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Tigers Seeking Working Agreement With W-B A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT See Sports Section WINDY, COLD Flurrle*. freeiing today. Tomorrow cloudy, aold. 47TH YEAR — NO. 14 — 62 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1953 rK.T.D PRESS PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Wlr» ftrvr. Srrrlc* * 1 l^ A k# P ^ ll 1 ^ * « M : , " ; f^.... SSBlWW*- ^Hww^^^H r -if EjjJr^^^H m 1 f J fe \m m ; ^ ^- ^"^ 'A Ph«u vr lirtirfk at*ai* Kiner Matthew Danton* of Pittston was on* of lOi min* workar* ef IMatrMt 1 wh* f«o*lrad a Bureau of Mines safety certificate last night from Mioba*! J. Koaik, maalbat ot th* UMWA. Oon- elliation Board and former president of Dlrtrict 1. The presentations were made at the Dupont Hos* Hous*, wt>*r* a waak. 1«bk mln* Mfaty training program was held. In the above photo, left to right, are: Mr. KosHc, Charl^ Kuchlnski, IXMWA safety director; Joseph McDade. general manager of the HeidelbeiK Ooal Oompany; John Bonner, stat* mln* inspector; Mr. Dantone and Harry Schrecengost and Bob Todd, both at tfa* U. S. Burvau of Mines. Pf ((sf on >4reo Mine W or ker s Presented Safety Certificates at Dupont Session Jostice Dept. Objcciions Ignored Brownell Hits Truman's Last-Minute Pardons A total of 104 mineworkers of thirteen coal companies were pre-| sented with Bureau of Mines! safety certificates Friday night at: th* Dupont Hose House. j Michael J. Kosik. member of the! UMWa Conciliation Board, for¬ mer president of District 1, pre¬ sented tiie certificates. Mr. Kosik ia the originator of the safety pro¬ gram In the district. The mine workers, employed at the Heidelberg. Glen Alden, Ewen, No. li, Guzior. P&C, Erie Con¬ centrated. Moffat, Duryea An-, thracite, Ixilli. Denisco and Lussi coal companies, completed a week'a safety education program which included a eomplete review of accident prevention in every phase of anthracite mining. Problems Discussed Instructed by H. A. Schrecen¬ gost and n. C. Todd of the U. S, Bureau of Mines, the course in¬ cluded discussions on mine safety problems, demonstrations of mine gases, gas detection methods, mo¬ tion pictures, still slides, and a study of the prevention of acci¬ dents from fall of top rock and coal, blasting, transportation, elec tricity, mine fires and explosions and miscelaneous causes. The course, sponsored by Min* Local 9874, UMWA, in eo-opar*' tlon with th* Heidelberg Coal Company will be repeated next week at Dupont for another group of miner*. The training program Is *adors*d by th* International and district headquarters of UMWA. Tlie Min* Loeal 9874 committee handling arrangements for the safety classes includes Charles Ross, William Rosser, Sam Dar- benzio and John Haddock. Among those receiving ecrtin- cates were the following: DUPONT—Louis P. Peck, An¬ thony Patte, Charles Ross, John Romanesuk, MIeha*! F. Romanko, (OoMUntMd an Pa«* A-4) ' Fine May Put Roan on Liquor Board Larksville Man Long Secretary Of State House; Would Be Chairman ststte gtrvermnent the group's main recommendations to Prop¬ erty and Supplies for economy wer* up-to-dat* mathods of buy¬ ing and setting up modem apecl- ficatitms for state projects. Francis J. Chesterman, Phila¬ delphia, chairman of the group, said, "We do not want to convey Board. Th* position pays $14,000 Uhe Impression that a very poor * y***"' I job of procurement is being done." Trovernor Fine over the weekend I ru^ j,, .j^ed that "we believe was reported considering the ap-imany taiprovemenU can be pointment -' "— '- Frederick KARRISBURO — William P. Roan af Larkaville, secretary of th* Pennsylvania House of Repre¬ sentatives loomed up last night as Gov. John 8. Fine's selection as a member of the Liquor Control State Can Save Millions In Property and Supplies 'Little Hoover Committee' Finds V $10 Million Wasted—Still Buying Paint on 30-Year-Old Specifications HARRISBIURG—Pennsylvania eouM sav* $10,000,000 a year through use of busineas techniques in purchasing, the Chestemunan com¬ mittee said today after a giudy of th* stat* Department ef Property and Bupplies. The state's "Little Hoover Committee" branded th* Bureau of Standards of the department, "totally inadequate In Ita operating functions." Need Afodem Methods In the iTth ot its reports on methods ef Inereairing efficiency fai Ex-Congressman May Among 26 Pardoned After Election Day WASHINGTON,—Attorney-General Herbert Brownell j jr., on Saturday said that former President Truman ig-; nored objections of the Justice Department when he granted seven pardons shortly before he left office Jan. 20.1 Brownell said the cases, in which the department's par-1 don attorney, Daniel M, Lyons, refused to recommend; clemency, included pardons g:ranted former Reps. Andrewi J. May (D-Ky.) and J. Pamell Thomas (R-NJ.) and toj former Democratic official Edward F. Prichard oli Kentucky. I H* said that henceforth all pardons and commutations—and the' Well-Trained Mobile Force On Formosa Can Hit Chinese persons recommending them—will be a matter of public record, said this new policy has th* approval of President Eisenhower. ¦He Brownell disclosed the Truman pardon and commutation record In reply to an Inquiry by Sen. John J. Wllllanu (R-Del.). He said that, in all, Mr. Truman granted 26 pardons and two com¬ mutations of sentence between election day and th* tim* h* left offic*. Presumably, Mr. Truman fol¬ lowed the recommendation of Lyons in all but the seven cases Brownell mentioned. Besides th* two congressmen and Pritchard, Mr. Truman grant¬ ed pardons to William R. Johnson of Lombard, HI.; Anthony. Baller- Inl of Menlo Park, Cal.; Jacob Weiss of Indianapolis, and former Gov. Richard W. Lecha Louisiana. All Federal Crimes All had been convicted of a federal crime. May was convicted in 1947 of bribe-conspiracy chargei. Thomas was sentenced in 1949 after plea,ding "no defense" toi charges of padding the payroll of his congressional office. Pritchard, one time general counsel for the Democratic na¬ tional committee, was convicted in 1948 for stuffing ballot boxes during the 1948 presidential elec¬ tion in Kentucky. All seven men served time in jail. Mr. Truman's pardons re¬ stored to them all their citizenship rights—principally, if their respec¬ tive states agree, their right to vote. In addition to the seven cases, Brownell said, Lyons made no recommendation whatever about ofi three Navy cases and the cases of the two agents of the Central In¬ telligence Agency who also were pardoned during Mr. Truman's last three months in office. (Continued on Page A-2) United Press Correspondent Arthur Goul, author of the fol¬ lowing dispatch, in a \'eteran. reporter of the C'hinese civil war. He waft one of the last Americans tn leave Shanghai after the fail of the mainland to the Reds. As fnited Press manager on Formosa, he now reveals exclusively the size and t.vpe of Chinese Nationalist force which awaits the lifting of the "nputralitj" ban on the use of CThiang Kai Chek's forces. By ARTHl R GOIL TAIPEH. Formosa—General- tsaimo Chiang Kai Shek could hit the China mainland today with a highly trained mobile striking force from Lslands off¬ shore and with an organized guerilla army of more than 500,000 men now being supplied by air drop. The operation could be car¬ ried out on a self-sustaining basis without the need of air or sea support. This Information comes from one of Free China's top mili¬ tary strategists and planners Leahy Approves Nationalist Help WASHINGTON—Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy said lie per¬ sonally believes it would be "a bright Idea" to get Chinese Na¬ tionalist help "in settling the problems along the China coast." The 77-year-old admiral ex¬ pressed that opinion to report¬ ers who questioned him as he left the White House after a LVminute talk with President Eisenhower. Leahy said, how¬ ever, that he and the President did not discuss Far Eastern naval affairs. who knows probably more than anyone else what is going on behind the Red Curtain. He asked not to be identified. He disclosed the existence of a fully trained and newly- equipped combat team of 20,000 men at present stationed on a long string of islands stretch¬ ing from Wenchow Bay in the north to Swatow In the south. He said that Nationalist com¬ mando-type raiders, hitting from eight main bases, had in tha last few months destroyed nine battalions of Chinese Reds, seized supplies and captured Red equipment. The same source disclosed that at least 580,000 guerillas had been organized on the mainland under five key com¬ mands reaching from extreme southeast Kwangtung province to the fa* northwest province* of Singkiang and Singhai. Of this number, 120.000 are under direct command from Formosa. The remainder are divided among four independent commanders who. in turn, are responsible to central headquar¬ ters here. For security reasons, the ex¬ act locations and number of men in each of the commands cannot be given. Has Material Little can be said about the air-dropping of supplies, but it has been going on for some time. It has not reached the stage of an organized operation, (Continued on Page A-2) fK of Pwoan to suoceed T. Gelder of Fore.it nty, whos* term expired in 1649. Hs has been aer\'ing since because no successor haa been named. Governor Fine can designate his new appointmant as ehairman of ^he board. In thia post Mr. Roan iflrmild receive >U,000 instead of ^ the $14^000 paid other member* and would b* in a position to domlnat* the aotion* of the board which operates the state's tZOO,- 000.000-«-year liquor monopoly. The other members are David R. (Continued on'Pag* A-4) ARMY WILL TRAIN UNIT TO FIRE ATOMIC SHELLS I-A'WTON, Okla. —An artillery unit at Fort Sill will be trained In the firing of atomic shells in preparation for tests at the Atomic Energy Commission prov¬ ing grounds In Nevada this spring, Maj. Gen. A. M. Harper, Fort Sill commander, announced yeaterday. The 280-mm. atomic cannon now la at Sill, Harper said, but no nuclear sheila will be fired at the Fort Sill range. He Indicated crews will learn technique, how ever, with one group especially prepared for the Nevada tests. Harper recently Issued a state ment to scotch rumors In Lawton that atomic shells would be fired here. The report had caused wld**pread alarm among Lawton resident*. made." Centralise Purchaaing Th* group called for centraliM- tion of purchaaing, modamislng of apectficatlons for stat* mat*- rial* and jobs, permlsatea for **r- taln aganele* to buy p*i<aha>ri** cm th* open mark«t witbaiit Md' ding and aUmlnatlon aft aiMh functions aa }anftor aMTl** frota th* depactmani. Tha oommitt** saved mo*t of R* nr* for the Bureau of Standards, however, which Is charged with preparing specifications. "Many specifications are incomplete and out-of-date. Existing specifica¬ tions on paint were prepared SO years ago," the group pointed out The committee also said the state should seek an "escalator clause in its agreements with con¬ tractors, that would permit low¬ ered costs of labor and materials to lower the final state. Win No Beneflta By "Insisting" on certain prices the committee said, "ho conces¬ sion can t>e obtained from the contractor should such eosts de¬ cline. The state 1* paying what ever contingency the contractor deems necessary to protect him¬ self." The committee urged that sup¬ ply be centraHzed in a secretary of supply in the pr**ent depart' ment, who would b* recponsible for all state purchaaing, Including the various "authorities," b«cau*« their projecta "wlH ultimately be paid out of tax**." Th* "task force" at Vha Cbaa- terman group which studied the Department of Property and Sup- pile* was headed by Bruc* D. Hendsraon, Westinghou** Ea«ctric Co. Other member* were: Ralph C Moffltt, U. S. Steel Co., Cedric W. Uts, Oulf OU Corp., P J. Oarite, Rohm A Haa* Co.. and M. 1^ Lamp*, Armstrong Cork (>o GOV. FINE VISITS WITH PRESIHT; SOCIAL, HE SAYS WASHTNC3TON—<3ov. John S Fin* of Pennsylvania said after a 15-mlnute talk with President Kisenhower It was purely a social call. In response to questions of r*- porters, the governor said they did not discus* patronag* or any cost* to the matters of Important government aATairs. Fine said h* was In Washington on stat* matter* and called at the WTilte Houae to pay hi* respects. He said they talked about things of mutual Interest but would not give any details. One QD Necktie H Cost $iSO and BfiOO Miles But ihe Army Got Its 45 Cents Greensboro, N. C—The U. S. Army had Its 45 cents today after a six-months search that covered K.OOO miles and cost an estimated J150. Cpl. Floyd .L. Oldham, 24, of Greensboro lost a GI necktie In Japan last summer and the Army refused to let him get away with Oldham went home, got a dls- In Todays Issue Classified B—11 F.dltorlai b—6 ^'«atu^e Page B—7 Movies (; D "'''tuary ..Z.'.".'...'.".".'.'.". A—10 Radio _, ^. j<_^ Social c—l Spotta ''"""" B-1 charge and thought It had all been forgotten, but meanwhile Army correspondence was travel¬ ing relentlessly from on* unit to another. The Army finally caught up with Oldiham, and a major ap¬ peared here to collect a quarter and two dimes from th* ex- soldier. Old One Refused He refused to accept Oldham's offer of a surplus Army necktie in lieu of cash, explaining that would be "too complicated." and took 45 cents. He said this had to be forwarded to Army finance officers in Sasebo, Japan, so the unit's books oan be balanced. "I never would have believed it." said Oldham, an Infantry combat veteraa. REDS SAY SWEDEN HAS ARMS PACT WITH U.S. UXJVON—Tita Moscow radio, quoting a Tass N*w* Acenoy re¬ port, said last algtat that th* UnK*d Bta/kaa and Sweden have concluded a secret military agree' ment. Tass, official Soviet news agency, said the agreement was concluded In the summer of 1952 as the result of negotiations con¬ ducted simultaneously in Wash¬ ington and Stockholm. Under the alleged agreement, according to Tass, Sweden will remain outside th* "aggressive North Atlantic Pact, but wUl In point of fact take an active part in preparations for war which are being mad* by this bloc." Informed source* in Washing¬ ton said Allied military planners hoped to bolster western defenses by building up land-based air power in Scandinavia. They said discussions were underway with both Denthark and Norway, but that Sweden, which has a tradi¬ tional policy of neutrality. Is not involved in the current talks. Washington authorities noted that Sweden is building up form¬ idable forces of her own to "de- i*nd b*r aeutralttjr.'' TAFT DAMPENS TAX CUT DRIVE; AFTER EXPENSES But Puts Decision Up to Eisenhower; Delay Is Likely WASHINGTOINl—Senate Repub¬ lican leader Robert A. Taft said yesterday taxes should not be cut until government spending is re¬ duced. He laid primary responsibility for showing the way at Presi¬ dent Elsenhower's door. Taft thu* lined up with other GOP congressional leader* In op- posltloa to hurry-up tax cutting, although ehairman DaaM A. KaaA (R-N.T.) of th* tax^wrlUng Hous* wajra and msans aommit- t** haa announced he will push legislaticn for a im par oent re¬ duction for Individual* thia year. Telia New* Conference At a newa conference. Taft ¦was asked If h* wants to go ahead with tax legislation whil* the budget outlook is uncertain. "I am in favor of reducing ex¬ penses first," he said. He made clear his feeling that th* exect'.tive branch has a great¬ er responsibility than Congress for getting the budget Into bal¬ ance. Mr. Eisenhower goes before a joint session of congress at 12:30 p. m. EST. tomorrow to deliver his first Stat* of the Union mes¬ sage. He is expected to go Into some detail about the problems of taxation and spending. Budget Fixed Taft observed that the size of the budget is fixed, mostly "by ¦what Is essential for national se¬ curity." "Primarily, th* problem is on (Continued on Pag* A-2) IDULLES TAKES New Law | Fear 148 Dead Being Drawn 2 Ships Lost Ifor Controls^" ^<>''5* 5^o™ F! Dismisses Panel Cliecking Loyalty Of Veteran Diplomat WASHINGTON — Secretary' of State John Foster Dulles yester¬ day dismissed the Truman-ap¬ pointed board examining diplomat John (^rter Vincent's loyalty and said he would decide tlio ca.se himself. Dulles wrote Judge I..earned Hand, chairman of the board, that h* personally would examine the long and con'troversiaJ record of th* Vincent case and 'would "take action." Band Htwdod Group Judge Hand, noted former chief Judge of th* U. S. court of ap¬ peals, and four other prominent Americans were appointed to the special board Jan. 8 by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson with the approval of former P^si- dent Truman. Vincent, a veteran of nearly 30- years' service in the foreign serv¬ ice, long hss been a target of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis). He was suspended by the State Etepartment last Dec. 15 and ordered home from the post as minister and diplomatic agent at Tangier. The action was taken after the government's top Loy¬ alty Review Board asked that Vincent's services be ended be¬ cause it had found "reasonable doubt as to his loyalty to the gov¬ ernment of the United States." Acheson Puzzled But Acheson told Mr. Truman on Jan. 3 that he was not satis- fled with the board's findings and said he waa mystified and puzzled (Continued on Page A-4> Wage-Price Law Expiring April 30, Won't Be Renewed; White House in Accord The Senate BELFAST, Northern Ireland — The steamer Princess Victoria capsized and sank on Saturday in a howling gale with the probable loss ot 133 lives. Another ship, the 282-ton British trawler Michael Griffiths, was missing in the storm-wracked Irish Sea, and Authorities feared it had gone down with all of its 15 crewmen. Raging gales, with winds uj) to 100 miles an hour, lashed the northern British Isles yesterday, and blinding flurries of snow and sleet hampered efforts to rescue the struggling passengers and WASHINGTON - banking committee Is drafting aj crew of the 2,685-ton Princess Vic' standby wage-price controls bill,i toric. The storm was one of the it was learned yesterday after twoi worst in British history, congressional leaders met withj -riie storm wreaked damage on President Bliseniiower on theii^nd as well as sea. Reports from ^^u'^ ^L^?"";?'-"'- I Kirkwall, in the b'.eak Orkney Is- Tho^ White House meeting oc.|,3„ds off .Scotland's northern tip, curred as a fann state oongress-lrpported waterfront homes flood-|5>troyer contest, which landed man reported the administrationig^j f^^m buildings Hattened andjthem lato tonight, will (l.'control boef prices soon.j^^tpr mains broken bj- the whist- The cofistal lifeboats put into °^y*- ling galea. Donaghadee, which picket! up 31 persons, and one from Port Pat- trick which rescued two. Another rescue vessel picked up four survivors, which were brought ashore by the Donaghadee life¬ boat in a .second trip, and eight more were rescued by tlie de- "possibly within a few Beef Prices Steadier Beef prices have steadied re¬ cently and government experts are hoping this will ease .pressure shoving other farm prices .down. Attending the White House meeting were Sen. Homer Cape¬ hart (R.-Ind.) and Rep. Jesse Wol- cott (R-Mich.) chairmen of the Senate and House banking com¬ mittees. The air ministry in London said the winds lashing the Orkneys were the most furious ever re¬ corded in Britain. Only 45 of the 178 persons aboard the Princess Victoria were Iinown to have been rescued, and there appeared to be little hope that any further survivors would be found. The ship's two best-known pas- Rep. Charles B. Hoeven (R-Ia). made the prediction on beef priccsisen^er.i—Sir Walter Smiles, an on the basis, he said, of state-1 Irish member of Britain's narl la¬ ments by Agriculture Secretary! ment, and North Iri!5h Finance Ezra Taft Benson that he favor:? removal of the price and grading controls on beef. Congress will Agree Capeheart and Wolcott predicted easy agreement between the White House and Congress on what to do about the wage-price controls which expire April 30. But they threw no light on whether Mr. Ei.senhower intends (Continued on Page A-2> Russian Radio Claims A'Bomb Secret, (oo LONiI>ON —The Moscow radio announced yesterday that Russia has the secret of the atom bomb, but urges its prohibition. The Russian announcement fol¬ lowed the controversy in the U. S. over formei President Harry S. Truman's statement that he does not believe the Soviets possess an atom bomb. Mr. Truman's statement was criticized in the U. S. Congress and the U. S. Atomic Energy CJommiasion subsequently made it clear it believes the Russians not only have the bomb, but are build¬ ing up an atomic supply. Cited 'Explosipn' Mr. Truman said Sept. 23, 1949, that "we have evidence that with¬ in recent weeks an atomic ex¬ plosion occurred in the USSR." Soviet Prime Minister Josef Stalin aaid in an Interview with the Communist party newspaper Pravda on Oct. 6, 1951, that Rus time that Valley Scene Hif/h-pressurf TV talesinnn in Nanticoke felling »kepiical shopper: "I'fs sir. This set would hrin<) in Chicago—if you eared to move out there.'' Dupont highwau resilient finally getting rid of Christmas decorations when he took ad¬ vantage of 1/1 (>-inch snowfall last week to slide Santa and the reindeer sled from garden into garage. Minister J. M. S i n c 1 a 1 r—were among the missing. Tlie oceon-going ferry, 'which plied between Scotland and North- em Ireland, went down about 3 p. m. four miles off the Irish coast —in sight of Smiles' bome on Copeland Island. The steamer had been In dif¬ ficulties for several hours and the captain had ordered its 123 pas¬ sengers and 55 crewmen to aban¬ don ship shortly before it went down. Couldn't Launch Lifeboats The soa was so rough, however. p a } a rn a his January ond atomic bomb snd that there would be more. Stalin aaid at that Russia wanted atomic bombs pro¬ hibited, but that the United States would use the weapon in "the event of an American at¬ tack on our country." Charged Blackmail Soviet commentator Viktorov, broadcasting in English, said in the broadcast: "You remember when the U. S. considered itaelf to be the mon- r¦«f^t:c DIP Clf^UT opoly owner of the atom bomb. It rALto blui rlun I tried to use this monopoly to OCT WFFW TtFT DPWFY blackmail the world, to dictate to ''•^' ** ^^'* I HP I, UI^VV U i all countries and all people. But WASHINGTON—House Demo that the ship was able only to sen* Donaghadee. 20 miles from Bel¬ fast, where ambulances and cara were waiting to rush the oil- smeared, nearly-frozen ca.staways to warmth, food and medical at¬ tention. Survivors Included two soldiers, D. D. Peck and John Bingley, who were on their way to duty with units in North Ireland. Peck said he and about 19 others got into one of the Princess Vic¬ toria's lifr boats. Bni'-illy Cold "We had no oars." he said. "As we drifted a"?oiit, we tried to pi^k up people who were floating in the water. I can't swim very much, and boy was I scared . . . I was almost perishing with the cold, and so were all the other peoole in our lifeboat. "I saw two men drawn under water by the suction of the ship when .she went down. I saw lots of people floating around, hanging onto piecea of seats and spars. It was frightening." A tanker tried to pick up the lifeboat Binsrlcy was in, but could not do so because of the roi^h launch one or two lifeboats. S'riore- bascd lifeboats from various coastal towns rushed to the scene, but moat of them had to report "search hopeless." Only two coastal lifeboats found any survivors-^the lifeboat from' "^^'e were hitting the tanker all the time and we were In dan¬ ger of capsizing," he said. "Tlie tanker eventually gave np an4 called in the Donaghadee llfebowL "I saw one of the crew ef tha (Continued on Page A-f) Cruel Beatings Wilkes-Barrean, cla.d, watering lawn at S a. m. Two Newport township men, both on the wagon since Jan. 1, visiting Alden tavern regularlu to demonstrate the remarkable will power they claim to posess. Made Slaves of Crippled Boys Forcing Them to Sell Magazines Memphis, Tenn.—Tiie FBIjgene Brown. 19. from Aug. 18 to charged that the boss of a maga-! Aug. 20 at Charlotte, N. C, Means DEMOCRAT SAYS GOP zine-selling outfit hired cripple,'! teen-aged solicitors, beat them for failing to meet their quotas and ! held at least one of the boys in slavery. Special Agent Alfred I. Means said Lqnzo Hayden Ramage jr., 31. was arrested Friday night at his horafe in Kosciusko, Miss. Slavery Violation sla had recently exploded a s«o-|tb* United States." the monopoly did not last long. "Tile Soviet Union too discov¬ ered the secret of the atomic weapon and the United States backniail policy fell flnt. The So¬ viet Union too has thp secret of the atomic weapon, but its stand is very different from the one of said. "It was a frequent occurr*a*> that Ramage would beat th* boy*. particularly Brown," Mean* eatdL He said the government otaargad Ramage compelled Brown to re¬ main in his employiaent oadat threats of violence. Desperate Threats According to the FBI. «m- ployees quoted Ramage as saying. ...r .. o. . Ramage was charged with vio- cratic whip John W. McConnack j^^j^g j,^p federal law on involun- has predicted that the Republican ^^^^^ servitude and slavery, controlled Congress will soon be-, Means said that Ramage i come the scene of an "intra- ,.(jutg leader for a crew of maga-: arrested both Ramage and Brown party fight between forces ot^jnp salesmen for a company inion disturbancj charges Aug. 20 Sen. Robert A. Taft and Orov. j^^^^son. Miss. 1 after a hotel ruckus. That day "If any of you leave, thts wiwld is not too big for me to find you." Melons said that Charlotte polica Thomas E. Dewey of New York ; Ramage is specifically chargpdl Brown had failed to sell his dally He said he exi>ected the Taft ^ith violating the slavery law byi quota of $117 worth of magaxinea, forces to win. "knowingly holding" William Eu-| Means said. .Ji }
Object Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 14 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
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Month | 02 |
Day | 01 |
Year | 1953 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Volume | 47 |
Issue | 14 |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1953-02-01 |
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Tigers Seeking Working Agreement With W-B
A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
See Sports Section
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Kiner Matthew Danton* of Pittston was on* of lOi min* workar* ef IMatrMt 1 wh* f«o*lrad a Bureau of Mines safety certificate last night from Mioba*! J. Koaik, maalbat ot th* UMWA. Oon- elliation Board and former president of Dlrtrict 1.
The presentations were made at the Dupont Hos* Hous*, wt>*r* a waak. 1«bk mln* Mfaty training program was held.
In the above photo, left to right, are: Mr. KosHc, Charl^ Kuchlnski, IXMWA safety director; Joseph McDade. general manager of the HeidelbeiK Ooal Oompany; John Bonner, stat* mln* inspector; Mr. Dantone and Harry Schrecengost and Bob Todd, both at tfa* U. S. Burvau of Mines.
Pf ((sf on >4reo Mine W or ker s Presented Safety Certificates at Dupont Session
Jostice Dept. Objcciions Ignored
Brownell Hits Truman's Last-Minute Pardons
A total of 104 mineworkers of thirteen coal companies were pre-| sented with Bureau of Mines! safety certificates Friday night at: th* Dupont Hose House. j
Michael J. Kosik. member of the! UMWa Conciliation Board, for¬ mer president of District 1, pre¬ sented tiie certificates. Mr. Kosik ia the originator of the safety pro¬ gram In the district.
The mine workers, employed at the Heidelberg. Glen Alden, Ewen, No. li, Guzior. P&C, Erie Con¬ centrated. Moffat, Duryea An-, thracite, Ixilli. Denisco and Lussi coal companies, completed a week'a safety education program
which included a eomplete review of accident prevention in every phase of anthracite mining. Problems Discussed
Instructed by H. A. Schrecen¬ gost and n. C. Todd of the U. S, Bureau of Mines, the course in¬ cluded discussions on mine safety problems, demonstrations of mine gases, gas detection methods, mo¬ tion pictures, still slides, and a study of the prevention of acci¬ dents from fall of top rock and coal, blasting, transportation, elec tricity, mine fires and explosions and miscelaneous causes.
The course, sponsored by Min* Local 9874, UMWA, in eo-opar*'
tlon with th* Heidelberg Coal Company will be repeated next week at Dupont for another group of miner*. The training program Is *adors*d by th* International and district headquarters of UMWA.
Tlie Min* Loeal 9874 committee handling arrangements for the safety classes includes Charles Ross, William Rosser, Sam Dar- benzio and John Haddock.
Among those receiving ecrtin- cates were the following:
DUPONT—Louis P. Peck, An¬ thony Patte, Charles Ross, John Romanesuk, MIeha*! F. Romanko, (OoMUntMd an Pa«* A-4)
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Fine May Put Roan on
Liquor Board
Larksville Man Long Secretary Of State House; Would Be Chairman
ststte gtrvermnent the group's main recommendations to Prop¬ erty and Supplies for economy wer* up-to-dat* mathods of buy¬ ing and setting up modem apecl- ficatitms for state projects.
Francis J. Chesterman, Phila¬ delphia, chairman of the group, said, "We do not want to convey
Board. Th* position pays $14,000 Uhe Impression that a very poor
* y***"' I job of procurement is being done."
Trovernor Fine over the weekend I ru^ j,, .j^ed that "we believe
was reported considering the ap-imany taiprovemenU can be
pointment -' "— '-
Frederick
KARRISBURO — William P. Roan af Larkaville, secretary of th* Pennsylvania House of Repre¬ sentatives loomed up last night as Gov. John 8. Fine's selection as a member of the Liquor Control
State Can Save Millions In Property and Supplies
'Little Hoover Committee' Finds V $10 Million Wasted—Still Buying Paint on 30-Year-Old Specifications
HARRISBIURG—Pennsylvania eouM sav* $10,000,000 a year through use of busineas techniques in purchasing, the Chestemunan com¬ mittee said today after a giudy of th* stat* Department ef Property and Bupplies.
The state's "Little Hoover Committee" branded th* Bureau of Standards of the department, "totally inadequate In Ita operating functions." Need Afodem Methods
In the iTth ot its reports on methods ef Inereairing efficiency fai
Ex-Congressman May Among 26 Pardoned After Election Day
WASHINGTON,—Attorney-General Herbert Brownell j jr., on Saturday said that former President Truman ig-; nored objections of the Justice Department when he granted seven pardons shortly before he left office Jan. 20.1
Brownell said the cases, in which the department's par-1 don attorney, Daniel M, Lyons, refused to recommend; clemency, included pardons g:ranted former Reps. Andrewi J. May (D-Ky.) and J. Pamell Thomas (R-NJ.) and toj former Democratic official Edward F. Prichard oli Kentucky. I
H* said that henceforth all pardons and commutations—and the'
Well-Trained Mobile Force On Formosa Can Hit Chinese
persons recommending them—will be a matter of public record, said this new policy has th* approval of President Eisenhower.
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Brownell disclosed the Truman pardon and commutation record In reply to an Inquiry by Sen. John J. Wllllanu (R-Del.). He said that, in all, Mr. Truman granted 26 pardons and two com¬ mutations of sentence between election day and th* tim* h* left offic*.
Presumably, Mr. Truman fol¬ lowed the recommendation of Lyons in all but the seven cases Brownell mentioned.
Besides th* two congressmen and Pritchard, Mr. Truman grant¬ ed pardons to William R. Johnson of Lombard, HI.; Anthony. Baller- Inl of Menlo Park, Cal.; Jacob Weiss of Indianapolis, and former Gov. Richard W. Lecha Louisiana. All Federal Crimes
All had been convicted of a federal crime. May was convicted in 1947 of bribe-conspiracy chargei.
Thomas was sentenced in 1949 after plea,ding "no defense" toi charges of padding the payroll of his congressional office.
Pritchard, one time general counsel for the Democratic na¬ tional committee, was convicted in 1948 for stuffing ballot boxes during the 1948 presidential elec¬ tion in Kentucky.
All seven men served time in jail. Mr. Truman's pardons re¬ stored to them all their citizenship rights—principally, if their respec¬ tive states agree, their right to vote.
In addition to the seven cases, Brownell said, Lyons made no recommendation whatever about ofi three Navy cases and the cases of the two agents of the Central In¬ telligence Agency who also were pardoned during Mr. Truman's last three months in office. (Continued on Page A-2)
United Press Correspondent Arthur Goul, author of the fol¬ lowing dispatch, in a \'eteran. reporter of the C'hinese civil war. He waft one of the last Americans tn leave Shanghai after the fail of the mainland to the Reds. As fnited Press manager on Formosa, he now reveals exclusively the size and t.vpe of Chinese Nationalist force which awaits the lifting of the "nputralitj" ban on the use of CThiang Kai Chek's forces.
By ARTHl R GOIL
TAIPEH. Formosa—General- tsaimo Chiang Kai Shek could hit the China mainland today with a highly trained mobile striking force from Lslands off¬ shore and with an organized guerilla army of more than 500,000 men now being supplied by air drop.
The operation could be car¬ ried out on a self-sustaining basis without the need of air or sea support.
This Information comes from one of Free China's top mili¬ tary strategists and planners
Leahy Approves Nationalist Help
WASHINGTON—Fleet Adm. William D. Leahy said lie per¬ sonally believes it would be "a bright Idea" to get Chinese Na¬ tionalist help "in settling the problems along the China coast."
The 77-year-old admiral ex¬ pressed that opinion to report¬ ers who questioned him as he left the White House after a LVminute talk with President Eisenhower. Leahy said, how¬ ever, that he and the President did not discuss Far Eastern naval affairs.
who knows probably more than anyone else what is going on behind the Red Curtain. He asked not to be identified.
He disclosed the existence of a fully trained and newly- equipped combat team of 20,000 men at present stationed on a long string of islands stretch¬ ing from Wenchow Bay in the north to Swatow In the south.
He said that Nationalist com¬ mando-type raiders, hitting from eight main bases, had in tha last few months destroyed nine battalions of Chinese Reds, seized supplies and captured Red equipment.
The same source disclosed that at least 580,000 guerillas had been organized on the mainland under five key com¬ mands reaching from extreme southeast Kwangtung province to the fa* northwest province* of Singkiang and Singhai.
Of this number, 120.000 are under direct command from Formosa. The remainder are divided among four independent commanders who. in turn, are responsible to central headquar¬ ters here.
For security reasons, the ex¬ act locations and number of men in each of the commands cannot be given. Has Material
Little can be said about the air-dropping of supplies, but it has been going on for some time. It has not reached the stage of an organized operation, (Continued on Page A-2)
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of Pwoan to suoceed T. Gelder of Fore.it nty, whos* term expired in 1649. Hs has been aer\'ing since because no successor haa been named.
Governor Fine can designate his
new appointmant as ehairman of
^he board. In thia post Mr. Roan
iflrmild receive >U,000 instead of
^ the $14^000 paid other member*
and would b* in a position to
domlnat* the aotion* of the board
which operates the state's tZOO,-
000.000-«-year liquor monopoly.
The other members are David R.
(Continued on'Pag* A-4)
ARMY WILL TRAIN UNIT TO FIRE ATOMIC SHELLS
I-A'WTON, Okla. —An artillery unit at Fort Sill will be trained In the firing of atomic shells in preparation for tests at the Atomic Energy Commission prov¬ ing grounds In Nevada this spring, Maj. Gen. A. M. Harper, Fort Sill commander, announced yeaterday.
The 280-mm. atomic cannon now la at Sill, Harper said, but no nuclear sheila will be fired at the Fort Sill range. He Indicated crews will learn technique, how ever, with one group especially prepared for the Nevada tests.
Harper recently Issued a state ment to scotch rumors In Lawton that atomic shells would be fired here. The report had caused wld**pread alarm among Lawton resident*.
made."
Centralise Purchaaing
Th* group called for centraliM- tion of purchaaing, modamislng of apectficatlons for stat* mat*- rial* and jobs, permlsatea for **r- taln aganele* to buy p*i |
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