Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - February 26, 1946, Indiana, Pennsylvania Made to Indiana Eve ning Gazette its news paper boys and sub scribers for their patri otic support of the War Savings Program n Indiana County Newspaper That Serves Every Member of the Family COVERING THE WORLD FROM THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OF WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA VOLUME 163 TEN PAGES TEDDY The first robin having already been spotted we cant give you an exclusive but watch this apace for news of the first snowy egret INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 26 1946 TELEPHONE 500501 THREE CENTS RACE RIOTING LOOMS IN COLUMBIA NYC Transit Showdown at Midnight NEW YORK Feb The strike threat to New York Citys transit twice daily or more by an estimated per sons reached the showdown stage today with union and city ad ministration officials still apart on the basic strike issue Even as the board of transporta tion was called into session to con sider the unions demand that it be recognized as sole collective bar gaining agent for some tran sit workers as an alternative to a walkout Mayor William ODwyer received added support on his stand that such a request was precluded by state law PHIL MURRAY ON WAY WASHINGTON Feb President Philip Murray left today for New York pre to check up on the threatened strike of CIO transit workers there Assistants to Murray at CIO headquarters declined to say why Murray was the trip but one official comment ed you can draw your own The board of estimate backed the mayors position and empowered the city in a resolution to transfer from one department to another key men needed to operate the subways ele vatec trolley and bus lines in the event the walkout materialized The CIO Transport Workers Union which claims to represent of the transit workers has threatened to call the strike any time after midnight tonight unless its demand was met by the Board of Transportation The Board of Estimate said the TWU represented only of the citys transit workers The TWU also seeks a wage increase ODwyer has de clared the wage demand was justi fied ODwyer was assured of further support in keeping the transit sys Sec NYC TRANSIT Continued on Page Two Raps U S Budget 4fPM4Meet GOPer Out Herbert Brownell chairman of the Republican National Com is reported to have resigned effective April 1 Friends say he is anxious to devote more time to his New York law practice PHILADELPHIA Feb President Trumans proposed budge for 194647 is the most inflationary ever laid before the national con gress and arguments that it wil reduce the public debt are a and a G Mason Republican National Committeeman from Pennsylvania told the vania Manufacturers Association to day president of the associa tion in an address prepared for de livery at the opening session of the groups 37th annual meeting declar ed the budget sent the stock market skyrocketing it tangled the strike deadlock and i caused a new crisis in America begged for a budget this said bu President Truman is ten times more than a normal budget four times higher than the biggest pre war budget of the New Deal and even on the face of it 30 per cent in the The choice of the American peo ple is exceedingly he as They can pay the national debt by economy and hard work or they can pay it many times over with a loss of resources and a loss of liberty through Truman infla declared the U S could have been out of the woods and on the highway to abundance today if six months ago the President had wrung the extravagance and waste out of his The GOP leader claimed inflation can not be prevented by controlling prices and said he was convinced that all of us are as one in the desire to uphold the stimulating influence of the competitive process against the dead of gov planning and That has been our great trouble much government in busi he said Rock Faff Partly Buries Mans Car v A 35foot wall of rock and soil came rumbling down on an auto mobile owned by Steve 469 j Forces Art Consolidated MOSCOW Feb The Rus sian army navy and airforce were unified today in a single commis the armed forces of the U S S R under the command of Generalissimo Stalin The three Soviet fighting forces were consolidated by decree of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet which designated Stalin Peoples Commissar of the Armed Forces and Supreme of the Armed Under the leadership of Gener Stalin the armed forces of the U S S R will henceforth x x improve and develop to the dread of the enemies of Soviet power for the welfare of our people and the cause of peace in the entire the government newspaper Izvestia said in a frontpage editorial The Soviet people were doing and will be doing everything in order that the Red army does not stay behind any army of any coun try whatever with regard to dif ferent kinds of armament and from all members of our armed forces we require that they ceaselessly perfect their military and political Izvestia said The 66yearold generalissimo who had been defense commissar since July 19 1941 also is premier and of the central committee of the Communist party The navy commissariat was abol ished in the new organization anc the defense commissariat was trans formed into the new unified com Izvestia said the action the Supreme Soviet was of enormous Study Church Relations ATLANTIC CITY N Feb 26 committee to study th question of as it re lates to the Romai Catholic Churcl in matters that concern Methodism was named yesterday by the Counci of Methodist Bishops at the fina session of the annual conference A spokesman said that among matters to be considered was tha of diplomatic representation at In Vatican on the part of the States x x x we look with grav concern on totalitarian forms whe ther political economic or ecclesias Another committee was named to prepare a statement on the essential theological position of Methodism Bishops William T Watkins of Louisville Robert N Brooks of New Orleans and Fred P Cor son of Philadelphia were appointed to study Protestantism in its rela to the Roman Catholic Church Bishops Watkins Corson and Paul B Kern of Nashville were named to prepare the statement on the theological position of Methodism wer Strike 1 More Wk To Settle Pay Dispute PITTSBURGH Feb 26 AP A power strike which threatened a Blackout in an 817 square mile area of industrial Pittsburgh and its en virons was averted last night less han a half hour before it was to lave gone into effect A a Tuesday March was announced by President George L Mueller of the Independent Union of Dequesne Light Company Em ployes The union with a membership of decide at a meeting on March 1 whether its wage dispute with the company is to be finally settled by arbitration or a strike The union is demanding a 21 cent an hour increase for common labor and 25 cents for other employes The one to be call ed in a to have start ed at a m today The first one called February 12 lasted 19 before it was suspended by the union in the interest of the The latest postponement came at ter eight days of conference and negotiations between management and union representatives and a mediation board headed by Mayor David L Lawrence The unions 51man executive committee made the decision Muellers dramatic announcement came even as transit service had come to a virtual halt Downtown public buildings and stores were ready to close to conserve electrical current A thousand policemen had been assigned to 12hour shifts The wartime Civilian Defense Commit tee had been alerted for any Contin In some parts of Gold en Triangle the of em power motors being tested was heard through the evening Some business buildings had install ed these units in an effort to carry on if a complete power shutdown occurred See 1 MORE WEEK Continued on Page Two Newspaper Circulation Up PHILADELPHIA Feb 1946 directory of and periodicals re ported circulation of both daily and weekly newspapers reached a new high last year Daily cir culation of newspapers was placed at Wife of Ex Gl Arrives This Week Labor Blocks Trumans WagePrice Policy Claim Unworkable WASHINGTON Feb threw a stumbling block in the path of President Trumans new wageprice policy today by solidly opposing its pay increase controls CIO President Phillip Murray declaring that any return to war wage restraints would be added his protest to that of AFL President William Green who earlier termed the pro gram unacceptable and Mrs Olga E Craven er and baby daughter Margaretta Joan Queen 7 month Mary on old aboard the the way to meet Damage In Hunter Home Fire Damage estimated at re last evening at oclock when a fire said to have originat ed in the basement of the home of Ollie Hunter 527 S 7th burn ed its way across ths ceiling of the basement and up the stairs into the kitchen The Hunter family was not at home when neighbors discovered the blaze As firemen arrived flames were shooting out the cel lar windows The family arrived home as firemen battled the blaze The flames burned through the floors of the kitchen and dining room and furniture in the two rooms was damaged extensively including the refrigerator The house is owned by H B Langham of White township their Yankee husband and father in New York are on a trip they almost didnt make Scheduled to leave last year the girl decided when her husband was listed with the missing not to come to this for dign land Butthe then Tech Sgt William Cravener of Blairsville R and an employee at Market in Indiana was found in a German prisonerofwar camp anc liberated and the trio are on the way to a happy reunion in New York when the Mary docks March 1 Pretty Mrs Cravener is a native of a tiny village on the coast 01 South Wales The name of the town is Goodwick She was to Sgt Cravener at a dance for GI sponsored by the neighboring town of Fishguard They were married on May 24 1944 at a church in Marlborough and arrange ments were made for her to cross the Atlantic to her new home here Then came the bad news Cravener was missing in action and nothing was to be gained by a trip to a strange land to live among people she didnt know The plans were cancelled It was six months before was heard from the missing soldier He was held in camps at and Follen bostel from Dec 17 unti April 25 1945 then one day ne re turned Now with the war behind them they look forward to a new life n America They will live in Indian as soon as housing shortage permit a move from Blairsville R D Cravener a former National Guardsman won the Pur pie Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster He went overseas in October 1943 Bandit Lucky In Not Meeting Druggist Who Killed 1 Wounded 2 Thugs The next move in labors fight against the reinstituted controls is expected to take place within the Wage Stabilization Board itself the agency assigned by Mr Truman to act on pay raises granted under the new formula The two AFL and CIO members of the board joined hands yester day in opposing a policy declaration favored by the two industry and two public members They gave no hint however as to what future course they would pursue but CIO officials did not rule out the possi bility they might eventually with draw from the board On Capitol Hill meanwhile sev eral Senators agreed that the ad ministrations entire policy on the prices wages and controls will be aired on the Senate floor possibly today This showdown was precipitated by the Senate Appropriation Com action in voting 11 to 9 to halve emergency deficiency funds for OPA and the Civilian Produc tion Administration agencies in enforcement and administration of the reconversion policy Paul A Porter new OPA admin paid a hasty but futile visit to the appropriations committee session yesterday before the com cut the proved OPA figure to The CPA fund was cut from to The money is intended to finance the two agencies for the balance of the current fiscal year which ends June 30 Two Coincidental fn Liberty Magazine In a recent issue of Liberty under date of February 23 ap pears a coincidence of local in terest that puts Indiana on ihe map in a manner that claims at tention and the Gazette is glad to pass it on as such On two opposite pages but with no bearing with each oth er appear the pictures of a young navy man and young lady whose homes arc in Indi ana The boy in the sketch is Ansley aboard tlic V S S New York who was chosen to model the new while dt ess uniform for the navy and which after many years of ill chosen pat tern will supersede the bell bottom trousers is doing a swell job of modeling and tlic picture excites Interest and envy of the teen agers nol lo mention those of us who wish we were The girl on the opposite page Lea Sutton who for the past year has her ser vices each Sunday as Lady in one of the New York Hospitals for wounded service men and who is observing the reaction of an epileptic victim who has just received a treat ment Nancy on her own time has been connected with Ike Staff of Liberty lor Ihe past year and a half The parents of his upstand ing young navy man An sley are Prothonotary and Mrs A B Ansley the parents of Nancy Sutton being Mr and Mrs J Blair Sutton of S 6th Indiana This proves beyond doubt that Indiana will nol be denied her place in the sun When bel ter stories are printed the Ga zelle will them The man who sprang the trap door for the execution by hang ing of Lt Gen Tomoyuki Yama shita in Manila is Lt Charles C above of Corvallis Ore Army hangman Lt worked as a guard in San Quentin prison from 1932 to 1936 Dr Lewis of G Kansas City Man Shot to Death PITTSBURGH Feb IP Death of a welldressed man whose body was found in an auto in High land Park with two bullet wounds in the head was described today by Lt Peter A Connors of the city homicide squad as a typical gang land Connors said the victim had been identified tentatively by means of a photograph and laundry marks in his clothing as Aaron Meyerowitz alias Danny Myers of Kansas City and Cincinnati At Newport Police Lt James Gallucci said was named as the trigger man in the killing of Clayton Rip Farley 29 in front of the 633 Club a Newport WASHINGTON Feb 2l APi Seen For Housing Problem night spot last Friday The House called up its emergency Dr E D Lewis Glen Campbell who at 75 was one of the oldest practicing physicians in vania died today at a m in Adrian Hospital Punxsutawney af ter a illness Death was caused by pneumonia following upon rheumatic fever in when he walked two miles through a snowstorm to complete a call after his car had broken down on the highway For more than fortyfive years Dr Lewis had served the residents of a 50squarpmile area embracing parts of Indiana Cambria Clear tjeld apd Counties i Ho f calln of time and conditions was recognized through out this territory j Born near Marion Center 31 1870 a son of Sheriff Hugh P and Ellen Ansley Lewis Estell Lewis attended the local schools Elders Ridge Academy and the Indi ana Normal School After serving as Deputy Sheriff and teaching in Indi ana County he entered Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia where he graduated in the class of 1899 He established practice in Arcadia on Oct 1 1907 he married Mary Armstrong who died five years ago Since 1908 he had been located in Glen Campbell Dr Lewis was a Pennsylvania Railroad surgeon for 30 years a member of the American Medical Assn the Indiana Co Medical So ciety and was affiliated with Adrian Hospital He was a 32degree Mason Williamsport Consistory and an Eld er of the Presbyterian Church of Glen Campbell An active Republi can he was selected many times as school director of that community Surviving members of ihs immedi ate family ars a daughter Hope who remained at home to assume the household responsibilities two sons Richard and E E Lewis both of Pittsburgh and a grandson Two sis Patrolmen Guard Scene 10 Injured COLUMBIA Feb 20 AP hundred Slate Highway Pa backed up by four hund red Slate Guardsmen moved swift ly into the Negro populated district of Columbia at dawn today after a night of riotous disorders and by midmorning more lhart three score arrests had been made At least ten persons were wound ed in the disturbances which devel oped from the shooting of four Col policemen fired upon early Inst night in the section known as Mink Slide where the disorders centered Lynn Bomar State Com missioner said that among the sixty five persons under arrest were a number who were believed to have been the ringleaders Twelve of the suspects were seized in a raid by highway patrolmen upon the home of a Negro undertaker These twelve Bomar said were charged with attempted murder He that in their possession were found four shot guns two 22 rifles and a revolver The official said also that four open bottles of whiskey were found in the place The shooting followed an alterca tion yesterday afternoon in which Sheriff J J Underwood said Wil liam Fleming 28yearold radio re pairman was pushed through a plate glass window of his shop by a Negro woman and her son Two hours after the patrolmen deployed into Mink Slide occasional shots still were heard in that dis Mayor Eldridge Denham said the situation still is grave and that he considering a request for a de martial When the their Guardsmen hat thrown a Cor of the residents were believed by Sheriff Underwood to have fled through the lines during the night Fifteen others had been picked up during the night Bomar said that occupants of the Morton home offered no resistance but that shots were fired from a dance hall across the street as the officers approached This fire was answered by blasts from tommy guns The patrolmen deployed swiftly through the section after units of ihe State Guard had maintained an guard about the area While the patrolmen were prepar to go into Mink Slide Colonel See GUARDSMEN Continued on Page Two The victim apparently was shot home building today with mom ters Mrs Hope Harrison of to death late Sunday night as he bers set for H slam bang battle Ohio and Mrs Pearl Sheridan two Administration out of the measure i They cull for Drunken Driver Arrested Here Indiana arrested PITTSBURGH Feb It was still open season on bandits at Harry pharmacy yester day but Harry missed a chance to raise his score The druggist who has shot it out with gunmen three times in the last 18 years killing one and wounding two was not there when the latest one to try his luck entered the store at 527 Shady avenue under the influence of Instead of using Harrys liquor after his car had shot tactics his brother Louis into a vehicle parked on stone obeyed the armed mans St last night about mand to open the safe and sur sat beside the driver in the front seat of the auto His assailant sent two 38 caliber pistol bullets into the back of his head The body was found slump ed across the front seat his heid t under the steering wheel a cigar 00 existing dwellings ette butt still clasped in one hand One of the bullets pierced the brain entering the head at the base of the skull the other was deflected through the neck and mouth This was obviously the work of Lieut Connors declared The victim was expensively dressed and had in his possession in currency including two bills a platinum ring with a three setting estimated to be aug battle on requests left of Tampa Fla also survive Funeral services will be held at i the home in Glut Campbell on Fri at p in with burial in 1 A system to clamp price n i 1 Marion Center on u 1 of the nation s Cemetery HC Firemen Get New Hose Dryer 2 The government to up including million in subsidies in an lo get new homes built in the next two years The Homer City Borough cured Another one of the worst headaches of around a proposal fighting drying the lodged him in the county charge of operating a motor vehicle rendered according to police Harry Bluestone first called a oclock Police said the other machine was owned by Oscar G Carlson 1443 Fruit Growers Efect Officers Two Sentenced For Driving Drunk George Buterbaugh 23 Indiana and Harold Paul 24 were sentenced to serve six months apiece in the Allegheny County Workhouse and pay lines of 250 by Judge E E Creps yesterday when Phila St at the R and P Kent coal i they pleaded guilty to charges of stripping operation today at a I operating motor vehicles while un m smashing in one side of the tier the influence of intoxicating vehicle twisting the frame Breaking windows j Paul was arrested by State Police who is employed at the on Saturday night when his car fig operation said one side of the car ured in a crash at the Carlson home given a hearing bandits hand in 1928 when he St The car was parked wounded one of two thuys in ain front of the battle in which he himself will be shot He opened firt on two other men in 1932 and killed one Harrys m Ml accurate fire felled another man in j Ft ere a 1942 fight i Other robberies reported yester The Indiana Recruiting Station tnt could sell his house tor Andrew H Smith of any price he could get bul that as elected president of the Indiana this sale would determine the ceil Counly Fruit Growers Association iny The dwelling then could be sold for no higher urice during the ating in the House membership week when they presented the forbid the export of tiny City volunteers with a 500 the housing emergency capacity Dryer The written by Hop its kind in Indiana County was brought to I rho heated steel Moor by the Banking stands seven feel tall is ceiling prices on old houses ILM steel grates on which the however served Ls laid to air is he would demand a House vote UP the grates from putting the provision back into beating unit at the back of the measure j machine and drawn out a vent in It would stipulate that any toP bv an p say that it will take from MX to seven hours to dry 500 14STC Heads Hope To Aid Loaded State HARRISBURG Feb Heads of 14 State Teachers Colleges gather here Fri day to act on a proposal to help aile viate crowding at Pennsylvania Stale College A committee of educators named by Dr Francis B Haas State Sup of Public Instruction and Dr Ralph Dorn Hetzel Penn State President will make a report on a survey of available space at the teachers colleges Under suggestions already made to teachers colleges special courses would be established at the teachers college to handle the overflow of students from Penn State who are seeking an education under the GI of Rights Any program agreed on by the college presidents however would approval of Governor Mar at the annual meeting yesterday atj the Community Center Building of hoso They have feet Truck and other equipment arc bought by through fairs housing emergency through subscriptions The was buried in the loose rock had had it for two months He intersection of Routes 422 and 553 eight miles east of Indiana day included a safe in j County men Independent Wall i army during Paper Company 427 Liberty ave eluded which burglars entered a coal chute reported today cloven grower of Burrell Township and in sopite of the fact that he lost an arm in the Normandy invasion is carrying on the work in a fifty acre orchard Samuel E Dible of Armstrong was elected vice Rabid At Clarksburg has marie itself responsible j for the hose The a sitt make the firemen happier than be u is panned a bril ted Robert M Steele president of California State Teachers College heads the survey committee Other members are Joseph F Noonan East Stroudsburg Q A W Rohr bach Richard T Parsons Lock Haven Dale W Hauk Slippery Hock Harvey A Andruss Blooms buig H P Hammond dean of eering at Penn Stata W S man college registrar S K Hostet ter assistant to the president in of resident instruction C C Wagner acting dean of liberal arts and A R dean of men Rock Kills Women Drivers the week just The robbery of in cash worth of whiskey and two dore R D from homes in the building at 18381 Black Lick Bedford avenue Mrs Mary R Peffer Tax Collect or for Marion Center Borough will be at the Bovard Furniture Store Indiana by now famous for and H W of rampaging foxes had another of the animals yo berserk on Feb 22 near directors elected were Clar the home of John A Cribbs of near Indiana C It was first seen by his Max J Matko tiO 01 Arcadia Pa R Luther wife while he was in the barn She killed by a in the Arcadia R D 2 and called him and he made for the fox operations of tlic New York Central D Shit Fred C Ray Penn Run Pa which was apparently unafraid and Coal Mining last night Wilson R Speakers at the meeting which stood its ground Surviving are Ins wife Barbara Indiana R D Clair E sixty of the leading fruit growers Securing a gun Mr shot Sostar Matko and eight children Homer City R D John M Reof the county attended were the animal and turned the had been a resident of Arcadia Homer City Richard B Helman In verger Apollo P H Murphy Williams Indiana ken Beyer Paul G R D Feb to men who complain women drivers The army announced today re lease of four ol its women drivers of heavy duty military trucks ut March Field Each of the aid he army had exceeded miles without ui accident I It Marion Center Thursday Feb 28 ana o collect taxes D and John Ferraro State Extension Horticulturist John over to Game Protector Bruce Cain for 44 years was born in Yugo erman in Indiana Report on Sept 17 1885 i n H H Allen animation showed the tox to have A complete obituary vull appeal Bauer I been rabid j in Gazette W Charles W Brown IndiU Ruet Entomologist Henry Yonich Homer City R san and plant pathologist
