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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Warmer, scattered showers by night: Monday   fair,   cooler.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER  1, 1946
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
I'KANHt^BTATION PHOBUG.M HOLVKD—This miniature vehicle
caused   many   a   raised  eyebrow   in   London,   Bngiand.   Modeled
after   L<ondon's   larger   busses,   the   pedal-powered   bus   scoots   in
and out of traflic while hia  big brothera are atymied.
3.12  Miles  an  Hour
Mustangs Run One-Two In Cleveland Air Race
Cleveland, Aug. 31. (UP)—Whip¬ ping around the courae at better than 350 miles an hour in a slate- gray P-.M Mustang, Airline Pilot Dale F^jlton of Washington, D. C. won first-place and tS.OOO In tbe Sohio trophy race today and set a new world's record for closed- course racing.
The 25-year-old Pulton, a pilot for Trans World Airline, was offi¬ cially clocked for the 240 miles in 40 minutes and 49.11 seconds.
Hia   average   speed   waa   3.'S2.781 miles an hour, compared with the best   previous   time   on   a   closed- course of 283.419 miles an hour set hy Roscoe  Turner in  the  SOO-mile "Thompson   race  when   it  waa   last held In 19.18. Mualjuig HftMtnd, to* dj  William  Ong,   Kansaa  City, Mo., Tiding school instructor, also flying i a   Mustang,   won   second   prize   of $3..V)0. I
Jack Hardwick of Checkerboard Airways. Durango, Colo., piloted his silver Lockheed P-.T8 Lightning Into tiiird  place for a $2,000 prize.
It was the first time Fulton had pvcr flown In an air race, but he Isppcd the field nn the fifth of the plght ."W-mile laps. He said he flew an extra lap because, "this is my first race and I wanted to make sure."
When Fulton Streaked past Orig on the back stretch of the third lap, he was doing 362.9 miles an hour. Gels Flower Horseahoe
After the rare Fulton climbed from his gray plane in front of the judges' sland, and .Ia(queline Coch¬ ran, the famed aviatrix who placed second In yesterday's trans-con¬ tinental Dendix race, put a horse¬ shoe of flowers around his neck.
"Vou look like the winner at Santa Anita." she tnld him.
Fulton was surprised and thrilled hy his victor.v in the stripped-down slMKlc-engined fighter. Normally he flies four-motored ConlelUtions and .''Uvma»te« across the Atlantic for TWA.
Ong, who stepped from his plane with a big. unlighted cigar jammed In his mouth, had an elapsed time of 41 minutes and .fS.OT seconds for an average of 34.^.867 miles an hour. I sed >lBKs HUrt
Both   Fulton   and   Ong   said   the j mass horse-race type takeoff, used
today for the first time, was "plenty aafe." They agreed there was no danger to any of the seven en¬ trants any time during the race.
Hardwick'a P-38 was timed in 44 minutes and 38.03 seconds for an average apeed of 322.625 miles an   hour.
Fourth-prize money of tl.OOO went to Wilson Newhall, Chicago. III., who flew a Bell P-63 King Cobra at 310.54.% miles an hour for an elapsed time of 46 minutes and 22.17   seconds.
Earl Ortman, veteran of many national air races, flew his silver P-38 around the coi4rse at 303.909 miles an hour to take fifth place and $.'S0O prize money. Ortman, test pilot from Tulsa, Okla., was timed in 47 minutes and 22.96 seconds.
Jimmy DcSanto, 23-year-old for¬ mer paratrooper from Parkcrsburg, W. Va., flying a P-.W Lightning averaged 303.682 miles an hour for 47 minutes and 25.08 seconds and sixth place.
Seventh and last flnisher was Charles Bing, Lynchburg, Va., whose P-39 Airacobra averaged 276.135 miles an hour and was timed in 82 mintes and 8.9 seconds.
COUPLE DIE IN FIRE OF OVERTURNED TRUCK
PriceControiB|.okeii Nazi Leaders Beg
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Frozen Fruit
Anderson Includes Many Vegetables In New 'Free' List; Other Items 'Scarce'
Fall River. Mass., Aug. 31 'UP —Trapped In the blazing cab of their overturned truck, a Fall River couple were burned to death here today. The victims were Paul L. Gagnon, 33. and his wife Ruth, 30, parents of six children.
Police said Uagnon's truck side- swipcd the rear of a parked lumb¬ er truck, overturned and burst in¬ to flames. Auxiliary fuel tanks on each running board fed fhe flames and the cnuple were unable to free themselves.
Gagnon's niece, Mrs. Florence J. St. I.ji\irent. who was driving he- hind the truck in an automobile, jumped out and vainly tried to free them. She suffered bums on the face and hands.
Police snid Gagnon was return¬ ing from a visit with relativea in nearby Tiverton, R. I., in a truck borrowed from his employer. Thomas Kidd of Fall  River.
Cop Admits Shooting His Wife; Tried to Blame l-Year^Old Son
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Lansing. Mkh. Aug. 31 (UP) — Rookie Policeman Clayton Bmith broke dnwn and confessed he had shot and killed his' pretty wife "in a fit of anger" after trying to blame the slaying on his two-yeai^ old son. County Prosecutor Vicior C. Anderson said tonight.
Smith, at first claimed that his baby son, Clayton jr., accidentally fired the ahot which killed his 21- year-old wife. Roxanne. But after nearly a week of grilling he ad¬ mitted he committed the slaymg during a family quarrel, Andert>on said. Bald  Baby  Uid  It
¦Smith had said that the child took the gun from hi.s holster while he was dressing and discharged  it
hile Mrs. Smith was leaning over crib   of   another   son,   Jimmy, fniir-months  old.  The  mother  died
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Lansing polire began grilling their fellow officer after the dead woman's mother. Mrs. George B. Anthony, told them that Jimmv was with her at the "time of the ahooting and not In the crib.
Mrs. Anthon also told police that her \on-in-law had displayed no grief over his wife's death. She said Smith abowed only anger at Clayton Jr.
Dr. Le Moyne Snyder, state police criminologist, testified al an inquest that Mrs. Smith was shot from close range. Smith had insisted that Clayton jr. was some distance from his mother when the shot was fired. "Always Nagging"
In his confession. Smith gav* no reason for his attempt to incrim¬ inate the baby. But he related de¬ tails of the quarrel which preceded the shonting.
Anderson said Smith told him hts wife was angry with him becauae he had failed to return home on time. He quoted the rookie as sa.ving that his wife was "always nagging" him.
Smith, a Purple Heart veteran, came home in October after three years overseas. .  ,, „.,
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Washington. Aug. 31 (UP)—Sec¬ retary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson today ordered price con¬ trola removed from a number of fresh, canned and frozen fruits and vegelabies effective at midnight to¬ night.
He decreed freeing of:
Fresh apples, grapefruit, lemons, peaches, tangerines, snap beans, canteloupcs, carrots, lettuce, onions, spinach, sweet potatoes and toma¬ toes; canned peas, lima beans, as¬ paragus and mixed vegetables, ap¬ ricots, plums and prunes: ail frozen fruits and frozen lima beans, corn, green peas and asparagus. Wool, Hay Included
AUo automatically exempted from price controLs beginning at mid¬ night are wool, peanuts and peanut products (except peanut oil and meal), Concord grape products, hay, nuts, cranberries, dried apples and other apple products (except canned apples, apple butter and apple sauce), hops, popcorn, pepper¬ mint and spearmint oil, broom corn, gum resin and beeswax aa well as all tobacco not already price exempt.
Thes* products were omitted from a long list of scarce com¬ modities published by Anderson In accordance with the new pric* con¬ trol  law.
Under th* law, items omitted from Anderson's list automatically are de-controlled on the first of the  month.
The list was the first issued by Anderson under the new pric* con¬ trol law. The law requires him to issue a list of scarce food products on or before the first each month. Rent Control Stays
Anderson issued the list as Price Administrator Paul Porter assured the nation in his weekly radio broadcast that rents will be held at their present levels.
Only such items as listed by An¬ derson—and not all of these—will be eligible for price control during September.
Anderson placed milk and other dairy products on the scare* list, but price controls on them cannot be restored unless the Price de¬ control Board so orders.
The Decontrol Board recently or¬ dered meat, grains, soybeans and cottonseed returned to price con¬ trol, because (1) prices had risen inordinately since controls origin ally expired June 30, (2t there was a shortage of auch items and (3) it was in the public interest. Milk Not too High
The board held, however, that the price of milk and dairy products had not risen unduly. Therefore it did not order them recontroiled.
All fresh citrus fruits had been under price ceilings but by Ander son's action only oranges will re main under control.
Anderson ruled that oranges and canned corn, tomatoes and tomato products (except tomato soup) and mixed vegeUbl* juices are sUU scarce and must remain under price ceilings.
Sugar and sugar products also will remain under price ceilings.
All  whiskies aa well as beer and (Continued   on   Page   A-14)
NEW YORK CITY
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OUT ON STRIKE
New    York.    Aug.    31.     (UP) Twenty-five   thousand   APL   truck drivers were set to strike at mid' night   tonight   in   New   York   City and northern  New Jersey.
After a day-long conference, two employer groupa, representing the owners of some 20,000 trucks, re¬ jected Mayor William O'Dwyer's proposal to end their dispute with the drivers, but the mayor an¬ nounced that agreements reached with individual operators of more than 1.500 trucka would keep food and other essential supplies moV' ing In  the city.
The mayor's compromise proposal on wage boosts to avert the strike previously had been accepted by the drivers' union. Local 807 of the International Brotherhood of Team sters. but was rejected by th* oper¬ ators. Will  Be  Felt  Tueaday
Beeause of the Labor Day holl day, the full effect of the strike on the nation's largest city will not be ftlt until Tuesday, when truck movements to and from rail term inals and piers and to and from warehouses will be halted.
To avoid the piling up of goods on railroad sidings when the strike begins, the Association of American Railroads clamped a freight em¬ bargo on the city, affecting rail shipments to Jerse city and HobO' gen. N. J., as well as New York.
The embargo exempted fresh fruits and vegetables, dairy prod- U( ts, livestock, fuel oil, newsprint, carload freight for export or Inter' coastal shipment and freight d«S' Uned for private railroad aldlnga.
For Mercy as Trials End
Goering Tries to Keep Armed Might Legend
By EDWARD W. BEAT*nE
Nuernberg, Aug. 30. (UP)—Twenty-one leaders of Adolf Hitler's once glittering Third Reich straggled to the witness chair today and made their final pleas to the judges whose verdict will determine whether they pay with their lives for plunging the world into the greatest war of its history.
Amlnd the ruins of the city which aaw the greatest spectacles ot Nazism, the one-time great of the Nazi world apoke their last words.
They were careful to lard them with propaganda designed either to sdw ill will among the victorious Allies or provide the excuses for any future generation of Nazis to wash away responsibility for World War II, and Germany'a utter defeat.
Before the crowds had emptied from the courtroom the 21 men were  being  led  back  through  the
covered wooden walk Into the grim stone prisoh they will leave only to hear their aentences, for their exe¬ cution or, poaalbly in some cases, for long Imprisonment. Oullt Seems Certain
There seemed no chance that when the judges of the United States, Britain, France and Rusfta render the verdict on Sept. 23, any would be found innocent of com- pUcity in the crimes of Hitler. An air of doom and of death hung over the prisoners' box.
Only one, Arthur-Seyss-Inquart, the puppet in Austria and the gauleiter for Holland, renewed his faith  in Hitler.
"I served him," exclaimed the man who brought down Indepen¬ dent Austria and ruled subjugated Holland with a ruthless hand.   "I
am not capable of ahouttng 'Crucify him' today when yesterday I shout ed "Hosanna'."
First to speak was Herman Goer¬ ing. gaunt and baggy-trousered, but atill trying to leave a legacy of Nazi propaganda for the (Jerman people.
He was followed by Rudolf Hess, man of mystery since his famed flight to Scotland and aeemingly more befuddled than ever, and by Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was promoted from selling champagne to selling Hitlerian diplomacy and who today put the needle Into the western Allie* and tbeir relations with Russia. A  Dowdy Proceaaion
Th*  others   followed—a   strange,
tattered   procession    of    generals,
admirals,    economists,    (auiieters,
police    and    security    chiefs—the
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PUSH DEEP INTO TERRI]
20 Miles from Chinfeng, Threaten Main Base In Jehol Province
By WALTER IX>OAN
Nanking, C^iina, Aug. 81. (UP) Powerful Nationalist forces which captured the Jehol province capital of Chengteh last Thursday have wheeled north toward Chihfeng and west toward Kalgan, Peiping dispatches reported today.
The drive on Chihfeng, 110 miles north of Changteh, has advanced nearly 80 mllea in two days snd one of the two columns closing in dh the city now is 20 miles away, these reports said. Defenders Take to HilU
Communists holding the moun¬ tain highway between the two cities have taken to the hills and the Nationalists are progressing almost without opposition, it was stated.
Shifeng is the main communica¬ tions hub In central Jehol province and Its capture would give the Nationalists control of almost the entire province, it was emphasized.
"The government's seven-army drive Into Jehol has been facili¬ tated by Communist action in withdrawing large numbers of troops to reinforce the assault on Tatung, 70 miles south of Kalgan, which fell to the Ckimmiinists yes¬ terday after a 25-day siege, a gov¬ ernment source said.
Semi-official reports said the Communlsta In Jehol were in full retreat and may abandon the en¬ tire provint» to the Nationalists, thus giving Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces a powerful flanking position east of Kalgan.
Kalgan, the capital of C^arhar province, is l.'iO miles west of C!heng-Teh. Many huge CV>mmuni8t munltiona dumps, captured Intact from the Japanese in Manchuria, are situated there. Kalgan is the Communists' main military base In north  China.
Willie the forces from Chengteh wheeled toward Kalgan. another government drive launched from Peiping was reported bypassing Tangshan and nearing Kangchuang, east of Tsinglungchiao, on the Great Wall 40 miles west of Pei¬ ping.
MOLOTOV OFF FOR
AS BREACHI WIDENS
Little Accomplished At Peace Conference But Bad Feeling
Paris, Aug. JL (UP)—Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav M. Molotov suddenly left for Moscow today, undoubtedly to consult Premier Joseph Stalin about fu¬ ture Soviet strategy in th* peace conference, which In five bitter weeka has accomplished little more than widening gulf between East and West.
Molotov's plane took off secretly at 6 a. m. Although there had been no advance notice of his first trip home since the conferenc* began, a Soviet embassy spokesman readily confirmed that he had gone when rumors  spread.
But the apokesman declined to say why Molotov had considered it necessary to go, how long he would he gone or even whether he would return. BelieTe SUlin  Called
There was no doubt, however, that shortly after his arrival In Moscow he would consult with Stalin and other Russian policy makers, and the suddenness of hia departure indicated that Stalin had summoned him.
Molotov assailed the United States and Britain yesterday for "interference" In the Greek plebi¬ scite, which will be held tomorrow.
The return "on leave" of Adm. Konstantine K. Rodionov, Russian ambassador to Greece, was widely considered as tantamount to re¬ call and possibly part of a Soviet plan to undermine the Greek mon¬ archy, which Is expected to win majority aupport in tomorrow's plebiscite.
It was learned that the deputies of th* Big Four foreign ministers accomplished nothing laat night In their meeting on more than 200 amendments to treaty drafts. They meet again tonight and still must decide liow they will go about con¬ sidering the amendnnents. Blocks Big 4 Meeting
There was little likelihood, there¬ fore of  and  early meeting  of the Big   Four   foreign   ministers,   and (Continued   on   Page   A-14)
ONLY • VEAIIS AUO-Here they strut on their chosen path to world conquest—Adolf Hitler and his No. 2 man, Hermann Goer¬ ing. Yesterday, with Hitler gone, (Joering, a beaten, shriveled Nail now, lined up with the remnants of the gang that ran a country with last-ditch  plea to miss  the  gallows.
Another   Ci^'il  War
Filipino Peasant Chief Refuses to Lay Down Arms
By WILUAM C. WUSOS
Manila, Au«. 31 (UP)—Open civil war between the government and the Hukbalahap peasant organiza¬ tion threatened tonight with a de¬ fiant exchange of charges between President Manuel Roxa.s and Luis Taruc, Hukbalahap  leader.
Th* government set a deadline of midnight for th* Hukbalahaps to give up and turn in their arms but Taruc made plain that the rebel peasants would not yield to Roxas' demands.
Roxas,   it  was   revealed,   has   is¬ sued  a warrant  for   the  arrest  of Taruc  on a  charge  of murder. Says Villages Shelled
Taruc dispatched a communica¬ tion to Roxas datelined "some¬ where in the field in Ontral Lu¬ zon" in whioh he charged that Roxas' "blood-thirsty subordinates are already making an all-out puni¬ tive campaign against the peas¬ ants."
Taruc   charged   that   the   Phlllp-
piines Military Police "are shelling barrios and shooting innocent civi¬ lians. They are even threatening to use bombs."
Roxas retorted  that the govern ment   "wiil   not   tolerate   for   an¬ other    moment   open    defiance challenge   of   law"   and   called   on Taruc to give himself up for trial.
"The government's forces," Roxas said, "wiil proceed to enforce exist¬ ing laws, lirst, to seize unauthor¬ ized and unregistered arms, second, to prevent and di.saipate unauthor¬ ized gatherings of armed persons. Force Threatened ,
"If such groups challenge the lawp"  placed
Death Toll Rising as Greeks Vote
By ROBERT VER>in.UON
Athens, Greece, Sunday. Sept 1. (UP)—Against a background of bloody fighting throughout tbe na¬ tion, Greeks voted today in a plebiscite to determine if Kmg George II returns and restores the monarchy.
Official and unofficial reports said up to 2S0 persons were Icilled in widespread fighting in the iS hours  preceding the voting.
A band of 200 alleged C^ommun- Ista was "annihilated in a two-day battle in Macedonia ending Friday night, a government official an¬ nounced. Unofficial sources esti¬ mated that ISO persons were killed in scattered clashes between right¬ ist and leftist political elements yesterday.
From every part of Greece cam* reports of attacks against police posts and voting places.
The government, announcing these attacks, said a Leftist band also attacked a police post on the road from Larissa to Volos, In east-central Greece, burning down the building and cremating several gendarmes and civilians.
Interior Minister John Theotokii said that order had been restored in all provinces except the soutltCTn Pleoponnesus and the Mount Olym¬ pus area of Macedonia, where road patrols were attacked throughout the day.
Bars were closed, gatherings prohibited, and only vehicles with special paases were permitted to move on the streets until the vot¬ ing is over.
All police and army units In Athens were placed on the alert amid rumora that Communists have planned a series of assassin¬ ations and bombings to t>e carried out during the voting hours. Sure King Will Win
Both   factions   in   Greece   admit that King George will be the win¬ ner   in   the   plebiscite,   taking   at ff 1 least   70    per   cent   and    perhapa more of the total vote cast.
Forecasts of the vote indicate It will swing the Greek government far to the right and completely out. side Russian influence. This trend has been in progress since the gen¬ eral elections last March 31, ^en the present monarchist government in power.
and   refuse   to   disband    or   yield!
Ointinuation   of   the   trend   will
their arms, force-implacable force !¦«' Greece, a small nation of 50,270 —will regretfully but firmly be,square miles and 7,200,000 popula- used." tion, against the combined might of
However. Roxas invited Taruc to the great Russian block in the east reconsider his attitude "in the name which   is   spearheaded   by   Tugo-
of those people who still have faith in  your  leadership"  and   promised
slavia and Bulgaria. At issue in the plebiscite not only
that   the   government   would   usej's the  return  of  King (3eorge  but "tolerance in approaching still un- also   the  extent   to  which   he  can
solved problems.'
Hold That Appetite
Lots of steaks and Pork Chops —Come Spring of Next Year
Chicago. Aug. 31. (UP)—The nation's dinner tables will be short of meat again this fall and winter, agriculture experts  predicted.
But the prospects for more steaks and pork chops by next spring were good, they added. Some be¬ lieved there would be more meat next spring and summer than at any time since World War H start¬ ed.
The corn crop Is the key to the meat outlook, they said. If corn is plentiful, farmers will fe^d more of it to livestock. Fatter animals mean more meat.
This year's corn crop promises to surpass all previous records. The bumper crop haa been esti¬ mated at 8,442,202,000 bushels. L*Pg*
crops of oats, barley and hay also are anticipated, all of which adds up to mor* meat.
But fattening animals takes time, the experts pointed out, and the meat supply will remain small until farmers begin sending their fat¬ tened animals to the stockyards next spring and  summer.
The shortage will be sever* In the next 80 to 90 daya, th* experU said. During th* last two months while there wer* no pric* ceilings for meat-on-the-hoof, farmers jammed th* stockyards with cat¬ tle and hogs to take advantage of the  higher prices.
As a reault, much of th* cattle fattned on midwestam f*ed lota ahready has been marketed.
Secret Weapons on U.S. Ships at Naples
Aboard Carrier Franklin D. Rooeevclt. Naples Harbor, Italy, Aug. 31. (UP) -Read Adm. John Cawsady said today that secret weapons wer* aboard the air¬ craft carrier Franklin D. Roose¬ velt, but refused to say whether they were atomic bombs.
"Do you have any secret weapons aboard?" an Italian newspaperman asked.
"Yen, but please don't ques¬ tion me about that," Cassady answered.
"What about atomic bombs?" the reporter insisted.
"I was afraid you would ask me about that. I'm aorry, but I can't  answer,"  Cas.sa<ly said.
Classady added thnt the Roose¬ velt's 123 fighting planes were in full  fighting trim.
The carrier and Its escort of cruLsers and destroyers were scheduled to continue their Medi¬ terranean good-will tour this week, arriving In Greece shortly after' the monarchlal plebeclte. Soviet publications have described the tour as an "aggreaaive demon¬ stration."
STRIKE WILL TIE UP SUGAR IN HAWAII
Valley Scene
Tno cnUrn being trnntpnrted around Puhlie Square lagt night at 11:^5, "wooing" tlie atten¬ tion  of  pnisert-hi/.
A woman cn Nortliampton Mtrift, stopping and gnsping a» if uliot. OS she read thr price of jienrhrs on a $ideualk din- play—t for toe, . . . It meant poundt.
Thf man, going around the rail of a cafeteria, picking vp the dinplau at the naiad counter, thinking it a di'h offered for sale.
A two-year-old left loektd in a parked ear on South Waeh- ington ttreet onj blowing th» hom  for  15   minutes  ttraight.
Honolulu, Aug. 31. (UP)—^Industry and labor conferees were in con¬ tinuous session late today in an effort to reach an llth hour settle¬ ment of a paralyzing Hawaiian sugar induatry strike scheduled for midnight   tonight.
Unless last-minute negotiations are successful, the International LonK>>horemen'a and Warehouse¬ men's Union will call out more than   25,000   dock    and   warehouse
call upon the help of the Anglo- American western powers to press Greece's claims to a part of southern Albania which Greece calls northern Epirus. Backed  by Britain
Greece  has  the  support of  Bri¬ tain, whose troops are stationed in the country. A powerful American flotilla  now  cruising  the   Mediter- (Continucd  on  Page  C-S)
ARABS REJECT BIO TO LONDON TALKS
Jerusalem, Palestine, Aug. tl (UP)—The Arab Higher Committee today rejected Britain's invitation workera'it'mTdnight,"thus"f"reezi"ng I'" »".end an Arab-Jewish confer- virtually all operations in the islands' vast cane sugar industry. The union is demanding a l.'i- ccnt an hour wage increase, a 40- hour work week and a closed shop in action marking the close of the first year of contractual la;bor re¬ lations in the Industry. Both labor and employer spokes
ence in London on the Palestin* question and charged that Britain had turned down the nomination of the exiled Grand Mufti of Je¬ rusalem to lead the Arab delepa- tion as "a direct result of Zionist influence."
Dr. Hussein Khalidi. acting see¬ retary of the committee, presented the pejection to Sir Alan C^mninf-
man indicated the possibility ofj ham. the high commissioner, and settlement before the deadline was gave him detailed reasons for the unlikely. I action.
But Airs Well
Arrest for Drunken Driving, Find Dead Man in the Truck
Plymouth. Ind, Aug. 31 (UPi — Police made a routine arrest of a truck driver for drunken driving here today and discovered the nude, emaciated body of a dead man in the back of the truck.
"I kept drinking heavily to keep my mind off the body." Le Roy Riddle, 52, of South Bend, told police. Then he told bis strange story.
Riddle said the dead man was Lester Plumber, a retired South Bend tavern owner who had tub¬ erculosis but refused to go to a lywpitBl because of religious scrup¬ les.
So Plumber bought a truck. Rid¬
dle said, and fitted it with beds. For the past two months, with Riddle driving, the pair had trav¬ eled. They went to Florida and were on their way back when Plumber took a turn for the worse.
He died at 4 a. m. today as the truck passed through Terre Haute.
Plumber, racked with the lUBg disease, had wasted away until hs weighed only 70 pounds when he died.
Coroner D. O. Mackey said a pre* liminary examination indicated Plumber had died of tuberculosis as Riddle claimed. Ther* was ao evidence of foul play. A money belt, with nearly M,000 in It, wts found on tb* dead man's badf.