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1952. WQAN AM (G30) FM (92.3 IMC.) abed FIVE CENTS If Kin wm 3 Television Channels MKB Head f.lairm As Nebraska Prayed: 'River Stay Away from My Door1 Iowa and Nebraska Feel i ev sees" Wrath of Missouri River Allotted Scranton by'FCCjSawyer Can Fix 'Fair' Steel Pay Wilkes-Barre Is Granted 2 as Freeze Ends-Local Telecasting May Be Delayed Until End Of 1953 Three Local Applications on File 74,000 Homeless as Record Flood Engulfs Rich Area-St. Paul Floodsd by 'Ole Mist'- Workmen Strive to Bolster Levees in Iowa OMAHA, NEB. (A) The flood-furious Missouri River threw it Also Declares He Has Power to Make Binding Findings of Board, -Win I II I I 'II I llgIM3 record-breaking crest at the Sioux City, Iowa, area today while fore By J. HAROLD BRISLIN, Timet Staff Writar Scranton has been assigned three television channels by the Federal Communications Commission and Wilkes-Barre will have two other ultra-high frequency channels.

Assignment of the channels, how- casters heaped new discouragement on the downstream Omaha Council Bluffs, Iowa, area by raising the predicted flood crest another foot and a half. WASHINGTON (INS) Chairman Tho nw Kfhpdul palls for tha Nathan Feinsinger of the Wage Stabilisation Board said today that the board's proposals for settling ever, does not mean that there will' be local telecasting before ihe end Coal Gas Fumes 33 Workers Gross the steel wage dispute "can be made binding" under government seizure. of 1953. And some attorneys in Washington who are closely associated with TV applications pending or anticipated with FCC are of the opinion Fell 6 in Summit Feinsinger, in a copyright inter CWA Picket Lines view with U.S. News and World Report, emphasized, however, that 2 Families Affected-Woman Hospitalized 24 Bell Operators Are Included in Group arrival early Thursday of a monstrous 3 1.5-foot crest at Omaha, compared with flood stage of 19 feet.

With other rivers rampaging, too, the Red Cross reported 19,348 families in eight or nine Midwest states are homeless or about to be displaced by floods. This was estimated to represent about 74,000 persons. Army engineers estimated a total of 1,249,000 acres of land are under water along the Missouri and its tributaries from North Dakota to Southern Nebraska. At St Paul, Minn, more than 5,000 persons were forced from their homes by the worst Mississippi River flood in the city's his Six members of two Clarks families were overcome today that it will be two or three years before areas which have some present TV service secure additional channels. Both Scranton and Wilkes-Barre would fall in this category since they have TV reception from WNBF-TV in Binghamton.

Scranton has been assigned Channels 16, 22 and 73, with the assignment of the latter channel coming as a surprise to local ap Ranks of Bell Telephone Co. traffic department employes broke slightly today when 33 crossed the by coal gas fumes in their apartments on the second floor of a building at 322-24 State St. Only one of those involved re Martin Hits U.S. On Stored Beans Says They're 'Rotten' Government Denies It striking Western Electric Co. em ployes' picket lines at the Scranton quired hospitalization.

The others central office after being idle since were treated by a Clarks Summit last Wednesday. physician after being, revived by plicants who had been under the impression that Scranton and Wilkes-Barre would be limited to the Clarks Summit rescue and Union sources, discounting the defection, said only 24 of them WASHINGTON. JPh-Top-Itvtl negotiators went into session this afternoon in an effort to reach some agreement in the stalemated steel dispute. There were no however, of any break in the dispute. CIO Presidint Philip Murray, who also htad the Steel Work ers of America, and John Stevens, vice president of U.S.

Steel the nation's biggest steel producer, walked into the barricaded meeting rooms at 2 PJA. Separate conferences were arranged with Nathan P. Feinsinger, head of the Wage Stabilization Board. He and John R. Steelman, acting defense mobilized, conferred for an hour this morning, but gave no hint that any proeress has been reached in the dispute.

emergency squad. two channels each. WASHINGTON (U.R) The sena The ultra-high frequency chan were operators. The balance was made up of four supervisors, five clerks and two cafeteria workers. tor said the government was stor Mrs.

Marjorie Fox, 22, of 322 State was admitted at 11:30 A.M. to Moses Taylor Hospital for nels assigned to Wilkes-Barre are ing "rotten" beans. The Agriculture Department official retorted designated Channels 28 and 34. PrAiantlv thrA a a thmo anrili. There are still "at least 80 per treatment for coal gas poisoning 1 LUL I III kill I Ih Her condition is good.

the beans were just "off color." Sen. Edward Martin tory. The river was still rising. Flatlands for 15 miles along tha river were inundated. Rail and vehicular traffic was hampered or rerouted.

The sewage disposal plant serving both St. Paul and Minneapolis was knocked out and sewage flowed into the river. The plant is located on a Mississippi River island. The municipal airport was under water. Treated by Dr.

Stephen Jewett cations on file with FCC for Scranton TV channels, with at started the hassle over the red were: cent of the traffic employes idle here, a union spokesman said. The break came as optimistic reports of an early settlement fil tered out of New York mediation jeasi one auaiuunai appucauuii Albert Pfeiffer; his wife, Mary: --Vl '1: if -mtmK in i definitely to be filed within the kidney beans. He said in a broadcast over Pennsylvania radio stations yesterday that the govern their daughter, Jean, three, and next 90 The anDlicants are: son, Richard, 15. conferences with ClO-Communica- ment bought and stored about Thomas Fox, about one year old, tion Workers of America contract WQAN, owned and operated by The river level this morning was son of Mrs. Fox.

600,000 worth of surplus beans a few years ago to support; the mar The Scranton Times. negotiators. It was the second time since 21.7 feet, a rise of half a foot over All but Mrs. Fox recovered restriction would apply only WGBI, owned and operated by quickly from the effects of inhaling I during the period of negotiation ket. The government sold a small the traffic department employes the Scranton Broadcasters, Inc.

the fumes on a new contract refused to cross the picket lines The Appalachian which filed 'quantity of the beans, Martin said, The fumes were discovered by After that, he said, management here that some of the operators for a video permit in 1948 when but the rest have been kept in night. Flood stage Is 1 feet. Th Weather Bureau forecast a crest of 22.4 feet for Thursday. Previous high was 19.7 in 1881. At Sioux City, with 84,000 per-sons, and neighboring South Sioux Citv.

Neb- with 5.5O0. surrender returned to their switchboards Frank Collins. Dahl W. Mack and storage. Mrs.

Pfeiffer, who awakened other members of the family and then attempted to arouse Mrs. Fox. could sue the government for damages and recoup losses above what is regarded as "unfair and unrea Last Thursday "three or four" Now the beans are rotten, he went back to work. said, but the government keeps on A defective stoker in the base sonable The board has recommended a storing them at a cost of $10,000 ment of the two-story building was Another development today was had come days earlier and inunda-the announcement that buslneasjtion had been a creeping, progrea- agenta of nine AFX, unions affiii-sive thing. 174 cent an hour nay boost, dus a month.

blamed. Henry J. Geist were listed as the owners. Planning to file for a TV channel is WARM, owned and operated by the Union Broadcasting Co. The WARM TV application for Channel 16 was prepared two or three weeks ago and will be added TOP Only crossbar of service pole (left center) and tops of farm buildings protrude above swirling flood water of Missouri River few miles west of South Sioux City, Neb.

BELOW South. Sioux City victims see home surrounded by rampaging "Big Muddy." Drexel D. Watson, director of- the The street floor is occupied by other fringe benefits, which add Agriculture Department A grain ated with the Scranton Building the Dutch Door, a stationery store. up to 26Vx cents an hour under This was the picture in the two cities: The rescue squad used about 100 branch, admitted the government still had about $1,000,000 worth of an 18-month contract. Feinsinger pointed out that the About two-thirdi of Council pounds of oxygen on each of the Trades Council ould meet today at headquarters, 329 dams Ave.

It was indicated unofficially that approximately 80 members, idle to the three other local applica victims. District Head CWA Claims WE red kidney beans on its hands from the 1948-49 crops. But he government boss, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer, must determine a "fair wage" for the Bluffs' 45,000 pcrsoni had fled of were pulling out of their homes. Across the river, in the East Omaha and Carter Lake. Iowa.

Assistant Fire Chief Carl Miller tions on file. It was learned that WARM al since Wednesday on the $3,500,000 directed the rescue squad. said they weren't rotten at all they just appear "off-color" be iCIO Steel Workers of America ready has ordered TV equipment on a "contingent basis." In other areas, homes of perhaps 5,000 more cause of their old age. during federal operation. He said were similarly deserted.

Furthermore, Watson said, the words the purchase will be com Sawyer could allow a 25 cent an These were ghost areas, pa And Union Still Far from Accord NEW YORK (JP) The Western Electric Co. and 16,000 striking telephone equipment installers are as far from an agreement as ever, a top union negotiator said today. Ernest Weaver, district head of government was still trying to sel hour increase, adding pieiea me cnannei is granted. Elizabeth Bank Looted Of $15,750 by Bandits Assignment of Channel 73 There is not a thing in the law trolled only by soldiers, police and civil guards. Not even the per expansion project at the Bells central office, 121 Adams will be instructed to return to work tomorrow morning.

Rafusad to Cross Llna The building tradesmen refused to cross the CWA pickets lines. They included laborers, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, ironwork termed a "flexible" channel by to prevent him from doing it. sons who live there were permit. the beans and not dispose of them as livestock feed. "We wouldn't be paying storage for them if we didn't expect to get our money he told a re- If he were Sawyer, he said, and ELIZABETH, NJ.

Two silk- ted to enter much of the area. FCC probably was an outgrowth of a recommendation made by WQAN and The Times during the I were looking around for a fair smooth bandits operating with the the CIO Communication Workers ill nrtiff inAIITCfi of America, made the statement as KAILKUAUj UKAll I CU Experienced relief workers rate to pay these fellows, I would cool precision of a Willie Sutton called the exodus one of the big a a l. a i a a say, if a government agency had porter course of preliminary considera tion of channel allocations. ers, plumbers, steamfitters, cement a recommendation outstanding, I'd gest disaster movements in memory. At 26.6.

the river will be at the FREIGHT RATE RISE finishers and operating engineers robbed the Elmora branch of the Union County Trust Co. of $15,750 in cash today in a commuter-crowded area. pay that." WSCR, Scranton, and WCLD, Carbondale, do not plan to seek 5 FEARED DEAD Twelve or more other AFL level which levees and flood walls WASHINGTON UP) The Inter TV channels. balding tradesmen quit work Thursday at the Pittston Scores of uniformed police and IN PLANE CRASH detectives converged on the bank WASHINGTON (IN5 Opposinou increased in Congress today to President Truman's seizure of the nation's steel mills to avert a strike. BRUNSWICK, ME.

tiR-A Navy exchange addition project, after the CWA pickets started patroling state Commerce Commission today gave the railroads a further freight rate increase, the twelfth, since World War 2, estimated to hike charges by about 678,000,000 a a block from the bustling Jersey Of interest to the thousands of TV receiving set owners in the Scranton area was an explanation by WQAN officials of the measures necessary to receive ultra-high Central Railroad station moments patrol plane with 10 men on board crashed and burned today near the that office. after the holdup, but found no Lawmakers challenged the Pres A meeting of Scranton area CWA meaiauon enoirs in me u-siaie strike resumed. He said settlements of strikes by Bell system operators, members of the same union, in Ohio and Michigan will "not have any effect" on the strike against Western Electric, telephone equipment subsidiary. Western Electric pickets still marched at telephone exchanges in many parts of the country, keeping some operators away from work, crippling long-distance service in New Mexico, an'd slowing it in other places. Despite predictions of an early settlement of the Western Electric along the two cities were designed to handle.

Freeboard or safety margin adds three to five feet to the levee height, however, and today's battle consisted of a continued all-out effort to add two feet to the levee height, while maintaining constant vigil for breaks and giving immediate attention to the sandboils which the tremendous trace of the bandits. ident authority to take the un strikers, affiliated with Local 72, frequency channels on their sets. year. The rise is 9 per cent in the South and West and 6 per edge of Brunswick Naval Air Station. Five men were believed killed.

Rescue forces reported they Police at first guarded the identi precedented step as the adminis Philadelphia, Is -nder wa; in Thoco car numrtre u-1 1 1 ronuirA ty of witnesses, who, according to tration renewed its efforts to force Hotel Jernryn. There are about 20 found five men alive, but injured. "converters, which are approxi mately the same size as the "boost cent in the East. The order boosts rates 15 per: cent above what they were at this who were employed here, but 50 Comdr. J.

D. lift, executive offi the steel industry to agree to the work contract proposed by the other area residents worked else Chief Frank Brennan, "are frightened because pf the Arnold Schuster murder." Later some names were released to newsmen. ers" which the majority of local cer at the base, said the plane pressure was creating, especially time last year. wage stabilization board. where.

TV fans need now to get Bing crashed in a clump of trees at the on the Iowa side. The railroads applied last year Meanwhile, Scranton District hamton. The levee task force on the Iowa "Converters" there already are side numbered 3,000 men. Almost for a IS per cent increase. The ICC last August ruled that instead as many worked across the river.

(Continued on Page 5) Truman, Pearson Agree on Seaway Manager Philip W. Roll said "normal" traffic was resumed yesterday with management personnel filling the posts left vacant by the Schuster, Brooklyn pants salesman who fingered bank robber Willie Sutton for police, was murdered and his assailants have not been found. dispute made by a telephone oper A levee failure could come any end of a newly built runway when an engine gave trouble after taking off on a training flight. The plane circled and was attempting to land when it plunged. The tail section of the big craft was torn off.

Commander Ifft said the rest of the plane "was burned of a straight 15 per cent hike, the charges should be raised 9 per cent in the East and 6 per cent in the South and West. ators spokesman here previously, Weaver said the company and union are "as far apart today" as time before, during or after the crest. Armed Thug Robs A nrl Tia I In friilrlran independent union members who WASHINGTON (JP) Canada's A bank official, Harold E. Man- refused to cross the CWA picket The test is said Brig. they were two months ago.

vpI wa sIiicktaH hv nn rt tha trim. Foreign Minister, Lester B. Pearson, said President Truman agreed lines Tooay order, issued after reconsideration, allows the full 15 "We will not settle until we get be to a crisp. Gen. Don G.

Shingler, Missouri River division engineer. The river is "really leaning against the lev the way should today that held a pistol on a boy and two General Hospital for treatment of a good contract," Weaver said. "We Mr. Roll explained that Easter traffic is never as heavy as on weekdays unlike Christmas and cleared for Canada to go ahead The plane was attached to Patrol Squadron 26. a bad scalp wound.

haven had one for five years." ees," he added. Detective Capt. August F. Win- per cent across the country. Wedemeyer Backs Taft In New Jersey Contest The flood-ravaged Missouri River He disputed the previous state New Year's Day.

"We handled it with power aspects of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project. Pearson announced after a without difficulty," he said. kelmann gave newsmen this ver son of the holdup: Miners Return to Work area extended all the way from lower South Dakota, along the ment by John H. Lotz, president of Local 1150 of the union, that the company and union are "apart on only one issue, that of labor grad White House conference that the President said he would join with Robert W.

Harvey, Stroudsburg, president of Local 34, Federation The thugs were waiting inside PITTSBURGH (JP) About 150 the buliding when employes and Iowa-Nebraska reaches and into Kansas and Missouri. But other states, and other riv girls in South Philadelphia today, robbed them of $4 and then bound each wttlrarticles of their clothing. The children, ranging in age from 14 to 17 screamed as the man disappeared. U.S. TREASURY REPORT WASHINGTON (INS) Treasury balance April 10, receipts.

expenditures, $49,791,355,154. coal miners who stopped work TRENTON. NJ. (JP) Gen. Albert C.

Wedemeyer today stepped intA (hp nnlitiral orpna hv onrinrK- the Canadian Government in ask of Telephone Workers of Pennsyl the ing vania, composed of plant depart early customers arrived for 8:30 A.M. opening. Friday at the Harmarville mine of Consumers Mining Co. returned to ing the International Joint -Commission for approval of Canada's Said Weaver: "He probably ing y.S. Sen, Robert A.

Taft in a ment employes who have honored ers, also figured today la a grim Midwest flood picture. Mississippi Still Rising the work today. (Continued oh Page 14) iletter to a New Jersey friend. plans. They apparently entered bank before dawn through a ond-floor lavatory window sec- the CWA picket lines, said he received a report that about 20 operators returned to work yesterday at the Nanticoke exchange after meeting with a Bell traffic man only Bibalo Goes on Trial in Montrose for Murder of Shema unbarred window in the building The Mississippi was at a record high and climbing at St.

Paul, Minn. Livestock shipments to the South St. Paul stockyards were em and lay in wait. 7 I Reformatory Parolee One Man's View Br WALTIR KIERNAS International News Service) i n. ager.

Employes of the traffic depart bargoed, thousands were homeless 4 (Continued on Page 14) ment of the Bell are members of the Pennsylvania Telephone Union Two Men Are Injured When Truck Upsels Pleads 'Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity' With the Defense Department's purchase of 15.000 more hair clippers almost every male, 18 or over, is assured an Army hair cut this year. tune State officers of the PTU met Saturday In Hotel Casey with 6 Two men are reported to have Joseph Bibalo, 20-year-old reformatory parolee of Uniondale, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre member been injured when a panel truck and said the union was not taking In fact between the Army and, overturned late this afternoon on today pleaded "not guilty by rea the Internal Revenue Department Boulevard Ave. north of East Park a stand either way on me lvva They made it plain that son of insanity" when he went on er St. The truck is said to have been trial for murder in Susquehanna union would support members County Court at Montrose for the in the event of dismissals for refus- WQAN OPEN HOUSE 12:05 to 12:30 P.M. Monday through Friday owned by the American out ing to cross the lines.

door advertising firm. killing of a Forest City deer hunter Mr. Harvey said he was informed One man was thrown clear of if 1 a Bell traffic department repre we are about the best clipped peo- pie of all time. They're calling back so many ball players for military service the next World" Series may be played at Penyang The wise money, as usual, will be on the Yankees. Nobody knows why they're call the wreckage and the other is said sentative requested PTU officialj to have been pinned inside the to arrange a meeting with 67 Oly truck, which landed upright on its four wheels after somersaulting.

For MUSIC, NEWS, SPORTS "Keep in Tune with The Times" phant operators who refused to cross the picket line but that no The truck was traveling south on last Dec. 10. The defendant was led into court at 9:20 A.M. by Sheriff William S. Hower.

dad in a khaki shirt open at the throat, blue dungarees" and a brown leather jacket, Bibalo sat tjuietly with downcast eyes between his attorneys as selection of a jury began before Judge Edward P. Little. Bibalo is accused of lulling Anthony Shema. 44, of 515 Hudson conference is scheduled. the thoroughfare.

ing up ball players unless it's, because everything has been tried in The names of the injured were Incidentally, the state officers of the PTU are reported to have de not available immediately. Korea except the inside curve, scribed the walkout of the first The Scranton Fire Department ambulance was summoned to re 18 operators to leave the Olyphani exchange as a contract violation Dial AH S2.J Fat move the injured to a hospitaL jbut pledged the union's support in But we still have atomic weapons Washington says are too fearsome even to talk about So far they haven't scared the Chinese The scene of the iadent is near St, Forest City, on isolated Elk- the event CI my management-1 the entrance to the pockets of the dale farm after luring Shelma there prisal Hudson Coal Co. Marvine Colliey Approximately 900 plant and SENATE RECESSES traffic department employe in Scranton, Olyphant, Pittston, Nanti-coke and Wilkes-Barre halted work as a result of the picketing by the Our fellows find it very difficult to frighten a Chinese Commie in Korea with a fearsome weapon that's still on the shelf in by promises of finding numerous deer. State Police said they have a confession from Bibalo in which the youth admitted the killing and Continued on Page 14) WASHINGTON () The Senate met for less than a minute today-just long enough to recess until Wednesday. (Times Photos by Jennings) Defense Attorneys M.

W. Stephens, Patrick J. Sheridan and the accused, Joseph Bibalo, 29. WE strikers..