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Thursday, June 15,1961 18 Pages Price Seven Cents Danger Seen Great Aid Boost Urged WASHINGTON (API--Gen, Lyman Lemnitzer urged Congress Wednesday to approve stepped up military aid lor threatened nations, warning that the Soviet Union and Red China are shipping substantial amounts of arms into Cuba, "The danger is very great" that Red-inspired revolution will spread from Cuba, said Lemnitzer, chairman of the joint Chiefs of Staff, and Robert S. McNamara, the secretary of defense. "We have mueh evidence the Castro government is endeavoring to infiltrate the rest of Latin America," McNamara added. This was one of their ways of 1 seeking to justify President Kennedy's military aid proposals before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The peppering of questions put to both Lemnitzer and McNamara left little doubt that the administration's Hon foreign aid bill faces some tough especially the 51.88- billion military portion.

Sen. William Fulbright, D- the committee chairman, several times asked McNamara to GEN. LEMNITZER "Danger Is Great" justify the aid program, particularly to economically underdeveloped nations. In essence the senator asked whether rifles and tanks would counter communism more easily than food and jobs 5 these nations. The defense secretary said send Fulbright conclusion about specific countries in a serie of classified studies.

Fulbright told McNamara tb cost of the program is becomin staggering, and "it is distastefu to the Noting that billions are bein; poured into nations about whie no American had heard some years ago, the senator added "We are seeking some proof tha this isn't just Uie inertia of a pro gram that and is con tinued. We need evidence that should be continued." Sen. Homer E. Capehart, R-Ind who told McNamara "I'm 100 pe cent for building up the strengtl of these Latin-American coun tries," had a complaint too. Hi said, report after report has beer reaching his desk of waste anc mismanagement' in the military aid program.

"I'm following tha up," McNamara replied. He sail every dollar be spent will, be "screened and screened by personally." Bain. Hail, Winds Strike State Cleans Up After Storm ALBANY, N. Y. (AP)-Commu- liities across New York State conducted massive clean-up operations Wednesday in the aftermath of violent thunder squalls that shipped over the state and wreaked damage in, the hundreds of thousand dollars, Generally fair and cool weather was forecast for Thursday, after further showers Wednesday.

Rain and accompanied winds of at least 60 miles an hou or more, toppled trees and powe poles Tuesday and overnight, di rupted electric power servic smashed'windows, flattened barn and turned city streets into rag ing streams. Despite the intensity of th storms, only minor injuries wer reported. JFK's Illness Well Kept Secret WASHINGTON (AP) Pres dent Kennedy not only kept hi lame back a secret from his wif, but talked her out hurryin home from Europe when sh Jearned about it. This word ca'me Wednesda from White House press secretar Pierre Salinger, who was be sieged by reporters again for de tails about the ailment that ha put the President on crutches. Since Kennedy wrenched his back while taking part in a cere- monial Canadian tree planting a Peace Corps Vanguard Is Selected WASHINGTON (AP) Th.

Peace Corps picked its vanguard Wednesday. Twenty-seven young men will train to build roads schools and farms in Tanganyika and Colombia. The 27 are the first chosen by the Peace Corps for training. Twelve were named for train ing to survey and build secondary roads in Tanganyika. Fifteen were named to build roads, vil lage schools and small farn buildings, dig wells, and raisi animals in Colombia.

They were among mo.ro thai 3,500 applicants who took rigor ous written examinations recent ly. Other factors in their selec lion by the Peace Corps were personal references, educationa background, and practical experi ence and skills. The corps, created by Presiden Kennedy, aims to supply the world's emerging nations with young, skilled Americans for work on projects. Forty persons will be trainee foe the Tanganyika project, although only 28 will be sent to the African country. This will include 20 surveyors, four civil engineers, and four geologists.

The Tanganyika trainees will begin their program June 26 al Texas Western College in El Paso, Tex. Officials hope the training will fit them for helping Tanganyika officials to survey and build secondary roads. To Read You'll Want STATE CHANGE leader speaks at Olsego Toniona session. Page 2 SIDNEY SclinnI Board asks, po- lico probo of damage. Pago 3 ONEONTA School Board objects to renting athletic facilities.

Pnge Deaths js Women .13 Business 11 14,15 ago, this meant that Mrs Kennedy was evidently unawar her husband was in pain all dur ing then? May 5 trip Paris, Vienna and.London. Salinger said as far as knows Mrs. Kennedy first leamei of her husband's condition whe: she lead about it in the news papers while vacationing in Greec last week. She sent a message to her hus band saying she thought sh ought to cut short her trip anc return to Washington to be him, Salinger said, but the Presi dent told her not to do this. The First Lady is due to return to Washington Thursday night following her original plans.

Kennedy, who has been taking ultrasonic 'and hot pad treatments while carrying on a full work schedule, plans to drive to Nation al Airport to greet her even though it will be close to mid night. It will be his first trip outsidi the White House since, he flew back Monday from a weekend rest in Palm Beach, Fla. Sea Rescue Method Is Shown PATUXENT RIVER NAVAL AIR STATION, Md. (AP) Two men were plucked from the ground and water Wednesday by a low-flying airplane in a demonstration of how astronauts or downed aviators could be rescuec from remote areas. The Navy showed off to visiting foreign military' observers anc newsmen its "Skyhook-Aerotriev- er" system.

A 20-foot-long balloon, inflated by the men on the ground or on raft, carries aloft nylon line. A fork-like device on the nose ol a P2V patrol plane engages the line as the plane flies into it. The man, in a harness, fastens to the line, then is reeled up into the plane. The Navy emphasizes the possible high value of this system as a rescue device in bringing iack astronauts who have landed ar out at sea or in some remote esert or mountain area. The.Navy has made more than 00 tests of the system, picking -dummies, small cargo and ight men.

Of the men, Nos. 7 and 8 were Vcdnesday's pickups. No. 7 was CPO James H. Me- 3ee whose home is Granite Falls, C.

The chief's regular job is a frogman. No. 8 was Lt. Edmund P. Ja- os, head of the aero-medical ranch of Ihe test division at this avy base.

Jacobs lives in San ose, Calif, The storms characterized by narrow fronts, knifed particularly into 'sections of Clinton, Essex Franklin, 0 Onondaga Oneida, Madison, Herkimer, Sche nectady, Albany and Ren'sselae counties. In the tiny community of Free dom, Cattaraugua County, resi dents reported seeing a twister like cloud during a torrential rain storm. Many large trees were felled and estimates of the rain fall varied up to three inches. The storms served as a van guard for a front of cool air tha' moved southward across the statt Wednesday and dropped tempera lures from near 90 in some re gions Tuesday to the 50s and 70s Wednesday. Thousands ol homes in the Syr acuse, Utica, Albany areas an the Plattsburgh-Malone section Northern New York were withou power temporarily after the storms that hit between late aft' ernoon and midnight.

More than a dozen barns along the Canadian border in Northern Franklin County were flattened roofs were blown from others, and silos crashed. Family Contests Davis Will LOS ANGELES (AP) Joan Davis' daughter and mother Wednesday contested the comedienne's 1941 will leaving her es- now estimated at more than $1 million, to her former husband. A judge set June 26 for a hearing. Miss Davis, 48, died May 23 Palm Springs of a heart attack. Her daughter, actress Beverly Wills, 27, whose legal name is Josephine Beverly Colbert, and he comedienne's mother, Nina Davis, 72, appeared in Superior Court Wednesday.

They listed 10 grounds opposing a will submitted June 2 lor probate by Miss Davis' ex-husband, writer Si Wills, 57, whose legal name is Screnus M. Williams. That document was dated Nov. 19, 1941. The couple was divorced in 1947.

Among their grounds, mother and daughter allege that a property agreement made before the divorce, rescinded the will. Today's Chuckle Some people never do anything on time, except buy. HECKLER DISGUISED Actress Liz Taylor, 'disguised as a waitress at the Desert Inn, Las Vegas created havoc at the closing show of her husband Eddie Fisher. Stumbling around the dining room, dropping crockery and abusing the song star in a highly pitched Cockney voice, Liz completely fooled her husband who stood in bafflement on stage. It was only when she removed her wig that Eddie recognized her.

Riders Get Cool, Orderly Reception By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The first of three bus-riding groups of "Freedom Riders" received a cool, orderly" reception in South Carolina' Wednesday. They were the vanguard of 32 white and Negro riders testing segregated facilities at interstate jus stations in the Deep South en route to Florida. Seven members of the party from Washington were greeted at a lunch counter in the Charleston, S.C., bus terminal by an elderly Kennedy Intervention Plea Denied RICHMOND, Va. (AP)--A federal judge Wednesday denied Ally. Gen.

Robert F. Kennedy permission to intervene in the case of Prince Edward County's closed public schools. U.S. Dist. Judge Oren, R.

Lewis laid "the granting of intervention vill unduly delay and prejudice he adjudication of the rights" of lie original Negro plaintiffs and he county school board. Kennedy asked the court April 6 for permission to intervene as a plaintiff in the 10-year-old chool racial He contend- intervention by the federal government was necessary "to revent the circumvention and unification' 'of the court's school esegregation order. white woman carrying a cane, She shook hands with a white minister and a Negro minister in the group. Uniformed and plainclothces policemen were on hand as the Greyhound bus rolled in. It was an uneventful day for the group, which left Wilmington, N.C., after spending the night in a Negro hotel.

As the bus drove southward, the number ol while onlookers at bus terminals grew larger. Brief uneventful stops were made at Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, and other coastal cities. An unmarked patrol car carry ing two state law enforcement division plainclolhesmen escorted the bus as it left Myrtle Beach. Six city police cars converged on the bus station at Georgetown, but again there were no threats of violence. Seven more riders left Wilmington and planned to join the first group- in Charleston to spend the night.

A third group of IS left Raleigh, N.C., for Sumter, S.C. Four rabbis, eight white Protestant ministers and six Negro ministers made up the party. They are duo in Tallahassee, Thursday and plan to fly back to New York for a news conference Friday. The groups who spent the night Castro Approves Tractor but By LEWIS GULICK HAVANA (AP) Prime Minister Fidel Castro conditionally agreed Wednesday to free his Cuban invasion prisoners in exchange for small instead of big He demanded an "indemnity" valued at $28 million plus--around 10 times the offer of the American, Tractors for Freedom Committee. The negotiators from the United States left Castro's office after a three-hour, 40-minute bargaining session and huddled alone to decide on their response before returning, to their own Chileans Greet Adlai Warmly SANTIAGO, Chile W)--Friendly street crowds applauded Ambassador Adlai E.

Stevenson Wednesday as Chilean Communists urged new demonstrations against U.S. policy and called on President Kennedy's special rep- In Charleston were Jacksonville and St. Fla. bound for Petersburg; All were traveling by regularly scheduled buses. Their trips are sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality.

Blackmail Seen Path To Espionage WASHINGTON (AP) A 22 year-old girl. Visits to her apart ment. Some photographs. Anc then a a i Governmen! sources Wednesday described this as the Communist net that trapped U.S. diplomat Irvin Scarbeck into his al leged spying.

Scarbeck, 41, was arrested anc arraigned Tuesday on charges turning over secret information to Communist Poland this year while he was second secretary in the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw. The Justice Department said he has signed a statement admitting Government sources describee the circumstances this way: Soon after he was assigned to the embassy in 1938, Scarbeck, met the girl. She told him sho was a for- employe of the embassy. On one occasion, Communist agents surprised Scarbeck in the girl's (apartment and snappec photographs.

The agents then blackmailed Scarbeck, who is married and has four children. He gave them the classified information they requested. "They forced him to deal with them, not'the girl, under threats of exposure," the government sources said. The sources said it was not known whether Polish agents had planted the girl for the specific purpose of compromising him. The government lias not disclosed the nature of the information Scarbeck allegedly turned over to the Communists.

U.S. off! cials said it closed. may never be dis- Montreal Fire Victim Still Unknown MONTREAL (AP)--One of four victims of a fire in a crowded St. Denis Street rooming house at dawn Wednesday was still unidentified more than 12 hours after the fire broke out. The known dead were Mrs.

Jeanne Oulete, 35, and her two- year-old son, and Roland Lamon- lagne, about 25. The fourth victim was a man. Four occupants of the building were injured and two firemen suffered slight cuts torn flying Tenant R. Pilon, 52, was hospitalized with burns ami fractures suffered when he leaped to the street from the top floor oj the bur-story building to escape the ilames. Riches Wipes Out Humiliation Impoverished Man Is Benefactor SHRUB OAK, N.Y.

(AP)-Long go, Henry Halleck left this quiet ittle hamlet, bankrupt and humil- ated. Now, more than a century later, has become indirectly a benc- actor of the Shrub Oak Methodist hurch which he had attended as impoverished farmer. The story was told Wednesday the Rev. Dorland Russett, he church's pastor, in connection rith a $500,000 bequest to the lurch by Miss Edna K. Denver, etired Jersey City, N.J., school- cacher who died last July.

Shs was Halleck's granddaugh-l tcr. He and his family had been pioneering residents of" this "little community of about 1,500, situated in northern Wcstchester County. In the 1840s, went broke, and lost his farm by a mortgage foreclosure. He moved to New Jersey, and through the years, established a carting business, hauling merchandise between Jersey City and New York City. He returned frequently to Shrub Oak for visits, and his manner of dress and the carriage he drove showed ho was prospering.

He and his family made gifts to the historic church, whose congregation dates back to 1787. When the church relocated in 1867, built its present structure and opened a cemetery, Halleck came over from New Jersey and bought the first plot. He had a 15-foot family monument erected on the plot, the largest in the cemetery. Meanwhile, he acquired considerable real estate holdings in Jersey City, some of which became immensely valuable because of its location near the present entrance ol the Holland Tunnel. When he died, Halleck's fortune was passed on to three granddaughters, and eventually all went to the last surviving one of them, Edna.

Like most of the rest of the family, she was buried at Shrub Oak, beqUesting the fortune to the church. The Rev. Mr. Russet, 40, and for 11 years pastor of the church, said the money will be invested with the income estimated at $20,000 a year. What will be done with the extra money hasn't been decidedi resentative to go home.

The applause came as President Kennedy's special envoy strolled bareheaded through a crowd of 400 on his way from his hotel to the presidential palace for a talk with President Jorge 'Alessandri on ways to improve living conditions in Latin America. There were no outward signs of sentiment, such as Tuesday night when' crowds smashed windows of the U.S. Information Agency office and leftist students burned a U.S. flag. However, the Communist newspaper El Siglo blasted Stevenson as one of the authors of the April invasion Cuba.

It also gave a big front-page play to stories and pictures of the demonstrations and called for more. Stevenson's talks with Chilean officials were devoted primarily to preparations, for the economic conference. The U.S. envoy 'disclosed that lie and Foreign Minister Enriqui Ortuzar had touched briefly on the Cuban problem and the Communist threat to the Western Hemisphere. But they agreed that a political meeting of the Organization of American States would have to wait until after the economic conference.

Stevenson is on an 18-day tour of South America to work out concrete proposals for the Uruguayan economic conference. He leaves Thursday for Bolivia. Manhattan Power Lag Probe Opens NEW YORK (AP) Investigations got under way Wednesday into Manhattan's second big power failure in two years, with Mayor Robert F. Wagner demanding safeguards against future chaotic blackouts. Five square miles in midlown were cut off from power for hours Tuesday.

A similar blackout occurred Aug. 17, 1959. Tuesday's a was traced to the failure of two tric switches in the Consolidated Edison West 65th Street substation. The utility called it an unusual coincidence and promised its own investigation. New York- gets its power from -on Edison.

However, City Hall no control over the private utility, which is regulated by the State Public Service Commission. Wagner asked Republican Gov. Rockefeller and the PSC to inves- iigate "the adequacy of: the Con Edison plant, as presently in or planned for the fu- existence ture." Rockefeller's office replied that such an investigation already was under way, and that PSC engineers were on the scene within 10 12 minutes after the blackout began. Con Edison blamed the blackout on "an unusual coincidence of allures." Milk Price Set at $3.71 NEW YORK ID A uniform farm prlco of $3.71 a hundred- weijtht was set Wednesday for milk delivered in May in pool plants In the New York-New Jersey mllkshed. The April farm prlco was $3.91 anil the May 19GO price $3.64 Dr.

C. J. Stanford, market administrator, also announced a May producer butterfat differential ot six cents for each tenth ot a pound of fat above or be- ion the 3.5 per cent standard. spokesman for the four-man American technical team said the group would communicate once more with. then would definitely fly to Washington Thursday to confer with jts parent committee of prominent U.S.

citizens who are raising a fund to buy the tractors. The committee oounteroffered 500 smaller tractors for farm use. The fund raisers figured $2.5 million dollars or so might be enough to buy the equipment they had in mind. Castro said, however, that his original demand for the 500 monster tractors would have cost $28 million plus transportation expense. He said he was not asking to trade machinery for human lives, but rather was seeking indemnification for what he described as the U.S.-fomented invasion of Cuba.

While he now is willing to settle for smaller tractors the type the committee offered, Castro said, he wants whatever number of such tractors $28 million would buy, plus transportation costs. The Cuban prime minister spelled out his views to newsmen in a press conference following the closed negotiations. Originally, according to Word he had sent to the committee through 10 paroled prisoners, Castro was willing to swap all 1,214 prisoners except perhaps half dozen. Wednesday, he listed the trading figure at 1,167. Explaining the decrease, Castro said he was subtracting from the original total three Spanish priests who he indicated probably will be released under other circumstances, 16 prisoners accused ot serious crimes, under the pre- Castro Batista regime, three Invasion leaders who will be tried here unless sxyapped for political prisoners elsewhere, two prisoners under investigation of killing militiamen, eight who died "accidentally" while being taken to Havana, and an unspecified number of others captured in civilian garb after they had invaded "Cuba in' uniform.

Bridges Sees US. Funds Aiding Castro WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Styles Bridges, told the Senate Wednesday that U.S. funds are going to be used through a United Nations agency to bolster the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. He called it shocking.

Bridges, who heads the Senate Republican Policy Committee, attacked a decision of the U.N. Special Fund Agency to make $1.16 million available to explore ways to relieve Cuban agriculture of its dependence on sugar as its chief crop. Bridges said the United States would be contributing 40 per cent of the money. "It is hard to believe--but it is true," Bridges said. "The United Nations Special Fund approved, on the recommendation of its managing director, a project to hand over to Castro nearly half a million American dollars.

Even more incredible, but also true, the managing director of the special fund who recommended this project is an American--Paul Hoffman." Bridges said it was startling to him "that a protest lodged by the United States was not on the grounds that Castro is a blackmailer, a blood-soaked dictator who denies his nation the right to vote, a bandit who villifies our leaders and the clergy of his own nation," but on "technical, econ i a administrative grounds." Bus Fare Hike Okayed ALBANY, N. Y. CAP) The Public Service Commission authorized tho Greyhound Bus Corp. Wednesday to increase most its fares within the state by 5 per cent, effective Friday. Tho commission estimated lha increase would total $77,500 i year.

At the same time, the PSC blocked a company proposal to Increase commuter fares in the Buffalo and Syracuse areas by 10 cents a ride. The commission orcfcrp.1 a public hearing on that proposal to ba held June 27 in the State OlUca Building in Buffalo. Under the new rate schedule, most one-way fare's in excess o( 50 cents will be increased by 5 per cent. Round-trip and commutation tickets will be increased proportionately. School fares wJi remain un changed..