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230 TELEPHONE 98 99 KAjNE and MT. JEWETT WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950 rail CAN ilk in Pittsbur SEMITE CIIIIDPafr Who RMed gh As Bootleg. Kane Store Quizzed PROBERS SET I On Brinks Holdup BOOKIES Fanners Buck Strike; Disputes In Other Industries Still On TOWANDA, Pa. (UP) Two Massachusetts men were under 90 day terms in Bradford county prison today after being questioned by police in the $1,500,000 Brinks, holdup at Boston last January. Joseph O'Keefe, 42, Boston, and Stanley Gusciora, 30, Stoughton, received the Sentences from Justice of the Peace David McNeal yesterday as "known thieves habituating public places." XT PITTSBURGH POLICE GUARD FARMER Bookmakers Using 1 Western Union Face Crackdown; May Open Tax Files.

WASHINGTON (UP) Senate crime investigators today set out after big time bookmakers who take ibets front everywhere in the country by telegraph. Chairman Estes Kefauver, his special senate crime committee; has been in touch with Missouri authorities who uncovered evidence of "betting by wire" in recent He said he asked the Missouri officials to let his committee see the seized records and that they promised to cooperate. It was revealed that President Truman is to sign an ex ecutive order shortly, opening up income tax files to the investiga tors and directing government agencies to give them all the information they can. Acting on a tip from Gov. Alfred E.

Driscoll of New Jersey, Missouri authorities raided a bookie establishment in Wellston, on June 7 and found old telegrams and files indicating that it did a daily bust mess of nearly $50,000. The records indicated that West If i 1 1 watch In Pittsburgh while a farmer delivers milk to a downtown county milk strike proceeds with only minor disturbances as State highways to insure milk deliveries. (International Soundphoto.) ern Union office managers across the country were solicited to act as agents for bookmaking. The evidence included an instruction sheet which told company's employes how to handle bets. According to Missouri officials, the 4 were offered a 25 per cent of the bookmaker's "take." Western Union quickly announced that such gifts or commissions were against its rules.

The telegraph company has con tended that it has no legal alternative but. to accept bets It has put a stop to the practice, however, pending a court ruling. William Molaskey, vice president of Pioneer News Service, and a Western Union stockholder, disclaimed any knowledge of betting operations in testimony yesterday. Pioneer is a nationwide news service that distributes racing news received over wires leased from Western Union. Molasky told the committee that hff and his family own about $472 C00 worth of Western Union stock.

he! said the stock purchase was mot influenced in any way by his interest in Pioneer. ITISsTtI DDL When the pair was arrested at nearby Athens on Monday, police said they found five revolvers, ammunition and clothing in their automobile. Police said the revolvers were stolen from a Kane, sporting goods store and the clothing in Coudersport, Pa. According to State Trooper Donald Burke the 90 day terms against O'Keefe and Gusciora will give police more time to iivestigate the Kane and Coudersport robberies. McNeal also held the men in bail each on charges of violating the firearms act.

They will be given a further this charge next Monday, Butke said. Two men arrested on suspicion at Towanda, were definitely linked with burglary of the Moore i 1 Sporting Goods Store in Kane alter 1 the proprietor of the store, Wayne i Moore, identified five pistols found in the men car as pari oi me articles taken from his store some time Sunday afternoon or early evening. Arrest of the men was made in a state police road block at Athens, on a tip from Police Chief Dean Meredith of Towanda, who had checked the car at that place and was suspicious of their actions. When police searched the car they found the pistols, a few boxes of ammunition, some new. luggage and several new suits possibly stolen at Coudersport, Pa.

County Detective Merle Dickinson, Corporal Andrew Hichenko and Mr. Moore went to Towanda yesterday to check the pistols and to talk to the men. Police Chief Bernard Rose was unable to continue the investigation as the result of the death of his father. At Towanda, the men were held on a charge of violating the uniform firearms act until a charge of professional thief" a summary charge was at before 'a Justice of the Peace at that place last evening. The men, James O'Keefe, 42, of Boston, and Stanley Gusciora, 30, of Stough ton, were given 90 days on the charge.

Neither would talk pending efforts to secure counsel from Massachussets. Satisfied that the men were In volved in the local case. County Detective Dickinson lodged a detainer against both, charging burglary. DEWEY CHECKUP MAY SET POLITICAL PLAN NEW YORK (U.E) Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey will consult his doctor i nA i ir in on avamingtinn urhinh. mm, rio)ormino win i November for a tnird term as gov. ernor. 1 The two time GOP presidential candidate indicated he may announce a decision on his political future in Albany on Friday or Saturday. It has been indicated that Dewey's health, sapped by the strain of his strenuous presidential and gubernatorial campaigning In past election years, will be a major factor deciding whether to risk another campaign.

ERIE MOTORIST GETS BAIL IN DEATH CRASH ERIE, Pa. (UP) Don L. Ham rick, 22, Erie, accused of involuntary manslaughter as the result of a traffic accident, was released under $2,000 bail last night follow ing a hearing before Alderman Marchie Calabrese Unset. Traffic Investigator David Par through a stop sign and crashed Into an automobile driven by Henry Lee, Eric Clifton Barney, 25, Erie, was killed and Corrine Ricks, 28, also Erie, was seriously injured. Lee escaped with minor injuries.

POLICE BLOCK PICKETS FROM INTERFERING Washington Milk Strike Continues; N. Y. Newspaper Strikebound. By United Press A "white market" in milk grsw in (the thirsty Pittsburgh area today and another threatened to spring: up in Washing ton, D. as negotiations to end twin strikes of AFL milk drivers got nowhere.

In other labor management disputes: A strike of editorial and commercial employes against the New York World Telegram and Sun went into its second day. Striking engineers hampered television operations of the Columbia Broadcasting System. A walkout shut down a baseball bat factory at Louisville, Ky. A Senate Labor Sub committee prepared to open hearings at Mor ristown, Tenn, tomorrow in a strike at the American Enka a textile firm. At Houston, 600 cabbies were on strike against "police brutality." In the seven county Pittsburgh area, farmers peddled milk at their springhouses and out of town truck drivers hauled the precious food to chain stores.

Most of the milk sold ait the state fixed price of 19 cents a quart, but "bootleg" prices in some instances soared to 30 cents on the "white market." State troopers cracked down on pickets, arresting 10 accused of interfering with milk deliveries in Westmoreland county yesterday. Negotiators scheduled new talks after a meeting last night broke up without progress. At Washington, where most of the area's 1,000,000 population were without milk, union and dairy representatives said they were still far from a settlement of the milk strike. The World Telegram and Sun failed to publish any of its seven editions yesterday, after 540 members of the CIO American News; paper Guild walked out and pressmen, typographers and stereotypists refused to cross picket lines. Approximately 1,060 of the paper's 1,550 employes were off their jobs as a result of the strike.

The strike of AFL electrical workers against CBS forced cancellation of three television shows last night. The network replaced the shows with other video programs. CBS radio programs were not affected. WEAK lEISIJt CASE WASHINGTON (UP) Senate Republicans Insisted today that the Democratic controlled investigation of the Amerasia case hasn't scratched the surface They demanded an independent, blame fixing inquiry to assure an "impartial administration of jus tice." Sen. Bourke B.

Hickenlooper, a member of a Foreign Rela tions Subcommittee conducting the present inquiry, recommended that FBI Chief Edgar Hocver and U. S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark be urged to testify on the 1945 stolen documents case. Hoover would be asked about remarks atributed to him that he believed his men had produced enough evidence for an airtight case against six persons arrested after a raid on the magazine's offices.

Two, of the six paid fines and charges against the other four MAN AGAIN OUT Huge Manhunt For German Public Enemy No. 1 Goes In High Gear. MUNICH, Germany OJ.PJ Hundreds of American troops and German police searched dirty Munich sewers and quaint Bavarian farms today for escaped Oklahoma badman Homer Cook. "Shoot on tight" orders were Issued. Radio stations blared warnings that Cook was "dangerous) and possibly armed." MUNICH, Germany (UP) American and German police threw all available forces today into a huge search for Germany's public enemy No.

1 who smashed his way out of jail with his bare hands for the third time in two months. Bloodhounds were set on the trail of 27 year old Homer Cook, six foot, one inch Oklahoma bad man, who made good his boast that no jail could hold him when he broke out of the American controlled Dauchau jail last night. The 200 pound former boxer and one time army private, whose boyhood hero was' 'Pretty Boy" Floyd, was believed headed to find ihs curvaceous girl friend, Anna Sporer who went to work this week as a waitress in a GI supper club here. Cooke was scheduled to be tried next week on 19 charges stemming from two previous jail 'breaks after he returned to Germany illegally to visit his Bavarian sweetheart. Officials of the Dachau jail said Cook was in the prison library just after dark to select a wild west book for bedtime reading.

Suddenly he slugged his guard, a slender private from Cook's home town of Muskogee, and fled. Reaching an outside window, Cook ripped off a steel grating and pried an opening between steel bars set 7 1 2 inches apart. He then fled across open fields surrounding the prison. It was Cook's second escape from Dachau prison and his from jails in Germany since last April 12. He escaped first from the German controlled Munich jail but was recaptured 24 hours later in the attic of his girl friend's house at nearby Rosenheim.

Brought to Dachau after a terrific fist fight with 10 German policemen, Cook escaped from American custody five days later by wrenching the bars out of his cell window. He fled without shoes, explaining later that "a man can run faster in his bare feet." Cook was recaptured 56 hours later after one of the most extensive manhunts in Bavaria's postwar history. Exhausted from flight and lack of food, he was found asleep in a boxcar by a German patrolman. He surrendered without a struggle. Cook, dubbed "The Eel" because of his escapes, was dishonorably discharged from the U.

S. Army a year ago ajfter serving some time in Germany. G.E. WORKERS RETURN PENDING SETTLEMENT ERIE, Pa. UPJ Production was resumed at the General Electric refrigerator cabinet division here today after some 6,500 workers agreed to return to their jobs while their grievances were being discussed.

ped up production quotas. The re mainder were sent home when a slowdown developed on production lines. FLAG DAY QUIET HERE Flag Day observances locally were held to a minimum due to inclement weather conditions. Only a special service reported today was scheduled for the local Eagles lodge where a soured movie titled "What Price Freedom," will 'be shown as part of the regular meeting of that group. Directors, officers and employes of the Kane Bank were attending the annual Flag Day outing of the McKean County Bankers Association at the Pennhills Country Club, Bradford, today.

for us," Acheson said. "Such a war would necessarily be incredibly de structive. It would not solve prob lems, it would multiply them Resorting to isolation would be "to pull down the blinds and sit in the parlor with a loaded shotgun, waiting," Acheson said. Isolationism, he added, would be "both unrealistic and costly while appeasement would whet Russia's appetite for power." The western democracies made great progress against Russia's out siide pressure and Internal politics at the recent London conference, he said. He referred specifically to the decision of the 12 North Atlantic Security Pact Nations to set up "balanced defense forces." He also mentioned the Schuman plan for consolidating western Europe's iron and coal resources, and the new EuropeanPayments Union.

i INDICTED the New York Grand jury investigating sub vvetsive activities, William W. Remington, 32 year old former Commerce department official, walks to Federal court to plead not guilty to a perjury charge. He is accused of lying when he denied that he ever was a member of the Communist party. (International Soundphoto) HITS GOAL 11 WORK PITTSBURGH (VP.) More than 3,000 miners are unemployed and more than 5,000 are, working half time in six western Pennsylvania counties, according to John P. Busa rello, president of District 5, United Mine Workers.

Busarello told the opening session of the annual district convention yesterday that the lack of work was caused by imported oil replacing coal in many cases. "We can take domestic competition," Busarello said. "It's that foreign stuff that's causing the trouble. Thf 1IMW offirial nainted a bleak DELIVERING MILK OF To BE SUBJECT TO TftXES WASHINGTON (UP) House tax writers today took out after a select group of organizations which make money as competitive business enterprises but are exempt from paying taxes. Members of the House Ways and Means committee believe that by closing this so called "loophole" in the tax law the treasury would get an additional $100,000,000 a year.

The committee approved a proposal to tax the business earnings of labor, agricultural, horticultural, educational and charitable organizations. At present, such "non profit" organizations are tax exempt even though they may operate department stores or manufacturing plants in competition with private firms. Spokesmen for these organizations by and large conceded that this was an unfair advantage that should not be permitted. The committee agreed, and voted to tax their earnings at regular corporation rates. The provision applies only to "business earnings" and income obtained from interest, dividends, rents, royalties and capital gains remain tax exempt.

"The only exception voted was for churches whose business activities will remain on the exempt list. The plan is part ol! the committee's overall attempt to offset some $1,100,000,000 in excise tax cuts it already has approved. President Truman has threatened to tighten up the law as it relates to the formation of tax exempt trusts and foundations. It agreed on a provision to require that the contract establishing a trust or foundatipn must provide that no part of the assets, may be loaned to the founder or any of his family or to any corporation owned by them. Has Harrow Escape "Bobo" Campbell heard and rushed to him.

Bobo, as pictured, had a livid ring around his neck to remind him of his escape. Speaklng from experience he says "no more russlers." 1 4 LONDON (UP) Atomic scientists speculated today that Russia may have erred in its dealings with J)r. Klaus Fuchs, revealing to the west its "knowledge of atomic energy. The scientists, who have been studying the case of the convicted I Russian espionage agent, said the Russian error was in asking Fuchs question They pointed out that the entire subject of atomic physics is so tech nical that a single question of a man of knowledge would be almost a complete confession of the questioners' understanding of the atomic field. It would be a major clue from which'; the scientist could deduce exactly what knowledge already was held by the inquirer and what type cf brain was working on further possible discoveries.

The scientists believe the recent questioning of Fuchs by U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents may have been as much to dig into Jtussian atomic progress as to uncover Fuch's American contacts. According to his confession, Fuchs answered several questions put to him by other spies. He was said to have remarked that the questions obviously were framed by pcture of mining conditions in his Approximately asuu workers waJk district which includes Allegheny, ed out Monday to protest "inequali Washinuton, Butler.

Beaver. Mercer, tle bonus payments" and slep A MOUNTED POLICEMAN keeps istore. Outside the city, the seven police patrol western Pennsylvania BILL FOR RENT CONTROL NEAR PASSAGE IN CONGRESS WASHINGTON (UP) Rent control, for those cities that want it, was assured today for another year. Congress was ready to put final approval on a 12 months extension built around local option. The ad mi nistiation said it would accept this as the best obtainable compromise.

Relatively minor differences between house and senate bills still were to be ironed out. was expected to take only a few days. The House passed its version yesterday, 202 to 163. The Senate had approved its bill earlier, 36 to 28. The senate was expected to reject House amendments and send the bill to conference.

Under both versions, cities and towns that want another full year's coverage must take affirmative ac' tion to keep it, either by resolution of the governing body or by popular vote. Rent Director Tighe E. Woods predicted that more than 50 of the 63 big cities will vote to continue controls until June 31, 1951, the final termination date in both bills. Woods, with President Truman's backing, sought an outright extension of the present law ibeyond its June 30 expiration date. He said he still thinks that is what was needed, but that the local option substitute is an acceptable compromise.

"It's my job to make it work," he said. Both house and senate bills' continue another local option feature in the present rent Any state or city or town can junk controls and many have done so by action of its governing body. The senate bill would continue the law as if. is until Dec. 31, 1950.

From then until June 30, 1951, controls would remain in effect only in cities or towns that take affrima tive action to keep them. TRIPLETS BORN mLAUJiu HW (UJ Mrs. Lillian Dundon, 38, wife of a rail road brakeman, gave birth today to triplets two girls and a boy. The babies were delivered within, 25 minutes at Metropolitan hospital. The parents, unprepared for the multiple births, did not have three names handy.

For the present, the triplets are known as and C. GAMBLER TRIAL SET NEW YORK (UP) Frank Erick son, wealtJiy king pin bookmaker who does his multi million dollar annual business in all 48 states, today was ordered to trial on Monday on charges that could send him to prison for 60 years. ROYAL MOUNTED TOO LATE NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (UP) Royal Canadian Mounted police constables who arrived here with income tax summonses for a brother and sister found them in cemetery where they had been buried 20 and. five years respectively.

of I of of by it out a but College Grads More Productive WASHINGTON UR Col lege graduates are having more babies than did their predeces sors of a decade ago, but not enough to replace themselves, the Population Reference Bu reau said today. A bureau survey of 109,000 graduates of the 1936 40 classes showed an average of 1.29 chil dren for the men and 1.09 for the women 10 years after graduation. Graduates of the. 1940 class made the best showing with a rate of 1.275 children, 29 per cent higher than reported for the 1936 graduates 10 years out of college. But the bureau said the college groups still are far short of the replacement rate of 2.1 children per marriage.

LATE BULLETINS FLOOD TOLL RISES TOKYO, Japan Heavy rains caused new floods and land slides in Japan today, sending the death toll during the pwit week, to 60. Latest reports added thn dead and three missing to the list oi casualties. 8 DIE IN CRASH ELKINS, W. Va. aiPJ State Police today reported a plane crashed and burned beyond recognition today on the rugged peaks of Spruce (mountain at nearby Circle vllle.

They said eight bodies had been recovered. AIR LINES ClfED FOR GREAT SAFETY RECORD CHICAGO U.P The National Safety Council today cited 35 U. S. air lines for accumulating a total nearly 6,000,000.000 passenger miles without a fatality. That's the equivalent of moving the entire population of a city about the size of New Orleans from Denver to Buenos Aires and from Buer nos Aires to Gibraltar, "Bob Campbell A game of cowboys and rustlers 'proved almost too realistic for Camobell.

four vear olc Bobo" Campbell, four year old son Mr. and Mrs. Robert Campbell, Pine street, who cheated death inches in an escape from a hanging. Bob, saw other kids of the neighborhood playing "russlers" and saw the victims strung un in true western style only in play. He was too young to join the game but on his own, he decided was fun and after all, he had a cowboy hat and.

a "gun. The rope proved no problem, there was one hanging from a rafter in his dad's garge. Bobo, pronounced Bob climbed atop' a bale of straw and wrapped the rope around his neck, twisting the end so it would remain in place. It was fun up to that point but Bobo fell, the straw tipped of reach and he was left dangling in the air almost two feet from the floor, unable to cry out for help from his mother. As he struggled, the rope slipped, little at a time, burning and twisting the flesh from his throat he finally reached the floor and was able to cry.

His mother some intelligence other than thatjmenter testified that Hamrick ran Dropping A Bomb on Russia as Measure to Prevent Yar Held "Unthinkable" by Acheson; Still Says Yar Can Be Prevented DALLAS, Tex. (U.PJPeac lov i their policy," he said. such a course is unthingable that such a course is unthingable and parts of Westmoreland coun He said 37 commercial mines are working half time and that "forty four others are clear down." "Eight of them are dismantled and many of the others' won't operate again." 20 BILLION DOLLAR WAR BUDGET SET BY REDS 'soviet (Parliament) considered to day a new 1950 budget calling for military expenditures of 79,400,000, 000 rubles ($19,850,000,000 at the official exchange rate.) The proposed military expenditures constituted 18.5 per cent of the total 432,000, 000,000 rubles money bill. Acheson's speech, sponsored by the Dallas Civic Federation and the SMU community course, was made before a sweltering audience of 4,000 at McFarlin auditorium on the campus of Southern Methodist university. Acheson was guardedly optimistic.

"War is not inevitable," he said, "it is our resnosibility to find ways POSSH possibility in that effort. That is wiiu jvum, lut iuuuig isuietuuii iand appeasment he said, 'ould cosU and dangerous. lmia course, wnicn Acneson ruleau uromauciuiy, is mai drop some atomic bombs on the(boviet Union. "All responsible men must aree western democracies must keep their military, economic and moral defenses unified if a third world war is to be averted, Secretary of State Dean Acheson' says. In a major speech on U.

S. foreign policy, Acheson said last night that war could come if the western democracies relaxed their vigil. But he said dropping an A bomb of his direct contacts presumably scientists in Russia. But as far as is known, he did not tell the British what these ques ions were or what problems the Kussians found it difficult to solve without his help. If Fuchs now has supplied or elaborated on vital information, the scientists said, the test should be able to estimate accurately how far Kussia has gone in atomic development.

British sources said Fuchs was extremely cooperative in his recent interviews with the FBI. BALLERINA ILL LONDON (UP) Alicia Markova, world famous ballerina, underwent an appendectomy last night. Producers were obliged to return 20, 000 tickets for six performances at Albert Hall. NO STEEL PRICE RISE NEW YORK (U.PJ There will inorw in tha hn nrln nf I Individual products, "the Iron predicted today. i LONG HAIR COMING nCTROIT.

Mich. (UP) The AFL Barbers Union raised the price of hSrraU today from $1 to $1.25 on week days and to $1.50 on Satur lHqys. E. ing on ure ed (Russia as a preventable meas'0f solving our problems without was "unthinkable." resort to war and to exhaust every were dropped. Clark was head of the justice de partment's criminal division at the time, He and Hoover were among officials called by the hte Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal who cautioned that the arrests might "embarass" President Tru man in dealings with Russian Premier Josef Stalin.

oa'u. Acneson said Russia has set up a a. i ii i i ii nations lnt0 ridinff the Commun 'V anc The Sovietsare using their arm strength as a "poised bludegon ihtimidate the weak, and It does' confront the world with the pos sibility that the Soviet leaders may be tempted to make use of Imiilitary force as an instrument of i Sen. Homer Ferguson, said the most thorough kind of inquiry should be started at once because the "impartial admlnistra tion of justice" hangs in the bal ance,.