Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - September 27, 1951, Altoona, Pennsylvania CITY EDITION The the Minor W COOLER FRIDAY Daylight saving time for the year 1981 win end on the coming Sunday when clocks will back one hour VOL 89 7171 ALTOONA PA THURSDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER FORTY FIVE CENTS LOGO VALLEY To INCREASE FARES TO 13C PUC Approves Street Par Bus Raise Sunday Oct Street car and bus fares tn toona will to 13 cents straight Sunday Oct 28 officials of Altoona Logan Valley tric Railway company said The Increase from W to 13 cents already approved by the public utility commission la the third are hike by Logan Valley since the fare went Into effect after World war I The to 13 cents in- cludes an Increase of tickets from 5 to 7 cents TMs M time in Logan history school tickets have been Increased In price The fare on the night owl Hollidaysburg to East Juniata bus will be hiked from 13 cents to cents Operating In Red O nally th o fare on Logan VaHey conveyances as on those of many other American transit com- panies was 5 cents Shortly after World war I the fare waa in- creased to 7 cents and remained unchanged until Dec 8 When Logan Valley Increased fares to 10 cents or three 25 cents On May 17 1648 fares were In- creased to 10 cents straight Both these Increases were approved by the public utility commission The forthcoming raise to 13 cents was necessitated by steadily In- creasing operational costs For the 12 months ending June SO 1Q51 Logan Valley reported a net loss ot President John A i Matthews told the Altoona Mirror Rising Costs Cited The fact that Logan Valley has been steadily operating in the rod has slowed the company's xion program which would result In service and the tion of the Eldorado Juniata and Hollidaysburg street car tracks Mr Matthews pointed out The present trend of public trana locally and na is Mr Mat thews said The decrease in street car and bus patronage ift a direct result of the increased ownership and use of private auto- mobiles Mr Matthews also pointed out wage Increases to employes to meet rising coats of living and ed cost of materials for Logan ley maintenance programs have been factors In the fare hike Large placards will be posted in Logan Valley offices and terminals tomorrow to Inform the public of the projected arc Increase The placards New rates of fares to become effective Oct 28 1951 making in- creases In rales ol fare affecting transportation of passengers on cars and buses have been filed and posted in the offices of this carrier and wiU be produced far examination upon HONORED BY COAL OPERATORS In today's ALTOONA MIRROR Amusements Comics and Panels County Correspondence Crossword Puzzle Editorials Features by Ihc People Major Poet's Corner Radio Programs Social Events Sports Women's Central State News Uncle Ray's Corner Hopper Want Ads Page 32 10 20 Coal Producers Name Officers At Convention Special to Alto ox a BEDFORD Sept A tyn of Philadelphia president of the Ebensburg Coal company at Colver was elected yesterday as president of the Central vania Coal Producers association and the Eastern Bituminous at the Joint convention in the Bedford Springs hotel He succeeds Heath S Clark chairman of the finance committee of the Rochester and Coal company at Indiana Walter A Jones of Altoona waa elected treasurer for a con term Other officers of the Central Pennsylvania ers Vice presidents J Wetter of Philadelphia and T F McCarthy of Indiana executive director and secretary Robert T Lai tig of Altoona The new Eastern Bituminous of- in addition to President tyn president Heath S Clark executive director and Mr Laing and treasurer Mr President Fontyn native ol Philadelphia was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the Colver firm In 1911 He Cast Ballots For CIO AFL Polls opened at 7 o'clock thl morning In the Altoona car sho Pullman shed as local employes o the Pennsylvania railroad ued balloting In the election In which employes are dc ciding whether the CIO or the AFL will be their bargaining agent ii each of the five crafts The election is under the super vision of the national board Mediators in charge In A toona are Clarence G Eddy an Charles F Wahl both of Washing ton D C Balloting In Altoona w h 1 c started Tuesday will daily except Cor Saturdays an Sundays through Oct crafts in which the union represen tatlon Issue will be decided arc Carmen electrician and shop laborers In all there are eight crafts o Die Pennsylvania railroad system The present election does not in volve three of the crafts machin fats workers and blacl smiths These are currently repr by the AFL The system election Involving th five unions held by the CIO r suited from a petition placed wi the mediation board by the AF which declared unusual and extr ordinary conditions existed wi respect to the five craf Although some employ will cast ballots in this election a system-wide basis in Altoona t actual number of eligible voters counting both Altoona wor re construction Industry of the States Ray F Smock secretary of ays has been so advised by the Safety council This Is the second consecutive car In which district 9 has been iw In the nation In accident The Pennsylvania ment of highways as a whole d first all groups of 500 or more by a wide n Robert E Smay la safety advisor Work Promise Frees Inmate Of Blair Jail The of a workhouse tence threw a dark shadow over E Lauer of Altoona for time this morning when he made a return appearance before Judge G Patterson In domestic court at who has spent most of tho past two months In the county jail for failure to support a child of his estranged wife Catherine still had poor prospects for the until Attorney Paul E Beaver counsel for the wife in- formed the court that hia client bad virtually hope of obtaining payment of arrearages and would be with future payments on the order Judge upon learning that Latier Is awaiting an ployment compensation check dered him to make a payment out of that money then District Nine Boasts Lowest Accident Rate Special to Sept ict 9 of the Pennsylvania cnt of highways with rs in and under 10 supervision of C R Forbea strict engineer ranks first in from accidents in the en- FILTER BEDS HEAD BRANDS REPORT FALSE Superintendent gests Mosquito Commission Check Other Water Areas Charles P Adams ent of the city's western disposal plant at Canan Station today branded eta incorrect and unjust the county mosquito charge that the Alter beds are the source of the mosquito nuisance In Eldorado and Hollidaysburg Mr Adams in reply I a report made earlier this week by Walter H secretary of the com- mission suggested that the com- mission check Burgoon run area the Lakemont park backwater and the Brush rim and Mill run ing areas of the region 43 well aa private backyard areas where de- brig and trash accumulate Full text ot Mr Adams reply to the commission Better published this week in the Altoona Mirror Text ot Report There are facts ing the situation at the filter beds that should be brought to the at- tention of the these same beds are condemned as the source of the prevailing mosquito nuisance in Eldorado and Hollidaysburg The article as given to the Altoona Mirror of Sept 25 is incorrect and unjust in most in- stances To begin There is no son or need for surprise visits to the area of the filter plant This plant as public property paid for and maintained by public lax funds Is open to the public at air GOP Bloc In Senate Ducks Vote on Taxes By W Staff Correspondent HARRISBURG Sept Senate ducked a Anal vote on the income tax last night by adopting a resolution to recess the legislature to Dec a rebellious house of representatives refused to concur who have given the senate Its choice of two separate tax programs told their senate colleagues In Stand up and be counted Senate Republicans billed or the district that comprises lair Cambria Bedford on and Somerset counties Joined the group only re- having been transferred rom district 12 at Union when county was dropped from 9 to become part of 2 at Clearfield Districts 9 10 1 and 12 ranked first second third and fourth among all roore employe con- struction groups In frequency accident on basis The national average accident frequency rate for the construction Is average of state highway departments la U Pennsylvania's rate Is District 9 In achieving top tonal for second straight ear showed a frequency of only 2.1 Accident frequency eatings of other districts of the state District 10 4.4 district 1 district 12 6 district 2 4.8 district 6 7.4 district S 7.8 district 5 8.4 district 3 9.3 district 4 121 and district 11 12.9 Other of the slate highways department are located fts follows District 1 Franklin district 2 district 3 district 4 Scranton district 5 district 6 Ardmore dis- S Harrisburg district JO In- diana district 11 Pittsburgh and district 12 Pickets Fined After Trucks Are Damaged Six Cambria county men ing the Cavalier strip mine ftt Coupon were arrested by state police of the Ebensburg barracks and fined each and costs before Justice of the Pence Elizabeth in yesterday ter nn outbreak of violence in the picketing of the ation The arrests came after the shields and door glass of Uvo trucks running clay from the Cavalier mine to the Altoona times for inspection and just cism The Blair county com mission or any commission Q group of individuals composed o public-spirited and law-abiding citi are welcome to visit the site of this plant at any time and to present a just com plaint against the operation of th Continued t William Plank Is Moderator Of Baptist Unit threat to throw British ly at of the house action talked of holding token for a few each cek until Dec 10 to satisfy requirements If they the house are going act like spoiled brats we'll eat them like spoiled ior John M Walker the senator majority But In spite of hot words over ic proposed to near nas a top level attempt was to be made today to head if the feud between the senate nd house Republicans GOP senate said later that for the two majority Iocs would try to iron out the labor Opponents of Governor John S set for Oct 25 Fine's modified income tax which had been scheduled for a final pass ge vote at 4 p TO yesterday d the senate Republicans Ion to admission the ad- ministration did not have the 26 to pass the money raiser The maneuvering opened a wide gulf between the Republican In both houses and ed to break out In an fight over procedure The break Continued on pane H column 6 William Boyle Questioned In Senate Probe By SlaB Correspondent WASHINGTON D C Sept National man William M Boyle jr faced the unfriendly questions today of a senate Investigating committee which he once worked under President Truman Boyle's his dealings with the RFC and hia financial relationships with his former law associate Max and the American corporation are under inquiry by the senate investigating ce The committee is the successor one member called il direct ineal the war in- committee Mr Truman made famous as a senator served on its staff as an in- Now the roles were re- versed Boyle was called to testify today after the committee now headed by Senator Clyde R Hoey D N C forced to give details ast night of the deal by which Boyle sold his law cases to him when Boyle went to the Democratic national committee as BRITISH GIVEN U.S ADVICE IN OIL CRISIS Truman Said to Have Told London Not to Use Armed Force In Iran By JACK V FOX LONDON Sept 27 tUP A personal message fiom President Truman to Prime Minister Clement R giving American in the Iranian all crisis was considered by the cabinet to- day at a tense three-hour meeting It was Indicated but not con- firmed that the president repeated his advice to the government not to use armed force to keep the Iranians from carrying out their Ridgway Asks Reopening of Truce Talks Communist Use Of Faster Jets Challenging UN out of the great Abadan refinery and oil port Momentous Decision The cabinet faced one of its most momentous decisions since World wai at a moment when King George VI was desperately ill and a genera parliamentary election on which the life of the labor government depended was WILLIAM II William H Flank ol 1106 street elected new moderator of tlic Centre tist association this morning nt the Annual session in tlie Bell Avenue Baptist church He Rev P B host tor of the convention Chosen as vice moderator Rev A D Smalley 21 East her street Mount Union on H 4 Iran had given 300 British oil technicians until next Wednesday midnight to get out of Abadan or be thrown out The cabinet today was faced with the decision of giving in to the Iranian ultimatum or using force to prevent the expulsion of its oil men Run Risk ol War A decision to use troops in Iran Would mean running the risk of an east-west explosion Russia la en- titled by a 1921 treaty to send troops into Iran If U Is threatened by an outside power If Russian troopers poured over Iran's north ern frontier it might prove the sparll to explode World war ItL A grim atmosphere prevailed as the cabinet assembled at 10 Ing street Prime Minister Clement R Attlee fully recognized that if he muffed the Iranian problem he would virtually hand the premier K ei Program Nears Critical Test WASHINGTON D C Sept 27 Stabilizer Eric A Johnston indicated today that his program will face a critical test late this year when ROBERT BlaO 8TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS Korea Sept New ter communist jcU challenged American over northwest Korea for the third straight day today but were driven back into Manchuria with two damaged The 84-plane battle ran the ed Nations score In three days to heavy aerial fighting to 26 built MIG jets destroyed or aged i The red pilots were becoming Increasingly aggressive in their challenge to American air acy over the northwest corner of Korea An air force spokesman said the communists appeared to be using a modified faster version of their However they have not begun using Russia's new Jets yet he said Communist also have im- proved the spokesman said It waa believed that European super- Russian or both giving the Chinese and Continued to 1C Red Intentions tn Korea Seen In Air Buildup By 17 P paid vice chairman on April 29 also admitted that the statement he gave the committee early yesterday was prepared with the help of Sam Brightman ant publicity director at national Democratic headquarters whose testimony ran for more than 12 hours said ho asked a close to help him with his ment He said he didn't know the statement mimeographed for press at Democratic headquarters And after long protests he gave the names of 20 of the 23 clients he bought from Boyle He was not required to name the other Continued on paer 16 2 CIO make new wage demands Johnston predicted that he can hold the line against inflation for three to five months provided conr gress tightens up the controls law with amendments now being con- But he told the United Press that he expects to have a big steel problem on my desk before the stabilization post Wage boosts for the steelworkers have been followed by price increases Stability In the steel industry Is one of the problems that may be discussed today at a meeting be- tween Defense Charles E Wilson and top industry executives Johnston revealed that he ably will stay on the job until the first of the year scotching reports that he plans to return next month to his permanent position as head of the Picture Association of America Johnston did not say so but it appears that President Truman is having considerable difficulty ing someone to replace him Nothing that steel is a key In- dustry in on pige IS NEW YORK Sept The most reliable signpost to what the communists are to do in Korea U the amount of air er they For three days they been using more than usual have a series ot dog fights in what the United Nations MIG 75 milea of territory southeastward from the communist der on the Yalu river The U N air has been not because its jet planes are better but because most of its pilots are superior to the reds In aerial tics The situation shakes down to 1 The communists cannot defeat the U N army unless they go in for unrestricted aerial warfare and they know It 2 If they go all out m the air it means that Russia will have to NEW LOCATION FOR PARLEYS IS SUGGESTED Supreme Com- mander Intervenes to Get Conferences Under Way By EARNEST Staff Correspondent TOKYO Sept 27 UP Matthew B Ridgway proposed to- day that the Korean armistice talks as early as possible at the tiny village of la the middle of The supreme United Nations com- mander intervened directly In an attempt to get the truce talka going again after U N and communist liaison officers found themselves deadlocked addressed his proposals to Gen Kim H Sung North Korean and commander-in-chief and Chinese commander in Korea Mutually Satisfactory I believe this proposal provides for arrangements that can be tually satisfactory to both our Ridgway told the red com- manders communist generals already have rejected one earlier Ridgway proposal to shift the talks fiom Kaesong However Ridgway on th at t occasion did not specify any particular alternative site t proposal was in icing cast each day at the official jolling places works employes eligible o vote total for all five Middle employes eligible to cast ballots Broken down on a craft basis he Altoona works voters Include 3.455 carmen 830 electricians laborers find 209 Tho 1.411 Middle division include 913 carmen 64 on 40 column cut the ace by glass as heaved rocks at the trucks the rhino Arrested and fined Andrew D of 219 Second avenue Theodore Rodkey of 258 Grove avenue and Joseph Sendelofsky of 331 Strayer street all Johnstown Dixon of South Fork R D i Lewis Scott of Emeigh and David of R D 1 CH t by sh Rtte red gl ass was on ml n run New Regulations In Draft Raise Manpower Pool Buying Habits In Food Autos Prove Altoona Is Rich Market IQ NEW YORK Sept incomes high in Altoona local families were able to allot a greater part of their ings toward more luxurious living in the past year This was noticeable in J a r g e measure in more liberal spending in food stores payments of 20 return to work month upon his The money expressed willingness to forget Is ftn lation of In household LAUer who has been for waa warned that non-compliance would mean the workhouse In another of the cases presented hy Domestic Relations Officer C C Judge Patterson also de- livered nn ultimatum to Ralph 1 of In the form ot It was observed in the FORECAST WASHINGTON D C Sept Western cloudiness cooler Friday ability of residents to In- dulge more freely In automotive purchases which correlates ly with standards in normal years and In purchases of ture household accessories and The spending Increase greater than was called for meet rise fn living costs The facts arc drought out In current righted covering all 4 states showing how money Is spent In each community Tho food In In 1030 came lo Divided by tho number of local represented purchases In grocery stores meat markets and the like of per This was more than the age American family spent for food a year It was greater than was spent generally tn the middle Atlantic states per family and than vania's per family How much emphasis Is placed on food locally Is shown by the fact that stores selling edibles receive of all tho city's retail business Nationally only 23 cent of housewives retail get Is for food An examination of other gories of retail business used as Indexes In the study also bears out the Indication that Altoona is flourishing market Local sales o automotive ment Including cars and parts farm machinery and such amount ITU 10 O WASHINGTON D C Sept 27 About childless husbands and soon will lose their draft deferments and become eligible for military service The White House announced late yesterday that President man has signed new draft lations which these men The regulations were issued under the new draft act passed In June which prohibits deferment of a man whose wile is his only dependent except in cases of extreme hardship The law also lowered mental standards for Induction Into the armed forces Congressional ex- perts have estimated that will be affected by this vision while childless bands will be hit by the regulation Officials have warned that tin pool of men through 25 wil uo dangerously low next year 1 the present draft rate continues and even tighter deferment will be necessary The new regulations 1 Require some objectors lo perform work o national Importance for two They will not be placed In wor camps but must lake jobs their draft as con the nation's health an safety 2 Make aliens who permanent ly reside In thia country liable t the draft Diplomats and 16 column McCarthy Will Give Evidence Jessup WASHINGTON D C Sept 27 Senator Joseph R Carthy IR promised ho produce today documentary o support his charge nat Am large Philip C has nn unusual affinity or communist McCarthy made the statement as prepared to go before a relations sub-committee to nomination to be i member of the United Stales at tlie United Nations McCarthy told newsmen he is of success in his against Jessup I am ready to produce evidence which should the senate to refuse to he said McCarthy made similar charges against Jessup last year In tion to an unusual affinity for communist said Jessup belonged to some Commun- ist front organizations A senate foreign relations sub- committee exonerated Jessup and said in its report the diplo- mat is actively opposing the aims of communism by deeds as well as words The subcommittee on 16 coin run 3 Truman Order Opposed By Newspaper Editors WASHINGTON D C Sept American Society of Newspaper Editors complained to- day that President Truman's new information order will much news to which the security suppress public is entitled Criticism ot the executive order also came from capitol hilt whore three Republican senators ed fear that some government will use the regulations to cover up mistakes Doctors Report On King George Is Encouraging By K H SHACKFORD Staff Correspondent LONDON Sept George VFs doctors today issued their most encouraging bulletin since Ws lung operation and the Duke ot Windsor called at to pay his respects The doctors said the king is stronger his apetite is improving and his progress continued Part or 11 of one of king's lungs and one or more ribs were removed Sunday The Duke of Windsor whose abdication as King VIII for the woman I Love in 1936 put hia younger brother on the throne drove through the palace gates in a black limousine at noon T a m EOT First reports said the duke ota not sec hia stricken brother but called only on the king's personal secretary for the latest medical reports So far as is known Queen Elizabeth is the only visitor mitted in the royal sickroom Ironically Windsor is In London to participate in the publication to- day of his memoirs A King's on iS colamn 1 nature r of For the U N it would get the cease-fire talks away from which behind Grants Had same it would grant communist demands that liaison officers discuss only time arid place for resumption of the truce talks and that security arrangements he made the first business of the full armistice gations lies about on the highway between Kaesong knd the U N advance truce camp on south bank of the river It is some eight miles southeast of and a mile and a half southeast of the com- munist check point at Pan Mun Jom The village is on a flat area There are four or five thatched roof houses on the south aide of the road but only heaps of masonry on the other Make Direct Contact Ridgway communicated directly with the communist commanders after liaison officers of the two sides failed in three successive meetings this week to teach ment on for tion of the truce talks The communists broke off the truce talks Aug 23 on faked dence that a U N plane had bombed the neutral zone the They subsequently charged nearly 200 other U N violations The U N com- mand admitted only two and said both were accidental British Recalling Anecdotes About Their Popular Monarch By ROBERT MUSEt Staff Correspondent Thermometers at the rs II road teat plant recorded a ature of ftS degrees yesterday and a low of degrees last At 9 o'clock his morning Uic degrees for was 10 Inches LONDON Sept seedy young men examined a lush roadster on London's Pall Mall one day Belongs to one of those idle rich I said one of them At which point the who had advanced served climbed into the driver's scat Rich he sighed but not idle by a long rich was the Duke of York now King George VI one of the royalty ol H This and other anecdotes were being as the kins today by his sub- air force grab control of the try by making everybody a peer empty the dismiss the Judges nnd shut down the post office He can do nil this without ig parliament Actually no British king would dream of doing it But King George has gone a long way eliminating the figurehead idea of royalty When Germany and Russia sliced up Poland for example the king expressed his displeasure In a singular ingham after a serious formally invited the operation Theoretically British kings but do not In R sense nrc kings in name only But ly if he wants to Invoke his rights King George could disband the fire the and prime minister of Poland to Buckingham palace Russia and Germany held that Poland did not exist any and the king's action a mendous prestige slap Similarly when Hitler took over It r TV IN ARGENTINA BUENOS AIRES Argentina Sept will formally inaugurate Its first television tem Oct 17 it was disclosed today Big Tax Further Bogged Down In Senate WASHINGTON D C Sept move to repeal the tax exemptions on the expense accounts of the president vice president and members of congress was rated a tossup in a senate vote today Senator John J Dei sponsor of the amendment to end the lux exemptions thought it would be approved But many senators complained members of congress are having a tough making ends meet on present aries The Williams amendment has further bogged down the lion MX debated In the senate There Is no time limitation on debate on ment A minority led by supporters still planned to go ahead with Its hopeless fight for a bigger tax II was de- on a series of votes day and the tax exemption tion had to be settled hrst The senate stayed In session until 10.36 night but fulled to dis- pose of the Williams amendment Senator Styles Bridges N offered a substitute ment to raise congressional ies to a year and then drew It He offered a motion W kill the amendment hut the senate the motion 46 to Under present Truman receives Uw annual and ex- pense allowance Vice President Barkley and HOUM
