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6APR49 30695 WHEELER OHIO STATE MUSEUM COLUMBUS, Your Dollars Will Help The Newark Advocate AMERICAN TRIBUNE 1820-AMERICAN, 1826 NEWARK, OHIO, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1948 ITALY TENSE ON EVE OF Man, Entrusted With $11.000, Keeps It (AP Wirephoto) Stephen S. Enoff (right), 53, laborer from Mansfield, is charged with grand larceny in Miami Beach, after signing statement saying he kept $11,000 handed him by Mrs. Julia Grech, New York, to hold while she went swimming, Detectives A. H. Leonard (left) and C.

A. Anderson (center) recovered cash. Holds Money for Woman While She Goes Swimming Miami, April 17. (AP) One dollar bill looks just like another -a fact which kept Miami police in something of a stew until Stephen S. Enoff, 53, of Mansfinalde and confessed to Whine it the belonged.

You see, Miami police had Plan Reburial Services for R. L. Smith Military funeral services for Pvt. L. Smith, U.S.

Army, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Smith, 212 Essex street, who was killed in action in France, Dec. 18, 1944, while serving with the infantry, will be held.30 p.

Thursday m. in the First United Brethren church under auspices of the Veterans of Pvt. Smith Foreign Wars. Rev. A.

B. Cox will conduct the service and reburial will be made in Cedar Hill cemetery. Pvt. Smith Pvt. Smith, a Tire former employe Rubber of the Pharis and company, was born August 22, 1925, in Newark, the son of Charles B.

and Stella (Roach) Smith. Inducted into the army Nov. 29, 1943, he received his military training at Ft. McClelland, and went overseas Nov. 17.

1944, where he met death less than month later, 19 years of He was a member of the a First United Brethren church of Newark. Surviving are the parents; three brothers, Charles Walter and Donald E. Smith of the home, and a sister Miss Bonnie Jean Smith of Gallipolis. Mrs. Elizabeth Roach of Newark is his grandmother.

The body will be moved to Criss Brothers funeral home Tuesday from the receiving depot Columbus and taken to the church at noon Thursday. Three Believed To Have Drowned Portsmouth, April men were believed drowned today in the flooded Scioto river after their rowboat overturned. Two companions swam to safety on a derailed freight train. Paul Webber, 19, and Dell Mann, 21, were the two who swam to the caboose of a Norfolk and Western train, 1,000 yards from the capsized boat. They expressed fear their companions had drowned.

They were Carl Steele, 18; his brother Wilfred, 30, and W. D. Shaw, 30. Webber said a wave upset the boat about 2 a. m.

and the last he saw of the other three they were clinging to a telephone pole. All except Shaw live in nearby Coles Park. Shaw was a visitor from Los Angeles. The train reached Portsmouth at 9:30 a. m.

Until then, Webber said he saw no trace of his friends in the water, except for the flickering of a flashlight. Three cars of the freight train were derailed as it proceeded along a track covered with water nearly 20 inches deep. The cars later were put back on the track. WEATHER NEWARK Sunny, warmer Sunday, followed by a little rain late Sunday night or Monday. (Table on Page 2).

PHONE 4056 PRICE 5 CENTS VOL. 182, No. 58 ELECTION Wallace Attacks Papers Scripp-Howard Group Blasted By Third Party Manager Washington, April 17. (AP) Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign manager, C.

B. Baldwin, said last night the Scripps Howard newspaper chain is "arousing prejudice and public passions and inciting violence against those with whom it disagrees." The third party official told the American Society of Newspaper Editors the Scripps-Howard group "is today in the forefront of those leading an assault on individual and political liberties." Adding he wanted to cite "actual he said that the Pittsburgh Press last week listed the names and addresses of signers of Progressive party nominating petitions in that city. Baldwin quoted the paper as saying in its story it would "be glad to publish the names of those who claim they did not actually sign a petition or did sO under irregular circumstances." Editor E. T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press said last Sunday in answer to similar charges by Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho, third party vice presidential candidate: "We are publishing these names as a matter of public information.

People interested see who is backing a new political party. Those names are part of the state record and no word of pressure or intimidation has been printed in connection with their Baldwin also referred to the action of a mob which broke into the home of a Communist and wrecked it in Columbus, Ohio, March 31. "For several days prior to the mob action," said Baldwin, "the Columbus Citizen published pictures of the man's home together with his address and telephone number. "The Columbus and Pittsburgh papers involved are members of the Scripps-Howard chain. I am sure that Mr.

Howard and his editors will have defenders. But no honest man can ignore the fact that a responsible' paper chain has incited mob newshysteria, creating the very conditions of intolerance and hatred of which liberties guarantee the destruction has for which the press traditionally held itself to be the defender." Sunny Weather Is Coming Sunday, Says Little Moe "Sunny day," chirped vocate's weather WOLF WOLF weather's coming Sunlittle Moe, The Adprophet, as he dug out his fishing tackle and said he was "gonna run out land drop a line or two in the waters of Wolf lake." But." protested The Adreporter, "there's no Wolf WARM lake around here." Moe just smiled quizzically and retorted: "Hmmm, pal, ever hear Buckeye?" The mere rose quickly into the lower 70s early this morning under a bright sun. Yesterday's high mark was 73, the overnight low 28 with light frost reported from several sections of the county. A year ago today the extremes were 53 and 27. Hike Water Price Youngstown, A April 17.

(AP) The Mahoning valley sanitary district has asked a price increase of about percent for water sold in Youngstown and Niles in a petition filed in common pleas court. Missing MRS. PEMBERTON Authorities Search for Local Woman Local authorities today pressed search for Mrs. Betty Pemberton, 24-year-old Newark mother of three children, who may be an amnesia victim. She has been missing from her home at 865 Weiant avenue since Monday.

The missing woman received a serious head injury in a motorcycle accident April 1. She vas hospitalized and was treated for a cerebral concussion. Her husband Homer was injured in the same mishap. Pemberton said his wife left home Monday on an errand downtown. She was wearing a brown plaid skirt, white jersey sweater, green overcoat and was carrying a black pocketbook.

A check of relatives, thus far has failed to reveal Mrs. Pemberton's whereabouts. Mrs. Pemberton is five feet, one inch in height, weighs about 130 pounds, black hair and dark grey eyes. Plebiscite for Germany Is Rejected Berlin, April 17.

-(P)-- The United States rejected today pleb- a Communist request for a iscite on the question of German unity. The rejection was accompanied by a warning to the German people against "the kind of unity brings economic and political slavery." "people's congress," a munist controlled organization recognized only by the Soviet military administration, asked for permission the plebiscite in the U. S. zone. Maj.

Gen. George P. Hays, deputy American military governor, rejected the request. He said the congress represented only a small percentage of the been approved by allied conGerman people ande never has trol authority. The congress sent a similar request to the British and French.

Meanwhile, in Frankfurt American authorities announced the second increase in the basic food ration for the British-American zones in two months. The May ration will be 1,593 calories daily, compared with 1,560 in April. Previously it was 1,550. In another phase of the German picture British sources said the Russians had made a tardy effort to meet again with the British to investigate the April 5 collision of a British transport and Soviet fighter plane. Steel Plants Resume East Liverpool, April 17.

(P) Crucible Steel Co. today recalled 350 employes and stepped up operations at its East Liverpool and Midland. plants for renewed production following end of the coal strike. Killed In Accident London, April 17. (AP) Jay Arnold Weidel, 40, Hamilton, 0., was killed last night when automobile overturned on Route 142 six miles east of London.

companion, Paul H. Schuler Hamilton was injured. Cabinet Is Formed by 5 Powers To Enforce Military, Political, Economic Provisions Of Union Paris, April five-power western European bloc formed an international cabinet today to enforce the military, political and economic provisions of their union. Foreign ministers of France, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg designated their ambassadors in London to meet at least once a month with a British representative. They also set up a permanent military committee to meet at London.

Defense ministers of the five nations will meet whenever it is necessary to carry out military provisions of the treaty signed at Brussels last month. The five foreign ministers will form a permanent consultative council to meet at least once every three months. The foreign ministers, in a dayconference in the French foreien. ministry, heard Spaak, reports premier and foreign minister of Belgium, on his recent talks in Washington. The council of European ministers on the Marshall plan, the world's newest political and economic legislature, called its first working session here today.

The council is composed of foreign ministers, or others representing signers of the agreement yesterday which set up the European organization for economic cooperation. It meets in the French foreign ministry. At the same time, nations of the western European union are to confer privately on the possibility of American military support for their new alliance, formed in Brussels last The foreign ministers of Britain, France. Luxembourg and Netherlands and the acting foreign ministers of Belgium are to take part. 22 Are Killed Train Wreck Crew.

England, April 17. (AP) A -London mail train plowed into a stalled express near here today, killing 22 persons and injuring 28 others in the splintered wreckage of seven passenger coaches. Survivors said a passenger had stopped the express 20 minutes before pulling an emergency cord. They did not say why. The wreck worst since Britain's railways passed into government hands Jan.

1-occurred at 12:40 a. British Summer Time (6:40 p. EST Friday) near Winsford, Cheshire. A British railways press officer said the mail train hit the rear of the London-bound express. Winsford is about 150 miles northwest of London.

Seven coaches of the passenger train were wrecked and four coaches of the mail train derailed. The survivors said the mail train tore. through the coaches at high speed. Rescuers, working by improvised lights, dug into the wreckage for injured, who could be heard screaming. Water was sprayed to protect rescuers from possible fires as they hacked through the torn coaches with acetylene torches.

Doctors administered morphine to sufferers who could be reached through was the set debris. near A temporary morgue up scene. The wounded were distributed among hospitals and infirmaries in Winsford and neighboring communities. Poor Oats Crop Tiffin, April 17. (AP) Seneca county farmers today faced the prospect of a subnormal oats crop due to recent his wet weather.

Indications are that not more than 10 percent of the A land In the county usually of planted in oats will be sowed this year. Future Of Nation Hangs In Balance Rome, April fateful parliamentary election will thrown into the grip of Between 300,000 and 400,000 ballot boxes Sunday and Monday feeling of tenseness crept over which will determine whether Russian Communism or line police and guardsmen were as Italy's poverty-stricken Italians Wind Up Hot Campaign (NEA Telephoto) With massed banners, some 30,000 Communists jammed square at Milan, Italy, yesterday, in front of ancient cathedral, to hear Party Leader Palmiro Togliatti's three hour attack on U. S. as both sides wound up pre-election campaigns. 31,000 Affected By Flood In Four States Cincinnati, April flood crest of the river swung down on Cincinnati today while across the river at Newport, workers fought an -the-clock battle against the rising water.

Newport city police said townspeople and 640 soldiers would win their fight to keep the Licking river from an area housing 10,000 persons. But, it was an enormous task. Early today, they said, weary workers had piled sandbags eight to 10 feet high for 2,000 feet, and would pile them a foot higher as added precaution. The Licking joins the near Cincinnati. Two high ohios school girls--Mary Jane Burchett, 16, and Wanda Mowery, 17-drowned at Friendship, nine miles downstream from Portsmouth, 0., last night.

They were sightseeing with four others in a boat that overturned. The other four were rescued. The toll of human life now stands at four. Two earlier 74-Year-Old Man Hurt Here When Horse Acts Up Ed Wynne, the famous comedian made the famous remark, "I'll stick my horse," but Philip Hamilton, 74, -233 Selby street, will never be qualified to repeat it. Yesterday while riding his horse in South Sixth street, it and threw the aged equestrian to the ground, spraining his back.

Taken to his home by policemen. Hamilton remarked: "That horse never did that before." St. Francis Youths In Detroit For Broadcast By BILL DIEHL Detroit, April 17 Students from more than 100 Catholic high schools out the nation, including seven boys Newark's own St. Francis de Sales, have arrived in the Motor City to perform an experiment unique in music. The idea of a national high school chorus was developed by Dr.

Harry Seitz and Rev. Fr. Emmet Kelly. Since last November, the students were trainled by nuns and brothers. Italy today on the eve of a the center of Christendom up with western Democracy.

alerted and will guard the millions troop to the polls. Mario Scelba, whose interior ministry controls police, said in his last campaign speech here last night: "The government will be on the watch. If the liberty of the vote should be compromised, it would not hesitate to take the most measures, even suspension radical, elections." He repeated his oft-made charge that Genoa's Communist mayor had issued 30,000 false voting certificates, three to Soviet employes of the Genoa Russian consulate. 000 and it was up to them and the courts to decide whose money it was. At first, Enoff said he won it betting on the dogs.

Mrs. Julia Grech of New York City said was her janitor husband's money. savings. She said she gave it and a money belt to Enoff to hold while she went swimming March 28. Detectives Frank Love and R.

B. Simpson arrested a man whom Mrs. Grech said had taken the money. He was picked up in MiDetective Supt. Charles W.

Pierce identified him as Enoff. He quoted the Ohioan as saying: "If she says it's hers, let her prove it. I won it at the dog ragater, however, Enoff signed a statement saying he kept $11.000 handed him by Mrs. Grech to hold while she went swimming. Pierce said detectives found money in various safety deposit boxes and bank accounts in Miami and $1,004 on Enoff.

They also seized a 1939 automobile which Enoff said he had bought recently. Mrs. Grech said she kept her money in a belt because she "doesn't trust banks," Pierce told newsmen. Triplets Are Doing Well It was reported by Newark hospital at noon today that condition of the triplets born there Friday to Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond Kelley, West Church street, continues to be good. The mother. a twin herself, was delivered Friday at noon by Caesarian section and her condia tion is also satisfactory. Attending physicians are of the opinion the babies, who were placed in an incubator, have a good chance to survive. Will Coordinate Ohio Resources Ohioans turned today to the task of writing proposed legislation that would establish state department of parks and a state agencies dealing with natural resources.

Appointed Thursday, they will a subcommittee of the Ohio Program Commission's Conservation Committee. Ray Howard, London publisher, is chairman. Other members: Clay H. Stackhouse Wakeman, Ray M. White of Millersburg, J.

Frank Atwood of Columbus, Willi am Stinchcomb of Cleveland, Victor Jacobs of Dayton, State Rep. Richard H. Woods (R-Cleveland) and R. L. Ireland of Cleveland.

State, Conservation Commissioner H. A. (Buck) Rider told the committee yesterday that the present conservation division ought to be left alone. Ohio, he said, is a "farm-game" state, and the division is under the State Argiculture Department. Columbus, April 17.

(AP) Heidelberg College Bans 'Hell Week' Tiffin, April 17. (AP) Heidelberg college will have no more fraternity initiation "Hell Week," the faculty executive committee ruled vesterday. The committee said the tended initiation, while no worse than at other schools, sometimes results in property destruction. But he said government's recent show of strength had "removed fear" from the minds of Italians. He said measures have been taken to assure that the election "cooling period" began under a cabinet decree forbidding further political meetings.

The authoritative Rome newspaper Messagero quoted Christian Democratic Premier Alcide De Gasperi as saying in a Naples interview last night he thought his party would do better this time than in the constituent assembly election of June 6, 1946. In that election, it polled 35.2 percent of the vote and elected 207 of 555 deputies. Both De Gasperi and Communist Leader Palmiro Togliatti spoke in the windup of campaigning. In Washington, on the eve of the Italian election, the Economic Cooperation Administration said $20,424,000 more in food, coal and other commodities will be shipped to that country, France and The Netherlands. The western powers also landed their final blow of the Italian election campaign today with a third demand on Russia for a yesor -no answer on the Trieste question.

Just six hours before the formal wind up of the Italian campaign, United States, Britain and France called on Moscow to quit stalling over their proposal to turn Trieste back to Italy. The western demand served as a final reminder to millions of Italians voting Sunday that Rus. sia blocks the way to the bor. der city's return. The closing diplomatic stroke climaxed a long series of measures aimed at winning friends for western democracy in the strategic nation.

The greatest step in that direction was passage this month of the vast European Recovery Program, under which American supplies already are flowing to Italy. U. S. shipments of food, coal and other aid to the Mediterranean country since V-J day now total an estimated $1,900,000,000. deaths were attributed indirectly to the flood.

At Newport, Catlettsburg, Ashland and Covington-at a dozen towns along the Kentucky shore -relief agencies cared for the homeless by the hundreds. The Red Cross at Cincinnati said last night that some 31,000 persons had been affected by the flood in four states. The agency gave these figures: Kentucky: 21 counties hit, 123 families evacuated, 20 emergency shelters in operation and more than 16,000 persons affected. ilies evacuated and 21 shelters in Ohio: 14 counties hit, 2,106 operation. West Virginia: Eight counties hit, 745 families evacuated, nine shelters in operation.

Indiana: Eight counties hit, 254 families evacuated, and more expected as the crest approaches. Four shelters now in operation, others available. The report did not include families that moved themselves and families that have moved into second floor rooms in flooded areas. No estimate of those families was available. The flood's focus today, however, was here in southwestern Ohio and in northern Kentucky.

U. S. river forecaster George R. Martin predicted the river would crest here at noon, touch64.3 feet. "The Ohio crested at 63.7 feet at Portsmouth at 10 p.

m. last night, several hours before a crest was anticipated," Martin said. "Since time. the river between Portsmouth' and Cincinnati has been ft out rapand on that basis am predicting a Cincinnati crest of 64.3 feet by noon. Allege Son Killed Mother With Chair Cincinnati, April A murder charge has been filed against George Cook, 40, the death yesterday of his mother, 68-year-old Mrs.

Emma Cook. Police Lt. Orville Burleson said Mrs. Cook made a statement before her death alleging she was beaten with a piece of a chair. Cook has contended his mother was injured in a fall.

Traffic Victim Wooster, April 17. (AP) Raymond G. Conn, 29, was killed yesterday when his automobile struck a culvert on Route 1 near Wooster. News Briefs NEW YORK-Executive council of AFL Typographical union rejects contract negotiated between 13 New York papers and 2,500 ITU printers. WASHINGTON Government scientists.

discover new method for making paper which promises to save vast quantities of wood pulp. PITTSBURGH Landslide threatens three home, highway and a railroad. NEW YORK Striking AFL stock exchange employes refer problem to Mayor William O'Dwyer. NANKING-Gen. Chiang KaiShek gets new emergency powers after.

rebuking China's national assembly. -Thirty U. S. fighter planes land here en route to Turkey under the Greek Turkish military aid program. SAN -Report received four U.

S. Marine flyers captured after forced landing in Chinese Communist territory. WASHINGTON- Two ScrippsHoward editors deny charge by Henry Wallace that their newspaper chain is "arousing prejudice and public passions and inciting violence." LANCASTER, Tobacco growers demand federal investigation of trade practices developed in marketing tobacco. BERLIN-Official sources say 63 American families in Berlin want U. S.

military government to send them home. LAKE SUCCESS- United Nations security, council tells Arabs and stop fighting in Palestine. Arriving here Thursday Newark were: Walter Ehret, August Selby, Thomas Frischen, Frank Graham, John Bakos, Regis McKenna and Paul Shannon. They compromise the local music group known as the "Singing Waiters." Friday they held their first rehearsal together Rackham Memorial hall. The 270 young singers were letter-perfect, according to Dr.

Seitz. chorus will have a busy schedule during the convention lof the National Catholic Educators Association. Sunday morning they will sing the motet "Regina Coeli" and High Mass in Blessed Sacrament cathedral, In the afternoon they will give a concert in Detroit's Music hall. Sunday evening they will be heard as part of the "Sunday Evening Hour" with the Detroit symphony at 8 p. m.

This program is a feature of the American network of the American Broadcasting company. Radio station WCOL in Columbus is the local outlet for ABC. Persons with FM radios will be able to hear the program over WCOLFM. A visitor at the conference, Mrs. Herbert Witherspoon, widow of the famous Metropolitan Baritone met the Newark boys and other members of the big choral group praised their work.

She said music education in primary schools tends to be lop-sided with too much emphasis on symphonic music. The Newark boys are residing in private homes here during their stay in Detroit. They plan to return to Newark early day morning. Proclaims Mother's Day Columbus, April 17. (AP) Gov.

Thomas J. Herbert has proclaimed May 9 as Mother's I Day..