Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 1

Last City Edition CLOUDY Chester area: Mostly cloudy with moderate temperatures this afternoon. Fair and cool tonight. Saturday cloudy with scattered light rain and' not much change in temperature. PRIMARILY POLITICS Political news is of Increasing interest with the approach of the May lCth lMinury. See pftfe i.

Covers Delaware County First PRICE, FIVE CENTS NET PAID OIHCULATIOM Ol 73fi AVEHAGE MARCH 1950 oxj ou CHESTER, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1350 74TH YEAR NO. 22,638 $10 Million Home Project Starts Monday 52 Years of Railroading Ends Today Hoover Urges Realistic UN State Employe Is Fired for For Eli J. Garris as '175' Without Communist Nations 1200 Houses To Go Up on Crozef Tract Business District Also Planned for Giant Development By JOE FITZGERALD New York (UP) Former Alleged Red Spy, British Commie Called in Probe Washington (UP) Senate investigators, under a blistering new at Construction of 1200 single tack by Republicans, called in an former British communist today to The witnesses are Frederick vanaeront rieia ana rreaa uuey. homes and a business district fii on the John P. Crozer estate begins Monday, it was announced today.

iiph mjm Clears lower I ltf I IptPfKjS Program at County Rallies By CHARLES II. RUSSELL Praise for the Duff administration was sounded at Media on Thursday night by the governor himself and by Judge John Pine, (i ho aspires to be his successor at Harrisburg. Speaking in Media Armory before of about 1000, Duff de fended nis pr0gram ui spending Veteran PRR Telegrapher E. J. Garris Retires After 52 Years Representing an investment of more than 10 million, the' project is one of the largest private developments in ine national postwar era.

The construction firm is Sandee Builders, Philadelphia. 267 Acre Tract The Crozer estate is a 267 acrei tract lying principally in Brook haven. It is bounded roughly by Middletown Brookhaven Brldgewater rd. and "Upland rd. About 93 of the land is in Brookhaven and the remainder is part of Upland.

The. dwellings Trill be constructed in Cane Cod style and are to sell for $7990. The ground floor will contain two bedrooms, oathroom, living room, dining room and modern kitchen, A utility room will he incorporated Turn to Page 2, Number 6 DST Starts Sunday Turn Clocks Ahead Starting at. 2 a. Sunday.

DST will make its annual appear Daylight Saving Time the schedule that makes it darker if you get up in the early morning hours and lighter for mowing Cs' lawn or playing baseball in the evening will remain in effect until the last Sunday in September. Whether you turn the clock AHEAD an hour before going to bed Saturday or sit up until 2 a.m. to make the official changeover, be sure to start operating on "fast Sunday morning. Otherwise you might find church letting out or the dinner dishes being scraped and stacked when you start out to keep your day's appointments. Just a final reminder Daylight Saving Time starts Sunday.

Set your clock AHEAD one hour. UE Routs CIO by 4 1 At Lester; Results Close in Rest of U. S. By ORRIN C. EVANS The CIO electrical workers' campaign for the right to act as bargaining 'agent for the 7500 workers at the Wes1 inghouse plant at Lester collapsed Thursday with the finality of 3461 votes, of a total of 5707, cast against them.

The They were scheduled to appear, during the morning before a senate: foreign relations subcommittee In vestigating cnarges ny sen. josepn, R. McCarthy, (R. Wis). That the.

state department is infested with Reds. McCarthy hr accused Lattimore. Johns Hopkins University pro fessor and far eastern expert, of being a communist, a spy, and the architect of U. S. policy in China.

Ex communist Editor Louis P. Budenz has testified that communist leaders often referred to Lattimore as a communist. Budenz said Field, whom he described as a Russian espionage agent, was one or them. McCarthy said Miss Utley, who ouit the British communist party in mil, WOUia iesmy taat ljaiu more supported the "totalitarian enemies of America." Denies Testimony The subcommittee has heard Earl Browder, deposed head of U. S.

communists, contradict Budcnz's testi mony categorically. His testimony provoked a storm or criticism by McCarthy and by Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R. McCarthy said just before leaving' Lightning Hits Barn at Glen Mills School The destruction of a huge barn at Glen Mills School for Boys, Thorn bury Township, and an injury to a county motorist whose car skidded in Radnor Township, were the most serious results of the thunderstorm which lashed Delaware County be tween 11.30 p.

m. Thursday and 1.30 The rain started as a drizzle short ly after 11 p. m. but the storm (developed rapidly, bringing .79 inches of ram, almost as mucn as nao fallen in the previous 26 days of April. County roads were flooded in many places, but no damage from fallen trees or power wires had been ported a morning.

The soil to rage 2, Number Today's Weather Temperatures for 24 hours High yesterday 63 at 2 p. low this morning 45 at 2 a. average yesterday 54; normal for date 57. Precipitation In 24 hours this month 1.63. Sun rose 5.0" a.

sun sets 6,52 p. m. Moon rose 2.47 a. moon sets 3.09 a. first quarter current to May 1.

Today's tides Oil Chester Tidewater Terminal Pier: High 9,13 a. m. and 9.46 p. low, 3.53 a. m.

and 4.21 p. m. Local forecast Mostly cloudy with moderate temperatures this afternoon Fair and cool tonight. Saturday cloudy with scattered light rain and not much change in temperature. Rrqiccicd temperatures High today 58: low tonight 46; high Saturday 54.

1 jffs Edge vote was 45S4 for UhJ, ana lizd ior iuri wu. Returns from other plants President Herbert Hoover asks "God fearing nations" to reorganize tne united without the communist coun tries and create a united front "against Red agnoisticism." ivir. jtiooveir tola tne American Newspaper Publishers Association conference Tues day night that the time has come to discard the unrealis tic one world ideal for practical plan of "total diplomacy." The 75 year old Republican's nationally broadcast speech brought immediate telephone call from President Truman in Washington. A long distance operator called the Waldorf Astoria Hotel to say the White House wanted Mr. Hoover to telephone "right away." Mr.

Hoover left the ANFA banquet answer the call in his suite. Spokesmen for Mr. Hoover refused to comment on the call. It was confirmed later by entertainer Milton Berle who. had stepped away from the microphone to listen while Uoo iferred with the messenger who notified him of the call.

'U. S. Losing Ground' Tile only living ex president, who was introduced at the ANFA's final meeting as America's No. 1 citizen. said the United States is slowly losing ground as Russia picks off non communist states one by one.

Mr. Hoover said "a phalanx of frea could come nearer to ob taining a workable relation with the communist half of the world "than the United States ever could do alone." He said the basic struggle as a fight against atheism." "I suggest the United Nations should be reorganized without the communist nations it," Hoover said. "If that is impractical then a definite new united front should be organized of those peoples who disavow communism, who stand for morals and religion and who love freedom." Mr. Hoover said his proposal' did not mean extension of alliances. He described it as a diplomatic attempt "to redeem" the United Nations for its original purpose on the realization that "the one world idea seems to be lost in the secret files." this may give pam to some people," he said.

"But by their cries ye snail Know tnem. Beds Walk Out Again Mr. Hoover's proposal to oust com munist UN members was made only a few hours after Russia walked out of a UN body for the 23d time when it failed to bar the Chinese nationalist delegation from the conventional armaments commission. The oroDosai was given little serious attention by UN delegates who maintained diplomatic silence after sending Mr. Hoover's speech on to their governments for study.

Privately they agreed that the plan ran athwart the principle of "uni approves by most mem bers on the UN. Mr. Hoover charged that the Kremlin had reduced the UN to a propaganda forum "for the smear lree peoples. He saia wussia 35 solemnly signed agreements in the last 12 years and at least a half dozen provisions of the UN charter. Hoover traced the rise pi i power to a period of world appeasement in the 1930's "when our ieft wingers had their way." He said many American left wing ivs were unconscious ot wnat tney jrere doing and were "just trigger to anything new Jr.

ideolog lite." He blamed many of the world's political and economic problems on ueological cocktau' mixed by of history Karl Marx, Eeni.o Mussolini and Lord John Keynes, the British economist. Mr. noover saia tne western nations had been tippling the cock taii for years. He said that although the American system "indulged periodically" It still continues to produce. "It still retains the dynamic power i provide the greatest and widest comfort to our people that is, if we would join alcoholics anonymous and quit mixed drinks." Mr.

Hoover said the mixture of ideologies has gone into an American ideoiogoy of give away pro grams which he called "the1 ncY ne cnucizeo. siren voices calling for security from Turn to Page 2, Number 5 In Today' Cfcfifcr imts Backing Cooke Upper Darby Woman Had Been Offered Promotion to Switch Mrs. Winifred M. Milden, of Utroer Darby, a S2400 a year employe in the Women and Children's Division ot me State Department of Labor and Industry, was summarily fired Wednesday by the Duff administration tor her sup port of Jay Cooke tor gov ernor. letter received Wednesday ng from Karrii signed by William H.

C'hesnut, etary of lac or and industry. "This is to advise yoa that your lame has been removed irom thi payroll effective this evening." Employed Eight Years Mrs. Milden has be? a with th1 since 1942, investigating employment conditions for women and children in the counties of Delaware, Chester and Bucks. Last week, Mrs. Milden disclosed that she had been called to a meeting in the Upper Darby Republican machine headquarters, in the Mc Clatchey building, and ottered promotion to supervisor in the wom en's and children's division if she wou'd transfer her support from I Cooke to John s.

Fine, the candidate for governor backed by Gov ernor Duff, McClure and Mcchan the Philadelphia sheriff. Attending the meeting were Clar ence T. Pepper, 'controller of Dela ware County; August Niemeyer, tax collect: of Upper Darby; Paul C. Kaestner, an Upper Darby commissioner, and "a Sam. Dickey, afterwards referred to as Sam Dick." Promised Job "Sam Dick indicated at the meeting that Niemeyer was to be spokesman, and the upper Darby tar col lector then told Mrs.

Milden that lhe understood she favored Jay Cooke for governor, and that it she went along with the Duff Fine McClure ticket she would get an immediate appointment as supervisor in th Women's and Children's Division, it was reported on Saturday. Mrs. Milden stated that she di not know Dick, nor what business le was in. She described him as man of medium height, slim, well groomed and in either his late for early fifties." vas later toi by Niemeyei that "Pepper, Dick and I are lead upper uaroy According to police records, Sam uel Dickie was first arrested in Philadelphia Sent. picious cnaracter.

in iyia, ne pleaded guilty to larceny of three automobile and was sentenced hy Judge Finletter to a year to 13 months prison. Mrs. Milden refused to be coerced the Upper Darby politicians, and her summary dismissal from the Women's and Children's Division followed within a week. A resident of Delaware County for 26 years, Mrs. Milden lives at 629 Mason Drexel Hill.

Transfer Tax Okayed by UD School Board Upper Darby Township School Board will impose a 1 real estate transfer tax to finance a record budget for 1350 51. This was decided at Thursday: night's meeting as board members is up for final adoption on May 29. Sponsored by John Prazier, fin ice committee chairman and vice president of the board, the reso lut on calls for the seller of prop erty to pay the tax. Frnzler said the new tax was unavoidable because the district is expanding its facilities. lie pointed out tnat two new ele mentary scboois will be opened next One is Frimos and the other will serve the Drexel Hill area.

To meet these expenditures, he declared, it was necessary to obtain additional revenue and the real estate Uix was proposed. According to Crazier, tne school district, will obtain about S150.000 annually from the levy. The school board also approved a budget ot $2,565,000 lor the impending school year. It is $200,000 over the present budget and the heaviest in the his tory of the school district. U.

S. Treasury Balance Washington (INS) Treasury balance April 26: internal revenue, customs vccclnts receipts, $33, 45 S. expenditures $32, By CLIFF RA1NEY Old 175 clears Lamokin Street Tower at 3.17 p. m. today ana it.

will en more man a half tury of railroad memories for Eli A veteran Pennsylvania Kaiiroaa telegrapher and tower operator, old Garris retires from his rail roading duties after 52 years and) two montns oi iaitmui seivii e. Dunne his career he cleared the average of more than 100 trains a dav which means he was respon sible for the clearance of nf a million trams. His interest in railroads datcsj back to August of 1836 when he wa; inflicted with what he termed fever." Harris was so interested in teleg raphy that he didn't miss a single; opportunity to visit the railroad tower in Marcus Hook and jot down what he heard coming over the telegraph wires. He Copied "The Dope" "When nobody was looking I was there sitting with a pencil and copy ing down everything I could hear. Garris related connaentiany, j.

always made sure nobody was looking, though." He was 16 at the time and recently had finished his schooling at several places in Chester County. Garris was born in Chester Comity, the son oi Joseph and Mary Garris. The family moved to Marcus Hook in 1897 and it was then that emit, his iota with the Wilmington Northern Railroad which he had acquired in August of lEOb. He was hired as a student at the Marcus Hook station now known as the Linwood Tower, on August 2, 189 after working in a Trainer brick yard and with a tinsmith in that end of the county. J.

A. Goff was agent at the Hook station at the time and W. H. Priest was assistant agent. Garris married Prist's daughter, Ella, in 1901.

The couple will celebrate their 50th anniversary in November of 1951. Garris served in virtually ail of the towers between Philadelphia and Wilmington and started his work at the LamoKin Tower aoouc jo years, ago. Remembers Two Tracks The veteran tower operator has a vivid recollection of the time when Lhe trains were cleared by telegraph there were only two tracks to handle. "When the tower was on the other Turn to Page Number 4 of two world wars and independent Brotherton, Erie, state VPW com mander and one of the leading fig ures in the successful veterans' bonus battle of 1949. Enlisted in Army A native of Philadelphia and a graduate of Princeton, where he played on the varsity football team for two years and was a member of the ice hockey, baseball and track squad', Cooke interrupted his col lege career to start military training in the summer of 1916.

When the United States entered World War he enlisted in the army, and after an officers' training course at Port Niagara, N. was commissioned ar. 1st lieutenant of infantry. At Fort Meade, Md he became platoon leader of Co. 316th Infantry, 70th Division, the division which was to go down in history a one of the two great Turn to Ps.se 2, Number 7 Roman Catholic Church and its faith and discipline," Sullivan continued.

These two things, he pointed out, arc essentials in modern day Urges Education Sullivan urged the honored athletes continue their education if possible. He. pointed out that his own lack of a college education frequently forced him to call on priests for guk'afcc in his philosophy and thinking. Sullivan struck the serious note after accepting the award as a tribute not to himself but to the people who had taught and guided him In his ly life. Noted for his intensely serious manner during his Sunday night oest of the Town" television Sullivan showed the 500 ath letes, parents and guests, that he Turn to Pafte Column 5 Jay Cooke, Vet of 2 Wars, To Address CYC on May 13 Jay Cooke, army combat veteran alleged Soviet espionage agent ana 2 testify about Owen Lattimore.

for a few days of rest in Arizona that subcommittee chairman Mil lard E. Tydings (D. and Sen. Bncn McMahon (U. Connj, arc do ing their party "a great disservice" by handling pro Lattimore witnesses iao The subcommittee "must have a chairman who has gat some guts and desire" to cross examine wit nesses properly, he said.

Mundt protested that subcommit tee counsel Edward P. Morgan treated Browder with "kindly con sideration" in the "most revolting type of interrogation He said Browder should have been cited for contempt for ducking questions. Browder testified that he nevei told Budenz Lattimore was a com munist, as Budenz contended. But he refused to answer questions about the communist affiliations of a long list of people and about a meeting with a Chinese communist leaaer New York in 1945. Meanwhile the many sided inquiry produced these other developments.

1. McCarthy told the Senate that Turn to Page 2, Number 1 1 Myers Blasts New Postal Curtailments By ED LOHAN U. S. Sen. Francis J.

Myers or, Thursday night voiced strong oppo sition to the recent postoffice order to curtail man deliveries. Myers, speaking before the annual Tri Cbunty Postmasters' Association dinner tne Drexel Hill, said: "I consider the recent curtailment order an ill sfricred move, one made without any study of the hardships it would cause and one which would probably cost more in the long run than it purports to save. matter of fart," Myers seems to know just what lhe order means. I've seen esti lates that 10,000 postal employes ould be laid off. There does not to be an agreement as to just' how much the move would 10 one seems to know whether lieed really exists for than one mail delivery daily.

Myers told the group that he would personally see, the postmaster general and urge him to reconsider oraer. lie aaaen tnat ne thoughL the postmaster general ijl advised oy some members congress. Backs Marshall Ttan Myers urged the postmasters to support the Marshall Plan telling them that they were leaders of the 'inmumly and should instill inds of the people the importance crcKmmnr; ne pi.m. A bill pro posing the continuation of the plan in the senate and win be acted upon within a week. He told the group "We are win ning the 'cold war' and driving Russia, behind the Iron Curtain, By sr this 'war' we have saved I democracy in Western Europe.

Turn to Page 2, Number 8 screamed. "Mr. Fassett told me later that he tried to stop the car with his hands. Unable to do so, he took the only alternative and threw his body under the rear wheel of our car. The wheel passed over his body, but when the front wheel hit him the car stopped.

My husband's body was lpdged under the front wheel. "We were about one foot from the precipice. If we had gone over, we would have fallen hundreds and hundreds of feet." As he lay pinned beneath the wheel, Fassett told his wife to flag a car1 on the mountain highway for assistance. "I don't know how long it was before help arrived," she said. "It seemed like ages." A motorist finally stopped and put a jack under the car to free Fassett.

Then he was driven about 20 miles td a hospital hero. I candidate for the Republican governorship nomination in tne may primaries, will be the principal speaker at the 10th annual banquet of Chester Veterans' Council at St. Hedwig's auditorium May 13 at 6.30 p.m. The other speaker will be G. Lynn "$1431000,000 to improve mental in by throughout the nation, held on kmt by plant basis, showed that 19 favored IUE while 18 voted pref erence for the UE.

Westinghouse officials announced today that its interim labor policies: will remain in effect "the date: of National Labor Relations Board tification, or May ji, wmcnevei is earlier." W. O. Lippman, vice president, said the extension of the interim policies was necessary because NLRB will require some time before certifying winners in Thursday's collective begaining elections. Gray Makes Str.tment The Lester defc represented the worst drubbinsr received by CIO in nation wide balloting by 57,000. wesimgnouse wufis, uu.

Carl Gray, of Chester, president of the opposition HE 107. ousted; last jNtovemoer irom uiu, to issut: the following statement: "Westinghouse worker in many plants, headed by the 7500 member local at Essington, rejected all ef Xurn to Fugs Number 3 Checks Believed Stolen From Blind Workshop Three paychecks, totaling $35, are believed to have been stnlcn from a. workshop for the blind on E. 9th st. Thursday at noon while two blind employes of the establishment sat innocently eating their lunch.

According to John J. Boyle, shop foreman, he was in a back room washing his hands when the thief entered. The thug walked within several feet of Mrs. Lucy Boyle, a saleslady and Anna Mae Petnllo, receptionist, who were eating in the front of the shop. Undetected, the thief allecedlv re moved the checks from a desk: drawer.

Boyle Hears Stir Boyle heard a stir and walked into the shop. "Can I help you?" Boyle asked. "I'd like to buy a gross rug the Told lucre was none, in siocs, ine man walked It was sovera: min latcr that Boyle discovered the checks were missing. The workshop, located at ill t. Oth is operated by the Delaware County branch.

Pennsylvania Asso ciation for the Blind. Persons handicapped by poor vi sion are employed there making small rugs, painting rurniture ana other small oos. Tmlay's Chuckle After listening to the usual comparison between girls of today and girls of long ago, the pert little teen ager remarked: "Well, If they were so innocent, how did they know when to blush?" Uli5plil Man, 75, Throws Body Under Ed Sullivan Praises Church At St James Sports Dinner By FRED WILSON Ed Sullivan, nationally known newspaper columnist and television Auto Wheel To Save Wife stitutions during his acministra The speaker also appeared before 1500 at a rally in Yeadon during the evening. described in blunt lansmaee conditions 'that existed Byberry Hospital, which he termed a "hell hole" and a "hospital of ill fame." jThe conditions existed, he said. uring the James and Martin ad imistrations, without any improve lent.

Jrjtes Proper Care "When we started this work we ere criticized by reactionaries like James," said Duff. "Proper care will cure many mFiital patients it is the duty of Pennsylvania to make that kmd ot attention nilablc to our James says this program makes me a wastrel nd a New Dealer." The governor referred to the clinic for children with speech de uie appropriation to the can in rmiaaclptna arm the camp for underprivileged boys ntn an town Gap. "Are these things a waste of oney?" he asked. "I defy the old guard outfit to Turn to Page 7, Column 3 Illegal Duff Banner May Wave 'Til May 9 The Duff Fine banner flying in violation of the law across Edg mont av. In downtown Chester may continue to wave until a week before the primary elections, Clarence G.

Smedley, director of public safety, said today a 10 day removal notice is sent out in cases of this kind. Discounting Sundays, the 10 day warning gives John Cullis, city electrician and the man who bossed the banner hanging, until May 9 to comply. The primary is May 16. According to law, approval by city council must be obtained before a street wide banner may be erected. In this instance, approval by the city fathers was neither asked for nor gained.

If the banner Isn't tr.kcn down within 10 days, the violators are subject to a S300 line. star, paid a moving tribute to the Seviryille, Tenn (UP) The wife of a retired Detroit printer told today' how her 75 year old husband threw his body under the wheel of their automobile and kept her from being carried over a 2000 foot mountain educational program at the 10th annual St. James High School sports award dinner Thursday night at Columbus Center. Sullivan spolte after receiving the St. James Parents' Association 'award from Rev.

Adolph J. Baum, rector of St. James, for his outstanding eiiif. Mrs. Alonzo Fassett, who spent an anxious night at her nusband bedside in a hospital here, said the rear wheel passed over his body but the car stopped one foot short of the precipice when the front wheel lodged against him and held.

Doctors assured Mrs. Fassett that her husband apparently suffered only bruises and scratches in saving her from certain death. The incident occurred Thursday as the couple was sightseeing in the Great Smokey National' Park on the way back to Detroit from a five month vacation in Florida. 'Wc were on the highest part of the mountain when Mr. Fassett deckled to get out of the car to look at the lovely view," Mrs.

Fassett said. "I decided not to get out because I was afraid I would get dizzy. All of a sudden the car started roiling backward, and I contributions to youtn. "Whatever success I have had in (Picture on P.irc 18) mother and the nuns at St. Mary's School in Port Chester, N.

Y. "A Catholic education teaches Announcement Effective Monday, May all copy for Classified and Legal advertising must be in the Chester Times office by 6 p. m. for publication in the following day's paper. Deadline for Monday's issue will be 4 p.

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