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$B(3 IUxQirGi -fflbafe ffien'edl $FMs Z7eeh Em (Ssumjpsmgjm Daily Republican TONIGHT'S THOUGHT Is your coal bin full? There's a long winter ahead, and deliveries may be held up later by heavy demands. THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED IN 1846 NOW IN ITS 102nd YEAR () a A A i. l.KVS OLDEST NEWSPAPER THE VOLUME 101 No. 95 MONONGAHELA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1947 FOUR CENTS A COPY TALK FEDERAL REORGANIZATION Got BtNNENT OPUS ALL Milk Control Commission Tentative Order Increases Pittsburgh Area Prices Harrisburg, Oct, 2 (UP) The State Milk Control Commission disclosed at a hearing today it has written a tentative order increasing the minimum consumer price of grade milk in the Pittsburgh ru 1 I mm FOOD CONSERVATION CAMPAIGN Truman, Marshall Lead Drive To Get Americans To Overhaul Eating Habits, Avert Famine Abroad By GRANT DILLMAN United Preu Staff Correspondent Washington, Oct. 2 (UP) The administration today swung into an all-out drive to get Americans to overhaul their eating habits to avert famine in western Europe and break the stranglehold of high prices at home.

President Truman himself will spearhead the dramatic campaign. It is aimed at persuading people to use less wheat, meat, poultry and dairy products to free an additional 100,000,000 bushels of grain for Europe. The President will appeal directly to the nation to back up his program on an all-networks radio program at 10:30 p. As chairman of the newly-created 12-man commission to study plans for reorganizing the executive branch of the government, ex-President Herbert Hoover discusses new post with President Truman. (International Soundplioto.

EXTRA $50 GOING BEGGING ALONG WITH BIG AWARDS Hillman Chosen GOP Candidate For County Commissioner Post Pittsburgh, Oct. 2 (UP) The Republican County Committee last night named Ernest Hillman to succeed the late John S. Herron as a candidate for Allegheny County Commissioner. A unanimous ballot was cast for Hillman after former Congressman Howard E. Campbell withdrew from the race.

Campbell announced his wit h-drawal after an early vote showed Hillman with 249 votes to his nine from a possible 2,054 votes. Hillman was nominated by Merman C. Brandt, who said the candidate had "no ax to grind." Charles F. Adams Dead; Millionaire Sportsman Boston, Oct. 2 (UP) Charles F.

Adams, millionaire sportsman and former head of the First National Stores, chain grocers, died at Phillips House of the Mas sachusetts General Hospital today. He was 70. Death came shortly after midnight to the Green Mountain boy from Brattleboro. who parlayed a $2-a-week job as a grocery clerk into one of New England's greatest fortunes. So famous did Adams become for his ventures into various business and sporting enterprises in the region that he often was confused with former Secretary of Navy Charles Frances Adams, Boston financier and yachtsman.

Retailers To Meet In Pittsburgh Tuesday Pittsburgh. Oct. 2 (UP) A discussion of current retail problems will highlight the two-day 15th annual convention of the Pennsylvania Retailers' Association here next Tuesday. President George P. Gable, of Altoona, will preside.

More Anthracite Coal Headed For Pittsburgh To Relieve Shortage Pittsburgh. t. 2 (UP) To help relieve a fuel shortage in the Pittsburgh district, the Philadel phia Reading Coal and Iron Co. today announced plans to ship 30 to 40 per cent more anthracite and low-volatile coal here for the next few weeks. William B.

Pittsburgh representative of the company, said the coal car shortage, generally blamed for the scarcity of fuel, will not hamper delivery of the additional shipments. BLAST KILLS WORKMAN Aliquippa. Oct. 2 (UP) Frank Obenour, 29, Pittsburgh, an employe of a contracting firm, was killed yesterday at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. works here when a small cylindrical tank on which he was working exploded.

-OUT EST, Sunday. Secretary of State George S. Marshall also will speak. They will tell the people very frankly that they either can support the five-point food conservation program outlined by Mr. Truman's new Citizens Food committee, or resign themselves to a further spread of communism in Europe.

Committee Chairman Charles Luckman, in announcing the program late yesterday, said the em phasis will be on wasting less rather than eating less. Americans still should eat all they need, he said. But he said housewives should shop for cheaper cuts of meats. If they continue to insist on fancy grades, farmers will use desperately needed grain to fatten cattle and consumer competition will drive prices higher and higher. Luckman also urged housewives to cut down on family food portions, discourage second helpings, use left-over foods wisely and watch thesir cooking techniques.

Meat which is overcooked, for instance, shrinks sharply. If the public will go along with this program, he said, it will serve the double purpose of driving down prices and diverting grain over seas. Supporting Luckman's statements, the Agriculture department said Americans could save up to 60,000,000 bushels of corn supply by not insisting on choice meat. It said that much grain is used to fatten cattle to prime condition. Reaction to the program was mixed.

Most housewives polled indicated they would go along. Tbe National Millers Federation doubted the program would save bushels of grain. Some groups thought the President should have recommended more drastic action. Developments included: 1. Americans for democratic action, headed by former Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt.

said the proposals fell "tragically short" of the real need. It urged an immediate return to wartime price and rationing controls, as did former Vice president Henry Wallace. 2. Secretary of Commerce Av-erill W. Harriman said voluntary measures must be used in the crisis because they are only weapons against hunger oif 'lnid.

But he carefully left open the door to a possible later request for controls. 3. Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett said Europe may need as much as $800,000,000 to tide it over until the long-range Marshall plan goes into effect. He said Mr. Truman's previous figure of was a rock-bottom estimate.

4. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson, emphasizing the need for keeping the lid on prices, said that each time wheat goes up 50 cents a bushel it costs the nation about $2,500,000,000 in the form of higher prices. Luckman avoided talk of compulsory controls. He said they are outside the province of his 26-mem-ber committee.

He also said there had been no decision on whether to propose a couple of meatless days a week. But he said the committee will BULGARIA HITS U.S., WESTERN POWERS IN UN U. S. 'Covering Up' Balkan Penetration, Soviet Satellite Charges. Lake Success, Flushing, N.

Oct. 2 UP -Bulgaria angrily ac cused the United States loc'ay of "using the United Nations" to "cover up" its penetration of the Balkans and the middle east and charged that the Balkan countries were victims of a 'monstrous blackmail" plot by the western powers. Washington. Oct. 2 -iUP France.

Belgium, and the Netherlands have protested to the United States against Anglo-American plans to vest greater responsibility for Ruhr coal production in German hands, it was learned today. Lake Succes. N. Oct. 2 (UP) The United States will ask the United Nftions General Assembly to set a date for withdrawal of both American and Soviet troops from Korea and to create a special com mission to supervise the evacuation it was learned authoritatively today.

Havana. Cuba. Oct. 2 (UP) Nine hundred shouting, cursing Revolutionaries, who sailed to invade the Dominican Republic only to be captured by the Cuban Navy, appeared near mutiny in Camp Columbia today, although the Cuban Supreme Court had ordered the rank-and-file freed within a matter of hours. Rome, Oct.

2 i UP i While government officials held emergency meetings today in an attempt to stave off a 200.000-man "limited" general strike in Rome tomorrow. Communist Labor leaders ordered 4.000 farmers to stage a "march on Rome" Sunday. Washington. Oct. 2 (UP i State Department officials were debating today whether to crackdown on visas to Russians in view of the Soviet refusal to permit 11 Senators to visit the U.

S. Embassy in Moscow. Officials said a further limitation on visas to Soviet citizens appeared to be the only practical retaliatory step the United States could take, if it was decided to take any action at all. Jerusalem. Oct.

2 UP One of two refugee ships approaching Palestine with 3.596 Jews radioed today that "we shall reach Haifa tonight," indicating the abandonment of hope of running the British blockade. Two Hurt Slightly In Intersection Collision Automobiles operated by Irvin Roberts. 39. of 328 Water street. West Newton, and Carl B.

Skibo. 22, California avenue, Fayette City, collided last evening at 5:55 o'clock at the intersection of the Webster Hollow road and Route 51. according to the State Police. Robert wife. Beatrice, and Pearl Moon of West Newton, both occupants in Roberts' car were injured slightly.

Longstreet Denies Of Work On Furtherance of the spur linking Route 40, in Washington, with the Pennsylvania Turnpike at New Stanton was the reason of a meeting of Washington County citizens, called by the Washington Chamber of Commerce, last evening in the Mt. ernon room of the George Washington Hotel. Rumors had been raised that work on the proposed spur might be delayed. District Engineer S. P.

Long-street of Uniontown. representing the State Highway Department, stated the project was one of the major ones of the Department. He refuted reports it had been abandoned but said the demand for highway expansion was great and that cooperation on the part of Washington County would help to influence consideration of the work. Washington County in 1940 adopted a policy of refusing to help pay damages on highway work unless it was "local" in character. After a thorough discussion of the project, a resolution was adopted by the Comity representatives placing them on record as requesting and urging the Commissioner of Washington County to make a contribution towards the property marketing area from 19 1-2 to 20-1-2 cents a quart.

The temporary order would boost the price paid to farmers from $5.30 to S5.G3 for a hundred pounds (4G 1-2 quarts) of Class I. 4 per cent bulterfat, milk. Effective date of the increases will be set when the order is made permanent. No seasonal price variation is written in the draft but the commission promised to hold a hearing next February to hear testimony on the possibility of price changes. Hearings in late winter usually precede price drops during the spring milk flush season.

JEEP CRASHES TRUCK, 1 DEAD Pittsburgh Youth Killed, Two Companions Hurt Near M'Keesport. McKeesport. Oct. 2 (UP) Charles McBride, 24. son of the late C.

J. McBride, long a political oower in Republican circles in the Pittsburgh district, was killed and two companions injured early today when their jeep crashed into a truck on Elizabeth Road, near here. McBride's father served eight years in the state legislature in the '20s. He was known as the "father of boxing" in Pennsylvania because of a boxing bill he sponsored in 1923. McKeesport Hospital authorities said Edward Moheback, 19, also of Pittsburgh, was in serious condi tion with undetermined injuries.

The driver of the jeep. Dick Grles-er. 22, Homestead, escaped with minor cuts. Hospital attendants quoted Gries- er as saying he didn't see the truck because his vision was obscured by dense fog. None- of the occupants tf truck was injured.

According to Grieser's mother, the three youths were "just riding around" last night in the jeep her son had bought a month ago. All three were veterans. Young McBride's death was the second in the family this year. The long political career of his father ended last February when he died in Florida. Besides his duty in the state assembly.

"Charley" McBride served as Republican chairman of Pittsburgh's 31st ward, and also as a Republican Allegheny county chairman. Washington To Get Historical Markers Washington Council last night approved a request from the Histori cal Commission of Pennsylvania for permission to erect markers at the curb of historical sites in Wash ington. The markers, to be placed near the curb, will take about as much room -as a parking meter post and on top will be a plaque bearing an appropriate historical inscription. Abandonment Superhighway Link damages which will be caused by the highway construction. The meeting was attended by representatives of organizations in Donora, Charleroi, Bentleyville, Washington and Claysville.

District Engineer Longstreet said plans for the spur from the Monongahela river to Washington had been prepared. He said the next proposed link on which steps were being taken preliminary to asking for bids was for a section of three miles, extending from the end of the section just completed which ends near Bentleyville. The section completed by Contractor Adam i 1 1 1 r. of Greensburg. extends from Twilight to near Bentleyville.

All the concrete lanes have been poured. Engineer Longstreet said the Washington County portion of the turnpike spur had been plotted in five projects. Two of these will include the bulding of the foundation and construction of the bridge over the Monongahela between Speers and Belle Vernon. He implied Sections 1 and 2 are those which will link Washington with tbe proposed No. 3, the No.

4, now completed from- a point near Bentleyville to Twilight. I a FOG-BLANKET BLAMED FOR ROAD CRASHES Driver Hurt, Heavy Damage Reported; State Police Urge Caution. Fog blankets shrouding the valley area have been responsible for two early morning highway crashes and heavy property damage, State Police reported today. Property damage amounting to $500, resulted from the collision of two automobiles on Route 51, a half-mile north of Perryopolis this morning when William Ferency, 47, of Perryopolis, operator of one of the machines made a left turn in the path of an approaching car operated by Basil Bredding, 17, of Perryopolis. Damage to the Bredding car was set at $500 and loss to Ferency was set at $200.

Neither driver was injured. A jeep-truck was wrecked and its driver sent to the Charleroi-Mones-sen hospital with head injuries when the vehicle collided with an automobile in the dense fog on Route 51 yesterday morning shortly after o'clock. The injured driver, Harry Sereri. 40, Perryopolis, was making a turn on to Legislative Route 64118 at Fellsburg when he crossed the path of a southbound car operated by Joseph P. Echtler, 22, of Pittsburgh, police reported.

Extreme caution has been exercised by drivers in the past several mornings due to the fog, police said, judging from the few acci dents reported. Glassport Youth Who 'Couldn't Live Own Life' Commits Suicide Glassport Oct. 2 (UP) Gen- naro DiGiorgi, 18, angered because he couldn't "lead my own life," told his mother he was going to commit suicide yesterday, and then shot and killed himself behind a locked bathroom door. A note found in the boy's wallet said: "Since I cannot lead my own life and have the only person 1 will ever care for, I choose this destiny." His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph DiGiorgi, who have seven other children, admitted they had reprimanded him several times recently for "staying out late." Mrs. DiGiorgi said her son came home from school and told her he intended to commit suicide. She said he ran upstairs to the bathroom, and then she heard a shot. Monro Resigns As President Of P.C.A.; Carmichael Successor Washington, Oct. 2 (UP) Pennsylvania-Central Airlines Corp.

yesterday announced the resignation of C. Bedell Monro as president. J. II. Carmichael, formerly executive vice-president, was elected to succeed him.

PCA, also known as Capital Airlines, said Monro's resignation was submitted at a directors' meeting Tuesday at which a new executive committee was elected. The airlines has been going through a series of financial difficulties since the end of the war. Olive Borden, Silent Screen Actress, Dies 111 And Penniless Los Angeles, Oct. 2 (UP) Star ing at a picture of herself taken when she was a flashing-eyed star. silent screen actress Olive Borden died yesterday at a Skid Row Mission five miles from the glittering Hollywood which forgot her long ago Miss Borden tucked the photo graph into a dressing table mirror I when she was brought to the Mis-1 sion last week ill and helpless, pen-1 niless and shabby The 40-year-old actress kept one other remembrance of her movie fame.

On a table near her narrow bed was a scrapbook. bulging with clippings about the brunette beauty of 1930's "II a 1 Marriage" and Love in the Desert." MEETING SET IN CLEANING PLANT STRIKE Donora Plant Operating On Limited Basis, Manager Says. Donora, October 2 (Special) Refuting 1 a i of striking employees of the Diamond Cleaners and Dyers that the plant management refused to permit a plant vote for a collective bargaining agency, Leo Sasselli co-owner of the plant said today that a meeting of the management, employees and CIO representatives has been set for Saturday at the Borough building. The time is yet to be announced. Sasselli, who said that the majority of the 30 employees are taking part in the walkout which began on Tuesday, also stated that the plant is operating on a limited basis and that volunteers have been working nights to move out the backlog of cleaning.

Sasselli said the walkout stem med from dissatisfaction of six pressers who claimed their earn ings are not in equity with that of the checkers. Six of the pressers failed to report for work on Tues day and took the others out with them. The average weekly payroll of the plant is $800 and the average weekly pay for employees is $42.50. he said. Asked if the management refused to permit a collective bargain ing agency vote among the employees, Sasselli said that he could not recall any request made for higher salary raises or for better working conditions.

For some time, he said there has been a "bottle neck" in the local plant and attempts have been made to keep work moving. To improve conditions the company brought in the George S. May company of Chicago, industrial engineers, to make a complete plant survey for production and incentive. The work had to be postponed when the employees failed to show up on Tuesday. Mrs.

Eileen Waits, a housewife in Washington, D. said most housewives already were using all their leftovers. "I've made hash with tomato sauce, and made hash with onions. I've made it with potatoes and made it with rice. The only kind of leftovers I don't use is coffee grounds." Mr.

Truman has set a goal of 100.000.000 bu. of grain to be saved by the program, but Herman Steen, Executive Vice-president of the Millers' National Federation, said it would be impossible for American housewives to save that much. Steen said American families would have to cut out every fifth loaf of bread, doughnut, cake, bun or pie. "During the war, people saved only three per cent of our food supply through conservation pro- grams," he said. "It isn't practical to feel they could save 20 per cent now." The Agriculture Department, however, said that consumers can save up to 60.000,000 bushels of corn, simply by buying cheaper cuts of meat.

The department said that much extra grain goes into fattening cattle to prime condition. Mr. Truman and Secretary of (Continued on Page 3) (Column 4) In spite of a few new entries in the campaign the latter part of last week, and in spite of the extra S50 w-e offered to make this week's work worth while, results so far (through Wednesday night) are rather disappointing. The business turned in by ALL the contestants for the first half of the week totals only 19 yearly subscriptions and six six-month subscriptions. Some of the candidates now standing for MAJOR awards failed to turn in two subscriptions for the EXTRA 100.000 credits offered each Wednesday and Saturday in the, campaign.

If those who are now standing for the top awards have lost interest, and let up in their efforts, ti just means that new blood can enter now and practically "write their own tickets" for the awards Street Car Hits Stalled Truck; No One Injured No one was injured yesterday when a Washington-tjound Pitts-burgh Railways street car struck a stalled truck on the Paris Lake Crossing. Allegheny County, at 3:52 p.m. yesterday. Interurban service however, was interrupted for 45 minutes. The trolley skidded into the truck after rounding a curve approaching the crossing, it was reported.

Hallowell Guilty Of First Degree Murder Philadelphia, Oct. 2 (UP) A Quarter Session of Court Jury today returned a first degree murder verdict against William K. Hallo-well; 23. accused of futally shooting two policemen in a gun battle following a stolen automobile chase. WAA Studies Eleven Bids For Boone Terrace Village Near Canonsburg The War Assets Administration is considering the offers made for the purchase of Boone Terrace Village in North Strabane Township, near Canonsburg.

Eleven individuals and Syndicates have turned in bids with offers ranging from $207,005 down to $120,000. The high bid was that of the Porath Realty Company of Cleveland. It is expected the government will make its decision in a short time. The Boone Terrace government project includes approximately 48 1-2 acres of land on which 46 buildings have been erected, embracing 320 housing units, practically all of which are rented and occupied. Woman Collapses, Dies In Dentist's Office McKeesport.

Oct. 2 UPi Mrs. Martha Weller, 73, collapsed and died of a heart attack in a dentist's office here yesterday after having isdom loom extracted. I offered in this drive. The open market value of the new Oldsmo- bile would make it worth $250.00 to $300 PER WEEK to some capa ble person for SPARE TIME effort for the few remaining weeks of the drive, and the $1000 award is a pretty nice "feather bed" to fall on in missing the first award of the Oldsniobile.

$700 and $500 shouldn't be too bad for the third and fourth positions at the end of the campaign. Meanwhile, the extra $50 which will be won on the next TWO DAYS business, undoubtedly, will be an immediate incentive, along with $2.00 on each subscription secured, for someone to step in and "swing for a home run" from now through Saturday night. Let's see who's "ON THE BALL!" GOVERNOR ASKS STATE SPORTSMEN TO HUNT AND SHOOT SAFELY Harrisburg. Oct. 2 (UP) Gov.

James H. Duff has asked Pennsylvania sportsmen to hunt and shoot safely. In a statement urging observance of "Hunt Safely Week." Oct. 20-27, Duff said there have been "entirely too many" hunting accidents in the state. "Every hunter who goes into the woods should make it a cardinal rule not to shoot at every movement in the brush," Duff said.

"Be very sure that the object is not a human being. Many a hunter future sport has been spoiled be cause, in carelessness or excite ment, he was responsible for an accident that brought either injury or death to another human being." Hunters should check also the ac curacy and condition of their guns, Duff said. UNCLE SAM, BACHELOR FOR 171 YEARS, TO GET GLAMOROUS WIFE New York. Oct. 2 (UP) Uncle Sam.

a bachelor for 171 years, is going to get a wife, and a pretty glamorous one at that. The International Institute of artists ana Photographers decided it was about time Uncle Sam got married, so they designed him a wife from a composite of Greer Garson, Linda Darnell and Loretta Young. Her name will be Aunt Martha, the Institute said, and henceforth she will appear in illustrations with Uncle Sam. "Our country is based on the family," explained Institute Director Jo is incongruous that Uncle Sam siiould still be a bachelor after 171 years." Restraining Order Halts Strip Mining Pittsburgh. Oct.

2 UP' A three-day restraining order was issued Frederick D. Hoehl. Pit-cairn, yesterday to stop strip-mining operations on a six-acre tract in Patton Twp. Hoehl charged that the coal operator, W. H.

Warner, began operations four months late on three acres, and stripped top soil from three other acres, leaving the land disheveled HOUSEWIVES PROMISE TO BACK FOOD CONSERVATION PROGRAM By United Press American housewives promised to back the food conservation program launched by the government today but many said that high food prices already had forced them to pare their menus to a bare minimum. Simultaneously, spokesmen for the milling industry said it would be impossible for the housewives to achieve the government's goal. Charles Luckman, chairman of President Truman's Citizens Food Conservation committee, announced the five-point conservation program yesterday. It urged the public to buy cheaper cuts of meat, to serve less food, not to overcook meat, to use left-overs, and to save as much wheat as possible. The program was intended as a double-edged sword to slice food prices at home and cut starvation abroad.

Many housewives thought the masculine influence was much too prevalent in the program. Mrs. Charles Miller of Detroit said the plan would be fine, if it worked. "But it sounds just like a man." she said. "I wonder if a committee of housekeepers and mothers wouldn't be in a better position to tell the nation bow to save food than the President's committee." talk to distillers and other industrial grain users to enlist them in the drive.

Distillers, who have large alcohol reserves, probably would cooperate willingly. Beer manufacturers operate on a more current basis and might have some objections. Luckman said the Sunday night broadcast will launch the conservation program in earnest. He said every possible avenue for reaching the public will be utilized. An assistant said advertising and posters would be used widely.

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