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Watch for fhdtf Special After Buys In Reporter Advertising Reporter The Reporter Givet You Complete Details On All the Major Newt Allegany County's Daily Newspaper Seventy-Eighth Year W6LLSVILLE, NEW YORK, Saturday Afternoon, December 28, 1957 Five Cents Per Copy Russian Aid Offer Is Well Received At Talks In Cairo African -Asian Conference Plunges Into Discussion Of Controversial Topics CAIRO African-Asian People's Conference plowed ahead 'in anti-western fields today as the spotlight centered on Russia's sweeping economic aid offer. Subgroups of the conerence's main political committee plunged Into a discussion of such controversial East-West topics as imperialism, disarmament, racial discrimination, Algeria and Palestine. The Soviet "big brother" offer of economic aid to all Asians and Africans was well received yesterday by the delegates from 42 nations and colonies at the nongovernmental conference, which is Stacked with of -Communist policies. Many of those, voicing loud praise for the offer arc exiles or fugitives from fireas that receive U. S.

economic aid. Some of the leftists here are frowned on by home governments that try to stay officially disconnected from Communist propaganda lines. The offer, obviously designed to drive western enterprise out of the East, was accompanied by broad hints that African and Asian countries should nationalize western-operated businesses and exploit their profits as Egypt has sought to do' with the Suez Canal. This apparently appealed to many elements who shouted- their assent yesterday when Soviet Delegate Apushavan A. Agafonovich lauded Indonesia's takeover of some 1V4 billion dollars In Dutch investments.

Agafonovich said nationalization moves such as undertaken lv Egypt and Indonesia were 'rapid, effective and "the least painful to the population." The Soviet offer recalled western predictions that the Kremlin would launch a drive In 1958 to win more friends in Africa and Asia with a view towards driving the West from these sources of and other natural resources. Much of the conference has been devoted to attacks on tho western powers as Imperialists determined to exploit these resources, and to plaudits for Russia defender of disarmament and world peace. Transit Authority Is Rejected on Initial Money Negotiations NEW YORK The Transit Authority made Us first money of for In negotiations for a new contract with the Transport Workers Union yesterday. It was immediately rejected. The attibUtyi was not disclosed after the offer was made at i bargaining, session, but TWU President Mtcliael J.

Quill salH It was "not even a basis of settlement." a Howcvej-, Quill conceded that negotlptipns were "back on tracks" although the offer did not narrow the gar) between the two sides. Negotiations resume today. The Transit Authority moved yesterday to. obtain an Injunction pgainst a New Year's Eve strike threatened ui11 The TWU announced pctlon as a "breach of faith." Quill called it "tantamount to slHke Quill said he thought a no-strike inlunptioh would be issued, but adrtnri: "No matter many of them thev put, in jail they'll find lens of thousands of transport workers to lead a strike Tuesday mid- Quill said he and Mayor Robert F. Wagner had agreed Thursday to continue negotiations for a new contract "Until mldnieht Tuesday," when the present pact expires.

The TWO is seeking a 65-cent hour package w.age increase for subway employes. Present hourly wages ranee from for porters to $2.378 for power ma'ntainers. The rival Motormen's Benevolent which struck for eight tize its demand for recognition, days earlier this month to drama- has said it will not be bound by anv contract, the TWU negotiates. The TWU won a collective bar- eaining elect'on for the right t.n represent all subway workers, but only about half the 32,000 subway employes voted. Dairymen Groups Affiliate With Mutual UTICA milk producer groups in central Pennsylvania, with a claimed membership of more than 600 dairymen, today were affiliated with the Mutual federation of Independent Cooperatives The 600 quit the Eastern Milk Producers Assn.

last month. Directors of Mutual, at monthly meeting yesterday, unanimously approved the membership applications of, the five groups. They are in Mlddleburg, Lewis-1 burg, Mill Hull, Spring Mills and Bellefonte, Pa. A Mutual (Spokesman said the five raised the number of Mutual- affiliated cooperatives to 46 and the total ''membership to 8,000 farmers About 1,000 of the men arc in Pennsylvania, the rest in New York. I Eastern and Mutual are two of the four, big cooperatives in York State.

The BOO dairymen said they left. Eastern because they objected the cooperative's figlit against extension of the New York metropolitan milk-marketing order to northern New Jersey and parts of Upstate New York. The new order became effective 1. Eastern accused Mutual of raiding its membership. Treasurer, Deputy Plead Innocent to New Charges LAKE PLEASANT Wl The Hamilton County treasurer and his deputy pleaded innocent in county court yesterday to new charges as a result of a fund shortage flamed o.n the aide.

A county grand jury returned sealed indictments last week and also colled on Gov. Harriman to remove the treasurer, layman Avery, from office. Harrlman's office is studying the request. The deputy, Frederick H. Karuth, was charged previously with taking $3,600 In county funds over, a four-year period.

Avery is charged with improper conduct in office on the grounds that he knew of the theft, did not fire Karuth and tried to help the aide return the money. The felony charges against Avery are similar to those brought earlier as misdemeanors. New charges against Karuth allege that he destroyed and falsified public records. i County Judge James D. Curry freed Avery in $4,000 bail pending! a hearing Jan.

14. Karuth freed in 82,000 bail for a hearing' Jijn. 31. Both had been free on the earlier indictments. Four Queens Youths Sentenced to Death NEW Four Queens fVi sontrmne rilo in Sing Sine Prison Feb.

10 for the holdup killing of a delictacs- sen owner. Thn four, two of whom were not at the scene of the crime, were yesterday by Queens County Court Judge James P. Mc- Gr-'tlan. The death sentence was mandatory under murder convictions returned by a jury Dec. 11.

Thomas Fryc. 20, and William Wynn. 17, were standing across the street when the shooting took plncp last Sept. 6. Ralph Dawkins, 22, and Jackson Turner 21, each blamed' the other for.fjrlhg the shot that killed William B.Qzer, 61, In his delicatessen in Q.jjeens.

Testimony showed tihat Frye and. Wyn'n ran from across the street but were spotted fieni.n" and caught by police. They denied being in the holdup but werr linked as partners In the conspiracy hy testimony from Dawklnf a.nd Turner. Testimony also showed that Frye and Wynn were both unarmed. Of the four, only Dawkins.

who had been arrested once for auto theft, had a previous police record. All four are Negroes. Anti-West Demonstration Seen in Cairo A CROWD, INCLUDING PALESTINIAN students, demonstrates outside Cairo University Dec. 26 where African-Asinn Peoples' Conference opened. Anti-western slogans and banners opened the conference of some 400 delegates from about 40 countries and colonies.

Officially, the delegations do not rep- rescnt governments. (AP Photo by radio from Cairo). Explosion 500 Feet Underground Traps, Kills Eleven Virginia Miners; 14 Other Workers Are Rescued Tests Show Babies Emotionally Scarred By Pre-Nafal Upsets Two Murders Admitted By Teenage Hitchhiker; Father of Ten Is Victim Bungling Charged By ALTON L. BLAKESLBE AP Science Reporter INDIANAPOLIS W) New tests indicate babies can be emotionally scarred by what happens to their mothers during pregnancy. This latest research done with rats.

Pregnant rats made emotionally 1 anxious produced offspring which were abnormal emotionally. The effects are' relatively permanent. In one born to normal mothers developed emotional changes when reared by foster mothers who had been suo- jected to emotional stress. The experiments were described in a report today to the American Assn. for the Advancement of Science by William R.

Thompson, of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. He said some human studies indicate that emotional upsets suffered by a woman can seriously affect the unborn baby. The influence is possibly transmitted by changes in the mother's hormone system. Thompson devised elaborate tests to measure the effect when pregnant 'rats were made highly anxious, or subjected to electrical shocks. While results are not clear-cut, they appear to confirm earlier work Thompson did with smaller numbers ot animals.

"They strongly suggest that stress has definite effects on the emotional behavior of the offspring," he said, Thompson said more research might bring practical applications in child care and mental health. Blast in Pocahontas Mines Second Disastrous One In 11 Months Trajectories Plotted For Flight to Mars OTTAWA Wl A Soviet writer says Russian scientists are plotting trajectories for a flight to Mars Soviet launchings of two earth satellites "open up a new era in the history of human culture." V. Dobronravov said in the monthly Yftiinn Hunters Whose i USSR Illustrated: News, published Toung BUCK Hunters wnose recently by the SoV Embassy Boat Capsized Feared Dead here. "A flight to the moon, 'for in- LOUISIANA, Mo. Wl Five stance, will be a direct sequel lo young duck hunters whose small the measures connected witfi boat apparently.

capsized In the launching artificial satellites of treacherous.Mississippi River yes- the earth," the article said, and have been given up terday dead. No bodies been found when rough water forced authorities to call off a search last night until today, But the choppy waters had yielded articles of clothing and two shotguns identified as the property of the hunters. "It 1 pretty well established that they have drowned," said Prosecuting Atty. Paul E. Williams of PJke Cpunty.

The missing hunters were Harold Nlffen, IT, and his brother, George, 16; James Saunders. 14: John Clark, 21 and his brother Ben 19. Discovery of the party's overturned skiff just north of here set off the search. Louisiana is on the Mississippi 85 miles upstream from St. Louis, HEADED OIL COMPANY DENVER W) Edward T- Wilson, 88, prudent of the Continental Oil Co, ftom 1912 until his retirement in died Friday.

He was born in Ballston Spa, N. Y. for tl at present Soviet scientists are also engaged in calculating trajectories for the flight to.Mars" GOP Leaders Promise To Double Scholarships ALBANY Republican legislative leaders promise to double the 500 special scholarships now granted by the state for studies in science and engineering. The leaders, at a policy-making session yesterday, added the scholarship plan to their 1958 legislative program. The Republicans control the Legislature.

The GOP leaders estimated the additional cost to the stale in the; next fiscal year would be $315,000. Those at the planning session included Assembly Speaker Oswald D. Heck and Senate Majority Leader Walter J. Mahoncy, Assembly Majority Leader Joseph F. Carlino and the chairmen of the Legislature's fiscal committees, Sen.

Austin W. Erwin and Assemblyman William H. MacKenzie. Va. W) Rescue! workers today recovered the bodies of 11 miners killed late yesterday when a gas explosion trapped 25 men below ground in a mine straddling the Virginia-West Virginia border.

Fourteen miners were brought out of the colliery uninjured shortly after midnight. Canvas was draped over the victims, carried out of Mine No. 31 of the Pocahontas Fuel Co. on a coal car. About 100 persons looked on in the first, grey light of an overcast day.

The miners were hemmed in 500 feet underground. Company officials said all the men originally trapped by the explosion were believed to be accounted for. Amonate is in southwest ginia, 20 miles west of Blucfield, Va. Bodies of the dead were removed from the sprawling mine through a shaft located in West Virginia, nearly three miles from the main entry shaft where the survivors were brought out. This was the second disastrous explosion in Pocahontas Fuel Co.

mines in the border coalfields in 11 months. A February gas explosion at a mine near Bishop, snuffed out 37 lives. The dead ranged in age from 26 to 51. All were married men and fathers with from two to seven children. "Officials of the company said 534 of the 775 men employed at the operation were due to be laid off because of a decrease in coal orders.

The 14 survivors were pronounced in good physical condition following a medical examination and were sent home to reunions with relatives. They came' out of the mine about 12:05 a. m. some hours after the blast, ripped through two sections. Survivors placed the time of the explosion at 6:30 p.

m. and most said the concussion was worse than the blast itself. Officials said there was no indication as to how the blast occurred. An inquiry will be conducted by the West Virginia Department of Mines at a dale to be set later. West Virginia will make the inquiry because coal is taken out of Mine No.

31 on the West Virginia side of the border. The mine will not be reopened I until a full inspection is made by federal, state, uompuny and The rescue work was painstaking as rescuers were forced to inch their way along slate-clogged passages filled with smoke and deadly gasses They carried oxy: gen tanks strapped lo their backs. 1 Officials said the mine was known as a "gaseous" mine. It was indicated that equipment used to disburse the gas, present in varied quantities in all coal mines, had failed to function properly and the accumulation had been touched off by a spark of unknown origin. The survivors built two canvas barricades for protection but spent most of the five-hour period sitting, thinking, praying.

Representatives Urge Government to Stake Claims to Antarctic Heat of House Flames Sends Ammunition Flying MANORHAVEN Firemen had more than a blaze to contend with yesterday while battling a house fire. The heat of the flames sent 100 rounds of rifle and rcvojv- er ammunition flying in all directions. No one was hit. The blaze occurred at the home of Nicholas N. Skaredoff, 48.

Skaredoff and his son, Michael, I 10, were burned, but 119! seriously. Skaredoff is a member of a gun club. WASHINGTON Wl Two senior congressional Republicans today called on the U. S. government to stake out claims to the Antarctic.

One of Tollefson (R- Wash), said he' has been informed that the nation's. top strategy- making National Security the of his Antarctic claims bill now before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Rep. Judd 1 a senior Committee member, said the gov- eVnment ought to press for a settlement of Antarctic claims that will be just and equitable. Otherwise, Judd said, the rival claimants are likely to get into years of hassling as the claims get firmer and new values are found for the vast subcontinent.

The legislators spoke in interviews on the heels of fresh reports of international interest in the South Pole area Moscow Radio yesterday reported two heavily laden expeditions are heading for the magnetic pole and the geo- New Zealand grqups also are on their way to the geographic center, where a U. S. scientific expedition is already encamped. The Soviets are hurrying an icebreaker to survey along the shore of an unclaimed area. Although American expeditions have, explored for more of the frozen land than has any other nation, the United States has not laid claim to any territory there.

It also refuses to recognize the claims of other countries. Tollefson said Britain, France, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Chile have laid claims to large areas of Antarctica although 75 per cent of the lias been seen only by Americans. Group Opposes Forcing School Districts to Combine ALBANY State Conference Board of Farm Organizations says school district reorganization should be.left to the judgment of residents of the districts. Board representatives, in a IVfe- hour conference witli Gov. Harri- m'an yesterday, said that the state should not force school districts lo combine.

i The state lias a master plan for reorganizing and culling down the number of school districts. The board also recommended that: 1. The State Education Department give special consideration to greater economy in schbol building design and construction. 2. Any sanitary regulations for migrant labor camps first be discussed with camp owners to make certain the regulations were practical.

The governor's office said Harriman would give the recommendations careful study. Represented on the board delegation were the'State Farm Bureau, Grange, Horticultural Society, Vegetable Growers the Poultry Council, the Cooperative Grange League Federation, and the Federation of Home Bureaus. The eighth member, the Dairymen's League, was not represented. CONDUCTED ORCHESTRA SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Wl Louis Hasselmans, 79, who was a 'conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera orchestra from 1924 to 2(i, died Friday, lie was born ill Paris. By JAMES WILDE JAKARTA, Indonesia Former Vice President Mohammed Hatta charged today that officials have so mishandled the current' anti-Dutch campaign that they are "hurting Indonesia more than the Dutch." In an open letter, Ilatta said bungling had brought a threat of famine to this lush island nation.

The Indonesian news agency PIA today acute food shortages in parts of central Java. The Cabinet met to discuss barter trade now being conducted In some parts of Indonesia to combat, breakdowns in regular food distribution. Before the Cabinet meeting Foreign Minister Subandrio confirmed reports that Indonesia will ask Communist countries for arms. In the' open letter, appearing in newspapers throughout sprawling island republic, the leader negotiated independence from The Netherlands In 1949 asked: "Is It necessary for the Indonesian people to sacrifice and suffer to speed up the return of West Irian to the republic?" The campaign of seizing the 1V4- billion-dollar Dutch investment in Indonesia and forcing most of the 46,000 Dutch citizens out of the country began Dec. 2 in retaliation for The Netherlands' refusal to hand 'over West New Guinea.

Indonesia calls the area West Irian and claims it should have been surrendered in the 1949 independence agreement. Hatta said famine is facing the country "not. because rice is short but because of disorder in distribution, shipping and communications." He blamed the disorder on the West Irian Action Committee, which has led the campaign. "If we had planned, our people would not suffer," Hatta said. "Due to lack of planning, an economic calamity is approaching." The campaign was touched off by U.

N. failure to approve a resolution backing the Indonesian position. "I reiterate," Hatta said, that "Dutch, not Indonesian, interests should be undermined. The Dutch economy here must be but not. in a fashion which will cripple us." Hatta's attack was expected by some foreign observers here to widen the breach between him and President Sukarno, which led to Hatta's retirement from the government a year ago.

With most of the outer islands in open rebellion against control from Jakarta, many Indonesian leaders have felt that Hatta's return to the government Is the only hone to return internal stabiliv Hatta is considered by maaiy the unofficial spokesman for the outer islands. The Sukarno-Hatla split was largely based on Sukarno's allowing Communists a free hand to increase their influence. Hatta also wrote; "We are weak on the sea and in the air. Our youth cannot be asked to swim the ocean to get back West Irian It is by peace, not war, that West Irian will be returned to us," The foreign minister said In a statement, to newsmen that military m'sslons would be sent shortly to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. This was a continuation of standing policies, he said- SLA Can Go Ahead In Attempt to Revoke License of Barbara ALBANY State Liquor Authority today had a court go- ahead to proceed against gangland host Joseph Barbara Sr.

in its attempt, to revoke Barbara's beer-distributor's license. An Appellate Division justice last night signed an order that vacated restraining provisions of an order by a lessor court justice. An SLA spokesman said the new order cleared the way for the authority to re-schedule a hearing on the revocation. No date was sot. Thursday in Blnghamton, Justice Daniel J.

McAvoy of State Supreme Court signed an order that prevented the SLA from holding a hearing that had been scheduled for yesterday in Albany. Last signed by Associate Justice Francis Bf" -r of the Appellate Division, lifted only the restraining and injunctive portions of the previous order. It did not affect MeAvoy's order that the SLA show on Jan. 10 why it should not be restrained permanently from proceeding with the revocation action. Still pending before McAvoy, is Barbara's request that the SLA be prevented from using any information obtained from his business records.

The justice ruled last week that the records had been sized illegally by the authority. Barbara was host to a gangland convention at his home in Apalachin Nov. 14. The liquor authority charges that funds of Barbara's business, the Canada Dry Bottling Co. of Endicott, have been used periodically "to defray expenses incurred by certain persons of notorious, evil reputations who apparently had no financial interest in the licensed business." The authority also claims that the company failed to live up to a promise to refinance the business "to eliminate certain financial obligations to persons.

unfit character and reputation" and that, license renewal application, the company gave false information about another loan. Confidential Magazine Must Cite Names, Dates, Places NEW YORK Wl Confidential Magazine has been ordered to name names dates, and places in with Us story that claimed actor Erroll Flynn spent one of his wedding nights with a call girl. State Supreme Court Justice Irving Saypol yesterday ordered Confidential to name the alleged call girl and give other details. Flynn is suing the magazine for a million dollars. The actor claims the story, published ill the magazine's March 1955 Issue, was a mass of fabrications.

COLDER Western New York Northern Finger Lakes to Lake Thickening clouds and warmer today with occasional rain high in the mid 40s. Turning colder during the night with rain changing to snow flurries, low around 25. Changeable skies and cold tumor- row with snow flurries. Increasing southerly winds 15-30, becoming westerly tonight and subsiding tomorrow. Graham, Crusaders Will Tour Caribbean ASHEVILLE, N.

C. Billy Graham says he plans to start a five-week tour of religious crusades in eight Caribbean countries next month, shortly' after his wife is to bear their fifth child. Graham and his crusade team also announced yesterday a schedule extending through mid-1959. It includes rallies and crusades in Charlotte, San Francisco and other California cilies, and in Australia. The evangelist said the tour was planned on the basis of a new policy which Includes concentration on "strategic areas" in the world; more efforts aimed at colleges and universities; shorter crusades "In order to go to more and tallies that could touch entire states rattier than just cities within them.

Graham added that he still hopes fjor a crusade in Russia, but that the Communist government has given him "no particular encouragement." Graham said his wife is expecting about Jan. 15 and he plan's to leave his home and nearby Monti-eat Jan. lli or 17 lo begin the tour. Religious Camp to Get Ram That Butted Graham MONTHEAT, N. C.

W) "The Word Of Life" religious camp at Schroon Lake, N. is slated to get the ram that butted evangelist Billy Graham. Graham said yesterday the ram, a present to his four children, would be shipped to New York shortly. Several weeks ago, the big ram turned on Graham when the evangelist was feeding him and butted Graham down a hill. Graham was confined to bed for several days and was on crutches while a fractured knee mended.

Graham, who lives here, said the ram began to charge him again Christmas Day "but I was on the right side of the fence this time." Cameron Mills Youth, 17, Kills Pair to Steal Cars To Use in Holdups BATH mild-mannered 17- yoar-old boy admitted last night that lie killed two men, one of them the father of 10 children, so he could steal their automobiles to use in holdups and robberies. The youth, Fred Sommcr Jr. of Cameron Mills, was being held on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting of one man when the body of the other victim was found. Under police questioning, he admitted shooting the other man as well. The victims were Leo Wallace Brown, 3R, of Corning and Cecil Stralton.

42, of tlorseheads. Each was shot in the head. Sommer, who quit school after seventh grade last year and had been working as a janitor in a tavern, used a automatic pistol stolen from a factory guard's automlbile Dec. 11, authorities said. They quoted the youngster as saying he had hitch-hiked a ride with each of his victims.

Police picked Sommer up early yesterday driving Brown's car. Brown's body had been found Thursday night lying beside a rode in Chemung County. But police said Sommcr admitted killing the man that evening in Corning, Stcuben County, and dumping the body across the county line. He waived examination and was ordered held here for grand jury action. Then a youngster, playing in some brush along a road only fix.

miles from where Brown's body was found, discovered the body of Stralton. The man had been missing since Dec. 13 when he cooked dinner for nine of his children, then left for the hospital to see his wife and new born baby. Sommer said he killed Stratton after the man tried to fight him off and cried, "there's no sense shooting me. I've got a wife and 10 kids." Sommer, a tall, thin youth with curly blond hair, was asked after his arrest if he had seen his mother.

The boy began to weep for tfie' fi'rst time since police took him into custody at gun point earlier in the day. Both of the victims were employed at the Corning Glass Works QuietWeekendAhead For Chief Executive GETTYSBURG, Pa. quiet weekend broken only by some thought of future planning lay ahead today for President Elsen- hower. No weekend business appointments were scheduled at the Eisenhower farm here. But White Mouse Press Secretary James C.

Hagerty said the President would do some work on his State of the Union message, in which Eiseh- howcr will outline to Congress on Jan. 9 his program for the coming year. Elsenhower's pet dog was among the passengers in the five- car motorcade which brought the president ial party to Gettysburg yesterday. The dog, is a mole-colored Wclmaraner, an exclusive Gorman hunting breed. Hagerty told newsmen Heidi normally stays at the farm, but had been at the White House for Christinas.

On Ihe trip here, she luul free run of the back seat of i one of the official limousines, which carried also a chauffeur and Eisenhower's valet, John Moaney. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower, three of their four grandchildren and Dr. Walter Tkach, one of Eisenhower's physician's, mudu the two-hour journey in bright sunshine. They were followed lati-r by Eisenhower's daughter-in-law, Mrs.

John Eisen- hmvi'i 1 and granddaughter Barbara Anne. Maj. John Eisenhower planned to arrive today to complete fhe family circle. Eisenhower lias arranged for conferences here next week with some government officials. He plans to remain at least through the New Year holiday, but is expected to return to Washington next week.

FALL ONEONTA Mrs. Nellie P. Hunt, 79. of Otego, died in a hospital yesterday of injuries suffered Dec. 21 in a fall at her home.

Singer Allan Jones Weds Heiress to Shoe Fortune LAS VEGAS, Nev. mooming in this desert gambling resort today are singer Allan Jones and shoe fortune heiress Mary Florsheim Picking. They were married yesterday, 4 few hours after former aitress Irene Hervey divorced Jones for the second time. The simple, double-ring ceremony was performed at the First Baptist Church of Las Vegas by the Rev. Walter Bishop.

Jones gave his age as 50. Hi3 bride said she is 37..