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130 Escape . Explosion In Illinois Pit

By United Press

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 22—Rescuers groping through darkened tunnels 535

feet underground found 24 bodies today. They said 60 more men were believed dead in the gas-choked depths of the New Qrient mine. Mine officials -said 218 maintenance men were at work when a gas explosion snapped timbers like toothpicks. The company’s figures meant that 130 miners had escaped. At least four of them were injured seriously. Survivors teld of groping through total blackness when the lights went out, stumbling over rockfalls and choking on dust and gas. Bodies Everywhere

Rescuers with oxygen tanks .emerged from ‘the mine at a loss to describe the destruction. ~ William Gibson Jr., who helped bring “out three bodies, said it took his crew an hour and five minutes to get to the mine en- - trance from the point where the bodies were found. “Bodies are scattered all over down there,” he sald. “I've got a busting headache from the gas.” Mr, Gibson said the underground entryway to the long corridors “is a mess.” “If you want an idea what it looks like,” he sald, “imagine that somebody dropped a carload of dynamite down into a subway.” “Timbers are strewn all over and therp are rockfalls you have to climb over every few feet,” he said. “Then you trip over wires that were blasted loose.”

‘Blowed Crooked’

Ruben McElyea, another rescuer, said “it's all blowed crooked

“Some of the bodies must be lying a mile apart,” he said. This was the third mine disaster to strike West Frankfort. Twentyone miners were killed here in 1928 and 27 in an explosion in 1947. A school building was converted into a temporary morgue, and the bodies were laid on the gymnasium floor. About 400 men and women milled outside seeking information. No women were allowed in the morgue.

~ Truman Asks Steel Union Not to Strike

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PAUSE—Begrimed with coal

comfort each other as they await word of rela- dust, this Yescue worker takes time out for a

tives trapped 500 feet below ground in the New Orient coal mine at West Frankfort, lll.

refreshing cu who frantically

of coffee. He is one of the many worked to save their buddies.

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| Mr. Million Gives Life

By United Press CHICAGO, Dec.

iiat 10 a. m., Indianapolis time,

Christmas holiday travel icy roads neared a peak. The National Safety Counc estimated the millionth deat

culations. y 5 Die in Fires

day highway massacre.

* |six died in fires miscellaneous accidents for a overall holiday total of 69.

injured fatally in New York f{ 1809 when he stepped from

alight and was struck by a automobile. .

ALL ALONELThis woman stands crying at the mine while awaiiting word of a trapped relative. :

curate records.

An Element of Secrecy—

The story of “Enoch Arden” took a reverse twist today in the case of Mrs. Agnes Sasser, who may have two husbands. In the fiction story, Enoch Arden came home after being reported lost at sea and found his wife was happily remarried. But the wife never learned that he was alive. Arden went back to sea. Mrs. Sasser, however, is aware of the possibility that her first husband is alive. And the first husband cannot know that she has married again unless the Communists have permitted a rare leak of news through the Iron Curtain around their prison camps. Mrs. Sasser's problem was complicated by the fact that her first husband did not list her next-of-kin when he w

President Truman appealed tonight to 650,000 steelworkers as “good citizens” not to strike on New Year's Day and thus help the cause of the Communist , enemy. : - “Mr. Truman made the appeal to the CIO United Steel Workers Union and at the same time referred the deadlocked wage dispute to the Wage Stabilization Board. .. His appeal was directed both to workers and management. “The immediate obligations of the steel workers is to decide to remain at work while the (wage) board considers the case,” Mr. Truman said. - “+. “This is a decision that should be made before a strike begins— not afterward. The United Steel Workers of America is a responsible union. Its members are good citizens. Its leaders are distinguished Americans.

Words Were Ominous

“The urilon members and thelr leaders, and the managers of the steel companies, have a responsibility to defend the United States against its enemies just as 0. “In my judgment, they will not be living up to that responsibility by permitting a needless stoppage in steel production for just a single day.” Mr. Truman's words were ominous. The words and his appeal left the implication -that if the steelworkers do not keep on the job, he will invoke the Taft-Hartley Act and seek a court injunction to keep them on duty for at least 80 days while the wage dispute with the steel companies is ‘ex- -~ plored. Up to Murray

The next step was up to steel workers’ president Philip Murray, who is also president of the CIO. Mr. Murray is in Pittsburgh. A spokesman here said Mr. Murray probably would reply within two or three days. The White House, in releasing Mr. Truman's appeal, disclosed that he was in communication with Mr. Murray before the statement was issued. Mr, Murray has called an extraordinary union convention at Atlantic City for Jan. 3, and has sald that only it can decide

Korea.

Wife in POW Triangle Asks Time

om -_~tonly-five-days-before-he~was sent insurance it Sgt. Dixon “actualy LAGRANGE, N. C, Dec. 22—

overseas. She was notified later through her in-laws that he had been killed in action and last September she married Pfc. William B. Sasser.

This week, the name of Sgt. Dixon turned up on the Communist prisoner of war list, con|fronting 22-year-old Mrs. Sasser with the possibility that she has two husbands.

There was an element of secrecy in both of her marriages. When Mr. Dixon went overseas the Army recorded his next-of-kin as Mrs. Lorean G. Storeyvof Sikeston, Mo., his sister. Members of the Storey family in Mis-

is alive. It was not until Sgt. Dixon's name appeared on the Communist list that Mrs. Sasser made public her second marriage, which took place last September. After making the disclosure in their Atlanta home, the Sassers| came here fora Christmas re{union with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. | Sasser, the soldier's parents.

Up to the Wife

Mr. Sasser, stunned at first by the news, sald it was up to his wife to make a choice between them if Mr. Dixon is proved to be alive. : | “She can have the second mar-| riage annulled or get a divorce)

souri sald that the sister also ‘was listed as beneficiary of his $10,000 GI insurance.

But before he was killed Sgt. Dixon made his wife the benefici-

officials in Washington indicated

Agnes Laseler married 8gt./that they would take a lenient Walter B. Dixon in April, 1950, attitude toward repayment of the

Il Ask God to Bring Me Peace’

whether to end a strike—assuming it goes through on New Year's Day. The union is demanding a 1815-|

cent hourly wage increase and 20/ing for peace 1s a full-time job without injury.

other contract improvements,

California Orange Crop Damage Slight

PRAYING DAILY FOR PEACE, 73.year-old Antonio Surrentine each day on his knees in Holy Family Church, Columbus, 42 years in West Virginia coal mines without & scratch, a

COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 22—Pray-

for a 73-year-old West Side man. He spends from four to six hours

daily in prayer.

“I ask God to bring peace, and

I know he will, because he has

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. oo helped me all through life,” said

(UP)—California citrus industry| spokesmen said today that the

Antonio Surrentino, 818 Bellows

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size and quality of the at he The aged Itallan-born man orange Crop appears to be “the Walks the 14 blocks from his home best in 10 years” despite recent to Holy Family Church, W. Broad

reports that temperature drops

and Skidmore Sts., every morning

had hurt the state's citrus produc-|2t 6 to spend four to six hours

tion. 2 U. 8. Weather Bureau experts| and growers sald that in spite of|

California’s “early” winter, low/ temperature periods had not been)

jon his knees.

HE CLUTCHES a crucifix in

his hands while he goes about his unending task. A tiny cross

sustained long enough to cause listens on the lapel of his black

any more than “trivial damage.” Damage has been less than one

suit. The aged man sald that he was

per. cent of the estimated crop, or|thankful to God for allowing him

. less than $1,000,000 they sald. [to spend 42 years working in the

coal mines of West Virginia “I see many, many -men killed, crippled, and mashed while I worked in the mines,” he said “I thank God that nothing happened to me in all those years.” “A lot of the time I thank God for giving me good health. I have never been very sick, and my strength now is like a young man. For this I am grateful.”

~ ” ” ANOTHER REASON for the devout man’s prayers is his desire that “everything go right in the day.” He said that he is so thankful and hopeful for peace that he will do anything to help God. “I do not ‘do this for praise and glory—if others would do the same, I believe peace would come soon,” he added. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Gressel,

O. The aged man thanks God for working nd he asks God for peace in the world.

from her first husband,” said Mr. Sasser. Mrs. Sasser decided that her| choice “is something the three of us will have to work out if he is

as hisiary and she was paid the in-|alive.” | ent 10 surance, Veterans Administration |

“I don’t think I should decide {until Walter's back,” she said. Her husbands aren't at all alike,” Mrs. Sasser added. |

spends from four to six hours

described Surrentino as “a truly saintly man.” “Hig devout and faithful worship are an inspiration to the entire congregation. It is seldom that one finds such a man.”

“ ” s THE AGED MAN said he had lived in Williamson, W. Va., while working in the mines. He said he came to Columbus about four years ago after retiring. He has|| been praying about four to six hours a day | since 1940. His faithfulness inspired Sister Mary Thomas at the Holy Family | convent to pen a poem about him. | The poem tells of his constant devotion to this prayers, and his concern for others. x Rev. Gressel said Surrentino rarely : a day from his daily prayers. “Even rain, snow,

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22—Some- | ! where in the United States the ber Abdullah King? {| millionth traffic victim died today

Despite the grim milestone, the toll was mounting rapidly as over

since the advent of the automoNB (bile on the basis of press association reports and its own cal-

The council also estimated that 600 persons would die during the extended Christmas holiday, from ® [late Friday to midnight Tuesday, % to set an all-time record for holi-

But holiday traffic toll already

United Press reports. In addition and seven in

The nation’s first motor vehicle breth victim was H. H. Bliss, who was|

streetcar, turned to help a lady While I study Arabic at home.

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HOUSTON, Dec. 22—Remem-

Well, here's the latest word on Houstonian = Abdullah and his belly dancer bride, Samia Gamal. And it's straight from the happily honeymooning couple themselves—a personal letter from Cairo, Egypt, to Bill Roberts, the il! Houston Press’ Town Crier. h : Dec. T. Dear Bill: Sure wish.;you could have attended our wedding. It was the greatest event of the social season in Cairo -this year. Sixty-one newspaper reporters, representing jevery news agency in the world, {covered the event

A Wonderful Language The whole city of Cairo was gay that night, bells rang all night “The music was going and the champagne flowing.” Congratulatory cables from “VIPs” the world over poured in. Even {the All-Mighty Aga Khan sent {his blessings to his Moslem ren.

n| Samia spends her days at the a studio. finishing her 36th film,

had reached 56, according to

n We ‘speak only Arabic when we “lare alone, and what a wonder-|

Samia comes home from the, studio in the late afternoon and,

It could have been William we spend a quiet evening till] Coughlin, 25, Chelsea, Mass., who abou was killed in an automobile acci-| champagne, listening to Italian|citizens of Houston, and wishes dent while driving to buy ice|love songs, and makin’ love in me to remind you of our big cream for a children’s party, but|Arabic.

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{ which means a, “Count Abdullah.” ii ra We went to Cario’s famous

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t 4 in the mornin’ drinking,

{ m speaking Arabic with a 22 (UP) — Four bandits who/tain that he was the millionth to Texas drawl these days, and they drown half of Dallas in chame robbed a ‘railroad station cash die. Mr. Coughlin, father of a have started calling me Abdullah pagne. box while dressed as Santa 5-month-old baby, Clauses, were captured by police, when his car collided with today after a gun battle, = | . *

“Auberge des Pyramides” night. ery last night. Everyone in Cairo is drinking the “Abd@#llah cocks. tail” and everyone has really: gotten into the spirit of this thing and doing the mambo like a bunch of Mexican jumping beans.” 2 Bill, when. Samia finishes her film in two weeks, we are going. to take a little honeymoon trip. up the Nile to ancient Egypt to the famous resorts of Luxor and Asswan, both of which are well: known for their vast historical backgrounds and ancient Egyptian ruins. The boat trip up the Nile is quite scenic, especially with the moon, the stars, casting their reflections across the still, silent waters. . ; Anyway, Bill, you know me well snough to know that I'm not interested too much in the historical and cultural background one can attain from ancient Egypt — the romantic is more my line—and believe me boy, whén I say,

“Champagne corks will be a-pop-

pin’ along the banks of the Nile very, very shortly.”

Romance His Line In the meantime Samia and I.

The identity of victim No. 1/ful language to make: love in.must go down to the coastal remillion never will be known, the|We don’t have the words or sort town of Alexandria for a few Safety Council said, because’ in Phrases of love in English to com- days as she has to make some the early days of the automotive Pare. \ age some states did not keep ac-

{ocean scenes for her film. Then

it's “champagne corks a-poppin’ away up the Nile.” Samia sends her fondest ree gards to you, Bill, and the good

“coming-out party” at the Cipango Club when we are going to

Until then, enn ONE vOry best,

Samia & Abdullah “Bey.”

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Oil Tank Kills Fire

GRAND RAI 22 (UP)—One | and four others day when a fi during a fire at The blast sh of the tank more than 200 ald Harris, 34, struck by a pie Fireman Rob seriously burne; by the blast. rolled him in tl the fire in his c Le Febre, and Harvey Hyma seriously.

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