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A A A 4 4 BEDFORD GAZETTE BEDFORD COUNTY'S OWN DAILY NEWSPAPER BEDFORD, MONDAY, GREEK QUEEN SETS INFORMAL PACE, 4213 3 QUEEN FREDERIKA of Greece, hostess to a party of some 100 members of European royalty, sets the pace for informality as she rides a mule during a visit to the Greek Island of Santorin. Just behind her, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands holds her hat as she follows suit. At right, special guard walks beside Queen Frederika. (International) Powell Blasted as Czar Of US Housing Program was depicted, in an official report post housing than $100.0 apartment In a report to Housing special' deputy administrator, William F. McKenna said: "The story of the corruption of FHA's postwar apartment construction program from 1946 1950 is largely the' story of.

the reign of Clyde Powell." Powell's alleged gambling losses led to a series of which resulted in a wholesale reorganization of the housing agency last spring. what he described as a final report on his probe, McKenna said sums up to "four and five! figures cach" were paid to Powell by "various" apartment promoters who reaped alleged profits exceeding 110 million dol-; lars rental housing program -Continued Page 2 today as "the czar of the noprogram" who accepted more builders dealing with the FHA. Administrator Albert Cole, the Washington, Sept. 12 (AP) L. Powell, ousted sistant commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, H.

Winter Davis, Furniture Maker, Dies at New Parjs H. Winter Davis. widely known as the man who made hickory furniture attracted customers from a score of states, died A at his home in New Paris I I I Saturday. Sept 11, 1954, after a lingering illness. He was 86 years old.

He began helping his father in the furniture business at the age of 12. and was successfully engaged in that trade for more than man's allotted "three score years and In that span of 74 years it would be hard to compute the number of hickory rockers, benches. footstools and other articles which were constructed in his workshop. His workmanship was so cxcellent that thousands of visitors were attracted to his shop, and the fame of Davis hickory furniture spread far beyond the borders of Bedford county. Mr.

Davis continued work in his shop until last March. when he was taken ill, and was forced to discontinue his activities In the New Paris area. he was also widely known as a band leadei and a leader of local choirs. He proved the inspiration and the inI structor of many young musicians. and was esteemed by the entire -Continued on Page 2 Miss America's Only Boy Friend Plenty Excited over Contest Tokyo, Monday, Sept.

13 (A" "Hot dog." cyclaimed Put John Riveroll. of San Jose. when the came in from Atlantic Citv. news, the Miss America contest "I'm 1 he only guy she went 'steady with I guess that means something Riveroll stopped jumping around the office of the Nippon times after hearing the victor Was Lee Ann Meriwether of San Francisco "I met her al a church camp in California: a couple of years ago and we went steady for a vear." he said. The Army private, stationed here; said he and Miss Meriwether were not engaged 'but I'm working 1t." In Atlantic City.

Miss Meriwether said. "Johnny 1S the first and last boy I ever went steady with She said she met Diveroll at the church camp and had known him since she was about 15. Asked if there was anything serious between her and Riveroll, the new Miss America replied. "Oh. no I hope he doesn't think sO mother.

Mrs Ethel Meriwether, described Riveroll as "just a very nice friend. but there's cer; tainly no engagement." SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS American Military Might Can Repel Red China Attack: Dulles 18 Dead in Wake of Edna's Devastation Portland, Maine, Sept. 12 Hurricane Edna, the second V10- lent storm to batter New England in 12 days, left sci caming wake dead including todals. eight in Maine where millions of dollars damage was caused beloie moving into the Canadian pros nces. Coastal arcas of southern Now England received only a glazing blow and far less apparent prop- I city damage than had feared Four persons perished in Ma-sachusetts.

Six highway deaths in metropol'itan New York acre attributed to the storm. Latest reports said the hurricane bicw itself out of the Gull of St Lawrence off eastern Canada after smashing blow to Maine and parts of Canada Canadian province of Nova Scotia took a heavy beating A state of emergency was declared lat Yarmouth as Edna reached the Bay of Fundy and headed across 'into central New Brunswick Pros'ince No ships were reported in distress. Meanwhile, hurricane Florence, sixth tropical storm of the car. began breaking up today as it moved inland on the Mexican coast. The New Orleans Weather Reds Deport 2 US Newsmen, Ex- Captain Men Held in Red China for More Than Year, Peiping Says London, Sept.

12 (P) Two American newsmen and a former sea captain. held in Communist China for more than a year, have been deported. Piping Radio said today They arc Richard Applegate. Hong Kong correspondent of the National Broadcasting Donala Dixon. International News Service correspondent and Benjamin Krasner, former sea captain The Communist broadcast said the Chinese Ministry of Public Sccurity recently ordered their deportation and confiscation of then American yacht "Kert." instructing local public security authorities In the province of Kwantung to carry out the order.

There was no indication when or where the three were released. The broadcast said Applegatc. Dixon and Krasner were aboard -Continued on Page 2 Westinghouse, Union I Resume Contract Talk Sept. 12 (A9-An an of hope prevailed today as Westing- house Electric Corp and the Fed- i oration of Westinghouse Independ-' lent Salaried Unions resumed 11 talks Todays ses-ion adjourned with a company spokesman predicting a softlement "wIll be reached tomor- I row." He added "The differences are getting very small and expect to reach an agreement hon we resume the taik, tomorrow 1 The union representing 15.000 Westinghouse employes. IS seeking' a wage hike and improvements 1 pensions and nsurance.

Bureau said high mountains on the coast near Tuxpan. Mexico. caused the storm to break up Those reported to have died in Mune yesterday were motorists whose vehicles plunged into swollen streams from bioken banks o1 smashed bridges. or ere trapped in flooded lowlands The 80 mile wind gusts ripped power and communication lines. many of them only temporarily patched from Carol's damage blocked today.

Miny highways 1 remained Much of Portland, Maine's largest city and many other communities were without electric power Eight inches of rain fell in southwestern Maine, the heaviest downpour recorded In 5 years. Trains were halted by washouts. Many central and southwestern crops were ruined The storm split in two near Cape Cod. Mass One arm lashed BanHOP, Maine's third largest city. and eastern Maine.

including the famed Bar Harbor summer resort. Then it shrieked toward Canada. A family of 10 marooned on their auto top in a low road floodled by the raging sandy stream at Unity, Maine. was removed in a dramatic seven hour rescue which one of the children and one I rescuer perished Administration Aim to Destroy Reds Is Slated Hoover, Brownell Say Aim 'Is To Utterly Destroy' Red Party Denver, Sept, 12 Gen. Brownell and FBI Chief Edgar Hoover said after a conference with President Eisenhower today that the administration's aim 'is to uttcily destroy the Communist party" and its activities in the United States At a news conference at the summer White House with Hoover seated beside him.

Brownell said already has been "a substanthere, stepup" in the anti-Communist drive since the 83rd Congress provided the government with several new legal weapons Hoover, making one of his rare appearances before newsmen. spoke of specific progress under the new laws--a statute which grants immunity from prosecution to witnesses under certain ditions Hoover said that under that mea-Continued on Page 2 Mother Faces Trial for Fatally Shooting Neighbor Uniontown, Sept. 12 'A' -A 49. -old mother goes on trial for tomorrow accused of fatally shooting a neighbor who only two, days before was acquitted on morals charges involving her daughter. Dist Atty Fred Brothers gave no indication of what verdict he will ask the jury to return against Mrs Elizabeth Betsko.

She has been free on $10.000 bond since the shooting June 10. The state charges MIs Betsko killed Edgar Hasson. 38-year-old coal miner He was acquitted on a direct verdict after being accused of attacking Mrs Betsko's 16-ycar-old daughter 'Miss America' Hails Dior's New Flat Look as Savior Atlantic City. N. Sept.

12 (7- She's tall. She's tanned. and she 50: the Dior "flat" took "came ju-1 time to save me" Lee Ann 19-year-old almond-eyed beauty from Califorhad breakfast with newsmen toaay on fist morning of her reign: as M- America 1955. The San Francisco College coed was owned the nation's new beauty al the climav of the Miss America pageant here last night .1 warm. fiendly brunette with sparkling bit -green eyes.

Lee mitted she vas not the chesty Marilyn Mon. Ge type Lee's bust measures inches. "I think Diol came Just in time to save she said She had mind the new bustflattening stiles shown in Paris recently bu the French designer Christian Dior Lee was modest about her figure. But the Miss America thought she was a knockout in a swim suit Her waist measures 22 inches and her hips 33.. She is 3 fcet tall and weighs 124.

Her acting ability also the Report Dealt With Aspects Of Red Threat Expresses Confidence To Ike and Security Council at Denver Denver, Sept. 12 (AP)-Secretary of State Dulles, reporting to PresiEisenhower on the tense Far Eastern situation, expressed conf'aence today any Chinese Comassault on Nationalist Formosa would be turned back by American military might. Dulles' report to' the President and National Security Council at an extraordinary session at the summer White House dealt with the global aspects of the Communist threat. Just ahead of that meeting the chief executive conferred with FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover and Atty.

Gon. Brownell. and was pictured as n. vigorous agreement" with them that the administration's goal is to "utterly de-troy Communist and its activitics in the United States Dulles met with Eisenhower. and then with fellow members of the National Sccurity Council shortly flying in from the Orient, where he represented the United States in the signing of an eightnation pact against Communist aggrossion in Southcast Asia and also conferred, with Kar-shek.

leader Generalissimo of the Chinese Nationalist forces on Formosa. At his news conference, Dulles was asked whether the United States has any plan to try to retake Formosa if that island bastion should fall to the Communists. He replied he would be "very much surprised" if such a plan crists. because he feels there is no danger Formosa will fall. Then he went on to say he is convinced "it is not possible for the Chinese Communists to take Formosa because of such opposition as we would interpose." Eisenhower said recently that any.

Red assault against Formosa would have to run over the U.S. 7th Fleet. At another point. Dulles was asked specifically whether he believes the United States should help defend Quemoy against Red assault. Dulles replied that he wanted to repeat what he had said at a recent news, conference in Washington--that U.

basic policy under both the Truman and Eisenhower administrations--is to defend For-Continued on Page 2 Pittsburgh. Committee. To Try to End Strike Pittsburgh, Sept. 12 (P)-A committee picked by City Council will make a new effort tomorrow to end the 43-week-old strike of 12 AFL unions against five big Pittsburgh department stores. Councilman F.

Counahan. head of the committee, said efforts will be made to get representatives or management and the unions back to the negotiating table. The disputing parties have not met since Sept. 2. The strike began last Nov.

26, when the AFL teamsters called its employes off the job in a dispute over assignment of truck helpers and parcel post use. Two Americans Reported Seized By Red Police Berlin, Sept. 12 -Two Amerto be a doctor and wife believed today were reported so zed by Communist police on the of Berlin at the some place where two Amucrican brothers nested Tucsday U. authoritics said two perSOUS were arrested late yesterday afternoon by cast German People's Pouce near the Dreilindent checkpoint on the autobahn outside the sector. According to reports received by Amcrican officials.

the two drove out to the alca from Berlin in a rented German car and parkled it about 100 yards from the checkpoint. There, they talked to West German customs guards and started to take pictures. The guards cautioned them against taking pictures and the two got in then car to return to Berlin. The West German guards said the couple was arrested by people's police while driving back to the city. The only information on their identities came from the customs guards who described them as an American doctor and his wife.

U.S. authorities said they were tigating the incident but said, they did not know the names of the missing. pair. 1 weal 456 ESTABLISHED 1805-VOL 148, No. 299 sales tax as long as it is need-! ed for the State's public school system.

Since the Democrats have pledged to do away with the sales tax and set up some other system of taxation (not defined) based on the "principle of ability to pay." this issuc shapes up as the chief campaign talking point. The GOP plank on finance and taxation reads: "To mect the Commonwealth's to the school children of Pennsylvania. an emergency sales tax was enacted with the specific provision that its revenue be used for the payment of the rising costs our public school system and for other purpose. "As long as it is found that the sales tax is necessary to maintain out public school system. it will be continued." On education, the Republican platform pledged for the state's children continued equal opportunity and expansiou of school districts.

Concerning salarics. the platform stated: "The Commonwealth's obligation to increase the salarics and retirement provisions for teachers. supervisors and other school employes will be met." A strong anti-Communist plank condemned all subversive activity and fully subscribed to loyalty oath requirements. It proposed prosecution of every Communist activity and full support for an efficient. cavil defense program Expansion the highway sys1em was proposed.

featured by constiuction of a new turnpike cast-towest across the northern part of the State. On labor, the platform said: "We pledge commonwealth port' toward -payment al ability benefits beyond of life. pledge increases fit men's compensation and unemployment compensation in line a inci cases in coat of living and lengthening of the period of payment for unemployment compensaLion." For farmers, the platform pledged 811 "or policy" to all agricultural groups. It also proposed to support farmer cooperatives, further to advance agricultural education, research and extension. to develop better mar.

kets and "to put forth every effort to make milk control function ef-Continued on Page Reduction of Milk Costs to Schools Seen Republican Paper Strongly Supports State's Sales Tax Pittsburgh, Sept. 12 (AP) Republican candidates for state office start campaigning tomorrow cn a 12-point platform highlighted by a plank strongly' supporting Pennsylvania's' sales tax, which the Democrats have vowed to abolish. The GOP state committee adopted the program yesterday. The vital tax plank calls for continuation of the one per cent sales tax as long as it is need-! 15-Million-Dollar Program Planned for National Operation Harrisburg, Sept. 12 (-Pennsylvania school officials are awaiting the visit of a U.S.

Agriculture Department team that will set up state rules for a federal program designed to reduce the cost of milk to school children. The new 15-million-dollar gram is expected to be in operation on a national basis by Oct. 1 but one Pennsylvania school official thinks it will take longer to get going here. "There is no possible hope of getting it going at such an. carly date as Oct.

chin this state." commented Robert Stoner of state department of public instruction. He explained that the department, has been notified by federal officials that a "flying squadron" will begin visits to each state the weck of Sept. 20 in to set up state rules and regulations. "We don't even know when they will reach Pennsylvania." The money will provide further subsidies for states to pay for milk sold in the school lunch program. Stoner estimated that it may mean three million dollars a year more -equal to the enstate whole school lunch on Page 2 Eden, Adenauer Work out Formula Bonn, Germany, Sept.

12. Anthony Eden and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer labored tonight over a formula for West Germany's role in the anti-Communist world. There were signs that the path ahead is strewn with political pebblesmaybe rocks. The British forcign secretary came to Bonn to find out what Germany expects from the Western world if she joins the 14-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He had a duel mission of telling Adenauer how other Western Europcan nations feel West Germans under arms--inside NATO or out.

Fresh from a Brussels meeting with the Belgians. Dutch and Luxembourg forcign ministers. Eden was equipped to tell Adenauer that the smaller nations at least are anxious for a new major conference to line up West Germany's -Continued on Page 2 Body Found in Lake Meadville, Sept. 12 found body of Max fishermen, Geneva, today in overflow waters of Conncaut Lake. Dr Frederick H.

Muckinhoupt. Crawford County Coroner. said the man apparently an Eric Railroad trestle passing over the water. The coroner issued a verdict of accidental drowning. Altoona Marine Dies As Train Hits Car Solana Beach, Sept.

12 A 20-year-old marine from Altoona, was killed by 81 train Friday night when he dashed back into his which had stalled on 3 railroad crossing. Officials at nearby Camp Pendicton identified the dead man as Pvt. Richard A Cody, whose mother. Mrs. Anna Margaret Harshbarger.

lics at Altoona. Police said Cody had been ing the car when it stalled He and its four passengers climbed out. Then he returned again to move the vehicle before he tondi could get out the second time. the car was struck by a Santa Fo Railroad commuter special Raising of Banner on Iwo Jima Commemorated by Big Statue Washington, Sept. 12 (A)-Sculp- tor Felix de Weldon gets to work tomorrow putting together the biggest bronze statue ever created.

It's the celebrated Iwo Jima flag raising scene and when the parts are fused the statuc will be more imposing than the fabulous colossus of Rhodes, which was ruined by an carthquakc about 224 B.C. The official dedication of the massive statue will take place on the Marine Corps' 179th birthday. Nov. 10. Then, Iwo Jima will take its place on the capital scene along with the Washington monument.

A memorial to all Marines killed in battle. it will bluff 100 feet above the Potomac' River near Arlington National Cemetery. The monument itself measures 75 fect from the bottom of its Swedish black granite basc to the top of its bronze flagpole, and cach of the Marines depicted is 32 feet tall. throughout the nation Marines, contributed the $850.000 cost of the memorial. The 100-ton statue, trucked to Washington from the Brooklyn foundry where it was cast, is now about 30 large pieces.

But 10 days 'of bolting and welding by SEPTEMBER 13, 1954 Nationalists Bombard Reds At Tungshan Warships Set Up 160-Mile Patrol in Search for Red Craft Taipch, Monday, Sept. 13 (AP)IN Nationalist China's warships yesterday set up a 160-mile patrol and bombarded Tungshan Peninsula 70 miles south of Red-menaced Quemoy. Naval units which have been protecting Quemoy from the threat of invasion from the mainland seven miles away spread out in obvious search for Communist craft. The patrol extended from Swatow. 12,3 southwest of Quemoy, To Chinchu Bay, 35 miles northeast Nationalist planes struck for the seventh straight day in the -vicinity of Amoy.

opposite Quemoy. 110,000 Red troops were reported concentrated. Peiping Radio acknowledged the raid. saying 12 bombs were dropped and claiming that two Nationalist planes were shot down. The Nationalist naval and air activities amount to retaliatory blows for a big Red shelling of Quemoy starting Sept.

3. One puzzling and possibly sinister aspect of this vest-pocket wat has been the absence. so far, of any intervention by the Communist An Force It raised the question whether the Reds might be holding back use of air power until they are ready for a massive assault on the little island of Quemoy lying almost under the shadow of Communist guns. Maj. Gen.

William C. Chase. head of the U.S. Military Advisory Group Nationalist China. returned last Taipeh after inspecting Quemoy's defenses and conferring with the garrison commander.

Gen. Lieu Yu-chuang. Harvard-educated Gen. Yu Tawei returned yesterday from the United States to take up his post of minister of national defense at a time when Peiping Radio has been saying repeatedly the Reds are deter- Namined to "liberate" Formosa, tionalist stronghold. intelligence reports say there are 220.000 Chinese Communist troops in the coastal area between the Fukien-Chekiang border and Swatow, a straight line distance of 350 miles Democratic Leaders Term GOP Platform 'Imbecilic Nothingness' Key Attorney in Hiss Trials- Dies of Polio New York, Sept, 12 (-Clarke S.

Ryan. 32. a key government attorney in the two Alger Hiss perjury trials and a state assemblyman.died today. five days stricken with He assisted John F. X.

McGohey in the trial and conviction of 11 top members of the Communist party in 1949 on charges of spiracy to overthrow the U.S. rument Tater he helped Thomas F. Murphy in preparation of the two Iliss trials and argued the case up the Supreme Court after Murphy's appointment as city police commissioner. The first trial had ended in a disagreement and the second in conviction. Five Injured In Weekend Wrecks On County Roads Five persons were injured.

two seriously, in two crashes Saturday on county roads. There were no accidents over the weckend on the Turnpike in the county. and only onc ncarby, a minor wreck near Fort Littleton. John Corley, 47. of Manns Choice 1.

suffered a fractured skull and other injuri's at 8:40 a.m. Saturday morning his car ascended a six-foot bank and overturned. throwing him out. The accident occurred 3.3 miles west of Manns Ceoice along Route 31. Corley's Chevrolet was demolished in the crash.

He was taken to Dedford County Memorial Hospital, where spokesmen said Sunday his condition was improved. Three Saxton girls were hurt and a Saxton youth driving the car also slightly injured on Route 869 at 12:15 a.m. Saturday when the steer. ing gear locked on their Chevrolet -Continued on Page 2 THE WEATHER THE WEATHER Come cloudiness and little warmer, highest 70-76 Monday, Tuesday partly cloudy and warm. er, scattered showers or thunder.

storms likely by afterneon night. 456 Harrisburg, Sept. 12 (AP) Penn- sylvania Democratic leaders today termed as "nonsense. dismal and imbecilic nothingness" the paign platform adopted yesterday by the Republican party at Pittsburgh. Democratic State Headquarters relcased these comments on the 12- platform for the Novomber State Sen Joseph M.

Barr, Democratic state chairman--it's a remarkable triumph of senility fact It is for the American flag. the sanctity of home and mother. I prosperity for everyone--even those out of jobs, free air and sunshine and Abraham Lincoln. State Sen. Joseph M.

Barr. Dem- I ocratic candidate for governor The platform pledges. all bespeak-1 ing great maxims of Republican empire. sounds rather dismal to me when measured against the failure of the Republican leadership to honor any of its platform promises. of the past.

600-Mile Front Typhoon Threatens Japanese Islands skilled artisans will put it shape for De the Weldon. final. a finishing dapper touches. of 47. got the idea fot the Iwo Jim.

statue nine years a' 0 when he wits on duty as an artist with the Navy He said in an Inter view he has been working on it steadily ever since It is based, of course. on the celebrated photograph snapped by Joc Rosenthal for The Associated Press when six Marines who had stormed ashore on the Japanese- I held island heaved their watersoaked, mud-caked bodies into wind and raised the U.S flag on Mt. Suribachi. The day w'as Feb 19, 1945 The three men who took part in the flag raising and survived the war all posed for Dc Weldon They are Cpl. Ira H.

Hayes of Papchule. Cpl. Rene A. Gagnon of Hookscot. N.

and Pharmacist's Mate AC John H. Bradley of Appleton, Mis. a Navy corpsman attached to the Marines. The three other flag raisers died in the fighting for Iwo Jima They weer Cpl. Franklin Souslet of Ewing, Cpl.

Harlon Block of Weslaco, and Sgt. Michael Strank of Conempaugh, Pa. Toyko, Monday, Sept. 13 A typhoon with a 600-mile front sent powerful advance doo winds lain onto southern Japan raising fears it may cause the greatest damage In years if It docsn't curve off into the sea Millions of Japancse braced against Typhoon 12 as it headed toward the densely populated home islands of Kyushu and Shikoku Some scacoast villages were evac-! uated Sunday while winds whipped up great waves This morning the typhoon was just south of the Japanese islands. raising gales of more than 100 miles an hour The Pacific storm yesterday bypassed the bristling American fortress on Okinawa but the edges of the typhoon caught the island with winds of 50 miles an hour.

The U.S. Air Force. which has been tracking the typhoon, said was an unusually large one. 'measured 50 miles across its calm eye, or center Some Japanese weather observers rated it stronger than the Mu-, roto typhoon of 1934 which killed more than 2.000 persons. A typhoon which hit southern Japan last month caused more than 30 deaths and great damage to houses, crops and tions.

favor. And acting 01 the -1140 in television is her 4u b.ton Born In Los Angeles. Lee later in Arizona for several seas He familv moved back to and she has lived 111 San olcisco the past seven years there was an element of saaness 1.1 her triumph last n.ght Her father. Gregg Meriwether. died last July 15.

Only her mother. Mrs Ethel Meriwether. was with her night to share the exciting moment when Lee berame Miss A merica. As Miss America, Lee will recote about $40.000 In public appearance fees in addition to a new furs, jewelry. a wardrobe and other prizes.

The total value of everything she 101 is close to $60.000 Hhe hopes to return to college en her year as America ends next September Then she wants to attend the Pasadena Playhouse. a California drama school. As for boy friends. Lee said, tirele's no special.".