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42ND YEAR, NO. 8 — 52 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER  21, 1947
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Western Unions 50,000 May Strike 'Any Moment'
Negotiatidns   Fail; Locals Meet Today
Washington, Dec. 20 (UP)—Negotiations aimed at averting a Christmas-season strike of three AFL, unions against the Western Union Telegraph Co. were recessed tonight until Sunday with no sign of progress.
The night session was the third of the day. Federal mediators met separately with representatives of the three unions and of the telegraph company. There were no joint sessions of the ccmpany and unions.
As   the   final   session   broke   up   shortly   before   midnight,   Adolph
—Acju   lloi't'lnan
NATIVITY SCENE at College Misericordia, Dallas, is oiu: of r.iir.y which Can be seen in churches and schools throughout Wyoming Valley during tHe Christmas season. At Misericordia the role of St. .Joseph is played by Virginia Cadan with Patricia Mulgrew a.s the Blessed Virgin Mary. Others, reading   clockwise,   are:   Betty   McAndrew,   Joan   Matthews,   Cathesine   Dougherty,  Gabrille   Detirro,
Mary Beatty and  Margaret MuhK.
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Expect Court en Banc Rule I On Club Liquor Licenses
The    controversial    question    of the   commonwealth  have   reversed whether club liquor licenses should' similar de<:islon8. or should not be granted under thej    Among these are the courts    of Quota Law of 1939 In the Issuance' Erie, Allegheny, Fayette and Cam- of new permits will be decided b/  bria counties.
the court en banc of Luzerne coun- In asking the court to reverse its tv Judge Thomas F. Farrell rulefl decision in the Exeter case, Attor- '' incy Jurchak based his case on the
yesterday. \f^^.^ ^^at   in approving Senate Bill
He said  he  would   take   up  tl>e|gi4^  taking veterans'  clubs out  of matter  with    other    judges    after Uhe Quota Law for 18 months, the Deputy   Attorney    General    Peter 1,^3^  session of the Legislature  in- the      Pennsylvania dilated that the regular Quota Law I
AGOSTON JAILED;
HE KILLED BALLIEI
Denies Other Crimes; Search Continues For Salesman's Body
Brungs, Western Union director for the AFL Commercial Tele¬ graphers Union, said the company "has offered us nothing." The three unions are seeking a 15-cent- an-hour wage increase. Told To Be Keady
Frank Bloom, general counsel ' for one of the unions, said all ! locals have been told to be ready lo strike "at any time before or litter" the 6 a. m. EST deadline Tuesday. He said the orders sent loday mean that the walkout might be called "at any moment."
Bloom announced later tliat strike strategy mass meetings will be held by local unions tomorrow afternoon' "in every important cit across the country." The Washing¬ ton mass meeting will be at 2 p. m. EST.
.More than 40 employees of the Wilketi-Barre oftice of Western Union would be affected by the impending strike call. Spokes¬ men for the local union group said last night they were "wait¬ ing for instructions". "We have¬ n't been notified, we're just wait¬ ing," they said.
Meanwhile Cyrus S. Ching, di¬ rector of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, conferred separately with  Bloom and W. D.
Alex  Agoston  jr.,   Berwick,  was
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covered   clubs.     This   was   the   in- L,,^ ^^^^       ^„« ^„^^^^ ^^ /^^^^„
tention of Uie lawmakers, he em- g^m^j   36-year-old Pond Hill used
phaslzed. \ ,^j. salesman, and was placed in the
Fayette County Case Columbia   county   jail.   The   slayer
In   the  course  of  the  argument I .signed   a  written   confession,   Pfc,
conciliators  met  with  other  union and company representatives.
Neither party would comment but informed sources said the talks to¬ day had been as fruitless as previ¬ ous federal efforts to avert the "walkout.
The three unions involved in the promised walkout are the AFL Commercial Telegraphers Union, the Telegraph Employes Union and the Telegraph Workers Union. They are demanding a 15-cent-an-hour wage boost.
Union otHcials say a strike of their ."iO.OOO members would shut down Western Union offices across the country in the midst of the busy Christmas season. It might force stock, grain and cotton ex¬ changes to close, they said.   '
An official of the mediation serv¬ ice said Western Union may fore¬ stall the strike by offering a wage increase. He .said he believed the company would offer a five-cent-an- hour boost in an effort to break the deadlocked negotiations. Union Charges Violation
First indication that the unions might walk out at any time and without notice came in telegrams to Cyrus Ching, director of the mediation service, and to Presi¬ dent Truman. The unions accused Gaillard jr., attorney for Western jthe company of violati^ng the Taft- Union.    A   panel  of  three   federal I        (Continued on Page A-14)
Jurchak     of
Liquor Control Board cited a Su¬ perior Court decision of Nov. 12, 1947. which defined "a court" as "the majority of the fu!! bench." Attorney Jurchak held that the cnurt.   not  a single   judge,   should
determine the meaning of the law! yesterday,   with   Atty.   Louis   Fcld-]Karl Guers of the State Police  in governing  the  situation. jman- representing  the  Veterans  of [Shickshinny   said.      Balliefs   body
I'iuTell Appe«tni to Agree j Foreign    Wars   and   Atty.   Frank'dumped in the Susquehanna River
.ludge Farrell agreed, apparently. i**<=°"'K^"   ^'j''   fi"'7'J:^'^   ^^'?"/\i^   Willow   Grove   bridge,   had   not "I wish  the  Superior  Court  had i'"« ?"'"'"*-'y f"^'''^ ^^ P''^^*"^^'^  b*^" f°""<l- indicated this long ago," the jurist^"   Judge   Farrell   a   copy   of   the     At the arraignment in the office commented. i Superior Court decision m a Fayette I of Justice of the Peace John Dug-
The local derision was an nut- *=°""'y '^^"^^ ""^'^ ^" ^^^ "^^ °^igan, Berwick, were District Attor- grilJth of the Exeter West S^del^r, ^ons of Italy Lodge 334, in n^y W. S. Sharpless of Columbia Social Club case, in which the!**''^^ ?."*= JU<^8e decided one way .county. Patrolman Hurley Stout of Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board T'"^'.^'^"^ except.ons taken to his Berwick, Pfc. Karl Guew and Pfc. had asked the court to reconsider'''«'^'^'°" ""'** overruled by two victor Vandling of the State Police. iU decision  on  the Quota Law of,"'*'®'" members of the court. |together with  the  magistrate  and
1939.   Local judges ruled repeated-      Then   came   the   Superior   Court (defendant, ly that  the  law  did   not  apply  to decision that a majority of the full j shows No Remarse clubs,  but several  other  courts  of bench is "the court.''
POPE PIUS ASKING PRAYERS FOR PEACE
In m,iny other counties, includ¬ ing Lackawanna, the court en banc sits on liquor cases. The LCB wants the same Ihing here. It's the main point in the case at hand because once a decision is handed down by a majbrity of the local judges both
Vatican    Cit.^',    Dec.    20    (UP>_ Pope   Pius   XII   called   upon   the > world's  Catholics  in   an  encyclical'clubs and officers of the LCB will 'today to  pray for  peace  and  said be guided by it.
ttsss  hatred,  exploited   by  "secret 1	
and   .shrewd"   falculation.   threat¬ ened every war-devastated state.
"Peace is still oscillating and uncerUin and a.s all can note will sorrow and trepidation keeps suspended in anguish the souls of tuples while in not a few nations
already devastated by the world conflict and by the ruins and miseries which are its sorrowful consequoncf^.-.iocial classes agi¬ tated by bitter hatred and with mimerou.'? disorders and troubles threaten .is all can see to over¬ throw and batter away the very foundations  of  states,"  he  said.
The Pope's encyclical was re¬ garded by observers a« a direct an.-iwer to the disorder and agita- t'-"! in Italy and France and the ^^nrid pessimism brought on bv the
3 PA. MEN DIE IN PLANE DOWN NEAR TERRE HAUTE
Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 20.- (UF) —Four bodies were found in the wreckage of a small civilian plane on a farm near here today. Offi¬ cials of a nearby airport believed smoke and fog caused the crackup.
The plane was en route from St. Louis to Indianapolis. The gasoline tanks exploded when It struck the ground. The craft apparently was flying at a high rate of speed. The weather was "very bad". Visibility was zero.
The victims were: William P. Student, Kan.sas City, Mo.; Steve Student jr., Leighton.  Pa.:  Charles
failure   of   the   Big   Four   foreign J   Fassler  jr.,  Penfield,  Pa.;   Ray m'nlsters  conference. mond P. Zielinski, Reading, Pa.
Marine Vet Spends 8 Awful Days In Crowded and Sealed Box Car
^orl Smith, Ark., Dec. 21 (UP>— the blond, gray-eyed Harrison said, A »4-.ye;ir-old Marine Corps veteran | "thirst began to dog me." aescribed from  a hospital  bed to-|    "I could not sleep because of the
y'^ip eight horror-filled days and i cramped position-I was in. I did hignts he spent sealed in a boxcar not have room to sit up, and when ^-'"ttii Weils, Nev., and Fort 1 was not lying down, i hunciieu "hiith. Ark. up on  my elbows."
Earl E. Harrison, an unemployed! !^ P'-^^'^. '^" ^^^ "T'",Hf, *f,'f fa'lroad mechanic  climbed into the!    The happiest moment of his life
Agoston, 40, former steel worker and miner, still showed no sign of of these.
ed Columbia county, where he wanted to be "a big shot." In ad¬ mitting this crime he denied oth¬ ers, however, stating he was not implicated in the disappearance of other missing men, one at Peck- ville and another in Nanticoke. Authorities from o'ther towns took witnesses to Berwick in an ei rt to solve other crimes, or suspected crimes, but the former ACF em¬ ployee was not recognized by any remorse for a crime that has shock- He again accompanied (State Po¬ lice on a visit to the scene of his crime and maintained the body Is in the river. Police grappled with¬ out success. The search will conti¬ nue today. ttonfident of ttonvictlon
Authorities think they have enough evidence to convict the Berwick man even without the body, a highly important element in a murder trial. His statements, the written confession, bul'.et holes in his automobile, a bunch of hair that the Inon grating of the bridge evidently had torn from the vic¬ tim's scalp, tht sum of money found on Agoston's person at the time of arrest and the buying splurge he took shortly before his apprehension are considered im- l>3r.ant to the case and will, the authorities predict, stand up court.
Cuba Sentences Satira To 72 Years in Prison
Havana, Cuba, Dec. 20. (UP)—| that of the sentence. During the Patricia (Satira) Schmidt, 22-year-1parole, the person cannot leave old American dancer who shot and! Cuban territory and must report killed her married lover aboard his I to authorities periodically, yacht in Havana Harbor last April,! Miss Schmidt went on trial Oct. was reported tonight to have been;'^ for slaying John Lester Mee, sentenced by a three-man tribunal I Chicago playboy and former naval to 12 years in prison and fined P^-boat commander. The only (ggOQ [other    person    aboard    the    yacht
L.   ' a, ! 1        «¦ _.      when   he   was   shot   April   8   was
There  was  no  official   confirma-1 entries Jackson, River Forest, III..
engineer,   who  was  released   from custody yesterday.
no  official tion of the reported sentence.    But a   formal   announcement   was   ex¬ pected Monday.
The reported sentence, which was said  to   recognize   Patricia  as   the family.
direct author of a premeditated j During the trial, which began homicide, also included payment by | Oct. 7 after two postponements, her of all court costs, it was said. | Patricia    testified    that    she    had
The   $5,000   fine   reportedly   was levied  as  an  indemnity  for  Mee's
Actually, if her sentence is 12 years, the sultry night club dancer would serve eight years and 10 months — counting time off for good behavior at the rate of two months for each year after the first and the time she already has spent in the National Women's Prison at Guanabacao. Must Stay In Cuba
Under the Cuban penal system providing such a sentence, the convicted person must also.spend on   parole   a   period   equivalent   to
lived with  Mee  aboard  his yacht, renamed    Satira    in    her    honor, but  that prior to the  shooting he had  abused  and  threatened her. Claimed Self Defense
In one of her many stories of the shooting, she said that Mee rushed at her with a ceremonial sword she used in night club routines and that she had fired in self  defense.
Just before Mee died at Ameri¬ can Hospital he said, "Patsy Shot me.   Deliberately."
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LAST INDEPENDENT EUEL OIL PLEA;
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1st Open Crackdown On Political Parties Opposing Their Policy
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ern Pacific box car at Wells
"n Thiir«ria„   rv!,     .-i ..u     «•    k darkness of his  prison.
'»Pof a?rin\    T °"^i'    /"L        "I   cannot   express   how    I     felt
Wth his fam'^lv , ^T^'/f7.i° ^^ ^hen   the   door   was   opened   and M„" ""¦ '™''y f<"- the first Christ- hi^hf  n^,.^^A in "
¦^as in seven years.
He thought the car opened at Ogden. Utah .ar^^'    '"^'ead,    the    lumber-laden!pounds,
vl ^^'^ ""' opened until It reached      "That was the best water I ever 'Oft Smith Friday. ; tasted,"   he  said.  "It  was   wonder-
FEAR SHORTAGE
Sees Northeast With 15% Deficit; Shipping Lacking
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 20. (UP)— Gov. Thomas E. Dewey is "grave¬ ly concerned" over the prospect of a serious fuel oil shortage in New York and may ask the peo¬ ple to adopt a voluntary rationing program, an Informed source said tonight.
An administration spokesman said Dewey was convinced that skyrocketing demands for fuel oil would result in a 15 per cent shortage this winter in the north¬ east.
Dewey    conferred    yesterday    in
New York City with 20 representa-
First Open Act fives   of   major   oil   companies   to
was   opened   and |        Apparently   satisfied   with   the'    j^ ^^ j^e first time the Soviets explore problems of supplying fuel
light flooded in," he said. jway  Ssate  Police  were  treating  aij^g^g ^^.jed  openly  in  Germany  toi°i'  to the  people of New  York.
Harrison was taken to a hospital I man   who   had   robbed   another   otn^^g^   out   political   party   leaders' Will Ask Lower Temperatures
Berlin, Dec.  20  (UP)—The  press department of the Christian Demo¬ cratic party (CDU) today announc¬ ed that the party's two leaders in the   Russian   occupation   zone   of Germany  had  been  thrown  out of '"(Office on direct orders of the Soviet military administration. Pfc.  Karl  Guers,  who  made  the     ^he   ousted   officials   are   Jakol. arrest  and  continues  on the case,]Kaiser and his  deputy. Max Lem- said    yesterday    that    a    deputy sheriff    of    Columbia    conty    last
was when sunlight broke into the
July had granted Agoston a per¬ mit to carry a gun. It was said that the license was granted after
mer.    They incurred Soviet wrath
by   rcfesins   to   recognize   r   ('oi
munist    sponsored    peoples    party
meeting in  Berlin  two weeks  ago.
Both  are generally  considered  the
DEWEY PREPARES
Taft Hits Huge Sums For Europe
Finds Them Not Needed To Produce Recovery; Says Spending Can Wreck U.S. Economy
Washington, Dec. 20 (UP^—Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., who believes the proi>osed $17,000,000,000 Mar¬ shall Plan could "wreck" the U. S. economy, asserted tonight that big- scale American spending is not essential to EuropcEin recovety.
Taft, chairman of the Senate Re¬ publican policy committee, was the first GOP leader to announce flat opposition to Mr. Truman's con¬ ception of what this country must do to halt the march of "selfish, totalitarian  aggression" in Europe.
Taft predicted that the recovery program would not be ready for floor debate in the Senate until March 1, just one month before President Truman's target date for getting the program underway. This would make it almost impos¬ sible for Congress to pass and ap¬ propriate money for the measure by April 1. Truman to Urge Speed
From a Democratic source it was learned that Mr. Truman is pre¬ pared to urge speedy action in his state of the union address which he will deliver to Congress in per¬ son on Jan. 7.
Asserting that administratloon officials in drafting the four-year recovery plan had "overdrawn" the seriousness of western Europe's plight, Taft told reporters that per¬ sons visiting Europe haven't seen evidence of a "complete collapse."
"People don't completely col¬ lapse." Taft said. '"They go on living anyway."
Taft agreed, however, that Amer¬ ican assistance would be helpful in rebuilding ICurope's war-smashed economy and might establish con¬ ditions under which it would be "less likely" that European nations would fall under Communist sway. Marshall Vacationing
Secretary of State George C. Mar¬ shall ,meanwhile .departed for a vacation "ordered" by President Truman. Marshall flew to join his wife at their Pinehurst, N. C. home. He expects to remain until after Christmas. But associates said he would return to the capital at any time his presence was required in connection with the impending con¬ gressional battle over the recovery program.
He left Washington after report¬ ing to the country on failure of the Big Four foreign ministers to find agreement on German and Austrian peace terms at their Lon¬ don meeting. Marshall took the Occasion to remind the country that Russia already ha.s declared "hostility and opposition" to the European recovery plan. He as¬ serted that on success of that program hangs the world's hopes for lasting peace.
Marshall's  speech  and  President Truman's message to Congress, de¬ livered yesterday, weighed  heavily in the minds of legislators stream- (Continued  on  Page A-14)
Also to Probe Trading In Cotton^ Eggs, Butter
Grain Expose Seeks Government Men Using Inside Information
Wa.shington, Dec. 20 (UP)— Chairman August H. Andresen oT a special House investigating com¬ mittee tonight disclosed plans to expose "improper" speculation in cotton, eggs and butter as well as in the grain markets.
The Minnesota Republican aban¬ doned his Christmas holiday plans and said ha will remain in Wash¬ ington to get investigating ma¬ chinery in shape .so hearings can start as soon as possible after Con¬ gress returns on Jan. 6.
Andresen told a reporter his com¬ mittee, organized yesterday, has agreed to put first emphasis on speculation in grain but to follow up "at the greatest possible speed" with investigation of market oper¬ ations in all commodities in which trading is done on a "future de¬ livery" basis. Splitting  Party  Lines
Andresen's disclosure came amid hints of an impending split along party lines over the scope of com¬ modity investigations to be pressed simultaneously in House and Sen? ate.
Some Democrats fear Republi¬ cans will try to limit the investiga¬ tions to an exposure of persons who through government connec¬ tions are able to get "inside infor¬ mation" by which they could out¬ guess the market.
Administration supporters will demand that investigators go after market gambling as such. Both sides agree legitimate hedging op-
, Will Celebrate 71st Anniversary
Columbus. Wis.. Dec. 20 (UP) — Mrs. Eva Richards, 91, could "hardly believe" today that to¬ morrow will be her 71st wedding anniversary.
"My." he said, "I never ex¬ pected to celebrate our 71st wed¬ ding anniversary."
Her husband has been con¬ fined to bed since 1944. They live with a daughter, Mrs. C. H. Jones. A son. Dr. William C. Richards, Morrisonville, Wis., veterinarian, will be with them for the cele¬ bration.
"But of course, we aren't able to do much celebrating after all these years," Mrs. Richards said.
She had no recipe for a suc¬ cessful marriage.
"We just got along nicely and lived to a good old age," she said.
erations in commodity markets— such as hedging by millers in the grain market—should not be at¬ tacked.
Chairman William Langer, R., N. D., of the Senate Civil Service com¬ mittee meantime called on the Civil Service Commission to "make pub¬ lic immediately" whatever informa¬ tion it may have on speculation by government employees.
It was disclosed earlier that tha late Presient Roosevelt at one e ordered the commission to include in its records reports of market operations by federal officials.
Sen. William F. Knowland, R., Cal., said he thought Civil Service (Continued  on  Page A-14)
Agoston   told   the   deputy   that   hejo„iy   independent   political   leaders was  accustomed  to carrying  largejjn the Soviet zone, sums of money.
would   be j and given two sips of water. 176  miles  150   pounds   had   withered   to
His
100
His shouting and pounding on the | f"'- «oor at every stop failed to attract!May Lose Legs ""eniion.    and    he    resumed    his     Dr. W. L. Shippey
'^f'b "^ni'-P'-one position. At the end of the second day,"
$1,500    and    also    took    his    life,\vho oppo.sed their policies. !    The governor was understood to
Agoston is quoted as having said^ Informed quarters said that Col.'' believe that a self-rationing pro- in the confession, "At no time did Serge Tulpanov, chief of the Rus- Sram. under which house temper- a man lay a hand on me. threaten sit.n information department, con-, atures would be cut to 68 degrees, or try bo abuse me."
U.S. Soldier Killed By Russian in Vienna
Vienna, Austria, Dec. 20 (UP)— The U. S. Army provost marshal's office announced tonight that a self-described Russian news cor¬ respondent had beaten and kicked an American soldier to death in a boarding house in Vienna's inter¬ national zone.
The Russian, named Stephan Inrin, bit a second American who tried to help the soldier. A four- power international patrol arrived and arrested the Russian at that point, the provd'st marshal's office I said.
InrIn   has   been   turned   over  to
Russian authorities for punish¬ ment. The name of the U. S. sol¬ dier will not be announced until his next-of-kin are notified of his slaying.
"The soldier died late yesterday :in a military hospital, to which he {was taken after the attack. ! The operator of the boarding house told the provost marshal's office that Inrin accosted the American and asked him his na- itionality. Without further ado, he 'then set upon him, knocked him I to the floor and kicked him in Ithe head  and  body.
Ammunition Dump in Alps Explodes, Wrecks Town
Valley Scene
Man in big inarket very sheeinsh as checker at door finds him with a pound of but¬ ter under his hat.
Man standing high above South Main street sidewalk, crowd nn Fri^lay, marking show window, grabbing ivildly for. support a.s gawking shopper stumbled heavily against bottom of his stepladder.
Pretty brunette carrying Christmas tree into. Veterans Building h/ilf an hour before t^tarting time to surjirise co¬ workers.
The "shiverir.g Salvation Army lassie giving a most sincere "Thank you" as man took last bill from his xvallet and drop- ^5 in the kettle.
Blausee, Switzerland, Dec. 20 (UP)—An ammunition depot blew up deep inside a mountain in the Bernese Alps shortly before last modnight creating a man-made volcano that spewed boulders, bombs, handgrenades and hot shells throughout Kanderthal Val¬ ley, wrecking scores of houses and a  railroad  station.
A police sergeant in charge of a small detachment in the disaster area reported that nine persons iiad been killed, four to five wciu missing and an undetermined number injured.
Swiss miliary authorities ordered the entire area closed for dO hours as small explosions continued to rumble from the shattered moun- taainside and a light snowfall covered unexploded missiles scat¬ tered   throughout   the   valley.
Rail and road traffic was inter¬ rupted. Repairs are under way but resumption of traffic will depend upon progress of search action for missiles on the ground which must be destroyed.
Several hundred soldiers were rushed into the area and some 300 firemen were working on the scene.
The explosions occurred in Kan¬
derthal Valley near the little rail station of Blausse-Mlttholz which ' was flattened by rocks ahd debris. The first great rumble was heard around midnight and explosions continued until near noon. Shells Sweep Sky
Anti-aircraft shells, hand gren¬ ades and bombs were thrown in [every direction trom the gaping hole in the mountainside where the depot used to be. As soon as the rain of missiles subsided, anti-mine detachments went out to gather up  live shells.
I While the main explosions ceased ; around noon, smaller ones were ! still erupting intermittently in the i heart of the wrecked depot.
Arnold Steiger. manager of the Hotel Kurhaus. which is about one 'and a half miles from the ammu- j nition dump, said he first heard 'the explosion at 11:35 p.m. last ' night and even at that distance "it nearly knocked me oft my feet." ' "I saw a blinding flash, windows in the hotel rattled and the whole building just seemed to bend," he said. "Panicky people came from everywhere. The skies were criss- /;rossed with "^dhot shells that looked like tr ."• rs. Some shells i        (Continued  on FVige A-14)
Twins Born Joined at Their Skulls; Parents Refuse to Take Them Home
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a veteran of World  War II.  immediately began giving   the   emaciated   man   intra¬ venous injections of glucose, amino acids, fruit juices, water and coffee. Dr. Shippey said warmth has re¬ turned   to   the   man's     frostbitten hands but not to his feet and legs to   the   knees,   which   still   are     in [danger  of amputatum.    He  is   us- 'ing  elastic   band; / s   on   the   legs land washing them with germicidal Isoai) and alcohol to prevent Infec- Uon.
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Police Have No Gallantry
Detroit, Dec. 20 (UP)—Olga Kuty and Yolande Bennett, pretty stenographers, waved a cheerful holiday greeting at the two traffic officers as they crossed a down¬ town street today.
Delighted, Patrolmen Charles Teal and George Campbell waved back, then thought It over and handed the girls tickets for jay¬ walking.
ferred on the dismssals with  For- would be a vital step toward solv eign Minister V. M. Molotov Tues-[ing the  fuel scarciH/. day when Molotov  stopped  briefly      The   administration   source   said in Berlin enroute to Moscow from [ "the simple  fact  is  that  consump- the London  conference  of  foreign | tion in the country as a whole Is ministers. ¦ far   beyond   the   capacity  of  ship-
The action of the  Soviets,  com- i ping facilities." ing'on   the   heels  of  the   abortive |    He said  the  situation  was  com- London conference, may well serve; plicated by:
as notice to other oppostion  lead- |    1.—A scarcity of steel tankers, ers,   Informed   jiources   said.  Some i    2.—Some fuel oil is being sent to observers   felt   the   move   wr- Europe.
Russian start on "co-ordinating" | 3.—More than 100,00 new dwelling all German political opinion in units in the state are being heated their zone. {with oil.
The   Russians   were   understoodi    Although oil companies increased (Continued on Page A-U)       i        (Continued on Pis«« A-14)
NAPLES JOBLESS RIOT, GUNFIRE WOUNDS FIVE
Rome, Italy, Dec. 20. (UP> -Five persons were wounded by gunfire in downtown Naples today when police clashed with unemployed rioters protesting the size wf the government Christmas allowance to Naples jobless.
Simultaneiously, 300,00^: food in¬ dustry workers in all parts of Italy walked off jobs in a strike expected to cause widespread mis¬ ery unless it can be settled quickly.
The Naples riot started ' when hundreds of unemployed Italians attempted to seize the government office building in the Via Duomo, just around the corner from the city's main public square, In pro¬ test against the small size of thfe Cairistmas bonus.
1 IiLdianapolis, Dec. 20. i UP) - Mr land Mrs. Edward R. Speer of Bed- I ford, Ind.. today had only two [week.') to decide what to do about I f heir Siamese twin sians who were born joined together at the tops of  their  sku;ls.
Dr. Donald Casely, director of the Indian:i University medical center, said that if the twins con¬ tinued to thrive for those two weeks, they would be ready to leave James Whitocmb Riley Hos pital for Children. j Bjit the Speers iniist that they will never take the twins home — or even look at them — so long as they are still joined. Etoctors said that an operation would cer¬ tainly be fatal since the same brain tissue runs through both skulls. Face Non-support Charge
Furthermore, authorities said the Speers could be charged with non- support if they refused to take the babies.
Speer, a 31-year-old modestly- paid accountant for the naval depot at Crane, Ind.. said he and his 27- year-old wife could not afford the special care t^ babiea need.
But all the weight of thousands lof years of philosophy, law, re¬ ligion and human ethics were against the Speers.
"No doctor will operate to separate the twins, even if the i parents insist," (basely said. "The ethics of the profession prevent us 'from trying what we know to b« futile."
Says ".Merry Ktlling" Murder ¦ Professor Mortimer J. Adler, University of Chicago authority on [the philosophy of law. said that the Indianapolis case involves "the whole question of mercy killing."
"And the courts have held," he said, "that mercy killing Is murder."
He said he could offer the parents no advice but to take the children or face prosecution for non-support.
Despite their common brain tissue, the two babies apparently have separate personalities and mentalities. Twin "A" may cry while "B" coos happily. One may be eating while the other plajrs with its tiny toes. However, doctors said that it could not be de¬ termined whether they have nor¬ mal mentalities "ntll tkey w«r« grown, I