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ESTABMSHED 1869 NO. 56 Strike Called for 2 P. Walkout, by 5,000 in Operating Unions May Idle 25,000 Workers ST. LOUIS, Sept. 6 (ff)--Operating employes of the Missouri Pacific Railroad have called a strike for 2 p.m.

Friday. The announcement was made yesterday by P. J. Neff, who termed it "one of the most un- justiable strikes in American railroad history." Neff is the line's chief executive officer. About 5.000 workers will walk out.

But Neff estimated that between 15.000 and 25,000 employes will be out of work as a result, Nef said the oft-threatened strike has been called because the railroad will not agree terms dictated by four service brotherhoods for settlement of claims which originated during the recent war. Working: Rules 3 "These claims princioally concerned "which employes should have been used for ser- Embargo Ordered FORT WORTH, Sept. 6 embargo on Missouri Pacific lines freight traf- fice. with exceptions in intra- Texas service, is scheduled to take effect at 12:01 a.m. (CST) tomorrow.

Operating employes have threatened a strike. A similar embargo on passenger, mail, baggage and express service is set for 12:01 a.m. Friday. vices during this period and, in a general way. involve the interpretations of the working between the the carrier and its employes.

Neff said. "The railway labor act pro- bunals provided for in this settlement of such disputes but the have refused to submit their claims to the tri- bunaln provided for in this act." Suspension of service on the Missouri Pacific wiil hit hard at many industries and territories served by the line in 11 states. Voted Last December The strike -will force discotin- uance of through service the railroad's southern lines.the International Great Northern and the Gulf Coast Lines. A strike vote was taken last December 15 and a was scheduled for early in July. This was averted, "however, when President Truman appointed an emergency board to investigate the case.

Tthe board made a report of findings in August. Neff charged that the four brotherhoods involved refused to follow the board's recommendations. The could reach no ageement on many of the grievances- proposed submission od the differences to the national railroad adjustment board. Union Leaders Balked Union leaders balked at this procedure, saying that the adjustment board in Chicago was so swamped by cases that it would require about five years to obtain a settlement. R.

E. Davidson, a spokesman for the brotherhoods, denied today that union leaders attempted to dictate terms. He said the brotherhoods offered Colorado yearlings and two grievances on the docket but that the company had refused. "Neff admitted we had some valid claims but he offered to do nothing about them." Davidson said. "If he would pay those we could talk about the others.

But he won't act without pressure. hoping only to postpone the strike." Justice Rallies From Coma YORK. Sept. 6-- (IP)--Supreme Court Justice Wiley B. Rutledge has emerged sufficiently from a coma to talk to members of his family nurses, a hosoital said today.

The 55-year-old Jurist has suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Dr. Elmer Tower said Justice Rutledge continues to hold a slisht improvement noted yesterday, when he took nourishment for ihe first time since he sank into a coma last Friday. Weather CENTRAL MISSOURI: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with occasional thundershowers this afternoon and tonight. Little change in temperature.

Low tonight in upper 50's. Highest tomorrow near 70. MISSOURI: Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with occasional thundershowers in and north portions. Little change temperature; low tonight 58 in northwest to 65 in southwest; high Wednesday in the 70's. lures: At 8 o'clock this morning 61.

a i yesterday. 79. Minimum last night, 57. STREAM POLLUTION NEAR MOBERLY--This State Conservation Commission photograph shows, according to its Associated Press caption, "raw sewage pouring out of a pipe from one of Moberly's treatment plants (the east disposal plant) into a tributary of Coon creek, which joints the Salt River." State officials and newsmen who visited here some time ago on a tour of central Missouri, said the disposal plant was not operating when the picture was taken. The man with his back to the camera is Charles Callison, executive secretary of the Conservation Federation of Missouri.

Commission Starts Drive on Stream Pollution Moberly's inadequate disposal plants pose one of the glaring examples of stream pollution in Missouri. The problem here is "one of the worst in the state," according to W.Q. Kehr, chief of disposal and stream sanitation in the state Division of Health. Kehr and two other state officials. L.

E. Ordelheide and Paul G. visited here some time ago on a tour of central Missouri arranged by the Conservation Federation of Missouri. Ordelheide is director of the Bureau of Public Health Engineering. Barnichol is chief fisheries biologist for the state Conservation Commission.

Newspapermen Make Town A group of newspapermen were taken on the tour to get a first-hand look at stream pollution in the state. Larry Hall. Jefferson City correspondent for the Associated Press, wrote two articles about the tour. The second article says of "the story at "Kehr says the situation there is 'one of the worst in the The two treatment plants are not enough 'and what they do have is too Hall's first article mentioned the pollution problem at Eldon, "where an overloaded sewage treatment plant "was contaminating Blythe Creek from six to eight miles Moberly Plant Inefficient His second article continued: "To give us a comparison, Kehr estimated the Eldon plant was operating to 60 to 65 per cent efficient and the east plant at Moberly, when operating-, at about 35 per cent efficiency. "It wasn't operating at all when we saw it.

Raw sewage was by passing the treatment tanks and flowing into a tributary of Coon creek, which empties into Salt river. Moberly's councilmen are well aware of the -problem of the city's far- from- adequate disposal plants, a source of considerable worry for other city councils before them. They have discussed the problem privately. Mayor Not Convinced Advised of the AP series this morning. Mayor F.

L. McCormick said he considered the stream pollution "a minor problem," from the city's point of view "I'm not convinced it kills any fish he said. He said he believed there are no fish in Coon creek and that waste from the east disposal plant is no longer contaminated by the time it reaches Salt river. The extent of the contamination of rivers and streams in the state was one of the things the state officials and newsmen investigated on their recent tour. Hall wrote: Number of Sources "Stream pollution in Missouri comes from a number of sources.

"Yesterday told you about a visit to Eldon, an over- Continued on Page 2 Of State's Stream Pollution JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 6 (JP)--Here's a box score on the major causes of stream pollution in Missouri and what they are doing to the streams. The figures were prepared by the; state. Conservation. Acid water draining from strip mines-- in 11 counties and 321 miles of 33 different streams get acid drainage.

Fish kill reported in 32 of the 33. Tiff mine discharge 102 miles of ten streams contaminated. No fish mortality spawning beds and feeding areas being destroyed. Sewage discharge--Contami- nating 191 imiles of 34 streams in 26 counties. Fish killttd in 22 of the 34.

Oily water 52 miles of streams in 11 counties (contam-. inated. Fish kill reported in 22 of .52 miles. and cheese factory 40 miles of 18 streams In 13 counties. Fish kill reported in 11 of the 18 streams.

Chemical wastes Polluting 126 miles of 11 streams in 11 counties. Concentrations sometimes high enough to kill fish, and ruin the habitat. Miscellaneous 73 miles, sometimes severely. 12 Shot to Death, 5 Wounded Mass Killing on City Street Moberlyan Is Mrs. Opal Clements Last Seen About Noon Yesterday Mrs.

Opal Clements, who lived alone at 809 South Williams street, was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home this morning about 10:20 o'clock. She died of natural causes, apparently 10 to 12 hours previous to being found, according to Coroner Thomas E. Barnes. Mrs. Clements! is survived by two sons, Milton and C.

both of Chicago, and three sisters. Mrs. B. E. Yynch, a neighbor, reported having spoken -with Mrs.

Clements about noon yesterday but she was not seen after that. Relatives will arrive here tonight from Chicago, and funeral arrangements will be made later. The body is at the Mahan Funeral Home. Mrs. Clements moved to Moberly from Brookfield about 21 years ago.

Shot Routs Thieves Trying to Enter Stern itzke Store A shot fired by a service station attendant thwarted two men in their attempt to break into the Sternitzke grocery, 101 South Morley street, a few -minutes after midnight last night. Police Chief Omar Winn said this morning Herschel Thompson, at the Shell service station across Rollins street from the grocery, saw the men after they had broken the glass in the Rollins street door of the store. The men fled when Thompson fired a shot into the air. Nothing was taken from the grocery. Thompson notified the police of the attempted break-in.

Missouri Pacific. Line Issues Layoff Notices POPLAR BLUFF, Sept. 6 hundred Missouri Pacific Railroad employes at the Poplar Bluff terminal today received notices their jobs would be abolished Friday in case operating employes carry out their threat to strike on that It's and Wet Over Wide Areas Of Nation Today CHICAGO, Sept. and wet weather covered wide areas of the country today but summer temperatures were the rule over most of the south arid parts of the far west. The cool areas were the northeastern and north central sections.

The mercury dropped to 40 in some parts of the midwest. Showers and thunderstorms were reported the middle Missouri valley soouthwestward to the southern Rockyl Mountain states. TOPEKA, Sept. 6--(JP)--, A young bride-to-be'who. vanished while on a train trip to meet her fiance walked into police headquarters here today and declared she is "not missing." Miss Retha Nixon, 22-year-old University of Missouri journalism student from Ogallah, was quoted by detectives as saying she merely had decided not to go through with weading plans at this time.

She left the train here yesterday while enroute to Kansas City where she was to be met by Russell Johnson, 23-year-old Independence, farm youth who said they were to be married Saturday. "I had no idea my 'disappearance' was going to cause all this excitement," she told reporters. "I just stopped off here and took a room." Charles S. Crank, chief of said Miss Nixon, object of a statewide search since her train arrived in Kansas City without her, walked into his office with a newspaper under her arm. She had 'read of the mystery surrounding her disappearance, she said, and decided to inform everybody she was all right.

Gomes Postponed Moberly Softball Association tournament games scheduled tonight at Rothwell Park have been postponed until tomorrow night because of rain and wet grounds. Drivers injured Critically When Cars Turn Over Two Men in Hospital Here; Other Crashes In Holiday Weekend Two men are in McCormick hospital this afternoon in critical condition as a result of highway mishaps in this vicinity this morning and Sunday afternoon. Both men were driving alone and both were injured as the cars in which they were riding overturned. A third highway accident occurred near here Sunday morning, and a fourth collision occurred Saturday But the long Labor Day weekend passed without a traffic fatality reported in Randolph county. Etlwiti 24, Trenton, sustained a severe head injury about 10 o'clock this morning when the 1937 Ford two-door sedan he was driving northward toward Moberly on Highway 63 skidded and overturned at the Davies orchard, south of town.

Nearly Scalped Jardin was, nearly scalped when, broken glass from the righthand door window of the car cut a 10-inch gash across his forehead. He was traveling alone. State highway patrolmen were not able to learn at the scene of the accident whether another car was involved in the mishap. Jardin's Ford apparently skidded sidewise off the east side of the pavement after rounding a curve immediately fsouth. the orchard.

The 'rigjit wheel of Ford struck ci'ilvrt at -en-' trance to the orchard. The car overturned and came to rest on its right side, on the highway pavement, about 25 feet from the point of impact with the culvert. Jardin was taken by ambulance to McCormick hospital. Clyde Sterrett Injured Clyde E. Sterrett, 22-year-old Centralian employed as watch repairman at the Kamp store here, was seriously injured about 12:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the 1949 Studebaker he was driving went out of control and overturned on between Higbee and Yates, six miles east of the junction of Routes 3 and B.

McCormick hospital attaches reported this morning that Sterrett sustained severe shock and internal and back injuries. The extent his injuries had not been determined. Sterrett, driving westward on Route topped a hill and lost control of the Stedebaker when it struck some loose gravel, a state highway patrolman said. The Studebaker left the road, and rolled down a hill into a ditch. Sterrett lives here at 606 West Lee street.

Collision Near White School A 1940 Ford coach driven by Albert William Schroeder, 44, 900 Bond street, and a 1930 Ford pickup truck driven by Ambrose Elbert Bentch, 40, Route 2, collided about 8:45 o'clock Sunday morning on a county road 3.3 miles southwest of Moberly, near White school. The two vehicles met head-on at the crest of a rise in the road, state patrolmen said, but neither driver was injured. Both automobiles were damaged. No one was seriously injured when two cars collided about 10 o'clock Saturday night on Highway 24, about 2.7 miles east of the junction of highways 24 and 129, east of Salisbury. A 1942 Oldsmobile coach driven by Charles Stuart Smith, 22 of Nedrow, N.

ran into a 1946 Chevrolet Fleetline driven by Elmer Ernest Thate 23 of Kansas City. Falls Asleep at Wheel The highway parol report said Smith, driving west enroute to Kansas City, fell asleep at the wheel and had driven onto the wrong side of the road The left front wheels of the cars collided, tearing off the Oldsmobile's left wheel. In the Oldsmobile was Smith wife. Mrs. Rose Marie Smith, 23, and their six-month-old daughter.

Mrs. Smith suffered a bruised left knee. Accompanying Thate was his brother, David Paul Thate, 19, and Miss lona Marie Litch, 22, Kansas City, who suffered a bruised left hand. Both cars continued on for approximately 350 feet before they stopped, the Highway Patrol reported. Neither car left the highway.

The Smith -family spent the night in a Salisbury hotel and continued on to Kansas City by train. List of the Dead In Mass Killing CAMDEN, N. Sept. 6. (JP) -Here is a list of the dead in today's mass killings on a Camden street: Maurice Cohen, 40, a druggist.

Rose Cohen, his wife. Minnie Cohen mother. Thomas Hamilton, 2 Morris Smith, 6. Mrs. Helen Zegrino, 28, bride of one mnoth, James J.

Hutton, 45, Westmont, N. an insurance collector. Clark Hoover, 33, barber. John J. Plaichik, 27, Pennsauken Township, N.

a cobbler. Alvin M. Day, Mantua, N. J. A woman, identified only as Mrs.

Smith. An unidentified woman. Bill Odom, Two Others Killed as Plane Hits House Tragedy in Cleveland Threat to Continuing Sports Flying Race By James J. Strebig CLEVELAND, Sept. 6 (JP)-Sport flying's richest and toughest race faced a new threat to continuance with the death of distance flier Bill Od- bm and two suburban residents.

Qdom's death plunge into a Berea home during the second lap of Thompson trophy event yesterday revived the protests of area, residents against shrieking over their' homes at 400 miles an hour. The dark green racer, a converted fighter, ripped through the house, killing Mrs. Jeanne Laird, 24, and her year-old son, Craig. Odom was flying an F-51 Mustang owned by Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran. Cook Cleland of Cleveland, former navy fighter pilot, took the Thompson trophy and $19,100 with a new record speed of 397 miles an hour.

He also won in 1947 with a record 396 MPH that stood until yesterday. New Records Set Cleland's new mark was the last of a series established during three days of competition. Records were pushed up in both the propeller and jet divisions of the Bendix cross-country races, the Goodyear races for midget planes, the Sohio and Tinnerman trophy races, and the jet division of the Thompson. Complaints about the noise and danger of the Thompson classic came from Berea residents even before the resumption of the race in 1946 after seven years' interruption for the war. The course was revised to make a rough circle around the community of 6,000 which lies south of the airport.

Army Veteran Goes on Maniacal Murder Parade at Camden, N. J. Berserk Man Routed From Barricaded Home After 45-Minute Blust of Bullets; Police Save Him From Angry Mob of More Than 1,000 CAMDEN, N.J., Sept 6 28-year-old army veteran on a maniacal rampage today killed 12 persons on a busy Camden street. Five others were wounded. Detective Marshall Thompson identified the killer as Howard Unruh, a quiet, well-dressed young man.

His neighbors said they knew little about him. Hugh Williamson, Fulton, to Speak To Old Settlers Hugh P. Williamson, Fulton, will be the speaker at, the 61st annual Old Settlers Reunion to be held in Huntsville Thursday. His address will be given at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. Williamson is an assistant attorney general.

He is known as an able speaker. The street "looked like a battlefield," Thompson "He (Unruh) turned that i luger loose on those people like ducks in a pond. Killed in hail of bullets were fiVe men, five women and two boys, aged two and five. Worst in History Police authorities here said they believe it was the worst mass slaughter on a city street in the nation's history. It all began quietly enough.

Unruh walked out of his house, nattily dressed in a light suit and white shirt with bow tie. Without warning he whipped out, his gun and began firing. Before he was finished, he had raced in and out of half a dozen business establishments, cutting down men, women and children right and left. Then he barricaded himself in the second floor room where he lived. Tried to Shoot It Out For a time he shot it Out with 50 policemen while men and women milled in the streets.

"They gave us a hell of a time," Thompson said. "They wouldn't get out of the "Men would stop for a traffic Thompson added. "Then they got it. Failing to 'win the gun battle, police cut loose with a tear gas. barrage.

Coughing and choking, Unhuh' emerged from his room. He was unhurt. Police threw up a shoulder-to- shoulder cordon to convoy Unruh from the building. Demand i'Lynching" A howling mob of men and in the streets lunged for the police screaming: "Lynch him!" "Hang him now!" But they didn't crash the line of police. Thompson said Unruh served with the army in an artillery unit in Austria during World War Two.

He then took a pharmacy course at Temple University, Philadelphia, under the I Bill of Rights. Thompson said the shootings began at 8:20 a.m. (EST) Unruh surrendered at 9:15 a.m. For a time, wild stories flew thick and fast about what happened. Official Version But when the smoke of battle had cleared and Unruh had been quizzed for several hours by detectives, Thompson gave this version of what happened: Unruh's house, at 3202 River Road was next door to a drug store operated by 40-year old Maurice Cohen.

There is no front entrance to house. Cohen at one- time permitted. Unruh to cross his yard when leaving or entering his own house from the rear. But recently Cohen stopped Unruh from crossing the yard by building a fence and a gate. Shot in Bed Today Unruh walked--detectives said he never ran during all the shooting--from his house into the drug store, tramped upstairs and shot Cohen's mother.

Minnie, 63, as she lay in bed. Cohen's wife, Rose 38, heard the shot and ran hvto a bedroom Continued on Page 2 Truman Ready To Spearhead 1950 Campaign Labor Day Speeches 'Sample of Technique' For Stumping Tour INDEPENDENCE, Sept. 6. Top ranking advisers said today President Truman will spearhead the Democratic campaign 'in next year's congressional elections by personal appearances in key states. These presidential associates, unquotable by name, said Mr.

Truman's Labor Day speeches yesterday were just a sample of the technique he will use in a rear platform stumping tour in 1950. Most them were agreed that Mr. Truman is undecided whether he will- seek re-election in 1952, They also felt that he will make no decision until after the returns are in from next November's voting on Senators and Keep Ail Appointments to Give If you've made an appointment for the Red Cross bloodmobile unit's visit here tomorrow, be sure to keep it: Every appointment must be kept, Red Cross workers said this morning, if Randolph county is to meet its current quota. The chapter needed about 50 more donors today. Workers said they hoped, a sufficient number of donors not registered would sl.ow up tomorrow.

An invitation has been issued to the families and friends of persons here who already have received blood through the Red Cross program. Their charity in donating blood will make it available to others when it needed, Red Cross workers said. If prospective donors fail to keep their, appointments tomorrow, the county cannot meet its quota of 135 pints of blood. Eat Before Appointment Appoint cards have mailed to prcspective donors. The center, in the basement of the Coates Street Presbyterian church, will be open tomorrow from 9 a.m.

until 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. Donors are urged not to come i tract blood, to the center with an empty stomach. Eat your usual meal, Red Cross workers advised, if you eat four hours before giving blood.

If you lunch within four hours of your appointment, choose such food as dry toast, and fruit juices. Avoid Fatty Foods The rule is: Avoid fatty foods at least four hours before donating blood. The blood of persons who have dined on fatty foods cannot be used. It will contain fatty globules which will not pass through the needle used to ex- The President started his 1950 campaigning early by lashing "organized special interests" in speeches at Pittsburgh and Des Moines; He sought to drum up support for enactment of the Brannan production payment plan and for repeal of the Taf t-Hartley labor act. He defended the Democratic controlled 81st Congress for repairing "most of the damage" he said the GOP-dominated 80th did, but he added: "There are still many reactionary Senators and Representatives in Congress, but they are no longer in control as they were last year and the year before.

"They are still doing all they can to slow up our progress, but they are not able to stop it." The President flew into Missouri last night immediately after his address to the American Veterans of World War II (Amvets) at Des Moinas. Flies to Washington President Truman. took off for Washington in his presidential plane, the "Independence" at 11:04 ACS, from the Grandview, airport. During the morning he made short at the homes of his brother, Vivian, and his sister, Miss Mary Jane Truman. Mrs.

Truman did aot accompany him on the trip to Washington. Her 87-year old mother. Mrs. David Wallace, was injured in a fall at home in Independence Sunday and Mrs. Truman who had planned to return with the President, decided to stay for a few days? to watch her mother's condition.

Mrs. Wallace was not seriously hurt in the fall. Roberta Schmidt Here as Assistant To Mrs. Clifford Miss Roberta Schmidt of Marshall, arrived today to become assistant county home agent to Mrs. Margaret Clifford.

Miss Schmidt succeeds Miss Helen Marshall, who is now Morgan County home agent at Versailles. Miss Schmidt was graduated last spring from the University of Missouri, Columbia, with a major in home economics. She served last summer as apprentice home agent for Pettis County at Sedalia. She is living at the Harry Voth home, 621 Oilman Mrs. Elizabeth Hay Fractures Her Pelvis Mrs.

Elizabeth Hay, 329 Fulton avenue, fell at her home this morning fracturing her pelvis. She has been admitted to Woodland Hospital. Council Meets Tonight The citv council win at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the basement of the Municipal Auditorium..