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12 LOCK HAVEN, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1960 10 Pages Seven Cents Pentagon Sees Red Lead Only with Missiles Gen. Taylor Says Trend 'Against Us' Be Changed WASHINGTON (AP)-The Penlagon's top military scientist says the Soviet Union has more missiles than the United Stales "but we have more of everything else." Dr. Herbert F. York added "even the more missiles is not a permanent situation." York, director of defense research and engineering, again said defense officials feel that at no time in the future could the Sovict Union attack the United States with impunity. York and others stated their views Sunday during television interviews.

Trend 'Against Us' Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former Army chief of staff, said he believed "the military, trend is against us. And unless we change that trend we will soon be faced with trying to live with Communism as an inferior. I don't believe that can be done." Thomas G.

Lanphier World War I1 flying ace who recently quit as an executive of an aircraft firm so he could criticize the administration's defense policies, said President Eisenhower does not seek the advice of key military men in defense planning. In Buying Defense Sen. Clair Engle (D-Calif) said that in buying defense "security ought to control--not the budget figures." He said there wasn't any question that the budget figures have been a controlling factor as far as the Eisenhower adminis-! tration is concerned. Sen. Kenneth B.

Keating (R-NY) said the Soviet Union now has 100 major missile bases along its western frontiers. He said these bases are capable of launching destruction from Scandinavia to the Middle East. Dr. T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the National Astronautics and Space Administration, said it will be some years before the United State matches the propulsive thrust of Soviet missiles.

Watch W. Va. Primary Vote WASHINGTON (AP)-West Virginia's May 10 Democratic primary is being watched by poli: ticians as a possible test of whether religion will be a major presidential campaign issue. But in an overwhelmingly Protestant state, the balloting will indicate to Sen. John F.

Kennedy (D-Mass) and others how much effect his being a Roman Catholic will have 011 his chances of winning his party's nomination. Kennedy is opposed in the Democratic primary by Sen. Hubert HI. Humphrey (D-Minn) in what amounts to a popularity contest. Eleven Furloughed from PRR Shops RENOVO-Eleven employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co.

here were furloughed about 1 p. m. today upon completion of a special car conversion The lay-off was announced Ambrose Daulby, car boss at the local shops. The conversion program, changing passenger cars to sleeper cars, involved the work men. of that number, 21 have been a added to box car work and 10, to work on camp cars.

There has been 110 indication as when the 11 furloughed would be re-called. NOTES ON THE NEWS-. In 3-14 And! "A filibuster is what my mother gets when she talks up al resort vacation." One Car's Fender Imbedded in Another's licre is a photo of the car of William J. Skam- car. The Schaffer automobile continued on for arak, of Susquehanna parked near his more than 500 feet and ended up a wreck in home, showing a fender of Robert M.

Schaffer's Hanna Park. car imbedded in the fender of the Skamarak (Express l'hoto) 38 Car Wreckage Scattered Through Hanna Park A wheel and part of an axle from the car of mencing with a collision with a parked car 011 Robert M. Shaffer, 126 E. Bald Eagle lie in Susquehanna Ave. Other parts of the automoHanna Park, a short distance from a tree which bile were scattered about the park.

tore off the right rear door in A crash com- Adenauer Defends Gov't's Democracy NEW YORK (AP)-West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer says his nation today is a practicdemocracy, and he blames recent anti-Semitic incidents there on a "minute minority of neoNazis." "Be convinced." said Adenauer Sunday, "that this Germany is a democratic Germany and that none of its Jewish citizens will suffer any harm or damage." Soviet Blamed Adenauer said: "Behind everything that is being said here and there against Germany, the concerted will of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union wants to drive. a wedge. between the German and American people in order to shift the political balance of the world in favor of the Soviet Union. "I assure you that the spirit of Germany today is far from being anti-Semitic or Nazi." Practicing democracy, Adenauer said, "seems to be a difficult thing, as you can see from the debate in the United States Senate." He apparently alluded to the civil rights debate.

Asks Tolerance "I might, therefore, ask your tolerance and understanding for the German Parliament and at times our federal government," he said. The 84-year-old German leader has a busy Sunday. lie spoke at a luncheon of the American on Germany. Earlier, he had breakfast with Francis Cardinal Spellman after Mass, and visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sunday night he attended a private dinner.

The chancellor, who is enroute to Tokyo for a state visit, to Washington Tuesday to confer with President Eisenhower. State Funds for Roads Lawrence HARRISBURG LAP) Gov. reported today that distribution of the first part of million dollars in state aid to communities for road construction will begin April 1. The location will provide local construction funds for all townships, boroughs and cities. Gis from U.

'Battle Area' FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. Red nosed military' transport planes were transporting shivering, red-nosed troops from snowcovered United States bases today to weeks of maneuvers in balmy Puerto Rico. The split-second airlift sched-1 ule, which will last throughout the exercises. will get 700 soldiers: and hundreds of tons of ment to the Caribbean commonwealth by midnight.

Before the operation ends, 18,000 soldiers and 11,000 tons of equipment will be turned. sent to Puerto Rico and Eight thousand of the men are 101st Airborne Division paratroopers from Ft. Campbell, the temperature was 25 de(grees. Nine hours after departure. the men will be in Puerto Rico where the temperature is expect-! led to reach the 80s.

Exercise Big Slam-Puerto Pine is one of the largest airlifts of men and equipment ever under- Robert Schaffer Fair after Crash Demolishes Car Finch and Girl Face New Trial; Jury Hung up Woman Juror Had Been Threatened, in Bitter Deadlock LOS ANGELES (AP) Wrangling by jurors in the Finch murder trial almost erupted into vinlence as the seven women and five men deliberated to a bitter, exhausting deadlock. This was, the report today of two members of the panel-one a woman who said that at one point a male juror threatened to throw her her' out a window of the locked jury room. The jury was dismissed Satur. day after failing to agree whether Dr. R.

Bernard Finch. 42, and his mistress. Carole Tregoff, had plotted and killed with a bullet-in-the-back the doctor's es-! tranged wife. Barbara Jean Finch. Face New Trial The wealthy surgeon and his onetime receptionist broke into sobs when the jurors announced they were deadlocked.

They face another trial. A date will be set Thursday. While all seemed outwardly serene during the eight days of deliberations, reports of shouts, insults and -violence from two jurors--Louis Werne and Genevieve Lang. Mrs. Lang, 34, a secretary, said a male juror turned the locked jury room into a panic Friday when he shouted at her: "I'm z0- ing to pick you up and throw you out the window." She said the juror, whom she did not identify, started "to pick up the jury table-he started to take off his -I was scared.

Bailiffs Called buzzed woman for ran the for the bailiffs. buzzer Another screamed hysterically at the door. It was terrifying to realize we were locked in that way." After bailiffs quited the dispute, Mrs. Lang said: "I want off the jury." However, she stayed on the panel and the next day they announced the deadlock-10 to 2 to convict the balding surgeon of second-degree murder and 8-4 to acquit his pretty mistress. Werner, 66.

retired sales manager. identified the two male jurors standing between Finch and five-year-to prison sentence las Dolores Jaimez, 33, and Eddie Lindsay, 28, Los Angele3; postal employes. Finch and Carole remain in county jail. Their attorneys say they will ask for their release on bail. The district attorney says hie will oppose such a move.

'50 Reunion Meeting The Lock Haven High School class of 1950 has called a reunion meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Keith Kelly, 700 Walnut St. Committeemen report the addresses of all 222 1950 graduates have been located. The tenth reunion will be held on June 25, with a dinner and dance.

Five Die on Highways By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS least seven persons died cidentally in Pennsylvania over the weekend, the second lowest toll of the year. Five were highway victims and two died in fires. Critical Stage Reached in Attempts to Rescue Miners LOGAN. W. Va.

'API Work-: men striving to reach 18 trapped miners had a new approach today to where the men are believed holed up, and the rescue chief; said, "We're al the critical stage now." Crawford L. Wilson, state mines director, said a new fresh airline had been set up and converged with the first one. "These lines of approach are certain and safely supported." said Wilson as he spoke to news. men after a conference with cials of Island Creek Coal Co. Many Stitches Needed; Injuries Are Not Critical (Express Photo) A Me Car a Wreck after Landing in Hanna Park without Rear Wheels Ready for the junkyard is the automobile of Robert M.

car on Susquehanna Ave. near the city line. The driver is in the Schaffer, of 126 E. Bald Eagle its rear wheels gone and one Lock Haven Hospital in fair condition after sustaining a number of its doors missing after a 555-foot jaunt after hitting a parked of painful but not critical injuries. RENOVO-George Bowes Penalties Urged in B.C.

Man Hurt Violation of Orders near Renovo By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON (AP) Eisenhower administration House support today for a civil rights penalty provision which Senate cut from its own bill last week. Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers said "it is of the utmost impor-! tance" that Congress authorize fines and prison sentences against persons who willfully use force threats of force to interfere with court- school integration.

Eliminated by Senate The Senate last week eliminated such a provision after first amend-' washing it to apply to interference with federal court orders in labor and other disputes as well school integration. Although the Senate is starting a fifth week of debate on its own bill, its leaders still are counting on eventual passage of whatever measure the House passes. The penalty provision still is the House bill. but Rep. Edwin E.

Willis (D-La) said an amend-: ment will be offered to extend scope to other kinds of cases the Senate voted to do. Rogers sent his new request the form of a letter Sunday alto Rep. William M. McCulloch who had asked views in the light of the Senate action. act Enforce Orders "Court orders in the school cases will be enforced." Rogers wrote.

"and the interests of the nation require that it be done in an orderly manner -without mob violence and without the necessity of using federal troops." He said the section "has as one of its specific purposes preventing. a recurrence of what happened in Little Rock, in 1957." Fedoral troops were sent to Little Rock then to quell mob violence! which accompanied the entry of ar-'nine Negro students into Little Rock's Central High' School. Southerners have contended that 'any such penalty provision, it it is enacted. should apply to interterence with any kind of court order. Its use in school cases alone would he unfair and discrinunatory, they say.

Robert M. Schaffer, of 126 E. Bald Eagle was very severely but not critically hurt "Saturday night at 7.40 on Susquehanna Ave. near city line where his car hit a parked automobile, traveled erratically for 555 feet and landed, demolished, with no rear wheels, near the middle of Hanna Park. Schaffer, who is 40 years old, was reported in fair condition this morning at the Lock Haven Hospital.

He suffered severe cuts of the chin, lesser cuts of the scalp, face nose and left foreleg: had his left car split, and his right ear nearly torn from his head. was X- rayed for possible fractures of the skull, jaw, chest, ribs, left leg and left hip. There will be a further report. Use More Than 70 Sutures The attending surgeon, who worked for more than an hour and a half, said that more than 70 sutures were required to replace the right car and close other cuts. In face of an apparent absence of more critical injuries, the doctor added: "He's a very lucky boy." Schaffer was traveling south on Ave.

His automobile hit the car of William J. Skamarak. 269 Susquehanna parked in front of Number 337. The imof the Schaffer car and left it impact tore off the right rear fender bedded in the left rear fender of the Skamarak car, whose damage Sun Satellite Setting Records with Radio Data Pioneer Hits nearly 6,000 mph on Way into Space WASHINGTON (AP) AmorPioneer satellite sped 0:1 through space today after setting a new long distance communicalions record. Around noon today, the beachball-size sphere was expected to pass the 500,000 mile mark in its vast solar orbit.

The new record was set at 8 p.m. Sunday when NASA receiv-1 ing stations in California and Hawaii picked up "excellent" radio signals from the sphere which then was 409,060 miles out, soaring along at 5,955 miles per hour. Pioneer IV, launched a year ago, set the previous long distance communications record. It sent back signals from 407,000 miles before its radio batteries went dead. The sun's rays provide t'he electricity to operate the newest Pioneer's radio.

Information relayed back from the spheres is being accumulated in tape form to be analyzed later by space scientists. BURLEY, Idaho (AP) search was under way today for: a light airplane reported missing on a flight from Burley, Idaho, Las Vegas, Nev. Aboard the Piper Apache were Wes Stoddard, 50, of Anchorage, Alaska; his wife, Helen, 49; their daughter, Mrs. Horace Compc, also of Anchorage, and her son, Randy, 6, and Stoddard's! aunt, Mrs. Joseph V.

Lee. Today is the boy's birthday. Search for Apache Missing in West U.S. S. S.

Flown to in Time Test (AP)-taken in peacetime and is de.i signed to flex the muscles of this: nation's missile-age defenses. It's chief purpose is to see how quickly the Military Transport Service can speed battle-ready troops the world's hot spots. Those taking part in the joint Army-Air Force exercise include: Utah National Guardsmen and Pennsylvania Reservists. Others will come from such widely separated points as the Pacific Northwest and New Eng. land.

The first planes took off at 12:30 a.m. and the schedule called similar flights, each carrying men with battle equipment, half hour 'during most of the next two weeks. Most of the men will stay in Puerto Rico only two or three days. Similar flights took off simultaneously from Ft. Bragg, N.C.: McGuire Air Force Base, V.J..

and eleven other departure points. amounted to $200. Climbed Curb, Crossed Curb Schaffer's car proceeded for 225 of Flu Delays Nikita's Trip to Paris Visit Postponed to March 23; Deny 'Diplomatic Illness' MOSCOW -March 23 has been agreed upon as the new date tor Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit France. the Soviet news agency Tass announced today. The visit will continue April 3.

Khrushchev originally had planned to start his visit Sunday. but it was announced he forced to postpone it over the weekend because of an attack influenza. Cut to 12 Days The new schedule cuts the French visit to 12 days. lle originally had planned to spend 14. but some adjustment had been expected in view of the tight schedule of French President Charles de Gaulle this spring.

De Gaulle will begin a four-day state visit to Britain April 5. only two days after Khrushchev! leaves. De Gaulle will go to United States April 19. The prompt announcement of new date for the visit dissolved! speculation that he might he fering from a here "diplomatic illness." Diplomats had scoffed this speculation all along. ing he was eager for the presummit talks with De Gaulle.

Nation Shocked The nation was shocked when Radio Moscow announcer broke into a routine Sunday musical program to announce that had the "khrip" -the Soviet version of the grippe. CH' influenza. Admits Holdup NEW IBERIA, La. (AP-Russell James Theriot, 23, was rested today in the $45.000 armed: robbery of a New Iberia bank. The FBI said all the money taken Saturday from a branch of the New Iberia National Bank was recovered from an air condition.

er at the man'e home. Theriot admitted the holdup, officers said. Woman Saved from Paid Assassin by Off-Duty Officer SPRINGFIELD. Ill. CAP) An: off-duty state trooper raced across a snow-packed park to rescue ct terrified mother, fleeing from man who told police he was hired by her husband to kill her tor $200.

State Trooper William Dahlkamp, unarmed. brought down the man, John Burris. 25. with as flying tackle late Saturday night shortly after the woman attracted his attention by deliberately crashing her car into his. Burris.

a grave digger. was quoted as saying that Alfred F. Schweska, 34, paid him the money in to kill Mrs. Schweska, 28, the mother of three. Schweska, an engineer, was ar.

its rested and charged with being an as accessory before the fact of intended murder. in Burris was charged with and entering the Schweska: home with intent to commit a ony. Three Young Boys Die in Two Fires KASOTA, Minn. APIA mother's anguished cry, "My children) are in there!" sent firemen back into a blazing apartment Sunday night. There, huddled in the bathroom; where the flames were the worst, were three brothers and their baby sitter.

Mark Olson, 4, died of his burns. His brothers, Michael, 8, and Terry, 2, and their sitter, Steven Kranz. 16, were burned critically. CHESTER. Pa.

(AP) Two young brothers died today in a fire which damaged their home while their parents were doing the family wash at a self-service laundry. Beech Creek was badly this morning about 8.53 at Hall's! Run, west of Renovo, when bulldozer he was operating, went over a bank. He was admitted temporarily at the Renovo Hospital where he was treated for severe shock. Arrangements were quickly made' for his transfer to the Divine Providence Hospital at Williamsa! port. They did not have any a port there at noon.

the Renovo Hospital. where; he was not fully examined due to his condition, he was believed to: have possible internal injuries and possible fractures. Bowes, aged about 30. his fellow employes said. was removing trees along Hall's Run off Route: 144.

Missing Girls Returned Saturday Two local girls, reported miss-: ing to state police March 2, returned to their homes from Orlando, Saturday, police said today. The girls, Miss PoLy Loy Guerriero, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J. Guerriero, 140 P.

Clinton and Donna Lee Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crawford, returned by bus of their own acmember of the Guerriero family said. one feet and jumped the west curb. After travelling for an additional 120 feet, it crossed the avenue and leaped the curb into the park.

From the east curb to the point it came to a halt measured another 140 feet-555 feet in all. At the point of its leap from the east curb the park, there was a 30-foot measurement wherein there were no tracks whatsoever. The car passed between two trees in the park, smashing broadside into one of them and tearing the right rear door off. The rear wheels were already missing at that point, presumably having been torn off at or near the east curb. Parts of the car were strewn over a wide area of the park.

rear wheel, with the tire still intact, and a of the axle came to rest near a tree which tore off the door. (See pictures on this page). City police said that they had not found any witnesses to the crash. Richard A. Munro of Munroville, who was visiting at a Susquehanna Ave, home, said he saw the driver standing outside the wrecked car after the accident.

An ambulance took Schaffer to the hospital. Police visited the hospital last night at 7 but did not question Schaffer due to his condition. He will probably be interviewed later. County Accidents Two accidents on county roads checked by state police yesterday resulted in $1,700 damage. Miss Barbara L.

Allen, 23, of DuBois, sustained a severely cut lower lip from one of the two crashes. State police said Miss Allen's car, travelling south on Legisla- One rescue team had reached almost within shouting distance150 feet of their target deep behind the tunnel which has been clogged with a smoldering fire and slate fall since last Tuesday morning. But rescuers have had to return for fresh oxygen supplies time and again. Fate of the men who were trapped six days ago remains shrouded as the smoke and air. However, rescuers believe they had time to barricade themselves off with heavy canvas.

active active Route 18021 in Dunnstable Township at 5.20 p.m., skidded on a patch of ice and collided with an, oncoming car driven by Paul E. Bower, 38, of 804 Seminary Jersey Shore. Police estimated $600 damage to both cars. At 7.45 a.m. Robert H.

Kustenborder, 37, pulled a farm tractor from a private drive onto Route two miles east of Tylersville and collided with a pick-up truck operated by Miss Eleanor Marie Grieb, 18, of Loganton R.D. 2. Damage to the truck was estimated at $300. Kustenborder received $200 damage to his tractor. Joseph Yednak of Westport, driving west just off the west end bridge in Renovo collided with another car operated by Robert Knauff of Seventh approachasjing from the opposite direction.

The accident which occurred at 11.15 p. m. yesterday resulted in $125 damage to the Knauff car and $75 damage to the Yednak car. There were no injuries. 1.