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nut Mai jfiill CIRCULATION Net Paid YESTERDAY 36,644 Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations FORECAST (From U. S. Weather Bureau) TONIGHT: Tartly cloudy, cooler. Low near 60. Thursday: Cloudy, with showers at night.

High about 83. EMU VOLUME 42. NO. 23. Associated Press (AP).

United Press (UP) Gannett News Service (GNS). Acme Telephotos ELMIRA, N. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1948. 30 Cents Per Week Delivered by Carrier FIVE CENTS ud wigs ha feu Star-Gazette HA Blast Wrecks Farhen Plant Mannheim, Germany (AP) Police said between 500 and 600 persons were killed and 1,400 injured today in an explosion and fire which wrecked the I. G.

Farben chemical plant at Ludwigshafen. onjnfrno Xf aJ The disaster in the French zone city appeared to be the greatest in Europe since the war. Checking Score on Berlin Airlift Anti-Poll Tax Bill Police in Mannheim, an American zone city across the Rhine from Ludwigshafen, said about 1,400 injured already had been taken to hospitals. The plant employed from 6,000 to 7,000 chemical work To Be Called Up; ers and comprised several buildings sprawled over a wide Filibuster Looms Washington (AP) Senate Republicans decided today to have committees study President Truman's requests for housing and anti-inflation legislation and to make an effort to outlaw the poll tax. Chairman Eugene Millikin (R-Colo) of the Republican conference announced the decision after a closed session of fcs mt-: LlLj Murl 4 Jin rs r- I 1 '-i- a THE BLOCKADE still on, American transports continue to carry food into the allied sector of Berlin, using all possible facilities.

In picture, air and ground crews at Rhein-Main Airport, Frankfurt, show great Interest, as they peruse the statistics board which shows the daily tonnage and overaU tonnage to date of all supplies flown to Berlin In -Operation Vittles." (Acme Telephoto) World Hop Superior? Crashes Off Aden Aden (AP) An American B-29, one of three making a circuit of the globe, crashed into the sea last night after taking off from this port on the south coast of Arabia. One survivor identified only as Sergeant Gustafson was reported picked up by a local fisherman, who brought him to shore. He now is in the RAF hospital and reported resting comfortably. (Capt. Percy H.

Kramer, public information officer at Field in Tucson. the ships' home field, issued a list of the men aboard the three planes last Thursday night, which included MSgt. Sigyer R. Gustafa-son, Norwood, Mass.) (CoL J. C.

Selser, commandant of Dayis-Monthan field, said two of the planes had 18 men aboard and the other had 17. He said he had not yet received any report on the crash from overseas.) The other two planes returned to Aden. The crash occurred about a mile off shore. The wreckage is visible from the shore. The RAF and Navy patrolled the beach throughout the night and early this morning but found no bodies.

The three big planes left the air force base at Tucson, Arizona, six days ago on what the Air Force called a "routine long, distance framing flight. It was the first around-the-world attempt for B-29S. The three planes carried a total of 53 men. an announcement in Tucson last week said. The customary complement of a B-29 is nine men.

The Air Force said the flight in the techniques of long over-was intended to train B-29 crews water flights and "to acclimate personnel with world-wide regional conditions." This, according to informal explanations, meant the trip was in the nature of a survey. What it was intended to show was the present condition of wartime bases in far-away places the condition of runways, parking areas, shops and fuel pumping equipment. Truman Wants New Deal, Says Rep. Cole Washington (GNS) President Truman has asked Congress to revive the very same New Deal policies which led to today's inflation. F.ep.

W. Sterling Cole (R-NY) said Tuesday. The inflationary spiral must be attacked at its roots, rather than its final effects, Cole said. "The deplorable conditions we are experiencing today were predicted by many of us 10 or 15 years ago. They resulted from the practices and policies of the New Deal for deficit spending, high public debt, high taxes and stifled production." Cole said the early New Deal move to take this country off the gold standard was a major cause of present high prices.

"It "that fn v.r?ni instead of reversing ark Currency Run Disorders On anics The explosion shattered a six- story Duiiamg, shooting a foun tain of fire and smoke two miles into the air. (According to United Press, the U. S. Army late today released an unofficial estimate that "several thousand persons" were killed and another several thousand Injured in a series of explosions in the Farben plant. The Army reported that the sprawling plant, consisting of 18 buildings, was 80 per cent destroyed.) Flames enveloped the building.

A cloud of smoke a half-mile square obscured the scene. For a time, firemen were unable even to get close. The injured poured across the river into Mannheim. They crowded the hospital here and in towns surrounding Ludwigshafen. Workmen from parts of the plant distant from the explosion said the heat and wreckage made it impossible to rescue those trapped.

From all parts of Western Ger many rescue and police squads were rushed to Ludwigshafen. The cause of the explosion was not known, Even rescuers were killed. Two died when two vehicles rushing to the scene collided. A comparable disaster occurred Texas City, Texas, In April of last year when an estimated 650 persons were killed and 3,000 injured when a French ship loaded with nitrates blew up in the har bor. Last August, more than 135 persons were killed in the ex plosion of a Spanish, arsenal two miles from the center" of Cadiz.

Flames roared through the plant, preventing firemen from getting anywhere near enough to make an exact estimate of casualties. "From my window here in Mannheim, the smoke cloud over the plant seems to be about a half mile square." the American official said. "Several buildings apparently have blown up, but it is impossi ble to tell definitely because the smoke obscures everything. The plant, a six-story structure. employs 1,000 persons.

It appeared to have a. been completely wrecked. The plant and its numerous buildings employ between 6.000 and 7,000 persons In manufacturing chemicals of various types. The main building was a six-story structure. One could only guess how many fell victim or escaped.

The force of the explosion and the scope of the fire convinced authorities the toll would be high. The first explosion shot a column of flame two miles high, witnesses reported. 5 Persons Hurtj In Picket Clash Dayton, O. (AP) Five pickets were injured today, none in a renewal of clashes between police and the picket line at the strike bound Univis Lens Co. plant.

The disorders were described as the most violent yet since a back-to-work movement was begun three days ago. Newsmen said they saw police swing clubs to force a path through the picket line for 340 non-striking employes. ed Zone of Berlin Berlin (AP) Disorders broke out in the Russian sector of blockaded Berlin today when thousands of Germans jammed streets before banks in an effort to exchange their money for new Russian-sponsored currency. Newspapers in Western Berlin said the Russians and their Communist-controlled economic commission were trying "to cheat the people out of their money." The deadline for the even exchange is tonight. The Russians through their newspapers admitted "chaos" existed, but blamed the non-Communist city government for not providing enough exchange places.

American Military Government finance officials said this was untrue and "the Russians are trying to make the city government a scapegoat for their own mistake. area. "IVT Tfc Of Mussolini Flees Prison OTTO SKORZENY Frankfurt (UP) German gov ernment officials reported today that Otto Skorzeny, former lieu tenant colonel in the SS Elite Guard who kidnaped Benito Mus solini from the Allies in 1943, has escaped from the Darmstadt prison camp. Skorzeny, a scar-faced giant, planned and carried out the rescue of Mussolini on direct orders from Hitler in September, 1943, by drop ping parachutists in the Gran Cas-so mountains where Mussolini was being held by anti-Fascist Italians An announcement by the Hesse government said Skorzeny, whose daring exploits earned him numer ous decorations from Hitler, es caped yesterday. He was being held at Darmstadt for de-Nazification trial.

He was acquitted by a U. S. military court last September on charges or sending: German troops into combat dressed in American uniforms. To Revive VSO, Forreslal Says Washington (UP) Defense Secretary James Forrestal an nounced today that the United Ser vice Organizations tne laminar "USO" of World War II will be revived by the end of the year. He said Lindsley F.

Kimball of New York, wartime president of the USO, has agreed to reactivate his organization "in the light of the expansion of the peacetime armed forces." The USO was started shortly before the outbreak of World War II to provide entertainment facili ties for soldiers, sailors and marines. It went out of existence af- tei V-J Day. Kerr Takes Lead In Oklahoma Race-, Oklahoma City (UP) Former Gov. Robert S. Kerr, a staunch of Present Truman.

riixVit oHuncato Gomer Smith in Oklahoma's race the Democratic Senatorial nom- iination, returns from the state primary showed today. Kerr, a millionaire oil man, took an early lead in the runoff race and increased it steadily. Returns from 3,347 of the state's 3,695 precincts gave Kerr 158,378 votes and Smith 116,317. Milland Suspended For Refusing Role Hollywood (AP) Actor Ray Milland was suspended Tuesday for refusing a starring role in the film A Mask for Lucretia," Para- mount studio announced. Expressing surprise when noti fied of the suspension, the Academy Award winner maintained he never refused to play the role, although he had objected to it.

It is a part that is out of mv normal, natural range as an actor," Milland explained. End Divorce Suit Snreckels Io Angeles (AP) Actress Kry Williams' fiivorce suit against ku- erar heir Adolph Snreckels has (been dismissed, attorneys for the! pr- announced here. Put Rnrprkpk rnimcpl Tasir Pacht. denied the millionaire had become recoioilcd his wife. Pacht, and the actress' attorney, Daniel Schnabel.

said a satisfactory settlement had been reached. They declined to discuss the terms. U.t i MM: I lasted nearly three hours. Dewey Wants: Careful Study Of Proposals Pawling (AP) Republican presidential candidate Thomas E. IJewey feels that the GOP-domin-ated Congress should give "careful consideration" to legislative proposals set forth by President Truman, his Democratic rivaL The New York Governor jset forth his views yesterday In a statement issued by James C.

Hagerty, Dewey's press secretary. Previously, Hagerty had said there would be "no comment from the Governor on the President's message to Congress yesterday. But, a few minutes later, Hagerty summoned reporters to announce: "The Governor feels that the Congress should stay in Washington and give careful consideration to whatever was proposed In the President's message." The deqifcign to make the statement came, Hagerty said, after receipt of conflicting reports from Republican Congressional leaders on Dewey's attitude to-' ward the current session, called by Mr. Truman. One report quoted Senator Robertson (R-Wyo) as sAying Dewey had advised Republican leaders in Congress "to stay around a week or so and then go home." Robertson, who gave his statement to reporters after emerging from a closed-door session of the Senate Republican policy committee, said Senator Robert A.

Taft (R-Ohio) had placed the Dewey advice before the meeting. Committee To Probe UN Attaches Washington (AP) Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced today that he is creating a committee of three citizens to investigate whether the United Nations Is bringing peisons Into this country who are a danger to American security. Marshall declined to give a news conference the names of the three citizens but promised they would be announced later. He described them as distinguished citizens.

The investigation will cover all classes of persons associated with the United Nations, Marshall said, including foreign delegations and their staffs, newspapermen and other reporters, members of specialized UN agencies and the staff of Secretary General Trygve Lie. The Investigation grows out of testimony of two State Department officials before a Congressional committee that hundreds of secret agents from Europe's Communist countries may be using UN credentials as a means of getting into the United States to stir up trouble. Marshall reiterated today what he said a week ago after this testimony was given out that he knows no instances in which any person here on United Nations credentials had actually jeopardized the security of the United States by actions outside his official duties. Western Electric Pay Rise Reported New York (AP) The Western Electric Co. is reported to have agreed to make a wage increase offer next month to 30,000 telephone installation workers throughout the country.

The report came yesterday from Allan E. Haywood, CIO national organization director, who said the wage offer was promised by Western Electric President Stanley Bracken at a meeting in company offices. The amount was not specified. A threatened strike by the installation workers, whose contract expired last May 8, would tie up installation of equipment in telephone central offices across the nation. MARCH OF DIMES New York AP) The net collection in the 1948 March of Dimes campaign was $18,669,299.

Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, announced th Azure the Republican Senators that "It was decided to take up the! anti-poll tax bill, and that we will press the matter to decision," Mil likin told reporters. "We will make every effort to pass the Southern Democrats have prom ised to filibuster against it a move that possibly would block Indefinitely other action by the senate. Millikin said the Republicans also agreed that the appropriate committees would consider the spe cific points in Mr. Truman's message to Congress yesterday. Senator Johnson Moves to Adjourn Washington (UP) Senator Olin D.

Johnston (D-SC), today introduced a resolution to adjourn the special session of Congress Saturday. They agreed to act, he said, on anything "of an emergency character and of national importance." One other qualification, Millikin added, is that legislation considered must be capable of being "properly processed within the time permitted to an emergency session." "We were agreed that we should not stay here long enough to interfere with the proper conduct of the campaign," Millikin said, but added that no adjournment time was set. Republican leaders have laid plans for adjournment as "soon as possible" probably next week or the week after. Earlier. Senator Kenneth Wherry (R-Neb), acting majority leader, said the GOP Senators agreed to a 2-hour delay in any attempt to bring- up the anti-poll tax bill.

But Wherry added that any Senator, including the score of Southern Democrats, could upset present plans and touch off an immediate filibuster which would tie the Senate in a wordy knot. Wherry said he had not worked out any informal agreement with Southern Democrats to delay start of a civil rights battle until tomorrow. Other Republicans reported a majority agreement to go along with the plans of leaders to adjourn as "soon as possible" probably next week or the week later. And as the GOP leaders laid plans for a speedy adjournment, they announced complete willingness to let the voters decide in November whether they had done the right thing. Democrats promptly shouted "sabotage." They accused the majority party of setting out deliberately to wreck the President's program for anti-inflation and housing legislation which pleaded for yesterday to avert other great depression." he an- N.

Y. Man Named Head of Pythians Saratoga Springs (AP) Max Burstein of New York City heads the state organization of the Knights of Pythias. Burstein was elected chancellor last night at the organization's 50th annual convention. He succeeds Albert E. Burgan of Jamestown.

Leonard M. Eisenberg, Brooklyn, was elected vicechancellor and Hy-man Gould of Rochester was named prelate. a result of the letter and Killen's statement, there is a possibility that Japanese Labor Minister Kanju Kato may resign. Killen's statement said: "The question of strikes in the government is not an issue in this matter. This problem has been successfully resolved in England and elsewhere through the formal procedures of collective negotiation and arbitration." MacArthur proposed that employes of the government railways and bureaus be removed from the civil service list and placed under newly-organized public corporations.

MacArthur said these public corporation workers should be guaranteed an adequate livelihood but should be prevented from staging irresponsible strikes. The government has announced it considers MacArthur's letter an order. Probe Cause Of Mine Blast Fatal to 13 Princeton, Ind. (AI)- Grim in spectors probed the depths of King's coal mine today seeking to learn the cause of an explosion which killed 13 miners yesterday afternoon. It was the second serious explosion in eight months at King's.

The previous blast, last November, caused no deaths but was followed by extensive fires which closed the mine for more than two months. The mine had been closed again last week because of water seepage. had been Inspected Sunday by state mine Inspectors and had been reopened only yesterday. Two men were injured critically in yesterday's blast, and a rescue worker also was in a hospital after being overcome by gas. Con' dition of the rescue worker, George (Red) Cornelius, was not serious.

Two other miners were given first aid for slight injuries. The dead and injured were menv hers of a single loading unit which was on the lowest level of Indiana's deepest shaft mine, 433 feet underground, and three miles east of the tipple. Workers from other parts of the mine and from nearby shafts moved quickly to the rescue. The U. S.

Bureau of Mine office at Vincennes sent a rescue crew. Ambulances from Kvansville were sent to help Princeton ambulance crews move the bodies. There were 16 men in the mine at the time, but other crews were not endangered. The blast caused only a small fire which was soon put out. King's employs 525 men on three shifts.

Mayor Louise Schroeder defied an order from the Russian commandant to fire her new anti- 'Pretty BoyV Brother Elected Oklahoma Sheriff Sal II saw, Okla. (UP) E. W. Floyd, brother of one-time public enemy No. 1 Charles "Pretty Boy' Floyd, won a bitterly-fought elec tion for county sheriff today.

Floyd, 40, a $30 a week grocery clerk, was making his first bid for political office. kind of want to show tht people that I can do a good job oi law enforcement, even though my brother was on the other side," he said. Feeling has run high in Sallisaw ever since "Pretty Boy's' brother announced his candidacy. A whispering campaign was waged against him, attacking him because of the notorious record of "Pretty Boy," who was killed by the FBI in East Liverpool, Ohio, in 1934. in Communist deputy police chief, Johannes Stumm.

The three Western commandants had advised her the Russians had no authority to order unilaterally the discharge of Stumm. lie replaced the Russian-trained I'aul Markgraf. whom the elected government fired earlier this week. The Western commanders also advised Mayor Schroeder to reject another Soviet move aimed nt destroying the city government and placing all Berlin under Communist control. They told her the Russians have no authority to install Paul Letsch as deputy head of the city food department, one of the major jobs in the city.

Walter Bedell Smith, U. S. Ambassador to Moscow, stopped over a day in Berlin en route to Moscow. He may talk with Gen. Lucius D.

Clay, the U. S. military commander. The Russians allowed three days for (iermans to exchange their old marks for new counter-stamped Russian zone currency. Disorders erupted at several places among the crowds clamoring to get the new money.

When police could not handle the milling throngs, firemen turned water on the people. The disturbances started when the anxious Germans pressed forward and started stampedes after standing for hours in lines. No serious injuries were reported. A responsible British informant in London said last night that Smith and British and French diplomats in Moscow would seek personal interviews with Soviet Foreign Minister V. M.

Molotov in an attempt to solve the Berlin deadlock. American officials refused toj confirm the British report. They said only that the three powers in their two-day conference had arrived at an agreement on how to meet the German crisis. One American informant disclaimed any intention of making a "secret deal" with the Soviet union. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who had planned a statement of Britain's view of the German situation to the House of Commons today, postponed his speech until tomorrow.

Informants pointed out that a personal approach to the Soviet Foreiern Minister would give the Allied diplomats a chance for a less formal exchange of views than written notes between governments. As a result it might lessen the chance of a Russian rejection of Western proposals such as was met when the three powers sent simultaneous notes protesting the Soviet blockade of Berlin recently. infla-Lif loU Kaplan, international organizer A-, ti Kaplan's head was covered with blood as he was led to a wait- inR patrol wagon. Oil Inside Reader's Guide Labor Chief Threatens to Quit; At Odds ivith MacArthur Views p7eiden hoLJ eSZrt eminent on a lid which cannot vC possibly resist the bursting pres sures. "One method of inflation control is through regulation of credit and installment buying.

It is amaz-icg the President would not exercise his present ample authority to control these." Prindle to Serve As Pageant Judge Wellsboro Clark W. Prindle, rtponntendent of the Elkland Tan Comranv. Elkland. will act as one of the judges for the prelimi-1 riiry contests of the Miss America Pageant for Tioga and Potter Counties, to be held at the Bach Auditorium. Tuesday evening.

Aug. 3. There are two more of the nine judges to be selected. TEAR JERKER Bradford, Pa. (UP The merry-go-round played gay music, but tears came to the eyes of thousands of persons at a carnival yesterday.

An unknown prankster hurled a tear gas bomb into the middle of the crowd. CYCLIST, 90. KILLLD Glens Falls- APj Ninety-year-; Cornelius J. Cronin of Hudson! was injured fat yesterday when his motorcycle ana a Greyhound bus collided an intersection in South Glens Falls. i Selective Service to make registration for draft as painless as possible.

Page Two. Democratic jobholders with interim appointments face short tenure if Dewey wins. Page Two. Army to continue segregation of troops, Gen. Bradley says.

Page Two. State revenues over $29 million above comparable period last year. Page Three. Passage of Truman program would mean more inflation, Cecil Dickson says. Page Three.

Early work foreseen on big Tioga, Lycoming County impounding dams. Page 8. St. Louis Cards' Gas House Gang runs out of gas. Page Ten.

Pioneers prove first division fodder for Albany and Utica. Page Eleven. Also on inside pages: Bridge 7 Editorials 6 Society 4 Comics 13 Horse Sense 6 Sports 10, 11 Death Notices 5 Radio 12 Theaters 12 Tokyo (AP) James S. Killen, head of the Allied labor section threatened to resign today because of General MacArthur's statement that Japan's two million government workers should not be allowed to strike for higher wages. "I propose to resign," Killen said in a statement, "because I can not adjust myself to the new occupation labor policy which denies the government workers the right to collective bargaining." The government workers union has not acted on the MacArthur letter which quoted the late Franklin D.

Roosevelt as saying a strike by government employes was "unthinkable and intolerable." MacArthur said in his letter: "I am in full accord with this view." The MacArthur letter, released last week, has been a heated subject in organized labor circles. As yesterday..