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52 PAGES Item THE III rp SPORTS 8P riMAi GREATEST NEWSPAPER THE AMERICAN PAPERJOR AMERICANS WORLD'S Founded June 10, 1847 VOLUME CXIII NO. 43 FIVE CENTS PAY. NO MORE REG. U. S.

PAT. OFFICE, COPYRIGHT 1964 V- BY THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1 THIS PAPER CONSISTS OP POUR SECTIONS-SECTION ONI FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1954 n3 UJ 7 uuvi mm dd mirman of CTA Ch etire to as "1 I a cask hf PAnniiNa THF1R nWN rANnFZ Find 2 None Injured GuiMSEE GUNLOCK sen. McCarthy 111 Mishap at in Postoffice 1 BUSBEY URGES INQUIRY INTO MANION FIRING O'Hare Field BriberyTrial AS CHOICE TO SUCCEED HIM (Picture en back page) A loaded combat rocket from OUSTS BRASS AT ARMY QUIZ- Charges Cover-Up of Commies an F86-D jet airplane parked at O'Hare field was discharged accidentally yesterday afternoon, soared a mile and a half, A federal District court jury of seven women and five men late yesterday convicted Atty. Julius L. Eches, 37, and his brother, Paul Echeles, 47, on 13 counts in connection with the sale of jobs and promotions in the Chicago postoffice.

The case went to the jury at noon after nine days of trial. The verdict was returned shortly after 5 p. m. A third defendant, Max Lewis, Rep. Mason Quits Commission Cite Ex-Railroad Head's Record and crashed into the foundation of St.

Patrick's academy in Touhy av. between Mannheim rd. and Lee Des Plaines. Windows were shat tered but no one was injured. Lt.

Frederick Ludeking, pub BY WILLARD EDWARDS Chicago Tribune Press Service New York, Feb. 18 military authorities for at BY THOMAS BUCK Ralph Budd is to retire soon as chairman of the Chicago transit authority, and Virgil E. BY WILLIAM MOORE Chicago Tribune Press Service Washington Feb. 18 Rep. Busbey 111.

demanded tonight that those responsible for the firing of Dr. Clarence E. Manion from his government 60, of 4815 Kimball a former postal clerk, was found not guilty on similar charges lic information officer at the field, said the rocket apparently was defective and may have been discharged by static elec Sentences Due Tuesday Judge Julius J. Hoffman set tricity or stray voltage from a radar transmitter. Tuesday for sentencing the tempts to conceal the facts involving a commissioned officer with a com i record, Sen.

McCarthy today ejected six of- No One Near Plane brothers. Julius of 179 He said no one was near the Gunlock, commissioner of public works, is expected to be named his successor by Mayor Kennelly, The Tribune learned yesterday. Budd's retirement, it was learned, will occur shortly after he ends a month's vacation in Phoenix, Ariz. Budd, 74, has been contemplating retirement for some time. He declined an appointment by the mayor to a new airplane.

The rocket shot aoross the field, struck a con Chestnut and Paul of 1357 Greenleaf a former postal worker, are subject to sentences totaling 23 years and fines aggregating $22,225. Poth reress iicers ana tne were released in bonds of army's legal adviser from an executive session of the sen crete ramp, and ricocheted upward. Ordinarily, he said, it would have buried itself in the ground within the limits of the field. The rocket was 2.75 inches in diameter and about three or 2,000. Twelve counts in the indict ate permanent investigating term on the transit board when his old term expired Sept.

1, subcommittee- ments, charged the Echeles brothers with receiving or four feet long, of the type soliciting bribes for postoffice 1952. Budd's Record Cited Budd's associates also have used in aircraft-to-aircraft com McCarthy described the performance of the army's representatives as the greatest disgrace, to the army we've witnessed in a long time," and jobs and promotions. The 13th count charged them with bat. It carried an explosive head with a charge which fired reported that he desired to stay on only long enough to Tail of a Calf Bar Rebukes A defense withness in the see the transit authority over trial was John Haderlein, for TWO CHILDREN SPEND FIVE HOUR ORDEAL IN LOCKED AUTO TRUNK Muon left and Busbey post be fired, if they acted without the knowledge or consent of President Eisenhower. Busbey also called for a congressional investigation the Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame university law school, announced yesterday that he had beer fired last Friday by Sherman Adams, assistant to the President, from the post of chairman of the commission on inter-governmental affairs, to which Man the hump" in modernization mer Chicago postmaster, who said his patience had become exhausted over this cover-up of Communists." Counselor Won't Testify It is time for the army sec and other growing pains.

Dur denied he had conspired with Judges Who AssailJufies ing Budd's tenure the local he defendants to collect bribes. BringsHappy Ending toT ale transportation system has un Baderlein was acquitted on on contact with, the school foundation. At the academy, a girls' high school with 320 students and 70 novitiates in training, Sister Gabrielle, acting director, said the explosion sounded like an atom bomb." 400 Are in Building About 400 pupils, novitiates, and teachers were in Chicago Tribune Press Service TORONTO, Ont, Feb. 18 similar charges last year. The board of managers of ''1 wasn't scared," said Billy Denies Echeles Talk He denied in testimony that retary Robert Stevens to decide whether there really is a new team at the top," he told reporters, or whether we are going to see the same coddling of Communists that we have the Chicago Bar association dergone its greatest evolution in Chicago's history.

More than 90 million dollars has been spent on modernization since the CTA began operating in 1947. In the change- Halsall, 3, today after a five hour ordeal in a locked auto adopted a report yesterday he ever discussed money with disapproving the practice of ion was appointed by the Paul Echeles, who had been judges publicly denouncing or the building at 2:30 p. but had for 20 years." trunk with his playmate', Linda Miller, 5. "And I didn't cry. But Linda did." accused of splitting bribes with President.

Mason Quits in Protest imposing sanctions on jurors John Adams, counselor for Haderlein. no one was in the classrooms on the first two floors on the who have acquitted defendants -(b Testimony was given in the Billy and Linda had crept in criminal cases. east side of the four story Manion said "fie was fired for his support of the proposed trial that amounts as high as The report was made by the the army department, and Secretary Stevens' personal representative at the hearing, was ordered from the room after he had refused McCarthy's $800 were paid for promo brick structure, where the rocket struck. Bricker constitutional amend into the auto trunk of Billy's father, Charles E. Halsall, and were trapped when the lid slammed shut.

Halsall drove association's committee on development of the law, headed tions. Mrs. Bernice Noftz, The rocket blasted a hole ment, intended to prevent treaties and executive agree widow of Harold Noftz, a pos by Alex Elson. The board of two feet wide and one foot orders to take the stand and tal clerk who died Oct. 25, managers accepted the com deep in the ground at the base downtown to visit friends, and testify under oath.

He said he 1952, said she withdrew $800 ments from subjecting Ameri can domestic affairs to inter national control. mittee's recommendation that of the stone foundation. The Wooster, Feb. 18 CD A calf was born today at the Ohio agricultural experiment station and thereon hangs a tail. The story started in May when a tailless bull was mated with a tailless heifer.

The idea was to determine whether lack of a tail was a hereditary defect. Absence of a tail on a newborn calf and Ohio breeders have reported 50 in the last year is a serious matter to cattlemen. They must spray the beast hourly during the fly season to keep it from misery. Kill Tailless Calves By possessing a tail, the calf born today to a father of mixed Holstein-Jersey extraction and a mother who is a crossbreed, mostly Black Angus, escapes the fate of tailless calves. Some farmers have been known to kill tailless calves.

then took in a movie. from a savings account and the problem be referred to the would not submit himself to questioning unless he had specific permission from Stevens. gave it to her husband for his explosion shattered -windows and frames on the first three Meanwhile, there were these association's committee which promotion. Budd left and Gunlock over to rubber wheel oper As he started home, he heard a thumping from the back of car and a voice calling: "Daddy, Daddy." He discov floors and broke glass in an is now drafting canons of judicial ethics. Another witness was Raph other major developments: 1.

Rep. Mason 111., 2 member of Manion's commis inside door to the school cafeteria. Children in a third floor ael Smith, a postoffice inspec- ation of buses and trackless trolleys, the surface lines have Two Cases Cited tor, who testified that Paul sion, resigned in protest against become 90 per cent modern ered the two were locked in the trunk, but couldn't free them until he arrived home, Echeles had said he split the The committee report re classroom on" the east side, where the windows were shat ized. The elevated-subway sys Manion's dismissal, which Mason called a national calamity bribes with Haderlein. ferred to denunciation of jur tern is rated as 75 per cent ies by two judges one in a modernized when considera 'Get Off the Line or smacking of dictatorship.

Urges Joint Probe where he had left the trunk key. They were greeted by frantic mothers and police, but state court and one in a fed tion is given to 250 new cars I'll Have on Fined eral District court. Neither the judges nor defendants in these being delivered this year. 2. Manion wired Mason at Linda had only this to say: McCarthy gave him time to consult the secretary.

Policewoman on Stand With Adams went Brig. Gen. Ralph Zwicker, commanding officer at Camp Kilmer, N. two lieutenant colonels, a major, a captain, and a first lieutenant. All were under questioning in fhe case of Maj.

Irving Peress of the army dental corps who was discharged under honorable conditions last Feb. 2 after McCarthy had uncovered evidence that he was a member of the Communist party. At an open morning session, Mason's home in Oglesby, 111 cases were named in the re "I'm hungry." Consolidation Completed The consolidation of the op tered, were uninjured. Finish Class Period A dozen senior students were standing outside within 25 or 30 feet of the spot where the rocket struck, waving good-by to a busload of 45 other seniors who were leaving for Eagle River, Sister Gabrielle said. The girls were excited by port.

urging Mason to withdraw his resignation. Manion also asked the rest of the 25 members of Both Judge Joseph Sam Per erations of the former private Not only does this bull calf Rationing to End, So Chlcmca Tribune Press Service TORONTO, Feb. 18 Rural party line subscribers who eavesdrop and gossip may be fined $50, or 30 days in jail, under a new bill introduced by the provincial government in the Ontario legislature. ry in federal District court and companies running the sur have a tail, but he is normal in Restaurant Needs a Chef the commission, five represent all other respects, Dr. L.

O. Chief Justice Charles S. Dougherty in Criminal court, in the face, rapid transit, and Motor Coach lines has been carried LONDON, Feb. 18 WB atives, five senators rnd 15 Gilmore, associate chairman of the station's dairy science de Twenty-four hours after the last 15 months, have castigated out. The CTA also now has a Continued on page 8, col.

1 government announced meat good credit rating. partment, reported. the explosion," Sister Gabrielle said, "but they calmed down rationing will end next July, THE WEATHER Budd became chairman of juries which freed defendants in criminal cases in which the judges felt the evidence of The calf's parents lack even Tribune Features Peress had been identified as auicklv. and everybody fin the CTA after completing 50 FRIDAT. FEBRUARY 19, 1954 stump -tails and have deep grooves where the tail roots ished the remaining class years as one of the nation's By the Way 16 guilt was overwhelming.

"The great damage done to outstanding railroaders. Ken Crossword puzzle. 2, the following advertisment appeared today in a London newspaper: Wanted, a chef, experienced in roasting whole oxen. Applications to 61 Fleet st." That's the 'address of a CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Increasing cloudiness, windy, and mild today; late after Linnocent members of these nelly appointed him in April, Day by Day on Page 7 1949, as the successor to the Drama, music, movies. 2 How to Keep Well.

14 late Philip Harrington, firs noon or night showers likely; high, upper 50s; low period of the school day." -The academy, founded in 1927, is operated by the Sisters of Mercy. Lt. Ludeking said that the plane, a fighter-interceptor, was parked on the maintenance strip on the east side of the runways about midfield. He chairman of the CTA, jus Inquiring Camera Page tonight, 38; south to southeast winds, 25-30 m.p.h. High after Budd had retired as pres TV-Radio programs 3, p.

2 Today with Women Part 2 ident the Burlington rail tomorrow, 42. Want ads road. Previously he had headed panels is, of course, the consequent publicity, and the ridicule and scorn that must inevitably be visited upon them and upon members of their families," the report -read in part. Effect on Jurors Seen The great harm in all such experiences is in the trial of other criminal cases in the ILLINOIS: Windy and mild today with showers beginning In southwest and spreading over state at night. To Line o' Type or Two suggests way to get children into bathtub Page 14 the Great Northern.

Annual Salary $35,000 Continued on page 7, col. 4 morrow, colder; showers In east, SUNtW NMTAVS jt quick action from tho would be. Their offspring born today is the first known to be sired of such parentage. Further Tests Ahead But the tailed bull calf does not prove that the no-tail defect is not inherited," Gilmore said. While it is not the work of a dominant gene meaning that it invariably would be passed on to offspring it could be a recessive that would crop out whenever defective male and female genes team up.

"We will have to have more matings with the same two animals to prove inheritance," Gilmore added. French Plane Crashes The CTA chairman receives CARTOONS ending early In day. TEMPERATURES IN CHICAGO Aggie Mack, All in Sport an annual salary of $35,000. 10 p. lip.

Spt. Brenda Cae Gunlock, 48, is rated an able 1 p. 2 p. .55 3 p. m.

t6 4 p. 5 p. l. .53. big aadionco of Sunday Trlbuna want ad roadort, -administrator in Kennelly's a member of the Communist party by Policewoman Ruth Eagle of New York City who had served as an undercover agent in the Communist party.

Mrs. Eagle described Peress as a Communist party organizer in Queens county who acted as liaison agent between the party and the American Labor party. Cites Honorable Discharge Peress, summoned to tha stand, loudly accused McCarthy of being subversive," but retreated behind the protection of the 5th amendment, which permits a witness not to testify against himself, when asked if the policewoman's testimony was true. Peress proudly displayed a card attesting that he had been honorably discharged last Feb. 2.

The discharge took place three days after he had been questioned in executive session by McCarthy, who had demanded that Secretary Stevens court martial Peress for conduct unbecoming an officer. McCarthy charged that the army had hastily given Peress 1 a.m... 41 2 a. m. .41 3 4 a.

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2frM 1 Mar 4 Mir. S-IO Mar tf sar, Dennis the Menace, Pt 2, p. Dick Tracy, 16; Ferd'nand, Gasoline Alley, 10; Harold Teen, 10; King Aroo, 16; Laughing Matter, 14; Little Lulu, Moon Mullins, Spt. Mostly Malarky, Nuts and Jolts, 11; Orphan Annie, 16; Feanuts, Pt. 2, p.

Smilin' Jack, 17; Smitty, 10; Terry, 16; The Dailys, Pt. 2, p. The Gumps, 10; The Neighbors, 14; Timmy, 16; Winnie Winkle, Pt. 2, p. 8.

OBITUARIES Deaths, obituaries 3, p. 4 Sunrise, 6:42. Sunset, 5:29. Moonrlse. 7:41 same area.

The degradation visited upon the jurors in these two cases undoubtedly would have a profound effect on other jurors. "Surely this consideration alone should promote a healthy feeling of restraint, because no right-minded judge would want his denunciation of particular jurors to constrain convictions in other It is the sense of this committee that it is wrong for a judge publicly to denounce a jury for returning a verdict of not guilty in a criminal case." 'and Explodes; IS Killed cabinet, and has had experience in transportation. His salary is now $18,500. Four possible successors to Gunlock as public works commissioner have been mentioned. They are Dick Van Gorp, chief engineer of the bureau of engineering; George Dement, administrative engineer in the public works office; James W.

Jardine, commissioner of water and sewers, and Stephen J. Michuda, city bridge engineer. p. ra. Morning stars: Mars and Saturn, Erenins stars: Jupiter and Mercury.

For 24 hours ended at midnight Feb. 18: TUNIS, North Africa, Feb. 18 Reuters A French naval plane crashed and exploded in 4-0400 Want Ai'Yisw. If yoa or A'jrW os a pAon mbscribir, you may ehargt your want ad in fha Chicago Tribunu. Mean temperature, 46 degrees; normal, 28; month's excess.

182: year's excess. 270. Precipitation, none; month's excess, .35 inch year's deficiency, .39 inch. Highest wind Telocity. 14 m.

h. Relative humidity, 6:30 a. 69 per cent; flames in the mountains of Djebel Zaghouan south of Tunis tonight, lulling the "15 p. 41; 6:30 p. 44.

Barometer, 6:30 a. 30.33; 6:30 p. 30.20. I Map and othex reports am paf 1 men on board. News summaries are on page 3..

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