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Vol. 13 IB 67th Year No. 27 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1957 Facts Phona PY 3-3221 Ten Pages 5 Cents ON ORDERS ARMY HDRAW Nixon III, But Goes Ahead With Program Meets Premier Of Gold Coast; Vice President Has Case Of Flu ACCRA, Gold Coast President Richard 'M. Nixon, who said he was feeling much better after 10 hours of sleep and a trip le dose of antibiotic, held private, consultations today with Premier Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold Coast. Nixon was the first foreign delegate received in private by Nkru mah, the 44-year-old American-ed ucated African who will lead the new state of Ghana.

The vice president went tombed Sunday night suffering from light case of the flu, with a temperature of 101. Col. Francis Pruitt, his physician, gave him a triple dose of erythromycin. This morning, after 10 hours of jleep, Nixon's temperature was down and the vice president said he was feeling much better. Pruitt indicated, however, he was keeping his fingers crossed.

Nixon's meeting with Nkrumah was not announced in advance This indicated it might have been arranged at the last moment. The vice president said he had a "cordial, frank and complete" ex change of views with the Prime Minister during their 33-minute talk. He did not elaborate, hut it was believed economic and for eign policies were discussed. The vice president has been the chief attraction here recently, but he is only one of the 70 chiefs of delegations which will mark the Gold Coast's "independence day' Wednesday when it emerges as the new state of Ghana. On Nixon's schedule this morning was a meeting where he is expected to encounter his Soviet counterpart at the celebrations, the Russian Minister of State Farms Ivan Benedkiktov.

Chinese Communist Deputy Premier Nieh Jung-chen also may attend. Tonight there is a state dinner, and Nixon will attend despite his illness. His medical officer, Col. illness. Telcphoto NAMED President Eisenhower named Charles Evans Whittaker (above) of Kansas City, Mo.

to be Associate Justice of the U. S. Supren. Court. Whittaker, now a judge of the U.

S. Court of Appeals in Kansas City, will succeed Associate Justice Stanley Reed, who retired Feb. 25. Drive To Cut Budget Gains Steam In House WASHINGTON drive to cut President Eisenhower's $71.3 billion budget picked up sttam in billion budget picked up steam in the House today, but Speaker Sam to expect big results. "The government is big and is going to stay big," Rayburn told reporters.

Taxes are high and are going to stay high. "You can talk all you want about cutting the budget by $5 billion but that just isn't goini to be done." A good many Republicans were flocking to support Rep. M. Pelly IR-Wash) in a move to limit appropriations and spending in the next fiscal year to $65 bil lion. The proposal comes up be fore the House Rules Committee Tuesday.

PeHy was busy soliciting signa tures to a letter urging Chairman Howard Smith (D-Va) of the Rules Committee to give the proposal a quick go ahead for debate in the House. He had 26 names on' the letter by early afternoon the number by Tuesday morning Rayburn made his prediction of the slim prospects of the budget cutting drive while reminiscing on the 44th anniversary of his first day in Congress. He said the biggest change he has seen in his 44 years as a legislator can be summed up in one He Said the first Congress that appropriated SI billion was denounced as' disgraceful, but the budget has been rising steadily. In the Senate, Republicans and Democrats alike paid tribute to Rayburn as "a legend and a living force," and "a great American Hoover Nearing End Of Work For Government NEW YORK (UP) Herbert Hoover, 82-year-old former president, who has spent almost half his life working toward government reorganization, said Sunday "I just about think I've done my contribution." Mr. Hoover did not use the word retirement.

He still has several projects to keep him occupied, including a book he is writing about one of his World War I President Woodrow Wilson. The Republican former presi dent said, however, he had almost completed his contribution to the cause of government reorganization to which he has dedicated more than 40 years of his public career. Mr. Hoover appeared on a filmed (CBS) television interview. "A Visit With Herbert Hoover, with commentator Lowell Thomas.

The interview, which took place in the former chief executive's Wal dorf-Astoria Towers suite, started with a filmed tribute to Mr Hoover by President Eisenhower. President To Get Helicopter Service Soon WASHINGTON (UP) The White House said today that new helicopter service for President Eilsenhower will be put into operation in about two months. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the Air Force will put two small helicopters at the disposal of the chief executive to transport him between the south rounds of the White House and the Washington National Airport. Hagerty said there was no truth in a report that the helicopters were being added to the transportation services of the White House to carry the President to the Burning Tree Golf Club.

"The only run now being planned is from the White House to the Military Air Transport Service terminal at the airport," he said. Hagerty said that once the helicopters prove themselves in service. Mr. Eisenhower might use them for short trips to a number of places, including the Eisenhower farm at Gettysburg. Pa.

Hagerty said that eventually the helicopters might be used to go to Burning Tree, but that so far. air transport to the golf club had not been discussed or considered at the White House. Weather LOS ANGELES noon agricultural forecast as prepared by the U.S. "Weather Bureau: There will be variable cloudiness in all areas of Southern Cali fornia today through Tuesday with little change in temperatures. A weather front now off the north Pacific Coast is expected to continue eastward with its south ern portion moving into Southern California Tuesday.

There will be a chance of showers in northern coastal and mountain areas at that time. Southern California will be on the southern edge of this disturbance and rainfall, if any, will be very light. LOS ANGELES U. Weather Bureau, in a five-day forecast issued today, said that with the exception of a showers there would be no precipitation in Southern Califor nia and temperatures would be near normal. San Bernardino valley: Partly cloudy through Tuesday.

Chance of scattered showers Tuesday Little change in temperatures. March 4, 1957 Today Highest 65, Lowest 44 Sunday Highest 60, Lowest 46 Saturday Highest 63, Lowest 49 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Hijhest 69, Lowest 39 Brennon Wins Approval WASHINGTON Senate Judiciary Committee today unanimously approved President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. to be a Supreme Court justice. Eleven of the 15 committee members were present for the vote. The action sent the nomination to the Senate floor for action by the Senate.

Brennan, a Democrat, is a former justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was appointed by Mr. Eisenhower to succeed Justice Sherman Minton who has retired. Hearings on the Brennan nomination featured charges by Sen. Joseph (R-Wis) that Brennan conducted a "guerrilla" campaign against congressional in- estigations of Communism while the same time making speeches against Communism.

LA Airport Sets New Records LOS ANGELES (UP) record number of 3,944,967 passengers used International Airport in 1956 and a total of 127,505,286 pounds of material was transported from it, according to President Ralph P. Cousins of the Board of Airport Commissioners. Cousins said records were set in both passenger and freight transport with the passenger increase up 16.3 per cent above the figure for 1955. Store Owner Captures Trio Of Burglars NORWALK naid off today for market owner Raul' Gallegos, 32, whose stakeout in his store on Danby Avenue resulted in his capturing three youthful would-be burglars. One of them was wounded.

Gallegos told sheriff's deputies he began the stakeout after an attempted robbery at the Los Nietos market 10 days ago. He said the suspects broke into the store after midnight, and he fired one shot, wounding Joe F. Fergoso, Los Angeles. He held a gun on the 16-year-old wounded boy, his 17-ycar-old com panion and Erriest Paniagua, 22 until deputies arrived and booked them on suspicion of burglary. Fergoso was taken to General Hospital in "fair" condition.

Beck Fails To Turn Over His Financial Records WASHINGTON (UP) Dave Beck, president of the powerful Teamsters Union, has failed thus far to hand over his personal financial records to the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee. This was disclosed today by Robert F. Kennedy, committee counsel, as the committee prepared to resume hearings Tuesday on charges Teamster officials were linked with vice, gambling and political influence on the West Coast. Meanwhile the No. 2 man in the Teamsters Union, James R.

Hoffa, said in Detroit the Senate hearings "have amounted to nothing so far." He said he has seen nothing in the hearings to "implicate" Beck or Frank W. Brewster, a Teamster vice president accused of links with racketeers and vice in testimony last week. "All I have seen is that some unreliable witnesses have testified they heard somebody tell somebody, but there's no real evidence to back anything they've said," said Hoffa, himself a Teamster Boy Succumbs To 1955 Injury SOUTH PAS AD EN A (UP)Death has taken 12-year-old Herbert C. Gray, who had been in a coma since he was injured in a traffic accident 15 months ago. The youngster died Sunday without regaining consciousness in the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Gray. He was injured Nov. 28. 1955, when he fell from his bicycle under the wheels of a truck.

Missing Girl Found Dead In Chsef Of Nearby House BELLMAWR, N.J. The apparent starvation death of four- year-old Mary Jane Barker whose body was found Sunday in the closet of an unfinished house caused conflicting theories among authorities today about her disappearance. A playmate found Mary Jane's fully clothed body huddled alongside a puppy, six days after she disappeared from her home, less than two blocks away. An autopsy showed that the blonde, blue-eyed girl had not eaten since leaving her home to go out to play last Monday. She was last seen several hours later playing with the puppy, which belonged to six-year-old Mary Freit- ta, who found the body while visiting the new house with an aunt nd uncle, the owners.

No Marks Of Violence Camden County Coroner Robert J. Blake said there were no marks of violence on Mary Jane's body, nor any indications of sexual molestation. A spokesman for the coroner's office expressed the opinion that the child had wandered into the closet, become trapped, and then died of fright and starvation. Eisenhower 'Shield' Plan Hears Vote Senate Expected To Give Mideast Policy Approval Tuesday WASHINGTON Eisenhower's Middle East "shield" plan appeared today to have a clear track and a green light for Senate approval this week. Isreal's announced intention of withdrawing from Egypt and defeat of a major amendment removed the chief remaining obstacles.

A hitch in Israel's withdrawal plans might cause a slight delay in final passage, now forecast by Senate leaders for Tuesday night, aid provision from the resolution, hood even a delay in Israeli withdrawal would block final Senate approval. Senate Meets Early The Senate met an hour early to push final debate on the measure, which already has consumed two weeks of debate. No votes were expected today. The Senate version of the Ei senhower Doctrine states it to be U.S. policy to use armed force it President Eisenhower deems it necessary to coniDat any Communist attack on a Middle East nation seeking American help.

This is a modifieu edition of the House-passed resolution that would give the President "authority" to use U.S. force if he deems it necessary to help a Middle East nation under Red attack. Mr. Eisenhower and" Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have agreed not to fight the Senate version. Aid Funds Included However some compromise.

Ian guage may be sought when Senate-House negotiators meet to adjust the differing versions. The President originally asked for clear "authority" to use U.S. force in the Middle East if requested by a mideast nation to combat a Communist attack. Many senators insist he already has such authority. Both the pending Senate and vice president.

Western Teamster officials gave: House-passed versions contain the Brewster a vote of confidence Saturday. Committee members predicted over the weekend their sensation- packed inquiry will lead to legislation to correct alleged union abuses. Karl E. Mundt (R-SD), a member, said. "We have a dozen cases as bad" as the allegations concerning the West Coast Teamsters.

President's request for authority to use up to $200 million already- appropriated funds as he sees fit for economic and arms aid to Mideast nations. Under strong administration pressure, the Senate Saturday defeated, 58 to 28 an amendment by Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga nd other Democrats to strip the ma provision from the resolution But Police Chief Edward Garrity stressed that his men had searched the house at least three times since the child's disappearance. Garrity said he was "almost positive" that searchers had checked the closet.

The police chief said indications were Mary Jane had only recently been placed in the closet. Although the door was unlocked, police said it had only a thumb screw inside, making it difficult to open especially for a child. Puppy Still Alive Suffocation also was advanced as a possible cause of death, but a physician attending the autopsy- said he believed Mary Jane died from a lack of food. The puppy, which appeared in good condition, was to be examined today to determine when it had last eaten. Neither searchers nor workmen had reported hearing any barking or whining while in the house last week, police said.

Discovery of the child's body climaxed an intensive week-long search by police and volunteers who had combed this South Jersey town. Nurse Faces Preliminary Hearing SAN BERNARDINO Julia E. Cummings, 60-year-old nurse, today faced a preliminary hearing on charges of soliciting funds from relatives of persons who died in San Bernardino ty Hospital. Mrs. Cummings, an employe at the hospital for six months, was arraigned Friday on counts of grand theft, bunco and cashing checks with insufficient funds.

Officers said she was also wanted on bunco warrants issued in Nevada and Honolulu and on a bad chfck charge in Reno. Police said Mrs. Cummings would solicit funds from families of the deceased persons for extra services she said she had performed. She also borrow money from the families on the basis of a hardluck story, promising to pay it back with interest. -NEA Telcphoto BRRRR! umbrella equipped mother and her young daughter find ankle deep slush and snow at a downtown Boston intersection as March roared in like a lion in the Eastern city.

The storm brought a combination of sleet, freezing rain and snow that slicked streets, and highways making driving dangerous. U.N., Israeli Agree On Details Premier Says Decision Is Act Of Faith In World Community By UNITED PRESS Premier David Ben-Gurion today ordered the Israeli Army to proceed with "full and prompt" withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba area. An official source said Ben-Gurlon will present Parliament with his decision Tuesday "an act ol faith in the international community." Within four hours of Ben-Gurlon decision, Maj. Gen. E.L.M.

Burns, commander of. the U.N. Emergency Force, announced "lull agreement in principle" on technical details of the Israeli pullout Iron? Egyptian territory. Burns refused to say when the long awaited withdrawal would begin. After a 50-minute conference at Lyuda Airport outside Tel Aviv with Maj.

Gen. Moshe Dayan, "chief of staff of the Israeli Army, Burns said he would report immediately to U.N. Secretary-general Dag Search Continues For Missing Private Plane LOS ANGELES More than 15 Civil Air Patrol planes today joined Air Force and sheriff's Aero Squadron units in the search for a missing private plane with three women and a man aboard. The plane, piloted by Mrs. Marjorie King, 35, Los Angeles, was reported missing Saturday after taking off from International Airport on a flight to Imperial.

Reported aboard the craft with Mrs. King were her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Kumler, La Jolla, and two friends from London, England, Mr. and -Mrs. Jacob Werbsma.

Mrs. King was said to have been a wartime flier with 51 years of flying experience. CAP officials said flying conditions were turbulent along the route the plane would have followed through San Gorgonio Pass. To Hold Annual Mardi Gras Parade in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS parade of King Rex, traditipnally a gay procession, will tell of Biblical man's fight against, sin and evil in Tuesday's Mardi Gras climax. Regally robed Rex will lead 20 elaborate floats through New Orleans streets as the city and thousands of visitors bid farewell to the 1957 carnival and greet Ash Wednesday, which begins the Lenten season.

Celebrations began a week ago with nightly torch light parades and masked carnival balls. Competing with Rex' parade will be an all-Negro procession led by King Zulu. Leading Negro integrationists in New Orleans have tried to dig nify the parade, which as late as 1949, when jazzman Louis Armstrong led the Negro revelers in songs and dances, resembled a native African ceremony. The United Clubs a Negro civic and social organization urged Negroes to boycott balls and to shun parades if they degraded the Negro race. The outcome of Uie dignity drive will not be known until Ash Wednesday.

In past parades, Zulu has toasted his queen at bars and funeral homes along Canal. Rampart and Basin streets. Climaxing formal celebrations of Mardi Gras will be the parade of Comus, God of Mirth, who will lead a night parade Tuesday 'nrf Rex join forces shortly before midnight in Municipal for a grand ball. Christening Service For Tiny Princess MONACO Caro line Louise Marguerite, five-week old daughter of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III, was christened Sunday in the Cathedral of Monaco. Hundreds of guests crowded the flower-decked cathedral lo witness the baptism which marked the formal acceptance of the in fant into the Catholic faith.

The tiny heir-apparent to the Monegasque throne remained regally-calm in the arms of her god mother, Margaret Davis, 12-year- old niece of Princess Grace, when the bishop poured the water over her head, anointed her live senses with oil and touched salt to her tongv'- Mrs. Gabor, Hungarian, Wed NEW YORK Gabor. mother of the famous Gabor sisters, was married Sunday "to anj old friend from Budapest," a Hun- arian freedom fighter who arrived in the United States five weeks ago. It was her third marriage and the 13th for the Gabor women. The bridegroom, Count Edmond de Szigethy, has been married once before.

While a gypsy fiddler played in the background, the bride was given in marriage by two of her beautiful daughters. Zsa Zsa, herself a bride Ihreetimes. a.ndjServiceS For Talbott Magda. who lias been married four times and in whose town house the civil ceremony took place. The third daughter, who has thrice married, was in California and unable to attend.

Publisher Would Oust Knowland As I). S. Delegate WASHINGTON (UP) Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Denver Post) called today for removal of Senate Republican Leader William Knowland as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations. Replying to Knowland's recent speech outlining live "major defects" in the United Nations, Hoyt said the California senator's comments were "dangerously over- implied and distorted" and contrary 'to administration policy.

He conceded that "major andj minor defects and imperfections" do exist. But he said will not be corrected soon, if ever, by 7. luminating them with unfair emphasis and casual distortions for whatever excluding that of political ambition." Hoyt, addressing the American Organization for the United Nations at a lunch session, said Knowland's speech raises the possibility of a "divisive and destructive movement against the United Nations within our own nation. "The issue here," he said, "Is much greater than the views -or fortunes of Mr. an all-! out attack within the United States is a sword at the throat of this world organization, indeed at the.

throat of mankind." He said U.S. delegates to the United Nations have a duty to "explain, expound and promote" the official viewpoint on word is sues as laid down by President Eisenhower. NEW YORK (UP) services for former Air Secretarv Harold E. Talbott, who died, in Florida Saturday, will be held here at 4 p.m. EST Tuesday in Saint James Church.

Prisoner From Red China In Reunion With Mother Bandit Gets $9,000 WEST LOS ANGELES A gunman wearing "fake glassees and a false nose" held up a branch store of the J.J. Newberry Co. today and escaped with an estimated $9,000 cash, police reported. OKLAHOMA CITY David Hawkins, a former GI who changed his mind about staying in Red China, returned home yesterday to a friendly welcome and the promise of a job. All Hawkins could say when reunited with his mother.

Mrs. Carley Jones, was "Ma!" He had last seen her in 1949 when he entered the Army at the age of 16 and was sent to Korea. The former soldier's bride was still in Hong Kong, unable to get an entry permit to accompany her husband. Hawkins, 23, received his fare home from M. H.

Champion, a sympathetic oilman. Champion is now working to get Hawkins' White Russian wife, Tanya, permission to join her husband of eight months. Champioi. brought Mrs. Jones to the airport to greet her son.

He was received with a smile, handshakes and greetings from townsfolk, but he said "Im not through the gate yet." Later he said "I think I'll make it." Hawkins said he refused repatriation after the Korean War "because of a lot of conflicting emotions." He said "fear of persecution was one thing' which made him refuse repatriation. "I halfway believed what they told me," he said. He was one of 21 American sol diers and prisoners of war who refused to come home from Commu nist China. One has died, six have preceded him to American soil and 13 remain in China. Asked about his plans, he said "I don't count.

If I can help others to avoid the mistakes I've and his voice trailed off. Hawkins discussed the Hungar ian revolution, which he mentioned upon his arrival in Hong Kong, when asked why he returned. But; his mother interrupted with "be cause he wanted to see his mother." Champion has promised to give Hawkins, who was trained as a radio mechanic in the Army, a job. Hammarskjold in New York. Political Question Burns refused to say whether Egyptian troops would be.allowed back into the Gaza Strip, one of the main objections offered by Israel against a withdrawal of its forces.

'It is not my is a political question," Burns said. "1 am not aware of the possibility ol the return of the Egyptians into otherwise." Burns and Dayan met after.Ben- Gurion ordered his Army head to proceed immediately with plans for the Israeli withdrawal. The move claimaxed a hectic weekend in Ben-Gurion's battle to comply with U.N. demands that Israel leave Egypt's territory without toppling his own coalition government, in which opposition elements bitterlv opposed' withdrawal. Arabs Issue Warning Determined to end the crisis, Ben-Gurion called ministers and political leaders to his home one at a lime during the morning, and then reached his decision to act now.

Without the formality of seeing either the Cabinet or the Parliament, the word went out to Dayan to get started. This was the picture, in other capitals on the Mideast situation: Cairo, the Arab League warned the United States of the "dangers" arising from Israel's "procrastination" in withdrawing from Gaza and Aqaba. league also announced that it opposed U.N. administration of Gaza and the enforcement of freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba. Amman, Jordan's minister of state for foreign affairs, Abdullah Ramawi, any attempt to internationalize the Gulf of Aqaba will meet with flat refusal from the Arab neutralist powers.

Soviet communist organ Pravda said in Moscow that the U.S.-Israeli "plan" to replace Is racli troops with U.N. forces in Gaza amounts to a continuation of aggression against Egypt. Foreign Minister Gold? Meir will tell (he U.N. General Funeral 1 Assembly this afternoon of Israel's agreement to immediate withdrawal from Egypt. It was Mrs.

Meir who made the original announcement of "full and prompt" withdrawal to the assembly Friday afternoon. She will be followed by Britain's Cmdr. Allan Noble, who was to set out Britain's alignment with the declaration of the United States, France and other powers that the Gulf of Aqaba must remain open to ships-of all countries. Urges Gradual Withdrawal The Israeli military governor of the Gaza Strip, Col. Matity'au Peled, estimated that it would take at least 3,000 UNEF troops and 1,000 police to maintain -order there once the Israeli Army leaves.

He called for a phased withdrawal spread over two or three weeks to prevent trouble. In New York, Menachem Begin, leader of, Israel's opposition Herut party, said that Ben-Gurion's government "will fall" if it brings about a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza and Aqaba. The Herut party already has introduced a motion of no confidence in Ben-Gurion, which will come up for a vote in Parliament Tuesday. But Ben-Gurion apparently felt safe in meeting that challenge by going ahead with plans to withdraw his forces from Egypt. Official sources in Jerusalem said his decision was based largely on the assurances contained in a mes sage from President Eisenhower received early Sunday..