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3. 1874 CXXVI-JNU. POTTS VILLE PA FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1948 DEWEY-WARREN FOR REPURLICAN VICTORY Uni 1 1 i a mjm a iif I a rvi REDS TIGHTEN mm i a $700 Vacation Pay Going Out To 18,000 Hard Coa Miners Pair Picked to Lead Battle in November i TAHC FOOD BAN IN WEST BERLIN i if REGISTER FOR DRAFT IN AUGUST Aug. 16 Tentative Date; First Trainees To Camp in Sept. Washington, June 25 United States military officials dusted oil The 1948 Presidential Ticket President Vice President Only Way Left to Feed Sector Is By Air; Have Month's Supply Captive Mine Heads Dissent; Say Union Shop T-H Violation OK TrvVin T.

Convention Hall. Philadelphia. June 25 The Republicans made it a Thomas E. Dewey-Earl Warren ticket today and closed their convention cheering for a coast-to-coast victory hope in November's Presidential elections. California's Governor Warren got the Vice Presidential nomination by acclamation once New York's Governor Dewey, unanimously nominated last night for some lo.uoo miners in this Anthracite area from Shamokin through Schuylkill County stored their tools and work clothes away today, counted out their extra $100 vacation pays, and made final plans to enjoy the annual miners vacation week which officially starts Saturday.

The Anthracite Wage Agreement on vacations specifies the period of idleness from June 26 to July 6, when operations will resume work. Coal companies throughout the area have been disbursing hundreds of thousands of dollars during the past few days in vacation "bonuses" in addition to the regular pays. Some 7500 workmen of P. and R. C.

and I operations alone are among the 76,000 contract-covered employes in the entire industry who were eligible for either the full $100 vacation payment or a pro-rata share of the maximum amount. To be eligible, a mine worker must have been carried on the payroll of a single employer for at least six pay periods from July 1947 to July 1948. For this minimum qualification a miner receives approximately $25 in vacation pay with the pro rata share increasing at the rate of approximately $4 for every two-week period or $25 for every period of three months. Company and union officials were unable to estimate just how many of the 18,000 men in this area had qualified for the full $100. P.

andyR. officials indicated that flood conditions the past Spring which caused shutdowns had curtailed the shares of many miners in this area. This is the eight year for the vacation plan. It was inaugurated in 1941 when the vacation payment was a mere $20. fjshington, June i.

most ot me son. cwu those "greetings" today for deliv ery to thousands of youthful draftees next fall. mri WICe as niui.il iiiunw the Presidency, pointed him out as the man he wanted for a running mate. The gavel ending the 24th Nat miners President Truman signalled the start of the nation's second peace- Mme draft when he signed the two- taomciai ui al mines had announced year Selective Service bill into np hwuiu "-a law at 5.40 p. m.

yesterday. nt Berlin, June 25 The Russians ordered today that no more food from their zone be sent into the western-occupied sector of Berlin. They stopped traffic yesterday on the single railroad line supplying those sectors with food from the Western occupation zones. The blockade left the air the only way to get food in to the 2,000,000 inhabitants of the American, British and French sectors. Allied experts said that would prove unworkable in the long run.

American and British authorities said a month's food stacks are on hand in the Western sectors and nobody will starve. The people remained outwardly calm in the face of efforts of the Soviet-controlled press to spread fear of hunger and unemployment and a Russian threat to keep the Earlier he okayed a nv- annuu- cianaH cain fund to build up the Army, Navy and Air Force to a strength of 2.000,000 men. ional Republican Convention banged down at 1:30 P. M. Chairman Joe Martin ended it on the same note hit on Monday when it opened victory.

Just before the session's end. he introduced Warren as the "next Vice President of the United States." The cheering delegates left no doubt they believed him that this is the year the GOP can end 16 years of Democratic rule. Warren in an acceptance speech pledged "every bit of loyalty in If 0Ktl new contract except for the Jd wages and pension fund ept -all other terms and of the previous wage agree- Both actions added strong props to the United States position in foreign affairs. President Truman signed the I'ninn ShoD legislation into law as Russia displayed new hostility to the pres Reds, Urge 7 Satellites Democracy Be ftis includes an uuuiain vuii- nt a union snuu ence of United States troops and THOMAS E. DEWEY EARL WARREN a su-naruev iauui tmy make-up." personnel in Berlin.

The action also coincided with other Soviet ban against tne union snop 2 XT. pressure moves against this country and the Western European Labor Keiauons coaru. This union shop clause caused Set Up in Germany rail freight tieup on indefinitely. L. J.

Steck, American Military Government Food Chief, said the Russian food embargo order was delivered to the Central Food Board of the German Municipal government. jk-y -M0SC5 10 ua'N ti signing infJiidn- fMT-rifl "ran- coal mines. Dewey Hero But Stassen Darling Of Convention By RELMAN MORIN Philadelphia, June 25 Thomas E. Dewey, smiling, suave, and powers of opposing expansion of Communism. The first result of Mr.

Truman's signature on the draft bill was to shut off the flood of enlistments in the National Guard and other reserve units. (Continued on Page Fifteen) Industrv representatives hastily Schuylkill Co. At TheG.O.P. Convention Schuylkill County GOP Headquarters, Philadelphia, June 25 County headquarters is not only the rendezvous from folks from home who have come down for the watre and welfare in thp npw nne-vear No other name than Warren was presented for the Vice Presidency. Arizona gave notice of nominating Harold E.

Stassen but a few minutes later withdrew it. Chairman Joseph Martin put Warren's name before the convention and declared him nomin-afla by acclamation. New York's Dewey, getting his second chance at the Presidency, made it an East-West all-Governor ticket after an all-night series of conferences. The word quickly spread to Convention Hall and the delegates didn't take long to whoop through Warren's name. Line Up Behind Slate I nriri At OOnTC PISTON SNAPS BUT PLANE SAFE Pilot Brings Ship Down in Suedberg Cornfield cost of producing a ton of coal.

He said one immediate effect would be to deprive the children of Western Berlin of fresh, milk. Powdered milk is being distributed. By their action the Russians withdrew from the four-power food pool which for nearly three years has been feeding Berlin. Each occupying power has been P'acin the number of bitumin- Warsaw, June 25 Russia and seven European satellites urged today that a "provisional democratic, peace-loving all-German government" be set up. They did so in a communique by their foreign ministers, who ended a two-day conference at midnight in Wilanow Palace, eight miles east of here.

The foreign ministers, including V. M. Molotov of Russia, said the government in Germany lfl nIVl tki, BELIEVE DEATH PLANE WAS ON FIRE wiuoi t.r'-' inuld be at the rate of Two Pine Grove area men es utterly adequate to the occasion, is the official hero of the Republican convention. But the man who got the hand at the last, and who may yet emerge as the darling of the party, was Harold E. Stassen.

In the long run, Stassen may win more friends per day. $4,500,000 a week, and Chi6ago, June 25 There may have been fire aboard the DC-6 th5n i Mtiiii a vpar the Republican National Convention, but it has become the reunion center for former county residents now living in Philadelphia. Hundreds of former county persons have called since headquarters was opened here Sunday. Thf new contract is effective Jaly 1 and will replace one expir- iJune 30. contributing to this pool, administered by the Allied Kommanda-tura and the city government.

Dissolving the pool means splitting Berlin down the middle from the standpoint of food supply. (Continued on Page Thirteen) transport that crashed at Aristes, last Thursday with the loss of 43 lives. Sound experts reported yesterday they had deciphered a message that might indicate fire aboard The however, begin itrr annua 10-dav vacation to- Due to the large number calling each day, Chairman Watkins took additional rooms but even these have become too small. He at M.U dim nui iciuiu i' wi uni juiv o. should be made up of representa tives of democratic parties and organizations and should guarantee against any more German aggression.

In the conference with Russia were Albania, Bulgaria, Czech-slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Russia caped injury when the Piper Cub plans in which they were flying snapped a piston and was forced down in a cornfield on the farm of Ward Hikes, a mile west of the Suedberg airport late Thursday afternoon. Mason Spancake of near Roeders-ville, flying instructor, landed the plane so carefully that none of the knee-high corn was damaged, rolling the dead ship to a stop at a dirt road at the edge of the field marking the Schuylkill-Lebanon line. He brought the wheels of the plane down in the rows between the corn. His passenger was Mark Min-nich of Pine Grove R.

D. 1, a stu I'm not in accord with tht Gov. Duff Sees mtT-rt anH I'm nnt tismno it and command more genuine approval by his actions at the moment of defeat than he could have done in a moment of victory. Certainly, he gained stature. Took It With Smile Stassen faced the music with a smile.

He was the first of the candidates and in fact the only one with a real chance to be nominated who walked to the rostrum, stood before 14,000 clamoring Ia. a. tn14 nnn tempted to obtain additional rooms but was unable to do so. Jim Carr, Mahanoy City native, former United States Secret Service operator, now living in Ches 5a. Viotatoin He said be would issue a state and Poland called the meeting the United Air Lines' plane.

This was reported by W. A. Patterson, United president. Pattsrson said that "although indistinct and not clearly discern-able, a message at 12:32 p. m.

(EST) was deciphered as follows: 'New York New York. (followed by a word which could be interpreted as fire) Fire extinguishers forward. "The next message was mm later. He indicated he feels Delegates talked over a recent nnrinn rnnfprpnec nf the United tuiiuiiudimi! ui uie umuii snup Leaders of camps of other disappointed Presidential hopefuls were quick to line up behind the Dewey-Warren combination. Gov.

Dwight Green of Illinois said the Illinois delegation undoubtedly would support Warren. Senator John W. Bricker of Ohio, Dewey's running mate in 1944, told newsmen he personally would support Warren and thinks the entire Ohio delegation will. "I'll be happy to support Governor Warren," said Rep. George Bender of Ohio.

Backers of Rep. Charles A. Hal-leek of Indiana, said they, too, would support Warren. They had tried to win the nomination for Halleck. Joseph Pew, a Pennsylvania political leader, predicted that the Keystone State would swing in line behind the California Governor.

Senator William Knowland of dausf in the contract is a violaiton states, Great Britain, France, 4 the labor law. iRplpititn Ths Netherlands and ter, was one of the first former county residents to Call. Carr is now engaged in making private investigations in Delaware County as well as in Philadelphia and other parts of the state. He was employed in the Secret Service of The remaining coal operators Luxemberg. The six western na- ad Lev.

in their joint state- dent pilot. After repairs the plane will take tions agreed to set up a federal p. m. It was: 'Emergency mm saia. off again from the field for the air- government in Western Germany.

Reject Eastern State interest of promoting Guardia Field radio port. It is one of the airport "The La brawny in the bituminous coal Dewey-Warren Winning Pair Philadelphia, June 25 Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican convention, badly split earlier over the presidential nominee, went unanimously today for Governor Warren of California for the second-place post. Governor Duff said after the vice presidential nomination that he was "pleased," adding: "Governor Warren is a fine man and a very good friend." Duff was asked what the thought of the Dewey-Warren ticket. "It's all right," he said. "Do you think it's a he was asked.

"You bet, and I'll support it," aued on Page Eleven) people, and told his followers that he would no longer hold them to their pledges. He went further. He Urged them to vote for Dewey, and in the coming campaign, to work for Dewey. Stassen probably could have held his lines for another ballot. With luck, the line might have held for two ballots.

But the end was inevitable. Dewey was too strong. The big man must have seen this from the first. (Continued on Page Five) SHOWERS AHEAD FOR KNDAY OR TUESDAY the Government for many years. He has been called in as an expert in several local investigations by the U.

S. Government and recently was offered an assignment in Hawaii, which he turned down. (Continued on Page Eight) SPRAGUE MAY BE G. 0. P.

CHAIRMAN Well informed sources said some in the Warsaw meeting wanted to counter this with an Eastern German state but the conference finally agreed upon one more try for German unity. They said if this failed the Soviet bloc would create a separate East-German A crowd estimated at 30,000 gave Molotov a rousing sendoff to fended forecast for the neriod planes. The trouble was diagnosed as a broken motor piston by Dick Thompson, mechanic. 3 Die In York Crash York, June 25 A three place plane crashed and burst into flames killing three men yesterday at Valley Airways Airport. The plane made a steep climbing turn after taking off and then dropped into a spin.

Charles Frew operator then made repeated but unsuccessful attempts to contact the plane. 'The above radio conversation was not heard by either government or company radio operators and therefore was not entered in their typewritten logs." However, Patterson said ihat "minute investigation" of recovered plane parts "gives no evidence that there wai a fire in the pfcy. June 25 through Wednes- 6y June 30: Eastern Pennsylvania, Eastern auu imu rtiidinn oiaLco. WARREN ACCEPTS V. P.

NOMINATION airport manager, said the plane forward cargo pit or in any other crashed about 200 yards from the part of the plane prior to impact Philadelphia, June 25 The name of J. Russel Sprague was being mentioned among Republican Convention delegates today as the possible new GOP Chairman Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, as the party's Presidential candidate, will choose the chairman. The wni average near rma! in north and two to four pees above normal in southern er over the weekend, fol-vd by warmer by Tuesday; pwrs Monday or Tuesday, to- fall variable, one-third to r-quarters inch.

edge ot ine neia ana immediately the ground. he replied. Jay Cooke of Philadelphia, who headed the Stassen forces in Pennsylvania, said the Republican esst-west team is "a good combina California said Warren will accept. Lamar Tooze of the Oregon delegation, nominated Warren. The Dewey forces chose Senator Irving M.

Ives of New York to second Warren's nomination. The ticket which Republicans hope will end 16 years of Democratic rule in Washington was completed at a series of conferences that went on most of the night and continued through the morning. Convention Waits There was tense waiting throughout the downtown political camps as Dewey, unanimously given at second chance at the Presidency, kept the convention waiting for his choice of a running mate. Convention Hall, Philadelphia, June 25 Governor Earl Warren, of California today accepted the burst into flames. Frew identified the dead pilot owner of the plane as William Beshore, about 26, of York RD 5.

State Police identified the other Republican Vice Presidential nom tion Senator Edward Martin wasn't committee will meet this afternoon day on his return trip to Moscow. Workers in factories and busi, ness places were given time off to go to Okecie Airport to cheer The highway to the airport was jammed for miles with truckloids of demonstrators, many carrying Red banners. (Continued on Page Thirteen) MISSING EXPRESS SACK CONTAINED 54 PACKAGES Railway Express officials today revealed that there were approximately 90 Airway Express pack- United CIO ASKS DOUBLE FORD WAGE OFFER Detroit, June 25 The CIO United Auto Workers countered the Ford Motor Company's offer of an 11-14 cent hourly wage increase with revised demands of its own today totalling twice that much. victims as Bernard Mann and L. E.

Shenberger, both of York. Flames kept rescuers away from the plane for several hours after the fatal crash. It was believed the trio was headed for Atlantic City, N. J. immediately available for comment, but he was represented as being pleased with the two choices.

On Tuesday he had withdrawn himself as a Presidential candidate and urged the election of Dewey. It was that move which climaxed the differences between himself to ratify his decision. Close Dewey associates said that someone else will be designated to take the place of Carroll Reece, the present chairman. Speculation turned to Sprague. one of Dewey's campaign advisors.

Some observers believed that the fact that Sprague made the announcement of the selection of Gave Lives in War; Four Bergstroms Home for Burial ination before cheering delegates of the National Convention. He came to the Convention Hall after being nominated by acclamation to run with Governor Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, on the GOP Presidential ticket. Warren got the nod from Dewey after a GOP "brains board" canvassed the whole field of possibilities. Family With Him Mrs.

Warren and the Governor's (Continued on Page Fifteen) and Duff, who later openly allied A UAW spokesman said the de rJ Utah. June 25 The 'ages aboard the DC-6 airliner brothers, who gave which crashed near Mt. Carmel Himcolf with th nn anti.Tlpu'PV mands would cost Ford at least for-c in separate battles from June 17 Dut that none con- Gov. Earl Warren of California as Dewey's running mate indicated that it would be Sprague. tained U.

S. currency as rumored "Unas oi tne Racine to are together again. SUCCEEDS MRS. HOUCK AS GARDEN CHAIRMAN Harrisburg, June 25 Miss Elizabeth Selden, of Oil City, will serve as chariman for the 1949 Garden Days Conference at the Pennsylvania State College. She succeeds Mrs.

Henry Houck of Shenandoah. One of the most relieved members of the Pennsylvania delegation was Mrs. Esther M. Detweiler of Penbrook, Dauphin County. Before the session Duff had sons of Mr.

and Mrs. Alben lor istrom separated Oct. 12. 1940. Thursday.

Refuting the report that a large canvass sack weighed to 240 pounds by paper money was lost in the wreckage or dropped before the oldest enlisted in the Dewey Sets Freedom Goal to "inne Com Thou Viorl tVioir- rvi IIUU vuvii ptv- -rtaken together at a photo said that by custom the alternates would vote for Vice President. That procedure would have made Mrs. Detweiler the acting delega As He Accepts Nomination an additional 28 cents an hour. The union demands include: (1) A flat 14-cent an hour pay raise; (2) A company financed hopitalization, health and medical care program equal to another eight cents an hour; (3) Elimination of what the union called "differentials in economic standards between Ford and its competitors. "This would include higher night differential pay, more vacation pay, elimination of "so called merit spreads," more call-in pay and other fringe benefits, adding up to six cents an hour.

ttothatdav me piane icu, d. ua- I Cirtntnn Roihi-iv SllDer- Philadelphia, June 25 Thomas At 10:30 A. the hour set for this convention to consider nominations for Vice President, there was scarcely a major politician in the hall. Chairman Joe Martin had not put in an appearance. The GOP bigwigs who sit on the platform were absent.

They were waiting downtown for the word from the New York Governor, now quarterbacking the Republican drive to gain full control of the national government. Most of the delegates were in their places, but there was tier after tier of empty seats in the galleries. It looked like Shibe Park when the Athletics are playing Washington on a rainy night. In a hotel suite downtown, Dew-ey still was pondering the recommendations he got for a running mate after he bowled over all opposition last night and became the first defeated Republican Presidential candidate ever to win re-nomination. Pnr CAnlinuiMf.l 3 gS StSSTtSS Pendent "th7 Susanna Di- overS lay side by vision' said there was' S3 Ik rt.Z- aboard the plane but that it held in TAMAQUA MAN DIES FROM CARBON MONOXIDE William Gruber, 61, of 104 Hunter st.

Tamaqua. was found means to put together the worlds broken pieces, to bind up its wounds, to make a good society, a community of men of good will that fits our dreams. "We have devised noble plans flai-rlraped caskets. And inn r- -i4 miscellaneous packages, none E. Dewey solmenly set a goal of freedom for men everywhere in accepting the Republican presidential nomination last night.

"As long as the world is half wn. nam i thf He confirmed the dead in a garage at 106 Hunter st. mv nmmjnH.r r.m- Wr. vaiucu ba2 weieht was 240 pounds aw of Utah. President Mr.

Crosby, after inspecting the wn-- i il en Nmith of the Lat Wa rwiscene of the crash Wednesday, Tamaqua, on Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock. According to Chief of Police Claude Brecker, he placed a coat over his head and inhaled the gas from the exhaust pipe of an auto. Pother dign.tfh0r!?,me to Pottsville, ostensibly to '1 full militarv fTineral cor tion chairman because she is Duff's alternate. When informed of this possibility at the time she exclaimed: "Really? I hadn't heard anything about it. Im petrified." But when Warren was nominated by acclamation the routine voting procedure was dispensed with and it was Duff who announced that "Pennsylvania passes." That was the procedure adopted to make it possible for Oregon to make the nominating speech for Warren.

After Warren was nominated Mrs. Detweiler was asked how she felt. "Oh, heavens, am I relieved," she said. Pennsylvania's delegation final 1 DEAD, 1 HURT IN RUSH OF COAL Jacob Wentz, 64. of New Ringgold R.D.

2, a miner at the Ta fnnr kmM l. 1 1 ueiermme wneiner any ui packages was destined for a local consignee. Nothing of this nature developed, however, according to Acting 7Agent E. G. Stephenson.

"lumcia were Kiiieu ess than six months per- Special Group of Hats SI Marilyn Millinery, 8 N. Second st. for a new world. Without a new spirit our noblest plans will come to nothing. We pray that, in the days ahead, a full measure of that spirit may be ours." Dewey referred to the six other candidates for the nomination as "high minded men of character and ability and deeply devoted to their country." "Never has a political party produced such distinguished men," he said.

The convention gave a burst of applause to each, as he named III 1 4.1.1 free, we must peacefully labor to help men everywhere achieve liberty," he told cheering GOP national convention delegates who had just nominated him unanimously. "Above all other purposes," he said, "we must labor by every peaceful means to build a world order founded upon justice and righteousness. That kind of a world will have peace. That kind of peace will be worth having." World freedom and an appeal maqua colliery of the Lehigh Navi K- Clyde E. Borgstrom fell gne Marinea March 17 in the mr T-eroy Borgstrom was in Italy" with the fllst In- gation Coal was killed, and Maurice Reale, 508 E.

Elm st, Tamaqua, was injured while at work at the colliery on Friday Crashed in Maine Wilderness Took 10 Days But They Got Back i 4 kmiicAE and bruises. -v- wjvuucuku uiu inner reasons, many delegates wanted him to pick Senator John W. Bricker of Ohio. Bricker ran with Dewey in the 1944 Republican debacle in which Franklin D. Roosevelt won hi fit in June zz.

morning at nine o'clock. Ml Bor-strom's bomber They were cleaning a chute with cuts Fort Fairfield. June 25 Pennsylvania delegation finally i aiiin uviLiouuu Lilian when a rush of material poured thp nararip Thnmae 2 fe England from a "''-many Aug. 8 with into the chute hurling Wentz into for thp Pr-sirfntial ns riddled fuselage. fourth term.

It was up to Dewey to decide whether he wished to duplicate that ticket. The Dewey strategist huddled last night without any clear indications of their intentions. (Continued on Page Eight) tui rgstrom. Rolon d'ed 17 d3'S later th received while the nfantry, Second Division. at-ackir? For the first week, Brewster said, they subsisted on "grain, ferns and some frogs' legs.

"Three days ago," he continued, "we ran onto a cache a trapper had left and found some packages of pancake flour and a couple of cans of sardines. We've been go-ign on those ever since." They appeared at a woodsmen's camp near Plaster Rock yesterday. William C. BrewMer, 36, and Roy Mangels, 31. who disappeared from here 110 days ago in a light plane, emerged afoot from a Canadian wilderness yesterday.

They were dog-tired, bedraggled but practically unharmed. Brewster, a nephew of Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, told the Associated Press the plane crashed June 15 on a mountain top them, alphabetically: Senator Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecticut, General Douglas MacArthur, former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, Senatcr Robert A.

Taft of Ohio, Senator Arthur H. Van-denberg of Michigan, and Gov. Earl Warren of California. Following his convention speech, Dewey indicated that he will start his formal election campaign at about the time the Democrats assemble here for their nominating session starting July 12. for unity to help achieve it were the two central themes of the New York governor's 15-minute acceptance speech.

Need Spiritual Unity "We are a united party," he told the Republicans, but "our nation stands tragically in need of that same unity." The unity to be sought is "most of all spiritual," he said. "We have found the means to blow our world, physically, apart. Spiritually we have yet to find the a mine car and burying him under several tons ofcoal. He was recovered a short time afterward. Reale received bruises and contusions of both legs and was removed to the Coaldale Hospital where his condition is reported as Among the survivors of Mr.

Wentz is a daughter. Mrs. Daniel Henninger, with whom he lived. nomination last night. -The Keystone State's vote, badly split on the first two ballets in a fight that made Senator Edward Martin and Gov.

James H. Duff opponents, went unanimously as did those of all states to the New Yorker on the third roll call. "I cast 73 votes for Governor Dewey," Duff told the teeming (Continued on Page rive) 2 LEADER DIES AT THE COLLIERIES All collieries Idle until July 6 In ob servance or tne miners -vacation N. June 25 fckafian VPar old Dr- s- H- in Ar- More than 20 American ano ana- about 40 miles northwest of Pla- Treasury biUnceW.SW ,224,792. 5.

ster Rock. N. B. The men escaped' dian planes had sought them uied yesterday..