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PAGE 2 THE PITTSBURGH PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2. 1943 Police, Firemen Get Medals- Dare Say $378,984 MORE IS REPORTED ON DRIVE FOR FUND United War Campaign Runs Slightly Behind Schedule The $5,300,000 United Fund campaign dropped slightly behind schedule today as volunteer workers made their fourth report. New contributions of $378,984 were turned in at today's luncheon the half-way mark in the drive bringing the total raised thus far to $2,213,306 or 41.7 per cent of the BELLEVUE AVALOM -jc Ben avoh 8bn avom heghts sharps6ur.g ETNA. ASPVWALL ilV ffl y4EAST LIBERTY XCORLlSS NORTH a VVSIDE rs -n HOME- Ol NVi-o r-Y WOOD AVA8ASH sNy oP" 1 FOREST HILLS (CRAFT0NVZLAND 17 r--v XLy HILL SWISSVALE Vr 0 7 EDQEWCCO WzEiwociy nX V26 MT. OLIVER VSX 1 8 NT WOOD NwV-V- CAfZzCK I CL KS'OXVLL PLBASANT WLLS SOUTH HILLS OOAMOAfT MT LE8AHOM i-v 'x jtiiiimiiirr-imrfiiiitimi IftTHir'rr ill Mil i ifff-wtM-infiiiritMiMUnrrnnniirlii W-t--nmfnl CITY AWARDS HERO MEDALS Most embarrassed man in North Side Carnegie Hall was Detective Inspector Walter C.

Monaghan, who blushed like a school child when presented the City's new Medal for Meritorious Service last night for his part in trapping and slaying a killer-suspect. Police officers who got medals were, left to right. State Trooper A. T. Valentine, City Detective Vincent Bonacci, Patrolman Melvin McDonald and Inspector Monaghan with Mayor Scully lauding him.

In the rear between the Inspectorand the Mayor is Safety Director George E. A. Fairley. PITTSBURGH POSTAL DISTRICT MAP shows the numbers designoring postoffices supplying this orea. In addressing mail, the postal district number shpald follow the word "Pittsburgh" to facilitate handling.

The number plan, inaugurated here in 1925, now has been adopted for all large cities in the nation. If you live in Mt. Lebanon, for example, your incoming mail and return address should read "Pittsburgh (16) Pa." 3 fx 71 va iV. frkTv As Holiday Mail Rush Nears Use Postoffice Numbers In Mailing, Bodkin Urges Proper Designation of Delivery Points Speeds Handling; District Stations Listed Pacing the annual heavy holiday mail rush, Pittsburgh Postmaster Stephen A. Bodkin today urged that all addresses include the proper postoffice number designating the delivery station through which the mail is cleared.

Mr. Bodkin pointed out the system of numbering postoffices, lately adopted on a nation-wide scale by A Ft 1 FIREMEN ALSO ARE HONORED Four firemen, injured in an explosion while fighting a blaze in June, 1942, also got medals, the first awarded since City Council authorized them six months ago. Left to right above they are Hoseman Stanley Weslowski, Engine Company 42; Hoseman H. W. Whited, Fifth Battalion; Hoseman Thomas A.

O'Rourke, Engine Company 43, and Captain Thomas F. Connors, Engine Company 43. Jobs For Tomorrow A Department Devoted to Plans For The Post-War World Sei By E. A. EVANS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer ALBANY, N.

Oct. 26 "A Man Can't Live on Glory," says the title of a booklet being distributed by New York State's Division of Commerce. The booklet pledges the state's active help in providing useful jobs after the war for more than a million New Yorkers now in military service and nearly two million others now in full-time Fair-WeatKer Patriots B.v FLORENCE FISHER PARRY They were Telling me of a man, who. every morning when he goes to. his the best navine- I he has ever held in hLs life says to his wife, Now be sure to keep the radio tuned on loud all day, for any minute now word will be coming that the War is over." The frightening thing is that this attitude of mind .4 Mrs.

Parry 1 sweeping the country, and we can well be scared. What's going to wake us up? Oh, we're caught up, all risht, in our personal War! Our sons and husbands and brothers are there, and that makes our hearts pound and chatter. But that doesn't mean we comprehend thus War, or how long and bitter it's to be. I read a book. It's called.

"The Eattle Is the Pay-Off. by Captain Ralph Ingersoll. Maybe you'd better get hold of it, you fathers and mothers who are kicking because of the "hardships" your boys are enduring at tamp while in training for combat. Here's a paragraph for you: "If I were to pray for a miracle, it just might be that every barracks in the United States might burn down. Then the American Army in training might start learning to live as it will one day have to live, with the sky for a ceiling and the ground for a floor in whatever conditions either may be found.

I am terrified at the present wave of optimism in America because the mothers and fathers and the older sisters and the brothers will cringe at the idea of this kind of training. Yet that kind of training is the only innoculation they can give to save the lives of those they love. The slightest weakness in battle is instantly translated into death." The si irjli test -neaknest in battle insta ntly translated into rath. Yet we still mollycoddle and sentimentalize and won't face what War means. Two Vivid Memories' I am looking at the picture of the death-dive of a Flying Fortress.

We are told that each man who goes down in these raids is saving the lives of thousands of other American boys. That is very fine indeed, but it offers cold comfort to the families of these expendables, and we find it increasingly hard to endure the funny optimisms of fair-weather patriots. Because it is difficult for me to think of much else at this moment, I might as well set down hpre a portion of a letter from a Fortress pilot: "As the death of young Winant has already been released to the press, there will be some anxiety among families of other men who are in the same squadron, but this is a bad time to begin to worry. Even when a ship goes down it is unwise to despair, for there are so many alternatives possible besides- the most irrevocable "The BBC commentator is at this very moment discussing our mission yesterday, which, he says, was the farthest flown by Fortresses from British bases. And after flying for more than 10 hours in a.

damaged, strange ship, debating whether to bail out over enemy territory or ditch in the sea, and finally landing here without incident. I can well believe him. It mostly resolves itself into two vivid memories. "One was the sight of a Fortress exploding in the air, when it wa.s rammed by an enemy fighter. It.

was exactly like watching a little model plane, constructed of ricepaper and balsawood, disappear in one brief, brilliant burst of orange flame. Planets could collide and you would not hear a sound while you are flying, soundproofed as you are by the roar of your own engines, and the insane, chatter of your guns, and it is more than anything else this strange noiselessness that still imparts to the most violent action in the air, the unreal, remote quality of a silent film. j. iie uuiti picture is mat 01 sn enemy fighter, also exploding in the air, when it was shot by our own top-turret. I was much more frightened by the terrific i sound the turret guns make when they are trained directly over the pilot's windshield (which frequently cracks), than I was by the sight of an Aircraft Recognition silhouette on the horizon.

But in less than an instant it was no longer a silhouette, but a hostile plane within striking distance. The turret cracked, and there, directly ahead of us was not an airplane, but simply a dark cloud of smoke filled with small particles held in temporary suspension. A second later we flew through it and could feel a soft patter against the plane. And that was that. "The fighters, as it happened, did not damage us, but a burst rf flak did.

I was oblivious, to mast of the damage until we landed, except the useless engine. The ship is grounded, but in the meantime we shall fly other planes, which is like taking other men's wives out to dinner." Stamp Schedule OCT. 26, 1943 Ration stamps are good during the following periods: BROWN BOOK 3 (Meat, Butter, Etc.) D. and Now through next Saturday. Now through Dec.

4. Next Sunday through Dec. 4. BLUE BOOK 2 (Canned. Processed Foods) and Now through Nov.

20. RATION BOOK 1 (Expiration Dates) SUGAR No. 14 (five pounds), next Sunday. CANNING SUGAR Nos. 15 and 16 (five pounds each).

next Sunday. SHOES No. 18 (one pair), good indefinitely. GAS BOOKS No. 6 A Nov.

three gallons each. and Period set by ration board; two gallons each. i i goal. The- drive, with $3,086,694 to be raised, lasts through Nov. 5.

There will be one more report meeting this week, on Thursday, and three next week, winding up the campaign. Contributions Increased A $30,000 corporate gift from the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Co. was announced today along with a 000 contribution from the Heppen-stall Company and increases total ing $2700 in four other smaller cor porate gifts. The Allegheny Ludlum contribu tion, Fund officials said, is a $5000 boost over the company's 1942 gift. Notable among the other corpora tion increases was a gift totaling nearly three times its 1942 contri bution from International Business Machines which upped from $650 in 1942 to $1900.

The other in creases, taken from the Fund's daily audited reports of gifts included in the $1,843,322 total to date, were: the Harbison Walker Refractories $9250 as against $8400 in 1942; Sears Roebuck North Side, $1500 as against $1000 last year, and the Armstrong Sanitary Wipers $250, a $100 boost. With a $10,000 corporate gift the Heppenstall Co. duplicated its 1942 gift, as did the Pennsylvania Railroad with $2500, sfnd the Ball Chemical with $200. Subscriptions Listed Both the Shanahan Transfer and Storage Company and the Sterling Varnish Company upped their corporate gifts with $500, a $100 increase, and $300, a $50 increase, respectively. A total of $101,849 in anonymous gifts also was announced.

The following is a partial list of subscriptions to date: 10. (() and Over Alleetienv Liitllum Sleel Co $.10 000 HetleiiBtaU Co 10,000 $104M) and Over V. C. Eirs-frt Jr 1000 Mm. R.

Blair HIO Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bostwi.k... 1750 Mrs. R.

Uravo fJ.VIO Harbison Walker Rrl. PM. International Business Machine Co. tft'O Edmund W. Jfiidse 1 Ofl Pennsylvania Railroad Co 2500 Mr.

and Mrs. O. M. Reif 4 000 Sears Roebuck and Co 1501) $50O in S0fl9 Mr. and Mr W.

S. Horner 7C0 Leon Wertheimer 700 SlOO In fl9 Frederick H. Atwood 100 Armstrong Sanitary Wipers Co. 250 Ball Chemical Co 200 Dr. and Mrs.

Jo. H. Barach 3 00 Mary J. R. Condon 110 Mr.

and Mrs. Frank H. Davis TI50 Mrs. Ike J. DeRov 300 B.

Eiohenauer M)0 Mrs. Helen W. Kvanfl 100 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Feigenbanm 100 Charles R.

Ferguson 2(10 Fourteenth Sfreet Bank HIO Mr. and Mrs. Alhert W. Golomb 1I0 Mr. and Mrs.

Benj. F. Harris Mr. and Mrs. F.

D. Harshbarsrer 250 Max Heppenstall 100 Mr. and Mrs. P. R.

HiUemaa 100 Miss Eleanor M. Ivaitd 170 Mrs. Geo. M. l.aiishlin TIT 200 Mr.

and Mrs. Alex lowenthal 110 W. S. MrClintock 100 Mendel Family 2(H) Estate of John F. Miller 400 Mr.

and Mis. Wm. S. Moorhead .100 Mrs. lsaa' Myers 100 Wm.

H. Phillips 100 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas I'rintfle 200 F. Guidon Rieker 1 OO W.

F. Kivhow 100 Mr. and Mrs. E. Stanley 2O0 Mr.

and Mrs. Emanuel Rosenthal oti Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Schaefer. 500 H.

W. Schweizer 1 5l Shanahan Transfer Storage Co. 500 Mr. and Mrs. Alexander C.

Speyer. 55" Sterlme Varnish Co -loo Mr. and Mrs. H. W.

The University School 208 Merill Wripht 300 NEW LEADERS of the Red Cross who have arrived in foreign fields are shown here. No. 1, Marjorie Dodson, of Johnstown, is in London; 2, Catherine Hallock, 809 Norwich Ave. and 3, Dorothy Cohen, 7540 Bennett are safe in North Africa; 4, Edward R. Stearn, of Hillcrest, and 5, Alfred D.

McCabe, Coraopolis, are in Australia. 6, Walter E. Rawsthorne, 303 Oneida St. has arrived in Hawaii. They are field directors, medical, social and hospital workers.

Other men and women for similar services are being sought by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Red Cross, Wabash Station. My jt Zs si? VICTOR GASBARRO Flying mailman hurt tlightly. Mail Fliers Safe In Mountain Crash IContinuzd From Pagz OneJ tion, Gettysburg, and a search was started last night and continued today in the hills of the South Mountain area. The plane was en route from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and was on the Harrlsburg-Philadelphla lap when it disappeared in fog and rain. Bad visibility had made search by air impossible today.

Fifty searchers, composed of Civil Air Patrol. Army Air Force students and State Police had searched on foot. One of the searching parties encountered the two men after the flyers had walked several miles from the scene of their crackup. 1 2 DISTRICT MEN DIE INBATTLE Two Pittsburghers, Etna Soldier Arc Casualties Twelve Tri-State soldiers including two Irom Pittsburgh and one from Etna were among 255 soldiers killed in action in various war areas, according to a War Department casualty list released today. The Navy, meanwhile, announced a Pittsburgh sailor and a district marine missing in action.

Four of the 12 were killed in the European area, and the others were killed in the North African area which includes Italy. Pvt. Bernard E. Carter, son of Mrs. James O.

Smith, of 1101 Stanhope Corliss, was killed in the North African area. Pvt. Carter, 22, a paratrooper, was killed in action, presumably in the Salerno area, Sept. 17, his mother said, Pvt. Carter based 11.

on official notice to her Oct. A student at Connelly Vocational School, Pvt. Carter was a mill worker prior to enlisting June 11, 1942. He was sent overseas in April and saw action in the Sicilian campaign, his mother said. Lt.

William J. Forsythe, son of Mrs. Theresa Blume, of 2100 Salisbury was killed in the North African area. Lt. Robert L.

Hardern, son of Mrs. Florence Hardern, of 305 Schwartz Etna, was killed in the European area. Also killed in that area were: Sgt. Walter F. Migut, Seward.

Lt. Paul M. Yannello, Barnesboro. Lt. John O.

W. Va. Whitaker, Wheeling, N. African area: Pvt. Gather Bowers, Arnold.

Pvt. Joseph J. Funari, Bradford. Pvt. John Mila-sko, Glassport.

Pvt. George T. Yuscanitch, Wind-ber. Corp. Paul V.

Unger, East Liverpool, O. Pvt. Harry R. Bayha, Wheeling, W. Va.

The men reported missing by the Navy were: Yeoman Charles Francis Jones, son of Mrs. Marie H. Jones, 324 Prince St. Marine Corp. George G.

Adams, Franklin. Churchill Assailed By Senator Chandler Daily Telegraph today, charged that Prime Minister Churchill opposes giving China a voice in peace negotiations equal to those of the United States, Britain and Russia. I am convinced, because of the statement made to us by Churchill, that he does not desire China to sit at the peace table as an equal partner with the United States, Russia and Britain," Mr. Chandler wrote The Telegraph's New York cor respondent. Mr.

Chandler wrote the letter allegedly anti-British remarks attributed to him and four other American senators on their return from a globe-girdling tour of U. S. Army bases led to indignant protests in the British House of Commons. Victim of Slaying Employe of USO WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UP) The gunshot-riddled body of a red-haired woman found in a gutter last night was identified today as that of Miss Charlotte Robinson, 30, a United Service Organizations employe.

Police said Miss Robinson had been employed by the War Hospitality Committee of the USO and had come to Washington from Chicago. Shortly after 6 p. m. a woman saw a man dragging the body of a woman from a car toward an open manhole. He dropped the body, shouted, "What the hell are you looking at?" and drove away.

The woman had five bullets in her head. She died in a hospital. Dividends Declared The United Engineering fc Foun dry Co. declared a dividend of 50 cents on the common stock and the regular quarterly of $1.75 on the preferred, payable Nov. 16 to stockholders of record Nov.

5. war work. But, warns a foreward by Gov. Dewey, "business must take the lead. Governmental action can never take the place of the private endeavor of the people ployers and employes alike.

Only the pro-; ductivity of our system of free erprise can provide that bet- we all aspire." Mr. Evans Mr. Dewey seems to be giving those sentiments real meaning. Various branches of his administration are tackling post-war problems with obvious enthusiasm and apparent intelligence. The state-wide goal as announced by the Division of Commerce is six million peacetime jobs A million more jobs than there were in 1940.

With, less than 7 per cent of the federally-financed war plants, and with much of its war production not greatly different from its normal manufacturing output, New York expects its industrial reconversion to be easier than that of some other states. However, it is far out ahead of most states in planning public works projects to provide jobs. IT'S DOINO MORE than most to encourage and assist planning by business and industry for post-war expansion of production and employment. Gov. Dewey inherited most of the machinery that is being used.

The State Post-war Public Works Plan ning Commission was set up under Democratic Gov. Lehman. So was the Division of Commerce, and this agency's head, M. P. Catherwood, has been retained from the Lehman regime.

Mr. Dewey is now asking New York voters to increase its prestige by amending the constitution to make it a full department of the State Government. The division asserts special in A- 4 terest in helping small and new enterprises. They'll have to provide most of the jobs, it says, as they did before the war. THE DIVISION'S ACTIVITIES coincide with the pattern advocated nationally by the Committee for Economic Development, and it works in close co-operation with local CED groups, emphasizing the need for planning at the grassroots, by individual industries and businesses.

"No program can succeed if it approaches the task from the top down." says Harold Keller, the deputy commissioner of commerce. "We're working from the opposite end of the funnel, from the communities up." The legislature, following a recom mendation by Gov. Dewey, has authorized the division to establish regional offices in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, while the state office has jurisdiction over the Albany region. THESE OFFICE STAFFS', working writh local chambers of com merce, trade associations, labor organizations and individual com panies, are compiling estimates for Keach New York community of the number of persons who will want and need jobs after the war, and of the volume of business that will be necessary to maintain that many jobs. They're urging firms to plan now to reach these goals of production and employment quickly when the war ends.

And they're offering assistance of many sorts serviees of lumber and other natural resources; advice about markets and new products; information about plants and sites for new industries or ex pansion of present ones. The division maintains a Wash ington office, which has helped New York firms to obtain war con tracts, and which is now preparing to help them get supplies of critical materials as soon as they are available for civilian use, thus avoiding reconversion delays. not prosecute the charges because of the marriage. Mrs. Kidder said she had settled no money on Hastings.

She is the widow of W. Vince Kidder, former owner of the Pyroil Manufacturing which makes motor lubricants. Mr. Kidder, who died in 1934, was a founder of The La Crosse Tri bune. He was publisher of The Open Exhaust, a national trade magazine, and mvented a gasoline device used on Ford autos, i At Peoria, police revealed that i Hastings has a long police record i criminal assault Mrs.

Kidder said she would seek an annulment of the marriage. postal authorities, has been in effect here a decade or more. Despite the long-established practices here, however, many persons still do not include the postoffice numbers in addressing mail, with a resultant loss of time in handling. Here are the Pittsburgh and district postoffices and their delivery designations: Arsenal 1. Bellevue 2.

The Bellevue post-office also serves Avalon. Ben. Avon, Ben Avon Heights. Emsworth. West View and rural routes Nos.

3 and 7. Bloomfleld 24. Brookline 26. Carson 3. Downtown (General Postoffice) 22.

Uptown (General Postoffice) 19. Postoffice Boxes 30. Corliss 4. Crafton 5. The Crafton postoffice also serves Ingram, Thornburg and Rural Route 5.

East Liberty 6. Etna 23. Hazelwood 7. The Hazelwood postoffice serves Hays and Lincoln Place. Homewood 8.

Millvale 9. The Millvale postoffice also serves Rural Route 4. Mt. Oliver 10. The Mt.

Oliver postoffice also serves Brentwood, Car-rick, Knoxville. Pleasant Hills and Rural Routes 6 and 10. Mt. Washington 11. Neville Island 25.

North Side 12. Oakland 13. Observatory 14. Sharpsburg 15. The Sharpsburg postoffice also serves Aspinwall, Fox Chapel and Rural Route 8.

South Hillii 16. The South Hills postoffice serves Dormont. Mt. Lebanon. South Hills and Rural Route 9.

Squirrel Hill 17. Swiss vale 18. Wabash 20. The Wabash post-office serves Greentree. Wilkinsburg 21.

The Wilkinsburg postoffice also serves Forest Hills, and Rural Route 1. The number of the postoffice supplying delivery should appear after Pittsburgh, thus: "10 Hodgson Pittsburgh (5), Penna." BLACK MARKET CHARGE HEARD Defendant Ordered Held For U. S. Grand Jury Joseph Haulton of 5637 Beacon Squirrel Hill, accused by the Government as supplier and one of the leaders in the McKeesport black market gasoline ring broken yesterday, was ordered held for the Federal Grand Jury today by a U. S.

Commissioner. The charge against Haulton Is selling gasoline ration coupons in "great quantities" illegally. He was ordered held after Abe Kaminsky of 1124 Linn Alley, described by OPA as another member of the ring and a former member of the Purple Gang in Detroit, testified that he purchased gasoline coupons worth between 92,000 and 95.000 gallons of illegal gas from Haulton and that he paid about $5000 for them. OPA officials said that Kaminsky is a self-confessed numbers writer and Haulton has a criminal record dating back to 1932. An information was filed today before Judge R.

M. Gibson against Kaminsky and a complaint was filed last week against Christy Trombetta of 1415 Fifth McKeesport, operator of the Christy Cut Rate Pharmacy, another member of the ring. OPA agents have charged that Trombetta had used young boys to distribute the coupons to war workers in the McKeesport area. An information also was filed to day against Nick Koronis, of 1117 Market McKeesport, also accused as a member of the ring. Local OPA officials took part in the month-long investigation into the McKeesport ring and McKees port police co-operated, OPA officials said.

Bench warrants have been issued for the arrest of Kaminsky and Koronis and bonds were set at $1000. OPA agents also fifed informations against three other men in volved in the sale of illegal gasoline coupons, but who were not members of the McKeesport ring. They were: Peter G. Savor. 3517 Butler John Gons, 3425 Butler and William Rakowski, of Murray Hill LIGHT-WEIGHT PAPERTESTED 'Success in Many Instances' Is Reported WASHINGTON.

Oct. 26 (UP) An advisory committee of publishers is being formed to conduct further experiments with light weight paper stock on all types of presses. Rex Hovey, director of WPB's paper division, announced today. In tertimony before the House Boren subcommittee investigating newsprint shortages, Mr. Hovey said considerable experimentation already done with 28 and 30-pound stocks indicated that its substitution for 32-pound stock "has been successful in many instances." WPB's Printing and Publishing Division director, Harry M.

Bitner, informed committee members that "glowing reports" had been received from experiments with 30-pound stock conducted by the Scripps-Howard Knoxville News-Sentinel and Pittsburgh Press. Tewsile strength of the paper, manufactured in the U. was highly satisfactory, Mr. Bitner said. A con.siflrrahte tonnage of 30-pound paprr has hem nsrrl in recent issues of The I'itts-lurgh press.

So noticcahle difference in appearance or pritit-inn quality could be observed A feu; minor mechanical difficulties nere overcome. Substitution of 28-pound stock throughout the newspaper industry, if feasible, would accomplish a saving of more than 13 per cent in U. S. requirements, Mr. Bitner said.

Failure of draft boards to delay induction of forest workers despite the War Manpower Commission's ruling that the industry is essential was blamed for rapidly increasing labor shortages in the woods by Clarke Marion, vice president of the Champion Paper Fibre Co. U. S. PROVIDES NURSERY FUNDS South Side Project May Be First of Many Here The allocation of $53,285 by the Federal Government for the opera- tion of child care centers by the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, just announced, will result in the opening of one emergency nur sery on the South Side, and probably similar center other sections of the city. Definitely assured by the grant is a center in the Humboldt Elementary School, 20th and Sarah South Side.

Others proposed for the North Side, East Liberty, and the Hill District, must await a preliminary check on how many-parents would use the nursery facilities. The uncertainty about the opening of the city-wide chain of nurseries is due to a new Government requirement that a center must en-roil 25 children to make operation worth while. To cover partial cost of equipment and operation, which will include meals and wages of overseers, parents will be charged $3.50 per week of six days, while a charge of $1.50 per week will be made for children who come to the center outside school hours. Acceptance of the Federal grant now awaits approval of the School Board, which does not meet until next month. Partridge Bags Hunter QUINCY, Oct.

26 A partridge bagged a hunter. Sidney F. Partridge caught Peter Salemme hunting on his posted land and haled him into district court. Salemme was fined $20 for trespassing. General's Fine Cut From $5000 to $100 HONOLULU, Oct.

26 (UP) Lt. Gen. Robert C. Richardson, military commander of the Hawaiian department, faced the alternative today of paying a $100 con tempt-of -court fine for his part in Hawaiia's habeas corpus battle, or appealing to the Federal courts on the mainland. Federal Judge Deibert E.

Metzger reduced Gen. Richardson's fine fromv $5000 to $100 yesterday, but refused to set aside an earlier order holding the general in contempt. The contempt order was issued more than a month ago when Gen. Richardson failed to produce two American citizens of German extraction, Walter Glockne, 43, and Erwin R. Seifert, 29, who were in military custody.

The men appealed for a habeas corpus writ to force their release. Gen. Richardson contended thatf the right of habeas corpus had been suspended in the islands by the military authorities. Driver Misses Death As Oil Truck Burns The shout of a bystander saved a truck driver from burns when his truck, loaded with 3000 gallons of gasoline, ignited and burned last night at the Gulf Oil Neville Island loading zone. Edward Patterson.

23, of North No Kidding Maid Serves as Bridesmaid As Ex-Husband Weds Boss LA CROSSE, Oct. 28 (UP) Mrs. Dean Ladd Kidder, 60, socially-prominent widow of a wealthy oil refiner, said today she paid an itinerant tree trimmer $3000 for working on her estate, and then she married him. The tree trimmer, Ross Hastings, 30, of Peoria, 111., was arrested yesterday on a charge of kidnaping Mrs. Kidder.

The marriage was dis closed when Hastings showed police a marriage certificate. Mrs. Kidder said she married Hastings last Friday at Pekin, 111. Her maid, Kate Hastings, was bridesmaid, Mrs. Kidder said.

Later, she learned that Kate was Hastings' first wife, and that he had divorced her just before the wedding. Mrs. Kidder said she hired Kate at Hastings' suggestion. She also hired Hastings' friend, Owen Mc- Cabe, a South Chicago steel worker, to help with the trees and shrubs, McCabe was best man. 11th St, Indiana, the driver, who was supervising the loading of the truck, leaped to safety when he was warned by a pedestrian.

Officials believed the nre starteu when fumes, held close to the ground by heavy atmosphere, were ignited by sparks from the wheels of a passing Sewickley street car and spread to the truck. Fireman pulled the truck away from the loading zone to prevent" the fire from spreading to big storage tanks nearby and in so doing blocked westbound trolley and auto traffic on the island for hours. Kate, a former Calumet City. He was arrested 10 times in 1940 dice girl, was arrested with Hast- and 1941 at Peoria on charges rang-ings yesterday on a vagrancy charge, ing from petty larceny to attempted McCabe was arrested at Calumet City on a kidnaping warrant. Authorities indicated they would.