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TEE WEATHER V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast Philadelphia and vicinity: Mostly surny and warmer today. Fair nd mild tonight. Expected hlg.

78. Tomorrow partly clotldy and warm with a chance oi showers. Variable winds 10 10 15 miles per hour today. Comph te Weather Data -t Page 11 mum MXtt A. iHitMI tin CITY EDITION An Indepe nTdfifa" People fife mi WEI WFIL-560 KC WFIL-TV CH.

6 FIVE CENTS April Circulation: Daily, Sunday, 1,148,084 SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 7. 1955 Copyright. 1955, by Triangle Inc. Vol. 252, No.

127 126th Year tif ymtrm urn k- i-yi i.n i arm il wr. 1. 4 Doctor Hints U. S. Halts Vaccine Flow But Lets Shots Go On; City Injections Resume Doping in Johnson TKO i ill 3m ii Wno Gave Orange to Harold Is Hunted by Police Pictures an I Complete Sports cn Pages 17, 8, 19.

By JOHN WEBSTER A mysterious stranger, who allegedly haided a "doped" orange to Mght-heavy weight boxing contender Harold John Reports By Experts 'Awaited WASHINGTON, May 6 (AP). Federal clearance of newly Pupils to Get Inoculations On Tuesday Inoculation of first and second grad'e pupils in the Philadelphia public schools will begin Tuesday as scheduled despite the Government's action in manufactured Salk polio vaccine has been halted for a few son before his fight last night, is being sought by Philadelphia detectives ani members of the Pennsylvania State Athletic days, Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele said today, But he emphasized that inoculations should proceed with supplies already cleared. Commission. Johnson, Philadelphia's No.

1 light-heavywei jht, collapsed in his corner after the second round and was declared tie loser by a techni withholding clearance of all; newly manufactured Salk anti- polio vaccine, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Norman R. Ingraham, Deputy Commissioner of Health for this city, said sufficient "supplies of the Government-approved vaccine were on hand here before Scheele told the House Banking IJ ljfvfc Committee the manufacture of vaccine was continuing and that shipment and use of batches al U. S.

Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele postponed Federal approval of new shipments of the ma 1 ready approved were going ahead. NOTV UNDER SUSPICION Emphasizing that the product was not "under suspicion" Scheele terial pending further tests. DELAY DENIED cal knockout to Julio Mederos in their nations Uy-televised fight, scheduled for 10 rounds at the Arena. Johnso was a 4-1 favorite to win the figt t.

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL Dr. Joseph Ayella, attending physician at ti fight, said "Johnson appeared to be doped." The lighter was taien to Hahnemann Hospital. There he tol i Detectives Thomas Boyce and James Boggs he had said Federal review of new batches mnmMmw-tiy mmmmLmsm i i mmmmwbwwwwmmmmwiiiiiiii iimiTrfri Mfir.y--ririi nririi i i i Enough vaccine is in the refrig erators of his department to immunize about 90 percent of the estimated 46,000 first and second i mark in Fairmount Park for the last half-century. The picturesque structure, brought here from St. Louis Exposition in 1905, was located on Lansdowne drive.

Silhouetting the arched bridge across the nearby Lotus Pond, flames are shown wiping out all but the skeleton cf the old "Japanese Pagoda," a land- had been "at a standstill" for several days pending a top-level scientific discussion of possible further safeguards. A spokesman for the National Institute of Health in nearby graders in the public school system. Dr. Ingraham stated ab sences and failure or refusal of parents to consent to their ch.il Hedy Lamarr, who ha appealed a Federal tax claim of $90, 1 2b against her in which the U. S.

is contesting her deduction of $147,000 for jewels stolen from her in 1950. Thousands See Blaze dren's inoculation are expected to Dulles Leaves; Bethesda, Md.f where the meeting account for the other 10 percent In Harrisburg, meanwhile, offi cials of the State Health Depart gone to the Bo: ting Commission office yesterday afternoon to check final fight details. He said he left the office shortly after 12:30 P. M. I and as he wal ted from the building at 1428 9.

Square, a man approached hin and asked for an. autograph for lus three youngsters. "I gave the nan my autograph," ment denied knowledge of a "pos Wreck Famed PagodaiSees Hope for Bankers Group To Scanleader Tax Program is being held, said no Salk vaccine had been finally rejected thus far as defective. He cited repeated statements by Scheele to the House committee that the U. S.

Public Health Service was confident the vaccine was safe. He also stressed that all vaccine now in the hands of physi sible delay" in shipment of fresh vaccine to Pennsylvania in time for second inoculations of the In Fairmount Park Red Peace Talks cians and Public Health authorities had passed the minimum require Models 'Killed' As Atomic Blast Flattens City One of Philadelphia's best known and best loved landmarks, ments of the Biologists Control Five Philadelphia and Pittsburgh bankers have been assigned the "Japanese Pagoda" in Fairmount Park, burned to the ground Laboratory. last night. PLAN EVERY SAFEGUARD State's primary grade pupils. DISCOUNTS RUMORS "We have heard some rumors that there is going to be a delay," said Dr.

J. Thomas Millington, the department's director of preventive services, "but as far as the department is concerned, we know of no possible delay in shipping the serum to Pennsylvania. "The last word we received from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis," he added, "was that the serum for the second shots would be sent as soon as we filed a by the Pennsylvania Bankers Association as a special "task force" The ethereally designed frame structure, which had stood WASHINGTON, May 6 (UP). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today admission of West Germany into the Allied camp and an Austrian peace treaty could open the way for peace talks with Russia. He said they "open up Scheele, head of the Public on Lansdowne dr.

just east of Belmont ave. for more than half Health Service, said the clearance to study Gov. George M. Leader's tax program built around the a was reduced to ashes within minutes by flames which SURVIVAL CITY, May 6 broke out shortly before 8 P. M.

"classified income tax." (AP). Civil defense experts prod Besides considering the associa ded into th shredded wreckage of new vistas for peaceful accom plishments." and whipped through Its weathered timbers on the wings of a brisk north wind. Johnson pointed out, "and then he asked me L' I liked oranges. I told him I did and he handed me ne for good lack." THIRSTY BEFORE FIGHT Johnson said he then went home to eat lunch and rest for the fight.1 At 6:30 P. his trainer, Clarence (Skinny) DavMson, picked him up and they drove to the Arena.

felt a-little thirsty before the fight and so 1 1 sked for the orange I had put in riy equipment bag," Johnson said. "It tasted awful bitter as I bit into it." He said he threw it away after sucking the- jtice from it. Both. Dr. Ay ilia and Dr.

Wilbur Strickland, another Commission physician at ringside, said they -were investigating to determine whether the o-ange that Johnson had eaten in tt dressing room had been "tampered with." The 26-year-old fighter, who was taken to the hospital on a told the two doctors that the orange had le him feeling slug tion's over-all policy toward the program, this group will look close this town today and learned where and how you would He made the statement as he left report showing exactly how much was used in the first shots." Workmen had erected scaffold Headline Hopping By Ollie Crawford TRENCH designers abandon President Eisenhower's plane, in ly into its possible effect on estates, trusts and their die or survive in a nuclear at tack. ing around the entire exterior of the attractive two-story building, the Columbine, for Allied talks in Paris. Dulles said he was going to Europe with "greater confidence" embargo and the scientific discussion were just "additional steps to make sure that every conceivable safeguard" was being followed. Actually, he said, the conference of medical experts had been planned before reports began coming in of polio among children who had received those report began to come in, he said, the clearance program was held up to get the benefit of the experts' views. Scheele said he was confident that embargo on further clearances would be lifted in a few days.

REVIEW BY EXPERTS Later, in talking with newsmen, he cut that down to "the next day Ripped and crumped debris of preparatory to making extensive LOCAL BANKERS NAMED some homes, like two which were "flat look." This apparently repairs, and when the names nad than on any of the dozen previous times he had gone to the continent standing less than a mile from yes Three Philadelphians on the "task force" are George W. Horns- in the quest for free world solidarity and world done their work, only the scaffold and a few of the pagoda's upright beams remained standing. by, vice president of the Girard terday's mighty atomic explosion, made clear that none Would have lived in them. The mannequin Trust Corn Exchange Bank; Paul MEETS WITH PRESIDENT SPOTTED BY PARK GUARDS Wagner, senior vice president Dulles spent a large part of the families in them "died" to a man. Park Guards Maurice Davidson of the ridelity-Philadelphla Trust Force of the blast was equal to and Charles Turner, on patrol in and John E.

Williams, vice COMPLETE FAITH New Jersey officials also indicated they were going ahead with their inoculation program without further delay. Dr. Daniel Bergsma, State Health Commissioner, said at Trenton that he placed complete faith in the antipolio vaccine distributed throughout that State yesterday. South Jersey's, portion of the shipment was sent in a station wagon, escorted by State Police cars, to Haddonfield, where Dr. Hugh District State Health Officer, supervised transshipment to central distributing points in Atlantic, Cumberland, Camden, Gloucester, Cape May and Salem counties.

School districts in each of these counties have been notified of the points in their areas where they day in secret meetings with President Eisenhower, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of gish. "I remember nothing after hearing the bill for the fight to 35,000 tons of TNT. The bombs president of the Provident Trust or two," but said there might be some slowdown if new standards the vicinity, saw smoke pouring Co.

start," Johnso said. Detectives ud they had recov from the quaintly peaked roof of and tests were decided on. The Pittsburgh men are John the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Undersecretary of State Herbert At the Health, Education and the building and telephoned an ered parts of the orange and some L. Propst, vice president of the Welfare Department, a spokesman Mellon National Bank and Trust Hoover, Jr. peelings alarm.

By the time the first firemen responded from Belmont and Johnson, heavier than ever and William E. Magee," its said the committee of virologists, consultants and other experts was The White House described the meeting as of "a routine nature." But the Nation's top leaders un 179, displayed a sharp left jab ini trust officer. makes it unanimous. The summer styles now being shown in Paris have a lot more spring. It seems that 50,000,000 Frenchmen weren't wrong, just Dior.

The gals who followed his fashion mandate found themselves with no man and no date. A guy doesn't mind a gal being a sister to him, but not a brother. Now the word is that the styles will to from fiat to flattering. This leaves last year's style so much of an orphan, they're thinking of opening a You can't do much with them, except maybe' wear them backward. But by next fall, things will be in great shape.

The fashionable thing for papa will be a well-rounded pocketbook. Paris designers might adopt the natural look, but for this you don't need designers. with the as Girard the pagoda was beyond saving. Working closely reviewing the whole situation, including the method of clearinz Continued on Page 17, Column 4 sociations legislation committee doubtedly discussed Dulles vital mission to Paris. He plans talks on and counsel, it was announced, the Continued on Page 4, Column 5 Thousands of spectators, by the glare of the flames, gathered along the park drives to watch that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki had the power of only 20,000 tons.

WALLS WITHSTAND Two other homes, about equally near, bore up better. Their walls and flat roofs withstood the battering. But the awful force of the atomic storm had swept their interiors into windows of fittings and furniture, made the houses hollow shells. The "people" there, fared only a little better than those of the completely demolished homes. Radiation would have been a powerful weapon against any per a possible East-West conference, a special committee will give careful study particularly to the plan to cease fire in the Formosa Straits, and the touchy Indochina situa Continued on Page 4, Column 6 as extra fire compames were brought in to string hose lines from brmg banks under the proposed 6 percent corporate net income tax, AprilJobs Reach tion.

exempting them from the-4-mill distant hydrants. GIVEN CITY IN 1905 MIGHT GO TO VIENNA tax on bank shares which they Dulles told reporters" at the air now pay. Pupil Reinstated In Knife Incident BEACH HAVEN, N. May 6 AP). An 11 -year-old boy, suspended a week ago for allegedly lunging at a with a knife, was reinstated tonight by the Beach Haven Board of Education.

Properly termed the "Japanese Record 61 Million Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, May 6. Em port that he might go to Vienna President Urges Guarding of Rights WASHINGTON, May 6 (U. after the Paris meetings if Com munist and Allied conferees agreed SCAN OTHER TAXES Also to come under their close scrutiny will be the proposal to impose a 5 percent tax on dividends and a 4 percent tax on in Temple Gate," the building was presented to the city in 1905 by John H. Converse and Samuel M. Vauclain.

Considered a specimen of the ployment in April reached an all- sons above ground and exposed on a peace treaty for Austria. The State Department has described the current status of the long- within the 4700-foot area. Harold L. Goodwin, test director finest Japanese architectural art terest, rents and royalties. I Gov.

Leader has asked the State Grace Kelly Visits of the Federal Civil Defense Ad' delayed treaty talks as The board reinstated Fred Lane, of 300 years ago, it formed part of ministration, said that "most Legislature to enact a $529,080,000 the official Japanese exhibit at after be a lologized to the four board membei present and to the The Secretary said admission of people above ground within this Monaco Prince tax program to supply needed funds for his proposed record- the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. It was pur area would have died." He esti principal. Sue A. Salmons.

West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "will mated a probably fatal dose of 400 MONTE CARLO, Monaco, May The president of the board is I breaking $1,843,583,666 State budg chased by Converse and Vauclain roentgens hit the front line of 6 (A. Grace Kelly, who is at President Eisenhower, speaking at the dedication of a new Jewish temple, advised Americans tonight to protect the rights of others lest their own rights be trampled. The President participated in ceremonies dedicating the new temple of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. The temple houses the eldest Jewish congregation in Washington. It was founded in 1852 and operates under a unique charter granted by Congress.

In the company of 2000 woe-shippers in the massive temple, the time high of 61,685,000, a gain of 1,200,000 ever March, the Com-mercs and Labor Departments reported today. While the number hired was showing a sharp gain, the number of jobless dropped in April by to a level of 2,962,000, the survey showed. However, April showed a huge jump in the labor force, after several months in which the labor force had actually been estimated at below the number of a year earlier. This meant that unemploy begin the writing of a new chapter in the European story a chapter which will record the realization of a new Europe, united, free and tending the Cannes film festival, took time out today to visit Prince homes at 4700 feet. SAFE IN SHELTERS et ior me Diennium Degmning June 1.

His actual new revenue needs amount to $510,604,474. Meanwhile Mayor Joseph S. as a gift to the city when the exposition ended. Six children two of them girls ranging in age from 10 to 13 were Rainier III of Monaco at his gingerbread palace overlooking the Some persons would have been Clark, came to the support of hurt, perhaps fatally, by flying Mediterranean. Fred thj boy's uncle.

The fifth member, who was not present, Is the boy's fs ther, Fred Lane. The board had dismissed the teacher, Dons Id B. Hatmaker, 50, who reported young Lane lunged at him with a two-inch blade after he had been questioned about a missing safetj patrol badge. The board siid the teacher could rot control tt class. secure." RECEIVES ACCEPTANCE First step in making West Ger questioned by park guards and Juvenile Aid detectives but later were allowed to go home.

Two of debris, too, he said. But those in the Leader program for the second time in ten days. He said a sales The Prince showed her the state shelters in the 4700-foot area prob tax was favored by "those who be the boys said they had been climb apartments, the museum and his private zoo in the palace gardens. ably would have been safe. many the 15th member of NATO took place in Washington today neve mat wealth, wnether in President said the founders of this An inspection of shelters in the "It was the first time I had ever ing on the scaffolding, had seen the fire in some old rags and had herited or earned, should be taxed ment ieu only slightly, and In fact somewhat less than was expected on seasonal grounds.

been received by a prince," said no more heavily than wages." run for help. Continued on Page 2, Column 6 Continued on Page 9, Column 2 the movie star. "His simplicity completely conquered me." country believed all men were endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. These rights, he said, were God-given rather than the product of the birth of a new nation. 'King Arthur' Hides Again Windsor Periled Missing Baby Found, Sitter, 2 Others Held Godfrey Still 'Firing'- In Plane Landing PARIS.

May 6 Duke Debbie to Leave On Far East Tour After 800 Years of Aristocracy Bluehlood, 23, Elopes With Farmhand, 54 LINCOLN, England, May 7 (Saturday) (AP). This Time at the Press HOLLYWOOD, May 6 (UP). Illustrated on Page 9 An 10-month-old Southwest Philadelphia boy, taken from of Windsor made his first flight from London to Paris since the Second World War today, and a tire blowout shook up him and other passengers. The 'British European Airways plane from London had just landed at Le Bourget Airfield and was his home Thursday morning by an 18-year-old baby sitter, was rUSAN 23-vear-nlr! sistpp nf th VippHitcirv Hum. Debbie Reynolds will leave a week from today to entertain GIs in the Far East "because she wants to get away from all these rumors her romance with Eddie Fisher is over," MGM spokesmen said today.

The pert singing star accepted an found by police last night after NEW YORK, May 6 (UP). ARTHUR GODFREY complained in bitter words today that most newspapers make unfair and uninformed comment about him. "I don't gfve a what they print," he said. The was a pause in his speech, not a word. pion of England and caughter of one of Britain's oldest aristocratic families, was reported today to have run away with All three were taken later to the 55th and Pine sts.

station, where a house-to-house search through a central-city apart- taxiing down a runway when the f. farmhand. tire blew. The tabloid Daily Sketch said the uote1 1Irs- DymoM. "There Is a dark-haired, flashing-eyed Susan, sreat difference in age that is very He told his radio show audience invitation to join disc jockey Johnny Grant's troupe of 10.

The entertainers will visit service posts in Korea, Japan and Formosa and return here May 30. they were being questioned by detectives. Also being questioned in connection witlrthe case was the child's father. HEAR BABY CRYING whose Army jfficer brother inherit Recovery of the child, Thomas J. Longo, was effected after his father, Horace Longo, of 8624 Grovers appeared at the 12th and Pine sts.

station, gave police Capt. Dymoke is the 34th mem On WFIL Today 56ft FIRST ON TOCE DIAL 9:30 A.M. No School Today son, you see. Nobody was going with anybody. There was no reason.

They couldn't figure out any. thing, so one fellow out West somewhere wrote that he guessed that the show would just have to ber of the family to hold the title that he was going to do things the way he thinks it's right. "If you don't agree with me, just don't tune in any more and we'll find it out quick," he told his CBS audience. "We don't have to read Patrolmen Hemmerle and Suna- of Queen's or King's Champion. It was bestowed on his ancestors 1 to 4:00 P.

M. Thanks lor the 3tt Sljr Snqutrrr SATURDAY. MAY 7. 1955 a pnotograpn or nis missing son vmcvi it oftor Ited the right to carry the standard of Englai.d in coronation ceremonies, elojed two months ago with Jimmy Vebb. Webb, a nitive cf Tieland, formerly tended hunt horse: in the little village Culverthorpe, where Dymokes hae lived for 800 years and the girl, and then told themwhen the landlady of one of the nearly 600 years ago at the corona tion of King Richard II.

Ride: Music 4:30 P.M. The Jazz Beat 8:05 P.M. Dancing Party Continued on Paje 9, Column 2 he had learned she was living in rooming houses recognized the (Departments and Features The Royal Champion formerly 9:05 P. M. V-E Day Anniversary rode his horse into the Coronation about it in the paper." The trouble, he said, is that a lot of the news stories about him are lies "pure canard, pure manu- LOST ANS FOUND Amusements me vicumy oi ui ana spruce sis.

chnd and girl from the photo-2 MEN ALSO QUIZZED I graph. Hall to challenge to battle anyone Oddities 12 Puzzles 14, 15 "My sister is wilful," the Sketch quoted Capt John Dymoke, 27, Susan's brotier. "What she has who might question the right of the I Bridge 15 the rooming house; Business and 'Patrolmen Walter Hemmerle "Oh. monarch to be ciownej. in re- 11:05 P.

Baseball Scoreboard WFIL-TV CHANNEL 6 4:30 P.M. Buffalo Bill, Jr, with Dick Jones 5:30 P.M. Wrestling Television 16 factured lies, no basis in fact at Financial done is madr ess. But I know that cent years, the Champion has been and Igiatius Sunakowski searched operator said. "She's here and Shipping 21 all." she would rot behave with dis-i given the rignt to carry the Royal the district and finally found the 'that's the baby crying now." 20, 21, 22 Church News 7 Comics 14, 15 honor." Standard during the coronation She explained that Miss Carson, boy on the third floor of a rooming I Sports 17 to 19 Women's News 11 in the rnmnanv nf tho ttt-n mni rituaL LOST.

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Rrw. Wanhburn 8-MB3. house. With him was the girl, whOirented the room SCVeral days ago. He started his remarks with a reference to the recent firing of his "friends" from his television show of the same name.

The result, he said, was "fireworks." "I've been very much amused by identified herself as Katherine At the station house the girl said 7:30 P.M. Paris Precinct: "The Fire Bug 9:00 P.M. Play Marko Ford Film Playhouse: "Sundown Complete Radio and Television Programs on Page 16. Elizabeth Carson. she had lived in Tennessee and SUSAN'S mother, Mrs.

Lionel Dymoke she knew her daughter pla ined to run away with Webb, who tad lived in the village ior three yei rs. "Mr. Web is not of her class, Death Notices 22 Editorials 10 Leonard Lyons Louella O. Parsons Portraits Red Smith Washington Background Police took into custody the girl that her mother now lives in Alex Baseball Contest In Sports Section Pare 15 Page 15 Page 10 the press this last time," Godfrey said. "You see, what gummed 'em Pace 17 and two men who said the girl told andria, Va.

She added that she them she had a husband in the had been in this city for about six Army and that the child was hers. or seven weeks. that is regrittable." the Sketch Page 10 up was they couldn't find any rea- rJthtt Lost Found Page 22.

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