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Sign Post
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(AP)
- The outcome of a special Penn
§ylv Z.ia election tomoirow may go
= Jong way toward sbafiaing cam-~
paign strategy for the 1950 Con
yressional elections.
From the outside, the battle
iooks close between Mrs. Ethel
Coffey, Democrat, and” John P.
Saylor * Republican, for the con
gressional post in the 20th district.
Mrs. Coffey is seeking to succeed
nher war hero son, Rep. Robert L.
Coffey, jr., killed in a plane crash
\ast spring.. Saylor is a Johnstown
lawyer and war veteran.
Personalities have . almost been
<wallowed up, however, in what is
egarded as a strategy battle be
-Iween the Republicans and Demo
crats.
Republicans have seized on Pre
<ident Truman’s announced inten
sion of taking a personal part in
ihe 1950 congressional struggle. In
the closing weeks of the campaign,
:hey have been concentrating their
sire on the President and on the
Democratic congress.
Democrats, on the other hand,
.ave tried to bring about a wed
ing of labor and farm voters in a
istrict where cne county ic high
v industrialized and two are pre
iominantly rural. Mrs. Coffey, a
natron of 55, has pitched her cam
vaign on one of President Tru
,an’s favorite topics, proposed re
eal of the Taft-Hartley act.
Like many other members of his
arty, Saylor has been talking
bout the “staism”—he defines it
s the “socialist-inspired welfare
<tate” —he said the Truman ad
ministration wants to bring about
n this country.
Republicans held a 7,000 margin
n registrations in a district repre
sented by a GOP member since
1938, until Coffey won last fall.
Democrats were credited then with
a much tighter organization.
Both sides agreed in advance
that the outcome is likely to be
close. Both were prepared to hail
# victory there as a sign of the na
tionwide trend that could be ex
vected next year.
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WALLACE BUTTS -
University of Georgia
Ki is T
\iwanis O
Hear Butts
Coach Wally Butts of the Uni
versity of Georgia will be guest
speaker at tomorrow’s meeting of
the Athens Kiwanis Club in the
N & N Cafeteria at 1 o’clock.
As a football coach Butts has
# ten-year record of 79 wins, 27
osses, and three ties. He is the
first Georgia mentor to produce a
onference championghin sleven
and the first to take a Georgla
football team into a bowl. -
Coach Butts, who is athletic di
rector along with his duties as
head football coach, has produced
three Southeastern Conference
champions, and the Bulldogs have
participated in six bowls during
‘he ten years under his leadership.
Rutledge Body
Returned Home
. YORK, Me.,, Sept. 12—(AP)—
The body of Supreme. Court Jus
tice Wiley B. Rutledge, mourned
by President Truman as “a great
American” was returned to Wash
ngton today.
The liberal jurist's funeral will
be held in Washington’s Unitarian
church Wednesday. His court
colleagues will be honarary pall
nearers,
At the age of 55 Rutledge suc
cumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage
n the Little Village Hospital here
Saturday night,
~ A spokesman for the family said
“futledge’s widow and their three
children would motor to the capi~
il today. They had been with the
lustice since he was stricken Aug.
c¢ while on vacation at nearby
”L’nn(mit,
Bulletin
BONN, Germany, Sept. I%—
(AP) — Prof. Theodor Heuss,
Whose books were burned by
Hitler, wag elected first presi
dent tonight of the new West
Germany Republie.
The 85 - year - old educator,
‘andidate of the three-party
rightist government ecoalition of
o e state, recelved 416 of
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PR e T
‘MISS ARIZONA’ IS MISS AMERICA
Jacque Mercer (left), ‘“Miss Arizona,” was selected
as Miss America for 1949 in Atlantic City, N. J., Satur
day night as climax to week long beauty pageant, With
the new queen of talent and beauty are three of the
other four finalists (left to right) : “Miss California”
Jone Pedersen; “Miss ‘Colorado” Sylvia Canady; and
“Miss Illinois” Trudy Germi.— (AP Wirephoto.)
MARRIAGE BEFORE CAREER
Arizona Cow Girl
Miss America ‘49
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 12.— (AP)—An Arizona
ranch girl headed for the big city today to start her career
as Miss America, 1949, 2 . Sl
Dark-haired, brown-eyed Jacque Mercer of the X-
Bar-X Ranch at Litchfield, Ariz., who won the title Sat
urday night, starts on a round of personal appearances
that will take her back acros sthe continent, -
~ The 18-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur L. Mercer came
here from her ranch home after
winning the title Miss Arizona.
As the new Miss America she
gets a $5,000 scholarship and a
$3,000 automobile, plus contracts
for the personal appearances. She
won the awards over a field of 52
beautiful girls from 45 states, four
major cities, Hawaii, Puerto Rico
and Canada.
Although her long-range plans
are “marriage first, career second,”
her immediate objectives are an
other year at Phoenix Junior Col
lege and then Leland Stanford
University, She’s studying dra
matics, and it was a dramatic
reading from Shakespeare’'s ‘“Ro
meo and Juliet” that gave her
first place in the talent division of
the pageant.
Her figure -— 34-inch bust, 22-
inch waist, 34-inch hips—gave her
a first in the bathing suit division.
The girls also appeared in even
ing gowns.
The shortest Miss America since
1921 (five feet four inches) and
the lightest ever (106 pounds), she
neither drinks nor smokes. She
designed all the gowns she wore
in the week-long beauty pageant.
Miss America’s counterpart,
Mrs. America, was selected yester-~
day at Asbury Park and promptly
suggested a Miss-Mrs. comparison.
Mrs. Frances L. Cloyd of San
Diego, Calif., 23-year-old mother
of three children, contended that
a woman had to be married be
fore qualifying as really mature
and beautiful. She suggested a
:or’x;xpetition, “perhaps for chari=
V. .
U. S., Britain, Canada Agreed
On Plans For Financial Crisis
WASHINGTON, SEPT.. 12—
(AP)—The United States, Britain
and Canada were reported today
to have agreed on plans for a many
sided attack on Britain’s dollar
crisis. An announcement of speci
fic steps was promised promptly.
Officials familiar with the work
of the three-power conference
here said these steps will include
(1) greater freedom for Britain in
spending Marshall plan dollars for
Canadian wheat and (2) accep~
tance by the United Staies of Brit
ain’s need to discriminate against
American goods in order to con
serve dollars.
In addition to these and other
trade measures Britain is reported
turning to the International mone
tary fund for loans which could
total $312,000,000 in the next 12
months. :
Finance and foreign ministers of
the three nations were called to
meet this morning and Secretary
of the Treasury Snyder vredicted
their work would shortly be com
pleted.
One agreement, @ decision to
promote more overseas loans by
the world bank and the U. S. ex
gort-import bank, was announced
Saturday. The others are expected
to inclugo creation of one or more
three-power committees to pro
vide continuous eonsultation on
‘Britain’s dollar problem and to
seek long-range solutions, mainly
along the line of gelling more Brit=
ish goods in the United States.
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SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
Reds Tighten
Church Silence
PRAGUE, Sept. 12—(AP)—Ro
man Catholic Church authorities
disclosed today that priests who
have been fined by the Commun
ist-led Czech government have
been forbidden to disclose the fact
to their congregations.
Church sources meanwhile ac
cused the government of imposing
increased restrictions on bishops
and priests to hinder their work
and break their loyalty to the
Czech hierarchy and the vatiecan.
They said 4+hese measures rang
ed from infringéments on freedom
of movement to confiscation of the
property of priests who refused to
pay fines imposed for reading pas
toral letters received from Bish
ops.
The complaints came after a
weekend in which leading govern
ment and Communist party offi
cials had issued new warnings and
threats against what they termed
the “dissident” Catholic hierarchy.
FIRE CALLS
Firemen answered two calls
over the week-end. This morn
ing they went to 785 South Mil=-
ledge avenue where a washing
machine was afire, Only damage
done was to the motor.
~ Sunday afternoon firemen went
to a grass fire beside the Seaboard
Railroad on College avenue, No
damage was incurred.
ence will clear the way for a new
round of high-powered financial
and dilomatic talks scheduled to
begin here tomorrow. These are:
1. A series of discussions be
tween British Foreign Minister
Bevin and Secretary of State Ach
eson on cold war strategy in Gen
eral and development of far East
ern anti-Communist policies in
particular.
2. Meetings of the World Bank
and International Monetary Fund.
both will face problems intimate
ly linked with the British and
world dollar shortage.
3. Meeting between Acheson and
French Foreign Minister Schuman,
who is due here late in the week.
Schuman presumably will join
some of the Acheson-Bevin talks
on the Far East and the policies of
the three Western powers in Ger=-
many.
4 The tfirst session, scheduled
for Saturday, of the 12-nation
counnil orasted by North Atlantic
Treaty. Acheson, Bevin, Schuman
and foreign ministers of the
other eight countries will decide
at that timre on steps to create an
overall defense plan for Western
Europe and North America,
Forelgn Investments
Reports that Britain is inter
ested in obtaining dollars from
the international fund followed &n
announcement by the United
States, Britain and Canada Sat
urdta.y that thg intondeg :i xr‘:-
mote foreign m o
erican private capital and foreign
ATHENS, CA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1949,
Marshal Tito Hurls New
Defiance At Soviet Union
Government Is Given Vote
Of Confidence By Peopie
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 12.— (AP) —Premier
Marshal Tito flung new defiance into the teeth of the Rus
sian bear today.
Yugoslavia, he declared, “steeled by tremendous exper
iences in World War 11, is y.eady {o overcome any present
troubles as it did past ones.”
The premier, prime target of
Moscow and the Cominform as a
heretic from Marxism, addressed
a group of engineers and workers
from a motor factory near here.
They came to Belgrade to show
him three new types of tractors
they developed in the country’s
industrialization campaign -—the
very campaign which so irks Mos
cow.
Tito has refused to bow to Mos
cow’s orders to concentrate on an
agrarian economy, just as he re
fused to heed Moscow’s orders 1o
step up collectivization of farms.
His thus. far successful rebellion
against Moscow domination in
these and other aspects now shows
signs of being copied in other
Communist countries.
Soviet Lies
In his brief talk, Tito told the
group their efforts provided the
best answer to foreign “inven
tions and lies” about socialist de
velopment of Yugoslavia. The ac
count was carried by the Com
munist newspaper Borba.
Rallying to Tito's standard, his
Navy ‘informed him today it is.
ready to defend the nation against
any attacks, “regardless if they
come from East or West—regard
less whether they are led by
Churchill or Stalin.”
Tito and his Yugoslav Commun
ists lay claim to being better
Communists than Stalin and his
Russian ones.
Party Loyalty
The customary weekend stream
of telegrams poured in from work
ing groups throughout the coun
try, to help fill morning newspa
pers and tone down rumors of in
ternal unrest. All struck the same
note—lloyalty to Tito and the Yu
goslav Communist party and anger
at the Cominform attacks, which
began 16 months ago.
In Novi Sad, center of Yugosla
via’s breadbasket, Serbian Agri
cultural Minister Rista Antunovic
presentad a bright picture of in
creased farm production.
Saturday’s revelation that Hun
gary had jailed eight top party
men for trying to overthrow the
Kremlin - controlled government
was taken here as the latest evi
dence that important persons in
the satellite countries would like
to follow Yugoslavia’s example.
Along with other incidents, it is
considered to show wide-spread
resentment in Eastern Europe over
Russia’s economic exploitation of
the small “People’s Democracies.”
New Candidate
For German Gov't
BONN, Germany, Sept. 12 —
(AP) — West German Socialists
proposed Dr. Kurt Schmacher to
day as a candidate to oppose Con=
servative Professor Theodor Heuss
for the presidency of the new re
public,
The Socialists named Schuma
cher only a few minutes before
convening of the Feedral FElec
toral Assembly.
Dr, Heuss is supported by the
government coalition of three
rightist parties.
A Socialist (SPD) deputy an
nounced after a party caucus: “Dr.
Schumacher intends to make &
fight of it.”
loans by the World Bank and the
U. S. Export-Import Bank, All of
this would result in getting more
dollars into Britain's partly empty
coffers. ;
New moves to obtain capital in
vestments and loans in British
colonies and commonwealth coun
tries from those sources, officials
said, will take time to put
through. Meanwhile, Britain,
along with its dollar-saving pro
gram of belt-tightening at home,
could use some additional cash
financing.
That is wheras .the reports of
the appeal to the 48-nation fund
come in. Any nation which is a
member of the currency-stabiliz
ing agency, is entitled to draw
out a percentage of its share of
paid-in capital in any single year.
However, in April, 1948, the
fund’s governors adopted a reso
lution preventing any country
receiving Marshall Plan aid frem
the United States from tapping
the fund’s $8,032,000,000, To ob
tain money from the fund Bri
tain would have tc get that reso
lution repealed.
Any move slong this line, fi
nancial officials predicted, would
immediately raise the question of
devaluation of the &ound. Amer=
scan officials and the fund’s di
rectors believe, it was said, that
only if the pound is devalued
would Britain’s finances be put
hnwhfndflor'flnt‘ the fund
could help stabilize them. -
4 KILLED
IN STATE
ACCIDENTS
ATLANTA, Sept. 12.—(AP)—
Four persons were killed in week
end traffic accidents in Georgia.
Virdis Hyatt, 20, of A_ustell,
Ga., died at Grady Hospital early
today from injuries suffered in &
wreck at Mableton, Ga., at 12:30
a. m., Sunday. : i
Cobb County Police Chief John
Lee said the vietim lost control
of his car at the overhead bridge
in Mableton and it overturned
severa! times.
James H. Lavender, 57, of
Route 4, Sylvester, Ga., was kill=-
ed instantly Saturday when struck
by an automobile eight miles
north of Sylvester on Georgia
Highway No. 33, Troopers E. W,
Farr and J. R. Dunn, of the Tif
ton State Patrol Staticn, said.
The victim had just gotten out
of a car and was walking across
the road when hit by a car driven
by Robert F. White, 33, of Gain~
esville, Ga., the officers reported.
No charges were made against
White. ;
Two negroes were killed and
two more critically Injured at 2
a. m. Sunday when the car in
which they were riding ploughed
into a large tree inside the city
limits of Gray, Ga., the State
Patrol Station at Madison, Ga.,
reported.
The dead were listed by Cor
poral F. M, Combs and Trooper
C. W. Fuller as Willie J. Brooks,
31, and Tomn Smith, 35 both of
Macon. The injured were taken
to a hospital at Macon.
Committees Okay
Foreign Aid Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—(AP)
—Two Senate committees today
jointly stamped formal agproval
on a $1,314,010,000 plan for re
arming friendiy nations against
Communism.
The final vote—2o to 3—cleared
the way for the arms bill to go to
the Senate. = There it faces an
other fight by a group determined
to make a deep cut in the t{otal
spending.
The Senate Foreign Relations
and Armed Services Committees
voted for this arms program:
$1,000,000,000 for the North At
lantic Pact nations—divided 350~
50 between cash and contract au
thorization and with some restric
tion on use of the cash.
- $211,370,000 for Greece and
Turkey. : .
$27,640,000 for Iran. Korea and
the Philipnines.
$75,000,000 to aid anti-Commun
ists in China with President Tru
man to spend the money where he
sees fit without making any re
port to Congress.
Harris Attacks
Ga. Parole Board
ATLANTA, Sept, 12—(AP)—
Augusta political leader Roy
Harris charged today that, “a cold
blooded, brutal and unsympa
thetic” attitude by the Georgia
Pardon and Parole Board is de
stroying prison morale. L
The Board promptly retorted
that it has given more paroles
than any Board in history, and
“does not intend to throw open
the gates of our prison as a re
sult of this criticism.”
Board Chairman Ed Everett, in
answer to a question, said Harris
weas an attorney in a recent case
in which the Board refused to
parole a convicted murderer who
has served only two years of &
life term.
Spark Plug
Heiress Wed
GREENWICH. Conn., Sept. 12.
—(AP)—Spark plug heiress Mar
cia Stranahan Idris and Prince
Youka Troubetskoy were married
here yesterday in a surprise cere
mony which the bridegroom de
scribed as “simply beautiful.”
The seremony was performed
in the garden of Judge Charles B.
Boles’ country homre. Golfer
Frank Stranahan, the bride’s bro
ther, was prevented from attend
ing by a golfing engagement in
Kansas City,
Troubetskoy i =& brother of
Prince ITor Troubetskoy, husband
of Woolworth heiress Barbara
Hutton,
The new princess gave her age
as 88. It was her third marriage.
Troubetskoy said he was 43. It
‘was his first. marriage. Both are
‘residents of New York City,
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BUS CRASHES TRUCK
Rescue workers with torches and steel bars work to
Kry out driver of Greyhound bus, Edson O. Bent, jr., of
ew York, after his bus crashed into a trailer truck on
the Wilber Cross Parkway at Willington, Conn. Twen~
ty-nine of the thirty bus passengers suffered minor in
juries.— (NEA Telephoto.)
Mayor Wells Today
Becomes Candidate
Declares City Has Conducted
Biggest Program In History
Mayor Jack R. Wells today qualified as a candidate for
Mayor in the Democratic City Primary, Ocpobey _26th.
The Mayor announced his can
didacy in a statement in which he
declares “we have conducted
during the past twenty months
probably the broadest and mosh
far-reaching municipal program
in the history of Athens, I be=-
lieve my record as Mayor justi
fies my re-election. 1 shall lay
before the people this record dur
ing the forthcoming campaign., It
is for them to say whether they
want me to continue as their ser
vant.”
Text of Statement
The full text of the statement
by Mayor Wells follows:
“Sever# months ago I announ=-
ced I would not be a candidate
for re-election for Mayor of Ath=
ens. At that time it looked as if
my private business affairs would
not permit me to give the City
the time the office of Mayor re
quires. Since then I have so ar
ranged. my affairs that I know
now I will be able to devote to
the ick of Mayor the time the of
fice demands. I have, therefore,
decided to reconsider and to be
come a candidate. I have paid my
entrance fee to the Clarke Coun~
ty Democratic Executive Commits
tee and thus qualified as a can-
WA e e, £
Union Ponders Facet Finders’
Bid As Steel Strike Solution
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 12—(AP)
-~Policy makers of the CIO Unit
ed Steelworkers gather today to
decide if the presidential fact find
ers’ report offers a satisfactory so
lution to settle the steel wage dis
pute,
Similar decisions from more
WEATHER
WEATHER — Page one .. .....
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair with slowly rising tem
perature today, tonight and
Tuesday except for some
cloudiness Tuesday morning.
High temperature today 78:
low tonight 56; high Tuesday
80, Sun sets this afternoon at
6:44, rises Tuesday 6:14 a, m,
GEORGIA — Partly cloudy ]
sast fair west portion, slowly |
rising temperatures this after- ‘
noon, tonight and Tuesday. I
TEMPERATURE
BIBHOE .0 v S
Tt L T e
T SRR S e U
00l .5 . i i vt
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. .00
Total since Sept. 1 .. ... 2.06
Excess since Sept. 1 .. .. .66
Average Sept. rainfall .... 3.26
Total since January 1 ....85.52
- Deficit sinceé Januery 1.. -
“We have conducted during the
last twenty months probably the
broadest and most far-reaching
municipal program in the history
of Athens. We stand now at the
beginning of another phase of
that program, Including the erec
tion of a new high school and
grammar school and improve
ments to the other elementary
schools; erection of a fire station
in the five-points area; and es
tablishment of a City-County
Health Center.
“I feel that it is vital to the
success of this campaign that
there be in the next two years the
samre cooperation between the
Mayor and Council and all City
Departments as that which has
enabled us to make such marked
progress in the last twenty
months.
“Recently there has developed
another reason why 1 feel I
should offer my candidacy and
that is the issue between the City
of Athens and the Georgia Power
Company over a power distribu
tion system which the City owns
and the Power Company used for
several years under the terms of
a rentai contract, According to
the Power Company’s suit in
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than 60 steel companies also are
expected just as soon as eofficers
and boards of directors finish
studying the fact-finding board’s
recommendations. The board sug
gested a 10-cent hourly package
covering pensions and insurance,
but not wages.
Also before the union’s 36-man
executive board and 170-man
wage policy committee today is
President Truman’s request that
a strike deadline—now set to ex-~
pire at midnight tomorrow be ex
tended for at least 11 days, until
September 25.
The union’s executive board,
composed of international officers
and 33 district directors must have
its decisions ratified by the
Wage Policy Committee (meeting
at 1 p. m.,, EST). The committee
is made up of the executive board,
plus representatives of local
NN, 7
If President Philip Murray
comes from the union meeting and
flashes the green light to postpone
the strike that will allow the union
and the companies more time to
go over the board's suggestions.
The big five of the steel indus
try have told the President they
would continue operations at least
until September 25 as he request
ed. But their decision won't mean
a thing unless the steelworkers re
port for work. CIO Steelworkers
in tom where strike ballots.
are . before a walkout,
HOME
EDITION
D. F. Thomas
Replaces
Judge Knox
ATLANTA, Sept. 12~--(AR)==
Douglas F. Thomas, Jesup attor
ney, was appointed by Gov. Her
man Talmadge today as Judge of
Superior Court in the Brunswick
Circuit.
Thomas will fill a vacancy left
by the death c¢f Judge Gordon
Knox, He will serve until after
the general election in November,
1950.
Thomas is serving his ninth year
as solicitor of the Jesup eity court.
In January he also began & four
year term as Wayne county at
torney.
He will resign both these posi
tions to accept the Superior Court
appointment.
A native ,of Lamar county, the
40_-vear-old attorney was Mayor
of Odom, Ga., for many years and
was chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Odom High Schooi.
In next year's general election,
a judge will be selected to fill the
remaining two months of Judge
Knox’ term, and also a new term.
Counties in the Brunswick cir
cuit are Flynn, Appling, Camden,
Jets Davis, and Wayne.
Kidnapers Out
On $2,500 Bond
CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 12
—(AP)~John Jordan, 35, and his
brother, Will Jordan, 52, are free
on bond totaling $2,500 in the al
leged kidnaping - attempted mur
der of Donald Brown, 18-year-old
Cartersville student.
The younger Jordan, who coun=
ty officers say shot Brown as the
vouth attempted to escape, is
charged by a Bartow county war
rant with kidnaping and will face
trial in Paulding county for at=
tempted murder and” driving une
der the influence. :
Will Jordan is charged with kid
naping in both counties.
The incident started in Bartow
County after the Jordan'’s’ truck
collided with a car driven by
Brown. Brown was shot in Pauld«
ing county after being allegedly
carried there by the Jordan broth
ers in their truck. Brown’s in
juries were not serious.
Woman Swindler
Goes On Trial
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 — (AP) —
Swindlin’ Sigmund Engel, the 73-
vear-old specialist in women,
came to ecourt today with a trail
of eight women clamoring he
bilked them of $93,700.
Engel, a dapper romeo by his
own profession, was arrested June
24 by the machinations of one of
his intended victims. Another of
his actual victims signed a com
plaint which led to Cook County
indictment on confidence game
charges. This is the charge be
ing tried today. B
But behind those circumstances
was a trail of women acress the
continent, a glibe tongue, multiple
aliases, and quick disappearances.
Nine women figure In today’s
court appearance, one of whom
did not press her charge, and.an
other as the lure who trapped him
in a swank Chicago luggage shop.
have voted 15 to one for a strike
if necessary, the union says.
: Big Five
The five major steel companies
who comprise the big five are U.
S. Steel Corporation, Bethlehem
Steel Company, Republic Steel
Corporation; Inland Steel Com
pany, and Jones & Laughlin Steel
Corporation.
Inland Steel, however, has be
gun gradual clow-dowm opera
tions. The company said it would
follow through with its program
by starting to close 3® open hearths
at noon Tuesday but that sizable
layoffs would begin today. The
plant, which employs 17,000 pro
duces about 11,000 tons of steel
daily. ;
Generally speaking from 24 ieo
48 hours is required to bring about
the orderly closing down of a
steel plant,
U. S. Steel Corporatian and
more than 50 other steel plants in
the Pittsburgh district have an
other strike to worry about, in ad
dition to the one called by the
steelworkers. At 6:30 a. m. Tues
day the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen is scheduled to strike on
the Union Railroad.
Vital Line
The railroad is a vital inter
plant connecting line which sérves
all subsidiaries of U. §. Steel in
the Pittsburgh district, along win
many other .steel plants. If the .
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