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No. 250. Unitid Press International SANDUSKY, OHIO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, I960 MAin 5-5500 Price Six Cents IN CUBA Guard Soviet Show HAVANA authorities pulled an iron curtain of secrecy today Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan's movements because of gunfire that nearly wrecked the formal opening of the Russian exposition Friday. Pro government newspapers blamed "counter -revolutionaries" for the outbursts which touched off near-panic in the heart of Havana. There appeared to be no connection between the anti-Communist demonstration staged by students in Jose Marti Park and the hit-and run machinegun attacks along the fashionable Prado, one block from the Palace of Fine Arts which houses the Soviet exposition.

A military guard stood watch through the night over the gaudy five-color wreath Mikoyan laid on Marti's statue to avoid any attempts by Roman Catholic students to replace it with one of their own. Soviet Display Guarded The Palace of Fine Arts also was under heavy army guard as was the nearby open parking lot where Soviet made heavy farm machinery and equipment are on display Seventy Crimes Admitted Here 18-YEAR-OLD PAROLEE Jerry Dees "tells all" to Sandusky Detective Sgt. Albert Hess in city police station. (Register Staff Photo) Boxcars Up-Ended In Crash The scuffle in Marti Park broke out when anfci-Communist students (Photo on Page 10) itried to cover the Mikoyan wreath' Two freight cars -emblazoned with the Soviet em- were upended and 38 ot hers were blenr with a Cuban flag. Almost simultaneously.

anttCas- imaged about 7 a.m. tro gunmen fired submachinegun bursts from speeding cars along today when a "drag" of incoming cars from the Wheeling Division the Prado, about a block from' sw jped another string of cars where Mikoyan and'President Os- standing on a siding, some 110 valdo Dorticos were standing yar west of the Kilbourne St. about to start the exposition inauguration ceremonies. There were no casualties. Shots Scatter Crowd Reports said at least 20 students were arrested, most of them from Santo Tomas de Villanueva, Catholic university which draws (Continued on Page 7.) Perkins Twp.

Family Is Burned Out Living quarters and clothing were being sought today by a Perkins family burned out Friday night when fire gutted their home at 3 E. Bogart Rd No one was injured. Victims of the fire were Mr. and Mrs. H.

E. Boetticher, and their two children, a son and daughter. The home is owned by Mrs. A. H.

Boetticher, now residing in Sun Valley, Calif. Perkins Fire Chief Lynford Sartor said the fire gutting the interior and destroying the family's clothing, was started from an overheated coal stove which ignited the flooring, spreading to the interior of the home. The $8,000 loss to the dwelling and $3,000 contents, included (Continued on Page 6.) Lyman Boat Meeting Set Federal mediator Frank Denner will meet with representatives of the Lyman Boat and striking Local 393 of the UAW at 10 a.m. Tuesday to attempt settlement of the now four-day old walkout. Members of the striking union will meet at 1 p.m.

Monday at the Local 913 hall on Milan Rd. to go over demands and express their opinions on negotiations. crossing here Nickel Plate Railroad officials reported that Train No. 91 was shoving a drag of cars from the Wheeling Division yards at Kline's Corners into the NKP yards when the momentum of one 7 7 a drag apparently whipped into the side of a 76-car unit on the siding. Two of the cars from the idled drag were toppled on their side, while two others from that same unit were damaged, as were 36 of the moving drag which did the sideswiping.

All 40 cars will have to go into the repair shops at Bellevue, according to William Briest, shop superintendent in the local yards. L. D. Brown, general yardmaster, reported that residents living within two blocks of the crossing said they heard a strong grinding noise, but paid little attention to it as train noises are common in that area. WHERE OTHERS DIED Four Injured At Motel Entrance A 68-year-old road-weary Minnesota driver looking for a place to sleep tried to make a left turn into a motel just south of the Ohio Turnpike last night on Route 250.

A 20-year-old New London youth driving in the opposite direction couldn't stop in time. -When, had been i pulled apart the Minnesotan's wife had a broken arm, pelvis and collar bone, an elderly companion was in "fair" condition with undetermined mjuries, the top of the youth's scalp had been ripped away and both he and a teenage companion were being rushed to a Norwalk hospital with fractured skulls. The accident, more serious of two at the same location within! 15 minutes, sent all of the injured to Fisher-fitus Hospital in kutfach and Smith, and Komerak ambulances. Fatal Spot Highway patrolmen recalled that the point of impact is practically the same as where two other accidents, involving fatalities, occurred during past month. Andrew E.

Minor, 68, of Duluth, was attempting the left turn. Traveling north was Herbert (Continued on Page 3.) Titan Blows Up After 57 Seconds CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, which made its first test flight a year ago today, failed again Friday in a high altitude explosion. Just three days ago the A i Force said after a successful 2,000 mile flight by the Titan that the 98 -foot missile had "entered an advanced flight test phase" after nine months of failure. Fifty-seven seconds after it was aunched the rocket veered off course, erupted in a silent explosion and streamered the blue sky with fiery debris and burning fuel.

The explosion triggered the 80,000 pound thrust second stage which fell almost intact into the ocean. Oglesby In State Land Deals Post Sandusky attorney Robert B. Oglesby has been appointed to a permanent position with Division 3 of the Ohio Highway Department at Ashland. The appointment was effective Feb. 1.

Oglesby will handle right-of-way land appropriations for the department in an eight-county region. Current projects include the north-south freeway' and the Sandusky by-pass. The attorney will continue to live in Sandusky, but will close a downtown office and conduct private practice from his home. He plans to commute to state ROBERT B. OGLESBY assignments.

The appointment was made by Edwin Toberen, division deputy director and approved by Columbus officials. Lone Air Survivor, Two-Year-Old Dies AS WE GO TO PRESS FAA Admits Responsibility A Federal Aviation Agency official admits the agency was responsible for near crash between two passenger planes over Kentucky Thursday night. "One plane was at 19,000 feet altitude and the other at 21,000. The controller ordered one down to 19,000, the same altitude as. the one approaching it.

We're fortunate nothing serious came of it." Two Neo-Nazis Sentenced The two young Neo-Nazis who daubed the Cologne, Germany, synagogue Christmas Eve and set off a world-wide series of anti-semitic actions were sentenced to prison today. Arnold Strwnk got 14 months and Paul Josef Sxhoenen, 10 months. LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPI) A two-year-old girl who was the only survivor of Bolivia's worst plane crash in history died Friday night despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. Little Jenny Escobar was the only one of 59 persons aboard a Bolivian Lloyd Airlines DC 4 found alive after the fiery crash in the Andes Mountains Friday, At least seven Americans were believed to be among the victims. The airliner took off on a routine flight from Cochabamba for La Paz and all went well for the first 15 minutes.

But the number 3 engine caught fire and the airliner plummetted to earth and burned. Airline officials said they already had requests to ship seven bodies found in the wreckage to the United States. Today they faced the grim and nearly impossible task of identifying the mutilated and charred bodies. At least five whole families were wiped out on the doomed flight. Many of the 51 were parents who were returning with their children to La Paz after summer holidays.

The DC-4 was crushed by the impact of its crash, but somehow the Escobar child escaped death at that time. Doctors worked over her for hours but they were unable to save her because of internal injuries. Nine other young children were killed in the crash. There was confusion as to whether the passenger list was accurate. Youthful 'Beatnik' Tells Tale Sandusky de tives said today an 18-year-old self-styled "beatnik" arrested last night has admitted taking part in more than 60 auto thefts, at least one armed robbery, and a dozen house burglaries in Cleveland.

The youth, Jerry Dees, was arrested last night with a 17-year- old girl and a 15-year-old boy, after police learned they possibly were involved in a rash of car thefts here in the past two days. Detective Captain Robert Traver said the girl and the younger boy appear be implicated only in the theft of 10 autos in the 36 hours preceding their arrest at the apartment of Dees' father, Kenny, a former janitor at the police department. Traver said Dees, paroled from Boys' Industrial School in Lancaster in June, 1958, after serving a term for theft of a gun in Wooster, has claimed credit for many other crimes. Cleveland Connections He hinted to detectives he may have been connected with four men convicted, yesterday in U.S District Court in Cleveland of operate an auto theft ring. The slight, 18-year-old boasted he knew one of the four Albert P.

Lauerhass 47. Lauerhass and his three accomplices are in Cuyahoga County jail awaiting sentencing. Police records here show Lauerhass was arrested March 27, 1948, for burglary of an inhabited dwelling in Sandusky, and sentenced to a term in the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. Sandusky police got on the trail of Dees and his accomplices as the result of several auto thefts here. After their arrest, Dees and his companions admitted stealing three cars in Sandusky, plus sev en others in the same 36-hour period in Cleveland.

Police said the 15-year-old boy involved was a parolee from Boys Industrial School, where he (Continued on Page 2.) Annex Hearing Due With two big hurdles successfully jumped, annexation of Perkins Township to Sandusky meets a third Monday morning when county commissioners conduct a public hearing to determine if the merger is right, just and equitable. The hearing will open at 10 a.m. in the commissioners' room, and then adjourn to the main common pleas courtroom on the third floor of the court house. Commissioners have planned to tape record the entire hearing, and emphasized earlier this week that persons speaking for and against the merger will do so one at a time. The entire proceedings started last fall when the city passed an ordinance asking annexation, county approving, and certified it to the board of elections.

Perkins' voters approved the action on Nov. 3 by a 200 votes margin. (Continued on Page 6.) MORAL leoni, chairman of the Plaza Parking Control Committee, turned warns a shopper he's illegally parked by a violation warning "ticket' being slipped onto the windshield. Merchants of the east end shop center are attempting to correct recognized traffic hazards by asking customers to observe parking regulations. (Register Staff Photo) Dictator Trujillo Faces Grim Spector Of Revolt WASHINGTON (UPI) ican dictator Rafael Reefs Hand Newsman Prison Term HONG KONG (UPI) r- United Press International Correspondent Bijl Yim has been sentenced to a year in prison in Communist China on charges of.

"conducting spy activities," it was reported today. The New China News Agency, official service of the Communist government quoted its "Kwantung bureau" as saying Yim "positively collected our (Communist) political and military employed monetary means in attempting to lure and buy over personnel in our hotel." It said he had confessed and was sentenced Jan. 31. Yim was born in China 23 years ago but came to live in Hong Kong when he was three. The UPI Hong Kong bureau sent Yim to Communist China last July 19 to interview William Downey, who had been given special U.S.

State Department permission to visit his brother John Downey, one of five Americans imprisoned in Red China. Trujillo faced the specter of revolt today and his efforts to put it down by mass arrests brought a call for an immediate council meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS). Venezula asked the OAS council late Friday to hold a special session this weekend or Monday. Venezuela charged Trujillo with "flagrant violations" of human rights. The nieeting was expected to be held Monday.

Reliable diplomatic sources here said Trujillo was in the deepest trouble at home of his 30- year regime. There was no organized rebellion. But Trujillo's secret police roundup of some 1,500 persons has caused an unprecedented up- swelling of public unrest, joined in by some key members of the Today's Register NORWALK ARMORY funds appropriated 10 SENIOR HIGH teachers on panel at Oberlin 7 COURT BATTLE against Red Party handed set back 2 PANTHERS even record; Streaks lose; other area cage results 8 SNIPER PICKS human targets 2 PROPOSED RT. 99 bridge at Willard gets green light 10 army, diplomats said. Venezuelan Ambassador Marcos Falcon received instructions from his government to ask for an immediate council meeting and promptly made the request (Continued on Page 7.) Probe Destroyer's Fatal Roll NORFOLK, Va.

(UPI) A gray-hulled destroyer that saved scores of lives in World War II closed its Navy career in tragedy today. The head of a Navy investigating board waited at the Norfolk naval shipyard pier to meet the U. S. S. Daly.

Capt W. J. Steucil will try to find out just how six crewmen of the Daly died on the destroyer's final run Thursday afternoon. The Daly left Newport, R. Wednesday bound for the mothball fleet here.

About 150 miles off the Virginia Capes the Daly was heading toward its final harbor at full 30-knot power when an "abnormal swell" slapped the 376-foot ship 65 degrees to starboard. of Kenmore, N. was killed instantly when flung against something that severed his arm. Ten other crewmen were swept into the icy Atlantic. Five of them disappeared in the huge waves and are presumed dead, although the search for them continued today.

Steucil was appointed to begin Searnaa David Allen on 8.) Seek Boost In Federal Wage Base WASHINGTON (UPI) The Eisenhower administration will ask Congress to increase the federal minimum wage of $1 an hour probably by 10 or 15 cents, in formed sources said today. The sources told a United Press International reporter that Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell had decided to recommend a higher floor under the wages of the 24 million workers now covered by the law. No new figure was mentioned. But there was speculation that the administration would advocate a $1.10 or $1.15 minimum.

The AFL-CIO is spearheading a drive to raise the minimum to $1.25 and extend coverage on additiojal 7,500,000 workers. Mitchell previously has urged extension of minimum wage coverage to about 2,500,000 more workers, mostly in chain stores. He was expected to back such an extension again. The administration's position probably will be disclosed when Mitchell testifies before the House Labor Committee on proposals to raise the minimum age and bring more workers under its protection. The hearings are scheduled to open during the week starting Feb.

15. In the Senate, a subcommittee of the Labor Committee has recommended an amended version of a $125 minimum wage bill introduced by Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Wayne Morse (D- Ore). Rep.

James Roosevelt (D- Calif.) has introduced a similar bill in the House. Plaza To Try 'Moral Suasion' Sandusky Plaza merchants are applying "moral suasion" to correct what merchants realize is an "out of hand" parking situation. They have started to "tag" customers who are illegally parked. The "tagging" costs nothing in a parking violation fine, but asks the motorists who shop at the east end center to cooperate to observe all traffic regulations in the interest of safety for all. The drive, if it is to bt called that, is mostly aimed at parking head-in at the promenadn area.

ticket" appeals: Please! "In the interest of Public Safety, we ask you to park away from thjs roadway at all times. "Parking is provided for all our customers in the lighted and marked lanes for this purpose." Robert Leoni, past vice president of the Plaza Merchants' Association is "policeman" on the beat, assisted by other merchants who are tagging the vehicles illegally parked. Leoni, discussing the situation which had found parking helter- skelter and violations not subject to city police control because the shopping area is private property, sums the new policy in this vein: "We have been concerned for a long time for the safety of people, particularly pedestrians, with reference to the 'no parking zones' along the walks and cars backing into the roadway, and walking pedestrians." The "moral suasion" program will be tried out for two weeks, according to Leoni, and following, that more serious action may be taken. "There is no legal action contemplated for the time being," Leoni said today. Can Be Towed If friendly persuasion doesn't do the job, offending cars could be towed away.

Plaza ownership changed hands recently, and members of the Plaza Merchants Association will meet Wednesday with the new managers, Sandusky Plaza of Cleveland to discuss new projects. Traffic will be one of the (Continued on Page 7.) Statistics BIRTHS MEMORIAL Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Vroman, 508 E. Washington son.

PROVIDENCE Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Barry, W. Monroe son. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Kochensparger, 320 Michigan daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Koch, U32 McKinley son.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Brunner, 4108 Venice daughter. GOOD SAMARITAN Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Stockman, 117 W. Tuscarawas Bay View, son. DEATHS Mrs. Eleanore Jeske, 73, 807 Warren St. James I.

Stadler, 60, Parker Mrs. John E. 4511 Venice Rd..