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it o) WEATHER: Occasional light rain, cooler today; Wednesday cloudy. Entered PRICE FOUR CENTS No. 908924 PAGES HARRISBURG, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1946 as Second-Class Matter Ml RS MOT MI A As River Approached Flood Stage Here River to Pass Flood DRIVES FOR WORK-OR-DRAFT PROVISION WASHINGTON, Slay 28. Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky, said today Administration forces will fight to keep the "work-or-draft" provision in the emergency strike legislation asked by President Truman.

DISARMAMENT PLAN SCRAPPED BERLIN, May 28. A United States Army spokesman said today that a proposal to set up a disarmament commission for Germany was scrapped when a coordinating council failed to agree on the scope of its activity. The plan broke down as a result of an American proposal to include economic disarmament in the commission's field. CLAIM SPAIN NOT NAZI HIDEOUT NEW YORK, May has informed the United Nations that "no diplomatic mission accredited to Spain has found any evidence of the presence of war criminals in that country," it was disclosed Stasre in City Tonight, State Observer Says City PfeparesjCarter Glass, 88, To Meet Menace Oldest Senator, As River Rises Dies at Capital In -e By United Prest WASHINGTON, May 28. Sen.

Carter Glass, the peppery, little "unreconstructed rebel" who devoted 46 years to public, service, died here early today following a long illness. He was 88. The one-time "Lion of Virginia" succumbed to congestive heart failure at 1.15 a. Dr. W.

A. Bloedorn, who was summoned to mm 1 J- -i I These pictures were taken this morning opposite the city as the Susquehanna approached flood stage. The top picture, looking downstream beyond the Market Street Bridge, shows the inundated mall along the east bank and electric light standards showing through the swollen waters. The boathouse in the bottom picture, moored to trees in the River Tark, is shown riding out the rising aters opposite Locust street. PRR Probing Falmouth Troop Train Wreck; 2 Marines, Engineer Dead DELAY PARLEY AT REQUEST OF BOTH SIDES By Vnited Pren WASHINGTON, May 28.

Government and labor sources have assured a group of senators that settlement of the coal strike is imminent "probably" within 36 hours. Sen. James M. Mead, N.Y., made the disclosure as Coal Administrator J. A.

Krug and Presi dent John L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers (AFL), were scheduled to resume negotiations on a Government-union contract that would send the 400,000 bituminous miners back to work in the Gov ernment-operated pits. Mead also said it was indicated that a prompt settlement of the Maritime workers dispute was anticipated. CIO Maritime unions have scheduled a strike for June 15. Krug and Lewis, who originally were scheduled to resume negotia tions earlier, delayed the meetipg for three hours because "neither side was ready." Four mine union officials met for 20 minutes during the morning with Adm.

Ben Moreell, who is operating the mines for Krug. Lewis participate in the conference. The spokesman said the discussion concerned "a couple of cases of alleged discrimination against miners in Government operation of the coal fields." He apparently referred to oper ations during part of the two- Turn to Page Twenty-one Pauley Given Permission To Visit Russian Zone Internationa Sewt Service SEOUL, Korea, May 28. Soviet permission was granted today for United States Reparations Commissioner Edwin W. Pauley and his party to enter the Russian oc cupied zone in Northern Korea.

Pauley immediately announced his ll-'car special train, now on a siding in Seoul, will leave for Pyongang at 7 a. m. tomorrow with a staff of nine, specialists to commence the war reparations survey. In his letter of permission, Col Gen. I.

M. Chistiakov, Soviet com mander of the Russian zone, as sured Pauley of "billeting and competent guides." Firemen Give Up Search lor Body Efforts to recover the body of George Raymond Barton, 6, son of Helena Barton, 821 South Tenth street, from the swollen waters of Paxton Creek, where he is believed to have drowned yesterday, were abandoned by city firemen today. Fire Chief Earl W. Swartz said this afternoon that the high water in the creek made the search for the body impossible. The firemen grappled the creek for several hours yesterday and placed a net at the mouth of the stream where Turn to Page Twenty-one Classified ad launches business! "Raising ringneck pheasant chicks was just a hobby with me, but an Ad in The Patriot-News started me in business," T.

G. Wilson told an Adtaker. "The results were amazing. We placed orders every day, and I have enough business now so that I won't need more advertising for some time." RINGNECK Pleasant Chicks, advance orders now taken, 1st hatching June 2. T.

Wilson, Licensed Propagator, Phone 3-3905. Mr. Wilson's result-story indicates the reason for The Patriot-News 3 to 1 Classified Ad lead in Harrisburg. Phone your Ad to 5252 and ask for an Adtaker. City police and firemen, veterans' organizations, the Disaster Relief Committee of the Red Cross and of the old Civilian Defense Council were being alerted today for possible flood emergency action here.

Action was taken when a forecast said the river might rise within a few feet of the 1936 flood stage of 30.33 feet. Public Safety Director William T. DeHart, himself in a possible flood zone at 2417 North Front street, was informed officially by State forecasters that the city can expect a stage close to 27 feet by Thursday morning. He immedi ately suggested that families who were affected by the 1936 flood should begin moving furnishings to upper floors. Councilman Leitner announced that Fire Chief Earl Swartz had obtained -'00 cots and as many Turn to Page Ten Swatara Creek Floods Road Near Middletown The Swatara Creek burst its banks at Frey's Grove this morning, flooding the main road from Hummelstown to Middletown.

Hundreds of Middletown Air Depot workers were forced to use a detour to get to work. Only a few drivers ventured through water which swirled over running boards. The Yellow Breeches Creek was reported bank-full but not yet overflowing. It was still rising at noon at Lisburn. Juniata Rises Rapidly; Far From Flood Stage LEWISTOWN, May 28.

With a rise of 10 feet in the last 24 hours the river stage at 8 a. m. was 17 feet. This is 10 feet under flood stage and 23 feet under the 1936 river stage. A steady rain began to fall here about 8 o'clock this morning.

A heavy rain yesterday afternoon and more showers in the night accounted for the rapid rise of the river. NEWS STRIKE CONTINUES By United PHILADELPHIA, May strike which has tied up Philadel phia's three major newspapers went into its 13th day today with no signs of settlement in sight. Crest Reached At Lock Haven; Damage Heavy Two persons were killed by landslide and six are missing in th Wellsboro area, hardest hit section on the North Branch of the flood ing Susquehanna. Details of the disaster at Wells boro were not learned until mid afternoon by the Governor disaster committee. The area had been cut oft from all outside contact since last night.

The dead were reported caught in a house in the path of a landslide at Richards, near Wellsboro. At Morris three persons were reported missing, Cedar Run citi zens said they saw three others swept off a bridge. The flood at Cedar Run was nearly four feet over the 1936 level. At Williamsport the Red Cross is caring for 430 families in three shelters. More than 3000 other families need aid.

Six A rmv trucks bringing supplies are parked at Sout Williamsport, unable to enter the flood-bound city. Three bridges were washed out in the Wellsboro district and three main highways were blocked by landslides. Four buildings at a CCC camp and an Army garage were washed out. "Significant" rainfall was reported to have ceased over the Susquehanna watershed this afternoon as the crest of the raging waters of the West Branch, highest since the disastrous flood of 1.936, moved downstream toward a junction at Sunbury with the rain-swollen North Branch and at Dun-cannon with the high waters of the Juniata. A crest of 25 to 27 feet, only three to five feet below the record of 30.33 in 1936, was expected here Thursday morning.

The rampaging West Branch had already crested at Lock Haven, where tremendous damage resulted, and was slated to reach a 30.5 foot crest around dusk this evening at Williamsport. Although crests had not formed on the Chemung or the North Branch of the Susquehanna in New York State, a maximum stage of 24.5 feet was expected around noon tomorrow at Towanda, 32 feet tomorrow evening at Wilkes-Barre, Turn to Page Thirteen SEN. BANKHEAD BETTER Bv United Prest WASHINGTON, May 28. Sen. John H.

Bankhead, has "shown quite an improvement" during the night, the United States Naval Hospital at Bethesda, said today. Bankhead suffered a stroke last Friday. New Epidemic On War Bride NEW YORK, May 28. A new epidemic among children aboard a bride ship still at sea was reported today as a board of inquiry absolved medical personnel on the Zebulon Vance of any blame for the death' of eight babies. The Army Transport John Ericcson, due in New York on Thursday with a cargo of British war brides, radioed that one infant had died "of suffocation" and three others were seriously ill.

Nature of the illness was unde termined, but it was believed to be the same malady that caused the deaths of nine other infants who recently arrived in New York aboard the bride ships Zebulon Vance and Brazil. River Stages Flood Town Stage (X. Branth) Towarfda 12 Wilkes-Barre 22 Danville 20 (West Branch) Clearfield 10 Karthaus 19 Renovo IS 11.30 a. m. .22.2 .24.9 .17.4 .8.1 .11.7 .19.7 .26.8 .12.6 .29.7 .24.4 Lock Haven 21 Cedar Run 12 Williamsport Lewisburg (Juniata) Newport 20 18 22 .15.6 .16.1 .12.8 (Susquehanna) Sunbury 16 Harrisburg 17 Stages at 1 p.

m. Towanda 22.4 Wilkes-Barre 26.2 Renovo 18.8 Lock Haven 26.6 Sunbury 17.3 Stages at 2 p. m. Harrisburg 14.4 Receding. The raging Susquehanna River will hit flood stage early this evening- as it relentlessly climbs toward an expected crest of 25 to 27 feet early Thursday, the Federal-State Flood Forecasting Service warned this afternoon.

By 2 p. m. the swirling waters had reached 14.4 feet and were steadily rising toward the 17-foot flood level for Harrisburg. In one 'of its worst outbursts in history, the river has already caused untold damage in lives and property in northern communities, where the disaster has nearly reached proportions of the 1936 devastation. James A.

Kell, Secretary of For ests and Waters and chairman of the Governor's disaster committee, said the river here will hit 16.5 feet at 6 p. m. Daylight Time, and go over its banks shortly thereafter at flood level in South Harrisburg. Kell said the river is expected to hit 19 feet at midnight, 22 feet by tomorrow at 6 a.m., 24 feet by noon tomorrow and climax here and at Sunbury early Thursday at between 25 to 27 feet. If reached, the expected maxi mum will be the greatest height the river has risen here with the exception of March, 1936, when Turn to Page Thirteen Left-Wing Writer New British Food Minister LONDON.

Mav 28. John Strachev. a left wing writer whom the United States Government sought to deport before the war, today took over the difficult post as Britain's new minister of food. Strachey's relations with the American Government should be considerably smoother now than in 1935 and 1938, when it tried to send him back to England as a unwanted and dangerous visitor. He was arrested twice and accused of being a Communist.

He denied the charge. the Attlee government named him to succeed Sir Ben Smith in the food ministry. Among Babes Ship Reported Eight of the victims of the disease made the crossing on the Vance and one came over on the Brazil. The board of inquiry report absolved the personnel of the Vance, but it failed to identify the disease or its cause. Cleanliness aboard the vessel was maintained at all times, the report said, and "no evidence was disclosed that any misconduct or neglect on the part of any of the ship's medical personnel." One mother had charged that one of the nurses aboard the Vance often had been "obviously drunk." Furthermore, the report added, the board found that some of the babies had been ill before leaving Le Havre, France.

mrm Investigation of the wreck of a troop train yesterday afternoon near Falmouth, which may have resulted from a washout due to recent heavy rains, was continued today by Federal, State and Pennsylvania Railroad officials, while funeral arrangements were completed for two Marines and the engineer The train was carrying 208 Marines who were slated for discharge at Bainbridge, Md. The derailment also resulted in injury to 19 other Marines and two other railroad employes. The dead were: Privates Earl Ireton, Pawtaucket, R. and Fausto Lewis Rizzo, of New Hampshire, and Clarence G. Mer- Turn to Page Six Mild-Mannered Clerk Slays Two in Store 1NGLEWOOD, May 28.

A mild-mannered clerk, who believed he was discharged from a store here for dishonesty, fatally shot the manager and assistant manager because they "picked on me," a note he had written disclosed today. The clerk, Paul Dohanyos, 35, was shot in the head by a passing traffic policeman and died a few hours after the running gun battle through the store while terrified employes and customers crouched under coun ters. Also dead were Manager Harry Hammerland and Assistant Manager Maurice Knudsen. a Truce Called in Fight on Labor WASHINGTON, May 28. Death brought a 24-hour armistice today in the bitter Senate fight over President Truman's request for emergency powers to deal with strikes against the Government.

The Senate laid aside its debate on the House-approved strike con trol legislation to eulogize the late Sen. Carter Glass, its oldest member. Following the eulogies by Glass' colleagues, the Senate recessed in Turn-to Page Ten Juniata River Falling; Only Low Spots Flooded HUNTINGDON, May 28. The Juniata' River crested at 8.54 feet here last night and was falling today, ending a thrat to floods in this territory. Some low places were inundated, but no serious damage was done here.

The river continued to fall steadily here since last night. Three Cars of Pigs Sought in Flood lone by PRR PRR officials at Jersey Shore were reported seeking three cars of pigs detached from a freight when a landslide hit the train during the night. The cars or pigs have not been seen since. Whitney said the President saw him and Alvanley Johnston, of the Engineers Brotherhood, only twice personally for 27 minutes on May 14 and for three minutes May 17. "And," he said, "he treated us like stepchildren.

He was irritated both times. He was not Turn to Page Seven i Glass' hotel suite when he ap peared to be sinking, said the end came "quietly and peacefully." At his bedside 'was1 WWe, the former Mrs. Mary Scott Meade, whom he married when he was 82. She had shared Glass' seclusion during the last years of his life. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.

m. Thursday at Montview, Turn to Page Seven General Walkout Idles Rochester By Vnited Prest ROCHESTER, N. May 28. Industry was stalled and all pub- lice transportation was halted today in this city of 325,000 population as the result of a general walkout of 48,000 CIO and AFL union members. The strike, ordered by the CIO-AFL strike strategy committee despite last-minute intervention of Gov.

Thomas E. Dewey and the State Federation of Labor, was called at dawn in protest against Turn to Page Ten Susquehanna Township School Closes Early The Herbert Hoover School of the Susquehanna Township district was closed ahead of schedule this afternoon because of the flood warnings. Most children the school come from the Rockville-Fort Hunter district, where the rapidly rising river was lapping at the top of the bank at 2.30 o'clock. Residents in that area who felt certain of getting water on'their first floors in a 27-foot stage, forecast for Thursday morning, were moving furnishings to upper floors. Emergency Committee made last March.

The committee urged bakers to make the cut voluntarily. At that time, many bakers protested they could not make the reduction because of state laws regulating the weight of bread. Since then, these regulations have been waived in all but eight states and the District of Columbia. However, it was believed the Federal order would supercede state law. Thus, the 10 per cent, cut in size requested on a voluntary basis in March now, becomes mandatory in all states.

Bakers now can obtain only 75 per cent, of the amount of flour they got during a base period of 1944. On July 1, however, this List $130,346 In City Projects City Council today unfolded its 1946 public improvement program for street and sewer extensions to cost an estimated $130,346. To pay for it, until reimbursed in part by private property owners, the city will spend the $78,000 cash balance left from 1945 operations; use the $5000 balance in the sewer tappage fund and take the rest out of the $100,000 post-war improvement fund created a few years ago. The program calls for sewer in Antoine street, sewer in Wiconisco street, paving and draining Hoffman street, lays sewers for the Hollinger Turn to Page Thirteen 72.45 P. rW.

Bulletin Secretary of Forests and Waters Kell, chairman of the Governor's Emergency Committee, issued the following statement at 12.45 o'clock this afternoon: "Significant rainfall has ceased in the Susquehanna Watershed. The (Juniata River) crest has passed down stream through the Juniata basin except at Newport, where it is now cresting. "The crest on the West Branch of the Susquehanna has reached Lock Haven, and will reach Williamsport tonight at a stage of about 30.5. "Crests have not formed on th Chemung (tributary of the North Branch) or in the North Branch In New York state. However, present indications are for a maximum stage of 24.5 at Towanda at noon tomorrow, about 32 feet Wednesday night at Wilkes-Barre, 26 feet Thursday morning at Danville.

Sunbury and Harrisburg will crest at 25 to 27 feet early on Thursday." Smaller, Flatter Loaves of Bread Due to Appear Soon Truman 'Treated Us Like Stepchildren Whitney Says In Baring Railroad Talks By Vnited Prest WASHINGTON, May Government has ordered bakers to cut the size of bread loaves and rolls starting Saturday. Loaves will be 10 per cent. smaller by weight and probably somewhat flatter. The price will remain the same. Bakers must indicate the weight of the loaf on the wrapper.

Bakers who have difficulty getting new wrappers, may use old ones provided they furnish retailers with signs describing th new loaf. The order to cut the size of loaves was issued under the War Powers Act. It was the first legal move to carry out a recommendation of President Truman's Famine By Unite Preti CLEVELAND, May 28. A. F.

Whitney, embittered head of the Railroad Trainmen, today opened wide the throttle on his campaign against President Truman, charging the President with misrepresentation and broken promises, and threatening to "spill over the Country" proof of Mr. Truman's "insincerity." will be boosted to 85 per cent. i i.