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jfi jt .4 j0M''mJ mm ft mvan GOOD EVENING: J. Pluvius is building alibis for grid coaches. WEATHER: Light rain ending tonight; cloudy, cool Saturday. Presenting Many of the Features of the HARRISBURGTELEGRAPH HARRISBURG, PENNA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1948 PRICE FIVE CENTS No. 980030 PAGES Penna State Library Education Bldy 7-1-4) 3 'i KfMfti II o) nlfl ull mum VICTIM HELD FAST Demand U.

S. Re jects Re Hi ft Flight Check IN WRECKED AUTO; 2 BARELY ESCAPE While her husband and a trucker worked frantically to rescue her from an overturned automobile in the Gettysburg Pike, near Rose Garden, early today, a Cumberland County woman was killed when a trailer-truck crashed into the wrecked vehicle. Mrs. Nellie Heckard, 44, Mt. Holly Springs, was killed instantly, and her husband, William A.

Heck BERLIN (INS) The Soviets attempted to throttle the Allied air list to seething Berlin today by 'K fr 1 '71 vV i I 1 1 'I A Film Star Succumbing To Mystery Injuries HOLLYWOOD (INS) Film star Rita Johnson's condition took a turn for the worse today as authorities launched an intensive investigation to determine how she suffered head and body injuries since Monday evening Hospital where a delicate brain operation was performed on the actress last night announced: "Miss Johnson's condition cripple tne air lilt which has off-por and she is still unconscious." a i Earlier the hospital advised that' 5PS AsSQl1 she was "improved" and in DlSmantHna 7 ard, 36, and Clyde E. Williams, 18, Gettysburg, narrowly escaped being struck by the trailer-truck, reported by State Police to have been operated by Charles E. Lau, 27, Palmyra. Car Hit Embankment Heckard, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight brakeman, told police he was drivjng southward, toward Dillsburg, with his wife at 4 a. m.

when his car climbed an embankment, returned to the highway and rolled on its side. Unable to extricate his wife, who was pinned in the front seat, Heckard flagged a truck operated by the Williams youth. Williams and Heckard had reached the overturned car only a few moments before it was struck by the trailer truck. Police said the trailer truck, proceeding southward, went over the crest of a hill before it struck the overturned car, a sedan. Husband's Injuries Slight Marks on the embankment indicated the Heckard car had traveled 20 feet after starting to climb the embankment before it rolled back onto the highway, police reported.

Heckard suffered only a cut of the right index The heavy trailer truck, 6wnel by Nelson and Sons, Palmyra, dragged the chassis, of the Heckard car 180 feet, police said. The motor of Heckard's car, which was demolished, was ripped from the chassis. The front of the tractor truck was badly damaged. Flying pieces of the Heckard car struck the Williams truck, damaging it slightly. Dr.

Edward A. Haegele, Cumberland County coroner, said Mrs. Heckard's injuries included a crushed skull and chest, fractures of the neck and both legs and bruises of the face and legs. He ordered an autopsy. Heckard was treated at Seidle Memorfal Hospital, Mechanicsburg, where he was taken by ambulance.

Charges Lodged State Troopers Clayton W. Hamberger and Herman J. Faiola, who conducted the investigation, reported they lodged charges of assault and battery by motor 'MISS PENNSYLVANIA PRESENTS TALENT Miss Ruth Annette Douglas, 20, of Progress, competing as "Miss Pennsylvania" in the "Miss America" beauty pageant, thrilled throng at Atlantic City last night with presentation of her song in talent competition. (Another picture, on Page 21.) Progress Girl Impresses Beauty Pageant Crowd In Delivery of Song ATLANTIC CITY Miss Ruth Annette Douglas, of Progress, who is competing as "Miss Pennsylvania" in the annual beauty pageant here, made such an impression last night with her delivery of the song "Jalousie" that Veteran observers and spectators predicted she probably will be one of the 15 finalists tomorrow night. The 20-year-old brunette from Big Phone Unions Decide Today on Strike Support WASHINGTON (INS) A conference of telephone unions representing upwards of 300,000 workers decide today whether or not to support a national phone strike called for September The walkout has been ordered by the Association of Communication Equipment Workers, with 25,000 members, but its effectiveness will depend on whether the other groups observe ACEW picket lines.

This issue is to be threshed out at today's parley of leaders of the CIO Telephone Workers Organizing Committee, the Independent Com munications Workers of America and other independents from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Ohio. ACEW, whose members rnstal equipment in Bell Telephone ex changes, called the strike against the Western Electric Company a subsidiary of the network ia -dispute- -over a new wage agreement. 'Sally' Indicte For Treason WASHINGTON (INS) Mil dred E. Gillars, 'Axis Sally" of the wartime Nazi radio, was formally charged with treason today in an indictment returned by a Federal grand jury. The 47-year-old woman propa gandist faces a possible death sentence if convicted on the treason charge.

The indictment lists 10 specific instances between August 1, J943, and September 20, 1944, in which Miss Gillars, also named as Mildred E. Sisk, allegedly committed trea sonable act3 over the German radio. It said that she, "being a citizen of the United States and a person owing allegiance to the United States" violated that allegiance by "knowingly, intentionally, wilfully, unlawfully, feloniously and treasonably" adhering to' the enemies of the United States. Police War on Motorists Parking on Lawns The police are warning on mo torists who park automobiles on lawns, grassplots and sidewalks, sometimes damaging shrubbery. Mayor Robins, in announcing this today, said police will be particularly vigilant in the region of the William Penn and John Harris High schools, from which numerous complaints have been received.

Chief Blough passed the order to the police today, saying violators will be fined and that, where shrubbery is damaged, the motorist will be required to pay the damage. which have left her unconscious Attendants Vincent's RITA JOHNSON Scott S. Leiby Scares Burglar Scott S. Leiby, prominent lawyer and former grandmaster of Pennsylvania Masons, surprised a burglar in the act of ransacking his home, 2933 North Front street, early last night. Leiby notified police he heard a noise in the second floor when he and Mrs.

Leiby reached home at 8.20 o'clock. The intruder, frightened by the arrival of Leiby, fled through a second-floor back balcony door. Scaled Rain Spouting Police said the would-be burglar evidently entered the Leiby home after scaling a rain spouting to the balcony and breaking the glass in a back room door. Leiby reported he found the front bedroom had been ransacked and jewl boxes from dresser drawers left on the floor in front of the dresser. It is believed the intruder fled without taking any loot.

Police this afternoon were also investigating two robberies and an attempted robbery at three South Cameron business establishments, a theft from a guest at a city hotel and a report that an intoxicated man was "rolled" in an Uptown street. Opening Football Game Postponed; Too Rainy The football game between Lower Paxton and Catholic high scheduled to be played this evening at McDevitt Field, has been postponed until tomorrow evening because of rain. William Penn planned to play at Coatesville tonight as scheduled. at St. Looting Home proposing regulations which a United States official said are "none of business." This development came as the city girded for new disorders feared coincident with a monster Communist rally set for Sunday in the Soviet sector.

The Russians took two major steps in their obvious attempt to FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) Sixteen German Catholic bishops today attacked the Allied factory dismantling program in Germany. A pastoral letter, to be read Sunday in Catholic pulpits, said: "If factories and workshops which escaped the war and perve peace-time production, and which could offer the people means for earning their living, now shall be dismantled and torn down, it is inconceivable how reasonable economic and social order shall be reestablished within a reasonable time." set all their claims that Beriin is dependent upon Moscow for food, fuel and other necessities 1. They demanded detailed.i- formation on every flight involved in the air lift a full hour in advance. 2. They announced that Soviet planes will "maintain security" in the air corridors linking Western Germany with blockaded Berlin and will step up their own air maneuvers despite former Allied protests over air safety rule viola tions.

It was the first stipulation that aroused American ire. A high of ficial said that the United States Air Force will ignore the Soviet aemanu dui womu con uc by established air safety regula tions. He added: "Nobodv is going to push us around in the corridor and the Rus sians know it, "We are posting flight notices listing flight courses and altitudes, But the objective of each flight is none of the Soviets' business President Plans eak Here According to a tentative program for a four-day campaign tour in eastern states in late October, President Truman is scheduled to make one of his addresses in Harrisburg. This trip will probably start from Washington October 25, and on his first day out, he will talk here and at Reading, Bethlehem, Allen-town and Wilkes-Barre. No definite time for his arrival here has been announced.

On night of October 28 the President will, according to the tentative schedule now being worked out, make an address at Madison Square Garden, New York. Romania Denies All BUCHAREST (AP) Romania today rejected as false Yugoslav charges accusing Romanian officials of urging the Yugoslav people to revolt against Premier Marshal Tito. ToSp ForAi Early Meeting To Be Arranged On City Zoning Zoning regulations for Harris burg are to be discussed soon at a conference of City Council, City Planning-Zoning Commission and Harrisburg Area Regional Plan ning Committee, Mayor Claude R. Robins announced following morning meeting at City Hall with Edgar Z. Wallower, chairman of the Regional Body.

The Mayor indicated that all groups are united on the need for zoning and that the conference is aimed to speed the development of zoning regulations based upon the zoning map now nearing comple tion in the City Engineer's office after more than two years of study. The map was prepared by Ned Black, architect and 7-omng student, in cooperation with the city engineer's staff. The date for the conference probably will be set in a few days, according to the Mayor, who said it probably will begin with a luncheon in a private dining room of the Penn-Harris Hotel. At Tuesday's session of City Council, when a delegation of more than 40 women, protested establishment of a taproom at 1822 North Second street, their spokes men asserted zoning regulations are needed to control erection and use of buildings. The Mayor at that time disclosed that work is nearing completion on the base zoning map and promised action within a month or so.

The regional planners have been avdocating zoning for years, and previously the matter was advocated by the old Municipal League, which dealt with public improvement problems since the turn of the century. Groves Testifies At Atom Probe WASHING TON (AP) Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, wartime boss of the Army's atomic bomb project, testified today at a House committee Investigation oi ani alleged atomic espionage plot.

The retired Army officer appeared in response to an Un-American Activities Committee, sub-pena. He was questioned behind closed doors. Asked bv newsmen if he had any information of value to givej the committee in its spy hunt, Groves said: "I think I can tell them a great deal about everything for which I was responsible. Unlike a good many other people I am not depending on He said the main objective of the Manhattan project during the war "was to get the bomb so we could end the war and save American lives." Security, he said, "was just a part" of that job. Earlier, committee members claimed to have struck pay dirt in their digging into the alleged atomic spy plot.

Their findings are being kept secret as they pro ceed with plans for public hearings beginning next Wednesday. The Easy Way The easiest way to win friends Is by doing things for people. That's why Patriot-News Classified Ads number so many Central Pennsylvanians among their friends. Take you, for instance. There isn't anything you'd like to have done, from house-hunting to scarce-article shopping, that a Classified Ad won't do quickly, efficiently and economically.

Use this friendly service to fill some need now. Just phone 5251 and ask for Classified. condition. At the actress' bedside was her brother, William Johnsc who flew from Chicago. Johnson, alarmed at the mysterious circumstances surrounding the screen star's collapse, demanded an immediate police investigation, i Attack Rumored Rumors gained ground in Hollywood that the actress, noted for her portrayal of sophisticates and "other woman" roles, may have been the victim of a murderous attack.

Miss Johnson admitted an actress-friend. Mary Ainslee, to her apartment last Monday afternoon and then collapsed -on. the floor.) Miss Ainslee said that she noted bumps on the actress' head. So far the only clue as to what happened to the actress has been her incoherently mumbled explanation "the hair drier fell on me." Detectives who figured in the recent Robert Mitchum marijuana arrest received a strange call which they were told: "Rita Johnson was taken from her apartment under unusual circumstances." Unknown Informant Their informer identified himself as "Mr. Gold, owner of the Chateau Marmont." The Chateau Marmont is where the injured screen actress lives.

Howover, in quiry developed no Mr. Gold is known there. The detectives talked to Dr. Aiden Raney, a brain specialist called in to attend Miss Johnson. They quoted him a3 giving this description of the star's injuries: "She has bruises on the head, face, legs and body, a possible skull fracture and maybe a blood clot on the brain." The actress was removed to the hospital after being in a coma since Monday.

She lapsed into unconsciousness Monday evening shortly after an actress friend, Mary Ainslee, called at her apartment to go to a cocktail party with her. Miss Ainslee quoted Miss Johnson as saying: "I've had a bad bump and my head hurts." Miss Ainslee continued: "She was all dressed for the party and had a hair net in her hand. She asked me to feel the bump on her head. "I felt the swelling. It was the size of an orange." After the Belgo-American Associa tion protested the attempt of the real estate men to make the graves unit remove the bodies, Jean Drapier, Spaak's cabinet chief, summoned representatives of the firms to Brussels.

"You have a chance to get out of the affair as gentlemen if you hasten to express your regrets to the Americans," he told them "We do not have to express either regrets or excuses," the real estate men replied. "Get out, then," Drapier shot back. "I ve nothing more to say to you." The case has not yet been in, Noon Tomorrow Deadline To Qualify for Vote Tomorrow noon is the dead line for unregistered persons to qualify for voting at the November 2 Presidential election. The bureau of registration in the Courthouse, open until 4 o'clock this afternoon, will be open also from 9 a. m.

to noon tomorrow to receive registrations and to make changes of address. Additional clerks were assigned by the Dauphin County commissioners today to assist the regular force in handling the last minute rush tomorrow. After the noon deadline tomorrow, records in the bureau will be closed to further changes until after the November election. Air Depot Workers Get 73c Hourly Pay Boost Pay raises averaging 13 cents per hour, retroactive to August 22, have been approved for 3600 employes of Middletown Air Depot, Brig. Gen.

Donald F. Stace, commanding general of Olmsted Air Force Base, announced today. Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal approved the increase as the result of a survey of wages paid to comparable employes in private firms in the Harrisburg area. The survey was conducted by the Army and Air Force Wage Coordination Board at the request of the Middletown Air Materiel Area.

the Keystone State faces her final test tonight when she appears in a bathing suit. The talented Miss Douglas, with her rich coloratura soprano voice, brought hundreds of spectators to their feet in the talent competition in huge Convention Hall last night. Most of the 8900 persons in the auditorium felt Miss Douglas would win, but the 10 judges gave their nod to Marilyn Robinson, of Ogden, 19-year-old "Miss Utah." Audience Disappointed Disappointment ran through the audience when the judges an-1 nounced their choice, according to an Associated Press reporter. "There was no question but that Miss Douglas carried off second place in the preliminary test," he wrote. "She demonstrated a fine stage presence, she was confident and her.

voice was exceptional. Miss Douglas unquestionably had the best voice among the 18 girls who competed for the talent cup." Miss Utah gave a gripping dramatic sketch of a mother at the bedside of a dying son. Miss Pennsylvania appeared in a red velvet gown that featured padded hips and Cap sleeves. She See PROGRESS GIRL Page 10 'Buzzie' Going to London LOS ANGELES (AP) Recovered from polio, Curtis (Buzie) Boettiger, 18, grandson of the late President Roosevelt, prepared today to sail Monday with his grandmother, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, for a United Nations Conference in London.

Boettiger was discharged yesterday from Corona Naval Hospital. one story below. She claimed she suffered bodily injuries and pain to the extent of $100,000. Given has entered a general denial. Miss Lane said that on December 17, 1947, Given expressed the opinion he was -a "pretty strong man," then grabbed her by the ankles, held her out the window, "swung me like pendulum" and dropped her.

The action became known when Miss Lane moved to examine Given before trial of the suit. The court reserved decision on her request. vehicle against Heckard and Lau before Justice of the Peace H. M. Thompson, Mechanicsburg.

Bail was set at $1000, each. Lau fur nished bail. Mrs. Reba Stein, 1532 Regina street, said Mr. and Mrs.

Heckard lived in one of her apartments at 1503 Regina street until two months ago. Mrs. Heckard is survived by two sons, Lurtis Larnell, JJUlsburg K. D. 1, and Wilbur Carnell, Savannah, a daughter, Mrs.

R. H. White, also Savannah, and seven grand children. Snapshot Winners Winners in the seventh and final week's Snapshot Contest, led by Mrs. Katherine F.

Erwin, of Carlisle, are announced by The Evening News on Page 10. With their names are those of 40 who received honorable mention. nated, the result would be 59 per cent, for Mr. Truman and 41 per cent, for Governor Dewey. In the 1944 Presidential election Missouri went Democratic with a vote of 51 per cent, to 48 for the GOP.

Neither Henry A. Wallace, candidate of the Progressive Party nor Governor J. Strom Thurmond, can didate of the States' Rights Party, will be on the official election bal lot in Missouri, Hence the Demo cratic vote in the state will not be divided by those two forces the way it is in a number of other important states. In New York, for example, the 2 Belgian Firms Attempt To Evict U. S.

War Dead Truman Holds Long Lead In Missouri Sampling BRUSSELS (AP) The pre-l A spokesman for Premier Paul-mier's office said today Belgium Henri Spaak expressed regret. Dangled, Dropped Her From Window, Model Charges is investigating an effort made to force the United States to abandon a cemetery near Namur containing thousands of war graves Two Belgian real estate corpora tions issued a summons against the American War Graves Registration Unit at Liege. It would have required the Americans to evacuate the cemetery in eight days. Many of By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J.

President Truman has a long lead in his home state of Missouri. Poll interviewers throughout the state find the following lineup among voters in reply to the question: "If the Presidential election were being held today how would you vote for Dewey, or for Truman?" NEW YORK (AP) A former model and entertainer, Phyllis Lane, wants $100,000 from a man she claims dropped her from a window of the Park Central Hotel, after first letting her dangle by her ankles. In a State Supreme Court action Miss Lane named John La Porte Given, food company heir, as defendant. Her complaint charged that Given "wilfully, wantonly, maliciously and recklessly threw and pushed" her from a 22nd floor window of the hotel to a terrace Index for Today News and features in THE EVENING NEWS today: Comics Deaths and Funerals 2 Editorials 14 Finance-Produce Markets ....18 Hedda Hopper 13 Radio 15 Social 8-9 Sport 19-20-21 Theaters 12-13 Weather Details 17 West Shore 23 Woman's Page 22 the American dead, killed in the Battle of the Bulge to free Belgium, still are unidentified. The cemetery was established on requisitioned land in 1944.

The Belgian firms said the Belgian government had not compensated them. i MISSOURI (15 Electoral Votes) Truman 53 Dewey 36 Undecided 11 With the undecided vote eliml- brought to court. Set TEUMAN Page r..