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ERMB mt D-DAY ANNIVERSARY IN NORMANDY CEMETERY A.M. A. Silences 'Dictator in Journal Fishbein Asked to Halt Talks, Writings on Medical Politics Big Four Covers Half of Agenda Without Accord Paris. June 6 (AP) Committee Vote Is Unanimous, Passage Seen By JOHN CHADWICK Of The Associated Press Washington, June 6 The 12-nation North Atlantic but under supervision of the executive committee of the Medical These restrictions were placed on the 60-year-old doctor in a statement by the A. board of trustees to the opening of the organization's 98th annual Dr.

R. L. Sensenich of South Bend, outgoing A. M. A.

president, said the board's statement was read to the convention's house of delegates "as a matter of information." "The board of trustees is Dr. Fishbein's employer," Sensenich Court Upholds Fines Against Levis, Miners Washington, June 6 (AP) The U. S. circuit court of appeals today upheld the $1,420,000 in fines imposed on John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers for slowness in 'calling off last year's strike over miners' pensions.

The decision of the three justices was unanimous. This case the. most spectacular yet to arise under the Taft-Hartley ct is expected to go next to the Supreme court. Welly K. Hopkins, the union's general counsel, said the decision Is under study "and an appeal is Indicated." Meanwhile, Lewis asked the same court to overrule a decision by the National Labor Relations board that a clause in.

his contract with the captive mines those owned by steel cimpanies is illegaL THE LABOR BOARD 10 days ago ordered Lewis and his U.M.W. to cease giving effect to the union At the site of the first American cemetery in Normandy, France, Brig. Gen. Joseph O'Hare, of Boston and French Veterans Minister Rob said. "The action it has taken, is final, but it is in.

no way punish ment of Fishbein. It's the same thing that is -done with all department heads when the time comes." AS FOR FISHBEIN, he said the board's action is aff right with him, but "if the atmosphere becomes unpleasant, I'll quit in five minutes." "I have seen the statement in advance and I am quite satisfied," he said. Efforts to silence Fishbein, who has been with the -A. M. A.

for 37 years, have been made before. But this is the first time the board of trustees has taken action. The statement said Dr. Austin Smith had been In training for some months as assistant editor against the time when the editor retires. "The talent of the editor will be retained for the present under con trol of the board of trustees," the statement continued.

Cooler DECATUR AND I I NIT Fair and cooler Tuesday. Wednes day fair and warmer. High Tues day 77, low Tuesday night 55, high Wednesday 82. Northeast winds It to 15 miles per hear Tuesday. LOCAL WEATHER Mon.

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Sun Rises Sets 4:31 7:25 4:31 7:25 Invasion Beach Silence Is Befitting Memory of D-Day Atlantic City, June 6 (AP) The board of trustees of the American Medical association to day clipped the speaking and writing wings of medicine's most, famous figure, Dr. Morris Fishbein. The board wants him to stop speaking or writing on anything except scientific medicine. That means he cannot talk publicly on state medicine nor on the political issues now boiling up in the A. M.

campaign against the Truman national health insurance plan. Dr. Fishbein is the editor of the Journal of the American Medical association. He has no official position except that in the American Medical association. He has no vote in the house of delegates, which is the ruling body of American medicine.

BUT OVER the years has been, called the dictator of American medicine. And in today's move the trustees say "the public has come to believe that the editor is the spokesman for the 'association." He has written the editorials of the Journal, which is the foremost medical publication in the United States, and largest in the world. In all his talks and writings for years he has argued freely about medical politics and has been a leader in opposing state medicine and socialization of medicine. In recent years not only public has regarded him as "the spokesman of the association," but many doctors have taken the same view. THE JOURNAL is to continue editorials on controversial subjects.

Quiz Sfafe On Washington, June 6 (AP) In one of its decisions todav, the Supreme court called on the state of Illinois to advise it whether there is adequate state machinery to protect the constitutional rights of convicted persons. It sent back to the state courts eight cases, all of them appeals from the denial of habeas corpus writs. Such a writ requires that a prisoner be brought before the court for a determination whether he is being held illegally. The Illinois Supreme court has held that habeas corpus actions may be the correct way to pro ceed such cases where a denial of federal rights is claimed. But a number "of lower Illinois courts have continued to deny such petitions without hearings.

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, for a unanimous court, said that if the habeas corpus action is not available "we are led to believe that Illinois offers post-trial remedy in cases of this kind." "We recognize the difficulties with which the Illinois Supreme court is faced in adapting available state procedures to the requirement that prisoners be given some clearly defined method by which they may raise claims of denial of federal rights," Vinson said. "Nevertheless, that requirement must be met If there is now no post-trial procedure by which federal rights may be vindicated in Illinois, we wish to be advised of that fact." The court gave no indication as to what action it -might take. Rev. Egan Heads Chicago Province of Jesuits Chicago, June 6 (AP) The Very Rev.

Joseph M. Egan, of Loyola university today was appointed head of the Chicago province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). i The appointment, in Rome by. the father general of the society, Rev. John B.

Janssens, was announced at Loyola where Father Egan has been rector since 1945. From 1942 to 1945 he was president of the university. The Chicago province of the society- embraces' the states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky "-and has a personnel of 983- Jesuits, including 120 in missions at Patna, India. The province governs the faculties of four universities Loyola, Detroit John Carroll of Cleveland and Xavier of Cincinnati. Chrisman Man Killed Danville, June 6 (AP) James Reynolds, 27, of near Chrisman, was killed yesterday in an automobile collision about a mile south of nearby Olivet Convicts Rights The Big Four ended its series of secret meetings tonight in a com plete failure to break the East-West deadlock in Berlin.

The foreign ministers thus cov ered half the agenda of the con ference that began two weeks ago, without being able to agree on a single important point. THE AMERICAN delegation held a closed meeting after today's fruitless session to plan the strategy for Tuesday. Then the ministers will resume "open" sessions. These are sessions at which offi cial observers report the debates to the press. It is expected the- ministers will give brief explanations Tuesday of the positions on Berlin which they set forth in the three secret sessions, and then turn to the third point of the agenda -ia German peace treaty.

Inasmuch as East and West have failed to agree either on. the unity of Germany or Berlin, something which would have to precede any peace treaty, there is no prospect of a settlement on this third point either. THE FOREIGN ministers depu ties who have been concerned with writing a treaty for Austria have been told to stand by for Thursday or Friday. The Austrian treaty is the last point on the agenda. It is possible, therefore, though not probable, that the foreign ministers will end their first round of discussion of the agenda by the end of the week.

Then, according to custom, the agenda is gone over a second time. French sources said the break-1 down on Berlin came on the veto question. Vishinsky sought to re tain all the veto powers which were used in the past to smash four-power rule in Berlin. The position of the Western min isters was that the veto should apply only to security and police matters. Vishinsky was said to have made a substitute proposal, but insisted on maintaining all the key veto powers, especially over elected German officials.

Russia this power in the past to prevent the anti-Communist Mayor Ernst Reuter from taking uiuce uuui xseriin was spilt, utner officials were forced from office by me veto. House Passes Jap Racial Bill Washington, June 6 (AP) The House today passed a. bill to repeal long-standing racial restrictions which deny citizenship to some Japanese and "other Asians' living in the United States. The bill now goes to the Senate, where in the past two years similar measures have been holed up in committee. There was no dissent on the voice vote in the House.

The legislation would make no change in present immigration laws for exclusion of Orientals. It would permit naturalization of those aliens now legally resident who have hitherto been denied the ngnt of citizenship because of race. The 1940 census shows there were resident in the United States and its territories 84,658 Japanese, Koreans, 145 Polynesians and "other Asians." Dr. Ekblaw Services Thursday in Paxton Champaign, June 6 (AP) Services for Dr. W.

Elmer Ekblaw, founder of homecoming day at the University of Illinois in 1910, will be held Thursday in Paxton. Dr. Ekblaw, professor of geo graphy at Clark university, Wor cester, died Sunday. He was well-known both as a geographer and as a geologist. He founded homecoming day, believed to be the first in American colleges, while he was editor of the Daily Illini, student newspaper.

Vermilion Officer Killed in Germany Vermilion, HL, June 6 (AP) Mr. and Mrs. William C. Winans were notified today that their son, Capt. Charles O.

Winans, 30, was killed June 3 in a vehicular accident in Germany. Winans, who was graduated from nearby Paris, HL, high school in 1936, left Paris in 1941. He re- enlisted and -had been in Germany for the last two years. pact, under which an attack on one member would be regarded as an attack on all, won the unanimous approval of the Senate foreign re lations committee today. Chairman Tom Connally CD- Texas) said the committee's action "will have a tremendously benefi cial effect on the world He predicted the Senate will ratify the alliance overwhelmingly.

The committee's 13 to 0 vote for the treaty came on the fifth anniversary of the Allies' D-day assault on Europe. For several years the bi-partisan committee has had an unbroken record of unanimity. CONNALLY SAID the report has not been printed and will not be made public until Tuesday. The principal problem in reaching complete agreement on the report centered about the interpretation to be given Article 5., That is the article which binds each member to regard an attack on any one of them in Europe or North America as an attack on all and to take such action as each deems necessary, "including the use of armed force." to restore and maintain the security of the area. Sen.

Walter George CD-Ga), a committee member who had ex pressed concern about this provi sion, said he is satisfied that under it the president cannot declare war nor "emnlov tronns to enforce anv particular action aimed at certain European countries without congressional approval." Sen. Claude Pepper (D-Fla) said the report asserts in substance that the pact neither adds nor subtracts from the war powers of the president as commander-in-chief. He added that was the only conclusion that could be reached. Pulitzer Prize Winner Wellesley President Wellesley, June 6 (AP) The new president of Wellesley college is Miss Margaret 39, Pulitzer prize winning biographer and Brooklyn college historian. She topped a field of 150 applicants for the job.

Miss Clapp succeeds wartime Wave director Mrs. Mildred McAfee Horton, who was president from 1936 until her resignation last Oct. 22. The second Wellesley graduate to head the college and the eighth president of the 75-year-old women's institution, she was graduated in 1930. "Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow," the work that won her a Pulitzer prize, was written as a Doctor of Philosophy thesis at Columbia university in 1946.

Illinois Included In Synthetic Fuel Survey Washington, June 6 (AP) Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick, chief of army engineers, announced today that a $1,341,637 contract has been made for a survey of 37 states and Alaska in search of general areas suitable for manufacture of synthetic liquid fuels. Factors to be considered in de termining general areas will include the availability of raw ma terials in sufficient quality and quantity; water supply, power, transportation, labor, housing and markets.

The bureau of mines in the In terior department designated the raw materials to be considered. These are coal, oil shale, natural gas and oil impregnated strippable deposits. The 37 states include: Illinois, In diana, Iowa and Nebraska. Eisler Escape Ship Sails, Crew Cleared New York, June (AP) The Polish liner Batory, which got into international hot water when Gerhart Eisler escaped on it May 6, sailed again today with its crew cleared of any part in the escape. A federal immigration official said crew members "have been cleared of any implication in the flight of Eisler from this country aboard the Batory.

Under close guard since she docked last Saturday, the ship left at noon for- Southampton, Copenhagen and Gdynia, Poland. She carried a capacity list of 857 passengers and a crew of 351. TEMPERATURES High Low New York 82 66 Miami 91 69 New Orleans 93 72 Fort Worth 93 70 Chicago 86 58 Cincinnati 85 51 Detroit 84 54 Memphis 90 65 Milwaukee 75 60 Bismarck 72 48 Des Moines 86 62 Kansas City 85 67 Indianapolis 85 52 St. Paul 73 63 Omaha 88 62 Sioux City 82 60 Denver 63 52 Los Angeles 83 58 San Francisco 73 54 Seattle 88 54 Winnipeg 62 39 shop provision in their contract with the captive mines. The clause says all miners shall "be or be- come" union members.

The board ruled it violates the Taft-Hartley act. Jrive U.M.W. attorneys filed a. petition calling" the labor board order "arbitary" and "capricious' and said the board exceeded its authority in issuing it. The same clause appears in the U.M.W.'s contracts with other segments of the mining industry.

The labor board ruling concerned only the captive mines, however. The circuit court affirmed the conviction of Lewisand the union for criminal contempt of court, and brushed aside the union's contention that the fines were "excessive." ON APRIL 20, 1948, District "Judge T. Alan Goldsborough fined Lewis $20,000 and the union $1,400,000. Those amounts were exactly double what they paid in a previous historic case for failing to call off the coal strike of November-December 1946. In the 1948 case, most soft coal miners were idle from about mid-March to mid-April because of a dispute over the payment of pensions under the union's welfare fund.

President Truman, invoked the "national emergency" provision of the Taft-Hartley law, and a federal court on April 3 issued a restraining order telling Lewis to order the men back to work pending a court clarification of the situation. On April 5 the order was served on Lewis but he did nothing until April 12, after the trustees of the welfare fund had announced approval of a plan for $100-a-month pensons. Then Lewis told the miners pensions had been granted, and ordered them back to work. THE UNION CLAIMED it wasn't a strike that the men quit work voluntarily and individually. Goldsborough ruled against that claim.

He said Lewis had caused the strike by a "nod," a "wink." The three-judge appeals court said "the evidence is overwhelming that' the walkout was concerted." But it based its decision entirely on Lewis' ignoring the court order for a whole week. The appeals court pointed out that Lewis wasn't convicted for causing the walkout. "The point," said the court, "is simply that an order issued by a court with jurisdiction -over the subject matter and the persons, in a case within its general powers, must be obeyed until reversed, by orderly and proper, proceedings. That is our system of government" The three judges who issued today's unanimous decision were Wilbur K. Miller.

E. Barrett Pret-tyman, and James M. Proctor. Woman Taking Driver Test Hits Pedestrian Rockford, June 6 (AP) Just as she was about to pass her state drivers' license test," a South Beloit, 111., woman struck and seriously injured a pedestrian today. Arthur Kneller, state license examiner, told poliee he was riding with Mrs.

Lee Murray preparatory to giving her a driver's license when she tumeda corner and struck Mrs. Ruby Flanders, 62. Mrs. Flanders suffered a pelvic fracture and -head bruises. Mrs.

Murray was given a ticket for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. She did not get her driver's license. ert Betolaud place wreaths on memorial day Monday in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of D-day landing on Omaha beach. American ance came Sunday to coincide with the Pentecost Sunday holiday. Of the top commanders who di rected the mightiest amphibious assault in history, only Field Mar shal Viscount Montgomery was back, to observe the day.

He took part in ceremonies at the British military cemetery in Ranville and later at Saint-Aubain-Sur-Mer. It was at Ranville that the British sixth airborne division dropped to form the eastern flank of the invasion. MONTGOMERY SAID at the Ranville memorial service "the destruction caused by war" makes him "feel that we must not have any more wars if we can help it We have learned that if you want peace, you must be strong, economically and militarily." The debris of war is still visible on the landing beaches. The rusted hulls of ships and landing craft lie on the sand or protrude from the water. The remains of pillboxes are easily discernible.

The most desolate spot along the whole coast is the German military cemetery at La Combe. There the weeds have grown higher than the crosses while the Allied governments try to decide who should pay for cutting the grass." It Wasn't Because He Ate Seer Glasses--He Didn't Pay for Them Windsor, Ont, June 6 (AP) A tavern proprietor told police today that one of his customers smashed three beer glasses, ate part of them, wiped off his chin and walked out The proprietor's complaint was that the man, did not pay for the broken glasses. 'Lonely Hearts1 Pair Go on Trial Thursday New York, June 6 (AP) of the alleged-. "lonely hearts" lawyers today was set for Thursday over defense efforts to have it delayed. Counsel for the defendants, Raymond Fernandez, 34, and Mrs.

Martha Beck, 29, announced there would be an immediate appeal for a stay. The pair are charged with first degree murder in a hammer-and-scarf slaying Jan. 4 of an Albany, N. widow, Mrs. Janet Fay.

defendants previously appealed to the state appellate division to be returned to face similar charges in a double-slaying in Michigan, where there is no death penalty. They were extradited from Michigan. Pass Bill for Women Doctor Commissions Washington, June 6 (AP) A bill authorizing the army to commission women doctors on the same basis as men was passed today by the House and sent to the Senate. The women would be entitled to th full pay, and other benefits of their rank. Legion color guard stands at attention during exercises while French veterans display their colors in the background.

(AP WIREPHOTO) 13 of 15 Doctors At Georgia State Hospital Fired Milledgeville, June 6 (AP) Thirteen of the 15 doctors at Georgia's mental hospital tried to resign today. They were fired instead. The doctors issued an ultimatum to Gov. Herman Talmadge last week. They demanded the resignations of state Welfare Director Jack Forrester and T.

A. Dechman, appointed by Forrester as superintendent of the hospital, second lar gest mental institution in the nation. DR. T. G.

PEACOCK, medical sup erintendent of tthe hospital, handed his own and 12 other resignations to Forrester today. Forrester flung the resignations back and gave Pea cock 13 letters of dismissal. The welfare director ordered the 13 doctors off the hospital grounds within 24 hours. After that he said. they'll be treated as Forrester said he had 11 new doc tors ready to step in at Milledge ville immediately.

All of the resigning physicians had offered their services with or without pay for a limited time. GOV. TALMADGE declined to fire Forrester and Dechman last week. He told the protesting doc tors, he would remove them from Dechman's control. The doctors telegraphed the Gov ernor today they could not work with Dechman under any circum stances.

They rejected the compromise. They issued a statement deploring the "habit" of state officials in making the hospital "a political dumping ground. They accused Dechman of creating "turmoil and chaos at the hospital." British Unions Expel Pro-Reds Blackpool, England, June 6 (AP) The powerful trade unions bloc in the British Labor party decisive ly confirmed today the expulsion of two members of Parliament who had expressed pro-Soviet views. The pair are Konni Zilliacus, former League of Nations official, and Leslie J. Solley.

Led by 800,000 members of the Transport and General Workers union from which Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin rose the party's annual conference approved the expulsions. The vote was 4,721,000 to 714,000. The executive committee cast Zilliacus and Solley out of the party last month. 422,479 Downstate Bonus Claims Paid Chicago, June 6 (AP) -Two hundred eighty Illinois sol dier bonus checks worth $98,871.26 were mailed Friday, To date the state has paid out $311,280,641.68 among 422,478 veterans from Down- state and 436,159 from Cook county. By HARVEY HUDSON Of the Asseciated Press On the Normandy Invasion Beaches, France, June The fifth anniversary of D-day passed today with silence befitting the memory of the soldiers who died "in the assault on Hitler's "European The difference between June 6, 1944, and June 6, 1949, was the difference between war and peace.

June 6, 1944, paratroopers jumped during the night on French soil, and ground troops waded ashore at dawn. A heavy naval bombardment covered their activities. Many of those who landed on D-day are now lying in cemeteries spotted along 50 miles of invasion coast TODAY THERE remained only the peaceful silence of the restful seaside. Children waded into the blue, waters of the Atlantic at Utah beach and scampered about their beach tents within the shadows of dominating bluffs. All along the invasion coast flags of Britain, the United States and France fluttered in the bright sunlight But there were few most formal observ Offer $200,000 In Reuther Case Detroit, June 6 (AP) The C.I.O.

United Auto Workers today offered a reward of $200,000 for information leading to the solution of the shootings of the Reuther brothers. The reward, one of the biggest ever offered in the United was authorized by the union's international executive board. It met here today. The offer took the place of the $100,000 reward posted following the April 20, 1948, shooting of International President Walter Reuther. It was increased because of the May 24, 1949, shooting of Victor Reuther, U.A.W.

educational di rector. Both men were critically injured in their homes: by shotgun blasts from unknown assailants. i Paulette Goddard Files For Divorce in Mexico Los Angeles, June 6 CAP) So far as she knows, Paulette Goddard is not She said so today -as she flew in from Mexico City, denying a report published in the Evening Herald and Express here that she wona decree last Friday in Cuer-navaca, Mexico. "I filed for a divorce in Cuer- navaca, she told reporters as she stepped off a plane "but I didn't get it before I left If' it's granted since, I don't know about it" She left Mexico Sunday. Her marriage with Actor Bur gess Meredith the third for -each split up several months ago.

Greek Plane Crash Kills 22 Athens, June 6 A plane crash 17 -miles north of Athens tonight killed 22 persons, in cluding- a Greek army general. Eighteen passengers and a crew of four including the hostess aboard a Greek airlines (Tae) Da kota perished when the plane caught fire and hit a hill near the village of Malakasa. Maj. Gen. George Kotsalos, mil itary governor of Kavalla, met death along with four children two of infants and five women.

An airlines spokesman said sabo tage was suspected. He did not elaborate. The plane was enroute to Athens from Kavalla, a city on the gulf of the same name 210 miles northeast of the Greek capital Iowa Man, 1 00, Gets Cornell College Degree Marion, lowa, June 6 (AP On his 100th birthday, Jackson W. Bowdish of Marion today got an honorary bachelor of philosophy degree from Cornell college, Mt Vernon, Iowa, in lieu of the sheep skin he didn't pick up 77 years ago. Bowdish, who was enrolled in old Cornell academy from 1868 to 1872, left school when he got -job one month before graduation and didn't go back to participate in the ceremonies or get his degree..