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Editorial
What Started Epidemic of Rabcd Foxes?
The brutal practice of "dumping" unwanted dogs In 4li» Back Mountain area, plus the fact that so much land out there is posted against hunting and trap¬ ping, is given a large meas¬ ure oi the blame for the epi¬ demic of rabid foxes out there.
When tha^ epidemic 'brought—directly or indi¬ rectly—the tragic death of a Dallas woman, that was made even more horrible byj happening in this modern day and age, the demands for action became impossible ^ to ignore.
One* started, such an epi¬ demic is most diiKcult to han¬ dle and it was heartening last Saturday when state¬ ments came out oi Harris¬ burg thai the state would lend di hand.
However, nothing more cam* from Harrisburg last week but reports of political decisiona—which seemed to take precedence.
Releasing unwanted dogs can take at least part of the blame because the best guesa if that a rabies epi¬ demic is started by a bite.
The virus must get into the blood stream to bring in- fectioB and there is no better way.
Furthermore, it is not nec¬ essary that the dog turned loose be itself rabid.
\mA oa some humans can cxtrrT typhoid whil* remain¬ ing themselves immun*, so can some dogs be carriers of th* sickness which results in th* awful dieease known as hydrophobia.
And that's why strict watch must be kept on those who would turn out their dogs to go wild or starv*— and that's why thos* caught mutt b* ¦*v*r*ly treated.
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That the closing oi large areas to hunters and trap¬ pers must take part of the blam* is obvious.
Th* practice makes large oteas ideal for small game to increase there—which is •xactly where foxes soon will b* plentiful too. I Having bo natural Mt*- pDi*s, th*y will flourish.
h •omea down to a qu*fl- tloa oi wh*th*r hunter* or fox*s or* to- g*t th* gam*.
It all becomes quit* ironic as thos* who had kept their acres closed now dare not tum their cattle out to graze because of the fox menace.
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Trapping foxes ert this lime of year i« an exceedingly dif¬ ficult piece of business. , The lack of results with •ven hundreds of hungers out also shows the extent oi the problem. '
But the effort )ust has to be continued.
And it's up to the state to tak* over.
With action, too, now that words have been ignored by the foxes.
UN Agrees to Reds' Peace Parley Plan
Klansmen itHiilied by FBI Can Get Death Penalty
Allies to Demand Talks Be Limifed To Korean Issues
By BUTHEBFOKD ML FOATS
TOKYO, Sunday—The United Nations last night accepted, with qualifications, the Oommunist plan for a poat-war Korean peace conferenca, but mada It clear that the Allies want to confine the talks to Korean problems.
VJc* Adm. C Turner Joy, chief Allied negotiator, told the Reda during an aigtat-mlnuta meeting oif the full delegations at Panmun¬ jom that ttae Allies, In effect, will agree with the Red plan if the Reds wUl accept the XJN Interpretation of the Red proposal. Joy,   who   celabrated  hJs   S7th meant   to   "et   cetera,"   but   Uie
FAYETTEVILXJ:, N. C.-FBI agents descended In foroe on the nlghtrider hotbed of coastal North Carolina yesterday and seised 10 former Ku Klux Klansmen on kidnaping charge that couW carry the death penalty.
The 10 men. Including a constable of Fair Bluff, N. C, w«re charged specifically with the abducUon and flogging of a young white couple in one of at least 12 terrorist incldenU in the laat IS
Spectators Aid Firemen at Melody Shoe Blaze
Spectators are seen aiding firemen move hose lines into the Interior of the burning Melody Shoe Oorp. plant at 84 South ESmplre street, city, yeaterday morning after a apark from a defective  switch  touched  off  volatile   fumes   from a solution uaed to treat shoe faibrlcs.
It was at this spot that AssisUnt Chief EMward Jacobson feU from the roof and suffered back Injuries that forced his removal to his home following treatment at the office of Dr. H. Gordon Guyler,  flre bureau  physician.
Also seen in the picture are the charred draft fans and refuse blowers that ventilate that part of the plant wliere siprajing Is done and also remove duat and other matter.
Greatest damage was caused to the Melody plant but the Central Slipper Co., Inc., plant, which also is housed in the 47-year-old, 900-foot long building, also suffered from smoke and water damage.
About 275 workers in both plants had to flee the flrt, but most remadned to start to dear the debris as soon as the fire was extinguished.
Officials of the firms said the plants would operate tomorrow. Workmen wera summoned Immediately to hurry completion  of repairs today.
Both plants are working fuU time. The Melody flim Is rujshlng through Baster shoe orders and the Central concern  Is working oa a Defense Department contract for Army  field kits.
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VETERAN 24TH BACK IN JAPAN FROM KOREA
TOKYO. Sunday-The U. Army announced yesterday that the veteran U. S. 24th Infantry Division—the first to fight In Korea—has returned to Japan.
IN PA. PRH
Deadline Tomorrow For Filing Petitions; GOP Aspirants Hesitate
HARRISBURG—A top Demo¬ cratic leader has Indicated that it is virtually ceretaln that Presi¬ dent Harry S. Truman's name will not be entered in Pennsyl¬ vania's  presidential  primary.
Genevleva Blatt, secretary of tha Democratic state committee and organization candidate for stata auditor general, said the President's nam* would not be entered unless he becomes an avowed candidate for another term In the White House. Deadline Tomorrow at B
Since the deadline for filing petitions Is tomorrow at B and Mr. Truman has repeatedly said he has not made up his mind about being a candidate, It ap pears virtually certain that his name wlU not appear on the bal lot Tha I'resldent led all asptr ants of both parties In the 19S8 primaries In ths number of bal¬ lots he rscsived.
Aa of yesterday none of the three Republican candidates whosa backers have stated that they plan to enter their names In the primary had filed peti tions. The three are Generals Dwlght Filsenhower and Douglas MacArthur and Harold Stassen, president of the University of Pennsylvania. Stassen Led In 1948
Stassen ran away from the other two candidates In the 1948 primary when he polled 81,242 votes to 18,254 for MacArthur and 4,726 for Elsenhower. All the ballots were cast as write-ins, since no Republican names ap¬ peared on the ballot in 1948.
MacArthur has withdrawn his name from the ballot in niinola. New Hampshire and Wisconsin and has stated that he will with draw his name in any state where such a move Is permitted Under Pennsylvania law, he may withdraw his name by filing an affidavit to the state elections bureau. Taft, Warren Not In
Two other avowed candidates for the GOP nomination for the nation's highest office have shown no desire to enter the Pennsylvania primaries, the re¬ sults of which do not bind dele' gates to 'either national conven- (Continued on A-14)
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Ready fo Shoof Nitro To Snuff Renova Fire
Fire Expert Adair Flies From Texas For Dangerous Task
RESNOVO, Pa.—A tower of flames, fed by natural gas gushing from one of the largest wells in ttae world, shot 150 feet into ttae air last night
Each hour, the flra consumed an estimated 8,250,000 cubic feet of natural gas, worth mora than »10,000.
Paul (Red) Adair, a gas well expert who flew here yesterday from Houston, Tex., mapped plans to snuff out ths flamea with ax- ploslona of nitro-clycerlne. Hs said ttaat hs proibably woukl "be¬ gin shooting" today.
The gas well, described ss the biggest in the rich Leldy Field here "blew in" with such force Friday that It popped "like a cork" a cap design^ to handle 6,000 pounds per square Inch pres. sure.
The oaip and 10-tons of tools were catapulted Into ths air, striking ths 90-foot high steel drilling derrick and causing a spark which Igndted ttae gas. Six men working at ttae base of ttae derrkdc escaped Injury. Derrick Is Melted
Ttae roar of th* Igniting gas could be heard for seven-miles la ths remote North Central Penn¬ sylvania area. In a mattsr of mln. utes, the heat melted th* derrick to the ground.
The heat was so intense that firefighters could not approach the well. They concentrated their efforts on preventing a forest flre while Adair waa called from Texas.
The firefighters worked through ttae night stamping out brush fires in the area. A buUdozen later cleared a wide circle around the well as a fire break. Gas Explosion Thwarted
The firemen were endangered by the ttareat of an explosion of a large tank containing hait a tank car load of gasoline. To ease the danger the tank was riddled with bullets and the fuel trickled down a hillside away from the blaie.
Adair, who put out a Are two years lio at the Dorcie-Calhoun Well 10 miles away, was expected (Oontinued on A-14)
birttaday today, said ttae Allies still want the po*t-armlstlee con¬ ference Umited to Korean matters. The Reds had proposed that the oonference dlscuas a Korean set¬ tlement "et eetra," leaving the door open for possible discussion of other Far Bastern problems.
North Korean Lt Gen. Nam II, th« chief ReA delegate, asked for a 40-mlnut* recess to study Joy's reply. After the meeting recon¬ vened, the delegates formally ad¬ journed until 10 a. m. tomorrow.
The rei^sed Omununlst "rec¬ ommendations to tha governments concerned" were presented yes¬ terday. Ill* Reds proposed ttaat a high-level political conference be held wlttaln 90 days after ttae shooting stops and ttaat ttae ques¬ tion of tha scope of the conifer' ence be left up to tbe govern' ments themselvea.
Must Dlsonas WlOidrawal
Tha Reds specified tbat the conference dlscuas the withdrawal of foreign troops from Korea and peaceful settlement of th* Ko¬ rean question "*t cetera." They did  not  make  elear What  they
Allies have stated their Arm oppo¬ sition to including all ttae prob¬ lems of Asia In ttae projected con¬ ference.
Meanwtalle, the voice of the UN command broadcast the charge that Russia Is blocking a Korean settlement only a few hours after the UN negotiators rejected the Communist nomination of Russia as one of the 'neutral" nations that will conduct behind-the-lincs Inspections after an armistice Is signed.
Ttie broadcast said that, other¬ wise, the terms of the armistice are "practically settled" and that only ttae Kremlin is holding up settlement of the 19\i montb old war. Russia Not Mentioned
Staff officers discussing super¬ vision of the armlsvtice and the exchange of war prisoners meet after the plenary session. The UN may—or may not—explain why it rejected Russia but accepted Poland and Czechoslovakia as "neutrals."
A spokesman  said  the reason (CTontlnued on A-14)
Carlson Sees Fight; Monroney Believes Truman Won't Run
WASHrNOTON—Sen. Frank Oarlsoa, sgceoutlv* director of the Eisenhower - for - President eani' paign, said yesterday he has "every reason to believe" CJen. Dwig'ht D. Elsenhower will return to this country before ttae Repub¬ lican national convention In July.
Carlson said he thought neither Eisenhower nor any other Repub¬ lican candidate would have enough votes to win ttae nomina¬ tion on a first ballot ad said he expected and hoped for a "free and open" convention." Says TrnmaB Wont Roa
In ether polltleal developmsnts today:
Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D- Okla.) predicted Prtsident Tru¬ man wlU not seek re-election and that House Speakar Sam Raybiim of Texas will get the Democratic nomination. Monroney said oandidate "does not bury his pro¬ gram on the tail end of his speeches like Mr. Truman has done recently."
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, a Republican presidential aspirant, said at Denver that a general "re- survey" of the gigantic military spending progrtim is needed. He said the $65,000,000,000 military budget should be cut, and said "excessive" government spending should also be curbed by reducing the number of federal employees and stopping duplication of serv¬ ices among the various bureaus.
Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.), entered in the Nebraska prefer¬ ential primary as a presidential candidate, lambasted Taft for suggesting the Chinese National- (CJontlnued on A-14)
TV Industry Warned to Beware Of Infiltration by Communists
Ex-Telephone Operator, 20, Vfeds IB'Year-Old Heir to Oil Fortune
LONDON,   ONT.   —  A   former telephone company  emi>loyee be cama  a  Cinderella  bride  yester¬ day   when   she   married   18-year old Johnny Smallman, known as Canada's  richest  young  man.
The bride, the former Kathleen Steers, Is 20.
Smallman    Inherited    $2,600,000 whan he was 14 and has a still
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greater oil fortune being held in trust for him. He ia the grand¬ son of Col. John E. Smallman, multimillionaire   horseman.
The bride is a catholic. Small- man a Protestant. The marriage was performed before the altar in St Martin's Roman Catholic Church under a ruling permit¬ ting "mixed marriages" in cnurch- es in the London district.
The wedding originally was set for 11:30 a.m. but was advaiiced several hours to permit the new- lyweds to cateh an early plane for a honeymoon, which they were reported planning to spend in the ^uthern United Stax'«a.
WASHINGTON — The House un-American activities commit¬ tee warned the television industry yesterday to be prepared for "large scale" Communist infiltra¬ tion.
The potential threat was pointed out by the committee in a hot criticism of:
1.—Hollywood for failing to get rid of C>>imnunists in movie¬ making.
2.—Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Uni¬ versity, for two present and for¬ mer professors on their staffs.
3.~'X«ading   universities,"    for not de-emphasizing Marxism—the gfuide for Communists. Hits Hollywood
The committee, In its annual report for ig.'il, heavily scored Hollywood and said the same thing that happened in the movie industry could happen in tele¬ vision.
Tlie conunittee said It uncov¬ ered "more than 300" OMnmunist party members a&soclated with movi*  making  during  tbs  1951
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hearings, although lit had hoped its 1947 hearings would have served to cut down Red party strength.
"However, it was found during the course of the 1951 hearings that actually the 1947 hearings had not lessened the extent of Ommunist infiltration in Holly¬ wood and had not prevented the flow of money from Communists and fellw travelers employed In the industry, to the Communist party," the committee said. TV Warned
Since Hollywood will have an influence on television, the com¬ mittee said it hoped its Holly¬ wood investigation '^will have a far-reaching effect and prevent a large scale future Communist in¬ filtration of the televlson In dustry."
"It is logical to assume," the committee added, "that the Om- miunists will endeavor to infiltrate television on a large scale because it ia rapidly becoming an im portant entertainment medium in the United SUtes." I
STEEL PAY HIKE, PRICE INCREASE SEITLED mi
Capital Says Union Will Get 15c an Hour, Price Will Rise $3
WASHINGTON — Tlie admin¬ istration Is arranginc * package settlement to give Philip Mur¬ ray's 660,000 CIO steelmakers a 15-cent hourly pay raise and to boost steel prices by $2.40 to $3 a ton, an authoritative source told the United Press yesterday.
The deal also Is understood to provide for granting the union an additional average three cents an hour to Increase the differen¬ tial betwen job rates. Steel worker oontraeta traditionally in¬ clude auch In-Job raise*.
Barring an Uth hour ehangie oif heart, that la the deal that wtU be offered both fiartles around tha end of the month aa the price of peace and oontlnxted production In the nation's basic defense Industry ,this Informant said. Would Blow Lid Off
The planned steel settlement could blow the lid off the entire stabilization program and foroe similar wag* and price rises from top to bottom of Amerioan in- diiatry.
It waa learned that Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson has lodged a vehement protest with President Truman agi^nst any wage boost for the steel workers. But he also told ths President that if steel wages go up, prices will have to go up too, in the ratio of one half of one per cent for every cent of pay raise. Can't Hold Line
Wilson added that it would be impossible to hold the line in other industries If Murray's de¬ mands are met.
Informed sources said the 15- cent settlement and the 3-oent in-job payment would come with in the government's existing wage stabilization formula. The price increases would require revision of the CVipehart provision In the defense production law.
SALIVION NOW FACE ATOIVIIC FISHING
NEW WESTMINSTER ,B C— The development of atomic fi^h' Ing "gear" that can lurs salmon into traps and then knock them unconscious was annouced here today by the U. S. Fish and Wild life Service.
The "Fieh Magnet" also may result In the saving of millions of Pacific Northwest salmon every year, the service said, It may guide the salmon to safe routes to the sea and save them from death In electrified areas around power dams.
The B. C. Aluminum Company, which developed the fish magnet, said ths electronic gear promised a "new era" In the West Ck>ast fishing Industry.
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Right to Subpena Will Get Approval; McGrath Defends Idea
WASHINGTON —Sen. Herbert R. O'Conor said yesterday that President Truman's request that his government scandal cleanup man, Newl>old Morris, be given power to grant immunity to wit¬ ness Is "Uncanny and fraught with the greatest danger."
The Maryland Democrat, for¬ mer chairman of the Senate crime investigating committee, is a member of the Senate judiciary committee which will consider a bill to give Morris sweeping powers In his investigation of government agencies. Too Far-Beaohlng"
O'Conor said that "to author¬ ize such a temporary assistant to hold blameless for even crimi¬ nal wrong-doing a public^ official under any circumstances Is too far-reaching a power to be granted by this temporary meas¬ ure."
He said he favors giving Mor¬ ris power to subpena witnesses as Mr. Truman requested but that power "will be sufficient to give' the special assistant the means to conduct a thorough¬ going probe."
Sen. Clyde R. Hoey (D-N.C), chairman of the Senate's perma¬ nent investigating commitee, agreed that the Immunity power "wrtll be going a UtUe far."
Hoey said he has not studied the President's "immunity pow¬ ers" bill thoroughly but feels it is "a mistake to throw the door wide open and grant sucVi powers to any individual." ,
Attorney General jT Howard McGrath has defended the re¬ quest as being necessary to any thorough Investigation. He said it would be better. to exempt' some "lesser offenders" if it meant helping convict greater offenders.
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Unshaven, rainsoake'd and dressed in rumpled work and farm clothes, the accused men shuffled one at a time into the hearing before Commissioner T. L. Hon. A hearing was set for Feb. 26 for them to enter their pleas.
Hon ordered the accused flog- gers held in jail pending the post¬ ing of $5,000 bonds. None of them made any statement at the ar¬ raignment. First V. K AcUon
It was the first instance In modem times that a federal agency had cracked down on the Ku Klux Klan In such sweeping fashion. Isolated Klansmen have been connected with various civil rights violations.
Tbe arrest climaxed months of reports of midnight floggings and Intimidation in the Columbus county area. State and local in¬ vestigations had produced no arrests.
A score of Federal agents rounded up the suspects In a series of raids carried out In the cold rainy dawn. The charges on which they were booked included
transportation    of    the    vletima across  a  state  line.  Into  South Carolina to the flogging scenes Face Death Penalty
Under the Lindbergh Law, ah. duction of a victim across a state line can result in tbe death penalty.
All were Identified as membera of a Ku Klux Klan "Klavcrn" recently ordered broken up by Thomas L. Hamilton of Leesvlll*^ S. C the "Imperial Wizard" ot the Carolina Klan.
Hamilton said that he had die* banded the chapter "because ef conduct not In keeping with Klan policies." He refused to conUMBt on tbe arrests. Constable Is Held
Those arraigned were:
Early L. Brooks, 44, town eea* stable at Fair Bluff whom the FBI Identified as the Exaltad Cyclops of the Klavem and for¬ mer police chief; his son, Bobby Brooks, 19; Ross Enzor. 4S,'vlce- kleagle of the Fair Bluff Kiev* ern; L. C Worley, JB, KUgrapp (secretary) ef the Klavem: Cer- (Oontlnued on A-14)
Prudential and Apts 'Close' to Agreement
WAKBONOTON—Negotiators were reported elos* t* letUe- ment early this morning In the 78-d*y-old strike ef •,*•• Pm- dential Insurance Company agents.
(There are 90 Prudential agents on strike tai Uie Wyemiag Valley are*.)
A spokesman for ttae AFL Intemattenal Insoranee Agents Union said ttae partlea had net yet reached agreement bot II oould come tonight"
The parties took * short recMs hi the talks at nddalgM.
The agents walked out Dee. 1 ever demands for a $U weekly allowance increase, a anion shop and olher hsraea.
The union security clause, which woold require all of Pru- dential's 15.000 agents to sign op with tha union, has been ttae major block to a settlement
Russian  Welcome
Ambassador Warned Nof fo Spy in Moscow
WASHIN(yrON —George F. Kennan, who has been nominated to be ambassador to Russia, has been warned by a Soviet satellite to watch his step and not Indulge in "spying" when he gets to Moscow.
The warning was made over the Warsaw radio by Alioja Zawadz- ka. official Polish commentator. The broadcast, monitored here, said:
"American specialists in the af¬ fairs of other countries, who think up 'listening posts', should bear in mind that the peoples Of the Soviet Union and of the people's demooraoies have a very careful eye on the activities of Uie so- called American diplomats who exploit   diplomatic   privileges   for
disguising their espionage aetlvl- tlee."
The broadcast went Into Ken'- nan's career, and satld he has "de- voted himself entirely to prepar¬ ing a new world war" since the end of the last war. Famous "Mr. X"
Kennan. the famous "Mr. X" who is credited with the evolving policy of containing Communism, was nominated recently by Presi¬ dent Truman for the post In Moscow. The Senate is expected to confirm him soon.
Moscow already has said that It will accept Kennan as the U. 8. ambassador. But the tone of the Polish broadcast, which plays the tune called by the Kremlin, Indi¬ cated that Kennan will be watch* ed closely in the Russian capital.
U, S, Speeds Uranium Search But Runs Into Some Troubles
Valley Scene
Loudspeaker at Avoca Air¬ port paging Frank Sinalia UiSt Sunday—probably just to see the rush of tvomen to the ticket office. . . . Frankie wasn't there.
Two Plymouth fishermen— forgotten for several hours by friend who wa.s to pick them tip, hitch-hiking from Lake Carey —after one had fallen in the iey water.
Retired ait«r decades of po¬ lice work, Michael Bosaek, for¬ mer Plymouth police sergeant, spending hours each day at Plymouth Legion Home watch¬ ing "whodunit" shows on the television.
The buzzing in local cafe society circles about the return of the nickel glass of beer for m diins.
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WASHINGTON - The United States has stepped up its world¬ wide search for uranium to main¬ tain ita lead in the atomic weap¬ ons race with Ruissia, it waa re¬ vealed  yesterday.
American officials havg been negotiating with free countries around the globe to stimulate prospecting for the production of the vital atomic fuel. Bf-hind Schedule
The negotiations have fallen be¬ hind schedule in several key na¬ tions notably Mexico and Brazil. But Informed sources said the program.' as a whole has been "gaining momentum."
They said they can only guess at the free world's uranimn po¬ tential. But they reported real progress in establishing the ma¬ chinery for exploiting it.
The United States already has worlted out agreements to receive all or the bulk of the uranium produced In the Belgium Congo, Canada, and tlie Union of South Africa.
It is seeking similar agreements with a number of other countries —including Brazil and  Mexico—
but officials declined te say htm many.
AU of these eountrie* are saM to have indicated their wJiBlag- ness to co-operate in th* of the free world's defcnasi they have not all acted i as the United States might I Mexico Disappointing
The situation in Mexico Is sidered disappointing, for In¬ stance. The Mexican governaseat not only has shied away trmm giving this government an *¦- elusive purchase agreement hut it Ye&s, in the opinion of Amer¬ ican experts, discouraged feo^ peeling.
The U. S. Atomic Energy Oom- mission holds that prospecting hf private enterprise will yield the best results. For that raaaon ,R believes government controls would be held to the minimum.
Mexico, however .has clamped serious restrictions on prospect¬ ing among other things, it glvea private interests no assurance they will have the right to mine and profit from uranium they find.