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Largest Circulation Ct Any Cincinnati Newspaper APRIL, Paid Circulation DAILY: 178,282 SUNDAY: 263,172 TODAY'S WEATHER CINCINNATI AND VICINITY: Partly Cloudy And Warmer, low, 50; High, 83. a rmiT TP! TT I I I i I SI I I 111 JL JLJJL JU 1 Jli. vUiLlN 1 JniJl JL JJJJ 1 SI VCS VJJ 109th YEAR NO. 34 DAILY FINAL EDITION FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1949 30 PAGES FIVE CENTS EH 15) 1 nr JliV ET3 3 COP CASUALTY IN BATTLE OF BEES THREE YOUTHS Truman Stands Pat REDS REFUSE "TV "jJ jj COMMONS Jump On Official For Tax Increase To Allow Exports Stamps Its O.K. On North Atlantic Pact In 333 To 6 Vote.

To Balance Deficit In Attempt To Escape From Detention Home. Heavy Push-Broom Is Used To Club Superintendent's Aid At Courthouse. Attacking an assistant superintendent with a heavy push-broom, three 17-year-old youths made a determined but futile attempt to escape from the Juvenile Place of Detention on the top floor of the Courthouse at 6:15 p. m. yesterday.

The attacked man, Virgil Burns, 55, 1209 California suffered a deep head cut when the youths jumped him from behind, police learned. Juvenile authorities said the boys were in the recreation room when they launched what appeared to be a planned break for freedom. All the fight went out of the youths when William Perry, an attendant who was in the corridor, heard them scuffling with Burns and went to his aid. A husky youth who is believed to have been the one who struck Burns with the bottom of the broom and one of his companions are being held on armed robbery charges. The third is an escapee from an institute for the feeble-minded, Harold R.

Muntz, Chief Probation Officer, said. LOST THEIR NERVE. Juvenile authorities said last night that they believed at least two more youths took part in planning the attempted break but lost their nerve at the last minute. After they had been placed in the Hamilton County Jail, the three told police they had hoped to take keys from Burns which would have freed them. Police surmised last night that at that time of day they would not have gotten far even if they had reached the outside.

Police were unable to learn where the youths obtained the bottom part of the broom. Patrolmen Carl Scholle and Ernest Fulcher, who were called to the Courthouse by Edward Rabbe, a clerk, took Burns to General Hospital. He was released after treatment. y4S i-irirMii An estimated 25,000 homeless bees found refuge at Ninth and Plum Sts. yesterday afternoon on the exhaust pipe of the automobile of Omar Caswell, who, as City Welfare Director, has taken care of homeless and indigent persons for years.

Two hours later, after they had stung at least three persons, scared the daylights out of a few others and soared around one corner of City Hall, seemingly in search of a way to get at some of the "honeys" who watched from behind the safety of closed windows, they swarmed into a cardboard box which Robert Walker, Lebanon, Ohio, a student at the College of Pharmacy, had provided. Walker was reported to have planned to take them home to Lebanon on a bus. Assisting Walker in capturing the bees were Joseph Meister, 2384 Wheeler a former beekeeper, and Safety Patrolman Paul Waite, who also knows something about bees. All three of the men were stung. In the photograph at the left, Waite is shown pointing to the swarm at the base of the box while others (those white spots in the photograph) buzz around his head.

On the right he is nursing his sting. Quite a few persons were brave enough to get up close to the swarm. One of them was The Enquirer photographer, Allen Kain, who took both photographs. Another mess of bees swarmed in a tree in the rear of the home of E. B.

Hooper, 813 Greenwich Price Hill, at about the time the group showed up at Ninth and Plum Al Hunt, 835 Greenwich reported. Bevin And Churchill Appeal For Acceptance Treaty Passes Belgian Senate. London, May 12 (AP) The House of Commons overwhelmingly ratified the North Atlantic Treaty tonight. The vote was 333 to 6. Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, and Winston Churchill had joined In urging approval of the pact to turn any aggression from the East.

Canada was the first of the 13 members to ratify the treaty. Belgium's Senate approved It today, 127 to 13, completing ratification by that nation. Churchill, the conservative leader, told Commons: "There can be no assurance of permanent peace In Europe while Asia is on the Elbe or while so many ancient cities in Eastern Europe are held in the grip of 13 men -ho form the oligarchy of tho Kremlin." Bevin, speaking for the Labor Government, reviewed East-Weat differences of recent months and aaid the Soviet blockade of Western Berlin "has happily been lifted today." GERMAN ISSUE BEARING. "I am convinced that this closer link between the Atlantic nations has led to second thoughts about tactics that have been followed regarding Germany, and particularly about Berlin," Bevin said. Bevin said there was a possibility that the new situation set up by the treaty, signed in Washington last month, would lead to "a final settlement." In addition to Canada, Belgium and Britain, signed are the United States, France, Italy, The Nether-land, Luxembourg, Norway, Denmark, Portugal and Iceland.

Only the two Communist members of the House and a handful of Left-wing Laborities opposed the treaty. Churchill said he found himself 'in very general agreement with the somber speech of Mr. Bevin." Bevin's policy was termed wise and prudent, "GUARANTEE OF PEACE." "I am glad the lifting by the Soviet Government of the blockade of Berlin was not taken by him as the occasion for proclaiming that an important peace gesture has been made," Churchill said. "We give our cordial welcome to the Atlantic Pact." The wartime Prime Minister said the Atlantic Pact, the five-nation Brussels Treaty and the recently established Council of Europe "are our surest guarantees of peace and aafety." Only the power of the atomic bomb in the hands of the United States, he said, "has glten us time to tak8 measures of self-protection and to develop unities" such as those crystalized in the Atlantic Treaty. Churchill thanked the United States for its part in world affairs and said it was the hope of mankind that their valiant and eelf sacrificing program would OBLIGATION Of Big Five Greatest CHARTER For Germany SAYS HE CUT DEBT By Others Thump Economy Drum Washington, May 12 (AP) President Truman today stuck to his request for a $4,000,000,000 tax boost and anti-inflation powers, touching off sharp new opposition in Congress and business circles.

Mr. Truman told a news conference the twin programs he repeatedly has asked are still needed to keep the government from operating in the red and to hold the nation's economy on an even keel. Then, in reference to a congressional drive to trim Federal spending, he said he believes in and has been practicing rigid government economy. As an example, the President said he had cut the national debt about $26,000,000,000, which he said was more than any other Chief Executive had done. So, he said, the tax boost is necessary lo offset a predicted deficit this fiscal year of between $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 and to make new payments on the Federal debt which now stands at $251,000,000,000.

After these remarks, Mr. Truman left to make a talk to a large group of business executives. Although the White House said this speech wa3 completely "off the record," these others were not: (1) Sen. Robert A. Taft, Republican, Ohio, told a national lumbermen's meeting "the greatest failure of the 81st Congress is in the financial field." He said that if Congress "could cut $3,000,000,000 off expenditures we could avoid a tax increase." But he added he is "not particularly optimistic that it will." HOUSE BOOSTS OWN EXPENSES.

Earlier Taft had served notice that Senate Republicans intend to press their drive for a 5 per cent slash in new appropriations despite last night's setback when the "economy block" failed to trim that amount off a treasury Post Office Department spending bill. Shortly after Taft spoke, the House voted to add about $1,500,000 annually to government costs as it approved a measure giving its members $3,000 extra for clerical hire and a $500 allowance for telephone and telegraph charges on official business. Not a single objection was raised, although just before passing the bill the House roundly applauded speeches by two Republican members calling for government economy. (2) Edward E. Brown, Chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago, told a Senate Committee that an administration request for authority to curb the lending powers of banks "is untimely." "For some months business has been declining-," Brown said.

"The critical question is how far the recession will go." He gave this testimony in opposing a move to extend the Federal Reserve Board's authority to control consumer credit two years and to give it permanent power to increase the amount of money banks must hold in reserve as nonlendable funds. Brown, incidentally, is President of the Federal Reserve system's Advisory Council. MOLEY SEES GRAVE DANGER. (3) A spokesman for the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks also opposed this anti-Inflation request. Richard Rapport, the witness, told the Senate group: "Centralization in the Federal Government of all authority over banking would place in the hands of a single agency a power, which if improperly administered, could bring chaos to the entire country." (4) Raymond Moley, former New Deal "braintruster," declared "the Federal Government is completely out of financial control." He told a meeting of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks: "The present pace of expenditures cannot go on into a period of smaller business volume without grave danger.

I think it is a fair assumption that we shall have a decline of somewhere between five and 10 per cent in our national income during the fiscal year, 1950." In such event he said reduced Federal spending is necessary if the 1950 budget is to be balanced. (5) But Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, speaking on the same program, asserted "we are only at the beginning of our peacetime He repeated his oft-stated belief there are "powerful factors In our present situation making for stability and progress on a high income, high employment level." TRUMAN LEAVES WAV OPEN. In restating his request for anti-inflation controls, Mr. Truman left open the possibility for a different approach later on.

He declined to comment on reports that his Economic Advisory Council had advised him it would be desirable to avoid a big tax increase if it could be done without deficit financing. The President then went on to say he makes economic reports to Congress twice a year based on the Council's findings and other Information. Until he makes another such report, Mr. Truman said, he stands for economic controls. But whether this indicated he may take a difforent position later was not brought out.

However administration leaders in Congress have conceded there Is no chance of getting the control request approved at this session. As an affirmation of that, Chairman Burnet R. May-bank, Democrat, South Carolina, of the Senate Banking Committee said today that the general economic situation now is "just the opposite" of what it was when Mr. Truman submitted the control requests In January. To Leave West Berlin Without Soviet Stamp.

"Stung," General Howley Asserts But 250,000 Celebrate In City. Berlin, May 12 (AP) American officials said today a Soviet "joker" apparently had turned up in the Big Four agreement which resulted in removal of the blockades in Germany. Land traffic flowed smoothly into Western Berlin with the lifting this morning of Soviet barriers established last June. The people celebrated. As the day progressed, however, it became clear the Russians would not permit German trucks to leave this city for the Western zones of Germany without either a Russian stamp or one from the Soviet-backed German Eastern Economic Branch.

Western Berlin is separated from the rest of Western-occupied Germany by 100 miles of Soviet-controlled territory. If Soviet authorities enforce their claim to authority over Western Berlin's exports they could keep 2,000,000 residents of the American, British and French sectors of the city on a basis of "virtual charity," said Brig. Gen. Frank L. Howley, American commandant here.

"MUST EXPORT TO LIVE." He declared Western Berlin "must export to the West to live" and added: "The American and British Airlift can meet any emergency now it can keep exports moving out but the Airlift isn't intended to go) on forever." Despite this seeming hitch, Berlincrs poured out of their homes and attended two giant rallies celebrating the end of the blockade. Even the old, the young and the crippled turned out. Schools and most business houses closed. The very size and existence of the two rallies and the tone of the speeches delivered at each one gave evidence of the bitter division between Communists and anti-Communists. Berlin still was a split city with two separate municipal administrations.

However, all police controls on freedom of movement inside the city had disappeared overnight. Berlincrs could travel anywhere in the city without risk of police search. Western and Soviet-licensed newspapers once again were sold freely in the rival sectors. AIRLIFT STILL ON JOB. The Soviet blockade of Western Berlin and Western Allies' counter blockade of the Russian zone of Germany were lifted on schedule all along the German cold war front.

For the American and British Airlift crews it was just another day. They kept flying supplies into Berlin at the rate of nearly SCO tons an hour and expected to keep on doing so for another 30 days. The Western Towers seek both replenishment of the depleted stocks of Western Berlin and time to measure Russia's intentions. Those Intentions are expected to become clearer when the Four-Power Foreign Ministers' conference on Germany opens In Paris May 23. Two dates are Involved In the question of who has a right to con.

troi Western Berlin's exports. The blockades were lifted as a result of a Big Four agreement reached earlier this month in New York. That agreement ordered the removal of all transportation restrictions imposed by the four pow-er In Germany since March 1, 1948. However, the Russians as early as January, 1948, issued an order claiming the right to supervise what was shipped from Berlin to Western Germany. Howley said the West was stung in the deal with the Russians.

He declared in an interview; "So tho kidnaper brought the baby hack and now everybody is supposed to be happy. "We are investigating now to see if the Russians will enforce this. Of course they are technically in the right. I'm not mad at them for this. I am mad at them for killing bur Airlift boys.

But this is plain business. And we must have cool, hard-headed businessmen of the old Yankee tradition to deal with the situation." Fifty-five Americans and Britons have lost their lives in Airlift crashes. 22 Persons Hurt In Trolley Crash; Two Autos Struck Chicago, May 12 (AP) Twenty-two persons were injured today when a streetcar hit a switch, collided with two automobiles and overturned. The injured were taken to St. Anne's Hospital, where two of them were reported in critical condition.

An official of the Chicago Transit Authority said the streetcar apparently wa3 traveling too fast. The car, westbound, veered south. It struck one automobile headon and smashed the side of another before turning over on one of the vehicles. Scott Voss, 44, motorman of the rtreetcar, suffered multiple fractures when he was thrown beneath the streetcar. The drivers of both cars, as well as two passengers in one of the automobiles, were injured.

The accident occurred near North and Cicero Avenues on the Northwest Side. Heart Of America! It Beats Right Now For Dad Of Cancerous Baby Who Needs Car For Daily Visits To Hospital Oakland, May 12 (UP) The insertion of this classified ad in a local paper yesterday brought in a deluge of phone calls to Forrest E. Patridge of Albany: "Wanted: To buy or rent, a cheap automobile to transport an 18-month-old baby girl, dying of cancer, to and from the hospital daily for six months or less." Within a few hours after the ad was placed, offers from the Red Cross and dozens of people began coming into the Patridge home, most of them offering transportation free of charge. "I wasn't looking for charity," Patridge explained. "But it's Been taking my wife two hours a day to get our daughter, Becky, to and from the hospital on the bus." Patridge added that he was a partner in a new business venture which had sapped his financial resources.

"My partner and I need our one car to make enough money to pay for the baby's medical care," he said. The baby recently underwent an operation for a malignant kidney tumor and must have daily X-ray therapy which doctors think may possibly save her life. "We've been deluged with offers," said Mrs. Audrey Patridge, 27, "and a lot of them said 'Como and get our car if you want to haul it But Forrest doesn't want any charity he just wants to buy a cheap car "to make It easier for Becky and me." Western Allies, Witli Some Reservations "Occupation Statute" Put In Force. Frankfurt, Germany, May 12 (AP) The three Western Allies approved tonight with several reservations the draft constitution for a new West German Federal Republic.

At the same time the Americans, British and French announced they had put into force an "occupation statute" or interim peace treaty, for 45,000,000 Germans in the Western occupation zones. Thus were swept away on the Allied side all objections to formation of a German Government, which will be open to the Soviet Zone if free elections are held in the Soviet area. The Western Powers may propose at the Foreign Ministers' Council in Paris opening May 23 that the draft constitution be used as a basis for an all-German Government provided free elections are held in Eastern Germany. The constitution was signed by the Military Governors of the United States, Britain and France. The German constituent assembly' approved it last Sunday.

It may become law before the end of May if it is approved quickly by two-thirds of the 11 state parliaments In Western Germany. The reservations made certain that the Western Allies would not avert a third world war. To Preserve Peace, Truman Says As U. S. Officially Blames Russia For Disunity.

Washington, May 12 (AP) President Truman called today for "national self-restraint" among the five powers which hold the right of veto in the United Nations. This means Russia along with the United States, Britain, France and Nationalist China. They have the greatest obligation of all UN members, Mr. Truman said, to settle the'r disputes peacefully and not to use force against the "territorial integrity or political Independence" of any country. These aims are in the UN charter.

Mr. Truman said the United States was "firm in our resolution" to work for the charter's objectives. This was in a letter from the President to Congress today transmitting a report of United States participation in the world organization for 1948, and noting his approval of it. The report placed on Russia the blame for failure of the UN to give the world greater security. The North Atlantic Security Treaty and other American moves abroad are a result of this UN inadequacy, Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, said.

Acheson pointed out that most member states appeared to be working toward the objectives of a peaceful world, international justice and respect for individual human rights. He called attention to American leadership during the year in UN matters. It led, he said, in keeping UN attention focused on political questions of the future government of Palestine, Korean independence and maintaining Greece's territorial integrity and independence. The United States also served prominently, he said, in efforts to settle the Indonesian problem. "Any deeds by the Soviet Gov- ernment which really make for Bullet Ends Career Of Navy Commander In Cabin On Carrier peace and friendly intercourse of mankind will have an immediate response, but mere maneuvers must be watched with the utmost Vigilance," he said.

SPAIN'S ABSENCE KUED. Churchill said the absence of Spain from the Atlantic Pact was "a serious gap in the strategic arrangements for Western Europe." He asked the government to return its ambassador to Madrid. The envoy was recalled In keeping with the United Nations assembly resnlu- at this time allow the Germans to these things: tion of 1916 asking all members to Violate the "occupation statute;" form a strong central police force under any pretext of an emergency withdraw representatives of ambassadorial or ministerial rank from the Franco government. Bevin said the West had seen nation after nation made absolutely subservient to Russia, with the Czechoslovak coup "perhaps the most ruthless act which shook the world's "The accusation has been made that the Atlantic Pact is an aggressive thing and will bring war," Bevin said. WOMAN CYCLIST KILLED.

Painesville, Ohio, May 12 (AP) An automobile knocked Mrs. Marilyn Hall, 23, Ashtabula, from a motorcycle on U. S. 20 near Mentor today, injuring her fatally. Her husband, Russell, 25, who was driving the motorcycle, suffered a skull fracture and internal injuries.

without assent of occupation authorities; give Western Berlin's representatives at this time voting rights in a future government; change borders of the states "until the peace treaty;" use wording of certain articles in the constitution to bring about "excessive concentration of authority." of Newspaperman And Advertising Man Hinted As Republican Candidates For City Council THE WEATHER: Cincinnati And Vicinity: Partly cloudy and warmer. Low, 50; high 82 degrees. INSIDE THE ENQUIRER: FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1949. Ohio: Some cloudiness and mild today, followed by scattered showers tonight and in East and South Saturday morning. Assoclited Press Wlrephoto.

COMDR. O. E. RIGSBEE JR. San Francisco, May 12 (AP) Comdr.

E. O. Rigsbce skipper of the big carrier U.S.S. Antietam, was found shot to death in his cabin today. Unofficial Navy sources said "there appeared to be no foul play." The death weapon was re- ported found near the body.

The Chronicle said San Francisco police officers had been ordered to stay out of the Navy Yard. It said they were told the Navy would conduct its own Investigation. There were unconfirmed reports Commander Rigsbee had been suffering from a heart ailment. Cooler Saturday. Kentucky: Partly cloudy today.

Saturday scattered thundershow-ers. Mild temperature. Indiana: Mostly fair and a little warmer today. Saturday fair in South, cloudy an dcooler in North. M.

Molloy and Jesse D. Locker, incumbents; Rabbi Michael Aaron-sohn, Roselawn; Potter Stewart, Hyde Park; R. E. (Rudy) Rein-hold, Price Hill; Robert D. Van Fossen, Clifton; Brown and Allen.

Allen, a veteran of World War II, with three and a half years' service, is a graduate of Tale University. He joined the Times-Star in 1937 and rejoined the newspaper after his military service. Allen left again December 29, 1947, on a roving assignment around the world to devote several months to writing about the places he had visited and flown over as a pilot in the Asiatic-Pacific theater. Allen finished his war service as a Captain and returned to that rank in the USAF Reserve. He holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal and Purple Heart, He is the son of Douglass M.

Allen President of Allen, Heaton 4 McDonald, advertising agency In The Enquirer Building. Ted Brown, prominent In adver- BY A. M. FORKNER Douglass M. Alien 31, 3411 Michigan Hyde Park, a Times-Star reporter and copy reader, is to be the ninth candidate on the Republican slate in the November election, it was learned last night.

(Pictures On, Page 28.) Earlier yesterday, the name of Theodore (Ted) Brown, 43, 4636 Howard Northside, advertising agency executive and President of the Advertisers Club of Cincinnati, was tipped as the eighth man on the GOP slate. Official announcement of the nine-person GOP Council ticket is expected to be made late today after the party's Executive Committee, headed by George F. Eyrich meets with the GOP Nominating Committee, headed by Louis Nippert. If names of Allen and Brown are given final approval, the Republican field will be made up of former Mayor Carl W. Rich, John tising and business circles, was born in Cincinnati.

He is a graduate of Withrow High School, the U. S. Naval Academy Preparatory School and the University of Cincinnati. Brown is President of Perry-Brown, Edwards Building, 1)28 Walnut and the Cincinnati Advertisers Club. He is a Past President of several business, school and Presbyterian Church organizations.

He was cochairman of the 1948 Community Chest Publicity Committee and headed the 1949 committee. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge and was the first editor of the Syrian Shriek, Shrine publication. He is also a member of th Cincinnati Club, Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati Executives Association and several other organizations. Candidates for Council, including those of the Republican and Charter parties and independents, have until 60 days before November 8 to file petitions with the Board of Elections. rage Page Amusements 13 Markets 26-27 Bridge 10 Mirror of City 30 Classified 16-21 Obituaries 28 Comics 29 Radio 12 Court News 8 Real Estate 1 Crossword 15 Society News 11 Editorials 4 Sports 23-25 Journey's End 27 Women's 9-10 COLUMNISTS: Bob Considine Tage 7 Joseph Garretson Page I Ollie M.

James Tage 4 Walter Llppmann Tage 4 Drew Pearson Page 4 Westbiook Peglcr TagelS Victor Rlesel Page Dave Roberts Page 25 Billy Rose Page Dr. T. R. Van Dellen Page 5 Walter Winchcll Page 5 "Wi all right the always comet home front the Home Show that uay!" It always takes awhile to come down out of the clouds after seeing a Home Show. And this year's la the biggest and dreamiest yet with over 250 exhibits! On display: The newest in building materials in home furnishings and decoration In modern, magical appliances in "take-home" ideas for easy, convenient living.

Even a five-room prefabricated house, finished and furniehed inside and out. Time and place: May 14-22, Music Hall. Wide-eyed onlookers: Your whoie family, by all means. The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati Weather Bureau office record for May 12, 1949: Temp. Hum.

Prec. 7:30 a.m. 51 74 0 7:30 p.m 42 0 1949. '48. '47.

Nl 85 73 SI 55 0 Highest temperature 78 77 Lowest temperature 47 60 Precipitation 0 .31 KILLED IN PLANT MISHAP. Canton, Ohio, May 12 (AP) Herman Pearson, 23, of near-by Magnolia, was Injured fatally today when struck by a brake drum at the Babcock Printing Press Corp. plant here. Today Sunrise 5:27 a. sunset 7:42 p.

m. River 14.6 in pool. WIATHEB OBSERVATIONS ON rAQI IT.