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Fire in Rudy York's Room Routs 100 in Hotel Red Sox Player Escapes Unhurt in Early Morning 1 i 4 1 Reg U. S. Pat Off. (CopyriKM. 1947.

by the Globe Newspaper Co.t VOL. CLI NO. 116 SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947 10 PAGES THREE CENTS ln5vseEwnd 4ufo Overturns 6 Times DYING HURT DRIVEN OUT BY HOTEL FIRE Two little girl guests, one carrying a suitcase and clutching her coat collar, walk through lobby of Hotel Myles Standish. On the Right Mrs. R.

L. Wright leads her son, Richard Lee 3Vj, down the stairs Week-End Excursion of Lawrence Family Ends in Dedham Tragedy; Daughter Killed, Mother Dying What G.I. Wants for Modern, Ideal Home Murphy Hospital Patients, Led by Newton Man, Design Dream Houses jjp' Mr anil I Rudy York. Red Sax first baseman, escaped from a flame and smoke-filled room and 100 guests, tmany in theri nightclothes. fled to the lobby, as fire swept a sec- d-floor suite at the Hotel Myles Standish.

Kenmore at 3 this morning. The fire did not spread and 350 other guests remained in their rooms during the blaze. The ballplayer suffered only slight smoke inhalation, according to a doctor who examined him in the hotel lobby and Red Sox general manager, Eddie Collins, said York had reported to him that he was "all right" and would play in today's game. The blaze was discovered by a tr ard-floor guest. Miss Mary E.

Kent, who notified hotel engineer, Be Petruzzi. Petruzzi raced to the second fioor and traced the smoke to York's room. He pounded on the door to awaken York, but reported that the first baseman opened the door for him. York was in the process of dressing. Petruzzi said, ar.d had on a pair of trousers and a sweatshirt when the engineer arrived.

Fire Con'inued on Page 4 give a better view and are easier to clean. He wants radiant-heating built into the foundation, and he's anxious to do away with the cellar because excavations are costly and he'd rather spend the money on things he wants more. He favors low-pitch roofs to save waste space under the eaves. He wants a large well-equipped kitchen. (Some plan to make it the bigest room in the house, with sitting and eating space, and even room to dance to the radio.) G.I.

Homes Continued on Page 2 By GENE R. CASEY What kind of home does the average G.I. want? He wants a moderate-sized economical one, that will accommodate a wife and one or two children, and that can be carried on a small income. He favors a one-story building with all the rooms on one floor. He wants much glass used in the construction to admit plenty of sunlight and to give a feeling of spaciousness in economically small rooms.

He wants large solid-pane-windows and not the multi-paned ones popular in recent years, because he feels they DYING Mr. Mary Dahar, 55. FAIR WEATHER FAIR TONIGHT (Full reports back, page.) ROOM WHERE FIRE STARTED Flames licked walls and furniture of Rudy York's hotel room, but blaze was brought promptly under control. The Red Sox first baseman was asleep when fire started. DRIVER Richard Daher, 22.

DEAD Rose Dahar, 18, succumbed to internal injuries at Boston City Hospital, DYING Mrs. Mary Dahar, 55, at Boston City Hospital with a compound fracture of the skull. INJURED Richard Dahar, 22, operator of the car, lacerations of the head; Mrs. Madeleine Dahar, 21, wife of Richard, leg injuries; Virginia, 14 months, daughter of Richard, contusions; Assid Dahar, 60, father Auto Continued on Page 2 KILLED Rose Dahar, 18. DEDHAM, April 26 A family week-end excursion turned into a family tragedy at 6 a.

m. today when a car, skidding on the wet road, overturned six times on the incline above the rotary circle at the Boston-Ded-ham line on the Providence road, killing a daughter and putting at death's door the mother, as well as injuring every member of the family of Assid Dahar, 314 South Market Lawrence. Newburyport Plan Still Facing Biggest Test Saturday Shoppers' Response Watched Red Streak Final (Closing Prices Net Changes! Two U. S. Officers Tell IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Comics 5, Radio 8 Rookie Tommy Fine Makes 1st Start for Sox Trial Still on Small Scale Nationally of Capture by Chinese Reds Editorial 6 Financial 3 Sports 4 Theatres 10 price cutting Newburyport which in five brief days has The Plan, AP Two brought here to report to the United States F.mhassv NANKING.

April 26 American officers held vuuicac y- i.j i ivi i During their imprisonment, the ouniea 10 someuuiig ui a wuwu saler, both sides conceded. If the1 wholesaler can and will reduce his price to the retailer, the latter can Carry on with his 10 percent reduc-tion. But the retailers, particular-1 ly the large ones who operate on a I small margin of profit, cannot for long absorb the price cut them-solves, it was pointed out. Emerson P. Schmidt, director Of! fha ITnitoH Merchandise Worth $900 Stolen in 2 Newton Breaks NEWTON.

April 26 Thieves early this morning stole more than $f00 Marshall Arrives Home; Praised by Truman ATHLETICS RED SOX Joot rf Vain or Bink rf Pesky Fain lb of DUfagUl Chapman If If William McCoky rf 2b Doerr Rar lb 'ork Majevkt 3b 3b Ituv.rH Sodrr 2b Wagner Fo ler Fine Game start at 2 o'clock. Communists in Manchuria for 55 days disclosed today that during 34 days of solitary confinement in Harbin, each was brought before r. military "court'' four times on charges of spying. Robert Rigg of Chicago and C-ipt John P. Collins of Evanston told correspondents they finally learned from a borrowed radio in their prison that they had been convicted of "reconnoitering" for Chinese Government troops.

Rigg and Collins, assistant military attaches, were captured March two said, they were accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Go'ernment, were frequently called liars and several times were threatened with torture because of their refusal to sign statements of "guilt." The stocky, blond Rigg said they started their trip of inspection March 1 to determine whether the Communists might recapture Changchun. The Americans wanted time to evacuate their families, he explained. Government commanders had assured them, Rigg said, that the nearest Communists were 20 miles away. Officers Continued on Page 2 issue with opinion divided on its soundness, today the first Saturday of its trial faced its biggest test on this heaviest shopping day in many of the communities where it has been put into operation. In the national economic picture as a whole the tryout was on a very small scale, despite support from President Truman.

None of the country's major cities had yet decided to join in the test, and a spokesman for the United States Chamber of Commerce warned that even higher prices might be the result of the experiment, with public blame falling on business. Keystone of the plan, controlling its success or failure, is the whole worth of merchandise in two separate breaks at the Harney Hardware Company, 1371 Washington West Newton, and the Stevens Lumber Company, 90 Linden New-i States Chamber of Commerce, said businessmen do not have control of their own costs, nor of "the entire question of money supply and other factors making for inflaticn." And Hartford's merchant Mayor, Edward N. Allen, decried the plan, saying, "Free competition will force prices to reach their proper leveL," Prices Continued on Page 2 By JACK BARRY Pleased to be able to place nine physically fit regulars on the 1 north of Changchun, Manchuria. ton Upper Falls. At the hardware concern, only a block away from the police station, the burglars smashed the front door glass and walked off with 18 radio sets as well as some clocks.

At the lumber company, the same method of entrance was used and playing field. Manager Joe Cronin They were released to a party of Fine. Americans Thursday and were toaay senas rookie Tommy Red Sox Continued on Page 4 WASHINGTON, April 26 (UP) President. Truman greeted Secretary of State George C. Marshall today on his return from Moscow and told him he was "well pleased" with Marshall's work at the Big Four Foreign Ministers' conference.

"I know that when you make your report to the people," the President said, "they will be well pleased also." The President cut short a cruise on the Potomac to go to National Airport to greet the returning Secretary. Marshall Continued on Page 2 I $100 worth of tools stolen. Included I in the loot was a pencil sharpener which the company recently pur-1 chased to replace one stolen in a i break two weeks ago. $5000 Loot Stolen i nwm 40-Seat Bus Stolen While Driver Eats NEW YORK. April 26 fAP) An 11 State Police alarm went out today for a missing 40-passenger bus Conciliators Urge Phone Co.

Offer $3 Week Boost WASHINGTON. April 26 UP Government conciliators were reported trying today to persuade the American Telephone Telegraph Company to offer striking telephone workers a wage increase of $-1 a week. There was no indication the company would comply, nor was there any evidence the National Federation of Telephone Workers would accept $3 even if offered. Telephone Contiuurd on Page 2 British Police Chief Shot in Palestine JERUSALEM, April 26 fAP A. E.

Conquest, head of the Criminal Invcstigat.ng Department in the city of Haifa, died of wourds rrom uuennge Conservatives Win Auto Sales Firm 370 of 466 Seats Wallace Stops in Ireland on on Way Home SHANNON, Eire. April 26 (UP) Henry A. Wallace left today for Gander, Newfoundland, after a brief stop here on his way home after a speaking tour of western Europe. mm IRQ 1 in Japanese Election APRIL 26-27 Mat 1:30 In. 7:45 Benttt St fUnk'th i MnipiUI Find shortly after it disappeared from in front of a Ninth-av.

restaurant while its driver was getting breakfast. Police said the $18,000 vehicle belonged to the Flying Eagle and White Way Lines of Danbury, Conn. The driver was identified as Paul rr it, i 5 Killed, 7 Injured in Georgia Crash MADISON, April 26 API F'ivc persons were killed and seven injured last night when a Southern Stages bus and a truck tidCCWipcd at the bridge over Little River ne.u here. Tramp Plane Seeking Cargo Lands Here Following the footsteps of the adventurous tramp steamer now comes the tramp airship, the first one of which was forced down on Logan Airport, East Boston, today after a flight from London. A four-engine Halifax loaded with seven tons of freight left London two days ago and its destination is any part of the world where it can pick up a cargo.

It is the first aircraft to follow the pattern of the tramp steamer as it flies over the seven seas in quest of business. The plane was piloted by Keith Theile and is owned by London Aero and Motor Service, Ltd. Destination was LaGuardia Field, New York, but a low ceiling there forced the plane to come into East Boston. After dropping cargo at New York the plane will fly to the West Coast, Honolulu and ventually Australia Tramp Plane Continued on Page 2 Wallace laughed when reporters I asked for his opinion on the partition of "reland. MATS.

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ne was quotea oy ponce, -It seems to have becn as saying he parked the bus. turned I solution at that time" the only he said. TOKYO. April 2fi (UP) Conservative candidates won a landslide victory in the Japanese national election today, sweeping at leasl of the 466 seats in the Lower Ilou.se of the Diet. While the tabulation of votes was still in progress late today, it already was apparent that the Japanese people had cast an overwhelming vote of confidence in the ngnt-of-center Cabinet of Premier Shigeru Yashida The Premier, himself, won the highest number of votes tallied so far with nine of his Cabinet colleagues, including Vice Premier Kijuro Shidehara, appearing virtually certain of reelection.

ID Manner Thieves, making their third sortie in a Cambridge motor sales plare within three weeks, robbed the Kol-ligan Motors, 456 Broadway, Cambridge, of equipment valued at $5000 last night and carted it away in a stolen automobile which was recovered in Boston this morning. Entrance was gained by forcing a side window. The thieves took a new car and used a dealer's plate which they found in the office. The owners reported that the loot included two electric adding machines, two typewriters, four electric drill sets, 11 seat cover sets, 10 batteries, two electric buffers. 47 point sets, 20 tires and four boxes of auto parts.

In two other thefts during the past weeks, thieves using the same methods obtained $8000 in loot from two other motor sales companies. off the motor and the lights and went into the restaurant. The bus (was missing when he emerged. Trooper W. Fuller of the State I he received today when two youi'g "When I mentioned it recently in relation to Palestine.

I said it had its drawbacks and injustices, but it does seem the only solution." Highway Patrol said all the dead Jews fired upon him in dJwr.towii Haifa, it was announced officially. First reports said Conquest was shot b- two men riding in a taxicab. The cab. these reports said, traveled and injured were bus passengers. The bus was en route from Macon to Athens, Ga.

One of the dead was identified as Joe Ellis Mundy about 22, son of the United States district attorney in Atlanta. The Editorial Section only a few hundred yards after the PARIS, April 26 (AP) Henry A. Wallace left Paris by plane today for the United States, ending a whirlwind speaking tour of western Europe. Wallace Continued on Page 2 then crashed into a shooting and traffic island. Jefferson Day Dinner Escaped Worcester Prisoner Captured at City Hospital Here A trusty who walked off the Worcester County Jail farm yesterday showed up at Boston City Hosnital 1 Set Your Clock Ahead Tonight Daylight Time Starts Tomorrow Massachusetts Democrats The request for tickets for this dinner now exceeds the legal seating capacity of the Main Ballroom and Foyer of the Hotel Statler.

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Treaaurar Don't forget to turn your clock ahead one hour before you go to bed tonight. Daylight Saving Time goes into effect at 2 a. m. tomorrow, and will remain in effect from then until the end of September. Trains, planes and buses, however, remain on Standard Time.

Thus your 5:15 train will continue to leave at 5:15, but it will be listed on the timetable as 4:15. And don't worry about that hour's sleep you will lose tonight you'll get it back the last Sunday in September. CJ) Room 803, Hotal Tourailje, oaton police. Patrolman Merrill White took the man to Warren-Ay. Station and he Iwas returned to Worcester today..