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Show 12 Sunday, January ; 18; 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Snow Blankets Sunny South; Midvost Shivers In the Cold CHICAGO, J an. 17 U.R) Old . Man Winter? slapped his . hand down ? hard on the ; midwest ' to- 1 day, and his icy fingers spread out to tne southeast to prove that once in awhile it isn't true what they say about Dixie.' - ; While Wisconsin and Its neigh- . boring states , watched the mercury mer-cury climb toward the xero mark ' . during -the-. heaf of the day, -. Memphis children ? slipped 'and - ; slid through an llr inch snowfall ' ; the likes of which their parents :, couldn't even remember. - : -J It was fun In Memphis, bnt' , " fa many ether cities families' I ' ' fed their oil stoves sparingly ,- -to conserve dwindling' and . .r non-refillable supplies. "-' $ Gordon, WIs4 had the dubious pleasure -of being the ""coldest - ;cjty. It was reported 54 degrees . below zero, tying the state's all time record. iDanbury," Wis.," felt . the effects of 44 below- tempera tures. Two other cities had mercury mer-cury : readings of 43 below.- and JIayward. Wis., reported- that the .mercury had risen to 30 beloWby President Truman recognized the. fuel crisla with n order that ' -government buildings including 'the White "House should .hold ; their maximum temperatures to 68 degrees during working hours and 60 at ail other times.- - - ; ' The' storm's attack began on a ,' north-south ' line drawrnfrom the . Dakotas to Texas, and then swept; : east; diminishing in 'strength as it reached the CaroUnas. The Florida citrus crop was ex-- ex-- pected to escape, damage. - . 'There were many fatalities . .which could be- blamed directly .on the oold'spell the most se-: se-: vere of. the winter. . Three children burned to death ,.at Danville, -Hi, when ar kitchen stove, i left - burning . through the night, exploded and cut off their escape from a bedroom. - , Pennsylvania was one'- of the hardest states hit, four dying in a fire,, two, from carbon monoxide poisoning, ; four in traffic - acci dents and two while sledding. . '' In - Atlanta, ''. Paul Massey kept his , kerosene stove burning ' so that the converted bus in which' he- and family lived would be warm enough for their sick baby The stove exploded and; Massey died of burns. . ' A mother and her child were burned to death ons the- second floor of ; their Evans ville. - Ind. home ' when a - ladder broke and left: them- at the mercy of the flames. Three .persons ' had, been rescued ;. ' from' the ' fire-trapped room, before . a fourth broke; the ladder ' but was saved. An overheated over-heated stove was blamed for - the fire. - , , An Richmond. Va.. skater wen through thin ice and drowned . in an abandoned gravel pit. .'There was some curtailment of industrial gas and- oil throughout the country, but it was not ex pected to impair production, since most plants would not be oper ating over the week-end. - Among: householders, however. there was to be no week-end-re prieve. At International Falls, Minn., where the fuel situation has been critical -for more than 10- days, destitute families were moving from their homes to pub lic ouudings where arrangements were made to protect them from the 28 below- temperatures. Wheeling, w. Va.. officials or dered all amusement places, res taurants, and : bakeries to either shut - down or drastically cut down on their fuel consumption They -also ordered the schools closed! but again .it Was a weekend. Justices Tafto-V Secret' Vote;: . WASHINGTON, - J an.. .17'. U JO---SIx justices of the supreme court voted 'secretly todsjr on 'the .bit terly-contested ' question of the power of courts to, enforce racial restrictions' of ; real estate -coven-: anti. c'. ' ivu- - ; '. ,-: : The- result of thtt"vote---which eventually could, remold .the- nation's na-tion's urban residential pattern' probably, will "not 'be known for months. -" - j ' v - The -court, took under 1 advise ment , yesterday . three cases chal-H lenging covenants in, Washington, Detroit' and St. Louis.- The .Jus tices heard final, arguments from spokesmen tor home owners wno want to keep their neighborhoods "white, and .from attorneys for negro families who.want to move into the restricted ectionsJ--i tttif tima - In'.annrjUneJn' the decision- -for $he. issue- is .far- racial i minorities exist' iri'.. almost everylty in the;natic(nv' and "or the; past 20 'years' court -unanimously ,have enforced " thtla re s'Mrlctions. . . . V.T . Three SistCTi-, CurnsJtoDth DANVILLE. DL, Jan. 1? UJ!) Three, sisters. -live to 13 years old, were' burned- to death today when fire destroyed -their home. i - The dead- -were- daughters of John Morrow Sandra, i' Gladys. 9, and ' Marguerite,. 13. ' . Morrow, jus wife, Hazel, 37. and Oron.- Leo. 8. wevr burned LEMORE. CaU Jan; 17 (U.R)-i-seriouslyt Twaf , other jfJUdren escaped unnurt.: - ''i. v The fire apparently was caused by an overheated kitchen- stove. authorities said. - It .broke -out while the family- slept, and cut off an exit from- one of the bedrooms.' bed-rooms.' . . ' , v I , ' ' I WaihwrightCan'tT See Eisenhower MacArthur Run T r DENVER, JsOl ,17 (U.B Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the hero of Corregidoiv declared today; it would be-a. "mistake - for Gen. Douglas .- MacArthuf v or Gen. D wight Eisenhower to campaign for. the presidency, k v';. . A Wainwright, retired; general, who - is visiting in '; Denver, suggested sug-gested that his one-time; commander com-mander and 'the nation's present chief, of staff should be "soldiers first and a politician last In a statement from bis hotel room here, the - general . said.' I can't' help but think it would be a mistake for either man to run for. the, off ice "(presidency)." -X , "History ' has piived, :l Wainwright, Wain-wright, contended, ''that military leaders make .poor presidents. ; A general is a ' soldier . first - and', a politician. last." . ,f , He' pointed out that his theory applied to himself as well, and that : he had "flatly rejected" a Texas bid - to 1 seek . that - state's senatorial seat. WainwrighUsaid: "I told them no.'vAnd -it was a definite,- flat 'no.' I'm a soldier, not a poiti cian."- , - . - h'f. ' The general said 'he did not know if either Eisenhower or MacArthur would accept a presidential presi-dential nomination. Private Plane . Crash Kills Two A prominent Riverdale farmer. Michael ' C. Faulkner, 28. and Faustino Moreno, 3(L. his chief; irrigator, were killed today when Faulkner's four-passenger Bel-, lanca airplane crashed two, miles west of here; . . - RussiansTurni; r Sakhalin Island Into Hugo Dase K 1 1 SHANGHAI Jan. 17 0J.B Chil nese - repatriates from Sakhalin island said today the Russians have turned the. former - Japanese possession into- a' huge .military base maned by ,400,000 troops. 4 , ' Sakhalin v is ; 'across the. Soya Strait from: the northern Japanese home island .of Hikkaido. ?Tbe southern half formerly was Japanese Japa-nese and the "northern half Rus-slan.-.fN-. -.-..... - - The repatriates -held hich feel ings- against the' Russians. . They said they were1 forced to 'Work in slave. .canips: and that some of their number r were executed 'for infractions of rigid behavior rules. EN'I VVLTtik " COMMANDES f ' k, HONOLULV 0.R The Honolulu Hono-lulu Advertiser said today Brig. Gen; David Ocden' has-been se lected island commander of JEni-wetok, JEni-wetok, the . new. atomic proving grouna xor tne armed forces. Dewey R qdyt i 1 FightforGOP Nomination By LYLE C. WILSON . , "7 United Press Staff Correspondent ' WASHINGTON, Jan: : 17 U.R Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of - New Yort, has abandoned hope 'for an other shoo-in presidential nomina tion and Is ready to fight for this year's Republican' prize: H " ' That is generally-held estimate esti-mate here -of the significance of Dewey's Albany; N. Y, statement yesterday that he . is a candidate for president again. Dewey, said he would be' too busy on his Job to' campaign lut would accept the nomination But. heM already has named a three-man "earn. to conduct con-duct his pre'-convention campaign and his own strategy consistently has - been. toward the -nomination target, ,.. - . -' , - ? Dewey's smashing 1648' reelec tion as governor of New' York was- the kickoff of ; his . current presidential . campaign'- and--- all bands here are well aware of that The fact that Dewey now chances his; tactics somewhat to come out is ; an acknowledgment that the man who wins this lime will have to fight for the nomination. There wont be any Cdr aft" in' 1948. ,1 This will be Dewey'i third shot at the White House.' He lost the 1940 nomination to the late Wen dell L. Willkie. Four years ago he ran away ywun the Republican national - convention : Jn Chicago. He won a first ballot nomination after aU pothers iwithdrewi His principal v opponents v-were Sen. John, W. Bricker.- (R.-O.) A then governor of his state,, and former Gov 'Harold E. Stassen. of Minnesota. Minne-sota. -, - V -. . Times ' have changed ' and this year -the going will be tougher. Stassen - is a candidate again. Bricker ; is - supplanted ' by Sen. Robert ' A. Taft" R,' O.) 2 But the man who has Republicans in a tizzy is Gen Dwight D. Eisenhow er 'There is no certainty that. Ike will run for office but unless he takes himself 6ut of the precon- vention -contest he undoubtedly in the open as a candidate merely will have t some delegates . and 1 - -f - - : - i : r - maybe a lot of them. Ike Is dantv " erous and Dewey knows Jt.. -. ... He" sat happily, in Albany four years ago and let the nomination ' come to him. His cocksure roan-V agers at the Chicago convention -werenot even permitted to came ' Dewey, as a candidate ' until a ' couple of days before the voting began. These tactics drove his op-f -ponents slightly - nuts - and ulti ' mately to withdraw before - the steamroller flattened', them alto4B gether, '' , - .- i " -; .a Dewey's Albany -announcement yesterday wiU ibe 'a'ahot-in-the- - -arm- for his; supporters aU over . the country It should. aid them, . considerably. 1n, beating :off- tha pack , which ; Is ' trying . to brtnx. Dewey - down In a scattering -of ' state presidential preferential prif ' maries. The New.-Yorker still i i reckoned front runner in the con 1 : test.for-the GOP nomination, but he must stretch his legs , to hold a - The United States contains apt. proximately 47,600 post offices.; 4 : 1 . f PR0V0 CITIZENS BENEFIMiY ELECTRIC POWER 1 Better equipped schools and mere opportunities 'for your children through 'the money the electric utility util-ity contributes annually to Prove schools. .1 1 4 : A poy roll of nearly $145,000 annually is spent in rovo by S7 regular utility employes. CIS tnleresfs ire hel lre th dry fSMral fund Which , -vcolved eateklmatetv Jt3S.e00 H frent the elocffW Utility in 94. m 1 I - arr ..... . . f Merchants... business men -Ml H 1 I J 'V-;V; -V - . . . an citizens! AH of l f t t' l them profit from the $12,000 f j ! 8 , monthly pay roll ef the olec-. f - IWnw . , . - - M ;. . - . . - A . 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