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144 In Three Sections TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1949 Telephone ATlantic 1-6100 FIVE CENTS nji A Q) 1 1 QU lit Em i1E Gift Exchangers When Statue Is Unveiled By Hunperford Cleveland Strike End Home Town Given Statue Bv Truman Yule Traffic Kills Nine In District Two of Highway Fatalities Occur Due Today Unloads Fi 5 Js-'sA Union Leaders Dow To Court Order In Transit Tieup Of Andrew Jackson After 15 Years In Allegheny County Violent death in the Pitts INDEPENDENCE, CLEVE LAND, Dec. 26 (AP) Union leaders said Dec. 26 (AP) President Tru burgh district kept pace with I ft 1 i A I 1 i. man today finally unloaded a tonight they will recommend the nation's toll of fatal hol i CTrnvOV-O II 12-foot equestrian statue of that Cleveland's striking iday accidents which reached 504 early today. one of his favorite characters, streetcar and dus workers ro back to work tomorrow.

They As usual, the highways, which Andrew Jackson. With about 1,500 fellow Jack made this statement after an started as pleasure paths, or per i i son countians looking on, he injunction was issued against haps as roads leading home for Christmas, were the scenes of gave the statue of "Old Hickory" them. to the county. most of the tragedies. Officials of the AFL Transit it took tne President Id years to dispose of the statue but everybody seemed happy when Union said they will call a meet-i sv svm rv mm -mt mm mm At least nine persons died in auto accidents in the Tri-State area.

Two of the deaths were in Allegheny county. Daniel Sorg. 75, of Harrison Miss Margaret Truman, the Pres ing lor tomorrow morning of the 4,900 strikers. An injunction went daughter, unveiled it sub-freezing weather on the issued early tonight by Common Hollow road, Lincoln township, was injured fatally last night Pleas Judge Joseph Artl ordered them back o.i the job by 2 p. m.

courthouse lawn. Got Idea as County Judge when he was struck by a truck near his home. The driver did not stop. tomorrow. The strike started early last Thursday.

When he was presiding judge of the county court. Mr. Truman Car Rams Parked Truck The injunction had been re A Detroit man was killed Sat thought it would be a fine idea to have a Jackson statue in front of the new courthouse in Kansas urday when a car in which he quested In a two-hour hearing today by attorneys for the city-owned Cleveland Transit System. was riding rammed a parked City. The county got so big it needed Leaders Confer With Judge two court houses.

The larger is Associated Press Wlrephoto Margaret Truman, right, looks up at statue. in Kansas City. Immediately after the judge's Sculptor Charles Keck, of New order was announced. President York, got the job. Apparently Thomas P.

Meaney of Local 263 and other union officials met with the jude to discuss terms sculptors warm up just like base truck near Worth bridge. Moon township. Violent death was clipping off lives in the nation at a rate of one every nine minutes as the three-day Christmas vacation period neared an end. Since 6 p. m.

Friday (local times) 37S Americans died on their highways in automobile accidents. Sixty-five died in holiday fires and another 76 weie killed in other kinds of accidents. ball pitchers. First Keck turned under which the men might re out a very small job. Then i lifp-cipd one.

and finally the one which now Morals Court in Dithei turn io worK. lney then announced a return-to-work would be recommended. The union was demanding that Trade Pact Signed By Britain With Tito FiveYcar $560,000,000 Accord Hailed As Triumph; Nation Has Treasury Surplus BELGRADE, Dec, 26 (AP) Marshal Tito's govern When Ceiling Caves In stands in Kansas City. He gave the miniature and the life-sized ones to Mr. Truman, who yields to no man in his admiration of "Old Hickory." Accepted by Independence The smallest 'one and the one offered no problem.

Mr. no action be taken against the men. The Injunction was handed down under Ohio's Ferguson Act, which prohibits strikes by public employes. The act, sometimes called the "Little Taft-Hartley Act," has yet to face a major court test. The order listed Meaney, four other officers and 19 members ment tonight announced two economic triumphs a new five-year 5560,000,000 trade pact with Britain and a surplus in Each of 82 Kin Gets $1,000 Gift OGDEN.

Utah, Dec 26 CT Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Richardson celebrated Christmas by giving; each of 82 relatives a check for S1.000. They have no living children of their own. Richardson is a retired merchant.

He said he and his wife have given away more than S500.000 since they began the custom of cash Christmas gifts to nieces, nephews and other relatives. ISo Great Harm Done But Magistrate Quickly Rules for Move to Second iFloor Ficlurt on Page 1, Section 2 Many a person has thought the ceiling caved in on him its treasury. The National Safely Council estimated 433 people will have died from traffic accidents alone. The long week-end brought violent death to at least 25 persons in Pennsylvania. Three other Pennsylvania's died in an Ohio auto crash.

Traffic accounted for 17 deaths in Pennsylvania, fires took four lives and miscellaneous accidents fatal to four. Car Fails to Make Cure The trade agreement was the biggest and perhaps the Truman took the little job for his desk and the big one was mveiied in front of the Kansas City Courthouse in 1334 by Margaret. best deal Yugoslavia has yet when he heard the magistrate's verdict in Morals Court but of the union's executive board Irving Berlin signed with a Western country in her struggle to withstand economic pressure from the Rus here as defendants. But it wasn't so simple what to do with the middle- They were enjoined from inter yesterday it va3 no product of imagination. Beginning with an ominous cracking sound, a section of plaster ceiling came crashing down, to disrupt and startle more than 30 persons interested in an otherwise humdrum dayin the courtroom that the acci- sian-led Cominform countries.

fering with the operation of May Be Knight (Britain's Board of Trade in Lon CTS vehicles and from counsel don estimated the value of the ing employes to violate the Fer PARIS, Dec 26 (Special) at the court at ctri tVl. xoeic of two-way trade in five years un guson Act Three Farrell men were killed when a car in which they were returning from Youngstown failed to make a curve. The dead: James Mack. 22; Huey Hooks, 20, street and Penn avenue. Quakes Kill Seven in Japan der the pact at justice were aiipeuea wneii nrHpr Part Cnprrinn Rumors are current here that Britain's King George VI will bestow knighthood on Irving sized one.

Finally Keck got tired of keeping it in his New York studio and told Mr. Truman he would like him to take it off his hands. As the three members of the present court beamed approval, the President said the present court, an administrative (not judicial) agency, accepted the statue for the City of Magistrate W. II. K.

McDiarmid Follows Airplaw Agreement It" also ordered the defandants Sergeant Acts. Quickly and Lucius J. EUerby. 22. calmly, considering the circum No one was injured but only Berlin, the song writer.

big deal follows by only a month a decision by the United Two Cambria county men also stances, moved the hearings to the quick thinking of Sergeant not to coerce or intimidate transit workers from returning to work. Punitive action under the Berlin and his wife, the former an upstairs room and handled 30 Dan Bradley, of 5712 Alder TOKYO. Dec. 26 CP An aU-j day series of earthquakes north of Tokyo today caused seven cases on the docket according to street, averted what might have act was not asked "at this time." Ellen Mackay, and their two daughters left Paris today for Rome but will return the end of routine. known deaths and did widespread but comparatively minor damage.

the week en route to London. been a dire result. Bradley shoved Alfreda Beachaum, 15, of 507 Elmore square, a witness, out of the path of the tumbling Bulge Develops Gradually Simultaneously Mount A so, States and Britain to sell Tito commercial airplanes and engines. Tito reciprocated last week by agreeing to let American airlines make stops in Belgrade. In return, Yugoslav airplanes may land in the American military zones of Austria and Germany.

Mayor Thomas A. Burke ha4 sworn that if the petition is granted, partial service will be resumed tomorrow, if just by one bus. Last week, the ceiling began to died of auto injuries. William Lythgoe, 77, was struck while walking near his home in Dunlo, and Charles Eur goon. S6, of Pat-ton.

R. D. 1, was injured fatally in a smashup. An Irwin man. Robert H.

Rain, 71, died after he was struck by an auto in Shafton, near Irwin, and a 17-year-old girl. Mary Jane Petro. of R. D.2, Blairsville. was rated as the world largest vol take on a new profile a gradual Reports say that Berlin, who began life as Izzy Raline, will be made Sir Irving because he helped war morale with his song cano, erupted on Kyushu Island, Forecast Calls For More Rain plaster.

Any hopes by the defendants more than 500 miles to the south blossoming of a bulge. A leaking radiator pipe was blamed as Plans already have been laid west. hits. for tolice protection of drivers the contributor of the water fill The agreement, after nearly and CTS property. More rain, following yester- Colombia Clash ing the bulge.

Normally, a group of social days almost continuous down-JJJane LraSll KlllS Seabees Start For Maneuvers workers occupies the space be drowned when a truck in which she was riding overturned and she was pinr.ed beneath it in a Dead Put at 600 nine months of negotiations, came as Yugoslavia's parliament opened a session tonight to consider its budget for 1950 and to review its expenditures for the Two Chiropractors Bad Oil Line Delays Airliner pour, is scneouiea toaay ior me Pittsburgh district. But the same mild, unseasonal weather that greeted residents neath the spot from which rart of the ceiling ultimately fell. But WASHINGTON. Dec. 26 LT CARACAS.

Venezuela, Dec. 26 small strerm. The newspaper El Nacional Two workers weie killed In a Dec 26 tf) SLID ELL, Tex because of the weakened condi past year. A Navy Seabee unit will leave the PHOENIX. Dec.

26 the dav after Christmas will prominent West Texas! (United States Wednesday to be tion of the ceiling, they were moved yesterday to the opposite tir.ue, the United States Weather chiropractors were found dead in Surplus of $520,000,000 West-bound passengers on an said today at least 600 persons gas explosion in a plant of the were killed December 1 during a Eethlehem steel mill in Johns-Conservative raid against Lib- town. Also in Pennsylvania, one erals in the Colombian town of man died at the wheel of his car side of the room. gun setting the stage lor tne biggest peacetime military maneuvers in the Caribbean. It was told that the country not only balanced its budget this Morals Court had been installed year but has a net surplus of El Cocuy. as the result of a heart attack The Army.

Navy, Marines and there only two months ago, when it was moved from Central Po $520,000,000. The dispatch said reports on and another died of injuries re- Air Force will all engage in "Op lice station. The remodeled build American Airlines DC-6 were delayed about two hours today when their plane landed here with one of its four engines feathered because of a leaking oil line. were 35 passengers and a crew of three. The plane was the death toll ranged from 500 toiCeived in a fall.

Under the trade pact, Britain will receive non-ferrous metals eration Por.trex. The exercise will begin with naval and naval 2.500, but could not be checked; ing also houses No. 3 Police sta tion. Eureau reported. jthe wreckage of a light plane Temperatures ranging -from anear this Northeast Texas town low of 43 to a high of 53 will bejtoday.

Two youths survived the sccompanied by clouds, wind crash. and rain. The thermometer Dead were Major George range will be virtually 47, San Angelo, and his changed from yesterday, when it I former associate, Dr. William touched a low of 38 degrees and McLaughlin of ig Spring. Tex.

a high of 52. No snow is in, The survivors are James Thomas sight. 'Livingston. 18, of San Angelo, Yesterd y's rain, which and George J. Grupe, 18, son of drenched the city thoroughly be-Dr.

Grupe. ginning about 11 a. m. after aj chiefly lead and copper timber, because of Colombian govern-' and corn. Probably the biggest ment censorship.

Magistrate McDiarmid is not air maneuvers in which task forces will engage. Then will come a full-scale assault on the item will be timber. going tb face the prospect of con Texas Has Highest Total Texas led the nation with 43 deaths 23 on the highways, 11 by fire and three others unclassified. California had the highest highway tolL with 36. but had onlj' one other accident fatality.

on its way from New York to In return, Yugoslavia will get ducting hearings with one eye on "enemy" island of Viequez. off Puerto Rico. the ceiling and one on the de Los Angeles, and stops regularly at Phoenix. wool, woolen and cotton yarn chemicals, rubber and rubber. In Bogota, a presidential spokesman said the death toll was less than 100, including the 82 persons officially reported killed in the December 13 skirmish.

fendants. He's going to hold court on the second floor until the ceil Bethel Township ing is repaired. Wright Field Expert Said to Share Theory Illinois was in third place with 23 dead in motor accidents and only Woman Drowns two others, rone by fire. Uranium Fuel Cost Gut coupk of early-mornmg false starts, reached 40100 inches by 4 p. m.

State Relief Rolls Show Decrease The body of Jeannette Howe, 1 M. 1 (Continued on Tage 5, Col. 4 oo, lormex scnooi xeacner ii Grove City, was found late yes Flying Saucers Laid to Planets Magazine Article Tells of Long Checkup on Discs, Made Since First Reports of Sighting Were Received Mexico Tightens Uranium Control To Coal Level, Savant Says terday in the Monongahela nver near Monongahela. HARRISBURG, Dec 26 Relief rolls took a drop of 26.766 the view that they come from "in no important particul in Pennsylvania during the first L. Gray, Washington county coroner, ruled the death a suicide.

He said Miss Howe was fully clothed. The body apparently had been in the water Advance Toward Wide Use of Atomicj Power Disclosed to Science Gathering half of December. lar from well-aeveloped Ameri another planet." NEW YORK, Dec. 26 UFV A monthly magazine says the so-called flying saucers are real vehicles for systematic observa Frank A. Robbins, public can plans ior exploration of The price was given by Dr.

MEXICO CITY. Dec. 26 en-Mexico moved today to make the mere possession of uranium a federal offense. The government sent congress a bill tightening previous decrees putting uranium and thorium ore deposits under government space expected to come to frui By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE about two hours.

It was found assistance secretary, said the decrease in the assistance caes was tion within the next 50 years." John R. Dunning, Columbia Uni The project, Kehoe says, has received approximately 300 reports of the sighting of strange objects in the sky. "In an interview with Dr. J. A.

by a Pennsylvania railroad crew. NEW YORK, Dec. 26 One of versity physicist, one of the Identification was made by a the first great steps toward It's probably coincidence that head scientists in sponsoring the tion of the earth by visitors from other planets. The conclusions are contained in an article by Donald E. Key-hoe in the January issue of True, published by Fawcett Publica atomic power, namely, getting last week's Saturday Evening sister.

Mrs. Martha Smith, Bethel Township, who said Miss Howe disappeared from home the result of the closing of cases involving 33.063 persons and opening of cases for only 11,864 others. The total of persons on the rolls on December 15 was 422,361. Hynek, a project astronomer, a True investigator learned that Oak Ridge (Tenn.) vast U-shaped the cost of uranium fuel down about equal to that of coal, was wartime factory which produces early today. Post featured a flying saucer story indexed as fictionwhich indicated that the world would end with a bang.

In "The Outer tions, Inc Keyhoe is a former reported today at the opening general meeting of the Ameri Uranium-235 by a process known as gaseous diffusion. uuormauon rniei ior tne aero can Association lor the Advance nautics branch, United States Dinner to Protest Cardinal's Arrest The great advantage of this Graham Doar tells how a pilot flying an experimental On Inside Paces ment of Science. Commerce Department. 17 per cent have been ascribed to stars, planets, meteorites, etc. Dr.

Hynek believed that perhaps more can be thus explained. "However, he refused even to hazard a guess as to what the remaining large number of sighted objects might be." The magazine says: process, he said, is that the only The association began a six- The magazine said the conclu rocket at five times the speed of power cost is to pump gas. has to be pumped' through many sound encountered and was sucked into a fljing saucer NEW YORK. Dec. 26 The first anniversary of the arrest of day meeting, the largest scientific gathering ever held in the world in numbers of scientific reports more than 2.000.

thousands of strainers. Dr. Dun- manned by intelligent beings Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary WhorcTioIO Best Dressed? Who would you pick as the 10 best dressed women in the world? It would be quite a task, wouldn't it? For the answer, and the pictures, turn to Page 4. nine said the Uranium-235 who warned him that because of will be commemorated tomorrow "It is the opinion of True Jhat sions were based on an eight month investigation. Kehoe says True "learned that a rocket authority stationed at Wright Field has told 'Project Saucer personnel flatly that the saucers are interplanetary and that no other conclusion is possible." the flying saucer are real and night by nearly 1.000 guests at The new uranium fuel cost is between $10,000 and $25,000 a buildings at Oak Ridge now number more than 70, each big enough to house several football the atomic explosions observed from their world they had surrounded Earth with a force field a dinner of the Overseas Press that they come from no enemy on earth.

It is also True's opin Society 6 Woman's News 7 Editorials Sports 1213 Obituaries 14 Financial 14 Theaters 16 Comics 18-19 Radio 19 pound, which is equivalent to coal Club in the Waldorf-Astoria fields. Today he said it is a trip at about S10 a ton. The equiva Hotel. ion that the Air Forces and Project Saucer are doing a se having the effect of a planetary quarantine. Set off any more of 20 miles merely to walk past Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ro lence is due to the fact that one pound of Uranium-235 the rious, important job to safeguard atomic bombs, they cautioned man Catholic archbishop of New the panels of automatic instruments which control this uranium atomic fuel contains as much An Air Force spokesman today said that "Air Force studies of flying saucers lent no support to American security." him, and Earth would explode York, will make the principal heat as 2,000 tons of coal process.

The flying discs, True says, like a nova. 4.