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By United Press ° WEST FRANKFORT, Ill, Dec. 7—A back-to-work movement developed early today among miners who staged a. spontaneous “wildcat” work stoppage yesterday

In the Rockies ‘Bothering’ Tallulah

A new snow storm paused over wi ; 3 : | the Rocky ‘Mountains today and y United Press and cashed within a 22-day plotted a course straight for the] NEW YORK, Dec. 27—The de-| period. |snow-paralyzed Midwest. {fense was expected .to rest today | Forecasters predicted more jn

“Those werssher expenses: for lies counted on a laboratory am»

Are HatchingRaised Checks to-Avoid Join Probe ‘Of Bombing

By United Press MIMS, Fla. Dec. 27—Authoris

honoring the 119 victims of the New Orient coal mine explosion. Day crews of miners reported at the pits in Harrisburg, Ill, and Terre Haute, Ind. after a oneday stoppage. Miners at Oakmont, Pa., also returned to their jobs after a 24-hour “mourning” strike. The men left their jobs after word spread that United Mine Workers Union President. John L. Lewis ‘planned to call a nationwide work stoppage as a mesmorial to the men killed in Friday night's explosion. However, W. H. Finfrock, secretary of the Wilmington Coal Mining Corp. at Wilmington, IIL, sald he “doubted” that miners

@t the company’s Braidwood Mine would report for the day |; shift.

Officials at the Snow Hill Mine fn Terre Haute said the return of the men there was a surprise to them, a “It may have been a memorial walkout, but we don’t know for Lense,’ one official : ; " ng SSPIte the reports that MI. ys Be aypigiogis v““Yewis might order the nationwide] ~~ CARDINAL AT FRONT—Francis Cardinal Spellman,

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which involved ‘more than 3500 miners in three states, came off : without official sanction. Mr. Mainly, No Comment—

Tews ancvered on comment” fo 4" . . csions concerning vie ons Dic ymars Still Missed

Prosecutor to And Sheriff Still Miffed

By R. K. SHULL | A=—Yes. Sheriff Smith is miffed again.| Q-—I "have heard. rumors she

Keep Tab on Fil Pp i | He cl d hi hut like | t 1 h ¥ HM FONIGS |, 7 "70, easy when ques ings with ner: Tn tnt rues

Prosecutor Frank Fairchild will tioned about the unauthorized de-| A—No comment. keep a close watch on ‘the horse Parture of two of his star board-| The sheriff then went on to say race give-aways to begin Satur-|ers from the Marion County Jail that he planned to make no fur-

day at seven neighborhood on Christmas night. |ther comment on the case for the theaters.

The hunt for Mrs. Lissa Han- recent time. In this latest gimmick to draw| Son, 35-year-old artificial blonde, | Asked again if he was investicustomers, cash is offered for each|and a 17-year-old girl has been i; 0 the sheriff declared: player, who can guess the win-| fruitless. They took French leave =, o going to investigate.” ner of three races shown on the from Sheriff Smith's feminine Mrs. Hanson. who claims z vascreen. If all the contestants get|bastile by the simple procedure of > n

a “bum steer” from their bookies borrowing -the matron’s keys 3 and fail to pick the three ponies, while the matron, Mrs. Bertha 8¢T to the law. She’s had person-

the pot will be added to the fol|Wencke, was visiting the rest al contact since 1943, when ar-

lowing week’s prize. ; _ The Arlington, Rivoli, Emerson, The Sheriff’s press conference Fountain Square, Ritz, Zaring | this morning was as follows: and Avenue are the theaters] Q—Did she (Mrs. Hanson) take opening with a ‘clear and fast” ‘screen. Others are expected to join. Mr. Fairchild said, “There are three items that constitute gam-

Me me nen G@OlOGIST Says Major

(times. ; The Hazard, Ky., belle was nabbed the latest time in a local

A—No comment.

Q—Are you investigating? {the ounce.

“ONE—The pay for the privilege of playing.

“TWO—there must be an éle-| Q k M Hi U S ment of chance.” t = “THREE—there must be a prize | U a e ay i ° .

{ offered.” “ E By United Press In this case element No. 1 is BOSTON, Mass. Dec.

missing, so I believe it is legal, but I must check further before] making a final gecision,” the| prosecutor said. Clyde H. Jones, deputy Indiana Attorney General, agrees with Mr. Fairchild. He said, “I have heard nothing of the ‘Sweepstakes, but

|earthquake centered

today that a major earthquake/caused little damage. may strike the northeastern |United States at any time with {enough force to make an atomic

{bomb look puny. lonial times,

entrance makes it legal.” y All those wishing to play may region. But he told the United Faneuil Hall :

Purchasing a ticket or being pres-|(due for a major temblor:

ent are not required to win. The] ONE—The earth’s crust in the said.

contestant drops his card in a/region Salt, IB Xepolling B the ———————————————————— box located in front - of the Wake O e last great glacier - HE theater. \which receded some 25,000 vears Link Safety’ Chief ago. ! Jad TWO—Countless tons of soil Gls Marooned |carried down rivers to the Aan TO Hotel Tryst

[seaboard from the eroding Ap-

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec.

on Placing a terrific strain on the ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 21 ntinental shelf which may

(UP)—Two soldiers showed no ill, 50 "apy eventual upheaval effects after a three-day fg THREE—A NB ap ae temblors| in PO-belov.2er0 WealRer in the have shaken the region in recent wilderness 60 miles no e years, a fact that might indicate

here, the earth is get t A ski-equipped helicopter ren 2 3 od Bg set to let 8% Detective Herr Eoin cued M/Sgt. Marshall Farmer, 31,| . |

and M/Sgt. Albert Grosshans, 41,| © yesterday after earthquake which shook an area

they were marooned Sunday while on a fiy-| from. Juebes 19 [PHiadelphis a0. ing fishing trip. tua cy

tryst in a hotel room.

“peleased more energy” | tina Brown together.

The windshield on their light nan ne asast ious San Franski plane frosted over, forcing, 0 e . them to land on a small lake. The| Yr plane was slightly damaged on] : Japaing hoa ror A Mighty Tax Headache ap pe Jen bull a cond) | HOUSTON, Tex., Dec. 27 (UP) |let Mr. Darnell in at once. Mr shelter and ale emgrpeucy rations —Federal income tax liens of Darnell unt Air ores Sea P {more than. $1,500,000 have been open up for 23 minutes. potted them vestercay: .. [filed in District Court here against

thing wrong w~hen Mr. {started pounding on the door.

| Troy Whitehead, Charlotte, N. C., room from a Christmas party. Ex-Congressman Named machinery dealer, described as a|

To Allen County Bench

i+ Former Democratic Congress |partment’s tax division. ithe trap.”

riety of other names, is no stran-

room. rested here for the first of 15

|any money other than her own? department store trying to cash| |a check with too much bounce to]

some 30, he as id to be a 27—A miles below the earth’s surface| fe a5: Oe air Boston University geologist saidinear Ossipee, N. H.,, and thus| - :

Dr. Wolfe said there also were - Lif a number of bad shocks in ol our i ers before the region A D o d Prof. C. Wroe Wolfe acknowl-| was built up. In 1755, he said, al re enie

the fact there is no price for edged that the northeast is notmajor quake struck Boston, top-| normally an “earthquake-active” pling chimneys and damaging Clemency

obtain cards from a person sta-| Eress there are these three indi-| If an earthquake of the same

tioned in front of the theater. cations that the area might Dejutensity struck now the result giate Prison have been denied (would be disastrous, Dr. Wolfe clemency by Gov. Schricker, but

Connor said he had been in the {room only five minutes and he

and ss Brown hadn't done any-| he added, the 1940 Mi Barer convicted in Randolph County in|

But he admitted that he didn't said Connor wouldn't]

Connor said he went to the

“No offense had been - comfriend of T. Lamar Caudle, dis- mitted and I only regret that I County in 1946 fo 10-10 25 years

charged head of the Justice De-{was dumb enough to walk into|

ClO Chiefs May Delay Steel Strike

| PITTSBURGH, Pa. Dec. 27) {(UP)—A high union source indi-| cated last night’ that the CIO] United Steelworkers probably will postpone a scheduled New Year's Day strike until the government can consider their demands for higher wages.

The source indicated the USW Wage-Policy Committee and In-] ternational Executive Board, meeting here today, will recommend a delay until a rank-and-|file convention in Atlantic City, iN. J., can vote on the wage dispute and strike uestion.

The two-day convention, beginning Jan. 3, will be attended by delegates from all over the country representing the USW’s 650,{000 steel workers.

It was expected they will recommend the union's demands for | wage boosts averaging about 18 cents an hour be handed to the Wage Stabilization Board. |

It was virtually certain that the union’s proposed course of action {has already béen determined by| CIO and USW President Philip Murray and his advisors. The action to be taken at today’s

Four life termers in Indiana

fa fifth who sought release may

(get it. Parole petitions of Clarence) Hoover, Annise Hugsley, Van]

[Smith Jr., and John Kasper were] (rejected yesterday by the Gov-| ernor on recommendation of his

Hoover was sentenced in 1936 criminal from]

Smith was sentenced from Warrick County in 1941 for in-

“Warrants were sworn by City|flicting injury during a robbery, who|and Kasper was sent up from Dr. W raided a room at the Tutwiler Starke County in 1928 for murder. olfe noted that the 1940), 0)", priday night and found > {the city official and Miss Chris-|

One Term Commuted |

| Gov. Schricker commuted the; life. term of Forest Wood, 69, | Winchester, to the 15 years he| |already has served. Wood was

{1936 on a murder charge in the| death’ of his wife. His parole, (however, -depends on the Prison ‘| Board’s action following. through! the Governor's commutation. Four other prisoners’ terms were commuted. They included: Melvin Dean, sentenced in Vigo

for robbery; term reduced to time served to 25 years. Alex Dudley, sentenced in Lake

man Edward H. Kruse Jr. will be sworn in today as judge of ‘Allen County Superior Court No 2 in Ft. Wayne. : Mr. Kruse's appointment by|: ENEEY Gov. Schricker was revealed in Ft. Wayne yesterday. - He will fill the unexpired term of Judge ‘George Leonard, who died Sunday. . Mr. Kruse was elected to Convgress in 1948 from Indiana’s Fourth District but was’ de Seated in his 1950 re-election bid| to represent Allen, Lagrange, . Steuben, Noble, Dekalb, Whitley, ‘Wells and Adams. Counties.

“Landlord Named In $25,000 Ouster Suit

CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (UP)—Mrs. Agnes Prangel, 56, charged yesterday tHat her landlord sprayed water on her when she entered or left his apartment building and started a bonfire under the car of her son, Chester. But the last straw, she charged in a Circuit Court suit seeking $25,000 damages from Peter Plesciuk, 53, was when he tampered with her basement wires| = leading to her apartment in an} attempt to force her out. . .. The tampering, she sald, knocked her electric refrigerator out of kilter, causing food to spoil, ~and upset the operations of her “electric clock to the point whege _she couldn’t tell the time of day. ~ %. Mr, Piescuik dénied the charges

as “false and silly,”

. GARBAGE COLLECTION ZONES—Saturday garbage col lections have been dropped and the department placed on a fiveday week, Collection zones and days of collection are shown above,

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County in 1944 to 10 to 20 years for burglary; term reduced to time served to 20 years. Kenneth Goodwin, sentenced in Wayne County in 1944 to 10 to 25 years for robbery; term reduced to time served to 25 years.

Eddie Arcaro’s Dad Bagged in Tax Raid

ERLANGER, Ky., Dec. 27 (UP) —Police Chief Charles E. Nelson revealed yesterday that a restau-| {rant operated by Pasquale Arcaro, father of Jockey Eddie Arcaro, was raided after the elder Arcatro purchased a federal gambling tax| stamp. | Arcaro was cited for permitting gaming on the permises. Elmo Steffen also was cited for setting up and operating a handbook in a back room of the place. The raid was the first conducted here since the stamps were issued.

Threotening Letter. . A 29-year-old-man. accused of writing a threatening letter to a Muncie resident was held today by Federal authorities under $100 bond in Marion County. jail fol-

fore a U.8. Commissioner. Paul Robert Jones, Muncie, is accused of mailing George Hawkins demanding $10,-

lowing a preliminary hearing be-|-

a letter tol’

000 to keep Hawkins’ house from being bombed.

snow by night in parts of Min-| vw. 'nin said. pesota and lowa and Wisconsin, Actress. Tallulah Bankhead's| with+ Illinois, Indiana and Michi- former maid. | gan receiving a helping tomorrow. The weathermen couldn't judge the severity o new storm yet but added the didn’t think it would equal the month period by force of the earlier blows which amounts o have buried Midwest farm lands|checks which the actress made = © "Lo ® oot 0” he bought and cities, . ww 8 Chicago traffic already. crawled] On and stalled on snow - clogged! Assistant streets and the new fall will prgb-/rome Kidder, Mrs. Cronin stuck! ably send the winter's total over{to her story that every penny of the 50-inch mark, 17 inches more/the raised checks went for Miss than an entire winter's portion. Sharp cold also added to the! i a artis jpoiress ater Miss Bankhead hit to New York shoe stores within School teacher, suffered a concus- | : a one-year period. caused residents of Wisconsin,ipenses and that afterward “when| northern Illinois, Iowa, northern/y ! Missouri, Minnesota and the Da- pothering her, I jist raised the kotas to bundle up. The mercury dipped to»15 below in Bismarck, N. D., ~ |below in Redwood, Minn. Chicago| g feimperatuzes. hovered. at the.ZeX0 seu mp pg SR a Asa i A Ag SA cabin layoff, yesterday's work stoppage, United ‘Nations soldier at a hospital near Seoul. He EER ER Yule Cheer Bubbles Over, The cross-examination brought] Dr. Lauriston C. Marshall, pro- might happen to hii some day,” ; : . op ‘| JOHANNESBURG, South [out that the white-haired defend-| fessor of electrical engineering at Mr. Moore's mother said. Africa, Dec. 27 .(UP)—Police said today that at least 25 persons] { were killed and countless others|in burlesque at one time and thatios pink-Belt Co.'s new research injured in a series of battles be-/once she had been suspected of|laboratory here today. He willithe way of sacrifice,” she said her tween Basuto and Zulu tribesmen ship-lifting. after they had celebrated Christ- ‘Bankhead checks, totaling more|plants in the U. 8, Canada andirifice my life or health I still {mas with illicit beer,

STRAUSS

SAYS:

of things that happened,” Mrs, Cro-| alysis today to aid them in tracks

“1 didn’t spend her ing down ‘the persons who blew up the home of a Negro leader,

the. . check-raising trial

{money."” Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, 59, the) During ial Same Desod: My. billing him and injuring his wife. {maid, - wound up three days of er brought out, Miss Bank-l pw, FBI agents, who joined said they/testimony in her own defense head wrote separate checks to ),.a1 ang a hotiiey the f the| yesterday. She is charged with Pay her hotel bills. He producediy, oqtigation, took samples of y|stealing $4284.60 during an 18- the hotel bills, with listings on eapth from around the wrecked | raising the their faces that they included home of Harry T. Moore and sont f 26 weekly expense SUCh items as drugs, groceries, ; 4, washington for analysis and cosmetics—things which Mrs, : Investigators hoped the tests expense Would enable: them to trace the purchaser of the explosive set off beneath the bedroom of the 46-year-old Florida state coordinator

for the National Association for bought shoes for Miss Bankhead. Mr. Kidder produced checks to- \n¢ Advancement of Colored Peo-

; taling about $1500 which the Pl: She said she was afraid of the ,.trags had written in payment - Mr. Moore's wife, Harriet, 49, a

lout to her. =

cross-examination by District Attorney Je-|

{with the money. Mrs. Cronin. also had testified several times earlier that she

incidental

|Bankhead's expenses.

sion and internal injuries. She “And you had to go out and Was reported in “fair” condition buy her shoes too?” he asked today at Sanford Hospital. h {Mrs. Cronin. | Their daughter, Anna Rosa, checks. : The defendant said that was and his mother Rosa, 71, were She repeated her previous testi-|pight, that Miss Bankhead used asleep in an adjoining room of {mony that expenses for which sheila Jot of shoes. . : |the house when the blast ocBO hiner SATIS, DUL Wore DOL INJUTed: es ean StripToanosen-methifikBelt Picks Aid... ded Crd i Et in

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“But the University of California athe told me, ‘I'm trying to do what erkeley, was appointed director|I can to elevate the Negro race.” “Every advancement comes by

ant had been a strip-tease artist

She identified six|head research for the firm's 16{son told her recently. “If I sac-

fthan $1700, which she received South Africa. think it is my duty for my race.”

USUAL STORE HOURS RESUMED—DAILY 9:30 TILL 5

If we may use a phrase that we heard over the Radio (We didn’t win a thing)— Can we help it—

if we can't help it!

If you were in—and failed fo find what you wanfed—won'f you fry again, please— Now that we've dug ourselves ouf— and stocks are in shipshape— you can count on smooth, orderly service!

It Starfed Wednesday Noon—With 2500 MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S SUITS : 900 MEN'S AND YOUNG MEN'S TOPCOATS AND OVERCOATS 700 MEN'S SPORTS JACKETS 1000 PAIRS MEN'S FINE SLACKS

And on the Women’s Floors—the THIRD ~ -

and FOURTH— 999 WOMEN'S (OATS—TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED

127 WOMEN'S SUITS 543 DRESSES | ; 2400 PAIRS WOMEN'S SHOES

Deeply, Sharply Reduced. THE SALE IS ON