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REGISTER THE SASiDUSKV STAR-NEWS Partly cloudy and not ao cdld tonight, low 35 to 38. Thursday fair and unseasonably warm with afternoon temperatures near 60. bounded 1822. Vol. 131.

No. 288. iBiarntiiooai SANDUSKY, OHIO. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 17.

1954 Sandutky Inc. Uailtd PreM Price 1 Qiiifi IKE WARNS OF SWIFT RETALIATION Philly Pier Workers Call Tieup Helps N.Y. Tieup: Firms Hint Move As Cargo Stalled NEW YORK, March 17 of dollars worth of cargo lay stalled on idle piers today in a confused, 12-day wildcat strike that Mayor Robert F. Wagner said was menacing "our economic life." Two giant shipping firms confirmed they were seeliing other ports in which to locate, and two of the nation's largest farm equipment manufacturers said they were halting all operations through New Yorlc. Several other shipping and exporting companies were said to be considering moving out of the port as rebel members of the International Longshoremen's Association (Ind.) pressed thei Bivike into the middle of its second week.

Halt Work Drive Flying squads of the rebel dockworkers Tuesday kept nearly 1,000 members of the rival AFL Longshoremen's Union from goinq back to work on in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Members of the AFL union complained to the National Labor Relations Board (hat their wives and fami- lip.s had been threatened with violence if they worked. The independent ILA called on members in Ea.st Coast ports from Portland, to Hampton Roads, not to handle "hot cargoes" diverted from New York. 34-lIour Holiday Some 6,000 ILA dockers in Philadelphia scheduled a 24-hour "holiday" beginning today to riomonstrale their support of the New York strike. Pliiladelphia have i-efused to handle diverted cargoes since the began.

In Washington, the full NIRB ordered the regional office in New York to in.slitute secondary boycott, action against the AFL Teamsters Union, whose refu.sal to deliver cargoes set off the wildcat by the ILA. The regional board will file the action in Federal Court unless the Teamsters agree at a conference today to "cease and desist" voluntarily. Temperature May Near 60 Thursday; Colder Week-end Spring's arrival here at 10:54 p. m. Saturday, apparently will be on a cold note, the Sandusky forecaster said today.

While he forecast a St. Patrick's Day warm spell that should last into Saturday, he said the temperature change was due approximately with the season's change. SURVIVES MID-AIR CRASH Pictured above at the Wichita, Air Force Base is one of the two Army B-47 jet bombers which collided in mid-air over Overbrook, Kansas. Despite its badly damaged tail section this plane made it safely back to its base. The other plane crashed killing its crew of three.

Fred Bundinger, Ground Safety Officer of the base, views the damage. (NEA Telephoto) Called Pat Little Syndicated Story- wallow Scouts Go Bock To Capistrono SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, March 17 (INS) Ornithological battle lines were drawn today in a dispute over the swallows which traditionally return to the San Juan Capistrano Mission on St. Joseph's Day. France May Seek U.S. AID Indo-China Picture Not Satisfactory; Ground Fight Lull PARIS, March 17 (UP) Premier Joseph Laniel's cabinet discussed the Indo-China War for hours tcday including means of getting United States support for a negotiated peace.

A message of "confidence, admiration and gratitude" to the French Union forces defending surrounded Dien Bien Phu against the Vietminh Communist rebels was sent after the meeting. Well informed sources said the cabinet decided to throw everything it could into the defense of the dispatches from the scene, on the other side of the world, said it was expected the fate of the French garrison probably would be decided by this Irish Win Ike Without TEMPERATURE The prediction is for a reading in the high 50's Wednesday, but not so cold tonight, with the low 35 and the temperature Thursday "close to 60." The warmer weather will extend into Friday and a portion of Saturday, with the colder weather to come some time late Saturday or Sunday. Aver Dulles Too Far On IKe's Retaliation Right WASHINGTON, March 17 (UP) State Department experts said privately today that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles may have gone too far ih claiming the President can b.v-pass Congress to order U. S. troops to defend some allies in an attack.

Dulles said Tuesday that the going to Congress has authority to order instant retaliation against any country attacking the United States or North Atlantic Treaty or Latin American nations. He based his sweeping statement on the premise that the Senate gave its consent in advance in approving the NATO and Rio treaties-. Conflicting Views Experts noted, however, that thi.s' interpretation conflicts with views of the Senate Foreign Relations to Committee when it rcc- ommended 1949. In a unanimous report, the committee the treaty did not give the President "the to ta any action, without specific congressional authorization, which he could not take in the absence of the treaty." Others pointed out that both houses of Congress must act to declare war whereas only the Senate ratified the two treaties. Sen.

Homer Ferguson (R-Mich.) said if another nation is attacked, he believes it would be the re(Continued on Page 8.) Audubonist William Kirsher fired tlie initial salvo by calling the annual return of the flocks of swallows "a pat little syndicated story." Scouts Fly In He ruffled his feathers and snapped: "Through a long process of inculcation by the' press, the phenomenal promptness of the returning Capistrano swallows, wfch its mystical overtones, has become a legend against which merd truth is a feeble antagonist;" Father Vincent Lloyd-Russell, pastor of the Mission refused to comment beyond a report on the "scouts" which traditionally arrive early and chase away groups of birds which take over the Swallow's nests during the winter. Said Father Lloyd-Russell: "The scouts are already bustling about the eaves." Settled Friday Meantime, the argument will be settled this Joseph's the swallows, according to "pat little syndicated stories," arrive at Capistrano year alter year. week-end. Repercussions The situation at Dien Bien Phu was the immediate problem facing the cabinet because of its possible repercussions on the Far Eastern conference to be held in Geneva April 26. Defense Minister Rene Plevin who returned from Indo-China recently, showed the cabinet a French High Commission report which said the picture of Dien Bien Phu was "not Reinforcements Meanwhile from Hanoi the (Continued on Page 6.) WHERE FIGHT Newsmap above locates the areas where the French and the Communists are reported in heavy fighting.

French commanders in Hanoi, Indo-China, admitted the worst was yet to come in the biggest battle of the seven-year war. Communist artillery reportedly cut off Dien Bien Phu's two airports and its besieged French garrison is fighting against four-to-one odds. (NEA Newsmap) Sons Of Erin Green For Big Approve Boosi In Rail Rates To Haul Coal Ohio Supreme Court Upholds PUC's 12 Percent Increase Granted Last May. No Wait On Congress If Attacked President Strongly Defends Tax Plan: Mum On H-Bombs WASHINGTON, March IT Don Pay COLUMBUS, March 17 (UP) Ohio supreme court today approved an increase in the railroad freight rates for hauling coal in Ohio which the Public Utilities Commission had granted. T3 The court's action upheld a i2i Eisenhower percent increase in rates for in-; made it clear today that the trastale coal hauling granted byi TT.

i. i i the PUC on May 7. 1953. United States would strike The railroads asked for the in- crease to bring rates for liauUng coal within the state in line with those for interstate commerce, which had been granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The increase was challenged by a group of electric power companies and cities including, the Toledo Edison Co.

First Denied The PUC at first denied the increase, turning down the railroads on Feb. 15, 1952. The parties opposing the increase said that the commission's later order of May 7, 1953, was illegal because it ovexr.ulEd-a_pxevious or- Federal Marshals Hunt 2 Midwest Labor. Leaders Below Normal Temperature Told WASHINGTON, March 17 (INS) normal temperatures are forecast for much of the nation during the next 30 days' as farmers begin their spring planting. The weather bureau predicts temperatures below seasonal mals for the eastern half of the nation and the Pacific Coast.

In the I 'est of the nation, the weather should be normal for this time of year. Geauga-co Rushes Maple Syrup For Annual Festival CHARDON, March 17 (UP) The maple producers of Geauga- co were hustling today to gather sap for conversion to syrup and sugar to greet 100,000 visitors who will swarm bo the 30th annual Geauga Maple Festival here April 2, 3 and 4. The main event will be the product of the maple or sugar or an elaborate and varied program is slated. Gov. Frank J.

Lausche, Rep. Oliver P. Bolton and Sen. Thomas A. Burke will attend the festival on successive days.

Lausche will crown the Maple Festival Queen. Bolton has notified President Eisenhower and Vice-President Nixon of the event and will carry samples of syrup back to Washington for them. Main attraction will be the WASHINGTON, March 17 (UP) President Eisenhower may have won the battle of Europe but he surrendered to the Irish without a shot. He is joining the friendly sons of St. PaUick tonight.

And regardless of what he's been up to now, he's going to be a son of the Old Sod from here on out. The only question now is whether he should be called O'Eisen- hower, McEisenhower, or MacEis- enhower. The local clansmen have been heatedly debating the pros- and cons on between their St. Patrick's Day glasses. There is a strong possibility the President will be allowed to keep the name he's got which is not lri.sh by any stretch of the imagination.

Comes From Bavaria Mr. Eisenhower's ancestors originally lived in Bavaria, deep in the European continent, and moved to Switzerland in the 17th Centui-y and to Pennsylvania in 1732. They were not Irish. In Dublin, nearly 100,000 celebrated the biggest St. Patrick's Day since the war today cheering a mile-long parade through the city streets led by veterans of the Irish Republican Army.

The American Stars and Stripes followed closley behind the old (Continued on Page 7.) Velde Committee Assumes Pair Hiding Out; Wanted To Testify Before Un-American Probers. der without any evidence of change in circumstances and conditions. The state's highest court ruled however that the railroads' applications were docketed as new matter before the May 7 order and that the commission's decision was legal. CHICAGO, March 17 (INS) Two midwest labor leaders were being hunted today by federal marshals seeking to serve sub- poenaes' issued by the House Un- American Activities subcommittee. Rep.

Harold H. Velde announced at the conclusion Tuesday of two days of public hearings Into Communist Party activities that the two men had not been located and he assumed they were "hiding out." Identify Pair The elu.sive potential witnesses were identified as John B. Watkins of Rock Island, 111., a UAW- CIO organizer, and Abe Feinglass, president of the Fur and Jjcather Woi'kers Independent Union in Chicago. Velde said his group wanted to question the two in connection with its probe of Communist infiltration into labor unions. McCarthy Offers To Testify Before An Army Lawyer BULLETIN WASHINGTON Eisenbower emphatically defended Army Secretary Robert T.

Stevens today against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's "blackmail" charges. Richard Fuller Is Given Honorable Mention By JC's Ohio Organization Selects Ex- Officio Mayor For Civic Affairs' Participation, Election. TAPPED FOR DEBATE NORFOLK, March 17 debating team from Norfolk prison colony meets a group from Holy Cross College Saturday for a debate on wiretapping.

The prison will take the negative in tlie debate. BI.RTHS Mr. and Mm. Elmer llidcr, Huron, a daughter, al Providence Hospital. Mr, and Mrs.

Ricliard Durnwald, rural Vickcry, a daughter, at Memorial Ho.spital. Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Maxwell, Norwalk, a daughter, at Good Samaritan Hospital. Mr.

and Mrs. George Kinkel. Shelby, a at Good Samaritan Hospital. Sandusky Truck Driver Robbed Of $33 By Pair Sandusky police, the Erie-co department and the Bay Bridge state patrol were alerted Tuesday afternoon following the robbery of a Sandusky trucker on Route 2, west of Port Clinton. The highway robbery victim, Thornton E.

Brown, 2719 Colum- bus-av, told state patrolmen that he had pulled his truck to the side of the road and was stretching his legs when a car with two men pulled up alongside his truck. Brown said that he thought they wanted i-oad information and that he walked over to the car. One of the men flourished a gun and ordered the trucker to hand over his money. The i-obbers escaped with $33. Brown is a driver for tlie Sandusky Metal Products Co.

DEATHS Frederick L. Harten, at Fori Myers. Fla. spring output from the maple trees, and products of every variety will be displayed in a huge tent On the village green. Big Fight Ovei Tax Cuts Hits House Floor Award $L323 In Tri, Bicycle Crash BURBANK, March 17 John Chase was awarded SI.323 damages in Superior Court Tuesday for injuries inflicted by Robert Rttter in a traffic accident two years ago.

John is 8. Robert 11. The collision involved dummy bundle of money, a tricycle and a bicycle. HELD IN EXTORTION Wendell Martin Ringholz, 47, above, who was ousted as a CIO labor leader in Cleveland because of his Communist sympathies, was arrested near Los Angeles, on charges he attempted to extort from Max Factor, the cosmetics manufacturer. Ringholz, threatened to blow up Factor and his family with a time bomb unless the money was paid, was trapped by the FBI when he picked up a WASHINGTON, March 17 (UP) big fight over tax cuts moved to the House floor today with the chief issue a Democrat proposal to cut income taxes by upping exemptions from $600 to $700.

The bill called up for debate today is a massive tax reform measure backed by Republican leaders and the administration. The showdown will come Thursday when the House is scheduled to vote on the Democratic effort (Continued on Page 7.) Riedel And Stahl Subdivision Gets Planning Approval Karl Riedel, secretary and treasurer of the Sandusky Lumber Supply announced today that the city planning commission had approved the Riedel-Stahl subdivision which is located on Perkins-av adjacent to AlacArthur Park and near the Mills school. Riedel said that there will be approximately 74 lots in the subdivision and that plans for street, sewer and water improvements will be developed at an early date. He'community, state or nation, said present plans are indifinite! All four have received distin- nine and certifi- The Ohio Junior Chamber of Commerce today had awarded Richard Fuller, Sandusky's ex- officio mayor, honorable mention as one of Ohio's outstanding young men for 1953. Fuller was given the award for his participation in civic affairs and his election as one of the youngest community heads in the state.

Douglas L. Hoge, Cincinnati Robert T. Marquart, Lancaster John S. Andrews, Toledo, and John Lombard, Dayton, were named as Ohio's outstanding young men of 1953. Each year the Jaycees honor the outstanding young men in the state between the ages of 21 and 35, who have made contribu tions to the general welfare of the WASHINGTON.

March 17 (INS) Joseph R. McCarthy offered today to face cross-examination by an Army lawyer when his investigations subcommittee begins public hearings on his fight with Army leaders. The Wisconsin Republican made the offer while Sen. Karl E. Mundt who will head the inquiry, searched for a top-flight attorney to serve as chief counsel for the investigation.

The individual selected would be a temporai-y replacement for Ray M. Cohn, subcommittee aide named along with McCarthy in an Army report charging that the pair sought favors for Pvt. G. David Schine, inducted former chief sultant of the unit. May Be Aired Mundt said he would have "nd MrlCKen At objection" to broadcasting andj back against any aggressor without waiting tor a congressional declaration of war in the event of a surprise attack.

The chief executive told a news conference in emphatic terms that any President who did not act in such a situation to protect the nation should be hung. He said he would take whatever action is best for the United States to most quickly diminish the power of the enemy to repeat its attack. The President's strongly-wonded statement appeared to reinforce the so-called doctrine of "instant retaliation" first laid down Ijy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Abreast Of Times Mr. Eisenhower also spoke heatedly on the so-called "new look' in national defense, declaring the "new look" is only an attempt by intelligent people to keep abreast of the times.

He said the huge invasion forces he directed in World War 2 could not he said to have any great usefulness in a modern war, noting that two atomic bombs could have done tremendous damage to the Allied concentration at Normandy. The President staunchly defended his administration's tax progi'am, under attack from Democrats on grounds that it favors big business and the rich. Might Veto He declined to say whether he would veto a tax bill which included increased personal exemptions, as proposed by Democrats, but said he would have to weigh the bad features of such legislation against the good. He implied, however, that he would be strongb' influenced to veto a bill which in his opinion would wreck the nation. The President declared heatedly that to say his tax bill was designed to help rich people was an error.

He apparently had a stronger word than error in mind, but paused in the middle of bis state(Continued on Col. 8.) Frederick Harten televising the hearings. Prior to leaving Washington for a four-day speaking tour starting in Chicago this evening, McCarthy said he also would "have no objection" to the Army's having a lawyer question any other witness "adverse to them." In Chicago special security measures have been taken to guard against any disturbance at Irish Fellowship Club tonight at which Sen. McCarthy is principal speaker. as to whether lots or completed houses will be sold.

There will be suitable building restrictions on the lots. Preliminary work of clearing the site on Perkins-av stai'ted today. Fuilher announcement will be made when the subdivision plans are completed and definite, according to Riedel. All four guished service pins cates. CLEARS UP DUBLIN TOWN DUBLIN, March 17 (UP) Board Manager Joe Scale waited until today to make this announcement: Dublin got its name from an old tavern called the Double Inn.

Ironic Twist Of Irishman's Invention HARTFORD. March 17 (INS) An Irishman bent on tossing: the English off his beloved Emerald Isle developed the first successful submarine and took it on its first submerged run on St. Patrick's Day 56 years ago. He was John Philip Holland, born in County Clare and raised of a ves.sel that could end England's mastery of the seas. Holland's early experiments were inspired by the Monitor and the Merrimac and the possibility of war at that time between Great Britain and the United States, first subs were failures and the war failed to develop, but Holland gained new inspiration in Ameri- at Limerick on the banks of from the Fenian Brotherhood River Shannon.

a secret society dedicated to Irish (NEA Telephoto) This wisp-sized Celtic schoolmaster left the old sod after one of the disastrous potato famines and landed at Boston in 1872, Twenty-eight years later his invention became the first submarine commissioned by the United States Navy. End British Hold But as far back as the days of the American civil war be dreamed freedom. The Fenians" financed a submarine that made several runs in New York Harbor. But that thorn among the Shamrocks the project with one faction stealing the "Fenian Ram" from its dock at Bayonne, N. and hiding it at New A few years later Holland gained new financial backing from a group that later merged with the Electric Boat comoany which recently launched the world's first atomic sub.

His ninth submarine first plunged beneath the surface of the sea March 17, 1898. Soon it became the USS Holland, but this success carries an ironic note. The British were so impressed with the craft that they pur chased his plans so' that they could build an undersea fleet of their own. However on this day it is best to remember that Ireland has produced a long list of saints and scholais, patriots and poets and at least one mechanical genius Haven. where it was dreamt that dream of all true doned.

BULLETIN GREENSBURG. PA. Attorneys for John W. Wable, convicted as the "phantom killer" of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, petitioned today for a new trial to save the Ohiopyle, defendant from electrocution. Fort Myers, Fla.

Frederick L. Harten, well-knofira resident of Chaska Beach and Fort Myers, died of a sudden heart attack late Tuesday at Fort Myers. Long residents of Sandusky; Mr. and Mrs. Harten had made their home in Florida for many years.

Funeral arrangements are Incomplete. Tentatively services will be held in Fort Myers on Thursday and burial will follow in Sandusky Mrs. Harten's son, Russell A. Ramsey, flew to Fort Myers early Wednesday. The body is to be brought to the Charles J.

Andi'es Funeral Home and arrangements will be announced later. Sandusky Mayor To Attend Lausche Seaway Meeting Sandusky's e.v-officio Mayor Richard Fuller is among eight mayors and county commission chairmen being invited by Governor Lausche to meet with him on March 26 to discuss Ohio's benefits from the proposed St. Lawrence seaway project. On extending the invitations, the governor said "there are cities in Ohio which have the potentiality of becoming inland ocean cities" as a result of the seaway. Those receiving the invitations were mayors from Ashtabula, Cleveland, Painesville, Lorain.

Sandusky, Port Clinton and Fremont and the city manager of Toledo. Counties to be represented are Cuyahoga, Lake, Lorain, Erie, Sandusky, Ottawa and Lucas. News In Brief COLU.MBUS (UP) The Ohio supreme court today upheld the first degree murder conviction of Mrs. Betty Butler, 27, of Cincinnati and set April 19 as date of her electrocution. DURHAM, N.

H. (INS) gunmen, one wearing a green mackinaw, walked into the Durham Trust Co. today as a confederate waited in a car outside, trussed up the bank president and treasurer, and escaped with about $30,000. COLUMBUS (UP) Gov. Frank J.

Lausche today set a meeting at bis office Friday in another at" tempt to iron out the dispute over location of the Ohio turnpike at Elyria. DETROIT (INS) A grand Jury probe of alleged Detroit police graft and collusion with racketeers rapidly took today amid reports the scandal may engulf scores of policemen ia eval precincts..