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DECATUR, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1947. 20 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ENGAGED? Secret Files' Stolen From Los Alamos Atomic Energy Testing Grounds, Senate Told Senate Group Okays Cut in Income Tax Washington. July 9 (API The Senate finance committee approved the four billion dollar tax cut bill today in 43 minutes. The vote was 10 to 3.

with only Democratic Senators Alben Bark-ley 'Ky. Scott Lucas (lib and Tm Cor.r.ally Tex opposing the red whirh would take effect r.ii! Jan, 1. Chinrriian Eugene Milhkiri 'R-Coin' the bill through his without the formality of hearing. The legislation, approved by a whopping. 302 to 112 margin in the House yesterday, is identical with that original tax reduction measure vetoed by President Truman, except that effective date is moved up from July 1.

1947. to Jan. 1. 1943. Before the deciding vote, the -ft LT.

PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN Britons were excited today over the imminent announcement of the engagement of Princess Elizabeth, heiress presumptive to the throne, and tff WALLACE LAUGHS DURING TALK WITH GROMYKO Papers Held in 'Private' Files Of 2 Sergeants Washington. July 9 (AP) Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper (R-Iowa) told the Senate today se fpl) corr.rr-it'ee rejected, also 10 to- 3, a substitute bill proposed by Sen. Scott Lucas D-Iii. The Republican schedule for Senate action gives the tax measure 1 richt-cf-way for consideration a I Elizabeth, Philip to Wed in Fall? Britons Excited, Await Royal Announcement soon as the army-navy unification i London, July 9 (AP) bill is disposed of possibly tomor- a royal announcement was ex-row, jpected momentarily today that Although backers of the bill hope Elizabeth, heiress pre-t clear it to the White House bysurnptive to the throne, would be Saturday, they are determined tomarried this fall to Lieut.

Philip bring to a showdown even though Mountbatten. who renounced a the govs on for days. Sen. Greek title for a minor Taft 'Ohio. P.

policy jn his prospective chairman, told report- law's navy. ers "we'll stay here as long as Afternoon newspapers anticipated necessary, announcement with headlines That goes, he said, even if it; that delighted romantic Britons junking plans to adjourn have taken the popular couple Congress July 26. their hearts. HE AND other sponsors of the Tne authoritative British Press tax cut declare that President said il had learned mar. will not have an opportunity i "from official sources at Bucking-to kill the bill by so-called pocket "am.

palace this afternoon that an vein. authorized statement will be made The pending measure would sivejwitnin the next dav or two regard-ar. estimated 49 million taxpayers inE reports of the betrothal which reductions ranging from 30 per -tn whole matter." cent in the lowest bracket to 10.5! The. princess, handsome and Southern Coal Producers Sign Wage Contract Washington, July 9 (AP) The Southern Coal Producers association announced today it will accept the new soft coal wage contract, already signed by 75 per cent of the industry. Harry F.

Warden, spokesman for the association, told reporters after a two-hour session that the organization had authorized its 13-mem-ber associations and individual companies to sign up. WARDEN ESTIMATED that about 150,000 miners would be covered by the signatures of the Southern producers. Lewis already had ordered the bulk of the country's 400,000 coal diggers back to work upon signing of the new pact by Northern and "captive" mines and most of the Midwestern and Far Western operators. Besides the unprecedented concessions a 44 Vi cent basic hourly wage increase, an eight instead of a nine hour work-day, and a 10 cent instead of a nickel a ton levy for the U.M.W. welfare fund the contract points a loaded gun right at the Southern group.

THE CONTRACT was negotiated by the Northern Appalachian operators and "captive" producers, the mines whose entire output goes into steel making. By the time these and other operators had stopped filing into U.M.W. headquarters to sign up last night, 13 associations, 13 captive companies, and 23 individual companies most of the last group in the South had agreed to the terms. The contract thus covered virtually all Northern mines, most Midwestern pits, and the largest Western diggings. In each case, U.M.W.

ordered the miners back to the pits, and predicted full-scale operations by tomorrow. But the contract pledges the miners to work only when "able and willing." By this and a half-dozen other novel devices it leap-frogs most of the Taft-Hartley act, whose authors thought they were putting a good-behavior harness on Lewis and his union. THE "ABLE and willing" language means that the miners can quit without violating 'the Taft-Hartley ban on stoppages in violation of contract, and without subjecting the U.M.W. to employers' damage suits. Long-standing no-strike clauses in local contracts were all revoked.

The agreement sets up industry machinery including umpires with final and binding authority to handle all disputes arising under the contract. It provides that the parties shall use this machinery "exclusively" that is. without complaining to the National Relations board. Thus the U.M.W. would escape penalties for "unfair labor practises" and avoid the strike-stopping injunctions whii.li the N.L.R.B.

is empowered to obtain under the new law. A few legislators questioned the legality of the contract, but one observed: "We can't help it if they want to agree to a contract that by-passes the law." And Taft, co-sponsor of the act, observed that agreements for employers and workers to settle their disputes by themselves was "exactly what the law was aimed at." Gromyko, Soviet deputy foreign minister. The woman in the center was not identified. yesterday as a working press correspondent, laughs during a conversation with Andrei A. (ASSOCIATED TRESS WIREPHOTO) Flying Disk is Weather Balloon Army Identifies Mystery Object in New Mexico per cent af the top.

France Greets Members Of World Cereal Parley Paris. July 9 (P) French Premier Paul Ramadier. welcoming the delegations of 39 countries to Paris for a world emergency cereals conference, said today that France believed international cooperation must be based on willingness to cooperate economically. The opening of the grain parley came three days before a projected 24-nation European economic conference on the Marshall plan. Eusfia.

which has declined to take part the Saturday meeting, was r.ot represented today. Abandon Hope for Man wv 'i Henry A. Wallace, right, editor of New Republic magazine who visited the United Nations headquarters at Lake Success U.S. to Spurn Compromise on Balkan Unrest Lake Success, July 9 (AP) The United States served notice today that it would reject any compromise plans growing out of Russia's counter-proposal to the United Nations on Balkan disorders. A spokesman said American demands for a semi-permanent border commission to watch over Greece's frontiers with Albania.

Yugoslavia and Bulgaria were not affected by the latest Russian arguments. HE ADDED that the Council eventually would have to vote on the American resolution, which env bodies the principal points of a majority report submitted by the li gation Balkan investigating com mission. Such a ballot would force Russia to veto or abstain in view of her announced refusal to accept the American motion. The spokesman conceded that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko's 78-minute speech of yesterday, virtually in direct opposition to the American stand, might prompt some delegations to put forward such compromises.

He said some "feelers" already had been turned aside by the Americans. IN HIS LENGTHY speech. Gromyko rejected the confi'mission report blaming three Soviet Balkan satellites for the border disorders and asked the Council to reverse the commission's on-the-spot findings and rule Greece alone guilty of provoking disturbances with her three northern neighbors. The Russian delegate followed up this assertion with charges that the turmoil in Greece resulted from American and British interference and demanded that the U. N.

order foreign military personnel off Greek soil. He also called for U. N. supervision of all economic aid to Greece in renewed efforts to place the American program of direct support under international control. Ford Lists New Prices Detroit, July 9 (AP) Price revisions ranging from a reduction of $17 to increases of $98 covering all Ford light and heavy duty trucks were- announced today by J.

R. Davis, Ford Motor Co. vice-president and sales and advertising director. Davis said the price differential I A democratic, turned 21 last April. Her prospective bridegroom, who would become a prince consort in the same manner as Queen Victoria's Prince Albert, is 26 and a Farm Income With Subsidy, Shows Gains Washington.

July 9 (AP) The Agriculture department reported today that farm income, including government payments, was about 25 per cent higher during the first half of this year than in the Receipts from dairy products about 30 showed an increase of per cent. But only 10 per cent when government dairy production subsidies are added to last year's PRINCESS ELIZABETH 26-year-old Lt. Philip Mount-batten, now a British citizen and formerly Prince Philip of Greece. (AP WIREPHOTOS) great-great-grandson of that last ruling queen of the British empire. Recurrent stories of their betrothal have bobbed up through the world for many months.

Newspaper accounts today conjectured that the engagement of Elizabeth and Philip probably would not exceed three months and that the state wedding would take place in Westminster Abbey. The Star said Philip probably would become a duke, the top level of the British peerage. A Buckingham palace spokesman sidestepped the issue by saying that King George VI has "not yet" authorized any statement, and another well-informed source close to the government refused to issue a denial. Palace sources heretofore have been more outspoken in disclaiming any romance between the 21-year-old heiress presumptive to the throne and the young British naval officer, although acknowledging that the pair have a deep affection for each other. Bandit in Ticket Line at Movie, Collared by Fan Santa Monica, Calif.

July 9 (AP) "This is a holdup," said the gruff voice outside the movie ticket window. "Are you kidding?" laughed Wanda June Phillips, the cashier in front of the gun's muzzle. "Move on, you're holding up the line." The would-be bandit fled, but the next man in the line pursued, collared him and called the police. Hold Husband For Slaying Los Angeles, July 9 (AP) Antonio Mondragon, 26-year-old sheet metal worker, was booked on suspicion of murder at University division jail early today in the slaying of his estranged wife, youthful Rosenda Mondragon. The nude and battered body of 20-year-old Mrs.

Mondragon, who had been strangled with a silk stocking, was found yesterday in a gutter a few blocks from the city Mrs. Mondragon was the eighth woman victim in the last six months in a series of brutal slay- ling Jan. 15 of Elizabeth Short. This, known as the "Black Dahlia" case, has not been solved. 1 Pair Flees From Iowa Home, Held by Police Chicago, July 9 (AP) Two youths were detained at the juvenile home today after the automobile in which they were riding was involved in a minor collision nn lh RiHo PH Toledo.

Iowa, and that they had stolen the car in which they were riding. IRAN UNDER GUARD Tehran, Iran, July 9 (AP) Martial law was in effect throughout Iran today by order of Premier Ahmed Qavam. Iranian newsmen forecast that it would be used in suppression of newspapers and arrests of editors critical of the government. TELEVISION FOR POPE Vatican City. Rome, July 9 (AP) Pope Pius XII, whose past journeys by plane and use of mod ern devices have given him a reputation for keeping up with the times, is soon to have his own television set, the Vatican news (service said today.

Reported Lost in six ot 1946 Shellmound. July 9 J0'3' caf estimat' ied at nearly 12 billion dollars com- I pared with $9,600,000,000 in the Red Cross water safctv experts a Lsaine period of last year. ave up tneir search early today 1 1 for John T. Hum after grappling The greater part of the increase in the underground Nickajack lake 1 reflected higher prices. Most farm lor several hours.

'products were under price ceilings The state planned Jo wind upa year ago. today its part in the eight-day hunt RECEIPTS FROM livestock and in weird, historic Nickajack cave livestock products were atout tne 35-year-old Nashville. 900 000 000i up nearly 40 per cent man. reported missing in the the sarne period of 1946. The July 1.

Ilargest gain 60 per cent came State Safety Commissioner Lynnifrom meat animals because of Eorr.ar had oraered the lake drain- much higher prices and some in-ed to facilitate their efforts. (crease in marketings. cret files were stolen from the Los Alamos N.M.) atomic energy testing grounds, but said he has T.o reason to believe" they fell into unauthorized, hands. Hickenlooper. chairman of joint Senate-House atomic committee, said "the Atomic Energy commission did report to the joint committee that there were certain missing atomic energy files at the Los Alamos project in New Mexico." HE SAID the incident occurred when two army sergeants took the documents with them when they were demobilized.

The F.B.I, was notified at once, he said, and promptly located the two men and "the documents were as we believe completely and fully recovered." They had been held in the private files of the two men. whom he characterized as "souvenir hunters." The joint committee believes. Hickenlooper said, "there was no effective breach of security." "We have no information that any unauthorized persons did see these documents other than the two army sergeants." he said, adding that the Justice department is still investigating. He added: "THE JOINT committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the military and naval establish- Intents arc all keenly aware of the transcendental importance of the facilities of the Atomic Energy commission." Hickenlooper told his colleagues the committee has no reason to believe published reports that files have been stolen from the Oak Ridge (Tenn) project. The New York Sun, in a dispatch from its Washington bureau reported today that highly secret data on the' atomic bomb had been stolen by unidentified agents working from within the Oak Ridge plant.

"The joint committee has no information on this subject and no reason to believe lhat highly classified, secret documents have been stolen." Hickenlooper said, in referring to the Sun article. Actress Arraigned on Kidnap, Assault Charge Los Angeles, July 8 (AP) Film Actress Madge Meredith, was arraigned today on charges cf. kidnaping, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon, and her preliminary hearing set for r.ext Friday. Also to face a preliminary hearing on the charges are William Klinkenberg. 32.

a cook; Albert W. Tnirnp nnr(frvman. and James 'A. Hatfield, former policeman. Miss Meredith former manager.

I Nicholas D. Gianaclis. and (bodyguard. Verne W. Davis, charge that the trio, at the actress instigation, kidnaped, beat them and held them prisoner in a lonely can-von June 30.

Guadalcanal British Face Natives' Attack Sydney, Australia, July 9 (AP) United States army fliers repcrt-ed today thaat Malaita islanders had "declared war" on the British settlement on Guadalcanal in the Solomon islands because of dissatisfaction over food supplies. One flier said the British expected the islanders would launch a full scale attack on the 200 inhabitants of the British settlement during the day. British guards armed with shotguns patrolled the shores of Kau Kau bay on the tip of Eastern Guadalcanal to meet any attack. Gunmen Escape With $133 From Theater Streator. July 8 (AP) Two gunmen held up the office ot the Granada theater today and escaped with $435 from a safe which they compelled Owner Kenneth Childs to open.

Childs and his secretary. Margaret Kemery, were bound with tape by the men, who cut the telephone cord before leaving. DEWEY GOES NORTH Sapulpa. July 9 (AP) Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey north to Kansas City, today for another series of hotel room huddles with Republican sectional leaders in his undeclared quest of the 1943 presidential nomination. receipts. These payments werejhall. flopped when price ceilings -were removed. INCOME FROM poultry and leggs exceeded last year by 10 "1 7" vl came from England, out- them from the London Daily Mail, he said.

Newton, who made the examination, said some 80 weather stations in the U. S. were using that type of balloon and that it could have come from any of them. Rancher Sorry He Found Flying Disk Roswell. N.

July 9 (AP) W. W. Brazel. the rancher cred ited for a time with finding the nation's first flying disk, is sorry he said anything about it. The 48-year-old New Mexican said he was amazed at the fuss made over his discovery.

"If I find anything else short of a bomb it's going to be hard to get me to talk," he told the Associated Press there early this morning. Brazel's discovery was reported late yesterday by Lieut. Walter Haut, Roswell army air field pub lic relations officer, as being one of the flying saucers that have puzzled and worried residents of 43 states the past several weeks. Later, however. Brig.

Gen. Rog er Ramey, commanding general of the eighth air force of which the Roswell field is a component, said Brazel's find was merely a weath er radar target. But Brazel wasn making any claims. He said he didn't know what it was. He described his find as con sisting of large numbers of pieces of paper covered with a foil-like substanoe, and pieced together with small sticks mucli like a kite.

Scattered with the materials over an area about 200 yards across were bits of gray rubber. All the pieces were small. "At first I thought it was a kite, but we couldn't put it together like any kite I ever saw," he said. 'It wasn't a Decatur and vie inlty: Fair tonight' and Thursday. Little change in temp cratnrc.

Low tonight 55 to 60. i Thursday 80 to 84. DECATUR WEATHER Compiled by The Review High. Tues. 82 7 a.

in. Wed. 7 p. m. Tues.

67 Noon Wed. Low Wed. 53 Precip. 63 76 0 Sun rose sets 7:29 p. m.

Lake level at dam Tues. noon .6 ft. above dam. Wednesday .6 ft. above dam.

(Additional Weather on Page 17) Index to Features Editorials Page 6 Radio Page 8 Railroads Page 17 Society, Household Page 14, 15 Sports Page 10, 11 Fair Fort Worth, Tcxa July 9 (AP) An examination by the army re vealed last night that a mysterious object found on a lonely New Mex ico ranch was a harmless high-altitude weather balloon not a grounded flying disk. Excitement was high in disk conscious lexas until Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey.

commander of the Eighth air forces A'ith head quarters here, cleared up the mystery. THE BUNDLE of tinfoil, broken wooden beams and rubber remnants of a balloon were sent here yesterday by army air transport in the wake of reports that it was a flying disk. But the general said the objects were the crushed remains of a ray wind target used to determine the direction and velocity of winds at high altitudes. Warrant Officer Irving Newton, forecaster at the army air forces weather station here, said 'We use them because they go much higher than the eye can see." The weather balloon was found several days ago in a desolate section of New Mexico by a ranch er. W.

W. Brazel. He said he didn't think much about it until he went into Corona. N. last Sat urday and heard the flying disk reports.

He reported his find to the sheriff's office. NEWTON SAID, that when rig ged up, the instrument "looks like a six-pointed star, is silvery in appearance and rises in the air like a kite." The Roswell, the discovery set off a flurry of excitement. Sheriff George Wilcox's telephone lines were clogged. Three calls Tush-Button' Telegrams Now Philadelphia, July 9 (AP) "Push-button telegraphy" previewing a new era in Western Union delivery, was placed in operation today between Philadelphia and New York. The Western Union Telegraph Co.

said the two million dollar push button system, coupled with con struction of a new radio beam network, ultimately will replace telegraph pole lines. The mechanical marvel, tripling the capacity of present wire facilities, permits switching clerks to relay messages to any of 270 destinations by merely pushing a but- er circuits only one, to New York, is now in operation will be added by September. The complex maze of wires, button panels and lights next will be installed at Cincinnati. The push-button sets will be constructed in Boston, Kansas City. Syracuse, St.

Louis, Atlanta and Oakland, Calif. California Court Upholds Sinper's Mexican Divorcej Los Angeles. July 9 (AP) A California court has approved Mpviran riirnrrd rhtainnt hv coera" singer Miliza Konus from Dr. Kuno Foelsch, scientist. German-born Dr.

Foelsch sued her for divorce here last October on allegations of cruelty. She replied with a alleging that his only interest was to obtain part of her property and that she had already obtained a Mexican decree in 1944 vith his consent. They were married in Germany in 1929. Cisne Murder Trial I (cent Receipts from crops totaled close to $3,800,000,000. up nearly 20 per cent over the first half of last year.

Most of the gain was in grains and tobacco. Looking to the last half of the year, the department said prices received by farmers are expected to decline seasonally as marketings from 1947 crops influence mar- expected io remain expected to remain nign, aue iu Scheduled Sept. Sikets. Feed grains, however, are FairfieM ft UP) Landlord, Policemen Sued for $100,000 Waukegan, July 8 (AP) A landlord, his wife, and two Waukegan policemen were sued today for $100,000 damages by a woman tenant who charged them with cbnspiracy in false arrest and imprisonment and assault and battery. The suit was filed in Lake county circuit court by Miss Thelma M.

Edson of Waukegan, employed as a stenographer at ninth naval district headquarters. Great Lakes. Miss Edson charged "a campaign of harassment" by the landlord culminated early Monday in his throwing her from the porch to the street and her detention for several hours in a Lake county jail cell. Wallace Visits U. Hears Russian Speech Lake Success.

July 8 (AP) Henry A. Wallace, editor of New Republic magazine, sat through a 78-minute Russian speech today in his first appearance as a visiting press correspondent at United Na tions headquarters. He was greeted in the delegates lounge by Gromyko and Herschel V. Johnson, deputy American dele gate. They repeatedly shook hands for photographers and chatted for about 10 minutes.

Report British to Cut Forces Held in Greece London, July 9 (AP) A spokesman for the British war office said today that the British Circuit Judge Ben Eovaldi has prosp-ects or a smaller corn Robert Hess said the youths iden- ser Sept. 8 as the trial date for. Prices of eggs and several dairy jtjfied themselves as Robert Vick, Clara King. 36. charged with mur- i products, on the other hand, areij6 Holland, and William cering her husband whom shejliekly to rise moderately during johnson, 15.

of the Victory hotel, married and divorced twice in six the summer months, the depart-, East irToIine. 111. Hess said the years said. Little change is expect- two told him tney had escaped ed in prices or nvesiocK ana a juvenile detention home at Ker.rv King. 40.

was killed Sept. 9. 1946. by a shotgun charge fired through the open door of his cabin home near Cisne. The Kings had two children.

Mrs. King is at Lberrv under S10.000 bond. FLOOD HITS CHINA Shanghai. July 9 (AP A government news dispatch said today that Chengtu. in west China's Srechwan province, is gripped by or.e of the worst floods in 60 years, v.T.h an estimated 100.000 homeless and damage totalling at least one billion Chinese dollars.

SEEKS C.N. PLACE Bucharest. July 9 (AP) The Ro-i m.r.iar. foreign minister was empowered by the cabinet today to seek Romania's entry into the United Nations. Romania will issue a declaration adhering to the United! Nations charter.

livestock products. Report "Model" Farm Stolen from Retired Ohio Railroader Columbus. Ohio. July 9 (AP) Daniel P. Ryan, 78-year-old retired railroad boilermaker, reported to police thieves had stolen his log cabin, several farm buildings and furniture.

Before a police desk sergeant got a chance to ask Ryan to repeat the losses. Ryan explained somebody had stolen a complete model farm from his garage. He added he spent two years constructing the model farm, which he valued at $500, without use of a single nail. now separating V-8 and six-cylin-! ton-der truck rrtodels had been reducj Western Union officials said oth military forces in Greece will beiture in keeping with rising manu- reduced 25 per cent by Sep ed from $58 to $30. "A more equitable pricing struc- 'facturing and materials costs" was 1 coin.

Mercury and Ford passenger cars remained unchanged. tember 1. Icited by Davis as the reason for The spokesman declined to state the adjustments, the number of. troops in He added that list prices of Lin- adding, "we only talk in percent ages.".