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VOL. CLXIX NO. 69 Copyrieht 1959 By GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. BOSTON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1956 44 PAGES FIVE CENTS i Mh'nJI 1 4 4 ii OHM ran Ml? WW Train Crashed "at. SO P.

Three Say ic Power, Phone Lines Out -zr rnxw nninnmiiiiiiw i i I I .1 I jit jpf 4 lf Trains, Bases Late; 24 Towns In Bay State Close Schools Snow, sleet, freezing rain and drizzle struck New England yesterday in the Winter's worst ice storm. Rain froze on Massachusetts highways, bringing traffic to a snarled standstill. Skidding accidents were numerous. Slick ice coats made walking hazardous, and scores were injured in pedestrian tumbles. Power failures struck some western Massachusetts communities as ice-heavy tree branches fell on power and communications lines.

Schools were closed in 24 midstate communities because of ice-sheathed highways. 4 4 III Swampscott Speed High, All Agree Felt No Braking, Two Testify as Hearing Closes The Budd Highliner which rammed a stopped diesel train in the Swampscott wreck as traveling 55 miles an hour at the time of the accident, it was testified yesterday. This was the highest speed estimate from five crew members of the two trains who were heard at yesterday's closing session of the joint Federal-State hearing. Others testified to varied speeds from 30 to 50 miles an hour and one said only that the Budd train was "coming good and fast." Two of them, on the moving Budd car, said the crash came without warning and without application of brakes. The other three trainmen, attached to the diesel train, said they were standing1 along the tracks and watched helplessly as the shiny aluminum Budd train let out a desperate blast from its whistle and ploughed into the rear of the halted train.

Their testimony ended the three-day investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commis repeated warnings against driving, and described conditions hazardous on secondary roads) and generally poor to fair on main roads. ICE STORM Page Six INJURED IN ICE-STORM COLLISION Stanley Robinson, 50, Charlestown, awaits (Globe Photo by Edward Carr) SYMBOL OF DARK AGES Miss Anita Teitelbaum, supervisor of Wemen's Division, United Prison Ass'n, in the Bay State, examine leg iron chain once used in Charles-town Prison. Only Sad Memories Left in Old Prison aid after his cab and truck collided on Cambridge st. near Brighton. Business Labor Civic Bloc on Port Bill Routs Democrats Fresh winds, expected to rise to 35 miles an hour, added to the peril.

Highway and power teams inched along main roads looking for wire "breaks. The MTA was set off schedule about "an hour when ice coated the third rail of the the Everett-Forest Hills line. and downtown stations were jammed with commuters dur- ing the rush hour. Bus lines reported their vemcies running irom 43 mm- utes to two hours late. Three Boston and Maine trains struggled through snowed-over tracks, arriving in Boston up to 3 Mi hours late.

In Maine and upper New Hampshire and Vermont, up to 12 inches of snow fell. Some sections of Vermont reported four Inches of snow in six hours. But the worst part of the storm was the ice. It formed some two inches thick in the Worcester area. Further west, Route 20 over Jacobs Ladder was closed several times during the day, and finally was opened by State Police only to vehicles equipped with chains.

Sand and salt was spread on most routes. State Police issued Party Members Released at Caucus; Opponents Have Their Say Today By WILLIAM 3. LEWIS state-owned airports at East 11 of One Family Perish in Fire in Pennsylvania OXFORD, March 9 (AP) Eleven persons i were burned to death in a fire that destroyed their one-story tar papered home in this rural southeastern Pennsylvania community late last night. The victims were all believed members of the family of Mr. and Mr3.

John Twyman. They were trapped as the blaze, first noticed by a neighbor, enveloped the tiny building within a matter of minutes. Firemen said there was a possibility 12th body was still in the smouldering ruins of the home occupied by the family. Guy Barnett, 24, who lives about By A. S.

PLOTKIN Except for the ghosts of condemned men who once occupied its harrow, gloomy cells, the ancient State Prison in Charlestown was empty last night. Two weeks after the last Inmate was transferred to the relatively palatial facilities at Walpole, newsmen and photographers were allowed to roam arouhd its cold, damp buildings. They followed on the heels of two dozen legislators, who visited the place in the morning. A handful of inmates from Bridgewater, "minimum security risks" they were called by state Corrections Commissioner Russell G. Oswald, were cleaning up the last debris in the 155-year old prison.

There isnt much left to hint at the countless individual stories of heartbreak and frustration that these granite walls have witnessed. In one cell, a calendar on the white-painted wall, the days crossed off with blue crayon, as though time had some tangible meaning for this man. PRISON Page Six Ike's Farm Props Win in First Senate Test WASHINGTON, March 8 President Eisenhower won1 a smashing Legislative victory today as the Senate voted 54 to 41 to sustain his program for flexible, instead of rigid, price supports on basic farm crops. In the vote, the President was backed by 41 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Thirty-five Democrats and only six Republicans voted against his program.

Every member of the Senate voted in person on the issue a rare occurrence. Ninety-five votes were cast, there being one vacancy, occasioned by the re-ent death of Senator Harley M. Kilgore, of West Gov. Herter's proposed Massachusetts Port Authority virtually collapsed last night as spokesmen for business, labor and civic groups solidly lied rappeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to support the legislation. After a caucus of nearly ZVi hours, Democratic leaders conceded that many of their party members in the House and Senate -would not be bound and plan to vote for establishment of the Port Authority.

These same leaders also indicated there is little chance the bill will now become a party issue, at least on a formal basis. Today, those who oppose the creation of an authority to assume ownership and management of the Port of Boston, the Night Council Attracts Just The Boston City Council's first night budget hearing in history was attended by only one yes, ONE citizen. Councilor Edward F. McLaughlin, sponsor of the night session designed to arouse public interest in the Council's doings, blamed it on the weather. But the Councilors blush-ingly admitted a little later that there was another good reason for the poor turnout somebody failed to unlock the front doors of City HalL Announcement of the public hearing by the Council's Subcommittee on Appropriations opposition to 1 no ti 1A iCe 071 0(1 AGU Delays Rush-Hour gi tt tommuiers Thousands of homeward- bound commuters were delayed up to an hour during the rush hour last night when MTA elevated trains on the Everett-Forest Hills line lost power because of ice on the third raiL Officials said ice formed so rapidly on the third rail that scrapers were useless.

Trains were forced to inch along, stopping from time to time while crews went out to chip off the quarter-inch ice by hand. Service was badly disrupted between 3 and 5:30 p. m. MTA Page Five The majority, led by Republicans, knocked out of a Democratic omnibus farm bill a proviso which would have returned corn, cotton, and rice crops to rigid 90 percent parity price supports this year and in 1957. The Administration victory could presage similar action on flexible price supports for other crops.

It almost certainly meant victory for the Eisenhower "Soil Bank" proposal, a plan to pay farmers for taking some lands out of production as part of an overall plan to reduce farm surpluses. FARM BILL Page Five "on lo 1,15 "wu cal NIXON Page' Ten THIS -i THIS SUNDAY 1 IT Lcivet No. Station A. M. Raturn Sunday tuning BOSTON and MAINE RAILROAD Kill nil Bank Robbery Probe 'Solved Laundry Holdup Police investigating a $25,000 Cambridge bank Holdup last night claimed solution of a holdup in a Somerville laundry.

They said that Joseph Der-mody, 26, of Hampshire Cambridge, picked up for questioning in yesterday's robbery at the Harvard Trust Company, had in his possession money and papers taken from the White Banner Laundry, 227 Cedar st. Somerville. The laundry holdup in which a lone gunman held two women cashiers at gunpoint and escaped with $50, -just missing $1000, occurred two hours before Dermody was picked up. HOLDUPS Page Four JKiSH PR0TEW lOlr CAlOBtT' SET CE-1ECT choice. There are for all in Boston's away by 1 1 BRIM i sion and the Public Utilities Commission into the two Boston Maine wrecks Feb.

28 at Swampscott and Revere. The testimony of 38 witnesses heard since the hearing opened Tuesday and evidence from 91 exhibits will be considered jointly by the two commissions. A likely to be issued jointly, is expected in about a month, according to ICC Commissioner Owen Clarke, and D. P. U.

chairman David Brack-man. WRECK QUI7 Page Thirteen Test Budd Brake at Once, Union Official Requests A railroad engineers' union official last night called for an "immediate test of the braking ability of Budd cars for the protection of the engineers who operate them." Ernest C. Hopkins of Bristol, N. general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said he would make the request today to the Boston Maine Railroad. Hopkins called for the test as the joint Federal-State board investigating two B.

M. wrecks, at Swampscott and Revere last week, wound up its three-day hearing. BRAKE TEST Page Thirteen Joe Louis Turns Pro Wrestler for $100,000 Guarantee March 8 (AP) Promoter Ray Fabiani of Philadelphia said today Joe Louis, former world heavy-! weight boxing champion, has accepted a I guarantee to turn wrestler. Fabiani issued a statement saying Louis will make his first appearance as a wrestler in Washington on Friday, March 16, meeting Texas Cow-j boy Rocky Lee in a xne-fall finish match. JOE LOUIS Eighteen I0AST KEf 4 STEM SfECULllES What About the Red Sox? Higgins Shuffles Infielders By BOB HOLBROOK Will Sox Give Foes Religion? By RED SMITH Is Finigan Boston-Bound? By STANLEY WOODWARD (Storiet on Page 19) Boston and Bedford, the Sumner Tunnel and the Mystic River Bridge, will have their say before Ways and 'Means.

"There be heated denun- ciation of the port bill as a "give-away" and a "banker's dream," but few if any votes are expected to be changed either way. High-ranking Democrats opposing the legislation contend it proposes to take properties without adequate compensation to th'e state or municipalities affected. They also shout warnings that bridge and tunnel tolls as well as port and airport fees will be boosted once the proposed authority comes into being and these facilities are free from government control. PORT BILL Pape Nine Hearing One Citizen and Finance had appeared in newspapers for two days. Councilors McLaughlin, Gabriel F.

Piemonte and Patrick F. McDonough showed up promptly at 7 p. m. Traffic Commissioner William Arthur Reilly and Building Commissioner Charles Callanan were on hand to testify on their 1956 budgets. Piemonte almost didn't attend.

Finding the School-st. door locked, he thought the meeting had been called off and started to head home' until he saw lights gleaming from the fourth-floor Council chamber. CITY COUNCIL Page Three were false," he testified under direct examination by his counsel, Robert W. Meserve. Ries, a vice president of the United States Trust Company, is on trial for conspiracy to steal, accepting fees and gratuities in violation of banking Jaws and larceny of $243,800 from the late Julius Kalman, Brighton real estate man.

Also on trial is Thomas K. Wren, erstwhile City Hall messenger, who is charged with conspiracy to steal. MAITLAND CASE Pcfle Seven NO WA1UBU CMECT TASIl Ike's Aids Pressing Nixon to Let Convention Decide By MARGUERITE HIGGINS WASHINGTON, March 8 Eisenhower, but with the fact Vice President Richard M. Nixon that he has been the butt of is being urged by Administration political attacks without seeing aids and top Republicans not to any substantial number of Remake any final decision -before publicans rise to his defense. Aug.

20 in charting his political Even the slightest possibility course, so as not to impair the that the Vice President might freedom of action of the Repub- withdraw his name in the near lican nominating convention, it future from consideration of the was authoritatively learned to- convention is causing the deep-day, est alarm in the ranks of Re- The matter of timing has be- Publicans who feel it could cause come important due to the fact a dangerous split in the party that the Vice President has told President Eisenhower stated some close friends that he is 0Bfr-considering the possibility of "up to Sal-Phrce WDUHLMDUa A I Hosnrai I 1 Mil 111 mm VITAMIN fNUfCHH) 't" two blocks away on U. S. Route 1, just above the Maryland state" line, told firemen he saw a faint glare from a bedroom, ran to a nearby home and summoned fire- men. All available equipment was rushed to the scene but, said firemen, there was no chance to save either the occupants or the building by the time the equipment arrived. Clarence Turner, another neighbor, told investigators he could hear screams from the building shortly after the blaze began.

Fire Marshal Robert Brown said preliminary indications were that an oil heater exploded and set fire to the tinv home, located amidst several other tar-papered homes. The fire was contained before it could spread to the other dwellings. Bay State Deprived of $350,000,000 for Roads-McCormack WASHINGTON, March 8 House Majority Leader John W. McCormack, of Massachusetts, tonight charged the Bureau of Public Roads has discriminated against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in its allocation of roads to the state under the interstate highway commission. As a result of the bureau's action, said McCormack, the state stands to lose "at least $350,000,000" which would be forthcoming in the next 10 or 12 years if Congress approves the pending Federal highway bill.

McCormack demanded that Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks "personally review" the Massachusetts mileage allocation and see that the state is given "its just apportionment." McCORMACK Page Thirty-nine Comic Dictionary INSOLENCE Keeping your manners fresh instead of your mind. I ArraovcDl Never Got Penny in Loan Fees From Maitland, Ries. Tells Jury DO Y0UH EARLY! Boston banker Marshall A. Ries denied in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday that he ever received a penny in fees or gratuities for arranging loans for George J. Maitland.

The loans to the former city constable, he told the locked-up jury, were made on the basis of Dun Bradstreet credit reports and financial statements signed by Maitland. "I had no knowledge or suspicion that those statements Take your Fashions stores. All minutes "not being available" as Vice Presidential candidate. The Vice President has expressed a feeling of let down, not specifically with any lack of indorsement by President CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY WE PAY TOP PRICE CUSTOMERS WAITING SEE 730 COMM. eOSTON CALL ANY TIMS AS T-4S00 MTA BUS TRAIN I A MASS..