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Show MILLION DOLLAR FIRE RAZES JOYCE SHOE PLANT, PASADENA Mine Worker Union Heads Seven Bandits Shoot It Out At Night Giub A PASADENA, Cal., Feb. 25 '; fire in the heart of downtown Pasadena razed the $1,- -i 000,000 Joyce shoe manufacturing plant Friday night. , Firemen prevented an explosion of a 1,000 gallon tank of ethr which engineer T. J. Adler said would have "flattened everything for a block or more." The fire apparently started in the plant's machine shop. Jt destroyed the entire building in 30 minutes. (U.R) lnGoiile,ence (Continued from Pare One) Cole of President Truman's factobfinding board present and servers. A Sunday fesslon is like I v ' p ly, ,., . Observers surmised that the 25 UMW field chjefs were summon-e- d for one of two! reasons,' possibly both: 1 because there is a possibility of an early settlement and they are members of the 200-raUMW policy committee which would have to approve any acreement: 2 because they are wanted as witnesses in the union's contempt of court i trial Monday t morning. The UMW goes oil trial Monday for refusal of its members to obey two anti-striorders signed by B. Federal Judge Richmond also Keech on Feb. 11. The miners orders defied two from Lewis, who wlai not named as a defendant in the contempt three-alar- m (Continned from Pare One) 1 Glad It's Over SUNDAY HERALD Hotel Auditor Who Absconded With $14,000 Gives Self U p Grazing Cuts Sfecred By Stcckmsn SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 25 Kenneth J. Blackmore, (U.R) who walked out of his job as assistant auditor at the Clif t hotel with $14,000 a year and a half ago, gave himself up Saturday. He walked into the arms of the police with the same feeling of freedom he said he felt on a "fine sunny day" in 1948 when he started for the bank with a suitcase full of money, "I'm so glad it's all ended," he told inspector Charles Scullion. 32, show. When the second show began, Shelb walked to the stage. With his left hand he gnabbed the microphone from singer "Blackle" Dennis, a girl dressed in man's clothes. With his right hand he whipped out a revolver and fired one shot at the ceiling. "I'll do the entertaining from now on," he shouted. "Nobody gets hurt if there is no excitement. There are six others with me: sources un said Operators they (Continued from Pare One) derstood pickets would attempt a Ten actors dressed as women motives running. Purchasers had complete shutdown next week. were forming a chorus onstage no assurance of deliveries of coal They were reported ready to On order. move against even the '. m Some coal was being sold en Kentucky" agreement mines, show. route. A Pittsburgh buyer or- which have come to terms with Then Shelb ordered the patrons dered eastern Kentucky coal at, UMW President John L. Lewis. to put their valuables on the ' S7 a Jon. While it was in transit, tables and . his companions, Pickets Oat Monday a Cleveland broker bid more. The weapons drawn, started to collect In the central Pennsylvania the loot. cars were rerouted to Cleveland. mines! , But two detectives were in the fields, where, non-unisaid merchants coal Pittsburgh trial. been have raided 26 cars of the by "located" WILMORE, Ky, Feb. 25 flJ.R) repeatedly had they adjoining the dance , Twice before in recent years were hoping for deliv- pickets, state police reported floor. When they heard Shelb's A spontaneous marathan religious the UMW has been tried and coal and of the' cars, carrying they were told that 'the UMW first shot, they moved into the revival rolled into the third convicted for defying similar ery. Ten tons 700 of slack, were al- men "will be out in, full force dining room and fired at the ceilabout day Saturday at Asbury two brushes court orders. Those The others, Monday." to located college to the accompaniment of hospitals. ing, with the law cost the union These mines, together with with egg coal, were earhymns and tearful testimonials. Scramble For Cover in fines and produced a loaded and Kentucky agreeessential consumers for The marked on bandits deTownspeople and faculty memthe turned UMW is the that legal ruling ment West in and bers cases. stood a little in awe of what Virginia pits and hardship tectives, firing its lection of wildly. Screaming for the The Grand Rapids, Mich., city Kentucky, have been supplying patrons scrambled for cover, Dean J. B. Kenyon called "a sin" members. ' to the bulk of coal available this overturning chairs and tables. cere demonstration of faith." as Meanwhile, the 372.000 striking commission wasi authorized in the week. , About 20 shots were exchanged hundreds of students lined up to miners seemed as determined as seize what coal remains cases. for God." The for Coal The National and the bandits rushed for the '"testify Association conemergency City "no in tfceir ever to persist ' One blind student said he hoped directed purchase of reported that 2,400,000 tons were door. tract, no work" walkout which commission ar loads at brown market dug last week. Since that time, Robert Dell, the club's master "the revival spirit will spread to has idled '127,000 other workers however, the progressive miners of ceremonies, slumped to the the state university at Lexington. prices if necessary." in the railroad and other The "old fashioned revival Use Priority Basis j union, which mans mines produc- floor, blood spurting industries. J from meeting" was started by the stua caHed a tons Cleveland the started of his wounds arm 400,000 Called selling week, Off and ing left right Picketing But they called off their picket- city's reserve stocks on a pri- walkout when its contract nego- hip. Another, entertainer, Jean dents "because they felt the need of it." suffering tiations broke down. Avol, also was hit. ing and there was talk in the coal ority basis to persons comsmoke Detective real 2,000,-00back hardship. would 0 City At normal consumption, go fields that they John O'Neill, Each student who rose to speak wounded in the thigh, winged walked to the front of Highes tons is barely a to work if tnfe government seized missioner reported that 1000 pertelephoned tity hall seeking th mines. However, the' miners sons supply. Conservation meas- Gonzales as the bandit rushed auditorium and stood in front of are reported to feel that it would coal today, but only 100 could be ures have stretched supplies, from the room. The gunman ran a velvet curtain drawn before a into a customer, Paul Knips, 33, stage set for the play, "Oiir have to be a seizure that would helped. however. i A Hearts Were Young; and Gay." N: J. They grappled. special telephone exchange Fords, permit mine profits to go into the was several in Office The set up in city hall to handle cities havebuildings the was play, scheduled to be given U.S. treasury and leave the govDuring tussle, Knips temreduced room Friday he night and Saturday night but ernment free-- to bargain with the distress calls. In a half -- hour peratures below the comfortable wounded critically, i union. period this morning, 185 calls 70's. Trolleys and elevated rail- wrested the revolver from Gon- by the junior class, was postzales. Gonzales leaped into a poned indefinitely. President Truman has said he were received. roads in some cities operated at taxi about to pull out from the The 1250 members of the studoes not not have power to seize Awdozen steel i companies have reduced speeds to save with a man and woman. dent body at this curb the mines. If he decides on that cut production. Jones & Laugh-Ii- n ; electric power. Some The man closed its plants at Pittsburgh schools have school, and adjoining wrestled with him. The step, presumably he will ask con. 'othbeen and closed a Asbury theological seminary 23,000. to cab next driver idling Aliquippa, gress to pass emergency legisla- and up pulled ers eliminated classes. have tion giving him the necessary au- r U. S. Steel- Corp. withheld its Erie, Pa., slapped night ready to go on for many an 11 p.m. radio patrol car, and two police- seemed more. hours announcement of usual men Gonzales without i'f Friday thority; captured amusement places and The coal strike seems to have the next week's) operating rate. curfew on firing a shot. . killed 2 about all chances for a It will be made Monday. The barrooms. The two other gunmen leaped tinsky said the men planned the first quarter for company has been operating at into another cab and sped away. holdup Friday in a Times Square prosperous more than 95 peri cent of capacity. American business this year. A few blocks from the club they bar. Government economists said i but .observers predicted a drastic whizzed through a red light and "They had been drinking and Industrial production Is tumbling cutback. Sharon Steel also with- were spotted by a patrol car. smoking reefers during the aftd, and may plunge soon; to new its operating schedule. They were captured after a short ernoon," he said. "They were war lows as the eiect of tne was re coal chase. pretty well charged up when they Desultory picketing i Fri-sPolice Frank shortage spreads. got to the village." Pennsylvania today. ported in, Inspector Thev extMct a rfrnn next week I Two strip mines, near Imperial, LOGAN, Feb. 25 U.f5 Honoin automobile output, one of the which were scheduled to shin rary colonelcies were awarded icejr weathervanes of i the national' coal to Pittsburgh schools and Utai Gov. and Mrs. J. Bracken economy. Steel and electrical pro- - hospitals, were closed, despite Lee night at the 57th duction already are on the down I special patrols of state police annualSaturday Utah State- - Agricultural land uniformed, deputy sheriffs. tade. college military ball. The governor became an honorary1 officer in the Pershing Rifles, honor unit of the USAC Mrs. Lee was made a ROTC. colonel in . the college ROTC : iuuui sponsor corps. me,M&r luxtj iwJi ttMui tutJi Theme of the. ball was "unification" and representatives of all ranches of military service oined the governor and Mrs. Lee and , other state,- xivic and officials in the receiving college 83 patterns line. I u i - 'Brown Market' Springs Up As Coal Supplies Peter Out an . sou; sb'rvw'siitollege Students.. lesmy for uod I . i so-cal- led j , ke At Long Revival back-to-wo- rk on I bar-roo- m f cdn-tinuo- $2,-130.- J non-uni- ' on I I - 30-c- coal-burni- ng . : day-and-a-ha- lf's " ! , , , i coal-produc- ed inter-denominatio- nal - I post-.hel- s SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 25 tufi) The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers association has given its full support to the appeal of a Utah rancher whose grazing allotment of 11 head was cut 63 per cent by the forest service. Association President L. C Montgomery, Heber, said the appeal was made to the secretary of agriculture by Harry Burnside of Mount Pleasant, The appeal protests a transfer cut made by the service after the death ef his city and have done tot hi many instances, but they have no legal guarantee that they can retain permit rights on the land they have. Improved.. , Blackmore had $2.50 in his pockets when he turned himself in and wasj wearing the same blue serge suit he had on the morning . he disappeared. He in", PICKPOCKET WORKS sisted he wanted i nothing more UNDER COPS' NOSES than to be caught all the time he was gone. TOKYO, Feb. 25 (UJO Htrorhi "I wasn't worried at all and I Takahashi, 20, was arrested for slept fine every morning," he picking pockets and taken to the said police station. ,. ' While he was being questioned Runs Oat of Money father. he lifted 800 yen out of a draw- During the time since July 8. Montgomery addressed the er in a police officer's desk. Then 1948, Blackmore said he Just sesison of the associa- he slipped two fingers Into the drifted around, spending some opening tion's convention in Salt Lake pocket of a second prisoner and time in Seattle and some in the City Friday and charged that the came up with 850 yen. east where he. "saw the, world! forest service exercises legislaPolice failed to notice either series and everything I've always tive, Judicial and executive func-tion- f. theft Takahashi probably would wanted to see,"; r (: have had enough to. go his own He ran out of i money eight! He said that stockmen would be ball In a few more minutes If anmonths asoJha amid. Since than willing to reseed and improve other prisoner hadn't tattled est he has lived in skid rows and: ranges to increase carrying capa. him. . done odd jobs. He was a little! perturbed that the i"Skld Rogues"! weren't friendly with him. His clothes, were too good, he said, The end . J the trail came earlv today when he hailed a taxi and told the skeptical driver, Irving Mann, his story. HC then directed Hahn to find him i policeman. . Hahn drove I him to the hall of J justice and Blackmore waited outside while Hahn went in to summon the police. "Oh, I'm so glad you arrived, I'm so glad it is all ended," he told Inspector Scullion. Black-mo- re TUMBLERS was booked on a holding TO ks-- 1 . charge.: 10c, L,.MM.,j.....,,lATQl-.-liUUReg. He said he absconded 'with the " money after "frustration set in." ALUMINUM DISHPAN 1 He said he could get no further ' in his job and he and his wife I 1.15 . . Jf rTrwrrminai had a lot of unpaid bills, so he decided to run away. TEAPOT, 6 cup ., He told police that during his (S fi. I i 1.15. travels he used his own name at Rg;. all times "because I was anxious to be picked up.' Contrary to LUNCH BUCKET . what some people might think, . I y careReg. 1.15. "I spent the money very j fully, making it go as far as I ' , could," he said.. SIDE MIRROR he tpokj, $r4,000, only Although Reg. $5,381.40 of it was; In cash. The balance was in checks, which ha threw away. CAR VALET HANGERS O fSfS Governor, Mrs. Lee Honored at Logan , 1 us 9 Sunday, February 28, i E i ' i DOLLAR DAY SPECIALS! j gSr:h..:L6or1.0a-'...6 for 1.00 SN.T00M. 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