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Cloudy, Cooler high temperature 58 degrees Temperature Yesterday High, 65; low, 54 degrees Sun riies at sett at 5:56 Weather Map, Page 10 1C. 117TH YEAR Thii newspaper Is served by Associated Press, United Press, In. teroatlonal News Service, Gannett News Service, Acme Telephot ROCHESTER, N. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1949 38 Pages FIVE CENTS Today's Smile Kirhmond.

(At) CUT Treasurer Walter B. Gentry ha ordered new rerelpt tamp. It will mark i "thank jou" on a paid tax bill He alto Instructed hi lerka to "thank you" to those who ay In pemon. "We're not cold-blooded down here," Bald tientrr. Sox Senators Top Park Sea $50,000 Blaze in reeze Senators Vote To Scale Down Cabinet Boosts Levels Boardwalk Amusement Center As To Yanks Triumph Tie Loop Race House Shouts Approval New York (AP) The lowly "Washington Senators knocked the Boston Red Sox into a first place American League Of Postal Workers' Pay Raises Washington (AP) The tie with the New York lankecs last night, beating the Sox, 2 to 1.

The Yanks, who trailed the Sox by a game at the start af the day, defeated the Philadel 5 Volunteer Outfits Fight Spectacular Night Fire A spectacular fire destroyed a section of the lower end of Sea Breeze Park last night. The fire consumed the large wooden frame amusement building Senate voted 36 to 16 last night phia Athletics, 7 to 5, In the after noon. to scale down the salary increases asked by President Tru Lefty Mel Parnell's wild pitch enabled the winning run to score in the ninth after Al Kozar had singled Gil Coan across with the Ford Company, Union Agree On New Pact man for members of his Cabinet and other top government officials. Revising a House-passed bill, the Senate adopted an amendment which would boost the pay of Cabinet officers from the present $15,000 to $22,500. The House bill tying run.

on the Boardwalk housing a merry, go-round and several other conces A Y'ii JhfjL. The victory snapped an 11-game 0 sions. Boston winning streak. Pitcher proviaea lor raising cabinet pay Chuck Stobbs doubled and scored to $25,000. Boston's lone run in the sixth inning on Dom DiMaggio's single.

This action came shortly after the House approved its third big federal pay raise in 24 hours a Rae Scarborough went the dis- tance, allowing the Sox only four boost averaging $113 a year for hits. 885.000 U. S. Civil Service workers. Stobbs had a four-hit shutout The blaze raged uncontrolled before five volunteer Are companies from Irondequoit reached the scene.

Twelve hose lines wers lai to fight the flames. The flames illuminated the laks-front. Traffic was halted on lowar Culver Rd. Cause Undetermined Sea Breeze Fire Chief Fred Zahn estimated damage at $50,000. Cause of the fire was not immediately iii mm.

working entering the ninth but the Senators, beaten 14 straight times by the Sox, quickly went to town Roberto Ortiz singled to left cen ter to open the ninth and Gil Coan ran for Ortiz. Ed Stewart batted Jitowwso- iiW By the Associated Press The Ford Motor Company and the CIO United Auto Workers settled their industry pace setting pension dispute at 2:10 a. m. today. The settlement was announced officially after nearly 35 straight hours of bargaining, an endurance record for the industry.

The new contract, effective Oct. 1. will run for 30 months, another industry record. It provides the Industry's first major pension plan nd may set the pattern for most all heavy industry. Complete details of the settlement were reserved for a company-union press conference a short time after the announcement.

In the steel dispute, the Steel-workers Union charged the industry is trying to force a strike after for Clyde Vollmer and sacrificed determined. r.aaie iioDinson legged out a scratch hit, Coan moving to third. Al Kozar, once Red Sox property, The measure, which now goes to the Senate, will cost an estimated $95,062,000 a year. No Economy Clamor There was no clamor for economy as the House shouted the bill to passage. Advocates argued that the raise is long overdue.

Senate leaders had hoped to reach a final vote last night on the bill to hike executive salaries. But the debate dragged wearily on, and promptly at midnight a recess was called until noon today. Sixteen amendments were still awaiting action. The amendment to cut Cabinet pay boosts was offered by 19 Democratic and 14 Republican senators. It would also scale down proposed salary Increases for other top fed singled past third to score Coan I i I if with the tying run, Robinson stop ping at second.

Edwin Pfrommer, 2850 Ridge Rd. a volunteer from Ridge-Culver, was treated for a foot injury at the scene after a nail penetrated his boot. The structure was burning fiercely when the first fire companies were called at 9:45 o'clock. The park was closed Labor Day and the site of the flro is away from the Inhabited section. Chief Zahn on srrival sounded lhe general alarm.

City fire companies moved in to protect other Kinder, Parnell Fall Stobbs gave way to 23-game Ellis Kinder. Sam Dente, an other onetime Red Soxes', greeted Kinder with a single to right but sharp fielding by Al Zarilia held eral executives. VIOLENCE erupt on Went C'ot a longshoremen attempt to halt unloading of hot pineapple Story rage II. Bell Aircraft story alo on Tag" 11. Department undersecretaries, for areas of the town tinder the Coun and spectators during spectacular blaze at Sea Breeze Park last night.

Below, firemen survey building's ruined interior. Flames from burning' amusement center building1 combine with firemen's searchlights to silhouette ferris wheel, at right, ty Mutual Aid System. example, would get $15,000 a year. They now receive from $10,000 to The blaze completely destroverf $12,000. The House bill would have the 200 by 500 foot one-story amuse U.

S. Steel offered to put up 10 ment building. Consumed in the flames were a merrv-eo-round hiked this to $20,000. Increase Top ft P. C.

The amendment would hold most cent a man-hour for a. jointly financed pension-insurance program. penny arcade, a fortune teller's booth, bingo stand, two shooting The disputants were deadlocked two days away from the dead 4" Both Houses Yote Record Fund for Anti-Soviet Arms galleries and refreshment stand. salary increases to 50 per cent, and would not raise any which are now above $15,000. It would not reduce any above that, however.

Chief Zahn said the fire be ran in line for a nationwide strike. Murray Hits Offer One last minute exception was the rear of the small merry-go-round and spread throughout th wooden building. U. S. Steel, leader of the industry, made for the deputy secretary of Robinson at third.

Buddy Lewis went to bat for Al Evans and Parnell, 25-game winner, rushed in from the bullpen to pitch to the lefthand-swinging Lewis. The Senators put on the squeeze but the Sox apparently were hep to the move. Parnell pitched so wide that Lewis couldn't reach the ball and Robinson was out at the plate. Kozar made third on the play, Parnell let go a wild pitch and Kozar scampered across with the winning run. Meanwhile the National League pennant battle was temporarily halted by rain.

The game between the first place St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates was washed out as was the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Braves in Boston. The Cards lead the Dodgers by a game. Pennant Picture at a Glance American League r.oted its offer contained "the exact Fire officials are investigating Defense, the post now held by amounts recommended by a Presi Stephen Early, former, aide to the; Washington An historic dential steel board." However, the the story of three youths who were at a nearboy refreshment stand when the blaze broke out. The boys late President Roosevelt.

Salary for $1,314,010,000 foreign arms aid bill, this job was set at $20,000. the greatest in peacetime history, rr- i V. company proposal called for addt tional contribution from the workers of an undisclosed amount. told firemen the fire began in what seemed to them a small cardboard A fact-finding board that studied would affect about 240 officials. The cost of the House bin Congress yesterday.

was estimated at $1,200,000 a year.f It now goes to the White House immm box at the rear of the merry-go-round. They said after the flames the dispute recommended a pension-welfare program costing 10 cents a man-hour, with the employ started there was an explosion and ers footing the entire bill. the whole building went tip In flames. The union did not immediately give a formal answer to the peace In Lower Park The fire was centered in ths proposal. But it issued a statement saving negotiation." were Club Pet.

GB TP that of the Senate-approved substi- for President Truman's signature, tute at $700,000. The measure, designed to bul- Tuesday, the House passed bills jwark the defenses of friendly na-boosting military pay by 300 mil-itions against Communism, first lion dollars a year and postal work-! cieared the House by a top-heavy ers pay by 180 million dollars a margin of 223 to 109. year. Then, by voice vote, the Senate Besides giving all Civil Service shouted its approval, employes a raise through initial i In ita final form the bill emerged adjustment of grades, the latest jas a major victory for Adminis-measure provides for longevity in- tralion leaders who fought back creases for length of service. ef toris to cut the vast expenditure.

Eventually this will add 12 millions i The bill authorizes 1 billion for to the annual cost. I Atlantic Treaty nations 500 mil- Boston 95 56 .629 3 New York 95 56 .629 3 lower portion of the park just east of the Ferris Wheel, which escaped damage. Hot stands on the south- side of the road were not damaged. National League Shortly before midnight the lire Club Pet. GB TP was under control but it was expected firemen would be at the St.

Louis 95 55 .633 4 Brooklyn 94 56 .627 1 4 scene until early this morning as deadlocked and charging that industry was refusing to accept the board's recommendations. President Philip Murray of the CIO Steelworkers called the question of workers sharing the cost a "wage cut disguised' by the false principle of contributory pensions and insurance." He said the companies had until the 12:01 a. m. Saturday strike deadline to accept the board's recommendations, or the union "will be free to strike for its original demands." These Included a The bill lumps the existing 31 lions in cash and 500 millions in Not including last night's game. the embers still burned in parts of the wooden building.

New York plays the Athletics Firemen said that in some of again today while Boston hooks up with the Senators. The two con I -fjr the booths much of the equipment used in the Summer season also was destroyed. tenders then close out the season with single games in the Yankee Besides the Sea Breeze Fire De Stadium on Saturday and Sunday. partment, the Point Pleasant, 12'i cents hourly pay boost de If the Card-Pirate game is rained out today the two will attempt to Ridge-Culver, Laurelton and St. future contracting authority with the balance going to Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea, the Philippines, and the "general area" of China.

'Reckless Waste' to Wherry On the basis of latest U. S. Census Bureau figures, the total works out at a cost of $8.07 to every man, woman and child in the United States. The Bureau's population estimate for Aug. 1 is 149,452,000 Americans.

On the Senate floor, Republican Leader Wherry of Nebraska at Paul companies were at the scene. play it off in the evening. Should it be called off again because of mand. Gunfire In Coal Strike Crucible Steel broke off negoti-etions in Pittsburgh after each side rejected the other's peace pro Civil Service classification grades into 18 new grades, with a top ceiling, of $15,000 a year in some of the higher grades. Meanwhile, senators engulfed in their own flood of multimillion-dollar pay raise bills wrangled hotly over the question of boosting the salaries of President Trumans Cabinet members to $25,000 a year.

Curiously enough, the fight over the bill to raise pay of Cabinet members and top federal executives involve only an estimated $1,200,000 annually. This compares with a total of more than 580 million dollars in federal salary increases already approved by Congress or now in the process of debate. Hunt for Joanne's Slayer Widens ram, the game will be cancelled as the Cards are scheduled to meet the Cubs in Chicago in the opener posals. Inland Steel began shut of a three-game series beginning down operations at its East Chi Friday. As Police Doublecheck Likely Clues tacked the measure as a "fore Tokyo Rose Jury Still Deadlocked; Locked Up Again San Francisco UP) Still unable to reach a verdict, the Federal Court jury trying Mrs.

Iva Toguri (Tokyo Rose) D'Aquino on treason cago, plant in preparation lor a possible strike. Gunfire echoed in the Western If Brooklyn's game with Boston is rained out the two will be able to play it off Friday, an open date for both teams. The Dodgers wind up the season in Philadelphia with were Indians and that the third. By JOHN B. KENNY Pirtnrti nther ttorv Pnee 2 Pennsylvania and Alabama coal fields as non-union diggers stayed a white man, the driver of the car on the job despite the coal strike nM i i ii tit a pistol at her and her 1 he manhunt for the slaver of 11-year-old Joanne Lynn oil.

son, Wralter, 16, when she de Aid Chief Warns There were no reports of casualties. Police patroled some highways in charges was locked up again for Hemlock crept farther afield yesterday. Last night, state police disclosed the arrest of two men at the night last night. Pennsylvania and other The six men and six women will doomed futile effort to stop Russia at the borders of Western Europe" and a "reckless waste of America's limited resources." Representative Marcantonio N. said it will speed an "atomic bomb Representative Rich Pa.) said its passage means this is "the greatest squandering nation in history" and "one of the greatest war-mongering nations of the world." A -Bomb Possession Factor But others insisted that with Russia now in possession of the atomic bomb secret, the United On Tariff Wall New York-j(?) Paul G.

Hoff the Tonawanda Indian Reservation. They cited this case as an manaea payment for the geese. She telephoned state police that the car, a grayish-colored coupe, bore Pennsylvania license plates. John L. Lewis, whose 480,000 coal miners struck 10 days ago, sent possible example of how every PICTURE ON PAGE representatives to meet with South man, the administrator of the Mar single games on Saturday and Sunday.

Yanks Blow Lead The Yanks blew a 4 to 0 lead, the A'a scoring five runs in the seventh inning to gain the upper hand. But the Yanks came right iack in the bottom of the seventh with a three-run surge to win. Phil Rizzuto's squeeze bunt brought home the winning run and a balk sent across the clincher. of ths men was involved in the slaying, but that one of them had shall Plan, advised the United On their way to the Speder farm States last night not to chill Eu em operators. The refusal of the Southern mine owners to continue payments to the miners welfare fund in absence of a contract led house, Sergeant Doody, Cpl.

John resume deliberations at a. m. today. been sought by Niagara County authorities since 1946, when he was rope Duoaing hopes with a new tariff wall. The jurors earlier rejected an to the coal strike.

The operator- "It is silly for us to worry about offer by Federal Judge Michael J. Roche for the evening off "a Union negotiations have been In indicted by a Grand Jury on a morals charge. Ths men were identified as any flood of low priced goods," he criminal matter is being checked and double-checked for a possible bearing on the Lynn case. But they emphasized that no connecting link has been established between the two arrested and the Lynn case, although questioning is being continued, and a gun found in possession of one of the men is viewed by police as a "possible lead." The weapon, a Belgian-made au recess for a week. States must make every possible effort to build un the wobblv nost- Lefty Tommy Byrne had a 4-0 A.

Chambers and Trooper James C. Moochler, spotted a car answering that description, except that it had Nebraska plates. Alone in the car, Doody said, was Klute, and an inspection of the car revealed a pair of Pennsylvania license plates on the floor of the automobile. ported they wanted to keep at lt George Clark, 33, no home, last war defenses of non-Communist But after -two hours of prosecu known address Ransomville, Ni nations, particularly those coun tion and defense haggling over what portions of requested deposi Girl Baby Sitter, 15, Saves 5 in Blaze tries lying in the shadow of Soviet agara County, and Kenneth' Klute, 35, who lives on the Tonawanda Russia. said in a speech before the U.

S. council of the International Chamber of Commerce. "The Europeans can manage only feeble attempts at exports now. The goods they can send us will be, for some time to come, pathetically few and disappointingly high in price. "But there is a margin they must squeeze out and send to us at de- tions should be stricken, the jurors Reservation.

Clark is being held on shutout going Into the seventh, when he blew up. Fred Sanford toiled for an out, then filled the bases, walked Elmer Valo to force home the third run of the inning and gave way to Joe Page. Bobby Brown threw wide to first, allowing the tying run in, then Page walked in Fain. Chapman hit into a double play. decided to knock off for the night.

Klute, who said Clark had let charges of second-degree assault In the House, Representative Vorys Ohio), who supported original! House cuts in the program. San Piepo JP Five children were herded safely out of a burning Senators Urge Utes and illegal possession of a gun. him take the car to get a case of beer, led the State Police to Clark's Klute is charged with driving while tomatic pistol, which fires the kind of shell that killed the Hemlock school girl, was confiscated Tuesday afternoon by State Police of the Williamsville Station. told his colleagues: i "Russia's A-bomb explosion intoxicated. According to State Po home by a 15-year-old girl baby sstter here Tuesday night.

Sue Broyles then ran to a neifeh shack where, according to- Doody, Share in Royalties Washington JP)A. Senate sub lice officials at Batavia and Wil the three dead geese were found. valued prices if their hopes for makes it imperative that there be better living are to ultimately come no half-way measure on either side Lefty Alex Kellner gave the liamsville. Clark disappeared short They said that up to last night committee was urged yesterday to Doody reported that Clark first de bor's home, gave the alarm and fainted. She was quickly revived ly before he was indicted in 1946 true." of the Atlantic." they had no reason to believe either approve payment to the confeder and had been out of the state until Yanks their winning margin when Rizzuto's squeeze bunt brought home Hank Bauer in the seventh after Henrich and Lindell had ated Ute tribes of all royalties nied having a gun, but later led them to a patch of weeds a short distance from the shack, where and helped count noses to make sure her little charges were all three weeks ago.

State Police Sgt. Edward J. Looking on the Insidz safe. received by the government from some 4 million acres of land formerly held by the Indians in Colo the automatic pistol was found, Doody said the slugs from the pis scored. The fire started in a sofa moved Doody quoted Clark as saying he tol, allegedly belonging to Clark, have been sent to the State Police hid the gin there because he "fig- Cardinals Seek Bilko for World Series gered th police were coming." rado.

Counsel for the Indians, who now live in Utah and Colorado, made the request. The Indians have not been receiving any of ths Clark and Klute were questioned Tuesday night and part of yester day. They were to be- arraigned be BRITISH CRISIS: Churchill calls for ouster fore Peace Justice A. C. Byers of Akron last night.

The of Labor government, charging it has steeled Britain to verge of Page 3. royalties. The amount of royalties to date is estimated at from 7 million to 15 million dollars with income estimated at l'-a million yearly. Allie Reynolds pitched the eighth and ninth for the Yanks and allowed only one hit to save the game for Page. Reynolds fanned the side in the ninth.

Baseball Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 2, New York 0. Brooklyn at Boston, rain. St, Louis at Pittsburgh, rain. Only games scheduled. said the morals charge against Clark in 1946 involved a six-year- POLIO CANCELS GAME Yale cancels Saturday's scheduled football game with Ford-ham because of Eli player's illness with polio.

Page 31. "Too simple for the politicians?" asks Skeff in commenting upon Ed Babcock's farm and food program. Page 18. old girl Laboratory at Albany for comparison with those found at the spot where Joanne Lynn's body was discovered last Saturday. Doody said Clark's statement that he was working on a Lyndonville farm a week ago Monday, the day Joanne disappeared, had been checked and the investigators are satisfied that he has no connection with the slaying.

However, the possibility that someone else may have had possession of the weapon before Tuesday night was not being discounted, according to Doody. The arrest of Clark and Klute came after Mrs. Henry Speder of Scotland near Akron, Erie Meanwhile, back in Livingston County, state police and sheriff's to close to a heater in the home of Navy Chief Petty Officer and Mrs. Joseph" T. Mears.

Sue, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Alvin W. Broyles, was babysitting with the Mear's children, Roland, 5, Josephine, 7, and Nelson, 10 months; and her own sisters, Goldie, 12, and Martha Broyles, 7. College Organization To See Sports Free Pittsburgh VP) Champlain College's students, faculty, staff and other employes need no longer pay at the gate to see college sports events.

President Frederick A. Morse said that previously students paid a small fee, and faculty staff members paid a reduced rate. Students pay a small student activity fee to support sports and other campus activities. deputies under Sheriff H. Donald McColl, continued their questioning and requestioning in Hemlock and Patri 29 the area LOCAL: Veteran groups line up behind Dicker plan for Memorial study.

Page 21, NOMINEE DUE HERE; Lehman to speak in city on Oct. 25. Page 21. SPORTS BILKO IN BIG SERIES? Eddie Dyer, Cardinal manager, plans appeal to Baseball Commissioner A. B.

Chandler to make Stevfe Bilko, ex-Wing, eligible for World Series. Page 31. State Police Lt. William Steven Scaffolding Collapses, Killing Painter in Fall Pittsfield, Mass. VP) A Worcester painter was killed yesterday when he fell 50 feet after a scaffolding snapped in the tank shop of the General Electric plant-Charles E.

Gilbert, about 40, of Worcester, died at St. Luke's Hospital from a fractured skull and other injuries. He was a painter in Gilbert and Arnold painting contractors firm, Worcester. Radio 24 Society 26, 28 Sports 30, 31, 32, 33 TU 1 It son reported that yesterday the Bridge Column 29 Comics 14 Crossword Puzzle 11 Deaths 24 Editorial 18 Financial 15 Health Advice 27 jjTjCounty, notified state police that lcini a car hearing three men had driv- owners of three automatic pistols had voluntarily turned them over for inspection. Stevenson said the weapons will -be given the same ballistics treatment as the two AMERICAN LF.AGUK New York 7, Philadelphia 5.

Washington 2, Boston Cleveland 4, Chicago Z. Only games scheduled. vviggam "rt into the Speder family's flock Woman Page Z9 of geese and killed three of the shells found at the death scene, birds. She said two of the men Dslly ntrl as Second Clans Matter Fodtoffice Rochg(er.

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