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35 2 a. m. 31 71,505 Sunday Press Average Net Paid January Circulation BIN GUAM TON PRESS SUNDAY EDITION Vol. 11 24 6Sections 20 Cents Sunday, February 7, 1960 FBI Arrests In Racket 23 Congress Action Urged By the Associated Press Washington House in For Millions in Home Loans Version Kickbacks, Fake Credit HBadio Stations Took Payola, U.S. Claims Washington (ff) The government yesterday alleged that certain radio stations accepted illegal payola from the record industry.

This was the first such action against stations. Past complaints of this type by the Federal Commission charged only that these payments went to radio and television disc jockeys. The names of the radio stations were not disclosed. The new complaint charges that threa Boston record distributors made illegal under-the-table payments to disc jockeys, radio stations and other broadcasting personnel who influenced the selection of records aired by the stations. The complaint was aimed at Records Music Suppliers Inc.

and Dumont Record Distributing all of Boston. They have 30 days in" which to file replies. vestigators yesterday called Reds Balk On Tour for prompt action by Con gress to outlaw rigged quiz shows and payola and to eliminate other abuses In the troubled broadcast Industry. OfChicago At the same time, they sharply criticized two big federal regula Chicago (UPI) A party tory agencies for not acting on their own against the television quiz show scandals and other of Russian officials yesterday threatened to break off irregularities. In a report to the House, the "Welly rz ta! vet a i fisity, a tour of Chicago unless they were shown steel mills, factories and "more of the economy." Only a last-minute change In investigators asserted that both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission appear to have adequate authority "to eradicate most, if not all, of the deceptive and corrupt prac Admits Bomb Plant plans by harried tour officials stayed the threatened Russian departure to their hotel rooms.

tices which have been dis closed." And matters weren't helped by In Minister's Auto a cold war among rival tour leaders. The threat came from Premier Chairman Oren Harris described this as the principal conclusion of the re D. S. Polyanski, chairman of port by his legislative oversight the Council of Ministers of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republics, after the group subcommittee. BAN OK URGED The FTC has recently issued several dozen complaints against had shown little interest in the In L.

Plot By Press Wire Services New York The FBI yesterday announced the arrest of 23 persons who allegedly conspired to defraud the government out of more than $4,000,000 through a kickback scheme involving loans for home improvements that were never made. The government said "any number of other home improvement firms are guilty" of the same racket which may involve "hundreds of millions of dollars." Officials would not say how many other forms were under suspicion or where -they were located. Those arrested were the president of a Freeport home improvement firm, which arranged the loans; 19 salesmen and three real estate operators. All were charged specifically with making false statements on home improvement loan documents to obtain government insured loans from two banks on Long Island and one in New York City. OWNERS PROFITED The FBI said the firm, the Kem Home Improvement had obtained about $4,000,000 in loans for homeowners on Long Island.

Of this amount, the FBI said, the Kem firm "kicked back" $1,309,793.32 to homeowners involved in the fraud. All those accused waived preliminary examination to the grand jury during appearance in Brooklyn federal court Bail totaling $48,500 was set. Those arrested included Harold Schikler, 45, of Merrick, identified by the FBI as president of Kem Home In-provement. The FBI said the scheme hatching of baby chicks at museum. persons it accused of illegal payola practices.

The FCC, after lengthy hearing, announced new Polyanski, head of about 25 upper echelon Communists, many of them roughly compar inn -tiiiiiii -nr mn Muunumfnii 5 S- -f I able to U. S. governors, called a halt to a tour of the Museum of Science and Industry and told tour officials: "We want to see 'more of the economy. We want to see steel Associated Press WIREPHOTO. WORKERS AWAIT FREE FOOD-Three lines of migrant farm workers point to a single entrance in the National Guard Armory at Homestead, as they wait for food to be passed out by county and church relief organizations.

Thousands of the workers were stranded without work and means to make rules it proposed to adopt to bar phony quiz shows and payola practices. Harris also emphasized a recommendation that the FCC be empowered to put a station or network off the air "a day or so or even longer" if it persistently airs programs which, in the FCC's view, do not serve the public Interest. Harris tolda news conference he intends to press for enactment of the subcommittee program at this session of Congress. mills, factories at work." Mrs. Frayn Utley, regional di rector of the Institute of International Education (HE), which a living when tender crops were killed by frost and near freezing weather is managing the tour for the host Governor's Conference, said two weeks ago.

it was impossible to find factory open on Saturday. MIXTURE OF INTEGRATION, BOMB HOAX "You can't walk in with 31 "As chairman of this com people at 2 p. m. and make a request and expect to walk mittee I am going to do whatever I can to bring this about," Harris said. STARTS TOMORROW (Continued on Page 6 Ap -R ow Closes 2 Stores Harris, whose subcommittee exposed the scope of quiz show his store after Woolworth's Greensboro, N.

C. (JP) Two pronounced the call was a hoax, scandals late last year, released the report almost on the eve of management decided to keep the a new round of hearings this wonted mis way: A salesman for the firm closed. Woolworth's store was a bed Greensboro variety stores where lunch counter integration had been attempted all week by Negro doors closed. time on payola. Cab Mishap Breaks Arm Of Taylor Washington (P) Gen.

Max lam of jeering whistling and Then the management of the Kress Store, a short distance His group will open public handclapping when the an students, closed suddenly at midday yesetrday. would solicit a homeowner for home improvement work. If rebuffed, the salesman then would inquire whether the hearings tomorrow into under away, took similar action "in the nouncement was made over the The F. W. Woolworth store interest of public safety." The cover payoffs to radio-TV disc jockeys and others in exchange loudspeaker system that the closed because of a telephoned store was closing.

Negroes carry manager, H. E. Holgate, said crowds of "rowdies" moved on bomb threat. But after police homeowner needed money. Once a homeowner entered Into the conspiracy, the firm would for the plugging of records and other products.

ing American flags muled about, and whites carrying Confederate In addition to recommend well D. Taylor, 57, retired army prepare papers and documents flaps paraded through the aisles chief of staff, received a fracture ing that quiz show riggings and of the left forearm last night No reason for the closing was the fender of a payola be made criminal offenses, the subcommittee offered several other proposals for amounts as high as $5,000. The homeowner in turn promised to pay a portion of the total loan as a "service charge." FAKE REFERENCES given then. The announcement simply requested that everyone leave the store. Later, police Big Radiation Dose U.S.

Is Told "to bring to an end existing said someone had telephoned the moving taxicab. Taylor was crossing Connecticut Avenue near the Mayflower Hotel when the (Continued on Page 6 A) store that there was a bomb in In cases where the home Associated Presi WIREPHOTO. WILLIAM COLUMBUS JOHNSON Scheme to Scare Went Awry Atlanta P) A 36-year-old church deacon to police yesterday he planted a home-made the basement. Police searched and found no 4 t6J 01 ILate News accident oc explosives. owner's credit rating was weak, the FBI said, the firm would provide fictitious credit references and, in some cases, fictitious employment.

This was made possible, the FBI said, bv curred. Washington (UPI) The head of the nation's civil Negro college students began The general was bomb in a Baptist minister's car. an attempt Monday to obtain defense program said yesterday new scientific findings taken to Walter service at the Woolworth lunch The scheme went awry when the Rev. J. T.

Robin show that in event of war, the average person could Reed Army Medical Center where son of nearby Miisteaa, counter. Negroes presently are served if standing, but not while seated. enlisting the conspiring real estate brokers and others who in turn received "commissions." discovered the device in his car he was treated absorb huge amounts of radiation from a nuclear blast without bing disabled. for a simple fracture and contu The Negroes took seals, but In some instances, the FBI Tuesday night. Detective W.

K. Perry said Leo A. Hoegh, director of the Blast, Fire Fatal to 6 5 sions. He was were not served. Subsequently, groups of white youths, most Office-of Civil and Defense Mo said, loans were obtained for the improvement of non-existent property.

William Columbus Johnson, 36, who works in a textile mill, expected to be released today. bilization, said the report of a subcommittee of the National of them high school students, began thwarting the Negroes 1 Die, 1 Injured In Fiiiitnstie lleadon Crash GEN. TAYLOR signed a statement admitting If convicted, the defendants released today. that he placed the bomb in the by arriving early and taking car to scare the minister. could receive maximum sentences of two years in prison Committee on Radiation Protection and Measurement was "extremely significant and grati- Wichita, Kans.

(IP) An ex The detective declined to plosion and fire in a northwest Ina Miller, 16, of Tunnel was admitted to Wilson Memorial Hospital early today with injuries suffered in a midnight automobile accident in Route 7 north of Belden Hill. Hospital attendants said she suffered bruises of the forehead and back and a possible fracture of the left collarbone. Her. condition was listed as "fair." Sheriffs men said highway conditions were "very bad" in a snowstorm on the hill. Details of the accident could not immediately be obtained.

ana lines oi the seats. The demonstration by the Negroes spread later in the week to the Kress Store. 'fying." elaborate any further than to The government charged that the firm kept more than $50,000 (General Taylor is the author of the controversial book "The Uncertain Trumpet." A condensed version of the book will appear in The Binghamton Press starting Feb. 15. say the incident involved the minister, his wife and Johnson.

"What the scientists are us is that no American need become the victim of in commissions. Robinson, who is 36, could not The loans ran as high as Hoegh said. be reached immediately for com Wichita home last night killed six persons and injured four others, police said. Police Lt. Clyde Bevis said the blast occurred while two men were cleaning automobile parts with gasoline in the second-floor apartment of Mr.

and Mrs. Monroe Galloway. ment. His wife refused to discuss The report said that nearly the matter. She told the Associ Taylor, who retired last year, anyone-can receive up to 200 $5,000 in case, the FBI said, with the homeowner receiving $4,000 and the corporation keeping $1,000 as a "service charge." Parade Protests Trujillo Policies New York ipd An estimated 150 members of the "Dominican ated Press "there is nothing I roentgens of radiation from can say to you right now." The detective said if the Moscow Mills, Mo.

Four persons were killed and four critically hurt last night in a fantastic two-car headon collision which state troopers said happened this way: Two cars started racing at speeds up to 80 miles an hour when the first driver wouldn't let the second driver pass him. The car in the lead ran off on the shoulder, spun around, returned to the highway and hit the second car headon. The collision occurred on U. S. Highway 61 one mile south of Moscow Mills, which is about 55 miles northwest of St.

Louis. nuclear explosion without suffering disabling illness and up to 1,000 roentgens over a year bomb, consisting of two sticks Dies in Rescue Try of dynamite and three caps, had without becoming a casualty. gone off, it would have torn Liberation Movement" paraded for half an hour yesterday before the United Nations head is chairman of the Mexican Light and Power Co. Ltd. of Mexico City.

He has been in Washington for several days, testifying be- fore a congressional committee. He said on Thursday the military tide "will run against us unless we take heroic measures now." Police said no charges had The permissible peacetime ra Springfield, Mass W) One man Hpnu'nnH anH a cppntlH u'ae Robinson to shreds. diation limit for occupational quarters in protest against the workers is three-tenths of "Just the caps alone probably; vterriav fmm watr. Sunday Press Index a week, roughly 15.6 roentgens a would have been enough to pond into thev policies of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. him" Perry said roentgens a year.

There was no disorder, police Dr. Lauriston S. Taylor, chair said. plunged in an attempt to rescue a dog. Dead is Robert E.

Ennis, 52, of Springfield. Abe Tavelov, 41, of Longmeadow, was rescued. man of the radiation committee, been filed against the taxicab $30,000 Damage As Fire Sweeps Buffalo Building Buffalo A three-alarm fire fanned through the top floor of a four-story downtown apartment building last night, causing an estimated $30,000 damage. Police said most tf the 12 families living in the brick building were able to return to their homes after firemen quelled the blaze. No injuries were reported.

Cause of the blaze was wrote Hoegh that peacetime stand driver, Albert E. Gray, 38. ards do not furnish "realistic Just Queen's Anniversary Police brought Johnson to Atlanta yesterday for interrogation after receiving a tip from an anonymous telephone caller. Perry said Johnson, a deacon in Robinson's church, is married and has a 12-year-old son. The officer said Johnson would be criteria" for a war emergency.

Nobody Expected 1 Taylor's committee based its conclusion on studies of radiation affects on both men and animals. Hoegh said the report underscores the importance of Ameri charged with attempted murder. Johnson, a heavy-set man of Bells, Guns Spark Baby False Alarm can families building shelters for their protection in case of Trooper Needs Hand With THIS Delivery war. average height, was taken out yesterday afternoon by officers to reenact the wiring of the bomb to the car's light dimmer switch. Police said if the minister had "If we will heed their advice," he said, "the safety and security of most of our families and our switched his lights to bright from nation can be assured.

The re Amusement 6 Backward Glance 10 Bishop Sheen 13 A Books in Review 12 Bridge 12 Camera 14 Chuckles 7 Crossword Puzzle 7 Deaths 8 Doctor Dean 12 Editorial Pages 8-9 A Financial Pages 12-13 Homes, Building 10-11 Inquiring Photographer 11 A Records 7 Servicemen 8 Society 2-4 Sports 1-6 Stamps 7 Television 8-9 Tripp 13 A Veteran's Affairs 8 Weather Map 2 Women's Pages 5-10 dim, the bomb would have ex Time for Meeting Norwich, Conn. (IPT) The car of Frank Bergman collided with another auto yesterday, making Bergman late for a meeting to discuss traffic safety. ploded in Robinson's back. port will spur action among the indifferent and confirm the wis At the time, Robinson said he dom of Americans who have al had no idea who might wish to ready built shelters for their families." harm him and that the bomb must have been placed in his Palace, crowds cheered Prince Philip as he drove home from a shooting vacation in Norfolk to be near his wife when the baby is born. The midday boom of a 41-gun salute from Hyde Park started the rumor that events had proceeded him.

From the lofty towers of Westminster Abbey the great bells seemed to confirm it. When the baby does arrive the bellringers will sound a full peal of bells, reserved for royal marriages, births and coronations. London P) The bark of big guns and the peal of churchbells caused thousands of Londoners yesterday to believe that Queen Elizabeth's baby had arrived at last. It was a false alarm. The noise of artillery salutes echoing over the city commemorated the seventh anniversary of the queen's accession to the throne.

However; thousands of people rang newspaper offices, asking: "Is it a boy or And outside Buckingham Newton, N. J. (JP) Mrs. Waclaw Banach has given birth to children before but never twins. And State Troopers Charles Musilli and Thomas Grady have helped deliver babies before, but never twins.

So yesterday was a "first" for everybody concerned. Troopers here first got a call from Banach, who had been a father nine times before. "My wife is going to have a baby," he said. So. Grady was promptly dispatched to the Banach home.

Shortly thereafter Grady called Newton Barracks and made the observation that it looked like twins. Police responded and sent Musilli. The troopers, Mrs. Banach and the babies were all reported doing fine, the former in Newton Barracks and the latter in Newton Hospital. 16 Die in Flood Lima, Peru W) The death Lei's Chuckle Every man needs a wife be car by mistake.

Author Has Surgery Houston, Texl Frank of 16 persons from flood waters from Lake Titicaca high in the Andes was reported in delayed Scully, author and film writer, underwent a three -hour heart dispatches here yesterday. The cause many things go wrong that one can't blame on the government (More Chuckles on Page 7D.) I operation yesterday at the Texas flood washed away the adobe Medical Center. homes of some 2,500 persons..