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136 Tephon he 241 ALLENTOWN, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1954 Entered Ind CUm Matter Post Office, AUentown. P. 5c Copy Weekly Area Steel workers Refuse to Testify 0o Red Link, Suspended From Jobs rJ. i Invoke Fifth Amendment U.S., Allies Seek Before Senate Probers; Another Requests Lawyer Mass UN. Vote To Help Free 11 UNITED NATIONS.

N. Dec. 7 (AP) The United States and its Korean War Allies pushed hard today for the largest I I I.IT-' possible U.N. vote favoring their resolution seeking release; of 11 American airmen held as spies by Kea cnina ana condemning their detention. i rC Bethlehem Steel Employes Named By AUentown Ex-Undercover Agent Two Bethlehem Steel Co.

workers were suspended from their jobs yesterday afternoon shortly after they refused to answer a Senate Investigation subcommittee's questions regarding Communist connections. They are Joseph A. Picucci, 910 Seneca Fountain Hill, and John Szabo, Butztown. The resolution denounces the trial and imprisonment of! the airmen as well as the detention of all other captured U. N.

personnel, as a violation of the Korean armistice. It calls on I 111 llll I Vl IMIMI iMM yw I Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to work for their re lease and report DacK Dy uec. ai Henry Cabot Lodge chiefs- 2 More Men American delegate, today banded Hammarskjold the resolution, which was agreed upon yes-j JOSEPH A. PICUCCI JOHN SZABO Both invoked the Fifth Amendment to tne constitution, against answering questions which might tend to incriminate themselves. A sDokesman for the steel company told The Morning Guilty in Erie terday by the United States and thej 15 other U.N.

members who fought' the Reds in Korea. At the same time the machinery of these dele-( gations was set in motion to obtain' a large vote as a demonstration toj the Communist Chinese of world Call, about an hour after the committee session, "The men have been suspended and are being given notice of intentions to discharge." PAPER PLATES Secret Service men found counterfeit plates for $10 bills in Mrs. Ruth Lange's cosmetics bag, which was checked at a downtown Chicago bus station, and arrested the 33-year-old Houston, woman in her north side hotel. Her arraignment was postponed until Thursday at the request of agents who asked for more time to continue their investigation. Above, enroute to the U.

S. court house, before postponement was granted yesterday, Mrs. Lange tries to hide her face with her mink coat. (AP Gaming Case szauo ana ncucci, uoia mem bers of Bethlehem locals of the disapproval. I ERIE, Dec.

7 WV One man United Steelworkers of America, No Major Lodge later gave Hammarskjold -was found guilty today of bribery a letter naming four additional air-1 and conspiracy charges and an- are naturalized citizens of the United States. The steel workers union's posi Arms Cuts, SLVL? w.V 3 hi nS other briberv charges in con-the Korean war and are being i hPlri hv the Chinese Reds. Thevinection with an alleged 20-million- tion with regard to the status of dollar a year gambling syndicate were identified as Lt. Llyle Picucci and Szabo remained up in the air today. John Tegyi, district representative assigned to the Wilson Says An Erie County Criminal Court President to Seek Broader Asia Aid Plan, Dulles Says Bethlehem Steel Co.

told a Morn- jury found Arthur Damore, a news WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (INS) ing Call reporter last night, "we're Cameron, Lincoln, Capt. Harold E. Fischer, Swea City, Iowa: Lt. Roland W.

Parks, Omaha, and Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller, Wynnewood, Pa. Unusual Meeting room operator, guilty on six counts of bribery and one count of con not going to be hasty." He added Defense Secretary Charles E.

Wilson made clear on the anniversary that the union constitution cov spiracy. ers situations like this and we'll of Pearl Harbor today that there Another jury declared Anthony WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 CP Secretary of State Dulles said will be no further major reductions in military spending until the The Assembly will convene tomorrow at 3 p.m. in an unusual Tonty, operator of a cigar store guilty on four counts of bribery However, Judge Elmer Davis in today the Eisenhower administra world situation takes a definite meeting to take up the resolution tion expects to ask Congress to approve a broad program of turn for the better.

structed the jury to free Tonty on sponsored by the United States The secretary told a news con abide by our constitution." Not on Agenda The Tri-Local Executive Committee of the union held a regularly scheduled business meeting last night, but Joseph Lipsky, president of Local 2598, said the cases of Picucci and Szabo were not on the meeting's agenda. Lipsky, who ab a conspiracy charge. economic aid to Asia as a bulwark ference that there may in fact be be sought when Congress reconvenes in January. He said President Eisenhower has approved this principle. Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, who is known to believe that any aid program should emphasize loans rather than large gifts of the Marshall Plan kind, told a news conference yesterday that "no program has yet been adopted." He said it was still beinc Australia.

Belgium, Canada, Colombia. Ethiopia. France, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands. New against Communist expansion Russell Verea. a special investi some increase in spending in a MARKUS KALASZ HERMAN E.

THOMAS He made that announcement at a news conference at which he gator for the district attorney's office, testified Damore paid police Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand. drive to produce more new weapons. He said 33 billion dollars protection money. would be a "rock bottom mui- sented himself from the meeting also commented that fear of open war has lessened and that both sides can perhaps give more Juries have found six men guilty Turkey, South Africa and Britain. A final vote is expected later in the week.

The resolution does not mention two other men whose sentences of conspiracy or bribery charges room long enough to talk with a Morning Call reporter, made it Cops Probe Deaths of 3 'Healed' by Grandmother Sue others have pleaded guilty to studied in several departments. thought to economic competition. He mentioned no figures and similar charges. tary budget, and that it could go from the present level of 35 billion up to 37 billion dollars. At the same time, the Pentagon reduced its monthly draft rates from a level of 23,000 to 20,000 beginning in February.

The new Dulles said today that only the were announced by. the Chinese at did not say whether loans or gifts They are among more than 40 the same time as those of the 11. principle has so far been approved, and details are being worked out. men arrested in a sweeping raid Those two were not under the U.N. Oct.

16. Dist. Atty. Damian Mc command. TULSA.

Dec. 7 (INS) Other Points On other points, Dulles told child and an unidentified woman to determine if the widow had The resolution avoided a direct draft quota of 20,000 a month will continue through June. One reason Laughlin, a Republican, described the raid as the cracking of a huge The incredible saga of Nannie condemnation of China for the newsmen: Doss grew even more bizarre to for the reduction is that Army re- gambling ring. caused them. "Coincidence" sentences of the 11 men, but it 1.

The United States is leaving day as authorities learned she ap Of those arrested 36 have been lumped the case of the 11 and an enlistments have increased. "New Phase" Ray Page, Oklahoma Crime Bu parently was lining up a sixth bus to the United Nations the question of how to seek freedom for 11 clear that he was speaking not only for his local but also for Bart Keating, president of Local 2599 and Joseph Mangan, president of Local 2600. "We can take no position on these men" he said, "until we have the facts. So far all we know is hearsay. Of course, if the men lose their jobs and file a grievance, their cases will automatically become the union's business." "Not for Nobody" Picucci did answer some questions asked by the Senate Investigations Subcommittee.

He said he had never committed any espionage and that "not for nobody" undetermined number of other band even before her fifth spouse reau agent in Anniston. on indicted on charges ranging from bribery to accepting bribes and prisoners in a general condemna Wilson's comments on the budget were made in describing a "new U.S. airmen captured in the Ko was dead of ber rat poison. tne case, said all three were be tion as a violation of the armistice. conspiracy.

rean War. and sentenced by Red The mail-order, lonely hearts ing nursed by Nannie when they phase" in his military planning. Mayor Thomas W. Flatley, a China last month to long impris died, a coincidence that has ap Release Request It requests Hammarskjold "in He said he has completed reor romance with a North Carolina dairy farmer to light shortly onment. Democrat, Stanley Schwartz end Henry Soscia, two other Demo peared in the cases of a number of other persons whose "peculiar" the name of the United Nations, to 2.

With Britain and France, the after it was the round cratic leaders, are among those in' would be involved, but other officials have talked of a program in which loans would play a major part. These also have been expressions of hope that allied nations, such as Britain and France, would bear a substantial part of tr burden. Eisenhower Approval Dulles did say, in response to questions, that -it was likely that a program of government aid. to be backed up by simultaneous help from private capital, would Pope Stronger; Lights Torch From Sickbed VATICAN CITY, Dec. 7 CfV-Pope Pius XII lighted an electric torch at a Sicilian shrine of the Virgin Mary by pressing a switch button faced, giggling grandmother may Continued en Page 15.

Column 8 dieted. Continued on Page 15, Column 3 have poisoned three more persons bringing to 15 the list of admitted or suspected victims. would he have done any spying. United States will attempt to recapture the days when their ambassadors at Moscow could talk informally with high Soviet officials. Ambassador Charles 11.

Bohlen, returning tomorrow to Moscow, has authority to seek in diplomatic relations with the Soviet government. Tulsa Homicide Capt. Harry He refused to say whether he ganization of the command setup and the armed services, and now will concentrate on new weapons and scientific research. High on the list of projected new weapons are atomic shells for antiaircraft and other conventional-size guns for guided missiles, and atomic engines for planes and surface ships as well as additional nuclear submarines. Wilson said he could not discuss the projects for security reasons.

He recently said the U. S. is "get Steger found letters which showed gave information to the party on Price Dip, Higher Profits Seenin'55 by Economists Nannie was corresponding witn Internal conditions at Bethle John H. Keel, 60, of Goldsboro, Mystery Clouds Testimony of 2 In Phenix City PHENfX CITY. Dec.

hem plants, among other things. N. even as Samuel Doss, the Sen. McCarthy, (R-Wis), chair 3. The political overthrow of fift'a husband she also met through a lonely hearts club, lay dying man of the subcommittee, showed up at the hearings but took no part in the questioning.

Sen. Mundt Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida would have no particular effect on U.S. -Japanese relations from drinking coffee she admits dosing with arsenic-loaded rat (INS) A young blonde in bobby ting closer" to a satisfactory design (R-S. presided. Herman E.

Thomas of AUentown, sox and a stylishly dressed bru from his sickbed tonight, the eve since basic ly the friendship of the two countries rests on fundamental considerations of mutual Keel told North Carolina officers nette added a new note of mys who said he had served the Feder of the end of the Roman Catholic Marian year. no mention was made of Doss in tery today in the grand jury inves for an atomic plane. The Pentagon chief declared that half of the scientists and engineers in the country now are working directly or indirectly for the welfare which have nothing to do the letters exchanged between al Bureau of Investigation for 10 years as an undercover man in the tigation of the June 18 murder of personalities. himself and Nannie, but admitted: Albert L. Patterson, anti-vice cru Communist party, was yesterday's Dulles repeated that the Unit "I kind of had that in the back The ceremony at 6 p.m.

came after a day in which the Pope continued to slowly regain strength following the most serious illness sader. Defense Department, and that he accusing witness. States and her Allies are ready of my mind." They also discussed Prosecutors refused to comment has no plans to reduce the num WASHINGTON. Dec. 7 (AP) The year 1955 should please almost everybody, if administration economists are right.

They say prices are due to go down and profits up. Giving their appraisal of the economic outlook in interviews, they forecast a slow but fairly steady downtrend of retail prices during much if not all of the coming year. They predicted that the consumer may find that his income dollar has gained 2 to 2Vz cents in buying power a year from now. Nevertheless businessmen can expect a moderate rise in profits, reversing the 1954 trend of lowered corporation earnings, said officials in close touch with business conditions. In fact, almost everyone except the farmer seems to be potential gainer in 1955.

Farm prices will decline slightly, the Agriculture Department has predicted officially, but farmers' costs are expected to drop also. So the depart- Thomas, a stocky man who plans for her to come to North ber. on the women witnesses or indi Carolina to meet him. What he intends, he said, is to cate what their role might be in smoked a cigar through much of the hearing, said he had known Picucci as a Communist for nine Authorities, meantime, revealed to meet with the Soviets as soon as the Western Eureopean union has become a reality. The idea is that any Big Four meeting before then might tend to undercut the ratification procedure.

see that the U. S. is getting the the grand jury probe of the gang- cf his 15-year reign. The switch button was brought to the pontiff's bedside by his assistant secretary of state, Msgr. Angelo Dell'Acqua.

Almost 500 miles away, a torch most for its money in new weap type assassination of the man who the were investigating the deaths of Nannie's father, James F. Ha- had been nominated by the Demo ons. years and as a member of a three-man secretariat of the party in the Lehigh Valley. zle, in 1952; an unidentified grand- crats for Alabama attorney gener at the Sanctuary of the Most Holy al on his campaign pledge to clean Turncoat PW Stocks Again Hit Alary of Consolation at Paterno, up vice-ridden Pbemx City. ratterson was snot down on a Phenix City street on the eve of his Misses Home on Sicily's east coast, blazed alight as the Pope's finger touched the switch.

The light was visible far Hunt Called Off In Tug Disaster NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 OP The tt i meni minus me iarmers reai income snouia De wen sus- New High Ground tamed. appearance before an earlier grand jury at Birmingham, out at sea. ouuic uiajiri uiiiuiu), oucbiiiig uiiitiai view Liiab living NEW YORK, Dec. 7 (INS) A costs will come down, are scrarDine the escalator clauses which later returned vote fraud in sharp last minute upsurge sent thej in their wage contracts, to avoid losing a portion of the dictments.

"Now the Pope is praying." said a Vatican radio announcer who made a simultaneous broadcast ALDEN, Dec. 7 A request for the sheet music to "White Christmas" and two other songs has convinced the mother of a former American soldier who Coast Guard discontinued search The Patterson investigation sub tonight for the last of 11 crewmen uoommg siock 10 new nigni pay doosxs inai came aiong automatically wnen prices were ground today after most issues inflating. frnm ihf nanal annrlmcnl sequently led to the declaration of of the tug Bertha R. which sank Broadcast were held back by profit-takine refused repatriation after the martial rule in Phenix City The committee met in closed session for three hours yesterday afternoon. It heard eight witnesses, aides reported, and six of them were asked to return for a public session at 10:30 a.m.

today. Among those heard was a third Bethlehem worker Markus Kalasz, a native of Hungary identified by Thomas as a Communist party member in 1948-52. Mund. said Kalasz had been excused from testifying for the time being. The senator said Kalasz did not want to testify in public without a lawyer.

Union Called Kalasz said at the public hearing that he had called the steelworkers union in Washington but they said "all the lawyers were out and they couldn't do anything for me." Tomorrow from his white-walled through the greater part of the ses and the Alabama National Guard Korean fighting that her son is. in the choppy waters of the Gulf of Mexico yesterday. iok room the PoDe will end displaced the elected officials. "very homesick. Mrs.

Portia Howe received the It was the fourth successive day Nearly four score witnesses have The cutter Cartigan headed for Marian year with a broadcast blessing to the city and the world been heard by the grand jury prob Panama City, at noon today of advance with the industrial index up $1.40 to a new all-time high, and the rails up $1.29 to a new 24- request at her home here in a letter from Pfc. Richard Tenneson, 21, her son by a previous marriage. ing the Patterson murder in eight days of the hearing. Latest to be subpoenaed were State Sen. Neil with seven survivors and three bodies.

A Coast Guard plane continued the search until dark. He asked for the sheet music at 4:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. EST). It will be carried by the Vatican radio and many other networks.

The Pope had small quantities of coffee, milk, chicken broth and Related News on Page 41 Metcalf of Geneva County and Coast Guard officials said it was to 'White 'Winter Wonderland' and 'Dear Hearts and Gentle People'," Mrs. Howe said. Frank Long, president of the Ala year peak. Before the late turnabout developed, the industrial average was down much as $2.16, doubtful the plane would resume bama Young Democrats. Metcalf fruit juices today.

One of his doctors said the Pope had been fed the search at daylight tomorrow The 15 non-operating railroad brotherhoods, representing about 825,000 workers, yesterday headed off a 1-cent hourly wage cut due on Jan. 1 because of the autumn fall price dip. The brotherhoods reached agreement with major railroads to abolish the escalator clause entirely. The roads agreed, at the same time, that 13 cents of hourly wages gained since 1951 by a succession of living-cost increases would become part of the regular hourly pay scale. The operating rail unions, with 400,000 members, already has eliminated' escalation.

This left, as the only large union group clinging to its cost-of-living clause, the more than one million auto, farm machinery and aircraft workers represented by CIO's United Auto Workers. CIO-UAW officials, who pioneered the escalator idea, are represented as unworried. All but 6 cents of their escalator increases have been made permanent. They have announced they will seek an "improved" escalator clause in 1955 negotiations. Presumably this means some form of one-way escalator one which would rise when prices go to new.

highs, but stand still when prices dip. "The songs all have special mean- and Long had testified before the Brimingham grand jury before Thomas pointed out Kalasz in the since it bad covered tne area spoonfuls of broth and fruit juices the carriers were off 83 cents Turnover for the full session thoroughly today. which Patterson was scheduled to amounted to 3.820.000 shares, as "He was in a nostalgic mood;" when he asked for them. I have I P'cucci and Szabo although he no doubt but what he's very home-ihad 80me difficulty finding Ka- appear. The tug snapped a hawser yesterday while towing a barge about 90 miles southwest of Appalachi- Continued on Page 15, Column 2 sick." cola, Fla.

Officials of the Blue Stack Towing Co. of Tampa, Sheppard Stuck to Story against 3,960,000 shares Monday and the four-year high of 3,990,000 shares last Nov. 24. Selected rail shares were the features as the market neared the final gong. Among the important gainers were Louisville and Nashville up 34 Rock Island up 24; Southern Railway up 2Vi and New Haven up 1.

said that in attempting to pick up the barge a hole was knocked four tunes "at his own request." "It is a great change from the past few days, when doctors and nurses bad to insist on the Holy Father's eating." the doctor said. The pontiffs private physician. Dr. Raccardo Galeazzi-Lisi. said "all goes well." One of the four German nuns who serve as housekeepers for the Pope said he still has pains, "but bears them like aaint." Ailing since last January, the 78-year-old head of the world's 425 million Roman Catholics suffered 'a collapse last Thursday.

For 48 tours he was in a critical condition. Kalasz, 61, a alight, greying man, said he was born in Hungary and came to this country as a youth in 1906 or 1907. He appeared without an attorney and was not questioned by the committee about Thomas' testimony. Mundt said questioning would be delayed if Kalasz wanted to try to get an attorney. Kalasz said he needed one be in the Bertha R.

and the rudder damaged. The tug sank last night while attempting to reach port. While Dazed, Court Told Continued on Page 15, Column 4 Early today, the Helen Lykes CLEVELAND. Dec. 7 A blonde X-ray technician testified one on the beach.

Someone hit me from Knocked Out Sheppard contends the stranger Your Money Problems: today that Dr. Samuel Sheppard picked up three survivors and a Coast Guard amphibious plane picked up two more. The cutter Cartigan found two more survivors while doped, dazed and semi-co cause he could not understand "the herent stuck to his story that a beat him unconscious when he big words" of the senator but he Tax Know-How Increases Savings stranger killed his wife. inea to aia ms wire, then knocked laddprf "I can't affnrH iau-. The 30-year-old osteopath is on out a second time on the Lakelyer." He said his wife was sick at and located three bodies.

Coast Guard officials said the missing man did not get aboard a life raft and it was feared he went down with the tug. trial for his life in the July 4j Erie beach outside the home and home left him with bis feet in the water He said he went directly to Beth- murder of his pregnant, 31-year-old wife, Marilyn. He claims a marauder killed her. Continued on Page 6, Column 4 The technician. Mrs.

Eileen Death Toll Hits 6 In Rest Home Fire GERMANTOWN, Dec. 7 Ml Huge, a plump little woman in a white uniform, described bow Dr. Sheppard was brought into tier X-ray room at the family osteo and bis head on the sand. In support of this, another employer of the hospital. Nurse Anna Franz, testified she helped undress Dr.

Sheppard when he was first taken to the hospital for treatment. "His body and feet were icy cold and he was clammy." she said. "And his feet looked like they were water-soaked, like something that See SCHELLY'S COLOR AD Page 3. These prices good until Dec. 15th Check the Ad for the nearest Hardware Retailer to your home.

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As far as the tax lavt is concerned, the receipts in the wage and salary en- The toll of fire dead at the Marylander Rest Home here rose Man Admits Setting Fire Over Eviction PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 7 I Aa unemployed laborer, who carried his crippled mother to safety when flames wrecked their home yesterday, admitted today be started the fire to avoid eviction. i John Reigraf. 27, was charged with starting the fire that drove the Reigrafs.

their dog and nine persons in neighboring homes to the street. Fire Marshal William Eckles said Reigraf admitted setting the fire, touching it off with a letter he and his mother had received telling them they would have to vacate the house not later than yesterday. lyn's slaying. He bad just been means arranging your business affairs, with the help of a certified public accountant and an attorney if possible, in such a way as to pay no more taxes than necessary. We are all living In a tax civilization, and personal survival and prosperity depend on each person's awareness of tax factors on business and personal accomplishments.

It should be said at the outset that the present tax setup tends to fall, with greatest harshness on workers and salaried persons whose income comes entirely from personal services. Believe it or not, the tax law treats inanimate property physical things such as tools, This is the fourth of five practical articles about the money problems of typical American families yo. money problems and bow to solve them. Today's article offers guidance and advice on how to adjust to your tax problems. By MERRYLE S.

RUKETSER Economic Commentator NEW YORK. Dec. 7 (INS) Whether you like it or not. government is your silent partner who takes a cut out. of all your earnings.

As Commissioner of Internal Revenue T. Coleman Andrews has repeatedly made clear, while tax evasion is illegal, "tax avoidance" properly done is every man's privilege. That Today's Index to six today with the deaths of two given a morphine derivative. more aged inmates. Me was never taiKing to any- naa reen in tne water a long time.

'Bridge 40 Lawrence IS one, Mrs. Huge testified. "He was They were just shriveled up like Capital News 7iLippmann IS Dr. Elizabeth Hampson, 87. died at 9:30 a.m.

at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of exposure to smoke fumes. Anne Lambom, 83, a Washington. D. school teacher for 40 years, died at 3 a.m. at Washington Sanitarium in nearby Tako- tauting to me room, lie was nad been in water a long classified 42-44 Pumpernickle 18 Wing and moaning.

He said, 'I time." Quote 40-41 1 Radio, TV 40 beard Marilyn scream and I tried The defense ran out of witnesses Deaths 31 42 i Rover 10 to get to her. Things like this don't late in the day and the trial re- Editorial 16 Sports 35-33 happen. This couldn't have hap-cessed about 30 minutes early. 'j-arm Editor 13 'Theaters 39 i Financial 41 1 Woman's 23-30 ma Park. Continued Page 25, Column 1 "He said, 'I thought I saw some-1 Continued on Page 13, Column i.