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ft 'Trw SPRINGFIELD NEWS-SUN Main Notes WEAXHH Cloudy and eentlaard mild with mm Ukt rain Nundar Mraday claady with Uttla' rhaags la trmprraturp (A) VOL XXI No 23 Associated Press News and Wirephoto SPRINGFIELD OHIO SUNDAY OCTOBER 31 1948 Mein News Section Second News Section Soorti Section Society Section Coaio section ESTABLISHED 1817 Entered At Second Clatt Matter pPVTQ At Poitotflce Springfield Ol A a Northwestern Trims Bucks Fans Rose Bowl Hopes 1EB ft Aid Chicago Flames Victim Candidates For 'Highest' Offices Wildcats Spurt In Last Half Top 0SU 21-7 Deciding Tallies Are Scored By Sub By JERRY USKA EVANSTON HU Oct m-Sophomore Johnny Miller a goose-stepping Wildcat substitute scored two touchdowns as Northwestern fanned its Rose Bowl hopes to blazing brightness with a 21-7 triumph over Ohio State today Thrilling a 47000 homecoming throng the 20-year-old Miller broke up the game with a 22-yard twisting squirming payoff run midway in the third period after the teams battled to a 7-7 halftime tie Then the deceptive-gaited 175 pounder bewildered the Buckeyes with his Jabbing slashing ball-toting and iced the decision with a one-yard scoring smash on the first play of Ihe fourth quarter Fleet Jerry Krall streaked 57 yards for the lone Buckeye score late in the second quarter after Northwestern had taken a 7-0 lead on Don scoring pass to Ed Tunnicliff covering 42 yards Jim Farrar converted after all three Northwestern touchdowns and Jim Hague added after the lone Buckeye six-Jolnter Miller who carried the ball 120 yards in 14 tries for almost a nine-yard average took charge in the third period when the Wildcats moved 53 yards in six plays for their second touchdown In or i our Persons Die His 22-yard payoff run was a 1 thing of beauty Slanting over his Firemen CHICAGO Oct 30 swept through four-story south side is helped frpm About 25 were rescued As Blaze Sweeps For President (R) THOMAS DEWEY WIRETIIOTO VP) Ar unidentif led person one of several injured when brick aportment building (background) Saturday on Chicago's the building by two firemen About 100 persons occupied the structure by firemen Four were killed National Guard Moves Into Tennessee Town 50-60 Million Votes Slated For Election Both Candidates Wind Up Drives WASHINGTON Oct The first American presidential campaign of the atomic era wound up tonight in a blaze of oratory Next Tuesday 50000000 to 60-000000 voters will give a man this soul-shaking assignment: To safeguard peace and freedom from the dangers crowding in upon them to curb Inflation and prevent a disastrous bust to help restore a degree of well-being to nations staggering up from the ruins of war Gov Thomas Dewey of New York the man the poll takers aay is away ahead made his last big speech in Madison Square Garden New York President Truman kept Insisting the poll takers are wrong despite rights bolters in the south and the Wallace schism in the north The President concluded his campaign with an address at St Louis Dewey and his Republican legions had act themselves two targets: 1 To roll up a bigger popular vote margin over Truman than Franklin Roosevelt rolled up over Dewey four years ago 2 To turn back a Democratic threat to regain control of the Senate In 1944 FDR had 25602000 popular votes and Dewey 22006-000 The electoral tally was lopsided: 432 to 99 Much more besides the presidency will be at Issue in Tuesdays election The voters will elect 32 senators 32 governors and 432 House members (Maine elected a senator governor and three House members In September all Republicans) A host of state officers will be chosen and referenda will innumerable questions ranging from liquor control to legalized betting on horses and dogs The candidates reserved next Monday for a last-minute ritual appeals to get out and vote By some estimates the popular excitement about the election waa not so great as the stakes Involved Some estimates placed the vote as low as 51000000 much smaller than the increase In population would warrant President Truman said it would be around 6000000a If the electorate was apathetic the candidate had spared no pains to arouse it Boarding his with his political efficiency experts from Albany Dewey carried his message to the far corners of country Confusion defeatism and despair reigns in Washington he said administration is "coming apart at the The President has (See Page 10) COP Democrats Claim Victory In New York ALBANY Oct Republican and Democratic leaders both claimed tonight their national tickets would carry New York state in Tuesday's election The prize is 47 electoral votes the largest number that can be won in any state Alger Chapman Republican state campaign manager and Glen Bedenkapp the chairman predicted In a joint statement that the Dewey-Warren slate would pile up a plurality of 600000 Paul Fitzpatrick Democratic state chairman said the Truman-Barkley ticket would win by of 25000a The Progressive party ticket of Henry A Wallace and Senator Glen Taylor is expected to poll more votes in New York than in any other state Neutral observers think they will get between 400-000 and 500000 They are running under the American Labor Party banner in this state For Vice-President (R) EARL WARREN' For Governor (R) THOMAS HERBERT left tackle he suddenly changed course and legs pumping high churned into the end zone Miller reeled off a 20-yard run before the break which put over third score That came when Jim Crk twice fumbled a Wildcat punt and Northwestern recovered on the Buckeye eight Miller gained four and then on fourth down the play opening the fourth period he barreled through Ohio's strong right side for his second touchdown Besides sclnti Hating touchdown run the only other Buckeye bright spot was Clark's 43-yard sprint before he was felled from behind by Art Murakowski on 10 That drive fizzled when Hague missed a field goal from the Wildcat 29 Northwestern now holds sole possession of second place behind Michigan In the conference race with a 3-1 record Michigan is ineligible for a return trip to the Rose Bowl Krall thanks mainly to his 57-yard scoring dash rolled up 112 yards in 11 tries for belter than a 10-yard average The 180-pound Toledo halfback was Ohio's best threat all afternoon although big Joe Whisler began to get up steam belatedly in the fourth period Tempers flared in the fourth quarter and Ohio Rod Swinehart and Northwestern's (fee Page 10) Herbert On Defensive In Debate With Lausche For President (P) HENRY A WALLACE For Vice-President (F) GLEN TAYLOR For Governor (D) FRANK LAUSCHE Herbert found himself forced to defend much of the time At one juncture Herbert his fare red told his audience Laasche was wild swings at That remark came at one of the hottest points of contention between the Herbert's recent reduction of the state sales tax by eliminating the one-cent tax on purchases of from 10 to 40 cents Lausche said that if Herbert had kept a campaign promise to cut the sales tax from three to two cents Ohio consumers would have been saved 58500000a Instead Lausche went on Herbert a special session of the legislature and gave a paltry tax reduction of one-eighth of a cent which amounts to about 75 cents a person per and by menial gymnastics claims he saved the people 586000000 In Herbert argued that the sales tax reduction seem paltry to some but it isn't paltry to the many who have heretofore paid He added: aside those pennies and you'll be surprised how they add up" The governor also asserted i Lausche promised during the 1944 campaign to cut taxes one-half cent "but lie didn't do it" "We got out of the admissions tax field opening that to Herbert reported (See Page 10) Today's Index Psges Antioch College 1A-C BromHeld Louts 8-A Business Sidelights 4-C Classified Ads 6 7 8 9-C Calendar fra- Week 4-D Gedarvllle College News 4-B Colby Frank 7-D Editorials 8-A Fashion Mart 2-U Fraternal News 5D Industrial News 4-C Markets 8-C Political Page 8-B Pearson Drew 8-A P-T- A News 4-D Radio Programs 4-B Society 1 2 8 4 MJ Sports 1 2 3 34) Suburban N'ewi H-B Theaters 7-D Washington Letter 8-A Wittenberg News 8-D COMIC KHTIOV Onsnlcs for the entire family Phone news tips to city editor 5-373t For President (D) HARRY TRUMAN For YVe-PreMrnt (D) ALBEN BARKLEY Muk den Fall Reported In Chinese War NEW YORK Oct The Chinese government was reported Saturday to have last the key Manchurian city of Mukden to the Communists in the dlost stunning defeat of the three-year civil war Unofficial quarters said the Communists completely occupied Mukden swollen to nearly 2000-000 population by refugees Other sources differed as to the exact situation in Mukden but there was little doubt Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek had received a severe blow Some high Chinese and foreign sources said the civil war In effect had been decided The developments came as the Jewish-Arab war in Palestine flamed anew in Upper Gallilee Arabic broadcasts said Israeli (frees were on the march all along the northern front United Nations observers said they were attacking along a 20-mile arc from shins to Lake Hula Brig Gen William Riley chief of state of the Truce Mission at Haifa sent orders to Israel and Lebanon to cease-fire at 4 Israeli time (7 a EST) Saturday headquarters said the Lebanese government agreed provided the Jews also would do so But an Israeli spokesman said the Jews could not accept unconditionally since they had captured several positions in the new fighting In Paris Dr Ralph Bunche acting mediator reputedly was asking the security council to order Israel and the Arabs to negotiate directly on truce problems So far tha Arabs have refused saying this would be a recognition of the Jewish state The political committee heard a White Russian delegate inject into a Balkan debate Prime Minister charges that the western powers (See Pi ge 10) Harl With Red Gov LONGVIEW Tex Oct Gov Strom Thurmond of South Carolina said today President Truman's talks were tinted with red in Harlem and his actions were yellow when he stumped the The South Carolina governor winding up his light presidential campaign spoke in a broadcast from Houston when fog prevented his plane from landing at Beaumont Tex Truman in his Harlem address of last Friday came out squarely for his red-inspired civil rights program But President Truman refused my challenge to discuss his vicious red measures when he campaigned through the Pointing to a newspaper account of the President's Harlem address Thurmond asked: qflVhat more can you expect LOUDON Tenn Oct (TV-National Guard ground troops supported by fighter planes moved into Loudon today under orders to put down threatened mob violence stemming from the death of a hillbilly singer The militia moved In at the deration of Gov Jim McCord The governor acted on request of local authorities who reported the situation out of hand Tension had been high here since last Friday night when Ray Brewster 26 widely known in east Tennessee as a radio singer died in an automobile crash Hie situation had quieted by the time the troops arrived Brewster's father charged in a Thirteen Injured As Bus Overturns North Of Bucyrus BUCYRUS Oct 30 (At Thirteen persons were injured tonight three seriously when a Greyhound bus overturned on Route 19 fire miles north of here here Arthur Buhl 33 of Detroit driver of the bus told deputy sheriffs that he waa blinded by the lights of an oncoming car They quoted him at saying he veered the bus to the side of the road causing it to overturn The bus was north bound from Columbus to Toledo at the time of the accident The three most seriously injured and admitted to the Bucyrus Hospital for treatment were: Mrs Bertha Gillhouse 27 of Toledo Mrs Jessie Saar 26 Toledo Benjamin Koch 46 Meimore Ten others who were discharged from the hospital after treatment were: Mrs Roy Moore 27 Tiffin Thomas Vicory 17 GIbsonburg Mrs Elizabeth Jenkins 27 Columbus Lewis Hayes 47 Mrs Hayes 46 and their daughter Gladys 10 of Buryrus Mrs Carrie Budget 51 Pontiac Mich Mrs Juanita Moorehart 21 Buryrus Carl Dumas 38 Detroit Sheldon Atkinson 19 Bucyrus Smothering Smog Given Blame In Deaths Ol 17 DONORA Pa Oct 30 of the Charleroi-Monessen hospi- Over Apartment CHICAGO Oct 30 An early morning fire that trapped several families In their rooms in a South Side apartment building today killed four persona and injured eight The flames which caught most tenants of the 35 apartments asleep blocked a second floor stairway in the four story brick building A mother and her 10 year old son and a man jumped from the fourth floor The man Hyman Ratnnwski 50 building manager was fatally hurt The woman Ann Gracious 40 and her son Charles were seriously injured Others fled in a screaming melee down a fire escape or were rescued by firemen using ladders Three of the injured were hurt in falls down the fire escape A crowd of 1500 persons gathered to watch the fire and rescue efforts at the partment building efforts at the apartment building Firemen said the cause of the blaze was undetermined Sagging walls that had to be reinforced hindered firemen in their search for other possible victims Police theorized that several persons who escaped the fire had moved into other apartment hotels There were about 100 tenants in the apartments Thtf' other dead were not identified immediately tal said extra beds have been placed in the corridors to accommodate patients He added: can't take another patient Ail day long been shuttling back and forth between the ho-pllal and Pittsburgh getting extra equipment We've got 11 oxygen tents in operation tonight compared to our usual three So far however been none of the deaths have occurred at the hospital' Mrs Vernon said the American Legion is co-operating in taking patients to the emergency hospital Most are being given injections of adienalin she said Superintendent Lau said the moggy condition have been prevalent throughout the entire district which is heavily industrialized Donors Is about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh In that big steel center considerable smog has been noted in the past few days but experts say reecnt smoke control measures have reduced the smog's intensity Leading Scores Northwestern 21 Ohio State 7 Michigan 28 Illinois 20 Notre Dame 41 Navy 7 Iowa 19 Wisconsin 13 Minnesota 30 Indiana 7 Army 49 Virginia Tech 7 North Carolina 14 Tennessee 7 Georgia Tech 19 Duke 7 Purdue 14 Marquette 9 California 13 Southern Cal A warrant that Sheriff Henry McDonald and Deputy Clifford Hughes were responsible for his death Magistrate Watkins said the elder Brewster swore out a warrant charging the officers with responsibility chasing Brewster's car shooting the tires causing it to overturn and causing the death of the McDonald and Hughes disputing the charge said Brewster's automobile wrecked after he tried three times to ram their car as both vehicles were traveling along a road near here i Watkins said there has been no inquest into young death He added will be held because there were Sheriff McDonald also said no inquest was planned saw it and I guess you can call me an McDonald added so far as I know they intend to have an inquest All I know la that they have bound me and my deputy over to the grand jury and 1 suppose the grand Jury will do all the investigating the sheriff added is the way I want it I want the grand Jury to go to the bottom of this thing and get all the facts McDonald said the charge made In the elder warrant was the only one made against (See Page 18) Mysterious Blasts Arc Heard Again Those mysterious explosions again had southside Spring-field residents Saturday night But this time the blasts were more frequent and guesses placed their origin from one side of the cily to the other Several weeks ago explosions on the southside caused a flurry of excitement with most persons who heard the blasts placing their origin at or nerfr Evans Stadium Many who heard the explosions Saturday night said there was a series of blasts Some blamed the explosions on to Halloweeners -4 about they voted In their own He briefly mentioned Taft-Hartley Act passed over his veto by the 80th Congress He termed it the Republican attack on the Magna Charts of Labor the Wagner Labor He criticized the 80th Congress for its action in denying the Federal Commodities Corp the right to rent storage space for corn He said that was the of the RepubUcans on the administration's farm program charged as a resulk that corn la selling in parts of th Midwest below the support CLEVELAND Oct (JV-Gov Thomas Herbert and his Democratic predecessor Frank Lausche met man-to-man at Cleveland City Club today to argue which deserves the governorship from Ohio voters next Tuesday The debate was heated and the half-hour question-answer period which followed the candidate's 20-minute speeches brought loud and in many cases partisan interrogation from a Jampacked audience of about 500 Herbert's administration during the last two years was the issue throughout most of the discussion There was little in the way of campaign promises for the future and the speakers returned to events of the Lausche administration mainly for comparisons Point by point the bushy-haired Lausche and the white-haired governor picked over controversial aspects of the state government since the close of World War Lausche kept Jabbing away and em alhs i ted Thurmond Says from a tight rope artist who has lost his balance on a thin political wire and is desperately grasping handfuls of minority votes in the most deceitful campaign ever waged by a presidential The candidate said states rights Democrats Truman figured long before his Harlem speech "When he refused to discuss the civil rights measures during his swing through Texas and other southern states we predicted that he would give them full attention when he returned to the north and stepped to a platform surrounded by a clamorous minority Thurmond stated Thurmond expressed the opinion the president's Harlem speech more to help the states rights program than dozen of my own) campaign Seventeen persons died in this mill town of 15000 today and health authorities said their deaths apparently were the indirect result of a smothering smog Mrs Cora Vernon executive director of the American Red Cross aid an emergency hospital was being set up immediately She reported the Charleroi-Monessen hospital at nearby Charleroi was filled to capacity and estimated at least 50 persons were being treated as a direct result of the smog very hrd to said Rudy Schwerha a member of the board of health "It's impossible to determine just how many residents are sick but the doctors and nurses can't keep up wtih the All of the deaths today occurred unexpectedly after a fog which has prevailed for several days became exceptionally heavy Mixed with smoke from the industrial community a thick smog was created "The deatha seem to have hit people who were suffering from cardiac or asthmatic Schwerha said no doubt the smog has been the Dr James Lau superintendent HitSkip Auto Kill? Boy In Front Of Home CINCINNATI Oct 30 UP Three-year-old Robert Gruber of Bethel was killed today by an automobile In front of his home Dr Adolph Gruber the boy's father who brought him here to Children's Hospital said he did not know the identity of the drives of the car 3000 Persons Acclaim Chief Executive And Family In Belief ontainc BELLE FONTAINE Oct 30-President Harry Truman made a five-minute rear platform talk from hia special train here Saturday noon to an estimated crowd of 3000 persons many of them in shirt sleeves under a aunny sky A highlight of his trip was the presentation of corsages to Mrs Truman and her daughter Margaret by Sharon Smith daughter of Attorney Ewing Smith of Bellefontalne Logan County Democratic Executive Committee Sharon was 11 years old iSaturday President told his listeners lie would have nothing to worryj price which assures the fanner a fair return Mr Truman Introduced Mrs Truman and his daughter after his talk He then left them on the train platform After the two women entered the car chants from the crowd Want brought the President and his family again briefly to platform as train began to move The special train left at 12:25 after a service atop to SL Louis and Ma home town eg Independence Mo where he will vole Tuesday.