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THE WEATHER 17. S. Weather Bureau Forecist Philadelphia a vicinity: Mostly fair Wednesday, high near 45. Northwest winds 10 milei an hour. Partly cloudy Thursday high near 40.

COMPLETE WEATnER DATA ON PAGE 30 4T i pra jittqratut FINAL CITY EDITION TIT Tl An Indepelfar? People C5I mm Zy January Circulation; Dally, MljI5j Sunday, 1,018,038 WFIL 560 KC WFIL-TV CH. 6 WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 15, 1961 CopyrliM. mi by Trlinila Inc. Vol.

M4. No. 41 132d Year FIVE CENTS Recession RequireslLawrence Soviet Boycotts Hammarskjold, Demands U.N. Leave the Congo 'Urgent Action Calls Ford Rayburn ContendsTo Parley By DON IRWIN Special to Tht Inquirer Seeks to Prevent Closing of Firm's Plant in Chester ASHINGTON, Feb. 14.

Democratic Congressional leaders left a White House briefing on the state of the econ- Reds Back Recognition Of Gizenga By PRESTON GROVER MOSCOW, Feb. 14 (AP). Gov. David L. Lawrence, omy Tuesday in a mood of urgency that has yet to filter into other sectors of Capitol Hill.

House Speaker Sam Rayburn, said a gloomy unemployment picture outlined to the leaders by Cabinet officers acting swiftly on an appeal by Chester officials, asked the I Confronted Congress with MOlor uesaay CSS call to action that is "the most sena representatives to meet The Soviet Union demanded Tuesday that all foreign troops quit the Congo and asserted that it will no longer with him and other officials urgent since the Great Depres sion." STATES OWN REACTION recognize Dag Hammarskjold PRR Engineer, Official Clash On Train Wreck 'iy I Rayburn specified that he was stating his own reaction to the Wednesday in an effort to prevent the closing of the company's Chester assembly plant. Lawrence told Henry Ford, 2d, chairman and president of the motor firm, in a telegram: "Because of deep concern about economic effects of an briefing. When the Speaker's remarks were relayed to Pierre Salinger, the White House news as U.N. Secretary-General. The Russians, reacting to th death of Patrice Lumumba, called for recognition of Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba's lieutenant, as Premier.

They offered him every help. Obviously referring to the U. N. Congo Command now totaling about 12,000 troops and to a few The cause of the wreck of a 'secretary, Salinger avoided di Pennsylvania Railroad special Tect comment. President Ken nounced closing of Ford plant in Chester, I have called a meeting race track train from Philadcl- nody, he said, "let it be known to phia to the Bowie race track inthe legislative leaders and mem in my office at 2:30 P.

M. tomor row." Maryland in which six persons bers of the Cabinet that he W4 WANTS TOP OFFICIALS were killed and 150 others were is anxious to combat this (unem A 1 1 stw He asked Ford to send "your Injured remained Senate Majority Leader Mike top management officials to the row Background Article, Additional Pictures and Related News on rage 3 Tuesday. Mansfield, told reporters meeting, since the decision to 3 The Interstate Commerce Corn- after the meeting that the aitua- close the plant was made at i t--yn mission, which began hearingition, as outlined, was "more dis- Ford's headquarters in Dear score white mercenaries in the born, Mich. 1 A-h Ford advised the Governor that Thomas R. Reid, civic and gov armed forces of secessionist Katanga Province, the Soviet Government demanded that for ernment affairs manager of the in Washington to find out the stressing than we had anticipat-cause of the derailment of the 11- ed." coach train on a spur near the C1TES FIRST pR0P0SALS race track, listened to conflicting testimony of the operation of the V0'1 dctermina-two-engine Diesel unit brakes.

lion to et the five-week-old. The train was derailed at Jcr- Democratic-controlled Congress Icho Junction on Feb. 2. after it on 800n on President company, would attend. eign soldiers clear out within a AP Wircphoto radio from London Premier Patrice Lumumba.

Windows and glass dnors of the building were smashed by rocks. Police stood by for five hours, then dispersed the crowds. Lawrence also invited six busi Sign-carrying demonstrators fill the street and crowd the steps of the Belgian embassy in Moscow in a protest against the slaying of former Congolese month. ness, labor and Government lead STUDENTS MOB EMBASSY ers to the meeting. switched off from the PRR mainift'enneay.

anti-recession pro They are Mayor Joseph Eyre, The broadside followed a five- gram, which is still moving from line tracks to the spur. of Chester; Lawrence Macln- the White House to Capitol Hill. hour mob attack on Belgium's Mitchell Quits Anti-Belgian Mobs Seethe RavhiirniMr.nArf.,.i.i-.i.- tyre, president of the Delaware expects action to come first State Rep. John E. Gremminger Embassy here, led by foreign students of the expenses-paid People's Friendship University.

They called Lumumba a martyr ENGINEER TESTIFIES The engineer, Howard H. Horner, 62, of 2666 Berkley Camden, said the brakes had been working properly after the train left the 30th Street Station here two proposals on President Ken nedy's growing list of anti-reces Delaware); State Sen. Clar S. Rail Post In Protest Over Lumumba ence D. Bell Delaware) sion actions: of imperialism.

Hammarskjold, Belgium and James J. Connor, Delaware County Democratic chairman, 1. A SO percent extension of the duration of unemployment and made stops at Chester, WU For N. J. Race invnnv ru nm t.i-:.

i.it t-. iu -un and William Fitzpatrick, a rep-; mington and Baltimore. There v.iiu!, riu, ii wu Miiu-Di-igidii uemuiisu-uuiis eJiuuvu on uuin siues ui wie President Moise Tshombe and, were 340 passengers aboard, benefits, to be financed by increasing from $3608 to $4800 the wage base en which employer resentative of United Auto Work era Local 918. Iron Curtain Tuesday in protest against the killing of the Congo's Patrice Lumumba. the Congo National Army chief, Jo-epn uoduiu wars Communist nations echoed the Soviet Union's concurrent denunciation ot VJ.N Inquirer Washington Bureau CALLS FOR STATE AID ornouncen in a uovernmeni Horner testified that the brakes failed without warning after the train left the main line tracks at 1:01 P.

M. and switched onto the are laied for Hn.mploym.Bt ia surance funds. Hearings on the retary-General Dag llammar i statement issued throush the WASHINGTON, Feb. Lawrence wired Ford after re Government newspaper Izvestia Secretary of Labor James joW. but did not follow im- era Nations Jj! were exploiting tne ceiving a telegram from Eyre mer and the Tass news agency.

U.S. Reaffirms ii spur, where it was derailed. But A. O. Taylor, of Phoenix igned Moscow's action injRJ" unthnrati; nrf rrnrTntiinn frnm P.

Lumumba with the aim earlier Tuesday. Eyre asked for State aid in the The statement called for dis from replacing the Leopoldvtile chairmanship of the of missal of Hammarskjold "as an PRR superintendent of equipment, said an inspection of fight to keep the plant open. The government with a Rcd-t ccessory to and organizer of the rresmcnuai nauroaa i-ommis Czechoslovakia, however, fol-, firm has 1500 employes there regime that would feed out the wreckage indicated that the urder of the leading statesman time to hisi lowed the Soviet lead in demand Eyre also asked the Governor sion to devote full candidacy for the Moscow's hand. the Congo. It also demanded brakes were holding when the double-unit Diesel and the first Republican ing that he resign.

i to give top priority to five pro U. N. censure of Belgium, ouster nomination for Governor of New TURMOIL IV CITIES in London, the Bntisn Govern posed State highway projects in Jersey. proposal will be opened Thursday by the House Ways and Means Committee, which will hear Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg as its first witness.

2. A program of loans, grants and other Federal aids to assist the redevelopment of areas of chronic unemployment. A Senate banking subcommittee hat begun hearings on such a bill sponsored by its chairman, Sen. Paul H. Douglas but the process has been suspended pending a decision on whether the program should be administered by the Commerce Depart ment or by a new agency, as ment took the lead among West-, UN.

Chief of all Belgians in the former Belgian colony, arrest of Demonstrators surged Delaware county to help relieve two cars left the track and plung ed down a 20-foot embankment. SUBMITS PICTURES Mitchell was appointed chair the streets of Moscow unemployment resulting from closing the plant. man of the 21-man commission Tshombe and Mobutu as colonialist agents in the killing, and dis last December by former Presi Taylor submitted more than a (London, New Delhi, Belgrade, Vienna and several cities of Bulgaria and Hungary. From Our Wire Services The projects are the Kerlin st. armament of Katanga and Congo dent Eisenhower at the request dozen photographs to support Industrial Highway link of the NEW YORK, Feb.

14 The Government troops. nf rpnrpsf nt ati vf nf hnth rail- his testimony. Harvard A Dim View NEW YORK, Feb. II (AP). Arthur II.

Motley, president of Chester Expressway, the portion i.hnr manacement. Belgian Embassy and destroyed, Tuesday reaffirm-! The hearing will be resumed in Washington Wednesday at which WOULD AID LEFTIST The Soviet program would leave Congolese soldiers in tha of the Delaware ExpresswayThe commission was set up to through the county, relocation of Ltudv railroad work rules, includ- the ambassador's car. ea its unswerving support or cm time an expert is expected to in Eleven militiamen were injur battled Secretary-General of the L. i mo jnausinai nicnw.y irom th n.ra erf fpatherherld nc ed when another mob broke into: United Nations Dag lIammar-iManicyviiie regime of Oizcnga, a proposed in the bill Philadelphia International Air- problem. terpret for the ICC the speed-recorder tape which Taylor said he removed from the wreckage the Belgian Embassy in Bel A third key Administrationlport to Chester, the Mid-County EXPRESS REGRET proposal comes up for hearings Expressway and the Kerlin st.

skjold. Earlier Russia bIunlIy Wtt and potential political heir of Lumumba, as the only effce- announced it would no longer tiva military force in the 900,000 recognize Hammarskjold as a1 square miles of the eight-month- grade, the Yugoslav capital, and rushed to the second floor. The after the accident Friday when a House Labor sub In his letter of resignation to embassy staff took refuge on the President Kennedy, Mitchell said committee will start taking testi mony on the President's recom Horner broke down as he told how he made futile efforts to stop the train. He said he was trav-l old African nation. U.N.

official. third floor. The demonstrators that because of his political activ mendation that the national mini ities he did not expect to have eling SO miles an hour on a down mum wage be raised from $1 to bypass in Upland. TALKS WITH COUNCIL At a meeting Tuesday morning with the Chester City Council, union officials urged council men to concentrate on efforts to keep the plant open, rather than try to find jobs for Ford employes who will lose their jobs. Adlai Stevenson, permanent U.N.

representative for the United States, told an overflow luncheon meeting of the U.N. The Russians have been gunning for Hammarskjold since last Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded in a speech be- grade toward the junction whenj 25 hourly. time for his duties on the com mission. In accepting Mitchell's resigna tion, Mr. Kennedy wrote him: He testified that he threw on CONGRESS IN DOLDRUMS Correspondents' Association his ot a the brakes three-quarters "I can appreciate the factors Aside from committee activity, Congress is in the doldrums this threw telephones, chairs and pictures into the street.

An embassy car was burned. Several thousand demonstrators tried to enter the street on which British, French and Amer-can embassies and information offices are located. MANY TROUBLE SPOTS Yugoslav papers said several hundred thousand demonstrated in Novi Sad, Zagreb and Maribor, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, said Tuesday, "I don't think President Kennedy has a socialistic bone in his body or that he believes what these Socialist Jerks from Harvard say." His remark came during an attack on the Administration's plan for medical care for the aged under the Social Security System.

Motley, publisher of Parade Magazine, spoke at a luncheon meeting of the Health Insurance Association of America. He called upon the insurance industry to provide a package of pension-life-health insurance that will protect employes before and after retirement and that can be applied to employes already retired. which impel you to take this step. Government "deplored" the sud- u'" r. 7 den death of the Congo's former! SoPl- 23 that the Secretary, leftwing Premier Patrice Lum.Gcneral be replaced by a three-umba.

But he added the U.nJ" doctorate representing mile from the switch. It was brought out at the hearing that the speed limit for trains John McKay, bargaining com week. To accommodate Republican members committed to take therefore, accept your rcsig- mittee chairman of UAW Local nation wilh oenuine regret. in Lincoln's Birthday ob- traveling through the switch Is part 918, told the Council the union -when I have received a ioint law-and-order force in the Congo "na sPncr" Dag Hammarskjold must be would not accept Ford's offer to recommendation from the par was not to blame for the tragedy, Continued on Page 2, Column dismissed from the post of Secretary-General as an accessory ties, I shall appoint your succes- U.N. ENDANGERED transfer its Chester workers to other plants until all attempts to Sofia Radio said demonstra keep the local plant open are tions were held "all over Bui IS miles an hour.

After Horner broke into tears, a five-minute recess was called to enable him to compose himself. When he resumed his testimony Horner, who has been an engineer since 1941, explained all the emergency steps he took, including sanding of the tracks. He Anthony Rossi, president of the sor." Management and labor members of the Railroad Commission in a joint statement expressed deep regret that the commission Continued on Page 36, Column 4 gnna. The Budapest radio reported local, said he belie' ed only a "The U.N. itself is endanger-: to and organizer of the murder ed by the recent events," said of the leading statesman of the Stevenson.

"The U.N. must act' Congo, which has tarnished the collectively. Failure of the U.N. name of the United Nations," means failure in all Africa, ag- Tuesday's statement said, grcssion, cold war turmoil and "The Soviet Government has worse." i declared that, for its part, it will Stevenson spoke on the eve of, maintain no relations with Ham-another Congo debate in the' marskjold and will not recognize Seruritv ('nuneil. Disrussinn hp.

I Continued on Page 3, Column 4 few UAW members would be hired by any tenant that took I Of Special I Interest I Today Harry Harris turns hit I Screening TV column over to the viewers for their Pffniiifmf Funds Heeded Continued on Page 21, Column 1 over the Ford plant. William L. Batt, State Secretary of Labor and Industry, who also will attend the Lawrence meeting Wednesday, gan two weeks ago on demands Continued on Page 3, Column 2 for Lumumba's release from Governor Backs Pen Shift said a Ford representative told latest opinions of current him there was scant hope the Eichmann Trial Put Off to April JERUSALEM (Israeli Sector) Feb. 14 (UPI). The trial of company would reverse its The committee, which made its floor for anticipated favorable -nt inn lfniicA nnnrnvfll nf the By JOSEPH H.

MILLER programming. It appears I with other television and i radio features on I Pages 26-27 prison. Hammarskjold has been under Moscow's fire for some time as being on the side of the "colonialists." Belgium has been the prime target of Soviet attacks. AGREEMENT SOUGHT He said the representative explained that the plant was Ford's irrriehiirn RiirPOU investigation iunuwins uic i i-Liuijai Inquirer 7amsburg Bureau break atthe pcn said the resolution also will be necessary. HARRISBURG, Feb.

14. An prison wag beyond remodeling Construction of two new maxi- Ik aljr ihtqmrrr Departments and Feature Amusements Death Notices 28, 29 3S Bridge 31 Editorials 20 Business and Obituaries 8,9 Financial On the Lighter 32 to 38 Side 23 Classified Ads Real Estate 34 43 to 49 Sports 38 to 42 Camera News Television and oldest assembly plant and the most expensive to operate. The representative said the company Administration spokesman saidjand should be razed or turnedimum security prisons to replace former Nazi Adolf Eichmann has been postponed mid-March until about April 10, reliable sources said Tuesday. The sources said Eichmann's German attorney, Robert Scrva-tius, had informed Justice Minister Linhas Rosens Sunday it into a convict medical center orjthe Philadelphia and Pittsburgh classification headquarters. institutions probably would cost decided to close the plant be The United States has been sounding out sentiment among other members of Spain Upset Over Santa Maria Tuesday Gov.

David L. Lawrence would take prompt action to transfer the Eastern Correc cause of the declining auto mar The issue came to a head in thOjbetwecn $20,000,000 and $40,000, ket, 000. Legislature Monday when Senate tional Institution out of Philadcl- the council and reported Tuesday he had found "a large measure Ol SKI ttillflll." Majority Leader Charles R. Wei- Financing would be done through the Oenerai Mate Au pma aa mmjm mu -um. 22 iidJio 2u, 2 1 in dealing with the cavtors Government Commission recom would be difficult to complete defense preparations even by the later date.

'Others may prefer the course church News 14 Womens News 1 of the Portuguese liner I thority and require an increase in the agency's borrowing capac mends a new location. cf i-lying rost On 24-Hour Basis OMAHA, Feb. 14 (AP) criticism and chaos," said comics 30,31 23, 2(1 Santa Maria caused con- The first step, said the spokes ncr introduced a resolution directing the Joint State Government Commission to study the problem and recommend a new location for the prison by April 15. The Weiner resolution was assigned to the Senate Judiciary ity. Continued on Page 3, Column 8 On the Air cern in Spain.

An apprai- man, would be to provide iunas The State Planning Commis- Feature Page Page 2t "You CAN Get Better Grades" Page 29 for the purchase of land and the -1 The Strategic Air Command tpi ten ntl 4 sal Madrid's fe'elings is WFIL-AM 560 On Your Dialj contained in anJarticle by drafting of plans for the new siuii la mailing tayuai' I I I budget for the next two years DaniSn L-GclcJsr, announced Tuesday it now has an I Richard Scott Mowrer on 12:15 P. One Nation Under airborne command post at all John M. Cummings Page 20 times. Red Smith Page 39 God Pope John's Message maximum security prison. However, the Administration aide said no decision had been reached on including funds for SAC started using the "flying the Feature Page, Page 21 which cxi-eeui this amount, at least $50,000,000 lgnne CJV ConfOT is planned for an expanded wel- 7 fare program, including facilities WASHINGTON, Feb.

14 (UPI). to care for 2000 additional mental President Kennedy conferred Your Health Page 30 Complete Weather Page 30 Committee, headed by Sen. Hugh J. McMenamin Lackawanna). McMenamin said he would call a meeting of his committee next Monday or Tuesday, and report the resolution to the headquarters" on a trial basis last July.

"The results of six months of patients. the new prison in the Governor's capital budget for the 1961-63 period. The spokesman said steps also testing have proven conclusively the effectiveness of the airborne We're Having a Heat Wave would be taken to move the West Tuesday with Danish Prime Minister Vlggo Kampmann, the first foreign government chief he has met since moving into the White House. Thursday 5ee Stew: Colonial Favorite command post control idea," said Gen. Thomas S.

Power, SAC commander, Tuesday. 7:00 P. M. I dent Kennedy's Press Conference WFIL-TV Channel 6 7:00 P. M.

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M. What's the Weather? Francis Davis (color) 11: IS P. M. Robert Mitchum, Ursula Thlese in "Ban-dido" on World's Best Movies Television and Radio Listings on on Pages 28 and 27. The airborne headquarters are ern Correctional Institution out of Pittsburgh.

Agitation to move the ancient Eastern Penitentiary out of Philadelphia was renewed 48 hours after- a fact-finding committee MISSING PERSONS WOULD Ilk information nmtnf descendant. Of rtiativei ot Homy Moqlt ol0 David (tmney who blnilimlthi in PhilafiVohia In 1837. Will pny for any coit of copying, tc. Mfi Itvin Jaekion, 641 North 14th ovff, Pvnflp. IH'iho LOST AND FOUND FOUND.

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Recipes for beef stew, Kampmann told Kennedy the Danes have hopes for your 'Kntilnnpd with the latest and I cranberry pie and crusty corn sticks, all favorites in most advanced radio equipment, leadership" of the free world. Kennedy entertained Kamp gan to rise. Another mild and sunny day was forecast for Wednesday by the U. S. Weather Bureau at Philadelphia International Airport.

Seasonably cool temperatures, with a low of 30 degrees, are predicted for the early hours. The high is expected to be 43. Aided by a bright sun, the temperature rose to 44 degrees at 4 P. M. Tuesday, making It the warmest day this month.

The warm sun brought a slow thaw, melting some of the accumulated snow. The mercury never fell below the freezing mark Tuesday. It stood at 32 at 1 A. then be the planes can communicate di- named by the Governor de- coioniai aays, win nign- mann at a White House lunch, I light the color-illustrated where they discussed the world situation and U. -Danish trade rectly with the Joint Chiefs orscribed the 130-year-old penal in-Staff, any SAC base or any SAC stitution at 21st st.

and Fair-aircraft in the air or on the mount ave. as "obsolete and vul-ground. 'nerable." ii rood Guide. i relations. 9 4.

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