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Reporter Advertising Off In Of Increated Allegany County Daily Newspaper The Reporter Olvet Complete On All the Major Seventy-Seventh Year WILLSVILLE, NEW YORK, Saturday Afternoon, August 17, 1957 Five Cents Per Copy Russia Challenged To Put Up or Shut Up on Radio Issue US State Department Sends Soviets Note Requesting Study of Broadcast Swap By JOHN M. II1GHTOWER WASHINGTON United States has challenged Russia to put up or shut up on the issue of exchanging broadcasts. The State Department, in a note announced yesterday, proposed a swap of delegations of radio and television experts next month to make technical studies preliminary to negotiating a possible schedule of broadcasts. The Issue has figured in discussions lietween Moscow a'nd Washington since the summit conference and the Big Four foreign ministers meeting in 1955. The U.

government wants Russia to open Its always to uncensored programs 'from this and other western countries. But American officials are by no means certain that the Soviets Intend to do so. State Department authorities believe that, if the Soviets will now agree to an exchange of experts, it may Indicate a willingness on Russia's part to undertake an actual exchange of programs. If the Russians turn down the proportion on an exchanhgc of experts the prospects for working out a deal on broadcasts will not be very bright. The technique of challenging the Soviets to stop talking generalities and get down to business is a standard one when western governments decide to press for alternatively to expose a Soviet maneuver as propaganda.

The note which the State Department made public was given yesterday to i Embassv counselor Sergei R. Strlganov by Frederick T. Merrill, director of the department's east-west contacts staff. It replied to a July 26 Moscow memorandum suggesting further discussion of proposals for expanding the cultural exchange program, including broadcasts. The Soviets also raised again their complaints a legal requirement that visitirs to this country except diplomats and government fingerprinted.

The Eisenhower administration has asked Congress to pass legislation at this session modifying the fingerprinting requirement. The House Judiciary Committee yesterday approved legislatTon to waive fingerprinting for foreign visitors to this country. The waiver would be granted onlv on the basis of reciprocity. Thus, the United States would not fingerprint American visitors. The American note expressed willingness to join in a broad discussion of cultural exchanges and suggested that these be conducted by Soviet Enbassy and the State Department in October.

But before that, the note said, "it is suggested that small delegations of radio and TV experts be exchanged at an early date. "The State Department has in mind delegations of four or five experts on each side." DRIVERS STRIKE IS AVERTED NEW VOTSK today headed off an Immediate strike of bwHt milk drivers servicing the metropolitan area. The dispute was not settled, however. Contract negotiations are scheduled to be resumed Monday. Federal, state and city mediators sat down 'last night with representatives of the Teamsters Union and trucking firms to avert a scheduled midnight walkout that could cut off 95 per cent of the area's milk supply.

Last night Warren Hickman, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 770, although predicting little hope of settling the dispute, said drivers were under instructions to go to work as usual unless notified otherwise. At the last-hour mediation session there was no direct, across- the-table baugaining but rather concerted drive by the mediators for a postponement of the threatened tie-up. The contract-wage disoute involves 1,150 drivers and the Dairy Transport representing 20 trucking firms. Some 12 million consumers would be affected. The drivers had been demanding a wage-welfare package in-, crease of 75 cents an hour over three years, a 40-hour work week, and fringe Current wages range from $1.87 to $2.07 per hour for a 48-hour work week.

The employers reportedly have offered a 50-cent hourly package in a four-year contract. The union had assured city officials that hospitals and other institutions would receive emergency, milk supplies in event of strike. The bulk milk is gathered from farmers within a 200-mile radius of the city and brought here in tank trucks fpr pasteurization, bottling and distribution. At Syracuse, N. yesterday.

J. Thonufe 'Gribbs, president of 'istern Milk Producers Cooperative, wired federal mediator Francis X. that the upstate dairy farther would be "caught in the in, event of a strike. Cribbs' wire said in part: in 'the milk "supply for New York City would result, in a seriously decreased price to the farmer." Application to Bar Referendum Refused MONTICELLO OP) State Supreme Court Justice William Deckelman turned down yesterday an application to bar a referendum on the proposed merger of two Ulster County school districts. The application sought to set aside an order of the state education commissioner, Dr.

James E. I Allen Jr. Allen's order directed 1 the holding 'of referendum next Tuesday to decide on consolidation of the Woodstock and Onteora' school districts. A similar referendum was held last April. The vote then favored consolidation by' a narrow margin.

But in July, Allen declared the referendum void on technical grounds'. Later, another petition for a referendum was filed. Allen set Atig. 20 as the date. The new referendum was opposed by three petitioners who sought the injunction denied yesterday.

Deckelman, sitting at a special term of the state Supreme Court here, directed that the consolidation, if approved, shall become effective June 30. 1958. Passenger Service Will Be Discontinued on Rail Line SYRACUSE New York Central railroad plans to discontinue passenger service to Malone and Montreal on Us Adirondack divison, effective Sept. 15. Notices were posted in two.

affected trains yesterday. The railroad said it would continue passenger service from Utica to Lake Clear Junction and Lake Placid and Us commuter service between Malone 'and Montreal. The public service commission can order the services continued if sufficient.protest develops. Bill to Ease Immigration Hardships Is Being Pushed WASHINGTON OP) Rep. Celler says he will push for House consideration next week of a bill designed primarily to ease personal hardship under the nation's immigration law.

Celler made the statement yesterday after the House Judiciary Committee voted, by a reported 24-1 margin, in favor of the bill. Celler is chairman of the committee. As it came out of the committee, the measure contained none of the major recommendations of President Eisenhower, The committee voted against granting permanent residence to 25,000 Hungarian refugees admitted on The committee rebuffed Elsen- hpwer by defeating his proposals to grant permanent' residence to the 25,000 Hungarian refugees granted asylum after last fall's' revolt in Budapest, and by refusing to establish machinery to deal i with similar future oases. Neither the House bill nor one i before a Senate committee pro-I vides for any revision of the present immigration quota system, based on national origin. Vice Consul is Homeward Bound JETON, VICE CONSUL at the U.

S. embassy in Damascus, Syria, who was expelled by the Syrian' government, looks over magazine rack with his wife and two children on arrival in Beirut, Lebanon. Jeton and two other members of U. S. embassy staff were asked to leave the country after Syria charged that U.S.

was involved in a plan to overthrow the government. (AP Wirephoto by Radio from Rome). Labor Witnesses Being Sought Health Check Planned In Farm Labor Camps MagazineTrial Defense Tries To Give Proof Mistake in Chess Scoring Ends with Young Champion CLEVELAND tourna-j ment directors las'.) night declared defending champion Arthur B.I Bisguier, 26, of New York the win-' qer of the U. S. Chess Federa-; lion's open tournament, 14-year- old Bobby Fischer protested that, there had been a mistake in thei scoring.

Tournament officials spent an hour checking dhe complicated! discovered they had awarded Bis-i guier too many points. They re-1 versed their decision and Fischer the new open champion, i He is the youngest player ever to! win the tournament. Sprne Bljyers took part in the 12-day tournament. LOS ANGELES Attorneys for Confidential Magazine have begun their defense against criminal libel charges by attempting to prove that its stories about celebrities were true. One of the first defense witnesses yesterday testified that a story about actress Maureen O'Hara in the March 1957, Confidential was'true.

has denied it and has sued the magazine for one million dollars damages. The trial is in recess today, to be resumed Monday. The witness, James Craig, who was assistant manager of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in November 1953, said he ordered Miss O'Hara and a latin- type man, not identified, to leave the theater because they had been embracing too enthusiastically in a back row. Craig is now an independent movie producer in London. He was flown hero for the trial.

With him came Michael Mourdant Smith, Confidential's European Craig said he tolri what he alleged to be the O'Hara incident to Mourdant-Smith, who wrote it for the magazine and paid Craig 70 pounds (about $200). Mourdant-Smith is clue on 'he witness stand Monday. Incidentally, he was notifietl yesterday by transatlantic telephone by Chris Barnetl, publicist sharing his London office, that thieves broke in and. stole files containing material for Confidential stories about British celebrities. London police said-they were investigating the possibility that the raid was by a blackmail gang.

i The prosecution closed its case with producer Paul Gregory testifying that Mrs. Marjorie Meacle, alleged Hollywood agent for Confidential and a trial defendant, tried to blackmail him to keep a story out of the magazine. Mrs. Meade took the stand briefly to assert she had' never seen nor talked to Gregory before. NEW YORK MV-Jack Palance will play the title role in "The Death of Manolette" on CBS-TV's "Playhouse 90" Sept.

12 at 9 p.m. The drama, of the "Playhouse" season, will recount the career of Manolete, the late Spanish bull fighter. ALBANY OPI The state industrial commissioner says a check will be made of all migrant farm labor camps in the state for any violations of labor and health laws. Commissioner Isador Lubin yesterday sent state police and Labor Department investigators into migrant labor camps in central New York to Investigate complaints about health conditions in camps in that area. An official of the National Assn.

for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) said he had found "blatant and widespread violations" in camps in Onondaga, Chemung, Cayuga and Steuben counties. The commissioner said the investigators first would cherk 10 camps cited by the NACP spokesman. Lubin announced that he had instructed the Labor Department's chief investigator, Daniel A. Daley, get assistance from the department's Syracuse office and check the camps. The state Health Department has jurisdiction over housing and sanitation conditions.

Lubin said any violations of those regulations would be referred to the Health Department for action. Herbert Hill, labor secretary of i he NAACP, said Thursday that lie and the Rev. Latta Thomas of Elmira, president of the Elmira NAACi' branch, had filed com- with the department. Hill called the migrant labor system in the state a "20th Century slave racket." Migrant workers, mostly Negroes, come to the state each year to harvest crops. They are housed in camps in the farm areas.

Earl J. Sparling, 72, operator of Topsy's Boat Livery at Hartfield on Chautauqua Lake, killed yesterday when his automjobJleand a trailer tractor collUted. He lived at nearby Mayville. PAW Western New York; Northern Finger Lakes 'to Lake Ontario; East of Lake Ontario, Black River fair and continued cool today through tomorrow, high today about 70, low tonight around 50, cooler in uome inland valleys. Light winds mostly northerly 5-15.

Good to excellent drying through tomorrow. Statute of Angel Is Again Atop of Tower SACILE, Italy statue of nn anfiel one again stood atop, the 200-foot tower of the little 15th Ccnturv Church of Sacile after a I boost from American soldiers and! their helicopter. A 600-pound statue was gently placed on its perlestal yesterday in a smooth airborne operation carried out by members of the southern European task force, stationed at Verona. The Sacile church once had a wrwlen statue of an angel but it, was destroyed by lightning sev-1 eral years ago. The new bronze statue was too big for the cithens of Sacile to carry up the old wooden staircase inside the steeple.

Recalling that sonie Verona- based Americans had used a helicopter to right a tottering cross on a church at Bergamo, the citizens asked for help. The l' co Pter came to town yesterday and with no trouble lifted the bronze angel off the ground and set it in place. Among those who took part in the operation was Pfc. Donald W. Dek'n of Deer River.

Lewis County, N. Y. Dekin worked on top of the church steeple with Italian workmen. KILLED IN CRASH ALBANY J. Greek.

28, of New York City, was killed last night when the automobile hp was driving was struck by a troop train at a New York Central Railroad grade crossing on the outskirts of Albany. By G. MILTON KELLY WASHINGTON OP) Federal marshals pressed their search today for five witnesses sought by the Senate rackets investigating committee. Chairman McClellan (D-Ark) said the five "are on the lam." Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said staff aides and the U.

S. marshal's office in New York have been unable to locate any of the five, wanted as witnesses in an inquiry into New York have been unable to locate any of the five, wanted as witnesses in an inquiry into New York labor rackets. Kennedy named only two of those sought: Benny (The Bug) Ross, a former Teamsters Union organizer, and Leonard Geiger, vice president of Joint Council 16, governing body of teamsters 125,000 members in New York. The committee, meanwhile, prepared to call some top International teamsters the union's midwest boss, James R. questioning about activities in New York.

Thomas L. Hickey, a teamsters vice president, testified yesterday that Hoffa, heir-apparent to retiring teamsters President Dave Beck, originated the idea of forming phantom teamsters locals to vote in the union's New York council election in 1956. Hickey and another witness, Martin Lacey, said the purpose of the pahntom locals was to get additional votes to elect John J. O'Rourke president of the council, and thus place it under Hoffa's control. Lacey, the man O'Rourke unseated, called the phony locals a fraud against the union.

O'Rourke invoked the Fifth Amendment on Thursday in refusing to answer all questions about the election and about any relationship with Hoffa. Hickey announced from the witness chair that he is a candidate for the union's presidency, and he pledged to lead a fight against corruption if he can beat Hoffa for the job. Hickey also said he thinks there will- be moves to get rid of him as a union official when the teamsters hold their convention next month. Hoffa will be questioned by the committee next week in the climax of the, committee's exploration into McClellan's charge that Hoffa formed a corrupt alliance with labor racketeers Johnny Dio and Tony (Ducks) Corallo to increase his union power. In addition to Hickey and Lacey there were two other witnesses yesterday John McNamara, president of Teamsters Local 808 in New York, and William P.

Bradley, president of the International Longshoremen's Assn. McNamara, an alleged confederate of Dio, refused to answer questions, claiming the Fifth Amendment protecHon against self-incrlmination. Bradley testified that he and Hoffa had worked out what he termed a mutual assistance pact in 1955 between the ILA and the Teamsters Union after the American Federation 'of Labor had expelled ILA as racket ridden. But George Meany, then AFL president, blocked the deal. Meany now is president of the AFL-CIO.

Hickey said that in 1953, Hotta tried to persuade Beck to give Dip a charter to organize the taxi drivers in New York City. GOP Still Standing Pat On Demand for Strong Measure on Civil Rights Prolonged Disarmament Talks Causing' Technical Difficulties Members of Staff Are Finding Themselves Needed For Duty in Different Places at Same Time By WATSON SIMS LONDON WV-If the U. N. disarmament subcommittee's talks drag on much longer, many members of the technical staff may find themselves needed for duty In two 'places at the same time. Should the London five-power arm already have lasted five on another three weeks, the conference might collide with the convening of the U.

N. General Assembly in New York. The Assembly usually meets the third Tuesday In September. But this year, the United States has asked that the Assembly go Into special session a week earlier to consider a subcommittee report on the Hungarian revolt. The llth Assembly recessed last March subject to the call of its president, Prince Wan Waith- ayakon of Thailand, if it were decided further'action on Hungary was necessary.

The technical side of the disarmament conference is handled by some 80 members of the U. N. secretariat. Most of the Interpreters, parliamentary recorders and adminis- trative employes now assigned to London normally have other duties in New York when the assembly meets. In the past there has been no conflict.

The disarmament conference has always been over before the Assembly convened. The present prospect of a conflict In assignments has led to speculation iri western quarters that the disarmament conference, if it continues, might be shifted to New York later this year. Although the disarmament negotiations normally arc held In London, there would be a precedent for shifting them to New York. A special meeting of the five- nation subcommittee, called In a surge of International optimism after the big four summit conference in Geneva, was held In New York during August and September of 1955. The regular 1955 session had been held earlier In London.

The subcommittee technically Is free to meet ah'S'Where that can be agreed upon by its five United States, Russia, France, Britain and Canada. FAMED RAINMAKER LABORER KILLED ROME, N. Y. A laborer at Grlfflss Air Force Base, Robert Gatto, 33, of Canastota, was killed yesterday when struck by a crane boc-m that was carrying a bucket of cem.ent for a runway-construction project. FALMOUTII, Mass.

OB Rainmaker Irving Langmuir, one of the scientific greats of the 20th Century, died here yesterday. He was 76. Dr. Langmuir was vacationing on Cape Cod when he suffered a heart attack Wednesday. He died at the home of a nephew, Dr.

David Langmulr. in Falmouth. Langmuir won many scientific honors, including the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1932. Besides oio- necring in artificial rainmaking, he developed techniques that led to brighter and cheaper electric lighting. His work also helped make modern radio and television broadcasting possible.

Me was a member of the General Electric. Co. research staff for 40 years and continued as consultant to that company after retiring in 1950. His home was in SdhenecOady, N. Y.

Langmuir developed atomic hydrogen welding and a smoke- pnnentnr fnr mllHarv use. He won the Nobel Prize tor his extermination with oil films on water. In 1909, he began research to determine why linht bulbs of that 1 day darkened, thup cutting efficiency and wasting electricity. The work led t'o the invention of the nitrogen-filled electric light which doe's not darken. GE once estimated Langmuir's work in that field saved the American public a billion dollars a year in electric costs and made possible development of street lighting in its present form.

To satisfy his curiosity about natural phenomena, Langmuir once studied the waves on Lake George In Upstate New York. The study convinces him that wind was rcsponslbje for many sincere reports of "sea serpents." Langmuir was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 31, 1881. He was descended on his mother's side from the Lunt family, which came to this country on the Mayflower. He was graduated from the Columbia University School of Mines in 1903 and was awarded his doctorate at the University of Goet- tingcn, Germany, In 1906.

Langmuir is survived by his wife; a son Kenneth, and a daughter, Mrs. H. R. Summerhayes all of Schenectady. Five Men Arrested Lutherans Are Told For Dumping of Milk Of Research Need PLATTSBURGH UB State po- MINNEAPOLIS World lice have arrested five more men Lutheranism must recognize the In connection with dumping of milk during the 36-hour upstate milk strike this week.

Troopers yesterday arrested Albert LaGoy, 47, his son, Ronald, 17, Clair Rabideau, 16, and Lawrence and Herbert Cherrian, all of Ellenburg, Clinton County. All were arrested on misdemeanor charges of malicious mischief and released in $25 bail each after arraignment before a peace justice at Altona. Their cases will be heard Aug. 26. Four men pleaded Innocent here yesterday to malicious mischief.

All LaBier, 25, his brother, Roger, 30, Floyd Sears, 25, and Raymond Castine, had pleaded innocent to assault charges in connection with the beating of a man at a Plattsburgh milk plant Thursday. The charges resulted from two separate incidents. Hearings on both malicious mischief cases were set for Aug. 30. No bail was set immediately.

The four are scheduled to appear in F'laltsbureh City Court on Aug. 29 for a hearing on the assault charges. Canadian Seaway Park System Will Be Unequalled IROQUOJS, Ont. iffi Ontario's premier says a system e.f parks and highways to be constructed along the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence river vill be unequalled anywhere In the world.

Premier Leslie M. Frost said the entire waterfront, from Kingston to Lancaster, would be developed. He made the statement yesterday at a cornerstone-1-aying ceremony at the site of a municipal building for the new town of Iroquois, a community moved inland. The old Jroquois is scheduled to be flooded by the St. Lawrence Seaway.

need for research as well as for church administration, a Swiss churchman said today. Dr. Vilmos Vajta, Geneva, Switzerland, told the third assembly of the Lutheran World Federation "voices from other churches" are addressing themselves to Lutherans. "If we lose theologically we lose everything," Dr. Vajta said in his text, prepared for the more than 700 global delegates representing 50 million Lutherans.

"In world conversations today, the LuWieran Church and its attitude in theology and in public life is followed by the critical eyes of other confessions," he said. "The Roman Catholic Church has assigned special institutions and periodicals to follqw our doings." Dr. Vajta called upon the delegates for action looking toward greater theological communication among Lutherans and wider participation in world movements. He is the federation's theological director. Bishop Hanns Lilje, Hannover, Germany, federation president, asked for a study institute on the Roman Catholic Church.

He said that church is staying out of debates on world problems and "we want them in; we want relationships with them, not lust polemics." Cherry Creek Man Is Killed When Run Over by Truck BUFFALO F. Miller 38, of Cherry Creek, Chautauqua County, was killed yesterday when he was run over by a dump truck. State police said Miller, a truck driver for a West Seneca firm, apnart- nlv backed in the oath of a moving in tor a load of slag at the Buffalo Slag Co. in suburban Woodlawn. House Senate Compromise Is Expected to Come Over Jury Trial Amendment WASHINGTON Rep.

Martin fR-Mass) said after a talk with President Eisenhower today that Republicans are "still standing pat" for a stronger civil rights bill than that being pushed by House Democrats. The general feeling at the Capitol, however, was that the House and probably the Senate would approve next week a compromise bill embodying a modified jury trial amendment being sponsored by Rep. Celler (D-NY). Martin, the Hnise GOP leader, had breakfast with Eisenhower at the White House and later told reporters: "We are still standing pat for the type of bill the President wants to give adequate protection to every single American who wants to vote." Asked whether the amendment proposed by Celler gives such adequate protection, Martin don't think that's the kind of bill the President, wants." Asked whether Eisenhower would sign the Senate bill as Celler has proposed to modify it, Martin said "we didn't get that far." The "House passed a bill close.ly tailored to Eisenhower's recommendations. The Senate revised It substantially.

One change was the addition of a requirement for jury trials in all federal contempt of cases. Eisenhower has objected strenuously to that provision. Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has proposed that the jury trial provision be limited to cases involving voting rights. The White House has hinted that Eisenhower would veto the Senate bill unless changes are made but Martin said that Eisenhower would bewilling to accept some form of The statement lent Weight to the belief that House Republicans were backing down from their stand in favor of the original House bill. So confident were Democrats, they tentatively scheduled House action on the bill for next Wednesday or Thursday.

House acceptance of the Senate bill, with a House amendment limiting the jury trial provision to voting rights cases only, would not end the struggle. But it would go a long way in that direction. The bill still would have to -go bark to the Senate for concurrence in the House amendment. Democrats, however, contend senators will agree to this change- but to nothing more. The House bill would empower the attorney general to seek fed- eial court injunctions against all kinds of civil rights violations.

Persons violating such Injunctions could be punished by the judge for criminal contempt. No jury trial would be provided in such cases. As passed by the House, the bill conforms generally with Eisenhower's program. The Senate bill would limit th6 injunction provisions to voting rights cases. It also would require that criminal contempt trials growing out of the injunction violations be held before juries.

This jury trial requirement would apply to a wide range of just to those involving civil rights. The Eisenhower administration opposes the Senate jury trial pro-visions, contending it would hamper the power of federal judges to enforce their orders and that it would hinder the operations of many federal agencies. Democrats, however, appeared confident they have the some of the GOP variety turn back any attempt to rewrite the bill on the House floor. There were indications, also, that southern opposition to the Senate bill might be crumbling. Some southerners appeared ready to take the Senate bill as the best compromise in sight.

Woman Is Found Incompetent to Be Tried WASHINGTON Louise Hough, a 41-year-old secretary, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial for the Memorial Day slaying of a Russian translator for the Voice of lea. The report was issued yesterday by Dr. Addison M. Duval of St. Elizabeth's Hospital.

Miss Hough has been under mental observation at the institution for the past 60 days. The finding means the woman will be committed to the hospital unt'il she Is declared mentally competent to stand trial on a first- degree murder charge In the shooting of Zurab Abdusheli. Miss Hough and Abdusheli wero engaged at one time. The shooting occurred at Miss apartment about two weeks after i-he translator had married another woman. Mrs.

Abdusheli said her husband had gone to see Miss Hough to express sympathy on the death of Miss Hough's father,.