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I Tyrone EIGHTY-SIXTH YEAR TYRONE, 'ONE-MAN ARMY' GETS NATION'S HIGHEST AWARD WASHINGTON (INS)- The Marine Corps today, awarded the Medal of Honor to a "one-man army" who killed an estimated 150 Chinese Communists: in Korea and wounded 50 more by firing two sub-machine: guns from the hips. The winner of the nation's highest military award, Cpl. Alford Lee McLaughlin, of Leeds, held on to the machine guns until' both of his hands were blistered. Then, he used his carbine and grenades. The action took place on the night of Sept.

4-5, 1952 while McLaughlin, although painfully wounded, spearheaded defense of "Outpost Bruce" when some 1,000 Chinese attacked in the battie of "Bunker Hill." At that time, he was a private first class. Now, he is a mortar unit leader with the Fourth Marine Corps Reserve Rifle Company at Rome, Ga. The 25-year old Marine was first wounded on Aug. 16, 1952, and had been withdrawn from the outpost assignment on Sept. 1.

He returned immediately when heavy, casualties made it. necessary call: for volunteer replacements. McLaughlin is the 35th Marine and the 101st American to win the congressional medal for heroism In Korea. Seventy awards were posthumous. CARNEY SWORN IN COMPLETING 'NEW LOOK' COMMAND WASHINGTON (INS)- Adm.

Robert B. "Mick" Carney was sworn in as chief of naval operations today, completing the new look in the nation's top military; command. Carney, who. succeeds Adm. William M.

Fechteler as Navy boss, was the? last of the four Eisenhower appointed armed services take the oath of office. Adm. Arthur W. Radford took over as chairman of. the Joint Chiefs.

of Staff and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway became Army chief last. Saturday. Gen.

Nathan F. Twining has been chief of the Air Force since June 30. Carney spoke briefly after taking his oath of office in a Pentagon ceremony attended by. top civilian and, military leaders, including Navy Secretary Robert B. Anderson, Defense, Secretary Charles E.

Wilson and Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen. Turn to Page Five) WEATHER General Summary- Showers. covered most of, the: commonwealth during the morning. The exception was the northwestern county area where amounts were light.

Heavier amounts reported were .15 of an inch at. Philadelphia and .16 of an at Park Place. At: noon the skies in western counties were clearing while light rain showers were still occurring in northeastern counties. Temperatures were generally in the high 60's. Forecast--Mostly cloudy and rather cool this afternoon.

Tuesday fair and a little warmer. High today, 70-76; low tonight, 50-55; and high tomorrow, 72-78. IRAN PREMIER, MINISTERS PLAN CRISIS TALKS TEHRAN (INS)- Premier Mbhammed Mossadegh's ministers meet. today the crisis: touched off by an unsuccessful attempt to 'overthrow his government and by the Shah's Royalist, flight from Iran. The aging premier's cabinet is expected to consider the a co establishment of a regency and possible dissolution of the monarchy.

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and Queen Soraya fled to Iraq. Sunday after the attempted coupblamed: on' Royalists by Mossadegh's, supporters was smashed by government forces. The Tehran raalo repeatedly broadcast instructions. to: border posts and customs stations to prevent the flight of Gen. Fazlollah.

Zahedl, who: claimed that the shah had named premier to replace Mossadegh. From. a secret hiding place in the Zahedi issued a claim that he was the legal premier. He declared that there had, been no attempted coup and that the troops which visited Mossadegh's home early Sunday were merely trying to deliver the shah's decree. S.

"Point Four' offices, shut down Sunday morning, remained closed today. as mobs milled about in the capital City of Tehran. The crowds. surged through the streets with cries of "death to the and "'Mossadegh victorious." There were also shouts of "Point Four must. quit," aimed at the 'American.

technical assistance program. (A: report from Iraq said the shah and his queen flew to Baghdad with only two. tightly packed bricfcases and some clothes pilled on the empty seats of their. airplane. The.

shah reportedly asked permission for them to stay in Iraq for a few days- before proceeding to. Europe.) Government forces still: are rounding up persons suspected of taking part in the. unsuccessful coup. A large number of army officers, court officials and opposi(Continued on Page Four) MRS. JESSIE: LAPORTE DIES; SERVICE TUESDAY Porte, 808.

West street, Mrs. Jessie May Pannebaker, LaI died at the Wellers Nursing Home, Matternville, yesterday morning: at 5 o'clock, following an illness 'of three months from complications. She was born May 1, 1868 at Mifflinville, the daughter of Moses and Martha Bason Pannebaker. In 1890, she married Harry W. LaPorte, who is now deceased.

are a daughter and four sons: Mrs. Ada Long. Ira Virgil and Karl LaPorte, Tyrone, and Harry A. LaPorte, Florida; grandchildren and 10 great grandsisters: Van and Alton Pannechildren; also two brothers A and two baker, Tyrone; Mrs. Blanche Westcott, Harrisburg, and Mrs.

Bessle Jane Hamer, Florida. She: was a member of the First Presbyterian Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the Graham and Getz Funeral home, charge of the Rev. David Long, grandson of the desceased. pastor of the Methodist church of Woolrich. Burial will be in the Grandview cemetery.

Friends are being received at the funeral home. Merchants, Buyers In Dither Over Upcoming Sales Tax Just two more weeks of salestax frec shopping remain for Pennsylvania consumers today and what to do about them has merchants as befuddled as the tax itself, A state-wide survey by International News- Service reveals two schools of. thought on the one per cent sales levy which goes into effect Sept. 1. In brief, they are: Plug a hard-hitting "beat the sales tax" advertising campaign to boost sales.

Ignore it. The tax doesn't amount to that much anyway. It depends on what you're selling. For purchasers of high priced items such. as" Automobiles, one per cent can mean $20 or.

$30. And it is the automobile dealers who. are working hardest to use the August bargain to develop. now sales. Many: new 'and used cur dealers have already begun newspaper advertising promotion on a beat the tax theme, Edward Ronan, chairmano the Philadelphia Auto Trade Association and a leading dealer, said his salesmen are impressing it on potential customers on the sales floor.

The idea of saving $25 by buying this month Instead of next seems to result in completing a greater than usual percentage of sales, he claimed. Beat-the-tax ads bring in people I I I I I I I I a a a a a a a Daily Herald MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1953 NUMBER 59,701 NEW TYRONE HIGH COACHING STAFF TYRONE AREA JOINT HIGH morial practice field 9:30 a.m. at coaching staff, consisting of, left to coach, and George Czap, backfield afternoon. 'BARBARA'S' 'AS HURRICANE "BARBARA" whirled these vacationers brace themselves the city's Boardwalk at the height of waves damaged a number of stores. COPPERHEAD SNAKE BITES FUSS MILLS MOTHER OF 5 A second victim of a poisonous reptile was reported in the Tyrene area within the past five days when a Fuoss Mills woman, mother of five children, was admitted to Altoona Hospital yesterday afternoon.

for treatment of a bite of 8 copperhead snake on the index finger of her right "hand. Mrs. Jeanne Taylor, 35, wife of Forrest A. Taylor, Tyrone RD 2, was weeding in the flower garden nt. the rear of her home when the snake struck, Mrs.

Taylor and her daughter Peggy, 11, it was reported, went to the garden and wher Mrs. Taylor reached down to pul, a weed she was bitten. She first thought she had been stung by a bee, but then saw. the snake: Mrs. Taylor's arm began to swell to the elbow.

She was taken to the physician by a neighbor. Mr. Talyor later killed the snake. Last Wednesday evening, Mrs. Walter S.

Ross, 308 East Tenth street, was similarly struck, by a copperhead snake in the back yard of her home. She was bitten on the hand treated in Tyrone and taken to the Philipsburg State Hospital. Ross was released from the Mrs. hopital last Friday. JOHN SUCIK INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO SATURDAY John Sucik 05, of 3, Tyrone, treated for a laceration of the was head by A Tyrone.

physician after being struck by an auto in Route 350, a milc east of Tyrone, about 10:45 p.m. Saturday. Sucik was struck by an auto operated by Ray F. Miller, Jr. 31, of Petersburg as Miller drove Miller reported to police he was unable to avoid the nccident and that he struck Sucik when the latter was walking on the highway.

Miller. took Sucik to. a Tyrone physician's office where the victim was treated for a scalp laceration, Russian Participation In Political Conference Is Seen Certain; India Out UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS)Russia's participation in the Kor. can political conferenca, appeared certain today the Communist "aggressors" extend an invitation to the Sovict.

Seating 'of India at the talks, however, virtually was ruled out on the eve. of the special UN sembly session called under terms of the Panmunjom truce agreement and slated to get under way at 3 p.m. (DT), U.S. Ambassador. Henry.

Cabot Lodge said he will vote to. give the Soviet a seat at the conference aimed at bringing permanent peace to Korea: only. If Russia sits with: Red China and North Koren on the "aggressor" side of the table. Australla and New Zealand, consequently, have signed a resolution asking the assembly to recommend Russian participation "providing the other side agrees to It." Few observers at the UN believe chief Soviet Delegate Andrel Vishinsky will accept participation under the label of "aggressor powers" And feel he will. introduce his own formula in showdown fight.

President indications are that the following countries may comprise the, Korean political conference: The. U. Britain, France, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Colombia, Turkey, the Philippines, New Zealand and South Korea. On the Communist side: Russia, Red nd North Korea. Lodge and Vishinsky are the top protagonists and on their shoulders rests the task of shaping the Kor: can conference to the policy of Communist powers or that of the free world.

India is dismayed. at U. 'S. op-. position but her chief delegate, V.

K. Krishna Menon, received some consolation: when Lodge gave him official assurances that the U.S. will vote for Mme. V. L.

Pandit as president of the Sept. 15 assembly. The rival: candidate, Prince: Wan of Thailand, may withdraw from the race AS A result of the U. S. switch from him to Mme.

Pandit. Lodge WAS emphatic that the: 16 Allies with forces in Korea do: not sec "eye to on. India's bid for. participation. He said the U.

S. will. voto against any resolution nominating India but such a motion Already has been signed by Britalp, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In making his position on. Russia clear to newsmen -after the fourth and final meeting of the 16 nations which tn nations which fought in Korea, Lodge said: "The U.

S. consistently has been. willing to have the Russians participatc on the Communist side in (Please Turn to Page Five) ATTACK ON CLERGY WEAKENS DEFENSE AGAINST COMMIES WASHINGTON (INS) A. prominent New York clergyman believes that any attempt to bring wholesale discredit on the churches would weaken the "best defense against Communtsm." The Very Rev. Pike, dean of the Cathedral of St.

John the Divine, sald also that congressional investigations have had a "sobering effect" on the tendency of Americans to Join welfare groups. Dr. Pike made the statements in'a debate Sunday with Rep. Kit Clardy (R) a member of the House Un-American Activities committee, 011 NBC's "American Forumo of the The clergyman reported that some persons are fearful of participating in do-good activities lest the organizations someday be branded as a Communist front group. (Please Turn to Page Five) 8 From Pa.

On Latest 'Switch' List MUNSAN ((INS)) -The official U. S. Army -list of American prisoners of war relcased by the' Communists at Panmunjom today include the following: Sgt Louis J. Pichelli, mother, Blanche Pichelli, Midland Pa. Pic.

Andrew Sub sister Kathcrine Sub, Lyndora Pa. Pic. Frank J. Reichl, mother, Hilda Reichl, Coplcy, Pa. Pic.

Michael S. Levycky, mother Anna Levycky, 2210 Wallace street, Philadelphia, Pa. Sgt, Frank J. Page mother Lillian Page, Kingston, Pa. Pic.

Oren Dean Shaffer; mother, Kathleen Shaffer, York, Pa. Cpl. Kenneth D. Viehdeffer, father, Frederick, Hyde, Pa. in Cpl.

John P. Paulina, father John, Olymer, Pa. Big Switch In 13th Day, -Third Of Red Held U.S. Gls Now Returned PANMUNJOM. (INS)- Seventythree more Jubilant Americans were liberated by the Communists today along with 327.

other Korea's prisoners In the 13th day of Operation Big Switch, The Reds have: now returned about one-third of the 3,313 Americans they said they were holding at the time of the on July 27. The total number of Americans. released to date 1s 1,113. Returnees this' morning included 76 British soldiers, 250 South Kor'enns and two Japanese. One of the Japanese was captured while working as A houseboy with U.

S. 24th Division troops. The other who said he was born of "Korean parents in Japan said he had been lighting with South Korean forces. The Communists promised: to deliver Tuesday a total of 450 Allied prisoners, the largest number for any day: of Operation Big Switch. The list Includes 75 Americans, 75 Britons and 300.

South. Koreans. Americans returned this morning appcared in good physical condtion. They were from the' Chongsong prison camp on: the Manchurian border. Some of them said they had heard rumors that prisoners, placed in civil jails by the Reds, were freed through Intercession of the Red' Cross.

None of the returnees, however, saw any: of the Jailed Americans. (Please Turn to Page Five) Red Lists Show More PW Deaths WASHINGTON (INS) The Defense Department today relcased the names of. the following GI's from Pennsylvania who Communists say died while In Korean prison camps. Cpl. Joseph Antrom; son of Mrs.

Julia Ruth Antrom, 2628 North 18th Philadelphia. Pic Roland L. Bowser, son of and Mrs. Warren S. Bowser, 350 Keystone Drive, New Kensington.

Cpl. Melvin Boyden, son of Mrs. Clara Boyden, 7724 Susquehanna Pittsburgh. Sgt. Thomas B.

Bradley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bradley, 115 East Third Opl, Clarence T. Brockman, son of Mrs.

Mable J. Brockman, 111 South Main Butler. Cpl. Leonard V. Everhart, brother of Mrs.

Genevieve Hodgson, 43 Cinderella Wilkes-Barre: Pic William T. Farrell, son of Mrs. Florence Farrell, RD 1, Spangler, Sgt. 1-c James W. Fink, son of (Please Turn to Page Five) RUSSIA'S NOTE ASKING TALKS BEING STUDIED SCHOOL begins, its 1953-54 football which candidates will get right, Charles Godlasky, line coach; coach.

The candidates and conches FLING ENDS I northeast of Atlantic City, N.J, with the proper clothes and walk. the 40-mile galc. Winds and high (International Soundphoto) PUBLIC ASSURED OF FULL DATA ON SALES TAX PLAN HARRISBURG, (INS) Merchants and the buying public were assured today that full information will: be available before the new state sales tax goes into effect September. 1. Up to this point the picture has been rather hazy as the State Revenue Department hastily analyzed the law.

Beginning Tuesday, the department will release a series of lists showing which Items will be taxed and which ones will not. To merchants the department promised full set of instructions for. collecting the taxes, recording them and making returns to the commonwealth four times a. year. The new sales tax division of the department opened state headquarters today in Harrisburg.

Ten(Please Turn to Page Five) drills tomorrow at the Gray Metheir first instructions from new James W. Pletcher, Jr. head met together for the first time this, -Photo by Bruce I BUSY VACATION SLATE LISTED FOR PRESIDENT DENVER (INS) President Eisenhower begins the second week of his vacation today with schedule that looks more like work than play. calling list dt the Summer White House includes appoint ments with Attorney General Herbert Brownell and a delegation of administration and congressional leaders looking Into. small business problems: The chief executive will also get a briefing on what's going on in Washington during his absence from his "chief of Sherman (Please Turn to Page Five) PROBE OF GOV'T PRINTING OFFICE REDS UNDERWAY WASHINGTON (INS) Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy (R) rings up the curtain today on: a widelypublicized search for Communists in the Government Printing Office. Public. hearings are expected to last at least several days on an Inquiry broadly described as a hunt for: possible security leaks in the huge federal printing plant. Names of persons under investigation and witnesses who would testify about them were kept secret by McCarthy.

prior to the public. hearings: But he has told newsmen that at least. two GPO employes have been alleged to be Communists and that one "had access to recrets on the hydrogen and atomic' bombs. One also, according to McCarthy, was reported by a fellow ploye, as having stolen secret and confidential documents printed at the government plant. The woman who claims to have seen.

the thefts was described by McCarthy: as one of the key witnesses in the probe. Today's hearing is the first public session to. be held since three Democrats walked off the Turn to Page Five) One Man's Opinion By WALTER KIERNAN. Any army private now can still feel like a private at no extra But for a fellow who really available and the slogan of our dressed and the worst truced." dress like an officer for $80 and cost. wants to live it up dress blues are new army will be "the best Mr.

Dulles has some suspicion that the Commies may not live up to the truce but he's going to visit awhile and find didn't say how long but we allowed ourselves to be stalled two years writing it so probably he won't act tomorrow. But in case that issue is resolved we can get some new ones There's an outfit functioning now called "the national issues committee" and they've got some issues they'll be happy to furnish. Mrs. Roosevelt is the chairman. just back from going all over Europe and McCarthy, Both look about the same as before her trip.

But if you're short of issues now you know who to get in touch with But don't say "Joe sent me." WASHINGTON (INS) -The State Department today studied Russia's note proposing that the Big Four and representatives of East and West Germany confer on a German peaco treaty within' six months. The new note, delivered to the U. Great Britain and France Sunday, also suggested free elections and the formation of a nationwide provisional government In Germany, State Department specialists on Germany and Russia spent Sunday. studying the proposals. There was no immedlate comment.

Diplomatic quarters, however, viewed the note as a Soviet, propaganda. weapon aimed at weakening the position of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, an Allied supporter, in the coming West German elections. These: sources' placed special emphasis on the Russian statement that it is necessary to free Germany entirely from reparations and postwar debts, excepting those incurred in trade." This claim was viewed as a Soviet, move to drive a wedge between the Western powers and as (Please Turn to Page Five) In Brief Today By. International News Service United Nations, N. Y.

-UN Gencral Assembly meets to begin the difficult task of sotting. up the Korean political conference. Tehran Premier Mohammed Mossadegh meets with his cabinet to. discuss the crisis brought about by an unsuccessful royalist coup. Casablanca- Religious dispute in Morocco touches off: riots which claim the lives of at least 26 persons.

Panmunjom -American repatriates tell of being sent into Manchuria to carry supplies for the Communists. London--Western diplomats giving careful. study to Soviet. note proposing an all-German government and free German elections. Washington--Public hearings begin today: in Senator Joseph McCarthy's.

search for Communists in the Government Printing Office, Paris--French strikes stop newspaper publishing and keep' transportation at a minimum. 'Fun-Loving' No Longer Used In Describing Princess Margaret who otherwise might not think of. he said. Meanwhile, department store sales througaut the commonwealth are on the uprising. Whethor not the spectre of a September price boost has anything to do with it is anybody's guess.

Bevard Nichols, editor of the Pittsburg Business Review, thinks it And, says Nichols, it is his "guess" that sales will dip in September as a result. of the tax--which is' expected to bring some $6,000,000 to $7,000,000 monthly from Pennsylvania shoppers. Latest government statistics show the Philadelphia Federal Reserve District leading the nation with a 10 per cont risc in department store sales. Western parts of the state report a dollar volume "much greater than seasonally expected." But the figures also show a 16 per cent rise in sales of womens' apparel-an item, along with food and medical supplies, which is specifically exempted from the tax. Another group beginning to play on a beat-the-tax theme is the apliance dealers.

Many are telling customers of a $5 to $10 sayings on major purchases made before the September deadline An opposing view was taken by (Please Turn to Page Five) LONDON ((INS!) -The British have eliminated "fun-loving from the adjectives they use to describe Princess Margaret, who reaches her 23rd birthday this Friday, as the most wondered-about young woman in England. Transformation 'of this petite, good-looking and once mischievous bundle of royal girlhood into A serious-thinking, dignified "person" is the talk of the British nation. The girl who zipped her way through her teens, and who got columns of newspaper space because of her mildly shocking exploits, is today' a mature woman full of her years. The smile that was hers isn't quite the same, and there are those who declare the joy of living isn't what 14 was with her. It could casily.

bc because of a frustrated love affair, and probably two-thirds of the nation believes that is. the explanation, But the other third could be right in its belief Margaret has never fully recovered from the shock of the death of her beloved father, King George VI, in early 1952, and that even today he is constantly in her memory. Persons around the British royal court say it. is a combination" of both causes, and that there has been a change in Margaret's inner. character after undergoing two strong emotional experiences.

These who include some of the staider, older men and women with long experience at court, declare that Margaret has got over the deep and utter loneliness which possessed her in her. grief over; the death of "dear papa," which was so sadly expressed in her comment to her' mother: "Life seemed to stand still after papa's death, and I still cannot believe I will grow old without seeing him These same poople declare it was only natural that Margaret, in her loneliness; drew close to Group Captain Peter Townsend, and that the dawning of her. reported love for the handsome former air ace coincided, with Cher realization be was good for her. Thus one: emotional experlence was succeeded by another just as severe for a. girl of Margaret's background; and the shook was just as bad for her: when she found she was' being gossiped about.

Whether or not Margaret will eventually be allowed to 1 marry Townsend, or even if she still is In love with him, or is now, going (Please Turn to Page Fiver.