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much colder today with temperatures falling to 25 this afternoon. Northwest winds 30-40 mph. Low tonight near 5. Tomorrow snow squalls and very cold.

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Lehigh Train Kills Two Girls in Auto Anderson Flays Sugar Brokers9Plea to End Curbs Angry Note Charges Plot For Profits

Secretary Asserts New York Group Seeks To End Controls So It Can Up Price to 50c

Washington, Dec. 27 (UP) —Agriculture Secretary Clin­ton P. Anderson today accused a group of New York brokers of trying to kill all federal controls on sugar so they can corner the world supply and drive prices up to 50 cents a pound or more.

The secretary exploded his an­gry charge in a letter to Sen. Carl A Hatch, Dem., N. M., in which he asserted that a plot was afoot to break the government's sugar price and rationing programs.

He did not name the brokers allegedly Involved, other than to identify them as New York leaders of the National Sugar Brokers Association. His letter was designed to

answer a pamphlet sent to Hatch on December 6th by the associa­tion, which attacked the govern­ment's sugar policies and asserted there would be more sugar for the public if the government took its hands off.

The secretary said he had been informed by the food industry's own sugar council that decontrol at this time would be "disastrous" for the people of this and other countries and would shoot sugar prices up to 50 cents a pound or more, at least for a brief period.

Propaganda Charged He charged the association with

a deliberate "propaganda cam­paign" to discredit controls and remove plica curbs. Such a move, he said, would enable American in­terests to turn their superior buy­ing power loose in world markets and corner all the available sup­plies.

"They Itch to get their fingers into a swirling upward spiral of sugar prices," he said.

He said he has no intention of yielding on the decontrol question, but held out hope that increased supplies would be available in the domestic market next year.

He said the industry sugar committee believes householders' rations for 1M7 can be increased from 25 to So pounds per per­son and that industrial users also can get more sugar, at least after the first three months of the year Anderson termed statements

made by the association as "trash" and a "complete and thorough­going lie." He declared:

"I have yet to find a single fig­ure who is representative of sugar production or large sugar consum­ers who have not agreed that the policy we (the government) are pursuing is the only one that can be pursued at the present time. Sees Brokers Disturbed

"I don't say that sugar brokers, who itch to get their fingers into a swirling upward spiral of sugar prices and consequent sales and retails of this commodity back and forth at increased profits . . . are not distressed by my policy."

Anderson declared that he is "not required to administer the sugar act for the benefit of brok­ers." He added:

"But I am supposed to be look­ing out for the people of the Unit­ed States who consume sugar do­mestically and industrially, and I shall continue to try to serve their interest regardless of the howls

may arise from the sugar

Views of Sections of Plane Wrecked on Mountain Rich* Aged Man Found Slain in Home

Beaten to Death Bv Intruder; Maid Also Attacked; House Is Discovered Ransacked

Missing Airliner Found; All 12 on Board Killed

Vet Hospital's Start Will Be Big Gvic Event

Dignitaries Coming For Ground-Breaking

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Kent Voices Doubt Stassen Is 'Libera?

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Parts of Plane Disappearing Christmas Eve Scattered Over Towering Peak in California

San Diego, Dec. 27 (UP)—A Western Airlines transport which disappeared Christmas Eve with 12 persons aboard was found today crumpled on the slopes of towering Mt. La-

<$guna. The sheriff's office reported that the crew of three and all pas­sengers were dead.

The plane was found on a ridge of the rugged mountain range by foot parties of deputies and for­estry officials.

It was first sighted by a news photographer, Ed Neil of the San Diego Tribune-Sun, who directed the searchers towards the scatter­ed and twisted remains of the DC-3. Storm Delayed Search

The scene of the wreck was 50 miles east of here. The plane had been on flight from El Centro (Cal.) to San Diego when it dis­appeared Tuesday night.

A storm which swept over Southern California delayed the search and grounded private and Coast Quard planes seeking the wreckage from the air.

The searching party reported by radio that the plane's wreckage was strewn for several hundred yards over the slope of the moun­tain. One wheel was found 300 feet from the plane's fuselage. Through Deep Snow

Undersheriff Henry Adams said that it was apparent the crew and passengers had been killed instant­ly. He said the plane struck about 100 feet below the crest of the 6,375-foot peak.

"It will be impossible to remove the bodies until tomorrow." Adams informed the sheriff's office here by radio.

He said the climb up the peak was through snow several feet deep and the party was exhausted when it reached the wreckage.

The scene of the crash was about a mile from where an American Airliner crashed last March Sd, killing 28 persons. Passengers and crew were iden­

tified by Western Airlines as W. H. Price, A. L. Adams, L. Barlow, all of Los Angeles; Adeline Jones and Edgar Martin, Holtville, (Cal.); Fred Bright, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ford, and Mrs. V. Haney, all of El Centro; Pilot George Sprado, First Officer D. Weber and Miss G. Wade, stewardess.

The tall and wing section of a Western Airlines transport plane which was found wrecked on the slopes of Mt. Laguna in Califor­nia is shown in top photo. An­other view of the crash scene appears below. All 12 aboard the transport which hit the mountain Christmas Eve were found dead.

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Driving Made Hazardous By Freezing Rain

A civic affair expected to sur­pass anything Buffalo has seen In many years is being planned fop January 14 th, when ground-break­ing ceremonies for the $18,000,000 Veterans Hospital will be held in Grover Cleveland Park.

Although he did not release any details, a spokesman for the Vet­erans Hospital committee, which is handling arrangements, said "with­out a doubt it will be one of the largest affairs to be held in the city in many years."

Dignitaries from Washington, including representatives from the U. S. Corps of Engineers and the Veterans Administration, will join with district federal and city offi­cials. Many civic organizations also are expected to participate in day-long activities.

News of these plans coincided with filing of an order by Federal Judge John Knight vesting title to 18 Vi acres in the park in the gov­ernment. The order, which also authorizes the government to take possession of the property on Mon­day, was entered shortly after John J. Mahoney, special U. S. lands attorney, filed a petition in condemnation.

Filed together with the petition was a declaration of taking signed by Omar N. Bradley, administrator of veterans affairs. The sum of $1 was deposited with the court as "just compensation" for the land, which was donated by the city.

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New York Daily News Ad Executive Dies

Ardsley, N. Y., Dec. 27 UP\ — William W. Neylan, 45, advertising production manager of the New "ork Daily News, died at his home today of a heart attack.

Neylan had been on the staff of the News since 1924, when he was employed as secretary to the gen­eral manager. In 1931 he joined the newspaper's advertising staff as assistant publication manager. He was made advertising produc­tion manager in 1940.

Suburbs Suffer Most; Cold Wave Is on Way

Although freezing rain fell here for several hours last night and was blamed for a number of acci­dents the city escaped most of the sleet conditions which prevailed in surrounding communities.

A streets division truck was dis­patched into each of the 15 dis­tricts into which the city has been divided to sand intersections, via­ducts and main thoroughfares but foremen reported that pavements were in "good condition" and neded little attention.

Wi lmet te , 111., Dec. 27 ( U P ) — Otto Freund, 84, w e a l t h y , r e t i r e d bus ines sman , w a s beaten to death today in h i s lake-front h o m e in a fash ion­able res ident ia l sect ion, ap­parently by burglars. The family maid, Marie Held, 51, was beaten into unconsciousness and the house ransacked. Police said it had not been determined what had been taken from the home, but they be­lieved some jewelry was missing.

Investigators said Freund ap­parently had been killed outright by blows from a hammer or chisel. Miss Held suffered three possible skull fractures.

Kin Discovers Slaying The slaying was discovered by

Mrs. Irene Popper, 23, Freund's granddaughter. She went to the home to visit her grandfather late today. When she rang the bell, the maid, blood streaming from her face and head, opened the door.

Mrs. Popper, believing the maid was a man, ran screaming to the home of a neighbor.

"There's a madman loose in my grandfather's house," she said.

By the time police arrived, the maid had collapsed.

They found Freund's body in the dining room of the ten-room man­sion. The maid was nearby.

Police theorized that one or more persons came to the door and were permitted to enter by Freund. They believed he was attacked first and that the maid was beaten when she ran to his assistance. Police said the weapon used may

have been a chisel, taken from a basement workshop. They said they had found the handle of such a tool near the bodies.

Neighbors told police they had seen no one enter or leave the Freund home.

Freund had lived for years with his son, Clarence, president of the Nu-Art Engraving Co. The elder Freund, onetime chairman of the board of the Rogers Park Nation­al Bank in Chicago, was for many years owner of the Freund En­graving Co., Chicago. He retired several years ago.

Victims of Grade Accident Crossing

Death Notice* on Page 7

Batteries, heaters with defrosters, blowers, and chains for all makes of cars. Ben Glaser's Service, 1425 Clinton. TR. 9658. Never closed.

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Shellac Kills 3 More Hilo, Hawaii, Dec. 27 UP)—Three

more prisoners died today, bring­ing to four dead and 19 under hos­pital treatment the number of cas­ualties from drinking coffee and shellac at a Christmas celebration in Kulani prison camp.

ford St., suffered head injuries and brush burns when he was struck by a car at Genesee and Herman shortly after 6 o'clock. He was treated at Emergency Hos­pital. The driver was identified as Gordon L. McMahon, 41, of 252 Claremont Ave.

Madeline Kennedy, 49, of 694 Ellicott St. suffered injuries to her left hand and contusions when the automobile in which she was rid­ing was struck by a taxicab at Ellicott and High. She was treat­ed at Buffalo General Hospital. Suburban Driving Hazardous

Police said she was a passenger in an automobile being driven by Richard Butler, 23, also of 694 El­licott St. The driver of the taxi-cab was listed as Albert Peter, 33, of 37 Shields Ave., who said his vehicle skidded on slippery pave­ment.

Police also reported that icy

Bus and Truck Crash Kills 5

Moberly, Mo., Dec. 27 UP)—Five persons, one a baby, were killed 'and several injured today when a Santa Fe Trailways bus and a transport truck crashed on a small bridge near Forest Green, Mo.

First reports of the accident were that the bus and the truck approached the bridge from oppo­site directions. The truck driver applied his brakes and the impact forced his trailer to swerve side­ways into the bus. The impact tore a hole six feet long and four feet high in the left side of the bus just behind the driver's seat.

Passengers said that quick action on the part of the bus driver prevented the bus from going into a roadside ditch. It remained upright.

Two of the victims we're tenta­tively identified as Mrs. Marjorie White, Hale, Mo., and her three-month-old son, Jerry Lee.

The other three dead were not immediately identified.

FREEZING RAIN Continued on Page Seven

Soviets Doom Hit-Run Driver

Copyright, 19i6, Neu) York Timet Moscow, Dec. 27—A hit-and-run

automobile driver has been sen­tenced to death in Moscow.

A Moscow evening newspaper reported that N. A. Filimonenkov, while drunk, drove a car into a group of people waiting for a trol­ley and continued without stop­ping. Two people died without regaining consciousness and four others were seriously injured.

Filimonenkov had taken the car from its garage without permis­sion.

Dewey Orders Enquiry Into Butter Trading

Acts to Determine Whether Anti-Monopoly Law Violated in Wake of Break in Market

Albany, Dec. 27 (/P)—Gov. Dewey tonight ordered a state enquiry into "circumstances" surrounding recent trading in butter on the New York City market. He directed Attorney General N. L. Goldstein and C.^ •> Chester Du Mond, commissioner of agriculture, to determine whether there had been any violation of state law.

The enquiry was«ordered after a break in the New York wholesale butter market that tumbled prices one to ten cents a pound.

Following the break, the Dairy­men's League Co-operative As­sociation said in a statement yes­terday that it had been active in the butter market in order to keep prices up and thereby "pro­tect present milk prices." The New York milk price is set

by the Federal-State Milk Market­ing Administration by a formula that takes into account the price of top grade butter and skimmed milk powder for a 30-day period.

This month's price period ex­pired Decei iber 24th, and the price for January was set at $5.46 a hundredweight, unchanged since November.

The Dairymen's League, which claims to represent 26,000 milk producers in the Eastern area, de­clared that "purchases of butter" by the league were made "to pre­vent a threatened decline of 22 cents a hundredweight in the Jan­uary price of milk."

Henry C. Rathbun, president of the Dairymen's League, is the Re­publican leader of Oneida County, a former member of the executive committee of the Republican State Committee and a friend of the Gov­ernor.

Procedure Not Decided On Du Mond said enquiry procedure

had not yet been determined. He added:

"It will be more or less up to the attorney general. We will co­operate fully with him in the in­vestigation and I assume he will depend upon us to supply the knowledge pertaining to the milk business."

Du Mond said the investigation probably would begin immediately.

The state attorney general's

PRICE ENQUIRY Continued on Page Three

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Teacher Pay Hikes Forecast

Syracuse, Dec. 27 UP)— Dr. Arvie Eldred, executive secretary of the New York State Teachers Asso­ciation, predicted today that early action by the State Legislature will make funds available for sal­ary adjustments for teachers for the second half of the present school term.

Eldred said he expects such ac­tion will be recommended in the message of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to' the Legislature January 8th. Eldred is in Syracuse to attend the convention of the State Associa­tion of Secondary School Princi­pals.

"Members of the governor's com­mittee are now realizing as never before the seriousness of the situa­tion," he said, and recognize that "it is the responsibility of the Leg­islature to fix a teachers' salary schedule that is right."

Four Injured In Crash At Niagara Falls

Tragedy Occurs On 56th St. Crossing Near Homes of Dead; Others in Hospital

Mary Louise Johnson, 16, top, and Irene Campbell, 19, were killed yesterday in a train-auto collision at the 56th Si. crossing, Niagara Falls. Four companions were injured.

Butter Prices Here Expected To Climb Again

Return to Old Level Forecast Next Week

TAKE 10 WEEKS TO PAY—Get your new suit and overcoat now. Arrange payments on new 10 week plan. Century Clothes, 877 Main St., opp. Shea's Hippodrome.—Adv.

Notice\ to Readers Effective Monday, December 30th, the price of the daily

Courier-Express will be four cents a copy.

This paper has maintained the three-cent price for ten years, while papers in comparable cities have bean selling for four and five cents. In the ten years, production cosjs have more than doubled and with the trend still upward th# increase has become imperative.

Dogs Seasick, Crew Dogsick

New York, Dec. 27 (UP)—The Army transport James G. Blaine arrived from Europe today with 87 dogs sick of the sea and a crew sick of dogs.

The dogs, pets of former service men, were howling," fighting, or sick through all the stormy, 17-day trip.

"Every time the ship would pitch, the dogs would howl," Sea­man Hans Johansen said. "Nobody could sleep. They were as good as a barometer. We always knew when we were running into a storm. The dogs would start yam­mering"

One dog died. The others were in good conditior despite their sea­sickness. It cost their masters from $40 to $60 each to get them to the United States.

Cop Arrests Cow, Levies Milk Fine

Keyser, W. Va., Dec. 27 (JP)— Patrolman Fred Kesner believes a cow like a person must know its place.

The Keyser policeman spotted a stray cow wandering down Center St. and did his duty—he arrested it.

And just to make certain it didn't happen again, Kesner made the cow liquidate the misdemeanor with a fine of five gallons of milk.

Butter, which yesterday dropped as much as ten cents a pound, will be back at its former price early next week, wholesale and retail dealers here predicted last night.

The forecast was made by almost every retailer and distributor who followed the downward trend of the New York and Chicago mar­kets on Thursday.

Chain store officials reported sales at a loss and said their stores were swamped with butter seekers. Independents generally held to former prices. New York Market Rebounds

Buffalo suppliers and retailers based'their predictions on the re­bound of the New York Mercantile Market yesterday, during which four cents of Thursday's ten-cent decline was recovered.

An explanation of the four-cent increase, coming about before re­tailers could change price tags, was offered by Raymond W. Wat­tles, president of Hickman, Coward * Wattles, Inc., butter and egg wholesalers.

"Quotations of the New York market were too low and the sup­ply not big enough to meet the demand," he said, "and as a result the market reacted from four to five cents a pound today."

Yesterday's market reaction, he said, "will bring the wholesale price of 93-score butter to 84 cents, which will be retailing the first of the week at from 89 to 90 cents a pound." At the same time lower scoring butter will sell from two to three cents under those quota­tions, he said. Further Rise Foreseen

Foreseeing a further upward re­action in prices, Wattles said a definite decline cannot be expected until production catches up with demand.

One chain store official said

Couritr-Bxpreu Niagara Fall* Bureau

Niagara Falls, Dec. 27 — Two girls were killed today as a train hit an auto on a grade crossing near their homes. Four other persons were injured in the crash. The dead w e r e identified as Mary Louise Johnson, 16, of 181 56th St., and Irene Campbell, 19, of 160 56th St.

Physicians at Mt. St. Mary's Hospital said the most seriously injured of the four who escaped death, was Janet Ruth Campbell, 15, a sister of one of the dead girls. She may have a skull fracture, they reported.

The other injured were listed at the hospital as Theresa Crowley, 15, of 128 56th St., contusions on the head and neck; Harold Lang, 25, of 1907 16th St., fractured col­larbone, and Paul Powlis, 17, of 1034 Cleveland Ave., shock.

According to police, the young people were riding in an automo­bile which was struck by a Le­high Valley train at the 56th St. crossing at S.10 p. m. The cross­ing has been the seene of several other fatal crashes In recent years. Conductor of the train was iden­

tified by police as Charles Daw of Rochester.

Police said they learned the young people were en route to a skating party when the crash oc­curred.

The investigators reported the driver, believed to have been Lang, a Lehigh Valley Railroad fireman off duty, attempted to stop when he noticed the train approaching but the car skidded on ice and slid against the water tender of the locomotive. The auto was thrown 40 feet.

Wrecking crews of a fire engine company and a tow car were re­quired to right the car, which landed on its top along the right of way, and extricate the victims trapped inside the twisted wreck­age.

The injured were sped to the hospital in an ambulance but the two girls were pronounced dead upon arrival.

Residents in the vicinity of the 56th St. crossing tonight asserted a watchman should be on duty at the crossing 24 hours a day because tracks there are used by four railroads. The site Is listed as a private crossing and has a flagman on duty dur­ing school hours, It was re­ported. Patrolmen Fred G. Williams and

Edward Edukonis reported they were waiting at the north side of the crossing for the train to pass and were unaware of the accident until they were notified by wit­nesses on the other side.

Miss Campbell was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Camp­bell, and was a sophomore at Brockport State Teachers College. Miss Johnson was a student at St. Mary's High School. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Johnson.

Robert B. Campbell, Lehigh Val­ley engineer, father of one vic­tim, found the tragedy ironic. He had engaged last night in f/iendly conversation with the Lehigh trainmen involved in the accident. His daughter, Irene, was a close friend of Lang.

OVERCOATS . . . Fleeces, Cheviots, Meltons . . . featuring 'armth, style and value. They're factory-to-you at Cresbury Clothes, 9 Ellicott St., cor. Exchange, 2nd floor. —Adv.

BUTTER PRICES Continued on Page Seven

Barkley Provides Desired (?) Change

Washington, Dec. 27 UP)—Sen. Barkley, Dem., Ky., showed up at the Capitol today with a mustache.

Barkley, who will step down as majority leader to become minority leader when the Re­publicans take control of the Senate next week, told reporters it was the first mustache he ever had attempted.

"The people seemed to indicate in the November election that they wanted some changes made, so I made one," he quipped.

MEN'S SUITS! Buy at the fac­tory now and save. Cresbury Clothes, 9 Ellicott St., corner of Exchange, 2nd floor. —Adv.

Raises Cancel School Strike

St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 27 UP)—St. Paul teachers tonight ended their strike which has kept the city's schools closed since November 25th immediately after the City Charter Commission had approved an amendment providing added funds for the pay raises and school improvements the strikers sought.

Fred M. Truax, commissioner of education, announced that classes would be resumed January 6th and that time lost would be made up by holding school through the Easter vacation and continuing classes later than usual into June.

Current salary range for the teachers is from $1,300 to $2,600. Under the revised schedule which the Council already has approved, pay will rise to a $2,400 minimum and $3,600 maximum January 1, 1947, with the maximum to go to $4,200 next September 1st.

Editor Heads University London, Ont., Dec. 27 UP)—Ar­

thur R. Ford, editor in chief of the London Free Press and one of Canada's best-known editors, to­day was nemed chancellor of the University of Western Ontario, succeeding the late G. Howard Ferguson.

Tuxedos, Tails, High Hats Rented. Weintraub. 461 William. CL. 1289.

—Adv.

McVAN'S NITE CLUB — Open House New Year's Eve; $2.00 per person. Favors, Noisemakers, etc.

—Adv.

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