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THE WEATHER Forecast oy V. S. Weather Bureau Philadelphia and vicinity: Fair with moderate temperature today and tomorrow. Rather cool again tonight. Moderate westerly Winds today.

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w- a a m. Police Official Is Questioned Sen, Bridges Termed Dupe In Tax Action Five Drowned in Mine 438 Ft. Underground as Blast Unleashes Flood Two Escape Shaft Near Pottsville Court Bars Acquittal Move As Sutton Defense Opens By RALPH CROPPER Inquirer Staff Reporter LONG ISLAND CITY, N. March 27. The defense opened its kill Bj llJA'fky I I 1 111 114 I I 0 I case in the robbery trial of William F.

Sutton and Thomas Kling here today amid strong indications that Sutton would take the stand as his own principal witness tomorrow. Motions by George W. Herz, counsel for Sutton, and John F. X. Sheridan, Kling's attorney, to dismiss the indictments for lack of evidence were summarily overruled by Judge Peter T.

Farrell, hearing the case in Queens County Court. The motions were made a Holding aloft a case containing the key to the rebuilt White House, President Truman smiles yesterday after returning from a Florida vacation td move back into the Executive Mansion. In the background are Mrs. Truman and two members of the White House staff. The Trumans lived in Blair House more than three jrears.

AP Wirephoto) Warren Won't Compete With Stassen for Vote Of Eisenhower Group Prober Tells Him He Was Tricked; GOP Chief Noncommittal Illustrated on Page 3 WASHINGTON, March 27 (AP). The chairman of a House investigating committee told Senator Styles Bridges -today that he had let his friends take "deliberate advan tage" of him when he interceded in a $7,000,000 tax case. Bridges, Republican floor leader in the Senate, appeared before the committee at his own request to testify that his only interest in the case was "to encourage quick and proper action toy the Government. GRUNEWALD INVOLVED The investigators have developed evidence that Henry W. (The Dutch man) Grunewald, Washington wire puller, and William Power Maloney, a New York lawyer formerly with the Justice Department, also were working behind the scenes on the case in 1949.

It involved a huge jeopardy tax as sessment against Hyman Harvey Klein, Baltimore whisky dealer. "In my opinion, they have taken deliberate advantage of you," said Representative Cecil R. King referring to Grunewald and Maloney. King heads a House Ways and Means subcommittee which has been digging into a long series of tax scandals. TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF' "You were probably selected to be taken advantage of because of youri (then) distinguished position asj chairman of the Senate Appropria-i tions Committee." King went on to say "all of usj have had tricks played on us," and fhot if RriHcroc HqH l-nnu nil Hp i facts in tricky case" he would not have become nivolved.

Bridges listened to these remarks sitting upright with an expressionless face. Afterwards, asked by reporters if the proceedings would affect his friendship with Grunewald and Maloney, Bridges said: "I am not going to condemn or not condemn them. Another day is coming." But he also told newsmen that he would not have interceded in the Klein case if he had known then what he knew now. AT INQUIRY 2 HOURS Bridges spent about two hours before the House investigators. He testified that his attention was called to the case by Maloney, and that he Continued on Page 4, Column 5 New Atom Tests Set for Nevada LAS VEGAS, March 27 CAP).

The Atomic Energy Commission indicated today it would start a new series of nuclear detonations at the Nevada test site next week. The AEC issued a warning to all ranchers, miners and other persons to vacate the test grounds, about 75 miles northwest of here, by the end of this week. It also warned all aircraft to stay out of the air above the Yucca and Frencnman Flats area, scene of a dozen atomic blasts during 1951. Tne tests wm continue lor an indefinite period, it was stated. The AEC said the Civil Aeronau tics Administration and the Air Force were cooperating to clear the area for the blasts.

Helicopters and planes started to patrol the area this afternoon. Best indications are the spring series will continue intermittently throughout April. It will not con flict in any way with previously an nounced plans for a test series at Eniwetok in the Pacific, it was re liably learned. By JOHN C. O'BRIEN Inquirer Staff Reporter MILWAUKEE, March 27.

Gov. Earl Warren, of Califor he would not bid against Harold nia, made it clear here today that E. Stassen for Eisenhower support 30 delegates to the Republican National Convention. Stassen offered earlier this week to deliver to Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower one-half of any delegates he might get in the Wiscon Court Upholds Upset of Almeida Death Sentence The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled yesterday that Federal Judge George A. Welsh was right a year ago when he set aside the death sentence on David Al meida, convicted of killing a policeman. The ruling was made in an opinion written by Judge John Biggs, and subscribed to by Judges Albert B.

Maris and Herbert F. Goodrich. MAY BE TRIED AGAIN Its effect, however, was that Almeida, now a Federal prisoner, may be tried again for the death of Patrolman Cecil Ingling during a Philadelphia chain store holdup five years ago. The appellate court said WTelsh's action declaring Almeida's death sentence null and void "would not keep Almeida from being tried again, for he cannot successfully plead double jeopardy." The legal principle of double jeopardy holds substantially that once a man is acquitted he cannot be tried again for the same crime. In ruling against Almeida's execution.

Welsh held that Almeida, bank robber and holdup man, had been deprived of his constitutional right of "due process of law" when the State failed to introduce certain evidence about bullets found at the scene where Ingling was killed. RIGHT TO ALL EVIDENCE The appeals court held that while Almeida was undoubtedly guilty, his jury had the right to hear all of the evidence before it decided whether to sentence him to death or life imprisonment. James F. Smith, a companion of Almeida in the holdup, received life imprisonment. Edward Hough, who said Almeida killed the policeman, received a death sentence.

The State Board of Pardons later recommended commutation to life. The "due process" problem on which the appeals court acted was raised originally by Michael von Moschzisker, court-appointed attorney for Almeida. Welsh got the case after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U. S. Supreme Court refused to review the case.

The State Continued on Page 13, Column 4 'Deal' on Driscoll Denied by Dewey ALBANY, N. March 27 (INS). A spokesman for Gov. Thomas E. Dewey described as "nonsense" a report that Gov.

Alfred E. Driscoll of New Jersey was selected as the Vice Presidential candidate at a secret meeting last year among Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dewey and Senator James Duff James C. Hagerty, secretary to Dewey, said "No such meeting ever took place." On 'Mansion" Driscoll Accused By Gibbons of Failing To List J.

Property Illustrated on Page 2 Inspector John F. Driscoll, a veteran of 25 years of police service, was called on the carpet yesterday by Commissioner of Police Thomas J. Gibbons and accused of failing to list a "$40,000 mansion" in Margate, N. among his assets. Driscoll denied the charge vehemently, insisting he had shown the deed to the property which he called a six-room frame house rather than a "mansion" to Raymond A.

Speiser and Victor H. Blanc, assistant district attorneys who conducted an investigation of the police department by the Special March, 1951, Grand Jury. "If either Speiser or Blanc says I did not show them the deed, I will hand my resignation to Gibbons tomorrow," Driscoll told The Inquirer last night. "And remember, if I resigned I would lose my pension. I'm only 47 years old." SPEISER SAW DEED Speiser confirmed Driscoll's statement that he had seen the deed.

"I cannot make any comment about what went on before the grand jury." Speiser said, "but I will state that Inspector Driscoll came to my office and voluntarily snowea me tne settlement sheet, the deed photo graphs and everything else about tne Mareate property. Earlier. Gibbons had made it clear that Driscoll had said he made a full report on the Margate house to the grand' jury. "I cave him the benefit of the rinnht. temrjorarilv and will make mv own investigation," the police commissioner declared.

"If he listed it. the matter will be considered further. If he hasn't listed it, I will take appropriate action. 7 OTHERS APPEAR The stormy scene came shortly after Driscoll and seven other police officers had appeared before a special trial board considering charges raised by testimony before the grand jury which investigated alleged links between police and gambling racketeers. Driscoll was before the trial board for only about three minutes.

He was asked whether he had been interviewed for the grand jury and whether he had listed for the panel all of his possessions. He answered "yes" to both questions and was not questioned further. At 3:30 P. however, Driscoll was abruptly summoned to Gibbons' office. He was closeted with the police commissioner for nearly 45 minutes in what was described as a "hot and heavy" session.

Gibbons then conferred briefly with City Managing Director Robert K. Sawyer and Driscoll left. PROPERTY IN MARGATE In a statement, Gibbons then gave the first indication of what the angry conference had been about. He said that according to documents of the proceedings before the grand jury which had been turned over to him by District Attorney Richard Continued on Page 2, Column 2 Donnelly Slated For Post in Reich BONN, Germany, March 27 (AP) Walter J. Donnelly, 55, U.

S. High Commissioner for Austria, is ex pected to become America's first post-war Ambassador to Germany, probably during July, a high American official said today. Donnelly would succeed High Commissioner John J. McCloy as the top American diplomatic official in Germany after the Alued-Ger man peace contract is signed. A diplomat for 11 years, Donnelly was Ambassador to Venezuela before taking the Vienna job.

ever a company could be called 1,092,000 of whom 96 percent are individuals. It has assets greater than those of any company in the world $12,774, 215,960. It sold more securities at one time than any corporation had done previously. It has more em ployes than any firm anywhere- some 650,000. It was exempted from the anti trust provisions of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, yet it is no monopoly For has some 6000 independ ent telephone companies competing with it 157 of them in Pennsylvania alone.

And it is in an industry which is unique a "business of decreasing returns," one where expenditures go up and earnings down in expansion Special to The Inquirer POTTSVILLE, March 27. A deluge of water released by an exploding dynamite charge to night drowned five miners 438 feet below the surface in an in- six miles west ot nere. iwo oi their fellow workers fled to safety. The dead: Dennis Onushco, 36, of Forestville. Francis and Chester Lipenski, brothers, of Seltzer City.

Martin Brazenec, of Miner sville. Joseph Soditus, of New Miners-ville, a brother-in-law of the Li-penskis. Walter Yarish, of Pottsville, and Charles Mucklow, of Dowdentown, escaped the onrushing waters from an adjoining abandoned mine by running more than 400 feet to safety in the main slope. They were 100 feet from their companions when the blast occurred. GANGWAY HACKED The two who saved themselves said they had been digging in the mine.

which had been operated for the last two weeks by Charles Martin and Ray Cano. At the 438-foot level they i a i 3 nnn iiao iiaLK-eu a gangway ouu icci iulu the earth. About 8:45 o'clock the men prepared to leave the mine. A dynamite charge was prepared and electric wires were strung almost 100 feet along the tunnel, they said. Mucklow and Yarish had reached the main slope just above the side tunnel when they heard the dynamite blast and then the roar of cascading water.

"We just ran for our lives," said Yarish afterward. SHAFT FLOODED The two men and others working above the surface later re-entered the mine to find that water had inundated the shaft to within 200 feet of the mouth. The dynamite blast apparently broke the wall of the tunnel which had been restraining hundreds of tons of water in an adjoining abandoned mine. Mine inspectors said there was little hope that the men trapped in the mine could have survived since there was no chambers where they could have escaped the rushing waters. PUMPS COVERED BY WATER They reported that two electric pumps at the mine were both covered with water.

One was under 40 feet of water and the other under 200 feet. Pumps were brought to the scene from the Medico Pittston, but inspectors said the water probably could not be pumped out to the point where the bodies could be recovered before two days. At the first word of the tragedy emergency electric lights were rushed to the shaft to aid in any possible rescue operations. Hundreds of residents of nearby communities drove or walked to the mine. Among the first to arrive were members of the families of the drowned miners.

FATHER OF 4 CHILDREN Onushco, married and the father of four children, had attended the funeral of his father, John, just two days ago. Brazenec was married and had two children. Chester Lipenski also was married. Directing the pumping operations were four State mine inspectors, Harvey Hilbert. Timothy Ryan, John Clements and Gordon Smith.

The mine is 6ne of hundreds which once were abandoned, but are now Continued on Page 2, Column 5 humane manner, let them get out of the business." Revenue Commissioner George S. Forde said tax delinquencies were sometimes permitted to accumulate in previous administrations by collectors or city solicitors who had power to "exercise discretion. LOST AND FOUND LOST Lady's fold Longlnes writ watch. bet. 13th ib Sansom S.

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lawn. Drexel Hill vie. Reward. Clear brock 9-4543. Other Lost and Found Page 53 few moments after the State rested at 3:05 P.

M. Herz pre sented his first witness at 3:28 P. M. DEFENSE WINS DELAY A few minutes later, Sutton's court-appointed attorney asked and received an adjournment until tomorrow on the plea that he had not known when the prosecution would close its case and so was unprepared to present his other witnesses. "I am reasonably sure that my client will testify," Herz told the court, "and I feel reasonably sure that we will finish with him in a dy." He emphasized that Sutton had left the decision as to his testifying in his attorney's hands.

The appearance of the first defense witness lent strength to the expectation that Sutton and Kling would use mistaken identity as their chief argument. The two, charged with the $64,000 robbery of the Sunnyside branch of the Manufacturers Trust Co. here on March 9 1950, have maintained they knew nothmg of the holdup and had no connection with it. ATTACKS MEMORY The witness was Raymond C. Hit- zelJ a lawyer, of Long Island City He testified that after being appoint ed by the court with Herz and James McArdle as counsel for Sutton, ne went to the bank in Sunnyside last Feb.

29 and talked with Robert Hon man, the bank manager, about the robbery. Herz' questioning was cieariy ae siened to show that Hoffman's pow ers of observation and memory for faces were both very poor. For the jury's benefit he recalled that Hoff man, as a prosecution witness yes terday, identified McArdle, rather than Hitzel, as the man who visited the bank with Herz on the day in Continued on Page 13, Column 5 2 Gunmen Get $7200 in Holdup Illustrated on Page 3 Two gunmen strolled calmly into the offices of an ink manufacturing plant at 464 N. 5th st. yesterday, held up 10 men and women, scooped up pay envelopes containing $7200 and escaped all in less than five minutes.

The thieves worked so swiftly and quietly that executives ana meir secretaries in offices next to the room where the holdup took place remained completely unaware oi tne daring raid until it was all over. Cash for the weekly payroll of 103 officers and employes had been delivered to the second-floor offices of the Crescent Ink and Color Co. by bank messengers at 12:30 P. M. ENVELOPES ARE FILLED In accordance with their custom, bookkeepers and clerks inserted trje proper amounts in the individual envelopes, which were to be distrio- uted, as usual, at 4 P.

M. The bandits evidently were com pletely familiar with the office payroll routine. They entered the main door of the plant, at 5th st. near Hamilton, at 3:10 P. M.

The first Continued on Page 25, Column 2 3u Qtfjr 3wprirrrr FRIPAY. MARCH 28. 1952 Departments and Features Amusements 40 Bridge 39 Business and Port in Storm 39 Puzzles 16, 17 Radio 19 Financial 50, 51, 52 Real Estate 38, 39 Shipping 50 Sports 45 to 50 Television 18 Women's News 31 to 39 Comics 16, 17 Death Notices 53 Editorials 42 Feature Page 43 Obituaries 26 Picture Page 3 "How to Live," 20th of 23 articles. Page 28. "Message for Lent," Page 15.

Whitney Bolton Page 43 Page 15 Page 42 Page 31 Page 50 Page 43 Page 43 Page 43 Page 18 Page 43 Page 43 Page 31 Page 42 Page 43 Page 45 Page 42 Page 43 Pate 46 Frank Brookhouser John M. Cummmgs Judy Jennings Let's Take Pictures Walter Lippmann Leonard Lyons Tom O'Reilly Merrill Panitt Louella O. Parsons Ivan H. Peterman Sylvia Porter Portraits Victor Riesel Red Smith George E. Sokolsky Mark Sullivan John Webster his campaign for Wisconsin's sin primary election next Tues- day.

Warren said today he expected that delegates elected in his name would vote for him in the conven tion. "This is my own candidacy." he added. "I won't run on someone else's name. I have no authorization to use Eisenhower's name and I won't do it." MOVE TO MILWAUKEE As the spirited scramble moved into its closing phase, the chief Republican contestants began to converge on Milwaukee for whirlwind wind-ups of their speaking tours. Warren moved into Milwaukee to day, with Mrs.

Warren and two of his daughters, Dorothy and Nina, for a speech before a student group. Earlier in the day, Senator Robert Continued on Page 2, Column 7 3 SOP Hopefuls Share Hotel Room MILWAUKEE, March 27 (AP). Suite 6D at the Pfister Hotel had a run on Republican Presidential aspirants today. And it isn't even the Presidential Suite. Harold E.

Stassen had the room overnight and checked out this morning. Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, moved in at noon for a nap. This afternoon Gov. Earl Warren, of California, took it over for the weekend.

The Presidential Suite, the hotel explained, had been rented by two non-political groups for conferences, Giants of Industry Trumans Move Into Remodeled White House WASHINGTON, March 27 (AP). President Truman, still silent on politics, returned from a three-week Florida vacation tonight and settled down in the gleaming "new" White House for the first time. The Trumans vacated the White House in November, 1948, and moved across the street to Blair House. In the interim, the executive mansion has been rebuilt and remodeled at a cost of $5,671,000. Smiling and tanned, Mr.

Truman arrived at National Airport aboard his plane, the Independence, at P. M. "I never felt better in my life," he said. Then, spotting Mrs. Truman, he hurried to her side and gave her a hug with a repeat performance at the request of photographers.

"I guess she won't mind, he said. The President said he was very happy to be back in the White House. The beautiful part of it was, he said, that he didn't have to take any part in the moving. The President had nothmg to say about published reports (1) that he has asked Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to become the Administration's candidate for President, and (2) that Stevenson rejected the invitation.

The President was greeted by Mrs. Truman, several cabinet members. and Chairman Frank McKinney of the Democratic National Committee, whose "impressions" about the President's political intentions had been sharply repudiated by Mr, Truman at the winter White House at Key West, Fla. Jess Larson, head of the General Services Administration, stepped from a small welcoming crowd and smilingly told the President: "If you want to do this job over again in a couple of years, I'll be glad to supervise it for you." Without blinking at the suggestion that he still might be in the White House several years hence, Mr. Truman replied: "Thank you, Jess, but I hope it will never have to be done over again." Bomb for Adenauer Kills Injures 3 MUNICH, Germany, March 27 (UP).

A bomb mailed to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and intercepted by postal employes killed one police official and injured three others tonight when it exploded while they were examining it. The attempt to assassinate Adenauer was headed off in the Munich post office. Employes suspicious of the looks of the package turned it over to police. They took it to the basement of their headquarters. Karl Reichert, 46, a police tiomb expert, was trying to make it harmless when it went off.

He was injured critically and died later in a Munich hospital. Headline Hopping By Ollie Crawford NATION now getting more milk from fewer cows, Government says. Shows what farmers can do when they all pull together. The dairy cattle industry will soon be able to prove that one head is better than two. The dairy farmer is now getting less moo and more moola.

The guy with the 10-gallon hat has developed a 20-gallon cow. The new cows are getting more out of corn than Red Skelton. They do everything but sing: "Pail hands I love." It's no wonder the dairymen are making: money hand over fist. They'll do even better if they ever hire retired tax collectors. Those boys are good enough milkers to get 10 gallons out of a rubber glove.

They know that a dairy farmer isn't the sort of fellow who takes the bull by the horns. The dairyman is one fellow who can always come to grips with his problems. There are still two kinds of dairy farmer. One of them waters his stock before milking. Police Crack Down On Reds in Japan TOKYO, March 28 (Friday) (AP).

Police throughout Japan made hard-hitting, coordinated raids on the Japanese Communist Party today. While the exact number of those arrested was not announced, Kyodo News Agency estimated the number at about 1000, while the newspaper Yomiuri said there were 2000. Simultaneously, the Japanese Gov ernment suspended the Communist publication. Peace and Independence. It was the successor to the official Communist Red Flag, which previously had been closed down.

Shot Breaks Glass, Perils 2 in Trolley A man and his wife riding on a Route 7 trolley escaped injury last night when a pane of glass was shattered by a pellet fired from an air rifle at 22d and Reed sts. Leon Magee, of 5916 Carpenter a fireman attached to Insurance Patrol No. 3, and his wife, Anna, were sitting in the back of the trolley, alongside the pane that was broken. They were showered with fragments of glass but neither was cut. Magee reported the incident to police.

Pytko Says Old Regimes 'Subsidized' City Slums Walter S. Pytko, Commissioner of Licenses and Inspections, declared yesterday that the city had been "subsidizing" slums. Fight Begun to Uphold Purchase of Wire Firm Special to The Inquirer SCRANTON, March 27. Robert T. McCracken, Philadelphia attorney, today opened a court fight to prevent the purchase of the Williamsport Wire Rope Co.

by the Bethlehem Steel Co. from being A Biggest Boss With 650,000 Workers Sixth of a Series By E. S. Banks and Nicholas P. Gregory Countless fire and disease traps are crowded with tenants pay- THE American Telephone Telegraph Co.

is the free enterprise system's answer to the agitation for public ownership and na ing rentals far beyond their values, he said, because the city had neither enforced the sani tation and fire laws, nor pushed the collection of delinquent taxes. A partial check "made by the tax collection department for Pytko showed a large percentage of tenement and apartment houses as much as 16 years delinquent in real estate and water taxes. "If these landlords had to pay up these back taxes, many of them would let the properties go by default because it would amount to too much money Pytko said. In a campaign to "take the city out of the business of subsidizing slums," Pytko has given his inspectors instructions to "get tough." "We are accepting no excuses for lack of heating, sanitary facilities and fire escapes," he said. If landlords find that it doesn't pay them to run their properties in legal and set aside.

The voiding of the purchase, for $3,300,000 in 1937, of a company then in receivership but now rated as worth $50,000,000, was recommended last January by Special Master Albert H. Aston, of Wilkes-Barre, after six years of hearings. Aston charged that Bethlehem, former Federal Judge Albert W. Johnson, and others "perpetrated a fraud" in the sale of the wire rope company. Johnson was the judge who approved the sale.

Today's hearing here, before Federal Judge Albert L. Watson, was held on the steel company's objections to the special master's recommendations. Watson reserved decision. Tne special master originally was appointed to investigate the sale on petition of some stockholders and former stockholders of the wire rope company. McCracken asserted the special Continued on Page 53, Column 1 tionalization of industry.

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M. Breakfast Club 6:30 P. Ml Singin Sam 7:15 P. M. Corcoran Speaking 10:00 P.

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