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WEATHER THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED IN 1846 NOW iN ITS 106th YEAR Western Pennsylvania: Mostly cloudy and cold with snow flurries this morning. Jligh today 27 to 33. Cloudy with some snow late tonight changing to rain by Tuesday after- noon. MONONGAHELA VALLEY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER The Daily Republican MONONGAHELA, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1952 174 VOLUME 105 No. FIVE CENTS A COP DDD KOREAN TRUCE TALKS APPEAR AT DEAD END Major Policy Change Is Only Hope As Both Sides Sit Tight PANMUNJOM.

Korea (UP) Korean armistice talks appeared to have reached a dead-end today Temperatures Dip In State PHILADELPHIA (UP)-Normal winter weather returned to Pennsylvania today to end the mild spell, and the weatherman forecast some suow tonight and tomorrow. However, the snow probably will turn to rain Tuesday afternoon as temperatures rise slowly. AJthough temperatures dipped to the 'teens in Western Pennsylvania, and below-freezing weather was general throughout the state this morning, the weatherman said Party Rules Change Asked WASHINGTON, Democrats obviously seeking to oust Harvey Stuart as Washington County Chairman met in the auditorium of the Washington Elks Lodge Saturday night and adopted a resolution calling for the party's chief to be elected in the future by ballot. Under present party rules, the county chairman is elected by vote of members of the Democratic County Committee. Reports varied as to the number of persons in attendance, but officials of the Lodge estimated "up to 250" were present.

It was not determined how many committee members were among 2,000 EVACUATE FLOODED HOMES IN CALIFORNIA' President Announces Huge Future Expansion Of New American with both sides refusing to budge. I Atomic Weapons Program By ROBERT F. LOFTUS I United Press Staff Correspondent i WASHINGTON-(UP) President Truman today hande Co ngress an $85,400,000,000 "price of peace" spending budget and capped it with the announcement of a mammoth future ex Only a major policy change by the United Nations or the Communists can end the endurance contest and save the negotiations the mercury was only behaving properly for this time of year. The low tonight will range from 20 to 25 in the western counties and 15 to 25 in the eastern section. (Continued on Page Three) (Column Three) from final collapse.

Both subcommittees working on (Continued on Page Six (Column Five) a truce agreed to meet again at 11 a.m. tomorrow (9 p.m. today e.s.t. but neither held out any f-'- v. my- wiving wwpwi is ytt wy i urn.

He proposed an outlay of $5,000,000,000 to over the next five years to double the size of the already-vas atomic project and speed mass production of America's "fan tastic" new weapon. Actual spending on the proposed aton hope for agreement. ic expansion will not start in Each side served notice in the two subcommittees today that it the 1953 fiscal year so it will not yield on the two main DEATH CLAIMS ERNEST MERUSI Proprietor of Skating Rink In New Eagle Dead At 69 SERVICES HELD FOR FR. GWYER 80 Priests At Services For Pastor of Church Of Transfiguration issues blocking an armistice the U.N. demands for voluntary repatriation of war prisoners and for LOCAL MAN DIES IN OKLAHOMA Body of Luigi Turini, 71 Is Returned To City For Burial 1 lil was not part of the budget.

This 1953 budget was dominated by $51,200,000,000 for our own armed forces and $10,500,000,000 to help build up our Allies against the Communist menace. Those two items together mean the United States is carrying about 85 percent of the cost of rearming the Western world. Present taxes will bring in far and away the biggest revenue in history. A Solemn Requiem High Mass was sung in the Church of the Transfiguration here this morning at 10 a.m. for the Rev.

Charles F. Gwyer, who had been pastor TRAPPED BY RISING WATERS In her Artesla. home, Mrs. Joe Garcia Is carried to safety by Herndon Smith, member of a Red Cross rescue crew. At right, residents of Downey use a horse and raft for transportation.

Two thousand marooned persons were evacuated as the heaviest deluge in California's history lashed the state. At least 21 persons were killed in the Southern California flooded areas. (International) a ban on military airfield construction. A Communist newsman covering the truce talks told U.N. correspondents that full-scale Korean fighting is "sure to begin" unless the U.N.

drops its airfield ban demand. At the same time, the U.N. denied a Communist charge that Allied planes deliberately bombed and strafed a properly-marked Communist truce delegation convoy on the Pyongyang-Kaesong road last Friday. It conceded that some such Communist vehicles might have been (Continued on Page Three) (Column Two) there for 16 years. Father Gwyer passed away Fri Ernest Merusi, aged 69, a resident of this district for the past 50 years, died at his home, Chess Street, New Eagle, at 7:15 p.m.

Friday. Merusi, proprietor of the Palace Roller Rink in New Eagle for the past 26 years, had Iieen ill one month. He was born at Parma, Italy, May 29, 1882. He was a member of St. Anthony's Roman Catholic Church here.

Surviving with his wife, Catherine, at home, are a daughter, Elda, wife of Frank Smith of Blairsville; two sons, Ernest, of Monongahela, and O. L. "hoc" day morning at 12:30 o'clock in St. Joseph's Hospital, Southside, Pittsburgh. $660 Million Asked For Flood Control, Rivers $5,000 BLAST Christian Faith Morality Urged AT BELLE VERNON By Bishop Lamb He was widely known through out the Pittsburgh area as a priest and as a national officer in the Forty and Eight, ex-service Luigi Turini, 78, a resident i Monongahela for the past years, died Friday, January 18, 8:15 a.m.

in Oklahoma Bapti Hospital, Muskogee, whei he had been ill for three day Mr. Turini had been visit ir since November with his daug ter Hilda, wife of Roy Newstror at their home in Okmulgee, Okla and was taken ill there. Mr. ar Mrs. Newstrom accompanied tl remains to Monongahela.

The deceased was born May 2 1873 in Florence, Italy. He was tired in 1941 as an employee the former Diamond Machine Coi pany, First Ward. Mr. Turini was a member of tl Italian Mutual Benefit Societ (Continued on I-jge Three) (Column Seven) men's organization, as well as an i Gas In Well Set Off By creensburg. pa.

(UP)-The WASHINGTON (UP) President be AU Mnn Most Keverena mign n. ianiD, sparks Wnen man first Djsnop of the newly created DraWS Bath Catliblie diocese of Greensburg, Search Mansion For Fortune Mr. Truman renewed last week's request for another tax increase of $5,000,000,000. Congress is not disposed to vote it. That would leave a deficit of $14,400,000,000 and push the national debt to the legal limit of $275,000,000,000 by June 30, 1953.

It was the third largest spending program ever proposed by an American President. Only the peak war years of 1944 and 1945 exceeded it. The top then was $98,000,000,000. The federal spending will take 29 percent of the national income, according to Mr. Truman's figures against 52 percent in 1945 when spending was not so much higher.

This is because the American economy has expanded so much since the war. The proposed huge spending and taxes are necessary now, Mr. Truman said, because: "In the current world crisis, the has asked the United Slates to substitute Christian faith and morality for "money, power and pleasure." BROWNSVILLE, Pa. County officials began (UP) probing Merusi of Fisher Heights; two brothers, Joseph of Wilkes-Barre, and Hector of Monongahela. Four grandchildren also survive.

Friends are being received at the Campana Funeral Home where brief services will be held Tuesday at 9 a.m., followed by requiem mass at 9:30 a.m. in St. Anthony's Church, in charge of the Kev. Joseph Abbate, priest. Interment will take place in Monongahela Cemetery.

officer various other servicemen's groups. Approximately 80 priests from the Pittsburgh diocese and nearly 20 nuns attended the services for the well-known local pastor. At 9:30 o'clock this morning the Priest's Choir from the Chancellory in Pittsburgh chanted the Office of the Dead, followed at 10 o'clock by the Solemn Requiem Mass with The Very Rev. Joseph Kushner, V. F.

pastor of St. Dominic's R. C. Church, Donora, and Deacon of Washington and Greene Counties, as celebrant. Fr.

Kushner was assisted at Mass by Very Rev. Philip Moore, V. F. P. St.

Francis De Sales, McKees Rocks, as Deacon and Truman asked Congress today to provide $660,000,000 to the Army Engineers in fiscal 1953 for flood control, maintenance and improvement of rivers and harbors, navigation, and related hydroelectric power development. Rivers and harbors would get flood control projects $300,795,000. The rest would be divided up for general flood control emergencies, flood control on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, and maintenance. Among the allocations were: Rivers and Harbors Kentucky: Cheatham Lock and Dam, $6,000,000. Maryland: Baltimore haibor and channels $800,000.

UNIONTOWN (UP) Glenn Crossland, Belle Vernon, today estimated his house suffered $5,000 damage because of an "explosive" week-end bath. Saturday night, when Crossland started to draw water for his bath, an explosion ripped through his house. State police investigating the explosion theorized that an accumulation of lethal methane coal gas in a 90 foot well may have been set off by sparks from an electrical pump. Neither Crossland nor his wife Mathies Mine Resumes Work Speaking to an overflow crowd of 2,500 at the Greensburg High School auditorium yesterday, the new head of 170,000 Catholics in Westmoreland, Fayette, Indiana and Armstrong counties warned that the American way of life "is rapidly becoming a pagan way of life." Bishop Lamb, who was welcomed by Gov. John S.

Fine and a host of county and municipal officials at yesterday's reception, I price of peace is preparedness. In Soil Testing Service Started Mathies Mine of the Pittsburi Coal Company, closed Friday by work stoppage which idled terms of the sacrifices which this (Continued on Page Three) through the old and cluttered ten-room mansion of a once prominent Fayette county family today sarching for the possible fortune of Miss Cora Shearer, 75, who had been its only occupant for years. The search was ordered by District Attorney F. L. Brothers and was started by Frank B.

Kane, the county detective who found Miss Shearer's body Thursday, and Tom Wood Lynch, representing her eight surviving cousins. "There are rumors she had hidden away someplace," Brothers said, "but so far all we've turned up is a mass of old papers and trash. Frankly, I don't believe they will find any great wealth." (Column Four) was hurt. i said the moral disease of secular New Jersey: Newark Bay, Hack-ensack and Passaic Rivers, Sub-Deacon Fr. Leo J.

Donner meyer, Overbrook. (Continued on Page Six) (Column Four) ism was endangering the foundations of American society. Four Arrested In Stolen Car Auto 'Squeezed1 Between Trucks men, resumed operations th morning. A meeting reportedly was unde way this afternoon between unk and management in connectk with the dispute which caused tl walkout, beginning Thursday afte noon. The union is said to ha asked that two men be placed every drill.

A company spokesm; declared that "we have drilU singly ever since the mil opened." Production Back To Normal At J. Plant After Strike 000. New York and New Jersey channels, $912,000. New York: Buffalo harbor New York harbor, entrance channels and anchorage areas, $524,000. Ohio: Cleveland harbor Pennsylvania: Schuylkill River above Fairmount Dam $1,200,000.

Monongahela River, locks (Continued on page Three) (Column One) Federal Mediators Act To Avert Threat Of Aluminum Strike A new soil testing service, promising an important forward step for Pennsylvania agriculture is available to Washington County farmers according to an announcement by County Agent Lyle A. Carter. This service covering the whole state, will be couducted jointly by the Agricultural Extension Service and the Agronomy Department of the Pennsylvania State College. Making kits one is needed for each soil sample are now on hand in the county agent's office in the Masonic Temple, at 44 W. Wheeling Street, Washington, Pa.

They cost a dollar each, and no additional charge will be made. Up to date over 60 kits have been purchased by county people. 'Continued on Page Six) (Column Five) In welcoming the new prelate, Gov. Fine told reception guests to follow "the inspired leadership" of Bishop Lamb in an effort to extend American liberties and ideals to the downtrodden peoples of the world. "We cannot implant our God-given liberties," Gov.

Fine said, "if we ourselves fail to practice them to the fullest." Congressman Augustine B. Kelley, after briefly tracing the growifi oi the church in Western Pennsylvania, welcomed Bishop Lamb with the promise that members of the diocese would "join WASHINGTON, Four Monongahela youths, including two juveniles, arrested early Saturday on Route 19 at Hill Church while riding in a stolen car, were released on probation in custody of their parents after being cleared as possible suspects in a recent holdup at Jones Service Station near Donaldson's Crossroads. Two of the older boys, James Greene, 18, 204 Third avenue, and James Arnold, 18, of 522 Lincoln street, were charged with larceny of an automobile and op At least $2,000 in damages were estimated Sunday morning when an auto in Route 31, near West Newton was squeezed between two trucks, Belle Vernon State Troopers reported today. "The car looked like an accordion after the accident," the troopers said. According to the troopers' report, (he auto became wedged between the two trucks when a truck driver from St.

Louis thought there was a son sign at an intersection and stopped. The car, driven by Frank Liskey, 'Country Doctor' Of Amwell Township Called By Death Dr. William Lincoln Dodd, well beloved "country doctor" Amity and Amwell Township, di Friday morning, January 18, 195 PITTSBURGH (UP) Top Federal mediators will meet with representatives of the CIO United Steelworkers and Aluminum Company of America tomorrow in an attempt to reach a contract-wage settlement and avert a strike scheduled for Feb. 1. Federal Mediation Director Whitaker Steelworker Held In Week-End Slaying Of Wife PITTSBURGH (UP) Production at the Aliquippa works of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp.

was returning to nor nal today after a handful of wc Kers ended a one-day unauthorized strike. The plant was closed Saturday night when 13.000 employes refused to cross picket lines set up by a few workers who walked out over an incentive-rate dispute at the No. 2 seamless pipe mill. Company officials charged the pipe mill workers with a production slowdown and asked for assurances they would resume normal production. When a positive answer was not forthcoming, the workers were sent home.

The picket lines were then set up. with him in furthering that growth." Greensburg's Mayor William L. Treager and State Senator John B. Dent also welcomed the new bishop. 110 Tipton Street, Pittsburgh, slow down and then was rammed from the back by another truck driven by Ray E.

Sprech-er, 224 South Wilson Street, Cle-ona, Lebanon County, Pa. Liskey's wife, Lillian, 49, was treated for body-bruises and shock Cyrus S. Ching said in Washington yesterday that he has named some of his best mediators to the job of getting the union and company together. The union, which has twice extended its old contract which expired Nov. 30, warned Alcoa it would call out its 15,000 members in 10 plants unless agreement was reached.

Meanwhile, the Aluminum Workers Council, AFL, has indicated it erating without consent of the owner. State Police said the car was owned by David Eugene Winters. 603 Lincoln street, Monongahela, who ironically faces prosecution, State Police said, on a charge of misuse of registration plates. Plates on his car were issued to another machine, troopers reported. Arrest of the four resulted when a service station attendant along Route 19 noticed a gun in the rear seat of the car and notified State Police.

A radio patrol picked the four up at Hill Church. Troopers said two toy pistols were found in the car. Small Red Mitten Leads Searchers To Hole In Ice; Five Dead at 7 o'clock, at the home of daughter, Mrs. Albert E. Sower Uniontown, after an illness about 13 weeks.

Death was due infirmities of his years. Thirteen weeks ago Dr. Doc went on a visit to his daughter and was taken ill a day or tv later. He had practiced medicine more than 60 years, beginnii when doctors had to make cal on horseback or in a bug; through muddy roads, snow ai high water. He was truly the "angel of me cy" for the farmhouses of Was ington County.

State College Names Foods Department Head STATE COLLEGE (UP) Dr. Miriam E. Lowenberg, consultant in nutrition at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, has been named professor and head of the department of foods and nutrition at the Pennsylvania State College. Dr. Lowenberg will assume the new position Feb.

1, succeeding Dr. Eva D. Wilson who has been serving on a part time basis as head of the department. PITTSBURGH (UP) Authorities held a 40-year old Whitaker, steelworker on a murder charge today following the weekend slaying of his wife, the mother of five children. Allegheny county detective chief Fred Mathias said Harry C.

Stoebe, an employee at the Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant in Rankin, had made a "full confession" of the hammer-knife slaying of his wife, Frances, 33. Mathias said the slaying climaxed a family feud, of about ten by Dr. A. H.

King, West Newton. The- first truck was driven by James McNeal, St. Louis. The accident occurred one mile west of West Newton at the Route 31 and Route 77 intersection. ODESSA, N.

i tUP) A small red mitten led searchers yesterday to a hole in the ice of Lake will call a strike of its 10,000 members Feb. 3, if no settlement is reached in its contract-wage Cayuga where a Cornell University student andfour small children fell to their deaths. Semi-Trailer Loaded With Liquor, Cards Worth $80,000 Stolen One of nearly 100 volunteers who began a search for the five after Rain-Drenched West Coast Gets Sunshine Consumer Prices Reach Ail-Time Peaks In State During 1951 STATE COLLEGE (UP)-Con-sumer prices in Pennsylvania rose to all-time peaks during 1951, the Pennsylvania State College Business Research Bureau reported today. For the year as a whole, the index of consumers' prices averaged 186.7 with the years 1935-39 being 100. Prices rose almost continuously throughout the year and were up 9 per cent from the corresponding monthly averages of 1950.

they were reported missing Satur day found the mitten near the mid Truck Bill, Liquor Sales Decisions Due Fine To Act Today On Two Controversial Measures dle of the ice-covered lake shortly years. Mrs. Stoebe's body was found in the bedroom of their home by a 13-year-old daughter, Florence, Saturday. Police arrested Stoebe a short time later in a Rankin tavern. Officers quoted him as saying, "I went crazy.

1 don't know what happened." Mrs. Stoebe was stabbed several times in the chest and beaten Two Storms Closing Giant PincersOnNorthernMidwe after daybreak. Grappling operations were be HARRISBURG (UP) A York, trucker last night reported the theft of a semi-trailer loaded with Hquor and playing cards he valued at $50,000 to $80,000 from along Route 111 near New Cum severely about the head. gun and in less than an hour the bodies had been recovered. Drowned were Allen Sibley, 20, a junior at Cornell; his sister Clair, his brother Jonathan, 10; June States, 6, and Sharon Loveless, 9.

Authorities said that Allen Sibley, wearing skates and towing the children on two sleds, ventured out on the lake Saturday afternoon. Four District GIs Dock At Seattle Draft Heads Order Reexamination Of 4-Fs By UNITED PRESS Two storms one a howling blizzard and the other a drenching rainstorm closed hi a giant pincers movement toward the northern Midwest today. A new blizzard driven by 60-mile-an-hour winds swept the mountains of California and Nevada and moved eastward toward the continental divide in the Rocky Mountains. Once again, winter vacation re however, was promised a day at least intermittent sunshine. And an official of the Los A geles water and power depai ment said last week's siege rains and floods would prove ben ficial in the long run, because tl water relieved a severe droug facing the area.

A vast rainstorm pelted a go deal of Texas and Oklahoma. Weather Bureau said it marching slowly northeast ai should move into the Great Lak region later today. Most of the East, however, HARR1SBURG (UP) Gov. John S. Fine is expected to take action before midnight on two of the most controversial neasures passed by the 1951 legislature the truck bill and a measure permitting bottle sales of liquor in licensed establishments after state stores are closed.

The governor has until that deadline to either sign or veto the legislation, or the bills become law automatically. Altogether Fine had 68 bills on his desk early today. The state's chief executive said last week he would not allow the bill permitting higher truck weights on the state's highways to become law "by default." He said that he would either sign or veto the measure before the deadline. The bill, sponsored by Sens. John H.

Dent (D Westmoreland) and Guy B. Robinson (R Susquehanna) would raise the gross weight limit of commonly used tractor trailers with two rear axles from the present 45,000 to 60,000 pounds. Slightly higher fines for overloading and higher fees for truck license plates are also provided in the bill. There were hints the governor might veto the bill to permit bottle sales of liquors In bars and taverns after the state liquor store closing time at 9 p.m. The meas-( Continued on Page Three) (Column Seven) berland.

Paul Eichelberger of York, R.D. 7, operator of the stolen trailer, said the Wilson Freight Lines, Cincinnati, had consigned 695 cases of liquor and 178 cases of plastic playing cards to Philadelphia. He told state police Cpl. Charles C. Riggs that he began having motor trouble on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Saturday and left the superhighway at the Harrisburg west (New Cumberland) interchange to park the trailer and take his truck to a garage for repairs.

Eichelberger said the rig was owned by his brother, Kobeit, also of York. State Draft Headquarters in Harrisburg Friday issued calls for reexamination of 609 registrants turned down because of failure to pass mental tests. Eight registrants each from Board 163 Charleroi and Board 164 Washington and four from Board 165 Washington will be re-examined in Pittsburgh Jan. 29. Per Four district soldiers were aboard the Navy transport Marine Phoenix which docked Friday at Seattle with military personnel from the Far East returning home on rotation.

They are: Grant E. Fleegle, Finleyville, R. Cpl. Kenneth Boothe, West Brownsville; Cpl. John L.

Medved, West Browns- sorts in the Sierras were snow bound. Thousands of cattle in Col License, Inspection Deadlines Approach R. Voy Lacock, Manager of Washington County Motor Club, reminds motorists today that January 31 is the deadline for securing a driver's license for 1952 and also for the periodic State Inspection of automobiles. orado were trapped by the snow. Railroad officials feared that joyed mild weather although passes tnrougn tne mountauis would be blocked anew.

forecast was for clear and slight (Continued on Page- Three) (Column Eight) sons to be re-examined are classified 4-F. nowville, R. D. Pfc. Clifford J.

Abrogast, Waynesburg. The rain-drenched Pacific Coast,.