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Juet Week Until frtmtry MORNING TOL, Ln, HERALD HA6BR8TOWM, MARYLAND, MONDAY, APRIL 1951 174 MISSING IN CRASH AT Roads, Railroad Feel Effect Of Near-Record Rainy Spell Potomac River Halfway To Flood Stage At Williamsport, As Rain Since Wednesday Approaches Four-Inch Mark Damage soared yesterday from the longest, rain years around here. As the showers completed four full days and began the fifth, these were the main features: A rockslide that blocked the main line of the Western Maryland Railway from Hagerstown to Cumberland; Damage to roads maintained by the state, in the form of "potholes;" The Potomac River standing halfway to flood stage; And the earth soaked with rainfall that ranged between three and four inches since Wednesday, delaying still further spring planting and cultivating. Western Maryland trains were detoured by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks, after an estimated thousand tons of rock and earth covered the single track eight miles east of Cumberland. TaUpf Cpnafft One work a i was I JvllQIC from llagerstown and another from Cumberland, a the slide i i at 1:25 a. m.

Drive Into County A possible serious accident WHS Supporters Drive 113 Miles Through 14 Towns On Saturday harely avoided. One freight train hud passed the area of slide, minutes hpforp about cubic yards of rocks and dirt slid down a a Mayor Herman L. Mills carried Workmen labored i the; 1 1 hl through Washington dav to uncover tracks. They J-" 1 1 Saturday and promised were opened shortly before It to cut federal taxes nigh, vestordav. but job ot the voters send to the United rlearing away debris was expected States Senate.

Mills, with forty friends and sup- to continue through this morning. drov( ml eg thro(lgh The State Roads Commission I rain-soaked county towns in a had crews out over the weekend. I motorcade of automobiles accom- patching up the pot boles. These a by a sound truck, were by water a i Uncle a In full costume, help- for sevfial days In slight depressed puss out campaign cards. in thf rimd.

causing the top 1 Several prominent Hagerstown layer ot a to come up. None businessmen look part in tbe grass were reported serious enough to roots campaign, and joined in the block a lane of a i hand shaking and distribution The Stale Koadu Commission; literature, hart only slight i i i a over a loudspeaker in ing rock, a a few towns, Mills asked Repnb- bounced onto i a and had for him in the be removed. At Williiimsport. tlie Potomac i stood at 12 feet shove a about a late Mrs yesterday. That 1 2 fp bead of tbe a a Mil s-Kor-Me d.r flood stage.

hf-ther it a i i crested, or merely lf downpour of ed for a time Us rise, remained WR he seen. No real a a was toll motorcade unpol ers go out yesterday. a continuing I who ou a serious i 1P1(r i each town where a stop was made. Party Bosses SayDraltOI Truman Looms Political Leaden Think He's Only Candidate Able To Win Washington, April 27 (IP)-- Williams Bunding Permit Service Building Okayed At Potomac And Charles i a election next Monday. He said he wants to be sent to Washington so he can fight graft, cor- i and high taxes in the fed' showers could create Turn to Page 2, Column 2 (lean-Up Committee Leaders Named Here iifci- There was one humorous dent during the day.

In Smithsburg Police Commissioner M. E. Ellinger was in tbe midst of a whirlwind coverage of i bystanders and people sitting in cars. To each he gave I campaign card and a vote-for-Mills JaycMS.Appoint iLiS his mistake. He had accidentally SENATOR ROBERT A.

TAFT President's son Robert Alphonso Taft was born in Cincinnati, September 8, 1889 Spent part of youth In Philippines father was governor-general Attended fashionable eastern schools, finishing at Yale as family moved into White House Too light for school football, but golfer Golf, fishing now favorite sports Box score-reading baseball fan Plays all card games and chess Married Martha Wheaton Bowers, October IT, 1314 Four sons Favorite avocation: baby sitting with a of grandchildren Mystery book club member, likes 25-cent detective story books Casual dresser Wife's illness limits social activities outside home but they entertain Likes television, legitimate theater, concerts, classical music Studied piano as youth, remembers one tune, won't piay it except in privacy of home Likes to join barbershop quartet singing Good story teller in small group 6 feet, weighs 185. (CentralPress Association) Parking Violators At Five Auto Smashups And Coll Meeting For Tuesday yesterday that committees have hem set up and their chairmen Forming in the 1100 block given a campaign card and pep talk to a young lady in the car at Clyde Dyer, chairman of head of the Mills motorcade, rlean-up paint-up drive, announced I She was Mrs. A. Vernon Davis, wife of a Morning Herald reporter, of Oak Hill Avenue at 10 a. m.

Saturday, the campaign caravan visit- Jed Maugansville, Paramount, Lsit- nsp of the various committees on I rsMlrg old, Smithsburg, their projects in the campai n.j gn( Chew8vi i le i the Hagerstown Junior. A er lunr at Mayor's farm have been chosen. Supplies have received for Churches Not Tagged Warning Cards Placed On Windshields Of Cars Improperly Parked There were a few parking violation at some churches yesterday where special Sunday parking privileges had been revoked by the Public Works Board. But city police left special print, ed cards instead of parking tickets on the windshields of the Improperly parked can. The cards told of the recent action of the Public Works Board.

Here Within 3 Hours No One Reported Hurt Here, However, On Saturday Evening There were five automobile accidents reported in Haegrstown within about three hours Saturday night. No one was hurt, however. At Locust Street and North Avenue a car driven by Jack T. Shrader of 421 North Locust Street collided with an auto operated hy James Muhs, Hagerstown Route Four. At Potomac and Howard Streets First faint signs of a "Draft Truman" movement have turned up within the Democratic Party.

They are growing like a spring radish, out of the difficulty the "Fair Deal" wing of the party has encountered in nurturing any can didate for the nomination who stacks up as a strong contender against Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. The Truman draft movement could flower somewhat at a meeting here next month of Americans for Democratic Action. Truman will address the group at a May 17 banquet. Even with the handicap of threatened Southern Democratic revolt and tbe fire that is directed on scandals within hit adminislra ion.

the President is still regarded by many Democrats as the strongest candidate they could put up. He said, in announcing four weeks ago that he would not run again, that "1 shall not accept a renomination," adding: "1 do not feel that it. is my duty to spend another four years in the White House." Some of tbe Democrats who are talking in whispers about a draft movement are saying that it the President could be convinced it is bis duty to the party to run again he might change his mind. Only Truman knows what he would do if the Chicago convention shouh nominate him again despite whai he has said. No such pure draft is likely to take place.

But unless some candi date arises to challenge Kefauver who keeps winning primaries and collecting delegates, a strong movement could get under way ai tbe convention, particularly if Truman addresses tbe delegates. He has said he does not plan to attend Recent efforts to launch W. Averell the Mutual Security Administrator, as a major candidate haven't met. with much success outside New York. He has about as much opposition in the South as Truman himself and sucb leaders an Jacob Arvey, Illinois national conimitteeman, have been noticeably cool.

Toft Continues To Hold Lead (By Thr A.nc.-l.tnl A city permit lor a service build- Ing on the controversial "parking lot" site at North Potomac and Charles Streets was approved Saturday morning by City Engineer Claude Williams. After a complete study of the plans, City Engineer said he had no other choice but to issue the permit since For some time Sheets and Young hove sought approval for construction of a parking lot for use in connectloo with the A A super market across the street. However, the Mayor and Council took action to prevent a parking lot there and Judge Joseph D. Mish has upheld the legality of the city action. the city zoning law permits a serv-l Ever 8lnce the Peking lot plan ice building in that area.

The service building plans call for two sides, one reportedly for use as a beauty shop and other as a doctor's office. The permit was issued to Arthur W. Sheets. The property, both the apartment house in back and the big lot In front have been owned by Russell Young. Fire Engine Pumps In School's Cellar Lincoln Building At Halfway Requires Help From Firemen It took a fire engine to pump the water from the basement ot Lincoln School at Hallway yesterday.

Dozens of houses in the Halt- way area reported water in the cellar, as the rainfall began its fifth day. The Volunteer Fire Company of Halfway pumped out water which had reached a level of about ten Inches in the basement of the low- lying schoolhouse. Two pumps were then set to work inside the school, to attempt to keep the water level Irom rising again overnight. A spokesman for the school system that the water was coming up through the basement floor, rather than leaking in the walls. No other damage was reported in school buildings yesterday.

School maintenance officials checked at both the Huyetts and Maugansville buildings, where water trouble frequently develops, but found nothing alarming. However, any leaking roots would not he reported until today, since janitors do not make rounds of the buildings on Sundays. was stopped some months ago, big sections of cut down trees hare been permitted to lay around on the controversial lot. The service building just approved through the issuance of a building permit wll be constructed immediately in front of apartment house. The high front porch on the house will be torn down to make room for the new structure.

President Defends Steel Mill Seizure Truman Says Constitution Doesn't Call For Letting U. S. Down Washington. April 27 Pres dent Truman said today he feel sure" the XT. S.

Constitution doe not require him to "endanger ou national safety hy letting all the Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio heldjsteel mills shut down in this cril a slight margin today over Gen. time." Dwigfit D. Eisenhower in their test for delegates to the Republican Political Headaches Spread In Maryland Both Parties Having Troubles As Primary Ona Week Away (By The Political headaches spread with Impartial contagion over the weekend in Maryland to both the proudly trumpeting Republican elephant and the high kicking Democratic donkey.

Trigger-happy politicians possibly a little nervous with the May 5 primaries in sight, were announcing the names of those who endorsed them--and in at least two cases the announcements boomeranged. The headquarters of Democratic Senate Candidate George P. Mahoney revealed with appropriate fanfare tbat it the Democratic organization Dorchester County in its camp. A boomerang sped hack to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore In the form of a rejoinder from Chairman P. Watson Webb of Dorchester County's State Central Committee.

"Wholly without truth," snapped Webb from Cambridge. Webb said that all six members long ago endorsed Mahoney's Hobson rescue operation were ponent, Rep. Lmisdnle G. Sass- hampered by the dark, and by foul Destroyer Struck By USSWasp Skipper Bettered Gone Down With In Mid AHantk Washington, April 27 USS Hobwo, ed collided with tbe fjuaott Carrier Wasp in mid-Atlintta ast night, and the Navy Mid 174 men arc missing. Atlantic Fleet Headqnrt- erg in Norfolk, Va, said tt men were rescued.

Rear Adm. William V. O'Regan, Mine Torce Commander at Charlea- on, S. said 14 officers and 221 men were aboard the ship. The Hobson's skipper, Lt.

Ctndr. w. J. Tierney of Philadelphia waa not on the first list of survivors, and it was feared he might hare gone down with his ship. In Washington, a spokesman at Vavy headquarters said he did not want to say flatly that all the met were lost, but added "That be the situation now." said le had no Information at 8 p.

DL, EST, that rescue operations were till going on, however. Earlier in the afternoon Nary headquarters said rescue operation were still on. That Was nearly a full day after the mid ocean amasbup in the wind-lashed ness. The Wasp's bow was damaged ht the collision. The accident was one of greatest non-combat disasters the Navy suffered in recent times.

On Feb. 18, 1942, the D. S. Truxton, a destroyer, and the Pot lux, a cargo ship, were lost in a storm off Newfoundland with M4 dead. On April 19, 218 lives were lost when the Destroyer Ingraham was involved hi an Atlantic slon.

Chamber of Commerce will sponsor next month. A meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, April 29. at 7:311 p. m. AH committee chairmen have been urged to attend this organizational meeting.

Named as committee heads are: Pouter distribution, Roland He.hh; advertising-publicity, Tom Bradford; window display, Bill Stine; commercial buildings, Bernard Kerner; government and public, buildings. Bill Hamilton; health and fire prevention, Ray Beard; residential, Howard Kaylor; parks and play, grounds, Donald Young; scrap and salvage, Claude Merkel; aviation, Robert Willis; civic organization participation, Leo Cheney; transportation and inipection day, Roland Hebb, Clyde Dyer; schools and utiident participation, Ralph Goldman. Two Hurt When Autos Collide Two people were hurt when two ears collided four miles east of Hagerstowa on Route early last light. Mrs. M.

L. Kepner and Sarah Mar Frldlnger of Hagerstown Route Three takea to the Bounty hoapltal. They ware passengers la a car drlrea ky hatband. ether auto waa operated by mai frosa ratrfleH. Ohio.

Tuapii DavJ rhil the motorcade then continued on through Boonsboro, Ke.edysvllle, Sharpsburg. Williamsport, Clear Spring, Hancock and Big Pool. Park W. T. Loy drove at the head of the motorcade and, by using a whittle, taw that the eam- paigners were rounded up at end of stop in plenty of time to maintain a 10 a.

m. to 6 p. m. schedule. Gun" Battle In Public Square There was a gun battle In Public Square at the bun stop Saturday night and a lot of people complained to city police.

The guns, however, were of the water pistol variety. Police said youngsters loaded the guns with water from the public drinking fountain. People waiting for buses were often caught in the "cross fire." As it they weren't wet enough from the down pour of rain. Girl Says She Was Molested A IS year old girl reported to city police that she was molested near her home la the 100 block of South Prospect Street Saturday oa the way from work. 8he aald a man wearing a bright plaM sport shirt grabbed her ky arm, hat that raa whea her Mason of Big Pool collided with In the past the board had per- an ftutn driven hy Clarence Lee milled members of certain local churches to park in restricted parking areas on downtown streets during the hours of Sunday serv- an auto driven hy Virgil Lee Ever- sole of Hagerstown Route Five.

i On South Potomac near Baltl- Presidential Nominating Fifty-nine GOP delegates were chosen in district and state conven- ions on Saturday, and while some of them were in dispute, an Associated Press tabulation credited 33 of them to Tail and 21 to Eisenhower. The AP natkina'i tabulation gave Tflft 266 delegate votes and the The White House made public a letter outlining the President's views on the steel seizure. It was written to C. Margery a a operator at Washington Crossing, who had written Truman regarding the controversial seizure action. In his reply to Jonea--who had posed a series of questions to the President regarding the steel dis puate--Truman said: Turn To 2, Column 1 ices.

However, with requests for more Ru to driven by William I WoitreSS ScOfCJty similar privileges from members of many other local ehurches, the board decided to revoke all special privileges. The action was recommended by Lt. Harold Kiser of the city police force. Kiser said the parking privileges were leading up to a dangerous situation whereby emergency vehicles such as ambulances and fire trucks might not be able to move through the neighborhood in case of a disaster. St.

Martin of Hageratown Three collided with an auto driven; by Robert John Stalger. In another accident in that section a car driven by William Harbaugh of Maugansville collided with a machine driven by Charles A. Knott of Waynesboro. At South Potomac Street and Wilson Boulevard a car driven by Harry Ross Shaw of 817 Maryland Avenue crashed into a traffic signal light pole. Stalin's Annual Take $250,000 Rome, April 17 Roman news agency figured today that Prime' Minister Stalin's annual take is about a million rubles, or (350,000 at what the Russians say the ruble is worth.

The agency, Italia--which often reflects Italian Foreign Office thinking--calculated his biggest Income, about (00,000 rubles a rear, came front his writings. Other Items mentioned Included 5.000 a month salary president of the council of ministers, or prime minister; three villas and four private automobiles which cost the taxpayers about 100,000 rubles annually; plus "purchase tickets" ea- tltllag to 10 per cent discount on what he The average Russian worker's la abeat rabies a Flaming Jet Hits Bank; Kills Three St. Peter, Kent, England, April 27 A flaming American Thun- derjet fighter hurtled into a bank building on the main street today, killing the pilot an an elderly con- pie and injuring several others. The blast of flame that brought down the building around the burning plane belched Into an adjoin, ing home and critically burned a housewife cooking her Sunday dln- lar. The dead couple were in their flat above the hank's offices.

The explosion collapsed the structure like a direct bomb-hit. The pilot, whoae body was flung out of the wracked building Into a backyard, was Identified as Capt. Clifford Froggarty, The Air Force withheld alt address ta the 8.S. Restaurants Cut Down On Hours Of Business You'll have to regulate your ap petite pretty soon, if you like to eat in restaurants and the supply of waitresses doesn't Increase. The shortage of waitresses and kitchen help le apparently worse around here than at any time since the boom days of World War Two.

A checkup yesterday showed that at least three eating establishments here hare already cut down on tbe number of hours they operate each week. One of them on tbe edge ot town curtailed its schedule ot hours some weeks ago. Another in the downtown section is beginning a six-day- weekly schedule. The third, also In the downtown section, has maintained a seven-day schedule but Is iloslng tor several more hours each day. "You Junt caa't keep waitresses," one operator aald.

"One week you isve a full staff and the next week halt of them hare o.ult their jobs." The ending of the school term hi another six weeks Isn't expected to provide much permanant relief, either, "By the time we net aoma high school (Iris trained this sum- Bar, we'll have a let ef MW cies on the staff," one restaurant reported. The trouble now is tbe same ai It was during the war years, eating place operators indicated. They can't afford tc pay salaries to waitresses that compare with those which girls can earn in other lines of work. In fact, paid food producers today are higher than they were dnring the war, for many staples of restaurant fare, yet it Isn't feasible to keep increasing the price to tbe customers. Restaurant operators found that out when a move was started to raise the price of a cup of coffee.

Working hours are also a problem. Sunday Is a busy day for restaurants, and many eating places here depend on their night-time buslneaa to a large extent. That means many waitresses can't bare normal week-day, workiBg ours. It lent only waitresses that are causing restaurant operators to worry. One ot Hageratown's leading Mtabllshraanta la having more dlffl- calty fladlag qualified waltreeeee at tke laomeau KUchaa help at all fc am cer, but that one member, W.

B. Andrews, Cambridge barber, has switched to Mahoney. The Mahoney endorsement reportedly came from Mayor Julian L. Tuhman of Cambridge and Emerson C. Harrington, Cambridge attorney.

Webb's rebuttal ing, it appeared that Mahone: would have the backing of the fac tion headed by Harrington. Mahoney supporters and Sasscer backers are both predicting vie tory Dorchester County, and in dicatious are that which ever side is correct, the margin won't be too arge. The Republican endorsement argument, a little more clear-cut, came when Rep. J. Glenn Beall, who aspires to the Senate, repudi ted a report that he was behind George M.

Moors, candidate for Congress from the Sixth District. Beall announced that he had nothing to do with postcards carrying his endorsement of Moore, a Silver Spring lawysr. Beall charged that the postcards had been mailed to Republican voters in Allegan; County. "I want to make It clear that the cards were mailed without my knowledge and without approval or authorization hy me or my political agent." Beall said. Other weekend political doings: Mayor Herman L.

Mills of Hagerstown toured his home county making brief speeches from a sound truck. His theme: Cut taxes. Mills is a Republican candidate to nomination to the Senate. Frederick County Democrats nounced that more than 500 per sons will hear Ban. Kefaure In Frederick tonight when speaks before a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner crowd.

The Democra! ic Presidential candidate la sched uled to talk before a crowd about 1,000 in Baltimore unde sponsorship of the Junior Chambe of Commerce before moving on to Frederick. Beall swung Into Southern Maryland with Sunday appearances tat St. Mary's County. His thane I've been a food Congreesmaa anc would make a good Senator. LOCAL ARRIVE Two local young members of the V.

8, Martae Coras, arrived at Ban Diego, oa Smear aboard the treaeport Oea. WttMam Welgel. They hare setrlag oveneai. The local are: CkarUa M. H.F.B.

i. Ha- gerstowa. CpL WIINaa R. Ulster, JIM Careett weather. A Navy dispatch reported that at 2 a.

m. (EST) winds were "IS knots southwest, sea rough and confused." That weather report came nearly five hours after the crash. The Wasp suffered a slashing rip for 75 feet along her bow plates, the Navy reported. She was headed for New York at reduced speed- ID knots. There were no casualtiea rported aboard the big carrier.

Fleet headquarters spotted the scene of the collision as 1,209 miles due east of Boston and 700 from the Azores. The time of the crash was glren as 1:26 a. m. Sunday Greenwich Time, which would be nj. Saturday EST.

The vessels were part of a task Turn to Page 2, Column I Park Loy Suffers Head Lacerations City Personnel Monofdf Has Cut Requiring Fhrt Stitches Park W. T. Lor, IB East Avenue, bumped his head on cellar steps yesterday afternoon. He was treated in tht emergency room where stitches were taken to dose a laceration behind Ma right ear. Mr.

Loy is city personnel director. Mrs. Mildred Carl, Potomac Avenue, fell on a floor fractured her left wrist, admitted to the hospital. Joha Henry Smith, 11, Rente 1, tell afl a porch and fractured Ma lower left arm. He waa admitted.

Clyde Grafton Moats, 11 Bonthe, 419 Carolton Avenae, waa attti when pan of a celling en kle left hand. He was almltted. W. Oearhart, 75t Spruce Street, Ml andtfhre stitches wan taken ki ttf lower lip. Marvin Pan! Bummers, Itt 70S Wast WaahlBfton Street, att the corner month Saturday Three were Cakea.

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