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HAPPY BIRTHDAY: One of Bradford's Spanish-American War veterans is observing his 75th birthday today. Archie Crawford Fessenden of 19 Avenue reaches the three- quarter-of-a-century mark today! A native of Sartwell Creek, Archie has lived in Bradford for many years. As a young man in his early 20s, he saw service with American troops in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He entered the armed forces with troops from Bidgway. Not in the very best of health for the past five or six years, Mr.

Fessenden nonetheless enjoys going riding, solving interlocking puzzles and tuning in for Johnny Nelson's pictures of Bradford Phillies' home games. Before retiring, he worked for many years for Bovaird and Seyfang. Sending him birthday greetings today, in addition to his many friends, are his wife, Mrs. Anna Christie; three daughters, Mrs. Albert (Florence) Chitester and Mrs.

Andrew (Winifred) Butterfield. both of Bradford, and Mrs. William (Marian) Colwell of Buffalo: a son, Raymond of the Derrick City Road and nine grandchildren. LIGHTS OUT: Motorists driving' in downtown Bradford the early part of Friday morning were surprised to find the traffic lights flashing (as they do late at night) rather than operating in the conventional red-and-green fashion. The system was temporarily disturbed, police explained, by an accident on South.

Ave. and W. Corydon St. early Friday morning. SOME GATHERING: Roy H.

Grove of South Ave. is secretary of one of the most unique organizations in Pennsylvania--the Grove Family Reunion. For 43 consecutive years, the Grove clan has held a picnic reunion on the third Saturday in June. The event is always held at the same location--Grange Park, near Bellefonte. Special feature of this year's reunion will be a 20-piece brass band--with every instrument played by a Grove! QUOTABLE QUOTE: Calyin Coelidgre once pointed out that men are born with two eyes but with only one tongue so that they should see twice as much as they say.

NO. 186. (Established 1877) BRADFORD, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1951. (Full Associated Press Service) PRICE FIVE CENTS 284 Given Diplomas At Bradford High; Sen. Mundt Speaks South Dakota Official Tells Graduates 4 You Can Save World'; J.

B. Mitchell, President Of School Board, Presents Seniors Diplomas In a facile talk before an audience of 1,100 persons, Senator Karl E. Mundt (R-SD), told the Bradford Senior High School graduates last night at commencement exercises in the high school auditorium: "You have the spirit, the vigor, the courage, the daredev- i LICENSE TIME: Bradford bicycle riders are being rather slow about obtaining their 1951-1952 bicycle licenses. Chief of Police Ed Edmonds said yesterday. Only about 100 folks have registered their bicycles so far whereas last year-there were about 800 bicycles licensed.

New tags must be on bikes by June 15. To obtain a tag, all bicycles must be properly equipped for safety with good brakes, bell, headlight and tail reflector. Bike owners may- drop in at' Police Headquarters Mondays through Fridays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. and from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. The morning hours also apply on Beef Slump To 3-Year Low sale of beef cattle in the U.S.

slumped to a three-year low this week and a governemnt price official predicted no relief before July. Some packing industry spokesmen said the real pinch of scarcity will appear next week in butcher shops in many cities. Only 122,100 cattle were sent to market this week in the nation's 12 biggest livestock centers--lowest since the week ended April 2, 1948. Last week 141,600 cattle were sold and a year ago, 167,700. H.

B. Raskin, deputy regional director of the Office of Price Stabilization in Chicago, said cattle feeders are gambling that government price controls will be lifted June '30. il nerve to do the things that have to be done to save the world." 284 Given Diplomas John B. Mitchell, president of the Board of Education, presented diplomas to" 284 graduating seniors after an invocation by the Rev. John Fey of the Grace Lutheran Church, the address of welcome by Arthur Brooder and the honor speaker's valedictory by Nancy Graham.

The presentation of vocational awards was made by George A. Bell, principal of the Bradford Senior High School. The Rev. H. M.

Fahnstrom of the Swedish Lutheran Church, gave the invocation. Senator Mundt flew to Bradford from Washington in a somewhat circuitous route, rain causing him to diverge to Baltimore, thence to Pittsburgh, finally to Bradford-just in time to greet the anxious graduates after they had received their diplomas. Contrasts Threat of Reds Contrasting the threat of Communism which is rampant throughout the world today with the opportunity and the security of America--the bastion of freedom-Senator Mundt had this to say: "We've never had an enemy like Communism before, organized as it is, able to mislead and misguide colleagues in our midst." "We've never had an enemy of our way of life so skillful, so adroit that it could actually win converts from the leaders of the churches. They've (the Communists), perverted some school teachers, some college students, preachers, fanners, actors." of the confusion that exists in the world today, the senator" exhorted, "If there's any one who ought to be thinking clearly, it's a group of high school graduates, fresh from 12 years of school." Graduation from an American high school is about as American as anything can be, commented the ex-teacher senator, in effect. Recruited from all walks of society, (Continued on Page 14) Addresses Graduating Class at Bradford High SEN.

KARL E. MUNDT Messages Raise Many Theories About Britons Hospital to Move Patients to New Structure Sunday Approximately 105 Bradford Hospital patients, now situated in the old hospital building, will be moved to the new hospital tomorrow, starting at 9 a.m. The movement expected to be completed by evening. Joseph Hew, assistant superintendent of the hospital, yesterday issued a plea to relatives and friends of patients to stay out of the hospital until evening unless they plan to assist in the movement. "It will be a big job." Mr.

Hew said, "and we would like to have the cooperation of relatives in staying out of the hospital unless they plan to assist us. We have been planning for this movement all week." Mr. Hew added that patients and visitors will be required to use the main entrance to the hospital on Interstate Parkway Sunday. He said that the old entrance on Pleasant St. will be closed.

Tomorrow's movement will mark the end of the old hospital building as a useful part of the plant. It has been in continuous operation since 1906. Vogeler Repudiates Spying 'Confession' Washington Robert R. Vogeler, grim and unsmiling, told yesterday of 17 months of torture and degradation in a Communist Hungary prison, and disavowed as "rubbish" his purported confession of sabotage and spying. Seemingly physical fit but still tense after four weeks in a hospital, the 39-year-old American business man detailed for the first time the ordeal he underwent before being freed.

He was released April 28 through a deal with the Hungarian regime arranged by the State Department. In a talk at the National Press Club, Vogeler said he was denied sleep and grilled for 78 hours following his arrest, plunged naked into ice water, slugged, and plied with strong stimulants. "There comes a time when a person is faced with the utter futility of not complying with demands," Vogeler said slowly. "He believes that he is abandoned, that he will be killed in any case, that an alleged confession will appear anyway--and so he signs the rubbish placed before him." At his Communist exploited trial in Budapest Vogeler said he was represented by a "perfect stooge." He was denied the services of an American lawyer and forbidden contact with the U. S.

legation. Vogeler expressed belief he was imprisoned as a pretext for confiscation of the properties of the International Standard Electric a subsidiary of the American-owned International Telephone Telegraph which he represented. London-(P)-The mystery of Britain's two vanished diplomats deepened last night with the disclosure of telegrams from France saying one planned a "long Mediterranean holiday" and the other "had to leave unexpectedly." The messages supposedly came from the diplomats, Donald D. MacLean and Guy Burgess, but were sent in their behalf by a third person believed by Paris police to be of a different nationality. The messages gave rise to a dozen different theories in this baffled capital, increasingly fearful that the Russian speaking pair may be taking Anglo-American secrets to Russia--perhaps under duress.

There was speculation about the safety of the British diplomatic code. A high government source, however, said neither had worked with codes- only translations. Crack counter-espionage agents stepped -up the search throughout Western Europe and especially around the Mediterranean. Diplomatic missions behind the Iron Curtain already had urgent orders to keep their eyes and ears open. The Foreign Office gave out the texts of three messages received this week by relatives of the two men, who went to France by steamer and disappeared two weeks ago yesterday.

A Foreign Office spokesman said Britain "is accepting the raessages as having originated with the two men," because of their general tone and phrasing. The originals of all three, however, were in the handwriting of the mysterious third person. The spokesman acknowledged that, in these circumstances, there "could be some slight doubt." Armored Allied Units Push Toward Two Bis: Red Bases Cain Charges Joint Chiefs Misled Solons Calls for Explanation Of Message to Mae; Acheson Still on Stand Washington (AP) Senator Cain (R-Wash) charged yesterday that senators have been "misled" by the Joint Chiefs of Staff into believing Gen. Douglas MacArthur first suggested quitting Korea last December. He demanded their recall for further testimony.

Cain told the MacArthur inquiry group that new information on a message from the Joint Chiefs to MacArthur last Dec. 29 was "very startling" and called for an explan ation. Difference in Paraphrases He said the Joint Chiefs gave a. paraphrase of this message to the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees which did not give an "accurate estimate of the situation in Korea." He added this paraphrase did not cover "half the subjects" in the message to MacArthur. The Joint Chiefs and their chairman, Gen.

Omar N. Bradley, all have said the possibility of evacuation was first raised by MacArthur early in December. Chairman- Russell (D-Ga) of the inquiry group agreed with Cain "there seems to be some marked differences" in paraphrases of the Dec. 29 message. Acheson Still Questioned But a majority of the committee was not present at the time Cain made his demand and Russell said the matter could not be put to a vote.

Cain said he would bring it up later. The question of whether MacArthur or the Joint Chiefs first raised the prospects of an evacuation in Korea has 'been in dispute throughout the hearing. This new development came as Secretary of State Acheson was winding up his seventh day of testimony on the MacArthur ouster and IT. S. Far East policy.

He will be questioned again today in the 31st day of the hearing. During the day. the secretary came under heavy Republican fire from Senators Taft of Ohio and Wiley of Wisconsin. Truman Asks Quick Action on Extension Of Control Authority Washington-(AP)-President Truman, described by an aide as deeply concerned, said yesterday that "if we let inflation run away, the Russians will have won the cold war without firing a shot." Mr. Truman made the comment at a New Laws Against Gambling Sought Senate Crime Investigating Committee proposed legislation yesterday to make it illegal to use interstate facilities in making or paying off bets.

The ban would apply to use of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and mails. The bill also would broaden the present lottery to makeMt, apply to any kind of gambling enterprise. A separate measure offered by Senator Langer (R-ND). not a member of the crime committee, would prohibit interstate shipment of horses and dogs for racing where facilities for betting are available. 3 Small Children Found Safe After Missing 28 Hours Santa Fe, N.M.-(/P)-Three small children were found tired, hungry and thirsty but otherwise unharmed last night, after 28 lonely hours in the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

On hearing the news, their parents burst into tears. While hundreds of searchers trudged the jagged, steep mountains ith lanterns and flashlights Thursday night, the three--Larry McGee, 7, his sister. Janet, 5, and Steven Cross, in a hollow log. "I took good care of them," Larry boasted. "Once I heard some one yelling, but I didn't answer because I thought they were big gorillas.

"Gee, I'm hungry. When I get home I am going to eat and eat." State Police Chief Joe Roach radioed that none of the three suffered any ill effects fr6m the 45- degree night temperature. They were clad only in thin T-shirts and blue jeans when they wandered away Thursday from a family'picnic. No June Draft Exams, Inductions in County There will be no physical examinations or inductions in the armed forces of the United States this month from McKean County, according to word received here Friday from state officials in Harrisburg. The announcement was made last night by Mrs.

Marian Palmer, chief clerk of the McKean County Draft Board 101, Bradford. Allegany Youth Killed in Crash Of Motorcycle Allegany, N. William Shaffer, 18-year-old member of the Allegany" High School graduating class, died in St. Francis Hospital, Olean, 4:15 p.m., yesterday, about 30 minutes after his motorcycle went off the road at the Five Mile Road and Olean-Allegany Back Road intersection. He was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Shaffer, Five Mile Road, near Morgan Hollow, Allegany. The boy was believed thrown from the motorcycle when.it slid off the road near a curve, went into a deep ditch and up against two fence posts. He suffered fractures of the skull and jaw. There were no witnesses to the accident.

Cpl. Eugene Redden and Trooper L. D. MacCall, Allegany State Police barracks, and Dr. William E.

MacDuffie, Olean, a Cattaraugus County coroner, investigated the accident. Donald was born on the Five Mile Road and attended Allegany schools. He was preparing for graduation from high school this month. He was a member of the choir of St. John's Lutheran Church, Allegany, and of the Senior Walther League of the church.

He is survived by his parents; a brother, Douglas, at home, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Hitchcock. Five Mile. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

White House conference in urging speedy action on a new economic controls law, Press Secretary Joseph Short said. The President was said to be especially worried over the impending expiration "of existing controls. No Delay Planned Members of the congressional delegation assured Mr. Truman they would try to get new legislation on the books before the present controls law dies June 30. Republicans as well as Democrats said there would be no efforts to delay the voting in either House.

Short disclosed that the subject of beef price rollbacks also came up for discussion during the White House parley. Short said the talk touched on complaints against the rollbacks. There has been talk in the capital for several days that some kind of a compromise might be in the wind in the controversy over a series of beef price rollbacks ordered by Price Director Michael V. DiSalle. No Compromise Involved DiSalle insisted to newsmen Thursday, however, that- no compromise is involved and that his rollback orders will go into effect on schedule, DiSalle told Congress yesterday that failure to curb prices would skyrocket the cost of other meats, poultry, eggs, milk and cereals.

The result, he said, would be the collapse of the administration's entire wage-price program to combat inflation. But the House Agriculture Committee, meeting behind closed doors, was reported ready to fire a demand that DiSalle cancel all his recent orders for a series of rollbacks on prices of live beef. DiSalle has said the rollback will mean that housewives will be able to buy beef about 8 to 10 cents a pound cheaper this fall. Amid angry protests from cattlemen, the first 10 percent roll back went into effect May 20. Two others of percent each are scheduled for Aug.

1 and Oct. 1. Kefauver Proposes New TV Quiz Feature Inside The Era 5,000 Watch Big Firemen's Parade'In Johnsonburg- 3 Traffic Signal Lights Damaged in Auto Collision Page 5 Variety of Sports Scheduled In Area Over Weekend Page 10 Bulletins 11 Radio 9 Comics 9 Society 4 5 Sports 10-11 Editorial 8 Stocks 13 tor Kefauver (D-Tenn). the man who brought gangsters to your television screen, proposed a new TV feature yesterday--a quiz program with senators and House members tossing questions for cabinet members to answer. The slow-spoken Tennessean said he'd like to see such a session telecast about twice a month direct from the floor of Congress.

It would keep both the public and legislators up to date on what the government is doing, Kefauver said, and also would keep cabinet members on their toes. Smith Agency for Insurance Hooker-Fulton Bldg. Phone Crowds Cheer Iran Oil Industry Unit Tehran, Iran Crowds cheered and animals were sacrificed at Ahwaz yesterday upon the arrival of an Iranian government group assigned to run the nationalized oil industry, the Tehran radio announced. Ahwaz is the capital of oil producing Khuzistan province, the base of the industry the British have developed for 50 years. It lies about 350 airline miles south of Tehran and 100 miles northeast of the Persian port of Abadan.

where the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company operates the world's largest refinery. Scores of sheep and cows were slaughtered at the railway station in honor of the group, headed by two men of a temporary three-man board of directors named by Premier Mohammed Mossadegh's government. Marshall Confers With Ridgway In Tokyo Quarters of Defense Marshall today began a closed conference with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway behind heavily guarded doors at the Allied supreme commander's headquarters.

The new conference followed others yesterday in Korea after Marshall's surprise arrival from the United States. It stirred speculation that some big development in the Korean war was near. Marshall was tight-lipped today as he strode into the Dai Ichi building, across a moat from Emperor Hirohito's palace. He arrived shortly before noon. Yesterday he said his presence had "no connection whatsoever" with any current peace moves; that he came on "purely military'' business.

Congressman to Quiz General Eisenhower SIXTEEN House members hound for Paris to confer with Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower are headed by Rep. James P. Richards (D), South Carolina.

Richards said the Defense Department recommended the trip to check on progress of foreign aid before the new $8.5 billion foreign aid bill comes up in Congress. (Int'l.) At Least Nine Airmen Killed In Accidents Slate to Draft 61 Doctors During July was called on yesterday to provide 61 young doctors for the Army during July. The call is the first under the doctxr a Tt is part of a national quota of "71 for the month. Henry M. Gross, state selective service director, said the dra-ftees will come from the ranks of men born between the years of 1B24 and 1928, inclusive.

If that group does not provide enough men, lie said, the class of 1924 will be tapped. Former Otto Township Resident Is Honored Miss Frances Hughes of Coudersport, a former Otto Township resident, has been selected as "Miss Coudersport" for the 10th Annual Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival to be held at Wellsboro. June 14 and 15. acording to an announcement by Mrs. F.

P. Hughes of Coudersport. Sen. Martin Operated On at Naval Hospital Martin (R- 71, underwent an operation yesterday at Bethesda Naval Hospital. His office described it as minor surgery.

Martin is reported in "fine He is expected to remain in the hospital for about a week. (By the Associated Press) Eight or nine jet fighters crashed in a thunderstorm near Richmond, Friday and two bombers and a jet went down in separate crashes in the-West. At least nine airmen were killed. The F-84 jet fighters crashed in quick succession around Richmond. Three pilots were known dead.

Three were reported to have survived. The fate of the others was unknown. Three more airmen were reported killed when a B-25 Air Force bomber crashed and burned near Reese Air Force Base, eight miles west of Lubbock, Tex. Two Navy flyers were reported killed in the crash of an attack bomber about eight miles south of Kirtland Air Force Base, near Albuquerque, N.M. An F-80 Shooting Star, believed from the Williams Air Force Base in Arizona, crashed five miles south of Bagdad, Ariz.

The plane went Into a spin, crashed and burned. A Navy Hellcat fighter plane crashed in hilly country near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border Friday night, the Anacostia Naval Air Station reported. The single seater World War type craft was on flight from Norfolk, to the Anacostia base when the crash occurred. It was not known if the pilot was killed. Ex-Army Sergeant Held For Strangling Wife New FBI yesterday announced the arrest of a former Army sergeant charged with strangling his estranged wife in Fresno, April 2 while he was a student at Fresno State College.

Edgar Werner, 31, a native of Watervliet. N.Y., was arrested in Garrison, N.Y. Edward Scheldt, special agent in charge of the New York FBI office, said Werner's wife. Hazel Benson Werner, a former WAC was found dead by her neighbors in her Fresno apartment. Enemy Forces Battle to Hold Anchor Points UN Artillery Blasts Road Between Towns; Planes Step Up Raids Tokyo-(AP)-Tightly massed Reds fought bitterly today against armored Allied columns inching toward the threatened Communist bases of Chorwon and Kumwha hi North Korea.

Loss of the two big bases might force a Red retreat of 65 miles north to the next east-west highway across Korea. Slight Red Withdrawal An Eighth Army spokesman said there were indications of a slight withdrawal from the 'two anchor points of the Reds' "iron triangle" assembly area. But, he added, there was no reason to believe the Reds were attempting a widespread pullback from either town. Allied artillery blasted the east- west highway between the two towns. AP Correspondent Tom.

Bradshaw said North Korean Reds fought fiercely to prevent a United Nations flanking threat from eastern tip of the sprawling Hwa- chon reservoir. That threat developed "45 miles southeast of Kumhwa. Mass Defensive Tactics On all three fronts--west, central and eastern--the hardest fighting: was the middle of the rather than on the flanks. Bradshaw said the. Reds were employing mass defensive tactics rather than spreading resistance thinly all across the front.

Patrols in the Yonchon area met determined resistance and reported a heavy volume of mortar fire. However, some Allied units gained as much as three and one-half miles northwest of Yonchon. Yon- chon is 13 miles southwest of Chor- won on a main highway and rail line leading to that big base. Red resistance around the Hwa- chon reservoir was especially stubborn. The west end of the reservoir is 17 miles southeast of Kumhwa.

Night flying B-29 Superforts and B-26 invaders stepped up the volume of their attacks and hit "iron triangle" supply area with 200 tons of fragmentation bombs. Carrier-based planes raked Reds in trenches on ridges defending the triangle. B.O. Pays RFC More Than Million On Criticized Loan Washington The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yesterday paid the Reconstruction Finance Corporation $1,583,000 on its much criticized loan from that agency. This reduced the balance owed to $74,725,000.

The payment was announced by the RFC. The last previous payment was $1.000,000 in April. RFC loans to the extended in the 193239 period, once totalled $87,000,000. The present arrangements between the RFC and the railroad call for repayments of only $400,000 year, but these have been sharply speeded up in recent months. House Group Votes Cut in Flood Funds Washington -WV Economy efforts I on Capitol Hill yesterday produced' a House committee recommendation to knock nearly S127.000.000 out of a rivers-and-harbors bill and Senate votes to trim the Labor Department-Federal Security appropriation.

The 'Senate adjourned until Monday without getting around to acting on proposals for larger cuts. The reduction voted by the House Appropriations Committee in funds for the Army Engineers' rivers, harbors and flood control program amounted to 20 percent of the sum asked by the White House. This program usually gets preferred treatment in Congress. President Truman had asked for 5640,637,842 to be spent on a national basis during the fiscal year starting July 1. The Appropriations Committee refused to recommend more than $514.427,400 to the House.

Members suggested the saving in money and energy might well be conserved for the defense program. An economy bloc in the Senate won handily in the first two floor tests on the 52.528.338,000 Labor- Federal Security appropriations bill. A total of 8215,000,000 already has been pared from this measure in committee, and senators protested "any further cuts will interfere with the functioning of our government." Airline Tickets. Emery Travel Service. Hotel Emery Lobby.

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