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Largest Circulation The Courier has the largest circulation of any newspaper published in Bucks County. he ristol ourier Daily Weather Report Mostly cloudy, cold tonfgM. Cloudy and warmer Saturday. VOL. 217 BRISTOL, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 6.

1953 Price: 3c a Copy; 15c a Week New Plant Planned At Croydon For The Penna Range Boiler PREMIER JOSEPH STALIN DIES Doors of School Building Open and Not Another new industry is to locate in the Bristol area of the Delaware Valley, U. S. A. This was assured today when an official announce -1 The famed television pregentation merit was made that the Penna. by the March of Time of construc- llange Boiler of Philadelphia, tion at Levittown several weeks had purchased ltiVfe acres of land I ago got a hearing in the halls HI The site is described as of i education last night when William Pennsylvania avenue, Croydon.

I Vetter declared the department of being Lajj0r an(j industry got a look at southwest of the property of the the doors of the Wistar Institute." lT. S. Concrete Pipe Company. door on the school opens According to spokesman for Al- I imagine the De. partment of and Industry will bert M.

Greentield the land glye up a (ew thlg and was purchased from the Manor Real not a few said Vetter. Kstate Trust subsidiary of matter demands immediate the Penna. Railroad. Vetter declared. The plant to be Geveloped on the The building, called by J.

Russell site, it is estimated, will cost in Straub, school boaid piesident. excess of one million dollars. The the fire-proof building in plant is to be used in conjunction Bristol township, is presently un- with the Phila. plant of the com-jder lease to the school district bv pany. which is located from 24th Levitt corporation.

An inspec- to 25th street and from Ellsworth i tion committee will inspect the street to Washington avenue. It building Saturday morning, will be used for the manufacture of wrote to the Depart- home appliances. ment and they wrote us a letter Morgan S. Kaufman, president of asking if were We hope the Penna. Range Boiler is when we write back be quoted as saving that a modern able to say it is not true, said; plant will be erected in the very Straub.

A suggested solution was near future. to l)Ut new jambs on the doors, so; doors would open outward. Firm 1 1 Luncheon Former Commissioner Dies NEWTOWN'. Mar 6 Captains Farida at Age of 69 and workers, together with officers of Newtown district. L.

Bucks Edward C. Hancock, former Dem- Branch. American Red Cross, were ocrayc County Commissioner of on Tuesday guests of Lavelle Air- County for eight years, died; Wednesday at his home in Braden LONDON, March 6 (Friday) Josef Stalin died last night behind the 12-foot-thick walls of Moscow's Kremlin The Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and the supreme chief of the Communist Party, who dominated a third of the peoples as the most powerful dictator in history, succumbed at 9:50 P. M. (1:50 P.

EST), four days after suffering a brain hemorrhage (stroke). Stalin had been in a coma since he was stricken Sunday night, and his condition grew progressively worse. Yesterday his 10 physicians said his heart was faltering. JOSEPH STALIN (right), stricken Soviet Premier, is shown in a picture just a few months ago, with three men who will figure prominently in the future of Russia. They are: Lavrenti Beri, head of the secret police and Georgi Malenkov, Deputy Premier, who are considered possible successors to Stalin, and E.

Voroshilov, deputy president of the Council of Ministers, nominally the Soviet ruling body. Hunted Safe-Cracker Uses Ordinance is Passed uu it tf i 1 Reducing Penndel I axes Handy-1 alkie 011 Jobs PENNDEL, Mar. 6 An ordinance to reduce borough tax was passed last evening during a meeting of Penndel council held in Penndel school house. The ordinance approved reduced borough tax from 13 to 12 mills. Presiding was Alexander Knox.

One member of council was absent. Joseph Keating, burgess, was in attendance following an illness of two months. Nick George Montos Sought For Crime of Sheer Brutality Postpone Fund Drive For New Rescue Squad BIdg. Decision Due to Planned Drive for Lower Bucks Hospital Funds craft Co. at a luncheon in the Temperance House at the opening of the fund drive, with a quota of $3300.

Samuel S. Gray, chairman of the drive, presided, with the blessing being asked by Mrs. Garrett Goodnoa, chairman of the district. Mr. Gray stated he had accepted ton.

Florida, where he has been operating a chain of 12 motels for i some time, lie was 69. Former Commissioner Hancock had been in failing health for sev -1 era I years. He retired from the, Commissionership in 1952 and a short time later moved to Florida. His record of service with Bucks; the chairmanship of Hie Drive in was one of co-operation and repayment to Rod Cross for serv- pfficiency as a member of the Board ices rendered him during World County Commissioners. ar II.

Mr. Hancock was the son of the Mrs. Helen Randle, co-chairman. jate Joseph E. and Mary H.

Maloney This is the fifth article in the International News Service series on the 1953 list of the most fugitive criminals. The desperado described today is the fourth on the roster. By (INS Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, March 6 The FBI calls Nick I Two tos of the most notorious burglars and safecrackers in but he is sought for a crime of sheer brutality. Montos was identified as one of Continued on Page Three Appeal to Residents To Attend Hearing On Boundary Change Plea is Made at Meeting of Residents Held in The Tullytown Fire Station By Staff Reporter TULLYTOWN. Mar.

At a special meeting in the fire station here last night, a plea was made for Levittown residents favoring the proposed boundary change to 1 attend a court session Tuesday in which the proposal will be argued The case will be heard in Bucks County Quarter Sessions Court, Doylestown, starting at 10 a. when a hearing will be opened. to hear exceptions to the proposal. Urging supporters of the change to attend the court session were I Albert S. Ogden, of 44 Birch drive.

1 a member of the newly-formed Levittown Boundary Revision Committee, and James Sutton, of a Phila. law firm engaged by Levitt Sons, Inc. Both spoke to the 107 persons attending, who also heard an address by Dr. Charles 11. Boehm, Bucks County ent of schools, describing and supporting the change.

In the change, which would have taken effect Jan. 3 but for some exceptions presented to the court, Pinewood section, now in both Falls twp. and Tullytown Borough, would be entirely in Bristol twp. Lakeside, which is now partly in Falls twp. and partly in Tullytown, would be entirely in the borough.

Bristol twp. would encompass all Stonybrook, which now reaches partly into Tullytown and Magnolia Contiuued on Four New School West of Stonybrook Section Is Virtually Assured Enjoin A Horsham Couple From Building 4 Units Foundations Begun Prior to Date of Doylestown Twp. Zoning Code explained procedure of the drive. George A. Nevin.

director of fund raising for S. E. wras speak- Hancock. For a number of years Mr. Hancock conducted an undertaking Neibauer Bus Co.

Files New Fare Increase DOYLESTOWN, Mar. 6 Containing the names of 26 other Doylestown twp. property owners and neighbors, Harold W. Abel et al. Pebble Hill, has filed a bill in Russell Marshall, a i in a building fund committee, for the Bucks County Rescue Squad, announces that the fund drive for the new building will be postponed until next year.

This decision was reached after the fact was made known that the Lower Bucks County Hospital Organization is planning a fund drive in the spring of this year. "Realiz -1 ing the importance and need for a fully accredited community hospital to serve the people of this i total of 4500 pounds of clothing area, the Bucks County Rescue residents of lower Squad does not wish to over-burden county in the Holland Hood its loyal supporters, nor does it Clothing drive sponsored by 4500 Lbs. of Clothing Sent To Pier for Shipment Residents of Lower Bucks Co. Donate Generously For Holland Relief wish to do anything hut give full support to the money is in the squad's building fund at the present time; equity in Common Pleas Court, this will be used to start the foun- here, enjoining Myrl F. and Mil- dation of the building.

er. He explained why the national business in Philadelphia, and was quota of 93 million dollars is higher than last year. The Red Cross has been asked to reopen the club program overseas, since it does so much for morale of the men, and also 2 million more pints of blood are needed in the gamma globulin later engaged in farming in Bucks county. After moving to Warrington where he resided for a number Contlnned on Page Four NTRSES TO MEET The first meeting of the Bucks program for Shots of this Nurses Association of Dis- A new fare increase proposal was submitted yesterday to the Public Utility Commission, by the Neibauer Bus Co. revised to meet protests against zone changes.

Fare changes in the new schedule. to become effective April 1, defendants are building four dwell were identical to those proposed ing units upon 1 546 acreg earlier this year but canceled when Two of the foundations were be- riders protested a zone cut. eun prior to January 31f alld the. he company proposed to raise Doylestown twp. Zoning Code did died G.

Packer, Easton road, Horsham, from building four dwelling units. The plaintiffs, who live on Cherry Lane, in the Pebble Hill section of Doylestown allege that the sign will be erected on Continued on Pnge Two the Exhibiting Folding Money money may look a good deal differently today than it did 140 years ago, and it may not be good as since the Treasury called in gold certificates some years back, but it still buys food for the table even though grocery stores isue the money like they used to. From the issuance of script many years ago ijntil the present time doliar-bills have gone through many changes. These changes may be seen at the exhibition of paper currency on display at the Farmers National Bank, Radcliffe street. Here are nearly 50 specimens of one-dollar bills, and bills of other denominations, which date back to the time the Farmers National Bank was located in Hulmeville, about 1814.

The Farmers National being just that a bank, was authorized to issue its own currency, and the notes it has issued through the years are on display. the nickname for fractional currency, were issued in amounts of less than one dollar are a part of the collection. The elaborate art work on the currency of the last century appears to be one of the main features distinguishing that money from the smaller, more functional bills of today. Invasion money, used during the last war and, specimens of gold certificates no longer in use, share the exhibition with the notes of the Farmers National Bank i nod in 1814 listing the bank as miles from United States Steel Gives $1200 to Red Cross Drive FAIRLESS HILLS. Mar.

6 United States Steel Corporation announced today that it has allo, i it ie cated a total of $2,310 to the Tren- gamma globulin prevent the crip-j No. 1 will be held Monday, ithe one-zone chaigf from 13 to 1 not go into effect until Feb. 5th. ton chapter and the Lower Bucks pling effects which follow March 23rd at 8 p. m.

in the Bristol jcents and subsequent fares Because Doylestown twp. now Countv Division of the South East- He cited the great drain upon Red Community Building. All graduate multiple-zone trips from 13 to 10 has a zoning code, the plaintiffs ern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Cross resources in the two major registered nurses in Bucks County per zone, disasters the past year. Dies Within Few Hours After Being Stricken 111 are asked to attend this meeting. Under the revised setup, how- There will be election of officers ever, the bus line will continue, to and we need the full support of operate in six instead of five zoiips everyone.

with only slight zone limit changes. 7 i The company's main route ex- ROl TINE SESSION tends from the Philadelphia City LANGHORNE, Mar. 6 Paul Line at Frankford ave. to Morris- Bennetch presided over a session ville and serves Andalusia, Corn- Bridge- WEST BRISTOL. Mar.

6 suddenly ill yesterday. Elmer A. Mills died at his home. Second and Leedom avenues, last of Langhorne council last evening wells Heights, Eddington evening. He had resided in this section for three years.

His survivors are his wife. Mae; a daughter. Mrs. Oliver Kubat. a brother.

Joseph, of Bristol; also four grandchildren. Service will be held at the Molden funeral chapel, 133 Otter Bristol. at two p. Monday. Burial place is to be Sunset Memorial Park.

Somerton. Friends may call Sunday evening. in town hall. All members were water, Croydon. Edgely, Levittown, present Routnie bills were order- Wheatsheaf, Penn Valley and Bris- ed paid and a general discussion tol.

Another route is between Bris- period took place. tol and Newtown. Editorial THE FREE-SPEECH ISSUE hope to prevent the defendants American Red Cross as part of its from constructing the houses. The participation in the 1953 national defendants are charged with not drive. An allocation of $1.090 was made to the Trenton Chapter and $1.220 to Bucks County.

The funds were allocated in the name of American Steel and Wire, American Bridge and National Tube Divisions of the Corporation, Fairless Works; and Union Supply Company and Universal Atlas Cement Company, subsidiaries of United States Steel. the Bristol and Lower Bucks Chamber of Commerce were transported to pier No. 5, Port Richmond, for shipment to Holland from the warehouse of Dries furniture store, Mill street, Bristol, yesterday. According to John W. Franks, secretary of the Chamber, this marks the end of the local clothing drive, however the Flood Relief Fund drive continues.

Jars at local stores will be collected Saturday. Franks said, but he urged those who have not made contributions to address their checks to the fund twp. supervisors Tuesday office, Box 329. Bristol. evening at the home of John Mel-1 The clothing the chain- vin, secretary.

Clifford Watson pre- ber lasted 10 days, and said sided. Some of the visitors were Franks: glad to say the from Bucks newest com -1 clothing we collected was in good munities Fairless Hills and Falls Supervisors Have Number of Visitors Seek Street Lights, Boundary Changes, Water; Ask About Falls Government FALLSINGTON, Mar. 6 Visiting groups, with various suggestions and problems to present, were present at the March meeting of A new school for the section of Levittown west of Stonybrook was virtually assured last night as the board voted to employ an architect to draw up plans for the structure, which is to be a 20 -room elemen- 1 tary school. A 20-room school for Laurel Bend section of the towrn- ship has been approved. At the same time the board voted I to file applications with the State i Public School Building Authority; with the Federal government; and investigate the local authority as a method of financing the schools.

According to the property com- 1 mittee the site for the Levittown school has not been definitely sc! lected. The board has fixed next Thursday, March 12. to meet jointly with the school authority and Albert I Micklewright, architect, to discuss plans for the new school, Thirteen teachers were hired by I the board. Mrs. Patricia Schwartz submitted her letter of resignation to the board.

It was accepted. Walter Miller, district superintendent, described progress of the schools under construction as follows: George Taylor School, Croydon, trenches dug for footings, forms being laid for pouring concrete, water lines laid underground up to the school George Clyiner school, New port- ville. well being dug. ready to start pouring footings, land cleared. John Fitch school, Levittown, waiting for steel, footings in, pipes in and plumbers working, major cause of holdup is lack of steel that was supposed to be delivered last September, this steel is in the rolling mills at the present time and is expected momentarily.

Delhaas High School, held up because of lack of concrete because of local strike but enough footing has been poured to keep brick layers working. The board voted to pay Howell Lewis Shay, architects, $8352 74, as part of the fee for plans for the Newportville school. An agreement indemnity between the Levitt corporation and the school board exempting the builder from liability on the use of the driveway to the Wistar Institute was read and approved by the board on advice of the board's attorney. A request from the Housing and Home Finance agencv for a sum Continued on Six (Outinued on hko Fi.ur SERVICE TOMORROW TULLYTOWN. Mar.

Service for Mrs. Clara Dowdy, who died here Wednesday, will take place at the Molden funeral chapel. 133 Otter street. Bristol, tomorrow at 10:30 a. with burial at convenience of the family.

Friends may call this evening. Oirginally from Virginia, Mrs. Dowdy has been ill for about a week. She was found condition. The largest load, said Franks, was collected by the Hulmeville Fire Co.

Chairman of the drive is Arthur Pilla. THE Cl( IIFTTI El NERAL Funeral of Antonio Cichetti. who to he in a coma Tuesday evening, died Wednesday, will be conducted and death occurred the following tomorrow at nine a. morning. DIRECTORS CORNWELLS HEIGHTS, Mar.

0 A meeting of the board of directors of the Alumni will he held in Bensalem twp. high school Monday at eight p. m. Plans for the reception to the seniors are under- wa v. Trio of Youths Held In Series of Burglaries PHILADELPHIA, Mar.

Accused of 97 burglaries and armed robberies in Philadelphia. Montgomery and Bucks counties and Moorestown. N. in which the loot ave. area, requesting street lights.

totaled $87,930, three youths were The board acquiesced, and the booked late yesterday at the Rising Continued on Page Six gun and Benner police I station. (jRASS EIRE 1 Principals in one of the largest Bristol firemen yesterday after- 1 bookings ever handled in the police noon extinguished a grass fire at department were James Sheehy. 17. New Buckley street. No damage was Nicholas Gabriele.

18, both Levittown, others from this section. A petition was presented to the board by residents of Oak Lane reported. All calls concerning Bristol News Agency must be dialed HOSPITALIZED Mrs. Barbara Triolo. 917 Pear was transported to Abington Hos.

pital yesterday in an ambulance It is astounding that a highly placed university ()f Bucks County Rescue Squad. needed in the Dunham affair is a little less theatricals and a little more commonsense. old enough to have reached what is usually termed the age of I 10 1 11 should so poorly visualize his dunes 10 the American LOCdl If CdlilCr UuS6rV3tlODS Republic as to refuse to help in ferreting out enemies here who JohllStOIK? would destroy our freedom just as surely as their counterparts have destroyed freedom in one foreign nation after another. To Speak at Penndel m. from his late residence, 351 Lafayette st.

Solemn requiem mass will be celebrated in St. R. Church at 10 Interment will be in St. Cemetery with the Galzerano funeral home in charge. Friends may call this evening.

NEWS BRIEFS Body of Stalin Viewed by Thousands II Oil III A Haim Heather lirintol, 24 Hour Period ICndinir A. W. School Tenure Brought to Abrupt Halt Temperature Maximum 46 Minimum Sii lianne 13 Hourly iVni liera Dr. Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple Department of Philosophy, undoubtedly has visualized himself Will Address Lower Bucks Edward Hough Ineligible; a. m.

yesterday 9 10 11 I 'J noon p. m. 7......................... 9 10 1 1 12 midnight I a. m.

today .18 46 41 41 4 3 44 4 4 45 4 5 13 41 40 39 3K 37 3 fi 36 36 36 35 3 4 35 33 36 Co. Sector, Penna. For Retarded Children Relative Humidity Precipitation (inches) Minimum temperature last 6th 30. 64 0 Mar. TIDES AT BRISTOL.

llimh water 6.44 a. 7.07 p. m. how water 1.33 a. 2.09 p.

m. Sun rises 6.28 a. sets 5 58 p. m. Moon rises 12.10 sets 8.45 a.

m. Has Been Tullytown Resident Less Than Year TULLYTOWN, Mar. 6 The tenure of Edward Hough as a Tullytown school director was brought to an abrupt halt last night when Holmes F. McCormick, chairman of as a martyr to an ideal, a free-will offering upon the altar of liberty to the concept of freedom of speech, a sort of American Dreyfus hounded by prejudice and bigotry. Actually he is a much misguided individual who, in three- xjle monthly meeting of the fourths of the globe, would be tossed summarily into a detention Lower Bucks County Sector, Penna.

camp for refusing to recognize his responsibilities to his govern- for Retarded Children, will ment and to his fellow citizens. hold a meeting on Monday at Suspension from his post, which was directed by I emple p. in Penndel public president. Dr. Robert L.

Johnson, after the full hool. with chairman, Mrs. Bertha the Levittown Civic ediica- Orfe. presiding. tional committee read to the school will be honored indeed to board a state law requiring a have at this meeting as our guest i previous residence in the dis- speaker.

Edward L. trict. president of the Woods Schools. Hough, who resides at 60 Lilac Langhorne. Mr.

Johnstone has been lane, Levittown, has not lived in actively engaged in the field of Tullytown for a year, McCormick special education since 1924. and said, and so is ineligible to be a impact was realized of Dr. refusal to testify to a Congressional Committee, is quite a tame punishment by comparison with what would have happened to the professor anywhere behind the iron curtain, anywhere in nearly the whole of Asia, in many parts of Africa, in a great deal of South America. The pity ip that instead of trying to uphold a government which is generous to its critics, Dr. Dunham has flown in the face of those trying to do so, and done his best to make their patriotic efforts appeal ridiculous and bigoted.

Congress in investigating the infiltration of subversive is acting wholly within law as set forth by its own statutes and the interpretations of them by the U. bupreme Court. Sections 2 and 3 of the Smith Act, 54 Stat. 671, I 8 U. S.

C. (1946 Ed.) Sections 10, II (see present 16 U. S. C. Section of Barton st.

near State and Robert Long, 17. of State near Princeton ave, Lt. James Chambers, who supervised the slating, said it was a six- hour job, doubt unequaled in all Philadelphia police The youth, according to Detective Albert Helvitson, of the Paul and Ruan st. division, were one of sev- Moscow The body of Stalin lay in state today in the hall of columns, eral gangs working in the same the heart of Moscow. Thousands of Russians began paying Coniinued on Three last respects to the 73-year-old Soviet leader who lost his battle last 1 ntohf 4v in of in ffn 14 fhn i lurreted Kremlin today and borne across the snow covered Red Square 1 to the Hall of Columns in the House of Trade Unions.

lO Be Dltried on Monday Forty five minutes after the body was moved the doors to the Hall of Columns were opened to the throngs and high leaders, such as' Mar. At the Deputy Premiers Georgi Malenkov, Vyascheslav Molotov and Lavrenti i years, Mrs. Sarah Ash P. Beria. i Peoples, widow of Joseph Peoples, Those entering the main entrance to the Trade Union Center passed died yesterday noon at the home of by a huge portrait of Stalin, framed in red and black her nephew and niece, Mr.

and Mrs. coffin rested on a catafalque draped with crepe and sur- Herbert Bowen, Tullytown road, rounded by a mountain of flowers and wreaths. Langhorne 9 Mrs Peoples Specially picked armed sentries stood immobile on each side of ha(, the coffin 111 addition to the honor guard. iw 1 Estimates indicated that tonight and tomorrow more than a million i "utvmnf Is Muscovites will come to pay their farewell. Charles, ot Phila.

When Stalin died last night his little publicized daughter. Svetlana The Rev. Philip Weiss, of Oxford (Radiant) and his son, Air Force Lt. Gen. Vassili Stalin, were at the Chapel, will conduct the bedside inside the Kremlin fortress.

i service Monday at two p. at the iir it np ri 1 i W. W. Dunn funeral home, here. Woman Hurt; IW0 tars Damaged with burial in Beech wood Cemetery, Bonsaleiii woman was removed to Nazareth hospital, Hulmeville.

Friends may call Sun- and two passenger cars wrere damaged approximately $550 at 6:15 day evening, this morning during a two-car accident at Dunks Ferry and Mechanics- since 1930 has been head of the Woodbine Colony, Woodbine. N. J. In addition, he is the author of on Page Five mentally handicapped. He is also executive secretary and treasurer of the National Conference of Juvenile Agen- Continued on Pnge Right ville roads.

Isadore Zisserman. 52, Mechanicsville Croydon R. operating! a 1951 sedan, was attempting to drive out of his driveway into Dunks Ferry rd when the Zisserman vehicle struck broadside a 1949 sedan school director. operated by Mrs. Anna McColgan, 31, Croydon.

R. D. 1, travelling south A motion offered by Hough and on Dunks Ferry rd. The McColgan machine was pushed into a utility adopted by the to purchase pole A pHSRpr-hv Alfrod PrnvHun to Nazareth hospital, where she remained to receive X-rays, of head and chest. The McColgan machine, according to police, was damaged approximately $400 and $150.

Physicians and Dentists Week-End Emergency Service UUpUClllUlft UAOA ilAiAVi 1 A.J Dick of for $205 was recinded by the board, and then made by another director and adopted. The machine should be Continued on Page Four Investigation was made by Chief George Rentz, Bensalem who said a summons will be issued. If you cannot reach your own Physician or Dennst, please call one of the following: H. Richard Giordano, Mi). 2370 George B.

Hood. M.D. 3577 Jules Fegelson, D.D.8. 3554 (Advt.).