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(73rd Year) PRICE 5 CENTS ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1951 PAGES oN TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE "1 12 -Inch Snow Cripples City Traffic; CHURCHILL PLANS i 39-Year Record Fall in 24 Hour Period TRUMAN-CHURCHILL-STAUN TALKS DURING MEETING OF U.N. PROPOSED BY AU RIO INFLATION CURBS; BRITAIN 1 ROAD CITY ASKS P.S. CO. BE MADE TO SHOW SERVICE IS GOOD BEFOREFARE RISE Petition Also Requests State Commission Fix Minimum Standards It Will Require Company to Meet.

I VV-, FRENCH PRESIDENT FEELS TENSIONS WOULD BE EASED EISENHOWER WON'T HALT FRIENDS' BOOM FOR HIM 'Their He Says Job in Europe Too Important 'as of This Moment' for a Political Expression. if it long that they believe they know 1 By a Pof Staff Photographer. Downtown-bound workers, stranded in the transportation tie-up caused by today's heavy snowfall, wait forlornly at Lindell boulevard and Vandeventer avenue beside a blocks-long line of stalled automobiles. The view is looking east. The line of cars extended to Grand boulevard.

(Additional pictures in Everyday Magazine.) GOVERNMENT ACTS how I would act and react, thati is their business and I never in-1 Eisenhower later added: "If the time ever comes when I feel that my duty compels me to say a wcrd of any kind (on politics) I shall do so positively and definiately." The general said that he had talked by telephone to Republican Senator James H. Duff of Pennsylvania, one of his most energetic sponsors, and to his brother, Miltcn, now a college president in the same state. Asked if he discussed the "Ike-for-President boom," he flashed his wide smile and ith a chuckle answered with a resounding, "No." He then remarked: "I didn't know it had reached the proportions of a boom." Asked if he had talked politics with the Pennsylvania Senator, Eisenhower replied that they had discussed one or two subjects "of slight interest" to both of them Continued on Page 4, Column 1 TRUMAN PREDICTS 'TROUBLE' IN AID PROGRAM ABROAD 5 Calls It Keason ror fcasen hower Visit Blames Damage to rian United States. WASHINGTON. Nov.

6 (UP) President Truman today forecast recovery program abroad because BY DISCUSSIONS France Presumably Would Be Included British Advocate Study of Plan, Say Ministers Probably Discussed It. By MAX HARRELSON PARIS, Nov. 6 (AP) France's President Vincent Auriol suggested today that President Truman. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Stalin meet for private talks in Paris during the session of the United Nations General Assembly which opened today. The suggestion was made in a speech formally opening the sixth session of the Assembly.

Auriol did not mention the American, British rnd Russian leaders by name, but referred to them as the "distinguished men toward whom all anxious eyes are turned." Confident of Progress. He said he felt sure that if they came here to consider their differences in private and within the scope of the U.N., progress could be made toward casing current world tensions. Presumably France would be represented at such a meeting by Premier Pleven. In London, a British Foreign Office spokesman said Britain would welcome any move toward easing East-West tension. He said Auriol's proposal one, however, that will need careful study." British officials said It seemed likely the Weetern Foreign Min isters naa aiscussea me Aurici proposal in pre-session conferences.

Churchill long has championed a direct approach to Stalin on East-West frictions. Truman has replied to previous suggestions of a Big Four meet- that he would be glad to meet i tkV 4UUIV.UIV. Ail Olio tl I tions afterward that Stalin would make no decision on the proposal until he had received a formal invitation to a meeting. "It is necessary to communicate me iour involved, ismn sky told reporters. "The three should arrange it with the one." Here is the way the French President put his suggestion for a Big Four meeting: "I will make bold to say that if the distinguished men toward whom all anxious eyes are turned were to come here to attend this session, not of course to participate directly in your proceedings, but to establish human contact with each other, to exchange ideas personally, to consider their differences without any agenda or public debate, and to try within the scope and in keeping ith the principles of the United Nations, jointly to reduce the disagreements which paralyze the world, if this should happen, we would welcome them with a joy which I am convinced would become worldwide." Reaffirms Faith in UX Auriol reaffirmed France- TO BANKRUPTCY' 'Exceptional Measures' Forecast Con serva-tives to Denationalize Steel but Retain Welfare State Services.

LONDON, Nov. 6 (AP) Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared today his new Conservative government found Britain on the road to "national bankruptcy." He warned the nation it is entering a period of emergency during which he will be forced to take "exceptional measures." Churchill opened debate in the House of Commons following the reading of the traditional King's speech in which the new Government promised to curb inflation, save the defense program from collapse and to carry out its pledge to denationalize the steel industry. Its program also promised to extend the field for private enterprise in the trucking branch of nationalized transport and to maintain the Labor government's "welfare state" social services, including free public health service, but to give better "value for money spent." In the field of foreign affairs the program promised to "repair" Britain's setback in Iran and to fight if necessary to stay in the Suez canal zone. Plans Secret Session. Churchill later told Commons, "We are convinced that it is necessary to present the facts plainly to the nation in order that everyone might realize where we stand." Churchill said he will ask soon for a secret session of Commons at which he will give it full in formation on the country de- fense position.

On finances, Churchill said: "We do not believe that a full and frank statement of our posi- tion will aggravate the loss of con-! fidence abroad which has been taking place." He said figures he cited "mean, snort, inai we are buying more than we can afford to pay for from current earnings and this can only in time lead to national bankruptcy." Details Withheld. Churchill did not specify just what remedies he has in mind, but said: "We feel that a solemn resolve by Parliament and by the British people to set their house In order without delay and the measures necessary to give effect to this resolve will act as a tonic to our credit all the world over." Churchill described the nation's financial position as "the gravest matter I have to bring before the House" so bad that "confidence in sterling is impaired." i He said unless "present trends and policies" were reversed the gold dollar reserves of the sterling bloc might slump more than 600 million in 1952. These reserves are the entire dollar capita of the countries using the pound sterling as the basis of national currency. The reserves now are down to slightly more than $3,000,000,000. Huge Increase in Debt.

Churchill said Britain has a deficit crisis worse than 1949's and is running into debt abroad at the rate of nearly $2,000,000,000 a year. The pound was devalued in 1949. He said the deficit crisis was not only worse than 1949 but "in many ways worse than in 1947." He referred to financial help from the United States in those years, saying: "Do not let us forget during the last six years the immense financial help loaned or given us by the United States Government and our dominions. Without this the true facts of our situation would have been brought brutally home to all parties and classes and it may be coming home by now." Churchill called again, as he has been doing for two years, for an attempt to abate the cold war "by negotiation at the highest level from strength and not from weakness." He said he and For-Continued on Page 67Column 47 Warmer Tomorrow Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Mostly cloudy tonight, with snow early tonight; partly cloudy and warmer tomorrow; lowest temperature tomorrow morning about 25; highest tomorrow afternoon near 40.

TEMPER ATI' HES. S'no JOKE 1 mm. 27 2 am. 27 a.m. a.m.

2t5 of damage to the "key and funda- mental proposition" of the plan to- in this country i from the L-S R- There is no m- The President said this threat Ration that either has changed EurPe an 5 El2 si.U Only at Potsdam. how ondr Jth defense forces, flew here to con- JJ fJtd last time at Pots-Truman Soke informally at a ign Minister Andrei breakfast meeting of the National ii" dku.m BABY GIRL BORN IN AUTO STALLED IN SNOWSTORM "Sixty-six Junior" is the nickname of a baby girl born this morning in the snowstorm in a stalled automobile on the Missouri approach to Chain of Rocks bridge. That's not only because she was born on United States Highway 66, but lso because officers of police cruising patrol No. 66 rushed mother and daughter to DePaul Hospital, where both were said to be "doing fine." The father, Glen Sturgeon, Route 1, Edwardsville, set out at 2 a.m. to take his wife.

Betty Jean, 22 years old, to the hospital but became stuck in the snow on the bridge approach. The 7-pound 4-ounce baby was born at 3 a.m.. just before Patrolmen John Guinan and Ralph Stumborg arrived. They applied the nickname during the dash to the hospital. The parents named the child Gyda Win Sturgeon.

VINITA PARK CALLS $300 FOR HOLE HIGH BUT WILL PAY IT A charge of $300 for digging a hole two feet deep seems just a trifle steep, Mayor Charles V. Ermes of Vinita Park felt trday. But Vinita Park will pay that sum to University City for sending a fire truck to extricate a small boy whose foot was caught in a water pipe last month. Mayor Ermes's plea for a "considerable reduction" was turned down by councilmen of University City last night. That's the charge for emergency use of fire equipment, ruled the councilmen.

Says so right there in the contract. Mayor Ermes said only two firemen, aboard a small emergency truck, showed up Oct. 11 when Thomas DiMaria. 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles DiMaria, 8323 Monroe avenue, got his foot jammed in the pipe. The firemen used only one shovel, said Mayor Ermes, and anyhow it was the St. Louis County Water Co. that finally freed Thomas. However, Elder Gunter, city manager of University City, pointed out that fire calls often cost far more than $300, council-men upheld the standing charge and Mayor Ermes said Vinita Park would pay.

But he added: "The charge seems out of line for the service performed." GENERAL ALARM FIRE RAGES ON ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK Blaze Out of Control, Whipped by High Wind Blowing from Ocean. ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Nov. 6 (UP) A general alarm fire damaged four boardwalk shops this afternoon and threatened to spread to other buildings on the ocean front. The fire still was out of control. It was whipped by a high wind blowing from the ocean.

Several firemen were overcome by heavy smoke. The general alarm called in all off-duty police and firemen to the scene. A sharp attack on the proposed new fare increase and on the transit service rendered by Public Service throwing wide open the whole question of service, was made by the city of St. Lcuis today. It was in the form of a petition to intervene in the fare case, filed with the Missouri Public Service Commission at Jefferson City.

The city demanded that no fare rise be granted unless the company first clearly convinces the commission that its service is "fully adequate to meet all reasonable needs in the metropolitan area." Further, the city declared the company should give satisfactory assurance to the commission that good service will be maintained, if it is to get any revenue increase. Suburbs Included. It was significant that the city's petition referred plainly to service in the metropolitan area clearly including St. Louis county suburbs rather than the city alone. An unusual step was that the petition was signed by Mayor Joseph M.

Darst as well as by City Counselor James E. Crowe and Crowe's associate specializing in utility matters, Forrest G. Ferris Jr. The state commission was called on by the city's petition to make an "impartial and independent inquiry" into Public Service service, in order to fix "minimum standards of service which may not be departed from, except with the commission's permission and upon a proper showing." This request, if acted on by the commission, would result in a direct attack on the question of service by the official agency charged with regulating the transit utility. As has been shown repeatedly, there has been a continuing decline in the volume and character of bus and streetcar service by the company, which has continued to make profits.

At Jefferson City, Chairman Morris E. Osburn of the state commission declined comment on the city's request. He said he wanted to study the petition. City Denies Emergency. The city denied vigorously the company's assertion, in its fare rise petition filed Oct.

24, that thre is any emergency need for action on fares. It asked bluntly that any such an "immediate and emergency" rise be refused. In this denial of any critical condition confronting Public Service, the city set out the following list of things which make it "obviously apparent" there is no need for quick action on the fare matter: The earnings record of Public Service Co. (45 per cent of whose stock is owned by National City Ljnes, Inc. of Chicago).

Payment by Public Service of an aggregate of $4,843,000 in dividends "for the period of 1947 to date." The company's "demonstrated ability to finance recent large capital additions." (This appeared to refer to purchase of busses on equipment notes financed by banks.) The fact that Public Service Co. has an earned surplus of $7,998,500, constituting part of the equity belonging to the stockholders, as well as a balance of $15,400,000 in its depreciation reserve account. Total lack of any bonded indebtedness. The company's "admitted ability promptly to meet all its operating expenses, including taxes." Becoming: "Intolerable." The city's petition declared that Its sole purpose is to arrive at a satisfactory solution of the mass transportation problem in the metropolitan area. It declared this problem now is "rapidly approaching an intolerable condition." Reference was made to the efforts of the Mayor's Mass Transportation Committee and the special alder-manic committee created last Friday to help solve the problem.

"The present wholly unsatisfactory mass transportation situation in both St. Louis and St. Louis county," said the city, "is the direct result of the (Public Service insistence on constantly increasing fares, regardless -of all other considerations." This was the company's stand, the city continued, although "each fare increase has admittedly resulted marked decline in patronage," whereupon the company has further insisted on reducing service to conform to the drop in riding. If this "vicious cycle" is permitted to continue, the city said, service would be cut to the "irreducible minimum at the maximum possible fare." The present fare rise proposal, fffecting all present fares except the basic 15-cent cash fare, would for $2,600,000 more revenue innually, and would be the sixth fare increase since 1947, for a total of more than $10,000,000 a (rear, the city related. Good Roads Meeting Snowbound.

KANSAS CITY, Nov. 6 (UP) The Missouri Good Roads Association called off its meeting scheduled for today at Jefferson City. It said the roads were By RAYMOND P. BRANDT Chief Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 Gen.

Eisenhower said today that if his old friends who know how he acts and reacts want to run him for President "that is their own business." In effect, he refused to try to halt the Ike-for-President movement. Answering questions at a press conference at the military airport a few minutes before he took off at 11:21 a. m. for Paris in the Constellation plane Columbine, the famous soldier asserted that "as of this moment" his job as supreme Allied commander in Europe was too important for him to express a partisan (political) view. 'I Never Interfere.

He said that nobody had been authorized by him to work for the presidency but he put it in these general terms: "No one can be authorized to act for anyone. If I have friends that have been my friends for so 600 WACS BEING SENT TO KOREA FOR SUPPLY BASE DUTY Tb Ntw York HraM WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 Deci- sion to send more Wacs to Korea was disclosed yesterday by As- I A TAftr-n Annm i M. Rosenberg. A detachment of 1600 has been requested by Gen.

James a. Van Fleet to fill supply base jobs, she said, i Mrs. Rosenberg made the dis-' closure to members of the De-j fense Advisory Committee on Women in the Armed Services immediately after the group had been received by President Tru man at the White House. She also said that Adm. Arthur W.

Radford, Pacific Fleet commander, has asked for 3900 additional Waves for land duty in the Pacific. The Wacs probably will be sent to Pusan, defense officials 1. That is a base area out of the combat zone. Some Wacs are al- i ready on duty in Korea, as well i as in Japan and other Pacific I areas. Some are on duty in Ger- many and in France.

The Wacs are used in com-1 munications work, cryptography. stenography, map reading and various clerical jobs. POLICE ALMOST RIP UP STATION TO GET AT PUP BENEATH IT DETROIT, Nov. 6 (AP) A cold and lonesome puppy was rescued after darn near wrecking a police station near here. Sometime Saturday, the pup crawled beneath the one-story headquarters in suburban Warren township, probably to keep warm.

Then he couldn't find a way out. So he set up a woeful howling. This was late Sunday. Officers tried to coax him out. No soap.

They ripped up flooring to get at him. The prp just retreated into a hole he dug. They tried a dish of water, a bone, a female dog. Still nothing doing. Then yesterday afternoon, William Turner, a maintenance man, tried rapping with a pocket ruler.

It was the last resort. be fl' fore taking out the whole floor. a rnr nrAH Ho1 htr tHa t-i osity that kills cats. inched close. Wham! They had him.

He's in the dog pound now, waiting for adoption. The police are putting their flooring back in. WONT BE EXPLOITED FOR ANY HEADLINE, EISENHOWER SAYS WASHINGTON. Nov. 6 (UP) Gen.

Dwight D. Eisenhower said today he was not going to be "exploited" for a headline. Eisenhower was stopped by a group of reporters and photographers as he left a hotel for a top-level conference at the Pentagon. A photographer asked him to pose holding a newspaper bearing the headline: "No One Speaks for Me Ike." "No," the general replied. "I'm not going to be exploited for any headline whatever." Days Get Longer Down a 1000th NEW HAVEN, Nov.

6 (AP) Rushed for time? If it's any comfort, today was longer than yesterday, by one 1000th of a second. Tomorrow will be longer, by the same amount. The extra time comes from the slowing down of the earth's rotation, due apparently to the fric i I Trains, Busses Running Late City Schools to Close Tomorrow 4 Men Found Dead. St. Louis was crippled today by a 1 2-inch snowfall, greatest in a 24-hour period in 39 years.

More snow was forecast for the remainder of the day, ending early tonight. Thousands of automobiles were stalled throughout the metropolitan area. Overloaded busses and streetcars, burdened with passengers who normally drive to work and slowed by stalled automobiles, were running a half hour to an hour and a half behind schedule. In some parts of the city there was almost no public transportation this morning. Busses of the St.

Louis County Transit Co. were operating but were far behind schedule. Similarly, Public Service busses in the county were delayed, stalled in drifts or blocked by automobiles and trucks. Trains Arriving Late. Trains arriving at Union Station were three to four hours late and departures were delayed.

Besides being behind schedule in reaching here, incoming trains were delayed further by conditions in the yards which interfered with switching. Airplane traffic was almost at a standstill at Lambert-St. Louis Field. From last midnight to noon today, only four flights arrived and three departed. Runways were generally clear but snow i and ice on ramps forced most air lines to cancel flights.

With sidewalks blocked by the deep snow, pedestrians were forced to walk in the streets, in scenes reminiscent of St. Louis winters in the 1890s. Big Stores Close Early. Department stores and most city offices closed at 3:30 o'clock today and ill not open until 9:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Because of the early closing hour, the Public Service Co. announced it would make extra equipment available to handle earlier traffic. The city's public schools, which closed at noon today, will remain closed tomorrow. Superintendent of Instruction Philip J. Hickey announced.

This means that pupils will not return to classes until next Tuesday because schools will be closed Thursday and Friday for the meeting of the Missouri State Teachers Association here and will be closed Monday for Armistice day. In the county, schools were closed in Webster Groves, Jennings, University City and many other communities. Classes after 11 a.m. at Washington University were canceled but the schedule of evening classes will be maintained. East St.

Louis Schools Closed. East St. Louis's 32 public schools were ordered closed because of transportation difficulties. Elementary schools in Belleville will be closed tomorrow. Bayless district announced its schools would be closed from tomorrow until next Tuesday.

Four men were found dead in the snow today, all apparently the result of natural causes. The body of Paul W. Chapman, 7320 Pershing avenue. University City, was found this morning near his stalled automobile in a snowdrift a half block from his home. He was 56 years old and had been under treatment for heart disease.

The body was found at 7 a.m. by a passing motorist. Frank B. Ellsworth, a chef, 5020 Rosa avenue, was found dead at 4:30 a.m. at Kingshighway and Rosa by a policeman.

The body was covered by snow. He was 65. The body of August 11. Thieret, 4163 Castleman avenue, was found at 7 o'clock at Thurman and Shaw avenues. He was 72 and relatives told police he had been under a doctor's care for three months.

Fourth victim was Charles J. Widmer. 7120 Colorado avenue, whose body was found at 6:15 a.m. at Alabama and Loughborough avenues. He was 70.

John A. Baumbach, 440 Lee avenue, Kirkwood, died at Marine Hospital today after collapsing when shoveling snow from a walk at his home. He was 67 and had Continued on Page 6, Column 3. TO PREVENT RAIL STRIKE THURSDAY Walkout Called on Four Lines, Including Ter-j minal, 2 Others Operat-; ing Out of St. Louis.

The Government moved today to head off a strike on four major railroads, including the Terminal Railroad and tivo other lines operating out of St. Louis. Lines affected, besides the Terminal, are the Baltimore Ohio and Louisville Nashville, which enter St. Louis, and the Chicago Si Northwestern. The walkout, by members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, was ordered for 3 p.m.

Thursday. Chairman Leverett Edwards of the National Railway Mediation Board, sent a message to the White House saying an emergency existed under railway labor law. This will enable President Truman to appoint a board to recommended settlement of the differences, which are largely-over changes in working rules. Injunction May Be Sought. Under railway labor law the union is committed to refrain from calling a strike for 60 days, once the board is named and begins hearings.

At the expiration of that period the Government may seek a court injunction to halt a walkout. Major railroads have been under Government seizure for some time, and the union and its leaders would be subject to contempt penalties if a strike went ahead in the face of an injunction. David B. Robertson, brotherhood president, in announcing the strike, said it was "the only course left open to obtain long overdue increases in wages and improved working conditions." The strike was termed "progressive," meaning that only the four key roads and their subsidiaries would be affected initially, but that walkouts might be ordered later on other rail systems. 75,000 Affected by Dispute.

Robertson's union represents 105,000 rail firemen, enginemen and yardmen, but not more than 75,000 of these are affected by the current dispute. The union announced Oct. 24 that a membership vote favored a strike 10 to one. The union chief said there had been a deadlock for 13 months over demands for a general wage increase and a 40-hour week for men in yard service. Most recent demands have been for an 18'-cent hourly general increase, plus-an additional 15 cents hourly for men in yard service until a 40-hour week is granted them.

The roads had offered to meet substantially the union's money demands but insisted on working rule changes to which the union objected. He explained a low pressure area had moved from northeast Texas into southeast Missouri causing warm winds bringing moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to come in contact with cold air above with resulting precipitation. The physics department of St. urable but very small amount of raaio-activity in the snow. Experts pointed out there always is some radio-active dust in the air and that the additional tiny amount resulting from the Nevada tests Is harmless.

Cartoonists Society here in recog nition of their contributions to the defense bond and savings stamp drive. For the most part the occasion was jovial with a light diet of sass bv such excerts as cartoon- Herschfield. Threat of Inflation. The President, however, injected a grave note in talking about the threat of inflation at home. He projected the same threat abroad and forecast trouble for the American mutual assistance program.

He said that late last year the Government "had managed to get on top of the price and wage situation," but "needed a few-more powers to carry the thing to its logical conclusion." The President, presumably referring io Congress, said that because "the situation had leveled off, our friends decided that the emergency was over and we didn't VTI. said And this drive that is trt t. Lit ion now for savings is the best to prevent that spiral from going to disaster. The President said the same inflationary situation developed with the economic recovery program. Key Proposition Lost.

"The countries that we had been helping had arrived at a position where they were just on the verge of being self-supporting, and then the key and fundamental proposition in the economic recovery program was taken away from us, and we are going to have much trouble." he said. "That is the reason all the speculation to the contrary that is the reason Gen. Eisenhower came to see me. We had matters that affected the welfare of the hole world to discuss." (A few moments earlier Goldberg had quipped that the President and Eisenhower met to "match coins to see who was going to Truman did not elaborate on his complaint that the "key and fundamental proposition" of the Continued on Page 6, Column 5. as Earth Slows of Second a Day tion of the earth's tides, caused by the moon.

If you want a longer day, just keep living. The twentieth century is 36'. 2 seconds longer than the nineteenth, and 73 seconds longer than eighteenth. The figures were cited today by Dr. Dirk Brouwer of Yale University at a meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

faith in the UJST. and at the same time pledged his country's cooperation in efforts to build a strong collective security system. With the United States reported ready in the face of almost certain-Russian opposition to propose a world-wide census and sweeping inspection of atomic weapons and other armaments, Auriol declared: "We have no fonder wish than to see the establishment of a permanent and simultaneous control in all countries of all armaments, whether conventional or atomic." Luis Padilla Nervo- of Mexico was elected president of the Assembly, The vote was 44 for Padilla Nervo. nine for Victor Andres Belaunde of Peru and six for Adolfo Costa du Rels of Bolivia. Just before the Assembly opened a British spokesman said the United States and Britain expect to present a "united front on all problems facing the UJS.

On the chief question where there is not fundamental agreement between the two powers whether the Communists or the Nationalists should have China's U.N. seat the spokesman said Britain and the United States have agreed to work for postponement of the issue. Foreign ministers of the Western Big Three United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman held a final conference in the Qua! d'Orsay this morning to discuss joint strategy. Authoritative sources said the three Foreign Ministers reached complete agreement Middle Continued on Page ''y-ara a.m. 26 am.

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27 Unofficial. Snow the Work of Mother Nature, Not Atom Tests, Wahlgren Says An increased amount of radioactivity in the present snowfall, presumably the result of the recent atomic tests in Nevada, has been detected here, but the heavy snow was not caused by the atomic explosions. Meteorologist Harry F. Walgren explained today in response to numerous inquiries. "Nothing that man could do would cause so much snow over "such a wide area," Wahlgren said.

"I know of no weather expert who takes an opposing view." Despite the unseasonableness of the heavy snow, conditions were exactly right for it, Wahlgren pointed out. Normal maximum this lat 5S; normal minimum 41. YfgterdaVs hlRh 33 at 2:30 p.m.; kw 27 at 11:59 p.m. All weatbrr data, inrludine forrrasts and temperature. upp1lil hy IT.

S3. Weather Bureau.) POST-DISPATCH WEATHER BIRO a u. MT. 04W. Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow).

6:34. Stage of the Mississippi at St. Louis, 11.5 feet, a fall of 0.4; the Missouri at St. Charles, 15.6 feet, a fall of 0.8. mm wm i.

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