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JTcathrr Twu Sitortfty Pmly 4) EAGLE Tuna IK eicspaper for -One Years P. M. on Your Dinl FOUNDED 169 FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 President Wl Dmwhet Holds Parley OnArBomb HHMH Housing Bill HVKRY DAY IX YEAR Prepare for Strike Shutdown i ali i Atom "Problem In Secret Sossiou: All 5-Korn to Silenc nv fiirT: If y. irilitiry. f- KtHX PAXAHT.R Jo: Mil iiiihariiss wwutr'jeiias Administrator Foley to 50.000 1'nits Started During First Year 1 ruman- Steel Plan Accepted By 6 Big Three' S.

Steel. Last Major Holdout, Agrees to Peaee Proposal After Rethlehenu Hepuhlie Aceede hmvcd ta msistenw uxlay afW tod his pUn for deal- "ith their labor dispute. MI plants at midnight. fwwpanies already had agreed to Mr. TUN jihe wase-pension dispute and m.V^ recommendations for a VtUe.

while, meantime, work continues for 60 davs. Idea First Rejected ide- 1 SU Cl Bethlehom alld i Truman advanced it Tuesday. Their wst open hearth furaace at Gary. he should act under the Taft-Hsrtlev law That I p. VV VI dl 1(1 tl I lllHltl preparatory shutdown of the furnace today "in face boards but CirneEie-liiinois spokesmen said it had banked (A.

F. boardj hal not losion i Kills Youth Dollar Trade 7 7 A 1 CH.11^ if Id YCTS Seek i- inre r.j-iber ol 7 7 far to if Id YCTS Seek Senate En trvi to V. vv All emphasized that they would not be bound by the "board's recommendations. Mr. Truman had pot asked that they, or the union themselves to tske the board's p.x-o -L- 1 vo Other? Injured ij At Big-Ineb Pipeline Chester A Narrow V-r.

ViS hcvufias lee-; 15 Prepare To Sponsor Trumai Economic Program SwitierUnd. July 15 nis r.srf. became polities! ex-i today snd they. sic. flee io the United States.

Britain and Dominions May Ask U. S. to Go Alone on Idea 5ome Furnaces Banked U. S. Steel already had banked jsome furnaces and given outward jevmence of a willingness to take a strike, if necessary, when finally announced at 2 p.

that it would -go along with the fif '0 rc'f DI -M'-Z toi "-Q ber dominions the TWO alsyers iheyiVnited St-stes elegram to Mr. Truman. air President of said his company still pui.jc roaies io- liis ros- molested. dollars. a af S10.CO-3 The whole idea, tbeyi Is far from complete.

for 40 rs 1 rs 1 for ibs lo-w-iacome fiaT Iiss 3eaT sews coaferejsce ester-j The security police officers saidj" 5 31011 rasideat tEtsounced 3i2i3 11115 approach. erjr-rii, JU i.t^-^:-- son vV-ca Local Man Appeals Im Imperial Qub Pn.ncjp£.l;ii Atlsci.5 Lonr Sentence Mr. Tnistii astsn for. jcossmjcdoE of mj-c i-J 135 SSTS3 mis rea: PTIU in Charte to ESSESU i Mr. Truman saaouac-r-d he had Joan B.

Sieelnssii. presi: IO SSSUiEe fill? for the prosr-as ir: JzKsbs-rs of ihe Csbinei and ths icies vorfc -with St iounced pjaafkbsy had Jnsiructioas to 1 5 a sr.n MTI-! siaered. we to u't £sd fTars TO Pz Sf Co; "2) i E5tsn uoa reis iit nj Jake Bird Finally jnik froi leeation'offidalT on eai Mu -r-ni here today are stucymg It has been con- at least informally by and British treasury W. Snyder and Sir their recent I talks. Plaa Outlined The informants said the British jplan.

broadly, is to get the United States: on baliOM Cheated Several But. he said do not wish, if it can pos- to have our stopped, and deprived of the opportunity to work for the next 60 days under the terms of our present labor contracts, with attendant hardship to the communities in which they reside. Many of the smaller sieel companies already had taken up the President's proposal. Youngstown Accepts I ir-T In Police Court rp. i To support the principle of fix- After world prices for such raw mat.

iterials Tolerate Police Chief 1 LIZ PresiQrui last £is in iiae on the SE sar produced in the and To agree to buy fixed quantities is Ja -inn: a secnoa of ended the Blood? of! sree io ouy nxea quantities report of Isst Bird o1 Ln 5 irom the domini- ons and colonies over a set period. i ot ne Ibr roun 135 -T i or "rii of hibesr rnraiis. 7 Garbage Out sjyi rii at- 10 rasiisr-j z.rr esun iae 45-year-old Negro trEnsient resen-e iiia He died with in sactioa -srouid authorize' ubje the had in miad De bill- fashioned Steel Mills Grind to Halt Hour Near? in Strike Deadline; Furnaces Banked in Many Places Pittsburgh, July 15 Operations in the nations largest steel mills ground slowly toward a complete halt today as the hour neared tor a midnight strike deadiine set by the ClO-United Steelworkers. All furnaces in the far-flung empire of U. S.

Steel were scheduled to be out of production by 6 p. A spokesman for U. S. Steel said full the event there is no not be possible again for.about two weeks. He said that usable metal would not be produced by banked furnaces for at least three or four days.

Coke Plant Closed Carnegie-Illinois Steel, biggest t- 1 S. Steel producing subsidiary also closed its mammoth coke byproducts plant at nearby Clairton A company One of the bigger supply in the milfs generally is town Sheet and Tube adequate for operations necessary announced its acceptance about the ee 1P same time as Bethlehem. It, too, tions. U. S.

Steel, which had asked the President to modify his plan, got a A luuuiiv nis plan. This, the Informant? seid. 51 refusal from Mr. Truman, assure the commonwealth of si Cyrus S. Ching, under instruc- stable dolisr flow and would en- jable Sriisin and her partners on large quantities (Turs to Pzge 22.

Col. 3) Dentist Earnings Put Him in Red Juror HI. Medina 1 rial Pe rmit Explorer Kill 12 Persons 'gad Scotland. July 15 Ish dentist acknowledged he took in £25,000 during the first 11 of Britain's socialized health scheme. But when he finished paying ires and other expenses, he said up in the red.

actually would be £20,500 of tions of the President, called President Benjamin F. Fairless of the U. S. Steel Corporation early this morning and informed him that Fairless' request for a fact-finding board without power to reconT- mend a settlement could not be granted. Ching is director of the t.

S. Conciliation Service. The Steelworkers' Union agreed 'o accept the plan and hold off a strike at companies which accepted it. Mr. Truman asked a 60-day delay (Turn to Page 22, 4) Briton Parries Query On Atom Bomb Secrets London, July 15 A Defense Ministry spokesman, asked about reports today that the United States had discussed giving secrets bomb to Britain, com- "vr-ti 7 lj '-V se Greessboro.

K. ioa. Sts to Can-Can by Princess to Britons William Black. 45, He told newsmen he was the man mentioned at a jiEeeting of the Dental Estimates I Beard Wednesday by Sir William of the Lanark service executive trt forw -i c-i u-e i -of Royal Caper Staged at Residence Of L. S.

Arnbassador Sir Willism toid the board about £2.5.000 dentist without nam- nsmes. of atom mented: "Well, old boy, even if we knew jv-tbing about any such thing. you don't suppose we would be making statements about it, do A spokesman for Ministry of Supply, which handles Britain's atomic energy research, said he you? Scattered Shoicers Are Forecast To Gii-e St. Sinthin Early Start 33 today chetr tie Bi-hcsl at Pria- ed ae- 'by lacy SCC the it Jor fst LSS S.JT Sartb ii jc- cess Ksrcere encsa ipy roy'jl rj iPWtief res-tea B-j; lie prio- co lr rjccesiifrn to tae throne, ended the rJi the A di prepared of G--TU is divest the said (Turn io before the paying the bill 5) govern- for no knowledge of any discus ions. Two Damaged Ships Headed for PhiJa.

Port Philadelphia. Cimjgetf oil tanker snd freights: are headed for this port under i their OM.T power today col- in the Atlantic Ocean off las breakwater. The two vessels involved in the crssh in a about 110 delphia were identified Typhoon Near? Japan Tokyo. July 15 fU.PJ—A typhoon, 25 miles southeast of Okinawa, was reported moving steadily toward Japan today with Winds up to 80 per hour near its center. get the mills back to production.

tuu, Hundreds of mill workers in this emphasized that it would not be steel-producing capital had alreadv pound by the board's recommenda- received lay-off notices, and others were scheduled to receive them tonight. The picture was not clear at Republic and Bethlehem Steel, the (Turn to Page 22, Col. 6) 14 Acceptances Reported by Union- List Steel Firms As Receptive to Truce Pittsburgh, July 15 companies, representing nearly 25 per cent of the nation's basic steel production, have accepted President Truman's 60-day strike delay proposal, the CIO- United Steelworkers reported today. The group produces about 25,000,000 tons the nation's 94.000.000 tons annual capacity, the union said. About 87.000 union members are employed in the plants, A CIO spokesman said.

This source listed these firms as receptive to the truce (union personnel claims in parentheses): Jones Portsmouth vw burgh Steel Company Cop- perweld Steel Wheeling Steel Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation (9.600), Continental Steel Corporation Follansbee Steel Corporation (2900). Sharon Steel Corporation Universal-Cyclops Steel Northwestern Steel and Laughlin Steel Pitts- Wire Corporation Sheffield Steel Corporation Great Lakes Steel Corporation Havana Furnace (750). Y- Tied Up by Strike; 12,125,000 Riders Affected New York. July 35 More tfasn -million New Yorkers fog yesterdsv-jbunud alternate transportation to- southeast of Phila- day after a lightning strike immo- sdentifiecj iheibiiized buses on 30 put on schedules nempty PRINCESS MARGARET if they could find walked the freig-hur is loaded) off br the layoff of four New 'York City Omnibus Corporation! mechanics, spread early today to the Fifth Avenue Coach Companv affecting a total of 3,300 workers. A city-sponsored peace meetm? last night failed in bring any agreement between the companies and the CIO Transport Worker?" Union.

The session was adjourned to recall." City Councilman Michael J. QuiJl, TWU president. the union ix "dieginz in for Ions Now that it on, he (Tvrn te Col. t).