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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, President Writes (Continued From Page 1) had vetoed the rent bill the pros pects of another measure being sent to him was "negligible." "I had no choice but to Mrs. Truman added. The provision permitting "vol untary" increases of fifteen per cent where landlord and tenant on a lease through December 31, 1948. the President said, "is vol untary only so far as the landlord is concerned, he commented: "The tenant will naturally fear that unless he enters into such a lease he will be subjected to even more exorbitant increases when rent control is ended. Terming the compromise bill better than nothing, Senator Sparkman (D Ala) expressed doubt that Congress would ap prove another measure even if it had the time.

Republicans and "Democrats in both Houses have said they would not even attempt to push through an alternative bill if this one should be vetoed. Mr. Truman had asked extension of the present law for one year without change. The House member who pre dieted presidential acceptance represented Mr. Truman as particularly critical of the section allowing permissive rent boosts up to 15 per cent, in exchange for leases running through December, 1948, and another section lifting most building controls.

However, Senator Hawkes (R NJ), who introduced the 15 per cent, clause, declared that the leases it contemplates "are strictly a voluntary agreement." He said that any landlords who use them "as a weapon of coercion" would violate the law, assuming the president signs the measure. In addition to the 15 per cent, permissive increases, the compromise bill provides that: 1. Advisory boards be set up in each of the approximately 600 defense rental areas in the country. These boards are authorized to recommend increases in ceilings or outright abandonment of controls in their areas. The boards' recommendations would become effective automatically in 30 days un less rejected by Housing Expediter Frank R.

Creedon, who also is rent administrator. 2. Rent controls be lifted immediately on new housing, hotels, newly rented dwellings and remodeled or reconverted housing accommodations. 3. Government restrictions on all construction except amusement and recreational buildings, such as theatres and bowling alleys, be scrapped.

Creedon has estimated this would release a backlog of $2,000,000,000 worth of commercial construction. 4. Eviction proceedings be placed under individual state laws, with the following grounds for eviction set forth: (a) failure to pay rent, (b) violation of the "obligations of tenancy," such as destruction of property, (c) commission of a nuisance or use of a building for immoral or illegal purposes, (d) decision of a landlord to occupy a dwelling himself, (e) sale of a dweling for occupancy by the purchaser. Long waiting periods and a provision for an OPA eviction certificate are eliminated. Parley to Decide (Continued From Page 1) ers received 94 cents hourly and skilled workers $1.38.

Operators, in rejecting the demands, said shipbuilding costs already were so high the American industry was handicapped in competition With foreign shipyards. Struck plants are nine Bethlehem Steel Company yards from east Boston and Quincy, to sparrows, and 1500 employes of the Atlantic basin and iron works here. Employes of the following large companies are expected to participate in the threatened new walkout, said Charles A. Leone, the union's New York regional director: Maryland Drydock and Repair Company, Baltimore, 5C00 workers; Alabama Drydock and Repair Company, Mobile, 4000; New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N. between 5000 and 6000; Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, N.

4000. In addition, Leone said, 10,000 workers employed by small firms in the Philadelphia area were expected to walk out, as well as an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 others in small yards on both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Meanwhile, Walter H. Oakes, regional director of the union, said 4000 members of a Baltimore local voted over the weekend to strike the Maryland drydock firm but that the walkout would not be called pending results of company negotiations today. May Sacrificed (Continued From Page 1) the money he received from them in connection with a Garsson financed lumber concern in Kentucky.

"But restitution is no defense," Redden argued. "Congressman May is guilty. It doesn't matter whether he made restitution or not." Redden said, the evidence showed that the 72 year old May and the Garsson brothers sold the Kentucky concern, the Cumberland Lumber Company, at a $30,000 loss "according to their own figures" in order to avoid a law suit "because they were afraid." "They were scared of the government investigation they know was already on," Redden de clared. "And it was at this same time that those phoney inventories showed up." He referred to invoices purporting to list lumber shipments to the Garsson war firms from the Kentucky firm. Evidence was submitted to show that the Cumberland Company never sent lumber to the Garssons.

Redden gave the third installment in the government's argument in the trial that has been in progress since last April 22. Defense attorneys prepared to begin their concluding statements. The jury is expected to start considering its verdict late tomorrow or Wednesday, i Harrisburg. Pa. Monday.

June 30, 1947 Besch Left Estate Valued at $27,500 A. Joseph Besch, 407 Radnor street, manager of Stroehmann's Bakery, who died June 2.5 in Port Huron, after being removed from the Chamber of Commerce cruise ship, left an estate valued at $27,500, according to estimate made today when 'letters were issued at the Dauphin County Courthouse. His widow, Mrs. Eva A. Besch, 407 Radnor street, who applied for letters.

A daughter, Ethel arid three sons, Anthony, Nicholas and Joseph Besch, are the heirs, The will of William Meade Showers, Harrisburg, was filed today, leaving his $4500 estate to his widow. Mrs. Bessie Showers. Ex ecutor is Evington Martin, Altoona. 12 Persons Hurt (Continued From Page 1) B.

Schlichfer, 1631 North Second street; and of the second car, Ber nard Ginsburg, Cleveland, Ohio, Trooper David K. James, Gettys burg substation, reported. Neither was hurt. The witnesses said Ginsburg was driving toward Carlisle and as he crossed the Gettysburg pike the collision occurred. Ten persons were injured in two accidents near Carlisle yes terday.

Five persons travelling to their homes in Pittsburgh from New York crashed into a tree on the pike six miles east of Carlisle as the driver was blinded by ap proaching lights. The second accident occurred as a driver ignored a stop sign in the Old Mill Road, his auto col liding with another passing the intersection five miles south of the borough. Those in the Pittsburgh car now being treated in the Carlisle HospitaL are Frank A. Lucas, 22, driver, cuts and bruises; Andrew Charalambous, 15, cuts; Ever bedes Charalambous, 46, shock and possible internal injuries; his wife Maria, 47, possible fractured left arm, and chest injuries: and Calvin Harkless, 20, cuts. Everbedes Charalambous had returned from London by plane Saturday night, and was met in New York by his wife, son Lucas and Harkless.

Three victims of the Mill Road accident remain in the hospital. Two were treated and released. Those still under treatment are Wayne Clippinger, 22, Culbertson, Franklin county suffering shock and cuts; Ruth Sollenberger, 30. a nurse at the Carlisle Hospital, also of Culbertson, possible skull fracture, neck injury and shock, and Lee Hippensteel, 24, Ship pensburg, owner of one of the cars, cuts and bruises. Miss Esther M.

Mellotte, 27 Cito, Fulton county, driver of, Hippensteel's car, who suffered a possible fractured leg and bruises, and Mrs. Fannie Swarner, wife of the driver of the second treated for shock. State Police said George Swar ner, 64, Carlisle, drove from the Old Mill Road to the Old York Road, ignoring a stop sign. James Campbell, 19, Wallace street, near Harris, was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital for cuts and bruises after his motor cycle collided with a car at Cameron and State streets. Five Fishermen (Continued From Page 1) take the fishermen to the Gala pagos Islands, about 1800 miles further south, and said it was sending a craft from Panama to pick up the victims.

The Thistle's crew members were Capt. William Noble, Charles E. Warren, Gilbert B. Stethe, Robert Marchall and Walter Richards, all of San Pedro. Veteran fishermen said the boat probably was caught in a "chu basco" storm, the equivalent of a "cyclone at sea," and described tropical Clipperton as "a very bad spot, anytime." M.

J. Gorby, president of the California Marine Curing and Packing Terminal Island, ex pressed the position of the wreck. He said the Thistle's normal cruising range was about 700 miles and that she must have blown "the rest of the way out of control. The consensus was that the men were "very lucky" to be discov ered as Clipperton is well off usual shipping with virtually nothing to sustain life except a few wild pigs and coconuts. There is no fresh water unless it rains, it was said, and some of the fish in the area are poisonous.

"Every man in the tuna fleet knows about Clipperton and avoids it," was veteran tuna man Bob Alcott's way of putting it. The Navy had a seaplane base there during the war. France once claimed the island, but between the two World Wars it was de serted. Mrs. Walter Richards, wife of the wrecked ship's engineer, re sides with their three children at San Pedro.

She said the boat was on ai nine week trip fishing for shark livers. "Thank uod my nusband is safe," she exclaimed. "I had a feeling about three weeks ago that something was wrong." Mrs. Richards said she did not believe any of the other rescued men was married. Youth Drowns (Continued From Page 1) County Coroner E.

A. Haegele, released the body to the Shulen berger funeral home, 169 West High street, Carlisle, where services will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. Burial will be in West minster cemetery, Carlisle. Friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday evening.

Garman is survived byrns parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Gar man; five sisters, Mrs. Clara Yar lett, Carlisle; Mary, Elliotsburg, R. Selma, Carlisle, and Alma and Ruth, at home; eight broth ers.

John, Carlisle, and Clarence, Chester, Paul, Marlin Merle, Walter and Jesse, all at home a jffi atimmm ft) LfS Ensminger. TECH CLASS HOLD 25TH REUNION The Class of 1922 of Tech High School held it 25th reunion Saturday at the Perm Harris Hotel. Officers of the class are the Rev. J. Ressler Shultz, president, center; Harry De Wire, Paul Smith, dean, on the left; Harry Burchfield, vice president, and Carlyle Erdley, historian, on the right.

Landon Reveals (Continued From Page 1) after discussing the political outlook with House Speaker Martin (R Mass.) and others at the Capitol. He then left for New York to see Governor Thomas E. Dewey. In his letter to Moley, Landon had this to say of Roosevelt's successor: "Truman is nobody's fool and he has a good political eye. But I don't think he can hold the coali tion together that is really masquerading under the' title of the Demoeratic party." Talking informally with the newsmen, Landon said a third party in 1948 could assure a Republican victory if organized in only a couple of key states.

He recalled that the big Ameri can Labor party vote gave New York to Roosevelt in 1944 and that such a vote, thrown to Wallace on a third party ticket, would guarantee the state to the Re publicans and probably assure election of a Republican President. Landon did not name any other states, but indicated he might have had in mind California, where Robert W. Kenny is organ, izing a Wallace rpledged delegation to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. Elaborating on the Democratic picture in his two year old letter, Landon said: "Truman is naturally going to have a different kitchen cabinet. When F.

D. friends are out in the cold, they will confuse per sonalities with policies and Truman will be damned if he does and damned if he don't, just as (President William Howard) Taft was. "Already, it seems to me that Wallace, instead of trying to be helpful to Truman, is more concerned about building his own fences. The disgraceful CIO dem onstration at Hyde Park for him, when he and Truman got off the funeral train, is not to be overlooked. Of course, Truman will try to keep him in his cabinet as long as he can for that ties his hands to a certain extent.

"Of course, a lot can happen in the next three years. My guess is now that you will see several mil lion real Democrats who have been voting the Republican ticket in 1936, 1940 and 1944, return to the Democratic party. But that you will see a third party headed by Wallace and financed by the U.S. Gives 2500 (Continued From Page 1) mines in the same condition it found them 13 months ago empty of workers. Forced to step out of the pits at noon with final expiration of Smith Conn ally War Labor Disputes Act, one Federal agency thus gets rid of the coal headache but another is ready to tackle the still unsettled contract war between John L.

Lewis and the operators. The Coal Mines Administration folds up with the end of government operation, leaving Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach and his conciliation service the only official connection with the dispute. Schwellenbach will try to mediate a new contract to avert the threat of a full blown strike eight days hence. Navy Capt. N.

H. Collisson, coal mines administrator, sent this no tice to the operating managers of the mines for display at noon: "Government possession and control of the coal mines of this mining company have been ter minated by order of the Secretary, of the Interior." Collisson also ordered the mines to lower the U.S. flag which had been displayed as a token of gov ernment control. He. told report ers it may take two months to close the CMA's accounts through out the country and return the staff to Navy duty.

The mines were seized May 22, 1946, after futile efforts to settle a strike which had been in process since April 1. A week later, Lewis signed a contract with Secretary of the Interior Krug, ending the walkout and sending the 400.000 soft coal miners back to work for Uncle Sam. Now Lewis and the operators si ill are at odds over terms of a contract under which the mines could be worked next week. The 'pits currently are closed down for a ten day vacation which started Saturday under Icrms of the Krug Lewis contract. Each miner got $100 and ten days off, The 75,000 Pennsylvania anthracite miners who made a contract with their operators without IK seizure a year ago, also are on a similar ten day vacation.

But unless a contract is signed by Lewis and the soft coal operators, the bituminous miners may stay out indefinitely instead of reporting back to work on July 8. Most of the soft coal operators would be delighted to settle for the terms which Krug gave Lewis last year. But Lewis wants more than that. He wants a 35 cents hourly wage increase and an eight hour day, in stead of the present nine hour day and 54 hour week. He also wants to double the' nickle a ton royalty for the miners' welfare and retirement fund.

At five cents a ton, the fund is getting $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 annually. Just as the operators and Lewis were unable to come to agreement in the spring of 1946, they have been unable to see eye to eye this Showdown Hears (Continued From Page 1) was emphasized yesterday when Russia, in a surprise announcement, declared her opposition to any "all embracing" economic program for Europe. The announcement, broadcast from Moscow by the official Tass News Agency during a recess in the negotiations, asserted that the sole purpose of the conference was to decide the amount of financial aid needed from America and whether such aid could be obtained under the Marshall plan. It rejected French and British proposals for special international committees to administer over all aid as unwarranted interference in the domestic affairs of European states. The French and British delega tions asserted that the Russian approach would wreck the Marshall plan and with it all hopes of American aid in rebuilding the continent.

Both these sources fore saw quick collapse of the talks if Russia persisted in the stand outlined by Tass. Diplomatic quarters immediate ly began speculating what Britain and France would do should the talks collapse. A British spokesman reiterated that his govern ment was determined to take ad vantage of the Marshall plan without Russia if necessary, and French quarters voiced hope that this nation might go along. Overshadowing the French at titude, however, was the question of whether the strong French Communist party would endorse participation in the program in the face of Soviet opposition. It was generally agreed that should Russia back out and Britain and France proceed together, the net result would be to divide Europe and the world more definitely into'twp camps.

Radio Silenced Manila, June 30, UP) The U.S. Army's radio station WVTM left the air today, ending a two and one half year career as the first voice of the liberation on Luzon. Lack of money and personnel to gether with strong complaints by commercial stations prompted the shutdown, officials said. Way Sought (Continued From Psge 1) is a question whether they can actually meet their payrolls. A Senate resolution permitting them to make actual expenditures is before the House Appropria tions Committee.

Some members of that committee are reluctant to accept it because it permits ex penditures at the rate contemplated in the President's budget estimates, which the committee hope to reduce. The eleven snagged appropriation bills are the main business before Congress as it goes into the last scheduled month of its ses sion. But as the lawmakers turned into the home stretch, Republican leaders in the driver's seat for the first time in fifteen years voiced pride in their record and confi dence that they will overcome the many hurdles on the road to planned adjournment July 26. In the nearly six months it has been in session this Congress has enacted laws of far reaching lm port at home and abroad; it has cut a pattern for sharp reductions in government spendine and it has given President Truman many of uie uungs ne asKea lor even while turning deaf ear to some oi his other requests. But it still has several major must bills on the calendar.

Probably no other Congress in recent mstory has come to the end of a fiscal year with as few departmental appropriations bills out of the way. Only, one of the 12 reeular sun ply bills has reached the President. It finances the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the new year starting tomorrow. All the others either are await' mg. Senate action, are in Senate House conference because of disagreements between the two branches, or haven't even emerged irom the House Appropriations Committee, which originates all money bils, But to meet the threat of nav less paydays for Federal work ers, Congress already has enacted a provision allowing unfinanced departments to incur obligations in anticipation of pending ap propriations.

It may go further by agreeing, as the Senate has recommended, to allow them actually to spend money in an ticipation of replenished cof fers. On the basis of appropriation action to date, the House Repub lican drive to slash $6,000,000,000 from President Truman's 1948 budget of $37,500,000,000 will come closer to the $4,500,000,000 cut recommended by the Senate. House approved reductions to date on 11 annual bills approximate $2,800,000,000 compared with bud get estimates. Aside from the money bills, the record on other legislation hinging on the fiscal year end deadline is somewhat better. Bills extending the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation and the Commodity Credit Corporation for; another year from midnight to night are on the President's desk.

So also is a bill extending rent controls until next March 1 and permitting 15 per cent, rent boosts by voluntary agreement between tenants and landlords. A stop gap measure continuing! for 15 days export and import controls on certain strategic commodities has passed the Senate! and is ready for House action. It takes the place of a permanent extender on which the two branches haven't reached agree ment. Extension of controls over industrial sugar, already has been approved. Ex Solon Stricken (Continued From Page 1) Mrs.

William Gale, of land. She strayed from Lee's va cation camp, near Lassen Park, where she had gone on a holiday with her grandparents, Congressman and Mrs. Tolan. The child's father is assistant district attorney of Alameda county. The child was playing with other children at the camp and was missed about 10 a.

m. Tolan, a former Democratic congessmn, served three con secutive terms before his retire ment last year. He and Mrs. Tolan and their granddaughter went to Lee's camp recently on a vacation trip. The chads parents had joined them Friday.

Bloodhounds from the game warden's office at Quincy were pressed into the search. The country in which the little girl disap peared, about eight miles north of Chester, is brushy, cut by numer ous large creeks. Ensminger. OSTEOPATHIC HOSPITAL BENEFIT PARTY Attending the lawn fete and. bridge party sponsored by the, Harrisburg Osteopathic Clinic Association Saturday, at the Katharine Sweeney Day School, are W.

J. Davis, Mrs. Randall Raeuchle, Mrs. Raymond Dietz, Mrs. Joseph Rocke, Mrs.

Donald Harper and Mrs. William Blacksmith. The party was held for the bene fit of the Osteopathic Hospital fund. wL I 4 I vi ii 1 i iiniinot.iJW'' PENN CLASS ENJOYS REUNION Committee members who planned the eighth reunion of the Class of 1939, William Penn High School which was held in the West Shore Country Club are, front row, Mary Louise Lingle, Dorothy Henry, Virginia Seltzer, Sara Marcus, Patricia DeGroot, and Mary Marcus. Back row, Chester Hocker, Edward Lichtenberger, Ben Olewine, III, and Herbert Richman.

One hundred and eighteen members attended the reunion. Four Generals (Continued From Page 1) Right Wing Resistance leaders, Monarchists and Vichy collabora tionists became known to French police forces late in 1946 from police informers. Through undercover investiga tion Depreux continued, police uncovered numerous details. He said the Black Maauis had drawn up a complete "Blue Plan" for first filling Frenchmen with fear of a "Communist putsch" and men stepping in to set up a "pro visional directorate" of military leaders, patterned along totalitarian lines. The Maquis were French underground fighters dur ing the war.

Depreux held a long confer ence this morning with Premier Paul Ramadier concerning the purported conspiracy. French press agency dispatches from Rennes, in Brittany, named M. vulpian, 47. editor of the weekly France Vivante and president of a veteran's organization, as among those arrested, together with Marc Jacquot, a wine mer chant of Montigny, and the rec tor of the Abbey at Lamballe, Brittany, identified only as Rault. Depreux confirmed the arrest of all three of these persons and identified De Vulpian as a count.

De Vulpian was brought to Paris last Wednesday and signed a statement implicating himself and Guillaudot in the affair, the min ister said. He said Guillaudot was ques tioned at once, but was not taken into custody until he allegedly acknowledged that he knew about the Black Maquis organization and had had some relations with nearly every person implicated. Also arrested last hight, De preux said, was Mme. De Waleff, a widow in whose Pans apart ment a large quantity of gold was found. He said she had been given provisional liberty because of her advanced age.

Police learned nearly 311 of the meetings of the purported conspirators were held in her apartment and that Gen. Guillaudot was present at all of them, the minister declared. He said some of the persons held had tried to enroll in Gen Charles de Gaulle's French Peo ples' rally (RPF), but had been refused admittance. He said the organization even published a clandestine newspa Le Reseau (the network). Copies of it were seized in such widely separated sections as Lamballe in Brittany, Agen in southern France, and Oijon in the east.

'We intend to push our inves tigation to its final conclusion, no matter how important a personage is found to be involved," Depreux declared. The minister said the "Blue Plan" stipulated that civil war must be started in France. The plotters said they had reason to believe that armored units of the French army in Brittany and some unspecified troops from the Army of Occupation in Germany would march on Paris irom tne east, Depreux went on. He said officials of the War and Interior Ministries were in vestigating those units now. The signal for opening the civil war was to be an attack on Vannes prison in southwestern Bri.ttany, where persons" accused of wartime collaboration with the Germans are held, the minister continued.

He said De Vulpian arrest six days ago was the first direct ac tion taken by the French secret police. They raided the count's chateau at Lamballe. Depreux said numerous docu ments were discovered at the chateau as well as an "important" arms depot, including a number of heavy machine guns. The documents discovered, De preux said, included copies of the "Blue Plan," a proposed new constitution for the French state, secret instructions to the Black Maquis and a provisional list of persons who were to form the military directorate. Persons mentioned in the list, he added, are being investigated in an effort to discover whether their names were used with their knowledge.

State Police Seize Untaxed Ggarets Philadelphia, June 30, (IP) Pennsylvania has begun its drive to prevent persons from bringing cigarets into the Commonwealth on which no State tax has been paid. State Police and Department of Revenue agents stopped every 15th or 20th automobile coming off Delaware river bridge yesterday and confiscated about 40 cartons of cigarets within a three hour period. They said no motorist protested and they dismissed violators with warnings. The Legislature earlier this month increased the tax per pack from two cents to four and provided a penalty of $25 fine and costs for each untaxed carton found. Another statute authorized State Police to search without warrants all vehicles entering the State, Ensminser.

STOCKS New York, June 30, UP). Noon stocks: Air Reduction 30 Am Can 92 Am and For Pow 3 Am RadSt and HVt Am Smelt 57 Am Tel and Tel 155 Am Tob 73 Anaconda Cop 34 Atch and SF 78 Atl Refining 35 Bald Loco 18 Bait and Ohib 10 Bendix Avia 31 Beth Steel 83 Boeing Airplane 15 Budd Co 10 Ches and Ohio 44 Chrysler Corp ......107 Colum and El .11 Coml Solvents 24 Cons Edison 26 Cont Can 38 Curtiss Wright 4 Del Lack and West 7 Douglas Air 54 Eastman Kodak 44 El Auto Lite 54 Erie 9 Gen Elec 35 V4 Gen Food 40 Gen Motors 58 14 Gen Refract 22 Greyhound Corp 9 Hercules Pow 60 Illinois Central 23 Int Harvester Int Nick Can 30 Int Tel and Tel 11 Kennecott Cop 43 Lehigh Port 36 Lehigh Val Coal 2 Libby McN and 8 Liggett and Myers 88 Loews Inc 21 Montg Ward 58 Nat Biscuit 27 Nat Dairy Prod 30 Nat Distillers 2iy4 Nat Pow and Lt IVi Central MV North Amer Co 25 Northern Pac 17 Packard Motor 5 Par am Pict 26, Penney (JC) 43 Pub Svc 24 Pullman 56 Pure Oil 25 Radio Corp 8 Repub Steel 24 Sears Roebuck 37 Socony Vacuum 16 'A Sperry Corp 18 Stand Brands 27 Stg and pf 24 Stand Oil cai ou Stand Oil Ind 41 Stand Oil 76 Studebaker Corp Swift and Co 33 Texas Co 63 United Air 18 United Gas Imp 21 TIS Steel 66 Warner Bros Pict 154 West Un Tel A 19. Wool worth (FW) 48 Young Sh 63 Governor Signs (Continued From Page 1) lists of all real estate sales and transfers. Allow the board to determine the market value of taxable real estate and to certify to the Superintendent of Public Instruction annually the taxable value of real estate apd its relation to the as sessed valuations in each scnooi district with the first report due July 1, 1949. Permit the board, to investigate fhp finanres of anv school district requesting special aid the Commonwealth.

Require the use of market val 110c riptpfmined hv the board in calculating State education grants to individual scnoois starting in the 1949 50 school year instead of county assessments as at present. Other bills signed Dy governor Duff: Tnrrease from S5000 to $7500 appropriations counties may make for agricultural extension work. Fixed new tees, tor county pro thonotaries outside Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Require school districts in third and fourth class districts to provide for school children living two or more miles from a school. Allow towns and townships to share in distribution of foreign fire insurance tax.

Increase salary of councilmen in Philadelphia from $5000 to $7500. Authorizing the chairman of the Pennsylvania Milk Control Com mission to confer with authorities of other states on uniform milk regulations. Probes Oil Shortage Washington. June 30, (P). Chairman Malone (R Nev) an nounced today that a Senate public lands subcommittee will open a two day hearing July 14 to "as certain the facts" in connection with reported shortages of oil.

Declaring that "many rumors and statements concerning petroleum supply could easily lead to a panicky state of public mind," Malone said in a the subcommittee intends to "sift fact from rumors as fully and rapidly as possible." Rail Board Leases Rooms at City Hall Joseph' A. Vogler, City Coun cilman, said today that office space in City Hall has been rented to the Federal Government ior use by the United States Rail road Retirement Board. L. B. Mc T.ojitfhlin Hictrint mannupr said the board which formerly main i i 1A4 f1 1 n.at leuneu UJ in.es at jui vuuii expected to move in late today.

The new rental will necessitate a transfer of the offices of the Shade Tree Commission and the Bureau of Weights and Measures, Vogler said. 'Red' Siege Ends (Continued From Page 1) Chang Ting Mi said the troops marched into the city a short time later. The northern prong of government reinforcements, moving from recaptured Kungchuling, about 50 miles northeast of Sze pingkai, was believed delayed by stubborn Communist rear guard action. Szepingkai is between Mukden and 1 the capital at Changchun. Military headquarters here said the Communists employed Japanese artillery in the bitter battle for the rail city which the Reds occupied for a number of days and fired before they withdrew.

(In Nanking, the government party decided to strengthen China's war machine against Communist opposition after hearing Chiang Kai Shek describe the nation's military, political and economic situation. (The Generalissimo addressed a joint session of the Kuomintang mittee and the new Kuomintang political council the party's top policy making body. He spoke at. participants were enjoined not to disclose details of the discussions. (The official announcement at the close of the five hour session said Kuomintang leaders agreed to strengthen the war machine against the to concentrate energies of the party and its affiliate youth corps in order to better the nation's defense; and to prepare to hold national elections according to schedule.) Military sources here said the Communists' fifth and sixth divisions withdrew from Szepingkai in the direction of Pamiencheng while the eighth and ninth battalions of the same force retreated towards Sian.

Reinforced Nationalists pursued both Though the Nationalists reeain ed Szepingkai, the Communists appeared still to retain the offensive in southern Manchuria with a new thrust reported developing from Jehol province. This enve now centers around Chao yang, which might be the jumping off point for a Red attack on Chinchow, important rail city on the Peiping Mukden line. Engineers Battle (Continued From Page 1) chief meteorologist, predicted the A 1 1 1 AA J. 1 A A stage wouia De oy.s ieet later today. A brief fall was reported by a spokesman for the engineers earlier but the Weather Bureau gauge showed the rise was continuing.

All time high here was 41 5 foot in 14d At least 1000 persons were homeless in St. Louis and St. Louis county with the Red Cross setting up four temporary shelters to house the victims. The earthquake added to the tenseness of the situation although it apparently had no connection with the flood. No serious damage was reported.

Police said they had 'one report of a chimney collapsing from the shock. Downtown buildings, hotels and hospitals were shaken by the quake as well as smaller homes. Railroad yards, warehouses, small factories and homes along the north and south St. Louis waterfront were under water or threatened by tne rising river but' the main business, industrial and residential areas were on bluffs away from any effects of high water. Farms in low lying areas around St.

Louis and nearby communities suffered the greatest damage from inundation. The chain of Rocks bridge was closed following the Chouteau levee break, the second bridge across the Mississippi to be closed by flood water. The Clark bridge at Alton was blocked by water over tre road at the Mis souri approac 4 Six Candidates Seek Offices in Township The first nomination petitions to be filed in Dauphin county Courthouse for the September 9 primary election were by six persons seeking offices in Williams township. On the Republican ticket they are: Judge of elections, Hazel Sowers; inspector of elections, Dorothy Collins, both in the Sec ond precinct; supervisor, George Uhler; school director, James Keen; constable, Harry Umholtz, and auditor, John Bowman. OA Mtmbtri NV.

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