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News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 1

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MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL Rain chancing to mw tonight with low of 13 to Thursday cold, mow fluu-ies. VOL. 71, NO. 255 TELEPHONE 7231-6 MANSFIELD, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955 Nwt Servlr United Pru PRICE SEVEN CENTS wn mi TV lJ low Ore By-Pass $402, 000 Under Estimate 1 1 Leaves Block Storm Sewers Firm Asks Less Than S3 Million Project To lo Completed In The heaviest ceneral rainstorm in recent veara CUL f5 AV shit Mansfield and the area last night and early to day, flooding basements, highways and indirectly causing at least one injury accident. Official measurement of the rainfall was 3.12 inches between 10:20 p.

m. yesterday and 8:30 a. m. today, as given by the CAA Airways Station at the airport. Today's more-like-April-than-November weather witri a noon reading of 66 degrees is expected to be reversed, tonight when rain changes to snow and drops the mercury between 20 and 25 degrees.

1 The A. Jones Construction Co. of Charlotte, N. C. submitted the low bid of $2, 741,199 today to construct the western half of the Route oO by-pass around Mansfield to run from Beer to North Main Streettd.

The bid was H02.8&1 belowr the! The flood situation in the city was worsened by leaves which clogged storm sewers. Firemen were kept awake most of the night by telephone calls from residents anting their basements pumped out; a car bearing a Georgia license was submerged Ohio Hit By Wild itate's estimate of $3,143,500. The Jones Co. was low bidder mons 12 contractors who submitted offers, opened today by the State Highway Department in Columbus. NORWAl.K FIRM NEXT Closest bidder to the Jones firm on the by-pass was A.

J. Ballcs. in flood water in the U. S. Route 30-S underpass: Park Avenue Storm East subway was impassable when the Rocky Fork backed up; a wol-len Ritter's Run lapped at the of Norwalk with an ofler of: $2,807,387.

Four other bids were just under the $3 million mark.j First section of the by-pass, bid foundations of homes under the South Mulberry St. viaduct; and Route 314 just south of U. S. Route FAMILIAR SIGHT Fl(K)d waters in the Park Avenue East subway have been familiar to Mansfielders for many years whenever there is a heavy rain, but last night's more than three inches of precipitation was even too much for the new drainage system. City officials said the Rocky Fork, swollen by the heavy rain, backed up into the subway and shut it off to traffic.

(N-J photo by Harvey Kjar.) WOOD ST. AT (LINE Work-bound Mansfielders found Hood waters still high at the "dip" at Wood St. and Cline Aves. this morning even after the rain stopped. The scene was typical of many low spots in the city which bore the brunt of the heaviest general rainstorm to hit the city in recent years.

City officials blamed collected leaves on sewer gratings and down spouts connected into sanitary sewers for the flooding. (News-Journal photo by Bill Rogers.) 30-S was still flooded and impas sable at 8 a. m. today, By International Neici Service High winds and a possible baby tornado whirled near Dayton today, causing the death of at least one person. Theenlire southeastern section of Ohio was thrown under a day CARS COLLIDE Stare-higtnray patrotfflf frreport- ed that Charles Filik, 50, of 90 North Linden was injured at 7:15 a.

m. today when the car in which he was riding crashed into the rear of another car which stopped for the flood waters in the unman Leaves No Clues Tivo Women Killed In New York Club on today, is to be completed by Dec. 31, 19.6. The four-lane hih-way, will be five miles long and will start at Beer Rd. and Park Avenue West run along the west side of the Erie railroad tracks, across West Fourth near the new Humphryes Manufacturing Co, plant and run in a northeasterly direction until it crosses State Route 33.

Three overpasses are included In the project. One will take westbound traffic on existing Route over the eat-bound lanes the by-pass route. Another will channel Route 30-N traffic over the by-pas and the third will take bypass traffic over State Route 39. MILES LONG The entire by-pass scheduled to1 long tornado alert. The wind, which struck in tha neighborhood of Kettering, just south of Dayton, blew the roof off a residence, knocking high voltage lines into-the street.

Dr. Robert Hedges, 28, a dentist acting as a Washington township volunteer fireman, was electrocuted when he accidentally walked into a live wire. Elsewhere in the state, the Weather Bureau reported that thunder U. S. Route 30-S underpass.

Fuis was reported in good condition at DA To Ask Dcalh Penalty Killer Of 44 Thinks That Hem Be Freed DENVER (UP) John Gilbert GtihanVs jailers reported today he appears supremely confident of securing release from the jail where he is held on murder charges for planting the explosive which killed 44 persons aboard a United Air Lines plane Nov. 1. "He seems to feel he'll get out; noon today at General Hospital where he was admitted with a fractured right upper arm and bruise. Leonard Chrastina, 19, of 304 (Continued on Tage 2) Adlai Starls Ball Rolling Savs Hell Co All Out For Nomination CHICAGO (INS) Adlai E. Stevenson swung into his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination today with a scheduled news conference for which he was carefully primed as the first announced candidate for 1356.

Stevenson plans to announce the appointment of James A. Finne-gan, Pennsylvania secretary of state, as his campaign manager, and then take on his host of questioners. BRIEFED STEVENSON Finnegan will not take over his full-time duties until Dec. 10, but he arrived in Chicago late Tuesday and was one of the Stevenson aides who briefed the 1952 presidential nominee on how far to go in his first answers as a candidate. Stevenson threw his hat firmly (Continued on Page 2) NEW YORK (UP) Police ordered autopsies today on the bodies of Kathleen M.

Ecan and Marie Gazzo to learn if either had been sexually molested before they were shot down by a stealthy gunman in a Jackson storms dropped almost three inches 1 (Heights bridge club. of rain within a 24-hour period in some places. Ashland recorded 2.83 inches, Dayton 2.93, Youngstown Backs AFL, 1 The bodies were discovered late 2.59, Columbus one and one-half connect into a re routed Route 30jof the position he in. said CapLinp "I from Mansfield to Wooster. will bcjNeal Wright, the county jail train-! OtllCS Latins Clean Tuesday, hours after their murderer had fled without leaving a inches and "many cities," accord clue.

Miss Esan. the 25-vear-old fi-i CIO Merger PITTSBURGH (UP) The exec- ing to the bureau, received over an inch. TV Ajn I more uidn ciui ami a uau nines ma; omcer. Ana ne laiics iiKe ne i quite hopeful of making his bond Estimate on the entire by-pass is and getting out of jail." J10.500.000 as set, by the state Wri said Graham eats wcll The Jones company also was low Jump 51 i ancee lieutenant in the Fire Ul) 1 CI 011lStS'DePartmcnt had been shot bc (hind the left ear. Her unclothed utive board of the WINDOWS BROKEN In Cincinnati Tuesday, hail bod was scrawled face down andiko rm I'niin ciooiunri-m-t union ac bidder on the relocation of the vninivpS Net sales of the Mansfield Tire center section of Route 4C in Clark Rubber Co.

for the' first nine companied the violent storms with stones varying from marble to golf ball size. "Hundreds" of windows were broken and flash floods struck (Continued on Page 2) BUENOS AIRES (UP) Thejjn her hands she clasped a rosary. I aave its full support today to the government of acting President Nearby, in an adjacent room of' forthcoming merger action of the Pedro E. Aramburu appeared to two-story building. Miss Gazzo.lAFL and CIO.

winning a major test of strength an attractive 32-year-old redhead. The board directed union tfele-w-ith the last remnants of found dcad witn a bulletlgates Tuesday to back the AFL-strength Argentina today. wound and powder burns on the; CIO merger agreement as a "firm A general strike called by thcjicft side of her back. The foundation for honorable organic General Confederation of Labor Ja .32 caliber had passcd unity in the united labor niove- wah almost unbeUevable calm, bis.an of MJ guaros saia. Icompared to $38,631,332 for the same period of 1954.

District Attorney Bert Keating James H. Hoffman, president, re-announced he would demand death estimated net income for in the gas chamber for the njne months amounts to explosives- expert who planted 30i after provision for all costs, in-the bomb in his mother's suitcase. ciudin3 estimated taxes and de-kissed her goodbye, and sent he preciation. This represents an into her death. crease of 58.3 Der cent over eam- Tests.

'Laws (cux) was petering out tnc 1 throuah her bodv and partially pro-; ment. Greater Buenos Aries area, al and Montgomery counties. Bid on the project was, $5,252,297. The State estimate was $5,607,500. Bids on 10 highway projects, estimated at more than $10 million, were opened at the Columbus hearquarfers today, Ike Controls Policy Reins GETTYSBURG.

Pa. (INS)-Pres- truded through the front of her nurses uniform. Police said the VOTE ON CONVENTION The board also called for On Sedition bullet was one of the few potea though it was still effective in some provincial industrial cities. ONCE STRONG FORCE Wants Union Spending Hit COLUMBUS (iNS) Republican campaigners were told by a GOP leader that they should attack the labor unions not for hat they have Graham's bond, set before thcjing 0( $849,315 at the three-quar tial clues in the double homicide. 'unanimous vote by the union's de- legation when the CIO convention WASHINGTON (INSWThe Jus ter mark in 1954.

muruer cnarge was orawn up Keating Tuesday, is $100,000 Unit-1 tice Department is expected to The CGT, once the strongest sup utTKiiiit in iirw iuin lsi-v, tw Miss Gazzo operated an clectro- si.ipp a nnmosed constitution fori argue before the Supreme Court porter of ousted dictator Juan TOP ALL OF 1934 Both sales and earnings for the ed Air Lines President William Patterson signed the complaint lysis, hair removing business American Federation of La Peron, called the strike at mid the second floor the building jjor and Congress of Industrial Or nine months were higher than for which charges Graham with the today that both states and the fed eral government have legal power to crack down on subversion. Solicitor General Simon E. Sobe. accomplished but for spending' union dues to support one political' near where tne ownes were iouna. aanizition." wcni t.15tuuow" murder of his mother.

Mrs. Daisie the entire year 1954. night Monday in a challenge to the new government's policies. It was 100 per cent effective in some industries, but almost nil in Police said Miss Egan apparently had kept a 2 p.m. appointment personal commano ui v.

a. loreign Ring 54 Estimated income for the nine policy today. He will he srraiffned before months, after providing $71,667 for If both unions approve the pro-) posed constitution, a joint conven-j loff will detail the government! party. John Feikens of Detroit, Michigan state GOP chairman, told a state campaign conference Tuesday position in final hearings on a His twin objectives are: Salvag- tuh2. Edward J.

Keatin2 on! preferred stock dividends, is eauiv- with Miss Gmo to have some; tion will be held Dec 5 to chart' others. It failed to deal the Aram ing the objectives of the unsuccess buru government a knockout blow Thursday, and probably will not! alent to $2.30 per share of common be allowed bond. stock as compared to $1.54 for a Most essential services were that union members should not be running at normal or slightly be ful Big Four foreign ministers' conference and preventing war in the Middle East. These problems overshadowed hair removed from the upper parts ithe course of the combined federa-ilowcr court ruling which freed of her torso. tion and elect officers.

jCommunist leader Steve Nelson After a preliminary investigation The board, closing out its regular! from 20-year Pennsylvania prison of the double murder. Deputy Chief two day meeting today, a I sentence. Inspector Hugh Mcdovern an-, okayed a two-year extension stvkf nounced that, ''Robbery, we be-no-raiding pact between the AFLf Graham's confession, made to; year ago, when no preferred shares; compelled to support the Demo-j the FBI Monday, has not been; were outstanding. crats. made mihiie Newsmen learned Hoffman reported that "DrosDectsi "A ffood number of them (union' low normal and no major disturbances were' reported though a 100 per cent walkout in some indus an otners conironung me iniei, however that he confessed fashion-) for the balance of the year and for members) are Republicans," he Executive as he continued to re-J fog a bomb with a timing device (next year are encouraging to'theUaid, "but they are compelled to; tries dealt a mijor blow to Argen lieve, was the motive for this dou- and CIO scheduled to expire iec.

ai siaice in me case is tne legality ble killing." '3J- of sedition laws in 42 states. tine economy. But efforts by the gam piijsimi uu i-jand 25 sticks of dynamite, hid it extent wai Directors increased to pay union aues required 10 con-pared to go by automobile to hisjjn nis mother's suitcase, and took' 30 cents per share the third quarter! tribute to a political party opposite strikers to deal a knockout blow ana Hawaii wmcn wouia it to Stapleton Air Field with her; dividend paid October 20th on com- to their beliefs in order to hold on the night of Nov. 1. Imon stork." 'to their jobs." Biir-4 Meet hi Ends temporary office in the town of Gettysburg.

The Chief Executive w.s obviously concerned over Soviet Russia's failure to honor the "spirit of Geneva. tj be nullified if the high court upholds dismissal of the Nelson conviction The controversy stems from a decision last year by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court which held that the Smith Act, passed by Congress in 1940, gave the federal government full jurisdiction in prosecuting subversives. to the new revolutionary government were not successful. UNDER HEAVY GUARD The army ministry in Buenos Aires was under strong guard and the government added eight 40 millimeter howitzers to the defenses ringing the key building. The city streets were completely normal and throughout Tuesday merchants carried on business as usual.

As Dismal Failure Coa ts Sa vc Vlym I Po lice Ch icf Three Hunters Shot fiRNRVA MWS) The western Big Three and Russia? Accordingly, the tribunal set son anJ agreed today on a brief and generalized communique end- ofSc ing the futile three-weeks conference of foreign Negotiators Still At Odds Despite a shift of negotaitions to New York this week in an attempt to settle the Westinghouse strike, no progress was reported today by the CIO-IUE union and company negotiators. The fall revival oi the Ccneva summit in 1939 vent Adam L. Holzworth. 27, of 459 Plymouth Mayor-elect Alfred Rowland and Tolice Chief Parkinson on the Fort Meigs proved an appalling failure. at finding the: solutions to of tne state and federal major cold war prooiems uucaiviuuj; yvaic uwcc aa governments.

and West. Robert Meiser of Plymouth werejGame Assn. 's controlled hunting accidentally shot yesterday while! grounds, four miles west of Bowl-on separate hunting trips bring- ing Green, ing the total of area persons; Serious wounds were prevented The deep gulf between the U.S-.I bck to their respectiv( ritain and France on one side, fn ii, "ds of government, in July wearing. Result of the blast left numerous welts on the village official's back. Richland County's first hunting accident victim, Chester Lawhorn, 18, of 555 Hoover was reported in fair condition today at General Hospital.

Lawhorn was accidentally shot in the leg yesterday morning by his father, Jack Lawhorn. same address, while the two Section Puts Emphasis On Progress Limits Cotton Export TOKYO (UP) The government decided Tuesday to limit the ex- who. injured the first day of the season by two thick coats the Chief was The strike, in its fifth week has idled 5.000 Mansfield Westinghouse had hopefully directed them to plant workers. was pomiea up ai and negotiate on German re-! port of cotton goods to the United meeting this morning, the snortesi, E.irorw,. in ff nv to three.

Holzworth suffered Injury to both legs yesterday afternoon when struck by a shotgun blast which his hunting companion, Dirl A. of the 16 plenary sessions since 't on uct. a. the conference beaan Files Charge Tothufs index were hunting in the Shiloh area. The morning meeting ended tne I ministers' discussion of the three Vance, 16, of 556 Morgan Ave had aimed at a rabbit, sheriff lln Murder deputies said.

A special section of today's News-Journal points up the rapid progress that is being made in modernizing the home with electrical and gas appliances. The i see-tion tells readers how ranges, dishwashers, refrigerators, clothes dry TENSIONS REMAIN But the distressing fact that overhung the conference was that it increased rather than lessened tension throughout tha world. It dissolved the "spirit of Gen- The accident occurred in items on the agenda and was taken up by rejecting the other's final viewpoint, and an acknowledgement of the division DRAFT COMMUNIQUE a field of standing corn 10 miles WASHINGTON C. O. (UP) north of Findlay.

Deputies said Second degree murder charges Advertisers Notice Because of Thanksgiving Day holiday next week display ad-vertising deadlines are advanced to this schedule: Tuesday noon deadline for Friday; Wednesday noon deadline for Saturday and Sunday. This schedule applies tt retail display and classified Holzworth was treated at General Hospital for pellets in both legs, 3 vfJohn Foster Dulles had forecast FAIR DAY REPORTED George Griffith, Richland County game protector, said hunting success was fair yesterday, but the heavy fog in the morning made game hard to hit. The game protector said hunters reported seeing more rabbits than for the past couple years, but they didn't get many oi them. Pheasant hunting was fair, with hunters in this ares averaging about one bird to every four hunters, Griffith said. Classified Ads Comics 23 Deaths 3 Editorials 4 Hospital Notes 9 Kilgallen 24 Markets 2 Society 10-11 Sports 1719 TV and Radio 12 Weather 9 Worry Clinic 8 ers, freezers, water heaters, and ankles and hips.

He was released were filed today against George Baldridge, 63, in the fatal shooting of a game warden Tuesday. The charges were filed by Mrs. Uonal weTe drafting! would be the "acid test" of Soviet ironers are changing trends. STRUCK IN BACK Chief Meiser was struck in the Irvin J. Patrick, wife of the slain the communique whicn was oe signed at the final session today.

At the afternoon session the four The four-poer statement merely ministers were to explain their po-will outline the work of the confer-1 sitions individually as well as sign ence and state that the ministers, the communique. Even the younger Mansfielders have seen startling changes in the nation' living habits. Today'i tup-(Continued on Page 2) 43-year-old game protector. Jack F. Kamman, a fellow Wild- back with a load of shot fired by an unidentified hunter in another party.

Meiser was hunting with (Continued on Page 2).

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