The Newark Advocate from Newark, Ohio • 1

Advocate THERMOMETER Noon reading today on Th Advocate thermometer 26. Yesterday high 43, night low 26. WEATHER ARK Cloudy, windy much colder tonight and Thursday; occasional tnow flurries. (Table on Page 3.) American Tribune ADVOCATE ESTABLISHED 1820 AMERICAN, 1826 NEWARK, OHIO, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1950 (TWENTY PAGES) PRICE 5 CENTS VOL. 188, No.

40 0)0 Lo)lTQU Hie mm warn 4 MS wm Death Sets Big Cat Free Defense In Pure Oil's Heath Re finery Ohio Mine Guilty Plea Entered By Dr. Fuchs Wandering Leopard Expires After Eating Druciied Meat Marks 30th Is Five Pioneers on Paro Dynamited Strike Case Is Opened New Labor-Operator Talks Get Under Way As Trial Near End u' a ciirwrnv i i today's observance will be prin-V-ASHINGTON. March 1 oipily within the plant, now (AP) The government today grown to one of the principal re-i. tu. fining plants in Ohio.

completed its care in the con- Fitvmm at Heath have been tempt-of-court trial of John with Pure Oil for the full 30 i ii- vears or more, and some, includ- L. Lewis United Mine Work- ing Manaser'Gene McPherson, ers. been at Heath since the first The UMW moved for a di- UJti- missal of all the contempt x. Schuler. William E.

Nikolaus, charges brought because the and Carroll E. White. Their years coal miners have flouted a th rompany total 160 The history of Heath Refinery 11 court order that they pPoperly before the ref.n-return to work. ery date of completion in 1920, Judge Richmond B. Keech de- includes an appreciation of rued the motion and told UMW th farsightedness of the pioneers aitornevs to bo ahead with their who founded the Pure Oil Thirty years ago Wednesday morning, recessing started at the en built in less than year.

There was no big celebration then, and day of processing. The other Vet- pran flr JflmM FMiiVinrtv Rav of which Heath is a key unit. THE OHIO CITIES Gas Co, forerunner of the Pure Oil had Jhe raw materials with which to work. Their officials recognized the size and demand of the market and determined that an area near Newark would provide an advantageous operating location with labor, materials, and freight rates which would be Neivark Man On Shooting defense. Welly K.

Hopkins, miners' chief counsel, contended the govein- WASHINGTON, March 1 (fV) John Owens, secretary treasurer of the United Mine Workers, testified today the union's officers have made ev ery effort to end the coal strike. Above are pictured the five old-timers, who have been with the Heath Refinery since It began production here years ago. Center is E. E. McPhenon, manager, who joined Pure Oil Feb.

16, 1921. Top left William E. Nikolaus, with Pure Oil since Sept. 1, 1S1; bottom left. J.

B. Fluharty, with Pure Oil since Jan 1, 1920: top right, Ray T. Schuler, with Pure Oil since Aug. 1, 1913; and bottom -right, Carroll t. White, with the company since Dec, 22, 1919.

comparable with those of neigh- ment testimony was insufficient boring plants to prove the charges of contempt Following the decision to lo-He said it did not show any actual cat a 7,500 barrel refinery near participation by the union in the Newark, a plot of land belonging continued strike. Hopkins has re- to E. H. Everett, Newark indus-pea-tedly argued since the trial oTnTinurt on pr 3. Column i Oklahoma City's famous meandering leopard pictured In front of a portable rage shortly after IU recapture when it returned to the too to gulp drugged meat set out for it.

The big eat died 15 hours later. (AP Wirephoto, Copyright, 1950, by Oklahoma Publishing Co.) OKLAHOMA CITY, March 1 Cay's meandering leopard died yesteiday after a fling ut freedom. The crafty creature escaped from his prison pit al the Lincoln Park Zoo Saturday. His leap from the 18-foot deep pit, as a group ri children looked on, set off a wave of encitement which had a nation gasping for news on the hunt which followed for tne jungle-kUler. The 175-pound cat, fresh from Adia'j jungles, came sneaking home after midnight yenteiday like a runaway boy hungry.

IT WAS APPARENTLY huncer which indirectly took the life of the leopard after 61 hours of carousing through northeastern Oklahoma County's brushland and gulleys Two solid helpings of the uual diet placed (Continued on Pajje 12, Column 4) Howard Nichols, 47, late Tuesday afternoon heard a petit jury verdict returned in common pleas court acquitting him on the charge of shooting at Mn. Zerallne K. Hoffer, on Oct. 15. 1949, with intent to kill.

Dt-fian ma i' me miners nave qun work by individual decisions and (Continued on Pmt 3. Column 4) City Airport To Be Theme Of Broadcast A discussion of Newark's airport problem, postponed from last Thursday, will be heard at 8 p. m. Thursday over Radio Sta- over nauio aia- tion WCLT as a continuation nf the series "What Would You sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. inc scraon win con- aucxea oy me iouowing man panel: service Director hi-! gar nare: Councilman Robert uar nare; councilman noDert I i The jury deliberating less Abandon Nighl Meetings a unanimous not guilty verdict the verdict bv of Courts Is A equ ilted Jnife than half an hour, returned ii i.

Following the reading of oien fyle, the near-capacity Hits Trucker, w- w-v i Iff fippc I in I Ilk Oil ulCO tt.fl Driving Trial of the Wince Welding Supply 71 crowd of spectators in the' courthouse watched Nichols- as he rmirlrlv wailtpH in ihn Inrv hn and thanlrpd arV. momhor Jh Scliooh To Save Coal Newark Board of Education, acting on the -tcommenrla- tion of BIdg. Supt. Walter Deweese, announced Wednesday that no meetings of any kind will be held in Newaik Public Wells, chairman of Council's aviation committee; Lewis Ash-ling brook; and Greer L. Long.

Long! Jurist Says Jekyll-Hyde Physicist Did 'Irreparable Harm' LONDON', March 1 (AP) Dr. Klaus Fuchs. the Jekyll-Hyde mastermind of British atomic research, was sentenced to 14 yeiis in primn today on his pleu of guilty to betraying the topmost secrets to Communist Russia. At the close of a swift trial in historic Old Bailey Court, the Lord Chief Justice, Baron Ck ddard, flayed the 38-year-old German-born scientist as an inrate refugee who had bitten the hand that fed him and had done "irreparable harm hMh to this land and the United of America The tri; only an hour and a half I one witnesi was called--H Security Officer Will.aii. .) kardon, who told the coui-t Fuchs confessed to giving i atomic see-rets to Russinti over a period of THE WITNESS Vd by the defense.

He saM had) co-operated fully vwt'i ties and that without could not h-- cn charged. The owlish, bespectacled was giver, the maximum sentence for violation of Britain's Official Secrets Act. At no tune were any details of the secrets he betrayed disclosed publicly. He was charged on four count. Despite Fuchs' apparent attitude of contrition, his lawyer, Derek Curtis-Bennett, told reporters "an appeal is being considered." "You have imperilled the right of which this country (Ci'Mlnufd on t'mur 'i.

Column 2) Evidence Of Prior Deth 1101 MANCHESTER. N. H. March 1 The defense today read into the recurds a statement by a fellow physician that Mrs. Abbie Borroto was dead before Dr.

Hermann N. Sander ever reached iier bedside. The statement reportedly was made by Dr. Albert Snay, who examined the' cancer ridden woman the morning of Dec. 4 a few minutes before Dr.

Sander aanaer is on trial on charge of first degree murder. Dr. Snay was quoted as saving he carefully examined Mrs. Borroto. found no pulse, no reflex of the eyeball, no heart sound through a stethoscope and therefore: "I CONCLUDED then that she as dead 'The patient appeared to he Hone," read Dr.

Snav's statement 'Dr. Sander walked in. and I said to the effect there is nothing to be done." Dr. Snay's statement said that he himself then continued to the main office of the HillslK.ro County Hospital here Mrs Borroto died. "I made no report on the case because I knew it was Dr.

Sander's and he would make the necessary report." the statement said. Dr. Snay's statement further related that he later met Dr. (Continued nn F'mte 2. Column 4i Drunken Driver Is Fined $100; Loses License Fred S.

Tra.ighher. 57, of 815 Garfield was fined $100 arif) nuts by Judge Harvey J. Alexander in Municipal Court Wednesday or i after he pleaded guilty t0 the charge of driving while intoxicated. His driver's license as revoked for one year. Traughber was arrested bv police at East Main and O'Bannon Avenue at 1 30 a.

m. A charge of reckless driving against Ralph Harper. Chatham, was continued until Thursday. The affidavit had been filed by Edna Fonts. 407 Maple Avenue.

In connection with an accident in the vicinitv of Room belt School on Feb. 17. Dean R. Telaroll. Columbus, forfeited a i fine for failing to appear in court on tVie ehumn of driving through i red light 'st 3rd n4 West Main Street i i acidly auetnoon.

and Ashbrook are holders ofiT -TVT onvate oilots1 license, and havel (Continued on Page 8. Col. 7) Will Cut Coal Supply Although Trucks Can Still Be Loaded (By The Associated Press) A dynamite blast wrecked the tipple of the Reoer Coal Co. strip mine at Bergholz, ,0., today, trimming further the amount of fuel for Ohio furnaces. State highway patrolmen are investigating the early I morning blart, which blew 'out windows at three nearby homes.

Patrolmen aid there iwere no injuries and esti mated damage at The non-union mine, which normally employs 22 men. had been closed temporarily because of bad weather and there was no watchman present. ALTHOUGH timbers in the tipple were wrecked, machinery; was undamaged, patrolmen added. It has been used to load Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad cars. Trucks may still be loaded.

The mine is one of several in' Jefferson County where the United Mine Workers are forbidden by a court injunction from intcifcrring in anv way with operations. Meanwhile. the American i Steel and Wire Co hanked I last blast furnace, in I Yesterday the United States Steel subsidiary had banked its other furnac. Lost will be the approximately 1,500 tens of pig imn the two furnace produced daily. Some 3u0 employes were hid off.

EIGHT CARLOADS of industrial coal were delivered today to assure heat for some 1,000 hos-ipila! patients in the rtate's larg est city. The coal, normally used to refine oil and grease, was transferred to the city of Cleveland by (C'ontlnunl on fine 12 Column i Fire Claims Lives oi Three In Hillsboro HILLSBORO. March A brother and two sisters burned to death early today in a trailer parked 50 yards from their farm house four miles north of here. Deputy Highland County Coroner Dr. A.

M. Brenner reported. Dr. Brenner listed the victims as: John Albert Runk, 70. and his sisters.

Miss Fannie Rur.k. 77, and M.ss Otta Mae Runk. 6.V All three had been in feeble health, authorities reported. The deputy coroner said he had not determined definitely why the three lived in the trailer instead of their farm house. A neighlKr living a quarter of a mile away saw the trailer in flames at 2:30 a.

and called the Hillsboro Fire Department. By ti time firemen arrived al! three were dead. Dr. Brenner said two of the 1kkJ fra, ics were found inside the trailer, charred. The third, that of Mivs Otta Mae, was found mtidr the trailer.

Lawrence Chaney. who take. care or tne siock on tne HjnK farm said he believed fie vas tl)p jast to Pe tne frjn "rnal was at 9 30 p. m. last night he said.

He told authorities that at that time he turned down the flames of two stoves in the trailer a bottle gas stove and a fuel oil stove. Million Fire Ravages "Spokane Hotel SPOKANE. Wash March iPi- A million dollar hotel fire was controlled early today after a six hour fight by 230 firemen, More than 250 guests and per- said it had checked in more than 250 evacuees without a report 6f serious injury. Four firemen were overcome bv smoke, Estimate of the damage was made by a Spokane realtor and business poverties manager, iTheodort Gallaad. Schools after 5 p.

m. due to the coal shortage. The ruling is effective March 6 and will be enforced unt'l the coal situation improves. Dewee.ie said there is about a 10-day supply of coal on hand in the Newark schools. Licking County schools average about a two weeks supply.

One; Service Director Edgar Hare school, however, has a three-day pointed out the city dots not use amount but has "pnupects of get-; much coal for its power, using tine more." Coal sunolv e.tl-'..l.-riMtv At Watr- North Buena Vista Street, was Vlallon- representative or pub-in fair condition in Newark Hos- of around 90 per rent of Wednesday morning after newspapers circulated eing struck by an auto on West in lhe Lnited States. National Drive Tuesday evening, "he ANPA feels that if the buring the trial, the state had! contended that the defendant a bullet in direction of the home of Mrs Hoffer and that the bullet nearly struck her while the was look- out the window. A bullet Hoffer and that the bullet nearly taken bv oollce officers from the Member of Cl-IX iXLeaiCCXl 0101! LlSteCl IMlSSinQ TV C- I been enlisted in the search for TW HI i iwun m. tt iiikii bssim- nn tA4m1 RaTtimr- flhm XiyA who disappeared from Kewai a little more than a week ago. Dr.

Wingard was last seen here Feb. 20, according to Dr. D. T. Williams, chief medical ex- mirr at the and O.

His 1M9 Plymouth sedan was found near DeUw.rp a wew un nrVH alnncr fht Kiohuav with lh gasoline tank emptv'. State high- nrnim. n. T. i mates were based on weather 1 wrhs Plant, pumps are operated i alleged to have injected air in-conditions as in the past few tricallv.

Hare said about two to her veins. flnti Trust Paper Starts By JA.MliS B. SIBBISON CLEVELAND, March 1 M'i Aft- KwvL-iumt-ni opens us ursi court casc t()dav against a ncws. wm oam. a i.

paper accused of injuring the business ot a competing radio sta tion- In an anti-trust suit that prom ises to last several weeks, the U. S. Attorney General has charged the Lorain. Journal with refusing to accept advertising from business houses advertising through Radio 'Station WEOL of Elyria. O.

It has denied the charges. Because of its unprecedented nature, this caae hat drawn in as a friend of the court the Amer- lcnn. newspaper Fublishen Asso- wins r-qje-ted iui" mint me journal. uicii. 'For the first time in history Pres this country Will tC unJpfl order requiring it to 've ccpss lls to anyone who demands the same, If 'f1 cces he granted to advertisers, it follows that it must granted to those who wish to disseminate information either in "le nature news or eaitorial comment, irrespective of the judgment of the as to its value or importance." The general charge the Journal that the and of its officers had rm- bined to "restrain and monnpo- he the dissemination of news.

advertising, and other infutma- Mi iiiiion anti-trust act." (Continued on Column 2) Mm. PkIJ WrrtA WwlU Heads For Ohio WASHINGTON. March l-4'i A new cold wae if striking into Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and the western parts of New York and Pennsylvania, the Weather Bureau reported today. The mercury is expected to dip as low as ero in western New orK. special nunenn ma added "Cold antic is sweeping soutnward ml" the northern plains and G.

et Lakes region from central Canada and the Hudson Bay area Snow squalls days. If zero weather hits the county, the school sjpply will rut be sufficient in many cas. ALTHOUGH MEAGER sup plies continue to dwindle in local yards, the city itself has managed to escape serious trouble due to the lack of coal here liuiiiium House Is Business of the car which is now hpid finished making a deliverv in a Delaware eaiaee. awaitma'or oxygen at 26 National a legal claimant. ACCORDING TO highway patrol, no trace -of the missing "-j wife lived for several months in Ti.c men folks mav not know it, but you mothers know it The ii.en foUs' mav think that the are the financial wizards.

You women who manage a home on a wcely budget do a real job of "business management It isn't just a question of food for regular meals, there are cluthe-, furmtuie and dozen? of other itetis to be considered. POSSIBLY YOl' DON'T ieahe ho.v helpful' the ads in the paper aie You mav read an ad tonight and not be ready to purchase that radio or living room chair, but when you do get ready, you will recall what that ad said to you today. Since the arts in the paper are jour business just as much as they' are our business, it is important for you to htip us improve thee ads just be a reader. Don't try to he an "expert" CASH AWARDS. FOR BEING HELPFUL AWAIT RF.AD-F.RS HOSE OPINIONS ARE NEAREST TO WHAT THE MOST READERS DECIDE ARE BEST.

The driver of the car. II. R. McClain, 50. of 158 Wilwood Avamia iw Kftto kaU ia l- hi-iu uj c- nn rkBrtta 4 if i 1 1 intnxiratevi anH hi nrn.riitinn is being delayed pending the out- come of Wince's injuries Wince suffered to the legs and right shoulder, lacers- tions, and internal injuries.

An X-rav Wednesday re- vealed net fractures. Wince was takn to the hospital a House- holder ambulanc shortlv after the accident at 7 35 ni. Police rnorteH that haH i Drive and had started to walk around the truck to get in the cab when struck by the other vehicle iftv, iktui 2nd Street, and a special county, Pavement can be made In ervice, you readers are qualified to tell us what improvement may be. best "ly OUJ)' 'Vernon Arms. 833 Mt.

294 Elm wood Avenue. I Road. According to theJohnson 5URhtandJie)dthedriver until rrnntlniiari fin P. IS Tnliimn Si O'nnl P. 1 1 I long boen active in local aviation circles.

They were among the group which achieved the ro- opemng of Newark Airport after it was closed early in World War II. Moderator of the pro- gram will be City Editor Paul W. Reed of The Advocate. I Tdo l.A. 1-' the limelight recently because of 1 ii tnii ii Ji ii'iiiiuri niiuii 01 il A a a rr.

c.iM operating the field. Last year. Council had so engineering firm survey Newark for a possible new airport site, using funds nrnvtHprl hv In. ftrtTni72 The federal' government will not approve expansion on the pres-rnt site because of hazards to flying BULLETINS WASHINGTON Horn armed services committee brands removal of Adm. Louis Denfeld as chief ef Naval operations as "reprisal" for his "frank and honest" criticism of unification and national defense planning.

NEW YORK Nation-wide vtrike of (round crewmen against American Air linos Mart over waft increase demand. ATHENS. Third man in-dieted In hammer slaying of church worker oleads guilty to tirst-def rre murder. Trial before three Judges set for March 27. TRENTON.

J. Gov, Al. fred E. Ilrhcoll order slate seiiure of New Jersey, Bell Telephone Co. during studv of labor dispute by arbitration board.

LONDON Foreign ministers of Atlantic Pact nations plan to meet this spring, probably la Europe. Today's Chuckle When you are younf, you do a lot of whishful thinking: but after the veari hart piled on. you do a Tot of thoughtful wishing. The Was KaZett. i i I I I tons of coal arc still used daily the plant which previously burned about 18 tons per day.

I 'However." he added, "after March 15 r.u coal will be needed at the plant since equipment eliminating its um- is being in- i oi.n!inul mi l'se lf I'oittn Tit Electric Spellman. Real Estate and Insurance Rrickels, Inc. Jake's Sandwirn Shop WOW LV-d Car Co. Robinson Radio K. Television Inc.

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11 any im-VcentiniMMPst Uwu'a ern Kentucky; and 15 to 20 in wuthern -Kentucky, bolder weather Is ajw predicted east- ward to the middle Atlantic This cold and winriv weather will continue throueh tThiirsdar and Fndav over north- eastern I'mted Suits.".