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1952 Ocpvrtffht. 1952, by Triangle Publication. Inc. FIFTEEN CENT! mm mi vv I 2 Police Killedf Phila. Official City to Enforce No-Stop Rule irts TL'9 A By (LP 11 As Cycle and Auto Collide uilt for Only 33 -Million On Broad Sf.

Action Is Taken To End Congestion During Rush Hours By WILLIAM F. EIST Man Hanging to Trestle By Leg 40 Ft Up is Saved Local Project Costs Gives Less Immediate enforcement of the Aunt of One Victim Faints, Falls and Dies When Told News Two off-duty policemen were killed and a third was injured when a motorcycle on which the three were riding crashed into an automobile yesterday on Roosevelt blvtf. at the entrance to Northeast Village. Seven houra later, as first word ef the tragedy reached her throufh a radio newscast, an aunt of one of the dead officers fainted and fell! non-stopping rule on Broad st, during rush hours, to open the traffic lanes nearest the curbs, Special to The Inquirer SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa, June 7. Horrified crowds watched today while a man hung head down from the 80-foot high trestle of was promised yesterday by the city's new Deputy Commissioner of Streets, Leslie Williams, as his the Lehigh Valley Railroad, his leg wedged in the steel framework By SAUL SCIIItAGA a total outlay of $33,000 000, Allegheny county has created the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, a "dream airport on a 1600-acre field, with a seven.

more than 40 feet above the ground. Hundreds of automobiles halted along Route 122, the Pottsville- first step toward relieving cen tral-city traffic congestion. Philadelphia highway, as driver after driver spotted the weird figure ine step 'was recommended as from the fire escape of her third silhouetted against the sky. Williams, who has been on the job only two weeks, organized studies to floor apartment In West Phlladel The highway, rail lines of both the nhia. She died an hour later In find the most effective method of Pennsylvania and Reading Co.

railroads and the waters of the Schuyl Mlserlcordla Hospital of a fractured permanently improving the flow Broad st. traffic. Other steps to be taken on Broad st. will be to restrict akulL DOUBLE ORDE AL Shortly after noon George J. Slim kill run beneath the trestle, which stretches for some 500 yards across the deep valley at a point known as 3 Rob Bartender And 15 Patrons In Cafe of $375 story terminal building housing a theater, a 70-room hotel and an underground garage.

Philadelphia, starting with major airfield already In operation. Is in the midst of a $44,000,003 approvement program focused on- a beautiful terminal building, not quite so dazzling, however, as th one at Pittsburgh. A Philadelphia City Council delegation that visited the Pittsburgh buses and trucks to the curb lanes, ana to paint lane lines the entire length of Broad st. as a guide to motorists. bock.

of 6114 Pennway and Connor's Crossing. a son. John, appeared at the morgue FIREMEN SUMMONED for the double ordeal of Identifying TERMINAL URGED It was unknown how long the man the bodies of his police officer son Oeorxe J. SUmtack. 25, of 401 As Williams made his first move, had hung there before his plight was first noticed.

The first appeal Hellerman and his sister-in-law, MIm Catherine Mullaly. 45. who City Councilman Thomas I. Guerin urged another traffic-speeding de Three gunmen held up 15 patrons for aid reached the Rainbow Hose lived In the Verona Plaza Apart and a bartender in Graham's Tav field shortly before its dedication a velopment: the construction of a combination bus, municipal transportation and railroad passenger ments. 47th and Walnut sts.

Co. here at 2 P. M. and a truck was sent to the scene. ern.

701 W. Tioga at 9:30 last week ago came away with the feel Second victim In the crash was Patrolman William Young, 23, of terminal at Broad st. and Packer night and escaped with $375. ing that the city at the other end of Four firemen started the arduous ave. Such a center would be integrat 4354 N.

Palethorp st who leaves a The robbery, swiftly executed, took the State somehow had gotten "a ed with the proposed southward ex about five minutes to complete. Ed wife and young daughter. IN FAIR CONDITION whole lot more airport for a whol lot less money. tension of the Broad st. subway to Packer ave.

and the construction of ward Graham, 45, of 6131 Fairhill The third polic officer. Patrolman a new Delaware River crossing, pre the proprietor, was sitting out sumably a bridge, also linking with side during the holdup, unaware of COMPARISON CALLED UNFAlU But those responsible for the de climb from the valley floor, although the hanging man showed no signs of life. The four men, Robert Fenster-macher, his uncle, Kimber Fenster-macher, William Neviis and Arthur Sterner went hand over hand up the steel framework of the bridge. Scrambling to a footing on steel beams some 40 feet above the valley, Doris and Rita Nardone, of Upper Darby, and little Florence Myhausk are all dressed up in Colonial costumes as Elfreth's Alley Association holds its annual fete. what was happening.

Packer ave. Guerin made the recommenda PATRONS THREATENED tion in elaborating on the subway sign and construction of the three-story terminal building now two-thirds finished at the Philadelnhia Frank Sauerwald, 65, of 3528 N. extension plan which he submitted to City Council last week. He also Boy, 3, Killed, 2 Injured 5th the bartender, told police the bandits walked in with drawn pistols. Paul Horton, 27, of 5414 N.

12th st was reported In fair condition In Philadelphia Oeneral Hospital. He is Injured Internally and about the lens. The driver of the car. William J. Klrrane.

27. of 920 Foulkrod suffered head InJurlfM and was treated at Nazareth Hospital. A passenger, Miss Patricia Nee. 25. of 4612 Comly was held there with head and back injuries.

Police, Firemen International Airport hold that sueH comparisons are unfair and mislead Ing. they fastened a rope about the man's waist, then worked his rag loose from where it was wedged into the frame Studies which purport to show proposed double-decking the projected Delaware River span to provide high-speed electric train service to -South Jersey points, and widening of traffic arteries, construction of new thoroughfares and rebuilding of streets in the area to carry heavier loads. work of the span. SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE As Truck Jumps Curb; that the Philadelphia building cost anywhere from 25 to 150 percent Rescue Squad It was only then that the man more per square foot than terminal in other cities were condemned by OFFICERS OFF DUTY showed signs of life, feebly moving J. Roy Carroll, of the architec one hand as the four rescuers work 3 Die in Auto Accidents Inspector John Rozanskl said the Join in 'Jailbreak' Their leader went to the center of the bar.

waving a revolver. He threatened the crowd and ordered them to stand at the bar quietly. The other two took positions at the front door. The leader then demanded all the money In the two cash registers. Sauerwald handed the robber about $300.

CUSTOMERS ROBBED One by one, the leader demanded "all your money" from each of the customers. When the last one had been robbed, the gunmen ran out of the place. They fled south on 7th ed feverishly to free him. three officers had gone on duty at tural firm that designed this structure and by Water Commis a P. M.

Friday, were in civilian They lowered him carefully to the ground by means of the rope while clothes and were crowded on a mo sioner Samuel S. Baxter, in charg of the engineering operations. A 3-year-old boy, accompanying his father to a neighborhood the hundreds of spectators along Slightly embarrassed State police, torcycle loaned to one of them by the owner. Elmer Causey, of 1531 They said it was extremely diffi the highway and the river bank cheered their efforts. Fontaine hL cult to make dollars and cents comparisons between buildings, especial store to buy an ice cream cone, was killed yesterday by a truck that swerved over the curb on Oregon ave, between 6th and 7th sts.

in South Philadelphia. His father and a bystander were injured. Three men, one of them an unidentified hitchhiker, were killed He was still unconscious when re Rozanskl said because of Horton's condition investigators had not been RAIJL SERVICE AVAILABLE The subway extension plan, he would not be complete without integration of railroad service with the new crossing. "This." Guerin said, "is already available through existing rights-of-way and trackage. Slight extensions and an integration of the new bridge with railroad facilities would provide transportation, presently lacking, although greatly needed, to distant South Jersey points." WAITS RESULTS OF STUDY In the task of speeding Broad st.

ly in widely separated locations, because of differences in designs and Con tinned en Page 11, Column 1 assisted, by the Fire Department's rescue squad, a' a designer and one acetylene torch, staged a "jailbreak" last night in the new Troop A headquarters, on Belmont ave. near Monument rd. It was no lark. It had to be done, able to learn who was operating the in other automobile accidents. st.

and disappeared. Seeing the men run out, Graham walked back into the to dis cycle as It sped ncrth on the boule vard. "Right now," Rosanskl stated, "we The boy, Robert McLaughlin, of 708 Johnston st, was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital. His cover that the holdup had taken specifications, variations In labor costs, and different price levels prevailing when contracts are let. DOUBTS BIG VARIANCE -v.

Told that a comparison of pric 24 Mibs Champs 'Missing' Boy, 12, don't know where they were going, place. even though the prisoner was not father, John J. McLaughlin, 49, was or why, at that time of the day. SLAMS INTO SEDAN too pleased on getting out of the admitted to the same hospital with cell room. What happened was this In Phila.

Finals Walks 30 Miles traffic, Williams said yesterday Deputy Police Commissioner Her injuries of the back and left arm Earlier In the day, William At Air lane, Klrrane swung over from the soulhbou id traffic lane of the boulevard. Police said he was Motorist Pinned Under Auto, Dies Special to The Inquirer bert J. Kitchenman has promised Ryan, of Wakeling st. near Frank' Raymond Lewis, 58, of 2115 Catharine st, was treated for injuries cooperation by uniformed police in midway through the northbound ford was arrested for desertion By DON SCOTT A "missing" boy, who wandered lane when the motorcycle slammed and non-support on a warrant is enforcing the no-stopping regulations. Meanwhile, he said, no other drastic changes would be made until of the right arm and hand.

TRUCK DRIVER HELD and size seemed to Indicate that Philadelphia's building was costing $31 a square foot compared to a cost of between $20 and $24 in Pittsburgh, Carroll said he doubted whether a careful inspection would show as much variance. "The only way to tell," he said, "would be to have both sets of drawings and take off the equivalent fig- ures from both. I have written for the Pittsburgh plans to make a study along those lines, but I do not hav Into the tight side of the sedan. Victory in the finals of the 1952 BETHLEHEM, June 7. Nor away from his parents in Quaker-town, was "found" tired and Metropolitan Philadelphia Marbles sued in Ashland, Pa.

CONSTABLES ARRIVE Sllmback was hiried over the car. Younc was flung against the side the results of his studies are avail The driver of the two-ton dump man Beers, 22, of Crossroads, near Bath, was killed instantly late today weary late last night at his Phila able. truck, owned by Abbotts Dairies delphia home, the end of a 30-mile, As a matter of routine, the troop of the car. Horton was -thrown for ward against Young. when his automobile left the high In Williams opinion, Philadelphia was identified as Pasquale Clc Tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday is the goal of 12 boy and 12 girl champions vho now are getting "national championship way, crashed into a fence and rotted ers notified Ashland authorities and has a better chance to solve its 12-hour walk.

While Emil Socci, 13, son of Mr The officers and Miss Nee were over, pinning him beneath it. chetti, 25, of Catharine st. near 6th. In less than three hours, two con taken to Nazareth hospital In a park and Mrs. Lodemiro Socci, of 2828 The victim, who was married and He was held at the 4th st.

and Sny cuard emergency patrol. Sllmback them yet." stables arrived to take the prisoner traffic problems than any other large American city, partly because of the fact that the new City Charter has placed all functions necessary for the father of one child, was em Germantown was plodding along Route 309 toward this city, and Young were pronounced dead on The cost per square foot cited la der ave. police station on charges back with them. ployed by a housing corporation in conscious." Each of the sharpshooting finalists has adopted the motto "On to As- Carroll was based on a total build State police, Quakertown firemen of involuntary manslaughter, aggra Continued en Pag IS, Column 1 Allentown. He was driving along When the turnkey tried to open ing cost Of $8,727,309 for 273,023 good traffic control in the hands of one department, the Department of country road between Danielsville vated assault and battery by truck the slotted steel door to the cell and his parents were combing the Quakertown area in a frantic effort square feet of Interior space at Phila- bury Park." Our metropolitan cham and Little Gap, about 25 miles north and reckless driving.

where Ryan was lodged, nothing delphia; and cost of between to find him. pions will compete in the National of here in Lehigh township, when That is something traffic engin Police Sgt. John Sondire said Cic 000 and $9,500,000 for 120,000 more Emil disappeared shortly after 9 happened. The door remained shut. the accident occurred.

eers have been seeking for a long Marbles Tournament at Asbury chetti told him he was returning square feet at Pittsburgh. An. hour of effort by other police Dr. M. G.

Miller, deputy coroner from the city dump at Delaware and time," he said, and, he added, it is an advantage of which he plans to This method Is being used In an June 15 to 20, as guests of The Inquirer. of Northampton county, investigated men proved futile. A. M. while Mr.

and Mrs. Socci were in the Quakertown offices of C. William Freed, an attorney, discussing the purchase of a farm. Oregon aves. to the Abbotts plant make immediate use.

and ordered the body removed to the analysis of airport financial pros-' pects being made for the city by The police then summoned the funeral home of Herbert Bens ing, at GRAND TIME PROMISED at 2d and Lombard, sts. SAYS BRAKES FAILED builder of the structure, which was The parents formerly owned a Moorestown. PUBLIC WILL COOPERATE "It will take a period of educa James C. Buckley, New York business consultants specializing, in Mavor George A. Smock.

2d. of farm on the Quatertown-Heuer- opened about a month ago, but he The driver said he was headed transportation centers. tion," the new deputy, commissioner Asbury Park, yesterday promised too fumbled with the lock and noth-J town highway and decided to return to that district. west on Oregon ave. when the light The report.

It was learned, will In said, "but I'm sure the public will at 7th st. turned red. He said a car ing happened. "grand and glorious time to each of the marbles champions who will Meanwhile, Emil and two younger cooperate as soon as it is realized clude a comparison of the PhilacM- phia International terminal build- children waited outside the lawyer's DESIGNER CALLED that we must open the curb lane and keep it open if we're to handle rush- and truck stopped in front of him and that he attempted to apply the truck's brakes, but that they failed gather in that seashore resort from The builder summoned the de ing with the terminal at the Seattle-Tacoma Airport, completed about 1 I Dump Operator Warned on Fires The Department of Health yesterday ordered an operator of a dump on Umbria si. between Paoli eve.

and Domino lane to cease burning rubbish or face the loss of his license. Dr. James P. Dixon, Jr, Commissioner of Health, said he had written a letter to George R. Barcalow, operator of the dump, warning him to comply with all city regulations cr face the loss of his license.

The action came, the commissioner said, after a series of complaints from residents of the Rox-feorough-Manayunk area to the Air I dilution Control Boird. Smoke and lumea. they comp'ained, drifted from the dump into their homes. hour traffic without unreasonable all parts of the country next Sun office. The two others stayed nearby, but Emil wandered off.

When his parents emerged from Freed's office, the boy had disappeared. to hold. Bondire said later that the signer of the cell room, believing he months ago. 4 day. delays." Trucks trailing buses will have to brakes were tested by police and could solve the problem.

He tried For a buflaing only 40,000 souara "The City of Asbury Park will found in good working order. Police were notified and a search and nothing happened. stop every time the buses stop, he conceded, but that, he said, "is the The truck swerved toward the spend every effort to insure a week feet smaller than Philadelphia's, the West Coast communities paid only $3,192,471. amounting to $13.13 along the Tohickon Creek was start Finally Rescffe Squad 3 was sum Youth Is Bitten By Vendor's Dog James Kittel, 14, of 1904 Spring Garden was bitten on the left leg yesterday by a sightless street vendor's guide dog on Market st. near 13th.

The youth, a freshman at Roman Catholic High School, was treated at Jefferson Hospital. Mrs. Mamie Simmons, 50, of 3311 Mount Vernon told police that the dog. who answers to the name of Brownie, ordinarily was not vicious, but apparently was affected by the heat. of fun for the boy and girl marbles sidewalk.

Robert and his father were walk' ed. Later the Quakertown Fire Co. rescue squad joined in the hunt. moned from 54th st. and Haverford champions the Mayor said.

Continued on Page 6, Column 4 foot. Ralph Shurtleff. of Cleveland, di Emil. in the meantime, returnea The report also will be critical of ing hand in hand from their home to an Oregon ave. luncheonette ave.

The firemen looked the situation over, brought out an acetylene rector of the National Marbles and found his parents were Ho longer the Philadelphia design, contending Man, 84, Burned torch, and cut a hole around the Continued on Page 19, Column 3 Continued on Page 10, Column 3 that only 85,622 square feet, or 20.4 percent, is rentable, compared to- lock. The ceil room designer then manipulated the tumblers by hand where he had left them. He started to walk. Reaching Whitemarsh nearly 12 hours later he stopped at an antique shop and told the dealer what had happened. To Death in Yard 141,000 square feet, or 58 percent, at and Ryan was on his way to face 5 Killed as Train charges in Ashland.

Continued en Page 5, Column An 84-year-old man burned to Food was given the boy, and the Plows Into Auto death yesterday in Merlon Park CI-Year Service Ends when his clothing caught fire while dealer drove him to a Route 23 trolley car. At 10 P. M. his parents returned home and found Emil nursing ELK RIVER, June 7 (AP). he was placing rubbish in a backyard A passenger train smashed into a hot and tired feet.

incinerator. 150 Take Last Train Ridz car at a crossing here shortly before The dead man was John Hastings last midnight, killing five persons. Cab Driver's Kick Routs Knife Thug Wigmore, who lived with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Justine J.

McCarthy, at 514 Monroe rd Hibernation in June Bear Cub Does a Houdini, Snoozes as Police Search HIBERNATION Is even a better trick than tight-wire walking. Maybe that's what the 4-month-old bear cub had in mind when It disappeared in Camden Convention Hall before Its scheduled appearance In a television show. Dr. Gordon Tesch, Sherburne county coroner, the dead as: On Old New Hope Line Wigmore went into the yard to A cab driver's well aimed kict The Rev. Edward A.

Dicke, 55, pas- routed a knife-wielding robber at burn the rubbish about 2 P. M. Some 20 minutes later, his daughter. Cor- 34th and Soring Garden sts. last ORE than 150 Bucks county residents, many of whom admilw tor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Long nne, found him dead with most of ted they never had taken the trip before, crowded aboard 'a night.

Elwood Leftridge. 23. of 574 t- Reading Co. train yesterday afternoon for the final run on Via Cherry st, employed by the Yellow his clothing burned from his body. Mrs.

McCarthy telephoned Lower Merion police who took Wigmore to Bryn Mawr Hospital where he was historic and scenic route between Hatboro and New Hope. Prairie. and his wife, also 55; their son, Martin. 18, who was graduated last night from Concordia College High School, St. Paul; their daughter, Mrs.

Dorothy Minke, about 28. wife of a construction worker at Princeton, and Edwin K. Cab Co, told police he picked up a passenger at 47th st. and Haverford The bear's owner, Aatonio Marcos, The railroad was permitted by the pronounced dead. ave.

At the destination point, tne fare whipped out a switch-blade Public Utility Commission to abandon the 10-mile spur despite the opposition of several civic groups. CONDUCTOR of the last train sa William Lewis, of New who retired yesterday. The engirswr was Clifford Bastedo, of Mt. Airy. The baggagemaster was Herbert Fell, KrolL 18.

S3, of New Waterford, who was cud not only was a master of tight-training the little bruin to Join him hibernation but i also had picked up some of Houdini's to his tight-wire act. reported escape tricks. It apparently had stolen to Camden (snapped the catch then headed for But, shortly before P.M. yes ter-home on, or rather under, the range. knife and demanded the driver's money.

Leftridge said he got out of the cab with the robber behind 10 Firemen Hurt Af Chicago Blaze him. The driver turned swiftly and kicked. The bandit, cursing and limping, fled. jlflARCOS, who appears profes- CHICAGO, June 7 (AP). Ten XTJL sionally under the name of firemen were injured by falling de Koshmar, valued the cub at between cay, an attendant it convention Hall found the cub tucked under a large gas range, snoozing peacefully away In the best hlliernatlng tradition.

I MIS whole sequent of events J. started because It was so warm On WFIL Today S6 FUST ON IOCS DIAL A. BL Message of Israel 1:3 A. M. Lee Stewart 12:30 P.

M-Philadelphla Catholic Hour p. Mw Boston Blackie P. BL Drew Pearson 11:15 p. M. Music You Want WFIL-TV CHANNEL bris today while fighting a blaze that destroyed the five-story Terre $300 and $400.

He said it had been given to him by a friend from Havana and was quickly picking up the trirk nf wir waTVinv which claimed the area would be deprived of essential The railroad agreed to provide bus service over much the same route. The Hatboro-New Hope branch was opened on March 21. 1831, with a coal-burning engine piloted by the late Silas Yerkes. Yerkes daughter. Miss Bessie Yerkes, now In her 80s, was In the group which cheered the modern three-car, Diesel-powered train when it left Hatboro for the last time at 4:47 P.

M. yesterday. Also aboard was Ike Van Pelt. 92, who was conductor of the first freight train cn the line. Van Pelt Paper Box Co.

plant. At least two others were given first aid after oi new Hope. Informal ceremonies were held at stations along the route. Including JohnsvUle, Ivyland. Traymore.

Grenoble, Rushland. Wycombe, Buckingham Valley. Bycot and Laha and at the New Hope terminus, which Is near the New Hope-Lara- bertvUle bridge across the Delawaxst. An accordion trio, which enter- tained throughout the hour-Ion i journey, played a funeral dirge as the train neared Its last stop. Among Reading Co.

officials aboard were Sidney Spencer, li-tant passenger agent; C. T. Whit- aker, passenger transportation mas-ter. and Capt. Frank Smith, Co.

chief of police. Members of the Bucks county art and theatrical su were Included. TKi7 nigus. even iot running The cub is about 12 inches long around in bearskin. Because of Uiejand eight Inches tall, brown in color neat, Marcos ciani cajre the cub.

He, and with a. white snot tin th phfch Draft Board Calls Ex-PIumber67 CLEVELAND. June 7 (UP) Nick Marino said today he would go Into the Army but they'd hav to come for him in a taxi. "Things must be tough all over when they grab me," said the retired plumber, 67. and a grandfather, who received orders from a draft board to report June 24 "Tor an armed forces physical examination." Draft Board 2a explained, Tt was1 a mistake." 11:00 A.

Mw Joe DlMaggio's Dug juarcos cans it "Quabec," pronounced Quay-beck, although he said it was named from the Canadian city Quebec. left it out in the open, fastened to section of bleachers with a snap chain. At 8:30 A. Vf. Marcos found the cub missing.

Because the chain was being overcome by smoke. Police set up an emergency line to control traffic as thousands gathered to watch the fire. Most of the injured men were standing on the roof of a one-story building just north of the burning factory when the upper part of the out P. Super Circus 18:30 p. Mv Youth on the March Quabec was back In its cage last said: "When I first bee an railroad Robert McLanghlin, 3, of 703 Johnston who was killed by truck that jumped curb on Oregon ave.

between 6th and 7th sts. ing there were wooden cars and rTTrC -V Ji "wsm wa. nignt. weather or not, with strict "rders not to do any mora cub Later, police concluded the young scouting. 11:15 P.

SL Royal Tile Tuna building's north wall collapsed, show I iron men. Now there are steel cars and wooden men." ering tnem with Bricks..