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If all the regular readers of Want Ads could gather together in one place they would form a vast army of thrift finders. VEATHER FORECAST Cloudy and moderately cold today; highest 2S-31 Thursday, cloudy and continued cold. oJM La twa Trt essrrs it thi con WUJO.X, he WILKES-BARRE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 19, 195524 PAGES nmr "von i tuu.r foc-dio iiT RJ A an IE ojJuu 7 LEADER TAKES OATH AS GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA Convicts Hold Death Hits Sheppards U. S. Discounts in 6 Third Time Cleveland, Jan.

18 fJP Dr. wife committed suicide after their son was convicted of murder, died tonight at Bay View Hospital of a respiratory ailment. 30,000 Watch New Governor Assume Office First Order Instructs Cabinet to Cut Forces Rflatcd. Stories and Pictures On Pages 9, 13 and 15 Harrisburg, Jan. 18 UP) Youthful George M.

Leader took office today as the first Democratic governor in 16 years and immediately asked for Republican help to solve the commonwealth's dilemma. The 3f -year-old York Coun- ty poultry farmer laid prime-responsibility for the need of up to a half billion dollars in new taxes on the GOP doorstep and declared: hand upraised, takes the oath of Justice Charles Alvin Jones. Henry (Assorfiatw Press Fine Thanks State Employes For Support During 4 Years Jan. 18 (ift Retired Gov. John S.Fine today expressed "abiding gratitude" to state employes he said were responsible for his sucessful four-year term as governor of In his final act as Chief Executive, just before the inauguration of Gov.

George M. Leader, Fine issued a statement aymg: "1 extend to all my fellow citizens my abiding gratitude for the support which they expressed in sustaining the program I pledged to undertake and did succeed in accomplishing through their cooperation and help during the four years of my tenure." He added that he could not leave Harrisburg without expressing "deep-felt appreciation" for all employes of state, departments and commissions "without whose loyalty' and cooperation my administration could not have functioned successfully." The former governor left for Wilkes-Barre this afternoon, after listening to Leader's inaugural address. He will live, Immediately after Leader took the oath of office. Fine -via asked how ft felt to he a private citizen again. He answered; office as Pennsylvania's chief liarner, Ijiaujruration Committee a wu imu-pi ii r.

eyebrow at his call for a i- problenK Gntj great. I'm delighted." I 'f '4 George M. Leader, with executive from Supreme Court chairman, is center. Judge Rejects New Charges On Lattimore Washington, 18 S. District Judge ttither W.

Young-dahl today threw out, as too vague, the new indictment accusing. Owen Lattimore of falsely denying under oath he had ever been 1 a fol lower of the Communist line and (2) a promoter of Red interests. Youngdahl said the charges were" 'so "Tormiea" and" obscufelfiat to require Lattimore to stand trial on them would be unprecedented. And, he aalffAo sustain the in dictment would "make a sham of the' Sixth Amendment which pro vide that in all criminal proaecu- ttton "the accused haTtTnjpy the right to be informed of the nature and the cause of the accusation." Lattimore, 54-year-old Far East ern affairs specialist and former teacher at Johns Hopkins Univer sity, still faces five lesser counts which survive from a seven-count 1932 indictment. These accuse him of lying about some details of his connections over the years.

Youngdahl's dismissal of the key indictment left the government with the alternative of appealing, or bringing Lattimore to trial on the five counts. The question of whether It will appeal was left un-' answered for the time being. U. S. Atty.

Leo Rover, who had accused Youngdahl of having "a fixed personal bias and prejudice" in favor of Lattimore and against the government, said "no comment" So did the Justice Department which will have the final say on an appeal. Wilson Endorses Trade With Reds Washington, Jan. 18 (t Secretary Wilson today advocated more trade with the Communists as a course which would "ultimately strengthen the free world. Exports to Iron Curtain countries should be confined to non-military items, he told the House Ways and Means Committee, and the test should always be whether the exchange of goods benefit the West. Wilson said he would favor the controversial plan for selling ur plu American butter to Soviet Russia, perhaps in exchange for manganese, a strategic metal In short supply in thi country.

Wilson gave hi views In re sponse to question from commit tee member. He wa one of several member President Eisenhower' cabinet who appeared before the committee to support the Administration' proposal for a three-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Act, which' ex pire June 1Z. 1 11 As Hostages In Jail Riot 4 Armed Men Threaten To Shoot If Attacked Boston, Jan. 18 CP) Four armed and dangerous convicts attempting a bold break from Massachusetts State Prison tonight threatened to kill a guard hostage for every shot fired at them. "For every shot fired at us, a guard dies," came a terse message from the desperadoes.

"One shot, lone gas bomb and one of your screws (guards) dies." The four hardened criminals, all long-termers with little to gain by have held five guards and six other prisoners' hostage since before daybreak. Authorities at first believed the defiant message sent out by revolt ringleader Theodore "Teddy" Green. also included a threat against the six prisoners believed held apainst theiiwill. It later was decided it only referred to the five guards. The message by Green, a notor ious bank robber who boasts no prison is enough to hold mm, sait in his message to Warden John J.

O'Brien: "If shots are fired at us then to hell with what happens from then en." Shortly after the message, State Police brought to the the prison four bazookas a powerful weapon used by the infantry, especially against tanks, in warfare. O'Brien said that no force was planned to subdue the uprising. He said authorities were ready "to ttatt- IT out for aaysTTneeefeaif Enough Food for I Day Officials said that the four eon victJL had encush JomL Jor. possihljd two days. There also is running water.

Earlier, the rebellion by the four desperate convict was described by a Catholic chaplain ax apparently "a battle to the finish." "The prisoners have made one demand out, the Rev. Edward F. Hartigan told newsmen after his third visit to the isolated cellblock of the 150iyear-old bastile where the convicts hold thejwstages. The four sent out ah ultimatum that they be allowed to walk out of the prison and Gov. Herter fur nish them a car to carry them way "or there 11 be fireworks.

Apparently fearful for their safety, the hostages who are Cath nhes asked Father Hartigan to hear their confessions. The priest said he heard the confessions of four guards and "four or five" of the prisoners held against their will. rattier Hartigan said he was treated "courteously" by the re-helling prisoners and they also were "very solicitous" of one of the guards who is ill. The III guard, Eugene Wills, 40. was treated in late afternoon by Dr.

Samuel Merlin, who first ob tained permission over the prison telephone from the noting con Victs. father Hartigan said ap pealed to the convicts to give up, "I said their attempt was futile. that their try to break out of prison had failed," the priest reported. "I told them they might as well lay down their guns, that the jig was up. Crosby to Undergo Kidney Stone Surgery Santa Monica.

Jan. 18 Bing Crosby is to have a kidney gtone removed at St. John's Hos pital tomorrow morning, his doctor said today. Dr. Frederick Schlumberger termed It major operation and said the crooner will be In surgery an hour or more.

No complications are expected, however, he said. 7 Crosby has been bothered by the stone for some time and it. kept him from participating fully In his golf tournament at Pebble Beach last week. The operation will also prevent him from starting work in a new movie this week. Feature Index Leader's Call Jor Tux Action Spurs Critical GOP Outburst His son, Dr.

Samuel Sheppard, broke down in tears when his two brothers told him at the Cuyahoga County Jail of the family's third recent death. Accompanied by their wives, Dr. Richard N. and Dr. Stephen Sheppard.

gave the news in the same visiting room at the jail where the 31-year-old osteopath learned 11 days ago of his mother's death. Chief Jailer Mike Uwello, who said the convicted man put his head in his hands and sobbed. added that he seemed to be expecting the bad news The brother. Dr. Richard pointed out that "Sam knew hi.

father was pretty sick." After the 15-minute talk with his brothers. Dr. Samuel Sheppard was taken to a special observation cell the same one he had occupied after his mother's suicide. He had been returned since then to the tiny fourth floor cell where he was taken immediately after his arrest July 30. The convicted man's mother, Mrs.

Ethel Sheppard, 64, shot herself in the head with a srtub-hosed caliber pistol. She left a note say ing she could "not manage without Dad." The father, suffering from pleurisy, was in Bay View Hospital at the time. Dr. Samuel Sheppard. 31.

was convicted December 21 of the July Rebels Attack In Northwest Of Costa Rica San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan. 18 (jP Coatg Rica's seven-day-old war crackled Into renewed action today. The general staff announced ad vance government units made contact with the rebels north of Santa Rosa in the northwest and declared, "we've got them the run A broadcast by the secret rebel radio, heard at Managua, Nicara gua, claimed 200 rebels had landed in an amphibious operation near Limon. Costa Rican port on the Caribbean 70 miles east of San Jose. The general staff said it httd no immediate report on any landings at Limon.

but a telephone call di rectly from that port said the situ ation was normal. The Informant said the government controls the beaches and any rebel landing would hnve to be made on a swampy flat or on the open coast line. A traveler arriving from Limon this morning said "the situation there was entirely normal" when he left. The government high command described today' fighting north of Santa Rosa as "hard." It estimated rebel casualties at about 15 (fead and at least 50 wounded. The announcement said govern ment troops suffered only one man wounded.

The rebels claimed the four F-51 fighter planes bought from the United States were flown today by "Caribbean mercenaries on mi-chinegun raids over rebel territory. A check earler today at El Coco airport here disclosed the planes had not been moved up to that time from the spots where their U. S. ferry pilots left them yester day. An announcement tonight said none of the government's new planes went up today, but one of them was expected to go Into action tomorrow morning.

The general staff declared West Point-educated Teodoro Plcado, Jr 27-year-old son of a former president and rebel field commander, had been killed with 34 of his men on the Santa Rosa front The staff said It had "full confirmation" of his death. The announcement did not say how young Picado't death had been confirmed. Of Tiny Island Tachen Drive Will Not Commit Seventh Fleet Washington, Jan. 18 (P Secretary of State Dulles indicated today the United! States would not intervene! with military force if the Communists should attack the Tachen islands north of! Formosa. He likewise attached no particu lar importance to the apparent fall of Yikiangshan Iriand to the Chi nese Reds.

At the same time he said the U. would be willing for the United Nations to' arrange a cease fire to halt the spreading war in the Formosa Strait. The secretary said the Tachen group, appeared to be of no great! strategic significance -to defense of the Nationalists Formosa strong-' hold, a defense to which the U. S. Seventh Fleet is committed.

Or at least, he said, the group was of only marginal significance. He spoke out at a news comer ence after President Eisenhower briefed Republican congressional leaders on the latest battle off the China Coast the Chinese assault on Yikiangshan Island some 200 miles north of Formosa. The Defense Department said it received word that the island had fallen. Eisenhower arranged to meet later with Adm. Arthur D.

Radford, chairman of his Joint Chiefs' of Staff, perhaps to discuss what; effect the development has on! American pledges to defend Formosa and the nearby Pescadores Islands. in talking with reporters, Duties said for the first timethat cease-fire in the Formosa area generally would he in line vwth American- and United Nations policy. The United States does not intend to negotiate for such a cease-fire, ht said, but would fitted no objections if the United Nations moved into the picture. At the UN, official said It would be necessary for member government to' propose that the Ul do something about a ceasefire. They pointed out that the world organization has no au' thority to act oh Its own initiative.

They added that no government far had suggested that the UN move into the picture and attempt to arrange a cease-fire. Nationalist Planes Rip Red Invasion Craft Taipeh, Formosa, Wednesday. Jan. 19 0P. Chinese Red troops seized Yikiangshan Island on the northern approach to Fermosa yes terday and Nationalist warplanes struck back throughout the night against Communist craft swarming around the tiny outpost.

The seaborne invasion could be the prelude to more ambitious maneuvers against the stronger Nationalist garrisons on the Tachen Islands, eight mile to the south and 200 miles north of The Reds signaled their invasion with an intense 22-minute air pounding of Yikiangshaiwand the Tachens yesterday morning. Then a flotilla of 100 motorized junks guarded bv 30 small warships bore down on smoking Yikiangshan, or "One River Mountain." Guerrilla-manned gun on the small Island shelled the armada but Communist troops forced a landing. They quickly set up antiaircraft guns and these were peppering away at Nationalist planes within few hour of the invasion. The official Central New Agen cy said all civilians had been re moved from Yikiangshan after the outbreak of the vest pocket war September 3. Official report said Nationalist warplanes attacked ist craft around the Tachen through out the night with excellent re-lults, but detail were lacking.

Treasury Position Washington. Jan. 18 OP Cash position of the Treasury on January 13, 1955: Balance. total debt STATE'S INCOMING -i leaner msugumi aaress problems while Republicans lifted partisan approach lo.the taA-revenue Republican were quick to point! out that Democrat refused to support GOP tax programs in 1931 and 1953 sessions of the 'LegisJ employes ana cut oaac lature. Neither did they iike'Leder inoerely wants cooperation; JRiChard Sheppard, 64, whose DR, RICHARD A.

SHEPPARD 4 murder of his 31-year-old wife. Marilyn. Just today Defense Attorney Wil liam J. Corrigan went into the county jail to photograph evidence he plans to Use the appeal from the second-degree murder convic tion against Dr. Samuel Sheppard Hammarskjold To See Dulles On Flier Talks Washington, Jan.

18 wsecre-tary of State Dulles disclosed today Dag Hammarskjold will fly to Washington tomorrow to give him a face-to-face report on United Nations efforts to free American air men held in Red "I want to get a direct, first. hand report from hinj as to just what took place," Dulles told a news conference. In the meantime, he said, it is premature to say as Senate Re publican Leader Knowland of Cali fornia has said that the secretary-general of the United Nations failed in his mission to Peiping. Dulles added that, as for himself. he is withholding judgment He announced that Hammar skjold was coming here at his re quest, and probably would be ac eompanied by Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, chief American dele gate to the UN.

Asked whether his meeting with Hammarskjold implied loss of confidence in the secretary-general's mission, Dulles replied: "No; I am doing it because I leel that we owe a duty to the families of the prisoners to get all the in formation we can. I want to get it fiTst hand for my own guidance and to inform the families "And will probably be able, also, to explain to Mr. Ham marskjold the problems which we! face here in this country' in maintaining a position of standing aside to let the United Nations try to work this problem out. don think that can go on forever. Assembly Trial Ordered Panama.

Jan. 18 The Su preme Court ruled late today that impeached ex-President Jose Ra mon Gulzado, Implicated in assassination of President Jose Antonio Remon by the late President's confessed slayer, must be tried by the National Assembly. Supporters, of Gulzado. who stepped Into the presidency from the first vice presidency after an assassin machlnegunned Remon at Juan Franco Race Track January 2. asked the Supreme Court to try uuizaoo case.

in New Jersey. He was quoted as saying he and Celia separated from Celetti and the ister and De Maio took Celia to a spot near the canal. De Maio tried to attack Smith quoted him. but she fought like a wildcat scratching hi face, and then ran hysterically Into the wood. De Maio told of catching her and beating her, Smith said.

New of Celia dinapperance first came yesterday from the girl' sister, who had rone with her Sun day to meet DeMalo and Celetti at a nearby Thompsonville hotel. It was 1st Sunday night that ih, fjr fp whP while at a Thompsonville restaurant with Celetti. DeMaio returned from supposedly having taken! Celia home to report she had fled hi parted rar. All three went back to seek her hut failed. It not until Monday morn "I suggested to our Republican colleagues that they join with us in Aonest bipartisan statesmanlike attempt to reach a meeting of minds on a fiance program which will make Pennsylvania sol-" vent again." "I suggest to our Republican col leagues that, inasmuch as their party bears the J-esponaibillty for the states fiscal crisis, they join with us (Democrats) in an honest WTparnsan, statesmanlike attempt to reach a meeting of the minds on a finance program, which will make Pennsylvania solvent again." That statement and a renewed pledge to let the Republican-passed 1 per cent sales tax die next September 1 drew the loudest rheer from a jubilantly spirited Democratic audience.

On Leader's call for a bipartisan I approach to the tax-revenue prob- Ramihlir-An aulrklv nniTTteft lout that Democrats refused to 0p port GOP tax programs in the J351 and 1953 sessions of the Legislature, 11. The contrasting viewpoints the tax dilemma empftasl the political division the Legislature. Democrats have a working 111-9!) w.4ni.itu tn TCnuea Villi Leans retained a rator edge one vote margin in the Senate. Leader's first official act in office underlined hia concern with the revenue a 1T HeSni fi" L'al as "gVave then (demanded that they fire "un- recent salary increases wnicn are ifound to be unjustified. Leader men asKea oy January oi a list of all appropriation cuts that can be made by individual departments.

He estimated "possible excesses" at more than 20 million dollars. Col. C. M. Wilhelm.

state foiic commissioner, estimated 30,000 persons jammed the front ot tne Capitol Plaza in biting winter weather" to witness the inauguration on wind-swept inaugural stand. The colorful ceremony saw Leader stand bareheaded, the wind tuszing at his formal morning clothes, and repeat the constitu tional oath of office after leitow Democrat. Justice Charlet Alvin Jones of the State Supreme Court. Family Shares Spotlight Leader's pfVtty wife, Mary Jan stood admiringly to his left with their two eldest children, Michael, nine, and Frederick, five, nearby. Their third and youngest child.

11-month-old Mary Ellen, stayed indoor. The outgoing governor, Repub lican John S. Fine, watched jrom Leader's right on the gaily fes tooned' Inaugural stand as he once agsln returned to the role oi private citizen. In the afternoon. Leader rone with hi wife at the head ot huge inaugural parade, and wsved his greetings thousands who jammed the streets.

(Story on Page 9.) Earlier In the day. Leader Joined with other top Democrat in th swearing-in Roy E. Furman, 54-year-old Waynesburg contractor, as lieutenant governor, (Story on Pace 15.) Mis Genevieve Blatt. a third member of the victorious statewide, Democratic ticket of November 2, will wait until May 1 to be sworn in as Secretary of Internal Affairs, the first woman ever elected to that post. Leader took less than 20 minute in delivering his inaugural address and occasionally lifted hi left hand to emphasiie a point.

Time after time, he underlined the gravity of the tax problem which he said was the result of "a reckless fiscal policy" of four preceding Republican administration. The commonwealth i bordering on bankruptcy, the incoming governor said. He added that two month of digging Into commonwealth's finances hs shown thl he inherited a deficit of J86.O00.000 from the Fine administration and that Fine' 'budget estnates show a gsp of $300,000,000 In 'H first Job. added, would to cut Fine's budget estimate where possible. Leader then went on: "But I cannot be so nptrmtitwi at to predict that these measureg will solve our problem.

"Past legislature have enormus commitment which ar now the pledged faith of the state, and It ha not enacted a lax pro gram that Is adequate to raise the-money to honor those commitments. "That i the' recipe tor hnk ruptry. "And, a might be expected, thi iram tin ha in the sales tax," Horst said. However, Horst added, it trom Kepucncans, ne win gei u. The Republican Party is just as interested in the welfare of all our citizens as he professes to be." i Sen.

Joseph M. Barr. Democratic State Chairman, and Sen. John Dent, Democratic Senate leader, replied to Herat's statement. "Mr.

Horst statement is tll- tlmed and ill-considered," Barr commented. "Little wonder Gov. Fine said thre is need for new fanes in the Republican high command." If the Republicans didn't create the deficit, who did? asked Dent 'It is reasonable to assume thai any debts created in the last 16 years (of Republican rule) must be laid at the doorstep of the Repub lican Party." Dent said. "It is now the unenviable responsibility of the Democratic Party to clean up the mess we have inherited from our Republican predecessors." Rep. Charles C.

Smith, Repub lican House leader, said Leader' speech "must have been a bitter riinappointment to those who ex pected him to present a program. Rain Hits California Los Angeles, 'Jan. 18 The season's heaviest storm swept Jownn on Southern California today with more than an Inch of rain, clogging mountain highways and1 closing schools in the San Fernando Val ley. Officials set up flood precaution measures as the steady pelting promised to reach three Inches in most areas. The Weather Bureau said the new mow in higher mountain would total three feet by tomorrow night.

Leader's statement that Republican administrations committed the State to obligations without pro-: viding the revenue to finance them. "He's expecting Republicans to do what he. himself, refused to do when Governor Fine asked for a bipartisan tax progranv.two years ago," commented Sen. Rowland B. Mahany, Republican Senate leader.

"Has he forgotten so soon how long and hard we Republicans worked In 1951 and 1953 to enact the faxes necessary to meet commitments' of those years? Has he forgotten, too, how the Democrat, including himself, never lifted a finger," Mahany asked. But Speaker H. G. Andrews, ot the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives put that party' view thi way: 'Republican and Democrats, alike, drifted Into the existing (fiscal) situation. It is now up to both' Republicans and Democrats to grab the oars and row, row.

row until they have reached the shores of financial stability. "The basic reason why there should he bipartisan support for a progressive program lies in the fact that in very real ense both par- tie bear mutual responsibility for the fiscal situation In which the state finds itself." Mile Horst, Republican State Chairman, took issue with Leader's itatement that successive GOP ad. ministration brought the state to bankruptcy. He also refused to accept Leader' estimate that 500 million dollar in new taxes Is needed to meet the atate'i obliga tion. "These are Strang words.

Indeed from a man who, a few month ago was Insisting he could balance the JVeic Jersey Arrests End Hunt For Suspects in GirVs Death AND OUTGOING FAMILIES jf.i" ipm iii ii iiiiimi i ij pui J.i ii mi. i i.iie yyw i-ta aimm mui i mi Suffield, Jan. 18 tf The half-nude body of a missing girl was found In a canal today snd hours later two men Amusement 1 1 Believe It ar Net 24 Book Review 1 Broadway I Comic Page I Cooking's Tub 1 CroMword Puwle Dr. Herman Bundeen II Editorial 14 FJsle Robinson II Emily Test II Financial I H. I.

Phillip 14 Hollywood 1 1 Household Art II Jane Ead 14 Looking Bark Marian Martin II Matter at Fart 14 Me rry-Go-flund 14 Muriel II OMtuarle -1 Radio and TelevUion I Rally' Kallie 14 Rorlal l-n inert I fttihurhoN i Voiea mt the People 14 Hut Ad. sought in the slaying were arrested The dead girl wa pretty Celia Cienski. who disappeared Sunday night after a double date with Joseph De Maio, 35. Gerald J. Celetti, 34.

and her sister. Ann. 22. New Jersey state trooper Hid De Maio blurted out "I dldn'l mean to do It. officer" when ne was stopped for a routine check on a highway near Hightstown, N.

J. Several hours later, Olettl walked into Newark police headquarter and Identified himself. They both were held on fugitive rharge pending the arrival of io-lire from Suffield. Conn. Celetti.

father of two children. i from Winder Locks. Conn. De Maio intra opringiicia, mass. Celetti told police he pent the afternoon In New York and read in a paper that he was wanted for 'questioning in the rae.

He ald he jwent to New Jersey and then to i police headquarters In Newark. The girl bloody body wa pulled out of the Ice-rlmmed Windwir Lock canal after her ister reported her missing. At Hightstown. Stt Trooper A. Smith td De Msto msd a ttement telling of the double dp fV J- ing that Ann told her parents and police Celia wa mlsnlng.

Not long afterward, police discovered bloodstained underclothing atop a rllff overlooking the canal nd it wa not far from there that the uh-mrrgd body wa found thhi afternoon, 4 and on. Jack and Donald. coU Valley Forge Military Academy, and Mr. and Mrs. rnld Morgan nt 4524 Wrrn Avenue Kingston, rt Governor Fine.

Mr. Morgan accompanied Governor Fin nd Gov. -elect and Mr. Ia4er to the Inaugural tnd. tAF WtrephotoJ Gov.

-elect George H. Leader and retiring Gov. John S. Tine snd their familir pnw in the Kxet-ulive Mnlnn at Harrlrtnirg )terdy a short time before Leader sworn In a the first Democratic govrrnor In 21 years. From Governor Leader and Mrs.

Leader with sons, Michael, left snd Freddie. Governor Tine.