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N6S-6-L 0081 09-6-Z, vd oanasivH ooia Noiivono3 The News -Herald Evening Thought The years teach much which days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Dial a Prayer Id. 2-3179. Weather Cold tonight and Sunday with scattered snow flurries.

Low tonight 19 to 24. High Sunday 30 to 35. An Independent Newspaper Publishing The News Impartially 83RD YEAR NO. 22,789 12 PAGES. FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1960 12 PAGES.

7c a Copy. FV1 rn Russia Offers Moratorium On Testing Would Give Time To Find Way To Detect Underground Blasts Confiscate Papers With Kill-Ike Story French Seize Red Publication With Allegation Of Plot I iStX ftsl Companions Of Riddle Arrested In Fatal Beating Two young Franklin area men were implicated today along with Jerald E. Riddle Jr. in the fatal beating of R. Warren Mays on the night of last July 22.

Under arrest and being questioned at the State Police substation this afternoon are: Douglas Keller, 23, of 223 Elk Street, Franklin. Floyd Rcsinger 19, of Gilfillan Street, Rocky Grove Riddle, 21, who has already entered plea of guilty PARIS (UPI) The Commu nist organ L'Humanite was rur- pressed today for publishing an alleged "secret American intelligence report" saying French ex By JOSEPH W. GRIGG GENEVA (UPI) The Sovif Union today offered the West an unlimited moratorium on 'nuclear testing until scientists on both sides have worked out a way of detecting small nuclear blasts underground. The surprise move was seen as tremists had been considering the possible assassination of President Eisenhower. to murder, implicated the two young men in conversa one that may go far toward tions with Deputy Sheriff Ed Thomas and State Trooper Police raided newsstands belore dawn, confiscating copies of today's edition of L'Humanite.

The seizure was not expected to af breaking the East-West deadlock Kenneth McCoy, it was on disarmament. There was no immediate West ern reaction to the Russian pro posal. U.S. sources said the Soviet learned today. Both young men were taken into custody this morning.

Riddle is reported to have named Rcsinger and Keller a few hours be offer would be sent to Washington for study and comment. Red China To Ignore Protests Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarap- kin made the offer to a specially-convened session of the nuclear test ban talks here. Soviets Propose Treaty He proposed that Russia and the West sign a treaty under TOKYO 'UPD A world wide which both would agree to halt fore the arrests in Franklin. Sheriff John F. Cunningham said the implication of the two men changes a good part of Riddle's original story.

Riddle said after his arrest last Tuesday afternoon that he had gone to the Mays home on his motorcycle and was alone. The new story is that the three young men made the trip to the Mays home along East Sandy Creek on the northern edge of Rockland Township in an nuclear test explosions until scientists have worked out a way to detect the small scale underground blasts, which are easy to series of protests against the sentencing of American Bishop James Edward Walsh by a Chinese Communist court appeared unlikely today to be able to save him from long confinement or possible death in prison. fect the Red newspaper's right to continue publication. The report was said to charge that members of a French army "secret society" had been talking about an attempt to kill Eisenhower, or "the Russian chief of state" in hopes of touching off "necessary war." Report Names Goodpastcr L'Humanite's Alain Guerin claimed the report was prepared by Brig. Gen.

Andrew J. Good-paster, a White House aide. The "American chief of state" mentioned in the alleged report is President Eisenhower. Russia's chief of state is President Kli-Ticnli Voroshilov, but it appeared more likely that the person meant by the so-called intelligence report was Premier Nikita Khrushchev. "Certain French officers are obsessed with the idea that a carefully planned political assassination would always lead to the necessary war The report was quoted as "These officer.) have applied themselves to studying all possible forms of an ultimate action, the result of which might be the assassination by a fanatic of the Russian or American chief of muffle or confuse with earth quakes.

The Soviet proposal set no time SMILING BEFORE THEY DIED Mrs. Mildred Lindquist, left, and Mrs. Frances Murphy pose for a snapshot picture on the last day of their lives. They and their companion, Mrs. Lillian Oetting, were murdered soon afterward in Starved Rock State Park, 111., where the picture was taken.

The film was recovered from their camera, found at the scene. Two 'Good' Suspects Questioned in Murders Bishop Walsh, 68, received a 20 year prison sentence in Shanghai Friday on charges of spying and plotting against Communist China. NIGHTMARE IN INDIANA Fragments of clothing cling to gaunt tree limbs in the countryside near Evansville, Ind. The garments were ripped from their owners by the force of the midair explosion of a Northwest Airlines passenger plane. Study Plane Pieces To Decide Cause of Crash By SAM HANCOCK I The crash was the third Electra In Washington, U.S.

Secretary of State Christian Herter said he By IRA LURVEY limit for the moratorium. Although it did not satisfy all Western demands, the Soviet proposal went far towards meeting Western objections. Western diplomats regarded it as one of the biggest Soviet concessions since" the talks opened in 1D58. Valuable1 Boost To Talks It was expected to provide a valuable boost to the parallel East West disarmament conference, which opened here Tuesday. A nuclear test ban woujd form an important part of an overall disarmament treaty.

The special nuclear-test session came at a time when the main, 10 nation Geneva disarmament The sheriff said that two of the youths went into the Mays home and that the thir remained in the car. Officers declined to say which of the two accompanied Riddle into the home. Deputy Thomas and Trooper McCoy, questioning Rcsinger and Keller early this afternoon, declined tt say if either of the two participated in the beating which Riddle has admitted. Riddle, in his confession, said he Used a club to beat the 69-ycar-old Mays. Riddle, arraigned Thursday be STARVED ROCK STATE would lodge a strong prdtest-with Communist China through the American ambassador in Poland, who meets his Chinese counterpart next Tuesday.

In New York, Francis Cardinal PARK, 111. (UPI) Two "fairly good suspects" are to be questioned in the Starved Rock TELL CITY, Ind. (UPI) A disaster in a little more than a man-made bomb, a freak cf na-'year and the third unexplained Spellman called the charges triple sex slayings, state police ture or high speed stress on, crash in four months. It came Chief William Morris said today. Morris identified the two men But judging from its previous within 'days of Washington hearings on the death of 34 persons in a National Airlines plane crash near Bolivia, N.

C. BULLETIN STARVED ROCK STATE PARK, 111. (UPI) The bodies of a man, his wife and their three children, all gunshot victims, were found today at Seneca, a hamlet about 20 miles cast of Starved Rock State Park site of the slaying Monday of three prominent Chicago area matrons. Authorities believed the two crimes were not connected that they were not hunting the same killer in the two cases. They believed it possible the man found at Seneca may have been a suicide.

as the driver of a truck similar to one seen near the murder scene and a resident of the state reaction to Western appeals, the Peiping regime was expected to be unmoved by the protest wave. The report was said to identify the French officers concerned as members of "a sort of very well-hidden secret society" with links reaching into the high command. The basic organization consisted of officers belonging to "Algerian activist organizations" stationed in Algeria or in southern France, the report was quoted as saying. fore Alderman E. G.

Bolmer, entered a plea of guilty to murder and has been held in the Venango conference was in recess after park area. Even if Bishop Walsh should days of preliminary skirmishing. Morris refused to reveal the eventually be pardoned, he might The two conferences are sepa suspects' name and denied re have to serve two-thirds of his ports they were under arrest, but sentence, or more than 13 years County jail since. Members of his family have- engaged Attorney Jack R. Heyison, of Oil City, to represent the Polk district defendant.

"fatigue metal" could have sent 63 plane crash victims to their deaths, investigators said today. The answer lay in the tiny, shattered remnants of a Northwest Airlines Electra turbo-jet which disintegrated in the air Thursday and plunged 18,000 feet Into a sodden farm field. Federal aviation detectives and FBI agents pored over scraps of the shattered plane as a steam shovel pried them from the 50-fciot plowed when the new $2,400,000 airliner fell to earth and exploded. The investigators, organized by rate, but any major development in the nuclear talks was sure to affect the general disarmament negotiations. He would be in his 80's by that time.

Plane Dives To Avoid Collision Passengers Include Grief-Stricken Man The only Chinese cardinal Thomas Cardinal Tien Keng-hsin, became ill in Formosa and cancelled all appointments after hear mim in tasi, torn Keens Hnhhv Frnm Jails, Goes Herself In Western Section ing of Bishop WalsVs sentence and that of Chinese Bishop Kung Ping-mei, who was handed a life said their identity was known to police. Both are to be picked up for "more than routine questioning" in the rape-murders of Mrs. Lillian Oetting, 50, Mrs. Francis Murphy, 47, and Mrs. Mildred Lindquist, 50, all prominent suburban Chicago matrons, he said.

Third Suspect Cleared A third suspect an employe of the park lodge was cleared of any connection with the killings. Morris said the truck driver was questioned earlier during a (UPI) Civil Aeronautics Board nut.i i. Driver Murdered PITTSBURGH (UPI) A 30-year old cabbie, beaten on the face and head and shot in the stomach, today became the fourth taxi driver murdered in the city since the NASHVILLE, Tenn ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI) The grief-stricken husband and father Flood Waters Rise in Tampa Rains Finally Stop; 1,000 Are Homeless term by the same court.

Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, said that the of four plane crash victims al By United Press International Comparatively mild weather was oredicted for central and eastern Pennsylvania during the week A bank bookkeeper who juggled (CAB worked on three major accounts for nine years to keep her free-spending husband out of That a demented bomber blew jail began a two-year prison term: the plane and its unsuspecting today for embezzlement. passengers and crew members to most followed his loved one in violent death Friday -night. sentencing of Bishop Walsh could Morris C. Chalfen, Minneapolis, was among the 73 persons buf end as winter began bowing out. But western sections are not expected to have it so balmy.

first of the year. Curtis Cox, father of three chil lead to the end of Communism in China. "We can see in Bishop Walsh! the modern martyr whose courage feted about a Northwest Airlines By ROBERT S. McNEILL routine survey of the state park dren, was lying in a pool of blood in the rear seat of his cab. Police said his wallet and contents were is born of a Christ-like spirit of charity," he said.

"By sentencing found intact. Bishop Walsh, the Communist regime may have sounded its The body was discovered in the Mrs. Mary Pounders, 36, plead-1 bits as they passed over southern ed guilty Friday to charges that Indiana on a Chicagorto Miami she embezzled $53,000 from the flight. First National Bank where she That violent air turbulence was assistant bookkeeper. She.eisuld have destroyed the craft, said she did it to "try to hold the first Electra purchased by my home together." Northwest and in service only Defense attorney James Tuck seven months.

Such turbulence said Mrs. Pounders' husband, ajwas reported over southern In-plumber, was constantly over-jdiana at about the time of the drawn at the bank. He said she crash. took money from six other ac- That the plane disintegrated counts to make it appear that through "metal fatigue," which her husband's account was sol-, has caused other crashes of high vent. I speed airliners.

own death knell." TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) Flood-waters from four days of torrential rains rose slowly through the northern suburbs of this industrial port city today sending an estimated 1,000 persons their homes. The flood was expected tn crest late today or Sunday btit the rains stopped as the storm center Most of the state is under the influence of a high pressure system off the Atlantic Coast which is expected to being mostly fair weather today through Sunday in eastern portions. High readings will range from 45 to .50 degrees and lows tonight near 35. Central sections will have variable cloudiness vand a few snow flurries in the mountains today, tonight and Sunday with highs to stratoe'ruiser when it dived 300 feet to avoid crashing with two National Guard jets.

Chalfen's wife and three children were killed Thursday when another -Northwest Airliner an Electra turbo jet disintegrated in the air over Tell City, and crashed into a farmer's field. Fifty-nine other persons died in the Tell City tragedy. Northwest officials here said the near-collision Friday night area. He said he decided to question the driver again when "discrepancies" showed up in the man's story. The second man will be questioned because "information coming to our attention" tended to tie him to the murders, Morris said.

The man has not been questioned before, he said. The new leads were revealed as officials prepared an evening inquest expected to reveal just Hill District area where two other cab drivers were beaten fatally New Year's Day. Three weeks later 60-year-old a ie John Frank Dean was found dead in his cab. All the slayings Release Fishermen TOKYO UPD Japanese fishermen now detained in the Republic of Korea will be. released moved out to sea.

In addition to remain unsolved. floods, the storm threw hailstones However, police said Cox' mur day and Sunday in the 40's. The and a 70-mile-an-hour wind Fri lows will be in the 20's. day at Fort Myers, 100 miles at the end of the month, South Korean Ambassador Yiu Tai Ha said Friday night. Yiu said 167 fishermen in Pusan who have occurred while the airliner was flying at 16,000 feet over Lansing.

hew the three victims met their death. der differed from the other slayings because he was not robbed. Officers were inclined to believe Cox was slain in a dispute with south of Tampa. But, in the west, rather cloudy It was believed the inquest I with occasional snow flurries is Five federal highways in west- coirraleted sentences imDosed forith? orediction toriav through Sun- central Florida were closed by someone he had known. New Bible-Reading Law Challenqed In Court high water.

The Suwannee River would show the women died after suffering skull fractures and that all three were raped, at least one violating the so-called "Rhce fish- day with highs both days in the ery line" would be sent home. '30's and lows tonight in the 20s. was rising, and lake levels in after death. Police thus would central Florida reached dangerous heights. know how demented were the kill er or killers.

The floodwaters swirled over the top of a 420-foot dam across the Film Death Clue Hillsborough River in Tampa, and The first piece of the gruesome Dead Man Leaves Clue, Chicago Killer Caught water stood as deep as three feet riddle where the three sub urban Chicago women were beaten to death fell into place Fri A passenger, Margaret Higgins, Minneapolis, and stewardess Sherry Carter suffered wrenched necks when the four-engine airliner plunged sharply to avoid the jets. Chalfen, promoter of the "Holiday on Ice" show, was in Europe when learned his wife and three children had died in the Tell City crash. Ice show officials who met him in New York said Chalfen barely recognized them and appeared to be in a state of shock. The grieving promoter sobbed openly as he was led to the New York-to-St. Paul plane.

Northwest officials said the Protestant Leader May Support Kennedy PITTSBURGH (UPI) Dr. Paul J. Tillich, recognized Protestant theologian, said Friday he may vote for Sen. John Kennedy a Roman Catholic, for president. The Harvard professor who formerly taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York, said Kennedy "is sincere" when he insists he is not influenced by religious considerations in carrying in nearby residential areas.

"We urge all homes in low areas south of the dam to be evacuated at once," Mayor Julian day when officials showed four pictures found in a camera lying CHICAGO (UPI) I A 37-year Lane said late Friday night after beside the women bodies. old man early today confessed he a personal inspection of th water The color slides, apparently PHILADELPHIA (UPI) A new state law which requires reading 10 verses of the Bibie in public school, but which excuses students if their parents object, was challenged Friday by a Montgomery County couple who won a court battle over the old statute. Mr. and Mrs. Edward L.

Schempp, of Roslyn, told a 3pe-cial three-judge federal court here that the new law was just as unconstitutional as the old law regardless of the section excusing students on written request of their parents. Henry W. Sawyer, attorney for shot and killed two postal in Holy Bible. He said the Bible in-cluaes the New Testament which the court has ruled to be a work disseminating Christianity. The Schempps are Unitarians and had brought both cases against the Abington School District.

C. Brewster Rhoads, attorney for the district, said the new law had removed compulsory attendance at Bible reading classes. Dr. Leo Pfcffcr, a lawyer for the American Jewish Congress, filed a brief as a friend of tne court. In it he contended that the new law's provision for "excusing minority children divides the children into religious groups." works dam.

spectors who had arrested him taken by Mrs. Oetting, showed her companions happily posing Leroy Roberson, director of Red aw' two companions for mail Cross activities in central Flori McAuliffe 36, and Benedetto Spizzirri, 42, into thinking he was unarmed and then blasted them from the rearseat of the inspectors' car. The inspectors bodies were slumped in the front seat of their car late Monday night at a desolate intersection just south of the Loop. A mail bag taken from the thieves was found in the trunk Monday only a few feet from theft last Monday, police said. da, estimated at least 5,000 per the Starved Rock State Park can- out his public duties.

Police Capt. Frank Pape said sons were affected by the flood the killer, identified as George ing in the central part of the state However, Dr. Tillich said "we have no way of telling whether this might not change once he is in office. In historv Ihp rhiirrh giant -Boeing Stratocruiser was flying at its regular air wave route of 16,000 feet over Lansing including 1,000 who left their homes in Tampa. yon mouth where their beaten bodies were found two days later.

La Salle County Stale's Atty. Harland Warren said the slides proved the women, out for -a nature hike, were surprised by of their car. Gov. Leroy Collins called out Wilson, and William Perkins, 38, an accomplice were arrested late Friday night on Chicago's South Side after police traced them through a clue left by one of the inspectors. A third man, known only and had received Air Traffic Con-1 often influenced politics and diplo-trol clearance from New York to 1 macv the Schemmps, cited the court's 340 National Guardsmen to help The court, composed of U.

S. McAuliffe and Spizzirri, disguised as laborers and working previous ruling that Bible reading circuit Court Judge John Biggs st- Paul- I Dr. Tillich said he would vote those in low-lying sections leave favors one religion over and District Court Judges as undercover agents for the U.S Suddenly, the spokesmen said, jfor Kennedy in a choice between their sex-crazed attacker or at- the jets headed "right at the; the Massachusetts lawmaker and, lackers' after innocently entering their homes. What possessions they were able to take with them were piled in the gymnasium of as "Nick" was sought the, Post Office, had spotted the William Kraft and William H. Kirkpatrick, requested the lawyers to file memorandums on the law in two weeks.

Sawyer said the new law, passed Dec. 18 to overcome objections raised by the Schempp's previous suit, still requires reading the plane at the same altitude." The airliner made a diving right turn, then continued to St. Paul. the escape proof canyon floor, bounded on three sides by 100-foot sheer cliffs. a high school serving as rescue Vice President Richard M.

Nixon when considering the more important political influences. thir man. Pape said Wilson revealed how he tricked the inspectors, John thieves making off with the bag from a New York Central freight platform. command post..