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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27. 193 PAGE 2 Covrright, JSi. hi Th Pitttburgh frew Co. Retired First of Year Home Owners Tm- David C. Morrow Dies; Former Wafer Firm Head ry He Served W.

J. As Football Coach David C. Morrow, retired man ager of the South Pittsburgh Water Co. and three times coach of Washington Jefferson College football, died early today in St. Joseph's Hospital.

Mr. Morrow, 70, retired from the water firm at the beginning of this year. He had been associated with 'water corflpanies in Washington, before coming to Pittsburgh. He was confined to the hospital almost from the time of his retirement for treatment of a stomach disorder. Washington County Native A native of Washington Coun ty, he studied at W.

J. and took up the coaching reins whenever the school appeared to need a mentor. One of his prize proteges was the late Wilbur "Fats" Henry, an all-time, All. America tackle. He entered W.

J. in 1908 after the family moved into town from, their farm in Donegal and then went on to study-civil engineering at Ohio University. He held the post of inspector of construction for the Washington County Highway Dept. before joining a Washington engineering firm and later became Borough Engineer for Washington. Went to New York Mr.

Morrow was widely-known through his years of association with the Citizens Water Co. in which he worked up through various positions until he became general manager in 1926. He also served as district man ager of the Community Water Service Co. simultaneously. In 1937 he went to New York: to the offices of the American Water Works and Electric as division manager.

He came to Pittsburgh after leaving that position, about five year ago. ROBERT and ROSE ROEDER After his attempt to save drowning man in 194S. Couple Dogged by Bad Luck Finally Receives a Break Homeless in Fire, Daughter in Hospital, Victims Offered Supply of Furniture Free A courageous young couple from Glenshaw, buffeted by misfortune for two years, could take heart today. They have no home of their own, but a benefactress from Glenfield a complete stranger has given them a bedroom set and Space Needed to Fix X-Ray Machines Used in Survey County-Wide Project to Get Under Way March 25, Costing About $250,000 Officials in charge of the forthcoming chest X-ray survey here are in a fix. They disclosed today they haven't been able to find suitable space for a shop where mobile X-ray units can be replaced when FEPC Bills Due Monday In Assembly Fine Okays Action, To Issue Statement HARRISBURG.

Feb. 27 (UP) Gov. John S. Fine said today that the administration's proposal for a Fair Employment Practices Commission will "probably" make its debut in the Gen eral Assembly next Monday. Republican legislative leaders have been holding up on the FEPC bill which has already been drawn up by the State Justice Department until receiving the go-ahead signal' from the governor.

Will Issue Statement The governor, reiterated that he was "for it very strongly, of course" and that he plans to issue a statement when identical bills are introduced in the House and Senate. The FEPC bill will be similar to the administration bill that passed the House of Representatives in 1951 only to die in a Senate committee. That legislation called for a three-member commission in the state Labor and Industry Department to set up procedures and regulations, backed by enforcement powers, to prevent discrimination in employment because of race, creed or national origin. FEPC is a plank in the plat forms of both major parties. Stressed Need In his legislative message to a joint session of the General As sembly last January, the gover nor said a study by a committee on industrial race relations he established indicated "the im perative need at this time for favorable action in this field of human relations." At that time he appealed to members of his own party to "react more kindly" to such legislation than heretofore.

Charity Order Nun Dies Here at 83 Sister Marcella Was Hospital Administrator Sister Marcella, a member of the Charity Order community here for nearly 60 years, died yesterday. She would have been 83 next month and was one of the oldest nuns in the community at Seton Hill, Greensburg. Born Rose Renninger at Gal-litizin, Sister Marcella was one of five graduates in the first class to finish nurses' training at Pittsburgh Hospital. That was in 1908. Directress of School Two years later she was appointed directres of the school of nursing at the East End hospital.

She remained in that post until 1923 when she was made administratrix of the hospital. Sister Marcella took part in nursing circles and was a member of the American Nurses Assn. and the National League of Nursing Education. She left Pittsburgh in 1929 to direct the nurses school at Providence Hospital in Beaver Falls, also operated by the Sisters of Charity. She held that post four years.

In III Health The Cambria. County native had been in ill health for a number of years at Pittsburgh Hospital. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Genevieve Minnick of Mc-Keesport. The body will rest in state at the hospital nurses home through tomorrow noon when it will be transferred to Seton HilL Requiem mass will be in the Mother House Chapel at 9:30 a.

m. Monday with burial in the sisters cemetery there. LaFolletfe Services Conducted in Madison MADISON, Feb. 27 (UP) Robert Marion LaFollette was buried today in the city that served as a springboard to fame and power for his family. LaFollette shot and killed himself in Washington Tuesday afternoon.

He was 58. careful. Officer? I've been Bond EVERY WfcfcK!" Dirty Book Charge Denied By Prisoner Accused of Running Business by Mail Louis Saxton, accused of oper ating his dirty book business by mail from the Workhouse, was the picture of injured innocence today. -The filth peddler was brought from the Workhouse to appear before Morals Court Magistrate W. H.

K. McDiarmid. Asst. Police Supt. Adam Geisler and Acting Lieut Allen Carna-han last Saturday had uncovered $10,000 worth of obscene devices, literature and film in an Oakland home.

Doesn't Blame Barnes The material was traced to Saxton. now serving -three years for selling the same lewdness. Saxton is charged with directing operations by letters to Clar ence M. Barnes 42, of 514 Cato in whose home the material was uncovered. "I want to plead not guilty to these charges," Saxton said.

"I don't blame Barnes for trying to dump everything in my lap. He knew I was already behind the eight-ball. Would Do Same Thing This merchandise is not mine. I have had nothing to do with it. Every time there's trouble, they blame me.

"1 met Barnes two years ago and he was in 'business' at that LOUIS SAXTON Back at the old stand. time. If I were in his place to day, though, I do the same thing he's doing to me." Barnes has been co-operating with police, said Lieut. Carna' nan, and has volunteered a com plete statement. The lieutenant said that Sax ton made a deal with Barnes last Thanksgiving when the filth peddler was in the Aspmwall Veterans Hospital with a leg ailment.

He was, at that time, a Workhouse prisoner. Ordered Punch Press Saxton had ordered a punch press with which to manufac ture lewd devices, Lieut. Carna- han said, and gave Barnes $42 to pay for the machine. While in the hospital, Saxton also ordered strips of rubber for the obscene articles. Asked about this by Magistrate McDiarmid, Saxton replied: "It was Christmas time at the hospital and everybody pitches in there to make toys and novelties for underprivileged children.

To Continue Fight Supt, Geisler, who signed the informations against Barnes and Saxton, told the magistrate as the hearing began: "Distribution of these obscene materials contribute much to the perversion that is present in the City. We are going to work 24 hours a day to stamp it out." Saxton was held for court on charges of conspiracy and ac cessory to the sale, manufacture and possession of obscene literature. Barnes was held on charges of conspiracy and sale, manufacture and possession. "parties" were store basement. Detectives said they thought that Stenson only entertained one woman at a time.

He is married, but he never took any frocks home to Mrs. Stenson. The women were identified as Dolores M. Wells, 26, Mrs. June Lillian Carlson, 26, Mrs.

Anna May Danhauser, 32, and Mrs. Dorothy Anna Cunkle, 28. The store said that all losses were covered by insurance. i sl. DAVID C.

MORROW Coached 'Fats' Henry. His connections with W. J. were carried on when in 1942 he was appointed alumni trus tee. He belonged to various Masonic and civic groups in his home area.

His Survivors Listed While in Pittsburgh, Mr. Morrow lived at 230 Beverly Mt. Lebanon. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alice Woodard Morrow; a daughter, Mrs.

Lloyd Joslyn of New Jersey; one grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. Clyde Smith, Mrs. George F. Sharp and Mrs. Ralph Forney, all of Washington; and four brothers, Blaine, of Washington County, Earl, in Florida, G.

Guy, of Peoria, and Donald Morrow, of Washington. Services have not been ar ranged. they break down. 'This is our big problem at the moment, explained Edward J. Hughes, executive secretary of the Pittsburgh and Allegheny County X-ray Survey Founda tion.

"And it's developing into a major problem." The Foundation, he said, must find 1000 to 1500 square feet of repair space, plus adjoining parking room for three trailers, before the survey opens March 25. To Make Betakes Mr. Hughes, meanwhile, announced the Foundation will set up headquarters about March 15 at 207 Market just off the Boulevard of the Allies. The "retake center, where second X-rays will be taken of persons whose first films look suspicious, will be located next door at 203 Market St. Mr.

Hughes also said about 12 mobile X-ray units will be stationed at key spots throughout the Downtown during the entire five-month survey period, which ends Aug. 22. $250,000 Needed X-rays in schools and industries will start March 25. Coverage of communities outside Pittsburgh will begin May 5. Davitt S.

Bell, treasurer of the Foundation, said the survey will require an estimated cash outlay of $250,000. He said the Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh has agreed to supply $50,000, the City 000 and the County $75,000. This leaves $50,000 yet to be raised, principally among the outlying municipalities. New Oil Field in Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Feb. 27 Drilling teams have struck a "new and vast" oil field about 100 miles north of Salvador in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Told to Check Gas Mains But Who Will Do It Is Question Pittsburgh gas users soon will start getting letters to have their lines checked for possible leaks. But who will do the checking remains a problem. The three natural gas companies here advised Mayor David L. Lawrence today they don't have enough workers to handle routine inspections of service lines. Lack Equipment And a spokesman for the Plumbing Contractors Assn.

said most plumbers don't have the equipment to do this. A sample of the letter to be mailed to each gas user in the City was shown to the Mayor and seven Councilmen by D. B. Beecher, vice president and gen eral manager of the Equitable oas (Jo. it win be accompanied by a personal message from the Mayor, emphasizing that all gas appliances as well as service lines be checked to prevent possible explosions.

Six Died in Blast The campaign is an outgrowth of two bad gas blasts which recently claimed six lives on the North Side and Point Breeze. Mr. Beecher. said gas com panies can handle only emergency calls when a householder thinks he smells leaking gas. David, Kuhn, of the Plumbing Contractors pointed out the gas firms do this for nothing.

Then, he added, when a plumber inspects a service line and sends the householder a bill he "gets a black eye" for charging a fee. Yet, he stressed, plumbers can't go around checking lines for free. Plight Explained When the Mayor indicated his belief the plumbers "refuse to go along" with the safety campaign, Mr. Kuhn objected that this wasn't so. Mr.

Kuhn finally -Indicated plumbers would handle nonemergency inspections, for a regular fee of about $10, if they have the necessary equipment. The equipment is said to cost them $75. Also attending the special meeting were representatives of the Peoples Natural Gas Manufacturers Light Heat the Heating, Piping and Air Conditioning Contractors the Utility Survey Commission of Mellon Institute and City Solicitor Anne X. Alpern. Court Style Show Is Model Case Woman Dons Gowns To Back Damage Suit Five male jurors in the courtroom of Judge Lois McBride leaned forward in their chairs with their eyes bulging today.

They had the unexpected gobd luck to be "judges" along with seven women at a curious style show. The women jurors took it a little more in stride. It was the case of Mrs. Estelle Katz, a comely brunet, against a South Side dry cleaner. Horrified by Result Mrs.

Katz, who was married Aug. 26, -1950, had taken six honeymoon gowns to the cleaning shop of Harry Garson, 2016 E. Carson St, on June 1, 1951. When the gowns sheer pink, blue and other delicate pastel shadescame back. Mrs.

Katz threw up her hands in horror. Some had stretched, others had shrunk, the hems were crooked, belts were missing, and the slips had vanished, she said. As the 117-pound bride told her woeful tale, her attorney, Hyman Borovitz. was kept busy arguing, objections raised by Defense Attorney Jacob Frank. Orders.

Style Show To help decide the issue, Judge McBride ruled that Mrs. Katz should display the damage. So the 32-year-old Mrs. Katz carried the gowns into the judge's chamber. Then, with one gown after another, she left the chamber to stroll before the jury.

They showed she was right. Mr. Gerson said he didn't clean the gowns, but sent them to the Columbia Super Cleaners, owned by Michael Napolitano, 223 Omega who was called as a witness. Disclaims Blame He said it couldn't have happened at his shop, and detailed the Columbia cleaning process. Maybe the 'gowns lost their shape between the time of the honeymoon and the trip to Ger-son's, he suggested.

Mrs. Katz, of 97 S. 22nd said that she had put the gowns in plastic bags after, returning from, the Atlantic City honeymoon. She wants the jury to make Mr. Gerson repay the $140 which the gowns were worth.

YOU LEAD a horse to water but you can't make him drink. That's just sample of the Proverbs you'll find in The Press Proverbs Contest which offers $3500 in cash prizes. Be sure to watch for It In The Press Family Magazine Sunday, March 8th. Vs. COLBY M.

CHESTER Schools- need $10,000,000, More Medical 4 Training Urged Industry Asked To Help Financially If the health of the people deteriorates because medical training lags from lack of private support, the Government may take over medical education. This warning came today from Colby M. Chester, chairman of the Committee of American Industry of the National Fund for Medical Education. 10 Million Needed Mr. Chester and a team of medi cal experts met here today with nearly 75 industrial leaders as part of their campaign to raise $10,000,000 this year.

The meeting at the Duquesne Club, was in charge of Theodore F. Smith, president of Oliver Iron and Steel Corp. in the absence of Ernest T. Weir, president of National Steel Corp. who was called to New York on business.

Mr. Chester who is honorary board chairman of General Foods New York City, said the drive is to stave off any governmental control over medical edu cation. Deficit Inevitable Mr. Chester cited a fact given by Dr. Joseph Hinsey, dean of Cornell University Medical School and on the 10-city tour with him.

As Dr. Hinsey said, "The average cost to a medical school for edu cating a medical student for the four-year course is $12,500 of which about $2500 comes from the student." In order to bail out the colleges for this average $10,000 per stu dent loss, Mr. Chester said, American industry has been call ed upon to help. The industrial leaders and medical experts also conferred with Dr. William S.

McEUroy. dean of the University of Pitts burgh Medical School. Sponsor Drops Drew Pearson Gives Up Radio, TV Rights Next Month NEW YORK. Feb. 27 (UP) Radio and Television News Commentator Drew Pearson has been dropped by his present sponsor.

Carter Products. the Ted Bates Advertising Co. announced today. The Bates agency announced that "effective at the end of March," the sponsoring company is "relinquishing the Drew Pearson program on both 'radio and TV because of the company's new commitments in television." The agency would not elab orate. Pearson's television show has been over the DuMont network on Wednesday's, his radio program over the American Broadcasting Company's facilities.

Du Mont and ABC spokesmen declined to comment immedi ately on whether Pearson would be carried on a sustaining basis, without sponsor, or whether other sponsors were in prospect. Falk Finances Political Institute $43,000 Awarded To Wooster College A $43300 grant to finance an institute of politics has been made to the College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio, by the Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation. According to Dr. J. Steele Gow, foundation director, tha grant will finance the establishment and operation of the institute for three years.

The institute will begin operating next September with a yearly budget of $14,500. Funds will be used to bring speakers, in the political field to the cam pus, to defray costs for student trips to political meetings and for other expenses. Field work, as well as courses, will be utilized to help students become better acquainted with practical politics. The program also calls for support of both the Young Republican and Young Democrat organizations and close cooperation with party leaders. Batlp Henten Knowing that patience (work-eth) experience.

(KJ.V.) En-" durance (produces) character. Romans 5:4 Goodspeed). (Moffatt and Read James 1:16. Either translation will do but the recent ones are the most suggestive. Patient endurance of trouble is a vital virtue but it is only a link in St.

Paul's golden chain. Something must come of endurance or else we should have no heart to endure; even experience is not the end. What we become through experience is life's issue. Character is patience triumphant, experience made alive, and the harvest the soul has gathered from the contributions of the years. It is no quick or easy growth.

It is-matured through light and shadow, through having known and borne much. Character is the demonstration that life has been the servant of our spirits; that life's battles have left us no wounds for which we have not found healing, nor faced us with any challenge from which we have not won victorious strength. All that made it may pass, having served its ends; character endures, our harvest and God's harvest in us from the fields of time. Prayer: eternal Father, help us, we beseech thee, to gather from the experience we call life, such qualities of soul that the fruits of the Spirit may be manifest in us. Give us grace to win courage from danger, goodness from trial, love from having much to try us and, having overcome, to say of what we once sought to escape, "that too was best.

In Jesus' name, Amen. To Open Colombia Store CHICAGO, Feb. 27 Sears, Roebuck and Co. will open its store at Barranquilla, Colombia, next Wednesday. Gen.

R. E. Wood, chairman of the board. said a subsidiary company, Sears, Roebuck de Colombia, has been established to operate the store in the South American country. Dress Shop Romeo kitchen furnishings.

"It was sure a surprise," said Mrs. Rose Roeder. "Gosh, that's the best news we've had for a long time." The furnishings were offered the Roeders by Mrs. Elizabeth Bijenou, of 430 W. Beaver Rd.

She will lose her 10-room home to the Ohio River Boulevard improvement. Home Sacrificed It was a deserving break for young Robert Roeder and Rose. Two years ago a daughter, Judy, 21a, one of three children, was stricken with a stomach ailment. She has been in five hospitals since then. Mr.

Roeder, who had started an independent hauling business, sold his truck, home and used their savings to pay the hospital bills. He bought an old truck trailer for $80, furnished it with knotty pine, added another room, and they called it home. Possessions Lost Last Feb. 11, It was destroyed by fire, and all their possessions were lost. The couple moved in tempo-1 raily at the home of Mrs.

Roed ers mother, Mrs. Frank Bigler, on Saxonburg R. D. 1, Glenshaw. At that time, Mrs.

Roeder said: "We're sleeping on a mattress on the floor right now, but we'll make out somehow. We can't give up now." Mr. Roeder kept at his job as a laborer with the Uhl Construction Co. But a week after the fire, while at work in Allison Park, he toppled from a ladder. His jaw was broken, and he suffered head injuries.

Joins Daughter The ambulance took him to Pittsburgh Hospital, where he joined Judy as a patient. Both are still there. With Mrs. Bijenou's kind offer, it looks like maybe the Roeder luck is changing. It might be fate's way of re paying their courage, Mr.

Roeder, 31, has risked his own life at least four times in the past to help others in distress. Rescues Three Before World War II, he used to camp in the summer at Slip pery Rock. While there, he saved three persons from drown ing. In June, 1948, he plumged Into the Allegheny River in a heroic attempt to rescue John R. Van-gelio, a Press driver, whose truck went into the river from the Duquesne Wharf.

The driver went under before Mr. Roeder could reach him. hearing on second degree larceny charges and was bound over to district court under $2000 bond. The women were charged with receivine stolen roods and will be given a hearing next Wednes- day. They denied the charges.

Police said the janitor told them he opened the rear door of the store at night to let the women In and then allowed them to roam the shop, picking out any clothing: that caught their fancy. His Woman Acquitted Of Drug Charge Said Husband Talked Her into Dope Sale Mrs. Estelle Byrd, 27, of 1318 Gibbon was acquitted today by a Federal Court jury of a charge of selling narcotics. Mrs. Byrd, arrested in a roundup of dope suspects last December, was accused of selling three grains of heroin to a Hill District man for $3 last Nov.

25. Mrs. Byrd testified before Judge Nelson Mc Vicar that she was coerced into selling the drug by her husband, John (Buster) Byrd, who was convicted of sell ing heroin earlier this week. Teen-Aged Mother Names Suspect McDonald Youth Denies A 14-year-old unwed mother took the stand in Criminal Court today to name a youth from Mc Donald as the father of her baby. The little bobbysoxer cradled the six-month infant in her arms until called as a witness.

Then she handed the baby to her mother. She pointed out Eugene Wilson, 20," to the jury of eight women and four men as the occasional boy friend who she as serted, forced her to submit to in-H timacy in 1952. To Play Recording Wilson strongly denied it. And he accused the blond high school girl bf telling him about her dates with other youths. The defense said it would introduce a wire recording made Oct.

30, 1952, in which the girl talked of other dates. Tells of Rendezvous Wilson said he had arranged the meeting Oct. 30 with the girl on a lonely road near their Two of his chums, William, and Andrew Mihalic, of Tyre, were hiding in the brush at the spot. During the rendezvous, Wilson said, the pals crept to the car and planted a microphone to catch the conversation. The girl told the jury that she informed Wilson on Oct.

17, 1952, at a lonely road meeting, of her impending motherhood, and he denied then that he was the father. Marriage Proposal She said that on a previous FROM NINE TO FIVE Janitor's Women Friends Clean Up He Opened Store For Them at Night DULUTH, Feb. 27 (UP) A janitor at one of the city's leading women's clothing shops admitted today that he slipped women friends into the store at night and showered them with chic gifts. Police said 39-year-old Carl Stenson also admitted he enter tained his women friends in the store with ice cream, coffee and beer parties. Officers said they could not estimate the exact amount of dresses, gowns, shoes, gloves, purses, etc, that were believed missing irom me sxore.

cur tney said it amounted to "several hundred dollars worth." Stenson and four women were arrested yesterday and all were lodged in the county jail. The janitor waived preliminary date he had forced his attentions on her, and she had told her mother. Twice after Oct. 17, she said, Wilson asked her to go to Maryland with him to get married, and she agreed. But he backed out both times, she said.

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