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Explosion in Cellar Imperils Father, Son; Wide Area Shaken Wi ndows Shattered in Bristol Flying Metal Narrowly Misses Pair A father and his 7-year-old son narrowly escaped serious injury or death in a basement explosion in their Bristol Borough home yesterday. Windows were shattered and adjoining homes were shaken. The blast ripped up the furnace, oil tank and virtually all of the plumbing in the home of Melvin Bell. 41. of 317 Jackson Scale Miles jC -D: 1 Wl 1 FREEWAY -s tlV'-'-TT Cfj -1 A NEW TRENTON- Sw A MORRISVILLE BRIDCE, VV (rf LINKS MAIN HIGHWAYS, qNA NEWJERSEY TURNPIKE, ond FREEWAY" while he and his son, Meivin.

jr. 3 Institutions Get Aid From Harkness Fund Below it is the old bridge. structure supported by I I for protection against ice The new span is a high level piers, all faced with granite and debris. More than two years were required to construct it. To the right is a complete map showing the importance of the span as a gateway to jiigh speed lanes of two States.

The new $6,650,000 Trenton-Morrisville foil bridge over the Delaware is shown in the upper left hand corner. It be opened to traffic at 2 P. M. today. were whitewashing the cellar walls.

BOTH ARE UNHARMED Pieces of metal were sent flying through the air like fragments from a bursting artillery shell, but the two escaped unharmed. It came without warning, Bell said, and "blew in all directions." "Pipes flew through the air, pieces of the tank and furnace crashed all about and whizzed past our heads. How we escaped without being killed or hurt, I can't explain," he Qeclared, A piece of pipe knocked a container of whitewash out of the boy's hands. Another piece of pipe and a section of the furnace flew past the father and shattered against thej wall. The youth ran up the stairs, frightened, followed by his father.

Together they led Bell out of the house. The explosion shattered windows and rocked the row of homes in Jackson st. Scores of persons ran flooded the telephone switchboard of the Bristol Borough Police Department. LIKE A DYNAMITE BLAST "It sounded like a dynamite blast," a neighbor, Stephen Adams, of 319 Jackson said. "It shook my floors so badly I thought it was in my basement." Black soot and smoke billowed out of the Bell home through broken windows.

Firemen summoned by neighbors responded to the alarm, but no fire followed the explosion. The Bells temporarily abandoned their home and went to live with Mrs. Bell's mother, Mrs. Bruce Beltz, at 501 Palm Bristol township. Bell is an employe of Rohm, Haas and Co.

Bristol Fire Chief Clifford Hager-man estimated damage at $1000. Family Benefactor Returns to Indiana Burt Reichardt, crippled Indianapolis, elevator operator and organizer of the National Rehabilitation Club, returned home yester day, virtually sleepless, after driving a stranded family from his home city to Norwood, Delaware County. When Robert Michener, of Nor wood, his wue, Velma. an expect- MORNING, DECEMBER Presidents of 19 Units Of Jewish Charities Are Slated for Honors Presidents of the 19 health and welfare agencies of the Federation of Jewish Charities will be honored tomorrow at the federation's 51st annual meeting and luncheon at the Warwick Hotel. Samuel A.

Goldberg, president of the federation, said those to be honored would be cited for their own work as well as representatives of thousands of men and women who serve the community It's Happening Here 49-Cent Good Turn May Help Out Others Sophisticated Small-Fry Weathers Christmas Rush By James R. George MONDAY 17 Men, Women Arrested in Raids On 2 Cafes, Hotel Police under Inspector John P. $6,650,000 Span To Open Today At Morrisville The new $6,650,000 Trenton-Morrisville toll bridge, which has. been under construction for more than two years, will be opened to traffic at 2 P. M.

today. The subject of several legal battles since 1949, the new bridge will connect with the new Trenton Freeway at a point near Conover's alley in Trenton. Its western terminus will be at a highway now under construction which will lead to U. S. Route 1, at Snipe's Corner, about a mile west of Morrisville, Pa.

In April, 1949, Gov. James H. Duff signed into law the bitterly contested legislation broadening the authority of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to obtain rights of way. The law permitted the commission to close in i Parents Find Boy There is a man named Bill Nichols, who is assistant at the Pennsylvania Railroad's 30th Street Station, who has 1. 1952 25 for the small price of 49 cents.

He because he probably had not in the station, and he had an honest face but when he told his plight to the ticket agent and the others, they just said it was too bad, he'd have to miss the train, or ask Nichols. Nichos said he was sorry, too. made a deathless hero of himself S-lSSfJfid gd to hear of this, tended to be a hero when he got himself into that situation. One night last week a gent forgot his pay (he had left it in his work pants in a midcity plant) and rode out to the 30th st. station on his way to a dinner date in Chester.

He had the token to get to Newsy Susfe municipalities, particularly nospitais ana neaitn seiviceb, motner' and tneir tnree young i years of his training, the responsi ctronWo i v. children were stranded in Indianap He couldn't let our boy borrow aSide of the Delaware, without per- a rnllisinn Rpirharrit nffcrprt tn HriL.o,i,. on. ENGLISH CPmCSSAV NECK 15 TOO LOWG IN DSI6M FOR and what's wrong with a long neck? them home. Reichardt slept only six hours during the week-end and mashed the fender of his car in a skid in the Allegheny Mountains.

Two Men Beaten, Robbed by Thugs Two men were beaten and robbed of a total of $12 by thugs in separate attacks in the citv earlv Andrew R. Shelton, 41. of 1737 N. of $22,029 to study the mechanism 23d told police he was accosted of antibody formations. The hos-bv three youths at 22d st.

and Mont- Pltal is affiliated with the University Dead in Garage A Bucks county youth who failed to shut off the motor as he poured found dead on his father and mother early yester- dav rf AlfroH cock lg son of Alfred E. Pidcock.i Torr-hard owne7 and Carrie" i'eiirea orcnara owner, ana uarne county coroner KUSSeil T. Ferris issued a certificate of ac cidental death due to monoxide poisoning. Police said- young Pidcock returned to his home shortly after midnight, closed the garage doors and poured anti-freeze into the car. He neglected to shut off the motor.

When his parents returned home about 1 :30 A. M. they found the body of their son on the garage floor. The youth played the trumpet in the Central Bucks High School band. Doylestown, for three years, was on the All-State band for one year and won honors as a musician.

He was graduated from high school last June. In addition to his parents he is survived by his grandfather, George Pidcock, of Newtown, and a sister, Mrs. Calvin Smith, of Wycombe. Thief Grabs Gems In Store Window A thief who broke a corner of a display window of a jewelry shop at 3236 Kensington stole articles valued at $219. The robbery was discovered by a policeman early yesterday morning.

The proprietor, David Weiman, of 25 Latham parkway, Melrose Park, was notified and reported after a checkup that 11 friendship rings, two sterling silver rhinestone-studded crosses, one bracelet and three opal pendants were missing. Police said a plastic-handled screw driver, found inside the window, apparently had been used by the thief to secure some items which were displayed out of arm's The University of Pennss'lvania School of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hunterdon Medical Center, Hunterdon county, N. were among institutions which received gifts from the Commonwealth Fund, of New York, according to the 34tn annual report made public yesterday. The Commonwealth Fund, founded in 1918 by Mrs. Stephen V.

Hark-neis "to do something for the welfare of mankind," appropriated $2,719,737 for the year ended June 30. Nearly $2,000,000 went for medical education, experimental health services and medical research EXPAND TEACHING PROGRAM The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine received $45,000 for two years to nelp expand a teaching program under which a student in his first year becomes a health adviser to a single family, whom he will observe and help as much as he can throughout his medical course. The report states that a well-conceived program of this sort blends freedom for the student to size up a problem for himself with prompt and adequate supervision from his instructors. "The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine," the report continues," has been particularly ingenious in working out a plan which gives the student a natural graduation of responsibility over four years of consecutive contact with the same family." LEARNS ABOUT CARE His job at first, the report indicates, is to make friends with the family in its own home and learn for himself, as he shares its contacts with doctors and nurses, what medi- care means to it. Later, as his training fits him to do so, he himself takes a share in the medical care of the family.

As he moves into the clinical bilities of the student increase. chiatrist and a social worker, who are available for consultation at all times and are used freely for this purpose. The report states that this has proved popular and stimulating experience. By the two-year grant the fund has supplemented the administrative staff responsible for it. STUDY OF ANTIBODIES In the field of medical research.

ruiaren Hospital was given a grant 01 fennjivania scnooi 01 Meaicme. The principal gifts of the past year in the brackets of experimental health services have been in further aid of a large experiment in integrated health care now in preparation in Hunterdon county. Here, the report stated, a rural community is building for itself the Hunterdon Medical Center, which has received $158,100 to aid in organizing and demonstrating comprehensive health activities and in a building grant. The center will be located in Flemington and is scheduled to open next year. A general consulting staff will be added to the doctors and nurses now working in the county.

Headquarters of the fund is located at Harkness House. One E. 75th New York. It was the residence until his death of Edward S. Harkness, son of the founder and its principal donor.

Malcolm P. Aldrich is president of the fund. Branch Tax Units To Close Dec. 15 The city's seven branch tax offices will be closed about Dec. 15, it was disclosed yesterday by Revenue Commissioner George S.

Forde. At the same time. Forde said "there is every reason to believe" that banks will be appointed to act as agencies for the city next year. He indicated that an announcement might be made in several weeks. Forde said the annual cost of operating the branch offices is $125,000.

Part of the money saved by closing the branches will be used to handle an anticipated heavier mail load, the commissioner explained. Additional money will be used to compensate banks. Plan Social Evening A social evening will be held by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Military Order of the-World Wars ion Thursday at the First City Troop Armory, 23d and Ranstead it was announced yesterday by Maj. Joseph A. Carr, chapter commander.

21 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS TUT-TUT LET'S NOT WASTE TIME, THERE CAN BE OTHER IMPORTANT NOSES VOWS MtUE, I BUT. BADCVY IVOO MU5TN I rrsAS" and Morrisville on the Pennsylvania mission of local authorities LEGALITY ATTACKED The constitutionality of the law was attacked in the State Supreme Court the following month. Attorney General T. McKeen Chidsey, arguing as counsel for the bridge commission, said the agency was an instrumentality of the Commonwealth. Even if the 1949 law were thrown out, Chidsey said, the commission would have the right to go ahead with its plans in Easton and Morrisville.

On Aug. 15. 1950, the Public Utility Commission authorized the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission to build its Morrisville-Trenton bridge over a single PRR track and Delmorr ave. in Morrisville. TOLL CHARGES VARY The commission has fixed tolls ranging from 15 cents for passenger cars to 40 cents for heavier vehicles.

It added that commutation book tickets would reduce the fare for passenger cars to about 10 cents. The span and its approaches provide two lanes in each direction separated by a medial divider. Over the river it is a high level bridge supported by 11 piers, all faced with granite for protection against ice and debris. The rtructure is between the low- er Morrisville bridge and the Penn- syivariia jxauioaa pi iuge ana passes expected except the ones that passed between a girl, apparently aged 8, and a boy, who looked to be 10, when they boarded the southbound subway train at Erie ave. "I do think I'm going to faint," she said, as she danced onThe boy said, "Oh, pull yourself together, you look fine," and the girl said, "okay," and they ran up to look out the front window at the oncoming tracks.

(She didn't faint). Christmas spirit or no Christmas spirit one of the most nauseating records of modern times is that one in which an evil voice (juvenile) says it saw Mommy kissing1 Santa Claus. through the agencies. The presidents, it was announced, will be honored by 300 leaders of the federation, Community Chest and other civic and communal.organiza-tions. ANNUAL REPORT One of the features of the luncheon meeting will be presentation of the federation's annual report.

Goldberg will head panel discussions on the report. It wUl be presented by Mrs. Les- sing J. Rosenwald on child care; Abram S. Berg, on services to lamuy ana muiviuuai, jusepn Bernard L.

Frankel, on recreation rr, services, and Miss i-Tances in. nar rison, executive director of the federation. SLATED FOR HONORS Agency presidents to be honored and the organizations they head, include Hospital and Health Agencies: First, Einstein Medical Center; Al Paul Lefton, Eagleville Sanatorium; B. Lewis Kaufmann. Lucien Moss Home; Samuel Radbill, Philadelphia Psychiatric Hospital; Lester G.

Rosskam, Willow Crest for Convalescents. Services to Families and Individuals: Miss Elinor Solis-Cohen-r Female Hebrew Benevolent Society; Harry Robinson, Home for the Jewish Aged Benjamin S. Loewenstein, Jewish Employment and Vocational Service; Robert D. Abrahams, Jewish Family Service; Mrs. Jerome Markovitz, Rebecca Gratz Club.

Child Care Services: Samuel H. Levy, Association for Jewish Children; Mrs. Samuel F. Ginns, Downtown Hebrew Day Nursery; Mrs. Edward Rubin, Strawberry Mansion Day Nursery.

Recreatfon Services: Jack Shlifer, Golden Slipper Club Camp; Frankel, Hebrew Education Society; Frank L. Newburger, Neighborhood Centre; James E. Saxe, S.G.F. Vacation Camp; Dr. Abram H.

Persky, Strawberry Mansion Recreation Association: Arnold R. Gins- bure YM and YWHA. A team representing the University of Pennsylvania will compete in the final arguments of the National Moot Court competition at New York on Thursday and Friday. Fourteen other schools also will be represented. United Fund Drive Is Short With the 1953 United Fund campaign scheduled to close Thursday, $600,000 still is needed to meet the $3,265,000 quota, it was announced today by Clewell Sykes, general campaign chairman.

Sykes also announced that a total of $66,000 had been received from 11 major business firms. They include the Bankers Securities $7500; Bellevue-Strat-ford, $5200; Benjamin Franklin Hotel, $4000; the Blum Store, $6000; Bon wit Teller and $5000; Albert M. Greenfield and the Pep Boys, $6000; Philadelphia Suburban Transportation and Philadelphia and Western Railroad $1200; Stern Charities, $7600; Supplee-Biddle Steltz $2500, and Warner Bros. Circuit Management $11,000. RUDOLPH, THE 600 000 i On the other side of the street jdelphia there was a minor drama There is a guy lives there (in tjg taproom every evening on his way home.

The njght in question, he violated all his principles by going ihome first He went by tne cenar entrance to change from his Team in Contest wJk cloes int hjS drefs-up clothes, without mentioning it to his intoxicating beverages to minors, and a hotel which they charged was being operated in a disorderly manner, women. They arrested 17 men and Driscoll said officers went into the i Big Top Cafe, York st. and Trenton and found four minors, three! boys and one girl being served drinks, i They placed William McGuire. 35, of Boston ave. near Sepviva, a bar-1 tender, and Edward Lazar, 53, of; 18th st.

near o7th under arrest. VIOLATIONS CHARGED At a hearing, before Magistrate William Hagan both men were charged with violating the State Liquor Control laws. Lazar was discharged while McGuire was held in $500 bail for the grand jury. Three persons were arrested after the same unit visited the Adams Bar, Girard ave. near 4th and observed they said, four minors, including three boys and a teen-age girl being nerved drinks.

12 ARRESTED AT HOTEL Those arrested were identified as Jacob Karley, 29, of Lawrence Thomphon. a bartender; Jeanj Walsh, 42. of Lawrence st. above i Girard ave. a waitress, and Adam) Karley, 33.

of Diamond st. near 5th, the managei. All were charged with sale of liquor to minors, but waived a hearing when brought before Magistrate Hagan. The latter set Dec. 12 for the arraignment.

Five couples and two women room clerks were sent to the Misdemeanants Division of the Municipal Court by Hagan after Driscoll's men arrested them in a raid on Bea's Hotel, 17th st. near Berks. 4000 Will Attend Conventions Here Conventions scheduled for Phila- delphia during the month of De-t cember will discus subjects ranging from labor policies to insect ex director of the Phuadell phia Convention Bureau, an agency of the Chamber of Commerce, re- ported yesterday. Family Homeless In Bungalow Fire A Montgomery county couple and their 5-year-old son were made homeless early yesterday when fire destroyed their small bungalow on Shearer rd. in Worcester township, west of Lansdale.

Two fire companies stretched more than 4000 feet of hose to a nearby stream in an effort to save the one-story frame structure. The family. Peter Horbines. his wife, Pauline, and their son, Stephen, was visiting neighbors when the fire started shortly after 11 A. M.

The blaze was discovered by Mr. nd Mrs. Curtis Shiery, owners of the bungalow, who live nearby. Firemen from the West Point and Skippack companies fought the blaze for several hours. Hose lines were stretched to a stream bordering the properties.

Morris Stoudt, a fireman with the West Point suffered burns of the forehead. He was treated at Elm Terrace Hospital, Lansdale. Chief Theodore Gaerthe, of the West Point saicf the blaze probably started from an overheated bucket-a-day stove in the cellar. The fire chief said the blaze completely destroyed the dwelling and only a refrigerator and several other kitchen articles were saved. The damage was estimated at $2000.

Neighbors offered temporary refuge to the Horbines family until new quarters could be found. Mark 57th Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Jacob K. Seaman, of I sister, with whom he makes his witnout too mucn guessing, you couia guess wnat nappenea.

Willie (we will call him Willie) spent so much time changing clothes that his-sister called up the taproom to find out if he was there. The taproom operator looked across ticket trom the railroad. iSUI he would lend him 49 cents. He did. And the grateful victim of this mishap has just returned the 49 cents, with an amount double that sum to start a sort of revolving fund for others who get stuck in the same situation.

There was a great influx of unescorted small-f ry to the midcity area last Friday, mainly because it was a day off from school and they could use the department store Santa Clauses as an excuse. In that kind of crowd, almost any kind of remark might' be from a taproom in West Phila- the other night. the house, that is) who stops in home. the street, saw the light on in the Catholic Group To Hear Dr. Falls The Rev.

Thomas B. Falls, D.D., member of the faculty of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Overbrook, will address members and guests of the Catholic Information Service at 8:15 P. M. Wednesday at the Philo- Arthritis Foundation cellar, sent a boy over to bring mm in, ana gave Willie nis sister number to call, figuring he didn't want her to know he was home.

Willie ran over and called his sister from the taproom. That is the biggest waste of telephone money we ever heard of. gomery ave. They knocked him to the ground, kicked him and then took S5 from his wallet. He was treated at Episcopal Hospital for cuts and bruises.

The second victim, Walter Zman, 64, of 224 E. Willard was beaten and robbed of $7 by "two youths at York and Coral sts. He also was treated at Episcopal Hospital. Bandit Gets $172 In Gas Station An armed bandit held up and robbed the 16-year old attendant of an automobile service station at Limekiln pike and Cheltenham of $172 last night. Ronald Sarfert, of 7160 N.

19th told police of the York rd. and Chamnlost st. station that he was alone when the bandit walked in and demanded money. After taking the money from the cash register, Sarfert said, the bandit insisted he accompany him to Cedarbrook where he fled. the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foun dation.

Dr. Joseph Lee Hollander, presi dent of the Eastern Pennsylvania chapter, and chief of the arthritis sectibn at Graduate and University Hospitals, also will speak on the research program being conducted by the foundation Mrs. Erwin Satinsky, chairman of the women's committee of the chap ter, will discuss the part women are taking in the fight against arthritis. Commissioner John H. Doherty.

of Delaware county also will take part. 7 AND NOV IP VOU'U. HOLD THIS CAN, RUDOLPH, WHILE A REAL HERO DOES HtS DUTY WE iL HAVE THESE h- FILMS DEVELOPED IN A Opens Campaign Todays By JOSEPH F. NOLAV Inquirer Medical Editor The Eastern Pennsylvania chapter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation will open its 1952 fund-raising campaign today in the five-county Philadelphia area in an all-out attempt to reach those outside business and in-, dustry increase is attributed to the The Arthritis and Rheumatism educational campaigns carried on by Among Upcoming Events: Operetta, "HMS Pinafore" to be presented by the Roxborough Alumni Musical Players jor a scholarship fund at Roxborough High School Auditorium this Thursday Friday and Saturday; Soroptimist Club's "Let's Have Fun Night" on Thursday at the Germantown Cricket Club, for the benefit of Crippled Children and Adults fund. The office where a staff of workers is promoting the cause of BIG (Bonds for the Israel Government) Day is at 204 Rittenhouse Square, right across an alleyway from the Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame.

One of our friends who works in the Big-Day headquarters tells us that this contiguity has done more to promote inter-religious harmony than anything else in years. The whole staff stops to listen when the kids at the convent are rehearsing Christmas carols. The house was heavy with gas fumes one day last week when Mrs. Edward Dwyer came back from school to her home at 418 N. Sterling Elkins Park, with her children, whom she picks up in her car each afternoon.

She had left one of the burners on the gas stove running not enough to kill anybody, but enough. "Open the windows," cried her daughter Nancy, age 12, "open them, or we'll all be intoxicated!" Nancy's brother, Johnny, a Penn Charter lad, is only 9 years old, but this kind of misuse of language he cannot stand. "Intoxicated:" he said, "You mean we'll all become sophisticated." Foundation, a participant in the United Fund, will receive $20,000 from the fund toward its goal of $200,000, it was announced by Joseph L. Tinney. The first campaign report luncheon will be held Dec.

10, at the John Bartram Hotel. The principal speaker will be Vice Adm. J. L. Kauffman, president of Jefferson Medical College and Hospital.

Adm. Kauffman will discuss the tremendous increase of patients in the hospital's clinics for rheumatic diseases. AlClibUlA IV UlltU 'Hit: JL ICtWOJ, There is an administration build vilje New Platform On 'El' to Open The official opening of a new platform at the east side of the Bridge st. station of the Frankford elevated will be conducted today by representatives of the Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the city and the PTC. Participating in the ribbon-cut- ting ceremony will be Robert H.

Remmey, president and Thomas E. Willis, executive director of the C. of R. F. Tyson, PTC executive vice president, and Howard S.

Hipwell, chief engineer. Bureau of Engineering and Architecture. The platform was built by the city at cost of $176,000. It is 380 feet long and 12 feet wide, extends from Bridge to Pratt and will be for use of passengers leaving elevated trains between 6:30 and 10 A. M.

and 3 and 6P.M. Baby Girl Found Dead in Coach A 3-month-old baby girl was found dead in her coach yesterday across the street from her parents' home at 3810 Lancaster ave. The infant, Carla Joy Silverman, was pronounced dead at Presbyterian Hospital where she was taken by her father, Samuel, 29. Detectives John Stevenson and Tinsley Haliburton said Mrs. Florence Silverman, the child's mother, had placed her in the coach at 10 A.

M. in front of 3811 Lancaster ave. where the sun was shining. The mother looked at the child at 10:30 A. M.

and 12:30 P. M. When she again looked at the child at 2:30 o'clock there were no signs of life. An autopsy will be performed today to determine the cause of death, a coroner's office spokesman said. i RED-NOSED REINDEER XXR UOOOCe ARE I DONT EE KANTA WHEN ALL ELSE VI AN BULB, BADDV FAILS ID BAOOY VOU WHX IN A MWUTE, SANTA A FEW STROKES OF THIS BAINT ON My NOSE.ANO VOU CAN CALL.

ME BADCy THE RED-BULBED DACVROOM 1 Garden Unit Lists Christmas Exhibit The annual Christmas exhibit of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will be held in the society's rooms in the Suburban Station Building from Dec. 8 to 12, it was announced yesterday. There will be five competitive 287 E. Bringhurst Germantown, classes. The display will be open tOpatrian Literary Institute, 1923 yesterday celebrated their 57th an-j the public without charge.

An add-j Walnut st. niversary at family dinner. They ed feature this year will be a Christ-I The subject of Dr. Falls' lecture have five children. 10 grandchildren mas package class in which gifts for I will be "Saint Augustine." No admis-nd eight great-grandchiloren.

hospital patients will be prepared, sion fee is charged..