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Ferry and 2 Oil Darges Collide In Mississippi River aHJight Caruthersville, July (P) The muddy Mississippi river was searched today for the bodies of at least ten persons, possibly more, who were believed to have perished in the collision of a ferry boat and two oil laden barges near here. Thirteen other occupants of the ferry were saved after the flat boat overturned, dumping at least five vehicles and their passengers into the waters. The accident occurred 50 yards from the Missouri shore as the ferry neared completion of its crossing from the Tennessee side. One was known dead. Jerry Vickers, 5 year old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Claude Vickers, of Caruthersville, died after he was brought to shore. A brother, Larry, 6, is among the ten missing. His parents were saved. Also missing are: Jesse Guy, of Ridgley, ferry boat deckhand, and Mrs.

Guy. who boarded the boat with his supper. L. L. Green, of Caruthersville, circuit court clerk of Temi scot county.

Jim Ed Kolly, 12, a rider in the Green automobile Robert Wood, 22, of Caruthers yille. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. C. W.

Myers, address not given. Janice Eastwood, 21, of Cronan ville, Tenn. Robert Lee Eastwood, 23. of Cronanville, Tenn. Ann Hopson, 21, of Cronanville, Tenn.

(Continued on Pace 11, Col. 5) IVason Calls OPA Political Stepchild Of Both Parties Chautauqua, N. July 29, (JP) The president of the National Association of Manufacturers to day described the new OPA as "a political stepchild, disowned by both political parties and left on the doorstep of the American housewife." Whether inflation shall occur depends upon President Truman, Robert R. Wason declared. In an address prepared for delivery at Chautauqua Institution, Wason said the NAM would cooperate in every way possible" to avoid inflation.

"But try as we will," he added, "the fact remains that whether or Eiot we have inflation depends at his stage upon the President." He predicted the nation would have "better than an even chance" of winning the fight against in flation, provided that the Presi dent will see to it that we have a proper administration of the new OPA." Wason continued: "If the President does not see to it that OPA is properly ad ministered, and if the President floes not start cutting needless government spending now, we do not have even an outside chance of stopping inflation OPA or no OPA." Saying that the very basis of DPA philosophy was "wrong," Wason declared that "ceilings should be put on the expenses of government, not on the production of goods." "Could Have Sold a Dozen" "I sold the bucket a day stove the day following the first insertion of my ad. The results were so good I could have sold a dozen," Mrs. M. L. Faus, of Cumberland Road, Enola, told our adtaker.

"I use the TELEGRAPH exclusively for my ads as I think it's the finest all round paper," she added. Remember Mrs. Faus' experience when it comes time for you to place a classified ad. TELEGRAPH classifieds work faster, cost less. That's why the trend's toward the TELEGRAPH.

THIS AD SOLD THE STOVE: BUCKET A DAY STOVS AND TANK PHONS 8 0151 fSk LOWEST COST WANT AOS TELEPHONE 1 4111 0 1 yi COL. J. CALVIN FRANK J. Calvin Frank Receives Award For China Duty Award by the Chinese Army of the Army, Navy and Air Forces medal, first class, to Colonel J. Calvin Frank, has been announced by Chiang Chung Cheng, presi dent of the National Military! Council.

Notification of the award was made to Colonel Frank, whose home is at 2007 Mulberry street, in a communication from the Adjutant General in Washington. Certificate of Award is as follows: "This is to certify that, in con sideration of meritorious services in connection with assistance af forded in actual operations, in conformity with the conditions as laid down in Section 1, Article 3 of "The Regulations Governing Granting of Decorations and Awards to Army, Navy and Air Force Personell the National! Military Council of the Republic! of China hereby award the first class Army, Navy and Air Forces Medal (Grade A) to Colonel James C. Frank" Col. Frank's citation, which covers his period of duty with the Chinese Combat Command which he left last October when he was Deputy Chief of Staff, includes the original script in the Chinese language. After two years in the China theatre, Col.

Frank holds decorations both from his own and the Chinese army. Martin Bormann, Nazi Chieftain, ReportedAlive Nuernberg, July 29. (IP) American Intelligence Officers reported today that Martin Bor mann, Hitler's deputy party lead er who has been missing since the fall of Berlin, was seen in Munich only a week ago and that a house to house search for him is going on. Bormann long was believed dead. He is being tried in absentia as one of the 22 Nazi defendants by the International Military Tribunal.

Intelligence chiefs said a dis gruntled chauffeur of Bormann, fired in a disagreement over stolen garden vegetables, provided them with a tip that started a new hunt for the Nazi Party chieftain. An Army source said the chauf feur, Jakob Glas, longtime resident oi Munich, informed Intelligence chiefs he was "absolutely certain" that man he saw riding in an au tomobile in a mam street of Munich a few days ago was the missing and long sought Bormann. Glas was Bormann's driver for years until the final year of the Hitler regime. Then, he said, he was dismissed after Bormann accused him of stealing vegetables from the Deputy Fuehrer's private garden. Police Seek Body Of Bloomsburg Man Police departments and river men along the Susquehanna were requested today by State Police to watch for the body of Clarence Fetterolf, 70, Bloomsburg, believed to have waded into the river and drowned Sunday.

Bloomsburg authorities reported his auto was found parked near the north branch and footprints were traced to the shore line. Fetterolf is 5 feet 8 inches tall; weighs 140 pounds, has gray hair and was wearing drawn brown trousers and a white shirt with brown pin stripes when he was last seen. He also had a ruby ring. ini yin Kl 170 9ft PA AFC Dally Except Sunday. Entered as Second Claw YOU WAYI NO.

IO Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg mm High U.S. Aides Attended Parties Given by Holders Of War Contracts Washington, July 29, (JP) I Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren told Senate inves tigators that "it has looked as if everybody and his brother were out to get the govern ment during the lush war years." Warren made this statement to he Senate War Investigating At the same time, he appealed for greater powers for the general accounting office as "the last bulwark for the protection ofktaxpayers of this country against unbridled and illegal ex penditures of public funds. Some high officials of Govern ment, he said, accepted entertain ment, including cocktail parties, hotel bills and even travel from contractors while at the same time drawing travel expense and per diem (daily allowance) from the Government." inis practice, he added, was "the rule rather than the "It got so bad in the Maritime Commission, for instance," Warren said, "that I called personally on Admiral Land ichairman) whose name was not mentioned in any of the reports and also wrote him officially. He issued an order condemning such practices.

warren aeciarea tnat legislation liberalizing Government contract practices during the war had greatly weakened the power of the General Accounting Office to prevent extravagance or misuse of public funds. Denouncing "abuse of the vast ly broadened authority given to the procurement agencies, all un (Continued on Page 3, Col. 5) 5 Persons Hurt In Auto Mishap; Driver Arrested Arrest of one person and injury oi live resulted from head on collision near Shepherdstown on the Gettysburg, pike, State Police re ported today. Frank Ashley, of Washington, charged with improper passing, was fined $13.50 and costs by Justice E. H.

Brandenburg, Upper Allen township, after a hearing. Ashley" was said toHbe driver of car traveling northbound, yes xeraay wnicn attempted to pass an auto operated by Norman Dyer, Mechanicsburg, R. D. 2, and crashed into the vehicle driven by H. Earl Ambler, 57, 1416 Deny street, which was approaching from the north.

Damage to the Ambler car was estimated at $300, and to the car owned by the International Hod Carriers Union, operated by Ash ley, at $1200. Injured were Ashley, treated at Seidle Memorial Hospital, Mechanicsburg, for cuts and lacerations; William Watkins, 35, and Harry S. Brown, 38, both of Washington, passengers in the Ashley auto, treated at the Harrisburg Hospital, cuts and bruises; Ambler and his wife, Mrs. Daisy M. Ambler, treated at the Poly clinic Hospital, the former for bruises and cuts, and the latter lor shocK, iracture of.

the right arm and ribs, and cuts. State Policeman William I. Banzhaf, who investigated, said Mrs. Ambler and Ashley were pinned in their cars by the col lision. East.

He is now starting work on a book which will incorporate his experiences and observations. He was in Port Arthur in 1904 during the Russo Japanese war, and since 1911 had, his headquarters in Shanghai while writing for various newspapers, including the China Weekly Review. During World War II, he was interned by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands for more than three years and upon his release spent a long period of recuperation at a U. S. Army camp near Manila.

"Visits to the scenes of my boyhood days have not been very frequent," he said. "But I recall that way back in 1923, when I made the trip here by way of Turkey, I had to pay to walk across a bridge, namely the Galata Bridge in Constantinople (Istanbul). The (Continued on Pftfe 11, Col. 2) otEo mm HA1MSB TELEGEAPE FAIR Tmmisi 1S31 HARRISBURG, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1946 Supply Firm Asks Court to Restrain Union Activities The Dauphin County Court to' day has before it an application by the Pennsylvania Supply Company for an injunction restraining several building trades unions and their representatives from inter fering with the business of the supply company. Today's petition, outgrowth of the recent dispute between the company and labor groups, was presented at a conference in the courthouse by David N.

Wallace, counsel for Walter M. Mumma and Robert M. Mumma. officials of the supply company, and was directed against twenty seven in dividuals and organizations. President Judge William Hargest and Judge Robert Woodside were studying the equity action and were expected to hand down a decision late to day as to whether a preliminary injunction would be allowed.

Sending Wire Cut, WIP Official Charges Philadelphia, July 29, ficials of radio station WIP reported today that the station's transmission wire at Bellmawr, N. was "deliberately cut" at 8.36 p. in. (EST) yesterday. A station spokesman, who de clined use of his name, said the cutting oi the wires "is a Federal offense" and added "the proper authorities were notified." Approximately 3U WIF employes, represented by local 1, Arnerican Communications Association (CIO), have been on strike since July 16 in support of de mands for increased wages.

Station executives have been handling their jobs since the walkout began. Gty Youth Rescued From Swimming Pool Morris Humphrey, 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Humphrey, 146 Linden street, was pulled from the bottom of the swimming pool of the Forster Street Y. M.

C. Sunday, by a playmate, Bruce Davis, 15, 323 Calder street. Humphrey lost consciousness when his head struck the bottom of the pool while he was playing tag with a group of friends. He had been in the water about 20 minutes when playmates discovered he was missing. The body was revived by Dr.

Leonard Oxley, after applying ar tifical respiration for 30 minutes. The boy was later taken to the Harrisburg Hospital by his mother. rn ime Ensmineer. POLICE LEARN FLYING REGULATIONS William L. Anderson (standing on left) director of the Pennsylvania Aeronautics Commission, today opened a five day instruction course at State Police barracks in enforcement of aeronautics regulations concerning low flying and reckless plane maneuvers.

With him are the troopers and instructors. Britain Accepts Plan to Unify Occupation Zones in Germany Washington, July 29, (JP) The State Department an nounced today Britain has accepted in principle" thisgoy ernment's proposal to unify occupation zones in Germany, The department's announcement reiterated the hope tnat nussia and France likewise will accept, Despite this hope, jthe expecta tion among diplomats here is that the United States and Britain at once will work out details for unifying their own zones eco nomically, that, France probably will join promptly and that Rus sia will refuse to cooperate. The announcement which may marK a step the hardening of the great power split in Germany came as Secretary of State Byrnes met with Prime Minister Atlee and Foreign Ministers Molotov and Bidault in the first day of the Paris Peace Conference. ine btate Department an nouncement said: "The Department of State has been that the British (Continued on Page 3, Col. 3) House Gets Dill To Provide Money For Gl Furloughs Washington.

July 29, (JP) A $2,431,708,000 allotment for GI furlough pay and a $26,000,000 fund for the reborn OPA topped a $2,479,663,210 deficiency bill approved today by the House Ap propriations Committee. Last scheduled money measure of the 79th Congress, the bill also provides: $20,000,600 for overtime, leave and holiday pay of government workers; 250,000 for the new Price De control oard under OPA. Provision for use of Manhattan Engineering District (a bomb project) bunds by the Atomic Energy Commission, and $19,750, 000 of War Department money for military aid to the Philippines. Ihe bill was rushed to the House floor after two days of committee hearings, and House leaders urged its immediate pass age. Accounting for 98 per cent, of (Continued on Page 3, Col.

4) City, Turk Capital Lose Similarity; Constantinople Free of Bridge Tolls Back from years of travel in the Far East, George W. Missemer reflected today that for many years Harrisburg and Constantinople had one thing in common the extraction of toll on river bridges. But, he observed, even that similarity is gone now because the young Turks did something about it and freed their bridge of tolls. Missemer, now visiting his sis ter, Mrs. Harry Knouse, 36 South Twenty fourth street, Camp Hill, was born near Harrisburg.

For more than forty years, however, he spent most of his time in the Far Decontrol Board Given Approval By SenateGroup Washington, July 29, (JP). The Senate Banking Committee today unanimously approved President Truman's three nominees for the new price control board. The committee's action sent to the Senate for its consideration, possibly today but more likely to morrow, these Roy L. Thompson, president of the Federal Land Bank of New Orleans, as chairman of the de control board; Daniel W. Bell, former treasury undersecretary, and George H.

Mead, Dayton, paper company executive, as members. ivieanwniie, Mr. Truman ar ranged to confer with Mead, Pres idential Press Secretary a 1 es G. Ross told reporters. Ross added, in response to ques tions, that all three nominees have told Mr.

Truman they will accept the appointments. Thompson will arrive tomorrow to meet with Mead and Bell. In creating the board with top authority over removal and restoration of price controls, Con gress stipulated that no more than two appointees should be members of the same political party. Mead is a Republican and Thomp son a Democrat, cell says he has no party affiliation. They will be paid at the rate of $12,000 a year.

Painter Clears Negro Of Logan Slaying Mineola, N. July 29, (JP). i apt. Stuyvesant Pinnell, chief of Nassau county detectives, said to' day that a Negro taken into cus' tody in Buffalo yesterday was not the man sought in the slaying of Mrs. Marjory Church Logan and the rape and shooting of her daughter, Marjory Jeanne Logan.

The Negro; identified by police as Michael Hammons, 22, was brought here during the night by plane. Capt. Pinnell said Theodore Klick, a painter, had viewed Ham mons and stated he was not the man Miss Logan pointed as her attacker whle Klick was driving ner to a nospitai alter the attack. Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper la Harrisburg. News Around the Clock JV Spend Chicago, July 29, UP).

The iail cen guard over William Heirens was intensified today after Sher iff Michael Mulcahy reported finding of a note indicating the 17 year old student charged with two Drutal killings was contenv plating suicide. As new precautions were being taken, State's Attorney William luohy awaited first official noti fication that Heirens is ready to confess killing 6 year old Suzanne Degnan, former WAVE Frances Brown and Mrs. Josephine Ross, a widow. Roland Towle, of defense coun sel, said he and Heirens' four other lawyers would meet with Tuohy some time today "to determine procedures Tuesday both when Heirens is arraigned in court and for the proposed con fession." The sheriff, said a note addressed to "Dear Mom and Pop" had been found Friday in a regu lar inspection of coui ty jail cells, (Continued on Page 3, Col. 2) Police Aide Warns Of Mounting Toll In Traffic Deaths Pennsylvania traffic accident deaths for the first five months of 1946, though 80 per cent, higher than the same period last year when wartime restrictions were in lorce, are only 0 per cent.

under the 1941 figure, Lt. E. Faber, public relations officer for the Pennsylvania State Police told members of the Harrisburg Ro tary Club today in the Penn Harris Hotel. "We are fast approaching the 1941 figure of 770 deaths caused by accidents in the first five months," Lt. Faber said in an in troduction to the showing of two films on Highway Safety, pro jected by Pfc.

Harry R. McKenna of Troop State Police. Faber urged two things for the reduction of highway accidents; driver training and anti jaywalk ing laws, which he described as successful cutting down pedes trian fatalities. The speaker was introduced by HuBert C. Eicher, member of the Community Service Committee.

President Harold S. Rand an nounced plans for the annual as sembly of officers at the Colonial Country Club tomorrow. Committee Vote Delays House Action On Housing Bill, Rayburn Declares Washington, July 29. (JP). Speaker Rayburn told President Truman today the House will consider long range housing legislation provided its banking committee will send the controversial bill to the floor.

Rayburn made this comment to reporters at the White House after the weekly conference of Mr. Truman and his Congressional lead ers. The Banking Committee, the speaker added, is meeting today to vote the legislation "up or down." So far the committee has refused to act. Rayburn's reference was to the Wagner Ellender Taft bill already passed by the Senate. President Truman told House leaders last week he was anxious to have it 'passed.

1 Senate Democratic Leader Bart ley (Ky.) said he thought there would be no hitch about plans fpr adjournment Friday, although the adjournment resolution will not be brought up in the Senate until Wednesday. Senator McKellar (D Tenn.) also sat in at the conference which Barkley said discussed the "odds and ends" of pending legislation. Heading the Senate's session end business were the President's nominations to the OPA decontrol board and his expected early ap pointment of a domestic atomic control commission. For the moment, however, both houses were largely marking time, awaiting conference com mittee agreement on a cash or (Continued on Pae 11, Col. I) SINGLE COPIES FOUR CENTS mg Delegates Agree To publish Text Of Treaty Drafts Paris, July 29, (JP) The 21 Nation Peace Conference, convened formally in Luxembourg Palace more than a year after the end of the second World War in Europe, was summoned by President Georges Bidault of France today to abolish "the plague of war." Addressing the 1500 delegates of the victorious Allies on behalf of the host nation, Bidault pleaded: "The long suffering peoples of the world today look to you.

If we cannot get complete peace solutions, I hope that at least we will get reasonable ones." Close Watch Kept On Heirens' Cell To Prevent Suicide In an reference the United States and Russia, Bi dault said that whatever blame could be attached to the failure to keep the peace after the First World War, a "fundamental causa of that failure was that the two great powers who had taken a de cided part in the conquest of arms remained on the sidelines during the solution of peace." "The hopes of plain men are turned toward us today," he said. concluding his ten minute, slowly spoken speech. Bidault was then named provisional chairman of the conference on the motion of U. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes.

Bidault's words were carried to a press. gallery. jammed for the historic occasion and throughout the rambling plush building as he summoned the delegates of the twenty one victor nations to fash ion a peace for Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, which the foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, Russia and France can approve. The conference convened, how ever, an atmosphere of For more than thirty six hours the deputy foreign minsiters of the four principal powers Britain, France, Russia and the United (Continued on Page 11, Col. 6) Bomb Squad Called On Threat to Consulate New York, July 29, (JP) Radio cars, detectives and the police bomb squad were sent to the building at 25 Broadway, in which the British consulate has offices, this morning on reports the build ing would be bombed.

Police said they were advised that a telephone call had been made to the building by a person who said: "Clear out. Your building is go ing to be bombed in 17 minutes." 45 Persons Driven From Apartments In 2nd St. Dlaze Firemen early Sunday battled a blaze for 47 minutes in a fourth floor apartment at 120 South Second street. Forty five members of 20 families were driven to the street in their night clothing. iwo residents 01 a third floor apartment were injured by fall ing glass while several other per sons escaped with singed hair.

lhe firemen, summoned at a. confined the flames to the. three room apartment of Samuel Kinsey, who was discharged from tne Marines last Monday. other apartments in the fourth floor suffered smoke damage. ine apartment of Mrs.

Cather ine McGinnis, across the hall from the Kinsey quarters, was damaged by water. Kinsey who was awakened bv smoke, aroused his wife and they cauea other fourth floor apart ment tenants. Kinsey guided members of the other families to a rear exit because the flames blocked the front stairway. He and Robert Shilling, who resided'in the apartment next to the damaged apart Continued on Page 3, Col. 4) THE WEATHER Sunrise 6.02; sunset 8.24.

Harrisburg: and vicinity Sunny and a little warmer today. Clear and not quite so cool tonight. Increasing cloudiness and continued warm Tuesday. Light winds. High today, 88; tomorrow, 88; yesterday.

85; low tonight, 62; last night, 57; river, 3.7 feet. Eastern Pennsylvania Fair and slightly warmer today, tonifht and Tuesday..