanging shots with the officers of-ficers through the back yards of Louisville. Patrolman., John H. ' Tennyson, 32, was killed by two- bullets that '.stnick him in the. heart and chest. Patrolman John A. Ross was r seriously wounded by two bullets under the heart. Bircham was armed with two , .38 caliber pistols. He refused to i comment on the killing or the movie-like auto chase in which , he wrecked the late-model Packard Pack-ard he Was- driving.' Fred Hallford, special FBI agent, said Bircham is the nation's na-tion's top public enemy. He said circulars reading "Bircham is armed and is considered dangerous" danger-ous" are out for him all over the United States. Mrs Bircham's .picture Is carried alongside that or ner husband on the circular warning that she' carries a small automatic pistol in her purse Former Catholic Priest Marries 1 Double Divorcee BUCKEYE, Ariz., Aug. 16 (U.R) A former Roman Catholic priest , noneymooned today with his Bride, a 34-year-old medical sten- ographer whose first , two mar- riages ended in divorce. . ., Emmett McLoughlin and Mary ' Davis McGovney Manoil were ; j married Saturday, night and left for. honeymoon '"up and down . the-Pacific coast" , McLoughlin. formerly superin- . tendent of St. Monica's hospital in ; ..Phoenix, Ariz., resigned from the t Franciscan order last year after he was censured by the church for smuggling -anti-scorpion bite serum from Mexico in violation of federal law. . His efforts resulted recently in relaxation of regulations on imports im-ports of the serum. ' ," , SHIRT COMPANY FACES SUITX HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 16 (U.R) national shitt company and two ther defehdatils face a $110,000 damage suit brought by Actor Benson Fqng, screen son of Detective. De-tective. Charlie Chan, who charg-1 charg-1 ed he yas portrayed in an ad-' ad-' vertisement as a Chinese laundry-man laundry-man without his consent. . , Fong fileoxsu it Friday against nhe Esslty Shirt Co Inc., Curtis Publishing Cband an advertis ing firm. He charged them with libel,, copyright enfrtngement and invasion of privacy. DIVORCE GRANTED Grayce WarrJajman vs. Arnold Jarman. Plaintiff awarded care ' a ' , il . 1 ana cusvoay 01 inree cnuaren Dy a former marriage, property and a $150 cash settlement. Defen dant awarded care and custody of three minor , children also by a iuiuicr iinrriage. LiEE5G3 CP 0 rmra cause, he said, the money- od- vlously" would be used in a program pro-gram to "nationalize electricity." Proposes Reductions In, a speech prepared fori senate delivery Sen. Robert Kerr, D Okla charged that the proposed reductions would deliver to private priv-ate utilities "control of the public power policy of this government" Kerr attacked the committee proposal that private utilities make contracts with the government govern-ment to haul power , to federal customers. , t "It such contracts were made general," Kerr's speech, said, "the utilities would have a profitable monopoly granted and protected by the federal government and that should never be tolerated." Companies Opposed Kerr said that southwestern power companies were bitterly opposed last year to the so-called ''wheeling" contracts proposed by the committee, but he noted that they supported them this year. "What has happened," Kerr asked, "to the 'unfair and iniquitous iniquit-ous contract' of 1948. which would transform it into the 'lily of the valley' in 1949?" In, a senate speech. Thomas supported the senate appropriations appropria-tions committee's power cuts in the fiscal 1950 Interior department depart-ment money biU. The committee recommended that the senate? increase the bill's ftotal from a house-voted $536,- 461,908 to $590,685,911, but proposed pro-posed knocking out about $13,-000,000 $13,-000,000 in public power facilities in the southwest, California, Idaho Ida-ho and other states. Couples Exchange Mates In Marriage WEST LOS ANGELES. Cal., Aug. 16.(U.Pr-Two young couples involved in a round-robin switch of mates were honeymooning t day after the marriage of Mrs Frances Botsford, 28, to Don May-field, May-field, -27. v. ! 7 The A fornter I Mrs. Mayf leld, Wilma, 20, wed John Bctsford, "h lam urAalr '' v, .cob n , n , The marriage that tied Up loose ends of this was held at the home of Mayfield's mother, Mrs. L. B. Mayfield, with only a few relatives rela-tives and friends attending. The Rotsfords were not present. x The former couples sard they became convinced they were -not properly paired after a number of double dates at square dancing parties. The mutually-agreeablel exchange of mates began when Mrs. Botsford divorced her husband hus-band Aug. 4 at Las Vegas, Nev. Divorce, Marriage Mrs. Mayfield, divorced her husband four days later and imr mediately married Botsford at Las Vegas. . Both mothers will retain cus tody of their children. Jhe new Mrs. Botsford has a 13-rrionth-old daughter, and Mayfield's new wne nas two cniiaren. ; "It's unusual, I guess, but it was for the best ' interests of everyone," Mayfield said. "We're still the best of friends!" f) y ;,w. PORTLAND'S IN THE SWIM 71x9 backstroke is old stuff to Portland .Mason, 8-month-old daughter of actor James Mason Ckd his wife, Pamela Kellino. Portland learned to swim when she only 4 months old. Now she can do a fast crawl (amphibious style) across the 25-foot-wide pool in Beverly Hills. Calif. A GENUINE JEWEL TREASURE CHEST INCLUDED n The beautiful miniature replicas of the large Lane l 0 5 LJLaiU VJ L-Zl J AQ-t "terms; " cm ist ' and other valuables. SEE THEM IN Otf R WINDOWS IP .y.iiiii 11 i m, . 1 11 x n .WUt mmw sw?f, V ' - '' Tlyj . ( r y, . ? ' . - 1 ."f i 4. ; (r x yy.yyr- I , : frtT . OX Ji. 1 .4. 1 L wf "i HiJiWiisi ill Helping With Polio Strikes Mrs. Yanderbilt NEW YORK, Aug16 (U.R) Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr., was taken Ao Doctors hospital Monday, apossible victim pf infantile in-fantile paralysis. Mrs. Vanderbilt the fifth wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr, grandson of the railroad tycoon, was stricken at the Vanderbilt's Fifth avenue home late Sunday night. She suffered a partial Daralvisis of the back, neck and leg. She was rushed to the hospital hos-pital at 3 a.m. The Vanderbilts returned Friday Fri-day from Europe where Vanderbilt Vander-bilt had taken several movies which' he intended to use on a lecture tour. The family was looking at a projection of the pictures last evening when Mrs. Vanderbilt was stricken. The Vanderbilts were married Sept. 3, 1948. Mrs. Vanderbilt, the former Patricia Wallace of Los Angeles, was 28 at the time and her husband 50. The hospital said doctors would 5 JVnNIAlTUHE WITH EVERY f CtUAIC .Uti Company, In chests are exact small-scale chests. Ideal for jewelry V4 'I - t v j, 4 yj - "yy'zr A r HT "- ' i m J Helping With the Sniffles. . A r r : : : Copyright 1 949, T lon IS 1 the Dishes. Plot Revealed To Assassinate Tito ROME,' Aug. 16 Jto& Several Italian newspapers report from Trieste that cominform agents plotted to kill Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia late last month. The, reports said, a land mine was placed at the entrance to a shipyard iiy Pola which Tito was scheduled to visit on July 20. Pola is a port city on the Istrian peninsula which Yugoslavia received re-ceived from Italy under the peace treaty. The newspaper dispatches said the conspiracy was discovered, in time and that Yugoslav secret police po-lice arrested approximately 30 persons. '. continue to make tests today to determine thexxact nature of Mfs. Vanderbilt's condition. Mrs. Vanderbilt's daughter by a previous .marriage, Annette, 7 was a victim of spinal meningi-tis at the age of 3. The child has almost fully recovered. Loaded for bear or deer. . . here's The big, beautiful j ; '," Ask yourneighborly Kaher-Frxizer 1 1 i r- . : J ' V O t-''- ' ' ' l' 1 -i- -- .l s.. . Relaxing with a beer. HOUSEHOLD 1 ' HANDYMAN - Mickey ' the Monk is a real handyman around the Queens Village, N. Y., home of his owners, own-ers, jockey Johnny Taral and his wife. Besides' helping with ' the dishes and checking the sniffles of Mr. and. Mrs. Taral, Mickey also ogles the pretty girls who pass by the window and makes wolfish noises at them. When his long day's work W done, Mickey relaxes at home with a glass of beer. Rehabilitation For Disabled Miners Planned SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 116 (U.R) The Utah state Industrial commission today will initiate Its hew, rehabilitation program for disabled miners. Eighteen miners sufferingfrom silicosis go before the medical ex amining board . under the new program. Under the new program, If they can prove partial, disability disabil-ity from the disease, they "are en titled to state training with pay for a new occupation. , Under the old system and-law, the only way they could draw compensation of any sort was by proving they were disabled to tally from their mining profes sion. Total disability from all oc cupations will still' hand them the regular compensation. But with partial disability, the occupational training for a differ ent job is compulsory. ' NORTH IDAHO HAS S VIOLENT DEATHS LEWISTON, Aug. 16 (U.R) A boy and two men died in violent accidents over the week-end in northern Idaho." Vernon;Gray, 10, died Saturday in Orofirco hospital of a 22 calibre cali-bre gunshot wound in the ab- or ducks the wor Firtl, open th hold,, . 10 steel .gear, your supplies, yes even your :'''.:.. . ' .. ' :: V J r- - hps most useful car J "" 1 -( s ntT'-e rm rt J -y son ir tin Ah 1 ' '. . - '' ' ' 1 : ' ' ; - -.- .' . ' . ' X i Br$ a tporting prppotitioni get "two cars for the price of one... i t , j and get set for a ivorulerful time! . f ; . J '" ''- .' , ; Get behind that povomrkoutm Thunderhtad ngine, with its gas-saving, hill-taking 7.3-td-l compression ratio. Start out, and count on the Traveler's extra long 123MT wheelbase , to count off the miles without 'short car fatigue. L j oh for a quick change. Down the tail-gate, back goes the seat tools or bolts . . .you've got your none for luxury. Its 10' seats are for performance, for, power, for WorlcStaifed OnWorld's Largest Blimp WASHINGTON, Aug.O?6 (U.ft) Work has been started on a 324-foot 324-foot blimp, the largest one' ever built, the navy announced Monday,, Mon-day,, f . The airship, under construction at the Goodyear Aircraft Corp., Akron, O., is designed primarily to combat snorkel submarines. It also will be sneciallv enuinnod for air-sea rescue work The craft will have a maximum speed of about 73 knots.-weieht 55,000 pounds and carry a Useful load of more than 9,000 pounds. Its 875,000 cubic foot gas bag will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. The M-type World War II blimp, holder of the record for sustained fliglit at 17a hours, car ried only 725,00a cubic feet ; of gas.-. Akron Youth Cops Soap v Box Derby AKRON, O., Aug. 16 (U.R)i-lBe- spectacled, 15-year-old Freddy Derks of Akron was the tpast of the. juvenile sports world today after winning the 12th annual Ail-American Soap Derby Sunday Sun-day at Derby Downs. S Derks carried off first prize of a $5,000 college scholarship nos ing out Donald Klepsch, 14, ot Detroit, and Charles I Muhl, Jr.. of Cleveland, the other two finalists. Newlyweds Jimmy Stewart and Gloria MacLean, honeymoon vis itors to the races, were almost as big attractions as the competitors themselves. . . Stewart told reporters, in the pi ess box that marriage was "fine" and that "we're still in the middle of : our honeymoon. In fact, this is the best part of it." He refused to ask his bride to speak over the radio, however. "One ham in the family is enough," he said. "Besides my wife is mike-shy." WIFE WINS S40.000 FOR SOAP-JINGLE v-TOLEDO, O., Aug. 16 (U.R) A 40-year-old machinist objected to losing $12 overtime pay, Saturday, Sat-urday, but quickly forgot about it when his wife told him she had just won $40,000 iri a national soap-jingle contest. Mrs. Jennie Jaworski, 34, nearly near-ly fainted when officials of the company and Mayor Michael Disalles, of Toledo, came to the door and told of her good fortune. for-tune. . ' : The lucky lady .sagged and nearly dropped to the floor, but a registered .nurse, brought along on such occasions, came to the rescue. . domen. Lee Labersweller, 21, Os burn, was killed at Kellogg on Sunday when " his car hit two tiees. Adam Schmitt, 42, Sand-point, Sand-point, wasj killed Saturday when his tractor; was struck by a pickup truck. . - shod feet of space to bold all your boat. You're loaded for fun.. .so get going! ..' - - goes the hatch, up comes ; In 10 seconds... without using second car. .. second tS six-people wide.' It's loaded for pleasure, prestige. So why don't you sport a Kaiser deale DAILY HERAlD ' -y WE'LL TRY AGAIN-Danlel Y-yf xXv i- . . A 11' wanU to become a German citizen; is welcomed home by ha New Hyde Park. N. Y. At left is his mother. Mr. McCarthy, and on the right his sister, Joan, McCarthy, wfet sent bonie from Germaoy by V. S. military autboritiM. plans to save' his money and have crermany as a legal immigrant. we land and its 102-Year Old Civil Var Veteran Wants Crack at GAR Comrhander Post LpNG BEACH, Cal., Aug. 1 (U.R) Peppery 102-year-old Charles L. Chappel fervently hoped today that he "would be named national commander-in-chief of the Grand 'Army of the Republic even if he serves for only . a few minutes before the GAR disbands forever this year. Now senior vice-commander, Chappel normaly would be promoted pro-moted to succeed commander Theodore Penland, 100, of Portland, Port-land, Ore., when the few remaining remain-ing boys in blue gather for their 83rd and final encampment at Indianapolis on Aug. 28. But because' the GAR is making this its last . meeting, Chappel fears there will be no election. ' "Penland wants to be the last commander-in-chief; he won't give up the office," Chappel said mournfully. "I sure would like to be commander com-mander the last 15 minutes of my life.'; Only five of the 17 surviving members. of the GAR plan to attend at-tend this year's 'final encampment. They constitute perhaps the most famous "last man club in the world. Chappel vowed he was ''going to the encampment or bust in the attempt" despite; the fact that he recently spent several days in the navy hospital here after fainting in his yard. He denied that he fell from a noah iraa urVkilA rtiflrincr fruit' "I didn't even climb the tree,"! he snorted. "It was hot and I must , Traveler t 'M"::.y - : r ' - ' - ' v- - : ' .- .J - - " " ' 'X Tuesday, August 16, 1949 rv r h McCarthy, center, the as-GI another try his fifth' arf issHi ii He is simply "fasdaated' people, he says. have fainted while coiling up Mm . garden Hose." i ; . For the first time, the be-medal , ed campaigner will have an at- . tenant when he travels to th encampment. Elmer Wohlgemuth, World War II veteran and part -commander of the Sons of Union -Veterans of Long Beach will fly with him 4o ' Indianapolis M ' Aug. 27. Born in Nw York stata July 7, 1847, Chappel enlisted Aug. 21, 1864, in the 10th -New York ta- fantry and was - at' Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant. 1 When a speaker recently ra- ferred to "Appomattox court I house,' .Chappel rasped out: "Wasnt any courthouse. Court house had burned down." ? And at a city-wld party on hig 100th biilthday.A'he acknowledged praises from civic leaders with' terse: 'l' haven't4 heard damn word any of you said." HORSE PROVES TOUGHER , FORT WORTH, Tex. (U.W A runaway" horse and wagon, collided' col-lided' with a parking meter here. The meter had to be replaced; the horse was unhurt. . X: y Ui UI(-1A11II UUU PUN I '....' , ' V v. t- ' .' : ' '. ' fell : ' ) |