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Western windy and cold, with snow flurries Wednesday, except locally heavy snow squalls in portion, high 22-30. Sunday and be coming wanner Thursday, kigh B6-35. (Temperatures on Fare) mt a SEVEN CENTS Published in the Birthplace of the Oil First Daily Paper in the Oil Region Established 1865 TITUSVILLE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1959 Over 6,900 Copies Sold Daily Ike Sees No Delay In Talks On Berlin Hopes Sec. Dulles Will Be Back WithinFewWeeks After Surgery WASHINGTON Eisenhower confidently predicted Tuesday that East-West negotiations on Germany will move ahead on schedule despite Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' new illness. Eisenhower brushed aside Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's bid for him to visit the Soviet Union for informal talks on international, problems.

Khrushchev extended an invitation in a Moscow speech Thursday, coupling it with a bitter attack on U.S. officials. Eisenhower made his comments at a news conference about the time Dulles entered the Army's Walter' Reed Hospital for a few days' rest prior to a hernia operation. Doctors tentatively planned to operate some time this weekend. Eisenhower spoke of Dulles, who is 70, as "the- most valuable man in foreign affairs that I have ever known." He also voiced a hope Dulles will return full time to Ms desk ia a few weeks.

Eisenhower foresaw no delay in Allied moves to arrange a foreign ministers conference with the Soviets on the Berlin and German deadlock. A team of American, British, French and German diplomats was reported putting final touches to a new note to Moscow prospos- ing such East-West talks hi the near future. The Allied proposal, was reported to omit any firm date for such negotiations. They are widely expected to begin about mid-May. Maj.

Gen. Leonard D. Heaton, the same surgeon who operated on President Eisenhower in 1956 for ileitis, will operate on Dulles. Heaton, talking with newsmen said the hernia operation will'be a simple one. He said Dulles will be on his feet shortly after the surgery.

THE DRAKE Has One Too Many Wives Jobless Brian Wahler, 22 (center), sits in San Jose, Jail while pondering his double life. Telling Jenny, 24 (left), Wife 1, that he was job hunting, he married Rachel Belasco, 22 (right), last November. He planned to divorce Wife No. 1 and start over with Wife No. 2.

He didn't find a job and spent one night a week with Wife No. 1 and six with Wife No. 2. Jenny talked to Rachel's mother and compared motes, including information that both wives are pregnant. Wife No.

2 jailed him for bigamy. He wants to make up with Wife No. 1 can Wife No. 1 will think it over. Jobless in January Highest Since War State Closing Of Schools Questioned HARRISBURG Centre County school principal Tuesday questioned why it took state officials more than half a century to condemn some school buildings as fire hazards.

Paul Runyan, supervising principal of the Bald Eagle Area Joint School District, asked the question at a meeting of the State Industrial Board which ordered one U.S. Balloon Found in Spain BURGOS, Spam (AP) An American plastic balloon containing scientific equipment was found Tuesday by two farmers at Grijalva village, 25 miles north of here. It apparently had floated across the Atlantic. The balloon, 82 feet high and 16 in diameter, belongs to the Schjeldahl Co. of Northfield, Minn.

There were two eight-inch boxes tightly closed. An inscription asked the finders to notify the American company. fire of his schools closed unless safety repairs are made. "They have used this building (Milesburg elementary) for years. Why Is this building dangerous all of a sudden to a point that you order it closed within 24 hours?" Runyan asked.

William L. Batt Labor and Industry secretary and board chairman, answered Runyan's query saying: "Until the recent Chicago fire that killed 90 children and nuns, we thought differently about certain safety factors. But that fire made us change our requirements and that is why your school has The Sclmozr Gets Big Cake On Birthday PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Schnoz cut his 66th birthday cake he sniffed it first to make sure it was for real. Then the six show girls in his night club act helped Jimmie Durante blow out the candles. "I can't do it myself," sighed the funny funnyman as he surveyed the six-tier three-foot cake.

"Besides I'm getting a little old hi need of safety been declared repairs." Runyan said his school district would do "all it can to comply with the orders. Runyan said he would take the explanation back to his local school board but predicted little in the way of a warm reception to the answer. Runyan was one of more than a dozen school officials who appealed board rulings at today's meeting. More than 150 schools have been ordered to make repairs or close down all or part of their operations in a drive begun more than three weeks ago. Meanwhile, Gov.

Lawrence told his first formal news conference earlier that he backed the department's action in ordering the safety changes. He said the safety of the children was the prime objective of the program and noted that it is "very annoying to have these dangers aboard." Asked why the orders were issued only recently when the fire hazards in many cases were long standing, Lawrence replied: "I don't want to criticize any other administration." Wrestler Dies Of Injuries ERIE, Pa. Methven, 20-year-old Slippery Rock College wrestler, died Tuesday night in St. V'ncent Hospital of injuries suffered in a match Jan. 10.

Hospital attaches death wa5 sudden. Methven, a resident of had been making ex- for this stuff. He admited he was a little mainly because he stayed up until 7 a.m. playing gin rummy with a couple of his pals The Variety Club of Philadelphia, a show business organization, honored the comedian as "the clown prince of mirth." "T'anks," he bellowed to more than 400 guests assembled at a surprise luncheon in the Bellevue- Stratford Hotel. Durante, an entertainer for 48 years, says he's going to keep on working as long as he can.

"The minute I don't feel up to it," he said, "you know I won't be there." Telegrams and letters came from all parts of the nation wishing him many more happycbirth- days. Still Kicking Up ALGIERS (AP) A terrorist threw a grenade into a crowded street car on the main shopping street in Algiers Tuesday, injuring four persons. CSP) Means Associated Press Up to Employment Also Is Down WASHINGTON (AP) More Americans were unemployed last month than in any January since before World War H. The government reported Tuesday that, unemployment in January rose by 616,000 to 4,724,000. This is 230,000 more than in.

January last year, in the midst of the recession. Unemployment then was recorded at 4,494,000. Employment also declined last month. It dropped by 1,267,000 to 62,700,000. This was ascribed hi the monthly report of the Commerce and Labor departments primarily to release of extra Christmas season retail store and postal workers and to further curtailment in outdoor work.

Many of these temporary holiday workers are not seeking new jobs. This explains unemployment did not increase as much as employment declined. President Eisenhower referred increasing unemployment at his news conference and remarked that it was characteristic for economic recoveries to be spotty. He orecast a job pickup as the year goes along. The fact that January unemployment exceeded any January obless figure since 1941 was ob- Richmond Is Ordered To Integrate Desegregation Is Peaceful In Alexandria RICHMOND, Va.

(AP) A fourth Virginia Warren County in the northwest ordered Tuesday by a fed- erarjudge to open its white classrooms to 22 Negro pupils next week. Even as U.S. Dist. Judge John Paul issued a Feb. 18 desegregation order for the reopening of closed Warren High at Front Royal, the city of Alexandria, 50 miles to the east, held racially mixed classes in three schools for the first time.

Alexandria followed the same unwilling but peaceful and uneventful pattern of school desegregation set last week by Arlington and Norfolk when Virginia's 100 per cent school segregation reached the end of an era. Nine Negro children were admitted 1 under the watchful eyes of reinforced police guards to two elementary schools and a high school in Alexandria. Judge Paul ruled in the Warren case after a brief hearing in his court at Harrisonburg. He turned down the plea of school board W. J.

Phillips that the. reopening of the school be put off 19 Persons Known Dead As Tornado Hits St. Louis until next Phillips September. argued it would be harmful to switch at this time the 780 pupils who have been given classes in a makeshift private school system. He said he could promise, the high would be open on a desegregated basis in September.

Weather Puts on New Offensive Rains, Floods, Snow, Tornadoes On Program By The Associated Press Wide areas of the eastern half of the nation reeled Tuesday under damaging wintry blows that exacted a heavy toll in dead, injured and property damage. The climatic included a rash of off-season midwestern tornadoes, flood-triggering rains, heavy snow, and treacherous glaze that sent more than a thousand victims of falls to hospitals. A 120-mile area of the Texas Panhandle quivered from what was believed to have been an earth tremor. A pre-dawn tornado that caught its victims ments and asleep homes heart of St. Louis, ripped apart- apart hi the Mo.

At least ained from Census Bureau officials. It was not included in the report. Current unemployment does not lave, as much impact on the total economy as that in 1941 or even hi 950 because the work force is much greater now. The idle ratio the work force is now about 6 Jer cent; back in 1941 it was over 2 per cent. Accident Kills Gas Well Driller NEW KENSINGTON, Pa.

(AP) employe of the T. W. Phillips Oil Co. was killed Monday a gas well drilling operation in a 11 Westmoreland Bounty. He was Harold L.

Bush, 46, of 'rostburg, Jefferson County. Bush vas holding a heavy wrench on a pipe when the wrench and struck him in the rilling lipped hest. Collision Fatal GROVE CITY, Pa. (AP) An uto and a tractor-trailer collided ead-on Monday night neax Grove ity, killing the car driver, Thomas W. Rodemoyer, 29, of Slippery "lock R.D.

3. from progress of week down. paralysis Treacherous: 7 Nothing To Fool With By ARTHUE EDSON WASHINGTON Nature on She rampage is nothing to fool iround with. And that seems especially true the tornado, which can be jicky, almost whimsical, and In- devastating to anything anybody unfortunate enough to caught in Its path. The tornado that hit St.

Louis eems to be typical. It didn cut a very wide path aid it didn't go very far, but In few horrible moments it left be- lind a trail of death and destruc- lon. Anyone who ever has been iround a tornado can tell you straws driven with such fury hat they pierct an oak fence of large objects, an lutomobile, lifted, moved and hen set down again unharmed rf its dipping motion, that spares ne but strikes the ether, of plucked Raked. No one fcnows the velocity of a ornado's spirlingr Some say 400, some ro up to 750 miles an hour, tlkat mfght the argument are likely to be torn to bits, too. Meeorologists are able to spot tornado weather, but they still can't predict where one will hit.

But they hope that evenually the tornado problem will be solved. Among the Interesting suggestions: Fire a guided missile into them, and dissipate their energy while they still are far above ground. This hasn't been tried yet, but if it ever does It's going to be tough on our guided missile supply. Probably due to better spotting services, more tornadoes are turning up each year. In 1957, the last year for which complete figures are available.

924 were reported. These took 191 lives. The annual toll from tornadoes runs surprisingly high. The statistics go back to 1916. Since then.

on the average, 218 persons die each year. The blackest day In tornado history? That would be March 18, when a tornado swept through Missouri, Illinois and in- Cm that dreadful were kKted Fog Slows Traffic on Turnpike By The Associated Press Heavy fog central and eastern Pennsylvania Tuesday and disrupted transportation. Traffic was slowed to a crawl on the Pennsylvania Turnpike east of Harrisburg. The speed limit on the Turnpike near Harrisburg was cut from 65 to 35 and 50 miles an hour. Airplane flights were cancelled at Harrisburg State, Philadelphia International and Lancaster airports.

The Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton at 4:30 p.m. reduced to a half mile. By 10:30 visibility was reduced to of a mile and the ceiling was zero. State police said there wasn't any question of traffic being slowed to a crawl in the Lehigh Valley. There just wasn't any.

They reported it, virtually impossible to drive. Buses in the valley were running but were as much as two hours behind schedule. The weather bureau said the fog was expected to clear overnight. Meanwhile, at Pittsburgh the temperature soared to 67, surpassing a Feb. 10 record high of 64 recorded in 1898 and 1932.

Pittsburgh also had gusty winds throughout the day which resulted in a fatal accident. Police said the winds caused the collapse of the front of a burned-out building. Bricks fell on four retired railroad workers who were talking on a street corner, killing Emil F. Whittman, 70. Airport was closed when visibility was Wed Despite Ma 19 were killed, 7 missing and nearly 300 injured.

Freezing drizale slicked highways and streets from Iowa, across northern Illinois and into southern Michigan. Glaze also coated parts of New York State and New England. Two days sleet and freezing rain on top of a hard, lumpy, old snow cover gave Chicago its worst weather miseries hi years. A survey showed 1,221 persons were admitted to hospitals for treatment of broken bones or er injuries suffered in falls on ice or auto accidents. Hospitals in the Detroit area treated more than 100 persons In a two-hour period for injuries suffered in falls on ice.

Schools were closed hi many areas and damage to power lines and telephone wires was heavy. Farmers and villagers in the central Michigan town of Edmore pitched in to keep 400 school kids from being snowbound in school A blizzard clogged roads and halted school buses. The farmers brought in tractors to clear a path and wagons to provide transpor tation. Heavy snow fell north of the bel' of freezing rain, blocking roads closing schools and halting mal deliveries. Fairmont, had 13.4 inches of snow and strong winds piled up high drifts.

The combination of sleet and snow was the worst in years in "parts of Wisconsin. Maintenance crews were unable to cope with the drifting in Sheboygan, a city of 44,000 some 50 miles north of Milwaukee. All city buses were pulled off the streets and stores and schools closed. Penna. House OKs Annual Sessions HARRISBURG House Tuesday approved annual sessions of the General Assembly.

Senate leaders immediately voiced their support of the measure. The vote on the proposal was 193-0. There was no debate. This is the second time through the Legislature for the proposal, which is in the form of an amendment to the constitution. If It wins Senate approval, it can then go before the voters in November for final approval.

Sen. James S. Berger, Repub- Airliner Carrying 29 DodgesDeadlyFunnel ST. LOUIS luoky tip enabled an airliner with 29 aboard to dodge the deadly funnel. big brick smoke stack swayed between a Roman Catholic home for women and a small structure to the rear.

It topped away from the home, where 150 persons were asleep, and fell on the smaller structure, killing two men. The twister unroofed and sucked all the windows from the Frederick Oznam Home for Men, but 190 elderly men were spared. Entire walls were sheered away, finding startled occupants still in bed and unhurt. Thus the seemingly miraculous escapes outnumbered the dead in the unheralded tornado tha smashed sections of this sleepini metropolis at 2:12 a.m. Tuesday Snapping electrical lines set off scores of burglar alarms, which mingled with the sound of shat tering glass In a noisy, hair-raising symphony of death.

Minutes after a Trans Worl airliner took off from the Mun: cipai Airport for Kansas City wit 24 passengers and a crew of fiv the airport control tower spotte the storm on its radar screen, warning was radioed to the air liner. The pilot of the air liner changed course. Had he no detoured, the pilot said, "we prob ably would have flipped over." Jukebox Firm Says It Had To Deal With Mobsters Tells Senators About Big Sales To Chicago Hoods WASHINGTON (AP) A one Ime general sales manager for a big juke box manufacturer tolc Senate investigators Tuesday firm had to do business with underworld figures to get its machines sold. "We didn't like it, but we still lad to sell Juke boxes," said Miil- ton Hammergren, former top ecutive with the Wurlitzer Co. He said his first big sale in the early 1940s was a batch of 550 machine's that he made it at a meeting with mobster elements a Chicago cafe.

Hammergren estimated the first order was worth $250,000 to $400,000. "I think it was the largest single sale of juke boxes ever made," le said, adding that altogether the mobsters bought around 2,700 ma- Pasadena, businessman Louis Purmont and his bride, the former Barbara Jean Thorndike, pose after their marriage in spite of objections of his mother, Mrs. Tessie Purmont, who allegedly threatened bodily harm to him If went through with the wedding. She was' barred from at- wedding by court lican floor leader, said he believes annual sessions are "he only realistic approach" to the fiscal operation of the commonwealth. "Certainly it is unrealistic for us to have to project financing for two years.

No large corporation does it and we certainly are bigger than any corporation." Sen. Charles R. Weiner, Democratic floor leader, said he could see no opposition to the bill on his side. Upon final approval of the measure this year annual sessions would start In January, 1960. Both House and Senate adjourned until Monday, Feb.

16. Influenza Cuts British Manpower LONDON rampaging through Britain thinned out school attendances Tuesday and 'tept offices and factories short on manpower. Doctors In Uvrxlon and Edinburgh, centers of the flu month's outbreak following last severe togs, ctit down I teft home early Wve crash of in that Testifying- at period. the opening of a new series of hearings before the Senate Labor-Management Committee, Hammergren said one of those he dealt with was Jake (Greasy Thumb) Guzik, a mobster in the old Al Capone gang. He also listed Myer Lanksy, New York and Havana gambler, Frank (Busfcer) Wortman of St.

Louis, and Angelo Meli of Detroit as among others he had to do business with to sell juke boxes. He said such men as these all identified by the committee as racketeers and hoodlums helped solve problems in many areas. At the outset of this current probe, Chairman John M. McClellan (D-Ark) said it "will likely be one of the most important we have undertaken with reference to the hoodlum effort to achieve legitimacy through association with unions and business enterprise." Texas Panhandle Gets Earth Jar AMARILLO, Tex. (AP) A large section of the Texas Panhandle was swayed Tuesday afternoon by what was believed to have been an earth tremor.

The earth quivered over a 120- mile area about 2:06 p.m. No immediate damage was reported at Amarillo. At Pampa, north of Amarillo, a wall of a downtown building was reported-to have cracked. The tremor was felt at McLean 60 miles east of Amarillo; at Friona, 60 miles to the west; and Canyon, 17 miles to the south. The inquiry, expected to last about four weeks, involves not only juke boxes, but plnball machines and other coin operated devices, including those which dis- food, cigarettes and Girls To Compete For Maple Queen JOHNSTOWN, Pa.

(AP) Ten Somerset County high school girls will compete here Wednesday night in the 12th annual Pennsylvania Maple Queen contest. The queen will reign at the Somerset County Maple Festival April 3-5. The two runners-up will serve as maids of honor and the other ontestants will be princesses in the queen's court. Contestants will be judged on talent, appearance, poise and personality. The contest will be held at Cochran Junior High School.

Planes To Use Older Type Altimeters NEW YORK re strictions on bad-weather landings the new Lockheed Electra air liners were liftec standard type altimeters are installed in them The Electra, such as the Ameri can Airlines plane that fell sbori of a landing at LaGuardia Field a week ago with a loss of 65 lives came equipped with new type altimeters. An altimeter Is a device to show he pilot the plane's altitude. American Airlines had not announced whether it would switch to the old type. Some experts ol the line were understood to fee; the new altimeter was a highly precise device and there has been nothing to indicate it was at In the crash. Eastern Air Lines began Installing the old type and said all 11 of its Electros were expected to be so equipped by midnight.

Colman's Widow Marries Sanders MADRID (AP) Movie actor George Sanders and Benita Hume Colman, widow of actor Ronald Colman, were married at the British Consulate Tuesday. Colman died last May. Sanders announced his engagement to the widow last September. Sanders is playing a supporting role In the movie, "Solomon and Sheba" being made here. Only witnesses from the consulate staff were present at the civil ceremony.

Liberal, Regains Pancake RacingTitle LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) A bad break for one contestant became lucky one" for another as the women of Liberal regained the nternatlonal pancake racing title Tuesday. Winners of the annual Shrove Tuesday competition between the of Liberal and Otoey, Eng- and, was Mary Colllngwood, a 26-year-old high school physical education instructor. Mary scampered around a 415- ard coarse in one minute 8.8 seconds, carrying a skillet a pancake into air three as made her That was seven seconds better time to by Bridget in race The Liberal triumph evened the score. Each side now has five victories.

It marked the third year In row that Miss Colllngwood has worj the Liberal leg of the race. She got a break when Mary Harrington, 19, tripped and fell. Mrs Barrington was about five yards ahead of the pack with 50 feet to go and apparently Was a shoo-In for the victory when die went down, she wound up third. After the race, Mary and Bridget chatted by transatlantic telephone, races have marked Shrove Tuesday In Olney fot more than 500 In 1980, USbttttl efcaltengred intemftttonttj of It. Big Blow HitsWithout Warning Victims Caught In Their Beds; Loss in Millions ST.

LOUIS killer tornado caught most of the citizens of St. Louis asleep Tuesday and left a patchwork of death and destruction Nineteen were known 'dead in the city's worst tornado in 32 years- Almost 300 others were injured. The tornado took, the same path as a 1927 twister which killed 78. Searchers picked through the rubble of smashed homes and apartments throughout the day more bodies and others who might still have been trapped. Seven persons were reported B.

G. Gregory, executive secretary of the Board of St. Louis, estimated property damage at 12 million dollars. The tornado came without.warn- ing and with "tremendous speed. Just as suddenly it was gone, leaving behind ominous silence.

It crumpled a radio tpwer, then a television tower built to stand winds over 100 -miles an hour, cutting a diagonal path northeast from Brentwood. and Crestwood southwest of St. Louis across the heart of trie city. Most of the victims had been in bed for hours when the tornado bit. 2:12 a.m.

It was preceded by hours of torrential rains which flooded scores of basements! Hardest hit section of houses occupied mostly by Negroes. But a blocHc: of brick ipartments in the West End also was ripped-open. Tragedy stalked through the wreckage. A father, was pulled rom the ruins, his dead son still aanging to his back. Crowds gathered in the darkness behind floodlights and silently watched rescue work amid debris and deadly, broken electrical lines.

Mayor Raymond Tucker called upon President Eisenhower to declare St. Louis a disaster area, making it eligible' for relief funds. The President told his'news, conference Tuesday all 'ederal government agencies have been alerted to give the city every possible aid. The Red Cross estimated 1,725 tructures were 'damaged, including 41 destroyed. More than 250 many of them children, were left.homeless.

Doctors and nurses worked feverishly, often treating victims at scene. They leaped from the rear of ambulances, stethoscopes dangling from their necks. If the victim was alive, the doctors cal- ed but: "Get this person." This stretchers manned by printing, orderlies. Both city hospitals were swamped with injured. Some were naked, 'thers only partially dressed.

First Lady Again Heads For Arizona WASHINGTON (AP) Mrs. Vlamie Eisenhower and her sis- er, Mrs. George Gordon Moore, departed by train Tuesday night or an Arizona vacation! President Eisenhower and all the rest of the amily saw them off, White House military aide, Col. lobert Schultz, said Mrs. Eisen- ower and her sister apparently an indefinite stop-off be- ore reaching their destination.

The First Lady was traveling ria. New Orleans aboard the pri- ate car of the Southern Rail- oad's assistant vice president, E. li. Tolleson, bound for a return islt to Maine Chance health and resort near Phoenix, Ariz. Moore said they were due Maine Chance Feb.

15 for what ad been scheduled as two- weeks' vacation. Mrs. Eisenhower, wearing a harcoal gray suit and carrying: nosegay of pink roses, waved ood-by to the family from latforrn of the car as Presl- ent, their son John, hie wife, Barbara, and their four children back. The whole Eisenhower family irrived in two limousines ft few minutes before I p.m. The grand- ft, Susan, 7, 10, and Mary J.

Wltn the President. To Scrap Big Liner LE HAVRE, Tommantfant MM! If, JPCIWIWW nftW wYtWl here tbe advance party crew twtt fewer He pan, wW.