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43BD YEAR, NO. 28 — 52 PAGES
Reuther and CIO Agree 0 Meeting
Makes First Break In Ford Stalemate; Idleness Costing Jobs of Thousands
I'NITEU PRt'.NS
Wire    NrwN    S.-riire
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1949
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
Detroit, May 7 (UP)—TTie CIO United Auto Workers' Union today accepted an Invitation to a meeting; to attempt settlement of the Ford Motor Company strike, which threatena imminent shutdown of Kord plants and supply firms throughout  the  nation.
The union's acceptance came after the company announced plana (or plant shutdowns in 16 states within  10 days.
Walter Reuther, UAW president, jtreed to meet next "niursday with Mayor Orville Hubbard of subur- han Dearborn, where Ford's giant River Rouge plant is located. Hub- hard also invited Gov. G. Mennen Williams and Henry Ford II, <»m- pany president. Governor Willing
Williams said he would attend lie nieeting "if ft would serve any u.'-eful purpose." Ford had not yet replied. Hubbard hiw been at odds with the company since it sup¬ ported an attempt of a life Insur¬ ance company to bring a large housing   project   to   Dearborn.
Ford had said earlier that the company was willing to negotiate furtiier at any time.
Reuther's acceptance marked the i __^	
first .'»tep toward resumption of ne-
se rn TrsdarwhenSJMrs. Jokn Lewis, Rolling Mill Hill,
employees   of   Ford's     Rouge    and;  a^      .¦ m   vh   ^a»g   a V .4    fl *     *
L.nol.1 Men ury plants struck over! AfOflier  Of   11   children,   14   LfVffig
Mrs. John Liewis, Rolling Mill Hill resident, who was born and raised In ^hat section of Wiljtes-Barre city, lias given birth to 17 '--¦'¦'ren in tiie'past 4(1 years to earh an imprjrlani "position among
MRS. JOHN LEWIS
iMother's l^aj Report:
ames  Rutter
U.S. Will Retuse to Take Its Troops out of Germany
To Rebuff Red Demand That Occupation End
Washington, May 7. (UP)—The United Btates wlll reject flatly any Soviet proposals for quick withdrawal of occupation troopa from Germany, a high American diplomat said today.
He disclosed that the State Department is drafting counter¬ proposals to be ready in event the Soviets make such a demand at the Paris meeting of the council of foreign ministers. He said tha United States is still committed to a long-term occupation policy.
This view was regarded as authoritative since this official is one
^sn alleged speedup,
"The UAW  as  we stated before
f.v ii.OHurec!   to  .ineel   a)   mmy- tir.ie
of Secretary of State Dean Ache¬ son's top advisers. He Is certain to be a member of the United Nations delegation at the Paris Big Four meeting and is currently en¬ gaged in drafting American stra¬ tegy for that meeting. Beds Wooing Germans
There has been evidence " from behind the iron curtain that Soviet strategy at Paris will be directed toward winning support of (Jerman nationalists, with a view to wreck¬ ing western plans for a West (Jer¬ man state, and that this strategy will hinge on a proposal to with¬ draw all occupation forces.
This official said the United States is confident that any such Soviet plan will fail. He said that, in the flrst place,' it would align western European nations, notably France, even closer with the U. S. viewpoint because of their fears of renewed German aggression.
Secondly, he said, "a lot of CJer' mans don't want It (U. S. troop withdrawal). They know Russia, they don't trust her, and they value the protection of our forces.'' No Full Solution Expected
This official warned that "we do not expect an overall solution of u.fc"Cerni&u   problem
multitude of CJerman issues These positions" will bs "harmonized" with British and French views at preliminary three-power talks in Paris before the ministers start meeting.
The State Department announced today that Ambaasador-at-Large Philip C Jessup and Department C>)unselor Charles Bohlen will leave Washington for this preliminary meeting before the end of next week. It is anticipated that the three-power conversations will last at least a week. V. S. Is Cautious
The diplomatic Informant made It clear that the United States ii approaching the four-power talks with extreme caution. He said that in the lifting of the Berlin block¬ ade,  "we wo na battle."
Now, he said, "the main idea is to avoid  losing a campaign."
He said that while Acheson has set, no "deadline" for conclusion of the Paris meeting, "still we feel that by June 15 we should know where we stand" and whether it will be worth hlle to continue the talks.
Mr.  Acheson  cannot   afford    to remain away from Washington too he said.
Sergeant York Suffers Stroke
PaU Mall, Tenn,, May 7. (UP) —Sgt Alvin C. York. 61, Ameri¬ ca's most famous World War I hero, suffered a mild stroke Thursday but promptly rallied, it was  disclosed  today.
It was reported that the right side of York's face was partial¬ ly paralyzed and as a result he had difficulty in talking. How¬ ever, he was said to have re¬ covered his vigor and was able to leave his house here for a walk   tnday.
York, Uien just a s'^nglin'i doughboy from Ttiiut-.tsee, won acclaim for his single-handed capture of an entire German machine gun compan}' In World War  I.
\Ponder Vif inner of Kentucky Derby- \Just Like Father
Louisville, Ky., May 7. (UP) —Ponder, the fast running son of a speedy flither, won the Kentucky Derby today, just as his daddy did flve years ago.
He wasn't expected to win—that gold and glory was to have gons to Olympia—but he came through in the stretch to do It, just like his father. Pensive, who shot out in front in the flnal yards from home to win the blanket of roses In 1944.
It was an old story In Derby history—Calumet Farms and Ben Jones again. Warren Wright's in his ninth start as a three-year- wealthy stable and his canny old old, didn't need that kind of break.
BIGGEST BAnLE
British Leaders Arriving to Plan Defense of Hongkong
Shanghai, Sunday, May 8. (UP) The biggest battles alnce the fall of Nanking appeared to bs shap¬ ing up both West and South of Shanghai today as Nationalist and Ckjmmunist     forces    jockeyed   'for
trainer did what very few had ex¬ pected.
For Olympia, a colt which had beat everything in sight this year with one exception, was a 4 to
He just turned on the speed with
a clear field aheaij and set sail for
the wire.   From that point on there
was  nothing in  the    fleld    of    14
¦)! horses to oatch him In this seventh
favorite to  win.    But    the    Fred running of the Derby.
Hooper colt ran out of gas at the head of the stretch and that's where Ponder turned on the speed. Olympa had shot his bolt and C^pot passed him to take aecond place with Palestinian third. Just Like 1944
But otherwise Ponder did It like his daddy—he ran the mile and a quarter in the same time, 2:041-5. He paid more money than his father—$34, $11,60 and $6,20 across the board. HLs daddy had paid only $14.20 to win.
It  was  the  same  setting  as   In     Greentree  Stables'    Cabot    paid
Report Movie Planned    I Near Meyers High School
A  modern  movie house  for  the said they were not in a posiUon to
The rompany, which draws on every state for supplies and equip¬ ment, announced plans to close 181 ».jto and truck assembly plants by* May 18 If the strike continues. Till- plants employ 26,000 persons, 1V>,7S0 Auto .Men idle Some   13.5,750  were  Idle  through-1
out  Ihe  auto   industry  in    strikes                    _^	
«nd Isyoffs.    -The Ford  shutdowns I rapidiv"dcve"lop'lnir'Vinvii^d 7e.!ti^"n ^com at"pr^Vnt"
-iirectly  or  Indirectly    wlll    affect j^   reported   being  studied   by   the:    Only  other   theaters  In  the  ln.-|
C-omerford  theater  interests. mediate   vicinity   are   independent'
art in mi,nv ..mnm..nin«.     sv.„..f     Several sources verified that the houses. They are the Crystal The¬ set in many .ommun.ties.    About theater  interests   had  purchased   a ^ter. Bainey street, and the Roxy.
plot of land on Hanover street, be-:£,jyjj,ij,j, gtreet, Lee Park, tween Carey avenue and Old River! Recent sale ' by the Comerford Road, and in addition had pur- firm of property it owned at the chased a double-dwelling on Old jend of Carey avenue, in a develop- River Road, adjacent to the vacant i„g businesa section, was accepted P'ot. i by   several   persons   close   to   the-
The site, opposite Meyers High atrical circles as a sign that the School and its .stadium, would per- Comerford people had decided the mit the construction of a neighbor- Carey-Hanover-Old River Road hood-type   theater   with   entrances larea was more central  for the.iter
Top State Department *]ram8 are problem is taken up by the foreign working up "position" papers on a ministers.
i.iindreds   of   tliousands   more   and (ause  a  tremendous  economic   Im-
OOO  of   the   idle   st   other   com-
nie.i  were  rxpccted  to  return  to
ork   .Monday   biit   the   spreading
par,ily»|s  of  the   Ford   strike  soon
would offset  that  number.
.Som^ Ford plant.s and several of the 3.r)00 companies which sell Ford s billion dollars worth of equipment annually already had flosed or laid off men. The 3,500 suppliers    employ    about    250,000.
HOUSE GROUP SAYS CIO, AFL REJECT
TAFT'S NEW PLANS
on    both   Carey   avenue   ^nd   Old 'expansion.
of   town,   and   other   official.i as a theater location.
^nh!,*',''*'''"¦  '"^° "7" ^'"iRiver  Road,  it *as  Indicated, run  short of  --^rs  «nd  parts,  em-     j    j    o'Leary,   president   of  the ploy  another  100,000. Comerford  interests,  was  reported
Henry  Ford   II.   company  presi- out
dent, said in a letter to the strikers'	
that "a lot of other people, sooner' of later, will be affected," '• He  said  ho  did   not   understand the  strike,   which   the  UAW  called (Continued on Page A-2)
Plentiful parking space, plus good tran.sportatlon service, also pointed out as attributes of the site
IS SURE TO PASS  FOR LABOR BILL
JAMES A. BONE HURT IN NORTH MAIN CRASH
James A. Bone, 19. of 402 North Washington street, city, was In¬ jured in a two-car collision at North Mata street and Hollenback svenuc, city, this morning at 12:30, He was taken to General Hospital By Jerry Meighan, address not otitrd, and attaches reported that fi^" or six stitches would be used to close a laceration on the left side   of   Bone's   scalp.    Bone   was
ving H brand new Nash, e  was  one  of two  persons  In
car owned by Wayne Tompkins of .''locum township, cily police reported. Driver of thV other ¦ehirle   viah   not   Identified   pend
Dunmor Killed by Car
Gaetano Calio, 74, of 128 Smith street, Dunmore, was killed In¬ stantly last night when hit. by a car while crossing Drinker street, Dunmore.  in the 400 block.
Dunmore police said that the aged man suffered a crushed chest, l^ead and eye injuries and faclured arms and legs.
The -operator   of   the   car   wa.s^^^^^  ^^  President  Truman's   pro identifled   as   Steve   E.   Jason   of
T GRASS ROOTS TEST
Special Election Of Congressman Has Taft-Hartley Issue
Harrisburg, May 7 (UP)—Penn¬ sylvania may give the nation Its first "gra.ss roots" te.st of senti¬ ment on  the Slst Congress'  trcat-
Compared with Earlier Proposals, New Cost Would Be Negligible
Washington, May 7. (UP^—Key members of the House Veterans Ck)mmlttee think they have found a compromise pension formula which is sure to pass Congress and almast certainly win an okay from President Truman.
Although the plan calls for $72 monthly pensions for needy 65- year-old veterans of both World wars, they said the cost—compared to that of earlier pension pro¬ posals—would  be negligible.
The committee goes Into closed session on the veterans pension i.ssue Tuesday. Chairman John E. Rankin, D., Miss., predicted to¬ night the group would approve a pension bill "In some form" by the end of next week.
It was learned that House mem¬ bers who helped kill an earlier pension bill have been pressing the committee to "I ring out a bill we can vote for." Committee members said they are ready, after weeks of hearings, to comply. Fanfare Omitted
1944 when Calumet and old  Plain
Ben shot with Pensive.
Pensive wasn't supposed to have much of a chance either, for Stirup waa almost 6n even money choice. But when Eddie Arcaro, who was up on the once-mighty Olympia today, thought Broadcloth was col¬ laring him in the stretch that day, he swung his mount wide—nnd Pensivp s 7 to 1 . chclc*, xhrt through on the rail to win
$9.60  and  $5.80.  while   Palestinian, second  choice  In  the  betting,    re¬ turned  $4.80  to  ahow. Olympia Fades Badly
Ol.vmpi.f finished sixth, fading badly after leading until shortly after the mile mark was passed. Old Rockport was fourth and Half flfth.
Ponder went under the wire thTe JfT.st^K fl-.tmd of Catot. The
i_   nn  v~T.   w through on the rail to win. Ib-Uff'  wn«   {«.i.--«r.H.,.t.«if  i.n.Tthn^
iwstb:"!
But Administration's Bill Is Expected to Be Beaten in Senate
Washington, May 7 (UP)—The eno and AFL today rejected Sen Robert A. Taft's new labor bill proposals.
"The new Taft labor bill is a re enactment of the Taft-Hartley Act making only relatively trivial con^ cessions  to labor,"  said CIO CJen^ eral Counsel Arthur J. CJoldberg.
The so-called Taft amendments were drafted by the Ohio Republi¬ can and Sens. Forrest C. Donnell, R,, Mo,, and H. Alexander Smith, R., N. J., as a minority report on the administration Taft-Hartley re¬ peal bill approved by the Senate labor committee. Republican Sens. Wayne Morse, Ore., and George Aiken, 'Vt. did not sign the minori¬ ty report.
"Apparently." the AFL Political League said, "this substitute is not very good sines Morse and Aiken refused to give their blessing or aignature to the bill or its accom¬ panying report."
The AFL called It Taft's "version
Tv.«., — .i   rz iU . .1,    „„.«.«if   of   the   Halleck-Wood   bill"   which They predicted that the commit- 	
;gram.
Dunmore.   He   was   held   in   $3,000     xhe  test  shaped  up  late yeater-
tee will accept a compromise plan
b y
the House voted 212 to 209 to send back   to   its   labor  committee   last
proposed     without     fanfare     " .-i«.'...i««.,.i.„ Rankin several days ago. | Wednesday.
Rankin Introduced three new! Despite labor oppostion, some pension bills, based on a sin^e I Southern Democratic senators be- idea but varying In detail.   Instead | gan   falling   Into   line   behind   the
K   rompletion   of   the   investiga-1''"'I   «">   »   charge   of   involuntary jday   when   both    Republican    and of providing a new pension law the ITaft   amendments.
jDemocratic candidates names were bHu    would    liberalize-and    write B.»Td Buck Taft
'manslaughter.
Nanticoke Has Enough of Street Blocked by Strike-Stuck Derrick
certified by the state election bureau to appear on the ballot in a special congressional election in the 26th district, comprising Cam¬ bria, Indiana and Armstrong counties. The two candidates will seek  to
the coke's    business    district    for    the past  five  weeks   may  be   removed oy city authorities tomorrow wlth-
hJ 1 tu**"' '""'"'*• 7ri-foot-boom I entirely to cities and boroughs, fj]] the unexpired term of Rep. orrrick that has blocked the main We have no authority to onforccJRobert L. Coffey jr., D., Johnstown nighway   in   the   heart   of   Nanti- the   rules  which   govern  traffic  in Lho was killed in a jet plane c
Nanticoke   or   any   other   munici-|^prii 20 at Albuquerque, N. M, pa"ty' The   Democratic   state   executive
out obj   u        f the rtate de- gi^^n Z''o«l':u':ZT^J.Jn^^^^^^^^
•X.ray'^' d^lSrnt     officials ^ IL^r ""pUlir "^^^ ¦""¦ ^°" ^"' -°'^"   ''^   "^   '^^^   ^^"-^-'™^"' pfloriy a permit was Issued to block ^     i.-An    appeal   to   the     - *j>i3 or any other highway In Nan- teamsters   bf   Local   401,   who filroke   over   any   length   of   time  ithe   crane  on   the  stieet  April
;•';_ department issues permits for, when    the    truck    drivers'    str.Kc     p^.,i„   vr^th.w.,    Carlisle
into law—regulations under which the Veterans Administrstion al¬ ready Is granting $72 monthly pen¬ sions t9 most needy veterans at age 65,
Under the regulations the veteran must show a non-service-tonnected
disability of  at  least  10 per cent
, .,,  ^ . , .    , .He must be jobless and his income
who waa killed in a jet plane crash i^ust not exceed $1,000 If single or
$2,500 if he has dependents. Would L'p Income Bar The   new   Rankin   bills,
excavations   only sized  last night
it   was   empha- involving    C, struction   Co,,
F. B,
Republicans   previously  had   select
striking.gj  John P. Saylor,  Johnstown  at-
left *.„«««.. torney.
,      .  .,  ¦ Test for Ijibor drivers     strike      p^.,ip   Mathews,
Sen. Harry F. Byrd. D., Va., a leader of the conservative South¬ ern bloc, said he intended to sup¬ port them. But he indicated that he had some reservations on the emergency strike section,, which would authorize federal seizure of plants.
Sen. Allen J. Ellender. D., La., former labor committee member who helped draft the Taft-Hartley Law, said he is studying the Taft amendments with a view to joining
garrison communl- bilantly claimed government successes at Quinsan (Kungshan), SO miles west of Shanghai, and at Kashing, TO miles to the southwest. But today's in¬ dications were much less optimis¬ tic.
Last night's communique admit¬ ted the Reds severed all communi¬ cations and transportations at Kashing by sending "plainclothes men" into the outskirts of the city.
"The communique said three Red divisions (an estimated 30,000 men) had been thrown back with heavy losses In direct assaults on Kashing. However today's veil of silence surrounding activities In the area was Interpreted as mean¬ ing the Kashing situation was crit¬ ical—^r worse.
The American Navy has evacu¬ ated the Tsingrtao shore base, but a U. S. squadron, including two cruisers and 10 destroyers, is an¬ chored off the city, within artillery range of the shore.
British army and navy chiefs in the Far East arrived Saturday in the China-coast colony of Hong¬ kong—"Gibraltar of the Far East" —to plan its defense against any possible Chinese Ommunist attack.
The British government an¬ nounced in London that two cruis¬ ers, three frigates and a squadron of spitfire fighter planes had been ordered to Hongkong to strength¬ en the defenses of the strategic crown colony.
(Moscow newspapers gave promi¬ nent display today to a Chinese Communist statement demanding that "England, tha United States and Frances . . . withdraw war¬ ships, warplanes and other armed forces from . . . China's lands and seas, and no longer aid the enemies of CSna's people ia the civil war.")
Meanwhile, Shang'hai authorities continued their clean-up of fifth columnists and criminals In the Chinese metropolis. The execution Saturday of tive burglars b|ought to 17 the number who had died before Chinese-style flring squads since Thursday.
The executions are held publicly, before large crowds, at any of sev¬ eral points around Shanghai. The condemned man is forced to kneel with his hands bound behind him, or is strapped Into a chair and is killed by bullets flred into the back of bis head at short range.
New Snows Due in West as SpringCrowsMoreNormal
(Joeringer G.    Coon
Con- Con-
Democratic chairman, aaid that the! election will  be  "a very good  test
making these regulations law would elimi¬ nate the 10 per cent disability re-im their sponsorship quirement. In addition thev would' He said he expected the adminis- boost the income limitation forj tration bill to be "snowed under" single men from $1000 to $1.20o'in the Senate. He thought 14 to 22 i annually. : senators  would  vote  to  retain  es-
state:    Tlie veterans Administration says,sential provisions of the Taft-Hart-
Chicago, May 7 (UP)—Tempera¬ tures fell from record-breaking heights in the eastern half of the country today. Snowstorms swept through part of the Rocky Moun¬ tain area and rain, hall and floods followed a tornado in Texas.
Spring, the CThicago weather bureau said, was returning to a more normal career in most parts of the country.
A mass of cool air broke a three- day spring heat wave in the Middle West and spread Its relief to the Atlantic Coast, where a record 93 degrees hit New York City yester¬ day. More Snow Coming
More snow was predicted for southern Wyoming and western Colorado, an area battered by the huge blizzards of the past winter, Snowshovcls and snowplows were in use again after a snowfall yes¬ terday.
A   tornado   took   two   lives   last
Valley Scene
Twn women sitting under hair dryers of an Asknm beauty shop for three hours when power was cut off hy Friday  night'a  storm.
Two Hazleton bunivess men getting stuck in water-filled area of Biackman street — hut getting taste of Wilkes- Barre hospitalitii when resi¬ dents came to rescue, pushed thevi out and got ear going again.
Patrolman in valley town asking chief of police: "Do j/OM want me to pick up the money if your horse comes in?'
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"Through Traffic" stop sign in Hanover township now stopping only ove type of motor vehicle—the valleu's last trolley —at intersection of Lee Park .avenue and St. Mary's Road.
night in the small south plains town of Sundown, Tex. That storm was followed by torrential rains, hall and high vrinds in the Texas Panhandle and south plains. A flood built up in Lubbock, Texas, where one woman waa electrocuted by a wet circuit.
A fourth death was attributed to the Texas storm near Loralne when a bus overturned in a driv¬ ing rainstorm, killing an oil com¬ pany employee.
Authorities estimated Texas crop and property damage in tha thousands of dollara.
An overnight downpour of flve inches of rain swelled into a flood four feet deep in some Lubbock residential areas. Many persons could not get to work and business was disrupted. The city has no storm sewer system.
Heavy Hailstorm
A heavy hailstorm tore up vir¬ tually all of the crops on some farms near Hereford, Tex. The mid-afternoon storm left piles of hailstones three feet high in some spots.
In the Rocky Mountain area, strong cold winds ripped fruit trees in Utah, but it was too early In the growing season to determine the damage. A gust of wind killed Paul J. Ordener, 23. who fell from his work at the top of a 75-foot oil well derrick.
YUGOSLAVS JAIL FOUR CATHOLIC NUNS
Belgrade. Yugoslavia, May 7. (UP)—Four Catholic nuns were sentenced to from two to five years at hard labor on charges of war¬ time treason, the Republican gov- I ernment of Slovenia announced to^ jday.
I The announcement said the four (Catholic sisters were found guilty |of supplying information on Partf- Ison movements to the Italian army in Yugoslavia.
Battle of Static
61 Allied Radios Beam at Russia And Reds Use 100 to Jam Airwaves
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State Not Objecting struction Co. and the Sordoni Con- adherenco of labor to Pres-
This was  in answ-r lo previous- struction   Co    was   declared °^ the adnerence oi  laoor lo r-rcs
]y   publi,,hrd   r^nnrt   whirh    inHl-     o     i ".r°'  ,^.*^ ..'''^'¦'"f.., „.._  IIdcut  Truman'so   policies,'
Importance    of    the    by-election
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ley Law.
ru. P"^''''^'^.'^   "port   which   Indi-     2,-An appeal to the actual own
rated  tho  city  wanted  the derrick  ers  of  th..  pnninrnpnt    or - ,     •    j   ».
removed  from  it. main  artery but    " _^.u,.   „«'?."'P,'"^"'.:..°';:„„„   „,.„ was   also emphasized   by   appear
could   not   act   hecause   a   permit    _  	
.   t 3.—City  officials   may  hook   city ^ ,,      riomnrratic  exeiutivr
not   act   hecause   a   permit trucks and other eauinment to the ^""^^   "'   "'^   Uemocratic   exeiuii\e ^vaa obtained  from the state high- dVrrrrkand to«^rtoTvaca°t ^ "^"^""*^   of   Victor   H.
"t^o.v    department    at    Harrisburg,ior tield '°   Harding, national secretary ot  the
¦•N'anticoke    city    authorities = Won't interfere Democratic      congressional      cam-
nould enforce the rules and regu-:    "They'd  know what to do If aniP^'S^ committee, ¦'ions the same as they do when autoSileorTruTk I locked a city     The   by-election   may   have   na-, , stalled   car   or   truck   Is   found Roadway''    the    hUXdeprrt^tionwide   significance   m   view   of 'It"king a road," the highwav de- „,ent  spokesman   Iddcd    ''and   re-'™ne'-''Ssional refusal to accept the
'Zr:f\   -r""'^^^,   ^^"/"r^.'ScsTo'Tha? mttt Zi IL'fl •'-^t^an^AaX I^^w^^X -nt of traffic  regulations is left highway   department   .vil.   not   in- tojepeal '¦^'^^'^«^««,t;^„i^^,„^
NantirokeSouthern   l^emocrats   has   insisted
2 Dead, 2 Hurt In Car-Truck Crash
PRESIDENT OF BOLIVIA QUITTING HIS POST
La   Paz,   Bolivia,  May  7   (UP) — President   Enrique   Hertzog   today
delegated his powers to Vice-Presi-,       „ .,  . ., .    .^        u      _
dent Mamerto Urriolagoitla on the     New York, May 7. (UP)-Britain:apparently    got    through    on grounds of failing health. and    the    United     States     b^°^<=i^hannels   and   BBC   on   flv»^
Hertzog's   cabinet   resigned   in  ,ithrough the Soviet jamming of the Frankfurt, Germany. Army offit^^^ .    . ¦ B n  »|jjj|.^^ygg j^ay in a full-scale tech- said   the   powerful    armed    forces
'^' inological "war" to capture the at-1 network  definitely  broke    through
tention  of  Russian  radio  listeners.!the  barrage to tell  Russian Itstan- The   battle  of  words  and  static!ers  that the  lifting of  the Berlin
blockade marked a set-back for the Soviet Union. In London, BBC officials said tba
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Two passengers were killed ami the driver of the car Is unconscioiia and critical in a hospitsl as a re¬ sult of a head-on collision between an automobile and truck on Route 209 near East Stroudsburg yester-
see  a  large  boo!rbeh,'/to"wed"bvon"a'more  con-servative   labor  lawlday afternoon at 4:45. ,  ^
rtractor   and   ?hrcc   flre   t'ucUs than   the   Wagner  Act,   which   the     Driver of the car, Daniel Coun-
partment    trucks    tomorrow,    they lollows  Son's  Mand „iH ir^""" ""'=""''= f?'^'Mtrouds
will   know   thnt   rItv  officials  were      -Mrs. (Joffey, in a atatement, said in CJeneral Hosp tal.  East Strouas UnableTo mak.   , nv hfadwl^v "wtth .he would strive to finUh the work|burg.    His   brotU   Walter   Co"-
'l^aVrr"'""  -"''''''" "^ ^"r^ ^TcrnUnu^ed^nC^Al,""  "1^^^^^^^Van"iuCm ed over ,1.200 damag. to Ul. trucU.
South C>Jurlland avenue, both of East Strouds'barg, died soon after being  taken  to  hospitals.
According to State Troopers P. G, Potter and D. J. Henzey of Stroudsburg Barracks, the car was travelling in a reckless manner as it swung to the wrong side of the road at a curve and plunged head- on into a truck operated by Ray¬ mond- Niper. Parryville, Carbon county. The latter suffered a slight cut over the eye, but police report-
Czech Beer Signs Mar U.S. Memorial
Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, May 7. (UP)—Two large, freshly paint¬ ed billboards advertising beer were put up overnight on either side of the manument to Amer¬ ican soldiers who liberated tills. town   four  years   ago  Friday,
Some 20 laborers went to work shortly after dark last night. Police had been posted at the small park all day Friday to keep Czechs from placing flow¬ ers on the monument and four stood on each corner of plot  today.
Reliable, but officially uncon¬ firmed reports said at least 50 Czechs who tried to lay flowers there during the past three dayi had been arrested. Last year the park was buried under flowers and American and Brit¬ ish  tlajf
'began at 10; 15 a.m. (EDT> when the State Department's Voice ot America, the British Broadcasting Corporation and the U. S. armed forces network in Europe threw ali available equipment into action in an effort to carry the West's ver¬ sion of the Berlin blockade to the Russian public lor the first time in two weeks.
The   western    broadcasters    took
first reports showed 25 per cent of the frequencies used were clear of Interference. Of the remaining TB per cent, BBC said, about ons-thlrd were free of hiterference part of the time while the other two-thirda encountered "severe" interfarenca. BBC  officials   said  they  tboofht
the occasion of National Radio Day this was a good showing, in Russia to start the offensive of; ^[^^ ¦Voice of America the  ether.    The  "Voice"  and   BBC,
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    said   that  25  BBC  traannlt-
beamed 61 short-wave transmitters,; [grs    and    38    Volpe    tnuumMUrS the    all on different ohannels, at Russia, vtrere   uaed.
The Soviets, who had heen jam-, ..y,,^ jj^oke through all right In ming western prosrsms with 60 our' first jcint effort," he said. ''We stations'since April 24. retaliated ,„prc clearly audible on a number by putting at least 100 jamming of frequencies. It looks as though transmitters to wo.'k, a Voice of the jammers were paying more at- Amerlca official  suid. tention   to   the   Voice   tha«   BBC.
Tell of Blockade  Ending They  were  a  lot   rougher  on  us.
'    Despite   Russian    counter - meas-.    "We    got    through    about    on*- lures,   the  ofllcial   said,   the   Voice! (Continued on Pa«a ArS>
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