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ROUND THE SQUARE CALL: A Mr. J. P. Healey of Buffalo dropped in at The Era office yesterday with a unique story about "what might have been," story with a moral about safety precautions. About 9:30 p.m., Tuesday, while driving in a heavy snowstorm, Mr.

Healey said he noticed a car wise on Route 219 about two miles north of Bradford. Fortunately, he was proceeding slowly because of the bad weather. No one was in the parked car, which apparently had rolled down a sloping driveway. He said he blew his horn several times while a long line of cars came to a halt along the highway. Finally, the folks in the house heard the horn and moved the car, Mr.

Healey said. SALAMANCA MEET: Bradford wis well represented at the Salamanca Board of Trade dinner meeting Tuesday night. Mayor Hugh J. Ryan spoke briefly. Ray Sill, Board of Commerce secretarymanager, and Albert Sullivan.

of C. director, were introduced. Principal speaker was R. H. Puffer, of Buffalo, executive of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory.

MAIN ST. MEMO: Plans are going forward for the state convention of Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce Executives to be held here June 22, 23 and 24. Ray Sill is attending an executive meeting in Harrisburg tomorrow regarding the coming conclave Mark Blair's many friends wish him well in his new business venture. Mark, who has been manager of Whelan's Drug Store here for the past 11 years, will open the Blair Drug Store at 13 Kennedy St. on or about March 15.

Speaking of the old axiom about the barber always needing a haircut--here's one for the book: men's wear merchants Gerad Bird and Les Melnick both observed during the cold spell hurrying along Main St. without overcoats! IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Mike Cuneen's radio column this morn'ing in The Era tells about a Bradfordian who will be honored with a personal mention and several awards on a Mutual Network program tonight, Curious? Mike's article has the details. But please come back and finish this-column! LUNCHEON DATA: Sidelights on South Penn's employe luncheon at The Emery resterday noon: President George J. Hanks reminded us that some of our tax money is being used. in one unfortunate way so far as the American oil business is concerned.

The ECA is helping foreign countries build up oil lubricant plants. which obviously won't help sales of the U. S. oil products Bank president and South Penn and Pennzoil director H. W.

Loveland is planning a tour of Pennzoil of California's facilities early next month South Penn Natural Gas Company's president. G. Allan Reid, Parkersburg, W. was at the luncheon, renewing acquaintances with many friends Here Mr. Hanks quoted, an interesting motto which appears over the main entrance, to California Pennzoil's main offices in Los Angeles: good business reputation does not spring up overnight--but grows slowly and soundly because it is rooted in the solid ground of customer satisfaction." LENTEN REMINDER: Staff members at Carnegie Public Library remind area residents that the library has a wide variety of Lenten season reading material.

NAMES MAKE NEWS: Councilman Jim Butterworth, director of public safety, answered phone calls at Central Fire Station Tuesday morning while the firefighters were busy at the China Shop fire Benny and Twila Booke, formerly of Bradford and Jamestown, now of Chattanooga, are proud parents of a son, born recently. They also have two daughters A former Bradfordian, Atty. John A. Bowler, now of Erie, spoke yesterday to the Erie B'nai B'rith regardIng the Nurenburg trials. Girl Found Dead, Big Sister Held Newnan, Ga.

-(AP)- The body of nine-year-old Negro girl was found in an old well yesterday and police said her big sister admitted the killed the child. Sheriff Lamar Potts is holding lean Cook, 17, and said she will de charged with the murder of her sister, Bernice. According to Potts, the girl confessed she killed her sister for telling their father about Jean leaving home to go to Atlanta recently. Potts said the child, missing since Monday, had been beaten over the head with a hammer and had rope burns on her neck. Colder Cloudy and colder with light snow today, snow flurries and colder tonight; mostly cloudy and cold with snow flurries likely Friday.

VOL. 73. NO. 96. Truman Urges Force, If Best, To Stop Reds Communism Assailed As Armed Threat to Destroy Our Freedom Washington (AP) President Truman yesterday took the occasion of Washington's birthday to deliver a stinging denunciation of Communism as an armed threat and "a modern tyranny far worse than that of any ancient empire." If force is necessary, he said.

then we stand ready to use force to combat the "deadly attack" of those who would destroy freedom. Aimed at Russia Describing his message as a "straight from the shoulder" talk on U. S. foreign policy, Mr. Truman left no doubt that his remarks were aimed directly at Soviet Russia and her satellites.

"The great danger of Communism does not lie in its false he said. "It lies in the fact that it is an instrument of an armed imperialism which seeks to extend its influence by force." Under gray drizzling skies, the President spoke at ceremonies marking the unveiling of a 17-foot statue to. the Ination's first President at the George Washington National Masonic Memorial in nearby Alexandria, Va. Covering a wide range of topics in his 2.200-word address, Mr. Truman made these major points: 1.

"We in the United States are doing and will continue to do all that lies within our power to prevent the horror of another war." Want Arms Reduction "We are working for reauction of armaments and the control of weapons of mass destruction." 3. But--the United States will not accept any "sham agreement" that does not include a "workable national srstem" for control. of atomic weapons. Mr. Truman said George Washington knew there were times when the use of force to defend democracy could not be avoided." and he declared: "This (Communist) threat of force is a challenge to all peoples who are free or wish to be free.

The fundamental issue is whether men are to be free to choose their own way of life, or whether they must live (under a system imposed upon them by force. "Freedom cannot grow and expand unless it is protected against the armed imperialism of those who would destroy it." 15 Persons Hurt As Flames Sweep Glens Falls Hotel Glens Falls, N. roaring fire enveloped the Hotel Towers with terrifying speed yesterday and forced guests clad in night clothes to jump for their lives. Fifteen persons were injured in the pre-dawn blaze, which gutted the four-story, 100-room hotel on the 78th anniversary of its opening. The injured included the hotel manager and eight guests.

Five firemen were hurt fighting the blaze in near-zero cold, and a civilian volunteer, fireman suffered burns. At least 18 guests were carried down ladders to safety by firemen. Several leaped from windows. Others made their way unassisted through stoke-filled corridors and down fire escapes. No official estimate of the age was available, but it was expected to total several hundred thousand dollars.

Taxi Drivers Strike Over Wage Demands Greensburg, taxi strike left Greensburg without cab service except fro emergency use today. Yellow Cab Company's 16 drivers and two dispatchers quit their jobs demanding wage hikes, paid vacations and other changes in working conditions. Inside The Era Assemblyman Johnson to Run For Third Term. Page 2. Court Order Halts Voting by Seneca Indians, Page 2.

South Penn Gives Service Emblems to Employes. Page 3. Bradford High Rifle Club Entered in Meet. Page 16. Sander Jury Visits Bedroom of "Mercy" Victim.

Page 20. Bulletins 17; Hospital 2 Comics 15 Radio Crossword 9 Society Editorial 14 Sports 16-17 The (Established 1877) Flare Through FIRE swept through the plant at Chase St. Kane Volunteer Fire Department flames after an hour's Bradford Fra the and and Mutual again British WESB-FM. at Election newsmen 10:30 elections p.au., bring at Returns on 4:30 newt WESB p.m., BRADFORD, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1950. (Full Associated Press Service) PRICE FIVE CENTS Kane Plant Kane Venetian Blind yesterday.

Members conquered the fight. $10,000 Fire Sweeps Kane Venetian Blind Co. Factory Kane-Fire, believed to have stove near a paint spray booth, the Kane Venetian Blind Company The operator of the firm, James J. Senate Votes Probe of Red Spy Charges A $10,000 Company of the Washington-(A)-The Senate ordered its Foreign Relations Committee yesterday to investigate a Republican's charges that Communist spies are operating from inside the State Department. The charges were made by Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) in a Senate speech Monday night.

He said there are or have been 81 card-carrying Communists in the department and that their operations were directed by a "big -two men and a woman. He. refused to name them. Secretary of State Acheson has said there is 110 truth in the accusation and that he is satisfied with the operations of the loyalty program in his department. At the insistence of Republicans who demanded "complete and full investigation," the resolution offered by Democratic Leader Lucas of Illinois was amended in three respects.

The investigators were ordered to the secret loyalty records of all State Department employes accused in the inquiry. The committee was instructed to hold public hearings on any formal charges of disloyalty made against any individual. The scope of the inquiry was broadened to cover former employes of the department as well as those now on the payroll. The Democratic majority in the Senate had decided Tuesday to investigate McCarthy's charges. The principal arguments yesterday were whether to make the hearings public and whether to try to get the loyalty files which President Truman repeatedly has denied to other Congressional investigating groups.

Jet Plane Explodes, Sets Oil Pit Afire Manhattan Beach, Calif. -(A)- A two-place jet plane exploded in the air yesterday and part of it hit an oli drainage pit, starting a spectacular fire. The pilot parachuted to safety but a technician flying with him died in the wreck. The latter was identified as Arthur Turton of Redondo Beach, Calif. Turton, about 32, was employed as a flight engineer for Northrop Aircraft.

builder of the semisecret experimental fighter. The pilot was found unconscious, hanging in a tree. He is Charles Tucker, 30, of La Crescenta, a test pilot at Northrop Aircraft since April, 1948, and formerly with Lockheed and Bell Aircraft Companies. Telephone Strike Put Over for Two Months House Refuses To Quit; FEPC Talks Continue Supporters of Bill Beat Down Southern Move to End Session Washington, -The House refused early today to adjourn and drove ahead with consideration of a Fair Employment Practice (FEPC' bill. After having temporarily lost control, supporters of the FEPC bill regained the upper hand and beat down, 239 to 165.

a southern Democratic motion to end the session, which started at noon Wednesday. Major Truman Bill Had the motion carried. the bill would have been shelved indefinitely. The bill would set up.a federal commission empowered to prevent discrimination in hiring or firing because of race, creed or color. It is one of the major measures in Presi.

dent Truman's civil rights program. Southerners said they were ready to sit around another 12 hours or longer if necessary to beat the bill. Proponents were equally determined to force a final vote. Early this morning the House hadn't acted on a single amendment. although scores of them were pending.

Early efforts to limit debate were rebuffed. New Record Set Old-timers who pored through the records said the House set a new! record for this century when it remained in session beyond midnight. The longest continuous session since 1820 had lasted exactly 12 hours. they claimed, although the House has stayed in session longer on other occasions but had recessed from time to time. The 1820 session lasted.

continuously for two days and nights while the House wrestled with the Missouri compromise. Immediately after the adjournment vote was announced, the fillbuster started anew and the House ordered a roll-call to determine whether it would again consider the FEPC bill. Southerners opposing the bill had grabbed control of the proceedings temporarily shortly before midnight. They got the. House to lay aside the FEPC bill temporarily.

That move carried on a 172 to 165 vote, clearing the way for the adjournment motion. Real Estate Agent Dies As Car Strikes Another Meadville, Peplcelli, 58, Meadville real estate agent, died at the wheel of his automobile yesterday as the machine collided headon with another car at nearby Conneaut Lake. Coroner Dr. Luther J. King said Pepicelli's death resulted from a heart attack.

Truman Slates News Conference Today Washington-(A)-President Trumanwill hold his weekly news conference at 4 p.m., today. Freezing Rain Makes Travel Treacherous A heavy snowfall which turned to rain last night glazed Bradford's streets and sidewalk making travel by car or on foot an extremely dangerous venture. The mercury hovered 111 the mid-twenties thoughout the day. The City Street Department was scheduled to clear away snow early this morning. Relief was expected in some sections of the state today from the freezing rain and snow that coated Pennsylvania's highways.

One of the exceptions was the northern part of the state where the prediction was for five to seven inches of snow. Some snow also was expected farther south in the western section. Most of the state was covered by ice yesterday. Hundreds of accidents were reported throughout the commonwealth in the wake of Action to Empower President to Seize Coal Mines Started -With only two days to go before the government really begins cracking the contempt of court whip over striking coal miners, a move started in Congress yesterday for federal seizure of the pits on terms the miners like. The proposal, sparked by man Lesinski (D-Mich) of the House Labor Committee.

is to give President Truman power to take over the mines, with any profits from operations under seizure going to the Federal Treasury. That would tend to put pressure on the operators. In past seizures the profits have gone to the owners. Thousands More Idle Meanwhile, the government moved in for more active mediation in the dispute as cooling furnaces drove new thousands of non-mine workers off their jobs and chilled more lic places 'such RS schools. The threat of cold hearths in homes grew too.

While the chill spread. John L. Lewis and the operators labored through another court-ordered bargaining session which federal concillators called fruitless. And the rank and file of the Unitled Mine Workers sat pretty much on the sidelines, still crying "no contract no work" and paying scant attention to the stop-strike injunction. work orders from Lewis or the British Voters Decide Today On Socialism London -(A)- The case of British socialism--staunchly defended and bitterly attacked for the past three weeks--goes to a jury of $34,000,000 sober-minded voters today.

It will be Britain's first general parliamentary election since the Socialist Labor Party of Prime Minister Clement Attlee swept to power July 5, 1945. Generally mild weather is expected to draw a record-breaking outpouring of the electorate, all men and women over 21 except felons, lunatics and peers. They begin marking their choices in curtained polling booths throughout England, Scotland, Wales aud Northern Ireland at 7 a.m. (2 A.m., Eastern Standard By 9 p.m.14 hours later--the decision to restrict or expand the growth of sosialism will have been made. The balloting specifically will be for members of the new 625-seat House of Commons, whose majority will form the new government.

The old house was dominated by labor almost five years. The Labor Party had 390 members at the dissolution of the old parliament by King George VI Feb. 3. The Conservatives, labor's major opposition, had 201. A record total of 1.838 candidates, behind more than 30 assorted poli(tical banners, are jostling for the chance to occupy the pew-like wooden benches in the world's oldest democratic parliament.

But the choice of a winner appears to fall clearly between the labor government and the Conservatives, led by Wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The Liberal Third Party. however, is making a determined bid to Improve Its old showing of 10 seats. Army Denies Landing Tanks at Bremehaven Frankfurt, Germany-(A)-The U.S.! Army yesterday labelled as false an East German government claim that the Army had landed 734 tanks at Bremchaven recently. Col.

W. A. Schilletter, deputy chief of the public information division, said that no rolling equipment but some passenger cars and trucks bave been unloaded at the port since last December. Deportation Hearings Halted Temporarily Washington- heartings involving thousands of aliens all parts of the country have temporarily come to a halt, pending a revamping of immigration service I procedure in such cases. Today and Tomorrow Are DOLLAR DAYS in BRADFORD STORES---Shop! Save! image serial: 4887111 Image serial: 4887111 Truce Agreed Upon by Both Concern, Union Bargaining Continues TAC originated around a heatWednesday destroyed plant at Chase St.

Phillips of Kane, said the loss to building and equipment approximated $10,000. The fire broke out at 2:30 p.m. Fed by highly volatile lacquers and paints. the flames quickly flashed through the interior of the small two story. frame manufacturing building.

Both the- stock and the plant were extensively ravaged by the fire. The Kane Volunteer Fire Department, brought the flames under conafter an hour's battle. Vincent Pierotti. assistant fire chief, said the Rescue Pumper. Griffith Hook and Ladder and the Emergency Truck were used in the fight.

Firemen kept flames' from reaching St. Callistus Catholic Church only' 50 feet away. A former stable and garage, the building was converted into the venetian blind factory several years ago. Dr. M.

E. McCarthy, 417 Chase owner of the property, said it was adequately covered by insurance. Moslem-Christian Rioting Results In Deaths of 30 Asmara, Eritrea -(A)- Hand grenades were hurled yesterday in renewed Moslem-Christian rioting and casualties of the week were reported to have risen to 30 dead and 130 wounded. Ten grenades exploded near the European quarter. British troops reinforced the police and the situation appeared to calm down at sunset.

The United Nations commission here warned the Eritrean people that the incidents. resulting in the deaths of children: as well as adults, cannot and will not influence the commission's decision on the future of Eritrea. In Dispute at Request Of President Truman Washington (AP) The threat of contempt action against their union. Progressive Miners Strike About 10,000 Progressive Mine Workers, who had been keeping Illinois coal output up to about 25 a percent of normal, went out, on 8 strike of their own after failing to reach a contract agreement. There was an outbreak of violence in Utah.

Operators of non-union mines called for police help after one of their truck drivers was wounded! by gunfire when he refused to run his load of coal off the road jas pickets ordered. In Pennsivania, guns and tear gas were standard work equipment for non-union miners, and officers patrolled roads against roving caravans of pickets. Friday's deadline against which federal conciliators were working is the hour when U.M.W. attorneys must report to U. S.

District Judge Richmond B. Keech here on compliance under the stop-strike order Keech has issued. If coal has not started flowing by then. the next (Continued on Page 11) Pickets Strike At Non-Union Soft Coal Pits Pittsburgh (AP) Roving bands of pickets beat police to the punch yesterday as they swept down on nonunion mine operations in Pennsylvania. Three diggers were beaten at a strip mine near Clearfield, Pa.

200-man caravan hit two mines near Pittsburgh. Five truck drivers were forced to dump their loads on the spot. Harry Finberg, owner of the nonunion operation near Clearfield, estimated 500 men were in the group of pickets which attacked his men. None was hurt seriously. By the time police arrived the pickets had dispersed and no arrests were made.

At Brookville, non-union miners carried shotguns and revolvers in order to protect their right to work. State Police kept watch and reported there were no pickets. Deputy Sheriff Tom Henderson gave this explanation: "I doubt if there'll be any trouble from pickets for three or four days now. They (the pickets) usually don't strike on successive days. And they don't like to operate in bad weather.

Although no disorder was reported in the big coal state of West Virginia, peace officers cracked down on 34 pickets who had been arrested earlier in the week on charges of conspiracy. Two Die as Fire Destroys Cabin Hummelstown. Pa.Crouse, 3, and his baby sister, Judith Ann. 1. were burned to death yesterday when fire swept the tworoom cabin home of their parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Crouse, near here. The blaze was discovered by Mrs. Crouse. who was visiting the trailer home of Mr.

and Mrs. Alonzo Phillips, less than 15 feet away. The mother was burned and cut. in ing to rescuc the children. Student Cut as Car Rams Into Dairy Store Pittsburgh -P- Twenty-five Carrick High School students were showered with glass yesterday as a driverless auto crashed into the front of a dairy store.

Susan Yund. 14, was treated at a physician's office for a leg cut. She was the only person hurt. Police estimated damage to the store at about $800. nationwide telephone strike scheduled for Friday was postponed last night for 60 days.

The CIO Communications Workers of America agreed to a 60-day truce proposal made by President Truman, who said a walkout would deal severe blow to the public welfare. Agree to Delay Call Joseph A. Beirue, union president, issued a statement that the union's executive board had agreed to delay the strike call. "We have a sincere desire to resolve the issues through collective bargaining in an open, straightforward manner," Beirne said. "In accepting President Truman's request.

for nostponement of the strike, we take one more step in our continuing effort to preserve industrial peace." The President asked that there be no interruption of work and that the nation's telephone communications remain unbroken during two months' of bargaining with the help of federal mediators. American Telephone and Telegraph Company wired the President late yesterday it would be glad to continue bargaining for another 60 days "in a sincere effort to settle the dispute." Recently Learned Demands H. T. Killingsworth, vicepresident in charge of long lines, said the added time should be "useful in reaching an agreement and we will welcome the assistance of the conciliation service." Killingsworth also said it was 'not until last Friday that the union advised A. T.

and T. of the amount of its wage demands. He added union negotiators at that time were at a. union meeting at Memphis, "so there has been no opportunity to negotiate with them or receive their justification for increases in wages." In New York, Stanley Bracken, president of the Western Electric also agreed to the truce and the reopening of bargaining talks. Western Electric, the manufacturing and installation unit of the Bell System, is one of the key companies involved in the labor dispute.

Work On Borrowed Time The union is demanding a "packconcession amounting to 15 age" cents an hour--including higher shorter hours and shorter wages, training periods. Police Fight Off Dogs to Get Body Of Their Master (an all-night rain and snowfall that followed two days of sub-freezing temperatures. Late in the day a freezing rain was still falling in the Philipsburg arca. Elsewhere in the western part the mercury read 38 at Brookville. 44 at Blairsville.

33 at Altoona and 40 at Johnstown with rain falling in some degrees. The icy roads in: the Harrisburg section thawed out by afternoon. Snow or sleet slowed highway traffic to a crawl Wednesday in a broad belt from New England to Missouri. Road conditions were the most hazardous of the winter in icesheathed northern and central Indiana. Three highway deaths were biamed on the ice.

The Washington Weather Bureau, in a special bulletin, warned motorists of the dangerous road conditions. Erie, Pa. -(P)- Police had to get yesterday to fight off three help dogs which for two days faithfully guarded the body of their dead master. A fourth dog froze to death during the vigil. Neighbors called police after noticing 80-year-old recluse George Biebel's absence from his one-room dwelling on the city's outskirts.

Several officers cautiously approached the place but were driven back by the hungry dogs which resembled collies. The officers called a humane society official who captured the dogs with a net. Inside the place police found Biebel's body along with that of the dog which froze. Coroner Warren W. Wood said the recluse apparently died Monday of a heart attack.

Biebel had lived alone at the place. The fire in the stove had gone out. The dogs apparently had no food for day's. Dumm and Smart Make Dean's Honor List Loretto, Dumm and Smart made the dean's honor list for the first semester at St. Francis College yesterday.

Students Leo Dumm of Altoona and Leo Smart of Cassandra, near Johnstown, are on the roll,.