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XCVI--No. 102. Established 1851 MIDDLETOWN, N. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1947. FINAL EDITION TWENTY-TWO PAGES SINGLE COPIES.

WKCKJ.V KATES: FIVE CENTS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Phone Unions See ATT Pay Move To Settle Strike Carpenters Here Remain off Jobs Bull Runs WOd In Manhattan; 3 Persons Injured NEW YORK A bull broke loose from a vies: side Construction work in this city was at a virtual standstill todav as approximately sixtv carpenters, members of Local, slaughterhouse today and ocru and Joiners'Union (AFL), failed to report tnrougb crowed io work this morning. Francis Wynkoop, business agent for the union, said the men would remain off the job until contractors agreed to pay $1.75 an hour or submit the issues arbitration under union terms. A last-minute effort to settle toe dispute ended in failure Tuesday evening. Neither side willing Break in May Come Late Totby, Officials Feel BELIEVE FIRM WILL GRANT $6 DEMAND Signs Point to Showdown in Long-Lines Negotia- tipny in Wage Dispute WASHINGTON---Union off.ci confidently predicted a wage offer today in master r.cgu'ia- uor-i. that -aill lead to of the twer.ty-five-cay-old telephone itnke.

The break in the str.ke vi2b pected at or shortly af'er m. EOT. Both here and New York officials i2id thp tx- i pected at that time in sey talks oetween the Amer-cnr. TVe- long distance operators. Henry Mnyer, union attorney sr.id he the company r.oulci in to un.on demands for a $6 weekly wage increase.

Eipects Capitulation i Mayer, an attorney for in- dependent unions and ten the Nat.onal Federation of Veterans' Group streets a few blocks from Tuaes Square before the crazed animal Mas shot and killed, three persons tiere mjured, a vas hit by a police- rnan's bullet intended for the bull The bull escaped from the New York Butchers Companv stock- to agree to ise nwr.iioa aroura- and through the tion by tne otner. Loan to Pay Back Wages Rejected ICC Denies Application for Permit to Issue Trustee Certificates Arabs Say U.S. is Adding Fuel to Palestine Fires Talk Over Palestine Problem on Political Aims Port Committee Reverses Itself Again in Effort to Heal Breach PORT JERYIS--Still undecided as to its final role in political affairs here, the Veterans Ciiic Committee re ersed its field again last night to declare it would support any candidate from either party or. if dissatisfied, would enter its own candidates. The dec! man James Duffy, was interpreted in some Quarters, as an attempt to het.1 the breach has developed in the committee ranks since the group eked its decision The union demanded tixat carpen- ters be paid S1.75 white the issue was being considered.

Con- tractors insisted that the regular rate of $l-57 be paid during tne arbitration period. Contractors, members of the Mid- Contractor's Social Club, offered to pay SI an hour They haid Tuesday that an increase over that figure would not allow them a fair margin of profit ui their construction contracts. The union has also asked that if a tv.o- man arbitration board is appointed it be authorized also to arb.trate the spread between the amount the contractor pays the carpenter and the amount charged. Paul Cokelette. president of the Social CSub.

sa.d today the contractors were than i to negotiate but said members of group -A ere not inclined to aa-. rlaratiori, he 75 Erbltra: or streets as pedestrians scurried for and motorists stopped their cars and stared. The animal got as far as Broadway anc 33th Street, an intersection teeming with rush hour crowds, where it injured two persons. Jack Trestert, fifr. -four, of Teanetk.

X. and Mrs. Rose Gradeneii, fifty-eight, of Brook- Then the enraged bull turned and pounded its way to Ninth Avenue and 3cth Street, several blocks away, harried po- caught up with it and felled it vuth a barrage of gunfire. One of bullets, riehocheted and struck Max Schneider, f.fty, of Brooklyn, in the arm Tv.c other stray bullets wer.t through the plate glass wincow of a nearbv hardware store. passing one on live attempt to end the New York with a $4 increase nas i failed, thev will capitulate New fused to return to work tod; the nation's largest city a.thou^h iheir leaders agreed yesterday to a tnev capitulate York Telechone worker? re- heve tae to return 'to work todav in estaalishm i and to cperate instead as a civic committee.

Some members of the group be- ion to refrain from ient of a third party was too hr-sty. ixhile proponents of the committee idea are as strongly v. eekly increase for four" ir.de- vinced thai pendent "unions. Mayer ho -A as of tne gTM! attomev for the unions, veitercay result in the sharpening of many strike a compromise figure. definite as a estaoiishment party would He i accepted tractors increase without to the consumer.

"We have to think of the consumer," Mr. Cokelette said "and it is important that we do what we can to assure that consumer costs will not rise." He added that union members were not fnmiliar with certain expenses which contractors must bear and that because of that unfarrul- iarity were unaiile or unwilling to charged it was a i personal political axes. Wynkoop reiterated that there Mayer said an ar.nour.ce~.er.! i "We want our organization to be was no strike call involved in to- would be made by the ATT nr the truly representative of ail the vet- day's action. Of the 248 raemJjers Department of Labor at five p. m.

erans," Mr. Duffy declared. "The of Local 574 only about forty per- EDT. only way we can have such an cent are affected. The others work All signs pointed to a showdown i organization is for each of us to! out of town or for contractors in negotiations.

offer suggestions and thresh them who do not belong to the local Robert Creasey, negotiator out in open meeting." Homeless in Wake Of Four Tornadoes Twisters Strike Widely- Separated Areas of Southwest, Southeast Twenty-five persons were dead and hundreds were left homeless for the key long distance workers, also reported that a break the group. A strike call would affect i them as well as. those employed by The idea of forming 2. third party i contractors involved in the present Still Active Politically die West. Southwest and Southeast.

hill and long deadlocked, negotiations was i was dropped in the best interests oispute possible some tune after five p. SDT. yregotiaitons with ATfeT TV ere nd- joumed to thai hour when the parent Bell firm failed yesterday of the veterans, Mr. Duffy expiam- The business agent said two Mid- not take active part in political t-cts death toil Included: certificates" covering the amount of ACTION WILL CUT CLAIMS OF WORKERS Railroad Assumes Liability for $225,000 of $1,163,000 Sought New York. Ontario Western Railway Company employes wili receive less than twenty percent the SI, 163.000 which they haic claimed as back wages, it appeared today after announcement that the Interstate Commerce Commission had denied an application by the OW truitees for permission to borrow $450000 to pay current claims.

Announcement of the ICC action was yesterday by Elbert Oakes. attorney for the railroad trustees. Raymony L. Gebhardt anc Ferdinand J. Sieghardt.

The com- miss.on held a lean culd not be adequately secured. As a result cf the commission's action, Oakes said, the OW would not accept liability for bac-i pay claims the amount of $225.000. about 193 percent of the amount sought by operat-rg and non-operating employes. The back pay issue -grew out of negotiations, over a period of years, in wh.cn sex era- pay increases were granted to employes of various railroads throughout the country by the War Labor Board under Both the Roose 1 elt and Truman administrations. OW Not Represented The OW dxi-riot participate in the negotiations in question and.

when OW workers filed claims for similar increases, the railroad agreed to accept liability only on condition that the road be permitted to issue trustees' certificates $450,000 to the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation. On February fourteenth the trus- tees obtained" Federal Court thority to apply for the loan and on February twenty-eighth the ap- plication was filed with the At the same time the trustees i delegate Andrei Gromyko 'right' comerses with Brazil's Dr Oswaldo Aranha. president of the special session of the UN Genera! Assembly, at Meacov.s. Vihich was caned by Great Britain to discuss the Palestine problem. Gromyko--has supported the Arab demand for s.

discussion of Palestine's independence. i To Keep Americas Free, Aleinan Says Steel on Freight 2 Coaches; 4 Dead U. S. tuad Mexico Must Stayi43 in Wreck fairs. ment of the S1.75 figure beginning to come through with an antici- The qualifications of candidates today.

Some of the sixty carpen- 1 pated cash wage offer. -for elective appointive off" "I would say that shortly after would be examined by the groi ur p. rn-, ATT will make s. eub- he added, and if the group failed four office groun. to involved have been placed on outside jobs, Mr.

Wjnkoop said, but Fairmont. N. Powell, four, death bv a piece heard the storm and taken his stantial wage Creasey tsld approve or endorse any candidate. possible settlement within a reporter. "If they don't, we vr.li WO uld then offer its own.

have some news ourser. es." still another effort to soothe the The union's "news." it was indi- pro-party element was seen in the ited. would take the form of a decision" to establish a permanent the next week. "I don't want to do it." Mr. (Continued on Page 7.

Col. ca charge that ATT had failed to bargain and a warning r-ffiL- ates of the National Federation of Telephone Workers were digg.ng in for a long strike. The long lines workers and thir- other striking afi.lia-es of the NFTW are demanding a $6 weekly increase over telephone worker's average weekly -Rage of They first asked $12 Several Agreements Seieral wage settlements, principally with independent unions. now been reached in different parts of the country. But was generally believed that no try- wide agreements were hkelj the long distance dispute settled here.

Strike developments elsewhere included these: In Wisconsin 7,000 the Wisconsin Telephone Gaiid voted on a company offer boost i wages S3 to $5 weekly. Restilts cf the ballot were to be tabulated'. The Michigan Bel; Telephsne Company offered 19 000 strikers a $2 $4 increase. It was rejected as 1 "wholly inadequate." decision to establish a peri committee charged represent- ing "organized veterans" at all; meetings of the Common Council and other municipal govemmc vmsts. Selection of iuch a commit- First evidence cf the within the groan carae with announced en- clorsement of Wilfred J.

Boyer. a non-veteran, for the Board of jidu- cation seat left vacant by the res- ignation of Harry J. Some members cf the group expressed the belief that that endorsement should have been given to a veteran, itayor Lester M. Warner so far has refrained from announcing; any appointment to the post. The most recent problem to upset the group has revolved around the selection, by the Youth Recxea- i tion Committee, of a full-time members o.

i recreational director at aa annual of S3.000. The Recreational Two Drivers Face Accusations After in Area Loch Sheldrake Man Is Charged With Leaving Scene of Accident Committee, from score applications, has selected three for personal interview. All three are non-residents. to their jobs under a boosts cf for making up to $50 and several men $4 for others. The New Tors Tethor.e Corn- at Albany ssid it r.ad an agreement with rrkers--not on str.se--ca...ng for ra of S3 to S5.

Unions involved New York and Pennsylvania settlesr.t:."s -re -depencent. They ro: f.ff:!s- with the NFTW. veteran gro-p has protested tha; local men sho'-id be considered for the pest. Kagan reported las; night that a committee of himself. Eli T.

Conner Ctae woman was slightly injured two automobile operators were arrested yesterday in three accidents reported to State Police in the Middletown area. The injured woman was Mrs. Minnie Williams of Walden who received a sprained right shoulder as the parked car in which she was sitting on Route 302 in Pine Bush was struck by a heavily laden sand truck. The car which Mrs. Williams was a passenger, a sedan owned by her husbanc.

Floyci. was parked on the west sice of the highway. The truck, cnven by Richard 3om- and Thomas had ir.ter-.iewed face Ro. 3S3 ap. was at)oroachm jerry Huss and her nephew.

Waiter Farmer, thirty. killed when a zig-zaggirig twister i caused the truck in which thev were returning from a funeral to crash into a telephone pole i Worth, dead from Tuesday's storm. Rogers. killed in farming hamlets near Rogers and a ninth near Holla. The storms continued in the southeast today, with high winds and heavy rams lashing' Atlanta.

Ga. U. S. meteorologists sa.d yester- day twisters were "unusual" that they struck such widely separ- Commission ated areas. The toil might have been far greater.

Both tornadoes just missed striking the hear: of heavily populated areas. The North Carolina twister whipped through the edge of Fair- nicnt. killing one child and destrov- ir.g more than fifty homes. C. Stafford, of the Fairmont Chamber of Commerce, estimated that 300 persons were left homeless.

The tornado cut a fifty-mile path of destruction through the farm- $1.000.000. and said the death toll was minimized by the fact residents -iuAIng in the tobacco fields. The other twister dropped down from the clouds on tr.e eastern out- skins of Dallas and headed for Garland, a suburb cf 6 000 popula- tion. It veered, struck a the proposed loan. Decision of the commission to tificates was reached, it was re- ported, after a study of- the rail- road's earning power.

are not able to fine." the (Continued on Page 7, Col. Mailler Requests 5 Hospitals for Chronic Disease Recommends $10,000,000 Plan After Nine-Year Study ALBANY--A multi-million dollars attack on chronic disease was recommenced today by a special legis- lative commission which termed it. New Tork State's Number One health problem. Concluding a nine-year study, the State Health Preparedness Commission recommended a fne-pomt program eroead.ture cf at least S10.000.000 to deal with heart, disease, high biood pressure, rheu- matisrn and other chronic ailments The commission, headed bv As- whom he termed o.ualified to hold the post. Two or 'Continued on Pcce 6.

Col. 1) Go on Trial parsed auto from the south when the right front wheel off the pavement and sar.k ir.t the soft shoulder of the road Boniface lost control ar.d the ehicle swerved across the struck the car then overturned. v.ss able to go home after bei" treated by a Pine Bush pr.ysician. on the outskirts Rockland. twenty-three rn.les from Dallas.

bounced back sky and -i The tornado pd three houses ar.d a garage in the Negro district, three persons. The tornado passfti over the wrecked Husk truck anc struck the Godfrey Quits Health Post ANY--Gofers or TiCT.eV t--- day accepted "with sincerf the resignation cj Pr Godfrey as state swr.er. Godfrey, who has Department announced in a Dtwey April twenty-fifth tna" resign effective tcdar. In h.s letter to Gcdfrcy he had acceded the commissioner's desire to re with reluctance. "Under your leaderihlpl Evidence Will Be Heard by International Court NUKRXBERG-- War au- sp-id tocsy Marsha! Karl von Rur.d^tcct.

cr.e'irr.e Ger- on tr.e Front, ar.d h-g- officers njght be soon offore the Jnterr.at.cr.al Military Tribunal. The trial would be conducted by the ar.d Br.t- ish. Von ar.d at least i two other field are srj one-way traffic fit- -he of tr.e while tr.e truck was ngr.ied Rc-te at. New Er.rr.p- tc-n was the scene cf arotner of misnsps at 5'15 m. -sher.

the auto of MT Dr-rothy thirteen Benton northward, was First Major Steel Strike Is Called r.orrr.warc was A I I fay another r.orthJ»ur.d car Fringe Issues Affect 14,000 Chicago Workers British hands. The Americans also hold a number of field marshals. I Informants said the charges the officers would be much Tork State Department of same as those agrnrrsi Marshal has attained a standing Wjlhelm Kertei ar.d Gen- throughout the nation," Dewey era! Alfred JOG! They were hanced i October after con.c'.or» by the International here The officers were expected to be' rharsrd wirh carry-rig O'lt Atloif i KiUers orders to shoot orders for the ruthless ex- of and other pcopies, and failed to stop- Mrs cbtair.ec license number of the other car and reported it to troopers An investigation traced the Iicesn to Joseph Allenstem of Loch Sheldrake and a teletype rc.essf.se to Ftrncale troopers resulted in lensteins arrest on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident He was arra.gned before trate Miiton at Kurje-. illc ar.c released in S50 bail for a hearing aftemon before Magi trr.te John K. Quacker.bush New Hampton.

At Tuxedo yesterday, Ralph CHICAGO Abcut 14000 CIO United Steeiworkers went on strike against the Inland Steel Company tocay after neco'iators failed to rescji sn afcieement on a new con- srrr SETTLED NEW YORK--The S6.450.0PO pia- suit whicli harped that Cheplin had based the plot cf The Great Dictator on rrript vntten oy Korurad Bf-rroMC! thirty-seven, of Schu- was arrested by Tiooper B. J. Ken-on of Monroe rn a reckless driving charge tractor-traitor which he The walkout, the first wo-k stoppage in the steel industry in 147 began at m.cn.ght the ccntract expired The dispute centered around "fringe" issues contract lan-g- al uage. The union was reported ready tc accept Inland's offer of a 15.1 cent hourly wage but objected tl the company's interpretation of ur.ion rtsponsiKity which the steelworkers claimed would "ic- fter was fi. Poles i cirr.

so; fliwtird on Route Sev ior their er. pf 15 bad rsTnmed the rear of a as Bottled night for $90.000 p.i.t in planning and waging ag- i parked car ownpd by R. Earl I (Continued on Page 6, 1) 13 s-'V- rf xxrc zj sen. recommended" Creation by tr.e state cf five 150- bed hospitals the Rochester. Syracuse.

Albany and New York districts for treatment of chronic disease. Expansion of facilities for care of tht chron.ciil!y in general hos- or separate Expans.on cf bedside nursms scrv- ics fcr chronic patients may fae cared for at home. of a arcncy to met nods cf ar.ci to ar.c local efforts A stxic.al study cf chronic ism anc mental cisturoances w.th sgc. The est.mated the five hcsp.taZs would recu.rp a tal expenditure of S9 000 OC-0 and an annual operating cst cf In acd.t.cn a number cf state- DGGS VT1 i. would cost another $2.000.000.

the commission s.r.ce tr.e rejrtonaj hofp.tal to be set up there would accommodate onr. suburban patients Pointing out that seven of every ten deaths New Tork ere caused by chron.c the listed disease. artenc'Clrrofis and h.gh blood pressure ous and rr.er.tai dresses, rheumatism, nephrite and other kidney tuocrcujosis. cancer and other tumors, ciabetes, hay fever and asthma, and hfrnia as, the chief Strong in Military Might, He Tells Congress WASHINGTON--President Ale- man of Mexico told a joint session of Congress today that the United i States and Mexico must remain strong both "in heart'' and in mill- tarv mieht to keep this aeausphere free. "We have learned that isolation is not a good formula for living.

that it is not good tactics for se- i the handsome forty-three- year-old Mexican leader said in an address which climaxed his three- i day "good neighbor" visit in VTash- ington. "We have learned that cemoc- racy, if not backed by force, whets the appetite of dictators, and that the most powerful force to uphold i democracy lies not in tanks and ordnances, but in the conviction of the men when conflict finally creaks out. will drive the tanks and fire the cannon." he said. "This we have learned during the war. It will rise against us.

should ignore it in tne peace. Let our own hearts be the bulwark to res-st all attacks against our own hemisphere." Alernan. first Latin American head of state to speak before Congress, deli-, ered his address in Spanish. The Mexican President sa-d he was "sincerely grateful for tne honor of being received this Congress where democracy holds "The essential tr.earr.ne of this ceremony lies in its friendly spr.n- he "It proi.es. -he firm decision with h.ch cur nation? have overcome the of the past." The respons.bility of the 1'nited States and Mexico to the 230 OOC 000 people of the Western Hemi-rjhcre.

rip saic. lies not alone in the rrr.ir.- tenance of security, but also in bettering their econom.c and cultural standr.rcs. of Pennsylvania Passenger Train HUNTINGDON. plates protruding from a freight car i sliced open two passenger coaches of a speeding Pennsylvania Rail- road express train today killing four passen-ers r.nd injuring at least forty-three others. Another, freight, train into the wreckage, the locomotive and tender ox ertuming.

One witness dercn'ced the rip- ping of the steel p.ates through the passer.cer like a long metal arm had reached into the coarh The wrecriec train was the men left New Torfc at 8.50 last i-sjht for St. Louis. "Ball of Fire" It was p.T^'ng the freight when the steel frc.m its moorings The steel scra-ed the passenger gouged into a mail car. an express car aid a combination faaegage ar.d coach. Then it ripped the steel sides from two passenger coaches like a giant can opener.

The coaches were cut w.de open before the emergency terras -f-cped the train 1 "A ball cf hot coals seemec io f.T.t Ly o-r car." Red Powell, cf A a passenger coach said "It a n. r. from Hoc-. in do-, i asleep r. a I a hunched j- reached ne Jarr.rr^d m.i.

to The Battle to Force Action on Issue Is Opened American Viewpoints on Holy Land Immigration Hit by Iraq Delegate FLUSHiNC-- Tht Ara tior.s carrying i iru- of the rhf-ir 'force the Ur.iu-d lu act on Palest ir.f. the United jit-trol to the fire" i-y o- caiir.y imrr.Ija":iii.j:i K-''. "Part of our home fire," Fadhii Jamali of Iraq said ir. an impaioned to the full "That fire spreading, inrr-igratiuu is petrol to the "re. And I address tins to my American friends." Jamah and Farii El-Kh" cf Syna opened the Arab f.

an apparently hopeless one. as ocn as the Assembly er.ed at II 27 a. m. to consider the adoption of an agenda recommended by the steering committee The agenda had only one item--the British, proposal establishing a fact- finding commission to study the enure Palestine problem. An Arab to force the Assembly to considc the termination of the British mandate and immediate independence for Palestine v.as defeated by the committee, eight to one.

Tries to Stifle Speakers The Assembly president, Oswaldo Aranha. of Brazil tried to stifle both. Jamali and EI-Khouri, accusing them of going far outside the discussion of the agenda in their speeches. El-Kiiouri, a stocky, white-haired man, listened placidly to Aranha, then continued to talk about the meaning of the UN charter at. the same pome where he had been interupted.

Jamali spoke for ten minutes without touching on the agenda. "The problem of Palestine consists merely of the imposition of one people over another without that people's consent." he said. "Ail parties ready to present their tier's now." he said, arguing against postponing action on Palestine. "But. if the Assembly thinks a committee must be formed, our delegation feels th nothing but the principles cf the Atlantic Charter will settle the Palestine question." Aranha rapped his gavel sharply.

he said, suttermgly. "in ten minutes you haver, spoken about the report of the general comm.ttee. This is my last appeal to the delegates to keep the a.s- cussion to the report." Jamali replied that his ute d' course was "an introduction to w.u.t I am going to say Bu" he then only briefly, stating again that he believed the Palestine quest.on could be dealt witn now by tr.e Assembly. Sir Alexander Cadogan. British ceferide-d the British propose! as the to Irutire ar.

ar.d soljt.c.i of the question. f.allfri-s Crowded At -a-e the fight had been fri the "he committee re-cm to tne fc.c -f r.na gold asse-moly ----ID'-" tne galleries were miming, sympathizers cojld to Page 7. Ccl MIDDLETOWN LIONS CLUB Stable Peace Soviet Aim, Says Budenny on May Day Seme-n Budenny. Day in tr.e presence cf Gtr.frr". thtt Russ.a wr-s strusrgJng for a cooperation spcke frcrn the gaily tcrr.b of Lenin to espccia.

-cre strict every operation of the killers and disablers. is The strike shutdown prcc.ucvion I at the ccmpar.v.s hush Indiana and $5,000 court warfare. r.pn Harbor plant p.t East and the smaller Ch.cago 111., plant. Rave you realized how advertise- Ir.ri, men's r.clp vou 7 By seiiing more soods to more people, they make your Job more secure soldiers and workers massed in Red ir.tr.t.? are Scuare Tanks, art.llery and r' tans guns cotttd the square, Rr.cio Moscow reported, and planes both cled overhead a ed Soviet Union At is consistently a cerr. stable nemccrfltic per.fe, for equal- of ity and fr.c~.d-"nip cf nations and were for arr.o"r: ccun- p--r I -t i.

tnes," Budenny said. foreign policy of the Union i encounters Uie full and -fo-- support of our ent.re people." a I The celebration was the i most elaborate of the May a A St. observances held throughout Europe a m.irnr" on labor's annual holiday. re f.f'.een rppearcd to fro? h.r.^o- Demonstrat.ons of labor's back nd mounuti 'he nia tical and economic power were to speak. DEAR RUTH" MAY 6th Ms'ddlefown High School Auditorium Aff Scots Reserved SI, 1.50, $2, federal tax TICKKT-; NOW OX SALE AT Bl.Vf.

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