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73RD YEAR NO. 20,221. FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, PA, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1950. FIVE CENTS Sforke Spread Communist Deputies Try to Seize Hall of Parliament at Bonn rvcs wrri Is nit 4wjf fcJbJl MX Pickets Jailed For Attempt to Spread Strike State Police Check Milk Truck Dumping In Pittsburgh Area Senate Debates Bill to Expand Social Security George Argues For Program to End Trend Of Dole to Needy laration "was made without our (Communist) concurrence" and said he "cared nothing" for Koehl-er's rulings. When the speaker adjourned the 60 Killed or Missing in Two Plane Crashes I I French Planes Lost I In Persian Gulf And In Madagascar Jungle PARIS UP Sixty persons were killed or missing and believed dead today in the crashes of two French planes, one in the Persian Gulf and the other in the steaming jungle of Madagascar.

Forty-four persons were believed drowned or battered to death when an Air France C-54 plunged into the Persian Gulf off Bahrein Island. Officials said six persons were rescued and six bodies were recovered, with the other 38 of the 50 crewmen and passengers still missing. 16 on Military Plane. A military plane with 16 aboard disappeared on a routine flight of 186 miles between Tananrive and Tamatave, Madagascar. Air force officials said little hope remained for their survival.

four-engined transport flying from Indo-China to Paris carried 43 passengers and seven crewmen, officials reported. They DRIVER DIES AFTER WRECK His clothes burned off, J. E. "Skimp" Hershcy sits dazedly beside his flaming stock car as firemen attempt to rescue him. The car (background, at left) caught fire on a turn, went out of control and turned over during race at Atlanta, Ga.

Hershey, who is from St Augustine, Fla, died in the hospital 12 hours after the accident (By Acme staff photographer Gene Crumbley.) State IOOF to Install Persons At Convention session and ordered all deputies! to leave the floor, the Communists rushed to the Tribune with Reimann in the lead and refused to leave. Police then intervened. All parties except the Communists had agreed on the brief protest declaration against the Polish-East German agreement accepting the Oder-Neisse frontier as "final." The protest was tabled as a prelude to the debate on West Germany's membership in the Council of Europe. The membership issue was considered so vital to the fledgling West German government that it brought Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from his sick bed. Strike Halts Publication World-Telegram is Closed by CIO Guild NEW YORK UP Editorial and commercial employes of the New York World-Telegram and Sun went on strike today, and the newspaper announced "at the present moment, we cannot print." The New York Newspaper Guild (CIO) said the members of all unions of the Allied Printing Trades refused to cross the Guild's picket lines which were set up at 5:30 a.

m. EDT. The Guild called the strike to back its demand for higher wages, union security and other benefits. Lee B. Wood, executive editor and Noel MacNeish, business manager, said in a joint statement three hours after the walkout: "The printers and stereotypers did not cross the picket line.

The obvious fact is, at the present moment, we cannot print." Printers, stereotypers and pressmen hold the key as to whether the newspaper would publish, Wood said. The men of all three departments refused to cross the picket lines. "We are not encouraging them to come back," Wood said, "but the place is open if they wish to come." Enough Editorial Help. He said the newspaper had enough editorial help to put out a paper and that photoengravers had reported for work. Delivery service workers also were on the job.

Guild strike headquarters termed the walkout "completely effective." The Guild said 750 persons were manning the picket lines on three sides of the main World-Telegram and Sun Building in lower Manhattan. Pickets also patrolled three other plants where some of the newspaper's printing is done. The strike involved some 500 employes in the editorial and com mercial departments covered by the Guild contract. Wood had said earlier that the newspaper would attempt to issue all editions on schedule and was going ahead with normal preparations to publish." State Police Nab Parole Violator State Police, cooperating with a Cleveland parole officer, took John Francis Gerhard, 21, of 16220 Grove Wood Avenue, Cleveland, from a Sugarcreek residence at 3 a. m.

today and placed him under custody in the Venango County jail to await further action on the part of the Cleveland officer. Gerhard, parolled by a Montgomery County, court, was placed under the jurisdiction of parole officer Frank J. Cummings, of Cleveland, with the stipulation that he must inform Cummings if he were to leave the state of Ohio. Gerhard violated his parole by coming to Franklin sometime Sunday evening, police said. WASHING 0 -UP Chairman Walter F.

George, of the Senate Finance Com mittee today appealed for an expanded Social Security program, to "reverse the trend" of handing out doles to the needy. The Georgia Democrat opened debate on a bill drafted by his committee which would add some 10,000,000 persons to the already covered by the act and practically double its benefits. He said the committee recommendations 'do not "do the whole job" and indicated the group later may propose further revisions in the 15-year-old Social Security system. Looks To Security For AH. He told the Senate that it can look forward to Social Security for "all citizens within the next year or two" but that further extension "must await more detailed study." George said that public assistance doles now are the "primary" sources of financial help to the aged and orphaned.

The committee bill, he said, would eliminate millions of persons from the "humiliation" of proving their eligibility which, in some instances, includes the taking of a "pauper's oath." "We have proceeded with faith in America to meet the problem," he said. "By granting benefits as a matter of legal right, we shall preserve the individual dignity of our citizens." $2 Billion For Dole. He said that Federal, state and local governments spend 000.000 a year on doles to the needy while only $700,000,000 is expended in Social Security bene- 'f its. He estimated the committee bill would increase this yearly Social Security outlay to He told newsmen earlier that he hopes the Senate would reach a vote on the measure by next Monday. Under its terms, the minimum individual benefit would be raised from $10 to $25 a month, the average primary benefit from $26 to about $49 a month, and the maximum individual benefit from $45 to S72.50 a month.

The maximum family benefit would be boosted from $85 to $150 a month. Would Freeze Payrole Tax. The bill also would freeze payroll tax contributions of both employers and employes at its present lVz per cent, level until 1956 when it would start to increase gradually to 3V4 per cent, by 1970. Under the present law, the payroll tax is scheduled to jump to 2 per cent, on Jan. 1, 1951.

Persons now exempt who would be brought under coverage of the law include1 5,000,000 self-employed; 000 farm workers: 1,000,00 do mestic servants; 1,500,000 state and municipal employes with no retirement system of their own; 200,000 federal employes with no retirement system; 400,000 employes of non-profit organizations; 200,000 employes of religious organizations; 100,000 full-time life insurance salesmen, and 400,000 persons employed by Americans outside continental United States. The Senate measure is similar to one passed last year by the House. The House version would extend coverage of the act to persons and would increase benefits about 70 per cent. Grand Jury Recalled To Sign Indictment BUTLER UP Judge William B. Purvis recalled the Butler County grand jury for an hour's session yesterday to get the jury foreman's signature on one of the indictments the panel returned last week.

Court House attaches said W. R. Brown, the foreman, refused last week to sign the indictment against Mrs. Jack Parks, accused of slaying her husband. After the session, Brown signed the report.

BONN, Germany UP Thirteen West German Communist deputies tried to seize the hall of Parliament today and were dragged out by German police. The incident occurred during a recess caused by a Communist uproar. Parliament guards were kicked and slapped as they ejected the screaming Communists. The trouble started shortly after Communist leader Max Reinmann had been expelled for 30 days by speaker Erich Koehler. The speaker had suspended Reimann's right to attend sessions because Reim-ann "refused to accept Koehlers forbidding debate on a declaration by prewar Reichstag President Paul Loebe that "the territory east of the Oder-Neisse line remains a part of Germany." Reimann shouted that the dec Linn, State Justice, Dies Third Supreme Court Loss in Six Months PHILADELPHIA UP Justice! William B.

Linn of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court died in Jefferson Hospital today. 78-year-old justice, who lived in Philadelphia, had been a patient at the hospital for 10 days. He is the third Supreme Court justice to die since the first of the year. The others were Justice Marion Patterson last Jan. 6 and Chief Justice George W.

Maxey last March. Linn's death came at 9:30 a. m. Justice Linn served on the appellate courts of Pennsylvania since 1919. He was appointed to the Superior Court Nov.

5, 1919, to fill a vacancy resulting from the death of Judge J. Henry Wil liams. In 1920, he was elected to a full term, and re-elected to the Su perior Court in 1930. Appointed by Pinchot. He was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Gov.

Gifford Pinchot on Feb. 23, 1932, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Justice Emory Walling. He was elected in November of 1932 to a full 21-year-term. The justice was born in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Dec. 20, 1871.

He was educated in the Ephrata public schools and later taught in that school district. He studied law at the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in 1897. Linn practiced law in Philadelphia from that time until his appointment to tht Superior Court. He was a member of the board of trustees and also a member of the board of directors of the Free Library of Philadelphia. The justice also was a president of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia and of the Library Company of Philadelphia.

He is survived by his wife, the former Josephine Stewart Wood, Philadelphia, and two daughters, Bettina, at home and Mrs. Theo dore White, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Two sons preceded him in death. Second Gas at Lock Haven Blazing LOCK HAVEN, Pa. UP The Leidy Prospecting which sup plies gas to the New York Natural Gas Co.

of Pittsburgh, today had a second well in operation. The latest well came in at a depth of 6,000 feet yesterday, catching fire and spewing flames 100 feet into the air. The firm's first well, which came in Jan. 8, yielded 160,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas last month alone, the company said. The Pittsburgh firm pipes the gas to northern Pennsylvania and New York state.

It was disclosed that 10 other companies have organized to drill for gas or oil in Centre and Clint on Counties, near the general vicinity of the Leidy Cottage Break-ins Reported Near Niles A series of week-end break-ins and robberies in the cottages along French Creek, in the Niles area, is under investigation by county and state authorities. Four cottages were entered, according to State Police, and furniture, lamps, kitchen utensils and other cottage furnishings were The cottage of Mrs. W. H. Elliot, 240 Pacific Street, and one owned by Jess S.

St. Clair, 1307 Eagle Street, were among those broken into. ATTENTION! Take your News-Herald with you on your vacation. No extra charge for mailing. Call NEWS-HERALD Circulation Department Phone 353 PITTSBURGH UP State police jailed four AFL milkmen's union pickets today when they sought to spread! the Pittsburgh district's five-day milk strike to Westmoreland County.

The troopers acted quickly when the four men appeared at the Bergman Dairy, near Derry, carrying picket signs. The unionists, all of the Derry district, were jailed for violating a Westmoreland County court order banning picketing in the county. The county was not included in the seven-county area named in the strike call. State troopers continued active throughout the area stopping a flurry of milk truck dumping. A detail intervened when a group of six pickets halted a milk truck on the Allegheny-Washington County line.

The milk truck drove off as the troopers "talked to the pickets about their strike rights," according to State Police Capt. Andrew Hudock. Stalemate Continues. The dispute between striking Local 205, of the AFL teamsters, and the milk dealers which has cut off milk deliveries to persons in the greater Pittsburgh area, remained stalemated. Emergency milk supplies to hospitals, set up by arrangement with the union, were reported satisfactory.

But reports of family "hardship" cases continued to pour in. "White market" operations in milk bootlegged into the area from outlying sections were reported with prices as high as 30 cents a quart. A conference between the Greater Pittsburgh Milk Dealers Association and the union, sched- uled for 10 a. was delayed when union representatives failed to arrive. Dealers Ask Arbitration.

However, both sides were expected to meet sometime today with the union reporting on a conference of union stewards. A company spokesman said the dealers still proposed arbitration on the basis of the association's final offer. "We're ready to arbitrate any or all issues," adealer said. "We've made our last offer and we're not afraid of arbitration. We've made a good offer and a fair one." He said the dealers had agreed that any award which an arbitrator might make would be retroactive to the beginning of the hearings.

Market Prices are Pared in First Hour NEW YORK UP Motors led the stock market down from a 20-year high in moderately active turnover in the opening hour today. After a week-long period of rising prices, leading issues declined fractions to more than a point. Realizing pared prices in steel, oiL aircraft, tobacco, and railroad sections. Motors, which had enjoyed ont of the best upswings of any of the major groups in the past week, sold off as much as IV point in Chrysler which dipped to 7894. Not far behind was General Motors, off Hi to 97'i.

DuPont declined 1 to 834 in the chemicals while Union Carbide and Mathieson steadied around their previous. Standard Oil (NJ) and Texas Company each receded Vz point in the oil section. American Tobacco, Reynolds Tobacco, Lockheed Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, International Harvester, American Telephone, Radio Corporation and Montgomery Ward lost ground. Losses in the steels ranged to sa in U. S.

Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Santa fe slipped Hi to 115 in th rails while Union Pacific lost 1, Southern Rail 3A, and Southern Pacific Propectors pocket and came up with a rock about five by four inches, the biggest one he had. "I thought the counter was going to pop," Goodman said. "The neon tube flashed so much that it looked like one steady light. It just kept on buzzing and flashing without Stopping." He said the rock was "lots more active" than several radio active samples from Colorado he uses to demonstrate the counter.

"I told the fellows they really had something," Goodman said. "I asked them where they got the rocks, but they told me they 'just aren't I asked them to wait until I could tell a reporter about them, but they said they didn't want any publicity. "Then they just turned around and walked out of the station," Goodman said. "Not that I blam them much. I wouldn't want th whole town following me around either." said all aboard were French ex cept one displaced person, and none was of international prominence.

Pieports to the headquarters of the French National Air Line said the plane was going in for a landing at Bahrein early today when it fell into the Gulf. Early reports gave no clue to the cause of the mishap. Just before the big ship went down the pilot radioed that he was coming in for a scheduled landing. Helicopters were reported to have joined small surface vessels searching for survivors and bodies. Louis Pontier, director general iof Air France in Egypt, left Cairo for Bahrein to investigate the crash.

The plane went down about three miles northeast of Bahrein. It was piloted by Capt. Jean Sla-ctek, a pioneer with 19,500 flying hours to his credit. Splain Up For Election Today State Democrats Will Name Chairman HARRISBURG UP The Democratic state committee's 113 members met here today to elect Maurice D. Splain, Oil City, to a full two-year term as state chairman.

Splain, 37-year-old former executive assistant to U. S. Sen Myers, was chosen several months ago to succeed Philip Mathews: Carlisle, who resigned. The Democrats were slated to hear an afternoon address by the party's candidate, Philadelphia City Treasurer Richardson Dilworth. Sen.

Myers, a candidate for reelection, was scheduled to address a dinner meeting of the committee tonight. The committee was expected to approve Mrs. Ruth Gngg Horting, Lancaster, to a new term as vice chairman and J. Warren Mickel as treasurer. Genevieve Blatt, whose post as secretary is appointive, also was expected to remain.

All statewide candidates approved in the May 16 primary were to attend today's conferences, which will see the appointment of a platform committee, the nam ing of campaign leaders to ieaa the party against the Republicans in November, and reorganization of the 12-member executive committee. Truck Kills Boy, 4, Hiding in Box KARNS CITY, Pa. UP Joseph Roy Croyle, 4, was killed yesterday when a truck passed over a cardboard box in which he was "hiding" in an alley near his home. State Police said the driver of the truck was Glenn Raisley, of Butler, who was arrested later at Bruin, eight miles away. Raisley told police he did not know that the child was playing in the box.

He was not held. Dissolve Masonic Lodges BUDAPEST, Hungary UP All 19 Masonic lodges in Hungary have been dissolved on grounds that they were "meeting places of the enemies of the peoples republic," the Communist ministry of interior said today. ATTENTION, K. of All members please meet at the entrance of the K. of C.

Home at 7:45 this evening to go to the Buchanan Funeral Home and pay our respects to our late brother, Raymond Hays. JAMES PRENATT, It Grand Knight. FOR FATHER'S DAY. Get Dad his favorite tobacco at The SMOKE SHOP. t-t-s Jaffee Refuses To Discuss Case May Face Contempt Of Congress Charge WASHINGTON -UP- Senate Communist investigators today studied the possibilities of a contempt citation against Philip J.

Jaffee, key figure of the 1945 Amerasia stolen documents case. Edward P. Morgan, counsel for arsenate foreign relations-" sub committee, was ordered to draw up a legal opinion. He said he would give the matter careful consideration before reaching any conclusions. The citation, if voted, would re- i suit from Jaffee's refusal to discuss the case at a closed session yesterday.

He said any statement on his part might be self-incriminating. Editor of Amerasia. Jaffee was managing editor of the magazine Amerasia when FBI and OSS agents raided its office in 1945 and found thousands of classified government documents. The resulting investigation end ed with the arrest of Jaffee, two State Department officials, a naval officer and two contributors to the publication. All were charged with illegal possession of the Jaffee pleaded guiltv fined $2,500.

Emanuel S. Larsen, a State Department expert, decided not to Ci si charge and was fined $500. The other four were not prose- cuted and Republicans frequently have charged that the affairs was! whitewashed. The subcommittee still waiting for the Justice Department to supply excerpts from the late James E. Forrestal's diary in its effort to determine who, if any one, ordered a delay in the arrests.

Forrestal at the time was secretary of the Navy. Diary Not Locked Up. The Cincinnati Enquirer report ed last night that the dairy itself is "not under lock and key at the White House as widely reported It said it is in the hands of its assistant publisher, Eugene Duf-field, who was Forrestal's assistant from November, 1942, until Jan uary, 1946 The newspaper said Duffield has sent the committee a page from the diary which shows that For restal "did not ask anyone to de lay the case." His only interest. it said, was to see that President Truman was informed of the thefts and the possibility the arrests would "embarrass" him in negotiations with the Russians at the founding sessions of the United Nations in San Francisco. Jaffee was mentioned in the excerpt.

Forrestal wrote that the editor had "intimate relations with the Russian consul in New York." tion here, actual sales have been heaviest in the international zone of Tangiers where there are no currency restrictions. Other heavy sales, it was said, have been made in the black markets of France and Italy. Invariably, the gold is handled by an innocent-appearing agent who, if questioned, would disclaim any official connection with Moscow. In return for the gold. Russia is getting, in one way or another, hard currencies American dollars, Swiss or Belgian francs, or monies that can be traded readily.

Just how Russia is using the currency is something the United States would like to know. Some I i a inters Plea Not Guilty Remington Arraigned On Perjury Charge ATTTir Vri-DV TTT5 Remington, former Depart- pleaded innocent today to a charge that he lied when he denied ever having been a member of the Communist Party. The 32-year-old, six-foot-two defendant was arraigned in a five-minute session before Federal Judge John W. Clancy in the same courtroom where Alger Hiss was arraigned on a two-count perjury indictment nearly a year ago. Judge Clancy granted Remington two days to arrange bail of $5,000.

He was paroled in the custody of his attorney, Bethuel Webster, for that period. Clancy told the defense it could have until July 5 to make motions. U. S. Attorney Irving H.

Saypol told the court the government would move to fix the date of trial at the July 5 hearing. Wants Carly Trial. Later, Saypol told reporters the government wanted to bring Rem ington to trial "as quickly as pos sible maybe in July or August. The spectators' seats were less than half-filled when, at 10:40 a. the clerk called the case of "William Walter Remington." The defendant, a husky young man with blond hair, wearing a blue suit and blue up the the bench.

When asked how he pleaded, he replied in a deep voice: "Not guilty." His attorney told the court that Remington was having "some trouble" arranging bail because "the bonding companies apparently all have adopted the policy of not making bonds in cases touching on the question of loyalty." Webster said Remington would have to raise cash and was "on the point of getting some money from his mother, but will need about 36 hours to do that." 7,000 Idled by Dispute at Erie GE ERIE UP A dispute over incentive pay for 100 refrigerator cabinet workers idled 7,000 employes of the General Electric Corp. plant here. The cabinet workers were reported to have staged a slow-down yesterday in protest to what they said amounted to a $7 a week cut in pay. The company sent 2,300 workers home yesterday because production schedules were breakin down. The entire referierator department's 7,000 workers were sent home today.

The company-said it would not discuss the grievance until work schedules were restored on the cabinet line. The union demanded immediate settlement of the dispute. Big Helicopter Crashes SOUTHAMPTON, England UP The world's largest helicopter, built to carry 24 passengers, crashed on a test flight today and all three crew members were killed. NOTICE. All V.F.W.

and Legion members meet at the V.F.W. building Wednesday, June 14, at 7 p. m. to participate in the Flag Day Parade. Signed: RAY ANDRE.

JAMES KING. 2t ROCKY GROVE FIREMEN. Regular meeting tonight. It SCRANTON UP "Roy H. Per-! sons, Franklin, will be installed! tonight as grand master of the 2 JlTl Persons will succeed James HJ Ely, Waynesburg, at the organiza tion's 125th annual convention.

Frank H. Naylor, Spring City will be installed as deputy grand master and Ray A. Himmelberg, Myerstown, as grand warden. Delegates voted to hold the 1951 meeting in Pittsburgh. House to Act On Rent Bill Legislation Approved By Senate, 36-28 WASHINGTON UP Demo cratic leaders pressed for early House action on a watered-down rent bill today, with both sides agreeing that the vote will be close.

Democratic Leader John W. Mc-Cormack, told reporters he oelieves the House would approve measure. But Rep. Jesse P. vVolcott, an opponent, aid "I think we have a good chance to win." Both McCormack and Wolcott agreed that the margin of victory for either side would be small.

With the present rent law slated nn r- a Pirc leaaers nopeu me nuuse wuuiu act either late today or tomorrow. Like the legislation approved yesterday by the Senate, the House bill would extend present controls until Dec. 31, with local communities having the right to vote themselves an additional six-month extension. British Opposed to Industrial Pool LONDON UP Britain's socialist leaders announced today they were opposed to the French plan for merging western Europe's coal and steel industries unless all governments involved were so cialist-controlled. The position of Britain's gov ernment leaders was made clear in a statement by the Labor Party's executive ittee.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee was expected to elaborate on the stand when he appears before Parliament later today. The French plan for pooling the coal and steel production on all western European nations will not work unless the industries in each nation first are nationalized, the socialist statement said. The statement expressed fear that Britain's steel industry, in process of being nationalized, would be dominated by a supranational authority controlled by private European industrialists. New 'Saucer' Theory LONDON UP Royal Air Force experts said today that the "flying saucers" sighted recently actually were whirlpools of air. "Appearances of a 'flying saucer' may be noticed at quite low altitudes," the experts said, "and the explanation is the same: The con dition in the air is rather like that of a whirlpool in a stream which reflects light and shines as disc." EAGLES.

SFECIAL NOTICE! Election of trustee, installation and prize, Tuesday 8 p. m. 2t Uranium Fever Fanned by Russia Quietly Peddling Gold in Western Nations Two Mystery HOUGHTON, Mich. UP Two mystery prospectors who vanished after nearly breaking a Geiger counter with ore samples sent this community at the top of Mich-uranium fever soaring today in igan's upper peninsula. Every amateur ana proiessionai nrnsDector in the area was all set to start digging for the supposedly super-radioactive ore.

But no one knew where to dig, and the two men who started the whole thing had simply disappeared. Frank Goodman, 41, who runs a sporting goods store and newsstand in the bus station, said the men, clad in well-worn Army fatigues, showed up yesterday and asked him to test some rock samples with his Geiger counter. He said their pockets were bulging with rocks. "I told them it would cost them a quarter for each rock I tested," Goodman said. "One of them sort of smiled and dug around in his WASHINGTON UP Russia is quietly peddling gold in western countries.

There also are reports that it is selling diamonds. Scattered reports from the world's gold centers indicate the Russians have sold about worth of the yellow metal since the war ended. Much of it was sold in black markets where the best prices prevail. It's hard to keep track of the trading, but the sales now appear to have reached significant volume. In addition, Russia is reported to be shipping gold to its agents abroad in such places as Sweden, Macao, Hong Kong and France.

This gold could be sold quickly on orders from the Kremlin. According to the best informa of it obviously goes into more orof officers, luncheon, refreshment? less normal trade..