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wfiiiuji)K, Oakland Tribune Monday, Oct 11956 EMPLOYERS High Court Tn Dnlo nn i Ax Father Reunion in uraqic Red Probes I. mnytnmtmmmimmmmimm-M i i I i 1 tyt't: I i it if I I 'r': (I v' a slight cut near one eye. He was. not hospitalized. Prado halted the movie and.

refunded 200 admissions after the second fight He told police. 'the theater had a private officer on duty until week agdr but the man quit because "is. -Aim hlinnt 'ill Mhl i .5. a. M.

ator TrikiM pfcatea WHIPPED WITH CHAIN Miv Beverly Kaufman it helped from cor by patrolman John Meachcan after accusing her husband, Charles (lower) beating her with a tin chain. i r-. -j-Ti Sftttajai yhcea) POIGNANT MEETING Patricia Corcoran, It held th ax slaying of her aunt la reunited with her foutav. Wit a Ham, at me Alameda County Detention Home, Ho come -her from South Dakota to aid his child, Booked Beater Youths Beat s4 Spect they were on the Fifth St overpass of the Eastshore -Freeway and then threw the chain out of the car somewhere between that point and their hotel at 411 Tenth St Kaufman gave -Patrolman Robert Thistlewaite two versions of how his wife was injured. The officer said Kaufman first claimed the lacerations came when he stopped the car suddenly and her head struck the windshield.

WIN APPEAL QN STRIKES 1 WASHINGTON, Oct -l The Supreme Court today agreed to review a decision that employers who bargain jointly with a "union may not act together in resisting a strike at the plant of one of the employers; 'The decision, by the VS. Circuit Court in New York, was appealed by the National Labor Relations Board The board sought to uphold the right of the employemoclosir their. plants until the strike against one company was settled. The decision applied specifically to eight linen supply companies in New York. In 1953 the teamsters Union and Association failed to reach agreement on a new contract and the union struck the plant of one of the employer members.

The next day the other association employers laid off their workers and notified the union their operations would not be resumed until the strike was ended. Two Shot By Gunman lnN.Y.Bank NEW YORK, Oct 8 (PI A well-dressed man trying to cash a $7,000 check today suddenly drew a gun and shot and wounded two bank employees in a building diagonally onnosite Grand Central terminal. One of the wounded and other bank employees overpowered the man they said fought "like a cornered rat" Throngs swarmed into the Grand Central area as police emergency cars responded to the scene. Police said the gunman gave his name as Joseph Tarallo, 31, ox Manhattan. WOUNDED MEN Wounded in the melee on the third floor of the Industrial Banker Commerce, 58 TZ 42nd St, were Andrew Volpe 44, oi BrpoKJyn, the bank's chief in vestigator, and Frank Trim cnese, aj, or rairview, a special investigator.

Tnmchese was shot in the left leg, Volpe in the right leg. Volpe was the more seriously injured mmchese described the as sailant as a "very handsome and young looking man he looked to me like a movie actor." Volpe was questioning the man about the cheek when "suddenly from out of nowhere, he pulled a gun," Trimchese said My boss (Volpe) grabbed him' and I jumped to his assistance," Trimchese continued. "He started firing wildly. I wrestled with him for possession of the gun. POINTED AT STOMACH "I saw the gun pointed right at my stomach, but was able to get into such a position that when the gun did go off, I was onlysheHn the leg.

TnlhlrGdd for that. I can only thank God. Maybe because I go to church every Sunday God watched over me. I'm very lucky." Tarallo was hit with a gun duu during tne iray and pos sibly suffered a fractured skull. Deputy Police Inspector Jo seph McLaughlin said three checks made out for $7,000 each were found in the suspect's pos session.

He said all were made pay able, to Joseph Tarallo and drawn on the account ofE. H. Talmon of Scarsdale, N.Y. McLaughlin said Tarallo admitted signing Talmon's namer TALMON IN EUROPE The investigators had become suspicious oi laraiio, oecause they knew Talmon was in Eu rope. The suspect and the two bank employees were taken to Belle-vue Hospital, where Tarallo lapsed into unconsciousness.

His condition was recorded as critical. Police booked him meanwhile on charges of forgery, felonious assault and violations of the weapons law. Yanderbilr Wins AfimonyrReview WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 Ofu- Cornelius Vanderbflt today was granted a Supreme Court review of $250 a week alimony award to his fifth wife, Patricia- W. Vanderbilt The award was Ordered by the New York County Supreme Court on June 8, 1954.

Vander bilt got divorce in June, 1953. The couple had no children. Vanderbilt's appeal contended he was denied due process of law when New York courts per mitted an alimony award under an act of April, 1953, since the couple separated in September, 1952. French Coal CHICAGO. Oct 8 Coal fields! in France are oniy aooui one-twentieth of the area of those in the State of Illinois.

In nor mal times they produced 40,000, was too -ja Pohcc found all fire exits pad- 1 locked, the fire extmguimersi i Parent 'All Possible' To Help Girl ELINOR HAYES William Corcoran, a South Da kota farmer, today took Jus stand beside his 12-year-old daughter. Patricia, accused of the hatchet-knife slaying of her aunt here last Thursday eve ning. Corcoran, a tall, troubled man; arrived on the Southern Pacific's Overland yes terday, promising all his aid to the girl who left his farm home near Mitchell, SD a month ago to live with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bunce of 3462 Rhoda Ave It was that aunt Corcoran's sister, Mrs.

LaVera Bunce, who was murdered in the neat white stucco home. "I will try to do everything I can lor her. He was as mystified 1 as is everyone else as to wny ine quiet, well-behaved child flared in violence. "I don't understand it at he said. SILENCE AS SHIELD A man who appears to wear silence as a shield, he was all but inarticulate in face of the traredv that- has- involved his sister and his daughter.

The 61-year-old father of nine appeared strained and near the breaking point as he stepped off the train for what ironically is his first visit to California, He was taut and somber as he arrived at the Alameda County Juvenile Hal, where his child is held. The meeting was the more poignant for its lack of emotion than for any display father and daughter made. She entered the little recep tion room almost snyiy. ner father clasped her hand and asked her if she felt all right She said she did. They were allowed 1 privacy for the rest of their interview.

PROCEDURE EXPLAINED Then Hrayr Tersian, director of Probaijoa Services for Ala meda County, explained to Corcoran the procedure his daugh ter faces and the care sne wui receive. Accomoanving mm west on train were another sister, Mrs. Nan VanHoxn, and her ftus band. Walter, who had driven from Oakland to South Dakota, where they formerly lived, on a vacation visit to a daugnier. Corcoran faced two heart breaking date as he arrived in Oakland r.

This morning, he attenaea me Reouiem High Mass at St. Jar lath's Catolic Church for his slain sister. WILL BE IN COUET He will be in court when his child makes her first appear- ance-Jhjertied juvenile court and s'tart the lonr m-ocesa that will decide what treatment, counseling and guidance will be the state's part in her fate. Some 700 persons neighbors, friends who had known Mrs. Bunce in the Blessed Virgin Mary Altar Society and the curious crowded into St.

Jar-lath's for today's mass. Corcoran arrived at the church with his sister and Bunce, -the strain of the most difficult day in his 1 clearly annarent During the -service, both men sobbed openly. Corcoran-saidyesterday he has to get back home as quickly as possible to care for tne crops now at harvest "time. He Said thaVit would like to take Patty back home with him if that arrangement could be made with the Alameda County Juvenile Court in whose juris diction she now is. The original arrangement was that Terry" (Teresa) the next oldest of the nine ouldren in the family would also come to live with the Bunces but that she decided against it Director Fricdlob Dies in Hollywood nBEVERLT-HTLXS; Octr8- Cancer has claimed the life of movie producer Bert EJCriedlohJ 49- former husband of actress Eleanor Parker.

Fnedlob, a producer since 1949, died at his home yesterday. He had undergone two opera tions in the last seven weeks. His pictures Included Tire- Christie," Steel Trap, "Untamed," The Star," "While the City Sleeps," and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt- He leaves his mother, Mrs. Sara Friedlob of Los Angeles; a brother, Fred of Chicago; and three children, Susan, 8, Sharon, 6, and Richard. 4.

Sulphur Center NEW OKLEAWS, UCX. More than 40 per cent of the world's supply of sulphur is produced from wells on the Gulf of Mexico coast, from Texas to Identity of Former Communists Issue In Contempt Case WASHINGTON, Oct 8 Ufi The Supreme Court today agreed to rule whether congressional committees can compel witnesses to identify onetime communists The question produced two conflicting decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals here. The full 8-man appeals court split 8-2 in deciding committees had such power. This overturned an earlier 2-1 decision by a panel of the same court Specifically at issue is the con tempt of Congress conviction of John T.

Watkins of Rock Island, I1L, an organizer for the United Auto Workers Union. Called before the House Com mittee on Un-American Activi ties on April 29, 1954 Watkins refused to answer questions about persons who in his belief may have been communists. He said the persons had disasso ciated themselves from the com munist movement long before the committee hearing. SENTENCE SUSPENDED 1 Watkins told the committee that in refusing he was not claiming the constitutional priv ilege against self-incrimination. He said he had never been card-carrying communist but years ago he cooperated with communists in the labor move ment.

For the refusal Watkins re ceived a one-year suspended jail sentence and was fined $500. In his long legal battle against the contempt conviction, Watkins has contended the committee had no authority to engage in "exposure for exposure's sake, In other cases bearing on the communist issue the high court: Granted a hearing to two men and a woman sentenced to prison for sheltering RoberUThomp- son. a fugitive communist party leader, in a California mountain hideaway- 1.. Also granted a hearing to Ben former president-of Jhe International Fur and Leather Workers Union, who was convicted of falsely denying he was a communist party member and a supporter of its policies. OTHER DECISIONS Denied a hearing to Edward J.

Fitzeerald. former govern ment research worker convicted of contempt for refusing to answer questions before a federal erand jury that investigated rommunits esoionage. In still other orders handed down at this first business ses-j sion of its new term, the Su preme Court: 1 Asreed to review a ae cision upnoiaing vauauy oi New Hampshire's Subversive Activities Act The decision, by the New Hampshire, Supreme Court, was appealed by Sweezv of New York, co-editor of a "iournal of opinion" called the Monthly Review. Sweezy was adiudeed in contempt for refusins io answer questions during the state's continuing investigation of subversive activi ties. The questions dealt witn statements by Sweezy in lec tures to students of the Univer sity of New Hampshire and with activities of the Progressive Party.

2 Also let stand lower led- erircourt tfecisTorisarnrig 'Vifn kinia from leasing its seashore state- park- under- any- arrange ment that might result in dis crimination against Negroes. The park has been closed the past two summers as a result of the court action brought by four Negroes. Review Granted in Football Case? WASHINGTON. Oct 8 William Radovich, onetime foot ball great at the University of Southern California, today was granted a Supreme Court review of his unsuccessful suit for $105,000 damages from the Na tional Football League and others. Radovich's suit charged attempts to monopolize interstate commerce in the business of professional football, in viola uon oi me anu-irusi laws, ne coiitefidedthe league and others by use of a reserve clause and a blacklist tied players to par ticular club and prevented them from becoming free agents.

the Schnozzola said upon returning here last night He said they plan to be married "some time next year." Durante was married in 1916 to the former Jeanne Ol-. sen. She died in 1943. Hollywood has long guessed that he referred to her when he signed off his radio and television shows with "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are." Brown Challenged On Agnews Probe empty and the fire hoses rottedj The balcony, not used for rea sons of safety, was littered wifif paper and broken Peter Kyprios, 71, of 1368 17tX St, San Francisco, the theater's owner, said that he ordered the fire exits kept closed so that- yoxiths couldn't sneak into tHr 1 theater.

JSKjfl. according to poUce couldn't produce a 1956 Oakland permit to operate a business. Inspector Donald Dunn of th fire marshall's office said tha-theater will remain closed un til further notice. Short plans no further hearings on the hospital situation until after the November election. Short was to confer with the Attorney General's office today, however, on the progress of his U.CGrad Turns Miner to Find Fossil Teeth BERKELEY, Oct.

8 Placer mining techniques yielded fossil teeth for a University of" California "grcdUBttstudent in -the badiand areas of Wyom ingrtJtBlrtnd" Colorado: Malcolm C. McKenna, who is studying for his doctorate in paleontology, also recovered some 10,000 tooth fragments, fossil skulls and skeleton ma- terial which he is storing Mn U.C.'s Museum of Paleontology. The young graduate student explained that some 50 prehis-tortaidmalsTlnclucung the re mains of a monkey the size of a mole and one of the earliest horse forms, have been recov ered by his gold' mining technique. Fossils in the type of material McKenna has. been working usually have to be dug from their resting place 'with painstaking1 care.

The rock passed through the placet -scieen. are joft. sandstone and daystone, which dissolve into tiny particles and mud and passes through the screen, leaving the fossilized bone be hind. V. Two of the five youths in i Knife Brawling youths severely beat policeman and knifed a by stander during two outbreaks at a San Pablo Ave.

theater last night In another weekend Incident five youths in late model sedani led two highway patrolmen on a 115-mile-per-hour chase along the Coast Highway near Half Moon Bay then attacked and beat the officers when they were caught The Rialto Theater, 2723 San Pablo Ave. was shut down after the second brawl there at 8:45 p.m. Later the fire department ordered it padlocked as a fire hazard until further notice. The trouble at the theater, where, the double bill was Crime in the Streets" and ''Screaming Eagles," began at 6:30 when Patrolman George ZJ Rothacher, 30, of 337 Oak Grove Road, Concord, was called by Frank Prado. 18.

of 1033 32nd St, the assistant manager. Prado complained that a 18 year-old boy was loitering around the ladies' room. Rothscher arrived andbefah talking to the youth, he re ported. The boys' 19-year-old brother interfered and struck the officer. Ten or 12 other youths then jumped into the fray, pummeling and kicking Rothacher.

Prado called for more police. By the time 12 officers arrived most of the gang had fled. The 16-year-old and his brother were taken to Juvenile Hall for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. Rothacher was treated at Mer-j ritt Hospital for a lacerated lip and bruises over his entire body and then released. Trouble broke out again at 8:45 p.ntrwhen sixyouthr mill ing about the theater lobby flashed knives in a fight with and their uncle, David Ricardez, 27.

all of the 32nd St. address. volved in the San Mateo County- i chase and brawl caughfc i and booked for possession of liquor and resisting arrest aftes; the incident early yesterday. Tattooer As Wife Tattoo artist Charles Kaufman, 32, was accused of beating hi wife, Beverly on the face with a length of chain early today and 0 a 1 a police booked him fop investigation of assault with a deadly weapon. Mrs.

Kaufman, an unemployed dancer, told police that her hus band had used the chain to strike her in the face during an argument in their car that began in San Francisco. She said he struck her while ROYAL TOUR Princess Gets Wild Greeting In Tan DAR ES SALAAM, Tangan flea, Oct. 8 OP A deafening chorus of ship's horns and sirens today greeted Princess Margaret the first member of the Brit ish royal family ever to visit Tanganyika officially, As the Princess sailed into Car Es Salaam Harbor aboard the royal yaeht Britannia, cheers rang out from thousands of' people of many races lining the quayside, Escorted by the frigate Loch Tada the warship which car-. Tied- ihe Makarios to his exile on the Seychelle Islands the Britan of Zanzibar yesterday Dar Es Salaam's European, African and Arab and Indian population all joined in the enthusiastic welcome to the gay smiling Princess. A colorful sea of Union Jacks waived wildly as stepped, ashore wearing a milky white silk taffeta garden party dress with a full skirt.

Her white organza cloche hat was decorated whFredy roses: Soon after coming ashore. The Princess opened the port's new deep-water berthing space by throwing a switch to unveil a plaque naming- it" "Princess Margaret Quay." Part of the funds for the new 4U. II ment of the neighboring Belgian Congo and one of the in. the ceremony, the vice governor of the Congo, Henri Cornells, spoke of the "deep and -affectionate "re- spect" in which Belgians in Europe and Africa hold the British royal family. He welcomed the international cooperation which had made bunding of the quay.

As Margaret was driven to the residence of Gov. Sir Ed ward Twining, of brightly garbed dancers gyrated wildly to the pulsating throb of tribal drums. Spear-brandish ing Masai, their hair and tall, slm bodies coated with red mud, mingled with their former arch enemies, the sturdy, grass skirted Wakamba. A wild cacophony of sound beaten out en old petrol drums, rattles, bones, and wooden xylophones accompanied the traditional -tongs of welcome from the ganyika Alaska Goes to 4- Polls Tomorrow rJXJlIJtATaskarOcl" J-UP't Alaskans will show tomorrow. I which way the political wind blows in the north.

The election added interest from the terri-y tory's first selection of "senators," will be watche'dT closely because of Alaska's repuv'1 tation in recent years as a na- tional political weathervane. i The election is the last in any territory or state before the nav AGNEW, Oct 8 Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown once again has been asked to "put up or shut up" his investigation of brutality at State hospitals this time in reference to condi tions ai the- Agnews stitution.

Brown received a telegram today from Assemblyman Bruce Allen, asking that State Agent Joseph H. Martino be present at Allen's hearing at Agnews tomorrow and that he bring his "file" on alleged incidents of mistreatment here. Allen said Martino hinted of brutality at Agnews "and other State hospitals' in compiling the attorney general's report on the Modesto Hospital situa tion. "If, there are such inci dents," Allen said, "we want to COMPLAINTS RECEIVED Dep. Atty.

Gen. William Ben nett said he didn't know what Allen meant by "the Aenew file, however. "All we have right now," he said, "are a lot of letters complaining of incidents that have not yet been evaluated." He said it would be "up to Brown," whether or not Martino attended- the Agnews Vhearing. Allen said Tie TSadnioFTnib- penaed anyone for the hearing, but that he expected to call from 10 to 20 persons to testify. We want to find out, as near as we can, lie said, the patients are being abused there, what procedures are.

taken to check the possibility of patient abuse, the level of medical and psychiatric attention given to patients and what kind of peo ple' are running the hospital." STAFF TO BE'CALLED-; Among those called will be Hospital Supt Dr. Hyman Tucker, members of his adminis trative and medical staff, tech nicians, a representative of the State Personnel Board and Santa Clara County Coroner William H. Meyer. Meyer will be questioned about his investigation of deaths at the institution and the repre sentative of the State Personnel Board will be asked to list any disciplinary actions taken against hospital personnel in the past five years. Allen said the' hearing at Agnews will last, but one day and that he has no other hear ings scheduled "at the moment' The legislative investigating tional showdown in November and it will be another test $, the adage which many nortlw -1 erners say is as true as it is trite' theyjircnns on.

nave ioi. As Alaska goes, so goes tha nation." sccurata indicator of the national trend, in recent elections. National. 1. a mm lowed the.

Alaska legislative election patern of October, aW though the swing in Alaska hasC been more extreme. By Syms- i FUSS OVER ENGAGEMENT AMAZES JIMMY DURANTE arrived tod late to catch any of the youths, who knocked down lobby displays and a TV set as they fled. Ricardez sustained a SMALL TALK 'Are you nathre soar" Police were called, but HOLLYWOOD, Oct 8 JH Comedian Jimmy Durante, 63, and his 35-year-old fiancee have returned to Hollywood, a little astonished at all the fuss. News of the comic's engagement to Margie Little, an actress from Plainfield, NJ, was disclosed Saturday night at the opening of a tennis club in Phoenix, "Why, we've been going together for 10 or 11 years," vst a dviUzed stranger Louisiana, 000 tons annually. tribesmen.

committee headed by Sen. Alan ft.

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