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Psalms 33-22. METY-SIX YEARS OF CONTINUOUS Si .1 1 Member of th Audit Bureau of Circulations Phone 8181 VOL 96No. 152 PuWtshed Sir.c Jan. S. Saturday Morning, June 28, 1952 -iv Cent Thee folks With Uussm i log Agree Administration Gains In Controls Law Battle UN Troops I Conferees Veto CIO And Pittsburgh Steel Company Sign New Agreement t5)V iTl proruising student: Barbara Maucieri.

9. Third row, left to right. Doris Ann Five. 14; Edna Shaheen. 13; Carol McGirk.

16: and EVittie IS. Fourth row. left to nght. Susie S-ifler. 11: Barbara Graham.

IS; and Nancy 12. Miss Jennie Blatchtord, baton instructor, was hostess for the contest. Photo by Tom Lyr.am FIRST TLAri. W1XNT.R In the first bston-twHinjr 'j1 cor. Test in this area, held as the concluding evert of the four-day school The Aitoor.a Undergraduate Center Friday.

place winners with their age group indicated were as follows. First row. to right, the happy lassies are Linda Peanna Brumbaugh, o. Second row, left Allies Ready To Discuss German Issue Action Taken As France Calls For Final Effort To Reach Agreement With Russia LONDON CP) The three western foreign ministers reached a compromise agreement Friday night to meet with Russia under certain condition to discuss the merging of Fast and West Germany, informed sources said. U.

S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman conferred for long hours on their reply to a Soviet note of May 25 demanding an immediate and unconditional four-power conference on Germany. It was not disclosed whether the proposed conference would be lmld by foreign ministers, or at a lowrr level. Nor were other details of the agreement let out. SAFEGUARDS Informed sources said the agreement contained safeguards that a four power meeting would not do-generate into a stall by Russia to prevent rearmament of Western Germany in the western camp.

The agreement was described as a compromise between the French, who felt that for doemstic political reasons they mast make one more effort to reach agreement with Russia, and the United States which wanted a firm prior agreement wilh Moscow on a conference agenda. Since March 10 notes haa been going back and forth bo. tween Moscow and the Western capitals on Russia's call for a conference on German unity. In the American view the Russians were chiefly interested in preventing ratification by the various Parliaments of the Paris treaty for a six-nation European army, which would include Germans, and the Bonn peace contract ending the Western occupancy of Germany. House Tax Exemption Plan Killed WASHINGTON, LP) The senate refused Friday night, 67 to 2, to go along with a house plan to give members of congress a special tax evemption to cover their personal living expenses while in Washington.

It did so just before approving and sending to conference with the house a 78 million dollar appropriation measure to provide funds for congress in the fiscal year which starts next Tuesday. When it passed the bill, the house tacked on a rider which would have given members of congress the right, when making out their income tax returns, to deduct their expenses while living in Washington. House sponsors, led by Democratic leader McCormack of Massachusetts, contended that such exemptions were already granted businessmen on trips to Wash-ton and elsewhere and that legislators should have similar treatment. The senate appropriations committee had revised the provision to make it applicable to no more -than $2,400 of a congressman's expenses. But Sen.

Williams (R-Del.) offered an amendment to knock out even that version, and it carried 67 to 2. Voting for the exemption were Democratic Sen. Ellender of Louisiana and Murray of Montana. The senate beat down a move which some members described as a backdoor attempt to hike congressional salaries. Members get 512.500 a year, plus a $2,500 expense fund whih is now tax free but will lose that exemption next Jan.

3. Cvclist Hurt Allen H. Herncans, 12. of 1405 3rd was treated at Altoona hospital for a bruised leg suffered early Friday evening when he ran his bicycle into the front of a car driven by Vernon L. Cherry, 51, of 216 W.

7th Juniata, at Seventh avenue and Second street, Juniata. Police SgL Owen Rice reported, Remilse Stroimi Enemy Attacks Allied Artillery Turned On Red Advancing On Chorion Front SEOl'L. LP Allied tnxi fighting in the predawn darkness Saturday repulsed three strong; Red assault asainst a peak in the hotly contested hill sector est of Chorwon. Tb.e Communists attacked with a reinforced battalion of possibly 1,000 troops. Allied artillery, mortar and sm.ill arms fire cut them down as they worked up the slopes.

Division officers estimated 50 to 75 F.ed dead and 100 to 150 wounded. The hill is west of T-Bone Hill but easf of the two peaks where fighting raged Friday. CLOSE FIGHTING Allied troops on a nearby hill beat off a Red assault Friday night in 20 minutes of close quarters fighting with hand grenades. Artillery duels flashed and roared along the Western sector. United Nations planes pounded front line and North Korean rear area targets Friday.

B-29 Superforts last night bombed two rail bridges in Northwest Korea, at Sinhung and They flew through moderate flak. One Red plane flew near the Superforts but did not attack. Australian Air Force Meteor jets destroyed supply buildings north of the Communist capital of Pyongyang. Other UN pilots reported destruction of troop-filled Communist bunkers and Red gun and mortar positions in sweeps along the entire 155-mile front. The giant Suiho hydroelectric plant on the YaJu river and six other similar plants in North Korean are "out of action," said a Fifth Air Force spokesman, as the result of the biggest UN air raid of the war last Monday, and subsequent raids Tuesday and Thursday.

3 Miners Killed In Explosion L4NSFORD. Pa. Three miners were killed, six injured and one other missing Friday in ah explosion at the No. 6 shaft of the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. The explosion, of undetermined origin, occurred at 2 P.

M. i EST shortly after the night shift had begun operations. The three dead men were "rock men" i who do the blasting of the hard coal in the colliery. Officials said they were "dead when brought up from the scene of the explosion, the No. 6 west level, which is the lowest level in that shaft, some 1.200 feet from the surface.

Firebug Admits Blaze Fatal To 7 Persons NEW YORK Police said a firebug Friday confessed with a grin firing a Brooklyn tenement to an infemo in which seven persons died screaming last week. "I've been setting fires years." officers quoted 27-year-old Irving Greene, an undersized Negro porter. "1 like the excitement. "I get the urge to set a fire. Afterwards, I feel very sorry." First tenants to escape from the tenement told of an onlooker who reassured them that he already had turned in an alarm when he hadn't.

This gave the fire a big head start. Fire Commiss ioner Jacob Grumet said Green admitted he was the man who told the lie The firetrap tenement went up in flames June IS. killing four small children and three women. The dilapidated building had no fire escapes. As a result, its owner, Mrs.

Bessie Honig. 56. has been charged with manslaughter. Aiso. a Brooklyn grand jury is i cue to open an inquiry July i into fire hazards in old tenements that reportedly still house 50.000 New York families.

33.000 Children To Be Used In Test Of Ner Polio Weapon Price Control Abandonment Favor Senate Policy To Drop Control When Possible' WASHINGTON LP Administration forces won hack lost ground in the battle oer economic controls Friday when senate-house conferees abandoned a house proislon which would have dropped price controls over all commodities not rationed or allocated. The provision, sponsored by Rep, Talle (R-Iowa, would virtually have torpedoed price controls because nothing is now rationed and only a few scarce metals are allocated. JETTISONED Sen. Maybank (D-SC) chairman of the senate Banking committee, confirmed earlier reports that tiie provision had been jettisoned from proposed compromise legislation extending controls another year. In lieu of the Talle proposal, conferees agreed to accept a senate-passed statement of congressional policy favoring termination of wage and price controls "as rapidly as possible consistent with the policies and purposes" of the controls law-.

The senate provision says it is further the policy of Congress that the President, pending termination of controls, should suspend price and wage regulations where goods sell below ceilings and wage pressures ease off, Conferees went back into session Friday night in a determined effort to complete a compromise of senate and house versions for possible ftoal action by Congress Saturday. Both house and senate scheduled early Saturday sessions, with the possibility that a controls extension bill might be on its way to President Truman by nightfall Saturday. Congress will have to work fast if it wants to keep the lid on controls. The Defense Production Act expires at midnight Monday, together with all its 'Curbs on wage's, prices, rents and consumer credit. Playgrounds Plan Varied Programs Approaching retirement this fall has not affected the work schedule of John Branick.

assistant-superintendent of the park and recreation board. Branick, working under Superintendent David Langkammer. announced that the Friday meeting of directors would be held Thursday morning. July 3, because of the holiday July 4. At the meeting Friday morning Ivan Washabaugh gave instruction in music, Vivian Mc-Tavish gave programming instructions, and Cal Folk, arts and crafts superintendent, showed directors finer points of plaster paris modeling.

Theme for the 'week is patriotism. June 30 a dance will be held at Whittier from 6-8 P. M. Wilson playground has a hike scheduled for 10 A. M.

Vet-eransville will stage a treasure hunt at 6:30 in the evening. Penn school will swim at Prospect pool. Wehnwood wid have a dance from 7-9 P. M. July 1 a dance will be held at Eldorado 6-8 P.

Baker playground, a treasure hunt, 2:30 P. Wilson, a hike at 7:30 A. Miller, a hike; Maple avenue, a bicycle show; Adams, hand tennis, 2 P. Veterans-ville. Peanut Scramble; Wright, a block dance, 8 P.

Twenty-third avenue, bakery tour; Fair-view, scavenger hunt Wednesday, July 2. playground will have the following activities: Baker, picnic, 1 P. Miller, vaudeville show; Westmont, historical costume test, 6 P. Adams, bicycle race. 2 P.

East End. coll show, Garfield, weiner roast; Veterans-ville. patriotic show. P. Prospect.

Bingo; Wright, amateur show; Beech avenue, pet show; Cricket Field, quiz: Memorial Park, scavenger hunt: Mc-Kinley. weiner roast. 6 P. Keystone, volley ball: Fairview. (Continued on Ifege 15.

CoL 4) WELE Who Trusts Is First Big Break In Nationwide Steel Strike PITTSBURGH l.P The CIO United Steelworkers and Pittsburgh Steel Company reached an Interim agreement Friday on a new contract that substantially follows wage stabilization board recommendations. It is the important important break in the. nation-wide steel strike. The pact was signed after an all-day negotiating session. Philip Murray, president of the steel-workers, led the union team in the talks with Avery C.

Adams, president of Pittsburgh Steel. RETROACTIVE Among other things the new contract calls for a 12 la -cent hourly pay increase and a modified union shop. The contract is retroactive to April 1. A union spokesman said the contract "Is an Important break in the solid front put up by the basic steel industry." Pittsburgh Steel is the first comparatively large basic producer to agree to contract terms since 650.000 of Murray's steel-workers struck June 2. Other terms of the contract with Pittsburgh Steel call for six paid holidays, three weeks' vacation after 15 years, instead of 25 years, an increase in shift differentials of from 4 to 6 cents an hour on the second shift and 6 to 9 cents on the third shift.

Steelworkers now ave rage about 1.95 an hour. Under the modified union shop a new employe must join the union but has the right to withdraw between his 20th and 30th day of work. If he does not withdraw in that time he must remain a union member. The Wage Stabilization Board recommendations called for a union shop which would require all employes old and new to join the union. The steel industry has referred to the union shop issue as one of the chief stumbling blocks in reaching an industry-wide contract.

Murray denied this and said several other issues are blocking agreement. Taft Says Truman Will Run Again By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Robert A. Taft predicted Friday the Democrats may draft President Truman to run again as "the only strong" figure in the bid for a return to the White House. As for Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Taft said he believes his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination is -still "pulling his punches" in attacking the Truman administration. The Ohio senator, who has said that if nominated he will conduct a slam-bang campaign against the Truman regime, indicated to newsmen he feels Eisenhower is dealing too much in broad generalities instead of pin-pointing his criticism of the Trumanites. Campaigning in Virginia, with an eye on the state's 23-vote (Continued on Pag 15, Cot. 8) Governor's Cabinet Held Immune From Libel Suits HARRI5BUR.G, VP) Att Gen, Robert Woodside said Friday a State Supreme court decision on libel immunity applies conditionally to all of the governor's cabinet.

He was asked to comment on a ruling last month that the attorney general is immune from libel suits in th official oonduct of his office. Woodside told a newsman: "While the decision in this case dealt solely with the office of the attorney general and his powers, I am of the opinion that much of the legal reasoning contained therein would be applicable to other department heads. You 1125 11th AVENUE New Atomic Developments Are Reported By ROGER P. GREENE WASHINGTON CP) One of the nation's top atomic scientists hinted Friday at mysterious new developments in the field of atomic energy so important they were laid directly before President Truman. Dr.

J. Robert Oppenheimer. chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee, told after a White House visit: 'There have been such great developments in atomic energy we felt we should report on these directly to the President. We wish we could say what was in the report, but we cannot." Dr. Oppenheimer.

one of the key figures in developing the atomic bomb, was accompanied by AEC Chairman Gordon Dean in calling on the President. He said the advisory group of scientific experts recently sent Truman a "progress report" setting forth developments in the multi-billion-dollar program to build more, new-and better atomic weapons. Dr. Oppenheinier's guarded comment on "great developments" immediately touched olf speculation that the quest for a formula to produce the so-called hydrogen "hell bomb" may have been crowned with success. Scientists have been working on the H-bomb since President Truman gave the order for its development on Jan.

31, 1950. Immigration Bill Becomes Law Over Veto WASHINGTON, CP) A complete overhaul of the nation's immigration and naturalization laws was put on the statute books by congress Friday over the veto of President Truman, who had contended the measure would sap S. leadership for peace. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Mc-Carran (D-Nev.) and Rep.

Walter was passed by the senate by a vote of 57 to 26. That was one vote more than the two-thirds majority required to override Truman's veto, sent Ij congress on Wednesday. A switching of two senators' votes would have been required to change the result. The house had voted 278 to 113 Friday to enact the bill in disregard of the President's objections. Among other things the meas ure retains the present system of immigration based on national origins, and increases only slightly the permissible number of immigrants.

The senate vote cut sharply across party lines Voting to overturn the veto were 25 Democrats and 32 Republicans. Voting to sustain it were 18 Democrats and eight Republicans. Absent for the vote on overriding were five of the senate's candidates for presidential nominations Sens. Taft Kerr Russell Kefauver (D-Tenn.) and McMa-hon Kefauver and Mc-Mahon, however, were announced as favoring a vote to sustain the veto. The senate overrode President Truman's veto with Edward Martin (R-Pa.) voting with the majority and James Duff (D-Pa.) voting to sustain the President.

WEATHER FORECAST Eastern Some cloudiness and not as warm irlth h'ghesT in the Saturday. Sunday partty e'oudy with little change in temperature Western Penn-yrrania Some ard as warm Saturday, ejt 77 to S3 rorth and in the in the south portion. Sunday partly ctoudv and somewhat warmer. Showert hkely in the west portion in the afternoon or Western Kew York Fair with h'eh-t in th or uppr Sunday cloudiness and some-Thai, warmer. to Joan ara Williamsburg Paper 3Iill Official Die? Harry G.

of 6-X" West 2nd Williamsburg, died at bus residence Friday afternoon, at 12:45 k. Ke was born May 3. at Philadelhpia. a son of Her.rj- J. and Jcserhine Schwarzwaelder) Bickley Bickley was mar ried to Adah Phiiiirpi.

Nov. 1. at Hamsburg. and at the was tht5 his deal superintendent of Puln Mill of the West ccm.Danv. Wiiiiamsburg.

where he has been employed for years Surviving are his wife, ar.d one daughter. Mrs. J. Roland Kill, of Detroit, ar.d one grarsd-s-'o. John Roland Kill.

Mr. Bickley graduated from Pennsylvania State College, class of 1912: and was a member of the Presbyterian church of Wil-liamsburg. serving as an elder for several years. He was a member of Juniata Lodge Free ar.d Accepted Masons. Jafa (Continued on Page Col.

6) OWE "'It seems tnat durin' this here emerge nn I begms'f an' he cuts in. "Emergency? a naaava mean that?" "Zoncha know what emergency is?" set I. "Well, fer gorsh sake: Bill Bear sez emergency is th on which th' administration has bui rur.mn' this cour.try fer ears Doggon Repubhcar.r sr.uTs Mr. W. "Forecast fer Saturdav calls i'T SOME CLOUDINESS AN NOT SO W.P.M WITH HIGH Sunday part cloudy an' warmer, with showers in afternoon er right.

High Friday w-uz 95. low 76. r.con S7, humidity 35 wind north and variable. Temp'a'ure at 1 A. M.

Sat-tada w-uz IS. 1 1 i i i Pleasant Valley Blvd. Partly Opened (See Map on Vase IS) The second section of four-lane highway to be completed by the New Enterprise Stone and Lime will be orened to traffic Saturday morning, according to information received by the Plank Road Business Men association through the office of C. R. Forbes, district engineer, s'ate highway department.

Business firms in. the area from Twenty-sixth street and Logan boulevard to the intersection of Union avenue and Plank road have been virtually isolated during the entire period of construction. It was announced by the highway department that all four lanes will be opened to traffic the exception of a section approximately 500 feet in length near Twenty-second street which will remain closed for a 10-day "drying-out" period to enable the newly poured concrete to set. Three lanes this area will carry all traffic, it was announced. i Until Saturday all traffic had been routed cross-town at Twenty-second street.

i It was announced Friday night 'by Thomas Shute, president of Plank Road Business Men's asso-i elation, that traffic rorning from I Tyrone could now continue I through on Pleasant Valley boule-ivard to Frankstown road where traffic would be detoured around the middle section of the highway which has not been completed. The opening of this section, according to members of the Plank Road Business Men's association, enable customers to reach i the middle section which is still under construction from both ends and will be convenient' to all local people as the detour will be only a few short blocks. The businesses located in the center section may r.ow be reach- Continued on Pace IS. CoL S) HOUSTON. Tex.

CP An estimated S5.WKI children will he ued here in a test medical authori tie hope will prevent paralysis from polio. The children aged 1 to 6 take part in the biggest in-I oeuiation of a oonunon blood fraction gamrr.a globulin ever erupted as a means of fight- ing Announcement of the inoculation, which begins next Wednesday, came as the sprawling biggest city in Texas was grippei by a polio epidemic. Six r.ew city polio cases were rc-pDrted Friday, five from the county ar.d three non-resident cases brought up for treat-, men. These raised the total so tar vear to 143 city cases ar.d s.x deaths, CDur.ty esses and four deaths ar.d non-resident cases and six deaths. The National Foundation for Infantile Faralysis.

which is fi-; nancing. the gamma globulin research, regards 20 cases per population as a polio epidemic. The of Houston has an estimated 600,000 population and the county, which will also be included in the inocuia- tion. has SCO.OOO. Dr.

William Hanur.on of th-University of Pittsburgh will di- rect the inoculation second ever attempted bu: the first on sucn a huge scale. He said the pilot test last year at Provo. Utah, was tried on only children. not enough to make a conclusive answer. Baseball Scores NATIONAL St.

Louis 6 Pittsburg 4 Brooklyn Boston 3 Chicago 6 Cincinnati 0 Philadelphia 6 New York 0 AJIERICAX Washington 5 Boston 3 New York 10 Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 2 Detroit 1 Cricago 5 Cleveland 1 End Strike 5TEUEENYILLE. JP CIO s'eelworker at the Follans-bee Steal Corp. voted almost unanimously to quit their stre and gf to work cent hourly- pay boa -v 17:.. i a a ooast.

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