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THE WEATHER V. S. Weather Bureau Forecast Philadelphia and vicinity: Windy and cold today. High near 38. Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow.

Low tonight 20. High tomorrow near 35. Northwest winds 15 to 20 miles an hour. COMPLETE WEATHER DATA ON PAGE 14 IF! MAI CITY EDITION 11 i fiiii. Cm" ujj mum (.

An Indepenidre eTrrfrowAlHtto I October Circulation: Daily, Sunday, 1,068,915 SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1958 CopyrUht. MM, by TriaMU Publications, Ine. Vol. No. 152 130th Year WFIL 560KC FIVE CENTS mil 'hoppers Jam Midcity M'Elroy Sees Billion Rise in Adenauer Bars Tree City Plan For W.

Berlin 000 to See Game Today iff AY 1 From Our Wire Services BONN, Germany, Nov. 28. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today rejected the Soviet proposal to make West Berlin a "free city" and began urgent conferences with the Allies on ways to protect it. Adenauer called in U. S.

Ambassador David K. E. Bruce and British Ambassador Sir Christopher Steele. Sources Police Busy Handling Crowds By JAMES P. McFADDEN The Christmas-shopping IliilSIflf 7 ni I' III 4 I 4t' trx jsife Crowds jam Market st.

east of Broad as the Christmas shopping season moved into high gear yesterday. Center city stores reported a near-record number of customers eager to complete their Yule buying before the last-minute rush. Blessed said both meetings concen trated on the Berlin crisis. At a meeting of his Christian Democratic Party leaders, the Chancellor emphasized that the Soviet proposal to turn the three Western sectors of Berlin into an open city and withdraw American, British and French occupation forces would leave West Berlin far riper for Communist seizure than it was now. WEST BACKS MAYOR Adenauer said he could assure West Germans that the 7500 Western troops would remain in Berlin.

At West Berlin, Mayor Willy Interpretive article and picture on Page 2 Brandt won firm backing from Western leaders in his fight gainst the Soviet proposal. Diplomatic reports pouring into West Berlin indicated the United States, Britain and France would reject the Soviet maneuver. U. S. Congressmen visiting the isolated city assured the Mayor of staunch U.

S. support. Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Britain sent Brandt assurances of American backing. W.

BERLIN DEFIANT The West Berliners, heartened by such outside support, defied grim Red hints of trouble when Moscow's six-month period for accepting the neutral city proposal expires. Communist East Germany's Premier, Otto Grotewohl, welcomed the Soviet plan as a great concession to the West. Grotewohl in a statement reminded West Berliners that his regime is not backing off on its claim that all Berlin belongs to East Germany. But he said his regime would assure West Berlin of free lines of communications if West Berliners accepted the Soviet plan. THREAT BY SOVIETS At the same time Soviet diplomatic officials in East Berlin let it be known that a serious situation would confront West Berlin if the so-called "free city" proposal is spurned.

Nixon sent Brandt a message saying he and other members of the U. S. Government "wish to assure you in these difficult times of undiminished American support." Sen. BourXe B. Hickenlooper Iowa), visiting in West Ber lin, backed up Brandt's rejection Confined on Page 2, Column How Army ARMY (89) A Tale of Two Sisters The Delaware County Courthouse at Media lale yesterday was the scene of a drama just as poignant and soul-stirf ing as any ever shown on a Media movie'screen.

And for Anne AP Wirephoto A beaming President Eisenhower, wearing golf cap and sport shirt, emerges from meeting with defense and budget officials at Augusta National Golf Club. Atlas Fired Over (leean CAPE CANAVERAL, Nov. 28 mighty Atlas missile blasted into space tonight and there were unofficial indications that it may have flown the full 6325-mile intercontinental range, "I can't tell you anything officially," an Air Force spokesman said an hour after the launching, "but we're mighty happy about what happened tonight. "It will be some time tomorrow before we get the full story, when the signals from the bird are fully analyzed." If the "beast," as the Atlas is known, dropped its nose cone on its target in the South Atlantic Ocean, the United States is on the verge of perfection of its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It would be this country's first successful test of such a missile.

Defense Cost Secretary Confers With Eisenhower About New Budget AUGUSTA, Nov. 28 (AP). Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, after confer ring with President Eisen hower, today left open the pos-l sibility military spending next year would run a billion dol lars more than this years estimated $40,800,000,000. With Mr.

Eisenhower striving to cut over-all Federal spending, McElroy's remarks by no means brightened the prospect. SEES 'ROUGH TIME' The Secretary of Defense said "we are going to have a pretty rough time trying to avoid" military outlay rise in the fiscal year starting July 1. Asked about the possibility of a two-billion-dollar increase, Mc Elroy shot back: "Oh no, I don't think that much." The next question was about the possibility of a one-billion-dollar jump. "I don't know," McElroy replied. SOUND BASIS STRESSED He stressed, however, that every consideration was being given to maintaining a sound national economy generally as well as a strong military posi tion.

But McElroy also emphasized that fin a i a 1 considerations won't be assigned priority over defense essentials. Today's 2V4-hour conference of top-level defense and budget of ficials with the President was held in his vacation office at the Augusta National Golf Club. Mc Elroy reported that no final or e1 en tentative defense spending figure was agreed upon. 2D MEETING PLANNED Mr. Eisenhower will meet again with the group when he returns to Washington next week The Federal budget for the new fiscal year will go to Congress in January.

Among those sitting in at to day's session with the President and McElroy were Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Budget Di rector Maurice H. Stans and William Holaday, the Defense Department's guided missile chief. BIG QUESTION RAISED McElroy's indication that de fense spending was going to mount also raised a big question mark over Mr.

Eisenhower's campaign to cut total Govern Continued on Page 4, Column 1 NAVY (80) (60) FB, Wellborn (33) 6T'-184 Average Weights: (71) (84) Line Backfield Team -195 -180 -189 77 Williams, 78 Boccker, 80 Albershart, 82 VanNort, 83 Traa, 84 Kanuch, 85 Shlrreffs, 86 Schriefer, 87 Mankowich, 88 Lupcr, 89 Bezck, Rain Looms As Factor In Battle By HERB GOOD In modern warfare the side that gains air supremacy nor mally wins the battle. That theory is expected to operate in the 59th annual meeting of the U. S. Military Academy and the U. S.

Naval Academy at Municipal Stadium this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Both the unbeaten, once-tied Cadets and the twice-beaten un derdog Midshipmen have relied heavily on passing all season. Thus, the usual sellout crowd of 102.000 and the millions who'll be watching television (Ch. 3, locally) have every reason to anticipate a wide-open battle un less the weather causes a sharp change in coaching strategy. RAIN FORECAST The weatherman promises rain, a repeat of last year's weather in which Navy scored a 14-0 victory, but the field has been covered since early yester day morning and therefore the teams are assured firm footing for the 'start of this most colorful of all gridiron contests.

It started to rain yesterday aft ernoon just as Army, first on the scene, arrived at the stadium. So both teams passed up the usual final light limbering-up drill. They left for country club retreats immediately after posing for photographers. MAY MAR PAGEANTRY Army is considered the faster team, thus might be hurt more by a heavy field. But the West Pointers also hive the heavier eleven, which could offset any loss of speed, and for that reason probably will remain a slight favorite at kickoff time.

The weather could put some what of a damper on the tradi tional pre-game parade and half time hijinks that set this attrac tion apart from all others on the sports scene PARADE AT NOON Promptly at noon, the 2500-man Corps of Cadets is scheduled to march into the big South Phila delphia horseshoe to be followed immediately by the Brigade of Midshipmen, 3500 strong. Last year rain prevented them from parading onto the field and giving their traditional salute to the crowd. They merely marched to their seats. The same procedure is possible today. The Annapolis students were prevented from putting on their customary show here early in the season when Navy rolled over Penn, 50-8.

It also rained then. Fans have been pouring into town by air, rail and motor from all parts of the country for the last two days. They have learned from experience that being a part of the huge crowd is the only way to enjoy corn- Continued on Page 18, Column 7 Heart Ailment Fells Frankfurter WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI). Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter has suffered a "mild heart disturbance" and has been hospitalized for rest and observation, it was announced tonight.

A court spokesman said Frank furter, who observed his 76th birthday on Nov. 15, consulted with his physician Monday after he had complained of not feeling well. The physician, Dr. Walter J. Bloedorn, ordered Frankfurter hospitalized.

The spokesman said Frankfurter "is resting comfortably and the doctors are pleased with his progress." On the Air Today WFIL 560 On Your Dial The WFIL Show Wagon broadcasts from Convention Hall, with Stu Wayne, at 10:30 A. M. 4:50 P. M. Notre Dame vs.

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Larry Ferrari 11:00 P. M. World's Best Movies "Beast with Five Fingers," with Rob-. ert Alda, Andrea King Complete Radio and Television Programs on Page 18 rush began with a vengeance in central city Philadelphia yesterday. Crowds estimated by Police Inspector Maurice R.

Pliner at 500,000 swarmed into Market, Chestnut and Walnut and the north-south streets crossing them, in a fashion calculated to gladden the heart of every shopkeeper and to send every traffic policeman home exhausted at nightfall. They swarmed in, in response to the record-breaking 108-page advertisement-crammed Thurs day Inquirer, BIGGEST BIG FRIDAY' Pliner directed a total of 450 uniformed policemen, from the Foot Traffic and Motor Highway Divisions, in a heroic attempt to Page of shopping scene pictures on Page 3. keep traffic moving' despite the first big bulge of the holiday season. At key intersections, crews of three officers worked together, one controlling the traffic lights manually while the two others hurried motorists along and kept pedestrians back of the curb until it was safe to cross. All transit lines reflected the police estimate that this was the biggest "Big Friday" of recent holiday seasons.

The name is given to the day after Thanksgiving, when Christmas shopping traditionally begins on a mjor scale. MOVE TEN ABREAST Slow-moving crowds bt shoppers moved along 10 abreast five persons shuffling in file in each direction. At the corners of 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th drivers attempting to make right turns had to edge their way into a solid throng of humanity and brave the exasperated glares of the pedestrians they nudged aside. Parking, even in the num erous indoor-parking garages of the central city, was almost impossible to find. Shop owners ana managers re ported that the crowds were not only big, but in a buying mood.

"They saw all those ads in The Inquirer Thursday morning, and they looked them over," one specialty shop manager com mented. "They know what they 're after, and that's what they come looking for." He expressed gratification at the response to his own newspaper advertising. CHILDREN SEE SIGHTS An unusual aspect of the initial rush was that many parents brought their young children along, at a much earlier time of the season than has been customary in the past. They found time to let the youngsters look at the more colorful window displays, but didn't let them interfere with serious shopping. Observers other than police reported that traffic, despite being heavy, was moving better than it did a year ago, when many central city streets were torn up for repairs, construction and resurfacing.

The opening of Vine st for almost its whole length as an access and exit road Continued on Page 9, Column 1 3it Swjuf rrr SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. Departments and Features Amusements Obituaries 24 On the Lighter Side 14 Real Estate 22 Shipping 23 Sports 18, 19, 20 Television and Radio If Today's World 3 Women's News 17 10, 11 Bridge 15 Business and Financial 21, 22, 23 Classified Ads 24 to 29 Church News 8,9 Comics 14, 15 Death Notices 24 Editorials 6 Best of Broadway Page 15 Best of Hollywood Page IS World of Religion Page Washington Background Page 6 Complete Weather Page 14 LOST AND rODND LOST, louat hound, younf molt, vit Ardmorg. Black with white I- ton markings, with wh'tt ipot bt Ihouldtfi, An to 2-4898. LOST 11 -36. entr eily or Wanemok.

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LOST lady'i wolcfi, blk band erl turn. Vic 20th Snrur 10 Other Lost Found Fag 24 Eldredge, 71, the perky little to a happy ending, Miss Eldredge. a sweet-faced old lady with a sweet voice and cheerful mien, worked at night in the movies to eke out her pen sionand that of her older sister after the long years both of them had spent teaching English here at Girls' High. AN OVERDOSE OF PILLS Anne Eldredge had thus seeni a lot of drama, both at work and at home in the converted dog kennels she shared with her sister, Irene, about two miles out of Media on Middletown rd. For instance, she had seen her be loved sister, five years her sen ior, finally worn down by excruciating headaches to a point where she took an overdose of sleeping pills to end the intoler able pain Not only that, but Anne had even nelped Irene by banding her another glass of water that afternoon, and true to her promise she had not called a doctor until the next day, Oct.

16. Yesterday a six-mejnber cor oner jury at Media held Anne Eldredge on a homicide charge. Four years ago, she had told the jury, sbe did call a doctor when her sister tried to take her life. But during the last four years things had grown steadily worse. KEPT HER PROMISE This time, she testified, she promised not to call for help, and kept her promise.

Moreover, she said, she had heard her sister sigh, "Ah, blessed sleep!" as and Navy Line Up (12) Caldwell, QB (79) Bagdonas LT Thomas (73) QB, Tranchini (16) (21) Anderson, LHB (61) Novogratz LG Fritzinger (63) LHB, Bellino (27) (24) Dawkins.RIIB (51) Rowe Dunn (54) RHB, Dagampat (44) 6T-197 the movies, It finally worked out Penna. Hit Again Grid Pool Costs Job Of Middle rpHE Naval Academy, firing us -L second broadside at Pennsvl vania in four days, disclosed belatedly yesterday that John Mas- cali. 22. of 825 N. 20th Allen- town, has been removed as cap tain of the Navy basketball team for operating a football pool on the Annapolis campus.

Cmdr. Marcy Dupre, public in formation officer at the Acad emy, said Mascali, a hot-shot for ward, was still a member of the team but was "busted" out of the captaincy a month ago. He was replaced by Dick Johnson, of Austin, Tex. Dupre first gave Mascali's mis conduct the fancy dressing of "conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline," but finally broke and disclosed the football pool angle. "No great crime," he added "Nothing like that thing out at the University of Michigan." He referred to the big football pool operation uncovered at Michigan a few weeks ago.

MASCALI's demotion and the removal earlier this week of James P. Wilson, of 3183 Ara mingo as brigade comman der, were sharing conversational interest yesterday at Annapolis as the midshipmen prepared for today's trip to Philadelphia tor the Army-Navy football game at Municipal Stadium. Wilson, who was axed when two midshipmen under his command smuggled a 17-year-old Annapolis high school girl aboard the Academy campus, will make the trip to Philadelphia but Dupre said Mascali has been re- Continued on Page 7, Column 1 Engine Trouble Halts Berlin Trip NEW YORK, Nov. 28 A Pan American Airways plane, chartered by hotel magnate Con rad Hilton to take 60 passengers, including the wife and a daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren and many movie personalities and columnists, to Berlin, re turned to Idlewild Airport to night after it developed engine trouble off Yarmouth, N. this afternoon.

The DC-7-C plane landed safe ly on three engines after it bucked headwinds up to 70 miles an hour. It was en route to the spinster who worked there in she sank toward oblivion, and it was hours before she took a little mirror and held it in front of Irene Eldredge's lips and nostrils to be sure she was dead. "1 don't believe in mercy killings," the accused sister said. "But I do believe in mercy deaths." There was nothing for County Detective Francis J. Fitzpatrick to do but escort Anne Eldredge before Judge William R.

Toal. It would be up to Judge Toal, as a committing magistrate, to decide whether to hold her and, if so, how. It was not an altogether agreeable position for a jurist to be in. CHEERFUL APPEARANCE Anne Eldredge was wearing her light blue suit with a fluffy 'blue lace blouse. Her hair was whitish-gray under her black velvet hat.

As it happened, she was far more cheerful than Judge Toal, or her counsel, James A. Cochrane, or Assistant District Attorney John R. Gra ham. Or, for that matter, her old friend and former teacher, Miss Elizabeth Reinhardt, 81, of Lans downe, who had retained Coch rane. The defense attorney pleaded with Judge Toal for either dis missal or low bail.

Detective Fitzpatrick, obviously reluctant to damage a sweet little old lady with what he had to say, supplied the details of Miss Irene's death, Continued on Page 4, Column 3 which reached into its sub the alert, many motorists returning from Thanksgiving Day trips were caught without chains or snow tires. 2 DIE IN ACCIDENTS The rain here was expected to end early this morning le'aviog Philadelphia cloudy and colder for the Army Navy football game. Outside the city, two persons were killed in highway accidents. One, Albert H. Walker, 22, of Lancaster, was killed when his convertible left the highway and hit a tree just east of that city.

The other, Mrs. Charlotte Sweigart, of Duncannon, near Harrisburg, died when the auto-Continued on Page 11, Column 3 i i Complete AUCTION SALE listings for the week on Pages 28 and Heavy Rains, Winds (33) Walters, FB Average Weights: Line 20d (60) (77) (87) Backfield Team 188 202 Usry LE Albershart Lytle Hilliard Carpenter RG Chomicz RT RE Boyer Kanuch ARMY PLAYING SQUAD NAVY PLAYING SQUAD Rip City, Peril Drivers While escaping a snowfall urbs, Philadelphia yesterday was inundated by more than an inch of rain and whipped by winds of velocities up to 25 miles 12 Caldwell, 37 Bonko, 60 Lytle, 78 Greene, 14 Rudesill, 42 Dougalas, 61 Novogratz, 79 Bagdonas, 16 Gibson, 44 Kennedy, 64 Vanderbush, 80 Sykes, 18 Blanda, 46 Roesler, 65 Miller, 82 Everbach, 21 Anderson, 48 Waldrop, 66 Joulwan, 83 Waters, 22 Minor, 51 Rowe, 68 Jczior, 86 Morrison, 24 Dawkins, 55 Corby, 71 Brown, 87 Carpenter, 30 Eielson, 56 Oswandel, 77 Hilliard, 89 Usry, 33 Walters, 58 Buckner, an hour. The weather combination here was accountable for numerous minor traffic accidents and wind damage yesterday and last night. Early today, the Weather Bureau reported 1.34 inches of rain had fallen. SNOW IN SUBURBS Snow fell in Willow Grove, Doylestown, Norristown, Quaker-town and Pottstown.

But it was nothing like that dumped on much of the rest of the State by the storm that swept eastward across the mountains of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York and which almost paralyzed Pittsburgh by clogging streets in and around that city. The swift-moving storm struck from the southwest after a special snow warning had alerted counties In Western Pennsylvania, Western New York and the mountains of West Virginia and Maryland. Despite 64 McCormick, 65 Dattilo, 66 Gansz, 67 Falconer, 68 Michalski, 69 Steele, 71 Boyer, 73 Thomas, 74 O'Donnell, 75 Driscoll, 76 Erchul, 11 Maxflcld, 15 Llvengood, 16 Tranchini, 21 Prichard, 22 McConnell, 24 Zcmbrzuski, 27 Bellino, 30 TenBrook, 33 Wellborn, 38 Matalavage, 40 Correll, 44 Dagampat, 47 Pariseau, 48 Hardison, 49 Brandquist, 51 Moncilovich, 52 Visted, 54 Dunn, 56 O'Connor, 58 Reifsnyder, 60 Chomicz, 61 Solak, 62 Bannan, 63 Fritzinger, 1 opening of the Berlin-Hilton Hotel. it.