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SOMERSET COUNTY'S OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER DAILY NO MORE SNOW Partly cloudy, windy and cold today. Clearing and colder tonight. Tomorrow, fair and continued cold. Temperature by the Hour Today: 23 22.2i;21 Yesterday: Max. 32, Min.

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1949. 18 Pages FIVE CENTS Daily Home News DI City Grouips Stmij Eedevelopmeiniii of ew Cold Looms Seek G.O.P. Aid As Filibuster Tilt Develops Lucas Planning Showdown With Dixie Opposition To Rules Change WASHINGTON, March 1 (JP) Senator Lucas of Illinois called owsntoweSeGltioiii i. If Vs. 14 ARE RELEASED FROM INFIRMARY Louis Retires; Will Promote Title Fight Charles and Walcott Will Meet in June Under Champ's Auspices MIAMI BEACH, March 1 Of) Joe Louis today formally resigned as heavyweight boxing champion of the world.

He requested and received permission from the National Boxing Association to sponsor a fight between Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott to determine the new world's champion. The new champion will be crowned at a 15-round fight to be held in Chicago in June. Louis' submitted his formal resignation by letter to N.B.A. Commissioner Abe J. Greene and Flamen B.

Adae, president of N.B.A. The letter of resignation was presented by Harry Mendel, the Brown Bomber's publicity avent. Louis himself was not present. Louis notified the N.B.A. that he, Arthur M.

Wirtz and James D. Norris had formed the International Boxing Club which will maintain offices in New York and Chicago. It will stage the fight to determine the new heavyweight champ. Louis said he had obtained the signatures of Walcott and Charles for the heavyweight crown match and that both boxers had agreed to defend the title within 90 days after the June match with either Lee Savold or Gus Lesne-vich. This is the second time in a year that Louis has retired, the first being under somewhat less formal circumstances.

Before his 25th successful defense of his title against Jersey Joe Walcott in Yankee Stadium last June 25, the champion said that he was through, and the fight with Walcott was his last. But on September 17 he said he "might" fight again. The Twentieth Century Sporting Club which has acted as promoter for all of Louis' fights, has proceeded on the assumption he would defend his title again in Yankee Stadium this summer. Louis has been appearing in a series of exhibitions all over the country. I I I I I t.j.- The blanket of moist snow clinging to trees developed this wintry scene on the New Jersey College for Women campus this morning.

In the background is the Elizabeth Rodman Voorhees Chapel, its stately spire extending over the countryside like a lone sentinel. mm m. mmm. I 7 mmm: mM 4 MPmMWM i -J wi of Clay ordered the mission to leave because he said the number of Soviet citizens who wanted to return to Russian territory during the last year was negligible. He said the commission's function could be taken over by the regular Russian military mission.

Clay's action drew violent protests from the Russians. They also sent official notes to Washington, asserting the mission was in-dispensible. Col. Wood declared "we are still discussing what action we shall take if they do not leave. "They have been told to get out and have up to midnight tonight to comply.

The activities of the mission ceased at midnight last night and they have 24 hours after this to leave. We have had -no contact with them today. I hope however, that they will withdraw of their own accord." Military police patrol cars cruised past the building regularly during the morning. NOTHING'S LOST Unless a Daily Home News "Lost and Found Ad" can't find it. Here's a satisfied user.

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m. Wave snow Mercury Due To Drop To Degrees Residents of the New Brunswick area awoke today to find that the storm which began yesterday had left an eight inch blanket of snow over their communities, with temperatures in the low 20's. With spring only 20 days away and an unusually mild winter almost over, it appears as though this section is in for at least one more cold period. The drop in temperature has crusted yesterday's layer of slush, providing hazardous conditions for motorists and pedestrians. County and state road crews are working on the main thoroughfares and municipal road workers are clearing local streets.

Despite the fact that spring officially at least is virtually "just around the corner," the cold snap will remain for a while, with the mercury expected to drop to around 10 degrees tonight, according to the weatherman. Mercury to Fall The sub-freezing temperatures will be accompanied by strong northwest to north winds and it will be partly cloudy and continued cold tomorrow. The thermometer in downtown New Brunswick went down to 21 at 3 a.m. today and was rising to above 40 at 11 a.m. Approximately eight inches of 'snow fell on the New Brunswick area since yesterday morning, according to field men at the Agricultural Experiment Station.

Schools in most outlying districts were closed today, but New Brunswick and Highland Park students attended their regular classes. Raritan township schools also were open, but those in North Brunswick, Sayreville, South River, Metuchen and Spots-wood were closed. Two bad accidents attributable to last night's snowstorm were reported in South Brunswick township, with one man badly hurt in one of them and four persons injured in the other. The first occurred at 7:30 p. m.

on Route 26, near Sand Hill, when a jeep operated by Harry Ray of Monmo uth Junction smashed into the rear end of a tractor-trailer that had been stopped on the highway to permit the driver Clarence DePau of Rockville, to clean the windshield. Roland Ray, a passenger In the jeep with hfs brother, received lacerations of the nose and throat. He was treated by a local physician and then taken to Middlesex Hospital for further treatment, following which he was sent home. State Troopers William Auer and Victor Comlnsky of the Princeton barracks investigated. The second accident occurred on Route 25 when an automobile driven by John Frank Greco, a soldier stationed at Fl.

Bragg, N. collided head-on with another car driven by Mrs. Jean Minter, 43, of White Plains, N.Y. State Troopers of the Hights-town barracks said Greco was driving south in the northbound lane. Hitchhiker Injured In Greco's car was Joseph Lis-zewski, 17, a soldier from Camp Kilmer, who was said to have been hitchhiking to a southern town.

received a severe laceration of the scalp and was taken to Middlesex Hospital by the Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad. He was later removed to Camp Kilmer station hospital. Mrs. Minter sustained lacerations of the head and knee, and similar injuries were suffered by two passengers in her car, Thomas Smithson of White Plains and his wife, Gladys. All went home after treatment at Middlesex Hospital.

It was feared that the severe cold snap would harm fruit and field crops in this area that have been encouraged by the comparatively mild winter weather but farmers were assured this morning by Prof. Arthur J. Farley, pomologist at the Agricultural College, that the snowstorm and drop in temperature may prove to be a blessing in disguise. Farley said the cold snap will retard the premature swelling of buds on peach trees and, In their present condition, they can stand temperatures as low as 5 to 10 degrees below zero. "The longer the cold wave lasts the better it will be for them," he said.

With respect to crops of winter rye or wheat, the blanket jI snow will have a beneficient effect on them, Farley asserted, and there will be do danger to fruit or field crops unless there is a further thaw and another severe freeze. Freezing weather hit parts of the southland today, threatening damage to the rich pach crop in Georgia and South Carolina. The chill extended over parts of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and North Carolina. GOrVG TO MIAMI? The Home News and Sunday Times on sale at THE NEWS DEPOT, i S. E.

First Miami. II a. txlm Rehabilitation of Wide Area Above Burnet Street Is Proposed AUTHORIZE COMMITTEE TO PLAN FOR PROJECT Picture on Pare 18 The first step to link the reclamation of the downtown area with the widening of Burnet street, and the construction of a parkway between Sonomon's Hill and Albany street, was taken last night at a conference at the City Hall of the New Brunswick Planning Board, Housing Authority and the City Commission, when appointment of a working committee was authorized to draft plans for the proposed rehabilitation. It was the consensus of the three groups that studies should be made for the redevelopment of area between Hiram street and Clifton avenue and between George street and Burnet street. The groups envisioned the, transformation of the area into high class residential and commercial sections by razing present buildings and replacing them with modern buildings to be financed with private capital and federal funds.

The Housing Authority presented a model which was built by Middlesex County Vocational School students to show the possibilities of reclaiming the area between Neilson and Burnet street but after a general discussion it was suggested that it be broadened to include the area to George street. Entering into the discussion as the first phase of the proposed reclamation, was the plan to provide for the displaced persons. First, the joint bodies expressed the thought that the 58 families who will be displaced when the structures on the canal side of Burnet are razed should be provided with living quarters. This job was tossed back to the Housing Authority which advised that progress was being made. Ask Definite Plan Appreciating the many implications of a project of this character, especially the cost that will be involved, it was the consensus that it should be undertaken by sections after a definite plan is" approved.

Once it has received approval of the three groups the "green light" will be given to interest private capital and at the same time to obtain federal funds under the new federal housing measure which is now before Congress. Mayor Chester W. Paulus presided at me conference, which was attended by Robert E. Ross II, chairman of the planning board: Dr. James secrs-tary; Sigmund Scharf, Prof.

William Skelley, Commissioner Herbert D. Dailey and Herbert Fix-ler; Housing Authority members, Elmer B. Boyd, Dr. Eugene Agger, Patrick H. Doyle, D.

Carl Continued on Page Eighteen CHURCHMEN TURN STATE'S WITNESS Bulgarian Says Superior Called Stalin 'Bloodsucker in Pulpit SOFIA, Bulgaria, March 1 One of 15 Bulgarian Protestant churchmen on trial for treason here today accused his superior of having stated from the pulpit 'Stalin is a The accusation was made by Mitko Dimitrov, 39-year-old Baptist pastor, against Nikola Nau-inov, supervisor of the Baptist Church in Bulgaria. Both have pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the United States and Britain. Naumov, however, is one of four major defendants upon whom accused ia lesser roles are trying to place the chief responsibility for their alleged illegal activities. The trial neared the conclusion of its first phase by noon. By then, 13 of the 15 defendants had come to the witness stand.

All have declared themselves guilty and followed the established routine of making long public confessions, pleading full repentance and begging only a chance to redeem themselves by going to work for the Communist-dominated government. Only one defendant has deviated even slightly from this routine. He was Ladin Popov, 36-year-old Pentecostal pastor, who denied he had even been a sp'y. But he confessed illegal currency dealings in conversion of dollars he said were obtained from the United States. Popov became so emotional in his pleas of penitence, his voice rose and shook so much, that there were some open smiles in the Bulgarian court audience.

on Republicans today to help still the sound and fury of a Southern Democratic filibuster against a Senate rules change. As Senator Connally prepared to carry the Dixie banner into the second day of a filibuster to save- filibusters, Democratic leader Lucas laid out a time table for a showdown early next week. Before the Senate is his motion to take up a resolution which would alter the Senate's rules so that two-thirds of those voting could clamp a limit on debate at1 any time. Southerners oppose this as an ooenine wedse for passage of President Truman's civil rights program. Lucas, who heads the administration's forces in the Senate, said the southerners will be allowed to talk until Thursday in their effort to prevent the Senate from passing on this proposition.

He predicted that a petition to invoke the debate-limiting cloture procedure will be filed then. It will be up to Vice President Barkley to rule whether there can be any limitation of debate on a motion such as Lucas' to take up a resolution. That's the point at which Lucas said he wants some Republican help. Last August Senator Vanden-berg ruled as presiding officer that the debate limitation didn't apply in a similar case. This was in an effort by Senator Wherry to call up the anti-poll tax bill.

But if Barkley rules that the debate limit does apply in this case and there are indications that he will because, he disputed Vandenberg's decision last year Lucas said he wants the Republicans to vote with hira to uphold Barkley. He conceded that some of them are "on the spot" politically because they favor civil rights legislation, but don't like to overturn the ruling of Vandenberg. Among Republicans who sought to end debate by the cloture method last August was Senator Taft of Ohio. Taft said the Republicans wpl talk over their, attitude at a meeting of their policy committee tomorrow. Lucas said that if the Barkley ruling, expected Saturday, is favorable to the Lucas view that the present filibuster can be stopped, he will force a vote early next week with a motion to table any appeal.

A motion to table isn't debatable. MINORITY PARTY SHOWS NEW LIFE Greater 1 Interest in Local Contests Is Cited In Somerset SOMERVILLE, March 1 The prevalence of Democratic candidates for municipal and township offices this year throughout Somerset County, an encouraging sign described by Democratic Chairman Joseph Halpern at the organization meeting of the Somerset County Democratic Club, overshadowed the elections of officers of the club. Held at Somerville Inn on Route 29 last night, attendance at the meeting was small due to the storm and hazardous travel on slick highways. Club officers reelected by the county's minority party were as follows: President, Alphonse Ma-kowski, of. Watchung, attorney and veteran of World War II; treasurer, Richard Leary of South Bound Brook; corresponding and recording secretary, Anthony Ziol-kowski of Bound Brook; sergeant-at-arms, Isador Taub of Somerville.

District vice presidents elected were as follows: Bernards, Basil Kearns; Bradley Gardens, Adrian Boom; Bernardsville, Patrick Ci-rillo; Bound Brook, John Pastor; South Bound Brook, Mrs. Florence Snyder; Warren, Clarence Duderstadt; North Plainfield, John Kempa; Montgomery, G. W. Drake; Raritan, Angelo Soriano; Manville, Charles Golcheski; Bridgewater, Joseph Godleski; East Millstone, Mrs. Helen Finch; Franklin, Earl Cunningham; Hillsborough, John Shinkos; Somerville, Charles Westlake.

Archibald S. Alexander of Bernardsville, Democratic candidate for state committee, was absent from the meeting because of illness. Aleo absent was Raymond L. Fisher of Hillsborough township, candidate for collector, who was in a New York City hospital for observation. Halpern said Democratic candidates would seek office in all but two of Somerset's 21 municipalities and townships.

He said there were full slates of candidates in Bound Brook, Manville and Hillsborough township. Two students at the New Jersey College tor Women test the snowfall for firmness and find It to their liking. At the left Is Helen Stratton of Haddonfield, and her companion is Ethel Minster of York, Pa. Calco Employes Treated for Eye Irritations in New Process BOUND BROOK, March 1 Fourteen employes of the Calco Chemical Division of the American Cyanamid Company here were released yesterday from the plant infirmary after being confined for 24 hours for treatment of eye irritation caused by escaping chemical concentrates, the company announced. The men, all employed on a new process for making a chemical rubber accelerator to speed the curing of rubber, reported to the medical department over the weekend.

Dr. A. F. Mangelsdorff, Calco medical director, stated that "small concentration of hydrogen sulphide which has escaped from the new process into the air caused the employes to suffer a burning sensation in their eyes and a sensitiveness to light." This condition, he stated, is of a temporary nature. The operation which resulted in the incident has been shut down pending investigation and correction of the condition, the company states.

Area men treated were Robert Browning of 41 West Franklin street. Bound Brook; Avon Harris of Warren street, South Bound Brook; Herbert Johnson of 35 Main street. South Bound Brook; Joseph J. Kulie of 3228 New Market road, Dunellen; Chauncey Collins of 198 Burnet street, New Brunswick; Ronald Hill of 127 Nelson street, New Brunswick; Gerard L. Lynch of Stelton, and Clarence Schroyer of 111 Bayard street, New Brunswick.

DEMOCRATS LIST BOROUGH TICKET Council, Collector and Assessor Candidates Are Picked in Somerville SOMERVILLE, March 1 There will be Democratic candidates for council, collector and assessor in this borough this year. One will be unopposed by Republicans, from present indications. Candidacies announced last night were as follows: For council: Arthur S. Meredith of 91 Brookside avenue, a graduate of Somerville High School and Rutgers University. Meredith is president of the Brookside.

Association, the organization formed last year by the 441 families residing in the multiple housing unit on the former Speer tract. He is an army veteran of World War II. Meredith is married and his wife is an English teacher in Somerville High School. He Is a law student at Columbia University, a member of the Adult Education Council and a member of the board of directors of the Somerville area of the County Y. M.

C. A. He is a member of the First Reformed Church. For tax collector: Robert H. Reishell of 52 West Brown street, a graduate of Somerville High School and Drake Business College.

Reishell is a navy veteran of World War II. For assee-sor: Frazee C. Sutphen of 33 West Spring street, incumbent, who is running for reelection and who may not be opposed by Republicans. In prospect are another candidate for council and another for collector. Also declared for collector is Samuel H.

Crosby of 22 North Doughty avenue, a borough resident for the past seven years who formerly resided at Green Knoll, Bridgewater township. Crosby, formerly a leader in used household goods, is running a bi-monthly auction at North Branch. He has been active in veterans affairs and is a World War I veteran. SOLDIER KILLED EATONTOWN. March 1 UP) Pvt.

Neal B. Kelly of Sebastopol, stationed at Fort Monmouth, was killed in Wyckoff road, near Route 5, by a hit and run driver last night. Other Somerset News Page 14 U.S. Orders Russian Mission To Leave Or Be Escorted Out Repatriation Corps in American Zone No Longer Needed, Clay Says, Over Soviet Protests FARM PRODUCTS LEAD PRICE DROP Rutgers Economists Point To Swing of Cycle in Commodities History repeating itself is seen in the break of prices of farm products by Allen G. Waller and John W.

Carn cross, agricultural economists of Rutgers University. In the 1949 Outlook Issue of New Jersey's Farm Economic Situation, published by the state university, the two economists express the belief that the general wholesale price level reached a peak in mid-summer of 1948. The nation's farm products prices as a group have declined 15 per cent since last August. The price of non-farm products as a group, on the other hand, has continued at about the same level as last August. Waller and Carncross point out that in past periods of declining prices following major wars, agricultural prices have fallen faster than non-agricultural prices.

This places the farmer at a disadvantage since he purchases many items used in his production and living in the still-high non-farm commodity group. The two men point to corn the nation's No. 1 crop as an example of what happens to prices when production increases to an unusually high level. A record production in 1948 toppled the price received by New Jereey farmers from $2.35 in June to $1.38 per bushel in November of last year. This was a little over a 40 per cent drop in a five-month period.

The economists compare this drop to a similar situation in 1920. In that year the New Jersey price fell over 50 per cent in a four-month period. The supply of corn is so large at the present time that in spite of the government's price support program many farmers are actually getting lees than the support price. The agricultural economists point out that milk and eggs are other important New' Jersey agricultural products which have declined in price seasonally more than a year ago. Fruit and vegetable farmers are also likely to be hit by the continued high rates for labor, seeds, fertilizer, and other items of production.

In a period of declining prices, they declare, efficiency of farm operation and low costs of production per unit of product are most important. FRED PRANZATELLI WILL GIVE CONCERT BOUND BROOK, March 1 Fred Pranzatelli, local violinist, will be guest artist Friday night at the annual concert of the combined musical organizations of Bound Brook High School. Proceeds from the concert will be used to purchase a wire recorder for the school. The high school band and orchestra will be directed by Mah-lon Merk and Bernard Johnson is in charge of the boys' and girls' glee clubs. Herman H.

Anekstein has moved his law offices to 92 Bayard Street. 2 doors above post office. f.27-8t New Brunswick Furniture Exchange accounts are to be paid at Jack Skriloff Company. 7 Peace street. ml-3-5-7-9-ll-13-15-17-19-21-23-25-27-29-31 COUNCIL QUIZZED ON BUDGET ITEMS Taxpayers' Representatives Question Appropriations In Raritan RARITAN, March 1.

Several appropriations of the local purpose tax budget of $284,263.51 were questioned by taxpayers representatives at the public hearing held by the Borough Council here last night. Appearing at the hearing were James Dammicci and Mrs. Bertha Weiss of the Raritan Taxpayers' Association and William Langen-berg, an account with Johnson and Johnson, parent company of Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. Appropriations questioned were $11,500 for "other expenses" for the sewage disposal plant and $5,000 for a new street department truck. George W.

Allgair. borough attorney, said the sewage disposal plant item represented costs of materials and machinery main-tainance. Councilman Stephen Timko, chairman of the sanitation committee of the council, said the appropriation had been cut down from a requested $35,000. Purchase of a new truck at for the street department was claimed by members of the council to be cheaper than repairing the old one. BUS OPERATORS WARNED BY LYON Somerville Mayor Voices Borough's Complaints At Conference SOMERVILLE, March 1 Mayor Howard S.

Lyon, speaking informalLy to the representatives of 11 bus lines operating in and through the borough yesterday afternoon, asked for cooperation in the enforcement of borough ordinances regulating operations of the lines in the overall attempt here to cope with an increasingly complex parking and traffic problem. Indications were that the bus line representatives would comply with the mayor's request. Kenneth J. McCormick, proprietor of the Somerset Hotel and operator of the central ticket agency for the out-of-state bus linee through here, said he felt the lines would be quite willing to cooperate. What the mayor had to say, he said directly and boldly, leaving no room for doubt in the minds of those attending the session that it was pretty much of a case of help or take the consequences.

In the first place, Mayor Lyon said, complaints against bus lines had become epidemic. He softened that conclusion by saying it might Continued on Page Fourteen I FRANKFURT, Germany, March 1 (jp) The U. S. Army said today a Russian mission which has been ordered out of the American Zone of Germany has until midnight to leave or it will "probably be escorted to the border." An army spokesman said there apparently had been' a misunderstanding about when the eight-, man mission handling repatriation of Soviet citizens should leave the U. S.

occupation zone. The spokesman said a letter from American Military Governor Gen. Lucius D. Clay to Russian Commander Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky said the mission no longer would be accredited "effective Mareh 1." This was interpreted to mean midnight tonight.

Army sources said the Frankfurt Provost Marshal, Col. Sterling Wood, had been empowered to take action if the mission should not leave today. But nobody would say just what Wood might do. An official source said Lt. Gen.

Clarence R. Hueb-ner, chief of staff to Gen. Clay told his staff -officers this morning he did not want to "cross bridges before we come to them." The informant said the Russians had told the U. S. Army they would be considered "deserters" if they left of their own accord.

They then were warned they probably would be escorted to the zonal border, the informant added. There were no surface signs that the members of the mission planned to leave today. Russian officers, reached by telephone, said they had no comment on the situation. Two Red flags flew over the huge greystone building in the center of Frankfurt's American community where the mission has its headquarters. Jack and Jill wants local contact woman.

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