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me VOL. LXXXV No. 132 ESTABLISHED 1876 BUTTE, MONTANA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1948 HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Invites acAs miir Finns Agree to Discuss Soviet Pact Senate to Cut Shipments for Russia Industrial Goods lb Be Held for ERP Program Call; Truman ran for Democrats to Kim III General Accept Soviet-Marked Planes Fire on Air Liner Chennault Firm's Transport in China Attacked SHANGHAI, Tuesday, March 9. (p) two P-39 fighter planes with Russian markings fired on a Chennault commercial transport plane carrying 32 passengers from Mukden Monday but ob- Not Seek 4 Announcement Is Regarded as Go-Ahead Signal for Friends in U. S.

to Inaugurate Campaign in Primaries LOOKING FOR MOUNTAIN IN CHINA This group of aerial explorers, headed by Milton Reynolds, fountain pen manufacturer from Chicago, has arrived in China to begin flight mapping of terrain in the search for a peak higher than Mount Everest in the Himalayas. Front, left to right Capt. Bill Odom, pilot; Reynolds; Co-Pilot Carol Sallee and Richard Goldwaith; rear, Grant Ross, Prof. Walter McKay and Edward Lear from Boston museum. Would but Post which I might be called by the American people." His announcement was regarded here as a go-ahead signal for the MacArthur campaign in the United States, which in the past has been given no direct encouragement from the general himself.

Some observers! TOKYO, Tuesday, March 9. (IP) Gen. MacArthur said Tuesday he would accept the presidency "If called by the American people," but would not actively seek it. In a special statement commenting upon Wisconsin petitions filed in his behalf, the supreme commander for the Allied powers said: "While it seems unnecessary for me to repeat that I do not actively cpf.lr i 1 1 1 qnu i anrl li ti III', nr la-ivintr vnv nivii in lanan toiviously were not trying to hit I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to which I might WASHINGTON, March 8 (U.R) The Senate Monday voted to reduce sharply the shipment of American industrial goods to Russia and her satellites. The action, viewed as a direct slap at the Soviet Union, came without dissent during debate on the European recovery plan shortly after Sen.

Kenneth McKellar (D-Tenn.) urged the United States to use force if necessary to prevent Communist seizure of more European nations. The vote was on an amendment to the ERP bill sponsored by Sen. William P. Knowland Senate President Arthur H. Vanden-berg gave it his blessing.

It would embargo all United States exports to Russia and her satellites of goods needed to fill ERP requirements. Knowland said it would affect many products now shipped to Russia and which he maintains are being used to build up the Soviet war machine. Some scarce goods could, however, still be sent to Russia if authorized by the secretary of commerce as a means of securing vital chrome and manganese which this nation must have to make steel. The Senate approved another Knowland amendment requiring shipment of 50 per cent of ERP goods to Europe in American ships if they are available at current market prices. At the same time the first GOP "revisionist" amendment, sponsored by Sen.

Joseph H. Ball (R-Minn.) was defeated 53 to 19. It would have made countries receiving ERP aid promise to set up exchange rates reflecting the purchasing power of their money. Vandenberg opposed it on the grounds it was already provided in the bill. McKellar, 79-year-old former Senate president, told the Senate that the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia and pressure on Finland had caused him to reverse his opposition to ERP.

Russia, he said, should be put on notice that "if she tries to take over any more European territory we are at the service of these nations and will help them maintain their individuality and their independence." Alleged Kidnaper Wanted in Montana Arrested Claude Henry Wiltrout, 27, accused kidnaper of James Wilbur Osborne, son of the mayor of Glendive, last Sept. 1, was apprehended Monday in Sunnyside, Soviets Charge U. S. Is Leader in Plot to Split Europe Moscow Says Western Powers Are Trying to Restore German Nation With View of Threatening Russia Later MOSCOW, March 8. (IP) Russia charged Monday night that the United States is leading a western power plot to split Europe and build up military might in Germany "with the purpose of aggression against the USSR." A Soviet note to the United States, Britain and France charge that in the attempt to carry out the plot, the major western powers are trying deliberately to liquidate the four-power council of foreign ministers.

said it showed he has decided hejhe take himself out of the presi- 'V The note rejected a British re ply to a Soviet protest that the three power conference in London on Germany's future violated the Potsdam agreement. Russian authorities said the note was delivered Saturday to the governments of the western powers. It was made public Monday at a news conference. It accused the western allies of "paralyzing" the allied control council in Germany. It added that the British and Americans merged their zones in western Germany (Continued on Page 3, Col.

5) Negotiations Will Be Held in Russian Capital HELSINKI, March 8. P) Finland decided Mondav to begin negotiations for aj friendship and military pactj with Russia a step which! may bind this northern nation to the Soviet bloc. The decision climaxed twoj weeks of careful study of Soviet Prime Minister Stalin's request for such negotiations. The Finnish cabinet acted in a 90-minute session with President Juho Paasikivi. A government announcement said: "The President of the republic today (Monday) in the state council decided to reply in the affirmative to the Soviet government's proposal of entering upon negotiations toward the conclusion of a friendship and assistance agreement and propose that the said negotiations take place in Moscow." Stalin hnri sno-apctoH fViof Moscow or Helsinki be designated as the site for the talks The cabinet will meet again Tuesday to name Finland's representatives.

Press reports said a seven-man delegation will be appointed, drawn from both parliament and the government. A foreign office spokesman told a news conference that Paasikivi's reply to Stalin "might be sent to Moscow Tuesday." Its contents, however, were a closely guarded secret, at least until Helsinki knows that the answer has reached the Russian leader's hand. The spokesman declined to say whether the Finns would attack any conditions or counter -proposals in connection with military provisions of the suggested pact. A majority of the Finnish parliament had favored beginning the talks, but had opposed a military alignment with the Soviet Union on the grounds that a treaty with military clauses would place Finland solidly in Russia's eastern bloc against the west. Of the six parliamentary groups asked by Paasikivi to express an opinion on the subject, only the Communist-dominated popular front had favored concluding a military agreement with Russia.

The final decision to open negotiations rested with Paasikivi. One highly placed official said the cabinet preferred Moscow as the site for th talks "for security reasons." If a Russian delegation came to Helsinki very elaborafe precautions and preparations would have to be made, he said. pathology in the pictures, the woman "should" have been suffering hyper sensitivity of the nervous system. Persons so afflicted, he stated, should suffer abnormal pain from blows. "Even sounds are painful to many," he stated.

Recalled to the witness stand, Mrs. Cole stated that her head has never stopped aching since Cole struck the first blow Feb. 6. She was asked by her counsel if she had ever been known as "Bobby Watson" and she answered "No, never." She stated that Cole "called me Babe whenever he wanted to talk to me." Under cross examination, Mrs. Cole said that she considered the.

date of her marriage to Cole as June 5, 1945, and that she was not married to anyone else at the time. Her counsel objected to the question, "How many times were you married before," and the objection was sustained by Judge Downey. At that point in the examination, the attempt at impeachment was made and the preliminary hearing conducted. Virtually the entire morning ses-(Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) I .3.

J. 4 President Is Ready if nominated Hurls Challenge to Party's Rebels in Dixie WASHINGTON, March 8. (U.R) President Truman hurled defiance Monday at intra-party efforts to dump him as the Democratic presidential candidate this year and formally announced that he would run. His decision was made known by Democratic Nation al Chairman J. Howard Mc Grath after an hOUT-and-a half White House conference.

McGrath told reporters that the President had authorized him to say that "if he is nominated by the Democratic national convention, he will accept and run." It was a blunt rejection of the growing demands among southern Democrats, hot revolt against Mr- Truman on racial rights, that aeniiai picture. The Dixie rebels have accompanied their demandi with steps toward fighting Mr. Truman for the presidential nomination and withholding from him their states electoral votes if he should be thje nominee despite them. The southerners have been accompanying their demands with the dismal prediction that "Truman can't win" in the face of Henry A. Wallace's third party movement.

McGrath said there was no reference to the Wallace candidacy in his talk with Mr. Truman. In addition to announcing hli candidacy, McGrath said, Mr. Truman also re-affirmed hi position on racial rights, cause of the southern rebellion. The revolt began because Mr.

Truman sent Congress (Continued on Page Col. 1) Vice Presidential Race Looks to New Mexico ALBUQUERQUE, N. March 8. (Tt Retirement of a federal district judge in New Mexico has set off a train of political developments that may extend to the Democratic vice presidential race. United States District Judge Colin Neblett of Santa Fe started the train two weeks ago with Announcement he will retire July 1 because of failing health.

United States Sen. Carl A. Hatch, Clovis, N. Democrat, Monday took himself out of the New Mexico senatorial race to accept appointment to the post "in the event It is offered." Obviously surprised, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson for a second time pocketed a statement on his plans.

He came to his home here to -ddress a cattle growers' meeting. He declined comment on whether he would seek nomination to Hatch's seat or on published rumors he Is considering the vice presidency. Anderson resigned as United (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1) Special Tax Levies CfVinnl wunuu p. Li i 11131101110 jOUQIlt Resolutions calling for special levies for the operation and maintenance of Butte public and high schools and an adult education program for the next school year were adopted Monday night at a meeting of the school trustees of district No.

1. Due to the fact that taxable valuations in the district have been increased by three million dollars in the last year, the trustees pointed out that the special levy for grade school financing have been reduced from 11 to nine and a half mills for the next year. Special levies granted for the high school last year amounting to two mills will remain the same as will the one mill levy for adult education. The matter of special levies will be placed on referendum ballots to be submitted to taxpayers at the coming school election. Approx imately $70,657.06 additional funds will be required for the grade schools and $43,696 for other operations next year, it was stated.

The additional revenue Is approximately the same as was approved last year but the reduction In the levy is made possible by the Increase In taxable Taluatlons, Oscar -Dingman. chairman of the board, pointed out after the adoption of the resolution. Arthur chairman of i (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) Court to Rule on Introduction of Mrs. Cole's Statement as Evidence in Murder Trial Utah, the Montana-Tdaho di visional office of the FBI in Butte announced Monday night.

The arrest was made by Carbon county deputy sheriffs of Price, Utah, who were called Sunday night to Sunnyside to break up a disturb- the airline said Tuesday. Whiting Willauer of the air- line said the attacking planes made five passes at the slow transport, firing each time but missing. He said the transport pilot reported they must have had no intention of hitting it; otherwise they couldn't have missed. The transport was crossing the Gulf of Chihli, south of Russian-occupied Dairen and Port Arthur, Manchuria, at the time. Willauer said all transport planes have been giving the Soviet-garrisoned points "a wide birth," including this one.

It was not off course, he explained. Willauer said the transport's pilot, L. B. Boul of Stockton, an ex-Marine flyer, took pictures of the attacking planes. They were marked with red stars, Willauer said.

Scene of the attack was approximately 120 miles north of Tsing-(Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) Big Powers Ask Britain io Aid on Palestine NEW YORK, March 8. U.R) The United States, Russia, France and China, opening intensive talks on the United Nations' Palestine dilemma, Monday asked Great Britain and United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie to sit in. Meeting informally for an hour and 15 minutes in the Russian delegation's newly-acquired Park avenue mansion, the four powers seemed agreed that their emergency talks would have the widest possible range, including the question of whether Holy land fighting is a threat to peace. But first, the four powers had to get organized, and they agreed quickly to bring in British representatives, at least to 'supply information.

Britain announced it would boycott the talks except to furnish, on request, up-to-date reports on the situation in Palestine. It was expected, however, that Russia and the United States would try to persuade Britain to share responsibility for any big power decision on what to do next about the faltering United Nations program to split the Holy land. Lie, who has warned that the United Nations' prestige would tumble if it failed to solve the Palestine riddle, announced promptly that he would accept the invitation. Both Sides in China Fight for Junction NANKING, March 8. P) Late pro-government Chinese dispatches from Manchuria Monday said the Communists had driven into the strategic railway junction of Sze-pingkai, where hand-to-hand fighting was in progress.

to new and vastly more effective ways of converting matter Into energy. The mesons produced by the cyclotron turned out to be somewhat different than those observed in the cosmic rays, their only previous source. Two kinds of these particles, heavy and light, are produced. Heretofore the particles have been called both mesotrons and Bandit Taken While Waiting for a Ride SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. (U.R) Richard Morris won't depend on public transportation next time he tries a holdup.

The 32-year-old paroled convict was picked up Monday Just 15 minutes after he held up a Marina district grocery store and escaped with $500. He was caught waiting for a streetcar. ance in which Wiltrout was in- volved. Acenrriino- t- infnrmoHnn be called by the American people. The general said he was "deeply I grateful" for the "spontaneous dis- play of friendly confidence" by those who filed his name in the Wisconsin primary next April 6.

In addition to the Wisconsin move in his behalf, Hearst news-1 MacArthur! papers have begun a for America" boom, seeking his nomination as Republican candidate for the presidency. Until his public statement Tuesday, General MacArthur had not committed himself in any way refusing to whether he would accept a nomination. The full text of his statement: "I have been informed that petitions have been filed in Madison signed by many of my fellow citizens of Wisconsin, presenting my name to the electorate for consideration at the primary on April 6. I am deeply grateful for this spontaneous di.splay of friendly con fidence. No man could fail to be profoundly stirred by such a public movement in this hour of momen tous import, national and inter national, temporal and spiritual "While it seems unnecessary for me to repeat that I do not actively seek or covet any office and have no plans for leaving my post in Japan.

I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from accepting any public duty to Mrs. Anna Currie Taken by Death Mrs. Anna M. Currie, president of the Currie Tire service of Butte and widely-known Butt matron, died Monday afternoon in Rochester, where she had been under treatment for a lingering illness A native of Denmark, she had lived here more than 35 years. She was active in the affairs of the tire firm until failing health compelled her retirement.

She had many friends in Butte. Mrs. Currie was a member of Ruth chapter No. 2, Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include her husband.

David Currie, four sons and daughters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. David Currie, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh S.

Currie and Mr. and Mrs. Myron A. Currie, all of Butte, and Mr. and Mrs.

Robert A. Currie nf Salt Lake City; brothers- in-law and sisters, Mr. and Mrs. James Dam- gaard of Manzanola, Colo. Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Hansen of Hollywood i and Miss Enrika Mortensen, 1 in Denmark; Mortensen, of grandchildren. a brother, August Hollywood, and six The son Myron will escort the body to Butte. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Richards funeral home. mesons, the terms being used interchangeably.

Since two kinds now are known the researchers decided to call the cyclotron products mesons. These mesons in turn give rise to lighter secondary mesons which may eventually be called mesotrons. Scientists racing each other to be the first to produce these particles in their laboratories have said that the achievement would be the greatest advance in nuclear research since the discovery of uranium fission. That discovery in 1939 by scientists led to the development of the atom bomb by Americans in 1945. Actual realization that the big atom smashing machine has produced mesons came on the night of Saturday, Feb.

21. Still later it was found that the cyclotron probably had been making these potent par ticles for a year. They had not been detected because of the in adequate means of observation. received by the FBI, the deputy sheriffs at the time thought Wiltrout 's face was familiar. After returning to their office they checked FBI identification records and found a circular ing Wiltrout's picture.

They then returned to Sunnyside and arrested has a good chance of obtaining the nomination even while remaining in Japan. In the past he has avoided all direct comment, saying merely that he would remain in Japan "until my task Is completed," or until caUed away "by extraordinary circumstances." There was no indication in Tues- Continued on Page 2, Col. 5) Congress Group to Confer Today on ERP WASHINGTON, March 8. Senate and House leaders will meet Tuesday in a new effort to speed the $5,300,000,000 European Recovery program through Congress. The meeting was arranged late Monday after Secretary of State Marshall, known to be deeply concerned over Russia's next move in Europe, pleaded in person with the Republican leadership of the House to speed the aid legislation.

Chairman Eaton (R-N. of the House foreign affairs committee said the big question was whether his committee would reverse its decision to package ERP with aid to China, Greece and Turkey all in the same bill. The State department wants ERP adopted separately and quickly. Of ficials say it is badly needed to corn- bat Communist efforts to win con trol ot Italy in or aner me Apia io election. The $5,300,000,000 Senate measure came through its first voting test, meanwhile, with flying colors.

A technical amendment offered by Senator Ball one of a group trying to whittle the sum to around $4,000,000,000, was defeated, 53 to 19, after Chairman Vandenberg of the foreign relations committee opposed it. In related developments: 1. The State department announced it would ask Congress soon to approve a $500,000,000 loan by the I government's Export-Import bank to Latin-American countries. 2. A bill to send in military aid to China was introduced by Rep.

Clason UNRRA Director Lowell W. Brooks and former ambassador to China, u. t-. Gauss, joined the parade of wit nesses declaring that economic aid to China is not enough. Astronomers Find Uranus Satellite AUSTIN, Texas.

March 8. OP) McDonald observatory astronomers have discovered a new satellite to the planet Uranus. At the same time, they announced the green areas of Mars may be low order plants such as mosses of lichens. "The question of animal life is unsettled but it Is extremely improbable that highly developed animals could exist in the rigorous mate of Mars in the absence of a detectable amount of oxygen," said Dr. Gerard P.

Kuiper, director of the observatory. Dr. Kuiper said observations during the last two weeks of February "amply confirmed" preliminary studies of Mars which have been in progress since October. The conclusion was that high order plants, such as those which produce seeds, and the ferns, do not exist. 'Soldier' on Job WASHINGTON, March 8.

(IP) A Senate subcommittee saidMon day there is "widespread abuse of the sick-leave privilege" among federal employes. The report, made by a subcommittee on approprift tions, we made public by Senator Ball (R-Minn.) chairman. School Scribes Here Today for Conference Acting as hosts to 31 Montana schools, members of the Butte high Mountaineer staff will conduct the annual Mining district meeting of the Montana Inter scholastic Editorial association at Butte high school Tuesday. The day's activities begin at 9:30 with registration in the school cafeteria. From 10:15 until 11:30 sectional meetings will occupy the morning hours of the delegates.

After a short recess for lunch, the delegates will reconvene at the school for a business meeting. According to latest figures, 140 delegates will attend the meet, of whom 117 will attend the banquet at the Finlen hotel, which follows the business meeting and tours of various sections of the city. The morning sectional meetings are grouped Into five divisions: "Page Make-up, Planned Not Accidental," discussed by Clayton Maxwell, editorial staff member of the Post-Standard; "Sports, Boys and Girls," by Frank Quinn, sports writer of the Post-Standard; "News Photography," by C. Owen Smithers, commercial photographer; "A Brother B. N.

McMahon, faculty member of 'Boys Central high school, and "Features and Columns," by E. B. Dugan, associate professor of journalism at Montana State university. These clinics are designed to pro-( Continued on Page 5, Col. 3) Weather Forecast BUTTE Cloudy to partly cloudy, with occasional snow and colder Tuesday.

Expected maximuYn next 24 hours, 24. Temperatures last 24 hours At the School of Mines Maximum, 28; minimum, 10. At the Airport Maximum, 24; minimum, 11. MONTANA West of the divide: Cloudy, occasional light snow and colder Tuesday. High, 20 to 30.

East of the divide: Cloudy, increasing snow west Tuesday. High, 10 to 20. WEATHER CHART (By Associated Press) Max. Min. Prec.

Billings 14 9 .05 Belgrade 19 13 .02 Broadus 20 5 .06 Custer 20 8 .02 Cut Bank 71 .01 Dillon 24 10 Drummlnd 25 13 .01 Glasgow 143 Great Falls 10 12 .01 Havre 111 Helena 18 9 Kalispell 26 19 .06 Lewistown 82 .01 Livingston 16 10 .01 Miles City 14 2 .01 Missoula 30 23 Whitehall 18 11 the man Monday afternoon. He was unarmed. The FBI said he admitted his identity. Wiltrout was named in an indictment returned by a federal grand jury here on Oct. 17, 1947, and charged with Violation of the federal kidnaping law and violation of the national motor vehicle theft act.

About two months later a federal indictment was returned against him in Carson City, charging violation of the motor 9 vehicle theft act. Osborne, the Glendive youth was allegedly robbed and kidnaped, on Sept. 1 by Wiltrout and another man. The following day he was able to escape at Graceville, Minn. His 1947 model car was recovered The trial of Marian Elizabeth Cole, accused of murder in the Feb.

6 shooting of her common-law husband, Charles Cole, recessed Monday afternoon on a technical argument as to whether her constitutional rights were violated in the taking of a statement in the county jail following her arrest. The question arose when the state opened cross examination of Mrs. Cole with an attempt to impeach her testimony through use of a transcribed statement. The jury was sent from the courtroom while a preliminary hearing of the purported statement was conducted in an effort by the state to introduce it into the trial records. Judge T.

E. Downey recessed court until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning without making a decision on the defense objection to use of the statement on grounds that it was taken without Mrs. Cole being advised of her constitutional rights. Mrs. Cole, who testified Monday morning that she fired the fatal shot in self defense, was withdrawn from the stand at the opening of the afternoon session while the defense called Dr.

J. L. Mondloch to read Xrrays taken Feb. 6 of her head. The doctor stated that the pictures showed a "depressed fracture," with the bone apparently pushed through and pressing on the brain.

He testified that X-rays further disclosed a thickening of the membranes covering the brain itself and that such an injury would probably cause bleeding into the brain and result in inflammation of the brain. Dr. Mondloch stated that, according to the amount of Court Rules Public Schools Aren't to Teach Religion WASHINGTON, March 8. (JF) The Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional Monday the use of public school systems to help any religious group spread its faith. It upheld a protest by an atheist mother that a system of religious teaching in Champaign, 111.

schools breaks down the wall between church and state. Religion and government, the decision said, "can best work to achieve their lofty aims if each is left free from the other within its respective sphere." in Correll, on Sept. 20. Big California Cyclotron Produces Mesons, Called Great Discovery of Atomic Age The FBI said it was informed that Wiltrout said he had been traveling alone and had arrived in Sunnyside, Utah, three days ago and obtained a job at the Kaiser mine. The United States attorney's of- By RENNIE TAYLOR (Associated Press Science Reporter) BERKELEY, March 8.

Of5) Mesons mighty atomic particles which may lead science into a great new domain of atomic energy have been produced in the laboratory for the first time by the University of California's giant cyclotron. This scientifically exciting achievement was announced Monday by- Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence, cyclotron inventor, Nobel prize winner and key figure in the atom bomb development, and James B. Fisk, research director, for the atomic energy commission.

Although the scientists said no immediate practicable application towards producing atomic energy was in sight they agreed it was "one of the greatest milestones of all times in fundamental atomic research." Eventually it may point the way fice in Billings is expected to seek his return to Montana for trial. Wiltrout was born in Kansas City, on April 20, 1920. According to the FBI he has a prior criminal record in Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada and Wyoming of breaking and entering, robbery and investigation. Hamilton Man Dies in Fire on Farm HAMILTON, March 8. (U.R) Louis Phelan, 56, died in the flames which destroyed his frame home on his farm 18 miles south of here Monday morning.

Sheriff F. O. Burrell removed the body from the debris. It was burned beyond recognition. It was announced that no inquest will be held.

Phelan was a veteran of World War.