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Cold, Snow or tithes Wherein and have we robbed -Malachi Freezing Rain 3:8. WEATHER a man rob God? Yet Altoona Tribune have Today's robbed Bible me. But Thought ye say, 8181 VOL. 99-No. 12 Member of the Circulations Audit Since Continuously Jan.

3, 1856 Published Saturday Morning, Jan. 15, 1955 Ninety- Continuous Nine Service Five Cents OAS Denounces Attack On Costa Rica UN Leader Says Trip Successful 'No Deals' Made With Chou, Says Hammarskjold; Is Optimistic ough talks. RELEASE SEEN UNITED NATIONS, N. Hammarskjold said Friday his trip to Peiping Was successful first step toward release of the 11 American fliers jailed by Red China and declared that Chou En-lai had laid down no conditions tarriers to their freedom. He said he made "no deals" and foreign minister of Red with Chou and that the Premier China had not suggested any.

The UN secretary general told his first news conference since returning here Thursday night that Chou did not link the question of the prisoners to a series of issues outstanding between the East and West, including the question of China's bid for seat in the UN. He said Chou did, however, bring up all pertinent questions in their thor- Hammarskjold appeared confident that the fliers would be released eventually but he gave promises to that effect and refused to disclose his next step in his moves to them. conference, Hammarskjold said: During his 45-minute, press 1. thee had contact with any of 11 prisoners nor was he shown any exhibits relating to their capture, alleged confessions or trials. 2.

The question of releasing 35 Chinese students in the 1 United States to return to the Chinese mainland was not made a condition. 3. While there is no definite Fink between the points of tension and the freeing of the prisoners, according Hammarskjold, an improvement in conditions between the Communist Chinese and the United States would have a bearing on the issue. Senate Calls. For Steady Probe Of Reds WASHINGTON (P) The Senate want on record against communism and all its works Friday in a turbulent session in which Sen.

McCarthy was reprimanded for calling other senators "insincere" and twice ordered to take his seat. Sen. Long (D-La), presiding in the absence of Vice President Nixon, first ordered McCarthy to take his seat after the Wisconsin Republican asserted that some Democrats voted for the resolution "to get the dirt out of their hands." In even tones, Long called MicCarthy to order. He said McCarthy had called other senators "insincere," in violation of Rule 19 which says no senator in debate shall impute to another "any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator." It was the first time McCarthy had taken part in Senate debate since his colleagues voted 67-22 last Dec. 2 to condemn some of his official conduct.

Only a handful of senators were on the floor when McCarthy sat down under his first reprimand. The chamber began to fill quickly, however, when he bounced back on his feet to engage in an exchange with Sen. Kuchel (R-Calif). McCarthy said he was "fully and completely convinced" that among those who voted for the anti-Communist resolution were senators who were "opposed to digging up Communists." School Authority Gets Bids On Two Buildings HARRISBURG- UP The Public School Building Authority received these unofficial low bids on construction of for two. new elementary, schools School Board in Shade Gap, Dublin and in Rockhill, Huntingdon county: General construction Bogar Construction Selinsgrove, a combined bid of heating, F.

E. Ferraris, Shippinsburg, $35,816, and E. W. Pyles, McConnelisburg, plumbing, Winecoff and Winecoff, Everett, $37,143, and E. W.

Pyles, 771; electrical, Rice Electric Service, Grove, combined bid of $31,800. PESBURG 4H GRAND CHAMPION--Tommy Daugherty, 11, of Kirkwood, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, kisses his prize steer on the nose after it was judged as 4H Grand Champion Steer of the Pennsylvania Farm show, Harrisburg, Jan. 13. The Hereford weighed 1,085 pounds. (AP Wirephoto).

Champion 4-H Baby Steer Brings $1.51 Lb. HARRISBURG UP) The 1955 grand champion 4-H Club baby beef steer Friday brought top bid of $1.51 pound at the yearly auction sale ending the 39th annual Pennsylvania Farm Show. A Hereford named "Buddy" was bought by the Howard Johnson restaurants for their Pennsylvania Turnpike branches for $1,638.35. The per pound bid was one of the highest of post World war II days and 36 cents a pound more than the high bid for last year's grand champion, also a Hereford. For 11-year-old Tommy C.

Daugherty, who owned and showed Buddy, the sale marked a bright outlook for his future and the end of a friendship that when he acquired Buddy 13 months ago through the 4-H Club program. The Kirkwood youngster was the second Lancaster countian in two years to take the top farm show honors with a Hereford entry. For the seven years before 1954 judges favored the blue-black Aberdeen-Angus, long a favorite in the east. This year the reserve grand championship was won by "Smokey," an Angus belonging to Henry Yeska, 14, of Nazareth. Smokey was purchased by the Crystal Restaurant, Reading, for $1.05 a pound- a total of $1,029.

The reserve champion a year ago sold for 85 cents a pound. The current price for prime beef (Continued on Page 8, Col. 4) Russians Say They Killed U. S. Spy, Seized One MOSCOW Soviet government announced Friday night its border forces had shot dead one resisting "American spy captured after they parachuted into Soviet Estonia last summer.

The State Security Committee of the U. S. S. R. named the two men as Kalja Kukk and Hans Toomla.

The captured man has been turned over to a military tribunal for trial. The committee said the two men fought World in the II German during to Sweden war from and where then they es: caped were taken to the United States to be trained as spies. It said one received his espionage instruction at a town about 30 miles northwest of Washington, D. the name of which translates into English as Poolsville. The postal guide lists a Poolesville.

Md. The other, the announcement said, was trained at a spy school about four miles outside Fairfax, also near Washington. Water Authority To Meet Monday The Altoona water authority Monday will hold its initial meeting since city council gave it the go-ahead signal on the water system improvement program this week. Financing procedures will be discussed at the initial session, scheduled for 3 P. M.

Monday. Later in the week a joint meeting with city council will be arranged, John H. Dillen, authority secretary, said. Russia Says It WillShare Atom Data Moscow Says It Will Reveal Atomic Industrial Power Plant MOSCOW-UP Russia said Friday it is ready to share with the world the scientific and technical experience it claims to have "piled up" in the operation since last summer of an atom-driven industrial power plant. The press chief of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Leonid Ilyichev, told news conference Russia is ready to hand over this experience at a World Atomic Energy Congress scheduled for later this year under the auspices of the UN General Assembly.

He said his government is sending Soviet Academician Dmitiri V. Skobeltsyn to the UN in New York to submit the proposal for i inclusion on the Congress agenda. It will be the first time the Soviet Union has been represented by a scientist rather than a political figure at such talks. There was no indication in Ilyichev's statement that theSoviet Union is planning to let foreign scientists study firsthand the atomic power station claimed in an announcement last July 1 to have been put into operation in this country. That announcement over the Moscow radio said a small atomic-engined plant with a capacity of 5,000 kilowatts had been put into operation and Soviet authorities and engineers planned construction of other plants with capacities of from 50,000 to 100,000 kilowatts.

Body Of Noted Speed Flier Found In Desert LOS ANGELES UP) The body of air speed record holder James B. Verdin, who bailed out of a bantam jet bomber 80,000 feet over the Mojave Desert Thursday was found Friday about miles south of the wreckage of his plane, His chute had not opened, authorities said. The body was spotted from the air late Friday afternoon after an all-day search involving scores of planes and several thousand men afoot, on back and in automobiles. A ground party later reached the scene, about 30 miles west of Barstow. The 36-year-old Douglas Aircraft Corp.

test pilot, who as a Navy lieutenant commander set the world's, three-kilometer jet mark 753.4 m. p. h. on Oct. 5, 1953, was on a flight out of the Mojave's Edwards AFB when he radioed he was bailing out.

The wreckage of his A4D Skyhawk, the nation's smallest atom bomber, was found Thursday night near Victorville, 75 miles northeast of here. Alan Ladd's Daughter, Actor To Be Married SANTA MONICA, Calif. -UP) -Alan Ladd's 22-year-old daughter, Carol, obtained a marriage license Friday with actor Richard Anderson, 28. They announced plans for a lavish wedding Jan. 22 in the garden of her parents' Holmby Hills home.

Miss Ladd said the Rev. A. J. Soldant of Westwood Community church will officiate and 500 guests have been invited. Anderson, a film actor, said their courtship began six weeks ago.

He said that although his bride-to-be majored in theater arts at UCLA, where she was graduated last spring, she has no aspirations for film career. Anderson, who also attended UCLA and was member of the tennis team, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ignace Hilsberg of Los Angeles. Dedication Committee Named For New Annex The dedication committee for the new Pleasant Valley school annex has been named by the president of the Altoona school board, Frank Marsh, as follows.

From the board, Roy F. Thompson, Paul Reynolds and Marjorie Marsh; from the authority, Charles Clugh and William Lehman. Mr. Marsh said tit the program is planned tentatively for some time in February. Nicaragua Asked To Halt Flow Of War Equipment Federal Health Care Program Is Proposed WASHINGTON- (P) -Sen.

Ives (R-NY) proposed Friday a broad medical care program designed to promote the of voluntary health plans partita subsidized by state and federal funds. Ives, who was joined by Sens. Case (R-NJ) and Flanders (R-Vt), introduced legislation similar to bills he has proposed several times previously. In addition to federal-state subsidies for voluntary prepaid health and medical care programs operating at a loss, the bill would: 1. Authorize the President to appoint a bipartisan federal health study and planning commission to study "pressing" health problems, such as financial condition of the nation's hospitals, recruitment and training of personnel, new methods of attack on chronic diseases such as cancer, and others.

2. Authorize an increase of 25 million dollars to stimulate construction of health service centers, on a matching federal-state basis, for out-patient use. 3. Provide special assistance for training nurses and doctors. Atomic Sub To Get Sea Tests Monday WASHINGTON (P) The world's first atom mic-powered submarine will go to sea for the first time; on Monday, when the Nautilus moves from her fitting out dock at Groton, Conn.

The Navy made the announcement that the Nautilus would start her power trials. It said tests and adjustments, both at the docks of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. and at sea, will be much more extensive than for conventional submarines. The first sea trials are being held earlier than expected. Earlier the Navy had scheduled the trials for March, explaining that (Continued on Page 8, Col.

3) Three Cresson Men Held In Burglaries Three Cresson area men were ordered held for the March term of court Friday morning on charges of burglary aired before Justice of. the Peace Robert T. Eamigh of Cresson. The three nen, Alex J. Skebeck, 36, and Robert J.

Lowery, 39, both of Sankertown and Andrew T. Muriceak, 43, of Cresson Shaft, pleaded guilty to taking part in a series of burglaries dating back to 1951. A juvenile arrested with two of the men Thursday has been turned over to juvenile authorities, state police of the Ebensburg detail said. The other man was taken into custody Wednesday. Sgt.

James D. Blair, commander of Ebensburg sub-station, said that Muriceak has confessed being involved in all of the following eight thefts. Sons of Italy, Cresson township, Jan. 10, 1955, $150 in cash and merchandise; Cresson Country club, Nov. 14, 1951, $237 in cash and merchandise; Polo tavern, Cresson, Sept.

19, 1953, $351 in cash and merchandise; Slavish hall, Gallitzin, 1953, undetermined amount of cash and merchandise. Sons of Italy, Cresson township, Nov. 27, 1951, $1,000 in cash and merchandise; Gonsman hotel Sankertown, June 25, 1951, $110 in cash and merchandise; Reed's hotel, Cresson, June 11, 1951, $20 in cash and Fraternal Order of Eagles, Cresson, 1951, small amount of cash and cigarets. License Tax Collections For December License tax office collections for December totaled $9,126, the report of W. B.

Dunn, submitted Friday to Councilman Guy Z. Pearce discloses. Included in this report was the pole and conduit tax paid by the Pennsylvania Electric Co. Other items were as follows: Mercantile license and tax, 393.58; business privilege tax, license tax, city scales, amusement tax, $2,174.74. Commission Finds That Planes Had Invaded Costa Rica TIME FOR A CHANGE -Changing from plane to train at Washington's Union Station, Jan.

13, Lieut. Norman (Moose) Donahoe takes time out to make another change- -the diaper on his 17- month-old adopted Greek daughter, Roni Marie, before going on to New York to meet his wife. Donahoe journeyed 13,000 miles to Athens to pick up the little girl, then hitch-hiked to the U. S. in an aerial jaunt beset with diaper problems.

Leaving Greece five days ago with only 48 disposables, he managed to locate another 48 during a Morocco stopover as the flight was plagued by delays. Nevertheless he won the "diaper derby" arriving with 32 still in hand. (AP Wirephoto). Engineer Blames PRR For Fatal Train Wreck TRENTON, N. J.

(P) The engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad train that plunged off a temporary trestle in Woodbridge in 1951, killing 85 persons, Friday denied responsibility for the accident. The engineer, Joseph H. Fitzsimmons of West Point Pleasant, gave the testimony in the trial of a $250.000 suit he has filed against the railroad. He is asking $150,000 fo: injuries and $100,000 for loss of pay. Fitzsimmons testified the accident was the railroad's fault.

He said there was no warning signal at the trestle to warn him to slow down. He said he had slowed his train, the "Broker," down to 25 miles an hour anyway. The railroad contends Fitzsimmons was at fault. A State Public Utility Commission report after the wreck fastened the blame on Fitzsimmons. It charged he was going 60 to 65 miles an hour across the trestle.

Killed In Crash RENOVO, Pa. (P) Lester Hartsock, 40, of Renovo died Friday of injuries suffered when his car went over a 60-foot embankment. Hartsock, a Pennsylvania Railroad employe, was injured while driving from Lock Haven to Re novo. He died in the hospital here. WEATHER Western Pennsylvania and Altoona Area-Cloudy snow, possibly mixed with some Leet or freezing rain In the west and south portions Saturday, highest 28-36.

Snow flurries and windy Saturday night. Sunday cloudy and colder with snow flurries. Eastern Pennsylvania Cloudy and rather cold with snow possibly mixed with sleet in the south portion Saturday. highest 28-35. Snow ending in the southeast and changing to snow flurries in the west and north portions and windy Sunday night.

Sunday partly cloudy and cold with few snow flurries in the mountains. PENGUIN SOYS: "Bill Bear wuz wantin' t' know whut come of that there idee th' congress wuz talkin' about, makin' th' income tax blanks simpler," I tells Mr. W. "Bill sez he wuz jest gittin' onto th' other one, now he's gotta spend th' rest o' th' winter studyin' this here, one so's he kin make head by spring good thing sez Bill they give a extry month this "Forecast fer Saturday," sez Mr. W.

"calls CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY MIXED WITH SLEET ER FREEZIN' RAIN, HIGH AROUND 28-36. SNOW FLURRIES AN' WINDY AT 32, 19, barometer AN' FLURRIES. High A A A Friday wuz SUNDAY CLOUDY 28.87. wind NW.

temp ature at 1 A M. Saturday 26." New President Of Panama Is Under Arrest PANAMA (P) Five national guardsmen with steel helmets and machine guns surrounded the residence of President Jose Ramon Guizado Friday night and the chief executive said he was under house arrest. His son and two of his business associates also were being held by police as the investigation into the assassination of President Jose Antonio Remon on Jan. 2 headed for climax. Sources closest to the investigation said, "Grave charges exist against President Guizado and against other personages implicated in the attempt against Presideut Jose Antonio Remon." Reliable reports said the cabinet ministers were preparing to call upon the President Friday night and inform him of developments.

The Assembly would have to act upon any resignation by Quizado, who stepped up from the vice presidency and foreign ministry six hours after Remon was assassinated at Juan Franco race track 12 days ago. Magazine Article Angers Senate Group WASHINGTON- (P) Two staff aides of the Senate Juvenile Delinquency subcommittee are due to be called on the carpet for writing magazine articles about the subcommittee's work before it chance to publish its own report. Senators serving on the group were reported Friday to be "very much disturbed" about the situation. Former Sen. Robert C.

Hendrickson, a New Jersey Republican who served as chairman of the subcommittee during the last session of Congress, said one member called it "outrageous." Two articles by Herbert W. Beaser, the subcommittee's chief counsel, and Richard Clendenen, staff director, already have been published in the Saturday Evening Post. The subcommittee's official report is not due until Jan. 31, but Beaser said he hoped it would be ready for the Senate before then. Members were trying to arrange an early meeting of the group to look into the literary activities of Beaser and Clendenen and decide what to do about them.

Beaser said he and Clendenen had Henrickson's permission enter into a commitment to write the articles, but Hendrickson asserted, "that is not true." Reached by telephone at his home at Woodbury, N. the ex-senator added that, "despite all my warnings and advice these two fellows insisted on going ahead." He said that at one point he was "firmly resolved to chop their heads off" but finally decided to take "the calculated risk" of keeping them on rather than bringing in new aides at a late stage of the subcommittee's inquiry. Transportation Strike At Phila. Postponed PHILADELPHIA (P) The CIO, Friday night Transport Workers until Union midpostponed night next Thursday a threatened strike against the trolley, bus and subway lines of the Philadelphia Transportation Co. Drive caretally to Jewelry Stores for watches and diamond WASHINGTON (P) The Organization of AmerIcan States Friday night condemned the attack of foreign forces on Costa Rica and asked the government of Nicaragua to take stronger measures to stop the flow of war equipment from that count.

into Costa Rica. The Council of the OAS late Friday night adopted a resolution saying that its investigation commission, now on the ground in Costa Rica, re reported "a substantial part of the war material was introduced over the northern border" of Costa Rica. Nicaragua is on Costa Rica's northern border. The OAS Council also ordered the investigation commission to send observers to all airports "in the region affected" and President Jose Mora of the Council said this "of course includes Nicaragua." The commission also was told to send observers to "any place which might be utilized for transport of troops or military equipment toward Costa Rica." The resolution also asked that the governments of the 21 American republics consider a date a and a place for a meeting of the foreign ministers and secretaries of state of the hemisphere. Accused Driver Defends Self In Blair Court Testimony was concluded in the trial of Wilmer W.

Albright, 61, of Roaring Spring, R. charged with failing to identify himself at the scene of an accident. Fri day afternoon, and after the summation by attorneys, Judge John M. Klepser will charge the jury Monday. The Albright case is the last case on the current January criminal court schedule, and after the commonwealth asked for the continuance of two remaining cases.

Judge Klepser excused all petit jurors except those sworn in the Albright case. It is the defense contention that Albright was injured in the accident to such an extent that he was mentally unable to make himself known, and Attorney Abraham Colbus called Albright to the witness stand who thus testified. "Isn't it true." Attorney Frank Warfel, assistant to District Attorney Park H. Loose, asked, "that you left the scene because you didn't want the police or anyone else to see the condition you were in?" and Albright declared that was not the case. Mr.

Colbus called Thomas W. Vaughn, operator of the service station from which the defendant pulled out when the accident occurred, and he testified that Albright bought gas, paid for it and said that his reactions were normal and differed in no way from the times that he was previously a customer at the service station. Mrs. Violet Albright, wife of the defendant. said that her husband arrived home about 15 minutes after Pfc.

Anthony Koury of the state police was there looking for him, and she stated that he had a wound on the forehead Mrs. Albright testified that she washed the blood from her husband's forehead and face and applied a medication to the forehead wound and then gave her husband the officer's message, telling him to remain at the house until he came for him Sunday. Mr. Warfel recalled Alton D. Shaw, Altoona, to the witness (Continued on Page 8, Col.

2) Central CD Office Set Up In Lewistown central operational office was set up in Lewistown Friday by the State Civil Defense Council to handle civil defense matters for 26 tral Pennsylvania counties. The new center will go into operation Saturday to supplant a temporary office maintained in the Huntingdon county courthouse. Several field headquarters already have been established in Montgomery county and Butler county. The three field offices, the council said, were located to provide "a safe distance from major bomb, targets." The Lewistown office will be located in the State Highways department headquarters at istown. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica-(P)The five-nation committee sent to ferret out the facts reported to Washington Friday that planes from "foreign soil" had invaded Costa Rica, dropped bombs and machine-gunned Costa Rican cities.

The report to the Organization of American States was made as government troops closed in rapidly on La Cruz in the northwestern tip of the country where an enemy band has seized a small amount of territory. Costa Rica charges that invaders from Nicaragua are sible for the attack, while response agua denies any connection with the affair and contends it is purely an internal uprising by Costa Ricans. The commission's report, made public in Washington, said "at least a substantial part of war equipment" used in the uprising came Nicaragua. It added that there were "grave presumptions that war gear" was continuing to arrive "in violation of the territorial integrity, the sovereignty and the political independence of the Republic of Costa Rica." The commission urged a formal call to Nicaragua to emphasize the "increasing seriousness" of the situation and asked that OAS take steps under treaty of Rio de Janeiro under which American republics agreed to help one another in case of attack. 300,000 Tons Of State Coal Goes To Vietnam WASHINGTON (P) The Foreign Operations Administration (FOA) announced that a shipment of 30,000 tons Pennsylvania anthracite to Free Vietnam has begun.

The first shipment of about 10,000 tons left Philadelphia Dec. 24 and is due in Saigon, Feb. 11, (FOA) said. The second shipment is now loading in Philadelphia, the nouncement said, and is due in Saigon in early March. A third shipment is scheduled to arrive in Saigon in late March.

The announcement said the coal will be sold to utilities and private industries, the proceeds being used by the Vietnamese government to assist its national economy. This is part of FOA's aid program. Philadelphia Council Passes Curfew Law PHILADELPHIA-UP)- Philadelphia's city council adopted curfew law for teen-agers, designed to cut down juvenile delinquency. The ordinance still must be signed by Mayor Joseph S. Clark, Jr.

The law, to be effective through Dec. 31, would ban from the city's streets those who have not yet reached the age of 17 after certain hours nightly. The curfew would be in effect from 10:30 P. to A. Sunday through Thursday, and from midnight to A.

on Friday and Saturday nights..