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Dixon, Illinois, Saturday, September 10, 1949 System I hike On; ,5,000 Idle St. Louis, Sept. The Missouri Pacific railroad's system was virtually out of business today, with 5,000 trainmen on strike and more than 20,000 other em ployes laid off. Other railroads and bus and truck companies struggled to move the 12,000 passengers and 250,000 tons of freight that the "Mo Pac" the country's ninth largest rail system caries daily in its 10 state territory- The strike began at 2 p. m.

yesterday as engineers, firemen, conductors and other trainmen left their posts in a dispute over interpretation of operating rules. However, those trains still rolling when the strike deadline came finished their runs. Others had stopped earlier. No Compromise As the strike began, there was no sign of a compromise move by either the railroad or the four unions involved, the Brotherhoods of Engineers, Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors. Paul J.

Neff, chief operating officer of the line, who called the strike "one of the most unjustifiable in American railroad history," repeated that he is ready to let arbitrators settle the issues R. E. Davidson, assistant grand chief of the Locomotive Engineers, speaking for the brotherhoods, said arbitration wouldn't end the strike. The union's stand is that the issues in dispute are not sub ject to arbitration. Can't Agree The cause of the strike is that the road and the unions, after years of negotiations, still can't agree on how certain operating rules for the men shall be interpreted.

The submitted 2S2 claims for their members, based on their interpretation. These involve about $3, 000.000 the railroad would have to pay if it agreed to the cli which it doesn't. It was estimated that only about 2.000 of the railroad's 27.000 employes remained on the job today. They are to handle administrative details that, strike or no strike, INLPs Radio Phone System Club's Topic Thirty-five members of the Rock River chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers attended the first fall meeting of the chapter at the Elks club Jti-day night. Following a short business session, program chairman A.

D. LaCour introduced Mr. A. W. Brown, distribution engineer of the Illinois Northern utilities pany.

who explained the purpose of the two way high frequenc radio communication system the company is installing at the prt ent time. With approximately 170 miles of 132,000 volt liiii miles of volt line and 6.000 miles of rural lines of variou. voltages covering the company territory, the need for communica tion between construction forces or service crews is a necessity tc insure the highest degree of con tinuity of service to the customers served. To expedite the handling of service or trouble calls during storms or to direct construction forces during normal operating conditions, it is expected the radio system will prove invaluable as a time saver both to the com pany and the customer. Mr.

LaCour then introduced Mr. Forrest Eakman. Communications Engineer of the I. N. U.

Co. whe is in charge of the installation anc future operation of the new equipment. Mr. Eakman explained some of the technical aspects of tht system following his talk with an actual demonstration of the of the equipment. A regular mobile unit was sot up in the dining room of the Elks club and with a similar unit in one of the company cars Mr.

Kenneth Dipple of the Communications. toured Dixon keeping in touch with an receiving from Mr. Eakman. The I. N.

U. co. is installing eleven fixed stations at the various district offices and 75 mobile units units in construction, service trucks and cars. Although the installation is primarily for norma) use from the various offices tc the mobile units in the district, the company is licensed to use the equipment in emergency for communication between stations when other systems fail or are out of service due to weather conditions such as the sleet storms experienced in the territory during the past two winters. Pat: "Well, doctor, how is Lawyer Smith today?" Doc: "He's still lying at death's Pat: "Is he now? Well that's grit for you.

At death's door and still lying." In adult life, the oyster usually Is attached to some hard object. This may be a shell, either live or empty, or it may be attached to the under a pier. Ne spaferR I fil '-aaiva GIVES WAV TO PROGRESS Joe Zampogna has served 31 years as flagman at the Seventh street crossing of the Illinois Central tracks. During this time he has painstakingly watched over thousands of school children and adults, both pedestrians and motorists who daily make use of the crossing. In this period while he has been on duty, Joe points with pride to the record that none of the persons using the crossing has received so much as a scratch.

With the installation of the most modern type of electrically controlled automatic crossing control, Joe will be retired and his moved from its location within a few davs. Moscow and Tito Maintain There'll Be No Shooting By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Marshal Tito, Yugoslavia's hard-boiled dictator, yesterday reaffirmed his belief that his country isn't headed for armed strife with Russia the propaganda war and economic boycott by the Moscow controlled Cominform. At the same time, Pietro Nenni. a pro-Communist Italian socialist leader, stated in Rome after a visit to Moscow that Russia never will intervene "at the point of the boyonet" but proposes that the Yugoslav people themselves "judge and condemn the policies of Tito." These and similar declarations have brought me an inquiry as to hether thcie is a Communist policy that one Communist na- won't go to war with another. Is Russia's hope for world peace based on the idea that, if all nations should turn Communist, 5 couldn be wars among Russia hasn't announced such a policy in so many word.

She has, of course, frequently declared that she maintains a policy of non- ression against all countries Communist and otherwise and will fight only in self defense. She hasn't differentiated between Communist and non-Communist na tions in this respect. However, Moscow has identified its political ism as "International Communism," as opposed to the nationalism for which Tito stands. The sovereignty of a nation under nternational Communism rests in Moscow. The Marshal has refused to surrender his country's sovereignty, and on that point hinges the current conflict between Rus sia and Yugoslavia.

It is, I suppose, logical to as-iume that there can be no armed strife between loyal "international Communists" who take their orders from Moscow. So in that it could be said that the Russian policy for international Communism precludes war among bers. Birds of a feather flock together. The case, of Yugoslavia is a peculiar one. Moscow is withhold- ng judgment on the country as a vhole, while reading Tito out of the fold as a heretic.

The Kremlin says he is not a true Communist but is a Fascist. Upon his shoulders rests the blame for de-' fiance of Moscow. Nobody has unsheathed the word against Tit w.igmg a vigorous economic blockade and of nerves against Yugoslavia. Meantime anti-Tito busy trying to stir up a revolt against him. Thus tlie internal and external pressures are work-So far as the Marshal is concerned, he is saying little but is sawing considerable wood.

His new S20.000.000 loan from America, plus the steel mill which he is purchasing in the United States, have eased his situation. He shows no signs of surrender. It is the type of crisis which could produce a shooting war but, as things stand at the moment, isn't expected to by most ob- State Makes Request for Surplus Food Chicago, Sept. 10 (AP) Pressed by an upsurge in assistance requests the Illinois Public Aid Commission has asked the federal government for more than 16.481,000 pounds of surplus foods. The commission said it wants to distribute the food, worth to persons on relief and assistance rolls in the Chicago area.

It made the request yesterday. It said a jump in unemployment had resulted in greater aid demands. Last month the commission ordered a cut in allowance for the general relief and said to dependent children programs because of a shortage of available The food would come from surplus farm commodities expected to accumulate under the government's price support program. It would be handed out over a nine-month period beginning Oct. 1.

Henry F. Tenney, recently appointed to the group by Gov. Stevenson, was elected chairman yesterday. Frank L. Sulzberger who has been acting chairman, was named vice chairman.

The individual has to be taught, to appreciate and support the bet- ter things of life. la Sicilv. and DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH Page Three Writing a Daily Column A Lonely Business, Says Hal By HAL BOYLE New York, Sept. 10. (AP) This is the sixth anniversary of my entrance into prison.

It is a hoosegow of the the business of writing a daily newspaper column. The high walls and iron bars of this mental penitentiary don't show. But they are in the convict's brain-growing higher and stronger with the years. Writing a newspaper column is one of the oddest occupations in our screwball civilization. To become a lawyer, a doctor, or an undertaker you have to go to school.

But there is no college for columnists anymore than there is for astrologers. There is no test, no standard of qualification, no training for this bizarre business. Drew Pearson started as a diplomatic reporter. Walter Win-chell began in vaudeville. Dewitt MacKenzie was a foreign correspondent.

Westbrook Pegler and Bob Ruark were sports writers. Eleanor Roosevelt was a mother and magazine editor, Billy Rose a showman and song writer. Will Rogers, Bob Hope and Milton Berle turned to columning after successful careers as comedians. Margaret Chase Smith, a U. S.

senator from Maine, now writes a column. So do a number of either to think- Some people have the idea that Someone "Boy.e, start writing a I did. Although the war ended! four years ago no one thought to I revoke the order. So I am stUJ i at it. That is a funny thing about I i columns and comic strips.

They go on like Tarzan of the apes. I The danger in columning is that it is likely to give a man the idea I he is an expert on everything from cattle breeding to flagpole sitting. Its occupational hazards are chair sores and punditry. A 1 kttle baby oil in the right spot will i heal the chair sores, but there is no cure except death for the col-; itmnist who acquires the disease I of taking himself too seriously. I Columnists, like presidents, get i many letters and small gifts from I the people.

If they write that they I like black cherries, someone is sure to send them a box. But if i they mention they are fond of sea i breezes, no one ever airmails them a yacht. Eut it's the sentiment that counts. So. even though my hair is fast vanishing, I am grateful lor the fellow who sent me a bot tle 01 beer shnmnoo.

it tastea fine, and by goddaughter thought it was cute the way I burped soap bubbles for three days. And right now I want to thank the reader who mailed me a glass eye recently. It was just my reddish blue. Delinquent Tax Cash Payments Are Made Springfield, Sept. (AP) Although no state property tax has been levied in Illinois for 16 years, revenue from the tax continues to trickle in.

The money comes from collection of delinquent bills. State Auditor Benjamin O. cooper announced today that his getting ready to dis burse $35,814 that has accumulated from this source in the last two years. The delayed tax payments were made against 1930 1031 and 1932 state assessments. Cooper is preparing to distribute the money among the several counties for school purposes.

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10 i Fred Ahlgrim, 49, a construction company foreman, was found fatally shot beside his automobile in a west side alley last night. Police said Ahlgrim's woman companion, a 40-year-old divorcee, told them he was slain by a negro gunman who had abducted them and forced them to drive around the southwest side for 45 minutes. Police Ll. Waiter (Jieen said the woman, Mrs. Rosalyn Meade, a barmaid, was quesliuii-d connection with the slaying and was ordered held in jail pending an inquest later today.

McGloon said Mrs. Meade gave this account: The gunman entered Ahlgrim's car when he stopped for him to entt 14th street iigr.al 47th street and After menacing )lver the gunman to drive around Experts to Set Up Plan For Britain hrectine. 1427 West writing a daily column is a glam-1 The gunman forced Ahlgrim to orous career, and a leadpipejtie her hands and then attempted cinch. Eut those who have done i to force Ahlgrim into the trunk it know better. The late Don compartment of the auto.

A scut-Marquis called it "digging a daily! fie followed, during which several grave." Asked if he found shots were fired. The gunman task difficult, Red Smith, celebrat- i fled. ed sports columnist of the Newj Police said Mrs. Meade told them York Herald Trfibune. said: iiad known Ahlgrim as Fred you just sit down at yourjHydall and she had met him five typewriter, open your veins and 1 years ago.

i Ahlgrim's body was identified by How do you get a 30b writing a his wife. Florence, who said they column? Some people ask for it had been married for 17 years. and it just happens to it just Happened to me. In 1943 the Associated Press de-' cided it wanted a warfront column reporter to do it, and this wise then happened to recall I Washington. Sept.

10 (API-Specific proposals for American action to aid Britain in overcoming its economic crisis were due today. P'our committees of experts set up by the United States. Britain and Canada have been working on the recommendations. Secretary Snyder announced the committees would report to session of cabinet ministers of the Snyder said the three-power conference is "making good progress" in its work on shortage difficulties. Othei informants indicated that the conferees are shooting for conclusion of their work by Monday night.

Since the three-power started only last Wednesday, they fare the prospect of a busy weekend of meetings, although no Sunday sessions were yet scheduled. The nnnu.il harvest of oysters in the United States is about bushels, valued at ty's share of funds based on the rate of apportionment to schools prevailing in the three tax years. Kakusha Park MENDOTA, ILL. Wednesday, Sept. 14th Dancing every Sunday IT AL STARTED OVER A Truck driver Mike Mesko, 26, got a beer on credit from Cleveland tavern keeper Jack Rolfe.

Mike spilled the beer and ordered another. Rolfe decided he'd had enough. A slight scuffle followed and Mike was ordered out. Before he left, Mike made a promise: "I'll put you out of business this morning." Shortly afterward. Mike drove his 1936 model coal truck alongside Rolfe's tavern, rammed it into reverse, cut his wheels sharply and smashed through the tavern's front.

His promise kept, Mike Mesko was taken to the clink. A Police Sergeant Becomes a Writer for James Marloiv By JAMBS MARl.OW Washington, Sept. iAPi Sergeant Bill Leitzel always wanted to be a writer. In nine months he'll retire after 25 years as a Detroit cop. So here today he'll have his first try at what he always wanted to iio.

This piece belongs to him. I don't 'tnow him. He wrote me a letter about a story I wrote a couple of weeks ago on people growing old. In it I mentioned all the old cops I knew when I worked a police beat and now they sat around at night, happy and chewing the fat. And in it I remembered how it was when they retired: A little party, a few awkward words, and they were gone.

And pretty soon they were dead. Sergeant Bill Leitzel wrote me: "Some nine months heme I'll have finished my quarter-century ar.d iv. a while I ing up the little speech IT Then I think: 'What the hell. It'll be ten before supper "But when I look at thos. kids coming in to replace starts a lot of thinking." A (ireen Cop He remembered how gi felt when he first became And he wondered how tl rookies coming up every If nin ke Detroit.

But he went on: "Then as 1 let my memoi ruise future-ward through ti ears. I can remember how o-rookies took over more ar responsibilities until at event revival party we font here were 16 of left out OS who had been made sergcar. "Beer, pretzels, and sandwiches were everywhere. Everyone was busy remembranemg. No one thought to try to total our dead though it's in the files those who care enough to check.

"It was hard to recall some of the faces we hadn't seen in years. Jumping, running, giggling cadets were now here, gray, heavier, matured. Has No Fear "But they proved to me that the years take care of things and I need never fear that the department of which I'm so proud will ever grow to be anything but bet- vill to the brim and drop over into the waste, I regret that I'll not be able to cram my compiled experiences into the head of some stumbling "Some of the things that were so hard to learn such as courtesy to me fellow-man. that a man could be on the other side of every Clothes argument entirely, not even go to 11. church, and still not be crazy so many things I'd like to pass ori to the stumbling kid.

But the years will do it. So be it. "1 wished many times to have been a writer, have a number of newsmen friends. I've a scribble should move you to a stanza or a 'half-one would you send me a page?" Sergeant, it seems to me that the only way to tell your story is to let you tell it yourself. You did it better than I could.

And if ditors think enough about it to put it in their papers, then you'll have fulfilled a little of your old ambition. Two Badly Beaten in Robbery Attempt Chicago, Sept. Two elderly men were found critically beaten early today, apparently victims of a- strong-arm robbery. They Veritrichie Carrotto, 61. and Jack Venti, 78.

Both suffered fractured skulls and were unconscious when taken to the county hospital. They were found in the yard ot Venti's home by his grandson, Frank D'Agostino. 22, who told police Venti was muttering something about the theft of S30. The men's pockets were turned inside out, he said. A legal proposition is something which no two lawyers understand Made to Your Measure VAILE CLOTHING CO.

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