Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - December 15, 1949, Zanesville, Ohio TEE ZANESVILLE SIGNAL Associated Press NEA AP 189 ZANESVILLE OHIO THURSDAY DECEMBER 15 1949 FIVE CENTS Prints the News Tells the Truth DIE AS TEXAS FARM HOME BURNS Paper Hints Have Atomic Bomb But New Weapon Won't Be Tested Writer Claims LONDON Daily Mirror gave its readers the impression today that Britain has produced an atomic bomb The mass circulation tabloid said in an unattributed un- dated article by its Atomic Writer Ronald Britain's atomic weapon which our scientists have been developing for more than two irs will not be tried out at forthcoming test of bombs There was no confirmation any other source of the inference that Britain already has an atomic weapon Government ministers frequently on the subject 1 in the House of Commons have refused consistently to give any I hint as to whether British re- searchers have succeeded in making atomic weapons I Bedford noted that Defense Minister A V Alexander in May 1948 said atomic weapons were being developed here I Bedford wrote that the United I States Britain and Canada at a recent Washington conference on atomic energy decided against p testing the purported British I weapon during the forthcoming test of American weapons at I atoll in the Pacific Searchers Sift Ruins for Victims of Iowa Blast Firemen comb the wreckage of the Swift Co meat packing plant at Sioux City la after yesterday's disastrous explosion NEA Telephoto NEW YORK W The report or the London Daily Mirror that Britain has the A-bomb affirms a belief scientists have held This belief was first that the j knew how to make them that Britain would ably be the first foreign nation to make The London Mirror story does not say how long Britain has had hut Indicates the first might have been made two years ago To scientists it was ible there could be any secrets of A-bomb structure from the British Sir John Cockroft who to the United States to work on the American bomb project was the discoverer of the particle that splits the atoms Before him Lord Rutherford gave the scientist world its first proof of what goes on inside of aloms that are emitting energy When World War II broke out Columbia university's head of physics Dr George B Pegram went to England to confer with the British about the possibilities making an A-bomb he and other American scientists learned then from British scientists was shortly afterward part of the evidence That stirred President Roosevelt to authorize the American A- bomb project At Bikini before the present law prohibited ex- change of information a British scientist was one of the bers of the scientific staff His identity was so secret that when he talked to reporters in a con- ference on the press ship lachian the newspapermen were requested to omit his identity Baby-Sitter Rescues Infant From Fire TOLEDO W Leroy Kraut baby-sitter carried old Linda Cox to safety last night when a fire broke out infant's bed room led Jerry Cox 3 and Miss Edelstein a er down a ladder while a Thy rescued a third child 6 They are the children of Mr and Mrs Cox who were a a movie at the time District Fire Chief Roy Shea estimated damage at Fichter Backers Claim Victory COLUMBUS ffl annual Ohio Delegates to State Grange convention today generally ceded that State Master Joseph W Fichter had been given a vote of confidence This is how they John E Miller of Erie county yesterday was re-elected to the state grange executive Damage in Packing Plant Explosion Exceeds Million 16 Bodies Recovered From Wreckage Searchers Continue to Comb Debris SIOUX CITY la searched today for possible additional bodies in the wreckage of the Swift and Co packing plant office building rocked by an explosion which killed 16 persons yesterday Nine of some 90 others injured were reported in critical condition Dozens of workers joined firemen to sift through the ruins for bodies of victims The blast was attributed to gas AP Wirephoto The sixteen bodies had been recovered late last tee by an overwhelming 200 workmen ity Mrs Ida H Auck of cyrus Crawford county was elected state lecturer Mrs Auck and her husband Paul are deputy masters in Crawford county As such they are the state master's there The county with members is one of the organization's Ohio strongholds Miller former deputy ter has served for the last three years on the executive committee Miller's opponent was VV G Vandenbark of Zanesville Mrs Auck ed C C Linerode of Canton Fichter has been under the fire of a group of members led by Wade Moreland of Newark The group has made 17 accusations of misconduct of office against the job throughout night but stayed on the night hunting for four other persons believed killed in the blast Assistant Fire Chief Clarence Chappelle said he expected to find four more bodies in the de- bris Some 200 workmen pulled slabs of concrete and twisted steel out of the basement of the five-story brick structure Fire Chief Charles Kuhl who estimated the damage at more than blamed natural gas for the explosion County authorities said they and city officials probably would join in another probe Sheriff Edwin L Lunde last night said the main thing is to try to get out any who might be alive and to extricate bodies Fichter and filed the charges A spokesman for 12 company with the national executive came here Chicago by chartered plane said they were conducting an The same group leveled 50 such charges against Fichter to determine the cause last summer They later with drew them Moreland was one of the 450 voting delegates at yesterday's election The convention ends today Resolutions will be presented for convention approval this after- Daughter Accused In Mother's Death EL PASO Tex old woman has been charged with murder after telling cers she found her mother ting herself in the head with a hammer The mother Mrs Ada ford 63 was found dead day in her home here Her head was crushed Her daughter Mrs Edna Mead was charged with the slaying Officers said the daughter and the mother quarreled over na's marriage to Baritone ger Philip Mead The daughter is a former lumbus Ohio art student Mead has been attending a music school in Massachusetts under a scholarship from the Boston Symphony Orchestra Helicopter Joins In Search for Girl KELSO helicopter Wash was assigned army today to the five-day old search for Girl Scout Ruth Aberle The girl vanished into the mountain woods east of here Sunday during a Christmas tion Gov Arthur office requested the helicopter be sent here from Fort Lewis after ground parties had failed to cate any clue to the girl's fate There are few who believe the girl could have survived the weather in the woods of the explosion He said the of- couldn't even guess the extent of the damage The dead included 15 men and a company nurse Of the 85 on the injured lists reports by frur hospitals 60 re- mained hospitalized Twenty-five were treated and dismissed The Wast one of Sioux City's worst disasters rocked the big meat packing area shortly be- fore noon yesterday Most clocks in the razed interior of the office building were stopped at a rn The structure housed of- fices some processing tions and a cafeteria A company spokesman said about persons were in the building at the time of the blast He said the first concern of of- is for the employes who have lost their lives those who have been injured and their Turn to Page 23 Cambridge Pair Reported Missing Special to The Signal state way patrol and other ern Ohio authorities joined with local police today in the search for a Cambridge man and his wife who have been missing from their home since Saturday Missing are Mr and Mrs Frank Keiser both 22 years old Police could find no explana- tion for the young couple's dis- appearance A search of the Keiser home has been made and police said that no dence was found to lead them to that the young couple had met with foul play Missing also was their bile a 1941 gray Pontiac con- vertible bearing the license U- with a right rear fender missing Keiser was described as five feet six inches tall and ing 130 pounds He has light brown hair and blue eyes His wife is five feet five inches tall and weighs 130 pounds She has dark brown hair and brown eyes Bulletins BATAVIA Java gates of the states flew 16 Indonesian morning to the Five Lose Lives In Toledo Fire TOLEDO IT members of one family a boarder and a boy died early today in a fire which nearly destroyed their Washington township home The Benjamin Bennett 56 poultry firm employee his wife the Rev Mary Bennett 52 minister for the Spiritualist church and a glove factory em- ployee their daughter Laura 25 Dana Hutchinson 3 ward of the Lucas County Welfare Board who was being boarded at the Bennett home and Arthur Hayes Coroner Paul Hohly said death of the five apparently resulted from suffocation from smoke He returned a verdict of accidental death Chief Eldon of the Trilby Volunteer Fire ment said the blaze was caused by an overheated coal furnace in the basement He estimated damage at Mercury Here Hits New Low For Season Cold to Continue Temperature Dips to 9 Above at Airport New Cold Wave Moving Toward Midwest The mercury plunged to a frigid 9 degrees here this new season's a cold wave Field Worker Finds Bodies In Wreckage Fire Wipes Out Two Families ROTAN Tex or thirteen people burned to death today in a rental house on a farm eight miles northeast of here All were Latin-American farm workers employed on he C A Douhit farm Two families made up the lins The last name of one ly was Perez Names of the ims were otherwise not able It was believed four adults two sets of eight or nine children perished Blackened ruins of the frame house were found at 9 Rotan is in west Texas about 50 miles northwest of Abilene A field worker Gardo Trevino discovered the when he passed the house Trevino notified Henry Cosby a farmer They made a quick in- of the smouldering wreckage and said they saw skulls scattered all around They didn't stop to count the skulls but came to Rotan to give alarm Blast Wrecks 5 Detroit Stores Flares Again A three-day in state-owned DETROIT W gas ex- in flaming fury wrecked five stores and in- jured six persons here last night Quick warnings before the blasts let go lice said saved many lives Four firemen and a man along with a store em- ploye were hurt The explosions shook west Detroit for three miles around a business hood at and craft avenue The first explosion occured at Wyoming market explosions ripped through four other stores in the Temperatures were expected same block They were Tom's j to moderate over most of the the Greater Then other held this area in its grip The new low mark was re corded ai o'clock this morning at the weather station at municipal airport Shortly after noon today the mercury had climbed to 21 degrees but it is expected to slump to near 10 degrees again tonight and tomorrow morning Yesterday's high was 34 de- grees Today's cold wave extended from the northern Rockies to the Atlantic seaboard with the north central states getting the worst of the icy blasts Temperatures again dropped below zero over many midwest areas with the center of the mid-December cold snap ing in Minnesota and Wisconsin The freezing line extended into parts of the south and it was chilly in northern Florida But federal forecasters reported mild weather in the Florida insula grill the Camera shop j north central cold belt today Ridley Cleaners and the er Homes Paint shop The Michigan Consolidated But the weather bureau said a new blast ol cold air was ed into the Dakotas Nebraska LONDON W wildcat strike in Gas Co from a high Minnesota and Wisconsin by power plants flared back to lif e j pressure main got out of morrow night Early morning today hours after it appeared j trol as a crew of four company settled The strikers employes were installing a voted this on a line leading into the Greater Wyoming market morning to resume work today b i Gas shot into the building with nothing gained from their gas workers fled wage protest i sounded a warning turned in a lows today included -7 at Park Falls Wis -5 at Duluth Minn and zero ac Bismarck N D and Rockford 111 Chicago's 7 above was a new low for the son Rain continued along the Battle Forecast PHILADELPHIA OB Rep Hugh D Scott Jr the man who mapped the Republican race in 1948 today pre- a two-way fight for the 1952 nomination The Senator ert A Taft of Ohio and General Dwight D Eisenhower president of Columbia university Scott Philadelphia man who was chairman of the Republican National com- until last summer re- turned to his office after a nine-day trip to the west coast during which he talked tics in Los Angeles San cisco Denver and several other places along the way I think the contest will be strictly between Eisenhower and Scott concluded Unless of course some favorite son comes along at the last minute beat them to it There is no doubt in my mind that Eisenhower is a Re- publican But workers at three of and called for an tral Gulf coast with New four struck plants failed to emergency crew A company leans reporting nearly two inches hart spokesman said it had not been in the determined how the gas was j flurries ignited but a small spark was j shores of the Great Lakes and over northern back as scheduled The British electricity ity had posted notices telling the men they were returning un- last 24 hours fell along the east all it took republican capital at go back only under traffic and warned karta to pick a president for terms existing before the dems to lcavo I Food market clerks and were warned to get out rain fell fornia the new United States of That government will take over from the Dutch in two weeks ending year colonial rule a Weds Man She Jilted 49 Years Ago KANSAS CITY old woman was honeymooning today with the man she walked MANILA UR Constabulary headquarters tonight reported 15 men were killed and 64 are missing and presumed dead in an encounter today between government outlaws on out on almost a half century j southern Philippines ago Martha Marie Ballard and forces and Moro Jolo island in the out The strike was over a dis- 77 cents per man per week but it caused rush hour on London sub- ways and left thousands of households with two little rent for cooking and eating The pay claim will continue in negotiation Puppy Saves 3 in Fire But Mistress Suffocates Most of the other last night He is 71 also Forty nine years ago Miss lard left her home the night be- fore she was to marry Paddack She went to Denver and got a job Paddack didn't see her again until 1938 when she returned to Kansas City Last August they patched up differences and then decided to get married INCUMBENT LOSES COLUMBUS attorney general today ruled Grover Weis had been elected mayor of line instead of the incumbent bert P Sonner Both are Sonner defeated Weis in SAN JUAN Puerto Rico ersons perished in a fire which raced through a story building following an ex- plosion today PAINTSVILLE Ky W A search was on today for eight prisoners who broke the Johnson county jail last night They were the only prisoners in the jail WARREN dfi William gers 24 of Youngstown died of gunshot wounds this morning at Trumbull Memorial hospital He had been shot twice Several hours earlier two sheriff's ties had answered a call that last summer's primary there was a disturbance licans did not put up a date ing four men and a woman at a Warren trailer camp Rail Wage Dispute Heads for Mediation CHICAGO IP The dispute between the nation's railroads and conductors and men over wages hours and rules appeared headed today for the National Railway tion Board Negotiations between the riers and Brotherhood of road Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors ended in dis- agreement yesterday The roads and the two operating un- ions had attempted to settle their dispute since last Sept 22 FORMER COACH DIES CINCINNATI W Anthony Tony Commello 47 former baseball coach and trainer at Xavier university died early to places had closed for the night Property damage was mated at by Fire Chief Higby Man Asks Divorce From Wife CEDAR RAPIDS la F Williams 67 often called Iowa's most married has filed suit for divorce from wife No 16 In his petition on file In dis- court here today liams said the former Mrs Louise Parker of Cleveland O who became Mrs Williams In 1946 following a mail romance has left him Williams previously had re- ported her missing about six months after their marriage She was found in a railroad station and returned to him Fair and Cold Fair and continued cold Lows tonight west east portion Friday fair with rising temperatures Yesterday's High day at his home He had Lew a m ill for four years p m Today 34.0 9.4 21.8 Repeal of Excise Tax Studied Truman Says KEY WEST Fla dent Truman said today ury and congressional staff ex- perts are making studies to de- termine whether ex- cise taxes can be repealed In a surprise vacation news conference the president de- to say whether he will ask new taxes of congress However he said it was ways his balance the apartment house fire the dog's mistress suffocated j Reminded he had told a news Fire Chief Fred Bills said a conference in Washington re- cently he knew of no way to wipe out a deficit other than by raising taxes he was asked if he still felt that way He said the whole matter was under consideration by a ury committee of experts and by staff experts for the house ways and means committee He said they were working DELAWARE A three persons in an puppy puppy owned by Mr and Mrs S Kissner smelled smoke He roused another resident of the building by tugging on the sleeve of his pajama The man Harold Reed roused his wife and the ner and the Reeds escaped out injury through a window Mrs Kissner apparently became confused Her body was found at the foot of the stairs Damage was estimated at Boys Admit Theft Of Fire Siren WILLOUGHBY Police Chief james C Billson day unexpectedly solved the theft of a siren from a fire truck He said he questioned three youths about the theft of a net from Willoughby high school They admitted taking the ical instrument he said and added they were responsible for the disappearance last week of the siren Pottery Worker Dies As Jeep Overturns EAST LIVERPOOL year-old worker was killed last when a jeep overturned and pinned him face downward in the mud State highway patrolmen said they believed the victim Milton Paul Eagle of East Liverpool possibly died of suffocation coroner has not returned a diet yet Eagle was riding in the jeep driven by Michael of Newell W Va when the dent occurred eight miles west of here B iiw
