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InTKeNews £1" i'4 -S- vj jJ Coal Walkout rSMayB ft Creator Dies fa--? i 1 A --V ro i I vv New York Dee 11 The New York-Times says unnamed yy but "leading" coal operators are prepared to farce John Lewis into a full strike Jan- 1- if he -iu) v- 4 I -1 V- l- ijtf WT1TI 4 call one himself The op -are quoted as saying they s-S MT Jvj4 ii A PA: sU Wins His Last Reds At Boat: Los 25 In Jail Aboard Lakeland Vlctory Off TsJku BarMonday Dec' 12 SConsul-GeneralAngueWitfcShiaf amougl red beard turned 1 neMlywhlteclImbedJcttaConunttnlgtltug- boat to freedom "at Vr Anlhour later the remaining 19 memben of the consular staff and their baggage still were hot allowed off thetug and barge until Ward sighed I a certificate that Ndatlsf led Communist Ward bluntly told two Tlezdsen VHitln Storm A S- tw' Li xrL Ml) 4X 1 ii A i i a JR expect Lewis to order the walkout oq his own Initiative to force ac-ceptancc of his new contract paths' tern The Times quotes of the most Influential operators' as say--A j7f Iny: 'We hope he does call a strike Jan 1 but IT he doesn't we may have to can It" The Times says operators also are considering wlthholdlnr their Dec 20 payment' to the United Mine Work-- ers welfare fund "as a means' of predpltatmc a showdown1 with V'-MfcLewlsJf yt- Waihbultn Dee 1L rJM 7 A(l An elderly For tland pedestrisui was: killed at the outset of a freezing rein" storm which slowed most of SIaines motor traffic to snall pace Eighty-year-old Hmer O-Varney 9 WaverIy Street greeting card salesman was killed almost instantly shortly after 6 when he waii struck by a llght pickup truck (as he 'crossed Forest Avenue near ad townl sanderS were 'r Department yy State i Highway i Jl policemen who accompanied the party on -Its 17-hour trip to the Lakeland "I can not and shall not" sign a safe delivery certificate until the party and baggage is aboard the ship his clothing bagglngfttmr his loss of 25 pounds In weight Ward said tensely -If we are going back to Tientsin let's It Tiej told reporters that his two weeks In a Mukden Jail was Clifford Berryman SO noted 'i odltorlal 'cartoonist 'for the state as' the falling rain It- ever left' Ice-glased highways pressed into service over half thb 1 wtalersl Blizzard T' P- ym i Vv-j: (A Ward I boarded the ahlp WuhlnitM Star died today' To' older politicians and thoa-sands of friends he was known for creatine the famous "Teddy Bear" He first drew the eub hack in 1902 as a Joke on Presir dent "Teddy" Boosevelt wha refosed to shoot a yonny bear dorlny a hantiny trip to Missis-' sippL The bear's likeness lives on In thousands of toy reprodae- tlons for which the cartoonist never received a cent Ho nqver eopyrlfhtcd the Idea V1-: 'j' Japanese telegraph officials In i 4k Russians" wers Tokyo said that Weather ToU A1-' 29 Over UttSi tate Police at Scarborough re-1' 3 -ported most rursl roods In "bad" condition and traf fie tieups were 5 reportedorithe Gray Road: at Falmouth 'where lee made lt im I possible or vehicles Very Patrolman Russell dispatcher Cat Scarborough "all sections" in his troop recelv area receiving freezing rain iand I pToGivc Economic MAnd: Moral Support Waahln rtan Dec ll Washington Decll- Jamming an messages from the Lakeland Victory Earlier at San Francisco commercial radio companies reported poor communications with the Lakeland i Victory apparently because of atmospher- YU united Statee today- wa VT' 'VVy- ifiJA 0 7jfj2TOb3r V- 10 1 ij i '-i1 r-t- i 1- -4' Si reported! prepared'lt to'fgive Chlangl-ohekfecozibnde New York Dee 11 A second sift of 9500000 from John -w- art- Rockefeller Jr was announced today by the New York University Vi Bellevue Medical Center Rockefeller-made the first half-million 12 and dlplomatlc support in hle eflorte a fortress 'agaihat Chinese Com- There is noimxnedlate pros-pe'pfahYSewitersrf aid to ChianglBut there is reason grant to the center in 1948' Both gifts were In the farm of securt- ties Nevil Ford gerenal chairman XWSIW A of the medical center's public ap- (By The Associated Press) Tornadoes skipped so Northern! Arkansas and Missouri Sunday klDlng four persons' and a blizzard blew Into the northern plalnarViit Ki- Twenty-nine lives 'were lost in the variety of capricious weather across the Nation during the week end X- yAACiy '-X hedge-hopping twisters took two lives in Northern Arkan saa one at Providence and another at a across roads where a bouse was smashed" and two more persona were lulled In a rural 'area Poplar Bluff Mo A child was reported missing in the Arkansas Storm a-aa Twenty-four persons were hurt In the heavy winds in ths -two 12 In: Arkansas nine In the Poplar Bluff area and three at Hannibal Mo Winds described as of "tomadle swept through the Mississippi River town of Hannibal causing heavy damage to buildings peal few funds said the latest gift brim tgs the total to nearly 1 to beUeve that I tha sovera- IA-f 1c- conditions) Party Ward and his party were hours late In arriving at the side of the Lakeland Anxious crewmen and news correspondents waited ileep-lessly throughout a frigid and wind-swept night but It until shortly after dawn that the barge-towing tug There eras one flurry of excitement aboard the ship at 10 Sunday night 6 a m' Sunday pst) when a tug drawing a barge drew up alongside the shlp But It was a false alarm" Capt Paul Sextan of Palo Alto Calif ordered three blasts on the whistle to greet the expected arrival of Ward and his party of 19 staff members Photographers flooded the gangway with lights But the fleeing 'Americans were net aboard A Communist police escort and representatives of the American Cor tinned mi Page 19 3rd COL-' 22000-V 000 In lta S3274f000 building pro- gram drive i Washington Dee XI a The National- AssocUUon Of mentvhere somewhat divided onvthte'ahdother issues 4 Bm -s AAsAtA- 'v 4iy-AP Wlpephoto BEFORE THE UGI1TS GO Young Odls ZUvls of Mar Jin Texr had his Christmas tree while he was still able to see the bright lights and colors Presents were piled high around tho tree and gifts of9100 In-cash were included i He hxd his rrisht eye than a year: ago -and the doctwa say his: rleft eye may have to be removed before Christmas to prevent a tumor taking hie' V- Communism! policylw the 4 'a AtWectbrook Eytatc Boards -likes what it sccs today as tha -resolt of rent decontroL The organization issued statement that a surrey of decontrolled areas Indicated the decontrol program has brought about "equitable Continued on Past X9s 1st CoL SSfei whole Asiatic area' is Poiley Believed To Soft in fact President military advisers reportedly feel the State i Department Is moving 3 much too cautiously toward determining i a new: line of American polled In AshUv Secretary of 3 Stater Acheson and his aides' evidently feel that: opportunities for 4 bold action by lSf 5 MW VT9 Seeks Re-Election ro Tveir' slippery-" Two minor auto accidents were reported In the-lRaymond ires but no one watt hurt Fletcher said storm brought with it a rash of automobile accidents la- eluding one at Cooks Corner Routs Sl east of Bnmnrlck to' which alx persons were hurt none --J 1 I At Richmond: Mrs Charles Cass' suffered a fractured pelvis when the automobile to which she The -blizzard blew: out on the was riding skidded and overturned Rockies and -1 roared across1 Ne? Three others escaped serious to 'I £vy- V'i Ain the Portland accident Police I Capt- Francis Hinds identified -the driver rof the truck which struck Varney as Warren Rein- holdsten 31 of 235 Auburn 8treeL rThe accident happened near Arbor Street-as-a misty rain (ell to cut visibility to a minimum- Varney was dead on arrival at UiiM General Hospital where ho was taken-by Patrolman Richard Emerson Doctors aald he ap A Continued on Page 2 7th CeL braSka and XOwa Into the Northern Minnesota bonier arealv wvi reached gale 1 velocities (up to 54: miles per hour) over a wide tree of the central' west wlth gusta up tohuzxlcanS force (over 75- Cdd Moves Southward AA cold wave of Arctic air swept down frdm Western Canada across the northern plains and the Central States The Weather Bureau at Kansas City said ttie edd wave Continued on Page 2 4th Crfl Westbmk'Deerlli-lA'v'heavy vote ls expected here-? Monday whehDemocratls Mayor Ernest v- The Weaieniian 1 A Oovemment have NeverthelessaAcheson advisers privately concede that a new era Aslatlcv affairs opened this weekend with the flight ofthe remnants of Nationalist Yorkers knelt In prayer today to1 beseech rain for their troubled city -s Their appeal for divine aid in the worsening water crisis made ila ir-- Catholle churches throughout the New York archdiocese churChfe34w Overcast skles gave promise that rain mlght all later In the day to help replenish the fast-dwindllnx 1 4 supply Jnthecltysgreatireser- fWestbroolrpoIlIng' places wfll open at 8 avm and close at 7 Tho City Council will meet at 8 to certify tbo election ithe mainland '-A v- OOvemment from into the Island of from McMahon A Xr -ii W-'V-' Atomic Program Campaign Issue'g' Dec il'? Formosa -a-l There have been reportsthat Contlnaedv on Page 2 Bth CoL ntPnrn seekat re-election over otFoitn Maine Rain throughout the state today freezing in central A and north portions and: ending tonight Moderate to fresh south easterly winds' becomings fresh northwesterly late tonight Maxi- sT Republican formeraldi 4-a-" v- iy -v Seoul Korpx Dee IlLt TWo Amerlcan jeamen were if released -todays byNorth Korean Communists who held them prisoner for 80 days but their return to JBquth Korea was delayed 4 Conservatives mum temperature near 45 In the 1 South In the upper in the North Partly cloudy and colder Tuesday Eastport to Block Mod i- orate to fresh southeasterly winds i today with occasional rain' and Ai 2: if air to poor visibility' Maxt'r' tMIyi U' jfyr io: when diplomats lesCRoblea Citizens will name besides a major? a city clerk': 13 aldermen two members iutd ward iofOcers-w Democrats nowf control the City CounciL 7 toSlwhlle Republlcans have a 4 UX 3 margln ln the School Com-mlttees The GOP now holds the two School Committee 1 positions to bo ballotod forsfejs lncumbentlArmahd JGagncm (R)twQl contest with Democrat C'Laffln for elty clerk Ptankf W1XtobertaR) A chair-' manofthe Bchoo)' Committee will be opposed by Collin Ai Roma In Ward John Mllliken Jr (R)seeks re-election la the Nee Fournier Say Bricker Plan (Xntown) 1 Loudon: Dect flL (AP)UTfa turn now!" That was the Jubilant cry today of many British Conservatives mulling happily over the defeat of Labor Governments to Australia and New Zealand within the past two I ti 28 lowest tempera- J-f 5 (Year -Ago) Llciims -Highest VVould Ruiri: Party -Washt gton Dee ll -Mr: tores for Ik 12: 65 In 1911 and i in -MVi i 1949) (1949) Senator 'Aiken (R-Vt) sald today a proposed coalition bet ween j'-Those -'Socialist reverses the trace churches were coffered 1st every Mass in the archdiocese at the request of Francis Cardinal Spell man1 The special prayer will be continued during the emergency In one of manyefforts to cut down consumption theWater Department" announced Saturday lt probably would experiment with a prater vacation some time this Under thb plan which would be voluntary New York City's millions would bo asked to stop using water for a set period of from three to six hours on a specified day A cheek of the two huge piaster met-ersthen would show Whether this voluntary rationing had eased the drain onf the lowering-reservoirs SilfjS worthwhile tho waterless hoqrst would be eontlnuedjonXa onte-a-week bastst mother plans to tomper the emer-gency already have been put lnto police armbands prowled the city hunting leaky: faucetsandt careless usage which mlght wsste an tm-necessary drop of the suddenly Continued on Pago ISj Snd CoL! Wuhlnrotiv Retired Lt Oen Leslie Groves wartime head of the Manhattan engineer district definitely plans to enter politics next year In a bid for the Senate seat now held by Chairman Brien McMahon (D-Conn)of the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee authoritative quarters disclosed today Groves ambition -to be -the Republican' candidate agalxist McMahon In i the -1950: Connecticut campaign 1 raises the prospect of a bitter political grudge fight -tn which of the program would be A main Issue View Points Dlffer3 The twojnen have been sharply at odds on atomic mattersnslnce 1946 when McMahon sponsored the law which took the A-bomb project away from army command and Tested it in a flve-man civilian etXnmlsslon: A Qroves-McMahon race "would mean that voters In at leasttwo states will be faced next year with the responsibility of -passing Judgment -on 'the complex and unfamiliar issues which have grown out of: the 94000000000 Investment In nuclear fission Contlirned Page'2 6th CoL V- ParenAid Plan a aiciiis ruu scus balked at recognizing 'Communist credentials Capt Alfred Kindezhook and Chief En-gineeri Albert EWUlia of Brooklyn appeared'happy and-In good health when they finally crossed the border They said at one point of thelr confinemenL-a however they became-ao thin ilhaticven their guards were worried ATjien they were given better foodlg 'Meschter and Willis employes of the Economic Cooperation Administration were 'Shanghaied by a mutinous crew when they boarded the freighter Kimball Smith on avtwo-day 7 Inspection tburThe crew salled the ship to a Commu-nlst North-' Korean'port-' The diplomatic whose train tor the 38th parallel was al Maine minimum readings: Old f-A-A i- Town -13: Houlton -12 Caribou ill4? Rumford and OreenvlUe each -9 c-f MUllnoeket-6 Augusta 4 Cas-jf'ttlneTl and Eastport 19- "1 Oml- II Uulrta In Hrnam for IS hovro ondiai 1J0 t- Owiiim tar IS hovro ondiao VJi Democratte'candldaies forthe City Council t- Mi ainlBsm temporaturts tor 24 A AA -bran radisc- itnisu -T- Mas ST i Mas-Cltr Cl Northern Republicans and Conservative 4 Southern Democrats would knock out all hopet for a Republican victory iSln future presidentlxl dr National elections" He told a reporter that he Is completely oppowd to the sugges-tionby SepatorBrlckerjIIt-Ohlo) for the realignment so the voters may have a change to de-clde" Issues that now cut across party lines Simply Work slmplyr would hot Aiken said? "It would cost the Republicans the lndustrial northeast ndw-their stronghold knowv ofrnorRepubllcans In that Continned ea Page Sr 5th CoL rv 41 VO 5 UnOlamspoii Doe' tU The bodies of weight chll': dren were removed today from of the frame house in which they were burned -to Saturday wben their-parental rescue plan went r- Because of the rugged terrain: the? bodies for hours to black circle of ashes to the snow at Bodine 15 miles north of here authorities were able to POOH Poffals Sr Los AjrcaicC -iv Jj'rt'cwo VI 3 Miami' SJwaro -r-w SI Orl-aBS -4 Cooa SO' 4 Xew a rhlimh-ICsS 44 ss SI JI1: Voatooo mm cos Rrtru Tork Coiohlo LotlU 4T'4a -f lEdward and Newton Leahamr Ward Eugene Kimball and William Spencer: Ward 3 Robert OXlara and Gerard JPaulln: Ward 4' Alexander Landry and Conrad Metlvler Ward Alexander Athaa and Edward If and at-large Richard UbbypoL Rufus WU-lisandNJGvejtaulstensexu1 Xntlnued en Pato 8 2nd C0L1 IB 43 41 V0 Praaelaco 83 SO Waahinstou JackMAvC 7 most 4 derailed sby logs placed on re HaroldJNoble the were 34 SOB Conservatives theorize demonstrate a definite trend to the right throughout the Commonwealth XAbor partisans In Britain do not agree They election results Under have no significance to Brltaln-f -s Labor' leaders Including Prime Minister Clement Attlee who must fix the date of gen eral 1 election soon before- next July had to ssyi about AUStllUvg-gffi'f' 'f Results of the Australian voting were 'reported to Attlee at Chequers his country home No (comment was lasuedTcfcr Herbert Morrison deputy prime minister and Labor Party strategist said he did not care to comment for the press No Comment Morgan Phillips labor party see? retary said In Paris he had noth-Ing to offer Labor- Party head-quarters sald there would beno Conservative jubilation was tempered by: the labor victory'1 in by-election at south Bradford last week It was the 95th successive by-election labor had won since It came to power In 1945 end while In most Instances Labor majorities were reduced the Attlee Gov-Contlnued on Pago-22rdCoL-: I Bi riitn hr Pwl It Oim rim 70 Ruh tid art -440s Hirh itid Mlb Sh 54m Cm tidB -l- i39 -ialss Fairfax Calif ColiJames PrmserSoult: Ste- Marie Mich senlor mllltary attache at the? Embassy andaKoreanlnter- Credentlsls Delay Release remove thn The fire occurred rr AfniN Inn SS mlantst Tk i JjoBB nata il34BfUw imjf -'O'" A'Y'-- 'Heh ph4W Sat ihml' in an-Isolated' timbered section of-'Lycomlng County while the of Bert Edklns 48 'an unemployed farmer slept' wv-- y- ffThe: blaze spreading speedily Dw 37-Jib 1MQ Jtrw Jam 4XQ HI 1S-3S The Americans balked at Ihg of credentials bome oy Major msMmmui 'TS OfMainePubliBilSDiMi-S DeklT F6UfS ZlllhoisGoV Dufffsald not Steve nsontoday 12 The unlversltyhaa: betatron Klmjonggltofths North Korean Hone Minlnstrytsecretrpoliee) which named him A representative ofxthe-rNorth 3 Korean Govern-saent which the United States does -hot recognize7'' vThe' of fldals said dWnot through jk the" flimsy two-story dwelling killed all but two of the children of Edklns abd his wife Ruth 38The dead -rangfd' from v-one to 18 years of I Sleeping -Dewnstain Egbert: Colegrove14' ar son of SXA Mrs Edkins by a prevtoos mar aJeeplng xm this first a machine that haa: been used with: some succession cancer pa Mr': UentaHoweverM because the 5 Continued on Paga 2 14 th CoL -vr5 1 floorw rand graced through Jthe The Christmas? tree Vf glittered brightly In a comer ofthe bed-room'and'the electrle train whirred around the track' plllowS' trled to take Inthe wonders oThla earlyChrlstmastoday as hs whispered rWelL'i t(Mayr Mummy a'PUgetlout' of bed tomorrow? 'JXls turned awsytd hlde- ber tears Tberemay not bft many tomop rleft) for five-year-old Jim-my pochon He Is dying of cancer ofthOxChest'm Cantlnned on Page 2- 8 th CoL v- ft -A D0NliTilEEEeaPREMlUMS rV 'i Billy Rom'''p9 Biilldlng'llS Roadil cape Elizabeth former manager vS the Maine Publicity Bureau 'and prominent for years In- civic and social activities here died Sunday In a local hospital after a brief mness- Mr Coe was bom in PoxllandL March 11 1966 son of Henry Hersey and Frances Todd 7 Coe end attended local schools: He started his career as off ice boy In the Passenger of the- Maine Central Railroad! He wrote many1 of the guide books and edited lta monthly public: relations maga-rine T2ie Maine Central Mr Coe resigned from 'the MCRR In' 1908 to establish an advertising betatronils stUllJnan sexpert-mentalj state the'? S(ate-lof i DU-noisjhaslimited Us use to Illinois residents who can qualify on a charity' basUi 'f The Allls-Chalmers company of Milwaukee has offered to make a betatron avallableThis machine IsMocated the: University of Sasketchewan Jn Saskatoon Can? uopeTo But: the family spokesman said he understood this betatron Is not ai In Chl-caro "Nol-definltoldedrian'Wdll be msde until tomorrow: at the earl-lest but we- are hopeful we can take Jimmy-to Chicago We have a plane ready i to fly him thete It looks like hit last Continued on Pare 2i 4th CoL' Buy Christmas S' His only chance tte A BlalneDavis 13 Classifled21-23 18! Letourneau Letters t'S ml 12 Radio 19 Senator Smiths Ji'17 19-14 19 12 ForFunls Rayi IS OviUwlCSn Crossword 238odal Deaths '2 Dunne'i- Editorials 12 Financial -21 Sports Theaters Thompson Time Unde Join AH Friends AAA PALMERS TONIGHT ITS MEN ONLY NIGHT lielnwhat: the: goveraorofllll-ziois says to tha goyernw of Pennsylvania Monday morhlnsi Seeks Treatment A -k spokesmans tor i the Fochoh family said v- Governor James Duff has agreed to contract Gov Adlal Stevenson of Illinois for special permlssion to 'have Jim my treated atctheUnlverslty of 31- 4-- jC Jn -1 I--- vs JSJ ffc EORESTICnyiMOIOMCO A.