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Evening star., 1948-10-13
Ward Leader Questioned
In Politician S Staying
By the Associoted Press

CHICAGO, Oct. ia Republi
can precinct captain was questioned
in connection with the brutal slay-
ing of William John Granata and
was released last night after volun-
tarily undergoing a lie detector test.
Mr.. Granata, Republican candi-
date for clerk of the Circuit Court
of Cook Chicago, County, was
hacked to death Friday at the en-
trance to his home atop a Loop
office building.
The man questioned was William
N. Xanthas, So. real estate broker
and captain of the 55th precinct
of the 9th ward, the slain mans
home ward .re ---
Mr.. Xanthas was injected into
the investigation by an anonymous
telephone call to police headquar-
ters. The caller suggested police
check "the workers party books in
the 9th ward" for the name of a
a person beginning with *" Mr..
Xanthas was the only person on
the list whose name started with
an x.
Police said the lie detector test
indicated Mr.. Xanthas had no
knowledge of the killing.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
u. ). Answers Russia
On Spending for War
By the Assoeiotsd Press

PARIS, Oct. ia spokesman OF
the American delegation to the
United Nations said today that Rus
sias charge that 70 per cent OF
American budget expenses go fol-
war purposes, is "a characteristic
Vishinsky distortion"
Soviet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishin-
SKY made the charge yesterday in
the disarmament debate before the
Political Committee.
The American told a news con-
ference large proportion of the
budgetary percentage referred to
by Mr.. Vishinsky goes to paying for
the results of war"
1t includes, he said. pensions back
as far as the Civil War, veterans
benefits, relief projects, contribu-
tions to the International Refugee
Organization and the International
Childrens Emergency Fund, inter-
est on the national debt and interest
on the ,000OO0,0OO balance of
Russias still unsettled lend-lease
debt to the United States.
The spokesman said he was un-
able to say Immediately whether
the cost of the European Recovery
Program is met out of the 70 per
cent He recalled President Tru-
man, who used the 70 per cent figure
recently as the cost of the war, did
so to stress the dire price of war
and so support plea for peace
Evening star., 1948-10-13
runun
Continued From First Page.)

perity for the many not just for the
few" he said.
II believe that the farmer and
the industrial worker, the miner and
the businessman will prosper to-
gether or fail together. I reject
the reactionary idea that there are
second-class citizens who were meant
to be nothing but hewers of wood
and drawers of water"
Throughout the day, the Presi-
dent was met by good crowds-and
at Danville-his first stop in Illinois
he recalled with a laugh that the
city was the home of Uncle Joe'
Cannon, the legendary Republican
speaker Of the House, and said:
Can you imagine this outpouring
of Democrats in old Joe Cannon S
town. just can't understand it
The President also used his IL
linois appearances to invoke the
memory of Abraham Lincoln, who
he said, would be "out of place
among present-day Republicans.
At Springfield, the President
visited the Tomb of Lincoln when
he arrived in late afternoon, and
laid wreath.
Later Mr.. Truman headed a
torchlight procession to the armory
where about 5000 heard him talk
while other thousands stood by
loudSpeakerS.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Chinese Still HoIdinq
Red-Besieqed IaiYuan
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

SHANGHAI, Oct. IS. Quentin
Roosevelt, official of a Chinese air.
line, returning from embattled Tai
yuan. said today that Reds had
shelled the city. but had not broken
it's defenses.
Mr.. Roosevelt, son of the late Brig
Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, jr.. and
grandson of the former President,
said the Communists were within 7
miles Of the south gate of the Shansi
Province capital but that national
defenses were holding.
The Communists dropped half
dozen shells into the city on Mon
day night, causing some casualties
and greatly raising the tension, but
there have been no penetrations of
Taiyuan's defenses," he said.
Fighting has been brisk around
the south sector, but the city's de-
fenses on the north, east and west
appear strong enough to resist the
Communists, Mr.. Roosevelt said.
Chinese airlines have been supply
ing Taiyuan by using the north air.
field which is held by national
troops. The south field, he said, was
untenable because of Red fire.
Evening star., 1948-10-13

gineer of the lead engine Of the
double-header he was in charge OF
the movement of the train.
The train had stopped at the
Beaucoup tank for water for the
lead engine.
There were lot of people stand
ing on both sides of the track as !
pulled up to put water in the second
engine" said Mr.. Tindle. There
was lot of mist and smoke in the
air, and I ran about 8 or 10 feet
past the water tower. I began to
back up very slowly.
Says He Gave Signals.
II was backing SO slow that any
body could Nave easily gotten out of
the way. I gave the proper back
up signals.
That is all there was to it," he
concluded.
Mr.. Tindle. 81, has been an en-
gineer for the Louisville e. Nash
vile Railroad for 30 years and has
been running passenger trains for
10 years He said he has never had
an accident,
Evening star., 1948-10-13

Johnson's aunt, Mrs. T. Il. Goodwin.
u, on the right arm.
Mrs. johnson was taken to Sub.
urban Hospital, Bethesda, where she
was treated and released.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Hobby and Talent Show
To Be Held in Brookmont

A hobby and talent show will be
presented by the residents of Brook
mont, Md, tomorrow and Friday
at the Brookmont Baptist Church
from 7 to 10 pm.
Awards will be presented for the
best exhibits in art, photography
needlecraft, handicraft and collec-
tions. Entertainment stunts will be
presented tomorrow night and musi-
cal talent on Friday night.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Engineer Declares Dewey
Shouldn't Coll Him Lunotic

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. 13 P).-
Lee Tindle, railroad engineer. said
today that Gov. Dewey should not
have called him lunatic.
He ought not have said that,
because he didn't know what it was
all about" the railroadman said to-
day of the incident yesterday at
Beaucoup, Ill.
Mr.. Tindle was engineer in charge
of the Dewey train, which backed
up while a group of people were
around the rear end of it.
The engineer was not embittered
toward the Republican presidential
candidate because of the "lunatic'
statement.
7 think as much of Dewey as I
did before and that's not very
much" he declared.
F. Calls 1t "HOt Air"
ats all just lot of hot air." Mr.
Tindle added. If it hadn't been
the Dewey special, nothing would
have been said about it. AS it was
it gave Mr.. Dewey some more
publicity"
Mr.. Tindle explained that as en-.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Dewey
Continued From First Page.)

morning, the New York Governor
will swing in a wide circle through
Tulsa, Oklahoma City and num-
ber of smaller towns, appealing for
the election Of Representative Riz-
ley to the Senate seat being vacated
voluntarily this year by Republican
Senator Moore.
The Democrats, however, have
given their Senatorial nomination
to former Gov. Robert S. Kerr,
strong campaigner, and Mr.. Ridley
is not likely to win unless the
Dewey Warren vote reaches land
slide proportions.
Mrs. Dewey to Visit Home.
Gov. and Mrs. Dewey will leave
the train at Tulsa and drive by
automobile to Sapulpa. Her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. HUT, live there.
The Dewey train moved on to
Oklahoma last night after similar
effort to help another Republican
Senator, John Sherman Cooper, who
finds himself in a hot fight for re-
election in Kentucky. The numer-
Gus rear-platform speeches in these
two border States demonstrate the
concern which the COP high COM
mand still feels over the battle to
regain control of the Senate in the
next Congress.
All the way across Kentucky yes
terday Gov. Dewey kept asking his
audiences to vote for Senator Cooper,
regardless Of whether they vote for
him for President.
Gov. Dewey began for the first
time yesterday to talk of saving
American boys from another war.
Notes Youngsters in Crowd.
Addressing large crowd at
Frankfort, the capital of Kentucky,
Gov. Dewey noted the presence of
many youngsters, and observed:
"All these young folks here have
spent their whole lives with the
shadow of war hanging over them
We cannot afford any further
vacillation of policy. or wobbling
back and forth. We have got to get
a government which is all out on
the side of competence and vigor
for the strong waging Of peace, so
that your boys and mine need not
have to go through another war"
Later, at Louisville, he again said
the big question today is ARE your
boys and mine going to be able to
live out their lives without going
to another war" ....,
At East st. Louis Ill, late last
night Gov. Dewey was cheered by
Ia turnout of 5,008 persons, and
grinned as he remarked, I'm be-
ginning to believe we're going to
win"
Evening star., 1948-10-13
KroH Calls Dewey Program
Uncle Toms Doghouse'
BY the Assoeiatsd Press


Jack Kroll, director of the CIO-
PAC. yesterday called Gov. Dewey S
labor program Uncle Toms dog
house for labor" and commented:
"It is the same old NAM ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers
doghouse with a new coat of paint
but the same old rotten timbers."
Mr.. Kroll, who heads the CLOS
campaign in behalf of President
Truman, issued a statement on Gov
Dewey's labor speech at Pittsburgh
Monday night.
He said that from the speech at
is now clear why even so staunch
Republican as even John L. Lewis
did not dare order his miners to
support the Republican candidate.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Tomuto
Continued From First Page.)

throwers who broke up rally sew
eral weeks ago.
Mount Vernon witnesses estimated
half-dozen tomatoes were lobbed
toward Gov. Dewey and his party
on the trains rear platform. Mayor
Harry Bishop said the candidates
trousers and his own were splat-
tered. A listener standing In the
group caught direct hit.
1T was a great shame that it had
to happen after the big effort that
had been made to have Gov. Dewey
stop in Mount Vernon" Mayor
Bishop said.
Evening star., 1948-10-13
Two Women Bitten
By French Poodle

Mrs. Theo johnson, A, of 412
Shepherd street, Chevy Chase, Md,
was attacked yesterday by her
French poodle, which bit her sew
eral times on the left hip and neck,
Montgomery County police reported.
Police said the dog also bit Mrs.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27
Pea Has Enthusiastic Convention

i of the board of which he is a mem
Der, at it's meeting in Salt Lake City
last week when they unanimously en-
dorsed the candidacy of Henry Wal
lace for president and with Sen. Glen
Taylor of Idaho as his running mate.
Mr.. Mason stated that efforts nation
ally were to divorce the CLIO from CO.
operation with the Progressive Citi-
zens of America, but that the union
he presented, the largest numerically
in Montana, and many other union
affiliates of the Clio would fully CO.
operate with any organization repre-
senting the people of Montana to the
degree which the attendance at the
convention indicated. He urged sup
port and reading of The Peoples
Voice
The nominating committees chair
man Bill Petersen submitted the re-
port of the committee with the fol-
lowing nominations:
President, William Davey; vice
president, Charlotte Holtz and for
secretary treasurer, Chef Kinsey
The following were nominated for
members of the executive board by
the committee: Ray Graham, Harry
Billings, Chas. Mclean, Harold Ride
nour, Jerome G. Locke, Richard Hill,
Jack Shaefer and Larry Price.
A motion was made, seconded and
carried that the report be accepted
and the nominees be declared elected
by reclamation.
D. w. Chapman, president of the
Montana Farmers Union addressed
the convention urging the member
ship to work militantly for the MVA,
a better education program, more
adequately financed, and pleaded with
all present to work with their neigh
bors and that these things must be
done now; that time was running out
Larry Price reported for the Policy
and Action committee, and this re-
port follows in full, below.
The secretary reported 1894 in
membership fees and $135.50 in con-
tributions received.
The report of the Policy and Action
committee follows:
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27

for the six-year term, in the July pri-
mary election.
Bottomly has served continuously
as Attorney General since 1912, first
by appointment on August in that
year and then by election for the full
four-year term in 1914. Previously he
had been Assistant, and then First
Assistant Attorney General.
Bottomly was admitted to the Mon
tana Bar in 1915, commenced practice
at Harlem and has engaged in the pro-
fession continuously since, except for
the time he was in military service
during World War 1.
In addition to the routine duties of
the Attorney General in prosecuting
criminal and civil appeals to the Mon
tana Supreme Court and serving as
legal adviser to state officers and
boards, Bottomly has represented Mon
tana in the controversy regarding al
location of Sage Greek waters before
the International Joint Commission.
Recently the United States Supreme
Court unanimously affirmed Bottom
ly's contention before it that motor
carrier taxes for use of Montana high
ways are applicable to inter state
truckers.
In 1916 he was married to Mouriel
M. Heath. They have nine children,
Victor, Jr., Heath, Forbes, Eugene,
Richard, Mouriel, James, Douglas and
Continued on Page FOur)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27

worker, taking off only enouf Is s le
in 1912, and then again in 1914 On
duct campaigns in his home 6 OF
Idaho. He is member in &c : and
ing of the AFL Sheet Metal = 6ers
On international affairs, e ecord
in the senate these past three years
has been as consistently far-sighted
and progressive, as has been his role
in fighting for the rights of labor and
the common people generally.
Knows Problems of the West
Taylor's acceptance of the vice pres
idential berth on the Independent
ticket will put a westerner on the
slate who understands the problems
of westerners, as does Henry Wallace
understand the problems of American
agriculture and small business.
Taylor knows, from first hand ex-
perience, what prolonged drought can
do to farm standards of living, knows
the desperate need for an immediate
comprehensive program of soil con-
servation and re-fertilization; knows
the need for an accelerated and en-
larged program of reclamation and ir
rigation; knows the need for providing
cheap power in great quantity if the
industrial development of the west is
to catch up and keep even with the
east, and throw off at long last the
role of dependent colonialism.
Strong as the Wallace Crusade for
Peace" movement has already shown
itself to be, it cannot help but be ma
terially strengthened by Taylors ac-
ceptance. He's an old hand at cam
and is never more at ease
than when he's on a platform, wheth-
er in presenting a vaudeville comedy,
or in taking the stump in political
His sincerity plus his abil-
ity to hold the attention of people
while speaking on serious problems
have been recognized as formidable
weapons by old-line politicians not
only in Idaho, but the nation over.
The entire nation will be talking
Glen Taylor" by the time next Nov
ember rolls around.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27
Y. w. REvERSES
ITS POSITION
ON UNIT

Washington, Feb. 14-Officials of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars have
pulled out of the fight for universal
military training, it was learned yes
terday.
The 25-man council on -administra-
ton voted at Kansas City this week
to recommend that the Towe bill,
which sets up a system Of universal
military training, be sent back to the
House Armed Services committee.
This, in effect would kill the bill
This was done despite the fact the
VFW national encampment meeting
in Cleveland in January, specifically
supported the Towe bill.
At Kansas City, Congressman James
E. VanZandt, former National Com
mander, representing Pennsylvania
and Delaware, and his former naval
aid, Comdr. o. L. Young, representing
Maryland, made strong speeches
against universal military training.
In addition, it was learned, labor and
church groups opposed to it were in
vited to send ers.-BROOKLYNI
(Catholic) TABLET.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27
GERMAN SAYS us. FAILS in SELLING
DEMOCRACY TO HIS C0UNTRYMEN

the newspapers, you let out with your
propaganda, mostly in the form of slo-
gans. Don't you know we Germans
are sick to death of slogans?
"Oh, we're all trying earnestly to be
good democrats. Democracy is based
on faith and that's just what we Germ
ans haven't got today, but we go
through the motions for you anyway.
Do you seriously expect us to be
democrats today? We're too busy
getting food and keeping body and
soul together to bother with political
theories. / know and you know that
the mess we're in today is the result
of actions taken by the Germans. But
does the average German think of
that? Not at all. He takes a look
at his position two and half years
ago when the war ended and COM
pares it with his situation today and
he asks himself if democracy is so
today?
your military government is adj
from the German point of
view, the best in Germany. But put
the citizen of any country into a uni
form and he becomes either a fool or
q tyrant. You had lots of good men
here after the war. Why did you al
low them to go home? Don't you
realize it would be cheaper for you in
the long run to pay those men decent
salaries and have them handle things,
than keep these bureaucrats in office
over here who don't know anything !
and have no desire to learn?
Here at this university (the Uni
versity of Munich), we are short of
everything - books, teachers, heating
material, space and paper. If we could
have half the paper your military gov
expends on missionaries
public opinion polls, useless CORE
spondence and heaven knows what |
other absurdities, we could set about |
teaching these youngsters something
about democracy.
$50 far you haven't sold your de-
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27

that state, as the singing cow
boy" candidate for the senate.
He's no stranger to Montana,
having lived in Great Falls
during the early thirties, while he,
and Mrs. Taylor and their troupe of
"Glen-Dora" vaudeville players made
a regular circuit throughout the great
er portion of the state
A Fighting Member of Labor
Likewise, he's no stranger to organ
lied labor. Taylor is more than
fighting friend" of labor-he is from
the ranks of labor itself. During the
war years he worked in San Francisco
bay area shipyards as a sheet metal
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27
By WALTER T. RIDDER

North American Newspaper Alliance,
In DENVER POST
Munich-Thus spoke the German
professor:
1--WE Germans today are Nihilists.
We believe in neither anything or any
one We have been lied to by our
leaders in the Weimer republic, by
Hitler, by military government and
by our press. We don't believe any
thing we are told or read, and don't be-
lieve half of what we see. We have
trust in nothing, least of all our future
1--WE don't believe your propaganda
any more than we now believe the pro-
paganda of Hitler You western
powers come along and with much ex-
citement reveal to us protocol M,
which you say is the Russian program
to sabotage your Marshall plan. Does
anyone in Germany believe in its auth
enticity? They do not We've been
through all that before. We had so
manv protocol Ms at the time of
the Czechoslovakian crisis, the Polish
crisis, the war with England and the
war with Russia that we wouldn't be-
lieve one even if you proved it to be
true-which you haven't in the case of
protocol M"
The professor went on. you tell
us our pres is free and that you exert
only the remotest kind of control over
it. We don't believe you. Good heav-
ems, the minute a German politician
opens his mouth in criticism of the
military government, you fire him.
(The professor was referring to the
case of DR.. Semmler, an official of the
Joint economic committee who address
sed party meeting and made Wit
riolic denunciation Of the military gov
eminent. Semmler was fired for max
ing false statements and indulging in
malicious" criticism.) You people
claimed that what he said was false
maybe So maybe not All we know
is that when he dared to open his
mouth, out he went.
"AlIl day long over the radio and in !
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1948-02-27

In his opening remarks, President
Davey discussed briefly the import
ance of the meeting in view of pres
ent, critical domestic and information
|al conditions and the great and extra
ordinary need for active participation
by the common people in the political
field.
The minutes of the first meeting
were read by Secretary Chef Kinsey
and approved as read.
Mr.. Davey then read the agenda of
the convention and appointed the fol-
lowing committees:
Rules and credentials committee:
Vera Foutch, Ray Graham, Clyde Cole,
Ira Siebrasse and Edna Hostetter.
Bylaws Committee: Pat Gilfeather,
Chas. Joslyn. Ronald Holtz, Idell
Moore and Chas. Herman.
Policy and Action Committee: Har-
old Ridenour, Bill Mason, Ilert Helle-
bust, Larry Price, John Hellman, Har-
ny Billings, Hobart Mexican, Ashley
Holly, Geo. Durocher, Ernest Redlin
Jr., and Richard Shipman.
Nominating Committee: Wilferd
Petersen, Dorothy Floerschinger, Leo
nard Kenfield. Florence Ersson and
Bill Hodges.
Following the appointment of com
mittees and their withdrawal to COM
mence their work, Secretary Kinsey
discussed the issues of Importance
now confronting the nation and the
urgent need for understanding them
and to undertake political action to