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JULY 2. 1955 TELEPHONE 98 99 900 INDUSTRIAL Million IHhir AnA Fourth: WORKERS BEGIN RETURNING TD IIKR KS I liK I ON VACATIONS (ln TrAtrst Hint Npar Hw. (Urn JCfflfwf flEmvhi iifmi U1 Bolivar Driver Suffers Head and Chest Injuries In Accident On Route 68 James Shank, aged 20, of Bolivar, near Johnstown, is in critical condition at the Kane Community Hospital with head and chest injuries received early this morning when his automobile was involved in a sideswip ing accident with a truck on Route 68 about 20 miles soutli of Kane and was demolished after crashing headon into a tree at the roadside. The accident occurred as millions of fun loving Americans headed for the hinterlands to take advantage of the long Fourth of July week end. The National Safety Council predicted a record 40 million vehicles would be on the move during the holiday period, causing an all time high of 380 persons to die in highway mishaps.

stL v. 4 I 4 4" lit, 1 5 Fred Benson Dies At Wilcox Friday Fred Benson, 66, a lifelong resident of Wilcox, died early Friday afternoon at Community hospjtal. where he had been a patient since last Sunday. Although Mr. Benson had been in failing health for several months, his "condition dio not become serious until within the past week.

Mr. Benson was born November 13, 1888 at Wilcox, and resided in that community all his life. He was employed as a carpenter by the Wilcox Tannery for several years, and later engaged in the carpenter trade independently until his retirement four years ago. He was a member of the Wileox Sportsmen's Club. Mr.

Benson is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Edward Lawson, of Pine avenue Mrs. Harry Simons, Wilcox, and several nieces and nephews. A brother, Frank Benson, preceded him in death in April of this year. Friends will be received at the Red 'Evinced Interest Quakers Detail Peace On Burdett List THREE WITNESSES at the Senate internal security committee hearings In New York are shown as they testified after being named by Winston Bur dett, reformed former Communist who now is a CBS news broadcaster.

(International) 5 I.yle Dowling, former Brooklyn Eagle executive, denies Communist membership since 1945, refuses to testify on prior years. Monroe Stern. Sarasota, Fla president of the New York Newspaper Guild In 1941, de jnles be ever has been Red. Alvah Bessie, San Francisco, former Hollywood writer who now works for an Internationa Longshoremen's anion paper, In vokea the fifth amendment In refusing to say whether be Is or was a Red party member rOWDKR I'l'FF UF.RHY LONG BEACH. Calif.

Fifty four light planes took off from the Long Beach Municipal airport at noon EDT today and headed east on the first leg of the ninth annual nil women trans continental air "Th Powder Puff Derby" as the race has been dubbed, will cover a 2,800 mile course stretchin3 from Long Beach to the Barnes Westfield Airport nt Springfield, the longest distance in the. derby's history. 50 STKIC'KKN IIERSFELD, Germany T.I!i A pipeline currying deadly chlorine gas ruptured in nearby Heringcn today. Fifty persons were stricken before bre.e blew the suffocating fumes across the border into the Soviet zone. Hours later police said the jriven ish yellow gas from a commercial chemical comply was "slowly fading nwnv" and that "things are returning to normal.

Two Boys Held Charges In PHILADELPHIA Police held two hoys on homicide charges today and uccused them of pushing two other hoys to their death In The Schuylkill river to steal a bicycle from them. Police arrested Theodore. Arm pricster and Joseph Ryan, both 12 years old, Friday one hour nfter two other boys were drowned in the river. Th drowning victims were Adolph Sineavage, 13, and Ellis Palmer. 10, who at first had been thought to have fallen Into the river while fishing on a rocky ledge near the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Detectives Joseph Cai lit hers and Joseph P.ehen said they suspected foul play when they shortly after the drownings that both boys had ridden bicycles to the scene. Only one bike was found near the spot. 1 kk I Plan to Andrei Gromyko STEEL PLANTS Higher Scales To Be Reflected In Price Increases For Steel. PITTSBURGH (UP) Limited work forces returned to their jobs at the nation's steel mills today at higher pay series which producers aid would be reflected in steel price increases, some effective next, week. The new wage rates, hammered cut in tension packed bargaining sessions Friday between U.

S. Steel Corp. and the CIO United Stel workers unionr ended a nation wide 12 hour strike of 600,000 workers in the basic steel industry. The wage agreement expires next June 30. yf Production workers begun slieam iK back to their jobs at wae ates boosted an average of more than 15 cents an hour.

Pacesetter U. S. Steel Corp. immediately announced priee increases averaging nearly 57.50 ton which subsequently would raise the production cost of consumer items from automobiles to electric to.isl crs. Other producers were expected to follow suit.

The. H'ace Bwwt The wage boost, langinn from 11 1 2 cents an hour for the lowest paid workers to 27 1 2 cents an hour for top skilled men, brought the tivernee steelwoiker's pay to V2.38 an hour. of class 1 steel workeis under the new rate were boosted to $1.68 1 2 an hour, white those in the highest classification, job lass 32, will ieccivc 1 2 an IioutC" U. S. Steel Corp.

and the USW (signed their formal agreement, announced shortly before noon Friday, by mid afternoon. Second ranking Hcthjchcm Steel Coi p. signed next, followed by Jones LHUghlin, the nation's fourth ranked producer. Union district officers across the iK'tion were ordered by USW President David J. McDonald to hold contract Mening1 conferences in their jiieas.

The signing in Pittsburgh Ly other firms such as Republic Steei, Youngstown Sheet Tuhe, Wheeling Steel Great Lakes, Pittsburgh Steel and Allegheny Ludlum was routine. Trims were virtually identical with those agreed to by "HiK Steel." The pact ulso will serve as a 1 atlern for agreements covering another USW members employed in steel fabricating, finishing and uluniinum industries. I nion's ShorteM Strike Although the stiike was the shortest in the history of the union, it cost the industry millions of dollars in production. Producers of DO per cent of the nation's steel had begun the Mow and costly cess of banking blast furnaces and shutting down operations three day befcre the strike at midnight Thursday night. Near noimal operations were expected to be resumed in most mills this weekend, although pie srike production schedules will not be 1 cached generally until after "the July 4 holiday.

About seven hours after news of the wage agreement was announced. President Clifford F. Hood of IJ. S. Steel Corp, disclosed his company would hike its prices about 5.8 per cent, or nearly $7.50 a ton, effective July 6.

The price increases will raise ihe lverage price of U. S. Steel produced ingots fiom $125 a ton tp llood estimated the new price scale would raise the ost of steel in automobiles selling between $2,3.10 and $3,000 by about $15, In a refrigerator 90 cents a $25 toaster four cents. The pi ice boost, he said, was necessitated by "powerful inflationary forces which have seriously affected every phase" of the steel Industry's operations for the past 15 ears. 2 Kane Men Inducted Into Military Forces Two Kane men were Included In Hie ten man volunteer group In dueled Into the U.S.

armed forces tit Huff alo. N. Y. yesterday as the June contingent of Selec.ivc Setv Ice from this county. In the all volunteer group were pjivld A.

Aiello, who wus named leader of the group und Donuld Swedeiihjelm. Others In the contingent were from the Bradford area. Customury send off rercmonies wee American Legion liome with gifts presented the In cluctces. They then left In chartered bus along with a group from McKcan county who took physical examinations at Buffalo. The la'er jroun returned home la ft evening.

I MOSCOW (U.I!) A group of American Quakers re Many Join Throngs Flooding Roads For July 4th Holiday Trips. Kane residents are moving out over the nation from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico as a general suspension of industry for annual vacations coin elded with the big July 4th week end. Approximately DOO industrial employes rfre now on vacation with many of them headed for distant points on long planned vacntion trips. As the Hilltoppers moved out, traffic was heavy through the night and today, bringing weekenders and vacationers Into this Allegheny Mountain area. Hundreds of camps and summer homes which have sprung up in the forest areas adjacent co Kane in the past few years began filling up yesterday with large groups of visitors moving in for a quiet weekend.

There will be fishing for all ages and for all kinds of fishthis weekend with advertt of the season on bass, pike and muskies. The trout season continues through the month. Kane's stay at home population will find an abundance of attrac tionswith Twin Lakes expecting the peak crowd of the season if weather gives it a lone deserved break, The Twin Lakes Recreation area which opened a month ago has been operating at a loss since that time as result of" the rainy and inclement weekend weather. The big East Branch Dam at Glen Hazel, about 15 miles south of Kane will provide closest boating and Other short jaunts will find local residents on Lake Chautauqua, Lake Erie, and on cherry picking expeditions. Celoron Park on Lake Chautauqua announces a big weekend program with customary fireworks.

The Family Drive In theater east of Kane also will have a fireworks display between features Sunday night. On Sunday, two ball games are scheduled in the loca larea with the Kane Legion meeting Warren In dies here Sunday afternoon and the Ludlow Wildcats meeting James town Art Metal at Wildcat Park at 3. The 'Cats also play at Ludlow on the Fourth at 3 p. meeting Salamanca in a Penn York league game. Promoter Dean Aldcrfer has a special racing card at the Highland Raceway Monday evening with some of the best stock car racers in the region competing.

A 25 Iap feature race has been Jisted as an extra on the program. With business and Industry' Idled Monday, The Republican will Join in observance of the holiday by suspending publication for the day. In contrast to the general observance of the weekend is the big Missionary Rally at Kane Camp Grounds of the Free Methodist church tomorrow afternoon where hundreds of persons representing a dozen churches of the area will meet. The annual camp meeting program extends to July 10 with special services daily. DOVLK FXIIIMFI) CROWBOROUGH, England tU.R; Grave diggers sworn to secrecy txhumed the body of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle today from an eerie, weed grown garden where it has lain for 25 years.

The heavy oaken, lead lined caskets containing the last remains of the author of the Sherlock Holmes myhteries and his wife were taken to a London undertaker. on Homicide Drowning Case The detectives round 'd up three of the victims' neighborhood friends ibut learned nothing. They were taking the boys home when one of the boys spotted Armpriester riding Palmer's missing blcjcle. Armpriester fled when he saw the detectives hut they caught him In short chase, they said. The boy broke down under questioning and implicated Ryan who was arrested.

The boys accused each other of actually pushing the two victims into the water, the detectives said, but both admitted that the object of their uctlon was the stolen bicycle. Armpriester and Ryan were re cently released on probation from St. Joseph's Protectory hi re, police said. The boys are being held at the Youth Study Cenl. here for a hearing on the homicide charges, scheduled for Tuesday.

ported today they had got Acting Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko interested peace. Clarence E. Pickett of Philadelphia, secretary emeritus of the American Friends Service Committee, presented the proposal to Gromyko in an interview at the Soviet Foreign Office Friday night. in their own blueprint for talking about Leskov story called "The Tale of the Cioss Eyed, Left Handed Smith and the Steel Flear and half an hour later I'd got niy visa." Pickett and four others of the six man group which has been tout ing the Soviet Union for a month planned to leave at 8 a. m.

(mid night) for Berlin, leaving Edgerton behind. The group as a whole said they had not found any anti Americanism during their stay in fact everyone had seemed very eager to talk to Americans. "However we found widespread Ignorance and misinformation ubout contemporai American life and thought, which was rather disturbing," Pickett said. Turkish Bath Hot, Humid Weather Seen For Week End By I'tiltecl l'remi The weatherman promised continued hot and humid conditions through most of the holiday weekend, with scattered afternoon or evening showers around most of Pennsylvania. Relief from the sticky weather was in sight for Monday with a cold front coming southward between the Hudson Bay a ea and the Great Lakes region.

The cold front was expected to bring slightly low er temperatures and less humid weather. Temperatures in Pennsylvania today and Sunday will be In the OO's during the afternoons and near 70 in the evenings. ONK I.UNGKIt LONDON UP Film actor Tyrone Power has bought one of those fancy European sports cars, but It has only one cylinder. The cur Power Is shipping home Is a 1008 De Dion two sealer with gleuinintf brass lumps. Augustine Dit'aupo, ot bolivar, a passenger in Shank car, was thrown clear.

He was treated at the hospital for bruises and brush burns and was not admitted as a patient. Sgt. Steve Banks, of Tionesta sub station of the Pennsylvania state police, is investigating the accident. Sgt. Banks could not be reached this morning to learn identity of the truck operator involved.

The truc it was reported, was only slightly damaged and the operitor unhurt. Ralph Wineland, of Bolivar, who was in a car following Shank about 20 minutes, said they all were employed at the Ford stamping plant in Buffalo and after finishing work at midnight had set out for a long weekend at home. Shank, he said, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Shank, of Bolivar.

He was driving his father's car. A third car of Bolivar residents employed at Buffalo, was a few minutes ahead of the Shank car and proceeded without knowledge of the accident. Wineland said when he arrived at the scene, other motorists had ex tricated Shank from the wreckage and the badly injured man was lying unconscious at the side of the highway. An ambulance hud been summoned from Marienville and arrived a short later. Examination at the Community hospital showed Shank had serious head and chest Injuries and his condition listed as "very critical." A national count by United Press since 6 p.

m. Friday s'towed fatal holiday accidents of various sorts, slightly behind the council's estimates. Traffic accidents killed eight and miscellaneous mishaps two for a total of 10. Michigan had the most traffic fatalities, three, while Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, New York and the state of Washington had one each. Dearborn Suggests Prayer Ned H.

Dearborn. of the council, suggested prayer to help hold down the traffic toll. He warned that the worst hi were yet to come when tired drivers clogged highways on the way home. At Fort Dix, N. soldiers leaving on weekend pusses were first shown movies entitled "Coffin On Wheels," "Drunk Driving," "Traffic With the Devil" and "Wanton Murder." Meanwhile, muggy weather gripped the eastern two thirds of the nution with widely scattered showers predicted through Monday, Temperatures of 90 or more were common.

The weather provided a sunny setting forhe millions who flocked to beaches, picnic grounds und ball parks. It also provided some relief for thousands of travelers who used roadside parks and benches for sleeping to beat the heat In the clear, early hours of the morning. But. at Tampa, Fl.c, It caused two near disasters. Officials at Tampa today blamed a thunderstorm for a fertilizer plant fire und the crash of a Jet fighter.

S( IENTISTS ZI.KIJ AS IIOSK GOM I NUr KGROl Nn DOWNEY. Culif. UP George Di Peso, a truck driver, looked out on his front lawn today and flinch ed. It was still there. "It" was a foot length of plastic garden Ijose which mysteriously began burrowing its way Into the ground Friday and has resisted all efforts to pull It out.

DI Peso said ahoul 13 feet disap eared. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology are at a loss to explain the phenomenon. ID DOOM ATTEMPTS TD ROME (UP) Disagreement over his own social reform plans appeared to. have doomed Antonio Segni's attempts to form a new Italian government today. The 64 year old Christian Democrat reports hack to President Giovanni Gronchi tonight oh his efforts to re form the four party center coalition and end the country's 11 day old crisis.

Political observers gave Segni no more than a 50 50 chance of success, despite an extra two days of negotiations granted by Gronchi. Sources close to Segni's gruelling week long talks with leaders said there still exists a split in the coalition that has ruled Italy since the late Alcide de Gasperi ousted the Communists from government eight years ago. the The conservative minded Liberals presented a major obstacle to formation of a coalition. They objected to Segni's social reform plans. All other center parties backed the reforms.

The objections of the Liberals, one of the four partners of Segni's prospective coalition, threatened to enlarge even further the backstairs squabble that toppled Mario Scel ba's 16 month old pro Western government. Union leaders inside Segni's own party appealed to the premier designate to drop the Liberals rather than trim social reforms to please Omission of the Liberals would mean a government composed of Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Republicansa government that would have no majority in parliament. The three party coalition then would be forced to depend on the questionable support of Pietro Nen ni leftwing Socialists. Opposing thp rnj. litinn n.iM hn tUa NO PAPER MONDAY There will be no regular edition of The Republican on Independence Day, Monday, July 4.

Play Watchers thought it was the end of a scene, The theater management immediately asked if there were any physicians in the house und called police and firenien. who were unable to revive her with oxygen equipment. Three doc tors reported to the stage from the audience and she was pronounced dead. Miss Bonner's husband, at New York home when she died, was scheduled to arrive In Hollywood by air this afternoon. Krumm said us he left New York that his wife had complained recently of a muscle pain but did not think It Was serious.

"I Just spoke to her last night," he sobbed. "She suld she was feeling fine." The red haired aclresi played a different role In the, original broad way production of the plHy two yeurs ago. She recently made a film version of It In her original role. The film Is Jut to.be ie 1 leased. Amend funeral home beginning at wln)? Monarchists and neo Fas 2 o'clock this afternoon Funeral cists.

services will be held there Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with the Rev. Kenning Johnson of Nazareth Lutheran church officiating. Inter ment will be in Wilcox cemetery. Actress Falls Dead Before Pickett said Gromvko had stud ied the plan and "evinced interest." Pickett said the Quakers' pro posal for peace and checking arm aments is based on the International Labor Organizations (ILO) scheme for Inspection of factories by its inspectors for spot checks on hibor conditions. He said tho ILO constitution pro vides for Inspectors to have free access to factories at any time and to have permission to question workers without informing the management.

The ILO inspectors, Pickett said, also can examine the books of any factory they choose, without giving prior warning. Mr, Gromyko didn't seem to he aware that this system Is already in use, he appeared Interested," Pickett reported. Pickett, who Faid he previously met Gromyko at U. N. sessions In New Yoi and Pal is, said he told him the ILO pattern might be used by an international disarmament commission.

Gromyko smiled and said aiimiment is a very difficult pro blem," he reported. Mr. Gromyko said the Soviet delegation wouid be Interested in any thinking about the problem of governmental or non governmental bodies ami encouraged us to send along some fu'ther ideas," Pickett said. "The interview wus very bfilisf ictoiy for nie." Iickitt snid Gromyko was "extremely fiiendly'1 while they discussed other matters and gave permission to Pickett to take rolls of undeveloped film out of the country. Among other Quakers present ul the Interview was Prof.

William Edgeilon of State College. wl teaches Russian and Russian literature at Penn State. "When Mr. Gromyko learned I wis Interested In staying another month to (nit In some research on 101 Century Russian author Nikolai Leskov lie expressed great interest In Leskov," Edgerton repot rd. "He wut ined up when we started 900 Shocked HOLLYWOOD U.R Broadway actress Isabel Bonner fell dead before 5NX) shocked playgoers at the Cart hay Citric Theater Friday night while speaking her Unci in the first act ft "The Shrike," a prize winning play written by her husband, Joseph Krumm.

She was 47. She was playing a hospital ward scene. She had Just told her sit husband in the play, co star Dane Clark. "You look much better today, when she collapsed. She apparently died of a heart ailment.

The play closes as scheduled tonight. About a doen actors were on slage In the scene. One said she wlis speaking the Jin when she suddenly slumped on the edge of Clark's bed. Clark put his arm about her and ad libbed, "Ann, speak to me. Is something the matter? What'i wrong, darling, I love you." He signaled for tlm curtain to be runj; down und the audience.