Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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43RD YEAR, NO. 30 — 52 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1949
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
Brewery
Workers
I^Vote Today
Hoping for End Of Valley Strike; No Change Reported In Martz Bus Strike
Local 16S of tbe Brewery and Soft Drink Workers will conduct a special meeting at 10 oclook this morning In the Eagles Home to baar reporti of the strike com¬ mittee and take action on the lateit wage and hour proposal
The leision will determine whether the men return to work Monday or continue the nine-day old local brewery strike, Steg¬ maier'i, Franklin, Bartels and Gibbons  breweries  are  closed.
No change was reported In the Martz bus itrike, which now en- teri Its third day, but unofficial sources hinted that both lides may agree to have existing grievances arbitrated by a neutral person. There were reporti that a prom¬ inent local businessman would be called in to umpire the dispute. Busses  Hinted
The Martz work stoppage halted conunutcr bus service by the flrm from Public Square to South Wllkes-Barre and Plymouth as well as between Plymouth and Nanticoke and over-the-road lerv- ioc to Ne\tr York, Philadelphia and intermediate points. Coal truck driven, mechanici and maintenance men ef the concern tkewlic have been Idle ilnee S I.  m.  Friday.
Still, no meeting had been agreed V> between tha employer and the inlon as far as eould be leamad ats last night. Spokesmen for JSe ''n'/an tfil6^^.-^rr ,mr» no r*w levelopments.
Start Rural Area Zoning
—Jacob  Bropdy
Menjbers of the Dallas Township Zoning Commission, which has organized the first attempt to regulate building In the Back Mountain region. Include, flnt row, left to right: Arch Brooks, Clarence Lalder, who Is chairman of the group, and Paul Warriner. Second row: Walter Elston, Charlei M. Lee, Dell Tredinnick jr., the latter a member of University of Pennsylvania Govemment Consulting Service which sponsored endeavor. (Story on Page A-21)
Soviet Zone Police Fire On German Rail Strikers
Red Officers Stoned Ceneral Is Rescued
Berhn, Germany. Sunday, May 22. (UP)—Soviet sactor Berlin pollee fired on striking German rail workers aarly today Injuring at leaat flve persona ss mob rlolenca flared higher la the bloody day-old walkout
Over 600 otheri already tad been hurt, many serioujrty. In the stilke which had Idled 1S,000 West Berlin rail workers and virtually para¬ lyzed  train traffic In Western Berlin.
Strikers were fired upon Ir two separate Inddenta Involving East and    West    zone   German   police,,wooden staUon in wihlch the Soviet
'No ?mXX{ Shanghai Fights
Efforts of Reds
Shows How He Used Knife On Seducer of His Wife
Dr. Rutledge Denies He Took Money or Had Surgical Instruments
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ApproximateJy 600  persons have _u,    Robert  C.   Rutledge   calmly
»een Idled by the brewary strtka and supplies are running low at moat taprooms of the region. Many places are out of local beer but are  still   operating  with   premium
demonstrated on tlie witness stand today   how  he  held   the   knife  In hia  death  struggle  with  the  man who  had   seduced  his wife. The   h^dsome   St.   Louii   baby
beer and other less popular brandi doctor wai testifying, under cross trucked   In   from   various   tiuttrji ^^,^^„^^^^J^   ,„  i,U  trial   for   the
murder of Byron Hattman, 29, In a hotel room here last Deo. 14. He had testified that Hattman, also of Bt Louis, oame at him with a knife, but that hc wrested It  from him.
Prosecutor  Wllllam  Crissman picked   up   a   large   pocket   knife from a table and asked: 'T»oci  this  onc  look  like  It?" "I can't Identify this  knife,  Mr, Oissman,"   Rutledge  answered.
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Other Mcenicas have encounter¬ ed a itoragc problem. In lome tn- stanoaa, with some ooncamed about the poMlblUty of spoilage in the ease of an over supply of pre-ntrike beer. They loaded up in  anticipation  of  the  shutdown.
POSSE KILLS CONVICT ¦^WHO BROKE JAIL
St. Paul, Minn., May 2L (UP) - \n ex-convict sought In a half <iozen statea since hii eieape from I Fargo, N. D., jail waa shot to rieath tmlay In a gun battle wtth x poise near Glendlve, Mont., tlic I^BI reported here.
Speclal FBI agent M. B. Rhodes ^uid the fugitive, Walter Johnaon, .0, Omaha, Neb., waa killed by a • ¦one of almost BO men who --talked him to the ranch of Ralph .Vewton, 10 miles norUl of Glen- dive,
.lohnson broke out of jail at Vargo on Monday while awaiting a verdict of hii trial for armed robbery. He ilugged a jailer with A pop bottle and letzed the gun of another officer.
Rhodes said Johnson was spot¬ ted In Glendlve last night. A posse '.vsi formed and went to the New¬ ton ranch earl.v today. Rhodes quoted Sheriff Martin Kalberg as reporting that Johnson opened flre from a barn.
llic sheriff and his deputies, aided by police and an FBI agent ducked for eover and returned the ftre. When tha fusilade of bullets from the bam ceased abruptly, pesie msmberi approached cau¬ tiously and found Johnson dead, still clutching the revolver he had seized in the jailbreak.
evidence aa the murder weapon and the trial was adjourned until Monday.
Crissman becaine plainly cxa.'sptr- ated with RuUeUge'i calmneei and
"I don't remember" answers when asked about the struggle In Hatt- man'i  hotel  room.
"Then apparently only you and (Sod know, and you have forgot¬ ten," the proa^utor lald sarcasti¬ cally.
The state contends that Rut¬ ledge killed Hattman to avenge the leductlon of his wife last July, but the doctor claimed self-de¬ fense.
Denies Taking Money
During the beginning of tod&y'i crosa examination, Rutledge testi¬ fied that he "accidentally" picked up some money belonging to Hatt¬ man, which was scattered on the
strikers and Communist-led strlke- breakc at diaputed elevated rail¬ way ...tions In the American sector.
Over 200 shots were fired and at least five persona were Injured when atrikers thwarted an attempt by 0>mmunists and heavily armed Soviet sone police to capture Neu- koellln station.
An unknown number were hurt In an unauccessful midnight at¬ tempt by West German strikers to wrest the key Wansee station from barricaded strikebreakers and Soviet polios.
Both sidea were wielding guns, pickaxes, iron bars, clubs and wire whips but only the Ojmmunlst strikebreakers were reported to have actually opened flre.
At Ncukoelln, the strikebreakers stormed the station, held by 200 striken, captured it after a bloody battle and then lost It to a counter¬ attack after they ran out of am¬ munition.
The Wansee incident waa touched off when ISO strikers stormed the
zone police and stiikebreaKeri had barricaded tfaemsel-ves. Warnings wu-e shouted and at least SO shots fired Into the air by the Com- mimists before they trained their guns directly on the assaulters to stop them. Like a RevohitloB
Witnesses MeAi the battle "looked like a revolution."
The strikers ratraated to posit¬ ions behind fence* and posts in the darkened areas around the station. Strike leaders said they wers bring¬ ing up reinforcements for another attack after 60 additional Soviet zone police, armed with carbines, arrived on a Ruasltui-manncd train from Potsdam to reinforce the Communists and E^t sons police.
Strike leaden said they had de¬ cided to call off the attack but that the rank and file strikers had car¬ ried It out on their own. There was no report of casualties.
Savage  fighting  had  been  going on  all  day  In   Berlin's   rail  term- (C>>ntlnued on Page A-12)
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TO CUT EXPENSES
Party Senate Leader Working on Formula; Deficit Is Indicated
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floor, after~the"8truigle!"fhe"Btatei*'» I>«nocratic leaders felt mount-
 _^   intimated    that    Rutledge    robbed!'"» preisurc from their own ranks
"Well, is it limilar to the Hatt-i Hattman   but   the   defendant   laidj today to cut govemment spending man knife?" jhe threw  the  money away  as  he so that the budget can be balanced
'I   don't   see   how   I   could   lay i drove back home to St. Loula
ANN TODD MARRIED TO BRITISH DIRECTOR
London, Xtay 21 (UPl Film star Ann Todd and British director Da¬ vid Lean were married today. Both had been married previously. Lean was only recently divorced.
I.ean is 40 and tihe new Mrs. Lean li 39. She had two children by a previoui marriage.
unless I had Hattman's knife here to   compare,"   Rutledge   replied. Asked to Demonstrate
The proiecutor handed Rutledge the knife and told him to dem¬ onstrate how he held it In the violent struggle with Hattman.
TTjc spectators leaned forward In their scats to see more dearly. But Rutledge's six-foot, blonde wife, Sydney, 23, was not in the courtroom. Mrs. Rutledge, who ad¬ mitted that Hattman seduced her after plying her with double bour- boni, had absented herself during the testimony about details of the struggle
Rutledge said he never had heard of Hattman until the seduc¬ tion. H« said he had consented for his wife to go sailing, but he didn't know she waa going with Hattman.
"But you fully forgave your wife after tiic transaction that hap¬ pened?" Oissman asked, refer¬ ring to the seduction.
"Yes sir, I did forgive her," Rut¬ ledge said. "But I don't believe I ever used those words because I didn't think there was anything to forgive. It wasn't her fault"
Oissman asked him if he had access  to  surgical   instruments  at
Showing no emotion, Rutledge the Children's Hoapital in St demonstrated how he held, the I Louii, The doctor said there were knife. Oissman told him to do It no  Instruments  at  the  Institution,
a|;aln.
"I have just done It,' the doc¬ tor said.
"Tm asking you to do It again," Crissman snapped.
"Well, I prefer not to," said Rut¬ ledge evenly.
He crossed his arms and leaned back In his ohalr. Oissman turned to the Judge and asked him to initruct the wltncii to comply. The judge did so and Rutledge gripped the knife again. Refuses to Bc Trapped
"Are you sure that's the way you  held  It?"
'T've told you three times I don't know just how I held it" Rutledge said. "I think this Is the
way."
"The state was trying to bring out that If Rutledge had held the knife   the   way   he   demontsratedi
fcecause children  In need of oper¬ ations were transferred to another hospital. Won't RepeAt Name
At the St. Loull City Hoispital, where he worked during October and November, Rutledge said he watched no operatloni and heli>cd in  none,
"You mean you had no access to
"No sir, I did not," Rutlcdga ra- surgival knives?" plied.
Rutledge's calm wai broken when Criisman asked him to re¬ peat the "name" Hattman had called him during the hotel room fight.
"Well, Mr. Olisman," Rutledge replied, "As long as the name Is In the record, I don't think any¬ one wants to hear it again."
Rutledge  said he  did  not  know
without a tax Increaic.
At the sama time, Chairman Robert A. Taft of the Senate Re¬ publican policy eommlttee said Oongrass must solve ths economy problem this year or tackle a blU no later than naxt January to In oraasa taxes.
After   a   sarlca   of   setbacks   for Republican-lad   efforts   at   budget outting, there were these develop¬ ments In the economy drive Woridng on Fonnula
Senate Democratic leader Scott W. Lucas told reporters that Demo¬ crats on the Senate appropriations committee have "indicated that they will work out lome formula for economy." He refused to dis¬ cuss details or to say whether he believes the budget can bc balanced without a' tax inoreese.
caiairman John L. Mcaellan (D., Ark.) of the Senate expenditures commltte* seheduled a meeting Monday to eonsidar proposals for an overall cut In the budget after CVuigress bas acted on,the regular appropriation bills. RepnbUoans Not Hopeful
Rapullican leaden admitted they hav* little hope of applying lub- stantlal cuts to future appropria¬ tion bills, except perhaps those for the armed services and foreign aid. (Continued on Page A-2)
II.S. Steel Tells Union
, Giant Firm Willing, It Says, to Discuss 4th Round of Wage Hikes and Insurance
Pittsburgh, May 21. (UP)—United States Steel Oorp. today rejected CIO plans for a steel workera pan¬ sion this year.
The giant steel firm, "with re¬ gret" said It will discuss a fourth round wage Increase and the un¬ ion's broad social insurance pro¬ gram as required under a reopen¬ ing clause In the tJnlted Steel Workera contract
But "big steel" said It would go no further and would discuss no other Issues, including the union's proposed pension plan.
liie corporation expressed Its re¬ gret over the contraot reopening because of the "downward trend In cost of ll-vlng and present uncer¬ tainties In the general businesi situation."
U. 8. Btacl'i poiltlon and readi¬ ness to meet union negotiators next June IB -was set forth  In a letter
To Cross River
Shanghai, May :^1 lUPl Point- blank artillery and machlnegun flre from government batteries shat¬ tered a Oimmunist attempt to storm across the Whangpoo River Into Shanghai early today.
Artillery duels across the broad, muddy river ahook the city and flres blazed for many miles. At one point th* Communists were raining artillery and rifle fire In to Shanghai
nearby districts wer* taken tUf* by Oimmuntat Guerrillas, making a total of seven, (^vemment troopa were rushed to the area.
(Nationalist military spokesman Gen, Tang Wen-Yi said in C^antou that some troops were beginning to resist Ckimmunist nil* In areas al¬ ready captured by the Reds, H* said the two armies of surrendcrad I Nationalist   Gen.   Fu   Tso-Yl,   d*-
The Communist crossing atten^t 'ender   of   Peiping,   had   rebelled came In the carly houra of morn- againat  the Commimlsti. Ing with the raiders trying to cross
the river In 20 boats under cover of darkness from the Pootung area. "Many" Reds Drowned
They were spotted by National-
(TTie Communist radis heard In Hong Kong annoimced the occupa¬ tion Friday of Sian, largest dty In   northwest   China   and   long   a
Uts and met with a withering flre IP^'"""^*^  strongpoint and  mill virhlch blew their assault boats out ^"^ headquarters. Sian, with 800, of   bh*  water.    "Many"   Commun¬ ists were drowned In the attempt a government communique  laid.
The Nationalists did not men¬ tion location of the crossing at¬ tempt—th* second thii week—but It was believed to have been in the Yangtzepoo district eight milei north of the Bund, bualness dis¬ trict
It was In the Yangtzepoo district that t>,e CJon-.munlsts were loofctaijt artillery shells and  rifle Hre, pos
000 population, was the scene of the famoui Sian incident of 1936 when young M a r i h a 11 (Dhang Hiueh-Liang kidnapped (^Ihiang Kai-Shek In an effort *o force Shlang to flght the Japanese tOr- stead of the Ommunlsts.)
Rumora of Peac*
Ther* were persistent reports that a local peace settlement might b* arranged, bijj^ t\in dogged Nn- tlonalist    resistance    appeared    to
HUDDLE AT PARIS ON GERMAN TALKS
Formal Session On 'Western Front' to Open Tomorrow at 3
Paris, May Jl (UP)—The Big Four foreign ministers arri-ved here today and at once began a round of separate huddles preliminary to their crucial talks on Germany.
The three w*stern foreign mlnii- tera—^U. S. Becretary of State Dean G. Acheson, British Foreign Secre¬ tary Bmest Bevin and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman —met for nearly thro* houn to diacuss plans for a united 'Eaat¬ ern Front"
They scheduled another prelimin¬ ary meeting at 11 a.m. tomorrow to map a joint poHcy for the four power conferenc* which starts Monday.
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky—the last of the Big Four to arrive—came by plan* from Moscow late today and at onc* asked to s** Schuman, hti offlcial host. Silent On Plans
Acheson, Bevin and Schuman met from 4 to 6:60 p.m. Uiey issued a ourt "no eomment" an- nouncament after th* m**tlng, but it was reported that they had b*- gim consideration of the policy r*comm*ndatlons praparad at mactlngi of thdr advisers aarliar this WMkk.
They also w*r* r*port*d io hav* touched briefly on tfa* dlfflcultlss which have arisen slno* th* lifting of the Beriln blockad*.
Vishlnsky's call on Schuman was ostensibly the courtesy ¦visit which (Omtinued on Page A-2)
president of the CIO and th* Steel Workera Union, SSS Flrma Involved
The Jun* IB date meets the 30- day limit In the union's notice of contract reopening to SSS baile ateel firms. The USW-U. S. Steel negotiations usutdly set the pattern for more than 1,000,000 steelworkers across the nation.
Hi* union program oalla for a triple-decked block of Industry- flnanced benefits. Including a gen- *ral wage Increase, pensions, and life, accident, hmlth, medical and hoapital insuranec.
Although Murray   has    attached; ——————-
no direct estimate of costs to the'   ^i j   p.
demands,   various  catlmates    havei t^rrOl   F lyun placed  Its   total  value  at  upwards-   I nainn    Uia    \jl'if.r, of 80 cents an hour. j LiOSUig   HIS   Wit €
Las Vegas, Nev., May 21. (UP)
Red-haired   Nora   Eddlngton
Flynn  today  took   up   residence
here  so  she   could  divorce  fllm
he" wouTd'not have suffered a cut I "for  sure"   how  Hattman's  money found on his hand after the slay-1 got  scaUtered  on  the hotel  room
floor,
ing.
The court reserved  a  ruling on whether   to   accept   the   knife   in
rind $4Sfi00 Bantc Account after HarrisburgRubbishRummagerDies
Harrisburg, May 21 (UP) A Har-. the Dauphin DepoJiit Trust Co., risburg junk dealer who ipentjsaid Rohr opened an account there most of his ts .veari rummaging!36 year sago. He lald the quirt, through pllei of refuse before his soft-spoken man virtually never death la*t week left a bank ac-l withdrew any anjount from his count of more than $45,000. ! deposits   and   always   returned  in-
The elderly   recluse,   Fred  Rohr.lterciSt checks. Wflj found dead of natural causes'    Rohr never married and his rcl-
h i''*y '" the rickety garage, stives said he lived frugally all Where he had made his home forl^is life, and to the point of self- "*n    u   *'**'¦*• ! imposed destitution  in later years.
Probation of Rohr's estate dis-; '~l"'ed the bank account late yes-j tfrday. The money will be divided among RoiiT's six brothers and sis- '"'K   and   their   children   unless   a
"ill  is  found
Rohr's family said he began col- ip.ting junk more than 80 years *Ko when his grandmother loaned "'m $600 to buy a horae and "agon.
Harper   W.   Spong,   president   of
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Rohr ordinarily carried nearly '$1,000 in cash on his person, but never was robbed or held up. He occasionally chatted with his boy¬ hood acquaintances, but his con¬ veraation was nkely to be "history" because of his habit of reading newspapers thrown away months or years before.
Rohr's  nearest  relatives include: ihis  brothera,   Benjamin   Rohr,  Me-
All I can do is reconstruct It," he said.
"Is that what you did in connec¬ tion with everything you've testi¬ fied her*—reconstruct it?" Oiss¬ man  asked.
"No air," Rutledge said. "I saw those things and lived through them," apparently referring to the battle with Hattman.
Rutledge said he refrained from calling police when Hattman con¬ tinued to annoy Mra, Rutledge be¬ cause he didn't want the publici¬ ty." He gave the same reason for his failure to report Hattman's alleged  attempts  at  blackmail.     >
RADIO PRODUCER FALLS FROM BOAT, DROWNS
Midwest Twister Leaves Growing Trail of Dead
Shelbum   Ind    May 21  (UP)—Adebris around the town and water
and power wer* shut off, «
One Dead,  20 Hurt
Cape Girardeau, Mo., May 21. (UP)—One man was killed and 20 to 80 persons were Injured to¬ night when a tornado hit the north side of this city. Nearby Oak Ridge and Bessvllle also were struck  by  the  high   winds.
New York,  May 21   (UP)   Owen icounty roads were blocked by up- Davis  jr.,  42,  radio  and   television ] rooted trees and utility poles, producer  for  the  National  Broad-! 	
tornado flattened some 200 houses in the west section of this coal mining town tonight, killing at least four persons and Injuring at leaat 56 others.
Two other persons were killed while picnicking in a park at Terre Haute and two persons were in¬ jured critically  near Clay City as
the   twister   cut   a   path   through ,,»..-,
western  Indiana. Esttmates of Dead Rise
„.„,,,_ J i,»rrfMt hit '    Putnamville,   Ind.,   May  21   (UP)
But She bum seemed hw^desthU ^^^^   ^ ^^^
Miss Euleta Sloven a reporter for,^^^ «t Shelburn, Ind.. reported
Uie  Sullivan   Ind., ^'W^S'  »^'YeTtIfrom  10 to  15  persons  were  killed wind virtually wiped out the west, ^^^^^^   ^^   ^^^^
side  of  town,     '^^^''^^ ^.^.''^he tip [were   injured   by   a  tornado   there, flt?''offrhr^r.tShlghth'<^';'Burlier  reports  had   put the  dead
ibuilding. :*' '°"'^-
a.      .    ¦    n, Ti=„io anri manviTwi***" Skips About
Streets In Terre Haute and many| h
A limilar attempt Wednesday to croai the river to the Lunghwa InteTnational Airport jiut south¬ west of the city was broken up by Ciiinese Air Fore* planes which bombed and strafed the invaders.
(Jovemment artillery near the airfield today was shelling Com¬ munist positions across the river. The airfield vrai cloied to regular passenger plane service, and with fighting raging on the Whangpoo, Shanghai was Isolated both by sea and by air. Reds Make Claims
(Canton   reports  said  two  more
Generalissimo CSiiang Kai-Shek had been In Shanghai directing defense strategy.
Government    Communiques    re¬ stored some confldence in the city.
The CHilnese navy said Its gun¬ boats were pouring streams of shells into Communist positions south of Kiaochow, catching th* attackers In a crossfire from boats In the Yangtze and Whangpoo. A wounded soldier from Pootung said Navy shelling was costing the Reds big losses and that some Com¬ muniat units were trapped by th* gunflra.
Cox's elimination of pensions from the negotiations was ba/ed on th* present contract which rum until mld-19B0 but eontalni a re¬ opening clause, mentioning wages and social Insurance. Buok Murray's Policy
Iki electing to itand on the word¬ ing of the contraot, U. S. Steel was bucking th* announced policy of Murray that none of the three big planks In his program would be dropped at the .expense of another.
Although he has expressed hope and "optimism" that Steel wlll take a "constructive" attitude, .other un¬ ion ofllciala have emphasized to workers that they may have to strike to win  their new program.
Regarding    the    pension     Issue,
star Errol Flynn and bc free to marry crooner Dick Haymes.
Mra. Haymes, meanwhile, was to live at Lake Tahoe, Ncv., In preparation to divorce Hajrmea Her name has been linked ro- mantlcly with actor John Ire¬ land.
The swashbuckling Flynn re¬ vealed his secret Mexican mar¬ riage to the beautiful Nora Ed- dingham in 1945. The disclos¬ ure came after the actor was listed as the father of her daughter, Diedre, In Mexico City. They also have another child, Rory, 2,
Flynn  and   his  wife  flrst  met
C^x's letter said:
"Without   commenting   upon   the when   she   was   selling   cigarets
construction which  you   place    on at the Los Angeles court house
the  United  States   Supreme  Courti where   he   waa   acquitted   on   a
daoision In th* cas* cited by you, | charge of statutory rape in 1943.
(Continued on Page A-ll)
Valley Scene
Avoea grootry boy on tele- phon*, Ulling ealUr, "We havt no raxor bladet nov> but we will fiave in ahout a week—if you ean  wait."
Hanover police chasing hit- and-run driver — and catch¬ ing him,, five mileg away, at the scene of hit teeond and similar   accident.
Woman telling her eo-m- panion, as they left hig bingo party at Lee Park Commun¬ ity Hall last .week: "What a big dumbell ahe ie to hand over her winnings to that stupid thing she married. Just let my husband try to cash in on me."
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BUILDING TRADES END STRIKE IN HARRISBURG
Harrisburg, May 21. (UP)—The longest major building strike In Pennsylvania this year has been settled by a back to work order effective Monday.
The Building Trades Council and the Building Omstruction Employ¬ ers Association of Harrisburg dis¬ closed settlement of the 50-day-old building tie-up yesterday.
The strike that idled 3,000 mem¬ bers of 10 crafts will end officially Monday when work on construc¬ tion projects in the Harrisburg, (Chambersburg, Carlisle, Lebanon and  York areas  will  be  resumed.
The strike settlement will end crippling delays in commercial con¬ struction, the expansion of a Vet¬ erans Administration hospital, a water plant and a state highway department   garage.
JI>L>IY STEWABi;
Hollyvvood, May 21 (UP)—Peren¬ nial bachelor Jimmy Stewart an¬ nounced today he will marry Gloria McLean In August
"I'm as happy as a kid," said tha lanky, boyish actor.
"I pitched the question to har last night and to my surprise tbm said 'Yes,'" Stewart was quoted as saying by a Metro-CJold-wyn-Mayer spokesman.
Stewart said the proposal follow- (Continued on Page A-ll)
St  Louis,  May  21   (UP)—Illinois
casting Co. was drowned early to¬ day when he apparently fell off a sailboat during a cruise with a co¬ worker, police said tonight.
Davis, who police said was the son of playwright Owen Davis who wrote more than 300 plays, was identified by Herbert V. Anderson,
6 Killed in Palestine
state highway patrolmen. reported that four persons were killed when a tornado hit Wood River, T\\., about 18 milea northeast <>f Bt Lawrenceville, 111., May 21^ (UP) Louis, tonight
A twister sweeping out of Mis¬ souri struck near Lambert Field, north of St. Louis, and uprooted a number   of   buildings   in   a   rural
chanicsburg,    RD    4;    7/en»el    J.|42,    an    NBC    account  _executive,|    Police    reported    the^ twister
Rolr   Harrisburg; and ftu-sisters,{owner of the 29-foot auxiliary sloop I struck    the    northeast    corner   or Mrs.'Elizabeth M. Potter, r-ancan- "The Barada." i Palestine.      They   said    'heir   at-
non RD 1; Mrs Mary A. Brown- Anderson said he was asleep be-;tempts to get details of tne «onn awell Camp Kill, RD 1; Mrs. Viola:low deck when Davis apparcntJJ-]were hampered by static wwcn F Eppley West Fairview. andifell off. He said he and Davia leftihit telephone and radio connec- Mra. Mabel U Jauas, Ca,m.p HiU,|New York last night for a week-1 tions, UJ) L jend cruise.
—State police here reported five persons were killed and several In¬ jured in a tornado which struck Palestine, Bl., 35 miles away, Ute today. area.
It then leaped about eight miles and  struck  again  along - the Mis
souri River, north of St. Louis, and crossed into the Alton-Wood River area of southwestern Illinois.
In addition to the four reported dead at Wood River, a dozen per-
»   Roada war* reported blocked byisoni were Injured.
Industry Is in Worst Postwar Slump; Work Week and Earning Averages Drop
Washington,  May  21   (UP).-lhei high   in   layoffs  and  a  new  post-j somewhat   delayed   thii   yaar   *•- govemment    today    issued    Apriliwar low in hiring. [cause of the late Eastar.
employment figures showing that! The department said an uptrend; Transportation industrl**, f industry is in ita worat postwar iin some seasonal industries pre-1 versing a trend which b^an laat slump, I vented    further    decline    in    total I tall, also reported a slight conplogr-
The Labor Department said jobs agricultural     employment,     which jment   increase  for   the  month   a*
"leveled off" at 43,890,000. ] did  the government finance, mln-
The rise failed, however, to show,ing and service occupation!, the  "kick"  that  marked  the  April!    The    automotive    induitry    aaa- pickup in three preceding postwar' ployed  more people as  production years and was a disappointment to lof new models was expanded. Log- govemment economists. jging  and  saw-mlU  activity on tha
Agricultural   employment   Inj West Coast showed a "small April   was   7,820,000.   The   Onsui sonal Increase." But the boost
In manufacturing plants were 700,000 under a year ago and 1,- 500,000 below last September's postwar peak. Employment start¬ ed falling last October and is still sliding.
The average work week, the de¬ partment said, reached a postwar low of 38.3 hours In April, and average weekly earnings dropped to $52.62, off $2,50 from Decem¬ ber's all-time peak.
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Em¬ ployment Security said that 1,- 000,000  more  workers  were  out  of
Bureau said this figure plus dom¬ estics, self-employed, and other workers ran total national em¬ ployment  to 57,819.000.
The   country's   all-tinie   peak   In total   employment   was   61,6156,000
In  July,  1948 work in mid-May than a year ago. | Upitulng In Building
The Labor Department said thatj    The department reported a "sea- a drop of 330,000 in factory work-1 sonal" upswing in residential  con-i industries    reported    reduced   am- eri during April was the leventh • struction   and   public   building.   It ployment   More  "sharp   drops"   In
partially offset by dcclinaa where. Dairy, feed, and bcveraga Industries made seasonal gains but meat packers continued to lay M employes.
A drop in itaci production caused employment ilumps at blast furnaces, steel and rolling mllla Metal   fabricators   and   machinery
longest In almost  10 years. Layoffs Numerous It said this raflected  a postwar
said there waa "the usual spring j employment were reported during Increase In aalei and in wholesale i the month In th* textll*-appar*l» and    retail    trade  employment"—| leather Industrial
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