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Pitt Baseball FINAL CLOSING STOCKS PRICE FIVE CENTS toe WEATHER Sunny and humid today, tonight and Saturday. Showers Saturday afternoon. (COPYRIGHT 1949, by Pittsburgh Press Co. All Rights VOLUME 66, No. 2 TWO SECTIONS 42 PAGES PITTSBURGH, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1949 shwrgk nn 1 run Li LA7U nn WW Msg tap Contract.

No Miners Start Paid Vacation Period Today s' i iff' i I 1 Mother Finds Boy on Whom The Bells Told Three-year-old Bobby George went adventuring today, with bells on. Before he got back to his home at. 3267 Arlington Ave. he was thoroughly lost, but not a bit downhearted. Because the George apartment is on the third floor, the mother, Mrs.

Margaret George, sewed little bells on Bobby's shoes when he got big enough 1o pla3r outside. When the bells slopped tinkling, she knew it was, time to check up. About 11 a. m. today, she quit hearing the bells and started looking for Bobby.

She wasn't quite quick enough. He was nowhere to be seen. A call to police sent squad cars and patrolmen searching the area for Bobby. An hour later a police squad found him several blocks away from his home, looking for it in. quite the wrong direction.

They had no trouble spotting Bobby. His were still gaily ringing. 'I J'V iW" 'THIS CASE SMELLS, screamed Judith Coplon os the Government wound up its lengthy cross-examination to-, day. The 28-year-old former justice Department worker is on trial, accused of conspiring to spy for Russia. Date of Return To Work Uncertain Pittsburgh district coal miners prepared to start their annual vacation after today's" shifts, and nobody! was quite sure when they would get back to work.

The paid vacation period; is 10 days but by that time; contracts will have expired. Un-j less negotiations are speeded, the miners may stay out under the traditional "no contract, no work policy. The mineworkers union boss, John L. Lewis, is now meeting with representatives of northern and western mines at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

No Progress The negotiations have produced nothing so far and there are indications that Mr. Lewis' might like to turn the meeting Into a "national coal conference." with representatives of southern and captive mines present. The southern operators have been meeting with union officials for five weeks at Bluefield, W. Va-, without coming to any decision. Yesterday the negotiations were abruptly broken off until Monday.

Lewis Won't Talk Lewis refused to discuss the "possibility of another walkouts He told newsmen they can "assume anything." It is no secret that the union boss would like to bring all of the industry to White Sulphur Springs to negotiate a nationwide agreement. The, 1948, conization of the miners urged such At present; however negotia- with the northern, southern and captive operators. Southern operators have said they want to work out their own contract. Mr. Lewis met with Harry M.

Moses, president of H. Frick Coke Co. and negotiator for U. S. Steel last night.

Neither would discuss the talk. Talked on Contract lt is a reasonable assumption," Mr. Lewis said, "that we discussed various phases of the existing contract and running to the potentials of a successor agreement" ,4 The southern talks seemed to be completely deadlocked. The union has rejected the operators' offer as "grotesque and arbitrary." Meanwhile more than 500 miners on strike at the Inkerman Collieries at Pittston. They walked out when the company announced that the $100 vacation pay, due June 30, would be paid in five equal instalments.

Man Pulls Gun; Firemen Called Fists flew, mounted noliremen Dztailt Kept Secret New Inquiry Opened on Eberharter Buchanan Request Second Probe Eberharter again wins backing of county bar. Page 10. From Press Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, June 24 Another inquiry into the fitness of Congressman Herman P. Eberharter to serve on the Federal bench has been opened by the Department of Justice. This supplementary investigation is being made at the request of John G.

Buchanan of the American Bar which vigorously opposes Mr. Eberharter as a successor to Judge Robert M. Gibson. Senator Pat McCarran, chairman of the Senate subcommittee considering the Eberharter appointment, announced that the Justice Department has agreed to investigate the Pittsburgh Democrat along lines suggested by Mr. Buchanan to the Senate.

Agree to Inquiry "They (the Justice Dept.) have agreed to undertake an investigation along a line I suggested to them after it had been brought to my attention by Mr. Buchanan," the Senator said. 'Neither Mr. Buchanan or Senator McCarran would disclose the line of inquiry. Report Kept Secret The FBI already has made one investigation of Congressman Eberharter but in keeping with departmental policy, its report has not been made public.

However, the subcommitte has been given a copy of it. No further public hearings on the Eberharter appointment are scheduled. It is understood that the subcommittee will withhold action on whether it will recommend or oppose Mr. Eberharter's confirmation until after the- new-investigation has been made. New Humid Wave Melts Dingbat Donald Dingbat thought today he had an idea for beating the new wave of humidity.

Why not, he mused, carry a tray of ice cubes around on one's head. Very cooling and very handy. It worked out like this: Donald became so overheated trying to balance the tray that the ice melted before it could do him any good. The temperatures ranging near 92 were due today and tomorrow as Donald perspired. The low toniffht will be around 67.

WiH- ly-scattered thundershowers are due by Saturday afternoon. Parish Priest Reminds Her i in Accused Girl Shrilly Denies She's a Red Trapped by Her Boss, Judy Yells Judy frantic with panic on trtt-ness stand, Page 7. WASHINGTON, June 24 (UP) Judith Coplon's cross-examination in her spy trial ended today with her screaming "This case is so fishy it smells to high i iiieaven. "I don't understand this whole case," she said sullenly. "All I know is I was framed." Then, her voice rising to a yell, she "This case is so flshy it smells to high heaven." Prosecutor John M.

Kelly Jr. stopped his cross-examination of more than three days by asking: "Is it not true. Miss Coplon. that you and only you were responsible for the papers In your purse that night?" The night in March when she was arrested and excerpts from secret FBI papers were found in her pocket-book. Denounces Accusers "I was, but she replied and then began a denunciation of her accusers.

"That's all," Mr. Kelly said. 'That's all." The prosecutor tried to cut her off with those words, but she launched into a five-minute attack on the Department of Justice and the methods followed in the investigation of her case and her prosecution. Repeatedly she said it was a "frame up." When she subsided Mr. Kelley asked: "Now, Miss Coplon.

do 1 understand that it is your testimony that you are an Innocent woman and that there's a con spiracy afoot to frame you?" Eyes Blaze Miss Coplon shot forward in jthe witness chair. Her dark eye? were blazing and her chest waf heaving beneath her whit sports blpuse as she snarled: "My testimony has been and always will be that I'm Innocent, and I have been framed." Mr. Kelley then repeated. his question about responsibility for the papers. "I have answered that question," she said icily.

At that point Mr. Kelley announced he was through and the trial recessed for luncheon. Her attorney, Archibald Palmer, was to resume questioning of Miss Coplon after the recess. During her charges of frame-up, she said that the Russian she loved, Valentin A. Gubitchev, made a telephone call which led to her arrest with him in New York on March 4 on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage.

lie's Not Involved She is under indictment with Gubitchev there. He is not a principal In her Washington trial. Mr. Kelley asked her who she believed participated in "this frame-up." "I don't know who has participated, but I feel a frame-up," she retorted. "Do you feel, that the attorney general of the United States, Tom C.

Clark participated?" Mr. Kelley asked. "I don't know who participated," she replied. Mr. Kelley then asked if she thought her former boss, Raymond P.

Whearty, participated. (Continued on Page 6, Column 1) A Beautiful City at Night And never have the lights of the city been captured with such beauty as Stewart Love has done in the two-page colorphoto in Sunday's ROTO MAGAZINE 'Open Door' Policy Blamed By Defendant Chamber's Story Flatly Contradicted By EDWIN A. LAHEY Chicago Dally News Service NEW YORK, June 24 The "open door" policy in the State Department was revealed today as the essence of the defense in the perjury trial of Alger Hiss. His old office in the department was like Grand Central Station. Hiss indicated from the stand today a he sought to convince a jury that he is the victim of a monstrous lie.

Hiss implied that anjbody in 1938 could have walked in and taken the secret documents which have been produced by Whittaker Chambers, the former Communist courier, to support his story that Hiss was a member of his espionage team. Stranger In Office "I recall one period while I was in Assistant Secretary of State (Francis Sayre's office," Hiss said in his cultured, confident tone. "I came Into my own office and found an elderly gentleman facing the fire place. I said to him, 'Do you wish to see He said, 'No I asked him if he had any business there. "He said again.

But finally he told me that his father had worked In this office, and that as a boy he uspd to be brought down on Saturday morning, and his father would take him to lunch." "Did Henry Julian Wadleigh ever come In the office?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker. "He came in from time to time," Hiss answered. Wadleigh took the stand for the Government last week, and admitted for the first time that he had stolen documents for Chambers when he was in the State Department as an economist from 1936 to 1938. Someone Else Blamed It is the contention of the defense that either Wadleigh or some other person stole the documents which Chambers has tried to hang on Hiss. Hiss said that his own door and the door to Assistant Secretary Sayre's office was usually and that "many members of the press and public came to that floor." As he spun out his story of injured innocence in the tense atmosphere of a crowded court room, Hiss handed to the jury as spectacular a set of direct contradictions as ever a group of fallible beings have been called upon to resol -Contradicted One after one, in his calm manner, the 44-year-old defend- i ant gave details of his relationship with Chambers that were Continued on Pa ge 6, Column 4 Contest Ban MARY JANE GALLAGHER "My religion means more to compete for the title "Miss West Virginia" and a shot at the title of "Miss America" in the annual contest at Atlantic City.

i iw Acme Telephoto Czechs to Charge Archbishop Spied U. S. Told to Expect Arrest at Any Time WASHINGTON, June 24 (UP! Diplomatic reports reaching here indicate that Archbishop Josef Beran of Czechoslovakia soon may be arrested on charges of "espionage" on behalf of the United States. U. S.

officials said they have been advised to expect the Roman Catholic primate's arrest any time now on "trumped up" charges. They expressed the belief that this case, like that of Josef Cardinal Mindzenty in Hungary, is part of a Moscow-directed campaign to weaken the influence of the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe. Secretary of State Dean Ache-son yesterday condemned the anti-church campaign of the Czech Communist government as a violation of "the rights of conscience and the decencies of civil ization." Mr. Acheson said: "The present attack by the Czechoslovak authorities on the position of Archbishop Josef Beran is recognized as a critical point in the calculated campaign of a totalitarian dictatorship to make impossible the preservation of the freedom and rights of religious organizations in Czechoslovakia. "The United States has not failed to note the series of i steps taken by the present re- gime in Czechoslovakia during the past year to undermine religious faith while it cynically professes to acknowledge i ligious liberty.

"The systematic effort to subvert religious organizations follows the pattern of repression already established in Hungary, Bulgaria and other countries of (Continued on Page 6, Column 3) 3 Siill at Large- Pen Fugitive Dies Swimming River CLARKSBURG, W. June 24 (Special) Jimmy Former, 35, of Mingo County, convicted auto thief, was checked off the list of West Virginia prison fugitives today. His body was found floating in the West Fork River near the scene of his escape from a prison work bus Wednesday with seven other convicts. Police said Fortner drowned apparently while trying to swim the stream after the break. The finding of his body left only three of the convicts still at large.

They are believed trapped in a woods on a farm at the Doddridge-Harrison County line. They are John Reppert, 24, of Upshur; Vernon Young, 31. of Mingo County, and Herbert Hurley, 23, of Logan, serving terms for larceny and breaking and entering. V' MRS. ISABKI.

KCKL.ES Battle never ended for GI bride. Scotch Bride Says Vet Beat Her Ex-Burlesque Hoofer Answers His Charge Neither a McDonald GI nor his Scottish war bride found peace after War II ended. Mrs. Isabel McFarland Eckles, 21, buxom brunet in ar former burlesque chorus here, told today how her husband punched and beat her -with a belt. Drinking and laziness were the major problems of Henry S.

Eckles, of McDonald, she claimed in opposing his divorce action. He told a different story last week how- Isabel had threatened him with a butchers knife and tried to choke him with a silk stocking. Midnight Swimming Party Along with the counter charges of brutality, Mrs. Eckles said he took two girls on a midnight swimming party. He had more scotch in him than she did, the Scottish lassie charged, in refusing to give her any money.

His pay check was turned over to an aunt, "would give me 35 cents for a show and him enough money to get drunk." Married in Glasgow, Scotland, three years ago, they separated last November. Relatives Support Him Several of Mr. Eckles' relatives supported him. Duncan Eckles, a brother, of McDonald, said Isabel begged him for a date two weeks after arriving here. He refused.

"She said she should have married me instead or my broth- Suicide-Proof Razor NORTHAMPTON, June 24 A suicide-proof safety razor for use in jails and mental institutions was exhibited today by its inventors, two staff members at a Veterans Administration hospital. THE WEATHER Friday, June 24, 1949 (Daylight Savinf Ttmei Local Mostly sunny, hot and becoming more humid today and tonight. Saturdav partly cloudy, hot and humid with -ldelv kcatteicd thundershowers. High temperatur today nr 92 degrees, low tonight 67 and hlfh Saturday 92. Temperatures at Pittsburgh last 34 hours i Highest 86, lowest 62.

mean 74. Highest and lowest temperature a year ago, Bl and 70. Partly cloudy. Downtown temperature readings reported by the United States Weather Bureau: Midnight 75 1 a. 70 3 a.

68 3 a. m. 67 4 a. m. 66 5a.

m. 6S 6 a. m. 64 7 a. m.

64 8 a. 66 9 a. 10 a. m. 11 a.

Noon 1 p. 3 p. 3 p. 4 p. 73 81 5 87 88 90 90 90 Highest temperature this date since 1874, 96 In 1882.

Lowest temperature this date since 1874, 44 in 1915. Barometer readlnr at 3 p. 29. 84. falllnf.

Humidity at 3 p. 38 Sunrise 8: SI a. sunset 8:54 p. m. River stage at 3 p.

18 6, pool. FIVE-DAY FORECAST Saturday. June 25. through Wednesday. June 29 Western Pennsylvania.

Ohio and West Virginia Quite warm and humid weather through Monday turning somewhat cooler about Tuesday with temperature averaging about four degree above normal. Widely scattered showers or thunderstorms over the wee end and more numerous showers likely late Monday or Tuesday, averaging one-quarter to one-half Inch. The average dally normal temperature for Pittsburgh for the five- F'tximum tmPrature B1 degrees and tht vera(r dally minimum temperature is 1 de- nay penoo, is 7i aegrees: the average daily frees. DETAILED REPORT ON PAGE 41 Greek Premier, Sophoulis, Dies 90-Year-Old Leader Has Heart Attack ATHENS, Greece, June 24 (UP) Themistocles Sophoulis, 90-year-old premier of Greece, died lanay or a heart attack. Death came to the popular elder statesman after 91 trying months ftf in office.

Dur-1 ing that period, rnment had to wrestle with the mountainous prob lems of war- Sophoulis fare with the Communist-led guerrillas and a deepening economic crisis. Sophoulis, three-time premier of his country, began his present term in 1947, when he formed a government with the support of the United States. Sophoulis, despite his own 90 years, reportedly turned down some cabinet nominees recently as "too old." The aged premier had been ill for months. Once last November, as he lay stricken on an army cot in his office, doctors abandoned hope for his life. But, even after last, rites of the Greek Orthodox Church has been administered, Sophoulis recovered.

His government collapsed again in January of this year over a dispute involving one of his cabinet ministers. But again he returned office. Sophoulis was premier for the first time, a brief three months, 1924. He served as premier for the second time in 1946. Actor Knighted COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 24 King Frederick of Denmark today knighted Danish-American Actor Carl Brisson, entered if she had known Bishop bwmt's ban still held.

Arrangements were quickly made to fill her place with an-others Weirton girl, Zanovia Gryskevich, and the contest will go on tomorrow night with eight entrants, as scheduled. Included will be three girls from Weirton, three from here, one from Beech Bottom, and a Woodsdale girl representing the Wheeling area. Miss Gallagher was the only Catholic entrant. The contest will be held at 8 p. m.

tomorrow in Spurr Memorial Ampitheater here. In case of rain it will be held Sunday 1 night. The winner will enter the state i beauty contest here Aug. 6, to i 1 Injunction Licked, Taft'sFoes Think Senators Agree To Vote Tuesday WASHINGTON. June 24 fUP) Administration senators were confident today that their uphill fight against anti-strike injunctions was paying off.

Even some who were ready to concede defeat a few days ago, said the outcome now appears to rest on two or three doubtful votes. Amid intense parliamentary jockeying, the Senate moved toward a showdown on whether to retain the injunction weapon, now authorized by the Taft-Hartley law, against strikes imperiling the national health and safety. Unions Fight Injunctions The Senate agreed today to start voting on the controversial issue at 1 p. m. Tuesday.

Senate Democratic Leader Scott W. Lucas proposed a voting timetable for the showdown votes. It was adopted without dissent. The Administration and all of organized labor, oppose writing injunction power into the bill. Senator Robert A.

Taf Ohio Republican, leader of the pro-injunction bloc, still claimed the votes to win. But he was unwilling to let the issue come to a vote yesterday because of absenteeism among his supporters. Mr. Lucas said the outcome will be "very close" and that the Administration has a "good opportunity" to win. The Democratic leadership put across a new maneuver today in an effort to pick up the votes of pro-labor Democrats who have opposed all compromise amendments to the Administration bill.

The revised strategy will give those Democrats a chance, probably next week, to vote outright against the injunction, rather than for Government seizure of industrial plants in national emergency disputes. Taft Confident This was accomplished by an elaborate structure of amendments to amendments so that the Senate probably will vote first on injunctions alone, then on eliminating the injunction feature, and only after that on Senator Taft's amendment to the new labor legislation. By that time Mr. Taft's amendment may be stripped of its injunction features or so the Administration forces hope. Many observers feel that if injunctions are eliminated, the Senate will keep the seizure provision to give, the Government a weapon against emergency strikes.

Mr. Taft told reporters he expects to lose no more than six or seven Republican votes on the injunction issue and that he could stand the loss of that number. Red Jumpers Set Record LONDON, June 24 Six Soviet parachutists have set a new Soviet Union night jumping record of 10,200 meters (about 33.464 feet), the Tass News Agency reported from Moscow today. domped around and fire sirens! because he was 'no good'," blew for a few hectic moments brother testified. Beauty Sows to Church Weirton Entrant Withdraws from Affair When Told Bishop's Edict Still Stands MOUNDSVILLE, W.

June 24 (Special) A Weirton entrant has dropped from the beauty contest scheduled here tomorrow night, because of opposition by Catholic Bishop John J. Swint. The girl, Mary Jane Gallaeher. 18. withdrew her name after today at Bedford St.

and Washington PL It seems a resident of the Im- provement of th Poor, Bedford St decided to call on a friend ef his in a restaurant at 62 Washington PL The man saw his friend, pulled a revolver, a counter girl screamed, somebody pulled a fire box. and the fight was on. Mounted police, stationed just a block away, arrived with firemen to extricate the Improve-! ment of the Poor man and holdi him for police. Important Features On Inside Pages Around the Town Business-Finance 16 32-33 39-41 Comic Pages Crossword- Puzzle Death Notices Editorial Page Obituaries Radio Programs Serial JSrorv 39; 33 i 26! 17 41 1 39; 30-31 I 20-21 Snorts News Theaters-Movies Vital Statistics 33 34-33 want-Ads Weather Table. Map- 41 Women's-Society 28-29 Press Telephones Wflnf.A4c fr, AOnn' vv pnr-ASCS yUUi Utner Deprs.

COurt 7200 Demg warned or a church ban Two catholic girls left the contest last year when Bishon Swint threatened excommuni cation. A third, Mariruth Ford, 20. defied the ban and won the title of queen. Later in the year Bishop Swint announced that he had not receded from his position, and threatened that not only girls entering beauty contests, but parents will face excommunication. Miss Gallagher dropped out of the contest after Rev.

F. E. Wein-heimer, assistant pastor of St. Paul's Church, Weirton, warned her of the ban. "My religion," said the fetching brunet, "means more to me than any beauty contest." She added she would not have.