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LOUIS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 195920 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS STEEL INDUSTRY LEADERS MEET Nuclear Device in Crash CM GEORGE C. MARSHALL, MAIN ARCHITECT OF WORLD SHORTAG ON G1PR1 USE 0 HO. 000 WAR II VICTORY, 78, DIES I i UNION PROPOSA Last Public Appearance II I 1C AN A Associated Vrrsn Wlrfpltoto. Arrow locates blanket-covered nuclear weapon iound in wreckage of a B-52 bomber which crashed near Hardins-burg. Thursday night.

The weapon is partly hidden by duffle bag in left foreground and extends as far as kneeling man, one of the team of Air Force investigators. Investigators recovered also a second nuclear device from the widely scattered wreckage of the bomber which crashed after colliding with a refueling plane. frV ROBBER CAUGHT ni I Ll UlinUL, UIA AUTOS DAMAGED i i i I Press Wirn'hoio. GEN. GEORGE C.

MARSHALL In what is believed to have been his last public appearance, as he waited June 5. 1957. for start of ceremonies marking tenth anniversary of speech in which the Marshall Plan was enunciated. (Full page of pictures from Gen. Marshall's career in Everyday Magazine.) AREA BY FRIDAY! 4500 at CM.

Plants to Be Idled Monday Total Could Reach 14,000, Employment Chief Says. About 10,000 workers in the I St. Louis area will have been laid off by next Friday because of the steel shortage, it was reported today. Charles G. DcLargy, manager of the St.

Louis office of the Missouri Division of Employment Security, said the estimate was based on reports from companies as to how long their supplies of steel will last. This total includes 4300 production employes in General Motors Corp. plants here who will be laid off Monday, he explained. He said about 2000 other workers here already have been idled by steel shortages. He estimated that the total number of layoffs resulting from a shortage of steel supplies would reach 14.000 when the full effect of the steel strike is felt in this area.

Chevrolet Plants Hit. F.mployes involved in the Gen- eral Motors layoffs are produc-j tion workers at the Chevrolet i and Fisher Body assembly plants 1 at Union boulevard and Natural I Bridge avenue. 1 In a brief announcement, the company said an additional KiOO employes will remain at their jobs and production of automo-j biles and trucks will continue at a curtailed rate. The laid off employes "will be recalled to their jobs as soon as possible after steel supplies bc-come available," the announcement stated. This is by far the largest number of workers laid off in this I area since the steel strike began 93 days ago.

Figures compiled by the employment security i office show that 78-t persons have filed claims thus far for unem-J ployment compensation as a re-i suit of the steel strike, Of that total, 225 new claims were filed in the last seven days. I Officials at the General Motors plants here warned two weeks ago that they were operating on a day-to-day basis and might I have to cut production dras-I ticallv. Nearly Fifth Laid Off. Layoffs here and at other plants throughout the United States idled 60,000 General Motors employes, almost one-fifth of the company's total. A plant in Framingham, which had been producing 1960 Chevro- lets, was closed yesterday.

Detroit sources said the company plans to close at least nine of Chevrolet's remaining 13 final assembly lines within the next week. Chrysler expects to continue present production into November. An assembly plant here, with about 3000 employes, is operating at capacity. Ford reportedly expects current steel supplies to last until about Nov. 15.

American Motors reported sufficient supplies to last through November, and Studebaker-Packard said it could continue production into the first week of December. Sales Cut Feared. The steel shortage threatened to cut into near-record sales of new cars. The industry reported sales during the first 10 days of October were better than in any other introductory period since 1955. Despite the steel strike, total new claims for unemployment compensation in St.

Louis and St. Louis county for the week ended Friday were 201 lower than last week and 477 fewer than the comparable week of last year. The total for this week was 2539. Continued claims reached 9R89, an increase of 602 over last week but 4547 below the figure for the comparable week a year ago. Edward Renshaw, chief engineer of St.

Louis Shipbuilding and Steel said the company was "beginning to feel the pinch on structural steel." Renshaw said the firm buys steel plate from Granite City Steel which has operated throughout the strike. Structural steel, however, is not obtainable and St. Louis Shipbuilding has been fabricating structural pieces from plate, a costly proc- ess, Renshaw said. DIES CF 1918 WAR WOUND BARRY, England, Oct. 17 (UPI) A bullet fired 41 years ago in World War I caused the death of shopkeeper George Brown yesterday, it was found at an inquest.

Brown suffered the injury in his chest in 1918. The verdict: Death due to war operations. 1 I I I i i WEST'S LEADERS SAID TO PLAN PRE-SUMMIT Meeting Probably Would Be in Paris or Geneva Dec. 7 Conference With Khrushchev Would Follow. BONN.

Oct. 17 (AP) Authoritative informants said today President Eisenhower is prepared to meet the government chiefs of Britain, France and West Germany at a conference in Europe around the end of October. A date for an Fast-West summit meeting would be settled at that time, these informants said. Mr. Eisenhower reportedly made known his views in letters to Chancellor Adenauer, President De Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan.

Paris Site Likelv. The European meeting, if all I parties agree to it, would prob- ablv take olace in Paris, but i might he held in Geneva. Ac-j cording to the reported time table, a summit conference of the government chiefs of the United States, Britain and France with Soviet Premier Khrushchev likely would be held at Geneva around Dec. 7. The annual Paris meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Orga-i nization council is set for about Dec.

15. This, of cuirse. could be postponed if the Geneva sum-i mit meeting lasted much more than a week. Neither the West German gov ernment nOr the United States embassy would go beyond their confirmation of the fact that Adenauer received a letter from Mr. Eienhower today.

Authorities familiar with the situation said, however, that a second trip to Europe for Mr. Eisenhower within two months is in the works. The American President, who frequently has said he would go anywhere on earth in the cause of peace, traveled to Bonn, London and Paris at the end of August for a round of talks prior to the arrival of Khrushchev in the United Letter From Khrushchev. Adenauer received today a letter from Khrushchev, in answer to an appeal from Adenauer to the Russians to start new negotiations with the West on controlled disarmament. The nature of the reply was not disclosed.

In his note. Adenauer referred to a Khrushchev letter of Aug. 18 boasting the Soviet Union was better armed than the United Slates. "It is enough for me to know that in a global war there will be no victor for whom victory will be a success," Adenauer wrote. He devoted much of a mild letter to denying Khrushchev's charge that the West German government sought revenge for defeat in World War II and was trying to expand the German borders eastward.

Adenauer said he did not hate either Socialism or Communism. Khrushchev's first reaction to the Adenauer letter was somewhat friendly. He told an audience in a small Soviet village the next day: "We would like to believe that the West German government does really wish to make its contribution to the relaxation of International tensions." DIRKSElfTAKiNG COMPLETE REST AT HIS FARM rnpyright WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 The office of Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, Senate Republican minority leader, has confirmed that the Senator has been taking a complete rest since the end of the congressional session in September. Dirksen's physician.

Dr. Joseph A. Bailey, ordered him to take the rest because of a coron ary deficiency, known to laymen as a tired heart. Dirksen, who is 63 years old, canceled all engagements for the rest of September and all of Octobera total of about 20 speaking dates. He has been staying at his country place.

Broad Run Farm, near Leesburg, and getting a good deal of bed rest. He also is taking medicine prescribed by his physician. TALK THIS MONTH I Both Sides to Appear Tomorrow Before Fact -Finders, Who Are to Report to Eisenhower Monday. NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (AP)-Stei'l industry leaders met today to consider a compromise union effer to end the 95-day-old strike.

Apparently they were keeping their place of meeting secret. They had been expected to meet in a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, but at the appointed hour none had appeared and there was no announcement as to where they would hold their meeting. The executives, representing 12 major stcei companies, were seen leaving the Park Lane Hotel shortly before 10 a.m. They strolled along Park avenue as though heading for the Waldorf. Apparently they had switched their plans, for they never ar-rived there.

Scaled Down Demands. The union was reported to have put before industry leaders I a scaled-down proposal calling for about 21 cents an hour in wage and fringe benefit gains over a two-year period. Acceptance of the offer would end the strike. The management representatives had the alterna-! tives of rejecting it or offering a counter-proposal. i Secretary of Labor James P.

Mitchell said in Washington he was optimistic that a settlement rould be reached to avoid a Taft- Hartley law injunction. Such a court order, unwanted by cither the industry or the striking Sterlworkers probably will be soui'ht by the i (iovcrnmcnt next week if a set- i tlement is not reached this weck-1 end. I Six-Month Dispute. 'The parties are closer together than they have been since the negotiations started," Mitchell said last night. The steel labor dispute has been going on for six months.

There were indications that the Government, although still wanting to avoid a labor pact that would force an inflationary boost in steel prices, now considers that ending the strike is an equal if not over-riding consideration. The industry's negotiators are due to return to Washington this afternoon to give union president David J. McDonald their answer on his latest offer. The reply could take the form cf a counter proposal. It was noted that the union's new offer, paring down prior money demands about a third, would do nothing toward meeting the management demand for more freedom in changing work practices to gain economies.

The industry probably will want some concession here, even a token one. Anti-inflationary Aim. The union proposal of around 10 cents per hour in each of two jears was designed to have an anti-inflationary appeal by concentrating the money exclusively in insurance, pension and other benefits for the first year. The second year's installment would be in a wage hike. Previously McDonald had been holding out for 15 cents per hour for each year of a new contract.

The average hourly earnings cf steel workers under the old contract, counting incentive pay and cost of living adjustments, has been estimated by the Gov-Continucd on Page 8, Col. 4. Frost Likely Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Clearing and colder tonight with scattered light frost likely, low temperature in middle 30s; tomorrow mostly sunny and a little warmer with the high 60 to 65. TIMI'HRATIIII'S Keu'liiij;) I ROW OUT STEEL PROBLEM 1 a.m 2 m.

a.m. 4 a m. a.m. 7 ft ni. am.

tl a.m. 10 a m. 11 am. Wl Ml Ml 51 fiO 51) in A HI 'i nncm ni. 2pm.

Unuflinal, Ts a 1 maximum this il a I 7i normal minimum 40. Vr Ktenlny'a hiph 7S Ht 4:15 p.m.; low fiO Ht 7 a.m. Precipitation this year. 'Jii 27 turhea; normal, 30,59 lnchrn. (All wpiithr data.

InoMiiling Jorrjtutu an tm-jwratmes, PUppllM lv U.S. Weather Bureau. MlKHfturl Illinois fn reran Fa (re 3A, Col. l. Sunset, 6:21 p.m; sunrise (tomorrow), 7: 13 a.m.

Stae of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 11.0 feet, a fall of 1.4; the Missouri at St. Charles, 17.3 feet, a fall of 1.1. till n. 14 COLDER WEATHER THAN NORMAL IN NEXT 30 DAYS WASHINGTON, Oct.

17 (UPI) Temperatures will average below normal over a large part of the nation in the next 30 days. The Weather Bureau said cooler than usual weather is expected in the area between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains. Above average temperatures were predicted for the West Coast with seasonal normals elsewhere. The bureau said rainfall probably would exceed normal along the Gulf Coast and in the area east of the Appalachians. Subnormal amounts are expected west of the Rockies and in the middle Mississippi Valley, rockeYsserve as toys; 11 taken from children ALPEN Oct.

17 (AP) Police went on the run on discovering that children were using Air Force rockets for toys yesterday. The officers rounded up 11 of the three and one half foot rockets. Parents said the Youngsters told them they got the rockets from fishermen who netted them in Lake Huron. urtsmith Air Base at Oscoda, not far from here, has a jet practice firing range over the lake. The base is investigating.

TYPHOON LASHES OKINAWA LEAVING 28PERS0NS DEAD NAHA, Okinawa, Oct. 17 (AP) Typhoon Charlotte left 28 persons dead after raking this small west Pacific island yesterday with 90 to 150-mile-an-hour winds, police said. They said the major loss of life resulted from a landslide on northern Okinawa, which killed 20 persons. No deaths were reported among American military or civilian personnel. About damage to highways, buildings and military installations was reported.

Another typhoon, christened Dinah, blew up in the Pacific and skirted the island of Guam, 1200 miles to the southeast. Only minor damage was reported there. Charlotte was blowing toward Japan today. Air Force weathermen predicted it will be 495 miles southwest of Tokyo early Sunday. It is expected to pass well south of the Japanese capital.

President Plays Golf. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (AP) President Eisenhower took advantage of a warm, sunshiny, fall day for a round of golf at the Burning Tree Country Club today. He had played a round on the same course yesterday. i I I i i i I FUNERAL TO BE HELDJUESDAY Burial in Arlington Held Two Posts in Cabinet After Retiring Noted for Allied Aid Plan.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (AP)-Gen. George C. Marshall, who guided America's armed might in World War II and created the postwar Marshall Plan to aid free nations in the fight against Communism, died last night in Walter Reed Hospital. He was 78 vcars old.

(Jen. Marshall had been seriously ill since he suffered a stroke last Jan. 15 at his winter home in Pinchnrst. N.C. He was brought to the Army hospital March II.

Perhaps no man of his lime had been called great by so many of his countrymen as George Catlett Marshall. Three presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower almost revered his abilities as a soldier, statesman and diplomat. He directed the gigantic war machine of the United States as Army Chief of Staff throughout World War II. Then in the evening of his life he was recalled to duty as Secretary of State and again, during the Korean war, as Secretary of Defense. Won No he I Prize.

For his formulation of the Marshall Plan, which bolstered free nations of the West with massive economic aid from America, (ion. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. President Eisenhower called Gen. Marshall's death "a causi: for profound grief throughout the United States." He ordered the flag to be flown at half staff from all public buildings and military installations until after Gen. Marshall's funeral Tuesday afternoon.

In addition to his public tribute, the President sent a personal note of condolence to Mrs. Marshall. Typically, Gen. Marshall had decreed that his funeral be a simple one. It will be held at Ft.

Myer chapel, on the edge of the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Interment in the cemetery, resting place of soldiers both illustrious and humble, will be private. The family suggested that in lieu of flowers friends may wish to make a contribution to either the Army Emergency Relief Fund, Washington, D.C., or the Loudoun County Hospital at Leesburg, Va. Mr. Eisenhower's statement said in part: "For his unswerving devotion to the safeguarding of the security and freedom ol our nation, for his wise counsel and action and driving determination in times of grave danger, we are lastingly in his debt." Mr.

Eisenhower refcred to his former commander as "the main architect of victory in Work War II. Recognized Eisenhower. It was Gen. Marshall whr recognized ability of a verj junior Brigadier General namec Dwight Eisenhower as the clouds of World War II were gather ing. Gen.

Marshall jumped Gen Eisenhower to a key post anc later sent him on up the laddoi to become Supreme allied com mander for the European in vasion. Until the day Gen. Eisenhow er became President, Gen. Mar shall, in his clipped, correct anc almost cold military manner addressed him only as "Eisen hower." Other tributes to Gen. Mar shall poured in from Statesmei and from his few surviving col leagues of highest rank in Worli War II.

Both former Prime Ministe Winston Churchill of Britain am the late Marshall Joseph Stalii of Russia were said to have fa vored Gen. Marshall for the roll of supreme commander of thi Normandy invasion. But thelati President Franklin D. Rooscvel told him, "I feel I could no sleep at night with you out the country." Wanted Combat Command. "Of course I wanted to get ou of Washington," Gen.

Marsha! said, reminiscing years latei I'm a soldier. I wanted a com bat command. But I had choice, President Roosevel wanted me to stay in Washing ton." It was President Truman wh called Gen. Marshall back fror Continued on Page 2, Col. 8.

9 WORLD WAR 11 5-STAR OFFICERS THINNED TO THREE WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (IT') The death of Gen. George C. Marshall thinned to three the ranks of the five-star officers aj-pointed in Woild War Thi. nine men were: Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhomi, 69 years old who resigned is commission in 1952 to run Id-President. Gen. Douglas MacArtnur, now board chairman of Spcny Rand Corp. Gen.

Omar N. Bradley. f.C now board chairman, Bnhva Watch Co. and Bulova Research and Development Labora'pncs. Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz, 74- now retired Berkeley, Adm. Ernest J. Kin" i u-d June 1956. Adm.

William D. Leany. i July 1959. Adm. William F.

(Bui!) Haiscy died August 1959. Air Force Gen. Henry N. (Hap) Arnold died Januaiy 1950. NAVY' TRYING TO TRICK BIRDS IT CAN'T KILL cn Vnrk Tlmm Nrw rrlrr WASHINGTON, Oct.

17 The Navy is trying to fool the albatrosses that have been colliding with its aircraft at Midway Island in the Pacific. A Marine Scabee unit has just finished airstrip-like clearings in the thick brush off an island 50 miles from Midway, in the hope of enticing the big-winged birds there. Denying that the Navy is contemplating a new plan to kill off the unwanted albatrosses, a navy spokesman said the Navy had tried to smoke the birds away, steal their eggs, scare them off with noises and even club them to death to no avail. Teams of Navy men were sent to Midway in 1958 to hit the birds on the head with clubs. About 35,000 birds were killed in this "second battle of Midway," but the Navy lost.

Killing the birds was easy enough but there were just too many birds. Injured in Crash Into Parked Cars After Holdup at Gasoline Station. An armed robber was captured last night after a chase in north St. Louis in which six automo-i biles were damaged. The prisoner, who suffered a skull injury when his automobile crashed into parked cars, was booked at City Hospital as Lawrence Gregory, 42 years old, living in the 4200 block of Fol-i som avenue.

Police said he ad-' mitted the robbery and had the money and a loaded revolver in his pockets. Gregory drove into a gasoline station at 2'I1 Natural Bridge avenue and asked Clyde Sisco, an attendant, to change a tire. After Sisco completed the job. Gregory produced a revolver and held up the attendant and two other emploves, Merle Jones and Sylvester Mills. When Jones started to hand over his personal funds, the rob-j ber told him, "I only want the company taah." lie then fled with $G9 from a cash register.

High Speed Chase. After the robber drove west In Natural Bridge, the attendants notified police. Patrolman Oscar Naes. driving in the 3700 block of West Florissant avenue with his police dog, Niwo, saw the automobile and set out in pursuit. The chase proceeded in several streets at speeds up to 75 miles an hour, Naes reported.

In the 2100 block of East W'arne avenue, Gregory's automobile struck four parked cars and was wrecked. Naes's police car struck Gregory's automobile. Gregory jumped out and fled as Naes fired a shot at him. Nats, who suffered a sprained ankle in the crash, released Niwo and began a chase on foot. Struck With Cane.

Gregory ran through a yard at 3920 Penrose street, where he was struck with a cane by Jean LaRue, 62 years old, who lives there and was standing on a rear porch. Gregory crashed through a wood gate, and continued running. He was captured in Prairie avenue by Detective Cpl. James Reddich and Detective Benjamin Chandler, who had re sponded to the radio call. Police found $268 in hisj Continued on Page 8, Col.

4. did not like It. They share their aggregate bonus earnings and an extra man sharing in the pool would mean less money all around, they claimed. Union officials called a strike of all day shift men and the maintenance men, too. They tried to get the night men out on strike but failed.

Said a night worker: "We of the night shift are sick and tired of this strike attitude. We're angry about the whole business." Said Stevenson: "The strike is unnecessary." A company spokesman said: "The strike is unconstitutional. Negotiations cannot begin officially until the men go back to work." REPORTS SOVIET ICBM LANDINGS Shots Far Beyond Pre-viously Known Range, House Space Group Chief Says. SHREVEPORT, La Oct. 17 (AP) Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles have been fired into the Pacific ocean northwest of Hawaii from a base near Moscow, Overton Brooks (Dem of Louisiana has reported.

Brooks, chairman of the House Space Committee, declined to elaborate on his statement or to say how the firings had been detected. There was no confirmation of his statement by the Defense Department. Shots into the Pacific northwest of Hawaii would be far beyond the previously known testing range of Russian missile activities. Previously such firings have been from a launching site near the Caspian Sea across the great land mass of Siberia to the northern waters of the Pacific. Brooks made his disclosure in an interview yesterday at Baton Rouge.

He said the missiles had been fired from distances of from 6000 to 8000 miles and that the firings had been known to United States officials for the last few months. Brooks declined, when interviewed at Shreveport later, to say whether the firings had been detected by radar or by visual sightings in the vast Pacific area. That information, he said, is classified. Brooks predicted the United States probably will ht. a man in space early in 1961 but said the Russians may accomplish this a year earlier.

He said at least a billion dollars will be Continued on Page 8, Col. 6. Page 3A) mussen as one of the ship's crew "to avoid too much publicity in Europe." Rasmussen was met by a brother-in-law, Andrew Swen-son, who is a mounted policeman in New York. Swensen said the retired Norwegian grocer would stay in his apartment in the Bronx rather than at the Rockefellers' Fifth avenue home where Anne Marie and Steven are living until they find an apartment of their own. NORTH 0 HAWA Bridegroom Asks to Work Days; More Than 1000 Go on Strike Rockefeller's Father-in-Law Sails as Seaman on Freighter LONDON, Oct.

17 (AP)-More than 1000 factory workers staged a strike here yesterday because a young bridegroom wanted to be home with his wife in the evenings. The trouble started when Tom Stevenson, 30 years old, returned from his honeymoon and reported to work at a steel pressing factory in suburban Acton. When single, Stevenson had been a night shift worker. Now his wife, Eileen, wanted him to change to days at work, nights at home. The factory management agreed, and Stevenson started working daylight hours in the welding woiVshop.

The other day shift men there (Picture on MONTREAL, Oct. 17 (UPI)-The father-in-law of Steven Rockefeller arrived in Montreal yesterday as an "able seaman" aboard a Norwegian freighter. Kristian Rasmussen, whose daughter, Anne Marie, married the son of multimillionaire Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller nearly three months ago, spent 10 days aboard the freighter Sunpolyna on the trip from Antwerp.

The freighter's master, Capt. Olav Rusvik, said he had signed Ras.