Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - November 19, 1946, Altoona, Pennsylvania STOCK EDITION Circulation of the Mirror Yesterday PART One of the nicest gifts from you to yours is a Christmas subscription to the Mirror delivered locally or mailed daily VOL 135 PHONE 7171 ALTOONA PA TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER TWENTY-FOUR FOUR CENTS COLLEGE FUND INCREASED BY GIFT Anonymous tion Boosts Center's Campaign Total to The largest gift received thus far in the Altoona Undergraduate center campaign to purchase the park property as the site of a permanent college in Altoona was announced this morning by Robert E Eiche administrative head of the center The gift Is in the amount of and the identity of the con- is not disclosed by the center in compliance with the ex- pressed wish accompanying the gift A second sizeable and deeply contribution to the side fund also was received at the center this morning a check in the amount of being received from the Shaffer company Total Increasing The two large gifts reported day along with in addition re- at the schools bring the day's total to the largest of any one day since the project was first announced The grand total of the financial campaign now stands at The total does not yet reflect the of the local college students in their canvass of the city in any degree Because of class schedules only a few of the students have been able to com- plete their first round of visits Gifts made through the homes of the city represent those made on the first call rather than on the return visit Information concerning the ect may be procured from any of the students at the center If un- able to answer the inquiries at the time of the visit the students are instructed to refer them to the center returning later to provide the full information Today's Contributors The following list contains the names of persons recorded today as having contributed to the Miss Maurer 1 Jane Weitch 2 First Presbyterian Sunday school 25 James Foust S Barber shop 5 Paul J Picano 2 Mr and Mrs C Rhoads 1 Miss Dorothy Shute 1 Dr Leonard N Ray 10 A John Sabathne 25 Blair Ice Cold Storage company 25 Rev Luke H Rhoads 5 Mr and Mrs J E inger 50 Mrs E Lozinak 50 Mrs Agnes Long 50 L Warren Emery 1 W E 1 Carl T Meyer 6 Mrs Olga W Hegarty 10 Fred S Dunlap 10 R J Schmittle 5 Robert W Emery 5 William A Hauth 10 Burns Coffee shoppe 5 Mrs A J Holtzinger 10 Dr J E English B Dr Julius Bloom 20 W W McKillip 1 Dr Daniel Bohn 5 Chester G McGlathery 10 Shaffer Stores 300 SCHOOLBOY PATROL MEMBERS AT ST MARY'S Pictured above sre members of the schoolboy patrol at St Mary's parochial school who cannot lie excelled in the service and the courtesy they give the children entrusted to their according to the school authorities They are left to Front Ullrich Joseph Bott Francis Bumann and Francis Vukmanovich back Summer Richard Hartman Fred meler Edward O'Donnell and George Total S Previous total Grand State Aid to Cities Given Consideration That some of the problems which are of vital interest to municipal officials and citizens of Altoona will be given consideration by the state's lawmakers at the coming session of the legislature was the assurance received by those who attended the conference of finance officials last week at State Col- lege Among those who attended was Senator George B Stevenson man of the assembly's municipal government commission and he gave assurance of his cooperation in bringing about the passage of the desired legislation One of the subjects of great In- terest in Altoona is that of state aid for the construction of age disposal plants As is well known Altoona has its plans for the proposed two new plants pre- pared All that is now needed is the money to build them about It obviously is a heavy burden for to assume The elimination of untreated age from the streams is one of hobbies of Governor-elect James H Duff and the view was ex- pressed that he will be found friendly toward a proposal for state aid Francis S Friel of the ing firm of Albright Friel which prepared the plans was at the conference and he stated that municipal costs generally ing such proposals as this have 116 per cent since 1940 Other subjects in which state cooperation will be asked are a larger allocation of fuels taxes changes in the tax collecting code veterans housing and municipal sharing of taxes paid by utilities MARSHAL KONEV GIVEN NEW POST Temperature Hits Low of 23.5 Degrees Some of Vets Houses Will Be Ready Soon COUNTY Choice Call Off HAVE O i i T IN YULE FUNDS Strike or Kisk J ail 1 erm UMW CHIEF'S BEING KEPT SECRET Nearly Installation of another full square of water pipe in Night temperatures have j tion with the veterans housing dropped steadily in the past in Vo i been completed by the water i banks and the dates are as department but there is still some National I project in Pleasant valley has week according to r at the railroad test department with new records for the fall season being made with each new reading Last night's low temperature however when the mercury dropped to 23.5 degrees above zero promises to stand for some days The lowest thus far this fall was accompanied by the heaviest frost and fog the frost lying j like snow on exposed areas this At 9 o'clock the temperature had risen only to 28 degrees and many automobiles frozen up and steaming were seen in and about the city The high temperature yesterday after- noon was 43 degrees 150 In City Blair Savings Nearly 3.900 depositors of nine in Blair county outside the city of Altoona will share a record Christmas savings fund during the next two weeks it was found today in a survey by the toona Mirror Together with reported from 6.000 depositors from the three city of Altoona banks Nov 2 the Christmas savings for the entire county will make a grand total of which will be dis- bursed throughout the county by Dec 2 Altoona banks paid out their funds this week while most of the county banks will make their payments by Dec 2 Two banks not participating in the Christmas club plan are the Citizens National bank at and the Morrison Cove bank at Martinsburg Deposits Increase With one exception all county banks reported their Yule savings funds show a marked increase I over those of last year The in- crease was estimated at more than i in the county and in many j cases constituted an all-time high Amounts to be mailed bv the to be laid Department Director George A Busch jr said today the ing firm does the ditching and the then does the after the pipe is laid Mr Busch again gave assurance there will be no holdup as far as Dec 2 First National Claysburg ec 1 Hollidaysburg Trust Nov Fir s t National 1 Martinsburg National Roaring Spring the water department is concerned I Dec 2 The Moyer Bros firm is working Roaring Spring bank Dec on all stages of the building 1 ations including the interior j First County Tyrone ishing touches and it is i 000 Dec 1 j that it will not be long until some First National Williamsburg of the units are ready for oo Nov IB LONDON Nov pointed commander-in-chief of the j Logan Valley Raise Before City Council At a meeting of city council this morning a communication from John A Matthews president and general manager of the Altoona Logan Valley Electric Railway company was presented in which he formally apprises council of the application filed by the com- pany with the state utility sion for an increase of fares on street cars and buses from 7 to 10 cents effective Dec 8 The notification is in line with the usual procedure of notifying all parties including city council interested in such a move The traction company holds a charter Farmers Merchants Councilman Guy Z who burg Nov 16 represents the city in the project as a whole said today that he had received a communication from a veteran who lives in the county outside of the city but whose employment is in the city in which he expresses a desire to rent one of the housing units This poses a question that will have to be submitted to the com- that has charge of the rentals and the allocation of the housing Unable to procure a house in the city the veteran who really is an Altoonan and his wife have been obliged to find a domicile with the latter's ents until they get a place On the basis of the tors reported by the nine county banks the total of would make an average payment of ly in excess of per depositor Expenditures Varied While it is the general sion that all but a small portion of Christmas club funds go into De- cember purchases of Christmas gifts and items it is not so ing to Herbert F Rawll of New York city founder and president pf Christmas clubs Inc Reporting on the to be distributed this month by on pane column X lUlS TO BE Discussion of pending tion at the coming session of the ate legislature and airing of in- views upon various bills will feature the regional Chamber of Commerce dinner at the hotel this evening at 6.30 o'clock to which local tives in the general assembly will be guests Such subjects as a pending which would bar striking employes from receiving state ment compensation the home rule which is enabling legislation to permit Third class cities to a city manager form of government if they so desire and civil taxation policies embodied in several new bills will be ly aired soviet army ground forces ing Marshal Georgi K Zhukov the British press and radio reported today Konev is one of Russia's most brilliant commanders After a cession of victories Ukraine and Balkans he shared with kov the distinction of capturing Berlin More recently he had been commander of soviet occupation in Austria Konev's assumption of the soviet ground force command was first reported by the United Press last I July but at that time there had I been no official announcement i in Russia that Zhukov had been relieved and that Konev had him Blair Farmers To Be Rotary Dinner Guests A custom of years will be revived on Tuesday Dec 3 when the Rotary club plays host to Blair county farmers and dairymen at a noon luncheon at the hotel Invitations to the dinner are being sent out by J Clyde Cassidy William Livengood jr of to the proposed fare increase have discussed the subject with bers of council Mayor that there is little the city can do about it since action by the state utility sion takes precedence over that of city council whether embodied in the charter or otherwise A communication was laid before the body from Kev John R Hart pastor of the First Pentecostal church asking for exoneration of taxes on the property at Fifth nue and Sixth street He said that it had been used for business purposes although originally H church and that alterations will be completed within 30 days Councilman Pearce advised that the property will be exonerated from taxes in 1947 but as the present year is nearly at an end Flier's Crash Report Here Proves False The family of Capt Richard Ramsey aged 25 C-47 pilot located at Selfridge field Mt Clemens Mich was upset for awhile afternoon over a false re- port that Capt plane had crashed in the vicinity of the Duncansville airport Capt Ramsey had earlier ned to fly home for a visit but on Sunday notified his wife Mrs ma Ramsey daughter Mr and Mrs R Spencer Orange of 1815 Third street that a change in plans made it impossible for him to come he planned to have his wife and two children Cheryl aged 3 and Scottie aged 15 months move to Selfridge to join him within a short time Late yesterday afternoon Mrs Orange's sister Mrs Brinton J Swab of Duncansville was called by a Duncansville woman to in- form her that she had heard cast a report over the radio that Capt Ramsey's plane had crashed near Duncansville Mrs Ramsey called her sister and calls to local it could not be exonerated this year Council passed a resolution di- newspapers and radio station were reeling the satisfaction of a lien subsequent checks at entered against the property of Martha Poet at third avenue amounting to and a tax amounting to if paid within the next 30 days Council approved the payment of a for covering the ex- penses of Councilman Pearce and City Controller T W Tobias in- curred in attending the municipal both Duncansville and Martinsburg airports before it was discovered there had been no crash The original informant stoutly declared that she had heard the Continued on page 10 column Newly Formed E U B Church Elects Bishops Special to Altoona Mirror JOHNSTOWN Nov bishops and other officers were elected yesterday to head the Evangelical United Brethren church as the first major business trans- acted by the denomination ing from unification of the and United Brethren in Christ churches Named to four-year terms were the five former United Brethren Arthur R Clippinger of Dayton O Ira JX Warner of Pomona Calif Victory O Weidler of Kansas City Mo Fred L Dennis of Ind and Balmer Showers of Harrisburg Pa The following evangelical bishops also were elected to the new John S Stamm of Harrisburg George F Epp of Naperville 111 E M Praetorius of St Paul Minn and C H of Kansas City Mo The elections opened a six-day general conference of the nation's newest and 10th largest Protestant denomination following their cation Saturday Roy H of Harrisburg and Dr L L Huffman of Dayton O were elected publishers of the Evangelical United Brethren Press with headquarters in Dayton and Harrisburg Dr J W Krecker of Red Lion was elected editor of the adult weekly publication on 21 column J ARMY TRANSPORT PLANE IN CRASH FRANKFURT Nov A United States army transport plane crashed on a snow covered mountain plateau 25 miles east of Grenoble France today and first reports were that five persons were injured seriously while the fate of the other six aboard was unknown At the same time an unconfirmed report from a United States at Bern said an plane believed to have been American had crashed in the Alps near Arosa Italy Pennsylvania secretary of in- finance officers conference at State ternal affairs at Harrisburg will be j College last Friday and Saturday speaker The session of city council The purpose of the annual gether luncheon is to give members of the Rotary club the professional business and civic life of the cii to of Altoona an op- become better Valuable Dogs Perish In Fire Two collie dogs valued at each perished in a fire which de- the barn on the Sweet Briar farm at Gallitzin R yesterday afternoon The owner William Weston aged 83 former Gallitzin merchant not at home when u passing Truman kept motorist discovered the fire at 4 j vacation schedule flexible today I o'clock firemen kept the I alert for any development in the I fro from spreading to the large with farmers and dairy- men By sitting at the same table annual dinner meetings with residents of the rural areas of Blair county with the former and the latter alternating as host were discontinued during war II in 10 column TRUMAN KEEPING IN CLOSE TOUCH KEY WEST Fla Nov opened with invocation by Rev Dr Carey pastor of the First Baptist church Gen M C Stayer Will Head Tuberculosis Control Bureau his return lo III HARRISBURG Nov Dr Morrison Clay Stayer of lisle former chief health officer in German today headed state health department's tuberculosis control bureau Dr Stayer a retired United States army major general Dr Dale C Stable of risburg who has served as acting bureau chief since last February j The post pays a year A graduate of the Royal Army Medical school in London and the Army War college Stayer has taught preventive medicine at the medical field service school lisle Fort a He performed surgery in the lint might require nursery conducted by Mr Weston i and Italian theatres and ic white House The loss on the burn and con- j officer in charge of public By and special courier tents was placed nt and is I welfare education and religion in Mr Truman personally partially covered by insurance The during and after World SHIP BOILER SAN FRANCISCO Nov 19 boiler exploded on the aircraft carrier guiding he administration's fight cause has been undetermined since i war 11 one person and seriously burning nine or 10 others in courts to prevent a coal i Mr Weston who resides alone on shutdown tomorrow midnight the farm had gone to UnlJitzin represented Germany at nn page WALKOUTS IN COAL FIELDS More Than Men In Bituminous Areas Join In Work Re- PITTSBURGH Nov vey in soft coal fields showed that more than of the UMW 000 m e in 1 e r s already had refused to stay on By J Staff Correspondent PITTSBURGH Nov Preview strikes spread through the nation's soft coal fields today as AFL United Mine Workers ently prepared for a spontaneous general walkout by Wednesday mid- night More than per cent of the UMW membership in the soft coal had joined in the premature walkouts The government's threat of court action against UMW President John L Lewis if he fails to rescind his contract cancellation order brought little reaction from the coal diggers Mines Fail to Open Three big commercial mines In the rich western Pennsylvania fields failed to open today The solid fuels administration reported coal production in the state already off 40.650 tons a day Hundreds of the miners doffed Continued on poor w column 3 Humble Great Pay Respects to Jimmy Walker By LEO TURNER Correspondent NEW YORK Nov ple he loved stood in line for hours today for a last look at Jimmy Walker the gay mid able ex-mayor who went to meet the Man Upstairs James J Walker aged 65 died in Doctor's hospital from a cerebral blood clot at 0.26 p m yesterday admired by millions because he never held a grudge The Man Upstairs takes care of things like he once said The humble and the great waited patiently fti front of the Frank E Campbell funeral parlor Madison avenue at Eighty-first street to pay their respects beginning at noon to the politician of another era who looked at bis and found it amusing The public never forgot his good humor They forgot that he stepped out of office under fire But H LaGuardia his bitterest foe recommended Walker for job as im- partial chairman of the cloak and suit industry which he held for five years It was Mayor Jimmy who Wiley Post and Harold Catty after their flight in the Winnie Mae Mae Winnie must nie did PLEADS FOB PEACE CHARLES O'NEILL MINE OWNERS URGING BASIS OF SETTLEMENT Charles O'Neill Voices Desire of Operators for Return of In- dustry Voicing the sentiments of bers of the Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers association nt a meeting today at the hotel Charles O'Neill president of the association declared the ators hope that John L Lewis and the government will agree upon a basis of settlement that will the country from stoppage of the coal supply during the winter and the suffering that such stoppage would entail as well as provide a means by which the might be returned to the owners The purpose of the meeting was to review the situation confronting the said Mr O'Neill at its conclusion that is the of strike on Wednesday that may close practically all mines in the district This closure if it comes will be because of the dispute between the government and the United Mine Workers of America as resented by J A Krug secretary of the Interior and John L Lewis president of the United Mine ers Origin of papule The dispute arose over the In- of the contract now in existence known as the Lewis agreement and which was made by the two men Government takes the that the contract was Tor the period of government tion of and the United Mine Workers take the position that tion 15 of the old operator ment providing for a no- tice negotiations and day strike notice is Mr O'Neill continued The operators arc of course not involved in this controversy having had nothing to do with the making of the ment their mines having been seized by the government on May 22 1946 and operated since that time by government The operators agree to accept the proposal of the government i that negotiations between the Officials Believe Boss May Have One Avenue of Escape For other stories on see II By RAYMOND LAHK Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON D C Nov U Lewis was brought face to face today with the of surrendering to a court order to call off the soft coal shutdown threatened at midnight tomorrow or to stand defiant at the risk of a possible jail sentence The unpredictable chief of the United Mine Workers AFL gave no sign as to the course he would follow But government officials believed he had but one avenue to escape the to win dissolution of the court order before the deadline for the out If Lewis simply ignored the court order he would face the threat of contempt of court action or prosecution under the nally law Miners Free to Act Regardless of any step that Lewis took there was no assurance that the soft coal industry would not be closed by a walkout of his 000 soft coal miners Individual miners cnn stay away from pits without running afoul the court order forbidding Lewis to cancel his contract with the government More than bituminous ers left their jobs days ahead of the initial response td the government's lenge to Lewis The walkouts wert reported Pennsylvania West Virginia Kentucky Indiana ginia Oho Alabama and Illinois The government prepared for the worst by ordering a 25 percent cut in coal-burning passenger train service effective next Monday It indicated that parcel post ordinary train mail and less essential freight would be curtailed if a mine shutdown developed Temporary Injunction Even as the walkouts got under- way Attorney General Tom C Clark went before United District ludge T Alan here and obtained the restraining order against Lewis He acted with the edge and support of President Truman who kept in close touch with the coal developments from his vacation retreat at Key West Fla i ill It was Jimmy Walker who once ers operators be resumed for before found a crowd waiting for i on IP column 3 a look at him and What's the matter? Did they close the i Solemn high requiem mass U planned tentatively for 10.30 a I f Thursday at St Patrick's i 1 dral Burial will be in the of Heaven cemetery at ville N Y i Walker had been in a comn i early Sunday when he was taken to the hospital and died while his Dr Sym Newman oxygen i American officials are drafting a Shortly afterward Walker's j United States disarmament tcr Nan Walker Burke with whom which they believe can set he lived was from the the world on the road to hospital mom in a wheel chair but which will preserve this She had fainted at his bedside I nation's security every step of the At their apartment Mrs way By JOHN L Staff NEW YORK Nov nodded to Walker's Iwo j children jr aged B who lived with Walker and Mary A aged 10 whom friends brought from her school day They understood order required Lewis to cancel his order the UMW contract with government at midnight tomorrow It also ordered the union to com- v ply with the contract and to re- frain from action instigating 11 strike or slowdown in the mines If Lewis failed to obey the order to withdraw the termination notice he would be subject to whatever penalties set for contempt of court maintains his present contract with the government makes it legal for him to terminate the agreement The government dis- agrees Could Demand Hearing The law permits the union to de- mand a hearing on the ough order on two days The two-day condition would have required that the notice be filed yesterday to relieve Lewis of the responsibility of withdrawing termination notice It was under- stood however that the justice de- was willing to waive tne two-day requirement if the union wanted a hearing Goldsborough set Nov 27 fop ft hearing on the government petition for a permanent injunction Nothing in order or in the act pre- Their past record suggested that most or all mines would be closed day whatever action Lewis took Lewis served the contract vented individual miners staying away from Influence of Labor Waning ATLANTIC CITY N Nov 39 K Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Ind today told the CIO convention that labor's political in- had waned tho man administration has gone Re- He warned that labor's won rights are under i Ing attack but asserted that The proposal it was nation notice last Friday on tary of Interior J A Krug after rejecting Krug's plan for union negotiations with mine Krug and Lewis negotiated day will presented formally to nn j the United Nations general bly this week or next Diplomatic sources who cannot be named but whose information is not questioned said that tho can draft will demand as the price of United States participation 1 Effective safeguards to insure that no country is violating any disarmament pact eventually agreed upon 2 assurances that other nations are committed ly with this country Uo arms re- duction and that they will the on schedule The plan will be submitted for President Truman's approval before it is made public Tt will be the United States answer to Russian Foreign Minister V M Molotov's Continued vn pant JO column 4 PUPILS INJURED IN BUS ACCIDENT FAIRMONT W V Nov county school pupils were hospitalized and 23 others treated for minor in- juries today after their school plunged off a highway a few miles north of here hospital reported Of the seven who were detained nl the hospital one child identified as lean of W Va suffered a fractured nock pupils were in the bus UN resolution for arms reduction Tiie United Slates resolution will j when tho accident occurred i will not surrender a single rung of j lay down the terms on which up which we have country will work for world FORECAST ly and painfully climbed through armament If it is accepted by the WASHINGTON D C Nov years of constant general assembly it will be the basis and I for drafting of disarmament Whitney said that many of labor's by the security council or a on it rolumn t oti it column I and not so cold tonight day partly cloudy and somewhat colder In he extreme north portion
