Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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43RD YEAR, NO. 22 — 48 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 1949
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Canal Travel Outmoded More than a Century But Last Lock Remains at West Nanticoke
Congress Croup Disagrees On New Rent Control Bill
Approves Extension But Balks at  Pair Return to Landlords
Washington, March 26. (UP)—House-Senate conferees today agreed to extend rent controls for another 16 months, but they failed to write a complete bill for Congress bo aot on before present rent controls expire next Thursday midnight.
The conferees brolte up their meeting after a stormy 4%-lhour session, announcing they liad not decided how to word a elauae In tiie bin to provide a "fair" money return for landlords.
Both Chairman Brent Spence, D., Ky., of the House committee and Ohairman Burnet R. Maybank, D.,     Transient  hotels—thoe#  with   7.5
The last of this region's caiml locks, at West Nanticoke, is the only reminder of a transporta¬ tion era long since past and for which present canal bond-holders last week agreed to an extension of due dates to June 1, 1950.
The mortgage bonds issued to finance and operate the canal wjjre ^ior the Ponnsylvsnln snd New *York" Canal and Railroad Co., a predecessor of the Lehigh
strips of iron. All mortar ap¬ pears to have been washed away. Valley Railroad which at present is effectuating a debt readjust¬ ment plan whereby payments amounting to $1,500,000 can be paid  some  time  Ihis  year.
The lock at West Nanticoke, as part of the North Branch Cansl psrflUeling the S'lsrjup- hanna Kiver. ts still bound to¬ gether    In    the    platform   areds
by pari oi the North Branch Canal system which extended tVom this region to the New York line, a distance ot more than 100 miles, the canal paseed trom the scene with the advent ot the railroad in 1820. How¬ ever a canal boat was seen pass¬ ing through Shickshinny shortly hefore t.h«; ,ti'rn o» fhe centurv even though the system had been abandoned years before.
S.C, of the Senate committee told
reporters they were in a complete
deadlock   over   the   "fair"   return
provision.
Meet Agsin Monday
They said the representatives from both Houses ot Congress would meet again Monday in an effort to work out a compromise bill so that Congress can act to prevent rent controls from lapsing.
Even if the conference committee does agree on a single bill, it then must be approved by the Senate, the House and President Truman before it  becomes  law.
The major provisions in the com¬ promise bill that already have been agreed on would (1) Extend rent controls tor 15 months, or until July 1, 1950; and (2) Restore rent ceilings at the Oot. 81. 1948. level on permanent accommodations in r.f'J t7aJ"r'''nt hosft*;! <n Ne^/ Yr.-V City and Chicago.
'The conference bill defined non- transient   hotels   as   thoee   having less than 75 per cent ot their rooms day-to-day basis on Oct. 31, And,  it stipulated Ihat ceil- wouW apply only to rooms in hotels which were classified as "permanent units" on that date.
per  cent or  more  o.t their rooms
rented on a daily basis as of Oct.
31,   1948—would   be   freed   ef   any
controls.
Battie on "Fair Return"
The big issue still remaining was how to provide a bigger money return for landlords. The House bill would gruarantee a "fair re¬ turn" tor landlords withdut specify¬ ing any limit on rent increases The Senate voted bwo automatic rent boosts of five per cent each during the next year.
As he left the conference. May- bank said bluntly that the Senate group "offered to give up every- thhig on this but they (the House members) -won't give up a thing."
Another Senate member. Sen. Ralph Flanders, R., Vt, said "it's not a good thing to have all the stubbornness on one side." - ^pe.Tj—, jis5' Hcvne ?B^"\r,T..'>.T' sairi he would meet with his group pri¬ vately early Monday morning to try and cut their demands before meeting with the senators later in the day. Yi^d on Duration
The Senate conferees yielded to the House on the duration ot the (Continued on Page A-2)
$1.8 Billion ArmsProject For Europe
Part of Military Plan to Hold Reds; Certain of Bitter Battle in Congress
(UP>— depart-
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Valley Mines ""'%^'^"f/»»,S''""^/ '"i
'' Tax Anyftung   Law for   in _	
Ready to ^oal Tax for Mine Caves TArrwiAYRAPK    lUniKF MAI
* Harrisburg,    March    2e- iUP)—,sured  the  commonwealth  of more   I'li   I   Ilini   UnUil ;IIU«JUL   IlirlJ
III j     MM I The Republican adminislration has ithan   $1,000,000,000   In   revenues   '"   .jw—.^^   ¦¦II  I  mil   AIIT   ir*i/lilTn  nr'nr* I I    Af"
WOiKmOnOfly oSIf^^^^ IyIILLION CUI IFIGniS REPEAL Or
i'   light   mine   cave-In*   and   under-: the gasoline levj'—to  five cents a !
IN MARSHALL PLAN lAFI-HARTLEY ACT
Harrin^burg, March 2e- iUP)—.sured the commonwealth Oif more The Republican adminislration has! than $1,000,000,000 In revenues in held up lis revision of the 1947 local Uhe next two years.
Tax Anything" law until coai mine The only new tax in the group openitorg agree on a program to was the one cent a gallon t^ost in light   mine   cave-In*   and   under-: the gasoline levj'—to  five cents a
All  coal  companies  of the local l K'°'»'f «"•"'. ,      ,    ^ . ^'^Jl""' l^^^'l^f, •'""", .^-      ,     »
Rr.a have their mines in shape for' Coal operators already have met The other bills con mue tor two resumption of work^ lomorro*.-.'«'"h Hoy. James H. Duff once n,more year, levies on liquor, manu- I^aders of the United Mine Work-;"" ^'^f^P^ '" ^'"^'^ «>"' "¦ •"itable facturers   capital  slocks   cigarets,
night control program. corporate net income, public utility
Until the operators agree on some gross receipts and soft drinks.
Shavertown Highway Wall Falls
Spring   thaws   yesterday   oaused to seed  this  cut. to prevent such
t^t?   4.31 >va& ^.:yr*.tr.   Ijaul^ii'rf.vti-.-f? 'trn">la^ *nr,.vear^.
Washington, March 36. The State and Defense ments have prepared a $1,800,01)0,000 arms program for western Buro(p« and other free nations as the down- payment on a long-range military program to resist Communist ag¬ gression.
Administration officials revealed today that the arms program, drafted for congressional aotion In mid-April, contains approximately $1,200,000,000 for western Bhiropeaa nations signing the North Atlantic Treaty.
The    remainder   of   the    fund*
would   be   earmarked   for   use   in
¦J^ Greeqe, Turkev. Iran, Latin Amer-
to tumble from Its moorings onto thc shoulders of the Harvey's Lake Highway east of the Center street intersection  In  Sliavertowm.
Tha'ws also caused mud and stone to flow and cover a portion ot the highway beyond Dallas near Castle Inn, necessitating the block¬ ade ot one lane on the four-lane highway by Pennsylvania highway department officials. The highway department has been promising to
The above picture appeared in the Sunday Independent six months ago when the concrete wall, right, vras separated by earth pushing the barricade. At that time, at¬ tention waa called to the danger of the wall toppling onto the high¬ way in the face ot automobiles.
Yesterday the stone wall which serves aa a continuation of the con¬ crete wall, tell apart, permitting earth and stone behind it to loosen on the side of the highway.
The     measure     continuing    the
ers'   organization   said   lasl
the rank and file would report 100,, ... .    ,¦ ^.     ¦ ^
per   cent   since   no   producer   had "<,'"<» "' P'^of'"" '<> f'«^*^t "l'"^ »"^   „ „ ,,  „ .
notified  the  union  ot Ita  inabilltvisidence^ and subterranean tires, Oie    emergency . one-half cent  a  pint
10   gel   back    into   production   on admini.stratibfl   planso  lo   keep  the lax  on  beer  m  -
Monday morning.
But it looks like a four-day work
dispute between proposed revision of the law- in- Ihe House and Senate over a pro- cludlng  a  ban  on  nearly  all  coal posed  five oent j«fund to brewers
10% Slash of All Spending Plans Can Avoid Tax Increase
laxes--in committee.
Washington,   March   26.
for "breakage." The Senate tacked j gen.   Robert  A.  Taft,  R.
(UP) O.   said
Southern Democrats Lining up Again With Republicans
Washington,   March  26 House   Republicana   and
(UP) Southern
Afw^nL;    <-^!f^iM!..    ^«il   ,,,      '''''*'   administrations  aLtemiit  to on an ammendment providing theLo^ja     ^e  may  back  a  Republican!Democrats   were   lining   up   their Allocation    (.ommittee    meets    to- ,„„.,   „„, „ ..,_„j„.. .„ ..lo ln.-;il Inur rehnten   but  the  Houae  refused  to .   .-   .._=_.   .;,.-...   .„= .i.,^../.^     I*«,„«.   ^.jo,.  f«,  .   j-i-,.: v-tti«
morrow to determine the schedule.
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Presidentj   of  Districts   1.
and  9
highlighted   last   week's
in  the  legislature. .;.T  rne  umwa notiiiea  meir meni-  jf„   ^^.^   Bi,,,   p^gej
•i*ership.  however,  that  Friday,  the     Cnmm^tl^^^   in   both   1 anniversary of thc  eight-hour-day.
work out a "trade" on the local law rebates,  but the Houae  refused to
;if the UMWA notified their mem-
aclivitics agree.
Fight for FEPC BUI
Rep. Hiram G. Andrews, Johns-if^^ similar cuts in all government Commillee.s   in   both   the   House town,   Democratic   floor   leader   ln|gp.;„(jj„_ measures.
f
should    be   observed away from work."
Thfre  arc some  exsepllotis.
".Ml   tho.se   who.se   dallies   require
•by   st^yng employment practices and  teacher charge ot the labor relations cpm- ' salaries,  but   no  major  bills  were mittee's  consideration  of  fair em- approved, ployment   practices   legislation. The administrallon believes mine Andrews  said  he  would   ask   for
move to trim about $568,000,000— forces today for a delaying battle or 30 per cent —trom the Marshall lagainst repeal ot the Taft-Hartley Plan   renewal  bill   as   a precedent I Act
The   resurgent  coalition,   consid¬ ered   dead   only  a  few  4k.ya  ago, pinned its hopes  for delay on the House rules conunittee. The   Southern    Democratic   and
Taft, chairman of the GOP policy committee, told reporters a 10 per Lent acrots-the-board cut In spend¬ ing migh
thern to work on ^pril  1. sich as operators will accept a one or two discharge of the committee unless "^°^'-^'^"™^^ '**'^ "Can't Be Bottled Up
firemen, pumpmen,  repairmen, en-,cent  a ton  tax on  all  coal  mined an FEPC were reported to the floor ''';y^'"^'""" '*" increase. Under  procedures  adopted   early
gineers. etc.. are exe.mpt from this in the slate in return for abolition of of the House or Senate for a vote!    "It would afford money for sug-1^,1,   year,   the   House   rules   com- order," a letter sent all local unions,local taxes. The yield from the stale by Monday. gtsted^ new programs, such as tiiejnjj^ee   no   longer   has   power   to
said. tax   would   be   used   by   the   state     The Senate will take up the ad- '        *     '"¦-'-    - —->-- —
The hard coal Industry will thus mines department to fight subsid-i ministration's labor program. The be at another standstill Friday to ences by flushing abondoned hard House approved three bills boosting give the rank and file an oppo'tu-j coal mines and put out fires in the i unemployment compensation, work- r.ity "to demonstrate our solidarity I bituminous regions by shrfacc strip-! men's compensation and occupa- as an organization  and cur confi-1 ping. i Uonal   disease   benefiU   by  28  per
dence In the intelligent statesman-'    Some operators, however, are re- cent.
like   leadership . of   our   president, ported  to  favor  a voluntary  plan.!    Unions   have   UtUe   hope   of   In- 	
John   L.    Lewis,    and    our   other     ResidenUs of ihe anthqracitc re- creasing   the   benefits   but   Demo-jman,  and  Democratic  leaders will'need   a  "breathing  space"  to  line 'officers."   the   'etter   to   ttie   localgion have threatened to "march on crats plan to introduce liberalizing o.ipose any reduction.   Vandenberg, up   their   forces   and   settle   upon
take some steam out of i^^PubUcan members on that group are in a clear majority.
arms-for-Europe plan if authorized bottle up legislation  as long as it t?y  (3oingres8,  and  avert a tax  in- wishes. But it can keep a bill from
crease which thoae programs might
entail."  Taift said  of the proposed
cut
Vandenberg Opposed
But Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg,
getting to the House  floor  for at least three weeks.
Opponents ot the Taft-Hartley repealer said they do not want to stall  off   consideration   of  the  bill
Mich.,  GOP foreign policy spokes-indefinitely. But they admitted they
Unions declared.
IHarrisburg" unless the state pas.ses amendments similar  lo those that'slready has said he is againit " a .sub-sidence relief program. were defeated in the House. straet  or  horizontal   reductions"
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CRIPPLED CHILDREN WILL GET MORE ROOM
I u.   I     i!    „,!!..„  f>i»>.. riie   admiuislration'.s   toll   bridge,
S^udy  *''^^"f'"^J'"'» „,.^„^,^.. „ bill;., designed to free the 10 intra- Hou.se  and  Senate  appioprlation ,„„„„   .„?  exnected  to  s.tart'
commillees are rushmg completion ^
'°    ''^^1':.     ."''„L°..,„'^%i'^r;"rv .Monda.v.   The   house   already   has
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"ab- strategj'.
in     Chairman     John     Lesinski,
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D.,
Harrisburg.    March    27.    (UP) - propo.sed expenditures for the next;^^
„t   o„- twn vears   The  general  appropria- aPP™vea   u.e   j^ii/b'"'"-
The   state   health   department   an- two years. The general appropr nounced toda^ an additionki ward tion   bill  is  expected   lo   bc   Intro- will be opened lo permit accept.mce; duced   in   the   next   two   or   three of  'JO   more   patients   at   thc   State weeks.
Ho.spital     for    Crippled     Children, ¦    The CJovernor's approval of seven Elizabethtown,  Pa. of the eight "emergency" taxes as-
U. S. RADIO CHARGES SOVIET PRISON CAMPS
Atomic 'Research Patient' Finally Succumbs at 75
State in Auto License Squabble
:    Berlin,   March   26   (UP) i American-controlled   radio
New    York,    March    '26    iUP)— the   pelvic  cancer,   although  it  ab-
Henry  Noble Hall   76   inlernation-, sorbed   some   of   the   radio-active
KILLED   80,000   GERMANS ally-linown writer and lecturer who drug. There were other effects. His
_   Th    became  a  "human  guinea pig"  m, forearms    became    covered    with
.lthe  study  of  atomic  treatment  of I thick hair which also appeared on
• J  .    • u.  .u ..  on «,^V^°"!cancer    died    todav   at   Memorial i his legs and abdomen. It stirred his
Rias  said  tonight that 80,000  Pf^-l^^^Z'i,} ipancreas to life again and relieved
With Maryland, Washington, D.C ;E-HH" =""=™k'^^^^^^^^^
Harrisburg,    March    26    (UP)-ielscvvlicr.-'    and    hc    hinted    that     Rias  said  there were  nine   con-i*^*^ ^'^K^- '''«""" ^^^^'^^ * *:^-:
Confesses Murder Of Patricia Birmingham
Milwaukee, Wis., March 26.— (UP) — Milton Babich, 19, con- fened today that he killed the 16-year-old sister of his 17-year- old girl friend because she per¬ sisted in "wisecracking" about her sister's  secret  pregnancy  by  him.
It ended a bizarre murder mys¬ tery which had its beginning last Sunday when police pulled trom the Milwaukee River the body of Patricia Birmingham. Two days before Babioh had "done the right thing" by her sister, Kathleen, in an elopement marriage. Patricia was slain Feb. 10.
The confession shocked this city,
which has been worried by an ap-          _	
parent rise In juvenile delinquency, j flooV" weeping There had been one major scandal!    As' Milton  was  being among high school students In the the courtroom, Kathleen past six months.    Only yesterday, the   Most   Rev.   Moses   E.   Klley, archbishop   ot   Milwaukee,   estab¬ lished strict regulations governing the attire  of girls  and  tHe  man¬
ner  of  conducting  parochial  high
school dancea.
Bride,  Mother Collapse
Kathleen, the elopement bride, was exonerated by authorities. She did not know her bridegroom had slain her sister until told ot his confession. She collapsed, as did her mother.
A dramatic announcement of his confession was made in a crowded courtroom where his parents, the parents ot the girls and the bride herself, were waiting for Babich to have a hearing on a habeas corpus writ and a first degree murder charge.
Mrs.    Birmingham    clawed    the
tea, "Se   Philippines ' and   possibly other non-Communist areas. Planning Arma Project
The global arms project already is under consideration by tha Budget Bureau, officials »aid. They exipect it to go to President TVu- man within a week or 10 days.
The program was developed by a committee headed by Aseistank Secretary ot State Ernest Groaa and Maj. CJen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, deputy commander of the National War CJollege program.
The legislation would cover arma aid for friendly nations betweea next July 1 nnd June .10, 1950. Pres¬ ent plans are to aak Congress later for larger amounts for at least anotlier three years if BJast-West tension  oontlnues.
In the proposed legislation. In¬ formants said, President Trumaa would seeik wide authority to allo¬ cate funds between North Atlantlo Treaty members and other nations whose security is vital to U. S. Interests. Thi* would allow swift movement of mililary supplies In event Russia stepped up pressure on any country slated to receive arms, or on any other non-CJom- , munist nation. Faces Battle In Congress
CJongress   haa   served   notice   on
the  administration  that  the arm*
program  faces  a tough  legislative
battle.  Sen. Arthur H. Vanden'berg,
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Pennsylvania State Police and rev-jMarylanders who live in Baltimore, centration   camps   In  eastern   Ger-r^*^ °f '"«     •     u'ir    „»w hone enue officials warned today that If Hagerstown,   Frederick   and   Cum-imany housing political prisoners, itif;">Pped  up  "}."»''»  P   ,{;  Tgne L    Pennsylvania motorists are forced to!berland,   Md.,   soon   might   be   ar-been    imprisioned   In   them   sincej*"^. *.'«"  ^"'™   „?!?!!,;  'red doc- F» huy Maryland and District of Co-irested   it  caught  in   the    ¦ommon-jsaid that over 180,000 persons had'°" ^P"' 18- l^*^' ''°'"P,ff; ° ,7 lumbia motor tags, motorists from wealth without Pennsylvania tags.'1945. i'°"   efforts for a complete cur..
both   areas  will   get  similar   Ireaf-     Col. C.  M.  Wilhelm. State Police,  —----..   _.. .
went In the Keystone State. commissioner,  said  that  "Pennsyl-: |\]E\;\/  PENSION   BILL
Aicting   Revenue 'Secretary   Ottoi^an'a   affords   reciprocHy   lo   the
r.:fL\°r ''^''' '°" ''''"''' •'^^Ha^rcZ^y^^Tched'  thriecl^
the House. House   Democratic   leaders.
who
F. Mess"ner,"l^nca8terPa.,'sair he I automobile "operators  of  all   otherjSLATED   FOR   PASSAGE
had   been  advised  Informally  that state*   under   agreements   worked;    Washington,   March   26.   (UP)—I
a   Gettysburg,   Pa.,   motorist    had o"t with them by the secrelary of/pj^e new and cheaper Rankin vet-j    ,, ^   ,
been   ordered  to   buy  Maryland   ll-irevenue." eran's   pension   bill   appeared    to-!^*'^"   who''d,Cove"redTadium
cense tags by authorities in Balti-     Wilhelm said if those agreements „,„uf  „ kb «interi  for n«»«»cr„ k„ "-""e,  who discoverea rau
more, Md.,  and  that a similar de-were violated, "we will enforce the
njand   had   been   made   against   a law"  by   forcing  out-of-state  com-     	
Pennsylvnian   in   the   Distriot   of WUters   to   purchase   Pennsylvania ^ helped   steer   an    earlier    pension » Coliimhi. licenses. i bill   to   defeat,   hinted   they   may
Wilhelm   said   he   had   not  been i,eip    shove    the   new    version advised  ofticially  that such  viola-1 through, ment   Pcnn«Crvn«'lo"''',ir.>tXXf."''r^f t'oiis   have   occurred,   but   he   said     Its cost would be negligible com- fenns.vlvanla   motorists   get j^.^    department    could    invoke    a pared to the $125,000,000,000 which
'standing order" to make such ar-'the budget burea said the original rests on short notice. measure   would  have   cost  in   the
Maryland   officials   at   Bailimore next 50 year.s. reportedly forced a Gettvsbiirs. Pa.,     The   new   bill   provide.-^    $72 motorist   to   pay   a   two   per   conl month   pensions   for   needy   ^orld state sales tax on  the value of his War
Hall returned to the hospital for
a while as a "research patient" on
whom the doctors experimented in
search  of a cure.  He waa in and
out  of  the  hospital   repeatedly  in
1947. Doctors operated on his neck
to  see  what   the  arrested   thyroid
Topk Heaviest I>ose8 ; cancer looked like and tound that
At one point   Hall was given 400["nothing remained of the hard ma-
millicurles   of' radio-active   iodine ilignant tumor except a little gray
during a 90-day period the heaviest:matter, soft like digested meat."
dose   ever  given  an  individual.   A;Nex Dose Woriced
millicurie is 1/lOOOth of a gram, so,    Early in 1948,  he was given 200
called   In   honor   of   Mme.   Marie ;millicuries   of   radio-active   iodine
and placed in a room wth  a sign
Columbia. HesBner   warned    that   Pennsyl- "can   reciprocate   the   treat-
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nique and the doctors who worked with him, and told a dramatic story ot his experiences in a book, "My Fight Against Cancer."
It was on Sept. 14, 1946, that Hall was given a first dose of S6 niilH- curles of radio-active iodine. Which the doctor handed to him in a "small carafe at the end of a long
A pincers."
^Cancer Vanished
on the door: "Don't disturb. Radio¬ active patient." It was the largest dose ever given a human, and "worked like magic," Hall' aaid, 1 bringing the same symptoms of cure as had the treatment ot his throat After his fall the following April, he was given another 200 mlllicuries. When he awoke, his body seemed to be givnig off a green glow, he said. "Tills second dose, however, was where   tlie followed    by    severe    dehydration.
Sixteen   days   later
 Thej throat was dry, my skin  puckered.
Hoi...e members generally carcinoma  (cancer)  ormylhyroid But I {tl/'^^.^r^.^^^^J^J}^^ 1° said
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I   veterans   over   65.     ^oHd ha^rd^Tgg-shaVed'cancer had been.iMy weight  fell  to  112  pounds.  My car   and   buy   regi.Stration   and   li- War    II    veterans    would    not    be I could feel nothing," he said.
cense tags because his m.-jchine was eligible,    r.....^ ^i;r'^A ^«m'"'T I;""^'"""""  ";;»'"^'^''  "' '"•'   " ' years.   Was  thia  the  b^inning  of
';o^r rori'th'^n '^o'.2S :tte !r ,rur1ass^^aslS!'    '-'    ""^    ^^^^eJurrre not «. promi..., inithe end." Hal» wrot.
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Valley Scene
"The Texaa Kid"—Wilkea- Barre reaident who affecta cowboy garb for everyday wear — herating manager of Strand Theatre for ahowing "civilian" (non-Weatern) pic¬ tures.
Auto with rear license plate on upside down atcd- denln reversing direction and getting out of there aa driver apotted State Policeman rep¬ rimanding another motorist for dangling tags.
Ciln police sergeant and patrolman talking on South Main street while, a few feet behind them, a housevnfe dumped garbage into eity waste  paper  ean.
Kingston Policeman Mik* Holleran bringing hia cruiser to a halt, stopping traffic in all directiona and then hurry¬ ing to assist blind man acrosa thf   street.
RUSSIA 'EXPLAINS' DARTMOUTH BEATING
Hanover, N. H.. March 26. (UP)— A Dartmouth College spokesman said today that a Rusisian story blaming anli-Communist "hysteria" for the recent fatal heating of an undergraduate was "typical Mos¬ cow nonsense."
Raymond J. Cirrotta, 21, of Lin'- den, N. J., died at the college last Saturday ot head injuries suffered in a dormitory brawl the night before. A fellow student pleaded in¬ nocent to a manslaughter charge, but details ot the tight were with- 'held  by authorities.
A Tass dispatch in Moscow said today that Cirrotta's beating re¬ sulted from his support pt Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign and the cause of "Soviet-Ajnerlcan friendship."
led   from screamed to him. "Milton, don't worrj', Mil¬ ton."    She   attempted   to   rush   to him,  but was  restrained.
"I want to talk to Milt," she said and began to cry. 1 Babich, who began to break af¬ ter 48 hours ot police questioning early today, said he met Patricia near her home the afternoon ot Feb. 10. She climbed in beside him in his father's car, he said.
He told her he was aware that she knew of Kathleen's pregnancy.
"We wish you would stop talk¬ ing about il," he said he told her. 'Tfs  pretty hard  on  our  parents."
Patricia "just laughed," he said. Pulled Out Pistol
He asked her lo promise to keep quiet. She refused. He. pulled the pistol out ot a glove compart¬ ment to scare her. he said. She didn't appear to be afraid.
"She   reached   out   and   grabbed
CALLING OPF STRIKE AGAINST PULLMAN CO.
Washington. March 26. (UP)— The order of railway conductors today called off a scheduled March 31 strike against the Pullman Co,
Meanwhile, there were lndicaf> timis that a nationwide wage dis¬ pute Involving 45.000 railway ex¬ press agency employees may be settled next week.
Harry W. Eraser, president of the conductors, told a reporter that orders have been issued to call off the strike ot more than 2,000 members employed by th« Pullman Co. He said the order was sent out because the national mediation board has intervened la an effort to obtain a settlement of  long-standing  grievances.
The national mediation board said  in  the mesmtime that it haa
the   barrel,"    Babich    said.     "She made  "some  slight  progress"    to- (Cfentinued on Page A-6) 'ward  settling the express dispute.
Cirls at This Prom to Look Demure And Cost Piled on Boys Is Limited
MUwaukee. March '26. (UPl- The "demure look" will be the vogue among Milwaukee's Catholic High School girls at spring proms this year.
The Most Rev. Moses E. Klley, Archbishop of Milwaukee, Issued a directive that banned the wearing of strapless evening gowns, or any style of dress that bares the shoul¬ ders, at parochial high school dances. Limits Costs for Boys
The directive, issued yesterday, also set curfews on how late the dances may run, limited some of the expenses boys may spend on tlieir dates and established general rules for student conduct at the affairs.
The Rev. Edmund J. CJoebel, su¬ perintendent of schools for the archdiocese, said the action was taken because of the "rise of juve¬ nile delinquency" in the community.
Violaters of Kiley's orders will be  "dismissed   from the  prom."
Under  the   directive,    boys    are banned   trom   wearing   formal   at¬ tire.     They    must   wear    business suits. '   Croebel said th* order was issued
after parents, queried in a circu* Iation ot questionnaires, expressed concern over prom expenses. Th* directive was written by igretn ment ot the principals of tti« IS, schools  involved.
The  order   Umited  the   pric*  ol admission   tickets   to   $3   and   ad¬ vised that no boy sihould pay mort than $1.50 tor his date's corsage. Told To Go Home
Instead of letting th* student* §o to night clubs or expensive r*»" taurants following, the danoe*^ Klley recommended that par«nts provide for "modest house parties" in their homes. The parents ha4 complained about a lack of suitable entertainment for the young peopl* after the dances.
Dance hours were rcstrloted to the period from 8:30 to 11:80 p.m. No couples will leave the hall to sit out dances amd "outside oo\x* pies" will not be admitted.
The students were ordered to b* home from proms by 1:30 a.m. un¬ less their parents request an earlier hour.
(jioebel said it was "the first tim* in history ot the high schools that such specific regulations regarding proms have beea formui&t«4>"
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