Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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43RD YEAR, NO. 24 — 52 P/16ES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1949
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
—Aer   noifman
Catholic Youth Center to Remove Two Buildings To Provide Recreation Field in Central City
Ofhcials of the Catholic Youth Center, South Washington street, yesterday announced plans to raze the adjacent dwelling at right and another structure in the rear beginning May 1 to pro¬ vide   a    recreation    field    for    its    expanding ' program.   The   story   appears   on   Sports   Page   B-3.
Passage of Marshall Plan Meets Delay in Congress
House Gets Early Call For Monday's Session
Washington, April 9 (UP)—The House began debate on thc Senate- approved Marshall Plan extension today with administration leaders predicting quick passage without restrictive amendments.
Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas said a Republican move to out W percent from the European recovery spending would be beaten "de¬ cisively." He looked for the House to flnUh genwral debate today and  vote  on  the bill Monday.
But Raybum's schedule waa upset by a number ol quorum oalls, and  when  the  House  recessed  at Plan extension late yeetcrday after
Doctors Revive Hope for Little Girl In Deep Well
Qtoto Pnlipp Dcfnocrof/c Legislators OldlK rUllbC PI      ,p^i^i.^ Program'
Win Battle
Among Those Untouched
With Trucks
Tax Anything, Mine       Inn i n r Cave, Labor, Liquor Laws I Al   \ 1-
5:21 p. m., E5ST., it still had 63 min utes of general debate to go. House leaders said they would resume at 11 a. m., EKT, Monday, one hour earlier than usual, to wind up de¬ bate.
The legislation easily cleared Its first House hurdle when the mem¬ bers approved, 226 to 8, a rule call¬ ing  It up  for  debate.
Chairman John Kee, D., W. V^, of the House foreign affairs com¬ mittee led off for the administra¬ tion with an appeal for the exten¬ sion as a' counter to Communist expansion. He likened Russia to "a giant octopus with tentacles creep' ing west and south." Marcantonio Disagrees
Overloaded Vehicles Lined up by Hundreds By Blockade at Border; Arrests Setting Records
Eric, Pa.. April 9. (UP)—State Police today claimed a victory in tlieir week-long border blockade to prevent overloaded trucks from en¬ tering Pennsylvania from Ohio.
Pvt.   W.   J.   Josefowic*    of nearby  West  Springfleld    sub-sU Uon said tbat only 100 of the 300
Harrisburg. April 9 (UP)—Dem¬ ocratic legislators will meet tomor¬ row to plan an "all-out" flght for enactment of a broad "public pro¬ gram" in Pennsylvania's General Assembly next week.
Sen. John H. Dent, Jannette, Senate minority leader, summoned Senate Democrats to a Simday meeting here to draw up a list of bills which thc minority will try to  force  from  Senate  committeea.
The list will include labor legis¬ lation, fair employment practice bills, housing, rent control and tjjg'other proposals, all of them of¬ fered by both the Republican ma¬ jority and  the Democratic  minor-
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trucks that first bucked the weigli-jity-
station remain In the area to- ¦^ay. Most of these remaining over¬ loaded trucks are operated by long¬ distance haulers from western points, Josefowicz said.
Drivers of the stranded trucks arc awaiting "helper" trucks which wHl be loaded with the excess car¬ go so that the Vehicles will meet thc 46,000-pound Pennsylvania road limit
Hiram G. Andrews, Johnstown, House minority leader, -"iaid lower chamber Democrats also were drawing up committee discharge resolutions.
Gov. James H. Duft also dis¬ cussed his program with RePUb-1 ^ij'ieave wrth"p^y! lican legislative leaders. The GOP plan is to push the remainder of the administration's program through the Assembly in time for the  scheduled   April   2S   adjourn-
State Health Chief Says Shortage Denies Invalids Treatment
Harrisburg, April 10, (UP)--Dr Norris W. Vaux, state health sec¬ retary, today appealed for more doctors and nurses al the three state tuberculosis sanatoria to cut the lengthy waiting li.st of persons needing treatment)
Advantages for doctors In serv¬ ice at the sanataria in Hamburg, Cresaon and Mont Alto were listed as good pay, modern residential accommodations,   full  maintenance
13 days of debate. Thc Senate bill passed, by a surprisingly lopsided vote of 70 to 7.
The House measure also called for a 15-month extension, but set a ceiling of $5,380,000,000 on thc program—$200,C'H),000. less than the Senate authorized. But the House version would provide for a $300,- 000,000 fund, not in the Senate bill, to guarantee Americaui private in¬ vestments In Europe.
Differences between the two measures would have to be ironed out in conference after thc House acts.
The big fight In thcHcusc c«n
tered  around   a  proposal  by  Rep.
Lawrence  H.  Smith.  R.,  Wis.,  to
That brought Rep. Vito Marcan¬ tonio, New York's peppery Ameri- o"' "»* •*««* $600,000,000" from the
cir.-T j.V:-iA«»-^r   ' -i   *'••¦>   "-vlVo. «1 ^l,150O*)"(vy)    w*iich   *!ja, •.^win'g-
oharge that the European recov¬ ery program is aimed not at peace but at war.
He said the Marshall Plan is leading to a war "nol>ody can win." He urged that President IVuman meet Soviet Premier Josef Stalin to "work out" their diffierences.
Republican efforts to trim the cost of the program were defeated in the Senate, which authorized h 15-month,     $5,580,000,000     Marshall
tration  wp    s   to  spend  on   Euro pean   recovery   between   now   and July  1.
Smith said he bad "powerful" Republican support for his plan. He asserted that Congress haa to cut down on foreign spending be¬ cause "prices are declining, unem- plo>'ment is increasing and wc may be headed for an economic shake¬ down."
(Continued on  Page A-»
San Marino, Cal., April 9 (UP)—Ihope," she said. "Dr. (Robert) Mc- Tiny Kathy Fiscus, who lounged Cul lock" (the family phyaician), deep Into a rusty abandoned well {"has been so encouraging. He tells casing turned a happy family re¬ union into tragedy, may still be alive after more than 26 hours In her narrow underground prison, a group of doctors said tonight.
Their opinion was the first ray of hope after hours of heart-break. It spurred nearly 100 volunteer rescue workers to superhuman labor as they bored downward be¬ low thc point where they believed the blonde three-year-old child la trapped.
The doctors, a consultation group who refused to be quoted by name, held 'Very high hopes" that the little girl fed by oxygen pumped steadily Into the 14-lnch well casing since laat night, may still be living
Their opinion conflicted with that at another physic'aa who earlier had said, T don't see how she oould live more than four hours under such circumstances." Mother niniKj to  Hope      _ ^^^
.tathys "prelly    young  "mother, Mrs.  David  H.  Fiscus,   refused  to give up hope as she and her hus¬ band watdied rescue operations. "No,   no.   I   have   not   given   up
Uving quarters for nurses, be¬ ing trained at schools in the three sanatoria, were descriiied as "ex¬ cellent" and the pay "good" with television and other recreation good teaching and atliliation with nearby hoapitals for irustruction in pediatrics and obstetrics. Bad Bottleneck
Vaux said the lack of sufficient numbers of registered and practi¬ cal   nuraes   was   the   most   serious
Hoped Police Would Quit
Frank Talarico, operator of thejment. .^Ute Une Service SUtion on the.Vital Bills Untouched main truck highway, said, "They| Administration bills which have were lined up here for several jnot yet cleared the Legislature in- days. waiting for the police to quit i dude housing, labor, local tax re- «.^helr checking. Now the line has | vision, mine cave-ins, freeing the Vanished." .toll  bridges  and  general  appropri-
Squire     Mark     King     of     West ations. ,      . .    j .
.^Ipringfield and Trooper Josefowicz! The Assembly must also decide!bottleneck m the treatment of tu agreed that 99 per cent of thc,^,hat. if anything, will be done ''«'^"1<''*' "} ^^^ ''f* i'"u'\"*L°"'' trucks were coming through wlthj^bout liquor-lawrteacher salaries, ^ «'h";J"ds "f .;'°«,-d .^at _have legal loads noNv. Increasing blind pensions and a re-;'"^<' ^P*"^^ fof hundreds of patients
Josefowicz said 65 violators l>ad|yjgjon gf the penal code. Seen given fines of $25 to $50 since | g^ju, House and Senate meet the weight blockade was set upj^niy tj^ree days next week because Monday. Several trucks carried j^f ^ recess for Holy Thursday and overloads in excess of 3!5,000 pounds. (|,g Kaster week-end But the law- •>• »»'<'• I makers   have  scheduled  an   active
State  Police  Lt.  J.  F.  Maroney 1^^^^ week. said,  "The  only  trucks which  willj    rj^^   Senate   labor   and   industry be allowed to move are those that.  ^j^^j^g^   ^1,,   ^^^^^   Monday   to
meet thc weight requirements." He said the check would continue "in¬ definitely." Some Took Side Roiidn
During   the   first   days     of     the
consider administration bills boost- j ing occupational disease, unem- Iployment and workmen's compen¬ 'sation   by   25   percent.     All    three
have  cleared  the  House.
if personnel to care for them sould be enlisted.
Despite this condition, Vaux said facilities and medical treatment have "greatly improved" at the sanatoria the last four years. Ad¬ vances listed were chest surgery available promptly, BOG vaccina¬ tion of all peraonnel against tuber culosis, streptomycin treatment for all patients and Improved quarters for staff members.
TULSA MAN WINS
Srive.     rurks   not   wishing   to   run      ,j,^^, committee is expected to re
the  risk  of  weighing   '"   l>ncd    he f,.^^ j^,. ^^^l^^^^,, e„. jgQ.OOO   RADIO   PRIZE
hghways for more than two miles. ^^^^^^  measure  «   provision   basin^i *^"'"""   nHUiu   riiii-i. Since then, many have been moveo ,_^^^   ^^   ^   fi^^   ^„^   onr-halfi    New Vork, April 9.   (UP.    James
to parking lots or streets of nearby i^^:^,   ^^.^^^   instead   of   the   injured .Locke of Tulsa.  Okla.,  won  $20,000 towns  or  have   continued  on  »"'th^,jj.j^gj..j.  j^j,j.„^jj,  ^.^j,^  ^^,^^1, ,in   merchandise   prizes   tonigtlit   by
.reduced  loads. Tax  Anything  l*w Revision |idontifying the "phantom voice" on
Police   .said    the    check    on    the: ¦        |^    g    Stevenson,    R., the   "Sing   It   Again"   program,
aaain   highway,   a   major   truck ng -^^j^^i^,^^,, „f ^^^ g^.     The  41-year-old  Tulsa  man  said
route   between   Chicago     and     the ""'^''
Would Bind Members; Lesinski Sees Repeal With 'Votes to Spare'
Washington, April 9. (UP)—A large group of freshmen legislators urged House Democratic leaders to¬ day to invoke a seldom used rule and bind practically all party mem¬ bers to vote for repeal of the Taft- Hartley Act.
The move was sparked by Rep. Anthony CJavalcante (D., Pa.)'ex- labor lawyer sert^ing his flrst term in the House. He claimed the sup¬ port of at least 63 of his Deimo¬ cratic colleagues. Power to Bind Members
Cavalcante revealed that *iis proup Is pressing House Democratic leaders  to call  a  party caucus on
us that children of Kathy's age lapse into periods of unconscious¬ ness under shock that may last for hour* and hours. I have never felt Kathy is anything but perfectly all right"
Floodlights were turned on at dusk. They lighted the work of a well-drilling crew which eet 105 feet as its goal for a shaft it was sinking alongside the 20-year-old abandoned water well where Kathy was trapped.
Kathy wearing a new pink party dress, slipped Into thc weed-cover¬ ed, 14-inch mounth of thc well casing about 4:30 p.m. (7:30 p.m. EST) Friday. She disappeared only a few houra after she and her mother had greeted her visiting aunts %nd eoiminii.
ConsuTting Engineer Raymond Hlll, supervising the rescue opera¬ tions, said the shaft beside the well would be »unk 106 feet,. Then a lateral tunnef win be aug to Kathy's prison, into which work¬ men will cut a "window,"
They hope to r'^f the easing to prevent the tot from falling further
into the old well, estimated to be 120 feet deep. If they arc auocessful, they will seek to bring Kathy down to the tunnel, thence to the sur¬ face. They think Kathy is stuck at about 90 feet
Thc shaft which once was aban¬ doned when the drill hit rock, was was pushed through clay bolow the 95-foot level. The moat modern machinery was in use and the vacant lot where Kathy's tomb waa located resembled a bustling con¬ struction operation.
Onc man believed he caught a glimpse of her pink dress when the rescuers broke into the casing 85 feet below the surface. But the dress was 10 feet or more below thc "window" they cut In the rotting steel pipe.
It was a heart-breaking moment They didn't dare sink their ehaft in san^ e^rth any deeper, lest ita walls crumble and bury the rescu¬ ers under tons of earth. They were forced to resume digging in a sec- <m^ »haft TS^'h thny had sbnr- doned earlier when they encoun¬ tered rock.
There was practically no chance that they eould get to the 95-foot (Continued on Page A-18)
TITOAHACKS INF AND THE WEST
Says Capitalists Spies in Highest Communists Ranks
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, April 9 (UP) — Marshal Tito declared to¬ day that "certain" capitalistic countries had succeeded in plant¬ ing undercover agents In the high command of eastern Europe's Com¬ munist parties and even in thc Ckimmunist Information Bureau (Comlnform)  itself.
This is thc Gominform, he told the cheering Third Congress of the People's Front, which even now Is trying to provoke a civil war In Yugoslavia in order to destroy her leaders.
Tito conceded Yugoslavia ia la a "difflcult" situation, but he re- the administration's Taft-Hartley ijected co-operation with the "war- repeal bill. A iiaucus is a closed mongering" West. He said Yugo- meeting which has the power to slavia will oontlnue to bwlM a fio- bind party members on legislation cialist state In her own war. by a two-thirds vote. WHl Trade With Weat
The pressure for a caucus    was     "Of  course,  wc  wUl  tr«de  wtth dUclosed  ahortly  after administra-jthe  West,"  he  added. tion    leaders    claimed    they    haVei    Tanned, flt and resplendent bl a (Continued  on  Page  A-8)        '        (Continued on  Page  A-8)
Gromyko Accusing Again
Lake Success, N. T., April 9 (UP) —Andrei Gromyko charged in the United Nations today that the North AUantic Pact is a "military and politcal" plot directed against Russia and eiuitern Europe.
Soft Coal Price Cuts Parallel Reductions Here
C.  M.  Wilhelm.   State   Police   rom- (Continued   on   Page   A-2i
Pittsburgh,   April   9.   (UP)—The ^ cuts range  from 25 to 85 cents a aggressive aims." corre tly  that   the  voice  was   thatj world's largest domestic coal pro-1 ton. Hector   McNeil,   Britain's   young
of  Charles   Correll,   the   Andy   of ducer  today  ordered  general  price ^    Mine operators recently cut con- minister of state, snapped back that "Amos  and  Andy." reductions   benefltting   home   con-;tract   prices   for   large   buyers  ef- Gromyko's   statements   constituted
  sumers for the first time since be-! fective April  1  by  10 to 25  cents ^ "violent  undignifled  propaganda
,  ,-    -.    .u      -,„., =,„ / fnre th.. ^.var a ton,  affecting  principally  Indus- attjir-k"
'"The"1iiShf oria"rreUs leg-1 AtOm   Expert   Gets       1 "Xhe'^^rirof smokeless solid fuel trial  and  utility  types  of  "steam" f^^^ ^.,,„„,„ ,„„, islative  session  wa.v  the  defct   in; «, Qf„i:„   Prhp and   regular   ^''"'T!,"""'   ''?*i "^""^ '"'^e   original   price   break   was!    "^^e     dark-haired.      poker-faced
Col.  rankl-fir.  order  of three  bill.s. [  i OP   diaiUl   mZe        .   ,cu^_25   cents  to^  $2.35_ per  ton.__^^__^ ..,T!lLZ'^\T\y,rZj,Zr!^  JiM Russian,   who   has    cast   most   of
bC..   v.      u        Vnr. .  „ff T 'ate   local    government   committee,
Ea,st.  has  been   100  per  cent  effec- "    ,  , .        ° ,      ._ „„„„„,„j  t„
tive. However, thev added that «'»<5 ^i- group also is expected o some trucks may havo evaded the fPPJ^^ a drastic r'=v'«u.n o the check by using side  roads. ^^*^ '°''»' ^'"^ '^^'  *" *'^" '""' '^^
Overlnading   .*rre*'t» At   All-Tinie   High
Harrisbiiri;.   .Xpril   9.   <UP)
ANDREI  GROMYKO ^^T. Veto Is Baok
Speaking bluntty in his first major address as first deputy foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Gromyko told the 68-nation political committee that the Big Three powers want to hold Italy's former    colonies    to    "carry    out
Senate Votes IS Billion For Armed'Preparedness; Sets Peacetime Record
Washington,  April  9   (UP)—The it    through    before    a    scheduled
Easter recess starting Tiiursday.
The measure ia the product of months of hearings on how this country proposes to defend itself. Military leaders said they did not believe war would start soon.
But they added over and over, "We must be prepared."
Though the committee boosted Mr. Truman's total, it cut both Army and Navy below budget esti¬ mates to give the Air Force $851,- 000,000 in eaeh and contrsujt au¬ thority.
Mr. Truman had warned that the country couldn't afford more than 48 groupa for its air striking arm. But the oommittee voted money for 58 groups in fiscal 1950 as a start toward 70 groups in^ five years. f
The bill, which carries a fourth of all government funds, split $15.- 909,116,800 among* the tiiree serv¬ ices, which would number 1,644,271 fighting men. For "ReadineM"
Of the total, $13,272,816,800 is straight cash, "The rest is money to make contracts Which might go on into future year*.
The cash is a jump of $2,636,301,- 000 over that voted by Congress for fiscal 1949. The oommittee said its bill should give the country at least "% respectable posture of defense and readiness."
Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan saw Adolf Hitler came "perilously close" to winning his war with only 60 U-boats. Russia has 250.
The bill carries no new major expansion projects other than the booet for the Air Force. Only three new Navy ships are planned, largest of them a minesweeper. All the rest of the expansion envisaged was carried over from previous years, including a 65,000-ton super aircraft carrier for the Navy. ((Continued on Page  A-2)
House appropriations committee In a mood of defiance toward Russia today voted $15,090,116,800 to the armed forces for the fiscal year starting July 1.
It was a poetwiar record. It also waa $631,252,100 more than Preai¬ dent Truman asked. The committee overruled Mr. Truman and voted to give the Air Force a Mg boost toward the 70 oontbat groups tt feels Is the minimum for national security.
The committee's Aotion and testi¬ mony on the bill by militaryy lex¬ ers reflected intense concern over Russia's future intentions. Army, Navy and Air Force leaders alike gauged their needs on what it would take to slug back victor¬ iously in event of a sneak attack by a "potential aggressor."
They seldom mentioned Russia by name. But there was no doubt they meant Russia when they talk¬ ed of thc men. planes, bombs, sub¬ marines and foreign baaes essential to defense. Expect Fast Work in House
'The House Is expected to debate thc bill carly next week and push
Valley Scene
In btttveen thowerg on Fri¬ day, • polieeman'i ovtreoat hanpinff on taeh of the four traffic BtgntU posti at Publio Square   interaeetion.
Shoeshine kid in central city oarefuUy using foam rubber kneeling pad as he worked.
Babii aaleep in young father's arms as they umited Saturday in auto on South Washingon itreet—and young father sound asleep, too.
Top Stalin Prize
Moscow,  April *.   (UP)     -  An
, .  ¦                       V,,.         ,,               »      ,   o    ..n,            • The   nrien   ruts  will   be  effective attributed   to   the   unusually   mild
The    Senate    highways    eonimit-.      Moscow,   April *.   (UP)    --   An ^Ldav "^^/;j.*^a*pio„   coal   Co.,,winter   in   eastern   states  and   also
(Continued  on  Page  A-.)         i atomic  expert  and  a  cosmic-ray |retail     subsidiary    of    Pittsburgh}to   "competitive   conditions."    This
";  researcher stood high on the liat I Consolidation Coal Co., announced, meant  large  stockpiles despite the
. of   top   Russian   scientists    who !    The  largest  reduction  was  $2.35 - inroads    niade    by    the   two-week
1  .hared   in   thia   year's   $3 000 000 °"    Consolidation's   Disco   .smok^- work   holiday  of   John   U  Lewis'
I  .snared   in    this   years   $3,000,000 ^^^^   ^^^^     ^^   reflected   lower   pro-mine  workers   last   month.
I  Stalin   Prize   awards,   is  was  an- j duction    costs    at   the   company's     The soft ooal  price cuts coincid-
1  nounced  today. new  $3,000,()00  smokeless  fuel  pro- ed  with  regular  spring  reduction.^
. .           - .i„„i„      .,^....^    ...kj..Vi   WAS   onened of  Pennsylvania  anthracite  opera-
Several prizes went to engineers ^"^'"^   plant   which   was   open     ^^^^ ^^o announced  reductions  of
including the brother of a Polit-  !h,^«^°;;^;'--«^^^^ 25   to   65   cenU    a    ton    effective
On  regular bituminous size.', the April   11.
Yovtng Mother Reunited at Butler 'Wif/i Baby She Had Abandoned
Butler, Pa., April 9. (UPl A ,>1,000 bond each when tney re- young motlier's promiise to care for turned yesterday to claim their her bahy  todav   reunited   her  with son.
the two-week-old   boy she  and  her      Melqui.vt   told   police   he   left   the
husband  abandoned  on  a  doorstep babv.  D:nald  Allen,  in  a vestibule   tion of new types of weapons.    , here   la.-*!   Monday. of a  home  here  after  ringing  the      The Council of Ministers (cabl-
Aband. nment charges were drop- doorbell and  waitiiiir behind a tree   ^^^^   announced   that   a   200,000-
23   anf m"   ""r"™^,  ^-    ^'"vn'.'n   """'   ""^   ^^^^   ^'^^   '*''""   "'• ¦ ruble ($40,000  first prize went to
¦^•5.   and   his   wife.   Marjono   h."on,     Thr ^minle   n-nrried hist October, , ,        ..
20. Of  Bemus.  N.  Y..   taut  the  hus- H.Iugln   Ihe' babv    .ere   nine   days <^-g-  ».  Latyshev  "for  experi-
er it  was  born  in a PitL.'*burgh mental  resear. hes  in  the  sphere
bureau   member -for   the   inven-
u., J ,- — ,    brought   the   babv
band  was held in jail on a parol- ^^^^ " -    -
violation.
New   York   authorities   Issued   a j     ...
hosnital     They   said   they   decided   of the atomic nucleus."
away"   the   boy   because,      Another top award was won by
fmnnln f .""' ^"'"i"'"^' "" ""-they feared s andal in their home jj.,g^„^ University Prof. Sergei Tlh?« ,1"^ "'°'" ,"¦¦,.. .1 , to*" ant^ ^^^ "°t have money jj Veruov "for experimental re- rae   MelquisU   were   held   under en„„gh to care for him properly.       .^^^^.^j, ;„ ^.og^ic rays."
—        _.. , Police turned their search toward
I Jamestown, N. Y., after checking . .local bus stations, and the :-esult- ln,ff nublli ity iciiched nearby Bemus Poi.it. The Melquists then decided to rclur-n for thtir baby, even at the  risk  of  prison sentences.
"I   want   my    laby I mother  told   police.
to
In Today's issue
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Kditorial	
.Movie*  A—1«
Obituary   A—18
Rudio  .*—•«
j Social     <•—I
Sports    „  B—1
I very life for him."
(Study of the atq^ic nucleus ia fundamental in the development ol atomic bombt. Relatively little Is known about cosmic rays, but it has been estimated that if their energy could be harnessed it the tearful would be many times as destruc- 'I'd  give  my! tive   as   the   present   atomic   ex¬
plosives.)
§hori-rnes i» AiiihracUe
I Today the Sunday Independent inaugurate., a series of articles ! concerning the transition of anthracite niinmg methods over more '     than  three quarters of a century.
Once carved out ol the depths of the «»>)•> by hand and process^ almost entirely by hard, physical labor of thousands of local resi¬ dents, anthracite Is gradually being reached by short-cuts with new machlner.v, tools, etc,
S.,n.e of the articles are l>*"""^\«*''«7^"'r, "I.J^:!!-'^ who have long been identified w«h the minmg industry and tfae various crafts assoeiate<l  with the  industry.
The first of Uie series has as it* subject a familiar figure in the
adTiSc^mlnfof m?ning-the '"-'f*'K"'Hort"'e.r^h."oh°:ide ^^n I 1        , •   ...thraeite and the short-cuts wnirn made his
r^rro longer, neces i V will he *'»"'«• »" 'P*«5« ^'^^ '» *»«• ««* :f"":ri'e.''o7:,^c;:: entitled "Short^^U f Anthnu^te."
Russia's 30 vetoes in the UN, used the issue of the Italian colonies to uncork Russia's long-expected attack on the 12-nation mutual as¬ sistance pact signed in Washington Monday.
He seid the "aggressive plans" of the Big Three western powers "lately found their expression in all kinds of military and political blocs directed against the people of the Soviet Union and the people's democracies."
Gromyko    spoke    for    some    70 minutes,  charging that the United|,'y;","^'.;,t,^'";^.g',]=;^iooo   feet   deep,;Father Had Asked Law Sta^,   Britain   and   Franc?   havei    ^^  ^^  ^^^  ^j^dJe  of a  field  and stalled   a   soliition   of   the   Italian j,        p^esar   saw   him   disappear colonies  question  because  of  their j^^j^ ^^^^ ^Q,g
"militarisUc   and   strategic   in-     ^   would-be   rescuer,   thin,    116- terests.' t
A little more than four months ago a four-o'car-old boy lost his life in one of them. Its diameter was 14 inches—exactly the size of the San Marino shaft.
At Firebaugh, Calif., In the eve¬ ning of Nov. 29 last year, little Charles Caesar, ran away from his    mother    while    playing.     He
Little Kathy Is Not the Firsf
To Tumble into Those Open Wells
San Francisco, April 9. (UP)—i Last January, three-year-old California, a land where water has]Michael Puffer fell Into an aban- always been valuable, is spotted I doned septic tank in Sacramento^ with wells similar to the one I His body w%s found 24 hours later. Kathy  Fiscus plunged  Into.
Sacramento, Calif., April 9- (UP) —Assemblywoman Kathryn T. Hie- house said today she would urg* quick action on a bill to compel owners to cover abandoned w^t. The measure already has been pas-sd by the Assembly and Mrs. Niehouse said she would aak/for a Senate  public  health  committee
stumbled into thc unguarded shaft j hearing on tt next Tuesday night
and   fell   100   feet   to   the   water;
He said the western powers pur¬ posely allowed a solution of the problem to drag on for more than two years in order to place the Issue before the UN Cieneral As¬ sembly "where they have a sure majority of votes in their pockets."
Gromyko said the failure of the Big Three powers to change their former positions on the Italian colonies question "is not acciden¬ tal." He said some points were de
lb.   Nate  Escoto.   24,  was   lowered
San Marlon, Cal.. April • (UP)— Grief stricken David Fiscus, wtaoe* daughter Kathy fell Into an aban* doned well shaft here last night returned  only  yesterday  from  the
with  a rope into the shaft,  down K  ^^ capital where he bad pleaded to the water level where the child ^yj   a   legislative   committee   to
had managed  to stay afloat.
Caesar grabbed the feet of Es¬ coto but lost his strength and fell back when rescuers at the surface began to pull the pair out. Elscoto could not turn in the narrow shaft  to  grasp  Caesar.
The shaft was so narrow he skinned   his   shoulders   and   arms.
The  boy's body was  located  the
Uberately   left   "unclear"   and   the next day at the 300 foot level and (Oontinued  on  Page A-8) removea
compel registration of abandoned Wells, It was learned yesterday.
Absence of such a law left poten¬ tial deathtraps scattered through¬ out the state.
OflScials said the well where Kathy was trapped had been cover¬ ed with boards, but that earth grad¬ ing machinery recently knocked off the cover and it had not been re¬ placed.
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