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the Daily mepiobucam WEATHER THE REPUBLICAN FOUNDED IN 1846 NOW IN ITS 107th YEAR Western Pennsylvania and West- era New York: Rather cloudy with chance of showers today and to- night. High today 52 to 58. Wed-1 nesday partly, cloudy and some- what cooler in west' portion. MONONGAHELA VALLEY'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER MONONGAHELA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1952 VOLUME 106 NO. 144 FIVE CENTS A COPY ECDUUGd ,00 SEH BALLOON, IFLOAT PARADE HERE Parade' Chairman Rudy PolaskiDrum and Bugle Corps, and A crowd almost equaling the population of Monongahela jammed the downtown business district last night to witness the city's fourth LULL CONTINUES I1'0 67, Retired Miner, Supreme Court fakes Ob School 1 Expenditures Up Only $10,710 In 1953 City Budget Municipal fiscal officials pointed out today that, technically, proposed expenditures of $151,960 in the 1953 city budget are up only $10,710 over proposed expenditures listed in the 1952 budget, and not as indicated yesterday.

The )952 budget carried proposed expenditures of $141,250, but actual expenditures are expected to total only This means that estimated expenditures next year are $19,544 above actual and not estimated expenditures this The difference may be reduced, as it was this year, when expenditures ran below anticipations, leaving a cash-carry-over balance of $17,721. said today that "the distance walked may have been too far," accounting for the scattered appearance of units as they moved through tlie downtown business district. "We moved out at 7:20 p.m. at Twelfth Street, and had the floats spaced about 20 varus apart," Po-laski said. the Clan Grant Scotch Kiltie Band from Donora.

Local schoolings dressed in clown suits served as escorts for the big balloons. Resembling huge Christmas toys which brought squeals of delight from the smaller children, balloons were sponsored by local business houses or groups. Sponsors included the Business insTanny muea; Mepped from Side Of Road, Motorist Says Racial Segregation GROUND WASHINGTON (UP) The Su preme Court takes up one of the most explosive issues in American It was about 7:55 p.m. before PLANES ACTIVE Allied Bombers Hit Red Supply Lines During Round-Clock Raids life today at an historic hearing on the of racial seg A Monongahela man was instantly killed about 6:30 p. rp.

yesterday when struck by an automobile in Pork Avenue Extension near the city line. The victim, Richard Cairns of 560 Park Avenue, a retired coal miner, sustained a fractured skull and two broken legs when, State Police said, he was struck by a car operated by Thomas M. Pemberton of Sunnyside, Alle- the local fire truck, which led the line of march, reached Second regation in public schools. Street. The last unit V- the 55- Two famed attorneys, one Negro annual Christmas Parade.

Eighteen giant balloons, prod-ducts of the Jean Gros Company of Pittsburgh, five local floats, fire trucks from Monongahela, New Eagle and Gallatin-Sunnyside and three musical units participated in the event, sponsored by the Mo-nongahea Community Christmas Jubilee. Held to welcome Santa Claus to the city for the remainder of the holiday season, the parade, city police estimated, was viewed by between "7,000 and 8,000 persons perhaps more." Police Chief William H. Stewart said" sidewalks were lined several deep over more than half of the 12-block route. "From Sixth Street to First Street, the sidewalks were crowded," he said. The parade formed in West foot long engine and tender upon which Santa Claus rode, passed and one white, are pitted against gheny County.

each other in the courtroom drama about 8:25 p.m. Stay-Awaker which climaxes a 30-year legal Polaski ana Assistant Chairman Dave Turri, together with Police Men's Association, Monongahela Professional Men, Frank Downer Post No. 302, American Legion, the Grejyshock Bakery, Podros-key's Appliance, the First National Bank, the Monongahela Automobile Dealers Association, the Valley Cleaning Company, the Standard Dry' Wall Products Company, the City of Pixzutelli's and Alfred's Appliances. Local floats were entered by the St. Paul's Men's Club, with Us theme of "Put Christ Back Into Your Christmas," the Bebout and Yohe Company, the Friend-Lee Goes To Bed, Loses $1000 Bet Chief Stewart, who served as SEOUL, Korea (UP) Allied bombers in round-the-clock raids smashed Communist supply lines again today as ground fighting slackened, apparently because of a Communist shortage of frontline supplies.

Allied Sabrejets shot down a judges, announced the Friend-Lee State Police said Pemberton, traveling west out of Monongahela in a coupe, told them Cairns stepped out from the side of the highway, where he was walking, into the path of the automobile. Pemberton was released on his own recognizance pending a coro Bakery entry as winner of first prize in local float competition. The second award went to the Be-bout and Yohe Company Funeral UN Korean Peace Hopes Drop As Vishinsky Sails 4 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.I (UP) Home. Communist MIG-15 jet fighter their ninth in three days while flying cover for bombers on daylight raids. Musical units in the line of Main Street and moved to First fight by Negro groups.

Before the high tribunal are five separate cases, all raising the sam question: does the mere fact of segregation put the stamp of inequality on Negro students, even if they are provided school facilities as good as those provided for white children? The oral arguments beginning at 1:30 p.m. e.s.t. will run into Wednesday and perhaps Thursday. On the court's decision, which may not come for several weeks, depends the continuance of the South's time honored doctrine of "separate but equal" educational systems for the two races. ner's inquest.

State Police said the accident happened one-tenth of a mile west Bakery, Nahi's, and the Monon-gahela-Gastonville I.O.O.F. Lodges. Street, swinging there to disband march were the Monongahela High in Railroad Street. 1 School band, the Gallatin-Sunnyside The United Nations heavy, me of Monongahela on Route 481, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky sailed for home today declaring that the United Nations General Assembly "as an instrument for peace is not dium, and light bombers blasted Park Avenue Extension.

Cairns, a former employe of the a railway line, a supply center and convoys of front-bound trucks. They Move With Appalling Speed Events Point Up Enormity Of Tosh Facing Eisenhower The slack in the ground war, MIDLAND, Tex. (UP) A 30-year-old house painter gave up and went to bed today after going 98 hours and 41 minutes without sleep, losing a $1,000 bet to another paintei Aho still was awake. The two painters, Jess Hensley, 30, and Robert Cook, 32, made a $1,000 bet last Friday because they wanted to have more money to spend for Christmas presents. Hensley announced at 8:14 a.m.

c.s.t., he was conceding and he went to the home of his brother. He fell asleep at 8:55 a.m. Five men who had side bets on the contest joined Cook and Hensley on their house painting job late Monday to persuade them to keep on going. Both contestants had agreed to go to bed at that time and call it a draw. "I hate to do it, but money Allied officers said, could mean the day and night Allied bombings were pinching the Reds' front line UNITED NATIONS, N.

Y. (UP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky leaves for home today, apparently killing the last hope that this General Assembly session of the United Nations might achieve a Korean peace. supplies. B-29 Superforts and B-26 invad Mathies Mine, had been receiving blind pension, authorities said.

He was born in Banksville, Allegheny County, May 27. 1884, but had lived in Monongahela for the past 15 years. He was a member of Local No. 2244, UMWA. Surviving are two sons.

Richard of Beaver Falls and William of Canton, Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Wagner and Mrs. Margaret Smith of Monongahela; six grandchildren and two EISENHOWER TO ASK VIEWS OFMacARTHUR No Meeting On Korean War Set, Key GOP Leaders Say WASHINGTON (UP) Republican said today they expect President-elect Eisenhower to solicit Gen. Douglas MacArthur's views on means of ending the Ko Temperatures Above Normal The intensity of the feeling which the court test has aroused in the South was indicated last month when South Carolina voters repealed the section of the state con-f Continued on Page Eight) (Column Four) By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign News Editor Events of the last few hours dramatically point up not only the enormity of the task facing President-elect Eisenhower but also the The Kremlin mouthpiece was isn't everything," Hensley said. due to sail aboard the French liner Liberte.i Although it is his custom to leave Asembly sessions at approximately this time each year, his departure led observers to, speculate that there was no hope of achieving anything constructive in the Korean truce situation at this time.

London's Worst Fog Lifting Friends are being received atj Hensley had a four-day beard. the L.M. Frye Funeral Home, He was so tired he could hardly appalling speed with which these events move. Thus, while Eisenhower and his aides consider our future course in Korea and policy toward the Orient, a long-feared explosion shakes French North Africa. By UNITED PRESS A low pressure system blanketing the central part of the country brought a stream of warm air to Pennsylvania early today, soaring temperatures considerably above normal for this time of the year.

Pittsburgh and Erie, for example, reported 52 degrees at 6 a. m. Williamsport and Brookville had 43 at dawn, and Allentown and Scranton each 41. Philadelphia reported 45. Not a weather station ers ranged deep into North Korea during the night to search out and blast trucks headed for the Red frontlines with ammunition and other supplies.

Air Force crews said they; destroyed about 160 trucks. Superforts also hurled a night assault against an ore-processing plant at Tokchon, a supply center at Yongyopcham and a military staff officers' center at Yongpung. Diver bombers took over the day shift. They ripped up a rail line between Sukchon and Sinanju on the west coast of Korea and dropped explosives Into a. transportation and supply center at Singye.

At least six supply-laden (Continued on Page Three) Column Six) rean war stalemate. These senators said they knew 'of no specific plans for an Eisen- talk. Cook, on the other hand, was clean and close-shaven. He took six bhowers a day and shaved twice a day as part of his program for keeping awake. "I'll buy some Christmas presents with the money." Cook said.

LONDON (UP) London's worst soot-laden fog in modern history, which in five days has caused more than 100 deaths and an estimated $28,000,000 damage, began to lift today. Weather forecasters' said warm hower-MacArthur meeting. But they said they expect the incom where services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. in charge of the Rev. Paul H.

Andree, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Interment will take place in Monongahela Cemetery-Cairns' death was the first of two on Washington County highways last night. The other victim Was Clarence Z. Freeland, 54, Washington R. D.

1, who was killed on Route 19 north. Center of the explosion is Morocco, in which we have built giant airbases, as vital links in our defense chain against Russia. ing president to obtain the deposed "I guess I'll buy Jess one. He Far East commander views either directly or through an intermediary. MacArthur, swho was removed from his Asiatic commands by President Tniman in April, 1951, Shock waves from the Moroccan flare-up could: Seriously endanger the French home government which already has been embarrassed by having its troubles with Tunisian and Moroccan-' nationalists aired in United Nations debate.

The U.N. waited with little hope for word from Peiping and Pyongyang concerning the Indian-designed compromise peace proposals the General Assembly sent to the Chinese Communists and North, Koreans last week. Thus far, nothing had been received except the communication company's nothication that the message had been received in the Red capitals, Despite Vishinsky's rejection of the compromise when it was considered by the Assembly's Political Committee and similar cold-shouldering from the Oriental Communists, the Indians and some other delegations refused to abandon all hope. But it was evident, State Police reported Freeland died instantly from a fractured skull suffered when he was hit by a north-bound automobile, a short distance south of Forrest Villa at said last Friday he knows a "clear and definite solution'' to the Ko in the state reported a below-freezing reading. Temperatures were reported in the 40's as far north as Southern New England.

And the mercury was expected to go to as high as CO in Pennsylvania during the day. Temperatures are expected to remain moderate through Wednesday in the Eastern half of the state, but turn cooler in Wstern Pennsylvania. There" was also a chance of some light rain in Eastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday. rean war. He said If his ideas were solicited he would make ram-bearing winds would Wow away the fog which since Friday has paralyzed transportation and set off a minor crime wave.

The capital's long-strangled transport systems began to return to normal this morning. The big red double-decker buses were back on their regular runs. Trains again were running, although behind schedule. The sprawling London docks resumed operations and the city's airports began to handle international air traffic. Trucks, passenger cars and taxis again moved through the London area.

Coroners estimated more than them available to the appropriate deserves it." Coffee was what made the difference, Cook said. "Hensley has been drinking cup after- cup of coffe since last Friday," Cook said, "and I've had very little." Hensley estimated he drank a gallon of coffee a day. The two painters gave up trying to go on with their house painting job Monday. They were willing then to give up the contest and call it a draw. But friends with side bets joined them and kept them awake through the night by talking and singing and bringing them food and coffee.

authority. Reduce French contributions to NATO and the unified defense of Europe. Sen. Henry C. Dworshak (R Father Of Local Physicians Dies Vincenzo Vaccaro, 90, a resident of this vicinity for the past 62 years, died last evening at eight o'clock at the home of his son.

Angelo Vaccaro, in VanVoorhis Lane, Monongahela, R.D. He was the father also of two local physicians. Dr. Philip Vaccaro, and Dr. Michael Vaccaro; and three daughters- Mrs.

Anthony Cario Ida.) said he feels "quite certain" Eisenhower and MacArthur will ex Further antagonize the Arab world, which is lined up solidly 10:45 p.m. The body was removed by Deputy Coroner Stewart Barn-hill. Troopers Leo Rheam and Walter Mackiw, who investigated, reported the driver was Thomas Mayne, 24, of Washington, R. D. 3.

Police said Mayne was enroute to a Pittsburgh plant when the accident occurred. unemployed, was reported to have stepped into the path of Mayne's car. with Tunisian and Moroccan na with the departure of Russia's Number One diplomat, that tlicre tionalists, thus complicating hopes for unified command for Middle Gasoline Shakedown Charges Hurled At Trial Of Councilmen East defense with Arab participa (Continued on page Three (Column Six) 100 elderly people died of respira change views on Korea. "If we thought President Truman should have listened to Gen. MacArthur's ideas on Korea we certainly should expect Presidentelect Eisenhower to listen to him," Dworshak said.

Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel Kan.) said he, too, feels sure Eis-( Continued on Page 3) (Column Fiv tion. Furnish new grist for the Conv tory ailments intensified by the sooty fog. The Health Ministry said PITTSBURGH (UP) Charges munist propaganda mill, particu Convict Called In Brinks Case of gasoline shakedowns were DMA Ladies Night a sharp increase in respiratory di hurled Monday at the trial of two sease deaths was expected.

larly as it attacks the West in its Arab-language broadcasts to the White Oak Borough councilmen Dinner January 5 An unknown number of other oil-rich Middle East nations. Monongahela Pastor Named To Red Cross Executive Board and a service station operator ac of Bentleyville, Mrs. Josephine Motto and Isabel (Mrs. John) Cur-cio. of this city.

Vaccaro had been ill for the past month. He was February 6, 1862 in Nocera Tesi-nese, Italy. The deceased was a faithful member of St. Anthony's R. C.

Church. Surviving with the sons and Finally, disrupt vital oil ship BOSTON (UP) A third brought here from Pennsyl cused of cheating the borough. Albert, K. (Rosey) Rowswell, ments from these fields to Allied "Aunt Minnie's Nephew" of Pitts The testimony opened the trial of Councilmen James L. Crosby Far Eastern bases, ultimately af burgh Pirate broadcasts will be Washington Mill Electrician Dies from Electrocution persons were killed by traffic accidents a nd from al ling into the fog-shrouded Thames River, "police said.

Police said 16-year-old-Wendy Hanchett was knifed Monday night in the most serious crime -In the fog-shrouded greater London area. She was found with a stiletto in the principal at die an and Clarence Davis and Edward Shablik, operator of a garage and nual Ladies Night dinner and installation of officers of the Mo service station. They were indict ed last May on a complaint by Joseph F. 52, 643 Averse, Washington, an elec nongahela Business Men's former Councilman Charles Bergstadt. I her back at Cheshunt, 14 miles fecting even our operations in Korea.

The latter point, it may be hoped, probably is far fetched. But such a linking of events docs illustrate both the global nature and the enormity of the task facing our national planners. It is especially unfortunate that the Moroccan affair comes to a head at this time. But it probably was as inevitable as unfor trician at the Jessop Steel Com The: Rev. Warren Campbell, of the First Presbyterian Churcb here, was one of six new members added to the Washington County Chapter of the American Red Cross executive board at its meeting last night.

Other new board members are Orville Emerson," Canonsburg; Mrs. John E. Yoney, Canonsburg; Miss Lillian Wassum. Canonsburg; The Rev. Robert Rucker, and Robert D.

Vance, Washington. The former borough official pany since 1942, was instantly vania was taken today before a Federal Grand Jury investigating the $1,219,000 Brink's. holdup. The convict followed a pretty, unidentified woman of about 30 into the jury room. He was brought here secretly by U.

S. marshals, but officials connected with the investigation would not reveal who he was or where he had been confined. Neither would they identify the woman who was a new witness as far as the current investigation was concerned. The Grand Jury already has questioned two other convicts brought here from Pennsylvania said the three men conspired to The event will be held Monday evening, January 5, at the Twin Coaches. killed at approximately 9:45 a.m.

obtain gasoline at Shablik's sta yesterday, Dec. 8, when he came daughters are 13 grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren; two brothers, John and Fred, both living in Italy: Friends are being received at the D'AItorio Funeral Home, 509 West Main where brief services at 9:30 a.m. Thursde will precede requiem high mass at ten o'clock at St. Anthony's in Park Avenue, the Reverend Joseph L. Abbate, pastor, to be celebrant.

Interment will follow in Monongahela Cemetery. Friends are asked please to omit tion for their, personal use, then in contact with 25,000 volts of electricity atop a 10-foot high circuit breaker in the plant. north of London. It took an ambulance two hours to take her two and a half miles to a hospital. Ships started to move up to London docks this morning to unload.

Shipping experts said 250,000 tons of shipping were jammed up the Thames. The Sadlers Wells Opera Company cancelled its performance of La Traviata Monday night when The Pittsburgh humorists addressed the 1951 Ladies Night dinner, and was asked to return by popular demand. tunate. Washington County Coroner L.C. Nationalist elements of both Tu Gray said Florian was a mem ber of a four-man electrical team nisia, and Morocco are interested only in their independence.

However, Communists have joined enthusiastically in their demonstra working on a transformer yester Judges To Discuss Means Of Relieving Overloaded Docket have it billed to the borough. Fred Alberts, former White Oak police chief, testified that Shablik told him Crosby and Davis threatened to take the business to another garage unless they were given "a tank of gas a week." Alberts said he Investigated on orders of Burgess J. Denver Watson after Bergstadt complained that gasoline bills were too high. All three defendants pleaded innocent at their hearing last May. flowers.

Those who would have the fog blacked out the stage. tions. day. On completion of the work, Florian was sent outside the budding to throw the switches which Eleven valuable cattle at the sent floral tributes are asked in- The disturbances come when stead to make a donation to Monongahela Memorial Hospital. fed the current to the transform other problems of Mediterranean Second Hunting Fatality Of Season Reported In County Washington County's second hunting fatality was registered yesterday with the "death of Charles Kubitza, 40, of Daisytown.

Earlier in the season, 'Albert PITTSBURGH (UP) Two judges of the U. S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals will arrive here London Livestock show smothered and many others were sick with respiratory diseases caused by the sooty fog. 1 defense planning hang in the ers. Florian was seen carrying the pole which is used to throw the balance.

switches, located htsh on the side Even now the U. S. negotiat Thursday to discuss means of re-lievintr the overloaded trial docket penal institutions. They have been identified as Joseph "Specs" O'Kcefe, 44, of Roxbury, and Stanley Gusciora, 33, of Stoughton. Both have long criminal records and were among the original suspects questioned jui connection with the crime.

O'Keefe's sister and brother were among four persons threatened with contempt of court sentences Monday for refusal to answer questions and were held in $5,000 bail each for a -U. S. District Court ing with Spain for the use of Congressmen Lukewarm To Plugging Loophole In Pure Food Law Spanish air and naval bases both of Western Pennsylvania's Federal District Court. in Spain and Spanish Morocco. New Eagle Soldier Graduates From Army Leaders' Course Hines.

48, of near Lone Pine -was Any upheaval in French Morocco Mine Rescue Veterans Of Pittsburgh District To Meet Tomorrow wounded fatally by another "man while hunting on the dividing ridge of a building. Coroner Gray's investigation reveals that what'happened next is unknown. At 9:45 a.m. lights In the plant went out and when they came on in about 30 seconds, Florian's body was found on top of a 10-foot circuit breaker lying between two phases of the equipment. WASHINGTON (UP) The U.

S. FoOd Drug Administration learned today it may have trouble per is bound to have an important link between the nationalists of Egypt and those of Tunisia and Fred Waring Chosen 'Mr. Pennsylvania' between Washington and Greene Counties. I hearing tomorrow. suading Congress to plug the legal loophole the Supreme Court found County Detective William J.

PHILADELPHIA (UP) -Band Long, Fayette County, said Kubit In the nation's 14-ycar old pure Leader Fred Waring held the INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. Pvt. Bernard C. Wyne, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Paul S. Wyne, First and Clifton Streets, New Eagle, was recently graduated from the 5th Infantry Division's eight week Leaders' Course here at Indian- za drove from Daisytown to a honorary title "Mr. Pennsylvania Morocco. Delicate Turkish negotiations to bring its neighbors into a Mid-East defense alliance also could be upset. The conclusion may be that it's all one world, but surely' not a restful one.

brother's home in Fayette Coun food law. Republican and Democratic members of the House Commerce Total Vote Cast Passes 60,000,000 of 1952" today for contributing the most during the year to publicize the state. The title was conferred on the ty after shooting himself accidentally in the chest last Monday. He was examining the rifle. Kubitza died in Brownsville General Hospital yesterday morning of chest wounds.

The Mine Rescue Veterans of the Pittsburgh District will hold their twenty-fourth annual lunch-con-meeting in the Hotel William Penn, Pittsburgh. "tomorrow. The National Mine Rescue Association also will hold Its twenty-eighth annual dinner-meeting there tomorrow. William Fene, U. S.

Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. is president, and II. E. Mason, Pittsburgh." is the secretary-treasurer. Both organizations have as their membership only those men Who have been exposed to the hazards incident to recovery work following mine disasters of all town Gap.

Expert instructors, mostly veterans of Korea and World War II, gave him advanced training in weapons, combat tactics, map reading and many other features of modern war. He was also given an opportunity to conduct classes and command units. During the last three weeks of the course he acted as TEMPERATURES Committee, which handles such legislation, were either noncommittal or lukewarm about restoring the broad inspection powers which the Food Drug Administration wielded froni 1938. The Supreme Court jolted the agency Monday with an 8 to 1 ruling that food producers cannot be prosecuted for barring federal Inspectors from their plants unless they have previously- granted tbem permission to enter. WASHINGTON (UP) The total vote cast in the Nov.

4 presidential election passed the 60,000,000 mark today on the basis of official returns from 41 states and slightly incomplete reports from the other seven. i The tabulations showed President-elect Eisenhower received 33,096,039 votes and Gov. Adlai musician by John S. Fine who presented the Pennsylvania Wreek Service Clubs Committee award at ceremonies Monday night. The governor pointed out that Waring, through his Pennsyl-vanians, brought national prominence to the state.

Waring also was presented with the first Sylvanus Medal by the Exchange clubs of Pennsylvania, Federal Employes Get Four-Day Yule Week-End WASHINGTON (UP) President Truman issued an order today giving federal employes the day off on Friday, Dec. 26, allowing them a four-day weekend from Christ "Sat Maximum 64 degrees. Minimum 43 degrees. At Noon 64 degrees. Precipitation None.

Wind Velocity 4.4 m.p.h. a non-commissioned officer in a basic training unit here, Vypes Stevenson mas through Sunday..