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THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955 PAGE 2 turond rud nuihArlfrl A1 Pru.v'nni THE PITTSBURGH U.S.S. Albacore Unveiled Sheraden Navy Officer Skipper Of World's Swiftest Submarine Turtle Creek Valley Gets 'Blueprint' Flood Control No. 1 -2 4 fc rTTf-' .3 I'm I HIV Ki :1 -1 1 i.A fa I i 1 iftf Ja fiKlW lUlBjulilltf Annual Wage Sure to Come, CIO Man Says Matter of Time, Parley Told American industry "knows; there's going to be a guaranteed annual wage," a CIO labor leader claimed today. It's "only a matter of when it will happen," Ben Fischer, international representative of the United Steel Workers, said. Addressing the spring conference of 1 ho Society for Advancement of Management, lie also warned the industrialists that demands will be made for a work week and higher wages.

Nlabili.ing The shorter week was seen by Mr. Fischer as one of the 'main factors" in solving unemployment, lie said the CAW is not going to solve the unemployment I pioblem althougn it wouiu have a stabilizing effect" on the economic cycle. Most of the controversy over the CAW is for the public and I I I- i i Goal of Plan Kv NICHOLAS KM: Industrial Turtle CT was stepping on to a nrigntet future today with a detailed re development plan under its arm. The planciting flood control as the llrst problem to lick -was handed officials of Turtle Creek, Wilmerding and East i 4. i i msourgn lasi niui mi.

juim meeting in the latter Resolutions, seeking Federal i aid. also were presented the ihree boroughs by the Pittsburgh Regional Planning Assn. Turtle Creek council immedi ately passed its resolution and officials of the other communi ties said they would pass the measures soon. Martin Speaks Speaking to some repre sentatives of the V'allev com- 'munities, Park H. Martin, executive director of the planning! association, said: "Basic to the future well be- Ins: of the lower Turtle reek Valley Is lloou control you can't afford to wail, yon need flood control as quickly as possible." Two years in the planning 'the report also includes pro irnWil fur streamlining schools housing, traffic, parking and mnroaiinnui miiitinc To revitalize the stagnant congested area, the throe com munities will have to wnrK as I USS Albacore, world's fastest Tf-' THE SERCEANT COMES HOME offer 13 years, trying to regain his job as supervising principal in the Elizabeth schools.

MSgt. Ben H. Byers, standing, makes his job appeal to the school board of the Elizabeth-Forward )oint School District, The return of the CI threw the board into turmoil. Fights for Old Job Ruling Sought With Elizabeth Gag V1 bargaining purposes, Mr. Fiseh-jfiom Sheraden is the skipper er told the industrial engineers: of the just-revealed U.

S. S. Al- Precedent-Setting Case Headed for Court Unless Board Agrees to Reinstatement The Elizabeth-Forward Joint for a precedent-setting court fight unless its directors agree to an Ai tnv master sei eeant to a trm iuh in thp scium! tvs. 7a tern. Sergeant Ben II.

Byers was supervising principal of the v4 School District appears headed 0f absence," said Mr. llarkins. "That is the law, and wheth- Only the Legislature has the right to say what the law Is, I I ts, 4 mu me u.uu ui hi- terpret it. Held Commission Sgt. Bvors.

now approaching Tn December. 1912. and worked llI he said, he volun- 1jnk re(hlclM, (0 sergeant, thinking it Maryland. He said he is not eligible for an Army pension veteran World War 4 The It's Faster Than Nautilus A 3l)vcar-fld Navy off nor bacore, the world's swiftest submarine. He is Lt.

Corn. Kenneth C. Gummerson, graduate of Lang-ley High School, who married a Crafton girl. Commander Gummerson recently put the Albacore through a series of hard tests in the North Atlantic. As a result, the Navy said: "A school of these deadly killers could drive all surface ships to cover either to port or to the bottom of the sea." Along on the tests of the Al-i 'bacore, which is faster than the! 'atom powered a il was Cornelius Ryan, a writer fori 'Collier's magazine.

wr he story of the tests is in the current Issue of the maga- 7ine, published today, along with photos. As Mr. Hyan describes (b revolutionary sub, she is so fast that airplane-type controls are mn-essary to operate her. The diving and steering operators of the Alliai ore's iJI-nian crew, be wrote, have to wear pilot safety belts when she goes into a highspeed turn. Commander Gummerson is married to the former Phyllis L.

Hamilton, of IS Hawthorne Crafton. His mother, a widow, is a housemother at I'enn State University. (iradiiRtfl of Aiumpolis The skipper attended I'enn State for about a year before the l'. S. Naval Aca a tj.p' I "7 or Mnronph schools ago.

unit, declared Patrick he joined the Army 13 netiL't'int ritanir nf tlifl' He is slated for discharge Pr think the law in this April 15, and wants his old job case jS just or not has no bear-again, or its equivalent in the jnR on the matter," he said. planning agency. Flood Damage Cited nrl(rU-i(T tha finttrn rrn. i gram is the solution of ever nresent fln.uls Mr Cos ck added. The nlanners unveiled it -'I'M i at, the luncheon meeting in Gate way Plaa.

"I think the people who run American Industry know there's ifoinir to be a guaranteed annual wage," he do. dared. "It's now only a matter of when it will happen." Workers need these advances to keep pace with technological changes which are constantly raising productivity, he said. Otherwise, there will be acute unemployment problems. "rea(es Trouble "We accept the fact of tech-1 nological change and that it can be of great benefit to the community." Mr.

Fischer noted. "However it can create very real, unique and profound troubles "Mamiiiciiiriil li that technological progress will create more jobs, bill only if i the worker gets a hinder wuc so that bis buying i power is increased," he said. The CIO official warned man-j acement to "ouit ervitiL' social-! ism, lest it linil itself in thr "Jiosi-tiou of ihe hoy who cried wolf." "Ironically," he declared, "the Marxism concept of class struggle seems to be more prevalent among spokesmen for management than among workers." "This is a false idea. I he problems are common problems. It's a difference in emphasis, nut a fundamental difference In philosophy." The CIO leader mimed no words in telling the industrial planners what tie thought about technicians: I I the prospectus at a special1; 1 ark.ns presente, meeting in the East Pittsburgh thfir ,0.

borough building. he mat. Alarming figures of the dam- ffe boa, ei he mat age caused by the most recent 0 5'" flood, Oct. 13. 195-1, were re- nell, and the poisonnei coi nm i vealPd for the first time by or study, but not before Martin.

iMr.Harkins warned: IL si 1 1 n.i i He said the Westinchou.se! Electric largest valley in-, TV'u -T ..,1 i "If we do not get satisfaction in a reasonable time, we will lhA army in lVrihe was getting a year as supervising principal and principal of Kliza hot High School. 1 Me prewnt supervising prin cip.u oi nn j. on. the joint district. Dr.

sub. Itel.ltinllS Board iL'uated Louis piesident of the expelled fiom the he e'epted rnonev from th( company ai, h-dciiendent union. Tin co other local ofnceis were relieved of office and foi hidden to seek re-election! If no appeal is filed by District r0, the two decisions ill end a dispute which early last year when a group of insurgent drivers bolted the 10 local and affiliated with the I'MW. "cab all" district. 1 The yearlong dispute was marked by the wrecking of eral cabs and fights between the two groups.

IX COM. KKNNKTII C. Commands deadly sea killer. dustry, suffered four million go into court. would speed his release from dollars damage to equipment, Complicating the unprece- service.

But the Korean War lost filj.OOO man hours of work issue is the fact that broke out then, he said, and his and six million dollars in pro-! Elizabeth Borough Schools con- discharge was delated until duction. Previous estimates had solidated under a jointure with now. been'that over live million fl'il- those of Elizabeth and Forward. For several years he has lars property damage was Townships two years ago. on Ihe teaching staff at caused hv ramnacins Turtle! Provine (Grounds, in hv ramnaciriT Turtle i Year-long Dispute May Be Ended Peoples Cab, Union Win Fight with UMW Labor Board Supports Company, CIO In Battle Against 'Catch-All' District he said he started as a math his charges that the meef-: teacher at Clairton in 1921.

and uas a conspiracy to block joined the Fiizaboth Schools as." investigations of Peress and k. iauia, muis "There is an nroneous arF(rmv at AnnapoiH. harmful trend on the pait of- was jn- jfjn The CIO Transmit Workers and Peoples Cab Co. came nut idol ions on two fronis tod.iv in their battle with District 0. a But Mr.

Hark.ns argued that neither the length of his client tour of duty nor the fad of the jointme has any effect on his job entitlement. He said under Scect.ve Serv top management to turn over of the wai-i problems ot ailans dup, the class a. lualiVj personnel iclatn.ns expcils. The 'vfiist thing he did was marry T.v nmv. ice auu icaencr ii-ouir mvs- -j you iniilK you are quail-Sgt.

Bvors was considered on fod for the top job?" nrinrinal of the hieh school in and supervising principal in a Population t.rowth il.sl director poinied out that the school population of 000 uhjch Sgl. Byers formerly managed has now grown to 1 and asked: 'The legislature has said he IU Ex-Vice Squad Member Cleared leave of abseme from 1he unless (iisinargen ny ine noaro.i.Mr. liarKins. McClellan Asks: Will Ike WASHINGTON, March J7 tl'Pi -Sen. John L.

McCellatj. i Arkansas Democrat, asked to- day for an official ruling on whether President. Eisenhower will backtrack and permit testi mony by Administration officials on what Sen. Joseph It. McCarthy calls a "conspiracy" to slop his investigations of the Army.

Senator made th request to end a stormy scene between Senator McCarthy, Wisconsin Kcpiihllcun, and Defense Department (leneral Counsel Wilder M. Itnu ker during Senate Investigating subcommittee hearings on the case of former Maj. Irving I'eress. As Chairman. Senator McClellan directed Mr.

Brucker to learn from "higher authority whether former Army Counsellor John (I. Adams would be allowed to testify now about a meeiing Jan. 21. with Attorney General Herbert Brown'-ell Jr. and other high officials.

Mr. Eisenhower by executive order shut oh all testimonv bout the meeting in last year's hearing. renewen oi on is. j. Peress is the former Armv dentist who received an honor- able discharge after In refused t() w)lot.

Pr 10 Wils a Communist T)ie between Mr and Senator McCarthy aUor a pmagon inteliv- i gem officer. Lt. Col. James Anders, said it still would take the Armv "seven to nine fo Ri of an 0UvT like peress. Peress was called to active duty, promoted, and honorably discharged after refusing t.j stale on a loyalty form whether he was a Communist.

Chinese Reds Storm Embassy in Brazil Sail" lenfcit Hfjoucrljt zlurf me. Mark Real' Matthew lie did not tell them where; love and duty never do. They reserve their self-revelation for sueeessiv stages of the roads they ask us to They only assure us they will not mislead us. The scholar in his quest tan do no more than follow tnirh; the bride at the altar can do no nuue than pledge herself to love. The questing saint can do no more than pledgf himself to goodness.

11m little we know, the self-dedications with which we begin, where love and truth wiil lead us or what strange roads we shall travel. And yet life leaves us no other choice. Our wisdom is to lind the true guide, serve the sovereign causes, and follow on. They assure us of blessed comradeships; they bring with them their own cmKw-erment and the summits th. reach are touched with fadfi less light.

ll I'ruyer: Lnd our Col who has given us thy word to tie a lamp unto our feet ami a light -unto our grant us grace to receive Thy truth In faith and love and follow every good word cj them to the glory of tM name; through Jesus Chnl, our Loid. Amen. Cnited Mine W'oi ker. The Pennsylvania I-aboi 78 of ihe CIO union a jthe bargaining leprcsenlative. jfor Peoples emploves and dis-i imissed charges of unfair labor ought by District 50 against the company.

In hold rulings by the board, the I'MW was given 10 days in which to appeal the decision. In handing down its rulings, tb ignored charges by District 50 thai Local whs a company-dominated union. The board's ilecisuins also open the way for tion of (he CIO local which was left without ofliceis moie ttian a month ao and i now being tun by an administrator named by the union's ecutive hoard. iutei national ex- Taking the Oath on St. Six Irish, 79 Ceremony Held In Federal Court I'ighly five persons born In foreign lands of them in, Ireland became citizens in 'naturalization ceremony today Deliberating less than an, SAO PAl LO, nrazil, March hour today, a Criminal (ourt; 17 1 1 P- A group of about 20 iury cleared City Ia'rolman pr0 c'timmun Chinese at-U'onard Held of perjury and tacked Japanese Vice Cnnsdl obstructing justice charges.

Mauiano Shiunoratau yesterday The fomier vice srpiad raider. 'and damaged his office. now a traffic officer, had been The Chinese are members i4 charged wi'h changing his tes- an organization which demands limony liefore Ihe Co weapons, munitions and pas- (hand Jury during its invest)- sage to Red China to fight the ga'ion of Vice Squad Chinese On the witness stand. Patrol-! 1 linai responsibility must lemain; with top management doesn't have the riht ca'e to tei hiucians. Won't Be rnnied "There seems to he another trend that management ilunks it can arm anvone with a 'how to', ictnual to siihc pioblems.

Voii'ie not going to get along' wiih unions and union repie-! sei.tatives if you're going to i patronie them and if the basic' job is to treat them as a bunch I of fools." After a disastrous year, Mr. Fischer said that employment in the steel industry is beginning! to pick up. However, "it does not begin' to resume the level of employ-, rnent hii li existed a year or year and a half ajo." Automation Frightening There are indications, he said, 1 hat employment generally is. "on the way up in a long pull not on the av dow hnl "vv still have ev e-isive amounts al unemployment." Automation poses a "frighlen-ing problem," according to Mr. l'lxher, yet it can be for the common good'' il handled pi op-, frlv.

Grin and Bear It P.ONN, Cenuany, March 17--The West Cicrman government has ruled that a teddy bear ulYor Is more skilled and deserves heiicr pay than a snout-sewer or an eye h.vr in a toy factory. to live at Kitteiy Point, and have thiee children, Kenneth Susan, and Pnscilla, who will he two yeais old Saturday. "We knew Ken was making tests of some sort hut, of course, that's about all we knew," bis niolheriu law, Mrs. Neill ((. Hamilton, said proudly.

I lis command of the Alhacoie is another Naval lain el for the' Crafton district. i Hear A I a I William I (Pete) lerrall, of Crafton, was one of World War H' 1 most illustrious submarine skippers. His exploits were turned Into a movie, "Destination Tokyo," and a Pullior Prize news story, of an appendectomy performed, aboard his sub deep under enemy waters. Catholic Laymen Book Professor Prof, Lawrence Criffin, of Duipiesne I'liiversity, will speak bet ore the Catholic Laymen's Kducational Assn. at Hotel William I Vnn tomonovv evening.

He will discuss the ing and Certification Teacher." During the the meeting. hu-incss phase of the i "Train- of the' Patrick's Day Others Become U. S. Citizens Creek. Floods since 1M had! wreaked another 10 million dollars havoc.

Bold Action Needed Bold action was called for by! the planners. The Federal Government set aside 510,000 for a flood control survey in lfVf. But to complete the it will cost an "It is imperative to get the money Ibis jear or cNc you will iiave to wait until Mr. Martin told borough oltiiiiils. Although no rot was esti it il'ju mw firoor.im undertaken will be a multi mil lion dollar projed.

Anticipated, I'edeial aid could cover two-' thirds ot ihe cost. A joint planning commission to see the progiam through was suggested. Common traffic problems aggravated by narrow slieets could be remedied with a tt Thorough roadway laid at the base of hills on the north bank of Turtle Creek. i A central parking author- it to build garages and parking lots is also recommended. Common wood areas could lie turned into rer rent ion parks.

of pipelow fV.vd Miss IT nf 'UW Call forni.i a nurse born at Cionailcn, Watren point Nol th In land; Mrs. Pat O'Halloran, 30, of Fast John flav in, 12. of 1211 Hesaca VI: Marv P. Toole. 3C.

of VJ.IS Kllsworth Ave. and T. Mullen. 22, cf 1111 Jane Wilkms- I I I tuiore i-eocrai Judge vvaiiacei Courley. I Postmaster James C.

on contributions made And he could not have been discharged unless specific charges, such as ini ompetenco or ineifcicncv. vv ere filed against him by Ihe board. This, said Mr. Harkins, was never done. He also cited a recent State Supreme Court decision in which the couit ruled that tenure regulations continue to 'apply to teai hers of consolidated school districts after a merger.

"Sgt. Byers Is entitled to the top administrative post, with seniority and all pay mere merits' gi anted during his leave burg. Amon those naturalized was' the Hev. Arnold Seidler. id a con missionary In llin PiMwliornh hl ini-tl of the Ameiican Hoard of Mis- sions to the Jews.

A native of Ccrmany ho en-j tried the I'. S. in 19IS from; Fngland where he had leen misMonaiy lor 13 jwti. hy foreign born ctfiens in the 't. Patrick's Day FROM NINi TO FIVE -I I i XX Xt tA i cv fr f4 lmifrt it ii mf-t-m- wi my rtaU tMrriM i man Held tost men mar no nan.

so many cases he couldn't recall changing his testimony from the time he appeared in Morals Court to his- appearance1 before the Crand Jury. Nationalists Train With U. S. Army Units Korea. March 17 i IT) Forty-five Chinese Na- tjonalist army officers are on-the-jnh training with American Army units in An Sth Army announcement said L'fl technical si'i vice olTicers arrived March 3 for a 3D to 00-! lav training program and IT) others arrived la-t Thursday for a two-week studv of com mand and staff procedures.

8-Pound Shot Kills Track Team Youth March 17 tlTi- Kul Kerloy 11, an Ardmoro High School freshman, died yesterday a few hours Hfter lieing accidentally struck on the head by an eight pound shot during track work outs, Sunday Press Want Ads Pay Ihsl's because more than million people read The Press oery Sunday. To niske sure tint vour Want Ad will Im In The Press feinemlHT the deadline for placing our ad Friday at 6 p. in. Your early rail will be appreciated. rail Uurt 1 4WH).

Class; "Vun will find us we have found that there are no domi- nant classes in America to thwart (he efforts of minor- ity classes and to place them in' an inferior social status. "CilieiiH are judged by what they do as Individuals. There is no particular standard by which we must measure ourselves except our conscience. We have no stand-arils that bring advancement except our will." roup spokesman The Posi master spoke in be half of the Federal Business men's which sponsored the ceremony along with Ihe Pittsburgh Junior Chamber of Commerce. James K.

Ilornick is chairman of the Jay ceo Citizen-hip Committee. Speaking for the new cl'i Zens was Lloyd of YCilC Ynunuridge a mechanical engineer who. with his wife, were admitted to citizen ship, lloth are from Canada. Attorney Paul J. Ilecnan.

of the Castle Shannon Ancient Order of Hibernians, welcomed the citizens nominate officers for the com ing veal. "Shame cn You." IT VI ri7 lldocin't tell my weight. It just toUIJirn "11 CREAT DAY FOR THE IRISH a these six from the Emerald Isle joined 79 other foreign born in becoming American citizens on St. Patrick's Day. Left to right are Mary B.

O'Tnole, Mrs Annie 0 Halloron, Mrs. Anne Costcllo, Bridget Mullen, John Cavui and Mrs. Nora Snvder. Carl Siarhpcr. of the Jmmigia- if.

Mnn-iw Howard uihlic tela- lions officer of the Oakland Veterans Administration Hnspi-lal. and Federal association officers who picscntcd flags to the new citizens. Trie IrlMiborn citizens ate others Imludcd.Mrs. Anne Cunloy Costello, 35,.

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