Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1948-08-06
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Builds Cannon, Kills Self • Th. Weath.r Today !iAN BERNADINO, CALIF. (JP) - Mr. Roland 1\1. Vallet told poUce tbat for six: montbs ber busband bad been work In.. In tbelr .. arace on somethln... She said Cloudy and warmer today. Cloudy tomor he refused to tell ber what II WlUl except that It was "Important. .. row. High today 80; low 50. Yest rday's Vallet. 61, was killed Wednesday by a home-made OWGI1 high 78; low 49. eabDon. the .. somethln.... be had been watkin.. on for Established l8SS-Vol. 80, No· 265-AP News and Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa, Friday, Aug. 6, 1948-Five Cents .. Ion ... A note he left complained of III hea1th. House Passes 110-Foot Drop to Death Bill '0 Control Russ Ease Financ.ial (red it, Buying By JACK RUTLEDGE WASH INGTON (JP}-The GOP an(i-Intlalion measure \Vas passed, 264 to 97, yesterday by the house Crisis In West Berlin in I sharp rebuff for president Truman. * * * 'The measure calls for restora Wanted: A Fire-Proof Fire House tion 01 wartime controls on in See Additional See Possible stallment buying, and moderate tightening of bank credit It ig JOlIN" T WN, PA. (JP)-Th Oakland suburban fire de. 8 hOillie. nores the President's demand tor l partment is in the market for fire-proof fire rationing and price-wage control Talks Between Eight yeaTS ago tbe departmpnt'R building burned down. A (ii, Money powers, and for an excess profits on . tory bri k building replaced tax. Cine, it. The bill was rushed to the Sen Today the volunteers serambled out of bed to answer an lte as Republicans leaders drove West. Russia alarm. 'J'h y didn't have to go far - th ir fire bou e was Compromise for adjournment of the extra ses on fire. By GEORG BRIA By EDDY GILMORE nly the wall. were standing after tb blaze. An ambu- sion of congress tomorrow night. MOSCOW (IP)-British, Ameri BERLIN (JP) - TIle Russians or next Tuesday at the latest. Ion nnd most fir -fighting equipment wa. de. troy d. The sliehtly relaxed their financial can ami Fr neh envoys conferrecl fir('m u aved onE' piece of quipment - tb ir fire engine. SpUt On Howlinr at the AmerlC'an embas y yester blockade of Berun yesl rday as 'But plans for swift adjourn day and wer believed to be for this crisis-ridden city wutched for ment were Imperilled by a wide mulating plans fOr another east results of four-pow('I' diPl malic open split within Republican wClit meeting with Prlme Mlnis maneuverin" in Mwcow. ranks on the housing issue. 't r Stalin Says Mystery Witness The aciion indicat d the Rus The senate banking couunittee, siaml may be willing to work out Frunk Robert, spe ial British a compromis 01 til eaA-west cm'_ in n surprise move, dumped OVer envoy, join d Fr nch Ambassador board a housing bill sponsored by rency diBput h reo SovIet auth Yves Chataigneau in U. S. Ambas orities have given tile mOlley con Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) and sador Woller B. Smith 's oUice yes May. Crack Spy Case sent to the senate floor a revised flict as a reason Cor th ir Imposi terduy afternoon. The. conference tion of the land blockade on lhe vmion of the Taft-Ellender-Weg ffi W ARIINGTON (JP)- A my lety wit u 's 118 be n found who followed un adler round of dip city. ner housing bill, backed by Presi lomatic meetings yesterday and may" 'rnc·k wiele ojlen the whole Soviet Rpy CaRl'," th honse 1m dent Truman. The senate then be Tells Of Acreement same Wedne.~dIlY night. Amerkan llctivitie. committ onnonne d last night. gan consideration of the latter 'Chere wus no Official statement Charles Gi fford, Bl'iti~h finance measure. on uny d velopments last night Actill~ 'hairJll811 Mundt (R-SD) lold r('porter8 a subcommit officer, told a news conference of build. This was a new flareup of an tee i'l bing. cnt out of town to inlt'I'view the witness. Mundt de the Russians' financial action. He of the but informed sources said "deve said the anti-Communist Berlin old batUe. The T-E-W bill, which lopments were possible." The thr~e Ward clined to Ray who th(' per on is, or wher hc is located. city government had reached nn has been sponsored by Sena tor west rn nvoys w re report.ed Earlier in the day, a congress in Lee Tart (R-Ohio) among others, is agreement with lh Russians for st nding by after their lengthy man declared that 1,300 pounds Whittaker Chambers, a previous the release ot enough funds from also designed to encourage the con in eling at the American embassy. of precious compounds were ship witness, hod testified that Hiss blocked Russian mark accounts to struction of 15 million homes in All three ernbassies had receiv was a member of the "Red under per to Russia "at the very height m~et its weekend payments. 10 years. ed first rc,lction Sfrom their gov iround" here. Hiss now is head of A simil:1r arrangement was ernmenls the Monday night Two Controversies of atomic research in 1943." the Car 0 e g i e F 0 undaUoo for reached for business firms in tho Two features of it, in particular, conversations with Stalin and Uranium is a basic material In ternational Peace. western sectors or the City, Gil have aroused controversy. They were believed now in a position to for atomic bombs. The first Rep. Mundt told reporters that tard said. Those concerns had formulatc thelr next steps. call for federal loans and sub$idJes atomic bomb in warfare was in his opinion Hiss certainly been in a pOSition of not being able \0 help clear slums and foe fed Reliuble soure s ~aid a new ap "made a rather convincing case." to meet salaries and other debts AP Wireph oto proach may be made to the Rus dropped on Hiroshima three years eral financing of low-cost homes, A nO-FOOT DROP IN A SEMI-TRAn.ER brourht death to two Detroit men yesterday at Ea t t. ago yesterday. Chambers issued a statement say because of the weck ·old squeeze which would be owned by public Louis, III. Their machine, which was baulint: a. load at fUrniture, ripped out a. 10-(00t section ot the sians shortly and that this was ing he has "no change whatever on money. likely to take the form of another McDowell Testltles housing 3iencies in various com guard raU on the approach to MacArthur bridge aoross the l\lIssisslppl and then plunred to the &'round. to make" in his testimony ~on "No Striugs" munities. Gap III the rail can be seen at the top or the picture. four-powl'r In eling involving Rep. McDowell (R-Pa) told cerning Hiss. Stalin. thaut the alleged uranium ship Giffard said as fllr as he knew Some house leaders have brand The gi t or lh«; r 'plit's from Wa ments t.o his colleailues on the 2. A senate luvesi.I ...tln.. Bub "no strings were attached" to tile ed the public housing feature ~hingtC)n, London and Paris to house committee on un·American commlttee headed by Senator Fer Russian release of funO s. IT add ·socialistic." The bill offered by tlJt'i .. envoys' reports ot the first guson (R-Mich) heard testimony ed: liThe pres!'nt Ul'l"lIl1gcment ap. Inc of a joint senate-house com Man's Best Fftiend at Work Guard Ups Quota; pears satisfactory to tit!' wc:>tern ('ollV{ ' ~ 'iubolls were car efully that commerce department offi Sfoator McCarthy, with the back For comment by PresIdent allies." .. P ASADE~ A. CA 1..1 fT<'. {JP)- Darryl N.-lsoJl, ~, to. sed 8 gllJlt It" ('r, ct. It w, s not .knoWlJ '{'ruman on tbe Communist cials knew that William W. Rem ing of a joint senate-house com Still Needs Offiters, Asked wily the Ru ~slons should lit;thted 1I11It(' 11 ilJtu II eon he had bE'PIl llfli ng for ch~lllj C3l ex: wh('Lhll' ul,other me~ ting with invuUrations and otber sub In..:ton was the subject 01 an "ac mittee, omitted the publlc hous Stal in wou let IJc for the purpose ot tive investigation for espionage" suddenly swerve {rom the appar ing and slum clearance provisions. pt'rimellls. '['he can explodpd. Darry l 'f; pants caught J'ir . Je is, se& PAGE 6. ent aim of ach! ving a financial givl Jl~ the repli·s or the west rn when he was hired. Samuel Klaus, It , Mrs. NO I'm un J plson, I hI' boy'l'I motlH'r' dllsbed to hi s air!. Some Enlisted Men was designed to spur the build pow.'!" 10 Sovid proposals. a state department lawyer, made monopoly in 'Bcrlill, 111' replied. ing of low-cost homes and large A ·Jl eighbor's dolt, excited by the blas t, dash d to Mrs. Neif;o l1 llCtlVltJ S. lt is one of two con WASJ[[NGTON (IP) - The no It W:JS l>:lJd on good ;l uUlOrity , the statement. Remington, now "They apparently did not want scale rental properties, principal and bit hC,'\" on t h~ If\g, gressional units now digging Jnto tional guard opened the door yes how ver, thot the tWO-hour Mon under suspension, was chairman o.f to bring things to u head in Ber· ly by means of more liberal credit.