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WEATHER Krcttcast from U. S. Wearier Bureau) Fair And Cooler Today's Bible Thought Behold, God will not cast iwty a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers. Job 8-20. NINETY-SEVEN YEARS OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE Phone 8181 VOL.

97 No. 172 Continuously Published Since Jan. 3, 156 Friday Morning, July 24, 1953 Member oMhe Audit Bureau ot Circulation Five Cents B(dfe Armistice Expected In Korea Within 3 Days Final Document For Truce Reported By Reds To 'Be Ready MUNSAN, Korea UP) The long-awaited Korean armistice appeared imminent Friday possibly within three days on the basis of persistent reports bolstered by a -Red broadcast intimating that the final document was ready. The reports of a quick signing 6Cold-Blooded Says Quebec Officer QUEBEC (AP) A spokesman for the Quebec Attorney-General's department said Thursday night two bodies, believed by provincial police to be those of two missing Pennsylvania hunters, were found under the floor of an old logging camp in the Gaspe woods. The spokesman said: "It is murder-coldblooded and planned." He declared he was not in a position at the moment to say whether an arrest is expected but a statement may be made Friday morning by Solicitor-General Antoine Rivard.

Spokesman said that while the two bodies were not positively identified as Richard Lindsey, 17, and Fred Claar, 20, provincial police in Gaspe are convinced: "They are those of the two hunters." "The remains of the young Lindsey's father, Eugene Lindsey, 45, were found last week. The trio came from Hollidaysburg, Pa. "A sweat shirt with the words "Holli-daysburg Tigers" was found near the bodies. A set of upper teeth were found and police think they belong to Chinese Win More Hills And Outposts Bloody Fighting Rages Across Central Korea SEOUL UP) Chinese Reds smashed South Koreans off three hills and three outposts In central Korea Thursday in hand-to-hand fighting and attacked two outposts in the 1 Radar equipped allied bombers roamed the battle line Thursday night, dumping high explosives near the fighting scene and on Red buildup areas in central Korea. During the day, fighter-bombers and bombers used radar in dropping more than 500 tons of bombs through heavy cloud layers.

SEIZED BT REDS One hill and the three outposts were seized northwest of Kumhwa, a road hub 55 miles northwest of Seoul. The two other hills were seized southwest of a bend in the Kumsong river where a big Red offensive last week flattened out a 20-mile-wide bulge in the line. Shortly before midnight, other Reds attacked two outposts near Old Baldy, a height overlooking the Seoul Pyongyang road .11 miles southwest of Chorwan. I. I Bt 1 1 I 7 1 0 Relatives To Return To Canada SEARCH ESTABLISHES MURDER OF THREE Above shown the seaplane in which Clarence Claar, father of the murdered Fred Claar, and his companions flew over the forests of the Shichshock mountains of the Gaspe peninsula searching for Eugene Lindsey, his son Richard, 17, and Fred Claar, 20, before their bodies were' found.

Below is shown a snowmobile used in the rough mountaincis in the search for the Blair countians' who went bear hunting in the Gaspe area on June 8 and never returned. (Photos taken by the Claars while in Gaspe) House Kills Increased Tariff Bill Redisricting Bill Passed By Senate HARRISBURG VP) The senate Thursday night passed a house reapportionment plan 47-3 as the lawmakers changed their final adjournment date from Saturday to next Monday. The redistncting measure, in creasing the house memoersnip from 208 to 210, immediately went to a joint house-9enate conference conimittee to squeeze out any flaws that could destroy the plan in a court test. Chairman Albert R. fechan (R-Armstrong) of the Senate Reapportionment committee dis closed that a change is needed to give all Ellwood City voters an opportunity to vote for assemblymen under the new plan.

Ellwood City stfaddles the Beaver-Lawrence county line. The final adjournment deadline was altered from Saturday to Monday after lawmakers ran into a snag on a procedure to pass an administration bill boosting maximum weekly unemployment compensation benefits from $30 to $32.50. The increase requires approval on five legislative days and Sat urday adjournment would have precluded passage. Meanwhile, the Senate agreed on minor House amendments to establishing uniform child adoption procedures in Pennsylvania. The measure went to Gov, John S.

Fine. A bill discontinuing state payments to local school districts for closed one-room schools was passed by the upper chamber and sent to the house. The Senate also completed legislative action on a House bill increasing the number of state police by 100 to a total of 1,900. A proposed amendment to the State Constitution to permit the levying of a graduated state income tax finally was earmarked for the legislative discard. Congressman Has Long Memory, Tyrone Man Discovers WASHINGTON UP) Rep.

Charles S. Gubser (R-Calif), is a man with a long memory. As a member of the house post office committee, Gubser listened to protests, against proposed postal rate increases by George C. Wilson of the Wilson Chemical Tyrone, Pa. Wilson told how his company sells salve through youthful sales men, who get prizes for their ef forts.

Was this, inquired Gubser thoughtfully, the same Wilson Chemical Co. that sells a certain trademarked salve. It is agreed Wilson. "Well then, that air rifle I got as a prize for selling salve about 30 years ago wasn't worth a darn," observed Gubser, grinning; "We'll send you another one," Wilson assured him. Former Altoona Man Dies In Canton A retired Penelec employe, Nicola Morelli, who moved from Lthis city to Canton, a month ago, died there Thursday at r.

m. Mr. Morelli formerly lived at 1418 1st this city. He was bora Feb. 27, 1884, in Italy.

He leaves bis wife, Mrs. Angelina Daniri Morelli, and these children: Nunzio, Canton; Raffalina Lanesi, Campo Basso, Italy; Mrs. Richard Fagan, Canton; Mrs. William K. Henry, Can ton; Mrs.

Mary D. Bincens, Altoona; a brother, Anthony, in Italy and twelve grandcnuaren. Funeral services will be held Monday at St. Peters church, Can ton. The body may be viewed at the Arnold funeral nome in canton.

BASEBALL SCORES THURSDAY'S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 7. Pittsburgh 0 St Louis at New York, rain Chicago at Brooklyn, ppd. rain Milwaukee at Philadelphia, ppcL, (wet grounds). AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 10, New York 2 Boston 4. Chicago 3 Detroit 9-5.

Washington 6-4 (first game 10 innings). Philadelphia 7, St. Louis 4 (14 in nings) date lacked "official confirmation from either side, but the Pyong yang North Korean radio said: "It appears that preparations for a truce signing at Panmun-jom have been virtually completed." WARNS S. KOREA The broadcast went on to cite evidence to indicate that all or- nearly all the preliminaries had been taken care of. However, it coupled this with an aside warn ing against possible further South Korean opposition.

Allied, sources were more chary. Authoritative quarters in the Allied truce camp at Munsan said one or two minor points remained to be settled and one or two more meetings of staff officers at the Panmunjom conference site might be required before a signing date could be fixed. These Allied sources conceded, however, that the few remaining matters could be quickly decided. There was strong unconfirmed speculation that a tentative signing date already had been mentioned in the secret Panmunjom i sessions Thursday. The North Korean radio, in a broadcast late Thursday night, said that staff officers apparently had completed drawing the buffer zone to separate the rival armies and also apparently had completed translating the armis tice text into English, Chinese and Korean.

CBS To Start Color TV Programs September 15 NEW YORK UP) The lont fight over color television was formally ended Thursday as the Columbia Broadcasting" System said it would go along with the proposed new compatible system. CBS said it would start send ing out some color programs to affiliated stations on an experi mental basis Sept. 15 under stan dards proposed to the Federal Communications commission by an industry-wide -group known as the National Television Sys tem committee. Regular color telecasts for the public must await -FCC action on the new system. In effect CBS joined, hands with its arch rival in color TV, Radio Corporation of America, which petitioned the FCC a month ago to approve the compatible standards developed by the NTSC.

The committee filed, its own petition Thursday. With" this system, color telecasts can be received in black and white on present type sets, as well as in color on color sets. The move wrote finis for CBS. own incompatible color system.1, 1 THE WEATHER Eastern Pennsylvania Friday fair and less humid, high 78 north and 80 to 85 south. Saturday fair with mod-; erate temperatures.

Western Pennsylvania Fair Friday. I 1 MP A CWk 9.A. Jmm All hUk about 80. Western New York Partly cloudy and cooler Friday, high 74 to 78. Saturday fair with moderate tempera-, tures.

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BT PLACING A "LOW COST" Tribune Want Ad To Place Your Ad Phone 8181 Ask For Classified Why Pay More Whea You Caa Get QUICKER RESULTS FOR LESS GROUP CAPT. PETER TOWN-SEND Group Capt. Peter Townsend, new British air attache in Brussels, walks from Belgian defense ministry following July 20 visit on first official contact with Belgian military authorities. He is 38. House Probers To Subpoena Minister WASHINGTON OP) The House Un'American Activities committee voted Thursday to subpoena a Methodist minister, Rev.

Jack Richard McMichael, for questioning about testimony naming him as a Red. McMichael has denied being a Communist. The committee action marked an apparent milestone in congressional investigations of communism. So far as could, be learned, this was the first time a clergyman has been subpoenaed for such an inquiry. Chairman Velde (R-IU) told newsmen, however, that the committee did not want anyone to infer that "this was an initiation of an investigation in the field of religion.

It is in keeping, he said, with a policy of investigating individual Communists or members of Communist fronte wherever they might be found." McMichael is to be heard next Thursday, possibly behind closed doors. He recently became pastor of a church at Upper Lake, Calif. McMichael's name was brought into the Tuesday's spectacular hearing of Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. Committee Counsel Robert L.

Kunzig read parts of testimony he said a subcommittee received in New York recently in which former Communists identified McMichael arid Dr. Harry F. Ward, former theological professor as having been Communists. Clearfield Court Orders Union To Let Mines Alone CLEARFIELD, Pa. UP) Clearfield County court ordered the United Mine Workers union Thursday to stop interfering with the mining and transportation of coal from nine non-union strip mines.

The court order by Judge F. Cortez Bell made permanent nine temporary injunctions against the union. The decree was a result of an agreement between the strip surface mine operators and the union. The first temporary, injunction was issued in October, 1951, the latest in March. The mine op erators charged roving bands of Union pickets halted production at various mines and enlisted strip miners into UMW member ship.

Permanent injunctions were sranted to: River Smokeless Coal Clearfield Coal Elba Coal Madera Coal Co. and Banner Coal of PhilliDsbure; Central Moshannon Coal Mining Co. of Houtzdale; Diamond T. Stripe Mining Corp. and Howard Coal both of PhUlipsburg.

Bradford Coal Co. of Bigler; Stripping Contractors and the Warquier Coal both of Clear field: Beniamin Coal Co. ot An- sonville; and Robert Bailey Coal Co. ot Uorrisdale. Claar ONLY ONE SKULL ''The discoveries were made 4 miles west of the spot where the elder Lindsey's remains were located.

There was only one skull. The location was in cabin known as Camp 26. "The remains of the elder Lindsey were found in. a cabhi known as camp 24. "The remains of the two younger men have been brought back to Gaspe.

It is doubtful that a coroner's inquest will be opened until next week." ARREST NEAR Meanwhile, an informant close to official investigators indicated that an arrest was near. It is believed that a major development in the case might come within the next 24 hours. Thursday for the first time cincp thp skeleton of one of the hunters was found last week, news papermen were forbidden to mane the 65 mile trip into the bush country. Fai-Tv Thursday, with fog, rain and mist shrouding the Gaspe hills, several top police officials drove out of Gaspe toward the bush area. Police said that on the bodies tA ThnrcHav the flesh had 1UU1IU been eaten away by bears and the bones gnawed, presumaDiy uy bears.

The remains of the elder Lindsey was in "the same condition and the skull' also was missing. Gaspe Provincial Police Capt J. Alphonse Matte said an additional crew of 15 men were to go into the bush area between the two abandoned logging cabin areas for an additional search which will last for several days. Many Gaspe residents believe the motve for the triple killings was robbery'. The elder' Lindsey was reported carrying about $700 of which only about one dollar was found.

Also missing are two rifles and other camp equipment. An authoritative medical informant gave this possible explanation for the absence of two skulls, presuming no other disposition had been made of them: Wehn a body decomposes and the flesh is eaten away there are no muscles or ligaments to hold the skull to the. spine. Bears would not only eat the body but also the brains and the soft bones of the skull." IPffNGflJON 1K2 "Forecast fer Friday." sez Mr. "calls fer FAIR WITH HIGH TEMP'-A A-ROUND 75-80.

Saturday air with high of about High Thursday wuz 89, low wind NE, humidity 74C1, pre- oarometer readin at noon wuz 71 Rain ppnorallv nvpr th' ctata xt 1 1 1 1 pre, we had gentle rain, but not very oiace. iot a oamaee irom -ind an HcrYitnin' in U'ocfom nart SEOUL UPi South Korean underground sources hint that Red North Korea's1 dictator, Kim Sung, may have been fired. Reports sifting across the 38th Parallel say that if the 42-year-oll cimunist leader has not been axed he at least in con-siderable trouble and his cabinet has been shaken up. Bulletins WILMINGTON, Del. VP) An oil tanker exploded and caught fire while unloading high octane gas on the Delaware river Thursday night.

Seventeen men out a crew of 41 on the ship, the' Pan Georgia, were accounted for. Most of these men were pulled out of the water after Jumping overboard. BERLIN UP) The West Berlin newspaper Tele-graf said Friday Soviet armor has beaten back a Polish partisan thrust Into East Germany. The paper said the Russians have executed 78 Polish anti-Red partisans before firing squads. Van Zandt Votef For Tariff Bill WASHINGTON CP Four Republicans and nine Democrats voted with the majority Thursday to kill a bill providing for increases in tariff protection for American industry.

The vote on a motion to kill the bill, which was approved 242-161, found the Pennsylvania congressional delegation lined up this way: Republicans for the motion: Corbett, Fulton, King, Scott Democrats for the motion: Barrett, Buchanan, Byrne, Chudoff, Eberharter, Granahan, Green. Rhodes and Walter. Republicans against the motion: Bonin, Bush, Carrigg. Dague, Fenton, Gavin. James, Kearns, McConnell, Saylor, Simpson, Stauffer, Van Zandt.

Democrats against the motion: Kelley, Morgan. Absent or not voting: Mumma. Ex-PresidentY Union Is Not Progressing WASHINGTON UP Herbert Hoover said with a chuckle Thursday that the formation of an ex-President's union isn't progressing very fast. Hoover made the quip when a newsman asked him if "the other member 6f your union," meaning ex-President Truman, would be a member of the new commission on reorganization. Hoover replied he didn't think so, adding that in the ranks of ex-presidents Truman is only the junior partner." He recalled Truman said on leaving office that he and Hoo ver ought to form a union.

"We haven't got around to It j-et." said Hoover. By MART GIfUE KI1UCH Crushed with grief, local relatives learned of the murder of the Lindsey boy and his companion Fred Claar from the Tribune Thursday night as the news was received here relative to the finding of two more bodies under the floor boards of an old logging camp at Gaspe. A swreat shirt with the words "Hollidaysburg Tigers" and a set of upper teeth were found near the bodies, it was reported from Canada. Clarence Claar. father of Fred Claar, 20, one of the three victims, told The Tribune that his son had a set of upper teeth and he also said that he believed that the sweat shirt was "Rickey's football shirt" IDENTIFIES SWEAT SHIRT Robert Ritz, Hollidaysburg, brother-in-law of Richard, said the sweat shirt was "one of Richard's football shirts." The first information relative to the finding of the two bodies that the Claars and Lindseys received Thursday night was from The Tribune.

Mr. Claar said that authorities had told him he would be notified when the bodies were found and he said he "figured he might hear yet tonight or get a telegram tomorrow morning early." Claar said that when he left Canada authorities said they would notify him and that he would be requested to return to Gaspe at that time. "We will leave for Gaspe before Saturday," Clarence Claar said. "We are going back up." GRIEF-STRICKEN Bob Ritz, spokesman for the Lindsey family said: "We most certainly will send a representative to Gaspe. At this time I don't know who it 'will be but the family will be represented." Grief-stricken on learning that the boys' bodies had been found, Mrs.

Lindsey was given a sedative and was unable to receive later news as it came into The Tribune. "I am not a blood relative," Ritz told a Tribune reporter, "but ths news rocks me. You people have been most kind to us and we want you to know that we appreciate it" SEARdh STARTED Both Ritz and Claar gave the first information relative to. how the search was inaugurated. Lindsey had been into the Gaspe woods on four different trips and had been accompanied by both his son and young Claar at least once before both Claar and Ritz said.

If it had not been that Lindsey planned to return to Blair county and get his family and go back to another section of Canada for a fishing trip, concern of their whereabouts would not have been aroused until the end of the shopman's holiday, Clarence Claar said. "Fred told me he thought they would be gone a week or two," Claar said, "and Lindsey was known to go away and extend his (Cotine4 Fac CoL Senate Passes Ike's Defense Budget WASHINGTON UP) The Senate Thursday night gave President Elsenhower a major victory in approving his trimmed down defense budget of 34 '2 billion dollars and rejecting a Democratic-led move to bolster the air force's atomic punching power. Passage of the big military money bill a total of five billion less than Former President Truman recommended came after two days of debate. It went through on a shouted voice vote with Sen. Douglas (D-111) protesting he had no chance to present several amendments.

Sen. Payne (R-Maine), presiding, ruled that the Senate had signified its approval before Douglas cried out his protest. The House passed a similar three weeks ago. The bill now goes to a Senate-House conference to iron out differences in the separately passed versions. Last-ditch efforts of Democrats to restore at least part of the air force's funds ran into a stone wall of virtually solid Republican strength despite assertions that Soviet rulers might trigger a new war that would find the United States lagging in air strength.

B. OF. F. And E. Approve New Wage, Vacation Demands BOSTON OP) Convention delegates of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Thursday roared approval of six major demands for wage and vacation improvements.

Among the demands were: one week's vacation for every five years' service, up to a limit of one month; a 25 cents an hour differential for afternoon shifts and 35 cents for nights; double time for Sundays and holidays when worked. The 1.000 delegates referred the proposals to international officers and grievance committees. The latter, expected to meet soon after the convention ends, will complete details and decide when to begin negotiations with the railroads. Thursday's action followed a convention vote last week for a general wage increase and improvement of working conditions. In this case, also, details were left to the grievance committees.

BUT roCS DIAMONDS AND WASHINGTON UP) The house, backing the Eisenhower administration; Thursday killed a bill to increase tariff protection for American industries against competition from foreign goods. A 242-161 roll call vote slapped down" a determined drive, led by insurgent house Republicans, against the administration's policy of promoting freer world trade. In the showdown, after lour hours of hot debate, more Democrats than Republicans voted against the trade-restricting bill by Rep. Richard M. Simpson The proposal would have specifically raised tariffs on foreign lead, zinc and watches, and would have imposed tight ceilings to turb imports of foreign oil.

More generally, it would have tended toward higher tariffs or import quotas in scores of other fields. These could have been invoked upon claims by American (Continued on Page 8, CoL 8) 98 Persons Give Blood A total of 98 productive donors were obtained from the 127 persons who responded to the appeal for blood Thursday in the visit of the bloodmobile sponsored by the local hospitals. "Walkins" again contributed to a large extent, with a total of 51 dropping in to give blood without advance registration. Many who had registered failed to keep their appointments but have been asked to respond at the next blood day. A total of 16 donors who gave for the first time were listed and three persons made the "Gallon" club by their contributions Thursday.

They were Miss Margaret D. Patterson, R. N- Ed ward McMullen and Clarence E. Young. Doctors who assisted the blood-mobile staff were Dr.

Charles Stoner, Dr. Richard B. Magee and Dr. Richard S. Magee.

Reg istered nurses volunteering their services were Mrs. Margaret Mason, Mrs. Gertrude Streightiff and Mrs. Hilda Fowler. Repre senting the Junior Red Cross was Ronnie Salyards.

Mrs. Mary E. Brown, was chairman and Mrs. W. M- Surver co-chairman of the com mittees representing Altoona, Mercy, State and VA hospitals which sponsored the drive.

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