Warren Times Mirror from Warren, Pennsylvania • Page 1

THE WEATHER tonight. Low tonight 65 to 72. Tuesday cloudy, cooler. High 83, low 61. Sun rises sun sets 8:39.

WARREN ES-MIRROR Only Paptr in Many in GOOD EVENING This is the sort of weather that makes you spend day getting out of doing a good work! VOLUME FIFTY-TWO The Associated Press WARREN. PA MONDAY, JULY 2 8, 19 5 2 NEA and AP Features PRICE FIVE CENTS STEEL MILLS GAINING SPEED IN BACK-TO-WORK DRIVE SENATOR DIES OF AILMENT TO THE SPINE (JP) Brien McMahon, 48, a Connecticut Democrat with a passion for peace and a key role in the atomic energy program, died today of a spinal ailment. Death came at 10:10 a. m. EST with members of his family at his side in Georgetown Hospital, where the senator went in June for an operation.

Illness prevented his campaigning as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Friends from Connecticut gave him 16 votes anyhow at the Democratic National Convention last week. From his hospital bed McMahon ordered his name withdrawn. McMahon was a brand new senator in 1945 when the first atomic bomb devastated Hiroshima. Awesomely impressed, he decided this new force must be leashed to save civilization, and dedicated his life to that goal.

Despite his relative inexperience, he became chairman of the Senate House Atomic Energy voice of Congress on all atomic affairs, the highest lay authority on the subject. He first won fame as chief of the Justice criminal division. In 1933, he personally moved into bloody Harlan County, during a war between coal mine operators and union labor. McMahon wa shot at from ambush but unhurt. Two of his key witnesses were slain and the homes of two others were dynamited, but the New Englander restored law and order after spectacular trials for terrorism.

Rep. Carl T. Durham, North Carolina Democrat, is vice chairman of the Senate-House Atomic Committee and automatically takes over the helm until a successor is elected. In New Haven, Republican Qov. John Lodge of Connecticut can name a successor to take over Senate seat only until the November general election.

Both Republicans and Democrats are expected to hold special state nominating conventions to select candidates for the full unexpired term. Lad Sent to Pen For Killing Young Chum York 12-year-old boy was dead today, victim of a charge from a shotgun his brother thought was unloaded. Coroner Lester J. Sell said that Stanley Ettinger, 14, apparently know the gun wa.s loaded when he pointed it last night at his brother, Robert, and pulled the trigger at their home at nearby Manchester. Several pellets from the charge pierced heart.

He wras pronounced dead at a Manchester office. Gigantic Welcome Awaits Stevenson In Illinois Capital Chicago Governor Adlai E. Stevenson returns today to Springfield and a tumultous welcome from Illinois Capital, to prepare himself for the role of Democratic standard bearer in the 1952 presidential campaign. He will pick up, but. only temporarily, the reins of the job he had repeatedly said he wanted for four more of Illinois.

Then he will resign to devote himself to the role did not for the President of the United States. The Democratic nominee spent the week end conferring with party leaders on campaign plans. Among them was Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama, whom the Democratic National Convention chose as running mate as candidate for vice-president, I Other Stevenson visitors Sunday Cairo, Egypt JP The head of powerful Wafdist party included Gov. Paul A.

Dever of voiced jubilant support today for the new strong man, Maj. Massachusetts, Averell Harriman, Gen. Mohammed Naguib Oey, and hailed his ouster of King Farouk Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma and and his promise of a relentless cleanup of bribery and i India Edwards vice-chairman NEA Telephoto FAROUK Farouk of Egypt has abdicated, in favor of his six-months-old son, Prince Ahmed Faud. Farouk abdicated at the request of Gen.

Mohamed Naguib, who recently led a successful army coup d'etat in Egypt. A four-man regency has been created to rule on behalf of the prince. Farouk, who fled Egypt aboard his private yacht, is shown, above, in happier days, with Queen Narriman and the infant prince Egypt's Wafdist Party Head Voices High Jubilation Over Nation's New Strong Man POLICE CHIEFS MEET hundred police chiefs today opened the 39t.h annual convention of the Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association. Christ H. Keisling.

chief at nearby Carnegie, is slated to succeed Frank A. Sweeney of Jenkintown as president. The sweeping praise for Naguib came from Mustapha El Nahas Pasha, the party head whom Farouk ousted from the premiership after laat disastrous fire riots in Cairo and who returned early today from a European holiday. Naguib, himself, was at the airport to embrace Nahas Pasha he arrived with Wafdist sec- EMMA REELECTED Chicago (JP) Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller and Mayor David L.

Lawrence of Pittsburgh have been re-elected as member- of the Democratic national committee from Pennsylvania. Their election was announced by national chairman Frank E. McKinney after a meeting of the committee with the presidential nominee, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Argentina's Humble Citizens Pay Grieving Tribute to Eva Buenos Aires, Argentina (JP humble thousands paid grieving homage today to Eva Peron.

They waited four abreast in mile-long queues for a 20-second walk past the bier of their President's wife and political partner, who died Saturday night after a long illness. i Mrs. death in her early was generally attributed to cancer although there had been no official announcement of the nature of her illness. The blonde wife of President Juan D. Peron lay in state in the hall of the Labor Ministry, in a glass-topped casket of mahogany draped in white orchids, awaiting a.

full military funeral tomorrow' afternoon. Tons of lillies, roses and carnations packed the hall and overflowed into the streets outside. The mourflful viewing of the body w'as accompanied by an unexpected tragedy. Gen. Juan Esteban Vacca, director of the Superior School, suffered a heart attack while visiting the bier last night.

He died shortly after. Temporary internment, at her own request, will be in the hall of the General Labor Confederation CGT. She was the unofficial head of the CGT, and her following among its members made her the most potent political force after Peron himself. The slim beauty was regarded as the most powerful woman in politics in the world. EVA PERON retary general Fuad Serag El Din Pasha.

The new cabinet, meanwhile, moved back to Cairo and Naguib sternly wtfrned that he and Maher Pasha would with armed i force if necessary any attempt at demonstrations or He warned, too, that foreign interference would not be tolerated. As the cabinet quit the summer capital at Alexandria for Cairo, the ousted monarch sailed toward Italy in the royal yacht Mahrous- sa. With Faroul w'ere his six- month-old son, now King Fuad II, teen-age second wife Narriman, and his three daughters by a previous marriage. Abroad Britain, remembering disastrous anti-foreign fire riots in January, warned that she of the Democratic National Committee. Dever, his own "favorite candidate for the presidential nomination; and Harriman and Kerr, defeated candidates for the Democratic nomination, pledged Stevenson their support.

Class of 1912 Has First Reunion With 17 in Attendance RADAR PICKS UP NEAR CAPITAL Washington JP which normally show something! that isn't there has picked up "flying near the nation's; capital for the second time within a week. fighter pilots searched the; skies without directly contacting: anything during the six hours that four to 12 unidentified objects intermittently appeared on radar screens at Washington National Airport nearby Andrews Air Force Base. One pilot said he saw four lights approximately 10 miles away and slightly above him but they disappeared before he could overtake them. Later, the same pilot said, he saw steady white light" five miles away that vanished in about a minute. So far as could he determined, this was tire first time jets have been sent on the trail of such sky ghosts.

Officials carefully mentioning just as they did when radar picked up seven or eight unidentified objects near Washington last Monday. But the Air Force was expected to arid the report to its long list of saucer sightings, which officials say are coming in faster than at any time since the initial flurry in 1947. The who spotted the lights said they "were really faster than 600 miles an hour. But radar operators at Andrew's Air Force Base said they moved at a rate of 38 to 90 miles per hour. This mean the same pattern as last, moving objects with bursts of speed.

Inquest Is Planned In Death of Local Man Struck by Auto Injuries received when struck by a car at the Fifth avenue bridge last Wednesday morning at eleven caused the death 1 of Charles W. Schoenthaler, 78, proprietor of the corner grocery at Fifth and Water streets. Mr. Schoenthaler died at the Warren General Hospital Friday evening about 9:20 The car which struck Mr. Schoenthaler was operated by Alan Thompson, 17, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Blair Thompson, Venturetown. According to a report made to the police young Thompson was driving east on avenue, when he struck Mr. Schoen- NEA Telephoto THE Adlai Stevenson, of Illinois, Democratic presidential nominee, left, introduces his running mate, Senator John J. Sparkman, of Alabama, to delegates attending the final session of the Democratic National Convention.

Senator Sparkman was elected the Democrat's vice presidential candidate by accla mation. Seventeen out of the original 37 members of the Class of 1912, Warren High school, gathered in reunion on Saturday, over 40 years after graduation, and incidentally thaler at the bridge crossing the it was the first reunion the class Conew'ango. Taken to the hospi- had ever held. tal it was found that the victim Accompanied by husbands and received multiple injuries about wives, the celebrants met for a de- the body, face and head the most would take action if the Egyptian lectable dinner at Cot- serious of which were a fracture upheavals endangered British lives, tage Kitchen, Content, and of the skull, fractures of the pelvic I Her garrison in the then adjourned to the East Fifth bone and the right ankle, and ser- Suez Egypt wants street home of Miss Martha H. ious lacerations.

Intestinal ob- on the alert Swick where a social evening was struction proved a serious compli- troop-larten British ships sailed enjoyed and naturally there were cation. into the Eastern Mediterranean to many reminiscences. The accident has been thorough- be close by. Class members who came from ly investigated by members of the away were Dr. Harry Thompson Police Department, and following of Cleveland, Eugene Colvin of the death, Coroner Ed Lowrey Brooklyn, Dr.

Lionel Strong of joined in the inquiry. Sunday af- New Haven, Mrs. Lou ternoon at 3:30 the coro- Schaeffer (Grace Johnson) of ner impaneled a jury at the Peter- Fourteen-Year-Old Youth Sentenced To Term in Penitentiary for Killing Pal Harrisburg JP Fourteen-year-old John C. Sarver 2nd was sentenced today to serve 10 to 20 years in the Eastern State Penitentiary for the rifle-machete death of a 13-year-old Chum. The Dauphin County Court found the youth guilty of second degree murder in the slaying last May ft of Kenneth E.

Teacher Young Sarver pleaded guilty to a general charge of murder. The court took testimony to determine the degree of guilt and the penalty. The Sarver hoy testified at the hearing that the shooting was ac cidental a slip of his perspiring finger on the rifle while the boys were shooting at target. He said he used a machete on his wounded companion because told me have to get. rid of the bullet Solomon Hurwitz.

attorney for the youth, asked the court for verdict. The attorney said Sarver was guilty only of Posse Finds Lost Tots After All-Night Search Kane i Two youngsters who disappeared in a rugged forest at nearby Clermont. were rescued today bv a searching party of some 200 men who beat the brush all night. The children are Paul Robinson, 6, and his sister, (iloria, 10, of Hazel Hurst. They disappeared while picking ferns with their parents last, night.

Game wardens, state polir-e and volunteers searched through thick fog in a 15- square mile region before find- the youngsters safe and sound. Six Picnickers Die In Headon Collision SEWELL RESIGNS AS MANAGER OF THE REDS Cincinnati Sewell resigned today as manager of the Cincinnati Reds. He had been manager of the can wiiich we expect 24 ARMISTICE WORDING DISCUSSED BY STAFF M'unsan, Korea JP Nations and Communist staff officers today discussed minor warding differences in the Korean armistice document but did nothing to solve the deadlock on prisoner exchange. The staff officers will meet again tomorrow at Panmunjom. Mother Plunges to Death When Xhute Fails to Open During Club Initiation Youngstown, Miss Flora Darling son Funeral Home, which adjoum- of Pittsburgh, and Mrs.

Allan ed until a date for an inquest is Baker (Marvel Buerkle) of Lotts- decided upon after conferences be- ville. tween district attorney and Chief The Warren members of the of Police M. Evan, who is out Cincinnati club since Oct. 23, 1949. class who attended wrere Helen of town for a few days.

Mem- Gabe Paul, general manager of Mooney Mangus, Martha Swick, hers of the jury are Dr. D. A. the club, said he had asked Sewell Florence Young, Blanche Alex- Smith, Virgil Albaugh, Ernest to continue as manager we ander, Georgia Bole, Elsie Edgett, get a suitable replacement Rose Maybank, Leslie Smith, Ben to have within Kinnear, Lee Dun and Robert H. Trusler.

An honored guest for the evening was Miss Laura DeForest, who Anderson, Herbert. Wagner, Earl Erickson and Alfred Lauffenberger. A resident of this community for 20 years, Mr. Schoenthaler operated a neighborhood grocery was a faculty member when the at Fifth and Water streets, prior IJn ion (JP out of control, a heavily-laden truck smashed info an auto laden with picnickers and killed six persons yesterday at nearby Hop wood. The crash occurred at the foot of the four-mile long Mt.

Victims included five passengers of the car and the truck driver. Dead i were Charles Burns, 59, his wdfe, Eliza, 57, their daughter, Mrs. Bertha. Albertini, 30, her husband, Arthur, 33, all of Midw'ay, and Estella Donovan, 76, Zeigles, 111. The truck driver was tentatively identified as Clyde Willis of Baltimore, Md.

Budd Lake, N. J. (JP pretty mother, her parachute failing to open, plunged 2,500 feet to her death yesterday in an initiation for a parachute club formed by her husband. It was a scene of confusion and near-hysteria as 24-year-old Mrs. Dorothy Berard of Harrison tumbled from the small plane, clawred desperately at the parachute and finally fell in a cabbage patch.

killed her, I killed sobbed her grief-stricken husband, Joseph, who organized the Sky Divers Club, a parachuting-for-fun group. He collapsed when she fell. About 700 spectators at the initiation exercises at Budd Lake Airport shrieked and shouted for the woman to pull the ripcord as she hurtled to the ground. Many women fainted. Just before Mrs.

Berard, mother of a four-months-old daughter, went up, her husband considered refusing to let her make the jump because of a series of minor mishaps earlier. Berard, an ex-paratrooper with 74 jumps to his credit, was fore- i ibly restrained from going to the 1 spot where his wife fell. He made the first jump of the day and suffered bruises about the head. A few' minutes later, a small plane used by other club members crashed, but no one was hurt. Then Mrs.

Sarah Hazlett of Union jumped and was knocked unconscious when she hit her head while landing. class graduated, and it was regretted that two others, P. W. M. Pressel and Mrs.

Alan Langhans, were unable to be present. Other members of the 40-year- ago class did not attend were as follows: Miller Logan, Marie Strickland McKay, Lottie Smith, Margaret Whitcomb, Mildred Kyler Decker and Genevieve Porter Gray, Warren; Paul Nathan, Alj bany, Richard Greenland, Martinsburg, W. Gilger Chap-1 man, Parkersburg, W. Ruth Ransom, New York; Belle Topper Smith. Long Beach, and Blanche Crosby, Akron, Ohio.

to which time he was a cabinet maker in the employ of the Para(Turn to Page Ten) murder in cutting across abdomen with the machete. He said other factors in murder of premeditation with intent to kill with were lacking in the case. Dist. A tty. Huette F.

Dowling asked the court for a verdict, of second degree murder. He said he took the youth's age into consideration in deciding against, a first degree verdict. Dowling argued that cutting across I he bullet wound constituted murder. matter if there was as little as one minute of life left, when taken maliciously, it beconfes some degree of Dowling told the court. President Judge Paul G.

Smith pronounced the sentence. As the youth was led away, his mother kissed him and his father put his arm around his shoulder. The father, John Sarver, Is a food company executive. The yoyng victim of the unfortunate killing formerly resided with his parents at North Warren. EWSPA PERMAN DIES Butler Charles Leith, 54 year-old telegraph editor of the Butler Eagle dead.

Leith, former rewrite man for the Tri- State News Bureau and reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, died in Butler Memorial Hospital yesterday. He is survived by his widow and a daughter. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN WITH ALUMINUM CO. Pittsburgh -A strike threat in aluminum industry put new roadblock today in ths path of economy the nation's steel mills gained speed in their drive to recover from a 55- day walkout.

Contract negotiations between the CIO United Steelworkers and the Aluminum Co. of America broke off in Washington with the union threatening to strike tomorrow' at. 9 p. m. EST.

United States Steel producer of one-third of the nation's steel, snid one-third of its ployes have been recalled. Shipments of finished steel on hand at the start of the strike June 2 are being made. Special emphasis is placed on moving tin plate, used in the manufacture of tin cans. Jones and Laughlin Steel said the back-to-normal process is in full swing at its big plants in Pittsburgh and nearby Aliquippa, but is hitting a snag at Cleveland. The Otis works in that city still is closed.

.1. and L. said the CIO United Steelworkers want to work but a dispute involving railroad workers on a connecting line is holding up the parade. One trouble spot wa.s cleared up. Over the weekend, employes of J.

and Pittsburgh works grumbled because they get an the wage hike. But today, J. and L. the men are on the job. Bethlehem Steel, the second largest producer, hopes to have its mammoth plant going full blast in days.

The back to work movement there began 1n earnest last night. In the Youngstown, district, the first pig iron production in nearly two months was reported. The first post-strike steel to be made at Buffalo is expected by Wednesday. Some other companies still are idle. They include firms like Wheeling Steel Corp.

and Allegheny Ludlum which still are meeting with the union in an effort to work out final contracts. The basic agreement calls for a cent an hour Increase to them lowest paid classifications with the highest classification worker getting 25 an hour. The strike settlement agreement gives workers an average cents boost effective last March 1 and a modified form of union shop, under which new employes have the right to withdraw from the union and old employes not members say stay out. But the union-industry settlement hit a proper chord with Economic Stabilizer "Roger L. Putnam.

In a letter to Price Director Ellis Arnall, he accused the steel industry of having held a loaded gun at the head to get an price It will be at least a week before full steel production starts rolling from the 380 hungry steel mills across the nation. ROY DROWNS i JP Six year old Francis A. Weitz, of Pittsburgh, hit by the backwash of a speed boat, drowned yesterday at nearby Yough Dam. QUICKIES Bv Ken Reynolds CASUALTY LIST Washington JP Defense Department today identified 113 in a new Korean War Casualty list No. 614 that reported 17 killed, 86 wounded, one missing and nine in- so you can look Dry Party Resolution to Call for End Of Liquor and Beer Sales in the State jured.

Williamsport (JP Pennsylvania Prohibiton party opened a one-day convention here today with a resolution calling for the end of liquor and beer sales in the state highlighting the agenda. State Chairman R. R. Blews, DuBois, said a prohibition plank probably would be included in the state platform. The 300 temperance workers, from ail sections of the commonwealth, also are expected to urge the banning of liquor and beer advertising on radio and television.

Blews said the convention also only hope that eye clears up will discuss the State Election Buin the Times- i refusal to honor nominating Mirror Want Ads for a job petitions of five, Prohibition party candidates on the grounds they failed to file a loyalty oath required by a 1951 state law. Blew's contended the candidates never received word that such an oath w'as required. Principal speaker will be Rev. John W. McDonald, Hammond, W.

who has campaigned for governor and U. S. Senator on the Prohibition ticket in West Virginia. Other scheduled speakers included Paul M. McGaffic, New Castle, party treasurer; the Rev.

Herbert D. Oliver, Trucksville, candidate for congress from the 11th district, and Dr. Sassaman. An evening fellowship dinner and rally ends the convention. Slim Set of Clues In Girl's Murder Atlantic City, N.

J. worked with a slim set of clues today in a stepped-uu effort to track down the slayer of a pretty stenographer whose battered body was found near the Atlantic City Race Track. An electric company worker atop a power line pole spotted the body of 24-year-old Mary Dreisbach of Hokendauqua, Saturday in a field near the track. The brown-haired, brown eyed girl died of a severe beating about the head, an autopsy revealed. She was found fully clothed and there, was no indication of rape.

The autopsy also disclosed that she had been dead about 24 hours before she was found. The stenographer was last seen early Friday morning by a friend, Mary Anne Kunkle of Allentown, who was staying with her at the Brighton Hotel. The twro girls had come to this seashore resort for a vacation. FIGHTING IS HALTED BY TORRENTIAL RAINS Seoul, Korea JP Torrential rains beat dowm on already soaked and muddy Korean battle lines today and virtually halted ground and air fighting for the third straight day. The steady downpour appeared to be the long overdue start of ths Korean rainy season..