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AUSTIN MINN WEDNESDAY JULY 31 1957 Member Associated Press 24 Pages to Next Session Question on Eisenhower too he WALTER KOHLER New Licenses DULLES ZORIN CONER Convicted Killer Denied Clemency 3 (Continued on Page4) WEATHER 4 Die in Traffic Mishaps 4CCATT4 Tfh mLz i 4 72 9 AM 71 0 4 sa jl957City Traffic 70 109127 100271 66747 23999 7536 7340 2233 Hoffa riend Ousted rom Chicago Union Riesel Corallo Ns I A Service Centers in Lebanon Bombed 2 More Cases of Pneumonia 1J 572 '41 1 WASHINGTON UP) The Senate Rackets Committee launched hearings today which it said will shpw that Teamster boss James Hoffa used racketeers in an am bitious plan to seize a 7 nine hours when Atty Gen or rest Andefson promised a full investigation of conditions at the 88 year old prison and serious con sideration of 20 demands made by the convicts The end came only a few hours before some 200 Montana Two more cases of pneumonia have been admitted to' St Olaf Hospital 1 Dr VanCleve president of the Mowef County Medical Society said Monday that a min epidemic of pneumonia had broken out in Austin "The pneumonias are relative ly mild and the recovery rate to date has been Dr VanCleve said There have been 31 cases to date but somebf thepases have already been discharged irst cases were reported last week The 'disease did not fit any of the typical patterns of pneumonia that have been seen in the area and the Minnesota Dept of Health sent a team here to in vestigate the disease There is no evidence at the pre sent time that the disease is high i ly communicable VanCleve said Accidents Injuries i Totalities Domaoe SPRINGIELD Ill LB Thrill slayer Nathan Leopold has lost his bid fo an unconditional re lease from Stateville i where he has Served 33 years of an 85 year sentence but he plans a new plea to win a parole The first fivecare behind the locomotive were derailed Train 'crew members escaped injury Bonnie 20 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs William all was run over in front other Carlton home She was dead when her father the town marshall reached a Cloquet hospital Police identified the driver as Mrs William Hennum of Cloquet who said she was blinded by the setting sun She was not tagged Second child victim was Cindy daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Owen of Mrtk Mihaeapolis Zbc 3 AM 4 AM 5 A A profits running to about100000 a year from handling Teamsters and Electrical Workers Union welfare accounts controlled by Hoffa and other union'leaders Dorfman was In almost dally at tendance at the recent federal court trial here in which Hoffa heir apparent to Dave Beck as Teamsters Union president was acquitted by a jury of Charges of bribing a Senate Rackets Commit tee staff member to act as a spy Meany announced his decision WASHINGTON UB President Eisenhower said today he opposes adding a jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill now before the Senate Eisenhower told his news con ference the power of federal judg es to enforce court orders' must be sustained He added that was his last word on the subject' Elsenhower was asked if he had any general comment on the prog ress of the civil rights bill which i gaveliing the hearings to said the evidence would machinations that enriched sters and victimized union bers Sen Mundt (R SD) called it a situation "fraught with peril for the American Tie hearings Mundt said will expose "a form of tyranny unfold ing which in the long run offers Single 7c LONDON Secretary of State John oster Dulles met for the first time with Russian dele gate Valerian Zorin today amid indications that the long search for a disarmament agreement may be at a critical point The Dulles Zorin get together was part of feverish diplomatic activity by the big three Western powers on this next to the last day of the period originally set for negotiations by the Dis armament subcommittee The five power group has been meeting since March 18 Dulles met with British oreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and other Western officials before sitting down at a full scale "working of all five delegations on the subcommittee including Zorin Pineaa on Way Across the channel in Paris the rench cabinet met and oreign Minister Christian Pineau an nounced he was flying to London Thursday at request for disarmament talks The British cabinet too was called into session to discuss dis armament In addition Dulles planned to confer with Primfe Minister Har old Macmillan at dinner tonight to discuss the arms situation and other world problems Interim Report The Western delegates have agreed to submit a brief interim report to the on the sub committee talks Thursday unoffi cial deadline for the talks and to extend the negotiations It was ex pected that Zorin would agree permanently ousting Dorfman from union office as the AL CIO Ethical Practices Committee' re sumed hearings on corruption domination charges against the Bakery Workers Union A similar hearing is due Thursday on charg es ngainst the Teamsters union vwlth approxi mately BOO members is directly affiliated with the AL CIO Thus the case was handled directly by Meany without consideration by the ethical practices group WASHINGTON President Eisenhower Mid today he will sub mit a new school aid bill to the next Session of Congress a bill he said that put an alba tross around the neck of the American taxpayer At a news conference Eisen hower also firmly opposed "adding any Jury amendment to the civil rights bill now before the Senate and voiced hope the meas ure will be passed soon in its prejent form I I 71 11 A MJ 71 12 Noon 7 i verv hopeful that Congress will act soon to providq an' adequate for eign aid'blll He said it was news to him that some Senate Demo crats have been complaining they could not get White House help in getting the mutual security legis lation through Eisenhower also denied with considerable heat that the $30000 contributed by Maxwell Gluck to the Republican Party had any thing to do with hie nomination of Gluck to be ambassador to Ceylon answers as he faced more than 200 newsmen ranged from world problems to his personal finances Personal inances Referring to a 'recent published report tin a newspaper series by letcher Knebel) that Eltenhow' tjortii Is in the neigh President provoked a roar of laughter by saying that if that writer offers him a million to self out he's going to make a' sale Eisenhower added that every thing he owns is in the hands of trustees so he does not even know what his investments and similar properties are and thus could not possibly use his position for per sonal advantage On the school aid matter Elsen hower defended his stand that the compromise IH blllion dollar bill that the House killed last week was not fully satisfactory to him although he would accept it in or der to meet the emergency short age of classrooms Objections to Bill The bill was defeated by five votes and various proponents of the measure have said it would i have passed if Eisenhower had thrown his weight behind it Eisenhower said his objections to the bill was mainly that it did not put enough emphasis on the need of individual states for aid He said that giving funds to every state would foster the' opin ion that the states were getting something for nothing with the re sult he said that he doubted the flow of federal money could be shut off at the end of the five year period covered in the aid bill Eisenhower said he was opposed to any bill that would as he put it fasten an albatross around the neck of the taxpayers Then he said he would have an other bill of his own ready for the next sqpsion df Congress Angered by Question Eisenhower showed much Irrita tion when asked about Gluck the dress store chain executive whose nomination to the Ceylon post has been approved by the Senate Chalmers Roberts of the Wash ington Post and Times Herald asked whether Eisenhower was aware when he made the nomina tion of the fxtent of con tributions the Republican treas ury and as the newsman phrased it Ignorance qf Asiatic af fairs His anger growing as he spoke Elsenhower said a political 1 contributions would never be con IKE i (Continued on Page 23) day denied executive clemency to the 52 year old convicted killer of Bobbyranks 14 dashing any immediate hopes Leopold had of being freed early in Decembr Leopold had asked for commu tation the 85 year sentence to 64 years If the sentence had been reduced he would have been eligi ble for release without supervision after serving half his sentence 32 years plus 15 months Possibility of Parole The issue of parole was not in volved in petition for freedom but Stratton held out the possibility of parole If denied a parole Leopold under the cur rent 85 year sentence will not be released until 1968 if he continues maximum "good allow ance 1 The balding convict who as a youth of 19 with Richard Loeb 1 18 killed the ranks boy' In Chi cago in 1924 in one of the most sensational 'crimes of the 1920s By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two little girls and an elderly St Paul woman were killed by cars Tuesday and a truck driver was injured fatally In a railroad crossing 'accident carrying the Minnesota traffic toll to 335 up 38 from this date a year ago Richard 01 tmann about 21 Glen coe died in'a Hutchinson hospi tal Tuesday night several hours after his gravel truck crashed into a freight train on a McLeod Coun ty roed 4 crossing five miles east of tchinsonJ and the entire Eastern seaboard Chairman McClellan (D Ark) order show gang mem ST Special "hard to forge drivers licenses for minors will go into eiteet Minnesota Thursday 7 They will carry the word across the face of the certificate and will expire on the 21st birthday of the holder Under a law passed by the 1957 Legislature the provisional licenses will be issued to all successful applicants under 21 Those under 21 seeking to re new or get a duplicate license also will receive the provisional type The highway driv ers license division said the pro visional license should be tough if not impossible to counterfeit All applicants under 18 wifi have to have the approval of their parents or guardian The signa tures of the parents and the appli cant have to be notorized or made before a court officer If the 'applicant is between 18 and 21 he must testify under bath that his signature is correct His parents signatures are not re Unlike the system useef for regu lar licenses the signature of the highway commissioner will not be placed on the new licenses until after the application id processed To make it even tougher to forge a license the date will be stamped by a machine using a 1 type face different than the one used for the rest of the printed matter had not been mistreated and had been locked in separate cells Then the con'vlcts went' into their cells vaiuntetUvandriae Llg rnaw of merf fa the exercise jraritl fol lowed suit In all about 380 the entire Inslde the wall took part in the rioting Another 200 trusty prisoners 11 ve on the state prison farm There was little damage report ed to prison installations A small fire was 'set In the admiinstntion building but the rioters them selves put it out when cooler heads among them prevailed avored orce State officials led by Gov Hugo Aronson went to the' scene from the capital at Helena 65 miles to the east Aronson fav ored force but was opposed by Anderson After the riot ended Aronson issued a statement say ing he was glad it had not resulted in violence but added that he him self had made no concessions to the rioters Anderson however said he SEEKS PRISON PEACE Attorney Gener al orrest Anderson is shown talking on phone with convicts inside the walls of Montana State pris on night' The riot col lapsed when Anderson promised full investigation of conditions in the 88 year old prison: The convicts released eight prison guard hostages (AP Photofax) BEIRUT Lebanon tt) Explo sives were thrown at three US Informa iotnS ivre creens eti information Service centers in Beirut Tuesday night The explosions caused slight material damage no casual ties Other explosives were thrown at thq same time at the Jordan Em bassy here causing alight dam "I little girl wasr playing with some others in the yard of Mr and Ms Vincent Eisenberg Ihe victim tripped and feH in the driveway as Mrs Eisenberg backed a car from the garage The death not counted in the state toH it occurred on private property 7 In St Paul" Mrs Louise Smith knecht 81 died at Ancker Hospi tai two hours after she was struck at a downtown intersection during the rush hour Mrs Ida Kamplan also of St Paul 'the driver said 4 4 she failed to see the victim croas a National Guardsmen and peace officers were poised to Invade Cell Block 8 where the convicts held the guards hpstegSEfgfft guards tfrere swept tip by shouting convicts wherf the riot broke out in the exercise yard at 3:30 released shortly afterward anjl a third went free minutes before the riot ended wheriAnderson made his pledge to the prisoners by loud speaker Hostages reed The prisoners 'the five remaining guards who said they assembled by the committee will show that Hoffa used gangsters ana that gangsters used Commu nists in a bid for power In which would have a stranglehold over the Port of New York The next step would be entire Eastern Seaboard and th St Lawrence Economic actors "The economic factors are tre McClellan said power placed in the hands of per sons affiliated witl racketeers is a danger to the welfare of the He said the hearings will show how and their hench were placed on union pay rolls in deals which he said vided an income for the mob that worked for John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi and Antonio (Tony Ducks) Dioguardi was convicted last week of extortion from an em ployer and faces charges of con spiracy in the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor McClellan has identified as "a narcotics rackets Slick Deals The senator said this provided racketeers with a beachhold from which to extort money from em HOA (Continued on Page 23) Appointment Irks President ilian He urged Congress to use the testimony as a guide to correct deficiencies in the laws McClellan Said the situation was one in which Hoffa used gangsters and gangsters used Communists in a bid ftri power on the East Coast that each found beneficial Hoffa Midwest vice president of the Teamsters Union and the likely successor to Dave Beck as the international presi dent 100 Witnesses McClellan did not say whether Hoffa would be among the more than 100 witnesses to be called but the union said several of its top officials have been summoned Hoffa was acquitted recently by a federal court jury of charges that he bribed a lawyer to spy on the Rackets inves tigations Hoffa ttiU factional' 08 federal wiretapping qfiairet in volving his Detroit office fop Minprs fo Go Into Effect MILWAUKEE LB Republicans nominated a firm friend of President yester day for the Senate jjeat previously held by Ike Jbaiting Joseph Mc Carthy who died May 2 Jj Walter Kohler Jr 53year old threetime governor of the Mate out formef Rep Glenn Davis in a'finlsh decided by the last vote counting In met ropolitan Milwaukee precincts Bole Ike Backer 'Kohler was alone in the aeven man GOP field in his full support of the President Davis is a 41 year old veteran of five terms in the House where supported some of domestic program but like most Wisconsin Republicans opposed the administration on foreign aid and foreign policy in general None of the fireworks attendant on the career of Sen McCarthy carried over into the campaign Only State Sen Gerald Lorge who ran a poor fetxth called upon Mc old supporters for help Proxmlre Picked Kohler will be opposed in the general election Aug 27 by Wil liams Proxmire whom he beat twice previously in gubernatorial elections Proxmire won the Dem ocratic nomination by defeating Hep Clement Zablocki of Milwau kee The August election is for the remainder of McCarthy's term which expires inJanuary1959 The Republican vote in of the 3361 precincts: Kohler Davis Alvin Warren Knowles Henry Hughs Lorge' John Schafer The Democratic vote in the same number of precincts: 1 Proxmire 86836 Zablocki The total vote was slightly un der less than 25 per cent of the estimated 2200000 voters The Republican candidates polled about 69 per cent of the total the Democrats 31 per cent This was a somewhat higher percentage for the Republicans than in the 1956 KOHLER Kohler Wins Bid for Senate in Wisconsin DEER LODGE Mont An uneasy peace settled over Mon tana State Prison today after a day5 of rioting gpw eightywta seized 'as hostages by rebel convicts J' RBaIImms fa mJ vided they were justified Demands ranged from more mail privileges to full meals instead of bread and water for men in prison solitary A spokes man from the rioters who talked with Anderson and Lt Gov Paul Cannon also charged that $30000 in the prison library fund was Guards Wary Anderson expressed pleasure when the riot collapsed but wary PRISON (Continued on page 4) WASHINGTON (J) AL CIO President George Meany today or dered Paul' Dorfman a close friend of Teamsters Vice Presi dent James Hoffa removed from office In a Chicago labor union Dorfman previouslyhad been suspended as secretary treasurer of the Waste Material Handlera Union No 20467 Meany action made the ouater permanentThs action was based in part on findings that wife and thus Dorfman himself 1 clxxJy ond Thursday A nPmture low to nlqhfi fa 60s with scattersd thundeA thowtr riday Official Readings from Herald Weather Site on Roof of ire Station: Readings at 8 30 todays 64 Low previous 24 hours 64 High previous 24 hours 93 General Weather Clear Precipitation 03' Hourly temperatures taken at Herald Building TUESDAY New School Bill 157 442 71 kJ AMA $73794 $67203 84 87jtia3 been turned down three times BARRIER BUSTERS fere's the last word In the Air orce's stable of faster than sound fighting craft On the ramp at the flight test center Edwards Air orce Base 25e' readin9 clockwise from bottom: an J04 Starfighter 100 Super Sabre 102 Delta Dagger 1 01 Voodo and the 105 Thunderchief (U Air orel) Photo via AP Photofax) TALL CORN Marlys Dammann Mower County and Region 10 Dairy Princess can't reach this nine foot high corn near Elkton The corn In all parts of the county has been "reaching for the elephant's eye" after a slow start last spring? Crop predictions ere being revised as the corn gains each day VOL XCJX No 26 NATHAN LEOPOLD in bids for parole since 1953 But after learning of decision he announced through his attorney that he plans to file for rehearing of his 1953 parole appli cation before the September meet ing of the Parole and Pardon Board LEOPOLD (Continued on page 4) Disarmament Talks Reach Critical Point Austin daily herald The Weather Hoffa Power Scheme Enriched Gangsters McClellan Charges Ike Says He Opposes Jury Trial Amendment The maneuvering seemed to In dicate either that Britain rance and the United States have run into or that they are preparing some important new would do all In his power to al proposal for Russian considera leviate prisoner complaints pro Jzxm A 1 1 Most signs seem to point to a difference between the three West ern nations on nuclear matters ollowing "the luncheon at the home of Ambassador John Hay Whitney the Western nations including Canada arranged a meeting of their experts to draw up a list of the subjects on which they are still at odds After the list has been com piled it will be discussed by Dulles Lloyd and other top offi cials to Promise of Investigation Ends Montana Prison Riot to Communist conspirators an op portunity to paralyze our defense establishments and our offensive striking To permit it to dontinhe Mundt 1 said would be to make mock the Senate him reduced to a right to vote measure Elsenhower said he stands by his July 16 statement In which he listed four main objectives he said he hoped would be accomplished by congressional pissage of the measiire i One of these pro posed authority tor the attorney general to 'enforce general tlvll rights by seeking court already has been knocked out Of thebiU The major section still in the bfil would authorize the attorney gen eral to seek civil injunctions to protect the voting rights'" of njj nority groups and Individuals No Jury trial would be required jh such cases However Sens OTMahoney (D Wyo) Kefauver (D Tennranct Church (D ldaho) have proposed' an amendment to require jury trials in criminal contempt cass growing out of voting rights jdo lations Eisenhower said he does pot be lieve any amendment should be made to Section 4 of the bill Thet is the section containing the voting rights enforcement provisions Eisenhower said he had been then he changed the word to that In 36 laws' therels no provision for jury trials in civil contempt cases He said he Wants to apply the same methods to the civil rights bill IhAdvahce of the news cohfer ence Sen Knowland of California tiie Republican leader hadvdenied 7 any White House pressure was be 7 1 110 Un 1 unr an tors against the jury trial amend ment SftKT 'l r' i IteL Atr' AtteafcOTB dKa? 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