The Daily Republican from Monongahela, Pennsylvania • Page 1

EEtectt SPays Hon HDgfiv Daily Republican TONIGHT'S THOUGHT There is one rule that all men should live by the Golden Rule. Or have we forgotten? THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED IN 184S NOW IN ITS 102nd YEAR ONONGAHELA A LEV'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER WW MONONGAHELA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1947 VOLUME 101 No. 101 FOUR CENTS A COPY Explains Upside Down Plane Ride MOT 4 4 PORTS HGDRES Post, Auxiliary Officers Installed CAUGHT IN WH it Joint Meeting EELMG DRIVE Superintendent of Schools Principal Speaker At Legion Function. BODIES OF 89 W. PENNA.

GTS ARRIVE IN 0. S. Jones Meads BfM; Directors Named Impressive installation ceremonies took place last evening at the new home of Frank Downer Post No. 302. American Legion, as officers of the local Legion post and its auxiliary were sworn in for the 1947-48 term at a All-Out Campaign To Clean Up Lucrative Gambling Operations Leads To Charleston Wheeling, W.

Va Oct 10-(UP)-The aTout drive to clean up Wheeling lucrative gambling operations which has caught night l.fe and sports figures in its net led to Charleston today with a request for legal interpretation of the right to license charitable bingo games. Given a mandate to run all forms of gaming out of the Panhandle industrial center, Ohio County Sheriff Tom Padden said he asked the State Attorney General's office to determine whether i tig) In LOCAL LEGION POST STRIVES TO REACH GOAL Approximately 300 witnessed the first installation rites conducted in the assembly hall of the handsome Annual Business Meeting, Ladies' Night Program Held Jointly. The Monongahela Business Men's Association, functioned today under a revised constitution and by-laws, with Wayne C. Jones, Main street electrical appliance store proprietor, as its president. Wheeling can continue to give Bodies Of Fi I i 1 1 Marianna Soldiers Aboard Transport.

San Francisco. Oct. 10 UP The U. S. Auxiliary Transport Honda Knot arrived here today with the disinterred bodies of approximately 3.000 American servicemen killed in the Pacific during the war.

The transport, making the first such trip to the West Coast, car- MONGAH RIVER recently-opened $85,000 home. Taking over leadership of the two organizations were William A. Po-laski as commander of Post 302 and Mrs. Charles A. Silko as president of the Auxiliary.

Superintendent of Monongahela Schools, John II. Dorr, frequent Jones, moving up from the vice- I legal permission to churches and charity organizations to hokl their bingo affairs. The new development brought a clergyman into the controversy which has already split City Manager William A. Hannig with his councilmen over whether the rich steel hub should become a "closed town" or follow a liberalized policy of controlled gambling. "Only forms of gambling licensed PIER, SMALL TIPPLE BURN First Vice-Commander J.

C. Richardson, chairman of the Membership committee of FranK Downer Post, American Legion, announces that the local Post's membership goal is set for 1,500 to be reached by November 15, the national reporting date. A Legionnaire will be on duty in the lobby of the new Legion home every Saturday, starting tomorrow until the deadline. Leslie C. Cline is assistant Membership chairman.

Monongahela has the second presidency, was elected head of the merchants' organization at the group's annual business meeting and Ladies' Night program last night at The Mansion, on Route 31. speaker before the Post, gave the main address of the evening. In speaking of the crisis that the nation has survived through wars and depressions and of present conditions of the world today, he praised the Legion's great work Finleyville R. D. Pilot Was Killed In Plane Test Crash In 1943 He succeeds C.

S. Patterson, who the state are legal within any city in the slate's borders," Immediate Reconstruction Started After $10,000 Fire Near Here. in keeping America from the isms i Chief Aviation Pilot Ira Gilmore, of Finleyville R. L. II argest post in the district, it is has served as president for the past two years.

Chosen with Jones were William A. Polaski as vice-president; Franklin A. Stephens as treasurer, and Floyd M. France as secretary. They were named by members of the association's new board of A passenger on the four-engine airliner that went out of control and flew upside down over El Paso, Jacques Bourguignon demonstrates to his parents in Los Angeles how he and 52 other passengers were buffeted around the cabin.

(International Soundphoto) trying to undermine America and the world. Mr. Dorr stressed ten points which this country has upheld, declaring that it is still the greatest Democracy in the world and "always will be as long as we are Workmen today began tearing down what remained of the river pier and part of a river tipple which were destroyed in a $10,000 fire at the Mongah mine of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal company yesterday afternoon. i Americans and live as Ameri reported. The public is invited to attend a movie which will be shown in the Legion Hall next Thursday at 8:0 Op.

m.f Second Vice-Commander Don Hollowood, who is in charge of entertainment, announced. The movie, a combat film, is to be shown throughout Washington county under the auspices of the U. S. Army. directors.

each representing a membership classification group. cans." He stated that a lot of people living in the United States and re- 'Opportunity Days' Offer Last Bonus Of Entire Campaign i ceiving the freedom they do not Rev. Garrett Evans, Edgewood Park Methodist church pastor said, "and Wheeling needs no law of its own to ban gambling not licensed by the state. I fail to see that any state opinion is necessary." The crossfire occurred as a grand jury indicted Wheeling Downs owner William G. Lias and more than a score of other persons on gambling charges in the drive to smash the $25,000,000 a year rackets.

Lias was named in three counts, two of which charged gambling and the other making books on horses. None, however, had any direct bearing on his official operation of the race track. Others named in the true bills included William Reuther, cousin of United Auto Workers President Walter A. Reuther. and Earl Little.

Little is the owner of a tinselled night club here which police closed because it had become too notori have in their own country yet I are attempting to overthrow our whose body was among those of America's first war dead to arrive in San Francisco today, was killed at Pearl Harbor, May 31. 1943. when a plane which he was testing crashed. The young man. who was born February 16.

1914 at Coal Bluff, was a son of George G. and the late Katherine Finley Gilmore. His father resides in the Ginger Hill district. A brother. Pvt.

Ralph C. Gilmore. was killed in action September 23. 1944. during the Battle of the Bulge in the ETO.

Pilot Gilmore, who attended Monongahela high school during his school days, enlisted in the U. S. Navy October 16, 1933. His father was notified by wire of the arrival of the remains in San Francisco. C.

S. Patterson of the Bebout and Yohe Co. funeral home way of life. Commander Paul C. McClem- I cnt.

presiding over the session. LATE NEWS Mrs. Mary W. 1 of Plans call for their immediate rebuilding, it was learned. The blaze, which started about 2:30 p.

m. on the outside abutment near the water's edge, was slopped at the second or insJde river bank pier through the combined efforts of the mine's own fire-fighting equipment, the river boat, Thomas Moses of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel company, the Monongahela volunteer fire department, and the Gallatin Sunnyside fire department. The river tipple, a part-steel, part-wood structure being erected to carry a belt line for barge loading, was still under construction. Started about three months ago to replace the old tipple torn down Donora Wins Extra $50 Award. Washington, Oct.

10 UP Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson today declared all out support for the food saving cam- ONE WAY MIRRORS TO BE OFFERED FOR HOME, INDUSTRIAL USE Pittsburgh, Oct. 10 UP One way mirrors, used by special government agents during the war to observe subversive suspects, will be offered for home and industrial use by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. W. R.

Harper, manager of plate glass sales, announced to 1 jpaign and said any remarks of his "Opportunity Days." the to indicate otherwise were ous. special bonus offer of our circula-1 seemin "out of context." The directors, nominated by the groups they represent in most cases, were elected from the floor last night as follows: Group One Grocers, butchers and bakers Ralph Affinito; Group Two Clothing, dry goods, shoes and jewelry William McGregor; Group Three Furniture, electrical appliances and hardware Wayne C. Jones; Group Four Hotels and restaurantsGeorge Peters; Group Five Garages, gasoline and auto parts P. J. Agostoni; Group Six News stores, newspapers, five and tens, novelties William A.

Polaski: Group Seven Druggists, doctors and dentists Stanley Taylor and Group Eight Manufacturers, utilities, theatres, bankers, lawyers, real estate, insurance and funeral directors Franklin A. Stephens. Under the new constitution, all officers except the secretary, must be chosen from among the directors. Jones, who presided over the (Continued on Page 6) (Column Two) The grand jury also vented its displeasure of Wheeling vice con tion campaign, can be worth HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS to those smart enough to appreciate them, and capable enough to take worth called the meeting to order and after routine business was conducted, introduced Mrs. Dian Mobley, Western Director of the Ladies Auxiliary and Tri-County Council president, who had charge of installing the Auxiliary officers.

Taking the oath for the coming year were: President Mrs. Silko, First Vice-President, Mrs. T. J. Eckbreth: Second Vice-President, Mrs.

Clyde Stickel; Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Harry llaile: Recording Secretary. Mrs. Jesse Williams: Treasurer, Mrs.

David Gemmell; Historian. Mrs. Louis Nagy; Chaplain. Mrs. Linzy Chester; Sergeant-at-Arms, Mrs.

Harry Isaac. Mrs. George Eckert was reelected as chairman of the Auxiliary's Welfare committee. here, said that the body would ditions which only several months ago served as a subject for an ar- be shipped to the Columbus, day. about five years ago, it was sched-jticle printed in a national maga- while advantage of them.

Few so Philadelphia. Oct. 10 (UP Two coaches and the dining car of a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, enroute from Washington to New York, were derailed while crossing a switch in southwest about two zine, by returning indictments for For several years there has been tiled lor completion in Ohio, distribution center, and later would be brought here for burial. Funeral arrangements far seem to have appreciated what thev mean, and only a dribble of will be made later. weeks.

Some 40 feet of the new structure was left standing when the blaze was checked on the ground at the inside pier. The present rail tipple also escaped damage. Origin of the fire is still unknown. Railroad officials said no one was liquor law violations and another against City Police Sgt. John P.

Murphy for allegedly attempting to extort money from a local taxicab operator. Nearly half a dozen John Doe and Rachel Roe bills were handed out until authorities could establish subscriptions have come in so far this week. When the number and value of the awards offered is taken into consideration, it is surprising that more capable people, particularly injured. ried the bodies of more than 60 servicemen from the Western Pennsylvania area. but Outside Foreman Benson Grant Standing for officers in their ab Lake Success.

N. Oct. 10 UP The Palestine Resistance Committee called on the United States and ten other nations of the United Nations Security Council to sence were. Jane Spernak for Mrs. Stickel.

and Mrs. George Eckert i Continued on Page 5) (Column 4) a persistent demand for these special mirrors which permit persons to see without being seen. Harper said. Canonsburg Board Purchases Property For Future H. S.

Negotiations have been completed by the Canonsburg School Board for the purchase of a building which will house a new high school in the future. The Board has bought the home of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. T.

Beedle in College for Mrs. saac. Mrs. Alexander Clendenen, Aux day to block demobilization of Arab armies and halt an "impending Arab invasion" of Palestine. in the district across the river and on this side of the river, outside the city limits of Monongahela and Donora have not entered their names to receive them, as there are still more awards than ACTIVE entrants.

A few CAPABLE people could enter today, set their goals for some worth while business, go out and get it. and be in the "big money bracket" of the campaign iliary pianist, provided the music Liggett Local Gives Endorsement To Gillie for the evening. Commander McClement then in (Continued on Page 3) (Column 3) Head-On Crash Injures Three On Lincoln Highway identity of suspects whose names were erased from licenses issued to clubs to which the violators were charged. Wheeling, by comparison with its former flourishing activity, lapsed overnight into a sedate city. The crowds that formerly lavished their money on the night clubs and other entertainment spots under attack, either strolled the streets or spent their hours watching movies.

Differences, however, continued over the future of its diversion. The jury observed that "it appears as though many Wheeling city officials consider their duty as legislative and administrative and Names, rank, next of kin. and home addresses of the Western Pennsylvanians follow-To Distribution Center No. 3, Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot. Philadelphia 1st Lt.

Thomas II. Aston: Mrs. James Aston. 26 McNutt Houston. Sgt.

Richard F. Baker: Mrs. Ruth Baker, 1400 Washington Huntingdon. Ylc Regis J. Bodecker; Anthony II.

Bodecker, 1428 Biltmore Pittsburgh. S2c Eugene A. Constantin; Alice E. Constantin, P. O.

Box 496G, Pittsburgh. Pvt. Richard C. Corley: Clora L. (Continued on Page 6) (Column 3) Nursing Staff Uses Dance Funds, Presents Equipment To Hospital Through the efforts of the nursing staff of the Monongahela Me NOTICE street, Canonsburg, one of the old landmarks of the community.

While the School district does Members of Local 210 President Francis Pauley announced today that Local No. 3773. USWA, made up of employes of the Liggett Spring and Axle company, had endorsed the candidacy of David Gillie for mayor of Monan-gahela. Gillie, the Democratic nominee and a veteran of World Wars I and II, is a union railroader. He was endorsed by a unanimous vote, Pauley slid.

A social evening will be held for not plan to utilize the property at by next Wednesday night. To those who can produce, whether they are now entered or plan to. the campaign offers big money, up to SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS A WEEK to those with stamina, staying power, and the determination to gight it out to the finish and WIN! Last week's collective effort of all the candidates together toward this time, it was deemed necessary Greensburg, Oct. 10 iUP) Three persons were injured, one seriously, last night in a head-on collision of two automobiles on Lincoln highway, four miles west of here. The injured, all taken to Westmoreland County Hospital, were: LeRoy Hill.

54. Jeannette; his son. Boyd. 27. and Earl Covin, also of Jeannette.

The elder Hill suffered a fracture skull and possible internal injuries. all members and their wives on Friday. October 10 at 7:30 in the Eagle's Hall on Chess street. John Curcio, o-JO President. to take it now in order to preserve it for future use and to purchase It at a price which would likely increase if the school authorities had morial hospital the institution is the better equipped by several valuable and needed articles today.

In use are two anaesthetists' tables and stools of stainless steel, a "Mayo" table, two irrigator stands, and Venetian blinds for the second and third floor sun-rooms each now a ward of six-bed capacity. Purchase of the equipment was made possible by funds realized (Continued on Page 6) (Column 4) the winning of the S50 extra were waited. At present the building is utilized for two apartments. gratifying to us, and it looked as FIRST OF WAR DEAD RETURN FROM BATTLEFIELD GRAVES SUPER-SELLING JOB NEEDED ON MEATLESS, EGGLESS DAYS if the campaign had at long last got off to a start, but it seems J. H.

WARE ACQUIRES CONTROL OF AMERICAN WATER WORKS as if everybody was interested in S50 last week, and nobody even half as much interested in a new from a dance held last summer at the Monongahela Valley Country club. The Hospital, through Miss Ann C. Caldwell, superintendent, is gratefully acknowledging the gift Oldsmobile, or $1,000. or the other big awards this week! crop would total only 2,404.000,000 bushels. Every bushel above that figure would be good news for the world food situation.

Wheat has been picked as the grain needed to ful By United Press A super-selling job appeared necessary today to sell the American public on the idea of meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays. Reports from across the nation showed the plan had not caught Results were totaled yesterday. John H. Ware, president of Northeastern Water Company has acquired control of American Water Works Company, through Northeastern's purchase of 1.625,- and the $50 goes to Mrs. Mary E.

Heslep. of Donora for the best re hold. to pay a simple, heartfelt tribute to the vessel's silent passengers. A national memorial service will be led by Mayor Roger Lapham. aided by civic, religious, veterans and military leaders, including Secretary of Navy John L.

Sullivan, and Gen. Mark Clark. Sixth Army Commandant. The religious service will be conducted jointly by the Protestant. Catholic and Jewish churches.

They will be represented by the Rev. Hughbert H. Landrum, Archbishop John J. Mitty and Rabbi Morris Goldstein. From the shoreside service, the sults of the week.

There were several runners up for this award. 000 shares of American. Purchase Many restaurants rebelled at the was consummated through W. C. Langley Co.

and The First Bos which definitely proved that there is business available to those who of S35 from the Gleaner Sunday School class, Finleyville; this money is to be used for purchase of linens for the nursery. Two Buses Chartered To Carry MHS Students To Game At Brownsville idea of stripping their menus. They claimed customers wanted meat on Tuesdays and eggs and poultry on ton Corporation, who were success will "get up steam" and go after it. Those who do will win a lot more than $50 if they can "keep steam up from now on out. fill the administration's food program.

But, each bushel of corn available to feed livestock would mean one more bushel of wheat saved for other purposes. Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said at Chicago that meatless and eggless days were of "little Importance" in themselves. He said they were just "symbols of sacrifice" intended to remind the public to save food. But his statement drew a denial from President Truman.

The President said the two days of denial each week were of "vital importance." He said they were the most teen, he built his first electric system, a steam generated power plant and distribution system in Lancaster County. Pa. From this grew the Southern Pennsylvania Power Company, the Northern Maryland Power Company, and the Eastern Power Company, which were the forerunners of the Cono-wlngo Power Company. After some 20 years of operation, these systems were acquired from Ware by the Philadelphia Electric Company. When Ware was eighteen, he started drilling wells for a water supply system to serve a few customers in New Jersey.

This system grew with the years, culminating after four decades in the net-Work of water companies now joined by the properties of American Water Works Company with resources approximating a quarter billion dollars and with facilities supplying water to over three per cent of the people of the United States. San Francisco. Oct. 10 UPi The Nation's flag flew at half staff today as America paused to pay reverent tribute to the first of her war dead returning from battlefield graves. The funeral ship Honda Knot, a converted Army transport, was slated to steam through the Golden Gate shortly before noon, bringing back the first of "the boys who didn't come home." In her hold were some 3,000 brown steel caskets mostly bearing the remains of those who were the first to fall at Pearl Harbor five years and 10 months ago.

The Honda Knot's arrival marked the tangible beginning of the Army's "Operation Taps" the vast reburial program under which more than known war dead will be returned to home soil from overseas graves in the Pacific and in Europe. The European phase of the operation gets underway on Oct. 26 when an identical transport arrives in New York Harbor bringing the first bodies from the U. S. Military cemetery, Henri Chapelle, Belgium.

The great grey transport will drop anchor and pause for a time off San Francisco's Marina Green where the city's bereaved gathered I Weather Forecast Western Pennsylvania and Ohio: Thursday. Many restaurants said the customer would be "right." Even the purpose of the food plan seemed to be a doubtful matter among top administration leaders. It iook President Truman, himself, to re-affirm his earlier statements that the plan was of "vital importance' The big boost for the aid-Europe food plan appeared to be in the making in a closely-guarded section Mostly sunny with moderate tem peratures today. Generally fair tonight and Saturday. Somewhat warmer Saturday.

ful bidders on September 25th when the stock was offered for sealed bids by American Water Works Company. Inc. The combined water works system now to be operated by the management organization, headed by Ware and his associates, L. T. Reinickcr, J.

J. Barr, L. J. Oster-mayer and W. B.

Maclndoe. is located in 22 states and supplies water to 232 communities, serving a population of over 4,000,000. In addition, management and engineering services are rendered to various municipally owned water works and private corporations. combined assets arc in excess of John If. Ware has had a lifetime experience in the utility field, having designed and operated water, gas and electric properties for the past 40 years.

At the age of six economical way to save grain. NOTICE The first "eggless" day yester Honda Knot will proceed to the San Francisco port of embarkation dock at Fort Mason. Oakland, where the first of the caskets will be unloaded. Six of the flag-draped caskets will be taken to the rotunda of the San Francisco City Hall to lie in state throughout tomorrow. They will symbolize the heroes of the five services and the civilian casualties of the war.

Though it is by far the largest, this operation is not the first of its kind in the nation's history. Similar operations followed the Civil War. the Spanish American War and (Continues on Page 5) (Column 7) A transportation problem which faced many of the 200 Monongahela high school students who purchased tickets for tonight's M. H. S.

Brownsville game at Brownsville was solved today. Two Mon Valley company buses have been chartered to carry the pupils to and from the Fayette county town. The innovation in the matter of providing transportation for students was announced this afternoon by Assistant Principal Harold Howland. The buses will leave here at 6:15 p. m.

Round-trip fare is eighty cents. A bus will leave the Odd Fellows building. Second and Main day was not exactly a roaring success. At LaRe Success, N. the United Nations cafeteria served hard-boiled eggs au gratin for breakfast.

Many New York restau-lunch. Fort Jay. the principal Arrty of the Agriculture Department. The department's crop statisticians were scheduled to release their latest corn crop report late today. All indications were that the report would be highly encouraging.

With autumn frosts holding off, it was expected that the latest crop prediction would range above the pessimistic report issued last mouth. That report said the 1947 Among the water companies now ownod and operated by the Ware Sunday, Oct. 12. at 1:30 o'clcok. Nucleus Lodge No.

377 and guests to spend the afternoon at the I. O. O. F. Orphan Home, North Side.

Pittsburgh, Pa. Returning at 7 p. m. A fare of $1.00 a person will be charged. organization is The Monongahela (Continued on Page 6) City Water Company, serving Monongahela and New Eagle, (Column 2).