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Are Truckers Paying Their Share Of Road Costs? Another Stale Highway Story-Page 7 AKRON ACON OURNAL NIGHT FINAL 113th Year Hits. 3 CllO Ike Clarifies 1 AT 1 1 1 fV 1 1 I IS a September 17, 1952 Mrnit rf ft t'v I "ift 1 1 tic i jiiaAu As her home near Moose Lake, is devoured bv llamcs, Mrs. Toge Anderson paces back and sobbing, "No, no, (lod, what will we do now?" She is comlorted bv Walter Eldot, Duluth Herald and News-Tribune reporter. The fire broke out after Mrs. Anderson, mother ol four, drove to Moose Lake to meet her husband who was rejoining his lumilv alter working in Dululli.

The liou.se was reduced to I ubrile. A P. 2-Yr. Term For URW I it i -hi is i i I I I f- I 1 i I I i''ji 1 Il'i7 H7c Do 1 "4, I i 7' William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, chatted with Gen. Eisenhower before the Republican presidential candidate spoke to the AFL convention in New York City.

-UP. Vd Amend T-H Law, Eisenhower Tells AFL By JAMES DEVLI.V NEW YOFkK UP) (Jen. Eisenhower told the American Fed Latest Stock Quotations Market News On Tai; 27 NO. 2S5 iv rf.v;.i ivii Fear Death Toll May Go Higher Viclinis Taken To 6 Hospitals MONESSKN, Va. UP) A freight train crashed into a crowded high school bus todav at nearby Collinsburg.

killing at least three girls and injured 4d other students, 35 of them seriously. Due to the extreme confusion, officials had difficulty immediately in determining the exact number of the dead. The office of R. Check, Westmoreland County coroner at Greensburg, said it has definite reports of three dead, they are: Janice Everett, 17, a senior, of Collinsbiirg, whose body was (alien Irom the scene of (lie crash to a funeral home in West Nr-1 on. Norma Bergman, IS, nf West Newton, who died of head in juries after arrival at Westmoreland Hospital In Greensburg.

A girl, who was dead on arrival at Frick Memorial Hospital In Mount Pleasant, was identified hy a teacher as Lenta Bradley, I of Collinshurg. The Bradley girl was first, identified as Gail Kuzniak, of Collinsburg, who was later found to be at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, in critical condition from a compound fracture of the leg and shock. Officials at Rost raver Tup. High School also reported Dorothy Berkinger, 11, a freshman, among the dead, hut, this could not be verified. THE PI'S, ca crying about.

passengers, was almost past a street crossing when a Pittsburgh Lake Erie Railroad freight train snagged its rear end and dragged it about. 50 feet. The pupils were hurled about the bus like ten-pins. Only about half were able to climb 'nut of the wreckage after the crash. Ambulances rushed injured pupils to six hospitals.

The bus whs en route to Rost-raver High School. Mrs. V. McCaulev, wife of a funeral director and one of the first to answer frantic calls for ambulances, said: "We got there, shout, 1(1 minutes after the crash. It.

was the most horrible thing I have ever seen. "There were injured srhool children all around. Nearly all were unconscious. I saw only one who was able to walk. "The children were hadly cut and mangled.

Shoes, clothing and schoolbooks were scattered all over the place. "We loaded the youngsters into a lot of ambulances. We put several in my car and another driver took them to the hospital. "The motor and wheels of the bus were torn out. The body of the bus looked like a haltered tin can." Several parents, who rushed to the scene when they heard of the crash, fainted at.

the right, nf the wreckage. Some lived only 50 feet, from the crossing. State Police said they received reports the weather iro foggy at the time the bus approached the crossing, which is protected only hy a railroad crossing sign and no warning lights. The police said they undeislood that, the bus had stopped before starting across the tracks. Tafl Speech On TV Tonight NEW YORK iff- The Republican National Committee said today Sen.

Taft's opening campaign speech tonight will be televised over NBC. Taft. is speaking in hehalf of the Republican ticket at 9 p. m. from Springfield.

O. Warming Up AKRON AND VIC1NITV Partly cloudy anil warmer today. High, 82. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Low tonight, 65.

High Thursday, 80. Tuesday's high, 71; low, 5.1 Record high for this date. Sfi in record low, 40 in Sunset, 7:32. Sunrise Thursday, 7:09. Tollen count Average per cubic vard for the last 24 hours I HOIRIV RKAI1ISOS 'fl 1 4 i p.

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4 p. X- Tnnf; DAILY Tf-MPFRATIRF tHIRT y-'Tp-rfUv Las' Nin(, Tra in Labor Stand favored "realistic" amendments ji, i McGrall WASHINGTON Ally. Gen. J. Howard Former McGralh today denied that anyone in Justice Department, tried to the "sit.

on St. IiOinx tax scandal eases i in lfl.al. i. i.i i ''oiimii I tors the department "did all we rml(, S. Judge George II.

Moore in curry- bg on a special Grand Jury probe, reason in tin- world for anyone the Deportment of Justice to take an interest, in any St. Ixwi tax cases," he declared. "Missouti is the home stale of the President, and St. lyiuis is the home city of tiie Secrelaty of the Treasuty, hut nobody ever spok1 to me about any case in lyiius. And if anyone says someone ined to gel, the flepaitment to sit on St.

Loin tax fases. jt. josl isn't MeGKATII testified hc'oie a judicial subronimit tee who is investigating the Jusiice Dcpait-tnent. lodge Moore senl the group ll sworn statement last month which said in effect that the judge felt the Department, from MrGrath on down, dra(fRed its feet on the grand jury iniiiir. BULLETINS to 158 for their 10-round fight itr A Ohio' Wednesday, Yrj(: i lieu Federal Pen iscanccs In Holdup? Driver Robbed In Delaware WILMINGTON', Del.

(UP) Three men robhod a milk driver today and touched off a concentrated police search on the premi.se they might he the bunk robbers who escaped from the Lcwisburg, federal penitentiary eight days ago. Fifty state police from Delaware and Pennsylvania, along with FBI agents, swarmed through a heavily wooded area where the men ran after the holdup. The scene was four miles northwest of Wilmington, near the Pennsylvania state line. The three men, wearing masks, hurst from the wooded area this! morning and at gunpoint robbed i dairy driver Bayard Fleming of Colonial Heights of his money. Then they raced hack Into the underbrush.

Within an hour the small aunv of police, carrying rifles and shot- guns, converged on the wooded sector. THE WOOUS were minded, and the police moved in, heating their way through the tniisll. Maiyland police wcie for ldoodh'ounds. and a helicopter was ordered flown in from New Jersey. Fleming said all of the bandits appealed to be about yen: nf age.

One of the Le.i;hi:ig escapees is 26, Hie othci.s 22 and 21 cspect ively. Police would not sav oflieiullv that the trio was the jailbr but the presence nl th and the reign of terror left sim their escape on epl. 1(1 called for the heavy police cordon, the roo'rs said. fur I he' escaped' The giant, manhunt thiee dcspel a does vim I I I I i 1 1 1 I j-i li rili from the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania to the front door of the nation's capital. In Pennsylvania, private citizens searched old mines where tile trio miejit have hidden, Maryland and Dc-ilri't of Cohundia police weie alerterl hy a I'cpoit that the three weie in a iestaiii.ini last, night at Silver Spring, a.

Washing I on sul.iii Joseph N'olon. 2f, lc hi olh-r. Rallaid, 22. of Whilciy County, anil Khner Schorr. 21.

Chicago, scaled (lie "fl foot wall at the J'l during an early funning fog last Wednesday and lei! a liad of terror thiough Fasiern pcnnsvlvnniH I S. Vl'VVAV Coal Shipping WASHINGTON d'JIt The eminent will dee.c rjo 5 from ma.iy strike threatened in ominous mines in an effoM to build up a stockpile for einei e-ni needs in case of St ilse I crel a 1 of nun I. i op announied 1 i action will tie taken by the I ie fcnc Folnl fuels Administration, an inrenor par' merit aencv rcspfittsdyie foi kceninc; the coal litduM ry on an evr ker I.e,'is nnd haul operators todav an "mtcrirn" con-1 1 ai I a -mii ring pi ndurt ion of honie-hur nir.f 'oal tiuoiiph the winter. t'arher I'; to Today's (dine Lie ell ir Cn-'n more MI.) s-vay! appl than the You'll Find: Kadio-T' IX Theaters Hi Sports I Kditorials 'i Women's fnzes "0, 2'5 Hailv 2H eration of Labor today that he Five Cents Air; COMMIES Crack Down In Midwest And On Coast Charge PIol Against U. S.

WASHINGTON" UP) The Justice Department announced today the arrest of 18 Midwest and West Coast Communist party leaders on charges of conspiring to advocate overthrow of the government by force and violence. Atty. (irn, MrGranrry anil FBI Director .1. Kdgtir Hoover mild those arrested Included the lead-era of (he purty In Missouri, Washington Statu and Michigan. Arrests were made In St.

luta. Rock Island, Charleston, Seattle, Detroit. Los Angeles, Portland and Kugene, Chicago and Minneapolis. All the arrU were wada on warrants Issued by S. commissioner and federal Judges Ctt complaint of KBI agents.

AMONG THOSE arrested was Helen Mary Winter, 44, wifs of I Carl Winter, one of the 11 top Communist leaders convicted In jNew York In lfMf. Mr. Winter, jdrlted up In De. limit, has been stat I orgiiiilntloniil fcrrelury of ha purty. The Justice Department announcement, described Mrs.

Winter as presently active with tha "Committee for Amnesty for Smith Act Victims." ARHKSTKl), In addition to Mr. Winter, are: Taut Miller Bowen, 30, of Chi-cago. John Shields Daschbach, 38, of Seattle, Wash. IJarhaia Hurtle, 44, arrested at her Eugene, home. Henry P.

Huff, 58, of Portland, chairman of the Washington state branch of the party. Karly Uirsen, 47, of East Stan-wood, Wash, William ,1. Pennock, 37, of Seattle, Wash, Terry Pettus, 4S, northwest editor eif the West Coast Communist newspaper "Daily People'! World," Hi-rented In Minneapolis. Robert Manewitz, 35, of Lea Angeles. William Allan.

43, Detroit correspondent for the "Daily Worker." Thomas DeWltt Dennis 34. Detroit, organizational aecretary tor the Communist party In Michigan. Kaplan, 47, Detroit, a. mernher of the National Committee of tiie Communist Party. Philip Schatz.

38, Detroit, organizational secretary of the Ford aection of the Michigan Commu-met party. Haul Laurence Well man, 38, Detroit, a coordinator of the Communist party. James Frederick Forest, 42, chairman of the Communist party in Missouri. K3irorMUr' Marcus Alphonse Murphy, 4-1, of Charleston, Mo. William Sentner, 45, of St.

i Louis, Mo, Solve 'Indian' Girl Mystery KORT WORTH, Tex. rT.Et "yahimulankasitdanamutsa." who she was an 18-year-old Al biro Iroquois Inelian, turned out today to he Yvonne Hanks ol Filoliburn, Maas. Iicpnly Sheriff Hank Davis i-ind Vvonne admitted her identity after he checked with Pitchburg police, who gaiel she ran away Irom home Sept, 7. He said he found the namn "Yvonne Hanks" on a label in her clothinR. "If you send me back," she told Davis, "I'll run away again." 220 Casualties WASHINGTON t.Pt The De fense Department today identified -20 battle casualties in Korea in new list No.

650 that reported 19 199 wounded and 2 yi.liil I 'HA pi I 1 i 44 Pages 1 t'-l 1 :4 4f A 4 "t' l.v Those who wish to re.gialer in the branch office may mil Ih board of Election to find out where offices ate locate" in their dlstrieU. 1fnic- i'l Couldn't ni 1 II 111 I I'll I) CHICAfJO tr.I'i When traps failed to catch "mice" which Mr, and Mrs. Merlon Van I.nvend' heard in their basement, they put their two Doberman f'mscheri in the cellar to ferret, out, the offenders. The dogs came nut with a lare opossum. Two Of A Kind NEW YORK tC.I') John Pira, 21.

and Frank Pira. 23, 6-foot 2-inch brother with similar tastes, appeared together in Felony Court as defendants in separate cases in volvinsr stolen cars. Each was held for Grand Jury action. ii i i 5 to the Taft-Hartley law, but did not favor its repeal. "I will not support any amendments which weaken the rights of working men and women," he said in an addres.

lie-lore the AFL annual convenlion here. The presidential nnminer said he knew that the law as it' he i)i(ln I "That must he changed," he said. "America ants no law li- 1 ov I I 52 Safely Record! Days Wilhonl A Traffic Dcalh Akron drivers set new record for death-free driving to-day--and already police were, "Let's make it two lor '52." For 31 r- since Aug. 17 the city haan't had a fatal traffic accidejit, It. smashes the previous record this year, set between May 10 and June 10.

censing union-busting. Neither do FJSKNHOWKR'S speech followed by a day a message to the convention by President. Truman in which Mr. Truman said Repub-j licans planned to "make the Taft-Hartley law even more oppressive and unfair" to labor. Gov.

Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, has nuvinaicu in an ie writing a new law. Administration speakers ap- penring before the convention have, urged repeal nf the art and have heen loudly cheered. The convention, which will hear Gov. Stevenson Monday, is expected to endorse him. thus departing from long held tradition; not to endorse a presidential candidate.

The GOP candidate said he believed the AFL's own executive council had stated that it was pte-paied to take what it called a realistic view of amendments to the Taft-Hartley law. "And that is my position too," he said. "I give if to ynu simplv and clearly. I am in favor, nol of repealing, hut of amendinng the law." F.ISKNHOWFR said some ft the principles he thought, it was See I'D AMEND. Page LATE NEWS Traffic M.

William Willnuliby, In a slalrmenl, ioinle out that "it's only through the driver himself that such records can be obtained." "We must each drive as we wish the other fellow would," said VVillouRhhy, "and the pe-dcHtrian must: not walk himself dcalh." Two Jor '52 9 Now, say e-n)T, we'd like two months without a tralfic death and another new record. The longest Akron has gone without, a death, acceirdin to Traffic Dureau records, was 79 daya set last, year from Jan. 2H to April IS. H85J000 Voters Reeklcr Hy GliOIiGI. S( ril FN Hi li nil Mall Wlilft AKUtrilV I'ACK, J.

Rubber union delegates were expected to deride today whether they want i i i era to have t.vo-Vear terms. Proposals piovidmg two-yciir terms v. ere tossed into I he ariiend-menl, box by the convention hw.s i oiiiliut ce 'I'lie. day (tne proposed iimeiidiiient rails for the eleition of Inriil I ItW officers for two-year terms liefjln-iiing In Oilolier, Officers eh'eteil in May, Itt.l.'t. vv olilil serve months until the beginning of the two-year election plan In lll.1l.

A tie-m pioposal (alls lor the holding of intcnialior.nl conventions in evioi-numbei ed yearn. In- I Convention sideli; Page Ills tei uat lonal ic tio om womd also run the full 2t monllis he- t'veen COi'eIit lOtiS, If it is approvi'd, the next In ternational rnnwntloii will hr anil liiternalioiial officers 1 eler ted lu re later this wei duri tlie nth annual oiiv i ntion will serve until that I line. Tei ins of local and 1H0 oat lemal officers are now oiie year. Conventions are held iiioitiailv. mm ndmcnt is conceded much i nance of winning the Iwo-lhirds vote iiceocd to (hani-e the I'CW 1 oust It lit ion pelt, said liiey v.nnld take the tlnor to aipue for the lA-o-year ilan ax an economy move Sahcdtiluiir of coiMcnlioos and clcclions e(o tuo years would save iimliey, thry avm-rl.

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HU II' Xiiliktl, IK'I, lfff. 1 i 1.1 TV 7 Fl 7 Here ror new Record IIKOISTRATION.S JtKACHED the all-time high in Summit in onto torfav with more than 1 ft.o fififi ebVlhlo voters listed nn thni Board of Kle-ctiun rolls. Davvy Scales IrtOVu (rraziano .) CHICAGO (INS) -Chuck Davey weighed in at. l.Vil-! various oertion of Akron and summit coiuity. and Rockv Graziano scaled at Chicago Stadium tonight.

Earlier story on Page 2. V. S. Korea Casualties Increase WASHINGTON (LP) American battle in Korea now total 117,973, an increase of 7.16 over last week's summary. The total includes 20,716 deaths, 81.816 wounded, missing.

1 ,665 captured, and J.3S!) previously missing hut returned to military service. Eden In Helgradc For Tilo Talks BELGRADE. Yugoslavia (P) British Foreign Smeary Anthony Eden arrived hy air today for talks with Premier Marshal Tito on joint, efforts to preserve peace in the world generally and in Southeastern Europe, in particular. I in the- expeelerl to rccji'ti loOay, to Hubrit boa id clerk. I'.

MINKS I CO that the Srptcnihor, Ulfit) recoril of 185,414 resist i ,4 will tie iri s.hci by Inore than 15.000 by Sept. 21 otcrn mav n-KKt'i- now at the lioard of Klertlon from a. m. inilil I ii. ni.

I.eirinmni; ridac In ii mil ration oftiees will 1 sw More than uoo i "cjhIc, last two (Ibvh -ome 51 Ml me fWiUUJJU'Mh ti 48 Food Price Index Drops Sharply NEW YORK (UP) The wholesale food index slipped to its lowest level since July 1 this week and recorded its sharpest decline in three years. Dun Brad.st re repotted todav. The index now stands at. $6.49, marking an overall dnltne nf 21 cents in the past two weeks. It with S6.60 a week ago ane $6.77 in the like week of 1951..

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