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196 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1949. 14 PAGES 5 CENTS A ram i i ft 121 vsfir-u 1 tali UK TEMPORARY VICTORY FOR BRUIN Steward Nabbed As 'Brains' Of Big Drug Gang New Aug. 19 (AP) Narcotics agents seized a ship's Two Passenger Trains Collide Canaan, N. Aug. 19 (AP) A trainman's error switched a Montreal-bound Boston and Maine railroad express headon into anoth Sources Near Truman Tattle On Vaughan By ARTHUR EDSON Of The Associated Press Washington, Aug.

19 "Sources close to the President," Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis) laid today, are feeding information cn Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan to Senate investigators. McCarthy wouldn't say who is doing the alleged tattlinc on President Truman's military aide. His statement, made to BOY, 6, HELD IN CHAINS Six year old James Lair, found chained in his home at Jacksonville, is shown before Sheriff Ralph Bourn cut wires which fastened the chain, al i fir 3' shot by police shortly after his boat ride.

Several northern Minnesota cities have experienced invasions by hungry bears the past two weeks because of a short wild berry crop. (AP WIREPHOTO) Finns Arrest Red Leaders To Halt Strike Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 19 (AP) Communist leaders were arrested today in a speedy government crack-down on a nationwide strike offensive which flared into violence yesterday. A government spokesman has declared the wave of strikes is a planned Communist maneuver to seize power and establish a Red government in Helsinki. The government, its army alerted, took fast action after the first blood was spilled yesterday in Kemi, where one man was killed and nine were injured.

THE COUNTRY'S central trade union federation also swung into action issuing an ultimatum to the Communist-led unions ordering them to, cancel their strike call. It threatened to split the federation wide open. By a vote of eight to five, the federation's executive committee decided to order four striking unions to call off their walkouts before Aug. 23 or suffer expulsion from the federation. This move was directed against the following unions: dockers; food workers; building and construction workers; and the forestry workers' and loggers' union.

The federation made it plain that the textile, leather, shoe and rubber workers' unions, who have scheduled strikes, also would be expelled if current strikes are not called off. FINNISH TROOPS were rushed to Kemi, in northern Finland, yesterday after police and an estimated 1,50,0 lumberjacks fought a brief pitched battle at a lumber-sorting dam. An exchange of pistol shots echoed -through the "seaport town. When strikers continued hurling stones the police used tear-gas bombs and blackjacks to disperse them. The fight broke out when lumberjacks smashed through police lines trying to attack workers who were reporting for duty.

The government, which has promised to "inflict a crushing defeat on the took quick measures to break up a situation in which an estimated 45,000 workers are on strike. A government spokesman believed only 35.000 were on strike. Lahja Heikkilae, chairman of the Kemi city council, was among the Communist leaders "placed under arrest. A second council member also was reported arrested. Reliable reports said Communists from southern Finland were arrestedin Kemi, indicating that Red agitators from Helsinki were operating in the town.

Most of Finland's trade union members are non-Communists and some 200,000 to 300,000 may defy the strike call. A walkout of unionists, however estimated membership of the communist unions could seriously disrupt the nation's economic life. Truman, Naval Aide Leave on River Cruise Washington, Aug. 19 (AP) President Truman left thjs afternoon for a weekend cruise on the Potomac river aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg. The White House said Mr.

Truman was accompanied by Rear Admiral Robert L. Dennison, his naval aide, and a few unidentified "close friends'." Fair DECATUR AND VICINITY: Fair and pleasant Saturday and Sunday. High Saturday 74 to 79. Low Saturday night 52 to 62. High Sunday near 80.

North to northeast winds 15 M.P.H. Saturday. LOCAL WEATHER Fri. Thurs. Fri.

Thurs. 7 a. m. 69 70 Precip. .56 Trace Noon 70 82 Sat Sua 7 p.

m. 67 88 Sun-Highest 77 77 Rises 5:15 5:16 Lowest 67 67 Sets 6:49 6:47 lowing release of the' boy. The father, Elisha Lair, 60, was arrested Friday and charged with endangering the life and health of his son. (ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO) Jacksonville Father Is Jailed For Chaining 6-Y ear-Old Son fo Chair TEMPERATURES High Low New York 79 65 Miami 88 77 New Orleans 93 76 Fort Worth 103 78 Chicago 75 68 Cincinnati .81 64 Detroit 67 54 Memphis 88 73 Milwaukee 72 ,64 Des Moines 72 63 Kansas City 78 67 Indianapolis 76 67 Omaha 70 64 Denver 85 52 Los Angeles 84 62 San Francisco 65 54 Seattle 80 51 Winnipeg 85 61 steward toddy and labeled him the "brains" of a huge illicit drug ring plying a cocaine trade between Peru and the U. S.

Authorities said that cracking the international ring here' and in Peru has laid bare a fantastic story of political intrigue and plotted revolution, with control of Peru as the prize. They said the steward's arrest is the first high point in the greatest government anti-drug smuggling drive in history. AND THE RING, an assistant U. S. attorney claimed, apparently has attempted to spread its operations to Italy through attempted contact with Charle (Lucky) Luciano, exiled one-time vice czar.

rTliA nrae ifontifiori ac Eduardo Balarezo, of. Great North River, Long Island, a naturalized u. a. ciuzen oi reruvian aeaceui, and sought by authorities for eight months. Balarezo, assistant U.

S. At torney Joseph P. Martin said, was arrested today aboard the liner La Guardia, which runs between New York and Italian ports. He was held in $100,000 bail by U. S.

Commissioner Edward McDonald on a charge of conspiracy to smuggle cocaine from Peru. Martin told this story of the alleged dope ring: THE ILLICIT trade, with Balarezo as its "brain," has been smuggling about 50 kilograms of pure cocaine a month into the S. Each kilogram, he said, would brmg more than Arrests maae last June in -eru through the United States and the W. .1. JUUl w.

factories and drove the ring to seek new fields but not until the ring had -tried to seize all Peru. There have been more than 80 arrests in Peru, and 50 to 60 persons in this country are believed tied up with the ring's operations. Capt. Alfonso Mier de Teran, chief of. the Peruvian department of investigation, has been in New York for two months assisting in cracking the ring.

The captain told of how Balarezo allegedly was taken from here to Peru by a Peruvian warship in March, 1948, as the guest of Victor TTava Tio la Tnrrp f-h i nf tVi now-outlawed Aprista political par ty. BALAREZO, Capt. Mier said, took with him $60,000 in cash and a quantity of ammunition. The Aprista party plotted revolu tion with Balarezo's supplies, and he was to be rewarded by appoint ment as Peruvian chief of customs if the plot worked. The revolution came last October, Capt.

Mier said, and was put down speedily, rjaya De la Torre took refuge in the Colombia embassy in Peru and stayed there. Meanwhile, Capt Mier said, Balarezo escaped to the U. S. and continued to master-mind the drug ring through contact with seamen and other operatives. Balarezo, Martin said, shipped on the La Guardia May 27 on the liner's maiden voyage to Italy.

THERE, HE investigated the possibility of a link with Luciano, once a powerful vice long here. Balarezo made two subsequent trips to Italy before his arrest Two other men are under arrest here in connection with the ring, Martin said. They are Louis Vil-lagas, 43, of the Bronx, and Girar- ao iuocano, hcw. iuia. Villagas, he said, is being held in $25,000 bail and Chocano is free' in th'e same amount.

Meanwhile today customs port patrol officers said they had seized a cache of $50,000 worth of opium aboard the freighter Pioneer Lake on Staten Island. They said they were questioning members of the ship's crew after discovery of the cache on the vessel's after deck. The ship plies between here and Far Eastern ports. Toledo Crash Death Declared Accidental Mattoon, Aug. 19 (Staff) Death of Luther Armes, 60, of Louisville, in a head-on automobile collision near Toledo Saturday night was ruled accidental in an inquest conducted tonight by V.

Clark, Coles county coroner, in me acmiung lunerai i home. i v. 1 Aim were his wife and three children, with him in the car, and the two occupants of the car with which they collided. er express on a siding today. Forty-four persons were hurt, but none The collision involved sister trains the northbound Ambassa dor out Boston at 10:30 a.m.

and the southbound Ambassador out of Montreal at 7:20 a.m. Grafton. County Solicitor Robert A. Jones said the crash occurred when a trainman on the southbound express standing on a siding here to wait for the northbound; to pass on the single track -opened a switch at the south end of the siding and turned the northbound onto the already-occupied siding. JONES IDENTIFIED the trainman as James J.

Seymore of Hills-boro, N. baggageman on the southbound Ambassador. The solicitor said Seymore told him he threw the switch but had no explanation for the accident. Jones said he would take no action tonight and would continue his investigation tomorrow. Officials at Mary Hitchcock hospital.

Hanover, said the injured suffered bruises and some fractures. The crash wrecked a wooden milk car behind the north-bound's diesel engine, smashed the southbound's diesel and telescoped some of its coach vestibules. Leon Barnum, a U. S. mail carrier who meets the northbound Ambassador daily as it passes through this provided the account of how the collision occurred.

BARNUM SAID he was 20 feet away from theswtch at Jhe south end of the siding when he saw an unidentified brakeman run forward from the waiting southbound train. "The fireman on the southbound yelled at- him but the northbound train was making so much noise he couldn't -make himself heard," Barnum said. "The brakeman ran forward and threw the switch, and the northbound train just ploughed into the other one. It all happened in a 'v British Plane Crash Kills 24 Manchester, Aug. 19 (AP) A twin-engine British airliner hit-a hillside near here in misty weather today and the British European airways said 24 of the 32 persons aboard were killed.

B.E.A., owner of the plane, said in London 22 persons were killed outright and two others died later. -The company said the dead included 11 women passengers, four children, six men passengers and three crewmen. The company, which is government owned, said eight survivors are being treated at infirmary in the vicinity of the wreck, 13 miles" northeast of Manchester. B.E.A. said all aboard the plane were British except two from Northern Ireland.

The airliner, a Dakota (C-47), was en route from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Manchester. It struck 10 feet from the top of a hill. that one-third of the areas in the nation and perhaps more not be Authorities in the Housing agency pointed out that since April Woods has lifted 'ceilings in nearly 200 of the 800 existing so-called defense -rental areas in the nation. WOOD DENIED a report that he intended to abandon his original plans to' lift ceilings in a third of the, nation's now-controlled areas. Even when this is done, he indi cated, he still won't Tiave enough- federal employes to enforce the ceilings in the remaining areas.

This is where the call for volunteer, non-paid workers win come in, he said. They may be used to police controls. These so-called advisory boards' already are in existence, the rent director pointed He added it will be impossible to de mand added work on the part of these groups but he hopes they will cooperate. Top officials in the Housing agency pointed to the fact that decontrols are being announced almost daily by the expediter. "We are getting leads and infor mation on Vaughan's activities from sources very close to the President and to Vaughan in the White House." He said the information was unsolicited a lt was adverse to Vaughan.

THE SENATE investigations subcommittee, of which McCarthy is a member, has been prying into the activities of "'five percenters" people who try to land government contracts for businessmen in return for a percentage fee. In another development, subcommittee Chairman Clyde Hoey CD- K.C.) said today that the story of the home freezers, which went to Vaughan and other Washington notables, "has been magnified out Of all proportion." He expressed his view in a telegram to a Kansas City appliance dealer, John A. Passler. Passler had told the committee that he wants to give Mr. Truman a tele-Vision set.

In light of the stir over home freezers, he asked Hoey whether this was okay. HOET SAID public officials frequently receive gifts "without the desire or expectation of -receiving ny favors or rewards in return. His advice to the appliance go ahead and make the gift The subcommittee has recessed until Tuesday, but its investigators re seeking information from two government departments. William P. Rogers, the subcommittee's chief counsel, said he wants to get additional facts: From the army Rogers said he wants to know why John Maragon and two as sociates were allowed to fly to Paris in 1945 in a military transport plane.

Maragon, an old friend of Vaughan's, was working for the Albert Verley Perfume company of Chicago at the time. It was the President of the' Verley company, David Bennett, who gave the now celebrated deep freezers to Vaughan. The date of the gifts: 1945. VAUGHAN HAS pointed out that Bennett, too, is an old friend of his. There was nothing improper In his taking the freezers, Vaughan said.

From the Justice department- Rogers said he would like to learn more about an alleged attempt by Maragon to bring perfume essence into this country de scribed as champaigne. He said so far as has been unable to get from the department the data he wants Rogers did not elaborate, but committee members said they Want to know why Maragon was never prosecuted. Neither Maragon nor Vaughan has made a public appearance be fore the subcommittee. And though Chairman Hoey has said both will be asked to testify, no date has been set Mr. Truman said yesterday that the public should, suspend judg ment on Vaughan until he has had a chance to tell his side of the story.

Former Red to Teach At Catholic School Chicago. Aug. 19 (AP) Elizabeth T. Bentley, former Communist courier who was converted to Catholicism, will join the teaching staff of Mundelein college this fall. She will teach political science at the North Side Catholic Girls' school.

Miss Bentley testified at a congressional investigation of Commu nist spy activities last year that she was a courier for wartime Red spy rings which got secrets from government workers and passed them on to Soviet agents. She said she joined the Commu nist party in 1935 and became a courier in 1940. However, she said in 1945 her conscience bothered her and she went to the F.B.I, with her story. She was converted to Catholicism and was baptized in Washing ton last November. She is an honor graduate of Vassar and got her master's degree at Columbia university.

-Bruin held the "fort" for awhile Thursday after three men went over the side of the launch near Duluth, when the bear climbed in. Bruin bit one of them on the seat of the pants. The bear was Radio Giveaway Shows Banned By C. Rule 19 The Federal Communications Commission today moved to throw most of radio's prize giveaway programs off the air waves and broad casting interests promptly an nounced a fight The commission announced adop tion of new rules, to be effective designed to end most of the big money and merchandise offers. currently running to more than a year.

IT ACTED UNDER the anti-lottery statutes, forbidding use of ra dio to promote games of chance. American Broadcasting Co. whose Sunday night "Stop the Music" broadcast runs into important dough weekly, retorted quickly that it will take the matter to court, challenging F.C.C.'s right to act against the programs. "No changes will be made in the A.B.C. programs as a result of the F.C.C.

regulation," the network 'asserted. A.B.C plans to ask an injunction against the rules, presumably in the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which re views appeals from orders of government agencies. Justin Miller, president of the-National Association Sl Broadcasters, said he hoped the matter would get quick court test.

MILLER SAID the N.A.B. felt the commission Had overstepped its authority in view of the law prohibiting the commission from censoring program content He said programs which F.C.C. seeks to classify as lotteries "are not in fact Similar comment came from other sources in the industry. The F.C.C said it would refuse renewal Of license to stations if they follow a policy of broadcasting1 programs which it regards as violating the lottery prohibition. A radio lottery, the F.C-C announcement said, is generally one involving a prize awarded as a result of lot or chance, where the contestant contributes something of value, or is required to be listening to or viewing the program -over a receiver.

Baruch Quits Post Washington, 19 (AP) Herman B. Baruch resigned today as ambassador to the No reason was given by the ambassador. President 'Truman accepted the resignation "with sincere regret" The effective date, an exchange of letters disclosed, will: be established upon Baruchts return to the United States. He is a brother of Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier and one-time presidential advisor Enyoy Servais said Lair gave this account of yesterday's events: After Lair locked James in the bath room, the boy broke a window and escaped but was caught by his father before he could leave the yard.

LAIR, THEN chained the boy to a heavy chair, fastening the links about the child's neck with wire, and beat him with the razor strap "to put an end to this business once and for all." It was the boy's screams during the whipping which alajmed neighbors. Servais said James told him that he used a plunger to break the bath room window and escape because he couldn't stand the heat in the' tiny closed room. "Servais related that the boy's mother told him James was "adventurous" but "no worse than other boys." For th present James will be in Servais' custody. ins Arms Bill Fight Washington, Aug. 19 (AP) Senator Tom Connally (D-Texas) today launched the Administra tion's struggle 'to restore the one billion, 450 million dollar foreign arms aid bill which the House voted to chop down more than one-third.

Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, is sued a statement calling for the full authorization shortly after hearings ended and Senators pre pared to shape up their own ver sion pf the measure. Chairman Ty dings (D-Md) of the Senate Armed Services committee which is consideringtthe bill jointly with Connally's' group, termed the House, cut a mistake. However, Tydints indicated he might support a slight cut in the $1,160,990,000 fund sought for arming European 'Pact-; Connally's statement said "to any substantial cut in the funds requested would seriously impair the program." The joint chiefs of he said, testified right after touring Europe that the full amount asked 'is the minimum figure. II IN lonnaiiybeo Jacksonville, Aug. 19 (AP) Police said a Jacksonville father chained his six year old son to a chair and whipped him with a razor strap to keep him from playing with other children.

The father, Elisha Lair, a jeweler, was jailed on a charge cf endangering his son's life and health. Henri Servais, county'juvenile officer, said he found, the -boy, James, still chained when he investigated neighbors' reports last night that the child was screaming. A PHYSICIAN said the boy's back bore numerous welts. Servais, a Salvation Army major, said Lair admitted whipping the boy. He said Lair told him he considered it wrong for James to associate with other children.

Servais said Lair related that he had locked James in a tiny first floor bath rooma numbe- of timss to keep him from joining his playmates. Fire in Home Of Food Expert Turns Out to Be Roast Muncie, Aug. 19 (AP) It happens to the best of cooks. Firemen were called yesterday when smoke from a burning roast filled the home Of Mrs. Floyd Campbell who writes a food column for the Muncie Star.

Peru, Cuba End Lima, Peru, Aug. 19 (AP) Peru 'today broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba. Peru and Cuba have exchanged a series of notes in connection with the recent escape of two members of Jthe outlawed Peruvian Aprista" party from- the Cuban embassy where they took refuge several months ago. The two party members, Fernando Leon de and Pedro Muniz, arrived in Havana yesterday. Early tonight an official from the Peruvian, foreign office called at the Cuban embassy and handed Alberto Espinoza.

Cuban charge d'af-berto Espinoza, Cuban charge d'affaires, his passport At the same time the foreign office directed the Peruvian charge in Havana to ask for his passport and return to Lima. Diplomatic Ties Woods May Call for Volunteer Citizens to Police Rent Areas Crash Kills Two Near Shobonier Vandalia. Aug. -19 (Staff) Two person- were killed and two others injured seriously when the car in which they were riding crashed into a truck parked on route 51 near Shobonier shortly after 2 a. m.

today. Roberta Nichols, 19, of Vandalia was killed almost instantly and Henry Holland of Oklahoma, father of five children, died at 2:45 p. m. in Mark Greer hospital, Vandalia. Adeline Engle, 21, of Vandalia and Samuel R.

Stitt, 28, of Gillespie are in Mark Greer hospital. All four were pinned in the crumpled wreckage of the car, which had to be pulled apart by two trucks after -one truck dragged it out from under the parked machine. BYSTANDERS said flares had been burning near the- parked truck. An inquest opened tonight and was recessed by Coroner Ross Carson of Fayette county until the injured persons can be questioned. In addition to her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Nichols, Vandalia, Miss Nichols leaves two brothers, Bobby and Marvin of Vandalia, and two sisters, Mrs. Lela Barnes of Sandoval and; of Vandalia. Funeral services for her will be at 2 p. rh.

Sunday in Vandalia Christian church witi burial in Fairlawn cemetery. The body is at Hunter funeral home. The body of Holland, who leaves a wife and five children, will' be taken to Okmulgee, for funeral services and burial. Pe" V-ctim Galesburg. Aug.

19 (AP) Linda Stevenson, 7. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Stevenson, died today, the sixth fatal victim of polio in Knox county this year. Washington, Aug.

19 (AP) Housurg Expediter Tighe E. Woods' said today he may call for citizen volunteers to police rent controls in some places. But ceilings still will be lifted, he emphasized, in more thari one-third of the areas across the nation. The rent director stood by a previous statement that widespread must be made because is cutting his funds. Just where ceilings will be lifted and how soon the actions will begin remained to be seen.

Woods said many problems must be solved before the now-muddled picture can be clarified. FOB ONE THING, the rent boss said, the existing Federal Rent act specifies certain conditions which must be met before controls may be lifted. "Under the law," Woods said, "it is impossible for us to indiscrimi-! nately remove ceilings. They can be abolished only in regions -where i the demand for rental housing has been reasonably met" This does not mean, he went on. X-.